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Wan tt. NV ANTED, a BOY, aged about 14.—Apply at " Legs of Man," No. 2, Hacken's-hey. GOVERNESS.—A YOUNG LADY, who ca n offer ample testimonials of her abilities and experience as an Instructress. desires to obtain a SITUATION in a liiINTLEMAN'S FAMILY in this country or abroad.— 4 IPDIy to H. Y. Z., at Mr. Ward's, Stationer, Birkenhead. e', IO VERNESS.—A Young Lady is desirous of tfil. meeting with an Engagement as RCSIDENT GOVER t• 88 in a Gentleman's Family. She is fully qualified to o lstruct in all the branches of an English Education, with A rink and French, together with Music, to juniFir ress by letter, to J. A. B. care of Deighton and Laughtoin booksellers, 46, Church-street, Liverpool. AMARRIED CLERGYMAN, . M.A., now licensed in Cheshire, wishes to obtain a CURACY in La ncashire. He has had much experience in parochial PWork, is a sound Churchman, and of moderate views. Testi. rn lials and refere n c es unexcept i onable .— Address (prepaid) ICLEateus,chester. care of Mr. Greenwell, P u bli s h er, S outh P arade, Man ..-- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1853 To be ,i,0117 or Vet. ROBERT HUGHES, LAND AGENT, HOUSE and ESTATE VALUER. Offices. BRANDON -STREET, HAMILTON-sQUARE. • House, No. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, Bir kenhead. LIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. ROBERT HUGHES, ‘igent for Cheshire • TO be LET, a very Good HOUSE, with Five Bedroooms, water Closet, &c., Catherine-street, Grange sane. Rent .440.—A.pply to ROBERT HUGHES. TO be LET , Two COTTAGES, with Gardens, i.fi n E l s New Ferry. Rent .e3O each.—Apply to ROBERT nil° be LET, Two Semi ikdemi-detach e d VILLAS,ca Honduras Villa, opposite the Ma hogany Depot, Cleve street. R ent Rent . 4 ' 3 0 each._ Apply t: ROBERT HUGHES. T o l b iv e r- LET, Tw o H OUSES, No. 23 and 24, ..R. Oestreet, A pply to RO BERT HUGH ES eight yards frontage. Rent X3O each.— . To be LET , a Splendid SHOP, next to the a 1 Caxto n Printing-office, Grange-lane. Rent .e4o. - --------- p" ""ERT HUGHES. T° be LET, a SHOP . and HOUSE, Stampoffice nu P l ace, Chester- s t reet . R en t £25.--Apply to ROBERT OIREs. TO be L ET , a SHOP and HOUSE , Arg y le - R= .rstreet. corner of Dacre-street. Rent £3o.—Apply to 8n HuoilEs. TO be LET, a JOINER'S L arge SHOP an d ARD, in Chester-street. Rent £2o.—Apply to ROBT. Tabe LET, a COAL YARD, in Chester-street. Rent £lo. —Apply t o R OBERT H UGHES. Pirobe LET, Two first-rate HOUSES, - in Slaty- Ap,,i_l!:e, next ROBERT to H h Ute Water Works. Rents .t's4 and £45. GHES. ----- 1 61 x LET, T wo goo d SHOPS , w ith L arge h onz .ous Es , in Grange-lane. Rent £4O eacii.—Apply to T HUGHES. Pro 1 )e LET, a SHOP and HOUSE, in Hamil ta tto`_?n-street, corner of Duncan-street. Rent 40.—Apply Hvanus. To be LET, T wo goo d HOUSES, in Dacre `°°aas Dark, Rock Ferry. Rent £3O each.—Apply to ROBERT T, bev i - LET, a HOUSE, in f Claughton-road, * 4 ( 7 0. - " m rOstte Camden-street. Rent £2l.—Apply to ROBERT b e LET, a HOUSE, in George-street ; Four drot, H,:ms, Two Parlours, &c. Rent .el6.—Apply to .1 1 3 . 0 LET, a HOUSE, No. 2, Vincent-street, -- --_____ 4 2ge-tane. Rent .els. —Apply to ROBERT Huotiss. Lye LET, a SHOP and HOUSE, in Ivy- Rent £ls. —Apply to ROBERT HUGHES. ~..I°„,"„be LET, a HOUSE, in Price-street, corner ktuo. Cathcart-street. Rent 22.—Apply to ROBERT °T s b. LET, a good HOUSE, No. 3, Duncan teet, Hamilton-square. Rent £2B.—Apply to Rowr. TO be LET or SOLD, -a very g ood HOUSE, ti x , No. 4, Abbey -street. Rent .W26.—Apply to ROBERT 400,, ° I IC k , LET a FURNISHED COTTAGE.—A detach ed IT------------- COTTAGE and GARDEN, in the neighbour it i t el the Birkenh ea d P a rk, con t a i n i n g Two Parlours, 1,002 , (ISculle!y, on the Ground Floor ; and Four Bed p!" awl a Water uloset.—For particulars apply to ROBERT ...2RES. !tIabIiGHTON RANGE, BIRKENHEAD ... li t Of N7 3 t.--TO be LET, and may be entered upon on the iznge. 117,, v eniber, or earlier if required , No. 5. Clatgliton -vply t o li n t .trbs.—For CBrds to View and further particulars, rir aa.r HUGHES. - 1. " be LET, a DOUBLE OFFICE, up Stairs, %tr eat a n d an extensive one in the Basement, 35, Old Hall- PT,§ALE, Private*Treaty, a DWELLING SPriti...IUSH. being on the north side of. and No. 9. AnDh7-.Vd; Everton, in occupation of Mr. W. Marvvood.— ap t l„!. 0 0 MeSerB, CHRISTIAN and JONES, solicitors, 3, n-street, Liverpool. TO be SOLD, 'the LEASE, LICENSE and an d r o l; s I ANT'S INTEREST in that large, well-frequented, Iliitum-e.stahlished HOTEL, known as WHITESIAN t 'S toolt;'e."lCK HOTEL ;" or a party with cash seclirt y, tent to take the management, would be treated with.— • - k''Y P " 60 'H over-street, Liverpool. • HITEMAN, , an TO be SOLD, a Bargain, by PRIVATE TREATY, Ih up . 2,200 Yards of LAND, in a good locality, suitable for e o ,Tng with Two large HOUSES thereon erected. Tenure reVid. Price £2,500. Two-thirds of the amount may a nt _I. Mortgage.—Applyto GEORGE ARCHER, Account- Chapel -walks, South Castle-street. rPRIVATE TREATY, Tour Front and One t r o pack HOUSES, in a %Nide, airy street, leading directly 1301 one of the greatest thoroughfares in the town to the 4ezi" n • Leaseho'd for Fifty-seven Years . Gr'-ss RentalOn 6 ' , S. per Annum. Price € 4 , 100 . Two-thirds may remain th:' , Ortgage.—Apply to GEORGE ARCHER, Accountant, 38, — gPel-walks, South Castle-street. OFFICES. —To be LET, excellent new than OFFICES in Brunswick-street, opposite the Corn Ex 11Alite, reVete with every convenience.—Apply to HARMOOD SON, 24, North John-street. _ . TOOTLE.—To be LET, a convenient HOUSE, Cont, i Pant intuate in Portland-place, Derby-road, Bootle M ars h ry,VorTewroaoParkours Five Bedrooms , Two K i tchens,. 4'86 Der annu m m, c., with Garden front and back. Rent 3 41 , P_1 to notAle B .. t ll r'l l el' or r t:* IRERETON, Plumber, &c., v i ll i r D o W o A D ßti B A NNER and SoN, 24, North road who will show the House. N°,,,ltenTt'innE,,Clit NT room, Dr. ,--- ' ,, SE in Ru ° 4 rav'e To be LET, a conve with Ellit bl e nd -r oom, and Ilr g ealtfa - r o o u n r t .. a T il c llignngs sptl a p c e a , r i and soft' nedrooms, &c. It is well supplied w w o ith i Spring For p art • a ter, and commands a beautiful view 4 of the River. Rudgrave- Place- _T. iculars apply to Mrs. BRARNER , No j oh „ ' to me m ,. li .....:_-"reet•• ...A.RIHOOD BANNER and SO N, 24, North lAlm 4„ nin , f -aD HOUSE PROPERTY NEAR AN11) f*ENEIRAD DOCKS.-123,000 Square Yards of tipn a p aAnk most e pprtions of the Land will be solin flrlce nhe __, of it is very closel situate to the D oc ks ice Pitg„he s ( l6 At present it may all he had at a low pr_._ also, some very eligible Lots of HOUSE 'ool7Bw, Paying exceedingly well, and all fully occupied. Ii L L II ,• to be LEI i e n various parts of Cheshire. ..„ .. itt_enb ea 7 :l l . R B T, Hous Agent, &c., Market-cross Chambers, TO be SO LD , la y t o n Lots Private Treaty, in one or more n,hd, , r . an ESTATE, consisting of about SOO Acres of :".. 4 tbnii o good Farm Houses. Three Cottages,en_d io o n t t h g e o r . .474eryrhilonugts,seinvetnhe parish or Llanfair, county o f A miles from Welshpool, on the ro_ad . to lii; . l, en!). Also, a splendid MANSION, at West 11 . er . nY, I ___ tt..ut it 1 0.000 yards of Land. Also, extensive and eligible t pA.LILD PROPERTY, near Clarence Dock. Two excel. 134,1 1 ; "'ILY RESIDEVCE', at Seaforth, with one Acre of 1 , 1 - I .IQ. eit 4 ;t I ITTO, Lo ' clge:la'ne, with 45 COO yards of Land. tve b,,..._P,,,efit HOUSES. Bedford stre et ; Three , DITTO, Zeit p `l To .' ,tment-street; One DITTO, Shan-street; : - aoh ~,' Verton. Two HOUSES, with 26 Acrts of Land, re Opke hall. AlBO, to be LET, excellent Double and gre k ";•ed. It I,,'"ES, Hackin's-hPy, second door from Dale-street. he - t ,'n'e 11 4 ) 4 ° 11 th. about 16, as an Apprentice, to whom i a pr o f). /4.,,,' 6 f5t e "Vvill be giyen.—P.S. Plan . L and Parti cu l ars f 'Rage `wales may be had on application to WM. W it- "•..............lagh-street, Liverpool. IL i tkrt i i „, lA, 11,:18-ri_OOL PHILHARMONIC HALL.- 0 ,..`e on .1.,, 'LATH SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT will take tert" i Nt ta s bAY next, 4th October. ' t he t he great demand for extra Tickets for this Con --intiiitt ee have arranged with 0 0 N Mad ame GRISI and Signor MARIO ~,,I st ,„ To give a -41 t °1114,.L. 11 S Clt I PTION CONCERT, 3111 Ai n ietor.... - lc generally on TuasnAy, the 11th Octo be r . tw 0 etobe - ? keel; Will Y, t he until Monday next, 1 't 4 lier r * lei- .--.4 . 7 e et% can tidresii ; Gallery Stalls, ss. ; Gallery, 21. 6d. liv %cen t P" , be bad at thc Office of the Society :. ..,,,- ' e ning. *0 nonimence a t a Quarter before bight each 1 .4 1" - 1,r ------- 1, T, ti, si i."` - ' -", PO 0 L AUXILIARY BIBLE sitt s --,c/ E „, 0) v eitinp ß ,„ . Y.—The ANNUAL MEETING of h tl , 01 1 '0 i n v : and FRIENDS of this Society will he . eld e Iti x ,nsit,A.24e LECTURE -HALL of the Collegiate Institution, e O'cloc, Evuxuxo next, the 3rd October, at Half-past -4T... K„Precisely, the Right Rev. the LORD BISHOP OF CorrA ,_ ne et T., will tak eIY , the Chair, when interesting infor mation om " Me circulati y th Ain h e c _ on of the Holy Scriptures at H o me and th e e it . , l , „, ummunicated. Tv he Meeting will be add ressect lid,„,.lleoit.tnark Cooper, M.A., icar of Branshawe, Hants ; ot h Aeil e - a ' n a d . ... o _ l .l from the Parent Society, the Rev. Drs. Aer_minictixon, the Revs. C. M. Birrell, W. Graham, and `44 :o !iee tio ' n rs a.nff Gentlemen. 110,:rossi on I , will be made in aid of the Funds. t h 4vv , it e 1::137 Tickets, to be had on application to Mr . W. i ll r eet "re et • e PP. 8. Slater -street; Mr. It. SCRAG°, 75, Ren. ',cup? on i i ,:;`" , Mr. THOMAS KATE, an , s ad Castle. ver th e t AY bp . , lst p - -4 .1 tie ;9th instant, and SATURDAY; TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 27, 1853. A CHORD has been struck which is sure to re ceive a response—an example has been set which we cannot doubt will be worthily followed—and so noble a step has been taken in order to the carry ing out of a good work, that its success has been ensured. The whole of the praise is flue to Mr. WILLIAM BROWN, M.P. for the Southern Division of the County, who, aclmowledging the -debt of gratitude which, in common with many others, he owes to Liverpool, has given a tangible proof .of it in the munificent donation of £6,000 towards pro viding a suitable building for the Liverpool Free Library. Enterprise, mercantile skill, and in tegrity have marked the career of Mr..BROWN, and resulted in a colossal fortune, of which he proves himself so worthy a possessor as to devote the large portion we have mentioned to the mental improvement of his fellow-townsmen. But his gift is of greater value than its amount in money, because it cannot fail to stimulate others to follow the example, and will thus • secure to Liverpool a Free Library worthy of its dignified position as the Commercial Capital of the World. It is an act which needs no eulogy, for it will write its own praise in imperishable characters ; and when future Liverpool shall boast that, amidst the magnitude of her commercial pursuits, she has not neglected the humanising influences of literature and the arts, the name of WILLIAM BROWN will be identi fied with the work as the one among her princely merchants who took the initiative, and by his mu nificent liberality proved himself worthy of his high position. The manner in which the Free Library established in Duke-street has been made available by the classes for whom it was designed, has more than realised the most sanguine antici pations of its founders, and rendered necessary the movement which has now been so nobly com menced for securing it a more central location, and a building sufficiently commodious to render it fully available, No petty economy can now be permitted to mar the complete accomplishment of the design, for such a splendid beginning is of itself the surest way to lead to a successful termination. As the choice of a site for the proposed new building has already formed a subject of discus sion, it may be considered fairly open to public comment. The neighbourhood of St. George's -. ,-,, ~ A " 2 ,- ,-....7,—,,. • ) -„,„ ~,,,,-„Ai ~ i v) ~,,, f er. ;-- --...-‘!"-, ------'.of_,_•=-, _'-24,-.),-„:„ NEW Vublications. J. M. W. TURNER, ESQ., R.A. 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The charges being made by Mr. White, and not by us, as we simply reported the lecture, we refer Mr. Duffy to the lecturer for satisfaction. • The ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION to the LIVERPOOL STANDARD is 2(18. in advance—or 228. on credit. Ribcrpcot k-tanbarb. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. Hall, is indisputably the most eligible, from its central position, as_ there most of the great thoroughfares from the densely populated parts of the town meet. It is easy of access from Dale street, from Scotland-road, Islington, London-road, Lime-street, Parker-street, and, consequently, from north, west, south, and east. The site alluded to in the discussion is not, however, the most eligible, nor should the building be erected on the vacant ground between London-road and Islington, as that space should be left free, and any building there would, from its elevation, injuriously interfere with the effect of St. George's Hall. It might, however, be placed with considerable advantage on the open space below St. John's Church, between Dale street and the new street from Dale-street to the south end of St. George's Hall. Its elevation would not then injure the larger building ; its architecture might be in keeping with the houses to be erected in the immediate neighbourhood ; and as area is of more consequence than height, all requirements of space, situation, and appropriate appearance might be amply satisfied. Placed in the intersection of the streets we have named, with its front towards the Town Hall, there would be full opportunity for architectural ornament ; and as the slope from - Dale-street to the top of Shaw's brow is about to undergo improvement, the erection of such a building would materially facilitate the accomplishment of the scheme. We have made this sugestion in the hope that, as the Report of the Improvement Committee on this part of the subject has been referred back to them for re consideration, no decision will be arrived at until it has undergone full deliberation. THE discussion which took place at the special meeting of the Town Council, on Wednesday, affords a satisfactory proof that the important question of the improvements of the town of Liverpool has not been lost sight of by the autho rities. The chief difficulties which hitherto have had to be contended with, are that, on the one hand, a comprehensive scheme which would be effectual would necessarily involve a far more con siderable outlay than circumstances would justify ; and, on the other hand, the carrying out of mere details would be unsatisfactory, and might prove a waste of money. The object to be specially kept in view, should be the carrying out of those im provements most pressingly required, in subordi nation to a plan which should embrace the whole, and if this course be pursued, and the improvements carried out as the funds of the Corporation will enable them to do so, the hope may be reasonably indulged that the whole will be ultimately per formed. Among the designs now submitted, is the proposal of a high-level bridge from the top of Shaw's-brow to Dale-street, but this portion of the scheme was not approved by the . Council, and the report was referred back to the Improve ment Committee for further consideration. The course pursued by the Council in this respect will, we are satisfied, meet with the concurrence of all who are familiar with the locality, and are not in terested in the furtherance of any particular scheme. If Dale-street presented an elevation on the one side of the intermediate hollow equal or nearly so to that of Shaw's-brow, the erection of a bridge to connect the two might be entitled to some con sideration. The case is, however, far otherwise, , as the declivity from Dale-street is very slight ; and all that is really required is the raising of the intermediate ground, so as to ease the slope to the end of Islington. To accomplish this effectually, the street should be considerably widened, which would necessitate the demolition of the existing houses, a measure which is much needed ; and, as the new houses might be erected in accordance with the higher level of the street, both objects might be effected at less cost than the erection of the proposed bridge without its accessories. The property around is of a very dilapidated character, and would therefore be less costly in its renova tion ; and if the slope were to commence from the part of Dale-street where the old shops obtrude upon the width of the thoroughfare, and were carried by easy gradation to the highest point at the north-end of St. George's Hall, the difficulty which is at present alleged to exist would be over come, and every proposed advantage obtained. The suggestion of Mr. STEWART for a wide street from a point nearly opposite the old Gas-works to the south-end of St. George's Hall, is also deserv ing of attention ; and has this advantage, that it might be carried out with very little difficulty, inasmuch as the street 'is already formed, and requires but a few alterations to render it fully available for the purpose. There is also - the proposed new building for the Free Library, alluded to in another article, which might occupy a very appropriate position between the two ; and, as one of the objects of improvement in this quarter is to break up some of the vicious haunts in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, this part of the design would not be lost sight of. As the subject has still to undergo the consideration of the Improvement Committee, we trust that these suggestions will be taken into account, and that before any decision is arrived at the whole will be submitted to the legitimate canvas of pub lic opinion. We may then expect to see Liverpool become what it ought to be—healthy for its in habitants, convenient for its traffic, and beautiful to excite the admiration of strangers. THE season is one of rest from the strife of party, as far at least as outward action is concerned, but it is also one of preparation for the future, of con cocting Ministerial measures for the next Session of Parliament, and arranging for the conflicts of another year. The financial part of the scheme of the •Coalition Government has already been set tled by the renewal of the Income-tax, and the imposition of the Tax on Successions to reed pro perty. Mr. GLADSTONE'S part in political warfare has been played ; and if promises are to be at all relied upon, the next shifting of the scene will be Lord JOHN RUSSELL reading his recantation of the finality of the Reform Act, by announcing another series of changes in the system of repre sentation. The lull in the political world is not to be devoted to a calm consideration of such minor reforms as may prove the most really beneficial, because they do not afford sufficient excitement to conceal the manifold Ministerial defects which English intelligence will only be too quick to dis cover. The Coalition is founded on no solid basis ; it has no principle upon which to appeal to popular sympathy, and must therefore descend to the vilest species of agitation, in order to hide its de formities by the turmoil. The lower orders of society are to be once more roused into the action of political controversy, their passions excited, and hopes inspired which can never be realised : and all for the paltry object of retaining in office a combination of the dregs of faction, and the advo cates of every wild and impossible theory of legis lation. The Reform Act of 1832 was a step in the downward direction, by throwing all political power into the hands of ten-pound householders in the towns of England, and the dupes of Romanist intolerance in Ireland ; but the Reform Bill of 1854, if it is to do anything, must go still lower, and virtually surrender the Sovereignty of Great Britain into the hands of the classes least fitted by intelligence, by experience, by education, by pro perty, and by amount of stake in the country, to exercise it with advantage either to themselves or to the community. It can be no simple question of the temporary ascendancy of party, which seems to have been the object of political warfare for the last twenty years, but the far more important one, of the future government of the country, upon which will depend the maintenance of its national greatness or its rapid decay. The legitimate influence of the higher classes is to be superseded by the mere strength of numbers, and intelligence is to succumb to pre judice ; and this hazard is to be incurred, not because the many demand the concession of political privileges, but because it is necessary to the existence of the Ministry that they should have a grievance upon which to trade as poli tical capital. Even if they be unsuccessful, there will still be the mischief of the worst kind of agitation, without one compensating advantage ; and though we do not anticipate that they will be able to revive the mania by which the Reform Act of 1832 was carried, the discussion of the question will be fraught with evil of no trifling magnitude. And what has been done, or is doing, to avert the consequences of the threatened infliction ? or, by what means is the sense of the country to be taken on a question which so materially affects its most important interests P The exertions of the last election have been virtually thrown away ; for, though the House ofCommonspresents what is called an Opposition, there appears to be neither an effi cient leader nor unity of action. The defeat of the Earl of DERBY, or rather of his CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, seems to have paralysed those who were his supporters, and a new combination is required, if we would not .tamely submit to our present rulers. It is for this reason that we counsel the establishment of a CONSERVATIVE LEAGUE, and we call upon the Conservatives of Liverpool to take the initiative in opposing a bar rier against this threatened inroad upon the Con stitution. The danger is becoming imminent ; those who can oppose the movement require a ral lying point for concentration and combination, and this can only be effected by forming a Union, which shall not only bring its whole *eight to bear in defence of the best interests of the country, but which shall recal the wavering, encourage the timid, instruct the ignorant, and strengthen the weak. As a party, the Conservatives are the strongest in numbers, wealth, and influence ; and if but the same means were employed which have been successfully exerted in a less worthy cause ; if the intelligence and patriotism of Englishmen were fairly appealed to, and the aphorism, that union is strength,were practically applied,we do not entertain the slightest doubt of a triumphant issue • There is now before the country a tangible ques tion upon which the fiat of public opinion will have to be taken, and it therefore behoves all those who are imbued with better feelings and higher princi ples than the unmitigated selfishness of Radicalism, not to allow judgment to go by default through their own neglect. There is no lack of Conservative feeling in the country, but it has been drowned in the bluster of Radical popularity-hunters; and it is this which has rendered necessary a form of action which shall unite the scattered elements of political strength, and make the true voice of the people heard in the councils of the nation. The Conservative gentlemen must come out from the retirement in which they have shielded themselves; they must throw off that apathy which they have almost made a habit; and be content to give up that dignified ease which is ill suited to times for action, or they will find, when too late for re medy, that their unscrupulous opponents .have sapped the foundations of society, and step by step superseded the functions of the legitimate leaders of the people. The position of the Conservative party, though by no means satisfactory, as far as present arrangements are concerned, offers no ground for despair, if proper use be made of the \elements of strength. But; in order that the end should be achieved, a commencement must be made, and the requisite machinery be put into action. If the standard of the constitution •were raised by hands and hearts determined to battle for the good cause, thousands and tens of thou sands, would flock to it s su pp or t. The question at I issue is intelligible, for it strikes at the integrity of the existing Repre sen t a ti ve s ystem; the danger is imminent, for the Ministers are pledged to com mence their next Parliamentary campaign with the movement ; and Englishmen, if they allow the recess to pass over without taldng some means to stem the onward progress of democracy, Will al most deserve the fate which will then be rendered inevitable. We have already remarked on the comparative ease with which the true spirit of the country may be aroused, and to the propriety of Liverpool, as the head of -the commercial world, and the chief constituency in the empire, taking the lead in this most important question. A few only of our lead ing Conservative gentlemen would be sufficient for the nucleus of •agitation ; and if the movement were once begun, it would gather within its folds a mighty host, which would be irresistible. All might contribute either their wealth, their talents, or their energy, and with such aid success must be certain. This .aid must, however, be called for, and in order that the call- for action may spring from the town which possesses the largest number of Conservative electors, we exhort our fellow townsmen to make the commencement. THE alarming appearance of the Cholera at New castle-upon-Tyne, and other places, has led to a show ,of doing something on the part of the Government, and the Central Board of Health has issued a lengthy document, purporting to be general instructions to local authorities. Such a manifesto of official wisdom appears on the face of it to be of great importance, and it may have the effect in some degree of removing any unnecessary alarm, and inducing a confidence in the care and foresight of the Executive. But, in reality, it amounts to very little, as it requires no great amount of official sagacity to proclaim the acknow ledged truth that draining, ventilation, cleanliness, pure air, and pure water are` - all indispensable to the preservation of health. All will admit the obvious necessity of such , sanitary regulations as are too often neglected, without the assistance of a Central Board. They have been advised and insisted upon through the ordinary channels over and over again, and to their partial adoption in many large towns, of which Liverpool is a fa vourable example, may be attributed the present comparative freedom of disease, with the few ex ceptions, such as Newcastle, where thousands of houses are destitute of the most ordinary and necessary accommodation% This fearful scourge has, however, reached our shores, after ravaging many parts of the Continent, and should be met in the best way which the wisdom of experience may dictate ; but, in order to accomplish this desirable object, it is not necessary to rely upon a Board sitting in London to issue documents of general advice, nor even upon local authorities, for due precautions may be taken without reference to either. We alluded last week to what had been done in the City of Exeter in 1849, and which was attended with such success that not oue death occurred during the prevalence of the epidemic, although the deaths in 1832 amounted to 379. There the authorities had nothing whatever to do with the means adopted, The Exeter Dispensary, a local institution, gave medicine freely to every one who applied for it, and recommended an instant resort to it in every case of painless diarrhoa, which is the usual precursor of Cholera. The whole expense was more than defrayed by volun tary contributions, and the management, which proved eo efficaci ous , was coguneneed and carried through to a successful termination by in dividual efforts and the public appreciation of their exertions. We again allude to this circumstance, in the hope that it may induce the Committee of the Liverpool Dispensaries to adopt a similar course; and we feel certain that, whatever may be the ex pense, it will be more than met by the liberality - of our fellow-townsmen. Allwill admit that prevention is better than cure ; and, when the means are so easy of attainment, any neglect is inexcusable. We subjoin the recipe for the medicine which was used on the occasion to which we refer : Aromatic Confection ............. 2 drachms. Camphor mixture Tincture of Opium (Laudanum) 40 drops. Sal Volatile 2 drachms. Tincture of Ginger ounce. Make a mixture. - - Three tablespoonful to be taken immediately after an attack of diarrhoea, and repeated every quarter of an hour, if necessary. WE gave last week a succinct account of the circumstances which had led to the quarrel between Russia and Turkey, and the altered aspect of affairs owing to the refusal of Turkey to accept the note proposed by the Conference at Vienna. But little has since occurred to enable a more definite opinion to be formed as to the issue of the affair, but the opinion is gaining ground that the prospect of peace is more distant than ever. Austria has withdrawn from the union with England and France. Louis NAPOLEON, if he has not yet followed the example, is believed to be quite ready to do so ; and Eng land, with divided councils at home and more complicated difficulties abroad, will not be able to do much ; while Russia, emboldened by the dispersion of the alliance against her, will be more firm in her demands upon Turkey. The latter power is evidently bent upon trying the strength of her Mohammedan forces; and it is re ported that the SuLTANhas had the choice submitted to him of declaring war or abdicating his throne. The latest despaches, however, state that the reli gious festival of the Beiram had passed over quietly, so that we have yet to learn whether the struggle between the Crescent and the Cross is to be re newed through the fanaticism of the Turkish popu lation. It was reported on Saturday that the fleets in Besika Bay had been ordered to Constantinople, so that a virtual declaration of war had been made; but it appears that only two steam-ships from each fleet had been called by the respective Ambassadors for the protection of English and French residents in Constantinople, against the possible contingency of outrages by the Turkish population. The question, it will be seen, is in no better posi tion, not even as to the removal of uncertainty, and the probabilities of war seem now to depend upon the exercise of that religious fury against Chris tianity which has been called into action by the SULTAN of Turkey against Russian aggression, and which he now finds it difficult, if not impossible, to controul. SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS. THE annual meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary to this Society was held last evening, at the Collegiate Institu tion. The attendance was small, but the proceedings were more than usually interesting. On the platform we observed the Ven. Archdeacon Brooks ; the Rev. Rector Campbell ; the Rev. J. W. Colenso, D.D., Bishop Designate of Natal, Africa ; Revds. D. Moore, Incumbent of Camden Church, Camberwell, London ; P. Percival, missionary from India ; R. Jones Waterloo ; R. H. Jones, St. Augustine's ; T. Payne ; J. g. Howson ; Dr. Hume ; C. Wray ; C. H. Burton ; C. P. Hobbs ; J. North ; G. W. Warr ' • T. Leicester ; T. Moore ; T. Bowman ; W. R. Duncan ; T. C. Cowan ; T. Robinson ; Heathers ; Alderman Swainson, &c. On the proposition of the Rev. G. W. WARR, seconded , by the Rev. Rector CAMPBELL, the Ven. Archdeacon was unanimously called to the chair. The Rev. G. W. WARR having opened the meeting with prayer, The Ven. CHAIRMAN said :—Ladies and gentlemen, though I much regret the absence of our valued and estimable diocesan, who would gladly have attended at this meeting, had he not been particularly engaged by official duties in other parts of his diocese ; at the same time I have much pleasure in having again to meet you upon so interesting an occasion as the one upon which we aro now assembled. I could ha,o ari.hod that there had been more who had taken the same interest in it as I do,. and that we might have seen this room better filled than I observe it is to-night. At the same time I feel much indebted to those who have been kind enough, during the severity of the late weather, to come out to meet our appeal on this occasion, in aid of the object which we have to bring before you, in the claims of the oldest missionary society in the land. (Hear, hear.) Most of you will remember that last year there was a celebration of the completion of the third half century of this society in Liverpool. During that long period of 150 years it has done much, and laudably exerted its endeavours to spread the everlasting Gospel of Christ throughout the different parts of the world. You are aware, I believe, that the object of this society is of a two-fold character. The first business in which this society felt an interest was in the providing for the Church ministration of those of our own country men, who had left their native land to settle in our colonies. They had been accustomed to all the minis trations of the Church in this country and to the bless ings of a true Christian establishment; but, when they went to the distant land in which they were about to locate themselves, they found no vestige of Christianity in it. Some few zealous and earnest members of the Church could not but feel sympathy for those persons cast upon the wide world, wishing them to have the same spiritual advantages which they had in the old world ; and in a true Christian spirit they determined to supply the deficiency which they found existing. (Hear, hear) The first thing they did was to send to them ministers who would carry on the different ministrations of the Church to which they were now unfortunately strangers,—for they had no means of doing that among themselves. Public worship was unknown amongst them —they bad no one to administer the sacrament—no one to baptize their children—no one to solemnize the holy bonds of marriage,—no one to sympathise with them on the bed of sickness. These wants were supplied by this society : missionaries were sent out to furnish these unfortunate people in that which they most required. The second ob ject of this society naturally rises from the fast; for when these missionaries arrived at the place where their countrymen lived abroad, they found the destitute state of the neighbouring people amongst whom the objects of their first solicitude were setttled—the deep ignorance of and total want of all those blessings which true religion is the means of furnishing. It was natural enough, there fore, that their Christian sympathy should be aroused, and that they should endeavour to supply what they had no other means to obtain, but through their agency. That was the complete object which they had in view : first, to supply our own countrymen abroad with those spiritual wants which they so much needed ; and then to spread a knowledge of the Gospel amidstthe darkness and ignorance of the surrounding nations. (Cheers.) In the first view, naturally and gradually, considering it as the little cloud in the horizon, not larger than a man's hand; and then, like that cloud, as it spread over the heavens, so this society spread its influence around it, until it is now settled in every part of the civilized world. (Hear, hear.) Whether we look at 'America, where it was first estab lished, or go to the Eastern part of the world, and look at the immense territories of our Indian empire, we shall trace the footsteps of this society wherever we go. And it still extends beyond that : Africa has received the benefits of its labours, while the increasing territories of Australia have also been blessed with the assistance we have been able to afford. (Hear, hear.) There are other fields still eontimung to be opened ; and though much has been done in increasing the funds of the society, and a great effort made last year,—and not made without effect —yet still more and more is required, because new fields are constantly opening to its exertions. (Hear, hear.) We first see the sending out of a few missionaries for pur poses which the society had in view ; but now we see, in the space of a century and a half, churches established, with all the orders of ministration, in every quarter of the globe ; and instead of a few isolated missionaries, we have thirty dioceses established, with thirty bishops at their head. (Cheers.) This is a very important matter indeed. I know of nothing more calculated to carry out the objects of the society than the establishment of churches like these in all the quarters of the globe. (Hear, hear.) It does not fall to my duty, as chairman of this meeting, to enter into details shelving the progress of the society. That will be done by those gentlemen who have kindly under taken N explain to you the progress and present state of the society. I shall, therefore, content myself by calling upon them, and first I shall request one to address you who needs no introduction of mine. He is known to you I all as living amongst us. I allude to my colleague, the Rector of Liverpool. (Cheers.) The Rev. Rector CtotpnELL moved the following reso lution :—" That the continued advancement of emigration constitutes increasingly strong_ claims upon the Ch urch at home for a largely-augmented band of faithful servants of Christ, to meet the spiritual necessities of those thou sands of our fellow-countrymen and fellow-Christians in the Colonies, who must otherwise be left to perish for the lack of knowledge." In endeavouring to mni h n e l notend this proposition to the adoption of th e meeting, think it necessary (he said) to trouble them with very many words, because he was of opinion it would ne cessarily recommend itself to the favourable acceptance of every christian mind. In advocating the claims of this society, he did not think it incumbent upon them to obviate the objection which rose on some mind s , and which, he must say, in some degree forced itself upon his own mind, that money collected for this society was intended for foreign objects. We had, it was said, quite enough to do at home, and that here our charity ought to begin, as there was plenty of work for them among the heathens of our own native 10.n4. It should, however, be borne in mind, that the objects of this society were not foreign objects, although theyl4 in fore/6711=U (Hear.) The assistance they rendered was bestowed upon our fellow-countrymen, w who ere driven from their native shores to seek that subsistence which they were unable to find in their own eountry. (Hear, hear.) It was for our own fellow-countrymen—our own fellow-subjects-- our own fellow-Christians, that they appeared before them that night ; and he was sure it was a cause which would be considered of the first importance by Christian minds. It was chieflyfor this object the Society for the Propaga tion of the Gospel in Foreign Parts was established. (Hear, hear.) His venerable friend the Archdeacon had given them a brief account of what had been done by the society; but perhaps he might be permitted to go a little more into details. This society was established 150 years ago, by Royal charter, in the reign of King William the Third, to carry the principles of the Church amongst our countrymen abroad. In North America, as his venerable friend had told them, its operations first began, extendinc , gradually to South America, India, Ceylon, Australia, and New Zealand. When the society was first founded, there were not, in those countries, twelve members of the Church of England ; there were now congregations wider the pastoral care of about 2,750 clergymen, of whom 389 were stationed generally in those nations most destitute of spiritual assistance, and were aided entirely by the funds of the society.— (Hear, hear.) Besides this, there were seventeen colleges in which clergymen were educated ; while the operations of the society extended over a surface of nearly three million square miles; and, indeed, as they were aware, there were thirty bishops throughout this great extent of land, • over which it was the object of the society to spread the pure religion of the Church of England. This, then, was the object of their meeting : to furnish funds for affording all the ministrations of the Church to our countrymen abroad. There ought to be no apology, therefore, requi site in calling upon them to support the object of the society, of which the chief bishops of our Church were in succession guardians, so that it was essentially a Church society. It was not a society for any party in the Church, but it was a Church society, having for its object the ex tension of the principles of the pure and reformed doctrines of the Church of England. (Cheers.) He did not hesitate to express his conviction very strongly upon this point, namely : —that there was no just ground of complaint, or suspicion upon the point. (" Hear, hear.") It was a Church society, its object being, as he had said, to pro vide religious instruction for those who were totally unable to provide it for themselves. He begged of them to consider who were the persons who generally emi grated. They were persons—most of them—who were compelled to seek their fortune abroad, because they could not find it at home. At the present time they unhappily witnessed a certain thirst for gold which could not be satisfied, and which tempted many of their countrymen to their own ruin and their own destruction. But those were a class of men who would not seek the consolations of religion for themselves ; and it was, therefore, absolutely necessary to provide it for them, and to induce them to serve God, while their own object was to serve mam mon. (Hear.) It was not for such as these, however, that their exertions were employed, but for those who wished to serve God, but had not the means of doing so. There were multitudes of young men who went from this country well instructed, perhaps, in the principles of their Church, and anxious to serve their God if they knew how. It was a work of the purest Christian charity to furnish these persons with the means of grace. (Hear, hear.) He was tempted, upon that point of the subject, to read to them what had been stated by an American bishop in the course of a visitation in his diocese. He said : " I remember, with the distinctness of an impression made upon my mind as though it had been yesterday, that some years ago, while in the discharge of my episcopal duties, having stopped at a small town on the banks of the Mis sissippi to await the arrival of a steamboat, I was sum moned to the bedside of a sick stranger, in the little , inn where I had found lodgings. I was ushered into a small room, where lay upon a pallet of straw a young man, sinking rapidly under the ravages of disease. I can never forget the feelings with which the condition of that young man inspired me. He had no friend to watch by his bed of pain, and smooth his passage to the tomb by the soothing attentions which af fection loves to bestow. I will not detain you by a detail of all that passed between us during the intervals of com posure and ease from pain through the hours of that long and comfortless night. Suffice it to say, that I spoke to him, as was my duty, of Jesus Christ, of His power and willingness to save ; and then came the struggle of weak faith and feeble hope, with the terrors of an accusing con science, as memory called up in review opportunities neg lected, warnings despised, mercies abused ; while dread of the future • spread its dark mantle over the vast and cheerless field of an unprovided-for eternity. Yet he could not forget the home of his childhood ; and the big tear ga thered in his restless eye when he told how his parents used to take him to church, and how they sought to imbue his tender mind with lessons of piety, and to possess his young and budding affections with the love of God. He died, so far as I know, without 'the confidence of a certain faith without the comfort of a reasonable, religious, and holy hope.' Who would not feel sick at heart at the thought that his child should thus descend to the narrow house of silence ? And is there a parent here, who feels perfectly secure that such a story may not some day be told of his offspring in some distant part of the British domi nions ?" (Hear, hear.) After reaping this, he would en deavour to impress upon the minds of his friends the absolute necessity of sowing, in tender years, the seeds of .religion. This young man had not forgotten the time when he was taken to church ; he had not forgotten the lessons of his youth ; they remained in him, and he trusted they gave him some hope, and more than hope, to prepare for eternity. I appeal to you, and ask whether you will allow such men as he to die in a distant land without a friend to soothe the bed of death, and lighten the dark passage to eternity, while pointing towards the stars of Bethlehem, by giving them that hope which they can only obtain through the merits of our Saviour. (Hear, hear.) He beseeched them, for the sake of thetaselves, their wives and children, and fellow-countrymen, to do , their beet for tho oociety on behelf of which he stood before them. (Hear.) In times like these, the claims upon them were numerous, and it was difficult to know where to make their choice ; brit they could not go astray in a cause so holy as this. (Hear, hear.) He trusted they would bestow their aid with liberality, and show that they were laying up treasures for eternity, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, nor thief break through, nor steal. The Rev. DANIEL MOOSE, Incumbent of Camden Church, Camberwell, seconded the resolution. He said ' great and effectual doors were being now opened by the providence of God, into which they might enter with every prospect of a blessed result. One part of the ope rations of this society was among their own countrymen, who, from some reason or other, left the United Kingdom to find a new home. With regard to this sphere of the society's operations, the several grounds of speculative objections which were sometimes made against Heathen missions could not be made to this. When the latter were mentioned, they were sometimes told to look after their own Heathen, and, although that objection always involved bad logic, yet in this case it could not be urged. (Hear, hear.) As to those who had gone from amongst themselves, he felt that the question of their spiritual instruction was not one of national fitness or policy, but he had simply to take the grounds of a com mon debt to those who wentfrom themselves as well as to the nations among whom they dwelt. Upwards of 1,000,000 yearly were permitted to leave these shores and settle in various parts of their great colonies. They read in the newspapers the difficulties which those emigrants had to encounter, more especially in that great field of enterprise, the continent of Australia. Would they permit those of their countrymen, who settled in these colonies, to remain without any of those influences being brought to bear upon them, whereby their best impressions would be strengthened and continued to them ? This was one of the considerations that had led him to take an active part in the operations of this society. He had long been con nected with the Church Missionary Society, a society which he loved and revered, because he believed it was doing God's work, and he was led to identify himself with this society by the thought that if the emigrants to the British colonies were not provided for by this society, they would be neglected altogether. He had had letters from families ' whom he had known in this country, and they deplored ' the lack of spiritual instruction which they experienced in their adopted home. But, in some parts, and espe cially in Melbourne, a great work was going on, which was greatly assisted by this society and others connected with it. He rejoiced to be able to bear testimony to the life and vigour of the spiritual ministrations carried on in that vast country. He had been informed by those who had returned to England, that an intense desire existed among the people to avail themselves of the spi ritual ordihances provided for them. In some churches, before the bell had ceased to toll, every part of the building was thronged by a crowd of eager listeners. He ought also refer to Canada, where in some parts so great was the eagerness of the people to enjoy the wholehless ings of religious ordinances, that they s p end the night in passing rivers and travelling across the country for the express purpose of being present at church ser vice, when that service has been held at a distance of six, seven, or eight miles from their residences. If their eager ness, then, was so great, was it not a duty incumbent upon the people of England to provide for them spiritual instruction ? He was not speaking of those who left this country longing for gold, but of those who were compelled to leave this land, and who would have remained here if they could have obtained a bare subsistence. When these people left this country, they were still ex pected to obey the laws, and minister to the luxuries of the inhabitants of this land; and surely, if almost every comfort in life was obtained from their colo nial possessions, they could not deny to them spiritual blessings. But this only regarded one portion of their national debt; there was another feature. T without not forget that if they sent out their population the means of keeping alive in them those sacred impres sions which had been implan ted in their minds here, they would become mixed with the native tribes, and serious moral stied to sett e. Many theß r d s m h a g e e m would igat b s e dwoenreetopetnhioisenations am l ong Ivhom nations and individuals had regretted that they had ever a Th lo o n s g e w ti l m na e h w ad it g h o o n u e t nh t i e l d o :' s it h h a E d u b ro ee p i e l an fo s r . f b rom om t e he ac l u it the ministrations of the Church, had become a disgrace to the British name, had been guilty of every kind of barbarity and crime, and a curse to those countries which they had troubled with their presence. This led them to anotherview of the subject. They had noright totranspla4tootherparts of the globe their vice and irreligion. The reverend gen tleman then drew a fearful picture of the state of crime in Australia, which Judge Burton bad narrated, bow Eng lishmen had been known to butcher numbers of the poor natives—men, women, and children—in cold blood, and had then pleaded ignorance and want of education when charged with their horrible crimes, and brought up for judgment. This, therefore, was not a question of policy, but of national interest, and a duty which one nation owed to another. He entreated them to consider why God has given so much power to this country, and warned his hearers against becoming so forgetful of their high destiny as to imagine that they might receive all their luxuries from distant lands, and yet not send the Gospel to any of them. (Cheers.) He concluded by pointing out the wide doors which are now open for missionary enter prise, and entreating his audience to extend the blessings of the Gosepel by giving of their abundance liberally, then they would shine as lights in the firmament, and be as the stars for ever and ever. (Cheers.) A hymn was then sung, and a collection made. The Venerable CHAIRMAN then introduced the Rev. Dr. Colenso to the meeting. The Rev. Dr. COLENSO, Bishop-designate of Natal, • in Africa, on rising, said he had been requested to more the adoption of the second resolution, which was to the fol lowing effect —" That the provision f or upwards of one hundred and fifty millions of heathen subjects involves a most serious responsibility on the part of this Church and nation ; and that additional efforts arc loudly called for, so as to bring to these native t r ib es the glad tidings of salva tion." In this resolution their attention was expressly called to the condition of the heathen in the vast colonies of the British empire. Before he proceeded to the subject allotted to him, he would say a few words upon the man ner in which their society sent f orth its missionaries- When a clergyman applied for some employment under their society, he was examin by the two A rc h hishops and the Bishop of London ed , those prel ates being con sidered to represent the Church, and they were r mitted to hold any opinions, p rov id ed they were P:n tained in those permitted by th e Church of Englacnd. A gentleman had told him that s ome ti mes he had heard aspersions cast upon the societbyee;aubsuet,twhehyenhadeversisinowehr: was the case, he invariably replied that he had known several young men whom he thought fitted to becomesionaries, mi s . had them excellent sapubdit selected, because ; he had sent them to the ' - and not one of them had ever been rejected. If any society, person present had any objections to the society, he would advise them. to send some suitable young men to the would be rweleiceteh dr.est(eCdhueeprsoi? as a Christian Church. and nation, to provide a course of seeupo if n them they instruction for their fellow-creatures in the Gospel o f i s i o a c d i e t t o y, , p l a .e n s d s their blessed Lord and Saviour. They all de s i re d , he knew, that the glad tidings which they had received should be proclaimed to all within thei r reac h , and that they might be the instruments of spreading their Saviour's, gospel, and telling the nations throughout the world to look upward and believe. As God had given them such a mighty empire, surely it was that they might teach the knowledge of the God who gave it to all nations. (Cheers.) He then proceeded to direct the att en ti on . o f hi s h earers to that country which was to be th e scene of his future labours. When he spoke of Natal, he wished he could say more about what had been done by this society in that Land, but though little had been done, no other society had cared for the people there. (Cheers.) The colony of Natal is situated in the south east of the great continent of Africa. It is i n ex t ent about one-third the size of England, and its p o p u l at i on consists of about 8,000 British and Dutch - colo n i s t s, and from one to two hundred thousand Zulu Kaff irs . Liver pool was- particularly interested in that -country, beca use it produced free-labour cotton and sugar, and was very productive. The Zulu country lies to the north of Natal. The Zulus had been governed by three brothers, great tyrants, each one of whom had murdered his predecessor and mitted cruelties abominable ei a l upon his poor snbjecti. He "some of the cruelties of the monster s , ho w th e y h a d cern detailed butchered hundreds of both sex es , an d many c h i ld ren, for a mere whim ; and had entered i n t o an agreement with the_English and Dutch colonists, by virtue of Which .all the refugees who fled from their tyrant king to an appa rently more hospitable people, were given up by the Eng lish and starved to death by their inhuman sovereign. This was not, however, an agreement with our :govern ment, and no longer existed with the colonists. Now the Zulu king was content to let his people go, provided they left their property behind them, and these people were now populating the province of Natal. About four Years ago the Bishop of Cape Town visited them, and found them very docile, and willing to learn ' • but sin ce th en they had been dete r i ora ti ng for want of instruction, and because •of the evil examples around them. They were taxed 7s. 6d. per hut, which annually produced £9,600 ; and when this large sum was taken from them should not the British pe o pl e g i ve them some return. , Another thing favourable to Natal was its climate, which was so salubrious that Englishmen could work and labour in it without experiencing any inconvenience. The lan guage spoken by the Zulus was that of all the Kaffirs. It had been proposed, and he sincerely hoped they would succeed in establishing, a college for the education of native youth. He prayed God that the missionaries of the Gospel Propagation Society might join hands with those of the Church Missionary Society, and the Kaffir youths with the Negroes of the north, in holding one common law, and walking together in the f a ith o f one common Redeemer. (Hear, and cheers.) • The Rev. P. PERCIVAL, M.A., missionary from India, in rising to second the resolution, expressed his regret that any time should be lost, as he was fully assured it was no intention of those who had the management of the meeting to encroach unnecessarily on the time of those who had attended, but he begged their attention for a short while, as he considered it necessary to show the relations which the exertions of this society made in re lation to India, as compared with the exertions of another and a kindred society also eng age d i n the propagation of the gospel in that country. Fully to understand the nature of this subject, it might be necessary to trace the history of Christianity in India. The first intimation of any effort for the spread of Christianity in India dated so far back as the second century, when a request was sent by some, who were in all probability disciples of the Apostles themselves, to the Bishop of Alexandria to be supplied with Christian teachers. Subsequent to this we hear no more of the matter till the ar rival of Vasco da Gama, who found vestiges of a Christian Church, which he designated the Church of Syria, and for the Romanising of which strenuous efforts were made, but the exact influence of those- efforts, and the real importance of the Church were not well under stood; so that it might not be unreasonable to •pasi over that period, and this would bring us to the -period at which the Dutch settled on the Indian continent, and in the Island of Ceylon,—in the latter of which places it was well known they made considerable exertions for convert ing the natives to Christianity. The efficiency of those efforts, however, were rendered in a great measure nugatory, by an attempt on their part to render the conversion compulsory, by making it indispensable, in obtaining any place of trust o r cre dit under the govern ment. So far from aiding in the dissemination of Christi anity, these efforts had adirectly contrary tendency- ; and fuel that lu iauo there was in Ceylon scarcely a vestige of eve the, nominal Christianit y , so promul ga t e d, existi ng. The nave indeed, from the attempted coercion, looked on otherturn of re anity ligio with mo a re unfavo ura bl e eye t h an on any ore unfavourable those of the Dutch, passing to the efforts which, it might be said, our own govern ment did not make, for the propagation of Christianity, it might with truth be said that our Government desisted from any effort to disseminate religion of any kind in India. Such a course of policy had been found a means of maintaining our political power in that country, which was by the natives believed to be based on the English power to protect the natives . against abagression of every sort. The native tribes are impressed with an idea Of our justice and independence, and believe that, our officials being inaccessible to bribery, our sway is founded on right, and that we exercise a tolerating rule. He (Mr. Percival) was convinced, by experience, that it is better to let the missionaries of the cross make their own way in the estimation of the people than by any aids they can derive from Government countenance. Some men, no doubt, whose names were in all the Churches, had done much to propagate the gospel in India, and they had had successors who had laboured skilfully in forwarding missionary work, and had been enabled to publish a translation of the Scriptures into several of the Indian languages. Still it must be admitted that the first exer tions of real missionary enterprise in India had not origi nated with us, but with the Danes. In 1706, Frederick IV. of Denmark sent two missionaries to India. On landing they learned the Portuguese language• as a means of communicating with the natives ; and, having ac qu i re d this knowledge, they proceeded in their truly missionary spirit, which was recognised by Bishop Middleton, who aided them in forwarding the missionary work, and that work had been making good and effective I ? l 'igres m s since 1822, when a college was established, at which fro 40 t o 50 men were trained annually. From these, others hai,e ema nated, and there are now four institutions in that cduntry affording instruction to 400 students, not only in they own tongue, but also in the rudiments-of Greek and Latin. Those institutions are thus doing the good work by mi s s ile " Do you think, that what resisted the iron foot up a native ministry. In reference to this mode of proc; dure, a sagacious Hindoo had remarked to him (Mr, p erf cival), the Dutch will fall before your incans e as o a to /3ir( o he) it is possible you may succeed. You teach o ` said and, teaching them, you may uproot the t ur sons, otherwise you could not reach nor cut do r ' e, ( Which hear.) This was a shrewd remark upon the effi -Hear ' this mode of proceeding. At the four i t't • ccY of are not fewer than 130,000 natives utions there receiving Christian instruction. In prosecuting this good Nv rk o , the Church of England now has by far the most extensive share, and by means of the two societies which d un er her banner are engaged in propagating th e amount of good is, no doubt, go.spel, immense Yet what, it might be asked, are all these ) effort ss ; Pared with what is necessary for the Ch • t" ris ean in struction of 150 ,000,000 of p eal • shed sp wig and raider- many elegant and pol languages. To meet the exigencies of such demands, the Church must be much more liberal, much more efficient, in extending her aid for the promulgation of the great cause. India is a country difficult of treatment for such a purpose, the diffi culty arising not alone from its Zulus p and its territorial extent. Unlike the Zulus, spoken of by Dr. Colenso, the population of British India is possessed of a subtle philosoplev, and many other arts of polished life. The Church,to effect conversion among such a population sa id, must be more liberal in. its efforts. India, as f its wealth and f ro m the extent o commerce, Presents great attractions to th e politician and to the merchant, and a country like that, he surely need not say, could scarcely have been given to us merely for national aggrandisement, but had been bestowed on us that we might give it wealth more precious than its rubies. Can we fail to see that it is our duty, as well as our interest, to secure the spiritual welfare of British India ? The more deeply we feel our inte rest affected by such a consideration, we should also feel our responsibility the greater. The same spirit which brought our blessed Lord into the world should inspire us with a de sire to disseminate the spirit of Gospel love. He could have desired to enter more minutely into the importance of the work we have in hand, but time did not per m it . He might say, however, look at the success which has attended the missionary cause within the last fifty-eight years. Within that time the Scriptures have been trans lated into nine of the eighteen languages of India. Children to the number of 127,000 are taught in the missionary schools. SeYenteen thousand female teachers are receiving education at our schools, and. We they have will speedily to be take able auxiliaries in our cause. reason courage from the past, and to form large expectations for th e future, in that great country, and among that wide -spread p ee. ple, Christ shall doubly reign ; only let us have your sympathies, your prayers, and your aid, and success win not be doubtful. He concluded by secondi ng the adoption of the resolution, which, having been put from the ch a i r, was unanimously carried. The Rev. HERBERT JONES, after stating his conviction that he only expressed the general feeling when h e e gnitulated the venerable chairman on the rest ora o n his health, and uttered their thankf u h iess fort he blessing, * ; concluded by moving the thanks of the meetin g t o deacon Brocks, for his kindness in presidin g . Arch. CHARLES CRONES, Esq., seconded the motion was carried by 'acclamation. •, Which The Venerable Archdeacon Ihtoons Relinowl ~i ged the kindness, but said his attendan ce was so much duty and pleasure, that the co u ld not consider hi a matter of self entitled to such a vote. The meeting, h e much more indebted to the gentlemen who was sure' was to a distance inform them o n the subjects come from just heard discussed with su c h a b ility, Which they had The meeting then broke up, _' `-~