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F ARRINGDON WARD WITHIN, DEC. 21, 1849. At a WARDMOTE, holden this day, before the Right Worshipful THOMAS KELLY, Esq., Alderman of the said Ward, at the Great Hall, Christ's Hospital, for the choice. of Ward Officers for the year ensuing, the following gentlemen were declared duly elected to re present this Ward in the Court of Common Council, viz.:— Deputy Eagleton, Deputy Holt, Messrs. Rutter, Hartley, Virtue, M`Lauchlan, Blake, B. S. Phillips, Morris, Humphreys, Young, M'Gregor, C. Phillips, and Nicholson. It was moved by Mr. RICIEARD, seconded by Mr. YOMSO, and re solved unanimously— That this Wardmote, in common with their respected Alderman, deeply regret the loss sustained by the decease of the late Mr. De puty Hayward, the remembrance of whose long and faithful services Of thirty-two years as a member of the Court of Common Council entitle his memory to this just tribute of their commendation. That this Wardmote receive with regret the resi:nation of their ate representative, Samuel Ridley, Esq., and whilst they acknow ledge his efficient services they also convey to hint their best wishes that his retirement from public ditties may be found instrumental in re-establishing his present impaired health. Moved by Mr. WATSON, seconded by Mr. PANNE, and resolved unanimously— That the Alderman and Common Councilman be respectfully re quested to use their most strenuous en leavours to originate of support some comprehensive scheme that shall convey to evi ry home in the city of London a cheap and plentiful supply of pure Water, and that this resolution he forwarded to the Court of Common COU*C Moved, seconded, and resolvc d Than an extention of the municipal franchise is necessary, and that such extension should be given to the ratepayers and occupier. of 10/. and apwards for the election of Members of Parliament ; that the wards should be is arranged as to make them more equ in size and population; and that oar representatives in the Court of Common Council be requested to obtain a repeal of the 11th Geo. I. c. 18, and the Act passed last session. Idovcd by Mr. Inure, seconded by Mr. COLS, and carried unsnl. inously That the respectful and most cordial tha.its of this Wardmote are justly dao, and are hereby given, to the Rlait Worshipful Thomas Kelly, Esq., the Aldorman of this Ward, for his um emitting' attention at all times to his public duties, for his great liberality to our local cha ities, for his impartiality, his patience, and judgment in conducting the business of this day. Moved by Mr. HEAPS, seconded by Mr. COLE, and carried unan!- mously 7 That this Wardmoto, being well satisfied with the services of the Deputies and the members of the Common Council who repre sented them in the pad year, award to them their sincere thanks. Resolved unanimously— That the best thanks of this Vardmote he given to the President, Treasurer, and Governors of Christ's Hospital, for their kindnes in granting the use of their hall for holding this Wardmotc. That the above resolutions be signed by the Ward Clerk, and in verted in the usual morning and evening papers. J. iP. WARREN, Ward Clerk. I SLINGTON CATTLE MARKET AND ABATTOIR COMPANY. Notice is hereby given, that the LA'T DAY for RECEIVING APPLICATIONS . for SHARES in this Company is fixed for the 7th day of January next, when the Committee will proceed to the Al lotment. 13y order of the Board, JOHN T. TIDD, Secretary, Wellington-street North, Strand. .COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS for ORPHAN and NECESSITOUS CHILDREN, Wansted. PATzors—His Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE. PREAIDENT—JOIDC MASTERMAN, Esq., M.P. Notice is hereby given, that a II ALF-YEARLY GENERAL COURT of the Governors of this Institution will be held at the Lon don Tavern, Bishops ate-street, in the City of London, on FRIDAY, the 2Sth December instant, at Ten o'clock la the Forenoon precisely, for the purpose of receiving the Half-yearly Reports from the Board Of Management and the:Auditors ; to:entertain and discuss the motions of Mr. Skelton, Mr. Angell, Mr. Holt, Mr. Potter, Mr. Cuffley, Mr. numsey, and Mr. Locke ; and all such other questions ant matters as may be authorised and required by the rules of the Institution to be brought before the Court. The punctual attendance of all governors is particularly requested. ALFRED L. SAUL, Sec. GO, Bread-,treet, Cheapside, Just publishe d , Two Thousand Pages, royal Biro., price 3is. ' the POST OFFICE LONDON. DIRECTORY for 1850. Principal Divisions of the work:—Official Direc tory ; Street Directory ; Commercial Directery ; Trades' Directory ; Law Directory ; Court Directory ; Parllantentary Directory ; Postal Directory ; City Directory ; Conveyance Directory; Banking Direc tory ; .kosurtiece Directory ; —with a very great amount of general intormatien. For Reviews of the work, which is now tyre only Lon don Directory published, see Times, 234 ult. ; Chronicle, 224 ult. ; Herald, 23d ult.; Post, 24th ult ; Advertiser, 24tk ult. ; Daily News, 23d ult.; San, 22d ult. ; Globe, 23d ult. ; Dispatch, 25th ult. ; John null, 24th ult. ; Britannia, let inst. ; Spectator, 24th ult. ; Here- Peat's Journal, 24th ult.; Mining Journal, 24th ult. ; Atlas, 24th ult.; Era, 25th ult. ; Literary Gazette, lst inst. ; Examiner, lit Inst. Kelly and Co. Old Boswell-court ; and all Booksellers. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. 1 1 HE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET. The First of a Series of Illaitrated Lectires, by Dr. Eackhoffner, fin the Philosgpky of Seleatiflo Recreation, daily at Tws o'clock, and lit the Evealngs, at Eight. —An entirely ■aw Set of Dissolving Views of London in the Sixteenth Century, and as it now is, with a Descriptive Lecture, daily, at Half-past Foar, and in the Even- Inge at a Quarter to Ten.—The ♦iews of Rome, including new Clews of the Interior and Exterior of St. l'eter's, with Dioramic ef fects, are sLevin daily, at One o'clock.—Lectures en Chemistry, with brilliant experiments, by Mr. Ashley.--Experiments with the Diver and Exhibition of Chromatropes.—The Ma chinery, Modili, ke , explained. Aguniasioi. le --Schools, half-} rice. THE NOV E LTY most recently introduced by MESSRS. NICOLL is called NICOLL'S PATENT EIDER hOWN PALETOT, such novelty consisting in the adaptation of Elder Down in the formation of NICOLL'S PALETOT, the original elegance and utility of which is, however, faithfully preserved. Ehlers are found in great numbers in Iceland anti the Ferr Islands, where their beautiful and delicate down is well known to be Proof against the most severe cold, and even the small quantitj Which can be compressed and concealed between the two hands, wil Nerve in the formation of a Palet6t, which, while it has most extra- ordinary lightness, has, nevertheless, more warmth titan the fines' and thicke it blanket, the great desideratum for a winter garment being thus accomplished, namely, personal warmth without fatigue. Puhlic inspection is invited at MESSRS. NICOLL'S wholesale and retail warerooma, 114 , 116, and 120, REGENT•STREET, and 22, conTHILL, London THE SEAL FUR PALETOT The costly nature of the in Aerial will necessarily confine the use of this garment to a 'fah:et few ; but he who can of the expense will pronoence it to be the most gentlemanly, elegant, and lean ions arti,de or dress that can possibly he conceived. Messrs. • NrCOLL will, continue to supply , he SEAL FUR PALETOT at its Present moderate prig —that is to say, so long as the demand does het interfere with the sdpply ; for it must bo borne in mind that the nitrnber of Seal Skins in t , e English market is very limited—at least Stich as are capahle of being farmed into the graceful garment called NICOLL'S PALET.!'r. Itegiitered 6 and 7 Vie., cap, 64. Ah early purchase tkerefore, be desirable. J., and D. NICOLL, 114, 116, and 120, REGENT-STREET, And 22, CORN ti ILL, LONDON'. THE NICOLL PALETOT (Registered 8 and 7 'Viet., cap. 65) ITAREROOMS, 114, 116, 120, REGENT REET. and 22, CORN DILL. Many have assumed the use of the word PALETOT, but Messrs. !COLE. are the sole Patentees of the design and material. The Wholesale and Counting house Departments for the London .ranches in the Sh pine and Woollen Trades are in CHANGE ALLE.,y, CORNIIIL;., and 120, REGENT-STREET. The NICOLL, is the distinguishing name given to a garment l eeUred by Royal Letters Patent front general imitation. It has an the advantages of Messrs. NICOLL'S original invention, the RE ;tISTERED PALETOT of LLAMA CLOTH. The NICOLL PA- A ttTOTS are charge I One, Two, Three, and Three-and a-half Guineas, according with the climate or purpose for which they nay 4 required, lELEGANT CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR ONE SHILLING. tIAIMEL'S PERFUMED ALMANACK, for imparting a delightful fragrance to pocket-books, card-cases, Work -boxes, desks, end is one of the prettiest novelties of the season. itent on receipt of 13 stamps, or to be had of all perfumes and ate toners, or of the Propri..tor, E. RIMMEL, Perfumer, 39, Gerard !trot, Soho. May be ordered through Messrs. Longman. AN EXQUISITE ADDITON to the TOILET TABLE is MILTON'S HAIR LUBRICANT, which, if used directed, will speedily render the scantiest head of hair thick, c411 3', and lustrous—the healthy and vig-rous stimulating powers it loB aessea at once stops any tendency to grey hair or bald ness . It s perfume is essentially novel and most delicious. In elegant pots, 2 '. ea-h. 8 61,1 by Al' perfumers and medicine vendors In town and co un t ry. W holesale London Agents : —Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Farringdon rte.. L ; Edwards, St. Paul's Church-yard ; Sutton and Co , Bow , ml rch-yard • Sangar, Oxford-street ; and Hannay and Co., uxford-street: HE SCHOOLBOY'S DRE AM A. JOKE FOR TIIE JUVENILES. Not many days hack, Mr. Archibald Sp, n Received a long note fro n his little son John. This letter was penned in a singular style, And doubtless nal cause my young readers to smile. The epistle runs thus : " Dear Papa and ?darnels, lam happy I. hear you're so well as you are; The thoughts of returning (tho.igh strange it may seem(, } lave caused your delighted boy, Johnny, to dream. kethought t'other night that you gave a fine party, And hailed my return in a manner most hearty. The party invited consisted of many ; Tom, harry, and Alick, and Percival Penny ; And William, and Thomas, and Ph lip, and Frank, And Master Mat.Middleten, all en the prank ; And Michael, and Montague, Charley, ani Fred, And Alfred the small, with the curls oa his head ; And Joseph, and Sammy, and Jessie, And Master George Gordon, remarkably dressy ; And Walter, and Willoughby, T tug, and Tim, And Samson and Simon, is very good trim ; And Julius, Anthony, Robert, and Wat, Ask' many mere names which I fear I've forgot. And reethought is my singular dream th e re were none Eta what were decked out by E. Moses and Son. Such elegant tunics, such stylish hussars, We looked like the galaxy studded with stars. And metliought we shouted with rlorions noise, Moses and Son are the men for the boys. L N • doubt after this Messrs. Mosesyill don your very affectionate Son, JOIINNY SPON.N." lAIST OF PRICES. BRADT MADE. Attuna* and Winter Over Coats, in every 5ty1e...... .• .......... • • •-•• • • ZO a 6 The Rulwer,handsontely and warmly trimmed 0 le o The raletot, ditto-- •• ..•• to to 0 Chesterfield, ditto.. •• • • .... •• •• 1 0 0 The Albert Wrapper, a very handsome style _ of Ov, r Coat :..:. ..... .............: . 1 3 0 Shooting Coats .......................... 0 8 6 Lounging or Morning Coats .. •• • • .... •• .. 8 4 6 Anturna aid Winter Trousers, is Tweed .... 8 4 A Ditto ditto Doeskin .. 0 7 6 hitt° Twits • • •• • • ..... •• • • 0 2 6 Black Silk Telvet Tests.. ———••••• • • • • • .. 0 13 6 1) :"ese Coats —••.•.•• • • • • • • ..... ••••• • • • • • 0 17 6 ?rock Ditto .. •• ••• • • • •• • • ...... ••••• • • • • 0 13 0 Tonths and Boys' Over Coats, is every style, from • • . Busser and Tanis Suits ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 8 14 6 O Y3' A.nturitx asst Winter Tests •••••• • • • •• 0 0 6 MAPS TO X 111151170. laturan and Winter Over Coats •.11ront 1 1 The Chesterfield Wrapper, in a warns ma- . - terinl, lined •••• •• •-•'•• ••• * The Paletot, handsomely and warmly trimmed 1 16 0 he Eglinton Wrapper, a very about style of Tha Strathmore Witley Over Coat, newest style. lined throughout ••• • • • •• ••• • • • 2 10 Altemn and. Winter Trowsers, in Tweed and Rest Mack Cassintere ditto .. •••••••• • • • • • • 1 6 Antnenn and Winter Tests * nest ?flack Cloth ditto . ...... Black Silk Telvet ditto ID 18 6 h Dress Coats .from 325. to 2 1i 0 Frock •• • • ...... ••• • • • ..from 355. to 3 3 0 nassar and Tunic Snits • • ....front 1 i I Salberfhte •••••••••• •• • • • • • • • ..... ••• • • .. 1 li 0 ken' s ih oot l ar C oa t •• • • •••• • • . 0 18 0 El egant Dressing Robes, in great variety, 4 from •• ••• • • • .•. • • ..16s• to i 0 0 L arge I4toek of Fur Coats, in every shape, from 60s. to 201. Naval and Military llaiferms, Liveries, &e. Moarnina to any eateat at Five Minates' notice. A Snit of Mourning complete for 11. 10 s . atei w n e book, entitled " The Minion of the Million," with fhll f,,r Self-measurement, can bo had on application, or for k:. Post free, to any part of the kingdom. eaAo n. kill-re--The Fur Department is now replete with every no ve lt y o hs ' 41 (ise, r° e—Any article purchased, either ready made, or made to Nit not approved of will be exchanged, or the money returned. I,,SsiONCIS and Se/iT, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothier s . B a t ters , KT , . rangers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Ontitters, 154, 1.0.46:, and 157 Mitories, and s 3, 54, d 6, and 80 dgate, City, communicating with each other, and forming one vast .A att -- .Lent. MUR A L, t Moses and Son regret having to guard the public s'lth un POSition ; but leaving heard that the untradesnoanlikt 7s Of hang connected with them, or "It is the same concern," 11 1 4 ) h.„. r elorted to in many instances, and tor obvious reasons, her p hi State that they have no connexion with any other hones London, except their Branch E s t a bli s h men t s, 36 , Far thee,m f eld llhrntca's-buildings, Brford, rkshire; Who require che e rp and rmmlnl clothi ad ng, fico., rh Yo otild call 21 1 .;: be the &thieves and A ~i srAte, City, London; or either o f - 911 - as above. d in The eetings of refer:nee :hat insti , !le which nt ; and I he Sunday a enhght " To the 'emales in r. Greville 1, and his too fully comment. and elo knovi ledge ;ical expe id all the answer it. moved by Strickland, was nega- ►t that if a neeting, to gill were rdingly, at Gu►►rdians, conded by ►ent so far h the same ' urnalists of ,o be toler ians of this ral punish- L believe, of so %Rh aries), that resent the ,her to give in defend- d in various the present :he Rungs ssed aboard ty stations ; )1e mention the talent, )olumns for tviating the le army and which you . ioble endea lash in both number of ry properly. spotic naval rmy. ;reat degree ,ain against , d, but not effected so to you to power. and ng corporal of this re n the naval desirous to Lng to :Ole' long his fel- our ♦aluable emoving this e Caledonian is of Great le intelligent e you a debt ANDER. KETS. was tolerably low :—Eastern V'estern, Fifth& Tale, New 101. y were as fol and North . —Birkenhead' 221. 6 per cent. o 61. 16s. ire, 9'; dia.. -- 18% -York, 6 per cent. -day were al fester and Bir ire and York- Riding Union, olnshire, Quar 1-16— Ditto, dis.— Sog9 l ° ,:kelhead. Lan - Caledonian, to• day were-- . Korth 3taffurd' 3-day were ern, 714 —yak , aision), D-day were AS ,gow, Dumfries, Id Ayr, Prefer per cent. gut: 13V. 4 —Wistui7 D a y the autho r s Tales," s 4 c" .tw days. Ou r ire at the an; of this g ifted characteris ed It argues well a people, 101e . 11 ever found in ve regard *II ° a very favc!ur , public opinioe, rue genius and Lcates high eO - given bem' We to a peopl 9. toning Eng llsl ! tions, generoc: of excellent"" which moo° flowing is hat vree-' blanks of the vertd of the Clai re ' Saints, 0 0 1 Aftertion , Faith afi tr hat 4 Goorl o ' npudent clo a palpable 0: 0 ld really b ll We may we, es; he had $ 1 rant of c hart?' ie minister 0 4 _ been,—Norder Arm cured by Gregg, iu n '!:re ed with a se T d very e op . i l 4 broke out 1 0 „,t nsulted the 01 " - n ton c o n tinue 4 a trial of ti ° o e and in six w e e tat and hale , ‘", and no diee° l°rs ,V , feseor Hollows) Cheltenham, tiid e, Pancras-cslB' qrs. J. H• Vibil° Brixton, 0' I. rs. W. Potol'' mad, Mrs. I°l3ll r. J. Bevrsher' Mary, Is 1 „., 1 , 0 ' •d Poole, r ) 7; 0 1i Eliza Ann, eet, Mr. t 0 Lveley. E'l e n eetetaryt jr. stori.equi t on o Ir. IL 11 0 25. 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The SOCIETY for the IMPROVEMENT •f the CONDITION of the LABOURING CLASSES has now been occupied for more than four years past with these objects : It has built a r.:nge of Dwellings for the Industrious Classes, on sanitary principles, at Bagnigge-wells, Gray's lan-lane. Here twenty-three families and thirty single,women are RCCOMITIO?tited. It has repaired and r uttered fit far healthy occupation four houses in King-street and Charles-street, Drury-lane, wherein 108 working men are accommodated. It has built, in Gra urge-street, St. Gilea's, a Model Lodging House for working Men, where 104 persons of this class nod a comfortable habitation. It has repaired and fitted ep, at No. Di, Hatton-garden, a house for the accommodation of fitly eight females of the working-classes. It is new building. in Streatham-street, Bloomsbury, a range of dwellings for mechanics and their families, wherein about 48 such families will find good and healthy habitations. At Tunbridge Wells it is aiding to raise a series of cottages for agricaltural labourers, of which six and a lodging-bones for single men are already completed and occupied. ,Besides these variouswerks, it is in constant correspondence with a great number of benevolent persona in all parts of the kingdom ; who apply for its aid in the building or improvement of cottages, or the settiug-oat sof cottage allotments. • In these various works it has expended, and is expending, more than Twenty-three Thousand Pounds. For the works now in heed a fkirther sum of between Three and Four Thousand Pounds is needed ; towards R hich the Committee now solicits the contributions of the benevolent. The following are the sums already subscribed towards the /tout now erecting in Streatham-street : SUBIIeIIITTIONS. Her - Most Gracious Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert Her Majesty the Queen Dowager - - - Pier Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent - - ller Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester - Theltight Hera. Earl Spencer - •-• Sir Joseph. Copley, Itart. - The Right Hon. Lord Feversham - S. M. Peto, Esq., M.P. - - Rev. E. Holland His Grace the Duke of Bedford - - Miss Portal Messrs. Barclay and C. - - - Kosnaos . Abel Smith, Esq. - - Lord Willoughby de Eresby - AFr end, by L Sullivan, Esq. - - Total, to Jan. 1, 1849 - Donations since received : W. S., a Tribute for the Thanksgiving Day Mrs. Blair Mrs. Lambert Blair The Rev. Dr. Ellerton - - - A Friend R. B. Cooke, Esq. Major Cruils shank A., per Nisbet - - - - - T. T. C. Saver, Esq. A. Palmer, Esq. - - . A. 11. Bradshaw, Esq. - - - - R. C. Kidd, Esq. W. S. Angell, Esq. - - - - - The Dowager Lady Cooper - - J. E. Denison, Esq., M.P. - - - Rev. I. Ware Mrs. Charles Pym Gee. Pearce, E. q. J. Sperling, Esq. R. 11. V. Walpole. Esq. R. A. Hornby, Eng. Viscount Brackley 11. B. Hickman, Esq. Miss A. M. Cotton Marquis of Blandford Rev. Dr. Pacey J. O. Harris, Esq. 11. Unwen, Esq. Rev. Dr. Cotton, Principal of Worcester College 11 0 John Hardy, Esq. - - - - - -29 0 Mr. Hargraves - - 10 0 W. E. Hubbard, Esq. - - b • Lieut.-Colonel Seymour Mrs. Hugham Major Little 1 0 M. 0., one who has read Lord Ashley's Letter in the " Times" of the 19th ult., as a Thank offering of herself and family from the late Epidemic Lady Murray w..fenivlngs, Esq. R. Wilkinson, Esq, J. Beaufort, Esq. Hon. Mertntstaart Elphinstone - - - 10 0 Miss Ware Edward Strachey, Esq. Mrs. Dutnaresque Thomas L. Ward T. H. Bastard, Esq. - - - - 5 0 E. Gardner, Esq. - - - - I 5 T. Twining, jun., Esq. . - - - - 20 0 T. 11. Parker, Esq. - - - 11 • C. V. Mrs. Bird J. J. Smith, Esq. W. Penny, Esq. - - - - 5 0 W. Spark's, Esq. Chestiarms B. Smith, Esq. G. Harding, Esq. J. C. Hall, Esq. E. B. Bastard, Esq. Members of Rev. Dr. Cumming's Congregation 10 0 W. P. Angell, Esq. Mrs. Scheel Miss Catherine Stuart - - - - - g 0 E. W. M. L. - - - - - - i 0 Donations and annual subscriptions will he received by Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-lal:e ; Messrs. 'terries, Farquhar, and Co., St. .Tarnes's-street ; Messrs. Ceutts and Co., Strand ; Messrs. Strahan, r, and Co., Temple-bar; arid by Hatchards, P•ceadilly ; Seeleys, Fleet-street and Hanover-street : and Nisbet, Berners street ; or by the Secretary, at the Office, 21, Exeter Hall. - 200 0 0 150 0 • 100 0 0 SO 0 0 100 0 0 110 0 • 100 0 0 - 100 • 0 - 150 0 0 - 100 0 0 - 100 0 0 - 100 0 0 - 100 0 • - 100 0 0 - - - Yd donation . . 100 • • - - 100 • 0 - 45,603 & 6 -XlO 0 - 24 0 - 25 0 - 25 0 - SO 0 - 5 0 - 5 0 - A 0 - 4 5 - 5 0 - b 0 - 10 0 - $ 0 - 5 4 - 10 0 - le 0 - 20 0 - 5 0 - 10 • T HE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY No. 31, LOMBARD-S MEET. LONDON. INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. TRUSTEES. John Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. Richard Malins, Esq., Q.C. James Fuller Madox, Esq. William Wilberforce, Esq. DIRECTORS. Itohert Henry Forman, Esq. John Hamilton, Esq. James Fuller Madox, Esq. John Matthews, Esq. C. 0. Parnell, Esq. AUDITORS. William Adams, Esq. John Atkins, Esq Ilenry Atiztunus Bevan. Esq. J. Thompson Bramwell, Esq. Jelin Dangerfield, Esq. Samuel Field, Esq. 'William Ghrimes Kell, Esq. MEDICAL ADYISER. Benjamin Phillips, Esq., F.R.S. RANKERS. Messrs. Speoner, Attwoods, and Co. SECRETARY. David Alison, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Atkins and Andrew. MANAGER. Alexander Robertson, Esq. The POLICIES are INDEFEASIBLE and INDISPUTABLE, he Company being prohibited, by the 54th clause of their Deed of Constitution, which is duly registered ix terms of the Act, from dig pitting a Policy upon any ground whatever. The Rates of Premium are calculated upon Carlisle mortality, and are es low as a due regard to complete security will justify. HALF PREMIUM SYSTEM. —By this plan only one-half of the r•remiums. with interest of the retained halves, is required to be paid for the first five years—the retained halves, being payable at the convenience of the assured, or allowed to continue, to firm a deduction from the claim on the Policy ; and as the As surance may be relinquished at any time without payment of the retained premiums, this scheme enables a party to assure for the first five years at little mere than half the usual rate, and to discontinue a Policy at about one-half the usual sacrifice. WHOLE WORLD POLICIES are granted, whereby the security of a creditor, holder of a Policy, continues unimpaired, although the assured life should go beyond the prescribed limits. Sums are assured payable to the parties themselves on attaining a specified age, or at their death, whichever shall first occur. PA RTN ER-z II IP POLICIES are granted, whereby ajoint assurance effected by partners, at the charge of the firm, secures the capital in vested. On the death of either, the survivor is benefited by retain ing the whole capital, and the representatives of the deceased obtain their share without having to wait until it can be recovered frem outstanding debts. There is no extra charge for residence beyond 35 degrees of the equator. George C'turiminz, Esq. aines Turner, Esq. Ne Admission or Entrance Fees are required, nor is any charge made for the Policy beyond the amount of the Stamp. Claims are payable within three months after proof of the death of the assured life. The usual Commission allowed to Solicitors, and also to persons, approved by the Board, who extend the business of Life Assurance in connexion with this Company. SEA, FIRE, LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE. Xstablished by Act •f Parliament, 21, OOItNHILL, LONDON. 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London : Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co., 25, Paternoster-row. " T HE CHEAPEST and beat ALMANAC extant is the POST MAGAZINE ALMANAC for 1a.50. The information contained in it would fill a large volume in moderate sized type. The merchant, tradesman, and agriculturist will find it an invaluable companion, and this for the trifling sum of 6d. Why, the paper on which it is printed would co-t more than this sum. We nakirally ask, and with reason too, how It can ply the nubisher ? But this Is an age of wonders."—Shropshire Con servative. RYE:mows MUSTACHIOS, and WHISKERS produced in a few weeks, and Bedsess removed and prevented, by tke axe or CIRIMSTONE'S AROMATIC lIEGEITERATOIS. If you are in want of that beautiful adoinwent of the human figure, a natural ru,)ply of human hair, obtain through the foot, or of any wholesale or retail chemist r druggist, or perfumer, an 11 bottle of Grimstone's Aromatic Regenerator. This is an essential spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers (grown at his Iler bary, llighgate), which has been long known to the nobility and gentry, by whoia it is h.ghly appreciated for its manifold ♦irtues, too numerous to be set forth in an advertisement, but may be read in his pamphlet, in which the bottles are aclosed. Each pamphlet has the signature of William Orimstone, Merchant, Tier Wry, 11igh. , ate, and wt , l be found at page 11, un 'er the copy of Mrs. Weekly's Letter t• the Editor of the " Times" newspaper, 7th of August, 1846. , This pamphlet Is forwarded through the poet, on receiving two postage stamps. The .Arou4tie Regenerator can be forwarded through the peat on receiving* post-office order for 45. 6d., 7•. ad., or 12a., which in cludes the postage with the case. The I Is. size contains four of the 4s. ' A few cf its many ♦ititues, AS thousands can prove, are published in the pamphlet enclosed with each bottle. Reader, reflect for a few minutes, and if yen are 40 years of age, you will remember the thousands of blind you meet with in your walks, others with various coloured eye-shades ; indeed, such was the demand for eye-shades, that it was a business. What has re moved those sightless beings, and given place to a straightforward, clear-sighted people (the climate is the same) ? tell you the cause —the universal use of Grimstone's Eye Snuff ! and because it cured Ophthalmia, Gutta Serena, Cater met, Nervous Ileadach, and Deaf ness, the Lords of the Treasury directed it to be denominated a medi cine, and t• be stamped. Although this advanced its character, 67 cases of care being proved by the in!ormers, still it was an act of oppression; as in 1825 the Solicitor of Stamps, Godfrey Sykes, Esq., altered the label, and sanctioned its sale under order of the Lords of Ike Treasury; tie letter of protection, signed by Iferries, Fag., to Mr. William Crimstone, bearing date Mk February, 1525. This was en account of its curative qualities, being sold at that time in canis ter., within Ike reach ef every poor family. But under this order of Government it is obliged to be stamped. GRIMSTONE'S MEDICATED EYE SNUFF, sold in canisters, Inclosed in a pamphlet of medical and other testimonials, under the Government order, at Is. lid., 2s. od., aid 4s. 6d. cads. The Pamphlets sold at Id. each. If through the post, ls. Sd., Ss. lid., and is. Bd., ineluding postage, &c. The following letter is one out of the many thousand proofs. Read the following Medical Testimony to the cure of five easel of Gutta Serena, from G. 11. Boutsll, Professor of Galvanism:— " Ssathsea, near Portsmouth, Baits, bth Nov., 1848. " Ma. R. GRIMSTONC.—Sir—I must in justice to you send the fol lewing Testimonial with regard to tke extraordinary efficacy of your Eye Snuff in caees of Grata Serena. I have used it in five cases with the most astonishing benefit and cure. Sir, yea may advertise this ! I sr make what use you please. The cures have wholly astonished aio and thousands of others.--T am, Sir, ticc., G. H. BOUTELL, Professor of Galvanism." Alt letters to Mr. William Grimstons, Herbary, Highgate, near Londes, at which establishment ko continues to manufacture his far-famed HERB TOBACCO, so much esteemed in all foreign parts. The le:lowing letter, in testimony of its delightful qualities, is from the author of the " Pleasures of Home :" " Springfield Cottage, Honiton, Devon, 15th August, I&4*. "Sir,— I cannot deny myself the pleasure of stating hew highly I esteem your Herb Tobacco. I have now found in it a substitute for the choice leaf, hitherto ehtained by me from a friend In Constanti nople. lam sure that lovers of mild, fragrant Tobacco would find yours arrest and acceptable gift, at a very reasonable price. " I am your obedient servant, " STUART UA " Ti Mr. William Grimstene, Herbary, FA HigQhrHate."RSON, D.C.L. This extensively-famed Tobacco is sold by all chemists and drug gists, and others, with W. Brimstone's signature attacked, at 75441., Is. 1 IA cl., 7a. fcl., and 4s. 6d. each, including the Government stamp A I A G E. M One half the worid are desolately single, and the ether inppoong them married, questionably contented. Dlfildeace, or a lane et right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em- Stier the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret nn oomprosing harry; but the truth lies deeper. Physical Incapacity, rtel broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness Sad social content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set tlement.. Honour and justice demand that health sheuldform slattern In the compect; It alone dignifies the alltanCe. Blighted hopes or segleot wound more sorely than poverty or initibrtune. Reader, if Verne surmises concern you, procure Dr. CUIVERWELL'S little SILMOIRS "On Single and Married Life, " pub. in 2 vols., is. each (by post, in stamps, 1.. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively relined, or prudish feeling deter you. by their titles, nor be hindered Is) , misinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining them, They are net intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, bat for the closet perusal of those mere deeply interested, to whom they are offered as sintaconistle to the empyrical trash put forth on the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or together, are r. disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other little publications claim you attention (same price Is. each, by r ost is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and Lveld," and " How to be Happy." They a re not merely pamphlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the mere ephemeral ecribblings of the hoar, but the study of the author's whe owes his present existence, health, and position to this oh servanca of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he 'rout he done unte—to live after nature's laws —and to keep always on the "sunny aide of the way." The above works may be had of Sherwood, as, Paternoster-row; Cenral's°, 141, Fleet -street • Mann, $9, Cornhill;, Spokes, b, Holborn-hill ;or direct (by post or other wi.e) Von, the anther twho may be conferred with personally, mornings .ni ..4nincs). :10. Regent-efa Booksellers sett. and ,sly CHILD MURDER AT SOUTH LAMBETH. ---Yester day a long inquiry took place before M r . W. C arter, the coroner for Surrey, at the Lansdowne, L ans d owne -road, South Lambeth. on the body of a fine male c hild, f ound under the following circumstances : —On Tuesday morn ing about eight o'clock, as Mr. Kibblo was passing by a field on the Lansdowne-road, he saw a parcel, which upon examination he found to be the body of a child wrapped up in a newspaper of the 23d of October, 1849. Mr. Christie, of the Brixton•road, surgeon, said he had made a post mortem examination. He found no external marks of violence, except that the umbilical cord bad been torn away from the body, He had no doubt the death was caused by the hemorrhage arising from the injury. Every other part of the body was perfectly healthy. The Coroner said there could be no doubt, after the testimony of Mr. Christie, that the death had been a violent one, for the child had actually bled to death. The jury, af.er a short consultation, returned a ' verdict of wilful murder against some person or persona unknown. EAST-RIDING UNION OF ME CHANICS' INSTITUTIONS. ANNUAL SOIREE AT BEVERLEY. (From th- Hull Advertiser.) The annual soiree of the East-Riding Union of Mechanics' Institutes was held at Beverley, in the Mechanics'-hall, on Wednesday evening. The at tendance was more numerous than at any previous soiree, the popularity of the Rev. James Aspinall, Rector of Althorpe, Lincolnshire, who was announced as a speaker in Beverley fur the first time, having, no doubt, attracted large numbers. After tea, and be tween the addresses, a number of pieces were sung very creditably by Messrs. Brigham, May, Roxby, Hale, Coverdale, and W. Brigham, accompanied on the piano by Mr. Watson. The CHAIRMAN, in his opening address, spoke as follows :—Ladies and Gentlemen—l have addressed you so often on the education of the working classes, that I shall not trouble you with .many remarks on the present occasion. Besides, I share with you th e impatience to hear one who has come from a great distance to honour us with his company ; one whose winged words have gone through the length and breadth of the land, and have everywhere made a deep and indelible impression. The Reverend Mr. Aspinall is emphatically the friend of the work ing men, and a leveller in the best sense of the term; for he does not strive to pull down the mighty from their seats, but to raise up the humble and meek. —(Cheers.) 1 trust his coming among us will give a new impulse to our efforts, to render this institution what it might be and-ought to be—a blessing to the town and neighbourhood. What is society but a large trading community, in which .814 according to their several investments of skill, or labour, are alike interested, and the saiety of each is bound up with that of all ? In a society of this description there must be a gradation of ranks. While some direct and govern, others must labour and execute ; it is, indeed, an ordination of Providence that " Those who think must govern those who toil." —(Cheers.) Of those two classes the latter will always be the most numerous. How important it is that the millions should have a moral and intellectual education; for if the materials which form the basis of the social edifice are ill-hewn and worse disposed, the foundations will give way, and the whole fabric crumble into ruins. It is truly said by Pope, that " A little learning is a dangerous thing." I am aware the truth of this remark has been con tested ; but it had been denied by those only who misunderstood the poet's meaning. He certainly could not mean that positive information, however small, was bad, but was alluding to that kind of education which puffs men up and renders them blind to their deficiencies. It is certain that the slender modicum of learning obtained by the multitude has a tendency to weaken rather than strengthen the mind. It is just enough to enable them to devour the trash that issues from circulating libraries ; and we all know that novels and romances are to the mind what dram-drinking is to the body. They who live in a world of their own imaginings are unfit for the stern realities and the sober duties of life. It is absurd to say that the imagination and the passions require cultivation. Those faculties are too active of them selves, and require exertion rather than cultivation. The education required by the working classes is scientific. They should be rendered able to subdue the earth, to encounter the perils of the ocean, to enlist the elements into their service, and convert the raw materials of the earth into things useful and ornamental.. The be s t argu ment in favou r o f mec hanics institutes is the evils of popular ignorance, an maple field into which it is not my intention to enter at any length. I may just observe that in the arts of design our inferiority to our French competitors is on all hands admitted. And would it be believed that England, the most maritime country in the world, is obliged to have recourse to French models in the art of shipbuilding ? The enormous number of shipwrecks that occur annually, involving an immense loss of life and pro perty, is owing, in the majority of instances, to the ignorance of seamen in nautical astronomy and navi gation. Time would fail me to enumerate the losses of the farmer from his ignorance of chemistry, and of the miner from a want of knowledge of geology; but enough has been said to show the necessity of science to the working classes. In conclusion, I would just ask the objectors to mechanics' institute.. what would have been the cm n lition of this country if the sun of science had never shone upon it ? We slot uld have had a scanty and ill-fed population, living in huts instead of hous?s, in caves instead of castles. We should have had neither ships, colonies, nor commerce; no railroads, steam engines, and spin ping jennies; nor any of those countless contrivances that have rendered England the wonder and admira tion of the civilized world.—(Cheers.) Mr. HIND then read the following report : " The carmnittee of the East-Ridiats Union of Me chanics' Institutes prefer, on the pre-ent occasion, presenting to your consideration a few facts of a sta tistical character to any protracted or minor details. When the union was formed in January, 1848, it only comprised three institutions, namely, those of Beverley, Driffield, and Bridlington. Its principal object was to consolidate these, and to form new in stitutions. That these purposes have to some extent been achieved will be evident from the increased numbers to the extent of 100 each of the members of Beverley and Driffitld, and the formation of four new institutions in the towns of Bridlington Quay, Filey, Market Weighton, and Nafferton, with the additions of four village branches in Brandesburton, Froding ham, Kilham, and Langtoft. The important insti tutions at Goole and Pocklington have also joined the union, which is thus increased—in the short space of two years—from three to thirteen institutions, comprising hundreds of new members who were never thus associated before. Special atten tion is called to what is considered the most interesting and most important feature in the operations of the union—the village mission, which is intended to establish reading rooms and libraries, with occasional lectures in every village and hamlet in the East Riding. All has not been accomplished that has been wished. Some errors, disappointments, and failures may have occurred; but when it is con sidered that this is the first experiment of the kind j ever made in England, and that there are contingen cies which no human foresight or prudence can control, it is presumed that indulgence will be extended to the past, and experience and hope derived for the future, The popular and elastic constitution of these individual institutions, and of the union itself, from which all party politics and controversial theology are strictly excluded, warrant these expec tations. The example of the East-Riding Union has been already followed by the formation of north-west sub unions, and so far as the employ ment of lecturers is concerned, is being followed by the General Yorkshire:Union. Late as it is with this union, composed of ninety institutions, comprising 16,000 members, among whom are found the highest statesmen, church dignitaries, and scientific men of the day, having free access to all its lectures and libraries, and enjoying constant sywpatby and cor respondence with them in the great educational move ment of the age, while valuable literary and social advantages, at a mere nominal cost, are secured for its immediate vicinity, the East-Riding Union must command the continued and liberal patronage and support of the inhabitants of Beverley and the neigh bourhood." Mr. DAY then, in an interesting address, spoke as one who was in his own attainments an illustration of the benefits of mechanics' institutions. He espe cially dwelt upon the advantages of the library and the discussion class. The Cuantsrast then introduced The Rev. J. ASPINALL, M.A., Rector of Althorpe, Lincolnshire, who, on rising, was received with ap plause. He said—When, some years since, such meetings as this were first held in the country, it was hard and up-hill work with the advocates and chem. pions of popular education. They had both open enemies and cold friends to contend with ; but they had counted the cost and were in nowise dismayed by the hostility and opposition which they had to face. They knew that their work would be gradual, not in stantaneous ; that, if they expected miracles, they would be overwhelmed by di sa pp o i n t ment ; that the world cannot be won from its old ways, nor human nature be torn from its accustomed habits, in a mo ment of time; that the Saturnia regna of the poets are not to be revived by asking for them. And, feel ing these things, they loudly proclaimed them, not to damp the ardour of their friends, but to encourage their perseverance. Zeal and enthusiasm are too apt after soaring into the seventh heaven of hope, to plunge, if not instantly gratified, into the abyss of despair. We wished to prevent this. We impressed upon their minds that their task, though sure, we be lieved, in the event, would be slow at. the beginning; not so slow, however, but that we should soon perceive and note that progress was being made. And so it was. It was felt almost immediately that our institu tions were doing good. This was comforting, because the first stages of improvement and amendment are always the most difficult to travel over. Pioneers' work has then to be performed. The feelings and prejudices of mankind are then in full strength and force, arrayed against the ianovating teacher who presumes to doubt their integrity or question their perfection. But these once conquered, all the rest is easy and smooth sailing. And such n point we have now reached. Gradually the frosts and icebergs of opposition began to break up and thaw. We pressed on to the summit of the difficulties which were to be overcome until we obtained a Pisgah view of the promised land spread out isefore us, w ith a ll t h e ma i n obstacles b e t ween us an d it removed, and an inclined plane for hope to journey on until it becomes a rea lity, and the utopia of yesterday is transmuted by the alchymy of time into the "great fact" of to-day. When there fine, we now meet, it is to congratu!ate each other on our success, to report progress, to take stock. We are all on one side. Our controversies are like that which we lately read of in some West Indian paper—" Master and I," said the negro, " have been arguing all morning which is the place to plant the rice in. He says this is the right spot, and I say the same, and we have been at it these two hours."— (Laughter.) In short, our only business on these occasions is to recount our triumphs, and to point to the trophies which we have set up. It was the boast of the Emperor Augustus that he found Rome brick, and left it marble. And, even so, I think it will in the end be said of the educationists of the nine teenth century, that i , they found the fabric of society based upon the ignorance, and left it resting upon the intelligence of the masses of the people. I have, indeed, often been told that when wo so speak, we disparage and undervalue what the middle and preceding ages achieved in the arts and sciences, to improve. ment and invention, in literary v onders and archi tectural miracles, and countless other treasures, the offspring of mind, and of mind in a highly cultivated and civilized frame and condition. I, for one, under rate none of these things. I confess at once to the immensity of the debt which we of the present generation owe to those who have gone before us. I believe that the world has never been without its guardians of knowledge and teachers of wisdom. I find their names written in the annals of intellect, their works stored in the archives of literature, in some centuries more, in others less numerous, as fancy speaks of angel's visits, " few and far between ;" but still the light of knowledge never extinguished, its holy flame, like that committed to the charge of the vestals, kept in perpetual brightness by an undying succession of intellectual watchmen, self-devoted to the task. We see traces of this brotherhood of science in all history, and recognise them in all the meanderings of tradition, until lost in the darkness of oblivion itself, and we are convinced that they existed, flourished, taught, before the Chaldean magas scanned the stars for wisdom, or the Phoenician mariner for guidance—before the sage of Egypt gazed on the mystic waters of the Nile—before the Druid bowed the savage heart in awe at his colossal temple—and before the meditative Greek sought in the universal frame of nature the harmony and the workings of an intelligence like his own.---(Cheers.) But when we have admitted all this, we may still come back to and maintain the position that not until the present cen tury did the education of the masses of society pro perly and fully begin. The light of the intellectual day grew stronger and stronger upon the mountain tops, but not until then did its beams penetrate to the valleys beneath. Let us open the page of history and see what it tells us of the state of the millions in the most favoured and enlightened nations of Europe in former days. I will go back, for instance, to the fourteenth and the century immediately preceding it. I'Vben I do so, I read the people were little civilized —ignorance abounded—the dominion of the law was yet unconfirmed—the husbandmaa was a feudal slave [ —humanity was unknown—rudeness of manners was general—supposed witches and heretics were burned alive—wild passions, severity, and cruelty every where prevailed—human life was little regarded— governments had no thought about providing for the welfare of their subjects. That is not a pleasing picture. Let us pass on to a somewhat later date, and take a peep at th e c o ndit ion o f E urope an d its king. doms at the close of the fifteenth, and the commence ment of the sixteenth century. Ah I what do we see now ? The mental effervescence has begun. There is a stir in the world. The leaven of intellect is at work. There is a shaking of the dry bones of old ignorance. America h a d b een di scovere d. Africa had been circumnavigated. And, what is more, the invention of the printing-press, that mental railwa y , liberty' s gra i n o f mustard seed, civilization's grain of mustard seed, the first essential of refinement and of the unchecked development of social rights, had burst through the bonds of darkness and given to freedom of thought imperishable wings.—(Loud cheers.) Men's minds where, consequently, in a very ferment of activity. They expanded un consciously in the unwonted light of thy. They felt as if the w:101 e earth were on the eve of renovation, and knew not what fresh energies were about to be called into action—what unsuspected powers might successively be developed —as they gazed upon events more stupendous than any which had ever occurred, and awakened to ideas more ere alive than had ever aroused the spirit of men. But even thus stimulated and excited, the hopes of the most enlightened fell far short of the actual results of these mighty discoveries and improvements of which we probably, although we flatter ourselves that we are in the fulness of their enjoyment, are only in the seed time and first in fancy; while to the multitude, although the darkness of the past was receding, the light was still only as the approach of a sun ye t hidd en b e hi n d a cloud from which it is struggling to burst. In short, let us say what we will, popular education has no history, pedi gree, or genealogy beyond the present century. Chance seeds might strike root and spring up and shiest forth gigantic branches, but, as a whole, the masses were scandalously neglected in the matter of education. I recollect, indeed, once when speaking on this very subject having my attention turned by a friend who held a contrary opinion, to a passage in the life of Pope, which occurred in the earlier part of the last century. When the first books of his immortal trans lation of Hom er appeared, a rival version by Tidal]. was immediately p u bli s h ed. The coincidence or op position made a great no i se among the scholars and wits of the day, wh o were d i vided in their opinion as to the merits of the two works. Pope himself says— ": I . have the town, that is, the mob, on my side ; but its not uncommon for the smaller party to supply by industry what it wants in numbers. I appeal to the people as my rightful judges, and while they are not inclined to condemn me, shall not fear the high-flyers at Button's." But Pope's town, mob, and people are here to be received in a very limited sense. He merely intends us to understand by them the majority of those who were qual to the task of critics, in contradistinction to Addison, and two or three intellectual potentates of the time, la creme de la creme, who expected their nod and fiat to be omnipotent on all literary and classical questions. And here, in passing, .1 may be permitted to observe, in what a striking and remarkable manner the verdict of the poet's "mob" has been adopted by succeeding generations, who, while oblivion has drawn its curtain of raven black before the production of his rival, still respond eagerly to the epigram which ap. peared at the time : " So much, say Pope, thy. English Iliad charms, As pity melts us or as passions warms, That after ages shall, with wonder seek, Who 'twas tr a n s l ate d H omer i nto Greek. " —(Laughter.) But from the past let us come down to the present. And when we do so, and live all that is now doing to stimulate and develop the intellect of the masses, the printing-press, that mental railway, as I before called it, so busily at work, the cheap trains of literature laid on in all directions, the steam of education well up, and the engineers and stokers, schoolmasters and tutors, so actively employed in every quarter of the land—when, I say, we behold such things, we may venture to anticipate the arrival of a time when an untaught and ignorant man in society shall be as great a rarity as a mummy trans lated from the Egyptian pit to the British Museum. —(Cheers.) We are, I hope, making some progress towards a consummation so • devoutly to be wished. Our Transatlantic brethren are, as we all know, the greatest manufacturers of jests and coiners of quips and cranks on the face of the earth. Well, not long since in one of their newspapers, I read that a man, being charged with intoxication at some public meet ing, promptly answered, "Intoxicated ! To be sure I am. I've been intoxicated these three years. Bro ther and I are on a temperance mission ; he lectures, j and Ism the frightful example.' "—(Loud laughter.) And, even so, as education makes its way from the city to the town, from the town to the village, from the village to the single cottage in the valley or on the bill side, as it fulfils its glorious, humanising, civilising, Christianising mission; com forting the solitary spirit toiling at his loom, illumi nating the workshop, irradiating the factory, inspiring the masses, spreading itself into the most remote nooks and corners of the land, and accompanying and ele vating the mariner in his night-watches upon the ocean ; as I behold and rejoice in such things, I cannot help thinking that there is a time, a good time com ing, when an ignorant man, thrusting himself into any company, any class of society, shall be also looked upon as " the frightful example" to remind us of the hideous yoke of darkness from which we have escaped! —(Cheers.) Whatever others may do, let it be your high purpose to be among the first and foremost in the educational movement of the age. Lead it -if you can ; do not lag behind it on any account. Rouse your industry. Put forth your energies, that, in the intellectual pilgrimage from Bccotia to Athens, now so happily general amongst all orders and degrees of society, your place may be in the van, far re moved from that of the Spartan's slave, the foil, the contrast, "the frightful example" by which , the superiority of others ,is to be tested and as3er twined.—(Heer, hear.) And now I would, for a few moments, turn your thoughts to one, or two of what we may ca ll th e i nc i dental advantages Which the present age derives from the increased intelligence wrought by education amor4,st all closes of society. Oliver Goldsmith, in his writings, more than once sneers at the small value set in this country upon instruction and instructors in his day, by recording the following advertisement;—" Wanted, an usher to an academy. N.B. He must be able to read and dress hair." Well, we have . -al all events taken a step forward since that date. Teachers in our schools must now he " able to read," and a little more; and as to dressing the hair of the .pupils their peculi ar province in o ur ti mes i s to deal with, the inside, not the outside, of the heads committed to th e i r care. Even as yet, however, I would say more emphatically, they are far from the social position which they ought to occupy. But things are 'improving. We are advancing towards it And there is another illustra tion on this point to which I would direct your at tention. A century ago it was. remarked by.a lady of high rank on the first appearance of a young gentle man at a court ball, "So admirable a dancer must succeed in life." That, ifyou please, was the triumph of heels over head.—(Laughter.) But thanks to the advancing intelligence of mankind, all that is changed, and we are now, I think, approaching the triumph of head over heels. And, talking of heels, we - still, now and then, here and there, meet with a few timid persons, who say—But what will become of society if you thus make the advantages of education uni venal amongst all its gradations ? Will not each class be treading upon the heels of that before it, and so all be thrown into chaos and confusioa ? No such thing. Look at the time, the means, the opportuni ties, which those who occupy the higher walks of life have to devote to their intellectual cultivation and improvement. If, with these at their command, they cannot keep before the poor working man, the toiling mechanic, the laborious clerk, who have only the small residue of their after hours, when the business of the day is over, to spend at the institute or bestow upon reading at home, then do they deserve, not only that these last should tread upon their heels, but upon their toes likewise, and make them most uncomfortable until they quicken their pace and do their duty to themselves, to their age, and to the advantages which they possess.— (Cheers.) I will tell you, by an example of which I lately heard, exactly,how this intellectual competi tion of classes will work. Not long since a certain noble lord had a party of visitors in his house, among whom were some very able and scientific men. He had also, as a guest at the same time, an individual of the highest rank in the peerage. It was remarked, and thought strange at the moment, that day after day the Noble Duke ventured, even with the several pro fessors thereof, into the discussion of various ologies with which no one had previously suspected that he had even an acquaintance. It was also observed that he vanished from the general company every day two or three hours before dinner was announced. He left, and then the secret came out from some books and papers which he had carelessly omitted to take with him, and from which it appeared that he had every morning diligently read up for the evening's debate. My informant smiled as he related to me this little anecdote; but, for my pant, I admired the Noble Duke—l admired his practical tribute to the spirit of the age, in that, instead of seeking to crush down society by the weight of his rank, he descended into ' the arena, like Ivanhoe striking the shield of the Templar with the sharp point of his lance, to do his best, and hold his own, and take his chance as a good and true knight in the tournament of intellect. And then, again, as to the world being overrun with clever men like weeds and brambles, which some fanciful hypochondriacs seem to dread ; there,is no fear of that. A giant will show himself under any circumstances and against any circumstances. lie will force his way against all impediments, like Samson bursting through the gates of Gaza and carrying them off, bar, posts, and all, upon his shoulders. Let us glance Leek at two or three examples of men of true Anglo- Saxon metal and true Anglo-Saxon mould, who have lately closed their eyes to this world. No force of difficulties could have kept down the Titanic pow ers of George Stephenson, in his struggles to attain the eminence which he achieved.—(Cheers.) No array of disadvantages could have crushed the soaring energies and quenched the poetic fire of Ebenez:e. Elliot. Alas ! that his muse should now be silent, his harp unstrung ! But his memory survives. His tuneful and truthful voice yet speaks to us from the grave, an I hi: spirit-stirring and soul thrilling songs, like those of the patriot bard of antiquity, will long continue to cheer and inspire the hearts of his coun trymen.—(Cheers.) No amount of obstacles could have nippvd in the bud the artistic talent of William Etty, upon whose trsck we hang with so much interest, from his first skirmish with oppositions when caught draeing with a farthing's worth of white chalk upon 11;s father's shop floor, to his Waterloo of success, that bright and brilliant day in his career when Sir Thomas Lawrence rendered due homage to his genius, and welcomed him to take his place in the foremost ranks of art.—(Cheers.) But such giants are not gregarious. Like the king of the forest, they are found alone in solitary grandeur. The schoolmaster cannot make them to order. Educa tion cannot force them against nature. Let it, then, spread it s a d van t ages ever so much amongst all classes, they will still, in the mass, maintain their relative positions. Gravitation will keep down the dunces, mediocrity will still bedistanced in the race, and even genius, unless aided by the untiring efforts of energy and perseverance, will share the fate of the fable-celebrated hare which slept when it should have been running, and so lost the prize.—(Cheers ) But instead of tilting with ideal and imaginary dangers, let us briefly enumerate the advantages which educa tion can confer upon a people. It is the best police which you can hare. It is the cheapest standing army which the country can possess. It is a surer warrant for order than the law, and it is a more powerful guardian of the law than the judge, for it cures by preventing, while he can only punish, with out either curing or preventing crime. It is even more than all this. It not only creates a love of order and a respect for the law among the governed, but it is a guarantee that they will enjoy the blessings of good government. In the last century, when there was a great commotion about the increased tax on spirits contemplated in what was called the Gin Act, some wag launched the following epigram against the Minister of the day : " Why will you make us coolly think? If you would govern, we must drink." But the time, . I trust, is coming whim we may put it— The !sten now read who used to drink; See how you govern—for they think. —(Laughter.) In short my faith on this point is, that an enlightened people will always naturally make enlightened rulers. But it is time that I should finish, and in doing ao I will venture to address a word or two to the friends of popular education who are assembled on this interesting occasion. I have congratulated you on the disappearance of all opposi tion to this cause of national improvement—l have congratulated you on the decided progress which it has made amongst all classes. But still, when we look plainly at what is going en in every direction, when we have sounded the lowest depths of society, we are driven to confess that, although much has been done, much more remains to be accomplished.-- (Hear, hear.) I would press upon you to bear con stantly in mind that even yet, with school added to school, and institute to institute, from north to south, from east to west, ignorance is still far more prolific than any other cause of the social evils which we see at work amongst us. Sin has its votaries; dissipation has its slaves ; dishonesty slays its thousands ; and in toxication its tens of thousands ; pleasure whirls its myriads, blinded and dazzled, to destruction ; gaiety, like the chariot-wheel of the Indian idol, passes over and crushes countless numbers of its fond and deluded worshippers ; and all the paths, and they are many, which lead 'to perdition, are crowded by the victims who severally choose them. But I verily believe that if we could obtain anything like an accu rate account or classification of the transgressors against the laws, hunsan and divine, together with the causes which have more directly and immediately in fluenced them, we should find an amazing preponde rance of the evils which curse individuals and afflict society to spring even yet from the bitter root of ignorance.--(Cheers.) Indeed, with the revelations of the commis , ioners of the Morning Chronicle just now ringing in our ears, who can deny it ? You acknowledge this! I am 'pure do; and, perhaps, you add, why battle with a truism ? Ignorance, as you have yourself told us, has now no advocates. They have dwindled off, one by one, until no single champion will take the field in its behalf, and its cause has died out. I know this, and lam thankful for it. And when at any moment •I find myself thus reviling the departed, I am reminded of the story of the village doctor who, when one day sum moned to a patient at some little distance, being a sportsman likewise, took his gun with him, and crossed the fields to his destination. At last, as he approached the cottage to which he was bound, a girl came rushing wildly out, and half imploringly and half indignantly shrieked, " He is dead, sir, you need not have brought your gun."—(Laughter.) And, even so, when the batteries of logic are opened upon the coaled corpse of the last of the Goths, who have The vote of thanks having been passed amidst en lu,iastic acclamation, The Its v. J ASPINALL in responding, said— Ladies and Gentlemen,—l beg to return you my most sii:cere thanks fur the vote you have jut passed, mid not only for the vote itself but also for the man t,er in which it was proposed, at.d especially also for the muncr in which it was received. Tht re is one point which I omitted in my address to you, and which I am anxious to allud e to, namely, the move ment which is springing up to give the pauper chil dren in the various unions through the country an industrial as well as intellectual education. I cou'd (Flute high names in its behalf, such as those of the Right lion. T. Baines, Lord Ebrington, and many others. But it wants no touch Ip. It comes, self recommended, to the heart as well as the understand ing of the Chri.:tian philanthropist.— (Rear, hear.) The mechenics' instittre teaches the head of the up grown man to guide his hands. The industrial school will teach the hands of the child to obey the head. it is necessary that both should work together in these pinching times of competition.—(Hear.) There should be a sympathy between the head and the hands and the hands and the head. We must allow neither to be a sleeping partner in the great business of lire. —(Cheers.) What dors the press say on this sub j.ct ? If the press is with us, we are sure t o w i n. Somebody once observed, "Let ' me make the songs of the people, and I care not who makes their laws.' And even so do I say," Give me the press on my side, and I fear nothing else." But I must not grow garru kus after my long address to you. In one word, thank you.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. J. It. ALLEN moved the cordial thanks of the meeting to Dr. Sand with for presiding that eyening. Mr. GASKILL seconded the motion, which was carri.:d with the warmest demonstration of respect. The CHAIRMAN —Ladies and Gentlemen,—l thank you most cordially for the manner in which you have passed your last vote. I will only say that there has been but one thing to detract from my gratification with this evening's proceedings, which is the small attendance of that class of persons for whom me chanics' institutes—as the name implies —were origi nally established by .Dr. Birkbeck. I feel strongly on this point, because I am confident that the welfare of our beloved country Teats mainly on the education of the working classes (Cheers.) Again I thank you for the honour you have conferred upon me. The National Anthem was then sung, after which the soiree terminated. THE DEVON COUNTY MEETING.—A meeting was held at Exeter yesterday, in pursuance of a requisition signed by 7,500 freeholders and inhabitants of the county, to memorialise the Queen in favour of protection to every branch of British industry. The high Sheriff, Mr. M. E. N. Parker, presided, and about 1,200 persons were present. Mr. Mallock moved the address, which prayed her Majesty " to take such immediate measures as would insure to the country at large such full and fair protection as would restore the state of prosperity enjoyed before the disastrous experiment of tree trade." and Mr. Baldwin Fulford was the sec on d er . Sir B. Wray, Bart., moved on amendment advocating a re-arrange ment of all taxation of whatever nature, so that all property might be compelled to bear its fair and just proportion. M. Divett, M.P., who objected to both motion and amendment, next attempted to obtain a hearing, but the interruption was so great that the Hon. Member felt himself compelled to move that the meeting be dissolved, since discussion . was impossible; and this motion was seconded by Lord Ebrington, M.P. The High Sheriff refused to put this last amendment, and, the former having been rejected, the original motion was carried by a very large majority. 0 her resolutions were then adopted in accordance with the memorial, and Sir T. D. Acland, Bart., M.P., was addressing the meeting when the train left. TRADE AT NOTTIEGIAM. HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—Wonders will never cease. This is fully ex emplified in the present state of the cqtton cut-up branch, as the trade is so brisk that at Christmas the work. Men intend to require an advance of wages. The oldest person in the trade cannot recollect a similar instance or any branch of the hosiery trade being so brick in the midst of winter. The drawer, pantaloon, and shirt branch is not quite so brisk, but the frames are fully employed, and the demand iseeps gradually increasing. The cotton glove trade is in a most healthy state. The silk-glove branch in the town has suddenly and most extensively improved. The other silk branches are still in a most 1 inientable condition, especially the knotted branch. • he cotton hol•b:n net trade, principally owing to the Court mourning, is very flat ; but we are gratified to learn tkaa'. there is a ietutntd demand for black' silk laces. The warp lace trate has not only improved in Euglarid, but has also, in as far as we can learn, im proved i (pally upon the continent, especially in the south 4 . Femme and Italy.—/Veviegitam Journal. BRUMPTON. 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Suttaby, Stationers'-court, and other pro prietors. ollimpioned ignorance against light and education, it is only fair for you to exclaim, " He is dead, sir, you need not have brought your gun." I know also that, i the assembled millions of the land could be col lec ecl together into one spot, and asked to pronounce it verdict in favour of the cause of national in struction, the expression of public opinion would be too magnificent, too deOded, and too universal to he for a moment mistaken. It would be one loud burst from the hearts of a high. soured and intelligent people. The effect would be electric. No excitement of azitation would he required to get it up. It would be no echo of the feeling of orators or teachers. It would be "one and all,""like the impulse which acted upon the first crusaders—that miracle of enthusiasm which history has dwelt upon with so much •pleasure and nelight. Now all this is very well, that is, as far as 'ir 'goes. But an abstract hatred of ignorance and an abstract love:of education are not enough. I want your active as well as your passive support for our great and good cause. It is not sufficient to be with us atain annual meeting. We ask for your constant and abiding help. High.day, field-day, and parade day friends are but like the flashing and dancing lights and meteors of a northern winter, which appear only again to vanish. They are but killers of time, who come to our meet ings to have their ears tickled with a little excitement, but about whom all our appeals play harmlessly, and,' like a bolt shot wide of its mark, leave their hearts untouched. But I would hope, I would believe, better things of all who are here present. I would hail you, not as the drones, but the working bees, fellow-labourers, in behalf of popular education, met together to night to talk over the past and the present, and to be found to-morresv in the world still training, and preparing, and elevating the tnind at man to keep pace with the mighty future, as the tide of intelligence swells and rises higher and higher on every side of us. Go on and prosper. .%lay every. day add to the sunlight of knowledge and civilization by which we are surrounded. And may its genial rays scatter from our horizon the clouds of ignorance, which still linger above it! May they make us all happy in the feeling that we are contributing to the happiness, of others ! And may they extend their pure, and holy, and benign influence from locality to locality, from one end of our country to the other, : shedding their cheering warmth upon all ranks acid classes of the people! We may not live to witness this glorious consummation; but we should feel it a pleasure, and cling to it as a privilege, that we are allowed to revel in the consciousness that, according to our several talents and capabilities, we are helping, be it ever so little, to ripen it into maturity.—(The Reverend Gentleman resumed his seat amidst enthu siastic applause.) Mr. DUNNING (the secretary to the union) then delivered an animated address, taking as his text the word "soiree." He referred to the time when ordi nary English people were perplexed by the word, and every different individual who dared to take the word upon his lips gave it a peculiar and almost invariably a wrong pronunciation. He then indicated the en. joyment and the advantages of literary, studious, and reflective evenings. To a cultivated mind there was light in darkness, day in night, and happiness in gloom. He quoted from one of our poets on the adaptation of night to the intellectual and physical wants of man. 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