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powerfully as an incentive ; but it is to be feared that such a hope has too much engrossed both the efforts and the admiration of mankind.—(Loud cheers.) I remember being greatly struck once with an expression which was used by a friend of mine, though you will perceive at once that it is not to be understood quite in its literal acceptation ; but the expression was, that " Heaven was made for those who had failed in the world." Now, there are all sorts of unbecoming and unenviable feelings, which often may accompany and embitter failure, as, on the other side, every bright and blessed quality of the heart and the mind may enhance and adorn success. But to aim at success, to meet with failure and not to grudge it, to be outstripped by a rival and yet to hear a rival's praises with an unwounded ear —these are efforts and triumphs beside which the ordi nary successes of the world are light and trivial.— (Cheers.) Success, after all, in almost every walk of life, from the aspiring statesman down to the ambitious parish-beadle, will very often be found to consist of very coarse, obtrusive, and vulgar ingredients, certainly of no heavenly temperament; while there is no grace of character, no spring of self-reliance, no element of progress, with which failure, when not earned by our own lathes, and when sustained with an even and brave spirit, may not ally itself.—(Hear, hear.) De pend upon it the world, in more instances than we can think of, has never discovered or crowned its best. —(Cheers.) There are diamonds in Golconda more precious than the Pitt diamond or any other diamond that ever blazed upon the diadem of royalty. There are pearls in unopened shells more lustrous than any that ever yet shone on the neck of beauty.— (Applause.) The ages, as they pass by, have known their Homer, their RaphaeiPtheir Newton, and their Shakspere; but I doubt not there are in the human creation, as in all besides, prodigalities which have never yet been fathomed.—(Cheers.) I believe it to be no less true, that nothing that was ever given to us has, except by our own fault, been lest or thrown away. What, after all, is the material point? Is it to be Homer, to be Raphael, to be Shakspere, or to be merely thought a transcendent poet, or an unparalleled painter? Is it to conceive in the inmost soul the lineaments of the Holy Mother and the Divine Babe, or the idea of Lear on the heath, or of Macbeth at the banquet; or is it merely that would-be critics should commend the picture, or crowded audiences should shout " Bravo " in the pit?—(Loud cheers.) Carry away with you this great truth—carry it to your daily task, or to your evening leisure, to the quiet of your homes or to your social musters—that it matters comparatively little what you may seem to be; it matters even proportionately little what you may actually do, but it matters everything what you are.— (Loud cheers.) What you may seem is subject to a thou sand accidents and misapprehensions. What you may do is often under other control than your own. What you are is under your own—you may be all you should be. Depend upon it, however humble may be any of your positions in life, however obscure the labour which en grosses the precious hours as they pass—however insig nificant your whole life's drudgery—in this mean and un envied position, in this wearing and numbing drudgery, you may mould for yourselves the qualities, you may build up for yourselves the characters which princes, if they knew them, would trust—which multitudes, if they could discern them, would adore.—(Loud cheers.) I feel that in touching on such high topics of morality and conduct with scarcely authorised lips, I may subject myself to imperfect explanations, and to much miscon struction. I know that it is often thought that ad dresses delivered upon such occasions are too apt to minister to the pride of man, and to the undue adulation of the intellect. I disclaim all such tendencies. When I tell you you may be all you should be, I do not exclude from the method of being so those aids and sanctions which are too high for me here to dwell upon. lam as confident as any one, that reason as well as Christianity makes humility almost its most prominent grace.— (Cheers.) Who would not be humble, who felt as he ought the loveliness of virtue and the magnificence of knowledge ?—(Cheers.) I should like to ask ono of those fortunate men who have lately added a new planet to our system, er who, as was beautifully said on an earlier occasion, " have lent the lyre of heaven another string"—l should like to ask them whether their spirit has not rather recoiled in modest awe, than swelled in self-sufficient presumption, before the secrets of that space into which they have been enabled to dart a more far-seeing glance than any of their fellows ?—(Cheers.) And so it will be when the time has come which shall, to our enlarged and perfected vision, unfold the whole bright mechanism of stars, and suns, and systems. The laws which will then serve to explain to us why their stations are fixed, and how their manes are guided, will only supply us with fresh reason for being more re verent, more acquiescent, more lowly.—(Cheers.) But I feel that I ought to come down from the clouds, and, indeed, from everything else, and I certainly could hardly have lighted on a more radiant spot on the earth than this present assembly.—(Cheers.) I have only to hope that all who shall have partaken in its excitement will bear away with them, not only the transitory emotions which the scene must so easily excite, but a settled determination, followed up by a corresponding practice, to give fair play and full scope to all the highest purposes of which the institution is, and may be made yet more capable.—(Cheers.) This must be done by associated effort. But you will hardly have failed to have observed, at least such is the case with most Institutions of a similar character, how very much of the whole work is done by a few out of the whole num ber. Now, I want to inoculate all of you with the same active and enlightened spirit. I want to call upon each man and woman among you to make the work your own —to put more individual energy into the collective body, so that no member of the Manchester Athenaeum shall think that he has done his duty unless he bas done some thing, according to his individual opportunities and abilities, to give encouragement, efficiency. and credit to the institution of which you have such reason to be proud.—(Loud cheers.) As to myself, I have only fur ther to say, that if, when the gay glitter of this scene has passed away—when the strains of music are hushed, and silence has fallen on the voice of the speaker—if, in the stillness of your quiet homes, or amid the clang of your daily labour, you shall have derived a single encou ragement to ennobling reflections and to worthy pursuits; or if, still more, any one of you—for such times come on all of us—when he smarts under the sting of disappoint ment, or under a sense of the world's coldness and alien ation, shall be reminded how little this really signifies, and that, as I have ventured to say, failure is one of the appointed means of access to heaven—if any word of mine shall have contributed to this encouragement, or to this alleviation, I shall then feel that I have not come to Manchester quite in vain. The Noble Viscount resumed his seat amidst long protracted cheering. His Grace the Archbishop of Denims next addressed the meeting. Ije said—My Lords, ladies, and gentlemen, I was invited in the first instance to attend this meeting, and was requested to make some observations, whatever might occur to me, in reference to the subject of it. without, of course, the possibility of its being supposed that I could give you any information respecting the affairs of this institution ; or, that I could come for ward merely to pronounce an empty panegyric upon its merits, which are so much better known and appreciated by yourselves than by any one else. It would be quite superfluous for me to detain you with any lengthened observations upon the important and beneficial tenden cies of such an institution, because, I think, the very circumstances of my leaving behind, in Ireland, very important and pressing business, to be present on this occasion, shows how very highly I value an institu tion of this sort, and how warm is the sympathy which I have with all the supporters and members of in— (Cheers.) Very likely I may be expected to say, now that I have come over, and have visited and inquired into your institution, what I think of it ; and, it is something to say with respect to it, that lam not dis appointed. I shall not, for I think that that would be an affront to you, say that I feel surprised at the origin of such an institution, or that it is anything more than I expected from a great and wealthy place like this. I feel, on the contrary, that cherishing that love of commerce and activity necessarily characterising a city like this, to have paid all attention to every subject connected with gain, and to have neglected altogether so important an institution for the improvement and en. lightenment of yourselves and fellow-citizens, would have subjected you to just reproach. I trust that you will think it no insignificant praise if I say I think you have done your daty.—(Cheers.) I was greatly interested in bearing of such an institution in so very important a portion of the United Kingdom—in a city which, I think, may be regarded in some respects as a kind of representative of the empire; for I can assure you, with out flattery—of that I am incapable—nowhere do I feel more completely in England than when I am in Man chester, because it has to boast of some of the most dis tinguished arts, and some of the most characteristic feats of energy, which the British empire ever displayed. In other countries we may see the plough at work; we may look upon splendid armies and upon fine architecture ; we may see many things to be found in many parts of the kingdom, but none so characteristic of the people who were reproachfully termed "a nation of shopkeepers." We have lived to see that " nation of shopkeepers" ob tain military, as well as other triumphs, over those who have so reproached them.—(Cheers.) But I conceive that all these triumphs are insignificant, compared with the great triumph of diffusing wealth, comfort, and civi lisation over so many parts of the world as this empire does, by means of her manufactures and commerce. I say, then, that it would be a reproach to so wealthy, so populous, and so active a city as this, if no attention were paid to anything but the mere pursuit of gain ; and therefore it is that I consider that you were doing a duty, and nothing else than a duty, in establishing and supporting such an institution as this, with the working of which I trust you will have more and more reason to be satisfied every year of its continuance. I understand that the fruits of it have been perceived in the improved character of the rising generation who have partaken of its benefits, and I tr us t th a t th ose goo d f ru it s w ill b e en yet more alai more. To instruct you, however, in the benefits, the objects, and the character of such an institution, would, as I have said, be impertinent in me, 'who know so much less of it than you do. I have even less knowledge than yourselves, not only of this particu lar institution, but perhaps of this whole class of insti tions; for, altinsugl! I been engaged for a great number of years in the diffusion e of knowledge in one shape or another—in whatbe called education, either complete or partial, may Sin aleltdrusi on of know ledgeave never been is a portion of education—y et specifically connected with an institutionYh precisely of this nature. With the higher and lower institutions I have been officially connected. I have been with the education in one of our universities, which seminaries for the highest classes, the nobility, gentry, and learned professions; and lately, i n still more important degree, I have been con nected with charity schools; but that which is imme diately between the two, that which tends to improve the classes between the learned professions and the very lowest of the people, I have not been so specifically and closely connected with. Still, education, in some shape or other, either by actively engaging in the work, or hypublishing or editing works connected with THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26, 1846. it, or by superintending or forming establishments for the promotion of education, in some shape or other, I have been connected with, very actively and zealously, for about 38 years—(Cheers)—and I presume that those who have done me the honour of calling upon me to ad dress some observations to you this evening, have done so from the thought, perhaps, that I should have to com municate to you some of the results and observations emanating from my own experience. I shall do so, but very briefly, begging you, in the first place, to bear in mind that when I said that I had been for 38 years con nected with eduction, I did not mean that I had been occupied in making speeches upon it.—(Laughter.) I have been engaged in the practice of it, and not in haranguing upon it ; and therefore it is not to be ex pected that I can address you with the same eloquence that others may do who have not seen and done so much as I have.—(Cheers.) In spite of all the dangers threatened by, and objections raised to, the diffusion of education, still, upon the whole, I am more and more convinced that the wide diffusion of knowledge will al ways tend more or less, in the end, to the diffusion of every othergood.—(Cheers.) I have spoken of the dangers attending it, and dangers there are; do not disguise it. I believe that on this point I do not differ at all from the Noble Lord who has so eloquently addressed you, when ' he spoke of there being no dangers in the diffusion of knowledge ; I believe that he meant, as I do, that the dangers are not to be put in eomparison with the dan gers of ignorance. —(Cheers.) It is impossible, by keeping men in darkness and ignorance, to secure them from temptation. It is impossible to guard men against evil ; though you were to shut them up in the cells of hermits, they must be exposed to temptation, in one shape or another. Men are liable to be deceived and misled; but it is in darkness more than in l i gh t, in twi light more than in full sun, that error is liable to be mistaken for truth.—(Cheers.) I should be ashamed to dwell at any length, especially before such an audience as this, on the advantages of knowledge ; but I would have you be well assured, for I can say so from my own convictions and experience, that the advantages of dif fusing knowledge are not so generally admitted as might be supposed from people's professions. I know for a fact, that there are some persons who deprecate the diffusion of knowledge, but yet they will give in to it, and profess to favour it, merely because they find that they must swim with the stream, and cannot oppose it. I am continually meeting with persons who are for embarking in the vessel of education, in order that they may be able to retard its career. They are deprecators, above all things, of too great a diffusion of knowledge, too much education for the people, too much knowledge for their station in life, which, they say, is likely to " puff them up." Something may be given, but not too much. Why, of course, no one is an advocate for too much of anything—(A laugh) —but if all mankind, down to the lowest peasant who follows the plough, were to obtain as much knowledge as was ever possessed by the most learned man that ever lived, I should still say that it was very far for being too much, provided that it was a well-digested knowledge, and there was a well-balanced cultivation of the faculties. —(Cheers.) I suppose there are comparatively few who apprehend danger to loyal principles, submissive obedience to the Government, and all the other social virtues, from the sort of knowledge diffused in this place among the middle classes of society, any more than they apprehend it from a diffusion of the same sort of knowledge amongst the peasantry. The same argument, in fact, will apply to both classes. If the mere knowledge of his letters tends to make a man less contendedly submit to his lot as a labourer, one does not see why more extended knowledge should not unfit him for some other subordinate station. Why should not knowledge, if that be its tendency, make all men try to rise above their station, all but in the highest? I believe that the danger lies here, that where know ledge is very rarely and scantily communicated, the one who, by some good luck, happens to get above his fel lows, will think himself fitted to be removed to a higher class. But communicate the same knowledge to all that class, and they will not be raised above it. One of the greatest Conservatives that ever lived—all would agree with him Dr.Jehnson was so—used to say, when speak ing upon this subject, " Why, sir, if a man has a laced hat, he thinks himself too good to go to the plough ; but if all men wore laced hats, we should see men ploughing is laced hats."—(Cheers.) But, then, there is this objection, and it may lie against all communications of all human good of every kind—an educated man, of cultivated intellect, but a bad man, which he certainly may be, is more dangerous than he was before. It is very true. A man who possesses the use of his limbs is more dangerous, if he be a bad man, than the cripple. —(Cheers.) A man who who has the use of speech and of his eyes is more dangerous, if he be a bad man, than a blind or deaf mute ; but, unless the tendency of the cultivation of the mind is to make man worse, we are rebelling against the dispensations of Providence to re fuse any good to our friends and countrymen, to those above and below us, on the ground that it may be abused.—(Cheers.) Thi s , h owever , I w i s h par ti cu l ar l y to point out, though it must have occurred to most of you, wherein does consist th e grea t d anger t o th e com munity of a man of cultivated intellect and great powers sharpened by exercise, if he happens to be a bad man? What is the chief danger to be apprehended from him? Why, that he will act as a demagogue on the unthinking multitude. He persuades the ignorant to receive his statements, to adopt his fallacious conclusions, to follow in all his wild schemes. He makes them his instru ments. He may incite them to rebellion, to all sorts of mischievous and dangerous conduct. Take away these instruments, by making those men good judges of truth and falsehood, and he nes no longer anything to work upon.—(Applause.) The agitator, the dema gogue, the partisan leader, all the mischievous men who turn their talents and acquirements to such an account as that, are a kind of quacks. It is well known that if a man has a certain knowledge of chemistry and medicine, he may play on the credu lity of the ignorant by p ersua di ng t h em to swa ll ow his mischievous drugs; but if all understood medicine there would be none to take his quack medicines.— (Cheers.) Let all men, therefore, be so educated as to be capable of distinguishing the true from the false, and then, however ill-disposed a man may be, he will not be able to mislead others. I cannot conceive of such a thing as a lawless and violent mob consisting of well instructed men, even setting aside moral instruction. Supposing that they were all bad men, there would be more generals than soldiers; but they would not be so ignorant as to allow one to mislead the rest. I conceive that the best way of guarding against the danger of putting power into the hands of bad men is to diffuse as widely as possible that power which knowledge confers. —(Cheers.) But lam convinced also that the tendency of knowledge is not necessarily to secure good moral conduct and character, but to further and promote it. If our religion was a system of blind superstition, people would be the more religious the more blind and unthink ing they were. If our Government were an unjust and oppressive despotism, men would submit to it more readily the more they were reduced to the state of brutes and children. But if the conduct which we recommend to them as men and Chri s ti ans b e con f orma bl e to r i g h t reason—if our religion be based upon solid evidence— if our Government be founded on just and fair principles, those persons will be the best Christians and subjects, other things being equal, who are best able to distinguish between truth and falsehood.—(Cheers.) I wish to be distinguished from those persons who consider that the mere diffusion of knowledge constitutes the whole of education. I say that it is a good thing, but I do not say or think that it is the whole of education; and I wish no one to go away with the idea that I consider every man the wiser, or likely to be the better, or the better educated, for all the knowledge he may have obtained, unless it is well regulated, and a judiciously balanced cultivation of the faculties. But I say that knowledge, as it goes, is a good thing, and the people should be merely warned against the danger of ill-balanced knowledge. The man who entirely devotes himself to the cultivation of some faculty, to the neglect of the rest; the person who devotes his attention to the culti vation of the intellect, to the neglect of the moral facul ties, all these persons may be advanced in their own particular way, but it is a narrow, ill-balanced, injudicious, hurtful education. What I maintain and contend fur is, that it is not in that case the knowledge of something that does the harm, but the ignorance of others. It is not the cultivation of this faculty, but the neglect of that. The same church, or other place of worship, that may be sufficient for a small populatian, becomes utterly inadequate for a large population. In like manner, the same degree of moral and religious education which suffices for a young child, or a person of very limited attainments generally, becomes deficient when he has acquired a great deal of secular knowledge. The church, in his own mind, has become too small for him ; but then, the evil is not in the increase of the po pulation, but in the want of other churches—not in the cultivation of his intellectual faculty, but in the neglect of the moral part of his nature. My argument may be illustrated by reference to the growth of the human frame. In the case of children who are ricketty, we are accustomed to say, that the head is too large for the body, or the limbs too large for the trunk ; but we find in this case, not that the head or the trunk has grown too much, but that the limbs have not kept pace with it —that the growth has not been even and well-balanced. And it may be added that, when a child is growing, it is not only far better, but far easier, to encourage the growth of the defective parts than to stop the growth of the body altogether. The latter is impossible ; the former may be accomplished by medicine and diet. I say, then, that when a community is advancing in mental culture, it is not only far wiser, but far easier, to give that cul ture the right direction, so as to prevent a dispropor tionate and ricketty growth, than to stop altogether the progress of the human mind.—(Cheers.) There are some who look back with regret to the times of our simple-minded ancestors, who were content to believe what they were told and do what they were bid, who sought for no knowledge beyond their humble sphere ; and we are taught to consider that those were the days to which we should look back with the greatest admira tion, and with pity for the present generation, in which it is supposed there is too great a diffusion of light. But it is in vain that we should endeavour to clothe the adult in the swaddling- clothes of childhood. Even though that were a good thing, we cannot do it. We must make the whole system keep pace, if possible, with the unavoidable advance, and then, instead of remaining children, we should grow up into well-formed adults. Others there certainly are whose views are not more enlightened, although they are more cheerful. They hail with rapture any kind of advance, and utterly over l oo k a ll t h e d angers which I have bee n d we lli ng upon of di sproport i onate andill balanced advancement. But I would exhort you to keep clear of both of these—to consider advance as both necessary and desirable, but to keep in mind the importance, as much as possible, of having in your selves, and in those under your, control, an equabl e an d well-balanced and proportioned advancement. Listen not to those who sigh vainly and look for the restoration of infancy, nor listen to those who exult in the growth of a distorted maturity; but endeavour to keep up an equal and well-balanced advancement, and then advance as far and as wide as you can.—(Applause.) I hart had great difficulties to encounter in that department of the diffusion of knowledge which has chiefly occupied ma for the last fourteen years. You will understand that I allude to the introduction of national education into Ireland—(Cheers)—and, sympathising so warmly and so strongly as I do in this place and in this institution, I cannot feel a doubt that you also feel some, sympathy with what is going on in the sister country, and in the difficulties and exertions of those who have been labour ing to enlighten and improve it.--(Applause.) I can not suppose that you look upon the Irish as aliens, and as persons unworthy of your regard.—(Loud cheers.) I cannot suppose that you grudge them the know ledge which you say you are eager and anxious to diffuse among yourselves.—(Renewed cheers.) I cannot suppose that ycu would wish them to be, or consider that they must necessarily be, irreclaimable barbarians. I sympathise warmly myself with all your exertions, and am delighted to hear the manner in which you have manfully met and overcome the difficulties which threat. ened this institution in its infancy. I have also had great struggles on the other side of the water, and I am happy to say, than with the blessing of Divine Provi cieme, the Irish national system of education will prove, when there has been time to make itself thoroughly felt —that is, when the generation brought up under it shall come into activity—l do trust that it will prove one of the greatest boons which has been conferred by Govern on any part of her Majesty's dominions. And I think that I should be wanting, not to myself merely, and to the Government which has been supporting that system, but I feel that I should be wanting to the cause of education, should be wanting to the rights and claims of the poor Irish, if I neglected to take this opportunity, if you will so far indulge me, of giving a contradiction to some of those calumnies with which our Irish national system has been assailed.—(Loud cheers.) I would not hear this Manchester Institution assailed with any ca lumny in Ireland, or elsewhere, when it was in my power to repel it—(Loud cheers)—and I believe that none of you here would willingly listen to any calumny that tended to disparage the merits, or to defeat the ob jects, of such an institution as ours.—(Applause.)— Ours, ladies and gentlemen—l mean the national system of Ireland—is not a godless and irreligious system. We do not undertake to teach the whole of their religious belief, to give the whole of their religious education to the children of different denominations—because we could not possibly do that for all of them together, without violating the consciences of some of them. We do not propose, therefore, to give a complete education. The system is to leave to the parents of each child the reli gious education of that child, the right of religious educa tion in that mode, be it right or wrong in my opinion, which they themselves think the best.—(Much cheer ing.) We give to the children jointly, and in friendly intercourse with each other, all the instruction which they can conscientiously receive together. And so much of that instruction, I am happy to say, consists of the knowledge of sacred history, of those great truths of our common Christianity in which, thank Heaven, we all agree, much as we differ upon other points. I could produce from many of the national schools, where the children, to the extent of more than seven-eighths, are generally Roman Catholics, children who would stand an examination, not only in secular learn ing, but in knowledge of the Scriptures, with any school that you may select in this country.--(Cheers.) But the denial of the Scriptures to those willing to read them, you have often, I dare say, heard charged against the system, and I would put it to you, as plain English men, whether it is right to force upon children any re ligious instruction which their parents may disapprove. I never can believe that the Founder of our Religion, who, when he was apprehended and dragged away to an ignoble death, declared that he could call on more than twelve legions of angels to his rescue, and who told his over-zealous disciple to put his sword into its sheath — I never can believe that it was his intention or desire that his sacred word should be forced upon any one against his will, inclination, and conscience.—(Applause.) I will only notice onemore point, which I give not as the only one that I could produce, but as a sort of specimen of the falsehoods and misrepresentations by which our system has been combatted, and which I think will, in the end, tend rather to strengthen than to weaken it, be cause falsehood and misrepresentation would not be re sorted to by opponents it' they had facts and truths on their side. What I allude to is the report which has been often circulated, that although it is allowable, it is said, for the children whose parents do not disapprove of it, to read portions or extracts from the Scriptures, yet, if any one child should object to the reading, that precludes others from the benefit, and shuts out the Bible from the whole school. lam bound to believe that those who circulate that report do not know its falsity. If they have taken any means to ascertain the truth of their statement, they must then be repeating an utter, and deliberate, and calumnious falsehood, for it is totally without foundation in truth. But I cad only acquit them of the wilful falsehood by supposing that they have utterly neglected to make any inquiry from the many hundreds of persons perfectly ready and able to give them the information.' There is no shadow of founda tion in truth for this scandalous story, and I wonder how any one, not overwhelmed with prejudice, should give credit to anything so absurd. If, at the appointed hour for religious instruction—for an appointed hour there must be ; there is, I believe, in every school, and there is in ours—any child is forbidden by hisparents to attend religious instruction, what is the consequence, do you think ? That all instruction is at a stand ? No ; you would say, " The child withdraws." The child whose parents disapprove of particular religious instruction, whatever it may be, that commences at a fixed hour, say from two to three o'clock, withdraws ; but it would be absurd and ridiculous to say that the whole school is thereby excluded from that religious instruction. Why, any person who may object to what I am now saying would not thereby be able to prevent all who are pre sent from giving their attention. He would only have to withdraw himself.—(Laughter and cheers.) No one needs to stay, if he does not like it. But I am happy in being able to add, that although the parents of many of the ch;ldren have objected to send them to schools where religious instruction has been forced upon them, the children of all denominations have in a vast number of instances remained when it was left optional, because they saw that no fraud nor force was intended against them. And you may be sure that this is the only way in which any people, and more particularly the Irish, can be enlightened. You may reason and expostulate with the parents ; but never attempt to kidnap their children and to make proselytes of them. This is not a fair mode of procedure. But offer them that which is good, and in most cases you will find, if it is offered in a spirit of frankness and conciliation, it will be willingly accepted.—(Hear, hear.) I ought to apologise for having detained you thus long in what may be con sidered a digression from the matter in hand ; but I felt assured that the sympathy I have towards this place and institution must be in some degree responded to, and that you would feel the same sympathy with the wants, and with the efforts to relieve them, of the poor Irish, as I do with your efforts and success. With respect to the institution that is now occupying our principal attention, of course you cannot need any instructions or suggestions from me, because you have experience to guide you. It is not an institution formed for or calculatod to give a complete education ; but it does seem to me, from all the reflection I have been able to bestow upon it, and from all the inquiries I have made, to be best adapted for the wants and circumstances of a busy, populous, thriving place like this. It is only a small portion of time—that portion which comes under the denomination of leisure—th a t th e y oung p ersons in this place, or the elder ones either, can devote to the cultivation of their minds. That portion, how ever, may be very profitably employed—if merely in innocent amusements, if there was no enlargement of the faculties, no improvement of the character, no eleva tion of the man in the scale of social life, I should say that, being merely innocent, it - would be a great recommendation ; for we know too well the leisure hours of those who are occupi e d f or th e greater part of the day is likely to be devoted to anything but innocent relaxation. But I believe that the lectures, together with the library of this Athenaeum, are as well adapted to meet the wants of relaxation and mental improvement as anything could he in such a place. Lectures alone give but imperfect and crude sort of notions to those who have not access to books. Books, again, are a sort of spacious sea, on which an unpractised student, without any tutor to direct him, might be apt to be lost. But lectures excite the desire to read, and point directly to the way in which the best course of reading can be taken. The books supply the want which the lectures have created. The lecturer will not have taught his pupils all that they feel desirous to know, but he will have taught them where to seek for knowledge and where to find it. And I consider that this Athenaeum is analogous to those great engines of your industry which excite the wonder of all strangers, and which bring wealth from all parts of the earth. A single individual who used merely his own books, would require a large library to edutate himself tolerably; and he would re quire the care of a tutor, or an instructor of some kind, to guide him. A single weaver at the loom will accom plish but little. But you have got machinery by wnich thousands and thousands of spindles can be turned at once. You have got machinery by which one person can perform the work of tens of thousands; and you can thereby produce a quantity of the best commodi ties at a small expense and with the greatest ease. The Athenaeum is analogous in character to that machinery. One library and one lecturer will serve at the same time to instruct hundreds and thousands of persons, almost as well as if each one had the library and lecturer to himself. For this reason, it is an institution particularly suitable' for a large, popn lons, wealthy, and thriving place like this.—(Cheers.) Let not the cultivation of your minds be in such a state as that you shall be put to shame by the wonderful machines you have constructed for the spinning of cotton and of various manufactured goods. Continue in this course, and may the blessing of Providence further your endeavours 1 Continue to work this great and mighty engine ; and whatever dangers you may have to en counter, by care and diligence you will surmount them, and the benefit will be incalculable. For my part, I come from a city far less wealthy than yours ; but, I shall keep in mind, most tenaciously, all that I have seen and learned here, and I shall apply, so far as I am able, all the principles and the practical maxims I have learned towards the accomplishment of an object which for years I have had in view—the extension of the benefits of an improved education beyond the labouring classes of Ireland, to whom my attention has hitherto been confined, to the middle classes of this country, that they may not be surprised and overgrown by those who are their inferiors in station.—(Cheers.) After a long oration from Mr. DAWSON, one of the lecturers of the institution, Lord EBRINGTON addressed the meeting. His ob servations were mainly directed to prove that, so far from being incompatible with mental refinement and elegant accomplishment, the honourable pursuits of trade and industry had done more to promote them than all the much vaunted glories of war, or the pursuits of ambition. Mr. W. CHAMBERS, of Edinburgh, gave an interesting sketeh of the difficulties he had encountered in his early struggles to cultivate literature, c on t ras t e d w ith th e ad vantages enjoyed in these days by the most straitened in their means, who pursued knowledge under difficulties. He strongly urged the acquisition of knowledge, and the study of literature fur their own sake, independently of the fame or advantage which might be derived from them, and concluded a speech of considerable ability, delivered with great modesty and propriety, by proposing " Thanks to the Board of Directors of the Athenaeum for their efforts to render the p resent meet i ng i nterest i ng and instructive." _ _ Mr. WGREGOR, of the Board of Trade, in seconding the motion, expressed the great satisfaction he had de rived from being present at that celebration. lie had been highly gratified by the results of the inquiries he had made as to the usefulness of the institution. — (Cheers.) If there was any community in the world among which intelligence could be more eminently use ful than another, it was in a great manufacturing and commercial community like that which c ,nstituted the population of Manchester and its surrounding districts. —(Cheers.) The history of manufactures, commerce, and navigation, was the history of intelligence and of civilisation. In those countries where ignorance pre vailed the people were the least advanced in wealth and prosperity; they were in a state of the greatest defirada- Lion and immorality. On the other hand, they 'found that with intelligence nations became great, virtuous, and powerful.—(Cheers.) If they examined the condi tion of European nations, they would find this to be universally the case, while in such countries as America they found anarchy the result of ignorance, and her un developed resources the effect of deficient intelligence in her citizens.--(Cheers.) It was grettly to the credit of Manchester that while the inhabitants had been in dustriously engaged in the pursuits cf trade and com merce, they had not neglected the conveniences of the rising generation. Manchester might well be proud of that institution, which had encountered and overcome all its difficulties; certainly the committee were entitled to every praise for the perseverance, integrity, and ability with which they had attended to their duties. The vote havinc , passed, and b een d u l y duly responded to, Lord Morpeth b left the chair ; and the Mayor having taken it, Mr. M. PHILIPS proposed a vote of th an k s t o L or d Morpeth for having kindly consented, six months since, to take the chair on the present occasion, and for the distinguished ability with which he had performed its duties. It was impossible to do justice to the graceful readiness and good nature with which his Lordship had accepted the office of president on that occasion ; and, although it was very inconvenient for public men to make such engagements so long beforehand, he must say, speaking as a commercial man, they drew upon the Noble Viscount at six months, and he was kind enough to accept at sight. Since that period his Noble Friend had attained high office under the Crown ; but, although his occupations and public duties had become much more onerous than they were before his acceptance of the post, he had allowed no private convenience, no public duty, to interfere with his engagement to be with them. —(Cheers.) He was quit e sure w h en t h ey re fl ected on the intimate connexions which subsisted between the Noble Lord and the large constituency he represented, similar in many respects, both in character and pursuits, to Manchester, they had touched a chord that vibrated in unison with their own , feelings—(Cheers)—and he called upon them all to show their gratitude to the Noble Lord for coming among them, and for the splendid address he had delivered.—(Cheers.) Mr. W. BROWN, M.P., seconded the motion, which was put by the Mayor, and carried by acclamation and waving of handkerchiefs. Lord MORPETH said, after the marked kindness, and, I - must say also, after the admirable patience with which you have listened both to myself and to those who suc ceeded me during our already protracted sitting, I should think myself indeed inexcusable if I inflicted a further trespass on your exhausted attention. But it is impos sible for me to withhold the utterance of my deep and sincere gratitude for the cordial welcome which I have now experienced from you. I have already told you what my sense of the honour done to me was ; I could hardly tell you, before I had experienced it, my sense of the pleasure I had received. I had heard much indeed of the annual assemblies, but I must say the result has infinitely surpassed anything I could have expected. I had heard much of the Free-Trade Hall, though I must not now talk about free trade. But I certainly did not look upon its birth-place with any disrespect. —(Cheers.) I did not, however, exp3ct to see it radient with all the decorations of the Alhambra and shining like a feast of Chinese lanterns.—(Cheers.) Your excellent Member has alluded to my present connexion with the immediate service of the Crown. Certainly, the superintendence of her Majesty's Woods and Forests would not seem to bring me into immediate connexion with the chimneys and furnaces of Manchester ; but I believe I may say with truth that there is no department of the public service which may not receive valuable and useful instruction in your good town and enterprising community of Manchester.—(Cheers.) He has also alluded to the constituency, so kindred with your own in many respects, with which it is my happiness and my pride to be connected. I am not going to allude any more to foreign than to domestic politics ; but I cannot help exclaiming, in the spirit of a former French King who had an eye, perhaps too keen—an eye to meddle with Spain—(Loud cheers and laughter)—when he said, 1. Henceforth there are no Pyrenees "—I feel, after the links of rapid communication which now bind to fiether the two communities, which fasten together our White and Red roses, " There is no Blackstone Edge."—(Cheers.) But you all have been listening for a long time to our wise saws and our grave maxims ; I must not forget that you are now called to more en livening measures and to more exhilirating movements. Your Member said he would ind u lge in a commercial allusion; well, I say, I see before me enough of the raw material—(Loud laughter)—of melody and of beauty, to weave into a fairy web of graceful gaiety and light hearted—e(Cr d h to-night s) I commen d y ou th en t o give full sway to the genius of the hour.—(Cheers.) You ha gladness.—(Cheers.) have already s ha a great deal of wisdom; but there is philosophy in mirth as we ll as i n w i s d om .— (Cheers.) You have been told th at t h e E ng li s h are i n t ense ly industrious. lam sure to-night we have been intensely wise--I now exhort y ou a l l to h e i ntensely merry; and s I cannot take my leave of you with a better wish than that you should throughout the whole course of your lives be, in happy alternation, both very wise and very merry.—(Cheers.) Dancing then commenced, which was continued till a late hour. MR. VILLIERS, M.P. TO THE EDITO R OF THE TIMES. who was tak en up at the AthenaeumSlß,—Having observed in y our police report of to-day yesterdayn for creat i ng a disturbance there defence of his co n d uct that he wanted to serve me with a writ, may I requ es t you to g i ve insertion t Cpt o hlleatla t tbd h -e e thdh:m uisnClub-house following a statement? T his person, for upwards g a sum of money, and intimating that he of a month past, has been writing th reaten i ng letters to he would stop th e members and inform them that he had a writ against tar. To th ese l e t ters I have given but one reply—viz., th at I never h ad heard of the writer in my life, that I was totally uncon scious of having incurred any such debt as that alleged against me, and that to my recollection or knowledge I had never received any application whatever from his apparent employers; but I added, that if he or his em ployers could show that I was indebted to them, and would make an application for payment in the usual and proper manner, I would attend to it without delay; and taking it for granted that there was either error or something worse in the background, I left a written statement to the above effect with the porters of the different clubs which I frequented. Since writing that statement (about three weeks ago) I have never received any application upon the subject. I have been at the clubs every morning. I have never directed the servants to deny me to any one; on the contrary, I have always been accessible to any one desiring to see me. Finding, however, that the person in question was in the habit of calling at the clubs at his own time, and after I had left them, making this a pretence that he could not see me, and informing the servants that he had a writ against me, taking it for granted that he had some unacknow ledged purpose of, perhaps, extortion in view, I directed the porter of the Athemeum, in case of my absence, to give him into charge of the police upon the first occasion of his creating a disturbance, or obstructing the members of the club, as he had threatened to do. By this step I felt assured that I should come to the knowledge of his real object. The circumstance occurred yesterday, as I had anti cipated, and the porter attended to my instructions. Had I been aware of the apprehension of the party, I should h ave attended before the magistrate to apprise him of all th e f acts, as the conduct of the offender was tot ally unwarrant e d an d qu i te inconsistent with the legiti mate object he pretended to have in view, although quite consiste n t w i t h the object I h ave sugges t e d. I take the st ep of making this case public, as I h ave li tt l e doubt that the fear of publicity is the calculation (often too successful) usually proceeded upon in such cases. , I am, sir, yo ur mos t obedient servant, Brooxes's, Oct. 23. C. P. VILLIERS. E: being 'MI QUART ER S ESSIONS , OCT. 23.—This day appointed for the trial of William Clare and Will'am Quinlan, the engine•driver and stoker in charge of the luggage train which caused the accident at the St ratford statio n o f t h e E astern Counties Railway, the p ri soners, who h a d surren d ere d in discharge of their bail, w ere Placed in the dock, when Mr. E. James, for the prosecution, stated that the prisoners having been already tried and acquitted of manslaughter, no evidence would n ow be offered. The Chairman said, that on looking. over the depositions he saw very little evidence against Quinlan, and he should have felt bound to have ordered his acquittal. No evidence, , however, being offered against either, all the jury would have to do would be to return a verdict of Not Guilty. The jury did so, and the prisoners left the bar with their friends. THE BLIN D TRAVELLER.—The celebrated blind traveller, Lieut enant H o l man , re turned to this country on Thursday evening, after an absence of upwards of six years, during which time he visited Po rtu g al and Spain, .Algeria, and all the places in the Mediterranean, penetrated Egypt and Syria, crossed the desert to Jeru salem, and finally made an extensive tour through the least fiequented parts of the south-east of Europe, in cluding Hungary, T ransy l van i a , S e rvia, Bosnia, &c. As on all for mer occasions, thi s ex traordinary man travelled perfectly alone. Ile has returned in perfect health and spirits.— Liverpool Mercury. BI RIVINGRAM AND OXFORD RAILWAY.—A rumour appeared in some of the morning papers yesterday, to the effect that an offer of a guarantee by the Great Western C ompany to the Birmingham and Oxford Com pany had b een made. We h ave ascer t a ined that there is no truth whatever in this statement. The Great Western Board met yesterday, and the subject was not even mentioned. The Great Western Company do not intend to slake any offer whatever. CoURT OF ALDERMEN THE GLOUCESTER, ABERYSTWITH, AND CENTRAL WALES RAILWAY. A Court was held on Saturday for the purpose of hearing and determing upon a complaint made against brokers of the City of London. The proceedings, which occupied the Court till six o'clock, attracted a number .of gentlemen vi ho have been engaged in the railway share market. _ _ _ Alderman COPELAND presented the following memo Hal to the Court:— " The humble petition of Josrph Franklin Rose, o 60, Stamford•street, in the parish of Christchurch in the country of Surrey, Showeth, _ _ " That on or about the 10th (lay of October, 1845, your memorialist employed Messrs. Roches and Son, of No. 6, Bank-chambers. Bartholomew•lane, sworn bro kers, to purchase for your memorialist 100 shares in the Gloucester, Aberystwnh, and Central Wales Railway, at the then market price, which shares they bought accordingly, and charged your memorialist for the same the sum of 3121. 10s., being a premium of 11. 15s. per share, as appears by the ticket delivered to your me morialist. " That about the 14th day of October, 1845, your memorialist again employed Messrs. Rochas and Son, to purchase other 100 shares at the then market price, in the same railway company, which they also bought and charged your memorialist for the same the sum of 3501., being a premium of 21. 2s. 6d. per share. " That your memorialists paid the above-mentioned sums for the said shares in the said company, at the respective times of the purchase thereof, and received scrip for the said shares, in the belief that the purchases were bowl fide made by the said Messrs. Rochas and Son, as brokers, and at the prices charged to your memorialist. " That your memorialist, subsequently wishing to be informed of whom the said shares had been purchased, made application both personally and by his solicitor, to Messrs. Rochas and Son, to produce their books, or copies of the same, in which the purchases of the sa'd several shares were entered and recorded. That not withstanding such application, the said Messrs. Rochas a: - ,d Son refuse to comply with the requisition of your memorialist by withholding the information required in respect to the purchase of the said shares, as aforesaid, which information your memorialist respectfully submits he is entitled to receive, and that the Messrs. Rochas and Son, are bour.d to give, in pursuance of the obliga tion imposed upon them by the condition of a certain bond given by the said Messrs. Rochas and Son, to the Corporation of the City of London, under and by virtue of which they are constituted and empowered to act as sworn brokers of the said City of London. " 'I hat your memorialist, under the foregoing circum stances, is induced to pray the aid of your Lordship, and Aldermen of the City of London, to compel Messrs. Rochas and Son to submit their book or books, contain ing the original purchase of the said shares in the said railway company, for the inspection and examination of your memorialist and his solicitor, and also to satisfy them that the same shares were fairly and honestly pur chased by the said Messrs. Rochas and Son, and that they were themselves not the holders and sellers of the said shares, or any part thereof, and otherwise to aid your memorialist in the premises as to your wisdom shall seem meet and proper, "And your memorialist will ever pray." Mr. Rochas, jun., appeared at the bar to answer the charge, and stated that his father, the head of the firm, was in Switzerland, and that the duration of his absence was uncertain. Mr. Bramwell, the barrister, attended for the de fendants. Mr. Rose attended, with his solicitor, to prosecute. Mr. Bramwell, when the memorial was read, said that in order to put an end to the business, and to save the time of the Court, he was ready, upon the part of the defendants, to let Mr. Rose examine the books, and to give him all the information he required ; those books, and that information having been withheld only because the app!ication had been made through an attorney in the first instance. Mr. Rose's solicitor said that both he and his client had applied for the books and the information both per sonally and by letter, but they received no satisfaction, and to the last letter not even an answer was returned. Alderman COPELAND said it was too late to make such a proposition. The Aldermen sat in that court to see justice done. The complainant had applied for what the bend of Mr. Rochas, sen., showed he was entitled to. The court must proceed with the investigation. Mr. Rose was then sworn and examined by the RE CORDER.—He stated in detail what the memorial con tained in substance, and stated that he employed both Mr. Rochas. sen., and Mr. Rochas, jun., in the purchase of the shares, and he paid for them on the presumption that the purchase was a bonafide one. The RECORDER, perceiving that Mr. Rochas. jun , had not entered into bond as a sworn broker, observed upon that fact, and said that the tickets were signed Rochas and Son, of which he desired an explanation. Mr. Bramwell said it would be absurd to attempt to conceal the fact that Mr. Rochas, jun., was not a sworn broker. It was decidedly wrong in that gentleman to act as a broker without being one ; but he had acted in ignorance, and therefore, as far as that was concerned, he was at the mercy of the Court. That circumstance, however, had nothing to do with the subject of the complaint, which was ready to be rectified by the ex hibition of the books. A long cross .examination of Mr. Rose was then com menced by Mr. Bramwell upon the particular transac tions which had taken place. Lieutenant-Colonel Bateman stated that he accom panied Mr. Rose, to the office of Rochas and son, and gave a detail of the conversation which took place on the subject of the purchase of the shares, and refusal to give the necessary information, or to show the books containing accounts of the dealings. Ultimately the Court came to the following decision : —" That the City solicitor be instructed to put Mr. Rochas', sen., bond in suit for permitting his son to act as broker without having him admitted, and for refusing to give the information which he was under obligation to give by his bond, and in accordance with the duties of a sworn broker, ou the application relative to the shares ; but that the question of Mr. Rochas', sen., suspension or dismissal from the office of a broker be postponed until that defendant should have an opportunity to appear before the Court. And, also, that the City solicitor be instructed to proceed against Mr. Roches, jun., for hav ing acted as a broker without having been admitted." The case, as might be expected, excited a great deal of interest and curio.ity. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Mr. Richards, the secretary to the Kentish Coast Rail way, presented himself on Friday to the sitting magis trate, to say a few words in answer to a statement which had been made the day before by Mr. Stokes, whose de ceased father was a shareholder. Mr. Stokes had repre sented that he had gone to France, and could not be met with. That was not the fact. He had not been on the Continent, nor had he ever contemplated going there ; and if he could give Mr. Stokes any information he should be most happy to do so. Like all other parties connected with that railway, he had been a loser, and he was the greatest sufferer by it. The only certificates issued by the company were those signed by him as secretary. Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE was sorry to hear he had been a severe sufferer, and that he was not the only suf ferer. For himself (Alderman Musgrove), ho had from the beginning repudiated all connexion with these pro jects. He had no doubt the newspapers would publish his denial of the statement that he was not to be found. BOW-STREET. On Friday, a p oor woman named Elr i dge, li v i ng i n Porter -street, N ew p ort - mar k et, soug h t t h e a d v i ce o f M r . Henry und er th e circumstances deta i led b e l ow: — A short ti me ago h er h us b an d o b ta i ne d a s it ua ti on as driver of one o f t h e carts b e l ong i ng to t h e new "P arce l s Mail C ompany, " i n the Strand, prev i ous l y pay i ng a deposit o f 8 1 ., of its s ervants, as a security. lie bad since applied for which the " company" required of each his wages, but they were refused on the pretence that the horse driven by him had sustained some injury by a fall, whi c h they attributed to his carelessness. lie then demanded back his 84 deposit, but the persons in the office only laughed at him. The woman added than she and her husband were in the greatest diitress in consequence. She was obliged to pawn nearly all her things to raise the 81., and they were now actually destitute. Mr. HENRY asked if the concern was bankrupt?—The woman did not think that that was the case, as they ap- peared to be carrying on the business with the deposits paid by their servants. Mr.-HENRY said itcertainly was a hard case, but her only remedy was through the Court of Requests. There had been many similar applications to him lately against the same company, and this had suggested to his mind the probability of the concern being insolvent. The case of Mr. Henry Harper Lomax, who was sum moned for refusing to support his wife, should have come on to-day before Mr. Henry, b u t a t h a l f-past two o'clock the defendant entered the Court in such a state of intoxication, that the Magistrate was compelled to order him to be detained for a couple of hours, and in case he should then be still unfit to attend to the case, to be remanded until Monday. The defendant's brother-in-law was in attendance, and was anxious to make some statement with respect to a charge which he wished to prefer against Mrs. Lomax, but Mr. HENRY refused to hear any such statement at present. The defendant was then removed to another room. MARYLEB ONE. William Anderson, alias Macdonald, and Eliza Wright. alias Anderson, alias Macdonald, were placed at the bar before Mr. Rawlinson for re-examination, charged with having been concerned, in an extensive way, in the manufacture of counterfeit coin. Mr. Powell, the Mint solicitor, was in attendance to conduct the case on the part of the Crown. The evidence gone into upon -the first examination was, that on Saturday night last the male prisoner, for whom the police had long been looking, was taken into custody by Inspector Penny and Sergeant Brannan, of the G division, at the Wheatabeaf public-house, Edge ware-road, and that he was then told that he was taken on suspicion of coining in Westminster ; he was con veyed to the Paddington station in a cab, and locked up, and from information which the officers received, they soon afterwards went to No. Co. Devonshire -street, Lis son -grove. Inquiries were made of the landlady, who stated, that a p arson answering the description of the man Anderson was, with a woman whom she under stood to be his wife, lodging in her back-room on the second floor. The door, which was locked, was then forced open, and in various parts of the apartment were found a quantity of plaster of Paris, a galvanic battery, and a ladle, together with much white metal, and in fact, everything which would be required for carrying on the practice of coining. While the search was going on, the female prisoner, who was not aware of any one being in the room, suddenly entered, when she became exceed ingly confused, and endeavoured to put her band into her bosom. &Annan, however, laid hold of her hands, timi took from her bosom two packets containing 24 coun terfeit fourpenny-pieces. She was extremely violect, and cried out " Murder " several times. After she was locked up, he (Brannan) returned to the house, and be neath the seat of the watercloset in the yard he disco vered hanging on a nail, a bag, which had in it some moulds and two spurious half-crowns. Further evidence was gone into criminatory of both the prisoners in the above case, and in addition thereto there was a charge brought against them of having, while lodging together, in the month of June last, in an upper room at 45, Duck-lane, Westminster, been engaged in their nefarious calling. They had been living at the house in question as man and wife, and when Inspector Penny and Sergeant Brannan searched the place they found in it a large quantity of base coin, cothisting of half-crowns and other coin of different denominations to a considerable amount, as also moulds, a galvanic bat tery, and other apparatus for coining. The spurious coin, and the other articles referred to, were produced by the officers. It further appeared that the room in which the moulds, &c., were found was not let to the prisoners, but to a man named Wileon, who quitted the place, and nothing with regard to his present residence was known. The prisoners denied that they had ever been the oc cupants of the back room in which the spurious coin, moulds, ttc., were discovered, at the house in Duck-lane. Mr. Powell remarked that there were many circum stances of a very peculiar nature connected with the case ; and, as it was a matter of publi c i m p or t ance , h e should wish for the prisoners to be remanded, in order that time might be afforded him for laying the whole of the facts before the Attorney-General. Mr. R&wLINsoN considered the case sufficiently strong against the prisoners to justify him in at once sending them for trial at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Conrt, and he should do so if the accused parties ob jected to a remand. The prisoners did not object to the course suggested by Mr. Powell, and they accordingly stand remanded till Tuesday next. A young man, who gave his name Richard Smith, was charged with uttering counterfeit coins. Mr. Cummins, a baker, residing at No. 1, Upper Baker street, Portman-square, stated that on the previous even ing the prisoner came to his shop and asked for two biscuits, in payment for which he threw down a counter feit shilling; he was told it was a bad one, when he said that he was not aware of it, and that he was a respect able tradesman. Other evidence was gone into, showing that just be fore the prisoner went to Mr. Cummins' he had attempted to pass a bad shilling at the Victory public• house in the same street. The magistrate ordered that the prisoner should be put back to await the arrival of Mr. Powell, the Mint solicitor. Mr. Powell, on coming to the Court, was made ac quainted with all that had transpired in reference to the case, and he declined, on the part of the Mint, to prose cute. The prisoner was again brought in, and Mr. RAwurrsoiki said to the complaining parties, "The Mint won't take this case up; the prisoner must, there fore, be discharged." Mitchell, the gaoler, spoke to the fact of the accused having been in custody on a former occasion, and he is now, upon what principle we know not, let off without punishment, having, of eourse, an opportunity thereby afforded him of renewing his nefarious practices. WORSHIP -STREET. Mickel Butler and Charles Dipper, stated by the police to be well-known pickpockets, were placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged with having assaulted, with intent to rob, an elderly widow named Esther Lin don, living in Willow-street, Shoreditch. The old woman had been spending the evening at the City of London Theatre, and was returning home at a late hour, when she met the two prisoners a short dis tance from her residence, one of whom instantly knocked her down by a violent blow in the face, while the other held his hand tightly over her mouth to stifle her cries for assistance. Butler- then forced his hand eh iwn her bosom, and endeavoured to tear away her watch, which was in a little side pocket, but after giving it a violent Wrench, and almost succeeding, the window of an ad joining house was suddenly thrown up, and, seeing that they must be captured if they persisted in their object, they both took to their heels and decamped. Policeman Cross, 217 G, who arrested them in their flight, having proved that they were both notorious characters, who had been several times convicted of offences, Mr. Rayson, a tradesman in King-street, Hackney road, stepped forward and claimed Butler as a late ser vant of his, who had robbed him of several sums of money while in his employment, and allconded, without his being since able to find him. Butler was ordered to bo again brought up for the completion of the evidence on Mr. Rayson's charge, but both prisoners were fully committed for trial for the assault and robbery upon Mrs. Lindon. - LAMBETH. Thomas Pim, alias Herbert Stanley, alias Peirce, alias Franks, a stout, aged man, who was described in the police-sheet as a " gentleman," was placed at the bar be fore Mr. Norton, on a charge of wilfully forging the name of Herbert Stanley to a bill of exchange for 631. 4s. ld., with intent to defraud Mr. William R) an, a wholesale stationer, of 10, Merchant's-quay, Dublin. Mr. Ryan, the prosecutor, stated that in the month of April last the prisoner took a paper mill, called Bally lough Mills, near Rathfarnham, in the vicinity of Dub lin, in the name of Herbert Stanley ; anti soon after he was introduced to him (Mr. Ryan) by his landlord, who was a particular friend of his, as Mr. Stanley, a gentle man of considerale property from London, who had taken the mills, and who was about to carry them on with great spirit. Soon after this he (Mr. Ryan) did some business with the prisoner, and the latter being in his debt to the amount of 681.45. ld., desired him to draw a bill for three months for that sum, and he would accept it. Witness accordingly drew the bill, and the prisoner accepted it in his counting-house, in the name " Herbert Stanley." Soon after this witness came to London, and in conversa tion with a friend inquired if he knew any person in the paper trade named " Herbert Stanley." His friend re plied that he had heard something of a person who as sumed that name, but whose real name was Pan, and he (Mr. Ryan), in consequence of thi s i n ti ma ti on , was in duced to make inquiries at the house, No, 7, Bradshaw • street, Old Kent-road, where he learned quite sufficient to satisfy him that Herbert Stanley was an assumed name, and that Thomas Pim was the real name of the proprietor of Ballylough mills and the acceptor of his bill of exchange. On his return to Dublin, however, he found that Mr. Herbert Stanley, alias Pim, had ab sconded, and made a hasty retreat from Ireland, having heard no doubt that be (Mr. Ryan) had been making some inquiries in London about him, and from that time until yesterday morning he had not seen him. It was then discovered by Mr. Jones, and there could be no doubt of the fact, that the prisoner had himself answered the reference he gave as to his respectability, for he re ferred to a Mr. Francis, 7, Bradshaw-street, Old Kent. road, and he (Mr. Ryan) had ascertained that tha• w as the very house in which the defendant's wife and family resided ; so that the note which represented him to be a man of high respectability and property, had been written by himself in Dublin, and for warded to London, received 'and put into the po s t here, and found its way back to Mr. Jones in the usual course. Mr. Ryan, in conclusion, said, that on arriving in London a day or two ago he gave informa tion of the forgery to the police, and a description of the prisoner, and on that morning he met the prisoner in the Kent-road not far from his house, and gave him into custody. The prisoner then admitted his real name was Pim, and that he had accepted the bill in an assumed one. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, entered into a long and rambling defence, the purport of which was, that he had taken the paper mills near Dublin, in the name of a friend, who was very soon to have succeeded him, but who had since gone to America. It was his inten tion, he said, to have paid every person, and there would have been abundance of property on the concern to do so, and leave a surplus, but for the isssing out of a pro cess of law with which he was not acquainted, and which swept away wholesale ten times the amount of property for a debt of 35/. Mr. NORTON, after loOking over the authorities on the subject, was of opinion that he had no jurisdiction in the case, the forgery having been committed in Dublin. The case was one, however, which in his (Mr. Norton's) opinion, required investigation, and therefore the officer would, if Mr. Rya n th oug h t proper, convey the prisoner to Dubin to be dealt with by the magistrates there. Mr. Ryan said he certainly should take the responsi bility of taking the prisoner to Dublin, as he had ascer tained that for many years he had lived by taking paper mills and swindli ng var i ous persons. - The prisoner, who seemed very anxious to arrange the matter, was then removed from the bar. SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN, AT EVERTON, NOTTS —This place was thrown into the greatest excitement on Sunday morning last, in consequence of a report that the curate to the Rev. Robert Evans had committed sui cide, about ten o'clock. It seems that Mr. Cock, the curate, rose and dressed at his usual hour, but appeared to be labouring under some unpleasant sensation ; he paced about, went into the kitchen, kissed his only child, bid it good bye, then took it into another room, placed it on his knee, and immediately applying a pistol to his own head, discharged its contents into his right temple, and fell dead. The report of the pistol produced alarm in the family, who ran into the room, but the Rev. Gentleman died immediately. Various rumours are afloat as to the cause of the rash act ; domestic uneasi ness is most generally assigned.' He was a very amiable and worthy minister, and his unhappy end has produced a most painful impression in the parish. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.--The supply of all grain to this day's market is liberal ; and we ex perience a good demand for fine fresh wheats, at an advance of is. per qr. on last week's rates, and other descriptions are firm in value. There is a steady inquiry for barley, and higher rates are again obtained. Oats and shelling are both dearer, the former ld. per stone, the latter 2s. per load. Beans are firmly held, and in fair request. In other articles no change. AIR. COBDEN, M.P.—Our distinguished fellow townsman arrived in Madrid on the 7th ; in the even ing he was serenaded by a band of music, which played several airs in the street opposite his hotel. The next day, deputations from the Madrid Economical Society, and the SpaniAl Mercantile Confederation waited upon him, to congratulate him on his arrival in Madrid.— All the Madrid journals, with the exception of one un influential weekly newspaper, supported by the Cata lonian manufacturers. have pronounced strongly in fa vour of free trade.--The correspondent of the Morning Post states that, en the 10th, Mr. Cobden dined with the British ambassador, and on the 11th accompanied Mr. Bulwer to the Queen's drawing-room.—Manchester Guardian. A GAY BIRD.—The venerable Mr. Jay, the great Dissenting preacher of Bash, at the age of seventy-seven, has just led to the hymeneal altar a lady with a kirttuie of 30,0001,—Banitur y Guardian. Li A i E S s 1: URI ) ; I ' 1 .1 COVEN'av-GAIUMN•3s 6J Pine Apples, 4s to 7s per lb ; Hothouse Grapes, and Foreign ditto, 10d to Is 3d per lb; Apple`, 3 5 to 88 bushel ; Pears, 4s to 12s per half sieve ; F. lb. 95s to 100 s ; and Cob Nuts, 100 s to 1105 per 100 3d Walnuts, 14s to 21s per bushel • Cabbages, 6d to 15,0 Brocoli, 4s to 65 ; and Artichokes, 25 to 49 per toe French Beans, is 6d to 2.5 6d per half sieve ; F °ta e h e s 2s 6d to 7s 6d per cwt ; Turnips, 2s to 4s per dozen be!, 2s t o Horseradish, 2s to 5s per bundle; Spinach Is 6 d to Iso d l O , ll P e t i s s r t half sieve ; Carrots 3d to 8d per bunch ; Onions , 55 bushel ; Endive, Is to is 6d per score; illubhroorns,A iii 2s per pottle ; Small Salads 2d to 3d per punnet; all" dishes.lod to Is 3d per dozen hands. 24773IRTGATE AND LEADEN/31W" it Prime Beef and Mutton commanded a steady, le bt ' is i full prices. In all kinds of other meat only a slugg , s u os 10 ness was doing. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 8d; Mutton , J D to 4s 8d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; and Pork,4s 6 per 81bs, by the carcase. Turkeys, 4s to 6s; Geese , I , u to 6s 6d ; Ducks, is 6d to 2s 6d •, Tame Rabbits, each Is 8d; Wild ditto, 6d to ls ; and Pigeons, 5d to 8 ,1 "6d 4s 6d to 6s list Surrey Fowls, 5s to 8s; ditto Chickens, Barn-door Fowls, 2s 6d to 4s per couple. Egg s ' E s i ttie l is to Os 6d, and French, 6s to 7a 6d per 100. Fresh .d,e! partrl is to is 2d per lb. Pheasants 2s to 33 B d+ Is to is 8d ; Hares, 2s to 3s ° Gr° ; Leverets, -s to • Is 3d to 2s 6d; Teal, ICd to is 6d; and Wild Du i ' IDOudc,,to to 28 each. NE Beef P OAT. 035 iod to 45 I° Beef from 2s 10d to 3s 10d ; Mutton Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 4s to 5s per Sibs. BILLINGSGATE. 'ch del AWBIII to 93,4 We had a fair average supply of Fish on offer, a steady inquiry, at full prices. Cod Fish, -„- d ersv,„• Whitings, ad to 10d; Lobsters, is 2d to 3s 6d;, is °' 8d to 2s each. Soles, 8d to 3s 6d per pair. Sal*" to is 6d per lb. Oysters, 30s to 55s per bushel. WHI'II BOR./LIMY.. 4si• 0' Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 33 8d to Is 10d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 3s 10d to 4s lel per Sibs* HUNGE UP 0 ELD We bad a steady demand fur most articles, and the agots' tions ruled about stationary. ( re 01 RE. The prices of Wheaten B BreadA inD the metropolis,, 9d to 10d ; of Household ditto, 8d to 9d per 40', 30 HIDE MARIE ET. -21 b, Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, 3d per lb ; do. 641 h ti°,llb, 34d, to 314 ; do. 721 b 801 b, 314 d to 31.2c1; 80Ib to AO, to 4d; do. 881 b to 961 b, 41A,d to sd; do. 961 b to 1041 b, f,011511 6d ; Calf Skins, each, 4s 6cl to 6s ; Horn Hides, 13'; 25101' Sheep 2s 9d to 3s 4d; Downs and Half-breds, 2s 4d to 51./I,Y DIA.RXETs • data SMITRFIILD.—Meadow Hay, 218 s to 3115 5 ; Clover it fall 3/ 8s to 4/ 16s6s to 1/ Ils per load. average supply, and a dull inquiry. 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SAMUEL LA'MERT, CONSULTING SH-au ,„potr o l 9, Bedford-street, Bedford-sqUare, London;, 9%;1 Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburg,esv Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, ct i Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. • dr °, 4. I V joAff CONTENTS OF THE "'EAU". 170 CHAPTER 1. On the l'hilosophy of Marriage, ". tofe n ?' and Obligations, an d in Infelicitous and Unprodue CHAPTER 2. On the Anatomy and Physiology of th ug ?O ct' a° Organs, their functions, structures, and secretions, P)" „eslt ) " 0 1 , 4 0 Mental and Physical Power are dependant upon their fieet , ,,, o o o + — CuArrEa On Solitary Habits; their various :0e ""stt, Animal Economy; the concealed cause if Debility e et we' t • I' 4 l if the Stomach, Lungs, and Brain, and general '` „derS„.°o o' o l Mental Faculties. CHAPTER 4. 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