The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—lnsignificant little islands are, of late years, decidedly at a premium. The Anti-Jacobin once ventured to express an opinion that "it was unlikely England should ever become a small island in the Pacific Ocean." What appeared recently not quite so unlikely was, that England and France might have gone to loggerheads about "a small island in the Pacific Ocean." There is a story told about two imperceptible islets somewhere in the Firth of Clyde, which, it seems, rejoice in the designation of " the Greater and Lesser Cumrays." The minister of the little flock therein—putting up special prayers for their welfare, according to the manner of the Scottish Church—delivered himself as follows : " 0 Lord! bless and prosper the Greater and Lesser Cumrays ; and do not, 10 Lord ! in thy Provi dence forget the adjacent islands of Great Britain and Ireland." We cannot guess why all men are disposed to jibe so at little islands, from the Cannibal Islands to the Channel Islands. It is certain that these (latter) have the best of it. They have thriven in the cool shade of contempt. Nobody has thought them worth evil handling. We except, of course, such " eccentric" personages as M. Dupetit Thouars and Sir James Graham ; the former of whom celebrated so inglorious a triumph over fat Queen Pomare, and the latter would doubtless have triumphed over rebellion in Guernsey —had his warlike expedition to that powerful de pendency found there the rebellion they were sent to ernsh. these are amongst the evidences of the growing importance of little islands to great statesmen. Another is afforded by the gracious attention bestowed recently on the Isle of Man. That slighted dependency was regarded no more than, like Moab, till lately—as a wash-pot. " Talk of a rebellion in the Isle of Man— tell me of a storm in a slop-basin." We now, how ever, perceive the rationale of no-rebellion in the Isle ofMln. There has been no fisc to rebel against—no Cus tom--house myrmidons to do battle with "fair traders." There have been the seme good reasons for no rebellion in the Isle of Man as there have been in Guernsey— as the Home Secretary might have known before hand, if he had known what rebellions are made of. Who ever heard of rebellion where there are no im port duties, and where loyalty can get drunk almost gratis ? Happy Monads! least but most felicitous of philosophic atqms ! Felices nimium, bona si sua norint, Monicolas Human felicity, however, is hardly ever complete. One craving void still ached within the breast of the Manx free-traders. It seems there were certain har bour dues and licenses to carry on business, &c., imposed by the general or local government. The new Customs Act, passed last session by the Legisla ture, has put an end to those grievances, and the consequence is that we find the grocers of Douglas, Castletown, &c , advertising " good Muscovado sugar at 265. to 365. per cwt. wholesale, and by retail 3d., 4d., to sd. per lb. ; refined sugar from sd. to 6d. par lb. ; congou teas, from 2s. 3d. to 2s. 9d. per lb.; port and sherry wines, from 12s. to 21s. per dozen, &c. &c. It seems Dr. Bowring is the be neficent genius to whom the Manx people are in debted for this consummation of bliss, utterly un known elsewhere in Europe or America—of ab solutely having now no fiscal impositions at all. Men of Man, you are too happy ! The wis dom of antiquity would suggest to you the po licy of voluntarily sacrificing some part of your insolent good fortune ; as such unalloyed prospe rity cannot fail to excite the malice of the fates. But the men of Man think, it seems, of nothing except voting some testimonial to Dr. Bowring. Could not they establish a small sliding-scale, or trifling sugar duties, or something or other, just detrimental enough to their general prosperity, to propitiate the vindictive Powers which must be regarding thorn with jealous leer malign ! Not they. They do not seem to think their condition better than is good for Man. There is something in the following that reads almost ironically to the wise men of Europe and America. Gentle men, you like dear clothes, and dear corn ! We prefer both cheap, and you kindlyindulge our idiosyn crasy. Either hemisphere bars out the other ; but our rulers kindly give us free leave to, prove to the millions of both hemispheres how much wiser we are than any of you! " There has also been acceded to the inhabitants of this island the privilege of exporting from bonded warehouses in the United Kingdom all foreign goods to this island, free of duty, thus enabling us to consume such goods on nearly equal terms with our continental leighbours, as well as the advantage of manufacturing from foreign produce goods in the island for exporta tion to the markets of the surrounding countries. Take also the abolition of the import duties on Bri tish manufactures, which, when added to the conse huent charges in England on export, and the her lnur dues here, make fully five per cent. on these golds, and it is clear that to .this extent there is a gain to the consumer on wearing apparel, &c. &c." The Manx Committee conclude with the following repeal to their labouring population :—" Fellow. countrymen ! your weekly eereinge will now pro cure for your families a larger supply of the neces saries and comforts of life than they formerly did, and consequently your warms are increased in value. Let all calculate what they save by the change, and give accordingly. Let the tribute of gratitude be commensurate with the boon." STANDARD.—A letter from Mr. Tyrrell, the s .iieitor of Mr. Alderman Gibbs, has been published I y his committee, which, we are glad to find, con ii, ens the opinion we expressed in yesterday's Standard, of the groundlessness of the insinuations of which he has been the victim, in regard to his accounts as churchwarden of St. Stephen's, Walbrook. As we anticipated, the inquiry now before the Master has substantially established the accuracy of these accounts, and the honesty . (equally im peached) of the four gentlemen by whom they were originally audited ; and but for the obstacles which have been interposed to the progress of the luiry by the plaintiffs themselves, there is no manner of doubt that the report might have been completed in time for production at the meeting of the Livery, fixed for this day. The prospect, however, amounting to certainty, that this investigation would completely exculpate the Alderman from the imputations of his accusers Las driven them half frantic with mortification. from Mr. Tyrrell's letter it appears that the credit si le of the account has been disposed of, and that for the debit side, " all the vouchers have been pro eliced and allowed, excepting for a few items which do not effect the general balance of the printed accounts," and which have also been pro duced by the plaintiff's solicitor. But for the naaccoptable delay which has arisen, and which by Mr. 116cles guarded admission in a letter which he El es published in this day's Times, appears to have leen occasioned by his "directions to his solicitor to d nothing out of court, but let the cause take its natural course" (we all know what this means), the repott of the Master might by this time have baen . in the hands of every memb er o f th e li very As it is, Mr. Tyrrell informs us , th a t if th e p l a i n tiff pits ' him to the fo rma l " serv i ce o f t h e accounts, " nieh he promises to do, the inquiry may not be e.nnpleted until Tuesday week. Meanwhile, it is hoped that the calumnies, of which Mr. Alder lean Gibbs has been the object, will have served their turn. After heaping upon him the most s i rulent abuse, and insinuating that he had fraudulently misapplied the funds of his fellow e:tizens committed to his keeping, the Times and its correspondents, having learned that the vaunted Chancery suit was not progressing as they had anti e,pated, they are fain to moderate their rancour, and admit that the disputed accounts may possibly torn out to be correct ! that is to say, that the brutal clamour by which they have endeavoured to ls: , ar down Mr. Gibbs may prove wholly unfounded. . 1 We have no wish (says the Times of to-day) to assume any, the slightest matter against the alderman without proof." But although our t3ontemporary must have been aware that the Waster in Chancery had already virtually es tablished the correctness of the accounts, and aro? ld, but for the vexatious oppositio n o f th e plaintiff, have completed his report—it has the shab biness, the pettifogging meanness, to call upon the Livery to regard the issue of the question as doubtful, ese I protect themselves against the possible contin rosy of the Alderman's failure; as well as to return to the oft-repeated and explained facts that he had re lksod to submit his accounts to Messrs. Rock, Flight, Itowett, and Co. ; and that although churchwarden for 20 years (that is to say, elected to that o ffi ce n i ne t een times in succession by his fellow-parishioners !) of the *conjoined parishes of St. Stephen's and St. Benet's Elerehog," he had suffered the church to fall Into a state of serious dilapidation. The Times was f Gibbs of course aware that Mr. Alderman never Wis churchwarden of the last-mentioned pa r i s h , and equally cognisant of the fact that the Fhureh had been more than once repaired at his instiga tion (once at a cost of 2,0001.) ; and that after having •btained and procured the approval of the sur -Iteyors' reports of the necessary repairs, by the parish of St. Stephen's, they had been rejected by the churchwardens and vestry of St. Benet's ; for although the two parishes were united by the Fire Act, they have had distinct churchwardens and dis tinct vestries. He might, we are told, have made a rate ; but although he was largely in advance to the parish, he does not appear to have done so— os= sufficient, according to the Times, for his rejection by the Livery 1 Driven from charge to charge ; convicted of having falsely asserted that the alderman had already been rejected by that body; and suppressing its k now l e d ge o f t h e fhvourab program of the suit (namely, that all the payments made by the churchwarden pers ona ll y had been declared to be correct, and that those wh:ch remained to be examined were such only as were dgliarsed by his subordinate officers), our Con taapporary does nob scruple to suggest to the Livery THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 80, 1844. " that as he is now in Chancery," " they should at any rate wait until he is cleared !" Nay it even allows the man, whose:disgrace and discomfiture are inseparable from the justification of his victim, to publish a long and scurrilous letter in its columns in which, among other misrepresentations, he is disingenuous enough to assert that the " accounts are now before the Master, and, as yet, i nexamined !" The conduct of the Times in this matte and its disre gard of that decent courtesy, from the practice of which the conductors of the public press have not hitherto considered themselves exempted, can surprise none of its later readers, and, us last of all. We give it joy, therefore, of so congenial a fel low-labourer as Mr. Rock, assured as we are that when its ordinary store of Billingsgate shall become exhausted (a very remote contingency) there is one inhabitant, at least, of the parish of Walbrook with whom it may advantageously contract for a fresh supply. means, are ready to make pecuniary sacrifices, in order to have that destitution removed.—(Hear.) I am quite sure that that is the best ground upon which this matter can stand. Its effect is to make the in habitants themselves aid the Government in its efforts, but by no means to make the Government supply that which, in point of fact, ought to be contributed locally, from a feeling of the want of education which is at the time pressing upon the place.—(Hear.) These being, then, the terms upon which the grant was to be made, the grant was increased ; and the grant, since the year 1842, has been exactly doubled. It is now 40,0001. a year. Now, lam very far from saying that 40,0001. a year is the whole that is re quired ; but it was much better to go on by degrees ; it was safer to see in the first place how the scheme worked. And I have very little doubt that if Parliament finds that the former grants of money which they have voted have been properly ap plied, and that they have produced the desired result —nay, I may say, instead of having very little doubt, that I am quite satisfied, Parliament will be ready to increase the grant. In order to obtain information in this respect, it is necessary that the schools to which money has been granted should be inspected, and that a report should be made to the Committee of Council for Education, and through it to the Bishops ; and also that Parliament should be made aware of what has been done by means of these grants, and what the re sult is; and whether, in point of fact, the objects of the grants have been properly carried out. It was necessary, then, to appoint inspectors for this pur pose ; and the ommittee of Council begun very ino derately, for they appointed only one inspector. Be fore that appointment was made, a great discussion arose with respect to the propriety of such an ap pointment ; and, on the part of the Established Church, it was stated that the effect of the ap pointment of those inspectors would be to throw the whole system of education into the hands of the Privy Council, and that they had no security that the Com mittee of Council would, in fact, be members of the Established Church. It was necessary therefore so to guard the appointment of inspector as that no im proper person should be placed in that office. After much discussion, it was arranged that the persons to be appointed inspectors should be subject, in the first place, to the approval of the Archbishop of each pro vince, and so long as they had the confidence of the Archbishop within whose province they acted they should continue inspectors. That each inspector should be appointed by the Committee of Council, with the approbation of the Archbishop, but if the Archbishop should at any time afterwards declare his disapprobation of the conduct of any inspector, and require his removal, he should be removed by the Committee of Council from the office. I think you will see that this gives to the Established Church the greatest security against the danger that was apprehended. I mention it because there has been great jealousy upon that subject. A notion has got abroad among the clergy, I am sorry to say, that the object of the Committee of Council is to get possession of, and to direct the whole education of, the people. They urge that they (the clergy) are the appointed ministers of the Church, whose duty it is to give religious instruction to the people, and that secular instruction, without religious instruction, is of no value, and that, therefore, the Church has a sort of right to conduct the universal education of the people of this country. Now that would be true, perhaps, if all the persons of this country professed the Established religion; but, unfortunately, that is not the case. We all know how rife Dissent is ; moreover, we see yearly and monthly new sects arising, some of which, more or less, detach persons from the Church of England ; and there can be no doubt that the whole body of Dissenters from the Church in England is a very considerable one. Now, they all, undoubtedly, contribute towards these grants. Every man, whether Churchman or Dissenter, pays the taxes out of which this fund is to be provided, and, therefore, they are to be considered in this matter; and, this being so, I don't think that the clergy of the Church can set up a right to teach those persons who do not belong to the Church of which they are ministers. It was, therefore, thought neces sary, in some degree, to guard against that ; and the result was that Parliament, when it voted the money, stated that the grants should be made riot only to schools in connexion with the Establishment and the National School Society, but also to schools in connexion with the British and Foreign School Society—a society which differs, un doubtedly, from the National Society in many respects, and especially in this—that the National Society requires the Catechism :to be taught in the schools connected with it; whereas the British and Foreign School Society, while it inculcates the neces sity of reading and exercises in the Old and New Testa ments, does not admit of a catechism of any descrip tion. As I have stated, the Church received a security with regard to the inspection, in the arrangement that no person can be appointed as inspector by the Com mittee of Privy Council without the approbation of the Archbishop of the province in which he acts ; nor can he continue his duties, though so appointed, if the Archbishop should atany time declare his disapprobation of that person. Now the British and FcrAgrs School Society had no security upon this subject; yet it has been stated, and I mention the statement now for the purpose of explanation, that that Society has received more favour from the Committee of Council in this re spect than the Church. An inspector was appointed for the schools in connexion with the British and Foreign School Society; that inspector, a man with whom I am personally acquainted, a most excellent, a most valuable man, a member of the Church of England, in the course of his inspection, undoubtedly, alarmed the members of the British and Foreign School So ciety; they conceived that his object was to cry down their mode of educating their children, and that he was endeavouring to force upon them his own favourite modes of education. Nothing could be more unfounded, I sincerely believe, but as this feel ing extended itself among them, they, having no security as to the appointment of the inspectors, naturally looked for some security equal to that which the Church had received. They complained— they said, " All we ask is, that a person may not be appointed who, by the mode in which he carries on the inspection, will hurt our Society, and prevent us from carrying out our views and objects." We said, " We perfectly agree with you with respect to the appointment of inspector, that the person appointed should be cautious ; and that instead of doingany thing to in the Society, or to weaken its influence or power over the schools in connexion with it, he ought, on the contrary, to do everything he can to strengthen that influence and to support the Society." The Society then said, " All we ask, as the condition upon which our schools shall be inspected, is, that if at any time your inspector should conduct him self so as to forfeit our confidence, we should be allowed to return the money we may have received, and be no longer subject to your inspection." To that the Committee of Council have agreed. They thought it was right that the Society should have some security that the inspectors to be appointed should be persons in whom the Society had confidence, and upon whose discretion it could rely. I have said that a notion has got abroad, especially among `some of the clergy, that there is a disposition in the Committee of Council to assume to itself the whole of the direction of the education of the people, or so to interfere, at all events, as to indicate a disposi tion to separate the clergy from the people with re spect to education. Now, I won't enter into the question of the right of the clergy ; but this I am quite sure of—that if the people who profess the doc trines of the Established Church are to be taught, the clergy are the instruments through which the educa tion must mainly be carried on.—(Hear.) They are the parties with whom the bulk of the people are almost constantly in communication, they are always on the spot ; they are in a station between the higher classes and the lower classes; they are themselves, generally, persons of education and talent; they have influence not only with the lower classes but with the upper classes ; and whatever may be said of the voluntary zeal of country gentlemen or of tradesmen, in the cause of education, I say that it is the business of the clergy to be zealous in that cause. I say that, if education is to be carried on at all, it is absurd to think that you must not make the clergy the active means of carrying it on. I can assure you that there is no ground for this jealousy of the Privy Council in this respect. There can be no ground for supposing that the Privy Council are desirous to oust the clergy of what must be considered as part of their duty ; but it is the duty of the Council to see that the money voted by Parliament is properly applied, and so applied as to carry out the objects for which it was voted ; and no one can ever think that Parliament will continue to vote money unless they have some assurance that the results will be such as they hoped for when the money was voted. With this view it is appointed four additional inspectors, epveerfect concurrence of the Archbishops, at their reque s t a s well as that of the National Sty thhl . I have en d eavoure d t o explain these mat tawteheoriaeshtieto we you as fully as I can, because, as I have said, there have been great misapprehensions upon the sub ject, and I know that things have been said which have no foundation, the effect of which I trust that what I have stated, speaking with the authority which my station gives me, may, in a great measure, tend to remove.—(Hear.) But there aro some other points to which it may be well to advert; and one is with respect to the aid and assistance which is to be given to the normal schools. You are aware that normal schools are institutions for the pur pose of educating persons who are intended for the office of schoolmaster—an object most impor tant in every point of view. Nothing is more deplorable than the state of education (speaking generally) of the schoolmasters who affect or pretend to teach the people. No system of education, no ef forts for education, can be of much value until we shall have masters who shall be able to combine the improvement of the moral and religious knowledge of their pupils, as well as of their manners, with the general education they may impart. If their art of carrying on the discipline of the school and in the management of young people shall be such as to enable them to do this, then may we trust that they will be able to give then an education which may make them good men and good subjects. No pains that can be taken are too much in this matter. I wish I could say that the business of a schoolmaster could be truly called a profession. I wish that the middle and lower classes of the people in this country could see in the situation of the schoolmaster a situation to which they might hope to arrive, and which would not only afford them a decent liveli hood, but raise them in the scale of society to a sta tion which the important trust reposed in their hands seems to require. This must be done by degrees ; and yet, perhaps, there is no object more important. —(Hear.) Towards this object the Committee of Council have given considerable assistance. They have given the National Society 5,000!. towards build ing. a normal school, and they have given 1001. a year towards the maintenance of that school. They have given (I am speaking only of what has been done in England)—they have given 3,500/. towards a building for a training school at York, and they have given as much for a building in the county of Chester ; and there are other applications now under consideration of which I shall say nothing. They also have given to the British and Foreign School Society the sum of 500/. for their building, and for the main tenance of their schools 7501. a year ; the relative proportions of 1,000/. and 8501. having, in point of tact, been calculated upon the number of masters that each of those societies intended to educate. And here I may take the opportunity of saying that I was very much surprised recently to read in a newspaper that a reverend gentleman had stated at a meeting, held in the East Riding of this county, that it was true that the Committee of Council had given 3,500/. towards building a normal school' at York, but that they had given 7501. a year to the British and Foreign School Society, and had refused to give any thing to the National Society. Now, such a gentleman, before he states things in a public meeting, should be quite sure of his facts. And what did this declaration produce ? It elicitedfrom another reverend gentleman who was present at that meeting the impassioned ob servation, " I never heard of such conduct in my life." (Laughter.) Now I would. entreat gentlemen, clergy men especially, before they make charges of that description, to inform themselves of the real state of the case ; to take the trouble of writing to, or of in quiring of, those who know something about the matter, and not throw out those insinuations and groundless imputations. I trust that, after what I have said, these accusations of a partiality hostile to the Established Church may not be repeated, at least within the county in which we are now met. The object of the Committee of Council for Education is to accomplish that which Parliament has declared to be its object; that object is not to educate only those who are connected with the Estab lished Church, but others. It is not only to give education in the way pointed out by the Church of England, but to give the means of education to other persons who have means, and are willing to contribute from their means to the education of the poor of their respective sects.--(Hear.) Now these are the subjects upon which I was anxious to say a few words. I have said already that I regret that there are not more present to hear me.—(Hear.) I wish that every clergyman in this district had been now present; I wish that every man who has at heart the education of the people of this country could hear me, that I could remove from each of their minds anything like a feeling of jealousy of the powers and proceedings of the Privy Council in respect to educa tion. All that the Committee desire is to act cordially with the clergy in this matter. Their object is to give education to the people, religious in the first place, and secular also—and with respect to those schools that are connected with the Established Church, to do it not only with the consent of the clergy, but with their active, with their willing, with their free co operation.—(Cheers.) Perhaps you will excuse me saying a little more upon the subject of school masters.—(Hear.) I have already stated the great want of proper and efficient schoolmasters that now exists. It is a want that is daily increasing, and upon which we have the most clamorous claims upon us for assistance. What we shall be able to do, or what persons may expect us to do, I cannot say. But no person is more convinced than I am that upon the improvement of your scoolmaster does in fact de pend the improvement of education. (Hear.) We have done something. By the last Order of Council upon the subject we have agreed to do something towards building schoolmasters' houses. That is a great point. In order that a schoolmaster should be held in proper regard and respect. and that he should hold the rank and station which I have already stated I think it desirable that he should hold, I am of opinion that he ought to be provided with a suitable residence—a house by no means too large, so as to exalt him too much in the scale of society, but he should be taken out of a cottage and put into a decent residence, which would be calcu lated to make those persons of the classes lower than himself inclined to show a proper feeling of respect for the schoolmaster who teaches their children. I need not, after whist I have said, assure you that the great object I have at heart is, that in the per formance of the duty I am called upon to perform, no act of mine shall give good ground for jealousy or ill feeling to any class or to any person, whether Church man or Dissenter.—(Hear, hear.) I am a Church man, from a strong feeling that the Church of Ehg land contains doctrines infinitely superior to any others that have ever been promulgated upon earth; that they are the doctrines of our Saviour; that they are the doctrines which will load to our eternal salva tion ; and for those reasons I am a steady, a staunch Churchman. But I cannot help feeling that others are at liberty to judge for themselves upon this question, and that there may be per sons who may conscientiously feel that they cannot agree with me in my opinion. I am not, therefore, to shut them out from all education ; I am not to say to them—" Though Parliament has voted a sum of money for the education of the people, I will not give you any part of it, although, in fact, you contribute part of it in the first instance." These are the grounds upon which I shall act in my office.—(Hear.) I do entreat the clergy to co-operate cordially with us ; and if they will do so I do not fear that, in process of time, the people of the country in which we live will become the best and most religiously educated people on the face of the earth. His Lordship sat down amidst loud applause." EAST SURREY REGISTRATION. Mr. S. C. Fish, the Revising Barrister, held his court, on Saturday, at the Horns, Kennington, to revise the lists of voters in the parishes of Clapham, Streatham, and Lambeth. Mr. Meymott attended on behalf of the Conserva tives, Mr. Jeans for the Liberals, and Mr. Sydney Smith, the well-known anti-corn-law lecturer. also appeared to support a new claim made in the Lambeth district. Mr. Rowland Evans, of Lower Tulse-hill, attended to support his claim to vote, which was objected to un the ground that he had not sent in a proper claim. It appeared that Mr. Evans had merely written a letter to the overseers requesting them to place his name upon the list of voters for the county, his quali fication being a 501. rental. The REVISING BARRISTER said this was not a proper notice. The Act of Parliament specified a particular form, which must be followed, at all events, in mate rial particulars. As this had not been done, he could not allow the claim. Mr. Evans said he thought it was hard that he should be disfranchised, when it was quite clear that he had a legal qualification. He wished to know whether he could not now amend his claim. The REVISING BARRISTER said he could not do so. The claim must be sent in by a certain day in July, or it could not be received. The claimant could easily obtain a copy of the proper form, and he must renew his application next year, when his name would be placed on the list. The claim was then disallowed. In the parish of Lambeth, Mr. W. G. Aime claimed to vote in respect of an original lease of a house in Devonshire-street, Kennington, let to sepa rate tenants, each paying less than 101. per annum, but :producing in the whole more then 101. a year, clear of all charges. The claim was opposed by the overseers. The REVISING BARRISTER asked on what ground the overseers opposed the claim ? Mr. Meymott said that the objection was, that the property in question being within the borough of Lambeth, was properly the subject of a borough qua lification, and not one for the county. Mr. Smith said he appeared in support of the claim and he apprehended that the claimant was clearly en-' titled to vote for the county. He said it was an im portant question, and he should be very glad to have the Barrister's decision upon it. The claimant held the lease of a large house, which was let to several tenants, some of whom, however, paid to the amount of 101. a year, so that there was no borough qualifica tion. The 25th section of the Reform Act appeared to be framed with the object of preventing two persons from qualifying for the same property, but in this in stance, if the present claim was not allowed, the pro perty would confer no vote whatever. Mr. Smith concluded by stating that one similar case had oc curred last year in the parish of Bermondsey, and the Revising Barrister allowed the claim. Mr. Meymott said he recollected the case referred to by Mr. Smith, but he did not see any anal, gy between it and the present claim, because, in the former, there were several separate houses hOd under one lease, whereas, in the present case, it was one house only, which was clearly of greater value than would form a borough-qualification, and, therefore, it could not confer a vote for the county. Mr. Smith contended that the e9sem wen- There were several different hoiditigs by temmis in both cases, none of them being of sufficient amount EDUCATION OF THE POOR. IMPORTANT SPEECH OF LORD WHARNCLIFFE. The following speech of Lord Wbarncliffe, deli vered on Monday last at a meeting of the friends and supporters of the Society for Promoting the Increase of Church Accommodation, and the Endowment of Churches in the Diocese of Ripon, and also of the Ripon Diocesan Board of Education, held at the Court House, in Barnsley, is most important, and may be considered as a declaration of the feelings of Govern ment on the important subject to which it refers. We take our report from the Leeds Intelligencer. Lord WHARN - CLIFtE rose and said—" Ladies and Gentlemen, the resolution which you have just passed concludes the business of the day, but before we sepa rate I am very anxious to address to the meeting a few words upon the present state of the questions with regard both to church accommodation and to the education of the poor; and also to take this opportu nity of explaining what Government have done— what their objects are—as well as what the objects of Parliament have been in voting money for both these purposes—and finally to remind you how to obtain, and to instruct you how to make use of the sums so granted. And first with respect to churches. But before I address myself particularly to this point, I may observe that this district—the West Riding of Yorkshire—and the county of Lan caster, are perhaps the two parts of the whole kingdom that require the greatest care with respect to the religious instruction of the people, from the nature of the manufactures carried on in them, from the vast congregations of people without any instruction brought together within them—numbers so great as to be far beyond the power of that number of persons which, up to a late period, were alone appointed to instruct them as their pastors. I say that this district, of all others, is that which requires an extension of church accommodation and the appointment of additional ministers to instruct the people. Both those objects have been kept in view, and, to a certain degree, the wants of the people in this respect have been supplied. First of all let us re collect what this district was originally. The greater part of it was a very thinly-peopled district, and a large portion of it scarcely cultivated at all ; now it is crowded with people; many parishes of enormous extent are become very populous. This town in which we are assembled, which is very populous, in which manufactures have increased and are increasing, and in which there is a prospect of the continued increase of those who should be provided with reli gious instruction—this town, I say, is not a parish ; it is merely a township in the parish of Silkstone, the parish church being situate several miles off. And so it is in many other places—the parishes are so large that the mother church is totally inadequate to accom plish its original purpose of affording space for those who should worship their God in it, at a convenient distance from their homes. I say that this district is the one which, above all others, requires the atten tion of the Government, the attention of the Bishop, and of the clergy, as well as of all persons who have really the interests of religion and the welfare of the people at heart, to provide such accommodation which shall enable the people to perform and to receive in struction in their religious duties. Under these cir cumstances, then, I am happy to say that the session of Parliament before the last produced a measure which does enable these districts to receive a much greater degree of spiritual instruction than heretofore. I al lude to that Act of Parliament, usually called " Sir Robert Peel's Act," which puts it into the power of the clergy and their parishioners to apply to the Ec clesiastical Commissioners to form districts within which even though there may be no church erected, but where a suitable room can be procured to be li censed by the Bishop, a clergyman may be appointed to give that spiritual instruction to the people which is so much needed. By that Act provision is made by which the maintenance of such ministers so to be appointed is secured. I cannot help hoping that that measure will have a very great effect upon the reli gious instruction of the people. It was intended to have that effect ; and my hope is that it will prove so. I was myself at one time of opinion, that the first thing to be done was to build churches; but now I incline to think that that was a mistake. The first duty, as it seems to me, is to appoint persons who will administer religious instruction to the people, allotting to him a suitable and convenient district; and I am satisfied that when that duty is properly performed by duly qualified and zealous men, there will be no want of the means for building churches in this country. lam persuaded that, upon suitable religious instruction being afforded by zealous and competent ministers to those classes of persons to whom it is very important that such instruction should be given, they will not be satisfied with a mere room in which to worship God, but will find the means of aiding the Government in providing a proper place for religious worship.—(Hear.) So much for the first object which we have met to promote this day.—(Hear, hear.) I now come to that of educa tion ; and, standing in the situation which I do, honoured by her Majesty with the superintendence of that department—for a department it may now be called—to which the education, or rather the means which are supplied by Parliament for the education of the people is committed, I am anxious to say a few words upon that subject; and I very much wish that there were a greater num ber of persons present here, that a larger number of the inhabitants of this district might hear what I have to say. I say this, because, undoubtedly, there are great misapprehensions abroad upon the subject. There are misapprehensions, in the first place, as to the objects for which Parliament have voted the sum which is at the disposal of the Committee of Council for Education. The misapprehensions are still greater, perhaps, with respect to the objects which the Com mittee of Council have in view, and the mode in which they will carry into effect the wishes and inten • tions of Parliament. You are all aware that up to a very late date nothing was contributed by Parliament towards the education of the people. It was left en tirely to the efforts of individuals, and I am sorry to say, that the result of that was, that the state of edu cation in the greater part of England is lamentable in the extreme. Ido not think that in this parti cular district it can be said to have been in so bad and inferior a condition as in some other portions of the kingdom. We all know that the greater portion of the poor hereabouts, and still further to the northward, are educated to a certain degree. They can most of them read and write to some extent, and many of them can go through certain rules of arithmetic ; but in the south of England the absence of that kind of knowledge even to that extent among the poorer classes is lamentable and frightful. I think, there fore, it was time for Parliament to interfere, and to give something towards the education of the people. It was the duty of a paternal Government to propose it to Parliament; and when proposed to Parliament it was cheerfully acceded to. The first grant made by Parliament was in the year 1836. I may be wrong as to the year, but I think it was in that year. It amounted to 20,0001. A small sum, indeed, to assist the efforts that were making for education, especially when one remembers the number of persons and districts over which a sum of that description was to be extended. However, that was the sum. It was to be distributed by the Lords of the Treasury, upon no condition whatever, except that the Lords of the Treasury might, if they thought proper, send a person to inspect the accounts of the schools that were to be benefited by the grant. There was no inspection with respect to what was taught in those schools. There was no charge of any kind. There was no condition on the part of persons who received part of that grant that their schools should be devoted solely to the education of the poor- This system lasted not above two years. It was found that, after the money was granted, nobody knew anything about it—that Parliament and the Government were giving money, without knowing what it produced—and it was thought advisable to put the matter on a better footing. Accordingly it was taken from the Treasury, and placed in the hands o f a Committee of her Majesty's Privy Council—now called the Committee of Council for Education--con sisting of some of the Ministers of the Crown ; and the grants are now distributed upon their responsi bility. When it was so removed from the Treasury to the Committee of Council, it was absolutely neces sary that the objects for which this money wag granted should be thoroughly . understood, and that certain conditions should be insisted upon in order that the money voted by Parliament—the public I money—might be so properly distributed as that it 1 should not be turned to evil instead of to good. Ac cordingly certain rules were established by Order of Council. One of those rules was that, in a deed, the promoters of every school should agree that any school to be built with the aid of money from these grants should be devoted for ever to the education of the poor. Another condition was, that they should also be liable to inspection by inspectors appointed by the Committee of Council for ever. These are the two conditions originally required; and be sides this great care is taken by that committee that the money granted by them shall not be the sole and only means by which the school buildings shall be erected ; but that the number of persons will ing-to contribute in aid, and the amount they are pre pared to contribute, shall be taken, in great part, as the real evidence of the want of a school in a particular district.—(Hear, hear.) It is quite clear that were it otherwise the whole country would be looking to Government to do the work at its expense, and the true sources of charity woull be dried up. Every body who had the means would be disposed to stay their hands ; and, in short, the whole would be suf fered to fall into the hands of Government. This seemed to the Government to be anything but de sirable ; and, therefore, let it not be supposed that any party, or any parish or township, can come to the Government, and say, " Give us part of that grant," claiming it as of right. They must, in the first instance, show the destitution of the place in respect of education, and then they must show that those within the district, who have the THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE AT INVERARY. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived at Inverary Castle, on Monday afternoon, ac companied by the Hereditary Grand Duke of Meck lenburgh Strelitz, and Baron Knesebeck, preceded by two of the Duke of Argyle's outriders, and escorted by one hundred of his Grace's Highlanders, dressed in the Highland chief's uniform. On the arrival of his Royal Highness at the Castle, a royal salute was fired from Donaquaieh, which was answered by her Majesty's cutter Shearwater, lying in Lochfine bay, and also from a 40-pounder on the Castle grounds. ImmAcliately after, the Duntroon Castle steamer arrived with a great number of pas sengers from Glasgow and the intermediate stations ; and the town of Inverary, which is but small, was so much crowded that it was with great difficulty and much inconvenience lodgings could be procured. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge intends to spend some days with the Duke and Duchess of Argyle; and after the rejoicings and festivities on the occasion of the arrival of the Marquis of Lorn and his lovely bride at the Castle, he will proceed to the neighbouring hills to enjoy shooting and deer-stalk ing—game being very plentiful at present on his Graces estate. _ _ _ _ Early on Tuesday morning the Duke of Cornwall steamer arrived with 150 of the Duke of Argyle's yeomanry, from Kintyre, dressed in black coats, white trousers and vests, and shortly after her the Cardiff Castle arrived with 220 of W. F. Campbell, Esq., of Islay's men, commanded by John F. Campbell, Esq., younger of Islay, and Duncan Campbell, Esq., of Kilchonnan, all good-looking men, and splendidly dressed in the Clan Campbell's tartan. The effect which this body had upon the spectators—between the glittering of their Lochaber axes and the continual firing which the steamer kept up since she came in sight of Inverary Castle, till she came into the harbour, was most thrilling. After landing they were marched up to the Castle, where they were met by Islay him self, who seemed to be well pleased with their appear ance. This fine body of men had taken their place opposite the grand entrance—the Duchess and the la dies in the Castle came out to the lawn, accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Argyle, and the Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz. The Duke of Cambridge walked along the line, bowing gracefully to the chieftains, and the whole corps, as the Islay men doffed their bonnets to his Royal Highness. Shortly after ten o'clock, the Islaymen were marched back to Inverary, where they were regaled by bread and beef, and a glass or two of their own moun tain dew. About one o'clock the Kintyre yeomanry, com manded by Mr. Stewart, of Glenbuckie, proceeded to Glen Shira, where they were to meet the Alarquis and Marchioness of Lorn, and about an hour after them the Islaymen were marched by a different route to a remote part of the road, between Cairndow and the Castle, where they were to welcome the young chief and his lovely bride ; after which they were to escort them to the ducal residence. About five o'clock p.m. the report of a gun from the Shearwater cutter, informed those in waiting at the Castle, that the cavalcade were approaching, and, in a few minutes thereafter, they were observed rounding the point opposite Inverary at a rapid pace; a few minutes longer, and the welcome huzzas and cheering of the Islaymen, although a considerable distance from the Castle, were heard as the party came in view. They then moved slowly along, the pipers playing the "Campbells are coming. In case of any accident occurring, the spectators were strictly charged not to cheer the party until the Mar quis and Marchioness alighted from the carriage, which was strictly observed. After they alighted they were vehemently cheered; after which they walked round the ranks bowing gracefully to the chieftains and their followers, and giving all an op portunity of seeing them. The Dukes of Cambridge and Mecklenburgh Strelitz, Duke and Duchess of Argyle, and Lady Emma Campbell were in waiting to receive the happy couple. The forty children belonging to the charity school supported by the Duchess of Argyle, and which is entirely under her Grace's charge, were in the lobby to receive the Marquis and Marchioness of Lorn. They were dressed in white muslin frocks, velvet bonnets trimmed with the Campbell tartan, tartan scarfs of the same clan, and had white satin rosettes on the left shoulder. When the Marchioness entered the lobby of the Castle, the children sung the 64th paraphrase. Immediately thereafter, they proceeded with Lady Lorn to her room, strewing the stairs and pathways with bouquets of flowers. A grand triumphal arch was erected over the north gate entrance to the Castle, which was beautifully illuminated in the evening with variegated lamps hung among the branches, and over the centre of the arch the device, " Failte mo, Cridhe," shone most conspicuously. Over the staircase entrance to the Castle was erected a beautiful and chaste avenue of evergreens, and round about it were also hung varie gated lamps in great profusion, and among the trees and shrubbery around the Castle, and along the walks, there were lamps blazing in all directions. The Castle windows were all illuminated, and the front of the Castle wall, over the evergreen avenue, was splendidly lighted up with elegant devices of lamps in every variety. Bonfires were lighted on all the mountains in the vicinity, which illumined the hills for miles around, and gave to the festive scene a splendour and effect that can hardly be described. "[he rejoicings are likely to be continued for several days during the week. A grand ball is to take place in the Castle on the 27th inst., to which a large num ber of the county gentlemen are invited to attend.— Glasgow Chronicle. STATE OF TRADE. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, SEPT. 27.—We have no alteration of moment to report in this branch of trade. Prices are firm and stationary. There have been rather more sales effected in some kinds of comb in wools. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, SEPT. 27.—We hare no material change to report in the Foreign Wool Trade this week. Sales have not been very extensive, many buyers being absent at the London wool sales, but prices remain firm. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, SEPT. 27.—There has been more doing this than for several preceding weeks in deep combing fleeces at previous rates, which has caused an increased degree of confidence in holders, that prices proportionate with those recently given to the growers will be established, and the trade firm. In short wools there is no variation, and no accumulation in the stock. DONCASTER WOOL MARKET.—We beg to remind our agricultural and manufacturing readers, that the last market for this season will be held on Saturday, Oct. 5. LEEDS.—There has been rather less business done this week at our Cloth Hall than for some time past. Prices are steady, and the stocks on hand are much less than is usually the case at this season. BRADFORD MARKET, THIIRSDAY.—The attendance of merchants is not numerous to-day, and, upon the whole, the Piece Market may be termed fiat. Manufacturers complain bitterly of the extreme low prices at which sales are effected. We are sorry to hear that many respectable houses are already curtailing their produc tion. We regret the necessity for so doing, not the fact itself, which may indeed be, most likely is, the wisest course to adopt. There is nothing new in yarns since our last publication. We cannot quote any improvement in wool; the demand continues of the same limited character as noted for several weeks past, and prices somewhat in favour of the buyer. There is scarcely so much activity for noils and brokes, but no alteration in prices. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had rather more doing in cloth this week, and prices more stead) , on all kinds except in printing fabrics, which, notwithstanding an extensive demand, continued to recede, though almost imperceptibly ;—for instance, the decline may be called 6d. per piece during the last six weeks. The low price of the staple, with a prospect of its continuance, is a favourable omen that such will be the case. The home trade is very brisk, so far as extensive sales can make it so. Our dyers were never more busy. From present appearances the ope ratives will succeed in obtaining a small advance of wages without a general strike. The sale of Yarns is still very large, but without any new feature as to value. —Leeds Mercury. We have heard that on the recent visit of a section of the Archaeological Association to Dover, the Duke of Wellington, as constable of Dover Castle, refused to al low the learned members admission to that ancient and interesting fortress, to make sketches or memoranda. The Duke has no sympathy with antiquarian or histo rical pursuits ; w i tness hi s rep l y on b eing remonstrate d with on the dangerous position of the National Records, placed over the ammunition in the Tower.—" He would take care that the gunpowder received no injury !" Kent Herald. FUNERAL RITES DENIED.—At St. Margaret's Church, Leicester, on Friday last, the officiating curate was about to inter a child of a carpenternamed Webster -when he asked by whom it had been baptised. He was told that it had not been baptised at all. He then refused to perform the service, virtually excommunicating the deceased ; and the interment was prevented by the sexton. The parents are respectable members of a Bap tist church in the town, the chapel belonging to which has no burying-ground. alone to confer a borough qualification, and he there fore summitted that the lessee was entitled to vote for the county. The REVISING BARRISTER said, if he understood the question rightly, the subject of the claim appeared to be a house split into several tenancies, all of them under 101. a year. Mr. Smith said this was so. attempt to murder, and refused bail when applica' tion was made to him. John. Locker, a well-known dog fancier, was charge d with having attempted to s t ea l a valuable little dog belonging to Mrs. Parsons, of Halfmoon-street. Mrs. Parsons said she was walking in Curzon' street about nine o'clock on Friday evening, when sb e , suddenly missed her do g ; s h e t ur n e d roun d, and be l the 'prisoner attempti ng t o cover it w ith a c l o th: B . l h called "Stop thief,' and the prisoner then ran off with the dog, but dropped the animal when pursued.. A person named Cadwallader Waddy said he I°4 lowed and overtook the prisoner. The prisoner, it appeared, had enticed the dog 11 .the well-known means of a piece of prepared liver: Lae Mr. MALTBY fined th e p r i soner 51., th e va l u e of r, dog, and 201. additi ona l ti ne , or s i x mont h s ' hard "' bour. The REVISING BARRISTER inquired whether the whole building, if let, would not be worth more than 101. a year ? Mr. Smith replied that it would. The REVISING BARRISTER said that under these circumstances he did not think that a county quali fication had been made out. It was clear that the building was worth more than 10/. a-year, and being within a borough, it clearly conferred a right to vote for that borough, and the fact of its being split into several tenements made no difference. Mr..Meymott said the 25th section of the Reform Act declared that "no personshouldbe entitled to vote in the election of a knight of the shire, in respect of any estate or interest in any house, warehouse, Bcc., if the same were of such value as would confer on him or any other person the right of voting for any city or borough, whether he or any other person shall or shall not have actually acquired the right to vote for such city or borough in respect thereof." The REVISING BARRISTER said he had no doubt upon the point. He thought the claim could not be sustained, and therefore the name would he expunged from the list. UNION -HALL. Thomas Parren and Jeremiah Gross, two draY o3e ; appeared on bail to ans.Aer the charge of causing death of. Mr. Scott. oft Mr. CO TTING HAM . , addressing the accused Pat -Al it h said that since the i nqu i r y th a t h a d t a k en place tst respect to Mr. Scott's death a t th a t cour t, an inqu hal been held on the budy of the deceased. and v er 3 diet of accidental d ea th re t urne d. Thi s w a s the reA l , which he (the magistrate) anticipated, and in , cll l r charging the accused, he seriously impressed oil minds the necessity, i n f u t ure , o f h av i ng 'some peke attending at th 9 hf-als of their horses while th themselves ‘s ere engaged in unloading their. -dr il l, Had that precaution. been adopted in the present L i eo stance, the life of a hu man b e i n would not have u e , he sacrificed, and they would n o t have been placed unpleasant position from which they had been 3 discharged. In the course of the day an aged man, in the , of a sailor, applied f o r a d v i ce un d er th ese cifou - o i stances :—The applicant stat e d th a t h e was a natif e teo Prussia, but had bee n fifty- one y ears i n Englancit,f. of which he had served this country on board a roan 7 war. He was now, in his old age, in great disc and considered that he had some c l a i ms for his se t y vices, although he w as allowed almost to perish:o street. ' of M C , ~tine When Mr. Fisa had gone through the Lambeth list, he addressed Mr. Clark, the vestry clerk, and complimented him ani the overseers upon the careful manner in which the lists had been prepared. The whole of the revision having been gone through, Mr. Meymott addressed the Revising Bar rister, and said that on his own behalf, and .he had no doubt Mr. Jeans would concur with him, he begged to tender his thanks for the courtesy they had experienced at the hands of the Revising Barrister, and the extremely► careful and efficient manner in which the several lists had been revised. The REVISING BARRISTER said he was very glad they had concluded their labouri ; and he thanked the agents on both sides for the assistance they had ren dered him, and which, he said, had rendered those labours comparatively light. The court then adjourned. X. NOTTINGHAM, who deplored the situate.- , the the old man, questioned him on the subject el, b e nature of his services, from which it appeared was wounded on board the Orion, line-of-battle ! fe w': in an engagement with the Spaniards off Alget,,i and that he also received another wound in the u t b e from a splinter while serving in the Montague,"ie.„ o , West Indies, and lastly that he was in the ever nler o i rable battle of Trafalgar. He added that he de, io no pension for his services, not being long enoOlsto. the navy to entitle him. He had waited on the Fr io sian Consul, who refused to send him to his ° rot country, saying that as he had fought and blgd England, they had a right to maintain him. ' oc- Mr. COTTINGHAM, who interested himself very • be in the fate of the old tar, advised a memorial . t°, to drawn up, setting forth hi s s e rvices, and addrestieci, the Lords of the Admiralty, w ith a view that hi:4°7 might be taken into con s ideratio n , and be granti'e jo g asylum in Greenwich Hospital for the few reraiind years of his life. The magistrate had the met l3° .,,a dispatched to the Admiralty, and it was ac comp•w t he by a note from him s elf, calling the attention 0f o f Secretary to the case. The applicant, with teer i ire j gratitude, thanked the magistrate, and he was c les 3 of to call in a few days to be informed of the res t ' the application on his behalf. • of Shortly before the termination of the busi nesg t he the day, two deputations of tradesmen waited on t w o magistrate to solicit his advice with respect t° io grievous nuisances, the (ne a lucifer manufactoifo, 0 :- . ent-street; and the then an exhibition ef. ti o f works, at a house situated in the populous vic h '2,t o f London-bridge, on the south side. At the io these places, there was carried on a brisk troutois lucifer matches, upwards of a dozen men and 4eo cl l being employed in the manufactory. The , 0 arising from the process of mikin the matcheslijos intolerable, and the manufactory itself; being rO tit to but a wooden erection, was exposed every 11 1 ° 131 , e 0 ife conflagration, in which case great and ex_,L s ect damage would ' accrue to the owners of the 11°.3, premises. With respect to the exhibition, .00 stated that a fellow with a big drum and a Pel' iro rc pipe was stationed at the door all day lo n g (•! At . eight in the morning until eleven o'clock at " e i c i' io that during the intervals he was not 61 3 0 4 100 gs beating away on the drum he was exerting his n ot, to the utmost limits of their power by bawlinfr, t he " Walk in, ladies and gentlemen, and behei-ch its astonishing works of natur." The result of °collect exhibition was, that it caused great crovvas _tee, 5 13 opposite, and who blo c ked the thorougi4 r ere was gave great facilities for picking pockets. to fro andv of scarcely a day passed that persons passing from the City were not robbed by th e ga thiever.sC infe OTTlNGH sting thAM, e sp ha ot. Mving listened to the cereP t he in each case, advised the applicants to in dic t parties at the ensuing sessions. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A host of poor fishermen appeared before Sir J. Key, to answer several informations laid against them by the City water-bailiffs, for fishing in the Thames lyitn illegal nets, thereby damaging the fisheries to a serious extent. -The justice-room was much crowded by dredgermen and others employed in the fish trade, the proceedings being of the greatest moment to this class of persons. The complaints were laid under a code of regulations passed by the Court of Aldermen as far back as 1785, for the better preservation of the young fish in the river, and which enacts that no net shall be dragged in the Thames for flounders above London-bridge less than 2i inches in the mesh, and not more than sixteen fathoms long. Mr. Rough, one of the bailiffs, in proving.the case against several of the offenders, stated that he caught most of them fishing at about midnight with the net produced, which, so far from being 24, the average was full If, the use of which must have seriously, de teriorated the fisheries, inasmuch as the nets drew the young fish. The defendants, in answer to the charges, positively denied that the nets were illegal, but admitted that they might now be found within the measurement, as the twine shrunk from its constant immersion in the water. They complained of some recent alterations which the Court of Aldermen had adopted in the fisheries, almost precluding their gaining a livelihood. Sir J. KEY—The nets I am bound to condemn, and I am sorry for you. The men then left the justice-room. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Abraham Myers was brought up for final examina tion, charged with having wilfully and maliciously stabbed John Clayard, livery-stable keeper, with in tent to murder him. The prisoner and the prosecutor were each pro vided with legal assistance. Mr. Clayard,' who was in court, with his arm in a sling, was called on to give evidence, and was accom modated with a seat in the witness-box. His state ment was as follows :—I am a livery-stable keeper, and keep the White Bear-yard, Lisle-street, Leicester square. On Tuesday last I was at the house of Mr. Banks, the Crown, in Cranbourne•passege, with some friends. About half-past six o'clock I was standing in front of the bar, when Myers came in. Some words ensued between us, but I forget what they were. Myers said to me that if I called him the same name which 1 had called him to a friend, he would punch my head. I called him the name, and he then struck me on the mouth. I got up, and blows ensued. I held him against the corner of the bar, and he tried to force my eye out with his thumb. He put his fingers into my mouth for that purpose. I told him if he did not take his fingers out of my mouth I would bite them. He persisted, and I believe I bit his fingers. We were parted, and I sat on a stool ; while sitting there he came up to me and we had another tussle. I told him to be quiet,.as I did not wish to hurt him. Myers went into the tap-room, but came out again almost immediately, and wanted me to fight, and he then kicked me. I did not kick him again, but I kicked his hat, and afterwards went into the parlour. In the parlour words ensued with Myers and some other persons in the parlour about his having kicked me. About half an hour after this, Myers came in to me and asked me' why I kicked his hat. I told him because he had kicked me in a brutal manner. Myers wished to force his conversation on me, but I told him to drop it, as we had already been a nuisance to the company. I got up and went to one end of the room, and Myers went to the other. Two persons came in and sat near Myers. Myers spoke to one of them, and said, " You are not going away just yet, give an eye to my coat," and then went out. In ten minutes or a quarter of an hour Myers returned, and sat down for a time in his chair. He then rose as if to light his cigar, and I said to Myers, don't let us have any animosity between us, shake hands. I held out my hand, and I forget whether I said, here's my heart with it, but I might have said so. Myers took hold of my right hand with his left, and put his right hand behind him, and scuffled with his coat pocket. He then suddenly made a blow at my breast, and he was about to repeat it, when I saw he had a knife in his hand. I rose up and seized the knife, and my thumb was cut across. This was done all in a breath, and Myers, when he made the blow, said, " You b—, I'll have your b— heart." I staggered, but did not fall ; and Myers stepped back and placed himself against the door, looking round th e room as if he wished to stick the knife into someb o dy else. Myers remained against the door about half a m i nu t e , and some per sons called out, " You v ill a i n , y ou have murdered the man." Every one in the room appeared afraid to approach Myers, on account of the large knife in his hand. Myers opened the door and ran out, and I did not see him again until I saw him in custody at the station-house, after I had got my wounds dressed. I had two wounds; one on the breast, and one on the hand. The hand was very much cut. Cross-examined—Myers commenced the quarrel, by saying, if I repeated the term which I had applied to him, when speaking to another person, he would punch my head. I did apply the term, but I forget the precise words. It was not, " You are a b— b--." In the scuffle I got the best. I did not use any language to Myers to warrant him in striking me. I did not abuse him or his house ; nor did I tell him that he had better hire a gig, to go in the coun try to fight it out. I told him that I was too much for him. I had been drinking that day, and so had Myers, but I did not think Myers was drunk. John Acton, waiter at the Grown, said Myers and Clayard had been quarrelling during the afternoon, and aftewards they went into the parlour. Heard a scream and ran into the parlour and saw Myers with a knife in his hand. Was about to seize Myers, but his master shook his head. Myers went out and dropped the knife in the passage, and then ran out of the house. Witness followed and seized Myers, and threw him down and held him till a police-constable same up. Cross-examined—Witness did' not hear any bad names applied by Clayard to Myers. Mr. Joseph Banks, the landlord of the Crown, was examined, and his evidence went to corroborate the statement made by Clayard. He was of opinion that Clayard tried to sooth Myers rather than to provoke him. Myers appeared to be inclined to quarrel with any one. The knife was produced. It was a butcher's knife used for cutting up the largest :cats. It was sur prising to think that any man attacked with such an instrument could have escaped with comparatively so little injury as the prosecutor. Mr. Thomas M'Queal, assistant to Mr. Morgan, surgeon, No. 71, St. Martin's-lane, said he dressed the prcsecutor's wounds. There was a wound on the left side of the chest, and a wound on the ball of the thumb • The wounds had evidently been inflicted with a knife or some sharp instrument. The wounds were not dangerous. Inspector Aggs, who took the charge, was asked as to the state of the prisoner when brought to the station-house ?—The inspector said Myers appeared to be drunk. MARRIAGES.—By an Act passed in the late sO l h u e l concerning bans arid marriages in certain district chutetd or chapels, various doubts which had arisen are rein ° de respecting the legality of such marriages, and it iit tt o r dared that in every case in which a district ha s bee the shall be assigned to any church or chapel u n_er th e Church-building Acts, it shall be determined bisbet Commissioners and the Bishop of the Diocese ol le 'g bans of matrimony shall be published and marriagelawo. lemnised in any church or chapel or not. The f u o liri in g clause has been framed to render mareiag? a ... 3 de which have already taken place, and provision is P: rro f for future- cases. Section 3—" ' And whereas by ID rot bans have been published, and divers marriages bate ci to been solemnised in chapels with districts aolg li e e ttea them under the provisions of the hereinbefore Act , , or some of them, but in which chapel ban sole' net be legally published, nor marriages by law S t oiog nised ; and it is expedient to remove difficulties 11,01 from the circumstances aforesaid touching the vrbitae of such marriages ; be it therefore enacted, la already published and Marriages :Already solemn oe: such chapels as aforesaid shall not hereafter betaiseo tioned on account of the said bans having bee n P u pe l s s or the said marriages solemnised in any such eitvioel aforesaid; and the minister or ministers who solne,soo the same shall not be liable to any ecclesiastical c „ fo r bi or to any other proceedings or penaltieS.whitta n ' s o s°' reason thereof, and the registers of all marriagess obalif lemnised as . aforesaid, or copies of such regisl c ace ° he. received in all courts of law and equity as evl such marriages respectively." HORRIBLE CRUELTY.—THE KNACKERS' •••• ' lll s tbe In the months of N. , vember and December, 1 84 og ee public mind was awakened by the v arious e X r a f made by " the National Animals' Friend Socie t Yr a ela horrible cruelties in the above dens of infamy' ; 81 1 1 0.ne rs should have thought it would have awakened the Ire in' of these charnel-houses to sajdit sen,e of the tor.tt ''bat Hided by them on that noble animal, " the hnrbe:-,f th ° such is not the case. Mr. May, w i t h the otficer,lol, an d Society, have continually kept a sharp eye on t ' h - ve rill have, during the week, succeeded in entering S e tb e the yards ; and the r, ports are truly horriblei,opir following declaration will show :—I went into bridg e .' ter's horse-slaughtering yards, Belle Isle, B a t thr, „ tol dt' in company with Childs. Theyaril was in a bo rrlu i ' i; t he tion—there were nineteen living horses petit tips shed, and twenty-one dead horses lying about the Y ci o ot just as they had died ; the man told us theY,bcal killed a horse for the last fortnight, as more ni e , ivef fi e and nightly than could be skinned. Those h"P` in all imaginable positions, just as they bad stregg d bee° the last agonies of death. A brickla3er oh° 1 1 I i ll ,: some days building a wall which formed' one en j o e `- yard, said it was enough to melt a heart of sect e see what the poor horses suffered.--LLEtanY tare ; W. CHILDS, Officer. --- - - - -------- - --- - --- BTRTIIS. 11- stree" On the 25th of September, in Greet Marlboroug ir the wife of the Rev. C. H. Gaye, of a daughter- ~,,c . , gg e r , On the 25th of September, at Upper Thurlow-Pl,;ghtt of ney-road, the lady of T. Ware, Esq., solicitor, of a 71,0 WO' On the 26th of. September, in Bedford-squ 3re ' Patrick Black,-M.D., of a son. ' • t, St. /313 ies .f ' • On the 26th of S9tember, in Bennett - stree t, del i ' -Mrs. Alexander Bridge, of a son. ~ oar fi On vo On the 27th of September, in York-street, v °- Mrs. H. G. Bohn, of a daughter. of MARRIED. Ber 4V. ha On the 18th of September, at the British . Einbatt-pr of t - Captain Henry Smith, R.N , C. 8., to Anna, dalig"'" ~ late Sylvester Costigin, Esq., of Dublin. i' G. 1, Rev. etr On the 26th of September, at Newark, t- e deal; Bussell, Vicar of Newark• upon-Trent, to Julia, el cie ' terHodgkinson, Esq., of the abov lace e p *Churcli' to On the 27th of September, at Marylebone &a ll Macfarren, Esq., of Berners-street, to Thalia, eldest of Heinrich Andrao, Esq., of the 15th Regiment. DIED. . e „ Q f _ .1 1;1 ; At his seat, Euston Hall, Suffolk, on the ; -- t - n h iereo tember, the Duke of Grafton, aged 84, deeply an u u- , limetted. Fortobeh4 On the 19th of September, at Brighton.,place, I va e a Captain Andrew Barclay, after a few days' illness, oar an years. His loss will be deeply felt, especially hY the P destitute in of the On the 21st of September, Joseph Taylor, Esc'', late sci'S Royal Exchange insurance-office, aged 82. Jam es D e On the 21st of September, at S ar um. Wilts, Esq., of Wheeler-place, Haverstock-hill. aged 7 lla' 9 Th jo be On the 22.1 of September, at Raywi ll, near lit" relict of Daniel Sykes, Esq. , On the 23d of September, at the Vicarage, inderbP l ' ill‘ Sw colnshire„ Mary, the wife of the Rev. W. J Clarke. Bu r n On the 25th of September, Ann, wif e of Ur. Jolla -‘' of Victoria-road, Kensington. Eliza betil' On the 26th of September, at South Lambeth, i wife of John Pittar, Esq. L EdW er° On the 26th of September, at Christ's Ho s pita- ce Heming Rice, of University College , O xford Mr `e On the 27th of September, Willia m, son of .I."'' se' Lev On of Norfolk-s, rand. y, e 2 the 26th of treet Septem St ber, Charles Graham Cleatb,-;cl' cond son of Captain Edward Cleathe r, of Higher Ara" near Manchester. r lien 0 0 111, On the 27th of Stntember, in the Strand. 13irs: A-- Stun, relict of the late Mr. Edward Houl,ton. , n. ' Of On the 27th of September, Edward Peppercorn, Ps''' grove, Rye-lane, Peckham. litnl' Tjeljrl , 1 On the 28th of September, at Chertsey, SurreY, a t Street, aged 50. T —_,_ ~ - - '1 „., o:it drinking _ day. ..• .., ~, ~ . 4,,,.,_ pr '; , -. , : , 1 , , , t 7 i8 , h7l ll, 7 13 7 y, a ,:.:1,1,7nR DO , .. T , , cl in ,. j:il Mr, IN.I.A.LTBI fully committed the prisoner for th o.i.indl, Lt, ..,.. . ~,,,,,, o: Lue bay , y, in the k ,,- 0 Middlesex, Monday, September 30, 1644. Mr. MALTBY asked Myers what he had to say? 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