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HENRY LAKE, Secretary. i ing tres 'er na, Du -11)pOYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. THIS EVENING, and every evening during the week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC an. 2 MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great Wi'carel of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety of jur:idents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary effito ts. Y.agie and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos s'srsing 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 eyes 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 tinuous repetition. He believes that no professor of his art has at any time or in any place been honoured with au amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual. He would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors the results of a life se Sulously 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 mecha,uichns and artists of the day ; and thirdly, that, while endeavrmring to provide amusement for those who honour him with their presence, he has - not forgotten that it is possible tc, afford information also, and that the oppor tensity should '.rot be neglected of exposing conjuring where ever it has be in 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 93 7 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro fessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the theatre, up to the present date, bear witness to the great in terest taken on the 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 tualistrs" Judging simply by the correspondence which h as resulted, Professor Anderson's expose of spirit-rapping and his illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro duned a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex- Men a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible for Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the esemmunications 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 tellectual attainments, he would least havg 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 as 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. P. 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 noted men brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the Isolation of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial, actual hands, and the demonstratite strength of the spirits who thus cl othed themselves for the time, and moved mate rial objects, about the room, proved to be too much of a ques tion for tlaem to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the above, bas recently left England, and the following account of who, ar,d what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648: —" This young man, who is a 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 splendid humbug, offered him 2,000 dollars per annum if he would perfqrm 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 had health : but he would have been afraid of I.3sing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. He inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the /greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is erne 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 so gross a swindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the Rev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts Lis belief in it, and writes a book on the subject, he considers it t 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 Morning 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 spirit-rapping is 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 séance with the spirits, in which the 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 conveyed 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 through out." With such a statement, printed for the 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 peop'e of England as genuine honest at tempts to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual jurglers. In the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have visited the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed, than has ever beforo been assembled within its walls iu so short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every pveu. ink, the programme being continually changed. Grand fashionable Day Performance, on 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. • 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 minous 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 Ring, 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. Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verne; 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 its lid be closed, locked, and the key in the possession of the audience. Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency of Opacity. Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel wi ne and Spirit Store. An improvement upon the inexhaustibl e bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will i not only be in exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at tho word of command, producing soda-water, butter-mil k, Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, MI, whisky, noyeau, or any other wine 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, au Expose 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. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which be who seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear 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 Malionuned's coffin) in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which all will be produced. Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest Route to the Antipodes, Illustrating the easiest mode of ridding ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages of the nowly-discovered dia - terrestrial passage from the west ern to the eastern hemisphere. Doors open each evening at half-past 7; commence at 8. Private boxes, 1/. 11s. 6d. and 11. 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 Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction of Mr. Chatter ton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning - Per formance on Saturday, November 17, at 2 o'clock, Doors open at half-past 1. SVEABORG ADD BOMARSUND. :pow rea '3', in post Bvo., with Plate s an d Ch ar t , price Ils. 6d., cloth, TWO SUMMER CRUISES WITH THE B ‘LTIC FLEET : being The 1, ,, g of the " Pet " Yacht. 8 Tone, R.T.Y.C. With an account of the Battle of Bomarsund, and the Baq , e of Sveabo , g By the Rev. ROBERT EDGAR M.A., Fellow of Magdalen College, Cambridge. London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill. _ NEW SERIAL WORK BY MR. CHARLES DICKENS. Uniform w th " Dornbey and Son," " David Copperfleld," "Bleak house," &c., On the Thirtieth of November will be. Published, to be completed in Twenty Monthly Parts, Price One Shilling each, the First Al onth/y Part of a New Work of Fiction, called L ITT L -E Doltll I T. By CHARLES DICKENS, With, Dlnstraiions by flanLor K. BROWNE. Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie-Street. The Third Edition.—Just published, price bs., by post, tree, f , s. 6d. N TRUE & FA LSE SPERMATORRWEA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Real , ufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. From 'he Gentler of Dr. PICK FOttli. 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. " Fickford 's known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi cal reader. We trait this may not be the last, if he shall detect and ether equally flagrant evil which it may be in his • ower to cor rect." —London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of ' Quiet Sympathisers,' and Vedicar Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this boot; amid find its way into the hands of those who stiffer from the corn. plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money.— —This volume is wel/ qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore likely to do much good." , London: IL Balliero, 219, Regent-street. R OYAL SWEDISH RAILWAY COMPANY, KOPING TO lIULT. 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Sher wood and Co., 53, Paternoster-row ; fklannay 63, Oxford-street ' • IL)me,l9, Leicester-square; Mann, 31', Cornhill; or free by post for = 6 11, ctile ' to any address from the Author's restdents, 37 , Bod- ford -1 mare. At #9lTre f9r.cor3uttatioh daily from :leven till two, and from sii al eight.' LECTUREBY LORI) J. RUSSELL ON MORAL AND 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 other gentlemen, entered the hall, amidst loud and pro longed cheering. The Earl of Shaftesbury, the 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 'Jccasions 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 noble 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 lecture to you have. I ut l nhdaetr twa akusi undertaking. .e e r Ar t e a ldt k h e mo n ue could it, a t h l t i h s o e u v n g e o h n t h l n e g f l b t aecgeopanlpyf confess s t a l l ete that honour t e p ei gh certainly Icannot say that I 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 nave 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 but 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 trequently 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 back to errors that have been committed, not by barbarous nations, not in the dark ages, but 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 185 t 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 understood his reasoning 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, and, in the 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 alarms of timidity. Not to argue this matter further, I will at once show you by an exam ple what I mean. The best commentary on Newton's " Principle" 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 au 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 difficulty very easily. They prefixed a notice to this part of the work declaring that they bowed with implicit submis sion to the decision of tko 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 moved round the sun. The world laughed and learnt ; the Holy See was satisfied and silent. Now, let us imagine that those 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 been 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 eliscovered 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 verted 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 if 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 may 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 are functions enough for a Burleigh 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 Go v e drawr nm a e n c i t r s e t l a o b p a r y e o s c n i r ib w e h t c e h r i u t i e shallof notreligious w f fa, t , a o ra n o d v t e o . 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 dcubt has been said, that the argument which goes upon the want of success iu 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 sp rea d 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 haa 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 children 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 sight, is using an inadequate 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 is politically 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 liherty of thinking with liberty of talking; nay, with liberty of preaching. Every man has a physical right to think a&be pleases ; for it can not be discovered how he thinks. He has not a moral right, for he ought to inform himself, and think justly. But, sir, no member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society 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 to enforce what ho 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 only method by which religious truth can be established is by martyrdom. Tho Magistrate has a right to enforce what be thinks; and he who is conscious of the truth has a right to suffer. lam afraid there is no other way of ascertaining the truth, but by persecution' on the one hand, and enduring it on the other." Such was the conclusions 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 havi'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 opposaji to revealed doc trine. The opinions of the geologialiessAmAttathaisema, mencernent of this century, denounced as at variance with the narrative of Holy Writ. Is every man who has made a physical discovery to ask the civil magistrate whether his demonstration is at variance with some ignorant inter pretation of the Scriptures before he ventures to publish it to the world ? But, to meet the objection in front, is he who deems more highly of bis 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 up 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 ha s ar o ig f ht th t e o whate t n ro fo th rce haea rhieghtt to hinkss,uaffnedr.hel am afraidcon sciousolis 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-sufficient armour, and to error its own stratagems and delusions— leave argument to ho met by argument, assertion by in quiry ? If the just cause 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 tphreocdersossstho from m est o the f f o r e e n e u e i x e a e mi ore n . ati H on w ere, il i l e in feo t t i , m ie e t s h e e parate turn ing point of the whole b 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 all 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 He that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not Tb at 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 plieed, and strengthen e d by i ns t ruc ti on, fi xesits attent i on, 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 were coiemanded " 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 bat 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 coin mend you that ye should not teach in this name ? ' They answered simply, but steadfastly, " We ought to obey God rather than 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 thorn 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 Sovereign or magistrate can have no right to p un i s h bins for it. ° For this were to ad mit two contradictory rights, two repugnant duties, in violation of all our notions of Divine end human justice. (Cheers.) It is contended, however, that the public peace is only to be preserved by repelling the intrusions of fana ticism, by repressing th e disturbaces 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 iu 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, th e revoca tion of the edict of Nantes. To begin with the Roman Emperors. I will not quote the example of Nero or Domitian, but refer to the wise 'raja!), and his minister, the en lightened Pliny. We possess the correspondence of Pliny with Trajan during the time that Pliny was Pro praetor 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, but which is, in fact, a sewer—filthy to the sight and ,pestilential to the smel l * 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 2 to 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 former religion, they said th a t a ll th e y bad done was to meet on statdays, before daylight, and sing hymns to Christ, as to a God ; th a t th e y b oun d th ems elves by an oath (sacramento) not to 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 cowmen, 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 Trajan, 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 ;—" In the meantime, with regard 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, threatening 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 sacres, followed the adoption of this principle of persecu tion. Far from preserving public peace, 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 o f St. P au l's, agreeing in this respe c t with other histori ans , pl aces th e first edicts sanctioning the punishment of heretic Christians in the reign of Theodosius the Great. I do not propose, 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 cruel, had their origin in a religion impatient of dissent. For religion, which ought to be the means of softening an d uniting the minds of men, 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 that the body of the commonwealth should be animated 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 no choice to the multitude. Hence the Emperor was the more easily persuaded after the example of Germany, that if the power of the priest was destroyed .hie own autho rity would no longer be obeyed, and that a poison which drew its vigour from himself might in a short time be subdued by punishment. But the event was contrary to his expectation, for, though many perished, more succeeded in their places. For these things that we do to please the nature opinion body, are subject to fine and to authority from the f ear o f death and of torture; i b t u h t a t s h e e m s b o r u a l c , e a d s e i a t ge is rl b y y en s free and immortal, if it cannot be subdued by fire or by sword ; for dangers themselves invite to resistance, and it is 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 less 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 than usual was to be inflicted." So little were these punishments, eo little were then hor. n itr they rid s ee aytcs tranquillity,ewone efr s ae , nin enlightenedfliforproductivectetdh. e of that (scahkeeeros f public .Roman) which C eat t p huosi t e l niacoic—s: thatCatholic—De at,r q re Thou, odi pretended s t et and - tt. Pre 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 opinion of its truth, with the assistance of Divine grace. Punishments 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 philosophy we may much more truly say of religion. For when a man is acted- upon by religion, trouble and pain are of no moment to him ; and a ny other kind of grief is cast at his fet by the virtue which is derived from that opinion which he has imbibed. Nothing he can have to bear disturbs Win. He complains not of being subject to anything that may befal a human being. He knows his own force and, while ho thinks himself trusting in the grace of God, he believes that ho shall be equal - to the bur den-that is cast upon him. The executioner m'aystand be fore him ; the minister of, torture may prepare hi s instru ments anti his fire ; he will still persevere.; nor will.he 'con- Bider what he is to suffer, but what it behoves him to de. For his happiness is in 11;s own breast; and if anything touches him from without it appearsto give 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 ho was tied to the stake, in order to be burnt by fire, he went down on his knees and began to sing a hymn, which the .snioke and fire scarcely interrupted ; and when the execu- - Aimee began to light the fire- lre.l back, that he-Migh4 not be seen, the sufferer cried out, Come here and light the fire before my eyes ; had I feared it I never should hail) 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 fury; nor have we to deal as before with supplicants, but with remonatrants 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, can 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 to meetings and to friendly assemblies." I come to the fourth and last instance of persecutions,which, 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 leaving Roman Catholics and Protestants iu 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 atone 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 Janseni s t s , l oo k e d t o rea l an d effectual turning of the heart and mind tothe Catholic faith. Between the two, however, interposed Louvois, Minister of War. Jealous of the influence which might be acquired during peace by other ministers, he undertook the conversion of the Protes tants as a business of his own department. The steps be 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 Protestants abounded ; they were quartered in the houses of the Pro testants, 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 ono district more than 100,000 in a fort night, but nearly all relapsed. They then remained ex cluded 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 peace and order of society, the facts are all the other way. (Cheers.) The persecutions of the early Christians, the massacres of the early reformers, the vielences committed against the Huguenots of France, 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 iu Holland at the peace which succeeded, when religious liberty was proclaimed in that country, which, Sir William Temple tells us, was the first of all the countries of Europe. I might 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 religious persecution has for many years been unknown, where indeed it only took place for a short time after the pilgrim fathers arrived iu America, we have the authority of Lord Carlisle for saying 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 duties 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 roan, or a right that may be more harmlessly allowed, than that of exchanging 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 ono of the sub jects upon which governments have overstepped theirlimits, and is pretending to be wiser than their subjects, have only retarded the progress of moral and political improve ment. (Cheers.) I am very far from having exhausted the subject of the obstacles placed by governments to moral and political progress. But, having given this example of the evil done by authority, I will pass to another part of this great question, and consider how far, at the present clay, the people themselves obstruct im provement. We cforselves h ave now arr i ve d a t th e free dom of eliscussion, 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 politics' progress? I am afraid we must answer in the negative, that groat evils exist, and at least if a re medy has been found it has not the pervading influence which it ought to have, and from which alone we may look for success. A few 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, biseestra, stated bityobacco amounted to upwards of 57,000,000/. It the same gentleman that among those labour ers and workmen, heads of families, who earn 10s. to Is 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 conclusion that among labourers and workmen the vice of intemperance is one of the most common, and the roost hurtful. 2. The want of education, as proved by the returns of inspectors, and chaplains of gaols, is such that a great portion of 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 Caesar, 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 alike 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 reached 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—wh en R ac i ne, 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 improvenfent 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 e ver ythi ng 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 clown his bad passions and subdue his vicious inclina tions. Ho requires lik ew i se some spec i a l i ncen ti ve t o a. The legislators of antiquity sought that restraint evil and that incentive t o goo d i n power f u l institutions, guarded by sanctity of manners. It was thus that Sparta P and Rome were led to virtue. But these institutions The fished when manners no longer supported th in stitution, of monasteries had its origin in a the of the necessity of restraint. Historians, especially intentions the pions historians of Spain, who have related have related how one of the founders of these institutions, siemilarfeeling order after another grew corrupt, in stituted by some more austere reformer, „d weaknesses of itf turn-to the evil inclinations, jealousies, and h a etvoegrei give o rule w ay w i a n s human nature. There are form erules, however, founded on any prescribedo soc society, or not tr artificial, r i t n i isolation from'all society, which are Kinoient) if obeerved, to guide 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 a a c ti t h ia u n m s, a b n at la g w a i s passions —the human heart. It is then to Christian prin- les, Christian morals, a nd a Christian spirit that wem nto mist look for a b e tt er an d hi g h er c i v ilisation than any and th asource institutions must ofaffe d et o i , aa wsit and n(i out ward o f that has been attained. If it is vain to expect either from the decree of authority or from free discnesion and confor mity of opinions in the interpretation of Scripture between 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. Them have been great signs •of this spirit of late years. Numbers of men in all stations of life devote themselves to the diffusiion of religion, the promotion of education, and all the operations of charity. For, if temptation takes many shapes, and if the pilgrim's progress is impeded by giants and by pit-falls, you the spirit of charity his, on the other side, many forms. . She places the - Bible in the hands of the young child to teachlim 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 bythe bed of the wounded soldier, binds his wounds with a gentle hand, and tenders the nourishment he is able to bear. She watches over the decline of age, and finally points to the reward of a faithful 'pilgrimge'on earth. (Cheers.) 'There is another considerakion. , I3efore 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- . o r ations—, each speaking the English language—and deriving Us pedigree of liberty from a com mon ancestry—each inheriting the English Bible—each reading Shaksplre and Milton—each divided into many denominations of Christian; but each allowing complete liberty of worship—will unite in the glorious task of peace ful conquest and bloodless victory. (Cheers ) At least let us indulge in • this high hope. If we do at, not arrive or , , . .. , riE terrnpted progress towards a far Letter social organ sation than any we, have yet enjoyed. , I have spoken to you of those times of civilisation, when either the Chris tian religion was 'anknOwn, or being knovin it was con temned, cast aside, and neglected. Let us hope that there is a period arriving when we may see realised those beauti ful and powerful words of - a great poet : _ _ _ " Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To Idnely, 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 guides 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 thatthought and speech are free, we have yet ever lent the helping hand of custom, folly, or intole rance to extinguish one spark of that divine flame which we call tho 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 oue 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 dives 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 polemical 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. The 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 goo d an d grea t wor k ; t h e bless i ng 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 eulogiurn upon the merits of the lecture itself, as the. reception which had been given to the noble lord that night, though confined 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 Rev. Dr. 11-ammoN seconded the motion, which was put from the chair, and carried in the affirmative, amid continued applause. Lord J. EXesELL, in acknowledging the compliment, said —having 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. The meeting then separated. MR. GLADSTONE AT CHESTER. The Right Hon.. VT. E. Gladstone, M.P., 'lectured before the Chester Mechanics' Institution, on Monday, again taking the colonies for his theme. But for the decided opinions on the war which divide the right hon. gentleman from Lord Palmerston, this public recurrence to colocial affairs would seem remarkable under present circumstances. The lecture took place in the Royal Hotel Assembly room, which was fully crowded long b, fore the hour appointed foi the commencement of the proceedings. The chair was taken at 8 o'clock, by John Williams, Eici. The room was then densely crowded in every part. Among those up mi the platform. were Sir Stephen Wynne, Lord Lyttelton, the Dean of Chester, Col. Elliott, Dr. Davis, etl. On the appearance of Mr. Gladstone upon the platform he was received with loud and enthusiastic applause ; he took his seat at the right hand of the chairman. The CHAIRMAN, in a few introductory word?, pre sented Mr. Gladeone 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 hearing a close resem blance to that delivered at Hawaiden. Mr. Gladstone then pr• ceeded—Well, now, these are all reasons which have prevailed at different times, and have been the basis, in a great degree, of the colonial policy of different sta,;esmen, in different ages, and different times. 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 Ido not think them de sirable simply to puff up OUT reputation. It is plain that they are not to be desired for revenue, bosauso they do not yield it. It is plain that they are not to be desired for trading monopoly, because tlpit we have entirely abandoned. It is plain they are not to be desired for pa tronage, because they will not allow us to exercise pa tronage, properly so called, within their limits ; and I am 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 ? In 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 acrcss the Atlantic. Why does he go across the Atlantic ? Because he expects—and in general he is the best 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 ander circumstances where the country to. which the settlers go produces the very commodities' which are wanted in the country which they left. Therefore, o o . far as trade and the gain connected with trade ar n e o e s n a cerned, it is perfectly obvious that the foundatioi colony, where it is the natural result of circum stances of the country—for I am no arbitrary foundation by any artificial efforts where it is govern ment, irrespective of all circumstances — ad advocate s c the at f e f o the the natural an d spon t aneous result of th e circum placed—is the great stances in which the countryisen largement of th e ma t er ial resourucureseuol increased the country. unyone re i Trade and employment may b of three ways. They vbe increas ed by the openin g of new fields in foreign countries; they may be increased i n your own country ; or by the opening of such. fields they may he increased by the opening of them i n your colonies. If the employment u and trade with foreigrf' you countries are increased , get the profit of th e trade. But then you are undoubtedly liable to the disadvantage, that the passing of un wise and bad laws i n t h ese foreign countries may grea tly restrict and hamp er t h e extension of your trade. , Thus y o u a r e ex p ose d to the utmost dis advantage, no t because it makes the t ra d e with foreign countries less lucrative than the trade with the colonies, —there is no such thing as two trades lucrative in diffe rent degrees ; if 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 ‘N ill go into the better trade with the colony until the gains of the two are equalised. But the difference is this,—in the case of a f ore i gn 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 t ra d e will have fair play, and that the natural field whi c h is open for its extension will not be narrowe d by the unwise proceedings of men. Tbat is the great advant age o f colonial trade; ' An immense advantage it is. Th e consequence of it has been that your colonies, although- they con t a i n but a very small proportion of the inhabitauto of the count r ie s with which you trade, y et, ... notwitbetaoding, supply you with ae - very considerable i proportion of that trade. If; upoif 'the other hind, you open new fields of employment at home, such as the creating of a new trade—suppose, for example, we take such a case as happened in Scotland not so many yeas • ago, when the great iron district which . atirrounds Glasgow was discovered : well, that is an. event which ( has happened within the memory of man ; it was the opening of an immense new field of employment, and the creation of an - immense now trade. Well 1:1111V, - when - you open a new field of employment at home you give a profit to trade, you give a security to trade that it will not be interrupted or hemmed in by bad laws; and likewise when you get that increase of population, to which increase of trade cannot fail to lead, you also get the additional advantage that those who carry it on .be come part and ra-cel of the same community, with your selves, and directly contribute towards bearing the lour dens necessary for the support of the country. But I do not concede that the material . benefit of colonies is the only consideration, but that we ought alio to look to their moral and social advantage. If we are asked why on these grounds it is desirable that colonies should be founded, I answer by asking another question—Why is it desirable that your popul a tk on at hOine, should in crease ? Why is it that you rejoice in an increase of po pulation at home? Because an increase Of Piipele t i ou i s a , increase of power, an increase of strength and stability to the state, and because it multiplies the number_ of people who, as we live under good Jaws, bel ong to a country to which it is an honour and an advantage to belong. (Applause.) What.can be mere 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 Euglande" 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 thet. des tiny of man to live in society under laws andinetitutione, • it is to be desired that he should live under good laws and • institutions—(hear)—but if we suppose the case of a country with very bad e institutions, colonisation by such a country would be a curse instead 'of a blessimg—the -- --- repseduction - ofits — ty - lon Other . ' 'ehiiiiii. *- -- 413 - 4 - •7 - :', ' ' 41drilektiiiii ItagrintrttriantritfiliP"' - '' - - -"--, - , tion : if it be desirable upon the grounds that I have 'stated that a - country circumstanced as England is, .should be possessed of colonies, in what manner ought h a • those colonies to be founded, and in what, manner go verned ? And I think that this questioa, will be exa mined in the form most interesting and instructive if I try it by reference to the standards which 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 aro really aware of. The right honourable gentleman then described the character of ancient *Greek colonisation, and referred to its al most incredible growth in Thessaly, 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 al though there was no administrative connexion between them they were yet to be found warm in heart and cha• ratter. 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. Re defined the golden age as the nth 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 ejalutary neglect, through which a generous nature had 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 cf that time. The right hon. gentleman then continued : Now, I want to try to impress that which I have said, that the true value of colonies, fir moral and social jour poses, arises in the unity of character and affection. There are 30,000,000 of people, or something near, con stituting the Great American Republic. It is doubtful _ whether the influence 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 adds to it. But Supposing that instead ofa bloody struggle, supposing that instead of a violent lacera tion of the ties that bound the colony to the mother country, America and England had separated as friend from friend, breaking only the link of administrative con nection, but retaining the warm feelings of the heart, and carrying with it nothing but the recollection Of the benefits she had received, and the laws and institutions she bad inherited, do you not think that then the exist secs of America, allied to us by language and by laws, would have immensely increased the influence of Eng land in the world ? But now, let us consider, and if it is to lie a lesson to us, is it importaut that we should do so, how it arose, and whose error it was ? It arose, first, out of the at:et - opt to levy certain taxes upon the people of • America, not for purposely properly and exclusively Eng lish, but for tie purpose of defraying part of the expense of a war into which England hasi entered, for the benefit lof America as well as herself. But some people think "tha.ti 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 another, it is this, that the Eng lish nation at the commencement of the war were en gaged almost to a man in the iroseention of that war. All ware almost without exception have been popular in this country during the first two or three years—(hear) but the Aiiirican war especial) , was popular in its com mencement, 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 1780, when he went next to present himself to his consti tuents, and in Lis speech to them on that occasion he explained he hod net visited them in Bristol as often as they thought lie ought to ha7e ',lime. Before the people knew which way the f irtune of arms would turn, 'here was a deal of difference of opinion in Bristol, and it was natural that that should be t'leir state, because Bristol carried on a very large and extended trade with America. But directly they saw that the English were successful in the del I that party was entirely put down ; ancl.you should recollect that England 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. Bit it was not want of success in the field that de. :=troyed us in the American war ; it was this, that though we beat the Americans in the field, we were no t :s bit ' nearer the subje.ation of their country. We owned the ground on which our camp was pitched, but we owned nothing else. Tho enemy was in the heart of every man, woman, and child in the country, and &iv 'log their soldiers out 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 en-or 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 u tlis consideration o f w h a t lie called the "silver ag e' which was b e t ween th e peace o f 178 S and 1840, n B4O, wlren we began to hav e d awn o f b e tter things; inte l r n . this age he showed ho w a vicious systemver of irment was ference in colonial aff a i rs by th e home g pushed to an extr e m e . H e eloquently p ortrayed a the evils arising from this intermeddling, a considerable length, to point out the th en proceeded, at con sequences of the system pursued towards Cana d a , which its result placed,the gover and the dilemma in n ment. Having gon e t o war with Canada for the asser tion of demands w hi c h afterwards were conceded, o not from terror, but f rom a they saw them se l ves stcom pelled to pass a reue consideration of thei r t iu iion i loss bill, indemnify parties indemnifying for the loss they had i n curred white re s i s ti ng with arms the authority and the troops of England. He showed how the British Government in Canada had too frequently supporters there, will), perhaps, a only a. li t t i . le nr k t n. w o o t , c, w f while on the other aide was the - whole newspaper . , of the colonial population. There however , he mass were, owever, said, many statesmen in thi s country who had been very far in advance with regard to colonial government. He mentioned them because they were for the most part men with whose political opinions he frequently differed, and a lso because, as in the reign of Cha rles - 11., the states men who most advocated colonial freedom were Tory, it was fair to render equal justice to Radical members of the British Parliament. He mentioned particularly toe late Mr. T une, Mr. Roebuck, and one whose name had only within the last few days been added to the list of the departed, Sir Win. Molesworth, all of whom had been, i n hi s 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. He then bore testimony to the justness of views of the R a di ca l mem b ers o f P ar li ament on t h e sub ject of colonial.policy, who, he admitted, in this partied: lar, were far ahead of all o th er p ar ti es i n th e St a te. I!: the character of Sir Win. Molesworth hespoke io o toff of unmeasured eulogy, and acknowledged thtstb learned much' from the speeches which that state sm an uons. delivered on colonial subjects in t h e IX ° _;" b : geld, that l lt was now coming to be understoeseat : transacted by the affairs of the colonies were 'the l) slain; of Eng. the colonists themselves, just - by Eng lishmen a . . land were best transacted And in an eloquent perora ti onee he rejoiced that a chang e . b brought about, which he promise of advantage to in colonial policy thought was full of claimsllliarodfitand on m ankind aa, E l d ng an a country having such in which we h ave made a tiansition a change of system, from misfortune, from evils, and . almost f rom madness and from crime , and re turne d to the rules o f j ust i ce, of • reason, of natu re, and of common sense. (Loud and long continued applause marked the close of the right gen tleman's address.) he O n. n the motion of Mr. HICKLIN, seconded 1:1 , Dr. Davis, thanks were voted by acclamation to Mr. Glad stone. He briefly acknowledged the compliment. On the motion of Mr. AXON, honorary secretary to ' the institution, thanks were voted to the chairman, and the proceedings terminated shortly after ten o'clock. .1 - The Governor of the Bank of England and the Deentr Governor bad an int erv i ew with the Chancellor o f th e Excheque r , yesterday, at his offioial residence , i n Down_ ~ inotreet. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. —The Directors hereby Give Notice that they will receive Money on Loan, to pay off Debentures falling 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.