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to eh to I the ace ery ntlt vhitev At which the let the ions d 11 1 titto self, of etic He his sort for :S O f are) the in the and and the w ho the Lure kick the luta which >< have made and what have I then ?" But educate them with reference to both worlds, for heaven as well as . earth, and then, when time and change shall have passed away You have prepared them for eternity, in which you ope henceforward to be fellow-dwellers with them, and in the sight of that eternal being in whom was the full ness and the perfection of their happiness. But the reso lution went on to say the meeting were .called upon to educat e as members of the Church of Ragland the middle cl asses of society. here he contested at once a strong sense of duty with sonic mixture of *shame for whilst he belie ve d that the church to which he ' belonged was the first daughter of Christ's holy catholic church, and thizever well oth ers m i g ht h ave done, she b a d surpasse d all, he still thought there was something in which she had been deficient with reference to the education of the middle classes. Let us remember the great importance of the middle classes—what they were—that they stood be tween the lower ranks and the higher—that the lower were continually pleasing themselves into the middle class, and t s li h • od t ul from the middle cl as s were con ti nua ll y ar i s i ng t h ose w h o occupy stations in the higher. In short, the middle • F. la sees were th e s h a ft o f th e co l umn, t h e l ower or d ers were t he Pedestal itself, and the higher orders, as told by the groat maste r o f e l oqu e nce , w ere the C or i nth i an cap i tal of the umn. If the capital was to stand, and if the pedestal was not to he a mere ruin, the shaft itself must be strong—polishlV you please, and fl u t e it, b ut l e t i t b e s t rong — . such materials as you find, but work them as well ttliY O U cat', otherwise that which was intended to he a t? , s oaport of them, on e t o s t an d u p on th e o th er , th s ""oie would be'hu inharmonious object, the beauty would be ilon_aosightly and ruinous affair. lie hoped he might be al lowed to express his conviction, that if an education suitable to the the middle classes was to he provided for them, it must be. something like our ordinary and old-fashioned grammar.h a ; i ' t ? °lB . l Uppn which s h ou ld b e engra ft e d suc h i m provements' he lama Strides in science made necessary, and as was due ' t o the a'dv'ancement o( the age. Such an education as used be given but which was now almost passed away. He farmers and c oulduld r emember the r e li cs o f th a t f ormer ag e, and men ners !!rought up in thtte grammar-school in thenorth of England, pey states Men, who could: take their Horace c ut at dinner time, and. their geometry, and solve quadrate poations u n d er a hedge, and who were not a whit less fit, as 130 r alets and citizens, for their duties. That race of men had Meaath • a) * da • • Those men ranked with the Sauriana and try 't etutnie of other days: the were gone, but we must sorts f' 0 gdet:e atireoemn nust back. b N a y: must a I t l i a o v n e — s a o ur p such t c u l as tali''leadnudcarteiolii! fectionsf which would not allow us e a fashionable generait°ileL:Re" ec,location, but demanded the thoughts, minds, and af °ester) themselvesl t ( into thevague and vagrant tirtaeensical ttoiswina .nd \ e ‘ r , in the darkest regions of theoretical and Powerful eete must have a spiritual . charge, .with tlal education, which by a sweet arid curious but convergency- should direct all to • the great point of lov e God. It wa s th us we mus t ac t. W e /oust not allow there to iiiVe 7 education • which would carry " every man 11 Pott the wingi of his own selfishoess, whither those wings i ght carry him, but which would make the counnunity just like God' s people, when journeying through the wildernese when each arranged h inself under•the standard of his tribe and all around the ark of God. ;het th e • • Y stopped, and when ;efore them, so the whole t owards the promised land ste t's- Such he said was 14) give to the middle els Which, if he might be allowed the expree— sortie antagonist development to those developments which were how so continually brought before us. Those deaelop ',lents concerning either the lower passions and appetites, or sarhething relating to the intellectual faculties ; •and :these were being brought forward and exhibited and developed, tu to the danger and detriment of others of far higher moment An d we must call out the benevolence, and the hope, and-t) con scientiousness . , and . give beauty, to exhibit the beauties, and so on ; language if you pleased. wilderness, eta in beautiful and exac whither th :t order ere directing 66 e education we were called upon ses. It nuts e an etincatio , n, would give necessary, nut merely to they were dangerous and give r r act them wheilsoevt t hew their true directions and noblest impulse whenever th we re Properly di rec t e d. If this were our duty with r to the education of the middle and lower classes of 't Must be asked what was the • instrumentality wl we should do this wor i pentality of the church. 1 -'4l he mean something vague and undefined, something of Au etherial nature and an invisible and impalpable, cha racter, something ofwhich there must be a high and grow . estimate formed in the mind as of many other unsub stantial realities, but which- no man could grasp and pass th ro ugh their fing e rs like quick s il ver ? Did h e spea k- of ruething which the Son of God had himself ordained, Pounded upon himself as the chief corner stone, upon the Apostles and prophets, himself being the chief corner stone institution meant to shew that God had a kingdom upon earth, and to bring man into it, not as a kingdoui of m eat and drink, but which was ri g ht eousness , peace , an d 3And °Y, in the Holy Ghost? This was the object of the church. what was the church ? Not the bishops and arch were bishops, and c l ergy, t h e pr i ests_ and deacons merely : they effectually and necessarily part o f it, b ut i t h a d be en Well observed by the Bishop of London, it was the artisan inhis workshop, the merchant in his office, the pleader the court of justice, it was every man and woman in every place in their station, from the Queen upon the throne t o t h e lowest peasant in the land. (Cheers.) This was the church—the catholic church, and that portion of the catholic church which Christ had established in these realms 'the Church of England. (Hear.) She was called upon to be the ark in which the truth of God was placed, even as the tables of the covenant were placed in the chest beneath the mercy seat in the Holy of Holies ; therefore it was her duty to spread the kncwledge of that truth. Oh! if they could send as ministers a greeting every man of them to their households and their congregations respectively, an address to the church in that house ' it would be a very e as y thi ng to educ a t e th e peop l e. We should then find that every man would be a prophet, a priest, and a king in his own family— that he wa s doin g . the office of prophet ac cor di ng to God'st ordinance to teach them the way of life, and the truth, as well as useful learning ; of priest, to carry the intercessions of pity and love to the throne of grace; and of king, to go vern the family according as the laws which God had appointed. It would then be delightful to go and enter that house, say ing, " Peacc be upon this house," knowing that the blessing of the Son of Peace rested upon it, and that it was go verned according to his laws and regulations. And then we should see that every family duty would be made wore endearing by the spirit in which it was discharged, and every family trial lessened: by being borne in con formity with the will of Christ ; family enjoyments would be doubled by being so assimilated, an d f am il y divi sions would be held as it were as a kind of schism in the body of Christ, which men would shun and shrink from. But it was not so ; and as the church ;vas the depository of the truth, it was her duty to extend that truth; as the witness for God, it was her duty to extend the knowledge of Jesus •, and as she was the mother into whose care was committed every child received into her embrace and pale by baptism . ; so it was her duty to hear continually God's word, which s aid, " Nurse this child for me ; not merely for a trade, for An occuration, for a scientific discovery, for place high in letters or arms, or whatever ground of distinction you please ; b ut nurse this child for me, and I will give thee thy wages in that child's present comfort and usefulness as it grows up, In its suitable and- fitting membership with the great body of Jesus Christ, and in its future prospects as an heir of glory— nurse this child for me." This was the langua generally, of th C hurch of England with regard to her children generally,e and certainly so with regard to the education which was to prepare them, as consistent members of her body, and in an especial manner of the body of Jesus Christ. Now religion, which was the mistress and superintendent of all right in !Yuction, according to what. they had heard from the k;hancellor's recital, must also be the superintendent of g e neral edu ca ti on ; an d h e wou ld as k , i nto - w h ose h an d s should that education be most fitly entrusted ? Should it Shur be entrusted as to its supervision to the clergy of the hof England ? He spoke as one of them, and so with reference to the common good of this great matter, would l & a gnify his office. Should it be said that the clergy of the u ntch of England should feed, according to the Saviour's c an:lnland, the sheep of the fold of Christ, and not also feed theyiambs of Christ, according to the same command? If ""ey were worthy of being ministers, to supply the grown r ° Ple with the stronger meat of higher gospel truth for prac and experimental religion, should they not also be tho ught worthy of supplying the milk whereby the babe s hould be freely nourisned up to its high destination? He I.,ePudiated the charge brought against the clergy of the ,Lhurch of England, of being hostile to the advancement of stnowledg,e. The advancement of knowledge had been de "1;0 from our universities—from those universities one of W nieh had educated the lion. gentleman near him, who had expressed his hope that she might be a fountain of blessings, spiritual, civil, and political, to the present and future times, to this and other lands.- From this and the other university which the Chancellor had mentioned, his own beloved Alma ifat e , , was owing the protection and extension of knowledge; through many a slumbering century they were the cradles in which that knowledge was nurtured, and now, they. wished to j eo mniunicate it throughout the length and breadth of the ' a nd, under the blessing of God. The rev. gentleman then Proceeded to comment most eloquently upon the efficiency of ,the church as an instriiment of education—a position which he clearly established ; and lie concluded by moving the re solution. Iwered it was the instru- What did he mean by the church GLADSTONZ, Esq., M.P., then rose amidst very Marked and lengthened applause. He said—The resolution which I have undertaken to second, in the presence of this great and influential assembly, has been already read to you by the rev. gentleman who preceded me, to the effect that the education of the middle and labouring elasses•ought to engage the diligent attention of the established church. Now, this is a proposition which, in the eyes of some of those pre sent, and at the present stage of the business, may have the appearance almost of a truism ; and yet, notwithstanding, I Will venture to say that it is one containing a sentiment which involves every question now contested between the friends and opponents of scriptural and religious education. (Hear, hear.) It is not held by any great or influential party, that education ought to be communicated to men without the ac companiment of religion ;—we have not yet arrived to such a height of audacity as that any party maintaining such a pro position, should meet with any considerable amount of ac ceptance from Englishmen. On the other hand, _we have not now to contend with the honest prejudices of some of those Who were once inclined to believe that we are to seek, in-the ignorance of the people, for the safetY and permanency of our i nstitutions. We do not believe that man can be benefited bY the continuation of i gnoran ce—that g o o d can b e gen erated by_ the torpo r o f th ose f acu ltie s w hich God h as g i ven to us . ' 4 O where we will, we find it generally admitted that the peo- I IC ought be educated, and religiously educated too, The 'question at issue—the question on which the result of all these scheme s of education depends—the question on which fangs the alternative, whether education shall issue in the reatest blessing or the most terrific curse that can befal man kind, is whether religion ought to be treated as a single and is olated sci ence , as a mere ma tt er o f scientific attainment, or Whether it ought to be a vital principle pervading every ele ment and topic of instruction, as the soul to which every other topic i s as t h e b ody. (C heers. ) Now, it is because we main tain strongly the one of these alternatives, and because we. deprecate the other, that the resolution I am. now speaking to. I S to-day proposed to this meeting. If it be true, as it is often asserted, that religion may separated from the general matter °f i nstruction, then, indeed, it does not appear on what ground ° venture to assert that education ought to engage the at '-ention of the church. It is said by many, whose delusions °, l l this subject I have ever deplored, " let the church teach Lttat which belongs to her; let her not intrude into a pro tvilPee which does not belong to her ; let her instruct . ° People in the doctrines of genuine Christianity, but vot attempt to engross in her own hand the general educe ,:t°to of the kingdom." A more plausible sophism was never t* ' ere & It comes attended with many winning considera ul,°P, with promises of peaCe and harmony on the one hand, 1 u with a representation on the other, that if we persist in woentendinz for the union of religious and general education, eau shall be persisting in maintaining among the people a irudti of perpetual discord. I am not insensible to the 8 4 ,7"ug nature of this representation; but, nevertheless, I giv e that to that cause which is the cause of truth we must of e , the first.consideration, and that that which is the cause thattruth will likewise be found to be the cause of peace, and, t i t a j , that which promises to be the cause of peace and cha. a n :, and which disregards those principles from which peace th e parity can alone flow, will ultimately be found ono of aftii a rkest delusions with which the human mind was ever pia.eted. Why is it that we are called upon to resist the s l autibility of those who contend for the division of religious the',general education? Nothing can be wore equitable than s,tanftentions of many among the number of those who con gener ° t* the division ; nothing can be more perilous than the, reago_a! argument they urge, because it is just that degree of ti th e i nng that is likely to take those who pay little attention with u , su bject. They do not say that education should be at religion.; but they say ; 4 , Let the church give to the children of the church that education which she thinks pro per ; only let her confine herself within certain bounds, and leave the rest free from her influence." That is plausible ; hut it is what we ought to resist to the utmost extremity. (Much cheering.) I will not attempt to go at large into the reasons on which that opposition ought to be grounded; but I will endeavour to give these two reasons for the course which I have recommended. In the first place, I admit that in certain branches of cu lt ure k now l e d ge ma y be communi cated without religion : that, for instance, to make men phy sicians or - engineers, or to instruct them in many useful branches -of learning, is a thing that may be done without any direct reference to religion. But even this is not true of the highest branches of secular knowledge. While speak ing of things inanimate, of the powers of nature—how they may be subdued, and enlisted into the service of man, you may escape, though through great injustice, from any refer ence to religion; hut is impossible that you can escape from a reference to Nature's God.' But when- you come to the sciences which involve the nature of man—when you come to the sciences which involve his destiny—when you teach man to learn the lessons of wisdom from the re cords of experience —when you come, not into the regions of moral philosophy, but of history, you are then reduced to one of two alternatives, either you must have the pupils in structed by those who have a sense of the truth of Christi anity, or you must abandon theta to practical' infidelity. It is in vain to teach men history, 'or anything concerned with human hopes and destiny, on principles ,of neutraiity. (Cheers.) The experiment has been tried, and a greater failure was never exhibited. It must be taught with a sense of religion, or they will be irreligious. But that it should be taught with a direct mention of religion may be inferred from one of the precepts which have been given for our gui dance, namely, that whatever we do, we are bound to do it to the glory of God. (Cheers.) I say that if we are bound to do small and mean things to the glory of God—if we are told even to eat and drink to the glory of God, how ranch more does the command -hold good when we talk of subduing the powers of nature, healing disease, or of putting into ac tivity the benevolent operations of art—above all, when we ascend from the regions of matter to mind, and deal with the faculties which God leas conferred upon us, and with respect to which man was declared to be made in the image of God. To refuse o recognise religion in these branches, is at once t 6 deny that allegiance which we owe to this supre macy. (Applause.) Now, the principle on which I contend that religion ought to pervade all systems of education, and that no system of education can permanently raise either the intellectual or physical condition of man, which is not con nected throughout with religion, is the principle which not only approves itself in the abstract to our understandings, but has ever been acted on since the foundation of the Chris tian church. I defy any man to name a period since the christian church existed, at which she has not been the great promoter of education, (applause,)—and in saying this, I do not except from the proposition even those ages of darkness when the mass of men were 'almost wholly destitute of in tellectual culture. Even then, small as the amount of exist ing knowledge was, the great portion of it was to be found in the seminaries of the church. I say, without fear of offence, that the monasteries, which afterw'ards became sinks of pol lution and corruption, were in their. origin 'established for, and in some degree effected, the maintenance of learning and civilization; and that through a long and dreary period, when the generality of mankind were enveloped in darkness, those 'monasteries did rear and send out some of the greatest men that the world had ever knOwn. But I now come to a more popular arid obvious illustration, derived from the reformation; and I ask, what was the effect of the reformation on the measures which were then taken for the cultivation and advancement of knowledge? In the first place, it is fair to say that the reformation gave a facility to those measures, by the revival of learning; and I refer to that as a proof of a proposition of no small importance to maintain and keep in mind, that the revival of learning was eminently favourable to the maintenance of Christian truth. But what followed the reformation with respect to the re vival of learning? If we study the subject of endowments in this country—and a very curious one it is—we shall find, on the whole, that this is the case. At the period of the reformation, so far from a check being given to religious benev:dence, the benignant stream, on the 'contrary; for a century and a-half afterwardl, flowed more freely and fully than for the preceding century and a-half, but that it took a different direction, namely, the founding and endowing of schools—the very object on which we ourselves are this day met. (Cheers.) Trace the history of those grammar sohools which have done so much for the intellectual culture of this country, and you will find that while few were founded in the reign of Henry VII., more were founded in the reign of Henry VIII., very many more in that of Edward VI. — that they went back in the reign of Mary, and advanced in that of queen Elizabeth—(great applause)—and through the whole . of the 17th century there was a constant course of benefactions directed to that great and valuable purpose, thereby testifying the sense of those who were attached to the reformation, as it was seen in the Church of England, and their strong conviction that learning ought to be aided in connect on with the church. In the constitution of the church there were embodied regulations which show how completely this principle had been accepted and recognised throughout her whole progress. Even when the chapters were founded, it was considered one of the duties of the clergymen there assembled to devote themselves, not only to the teaching of scientific theology, but to the general educa tion of the people. And afterwards, when it was found necessary, instead of dividing the task amongst many, to concentrate it in one person, an officer was appointed in every chapter, one whose duty it was to advance the instruc tion of the people. And that officer was—and there is a peculiar propriety in referring to it, from the fact of there being one gentleman present on whom the title has been appropriately conferred—the chancellor of the diocese. (Cheers.) And I must say that if we are to take the speech which he (the Rev. Chancellor Raikes) his this day deli vered as a specimen of his general intentions with respect to education, or as a specimen of his powers in pleading its cause before a great assembly, we cannot but be satisfied ;_ o( a fr thel; its sdl (Applause.) isa r ee t vs r .i t t g, ivlbeite.ha, been nti hn a e n e o y ot pint b rfl e eeo t ts t ori e etf r idoh s neiosentuar officei n y h ac f n o i mr r seo t pa h lszi e oee nsa p :l e r ot uwh f o sah r oa m i enthadhneacbfealoe have been urged, an d i n oppos i tion to tf. the o precedents which I have cited, tho se w h o di sapprove of our principles, and , advocate ve on thethe f a tasubject doctrine of education, that r e r l shall s i o o ought procureugt t o a be rm national vel separated from secular instt uction, and that separate cultiva tion ought to be given on some general principle common to all religions, or without reference to the religion of the church, then it is my_firm persuartion that in vain shall we attempt to maintain religion as a separate science. - Revela tion was not give n by God as a speculation ; it was given that it form the foundation' of the character of man, and be the guide of every action ; and if it is to be regarded iu any other light—if it is to be treated as a merely speculative thing, it becomes no better than an antique curiosity—one of those monsters of bygone days which were referred to'by the reverend gentleman (the Rev. Mr. Buddicorn), and we might as well renounce and repudiate it altogether, as to say that we can retain religion by separating it from the rest of know ledge, and base the rest of our life on other principles than those of the Christian religion. We may well say that the institution of these diocesan boards come to us commended not only by an abundance of reasoning, which our own minds can supply, and of authority which is derived from universal practice ; and I, for one, am perfectly persuaded that these institutions will extend, that they will remain, and that all those theories which go to the inculcation of knowledge with ont religion may also remain, as evil is not to be banished entirely from the world • but that they will never overcome that true prin c ipl e on which we stand, that a Christian coun try can have no stable advantage which is not penetrated and pervaded by religious education. It is true, indeed, that the interest and excitement of a meeting like the present do not avail to overcome the difficulties which lie in the course of those who have an interest in this great work. We, who ap pear before you to-day, and lend our humble efforts to this cause, are not•those on whom the heat and burden of theday falls. It falls on the humble schoohnaster in the remote vil lage, it falls on the clergyman in his cure, on such gentlemen as the one who has undertaken the super intendence of the training college of this diocese, on such men as my honourable friend the secretary, whose unwearied energies are supported by the hope of your ap probation, as well as of future and more enduring rewards. (Cheers.) Let them persevere in the task which they have undertaken. Knowledge, I admit, may do something ; I admit that scientific pursuits, apart from religion, may do something to restrain the grosser excesses of vice. But it is in vain to apply a palliative to the evils of human nature • it it is in vain that we resor t to ot h er ways t h an those which the Divine authority commands, and whatever may be done for a time, however we may be deluded by partial successes, in•time the old disease of humanity recurs with increased violence, and in a more obstinate and aggravated form. To that disease, we earnestly and humbly desire to apply the re medy which God appoints, not because it is the one which we deem right and expedient, but because it is the one which He has appointed. And because it is the one which God has ap pointed, we are not to be discouraged by opposition, preju dice, or lukewarmness, even if that bad been greater than it has been, but are to persevere in confidence with the work undertaken according to the will of God, through the in strumentality of that organization of the church which He himself has ordained—that work which has received the uni versal sanction of the wisest men in all countries and through out all ages, and which however obscured by temporary dif ficulties and obstructions, in the end must be successful in that measure and in that time and degree which God himself has ordained. (Great applause.) • The resolution was then unanimously carried. The Rev. CHAIRMAN mentioned, that in the list of gen tlemen who were absent from. the meeting in consequence of prior engagements, he had not read that of Lord Stanley, the reason for which was, that the noble lord had no previous engagement, but had a full intention and desire to be present. He, however, was absent through illness. He was confined to his bed yesterday, when he had lost his voice; but he did not till the last moment forego the intention and pleasure of attending, thinking that he might that morning (Thursday). be so far - recovered as to be able to be here. That hope and expectation, he (the Chairman) was sorry to say, had been disappointed ;'but he was glad to•say.that another gentleman had kindly undertaken, on the spur of the moment, to sup ply his lordship's place : he referred to the hon. secretary. The Hon. and Rev. HORACE Powys, Rector of Warring tqn, then stood up amidst applause, which, having subsided, he raid,—Was there ever, I may ask, a more unfortunate se cretary ? • My hon. friend (Mr. Gladstone) says that I have to do the-work behind the scenes, and it now seems that I have also to do something before 'the scenes; for I have to come forward, as on the last occasion, under circumstances most extraordinarily trying. Last year, I had unexpectedly to fill the place of Lord Francis Egerton, who, with Lord Stanley, was to have been here on the present occasion, but has been prevented ; and now that it has been announced that my noble friend (Lord Stanley) is too ill to come among us, at least with his voice —and to haie him here without his voice would be still more painful—l am again called upon to fill the situation of an absent speaker. I hope, therefore, that you will make all necessary allowances, if, on the spur of the moment, as the chairman sayi, I rise to take a resolu tion which was not originally intended for the ; and you must excuse me if I scrupulously avoid, as I intend to do, all those exciting topics which are usually most popular in a public meeting, and come down, in the office of secretary, to the mere explanation of facts, and put my audience in possession of the details of this society, the principles of which have been so largely put forth, and which, in the resolutions passed, you have declared your willingress to support; by promoting education in connection with religion, and to let that religious education be in connection with the established church ; by not confining that education to the labouring class, or any particular class ; but at the same time declaring that the middle classes demand and deserie from the church,the greatest degree of attention. The resolution which I have so rashly undertaken is this—[The speaker read the resolution, which was to the effect that well-trained teachers and an improved system of taition were requisite for carrying out the plans of the board.] Are we, then, to conclude, from the necessity of such a resolution - being proposed to such a meeting as the present, that there is a deficiency of well-trained teachers to conduct education on well-grounded principles? Whether you may be disposed to go with ma or not, I cannot say ; but the conclusion I have come to, from some little acquaintance' with the matter, is, that there is a most lamentable deficiency: of well-trained, spiritually-minded teachers. It may, then,. be very naturally asked, " Who is to blame for this?' We have a church, that, u you say, is commissioned to teach Christ's lambs.; and that church has to-day been spoken of as ever willing to undertake the duty imposed on her by her Divine head. It was also intimated that there has been for some time in connection with that church a National Society, of which the head of the church.is a leading member ; but in spite of all that, it is a lamentable fact, that there is a great and deplorable deficiency -of 'competent and spiritual-minded men and women to undertake the management of the church schools. Do I say that the blame rests on the National So ciety ? for the deficiency has been talked of, not only in the present day, bait in bygone times. I answer, in the name of the society,—" No ; the blame does not rest there." The National Society has been placed in this position :—lt has had to supply' the great educational needs of the country; but her means have been so limited that it was totally impos sible for her to undertake more than the mere multiplying of schools, trusting to the clergy and local managers to conduct them on church principles. The society has done its best, and if the blame lies any where, it lies on the shoulders of the nation at large, which has not, either through its repre sentatives in parliament, or by private contributions, afforded means to the society to work out the plan which was originally de% ised. This plan of the diocesan board, is, in fact, the original plan of the National Society ; and therefore, you are now called on to carry out that which would long ago hare been done, except for the lack of funds. The society has multiplied schools to an amazing extent, and even within this very district. I believe I speak correctly when I say that within the diocese of Chester, within a very few years, she has distributed upwards of .£37,000. (Hear, hear.) But some persona may perhaps be disposed to say, " You are too hard, Mr. Secretary, . when you pass so sweeping a condem nation en a .very large number of schools and of school teachers." I hope I am ; but I must tell you that I rather glory in being " the schoolmaster abroad." I am constantly inquiring into the character of schools and schoolmasters, and consequently into the effect of teaching, in the results of the schools inquired about; and I am perfectly certain if I were to state here the facts which I know,:and which rest on the most indisputable testimony, you would not only be con vinced of the truth of my statement, but be alarmed for what is going on in the schools of which you may have so very good an opinion. My search has brought me to this conclu sion, that there can be no practical separation of religious and secular education without wedding secular education with infidelity ; and I could prove, from the very place in which I speak, that through the opinions of the schoolmas ters, through their practices out of school, and through their known infidel opinions, perhaps. not expressed in schools, but certainly out of them, they openly propagated rank blas phemy and moat deliberate infidelity. There are institutions throughout the country, high in the estimation of the public, in which there is actually a restraint placed on those who were the teachers in those schools, so that they were bound down, in accepting their offices, from teaching those truths which they in their consciences believed to be inseparable from salvation. Perhaps you will be startled when I tell you that in one of the most wealthy schools in this country —I believe I may say the most wealthy—the master, a cler gyman, was hound in a written agreement with the trustees not to teach Christianity. What do I mean ? I mean that in that town—for it was not in this—there being a large number of the Jewish persuasion, who wished to have the benefit of a good education for their children, it was deter mined to admit them into this school, and-the master was bound down not to teach Christianity to them. Whether, ' on the other hand, he was bound down not to Judaize the Christians, I cannot say. Schools such as this were princi pally for the middle classes ; and in this diocese, from in quiries which I have made, I have ascertained the lament able fact that the education of the middle classes is for the most part conducted by persons holding Unitarian or Socinian opinions. It is also act that the schools in connexion with the church are enty as one to four in com parison with those not connected with the church. The mid dle classes know and acknowledge this ; but they say that they must have for their children an education suited to the requirements of the age, and if the church will not provide it, they must send their children where they can get it at a reasonable rate. •The consequence is, that they have fallen into places where, if they are not brought up in the religion of the church, they are brought up in no religion at all, or tutored in infidelity. Then, if you come down to the national schools, I can tell you that. you see before you a national schoolmaster. I came into my parish to teach Christ's lambs; but 1 could not ; I had no school. I raised a school. Year after, I got master after master; and year after year, I con tinued to look too closely into their conduct—for themselves I mean—and year after year I was obliged to dismiss them. Sometimes they complained that, being efficient teachers, I had no right to dismiss them, and said that I had nothing to do with their conduct out of doors. But the result was, in my own parish, that the children, instead of being brought up in godly habits, in veneration for the church, and re spect for the clergy, were completely neglected on those points, and I had to suffer, from year to year, the great est and most grievous disappointments. - Hence 1 myself became an inquirer, and from an inquirer a •schoolmas ter, and from that I became a 'little anxious to examine into systems of tuition, and I found what is here stated in the report, most boldly and plainly, that what is called Bell's system of education, was most lamentably deficient in establishing truth in the minds of children, and bringing them up in holy and righteous practices. For instance, I went into my own schOol, as I have gone into many others—but 1 would rather show up my own school than that of any one else—and I took a class and made them read the parable of the Prodigal son. They had read it so often that they knew it by heart ; and at last I told them to put down the book and answer a few questions. I put the most simple interrogato ries to them, but they could not answer one. I found that they had been taught by rote to answer " Yes" or " No ;" so I got one of them, and said, " Conic, my little boy. shall I tell you? The young son said to his father, I am hungry, give me a great lump of bread. Was that it ?" Yes, sir." I followed up this systern, to convince myself beyond a doubt that they were not properly educated. " Well, a book and a piece of bread are the same thing, are they not ?" " Yes, sir." So I took bold of the boy and said to him, " Here, my little man, take this book and cat it." This brought hint to his senses, and he began to feel that he had been taught mechanically • and when I explained to the whole class that most beautiful story, and the instery of love involved in it, I never saw children more affectionately bend their minds to receive the first precepts of Divine truth. Now, this is only an illustration which I have given you, because I thought it might interest mechanicalrona l ti e fr x i a e m nd in s. ati ( o E i l l ea o r, n the whole school, that they ha d been taugh t to read and aa cheers.) e our er s. write ; but when I asked them what they believed , o r what ) Pb° I re f r ou ah nd d , f practically led to, they were utterly destitute of point out the path to it. Hence I became a schoolmaster , t t h h a ei t r k b n e o ll w e l f edge which was to lead them to salvation, or to and then the secretary of this society ; and, having had so much experience, I recommended to the hoard, and they wisely adopted the suggestion, that before they erected schools or obtained school-rooms, they should procure a number's( persons well qualified to teach, and to ground the children in religious belief. What, for instance, would be the use of your building in this town so many churches, if you bad not such a body of clergymen as you have to offi ciate in them ? What would be the use of your building, if you had inefficient or immoral clergymen? Would it do good ? No ! harm ; for it would bring disrepute and dis honour upon the service of God, and lead all who knew them to dishonour God with them. Would a master of a family say, " I want there to have my offspring educated ; I care not about the principles of the tutor or of the governess; let them have a great deal of knowledge, and bring up my children to play well, and to behave like gentlemen and ladies, and I shall be satisfied ?" Would not the man who . so spoke be called insane? And shall we treat the children of the poor in a way that we would not treat our own children? (Cheers.) Would we say, " Never mind the principles and practices of the man that is to teach these poor lambs, so long as he is able to arrange his class,and to make his monitors do the drudgery." The thing would be insane; and therefore we have in the first instance turned our minds anxiously to them who alone can carry out our efforts—to the education of those who hereafter are to teach. We have now laid the groundwork for introducing throughout the diocese an improved system of education, in lieu of this monitorial system. Don't misunderstand me ; don't think that I condemn the system altogether, because what is mechanical in a school, may very well be conducted by monitors ; but what is spiritual must come from agents of a spiritual mind. The heart of a teacher must be in his work. if he would make spiritual children, the master must be spiritual himself. What little boy is tit to teach those divine truths which are to lead souls towards heaven ? There must be some more effective mode, if we are to lead boys to comprehend those things which are to lead them to everlast ing life. And if a clergyman himself is not able to under take-that himself, it is the more necessary for him to provide in his place a man or a woman in whose religious principles, and in whose consistent religious practices, he can conscien tiously and fully depend, ere he commit to them the training of the lambs under his charge. The step by which we have endeavoured to provide for the religious wants of the church in this diocese is, firstly, our training school, which is our first and main object, and we have endeavoured to establish that at Chester. This site has been objected to as inconvenient, and on this point I would make a few remarks, by way of public answer to the objection. I do not think that any one would think an inhabitant of London a very wise person, who said, I derive no benefit from the Thames, because I do not live at the source ;" nor do I think that an inhabitant of Liverpool would be disposed to exchange the advantages of his position, at the sea end of the Mersey, for one situated at nearly the source. It is not al ways those who are at the source who derive the advantages they themselves wish for. At Chester will be the educational establishment of those who are to teach. Our next object is to establish in every portion of the diocese, in the most ac cessible portions we can find, schools in which those educated at Chester can carry on the education of the district schools. It is not at Chester you will see the fruits of all this, but in your own neighbourhood, where the trained pupils will come, and where they will be licensed to teach. Now, in obtaining this institution at Chester, the report has stated that the plans have been drawn, anti that a site has been very nearly ob tained. That is to say, the building committee have been attempting to enter into a contract with the owner of a piece of ground there. Since the report has been published, I am sorry to tell you that almost all hope of obtaining that site is et an end ; and I think it is either the sixth or seventh site which has been snatched from us ,almost at:the moment when we thought we were beginning to build. A price was asked, in the instance referred to in the report, which the Diocesan Society thought that they were not able to meet. Having said so much on the words • of the resolution, and knowing that there is a great deal in. the shape of business to be brought forward, but which will fall into abler hands than mine, I shall now leave the reso lution, by first of all reading to you the opinion of the Na-: tional Society with regard to the difficulties-with which this board may be expected to meet in the progress of the work which it has undertaken. [The rev., gentleman read the ex tract referred to, which stated that the chief difficulty which would have to be encountered would be the impatience of the people to see the sudden results from the great pechniary grants which had been made, when those results ought not to be expected but in the course of years.] Let me, then, now , leave business matters, which I know.must.be very dry to the audience, and appeal to you one moment as a christian people, and a church people, whether this shall be the danger with which the National Society has to contend—which shall cloud,. and perhaps thwart our efforts. I trust that the response from this town will be ire the negative •, I trust that the old saying will be remembered, • th a t " R ome was no t built in a day.' , I trust you will not think that the Dio cesan is doing nothing, because it does not at once place schoOls in every town and district, as by a miracle but I trust that you will examine the principies on which the board' is founded, a board whose aim is to extend education, secu lor and religious, both in connection with the church ; and I pray you to have faith, not so much in us , w h o are work i ng out these principles, but faith in those principles them selves, trusting in God for their success; which Christ has promised to bless if acted upon, saying that he will be with his church, if she fulfils her duty, to the end of time. (Cheers.) But let me • also remind you, and not so much in the shape of appeal as in the shape of ad monition, from a weak instrument indeed, but one who is ordained to speak, on the highest authority, to those who ought to maintain everything connected with the temporal as well as the spiritual welfare of the. church —suffer me to admonish you, in days like the present, not to leave your clergy to fight the good fight of faith —not to leave to us alone the work, as it is our duty and not our honour to work, though honourable as it is in his service for whom we per form all our duties—suffer as not to bend all our energies in your behalf in vain ; but remember that that is a high and holy talent with which we are entrusted, and that if we ne glect those committed to our charge in this world, their blood must, in the next world, be, upon our heads. Remember, also, • that talents are committed to every member of the church, high and low, rich and poor; and do not let it be' said, in this diocese, that the Chester Board of Education is not able to carry out the great design on the principles they; were determined to act. upon, for want of those means Which ought to flow in on her almost without asking, from a Christian population. I call on the inhabitants of the town of Liverpool, in the name of the Diocesan Board,. and in the name of the church, to pour out of the abundance of their -wealth- some talent, which may be but a trifle, but which, if many trifles are put together, will enable us, hug j manly speaking, to do Ml we Want: When first the &Mins of this board first advanced before the public, I calculated that, if, only in this diocese, taking the poor and the rich to t gether, we could average £5. only, we should have enough to do a good portion of what we undertook to do. gut after , a year and a half of no inconsiderable exertion, I am bound to say that the average has not come up to anything like that sum. Now, will the town of Liverpool hear a statement like this, and go away, and say, " We have heard one or two good speeches from so and so ; we are sorry that we have not heard Lord Francis Egerton, and more so that we did not hear Lord Stanley, and therefore the meeting was less inte resting than we expected ?" I hope not; but that you will go forth from this place, and say—" The church calls on every one of us for support ; she is acting on high and good principles : she and her clergy will work oat what is most to our own advantage; and she is in want of assistance. But look on the side of our opponents, and see who is against the church ; there, however, you will find no lack of money." Politica will sometimes' 'draw out money, when principles will not. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) Here stands the church upon her own foundation, anxious to make no com promise of principle with any party—nay, determined not to do so, but leaning on faith for success ; and on the opposite side stands—who ? Note church, not those agreeing on any one church principle, but those who have a hard and fast bond of union—opposition to the church, and a determina tion to destroy her if they can. And when we see, as we now do see, protestant dissenters, members of the true catholic church of Christ, shaking hands, politically and cordially, with those who have separated themselves from . the church of Christ, and so clothed themselves with incrustations of error, that' you can scarcely trace anything like a proper principle of religion amongst them—need I . say that I allude to the Romanist dissenters ?—and when we see protestants; and those who speak against popery, and yet, in the matter of education, say, " No ; the church shall not have that ; we will cut off from the church that source of influence and power, and thus enable us to pull down the church itself," is it not incumbent upon every one of us to exert ourselves to the utmost ? An Unitarian minister at Bath said, " Give me the choice of the schoolmasters, and I will soon work any reform I please in the church." Come to our aid, then, all who value truth ; come to our aid, all who would wipe off error; join hands with the church, which has been the great breakwater against error and infidelity; come to our aid, all who Value the religious education of the country—all who look to the exaltation of the nation, which shall grow, by di vine permission, out of righteousness ; give your hands to us; hold fast sound spiritual truth ; give us of your money ; sup port your church liberally ; act on your principles of faith, and wait to see the result; but, oh! let us not fight, in Christ's name, the spiritual battle alone. (Loud cheering.) The Rev. Mr. PARR. vicar of Preston, seconded the resolu tion. After a few appropriate introductory remarks, the rev. 'gentleman said—l think it my duty in seconding this propo sition, to declare. my full concurrence in the terms of it. These are not times, ladies and gentlemen, in which any busi ness or any body of persons can afford to stand still. " For ward " is the word upon every side! " Advance! Advance ! " is the cry, and that with a rapidity unprecedented in any former times. We are not desirous to stand still ; we are desirous to go forward ; but we cannot go forward without asking " where are we to go, in what direction, in what road ?" If heavenward, if in the- direction to which truth and religion point forward, if you please, as soon as you please, and as fast as you please; but we must consider in what direction you are propelled. Again, we must consider whether we are to go forward in a manner becoming the church. If we are to go forward let us go with caution and consideration against the dangers and the difficulties of the way, and with that provision for attaining the end we have in view, which has characterised the church in all ages. 'Well trained teachers and an improved system of education are essential to the ex tension of an useful education. It is time that the efficiency of a school must depend entirely upon the teacher •, it is not enough that it should he connected with the church, that it should be well superintended, that it should have books and methods of teaching that arc approved. It must have a living'soul to animate it. Intellect must speak to intellect, heart to heart, and the master must be able to give in the school an impress of himself. If so, he must be a sort of man whose impress it is desirable we should have—he ought to be the model to his scholars ; therefore it is important to secure such persons to be instructors in the schools of this board. The rev. gentleman, after a few further remarks seconded the resolution, and it was carried. The Rev. HUGH M'Nemx, on rising to second the,reso lution, was received with several rounds of enthusiastic applause. He spoke as follows—Mr. Chairman, I am a participator, and a sincerely grieving participator, in the disappointment which we have experienced to-day—l mean the unexpected and much deplored absence of my Lord Stanley. (Cheers.) lam personally grieved in this matter in common with your secretary, for I had hoped, as will be seen by the managements for the meeting, that the noble lord would have proposed the resolution now entrusted to me and that I should have been called upon merely to follow up his descriptions of the plans adopted by the Chester Diocesan Board, as to its operations and principles. lam called upon to. move, instead of second, the following reso lution—" That the Chester Diocesan Board of Education, in connection with the National Society, has adopted a plan, which in its principles and operations is eminently calculated to secure, under God, the diffusion of true religion and useful learning." In contemplating the success in any project it is necessary to look not only at the means mx . at the e employd, but _ _ . . terials upon which those means are to be employed. Now, sir, much has been said to-day upon the subject of some of the materials in question. namely, the middle classes of society ; too little, I think, has been hitherto said concerning a large, class, which it shall be my duty, a painful one, to bring under the consideration of the meeting—l mean that class rapidly increasing by thousands, I might almost say by millions, in our large towns and cities, and in the manufac turing districts of this county, who are in the very lowest stage of moral degradation—masses where vice has spread all her temptations, sensual pleasure all her seductions, folly all her allurements—where guilt is encouraged by the prospect of impunity, where profligacy is fostered by the frequency of example. Sir, the statements laid before the public with regard to the mass cf the community to whom I now refer are truly appalling ; they have served to arrest the attention, and to awaken the interest alike of the philanthropist, the politician and the Christian. We hear, for example, from our most accurate inquirers, that a tenth part of the popula tion of London are paupers, and that about 20,000 persons rise every morning, in our metropolis, without knowing where they are to lie down at night ; 're learn that about 30,000 persons are every Saturday evening in a state of brutal drunkenness in the city of Glasgow ; we learn that 60,000 persons passed through the fever hospital of Dublin in one year; and a celebrated foreign , examiner of our statistics has put it upon record that, within the last thirty, years,, the number of persons accused of serious crimes nas increased in England five times, irk Ireland six times, and in Scotland twenty-nine times. Sir, it is impossible for men, actu ated. by Christianprincipl e , tamely to behold this state of things, and, like the pri es t or Levite in the parable, carelessly pass by on the other side; and it' is equally impossible for such men to. confine their efforts to legislative restraints and penalties, whereby they, indeed, may, in some degree, guard the more orderly persons in the community from the spread of the contagion, but leave the masses of human corruption in all their inward depths, without even an attempt at ameliora tion in this life, or preparation for a better. Efforts are called for—strenuous efforts —wise in their design and arrangement —vigorous in their adoption—perseveriug. in their applica tion. To penetrate the mass itself ; to contemplate its com ponent parts with compassion rather than with indignation ; to approach them kindly ; to take advantage of parental feel ings on the one side, and infantine docility on the other; to awaken what remains of tenderness in a father's or mother's heart, 'and snatch their beloved offspring from the vortex of the destroyer ;—this, sir, is an enterprise worthy of the high est ambition of Christian heroism, and in this enterprise it is our high and animating privilege to be engaged. (Cheers.) The plan adopted by the Chester Diocesan hoard is mainly, as to any thing that distinguishes it in operation, to bring christianity in the pure, plain, scriptural aspect in which it is presented by our church, to bear upon those masses of the community. (Hear.) I hope, sir, to be able to show, by another line of argument, somewhat different from those 'various and valuable strains to which you have already listened, that it is only the application of christianity to the mass that can penetrate its depth, that from the nature of its component parts it is impenetrable to any other application, and that consequently, only the plan adopted by this board and by the National Society, viz., the church plan, can take the first step towards the diffusion among that part of the population I now refer to of true religion or useful learning. I feel, indeed, the justice of many of the remarks and argu ments of those who say we cannot meet the exigencies of the case by the best education we an give carried to the greatest extent we can carry it. I believe, sir, that left to the agency of such associations as the National Society and the Diocesan Board, supported by voluntary contributions , or even assisted by the state to the amount of doubling those contributions, we never can succeed in bringing even the outward appli ances of our educational system to bear upon more than a fraction of the population. The evil consequences of this de not confine themselves to mere numerical deficiency. They extend in the shape of vastly increased difficulties experi enced with those whom we do reach. The influence ex ercised by the school has to contend not only against the propensities of our fallen nature in the individual children attending the school, but also against the overwhelming tide of contaminating corruption in the surrounding multitudes who attend no school, but are ready daily to mingle with the schoolchildren the moment they are dismissed to their wretched homes. A national system of education, I mean a system vi gorously made national in deed, and not in name only,would re move these extra difficulties, and would in one way greatly re duce those opposing influences whereby our educationalefforts are now hindred from having fair play. But, sir, even if this were done, and If numerical deficiency could no longer be complained of,—even if we were supplied with the means for extending our efforts over the whole length and breadth of the population, and for penetrating the masses already refer red to,—even so it is impossible we should meet the exigen cies of the case in any other way than by strictly Christian education ; and for this reason, application to the under standing of men only will never meet the exigencies of this ease. The bulk of mankind have a very melancholy- medi ocrity of understanding compared with the vehemence of their passions. There is, in uncultivated, unconverted man. a practical ascendancy of the animal instincts over the sugges tions and the claims of reason. The gratifications of the ani mal instincts are immediate, and the pain consequent upon, their excess, though'certain, is remote. The suggestions of reason do not wear the aspect of present gratification, but of threatening restraints. Her claims, instead of 'inviting to Present enjoyment, demand a *Sent sacrifice. Now this is precisely what the bulk of mankind resist, yes, and even re sent. They cannot make such a sacrifice. Obliged by the necessities of their condition to endure bodily toil every day to a certain hour, the instantaneous reaction at that hour is to bodily indulgence. This assumes various aspects of ani mal enjoyment in various individuals ; and what I am pre pared to maintain is this, that it is impossible successfully to combat enjoyment by restraint. " Naturam expellas furca, temen usque recurret." I give this as a classical comment upon the eloquent speech of the honourable member, with whose address you were all delighted. You cannot control present indulgence by restraints, or the prospect of good, which gives no pre sent enjoyment. The thing is lodged in the basis of human nature. Before intellectual knowledge can become an enjoyment, many a painful sacrifice must be made, many an hour of hard study must be undergone. Intellectual enjoyment is the result of intellectual cultivation ; but how, upon the mass we are now speaking of, is the process of cultivation to begin? How are you to approach their intellect? They are preoccupied ; they are engaged in animal enjoy ments, and their mind will not receive an application which is simply intellectual. This reasoning applies not only to the scheme of scientific and intellectual attainments, but to all cold, forced systems of ethics. It applies to all bargaining systems, miscalled religion, which require the performance of duty, or the enduranc e o f suffering, as pre requisites for the enjoyment of peace. But, sir, it does not apply to the gospel of the spirit of God. The gospel of Jesus Christ brings present enjoyment. It creates a new affection. It originates a first love. It achieves its purpose by transforming the man, not by demanding those penalties which, however powerful to irritate, are impotent to reform ; but it transforms the man by communicating gracious enjoy ments, instantly carried home, warm upon his heart, by the immediate energy of the Lamb of God. In the language of Scripture, " the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost given unto us." There is a meaning in what David says that this refers to, " My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God." There is an enjoyment in religion true religion—that comes even into the animal part of man. I am bold to say there is a present enjoyment which - will' combat, and which alone will in the first stage success, fully combat, the cravings for animal enjoyment in the masses I allude to. It is very possible that those who have never experienced anything of this en joyment of Christianity May.be tempted to an incredulous smile, at the enthusiasm of saying that it possesses sufficient Owes to counteract the animal instincts of the poor. But, s i r , i ts efficacy is no longer a matter of opinion ; it is matter of history—it is matter of fact. We have read, we have heard, we have seen its power. We have observed it in the haunts penetrated I believe oaf?, or nearly so, by the ZIV, who draw titan yes into the depths of the moat degraded of die pcipula n, to tell this truth. We have seen it in. schools. You hive heard an instance of it to-day. Yon have heard an stance of how the preoccupied niinds of those little chil dren were arrested; how Jew animal enjoyment was et trolled f. r a moment, and a better enjoyment originated m them, while their pastor expatiated on the tenderness of Christian love, and upon the manifestation of God's love towards the returning prodigal. Yes, wherever the gospel has been plainly and faithfully declared, there have been illustrations of what our Christian poet sang concerning the success of the missions in Greenland " The wretch who once sang wildly, danced, and laughed, And sucke Has wept a silent flood • reversed his wa Is sober, meek, benevol ent, and prays; Feeds sparingly, communicates his store, Abkors the craft he gloried in before, And he who stole has learned to steal no more Yes, Sir, Christianity is not a theory only addressed to roan underst•inding, but a life incorporating itself with his re- dizzy madness with newed affections and active habits and most satisfyingenjO;- *tents. lam well aware that this view of Christianity, that this representation of it, as possessing a living, present, power of enjoyment, has been too frequently decried and avoided as something enthusiastic and sectarian ; and that we have been considered more proper, more prudent, more judicious, more orthodox, and more genteel, when we have confined ourselves to what, after all, deserves nothing more than the mere name—the ethics of Aristotle mingled with language desecrated by the union. But in so treating the gospel, we have been defeating our own object ; we have been depriving it of its power to reclaim for time, as well as of its power to save for eternity. Among the middle, and espe. cially among the higher classes of society, where artificial wants are many, and artificial motives strong, ihere may be much that is orderly, and there may seem to be much that is moral, without any Christian principle, and without any Christian enjoyment : but among the masses of society to which I have referred, and for whose improvement we are now associated. Christian feeling—aye, Christian feeling, I am not afraid of that word, though I know how it has been abused—l say, Christian feeling, that dictated to the Psalmist, " My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God ;" that Christian feeling which restores us to God, and is the only effectual pioneer for the introduction of all that is valuable among men. (Cheers.) These are some of the high grounds upon which we ask for Christian instruction ; and, to make the term more definite, and the meaning more precise, in these days of doubtfulness, we ask for church instruction. (Cheers.) Our church has never paralysed the gospel into a frigid system of ethics—into a cold code of morals, thereby depriving it of its power to impress the masses of the poor. On the contrary, she presents it in all its warmth, energy, and tenderness, in all the winning because pardoning love of . . the Lamb of God, which takethrtway the sins of the world. (Cheers.) Our church has never prostrated her children into slavish traffickers for righteousness ; thereby keeping them at a distance from their father's bosom and the fatted calf of their fatheris house, in the vain attempt to work out for themselves a title - of admission there. (Cheers.) No : she gloriously declares that " we are accounted righteous be fore God, only for the merit of 'our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our own works and deservings." (Loud cheers.) I need not expand this further, sir ; but it is refreshing, in these days of accommodating compromise, to reiterate these statements of truths, in defence of which our glorious army of national martyrs willingly embraced the stake, and patiently endured the burning faggot. (Loud cheers.) But it may, and ought to, be said concerning our church, as it is written concerning her Lord, that " the common people hear her gladly." (Cheers.) To win your assent, therefore, to the terms of the resolution, 1 think it is sufficient you should he informed that you should he sa tisfied, first of all, that the plan adopted by the Chester Dio cesan Board, in union with the National Society, is, in its principles and operations, strictly a Church of England plan. We have all learned that the master makes the school, and all our best friends will rejoice to hear how our Diocesan Board describes her master, the only description of masters the desires to employ.—[The rev. gentleman then read an extract, but owing to the honorary secretary declining, as stated above, to furnish us with it, we cannot print the pas sage, which we regret the more as it was interspersed with some valuable comments.]—l think, proceeded the re`v. gen tleman, the observations I have offered are fully borne out ' as completely applicable to this plan, in its principles and operations, by the description given here of the teachers (in the Diocesan Schools.) They are men qualified to set forth that living energy of the gospel which is, at once, the only power to make the first impression upon man, and the sav ing power to carry on the impression, until man shall he transformed into the image of his God. It is in the enjoy ment of God that the character of God's children is formed. They are not called upon to form their character fitted for that enjoyment, and then receive it. That is what the law said ; but the law is weak through the flesh. They are in vited to come as they are, because God has come to them. " Behold your God—this man receiveth sinners." The man who will set forth Jesus Christ is bringing God to receive sinners, in order that being received and enjoying communion they may be transformed into his likeness, they may be blessed into holiness—not driven ; that they may be in the enjoyment of their Father's house. That is the man to go among the poor, to win their hearts, t o w i n them from the ale house and the gambling-table, and to win them to better enjoyments. (Hear, hear.) But, sir, the members of our church, and especially the clergy, have been accused, as has been already adverted to, and in no measured terms, of being enemies to the education of the people ; they have been ac cused of being hinderers of improvement, of being patrons of ignorance. These are some of the-flattering titles we have received. It is not enough in answer to these to refer, as we have heard to-day to our universities, because the accu sation and the taunt is not that the clergy kept themselves ignorant, but that it was their policy to keep the people ignorant. What is the plausible ground, the only visible ground upon which this charge is advanced? It is that for a season we were comparatively inactive with regard to the education of the people. Now, let it be frankly granted that there was a period of comparative inactivity, and let it be asked, who were inactive ? Did the inactivity of that period especially characterise the church, or was it not equally cha racteristic of her accusers? (Hear.) All slumbered; and almost slept together for a season : and when the wak ing time came, who, I ask, waked up first ? (Loud cheers.) Who moved soonest ? (renewed cheers,) and who kept fore most ? (increased applause) when the government took an education grant from parliament of £20,050 a year, and dis tributed it through the National Society -and the British and Foreign School Society, in sums proportioned to their re spective voluntary contributions, who, I ask, got the bulk of the money? (Immense applause.) And now that the same system of proportionate distribution is to be resumed, who, I fearlessly ask, will get the bulk of the money? (Cheers.) The funds of the National Society are in process of rapid and most encouraging increase. (Carers.) No sir, the charge although industriously propagated and circulated, was utterly unfounded. We have ever been friends, the tried and deter mined friends of the advancement of all useful knowledge, especially which is moat valuable, because valuable for eter nity, the knowledge of the one only true God, as he is in Christ Jesus. That is the crowning branch of the tree of knowledge, which will bear fruit in endless light, and hive, and glory. All other knowledge, without that, is, at the best, but as the corruscations of a meteor, giving a deceitful . and temporary glare, and ending in the blackness of dark ness for ever. (Cheers.) If there be any knowledge incom patible with the knowledge of God in Christ our Lord and Saviour, we are enemies to that knowledge. If there be any system of instruction which excludes, or neglects, or even places in an aspect of secondary importance, the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus, we are enemies to that system ; not to everything which may be taught in that system, but to the system itself. They may teach many things which are useful in themselves, and such as we also teach, but by depreciating what is most useful, they set us in opposition to them as systems. Vie derive an illustration of this subject from the cus tom, in formertimes, for kings to lead armies. We represent the whole circle of knowledge by such an army, under its royal general. The king himself stands for the knowledge of God, as given in the scriptures. His commissioned officers stand for the higher branches of science, as astronomy and mathe maties,—the non -commissioned officers, for the lower attain ments of mechanics, geography, and the languages,—and the privates, for the knowledge of the common handicrafts of trade, and arrangements of domestic life. Our desire is to teach the whole range, beginning with the general, and all down the line keeping up, and pointing out, Me progressive links of subordination under the general. In this connexion, we are ardent lovers of the most universal knowledge. We cultivate science in every branch; we urge forward every practical improvement in mechanism ; we enlarge and cor rect our geographical observations; we study and impart a variety of languages ; in every step, to the lowest link of the chain, having paramount and practical respect to.the highest. But, suppose a school, established for the purpose of com municating knowledge concerning every link, except the highest; or, a school in which knowledge of the lower links is made the main object, and dissociated from direct and habitual reference to the highest, —a system such as the Lon don University, from which revealed religion is avowedly excluded,—or a system nearer home sir, like the Corporation Schools of Liverpool (cheers), where, after all that has been denied on the subject, the truth still is, that the first and grand link in the chain, the first source of authority, the general over all, is kept quiet until evening, kept still till the hour comes, when a man upon one side, who says his face is black, and another, upon the other side, who says his face is white, come, and both are allowed in the school; each takes a section of the children; one of them tells what must be false, for both cannot be true. It is impossible. I can show you in a very few words, although I do not wish to be ver bally controversial, where the black is and where the white is. Against such a system we protest loudly, honestly, un compromisingly. The whole system is one of insubordina tion and mutiny ; an army without a general, and can lead only to ultimate confusion and ruin. Give us the ge neral over all, and his authority pervading all ; and we gladly join in all the alacrity of obedient loyalty. But remove the general, or disSociate his authority from the ranks, and we separate and protest against the rebellion. What, then, is our answer to those who bring this accuse- • tion ? Are Nye enemies of knowledge among the people ? No : by no means. 'Let - the knoWledge of God in Christ precede and pervade altother knowledge, as it of right ought to do, and we are friends of all knowledge, and cultivators of all. But are we enemies Of godless knowledge ? We are : vre never denied it, and I hope we never will. We are, undoubtedly, determined and vigorous enemies. Godless knowledge is what the devil delights in—a sharp instrument by which he lacerates the unbeliever, hiving cultivated him into an increased capacity of misery. But, sir, there is an other point on which, with your permission and that of the meeting, Islesire to make a few observations. As the Dio cesan Board appeals only for private 'contributions, it may possibly appear to some, that to make allusion, at a meeting of this kind, to the duty of the state in the matter of educa tion, would be in some degree out of place. I d o no t thi n k so ; because the necessity for our appeals would be in a great degree superseded if the state perform e d it s d u t y i n t hi s matter. (Cheers.) In the full foresight, then—or rather, I should say, in the matured experience of most vehement accusations of bigotry, I have no hesitation in affirming my conviction that it is the duty of the legislature to decide upon some uniform system of education —uniform in principle I mean, and to supply means for making it national indeed ; and that it is not and cannot be their duty to countenance and support fundamentally opposing systerda. (Hear.) Our petitions and arguments upon this subject appear to have been misunderstood, and very clever replies have been given to what we have ne ver a d vanced.. I allude particularly to language reported to have been uttered in the House of Commons last session. A debate arose upon some petition against the continuance of the grant to Mavnooth College. The noble lord, her Majesty's Chief Secretary for Ireland, is reported to have said—" They (the petitioners) started with the proposition, that it was wrong to support a religion of which they disapproved. That might be a very good opi nion to hold; b u t i t appeared to him that any one who con scientiously held that opinion was bound to support the •voluntary system. How any one could, in common candour, say that it was wrong to support a religion which they thought erroneous, and yet exact the very seine support for another religion of others who equally thought that erroneous,—how they could allow the great majority of the people of this country to impose upon the vast majority of •the people of Ireland the duty of supporting persons to advocate the tenets .which the majority in Ireland deemed wrong, he could not conceive. It seemed to him to be utterly at variance with every notion of consistency, of candour, and of sense. In this sense, the laws which required the payment of church -rates from persons of all persuasions ought to be instantly repealed." This was very clever against a certain opinion ; but who ever held that opinion ? Who were they that ever held it was wrong to support a religion of which they did not appro ve ? I cannot, of course,'say.of which particular petition the noble lord spoke, as, I am happy to say, there were a grea t many of them • but I may say for the friends of the ch urc h, that we never alleged it was wrong to support a religion, or a system of education, because we disapproved of it. It was of this the noble lord made 40 umciLi remove tiny saddle dem less, which so adroitly retorted upon it, becomes fiery harm- It is not because we disapprove of it, or we say that it to support it, but because it is opposed to tint word If the legislature say to us, "Multitudes Is deem it in accordance with the word to decide between you and them ? our of God of your fellow of God ;" aud answer, with all respect to the legislature, is, " You are to decide ; you are providentially placed in a condition and sta tion of influence for the g ood of the country, iu which it be comes imperative upon you to decide many questidns con cerning which the population of the country are dilided. To be able to decide is a part of your qualifications as senators to use your best abilities, and your most anxious and perse- ring inquiries, in order to qualify yourselves, is a part of your duty, as a conscientio us representative, a patriotic sub ject, and a honest man. Upon .nther subjects you do this. You study the science of political economy, and take upon you to decide in the matter of corn-laws, on which the people are divided. You study the nature sad operation of munici pal governments of large towns, and come to decision upon the subject of corporations. You examine the complicated interests of our colonial union, and decide upon questions in volving the respective powers and privileges of local legisla tures and in the imperial parliament. In all things you de cide, and it is right you should decide. You are not kept from decision by the indecision of the people, or by any dif ference of opinion, and I should' SHY' that any man who can not make up his mind be cause his fellow-countrymen differ in opinion, because his constituents differ in opinion or from any other cause, ought to g i ve u p hi s seat , (Loud cheers.) We claim decision at your hands ; and if you answer—' Well, the only way in which we can decide is by a majority and are you prepared to abide by the decision bf a Majority in matters of religion and education P. The reply is, ' Whether we are willing or not it is your duty to decide. " (Cheers.) We claim decision, even if that decision should be against ourselves. We claim decision from the legislature, and say to the country we demand it on all great questions. The ma jority, after all, must govern, right or wrong. They must rule, though men shuffle fora time. (Cheers.) And the ma jority' would rule immediately if men were straightforward, honest, and decided. (Cheers.) Better decision than hide cision. We invite decision, even though that decision should he against ourselves, and against our church. Better have the majority so decide, proclaim the nation infidel or idola trous, and place the church in the position she was under pagan Rome, thus keeping clear and clean the lines of demar cation between truth and falsehood. (Great cheering.) Bet. ter this, than by the present twister - 4 of indecision and inoon. sistency, to go on supporting oppoSing systems, voting money for schools which teach the anti-Romanist formularies of the Church of England, and with the other hand voting money for schools which teach the peculiarities of the Church of Rome. By deciding in any way, they will displease some men : but by not deciding' at all they dishonour God by a dereliction of their duty sunnortirw nimnsinn• tystpm, they stultify their own enactment. They are the keepers and trainers up from infancy of two bands, not only of theolgical, but of moral and political gladiators. (Cheers.) Sir, this is not too strong la nguage . W e charge the 'legi s lat u re w ith being the fosterers of children from their infancy in opposing systems, religious. moral, and political. They vote a grant of money, a part of it for us who teach the christian doctrines ; who teach the nature of sin ; and who say that the figment of venial sin is opposed to the mind of God ; who are pledged by our ordination vows to teach that the doctrines of purga tory, penance, transubstantiation, and all the other hetero geneous mixtures of the middle ages, which Romish rubbish have heaped upon the gospel. (This sentence was inter rupted, and its termination lost by loud cheers.) They vote money, also, for the training of children from their infancy, and for the employ n:ent of teachers to train them, that purg tete.. ir - . • _ _ relics of aints are to be had in honour; that-in a piece of bread there is truly—and I desire now to speak in a serious manner— preteut the body, soul, life, and divinity of Jesus Christ. (Hear.) Our legislature are guilty, in the sight of God and of man, of encouraging, by grants, both the " white" and the " black"—the truth and the falsehood—the Christianity and the anti• Christianity—the Church of Christ in England and the apostacy of anti-Christ that is striving place. (Loud Cheers.) They teach both—they eucoura both—they endow . both. We turn upon them, and say, " Gentlemen, decide. Why will you decide upon corn-laws, upon laws for the amendment of the registration of voters." Sir, I am sorry that we have not my Lord Stanley here—l should have been very glad to have told his lordship of the , nifestrition of your decision, nobly, boldly. Sly, ar to usurp her plainly shown, with only a few days _ . tice, afforded us by the delay of the question for a week, in this very place. (Loud cheers.) This house was the❑ more Wo or three days' no- ladies stud gentlemen;—(loud chee;s)--anci /don animated the whole of •decision, decision. (Cheers.) Let England cry to her senators, .decision. Let us have no more indecision. Let us have no more Penelope-web legible • tion. (Loud.cheers.) But, sir, England has decided. (Im mense cheering.) Look back at the decision of former times, and be consistent with it. England has, by an immense ma jority decided, and the country is with the church, as the church is with the bible. (Cheers.) The supremacy of the bible in all legislation is the banner to be raised. The su premacy of the bible in all legislation ! Would that hon. and right hon. members of parliament would not be ashamed to attend to this, and not be ashamed to take a lesson from a parson. (Cheers and laughter.) The supremacy of the bible in all legislation ! This is the banner now to be raised, and if raised in the proper hands, it will call forth such an expres sion and such a response as will cause the enemies of old England, to the ends of.the earth, to quail before the powers of the resuscitated giant. (Loud cheers.) It is for want of this that our power is paralysed. It is because there has been trimming instead of decision ; it is because there has been shuffling instead of decision ; it is because there has been evasion instead of decision that the giant has been lulled upon the lap of Dalilah. The lock has been discovered. The scissors of Anti-Christ have been carefully applied. •Oh, sir, is the lock gone—is it cut—or is it only discovered and threatened ? If it be cut. England must fall, and, like the fallen giant al luded to, though may fall with her the pillars that support the basis of. all society in this hemisphere and through the world, though she may prepare the way for the coming of the great King, who will set up a kingdom asid a government that can never be pulled down, still her own glories are gone. Ichabod is written upon her walls, if the lock was cut by the act of 1829, if the lock was cut when the protestant principle was taken out slf our constitution. But I hope better things, and that the lock of Sampson remains. I hope that the country has been awakened from her slum her, and that the giant is still able to put forth his strength— that he is still able to go forth in the strength of God to corn bat his enemies, and to make the Philistines feel that still Old England is herself again. (Loud cheers.) I have now one word to what has been said by the hon. and rev. secre tary, that the people of this town will not suffer themselves to do themselves the injury of allowing their consciences to be lulled by the pleasure they have derived from the meeting of this day ; but that they will follow it up, and remember that the object in view, in making a .question of this sort po pular, is to better the condition; to elevate the moral habits, of the people around ; that this is to he done by means, and that we throw ourselves upon the public for the means to do it. Failing a national provision, waiting if, peradventure, we should End .decisionin our legislature, we, in the meantime, ask contributions from you, that we may be able to mu ltiply masters properly instructed, schools properly prepared, that the children of the poor may come into those schools, and be instructed by those proper masters. For this we ask help at your hands. I would fain hope that you require only to be reminded of this, and the difference between this and some of the meetings that have been held here ; that, whereas you have been addressed from the pulpits of many of our churches on behalf of some institutions, and have assembled here af terwards, this is the only opportunity you have fo r thi s insti tution: The reverend gentleman, after a few further obser vations, resumed his seat amidst loud cheers. P. KINSWORTH, Esq., M.P., rose to second the resolu tion. lie said,—l have been called upon unexpectedly, Mr. Chairman, to second the motion of the reverend gen tleman who has just sat down.. As a churchman, I came here with very' great satisfaction to support the present diocesan schools of national education, in the principles and doctrines of the established church. I come here free from any political views. I understood that at this meeting, and all meetings connected with these diocesan schools, no reference should be made by any intlividual to politics; and not wishing that the subject of politics should in any way injure the cause of the established church, I came here solely for the purpose of expressing my perfect satisfaction at the manner in which this society is proceedinz, and to co-operate with you, and with every individual in this large assembly, in promoting to the utmost of my power, the mora 1 and relieious education of the country, in the doctrines and dis cipline .of the established church of the country. (Hear, hear.) After the various speeches which have been addressed to you with so much eloquence 'and force, nothing, I think. remains for me to say but this, , that I have great pleasure in meeting this large and influential audience, and that at all times, either in my private or public capacity, it will be my pride and gratification to promote the interests of the society, and the spread of the principles on which it is founded. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN, after putting the resolution, stated that the business of the meeting was now concluded. CHARLES HORSFALL, Esq., said, he was sure the meeting would agree with him, that they ought not to separate with.. out acknowledging the valuable services of the chairman. He would, therefore, move that the thanks of the meeting be given to the Rev. Rector 4rooks, for his kindness in presiding,, and for his conduct in the chair. - The motion having been seconded, was put to the meeting. by the Rev. H. Powys, and carried with much applause. The CHAIRMAN said he begged to return them his heart felt acknowledgements.for the vote that had just passed. He could assure them that it had given him great pleasure and satisfaction to take titc chair on that occasion. He should much' have wished that their respected dioCesin had been there, to have taken it himself. lii the absence of the right reverend prelate, it became his duty as rector, and it was no less his inclination, to' preside. lie would only add one word before-they separated, iti - feferenc'e to what had been said -with regard to their support-of that society. He did not doubt that they cordially apprOved of the principles that had been advanced, and that they had experienced great gra tification from the manner in which they had been advocated. He hoped and trusted that the feeling produced would not be evanescent, evaporating with the meetinx. and vanishing before the morrow, but that each and every one, as far as his ability might extend, would gladly support the society by his contributions, and encourage others, by his example, to con tribute also --- ,Hear.) He had to tell them that any one of their clergy would gladly receive their names as annual sub scribers to the institution, and Ito trusted that numbers of them would adopt this mode of enabling their clerical friends to carry into effect those plans and purposes to which they had that day given so emphatic an approval, and which were so well calculated to improve the temporal and spiritual con dition of the great body of the people. (Much applause.) The,meeting then separated, having lasted from eleven to about four o'clock. It will be perceived from an advertisement that the tiew steamer Caledonia will leave this port to-morrow, for Halifax and Boston. We wish her the same success that has attended her predecessors. New AMERICAN CONSUL AT LIVERPOOL. —The recent American papers state, that Mr. Phili p S chuyler, of New York, has been appointed by the president to succeed Mr. Francis B. Ogden, as MAI-icon consul at this port, who has resigned the office. The commission of . the new consul comes into operation on the 15th of October next. • • RECRUITING FOR THE NAvr.—The walls of Liverpool are ':overed with bills, inviting seamen to enter on board the Britannia, of 120 guns ; the Howe, of 120 ; the Calcutta, of 86 ; and the Southampton frigate, all fitting out at Ports mouth, and Plymouth. Similar means are no doubt adopted in other ports.. The Vanguard and the Rodney have both been manned by vo l unteers thus collected from London and the outports We observe with regret that a portion of the land on the south side of Cook. street is just about to be built u pon on the old line o f t h e street, foundations being already commeneed.: The indispensable necessity of widening this street 14as seen many years ago and one-third of the length beginning at Ncirth John-street, opposite Temple-court, has been widened. The convenience of the public would be much prombted by continuing the line of improvement up to Castle street. It is understood, from the discussions that have taken place in the council, that the expense of this improve ment is the sole obstacle ; the plain answer. to this is, that the corporation owns the north side of Cook-street, facing the whole length of the proposed improvement, and there fore the corporate-estate would benefit directly to the extent of at least half the improvement. There is perhaps not any street of the same length as Cook-street which connects such tuportant parts of the town, situated as it is within so short a distance of the principal docks, and the large traffic eon. veer stet' in North John-sheet and its vicinity. *lit FOMENT STEAM-SHIP ARRIVAL OF -44 scarcely remind our readers) which has 37et traversed the New York, after a pas-- Acing into account mail bags to -, to that This vessel, which (we n, is the largest propelled by steam wean, arrived here yesterday from _ sage of about fifteen days and a half,--1— stoppages outside of our harbour, to deliver ht. a small steamer, and to await the top of high watt., she might go into dock without previously casting amen the Sloyne. Very considerable anxiety had been excited amongst all who are interested in the navigation of our port, for the arrival of the President,—the more particularly as the Acadia, of the Halifax Steam Mail Line, had accomplished the voyage in the short and unprecedented period of 10 days. Apprehensions, indeed, were expressed that some accident had befallen the President, or, at all events, she was a com paratively dull sailer. The possibility of the first contin gency we by no means deny, —as a breakage in machinery, however apparently secure it may seem to be, may arise in marine, as well as in land or stationary engines. With re gard to the second,—we by no means incline to accede to any prejudice that may arise in the minds of individuals as to the comparative merits or propulsive qualities of the President, and the Halifax liners, the whole of the last of which are of equal size, and almost of equal build, and precisely of equal steam-power. They are beautiful vessels, calculated for speed. The President is also a beautiful vessel ; but she is calculated not for speed atone, (although she has perhaps accomplished more in one hour, when in ballast trim, than any of the Ha lifax line),—but she is adapted also to carry a very consider able cargo ;—and every practical man can understand the ad vantage which .a transatlantic steam-ship, carrying only her coals, and becoming " flying light," before she has accom plished half her voyage, has over a heavier vessel, with pro portionately less power of steam, and which comes into dock, after, a long voyage, with a large and valuable cargo. We notice this merely with reference to the present voyage of the President, as compared with that of the Acadia,—inasmuch as we do not consider one or even two voyages of either ship—and particularly as they sailed from different American ports, as by any means affording a decided proof of their comparative speed. We would neither apolo gize for the one, nor eulogize the other, as regards their first voyages ; for we know that two vessels sailing on the same day, from the same port, and to the same destination, may meet with very different reins of wind, and states of the ocean, which may retard the one and accelerate the other. The President was signalled as being off Holyhead (and considerably to the S.W.) at six o'clock this morning. The day was stormy, with occasional showers of rain, and the wind from the N.W. The Wm. Fawcett, Birkenhead steamer, pro ceeded from George's Pier soon after 11 o'clock, having on board the agent and several of the directors of the British and American Steam Ship Co. to meet the President. There was a heavy sca running outside, with an up-coming tide ; and she consequently did not proceed far ; hut found the ship off the Magazines, and received' the mail bags, and a few of the passengers, which were landed at George's Pier almost si- - znultaneously, with th e p ass i ng o f th e President in the river immediately opposite. Amongst those who landed from the William Fawcett, was Captain Fayrer, of the President, who immediately hurried to the Custom-house, to report his cargo, principally flour, on which the duty would rise con siderably this day. Despatch was therefore of the utmost importance, and with considerable exertion the needful was accomplished. looked splendid. le showed not the the Cheshire The President, on coming up the rive, Her speed was very considerable, though • slightest cloud of smoke. She passed along shore, and her huge length and bulk excited much admira tion. Her main and mizen topmast were lowpr- , she I-- lad the appearance of a large ship of war under jury -masts. When opposite Woodside, she rounded to wards the Lancashire shore, and (it being high water) was soon .afterwards safely docked in the Coburg, amidst the greetings of thousands of spectators. She appears as fresh and beautiful, both exteriorly and in her spacious ca bins, as on the day she sailed. She is considerably down by the stern, from (we suppose) the coals being principally forwards LEST OF PASSENGERS, PER STEAM-SHIP " PRESIDENT," from New York to Liverpool.—Sir Simon H. Clarke, Bart., and servant ; Sir Claude de Crespigny, Bart.; Thomas R. Lowry, Andrew Normand, Lewis Lyman, George Haight, W. 0. Boekee, F. Palmo. J. Lorenzop, W. M. Leman, and R. Cochran, jun., New York ; J. H. Oberteuffer, Jams, . hurchman, S. Creighton, and E. M. Davis►, Philadelphia ; W. Barker, Charleston, S. C. ; C. Auze, Mobile, Alabama ; Rev. W. Ritchie, Upper Canada ; Louis Bone, Priest, Louisiana; R. G. Nicholson, Ireland; Hem- Lond .1 Aerie, _ Lon; A. Gutierrez and servant, Havana ; Charles Moore, Liverpool; Samuel Cassin, England; H. C. Indge, Barbadoes ; Capt. W. Kennedy, 2nd W. I. R. ; Lieut. B. O'Brien, 2lid W. I. R. ; Louis Hoffman, Leipsic ; A. L. Alontant, D. Cutter, and B. Desobrv, Paris ; N. de Geniis, Defayne, C. Castagne, and A. Mayet, France ; A. Blanc, Lyons ; J. Coates, Paisley ; E. Serenity; and G. Setley, Philadelphia ; F. -Rodewald, Baltimore; J. Taylor, Stockport, N. Y. ; William Jones, England ; J. de Castro and servant, St. Thomas, W. I. ; P. Curtis. Jacksonville, E. Florida ; J. H. Cockburn, Scotland ; William Crowther, England ; A. Mayor, Switzerland.—Ladi e s : M rs . J ones and two childr en , England ; Miss Jones, do. ; Mrs. Creigh ton, Philadelphia; Senora and Senorita Gutierrez, Havana; Mrs. N. &tholes, New York ; Mrs. Hamilton, U. Canada. Total-55 gentlemen and ladies, 2 children, and 3 servants. Her cargo consists of 2500 barrels of dour, 33 serons of cochineal, and 100 tierces foreign tobacco. A number of Custom-house officers came on hoard, and narrowly inspected the luggage of the passengers, to some of whom, who wished " to b e off" by the railway, they caus e d some little, though perhaps unavoidable delay. The crowd assembled round the Coburg Dock was greater than was e ver known at that comparatively remote but improving part of the town. On the day before the arrival of the President, the passengers paid a deserved compliment to Captain Fayrer and his officers, and also to Mr. Hough, the Providore of the vessel. At a general meeting in the saloon—on the respective motions of Sir Simon H. Clarke, and Sir Claude de Crespigney, seconded by acclamation, the passengers expressed their entire satisfaction with the gentle. manly and seamanli , ,e manner in which Captain Fayrer and the officers of the vessel had exhibited throughout the voyage ; and their strong and unanimous opinion that a more commodious or better sea-boat than the President never crossed the ocean. This was afterwrds embodied in a handsome letter to Captain kayrer In a second resolution, the whcle of the passengers equal satisfaction at the liberal and sumituous Iry they had been served during the passage by Mr. Hong, Providore, who supplied them with viands &c—and with v the 1'• anner in which 'st quality. As the President lett the American shores on the same day as the Acadia, 'she brings no further political news c) immediate interest. We cannot close this brief notice without expressing our thanks to Capt. Fayrer for his kindness and attention in not only filling our news bags with papers to the latest dates— (to which we shall probably recur) hut in furnishing us with a pre pared list of the passengers and the following ABSTRACT OF TILE LOC Sept. I.—Hauled out of dock at 2 45 p.m. Abreast of Sandy Hook at 5 p.m. ; packet-ships Cambridge, St. James, and Utica in company. 2.—Wind, W. to S.S.W. ; distance, 160 miles ; lat. 40 20 N. ; long. 70 40 W. Remarks—A.m., light airs and west, paPsed a barque standing to the N.E. ; 6 P.m., exchanged numbers with the American ship Wellington ; a ship in sight, supposed to be the United States. 3.—Wind, variable, S.W. to N. ; distance, 223 miles ; lat. 40 59; long. 66 18. Remarks—A.lf, fresh breezes and clear, with lightning ; P.M., squally ; 2 p.m.. N.W. ; MIDNIGHT, fresh breeze and rain. 4.—Wind, S. to N. ; distance, 190 miles; lat. 41 19 ; 60 0. Remarks—a.m., 7, wind shifted to the southward ; MIDNIGHT, fine weather and light. s.—Wind, N.N.E. to E S.E. ; distance, 210 miles ; lat. 42 06 ; long. 57 38. Remarks—A.M., light breezes and tine weather; P.m., calm and clear, at 2, spoke the Oseole, Ame rican ship, twenty-eight days from Bangor, bound to Boston, and six large ships standing to the S.W. 6.—Wind, N.E. to S:E. ; distance, 206 tulles ; lat. 44 05 ; long. 53 31. Remarks—A.M., fresh breeze, fine, and smooth water, at 6 15, exchanged numbers with the Shannon, of Kennebunk, running N.\ . 7.—Wind, S. to S.S.W. ; distance, 230 miles ' • lat. 45 46 ; long. 49 48. Remarks—A.M., strong breeze and cloudy, a brig passing to the westward, and a three-masted schooner at anchor ; 6 P.M., two schooners at anchor. B.—Wind, S.W. to N.E. by N. ; distance, 238 miles ; lat, 47 16 ; long. 44 59. RemarksA.m., heavy squalls, with rain; MIDNIGHT, strong breezes and cloudy. 9.LWind, N.E., E.N.E., N.E. by E., R. ; distance, 163 miles ' • lat. 47 52; long. 40 52. Remarks—A.M., b r i s k ga l es and cloudy, a brig standing to eastward, and a ship to west ward ; NOON, a brig to S.E. ; P.M., several vessels in sight ; MIDNIGHT, light winds and heavy N.W. swell. 10.—Wind, E.N.E. ; distance, 172 miles ; lat. 49 4G ; long. 37 25. Remarks—A.M., light a i rs an d h eavy N.E. swell, at 6 30, exchanged colours with an English barque, steering west. 11.—Wind, easterly ; distance, 200 miles; lat 50 50 ; long. 35 03. Remarks—A.M., light airs with heavy north-easterly swell on. 12.—Wind, N.W. to N.B. ; distance 246 miles ; lat. 51 17 ; long. 26 56. Remarks—A.m., fresh breeze and squally. 13.—N.E. to S.S.W. ; distance, 226 miles ; lat. 51 21 ; long. 21 35. Remarks—A.M., 5 30, spoke the John Den nistoun, of Greenock, for Bay Chaleur, left on the 26th Aug.; P.M., strong breeze with drizzling rain. 14 —Wind, N.W., N.N.W. ; distance, 267 miles; lat. 56 4G ; long. 15 30. Remarks—A.M., fresh gale, heavy sea ; NOON, north-westerly gale, much sea ; P.M., strong gale, heavy sea, at 11 15, passed the Great Western 15.—Distance, 215 miles. Remarks — and cloudy ' • P.M., off Cape Clear. 16.—Off Arklow ; severe gale, N.N.E 17.—Got a pilot at 9 A.M., off Point Lynas A.m., stron: breeze EXTRAORDINARY CIIANGE.—There have been this week employed on one faro on Chat Moss, 80 reapers, principally engaged in reaping wheat, though twenty years ago the whole six thousand acres scarcely produced a bushel of that kind of grain. ...11YACINTIIS.—There is not a more beautiful flower than the hyacinth ; there is not one more interesting to watch in its growth, or that requires lesa care. Day by day its pro gress may be noted, and when the flower itself begins to form, bud, and blow, the fragrance it sheds around.is un equalled. There are many other bulbs which may adorn the apartment in the winter, and which are pleasant, indeed, to look upon when all without is dreary and desolate. We have been led to make these remarks from having seen some very beautiful bulbs in the window of Mr. Cuthbert, Clayton square, to which we draw our readers' attention. HINTS YOR THE RADIEAL2.—OOIOHeI Thomson has writ ten a, letter to the radicals, in which, after alluding to that profound ignorance so general amongst the working classes, which renders them liable to be imposed upon by the speci ous sophistries of self-styled " liberals" and " reformers," who vainly imagine themselves more enlightened than their neighbours, and therefore best calculated to be the great po litical regenerators of the age, he advises the chartists to look keenly after every man who ever called himself a "good re former," or uttered the word " tory-radical." " Depend upon it," says the colonel, " he wasone that helped to steal your pig."—Halifax Guardian. a th jay, o r ; twobut beingeg o . a person .SINGULAR in pe r t F b a IE receivedND SHI P i.r . —0 from tbboeu country o a un m try on .. watched, but the slightest Was for sonic time carefully apprehensive that a cat in the house would pounce upoirit, puss 'disposition to annoy thebird, r whic h room she never evince At.t being a chile together the had the liberty of a •livo b e came evinced ., the best of friends, and on many occasions did the cat actually carry a collop to her feath ere d compan i on, not partaking of it until the bird had fed ; an d t h e two o f ten slept together, the bird on the bosom of th e cat. Th e ot h er day, however, the jay died, and puss appeared to be incon solable for the loss ; for twenty-four bouts she lay beside the dead bird. and refused to move or partake of any thing that was presented to her. At last the bird was with difficulty taken and thrown over the window, and poor pugs has scarce ly yet got over the loss of her companion.— Perth Courier IMPORTANT TO Tint NAVY.—The following order, about to be issued in the navy, will be hailed with great pleasure by many of the members of a deserving class of men, espe ciall) those who have only their pay to keep up their rank and station in the profession they have chosen :—" Admiralty Order.---It having.come to the knowledge of their lordships that an extravagant mode of living has been adopted in the messes of the quarter-deck petty officers in some Of her Majesty's ships, which may lead to much inconvenience to the discipline of the service, and must be very hard upon those individuals rho have only their pay to support them, my lords therefore desire it to be intimated to the respective captains and commanding officers, that their lordships dis approve of such extravagance being allowed in those messt•s, and direct that means may be taken to pi - event this occur . renee happening for the future. The cleansing of the sanctuary—that is, the completion id the whole period from Daniel to the commencement of the trilleniuni, 23,000 yesra—will take place in ISO Epißenpils , Mavire