The Sun. — London, England, 1853-10-27 00:00:00

,1 1 I-1E SUN_ LONDON, THURSDAY EVE ......_ I -_____________________ - - Ised of SLIARE MARICETS.—(THIS DAY. , LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. nding 11 r - , 4 , 4, , 43 ,. Al fj r .tt , . , • ( ' ALONEY MARKET '"Tr...ltAr to 41/tltftt, ~,,,,, v : f t ---- -- 10......---... ~, safest - .1 4 4 4 4 - ' ~.. ,: ‘-' ... ...va 4 -44 A , BRITISH RAILWAYS. . Closing Prices Business AND __._.___._.______._._. S. paid. Reimers. Leasing pro this day. this day. been CITY INTELLIGENCE. co. ans. Shr. Paid. RAILWAYS. i Closing Prices Business done P stage, lb . SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock. this day. o this day. 50 all Bedford and London & ...-- ........_—__ ugust CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. Bletchley.... N. West. ... ••• 304 all Birm. & Oxfd. lublio St. 100 Aberdeen l9 20 The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were NEWMARKET RACES. guarantee._ Gt.Westn ... ..• ,ction. estimated at 7,000 bales, of which 1,500 American (THIS DAY.) 20 8i A.mbg. Nottng. Bost. - and Eastn. Junct 44 40 304 all Do. withoutgr Do — •• • were taken for export and on speculation. The 13 all Binning. Wolverh. & 30. i all Birm.Wolv. di ) 23d, market was - heavy, with but little alteration in (BY ELECTRIo TELEGRAPH.) Stour Valley B4 9 :i Dudley guar. Do — ented 304 all Do.wtht guar. Do — ••• 31 28 Birkenhd. Lancsh. di prices. The sales comprised 4,000 American, 200 SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. T. Y. C. St. 100 Buclighamsh. L.&N.W. 98 102 their Cheshire Junct l3 —ll die Pernam and Maranham, at 6id. to 7id. ;70 Bahia, Coleraine 50 all Clydesdale Jo. Caledon... 48 —5O ;ainst at "RBA "W.'. • 700 Egyptian, at 6d. to Bd.; and 2,000 1 273, all Do. Chesh. & Birk., St. 100 E. Lincoln gr. their Surat, at ' n d. to 4id. per lb. Railway Shares Magic 22 184 Do., £20..... ..... ..... 54 —44 d per cent. Gt.Nrthn. 138 142 25 all Glstr.di Dn.Fr Gt. Westn 30 32 were firmer. SWEEPSTAKES. T. Y. C. For 2-yr-olds. . St. 100 Bristol and Exeter,., 93 95 ng of 100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New. The value of merchandise exported from New Welham Railway & B e r w . ... ... on of York during the week to the Bth inst. was 2,972,681 Folly o' Dav 2 50 all Chester & Holyhead. 15 16 50 all Hull & Selby Y. &Mid 107 109 ,0 the dollars, including specie. There was no material _ SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOVS. 50 all Cork and Bandon... 13 15 25 all Do. 4 Shares. Do 534 544 apply alteration in bread stuffs, the high rate of freights Kafir " 50 45 Dublin&BelfastJunc. 43 45 121 all Do. i Shares. Do 27 — 28 Di all Lon.&Greeuw S. Eastern 131 141 ut ho- and the desire on the part of holders to await 2 25 all Dundee Perthdaber- Testy 20 all Do. Preference Do 241 —2s4xd 1r the further foreign intelligence, limiting operations. deeu Junction 74 84 yndid Forgeries to the extent of about fifty thousand Four ran. 25 all Do. New — •• 4 • i 20 100 Lowestoft gr. GLASGOW STAKES. 25 all East Anglian 44 4 per cent. Norfolk... ... corn- dollars had taken place in Boston. 20 too Do. 6 per ct. fora The works of the Frankfort, Wiesbaden, and Champagne 1 18 all Do., (£lB E & H).... 3 3 4 2 20 all Eastern Counties ... .. lli 124 12 i 54 all Manch. Bxtn. L.& N. W. o the Boer and Matlock & Mklld. 2 - 3 Cologne Railway were formally commenced last St. all Eastern Union, A month, and, considerinc , the insufficient and uncer- Firebrand don • fain accommodation afforded to traffic by the steam- £5O HANDICAP PLATE. , St. 100 Do., B. Stock 2B —3O Redcar . . .... . Darlingt. ... —• • • 100 all Midld.Bradfd. Midland., 98 1 00 irks, boats on the Rhine, the speedy completion of the Ethelwelf 125 81 Do., Now A ••• -- ••• 50 all Northern and 61 • 63 r the railway is particularly desirable—a fact abundantly Waverley Easternsp.e. E. Count. 59 Cl East &West Ind. Dk. ' Tra - Twelve ran. . 50 ...t. Do. 6 per et. Do — proved by the expressed opinions of the inhabitants 50 all & Birming. June.... ••• 50 all Do. Fixeds pe Do — rince. of the districts that will be benefited. Of the HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. St. 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow 57 59 25 all Prest. & Wyre L. &N.W. n o so • productiveness of this undertaking, seeing the Cobnutl 1 10 14 Edinb. and Peebles... - • ... &Ln&Yk ad to liberal spirit in which the Duke of Nassau has made Orestes 2 St. 100 Edin. Pith. &Dundee 21 23 ig up th e concession, there cannot be the slightest doubt, Two ran. St. 1 1 ,100 Glasgow &S. Western Shares. Do ,• • • •• • 12 12 Do. nging as the Wiesbad en li ne w ill f orm t h e connecting link St. 1.00 Great Northern Stk. 77 76 St. 100 Royst n .&Hi t. Gt Northn 137 141 St. 100 Do., A. Stock. 53 55 St. 100 Do. Shepth. St ,Do ..... . 137 142 visit in the great chain of railways from Bale to Belgium FREE TRADE FREEIIOLD LAND St. 100 Do., B. Stock ,12 125 25 184 Shef.Roth.and Lancash . & Goole g. 5 p.c. Yorksh. ~. die pions and Holland. The construction of the Lahn Rail -12 94 S. Staftordsh. M.MClean 2 14 , 1 SOCIETY. They way as a branch to thE.: Wiesbaden is strongly advo- • 50 all Wear Valleygr Stockt. & St. 110%0 GreatG Sth w . & es ‘ t V e e r s n t.(lre.) 1 7 00 9 --__ 1 2 12 11 Irish South-Eastern •• • ... ifter- rated by the German press. As far as the direr- In accordance with a resolution passed at the first 50 all • 85 88 6 per cent... Darlingt. ... They tors of the Wiesbaden Company are concerned, we general meeting of this society, a meeting of the direr- Lancaster & Carlisle 16i iii Do., Thirds lO —12 p m 25 all Do. ... ....... Do 29 —3O St• 100 Wilts&Somnit GtWestn 96 -- 98 • 97 May rest satisfied that their practical habits and tors and members was held last night at the Whittington St. 100 Lancash.andYorksh. 62 624 63 24 74 —74 d known energy will not leave untried anything that 20 174 Do., Fifths MINES. Club, Strand, to ballot for the priority of members. 14 lli D ).. Wst. Riding Un. 5 44 can promote the interests of their proprietory. On the rilatfnrm w.. .1,.....,.ri ~,,,,,,,... . —_, ____ The WildhArr, ez.,...+ 0---I:a...L__l -..-,_. ,-.. nunl- CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 7,000 bales, of which 1,500 American were taken for export and on speculation. The market was heavy, with but little alteration in prices. The sales comprised 4,000 American, 200 Pernam and Maranham, at 61d. to 7id. ; 70 Bahia, at . 6d. ; 700 Egyptian, at 6d. to Bd.; and 2,000 Surat, at 2d. to 4id. per lb. Railway Shares were firmer. The value of merchandise exported from New York during the week to the Bth inst. was 2,972,681 dollars, including specie. There was no material alteration in bread stuffs, the high rate of freights and the desire on the part of holders to await further foreign intelligence, limiting operations. Forgeries to the extent of about fifty thousand dollars had taken place in Boston. The works of the Frankfort, Wiesbaden, and Cologne Railway were formally commenced last month, and, considerinc , the insufficient and uncer tain accommodation affcirded to traffic by the steam boats on the Rhine, the speedy completion of the railway is particularly desirable—a fact abundantly proved by the expressed opinions of the inhabitants of the districts that will be benefited. Of the productiveness of this undertaking, seeing the liberal spirit in which the Duke of Nassau has made the concession, there cannot be the slightest doubt, as the Wiesbaden line will form the connecting link in the great chain of railways from Bale to Belgium and Holland. The construction of the Lahn Rail way as a branch to the Wiesbaden is strongly advo cated by the German press. As far as the direc tors of the Wiesbaden Company are concerned, we may rest satisfied that their practical habits and known energy will not leave untried anything that can promote the interests of their proprietory. The Wildberg Great Consolidated Mining Com- Pany, having its seat of operations abouenine Ger man miles from Cologne, is to be worked with energy by a new company. The profit hitherto, by the employment of only 30 miners, has been at the rate of nearly 12,0001. per annum, and a trifling addition to this force will, according to the state ment of the projectors, yield an immediate divi dend of upwards of 10 per cent., and of twice or thrice that amount subsequently. The mines are held in perpetuity, under a royal charter froth the Crown of Prussia, as a royalty, which practically does act exceed 3 per cent. A 'meting was held. yesterday at Stockton-upon- Tees, it which C. Trotter, Esq., Mayor of that borough, presided, for the purpose of forming a company, and taking the necessary steps to obtain an acc, the next session, to make a railway from Stokesby, in Cleveland, to that port. Its advan tagcs were fullyst t 7orth by the chairman, who poin ted out the magnitude of the traffic, especially the fact that the iron, alum, and lime formations of th e Cleveland hill s wou ld be, if this railway were ma d e (aid whi c h will, we understand, be less than nine miles in length), profitably " reduced by the coals of South Durham, although some of the parties in terested in other lines appeared to " censure by fairt praise." Resolutions were passed, and a large sun was subscribed to get the surveys ready in tine to comply with the standing orders of the Ileum of Commons. Totice has been given by the Honourable East Lida Company that from yesterday the interest up.n its bonds is raised to 3f per cent. per annum. It will be remembered that in May last the rate wa, reduced to 2i per cent. Nothing can exem- Nit. more forcibly the rapid change that has come over the Money Market. The English Stocks are not sustained at the higiest point of yesterday, but are still compara tivily firm owing: , to the easier state of the money rawket, and the investments that have been in prgress. There is no political intelligence of a Poitive nature, but a rumour now prevalent is tabulated to excite uneasiness, viz., that England ant France being undecided in their support of th, Sultan, that enlightened and patriotic Sove regn declines to grant a firman for the passage of the fleets. Consols have been 92i, and shoe 92, for transfer, but not lower than 92i I for account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been marked 93 , and the Re diced Three per Cents. 918 to g. Exchequer Bills hive been par to 35., and East India Bo n d s p ar tc ss. premium. outh Sea Old Annuities are warth 99. India Stock has been steady at 250. Foreign Securities have been in moderate re quest, and there is a fair business doing in some of them. Mexican have varied from 24i to Gre nada Deferred Bonds have been at 71, Buenos Ayres at 57, and Brazilian at 98. Portuguese Four per Cents. are worth 40 to f, and Spanish Three per Cents. 44k. Sardinian Bonds are 911 to 92 Dutch Four per Cents. are quoted 94. In Russian Bonds there have been no transactions. Railway Shares have been firm generally, and the Bettlement of the account shows that " bearing" !ill predominates, although it has sensibly abated within the last fortnight, if we may judge by the !puller charges made for allowing sellers to post- Acne the delivery of shares. It may be true, also, gait shar es once t a k en ou t o f par ti cu l ar names and nd `` loaned," are allowed to be kept for a while on e asier terms. French Shares are quiet, but very Arm. 83 Do., Now A.. 10 East Lancashire East &West Ind. Dk. dl & Birming. June. , )0 Edinburgh & Glasgow 1S Edinb. and Peebles... Edin. Prth. &Dundee Glasgow& S. Western Great Northern Stk, Do., A. Stock... Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire.) Great Western _ 'lrish South-Eastern .11 Lancaster & Carlisle 1 Do., Thirds ) Lancash. andYorksh. .76 Do., Fifths .14 D )., Wst. Riding Un ill Leeds Northern ill Liv.Crsby.&Southpt Lll London & Blackwall, 7 Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. )0 Loud. Bright & S.Cst. )0 Lond. and N. Westn. .2 Do. Fifths 1 Do.lo/.5h.,M&8...0 )0 London andS. Westn. al Do., £5O 14 Do., £4O Lmlndrry& Coleraine Ludndrry. & Eunisk. Manch.Sh3f.& Lincln 4A Do., Man. & Lin. Un )0 Midland )0 Do, Birmng. &Derby Eli Midld, G. West. (Ire.) 74 Do. Half Shares al Newcastle & Carlisle )0 Newmarket 4. Do., Bury Extension Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd V, Newry & Enniskillen di I Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor. 10 Norfolk .. . 33 . Northn.Counties Un, North British North Devon, No. 1 )Do., No. 2 A Deferred Do., a B Guaranteed North Staffordshire., North Western N. & S. Westrn, June, Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Scottish Central., Scottish Midland Shrewsbury & Blimg Do. L. & N. Western Guaranteed Stock.., Shrewsby. & Herefd. Shrewsby. & Chester (N. W. Min ; Do. Halveso. Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales . S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun Do Stockton & Hartlepl Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West Cornwall Wimbledn & Croydon York NewetL&Berw Do, Extensions Do. G.N. E. Purchase York & N. Midland,,, In accordance with a resolution passed at the first general meeting of this society, a meeting of the direc tors and members was held last night at the Whittington Club, Strand, to ballot for the priority of members. On the platform we observed, among a great many influential gentlemen, Mr. J. Jones, Lieut.-Col. Dick son, Col. Stlrr, J. Wyld, Esq., T. C. Grattan, Esq., Mr. G. Smith, &c. Shortly after seven o'clock the chair was taken by J. Wyld, Esq., late M.P. for Bodmin. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, stated that he did not intend to occupy their attention at very great length, followed as he would be by a gentleman so much more able than himself to lay before them the objects for which they were assembled. Lately an im portant movement had taken place, and all and every one would hail with delight the great good to be effected by the establishment of the Free Trade Freehold Land Society. There was no political object or opinion to be worked out, but all creeds were invited to join. The Chairman then entered into a statement with respect to the value and importance of land. He would not detain them any longer, but would call upon Mr. Martindale to address them. Mr. S. M. MARTINDALE then at some length en- 85 - 88 10 -12 p 62 - 624 74 - 714' 5 - 44 121 - 121 num nces. Cap is to I the has 50 a] 20 al lli a] r 1 all gua Fria 1 , all Anglo Austria. Gold i d par 10s. all Anglo Californian 10 2 Australasian n d i d 20 5 Australian 1 all Australian Cordillera - id 1 all Australian Freehold td 1 all Ave Maria 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) id par 1 0 all British Austria. Gold d 20 13.5, British Iron 35 243 Brazilianlmp.(issued at X 5 pm 5 53 30 all Do. Comes & Cuiada 23 3 2# 20 15 Do. St. John Del Bey 34 —36 1 3 Carson's Creek 40 all Cobre Copper 4O —44 411 5 , 1 Colonial ... 15 Copiapo St. , all Copper Min. of Eng 55 65 25 all Do. Pref. 7* p. cent 5 7pxd 5 all English and Austrin CopperSmeltg.Co 2. 3 2i 20 all General 2 all Great Nugget Vein., *d— L p 20 2 all Do. Registered 3 all Great Polgooth 1 all Lake Bathurst it — 2 d 1 all Liberty 3 all Linares 1 all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co * 1 all Mariquita 10 9 Mexican&S.Americn 6l 7 6 1 all New Granada od— paril 1 all Nouveau Monde g p 10 5 Nova Scotia Mining and Copper Smeltg. . .. 5 1 Port Philip 1 all Quartz Rock 4d— par i 1 50 all Rhymney Iron 15 15 Do. New — ... 30 104 Santiago de Cüba 1 all south Australian 10 7 Tin Croft 5 7 280 all United Mexican 3i 4 1 all Waller — dis 1 all West Granada 1 all West Mariposa 1 all i Yuba - 0 d _ , 1 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 7O 72 50 all British N. American ... ... 20 2 Clutd. Buk. of India, Australia, & China id— 4 d 11 100 25 Colonial — ... 100 20 ,Commercial of Lord .., ... 20 10 English Scottish and Australian 2od —14 d 20 15 Lond. Chart. Bk. of , Australia par --- ,p 50 20 London and County ... ... 50 10 London Joint Stock 22 24 LOO 20 Loud. & Westminster 33 35 20 2 London Bank of Aus tralia and India 50 22,1 National of Ireland . ... 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation 42 44 43 25 5 Do. New ". LOO 25 ProvinciPl of Ireland ... ... 10 all Do. New — .• • 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp Co 1 dig— par 25 all South Australia 39 41 25 all Union of Australia— 6B 70 691 . 2d Do. New 6O 71 50 10 - Union of London._ 18 19 40 all Union of Madrid ... ...... ... . MISCELLANEOUS 00 35 Australian Agiieult. 34 35 34 20 12 Australsn.Pcific.Mail ... ••• 10 8 Australn. Royal Mail . . •__ l 50 381 Brit. American Land 55 . 6 0 DO 320 Canada .. ........... -- 5 5 Crystal Palace ....... 4 2 Crystal Pal. of France ... •• • K 0 3 Eastern Steam„ -- ••• 1 1 Electric Tel eg . of I:: ".... ••• L 5 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. ... X) 16 General Scre w Steam ... 30 5 Irish Beetroot Sugar . ... 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel .. . — ... [0 3 Netherlands Land.. .11 id 0 10 Nrth.ofEuropeStea m ... ... i 0 all Peninsular& Oriental ... ... 691 it) 25 Do. Do. ..; —. )0 60 Royal Mail Steam ... ... _ ... 5 25 South Austral. Land 33 35 1 all Snbmar. Telegraph., ... _ ... 5 2 Univeral Emigration and Colonization.... ... _ O 280 Van Diemen's Land 14} 150 i 8 par Ipm U 44 950 102 - 102i' # ), A 72 —7 4 r 14 —13 d 13 —. 12c1 St. 10 St. 101 20 1: 10 St. 'lOl 50 4: 40 ,3+ 25 al 25 a St. 1( 8/ 2s 19 -- 20 59 - E9A 33 - 35_ 50 25 1' 00 al 52 54 } d par 5 40 tered into the details of the Free Trade Freehold Land Society, the mode of drawing, the situation of the two estates, one at Camberwell and the other at Beckinghatv, in Kent, and said that this society had been formed for two objects ; the first was to enable persons to obtain freehold land, and thereby the county franchise; the second, to afford to all a secure and pro fitable investment for savings. The society being esta blished and enrolled under the Friendly Societies' Acts, there was no personal liability beyond the subscriptions on the shares subscribed for, as the opinion of John Tidd Pratt, Esq., the barrister appointed by the Govern ment to certify the rules of such societies, will fully con firm. It was to the effect, that the members of a bene fit building society cannot be held or made liable, as shareholders, for any debts or engagements of such so ciety. This society differs from other similar societies in the following particulars :-Ist, Its shares were 401. each, so that one share would purchase a freehold, other societies being too high or too low. 2dly, The allot ment of the estates as proposed was more favourable to subscribers than in other societies. Lastly, Politics are entirely disclaimed, and every subscriber was perfectly free to act on his own judgment. Various other minor details formed the closing topics in the statement, which was listened to with much attention. 46 46 . 4 3d : 254 264 8 10 li 2 7 7b 1 61 6d' 74 7i par 2 p 36 - 38 87 89 54 - 56 60 - 62 1 24 -- 14 -- 16 7 -- 8 10 -- 12 4 -- 3fd 14 -- 16 58 -- 59 34 -- 35 3 - - 4 , . .--. ... - 2i 14 15 i . -1- Mr. CANNY then moved the first resolution, to the effect that freehold land societies have been proved by experience to be a safe and profitable mode of investment, and calculated to promote the welfare and independence of the middle and working classes, and at the same time to advance the interest of landed 62 63 62 9k --- sid 41 3i d 454 -- 46 E SHARES. - ... proprietors. Mr. T. C. GRATTAN seconded the resolution, which having been put by the Chairman, was carried unani mously. Mr. G. SMITH briefly moved the second resolution, as follows :—" That this meeting is of opinion that the principles on which the Free Trade Freehold Land Society is conducted, peculiarly fits it to secure the benefits contemplated in its formation, and renders it worthy of general support. Colonel STARR, in seconding the resolution, dwelt very forcibly upon the benefits to be derived by the join- 6 ing of institutions like the present. He could well con- g ceive the pride with w hi c h a man , w h en h e h ad an allotment ; placed his foot upon the ground, and said, St. "This is my own." He concluded by calling upon the 5 ladies to urge upon those connected with them the im portance of becoming the possessor of a stake in the St. country. The CHAIRMAN having put the resolution to the meet- St. ing, declared it carried unanimously. St. In answer to a question put by an individual in the body of me e ti ng , 10 Mr. JENKI N J ONES sa id th e ques ti on w ith respect to 6A the grouping of shares was under the consideration of N the executive committee, and when a conclusion had been come to, a meeting would be called, and proposi- St. tions would be submitted for the consideration of the St. shareholders, and the executive committee would be St. governed by the result. 16 Upwards of 300 shares were then subscribed for from g t : among the gentl emen present, making in all more than St. 1,200 shares taken up since the establishment of the St. society, on the 15th of August last. 50 Scrutineers having been chosen from among the body of the members present, the ballot was proceeded with, St. and the numbers were announced as they were taken 50 from the box. The Gold Mine Shares have been rather good a gain with fair dealings. The last week's rail wa y rece i p t s ascertained up to this day are in round. figures as under :- 1853. 1852. Great Western North-Westerns3,346 51,214 S outh -Western Brighton :Midlan d So uth -Eastern Caledonian and Edinburgh and' Glas ow 15,871 14,499 g Great Northern The sh ares o f th e A ustral i an Land Companies ha ve been a little firmer upon the settlement of the a ccount. The Australian banks are much the saute, ••• 143 - 153 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS D AY.) LONDON, Oct. 27. -Wind this day at Noon, S.E., light breeze, and dull cloudy weather. COWES, Oct. 26.—Wind, S. Arrived—San Francisco, New York, for London, with trifling damage. FALmouTir, Oct. 2G.-Wind, S., fresh gale. Arrived— Vesta, Akyab ; Esperance, Rio Janeiro ; Matilda, Liver pool, for Demerara, with damage from the Harmony schooner, for Australia ; Alinda, Bahia, and sailed. for Rotterdam. Sailed—Cosmo, New York. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 26 . —Wind, S.E. to S.W. Arrived —Victoria, New York. Sailed—Kent, Melbourne.—The Agincourt, Southampton for Geelong, is leaky, and has been towed back, having struck on the Dean. SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 26 .—Arrived—Calcutta (s), Cal cutta. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. (From the Official List.) tank St _ - Business done ock . 214 3 per Cent. Redaced Annuities ' 91 3 3 6 P 6 PCent. Consols Annuities 92iiii 3sg W 3 per Cent. Annuities 93 i ug Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 5 9-16 7-16 llndia S tock 250 ndia Bonds, £lOOO ...... ......... ..... Di tt° „ under £lOOO par 5 p tenth Sea Old Annuities - 99 C onsols fr A vote of thanks having been proposed to the chaiF man, Colonel DICKSON, in seconding it, said he could 12, not sufficiently thank Mr. Wyld for the kind man- 25 ner in which, at a moment's notice, he had taken the 10 chair, and for the patience ho had shown during the 6 necessarily tedious proceedings of the evening. He was 12, sure the meeting would agree with him in releasing Mr. 12; Wyld from the chair, which would be occupied by one 12; of the commiteee till the conclusion of the business. St. Colonel Dickson thanked the meeting for the patient St. hearing they had given to the proceedings of the evening. .„.. 1 He hoped th e nex t ti me h e h a d t h e h onour o f meeting " 10' them the society would be in a still more prosperous St. condition, and th a t no e ff or t on t h e par t o f th e committee St. would be wanting to further the objects of the society. St. The vote of thanks was then carried unanimously. St. The balloting then recommenced, and at its conclusion 20 the proceedings terminated. St. for Account Ezcheqner Bills, 2d. ££so 0 1000 par 3 p Small par 3 p P RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. trazilia n B on d s, 5 per Cent XI I 98 ni ., 6 , 110 s Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 57 8 s. '"iadi Bonds, 6 per Cent.... .. . ..... ..... Gre nada Bonds, Ex, Dec., 1849 , .. ' Coupon 2ok ?..o.fereexnaicadna 3Bopnedsr Cent. M 24i Pan 3 per Cent. ii Ditto for the Account 404 .11881 an Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St ll2 E , d i ;„ ti lr -33 '41 Bonds, 5 per Cent 92 li 2i onish B on d s, 3 per" Cent 44i e au ish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 2lfi Danish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 4j p c TORBAY, Oct. 2 6.—Wind, S. Sailed—Duck, Melbourne. HARWICH, Oct. 26.—The Mary Gibson, of London, Shields to Venice, has been assisted in leaky, having been on the Shipwash Sand. ILFRACOMBE, Oct. 26.—Wind, S.S.W. Arrived— Ellen, of Jersey, Rio Janeiro for London, with foremast sprung, &C. HULL, Oct. 2 6.—Wind, S. Arrived—Superior, New York. NEWPORT, Ost. 26.—Sailed—Thalie, Savannah. SCI LLY. -- Arrived—Burlington, Quebec; Potent®, New castle, for Venice, leaky. THE CONCERTS AT EXETER HALL. 8 10 e. QITEENSTOWN, OCt. 25. Wind, N., fresh. Arrived• Prowler, from Labrador. Sailed—Esther, for Antwerp ; Moses Taylor, New York ; Regina des Belges, London. The Wednesday Evening Concerts have been revived 10 at Exeter Hall, though not under the former manage- 25 ment. The views of the present projector are of a more 10 extended character. An orchestra of very ample dimen- 1.0. f sions has been secured, and the names that have been published show that most of the best players have been St. engaged. The selection of the instrumentalists have 2g been entrusted to Mr. Benedi c t, th e accomp li s h e d com poser. Upon this ge n tl eman h as b een b es t owe d t h e St. office of director. The particular plans of the speculator 17 in this new musical undertakicg have not transpired ; 25 but we conclude that he has no other intention than that of giving good and popular music to the public at - an easily accessible price. He binds himself by no de clarations as regards native talent, but will doubtless, 1 0 if it offers itself in a practicable shape, make it available. 5 The array of names which he has issued as soloists and 20 vocalists is very imposing, and artists of the highest 20 repute are announced to appear during the progress of 20 the six nights of which the first series of concerts is to 20 consist. All our best English performers are named, 20 with whom will be associated such of the most distin- 20 guished foreigners who happen to be within the tempta- 20 tion of an engagement. CIIN 1 (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERP an Wind, S.S.E., moderate d foggy. Thursday, 10 A.M. Arrived—Margaret (s), from Havre. Sailed—Aristie, for Valparaiso ; Abaurrea, and Trium fante, Havannah ; Elizabeth Bell, Hayti ; Somoorrostro, Monte Video ; Guiding Star, New York. D Dividends on the above payable in London. to Z zehange, 2i per Cent. 1.2 Guil 62A 2 4 per Cent. Certificates .. Consols Ditto October Aobount THREE O'CLOCK. 92$ 92 i (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday, 10 a.m. CUSTOM-HOUSE RETURN. Wind, S.E., fine; tide half ebb. Arrived—Triune, from Riga ; Competitor, Palermo ; Maria Eliza, Hamburgh ; Mary, Bombay ; Baron Osy (s), Antwerp ; Sylph (s), St. Petersburgh ; Rainbow (s), Rot terdam ; Diana (s), Amsterdam ; Earl of Auckland (s), Rotterdam ; Giraffe (s), do. Sailed— Thomas Blyth, for Mauritius ; Truro, Mel bourne; Tropic, B ar b a d oes ; Doelwik, Sydney; Billow Queen, Genoa ; Syria, Sydney ; Planter, Tobago. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) --- Pa 14,1-" A-1-4 AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN - ,r !he Werek e nded Oct. 27, 1853, ma d e up from the Returns of tll3 APectoot in the different Cates and Towns I n E ng l an d and Wales, imperial Quarter. ZD a "T• I LiaLXY OATS. I ITE. 1 BEANS. I PEAS. °3 114 403 7d . 1 1 24s 2d 1 38s 4d j 45s 7d I 503 7d .w kakr ; E SIX WEEKS' AVERAGE. 628 4 • I BL S 1 OATS. I RYE. BEANS. I PEAS. d 37s 10d 22s 6d 1 37s 9d 43s 10d 441 ld Wnu,r. ~...._DDTIES ON FOREIGN C ORN. Is od I ---.....y. 1 OATS, I au. I BEANS. I PEAS. 13 od Is Od Is Od Is Od is Od wheat QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. ' 85'066; Barley, 67,729 ; Oats, 12,489 ; Rye, 275 ; Beans 4,587 ; P eas, 1,506 quarters. , The first part of the scheme of last night was devoted to the Desert of Felicien David —the celebrated sym phony, or more properly . cantata, which some few years ago worked up the Parisians to a pitch of enthusiasm bordering on fanaticism. DEAL, Thursday, 9.10 a.m. Wind S.S.E., very light and fine. Anchored— Golden Land, from London, for Melbourne ; Clara, Hartlepool, for Southampton. The second part of the concert—preceded by the National Anthem, sung by Miss Stabbach and others— contained several agreeable vocalities, the most remark able of which were Lindsay Sloper's clever scena, " Joan of Arc," ren d ere d by Mi s s Dolby with her ustal graphic force ; Loder's ballad, "There's a path by the water," which Miss Isaacs sang so naively as to win an up roarious red eman d ; an d a scena f ro m the Lombardi, in which a Mdlle. None made her first appearance before an English audience. This young lady established her- 74 " 2 1 0 0 self very favo ura bl y , an d prom i ses to en j oy a cons id era bl e share of popularity. She has a mezzo-soprano voice, 10 the quality of which is full and rich, and unquestionable 20 experience. The taste and feeling with which she gave 20 the air of Verdi were facts which the audience at once 20 appreciated, and she was assailed with an encore that was irresistible. Mr. Lawler, Miss Cicely Nott, and 20 Miss Poole were each contributors of a song ; and Mac- 50 farren's madrigal, "Maidens, would ye 'scap e un d o i ng ," was sung by the chorus, .who also gave th e once -f amous glee, "The Chough and Crow," with pleasant effect. In the course of tuffs part, Mendelssohn's " UM laute " was performed by Miss Arabella Goddard, whose extraordinary executancy afforded the customary grati fication, and elicited the customary applause. The hall was crowded in every part. ILLEGALITY OF OMNIBUS ADVERTISING.—The Sun, and some other journals, have stated that omnibus ad vertisements are prohibited by the recent act. This is incorrect. Advertisements "placed so as to obstruct the light" are only forbidden. ORDER OF CUSTOMS.—Upon the suggestion of some of the landing officers, an order has just been pro mulgated by the Board of Customs authorising the landing waiters to ascertain the weight of silk ribands by weighing them net, instead of first weighing them gross, and then taring the blocks cartons, &c, as heretofore. The regulation will afford great facility, and is regarded as a step in the right direction. The same order directs the weight to he taken to the 100th part of a pound avoirdupois, thereby ignoring the existence of the standard ounce weight as established by law ; and the legality of this is questionable, as it is doubted if the commissioners have power to establish, even partially, the decimal system without the sanction of the legislature. The principle, however, is good, and was first adopted in 1843, upon the suggestion of Mr. Cockshott, one of the landing surveyors. To a certain extent, therefore, it has been in operation in the Cus trenq' department for the last 10 years, and during that peilud it is understood to have conferred great benefit on the public, from the ease it affords in mercantile transactions, while it has at the same time effected a very considerable saving in the reveuue, RAY MARKETS. JAITTRPIELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ 8s to 5/ 15s ; clover . mat o, 4/ 03 A to 616 s ; andstraw, 11 145,. to 21 2s per load diPlMkoderate supply, and a steady demand. BERLAtin.—Meadow hay, 31 10s to 5118 s ; clove! . S to, 4/ Oa to 61 Os ; and straw, 11 16s to 212 s per load 11PPlY good, and trade dull. ilittolliEeßPEL.—llleadow hay,t o 5/ 15s ; e . love i r ' 4 / Os to 6/ 68 ; and straw, 1/ 14s to 2/ 2s per loac.. rade rather dull. --- MEAT SETS.rutraATE AND LEADENHALL.—The general demand)leef steady at this market to-day, at full quotations_._ . V from 2s 4(1 to 3s 10d • Mutton, 28 10d to 4s Sci 5 t h e e 4li c i a 3 re s a 6 4 . to 4s 8d ; Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 10d per 81bs, by pIiSe°,I".RALL, OCT. 26.—T0-day'9 m ar Pt was fnirly.Rrps ,Natt,iv.ith each kind of stock, in Which an average bunnes o Se ocr,V- Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 4d t 81b ' . 4 4 36 , 6d to 43 6d; Pork, 30 6d to 48 8d per t 9 81 -th the Offal, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1853 SLIARE MARKETS. -(THIS DAY. • NEwSPAPEft 714 s coerce, or from difficulties of a stri c tly ' ' - oha '-- rac% P i ts ter—whatever may be in store for 11 3 irtfthe way of troubles or of disasters, there is nobodyl'' say it is % 4 ~, Ir e not better to have an educated peopl to meet them A z tU .)1111v than to have to encounter them in the ma es, of ignol:Wor ranee and with unrestrained passions. (Che s i ,4 Fort S et C .er all of us must admit that the mass of the 4104intr)• do govern. In the last resort they are called in to arbi trate on all questions that touch our national interests ; and we must all admit that it is best to have an arbitra tor who has been trained to think —who has been accus tomed to weigh and discuss reasons, and to deduce con clusions from facts and evidence--it is better to have parties of this kind to settle great national questions than to refer such mighty interests to the arbitration of ignor ance, prejudice, and passion. (Cheers.) Now, ladies and gentlemen, if I have said too much on this subject, either for you or those who may read what I have spoken, I can only say, that I feel so strongly the great importance of this subject, that wherever I meet with men having education for their aim, I cannot be respon sible for withholding my remarks on our wants of juve nile education. (Cheeas.) It is not possible to com pensate for the deficiency of education in our juvenile population by any such institutions as this. We may, in some degree, atone for the deficiencies—we may com pensate for lost time ; but we cannot have a really edu ducated and safe community unless we begin at the be ginning by training the young. Our friend who will follow me will, I dare say, deal with part of the subject better than I can. I can only say that whether you look at the question of education in the interests of mo rality or religion—whether you look at it as a matter of interest or happiness, individually or in its relation to the welfare of the State—in whatever way you regard, this question, you may depend upon it, the highest in terests, the dignity, the honour, and the happiness of the people are bound up in this question of education. Some other routine business having been transacted, the meeting separated. LOSS OP THE DALHOUSIE. The master and crew of the schooner William, of Exeter, have made the following statement, denying the charge which had been laid against them by Joseph Reed, the survivor of the Dalhousie, to the effect that they bore away from the wreck without rendering the least assistance to the sufferers : " Cowes "At 7 a.m. of the 19th inst., wind S Oct. 24. E. by S., I saw a ship a point on the starboard how with her head to the eastward and her s t ar b oar d side in the water, the water level with her main and mizentops, and her foretopsail partly under water. We bore away and came under her lee, and when abreast of her, and about a cable's length, she sank. We then kept our vessel's head to the S. W. for about a quarter of an hour, put our helm down, and tried to stay by her, but came head to wind, and then went astern at the rate of five or six miles per hour. She would not have paid off had not a sea struck her on her starboard bow. We then hauled our wind, but the vessel would not come to windward or near the unfortunate men who were struggling in the water. All hands were in attendance with head-lines, cork fenders, in fact every , thing we had available for the purposeof saving life, but l it was of no avail. By reason of the distance we were from them, we could render them no assistance what ever, the sea at this time making clean breaches over our little vessel, being only 119 tons and heavily laden with coals. After keeping the vessel's-head to the N. and E. for half an hour, and finding we could be of no service whatever, drifting as we were on a lee shore, we consulted together, when it wrs determined (after having done everything in our power to save life), for our own preservation and that of the ship, to steer our course down Channel, and you may rest assured it was with anything but enviable feelings, having wit nessed such a calamity and unable to render our fellow creatures the least assistance. The undersigned would not consider themselves men had they acted in the manner deposed to by Joseph Reed, for whom we make every allowance, having been placed in the perilous and heartrending situation he was in, but are surprised he should have declared that he hailed, and was answered from the schooner to swim to her, when it was impos sible, according to his statement, for it to be true. He states that the schooner was 200 yards to leeward of him and blowing a gale ; how could he hear them say, " Swim to her ?" It is a duty we owe to ourselves, as men and seamen, to justify ourselves from such cruel aspersions. " J. FELIX HAMLYN, Master. " RICHARD MILLmAs, Mate. " THOMAS HURFORD, Seaman. " THOMAS CLIME, Seaman. " WILLIAM GILMAN, Seaman. " JAMES HURLEY, Seaman." TIE CHOLERA. ( From the General Board of Health.) NEWCASTLE. In Newcastle, on the 25th Oct., no cases from cholera were registered. One death from diarrhoea was entered on that day as having occurred in the Westgate district. STONEHAVEN. The medical officer of the parochial board of Dun nottar (Stonehaven) reports, on the 24th inst., that he was called in on that afternoon to inspect the body of a man who, it was stated, "died, after an illness of six hours, on Friday morning last, at sea, on board the sloop Farmer, from Shields for Montrose. The said sloop put into the harbour of Stonehaven this afternoon (24th), where it now lies. The body has been removed from the ship. " From the appearance of the body," adds the medical officer, "and from the history of the man's illness which I received from the other men be longing to the ship, I am of opinion that he died of cholera, and under that impression gave such orders to the crew as I thought necessary to prevent the disease spreading." GATESHEAD. Oct. 24.—Two deaths from cholera were registered as occurring this day in the Ileworth district of this union. 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The re-opening of the Barnsley Mechanics' Institution was celebrated on Wednesday night by a public meeting, in what is now the lecture-hall of the institution, but was formerly the theatre. Mr. Cobden, M.P., occupied the chair, supported by Mr. Wilderspin, the founder of the Infant School System. Mr. COBDEN said—l remember when first mechanics' institutions were launched under the auspices of the ex cellent Dr. Birkbeck—a man whose name can never be held in too high reverence for his great disinterestedness and great patriotism—and his intelligent colleagues, Lord Brougham and others—l remember that when they launched the first mechanics' institutions they were intended, not as schools in themselves, but as something to supply the defects of early education in a class which in former times had not had the oppor tunity of receiving education. Now, such being the case, it appears to me that to carry out the purpose of the founder; it is not enough to draw together a certain number of members, and provide them with a commodious lecture-room, a convenient news-room, and library. Those things could all have been ob tained, though probably in a less convenient way, before mechanics' institutions were created. But one of the primary objects of mechanics' institutions was to enable a young man, on feeling himself deficient in some particular branch of knowledge, to join a society where he could have the opportunity of supplying his deficiency in that respect ; and for this end you must have classes to teach arithmetic, geography, grammar, drawing, and chemistry. I should hope you would have a class for French. Now, there has been an allusion to one branch of study which particularly interests the manufacturers of this district, namely, drawing and de signing. I think I heard the gentleman who last spoke say that there was no drawing master in Barnsley ; that you must have an itinerant master, who must go his circuit from Sheffield, radiate about, and pay an occa sional visit to Barnsley. Why, if I were a Barnsley manufacturer, that dealt in figured or damask linens, I should beg and entreat the reporters not to let that fact go forth, (Cheers and laughter.) Don't let the world know that Dunfermline has got all the designers. (Ap plause.) Now lam told, for I am very curious in in quiring about anything connected with the art of design, inasmuch as my own business is very much connected with that art—l have been told, in consequence of in quiries I have made since I have been here, that the patterns of those damask linens manufactured in this place, which we all so much admire, are made by the weavers themselves—(hear, hear, hear)—that the pat terns are designed by the labourer who weaves the cloth —and that he, so far from having had any instruction in the art of design, has been living in a town where there is no drawing -master. (Laughter.) Well now, I take it as a proof that you have natural talent for draw ing amongst you. But I say to the capitalists here, that you are not doing justice to the men who show that talent if you are only going to give them the ninth or tenth part of a drawing -master. (Cheers and laughter.) You must let it go forth from this moment—l hope our friend here to the left (Mr. Harvey), who is interested in this matter, will rise before the close of these proceed ing, and declare that another month shall not elapse before steps are taken to ensure the services of a draw ing -master in Barnsley, and that all these ingenious young weavers who are now able to put together a damask pattern shall be able to learn something of the art of design from a practised teacher before we meet here again. (Cheers.) Well, I say, then, one of your classes must be for drawing, and in this respect you wi be aided by Government in a way which is perfectly legi timate. I mean that you will be supplied with the best possible models of sculpture and drawing. I am an advocate so far for centralisation that I will at all times sanction and applaud a Government which draws to one centre the best designs and the best models, and multi ply them in the cheapest way, and diffuse them through the country. (Cheers.) It involves no restraint over you—it involves no power to tax you, or deprive you of your powers of self-government, but it enables you to avail yourself of the superior light and intelli gence of people in the metropolis, who have devoted themselves to the study of the arts, and provide your selves in Barnsley with all the best models and forms of art which are to be found in London, Paris, or Rome. Then with regard to other branches—the arithmetic class, for instance—how many young men are there who may be sitting at their loom with the best head upon their shoulders, phrenologically speaking, that any human being can ittssess, and yet from some circumstances ut terly beyond his control has had no opportunity of cul tivating that excellent head when a child. Yet that young man feels within him what the majority feel in his situation of life, if he only had the necessary education to qualify him to rise in society. The first thing he requires, if he do anything in the way of business, must be to know something of arithmetic. Here you offer no means by which the young man can learn the rule of three or the multiplication table. I need not say another word, I am sure, as to the absolute necessity of adopting such a course. It is not necessary to have a stipendiary master. You may adopt the monitorial system with regard to the classes. And I hope you have got enough of enterprising spirit among you to begin the institution in the classes, and not to stop with arithmetic and draw ing. You should have a French class—(hear, hear) — for now the French language is being made the general mode of communication all over the civilised world. You would then not only be teaching that which might be useful to your youth, but you would bring that which is ornamental as well as useful within the reach of all adult manufacturing and labouring men in the kingdom. I think you ought also, if possible, to try to establish a school in connection with this institute. (Hear, hear.) This is one of the most useful adjuncts in connection with the Huddersfield institute. You should endeavour to connect a school to your institute—it would be a feeder to your institute, for by means of that you would increase your members. If the advice of my friend Wilderspin had been followed twenty-five years ago, when first I made his acquaintance, and infant schools had been established in every village, you would not have to canvas for customers for your mechanics' in stitute—they would have grown up naturally to your hand. And this leads me for the moment to leave the immediate question before us, and to ask what were these institutions established for ? Not as a system of education, but to supplement the want of education. And we want that education still that we wanted when these• institutions were founded. Now I know that this is a vexed question—it has been made a party question. But, gentlemen, I have never regarded it as a party question. I do not care whether instruction comes voluntarily or from an organised State education. I want education. (Cheers.) But I cannot accept sta tistics to prove the numbers that attend schools. I cannot accept that as evidence that the people are edu cated ; for I cannot conceal what is evidence to my senses that they are not educated, and that they are not being educated. Well, now, I was talking only yester day to a magistrate of Manchester, and he told me that he was attending at the swearing in of the militia in one of the largest manufacturing towns in the kingdom, and that not one-half of the men could read, and not one-third could sign their names or ages. Now, without wishing to offer any fanatical opinion with regard to the peace question, I must say, with all sincerity, it would have been far better to have sent those young men to school rather than to the drill-sergeant. (Hear, hear.) Nay, more than that, I think the safety of our country would be more promoted by teaching them to "face about," "right, left." I came the other day with a gentleman from Preston, and I was talking over with him the subject of education, as it was very natural I should be, as I was coming here to this meeting. He said to me, " I attended a coroner's inquest one day last week, and out of thirteen jurymen, five signed their names, and eight made their marks." I cannot shut my eyes to what is going on around, and from these and similar facts, I say we are not an educated people ; but I say it is our duty, our safety depends upon it as a na tion, to see that the people are educated, and I know of no place more fitting to discuss this subject than such a meeting as this, for I take it for granted that you all feel an interest in education, and the deficiency ofjuve nile education, by your being met here to promote adult education. I have no hesitation in r epeating what I have said over and over again, that in point of school learning most English people are less instructed than any Protestant people in the world. I say that deliberately. I remember quite well, at the time of the Hungarian immigration to this country, just after the revolution, that a very distinguished minister and religious teacher, an Hungarian, was talking to me on the subject of edu cation in England. I told him that a large portion of our people could neither read nor write. He could not believe it, and he said to me, " Well, if that is true, how do you maintain your constitutional institutions and your political liberties ? It is evident that your institu tions are far ahead of the people, and that your self government is a mere habit with you." Well, to a large extent, it is a baba, and we cling to it and preserve that habit. But we want it put upon a safer foundation than it is at present ; we want it as the result of an enlightened appreciation—something that the people will be proud of as an intellectual thing, and not as a mere habit. I say there is no security for any kind of freedom, unless it is based upon a wider intelligence than we have in this country at the present moment. The want of t an increased int e lli gence meets us at every turn . W e s e e in all our social affairs. Tak e,for instance, sanitary reforr Why do our people, many ofthem,livein filthy places wh ich is h are continually generating disease ? You may say, It comes from our poverty.' But then our poverty f ignorance and our vices ; for our vicesoarbeenoßftenidtel sietchoant: sequence of our ignorance. (Hear, he s a r o . l is it not notorious that the great mass of are They do the e p s eople are not well aware what the sanitary necessary a for life—that not know that ventilation is poisons are the result of no scavengers that fromin th e these streets thingsand no sewerage. They her diseases. If it were impressed do not know proceed cholera and other consequences followed these upon them that there w ould:;ike care to inhabit better houses, causes, peop le b which they might able to do if they were more care ful of their means. be say that the habits of th e p eop l e are associated in every way with the amount of intelli. gence they possess. When I hear people advocating temperance—and I myself am a temperate man—l fall back upon this conviction, that the way to make them temperate is to find them other sources of intelligent excitement and recreation than that which is offered at the present time. And I consider that one way to do that is by giving them education. And I say, moreover, that if a man is deprived of those resources for intellec tual and moral enjoyment which education alone can give him, he naturally falls back into excitements and sensual indulgences, because excitement of some kind all human beings must have. Well, then, I say, whether it be sanitary improvement we want, whether we want a moral improvement of the people by making them more temperate, and thereby giving them those greater resources by which they can themselves secure sani tary improvement--I say education lies at the bottom of it all. Again, I see in different parts of the country great social movements between different classes of the community. For instance, in Preston and other towns there are twenty or thirty thousand people out of work. Not a chimney but is cold and cheerless--neither smoke nor steam saluting our ears or eyes in those communities. There is an amount of misery and desolation there to be seen that must follow from laying down work and stopping the wheels of those seats of industry for a month, six weeks, or two months. Why does that arise ? I have no hesitation in saying it springs from ignorance ; not an ignorance to be charged to one party in the dispute. It is an ignorance on both sides which leads to such results. Do you sup pose that when the world becomes more intelligent you will have such scenes as that—of whole communities stopping their labour for a month or two, and causing such misery and desolation as may not be extinguished for five or six years to come ? No ; when men come to understand the principles on which the rights of wages and the rights of property depend, they will not settle their matters in such a bungling way as that, which brings so much misery upon all parties concerned. Why, even now we see great progress made in this respect. We do not find, every time the cessation of work by 25,000 of the community takes place, the military called out and blood shed. We see an amount of passive endurance which certainly, if it had wisdom and true policy at its back, wo u ld b e highly commendable. We see none of y that violen ce w hi ch we formerly saw, and we shall live to see the tim e w h en another step will be taen in intel ligence— when men will settle those matters, not by re sorting to blind passion —not by the multitude o f gathering together, and vituperating one another—but we shall, instead of that, see perfect liberty given to all parties, whether it be masters or w h ether it be men, to arrange these things according to their own interest and will ; and when that is the case the rate of wages will be settled just as quietly as you see the price of any article settled in the market. You do not find when people go to market with their cattle, with their potatoes, or any thing else, that the dealers in potatoes, for instance, strike against the buyers ; that the sellers stand by with folded arms, whilst all the potatoes rot, and perhaps re solve that they will starve rather than submit to the terms of the buyers. No, it is the Niggling in the market that tranquilly decides what the market value is from day to day ; and thus the thing is settled without those shocks and collisions, and waste of property, which we now see arising from what I consider the most unfor tunate, and, speaking of it as a sign of intelligence, the most discreditable thing passing in our time. Now, understand, I am not saying a word as to the right of either side in this question. I believe that both parties think themselves right ; nay, both parties are right in trying to get the best terms they can, the one for their labour, the other for their capital. All I say is, that if there were more intelligence upon these questions, upon that law which decides invariably and inexorably the re lative nature of labour as well as anything else, these mat ters would be settled without that hideous suffering which I deplore to see accompany these strikes and struggles in our manufacturing districts. (Cheers.) And when I say that intelligence will put an end to these things, I am merely stating what has been done already in America. You cannot point to an instance in America —where the people are more educated than they are here —of total cessation from labour by a whole community or town, gi ten over as it were to desolation ; nor, I repeat, will you see it here when these principles are understood, and the enlightenment which such institutions as this are intended to promote shall be spread throughout the whole community. This brings me back again to the necessity of schools. We want schools that shall teach these principles, and accustom the people to think of these matters, and be able to take a calm and reasonable view of the questions affecting their own interests, and not be led away by passion, or allow others to mislead them by appeals to their passions. I say schools are necessary, and we shall never be safe as a manufacturing public, as a mining people, until it is in var i a bl y t h e case that we have s c h oo l s by the side of every large manu factory, and at the mouth of every pit. (Cheers). Now, I have just alluded to America. When I came through Manchester the other day, I found many of the most influential of the, manufacturing capitalists talking very carefully upon a report which had reached them from a gentleman who was selected by the Government to go out to America, to report upon the Great Exhibition in New York. That gentleman was one of the most eminent mechanicians and machine makers in Man chester, employing a very large number of workpeople, renowned for the quality of his productions —a man known in the scientific world, and appreciated by men of science, from the Astronomer Royal downwards. He has been over to America to report upon the progress of manufactures and the state of the mechanical arts in the United States, and he has returned. No report from him to the Government has yet been published, and therefore what he has to say specifically on each topic cannot be known until it has been so made and published to the country. But it has oozed out in Man chester, amongst his neighbours, that he found in Ame rica a degree of intelligence amongst the manufacturing operatives, a state of things in the mechanical arts, which has convinced him that if we are to hold our own, if we aro not to fall back in the rear of the race of nations, we must educate our people, to put them upon a level with the more educated artisans of the United States. We shall all have the opportunity of judging when that report is delivered ; but sufficient has already oozed out amongst his neighbours to excite a great interest, and I might almost say some alarm. I must say that lam delighted to find an intelligent man, selected because all the world would admit his competency to the task, has come back from America prepared to let the English people know the truth as to their relative position in point of education, as compared with th e mass o f th e people in the United States. I went to that country nearly twenty years ago. I remember that on my return I wrote a pamphlet on the subject, in which I recorded my solemn conviction that in less than twenty years after that time—and that was written in 1835—England would be brought to a consciousness that it is from that country—from her own blood, better educated than her self—that she has to look with apprehension in the future career of manufacturing and commercial rivalry. Well, if it should turn out that this report from America is as I have heard it, I am delighted that it has come from a quarter so competent in ev,ery respect that no one will question its accuracy. lam delighted, .10e cause I want Englishmen to know a danger, if there is one. Napoleon used to say, "If there is any bad in telligence come from any quarter, Wake me any hour of the night, and let me know. Good news will keep, but bad news one cannot know too soon." I say of the Eng lish people, that let them know of any danger to the country, or any difficulty to surmount, and there is no thing within the compass of human beings that they cannot accomplish. The great danger for Englishmen is our being so encased in insular pride and prejudice, so given up to a sort of Chinese notion of our own supe riority, that we won't open our eyes to what is going on in other countries, until it be too late. lam anxious to see the subject of education in America brought before this country in the way I have indicated. Why should America be better educated than England ? Do you think that a new cou n t ry h as an advantage in educa tion ? Quite the contrary. A new country has a wil derness to cultivate, and the primeval forests to level, every road to make, every b r i dge to erect, and every thing that can give it the advantage of colonisation to provide. That community is not in a position fully to rival in e d uca ti on, if the old country does en n s i n :lu s t s y - y to its people. Q u it e the contrary. An old country, with its population concentrated, has far greater opportu nities and advantages than a new country. It has greater wealth to bestow upon it, greater facilities by which to draw the indi v id ua l s together, and ifyoufind a young coun try beating an old one in the career of education, depend upon it, it is because of some neglect or fault on the side of the old country. We do not read of ancient Greece, when she sent forth fresh colonies, letting them become the teachers of the mother country. No. Athens remained the teacher of the world, and it is a shame and a humiliation to find that a young people, that were swarmed off us as it were but yesterday, should be pre sented to us as an example and lesson in education. (Cheers.) Now, I hope that it will not be said that there is anything in these remarks at all out of place in an assembly such as this. It appears to me that such a subj ec t as thi s s h ou ld b e di scusse d, i n just such a meeting as . thi s , w h ere a ll may be assumed.oold of " this to feel a strong, inter es t i n e d uca tion. If the people resolve to do it, I wo u ld not even now despair country in a generation or two surpassing all the wor, d in education. But we must not refuse to adopt.ve im proved machinery from other countries. not be like the Chinese with their junks, refusing build ships according to the Europeanat th m odel. If we find there is a better system existingm usete otherio adopt s id t e of the Atlantic, we must not be toosealtstia conceited ltit t s better it, provided it has shown by its than our own. If we find ther Americansesses l , w b ea ting ea t once usin spinning jennies, or in the sailing o f vessels, go and see how they beat us. They sent a yacht here, and it beat us. We , 'atmediately, with all th e hu mility of children, set t o work, and by ad opt i ng all their improvement- , and improving them, beat them in return. So, if an American p ic k s our locks, we want to know how he does it. And if we know ' that he makes better locks, and will sell them c h eap , we buy them without t scruple. boog h eB haveut it seems s en th te a d t in the question o f education, to us a system which has worked w e ll there, which has been partially adopted in Scotland, and with similar re sults, we have never adopted it here. And what so natural as that we should follow the same rule with re gard to education, as we d o with regard to ma c h i nery for spinning cotton, or i n regard to the construction of ships ? I take it that the result bei ng i n f avour of the American educati on i s a proof that they have adopted a better means th an we have, and if we are ever to equal them or rival them, we must not be ashamed to adopt their system, and, if ne cessary, even to improve upon it. There is not a posed party, I hop e , i n thi s country now op to education. believe th ere i s not a party that does not consider there is mo re d anger upon t h e whole in our artificial state from ignorance than from educa tion.rs I believe there is not e, o t n b e at he w re o , ol w d b n a o t t ev b e e r his nolitical predilection may forth, wh a t ever we may ise doomed to undergo from !straitened circumstances, owing to decline in corn- HEWORTH. Oct. 2 5.—Cholera (deaths) 2 In a communication recently received from this town deploring that so little preparation had been made for meeting the pestilence, the following are enumerated among the disastrous consequences of its visitation : " Our tradesmen, wholesale and retail, have lost thou sands, their customers being afraid to enter the town, even with supplies. An enormous expense has been incurred din attending and feedi ng th e sick, and burying th, a greviour permanent charge upon the rates for the support of the widows and orphans who have lost those who found them bread —and the work is yet to do." From ret urns ME TROPOLIS. made by the superintendents the H, K, M, and P divisions of police to the Commissioners of Police, and transmitted by the Commissioners to the General Board of Health —it appears that on the 22d, 23rd, and 24th inst. there have occurred within those districts four cases of cholera, all terminating fatally. In one case the person died nine hours and a-half after the attack, and in a second 19 hours after seizure. ALARMING FIRES IN LAMBETH AND BA MPSTEA D-ROA D. This morning, between the hours of twelve and one, two fires broke out almost at the same moment —one i Lambeth, and the other in Hampstead-road. On occurred in the premises of Mr. Lovesay, a chandle and general dealer, carrying on business at No. 36, George-street, Lambeth-walk. At the time of the out break the various' inmates of the house were in their beds asleep. They were quickly aroused by the poli ce , and those sleeping in the lower part of the house were enabled to effect a safe retreat, but not until they were nearly suffocated with smoke. Two lodgers, living in the top part of the house, had to jump through a skylight, and in so doing, it is feared that they were badly cut by the glass broken by their weight. Mr. Inspector Car ter who was on the spot in the course of a few minutes after the alarm was given, entered the building, a n d with the aid of buckets of water succeeded in keepin the fire from progressing during the time lost in send ing for the engines. In a very brief period the Royal Society's escapes arrived, as well as the engines o the rlodge's Distillery, the London Brigade, and but in spite of which the fire could not the upper ApVar:ssth'of England office. Every one present at once wu w loec e lrs n teiu t obcn t do o uno w esfdu o m r t k he , ed, 1 un til the whole of the contents of the sk p Fortunately, the and much damage done to °- premises by heat. ifinrseu tookr e d in placetl ie Monarch the a tailor, No. 20, Hampton-terrac suff T e h r e er ot w h a e s r premises of Mr. Lan to p ang, nearly facing the Camden station of; Hampstead-road, stead-read ' Railway. As in the previous case, the North-Western in bed and asleep when the alarmase, the inmates were all only by forcing through the was given, and it was with their lives. The en • smoke that they escaped of England Office gines of the Brigade and West the fire could not be attende d as quickly as possible, but shop was all but co got under until the stock in the in the Sun Fire consumed. The sufferer was insured from an escape f Office. Both o gas. fires, it is presumed, arose FIRE IN THE KING'S DOCK, LIVERPOOL, 1.17 D Loss OF LIFE. — Early on Tuesday morning on board the l alarmorningan given th a t a f i re had broken out was steam- Dreadnought, b e l ong i ng to the Steam-tug Conpatnuyg which was lyi ng a l ongs i de the pier of the King's Dock. The engines belonging to the fire-brigade were quickly on the spot, and on their arrival it was found that the whole of the hold was on fire, and the entire destruc tion of the steamer was threatened. In a short time, how ever, the flames were subdued, but not before consider able damage had been done to the vessel. We regret to say that, whilst engaged in extinguishing the fire, one of the brigade was drowned, and two others received consi derable injuries by falling into the hold of the steamer. The unfortunate man who lost his life was directing the hose on the edge of the pier, -and whilst so engaged a portion of the hose caught hi s feet, and, losing his balance, he fell into the water and was drowned. Every exer tion was made to save him, but to no purpose, as he was never once seen after falling into the water. The name of the deceased did not transpire, but his hat was after wards found floating on the surface of the water, and on examining it, No. 415 was printed on it. The men in attendance dragged for the body, but had not been able to discover it up to yesterday (Wednesday.) It is somewhat singular that the Dreadnought had been fitted out for sea, and was intended to have been dispatched yesterday morning, to assist in laying down the sub marine telegraph between PQrtpatrick and Donaghadee. _~~ /