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' .daY sc yor o' l ter . o 6 1 v" f r - gt ll 04 0 6 act, „ f oci ) se o P' — "ro 6.)° ' __pit- to, to ot E Dllt c ,V ll id, - 22 Pl' 10, 0 6 dal °y e f°'o" 'trifritce-rits tlie ( 18 :1 that - po gi st rly dr7 09 1 0 40 0 be e° of - exPe'l4ll2 rid ,word"" 00P'e ll i c e$ 1"1 01 th is 106'0 °' 2 this dreif to th e " of A,O erwe ib Ca l) oi l th e de,orPf ri f e of tfor t : ► ii ifr the vf -e 10 , 01 : O e v e s 1 f ( 1 11 e at)]* ° f , g hter o6 e oddles e " ic e, .00 pr ice, eY , W r oft" nue t Jaff e ' v icel od 89 ' T O, 11.11 1/ iddl e°e% ° ari t '' nn o q ,, a, 0 1 / 1* DO $O. 1 0. O ce 'ooli nt tile TUE GREAT SALE Ft .. : a , t the BRITANNIA TUBULAR BRIDGE is POSITIVELY i an i?..l I► to take place• on TUESDAY, the 19th day of November next, ,i man, following illvs „,:ellu. Directors of t h e CHESTER and HOLYHEAD RAILWAY , 4 1, '" E, lii,tructed Messrs. CHURTON to SELL by AUCTION, on 1 Th , Dity, the 19th day of Nov .;nbcr, 1850, and many following days, m f tA e tT l i vh i :) , le:, , f the PLANT, ROPES, lug and" ' I I 'ESSES, and other MACHINERY, used in the Float- C,APSTANS, CHAINS, HY- Erection of the BVITANNI A. 'I VIBES; comprising 120,000 100 tong of well-seasoned ' Pine ' iim . ber. in whole and half balks ; po l er n4 ofn large. Hemp and Manllla Ropes, nearly new; three E i ee4 . Ydraulic Presses; two twenty-horse power Steam En -001105 with force pumps and tubular boilers ; about 100 tons of ex „11,_lot Suspension Bridge ChM", in six feet links, suited for a bridge r 1•_ I t '' feet; tro handsomely -made Iron Pontoons, float nt^ ...landing stages ; eight large and powerful Capstans, out • • 1 size ; ai .„,.., 10 . , a large assortment of blocks and sheaves of unusual . designed fir ;!.""'e.,, tong of Chains and Cables ; t .vo large Fire E n g ines ' ,‘,,,i.h-ainch pumps, hose, and apparatus complete ; single and double ro . se. cr ths ; a number of Rowing Brats ; Workshops, Store- with o nls, and sundries ItinroClark Any further infJrm . ation may be obtained upon application to Ed , Esq., Britannia Bridge, Bangor; or Messrs. Chutton, _ Auctioneers Chester. Nat.—pry Catalogues are just puolished, and may c _ b s e had f e ler, tr•e upon application to Messrs. Churton, Auctioneers, lit - ~. stir descriptive ones will shortly be ready for distribution. Crl, October 28, 1850. ............__ HARTINGTON—DERHYSIIIIIE. To be SOLD . AUCTION ON, by Air. of b eri r '.. ll EAREY, at the Old Hall Inn, in Iluckston, in the county r Tw o 0,e,.1! EDNESDAY. tile 28111 day of November, I 00, at t in the Afternoon in One Lot, Y vahiable ESTATE, comer sing a great portion of Harting e"o"nsgh,tthrlY-five excellent farina, farmhouses. and outbnihhpgs, resp e ' e ' t j, " t ;l o f arable, meadow, and pasture land, in the ha. do of higliT 1 4 ali o , c te nants, with various cottages and gardens, and contain la th e r 3,285 acres or thereabouts. Also the right of fishery hier se4n,ler Dove tor nearly two miles in length, which in the sum lahratei " ar Thrds much amusement to persons resorting to the ce inn at Ilartin,to• 'ne Esta 1 • ' l * Withi n .; s tithe-free, and partly freehold and partly copyhold, „ ow me manor of llartington, and will afford a valuable invest ., " m ) a NMI r tim er aser„ M eantim e aPardeulars; will be given In a Suture paper, and in the to m r. „ny r Information may be obtained upon pplica, on . E thv "°hert CrCreswell, Ithtridge Hay, Wirksworth, Derbyshire , kousi ey Wollett Wilmot, Ilulme Waideld, Cheshire ; A . lessrs. Perby , Z r n Son, or Messrs. Simpson,and Simpson, solicitors, Lond on ' ;-'oe, to aars. Few and Co., 2, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, , 1 5 1 e 0 a . trs- C. and F. Clarke, 15, Chancery-lane, London. C4TROLIC LAW AND GENERAL LIFE 8, 41 V COPD ASSURANCE COMPANY, The pr, . 2 .* TRY-STREET, LEICESTER-SQUARE, LONDON. 14 4 of tWY R TEL ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Propriaed °Mee CoMpany took place on the 25th instant, at the Head rem r i ?be o'clock precisely. The following is extracted from ik r . :_bich is too lengthy for publication : ,_ 41 4 b u 'rg t he Past year no claims have arisen from deaths in England. logeth er ,7 n o 14 Ireland —one for 5001. and the other for 2001.—making 'no. Nut ty 4 /, which have been paid. This is far below the expected s ,""erel - t ' h an a,,.ls especial] favourable, when it is remembered how ' e „ r . "" e offices generally Y suffered from the epidemic of last wiee fh: f a t D7 1. ....".1 1 Te8 assured between the let of June, 1249, and ? reti e i; 1 7 6 14 , 90, was more than double the number issued in le• 3 Preceding. 'l '"e 12, were made for 13% Policies, amounting to 52,9631.25. 6d.: Aas rea), co by r n t r h r e is e in o g m l ,p o , 6 npy li ves were accepted for 45,1 . 251. 6s. -:j e l? Policies lapsed re resenting 6,048/., upon which 3201. 3s. Since I t iser iti , he not tmlene,ement ef in the c shape p of premiums. the sto f June last, -tich it l es 'were effected to the extent of 110,9721. Its 6d., pro 14nA°1101inn, *annual premiums 3,7321. I Is. 6d. Of these 54 la p sed, 550/ 16 6d , f which the annual premiums were ` 49l l. s l ' s; en ' i ng ' the yearly income on the Ist of June last equal to ht nee 1 lid ' Ilti,lB3], Meeting loans were applied for to the extent of 17,7001., T bcbl; llB ' PM. only was advanced. alit jo u eetors were also highly gratified to report that within the the e n r month, 1, bie cl 'NM . - Ley had considerably extended their bu Monsieur PEtu ha.ving appointed, as Head Agent in Fraece, lateA t a gentleman of high standing in Paris, distinguished for t h -u n. tialer);,,lnd Unity in patronaged in all ass7ance ma er . , j' e etirdi„ "le S anction and pof the Archbishop of Paris, til.,,Lan„al Archbishop of Lyons and Monseigneur Penns, Eveque i , u rshi' a s m ' boas already within the last three months effected a con , es b o th Jun of business, not only in Life Assurances, but in An tCqler m mrliediate and Deferred. to'nus r esolutions approving of the Report, and returVng Inas the Right Reverend Chairman Bishop Morris, the 1, ice- Y, Secretary, and Medicel Officers of tho establish nEltre g separated, highly gratified at its present results Prasfects, E GENERAL LIFE AND FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1637. dowered by Special Acts of Parliament. 62, Ring William-street, London. And 21, St. David-street, Edinburgh. Capital; One Million. • DIZECTOIO. Chas. Hindley, Esq., M P. Thomas Piper, Esq. Thos. B. Simpson, Esq. lion. C. P. Villiers, M.P. John Wilks, Esq. Edward Wilson, Esq. I3eorge Lutist Esq. ,; 11 ",'• Esq,. Alderman. Jo tie° Cope, Esq. "0111 i lzen, Esq. ~41,t1)11 Fletcher Esq. Richard Ile Wei., Esq. 48ePh Dawson, AUDITORS. I William Minter, jun., Esq., George Meek, Esq. Secretary—Thomas Price, LL.D. Actuy —David Oughton, E 4 (i. nital p, Sol cltor —Stephen Walters, Esq. , 5 5z..........2 1 niuras for the Assurance of 1001., payable at death. 2 1 . 5.‘ 2 - 15 7 3 6 0 2 7 8 In the LIFE DEPARTMENT. s t4 t l i l f:. o ll a ran aZ a di r a itg eff a e b c d ted d o n p n a d r i t n ic g ipa s t e i d n i g es a , nd for non sb -p o a rt rtic p i e. p r a i t o i d. n s g : la o ,_ Pellet" zr_.,: : : :: :::_gt.,lor :up th_fa:pretiaahnjbay,.:l"lta,7:ttti"tsitt .7 ir e t a s g: n es e o a t: , 6 . 5 , , .6 1. 0 o i .5 51: corre aslogr o la r T d e v e :o r : a s i s y_ t rni rrer t u in ,„ 'ea .„ I : ea :;: ll 4 tses 'n ie h : . : nlay Paid annually, half-yearly, or parterly, in a n the Participating scale immediately interested in :th°s Dolt s it:l n :i n t:7 : on satisfactory evidence being :e , c f u u t rt tU i a: o g ri n " as security not forfeited by duelling, suicide, R oo ; h e PIRE DEPARTMENT. . ping i n Z:eit'pli.rot:nittioroafiand t:s`c'ek-inde desc ripti o ns, , merchandise, snip A lif er . °f loot 1 0 °T , all d in° personal s n ured at mmsecurity,oderate r a tandes. a Li fe p lic .;uu(l/. advance d by the borrower. ' r eYors, ' c"anlission a ovr t ed be to eff S e o c l t ic e itors, Auctioneers, and Sur- ''' 24 LIFE ASSOCIATION. pr Orp ro , INSTITUTED 1806. SI, KING WILLIAM-STREET. a. This k , LALTDIUs STEPHEN HUNTER, Bart. vtie mciety Vies. FRANKS, Esq. Th Nt lNln s 1 . e ssentially one of Mutual Assurance, in which ca,: rat, or its Melzibers arc reduced after seven years. he r 9 Pnt ., refluction of the Premiums of the prese nt y ear w as The l) . 4ll . eavi ng less than one-third of the original Premium N Thi satoweti also Undertakes other descriptions of Assuranc e, in eo ' Z ed do not become Members , and ha vin g ceased to I;ery 1,,'4, tile p„ M isslon to Agents, the Society has been enabled to rate s fur this class of Assurances to the following Anneal rrsr urns f )r the Assuan, ice of £ 20 tB . d. 8 d A ge Xs i d 2. 2 5 1 137 r e 2 6 . 50 3° 117 0 — 4o ' 215 5 55 5 1 2 1 5 45 3 6 0 60 6 5 10 . Th e e 11- nic neS on the security of Policies in thil iiecretary. EDWARD DOCKET ‘, 4 41'a Pul :t;; ----- are authorised by the Deed . of Settlement r . , ‘ ,. Association. 4 _ - STREET, ST. JAIIES'S. 25th •f King G..orge suant to Act of Parliament of the A clti l t ed : Li, ROOMS, GREAT WINDMIL L (S 'ls L the Second. LAtr , e(5, Ch 1 Laurent, uare.) 1,1„. 14 3 „. 4 „ Q Int e J 9 nn ,. 57, BromPion-square.) 4aetpw to Di CELEBRATED AND UNRIVA P I ,r L i E , D iste a.ttael. rnet-a-Piston M. Boulcourt, from France. t r Ati in - i t°,.,1,1 traus"' Orchestra at the Baths of Vichy, `eClist ,•Tallt and popular resort of fa'bion is ...41stlf that ''' ' 3 Y ACT of PARLIAMENT, an d B A A. N rt l3 ' 1 ,V , ill I, ed. in addition tO *dancing' at Drodu e CONV.EItTS now duly '4lblistnenttl°_thing shall be wanting o t it has nd supPof erte ~ worthy the di stinguished patronage a . a continuance hithoB, _aten 119-nlot/red vvith, and respectfully solicits b e ... f vour,, , th: very eveninn I T ti li s e p n a e r w t t l o es r s e e n e .11 op en ~._ ,1Y ever behis eh it in d p er led t g h e is s ear. lialvtvin, preei g se a l i y i l a l A f - d p i r i t s, E lo i n gh o t— ne D; i n il c l i l n i g g t . o cmmence articulars of the Concerts will shortly aPP riPPIR D ---------------------. -._. A, S T looted t AND THE WE ST. kents to ti *tekB " t • A IOSE they circumstance than the. .the entire S and SON having for the last t f is e u w . t o, e. le IN ts T.E ,... i.n or p th e greater portion of their adver teethi unit been given ea_ e a hew opening Propriet of making Y which has b AANII, must not be attributed to any a special announce opf,ohrtpublleity whi c h i t , iei ;a of the s uccess attendant thereupon. t e l 'etli4 the L '‘v °Perlin,' been afforded the public of observing and ll eXlo n ° ,,, g .t° a consider'a't'are Such to this speculation, and h as to warrant the proprietors ii . Th ' ll b llle distinguished ore of the parent establishment, in con ho n _a Eaßt, and thel, branch house in new Oxford-street. N est h. pi,,_ 9.11.4113. ell e , have d isplayedproofs of public appreba- Zareh , in th tragin g. The Bran , t facing aidgate ' l4b ech e el tY, and the nt Establishmen t ~,, . c hi h as nearly tIZDort g ta bl o t o h rrisba ry cho.e.,alikeahvEesti bl is h m receiveden , extraordinary e ati 'v e est tad havee Palle. r ° The immense numbers of purchasers at It ; l e d - not br.,,,,, --" augrnented by a decrease in those of the and geovl d !l ot be el slie r s _ , , x e ___ ._. eParting from the truth to say that E. ell ro aat, n), n aa ...71 oxford-street speculation, besides succeeding so as te Itueiteiad'4tl,_aected as an auxiliary or tributary sttree a righ t t Pres, enuleh ninneereiroPrietors' projects. .Nor w ouldib to sup -41111 d ,7 , 1 1 ackn„; (l au g lr eo rt t ers of the City establishmen t t enc 4 e lae u ll ahle s . u t ee cas le easily accounted for. The same advantages 41 ,..,.. 3 er a t0ii......_ g_3lle house as are attainable at the other . _ Thlosewdaisy ehZ,_the fait seefirating the parent house from the west, in i quality, Th P e ll ; , , , s, asd ge l o n .. " Iwo depots being, in P rl t n o e r n f t a . ' 1. . w e 1 h %1 , n, ti e te ° B e n o ltio n af'Thiai s uperiority, o u ne th e e st p a u b rt is ef the p üblic is appa lm„„„° 1i... tdosg,' 'ville h l' has n ca a l c led o forth the present noti t ce a , caknhdofwor tie L'u,ent s ,..) , return once more their bes "'l rn l I --e a, ' endeavours to please shall . Ca uti arlifem at ti -811 rance that their rtal ..°,4,--F. 5/n„Le,ast as at the West. ' 4- "Positi ''''''''s and SON regret having to guard Use public % * X I Of he 'On ; but havin heard that the untradesmanlike false be4rellortel t o with them, or it is the same concern, h has or _ostat,o in Many instances, and for obvious reasoris, t o e u y If e °lld on, e,.."eY have no connexion with any other house, in or t Quitroo.ce their branch establishments, 506, 507, and 08. nt , , endsnd 1,2, and 3, Hart-street, (fou ming one esta,b gs, ~,, est ); ...,.., an Fargate, Sheffield ; and 19, Thornton . s arap anPlidge.street, isradford, Yorkshire; and those who desire 17.111orka 'gel‘yline clothing, &c., should call at or send to the "4,eh establi idgate, opposite the Church, City, London ; or at the 1..,c .11.0,,,„. shments, as above. rlierg p'' and SON, Tailors, I Voollendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters, th _, 155 , is r 6 rlers, Boot and Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters, 14 Fhe roh, CT., toinuedries., and 83, 84, 85, 86, Aldgate, opposite ilhe ' 2, 3, Hart-'str en 507, and 508, New Oxford-stree ,l' meld and 1, eet (forming one eatablishment) ; 36, Fargate, orkshire. J, Thornton's-buildings, Bridge-street, Bradford, bh . 1 i iial4‘.'/ItERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES O F YOUTH ATITRITY.—IVITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON lilt published., and may be had la French 41 ivelope, 2s. 6d., or English, in a Sealed or post-free, fr SELFthumps, . om the Author, for forty-two -PB,EsEnv.A. Medical Treatise on the Physi loy, TIO N ; a L I % Secret Infirmities and Disorders° u t Marriage, and on .se.,, Of Tu uth and li t ~ - , Y acquired at an early p. r i od of life 'phi maturity, 4,l)hysleal nnd mental powers, diminish aad eiafe bl eh debilitate tb,.. u ' l uge, and exhaust the vital energies of Manh ! e the natural le,nrvations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility' .. with Practical traether arising from these causes, close study, er the Nlige".ln' lit°ripleal climates: Local and Constitutional weekoemn tAence of tr es ?tnre, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting freiairlii:: . 1 / 4 ;° 1 1. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating India. akDIV,OII, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organ: litio t T a lug their stracturos, uses, and fluntions, and the various' Ins ea that are produced in them by solitary habits -.0 44. . eXcesses, and BY SAMUEL LA'MEIIT, 51. D„ . b 37 BE DFORD -SQUARE, LONDON. oct„. , h„,,‘,of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Edin. oilig,,a, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member Tyd'r London Hospital Medical Society, Ike. 4 4 ,.... work contains as accurate and complete account of the tq'othi and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs. It un htte(l.44telY baPPens that the unhappy victim of excessive indul- NoLand vicious habits, while suffering from their invariable con elahues, unwisely entertains a fear of applying to a qualified physi he;'netor relief. Shame and the dread so frequently, but erro ert, aik entertained that these complaints are beyond the reach of alo ne -Lite restrict him and prevent his seeking (or assistance where !aedie att e l an he procured. Dr. LA'3IERT has taken the highest Plliktic,. :moans, as his diplomas to and the great extent of his elic e, .„:,_, L er Many years is a guarantee for his professional expert s, has reference almost solely to the treatment of these 11, Public , . Pat " 4 bY the Author; and may bo had of J. Gilbert, *Net, Waster-row ; Heaney, 63, Oxford-street; Stacie, Tichhorne .atri,elmarlset Main, 39, Cornhill ; Gordon, 146, Leaden la L it i a t,„,_ , Londe ; or. free by post for torty-two stamps, fr om 74'4 $ It eiddence. 17, sixuard-square Louden. ••• • It • • , , . 4 ) • R C' I T . 41,› t 5.. 4 .M0 4141 ‘, 1 14 :1 -4 ), • CI. ikt- 4111111 1 114 ' . 2 -* The Tathani, 1 it , • %'• `.= .?tt, _ a r( 4 +NI - • 40 4 % • rts+ . 4' • l e • , 411110%. n? -41, 4;;; . , DI•• A•r • • 0 • • - • ;-.46*....* ~~ -~- -~ ~' 'set - , 6, steam-slopre‘nmander Edward ~ left Woolwich on Thursday for Graenhitbe, eenhitho :yesterday morning for Portsmouth ,uth Am•nica. Hecate, 6, steam-,. loop, Commander Hand, arrived at Devonport on Thursday afternoon from Ports mouth, Maneauvrer lighter, Mr. Ross, master arrived at Woolwich on Thursday for Portsmouth. ' Pluto, steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Jol- liffe, from the Coast of Africa, arrived off Porte mouth yesterday evening coming up through the Needles she made her number, and passed on to Woolwich. Portland, 50, Captain Chads, with the flag of Rear- Admiral Moresby, C. 8., waa paid advance at Devon port on Thursday, by Mr. Henderson. She is reported to sail on Monday for the Pacific. Retribution, steam-frigate,was taken into the steam basin yesterday, and will go into the steam-basin dock this day, when the Odin comes out. Rochester lighter, Mr. Sudweeks master, has arrived at Woolwich from Gibraltar. PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—Her Majesty and the Court left Osborne this morning at 10 22, and em barked in the Fairy royal steam-yacht, Maeter• Commander Welch (Lord Adolphus Fitaclarence, commanding in chief), for Gosport. On passing through Spithead the royal yacht rounded the Turkish ships, which were dressed in colours, and had their yards manned. The frigate had her men arranged along the bowsprit and bulwarks, es well as on the yards, and fired a salute in very smart style, as did the brig'. The usual salutes from the ships in har bour, - Etc., were fired. On landing at the Clarence yard her Majesty was received by Admiral the Hon. Sir Bladen Cepel, K C. 8., the Commander.in-Chief ; Rear-Admiral Superintendent Prescott, C.B. ; Colo nel Lewis, C. 8., commanding Royal Engineers, acting lieutenant-governor; Captain Sir Edward Parry, and the officers of the Clarence-yard, and a guard of - honour of the 50th Regiment, commanded by Major Tudor. At ten minutes to eleven the royal train, in charge of Mr. Stovin, the manager, and kr. Beattie, the superintendent of the locomotive and carriage departments, of the South-Western Railway, atarted for Windsor. _ _ The Wasp crew steam-sloop, Commander Crozier, sailed this morning for Plymouth, to ship the mails for the coast of Africa. She saluted the royal stan dard on passing Osborne. APPOINTMENTS. _______ Woo'Arica, Nov. I.—Commander JOhn J. E. E. Frere (1846), to commission the Bellerophon, 78, at Plymouth, for Captain the Right Hon. Lord George Paulet (1833). The Bellerophon was paid off stand ing on her return from the Mediterranean station, where she served during the last three years under the command of Captain Robert L. Baynes, C.B. (1828). Mates—A. G. Broadhead (1849), from the Fox, 42, on the East Indies station, and Thomas B. Suli van (1849), to the Bellerophon. Assistant-Surgeon Ralph T. Tector (1850), to the Geyser steam-vessel, for the Brazils. Second-Master Tom B. Read (1848), from the Saturn, at Pembroke, to the Bellerophon. Master's-Assistant W. R. Cronin, to the Bellero phon. Clerks James R. BenifM d (1849) and James S. Daniell (1850), to the Bet terophon. Clerk's Assistant R. C. Beale, to the Impregnable, flag-ship at Devonport. The Buzzard steam sloop will be ready about the end of next week at this port, and will be taken round to Devonport, to be kept in readiness as an advanced war steamer or for commission. CHATHAM, Nov. I.—The Rattlesnake surveying. vessel, Lieutenant Yule acting commander, came into Sheerness yesterday, and she arrives this day at Chat ham to be paid off. The Tiger steam-ship, in dock, is getting her sea stores on board. She is completed in all her fittings and rigging. She goes out of dock next week, and then she will be navigated to Devonport to be ready as an advanced ship. The Rochester naval lighter has arrived with stores from Portsmouth, and the Goodwill naval liglfsr sailed for Deptford and Woolwich yards with stores. SHIP NEWS. CASUALTIES. Ann and Sarah, Tate, which sailed hence, Oct. 17, for Falmouth, put back the following morning leaky. Alex. andria, Oct. 21. Columbia, Ramsey, which arrived here on the 7th, received some damage on her passage, in consequence of a portion of her coal having ignited, but having been surveyed has been declared fit to proceed. N. B. The Columbia sailed for Moulmein on Sept. 28. Aden, Sept. 24. Edina, Mears, of Exeter, from Liverpool for Genoa, experienced a tremendous gale on Saturday last, the 26th, when 250 miles S.W. of Scilly, which threw her on her bi,, , tm-ends, when the crew were obliged to cut away both masts. She was towed by a trawl sloop into Plymouth this rnorning.—Plymouth, Oct. 31. Nautilus, of London, has been stranded on north side of Sierra Leone, and afterwards condemned and sold, tier crew has arrived at Plymouth by her Majesty's steamer Pinto. WRECK OFF DUNGENESS.—Notico is given. that a green buoy, marked with the word '• Wreck," has been placed 40 fathoms east uf a vessel sunk off Dungeness. The buoy lies in six feet at low water spring tider, with the following compats bearings', viz.—llungeness.Light House, S.W. S.; First Battery, W.; Second Battery, N. by W.; Roar Spit Buoy, E. by S. S. VESSELS SPOKEN Wm'. Abberton (barque). of London, from Pl)mouth for Port Adelaide, Sept. 8, lat. 28.14 S., lon. 27. 8 W. Aurora (schooner), of Jersky, for Gasp, Sept. 25, St. Paul's, N.W., N., so mile . Amazon, Oct. 26, lat. 48, 100. 16, with loss of bulwarks, jibboom, &c. Alexander, from Liverpool for Acapulco, June 26, lat. 10 N., lon. 21 W. Atlantic (American ship), of Now London, Oct. 27, Ist. 48.37 N., lon. 7.35 W. Ann Bedwin, two days from Cape de Verdes, Oct. 5, lat. 14.50 N., lon. 26.30. Argentino, for Bahia, Sept. 15, lat. 9.7 N., lon, 24.31 W. Alceste, of Glasgow, Sept. 30, lat. 46 N., lon. 58 W. Barbara Gordon, out 84 days from Liverpool, Aug. 6, lat. 36 S., lon. 1 E. Cockerel' (barque), from Sunderland, Oct. 25,15 t. 48 N., lon. 10 W. emetic (barque), Rogers. from Liverpool for Charles town, 12 days out, lat. 35.55 N., lon. 22.24 W. Catherine Jamieson, from Sydney for London, Sept. 26, lat. 12 N., lon. 26 W. C. T. Sutton, for Gaspe, Oct. 5, lat. 48, lon. 42. Dublin (American ship), from Liverpool for Mobile, Oct. 20, lat. 47.34 N., lon. 9.35 W. Evangelist, from Fleetwood for Mazatlan, Oct. 1, Ist. 14 N., fon. 26 W. Grasmere, Sept. 24, lat. 10 N., loa. 19 W. Grecian (brig), from London for Port Adelaide, Aug. 22, lat. 23.30 S., len. 25.20 W. Harriet Augusta, Robinson, from Mobile for Liverpool, Oct. 2, lat. 34, lon. 79. Ireland (barque), Sept. 29, off Bird Island. Judith (barque), from Rio Janeiro, for London, Sept. 28, lat. 12 S., lon. 29 W. Kate (barque), from Cardiff 19 days for Cadiz, Oct. 15, Ist. 37.30 N., lon. 10 W. London, from Liverpool, Sept. 18, lat. 6 N., lon. 19 W., having been dismasted in lat. 19 N. Lady Eleanore (brig), from Newport for Cape de Verdes, Oct. 26, lat. 47 N., lon., 11 W. Margaret Gibson, Robinson. 24 days from Liverpool for Guatemala, in lon. 22.29 W. Magnet (barque), from Greenock for Patagonia, Oct. 15, lat. 23.23 N., lon. 25.55 W. Mary Ann (barque), from Leith for New York, Oot. 5, lat. 34, lon. 64. Minerva, from Troon for Valparaiso, lat. 15 N., lon. 25 W. Orleans (ship), from Liverpool for Bombay, Sept. 21, 21 days out, lat 13.36, lon. 24.53 W. Orion, from Caernarvon for Miramichi, Sept. 22, 1at.46, lon. 57. Panic (barque), of Liverpool, 100 days from China for Cork, Sept. 14, lat. 21.24 S., lon. 1.51 E. Queen of the South, of Salcombe, Oct. 25, lat. 46.45 N., - lon. 9.50 W. Robin Gray, lat. 47 N., lon. 12 W. Superior (barque), and brig Dundee, of Dundee, Sept. 29, lat. 24.10 N., lon. 35.20 W.' Salsette (ship), London, 30 days, Sept. 2s, lat. 10 30 N., lon. 26.21 W. 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Lecture on the Ballad Music of England, by Mr. George Bar ker, with illustrations from the most popular Composers every Even ing (except Saturday) at Eight e'clock.—Lecture on the Hydro- Electric Machine, by Dr. Bachhoffner.—Lecture on Chemistry by J. H. Pepper, Esq., illustrating the Ancient Fiery Ordeal and the Hand ling of Red Hot Metals.—Model of Weston's Patent Nova-Motive Railway, at work daily.—Dissolving Views illustrating some of the Wonders of Nature, daily at Half-past Four, and in the Evenings at a Quarter to Ten; also a Series, exhibiting Scenes in the Arctic' Regions and Ceylon, daily at One e'clock.—Diver and Diving-bell, &c., &c. Admission, Is.—Schools, Half-price. Open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock, and every Evening (ex cept Saturday) from Seven till Half•past Ten. SECULAR EDUCATION. On Thursday evening a meeting of the friends of the National Public School Association was held in the Corn-Exchange, Manchester—Otnissionbyticket. The building was fitted. Mott of the 'aeligates who attended the conference were on the platform. Mr. E. Hickson, of Wrothain, Kent, took the. chair. The CHAIRMAN observed that the meeting was assembled in a cause connected with the highest in terests of humanity—the cause of mind struggling to emancipate itself from the bondage of ignorance, vice, and defective institutions—the cause of mental and moral progress. It was gratifying to him to know that it was to the men of Lancashire they were in debted for the opportunity of uniting in another com bined effort for the common good of their common country. When he reflected on what had been achieved by this great manufacturing district in be half of commercial freedom and the diminution of pauperism, which was now beginning to be sensibly felt in the agricultural districts, a summons to join them in another great national movement, of which the men of Lancashire had put themselves at the head, sounded as a signal, not only of battle, hut of victory. The signal had been heard in the most distant parts of the kingdom, and it had brought the present meeting together. True they had not the great and noble of the land with them now, but when victory should crown their efforts the presence of the aristocracy would not be wanting to complete the triumph. The men of Lanca• shire had taught the democracy a lesson, not ho trusted to be soon forgotten—namely, that where an up-hill battle was to be fought the people must trust to their own exertions only. Be did not despair of seeing a Cabinet Minister, or even the Premier, taking the chair at some such meeting as the present, for the promotion of secular education on the broadest basis, and prepared to declare that he would no longer fol low a timid policy, or attempt the amalgamation of irreconcilable interests, but would make the question of national education a Cabinet question, and stake the existence of his Administration on it. The prin ciple on which the supporters of this movement took their stand was the right of private judgment in matters of religion—the principle on which the Pro testant Church in this country was founded. Why should any Protestant divine of the nineteenth cen tury hesitate to proclaim the truth which was preached in the sixteenth century—that, of all the influences that could be brought to bear on the minds of the young, the most fatal to religious progress, the most disastrous to civil liberty,' was the doctrine of the in falibility of one man or set of men claiming to be in terpreters of God's will or of God's word ? If he were asked on what ground they meant to build their system of national education, his reply would be— on the foundation of the old Protestant right of pri vate judgment in matters of religion, and on the old Saxon right of responsible local self-government. The speaker then proceeded to review the educational question during the last half-century, in the course of which he was occasionally interrupted by ex pressions of impatience which finally induced him to sit down. Mr. M‘Kistaow said it must be distinctly under stood that this was a meeting of the friends of secu lar education only, and therefore it would be unfair and unmanly in any person opposed to that kind of education to interrupt their proceedings. The question could not of course be settled without dis cussion, but the present was not the occasion for it. He then stated that subscriptions in support of the society had been received as follow :—From Mr. Mark Phillips, 1001.; from Mr. Henry, M.P., 1001.; from Mr. Richard Gardner, of Malvern, 501.; and from Mr. W. Brown, M.P., 501. The Rev. J. A. BAINEs (Independent) moved the first resolution : " That the existing educational provision in this coun try is very defective, both in amount and quality, and demands the serious attention of every friend of moral progress." The resolution was seconded by the Rev. J. BATTEY, of Huddersfield. Mr. J. AIKEN, of Liverpool, in supporting the resolution, contended that the education provided for children in England was both insufficient in quantity and defective in quality. That secular education was not antagonistic to religion was demonstrated by the fact that the people in New England, in the United States, where the education was the same as that which the National Public School Society proposed to give, were remarkable for the fervour of their reli gious feelings. The resolution wa►s then put and carried. The Rev. Dr. DAVIDSON (Independent) moved the next resolution : " That any system of public schools, to be generally acceptable to the people of this country, must be confined to secular instruction." He declared his approbation of that rule of the society which provided that only extracts from, and not the whole, of the Scriptures should be read in their schools. If the whole Scriptures were to be introduced into the schools the Roman Catholics would be excluded from them. Did those:who wished the whole of the Scrip tures to be introduced into the schools mean that the children should read the whole of them, or only parts ? If the latter, it was, after all, the plan of the National Public School Society. If, however, it were meant that children should read the Scriptures through, he begged to ask whether the scholars would understand the Revelation, or interpret some of the prophecies of the Old Testament ? That was what few school masters, and he feared he might add some of the clergy, could not do. He called upon the people to sup port the scheme now proposed for their advantage, an to disregard the ecclesiastical thunders which would be directed against it. The Rev. W. F. WALKER of Oldham (Church of England), in seconding the resolution, suggested that much opposition would be obviated by using the phrase secular "instruction," instead of secular " education," because, correctly speaking, education included re ligious instruction, and in that sense an influential Member of the House of Commons (Lord J. Russell) was right in stating, last session, that secular educa tion was opposed to the genius and habits of the people of England. Mr. COBDEN, M.P., on rising to address the meet ing was received with prolonged acclamation. He said, Mr. Chairman, ladies, and gentlemen, the very first occasion on which I had the honour of address ing a Manchester audience, was upon a question con nected with this. It was at the foundation of the Man chester Athenaeum. That was in the year 1835, and for more than two years after that I think the only question on which I appeared before a Manchester audience, was in connexion with national education. I well remember as long as 15 years ago, meeting Mr. Walker at the York Hotel, in the effort, at that time not very successful, to form a society for the promotion of general education. Now, I men tion these facts, not with the view of showing my own inconsistency in being here now ; that's of very little consequence ; but I wish to draw your attention to the fact, that at the time I am speaking of I had the pleasure of uniting with many gentlemen who en tertained similar political sentiments with myself', who are not now in the ranks of national education- alists themselves, butare,Tam afraid, on this ques tion to be ranked among our opponents.—(Hear.) Now, I want to call our good friends back to their original opinion.—(Hear, hear.) how is it that these gentlemen, the great champions of civil and religious liberty, are not now the ad vocates of an institution for the preservation of those principles which they have so much at heart ? How is it that they are not joining with us to advocate the enlightenment of the people upon which alone the civil and religious liberties of the people can rest ?—(llear, hear.) We had a long period, from 1838 down to 1846, in which our edu cational efforts were suspended, and we were battling for a que stion nearer even and d ea r e r to humanity than mental aliment,—l mean the necessity for obtain ing our daily bread. During that time, for seven years the question of national education was almost forgotten, suspended, in Manchester; but during that time circumstances occurred which tended greatly to alienate the dissenting body (for to them I allude) from this question.—(Cheers.) First came the notorious and consequently more prominent fact that a large amount, by far the largest amount, of money voted annually by Parliament for the purposes of education flowed, not to the dissenting body, but to the Church establishment alone, which ultimately led to the effect that tended tO alienate the dissecting body from a system of national education.—(Cheers.) Then came the proposal of Sir James Giaham's plan of education, which raised the antagonism of the whole dissenting body throughout the country. And I think in an evil moment, in a moment that must be recollected by the dissenting body as a moment of ex citement and of frenzy, which of themselVes are sufficient to account for and to atone for the error they committed, in a moment of excitement founded upon the causes to which I have alluded, the dissenting b o dy at large—a large and most influential portion of them--declared their hostility to the very principle of an organised system of public education.—(Cheers.) But their declaration, arising out of disc on t ent w i t h Si r J a mes Graham's Bill, or with the tendency of the present votes of Parliament, of applying the grants almost exclusively to the Established Church, was nothing whatever to do with the proposal we now submit to the country. Here is a plan, on a principle emana ting from the society of which we form a part here to-night, intended for the very p ur p ose o f re li ev i ng the Dissenters from the dilemma, and removing from them the injustice under which they suffer; and we have the fullest conviction, and entertain uo doubt whatever, that when our friends hav e ,th e opportunity coolly and dispassionateiy to consider the question now submitted to them, they will as a body unitedly , join our ranks in the advocacy of this system of edu cation.—(Hear, hear.) For what is it we propose to do ? We do not propose to interfere with their religi ous teachings, the fundamental principle of Dissent being to repudiate State aid for religions teaching. We do not propose to introduce religious teaching into our schools. As religious communions, there fore, they cannot appear as our opponents ; as indivi duals they may, as other individual may; but I w ill say, that as • religious bodies, neither Baptists, nor In dependents, nor Wealeyans,. nor any other sect o f the religious world, have any right to come b e f ore us to object, on religious ground, that we are doing th a t which is inimical to their prineiples.—(Hear, hear.) I wish to draw a distinction between the rights of the Dissenters to oppose us as individuals, and th e i r right upon any ground of common sense to attempt t o array themselves as a religious body, against the pre sent plan of this association. But some of th em come forward and say, we are violating principles of poli tical economy, by allowing a public rate to be rai se d for education at all. But again I say, it is perfectly competent for an individual member of the B a pti sts or Independents, or any other communion, to object to our plan of public provision for education on poli tico-economical grounds ; but what right, as a body, has any religionist connexion to come before you and raise a politico-economical argument? I will reason with them, if they like, from Adam Smith, I will take from them any argument as philosoph ers , but What right have they to come with the Bible in their hands to oppose me on polico-economical grounds P—(Cheers.) But, sir, one word only on the plan upon which we propose to proceed. Th e gen tleman who, as he riAhtly says, with so much moral courage, has just now been addressing us, on my right, has made a remark in which I think we cannot altogether concur, when he states that the plan is one which excludes the Bible from the schools.— (Cheers.) Now, what I understand by the plan of this association is this, that it is one which does not compel the scholars to read the Bible, if contrary to their con scientious convictions, or that of their parents, but I am not a party to the exclusion of the whole Bible from any school where the local board can unite in introducing it. For instance, one-half of our parishes in the United Kingdom, and a great deal more, are small rural parishes containing a few hundreds of in habitants—in many cases with only a parish church, where there is not a single Dissenter. I don't under stand this to be a plan which will prevent a commu nity like this, where all are agreed, from having the whole Bible introduced introduced into their schools. What we do say is this : we will not compel the reading of the Bible, when that shall have the effect probably of deterring Roman Catholics and others from sending their children to the schools. Well, the objection that is raised to this plan is, that is an irre ligious plan, because we do not undertake to give re ligious training. This is the great obstacle which you have to contend with, a cry raisel on very flimsy grounds and pretences, that you are aiming to estab lish an irreligious system of education ; and I have no hesitation in saying that our opponents are wise in taking that ground, for such is the tendency in the mind of this people, that no change has been accom plished in this country of which it could be alleged that it was opposed to religion ; and few great reforms have been accomplished in this country, in which religious principles have not been very largely called into operation to effect them. But what do we propose to do ? Are we going to open boarding-schools to take children away from their parents ? I thought in this country we recognised the right of parents to train up th e i r c hild ren. D o we propose to put them in boardin g - sc h oo l s ? Wh y outbreak?aalglainthstisufsuorfiobuesingirreligious ? Why h e t y h this p s a e c a c r u t s o a ti o n as sume that we propose a plan under which we intend to take away from parents their children at a tender age, to remove them from their influence, and counsel, and example. We talk not even of Sunday schools. We talk of a plan by which we propose, for six or eight hours for five days in the week--for I dare say you will have a half holiday on the Saturday—a plan by which you intend to give to the children of this country, for five days in each week, five or six, or eight hours of instruction in secular affairs, leaving them on the Sunday to the pastor of their communion —leaving them the whole evening, night, and morn ing in the hands of their parents. And yet the at tempt is made, and wisely made, for it is the only chance which our opponents have of obstructing our movement—(Loud cheers)—the attempt is made to show that the tendency of this system must be to give an irreligious education. But I have said it before, and I say it now—for you must repeat your argu ments till you find them coming back to you from your very enemies—l have said it before, the first time I had the honour of addressing the association in this town, we pay eight millions a year at least to the teachers of religion--twice as much, I will ven ture to say, as is paid in any Christian country on the face of the earth; and we don't propose to take away one shilling from these teachers of Christianity we tell them, though they have not taught the people to read, write, or spell, or know even the geography of their neighbouring parish---(Hear, hear). —we tell them they are ignorant of grammar, they are igno rant of the commonest duties of social life ; we propose to give them some instruction in those ne cessary matters; and yet these parties, the parties to the system in which eight millions per annum are expended for religious trai n i ng , these parties have the effrontery to come forward and tell us we are going to give the people an irreligious education.— (Cheers.) Fling that in their teeth wherever you meet the opposite side.—(Cheers and l a ughter.) Tell them about it in the logical way that my friend Dr. Bacon did, as you will hear by and b y e ; and I wish I was permitted to say more, but I know it would not be agreeable to him—but the circumstances of his departure from his own congregation, and the high esteem in which he is held will be enough to convince you of the truth of what he says; but Dr. Bacon yesterday put it in this form, and flung it at the head of these dishonest, or else these ignorant people.—(Laughter.) But (he said) I never under stood that this munificent endowment was to be viewed in the light of a school fund ; if it be, th en i t seems to me to be very much misapplied, and I would advise you to look to it."—(Cheers and laughter.) Now, we do not propose to interfere with the reli gious instruction of the p e ople, or to take one farthin g from the stipends of the religious teachers; but we tell them, if it be their duty to educate the people, they have grossly neglected their duty. And even if they assume that duty, we do not even propose to punish them in the way we might, I think, very logi cally have a right to do, by taking some of their sti pends from them to do that which they profess them selves bound to do, but which they do not do, but to raise by a local rate, upon the property .of this country, extra money in order to do that which they them selves have failed to do.—(Hear, hear.) I am glad h we have got to support us h e re a gentleman from th e United States. I have often thought that the best way of reasoning this matter would be to identify ourselves with the New England system of education, and to say, " That is what we want ; we want that for Old England, which, for centuries has been a bles sing to New England."—(Cheers.) I say, if you are afraid of the consequences, let us see the effect upon the New England states. Why, the schools in the New England States have given the people there an education which, compared with ours—l mean secu lar instruction—might well make ui blush. Our opponents, however, will not deny that our system of education might give more secular instruction; but they say it will produce infidelity and irreligion. But what has been the effect in New England ? Where will you find, among all the Protestant countries in the world, a country which iw par excellence, a religious community, compared with the New England states ? What are your tests? Do you reply, " The number of places of worship ?" Why, they have far more chapels and churches, in proportion to the population, than we have. Is it the observation of the Sabbath ? I Why, I have been there, and I have seen chains put across the streets on a Sunday to prevent the traffic interfering with the celebrations of religious worship. Is it the respect paid to the ministers of religion ? Why, I can vouch for it, that there is no country in Euroje where the ministers of religion are treated with such solid deference as in the New England .tales.—(flear, hear.) Is it that forms of religion are omitted there, whilst we observe them? Why, if I this meeting had been in the New England states, I appeal to Dr. Bacon, whether you would not have begun your proceedings to-night with prayer. Their courts of law never begin their trials without first offering up a prayer. The sheriff calls for prayer before the judge begins to administer the laws. Everything in the New England states betokens the diffusion of and the respect paid to religion and the extension of knowledge. Take the number of mis sions supported for the conversion of the heathen — take any test you please, and I affiam that the people of the New England states, where this system of secu lar education is adopted, are a more religious body than the English people, or any Protestant commu nity that you can mention. I say, then, that I want such a system of education here as they have in the New England states. What I want is a system of education which, whilst it will leave the people fully as religious as they are now, will also give them that secu lar knowledge which the Americans are now taught. Our friend Dr. Bacon comes frops a mall town of 20,000 " inhabitants, which sustains three daily newspapers. There is activity and intellect. Our objectors here would argue that because the people are intelligent, and take an active, keen, and prompt interest in everything tbat relates to contemporary history, they must be irreligious.--(Hear.) I would point to these facts to show that you may have activity of mind and great intelligence, without impairing the religious feeling of the country. I want to know, then, why eve should not have as good a system of education as New England ?—(Hear, hear.) Why should net Old England be as well educated as New England ? I ask the question, because I think, not merely upon economical, but upon every high moral as well as re ligious ground, we ought to cultivate the mind and the principles of our people the same as in the United States. We are not a democracy, like the United States ; but questions of equal importance, and of equal complexity, are submitted to the ordeal of public opinion in this country, as in the United States of America. In the ultimate appeal, public opinion rules this country as much as it does iu that pure democracy across the Atlantic. When we have questions submitted to us as politicians, which, sixty years ago, were evolved from the studies of the most profound thinkers of that age, but which have now become the every-day topics of political warfare — and we • live in a state of society calling upon mew to exercise their faculties of judgment upon questions of this complexity—it is necessary for the safety of society to educate the people up to the condition in which they are to be found in any country upon the face of the earth. But I want to see better safeguards for morality in this country.— (Hear, hear.) Are we so moral that we can dispense with the aid of the school-master ? Why, what have been the late exhibitions in this country ? Have there been no great crimes, no prominent catastrophes that have warned us of the state of the substratum of the population ? I want public schools in this country to purify the moral atmosphere of the state, and to elevate the mental condition of our population. I want them, in fact, for the very reasons which the great American statesman, Mr. Daniel Webster, has described as some of his reasons for supporting common schools in his native state of Massachusetts. He says : " We regard our free schools as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by in spiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age. We hope to ex cite a feeling of respectability, and a sense of charac ter, by enlarging the capacity and measuring the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruc tion we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere, to keep good sentiments upper most, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law and the denunciations of religion against immorality and crime. We hope for a security beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment. We hope to con tinue and prolong the time when, in the villages and farm-houses of New England, there may be undis turbed sleep within unbarred doors."—(Cheers.) For every one of these reasons, I want a system of public instruction equal to that which is to be found in the United States.—(Applause.) But besides these corn- plex political questions which are submitted to us— besides the promotion of morality such as is effected there—l say, that even in questions of religion I want the intelligence of the people to be extended, to enable them to form a correct judgment. Now, what is the great religious outcry at this moment ? Some highly yespectable old gentleman has been sent over with red stockings and a red hat; we are told, to take posses sion of this empire and map it out in parellelograms, by which it is said that we must all be frightened from our propriety.—(Laughter.) Now I was asking my friend Dr. Bacon, before we came to this meeting, what they would do in such a case in America ? "Why (he said) they would laugh at it."—(Hear, and laughter.) What I want, then, is, that you should have an intelligent public opi nion in this country to which you can refer these controversies upon religion.—(A pplause.) I do not wish to speak disrespectfully of the Roman Catholic body, for I have a great respect for the me m b ers o f that large body, which constitute the m a j or it y o f Christians—but speaking as a Protestant, I say that no man can be competent to take his p os iti on as a Protestant unless he is able to read the Bible and to judge the contents of that book for himself. One half of the people of this country cannot read with any comfort and satisfaction ; but when they have read two or three lines, and they come to a long word —a word of three or four syllables—down goes the book in despair.— (Laughter.) I tell you to ask those of your opponents who oppose you on religious grounds, and profess to have so much more religion than the rest of us—ask them how a man can be a Protestant unless h e can rea d th e S cr i ptures ? Wh y , is not Protestantism itself founded on the very as sumption that every man exercises his private judg ment on them ?—(Cheers.) Well then, a sincere Pro testant, a religious man, who opposes us for wishing to teach people to read, is standing in the way, I con sider, of the progress of those very religious doctrines which they are bound by their own conscientious con victions, if possible, to advance. While I allow to Ro man Catholics the freest indulgence of their opinions, and while I will never vote in the House of Commons to prevent them from having the freest scope and ex ercise of their religion in this country—(Cheers)— yet I say as a Protestant; and I say to the Protestants who are opposing us, if you want such a religious people here as they have in the New England states, help us to give the people the power of reading the Scriptures in their own native tongue.—(Hear, hear.) Now, sir, this question having been promulgated in its present form, having been brought before the country as emanating from Manchester, it will be ex pected that this controversy will be followed up in the same spirit which has" hitherto characterised Man chester in this agitation.—(Hear, hear.) You have not many of the difficulties we had before, in another agitation, but you have some greater obstacles than we had then to encounter. It was proposed at our meeting yesterday to change the Lancashi▪ re Public Schools Association into the National Public• Schools Association. Now, I think that was very necessary and very wise, and for this reason—it is of very little use your educating Lancashire unless you educate those parts from which Lancashire is supplied with its population. We are apt to think, and our enemies are disposed to keep up the delusion, by charging us with the facts, that the great sources of ignorance and vice and misery are in our large towns. There nev e r was a greater mistak e. Take t his great city of Manchester, and I will venture to say that not one-half iof the population were born in Man chester. They are immigrants. And where from ? Why from those fountains, the overflow of w hi c h furnish these great towns with population, th e rura l villages, the agricultural districts of this country, and therefore any attempt to stop the progress of igno rance and its cons equences, vice and mi ser y, i n l arge towns, will be utterly futile, so long as you direct your attention merely to the education of the people of Manchester and of the other great towns of Lan cashire. You must secure a law which, as in the case of the New En gland states, a s i n th e case o f Massachusetts, for instance, compels every locality, every parish, to furnish a school and the means of education to the whole population ; to furnish not merely a building such as our o rd ers i n C o uncil are now aiming at doing, furnishing bricks and mor tar of which we have more already than are used; but to furnish a master and the means of giving in structive to the great body of the people is all 044 [PRICE SD. of the country.—(Cheers.) Now, to obtain such a law as that, you must agitate, and you must Wing public opinion to bear upon Parliament. You will have to make this a hustings question.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) We are told that the voluntary system will do all that is necessary. I mentioned a fact yes terday, to illustrate how impossible it was for the vo luntary system to effect our object in the agricultural parishes. I mentioned this fact (which has not been sufficiently thought of), that in all our agricultural parishes, absenteeism on the part of the landlord pro prietors is the rule and not the exception. It is of no use to say that the proprietors will educate the people. The property is there, and I contend that you should tax it for the instruction of those whose labour gives value to that property.—(Cheers.) Then, although the tenant may pay it for the mo ment—although it may be probably paid by a man who is poor in himself—an occupying tenant, pro bably, not himself in prosperous circumstances, yet, in the long run, if you tax property, the proprietor will bear the taxes.—(Loud cheers.) And I do not think you can lay a tax that, in its result, would be more profitable to the community, and to individuals, than a tax which should give the people education, and especially in the agricultural districts. For what i 3 the great obstacle to the reduction of pauperism, and the diminution of the poor's rate in the agricul tural districts ? It is that the people are so ignorant that, in the first place, they have no spirit of 'enter prise which induces them to look out for a scene more fitting for their industry and more remunerative for their labour.(Cheers.) But they are so ignorant that when you are seeking for servants or labourers, you would rather not have those people who are brought up in the way which the great bulk of the agricultural labourers are. I have bad an opportunity lately of testing and proving that the great difficulty in dealing with aricultural labourers is that of being able to do anything for them because they are not sufficiently educated to serve them - selves out of the immediate sphere of their daily occupations, and I would say, therefore, as a matter of self-interest, if you wish to give the people an ambition to go beyond the bounds of theiflittle parishes, where they are often rooting upon the miserable allowance of some, two or three little loaves of bread a week—if you wish to make them despise that state of exist ence in which they now live, teach them reading, writing, arithmetic, and geography—let them know something of what is going on in the colonies of America; let them feel the ambition which the middle class people entertain to remove from the scene of their birth, in order to advance themselves in life, and with the prospect of returning enriched and be nefited to their former home. Ido not put it on principles of self-interest : I say it is our duty, if we wish to see a community worthy of the name of Englishmen, we must educate them better than they are now. Oh what a fund, oh, what a mine of riches, lies neglected in the mass of the population of this country. Think what a race it is—that noble race which produced a Burns, a Shakspere, or a Milton I And then think how many hundreds, nay thousands of this race have pined in stolid ignorance, like the very ox they drive, because they had not the elements, the mere tools of science placed in their bands, because they had not been taught to read or write ; and therefore they have been deprived of the opportunity of adding to the glory of the country and the fame of the people with whom they were surrounded.— (Great cheering.) You quarrel with their vices— you say they are drunken; would not you be drunken —I speak to the people of a more elevated class, to those in easy circumstances—would not you be drunken, as your forefathers were not a century ago, if you had not had some stimulus applied to your intellect, and some other resources besides the dram to produce that excitement which, mental or physical, is necessary for the healthful existence of the people —(Loud cheers.) Take the people of a superior rank, to whom I refer - go back only forty or fifty years. At that time when there was not found upon their drawing- room tables, as there now is, this multitude of cheap literature in its most attrac tive forms to invite them to constant study ; when books were scarcely ever turned over by the class to which I refer—what was their constant habit ? Drunkenness ! And how were their evenings spent ? Why—for want of even intellect or activity of mind enough to sustain a conversation among them selves behind pieces of painted pasteboard, playing at cards; there was not an evening party without a card table, simply because they had not in telligence and activity enough to furnish each other an evening's amusement without such resources.— (Hear, hear.) Well , now you find the people—l speak of those in easy circumstances—complaining that the days and evenings are too short for them. Such are their increased resources, and such are the occupa tions for their minds, such is the difference in educa tion, that the evenings are spent not in such frivolity as drinking and card•playing, but in intelligent com munion ; and the evenings and the days are too short for the enjoyment of these intellectual qualifications. —(Cheers.) But would not the working classes, if they were taught to read and write, and if they were taught not merely reading and writing, but some thing-of their own nature, and of the laws of the nature which surrounds them, would not they find other solace, and other resources for gratification than in the gin -shop, or the dog-fight, or the pitch.and toss of the public-house ? Yes—already they show symptoms of iMproved taste. See how they flock to our musical entertainments, and how they resort to the cheap trains to make themselves better acquainted with nature. Have they not shown that, even without the advantages of education, they possess an honourable aspiration to throw off the old skin—to find comfort in - better and more ChrisTianlikeenjoyMental v Then, on all these grounds, whether it is on the very bumble plan of improving the taste for national amusements— whether this, or to give to men the power of judging what they will he called upon to judge, of the political destinies of this country—or whether it be to judge of the highest of all questions, that of their religious faith—or whatever the motive may be—give the people instruction, elevate their minds, improve their faculties, stimulate the reason, and I will be bound that in every phase in which you can view mankind, they will come out better and happier for the process to which we have submitted them.—(Cheers.) The Rev. Dr. BACON (Independent), of Connecti cut, spoke in favour of the resolution, which was put and carried. The CHAIRMAN then stated that the resolution having been agreed to, he was authorised to make an announcement which he was not at liberty to do before. It was this:—lle had received from Mr. Edward Lambe, a gentleman living in Norfolk, the sum of 5001. to be applied in furthering the object of the society.—(Loud cheers.) The meeting was addressed by several other speakers, and the following resolutions were agreed to : " That the schools ought to be supported by local rates, and managed by local authorities specially elected by the ratepayers for that purpose." "That this system is eminently practicable, and, steer ing clear of all conscientious scruples, would be easy of adoption and beneficial in results" The proceedings did not terminate till a late hour. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. - -- - RETIREMENT OF THE SENIOR CAPTAINS.—The following captains on the active list, being 55 years of age, and of 20 years' standing on the list, have ac cepted the ,retirement of 1846, on 18s. per diem : Philip Parker King (seniority), Feb., 1839 ; Courte nay .F W. Boyle, May, 1830; Rowland M a i nwar - ing, July. 1830; John Wyatt Watling, July, 1830 ; Richard Pridham, July, 1830 ; John Lyons, July, 1830 ; Philip Westphal, July, 1830 ; Edward Spar shot, July 1830; William Blight, July, 1830. These , retirements bring Captains (of 1837) R. Gordon, . Brasier, R. C. M'C rea , M . Q u i n, R. Owen, .B. Maxwell, J. R. Carnac, Sir T. Maitland, C. 8., and Thomas Dilke, with the first 170 senior captains, and reducing the number on the active list to 497, the promotions of three commanders to the rank of cap tain will be necessary to make the list of captains the established number of 500. We trust these promo tions will at once be made to complete the list, and that deserving officers may obtain that which they have so long earned. PRESERVED PROVISIONS IN THE NAVY.—We copy the following from the United Service Gazette, but we may add to it that by the new regulations to come into force on the Ist of January the Admiralty have remedied their complaint of short weight by directing that all deficiencies shall he made up from the stores, and it is to be hoped the contractors will have to bear the loss :—" One of the greatest sources of dis content among the seamen of the Royal Navy at present, is the shameful manner in which they are cheated out of their weight of provisions when they have served out to them preserved meats.' It happens very frequently that instead of the men getting 141 b., to which weight they are entitled by the regulation scale of allowance, they only get 101 b., and that of an inferior character. It is not the fault of the officers nor the men, but of the Admiralty Victualling De partment, Somerset House. We look to the Admiralty to render an appeal to the House unnecessary in this matter." Cambrian, 40, Commander Plumridge, was mus tered, inspected, and exercised at Devonport on Thursday morning by Admiral Sir William Gage, after which she was towed into harbour by the Con- Aiwa steam-tug, to be paid off. [ADTERTISEMEPIT. Messrs. HALUDiNG and Co., 81, Pall-mall, beg to intimate to the public that, in consequence of the rebuilding of their premises, it has become imperative on them to dispose of the whole of their valuable Stock, which they have determined to offer for immediate Sale, at a very con siderable reduction of price. Messrs. H. and Co. offer to the public the assurance that the Sale thus announced is bona fide. Their entire Stock, consisting of Silks, Ribbons, Lace, Embroidery, Shawls, Scarves, Cloaks, Mantles, Gloves, and the recherche Selection of Millinery, for all of which their establishment is so eminently distinguished, will be unre servedly subjected to the reduction. The Sale will be con , tinned for a limited period. [ADvERTISEMENT.]--Tieedaehe, Nervousness, De bility, and Giddiness in the Head cured by Holloway's Pills.— Mrs. Drink water, of Castle-street, Liverpool, had been in ill health for a considerable time, suffering from severe headache, nervousness, and a debilitated censtitution, and frequently she would be so suddenly seized with a giddiness in the head that her strength would fail her, and she would fall to the ground. Every effort was tried to obtain relief by following prescrip tions of medical men, but without success. She then com menced taking Holloway's Pills, and this invaluable medicine soon strengthened the tone of the stomach, renovated the con stitution, and so effectually cured the headache, that she is now enjoying the best of health.—Sold by all druggists, and at Pro fessor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. Seven hundred pounds a-year are paid to the rice chancellor's mace-bearer, and 401. to the Greek professor at Oxford. little War,. LT 3 2d bean to 215 f~. ~