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ELY BRIGHTON COLLEGE

1. AND
PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
The Pupils of this Institution will RE-ASSEMBLE (D.V.) on
the Ist of August next.
Prospectuses may be had on application to the Rev. Dr. Pooat,
New Brighton College, Cheshire.

EDUCATION IN A Ft EST-CLASS SCHOOL.
CRAVEN LODGE, RAINHILL.—This Establish-
ment, under the immediate Superintendence of MRS. and
the MISSES MUSGROVE, assisted by eminent Masters, will be
RE-OPENED on the 2d August next. As the number of Pupils
is limited, Parents anxious to place their Children under Mrs.
Musgrove's care are respectfully requested to make early appli-
cation. Rainhill is delightfully situated on a dry, salubrious soil,
nine miles from Liverpool, on the London and North-Western
Railway.—For Terms, &c., apply as above, or at 45, Seymour-
street, Liverpool.

T4IVERPOOL GOVERNESSES' INSTITUTION,
No. 31, RODNEY-STREET.
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE—TiIe Ven. Arch. BROOKS.
I he objects of this Society, now in operation, are-
-I.—A Home for Disengaged or Daily Governesses.
2.—A gratuitous system of Registration for Governesses.
3.—Elective Annuities to aged Governesses secured on invested
capital.
4.—Deferred Annuities secured by Government to Ladies, by pay-
ment of annual instalments.
s.—Beneyolent Fund for affording temporary assistance.
JOHN LIG HTBODY, Hon. Sec.
For particulars, address the LADY SUPRRINTRNDENT, No. 31,
Rodney-street.

ROYAL INSTITUTION SCHOOL.

HEAD MASTER:
The Rev. D, W. TURNER, ALA., late Demy of Magdalen College,
Oxford.
ASSISTANT MASTERS:

The Rev. JAMES LONSDALE, M.A., Fellow of Balliol College,
Oxford; ALBERT GLYNN, 8.A., Fe low of St. Peter's College,
Cambridge; J. 11. LITTLE, 8.A., St. John's College, Cam-
bridge ; 1). GLASS, T.C.D.
Will RE-OPEN on SATURDAY, the 23th instant.

Mr. TURNER receives into his House, in Lodge-lane, a limited
number of BOARDERS. His Terms are £lOO per annum.
Mr. GLYNN also receives BOARDERS into his House, 49, Seel-
street, opposite to the Royal Institution. His Terms are £7O per
Annum.

For further information apply to the Keeper of the Royal
Institution, or to Mr. GLYNN, 49, Seel-street.

COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION,
ABBOT'S GRANGE, CHESTER.
Principal,
JOHN BRINDLEY, LL.D.
Classical Master,
LAURENCE CRAVEN, 8.A., Scholar of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge; Bell Scholar, First Class Classic, Senior Optime, and
Senior Chancellor's Medallist, 1833.
Mathematical Master.
ARTHUR BEARD, 8.A., Wrangler and Goldsmith's Exhibitioner
of St. John's College, Cambridge.
French Master.
Monsieur ROUBIER, Member of the French University, Paris.
German Master.
Herr SCHUCK, from the Government School, Heidelberg.
Professor of Music.
Signor ANTONIO SAPIO, Graduate and Associate of the Royal
Academy of Music, London, and formerly Pupil of the Conser-
vatories of Paris and Naples.
School of Art, including Architectural and Engineering Drawing.
A. W. AYLING, of the Royal Academy, London.
Writing and Commercial Master—R. KEARY.
Medical Tutor and House Surgeon—Vacant.
Dancing—EDGAß WEBSTER. Drill Master—Vacant.
Secretary and Librarian—LEONAßD ADDISON.
The present VACATION will terminate on SATUUDAY, the
28th instant.

THE LIVERPOOL MECHANICS' INSTITU-
TION SCHOOLS will RE-OPEN on MONDAY, the 30th
instant. Prospectuses may be obtained at the Institution.
Mount-street, July 2, 1855. ASTRUP CARESS, Secretary.

THE SCHOOLS in connection with the LIVER-
POOL MECHANICS' INSTITUTION will be RE-
OPENED as follows :—The Girls' and Infant Schools on FRIDAY,
the 27th, and the High, Lower,and Evening Schools on MONDAY,
the 30th instant.

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The HIGH or CLASSICAL SCHOOL is intended to prepare the
Sons of Merchants, Professional Men, and others in similar posi-
tions of life, either for the Universities or for Business. The
Terms range from Six to Twelve Guineas per Annum.
The LOWER or COMMERCIAL SCHOOL affords a thoroughly
sound, comprehensive, and practical Education for the following
lOW Terms : Junior Classes. Senior Classes.
Sons of Members 155. 18s. 6d. per Quarter.
Other Pupils 175.6 d. 215.
The subjects taught in this School are Reading, Spelling, the Mean-
ing, History, and Derivation of Words, English Grammar and
Composition, English Literature, Recitation, Ancient and Modern
History, Plain and Ornamental Writing, Drawing, Mapping,
Book-keeping, Commercial Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry,
Astronomy, Ancient arid Modern Geography, Natural History,
Political Economy, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and-Vocal
Music. The French, German, and Latin Languages are also
taught, an Extra Fee of 7s. 6d. per Quarter being charged for each,
but the learning of them is optional.
The GIRLS' SCHOOL, Blackburne-house.—The course of in-
struction embraces Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Grammar,
Geography, History, Needlework, Vocal and Instrumental Music,
Drawing, the Elements of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry,
French, German, Dancing, and Calisthenics. Terms—Daughters
of Members, £1 ss. 6d. per Quarter; other Pupils, RI gt. par
Quarter. Extra Fees are charged as follows :—French or Gel9natt,
12s. 6d. per Quarter ; Drawing, 105.6 d. ; Calisthenics, 65.; NW-
forte, 215. to 425. The- French, German, Drawing, and Music
Classes are open to Young Ladles not in regular attendance at the
School. Those who have been educated in the School are charged
for French or German, 12a. 6d. per Quarter; for Dancing, Ws. 6d.
To others, for French or German, 155. ; Drawing, 125. 6d. ; Music,
21s. to 425.
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The INFANT SCHOOL (attached to the Girls' School) is de-
roinpgretphaerrenCguhlialdrrDenayosf
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Mem-
bers, los. 6d. per Quarter; others, 12s. per Quarter.
The EVENING SCHOOL comprises Classes in which are taught
Reading, Spelling, Grammar, Composition, Geography, History,
Writing, Arithmetic, Book-keeping, Mathematics, Navigation ,
Drawing, Painting, Modelling, &c. Terms—Junior Classes,
3s. 6d. per Quarter; Senior Classes, 6s. 6d. per Quarter. French,
German, Spanish, Latin, Chemistry, Dancing, Gymnastics, and
Vocal Music are also taught, at Extra Fees. -
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Prospectuses, containing more detailed information, may be
obtained Gratis on application at the Institution, Mount-street.
ASTRUP CARISS, Secretary.

A CARD.
MR. SAQUI has RE MOV E D to No. 12,
BEDFORD-STREET NORTH, where he will continue to
give INSTRUCTIONS on the PIANO-FORTE and SINGING.
N.B.—Schools attended.

ANALYTICAL SYSTEM OF PIANO-FORTE
TUITION.
Mr. GEOhGE EYTON begs respectfully to announce to his
Friends and the Public generally, that the first part of his Work
on the above NEW SYSTEM OF TEACHING THE PIANO-
FORTE is now Published. To be had at his Academy, 92, Falkner-
street ; or the Publisher, Mr. JAMES SMITH, 66, Lord street, by
special appointment Musicseller to Her Majesty.

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TU_ES'DAY, JULY 17, 1855.

STREET PREACHING,

ONE of the special characteristics of the. Christian
mission was stated, by its Divine Founder, to be,
that the Gospel I.Vii preached to the poiir ; acid, tliat
she was the_" Church of the_ Poor," was once one of
the chief glories of the Church of England. This
character she earned by providing, through 'the
bounty of her richer children, that in every parish in
the land the. Gospel machinery should be brought
home to each man's door, and that its ministry to him
should not depend on his ability to pay for it. That
the sacred labourer is worthy of his hire, is certainly
a Christian principle ; but not that his labours should
be placed on a level with secular employments, and
the pecuniary support of the labourer calculated as a
quid pro quo for the value of his services.
It is impossible to travel through the parishes of
England, without perceiving how strictly, in theory,
the Church has acted upon this principle ; it is impos-
sible to examine the lavish profuseness of her noble
ecclesiastical foundations, without thankfully acknow-
ledging how well she has fulfilled her Lord's mission
in this particular. The darker side of the picture,
however, remains for us, and for days of "peculiar
Giiipel enlightenment." It is equally impossible to,
see the parish churches, in their present desolation;
or to walk through the districts of our towns, without
being compelled to admit that the Church of England
no longer in fact possesses this high character.
With regard to many of her finest parish churches,
given to the poor by the pious liberality of our ances-
tors, they have been taken from them, and placed at
the disposal of the richer classes, by the erection of I
pews, _guarded_ doors and numbered as part of
a rented property, belonging, for all uses, to -
the person who rents them. In numberless'
cases, where the most liberal endowments have been
made for the frequent performance of divine ser-
vice, and the maintenance of a sufficient body of
clergy, these endowments have been stolen for the
benefit of a lay impropriator, and barely enough left
for the support of a single minister, the assistance of
one of our charitable societies being, necessary to
maintain a second. But these, we may say, were the
crimes of an earlier generation. Let us ask, what we
are doing- to extend the blessings of the unpurchased
Gospel through the unprovided districts of our towns ?)
Now, whatever we have done, or whatever we are
doing, this is confessed on all sides, that the Church
has not yet regained her hold upon the poor. Churches
are rising around us, but they are not built for the
poor. Eloquent proclamations of the Gospel ring in
our ears on all sides, but the rich purchase them for
themselves. Each man pays for his religion as for,t
any other luxury, or: if you will, necessity, of his life.
A preacher is " liked ;" a Church is built for him—
that-is, a permanent investment is made for his mainte-
nance ; his admirers appropriate its sittings, and they
think their homage to religion has been paid. They
rush in crowds to hang upon his accents, and think
they must be very earnest followers of the Gospel.
They listen, perhaps, to his denunciations of a corrupt
religion, and flatter themselves that they are cham-
pions for the purity of Christianity. They feed, or
think they feed, from a plenteous table, and the pri-
vilege of the poor is, that, perchance, they may gather
up some of the crumbs which fall from the entertain-
ment of their, betters. It is clear that popular reli-
gion has not yet found out the way of carrying the
Gospel in its integrity to the poor.
" The poor will not come to Church I" Granted;
But this is a strange complaint from you who do not
build churches for the poor. This is a grave inconsis-,
toney in your mouths who absolutely refuse to have
churches built for the poor. This is but a vain lip
lamentation from you who interfere with the inten-
tions of earnest men with your miserable disputes and-
factious accusations, while the poor perish around you,
and, who yourselves do not take up the work, which
you prevent others from doing, because you disagree
with them on some point of doctrine or peculiarity of
form.

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORirING.
TUB past has been a busy and a bustling week in all those
plades "where politicians most do congregate." The Clubs
have exhibited an amount of commotion akin to that which
apiarists inform us takes place in a bee-hive, when the ento-
mological republic, having become too hot to hold its ru;enabers,
is Involved the anarchy of a revolutionary movement which
ends only with the. death or extrusion of one of the contending
hosts. • The Houk of Commons has been convulsed in all its
points, the galleries and division lobbies sharing in the agita--
tion ; nay more, the Council Chamber itself has once more
been the scene of those amiable contentions which some
months ago were of such frequent occurrence; and which
were intimated to the outer world by the mysterious announce-
ment that " Ministers remained in close deliberation for up-
wards of three hours." A declaration which those pretending
to be in the secret interpreted into a confession that Ministers
have been in hot and violent altercation for the time specified,
and that in most cases it conveyed to the Ministerial hangers-on
intelligence of a similarly pleasing character to that-communi-
cated to an anxious ship's crew, when, during the night, they
are assailed by th es udden and alarming cry of "breakers a-head."
Every one felt assured of an impending crisis, from the
ominous Parliamentary conclusion of the preceding week,
which was, wound up by the melancholy display of Lord
JOHN RUSSELL in his frequently enacted character of the
Double-dealer. Consequent on the discreditable disclosures
made by his Lordship in the House on the evening of Friday
se'nnight,.and which, besides the condemnation of friends- ands
foes in that august assembly, drew down upon his devoted`
~head the unmitigated indignation of the country,- Sir-E. B,
LYTTON gave notice on Tuesday night of a motion to the
effect, " That the conduct of the Minister charged with the-
negotiations at Vienna, and his continuance in office as Di
responsible adviser of the Crown, have shaken the confidence-
which the country should place in those to whom the adminis.;-
tration of public affairs is entrusted." The intimation of a
motion so pointedly in unison with popular feeling, yet withal
so temperately expressed, and so extensively sympathised in
by the House of Commons, as well as by their constituents,
'Teas the first thing which appears to have created alarm for the
safety of their places in the ministerial mind. To gain time
for a consideration of the defensible points of the position, was.
the first object clutched at—to secure the uncertain support of
•
waverers—and to enlist the Irish Brigade, or, as they delight
to call themselves,the cohort of "fifty independent votes," was
the next, move, and both of these "dodges" were played off
with a skill and hardihood which could only have been ac-
quired by extensive and frequent practice. The motion is to
decide the important question whether the nation will tolerate
the continuance in office of a minister who entertains, or at
least professes a public and a private opinion, diametrically
opposed to each other on so important a point as the continu-
ance of war, or the couchisiou of peace unl by implicat-luu
whether his colleagues, who were cognizant of these discre-
pant views, and continued to act in concert with him, are not
as bad and as untrustworthy as he is. Such a motioa is a
matter of no trivial moment. It broadly impugns the honour
of one member, and touches nearly, the reputation of an the
cabinet ; and it is brought forward in no petulant spirit ; . nor
is it tabled by an intriguer for place. A motion so pregnant
with consequences is one which no ministry can lie under and
retain any function of utility. So long as the accusations it

But we may yet find opportunity to expound our
idea of the causes of this fact which stares us in the
face, viz., that the Church has lost her hold upon the
poor ; and also of the remedies which the case demands.
At present we are pressed with one mode of remedy
=which has regained of late the prominence it had lost,
and which has occupied much local attention during
the last few days.
We took occasion, some time since, to allude to the
advisability, in the "present distress," of street preach-
ing, conducted with caution and judgment. And the
philosophy, if we may so employ the term, of street
:preaching, we appiehend to be this : that it should be
used only as a preparation to the direct agency of the
Church. We must not have Christianity expounded
at the corners of our streets and in the market place
as a mere school of ethics, or system of doctrines
which each man may adequately realise, and then be
left to himself. Street preaching is a mere endeavour
to startle into inquiry the careless and profligate, to
Argil e from inner experience of some mysterious power
‘of el/awhich tyrannises.over their inner man, and
crushes every better aspiration -to the need in which
they stand of a deliverance, -to 'the importance of
the Tad- that a- Deliverer has come upon earth,
and -that if they are willing they may be brought
within the scope of that " Mighty power whereby He
is able to subdue all things unto Himself." If the
example of the Apostles be adduced for street preach-
ing, from the naked fact that they did preach in the
highways and thoroughfares, it must be followed to
s issue. With them Christianity was not merely
the hearing and believing of certain doctrines, but the
induction into a community; and of those who ac-
cepted their teaching it was recorded that the LORD
added them to the Church, and that they continued
steadfastly in the Apostles' doctrine and fellowship,
and in the breaking of the bread, and in the prayers.
Street preaching, therefore, must not be adopted as a
substitute for building churches, and setting up the
full machinery of the Gospel. It must be used as a
mere check to the everyday course of blind wicked-
ness travelled by the besotted thousands who are
'perishing for lack of knowledge. It is not the remedy
for their ills, but it is to inform them of their need of
a remedy, and to induce them to turn aside from the
way of their wickedness to the messenger whom
CIERIST has commissioned on earth to lead their foot-

implies are unrebutted, the -moral hafluence.of• the Cabinet is
annihilated ; and, under these circumstances, the course of
action open to a man of spirit, or of a ministry which covetted
power merely that it might serve the country, is to meet: and
if possible to disprove the accusations. To such a course of
behaviour the PA-LMERSTON administration makes no pretence.
Instead of offering facilities for bringing_the question to im-
mediate issue, the PnE:utzu treats the subject with his cus-
tomary- levity, -and when asked if it• would be- convenient
to take the discussion on this very important motion on Fri-
day, the day usually set apart for questions of supply, he an-
swered snappishly that Friday was - set apart for discussing
" The New Partnerships Bill" and- the "Limited Liability
Bill." Two topics peculiarly appositeto the ricketty condition
of the Cabinet, without doubt, but still not of a sufficiently
important nature to take preference of one which, by its moral
influence, paralysed the whole functions of Government at a
juncture of the national affairs when united counsels and com-
bined energies are indispensable to the safety of the State.
The unbecoming facetiousness of the noble, PREMIER was so
pointedly rebuked by Mr. DISRAELI, that for once Lord PAL-
MERSTON was checked "dead up," and with an assumed ale-
of indifference he agreed to peril the existence of the Adminis-
tration on the issue of the motion this evening, In the mea n
time, however, all the manoeuvres of party tactics had befm
pressed into the service of the impeached Ministry. Concsas-
sions had been made to a deputation of the "Brass Band," by
which it was hoped to secure their aid in the event of a close
conteit.- Other means also were not neglected, and rumours
were industriously circulated by and among the Ministerial
underlings to the effect that, like. Cvaxxus of old, Lord
Joni would plunge into the gulf which, unless propitiated
by a sacrifice of that description, would assuredly swallow
up the whole Cabinet. The magnanimity of the proposed self-
immolation was praised in his lordship's hearing, amidst strong:
expressions of regret for the necessity of the sacrifice. Still
his lordship made no sign. Other hints were thrown out as
to the necessity of providing a Cabinet Jo/flu, who by being
.thrown overboard might still the raging waters which
threatened to engulf the ministerial barque. But still Lord
Join{ gave small show of understanding; and he who was so
sensitively prompt with his resignation on a recent occasion,
which merely threatened to unship his colleagues, could not be
made to budge when another set of colleagues would by hi.s
resignation obtain a chance of rescue from impending ship-
wreck. More desperate expedients were resorted to, expedients
of so disreputable a kind as hardly to meet with, belief. In
reference to the position in which he was placed, the Daily
New& says :—" He was ready to stand the brunt of the
threatened assault and to abide the consequences. Not so the•
men by whom he had been surrounded. Scared at the sound:
of the rising storm of popular indignation, and solicitous only
for the retention of power—men who six weeks ago were.
ready to acquiesce without hesitation in the proposal of com-
prothise with Russia suggested by Count BvoL, have not been
ashamed to join in forcing Lord Joan to tender his resignation
_ _

steps to the cross. to the he ad of the government. Through every rank and grade-
It was with this idea that, in our previous remarks of the party, efforts have been made to further this design. The
on the agency of street preaching, we recommended pride of the SECRETARY for the COLONIES having been stung
this mode, of its employment, namely, that a district into making the offer we have mentioned, resort was had to
the respectable and high•spirited, device of a round robin
should be marked out and appropriated to a particular addressed to Lord PALMERSTON, urging him to accept the
pastor with his assistants ; and that these clergy resignation. This document was actually hawked about the
should undertake the public invitation of the people precincts and passages of the House of Commons during the
committed to their charge--that, having built up ,a sitting of the—House, yesterday -(Thursday), and while the
living Church, a school-room or temporary building two noble lords continued to occupy their usual seats, side
having been used in the meanwhile, a material temple by side, upon the Treasury bench. We are unwilling to state
how many names of men calling themselves Whigs are
of the Lord should rise in their midst; built fcir them,
appended to it ; but, we believe, we may venture to say, that
perhaps partially built by them, made theirs, that
therebukes which its authors encountered from the manly
they might hereafter enjoy the blessings which they and-independent
had learnt amid many difficulties to feel their want of for sailors
in a mutiny on shipboard, served to convince them
and to appreciate. that their clumsy device is one too shameless even for the
'Without, therefore, arguing it on the ground of present House of Commons." The reader who cons over the
ecclesiastical order,---which, if there he such a thing as above, and reflects on some of the recent moves of Lord
order, must be at once decisive against one pastor's JoaN himself, will be involuntarily impelled to put the Whig
party in the.position of SnrLocK, and make it, in the language
preaching in the parish of another without thitt'
it will be at once apparent what view ofthat worthy;. • exclaim to his lordship, " The villauy you
other's consent-7 teach me I will execute ; .and it shall go hard but I will
we take of the- scheme set on foot by the Rev. Dr. better the- instruction." Whether they made so plain a
11`NEILE, of preaching on the Exchange Flags. If declaration or not, they seem to have acted on the maxim.
the object of street preaching be what we have supposed, They do not, however, appear to have perilled their case
that must beaver inadequate mode of conducting entirely on those means of accomplishing their purpose, strong
y,
and disreputable as those means were. The Times am :
it, by which it is turned into a mere advertised attrac• «@ members of the government in the House of Co=ons

tion for novelty-hunters and personal admirers. To
select a respectable area in the middle of the counting-
houses and business resorts of the merchants and
middle classes, and invite those who may choose for
some motive or other to come, is not carrying the
Gospel to the hovels of the poor. This is not going
out into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring-
ing in the poor; and 'the niaimed,-and thatalt, and"
blind; it is not going into the highways and hedges,
and compelling them to some.in. Dr. 31`NEILE may_
say that, without wishing his plan to be followed in
every- respect, his intention is merely to make the
practice of open-air preaching respectable for his less
known brethren. But is the example of so pleasant a
mode of its performance likely to incite them to
the endurance of its harsher and heavier inflictions ?
Will they be induced ; by this display with a flourish of
trumpets, and a flattering audience drawn from all
parts of the town, to plod on in unknown paths,
where no admiring eye can cheer, where notoriety
cannot tickle vanity, and excitement carries with it no
charm ? No. They will strive to escape the disa-
greeables of their duty ; and their work will fail through
a disregard of that great law alike of morals and of
religion, that no permanent good is ever done in this
world but through self-denial and suffering. Really,
if the Rev. Doctor wishes to set an effective example;
he will in future confine himself to his own district
and, giving him credit for the best intentions, we do
not think it necessary to say more at present on the
subject.