The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-26 00:00:00

rf, o , co cr' e i )rC ( 4 .el LtCTURES AT THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. neePly interested as we have been from the beginning in the progressive advancement towards completion in the build* and instructional arrangement of this noble institu ti°4--exPressly purposed, as it is, (and as engraver on the Pllte iuserted in the foundation stone,) " for the education of the commercial, trading, and working classes, in accordance with the doctrines and principles of the Church of England," with have felt doubly gratified by noticing that in addition to the selection of most able masters in the several schools, N'ision has already been made for the evening delivery twice a week, of lectures by eminent men, combining solid scientific instruction with elegant amusement, for the bene fit of the pupils and the friends of the establishment, and Which are ie ever respect unexceptionable, g,ards party' or creed. These lectures, well digested, and whether as re a°,lY illustrated by practical experiments and diagrams, form P ' ea 'ine and attractive media of instruction, not only to the ;!ighoath attached to the institution, but, from the talentsan o d . standing of their deliverers in tire respective worlds e rureeinerature, science and mechanism, a rational and Men d of arnusetnent and information to " children of e a arger growth ;" and, we pity the man " Proud though his title, high his fame, R ho Bouedless his wealth as wish can name"— *no would not pass an hour or two in listening to them in Pl:e"ti ec of his young townsmen, and who would depart I°,thout the candid and grateful acknowledgement that his mi n d ha d bec a m e become more enlarged ; that he . had learned some in the vast and wonderful machinery and . agencies ° nature; and that he was, therefore, enabled with aclearer t‘,TerriaoarkeTeveretet perception, the lens of science, rom Nature up to Nature's God.." To the youne, tlheees!,,iliscourses are especially inviting and instructive:. Ages of iticsets of former times had no such advantages. .Ag ex°.' _ e r r e . ce have rolled away ; ages of study and successful , hneets have been employed to bring before us the . physicallive ~,,°,;land discoveries that distinguish the era in which we r , stal ls that are available, in the commercial and general k pu tide q,eie°riftl.fei.for the comfort and convenience of desire t° Inc the has set in upon us with w and yo ire "el , must be content to be borne onwards, m h a i ' c h h all who theeat,tlsinrants in articular, must take it at the flood . if tieti',-%°"livin thei'r wa p, to " forti; ne" and honourable distiec t our 'r.ierice and learning have, in fine, become necessary wire etlhnitence and pe-eminence in the grand . conip pur suit, 4 , er states, and it is a pleasing reflection that their leltion oft eneTPereti as it is in this institution by the inculcation withcfre4tneand morality, tends to elevate the mind, an c e c n i s t i o . tieswith fro morality, those grovelling and debasing beset. a lnett our untutored and rampant nature is P to rn o P often These r . atteeetteeeffeehens were suggested to us by our occasional Collegiate enstittitioe at the periodical lectures given at the .., gratified th an a nd on no similar occasion . have w eb a e h eo more reAting e,... 0 ' T .1)Y listening to the exceedingly able a sedzeiestof s eree ,eeo itions of Mr. Adder - 13s, in . the first of i admits:lsle urses On Voltaic and Electric Magnetism, Tuesday ants spin theatre of that establishment,.wnan , esteem! . e 1 enin. The lecturer has beee long dknrooisiiotmoharee' of the nieueas a alented and experienced prop . oun . e the f phy. Ideal Ivor, st extraordinary and subtile agencies tith ed it (I,,,and though the subject was not new, he he embel aid of ID v.tirtautorl'saennYlbttn:l ov a ie l 's lig s perfection the the ise oer a e.P ha degreetld n experiments, f eoniei e rl e.s ols to the present time of the wonderful effects of that pece,,arabons of metals, fluids, &c., as applicable a'ttend eee'eun'i branch of science. There was a numeroue res e pect- Ihle i el?ti.Pils, and also, in the body of the room, o t he Conr,,4ldtlaels, including many ladies, several . members of en. pr"ii, ‘-•("Incil, and not a few of our scientitic es tow iv n er s e - Played oereywnslY to the lecture, some select pieltiureuh the fine organ on the stage. After p- re - es before such an a e e ! It ill being engaged to deliver the sell tie- an .s ratin g ,lett, juu t4,l.nce, the lecturer entered at once upon , hi s sub ex pieces the his various positions by numerous inteeetso ee'lf d successful experi ets Electricity lie defined. . hthlirtaoutrFZilresanadndsnobt Itiieler bodiesnil capable o o r f e b o e r i n le g ss t r i a n t t i e s i f i e s i i r t3 e , ci keow,°.ngh its effects wer bvious, its real nature was un t - Z ievse,Btricega:tenevderso far lee [must proceed upon assumption. It , an aeent he most astonishing that man with al ° lir eetinia or eleeke. It dealt with all matter, andh ,which Wilk th e i),.., 8, and was one of those invisible powers ) we p0,,e5."11.e Author of Nature worked out his sublime p as milk nd ' t ,vras Produced by the friction of bodies, such r°B eche r ,n iaa a , by contact of bodies of metel, , fr i o ft in n voltaic electricit cal action, &c. He then addressed himee battery, con,istije ar !d, hy means of Daniels' (constant) which coeti„eety, PtMoieally of plates of copper and zi a nc . pu , t n i w n piee:thretpeeri_ !rwith intervening acid, showed the e t Po,n(ln small 1 2,'", el of the electric current, and its effect h ot, ` i i i. wire of varioue metals, some of which . etruetaiocin others instantly melted. He explained th phuri e , sul beca.meenorehd. ,of the battery by a diagram, and howed hee , noti cin a e e t t e_ ac e t,i,ng on plates of zinc.and evolved..e_lectricits.ln and e e b et l'e urn names employed in electricity tire positive Wine r . g rb i te Poles ; the decomposable compound., such as te osi tie, I ' s b ,edegative components, such as oxygen ; - -e Pbeen sub;titut 3' 1"1"1. --he stated that these new names had Elec trodeB, th e 0Y Soule chemists, who called the poles e e., of ethic, e positive pole Anode, the negative Gal, ode, txrelr tend ed ° nornenclature he did not approve, as it m . ee by e t e ei e ° illYstify and confuse the student. He sho"e ru,_ trati, e e'ntiardid illustrated by several experiments, the co_ ip he at, eactlng properties for the electric stream, and r e n . a a l , 7 , einecu water water and acids, avid the various na..tveisr. 'rhos; gtL'titlm, iron, zinc, brass, gold, copper., least aff ects were the best conductors of electricity . were the . and sit bast hottt bY heat. After making a piece of iron w 1 he Melt ed aninha glass tube by the action of the battery, me t e Piece by placing it in contact with a stronger hatn Powe rs ci ._ e The difference in the conducting and tact, 0, .4 veral metals was also shown by links of wires. Ht neet'siti contact and touched by the conductiee Ind tl 'urned a i w e •ire of fe , le e a Pie ce o f , p ece of gold leaf by the electric action, 4"a rad r c 'silver leaf. The last burned with a . b.eaattiteid by other -coloureidi flame and other colours were (Annul _ t /Pe, he Inweht.all• sr explained the mystery of the electrer e rem, by th ich fac-seimilies of coins, medals, &c., could t. n h le rn thr 4" ti e deP°l ition of copper in solution accummula ig . steam, t oo, c torch electric action. By means of the el f ect u r l i l c . twd.er tni gli t t )' ;: e s Y , e r d by wires, immense quantities t do-n: in e g : tt r ,P •Of ree-clelY exploded at a_g,reatdsiesaanacsehacf'dorbgetebna elect (golf e I , &c., even under the ~ ~ ... The , ro.eh eene ~r esley, and others, at , _°.:e.,e,,, most ni,terestithi,. 8',41 Power of the invisible power was also 'most Prthe leo'sr'_,,llown as now practieed in the plating of neeesebi_ ,1 uorete fashion, which it was before difficult or erediieli 7, oY the old plan of plating. of th e eY •ueiP°lited, by gait* . 01 ' Plate al and oceanic frinlea'netxioendnts',' surfaceittheincleaanneedvenfilin 4Plendidj" °lie ' , of any rm ' thickness, so that the most Pareriee, Y-designed requiredarticlei eould be produced at a corn ) pi eced ealY small xpense. N . Vbile the lecturer proceeded, ire 4 Very sh,°4l'oo4 penny Piece in a solution of silver, and in Pro eee , est time it was taken t after the silent electric _ wi th :,, and sue t found to beth O f i n clely and smoothly coated lildinei"rl A similarl I experiment was made in Itit'eltietnle'et3trlserdatlNheerrepela,tinYgsinanepeie,,seen,ofsildver with gold. The respectively. wrlitiitelee'ctreleb;°awrnedotaivat rw?e,aitnel,toi; °oft goldhseirl.sciileurrialnusolaoitildrnils:auctful [vatic ex e 01 us estrerneea!l to blaekne'sn'l.wa's ' Ilectri irninersio • 'and . iestormg 1 hich passed tne the e eurree. ri in liquid, tin ouee w e. " t c hem to their original lAe peseie ill, the electric poles being inverted to produce ale 4r e and negativ cc' entlY colourie e eescts. In the same manner liquids, io th e ctf 4 gI46S veBB:i''(clvieturned to , t l o t) ar , i tnd left transparent hit, thuther, half, by evictedth o iv.ersye electric polarity inky black in one ',fret at ri• A beautif l ieee on the ... ti e.xperiment, which several g - entlemen directed e seer ee , - Lage to witness, was also made on a tin in - e p t l e a r te s ee a m ie : et ;flute transparent liquid in a tray. The co l n ate liquid, and e pproximating the plate, ;, bye Patter we, avirib.ove colours were instantly produced a t n h d e other figures, ehntaiirerent forT4riedt to ornamental stars, or bY th i e . ' 1:e Printed l o s lermirtioln. given to the conducter. neat blue pattern .*.at ptir,:!.eeteio actionP4tow rige treley,ee. Keg large establishments where rollers we ,k re d e a m t - - zl calico in what rapidity the art n,.etioe „„,Was listened to throughout with mai e th e ' and WaS freqnentl - ins, upted be loud applause' iee, neXt lecture of the 3 s alPer" Will wire eres '-r ‘ r vill be delivered this even eb liee ..c , be illustrated by numerous interesting; re ° eati paste e stron 1 recommend those ot our read -'4lt theewthtime to visit the theatre, aseured, as we feel, beat once gratified and astonished. h kr I t 1-IZl4l,l'' .h"aidls4oo(iiialci:e—rtritr ng- curer, -- of North Sunderland Sea- Y .of potatoes stored at one end of a loft, t he urin tt a short period 1,100 of these had been carried to fifty tPtrosite te tte .ee t, be clod of the room, a distance of upwards . of "4 p, a rat ! Many of the potatoes weighed more ran tied, ,t sa n l-ce t.°P A NEIN* STP kN I - COkCII.—O ne day last week a itte e leh coestructeci' on ' a new principle, was tried at elPettate'r°,ll,the Yarmouth road, before a large concourse , of .t er'uld ere , unt though all thesteam was put on the come 1 e' t ee -,.."` move a I n h the pushed it proceeded a short Wiltectiefe-oZdtlatql'''ed-.e -i'lle ei x 'e n n erimnters l at last lifted the eeieß esteeitee. road, when the wheels weirt round i _ w n i n tl a i a 7 lr , it, jelP/ e, we ),.. *No doub t, if wings constru:ed would err; 0 1 " 4 i 41‘d'',a,taehed to the wheels, the coach 'ilet e. ' oe the real aerial machine after all.—Norfulk tq i ttit rnrPerthclvlv. scAp E.--Last week, as several boys belonging eiteYoilee'eer.e climbing the trees in the wood of Ineern,ey, t ad ' lostV,oks one of them when on the top of a lofty P er Was hold of the branch by which ie was supportec i i, Nite, ernereihitated from a height of at least 90 . or 1(10 fee.. l e t'lt ben s ' however ere he reached the ground, he was ie thath e ' fl ee ,at p o . , t e arms betwee n two strong branches, wad t e eNg er,ori, quite unable to help himself, remaine to di 4a• his cries for assistance hurried his comnai"3,ns gr e ',' diriaa• They soon reached him, and, 'although with 1 14, 1 1 4 e ee°lt got him released. On descending to the sieralester';!e,xarnining his person, it was discovered th o a r t i l i i i e s s ep , s 4e la , no further injury than ehe lac_er Hy 141,0p°45Y the branches when he slipped bet a w ti e o e n n them. speNl.4o,, • Ivith-Ae"A woman named Ardill, wife . of a re 11j14111 ft""inel:, living at Kilcarron, in the county Tipperary, hi e v ' e eks a u nles of this town, was bitten by a dog about ttr tl 'iti g et!to• About the hour of seven o'clock on Monday i oct k ' ti o k e ' sYlliPtotiis of hydrophobia suddenly appeal e . (14 enen was sent for the symptoms continued to (lo t h [t r e nd . she lingered in great agony until Tuesday, when disc td rittnnated her sufferines. The dog, a small terrier, heeepereZteh of the usual sy4tom s of disease. It has been e, ' arid e a t lie has bitten several dogs in the neighbour -5 our ese'' ,l „is supposed some sheep. Jonathan 'SS alsh . , elie.,..e.;."aish Park has lost twenty sheep from this ezienkee "41er R.rpre.s.;. 5:4 5 uft:lN I.4tit INTERFST•—One of the worst possible ehi letioeirY was tried 8 - t •d • b 'ore the tribunal of e reed ha' Police A 011 aur a), e. . censeeNe e Y tuu ne ' man was brought to its b . ar, and • "I be eP° led th at r°ll2 persons with the following exactions . r c en. , he had lent them money at the rate of r lestitlt,',,,eratid 0 tierrs°l tl,atiTengh a er al a t d o e l t , h B e 2 m s per pay cefinvte pee eNt% I"alcri"ra foe the loan of small sums for only one 44t Th e lg for a year the enormous interest of 43,660 per Icy hi lt Dort e()ttrt credited their 'etaternents to a certain ex onlyt'e_rs to rtiolOsidering that most of the witnesses were still .: %iii,„e„P..l,orier, it let him off with a line of 200 f. eite e "k M„ "L' Wteic'ellt wa';1.441. Alm Po ICE.—Very considerable ex- Pie,. 4 ' in co n - 1 .; relqed in DrLogheda in the early part of the tip , ° • azaiee'.%er.tee of a charge inede by Sub -constable putne .111 this ~ Private Cassidy of the Rifle Brigade, eta aorl q - kIY ie`..°,"l• Pierson, we understand, went, accom o,,ettepette ..ao-constable Coe, to the barrack. on Monday, lied seed eititnto the Major that on the previous day, Cassidy edaell.,tl,4ll,lleatiii!re: aen,nduclopeteoetilic.ed'a. _conversation on the country • _ i. ' in ta' e .' the t re",___:oo be, bloo.dy work with O'C an o ,v or o ie r l . l t rer Ne e tr (tee 11 . 1 ,n , n asked him it there weie , 4 hire . 111 A ye,. ,'"e s) quarters yet about it, and the tol kttl'r'ur e' ror h e , out bY his J----- they might not give ord e r s 1 d e --1. iw°llld right about face and not fire at th ettr e ' 4 4d p i le Men were on Parade ' slier[ this charge was itili ay , :a v : iwzi e e r e 'dnlapinted out C'ass id in the ranks . . th ie e 4 rider arrest, and remained so until We.nd es., c le eet • e was releas I tiatie it iole e n e ee . e s , the corninanding.othi.nerj.sa_v_i!. ,i''l4:ae floirleoltOldielr 'itr:t"ertir.: in i to the alleg , ati i o n t hao s e s e o e n a The Il t tl i t;. e l r' t e o d t , a _ I c e ort ° l e e t e ll s e . . a . e n r , ical ' i ' t t s i w e h w e t ri ' E g, e ol o n %e f r to na ok v. P .. i . , , ,r h i l io i n ie , I pi, i .'eir ( ti 'Peal ere ,'" eme the weather ro . "' li sa er liii.,l itine,,4asked it • there were an) • orders yet eilt i l s e e i ke u lia b,,,,,i. quarter.s as to being prepared. The subject. 1 re me lt s , nothing of any orders on the ere 'lik Q thei. 'ltcotl hits did he think would the wen ." .PN)illt hitAri r ' l '-'=.lY re t; a 't' tw obi Pa know . ;`bat Ye% e e. , , ,,f e re , .. . i i , • ‘, . - , f!rer ee - ie/gf the he LIVERPOOL INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. The foundation-stone of the Industrial School, in con nection with the Liverpool Workhouse, intended to be erected on a plot of land on the west side of Borde-lane, Kirkdale, was laid yesterday, by the Rev. Augustus Camp bell, one of the Rectors of Liverpool, with considerable ceremony. The day was exceedingly unpropitious, rain having fallen almost inc essan tl y , excep t j ust during theim mediate laving of the stone. There were present the church wardens, Mr. Houghton and Mr. Wilkinson ; Mr. Hen shaw, Mr. Urquhart, Mr. Bright, and several other members of the select vestry. A procession was formed from the Workhouse to the ground, of the authorities and the children of the Blue Coat and parish schools ; and a few minutes past two o'clock, The Rev. STEPHEN CRAGG, Chaplain to the Workhouse, commenced the proceedings by offering the following prayer : " Almighty God, Sovereign Ruler over all things in Heaven and in earth, without whom nothing is strong—nothing is holy—vouchsafe, we beseech thee, thy blessing upon the building, which is here to be commenced this day. Except thou, 0 Lord, shouldst build the house, their labour is but lost that build it. Bless its benevolent designs that they may in all respects be fully realised—in its being erected not only for a habitation for the children of the poor and needy, but also for a seminary and nursery, wherein, under thy grace, they may he brought up in the knowledge and service of thee there God; that being trained up in habits of piety and industry, they may, wher, they go forth into the world, faithfully and creditably as thy servants acquit themselves in the several stations of life which, under thy providence, they may be placed. i n im ploring thy blessing upon this work of our hands, we further beseech thee to hear us on behalf of our most gracious and beloved Queen Victoria, in whose benign reign it is undertaken : bless her, and likewise her royal consort Prince Albert; bless their royal children, as well as all the royal family—with all blessing temporal and spiritual. Let thy blessing, we pray thee, ever descend upon the great commercial town, for whose destitute and helpless children this building is intended. Grant it prosperity, permeney, and station amongst the cities of all the nations of the earth, and dispose the recipients of the blessings of thy providence, - always gratefully and dutifully to acknow ledge thee, the Sovereign and bounteous Disposer of them all. These our several petitions we humbly offer unto thee, 0 Father Almighty, in the name and through the mediation of thy dear Son, Jesus Christ, our only Mediator and Saviour." Mr. Churchwarden IloncirroN then presented a beautiful silver trowel to Mr. Rector Campbell, adding a few general observations in the importance of the present undertaking to the rising generation. Upon the trowel the following inscription was engraved : " Presented to the Rev. Augustus Campbell, M.A., one of the Rectors of Liverpool, upon the occasion of his laying the foundation-stone of the Industrial Schools of this parish at Kirkdale, upon the 25th of May, 1843." The Rev. AUGUSTUS CAMPBELL having accepted the trowel, proceeded to address the concourse of people nearly follows :—I thank you for the favour which you have done m in appointing me to this office ; and I rejoice sincerely that the day has arrived on which we may co-operate in the commencement of a work which I trust by God's mercy will prove a blessing to- the unhappy and helpless children of poverty for whom it is designed, affording them an asylum in early youth in the sorrows and miseries of a sinful world, and providing them with the means of Christian education, by which they may be brought up in the faith and fear of God, and accustomed to those habits of industry and honesty which may in after life make them good Christians and use ful men, or in the words of the Apostle " not slothful in bu siness, fervent in spirit serving the Lord." But I rejoice, at the commencement of this work for another reason, because I think it will enable us to provide a tardy remedy for those disorders in the workhouse which have recently obtained such unhappy, and, with all the abatements that can he made for exaggeration, such discreditable notoriety. You, who have been so long connected with the parish, and our friend Mr. Henshaw who has been so long labouring for the im provement of the workhouse, know very well what a constant source of anxiety this has been to us, and although we have been prevented from doing all that we ought to have done, still it must be admitted that we have been baffled by that which has baffled the Government in the improvement of prison discipline—for want of room. It is very difficult to keep such a house as that in order, a house which contains many very respectable people who have been driven there by misfortune—those who may without severity be called the very scum and refuse of society, idle profligates, who prefer idleness with slavery to work with liberty, and abandoned women lost to all sense of shame. It is difficult to keep such a house in order under any circumstances ; without classifi cation it is quite impossible ; therefore I trust, with the new improvements, with the facility which will be given by the building of this school, that we may commence a system of classification which will restore discipline to the Workhouse. I will, under present circumstances, detain you by any length ened observations, but conclude with expressing my anxious hope and prayer, in the spirit of that prayer which was ut tered by the chaplain, that this building may, by God's blessing—and without God's blessing nothing can prosper— tend to the moral elevation of the deserving poor, and the correctiod of the disorderly poor. tGreat applause.) The stone was then adjusted and laid with the usual cere monies by the worthy rector. A bottle containing the seve ral coins of the realm, a copy of Gore's Advertiser for the day, also Gore's Directory, a list of the rectors, churchwar dens, and select vestry, was deposited in the stone beneath a brass plate, which bore the following inscription : " The foundation stone of this building, intended as an In dustrial School for the parish of Liserpool, was laid by the Rev. Augustus Campbell, M.A., one of the rectors of this parish, upon the 25th May, 1813. F. H. Lockwood, T. Allom, architects, London." The children then snug a hymn, and the Rev. Mr. Cragg having pronounced the Apostolic benediction, the proceed ings terminated. Previous to leaving the ground the child ren were regaled with cake and ale, and a royal salute was fired from the workhouse guns, which had been removed for this special occasion. The " Liverpool Industrial School," which is a little to the north east of Kirkdale House of Correction, will be a plain but handsome structure, of considerable dimensions. It will be an ornament to the neighbourhood, and there will be an excellent view of it from the river. The building . is caculuted to accommodate 1200 children, so that the exist ing workhouse will necessarily be greatly relieved. Inter nally, there will be two school rooms, each i 0 feet by 35 feet, one fur buys, and the other for girls; a dining romo'capacious enough for 1000 children to dine at once ;,.ai►d roomy dormi tories for the entire number. Every boy. above 10 years of age will s:e.p in a separate bed ; and masters will be provided to teach them various occupations, by means of which, after leaving the institution they may be enabled to` earn their livelihood. The architects are Messrs. Lockwood and Al lam, of London. The building is contracted to be executed for £19,500, and it is to be completed in August, 1844. The land was purchased for £5OOO from the Earl of Derby and Mr. John Shaw Leigh. INTERESTING CIRCUMSTANCE. It will probably be remembered by a few of our readers that about eighteen months since a lady of the name of Mrs. Dunn, the wife of a clergyman at New Brunswick,) visited this town on a laborious and arduous mission from the parish of her husband, tor the purpose of collecting sub scriptions in this country towards the payment of a debt which had been incurred in the erection of a church in that parish, which is an island situated in the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, about thirty miles from the main land of the Pro vince of New Brunswick, twenty miles in extent, inhabited by about 190 families, numbering 1.100 souls, principally occupied by fishing. A church was built about twenty years since, which was destroyed in October, 1839, with all its fur niture, through the malevolence of some incendiaries. A new church was immediately commenced, and was opened in the October following. Towards the erection of this building £566 were contributed by the inhabitants and other parishes, leaving a debt of £153, though the church was not com pleted. Such was the depression of trade and the scarcity of money, that it was considered hopeless to attempt further solicitations for aid in that country, and Mrs. Dunn resolved upon undertaking a voyage to England alone, and without the advantage of friends, to solicit contributions. The result of her visit we find detailed in the New Brunswick Courier of the Ist of April last. It appears that this enterprising lady collected in England and Ireland the sum of £65216x. 2d, and the following items of the expenditure of the money will give our readers sufficient information as to its appropriation. We have already stated that at the time of Mrs. Dunn's departure there was a debt incurred of £153., to which is to be added the interest upon it until collected, with a propor tion of collecting the previous subscriptions, amounting to £5l 10s. 7d. The sum of £lB6 3s. VA. was expended in materials required for the church after 1840. Incidental expenses, charges upon importing books, travelling expenses, &c., £137 Ss. 9d. There had been expended and appropri ated for school-houses and schools £9O 51., which left on hand for the benefit of schools £149 ISs. 4d., to which are to be added the proceeds of some jewellery presented by two ladies, for which a satisfactory sale had not been obtained. Before Mrs. Dunn left England, she stated that not more than £BO should be deducted from her collections to meet her expenses, and though her memoranda of land-carriage, passages, and board, exceed that sum by £3O, her husband considerately makes that loss his own, which is worthy of notice from the following circumstance :—Mr. • Dunn had previously appropriated the whole proceeds of the glebe £lBO for paying a debt upon and finishing the parsonage house, and a further sum 0f.t.40 in repairs and out-buildings that were essential. The result of this expenditure will be in future an enlarged income, and a comfortable residence for the missionary ; and the present flourishing state of the parish with respect to the temporalities of the church and the ample provision for schools, will materially increase the ability of the inhabitants to contribute to the support of their future clergyman. Mrs. Dunn acknowledges with gratitude the liberal response which was made to her applications, and attributes much of her success to recommendatory letters from the lion. and Rev. Baptist Noel, end the Rev. Hugh M`Neile. She also states that she was much indebted to Chas. Groves, Esq. of this town. The sum of £lO3 was collec ted in Liverpool, and very handsome subscriptions were raised in Bath, Brighton, Cheltenham, Bristol, and other places. Donations are acknowledged from the Queen Dowa ger, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Dowager Viscountess lierberton, &c. &c. On the Ist instant, died the Rev. John Gibbons, rector of Thornbury, in the county of Hereford, aged 90 years ; and on the 9th of May, in - his 81st year, died the Rev. T. Lewes, who had officiated as curate of that parish till within the last twelvemonths. Perhaps there is no other instance on record. where the united ages of an incumbent and curate amounted to 170 years. RAILWAY SPEED,—The returns given in the report of the officers in the Railway Department, Board of Trade, show the average speed upon the various lines, exclusive of stop page, as follows :—London and Birmingham, 27 miles per hour ; Great Western, 33 ; Northern and Eastern, 36 ; North Midland, 29; Midland Counties, 28 ; Birmingham and Derby, 29 : M anchester and Birmingham 25 ; Newcastle and North Shields, 30 ; and Chester and Birkenhead, 28. The average speed on the metropolitan lines, exclusive of stoppage, is about 22 miles an hour. A young woman named Rebecca Rumball, was tried and found guilty before Mr. Justice Coltman at the Central Criminal Cpurt, of having attempted to drown her illegitimate male child. She had thrown herself and child into the water, intending to commit suicide, and bad tied the child to her breast; but both were rescued by a constable, and restored to animation. She was sentenced to two years imprison ment. We hear, with great satisfaction, that Mr. Lockhart has been appointed auditor of the Duciiy of Cornwall, vacant by the death of the late John Allen, of Dulwich. Few are the government opportu n i t i es f or di s ti ng uishin g lit erary men by granting public offices compatible with their avocations; and it is highly gratifying, as in this instance, to see the occasion at once seized, and the palm and profit awarded in so just and liberal a manner.. The emolument, we are told, is about .ClOO per annum, and the duties not so onerous as to inter fere with the new auditor's accustomed pursuits.—Literary Luckart is the editor of the Qurrterly Review.] PASTORAL. AID SOCIETY.-At the recent meeting of the Church Pastoral Aid SUciety in London, the Bishop of Llandaff requested permission to address the meeting, for the purpose of expressing his undiminished attachment to the Church Pastoral Aid Society, and his obligations to it in, distant parts of the country. Be used to hear it objected against the society that it was not consistent with the princi ; pic.l) and praotiLio of Ou cipinth ; but was well gopvince4 that thfi whOlo rhin nd prop dine Slf 09 iptitoion 174 , 4 pr*Oy tw.pti4l)l Witt pricHipivi §rol fultOstivri 0110folli SPEECH OF THE REV, HUGH 14'NEILE, IN THE AMPHITHEATRE, AT THE MEETING OF THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY, MAY 22, [At the request of several persons who heard Mr. M`Naile's eloquent speech at the Amphitheatre on Monday last, we are induced to present it to our readers in a com plete form, seeing that it contains much important matter not only with reference to the Church Missionary Society, but with reference to the Tractarian heresy which is now afflict ing the Church.--En. STAND.] I have been requested to move this resolution—" That the divine blessing, which has of late been so manifestly bestowed upon the labours of our missions abroad, calls for our grate ful thanks to God ; and that we desire to commend to the special prayers of all members of this association the several missions of the society, that in each of them the Gospel may continue to be the power of God unto the salvation of many souls." (Cheers.) Before I offer any observations upon what may be called the peculiar matter brought before us in this resolution, I wish to make a few upon another subject. Some of the opening remarks of our Christian brother from Africa invite me to a kind and friendly explanation. (Hear.) I sin sure, sir, that you, in common with us all, must have been grieved at the appearance of embarassment with which an important feature of our great subject was approached by that reverend gentleman, and at the apparent feeling of pain with which he refrained from what might otherwise have been the tenor of some of his observations, especially when that short sentence dropped from him, that " the Africans are a doomed race." (Hear, hear.) Upon this, sir, with your permission, I think it important to offer what, I have said, a kind, a friendly, and an affectionate explanation. (Applause.) I most cordially agree, sir, in the sentiments of all our dear Christian brethren, that the Gospel is to be preached to every kindred, tribe, people, and nation, without exception and without reserve,—without exception as regards them, and without reserve as regards the manner of approaching them. (Hear, hear.) We are encouraged in this work by the plain precepts of our Lord himself, who left to us his command that his disciples should go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. Here is no reservation, and here is no exception. (Hear.) We are encouraged, too, not only by the precept given by Him who will never fail to give power for the obedience of his precepts to those who ask it, but we are encouraged also by a certain class of pro phecy. (Hear, hear.) There are prophecies which declare that the Lord shall gather, during his absence, from the earth a people unto himself out of every kindred and tribe, and peo ple, and nation, and their number shall be exceedingly great ; it is said, indeed, to be "a multitude without number," that is, beyond man's calculation as to number, out of every kindred. This is encouragement from prophecy, as well as precept, and this, you will observe, applies as fully to the African as to any other class of human beings. (Hear.) Here, I hope, there is no cause to complain ; here, I be lieve, we all go together as one man. But, sir, there is ano ther class of prophecies which refer, not to the spread of the gospel for the conversion of sinners, but which refer to the fore-ordained dealings of Almighty God with the nations of the earth as nations, not to his dealings with individuals as sinners, calling them, unreservedly, by the glorious procla mation of pardoning mercy, to be reconciled to himself. (Hear, hear, and applause.) But, to his dealings with the nations, as nations : surely it is not too much to expect from those who love their Bible, and eulogize their Bible, and who take pains in reading their Bible, to distinguish be tween those two classes of prophecy. And, sir, out of love to our Missionary cause, and ou t o f that which is inseparable from true love, jealousy—l say, jealousy is inseparable from true love, and I prove it thus,—" God is love," and God says, " I am a jealous God,"—(applause) —out of jealousy to the cause I love, and for the good of bat cause, a false ground of support should not be put forward upon which to rest any part of its claims, I think it of the utmost impor tance that the distinction referred to should be made ; and that those prophecies which refer to the divine dealings with the nations, connected as they are with the Second Advent of the Messiah, and with the national resuscitation of the Jews, should not be advanced as part of the grounds of our encouragement in preaching of the gospel. (Hear.) The distinction I think is clear ; and I am persuaded it will com mend itself to those who are in the habit of discriminating while they read the Scriptures. (Hear, hear.) It is here, with regard to the divine view of nations, as such, that we are to take up the solemn language of God concerning Canaan. (hear, hear.) The Canaanites when driven forth, before the victorious sword of Joshua, and af terwards more completely by King David, spread forth, as we know from profane history, and became settlers in Africa. There is the race of Canaan. The descendants of Sham peopled the East, and are now to be found in the millions of Hindostan as well as in the wandering Jews, all over the world, whilst the western nations were peopled by the descendants of Japheth. Now, thus runs the word of the living God,— " Cursed be Canaan : a servant of servants shall he he unto hi brethren. Blessed be the Lord God of Shem ; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; and Canaan shall be his servant." It certainly becomes us to be modest and careful when we anticipate from such language the dealings of God with the world ; but when the events of history have set their seal upon a certain interpretation of language up to a certain point, it does appear to me the fair result of legitimate reasoning, to anticipate that future events will put a similar interpretation upon the remaining language of the prediction. There was a very remarkable predictic- of a different kind uttered by a heathen poet ; he anticipated that the Indians would make settlements in the west and north. Is it not so? Did not he sing— Gelidurn potat Indus Araxem ? (Hear, hear, hear.) Did be not anticipate the Indians would come and drink the cold Araxes littering his prophecy from human sagacity, he supposed the then civilized tribes would make incursions into the then barbarian countries, and make settlements in the west. But, Sir, did it turn out so? By no means. (Hear, hear.) The descendants of Shem did not occupy the tent of Japheth ; Hindostan made no incur sions into the west ; the Indians made no settlements in Eu rope, but the divine word had said that " Japheth shall dwell in the tents of Shem," and, accordingly, the western nations did make incursions, the western nations did make perman ent settlements and establish themselves, within the boun daries of Shem. (Hear, hear.) The divine word is then ful filled by history ; and in each clause of the prophecy it is re iterated upon the disobedient disrespectful child, " Canaan :shall be is servant." (Hear, hear.) • May this be withheld? May we eulogize the Bible and circulate the Bible, and after all, make use of only extracts from the Bible? (Hear, hear.) But does putting this for ward damage our missionary cause ? In no wise. (Cheers.) Does putting this forward set a duty before men, which con travenes tie plain precept to seek the temporal as well as the spiritual good of all their fellow Christians? In no wise. (Cheers.) Did the prophecy interfere with a duty of this kind, to proclaim emancipation to the negroes in our colonies, and did those who hold such views of prophecy withhold their advocacy from the great abolition cause ? By no means. (Loud cheers.) Sir, lam thankful to be able to say while these views have been for many years in my head and heart 1 nevertheless felt it my duty, acting upon the precept, and not upon the prophecy, to throw all my energies, when the proper opportunity arrived, into the cause of the abolition of the detestable traffic in the slavery of human beings. (Cheers.) In like manner our views of prophecy with regard to the Lord's final dealing with the nations, interfere in no respect with our ordinary duty in preaching the gospel now, or causing it to be preached, to every creature. And, now, I think it is only fair, it is only right, that if the class of pro phecy to v‘hich I have referred, wherein the nations of the earth are spoken of as nations, be referred to at all, they should be referred to in their context. (Hear, hear.) And if the passage that " Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God" be brought forward, Ethiopia not express ing in that place individuals to be converted from the African race—in which sense we have no objection to place it in a different context, but if " Ethiopia" means the race itself, as a race, (and this seems to me its true meaning in the Psalm,) then let the passage be taken in its context, and thus we find it— " The Lord said I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea, that thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same." Of what people is this spoken, but of that people agai❑ and agai❑ called " his people," whose restoration to their land is connected in prophecies without number, with dreadful de struction upon the enemies that shall attack them there—the Gog and Magog who shall asse►rble against the unwalled villages of Judea, and in whose blood the very dogs of the restored Jewish nation shall be made red? (Hear, hear.) And what follows? The description of the tribes—little Benjamin, the Princes of Judah, the Princes of Zebulun, and the Princes of Napthali—" Because of thy temple at Jeru salem shall kings bring presents unto thee: princes shall come nut of Egypt, Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God." Here is the context : (hear) Israel is restored ; the battle of Armageddon is fought; the King of Israel is there— " The beam that shines on Zion's hill Shall lighten every land ; The King that reigns in Zion's towers Shall the whole world command !" (Cheers.) Then, " because of the temple at Jerusalem" Princes shall come ; because of the restoring love of Jehovah the King, " Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God." ( Hear.) This is the context ; and the glory of a passage lies in the context ! (Loud cheers.) I have ventured to say so much in the way of explanation, and I do trust and hope, most sincerely, that our dear friend and brother has nothing to complain of, nothing to feel hurt by, nothing that the tenderest feelings could be wounded by, in any of the expressions concerning his race. (Hear, hear.) If we read the prophecy I have ventured to read before you, we read it, we beg to assure him, with feelings kindred to his own, with sympathy for that race; we read it. I beg to assure him, not in unkindness towards the " doomed race," but we cannot blot it oat—there it is—it is our duty to attend to it—to explain it—to mark the progress of events ; and it is our happiness to see that those events, so marked in the divine word, present no hindrance nor discouragement whatever in the preaching of the Gospel to every creature of every clime, and every name, under heaven. (Hear.) We give God thanks, then, for the blessing which has already attended the preaching of the Gospel. (Cheers.) Many of the details of that blessing have been brought before us by my dear and reverend brother Mr. Bickersteth ; they do :indeed call for thanksgiving to the only source from whence such blessings can flow, and we are invited to pray that in all the stations occupied by this Society the Gospel may still be found the power of God unto the salvation of many souls. (Hear.) I do not know whether it was the intention of the managers of this Associ a ti on , w h o d rew up t hi s reso l ut i on, or not, but it has certainly been their act in the wording of the resolu tion, to call the attention of the mover of it to the quality of the Gospel preached, because upon the quality of the Gospel preached must depend whether it can be expected to prove the power of God unto salvation. In looking at every remedial process it becomes a wise man to acquaint himself with the nature of the evil to be remedied; and if wo would look to the nature of the process which must be car ried on as remedial for sinful man in this or any other coma.. try. we must first be acquainted with the nature of his dis ease. (Hear.) It will at once be admitted that man's dis ease is sin, but it is not at once readily seen that sin acts with regard to two things; it acts with regard to the divine law, and also with regard to the human conscience. With regard to the divine law, sin exposes man to the anger of God : with regard to human conscience, sin exposes man to his own condemnation. (Cheers.) Suppose him freed from smiles h im cannot the penalty, and the anger o f G o d removed from him, yet, if him sec er thatr he has his own cond emna ti on st i ll resting upon ' rds he i c i a im nn i o n t Hve h e a a vep n e , yaceetwifiLlii. own God he .T ar l t lo fruochn uponallbe have peace; so that th e state of mind which produces be to v self condemnation m us t b e addressed as well a s th e state of con ducto which exp oses t o pena l ty and wrath. (Ilear' kp hear.) e s e t him in o It at is t a h d e i s s e ta c n re c t e se fr l o f- m cori theentin ofsinner true God that he deserves no t t o b e received e in peace tha e t t Co a l k vi m es him feel an interest in staying away. (Hear.) wiiat made the first self-condemned sinner hide from thu presence of • heavenly Father among the trees of the garde n ? t his bounding, es before, in all the buoyancy of happy h " pe ead , of he heard the voice of his beloved Lord in the gaidet o i . be hold hi shrinking with shame from that friendly voice,' codes, voqring to hide his head among the trees. 'why Co. UQ4 sewed to love hint' 13Y . 110 n'cun;! earna witl% mcgfrigg IQya fox ;filth I ljqt 1 - P-1.1 f 4 evei4 tO lor9 oga 44 op Km! 01 1 0!q!4v II!! Iwo ! ti ! fo 00104 14 pravinK that God lona man "is this was manifest the love of God that he gave his Son ;" but our great difficulty lie' . let inducing men to love him. They will not come to him that they might have life. And why not? Because they are secretly condemned in themselves. (Hear.) Oh, sir, there is more of alarm about eternity among men than is generally supposed. (Hear, hear.) Alen talk about God's mercy, and express a hope that all will be well •, but ninny a trembling heart lies beneath those fair and outside bravadoes. The poor heathen do not hide it; they hare not learned to stifle their conscience with mere talk ; they have recourse to bleeding sacrifices to appease their God, and that Bhews the real secret of alarm that lies within. How shall we address them ? What is the power of God to win them to himself? What is the quality of the Gospel that must prove the power of salvation to them ? Is it to begin with moral precepts? They know already they are sinners; witness their bleeding rites. Where must we begin? Why, from the very nature of the disease, pardoning love is the first step of the remedy (hear) ; the atonement, instead of being reserved for a higher class, is the very A B C which God has commanded' to be preached to every man. (Loud cheers.) It is the manifes tation of God's love in the way of pardon! (Hear.) " In this was manifest the love of God, that he gave his Son " what for ?—" to be the propitiation of our sins ! " That touches the point; that goes to the very sore place; that goes, sir—a quaint but faithful expression of a Scotch poet occurs to my mind—dir/ upon the bone. (Applause.) It is pardoning love ; and it is proclaimed from heaven, that it may produce grateful love upon earth. (Renewed applause.) I delight in representing true religion as an echo ; and I be lieve I use not only a beautiful but a correct illustration when I say that all true religion upon earth is an echo • the sound that r a i se d i t i s l ove from heaven —" God so l oved' the world that he gave his Son,"—and the sound that is raised is love upoil earth—" We love him because he first loved us." (Loud cheers.) Another illustration is given by Archbishop Leighton ; he says, " Our love to God is a repercussion of the beams of his love to us." If this be so, and we expect the Gospel to prove the power of God to sal vation among the heathen, it must be the Gosp!'l which begins with the atonement instead of reserving the atone. ment for a future and more elevated condition—(cheers) — therefore, I am rejoiced to find upon every side reference made to the first principles of this society. (Hear.) I re joice to find we are not only going forward now to send our arrows abroad, but that we are come back to examine and re-string our bow — (cheers)—that we are not only engaged in procuring funds to multiply our preachers, but we are en gaged in giving you fresh assurance of what the thing will be that shall be preached—that it shall be the Gospel of the grace of God manifested in the gift of his Son, giving him self unto death a curse under the law that he might redeem us from the curse of the law; and, therefore, exhibiting to the poor heathen, the poor wretched stave of Satan, the ele ments of liberty, for it is the love of God in man's heart that makes him a free man—the prevailing love of God in man's heart puts everything in its right place. That is the supreme sentiment, and it ought to be supreme. (Cheers.) Before him alone mau bows, which he should do, for man is the image of God ; and when the Spirit of God is in his heart, everything is subordinated and arranged in his mind. This, then, is liberty; and to give liberty this must be pro claimed. It is Christ's office, the office of his preachers, to proclaim liberty to the captive ! Anti-Christ withholds this liberty by withholding a full reconciliation to the Father; Anti-Christ keeps his disciples in doubt still as to whether they are indeed reconciled, as to whether the Atonement is quite sufficient for them ; Antichrist keeps them in doubt by a repetition of the sacrifice, and by requiring them to perform certain conditions, in order that it may be applied to them by the prayers of the church, which keeps them waiting for years upon masses before they can be fully satisfied they are reconciled to God. I say this not in the way of angry and petulant controversy : I say it in deep and unfeigned con cern, she does not proclaim the only healing balm of Christ to win a sinner to the Father's bosom, but keeps him down, crouching to a fellow-creature on his knees, until that fellow creature r eiterates and reoffers agai❑ the sacrifice of Christ for the living and the dead. (Cheers.) Any approach to this would mar the great object we have in view : we can not expect that the gospel adulterated with such sentiments should prove " the power of God unto salvation." (Hear, hear, hear.) It is, therefore, sir, with great satisfaction we have heard to-day such sentiments from head-quarters—such sentiments from the deputation—and that we have seen such sentiments were uttered at the meeting of the Parent Society ; and that we have seen, by deed as well as word, that the Pa rent Society are determined to maintain the purity of the gospel. (Hear, hear.) I say "by deed as well as word." Mr. Bickersteth has referred to the case I allude to. It was the case of a reverend gentleman, who was engaged as a mis sionary for this society, in the East Indies, in the Presidency of Madras. He entertained some extraordinary notions about bow the gospel should he preached to the heathen; he felt that some reserve should be used in bringing the full statements of the gospel before them, and he wished to con struct a church which should express in its compartments something of the sentiments of his mind upon the subject. Here is a plan of his proposed church (the rev. gentleman here exhibited a small plan from the account of the matter issued by the society), and I will tell you what compartments it was intended to contain. Here, in the centre, was the choir for the faithful; beyond that the chancel upon an ele vation; upon one side a chapel for catechumens; upon ano ther a chapel for penitents ; between the faithful and the nave there is a screen, and then outside is the nave for the heathen. (Hear, hear, hear.) He wrote express ing his views to the corresponding committee of this society at Madras ; they were dissatisfied, and passed a resolution expressing their dissatisfaction, and they wrote home to the Parent Society's Committee. In the meantime the rev. gentleman had appealed to the Bishop of Madras, and the Bishop of Madras wrote home, desiring to refer the matter, supposing it to come within range of the law of refer ence, to the Archbishop of Canterbury with other bishops of the English church. The Parent Society's Committee did not feel it was a matter within the law of reference, and after mature consideration, they acted upon the decision of their corresponding committee—they have acted upon their own descretion—they have removed the rev. gentleman from their employment—(loud cheers)—they have sanctioned the conduct of the corresponding committee in withholding his salary—(hear, hear,)—in cutting off the communication between him and the society ; and, although the matter has been laid, as a matter of course, before his grace the Lord Primate, yet, not coming under the law of reference, his grace has not seen it right to adjudicate on the matter. (Hear, hear.) The committee, acting upon their own views, have now published a pamphlet containing all the resolutions of the corresponding committee, the plan of the proposed church, the letter of the Bishop of Madras, and all the docu ments connected with the whole concern. (Cheers.) They stand before_ you as having freed themselves from the first suspicions of any approach to this evil in one of their mil. sions, therefore, they strthiLirefore you, in deed as well as it . . , word, the defenders of the purity of the gospel, which might he expected according to the divine blessing " to prove the power of God to the salvation of many souls among the hea then." They have at the same time manifested all dutiful submission to their ecclesiastical superiors, and express their sincere regret that ally part of the conduct of their corres ponding committee, should have worn for a moment the ap pearance of disrespect to the Bishop of Madras. (Loud cheers.) It is of no small consequence that this should be the tone taken by this society. (Hear.) If there be an in stitution in Great Britain which may justly be considered as giving more pointedly than any other to the public the pre vailing sentiments of the Church of England, prevailing in point of numbers, I may say prevailing now in point of pa tronage, the standard in every way, and certainly 1 may say largely prevailing in point of income—if there be such an in stitution, it is the Church Missionary Society. I would ask, how can the Dissenters of England, who have been charging our church with this heresy of tractarianism, and have grounded some late proceedings in opposition to the wishes of her Ma jesty's government upon the charge of the Church's unsound ness, how can they ascertain that charge by matter of fact? (Loud cheers.) The history, the conduct, and this language of the Church Missionary Society are all in opposition to such a charge. (Cheers.) It is of importance that this should be known; it is of importance that the integrity of the English Church should be vindicated. (Hear, hear.) I stand not here to vindicate Tractarianism, but I stand here to vindicate the Church of England against it ;—(great cheering)—and I believe that many of the things which 1 and a few others took the liberty of saying years ago, without be ing believed, are now believed, respecting the machinations of the Church of Rome—(hear, hear)—and respecting the secret designs with which she is encroaching stealthily upon many of the positions that ought to be maintained by the Church of England alone. (Hear, hear, hear.) We said, some years ago ; that th ere was a p l an o f this kind in progress, but we said it with little effect. Some mourned over the statement as an instance of fanaticism in us ; some lamented that gentlemen capable of being of so much use if they would turn their talents and attention into the proper channel, should devote themselves to such ultra, and more then ultra, or extra Protestantism ;--( hearl—and we were treated like Cassandra of old, while the heresy, like the wooden horse, was winning its treacherous way into the citadel of our great university. (Hear, hear.) Many of the charges we made then have turned out to be true, and they are now forced upon the attention of the country ; they are now forced upon the attention of the Government. (Loud applause.) The danger to the English Church arising from Tractarianism is forced upon the attention of the Government because of this late movement amongst the dissenters. (Hear.) Here we see the wonder working hand of Him who bringeth good out of evil. (Cheers.) The impatient charge made by a large body of dissenters—a body of whom I would speak with the highest respect the Wesleyans, who suddenly, when the subject of national education is the matter before us, change their tone —the decided opposition they have given, and the reason they have given, namely, unsoundness of the church—has forced the subject upon the notice of men its authority who before hinted that there might be too much made of it, and it did not deserve their attention. Now they do give it their atten tion. (Cheers.) This is important every way, for we have always professed, that notwithstanding the advaneennent in learning, the improvement in various arts and sciences, of these latter days—notwithstanding the march of mind, as it is called, there is nothing in natural knowledge to check false religion. (Cheers.) Religion is a matter of the heart, not of the intellect ; and you may cultivate the intellect up to the highest attainment of mathematical learning, while you leave the heart untouched and unwon to God, and you leave the poor creature the slave of sin ; and not only so, but although he may secretly see reasons against superstition, he has not the power of moral energy to emancipate himself from the superstition. There is a proof of this at hand, and an extraordinary one. Has there not been an advance of secular learning upon the continent? Have there not been great advances in scientific attainments, and their application to the wants and comforts of society, in France? They have gone forward there, and have now traced our steps in the establishment of railways. Well, one would think that science enough to construct a locomotive engine would put n ; but what have we rench railway, amon g nowan e n ? cl lA, t o , e a h agreat at dtehael opening e r o s f t i a t i F o other ceremonies of the day, the cardinal archbishop of the church comi ng f orwar d t o bless the line, and s p r i n kli ng h o ly water upon the rails! (Hear, hear, and laughter.) I really do not think this is any subject for laughter at all. I think it a most grievous and awful thing that men advanced in all the secular attainments which adorn society should still be plunged in such superstition, and can consent to be present, and sanction by their apparent countenance such an insult to common sense as this. (Hear.) It is a melancholy proof of the state into which we are fallen. But all these things tend to endear to us an institution like the present, which not only acts in the propagation of truth abroad, but which savingly re-acts in the preservation of truth at home. (Hear, hear.) I value it highly, air, indeed. I would that all who are con nected with it would warn their friends, as the Bishop of Calcutta is reported to have warned hi s f r i ends upon his late friend in the My sore r m ec e e tr iv o e p d ol a ita le n u t e o r u b r, y a tue in le st it t rn he ail h f e r r o e m sy 111 have alluded t o . I country, who tells me of 4 chaplain to th e E ast India Com pany, in the diocese of Madras, who has th ese not i ons. He ogifvtehsei loan,ndeed a and h y er e y distressing account o f t h e moral diameter mentions names, which I will not mention ; hut hesays the Bishop of Calcutta, upon his late metropoli tan visitation, warned his hearers to avoid that gentlemen Ds a false prophet. (Cheers.) I think the matter has gone so far with us now that a warning to all our lay friends to avoid the evil becomes our plain and obvious duty. (Loud cheers.) The battle is not to be fought by the clergy only ;—(hear)— the evil is not an assault upon the clergy only—it is an assault upon the church, and the ch urc h consists of the people. (Hear, hear.) Wu are your servants for Christ ' s part,sttk e of forming thec a u r h p e a h r t , , — ye indeed, ar e God's b u il d i ng, ye are God's but only a comparatively small workmanship ; we are labourers together with him, but yc are the husbandry. It becomes you to keep yourselves pure ; it becomes you to chew you have profited by the instruction yon have received from us, that your spiritual senses are cv. cruised, as St. Paul expresses it, to 4 f- discern goad and evil,“ end TM t 9 atte ß 4 the cainiary of any rap; whq ifOtil.4i till ter M; tho oirtiOlni of your 11440, (Pitterz,) It hoeorPcs RP tff IMPOff V4 I if pm 1410 oq iiiiiiir.74o qoppßil fkl, ff?' . t . s' ntism of your church. (Cheers.) If you wish to keep your church a missionary church, with any prospect of good to the heathen, you must keep it a Protestant church; and if you will keep your church Protestant, you must practically protest not only against popery, commonly so called, but also against semi-popish statements and proceedings within her pale. (Hear, hear, hear, and great cheering.) You should withdraw yourselves, not from the church certainly, happily there is no occasion, for our churches stand within moderate distances one from another, and there is scarcely a neighbourhood to be found where you may not have a choice without serious inconvenience. In large towns you hate all this within the parish, but even in country places, highly and justly as you value the order and regu larity of parochial subdivisions, where every thing of a higher description is right ; you should never consent to allow them to overbear your love of divine truth, and protest against error ; and whenever there is a man who makes the form s and commandments of men, however innocent or even valuable in themselves, the prominent theme of his instruc tion, to the neglect of the great truths of God, leave him " alone in his glory," and go to another church. (Great cheering.) In a church supported by endowment you cannot help yourselves. The remedy lies in higher hands, and doubtless will be applied at the right time. Do not be im patient when men in authority do not move. When men in authority move they must move with power, and it becomes power to be patient. (Hear.) No man is fit for the posses sion of power who has not first learned the exercise of pati .. Where the church is endowed, there the minister re mains, whether the people attend him or not; but in a great many of the churches which have come to the assistance of the endowed churches, to gather the overflowings of a unprovided population, and where the minister is supported by the con tributions of the people who take the pews, you can refuse to take the pews. You can starve tractarianisrn out of the church ! (Renewed cheers.) I cannot but feel that this is of much importance. I know I am taking a serious step in giving such advice to the laity ; and I will say for myself, I have not done it impatiently. It is a long time now this has been working ; and mans of my friends complain that I have not spoken of it long ago. It is indeed of the highest im portance. If it be our duty to expose error, it is equally your duty to separate from error. It is for your sakes we contend, that the truth of the gospel may remain with you ; but in vain shall the clergy on either side contend, if the mass of the laity treat truth and error alike. I conclude now by calling your attention to the greatest evil we have to con tend against in this matter among ourselves, among men who are not openly infected with this heresy. It is the great desire and aim of the enemy of mankind, who is called in the scriptures the Devil, to keep matters peaceable as regards reli gion. Whatever commotion there may be upon other subjects, he earnestly desires there should be no commotion about religion. (Hear.) Let that be quiet. Moderation there, he preaches ; he endeavours to create a state of indifference with regard to eternity, whilst the aim of true religion is just the reverse of this—it is to excite a concern about eternity. As soon as, by the mercy of God, it appears successful, com motion is inevitable: the newborn child of God stands; he no longer goes with the multitude to do evil, and the multi tude jostle him. They rush forward as before ; he is in their way, arid they jostle him ; lie finds new life in him, new aims' and objects, lie changes his course, and then he jostles them. Thus there is commotion (hear, hear); and in this world, wherever salvation begins, commotion begins. (Cheers.) What is the cause of this? It is " the strong man armed " that desires "to keep his goods in peace." Now, sir, the way in which the great enemy of mankind checks this com motion varies with the times and circumstances of the world. At first he took a summary way ; he put an end to this re sistance by the hungry lions of pagan Rome, and afterwards by the burning faggots of papal Rome ! (Loud cheers.) When he had got rid of the resistance, all was fair and all was peace again ; but now those who are still called " pesti lent fellows," as the apostles were, are not to be got rid of by so summary a process. What is to be done then ? What is his " ingenious device" now? (Hear, hear.) His plan now is to throw such discredit over the meaning of divine revelation, that no man can tell what is truth and what is not truth ; and any man who dares to say what is truth, is denounced as a bigot; the public opinion is turned against him, in proportion as he lays hold of God's truth. (Hear, hear.) Satan endeavours to represent our heavenly Father as having given us a revelation which means nothing or any- ' thing that anybody pleases! (Hear, hear, hear.) He en deavours to propagate that sort of charity, as he has mis called it, which will not give offence, which will not run the risk of giving.offence, upon any occasion, by determining what is truth, but which will treat what I think truth and what other people think truth, and what anybody thinks truth, truth and error, with the same gentlemanlike, kind, civil, polite, anti-Christian forbearance ! (Loud cheers.) This is to be gentlemanly ! In this way he has rendered it an act of absolute soldiership for any man to dare to say he knows what is truth ; to attach certainty to almost any statement of revelation, is almost the same thing as to prci claim war. (Loud cheers.) I think these sentiments only want to ba meditated upon, to be entered into, and believed, for the force of them to be felt. (Hear.) I know that persons who are naturally quiet are not so likely to feel .the force of them as the pioneers who so forward to receive the first blows ; but those, I say, who are faithful enough to believe the Bible, and to state what they believe as God's truth, are now exposed to odium as un charitable, unkind, and bigotted. (Hear, hear, hear.) The only way to attain and retain a character for charity now is to admit—to say, " I may be wrong in this, I cannot say, perhaps Christ was not God,—l must not dare to say posi tively he is, for that would give offence to the Unitarians— perhaps there are other mediators between God and man : I must be modest, and I may be wrong—my Roman Catholic brethren may be right in praying to the Virgin Mary—l do not say." (Hear, hear.) Thi s i s w h at goes down now, sir. (Loud cheers.) Oh, sir, we must beware how we yield to the current that is setting that way. (Hear, hear.) I fear not only from the outbreak of this heresy, but from the sapping and undermining effects of this false charity. (Hear.) I see little of the tone and temper that won the Reformation, and it can only be retained by the temper which achieved it. (Tremendous cheers.) As for this glorious Gospel for the Heathen, let us hold fast by its purity to him ! Let us mul tiply the resources for the spreading of it abroad ! Let us multiply prayers to God that he will give us men as well as money—that he will touch the hearts of dear young students at our Universities —that he will win them not only to the enjoyment of himself, but to imbibe so large a portion of his own spirit that they .will yearn over the perishing millions !of the heathen world, that they will be ready to devote them selves to the service of the Lord, ready to resist the allure ments of home, the entreaties of friends, the tears of parents, the embraces of brothers and sisters, and tear themselves frOm all that makes England next to a Paradise upon earth, to go into the depths of.pagan barbarism, enduring perils by land and perils by sea, hunger and thirst and nakedness, i so be they may testify among the Gnatiles " the unsearch able riches of Christ." (Great applause.) Sir, let us en courage them who do go with an anxiety to go, and bring before them all the .arrimating hopes and promises of the Gospel—above all the assurance that wheresoever the Gospel is preached in its purity, there the thorn is changed for the fig tree, and the thistle is transferred into a myrtle tree. (Renewed cheers.) Yes, sir, as it has been beautifully written, and frequently quoted, respecting the effects pro duced upon savage Greenlanders by the pure Gospel as preached by our Moravian brethren— The wretch who once sang wildly, danced and laughed, And sucked in dizzy madness with his draught, has wept a silent flood ; reversed his ways, Is sober, meek, benevolent, and prays ; Feeds sparingly, communicates his store, Abhors the craft he gloried in before — And he who stole has learned to steal no more." The reverend gentleman then resumed his seat, amidst ap plause which made the Amphitheatre ring. SOCIETY FOR PROPAGATING THR GOSPEL.—The annual meeting of this society was held on Friday, in St. Paul's Cathedral. The Bishop of Norwich was invited to preach the sermon. His lordship dwelt at some length on the ex cellency of au established church, and its superiority to one left to the caprice of time and circumstances, and exposed to all kinds of danger. At the present moment we had a go vernment of which any country might be proud ; and we had a church in which any christian might rejoice. But we should not rest on this our fancied security. The church laid claim to an apostolic character. He was aware that the term "apostolic" might be made to bear different interpretations. By one party, of whose devotion and learning he would wish to speak in the most respectful terms, it was contended that in de church there was an unbroken, undeviating line of succession from the apostles themselves, assuming for the clergy of the church of England a position over all other sects and denominations by right, and giving to the priest. hood something approaching to a miraculous power. Such claims were untenable and dangerous. The more closely this doctrine was examined the weaker it appeared—in many parts its links were held together only by a single thread. If we looked into ecclesiastical history we should find that many on whom this succession depends were monsters of iniquity, unrivalled in profligacy and vice. The church of Zugland was a truly apostolic church, not on account of the succes sion alluded to, but because it was founded on those great truths which the Saviour and His Apostles taught. The missionaries of this society are, it appears, principally em ployed in the four great divisions of our colonial empire. 1. British North America. 2. West Indies. 3. India. 4. Australia. At the present time there are in the United States 19 bishops, with upwards of 1,000 clergymen. The Bishop of Nova Scotia reports that within the last fifteen years he has consecrated 119 churches; and that within his memory the clergy in that part of his diocese, which com prises Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island, and Cape Breton, have increased from sto 50. The whole number of clergy employed in these provinces is 227, and since the creation of the two new sees in 1839, 41 clergymen have been added to the society's list of missionaries in the diocese of Toronto, while in that of Newfoundland their number has been raised from 10 to 25. In the West Indies the society contributes to the support of 40 clergymen, besides teachers and catechists. In India the society has 47 missionaries. It has established a college at Calcutta, for the education of a native clergy, and grammar-schools at Madras for the in struction of the middle and lower classes. Four thousand young persons have beets confirmed by Dr. Wilson, Bishop of Calcutta, since his arrival in India. In Australia and Van Diemen's Land 50 missionaries are labouring in their respective spheres of duty. The expenditure on the general account of the last year was £75,151. The income on the same account was- - From the Queen's letter £35,315 ; from all other sources; £35,776; total , £71,091. The bill before Parliament. having at last passed which authorises the Brighton Railway Company to reduce the number of its directors and make sundry other changes in the concern, it is to be hoped that some permanent arrange ments will then be determined for the working of this line. Of late the public have been greatly inconvenienced by the frequent alterations of time and fares, and we are sure the proprietors cannot benefit by it. Indeed we hear three or four new coaches have just started on the road in consequence by the inhabitants of Brighton. This speaks volumes as to the present (mis) direction of the Railway. HEARTLESS RonnellY.—lnformation was on Saturday given of a most cruel robbery committed upon Mr. S. Foster, a gentleman residing in Soley-terrace, Clerkenwell. Mr. Foster at the time of the dispute between our Government and the Chinese, relative to the opium traffic, had a son re siding at Singapore. When hostilities commenced the latter unfortunate gentleman with 15 others were taken prisoners, and Mr. Foster, jun., from the treatment he received died. The sad tidings of his end were harrowing enough to the fee lings of his parents and others to whom he was most dear, who naturally with eargerness sought for every information tending to throw light upon the mystery attending the death of their relative, and nothing seemed altogether satisfactory to them until Sunday week last, when a wan dressed as a sailor called upon Mr. Foster, to whom he handed some let• ters which had been writip by the father and received by the son. A father can only conceive the feelings of Mr. Foster on receiving these documents : he welcomed the stran ger, telling him his home was there as long as he pleased, and then anxiously enquired after his lost son. In tears the vis itor gave an account of the demise of the young man, declar ing that he watched over him by day and by night until his sufferings terminated, and thus obtained tne papers he pro duced and much valuable property, which, however, was then on bbard of a vessel which he had come home in, which was then in the river on its way to London from Liverpool, where part of the,cargo was discharged. All this appeared feasible, and every luxury that could be obtained was lavishly bestowed upon him. The sequel, however, will prove the villany of the ruffian. In the dead of the fifth night he got up and broke open every drawer and desk in the room in which he had slept, and then descended to the drawing-room and parlour, whore he laid his hand upon every portable arti, cla, with which he escaped from the house. Hl.; name i 4 stated to ba Ho_hpri Al4rbry I tie “I'Abogt 12, is 5 Not 9inchex . doph (400:1p1041011, with h!oatt whiihsq:o tnaetias the eitht! 4 P lll OO b! flffrFfifilfif I 4 OPHAlleflfrigrl! CORRESPONDENCE. PUNCTUATION IN THE PRAYER BOOK. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sut,—ln one of your past numbers, (March 28,) which has just reached rue through a friend, I find some remarks made at a meeting of the Prayer Book and Homily Society, in Liverpool, by a reverend clergyman of cons:derable weight and eminence. As it is a subject to which I have paid attention, and have some facts to communicate on it, youlwill oblige my by giving them a place in your respectable journal. As a principle, it surely must be objectionable to introduce or remove any stops which have received the sanction of authority. If this be allowed as a practice, in the private jugdment of those who superintend the press, who can say to what extent it might be adopted ? All alterations of this kind ought to be watched with jea lousy, and not to be allowed on any account whatever, except ordered by convocation. The insertion of a comma after the personal pronoun before " being" is not found in any of the old copies—and as it is unnecessary, to say the least of it, ought not to have been introduced. I agree with this gentleman in his remark, that the words " We beseech thee, that he being delivered from thy wrath" are clearly a petition. But it is equally clear with this punctuation. that the ex pression in the office of private baptism, " Give thy Holy Spirit to this infant, that he, being horn again," &c., is equally petitionary. Will the present advocates for baptismal regeneration, in the sense in which they use the term, admit it to be a petition? Clearly not. And, therefore, for one, I should pray for the restoration of the original pointing. On the second point, the removal of the comma after " Grace" has no sanction from authority. If my information, received from a source on which I can rely, be correct, the stop is found in the copy (of that part of the catechism added in the beginning of the reign of James the Second) inserted in Rymer's Fmdera. It is also found in an old prayer (book ?) now in my possession, of 1639, and every old copy that I have consulted. I am aware that the participle is given or rendered in the Latin prayer book by a feminine adjective ; but this Latin copy of the prayer book is not the original of this an swer in the catechism, as it was not first written in that lan guage, and there translated by Bishop Overall. There is not, if I am correctly informed, any authorised Latin copy of our prayer 000 k : one was ordered by convo cation, but it was never finished, and consequently did not receive the sanction of that body. Hence, an appeal to that Latin translation which is now printed cannot be of any final weight in determining the question. Archbishop Wake. in his paraphrase of the catechism, placed an "and" between the two participle•, iveu and or dained. I mean an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace, given unto us, and . ordained by Christ himself. This would appear to give his !gay's of the subject, and he is no mean authority in determining such a point. Next, no old definitions read it thus. All end with grace, or anequiralentexpression A visible sign of invisible grace. signum saerte rei latentis—or, Sign= sensibile rei sacrte latentis. With this definition Dean Nowel's catechism agrees, and our ca techism is said to be a compendium of his. Would •not the present punctuation support the notion that sacraments and grace are synonomous? But the authority of one, who had more weight with our reformers, according to Dean Milner, than any other, main tains the dogma. that Sacramente communia, gratis non communis. - And Bishop Andrews, cautious as he is in such matters, asserts that it is in our being duly prepared that the sacraments become efficient—" Without the Holy Ghost received, nothing will do us good—receive baptism and it becomes John's baptism—Egenum elementum—a barren element. I would say let the old punctuation be restored against the world. With much respect, I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, JAMES HEA.RN. Hatford Rectory, Berks, May, 1543 MR. COBDEN'S CORN POLITICS. TO THE EDITOR OF TILE MORNING HERALD Sir,---This gentleman's doctrine is " take care of your im ports, and your exports will take care of themselves ;" or, in other words, open your markets, without restriction, to foreign productions ; purchase them in preferbnce to home produce whenever you can do so at lower prices, and pay for them as you may be able, in goods, if sellers will take them, or if they will not, in money, whilst you have it, without regard to their measures, to consequences, or the results of past experience in the importation of foreign corn. He tells the farmers that in favourable seasons they produce corn enough to supply the home market—that were they to produce more they would have to export it to Holland or elsewhere, and sell it for still lower prices than those they received here ; yet he proposes as a remedy to permit the importation of foreign corn, duty free, when it is not required, or in other words, to add fuel to the fire, that he says consumes them ; that their landlords are the only parties that reap benefit from their present labours, and that their (the farmers') interests would be best promoted by the manufacturers and others being supplied with cor❑ at the lowest prices, with out regard to their being remunerating or otherwise to the home growers, who are, he says, oppressed without relief, whilst the consumers thus having abundance of cheap bread, low wages would be sufficient to support them, cheap goods will he the 'consequence, the demand for these would increase, when profit would accumulate in the pockets of their employers, whilst the oppressed farmers would not, or could not, suffer increased injury ; such as might follow would fall upon their landlords, for the tenantry must live, and when they cannot longer pay rent their landlords must go without it. Such a state of things he calls prosperity Unfortunately the farmers listen to such wild declamation ; they think their present state, from the low prices they receive for their produce, unsatisfactory ; some of them are even in duced to think it cannot well be worse, and are even disposed to become passive instruments in the hands of those who would consummate their destruction. My object, therefore, is to prove the fallacy of such doctrines, and to satisfy the minds of reasonable men, that were the measures promulga ted by Mr. Cobden and his colleagues to be adopted, they would not only be inconsistent with the safety and well-being of the country, but most injurious in their consequences, from which those whose interests it is professed to protect would, in all probability, be the first to suffer. Such, then are Mr. Cobden's dogmas. I will now'consi der what are the facts of the case, and what the results to be expected, were•his opinion to be acted upon. To withdraw protection from the cultivation of the soil would.place our farmers in competition with the foreign corn-growers for the supply of the home market on equal term., for the ratio of freight and charges from the shipping ports.on the coast, to London, Liverpool, and Wakefield, the three greatest mar kets in England, are fully equal to those from Hamburgh and others on the opposite coast, exceeded only in a small degree by those from the Baltic, and not materially so from those American ports that lie on the Atlantic. It is well known that in those corn-producing countries the proprietor of the soil is also the farmer ; for they have no middle class, such as our farmers; they feed their people with black rye bread, who seldom partake of animal food ; they clothe them scantily with the coarsest fabrics ; their labourers rarely know or seldom consume any of the foreign productions that form the luxuries of life ; the lowest rates of wages remunerate their labours ; they live in ignorance, and know no better ; yet this is the state in which Mr. Cobden and his supporters would place our agricultural peasantry, when once reduced by their projects to the level of competition with men so cir cumstanced. When the landlords can no longer receive their rents, it follows they must themselves become farmers. It happens that I do know several residing on their estates, who from choice at present cultivate 2,000 acres of arable land and up wards with advantage. If the wretched system and state of the agricultural labourers on the Continent, particularly in the north, removed but a short degree in slavery and barbar ism, were to be from necessity adopted here, that invaluable class of men, the farmers and their labourers of the United Kingdom, could no longer maintain their position in society, but be degraded to gratify the master manufacturers, such as Mr. Cobden is, who hope, bnt I trust vainly hope, they will then continue to have very cheap food from foreign sources, or with their aid to cause great depression Oa' production here, low wages and consumption for all the goods they can pro duce with ample profits for themselves. I hold it to be impossible for our farmers, or even their landlords, if forced to become such, to continue to live as heretofore in society, to possess the ordinary comforts of life, and to bear their share of public burdens, if they are to be placed in a state of equal competition with the corn-growers of the Continent, either in this market or elsewhere ; 255. to 30s. per quarter for good wheat are full and remunerating prices in all their shipping ports, and if even tile state Of out markets would not afford thorn above 20s. to 255., andin that proportion for other grain, they must still send their surpluses here because they have no other market to depend upon or resort to that will afford even these prices in ordinary times. I ask Mr. Cobden and his disciples, do they believe that it is possible for wheat to be produced here and sold at such rates, sons to indemnify the growers, let them be whom they may? Within the last twenty years I have known wheats, equal in quality to those of Norfolk, shipped from the ports of Po merania for 15s. per quarter, after producti' crops with accumulated stocks, without diminishing cultic talon, having no other means for employing their agricultural population, whom the owners of the soil must necessarily support. If the farmers and landlords of the United kingdom are alive to their own interests—if they are determined not to cross their arms and shut their eyes against the necessity for protecting themselves by every means in their power—they will not only support the present corn laws, but they will make great efforts to improve cultivation, particularly by promoting furrow drainage, the use of the subsoil plough, and the preparation of suitable manures, calculated to in crease the productive powers of their various soils; they will thus best promote production, improve the quality of the grain, and with drier surfaces on their lands benefit the climate, and give more certainty to the harvests. Such measures when rigorous! g acted upon, will also, in pro portion to increased production, diminish the expense of cultivation, enable them to afford their crops at comparatively moderate prices, and at the same time support, if not in crease, the comforts of mon farmers and l an dl or d s , prov id e d Mr. Cobden's schemes are extinguished. I now turn to the manufacturers with their and other la bourers, who have been led to believe that their interests would be promoted by the repeal of our corn laws ; they are invited to. think of themselves, only, to forget the golden rule of " live and let live; " they are told that, when sup plied with bread and meat by the free importation of foreign at lower rates than they can be afforded for by the home pro duce, beneficial employment with increased comforts will be secured to them. I must, therefore, advert to the conse quences that I believe would be produced by such a system ! and, first, as regards the home market for their goods, I think it will be admitted by Mr. Cobden, and those who act with them, that in ordinary times the home is the safest, the most certain market that is in their possession. In the ag gregate they possess the entire consumption of 27,000,000 persons, which, independent of, or including that of our colonies and foreign possessions, much exceeds the whole of our export trade, whilst the exporters of goods are al most wholly dependent on the United Kingdom for the sale and consumption of the foreign productions which they must necessarily receive in payment for their . ex ports ; thus each of these two great classes into whichthe community is divided are dependent on the other, and: in point of numbers I think they must be nearly equal classing those who live by agriculture, or who are connect ed with and dependent upon them for employment, on the one part, and those who live in cities and towns, with all who are employed in manufacture, or connected with them as arti sans or tradesmen, and therefore dependent upon them, on the other part. I think I have shown that the well-being of the agricul tural community, of which the landed interest forms so pro minent a part, must depend, necessarily, on the continuance of protection against the foreign corn growers ; it is also to be considered that thi s . b o d y are the best customers, and form a most important portion of those who consume the manu factures of the country and of foreign imports—that in pro portion as their means are reduced by the reduction of the prices they receive for the produce of their lands and labour, in a still greater degree must their means for purchasing both be diminished, and at last exhausted. Let Mr. Cobden and the other mannfacturers as a body "look well to these facts; and weigh the consequences to themselves arid to the general community. But I will suppos e , for the sake of argument, the trade in corn to be f ree ; that with large foreign supplies, added to those of borne growth, low prices prevail for ono, two, or even three years. In consequence of the exertions of our fawners Pa;' , AlYsecl, their spirits tlrpressod by s''s-*lg the ft).; 0 reifn grawors, with wh om they optilFl flat compop, FrurPr rv " t 4 '0 41 , 401 f ovr tiWir ploaps 0 dsfl*: tho 0140 iroco of !werve' to,eo Of44lo9fl!tilto itg(pcps4o 044:0140.14th F4,"l"l.rtliiPlyi what remained badly paid—the consequen ce o f such a state of things must be the abandonment of the c u l t i vat i on of poor lands, pithprobably the second desc r i p i on of soils, which, without the advantages of the usual rotation of crops, would soon cease to be of value for pasture. ,000,000 Earley and rye In round numbers about -30,000,000 quarters of corn are }•ears of seurcity, for the last ; 1 • 81 own ob ervations and ex required for the anuual consumption of the ULited Kb,g dom, a w hi c h fully 20,000,000 are wheat, about a simile; OgrOtr:e),f,t(rtlOoe greatest o 3m r e nerience, when supplies were drawn from every quarter, and very high prices paid for them, we have never been able to n o n e a t the : obtain them in quantity equal in the aggregate of all hinds to s (bl i e' x 'sa t i y nd , teis l tp' v uo ei la i st t es u : re SOi t ( one-tenth part of our usual consumption, whilst the act ual deficiency probably amounted to fully one-fourth, when the difference was necessarily met by greatly increased economy in the consumption, the unavoidable consequence of very- high prices Should the trade in corn become free, I am or , that in three years from its being so. the home culti will be diminished in ordinary seasons not less than on_ part, and the produce fall away to the extent of 10,00: quarters annually, without the prospect of receiving sul from other countries to that extent, taking it for gr. that we had the means of paying for them, which 1 bt we do not possess. I ask, what then would be the str our people, particularly the improvident manufacturers, generally spend their wages as fast as they earn them, am labourers generally, when placed for bread at the tnerm the foreign growers, who must be expected to avail the selves of their necessities to increase in their demands high prices, whilst our means to meet them would be re! larly becoming more deficient? It is a favourite doctrine, as I have already said, with opponents of the corn-laws, that we ought to admit fore corn indiscriminately, free of duty, whether wanted or r and to rest on their assurances that the payment would taken in our manufactures ; this is the basis of all the positions, although all past experience has shown a contrary result, whilst the knowledge of the fact, were it to exist, that we were becoming dependent on other countries for the sup ply of a considerable portion of our food, would confirm their belief that we must look to them for these supplies, that not being in a state to do without them we must pay for them with cash whilst we had it, and that in place of their taking our manufactures in payment they would find it for their in terest to retain their prohibitory tariffs, and to apply that money, as they have hitherto done, in the advancement cf their own works, as the best means of affording benefich I employment to the surpluses of their rapidly increasing po pulation, for which they possess no outward vents, whilst the risk of high prices to be caused by our want of supplies might cause these governments, in order to preserve mode rate rates for the supply of their own' people, to prohibit ex• thoseporta t o i o p n p o a s n e d d t t l o iu t s h e disappoint s t , h w e h i h l s o . tp thees and f.al l i dependen off ce le e i i f . r ri n p home market, withou t ould w increase,but perhaps redu c ti on i n their exp or t t ra d e, diminish their means and in crease their difficulties i n no ordinary d egree. nary Mr. Cobd en and his : friends may plausibly talk of ragingencou our import trade and the leavin g e • exports to take ca re ground of themselves, on th e that the first must terminate when our means are exhausted to pay for the last, but corn and other necessary food are exceptions• rule, for these are neceitaries of life;ifandto every general we once place ourselves in a state of dependence on orei , as the uncertain means for being able to pa y supply, as well for it, it will not avail us to say we have goods if they will take take them, but which they do not want,—when our m on e y l what can be es pected to follow, but the mos; is exhausted, quences—the consumption of everything even n erious copse use greatly reduced, the revenue unavoidably d im i nish i n g ; and, comini°,ll,.. and, to support it, increased income tax required, u sy n i it t ' h is ri b.:l " ' niched means and numbers to pay it! - - lin- Let not the farmers be deluded by Mr. Cobden's rs that reduction in the prices for their produce must.b.snran'e be their landlords in the reduction or extinction b e f b t o i rn i e rents; last years prices were remunerating, but the y h a v e since, after a favourable harvest, fallen from ;is,. to "": 7 "" 3° s . to 4t.is. to 475. for wheat, a fall of nearly one-fourth more in proportion for o the r g rai n. The rent of th e and still poorer lands in Englan d is considered to be abo ut one -fifth the gross produce, and of the better descriptions about on e _ , of fourth; this proportion is already lost by the reduction ". - • , but the landlord neither can or will consent l4 price, t to be the only sufferer; the tenant must bear hts share, the tradestn,n they both employ mast p artici p ate,—and, if it at last C comes necessary, the landlord mus t become the cultivat or e of - 116 own so il. What then will be left for the displ ace d fa' m ers and their famili es but to become labourer s , or emigrat e to other quarters, with their reduced means, and the wor ,, i before them to begin de novo, without youth or vig our to ena ble them to struggle with its difficulties. Mr. Cobden reproaches our government with holding out alternate expectations of changes to prices to both farmers and consumers, which had not been realised ; such opinions must necessarily be contingent and dependent on the seasons being good or bad, therefore beyond the reach of h uman means. The great object of our corn laws, next to secu r i ng of thepeople, is supplies for the w ants s steadiness in • s and their result has been to preserve a g r eater equality , . er than have been found in countries equality of prices whe re such laws were not in force. Th a t gentleman als o taunts t he supporters of th e corn laws with the fact that the great er proportion of the p eop i:, partially in the in both Scotland and Ireland, a lso north of andpotatoes. live chiefly on oatmea l I ask hi m England, ,robust, laborious, or where he can find a more working race of men than the peasantry of Scotland, or mo re lar than those of Ireland, whose misfortune bony and muscu Compare them with t towant employment? he habits i o t f i t s heir fellows in England, who consu d in , e wheat bread, and I ask where the advantage will be foun du We have middlemen who advocate afi x e d ty, at various the graduated scale The compa r i son rates, in preference to fixed duty to be useful to d enc e of facts ; a rests on the ev i dence t be high to exclude fo re ign g rowth s ou r home growers must datl supplied froM -- '- when our markets are abundantly _ ~,. _ . our home ar d ti e unt, a d ric in cone growths ; but when the- duty ca n not be e maintai n n p ed ,esb - ecause s it q uence very high , f the consumers, whilst the sliding would add to the distress 0 . ~ _ e the advance of supplY 1 is ID iown b. advance of scale, as the want of duty until it altogether ceases; the rate prices, re du c es p rices fall, affording evidence and on the other hand, as the duty of our borne gro wths. increases abundant supply from tect i o o and encouragement of to the exclusion of for the pro our home growers. m obe dient servant I a , Sir, your , JOHN GLA.DSTONL ,-. Carhop Gardens, May 18. _____-........------........-.... THE CHARLEVILLE DEMONSTRATION present A i n r vi last 1131 gui car ar- If the concurrent accounts of the Freeman': jon, 7 Limerick. Reporter, and Nation are to be relied on . , n t a i" gathering at Charleville was by far the most formid a bl e - ' e point of numbers, of these dangerous assemblages of tn ., - ,;: n that has yet congregated together at the bidding 0 6i! , O'Connell, aided by the Roman Catholic clergy. Th e t , draws the occasion; while the latter bow somewhat prese n t on lo' former papers state that 200,000 persons were and declares that 350,000 was under the mark. B e th; it was, moreover, presidedth deo,o,l_ ass t ble ; chairman rorators aotftltileieddi dinner —priests, er, i it i s 'e- , a priest's meeting; a priest aytitohne,r,evccaasnsbueffincoienretalysoinmapbolesindgoutbotabnuswt e th r , t it he the ', s m tr a adflayaier,xhesihseitniotinallya prie,,st.ere. poses of its projectors; enznceill'ition of . . Roche, one of the l ' " ' of the countpeaey even the middle class of the laity appear to have absented of ar'fht eiCireo:"riwkrfmth°einhCbers, and a Mr. Clancy, a justice themselves, for by the list of_ l guests at the dinner, compos e d 400 persons, the names of e . !s r •etilly , m n i n m are deemed Woe_ of thy of the honours of p rint. M . t. , e( ell speaking cc his rophecy of 1543 being the repeal year, says— t P " 1 thonght I understood the apathy and indifference retarded the progress of the national Irishmen in sup ( : of self government, and to have for Ireland.l)t Gentlemen, we are sure of the people — we find then_ 1 ever where gathering 810Und us. _ ery_ A Voice.—And they rind you the same. 4, m e . O'Connell. —A second Daniel. (Great lau titer. From Ulster to Sligo—from Mullingar to Charleville g every broughout this broad land the yeople are honest where t , of ' hear, and sincere (Loud cries hear.) I tell you it i s safe to mock them, or safe to desert them—and I tell Hies;_ .l-iot tars it is rota[ fe to compromise with them, for they wil l liberty d nothing else. (Cheers.) The aristoer. ' , I have not, to be sure, joined us, bu_t what care I for them ' I can laugh at them. Some fewilal have fthe gentry i have joined 1 —but, as I said before, we 0 . the people. ('Hear,' us that all? no! we have and cheerin) But is and the cler,7 o f the people —we have the heart. head, and hands,. th , Power, and intellect, and piety of the land ; and Yet tell , I'll not accomplish 3 repeal of the re union. (Cheers.) 1 - ther on he repeats his demand for 3,000,000 Repealerc Proceeds to state the next step in his plan, which } somethin of novelty, b e ing another of his ingenious cessful attempts to drive a coach and six through v parliament, He is to have ' a conciliation consultatio,_ Dublin. ' You will see the progress of the future earl inent, and the number of members for the differnt cities towns, mak i ng io all 300, discussed in that assembly. one can calculate, M the coldness of the present rnotn f • the enrolment of 3,000,000 Rep: - ' en what enthusiasm inlreland• (Hear. create hear.) I call on the differri, de. '" and s ee whether they shall think it worth their while ' t iiit r ' i e , .-ElOO, in sending to Dublin, in order to consider what c o -m -then further done in the cause of repeal. (lin hear.)qin be Peel and Wellington know that France and America looking at us—that Europe is watching 0„r moveineilc.tia are the most intense anxiety, and that England can nevei lt ; with se sheure until Ireland is contented. Let it be remembeie' be swas l ate ly forced to concede to Canada, which li. (~ ! that a few years since in a state of actual rebellion, by whicha'l well lost her charter and rights in appealing to a foolish iil she force. Do you think that the men who conceded to paltry Canada —and I mean the term ' paltry' only as regards her resources when contrasted with Ireland—will dere refuse us the right of governing ourselves, and which is now only delayed by the themselves a pathy existing among Irishmen • (Hear, hear.) ' So much for the lay speaker—no w for the clerical. The Hey. Mr. Blake, who responded to the toast . of " people," after declaring that the regeneration f I could only , be effected by a l f i , o . -re . rpea o tle ' ahointra ' of union,' thus poeticall •wound his . b 1 tip " pcacefu ) rangue--- .... _ an act of rs will create than he s s I a o x v t o • n be yo se k e e n To rally in— " For Erin tn E boo‘ r .ff i o n t stroke,z h e ie e v r i e :c o g a r r u a e s l e e with zeal; Then onward with the banner of repeal." (Great cheers.) But the rev. gentleman's loyal aspirations for cast the Saxon yoke" were mere " leather and prunella" pared with the burning zeal of the Rev. is 111.. Col stalwart parish prie st of Mallow, who evident! claim to the championship of the church mibtant. Right Rev. Dr. Crotty. Bishop of iven i n or Cloyne a s nd Ros Irish Catholic hierarchy," being g der of tt The Rev. Mr. Colli ns said, Ireland was no t withou and he was proud to say that the hierarchy of het amongst her best friends. (Cheers.) They were knew their rights, and they would reduce theinsolve the level of the brute creation if they did not st; their country's cause. Ile w3s a mail of peace b . and profession but he would lay down his life r that his country should continue igh in t t misehrrateny and tli (Tremendous cheers.) They m long as a remnant of the constitutioners .) reinnim should th eir agitation continue. (Che A Eastern despotism should be established through uefore the voice of Ireland would cease rat i o n of her own parliament. when they m b e lief that Pe el and Wellington, cent declaration of hostility against Ireland, 1 , of a bill actually drawn up for the purpose of onion. (Laughter and cheers.) They wanted of state necessity made out to justify them it of their own follasowers, and h thong' eisew,., ville that day, well the people out that necessity f o r them. (Cheers.) Fo would not look upon the man as an IrislimAr stand by his country for better or for wors- In strict justice to Dr. Higgins, tit ii be observed, that although" the b; •' prese nt oil the occasion. • apology for Rhier' attrer of t k ' imilAr co , a,ast. • Arrangir , 1 4 e Cpatla to cal! f Cheers lit the people c end the And were men and