The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-10 00:00:00

n of at ith he to as is ng im ily by o- Y a. Richard Ellts—(l6) dington. William Forster— Hunt " The farrier's shop. "• William Forster—(26)— Collingwood. Lawrence Frost—(2l3)—" A sluice."- Samuelng() Boys fishing." , Beckwith —(166)—" Gipsey haunt.' dington. River 208)-' It may be stated as a favourable omen, that the extensive cottonfactory, on Friars' Green, Warrington, which has been shut up for the last two years past, is now und ergo i ng a thorough repair, prior to its being put in full operation. THE THEATRE ROYAL, THE LIVER AND THE ANIPHITEIE ATRE.—Proceedings have been commenced by the lessee of the Theatre Royal against the managers of the Liver Theatre and the Amphitneatre or an infringement of his patent. The cases will be heard at Kirkdale on Friday nen. GRAND MASQUERADE.—An entertainment of this des cription is announced at the Royal Amphitheatre, on Tues day evening the lith inst., under the immediate direction of Signor Nagel from Stockholm. —See advertisement. ENGLISHMEN ABROAD.—We learn from Galignani's Messenger, that on the 26th ult. about 250 Englishmen foremen and workmen, employed on the Paris and Rouen Railway dined together off the truly English fare of roast beef and !plum pudding. Mr. Eyre acted as chairman and Mr. lEtherington as :vice president. Mr. Brassey one :of the contractors, and Messrs. Robson Chevalier, and Osburn, Engineers were present. The names of several of these gentlemen are well known in this locality. THEATRE-ROYAL.—A very pretty drama, called " A Night in the Bastile," has been got up, and will be repeated to-night; in which Mrs. Seymour impersonates Madtle. de Brienne with much pathos and ability. Her earnestness and perfect abandonment to the business of the scene make the spectator often forget that she is merely acting. Unlike many actresses, she appears to feel intensely the subject of the part she represents. The Pantomime goes off capitally : the new clown is one of the Grimaldi school—full of life, bustle, and activity. A judicious curtailment has taken place, which enables visiters to leave at an earlier hour than on its first representations. Several novelties are in prepa ration, and some of the metropolitan stars are engaged. LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY.—The annual meeting of the trustees of the Liverpool Infirmary, Lock Hospital, and Lunatic Hospital was held yesterday, in the board-room of the institution, in Brownlovv-street, for the purpose of tran sacting the business of the house and the election of officers for the ensuing year. The chair was taken by the president, Edward Gibbon, Esq., and a statement of the accounts was read by Mr. E. W. Jackson, the treasurer, from which it appeared that, after paying the bills now due, there will be a debt on the institution of about £5OO. Several routine mo tions having been disposed of, on the motion of the Rev. J. B. Monk, it was resolved, that upon each future vacancy in the asylum the senior physician to the Infirmary should vacate his office and he appointed physician to the Lunatic Hospital. Dr. Formby was then appointed physician to the Lunatic Hospital. The annual appointments of physicians and surgeons were nest made; after which, on the motion of Mr. Aspinall, seconded by the Rev. J. B. Monk, Mr. Thos. Brandreth, house-surgeon to the Infirmary, was elected surgeon to the Lock Hospital, in the place of Mr. Simon, resigned, to whom a vote of thanks was given for his services. The meeting then separated. FURTHER EXPERIMENTAL TRIAL OF FIREPROOF BOXES. —The boxes constructed by Messrs. Milner and Son having, on the late trials, been eminently successful, several further tests were yesterday made to ascertain how long they were capable of preserving, without damage, combustible mate rials ; and also to ascertain the comparative merits of this invention and a common brick chamber, the walls, roof, and floor of which were nine inches in thickness. At half-past seven yesterday morning a fire was ignited under the brick chamber, and another under one of Milner's gunpowder safes—i.e., a circular case, having three chambers, contain ing zinc tubes filled with a chemical fluid, and surrounded by a non-conducting substance. The outer chamber is three inches in thickness, the middle one two, and the inner one one inch,—in all, six inches. As soon as the fluid con tained in the tubes attains boiling heat, the steam escapes through valves opened by its own pressure, by which the non-conductor, as well as the manuscripts, are kept in a state of moisture which prevents ignition. After being sub jected to a strong coal fire for six hours and a half, the box was withdrawn, and its contents, amongst which was a packet of -lb. of gunpowder, were found to be as perfect and as cool as when first introduced. A. greater portion of the liquid in the outer case or chamber was discharged, but the middle and inner ones did not seem to he in the least degree affected. The brick chamber, which had been subjected to about a similar strength of fire for exactly the same period of time, was opened simultaneously. Its contents were greatlylre duced, and the moment air was admitted, ignition became general. Milner's box was then again inserted in the fire, which had now become almost white hot, and remained there for three hours, when, on withdrawing it, at which time the greater portion of the outer case was red hot, the documents within were quite free from heat, and in no way discoloured. Several further trials of their preserving power were made, the results of which were perfectly satisfactory. Mr. S. Woods, who has superintended the whole of these depart ments in a most able and impartial manner, will bring the subject before the Polytechnic Society this evening,—when the whole of the testimonials of the committee of trial will be read, and the various principles of preserving documents from fire fully developed. The meeting will, no doubt, be well attended. The subject is a most interesting and im portant one. CHARGE OF MISCONDUCT AGAINST Two POLICE OF FICERS.—ONE OF THEM DlSMlSSED.—Yesterday, a feeble looking old woman, was brought before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of assaulting a police-officer with a pair of tongs The case was likely to go against the poor old woman, when a young man in the court, apparentlyla mechanic, came for ward, and opened out a very different version of the affair, from which it appeared that several police-officers had con ducted themselves very improperly, two of them in particular —one of whom was drunk at the time, and had been so re ported by his inspector —to be dealt with by the police com mittee. The old woman was accordingly discharged, and the officers complained of, (who were not in the court) as well as the inspector, who had been on the spot soon after the al leged affray, were sent for. A considerable time elapsed be fore they were all got into court from various parts. Several witnesses were called for the complaint. It appeared from their evidence, that there had been a christening on Sunday evening, in a house in Taylor's -court, North-street, but that the parties had concluded the ceremony, and were quite quiet. Some of them had gone out to the bottom of the entrance to the court, and amongst them the daughter of a Mr. Gilligan, aged 18, who lived in another house in the court. While they were standing there about ten o'clock, police-officer Cunliffe (No. 170) came up drunk, and made use of some language so gross and indilicate towards her, that the witness declined to repeat it in court, though one of them (Edward Brown) said he would write it if he had pen and paper. The latter told him that he was no gentleman to use such language to a young girl—others said it was a shame ; whereupon the offi cer ordered the parties to their houses, and some demur being made, called the assistance of some others. The witness, Brown, said he was struck by one of them, 263, (Crastree) with his stick. The females, being alarmed, ran into the house, and being pursued, the girl bolted the door inside. The other officers then went violently to the door, and not finding immediate admission, broke it in with their sticks. A general attack, it appeared, was then made upon the inmates, including an old man and the old woman, and had norpolice-officer, 98, happened to come in, some of them would probably have lost their lives. Besides breaking in the do or , th ey proceeded violently up stairs, where they broke a table, and a quantity of crokery, &c. thas upon it. Offi cers Cunliffe and Crastree were mostatactive in the outrage. The female afterwards took one of the male complainants to the station-house in Vauxhall -road, and the girl went with him, on being told that she was wanted. They were, however, both diseharged, the keeper hav ing remarked that Cunliffe was in liquor. Inspector M 'Donald afterwards visited the premises where the destruction had been done, and spoke to the damage, but did not know the value of the articles, which were afterwards valued at eight shillings. He had reported Cunliffe as being drunk that night, and his case had yet to be heard before the com mittee. The two officers implicated attempted a defence, but it was not satisfactory.—Mr. Rushton said that Cunliffe (170) must be dismissed from the force, and must, moreover, pay Bs. and costs for damage. The other officer, Crastree, was ordered to be suspended until a full investigation of the whole affair, as affecting him, should take place. LIST OF PICTURES SELECTED BY THE PRIZE HOLDERS OF THE FUND FOR THE ENCOU RAGEMENT OF MODERN ART. Prizeho/der, Geo. Holt, Esq.—No. in Cata, 25 Subject, " D utch boats beating into the Scheldt. lo gue "—Ar ( tis ) t's name. E. W. Cooke. Gen. Holt, Esq. — (433)--" Pastoral."—J. Wilson, jun. King Ellison—(424) —" Mending the net."—W. Shaper. King Ellison—(l44) —" Banks of the Medina, Isle of Wight." —A. Vickers. Mar s Gog—all'.(3o7)—" The cotter's S a t ur d ay n i g ht . " h -T. F —H. J. Bod- (2)—" Old gateway, Ambleside." The nook at Ambleside." —J. Stark. "—T. Crane. "—H. J. Bod- scene, Evening." James Wordley—(3s9) W. Watts. A. bl. Kinderman—(ll7) Miss M. Duckworth—(B9, T. P. Marshall. Rev. W Badnall—(l36)—" The loch W. Watts. Robert Henderson— P. P. Poole. Edward James—(3B` R. Percy. Mrs. R. Rathbone—(lsB)—" Valley of Langdale, Cum berland."—Miss J. Nasmyth. Liverpool Academy—(33l) P. Phillips. Mrs. Atkinson—(ll) beach." -8. Walters. Edward Molyneux—(7o)- -W. Have `' Girl at a sprint ."—T. Crane 1—" The dilatory cobbler."— at Windsor." " The mountain rivulet."• " Gathering water-cresses."—S " The barefooted friar •" Hastings, fishin g-boats on the ' Grotto of Neptune, Tivoli." Charles M'lver—(B2)—" A Welsh peasant girl at a s pring."—W. Shaver. John Glover—(l33)--" The politicians."—J. A. Pullen. in J• F. I nterior of a Cottage in Nor "—•. Goodhall. T. Holden —(198)—" Kirkstall Abbey. T. Holden—(2oo)—" Cattle on the Moor." ton. —.T. T. Eglington. —J. T. Egling- Richard Brooks—(Y7)—`' The Fruit Bearer."—W. Derby W. N. 8e11—(249)—" Haddon Chase, Derbyshire."—A Vickers W. N. Bell—(209) J. T. Eglington. Hugh Perkins—(4BB)- --Copley Fielding. • Hugh Perkins—(lB)._" Salmon Trap on the River Lynn." --W. Collingwood. Asplan James Gerrard—(42l)—" V i ew on the Derwent. ' d. George Green, Esq.—(GB) Ward, Thos. Dismore— Havell. Robert Horsfall—(l3l)— ,, Borrowdale."—A. Hunt. Francis Shand—(l3B) —" Study in Durham Park."—Mis C, Nasmyth. S. S. Herdman Gair—(l77)—' John Tyer—(l2o) L. Aspland. " Mackworth Castle, with cattle ." Scene off Whitby, Yorkshire." " II Condottiero." (210)-' Valley, Cruce's Abbey " Gateway, Glenann Castle:" -W. G " View near Grange, Borrowdale." Private sales amount to Amount by Art Union Amount added by prizeholders £743 625 128 £1,496 Riches are the baggage of virtue ; they cannot be s p ared or left b ehind, but they hinder the march. Mr. Peter Ainsworth, M.P. for Bolton, in reply to a re quision to attend a meeting of the Anti - Corn L aw Lea g ue, replied, that " havii..: given my assent, in the last session of parliament, to the new tariff, sanct;oned the principle of pro tectionl to the manu f actur i ng , t h e mining, and the agricultural erests of this country, I feel that I cannot, with any degree .Tiustice, exc l u d e the growers of corn from a part ici p ation in ; 11 e advantages o f similar protection. I consider that they naave an equal claim f or p ro tection upon the legislat ure, and ' 1 ! t it will b e impossible to refuse to them the imposition ° I a moderate fi xe d d u t y upon the import of corn. Enter thrtaining these sentiments, I regret to say that , I cannot have e pleasure of accepting your kind invitation." '-E. M OPENING OF THE LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. The Liverpool Collegiate Institution, in Shaw-street, which owes its establishment to the desire for the spread of Scrip tural education, was opened on Friday. Announcements had previously been made to the effect that the Right Lord Stanley, M.P., the Lord Bishop of Chester, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and other distinguished indi- I,t, lion viduals, would be present, and that a procession would take place from the Town-hall to the Institution; and in conse quence much public interest was felt to witness the proceed ings. The weather, however, which was most unpropitious, caused some disappointment and inconvenience, but, not withstanding, the proceedings suffered no diminution of interest from the first to the last. The proceedings of the day commenced by the celebration of divine service in the parish church of St Nicholas, where an excellent sermon, appropriate to the occasion, was preached by the Rev. Jonathan Brooks. The reverend gen tleman selected as his text the first and second verses of the 2d chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew. " Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the King, behold there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, where is he that is born King of the Jews ? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him." The Lord Bishop of Chester, wno was staying with the Rev. Augustus Campbell, was present du ring divine service. After service, the bishop, the rectors, the churchwardens, and many members of the congregation proceeded to the Town-hall, where a procession was formed, headed by the Mayor, to the Institution, in Shaw-street. About half-past one o'clock the gentlemen who had com posed the procession from the Town-hall entered the lecture room or theatre of the Institution, and took their places upon the platform amidst much applause. The Mayor, Robertson Gladstone, ESI I ., took the chair. At his right sat the Lord Bishop of the Diocese; and at his left the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Rev. Jonathan Brooks, and the Rev. W. J. Conybeare (the Principal). Around and behind were a numerous body of clergy and gentry. In addition to those we have named we then observed the Rev. Rector Campbell, Archdeacon Clarke, Rev. Dr. Tattershall, Rev. Hugh M'Neile, Rev. Fielding Ould. Rev. F. Barker, Rev. W. Rawson Rev. Dr. Byrth, Rev. T. G. Leigh, Rev. A. M'Conkey, Rev. John Jones, Rev. Robert Davies, Rev. C. W. Lawrence, Rev. Wm. Falloon, Rev. J. R. Connor, Rev. T. Gardner, Old Swan, Rev. A. Knox, Birkenhead, Rev. J. Cordeaux, of Saint Silas's, Rev. J. H. Stewart, Rev. Mr. Hornby, Rev. Mr. Brimelow, of Billinge, Rev. Mr. Carter, Rev. F. Parry, Rev. Dr. Booth, Professor of Mathe matics in the Institution. Amongst the laity we noticed Sir Hoe , 1 Douglas, M.P., J. W. Patten, M.P., Charles Lawrenc, , Esq., Samuel Stanifortb, Esq., John Shaw Leigh, Esq., James Aspinall, Esq., George Grant, Esq., I. 0. Bold, Esq., John Leyland, Esq., R. W. Preston, Esq., Charles Horsfall, E,q., Adam Hodgson, Esq., W. Jones, Esq., James Heyworth, Esq., Richard Dawson, Esq., Alderman J. B. Moore ; Councillors David Hodgson, Win. Thornhill, Joshua Edwards, Thomas Sands, Ebenezer Rae, Samuel Holme, Thomas Toulmin, Joseph Cooper, James Proctor, Christopher Bushell, John Kilshaw, Robert Rigby, John Platt, Richard 1-larbord, Alexander Smith, Esquires. Before the arrival of the procession the gentleman of the Phiharmonic Society, who had kindly offered their services, performed the Jubilee Overture, by Weber, and a variety of other pieces. As the procession entered a duet was performed on the organ, and immediately afterwards the following an them, by Mozart, was sung : " Judge me, 0 Lord, according to thy righteousness, and let them not triumph over me. " I will give thanks unto thee, 0 Lord, among the people, and I will sing unto thee among the nations. For the great ness of thy mercy reacheth unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds." The Rev. A. CAMPBELL, junior rector of Liverpool, then offered up several appropriate prayers to the Almighty for His blessing upon the Institution. The Rev. J. BROOKS, senior rector of Liverpool, then stepped forward to address the assembly amidst great ap plause. The rev. gentleman said, I am happy, my lord, in this opportunity of congratulating your lordship, for I think I may do it with it justice, when I reflect upon the kind of support you have from the very commencement of this un dertaking afforded towards it,— (cheering.)—when I re member you were kind enough to advocate the cause from the pulpit, that you took a share in the ceremony of laying its first foundation stone, and that you have again appeared here to sanction it upon the present occasion. And, sir, I congratulate you, ( the Mayor) because I consider you as officially connected with this institution in holding the office of one of its vice-presidents ; and I may congratulate the whole of this large assembly which I see here now collected together, at the completion of a building, the main object of which, is, to provide, for the great mass of the population of this town, a sound religious and scriptural education. (Loud cheers.) My lord, holding, as your lordship does, the office of the spiritual head of this diocese, I consider your having accepted the office of visitor, which gives us the opportunity of appealing to your advice and assistance in all cases of dif ficulty and doubt, as a guarantee that the instruction to be given within these walls shall be in strict conformity with the discipline—with the doctrine—with the principles, and with the formularies of the established church of this coun try—that which we sincerely believe to be a pure branch of the true apostolic church of Christ—and of which your lordship is one of the appointed national guardians. (Great cheering.) For these favours thus conferred upon us, my lord, in the name of the committee I beg to offer you their sincere and grateful thanks; and I am instructed to present to you an engraving of this building, which, it is to be hoped, will not disgrace the public spirit and taste of the town of Liverpool. (Loud cheers.) It is well known that we had expected to have seen upon this occasion the noble lord, who has been kind enough to take the office of our patron. ttv ( hs. ; C ael rinhdryieaeeidtefnftor attendance n ) eddao npl fromee enw opening LordLt to hoe London d n l soo t intention Stanley ner t l i ap o er ynel early that oi thef nd no public next tt o h w m i s e m enb k i tu t o, t s nei and month, t ds, to butwhah requiredve when h d he e ue ethcaotuhlde tiwxoualndekaerelyp d h a im y, se t l h f e d p is r e e n sen g t e o d n f e or be th in a g t con venient, pose, we endeavoured to hold the ceremony ga of opening upon this day. ( Hear.) I regret to state, and lam fully iau thorised in sayi ng , th a t L ord Stanley also re grets, he has unexpecte dl y b een deprived mostftl sincerelyet sat s hte m hea e ery e eeru ti r o i gu ceremony you f laying upon first s to a e s. li h didee has upon been the a I f l o l e o r d m n by of Q p u re e , e fe n: l s te n d o h m i m s d a t n te d n s . d t u o ne ‘ e V , i h nd ut so th r e : t wnoasootinieerwcahuiesh w ould not admit of any excuse or denial. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) lam sorry, too—it will be a source of great regret—that ano thernoble lord, who holds the office of our present president, is in such a state of health as to render it quite impossible he could he with us upon this occasion. (Hear, hear.) We had then to seek further for some one who would kindly take upon himself the office of addressing you upon the occasion of the first opening ; and we naturally went to the list of our vice-presidents. (Hear.) We were there fortunate enough to meet with the name of a gentleman whom we thought eminently qualified. if he would be willing, to perform the office which Lord Stanley was to have done this day. To that gentleman, in the presence of that gentle man, I feel prevented by that delicacy which I should be sorry to violate, from doing more than advert to the general admiration of those endowments and talents which have placed him in the first rank of British statesmen ;—(Cheers) —but I do not feel restrained by the same delicacy in point ing out to you an additional reason why I think he is peculiarly fitted to take, in the town of Liverpool, the situation which he is kind enough to fill this day. (Hear, hear.) I need not remind you that his father, an eminent merchant of this town,—(hear, and cheers)—is one of that class of men who, by the well directed spirit of commercial enterprise, have raised the town of Liverpool from an insignificant port to the second commercial city in the British empire. (Loud and continued cheering.) I need not tell you he is one of those men who have carried into the remotest corners of the ha bitable globe the name of the British merchant, and made it not only known but respected. (Tremendous cheering.) That wealth which he has so honourably acquired he has liberally dispensed ;—(cheers)—and this I mention not in the way of declamation, for facts speak for themselves. (Hear, hear, hear.) Witness the noble institution which he has founded in his own native town of Leith where, in ad dition to the provision he has made for suffering humanity, he has built and endowed a church and a school for the edu cation and the instruction of those of his countrymen, who are of the established religion of that part of the island. (Cheers.) Witness, too, the noble donation he has made to that I am sure we should call most important object which is now going on, the founding; of a Collegiate Institution in Scotland, for the preparation of the ministry of young men in the Episcopal Church of Scotland. (Great cheering.) And, to come nearer home, witness, too, the repeated con tributions which he has made, I may say, to all our local charities ;—the three churches he has built and en dowed in this and the neighbouring parish and to crown all, particularly upon this occasion, I must mention the donation of £l,OOO which he has given to this build ing—(hear, hear, hear, and renewed cheers)—besides a de claration of his intention to found a scholarship in connec tion with its schools.—(Long-continued cheering.) I think I have fully shown to you we could not have been more for tunate than to have found the son, and such a son, of such a father, upon the present occasion. —(Great cheering.) With out showing the bad taste of detaining you longer, I have only now to present, in the name of the committee, their most cordial and grateful thanks to Mr. Gladstone for the promptitude with which he has kindly come forward in our day of need—(hear, hear)—and beg also he will accept an engraving of this institution, which has been prepared for him.—(Cheers.) I shall therefore conclude by introducing to you. on this occasion, the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone, as a worthy substitute for the noble lord who was to have addressed you. (The venerable Rector then retired to his seat amidst prolonged cheering from all parts of the building.) The Right Honourable WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, M.P., then stepped forward, and his appearance was the signal for most enthusiastic plaudits. Silence having been restored, the right honourable gentleman addressed the as sembly nearly as follows : _ My Lord Bishop, Mr. Mayor, and Gentlemen,—You will allow me to commence the remarks I am about to address to you by re-echoing, with unfeigned sincerity, those expres sions of regret in which your respected Rector has indulged himself with regard to the absence of that distinguished per son whom you regard nut less for his private virtues than for his public eminence, and in whom the appreciation of his personal qualities is heightened among you by the fact of his descent from an illustrious ancestry, long and intimately connected with your community.—(Loud cheers.) My Lord and Gentlemen,—lf there is a person who beyond all others has a right to feel keenly disappointed at the absence of my Lord Stanley, that individual is the person who now ad dresses you, and upon whom it has devolved, most feebly and most inadequately, to endeavour to supply the deficiency which is occasioned by his absence.—(Loud cheers.) I plead, gentlemen, for your indulgence, upon the footing that I am indeed deeply sensible of my inability to give adequate expression to the feelings which, upon this remarkable and signal occasion, animate, I am quite certain, every breast within this vast assemblage. I plead for your favour now, and I trust, in what I have to say, I shall endeavour to ex press that which, I am quite certain, comes home to the conviction, and d e eply i n t eres t s th e feelings, of every person whom I now see before me, and of the great body of the in habitants of the town of Liverpool.—(Cheers.) I cannot, indeed, take to myself any part of that eulogium which your reverend rector might, in his indulgence, have been disposed to pass; but I do feel there are grounds upon which it must be, and upon which it ever must be, a matter of the highest satisfaction to me to discharge any public duty in connection with the town of Liverpool.—(Cheers.) I have not yet for gotten, and I trust I never shall forget, that I am myself a native of a town distinguished as is the town of Liverpool by everything that can ennoble a commercial community. aye, and by everything that can ennoble a Christian community —(cheers) ; and I do trust that I may be allowed to feel a sentiment differing far from that of personal vanity—a senti ment of satisfaction, in reflecting that I have a favourable introduction to your notice in the name of my father. — (Loud and long-continued cheering.) I feel that in opening an institution intended mainly for the benefit of the middle classes of society—(cheers)—l, who am myself sprung from that middle class,—l, who with my family, still claim to be long to that middle class,—that we may be expected and presumed to entertain some sympathy with the principal ob ject of this beneficent institution ;7-that we may desire to open the way and smooth the way for those who may be in clined to venture upon the path of honourable advancement. Upon this account, if not by personal qualification, I may at least with sincerity, and at least with earnestness, address you upon the occasion which has assembled you together.— (Loud cheers.) Permit me also to say, that I hold an office which has made ma acquainted, in some degree, with the extraordinary depression of the commercial circumstances of the country, and that I have some means of appreciating the extent of pressure which must have been experienced in the town of Liverpool during the very few years that have elapsed since first this project was announced ; and I can, there fore, appreciate the energy and t he public spirit, the muni ficence, and, above all, t!:e earnestness of Christian prin ciple which has secured fr. this institnt inn au I.IIT P. a l!f, a mar of support—support, 1 pul quite ee:lain, in many i given without self-sacrifice. Even amidst thatgreat depression it hasheen shewn that the p , ople of Liverpool are always ready, be their circumstances what they 'nay, to contribute nut of that which, through the goodness of God, they have received at His hands—no small portion for Luis honour and His glory. (Loud and continued cheering.) Allow me, my Lord Bishop, to say that there is no class of men who ought at least to entertain a livelier interest in the progress of all schemes connected with public education than that class which is connected with political office. (Cheers.) What is the condition of the institutions of this country ? I shall only speak of facts not open to dispute. Thank God we are here removed from the arena of party discussion ; but it is admitted upon all hands, it is boasted by some, it is received with satisfaction by others, it is denied by none, that we have arrived at a stage in the progress of society in which you must give a broad basis to public institutions—in which you must interest in them, and in which you must challenge for them the approbation and support of the mass of the intelli gent community. (Loud cheers.) We live under a mon archy—we live under an aristocracy, we live in daily enjoy ment of the blessings of the national church—but how are these institutions supported ? The church does not stand upon the footing of superstition ; the monarchy and the peerage are not supported by violence—(cheers)—it is not the bayonet of the soldier which is the guarantee of the per manence of our institutions. (Loud cheers.) True it is, indeed, that prescription is a principle of weight and value in civil affairs; true it is that Englishmen are distinguished among the nations of the earth, not only by an indomitable energy, but likewise by a dislike to idle and unnecessary change, and by a reverence for th?, traditions of their fore fathers. (Loud cheers.) All these things have hitherto been proved ; and I trust we have not yet arrived at the period when they can be denied to exist. (Loud cheers.) But it is also true that the constitution of this country calls upon the people for their free and their intelligent support; it is also true that extensive franchises are committed to nu merous classes of the population ; it is also true that without the intelligent assen t an d attachment of those numerous classes to whom I advert, the institutions of the country could not be supported. (Tremendous cheering.) Those, therefore, who in their sphere—be it more or less extensive, and I, as one of the least amongst them—those who are ap pointed to watch over the laws and institutions of the coun try, they know (at least they ought to know—the best of all men) that inasmuch as we look to the great mass of the in telligent community for the means of upholding our institu tutions, of supporting the throne, and the aristocracy, of supporting the church, of supporting all which some men deem to be relics of the dark ages, but which, we believe to be sound in their principles, and ought to be deeply rooted in the affections of the people : public men, I say, ought, of all others, to know best how important it must be so to train the minds of th'e population in sound and useful knowledge, in that knowledge which will really bear the criterion of a searching examination, and not in that which, unfortunately, too often passes by the name of sound and useful knowledge without pretension to the substance.— (Cheers.) We must know how important it is by the com munication of that knowledge, by the formation of right habits of mind, to secure a still larger support, a still warmer attachment, a still more intelligent assent, upon the part of the population, to the institutions which we love and revere ; and it is, therefore, acting upon that conviction that, so far from desiring to see education restricted in the country, I wish that every year which passes over our heads may, upon the contrary, witness its freer and still further extension ; —(loud and continued cheers)—and in every establishment which, like this establishment, professes to form the character of the people according to the true and real purpose of our being, I, for my part, see, upon the one hand, a great instru ment of spiritual good, and, upon the other hand, a new guarantee for the permanence of our political institutions.— (Vehement cheers.) Allow me to say, in considering this institution as an institution intended for the benefit of the middle classes of society, I cannot help feeling, as you have indeed already been told, that those who have conceived the idea of such a design have applied themselves to the supply of a deficiency which was great and glaring among us.—(Pro tracted cheering.) I cannot but feel that, however, it may be a current opinion in the world, that advancement in the world is in the nature of an advantage,and that the rich man is happier than the poor man ; that yet, when we look se riously into these matters, and bring them before the tribunal of conscience, it cannot be denied that the rich man himself, and every man, in proportion as his desires are multiplied, in proportion as his faculties are cultivated, has not less need, but more, indeed, of the sanctifying influence of religion ; —(loud and continued cheering)—that he who knows little, he who is poor, he who is called ignorant, does, indeed, stand in great need of education ; but he who is not poor,—he, the range of whose desires is enlarged, the number of whose temptations are multiplied, whose intellect is cultivated, who has much more scope given him for vanity and undue pre sumption before God,—l say, so far from having less need of education, those who belong to that superior class have more need of education, in order to enable them to comprehend their position as Christians, and to live in the faith and fear of God.—(Loud cheering.) There is also this difference between members of the middle class and members of the lower class. The members of the lower classes of society, as we all know, in many instances, when education is for the first time offered to them, exhibit a comparative indifference to the reception of it. To them the need of it is not imme diate and palpable. They pursue their daily purposes, Ido not say equally well without education, but still education is not to them a necessary in order to enable them to labour with their hands. But when we look at the middle class, to those who are carrying on the commercial undertakings of a great town like this, we see plainly an education there must be. The very nature of their calling probably requires one. They are certain to have it ; they must have it either good or bad ; and it is for us to consider what kind of education ought to be provided for them, or whether they ought to be left to the temptation of availing themselves of that more flattering education which seems indeed to involve less difficulty, which seems to provide equally well for both parties, but which we believe to be deficient in all those essential requisites whereby alone education is rendered valuable. (Cheers.) Those for whom you arc now providing are those who must be educated ; and it is for you to labour that that education should be a good one. (Loud cheers.) And not only the claims, but surely also the time at which this institution is founded, ren ders it valuable. Do we not live in an age when everything is made thesubject of question and doubt? We live in an age when men's minds are stimulated into an activity which is salutary, no doubt, in many respects, but which manifestly requires the support and the guidance both of sound Christian prin ciples and of enlarged and accurate habits of thought. (Hear.) It is the critical period in the history of nations when men begin to question themselves respecting everything around them, when doubts are suggested before the means of solving those doubts are at hand, when there is a great disposition to question the merits of this and of that institution ; and when there is not in an equal degree the power to effect a steady and personal examination into all the points and bearings of the case upon which the merits of such an institution may really depend. (Cheers.) This age is manifestly an age of criticism, and in that sense of scepticism. Do we hold it is desirable to cheek the spirit of inquiry ? No such thing. I am sure there is no one here, and I believe there is no one without these walls, any more than within them, who would wish to maintain such a doctrine. (Cheers.) It is a certain state of the human mind which belongs to our condition and to our circumstances, it comes upon us as a dispensation of Providence, that all things should be subject to discussion. Let that discussion by all means be continued ; but let it be fair and full, and let us approach it not under the influ ence of idle curiosity and morbid prejudice—not under the in fluence of personal and partial feelings, but with all those " aids and appliances" of sound knowledge and of right thought ; and above all, with all that reliance upon a higher power which Christianity alone can give. (Loud cheers.) With these advantages, let us meet discussion, and we need not fear for its issue. (Long-continued cheers.) But I have not yet touched, or I have as yet hardly touched, upon that which constitutes the centre of the interest which is felt in this great community with regard to the celebration of this day. I have scarcely touched upon that which really and fundamentally distinguishes this institution ' • and, my lord bishop, you must allow me to say, I feel the difficulty of tcuching upon such a topic when I consider my own position and the character 1 bear, and when I reflect that I am stand ing in the presence of the spiritual fathers and teachers of the church, and that upon a former occasion—fresh, I doubt not, in the memory of those who hear me—your lordship was pleased to make this institution the subject of a discourse from the pulpit; and the rector of the town did also deliver, with a clearness and ability not easily to be surpassed, his views of the principles upon which this institution was to be founded ; and now it remains to me (for I feel that I can do no more) feebly to reproduce and reiterate some part of the expression of those principles which were then laid before you. (Loud cheers.) But still, my lord, in the discharge of this duty, I ask what is it we are now assembled to cele brate? It is not the magnificent scale of this institution — it is not the beauty of its architecture, to which my reverend friend has paid a deserved compliment—it is not even the high authority under which we meet—but it is the deep con viction in the mind of every one of us, that the existence of this institution is a living and a permanent testimony to a great and indestructible principle—namely, to the principle that education, if it is to be effectual, if it is to be valuable, if it is to be deserving of the name, must be a religious edu cation—(great and continuous cheering) ;—and that, in order to deserve the name of a religious education, it must be founded—not upon those vague generalities which are sup posed to be common to all men, or at least to all men who assume the name of Christians—but upon the definite reve lation which it has pleased Gon to give, and whereby each man among us must hope to stand or fall. (Cheers.) This, I say, gives a higher interest to our proceedings than any assem bly of merely temporal and secular circumstance, than any amountof earthly patronage, than any vague and idle curiosity could, by possibility, have communicated to such an occasion as the present. (Cheers.) Here we come upon that great ques tion—upon nt i u s i p n o t enndtheadt to q vindicate u e t ion of for questions—whatitself thatti is like man, with his faculties, his hopes, his temptations, and _an for education a being his dangers ? (Tremendous cheers.) There are two systems which are irreconcileably divided, and we are the ad herents of one of them. We do not come here to dispa rage the efforts of those who think differently from ourselves upon the nature of education, upon the subject matter which it ought to embrace, and upon the ends to which it should be directed. We are ready, I trust, to do justice to their bene volence and their zeal ; we are ready to acknowledge, in many cases, that we may take a lesson from that zeal, and that men of sounder views may profit in practice by the example of persons who, though they possess less light, yet seem to male d c a more earnest and sincere use of that light which they o possess. (Cheers.) With all respect, then, for the persons and motives of those who may think otherwise upon this vi- . tal matter of education, still we feel there are two systems' which are irreconcilably and eternally divided.—(Cheers.) There are those who think—and I admit the opinion to be a plausible opinion, which seems, at all events, at first sight, to have much that is capable of being alleged in its favour — that the great object, the first object of education, is to give to man such information as shall serve the purpose of his temporal advancement, as shall enable him to pursue, with t efficiency and success, the calling to which he may, be about devote himself. And if they have that view of the nature of education—if they really believe that it is the nature of education only to put tools into the hands of man, which tools he may employ to shape and fashion all the materials of the earth afresh as he pleases, if they hold such a belief, the natural consequence is, they cannot see or recognise the necessity of founding education upon a definite basis of reli gion. (Cheers.) They see we are unhappily perplexed by religious divisions, that we labour under the sore evils with which religious divisions are attended, and they are led to say, " Let us cut this knot ; let us avoid all these difficul ties, let us found our public education upon the communica tion of the description of knowledge about the utility of which there is no doubt whatever, and let us leave religion, and all other things upon which we cannot agree, to be dealt with by each man according to his own pleasure." I hope that is not an unfair representation of the view which unhappily pre vails, which I admit to be a plausible view of this great and important subject, and which I believe to he the view which many men are led to take, I am bound to say, under the influence of a most unfortunate delusion, but still from motives which we are bound to avow as by no means, in all cases, implying an indifference upon the part of the individual to the importance and value of religion itself. (Loud cheers.) But still that is the doctrine which prevails. Upon that foun dation many instit u ti ons h ave b ee n built the present age has been witness to man y grea t efforts of th a t d escr i pt i on . (Loud cheers.) Th e oppos it e d o ctrine i s a very, very dif ferent one. The o pp os it e d oc t r ine, as I app re h en d, is this—that although it be important to supply every man with the means of the honourable and successful pursuit of his earthly calling, yet there is something which is far more important still; that the great purpose of education, the first and paramount purpose of education, is not so much to supply a man with the tools and instruments whereby he may fashion all things to his pleasure, but it is to fashion and to mould man himself. (Vehement cheering.) It is so to sit upon end form his mind; it is so to develop his facul ties ; it is so to cherish the imperishable seed of life eternal, that he may be conscious of the true law of his condition, and that lie may not bound his views to temporary and perishing objects : but that, recognising that which was the state of his first parents before their fall, he may likewise recognise the great and the absorbing truth, that to recover that state is the great end of his being upon earth. (Loud and tremendous cheering.) But, as union with God was the law of his original nature, so reunion with God is the great purpose for which he is now placed upon earth ; and to which not the Christian religion alone, but likewise the whole experience of life, all that befalls him in it, his domestic position, his social position, whatever is his, whatever is around him, it is one great discipline, devised by a divine wis dom for the purpose of contributing to the accomplishment of that great work, the renovation of the nature of God in a race that was fallen away. (Loud cheers.) Now, this is really the fundamental question—whether education is a system for giving to a man the means of pursuing his temporal calling, or whether, without excluding that purpose, it is likewise a system for operating upon the mind and character of man himself. (Loud cheers.) If it be the first, then it is easy to understand why, in a country which labours under religious divisions, we should not seek to encumber our education, as it were, by making religion essentially a part of it ; but if it be, upon the contrary, so far from being true that such is the case, that it is one of the subtlest and most mischievous delusions that ever went forth for the ruin of man, then, upon the other hand, it is surely equally true that religion must he included in the matter of education. (Loud cheers.) And not only that religion must be included as one among the many, not only as constituting one item in the long catalogue of accomplishments, but it must be really the pervading principle, the principle to which all others are to be subordi nated, and with regard to which both the foundation of the institution is to be regulated, and all its ends are to be adjusted and arranged. (Loud and tremendous cheering.) That I believe to be the principle upon which those have cor dially agreed, who have joined together in the foundation of this institution. (Cheers.) In this institution I trust we shall see, under the faithful care, and under the able su perintendence of the reverend gentleman who has been chosen to preside over it, and who will, I trust, shortly oblige this meeting by explaining to them the nature of the course which it is his intention to pursue ; in this institution I trust we shall see communicated to the rising generation— (l speak of the rising generation, because Iknow that although, in its comprehensive range, it will embrace persons of other classes besides the middle class—it will embrace, to a cer tain extent, adults as well as youth—yet its leading character will be, that it will communicate it to the rising generation) —what has been described in the rules of the institution, " sound religion in connection with useful learning." We do not, because we maintain the necessity and the sove reignty of sound religious teaching, disparage that of useful learning. (Loud cheering.) We are ready, I trust, to concede that useful learning which bears upon the pursuits of man's calling, and upon the obtaining of his daily bread— that that kind of learning will also be best, and most ef fectually communicated and received when it is joined to sound religion. But the connexion between the two is that which this institution is designed to recommend ; and as far as this town and community are concerned, it is designed also to perpetuate. We think we have ample ground for our con victions upon the subject of education. We think that it should correspond with the laws of man's nature, and with his state upon earth. We think when you wish to ascertain from the most authentic source what is the fitting culture for a being constituted like man, you must draw that informa tion and the reply to that question, not from any vague theory or speculation, but from a consideration of the ex perimental effects of the nature of man himself, and of the condition in which it has pleased God to place him. If we go to Scripture, we are assured that his natural life upon earth is a life that perishes like the grass—that it " flourishes in the morning, and in the evening it is gone." If such be the case, is it not natural and incumbent upon us that we should direct our attention to that imperishable life which lies beyond the grave; that we should not pretend we are educating a man when, in point of fact, our efforts only have reference to this earthly state, which is the state of his in fancy, and has no reference to that future state, which is the state of his manhood and full development ? (Loud cheering.) If, again, we look to the institutions of our religion, do we not find that all our children are already in covenant with God; that they are already dedicated to Him by baptism, and afier they have been so dedicated, after the very first days or weeks of infancy have been stamped with His seal and signed with His cross, it is to be supposed that when their faculties begin to expand, they are to be trained up without the knowledge of the life, giving truths of reve lation ? If we look to the nature of mind itself, if we consider its range, how little it is satisfied with the objects that man has upon earth; how many marks this dispensation bears of being temporary, and as it were a transitory dispensation, it is not monstrous to confine our selves to certain purposes, which, however valuable in their place, yet are purposes bearing only upon earthly things and earthly objects? (Loud cheers.) Is it not paltering and playing with the subject? Is it not giving stones to those who ask for bread, if we give that as education to man which has no reference to his higher faculties and estate, but is exclusiyely conversant with objects which must perish in the use? (Cheers.) We are now speaking of the education of the young, and it involves the whole question, for this reason, that in youth it is, according to the usual operation of God's laws, that the character receives its stamp and its formation. In youth it is that the principles are ordinarily implanted which determine the ultimate condition, whether for weal or whether for woe, of man's advanced life. Therefore, in ap plying a discipline in youth, it does seem, if we attend to Scripture,—if we attend to the testimony of the Christian institution, and to the instruction which the nature of man himself is calculated to impart to us,—we must return with more and more sure and fixed convictions to the assertion of that principle whereupon we stand in this place, namely, that education to be valuable, and to deserve the name, must be religious education, and to be religious it must be founded upon the definite revelation of God. (Loud cheers.) But after all, is not the whole of our life an education ? Is not this world itself an apparatus of instruments provided for acting and operating upon the character of man, and prepar ing him for a higher estate? Is it not true that those instru ments are themselves all destined to be consumed even as a vesture when they have done their work ? In the soul of men, is their end and object. Upon that they are intended to operate ; arid, accordi ng t o th e i r , influence upon that, they will be valuable and b ene fi c i a l, or t h e y will b e wor thl ess an d pernicious. To that, therefore, we mu st direct o ur e ff orts ; upon that we must seek to operate : and in seeking to oper ate upon it, we must employ an instrumentality , not such as our own means or fancy may suggest, but we must employ the instrumentality of a ll th e sound an d v aluable kn ow l e d ge which the exp er i ence o f ages, and the l a b ours o f h uman thought for ages, h ave accumulated in a ll the departme n t s o f secular enquiry; an d we must employ t h a t which is hi g h er than all—that faith w hi c h has stood t he test of eighte en hundred years, and which we know will stand the test of all future perils and all future storms, until at length it gives place to the vision and fruition of that which it now only embodies to ou r v i ew. (T remendous c h eer ing.) I feel as I felt at the co mmencement, how weakly an d inadequately I have endeavou re d t o express to you some part of those feel_ ings with which I know you to be possessed. I feel how much there is to desire, when a mind more powerful than mine might be employed with advantage in describing to you the deep and the radical and the fundamental nature of those principles which form the foundation of this institution, and which have guided the conduct of those who are concerned in its management, (Ch eers.) It is I think we may assume, from considerati ons o f t hi s kind, th a t it has been declared in sound religio n an d use f u l learning, the announcement s o f thi s i nstitution to the public, th a t i ts object is to m a i n t a i n i nd i ssolubly t h e connection betw een while it provides for the inhabitants of thi s t own an education su i te d an d p roport i one d to their wants. I trust we feel it is for no party object; that it is for no personal object, that it is for no mere social ob ject, however honourable and laudable in itself, that we re fuse to combine with those who seem to recommend a more general scheme of education ; but we inscribe upon the very front of the institution, that it is intended, while it invites the approach of all, and does what it can to facilitate the approach of all, to communicate a definite and a determi. nate religious teaching, according to the doctrines and institutions of that national church to which I trust we consider it a blessing to belong. (Loud cheers.) If we re fuse to co-operate with others in schemes which are founded upon a different principle, it is from no indisposition to unite with them if we could see benefit in their schemes; but from a deep conviction that we must in all these matters endeavour to be governed and regulated by those guiding marks which God himself has laid down in order to designate our path. We must not set at nought those laws which he has ordained and established for our nature ; we must not overlook the cardinal truths of our condition ; we must keep in view in placing the stamp and seal upon the character of men, first of all those purposes which are most essential to his happi ness, and then only each in its due place, those inferior pur poses, which are more connected with his earthly pursuits which are undoubtedly honourable and valuable, and receive their blessing from God, while they are employed in the measure and according to the laws He bas laid down; but which become, on the contrary, themselves mischievous and ruin ous to our ultimate felicity, when we place them in a posi tion they were not intended to occupy, and when we make them substitutes for religion, and for the consideration of our good, instead of being handmaids to religion and to the which belong to it. We believe, if you could erect a system which should present to mankind all branches of knowledge, save the one which is essential, you would only be building up to heaven a Tower of Babel, which, when you had completed it, would be the more signal in its fall, and which would bury those who raised it in its ruins. —(Cheers.) We believe, if you could take a human being in his youth, and you could make him an accomplished man in natural philosophy, in mathematics, or in the knowledge necessary for any one of the professions—for the profession of the luw, the pro fession of a physician, or the profession of a merchant, —and if, with any or all these endowments you could fetter his mind—yes, if you could endow him with the science and power of a Newton ,and so send him forth to his work upon earth, and, if you had concealed from him, or, rather, if you had not pressed upon him, and mixed with all his training, the knowledge and the love of the Christian faith, he would go forth into the world, able, indeed, with regard to those purposes of sc ien ce , successful, perhaps, with regard to the accumulation of wealth and the multi plication of earthly desires, but poor and miserable, and blind and naked, with regard to every thi ng that cons titute s the true and the sovereign purpose of our existence—yea, worse, with regard to that still remained sovereign purpose, than if he had remained in the ignorance which we all commisserate, and which it is the object of this institution to assist in removing. In this place, as we trust, will be experienced from year to s been conceived in a spirit so suit from a design which has been which appears to meet the enlightened and so just, andlcomnity in these respects, in wants of the great commercia year the benefits and advantages that may be expected to re d will be awakened to the love that here many a youthful min etrust Wl h h t iat ere out - and to the pursuit of knowledge . d by healthy and salutary exer cise,ful faculties will be invigorate which they were most grievously felt.—(Cheers.) We trust w hi c h have exclusive connections simply to those purposes that is here to be communi cated that the imagination with our material existence ! those who are to be trained and the taste—that the heart a acquired a thirst for knowledge and that they will not n b w e det c itl u e rb a e ff d ec b ti y on. b s e o in f. g ra c a o n . .n y fin w. e i d il findt withinhle tihrWefsoeeowtdrauilsnl walls, and here tasted its sweets, will thereby be incited to honourable become , in the various branches of exertion, will be moved to to their country, and will British enterprise, benefactors leave behind them, when they are called away, a name that will e aavti knowledge mngalyeroefacq be honourable among succeeding generations ! (Prolonged that in this cheers.) We trust, above be instructed in the nature of their position as Christians ! e trust that here they will learn the substance and mean ing of the vows of their baptism !We trust that here they will be incited by a teaching Christian not merely in its name, Christian not merely in its form, Christian not merely in its abstract and naked truth, but Christian in the warmth and earnestness of its purity —to love that religion which is their great pleasure upon earth, and to follow with that ear nestness of purpose with that singleness of mind w hi c h i s t h e most beautiful property of you h p,ittern l e ft t h em b y their Divine Redeemer! (Tremendous cheers.) Surely, if • which we • • these are the anticipations in are justified in in dulging, I have not been wrong in saying this is a great and a signal occasion, that it is an occ asion marked by some thing much better than vague and vain curiosity ; by some thing much better than distinguishes earthly countenance— that it is an occasion upon which we trust we are celebrating together a great act of duty —an occasion upon which we are offering up to God as a tribute to His honour and glory, and for the benefit of our fellow-Christians, some portion of that substance which He in His manifold mercies has bestowed upon us ! My lord, 1 need not,' I feel I cannot, longer detain this assembly, which has extended to me so large a measure of the indulgence I prayed at its hands ; but I do express my earnest joy that all the public proceedings connected with the opening and the commencement of this institution have been proceedings stamped from first to last with a religious charac ter ; (loud cheers) that as you began by taking part in the wor ship of the church, two years ago, and by listening to the public instructions of your bishop, so we are to-day to depart after having received his benediction. (Cheers.) Regarding, therefore, the object that it contemplates—regarding the manner in which its measures have been conceived, I claim the right to rejoice with you, as one of yourselves—to be thankful with you, as one of yourselves, for the great mercy that has been vouchsafed to us, in permitting us to witness a day so full of promise and of hope to the country. (Loud Cheers.) And I beg to express the fervent prayer, that as this institution has been conceived and has been founded in the fear of God, so it may abound, and flourish, and prosper, from generation to generation, by the blessing of His favour ! [The right honourable gentleman then resumed his seat amidst universal cheering.] The Rev. JONATHAN BROOKS here rose and said, lie had now the pleasure of introducing to the meeting the Rev. Mr. Conybeare, the gentleman who had been appointed Principal of the Institution, whose career at the University would show how well qualified he was for that important office.— Great cheering) • The Rev. W.J. CONYBEARE, Principal of the Collegiate Institution, on presenting himself was warmly received by the auditory. The rev. gentleman said, I have been called upon to state the principles upon which it is proposed to conduct the education of this institution, which we are open ing to-day.—(Hear.) This is a subject upon which, were I to go into detail, very much might be said ; but this is not the time or place for details, and, as to the general principles upon which we are to proceed, I feel that, whatever I could have said has been so anticipated in the forcible and eloquent address to which we have just listened, it would be vain for me to attempt to speak upon them at any length.—(Hear.) Still, for the sake rather of showing my sympathy with what has been said than because I could add anything to the in trinsic importance of the sentiments which has been ex pressed, I will endeavour to say a few words.—(Hear.) First, then, I consider our great object to be to place this institution among the number of those which, in the canoni cally ordained prayer of our Church, we are accustomed con stantly to recommend to God's protection ;—(cheers)—l mean the seminaries of sacred learning and religious educa tion in this realm.—(Great cheering.) This includes two objects—that the education we give shall be religious, and that the learning we give should be sound. As to the first, after what we have heard, I need only repeat that, if education be not religious, it cannot deserve the name of education at all—that if it does not embrace man's whole being, it rather should be called, if we consider it deeply, an empiricism, founded upon no fixed principle, tending to no certain end. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the precise mode of adminis tering this important branch of instruction, this is not the place to enter upon it ; but I should wish publicly to men tion one thing in connection with it, namely, that the daily business here will always begin with prayer, conducted ac cording to a form which has been sanctioned by the Arch bishop of Canterbury (hear) for use in a similar institution : and, further, we would most.earnestly desire the attendance upon those occasions of all those who may feel interested in the welfare of the institution, more especially the parents of the pupils, whenever their occupations will permit them at our hour of opening, to attend. (Hear, hear, hear.) As to the secular instruction to be given, a point of less importance but of greater length if I were to expatiate upon it, it is enough to say that the great thing to bear in mind is, that to teach and to educate are essentially different. Our object, the object of all those who seek freely to educate, must be not so much to give positive information as mental training. (Cheers.) Those studies which tend to develope habits of accurate thought are, in all cases, to be preferred to others which have not that tendency. even though they may be less directly practical in their character, less obviously useful in their application. At the same time, we must not forget that if several branches of knowledge could be made equally subservient to this true education, then those are to be pre ferred which will be the best preparation for the -pursuits of future life. (Hear.) Moreover, we must remember that the system here will be modified to meet the peculiar cir cumstances and wants of a great commercial town . it must guard, upon the one hand, against the prevalent tendency to take mere utilitarian objects of education ; and then, upon the other, that our teaching shall be strictly practical in those points which may bear upon the subsequent occupations of any of our pupils. (Hear.) I think these few hints may suffice at present, as to the character of the education we shall attempt to give; but I feel I ought not to conclude without expressing, in the presence of this great body of sup porters of this institution, which I see now assembled before me, my sense of the high and energetic spirit in which this undertaking was begun, and in which it has been carried to its present advanced condition. (Cheers.) Judging from the energy which has been thus shewn—an energy which I think seems characteristic of this town—judging also from the intelligence which has avoided those rocks upon which many schemes have been made shipwreck—l feel we have a right to be sanguine of success. (Cheers.) I have a further. I may say the strongest, ground of confidence in the distin guished characters and abilities of those professors and mas ters whose co-operation I have been so fortunate as to secure. (Cheers.) Nothing, I think, can prevent our success, if only we remain true to the principles and objects which we profess to have in view. (Cheers.) May we never forget how high those objects are ! (Cheers.) Nothing less than to Christianize the education of every rank and class in such a city as this! (Great cheers.) When we think what this involves—when we look upon the countless sails which year by year send thousands of our fellow-subjects into every quarter of the globe, and into every quarter of an empire as extensive as the dominion of the winds and waves, we can not but feel how far our influence for good may extend, and how far any neglect of ours may be felt. (Cheers.) Such thoughts may well serve to awaken in us the sense of our responsibility, may well stimulate us to unremitting exertion ! (Cheers.) If we bear them in mind, if we continually en deavour to act upon our highest aim—to teach the highest truths in the most earnest spirit—l doubt not of the success of our secular teaching also. (Cheers.) I doubt not but our continued prosperity will more than realise the sanguine expectations of our founders ; I doubt not that if we " Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, all other things will he added to us." (Tremendous cheers.) The anthem, " Lord of heaven and earth and ocean," was then sung; and the Bishop having pronounced the benedic tion, the assembly separated. The following description of the building is from the " Guide to Liverpool," published by Mr. W. Webb : "This institution is one of the most handsome, extensive, and admirably arranged of the scholastic edifices in this country, and will be an enduring monument:of the pure taste of its eminent and talented architect, H. Lonsdale, ElmesfEsq. The principal front, towards Shaw-street, is 280 feet in length, and comprises a centre and two slightly projecting wings. The magnificent arch, which rises above the central porch, and the lofty Oriel windows, carried up through two stories, with the richly carved canopied niches, and statues of Lord Stanley and Lord Francis Egerton, surmounting them, con vey an idea of grandeur which is rarely to be met with. The main building contains four stories, varying from 14 to 17 feet in height; but as the highest is lighted from the roof, only three tiers of windows are shown to the street, and the two upper ones being combined together in a general composition, produce the grand effect of a single range of lofty windows. These four stories comprise 48 apartments, all 25 feet in width and varying in length from 20 to 50 feet, to he ap propriated as school-rooms, a board-room, secretary's room, a library, lecture-rooms, museum, painting and sculpture gallery, the latter of which is 218 feet in length, and well lighted from the roof. There are likewise retiring rooms, &c. in each story, and three separate staircases. An octagonal building behind, contains, upon the ground floor, a series of dining-rooms, kitchen, &c., and above, a handsome, well ventilated, lecture-hall, 50 feet high from the floor to the ceiling, with two galleries, containing accommodation for 2,300 persons. A spacious music-room, with rising seats for nearly 300 performers, open from the lecturer's platform, through a lofty arch the whole width of the well of the lecture hall in which an organ will be erected on a grand scale. In this portion of the building, conveniently situated for the purposes of the lecturer, are a laboratory, apparatus-room, lecturer's-room, small music -room, and retiring-rooms. " The foundation-stone was laid by Lord Stanley, the patron of the institution, on the 23d of October, 1840, and the building will be open for the reception of pupils in January, 1843. The institution will comprise three distinct day schools, at different rates of charge, with separate apartments, play grounds, divisions of the lecture-hall, &c. to each, so as to accommodate the three great classes of society. The terms of admission have not yet been fixed, but will not exceed twenty, ten, and five guineas respectively for each school. The Bishop of Chester is the visitor; Lord F. Egerton, the presi dent ; the Rev. Rectors of Liverpool, the chairmen ; and the list of governors and the board of management contain the names of the most eminent and influential of the clergy, mer chants, bankers, and tradesmen of the town. The course of instruction will comprehend every useful and ornamental branch of education ; and the religious tuition will be in con formity with the doctrines of the Church of England. There will likewise be evening schools, for the instruction of adults in literature, art, and science ; and from the amount of talent which the three day schools will place at the command of the directors, these schools will afford advantages of an extraor dinary description to the inhabitant, upon the most moderate terms." The Chronicle of Saturday handsomely remarks " There was also (as our readers will hereafter find) an opening address, and one, too, which, to our thinking, amply compensated for that which was anticipated from the right honourable aristocrat, whose place the Honourable W. Ewart Gladstone undertook, on a necessarily very short notice. Al though we do not—nor can it be expected that we should — concur with some of the sentiments uttered by that gentle man, we cannot withhold our humble !need of admiration of his tact and fluency ; of the strong and energetic manner in which he stood to his point on (almost exclusively) scriptural education; nor can we conceal the pride we feel in reflecting that, though opposed to him in politics, he is a townsman. While he maintained his own indomitable affection to the Church of England, the opinions he expressed with regard to those who dissented from the principles and formula of that establishment, were moderate, kindly, and we may add —Christian." CIVIC BANQUET AT THE. TOWN-HALL The Mayor gave a sumptuous banquet at the Town-hall, which was furnished by Mr. Lynn, of the Waterloo Hotel, in his usual excellent style, and gave general satisfaction. The company, which numbered sixty-five, consisted of the Lord Bishop of Chester and the following gentlemen :—Sir Stephen R. Glynne, Bart., M. P., the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., the Rev. Henry Glynne, the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, the Rev. James North, the Rev. John Jones, Mr. Thomas B. Cross, Mr. Josias Booker, Mr. John Shaw Leigly s Mr. Charles Groves, Mr. Charles Inman, Mr. Wm. Potter, Mr. C. Boutflower, Mr. John Briscoe, Mr. C. Bushell, Mr. J. Cooper, Mr. T. T. Glazebrook, Mr. J. Grantham, Mr. W. Gregson, Mr. Richard Griffith, Mr. Charles Horsfall, Mr. William Jones, Mr. James Lawrence, Mr. John Leyland. Mr. Edward Molyneux, Mr. Thomas Muncaster, Mr. C. S. Parker,'Mr. John Wilson Patten, M.P., Mr. Jas. Procter, Mr. W. J Roberts, Mr. Richard Sanders, Mr. H. Steel, Mr. William Tapley, Mr. Thomas Wilson, Mr. Samuel =olme, Mr. J. Gregory Jones, Mr. Thomas Sands, Mr. Joshua Edwards, Mr. William Preston, Mr. Elias Arnaud, Mr. Adam Hodgson, Mr. Thomas B. Horsfall, Mr. George Grant, Mr. Archibald Kelso, jun., Mr. Thomas S. Gladstone, Mr. Charles Turner, the Rev. F. Barker, the Rev.W. Rawson, the Rev. W. Butler, Mr. John Tomkinson, Mr. G. H. Lawrence, Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., M.P. Mr. Ed. Hunt, Mr. David Hodgson, the Rev. Dr. Tattershall, Mr. James Heyworth, Mr. William Porter, Mr. James Holme, the Rev. A. Campbell, the Rev. W. J. Conybeare, Mr. Richard Blakernore, M.P., and Mr. Aspinall. AN EXTRAORDINARY KlCK.—Jack Johnson thereupon whispered to his friend that if he, Mr. John Bernard, put on the same expression again, he would give him such an extra ordinary kick, that he should keep it to take to the British Museum as a curiosity when he got home.—Mr. Ledbury's Adventures in Bentley's Miscellany. THE LAZY CLUB.—A club bearing this name was some years since established in London ; the members whereof generally met attired in their night-gowns, with their stock ings about their heels, and frequently with only a single stocking on, generally on the left leg. Their salutation on their entranc e was a y awn an d a s t retc h, an d then, without further ceremony, each took his place at the lolling table. THE DISASTERS IN AFFGHANISTAN (From the Times.) The following account of the insurrection in Cahill, r narrated in Mr. Eyres excellent volume, will, no doubt prove interesting to our readers:— " At an early hour on the morning of the 2nd of Novem ber, 1841, the s t ar tli ng intelligence," says Mr. Eyre, "was brought from the city that a popular outbreak had taken place, that the shops were all closed, and that a general attack had been made at the houses of ail the British officers re siding in Cabul. About eight a.m. a hurried note was re ceived by the Envoy in cantonments from Sir Alexander Burnes, stating that the minds of the people had been strongly excited by some mischievous reports, but expressing a hope that he should succeed in quelling the commotion. About nine a.m., however, a rumour was circulated, which afterwards proved but too well founded that Sir Alexander had been murdered, and Captain Johnson's treasury plun dered. Flames were now seen to issue from that part of the city where they dwelt, and it was too apparent that the en deavour to appease the people by quiet means had failed, and that it would be necessary to have recourse to stronger mea sures. The report of tire-arms was incessant, and seemed to extend through the town from end to end. " Sir William - Macnaughten called upon General Elphin stone to act. An order was accordingly sent to Brigadier Shelton, then encamped at Seeah Sung, about a mile and a half distant from cantonments, to march forthwith to the Bala Hisar, or royal citadel, where his majesty Schah Soojah resided, commanding a large portion of the city, with the following troops, viz. : one company of her Malesty's 44th Foot; a wing of the 54th Regiment of Native Infantry, under Major Ewart ; the 6th Regiment of Schah's Infantry, under Captain Hopkins ; and 4 Horse Artillery guns, under Cap tain Nicholl ; and on arrival there to act according to his own judgment, after consulting the King. "The remainder of the troops encamped at Seeah Sung were at the same time ordered into cantonments, viz., her Majesty's 44th Foot, under Lieutenant-Colonel Mackerell ; 2 Hoc•se Artillery guns, under Lieutenant Waller, and An derson's irregular horse. A messenger was likewise de spatched to recall the 37th Native Infantry from Koord Cabal without delay. The troops at this time in canton ments were as follows :--viz., sth Regiment Native Infantry, under Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver; a wing of the 54th Native Infantry; 5 six-pounder field-guns, with a detachment of the Schah's Artillery, under Lieutenant Warburton ; the Envoy's body guard; a troop of Skinner's Horse, and another of local horse, under Lieutenant Walker ; 3 compa nies of the Schah's Sappers, under Captain Walsh ; and about twenty men of the Company's Sappers, attached to Captain Paton, Assistant-Quarter-master-General. " Widely spread and formidable as this insurrection proved to he afterwards, it was at first a mere ingignificant ebulition of discontent on the part of a few desperate and restless men, which military energy and promptitude ought to have crushed in the bud. Its commencement was an attack by certainly not 300 men on the dwellings of Sir Alexander Burnes and Captain Johnson, paymaster to the Schah's force ; and so little did Alexander himself apprehend serious consequences, that be not only refused, on its first breaking out, to comply with the earnest entreaties of the wuzeer to accompany him to the Bala Hissar, but actually forbade his guard to fire on the assailants, attempting to check what he supposed to be a mere riot, by haranguing the attacking party from the gallery of his house. The result was fatal to himself; for, in spite of the devoted gallantry of the Sepoys, who composed his guard and that of the paymaster's office and treasury, on the opposite side of the street, who yielded their trust only with their latest breath, the latter were plundered, and his two companions, Lieutenant William Broadfoot, of the Bengal European regiment, and his brother, Lieutenant Burnes, of the Bombay army, were massacred, in common with every man, woman, and child found on the premises, by those bloodthirsty miscreants. Lieutenant Broadfoot killed five or six men with his own hand, before he was shot down. " No man, surely, in a highly responsible public situation —especially in such a one as that held by Sir Alexander Burnes—ought ever to indulge in a state of blind security, or to neglect salutary warning, however small. It is indisputable that such warnings had been given to him ; especially by a respectable Affghan, named Taj-Mahomed, on the very pre vious night, who went in person to Sir A Burnes to put him on his guard, but retired disgusted by the incredulity with which his assertions were received." The Envoy and the General still, however, remained inac tive, although the Schah, startled by the increasing number of the rioters, sent some soldiers into the city from the Bala Ilissar, with the. hope of restoring order; but the enemy, encouraged by impunity, drove back the King's guards with great slaughter, as they received no support from our troops, " whose leaders," says Mr. Eyre, " appeared so thunder struck by the intelligence of the outbreak, as to be incapable of:adopting more than the most puerile defensive measures." Brigadier Shelton, however, was directed to occupy the Bala Hissar, with a part of the Seeah Sung force; and Captain Lawrence, military secretary to the Envoy, was sent forward to prepare the King for that officer's reception. On his way, Captain Lawrence had two narrow escapes from the enemy, and Lieutenant Sturt, the executive engineer, while on his way to the citadel, was stabbed in three places about the face and neck. No active measures of suppression were, however, yet adopted by General Elphinstone, and " The day," says Mr. Eyre, " was suffered to pass without anything being done demonstrative of British energy and power. The murder of our countrymen, and the spoliation of public and private property, was perpetrated with impunity within a mile of our cantonment, and under the very walls of the Bala Hissar. " Such an exhibition on our part taught the enemy their strength ; confirmed against us those who, however disposed to joi❑ in the rebellion, and hitherto kept aloof from pruden tial motives, and ultimately encouraged the nation to unite as one man for our destruction." We now come to a portion of Mr. Pyre's narrative which appears to us so extraordinary, but so important, that we give it entire. One would think that the preservation of the commissariat stores, in a hostile country, must have been considered by the military officers in command as an object of the first importance. The very existence of the army depended upon the security of its magazines, of pro visions and ammunition, the value of which is estimated by Mr. Eyre at £1,000,000 sterling; and now let us see what was dine for its protection. On the morning of the 4th— " The enemy having taken strong possession of the Shah Bagh, or King's garden, and thrown a garrison into the fort Mahomed Shereef, nearly opposite the bazaar, effectually prevented any communication between the cantonment and commissariat fort, the gate of which latter was commanded by the gate of the Shah Bagh, on the other side of the road. " Ensign Warren, of the sth Native Infantry, at this time occupied the Commissariat fort with 100 men, and having reported that lie was very hard pressed by the enemy, and in danger of being completely cut off, the general, either for getful or unaware at the moment of the important fact that upon the possession of this fort we were entirely dependent for provisions, and anxious only to save the lives of men whom he believed to be in imminent peril, hastilygave direc tions that a party under the command of Captain Swayne, of her Majesty's 44th regiment, should proceed immediately to bring off Ensign Warren and his garrison to cantonments, abandoning the fort to the enemy. A few minutes previously an attempt to relieve him had been made by Ensign Gordon, with a company of the 37th Native Infantry and 11 camels laden with ammunition ; but the party were driven back, and Ensign Gordon killed. Captain Swayne now accordingly proceeded towards the spot with two companies of her Ma jesty's 44th; scarcely had they issued from cantonments ere a sharp and destructive fire was poured upon them from Mahomed Shereef's fort, which, as they proceeded, was taken up by the marksmen in the Shah Bagh, under whose deadly aim both officers and men suffered severely ; Captains Swayne and Robinson of the 44th were killed, and Lieutenants Hallahan, Evans, and Fortye wounded in this disastrous business. It now seemed to the officer, on whom the com mand had devolved, impracticable to bring off Ensign War ren's party, without risking the annihilation of his own, which had already sustained so rapid and severe a loss in officers ; he, therefore, returned forthwith to cantonments. In the course of the evening, another attempt was made by a parts , of the sth Light Cavalry ; but they encountered so severe a fire from the neighbouring enclosures, as obliged them to return without effecting their desired object, with the loss of eight troopers killed and fourteen badly wounded. Captain Boyd, the Assistant-Commissary-General, having meanwhile been made acquainted with the general's inten tion to give up the fort, hastened to lay before him the dis astrous consequences that would ensue from so doing. He stated that the place contained, besides large supplies of wheat and atta, all his stores of rum, medicine, clothing, &c., the value of which might be estimated at four lacs of rupees ; that to abandon such valuable property would not only ex pose the force to the immediate want of the necessaries of life, but would infallibly inspire the enemy with tenfold courage. He added that he had not above two days' supply of provisions in cantonments, and that neither himself nor Captain Johnson. of the Schah's commissariat, had any prospect of procuring them elsewhere under existing circum stances. In consequence of this strong representation on the part of Captain Boyd, the general sent i nmediate orders to Ensign Warren to hold out the fort to the last extremity. (Ensign Warren, it must be remarked, denied haying re ceived this note.) Early in the night a letter was received from him to the effect that he believed the enemy were busily engaged in mining one of the towers, and that such was the alarm among the Sepoys, that several of them had actually made their escape over the wall to cantonments; that the enemy were making preparations to burn down the gate ; and that, considering the temper of his men, he did not expect to he able to hold out many hours longer, unless reinforced without delay. In reply to this he was informed that he would be reinforced by two a.m. " At about nine o'clock, p.m., there was an assembly of staff and other officers at the general's house, when the envoy came in and expressed his serious conviction that, unless Mohomed Shereef's fort were taken that very night, we should lose the commissariat fort, or at all events be unable to bring out of it provisions for the troops. Thedisasttoerexof the morning rendered th e genera l extremely unwilling pose his officers and men to any similar peril ; but, on the other hand, it was urged that the darkness of the night would nullify the enemy's fire, who would also most likely be taken unawares, as it was not the custom of the Affghans to main tain a very strict watch at night. A man in Captain John son's employ was accordingly sent out to reconnoitre the place ; he returned in a few minutes with the intelligence that about twenty men were seated outside the fort near the gate, smoking and talking; and from what he overheard of their conversation, he judged the garrison to be very small, and unable to resist a sudden onset. The debate was now resumed, but another hour passed, and the general could not make up his mind. A second 'spy was despatched, whose report tended to corroborate what the first had said. I was then sent to Lieutenant Sturt, the engineer, who was nearly recovered from his wounds, for his opinion. He at first ex pressed himself in favour of an immediate attack, but, on hearing that some of the enemy were on the watch at the gate, he judged it prudent to defer the assault till an early hour in the morning : this decided the general, though not before several hours had slipped away in fruitless discussion. " Orders were at last given for a detachment to be in rea diness at 4 a.m. at the Kohistan gate; and Captnin Bellew, Deputy Aasistant Quarter-Master General, volunteered to blow open the gate; another party of her Majesty's 44th were at the same to issue by a cut in the south face of the rampart, and march simultaneously towards the commis sariat fort, to reinforce the garrison. Morning bad, how ever, well dawned ere the men could he got under arms : and they were on the Point of marching off, when it was reported that Ensign 'Warren had just arrived in cantonments with his garrison, having evacuated the fort. It seems that the enemy had actually set fire to the gate ; and Ensign Warren seeing no prospect of a reinforcement, and expecting the enemy every moment to rush in, led out his men by a hole which he had prepared in the wall. Being called upon in a public letter from the Assistant Adjutant-General to state his reasons for abandoning his post, he replied that he was ready to do so before a court of inquiry, which he requested might be assembled to investigate his conduct ; it was not, however, deemed expedient to comply with his request. " It is beyond a doubt that our feeble and ineffectual de fence of this fort, and the valuable booty it yielded, was the first fatal blow to our supremacy at Cabul, and at once de termined those chiefs, and more particularly the Kuzzi bashes, who had hitherto remained neutral, to join in the general combination to drive us from the country." All this looks so much like infatuation that we are more inclined, irritating as the whole narrative is, to pity than be angry with such a gross exhibition of indecision and mis conduct. What, however, can be said in defence of t of he tahte tempt which it seems was made to throw the blame loss of the fort upon Ensign Warren ?—a brave young o fficer, who appears superiorshave performedwere h ability, nd whil to e hiseremainsifdesuttiy withn gthe most c ourag e unpa ralleled irresolution, or the most culpable negle c t .. notPodoor Warren fell, we believe, in the retreat ; but it wll for any one, if Mr. Eyre 'a ' details are correct, to try to shield charge this himself from responsibility by endeavouring to young soldier with the abandonment of his post. He held it "to the last extremity." we think, and only quitted it when a longer resistance without reinforcements would have exposed him to be blamed for rashness and folly. The effect of the loss of the magazine is thus stated by Mr. Eyre : " It no sooner became generally known that the Com missariat Fort, upon which we were dependent for supplies, had been abandoned, than one universal feeling of indignation pervaded the garrison ; nor can I describe the impatience of the troops, but especially the native portion, to I,c led not for its recapture--a feeling that was by no means diminished by their seeing the Affghans crossing and re-crossing the road between the Commissariat Fort and the gate of the Shah Bagh laden with the provisions upon which had depended our ability to make a protracted defence." There is an old saying that people are inclined to lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen ; and General Elphinstone seems to have determined that his conduct should furnish no exception to so excellent a rule. When he had lost the whole of his commissariat stores, he resolved to attack the fort of Mahomed Shereef, and after a two hours' fight the place was carried. Pity it is that this was not done a little earlier; for if Warren had been supported, and if this fort of tie enemy had been taken or destroyed at the proper moment, the subsequent disasters would have been less signal ; and perhaps, indeed, they might have been avoided altogether. As it was, the state of the granary, even so early as the Bth of November, was, in the cantonments, the chief cause of anxiety : Even with high bribes and liberal payment, the envoy could only procure a scanty supply, insufficient for daily consumption, from the village of Beymaroo, about half a mile down the Kohistan road, to the north. The object of the enemy undoubtedly was to starve us out; to effect which the chiefs exerted their whole influence to prevent our being supplied from the neighbouring forts. Their game was a sure one ; and so long as they held firmly together, it could not fail to be sooner or later successful." On the morning of the 9th, Brigadier Shelton, the second in command, returned from the Bala Hisser, to the assist ance of General Elphinstone ; and from henceforward that officer " bore a conspicuous part in the drama upon the issue of which so much depended. He had, however, from the very first, seemed to despair of the force being able to hold out the winter at Cabul, and strenuously advocated an immediate retreat to Jellallabad. " This sort of despondency proved, unhappily, very infec tious. It soon spread its baneful influence amongst the officers, and was by them 'communicated to the soldiery. The number of croakers in garrison became perfectly fright ful, lugubrious looks and dismal prophecies being encoun tered everywhere. The severe losses sustained by h Ma- er jesty's 44th, und er C aptain Swayne, on the 4th instant, bad very much discouraged the men of that regiment; and it is a lamentable fact that some of those European soldiers, who were naturally expected to exhibit to their native brethren in arms an example of endurance and fortitude, were among the first tolose confidence and give vent to feelings of discontent at the duties imposed on them. The evil seed, sprun up, became more and more difficult to eradicate, once showing daily more and more how completely demoralising to the British soldier is the very idea of a retreat. " Sir William Macnaghten and his suite were altogether opposed to Brigadier Shelton in this matter, it being in his (the envoy's) estimation a duty we owed to the government to retain our post at whatever risk. This difference of opi nion, on a question of such vital importance, was attended with unhappy results, inasmuch as it deprived the general, in his hour of need, of the strength which unanimity imparts, and produced an uncommunicative and disheartening reserve in an emergency which demanded the freest interchange of counsel and ideas." pour a ve r y annoying fire n upon On the 10th it was determined to storm the Rikabashee a r an Sh usk teoet shot o f our works, lton took th e command fort, w from w as situate h within m ig y a b d e ie g of the attacking force, and a small wi c k et having been blown open, instead of the gate, Colonel M ac k erell and Lieutenant d our hw ieh troops.te en d B e mr Bird, accompanied by a handful of Europeans and a few Se pays, forced their way in. The enemy, supposing these few gallant men to be backed by the whole attacking party, fled out of the opposite gate ; but,— " Unfortunately, at this instant a number of the Affghan cavalry charged round the corner of the fort next the wicket : the cry of ' cavalry' was raised, a cry which too often, during our operations, paralysed the arms of those whose muskets and bayonets we have been accustomed to consider more than a match for a desultory charge of irregular horsemen : the Europeans gave way simultaneously with the Sepoys : a bugler of the 6th Infantry, through mistake, sounded the re treat, and it became for the time a scene of sauce qui peat. In vain did the officers, especially Major Scott, of her Ma jesty's 44th, knowing the fearful predicament of his corn mapding officer, exhort and beseech their men to charge for ward—not a soul would follow tbem, save a private of the 44th, named Steward, who was afterwards promoted for his solitary gallantry. Let me here do Brigadier Shelton justice: his acknowledged courage redeemed this day ; for, exposing his person to a hot fire, he stood firm amidst a crowd of fu gitives, and, by his exhortations and example, at last rallied them. Advancing again to the attack, again our men faltered. notwithstanding that the fire of the great guns from the cantonments, and that of C apta i n Mackenzie s jezail chees from the northeast angle of the Mission Compound, together with a demonstration on the part of our cavalry, had greatly abated the ardour of the Affghan horse. A third time did the Brigadier bring on his men to the assault, which now proved successful. We became masters of the fort. But what in the meantime had been passing inside the fort, where, it will be remembered, several of our brave brethren had been shut up, as it were, in the lion's den ? " On the first retreat of our men, Lieutenant Bird, with Colonel Mackerell and several Europeans, had hastily shut the gate by which the garrison had for the most part evacu ated the place, securing the chain with a bayonet ; the repulse outside, however, encouraged the enemy to return in great numbers, and, it being impossible to remain near the gate on account of the hot fire poured in through the crevices, our few heroes speedily had the mortification to see their foes not only re-entering the wicket, but, having drawn the bayonet, rushed in with loud shouts throughth te e r n all3 ow re-opened to pieces, gate. Poor Mackerell having fallen, w termination as the rhackedl of conte s t. although still alive at the l into a Lieutenant Bird, with two Sepoys, retreated stable, ' the door of which they closed • all the rest of the men, e en deavouring to escape through the wicket, were tinmtand the slaughtered. Bird's place of concealment atfi t• , con fusion, escaped the observation of the temporarily triumphant Affghans; at last attack it was discove re d, an d an commenced hat the door. This, being barricaded witlogs of wood, and whatever else the tenants of the stable could find, resisted their efforts, while Bird and his now solitary companion, a Sepoy of the 37th 'Native Infantry (the other having been struck down), maintained as hot a fire as they could, each shot taking deadly effect from the proximity of the party en gaged. The fall of their companions deterred the mass of the assailants from a simultaneous rush, which must have succeeded; and thus that truly chivalrous, high-minded, and amiable young gentleman, whose subsequent fate must be ranked among the mysterious dispensations of Providence which we cannot for the present fathom, stood at bay with his equally brave comrade for upwards of a quarter of an hour, when, having only five cartridges left, in spite of having rifled the pouch of the dead man, they were rescued as related above. Our troops literally found the pair ' grim and lonely there,' upwards of 30 of the enemy having fallen by their unassisted prowess. " Our loss, on this occasion, was not less than 200 killed and wounded. Four neighbouring forts were immediately evacuated by the enemy, and occupied by our troops : they were :found to contain about 1,400 mounds of grain, in re moving which no time was lost, but as it was not found prac ticable to bring off more than half before nightfall, Captain Boyd. the Assistant-Commissary-General, requested Briga dier Shelton that a guard might be thrown into a small fort, where it must be left for the night; this was, however, re fused, and on the following morning, as might have been ex pected, the grain was all gone ; permanent possession was, however, taken of the Rik a -bashee and Z u lf e k ar forts, the towers of the rem a i n d er being blown up on t h e following day." The western heights were attacked by the Brigadier on the 13th, when some considerable success, after much hard fight ing was obtained over the enemy, the troops returning, how ever, to cantonments at nightfall. On this point Mr. Eyre remarks, that " It was no small disadvantage under which we laboured, that no temporary success over those of the enemy could be followed up, nor even possession be retained of the ground gained by us at the point of the bayonet, owing to the neces sity of withdrawing our men into their quarters at night. i ` The success obtained on those heights was the last," disasters, and difficulties, which, following says our author, " our arms were destined to experience. Henceforward it becomes my weary task to relate a cata logue of errors, close upon each other, disgusted our officers, disheartened , had our soldiers, a n d fi na lly su nk us a ll i nto irretrievable ruin, as though H eaven it se lf, by a com bi nation of evil circum dsteawnncefaslif? r its own inscrutable purposes planned our (We pass over the interesing account which Mr. Eyre has given of the transactions in Kohistan under Major Pottinger, simply remarking they will well repay, an attentive perusal. It is sufficient for our immediate p urpose to say, that after a gallant strug g le, and after e very h ope of reinforcements, for which he had written repeatedly, was at an end, he retreated on Cabul, where be arrived in safety with a few followers. The impression made on th e enemy by the action of the 13th was salutary ; and advantage was taken of the respite which followed to throw supplies into the Bala Hissar. " But," continues Mr. Eyre, " even in this short inter val of comparative rest, such was the wretched construction of the cantonment that the mere ordinary routine of garrison duty, and the necessity of closely manning rampart both by day and night, were a severe trial to the our long line of health and patience of the troops, especially now that the winter began to show symptoms of unusual severity. There seemed, indeed, every probability of an early fall of snow, to which all looked forward with dread, as the harbinger of fresh difficulties and of augmented suffering. Bala Hisser, as a mili tary position, ``These considerati ons, and the manifest superiority of the led to the early discussion of the expediency o f a b andoning the cantonment and con solidating our fo rces in the above -mentioned stronghold. The Envoy himself was, from the first, greatly in favour of this move, until overruled by the many objections urged against it by the military authorities ; but to the very last it was a measure that had many advocates, and I venture to state my own firm belief that, bad we at this time moved into the Bala Hissar, Cabul would still be in our possession. The chief objections urged were—lst, the difficulty of conveying our sick and wounded ; 2ndly, the want of firewood ; 3rd ly, the want of f orage for the cavalry ; 4thly. the triumphthat our abandonment of the cantonments would afford the enet t :OY el ; . sthly, the risk of defeat on the way thither, On the oth er hand it was advanced -Ist, that, though to carry the a sick would be difficult, it was not impossible; for so short ee di e could be tance two, or even three, men could be conve d doolie ; some might manage to walk, and the re s t their loads ; mounted on the yaboos and camels, on the top Bala o f Hisser, there 2ndly, although wood was scarce in the for the want of fires was enough for purposes of cooking, and _ d b the comparative the troops would be amply compensate ther y respects ; 3rdlY. ease and comfort they would enjoy in o no forage, ° hay? the horses must, in the case of there be ing have been littl e fe l t a each been shot ; but the want of cavalry would should have destroyed the the supposed triumph have 012 that was valuable before leaving , h rtlived, and would so n ue _ ess enemy would have been s in such a situation ; 4thly, es we very . isa p u intnient at theevnglt. andl given way to a feeling of 43 P_ d not ex wily, the distance a s rotected , that distance occupied the security of our new position of we had , teed two miles, and one - half _ the al Hisser. If • -uus there to by the guns of nature of their acquisition, trong party, placing s 13 enemy could bills with a a nt side, te. • a battle Seeah Sung the cantonme without risking the plain on ed our march h. h they were sweep 'trip e to w lc have done little to i en in a fair field, h a ve been the an . dof dismay at theestrid ri lan which would, perhaps , -verse, --t dec id ingthe truggie• 1 thou generally ad s -th so many mode for us of clogged with so was, of best e a force , f so ' .To remove so large without loss o h ,cpsderations to followers, ht sue sands of camp impossible; but oug old have been attended course, next to 1 step which w. ° an d political advan with our whole for with suc h grea din the B a t mihtarY - a l Hisser, could once collected . es aainst the city and ; Our troops, i ve operatio of food and tages. spared for offens . h means plenty . have been forts, by whic have been readily procured, • neighbouring a ve the neig osition would have would in all probability st of the P forage manding n. d la rge caused driving us out, an a arge while the com deep party d espair o long formed in our favour, i h n av th e e i n lo te n r g fe r r u e n d wit' a - caused the enemy_ ehiy have ere employed on either side ; but would PreP.• a — at:D ents Such were the Brigadier Shelton the b ay i ng f i rst moment of its proposition, all chi" fi rmly set his face against the _. from gradually abandoned, though it conti movenlST of i t wail _ . dto tut' ve ry last resume this interesting narrative. MU) hall pro b a bly serious ides last a subject of c . ommon . discussion." We 0