The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-03-26 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES. By the Scotland, Captain Robinson, which sailed from New York on the 6th instant, and arrived here yesterday, we have received papers to the above date. We subjoin as many extracts as we have room for. SENATE, FEBRUARY 28. Mr. Buckingham, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, made a report on the President's Message and Documents, and protocol. It set forth, that the committee, after a long, and patient, and critical investigation, could find no trace of any agreement between the two powers by which England was to exercise exclusive jurisdiction ; but, on the contrary, they had found, that the disputed territory was not to be in possession of either, except so far as each had held it respec tively : that, if New Brunswick had determined to maintain possession, then the crisis had arrived under the constitution, when the President could call out the militia : that Maine had not violated the spirit of the compact in sending a land agent to drive off lawless intruders,—it was the right of both so to do, but the duty of each to retire afterwards : that, if New Brunswick forbears to execute her threat, then Maine is to withdraw the troops, and, if she will not do so, then she is to receive no military aid from the U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, FEB. 28. At one o'clock to-day, in the house, Mr. Howard, chair man of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, obtained the unanimous consent of the house to bring in a bill from the committee relating to the boundary troubles. The bill makes the following important provisions. The raising of the following troops :- 10 Regiments of Infantry, 2 Regiments of Artillery, • 2 Regiments of Riflemen, 1 Regiment of Cavalry. The troops to be raised, if necessary, and discharged, if necessary, during the recess of Congress—to enlist for five years, and to serve for that time, or during the war, if war there should be. The President is also authorised to send out a Special Minister to England, to make pacific proposititions. A loan, ten millions, to be raised on the credit of the Government. The troops are to be a provisionary army, to be employed by the President of the United States to repel invasion. The possession of the disputed territory by British soldiers, ac cording to the claim and determination set up by Sir John Harvey, is to he considered an invasion. After the reading of the bill, the Report of the Committee was then:read, giving the reasons for the bill. DEFENCE LAW. LAW FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE UNITED STATES. An Act giving to the President of the United States additional powers for the defence of the United States, in certain cases, against invasion, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, of the United States of America in Congress assembled, — That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorised to resist any attempt on the part of Great Britain to enforce, by arms, her claims to exclusive jurisdiction over that part of the State of Maine which is in dispute between the United States and Great Britain ; and, for that pnrpose, to employ the naval and military forces of the United States, and such portions of the militia as he may deem it advisable to call into service. . . Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the militia, when called into the service of the United States by virtue of this act, or of the act entitled " An act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, repel invasions, and repeal the act now in force for these purposes," may, if in the opinion of the President of the United States the public interest require it, be com pelled to serve for a term not exceeding six months after their arrival at their place of rendezvous, in any one year, unless sooner discharged. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in the event of actual invasion of the territory of the United States by any foreign power, or if imminent danger of such invasion dis covered, in his opinion to exist before Congress can be con vened to act upon the subject, the President be, and he is hereby authorised, if he deem the same expedient, to accept the services of any number of volunteers, and to raise an additional regiment of dragoons or mounted riflemen," ap proved May 23d, 1836. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That, in the event of either of the contingences provided for in this act, the Presi dent of the United States shall be authorized by law, to com plete the public armed vessels now authorized by law, and to equip, man, and employ, into actual service, all the naval force of the United States ; and to build, purchase, or char ter, arm, equip, and man such vessels and steam-boats on the northern lakes and rivers, whose waters communicate with the United States and Great Britain, as he shall deem neces sary to protect the United States from invasion from that quarter. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the sum of ten millions of dollars is hereby appropriated and placed at his disposal for the purpose of executing the provisions of this act ; to provide for which the Secretary of the Treasury is authorised to borrow money on the credit of the United States, and to cause to be issued certificates of stock, signed by the Register of the Treasury, for the sum to be borrowed, or any part thereof ; and the same to be sold on the best terms that may be offered after public notice for proposals for the same : Provided, That no engagement or contract be entered into which shall preclude the United States from re imbursing any sum or sums thus borrowed after the expira tion of five years after the Ist of January next; and that the rate of intergst shall not exceed five per cent., payable semi annually. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the sum of eighteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for outfit and salary of a special minister to Great Britain : provided, the President of the United States shall deem it expedient to appoint the same. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That, in the event of either of the contingencies provided for in the first and third sections of this act, the President of the United States shall be authorized to apply a part, not exceeding 1,000,000 dollars, of the appropriation made in this act to repairing or arming fortifications along the seaboard and frontier. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That, whenever militia or volunteers are called into the service of the United States they_shall havethe .oreaßization of the rmy ot the 1J nited visions of this act shall he in force until the end of sixty days after the meeting of the first session of the next Congress, and no longer. JAMES K. POLK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. R. KING, President pro. tem. of the Senate. Approved, March 3, 1839. M. VAN BUREN. THE ALLEGED MURDER AT HAYES. A. verdict of " Wilful Murder" having been returned by the jury, at the coroner's inquest on Monday last, against Mr. Francis Hastings Medhurst, who stabbed Mr. Joseph Alsop, his fellow pupil, at the house of the Rev. F. Stunner, Wood End-green, Mayes. It was expected he would be committed to Newgate on the coroner's warrant. The ma gistrates, however, on examining the warrant issued by the coroner, finding it only authorised the apprehension of the party accused, directed the constable who might take him into custody to " convey him before me the said coroner, or any of the magistrates justices of the peace, that he may be dealt with according to law," determined on proceeding with the investigation, and accordingly issued summonses for the attendance of the whole of the witnesses. The examination occupied upwards of six hours ; after which, Sir W. Wiseman addressed the prisoner, and said—After the evidence adduced we can only bring our minds to consider . it manslaughter ; you therefore stand committed to take your trial for that offence. It is my duty to inform you that you also stand committed on the warrant of the coroner for the crime of murder, a verdict of " wilful murder" having been returned against you by the jury at the inquest. The prisoner, who, during the examination, and more particularly during the address of Mr. Stammers, had fre quently shed tears, bowed to the bench. PATENT SHEATHING. (From the Mining Journal.) We have had an opportunity of visiting the works in the neighbourhood of Swansea, and we gladly avail ourselves of the present occaion of noting the result of our observations. e feel bound to acknowledge the polite attention and the readiness to furnish information evinced by Mr. G. F. Muntz (the patentee), on the occasion of our visit, and although from the nature of the manufacture it is simple in its details, the advantages must be so apparent to the shipowner, that any remarks we may make cannot be otherwise than acceptable to that wealthy and important class. The use of zinc is not only " progressing," but is likely to compete in the propor tion of 40 to 60 with copper in the sheating of vessels. The works are situated within ahout a mile of the town of Swansea, immediately in the neighbourhood of the copper works (on which we shall have occasion to say something in an early number,) and are at present capable of manufacturing a considerable quantity of sheathing and bolts—there being four pair of rollers, with the machinery necessary for draw ing rods, worked by an engine of 54i-inch cylinder, Bk-feet stroke. The metal is a combination of copper and zinc, the best admixture being found to be 60 per cent. of the former and 40 per cent. of the latter. The metal is delivered on the works, and is then submitted in these proportions to the action of a reverberatory furnace, or melted in pots, from which it is cast in plates or bars, aecording to the object for which the metal is required, whether " bolts" or " sheathing." It is subsequently submitted . to heat, and when, as it appeared to us, of a " cherry red," is worked in the cylinders or rollers, or drawn out in rods. The process is in itself exceedingly simple, and affords little novelty to any one accustomed to the manufacture of iron. _ Many opinions have been advanced, and doubts expressed, of the advantages (if any) which this metal possessed, while its ductility was questioned, and its permanence only admit ted when it had been subjected to the test of some years' ap plication. It is satisfactory to find that the results have fully realised the sanguine expectations of the patentee : one vessel having made three voyages to India without repairs being required, and another having been sheathed for the past five years with the " yellow metal," and now in good condition, while in the port of Swansea, at the psesent time, two Hamburgh vessels. the Kat e an d A nna L ou i se, have adopted it. In the instance of the Kate, we take the words of the owner—" He has effected a saving on a 400 ton vessel of full £80." The difference in the price of copper and Muntz's (or yellow metal sheathing, being three-halfpence per pound less, and the difference in the spe c ifi c grav it y B to 9 per cent. With respect to the bolts, we have it on the statements of the ship wrights employed, that they are far superior in driving to those of copper, as possessing more tenacity and firmness. Such are the advantages of the combination of the two metals —copper and zinc ; and we may, therefore, hope, that with these advances in metallurgical science, we shall, whatever may be the influx of copper ores from foreign climes, be able still to look to home for our supply of mineral, which shall furnish not only employment to the population in our mining districts, but yield, as it has heretofore done, so considerable a proportion of our national wealth. `WORCESTER HOPS, MARCH 21.—There was a good supply of hops at our market on Saturday, a great portion of which were yearlings and the growth of 1836, though a few long lots of new, of favourite marks, were disposed of, and realised good prices. There remained a considerable bulk of mid dling and inferior samples unsold at the close of the market, although the holders of such would have submitted to much lower prices, could purchasers have been found. Weighed 79 pockets ; during the week 22 pockets. - From the moment that Sir Robert Peel, on the first day of the session, answered the corn-law agitators out of the mouth of their own organ, the president of the chamber of commerce, at Manchester, the fate of the question might be fairly considered at an end ; and though a deluge of words has since been poured out upon it, with the exception of those of Mr. Villiers and Mr. W. Harvey, on one side, and those of Lord Ripon, Sir Robert Peel, and Sir James Graham on the other, little, if any, light has been thrown upon it. Add to which the overwhelmning majorities by which the question has been decided in both houses, leaves nothing even for senseless clamour to vent itself upon. And this source of agitation, thereforeOlaving failed, it is to be hoped that public attention will no longer be drawn away from real evils to grapple with imaginary ones. The wrongs, for instance, inflicted by the whig poor law, are of the one class —those of the corn-law of the other. —Morning Herald. finprrtat Varitaintnt. HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM presented petitions from Warrington, Liverpool, and Kingston-upon-H u ll, aga i ns t the beer bill. Petitionsw were also presented on various other subjects, JAMAICA. _ _ The Marquis of NORMA2:7l7;iated, in answer to a ques tion put to him by the Marquis of Sligo, that an arrange ment had been commenced by her Majesty's Government respecting the state of trade between Jamaica and the island of St. Domingo, and that a communication had been made in January last, but to which there had, of course, yet been no answer. STATE OF IRELAND. The Earl of RODEN brought - forward ihe motion of which he had given notice, respecting the state of Ireland since 1835. The house was occupied until four o'clock in the morning with the discussion, and it ended in the motion being carried by a majority of 63 to 58, although it was treated by ministers as a vote of censure on the Government, and resisted by them to the utmost of their power. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THIIRSDAY. Mr. Buck was introduced by Sir J. Y. Buller and Mr. Parker, and took the oaths and his seat for North Devon. The London and Blackwall Railway Bill, after a discussion and division, was read a second time :—the numbers being— for, 80 ; against, 64. The Norwich Improvement Bill, to enable the corporation to pave and light the suburbs, was opposed, hut on a division was read a second time by a majority of 110 to 80. EXECUTIONS IN CANADA. Mr. O'CONNELL repeated the question he had asked the other evening, whether the capital executions in Canada were about to cease? Mr. LABOUCHERE was happy to inform the house that communications had been received from Sir John Collotorne and Sir G. Arthur, in which those gallant officers stated that they did not imagine any further capital executions would be necessary. HOUSEHOLD SUFFRAGE. Mr. HUME rose to move a resolution, the effect of which was to introduce household suffrage as an amendment of the reform act, but the hon. gentleman concluded his speech by simply moving for leave to bring in a bill to amend that act. After a short discussion, the motion was negatived by a ma jority of 85 to 50. The house was counted out at half-past nine o'clock on a motion of Mr. FRENCH for an address to the crown, praying that her Majesty will direct measures to be taken for securing to every province in Ireland the advantages of railroad com munication. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY. The tithes (Ireland) arrears bill was read a second time. The Marquis of NORMANBY requested the noble earl (Roden,) whose motion fora committee on the state of Ireland had been agreed to last night, to substitute some other name on that committee in place of his (the Marquis of Norman by's) as he did not think it desirable that he should act on the committee. His lordship then adverted to the course pur sued by Lord Brougham in the recent debate, and declared that it had terminated a friendship of 20 years' standing. His impression was, that the noble and learned lord had not acted towards him with the sincerity which he had a right to expect. Lord BROUGHAM expressed his regret at the last observa tion of the noble marquis, but he felt it the less, as he had done nothing to forfeit that friendship. . The noble and learned lord then glanced at the course which he had taken on the different questions respecting Lord Normanby's go vernment in Ireland, and particularly censured " the libera tion tours," which he thought highly objectionable. The name of the Duke of RICHMOND was then added to the committee on the state of Ireland. The Duke of WELLINGTON'S estate bill was read a first time. Lord WEARNCLIFFE moved for copies of the monthly re turns of the constabulary force in Ireland of the outrages committed since 1835, which were ordered. Lord BROUGHAM postponed the second reading of the beer act partial repeal bill until after Easter.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. The SPEAKER informed the house that he had received an intimation from Mr. Bruen, that he did not intend to defend his return for the borough of Carlow. The Duke of WELLINGTON'S estate bill was read a third time and passed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated, in answer to Lord Sandon, that soon after Easter he would propose a bill on the subject of joint-stock banks, and also a bill re specting usury. Lord MORPETH stated, in answer to Mr. Shaw, that the resolution respecting railways in Ireland would be farther proceeded with on the 22d of April. PROSPECTIVE RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, that he wished to postpone some of the orders of the day—the first was the municipal corporation (Ireland) bill, on which he proposed to take the committee on Monday, 15th April. In moving this post ponement " I will take the opportunity (said the noble lord) in the very first week after the recess, and on one of the first days after the holydays, to ask for the opinion of the house with respect to the government of Ireland of late years. It appears by the minutes of the proceedings of the House of Lords that the house appointed, at an early hour this morn ing, a select committee to inquire into the state of Ireland since the year 1835, in respect to crime and outrage which have rendered life and property insecure in that part of the empire. Without wishing to enter into an argument with respect to the propriety of appointing that committee or not, which, of course, it does not become me, particularly at this time, to enter into, I think it is obvious that the appointment of such a conimittee, fixing the date of the year 1835, and fixing the subject of crime and outrage, and insecurity of life and property, must create a general belief throughout the empire, and more especially in that part of the united king dom which it affects, that it is intended to transfer the ex ecutive government of Ireland to a select committee, of one house of parliament, And that it is more especially intended to call into question the exercise of one of the highest prero gatives of the crown—viz., the exercise of the prerogative of mercy—(hear, hear)—before inquiring of witnesses before the select comintnittee. Ido not say that there may not be circumstances which may justify such a course ; I will not CMG' tutu tam q....tio n . whether the House of Lords may ant have the arguments brought befo r e th.in to induce. tlaer t" proceeu to carry on toe ....eicutu, as tor ten tenant of that part of the united kingdom, without being as sured whether it is the intention of the House of Commons that those principles which have governed the administration of Ireland since the year 1835 should be adhered to, or whe ther they should be abandoned. In conformity with the de claration which Lord Melbourne has made at various times, with one especial declaration that he held office as long as he retained the confidence of the House of Commons, I think it incumbent upon me—not leaving it to any other member of parliament who may be connected with the government—l think it incumbent upon me to bring directly this question to issue, whether this house a dh eres t o the principles by which the administration has been conducted—(hear, hear). I am perfectly well aware, with respect to various legislative measures which have frequently been the subject of discus sion, that these measures which we ourselves thought proper to be adopted we hate not been able to carry ; but this we have been able to do,—we have been able, with the confi dence, as I believe, of one house of parliament, and with the forbearance of the other, to carry on an admi n i s t ra ti on i n Ireland whi c h we thought was conducive to the peace and prosperity of that part of the empire. It is upon this ques tion, then, that I shall think it necessary to ask the opinion of the House of Commons. lam ready, certainly, to desire my noble friend, Lord Fortescue, who is about to proceed as 1041 lieutenant of Ireland, to continue in the maintenance and in the execution of the law in the same manner in which it has been hitherto administered, if the house is pleased to agree with me on the subject ; and if the house shall not be pleased to approve of those principles, and should think that those principles should be abandoned, and other principles should be adopted and maintained, in that case to relinquish to other hands the government of the country." (Hear.), The committee on the municipal corporations (Ireland) bill was then postponed till the 15th April. • Sir R. PEEL, in the arrangement of the orders of th e d a y, said that he sho u ld b e g l a d o f the opportunity of proceeding with the trial of controverted elections bill before Easter. The ecclesiastical appointments suspension bill, on the motion of Lord John Russell, was read the second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday. Mr. MACLEAN, after having instituted inquiry as to the opportunity, or right, that this country had to trade with the Circassians, said that he would, on an early day after the Easter recess, bring the whole subject before the house. Lord PALMERSTON, in answer to inquiry from Mr. O'CONNELL, stated that the government had interfered in the hope of mediating between the parties so as to promote a termination of the hostilities now raging between Chili, Peru, Buenos Ayres, &c. ; and that though no satisfactory result had yet ensued, there were negotiations and proceed ings which justified him in entertaining sanguine expectations that they would lead to a happy result. Lord Howtoc, the house having resolved itself into com mittee of supply, then brought forward resolutions on the army estimates ; they led to extended but desultory discus sion, on the increase of the army, &c., and occupied the remainder of the sitting. Lord Howicx brought in the mutiny bill, and Mr. C. WOOD brought in the marine mutiny bill. They were seve rally read the first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday, to which day the house then adjourned. LEICESTER ELECTION.—Mr. Wynn Ellis, the ministerial candidate, was, on Thursday, returned for this borough, by a mojority of 307. It is said that a petition will be pre sented against Mr. Ellis's return, the election having been rendered informal by the removal of one of the polling places, without notice being given of the same. QUACKERY.—As a quack practitioner, on Ludgate-hill, was standing at his door, a regular-bred physician passed, who had learning and abilities, but not the success in his practice which he deserved. " How comes it," said he to the quack, " that you, without education, skill, or the least knowledge of the science, are enabled to live in the style you do ? You keep your town house and your country house, while I, allowed to possess some knowledge, have neither, and can scarcely pick up a subsistence." " Why, look ye," said the quack, "how many people do you think have passed us since you asked me the question ? " " Why," answered the doc tor, " perhaps a hundred." " And how many out out of that hundred,., think you, possess common sense ?" " Possibly, one," answered the doctor. " Then," said the quack, " that one, comes to you, and I take care to get, the other ninety 'due." —Morning Herald. FORTUNATE ESCAPE.—As Mr. Bolton Peel, son of Jonathan Peel, Esq. of Culham, was hunting with the Berk shire hounds on Wednesday last, in riding at a ditch, on the right hand side of which was a gate, in a meadow between Baldon and Garsington, the horse became startled at the dazzling reflection of the sun in the water, and shyed, and immediately took the gate, but failed in clearing it, his hind legs becoming entangled in it, by which Mr. Peel was thrown with considerable violence to the ground, and before he could recover himself the horse extricated himself from the gate, and fell upon the young gentleman's chest with fearful force. Mr. Michael Ivey, of this town, being on the spot, and other aid shortly arriving they succeeded in relieving the young gentleman from his perilous situation, when they found him quite insensible, and bleeding profusely from the nose, eyes, and mouth. A medical gen tl eman h appen i ng most fortu nately to be in the hunt was soon in attendance, through whose aid Mr. Peel was, after the lapse of about 20 minutes restored, and was ultimately enabled to remount his horse and ride home. We are glad to learn that the young gentle man's injuries are not so serious as might have been ex pected.—Oxford Herald. ASPHALTE FACTORY FLOORS.—The noise which this new substitute for flagged footpaths and granite pavements made on its first introduction into the metropolis, has, it would seem, in that quarter at least, almost ceased ; but whether from a want of confidence of its general successful application for footpaths, or from the short time which has elapsed since the few experiments were made, it is hard to determine ; but be that as it may, the application of asphaltum seems destined to have a new direction, viz., in that of laying out fire-proof cotton mill floors with the composition, instead of, as at pre sent, with flags or tiles. The company which was formed a few months ago in Manchester, is now engaged in laying asphaltum floors for the Oxford-road Twist Company, Man chester, and judging from what has been already completed, is likely to give very great satisfaction. It is hardly possible to conceive the beauty of a floor thus formed, and of its dura bility not a doubt can exist. It has also been applied success fully in covering steam engine boilers, instead of with brick work, it having been found an admirable non-conductor. of heat. Messrs. Thos. Hoyle and Sons have also.had lately executed some footpaths leading to their extensive print works, which are singularly neat in their execution, DOCTOR MACHALE'S PASTORAL-LENTEN ENTERTAINMENT-THE ROSARY. (Prom the Dublin Evening Mail.) • " In every contest with error the Catholic Church has, in all ages, especially invoked the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, and put itself under her patronage. It has in a par ticular manner recommended the devotion of the Rosary, which was first instituted to guard the Faithful against some of the most pernicious heresies that distracted and defiled the Church, of God. Let the devotion be familiar to the people of this diocess." &c., &c.—Pastoral Letter of the Most Rev. Doctor Mae Hale, dated the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter,.lB39. Seeing the high request in which the Rosary is to be this Lent, we think we cannot make better amends to his Grace and the rest of the Faithful, for the occasional hard things we say of them, than by giving for their edification and com fort, a few extracts from one of a number of sermons preached on this particular subject, with great approbation, at Rome, by a learned member of the Society of Jesus : " Father Antonio Vieyra was called f rom y Portugal by the general of his order, at the request of Pope Alexander the Seventh, and - many Cardinals, and of the famous Queen of Sweeden, Christiana, at that time at Rome, who had a great desire to hear him, from the fame which was spread of him all over Europe. The Pope, the Queen of Sweden, and the King of Portugal all contended for the honour of having so admirable a preacher at their several courts : but, no ; Vieyra had a call as he thought to the Brazils, whither he went, and there died, A.D. 1697. The sermon on the Rosary, is the twenty.sixth of thirty on that subject, being in the 120th page of the fourth volume of his works, as printed at Barce lona, in 1752." The preacher takes for his text that passage in Luke— " Beatus venter qui to portavit et übera gum suxisti."— (Luke 1, c. xi, v. 27.) and proceeds to show-Ist. " This womb and these breasts of Mary, are now canonized by the virtue and miracles of her Rosary." These virtues now to be illustrated by examples : " Singular (says the preacher) and in all its circumstances, admirable is the case, my brethern, which I shall now tell for you, related by St. Alon de Rupe, i n hi s b o ok on th e bi r th of the Psalter of the Virgin. Two young women of the mountains were passing through a desert, when they were met by two most fierce and hungry wolves, which divided between them the innocent and defenceless prey. One of these damsals was devoutly attached to the Rosary, which she rehearsed every day, and the other not. To the latter one of the wolves approached, and fixing his teeth in her throat, presently brought her lifeless to the ground. What happened to the former, I shall recite in the words of the author—which are these :—` Quee Rosarium Beatissimee Virginis recitare consueverat (nira res I) lupus tjus übera abrumpit, ventrem discerpit, viscera voravit. Et adhuc tridue vixit, in quo sincere confitetur, devote communicat, fiducialiter moritur. A Maria in extremis visitatur, et ad cwlum gaudio perchleitur.' That is to say—the other wolf attacked the damsel who rehearsed the Rosary, tore off her breasts, lacerated her womb, and ate it, and drew out all her entrails. And did she directly die, too, like her companion ? So it would have been in the course of nature ; but because she was a devout of the Rosary, the Virgin our Lady pre served alive without heart or entrails for three days, in which she performed the duty of confession much at her leisure, and communicated devoutly; and at the end of them our Lady herself visited her, and, as if the wolf had been a tyrant, and she a martyr, carrried her directly up to Heaven (a privilege martyrs are entitled to without entering Pur gatory)." Hear that, ye virgin precursoresses, and fear not to walk even through the howling wilderness of Killyman, armed with your rosaries— " Namque me sylva vir-aureus Armachana Dum cecini Rosarium et ultra Fines przecurro, curis expeditus Fugit inermem." •[" Priscian's head a leetle scratched ;—but twill do." Our poet will have his joke, " though he make the blank verse halt for it." The stanza, however, for the benefit of the " subjects " of St.• Jarlath, may be thus rendered into the vernacular : For whilst—escaped the nunnery's botnds— Through Armagh's woods I took my rounds, And bead by bead my rosary scanned ; An Orange monster at my sight, (When least I thought of men) took fright And fled from helpless me—unmanned. Interpolation of our Printer's Devil.] For what says the preacher?— "We shall see, then, with the Divine grace: that as the Virgin our Lady, in reward for the devotion of the Rosary, supplied in this her votary the want of what was so necessary to her for this life, so she does and will supply in all who have the same devotion, all want of whatever is convenient for temporal life, and all want of whatever is important for that which will be eternal—Ave Maria ! " He then proceeds to make it appear that it was the Virgin Mary who guided the ark of Moses to the shore of the Nile ; and that it was she also who changed the water into wine at the feast of Cana—for why ? " She represented to her Son, as Creator of all things, the deficiency there was.—Vinutn non habent. And the Lord, as surprised at her implied request, answered—ibid 4. Quid mihi et tibi—what business is that of yours or mine what is wanting in the house at the table of other people ?—./bid 5 Nondum venit hora mea—my hour for working miracles is not yet come. But, notwithstanding, this Lady did not de sist from prosecuting the remedy for that want, saying to them who served that they should do whatever he command ed them, as if she had said to him herself, if your hour for working miracles is not yet come, my care and obligation to supply what is wanting pays no regard to hours ; and the same hour in which things are wanting, that is my hour," Then after the miracle had been wrought— "ln this manner did the most gracious Mary supply in this want not only one but many wants, and the wants of many. To the_govertior of the feast she supplied the wantof attention ; to the married couple the want of provisions ; to the table the want of drink, and even to Christ himself the want of—" But the remainder is too blasphemous to make public, even for the purpose Lof exposing these awful perversions of God's Word, which appear fast becoming the standard lite rature of seven millions of the people of these countries. But, to return to the devout of the Rosary ; there is one auu Elle snaffle 01 sued- 7177 . 0ff lies wholly at the door of St. Jarlath's College : " God supplies - the want of a thing with the thing itself ; but in the case of the devout of the Rosary, Mary supplied the want of bowels, heart, See., with the privation and non e.ristence of the thing wanted—in this perfection, excellence, and curiousness of supplement excelling " But again we draw back the pen in horor, and are unable to complete the hideous profanity. And this is fast becoming the standard literature of Ire land. Vieyra's sermons are generally in the hands of the Popish clergy. His thirty sermons on the Rosary will now be in more request through the diocese of Tuam than any other work on Mr. Coyne's shelves. But let us go on with the preacher's illustrations : " One of the Queen's children, a little girl, fell from a window of the palace into an area, in which a lion was kept confined in whose paws they expected to see her die, if she should escape from the fall. The child wore a Rosary for ornament, for Rosaries were the necklaces of ladies in those days. The keeper of the beast, and the other servants, ran directly to the place, and what they saw and heard was, that the lion having attacked the child, she had thrown her. Rosary round his neck, and was playing with her little hands among his shaggy locks, and fondling him as if he had been a lap dog, saying to him very prettily—` Lion, lion, don't eat me , for I am to be a nun in C as tl er " The preacher then returns to St. Alan de Rupe, and his story of the wolf and the devout damsel, arguing very learn edly from the expressions in Solomon's song, " Venter tuus, si cut acervus tritici valiatus rosin,' and übera tua sicut duo yenzelli caprce qui pascuntur in rosis,' that the royal poet plainly alluded to this adventure of the breasts and belly, supplied by the miraculous assistance of the Rosary " Thus, then, as our gracious Lady supplied in this damsel the want of her breasts and belly, by virtue of her Rosary, so will she likewise supply, on like conditions to us all, all our wants temporal and eternal." To begin with the temporal— " What dost thou want ? I want that which supplies all all wants, which is, money. This says a poor man, and thus all men say. But I say that if thou rehearse the Rosary every day to the Mother of God, she will abundantly supply this want." Instances are then given of this being so completely done in France and Germany, that the good people on whom the miracle was wrought became so rich, that they maintained all the poor in the country in which they lived.' Hear that, ye Connaught gentlemen, who turn pale at the mention of the Poor Laws. One may be rich, but unhappy from the want of children. The devotion of the Rosary brings down the blessing of fruit fulnes, as is shown by " incontestible examples in France and Holland." Who has more wants than the poor soldier ?—particularly those of defence in the day of battle, and of security from the severe laws of his commanders ? Yet, in the late war in Flanders—our soldiers " swore terribly there," says my Uncle Toby : but Father Antonio says —many of the Catholic soldiers, by virtue of repeating the Rosary, found the bullets of their enemies strike against them but as pellets of wax, and fall harmless to the ground. Then as to its ascendancy over the decisions of a court martial : " Two 'soldiers being condemned to die for having broken an edict of the Duke of Alva, their confessors, knowing the ex treme severity of the general, gave them no hopes of life, but exhorted them to recommend themselves to the Lady of the Rosary. One of them, an hardened and obstinate wretch, paid no attention to his advice ; but the other embraced it hearily, and set himself to repeating the Rosary with all the devotion and ardour that the emergency of the case required. At length they were carried forth to punishment, each seated on an ass, as is the usual custom, and the event was, that the asses passing, surrounded with gaurds, before a church, the ass which carried the soldier who had repeated the Rosary, broke through the middle of the throng with such fury that he could not be stopped, and entering into the church, went up to a chapel of our Lady of the Rosary, under the sacred immunity of which the soldier remained not only secure but free." p To the soldier follows the litigant ; a poor widow, who, having neither money nor friends, had a cruel and unjust de cree made against her by the judge ; and by virtue of her attachment to the Rosary, the wordi are so changed iu the judge's mouth, as to appear on the record wholly in her favour. A good woman was unhappy for want of her husband's love, she repeated the Rosary, and soon found him at her feet in an humble posture. Who undergo more danger than seafaring people, particu larly from the Moors and from storms ? Companies of Moors, observes Father Antonio, frequently lie in ambush on the southern coast of Spain to kidnap unwary passengers. A religious Portuguese travelling that way, was set upon by one of these companies; he had immediate recourse to his Rosary 'and " as if a flash of lightning had issued from each bead," the Moors were all suddenly struck blind ; the delivered tra veller returned thanks to his protecting Lady, and laughing at the blind Pagans, joyfully pursued his journey. Against storms the preacher himself can prove the efficacy of the Rosary from his own experience. He was once in such a storm that the ship lost all her masts ; but upon the crew promising to repeat the Rosary every day of their lives, the storm ceased, and another ship immediately hove in sight, which took them from their own disabled barque, and carried them on shore. In a voyage from Europe to Brazil a sailor fell overboad, and was brought to the ship four days afterwards, by virtue of his repeating the Rosary all the time, riding on fish back. " Captain Allan, famous in the history of the Rosary, to which he was most devoted, on one of his ships going to the bottom in the midst of the sea, and every soul on board being drowned, found himself in that very place on shore and walk ing on land, made unequal by little hills and some mountains. At the end of them he observed, for he went on. counting them, that the mountains were in number fifteen, and the hills one hundred and fifty ; for, of that very Rosary which he wore about him, had our Lady made a bridge of firm land over the waves of the sea." That among the variety of states and conditions, men of letters may not be excluded, several proofs are given of the Rosary conferring great abilities, and particularly— " One student who wanted neither parts nor memory, was so unapt to poetry that he could not join three syllables to gether which would run in a verse ; hut, being taught, not by his master, but by his mother, to repeat the Rosary, so fruit ful a vein of poetry was opened in him, that he directly not only far exceeded all his fellow students, but became equal to the poets of the greatest fame:" Poor souls shut up in prison want liberty ; the Virgin has often miraculously delivered them for their 'devotion to the Rosary. As to diseases— "The pain within and the pain without, The stone, the dropsy and the gout," the Rosary is a penacea, each bead better than a whole bar rel-full of Morison's pills. Ex litultitudine exemplorum confirmatur. The Rosary will likewise discover the Devil when he puts on the appearance of a courtezan, as is proved by divers ex amples. _ . A poor wretch after having sold himself to the Devil, re hearses the Rosary ; whereupon the Virgin gets up the bond with the blood-red signature erased. St. Dominick, in Italy, meets with a famous robber; fails in converting him, but gets his promise to repeat the Rosary daily. The robber dies and is buried. Two years afterwards Dominick passes that way, and hears him making his plaint under the earth. The Virgin had not allowed him to die without absolution : this he gets, and so ascends in gloriam, &c., &c. _ _ _ Such, we say again, is fast becoming the standardliterature of Ireland in the middle of the I9th century ; and no wonder that it should. When millions of men abide the decision of one weak-minded and tyrannical impostor on so vital a ques tion as whether their children are to be allowed to read at all, it is little wonder that the reading they should themselves be recommended to indulge in should be a fit study far fanatics, and a proper pabulum fervorum. THE THREE DROMIOS. THE LORD LIEUTENANT-DUTY OF THE CONSERVATIVES (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) In 1835 Lord Mulgrave was appointed to the Lord Lieu tenancy of Ireland, and was succeeded in the goirernment of Jamaica by Sir Lionel Smith. Whether both these statesmen studied in the same school ; or that the latter was the pupil of the former; or, finally, whether both, equally ignorant of all principles of government and indifferent as to the admi nistration of any, acted under the instructions from superior authority which .were common to both, it were now difficult to ascertain and needless to inquire; for, from whatever cause arising, their measures are. identical ; and what con temporary history records of the one, may with equal truth be predicted of the other. The colour of the negroes, whom they respectively reduced in the scale of civilization, is the only shadow of difference in their administrations. As an illustration of this singular coincidence, we extract from the Jamitica Despatch of the 7th February in the cur rent year, a passage d,eseriptive of Sir Lionel's proceedings in Jamaica, which, rnutatis mutandis, conveys an accurate outline of the noble Marquis's on-goings in Ireland. Thus : " The Governor pardons thieves and vagabonds, but incar cerates honest men ! He sanctions slander, falsehood, and: misrepresentation in hireling parsons, (Priests,) and stipen diaries, who are precipitating Jamaica's (Ireland's) ruin, and has encouraged extortionate demands on the part of the ap prentices (Papists;) but he does not hesitate to issue his writ of supersedeas against the local magistrate, who has courage to oppose calumny, or to vindicate his character and rights The independent magistracy and the landed gentry of the island are the especial objects of the executive ban, and if this reversal of every sound maxim of wise policy is not speedily rectified, the consequence must be the loss of this va luable colony (country) to the British crown !" Well, a double Sir Lionel—or a duplicate Marquis—might, in all reason, be considered a sufficient prodigy for one age and nation :—but it is not so. A third has started up upon the troubled scene of agitation ; and lo !—the Baron Fortescue, anxious to share in the divided laurels, declares, that having been appointed to the Viceroyalty of Ireland, he will walk in the footsteps of his immediate predecessor ; and he trusts that "at the close of his career, be it long or be it short, he shall reap the same harvest of benevolence from millions of Irishmen, which has lately marked the departure of his noble' friend (Lord Normanby) from the shores of that country." The footsteps in which Lord Fortescue is to walk are sketched with a graphic, though general effect, in the fore going " counterfeit presentment of two brothers," Sir Lionel Smith, and the descendant of Sir Constantine Phipps. The postlirninious recollections which Lord Fortescue anticipates for himself, are dashed off with admirable and prophetic effect, in a smart pamphlet which has just issued from the press,* on the occasion of Lord Normanby's departure. My last wish," said his Excellency, in answer to Lord Charlemont's Address—" My last wish is, that my name may still be familiar as household words on Irish lips—my memory ever find a welcome in Irish hearts." Yes, replies the pamphleteer : " He shall not be forgotten.' " His name shall be indeed a household word,' till houses shall be safe. " No scene, no hour, no situation, no season, but shall suggest him to our minds. " With the close of day we shall remember him, and not forget to barricade our windows, and double lock, and chain, and bolt, and bar our doors. " Ere we retire to rest, his name shall be familiar in our mouths—as we search the house for lurking intimations of our social duties, lest some" sudden burst of spontaneous' combustion should convert our homes ' 'our- families, and ourselves, into accumulating proofs of the people's grati tude and attachment.' " In our very slumbers we shall not cease to think of him —and Mulgrave and his marauding myrmidons shall mingle in our midnight dreams. " In the morning we shall recall him to our minds—and return to fetch our pistols, ere we join our labourers, laying out our grounds, or cultivating our farms. * * "We never forget him. At home, we bear , him in con- stant remembrance—abroad, his. memory sharpens the spur of the belated traveller ; his name startles us in a moment of forgetfulness, and we hurry from the hospitable board. " Murder and Mulgrave have become twinned in our vo cabulary ; therefore, while murder is familiar, Mulgrave shall be a household word. Death, the destroyer of memory itself, shall be your only rival. * * " The clergyman will recollect you. He will remember that your four years of happiness were to him four years of suffering—suffering, because, through your aid, in those years the debtor defied and insulted the creditor. * * " The honest farmer won't forget him. -- He will remem ber how many attempts were made by the magistrates he appointed to deptive him of his arms. He will remember Igna- Armer,s.be:Ma obeyed . the dictates cf his conscience, chapel doom went forth, that his crops shbitht be ieterottlhg on his fields. * * " The true-hearted Roman Catholic farmer, who has dared. to .employ some of his numerous family; and embark a por tion of his hard-earned savings in an untenanted farm, will remember him; He will remember him as he lies down to rest within his insecure dwelling. H e w ill remember him as he trembles beneath his thatch. In his slumbers he will start with terror, as he dreams that his house is blockaded by ruffians—the thatch in flames—and that fire-arms prove use less, for his servant girl has poured hot water on the prim ing —because her sweetheart had pr om i se d t o marry h er i f she'd do so to oblige him. . . — " same farmer will remember him, when he recollects the acquittals of indicted incendiaries, or is sneered at or threatened by those convicted incendiaries, who have received his ambulatory p2.rdons.._ " But wilder, fiercer, if , possible more pitiable, will be the recollection of hiM in the mind o f th e ensavaged victim of the agitation he praised and rewarded. " He will remember how the National Association, from which Normanby selected his law officers, urged him to re sist the payment of tithes. He may have a bewildered re collection of how the lawyers of that association, which commanded him not to pay, and promised to indemnify him for not 'paying, with their own hands drew the bills in equity, through which the law compelled , him to pay, after subject ing him to ruinous expense. * * * * * * None ever will forget you—for famine, desolation, and mur der, are your monuments." Such are the recollections which Lord Fortescue threatens to justify—and which he anticipates with so much satisfaction. We are fully aware that his lordship is labou r i ng t o di sarm the prepossessions whiCh Protestants—from his own words and actions—have conceived against him ; and that his friends are sedulously endeavouring to lull our fears of the politician by diverting our attention to the , personal virtues of the man. The reply is—we have nothhig to do with him in his private capacity. He comes here in a public employment to admin ister a policy, whose bitter fruits we already deplore ; but of which he has, in contradistinction to th e P ro t estant and con servative-interest of Ireland, declared his unqualified appro bation. He can be recognised in the Castle of Dublin in no other light than that of a politician whose creed is enmity to the Established Church—a faithful imitation of Lord Nor manby's proceedings—and Repeal of the Union. Yes; we add this item on his own authority. His lordship is a repeal er—if not an immediate repealer, at least a prospective one. On the 11th of June, 1836, in the course of the debate on Irish Municipal Reform, his lordship spoke as follows : " Lord Ebrington said, that as he deeply felt the import ance of this question, he was anxious to address a few words upon it to the house. It had been said that if justice were not done to Ireland by the introduction of municipal reform and other measures, a repeal of the union would be sought for. With the opinion he entertained of the bill which had been sent up from that house, he would say, if it does not pass into a law, that those who.had declared themselves fa vourable to a repeal of the union would by that circumstance be furnished with a justifiable ground for calling for it. By the rejection of the present bill, those who advocated it be cause justice was not done to Ireland, would be justified in seeking it." Snell are his lordship's recorded qualifications for the go vernment of Ireland—such the general line of policy in favor of which he and his friends court the support and counten ance of the nobility, gentry, and clergy of Ireland, by their attendance on his levees and drawing-rooms, and a friendly intercourse at the Vice-regal residence. * LORD NORMANBY'S FAREWELL TO IRELAND. Dublin : William Curry, jun., and Co. Sackvillc-street, 1839 , THE WESLEYANS AND MR. STURGE. , In a late number of our one-sided contemporary, the Pa triot, we notice a letter from Mr. Sturge, reflecting, on our having given, from what he calls a " notorious pro-slavery" Jamaica paper, an article relating to his treatment of the Rev. Isaac Whitehouse. It may doubtless be very convenient for Mr. Sturge to endeavour to create prejudice against the colo nial journals which may venture to throw such light on his own conduct as may be unwelcome to himself, by raising against them the outcry of "pro-slavery," but we are not to be reduced by.such tactics to so complete a state of mental bondage that we dare not copy statements- which we have reason to believe are statements of truth, wherever we may find them. The eagerness of some of Mr. Sturge's corre spondents to furnish him with criminatory documents against Mr. Whitehouse, very much resembles the comparatively new-born zeal of persons who are now anxious, by their pe culiar advocacy of ,the cause of the negro, • to atone for their own :former guilty participation, we will not say in the ap prenticeship system, but in the crime of slavery itself. If it has not already occurred to Mr. Sturge to inquire whether any of his Jamaica friends have not themselves been dealers in human flesh, the inquiry even now could do no harm. A word to the wise is sufficient ! Mr. Sturge, in conclusion, remarks respecting his publica tion of the statements affecting the character of Mr. White house—" On a careful examination of the course I have pur sued, I maintain it was justified on the ground of Christian prtpiple." We leave him in undisturbed possession of his peculiar views of the requirements of Christian principle, being fully persuaded that the right-minded public of this country will indignantly frown down such proceedings as he has thought proper to adopt with reference to Mr. Whitehouse. Were such things to be tolerated, no character would henceforrh be safe. Even his friend the Patriot, when a Wesleyan missionary does not happen to be the victim, knows how to characterize the " principle" on which Mr. Sturge has acted. In his very last number, wben adverting to the slanderous report which has been put into circulation respecting " the re-opening of Mount Zion Chapel, Sheffield," he asks—" But can it be a friend to religion that gloats over such exposures as these, and holds them up to the deiision of the enemy? Our Inquirer is evidently on the watch for the halting of those over whose flaws or failings Christian candour and kindness would lead a man of right feelings to draw the veil. We do not deny that censors of this description may be very useful, —so are scavengers; but it is dirty work."—Watchman. LEEDS AND BRADFORD RAILWAY.—We are glad to hear that the share list is rapidly filling, and that the number of applications already received have much exceeded the ex pectations of the provisional committee, and no doubt is now entertained of the completion of the line. We are glad of this, as there is no undertaking better entitled to the confi dence of the public, and to the liberal support it has received. —Leeds. Atelligencer. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER, FRIDAY EVENING. The attractive list for the Croxton Park Meeting, which commenced yesterday, has drawn a few of our influential speculators to that gay circle ; consequently, both yesterday and to-day business has been of a lukewarm character. With two or three exceptions, the Chester Cup quotations will be found the same as on Tuesday ; these are Mr. Meiklam's horses. It may be remembered, that we noticed The Drone as become one of the above gentleman's stud. On Wednes day, he was backed by a well-known Nimrod, (professionally) en route from Warwick to the north, for a good stake at 20 to 1 ; and also Modesty from that figure to four points less. He also laid 1000 to 800 between the mare and lon, and -would have gone on. Eaglet has also been in better force -20 to 1 having been repeatedly taken. As near as can be gleaned, the average of the market may be considered as fol lows : THE CHESTER CUP.-P.P. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's King Cole 91 to 1 „ Mr. Ferguson's Harkaway (tk 10) 11 to 1 „ Captain Berkeley's Caravan (tk 12) 12 to 1 „ Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff (tk) 13 to 1 „ Captain Healey's Van Buren (tk) 15 to 1 „ Sir Thomas Stanley's Cowboy (off) 16 to 1 „ Mr. Meiklam's Modesty (tk) 16 to 1 „ Col. Peel's lon (tk) 18 to 1 „ Mr. Meiklam's The Drone (tk 20 freely) 18 to 1 „ Mr. Heseltine's Slashing Harry 18 to 1 „ Captain Lamb's Chit Chat (tk 20) 20 to 1 Mr. Barrow's Eaglet THE DERBY. There has not been an engagement to-day worthy of remark TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY. To-day may, without fear, he put down as the dullest day ,of the season. Not half a dozen bets were made up to half past five o'clock, and after that the improvement was very slight. The changes resulting from the little business trans acted may be disposed of in a few words. Brother to Bay Middleton was backed at 8 to 1, and the Dey of Algiers at 15 to 1, a point less than was betted against Flambeau ; no thing was done on Kremlin. Tros was a point worse than on Monday, and Zimmerman about the same ; the only horse that advanced to an extent was Melbourne, who was backed in good quarters at 40 to 1. Chilson, winner of the Trial Stakes at Warwick on Wednesday, was introduced at 50 to 1 ; but the character of the field (a large one) defeated by him does not seem to have been very high, as no one offered to take less than 1000 to 15. ;We subjoin the odds against such of the favourites as were brought under notice. THE DERI3Y. 5 to 1 agst Scott's lot (t) 25 to 1 „ Mr. Thornhill's three (t) Bto 1 „ Lord Jersey's Brother to Bay Middleton (t 15 to 1 ~ Co!. Peel's Dey of Algiers (t) 16 to 1 „ Duke of Rutland's Flambeau (t) 18 to 1 ~ Puke of Cleveland's Kremlin (t) 25 to 1 l„ Lord Albemarle's Tros (t) 30 to 1 „ Col. Anson's Zimmerman (t) 30 to 1 „ Lord Lichfield's Gulnare c 35 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Accelerator. (t) 40 to 1 „ Capt. Williamson's Melbourne (t) 40 to 1 „ Mr. Thornhill's bro. to Mouche 50 to 1 ~ Sir G. Heathcote's Chimborazo (t) 50 to 1 „ Mr. G. Clark's Dragoman 50 to 1 „ Mr. Rawlinson's Chilson 5 to 2 on the field against four (t), 700 even between Wes tonian and Zimmerman (t), 500 even on Mr. Thornhill's three against Westonian (t), 15 to 2 against Flambeau and the Dey of Algiers (t), 16 to 1 against Accelerator and Erin go Bragh (t). THE OAKS. 10 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Reel (t). 16 to 1 „ Mr. Eddison's Kathleen O'More (t) THE CHASE.—The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Wednesday, March 27, at Beeston Castle ; Thursday, 28, at Mere ; Saturday, 30, at Appleton.—At half-past 10 o'clock. Mr. Elmor's Lottery, which won the Liverpool Great Steeple Chase, has again come off victorious for the Steeple Chase at Maidstone, on Friday week, beating five others, and carrying 'ill. extra for his previous winning. On the 23d ult. Mr. Mostyn's Queen Bess produced a colt foal to Muley Moloch ; and on the 3d inst. Mr. Mostyn's Her Highness produced a colt foal to Bay Middleton. A few days ago, a new caravan for the conveyance of race horses, the property of his Grace the Duke of Cleveland, passed through Leeds from London, on its way to Middle ham, in which it is intended to transmit 'his grace's horse Kremlin to Newmarket, to run for his engagement there. WARWICK SPRING RACES, WEDNESDAY.—In a Match for £lOO, Mr. F. Charlton's Manumission beat Capt. Lamb's Vivian.—The Trial Stakes of £lO each, with 50 added, were won by Mr. Rawlinson's Chilson, beating Mr. E. Peel's The Dean, Mr. Jones's Poet, Mr. Collins's Springfield, and nine others.—The Debdale Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added, were won by Marc Antony, beating Mr. Mostyn's Silver, and three others.—A Hurdle Race Stakes of £5 each, and 25 added, were won by Decider, beating Marc Antony, and two others.—The Farmers' Stakes of £5O wa6 won by Mr. Lucas's Ellen, beating Mr. Knight's Young Vivian, Mr. W. Cowper's Emmeline, and two others.—The Forced Handicap Stakes of £lO each was won by Mr. W. Walter's Goldhurst, beating Mr. Collett's Dueuna, Powick, and two others. PYTCHLEY HUNT RACES, TUESDAY.—The Trial Stakes was won by The Dem, beating Deceit, Ruby, Kensington, and three others.--The Tally-ho Stakes was won by Bellis sima, beating five others.—The Open Stakes was won by Ann, beating two others.—The Farmers' Cup was won at three heats, by Bustle, heating seven others.—A Hurdle Stakes was won by True Blue, beating thr. e others.—Why- Nct beat Sligo in a two-mile match for £5O. TURF APPOINT: vIENTS FOR 1839. APRIL. Newmarket Craven 1 East Sussex Hunt . Catterick Bridge. 3 Hambledon Hunt 3 Abergavenny . The Hoo Bath Spring 10 Newmarket First Spring„ 15 Eglinton Park... 23 Newmarket 30 York Spring JULY. Cheltenham. .. Newmarket . Liverpool..... Goodwood.... AUGUST. Worcester - Pottery. Lewes Swansea Ripon Newport (Salop) Egham Northampton MAY. Plymouth Spring_ 1 Chester 6 Gorhambury Epsom R , 2igate 22 Manchester. 22 Ascot 28 SEPTEMBER. Warwick Sandbach . Lichfield Abingdon . Leicester Doncaster Liverpool OCTOBER. Newmarket First October Wrexham Newmarket Second Oct Newmarket Houghton .SES TO COME. Cheltenham ... Abergavenny Daventry Warwickshire . Stratford-on-Avon. Bainham Broom JUNE. Newton Beverley . 5 Hampton 5 Bath . l2 Bibury Stockbridge. 2O Newcastle STEEPLE CHA High Wycombe ... Alarch 26 ASlthy-de-la-ZQuch.. 26 Great Driffieid 27 Long Sutton 2B Beaconsfield April 2 Carden WARRINGTON. April 4 4 4 9 . . - WILFUL DAMAGE.'-011 Monday John Savage appeared at the petty sessions to answer the charge of wilfully and maliciously damaging some moulds at Ripley's foundry, Tanner's-lane. On the afternoon of Monday, the 11th in stant, the defendant and two of his companions insisted upon walking through the complainant's premises, in spite of the remonstrances of the workmen. In their course they stepped into several moulds, and damaged them to the ex tent of 235. The defendant was ordered to make good the damage done, and in default of payment was committ e d t o the House of ! Correction for two months. POLICE INFORMATIONS.-Mr. Lyon, the chairman of the Warrington Petty Sessions, has suggested to the police com mittee the propriety of having informations against beer sellers and others supported by other evidence than that of a single policeman. In a recent case heard before the magis trates, after three adjournments, the evidence of the police man being directly contradicted upon oath by two witnesses, the information was dismissed. On the one side, it was sworn by Povey that he .saw several women go to the house of Samuel Hamblet, a beer seller, at half-past two o'clock on a Sunday morning ; that he heard a noise in the cellar place which he took for the drawing of beer ; that he tasted the contents of the can given by the defendant to the women, and found it to be beer. For the defendant two of the women were called as witnesses : they swore positively that they never went to the defendant's house ; that they had no beer ; and that'what Povey tasted in the can was not hi ng more nor less than rain water ! LEAD STEALING.--011 Wednesday Roger Peers, an ap prentice to Mr. Whittle, plumber, Butter Market; Varring-: ton, was committed for trial on the charge of stealing several pieces of lead the property of his employer. The prisoner had employed a boy named Towers to sell the lead, which the prosecutor identified, at the shop of Mr. Lowton, in Bag lane, Warrington. For one piece he received fivepence farthing, for another a penny farthing, and for a third (a present to the boy who sold it) three halfpence was received. PROPOSED UNION W9RKnousE.—On Wednesday, at a very full meeting of the poor-law guardians for the War rington union. Mr. Crosfield, of Warrington, brought for ward a motion for building a workhouse large enough to ac commodate gll the paupers in the union. The motion was not seconded, and consequently fell to the ground. STATE OF TRADE. LEEDS. —The markets since our last have been charac terised by an improved demand for manufactured goods, and there is a fair business dokng in the warehouses, recent prices bein: fully sustained. The wool market is conse quently firm, but without any material alteration in value. BRADFORD MARKET.—There was an improved demand for manufaetured goods at our market on Thursday, and augmented safes were effected, especially in figured stuffs, but prices underwent no change for the better. In the Yarn market there was an ordinary business done at prices rather looking up. The Wool market was somewhat firmer than of late ; the demand being good, improved prices were asked, but were not generally obtained. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, March 22.—We do not note any alteration in the trade this week ; there continues a good demand foi all deep-combing wools, particularly for hogs, as noted in our last week's report, and for these rather better terms may be obtained, whilst Wethers and the finer and shorter combing Wools are slow of sale. Carding Wools remain stationary in demand and price. BARNSLEY LINEN TRADE.—NO material alteration has taken place touching the linen trade of this town during the past week. A few orders from America for Drills have been received, which has caused a slight movement in that branch. The home trade remains moderately steady, and weavers are more or less employed. A beautiful specimen of linen cloth has just been manufactured by Mr. William M'Lintock, which is the finest ever woven at Barnsley. The bunt mea sures 50 yards in length, and only weighs 111bs. Mr. Mar shall, of Leeds, was the spinner of the yarn. LEIGH SILK MANUFACTURERS. - The master silk ma nufacturers, at the above place, are all now giving an advance of a halfpenny per yard to their weavers. IRISH OUTRAGES.—GOVERNMENT REWARDS.—From December 1, 1837, to February 20, 1839, the sum of X 13,390 was offered as rewards by government for the discovery and apprehension of 186 murderers, homicides, &c. Of these, the official returns produced before parliament state that only eight rewards were claimed and paid, and 178, of course, re mained unclaimed ! INLAND BONDING WAREHOUSES.—A petition, signed by the most influential firms in Worcester, has been forwarded to Mr: Bailey for presentation to the House of Commons, praying that in any bill which is introduced into the House for extending to inland towns the privilege of bonding foreign goods for home consuniption, the city of Wotcester may be included among the places to which that privilege is con ceded. Similar petitions have been sent from Stourport and other towns. AMOUNDERNESS DIOCESAN EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY. it (From our own Reporter.) A meeting of the friends of the Amounderness Diocesan Educational Society, was held on Saturday last, in the Pres ton Court-house, and the interest excited by the proceedings at the Warrington meeting a few weeks ago was very much increased from the circumstance that it was expected that the Right Hon. Lord Stanley and John Wilson Patten, Esq. the members for the northern division of the county were expected to be present on the occasion. The meeting was fixed for eleven o'clock, and it having been made known that Lord Stanley had arrived, considerable eagerness was manifested to obtain admission to the Court-house. Shortly after the time appointed, his lordship came upon the bench, and was loudly cheered by the numerous and respectable assembly, amongst whom there was a considerable number of elegantly dressed ladies. Amongst the gentlemen on the bench we observed John Paley, Esq. mayor of Preston, Thomas Batty Addison, Esq. J. W. Patten, Esq., M.P., the Rev. the Vicar of Preston, Rev. R. Harris the Hon. and Rev. H. Powys, honora r y secre t ar y o f th e diocesan society, the Rev. Richard Parkinson, Fellow of Christ's College, Manchester, Rev. William Hornby, Vicar of St. Michael's upon-Wyre, Rev. J. Hull, Vicar of Poulton, C. Swainson, Esq., of Cooper Hill, R. T. W. France, Esq., of Rawcliffe Hall, E. D. Salisbury, Esq. of Lancaster, &c. &c. In the jury box we noticed several clergymen, but we regret that we could not ascertain their names. Upon the motion of the mayor, seconded by Mr. Swain son, the Rev. the Vicar of Preston, was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the meeting, alluded to the exertions made by the great and good Cran mer and Edward the Sixth, for rthe promotion of religious and moral education. Within forty miles of Preston they had the schools of Ledbeater and .Griggleswick, with those of Eversham, Macclesfield, Manchester, and many more. During the times of civil commotion it could not be expect ed that much could be done ; but in the year 1811 the Na tional School Society was formed ; in 1817 it was incorpo rated by royal charter ; and to such an extent had the society extended the sphere of its operations, that it had now 17,000 schools under its care, and above 900,000 scholars. Having read an extract from the tables published by Mr. Burgess, respecting the number of children now educati ng i n th e various respecting from which it appeared that the nu m b er i n the schools, belonging to dissenters was 597,392, whilst those in the schools belonging to the Church of England, is 1,583,428, being three-fourths of the number of children in England, between the ages of seven and fourteen. The Rev. Chairman concluded by,reading an extract from the charge of the Right Rev. Bishop of Chester, on the occasion of his last triennial visit to Preston. The Rev. R. HARRIS moved the first resolution, which was to the following effect —" That it is of great and pressing importance to extend the means and improve the system of education throughout the country, on the principles of the Church of England." THOMAS BATTY ADDISON, Esq. Recorder of Preston, se conded the resolution, which was then put, and carried una nimously. The Hon. and Rev. HonAcE POWYS, rector of Warring ton, and honorary secretary of the Diocesan Society, moved, " That the establishment of diooesan and deanery boards of education, for the purpose of bringing all Church of England schools into connection, and of establishing new ones where they are required, has the cordial approbation of this meet ing." The rev. gentleman, in introducing this motion, took the opportunity of answering a pamphlet which had been sent to him, and which purposed to be a reply to certain mis representations of the Rev. Francis Close, of Cheltenham, disputing the management and mode of education pursued at Harp Alley ;" and also to certain alleged misrepresentations which he (Mr. Powys) was also charged with having made at the Warrington meeting. The rev. gentleman read several passages from the evidence taken before the educational com mittee of the House of Commons, and concluded by shewing the evils occasioned by the passing of the registration act, in consequence of people neglecting to baptize their children. The Right Hon. Lord STANLEY, M.P., then came forward and was received with rapturous applause. His lordship, when the cheering had subsided, spoke to the following ef fect :—Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen,—l thank you, Sir, and I thank you all for giving me this gratifying proof that in the town of Preston I need no introduction ; and when I look around me, and consider in what scenes it has been my lot formerly to have been engaged in this town, gratefully, personally grateful in many instances, I cannot but feel most forcibly how much higher and superior gratification I expe rience at this time, when we are engaged in a work from which all political animosities must be excluded, which can excite a party or political asperity ; but when all men, of all persuasions of politics, may meet together; and I rejoice to see, Sir, that they do meet together, for the promotion and furtherance of a common object, an objecl which I deem to be of vital interest to the happiness and prosperity of every class of our fellow-countrymen—to disseminate through the length and breadth of the land, a system of general and uni versal education, founded upon the principles of that com mon religion which we all profess, and directed by the mi nisters of that church which we all revere. (Cheers.) I come forward, therefore, gladly upon this occasion, though not a resident within the deanery, yet connected with it, and also with its inhabitants, by too many ties of interest and of regard, not to lead me cheerfully to give my feeble aid to wards the success of a plait, the general dissemination of which I hold to be of paramount importance. And as from this meeting must be excluded the consideration of all poli tical differences, so I would fain hope that we shall meet in aid of our common cause, even many of those between whom and ourselves, on minor subjects, there maybe shades of dif ference in religious opinion. (Cheers.) Ido not - think that, upon the subject we profess, we can justly be chargeable with religious intolerance, or with a zeal and a narrow-minded bi gotry. (Hear.) Zeal, Sir, and no man knows it better than yourself, is not bigotry ; a fixed adherence to principle is not exclusiveness. We come forward declaring that our main and primary object is to promote the diffusion of religious know ledge,—and, I will not shrink from avowing it as a secon dary object, with an earnest desire to extend the influence of the church to which we belong, and adding one more to those numerous bonds which already link it to the affections of the people. But we do it in no spirit of unfriendliness to others; we desire not to interfere with others, who, according to their own views, co-operate with us, I would venture to say, in the diffusion of religious knowledge. The field is wide enough for thehinpa..:n n s o f .01 • ;+- i too wide to c OA- —4- tions of all; and there isl n o ncra , .: one set of Chri s ti an .1... ad jar an d J ost'. a g list another. in the service of one common master. (Cheers.) 1 speak with great respect, of the exertions that have been made by the members of various dissenting communities. 1 acknow ledge that in the church we have many of them as fellow labourers in the great work of religious instruction ; and to none do we owe a . larger debt, a more abundant debt of gratitude, than to that sect which, 1 rejoice to say, differs least widely from the established church, and which has ever been the foremost in that noble work in which she is engaged,—the promotion of religious education. I need hardly say, that I refer to that most respectable—that most influential body, the sect of Wesleyan Methodists. (Cheers.) Sir, others may speak as they think fit, but from my lips the name of John Wesley shall never be pronounced in terms other than those of the utmost respeet and reve rence. (Cheers.) lam satisfied that although we have cause to regret the schism amongst the followers, that caused the separation of a large and most pious, and most important body from the communion of the Church of England, yet by his zeal, his energy, by his pious exertion, John Wesley at a time when our church was more supine and less active than she ought to have been, roused her dormant energies, to show a not dishonourable rivalry ; and although in latter days he dissented from the church, of which he had been a most ac tive member, yet he has added largely and most abundantly not only to the number of those who give a large amount of religious knowledge, but by kindling the ardour of the church itself, has added largely to the efficiency of the church estab lishment; and I am confident of this as I am of any thing, that had John Wesley lived in these days, and in this state of our (church, he would have been with us as zealous a co operator in our object. I do not despair, that among the Wes leyan methodists we may have some who will feel inclined to give us all the support that they can. I feel confident that we shall have many who will be glat that their children shall profit by the success of their endeavours ; but whether we are to regard them as friendly rivals stimulating our energies, or to look upon them in the most pleasing light as fellow-la bourers in the same cause, of this I am confident, that there never was a time when it was more necessary for the friends of true religion to put themselves forward for the purpose of supporting the broad, plain principle, that education is valuable and important as combined with religion, but more than worthless if it be separated from religion.— (Loud cheers.) In coming for .:ard on the present occa sion, knowing that union is strength, knowing the import ance of acting on system, in concert, and in unison, we come forward to invite the members of the church in every portion of this land, to unite in one common effort, not more for the purpose of extending the number, than of improving the quality of the existing means of instruction amongst the people. The schools of whatever denomination, there is little doubt are all lamentably insufficient in point of number for the education of the people ; and the amount of educa tion, and the nature of the education given in these schools, is yet more lamentably deficient in every valuable ingredient which gives to education the real merit. I need hardly point —I would not weary you by referring you to figures or state ments—there is no person who has had any acquaint ance with the proceedings of any one of our large commercial and manufacturing towns,—there is no one who is acqua i n t e d w i t h the populous rural dis tricts in this country, who does not know what a large population of the people day by day grows up under his own eyes in profound ignorance, which causes him to grieve for the country to which he belongs. But, as my friend pointed out, if you are to have an education which is to de serve the name, how essential is it that the person in whose hands the educating of youth is to be placed,-should be en tirely competent to execute the task that has devolved upon them. What is the condition of the bulk of those who carry on this work of what is miscalled education ? What are the teachers in your smaller schools ? What qualifications have they for that difficult task which they have undertaken—my reverend friend has stated. I state it too, that the reason why they have undertaken to teach is, that all other modes of livelihood have failed. There are very few of them who are sensible that the art of teaching is in itself a science—a science one of the most difficult that man can set himself to learn. Yet' of those who are set to teach in our schools, there is not one in a hundred—perhaps not one in a thouscnd. who, applying to the study of that science, has the least idea that it is a science at all, or has had the least practice in in structing. We desire to introduce better and more sound views with reference to this question ; and as a first step we desire, in every diocese, to introduce one model school, not only for the education of the children, but for training the teachers. It is asked, will you invite every school connected with the Church of England, or every school conducted by persons who are well-wishers of the Church of England, to come into .union with our society; "what, (it is asked,) do you mean to interfere with our local arrangements ? do you mean to controul the management of our schools? do you mean to supersede and set back all that which has already been done? do you mean to place everything on one uniform plan, from which there is to be no deviation?" We desire to use no authority whatever. So far from desiring to put every school on the same system we find it to be of the greatest possible advantage, that the inspector appointed by the soci ety should have a practical opportunity of observing the dif ferent plans that are brought into operation in the different schools. We grant you, that it is of at least equal import ance, that the managers of each school should not be confin ed in their own views, to that which is done in their own school ; but that they should learn from the inspectors, at their public visits, what are the plans that have been found most generally beneficial ;—what is a useful mode in this sys tem ;—and what is a useful mode under another system : that every improvement which is made known in our mo dern practice, should be made known by the inspector in the humblest school in every county, and remotest diocese in the kingdom. And we hold, that of the means of obtaining in formation of that which is practicable, this is the truest, the surest, and most certain to be without offence to any body else, (viz.) the introducing improvement in every part of the respective diocese. But my reverend friend just now said that very few masters were properly qualified for the task they have undertaken. No man can look upon the one or two instances that have been mentioned by my reverend friend without seeing that there are very few of them who are sensible of their own deficiencies ; and the first step to improvement, is, to impress upon them a sense of their own deficiencies; the first thing should be, to press upon the mind of the master how much he has to learn still.—The more sensible man, the more intelligent,' the better qualified a school-master is for his office, the more he will be sensible of his deficiencies for the performance of his duty ; the more grateful he will be for the opportunity thus afforded him of learning what is practicable of a better system, and profitable for the improvement of his own school. This is the model school for training, for masters. We desire to have a train- 2 5 16 30 • Ls rag ing-school, to which masters from the distant schon for , come : but we desire, prospectively, carrying our views ward ;—we wish to have a systematic training from e i _nu et hood, in order, that when they become men, they may to take up teaching of a school, on the best and most ary ent ed mode of teaching. We desire to have schools in Pin o f parts of the country, from which, boys of intelligence , 31 : 00 moral character, ma k be selected, and, truly, to receiveo p very easy terms, the best education, to enable them,`a become teachers in the central model school. clas o s t . where is the benefit, or, rather, what will not derive benefit from a system by which the class , masters is infinitely improved. Most of all, an improve'nTet; will be felt in tho se remo t e an d thi n l y - peop l e d di s t r icts, ll!„, formerly held out a ri c h p ros p ec t o f remunera ti o n to s_ ill-qualified schoolmasters, who tended to produce mere • chief from the e d uca ti on , than benefit from it. In e ;;, quence of the periodi ca l v i s it s o f th e inspectors to these' ; tricts, the remot es t corner i s no longer unnoticed ; —ever) 0 '„ of them becomes a fi e ld, upon w hi c h , t h e teac h er h a s an portunity of proving his qualifications, and by provinq t qualifications upon a local fi e ld, by s h ow i ng hi mse lf fitted ' h that which is little, h e h as th e prospect o f advaneeni t e l o ot and of being trust e d w ith hi g h er an d more imPe.r charges. The co n diti on , th ere f ore, not on l y o f t h e c rlla , e school master,—a wretched and most unhappy condition b'y many cases, now, is altered. We keep an inspector, a' ° this means every villag e . and the remotest hamlets, will ,le, ot , rive the advantage of h av i ng persons b etter i nstruc t e d, `,. 0 1 in the first instance, as prob a ti oners ; w h ence b y distinglnlbe merit, they may be sent to a higher school, and thus give 0 f village the best possible inst ruc t ors . Thi s i s th e sort e. model schoolwhich it is proposed to institute in every dioee' i , I am asked, what class of men do you mean to bring I R the model school? I answer, without hesitation, all. to desire to include under its superintendance—we desire o improve all. We are quite sure th a t re li g i ous instruer, is no more necessary for high than for lo w; f o r poor t!! 3 . ; for rich ; for the village-hamlet th an th e popu lous el t but we do not desire anything so glaringly absurd, as to P all these schools on a similar footing. We desire that, the same superintendence, the schools sho u ld b e adapted to the prospects in life, the condition of the parties who are r , receive education in them ; and of all classes, I m ay be P e , mitted to say, in this place, there is no n e t o w h om it is 11)a to important that attention should be paid, there is no i l . e the whom so little attention has bee n p a id, as connec t e d with Church of England, as that important class of the commun' e lb• the middle and commercial class of the community. I Il i. know one commercial school w h ere a paren t ma y nu iv , for a child a knowlcdge of those branches of 10°, ledge that are , nec essar y f or hi m ; b ut i t i s nece ssarily e a connected with, cl ose ly connec t e d w i t h the Estshrts Church of the country. Mr. Roebuck, w ho brollg, forward some years ago a project for the education of r o , people, laid it down as a principle, that the object of the e d cation was not to elevate i n di v id ua l s to a higher t but to make them happy in the condition in they found them. Now I assent to this proposition, ) ''' o t sent to it undoubtedly, if it is laid d own th a t e d uca ti o n is n kbe a blessing, but a curse to a man w h o i s no t sa ti s fi e d in condition in which Providence has placed him. Saint !M t though he had made great ad vances in learning, stated 1 ": the greatest learning he had att a i ne d was , " I n what e v er , station he was, therewith to be co n t en t." N ow by a Chris' tian education, and where education is combined and reg i t , l ; lated, a religious feeling is produ c ed, so as t o fit m an f ° ,, u te happy condition, a higher state, a h appy an d conten t e d in whatever condition he is placed. It i s l au d ab l e , inde e in man to attempt to raise one's se lf to a hi g h er sta ti o n than that in which we are born, and in this country where th i e nt are no limits set to the exercise of successful exertion anu'd intellect ; above all, it is of importance that education sho.wir be given to the middling class which shall fit them to take W e ve place in a class higher than that in which their birth may ha t he originally placed them. But by this mode of educating 00 people of this country intellectual improvement will O N and science will make rapid p rogress . D e b arre d from the attainment of science in oth er wa y s , th ere i s a mos t l a ndau ) zeal manifested by the commerci a l p eop l e o f thi s country to , forward science in these district s by th e es t a bli s hment ~,, lending libraries, reading rooms, an d mechanics' instituti on 's The spread of knowledge is universal, and we feel it to De is two-edged sword ; we feel that knowledge wielded rightb, e . virtuous, powerful, beneficial ; but when wielded by judice it is the weapon of the fiend. And we feel that th e is nothing that can render that knowledge har; Harmless it cannot be ; it mus t b e power f u l for goodjui evil, and there is nothin g th a t can ren d er it power'4l for good instead of f or ev il, b u t b y com bi n i ng w i t h it and religious education and instruction ;—and when I religious instruction, let me say that by religious educatio n _ do not mean a mere technical knowledge of the facts coo{ nected with our religion • but I mean such an infusion religious principle as shall guide the whole conduct , s i b ', actuate all the principles and actions, of man. It must r , a little leaven, which must leaven the whole mass—not sf l ie ing and bittering, but imperceptibly f ermen ti ng the lr"°01 mass—imperceptibly diffusing itself through the whole _ the system—purifying and sanctifying the heart, as the folle l, d dation and motive of action as proceeding from the ile ° `, (Ches.) If I were n o t f ear f u l t h at I might weary the ille e t t o ing, I would go on. (Ch eers .) B ut, gentlemen, I wc"nie particularly point out one class of schools which many WT I' . think unnecessary or un w i se i n connect i on with the chin', and which many more treat as o f i n fi n i te l y l ess i mpo rtan . , e , than the subject demands. I allude to the f orma tion of 11 ', fants' schools, and particularly in a district where, frolll,, pressure of circumstances, the l a b our o f c hild ren soo n ' Pe tit comes so valuable, that instruction-terminates at an age o which it ought hardly to have b egun . I thin!, there are ,o many such ; and deservedly popular as infants' schools areg I believe there are many among the humble class who le' o f upon them as mere machines to k ee p th e c hild ren out , harm's way. I must, I fear, confess that I think many I' rents speak thus :—" My child must go to the infan ts be school, and I must go to my wor k, f or th en my c hild will o f out of harm's way.", But the child is far from being ou t harm's way. It has been said, by a talented advocate education, though we must deplore his many eccentricitiq m I mean Lord Brough am , w h o h as pa id muc h attent i on to li; ) , subject of education—as much as any man—it was s aid Lord Brougham, with much truth,—" If you take the nta o of new ideas which a child acquires between the age of _ 40 1 •" and five years, and compute them with all that the learns in his after-life, with all the new ideas that he accni in those many years, more ideas—new ideas—are impres'' upon the infant ml” , 1 apr;‘ , . in f a t cre , ,a Lortt nrougnam expresses it; "to live to the age of eig" t. years, and rival the acquirements of a Newton or a Laplace•s Can you know what children know ? Can you se e 'a s e they see, with your eyes ? Is there a moment ill ,' ) ,t day in which a child is not inquiring something? The thin';; for knowledge —we call it curiosity —we will say curiosilY, e the peculiar characteristic of children. We see that it is , t ';' thirst for knowledge without the power to discriminate %o r ,'" ther the knowledge is good or evil—the memory is 111° ii retentive, and more alive, and not deadened by the turat of the world, and from morning to night every child is an 't quiring and storing in his mind new ideas. Do you say t h : it is of no conse quence w h at t h ose i deas are ? That erluci; tion is continued f or fi ve or s i x years, when the habits 1,1 almost formed, the child has gone on picking u p, acquiring here, and acquiring there, if he has not been acquiring gcl, o he has been ac qu i r i ng ev il , h e h as been collecting—it may il gold, silver, and precious stones, or it may be wood, I, e stubble, and h a y —b u t h e h as b een collecting ; and as is ` seed so will be the crop in the time of harvest. I intreat not to consider it as unimportant, not only that your chila rt :, o are kept out of h arm ' s way, as t h e common expression is, ' f the early days of infancy, but do not consider it a m atter ", indifference what is the sort of training that they receive, ° t what the description of the persons who conduct an ini V school. You may tell me that it is a matter of indiffere e e l whether it be conducted o n th e p r i nc i p l es of the Estab li s h o Church or not. I s a y it i s no t al ,, a tt ero f i ndifference. YOU 0 not impress upon them the difference which exists bettyef t sects, but this you do,—the child is the creature of hat i p ; and man is the creature of h a bit t oo. C hildren have ft° their birth an affectionate reverence for the church, as ass „ 0 ciated with their earliest year s , w ith t h e i r first recol l ee n from childhood. It had, said th e no bl e lord, been well salit in an address by a celebrated bish o p t o hi s clergy. " Tltin not this is a matter of indifference to you clergy, think 0- 4 that you can easily regain men wh en you h ave once lost y°,11.0 hold upon the heart : how much eas i er it i s to keep this litt'oi flock from danger, than having i n a ft er d ays an unsuccessat task in seeking those whom y ou cause d to be lost by 1° t neglect and indifference." But I thi n k i n t hi s case i t i s 11° , a duty that devolvs on the clergy alone ; it is important, if ``t desire to maintain the influence of the church, it is importan, if we desire to promote the interests of religion, it is ir e portant in this critical period of our church history, that t". onward improvement sh ou ld be carried on by the exe rtion' of our clergy and laity combined. I would not use the languag e of despondency, for I d o not f eel despondency, but I do feed that our church and people do stand in a most critical l a dangerous condition. I see going on the progress of see i a : e . instruction, and see the advancement of intellectual knowle",. - I see a population overgrowing the means of religious instre,„' tion and education. I see a population daily increasingin a rT i ; e which it is fearful to contemplate ; and I say this, that if '- church, the lay members of the church as well as the clergy.' view in supi ne apat h y t h e progress of events,—take no s te p ' to arrest thi s f ear f u l ev il , or to meet it by the increase of ree ligious instruction, before the increase of the popnlation comes too great a n d p ower f u l f or th em to overcome —theo: I say, if th e y f a il i n ta ki ng an ear l y step,—it is a pain ' ful ee templation for me—b u t, I b e li eve —/ believe, Sir, that t he days of our venera bl e es t a bli s h ment are numbered. ( H e—'e She cannot remain supine and inactive, exposed on the,n t r' s hand to the successf u l and active riv a l r y o f re li g i ou sec j opposed' on the other to the deadly hostility of infidelity l' o ft a irreligion ; and the conse quence o f our f all would b e , by day, our population wou ld b e l ess instructed, less am en able to discipline, — more d emora li ze d , more turbulent, le l , Christian. (Hear.) I call upon you who are assembled lie e this day to come forward and aid in the great work of 1 ' regeneration of the chur c h es t a bli s h ment as connec t e d Wit h education. (Cheers.) I call upon you not to take ul)'!" 1 1 yourselves that fearful portion of responsibility which ' 2 ` l ol attach to those who ha ve the means in their power, aL,, io who know well the importance of the objects we bola view, but refrain from lending a helping hand to furlP, them. (Cheers.) B u t I h ave b etter h opes and more con „, fident expectatio ns . I b e li eve I may with confidence 3( peal to the membe rs o f th e Ch urc h of England, as a bon to awake from thei r a p a th y , an d str i ve earnestly to re5., 11 ,, our cause from the pro gress o f thi s f earful evil, by prornotl7 the spread of religious knowledge; and if, by God's blesso l l, such should be the result of the proceedings that the char is now taking, the n , i ns t ea d o f th e g l oomy picture whiclithe was my fate to draw ju s t now , we may be consoled with th e reflection that our cause w ill prosper. You will ha'' gratification of feeling that, in the service of y o ur Lord an Master, you have t a k en th e most effectual means in ). power of eradicatin g th e grea t an d grow i ng evil, an d that) .0 0 Pt will have succeeded i n s t emm i ng i ts progress—that the Pil e t gress of knowledge w ill b e advanced byhe advance of :I'lo. blessings of religious k now l e d ge — an d t h at t h e resu lt of prudent, and wise, and far-seeing liberality will be a bles sl ; upon your children and c hild ren ' s children ; and though may not see it, yet it w ill u lti mate l y prove that Englan d l ' u s exhibit to an a d m i r i ng wor ld t h e spectacle of a pros pern ie. and contented, because an instructed and religious Pe°P on . (Loud and lo ng - con ti nue d c h eer i ng. ) His lordship e.„i„ eluded with secon di ng t h e motion, which passed 11 °' mously. 's The Rev. RICHARD PARKINSON, M.A., Fellow of Chri st College, Man c h es t er , rose to propose the next resolutrose He was sure h e wou ld b e b e li eved when he said that he ten. with much reluctance to address the a u di ence a fter the W ho a had .iti did, compreh ens i ve , an d p i ous speech which they bad, ot the pleasure of he aring f rom th e no bl e l ord who ha';.hat down. (Chee rs .) H e (M r. Parkinson) could only saY if such a se rmon were t o b e preac h ed in every church in kingdom he was sure every congregation would be so 1 %, better for it. Nothing would have induced him to rise ari ` cept the recollection that lie was a Lancashire therefore he felt that lie was bound to follow the nmobalne'loridet although at an infinite distance ; and he begged to assure noble lord that, when he had put himself at the head the men of Lancashire in this bloodless battle and moral co nzitheir the men of Lancashire would be ready to follow him ', o d of ancestors were to foll ow hi s great ancestor t o the v i n g Flodden. (Cheers.) M r . P ar ki nson conc l u d e d by rrie " That this meeti ng v i ews w i t h muc h sat i s f ac ti on the -e t I;w' and comprehensiverms of union adopted by the and Deanery Boards, namely :-1. Adoption of the aces ", rized formul ar i es o f th e c h urc h . 2. R ece ption of the din inspectors. 3. Clerical superintendance. 4. An engag e to make regular statistical returns." 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