The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-18 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE FRANCE FORTIFICATION OF P....p.m—The commission appointed by the French government to report on the plan of fortifying Paris has handed in the result of their labours, th e follow - h are the particulars:— ing of " 1. That a ( ..nelated wall shall be built to surround the f the exterior suburbs of Paris. with ditches considered necessary : that the direction of .is which command the favourante line for its defence, with orm of the ground : that the wall is to be co prevent its bein g sca l e d, an d t hi c k enough to any but heavy battering artillery : that on every .c, on which the nature of the ground may render it ary, bastions shall be erected to hold artillery, to flank ii, and to cover with their fire the approaches to it, and iten as 'much 'as possible' the gorge of the exterior which_will form the first line of defence. shall embrace all the heig .e shall be constructed in advance of and (sure, particularly of the right bank of the !its most favourable for its defence, works fining a seise. Their object will be to keep breaching batteries of the enemy, to pro f positions which may be occupied by the to be brought together for the defence of se in a great portion of the material of the olutions which have been adopted t, founded on the above report ! raised a bastionned wall, terraced and faced rty feet in height, with glacis and contre- K are the r Exterior works casemated, close at the gorge, regularly ructed with contrescarp in masonry and covered way. . . . Denis shall be fortified ; Charenton shall have per works constructed for the purpose of insuring the ssion of the two rivers corks shall commence by the exterior forts of No. Noisy, Romainville, Mount Valerin. Ivy, St. 1 the construction of the other works will continue t. camp . of 30,060 men will be distributed in different ins, according, as the works require it." .e Paris papers of Monday have been received. The tone of these journals is, generally speaking, hostile. The Con.vii tutionnel in particular was deemed so decidedly warlike, that the speculators in the funds c'tught from it new grounds for alarm. A considerable further decline of prices was the con sequence, but towards the close of the market a considerable reaction took place, the 3 per Cents. rising to 691. 90c., and the 5 per Cents. to 101 f. 50c. " Several defaulters were de clared" (execul es), says a private correspondent, "and, to move a la► assertion in one of my letters, that journalists are bad guides for gamblers in the funds, among them were some of mycontemporaries of the French press." The article in the Constitution:lel above referred to was to the effect that the French Government would not have called to make so many sacrifices, nor have incur rise, if there were not grounds for appre- This reasoning," observes a correspondent, and yet we may entertain hopes that peace led. I have again to-day seen some of the best informed persons in France, who repeat their be ' war will take place, although the final adjustment tions at issue may not be at hand." This, with French Government is in earnest in its pre rst., is all that we can glean from the pa- upon the coun *e us on this important subject. urrier de Lyons states that Rear-Admiral Lalande d through that city, on his way back to Toulon, was going to take the command of the squadron of e Courrier du Bar Rhin (Strasburg paper) states that ral Buchet, commanding the fifth military division, has I orders to place all the fortresses under his command war establishment. The general is at Belfort, on a tour of inspection 'he Colirrier de la Moselle states that 300 additional la sers had been engaged to work at the fortifications of Impartial de la Metirthe mentions that Verdun, Longivy, and Thionville were being strongly . that the opinion prevailed along that frontier vas imminent. la Somme states that the National Guard Atomic) was about being organized at Amiens. • The Capitate publishes a letter, dated Toulon, the 9th inst., which states that the squadron of reserve which returned Tunis under Admiral Ruaamel is not intended for the -c one of the line of battle ships is about to convey -;ers, and another is about to take an ambassa- The same letter adds that the Castor steam 'th despatches for the French Ambassador it Constantinople, M. de Pontois, and instructions to him, that in case of the allied powers landing an army in Syria, he should demand his passports and return to France. According to the Palliate des Alper, Grenoble was to be immediately placed in a respectable state of defence. All the Spanish refugees in the depot were to be employed in the works. s to Mg Colonel Vaudrey, Who was implicated in the Bonapartist conspiracy, constituted himself a prisoner on Saturday. After undergoing an interrogatory, he was allowed to remain at liberty on parole. The report of the committee of the Court of Peers was to be ready yesterday. It would recom mend that eighteen only of the persons in custody be brought to trial. The Commerce of Monday states that a letter from Bologna dated the 7th of September, has been received, containing the following :--" The intelligence from the east tends to keep the mind of the public in a state of continual agitation, and in Romagna the same fermentation exists as was mani fested in 1830. War is considered imminent, inasmuch as a report is current that commercial letters from Ancona com municate the news of a collision in the waters of the Levant between the French and English squadrons. Our Legate, Cardinal Macchi, is about to leave for Rome, in order to confer with the Secretary of State on the measures necessary to be e,,dopted in case of disorders, or in the event of the Aus trians, by whom the fortress of Ferrara is occupied, advanc- The Frankfort Journal announces, under date Copenhagen, sth instant, that a Russian fleet of 20 sail had been met aising between Bornholm and Gothland. SPAIN. • The Paris papers of Sunday contain the following tele graphic despatch from Spain : _ " Perpignan, Sept. 12. " Barcelona, Sept. 9. CONSUL OF FRANCE. TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL tern has published a manifesto, making known the which he exacts for his obedience to the orders of meta son obeissatiee aux ordres de hi He demands from her the revoilation of the municipal the dissolution of the Cortes, and thl dismissal of the sters. The municipalities of Tarragona, Reus, and is , del Mar, have joined the insurrection. All is quiet e civil war is formally declared, Espartero and the t one side, and O'Donnell, the Queen, and the flste. wiliert at the other. The question to r eso l ve is which If these two parties is the stronger, and that we answer by saying which has the most money, for he who can bribe most 'reely is sure to win in Spain. Espartero having a larger tra' at his comma:A than O'llonnel, and the municipality with him. can levy contributions at his good will and plea aire ; and therefore we believe the strength is with him. He s on the fair road of bring dictator of Spain, and if the Re ;ent escapes from Valencia, as we have no doubt in secret the wishes to do, Espartero will not remain long without )eing called to that position. urnals and letters of the 7th instant have ar- 1g to the precautionary measures adopted e;nained tranquil. Three battalions were t was every day gaining ground in the pro )elieved to have extended itself to the whole and Extremadura. The provinces of ,o4rono had ,ent in their adhesion to the of Andalusia, ( °visional government. Tne reply of the Queen was not t known. It was said that, on hearing of the Madrid ..rely observed " Quedo enterada" (I know its, which, however, require confirmation, Lje, , ty immediately sent for General Espar- )ri, she Other r tern and M. On' rid Gazelle of the 7th inst. publishes some sent situation of affairs. It says that ;now, and ought never to forget, that )lic which certain parties affect to ap k,e in Spain. It is a crime against the use of the Spanish people to accuse rget their proverbial fidelity to their plan of a republic is not new, it was ted Audenot, and is not forgotten by tat e•candalous intrigue. The age of f!• Majesty would but regard the per in the capital—although deprived of so contrary to democratic violence— pond to the wishes of freemen ex anner by the provisional junta ; she agitation which pervades men's cause irreparable injury. The cause I gain more by such a course than even Tn modern society the people possess the • the obstacles thst are opposed to its are seriously endangered when they the spirit of the age." Gazelle de 3fadrid states, that amongst the persons •hlic oti:!:.?; who have refused to serve under the vovecoment at Madrid, appear the names of -, de Castro, Dc Baza, Pacbeco, and cod to tt. but thro I of til the Bourgc wai very animated on the 7th were done at 261 for cash, and 261 at 6C EGYPT. vernier The blc rner which arrived in Toulon on the he following intelligence from the Le- ndria commenced on the Ist inst., vessrb hart already been sequestered by 'on. The fleet of the Vieerby was draw 7, le in the roads of Alexandria. kdviees front Malta of the 4th inst. state that nobody red in that island that war was imminent. t was reported in Constantinople that Khosrew Pasha ?.6th Admiral Hugon arrived at Vourla and took of Ow French squadron. tish ~ h ips of the line were then stationed at the :he lin - chi:l4es, waiting to escort a small Turk , carry 4,000 soldiers, and proceeding to Cy squadron left Constantinopl e on the 28th." ALGIERS. 11th im3tant brings intelligence from is took place at Algiers during the night n v,ent, a butcher, two tavern keepers of all four Europeans ; a rich Moor from ns, were thrown into prison, under the tied the enemy with a large quantity of k letter from Ain Turko in the pro es chat the squadron of cavalry in n severe loss. Captain Marion, two of his men at a distance as sallied out at the head of his reaching the place, he was - - - , 165, through whom he was lea%in,: 37 of his men on the field. pert, is Ov MEN AT ROCHDALE. — Within of the wealthiest men in Rochdale that the property they have be --qe to nearly one million ster --,. Fenton, (father of Mr. 0411:po r t e d to h ave left £.100,000; is said to have been £200,000 ; and ho was interred on F r i day week, and aat A.:162,000. The last-named gen ; his nearest relation, a cousin of the ourer, with a wife and eight children, .7rat death of his wealthy relative, in a oecoutst to him includes the greater part erty, amounting to nearly £lOO,OOO. Mr. .t executor, gave the labourer the posses s nisocioo two days after the death of the Fildes has also bequeathed the fol to the Manchester Royal Infirmary ; Dispensary ; £l,OOO to the Rochdale the Rochdale National School; m) to tit. Clement's Church, Small 't of £9,000 in bequests for aurae- re I'he nte JOURNAL OF THE MONEXMA.REET, MONDAY EVEN I N G.—Consols have been heavy to-day, opening at 87 for the account, whence they fell as low as 861; they leave off 861 to 7. The money price is 86i to 1. The public still are far from desiring to sell Consols, but are on the contrary parting with their Exchequer-bills to pur chase stock at the reduced price. T his has occasioned a fall of 4s. in the price of Exchequer-bills, which are quoted 6s. to Bs. Spanish Actives are quoted 201; Portuguese 5 per Cents., 30 to 1. Dutch 21 per Cents. are quoted 47 to 81, and this progressive decline leads to a belief that the confi dence of the public in Dutch stock is somewhat affected, and that bow' fide holders are beginning to sell. Mexican are quoted 231 to 41; Colombian, 21 to 1. In the share-mar ket, the prices are firmer than in the foreign house. Bir mingham remain 70 to 2 premium. Great Western are 14 to 16. Brighton, 12 to 111 discount. Blackwell, 2* to 11 discount. ESPARTERO AND TIME DUKE OF SUSSEX The Duke of Sussex has addressed the following letter* to the Duke de la Vittoria, dated from Kensington Palace, August 11: " - My LOrd Duke,—Having received orders from the Queen of England, my niece, to transmit to your excellency, by the hands of Colonel Wilde, the grand cross of the very honour able military Order of the Bath, as a mark of her high esteem for your person, and as a pledge of her approbation of your loyal conduct to your Sovereign, her Catholic Majesty, and of your absolute devotion to your country, I hasten with the greatest pleasure to acquit myself, in the capacity of Grand Master ad interim, of a commission as flattering as it is agreeable to me. I must avail myself of this occasion to ex press to you all my esteem, and the admiration with which her Britannic Majesty's government views your political and military career. Your name is always spoken of with praise in England, and all your public actions (and they are nume rous) are distinguished as being the work of a faithful sub ject, of a true patriot, of a man of honour, and of a general as skilful as he is distinguished. You have fought for the throne of Spain, for the constitution which you have sworn to defend, and for national liberty. In short, you have fought in order to acquire internal peace, and you have thus contributed to ensure the general peace of Europe, and I hope and strongly desire that you have obtained it in so important and glorious a contest. With that persuasion, and being animated with the most cordial sentiments for her Majesty the Queen Isabella and for the Spanish nation, the Queen Victoria of England sends your excellency the distin guished riband (which I have the honour to transmit to you), believing by that act of kindness towards a distinguished ge neral and a good patriot to confirm the friendly relations made to respect and cherish each other, and to add by those means a new lustre to the military order of a country which reckons already within itself so many men of merit, and the records of which will receive the inscription of the name of the Duke de la Vittoria and de Morella. In expressing the most sincere wishes for your ha l ' piness and glory, and for the preservation of your excellency's health and life, so im portant for the interests of your Sovereign, and so precious for your brave nation, desiring that you may for many long years enjoy that public mark of high esteem of the Queen of England for your services, and of all the well-merited dis tinctions which your Sovereign has deigned to honour you with in the midst of the general acclamationg of your coun trymen, I have the pleasure to subscribe myself, my lord duke, your affectionate and sincere admirer and friend, " AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, Duke of Sussex." The following is the reply of Espartero : TO THE► DUKE or SUSSEX " Barcelona, Aug. 25. " My Lord Duke,—The distinguished mark of favour from her Britannic Majesty, which you have deigned to transmit me by her orders, has agreeably surprised me. I experienced extraordinary satisfaction, not only in consider otion of that flattering mark itself, but also in consideration of the motive to which I was a party, and which nobly evinces the justice of the cause defended by me with honour and loy alty. My first duty, under these flattering circumstances, is to beg you to have the kindness to offer to the august Queen of Great Britain the expression of my eternal gratitude, and the assurance of the ardent vows I offer up for the prosperity of her reign, for the happiness of the English people, united by close ties with the Spanish nation. The kindness with which your highness has deigned to fill the office of grand master of the 'Queen's commission ad interim, the too flattering opinion you have had the goodness to have for me, and the praises you fasten upon me for having faithfully fought for the throne of my Queen, of the constitution to which I have sworn fidelity, and of national liberty, all stimulate my gratitude for your royal highness, and make me desire to see the realisation of your opinion, that the in ternal peace of Spain would contribute to ensure the general peace of Europe. What flatters me the most in the letter of your royal highness is the expression of the analogous con viction of her Majesty Queen Victoria, and the assurance of her cordial sentiments for my Queen and for my nation. I do not doubt that my sovereign and country will justly appre ciate the honour conferred upon me as the devoted defender of their rights, and the good understanding between the two countries will be continued, and the two people will cherish and respect each other, according to the happy expression of your royal highness for their mutual happiness and glory. I return you thanks for the sincerity of your wishes in my favour ; mine will respond to the signalised proofs of your esteem. I shall know always how to preserve the remem brance of your highness, and I shall be happy to find the opportunity of being enabled to prove to you my cordial affection, and the consideration with which I have the honour, my lord duke, to subscribe myself your very devoted servant, " DUKE DE LA VITTORIA AND MORELLA."; * As the translation has been made from Spanish into French and from French into English, the style may be ex cused. STATE OF TRADE MANCIEIESTER..—The unsettled aspect of political affairs, and the consequent decline in the value of public securities, have had an injurious effect upon this market, and we under stand that one or two orders for goods for the Mediterranean have been countermanded ; whilst the non-arrival of one - or two foreign mails now due has by no means tended to the improvement of business. The demand on Tuesday, both for yarn and goods, was more limited than for some weeks past, and in several articles, especially in good 40's twist, a trifling reduction was submitted to ; but the lowest counts and qualities were in tolerably fair demand.—Guardian. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, SEPT. 14. — The flannel market has been quite as brisir to-day as on the three preceding Mondays. The demand remains steady, but there is no advance in price. In the wool market there is no change HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, SEPT. 15.—The demand for heavy winter goods still continues brisk, and a fair general trade was done in most descriptions of woollens. Light fan cies are not quite so much in request as is usually the case at this season. Prices remain firm, but do not improve. In wools there was a fair demand at late prices. Business in the warehouses during the week has been satisfactory. ANOTHER ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUN TIES RAILWAY.-FOUR PASSENGERS HURT. On Monday evening, between the hours of 4 and 5 o'clock, an accident occurred on the above railway, by which four of the passengers by one of the trains were thrown out and re ceived such injuries that two of them are now in a state of the greatest danger. The following particulars of this unfortu nate occurrence will be found strictly correct :—The Romford train left the terminus in Shoreditch at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, stopping on its way at the station in Devonshire. street, Mile-end, where, having taken in passengers, it pro ceeded o❑ its journey. Five or six minutes after the above train left Shoreditch, one of the Stratford trains started from the same place, and it appears on the same line of rails. This train, it is stated, was behind its time, and the engineer in .onsequence put on additional speed ; indeed, to such an ex tent, that on its reaching Old Ford, near Bow, Middlesex, it Caine up with the Romford train, which, as above stated, had left London a few minutes before, and which was not pro ceeding at so fast a rate as the one behind it. The engineer of the Stratford train being unable at the moment to check the power of steam, or at any rate not in time to prevent a collision, the engine ran with great violence against the carri ages of the Romford train, literally dashing one of the third class open vehicles to atoms. Providentially by this time the steam was turned off, or the accident would have been at tended with more serious results; as it wps, however, four of the passengers, who were seated in the third-class carriege, were thrown out with considerable force on to the line. On assistance being afforded, the unfortunate sufferers were taken up, three of whom were found to be in a senseless condition ; the fourth was not much hurt. One man had his head and cheek cut open, and his right leg and one of his .ribs frac tured ; another received a compound fracture of his right leg, and a severe dislocation of one of his shoulders. These two individuals, after having received medical assistance on the spot, were conveyed to the London hospital, :Mile-end-road. The other two passengers remained at one of the railway stations for three or four hours ; but, not being much hurt, at the end of that time were able to walk home. The names of the unfortunate sufferers who lie in the hospital are James Mason, a mechanic, and John Perry, an elderly man. A saddle being missing at a funeral, it was observed, no wonder that nothing was heard of it, for it is believed to have been stolen by a mute. NATIONAL. EDUCATION.—The subscription committee of the National School Society has recently put in circulation a summary, up to the end of the year 1838, arranged under dioceses, of the Sunday and daily, Sunday, and infant schools in England and Wales, united mediately or immediately to the National Society, with the number of scholars, and the various grants of money voted by the Lords of the Treasury, the National Society, and the diocesan or district societies, towards erecting school-rooms. The summary of all the dioceses in England and Wales, including that of Sodor and Man, gives 4,291 places in connection with the National Society, having 4.382 Sunday and daily schools, with 180,767 boys, and 146,752 girls; 2,197 Sunday schools only, or ad ditional to the preceding number, in which, are 122,084 boys, and 130,928 girls ; there are 199 mutant schools with 18.827 children, 1,447 of whom are :entered as Sunday scholars ; making a total of 581,078 scholars r ece i v i ng education in the religious principles of the cuurch of England. J. K. WINTERBOTTOM'S BANKRUPTCY. —The second meeting of creditors, under the fiat of bank ruptcy Mr. J. K. Winterbottom, " of Heaton Norris, banker a' ' a rn ney scrivener, dealer and chapinan," as the fiat desc r ib e; him, but better known as an attorney in Stockport,—whose flight, and the charges of forgery against him are too well known to need further allusion here,—took place at the rooms of the commissioners of bankrupts, St. James's-square, Manchester, on Tuesday, before George Condy and It. G. Duck, ESQS., barristers, and Mr. 0. Milne, solicitor—of the third list of commissioners. The purpose of this meeting was, (besides the proof of debts) for " the said bankrupt to finish his examination, and the creditors are to assent to or dissent from the allowance of his certificate." Of course the bankrupt was not in attendance to " finish his examination, and the business was chiefly confined to the proof of debts. Mr. John Marsland and Mr. Rupert liigleby, the assignees appointed at th e fi rst meet i ng, on t h e 17 t h u ltimo, were in attendance. A number o f cre dit ors w ere sworn to, and sub scribed their affidavits of debts ; but there were not more than 30 wh ose respective debts exceeded £2O. The service of the writ and summons to the bankrupt was proved. Some litigation, it is said, may be expected to arise out of the fol lowing circumstances :—Mr. Winterbotto in had been en trusted with payment of the premiums on several policies of life insurance of considerable amount, especially on some po licies on the life o f Lord Alvanley, effected and that some agent o f the oce, havingete d inmorethe Y confidenceork office; in tli Mr. Winterbottout than events. hate justified, had deposited with him the receipts forpt,,hi,ei it)irieeiniunis ; but it i s s t a t e d M r . Winterbottom had not s t . v fo o r f 4: w1 2 1 0 i c t e l h i e andre - ceipts were vouchers.—The amountPre of upwards, proved during this meeting amounted to about provedoved is would £11,250. The total amount of debts be something under £18,000 . ; so that theotuostlayl un der t.zhel33oaatmr:ot,ph:iirintstrTincnhtoieetßbeatapiinirlikokg.. was that of the Manchester and Liverpool which was stated at £7778. (that being tested by securities in the possession of the bank), Th e h other debts exceeding £lOOO. were those of Mr. John Upton,°u: of Cheadle, £l2OO. and " Jane Martin, rupt not having surrendered at three o'clock, a memorandum to that effect was' made ; and, by not surrendering, the bank rupt has now become liable to indictment for felony, and to outlawry. There being no other business before the com missioners, they adjourned sine die. We did not hear any thing said as to the assets actual or probable. There was not a very large attendance of creditors. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL FOR THE _BENEFIT OF MR. MACKAY, BEING 111$ LAST APPEARANCE, And the Last Night of Mr. PAUL BEDFORD. PHIS present FRIDAY EVENING, th e 18th i ns t an t, will be performed, for the first time here, a new Drama, from Sir Walter Scott's novel, called REDGAUNTLET. Peter Peebles Mr. Mackay. Nantie Ewart Redgauntlet Mr. Gray. Dorsie Latimer Joshua Geddes Mr. Baker. Cristal Nixon.. Mr. P. Crowe. I Lilias After which, the Second Act of ROB ROY. Bailie Nicol Jarvie... Mr. Mackay. Major Galbraith Rob Roy.. Francis Osbaldistone Mr. Barker. Diana Vernon Miss Grant. • To conclude with the Scotch Drama of GILDEROY. Jock Muir (his original character) Mr. Mackay. Serjeant Musketoou.. Mr. Paul Bedford. Gilderoy.. Mr. W. H. Bland. I Walter Logan ... Mr. Gray.. Mr. M`Tavish Mr. Baker. Lilies Logan Miss Cleaver. The Public is respectfully informed that the entire of the FRENCH COMPANY OF PERFORMERS, from the Prince's Theatre, (late St. James',) London, are engaged at this Theatre for a Limited Period, and will make their ap pearance on MONDAY next, the 21st instant. The enter tainments will commence with the Melo-Drama of THE MILLER'S MAlD.—After which,-MAURICE ; OU, LE MEDICIN DE CAMPAGNE. Vaudeville nouveau en Deux Actes, par M. Melesville. Tire de Roman, de M. de Balzac. Maurice, Medecin de Uampayne, M. Armand ; Ferdinand, Petit File de la Marquise, M. Eugene ; Le Baron de la Brianne, File cadet de la Marquise et oucle de Ferdi nand, M. Tourtois; Landougue, Garde de la Marquise, M. Auguste ' • La Marquise de Villebranche, Mlle. Clem ence ; Caroline de la Brianne, spouse du Baron, Madame de Ruel ; Marie, Gouvernante de Maurice, Madame Edlin.—To which will be added the Farce of MR. AND MRS. PRINGLE.— To conclude with LA MAITRESSE DE LANGUE ; Olt LA GRISETTE EN RUSSIE. Vaudeville nouveau en Un Ade, du Thatre du Palais Royal. Vaudore, Peintre, M. Tourtois; Le Comte Ostrogoff, M. Gaidon ; Alexis, Son file, M. Auguste ; Leonide Bobinard, Madame Edlin ; Milna, Fills d' °strong', La Grisette, Madame Pilati ; Eva, Ma dame Victorine. THE LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXHIBITION. THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of the LIVERPOOL ACADEMY of WORKS of MODERN ARTISTS IS NOW OPEN for the Season, from Nine until Dusk. Admission, Is. Catalogue, Is. Season Ticket, ss. SAMUEL EGLINGTON, Secretary to the Academy. Exhibition Rooms, Postoffice-place, September 14, 1840. MOVING PANORAMA J4AIDLAW'S well known and universally admired moving PANORAMA of a Sail up the Bay and a Visit round the City of NEW YORK, is every day and evening exhibited in the large new Building erected on purpose, Newington Bridge, near 80ld -street, and next to the Clarendon Hotel. The interior of the Building is tastefully decorated. Day Exhibition, punctually at One o'clock ; in the Evening at Seven, and again at Half-past Eight o'clock. Admission—Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit Is. Children, Half price. Gallery, 6d. each person. The views of the Huddersfield, rescuing 116 persons from the Huskisson, as also of the late Fire of York Minster. and the Rock and Bay of Gibraltar are exhibited along with the Panorama of New York. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS THE Subscribers and the Public are most respectfully informed, that the FRIDAY'S REPRESENTATION OF THE BOMBARDMENT OF ALGIERS IS DIS CONTINUED for this Season. The Four last Exhibitions of this Splendid BOMBARDMENT commenced on Monday last, and will be repeated on MONDAY next, the 31st instant ; to be continued the two following Mondays. Admittance. One Shilling, EXHIBITION. WILL SHORTLY CLOSE CAPTAIN SIBORN' S MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. THE celebrated MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO is NOW OPEN for EXHIBITION at the GALLERY OF THE UNION ROOMS, Slater street, Bold-street. Open from Ten in the Morning till Ten at Night. Ad mission, One Shilling each. ASTRONOMY O _ N MONDAY the 21st, TUE SDAY th e 22d, an d WEDNES DAY the 23d instant, Mr. M. HOLDEN will deliver a Course of ASTRONOMICAL LECTURES, in the Ltvam. THEATRE, Church-street, and repeat them on THURSDAY the 24th, FRIDAY the 25th, and SATURDAY the 26th instant, illustrated with his beautiful Transparent Orrery, 24 feet iu diameter ; also, a great quantity of splendid Scenery, Tele scopic Views of the Sun, Moon, Planets, Comets, Stars, Nebulte, &c., shining as in Nature, enlightening all the place, _ _ _ Tickets may be had of the principal Booksellers, and of the Lecturer, at No. 10, Clarence -street, Liverpool. For particulars, order, &c., see the Syllabus. Doors to be opened at Half-past Six, and the Lectures to commence at Seven each Evening. Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; and 'Gallery, Is., each Lecture. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS We have again to apologise to our distant subscribers for the none•delivery of their copies of the STANDARD by the early post. They will recognise the reason of the delay in the lengthened report which we have furnished of the important proceedings at the tneeting oftheCHESTER DIOCES.VN BOARD OF EDUCATION. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " A Lover of the Fine Arts" is too indefinite in his complaints to enable us to understand them. Zig Eiberpool tanbarl3. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1840. By the arrival of the steam-ship President at this port yesterday, we have received New York papers to the Ist instant. They do not contain any later political intelligence than that which was brought by the Aca dia. We have to express our obligations to Captain Fayrer for a very full the of papers, from which we re gret it is not in our power to make any extracts in our present publication. The Globe states that there exists no int.mtion, at present, to assemble Parliament at an earlier period than usual, adding, that " all speculations on the sub ject are unfounded, and necessarily premature." This intimation, which appears to partake of an official cha racter, is precisely what might have been expected un der a Whig administration. The country, for aught we know to the contrary, may be on the eve of enter ing into a war, the duration or extent of which it would be difficult to speculate upon. But what care my Lord Melbourne and his associates, as long as they can en joy the emoluments of office ? To these locusts it is a matter of utter indifference whether the country is pre pared or not for the contingences which may await her. To them it is a matter of no importance whatever whe ther the legislature should or should not sanction their proceedings. What care they about an adverse majo rity in Parliament, as long as they can retain place ? The plain truth is, that the Whigs have shown them selves to be utterly regardless of the best interests of the country. They have suffered its honour to be tar nished by the numberless unprovoked insults to which our national flag has been subjected. They have suf fered its trade and commerce to be interrupted and sa crificed at the whim and caprice of every petty power in the world. They have all but plunged us into the horrors of that worst of all wars, a civil war : and now they have embroiled us in a quarrel with one of the most powerful nations of Europe, without deigning to seek the sanction or approbation of either House of Parliament. The time, however, may speedily arrive, when they will he obliged to go to the House of Com mons for supplies. We shall then see in what degree of estimation the Whigs and their policy arc held by the representatives of the people. We shall feel greatly disappointed if they are not indignantly kicked out of office. "Is Lord Ebrington a repealer ?" This is a question which our able contemporary the Dublin Evening Mail has frequently, forcibly, and pertinently proposed for the consideration and reply of the Government hacks on the other side of the channel. Not one of the or gans of the Administration has dared fairly and ho nestly to meet this question. The Evening Mail has fixed Lord Ebrington between the horns of a dilemma from which he cannot escape. It is quite evident that Lord Ebrington dares not answer the question. If he were to have the temerity to acknowledge himself to be a repealer, the irresistible voice of an indignant na tion would soon demand his expulsion, and that of his colleagues, from office. If, on the contrary, he were to declare himself an anti-Repealer, O'Connell and the Popish rebels of Ireland would, with equal certainty, consign the administration to destruction. This is truly an awkward predicament; but it only affords another illustration of the tyrannical influence exerted by the Irish demagogue over the present venal and degraded cabinet. " Ware, and rumours of ware' appear to be the order of the day in almost every part of the world. In every country, almost, the face of society seems to be heaving under some mighty convulsion, the issue of , which it is impossible to predict. Everywhere the elements of civil commotion appear to be busily at work. Whether we look to the east or the west, the north or the south, it is a singular fact that there is scarcely a nation which is not either torn asunder by internal dissen s i ons , or th reatene d w i t h f o reign aggres lion. Th ere scarce l y ever was a period is the history of the world when the great family of mankind ex perienced so universal a convulsion in its various social relations If we look towards the East, we find that China is menaced by the armaments of England, while the population of that vast empire is supposed to be per vaded by a feeling of almost universal discontent — that the Dutch are at war with their colonial subjects —that the northern provinces of India, Persia, Cir cassia, Syria, and Egypt are experiencing the calami ties of an open warfare—and that the Eagle of Russia is hovering over all these countries, and Turkey in addition, ready to pounce upon them as her prey. If we look to Europe, we witness the same spectacle. France, our nearest neighbour, is the daily scene of revolutionary outbreaks, which have been hitherto only restrained by the powerful arm of the executive, but which threaten to render her once more the theatre for enacting the dismal drama of the great Revolution. Spain is in a state of open rebellion. The Queen Regent is little better than a prisoner in the hands of Espartero and the rebels under his command. Portu gal is the scene of a similar revolt. We would not give a farthing candle's end for the throne of Donna Maria. Throughout the Italian and German states there is a prevailing spirit of disaffection, which only waits a favourable opportunity for bursting forth into open insurrection. Indeed, the whole of the conti nent seems to he in a state of disquietude and alarm. Again, if we cross the Atlantic, we find the same elements at work, from the icy regions of Northern America to the extremity of the South. The rebel factions of Canada are panting for an opportunity to cast off the yoke of the mother country. The Maine boundary dispute is a bone of contention between this country and the United States. The population of those states are, again, divided among themselves, and at open warfare with the aboriginal tribes. Texas and Mexico, Bolivia, and Buenos Ayres are severally en gaged in actual warfare. What the end of these things may be we cannot divine. It is evident, however. that we are upon the eve of some great event. The mysterious scroll of prophecy is being gradually unrolled, and all things conspire to work out the grand designs of the Great Ruler of the Universe. We desire to put the free burgesses of Liverpool on their guard against a deep-laid plot of the Whig-Radical faction, the object of which is the disfranchisement of the freemen. The same game was attempted to be played prior to the last general election, in 1837. At that time a sum of £5OO was placed in the hands of a sub -committee of the Reform Association, by a person of the name of Langton, for the purpose of bribing the freemen, in order that grounds might be afforded for applying to Parliament for their disfranchisement as a body. We are in possession of the names of the indi viduals who were employed on this truly creditable and liberal undertaking. The disgraceful scheme, however, proved an utter failure, and the money, owing to pecu liar circumstances, was refunded by means of a private collection among the "aristocracy" and "top-sawyers" of the Reform Association. A similar plot is now on foot. A publican of the name of Kehoe, in Thomas street, has, under the specious and clap-trap name of " The True Blue Club," called together and enrolled 176 freemen, who have been promised situations in the Dock and Corporation employ, as a bait to secure their votes. We have no doubt that money will he offered these silly individuals as a further means of corruption. Let the freemen of Liverpool beware of this and similar traps. The Liberals only want to disfranchise them. The splendid public meeting, of which we furnish so ample a report this day, affords another pregnant proof of the general interest now taken, by all ranks in the community, in the hallowed cause of scriptural educa tion. When we see the great and noble of the land devoting their wealth, their influence, and their talents to the promotion of this sacred cause ; when we see all classes of the clergy united as one undivided pha lanx for the same object; and, above all, when we find this great mass of the middle classes, and of the Pro testant democracy of the empire, cordially and enthu siastically seconding these praiseworthy and philan thropic exertions, we cannot resist the conviction that the time is not far distant when the gloomy, unsocial, and deadly principles of modern infidelity will be en tirely banished from the land, and when all ranks and classes will once more rally round the church of their fathers, with a firm and unflinching attachment to her scriptural rituals and her apostolical faith. We feel justified in saying that the most gratifying results may, under the Divine blessing, he anticipated from the efforts now made by our Diocesan School Societies; in connection with those of other educational institutions connected with the church. These societies are sowing " the good seed" which shall hereafter spring up and and flourish on the face of society, covering even the desert places of the land with moral beauty. It is impossible to look back to the history of this country for the last twenty years, without perceiving that a mighty change has been in progress amongst this nation. A few years ago a very great number of our churches were comparatively deserted—Dissent was becoming more and more prevalent —new chapels were springing up in every town and hamlet in the kingdom—and infidelity, and its inseparable adjunct, disaffection towards a Christian government, were spreading their desolating influence in every direction. How different is the present aspect of the country Now, new churches are being erected by scores and hundreds, in order to provide accommodation for the increasing numbers which frequent the services of the Establishment—Dissenting chapels are, one after ano ther, deserted—and sound scriptural principles have, in great measure, displaced the heartless speculations and disorganising doctrines of infidelity. Nothing, we feel convinced, has more signally contributed to wards bringing round this pleasing change than the efforts which have been made by the clergy in the work of scriptural education. Let us hope that the success which has hitherto attended these efforts may stimulate the zeal of all classes in the same good work, and that our Diocesan School Societies may be strengthened by the liberal contributions and the devout prayers of all true churchmen. We this day furnish our readers with a full report of the interesting speeches delivered at the great meeting of the Chester Diocesan Board of Education, in con nexion with the National Society, held at the Amphi theatre, yesterday. We regret that it is not in our power to publish a copy of the admirable report which was read at the meeting. We made repeated applica tions for it, bat were met with a positive refusal. While we cannot withhold our tribute of admiration from the Hon. and Rev. Secretary of the Board, as an ardent and devoted friend of scriptural education, we feel constrained to express our conviction that he has, from some unexplained motives, on the present occasion, rendered but an equivocal service to the Diocesan Society by depriving us of an opportunity of giving additional publicity to its proceedings. We are informed that the premises in Duke-street, belong ing to Mr. Henderson, lately occupied by the Herculaneum Pottery Company, as a depot for the various articles of their manufacture, have been purchased by government, and that the intention is to convert them into barracks. The Rev. M. A. Nicholson, of the University of Durham, and late curate of Haslingden, has been presented by the trustees with the living of Christ Church, Accrington, in this county. MR. HOLDEN'S LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY.—We again call attention to the announcement, in another column, that Mr. Holden, the celebrated astronomer, will commence his course of interesting lectures on Monday next. We trust that the well-known merits of the lecturer, who introduces many tine scenic illustrations, will insure him a crowded and respectable attendance. LARGE STEAM-SHlPS.—There are now in the Coburg Dock four of the finest and largest steam-ships in the world, occupyiug the greater part of the available quay room, viz., the President, just arrived here from New York, the Great Liverpool, of the Mediterranean line of Royal Mail ships, and the Acadia and Caledonia, of the Halifax and Boston Royal Mail line. The floating capital iu these superb ships is immense. DZATII laY AN EXPLOSION or Film DAMP.—Yesterday week a collier, named Joseph Brindle, aged 40, a collier, lost his life in consequence of an explosion of fire-damp, at Fogg's colliery, in Darcy Lever, near Bolton. William Fray, a col lier who worked in the same mine as the deceased, stated at the inquest, that shortly after seven o'clock he was at work with the other men in the pit, when suddenly a rush of wind came upon them from the interior of the mine. Tlis con vinced him that an explosion bad taken place, and he, know ing the danger was over, took a candle, and went about 300 yards up the mine, where he heard the deceased snoring, a s if asleep. The foul air caused by the explosion put out his candle, and it bein". very stifling, he made all possible bast e , seized the deceased by an arm, dragged him into a tunnel, where he was placed upon a waggon, and got out of the pit. He was afterwards taken to Bolton, where he died on the following•afternoon, his hands alai body being much scorch ed. The accident arose through the deceased having used a candle. CHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION, IN CONNIZCTION WITH T 1! kTIONAL SOCIETY Yesterday the second annual meeting of the above society was held at the Ampitheatre. The hour announced for the commencement of the proceedings was eleven o'clock ; but long before that hour, the whole of the immense building was nearly filled with a respectable audience. The boxes, the pit, the circle, and the galleries, were crowded with ladies and gentlemen, of whom the former predominated consider ably. A raised tier of seats at the back of the platform was also fully occupied ; whilst on the platform a very numerous body of the gentry and clergy of the diocese were assembled. The building was brilliantly illuminated, and had a most imposing effect. The following were among the gentry and clergy present : W..E. Gladstone, Esq. ; Sir J. S. Salisbury, W. Hutton, Esq. ; J. Rigby, C. Groves. Esq. ; J. Clare, Esq., War- rington ; G. Greenall, Esq., Warrington ; Colonel Scarlett, John Ireland Blackburn, Esq., M.P. ; P. Ainsworth, Esq., M.P. ; P. Greenall, Esq. ; Dr. Jeffries, T. B. Horsfall, Esq. ; C. Bouttlower, Esq. ; Duncan Gibb, Esq. ; I'. M. Gladstone, Esq.; B. Wilbraham, Esq., M.P.; Bryant, Esq. ; Ellis Akliton, Esq.; P. E. Lee, Esq. ; Hon. and Rev. Horace Powys, Rector of 'Warring ton ; Hugh M`Neile, Thomas Byrth, D.D., Rector of Wallasey ; T. Tattershall, D.D. ; Henry Carpenter, J. H. Stewart, F. Iliff, D.D. R. P. Buddicom, Revs. \V. B. Molesworth, R. L. Townsend, J. Gaitskell, Thos. Corser, G. E. Larden, T. Tadwinter, W. Williams, T. L. Claughton, C. G. Dritlield, E. Girdlestone, W. FlorubT, It. Parkinson, J. Pedder, Alexander Walton, John Smith, W. Fox, W. H. Boulton, Archdeacon Austin, Jas. Hassan, Robert Leicester, J. S. Coles, S. E. Wentworth, Richard Appleton, Thomas Brancker, B. A. Marshall, Edward Mor gan, David James, Robert P. Crockett, Eccleston, Prescot ; Edmund B. Chalmer, Gt. Crosby ; Richard Symes, Cleave Yatton, Somerset ; W. Coombs, Prescot ; G. J. Driflield, Fellow of Brasennose College, Oxford ; Arthur Rim Prin cipal of the Training Coll. ; Alex. Dallas, Rector of Wonston, W. P. Halton, Rector of St. Bridget, Chester ; W. M`lver, Secretary; C. .D. Wray, Vice-Dean of Manchester; W. Falloon, Smith, St. James's ; Nelson, T. France, J. S. Wood. Jos. Baylee. R. Badnall. Halton, W. Raw son, J. E. Bate, S. P. Boutflower, J. M. Lynn,W. Hesketh, J. H. Stafford, C. Wray, J. 11. Macguire, Ellis. Ashton, G. Salt, Robt. Mayor, W. Badnall, Wavertree, Thos. Gardner, St. Ann's, West Derby, T. Bold, E. Bickersteth, It. Wil liams, D. Anderson, J. May, W. Wannop. T. Eaton, H. W. Bellairs, W. IL: King, W. D. Long, C. K. Prescot, 13. H. Berks, C. J. Hamilton, B. L. Witts, I. Wood, R. C. Clifton, D. Roberts, T. S. Grinishaw, Hesketh. The CHAIRMAN.—It is one of the rules of the society we are met this day to support, that all the meetings of the Di ocesan Board shall be opened with prayer, according to the wish of the Lord Bishop of the diocese. I will, therefore, read one or two collects of our church, before we commence our proceedings. Let us pray. (Prayer having been offered by the rev. chairman, he proceeded to address the meeting as follows.) In opening the business of the present meeting, I have, in the first instance, to express my regret that I am called upon to till the office which would have been so much better filled by the Lord Bishop of the diocese. It so hap pens that his duties required his attendance, where he is now, at Durham, which place he will not be able to leave till the beginning of the ensuing month; and he has desired me to express his deep regret that any circumstances should have prevented his attendance at a meeting in which his heart is so deeply concerned, I do not know that I can discharge the duties of the situation I am called upon to fill this day, in introducing the subject to your notice, better than by stating, as concisely as I can, the circumstances that gave rise to the institution upon the subject of which we are this day met. It may be very well in the recollection and in the knowledge of all of you, that the subject of the education of the lower classes of society in this country—of the general education of the country—is one which has attracted a deep and lively interest among all ranks of the community. The question now is no longer whether the great hotly of the people shall be educated. That has been some time settled. We may now say, they will be educated ; and the question for us and for all reflecting persons in the country is how they are to be educated—what direction is to be given to that education ; for, according to the direction given to it, it may be an instrument and an engine either of good or of evil. It occurred to several gentlemen in London and the neighbourhood, who felt a deep interest in education itself, and more especially as it was connected with the established church of the country, that some steps ought to be taken in order to ensure to the established church that prominence and lead in the rank of education which it has hitherto always held. In consequence of this, I believe in the year 1838, a communication was made by these gentlemen to the National Society, in which they expressed to them very fully and freely their opinions upon the subject. The National Society im mediately took the measure up ; and the result war, 'that a committee was appointed, consisting of members of their own board, of members from the different cathedral esta blishments of the country, and also of a certain number of members of parliament, of whOm I think one of the members for this borough, Lord Sandon, and the honourable gentle man whom I see near me now, Mr. W. E. Gladstone, were members. (Cheers.) They took great pains in deliberating upon and well considering the subject ; and they pre sented to the National Society an address, a report of their opinions upon it. They considered that the best plan would be to make use of the machinery which the established church of the country presented to them, for the purpose of forwarding the education of the great mass of the people. They saw that that machine was ready for working, and it only required an application of power to put it in motion. (Cheers.) We bad our ecclesiastical districts, our diocesan and parochial divisions well filled with good and intelligent persons who were aide to carry out any measure that it might thought desirable to introduce. Their recommendation was that these should, be mad e use o f f or th e b ene fit o f t h e pu bli c at large, and tor furthe r i ng the progress of sound education upon the principles of the established church. The objects which they defined as being most desirable to accomplish were three. The first was to provide a better class of teach ers by improving the education, the condition, and the pro spects of schoolmasters. 'They felt that it would be in vain to go on with the progressive education of the people if they did not endeavour to improve upon the intellectual attain ments, and the moral and religious principles of those who had to carry that into effect. They felt also there had been great difficulty experienced throughout the country of obtain ing fit and proper masters for the different schools at present in action ; and one of their leading measures which they thought ought to be adopted, was to provide training schools in connexion with every diocese in the kingdom, where per sons should be fitly brought up and properly instructed to undertake the office of schoolmasters in the country. A training school of that description has been established in our own diocese. I am happy to say, as you will hear from those gentlemen who will speak to the resolutions, it is going on with great prospects of success ; that the demand already, when a few months only has clasped since its establishment— is seven or eight times greater than we could have means of suppleing if all those in the school were ready to go to their situations. (Cheers.) The second object they had in view was to ascertain and bring into notice such improvements in the management of schools as might be with advantage intro duced into those in which the national system is followed. Here again they observed that the mechanical part of instruc tion had certainly been brought to a state of great perfection by the exertions of Dr. Bell, of Madras. There was no doubt, that as far as mechanical system went, there could be little improvement in that department ; but still it was felt there was great room for improvement in other parts. This very system was apt to teachtoo much by rote ; it did not furnish ideas ; and we know that the valuable part of instruction to ' the mind of the people is to furnish them with ideas ; and the mechanical is now a secondary object—a means of carrying it through into effect. It was thought desirable therefore that any improvements which might be discovered where they might be found, that there should be means of carrying them into all the schools connected with the Na tional Society or the established church of the country ; and it was considered an establishment in every diocese in the country where that must be done, and a regular system of instruction, riot with an intention of wanton interference in the management of schools, but with the express view of carrying from one to another any improvement that might be found would be the best mode of enlightening the whole body, and of bringing the system of education under the established church to something like perfection. The third object was to offer to the middle class, upon moderate terms, a useful general education based upon the religious principles of the church. I think there is no one who hears me, who will not agree with me in saying that this is a deficiency a long time lamented. We have plenty of provision made by our public schools for the education of the higher classes of society. That lies entirely in the hands of the established clergy. We have also a great provision made, though I cannot say it is sufficient, for the lower classes. Individual benevolence and individual exertion has planted in almost every parish in the country, a school for the education of the lower orders, Where the population has greatly increased, that individual benevolence and individual exertions has not upon, all occasions been able to keep pace with it. It was therefore desirable an united exertion should be made, that the co-operation of all persons connected with the established church who loved the Bible and revered their God, should join together in this important work. The middle classes, however, during the whole of the operations of this society, has been the class of all others the most neglected. I believe till lately, there has been no schools whatever under the superintendence and management of the established church of the country in which the middle classes of society might be able to obtain such an education for their children as was consonant with their wants. In London, the Bishop of Lon don has lately established what he calls commercial schools, particularly adapted for that class of society. They have been received very gratefully by that class ; and I believe they are now doing a great deal of good. It was thought therefore most desirable that that very class from which, be it remembered, there are greater defections than from any other in the country from the established church. And why should we be surprised at that, if the established church has constantly 'neglected them? There is no class of society among whom diesent e prevails so generally as among the middle classes, Surely, therefore, it was most important that the established church of the country should take the matter up, and in due time supply a deficiency which had been so seriously felt. (Cheers.) These then were the three objects which they had in view, and which in their ad dress they particularly pointed out to the National Society. That society heartily agreed to co-operate with them in their views. They consulted the bishops of the establishment, and the consequence was that they determined upon a simul taneous movement throughout the country. The Archbishop of Canterbury directed letters to the bishops of the several dioceses in the country, requesting them to call the attention of the clergy and laity throughout their dioceses to the wants declared so necessary to be supplied, and establish at once throughout the kingdom diocesan hoards of education, in which these different objects should be attempted to be brought towards that developement. The consequence was, • that the bishop of our own diocese called a meeting for the purpose. At that meeting there was only one opinion, that the matter should be immediately commenced and carried into effect. Early in last year, the first public meeting was held in Warrington, and many of you here may perhaps re collect that meeting, for I believe many from this town were present upon that occasion. It was a meeting that produced considerable effect, and was felt to be gratifying to all those who a tt en d e d it an d too k an i nterest i n t h e subject. (Cheers,) It has been thought advisable that these meetings should be held annually, as the annual report was in preparation ready to come out; in different parts of the diocese, in order that all might be acquainted with the circumstances connected with the plan, and may each use their efforts when they feel they are conv ip ce d o f th e ne cessity as far as they possibly can, in giving aid to carry such desirable objects into effect. It is that which has produced the present meeting. From Warrington last year we have come now to Liverpool to the first annual meeting; to lay before you—the friends of the established church—in this great and populous town, the exertions which we are making, and are willing to make in this important cause, to request your aid in sanctioning and in promoting it ; and from you we shall go to other parts of the diocese as the years pass on. I believe' have now stated to you every thing necessary to give you information as re gards the origin of this society. It is not my business or duty, in the situation I am in to-day, to touch upon those subjects which the gentlemen have kindly promised to bring forward the different resolutions will have to explain. (Hear.) I shall therefore now call upon Mr. Powys, our excellent secretary, and request him to read the report ; but before I do that I must state to the meeting that letters have been re ceived from the following gentlemen, expressing their regret at not being able to .attend this meeting—it is unfortunate' • that the meeting of the British Association for the Advance ment of Science, which commences at Glasgow this very day, has deprived us of the attendance of those gentlemen—Lord Sandon, Lord Francis Egerton, Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Cresswell, Mr. Pemberton, Mr. Adam Hodgson (who is at Buxton, from illness)—all expressing deep regret at not being able to attend here, but assuring us of the lively interest they take in the success of the society, and their anxiety upon all occasions when it Ely in their piwer to forward it in every way they can. (Cheers.) The Hon. and Rev. HORACE POWYS then read the report. The Rev. Chancellor RAIKES, in rising to move that the report be adopted, said,—Mr. Chairman, though it is with a deep consciousness of my own inability adeuately to dis charge the duty that has been intrusted to me', it is a great satisfaction to me to feel that the resolution I have to move commends itself to the minds of all who are here present, and that the least possible that can be said by me will be ne cessary to ensure its cordial acceptance. I have likewise great pleasure in moving this resolution, for having had, by my residence in Chester, an opportunity of watching the pro gress of the institution. I can appreciate the delight of my reverend friend, Mr. Powys, in seeing the blessing • vouch- safed to his neighbours, and the. result that seems at last to be opening to his view. And beyond any pleasure that I might derive from this source, there is likewise another feel ing pressing on my mind : I mean, a deep sense of gratitude to God, that amidst all the difficulties we have had to en counter, and that must attend any great measure like the present, we are able to see a foundation laid for an institp tion, which will prove, I trust, the source of light, end warmth, and peace, and happiness to succeeding generations, —(cheers,)—an institution which shall conciliate the affec tions of the rising generation to the Established Church, and, by strengthening their attachment to that church, shall give the surest pledge to the government for continued peace and uninterrupted prosperity to the kingdom. (Hear, and cheers.) Nor let me be suspected of falling in at all with the insinua tions that have been thrown out, .from time to, time, against the National Society, to which allusion has been made by the chairman and in the report. Let it not be thought that I wish to cast any imputation on the past proceedings of that society, or to argue. that that society had in any degree been falling sort of its duties, or acting in any manner inconsistent with the pledge which it had given to the public. On the contrary, I feel that the very circumstances in which we stand, the very institution we have to bring forward, serve to strengthen the claims the national society already possesses on the gratitude of the community at large. What is all we have to mention now or to anticipate hereafter but an enlargement, an expansion of the plan originally. sketched out by the founders of the National Society. (Hear, and cheers.) There are some cir cumstances to which I should really wish to call your atten tion, and which I think it is right to mention, in order to .vindicate the claims of the National Society to the gratitude of the country at large. And though I trust I never should be ashamed, if found.guilty of hanging back in that vvhichis my proper duty; of receiving the suggestions of • another, whether friend or foe, and quicken my pace to meet his ex pectation of what ought to he my rate of motion, there ,are circumstances belonging to the National Society which, may well plead her justification if she did not alter that slow and steady progress which marks all the great works of nature, and which gives, perhaps, the surest pledge of the permanence of the results to which it' is conducting. The individulals who are so ready:to accuse the National Society of beck wardness in the great work of diffusing education through the land, are perhaps not aware that they themselves gave special occasion to that very accusation which they are so ready to bring against us: (Hear, hear.) And if the National Society did not at once grasp at the proposal of enlarging her plan of education and of embracing all objects within the scope of her operations, there were good reasons why she should have been jealous of the proposal, and not given it that immediate and cordial reception to which they may think it was entitled. The acceptance of every gift, it will be ad mitted by all, depends in some degree on the knownetherac ter - of the persons from whom the gift proceeds, and the sup posed purpose for which it is uttered. The purest, tho ho liest, the best things, if coming from an exceptionable source, or from a questionable quarter, derive danger and suspicion from the very circumstance of proceeding from such a quar ter. I doubt not that many of the individuals before me will remember, that when the Spaniards, soon after the discovery of America, had taken possession of the island of Hispaniola, and had nearly extirminated the native population, began to amuse themselves, when the first thirst of slaughter was abated, by an endeavour to convert the miserable remnant of the inhabitants, the friars employed in the work of mercy complained with astonishment of the reluctance the natives showed in accepting the gospel. (Hear.) Surely they ought to have felt, that even the Gospel of Christ, if brought by hands still stained with the blood of their relatives, Was not likely to be viewed in any other than an unfriendly light by those to whom it was offered. I confess, that if any scruples or doubts as to the truth of revelation had ever occurred to my mind, I should much fear that a Dominican friar, just emerging from the cells of the inquisition, would be very likely to convince me of the reality of that truth. (Hear.) Thus those gentlemen who object to the National Society that she was cold, and backward, and suspicious, and wished to perpetuate public blindness, and to hinder the march of intellect, as they are pleased to call it. They should remem ber that she had opportunities of knowing that the whole system was based on imposture, and that, to offer art educa tion such as they proposed would have been to perpetuate a bondage which they professed themsel ves d es i rous t o remove . (Locheers.) Let me ask what is education? Is it simply the enlargement of one feature or quality of the human mind ? Is it merely to expand the reasoning powers? Is it merely the enlargement of the faculties of calculating, or some other single, isolated talent ? Unquestionably, real education, like the growth of the human body, is a simulta neous expansion of every power of the human mind, until the whole body of intellect, "knit and compacted togetiser by that which every joint supplieth, may groW up into : a whole man, to the edifying itself in love." (Ilear.) But to ex pand one portion, and to leave the others in a state of stunted deformity, is at best to inflict on the intellect one of .the greatest curses to which it can be subject. To consider man merely as a creature of intellect, and to forget what his moral constitution is—to hold up purely intellectual educa tion as the object to be desired and pursued, and to lose sight of the moral responsibilities of man, the duties he owes to his Maker and to his fellow-creatures, is a perversion of things deserving the execration instead of the approbation of all wise and good men. (Loud cheers.) I remember to have heard, a long time ago, an anecdote of the late Lord Stanhope,—it moan whose extraordinary talents, as combined with his extraordinary eccentricities—a man who might have been one of the luminaries of his age, yet who came to be one of the butts against which the flippant wits of the news papers is levelled—who has left his example as a beacon to be avoided, rather than as a direction to others in the way of peace and happiness. This exquisitely ingenious man con structed an image capable of reasoning. (Hear and a laugh.) Literally a reasoning image. You were introduced into a rcom, and saw the figure of. a Arlan. A certain number of propositions were written on hoards, and you took any one you chose, lifted up the ear, and . introduced the proposition into the mind. Certain screws were turned, certain strings were pulled, a sort of mysterious noises were heard in the interior of the image —the process of digestion was evidently difficult—(a laugh)—and at last the lips opened, and out of the mouth was ejected an answer to the proposition put in at the ear. (A laugh.) It was a reasoning figure. But would you have been content to have taken that as an exhi ' Waist' of a man? Would you.not have said at once, "• He may reason, but he cannot feel : there is no warmth, no spi rit, no.life : after all, it is but an idol, and, like other idols, I doubt not it ha's long since been cast to the moles and to the bats." But I contend that such as that image was, such a • representation of human nature as it gave—would be the creature man formed by education, if education is to be directed solely to the cultivation of the intellectual powers, to the neglect of the moral qualities and the responsibilities of man. Real education consists not merely in the cultiva tion of the intellectual qualities, but most of all in establish ing the supremacy of conscience over all, in regulating the motives of man, by well-ordered and well-grounded princi : pies; and this formation of principle, this regulation of heart, can come from nothing but religion. (Hear, hear.) if you attempt education distinct from religion, you will but form an intellectual monster, and send him out into the world to astonish it for a period, and then to involve himself and those around him in the ruin and desolation befitting the end of such monstrous productions. (Cheers.) But I must con tend that the National Society was not only justified i n with , holding her confidence from friends who came forward with this sort of suspicious recommendation of their systems of education, but that, in her simple course, she has adopted that which ever will be found to be the truest, the soundest way to happiness and peace, and all the blessings that belong , to a well-regulated education. We must be aware that there ,• are certain features in education—certain results which edu cation proposes to produce, for which, to use the common ' expression, there is, a demand in the market of the world. The market of the world will always have a demand fOr'the skill of the artisan, for the correctness of the accountant, and for all those other qualities which feed the aspirations of com niercial enterprise, or contribute to the welfare or the enjoy • ment of man. Therefore, you may safely rely that the world will always provide for its own wants, and that there will be always such a demand for these objects as will effectually secure a sup , ply com men serate with the demand. The world will never allow itself to suffer from the want of the things that minister to its own purposes. But beyond this, there are certain other features in education for which the world has no demand, or one so cold, so lack, that it never will produce, never will create a supply. It will require the skill of the engineer, the taste of the designer, the activity of the account, and will take care, by high rewards, to bring forward talent of these peculiar qualities, to answer its own peculiar purposes: but all that is within the man, all that which shall regulate his temper, decide his course towards' the God that made and the God that redeemed'hitn, that shall make him valuable in domestic life, all that shall make life a blessing to the man himself, for this the world has no va l ue , an d for this there is no demand in the market of the world. (Hear.) There fore, unless a society can be found to anticipate that dernand, or rather to create that supply for which there is no demand in the world, the supply will fall short ; and white the world is ready to give a high premium for the production of certain qualities which contribute to its.ovvn comfort, it would inevi tably leave to perish, for want of a demand, those qualities which lies at the foundation of all human prosperity, and without which other qualities are. like the varnish that covers the rottenness beneath. (Loud cheers.) These qualities, I need- hardly •mention, are the peculittr produc tion of the gospel, brought home to the heart of man in infancy, and rendered almost instinctive, by close, par ticular, individual application. And unless the National Society had pursued its silent but most honoured course— more honoured because silent—most honoured because it did not court the plaudits of the world, but contented itself with the applause of its own con - science, and in the anticipation of the blessing that God would pronounce on it from above. (Hear.) Unless it had thus gone on, laying a foundation of national advancement in national religion—unless it had sent forth into the world a supply of Christian feeling and Chris , tian principle, depend upon it, all that might be accounted right, active, distinguished in the world, would have been but' like a deceitful vision, placed before the eyes for a time, and then fading away and leaving us, as it were, in outer dark ness. (Cheers.) Thus 'I do contend that the National So ciety is specially entitled to our best regards, because, instead of meeting the popular appeals by hastily sending out into the world some crude productions of secular education, a set of petty philosophers, of infant engineers, of pseudo mimics of all that is to be practised in the world, they have been contented to send out a body of young Christians, taught to know God from the commencement of their lives—to fear him, and hint alone, and to lay the foundation of future use fulness in the early reception of Christian principles and 'no morals. , (Hear and cheers.) Here let me enliven that which may to many seem a dry and abstract discussion, by men tioning a conversation at which I was present, and the result of which seems to bear immediately on the subject. I was once in company with some men high in rank in the' navy,. distinguished by all that can distinguish British seamen— men to whom the country once looked for her defence, and. to whom she may again look in perilous times. They were discussing the character of the men under their command,' particularly those who are commonly called " youngsters"— the midshipmen. The question was, whether it was desira ble, on the whole, to admit men, who had derived a certain: practical knowledge of seamanship from having served in other capacities, or to take such as commonly offered—lads who' possess that indescribable mixture of elevation of mind, cor rectness of taste, self-control; and' decision of character, usually supposed to constitute the gentle Man. Some said they would like the . seaman :, others took the opposite view. At last a friend of mine, a man whose name, if I chose to mention it, would give the greatest possible weight to his opinion, summed up all, and put an end to the discussion, in these remarkable "Words : " Give me a gentleman : if I have a gentleman, I will undertake to make him a seaman ; but if I have only a seaman, I do not know whether I could . make him a gentleman or no t." (Ch eers .) Make your rising population Christian ; and then having the Christians, make them engineers, or what you like. Only make this the foun dation. Depend upon it this is the only foundation on which you can have an engineer to be depended upon, a clerk to be trusted, an individual in any station of life who shall be really a blessing to those connected with him. (Cheers.) With regard to any backwardness as to the pursuit of learning in connexion with the church 'at large, the insinuation is too vague, too false, too empty, to deserve a moment's consider ation. My friends who are around me will doubtless bear their testimony to what they know of their own ahua mater, Oxford. Let me be permitted to speak of Cambridge. I may fearlessly demand whether there was ever such a mass of intellectual attainment ever congregated in any one place as is to be found within the walls of that university at pre sent. How large a portion belongs to the church, and is de rived from the church, it is hardly necessary for me to men tion. The very individuals now assembled in Glasgow, the individuals whose presence we so much miss, are, I doubt not, now listening, from the mouths of clerical speakers, to the development of those great and mighty truths to which their ahem mater conducted their inquiries. Their powers are not a whit t:ie less extensive because applied originally to the study of the word of God, but rather they are what they are, because they drew from that source of everlasting life the same elevation of mind, the same expansion of thought, which once made Newton the wonder of the world, and which, I trust, will long continue to make England the centre of christianised literature. (Loud cheers.) I ant un willing to trespass longer on the time of the meeting. I will sum up all in one single sentence, one single illustration. You have heard much o f k now l e d ge , an d k now l e dge separate from religion : permit me . to show you what knowledge sepa rate from religion is, by an illustration so trite, so manifest, that it ini ght come home to the comprehension of a child. We are familiar in the world with two species of light, the light of the sun and the light of the moon. In the light of the sun you know that warmth and light are inevitably and essentially connected, and every ray proceeding from the great source of light cheers with its warmth and gladness. Every ray from the sun, while it spreads over the surface of the globe, and is reflected from every surface it touches with that beautiful variety of colour which the eye is enraptUred to behold, that same ray carries to every surface it visits the warmth that brings out and matures the fruit, that expands the animal frame, and sureads the blessings of plenty and en joyment over every creature that moves on the surface of the earth. From the blessed influence of that ray the vine takes its colour, the grape assumes its sweetness ; thence comes . that wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and the oil that was designed to make him of a cheerful countenance ; thence the wheat derives its nourishment, and all animal life its ex tension and existence. Such is knowledge when combined with religious truth ; and wherever it thus comes, combined with religion, and sanctified by the combination, it quickens those whom it visits, and gives life as surely as it conveys light. (Hear and cheers.) But there is another species of light, the light of the moon • picturesque, we may admit, in point of effect, but pale, cold, and spectral : alight which falls with as healthy influence on the body of many, but is supposed by some to have a mysterious power to carry blight and sickness where it falls—which sends not man forth to the cheerful exercise of his labour, but by which the assassin plies his midnight work, and things not to be told among men are perpetrated—which does not give colour to the flower nor sweetness to the fruit, but gives expression to the noisome fungus that hangs upon the wall—not the light that calls animal life to that cheerful playfulness of manifestation when we see myriads of tiny insects dancing in the sunbeams, but a light under which things that creep and crawl, that hiss and mutter, the toad and the serpent, things hateful and rTangerous. come forth to do their deadly work. Such, my friends, is knowledge when separate from religion. (Applause.)-: Such is knowledge, however recom mended by circumstances, however represented to the imagination, by the temporal advantages it promises, such is knowledge, and such will it ever be found, when separate and distinct from religion. And because this is my convic tion, therefore it is that 1 rejoice in the resolution which I have the honour of proposing—because I rejoice to see the foundation laid of an institution where knowledge shall have an expansion to which no limit can be placed—where every ray of knowledge shall come accompanied with the warmth of truth, and God shall bless the work in which we are en gaged. (Cheers.) The Ifon. BOOTLE WILBRAII AM said,—Had I consulted my inclination, Mr. Chairman, I should much rather have remained silent. But having come here as a matter of duty, in order, as far as my presence could conduce to that end, to afford all the countenance in my power to the object for the promotion of which we are convened, and having been unex pectedly called upon to take a part in the proceedings, I feel that I could not refuse to undertake that part, and to offer few observations on the report to which my resolution refers. I shall first call upon you to remember that the operations of the hoard of education with which we are connected have boen but a very few months in progress. But, I think, from the report which has been read by my reverend friend Mr. Powys, you will be of opinion with me, that so far as we have gone we have every reason to be satis fied. I would also remark, that it must depend upon our own exertions, and the support we give to those gentlemen who have so strenuously exerted themselves in the formation of this board,—it depends, I say, upon the assistance we are disposed to render. in this good cause to mature the seeds which have been sown, to ensure that the fruit shall not dis appoint expectation, —to provide, in short, that the admirable and Christian plan which has been set on foot shall be pro ductive of the greatest possible amount of public usefulness. (Cheers.) And in further saying, that I do trust that we shall still go on from day to day increasing the number of our subscribers, and that throughout every part of this ex tensive diocese the views which we profess to hold out mill pe more thoroughly understood, I beg also to call to your no tice the conduct of our respected honorary secretary. (Ap-. plause.) To him a tribute is due for the unwearied zeal, the, extreme personal interest he has taken in the whole of this business ; and with you I may congratulate him on the SUCCC3S with which his efforts have been already of tended. (Hear, hear.) I have known him for years. and I can confidently say, that no man has his heart and soul more entirely engaged in the subject of the education of all classes, on a scriptural and truly Christian foundation. (Cheers.) It is the object of his peculiar care in his own sphere, and I do sincerely thank him, and those who l a bour with him, for the pains they have taken to spread that knowledge throughout the whole of this diocese. (Hear.) shall riot further trespass upon your time than to say that I am glad we are receiving, and likely to receive, aid from the national board, and also that the grants from parliament are likely to be a benefit to us, by the removal of the difficulty which in the first instance might have been supposed to ex ist in the way of our acceptance of that grant. (Hear.) Still I would repeat, it is mainly to our own exertions that we ar3 to look for the carrying out of this noble design, a desk fraught with unspeakable benefits to the present and futut• generations. (Hear.) The Rev. R. P. BUDDICOM rose to move the next resole. tion. The business, he said, that had brought them together. was one of no common moment and' importance to thew, selves, individually, to the class of which they formed a parts, and to the community in general. It was the business or education—the education .of the country. That education : had occupied and was occupying, the minds of all men in greater or less degree as a suhject of prominent importance. It had been well called, in the present state of it—the retnarY• was exceedingly applicable, and it would be still more appli cable if it continued to advance—an appeal to the multitude , to the ostracium of the people. If the people, then, as bed been well said when they spoke good spoke with the voice of God, the voice of God would be in this question, and it would go on well ; but if they did not speak in holiness and righte ousness, it would be the sound and signal of all kinds of con fusion—it would be the cry of letting slip the dogs of war and of hell. The education to be given to them was not to be confined either to that part of it which had reference to the objects of sense—to those things that ingenuity might com bine, which the artisan might pride himself upon, or to that intellectual portion which might enable men to discharge the functions and relations of social life ; but it was to be ex tended to, and to have an infusion of that highest and holiest of principles which could alone enable it to be useful to and a blessing upon the country. It was to he an education to conformity with that very first and dearest of all obligations which God had laid upon man when man was baptised 1 1, the Christian church, and made a partaker of Christian privileges. Therefore no man was to be educated for himelt. for the interests of time, or for the passing circumstances of this life, no man was to rest satisfied with what arithmetic might compute, or merely with what geometry might mea sure, but he was to extend himself into all the relationships which he had entered into with God, and re member he was not his own, but bought with a price. He should, therefore, glorify God with his body and with his spirit, which were God's. Any education which came short of this could not, by possibility, answer the great end for which than had been sent into the world. If he were ad dressing a company of unbelievers, of philosophical infidels, or of mere latitudinarians, he should of course feel himself unable to carry on this argument with any thing like a pros pact of success ; but addressing himself to his fellow Chris tians, to those who had taken upon themselves those obliga tions, and who remembered also that they were not their own, he felt it was his duty, as a Christian and as a minister of the church of Christ, to take the matter up upon the higheit ground, and to impress it upon his own mind, and the minds of others, as far as he was able, upon that ground. The Chancellor had mentioned a very amusing anecdote of the late Lord Stanhope, a man of remarkable talents and of re markable eccentricity, and he had stated one of the results 0 1 that talent and of that eccentricity. He (Mr. Buddicom) might perhaps be allowed to relate another anecdote of the tame noble lord. He (Mr. Buddicom) believed there was in the musical scale a certain measure of discord, called " the wolf," which it had been deemed well and wise to expand over the whole scale, so that there should be as small a por tion of it as possible upon each particular note. It was one of the objects of Lord Stanhope to change the whole of this plan, and to place this amount of discord in as small a cow' pass as he possibly could, when it would be entire and abso lute harmony. Well, there were certain tones that might be played with great beauty and entire harmony, but there were others in which the discord was absolutely intolerable. and they were a large portion of the whole. So it was with the plans of the liberal educationalists, with those who would leave the Bible and the will of God out of the question, who would forget that man was a creature born not merely to confine himself in the limits of tune. Some of these tones in the way of education might be played perhaps, as far as regarded the things of time, with very little discord ; but play them upon the other key—let religion enter into the matter, let man be regarded with re ference to his duties to God, and the obligations arising to him out of the claims which redeeming love had made upon his soul and conscience, and the. whole would then be made to discord. We had better, then, have some defect, when the whole of the scheme was to be carried on with regard to a future world, than to have some portion of harmony and great deal of discord and division. The resolution he had in his hand was to the effect that the education of the middle and labouring classes ought to engage the undivided atten tion of the established church. Sure he was there was ne heart in that meeting that did not respond to the resolution with a deep, and he trusted a holy, sense of that obligation -- a sense which should not lose itself in generalities, but which should be brought t o a pract i ca l i ssue , an d b ear upon the education of the poor. Great need was there that we should so educate them. We had educated them in the a.h.e.d grian system, and with some measure of scriptural instrue" Lion, but we had done very little comparatively, either one way or the other, in the learning and study of that know ledge which maketh wise unto salvation through Jesus Christ. . It was his full persuasion that they had not done anything, because they had not given the poor an education so decidedly scriptural as they ought ; for in the same pro portion as they mingled the most intellectual of all books and studies—the word of the living God—with the instruc tion we communicated concerning matters of present, pass" ing, perishing utility, in that proportion should we commu nicate knowledge and understanding to the people, which we could do upon no other ground. Indeed, if we were to con fine ourselves to such an education as was proposed by those who set all creeds and catechisms at naught, we should entirely fail in our object of arousing the poor from that moral level to that religious and spiritual level upon which .we desired to place them. We most of neces sity mingle the two together, and it was only thus we cold meet the occasion of the day, and neutralise the effects o that charter which it has been well said is treason against man, and that socialism which was treason against God; It was only by these means we could stand in the brese' against that wide and overspreading torrent, and restor e the people to that healthy state in which we would have them, and in which, as Christians, we would have OW' We might indeed do what we pleased with such an clues,' tion for time, but suppose the little period should be passe' suppose we had enabled man to save himself from sown fe hours of labour in the day, and to obtain something more!, ease and comfort for himself—suppose we had nursed gal nestled some of those petty and minute philosophers 0 . whom such eloquent mention had been made, su ppose 0 . made them altogether things of time, but those things 0 ' time, and time itself, would soon be no longer ; the what would they have ? 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