Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-23 00:00:00

THE INDIAN MAIL. PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT. The % SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. the R ipon ha s arr i ve d w i t h the h eavy port i on o f th e 1 , 1 :,"la mail. Amongst her cargo is specie to 1 50 l ile of 28,8501 . ster li nr. Sh e h as on b oar d Atu o r n " s seogers, in c l u di ng near l y -fif ty c hild ren . and t; i st the passen gers ate M rs . an d Mi ss B roo k s , b oo BB Cloete, who escaped from Mhow by riding tim e L ed ! of miles.. They were confined for a long th e a fort, where th ey h a d t o f ee d a nd groom l arah ' re ea on whi c h t h ey were to escape . M r s. Se a t e at it, is also o n b oard. That l a d y escape d f rom ca rria :e; her husband was shot by her side in a in which they were escaping; she drove on, T h ults saved h er own life. tonlie) steamer which brought down to Suez the di ke t conveyed to Aden about fifty of the 1 44 1 , 41°4 Mutinous troops in the Bombay Pres'- ,the threatened to be mutinous oa board Oecit;"" Ste amer from Bomb Ay to Aden, - but The V ery sea -sick, and (Filet in consequence tessi-Passengors by the Ripon met English troops The throu gh through E gypt. the Le,,AlaYor of S ou th am pt on has telegraphed to the ; I 'd Mayor of London, stating that none of Pee4. ass em-2.ers by the Ripon - are in want of Vassistance from the Indian fund. '.l ship Tartarus was at Alexandria, the n nit t at Malta, and the Curlew at Gibraltar. % Iv e 21st the Ripon spoke the Indus with the T h ard t l,„rriv e d sel lnoner Eliza Brownrig, ,, , from Liverpool, per e l, - St Gibraltar on the 7th (19 days) ; the brig 'le, ell , l on the 8 h (18 days); the brigantine littr t-ret lY on the Bth (18 days) ; and the brigantine T' en en the Bth (18 days). Lye: stea'm ship Ecetia, Captain Harem, _fi a .orn ta anci 1) , °31 , Put into Gibraltar on herway to M 14 9t etin t t ria, on the 14th. She encountereda w f s ,vY storm which continued for three days.. d tale whsle of which time the steamer was oblige per °. On the night of the 7th, a sea struck attte4t the starboard bow, carrying away he f 1 "s and bulwarks, and washed overboard othereastle hatch. On the morning of the 9_ a , e ael ) ,„ t° , llo abated, and the weather becoming floe her to make Gibraltar, all well on board. l a.Vrt g he .v e ' ll b e repaired previous to proceeding on her „ , At 'Mar exchange on London, at 90 days date, (-REVEREND TICKET-OF-LEAVE MAN. t he Jet let, if b° t he ; , Dsl e e cl 0 PQ tbe I 1, ,Y ltev- street Police-conrt, on Tuesday, a middle-aged man, °t t ~ el he at ts3tume, named George Berrington, formerly a clergyman atabli hed Church, but who was convicted in 1952 of e jag c rat 'neY under false pretences, and in April, 1825, obtained 744:e°'eleeve. was brought np for re-comm . ttal, his license havi -g e d. It will b e remem b e red that about the period referred l e l eeet t ee -°/. ' Dr . Berrin g t o n ohtained cons derable notoriety as a 4 e, etee" eee Onaplished swindler. 'The particular armee for which eeetej°°rleted and sentenced to 7 years ' transportation on the let 11 11 °erl 1 952, Was the obtaining of £2O by Wee pretences from Alteri;erbardson, a governess, in the following manner : An 14 1 :elly -e f ele nt had been inserted in the pepers for a governess in the 1 14 - e e cl e t. eYmen about to go to Australia, in his own vessel. L i rdson called at the address indicated, a villa at Rotttne l!el Df .. -- "eve the defendant, who engaged her at a liberal ea'ary,. a4 s -- ,, 4144 ed her to entrust him with £2O for investment in the -4 e. She, of course, never saw the money again, — the ship, , 44 :1 1t h en e , " Voyage and the handsome salary being equally the 1 ; "`°o° le:l' the reverend ' doctor's fertile imagination, The villa, the Whi ch had not been paid, had b ean furnished at 'he expense ttel c t °l4ll ell tradesmen of the neighb mrhood. to his e his release set," °f l eave in April, 1556, he had retarned to his firmer p I tl , l , ia ttqlrnieing tradesmen, though he had kept so carefully within le ‘ °4 • 4 l th ,, at us criminal proceedings co'l ' d 'he institute! against .eete en ee eowever, a'moet any ,rregularity of c'rnduct is a ground wee , e - 'ne the tele ' t of leave, this course was taken, and instruc tete Ze Beet from the H o m e -offic e to Mr. Hal, the chief mg's i''eet a warrant fur his sperehension and recommltal, to mece ° rem ainder of his time. The warrant was placed in the . 4 4, 410 e !, ° ea of, the wiirrant officers attached to th's court, : tt ete: e : 54 , the same w ho was lete'y nee ly murdered in 2ot• ara me while in the execution of his chitty, a , nd who "1; 1 0 L ear eh of the rev. delinere it, accompanied by . , eeiger 2 Z kt ti e -. the S one of the witnesses at the trig ' in leo . " °facers proceeded together in priv etc clothes to tee house in vtua Holloway, where the rev. doctor had fir some time i i efe e and had prac ti se d t o a cons id e r a bl e extent on the gullibility ft w ra _ da ' r eee oe elolloway. They iGnad, nowa er, teat the tire the inanortunitiee of the creditors having become too 6 for 'bole 1143 ' sea and daughter, toe rermer, a sharp lad of Itetel e ;,' — i n t the l atter, a young woman of preposse sing apeearance, You ie the 1334 " 1 011. Finding' that nothing could be got out of let j e fa 3 ete ePle, the officers left the plea as if giving up the search, "1 Y to emstelt on their next step. They soon decided ket: ' ' re3ein g I nto their s e r v ice a boy dressed In the uniform of the Nere e.nileraPh Company, an inea'ege it f Vow, wh Rlkh V 'e affair with spirit. Ater dslieering the message with Ala e.e" had been despatched from the office of the company, he Ike a ' an 'elf at the disposal of the constable., who sent him to the %l h a eCti:ious message. Master Bar. ington still declined to I°.t e Paelate the whereabouts of his father, but etpreseed himself atzirts-te otepproecrettlivneltyh.e menage , and cemmani eats with his father at The telegraph bey declined to give up the i tt tlee ig u e , t e ° anY one but the person to whom it was a 'dressed, as the . - I, Lee office W re strict on that point. At length, by magn,fylog . e tl e ter a t ie imeorta ce of the message, he prevailed on the youth ,Z r ette o B ,, e el to his father. This was done with caution, a most Dote being mean, and the officers, who folowed at a l i ert Th e bel ee led a dance round Islin g ton and Clereenwell to 11 4 11 ,,. re eeent. The beerer of the imaginary d spatch wae 10 0401 to a ho use in Mipleden- terrace, where he was i troduced 11 5 t i t ire'erend doctor. Ater a pretended search in his pouch, lP 'ell ' l are d he had lost the message, and so left. sayi g he e ete k . 6° back t o th e off i ce for a fro . h co py, b u t, in fact, 144,1t,it'°Z to the officers to inform them that the re eon they It a'in the 'n room of the h ' , use which Del front drawl and found Gr. Bening- Oa k 'Led out to them. They entered 'a il l Cl4l ne his pipe and dri .king gin and w . ter. There was a bid ta tiatt l 't ti A lady, 'she appear e d to be his wife, was engaged in saililte eelf the toilet. She expressed herself hieh y Indignant at * l ie llie, of the constables, who assure her of the readiness to g eti ete '-W . tut insisted on taing the reverend gentleman with them. Mi ttel, t e 1 , 41 ? .nght to this court for the formal process of corn e7r. Magistrate laving no discretionary power in the case. "rt ofTkrgeole, r,barreit ' attende to watch the proceed ngs on the 44 01 r, sue Prisener, and obs-rved that it was impassible for him to itt4 , tie t 7. 4 : e against the committal as tee ground of revocation was e t His Worship repliei that it was not neces 41 11a e „ ' e grc 'ends on which a lice S 3 would be re 'coked wera stet d on of the lietease itself, and he was accordingly committ:d. Top : °ll htf . 11" WiLRRE BICFORE THE MUTINY : —Therd are, -Nib`,:sr hundreds of Fnglish poreets in thi3 country w 1 e b o l Ne - e vQr wilh feel'ngs ' of k.nelliness and gratitule the e'r il d ee be arer ' s, or male nurses, who attended i sh .ir i ll'lt r , t :, Th . . ' patierce, the gentleness, the tere.e^ness , s he l , t i"`oh these white - robed , s earthy Indians attend t sae I L `e children of their Earopean masters, surpass even I,ls (31- :i c ' t f Woman. You nay see them sitting hour after - "'ll; i 'io their lit le infer). ine coarges , amusing them Ptey lYsi . fanning them when they slumber, brushing ; 11 1 ,th i r e fit", or .cing the verandah with the little ones "„gari t e ft - ' fi rms, dr -P nince the low m notorious lullaby which 'a b; .4 al to sleep. And all this without a shadox t on a sinc.'ewr without 'a gcsture of impatience, withou Leap w ; ,Petnlent word. No matter how peevisb.h o w ,7 , tf . , - :' , how unreasonable, bow ex Tang the chil d m ay : t tli - I, llll ,live bearer only so) . 1 c, shows his white tee th, elit 47 l „" S tie black locks giving bock a word of endear lo,, th -- "Ply to young master's imperious discontent. ucis e C lick-room, doubly genii) and doubly patiet t, his lfitti t",B M inistrations are continued through long days, ;ere h o ugh long ni gh s, as though hunger at d weariness Zitl e -,'4411 frailties lli to be cast off at such a time. It is - ' t` e li ' t ;() say that these poor hirelings often love their aw er a children wih greater tend , ree:s than their oar. iyepi - jr i s' i lia their little charges, they may often be seen :MI p '' `l4 children themselves; and have been kn own, d j e t l 4P • a", to treed hundreds of miles to see the brav e i s etr e l`T'ie'lli or the blieming maiden whom the) once `114„" 111 their arms. Tnese men, it is true, are not r i I ' " n eitit -; th a tld it would seem that the instances are few in • i- tted - e native servant, Hindco or Muszulman, has 1 14 ta i c g'iest his European master. But the Sep I , has i. '''.,_lgii ri ?wo the acme kirdeess towards the children of ? is t"esh - T m il e!lic , e . r. He appeared to rej Ace when a man-child v l the els captaie, and to share the pride engende - ed i and s‘„er,ey'rit• Who has not seen the orderly in the - "tie ,7 Playing wilt the children of his o ffi cer, and e;4l4l"e'uting to attract their innocent caresses ? Wbo ' - ' b --Qt have co fi A d his wife and chi dren to the care 4141 P e 0 - e ttl " ? W h o II no t feel . s curity doubly secure if eta g i e esco rt attended an Engltih lady on her journey, k b t icli i(3' guard were posted at the door ? They who Z s tli t i l . : Senoys best, t rus ted them most.. If any . ; year a an of long experience with a native r4tment had *I - ltcti k . t egc be en asked, if he b e li eve d tile, unr'er any — " l ees, the qenly would ou'roge and tr.urder the t e, l4l4 'e a u tici ;,,, d ellghter ' s o f o ffi cers and cut their little .. °lll cati i ; u 2• ° .Pieces, he would have answered, without a -4 4 "ealtation, that it was clearly an impossibility , n 6 ol L.„:; '4 "'"" 4 eview, new number. THE NORTHERN TINIES--LIVERPOOL, F_RIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1857. real object of education; they will not Identi'y education with instruction, or believe that it is possible to educate the miad without educating the ch ire :ter. Thi‘, then, being the great problem—how at the same time to educate the mind an:l the character—twu broad duff rences pr. sent th -mselves in the method of dealing with each of those elements. In educating the character, for instance, it is possible to aim merely at strengthening it ; and for this purpose it is difficult to imagine a better means than the daily knocks and rube, the constant collisions of intellect and temper, in our public schools— a means less powerfully when most of the goys, as here, live under their parents' roof. Bat there is another side to tliis picture, and those only who know the number of ch 'ranters that are spoiled, deteriorated, and wasbed in the process, can judge of the price that is paid for this benefit. On the other hand, we m3y aim at improving and moulding the character for good ; and who can doubt that it is an advantage, and not an injury, to the character of boys, when to the active a:11121°n and struggle of which I have spoken, are aided the shfceiiing and purifying iniluanc2s of an English Christian home ?" _ _ _ Mr. Broirick proceeded to spealt of certain advantages which he thought we poesossed here, in reference to Intellectual training also, especially in our effort to c imbine " a large amouht of general knowledge and historical illustration" with excedence in c mposition. But the length of this address would perhaps be too great if I were to travel beyond the religious an i moral asp sees of education, ant enter up on details connected with instruction. Closely 8330 lat 3 I with the moral advaetage of which I have spoken—that, namely, which results from he proximity of ho no ani school—is another which I regard o f o insiderable moment. When boys are brought together in large numhers, and kept for a long ties away from their homes, the occasions of receiving harm from one another are evi tautly multi pl ed. The danger of corruption in a school is not in working hours, but in play hours; not, jadee I, in downright honest play—l wish there ware more of that here—but in vacant hours, in idling and loitering. Hence arises the necessity in such schools as those to which I have referred, of that int rn tl government, that exercise ef delegated power, among the boys themselves, which has been the sneject lately of such fr , qnent criticism. Very fooliah things are often said on this subject. It seams som.dimes to be forgotten t 'at there must be big boys in every large school ; that they cannot b 3 divested of their influence ; and that they will de either harm or good to those who are beneath them He ce It is evideatly the part of wisdom to make use of this power, which exists whetleer use will or not, and to turn it to good acc enet, instead of suffering it to run will. And tee upper boys in a school must be very lose indeed if they are utterly insensible to the feeling of responsibility and of generous care for those who are younger. But still it must be remembered that even good I oys are imperfect characters ; that their 'dews of right and wrong are often very arti ficial ; that their imp ices are vehense it ; and that it is quite unreasonable to expect them to have the mature judge:tor of men. Hence it is to me a great CAUSO of satisfaction to have to deal with a system in which the occasions of harm are comparatively few ; vrh; re Vie influence of the masters are compared with that of the boys is very great; where the op on ground, if I may so speak, is somewhat narrowed, so as to limit tee opportunities for boyish tyran y and bad example - aid yet not too much narrowe I, let me add, for the sucees ful exercise of a hig't tendons bility and a most salutary influence. I cannot leave this sobj set without a ;dressing a word more e pee:ally to the senior boys of the upper school, who have always been to me. ever since my present datiessbaean, a source of comfort and support Yon are tho-cs who are directly looking forward to intelle etu 1 dis:iac lions elsewhere. You aro our ale -est link with the universities. Again, it is towards you that tee promotions Its the institution tend. You are coespicuoasly before the notice of all below you. Your characters, when you leave us, will de good or ha: n to the school where you have beet educated. Your charryters, even now, at the present moment, have a greater loft tenets for good or harm than you can easily caleueate. Bemembee toil—and the rem irk app ins equally to the seater boys of the Middle School and the senior bo i a of the Lower—that the general moral level of a scho3 it almost always below the moral level of the highest and most distinguished. boys. And now, having come dawn from general remarks on education, and having begun to do what is perhaps more natural to me—hevlng began to addre is myself d rattly to the boys—l will conclude in this latter strain. I hope that the notice of this 22nd of Octoher, however it may be observed, wit do something year by year to promote an esprit de corps, partly among all the members of the institution, and p trtly among the boys of each of the three separate schools. 'FLe spirit of union among those who have been educated at the same place is a thoroughly good aunt valuable feeling, and likrythin g s valuable which tends ntioceatly 'to promote it. For this reason it is, among others, that we s) he irti'y desire, in the Upper Szboo , tin success of the Crie'mt Club, and are grateful for the establlihment of the Old Pupi Priz If eacd of the other two schools, tie Middle and the Lower, could have its cricket eub, it would be an equ 1 source of pleasu e tO There is, ho never, the Choral Union of former pupils of thwe two sehouls, which, if wis,li condurted, will not be without valuable results, butte in reference to the present and the future. [n these thine, as in more important things, oar proper coarse is to look forward, and to hope for continual inoprov,ment. Our annals hither.o have bee - I brief. I I other institutions, on the Founder's Day, they speak of William of Wykehain, of Edward VI, or of Qa:ten Elizabeth. In our case, the very foundation-stone was laid within the reign of Q seen 'Victoria. I cannot, than, speak to you of the duties of keeping tuotarnishe 1 the honour of an ancient name ; bat I can speak to you, and do spoak to you, of th 3 duty of earning an honourable name for future generations to preserve. It is indeed delightful when we can think with pleasure and pri oa the past. Bat there is a peculiar elasticity of spirit when we think of the future. I believe there are many persons wao, if the choice of a long foreign journey were before them, would rather go t) America Ulan to Greoce or Egypt. Great as is the charm of ancient associa tions, great as is the benefit of studying history where it: was acted. yet to some mints there is an overpowering attraction in the enter. prise c f subduing new weals, in the problems of new conditions of society, in the possthillies of the iodeln'te future. Today I feet its if I could sympa hi-se with such a preference. Such feelings are natural to Live pool and to its Collegiate I istitution. Looking thus to the future, may we so labour in the pramt that God's blJssing may rest on our work, and that, though our canoes may be for gotten on earth, many g neratious may look back with thankfulness to the founding of these schools. Th 3 hymn 'which has been chosen for our morning prayers this week expresses well elan sontitnent with which I have dts!red to end this end tress A charge to keep I have, A Col toglordy ; A n over-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky; To serve the present age, My calling to fulfil,- 0 may it all my powers engage To do my Master's will ! The Principal again rose and said Mr. Lla !stone had kind', pro mises him to address the boys, (Cheers.) The Right Hon. W. E. GLADYTONE then came forward, and was re ceived with enthusiatitic applause. slle said—Mr. Principal, and Gentlemen, I scarcely know how to address you who are the prinzi pal portion of my and ence ; I cannot call you follow-townsmen, for you aro not Liverpool men yet—and I em hardly a Live-poot man—but I was once what you are now, I was a Live pool boy, and, therefore, if you will allow me, I will call yon fellow town boys. (Hear, heir, and cheers.) And I cm assure yen, cordiaby, that that name is no more than a faithful and trustworta; sign of the in . e-est-which I earnestly feel in your welfare, and of the satisfaction a d pleaiure which ,t gives nie to cone among you, and to witness the resolts of the devoted labours of those who are employed in giving you ins'ruction. (Greut cheering.) I have but 'ittle to say to yea, for the limitation of ray own time is, ie point of fact your best security th it I will not unduly trespass upon your patience. But my first duty is to congratulate yon, sir, upon what we have seen here to-day. There is no station of lie more honourable or more arduous than such a station as you fill, and none, I may ainth confidence say, a , lilch gives to those who fl 1 it a stronger cla m upon the sympathy and support of the community. (Cheers.) Bee iuse, although your labours are not unrewarded, yet they are labours which severely t ix the energies both of mind and hod; ; and they are labours which the reward, substantial as it is, Is one little appreciable to ',tiller minds. I trust, sir, tact you may always continue t receive that which, after the favour of the Almighty and the approval of your rwn conscience, I hive no doubt you most value, in part, Indeed, the rew.rd of future distinction, but, above all, the reward o' the gratitude and affection of your boys; and certain I am, from the signs I have seen, that the relation which subsists between them and their to :chars is not founded on the vulgar and false idea which schools o' a certain fas'iiim once brought, u :happily, into vogue, but that they are the relations of paternal care on the one bend, and oE confidence, admiration, and affection upon the other. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Yen have ree,inded us today, sir, of the youthfulness of this institution. I think you have said that the e schools were opened in the year 1843 —that is to soy that hey are 14 ye are open, or, in other words, I believe I am correct when I say that they have come to years of discretion. If this be so, the results w ich they hive produzed i i this early stage of their min rity are such as to give great premise for the future. (Hear, hen•.) It is true, undoubtedly, that you have but little of — the gores of memory upon which to feei. But even apart from the stores of memory, which are such a precious portion of the inheritance of mankind, the stores of hope, its spring and its buoyancy, are tnongh, I am con fi tent. to excite and to sustain you in the performance of your duty. You have, I trust, hefo ao you, sir, both personally and as the reptesentative and symbol of this great institution, a long career or constantly increasing and accumulating honour ; a ripe manhood, answerable to the vigorous youth of the college over whets yen have presided, and a green old age—such as is tha happy lot of mmy institutions la this favoured country a green old age of which it is the doubts characteristic that it has attained a full in jority of wisdom, but has lost nothing GE its primi tive and original vi four. (Msers.) Now, sir, I am ashamed to venture so much as a single remark upon the sabject of education, which yen have handled so ably and so wisely in the discourse we have heard from you ;land wh never remarks I do venture to make must be ma le under fear of the fatal progress of the hand of that clock. Bat one word, sir, I shall venture to say. and it is no more than jastice to you, considering that I have taken the liberty cf coming among you to-day. I do not enter into the question which you have opened, the most important question between what is called the public school system of England and sehoole coudueted upon the bas's of this great institution, which do not, as a general rnle, imply the removal of the boy from the paternal roof. But, I think, we can sit feel that the differences of the.e institutions are admirably suite Ito the differecoq of character, and that both th school which Is founded upon 'ghat you term the public school sys_ tem, and likewise a college of the 'eture of that over which you pre side, may find ample and abundant scope in the education of the )oath o: Fng'and ; and may each of them, by its own proper func tions, satisfy a want which it would be I.npeseible for either of them, if it stood alone, to supply. (Hear, hear s and cheers.) I have no dou4t, sir, that you borrow largely from those ancient and venerable institutions that sacred fire, if I may so term it,. which has so long burned at their altars. Nor have I any more doubt, on the o' her side, that these institut!ens have much to learn from you, and that thnt , like Wise, they will le ern. Thus, through the medium of your career,- and:your experience is institutions like this, they will prncticaliy and I experimentally learn the nature and the direction of these changes and extensions which they ehou'd make in their systems, end how and when to apply those changes. And if it be the characteristic of change in the edusational establishments of this country, that it is oi dinarily clew, yet I think we are entitled, on the other hand, to say that it has bsen almost invariably sure and safe. (Hear, hear) The test of that snren so and safety is, that we hare never perceived a di , p isition to recede from the ground which hasonce been made, or an unwise and h ley adoption of experiments, the abondonment of which, after they hal been ad opted, must naturally shake the confidence f the youth of his country in their teachers, and ia the institutions where they are educated. (Hear, hear.) Sir, I cordially rejoice at the success which has attended the manner in which ex; carry on the ulster:of ancient ch.sseal twining with the other imnrtant accemplishments which ale demanded by tee specifie wants of the age, and by the vasious requirements of the many classes which cone within year range. 'cordially rejoice that a disposition to adopt those extensions is now felt-1 venture t speak most confi neatly for that ins.itutieni with which 1 have the honour of being connected—in the University of Ox`ord, and I believe in the University of Cambridge, and that they, ^ with no unreluctant and no laggard hind, will b 3 found cooperating with you, and Isudiag you all that is in their power of support and asistance, viewing you not as enemies, no: as rivals, but as co operators and friends in th it great work in which you are all engaged. (Loud and continued cheers.) What we have see a an I heard convinces me, if I had need to bra convinced, that the work of tenth ng i, here pursued with an olij act of ambition to the master not with the mere view to the means if making daily bread, not with the mere view to temporary popularity, but under the deep conviction that life is a serious ani earnest matter, that tee daily duties to he done by us all, by every one of you who are now gro sing up, as well as by us who a- e engaged la its labours and its battle, that these d. ily duti. s are matters of record before the Eternal 'throne, and that, as there is nothing more misera'ale thee the deet tuition of a human soul and its degredation, so upon the other hand there is nothing in all the creation of God more glorious theta the training and developenaent of a human soul in all its powers and its capacities to answer the purposes for which the A mighty has sent us into the world. (Loud cheers.) I rejoice to think that this institution will Le, as I belie e, a very impoltant means of strengthening the connection between Liverpool and the ancient Universities of this country. I ',ever COlll3 —1 fr nkly own 1 never come—late any of the great seats of in lusty and enterprise without deeply wishing that that connection could be strengthened and extended. It would be for the benefit o f isSth parties. The Universities cannot affor 1 to loose their ho d upon pl ices such as Liverpool aid Manchester, and with t'.e greatest aspect I likewise say, that Liverpool and M melaester cannot afford, without great detriment, to see the destrec' ion of their connection with the Universities. (Hear.) Tue old UM ver sities of the con it ry stand i a an altered ;osi ion. They have uo longer a monopoly of the learning and accomplishments of civilised life. Many of the most dis tinguished men, many of the most accomplished men are, and will be reared from this time forward, as they hare now Lean fora venal generations back, and, perhaps,. in' an inereasins degree, ap .rt f ono the ancient universities. At the ea ne tme, I think, cin impartial observe , . Ain see that the ancient universities hare laid their f nandations both broad and deep in the so :lel life of th s sou itry, and that fora long period—tong, long after the youngest of us has laid his bones in the grave—it probably will at 11 remain true that Oxford and Cambridge will be to our children as they have been t r our forefathers, the great fountain-head of mental cut , ure the pattern and the standard after which others who mean to do well may be content in a great degree to copy. ( Hear. hear.) Now, sir, we knot that in a cas of this kind every th ng depends upon the question - How high do you hold your standard ? According to the hair ht of the highest educated body will be the relative height of those which are bent all it Whatever seizes Oxf rd and Camb. idge will rai-e also a school of this description. Whatever lowers Oxford and Cambridge will lower it. And if from them are to fl ow forth, as I ',relieve, the moot atuadant cf all the fertilising streams of human culture, for a length of time to come, then, I say, it is an honour, an ornament, a - d a benefit to Liverpool, to see foun ed, by the energi , s of her own citizens, an hatitution like this, which tends to place the flower of her youth in a closer and snore vital connection with the ancient Universities of Oxford and Cambrid g e, (fleas, hear, anti cheers ) But, upon the other hand, I trust that there are none of us hero prese at who believe that there is any natural, any neeessa y. antagonism between the pursuits of commerce and the pursuits of learning. (Hear, hear.) At no period of the world in which civili sation has flourished have there been wanting citied which have exemplified, in the most signal manner, the felicitous union between the pursuit of learning and the ent rprising spirit of commerce and of trade. There is nothing either in the inc. eas ing character of commerce, in its demands upon time, or in its influences upon mental habits, which ought to separate between those who pursue it and the love either upon the one hand of their religion and their duty, or upon the othsr hand of literature and of tiroas enabling pursuits whiando so much both to sweeten the cap of life and iikew se to exalt its intellectual and moral tone. (Haar, hear.) Now, sir, if, as I hope, the infiu ,nco of the Universities may, through the meals of this and other institutions, flow forth more largely into these great and powerful centres of activity, enterpr.se, and influence, so, likewise, we should all join in the hope-that the Universities may find it practicable to associate themeelyes 'gore largely than here ofore with what may be called the training of the great middle classes of this country. (Hear, hear.) I participate, sir, heartily in the satisfaction, which I doubt not you have felt, at seeing the Universities during the present year, and I might almost arty at a moment's notice, but, certainly, with a heartiness of spirit whist' soul I not possibly be mistaken, offer to pl ice thems IVei at the bidding and command of those who, like yourselves, are cutesy-curing to organise a plan whereby education not given in the univers ties ihemselves, m neveriheles: ba brought to the test, and may receive the stamp of merit from the authorities connected with those Universities. (Hear, hear.) I heartily wish well, sir, to such a seh mr.e. There is one other subject upon which I may yenta oto say a word, because it is a subject of importune even in Islverpo I. I say even in Liverpool, because I have no doubt that there is no place in the country which is more independent than Liverpool, so far as the c,mmerciel classes are conce: ned, of demands upon the pubic Ferace for employment. Suce is the rapid extension of commerce, fur Liverpool has go adruoled its population within the time I have know I it, that it absorbs in its own service all the eoergiss which tan possibly be made available for the purpose. At the same lime, I dare say it may happen to any one among yea to loole forwasd t emp'oyment in the public service. 1 cherish rho hope that we may yet see the public service put upon a footing much mo - e favourable to industry aid education than it has bee hemtofore. (Cho -re.) It is not satisfactory to my mind, that we should go begging foe public o'fices. Public offices are not to be cons' lered as f ivours bestowed u on individuals, but as opportunities offered for rendering arduous and vinuable services. If there are opp srtunities opening for arduous and valuable services, the conferring of them should not b 3 made a matter of favour. I know that, from the rna ure, it is, in a great many cases, quite impossible to exclude the element of choice an the element of favour. That which is called patriot ase may be a curse and a plague to the comma city, as up on the whole, I rather incline to think it is; but it cannot, from the nature of things, be altogether got rid of. But I bele- e much may be done towards getting rid of one portion of the evil, and that is, getting ri i of it as a condition of entratc r into the public service. (He r, hear.) The system of patronage has beef most rigidly apeled to the e .t . ance into the public service. Any one who has a son to get into the army, any one who has a son to get into the navy, any one who his a son whom he wishes to mitee a clerk in a public office, ore lauding. wai er n the customs, and so; forth, fled that it isles matter of begging, a matter of political influence. I say this with great respec in the presence of another member of parliament, a gentle man who, I dare say, has had as little to do with these chi :go as, fortunately, I Lave had myself. The entrance into public offices ought to be, as , far as practicable, entirely severed from peal teal it fiuence, evict I do trust that the day is comirg when the different s Elide in the public se *vice, that is to say, offices to bi taken upon first en ranee 1..t0 public service—l do not speak of promotion because merit canno be ascertained in the case of prom rtion by means of such an exeminalen—but I do trust that the day is coming when, so far as regards entrance into the public service for }clang men, nearly every office which can be na ned will be held up in the face of the tount , y as a prize to the best candidate who offers himself to win it. (He hear, and the rs.) That will, iu my (pinion, be a great and a happy day for education, amidst all the difficulties which atend the eutTe.t, when we can see, as I really begin to believe we shill see, for we are making progress towards it, those offices offered at premiums and rewards for the honourable exertions of these boys, who, -having distinguished themselves by talents, character, and conduct in their schools, feel that their natural career lies in the direction of render ing service to their country as holders of public offices. (Ch ers.) Now, sir, 1 feel that I have run out the limits by which I must be bound upon this occasion, and, as I have said, I should be reluctant, after what you have so well dons upon the subject to-day, to detain you any longer. I shell only therefore sy, that I hope thess disjointed retnatks which I have laid before you may serve, if they serve for anything at all, to prove that my interest in this inAituloa is a cordial and sincere one. I shall only say one word more before, I corchele, and I will tale for my text a name which at the present moment is enema of great popularity and great eminence. There Uhl remains in some quarters the vulgar Lotion that there is a sort of natural antagonism between corporal and mental excellence. Now, sir, I trust that corporal education will never be forgotten in this country, and that the pursuit of manly sports will always receive the countenance and encouragement not only of the boys who are to engage in them, but of the masters who ars re ponsible for the welfare of the boys. (He -r, hear, and loud cheers.) But with reference to the subject I last opened, the' eis a your gre hard -w o o f rckainntg studiousstillabr boy, abroad to ti o although ff he i ectthas very fi t tyour to t b ookish-boy,andsi plead with his book in his hand, yet is not fit to grapp`e with the active labours of life. There is much, Or, of this canna still abroad which should be removed, to prepare for the proven of a more liberal system with regard to the examination for entrance into the public service. Well, now, I have selected an' eXample from a very rec .nt authority. It is extracted from the Atlisnoutys one or two weeks ago, and relates to a man around whose nalim is perhaps concentrated at the present moment more of pnblie interest than . around any other name—l mean General Havelock.Nheers.) It appears Mr. Principal, th.t General Havelock Is a Charter-house - man, and the writer in the Atheneeu-n—l ca' not be responsible for the autPen- Sicily of the story, otherwise than thst I find it here a d qsvote it— states, which after all is nit ritogether improbable, that when Gen, Havelock was at the Charter-house he tad a nicknsme, and that nickname was " Old Floss " (Loud laughter.) Now there are very grief scholars here no doubt, but I am not quite sure whether there one any in those schools who could, at this momen', by dint ofitheir itelologicN l attainments. be Wile to make out what the meaning of " 0:d Floss" is. (Lan3hter.) Bet still we can get at it. It appears that F. Old Floss " is an abbre , i dion, al I a very reasonable one, with the addition of the pr. 11. x old, of the term " philo other." " This pet name will be remembered by C trthusiana, whose me i•ory can go back some 40 years or more." Now, what was the character borne by General Havelock, who has betel distingu"shing him se f by enter prise, courar, activity, constancy, dog;ed and dauntless resolution, n a degree elual to that of any man whom England hack produced during the century ? (Cbaers.) Why it was this—Old Carthusian s may not have forgotten a Fantle an I thoughtful lad, who used to stand boo dug on while others elated, ant wh se generally meditath 0 manner plocured . for him the name of "philosopher," subsequently dim ni , hed to "Floss," and ccessbonally:a7 Vied as "Old Floss." That young and gaulle philr sopher is a soldier, at whose name the hearts of Englishmen. beat with hone,t pride. Old Floes of the Charterhouse, is Havelock, the hero of Cawnpore. (Loud cheers.) With these weds I shall conclude, wishing to you prosperity oil behalf of this instltation,ln everyone of its pursuits, and in each one of its departments. (Loud cheers, amid which Mr. Gladstone r 3811171'd his seat.) The Principal called for three ch3ers for Mr. Gladstone, and the other strangers who had kindly responded to his invitation, wlfeh were euthasiastically given. The proceedings then terminal Id. EXTRAO2DINAI Y CASE OF MISTAKEN IDF,NTIfY. At the Marylebone Police-court, London, on Tuesday. John Pro bert, who w a remanded from the previous dtk., was again placed at the bar, charged with being concerned ima rebbo - y of watches an go d chahs, to the amount of £10). Mr. Grange appeared far the p (Aeration, and Mr. ll3rring for the pris.iner. It will be rem mb•irad that the prisoner was remanded in order to enable him to produce testimony as to his character, and also to etta dish an alibi Mr. Herring said the clergyman t l wham he alla led toe day Wore was unable to• attend, but that after hearing the o her evidence the magistrate weld C)1113 to no one • c nclasion than that the prisoner was en'ire'y inno:ent of the oTnice with which he was charged, and would immediately order him to be roe ased wlthaut the sl gbtest t 'int on hie character. George Prize examine 1 by Mr. Henry : I am a, fir cor and butcher at Llanfethsrien, in Moira 'ntleshi e, and wag f3rm3rly in the service of the present Dean of Llandaff. I have known the prisoner two years and a half intimately, and was acqn iinted wide him fire years pravionsty. His character has been mo,t unexceptionable. He held the otil:a of road surveyor two years ago, and hl is at present co teeter of land and aeses led taxes under the crown. His moral character is most exe-llent, and he has been a c m•tant .ittendant at ehu 'ch. 1 am not ve'y often in tie hob t of killing a balioctt ;bit I did kill one oa the 24:h Septemb Sr last. I saw the prisoner the day following, ant delivered some moat to him. I have not soli a bullo k sloes, then, and therefore clearly rec )11ect the trantA:tion. I was in the habit of on the prison sr every Feday, an 1 c ailed on lain oa the 2nd cf October last I saw him also oa the following day (the cloy wh'n the robbery wan committed) betw e a tilt hoary of 8 and 1) o'c'oek in the morning'. He was then driving a flock of sore? to a field cal'ed the " Lietland." We had a conversation on that occasi in. Ths prisoner is a very wealthy as well re an upright man. T was made acquaints with the cireamelanze of his arrest by a telegraphie message sent to his w fe, at who,e req sett I have attended. Cross-examined by Mr Grange o I received no message fom Mr. Herring. I recollect the cireueost ince of ki lin; the bn lo2k so particilarly be:.ause I hal chidti bore on that d iy. (I..aorghi - er )—lleary Evans examin .d by Mr. Herring: I sin a se:la ot of the primao's, and have been in h s em doyment since the 5111 of Jane la3t. I slept and hat my moils in the house. I saw him every night aid m rrn n; I modeet the F .st-day, and the pris seer giving me orders to mek some cider. On the Friday be bre I saw him at lie he about nine o'cl Irk. On the latter oi rasion he gave me some farlior order about the viler about ' putting it into hogsheads. Toe w tnes3 was not crest-examinee. Mr. Broughton: There is nothing very extrao dinar: abo it a farmer making ci ler, or ordering it to be put rata hogsheads. How do you ' know about the day s s wall ? Witness : B cause it was the Saturday before the Fast- day.—Cessolini Lloyd eza :lined by Nit*. Herring : Tam a servant of Mr. Roberts, and en'ere 1 his emiloyment on th • last Monday of July. Duri ,, g the whole of the time since then till Wad• nesday last, whe s he came to Lon lon. I saw him every morning and night. lie steptin the house, which I knew, be -aura it was my duty block the doors, and in going to my oivn room I had to pass through my master's and mistmss's bed room Mr. Grange sail he would not ask 'his witness any questions. By Mr. Broughton : I heard of my master being taken into c istody by telegraph. lie was at home on the Satur lay before the Fast day. Mr. Grange sai I the magis trate was aware of the circnmatsnces under which the prisoner was taken into custody, and that the girl to sk upon herself the whole respell iihtlity of the aot. His client was not to b'am .. Mr. Herrin; : W 3 will see how that is, and whether there was any property at all loot. Mr. Grange then contended that there ware grounds sufficient to justify the charg a against the ace lied, and sa d ho was not at all prepared for the alibi that was set up. Thou there was no vindictiveness on the pert of Mr. Straits whose property was stolen. Mr. Bingham : There can be ne vind c tiveness when there is no pert knowledge. I may ray, I never saw a case in which an alibi was got up with so much spirit. T sere was no worse spared, and no zeal was wanting to obtain suthci nt eridenee. With respect to M. St-arlth, no doubt h 3 felt sore a', the loss of his property; but. as I have already rem arkel, he cannot b supposed to be ac sated by any vindielve motive in them otter. As reaards the evidence, I have no hesitation in sayio; I never harda wiiners give his t istimony better than P 'lc 3. I think there is net the slightest shadow of doubt as to the evidence of tae wit nesses this day. end I will therefore discharge the prisoner. Phis announcement war received with cheers by a crosded court, which demonstration, however, was speed ly sup pr.issed by the worthy migi.strate, who remin lei those proaentth at they w ore in a court of joivica and not a the t e. Stradth hare made a st itoment to the effect that he ha l been threatend with law p oceo !hogs. Mr. Herrin; : Which moot assure diy you will. Mr. Strad h then proce:d id to state that ho wad perfectly sati,fiad at present as to the innocence of the prisoner, that he had declined chargiag him at the sta•hm, and that farther he had endea voured to dissuade the servant girl fro n giving him into Cu itody. Mr. Brolght° a stated that he had Received a letter from the rector of the parlrh, in which Mr. Probirt reatdoit. givicg him tho big e t char ict-ir. This terminate the proceedings, in a ease which may yet be clod as one of the most remarkable instances of mistaken identity an rzcord. AN AUSTRALIAN DssrEstano.—M-tlyille, the corvi f, who some time hick gained noto iety by leading a band of other convic s in an uttack on the guars whilst embarking for the lu'lr at M ,Ihourne, in which some lives were lost, and who was condemned for that offence to solitary con firemen', havi' g committed a violent attack on Mr. Wigtle, the governor of the central pot at Melbourne, and been ile'airel in a cell loin a d mht as to his sate of h's mind, committed suicide by hanging himself. His ins.nity was proved to be a sham ; and it is supposed that In hal expected ho woald be placed on his trial (or the attack on the governor, and that he had. therefore, d,terminet: to anticipate justice. 111 e wrote, with a lead jrrcil, upon the walls of his Gill, an in'ima inn of his intention to die by his osm hand. A verdict of felo de ac was returned. G .ivaitrim BST PATRONAGE.—Lord C Aisle has just male an app inlnent which, miraculous to say, has elicited the warmest encomia its of the Conservative jour nes, notwithstanding the inaospieinus fact that the geniis man favoured by the I ish Executive is a member of the Rom .n Caih l'c Church. The Fvening Mail in- naticiog the elevation of Mr. Michael BUrris, of the Connaught bar, to the record irship of Galway, says :—" A hotter ap pointment could not possibly be made. Mr., Morris is a gentleman of firs'-rate atilities, an able lawyer, a ripe and accomplished scholar; and, from the assidui'y with which he devot , s himself to his profession, Cher; cannot be the slightest doubt that, if spared, he will ins day rise to the highest eminence'. Mr. Morris is a Raman Catholic, but rover lent himself to the base and wotth'ess p , rtv who by adopting agitation as a trade have set a barrier between th:rnsalstes and all good eit's .ns. Oa the con trary, he always stood by his 'order,' and, while Trying all due eb Terence to the dery of his religion io spiritual matters, strcogly and successfully struggled against ttn-ir undue interference in polit;cal aft.irs. We wish Lord Carlisle would give us frequent opportunities of speaking in such terms as these of his eppeintmemts." IMPORTATION OF IRON, COPPER, A ND BMW. INT.) FlittNcE, Duns; Fife.— the Paris Moniteur oc Tuesday publishes an imperial decree, admittMg into France, duty free, cast iron,, bar iron, sheet iron, angle i •on, bar ',tee], and rolled capper or alloy of coppe-, imported from ftreign coun ries as raw material, and eestined for re-exportation after haling, hem convered by French manufacturers intu iron j ships or iron boats, macninery or engines t i be used either J on railways or in any branch of manu - acture for which those metals are rainired. The advantages of this per mission are rely to be enjoyed by those ironmasters, war.ufacturers, or builders who have actually received foreign orders for the articles into which the metal is to be manufactured. Certain formalities are prescribed in order to ob'ain this exemption from duty. Bar iron, to be entitled to this privilege must be at least 458 mitlimelres in the width, multiplied by the thickness, in list, or 22 millimetres thick each way, if it be squared with four sides ; 15 millimetres in diameter, if cylindrical, The importers must undertake to re-export they 3 materials, in their manufactured form, within six morAbs. 01 l iron, also, from foreign steam vessels, unde:gling repairs at French ports, may be admitted, duty free, on these con ditiota. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. 'IRST CELEBRATION OF THE FOUNDATION. In consequence of a circular issued by the Principal of the Colle- giato Institution ( Rev. J. S. Howson), a gathering of the governors, directors, and friends of that institution took place in the lecture.. h all at half-past eleven o'clock yesterday, for the purpose of celebrat ing, for the Milt time, the foundation of the building. The following extract from the circular will best explain the object contemplated by the Principal in calling the meeting : On the 22nd of October seventeen years will have elapsed since the fottnaatien-stone of this building was kid. I believe it may be said with truth that the Institution is usefully and successfally accom pli.hing the work for which it was established. All the difficulties, which beset its early progress, have been surmounted; all pecuniary burdens have been removed ; the internal school organisation has been continually improving; the numbers in the three Schools have during the last few years been gra -naliy increasing; end while great numbers of the pupils of the Institution have bean pursuing honourable careers in the various walks of commercial business, an unusually lane proportion of those who have gone to college have obtained high distinction at the Universities, especially at Cam bridge. Under these circumstances it has been thought that come begin ning may be made towards the establishment of an annual School Festival on the 22nd of (' ctober. Most of the older Schools of the country have some such periodical celebration. There is th's advantage here in beginning such a practice early, that an oppor tunity is rained of expressing to many of our founders, during the r life-time, some of that gratitude which is due to them for having discerned one of the great wants of the times, viz., the need of effectual provision for supplying a religions and solid elacation to all the classes of our large towns. I 4 is impossihle to predict what form this " Founders' Day" may hereafter assume. In any case it could probably be wisest to make a modest beginning: and this course is evidently rendered propsr by the recent and lamented death of the first Prin.': pal of th.s Inci tation J. S. HOWSON, Principal. Collegiate Institution, Saturday, Oct. 17th, 1857. The scholars of the institution, with their relatives and friends, assembled in the body and galleries of the hall; and 01 the platform a'ong with the Principal were several gentlemen and clergymen in terested in the institution. Among these 'were—The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., Wm. Brown, Esq., M.P., Von. Archdeacon Jones, Rev. Dr. M'Neile, Rev. C. W. Underwood, head master of the upper school, Rev. J. Cox, head master of the middle school, Mr. J. Mach,d, bead master of the lower school, Alderman Cooper, and many other clergymen and gentlemen. The proceedings opened with a hymn and grayer. The PRINCIPAL then delivered the followln3 ADDRESS. The school prayer which has been used in this place at our morning devotions now for nearly 15 years begins with these words— " Almighty God, the fountain of wisdom, and the giver of every perfect gift, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy, send down, we beseech Thee, Thy blessing on these schools, and prosper the designs of their founders." No words could be better suited to lead our thoughts in the tight direction, and to affect our hearts with the right feelings, on the occa•ion of our present meeting. These schools were opened on the festival of the Epiphany, 1843, and the foundation stone of the building was lai I on the 22nd of ectober, 1840. Very many of those who combined to establish the institution are happily surviving to see their wishes, or at least a great part of their wishes, accomplished. We have intleed to mourn the loss of some who would have sympathised with us today. The ace vmplished and large-he .rted nobleman; the wealthy and munificient merchant ; the indn•trious and honourable tradesman ; the clergyman, venerate 1 for his office, his years, his wisdom, and his benore'ence ; the surgeon, eminent slice for his prate stone' sk It and his Christian charity—such men hive been withdrawn from this world of experiment and endeavour to that other warl 1, where the permanent spiritual results of all our labours here are tested and made known. So we are reminded (sometimes very suddenly and unexpectedly) that while iast'tuf on s flourish, possibly for generation after generation, we who take an interest in them here are gredually and quickly m tying onwards to the time when we must leave then to the int rest cf those who aliened us.' Bat, as I have said, very many of our oeginel founders remain. Some are with us to-day. Others would gladly have been here. Oar rector, Mr. Campbell, writes to me thus :—" From the deep and increasing interest which I take in the Collegiate Institution, I am sure you will give me credit when I tell you how very much I regret that, in cons quence of absence from home, I shall be unable to attend on the Founder's Day, the institution of which I highly approve of." I have received, also, a friendly communication from the Earl of Harrowby. I had boon peeved to say that I had received a similar communization from Mr. «'il tam Gladstone. Bat ho has found it possible to be present himself. His speech at the opening of these schools is well ramemb red; and now ha has visited the Institution ag sin after nearly fifteen years. In fact, though all parade has been avoided, this meeting is meant to be something more than a mere gathering of the masters and the boys, and it will probab'y be expected that my address should so far deviate from a common school di3cours a as to contain some ref Tenets to the general chara ttar and kcoee of the institution. The most chsractsristie feature of tile institution is also the Mos important—l mean its establishment on .5 religions basis.. Though its setae was conceived in no spirit of bigoe y and exclus'veness, and thsugh no such spirit has, as far as I am aware, ever found a home within thes • walls, this is not as institution in which the Bible; is interdicted. That system which deals with the religious difficulty by removing it entirely out of view is in acme respects attractive in appearance. It seems to deal out equal justice to all ; it excludes no one from the adv intages which ought to be common to every one; and I am persuaded that the system is often adopted from good motives, anti teat it es untaist Lu awe that those aro necessarily indif ferent to religion Who believe that sacred teaching may be sefe'y and wisely left to the infl eeece of house and to the off es of the ministers of religion. But lam equally persuaded that this view is a mistake— it is a mistake even on the grounds of e libarality and freedom. It is surely an oppressive law to a schoolmaster if he is precluded, in the course of such work as kis, from a full and unreserved appeal to that Holy Revelation which is our only sure authority in matters of faith and duty—if his tongue is tied precisely when it ought to be most free. And as to the effe it which the absence of religious teaching is likely to have on the pupils in a school, it should he remembered that we are very apt to retain the same general view of life with which we have bean familiarised when we wore young. Oar school experiences constitute an epitome and minatare of human interests in general. If schools may go on satisfactorily and well without religion, why.may not business—the business of commerce, or cf a profession, or of politico? We cannot be sufficiently thankful that all the controversies of recent years in regard to educati m, wha'ever else they may have left in doubt, have resulted in a pervading con e' tion that our schools for the poor ought to test on a reti ions basis. No - is the necessity less urgent for the middle classes and the higher. Here, at leas", one v:ew has always been held in re'erence to this subject. The words which the present Archbishop of Canterbury use lon the day of our foundation are on record. It is not perhaps so generally known as it ought to be th 't Archbishop Sumner himself was one of ille first, if not the very firs', when hi was a master at F:ton, to assert the importance of that disci ct'y spiritual effort, acting in close combination with int llectual training, which is now recogn'ssd as a paramoutd duty in nearly all the great schools of England. To return to our own Collegiate Schools. I feel it to be a subject of true congratelatian that when it was deci led (t s quote a paper printed in 1839) to " maintsi 1 indisssoluble here the connection between sound religion. and us ful learning," a plan was net adopted whish, I he'ieve has been adopted elsewher 1, viz., to appoint a teach rof the >logy as a teacher might be appoi vice foe Latins& for chemistry, rr for a ithmetle, end so to group religion as one among ma ny sejects—donbtless the most important, bat aid one among the many which toeether make rp the azeregate of what Ii taught and learnt. Here, on the cons ry, the chief rasps isibility of re'iglous teaching's pieced where the chief power of e ercising discipline and the duty of general regulation an 1 eupervi ion are a'so plasei. Where the contr ry system is adopt bl,"eal the religion influence is disseve - ed from the supreme an horl ty, there is great daeger lest the feelings of loyaly aid enthusiasm should be enlis'ed on the side of what is merely i•ecalar and intellectual, or that discipline should be seriously relaxed, b - cense its best supports are wanting. On this subject, indeed (firmly as I hold the principles involved in this question), it becomes me to speak with humility and oath faae I trust that the open mention of these things in this plate wi 1 so react on the authority which for the time is made supreme in the ie school., that the responsibility of which I have spoken may henceforth be discharged far more faithfully and purely than it has ever been daring the last eight years.' From the religions characteristics of a school we pass, by the most natural of all transit'ons, to those which are moral. Under this bead, the feature watch is perhaps the most distinctive, and on which my awn mind rests with the chief satisfaction, consists in the close proximity of the school and the home, and the easy co-operation which can be established between the parent aed the master. Boys are not brought to this place and kept together for many months, in vast numbers, away from their homes, with the almost necessary result of the weakening of domestic influence. But the assoeiations of home and the work and di cipline of school are inter-connected, and alternately exercised every day. Thus many evils are prevented which would otherwise occur ; for as it is a great encouragement to a good boy to know thee, his father and mother have been made happy by some communication from the schoolmaster, so it is a very salutary check to a b d boy if he knows or even fears that some communica tion of ano her kind is taking place in reference to himself. lam very seesible, indeed, that there are some disadvantages connected with this feature of these schools, and that there are advantages, great advantages, connected with what is techn'eally called the pub'ir wino' system. Bat on the whole I believe the balance, both intellee tua ly an/ mor illy, as regards the great majorby of schoolboys, is in our ferns. Iw 11 not ar e ue the point with en im'ginary opponent. Having stated my own feeling and convieti no, I will quote the gener ous testimony of a distinguished Etonian. Oar last Oxford examiner was good enough to say (speaking from hfs own acquaintance " both with Eton and other public schools") not only that the knowledge of divinity shown hers was " altogether ieyond the ordinary standard of public school education," but that, even with regard to some of the other parts of the examination, "be did not ever remember to hive seen papers equally good written by boys at our great public s.hools." This, however, is not the pi int for the sake of which I am just now referring to th a valuabletestimony. "Speaking as an Etonian," said Mr. Brodrick, "and being perhaps too apt to refer questions of this hind to that sta da - d, two or three difference; occur to me between the educe tional system here pursued and that of our great public schools; and lam bound to say that the balance of advantage appears to me to Incline in many respects in favour of the former. None of those whom I em now addressing (he continutd)_ can doubt what is the LIVERPOOL AC A.DRRY'S EXHIBITION. T,A7RIII NOTICE. " A Village Holiday," by W. T. F. harshen, is a large picture full of vivasity and characteristic life The subject is oee of which many artiste are enamored, sted there is therefore little new in the components of this painting. We hare the usual group of merry makers in the booths, the dancing and fiddling, and drinking; the q iietly amused lookers-on ; the hawkers praising eel selling their lac-s and trinkets ; the redcoat displaying his e ve , and his uniform to dazzle rust's beauty. All this 11103 t of us have seen before on canvas as often as in life, h u h nevertheless, few can help being gretifie I by the repetition of the sight which this picture press its. Tee g eeaps are_ depicted with natural COO and simplicity, as wail as wi,h vigorous and hearty humour. Close beside this painting it one entitled " A flee:m.les Afternoon." The name has nothing:, to ettrae: bsyeed any of the " thoumnd as i one" samtnese eftesnoses which every year produces us Pe:heps the visitor. if h© glances at the picture at all, is repelled at fi-nt by 01113- th , Pg staelitig and giariog in its general elect. But if he will look Cl.M6lf, ate think he will discover a work having:faults indeed test nevertheless of no common degree of math. The hed' which drew that pebbled and shingled beach. with the roske and headlands in. the dis secs purpling in the light. and suffused the whole with su 3h re sense of heat end almost painful brightness. must have wsetight in obedience to eyes which looked at nature for theraeeives. and received her impressions feithfeily. The hills rising immediately b hied the strand, covered with grasses and heather, a-a painted with as much minuteness as 1113 stony strand on which the nets are- drying and at the same time :vide as full an effect of trathfulnes: and fhleliry to nature in the general aspect. Perhaps the greateet , defeet is the manner in which the realest'. waves of the Sin breaking on the beach are painted Thee is a heery, untran-p vent, almost immoveable elpserence in them which coatrasts very' unfavourably with the bright, lering colon-a and outlines of other objects. But we must think highly of this artist (Ur. A. J. Lewis) and believe one who has shown so full a capacity- for receiving the art-teachings of nature easily capable of over comingevon greater defcts of detail and w)rk uanship than he has evinced here. The picture is likely to recei:e much disparagement, and its first effect dees not, as we helm mina Iced, please the eye, but we cannot help recording our high opinion of the talent aceltruth which produced it. A view on the Rhore, at Avignon (No 3: ihr. H. J. Johnson) is exquisite as a piece of scenery, and painted with much beauty. A aqua-e tower rising sheer from the water with its batt'ements steeped in sunshine, and the cistant glimpses of mountains and turrets blue or g'itterieg white over the stream, are set in e sky whose soft richness is worthy the atmosphere said the scenes of the southern /slimes° in rhich the artist found hie subject. No 5 : " Old Mdl at Hembrook, near Bristol—Winter Evening." This picture, by Mr. E F. DePritchard, has much attractiveness of a very different kind from that of which we have just spoken. It is a faithfully painted sketch of a p;cturesque scene under the influen a of a rut ly, glowing • winter evening sky, with good healthful white frost spit kling over • stones and brambles. Few landscapes in the exhibition give 1.1.3 more pleasure than this little oval painting, of whose general effect, however, we can only speak, as it is hung where critical eyes, exe , pe the very keenest, cannot read its details. This room, what ever fault may be feend wish some of its contents, certainly encloses a variety of charming landscape., exquisitely wrought upon canvass. Such, for instance, is " A Summer Bvening." by Mr. Thomas Dunby. One mus withdraw to a considerable&sten is from this picture to become aware of- the full mallow richness of the sunset haze which suffices it in softened br'ghtnese. Tee visitor wan not fail to observe haw distinctly the da'k foliage outlines itself against the evening sky. and what a sense of calm and slence pervades the whole. We do not pretend to any deep criticism of the technically-artistic merits of this, or, indeed, of any other picture. It h;gh art be not in this and some other pein.ings of ilia same kind, we are inclined to be rather sorry for nigh art. Few uatechnical visitors can look at this picture without feeling some sensation, at least, of that soft indescribable feeling, which "sinks like a weight" upon the minders we lo 'k upon such a scene as this painter had beteie him when he sketched the outlines of this summer landscape. No. 205 —By Mr Janes Andrews—is the fig ire of what we would call a modern young lady, were it net th.t her ample beauties are di covered here with a liberality beyond that of even fashionable feminine evening costume of the pres'nt era. She hells in her hand a small hex, like a jewel Case. which she is opening with a penalierly dainty touch, looking all the whole whh a lang aid and, indeed, somewhat VA21.10116 expression of easy expectancy. But for the catalogue we shoals scercely have guessed, notwithstanding the casket, that this ayes ,he acquaintance of our scholastic yaush-time, Pandora. Ole might have imagined that the remarkable incidents of this nymph's eeisteace had hal already a suffic:enly of illuetratiene The lovers of classic art will probaely recellest having read of a certain Theban reg aletieu which prescribed and proscribed ce tein subjects to painters. Tae greatest of modern cridea is not quite certain that we are right when we laugh at the idea of the fine arts being subjected in their scope to the regulations of municipal law, and thinks there is a goed-deal to be said on both sides of the subjec'. One feels very much inclined to think with him, when tecollecting hotegr.at a waste of talent and good paint upon subjects exheested utterly be yond revival by any power of genius or c ileum, might be saved by the exercise of same good netureclly tyrannical mandate after the Theben fashion. Tee Thebics, indeed, only prohibited c;sricatuses and the representation of hideous objects. These, hoe ver, were the happy days before any kind of art had grown classic and had become, therefore, doomed to eternal imi-ation• and spiritless mimicry. Of the subject of No. I, "Bacchus and Bilenus,"by Mr. George Patten, A.R A , the same might be said es of that we have just mentioned, whlle the rich flesh colouring and vigour of expression make one regret even more tha,t the artist's choice did not fall upon some sultjtct which could. appeal to the living heart of the present 29. " Christ Betrayed,"—R.. S Lander, R.S.A. Attention is inevitably called away at the first glance from the splendidly painted baekgronnd of this pic'.ure, tnd the animates stoup- of figures whic's fill the greater part of the foreground, to the one figure with which the gatz.”. must be satisfied, or will hardly ref ain from condemning the whole. This central figure surely is net a fitting repre sentative of that form and' face which symbolize to us such a blending of human sympathy and Borrow, with an exalted tranquillity and sublime resignation not of this earth In these scared and. pallid features, livid with a fanatic wildness, we cannot see the face of the betrayed Christ. It is not perhaps eurpri.ing, that one so seldom sees in art anything even rem Aely approaching our ideal. of this form gad face. Painters seem for the most part divided into two classes—one which depicts the Saviour with a face of womanish softness and were beauty; another which produces the lineaments and form of soma half-distracted fanatic preacher We cannot ad.ni-e the repterentation, which this picture gives us, and with this central error and defect before us cannot bring ourselves sufficiently, to appreciate the many prints of high 'merit which other portions of the painting unquesti nably exhibit. Some of the startled faces in the group of disci ples are fall of artistic power and vivi 1 life. Mr. Clt Leslie's " Hart:atone," is a remarkable picture —statuesque, as befits the incident depicted—drasaatio even, as it ought to be, but not thea'ric which is precisely what in the hands of an ii.ferior artist it would inevitably have been. There is majesty in the form of Hormione, sueh as a statuary might have given, but the face- is filled with the melancholy hues of true human sorrow. 0 Musidora" (go. (3) is one c a kind of paintings made very famiiiar to the frecrienters of all art-exhibitions. It represents a young lady in h.e chemise brushing her hair, and gazing vacantly forward. 60 "English Autumn Aternoon—Hunpstaal Scenery." Mr. Ford Madox Brown will be considered a man of mark by siost persons, and in Live pool is entitled to especial attention f,'otn the fact that last season he carried off our Acaleasy's prize amid nunph vehement pro test on the part of the public. This picture is of the same style as his works in general, but it has. many merits which the prize picture of las: , year did not 486.711 to 11i tO possess,, and from the nature of the subject,, it could not possibly offend public taste to the same degree. We can all be more patient with the peculiarities of a school making free with beauty of English latdecape scenery, then pre-Raphaelite urea, pre-Raphaelite red hair given utteyfeat to us as a representation of Christ. But indeed, aril much that is not pleating to look at, there is no small: degree of skilful, rich colouring in tlrj.e picture, not un worthy the exquisitely soft and beautifyil scenery it imitates. It has the painful minuteness of online, and marvellous effects of perspeeive, common to many of its compeers, but the artist has. not failed in, fixing on his canvass much of the delicious var., dure and foliage-richness of the scene he painted. Of the figures in the foreground—the lady with her back turned to the spectatoz and the cavalier who p oints to some future of the landscape with his whip —vio, ors lay that they are fully up to the mark of t h e aehool ; that their clothes are very like real clothes ; the whip a pedestal; likeness ; and thrall they do not AU Dalich the picture. ~ to ,oec► 0' per