The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-16 00:00:00

THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.

Yesterday the British organisation.of the alliance
commenced its sixteenth annual conference in the Free
rosaons'.hall ; Sir CULLING EARDLNY presiding. There was
a preliminary devotional service, at which the Rev. Dr.
Macfarlane (United Presbyterian), of Clapham; presided,
and delivered an address. The 'Rev. J. Davis, one of the
secretaries, read the report, which was congratulatory in
its tone. The year bad been beast with difficulties to the
rogress of Christian union, the revival of historical recol-
lections
bringing polo ta of ecclesiastical difference prominently
before the public ; but the alliance had enlisted more mem.
bees, lay and clerical. The last conference at Geneva had
produced permanent results there and on the continent.
lo connexion with the Exhibition, besides originating special
services, foreign visitors had been entertained by the presi-
dent, and by private members of the alliance. The financial
statement showed that the total income from all sources
and for all purposes had been 2,0301. • and when all liabili-
ties had been met, there would be a balance of 1921. against
the alliance. The reporte were adopted ; and Sir Culling
Eardley, who had hitherto been president of the council
only, was elected president of the British organiantioo, fail-
ing health having rendered him unable te discharge the
duties of the chairman of the council. Resolutions were
then discussed and adopted relating to the internal
operations of the alliance and to a week of
special prayer at the commencement of next year.
With reference to the persecutions of protestante in Spnin,
the Chairman said that their brethren, Matamoros and Al-
bania, were in prison under • final sentence, and the only
question for the alliance was— What can be done! Let it
be known what the sentence was. On Monday, Mr. Renter
telegraphed to Spain, asking certain specific questions, sad
the intelligence in that morning's papers was an answer to
those questions. Matamoras recently wrote to • friend in
England that the Queen of Spain was expected at Grenada,
! in the course of a tour she was making to the chief cities of
Spain. Her Majesty was to arrive at Grenada that day
week ; and it was unlerstood that Sir Jehn Crampton,
British Ambassador, was to have an interview with her
there, and that the intention of government was that the
Queen should announce the pardon of Matamoras and
Alluuna. Instead of their pardon, intelligence had
been received of their final condemnation. For some
days it was considered that the two things might be
compatible, sad that the government had so arranged
that the trial and the final appeal should take place
just before the visit of her Majesty, that she might have the
honour of pardoning the prisoners ; but all hope of that was
now relinquished. The telegram which announced the final
sentence also stated that her Majesty bad been at Grenada,
and had been received with demonstrations of loyalty and
patriotism. Their brethren had been tried for the crime of
protestantism, and nothing else. Efforts to bring other
charges against them had been mad* and had entirely failed,
and admittedly and avowedly they were to be punished for
their religion. They were to be sent to • convict establish-
ment in Africa, sad there, in striped clothes, they were to
taril gun.balls or do degrading work. The Spanish govern.
malt was not proof against the power of concentrated
public opinion. He suggested that in this country
there should be extensively signed • declaration, very
respectful in its terms, to the Spanish government and the
Queen, appealing to the generosity and the justice of the
Spanish nation, and referring particularly to what pro-
testant' had done for catholic in other countries, that
the endorsement of our government should be obtained,
and that this declaration should be taken to
Madrid by an influential deputation. The Foreign-office
was not cold on such matters, as some supposed ; it
was a delicate thing for • minister to take the initiative ;
but it was much less difficult to endorse the action of the
church. Such an example would be followed in protestant
countries ; and he believed that France and America would
readily join them. If such a remonstrance as be bad indi-
cated were curried to the gates of the palace of the Queen,
he believed that the whole Spanish nation would respond,
and would refute to remain the only persecutors, with the
exception of the Pope, on the continent of Europe. (Hear.)
He had no doubt that the Prime Minister of Austria, Count
Schmerling, would endorse such a prooesding. When General
Alexander went to Madrid he had the support of the ambas-
sador of Russia, and he was also the bearer of a letter from
M. Thouvenel to the French minister at the Spanish court,
*perking in the noblest and most generous terms in favour
of universal religious freedom. Marshall O'Donnell, the
Spanish prime minister, was in favour of religious liberty ;
but he had to contend against backstairs influence
in the palace, and against all the power of the priesthood.
If all Europe united in this appeal, the Spanish prime
minister would feel strengthened to do what as • church-
man and a gentleman he was bound to do, viz., to liberate
the sufferers, and to reciprocate towards protestants the
generosity they had manifested towards his co-relir,ionisto
(• Hear, hear," and applause.) The Rev. Dr. Massey moved
a resolution expressing regret at the sentences and the non-
e:emit' of the royal prerogative, and remitting it to the
council to take such steps as they might deem advisable
under the circumstances. It also thanked Major-General
Alexander for the services he had rendered by making •
visit to Madrid with the object of obtaining the liberation
of the prisoners. The resolution was briefly wooded by the
Hon. and Rev. Leland Noel, and unanimously agreed to.

In the evening there was a discussions pon-tii; best means
of promoting Christian union, over which Mr. J. Hender-
son, of Glasgow, presided. The Secretary read a communi-
cation from Hr. Fish, the secretary of the Paris brinch of
the Alliance, on the subject of the war is America. Sir
Culling Eardley baviog addressed the meeting on tl•e same
subject, a prolonged discussion took place. A committee
was appointed to consider in what way the communication
from Paris should be disposed of, and to draw up as
address or resolution, if it were agreed to recommend one
for the adoption of the Conference.

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1110/OSED VISIT OF Mn. GLADSTONE TO NORTH
WALWA—The lengthened and necessarily expansive parlia-
mentary contests which took plate during the last session
for the possession of certain lines of railway in Shropshire
and North Wales, and which gave rim to much discussion in
the newspapers, have given to the district. in question con-
siderable importance. One of the lion referred to is the
Wrexham, Mold, and Coo nab's Qnay, which forms an import-
ant link io the great scheme of railways, having on the one
side connexion with the whole of the London and North
Western system, end on the other extensions into Mid-
Wale., to Milford, Aberystwith, die. These lines were
promoted by landowners sod independent companies, and
opposed by the Great Wedeln Company, who, in the words
of Nr. Noon, at the half-yearly meeting of the Loudon
and North Western Company, must have spent sums "al.
most fabulous" in doing so. They were, however, beaten,
though they succeeded in cutting off a portion of the
original scheme. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is, by
property and family ties, intimately connected with the
county of Flint, through which a considerable portion of the
line 'll°B9llldb° hag *emoted to be present at an important
ceremonial in the history of this railway. Wednesday next,
the 22nd inst., has been fixed foe what is culled "cutting
the firm sod" of the line, which task Mrs. Glads Moe, wife
of the Chancellor, has undertaken to perform. In the
afternoon of the lamp day the Chancellor of the Exchequer
will preside at a cold collation at the Wyoustay Arms
Hotel, in Wrexham, where a la le expected to
assemble. Oa the morning of the 22nd the eorporatioa of
Wrexham will present him with au addreas. The day will
be observed se a pond holiday in the toms.

LORD PALMERSTON AT SOUTHAMPTON.

OPENING OF THE HARTLEY INSTITUTION.

SOUTHAMPTON, WZMIMIDAT Emma.
The Hartley Institution was opened with great
ceremony to-day.

The Mayor of Southampton (Mr. P. Perkins) and the
corporation assembled at the Town-hall at noon, and from
thence proceeded to the sewed Oessroseigate, the boundary
of the borough, for the purpose of meeting Lord Palmer-
ston, and there • procession was formed.
His lordship on joining the procession was greeted with
enthusiastic obsess, and his passage through the town to
the institution was quite an ovation.
The areaway of inauguration took plaos in the lecture
hall, whisk was closely p►cked, admission being by tickets
issued by the corporation and the Hartley council, and the
assemblage comprised • goodly porting' of ladies. Lord
Palmentc•, on entering the room, was received with most
entituslasSe plaudits. His lordship and Lady Palmerston
haring been conducted to the platform by the Mayor,
The TOWN CLUIL then read the address to his lordehip,
which had been agreed to by the corporation.
Lord PALIIIRSTON, on rising to reply, was repeatedly
cheered.

The of Boomer= then read several purees of
Scrlp!iead 'evoked a blessing, after which the lateens-
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Venal Ode was performed.
The MAYOR rose, end, addressing Lord Palmerston, ob-
served that, having just bad the privilege of presenting to
his lordship an address voted by the corporation of the town
be now wished to request him, in the name of education
and science, to confer an additional honour upon the town
of Southampton by inaugurating the opening of the institu-
tion. (Cheers.) It was only a short time ago—indeed it
seemed but yesterday—that the foundation stone of the
building was laid. Upon that occasion the noble lord
honoured them with his presence and support. After the
lapse of nearly two years the noble structure had sprung
into existence, end he thought Lord Palmerston would agree
with him that it was • credit to the town. (Cheers.) It warns
matter of congratulal ion to people living in these days, that
they were enabled to enjoy the privileges and advantages
which were to be derived from institutions of this character—
privileges which were altogether an known to their forefathers,
who had no institutios to fall back upon for the eolarge.
meat and cultivation of their minds. (Hear, hear.) He
thought they should be grateful that they lived in •
day when in almost every great town throughout the king-
dom even working men had raised up temples dedicated to
the promotion of • taste for literature, science, and art.
(Cheers.) England was the foremost and the freest nation
in the world, and it was pleasing to think that that result
was owing in a great measure to education. Hie lordship
I had ever been desirous of doing all in his power to advance
education, and it was most gratifying to find him among
them, giving the prestige of his presences and sup-
port
eiegtowtom.r
the people .of henhurm)ptoTnbemreore deli ws nglo man
ited to
honour, and they were proud that he had come persinally
among them to inaugurate the opening of the institution.
(Loud cheers.) Those who were now present would re-
member with satisfaction till the last hour of their lives the
day when the premier of England, who in his hours of re-
laxation never thought of himself if be could gratify the
people with whom he was identified, came forward to
associate himself with them in the great cause of educa-
tion. (Cheers.)
Lord Penteasrog, who on rising was received with re-
newed cheering and waving of bats and handkerchiefs. said :
Mr. Mayor, and ladies and gentlemen,—l can assure you
I that I feel that if honour there be on one aide or the other,
the honour has been conferred on me, by being allowed to
be present on this interesting occasion. It is interesting to
me, because has ing been permitted to assist, I may say, at
the christening of this child—(laughter)—l am sow present
at its confirmation. (Cheers.) I trust its future life will
be prosperous to itself, and will be an honour to the com-
munity to which it belongs, that it will be an honour and an
advantage to the country. The people of Southampton are
• gnat, flourishing, and prosperous community. You have
a port admirably adapted to purposes of commerce ; you
have docks fitted to receive—l am 'lorry to say—fitted to
receive a larger vessel than her Majesty's dockyards can at
present hold. That superiority on your part, I trust., will
be of very short life. Youerill permit me, without offence,
to say so. (Hear, bear.) You have an increasing popula.
tion ; you have all the elements of worldly wealth ; but
hitherto you have wanted that which is the completion of
that state of existence—you have wanted an institution like
this, where knowledge, where science, literature, and art
might be cultivated as much as commercial progress in
your town. That want is now supplied, and with the sup.
plying of that want will go hand in hand the increase not
only of your welfare but of your power ; for it is well said,
and must be felt by all, that " Knowledge is power." Not I
power simply is • community, but power in every individual
member of that community by whom that knowledge is
acquired. We have only to look around us in this great
country to see examples of men rising from comparatively
humble origin to great wealth, to high dignities,
and to high employments in the state—and bow
Why, by the cultivation of mind, by the know.
ledge which they have acquired, and by the application
of that knowledge to the business of life in which they may
have engaged. Your courts of law, your parliament, your
manufacturing communities, all abound with men Ailing to
diatirction for themselv as, and performing great service to
the country, owing estirely to the cultivation of those
talents with which Providence at their birth has endowed
them. Therefore I say that this town will greatly be ad-
vantaged by as institution like this, in which knowledge
will be freely communicated to all who choose to come and
drink at the fountain, where opportunities will be afforded
to cultivate knowledge of every sort and kind, adapted to
the natural talents and worldly occupation of those who are
seeking it. But knowledge, ladies and gentlemen, is not
simply a source of power. You may say that the love of
power is a pushes duly implanted in the human mind; but
that it sometimes may Ind to • course which may not re-
dound t 4 the credit of those who pursue it. But know.
ledge is not always a source of power. It is a
source of the purest enjoyment to those who
possess it, and there is a natural tendency
happily in the human mind to pursue knowledge.
It is enough for a man to have gained knowledge to in-
' duce him to go on kneeing, and every fresh addition which
he acquires to the knowledge he has gained is au additional
source of pleasure sad happiness to bin, as well as an ad-
ditional element of good conduct in the career which he
pursues. The love of acquisition, the love of accumula•
tion, is • natural instinct in the human mind. When •
MAO begins to collect books, be is never satisfied without
having more than his house will hold. (Laughter.) The
man who collects medals fills all his chests of drawers with
things that perhaps he may look et ; the man who
collects pictures has his walla covered with the best speci-
mens of art which he can collect. In the same way, that
principle of adding to that which has been begun applies to
knowledge as well as to everything else, and the more •
man knows the more he wishes to learn. and the more he ie
able to learn, because knowledge of one sort lends easily to
the acquirement of knowledge of another and a different
kind. Well, then, I trust that this institution will not
ably be • source of prcaperity to the town, but will hen source
of happiness to the individual members of the community.
As to the effect of knowledge upon national interests, your
worthy mayor has just now pointed out that the great
power, wealth, and prosperity of the country arises front
the development of intellect, and from the progress of
scierce amougst the different members of the community.
Where should we be if it had not been for the researches of
those great men who have given to the country all those
resources of mechanical irdustry by which the wealth of
the community and the power of the country have been
nis:d to the position which they now fortu-
nately bold! In this institution you will no
doubt have young men who here will acquire
that knowledge and cultivate those talents which will
not only raise them to a high position in the country of
which they are membsti ; but will add materially to the
wealth, prosperity, happieses, and power of the country in
which they have been bon. You, Mr. Mayor, have called
this building a temple. It is, uo doubt, to use classical ,I
language,) a temple to the Mass—a temple dedicated to
purposes more cougenial to the state of religion which happily
prevails. It may be deemed to be not only a I
temple of the Muses, but a temple also for the improve-
meat of religious feeling amongst the people of the country. I
Some persona, in other times and countries, have held the '
doctrine that the knowledge and the cultivation of sei•oce
were incompatible with true religion. Mere cannot peen- '
bly be • greater error god mistake than that. (Hear.)
Suppose au ignorant man takes up • watch—suppose him to
look at a steam engine. He will naturally imagine that the
watch of its own accord tells him what is o'clock—that the
steam engine of its owe accord twist, all those spindles
which he sees ravelviog. He will never think how it is
done ; be will be oontent with the melte. He will have no
notion in his mind of the degree of talent which must have
been required on the part of those who made three things.
He will have co idea of the wonderful mechanism even by
which those outward movements have been prodused. He
will be content with results without thinking of OMNI&
But show him that iugemous mecbaniam which makes the
hands move, following the sun. Tell him of that wonder-
ful contrivance by which the steam elegise is worked, and
then he will trampler is the maker of the ems and to
I the author of the other those feelings of admiratjos
which had not previously existed in his mind. In the same

way, gentlemen, she ignorant man ems day end night suc-
ceed each other ; he sees the season, mucosa each other ; he
sees the seed he has put into the ground rise into a profitable
mop ; he sees all the op cations of nature, and it sever
ocean to him to ,undress how all these wonderful opera-
tics, are brought about nor by what power they originate.
He is conscious of his own ezietence ; he feels his body
healthy or sickly as it may be ; he feels hunger come at on
and thirst at another, and knows how to satiate
both, but he is utterly ignorant of what a wonderful
chem.= he is himself, sod his mind bee not bees lad to
that source from wheats that wonderful mechanism
has arise°, but when knowledge enlightens his mind,
and when he sees the wonderful effects and contrivances
of that Almighty power by which those results have bean
brought about I say he must be • strangely orsistitated
beirg indeed, if the feelings of religion are not more among
in his mind, lead if the knowledge which he thus acquirel
all the wonderful laws and contrivances of what we all
nature, do not raise his mind to the Author of all these
things and implant in his mind a feeling of religious awe
and veneration, which strengthens those precepts which be
may have received from his religious instructors. I say
therefore that this is not simply a temple of Muses, but it
will turn out • temple of those studies which tend to M-
I crease and streughen the religious feelings of thosewho come
within Its walls. I would only say therefore that I hope and
trust that thin institution will long prosper, and that it will
attain the end for which it hag been founded. (Cheers.)
Now there are different ways by which knowledge may be
acquired. Some contend that knowledge, in ceder to be
deeply engravenin the human mind, mast be acquired by
r uttivestigation-imust be worked out by the individual
No doubt that is the beet way to engrave know-
ledge on the mind of the man by whom It is attained ; but
the pursuits of life prevent all but a very few from following
that coarse. It is for those whose time is occupied in other
pursuits that institutions of this kind are particularly
valuable. You will have here men harmed m different
walks of science, who will come and give you in a lucid,
plain, and intelligent manner, the results of
those long and laborious studies, of those patient sad
long confined investigations by which they have arrived
at their conclusioes. Those conclusions may, perhaps,
not be so firmly impremied upon the minds of their hearers
as they am on their own understandings, but still much will
be learnt ; and it would be u idle and vain to say that mesh
useful knowledge is not to be pitted by those lectures which
will be I trust delivered within these walla, se to say a malt
cannot learn geography by maps, but must go over sad sur-
vey the country bianaelf. It would be idle to lay that a
man cannot acquire a deeply•rooted knowledge by listening
to the discourses of those who have worked out results,
although he might not be able to follow them in ill those
intikate melee into which they got before they arrived at
those useful result*. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I coops-
talste you most sincerely in having in your town an institution
of this character. lam persuaded that all who can derive
benefit from it, but more especially the younger part of the
community, will take every possible advantage of it, and
that it will tend not only to the prosperity of your town,
bat also to raise the minds of all who oome within its walls
to • higher scope of intelligence, by developing those talents
with which Providence has endowed them, and by fitting
them better than they otherwise would have been fitted to
follow advantageously those different careers of life to
which their fortunes, or tetrads and dispositions, may lead
them to devote themselves. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. Alderman BLATCH, chairman of the council of the
institution, thanked his loedship in the name of the corpo-
ration, the council of the institution, and the town for
attending to open the institution, an act which he said would
long be cherished in the memory of the inhabitants.
Professor Owes, in the absence of Sir Roderick Murchi-
son, who was unable to attend io consequence of ill health,
briefly addressed the meeting in congratulatioe on the op-
portunities the establishment of the institution will afford
to the advancement of science and the cultivation of gene-
ral knowlede.
Professor grace also addressed the audience in a similar

MATOC then called upon Lord Palmerston to form-
ally open the building.
Lord PALmuresrox then came forward in the midst of
greet applause and said—Mr. Mayor, ladies, and gentle-
men,—With your permission, Mr. Mayor, I will proceed
to state a fact—l would hardly venture to make a prophecy
—that this institution is now fully open. (Cheers.) if I
were to presume to take on myself the gift of prophecy, it
would be difficult to foretell the success which, I trust,
will await its future career ; but I declare that the in-
stitution is now, under the =tiptoes of the Mayor, fully and
completely open.
This announcement was followed by enthusiastic applause.
The proceedings terminated with three cheers respec-
tively for Lord Palmerston, Lady Palmerton, the Institu-
tion, sad the Mayor.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY Evicirnio.

At the dinner given by the Mayor, among those present,
in addition to the noble Premier, were the Bishop of
Rochester, the Earl of Hardwicke, Colonel Sir Henry
James, Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, the Right Hon. W.
Cowper, ML P.. Mr. W. Digby Seymour, M.P., Professor
Owen, Ito.
In responding to the toast of "Her Majesty's Ministers,"

Lord P.u.uxitirrou said—For myself and in the name
of my colleagues, I beg to return you my most
sincere and cordial thanks for the honour you have done us
in drinking the last toast, and I only regret that some more
of my colleagues should not have been present on this inte-
resting occasion, to see the manly and enlightened spirit by
which the people of this town are animated in a matter of
public interest and so conducive to the general welfare of
all those who are concerned in the institution we
have this day seen opened. I can assure you,
gentlemen, that her Majesty's ministers are deeply sen-
sible of the great importance of encouraging by all means
within their reach the diffusion of education within the
United Kingdom. It has been our anxious desire that edu-
ction should be based upon a useful principle, that it
should in every class tend to discipline and instruct the
minds of those to whom it is administered in such manner
as to render them during the rest of their lives not only
useful members of the community, but also able artificers of
their own fortunes. I may say, too, speaking in a town
which is remarkable for its prosperity—l may say that it
has been the constant object of her Majesty's government—
and I will not take credit in that respect simply for those
who now administer the affairs of the country—but it has
been the constant object for • long time past of all who
have been responsible for the management of national af-
fairs, to free the action of industry and commerce from all
those shackles which the leas enlightened legislation of
former periods had thought beneficial to be imposed upon
it. It was thought, in times gone by, that although nobody
would have taught a m►n to dance in fetters, it was useful
for him to trade in fetters, and that the more industry and
commerce were shackled by what was called protective
legislation, the less free men were to employ their industry
►nd their capital in the manner which might appear to them
to be the best, and the more would the prosperity of the
country thrive. I remember that a foreigner who
is thought to be • great theoretical philosopher, ad-
mitting that England prospered the more since the freedom
of commerce had bees established, said, " Aye, it is true ;
but you have been enabled to render commerce free by the
prosperity which you have maintained under the shackles
beneath which your industry has laboured, and therefore
your mainpla is not one to be followed by other countries.
We must wait till we have grows rich by impediments and
obstructions before we can be willing to grow richer by
having our limbs and our intellects rendered free." I say
then that I think that corporate bodies, I will call them, of
public men who from time to time have been called upon to
incur the responsibility of conducting the affairs of the
country are entitled to the ►pprobation of their fellow-
countrymen for many other reasons, but for two in
particular which are most likely to be valued
and appreci►ted by the assembly 1 am now addressing
—first, by their anxiety to diffuse, as far as possible, among
the people of the realm the blessings of enlightenment and
education, and by their constant endeavours to free
industry and capital from all those impediments and
shackles skink oppressed this nation in former periods.
The Earl of HARDWICK'', in responding to the toast of
"The House of Lords," expressed his satisfaction at the
discretion which up to this moment her Majesty's ministers
hail displayed in the policy of non-intervention they bad
adopted in the internecine struggle in America. He also
expressed approval of the sentiment enunciated by Mr.
Gladstone in his recent visit to the north, that Jeff. Davis
had succeeded in forming in the Southern States • great and
independent nation. (Cheering and marksof disapprobation.)
Alluding to the topic of education the noble earl praised the
efforts which had been made to promote that muss, urging
that the item which had been taken in that direction had
dorm more for the general advancement and well-being of
the people than any extension ol the elective frasehise
could ►ave dons.

The Mayor of Soirrntirrron, in proposing the health of
Lord Pennington, highly eulogised the services which the
noble lord had rendered to she country during the Let sixty
rum and declared his strong geonvietion that, so bon as
the interest* et Weed were intrusted to his guiding's,
there could he no fur that the ship weld weather any
storm it might hare to encounter.

The taut was drunk with peat enthusiasm.
Lord PLLICMISTON in acknowledging the toast, after a
few prolimbrity observations, proceeded as follows: With
roped to thou particular public teiniacticiss to which my
worthy friend the mayor has alluded, las take no pe-
culiar merit to myself individually. I have seknowledpd,
in combination with public men of the highest order, that
no peat national effort, whether it be for internal improve-
mut, national defence, or the assertion of national dignity
and honour, can be asoomplished by any one single man. It
requires • oombination of ability, energy, integrity,
and skill, and that combination must be found
in the members of the government in the first
place, in the departments of the State in the
next place, in the two services of the army end the
navy In the last place ; and their combined action must be
supported and confirmed by the voices of the representatives
of the people in radium:it, and by the unanimous feeling
of the British nation at large. (Hear, hear.) These are
the conditions upon which ekes a snooessful adroinistastion
can be carried on ; and I tetra that these conditions have
been fulfilled in the tranuetione to which the mayor has
referred. I can assure you that so long as we have the
honour of receiving the confidence of parliament and our
Sovereign, backed by the goodwill and the confidence of the
country, we shall be encouraged by the support which we
have hitherto received to puma that course which
in our haslet and sincere consciences we may
think beet ailenhned to promote the interests et
the country and to cast aside all those political
serums which parties bandy against each other. I am
perfectly convinced that no administration—whether it is
ours or that to whisk my noble friend belonged, and which
may succeed us—that no administration of this country
can continue for any time, however short, that does not act
on this principle. I have that high opinion of the public
men of this country to feel that from whatever side of the
house they may come they will act on this principle, and
will deserve, as long as they may hold office, the confidence
end support of the country. I would only, in conclusion,
relieve the mind of my noble friend (Lord Hariwicke) from
any apprehension that by some peculiar construction of the
toast in which he joined (" Her Majesty's Ministers "), he
may have summed something like • want of allegiance to
the party to which he beluga. (Laughter.) Let me
insure him that verbally, critically. and logically, the
toast which be drank was perfectly consistent with the
views which he afterwards expressed. He drank the health
of her Majesty's ministers. Now every man, let him
be *verso little conversant with medical science, will know
that the health of man is beet promoted by country air—
(laughter)—by rural sports, by an abundance of exercise,
by the absence of are and relief from labour—(laughter),
—and, therefore, in drinking the health of her Majesty's
ministers, critically, literally, and logically, my noble friend
wished that we might aa early as possible he placed in the
position which would be meet conducive to that health
which he wished us to enjoy, and there are none of his
political friends, however apt they may be to draw nice dis-
tinctions, who eukl reproach hint in the slightest degree for •
having joined in that toast which was proposed and which
he drank without the slightest hesitation. (Great laughter
and cheers.) Lord Palmerston concluded by thanking the
Mayor for the manlier in which his health had been drunk,
and by seeming all present that the reception he had met
with would be indelibly impreseed upon a grateful mind.
The proceedings did not terminate until a late hour.

THE SECRETARY AT WAR ON THE AMERICAN
STRUGGLE.

HEREFORD, WZDfIBDAT.

The Herefordahire Agricultural Society held its
annual meeting here yesterday, wham there was the usual
great display of Hereford cattle, miter which the agricultu-
rists dined together. There was au unusually large muster
at the dinner table, it being understood that Sir G. C. Lewis,
her Majesty's Secretary at War, would be present. The
chair use taken by Sir VELMA CORNWALL, and among the
inane at the crow-table were Lord W. Graham, M.P., Sir
T. E. Winaingtos, Bart., M.P., Mr. Mlldmey, LP., Yr.
King King, M.P., Colonel Clifford, M.P., ice.
Sir G. C. Latvia, in reply to the toast of his health, con-
curred in • wish expressed that war and war secretaries
could cease ; but if it happened that • foreign nation thought
we were unprepared, and wu tempted therefore to
make a descent upon our shores, it would neither
lead to honour nor to the intermit of this country
that we should be found unready. He referred at
some length to the distress prevailing is the cotton die-
tricts. lie expressed a hope that it would be of
short duration only, and that the war which was now going
on in the United States, and the blockade of the Southern
States, which prevented the cotton from coming to this
country, would before long come to as sod. That was •
were commanded, and to the pertinacity with which the
contest on their part had been waged, it could not surely be
denied that they deserved the name of " belligerent " in
reference to the unmoor la which they bad carried on the
war against the United States. Godw these circumstances
it seemed to him (Sir G. Lewis) that • more unfounded charge
could not have been made against the government of this
coootry than that of having deputed from the principle of
strict neutrality by recognising the Southern States
as belligerents. (Hear, hear.) But when the rovers-
meet was asked to go • step farther, and to say that
the Southern States have constituted themselves
an independent power, them it seemed to him
that international law would not be on our side.
Everybody who read the accounts in the newspapers of
what was doing in America could see that although there
was • war there between these two contending powers,
it was • war which was as yet undecided—a war which
was waged on the part of the Northers States for the pur-
pose of restoring the States to the condition of union they
were in before the war began ; and on the part of the
Southern States it was a war to establish their inde-
pendence. But the war must be admitted to be utdecided ;
the battlefields were still reeking with the blood of thou-
sands of soldiers killed on both sides ; sad until the war
had beau derided no one aide or the other, or until it had been
decidedso far in favour of the Southern States as to induce
the Northern Steen to recoguise their iodepandence, or to
prove he foreign States that the contest was exhausted, sad
that the Northers States were incapable of continuing the
contest, until that moment arrived it could not be said, in
accordance with the established doctrines of international

law, that the indepeademosof the Southern States had been
established. (Hair. hear.) He believed it was the general
opinion of the ppeeoopple of this soustry that the contest would
issue in the estaWshment of the iadepeodetice of the South.
He himself did not express that opinion. but that was
the general opinion in this country. Let them look
to the state of ibises established between the par-
ties. It could not be said that the Southern
States of the Unio.l bad de facto established
their independence. That being • matter of notoriety, he
could not think they wens guilty of any neglect is act in.
cognising the independence of the Southern States. Hie
noble friend (Lord W. Graham) had expressed a wish that
be should give them some informatios as to the probability
of our making • redaction is the national expenditure en
account of the army and navy. He was afraid no great
dimiontiou could be effected in the public expenditure on
that account without sensibly diminishing the power and
efficiency of those forces. (Hear, hear.) It might be that
the allowance to the army and navy was greater than was
required, and that mine redaction might be made next year;
but the recent discoveries in science, and the consequent
change in the arming of both army and navy, had neces-
sarily entailed great extra expenditure. The right hoe.
gentleman concluded with some brief remarks ou the dis-
tress in Lancashire.
The other toast" were chiefly of • local and personal
character.

WORKING MON'S COLLIKIZ, 45, GILZAT ORMOND-
RTILLIT.—NINTO YltAlL—The lint term will commence on
Monday nest, when the Principal, the Rev. F. 1). Maurice,
will deliver Um opening address at 8.30 p.m. P
elementary, and advanced classes will be formed during
week in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, book-
keeping, English grammar, oornpoeition, literature, and
history, Bible history, the cetistitutional history ot
England, French, Latin, German, physical and political
giioirrapby, botany, geology, the philosophy of the mind,
the use at the microscope, and drawing, under the superia-
teudence of Mr. Raskin. A lecture, fres to members, *my
Saturday evening.
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