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ROYAL LYCEUM, THEATRE. —THIS EVENING, and every evening during the week, the GRAND - ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary effects. Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition, for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the of the: visitors no one can be positive that he sees any. one thing; but . it is a comedy really performed by the com pany; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex pected denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of the public every night to appear 'as , auxiliaries ; and an ex travaganza, in which- all that seems to be is entirely beyond the bounds of probability. Professor; Anderson .returns his thanks 'to thronged - and fashionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum , Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he has been enabled to announce Magic and. Mystery , for. con tintiond repetition. Ho believes that no professor of his art has at any time or in any place been honoured with -an amount of success so extensive, so decided, and oo unusual. He would attribute, that • success to three causes; first, that in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors the results of alife sedulously devoted 'to the attainment of perfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which he has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has spared no trouble nor expense to put this- entertainment on the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment , of the first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly, that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those who honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that it is possible to information also, and that the oppor tiutity should not hi neglected of exposing conjuring where:- ever it has been used, for nefarious purposes, or whenever by resorting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner, the designing have succeeded- in making' dupes of the credulous. The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro fessor Adderson has received, from the time of opening, the theatre;np to the present date, bear witness to the great in terest Taken on tho subject of this singular delusion ; 'whilst many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which attend , a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence .which has resulted, Professor Anderson's exposé of spirit-rapping .and his illustration of the so:called table phenomena, have pro duced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex pose a' mischievous and impudent juggle. • It is impossible for Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the communications which reach him on the subject, He regrets that many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen who, from their position in society and their well-known in tellectial attainments, he would least have expected to have been converts- to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on spirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within the Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that this public exposition will be accepted generally tis Professor Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his multitudinous correspondents. - He. regrets that the names ,of the great and learned of the land should have been made to figure in the documents emanating from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem oer2o, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri tual Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has Witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these notectmen brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the solution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial, actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits Who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate rial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques tion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the above, bas recently left England, and the following account of who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648: a —" This young man, who , is Scotchman by birth, and now in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations Without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendidhumbug, offered him 2.000 dellare per annum if he would perform at his museum in New York.. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could be bought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply and honestly remarked, that, the money would have been very acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 20), an or phan, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose his life, The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. Re inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror; is one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer tainly surprising to find such a. paragraph as this in the editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom might ; be supposed to be sane. Even if .Barnum does believe in spirit-rapping--does spirit-rapping gain or lose by this accession to its adherents and, with Barnum's endorse ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely to be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not : but, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of England have the temerity to subscribe their names to to gross a swindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the Rev, N. J: Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and Writes a book on the subject, he considers it t i be time for him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the 2tforning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel. in company with Lord Brougham, He distinctly states that which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that sphit-rappingis nothing more than conjuring applied to bad Purposes, In the Morning Advertiser of the following day, however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one Who was present when he and Lord Brougham had their seance with the spirits, in which tho writer says, that " the table (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac cordion was convoyed by an invisible agency to my hand and then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's right hand, apart from any person, it played an air throug,h ont." With such a statement, printed fo r th e edification of the people of the 19th - century, with the facts before us that the most talented men of the day are permitting themselves to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers —that the greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention" has actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall, Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual ists of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will be received by the people of England as genuine honest at tempts to provide an' antidote for the bane of the spiritual Jugglers. In the botirse of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have visited the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed, than has ever before been assembled within its walls in so short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even. ing, the programme being continually changed. Grand fashionable Day Performance, or Saturday, November 17, at 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; • Part I.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical Capabilities Of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer ism, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in the air. 3filse N o . 19,693.] PUBLICATIONS. THE AUTIIOR OF "MARGARET MAITLAND." NOTICt.—LILLIESLEAF, a New Story of Scottish Life, by the Author of " Margaret Maitland," will be ready at all the Libraries on the 15th inst., in 3 vols. Hurst and Vlackett, publishers, successors tVklenry Colburn, 13, Great Marl ecrough-street. This day is published,in Bve., price 21e., ',~~y s THE STORY of•the CAMPAIGN o SEBASTOPOL. Written In the Camp. By Lieut.-Col. E. BIiIICE HAMLEY, Capt., Royal Artillery. (Originally Publisted in "Bladkwood's Magazine.) With Coloured illustrations, drawn in Camp by the Author, Includ 4; a Sketch-Map of Sebastopol and the Sieve-WOrkS.' Wm. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and Loudon. - Orders received by all boAsellers. NEW SERIAL WORK BY MR. CHARLES DICKENS. Uniforinwith."Doinbey and Son," "David. Copperflekt" '!Bleak inon ZO ; 5 mon men 4 on q -- )uth itch Ina• sier ;4-- sta lay, IrnS ri- win )nly ems per I -- i 98i Act 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the pOwer of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and the possibility of. eliciting from the simplest elements the most complex forms of ornithological existence. Act 3. Le Livre des Reeueils Choisies : or , Puck's Own Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu minoiis from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude out of minuteness, in,developing bulk where no space appears for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and in bringing forth -unexpected wonders from the most unlikely place for to be found: Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; • or, Transition without Trou ble. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed ding Riog, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfor mation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article in the position which would seem the most inappropriate. A c t 5. L'Ecrin de Verre ; or, the Casket of Crcesus. Into Which, though made entirely of glass Perfectly transparent, and suspended so as to be visible to the eyes of all present, the Wizard will cause the money of his visitors to transport itself, and rain into the casket, though it s li d oe closed, locked, and the key in the possession of the audience. Adt 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Tran s p arency of Opacity. Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine and Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be in exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the Word of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk, Epsom salts; Port; Sherry, brandy, gin, ' rum, whisky, rtoyeau, or any other wino or spirit required; and finally proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry, and occupying the whole space when tightly packed. Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Exposé of Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and tocsin of the invisibles. Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor phoSes, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Eng land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia. Act. 10. he Enchanted Chair of Comns, in which be who seats himself will be under the magic spell, and app ear to the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi tion as peculiar as perplexing. Act. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the audience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin) in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which all will be'produced. Act. 1.2. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the ShorteUt Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the e asiest mode of ridding ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages of th e newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west ern, to the eastern hemisphere: boorsopen each evening at half-past 7; commence at 8. Private boxes, 1/. Us. 6d. and 1/. ls., to be obtained at the Box-office, or at the principal libraries; stalls, 4s. ; dress circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; gallery, 6d. The Pot-offices is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction of Mr. 'Chaticrton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per formance on EXaturclay, November 17, at 2 o'clock. Doors open at half-past 1. House," &c., &c. On . the Thirtieth of nriernber Will be Published. tci hogcomplete ;1 Twenty Monthly Parts, Price One shilling each, the FirsrAlontlily . Part of a New Work•ot Flction. called _ LITTLE DORRIT. By CHARLES DICKENS, With Illustrations. by- 114. Burr K. BaowszE. ;Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie-Street: The Third Edition.—Just published, price 51., by post, free, bs. 6d. N TRUE Az FALSE SPERMATORRIRDA., with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Real Inffesefs 'ander this disease, and Correcting or wide-sprettO Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. From the Germs). of Dr. PICKFOttI .With an Introduction by the Editor, containing a complete exposure of the system of terrorism and extortion pursued by the advertising quacks of the metropolis towards those who are credulous enough to seek their aid. " Pickfot 7 d is known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the firs , time, he Informs as, that ho has addressed himself to the non-•-nedi• Cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall ilet• - ict an) other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his -ewer to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers,' and ' Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if this boot could find its way into the hands of those who stiffer from the corn. plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that manyhundreds would be saved muoh needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importahee, tbOugh it is that which the quacks most prize__ much money.-- This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrlicea, and to place the treat. ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore likely to do much good." • • , London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. —The Directors hereby Give Notice that they will receive Money on Loan, to pay off Debentures faillhg due, and are prepared to accept Tenders for the same for a period of 3,5, or 7 years, at 5 per cent. per annum. • Application may be made to the undersigned. By order of the Directors. CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary. Paddington Station, 2d November, 1855. OYAL.SWEDISH RAILWAY COMPANY. R KOPING TO lIIITLT r Notice is hereby given that all Shares in this Company, upon wh'ch the Fini.l Call of 2/. per Share became due and payable "on the Ist October, 1855, will, according to the Statutes of the Company, be liable to Forfeiture if the Call be not paid on or before the let day of December next. • JOHN SADLEIR, Chairman. London, 18, Cannon-street, Nov. 12, 1855. FRIEND of the CLERGY CORPORATION, for allowing pensions not exceeding 401. per annum to the Widows and Orphan unmarried Daughters of Clergymen of the Established Church, and for affording temporary assistance to neces sitous Clergymen and their families, throughout England, Wales, and Ireland. The next Election of Pensioners will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate•rtreet, on TITESD Or, November the 27th ; - ROBERT BAXTER, Erq., in the Chair; when four ladies wi I he placed on the funds. The Rev. JOSEPH BROWN, M.A. Hon. The Rev. JOHN EDMUND COX, M.A., P..;.A.5 Sees. HENRY BRAMALL, ‘ , eeretary. The Report, List o , Subscribers, &c., may be had at. the Offices of the Corporation, 4, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square. TO LOVERS OF FISH.-100 GENUINE YARMOUTH BLOATERS for 65., package included. THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP . _ ARTICLE OF FOOD orwarded to all parts, on receipt of penny postage stamps or P. 0.0. (preferred). send fcill and plain direction, county, and nearest sta tion.—Address Taps. LETTIS, jun.. Fish Curer, Gt. IrarmOuth. " This is the third season Mr. Lettis has supplied us with Yar mouth bloaters, and we find the quality exceilent.—J. Britshowe, house steward, Blenheim Palaco.—Oct. 20, 1854." Mr. Lettls,—As soon as you send out 'your genuine bloaters, 1 shall be glad to have a supply as usual; those I had last year gave graut satisfaction.— t. F. Courroux, Ambassador's Court, St. James's Palace.—Oct. 1, 1855." [PRICE 4D• STAMPED 5D- mankind. These are the rules of Christian morality laid down by Christ himself. (Cheers.) They give each man liberty, but place on each man a restraint, They •do not begin as, human laws_and institutions must do, with out ward actions, but go into the source of affections and of passions —the human heart. It is then to Christian prin ciples, Christian morals, and a Christian spirit that we must look for a better and higher civilisation than any that has been attained. If it is vain to expect either from the decree of authority or from free discussion and confor mity of opinions in the interpretation of Scripturebetween 'different communities of Christians, it is not too much to hope for conformity in good works, conformity in a spirit of kindness, and conformity in brotherly love. There have been great signs of this spirit of late years. Numbers of men in all stations of life devote themselVes to the diffusion of religion, the promotion of education, and all the operations of charity. For, if temptation takes •many shapes, and if the pilgrim's pmgress is impeded by giants and by pit-falls, yet the spirit of charity has, on the other side, many forms. She places the Bible in the bands of the young child to teach him the way he is to go.. She gives a cup of water to the weary traveller who is faint with the labour he has undergone. She watches by the bed of the wounded soldier, binds his wounds with a gentle hand, and t:,nders the nourishment he is able to bear. She watches over the decline of age, and finally points to the reward of a faithful pilgrimage on earth. (Cheers.) There is another consideration. Before many years are passed _there will be in Great Britain and the U. S. of America, 60, 70, or 80 millions of free people. May we not hope that these kindred nations—each speaking the English . language —and deriving its pedigree of liberty from a com mon ancestry—each inheriting the English Bible—each reading Shakspere and Milton—each divided into many denominatious of Christians, but each allowing complete liberty of worship—swill unite in the glorious task of peace ful'conqueet and bloodless victory- (Cheers ) At least let us indulge in this high hope. If we do not arrive at, or even approximate to ; perfection, we may look at least to uninterrupted progress towards a far better social organi sation than any we have yet enjoyed.. I have spoken to you of those :times .of civiliisation, when either the Chris- Sian cast ~attica9w3ti.,„or_ bei owzi- t, was coo. 'temireti,, ifde,wii iiegleeted. Ebt turVoirielhanheiv i# a paried arriving When ate mar see realised those beenti ful and powerful words of a great poet : " Dim' as the borrowed beams of moon 'and stars .To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul ; and, as on high Those glimmering lights discover but the sky, Not light us higher —so reason's feeble ray But guidths us upwa-ds to a better day ; And, as those nightly tapers disappear • When day's bright lord ascends the hemisphere, So pale grows reason in religion's light— So sinks and so dissolves in supernatural light." (Cheers.) To each one of us—to you young men of the United Kingdom more especially—belongs a portion of the noble task of speeding our country on her great and glori ous way, by walking steadfastly in the full light of such truths as we already possess, and by hastening the noonday brightness of such as are only dawning. Let it not be the reeroach of any one of us that, born in a land where the laws acknowledge that thought and speech arefree, we have yet over lent the helping hand of custom, folly, or intole rance to extinguish one spark of that di v in e flame which we call the soul, or ever turned away from a righteous and peaceable endeavour to loosen the fetters that still bind it throughout the world. Some there are who shut their eyes to one truth lest it should impair another more sacred in their eyes. But one truth can no more quench another truth than one sunbeam can quench another sunbeam. Truth is one as God is one. Go forward to meet her in whatever garb. Welcome her from whatever quarter she comes, till at last, beyond the grave, we shall hail her in a blaze of glory, which mortal eye can only strain in vain to contem plate. 'Truth is the gem for which the wise man digs the earth, the pearl for which he (lives into the ocean, the star for which he climbs the heavens, the herald and guardian of moral and political progress. You have at the same time many dangers to encounter. Of these I will only men tion two. One is the danger of allowing the flowing waters of Christianity to be embittered by the gall of sectarian and polernlcal controversy. Your chances of achieving good would be destroyed by such an error. Another dan ger is that which has attended so many noble attempts, so many great institutions, so many pious undertakings. Tho first ardour of zeal abates, difficulties, which at first were molehills, grow into mountains; enthusiasm subsides into Apathy. Avoid those errors, I pray you -go on improving; ' faint not in a good and great work; the blessing of God will reward your enterprise. (The noble lord concluded amid loud and enthusiastic applause.) The Hon. and Rev. M. VILLIERS, in moving a vote of thanks to the noble lord for his lecture, said it would ill become him to. offer a: single word of eulOgium upon the merits of the lecture itself, as the reception which had been given to the noble lord that night, though coutiood to that hall, was only the representation, by anticipation, of that which would be the feeling of a grateful country to one who had passed his life and used his talents and in fluence uniformly for his country's good. (Loud cheers.) The Ilev. Dr. HAMILTON 'seconded the motion, which was put from the chair, and carried in the affirmative, amid continued applause Lord J. MissELL, in acknowledging the compliment, said —Llavioc , read so long a lecture, I am not going to make a speech. I will only say that I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the kind reception you have given me, and I only wish the lecture was more worthy of the place and of the purposes for which it was delivered. " - meeting then separated. MR. GLADSTO.NE AT CHESTER. The Right Hon. VT. E. Gladstone, M.P., lectured before the Chester Meaanics' Institution, on Monday, again taking tbe f ooinnies 'for his .theme. Ent for the decided opinions on the war which divide the right.hon, gentleman from Lord Palmerston, this - public recurrence to colot,ial affairs would - seem remarkable under present circumstances. The lecture took place in . the Royal . Hotel ASsembly room, which was fully crowded long before the hour appointed for the commencement of the proceedings. The chair was taken at 8 o'clock, by John Williams, Esq. The room was then densely crowded in every part. Among those upon the platftirm were Sir Stephen Glynne, Lord Lyttelton, the Dean of Chester, Col. Elliott, Dr, Davis, &c. - Oa the appediance of Mr. Gladitsne upon the platforM he was received with lond and enthusiastic applause ; he took his seat at the right hand of the chairman. The CHAIRMAN, in a few introductory words, pre. sented Mr. Gladsone to the audience. Mr. GLADSTONE then rose, and was received with re newed applause. - The right hon. gentleman reviewed the history of our colonies and the principles upon which their administration had been conducted at various epochs, this part of his lecture bearing a close resem blance to that delivered at lEtawat den. Mr. Gladstone then pr:ceeded—Well, now, these are all reasons which have . prevailed at different times, and have been the oasis, in a great degree, of the colonial policy of different stasesinen, in different ages, and different tinies. It is but fair that I should endeavour to state why I think colonies are desirable for a country circumstanced as England is. I have stated,. that I do not think them de sirable simply to puff up cur reputation. It is plain that they are not to be desired for revenue, because they-do not yield it. It is plain that they are not to be desired for trading monopoly, because that we have entirely abandoned. It is plain they are not to be desired far pa tronage, because they will not allow us to exercise pa tronage, properly so called, within their limits ; and I ern bound to say, I do not think the public men of this country have any desire so to exercise it. With respect to territory, it is perfectly plain that mere extension of territory is not a legitimate subject of ambition, unless you can show that you are qualified to make use of that territory for the purposes for which God gave the earth to man. Why, then, - are• colonies desirable ? Tn my opinion • —and I submit it to you with great respect—they are desirable both for the national and the moral and social results which a wise system of colonisation is cal culated to produce. The effect of colonisation undoubt edly is to increase the trade and employment of the mo ther country. Take the case of the emigrant going across the Atlantic. Why does he go across the Atlantic? Because he expects—and in general he is the hest judge of his own interests—to get better wages across the Atlantic than he can get at home. Well, then, if he goes across the Atlantic to get better wages, he leaves in the labour market at home fewer persons than before, and consequently raises the rates of wages at home- by carrying himself away from the. competition. _By going to the colony and supplying' it with labour, he likewise creates a demand for capital there; and by this means he creates a trade between the colony and the mother coun try. For you will almost find that a colony is founded under circumstances where the country to which the settlers go produces the very commodities which are wanted in the country which they left. Therefore, se far its trade and - the gain connected with trade are of a con cerned, it is perfectly obvious. that the foundationrcutra. colony, where it the natural result of the t for the stances of the country—for . I am no `.. 3 arbitrary foundation by any artificial e a ff d o v rts e tt but where it is ment, irrespective of all circumstances—govern ment,circum- the natural and spontaneous result of the is the great en stances in which the country is plan y e country. largement of the materialone Trade and employment may bencrieased by the opening resourcesnoreaosefd. the of three ways.d They may be they may be increased of new fields foreign countries; in your own country ; or by the opening Jef such they may be increased by the opening of them in y our ent and trade with foreign colonies. If , the leullhoYo tthe profit you get. _ countries are increased,hedly liabld to the disadvantage, But then you are tin o d bad lawthese •of unwise an s on foreign that the passipg restrict and ham the foreign countries y p e extension countries may de Thus you are exposed to the utmost dis advantage, your tra • cause it makes the trade with foreign dvantage, not be . than th :ountries less lucrative , e trade with the colonies, —there is • no such thine as two trades lucrative in diffe rent degrees ; the trade with the colony is more lucra tive than the trade with a foreign country, it is quite plain that the balance will soon be restored, because those who carry on the worse with the foreign country Old go into the better trade with the colony until the gains of the two are equalised. But the difference it this,—in the case of a foreign country your trade often may be injuriously crippled and kept down so as to suffer by the bad laws of the country with which you are trading, while with respect to the colony, you have no such danger because the commercial laws are under the control of' the mother country ; when you found colonies, and trade with them, you are perfectly sure that that trade will have fair play, and that the natural field which is open for its extension will not be n arrowed by the u nw i se proceedings of men. That i s t h e great t, advantag e o f co l on i a l tra d e. An i mmense a d v antage is. The consequence of it has been that your colonies, although they contain but a very small proportion of the inhabitauts of the countries with which you trade. yeta LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NoYEMBEit 14, 1855, N ORWICH UNION REVERSIONARY INTEREST OMPANY. 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BoulcourS.—Doors open at 8. Admission e Shilling. OH Saturday next, the 17th, H. Laurent's new Varsoviana will be played for the first time. LEOTUR„EBY LORD J. RUSSELL ON MORAL AIVD POLITICAL PROGRESS. Yesterday evening Lord J. Russell delivered at Exeter Hall, on the occasion of the opening of the session of the Young Men's Christian Association, a lecture on the "Ob stacles which have retarded moral and political progress." An immense crowd assembled to witness the appearance of the noble lord in the now popular character of a public lecturer; the hall was filled in every part almost to incon venience; and the audience amounted, perhaps, to about 4,000 persons. At eight o'clock precisely his lordship, accompanied by the Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Panmure, the Right Hon. V. Smith, Mr. Beaumont, M.P., the Hon. and Rev. M. Villiers, the Rev. Canon Bickersteth, and a number of ether gentlemen, entered the hall, amidst loud and pro longed cheering, The Earl of Shaftesbury, tho president of the associa 'tion, having been moved to the chair amidst considerable applause, proceeded, after a prayer had been offered up for the Divine blessing, to say :—Ladies and gentlemen, on all occasions such as this, the opening remarks of the chair man ought to be exceedingly short. But on this occasion they ought to be shorter than usual, because the proverb that " good wine needs no bush" is singularly applicable in the present instance. (Cheers.) The poble lord who has so kindly undertaken to open this course of lectures needs no praise of mine, nor'any introduction to you; his own great reputation is more than sufficient. I will, therefore, at once request our noble friend to open the business of this evening with the lecture that he has been so good as to promise us. Lord J. RUSSELL then rose amidst considerable cheer ing and addressed the meeting as follows:--Gentlemen, my noble friend, your chairman, has said most truly that I have undertaken the task of delivering the opening leant.° to you t t l h a h t av w e a u s n o d ff e e r r ta :d k e m n e undertaki ng . Al t h ough I e negepalappalled confesstahi the honour that adat s t i h n a c t e o hit, l t u i h s l odeuvngeohnt help egfl being c certainly I cannot say that am unused to public speaking, yet an address of this kind is to me unusual ; and I fear I shall not perform the task in a manner adequate to its im portance. I must say, likewise, that the subject which I cave chosen, and which is one upon which I have bestowed A good deal of thought and attention, when I came to con sider it, seemed so vast that I can but open a corner of the field ; I can bat make a beginning, as it were, upon the subject. What I have to deliver may seem to you in many parts to be proving that which has been abundantly and frequently proved ; to be enforcing that which needs no further enforcement; and to be wasting .time upon dis cussions the value of which has long since been ascer tained. At the same time I think you will not find it un useful to throw somewhat of the light of past history upon the future, and that we may find some guide to the future in looking Vack to errors that have been committed, not by barbarous nations, not in the datle ages, bat by• some of the greatest and most enlightened among mankind. I have undertaken to point out some, at least, of the ob stacles which retard moral and political progress. The latest lecture given in the course of 1851 was on " Opposi tion to great inventions and discoveries." Nor was abun dant material wanting to such a theme. Roger Bacon, Copernicus, Galileo, and at a later time Harvey, and even Newton, afforded pregnant instances of resistance to the diffusion of light. But if the obstacles to the progress of physical science are great, how much greater are those which impede moral and political advancement? Mathe-. matical demonstration and physical experiment carry with them a certain irresistible force which pierces through the thickest barriers of prejudice and superstition. When Galileo showed through his telescope the satellites of Jupi ter, it was difficult for the most obstinate pedant to deny the truth of his discovery. When Newton demonstrated, by a series of geometrical propositions, the doctrine of at traction, those who understo o d hi s reason i ng could not long withhold their assent to his conclusion. But in re spect to moral and political truth we have not, in the first place, the same certainty, an d, i n th e second place, we have to contend against more than the pride of intellect, the tenacity of prejudice, and the force of habit; we have to contend against the jealousy of power, the empire of superstition, and the alarme*of timidity. Not to argue this matter further, I will at once show you by an exam ple what T mean. The best commentary on Newton's " Principia" is written by Jacquier and Le Souor, two members of the Society of Jesus. This commentary is so simple and complete that it enables a person who has but an imperfect knowledge of mathematics to comprehend and to master the sublime discoveries of Newton. There was, however, a trifling objection to the publication of this commentary. The Pope had, by his decrees, forbidden any one to maintain the doctrine of the motion of the earth. The learned Jesuits disposed of this difficalty very easily. They prefixed a notice to this par; of the work declaring that they bowed with implicit submis sion to the decision of tke Pope, that the sun moved round the earth, but that they had been incited by curiosity to show what would have been the case had it been a truth, instead of a fiction, that the earth move d roun d t h e sun. The world laughed and learnt ; the Holy, See was satisfied and silent. Now, let us imagine that these eru dite Jesuits, instead of physical theories, had turned their minds to religion, and had examined, while bowing to the decrees of the Council of Trent, what would have bean the result had the Bible been the only rule of faith, and all re ference to tradition and the authority of the Church had been set aside. It is evident that censure, penance, and expulsion, if not worse punishments, would have been the result. This instance brings us at once to one of the great obstacles to the progress of • moral and political science. Truth is discovered by inquiry ; knowledge is attained by the diffusion of opinion; governments have undertaken to suppress inquiry, and to guide, opinion on all religious and moral, nay, on many physical subjects. Let us inves tigate this subject further. We shall find that some of the greatest obstacles which have been interposed to moral and political progress are those which have been caused by a misapprehension of the functions, and a misapplication of the powers, of civil government. Those functions are ex tensive in their legitimate province; those power are for midable in their proper sphere. But governments have per vez ted to wrong ends an authority which is essential to so ciety in its lowest requirement:, and ought to assist its progress to the highest summit. Let us for a moment con sider the objects of the formation of civil government. These objects are very large,lofty, and extensive. At home a government is bound to protect life and property. These few words imply the whole question of criminal law, the va rious relations of property, the laws of marriage, the rela tions of master and workmen, the security of trade, the maintenance of internal tranquillity, the rule of all orders of men in their separate stations, and the complicated disputes which spring out of their dealings with each other. Let us grant, in addition to these, although it ratty be matter of some question, the promotion of religion, and instruction of the young by public grant or endowment. But there is another duty still more complex and more difficult. Go vernment is charged with the maintenance of the indepen dence of the nation. As such it forms alliances, makes and dissolves treaties, maintains armies and navies ; rules, perhaps, extensive foreign possessions, and, whether in peace or war, is bound not to sacrifice any vital interest to a foregn power. (Loud and protracted cheering.) Surely here ace functions enough for a %Heigh or a Sully—for the wisdom of Somers and the energy of Richelieu—for the capacity of a Henry IV. of France, or a William 111. of Great Britain. It has been pretended, however, that be sides all these functions it is the right and duty of dGo vernments to prescribe the rule of religious f a ith, an d to draw a circle beyond which it shall not be lawf u l t o move. Let us not consider that it is superfluous again to look at the basis upon which this pretension is founded, for even now, in this day, there are countries in Europe where re ligious freedom is not permitted, and where punishment attends the declaration of conscientious opinions. (Hear.) It may be said likewise, and no doubt has been said, that the argument whioh goes upon the want of success in reli gious persecution is not founded on experience, for how ever the enemies of the Protestant reformation were de feated in this and some other countries of Europe, they succeeded both in Spain and in Italy, and in some parts of Germany and Bohemia, in extinguishing the light which was beginning to spread abroad. Let us then examine what is the argument upon this subject. I propose to show you, first, the argument upon which this pretension is based ; secondly, its hollowness ; and thirdly, the evils which this unhappy mistake has caused. A great master of morality and of reason, a pious and virtuous Christian —I mean Dr. Johnson—after speaking of the duty of parents towards their children, says, "Now the vulgar are the Qhildren of the state. If any attempt to teach them doctrines contrary to. what the state approves, the magis trate may and ought to restrain him." On another occa sion Boswell relates the following conversation. The speakers are Dr. Johnson and Dr. Mayo : "I introduced the subject of toleration. Johnson— Every society has a right to preserve public peace and or• der, and, therefore, has a good right to prohibit the pro pagation of opinions which have a dangerous tendency. To say the magistrate has this right, is using au inadequatel "word ; it is the'society for which the magistrate is_ agent, He may be morally or theologically wrong in restraining the propagation of opinions which he' thinks dangerous, but he ikpolitically right. Mayo—l am of opinion, sir, that every man is entitled to liberty of conscience in reli gion ; and that the magistrate cannot restrain that right. Johnson—Sir, , I agree with you. Every man has a right to liberty of conscience, and with that the magistrate can not interfere. People confound liberty of thinking with liberty of talking; nay, with liberty of preaching. Every man has a physical right to think as he p'eases ; for it can not be discovered how he thinks. He has not a moral right, for ho ought to inform himself, and think justly: But, sir, no member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to wh a t th e soc i ety holds to be true. The magistrate, I say, may be wrong in what he thinks ; but while he thinks himself right., he may and ought enforce what he thinks. Mayo—Then, sir, we are to re main always in error, and truth never can prevail ; and the magistrate was right in prosecuting the first Christians. Johnson —Sir, the cnly.rnethod by which religious truth eau be e established a i t s h b e y t m h i a ti r k t yrdm The s ; ando. he lv magistrate is conscious has rightaof the as truth istulaffeetrr‘uthl,ambutafbrya.idpetrhseoroeutisionnoonotthheer way h f one hand, and enduring it on the other." Such was the conclusion's to which a man of powerful under standing and extensive learning was driven by resting his opinions on false principles. There are two of those prin ciples involved in the discourse I have quoted. The first is that a man is at liberty to hold an opinion 'in his own mind, but not to communicate it to others. It were easy -to show that such a doctrine, fully established, must pre vent all moral and political progress. Indeed, I might go farther, and say that even progress in physical science would be arrested if the magistrate were, in the name of society,.to stop the diffusion of such opiniOns as were con sidered by him adverse to religion. The opinion of Gali leo—that the earth moved —was condemned, not as con trary to- physical science, but as opp ose d t o r e vea l e d doc trine. The opinions of the geologists were, at the com mencement of this century, denounced as at variance with the narrative of Holy Writ. Is every man who has made ' a physical discovery- tti ask the, civil nAegistrate whether his demonstration is at variano'e with some - Ignorant inter pretation of the Scriptures before he ventures to publish it to the world ? Bat, to meet the objection in front, is he who deems more highly of his God than the emperor or high priest of his day, to hide his light under a bushel, be cause the civil or ecclesiastical ruler does not like to be dis turbed? Were the early Christians not to tell their bro thers, their wives, their husbands, their children not to forsake idolatry, and worship the only true God ? Were the Christian martyrs rightly amenable to the criminal law ? Again, was Luther, after being convinced that indul gences and the other abuses of the Roman Catholic Church were founded on perversions.of the Christian religion, not to lift tip,his voice and proclaim his conviction ? Was the martyrdom of Latimer and Ridley the just punishment of a crime against society. These questions must have pressed on the logical mind of Dr. Johnson, and, accord ingly,,they forced him to change his ground. But what is the conclusion at which he arrives ? "The magistrate has a right to enforce what he thinks, and he who is con scious of the truth has a right to suffer. I am afraid there is no other way of ascertaining the truth but by persecution on the one hand, and enduring it on the other." Why not ? Why not permit the free circulation of truth and error—leave to truth its own all-suffieient armour, and to error its own stratagems and delusions— leave argument to be met by argument, assertion by in quiry ? If the justeause suffer fora time, if human credulity embraces error with ardour, and is cold as ice to truth, we may yet rely that the light of free discussion will in time disperse the mist of false opinions, that however slow the process the test of free examination will in time separate the dross from the genuine ore. Here, in fact, is the turn ing point of the whole question. Dr. Johnson and others contend that governments have the right and duty to con trol their subjects as parents control their children. The friends of religious liberty contend that governments have no such right, and have no special capacity to fit them for the task. A Roman historian speaks of the rare felicity of his time, when a man was allowed to think as he chose, and to speak as he thought. This rare felicity is the common birthright of mankind. It is the source of, aU knowledge ; the privilege ,which elevates the nature of man ; one of the most precious of the gifts of God : '`What is a man If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed ?—a beast, no more. Sure Hethat made us with Nadi large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To r ust in us unused.". The exercise of the faculties of the human mind they con tend is the first step to the discovery of truth. The highest object upon which the mind, when once raised and disci plined, and strengthened by instruction, fixesits attention, is religion, What we are to believe of God, What we are required to do in obedience to His will, engages the most earnest thoughts of good and wise men. Milton and Locke are great examples of this. But we have higher authority for the exercise of the right of teaching than any mere human dictum. When Peter and John wore co 'emended " Not to speak at all, nor teach in the name of Jesus,"- they answered and said, " Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye, for we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard." Again, when they were threatened a second time, and asked by the high priest, "Did not we strictly command you that ye Should not teach in this eieeneS?" They answered simply,,, but steadfastly, "We ought to obey God rather then men." Now,' if this con duct of Peter and John was right in the sight of God, it follow that no man ought to be punished for publishing his religious convictions, for it is impossible that men can have a right to do certain things, and avow certain opin ions, and that other men, their rulers, can have a right to punish them for these same actions and avowals. If a man, convinced of the truth of his own belief, has a right to propagate that belief, a Scoiereign or magistrate can have no right to punish him for it. For this 'were to ad mit two contradictory 'rights, two repugnant duties, in violation of all our n o ti ons o f Di v i ne and human j u stice. (Cheers.) It is contended, h owever, t h at th e pu blic peace is only to be pre serve d by repe lli ng the intrus i ons o f fana ticism, by repressing the disturbances by which innova tions in religion are always attended. This is the .pre tence of those craftsmen who wish to maintain inviolate the profits of their own silver shrines. Let us see bow far history sanctions this pretence. Without recurring to the well-known example of the trial and punishment of Socrates, let us observe the exercise of this right in four memorable instances. The first I shall take is the punish ment of the early Christians; the next is the persecution of the reformers in the Low Countries; the third, the reli gious wars in France ; the fourth, the revocation of the edict of Nantes. To begin with the Roman Emperors. I will riot quote the example of Nero or Domitian, but refer to the wise Trajan, and his minister, the en lightened Pliny. We possess the, correspondence of Pliny with Trajan during the time that Pliny was Pro prietor in Bithynia. In this curious correspondence we find traces of the provident care with which a Ro man governor watched over the public peace; adorned the buildings of the chief towns, and guarded the health of the community entrusted to his charge. For instan. , e, as a true sanitary reformer, he reports to the Emperor that an open space, near a town, has a stream running through it, which is called a river, hut which is, in fact, a sewer—filthy to the sight and pestilential to the smell. He asks the Emperor's permission to have this stream covered, engaging to find the money for the purpose, and immediately obtains the necessary authority. Among other public and private concerns on which he writes, he touches upon the progress made by the Christians. He complains that the temples are nearly deserted, that animals for sacrifice find no purchasers, and that the num ber of Christians is daily increasing. He interrogates some who had belonged to their community, and who had left it at various periods from 2to 20 years before. These persons readily worshipped the image of the Emperor, and cursed the name of Christ. Examined as to the nature of their Pinner religion, they said that all they bad done was to meet on stated days, before daylight, and sing hymns to Christ, as to a God • that they bound themselves by an oath (sacrament)) not commit theft or adultery, to keep faith with their neighbours, and to restore goods deposited with them to their right owners ; and after this they sepa rated, and met again to take food together, in common, but without any evil intent. This account, from men who had obeyed the orders of the Emperor to desist from attending Christian meetings, and who were therefore disinterested, might, one'should have thought, induced so benevolent an Emperor as Trojan, and so enlightened a governor as Pliny, to leave undisturbed the followers of Christ. But it was not so. Pliny seems, indeed, to have doubted whether the name of Christian, apart from any crime was to be punished. He continues, however, his report to the Emperor in these words ; the meantime, with regent to those who were brought before me as Christians, I followed this method. I asked them whether they were Christians ; to those who confessed themselves to be so, I put the question a second and third time, threatenine them with punishment. Those who persevered I ordered to be led out to execution'."' Trajan approves of these proceedings, and only desires that the Christians who were not brought , before the governor shOuld not be brought out. I need not relate to you what fearful martyrdoms, what cruel mas. sures, followed the adoption of this principle o f persecu tion. Far from preserving public pea ce, the system of punishing Christians convulsed the empire, and was so far from being successful, that it finally terminated in the establishment of Christianity. I wish I could add that pagans were not in their turn the victims of persecution. The learned Dean of St. Paul's, agreeing in this respect with other historians, places the first edicts sanctioningthe punishment of heretic Christians in the reign of Theodosius the Great. I do notpropose, however, to follow the history of the various persecutions of heretics in Christian times. I wish to make a transition at once to the persecution of Protestants in the Low Countries, and to 'call your atten tion to a remarkable passage of Grotius on the subject. Speaking of the tolerant laws promulgated in that country, he says " These laws, dictated by a disposition not usually cr ue l , had their origin in a religion impatient of dissent. For religion, which ought to be the means of softening and uniting the minds of mon, has become, through the fault of human infirmity, a most bitter source of hatred. For it was at that time the conviction of many princes th a t th e body of the-commonwealth should bo anitnated by one religion as by a soul, and that the best way to constitute laws for spiritual as well as temporal matters was to give ne choice to the multitude. Hence the Emperor was the more easily persuaded after the example of Germany, that n which if the power of the priest was destroyed his own autho gh many perished, more succeeded an opinion drewr ityw itsou l dying vigour u l r o n f g r e o r m b be himself obeyed , mightan and that in aa s ti r ? time be subdued by punishment. But the event was contrary to his expectation, for, thou in their places. For these things that we do to please the if i t hag embraced eagerly body, are subject to fine and to authority from the fear of death and of torture ; but the soul, as It is by its nature free and immortal, it cannot be subdued by fire or by sword ; for dangers themselves invite to resistance, and it accounted blessed and glorious to suffer cruel and abhorred punishments with a conscience void of sin. Proofs of this fact are to be found in the early history of the Christians and in these times. For after the capital execution 'of not lees than a hundred thousand persons, in order to try whe ther this fire would be extinguished in a deluge of blood, such multitudes rose in Belgium that public punishments were interrupted by riot and sedition as often as a fa mous criminal was to be executed, or a torture more painful thaneisual was •to be initiated." - - - 190 ittle were these puniglaments, so little were Ulm hor! rid scenes, productive of' that public peace, -that quiet and ra t theyreanntqswtiojelfrl tranquillity, n e fi n f cc i r t g e hi d t h.:(escdakheee-rf. Roman) which hLei6ac Let us _hu Catholic—.Do: co is_ 7D p h r ae e : a t Tr e h u t odhuee:ls. :Pre sident sident of the Parliament of France. Speaking of his own country and his own time, he says : "We have been sufficiently taught by experience that fire and sword, . banishments and proscriptions, have irri tated rather than cured a disease inherent in the mind. For such a cure it is necessary, not to use remedies- which only affect the body, but to apply those which, by doctrine and careful teaching, are gently instilled into the mind. All other matters are ordered by the discretion of the civil magistrate; and therefore of the prince. Religion alone is not commanded, but is infused into minds well prepared by r an. opinion of its truth, with the assistance of Divine grace. Plintshments are of no efficacy in producing this convic tion ; they,rather harden and confirm than break or per suade the mind. What the Stoics said so proudly of their .philimpphy we may much-more-truly say of religion. For - whee a man is acted upon by religion s trouble and pain are of no moment to him ; and any other kind of grief is cast at his feet by the virtue which is _derived froth that opinion which he has imbibed. ,Nothing he can have to bear disturbs him. He complains not of being subject to anything that may befal a human being. l• He knows his own force, and, while he thinks himself tru s ti ng i n th e grace of od, he believes that he shall be equal. to the bur 7 den that is clst,upon him. The executioner may stand be fore him ;. the minister of torture - marpreParelils instru ments and his fire ; he will still persevere; nor will he con sider what he is to suffer, but what it behoves Min to do. For his happiness is in his own breast; and if anything touches him from without it appearsto Kiva him light, and to reach no further than his outer skin. It is worth while to listen to what one of these men said and did.: When he was tied to the stake, in order to be buret by.fire, he went down on his knees and began to sing a hymn', which the smoke and fire scarcely interrupted ;. and when - the execu tioner began to light the fire behind kis back, that he might not be seen, the suffer& cried out, Come here and light the fire before my eyes ; had I feared it I never should have come to this place, which I might have avoided.' Thus, the zeal of those who labour to introduce novelties in reli gion is not to be repressed by punishment; but, on the con trary, minds become more obstinate, whether to suffer or to dare. For when from the ashes of some others are raised, and the number is increased, patience is converted into fary; nor have we to deal as before with supplicants, but with remonstrants and opposers, and those who before fled from punishment now appear' in arms. We have seen this course of events for 40 whole years in France—for some what less time in the Low countries ; and the matter has reached that point, that not by the punishment Of this : or that person, as it might have been at the beginning, cam this be restrained, lest it should spread further ; but when it has pervaded entire communities and whole nations, and thus reached the greatest part of Europe, we have need, not of the sword of the magistrate; but of the weapon of the Lord. For those. who cannot be forced ought to be taught, and ought to be invited 10 'meetings and to friendly assembhee.” I come to the fourth and lard instance of persecutions,whieh, like the former, regards France. After a long period of so-called religious war, Henry IV., in_ concert with his wise minister Sully, by the edict of Nantes, established concord between the two religions, by lowing Roman Catholics and Protestants in possession of all that they held. Peace for a long time prevailed. But Louis XIV., tormented by his confessor for the notorious profligacy of his life, resolved to 4one for his sins by punishing the innocent and loyal Protestants of his dominions. Two schemes were proposed for his adoption ; the one, recommended by the Jesuit La Chaise, aimed at nominal conversions, with a view to make good Roman Catholics of the children ; the other, favoured by the Jansenists, look e d t o r e a l an d e ff ec t ua l turningi of the heart and mind to the Catholic faith. Between the two, however, interposed Lonvois, Minister of War. Jealous of the influence which might be acquired during peace by othe'r ministers, he undertook the conversion of the Protes tants as a business of hie own department. The steps he took, consigned as they are to everlasting infamy, under the name of the dragonnades were of this nature :—Troops of dragoons, sometimes accompanied by infantry and artil lery, were sent into the provinces in which the Protestents . abounded ; they were quartered in the houses of the-Pro testaats, especially of the rich of that communion, till they abandoned their faith; the troops were then removed to another district. If the Protestants attempted to as semble for public worship they were charged, dispersed, and killed by the dragoons. The consequences were what might have been expected. Many nominal conversions were made; in one district more than 100,000 in a fort night, but nearly all relapsed. They then remained ex eluded from the rites of marriage, their children declared illegitimate, and they themselves, a million of subjects, placed out of the pale of the law for nearly a century. The discontent, the confusion, and the misery were be yond expression. So far, then, is it from being true that restrictions placed upon religious freedom have preserved the pose() and order of society, the facts are all the other way. (Cheers.) Tho persecutions of the early Christians, .the massacres of the early reformers, • the violenees' committed against the Huguenots of Franca, have rent society to its foundations, and peace has only been established when the persecutor refrained from his unholy task, and liberty of conscience was .proclaimed. I might illustrate these facts by the persecutions which took place in Holland at the peace which succeeded, when religions liberty was proclaimed in th a t country, which, Sir William Temple tells us,:was the first of all the countries of Europe. I Inig4e allude to what took place in our own country—to the persecutions which took place in The days of Charles the Second—the Act of Toleration—the attempt to revive persecution towards the latter end of the reign of Queen Anne, and the peace which has prevailed since that time, when religious liberty has been made a part, not only of the law, but of the established practice of this country. (Cheers.) Nor should I forget that, in the United States of America, where religions persecution has for many years baen unknown, where indeed it only took plade for a short time after the pilgrim fathers arrived in America, we have the authority of Lord Carlisle for iaying that it is a happy and a pleasant thing to• witness the peace and harmony that prevail. /Hear.) I have spoken to you of the impe diments which are interposed in the way of moral and po litical progress from a misconception of the dutiee of go vernment. I might give you many other instances in which government have mistaken and overpassed their limits. There is one to which I will but slightly allude, because within a few years it has been a matter of political contro versy in this country. Nothing seems a more natural right of man, or a right that may be more harmlessly allowed, than that of ex c h ang i ng the products of his industry against the products of the industry of other men, yet one of the wisest of ministers of whom we have record, Colbert, in France, inspired by what was then thought true political sa gacity, finding that the people of France were exchanging their wines for the hardware and other manufactures of Hol land, prohibited the admission of those products, and there by starved a great part of the people of France. Happily in later times we have been wiser, but this is one of the sub jects upon which governments have overstepped theirlimita, and is pretending to be wiser than their subjects, have only retarded the progress of moral and political improve ment. (Cheers.) lam very far from having exhausted the subject of the obstacles placed by' governments to moral apd political progress. But, having given this exampla of the evil done by authority, I will pass to another part of this great question, and consider how far, at the present day, the people themselves obstruct im provement. We ourselves have now arrived at the free dom of discussion, and that religious liberty, which good men sighed for, which Milton eloquently demanded, and Locke established by argument. In certain countries, in Great Britain; in France, in the United States of America, the human conscience is no longer shackled by government or by laws. Have we, then, removed all obstacles to moral and politic ul progress? I am afraid we must answer in the negative, that great evils exist, and at least if a re medy his been found it has not 'the pervading influence which it ought to have, and from which alone we may look for success. A Frei references to the state of our country will show that much remains to be done, in this respect. The first I will allude to is the prevalence of in dulgence in articles which, instead of being useful, are at all events when- taken in excess most hurtful to man. (Hear.) It seems hardly credible, but it was shown by the late distinguished Secretary to the Board of Trade, Mr. Porter, in 1850, that the sums expended yearly in spirits, beer, and tobacco, amounted to upwards of 57,000,0001. It is stated by the sameleatleman that among those labour era and workmen, heads of families, who earn 100. to 1 s. a week, at least one-half is spent by them upon objects in which the other members of the family have no share. Apart. from all statistical results, observation must- lead us to the conclusioh_ that among labourers and -workmen the vice of intemperance is one of the most common, and the most hurtful. 2. The want 'of education, as proved by the returns of inspectors, and chaplains of gaols, i s suc h t h at a great portion a our_ people are ignorant 'of the simplest elements of religion, and the most common rudiments of learning. 3. -While such are the prominent 'vices and defects of the poor, vices and defects of a different kind, but no less offensive to morality, are found among the rich. Sensuality and excess, selfish ness, evil speaking, want of charity and kindness, abound. All these are obstacles to moral and philosophical progress. Upon what can we rely to counteract them? Upon the force of civilisation ? Twice have its powers been tried, and been found wanting. In the days of Augustus Cresar, when order had been established, and prosperity revived ; when Virgil and Horace flourished at Rome, and the vast provinces were blessed with peace and tranquillity, every thing seemed to promise a long duration of happiness. But the Christian apostle and the Pagan satirist silica prove all was hollow and delusive. Vice increased, knowledge de cayed, power vanished, and soon everything portended the decline and fall of the Roman empire. Again, in the 18th century of our era, civilisation had rdached a very high point; that century, enlightened above all its predeces sors, which enjoyed the literature of the age of Louis XI V. in France, and of Queen Anne'in England—when Racine, Moliere, Boileau, La Fontaine, Dryden, Pope, Addison, and Swift were read and admired ; when Newton's phi losophy was established ; when Lavoisier, and Black, and Cavendish had advanced chemistry to a science, and Watt had, by his improvement of the steam-engine, rivalled the invention of the printing press—seemed in its course tending to the happiness of nations. It was pretended that nothing more was wanting than a general benevo lence in order to secure the happiness of man; that then everything that was brutal and everything that was cruel would be banished from the face of the earth. But, be fore that century ended, revolutions tearing up the foundations of society, wars desolating all the nations of Europe, bore sad testimony to the mistake that had been made. What was that mistake ? The nature of man requires something more than the spirit which pre vailed in the time of Augustus. The nature of man is so prone to evil that strong restraint is required to keep down his bad passions and subdue his. vicious inclina tions. He reqaires likewise some special incentive to good . The legislators of antiquity sought that restraint vixen. evil and that incentive to good in powerful institutions , guarded by sanctity of manners. It was thus that Spartae. and Rome were led to virtue. But these institutions e p n. riehed when manners no longer supported them - The Ili stitutions of monasteries had its origin in a similareoran the .f . ee y ling of the necessity of restraint.. 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Conenientaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre tad sutioonary hints on th e evils emanating from empirical prr ctice, edeng_erous remedi es a d voca t e d b y var i ous wr it ers on n th these important disorders. BY SAMUEL LA. I IKH RT M.D. 37, BED FORD-sever & E LONDON, .°cbargthrho,fflMonediordnarPhitnatribecuir caftecithe Bl L ri nd b o O n r o n f o t a li p o it y i n i v Medicale r s ity o s f o E c i d o t i x r, : rec h t ecae of this eßi treatise is to Rails London, &c , &c. point out the fearful eon irregularities, and excesses, ag rjr a hce e e n ntm c ti e a s et r ae c ti s ° al aflA tin oPb g from certain habits, ihich have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man leed, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, ally thor class of disease knoWn to modern pathologists. Its perusal i s particularly recommended to persons ent erta i ning secret doubts of Vecir physical Condition, and who are conscious of having hazard e d the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is entitled; It is absolutely necessary that all men should kn ow , that there ar t irineiples of personal ma nagement which cannot be violated with out and when wisdom and - t ncarring grievous penalties, ref,rs Succeed .he heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence,, e. .indulgence, how these p enalti say be mitigated, hew the sting of their bitterness may be remo ve d :nd how the evil and its consee ue nces maybe avoided, and above all, ;.hat there is scarcely any degree of physlcal infirmity or functioniC teraugcment to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cu r , rho Author has for a series of years been engaged in an extensive -ractice in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which ha ve Ir:fortunately been too generally confided to the care of ignore,, empirics, who inflict great injury on those who are induced to place faith in their pretensions. NERVOUS DEBILITY may be had price as, of Messrs. Sher wood and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; (Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; II )rne, 19, Leicester-square; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or free by post for :6 ator'ps to any address from the Author's residence, , 37 Bee. ford-square. At horttefor consultation di.117 from eleTen till two, and from six till , eight... . . . F au with a very . coasidara47 l\-5176 If, upon the :other band, you ,ynient at honie, such as the .... suppose, for example, we take n Scotland not se many yews .on district which 'surrounds : well, that is an event - Which has happened within the memory of man; it -*as the opening of an immense new field of employment, nod. the creation of an immense now trade. Well now, what you open a new field of employment at home-Yon glisi a profit to trade, you give a security to trade that it wilt not be interrupted or hemmed in by bad ,laws -and likewise when you get that increase of - populatiotii„in which increase of trade cannot fail to lead, you also get the additional ad vantage that those who Carry it on be come part and parcel of the same community with your. tdt d hho e nr s o on n i yce moralo c cn e i s en s ea a s din r e y detrsti ls ay a c r t t nit h ha e bed u s v e rzta p tna p h . tt aa o e gr r t o f e b t e h n e e fi c t o u o n f t selves, a n d di rect l y c ontribute towards bearing the bur e olufgwhet area sciatsokiiirwkhtl on these prounds it is desirable that Colonies eloauld be" founded, I answer by asking another question- ; ..Why is it desirable that your popul a ti on at 'horiog slienild in crease ? Why is it that you rejoice in an.fa aa 4 so i .o f pulation at horns? Because an i ncrease of population ism increase of power, an increase of strength' and atability to the state, and because it multiplies , the au ll ab o i, of people who, as we live under good laws, belong to a country to which it is an honour and an advantage to belong. (Applause.) What can be more to be desired than that we should have the means of producing in different portions of the globe something as like as may be to that country whieh we revere and honour. I think it is in a bOok of Mr. Roebuck's that the expression is to be met with, " that the object of colonisation is the creation of so many happy Englands." It is - the reproduction of Eng land —the reproduction of a country in which liberty' is encircled with order, in which ancient institutions stand in harmony with popular freedom, and a full recognition of popular rights, and in which religion and law have taken deep and permanent root. (Applause.) Well, as it the des tiny of man to live in society under laws and institutions, it is to be desired that he should live under good lava; and institutions—(bear)—but if we suppose the case of a country with very bad institutions; colonisation by such a country would be a curse instead of a blessing—the reproduction of its tyranny on other shores. But now it is quite time that I should pass into the second ques tion : if it be desirable upon the-grounds that' I-have stated that a country circumstaneadoes oFinglancLia, should be possessed of colonies, in what manner ought Moire colonies to be founded, - and in what manner go verned ? And I think that this question will be exa mined in the form most interesting and instructive if I try it by reference to the standards whieh history af fords ; and there is one people famous in ancient times —I mean the Greek race —to which we all of us owe in finitely more than we are really aware of. The right honourable gentleman then described the character of ancient Greek colonisation; and referred to its al most incredible growth in Theesaly, Asia Minor, and Sicilly. He said that its character might be sum med up in one word—it was perfect freedom, per fect self-government. They carried with them their mother country's laws, its religion, its language, its manners, its institutions. It never inter fered with them, or undertook to show how their affairs should be managed, and the consequence was that ale though there was no administrative connexion between them they were yet to be found warm in heart and cha racter. The right hon. gentleman then came to the his tory of English colonisation, which he divided, following the example of the old poetic fable, into four ages—the age of gold, the age of silver, that of brass, and that of iron. He defined the golden age as the 17th and part of the 18th century, when the idea of a colony was a sub altern corporation, comprehended within the great cor poration, according to the true spirit of British freedom. There was shown what Burke called "a wise and salutary neglect, through which a generous nature bad been suffered to take her own way to perfection.", The silver age, he called that immediately preceding the American war, and he drew an eloquent picture of the legacy of evil consequences bequeathed by the policy of that time. The right hon. gentleman then 'continued : Now, I want to try to impress that which I have said, tint the true value of colonies, for moral and social pur poses, arises in the unity of character and .affection. There are 30,000,000 of people, or something near, cone stand's; the Great American Republic. It is doubtful whether the influeree of England in Europe, and in the world at large, is greater, because there are 30,000,000 of Englishmen in America. It is very hard to say whe ther the existence of America, upon the whole,takes from or adds to the weight of England as a member of the great family of nations. In some respects it takes from it, in others it alls to it. But supposing that instead pia ;,Doody stru g gle, supposing that i ns t e ad Oa violent lacera lion of the ties that bound the colony to the, mother country, America and England had separated as friend from friend, Oreaking only the link of administrative con, riectiOn, but retaining the warm feelings of the heart, and carrying with it nothing but the re c oll ec ti on o f th e benefits she had received, and the laws and institutions she Lad inherited, do you not think that then the exist ence of Akiei tea, allied to us by language and by laws, would have immensely increased the influence of Eng !and in the world ? But now, let us consider, and if it is to he a lesson to us, is it important that we should do so, how it arose, and whoSe error it was ? It arose, first, out of the attempt to levy certain taxes upon the people of America, not for purposely properly and exclusively Eng- Lela but for tie purpose of defraying part of the expense of a war into which England hal entered, for the benefit of America as well as herself. But some people think that that was not the error of the English people. Now let there be no mistake about this—that if there be one thing more clear than ancther, it is this, that the Eng lish nation at the commencement of the war were en gaged almost to a man in the prosecution of that war. All ware almost without exception have been popular in this country during the first two or three years—(hear) but the American war ePpeeialy was popular in its corn niencement, and of that I will give you a most conclu sive proof from the history of Mr. Burke. Mr. Burke was elected for Bristol in 1774 ; he was rejected in 1730, when he went next to preseat himself to his consti tuents, and in his speech to them on that occasion he explained to them the reasons of his conduct, and why he had not visited them in Bristol as often as they thought he ought to have done. Before the people knew which way the fortune of arms would turn, there was a deal of dlference of opinion in Bristol, and it was natural that that should be their state, because Bristol carried on a very large and extended trade with America. But Oirectly they saw that the English were successful in the fiel I that party was entirely put down ; and you should recollect that Englan,l was usually successful in the field during the American war. It is not necessary to inquire into it. I must say that it implies no reproach to our American brethren, 'because America had none of the advantages of a military establishment. The military organisation was on the side of England. But it was not want of success in the Eild that de strayed us in the American war ; it was this, that though we beat the Americans in the field, we were not a bit nearer the subjugation of their country. We owned the ground on which our camp was pitched, but we owned nothing else. The enemy Was in the heart of every man, wornar', and child in the country, and driv ing their soldiers cut of the field did not establish us in the affections of a people who were fighting for freedom. (Applause.) But let us see —was the error the error of the government, or was it the error of the people? Lis ten to Mr. Burke speaking in 1780. The right hon. gentleman then quoted from the speech of Mr. Burke, delivered in Bristol in 1780, in which the frenzy which seized the English people in favour of the American war in its early stage was described, and pointed out 'that from it we should learn a lesson of circumspection, of caution, and of moderation. He then passed on to-b° consideration of what be called the " silver age," an d __ which was b e t ween th e peace o f 1783 an d' - ,184y n , when we began t o h ave d awn o f b e tt er thiner : this age he showed how a vicious s yste r no nm o e f e r : e r e lerence in colonial affairs by the home g ceeded, at pushed to an extreme. He eloquently portray ed enove wising. from this intermeddling, and tonseqPuences of the considerable length, to point out the evils go verti system pursued towards Canada, t which its result placed the the conseque nces the Having di l emma gone to in of demands which war with Canada for the asser tion saw. thems e l ves Com pelledconsideration of their il j o u n s loss bill, indemnifying pa rties afterwards were conceded, not t th f e r y om terror, but fro m a with to pass a rebe for the loss they had In curred while resisti ng England, earns s e u t p ro p o o p a s er o s f t E h n e g re le ; showed !sent in Can d how the British Govern H pe e rh sh ap ow s, a a had too frequently the auti . tority kn a o n t d o t f h only a little er or two, w hile the other side was the whole newspaa o f the colonial popu l ation. Th ere inass were , however , he sa id , m any s ta t es me n in this country who had heen.vsry , far in a dvance with regard to colonial government., He mentioned thein because they w ere for the most pert menBhe w ith whose political opinion frequently differed, 'and also because, as in the reign of Charles 11., the states men who most advocated colonial freedom were Tory, it equal ) was fair to render • _ justice to Radical members of the British Parliament, He mentioned particularly toe late Mr. Hume, Mr. Roebuck, and one whose name had only within the last few days been added to the list of the departed, Sir Wm. Molesworth, all of whom had been, in his opinion, great benefactors to their country, by telling the truth upon the right method of colonial• government at a time when that truth was exceedingly unpalatable. H e th en b ore t es ti mony t o t h e j ustness of views of the Radical members of Parliament on the sub ject of colonial policy, who, he admitted, in this partici:: Jar, were far ahead of all other parties ia the State. O f . the character of Sir Wm. M o l eswor th h e s p o ke in te rms of unm easure d eu l og y, an d ac k now l e d ge d thathe statesman learned much from the s p eec h es w hich tha t e sa Coninions. t' delivered on colonial subjects in the House It was now coming to be understood , e id, that s be trans by the affairs of the colonies were _ the Osacted f Eng. the colonists themselves, just ag lishinen themselves. land were best transacted by Eng a c be rejo i c e dan ge And in an eloquent perorat i on been brought; about, which he in colonial, policy had d fit and promise of advantage to thought was full of profit and on mankind as England—. a country having suc h c which we have made a a change of system, la and al most from tr ansition from misfortune, from e vils, madness to and return ed the rules of justice, of and from crime, reas on, o f n ature, and of common sens e . (Loud and long continued a pplause marked the close of the right hon, gentleman's address.) 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