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LONDON. FRIDAY, APRIL 9.

NOTWITIISTANDING the loud clamour raised by
Mr. BAINES and his opponents, we from the first
denied that they spoke the sentiments of the great
body of dissenters in England. The Wesleyan
methodists have never denounced state-interference
with education ; on the contrary they have uniformly
intimated that they were ready to adopt it, if it could
be worked consistently with certain great principles
which they feel themselves. A " Letter to the
Marquis of Lansdowne," written by one of the most
eminent of their body, and just published by Messrs.
Aytorr and JoNes, distinctly advocates the minis-
terial measure as it stands ; and the Watt hman, the
official journal of the Wesleyan methodists, announces
that the educational committee of that body had
adjourned to Manchester for the purpose of discussing
the propaeitions of the government in an amicable and
temperate spirit. We have reason to believe that the
mutual explanations which have taken place between
the friends ofgovernment, and the Wesleyan body, have
led the latter to apprehend that they had fallen into
the error of regarding barely possible contingencies as
most probable results, while the former have ex-
pressed and felt a sincere desire to adopt every rea-
sonable and practicable precaution against possible
abuse which may be suggested. We await the results
of tho deliberations at Manchester not merely with
hope but with confidence, for nothing can be more
reasonable than the condition to which the official
organ of the Wesleyans seems to attach primary im-
portance—that ao school sliced receive aid from the
state in which the reading of the holy scriptures
is prohibited by the managers.
We trust that the conference to be led in Lard a
oil-Tuesday w 11 exhibit an equal apprniatien of the
spirit of can 'our and an egad abhorreree of the
spirit of cavil. We appeal f ore their passions to
themselves. On the 16th of May last, a Report of
the Board for General Education was read to the
Annual Ass2mbly of Congregational Union by the
Rer. ROBERT Arsosue, and the adoption of that report
was moved by Mr. EDWARD BAINES, jun., and se-
conded by the Rev. HENRY TOWNLEY. From this we
shall make a few extracts, well worthy the attention
not only of the coming conference but of the British
nation. In May last, then, Mr. EDWARD IIAINES, in
the following nervous terms, deplored the deficiency
of the existing means of national education in
England :
Private information communicated to the board, personal
observation and investigation of various localities, with the
published documents of the registrar-general, and the
reports of the state of prisons in England and Wales, pub.
listed by order of the llousr of Commons, would furnish
enough to make us modest in speaking of what bas been
done for the bumbler classes, ant Mike us ashamed that
England—the sons of the soil of England—should have been
so long neglected, and should present to the enlightened
teas eller from other shores such a sad spectacle of neglected
cultivation, lost mental power, and spiritual degradation.
In May last, Messrs. AINSLIE and Buses, who
now assert that voluntaryism is all-sufficient, pro-
duced authenticated documents to show that volun-
taryism, though stimulated to its utmost exertion by
the defeat of Sir JAMES GRADAM'S bill, could only
provide schools for 25,552 children in three years,
being at the rate of 8,300 per annum, and therefore
falling miserably short of the annual increase of popu-
lation ; and even of thew- it is iworded : " Cons:der-
able difficulty is felt in some localities in sustaining
schools when established."

But the most astounding part is to come : there is
no point on which Mr. BAINES and his friend, in
their present agitation, have been more vehement and
violent than on the danger of turning pupils in course
of training, and schoolmasters, into mere state pen-
sioners, if the government should contribute towards
the education of the former and the sustenance of the
latter. Now we actually find this course not only
deliberately recommended, but stated as grounds of
congratulation by the Itev. ROBERT AINSLIE and
Mr. EDWARD BAINES, jun., themselves. Here are
the words of the report :
The board disclaims all rivalry to the older and more
powerful establishment in the Borough row]. The object
contemplated by the board is different from that in the older
establishment. The committee of the British and Foreign
School Society presume on the previous education of these
who miter to be, trained: but the board, knowing that
scarcely any have had this previous education, are deter-
mined to give it, and if matters can Ins adjusted ahour the
gormsonent grant, it may he that the candidates taught by
the board for twelve mouths may spend two or three months
in the Borough-road before they are appointed to preside
over schools. Better educated and better qualified teachers
must be provided
_for the times coming upon us, and they
must be better paid ; so that, in loving their work, they
shall be rewarded in it, and not driven from it by a starring
salary, nor tempted away to other employment by a salary
whieA they owiht to command as schoolmasters and school-
mistresses in British schools.

The report thus prepared by the Rev. ROBERT
AINSLIE, and propoecd for adoption by Mr. EDWARD
BAINES, Jun., concludes with the following eloquent
appeal, which we gladly transfer to the columns of
the Daily r'ev's:
A great work has to be done for our beloved country.
Honoured fathers and brethren ! let us not negleet nor flinch
from doing what is within our power. Our fathers have
laboured and we have entered into their labour., and let us
aid in preparing and consolidating the high road to peace
and love among Christians, and to universal education and
freedom of conscience for Britain's sons and for Britain's
daughters, hoping that the days will come when " the Lord
shall raise up the poor out et the dust ;" when " he shall
judge among the nations, and shalt rebuke many people ;
and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their
spears into pruning-hooks: nation shill not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn war any more "
(Ise. ii. 4); and when many teachers of heavenly truth,
love, and mercy,shall ruu to and fro, and knowledge shall be
increased.

Can we without shame and sorrow find the name
of AINSLIE appended to the summons of a conference
avowedly designed to prevent the accomplishment of
the great work thus powerfully recommended? Can
we without feelings so mingled that language can
afford them no adequate expression, see the proposer
of this admirable report engaged in a mission to keep
the poor in the dust, by making them the abject re-
cipients of educational charity instead of the inde-
pendent possessors of educational rights?
" Oar fathers have laboured," says the report, and
verily none have laboured more zealously, more
earnestly, and more consistently, in the cause of na-
tional education than the Puritan fathers of noncon-
formity; the duty of the state to educate the people,
and the right of the people to demand education from
the state, were the two great principles which they
asserted so soon as they found freedom in the wilder-
ness.

nese. mation on the enbject,or with persons whose prejudices put a question to M. Ducliatel respecting the alleged pme- of the newtouth Ameviian Mates is not amatterofindie the chain gang isinanaged. it. Then, all who were able to work were divided into
Is the condemnation of this report to be the first areenlisted infavourofgame-preserving. That thegame change in the Greek cabinet, to which M. Duchatel ference to the people and cabinets of Europe." President BAHAMAS.—On the sth of March, addresses parties, each in charge of an officer of the ship; some to
question proposed to the coming conference ? for it laws, in their present shape, cannotbe long maintained replied that the government had received no official Soublette also alluded to the recognisance by Spain of the were unanimously voted by the Legislative Council and secure provisions, others clothes, and sears for our_ rafts."_
must be confessed that it is a very startling difficulty is obvious, even to the most ardent game-preserver. information whatever on the subject, nor had he been independence of Venezuela. On. the let of February, an House of Assembly to Governor Matthew, on the eve of his At 10 a.m. all were gathered together on the raft, and w•
in their way. Will that conference be so constituted Indeed, the evidence of the supporters of the game informed that five British vessels of war had pre-A preservation thrush
ainnesfoty der
(tee: proclaimed, which was on a broader basis departure fur England. Both houses concurred in expresa- offered up our thanks to G for our . •
as to have the right to set aide all the proceedings laws has, perhaps unwittingly to the witnesses, proved witted themselves in the Piraeus. He observed that leg a high estimation of his excellenersadministrativetalents. the eight. By 4 p.m. all the spars which could be colleetad
solemnly adopted by the regular assembly of the con completely condemnatory of their cherished system. the question was at present one of some delicacy, and CHlLL—Papers from this republic to the 234 of A motion was made in the assembly on the 10th of March, together were added to our rift, and lashed together, as
January have been received. The public mind was still by Mr. Misiek, senior member for the Turks Island., to the well as we could manage, with odd repel picked . up; Int,t,
gregational union in May last ? Can any body of Moreover, every day furnishes merle new instance or rather deprecated discussion upon it, saying, however, occupied with the contemplated expedition of General effect that the house would cheerfully accede to the. desire the raft was now nearly double the Size,
oalut'dton...:
men afford the loam of character attendant on each the strong feeling against the game system which that the French cabinet might be relied upon to pro- Flores to the Ecuador, although reassured ter some extent by expressed by the islanders fur a separate government. in their heavrer.;, still anything but secure. We
ball of flour
mixed
a display of factious inconsistency ? exists in the public mind. Thus we find in a Wilt- coed in the affair with all proper firmness and dis- adopted here for stopping it by the memorial to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. An half a tott e o brandy, and a .
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We ask these questions in no angry or hostile spirit ; shire paper, under the head of " a noble example," cretion. the prompt Imesaurce
seizure of the vestels. The Chilian government were by
amendment was carried, in which the house declined, in its up with a little salt water, wine, and a little tre
of . 1.!
ably occupied in the cares of finance, nod the due apportion ignorance of the negotiations which the Turks islanders five poor fellows who still clung to the wreck were observed
we arc sincerely anxious that those mistaken men that Lord HARRY VANE, M.P., who has recently be- A circumetailce has transpired which, though not
is,meat of the mesa of revel:taste the redemption of the public are cirrying on through a special agent in London, to pledge about to leave it—they had tied together two spars, wk
should take pity upon themselves and have mercy come the proprietor 0 a great portion of the land in alluded to in any of the Paris journals, is nevertheless debt. .
:11 • themselves to any future decision on the subject. they had broken off, and at last committed themselves to the
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oat of the fire, three were saved. We now numbered '
ashwas on the raft, and, 10 haying gone off on the little
made 70 saved out of 10l souls su,,ported to have
bre,
baard. We had by this time gathered together
'7 oes
he raft three barrels of Hour, one small banal of
°°
caw ,ai one tonal cask of brandy, one barrel of nine -
ore one case of claret, about three entws of other
Ties,l". three biros, two small cheeses, one small brisket
of preserve li appl.
es, • piece of bacon, two live pigs,
one sheep, one dog alive
oar ve s dheep
ria of stuff like treacle, one small barrel
or
of uttr, and one box of candles- Wo had also picked up
nw clothes; so, when each bad rigged himself out as
be bet could, a strange lot we must have been. But there
~,a no grumbling, no comp's/as; each man was for himself
i.the way of garments. A bag containing the ship's signals
ass found, snd one flsg was fastened to a spar which we
bri,tril toll
down ti any ip. T was
night we bail room
NA to lie on the raft. It was still very cold; and,
0 the raft was still insecure, it was also an anxious night

g Y, Fyn. 14.—With the first daylight all were
......mepliflad to stretch our cold and stiffened limbs. To
were gene to work we served out each half a
oTe als• —hronho
rly. SToine. act off to collect pieces of the wreck
ad 'gars, others provisions, clothes, sic • some to gather
yortiry the. raft; others with come
toboard. boarding pikes
shish had hen picked up, to endeavour .
.ca.c fish,- as
we seen round about us. A venting-desk was
wallal. and in one corner was a little box of about a doz. n
coo tiler matches; but they were wet, and would not
bri4 We stuck them in the dour to dry; but very
cewiy lost them: one of the Spanish passenger. having
bus 'bore, pocketed thens
box, box, throwing away
no the.
....tchea On searching we found them scattered in some
the re A f-w of them were picked up, and dried,
ir.t.°7:l./s• we am. ck a light ! Oh, joyful news it was to all.
o three cheers. A candle was lighted, and placed in
sWle gate
burl, and a. watch placed over it, with orders
Beretta let it out, by night or day. A piece of board lined
with iron was found, and on this we soon had a firs blazing,
two.g plenty of sticks at hand. The doctor and purser then
got die dead sheep, skinned it in a most skilful manner with
ss old razor, and we soon had a portion of it cooked. A piece
wov red out to each man, and all declared they never tasted
Waie/T.OO, nt mutton. One " tottic " of wine follow° 1 round
to each. At noon we offered up our thanks to God for his
goodness This afternoon we picked up a few fish, one or
two tic lobsters, three bottles of wine, and a can of oil. The
engineers (now that we bad a fire) set about constructing an
apparatus with which to condense water, if possible. First,
they tried earthenware jars, hut these broke; afterwards,
they got ho'd aurae copper vessel and lead pipes, with which
they b„,ied themelves. We began now to long for water,
the woo: of which pained us most ; and the poor dogs, pigs,
pod sheep seemed very thirsty. At 6 p.m. served nut to each
sus before lying down one " tottle "of wine. Thirst began
bs very troublesome. The vinegar-cask was much resorted
el by all; some drinking a little, ethers only wetting their
Nps with a wet rag of yin- gar.
MONDAY, FIB. 15.—A1l up at daybreak. At 7, offered op
eetdroks to God for hie goodness One party of a doses
tpuggelated to gather together the fore, main, and miasma
otaknyard, and other large spars, with which to form
eublimtial floating raft and they set about it with right
alga. At 8, the ship's cook made 69 small cakes, of
letter, and salt water, which were baked at the Arson
goblet sheet iron torn from a hit of the wreck, and served
briar • piece of mutton, or fish, and never was a feast so
AM. At 9, the distillery got into good order, and by 11
obi side about sit bottles of water,when some one called
of " How it made our hearts leap with joy,
libel soy were sceptical ; but some of the old seamen
esaddep snood look, declared it to be a sail ; and a sail it
penile be in a few minutes. We got another signal raised
011 Memos lashed together. At length she hauled round
lb Mgt point of the reef; some six or eight miles distant, and
Pee right up toward: us along the reef, keeping about two
nimeataide. When there could be no doubt as to her in-
timates, we felt that the sadden and unexpected prospects
glumly deliverance were almost too much for us. Only
Ain ad our hearts seem to soften, and feel what we had
pat through. All knelt down and joined together most
Inently in thanking Almighty Ood for our preservation ;
dear which each might be seen to grasp his friends
by the hand and shake it, with something like a smile
at last upon the lips, although the heart was too full
for anything to be said. As the brig stood towards us about
noon our claret was opened, and a double allowance (two
moieties) was dealt round to each man, By one o'clock
p.m. It was abreast of us, about four miles outside the surf ;
she -.topped, and a small hoot, which we had observed tow-
ing astern, set sail towards us. In lees than an hour she hnd
neared the surf, when she let down the rail, and eight
swarthy fellows got out poles, with which they guided their
canoe right through the breakers on to the reef, close by us.
In a few words we may as well relate the adventures of
our little boat. She left us at 5 p.m. on Friday, and con-
tinued to row and sail gently along across the reef, in great
fear of noosing aground every moment and damaging bee
frail hull. Ske touched often as she went along in the dark ,•
but they were able always to clear her. The stem turned
oat not to be her frailest part, when once they got clear
away; she leaked in so many places in the bottom, that two
men bailing could scarcely keep her free ; and had any of them
stood up in her bottom, they would have gene through her.
The chief officer sot with the compass between his knees
m the dark, steering, hut with great difficulty nuking out
the points of the compare ; only doing so by now and
then getting a glimpse of the flourish round the north point.
They scarcely knew how they got off the reef into open wa-
ter; remarking, on being asked, " Gud must have guided
as At daybreak on Saturday they found themselves
dear of the reef, and also saw that they were past the small '
island of Perez• to which they thought it best not to return ;
bat kept on their course towards the south. The sea wan
alm, and the wind was fair all the way. By Pitting all
well aft they kept her bows out of the water. They
riled all day and during the night, and when Sunday morn-
ing dawned had the happiness of seeing the coast a few miles
off; at the same time they observed a brig in the offing, to
which they at once made; but she seemed to avoid them,
keeping away. The litt'e boat kept on towards her, however,
making signals as well as they could, and, at last, got near
her, and the chief officer banded her. He found them all
in confusion, with loaded muskets ready to protect them-
selves, having taken the small boas for some piratical craft.
The tee was aeon told to the chief mate, Senor Villoverde,
tithe Spanish brig Emilio, and at once he got all on board,
end set off towards Sisal to inform hie commander, the brig
having been obliged to slip and run from Sisal, leaving
her captain on shore, when the same " norther" came
ea to blow which the Tweed encountered. Sisal
being only eleven miles off, the brig reached it by
11 a.m., when the captain was at ones communicated with.
On hearing of our disaster, he hesitated not for one moment,
but getting some water hurriedly on beard, set sail towards
fluent, which he reached, as has been said, at 1 p.m. the
test day. The worthy, noble, humane, Bernardino Camp
Ow such is the name of the excellent young officer who
commands the Emilie), never thought of his cargo
lying on the beach at Sisal, or his passengers ap
painted to join him, to sail on a certain day for
Savannah, to which port she is a regular trader; hie
eery thoughts were on rescuing the poor shipwrecked
Mel& Ire thought not of his insurance either, or the risk
at an of coming on to a lee shore in the "norther" stetson ;
and last of all, but not least, he never thought of remunera-
tion or reward, afterwards remarking, when spoken to on
this point. " I did but my duty, which every man would
have done in such a ease, and my reward is here" (laying
his hand on his heart). We knew that many would not
have acted so promptly as he had done.
To return to the canoe alongside our raft. She brought
some roasted fowls, biscuit, and two or three gallons of water
mixed with sugar. Captain Camp also came with her, and for
amble purpose, namely, to remain with us on the raft, as a
"entity in himself that the brig would not leave us until all
were rescued! The raft's muster-roll was at once got out,
and 25 manses called over, commencing with the invalids, all
of whom were to go off in the canoe to the brig. The writer's
name was among the first called out, but, for certain pressing
reasons, which need not he here mentioned, he prererred
rr-
snairingg on the raft till the last. The canoe started with 25
pateneere, and was anxiously watched while the attempt was
made to pull her through the breakers. After a struggle,
this was anomplished, and their oars got out, and they were
about to hoist the sail, when a sea struck her and turns d her
broadside on to the surf, into which she was driven, and back
on to the reef, narrowly escaping being capsized. Her crow
said she was overloaded, so twelve only were sent is her;
and this time she got over in safety, and made towards the
brie, on board which they were placed. She returned about
4 p.m., bringing the brig's email bout, which alone came
through the surf, the canoe stopping outside, an they were
afraid she woad get stove if she struck the reef in the middle
of the boiling surf The small boat took off seven pasaengers to
the canoe, and returned for severs more,with which she ect ,slf
but, when in the middle of the surf, one wave seemed to lift
her high in the air, then dash her round broadside on, and
capsize her. She turned over and over, and was swept back on
to the reef, full of water, the people who were in being scat-
tered about in the surf. Fortunately, all of them, after a
little, Rat a footing on the reef, in four or five feet of water,
and reached the raft in safety. The boat was Wed clear of
water, avid a few more seamen put into her. with mitre oars,
and only four pasaengen allowed to go. This time she got
safely through the surf, and alongside the canoe, which went
to the brie, the small boat returning to the raft.
Ttr.stis Y. FEB. 16.—A1l astir at six am., but no appear-
ance of the brig; but at 11 a.m. she hove in sight, and by 2
p.m. sent off the canoe to We now saw it was hopeless
to attempt getting the people conveyed through the surf,
which appeand to roar louder and rise with greater violence
than before; and, should the boats strike the reef in trying
to eel through the surf, they might get so much injured
that the brig might be compelled to leave the greater num-
ber Of us behind; besides, it was dangerous for the brig
to be kept so near a lee-shore, should a " norther" spring
oe It was therefore proposed that the canoe should come
through the surf to us, to be employed with the small boat
M carrying us all at one time ecru. the reef to the
southward to the email island, where the brig could go round
sad pick us up. This was agreed on, as our only chance of
!!.lretching the brig in safety. But there was no time to be
15t; therefore Captain Parsons gave orders to us to embark
forthwith, no one taking with him a single rag more than
t°ll on his back, All set about embarking with cheerful
she.
; before doing which, however, every one knelt down
on the raft, and we offered up our united and fervent thanks
to Almighty God for his gotalness. Captain Parsons was
the lint man to step from the raft into the canoe. The ar-
Zoinetnent was that the small boat, in charge of the chief
cer and nine men, should take the lead, with the canoe is
ow, the small boat steering by compass, and guiding the
tones.

fliTre were 42 people stowed in the canoe and 10 in the
small boat. At 5 p.m. we shoved off in silence, all looking
back at the raft, which had stood our part so long, with feel-
Nn mingled with regret, sorrow, sod joy. Our voyage, we
Lew was attended with great danger, for, were our canoe
nUL cm a rock, or reef, she might tutu over, and drown,

perhaps, the whole of as in fathoms of water alongside. The
second officer took his stand in the bow of the mine, as she
was obliged to take the lead, and, assisted by one of the
natives of Sisal belonging to the boat, with poles sounding,
he kept a look-out for reefs and danger. Sometimes we used
the oars, and at others the sail, the canoe often grating over
the reefs, which made us shudder, till we had gone three or
four miles in the dark, when we thought it best to come to
on anchor about 8 p.m. This was a trying night to all.
Wentercbsy, Fee. 17. Sunrise brought us a lovely
morning. We offered up our thanks to God for his pro-
tection and goodness, end set sail towards the south. After
many times teaching on the rocks, at 11 o'clock a.m. we
reached a small island, on which there was a hut, swarms of
birds, piles of wood, mullets of our wreck, which had floated
about ten miles, boxes, spars, clothes, and some dead
bodies. The people iu the small boat loaded, thinking
it was Perez, but, as we found it was nut that island,
the boats then were kept on their course to the south,
towards another small island, which was teen about
five miles off. About 2 p.m. we reached Perez, on which
we landed, observing the brig, at the same time, about 10
miles off, making towards us. There are a few good huts,
built of wreck, and thatched with cane leaves. In one hut
there were about a claret' butts of fresh water, kept there by
the fishermen and turtlers, who resort thither from Compels-
ehy and Sisal. We lighted a fire in one of the huts, broiled
some bacon, and with come bread and the fresh water we
found in the casks we inude a good meal.
The brig came round near to Perez, and the canoe in two
trios placed us all iu safety on her deck by 5 p.m., when she
set sail, and on the following day we reached Sisal, where,
having received for a week the utmost kindness and hos-
pitality, we embarked on board the Emilio, fur the Havan-
nah, where we arrived on the 3rd of March.
When the inhabitants of the Havannah learned how nobly
Captain Camp earl Mr. Villaverde, his chief mate, had be-
haved in our rescue, a subscription headid by the Governor-
General, was commenced for their benefit, as a mark of how
much their conduct was esteemed by all. In a short time
it bad amounted to four thousand dollars. When the
two noble officers for wham it was intended heard
about it, they at first refused to accept any pert
of it, in the most kind and generous manner offering it
for the benefit of the widows and families of the poor men
lost is the Tweed! The consul and all concerned said this
should not be, observing that the subscription made by the
people of Havannah was for their two noble-minded country-
men ;an that, surely, "at home," the countrymen of the
poor matters, on hearing of the sad catastrophe, which
would bring destitution to many a poor family, would as
handsomely " do their duty."
It is to be hoped that the government, and the Royal
Humane Societies, will not overlook the noble and humane
conduct of the captain and chief officer of the Spanish brig
pier owners would not accept any return for the
four days employed in rescuing the shipwrecked people off
the reef. . . . .

The Tweed steamer was launched in 1841, having been
built by Mr. Charles Wood, at Greenock. The engines were
made by Mears. Cair' d and Co. She commenced running in
Jansar7,lB42, and, at the time of her 1011d,Wall almost sa good
as the hr.t day of starting. Captain l'arsons is a master of
t 2 years' standing in the Royal Navy. Ile joined the Royal
Mail Steam packet Company's service in 1842, u chief-
officer of the Dee, for one voyage. He then commanded the
Medway for one voyage ; alter which he exchanged into the
Tweed, in which he had made five complete voyages to and
from the West Indies. three of which were to the Gulf of
Mexie ). Many of the Tweed's men bad been in her ever since
she first started running, and almost all had been several
voyages in her, some of the men having followed Captain
Parsons from ship to ship for 10 year.—Abridged from the
"Times."