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LONDON, PRID.47, SEPT. 17.

SPORTING

A SPECIAL EDITION of the "REPRESS,"
esatainiag the malts of the daft Races, Is pub-
lished every evening daring the Sporting Samoa, at
six o'clock.

THE speech delivered by Sir (home Gm at
the recent meeting of the Northern Association
of Mechanics lamitutions, will be read with
interest by all who have nal faith in the intellec-
tual prover, of the people. There is in it a hearty
and healthful tone of feeling, which we often pain-
fully miss in the set declamations of eminent persons
called upon without much thought or reflection to
assist at sack assemblages es that which lately took
place at Merrick. Let to frankly confess that we
have oftentimes been disappointed at the smooth
sterility of noble and honourable reiteration of
threadbare commonplaces about the general ditto.
sion of intelligence, and the general tendency Of
reading to make people orderly and decent ; and that
we have eome times been thoroughly disgusted with the
condescending air of intellectual patronage into which
learned and scientific orators have been betrayed
in addressing their hard-toiling countrymen. If
popular instruction were nothing better than an
suaiiiary dodge in aid of the police, we should
wholly despair of its eventual triumph; and if rank
and learning really believed in the power of know-
ledge to raise men up to the true level of self-respect,
they would never venture on their impertinent pla-
titudes, of all plsoes in the world, at meetings of
Mechanics' Institutes. We rejoice to find so mulch
of the contrary spirit in the address of the Right
Honourable Member for Morpeth. From idiosyn-
crasies of temper and deportment, Sir GEORG& has
not unfrequently been accused of coldness and
hauteur. But whatever may be his bearing when
in company or collision with his fellow-politicians,
no man, we believe, is more beloved in the intercourse
of private life, and no man is evidently more capable
of entering sympathetically into the working man's
way of looking at a working man's question, and of
saying out unaffectedly the right and the true thing
regarding it.

Iho quarter is given by the honourable Baronet to
the timid dilettanteiam which mourns over the pre-
sence of newspapers in a mechanics' reading-room. If.
says, with truth, that the daily and weekly press has
gradually become a vehicle of conveying to the minds
of those who have but a few hones in the week to
spend in reading of any sort, the gist of all the most
important circumstance', moral and material, that
are taking place around them, as well as a good
deal of the cream of the current literature of the
day. It is • force to talk of this as giving super-
ficial notions. Society at it' present high-pressure speed
could not exist at all if any numerically important
proportion of its members were devoted to profound
research, contemplation, or study. To do is the groat
baai•e+e of life ; and to do one thing thoroughly
well, so as to make your bread by it, and bring
up your family decently, is the primary duty of
a rational man. After this is done he has
no time, and seldom either physical or mental
energy, left for what may be called learning; and
the choice for him, therefore, simply is between
having a correct general notion of what the rest et
the world is doing, sad saying, and thinking sheet,
or of remaining • niers money-grubbing, bread.
eating, sod beer-drinking machine, which might me
well have no soul at all in it. To tell such • mma,
at seven o'clock of a winter's night, that it is hater
for him to sit down io a volume of physical geo-
graphy , mathematics, or Let* than to betake him-
self to a good work of fiction or a well-edited jour-
nal, is, in our opinion, worse than woke'. The
advice will not, indeed, be taken ; its absurdity and
inhumanity an too glaring; but the impression
left upon the mind of him who rejects it is mis-
'hien= in the extreme. It tends to confirm the
d•ngmous impression between elms sad class that
" between nt and you there is a great gulf
" fixed," and that there is little mutual appreciation
or intelligence between the overwrought many and
the over fastidious few.

The Ex-Minister jostly observes that the cul-
tivating and humanising power of pare and
powerful fiction is • thing quite inestimable.
Vicious and vulgar tales are deleterious in their
effects, no matter of what class their readers may be.
Bat it is es nonsecsioal to esafemid the great and
glorious productions of imaginative mind with the
tawdry and garish caricatures wines and printed,
not to teach but to sell, se it woad be to object to
mound books of medicine, bemuse then are to be bad
for halt-s-erown or a shilling tee Sam as many
thievish or trumpery volumes of some quackery.
One of the highest duties of those who direct Me.
chanim* Institutions is a ausfal selection of
their libraries. Bat we arms very mach with Sir GIORGE GRIT that eansrahalogivallis . '

and variety are of more importable than the
observ.uiee of any very rigid ride of exclusion. To
load the shelves of sorb institutions With ',WWII/
or demoralising productions would obvlosaly
flagrant 'bum of treat ; bat all attempts' to shot mat
speculative opinions, or testis the appetite for fres
&mamma, must prove to be eimpirioaL Neither
would we land say recipe to tho exclusion. of any
clam of books on the ground that they fall under
the category of light reading. What a toil-vtora
man wants is most eases is mental rafreahmeat, sad
you ought to afford him the means, within oaf* bet
very wide limits, of choosiog what sort of refresh-

ment he finds most congenial. Give him the habit of
reading first, and trust that his taste will gradually
gravitate towards reality and truth. If you have
not faith enough for this, you are lamb` tampering
and trifling with the gravest of social questions, and
the odds are that you will aocompliah some little
harm.

What we have been say ing, has reference to there'd-
ing and mental culture of adults. In a certain sense
principles the very appalls must be applied to the
days of tutelage. The reading room is one thing;
the school is another. The keen stimulus of dis-
tinction and of competition does not admit of the
desultory habits of reading which in after life are
allowable, if not Dummy. We have so often advo-
cated the system which at length seems about to be
generally adopted, of mending the examiners to the
districts where youths are trained and taught, from
the highest seats of learning we possess, that we
need hardly do more than note with satiafaction the
high degree of appreciation which that system seems
to have met with in the northern counties of the
kingdom. We have no doubt that gradually
it will become an established part of our whole in-
tellectual system ; and that its effects will reach far
beyond the mere conferring of middle-claas degrees
upon a given number of successful stadents. Me-
chanics' Institutes may not in themselves be the
most competent seminaries for preparing youths to
pus an academie examination in the exact sciences,
or in the dead languages; but they are eminently
fitted to awaken, in the first instance, the intellec-
tual ambition, both of parents and children, and to
create a social temperature, in which mental excel-
lence is likely to be valued as it deserves, and per-
severing study is likely to be honoured and encou-
raged even by those who do not themselves share
its labours.

Cbe Court.

BALMORAL, Bars. 14.

The Queen and the Primeness Alice and Helena,
stionded by Mir Illbvp6rd vied Ilajor-Oarral Grey, drove
le Liven:amid.

TM Primo Comet mot out elper-etelklag. Tbe Prime
of War treat cut pone elasseiag with Sir Charles Phipps,
Llachismt-Ciinsi Postssoky, sad Midas Temodsho.

TM royal Mawr party iiiiimilod tic Deans of Haat
Laity Aiwa Karla Dana', Mira Victoria .it Walls,:
rod Sir Immo Clark.

raptebee were eat hat the Cokelslala yesterday to
the Gainers of the West Leda Lama British Columbia,
sod Vaaanver's Wad. Deopetaes win ressived ken
the Gateau. of &Maher.

Ale Brisonx IN ruz QOM% .101711 NIT TO LIEDS.
—On the 6th rat. open the serval of bar Majesty at the
Greet Mothers globs Dopester, it waa intimated to the
SW& that bar Majesty bed not nosier bac letters whirl'
W Ism &reed to be forwarded to Peterborough red ben
debited le bar Megesby tha royal blob. Her
Mabry wag 'drawl Shut they should be forwards, to
Weedeby Rome (the midrib of the Kayo: of lobs
where the royal Away wen staying). Soot after the
royal Seim led WI the ratirs a gpecial arias to the
aro of a trusty sod thinoghly competent driver woe du.
gibbed to Petertgreugh at balf.post lib. It retired la doe
elms end new a ghee ray at that by b tab in water
tin "oral mobs lit ut PK sorbirr6l4 by saPsrilt-
liariast Webb to tabor eselsdy the Quires lettere
had bees deposited by the Mama of Enke, arrived at
Dreorelor at 924, Swing ameemplighed be distaste of HO
silos in 3 bon sod 64 rim.. The letters were et coos fro
waded bloods bibs 936 pa train to Lode, sad hay
Majesty Noshed Om by "odd rograger goes attar half.
past 10. The ipsald snobs ma to Peterboreegb in 20
odnetas lees time than be bet-clam. express Marais
same distanot.-BMisford Ifirressry.

TEE Duallas or Ka:rt.—Her Royal Highness
the Dachas of Kent continual to take drives and walks in
the grease. la the vicinity of the Cutlet and We believe
enjoys highly the quiet beauty of her Deride retreat.—
Aberdow Jorrvsid.

ILuisse or Iltsnor Tuitcrr.—We ( Edinburgh
(ierraO) mitt to state that the sly!! Ray. Bishop Terra
coined a shook of pavan& a be dirs yo; bat we ere
ham to learn that he le sow tourradsg.

IMAM Or LORD WaueT. Wta regret to thb
that Lew/ Nark the germ* et the Elstat pnatitiony, who
bas bete ttittatite Oalmommomel the Fidighstry
for a aim. et air dies ter ariseely ill. It sum that his
loriside. heft sorbets' • media chill, 'to% lir the
re dish babe. De. Ilarisear sl Sebes. Ariel; her
telegespir I fr, peeerdel le He Mrs Ser* morel/ht.
It le Mier Iserehalis that cab • iier sr two prier tore
1.. e this rime la Mire the pews. than won
la the et *sew est activity displayed b 7
Instl=twrM, w o had dolma' sad braced up" all ht.
silsomisnts In tit. mans (ibis Mein exerdess. Unhap-
py*, hi. kola* the talks en now turns& At the pre-
mise asersat ell
h. seism ars &besot from their mope*.
Mew sogilo Lod is at Allababad, lard Elphta-
ores at Herseda awl Harris in the blue 'mountains.
Tbsiiiom essialso of the 4th of August algo:—" We
her with the duper seine that the Mere of rued Harris
kit sae swim we was at let hominid. nal Cult'.
the ewer sureherhaa His Ws* ~
diel
theadtel by army arm serer drier • haw Jack-
Man , and while trim • roe bath saw his tetra to
Oelehrwri was esini- withbon=sis. Ler lest evening
wo toodwad the that at eight o'clock
restenisy morairrattlihrater bar the gonna wadi pro-
grasoing ilavottrably." —Boob" YaaKt..
COUNT PritsioNr.—Wit orientand that the late
French Atattawador to St. Saire's is at present ea a visit to
Soothed, sod is staying with Could Flaltsialt it his mat of
Tall elleu, arr Alloa-Btotreass.

TES LATE WILLIAM Wm,—The following pars-
lymph appemed le the Okile of Yet wait The Daly
News imummoue the dm* of its prinelpel editor, Mr. WO-
O= Wok ; se essouseamme white will eccaidon gestukts
repel mid not alone within the walls of the offer. A etmliel
it ths valvenities el Scotland mad at °massy, and at the
UMW' bar, Mr. Weir hiad expend a most soccespildeed
thwitameley with history, kersture, and law, in theykit el
Ohms shelles as wail as in the letter. 'Wowed with oatmeal
WM, which hie friendship with ccegesial abide bud de-
veloped sad reined, he was widely read in the artiste is kik
se grams Id. of modern illersters. It may be said IMO be
wee swim of the Bleary of Europa. OI Osegrephy he bed
nark • nodal gaudy, sad was at home in say part el the
map et the world. Hie Mende justly selisipsed kr bier
a brit cense at the Scottish bar, sad althriely as
peal* h pea/met, whose Mahe be wield have malleht-
nod sad adorned ; but • stews, incurable, mod konriag
&deem drove Ids boa he prohnake et kw Into jour.
taken , to whisk be brought 'kabalists seek as low when
kneemeadoe seeress bast sad a Bowies pea. hided are
of tbe two hake thee beak Ida in kis earear—the Wrier
whisk hie ikefeees opposed to sae, etmeneadon being ths
meesi—wss Asset a roduadest mama with the pea,
which me these induced Idea to de smug *ee le Ids *via
mime thewilet. Ihet wise wisest beast, ohms. hit enally b..
4.. pew a twatawy NW wee at ask he
could sot bell bis pest without earn* a Mph repute. The
Oita hese whalrave Ms at ilia mike kr is hiseneel—
acs imesesselote we essmanes isawy--by lb. rellmedea ha,
Ain was wee Wog et whisk Waked Weer wee ketgable,
It VMS to do =Ain unetarnen, eeMbsestat, ee me-
graceful." The kW Imo* which appeared In the
.11•14 Aim of yesterday le repabbelted Ile-day by thiamin!
aides Jeanak sad arkepaeled nee seer by Ma now
with ale meet sesepenbe. sad beasandde teelimay
:
"TMs Lars Wrsiket Wura."—traler As, IS. the Deily
/fin palliates a wellestudi trade leas memesy of its late
medlar—• pothers le wham the labile is rosily indebted
tar the able eat kneel =Mast et that koned. We haw
saes Mined SIM k, bat ask, wahine demo coepeat hr
the slaty sal the reatlessaly spirit la which it was ocem•
dusted—a spirit which has made it, the peewee of our oar
brepektrise, a worthy representative tithe Eaglieh prow"
' EgymigtOtt OF TEE SUBMARINE TELEGRAM! TO
fro YOZZION OYFICII —This morning the workmen who
eimmenosi their hams last night, to eoneeet the Foreign
081. is Doweled-sweet with the Saban.. Telegraph
G&W &Mks, reremed their etsplormet ender the super-
belentlesiss of the compeary's mentor. The cosnexian wfil
eseepleted this mall% sad to-morrow recesing memo
we be received &Not by the Scceetery of &at* ler Foam
Albin from the various British embassies throeghost
Estop, sad .ice versa. The asicetary for India will alas
Mary his derpatehm from the Clovernar-Oeneral at flea
India Hume direct, • coantzlon with that department being
.boat to to setabliated.

111XPRESS FROM PARIb.

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PARIS. THURSDAY ITN:NINO.

" Dearth of news " threatens to become a stereo-
typed phrase as the heading of foreign correspon-
dence. The Perla journals literally lack the vitality
to abuse one another this morning. The Uaive►s
allows a truce to MM. Ravin, De la Bedolliere, and
Paradol ; but, to keep its hand in, crosses the Chan-
nel, and sets lance in rest against Henry VIII. and
the Reformation. The old cry—" Pillage ! Sacri-
lege ! Blasphemy !"—meets one's eye every ten lines.
In truth the text of the sermon is that " The Re-
formation was Pillage." On the other hand the
&iris saddles ultramontanism with the affair of
the Sisters of Charity in Lisbon—easerts, at
least, that when all is known it will be
found, under the respected guise of the Sisters of
Charity, to have engaged in a strife with the civil
authority. The writer of the article in question (M.
E. de la Bedollidre) defends Freemasonry from the
imputation of having any hand in the business, and
takes occasion to do honour to that great institution.
He says that
In Belgium Freemasonry raised to honours the wise and
able Inhabiter who so happily reconciled order and liberty.
Freemasonry presides over the advance daily made in Pied-
mont in the path of amendment and reform. In Naples
Freemasocry Is • counterpoise to the despotism of the King
sad the arbitrary sway of the cardinals. It may even have
bars Freemasonry which suggested to the Czar the
emancipation of the serfs. The feet alone of its being the
suspected origin of all the reforms which have been accom-
plished in Europe la moues to bring upon it the hatred of
the clerical party. But that party is mistaken as to the
extent of its influence. Masonic lodges are as numerous in
France as elsewhere ; bet we do not see that they exercise
any lnfluenn on public opinion. It is not likely that Free-
masonry would depart from its fundamental principles of
humenity and brotherly love to outrage humble servants of
God. Ask any Freemason, and be will expose nothing but
horror sad scorn for the Lisboa rioters.

It is not probable that the explanation of the
affair given in en evening journal of yesterday was
considered satisfactory by the Siiele. Your readers
shall judge for themselves. It is in the form of a
letter written by M. Alfred &Impact to the Pays,
in which he says:
The Portuguese people, so patient, kindly natured, and
easy to govern, en mot galley of this anti-social erne. It
origins*s with eon unreffeeting persona, who are misled
by false Ideas of animal supremacy and dignity. These
inearllefli of WA) dletarbasee are to be found neither
mem the euitexracy, whether Ifigualite or constitutional,
ser the Indssmisse sad peeestal middle class, nor even among
the lower cease, absorbed la the facile plenums of the for
.dew, but—we regret to say it—among the Indies editors of
the prime of the sentry. The disergannUon to which the
Pentegsme pram is • prey, • desire of popularity, personal
rivalries, She ealgeseise of petioles, will bring about each
• rook whemeverpeopie tea Bing around their own miserable
prelensitme the clea of the national honour is danger.
Order ea to their material interests, which they leave to
Legal, they think bat of obtaining respect for an inde-
pendents which nobody thinks of assailing. Imagining
tbareesirea beeseseady menaced by foreign Invasion, every-
thing affords them a pretext for keeping up agitation in the
public mind. Like all weak people, they have recourse to
vblaoce In order to conceal their apprehensions;
and, overshooting the mark, they compromise by
their monies the muse which they think themselves
trilled upon to defend. It is not only in the ranks of the
democratic pram that the guilty persons must be sought, but
in those of the sanatoria' prams also. We here publicly ao-
case the chief editor of the anoi-official journal, the Porter
fen, of having been the loading Instigator of the troubles
which have afflicted Lisbon, ail the following fame will
prove : —On the eve of the day of our leaving that city we
were walking in the Puerto (public garden) with our friend
M. Irivy Jordao, • distinguished lawyer, • member of the
Academy of Sciences, and one of the hoeing sad most re-
markable municipal counsellors la the espial. We were w-
eaned by a young man, who was presented to us as •
brother writer, be., the principal editor of the Portliguies.
The conversation fell upon the oesdetnnation pronounced
by the Upper Chamber of the polemics of the fortogres, ea
to the expected arrival el some sisters of the oceeretratton of
St. Vincent-do-Peal; which body it is known is already in
operation at Oporto with the full meant of the Inhabitants
of that populous and industrious city. " I will not yield."
cried the young man, in great enitenent, " and I will
oblige them foreigners (the sisters) to re-embark, even if I
pay the populace to Meta them." We could not help
Aeries with K. Jordao the dawn inspired in us
by these words. " What," I said speaking the first,
" would you have the courage to Weak Lam* pious
women, who one among you to perform • work of
charity in your horrible prisons, and your unwhole-
some hospitals ? I pity your courage, but allow ma to ques-
tion your reason." The editor attempted to explain his
conduct, "We Portuguese," be said, tt maw from no
supremacy arrogated by Europe In oar domino quesdons.
IWe are foreigners In our own land. That state of things
moat be altered. If you find the ministration of you
I Biotin of Charity so useful, keep them to yourselves, bet do
I not loins them upon us." I observed to him that these
pious woman had been formally sent for to Portugal at the
request of the centre of Oporto, and instituted by a royal
decree; that if it was not thought desirable to rani the
say longer, the proper mune was to bring about the repeal
of the ordinance ccastitutionally, and not to act with the
brutality of savages; that it wen to my the least, singular
that • minority should thus impose its prej
dins and dislikes open a majority; that in de-
. privies the poor of the spirituel and materiel aid of the
sisters, he wend ant off Lab= from an edentate which
Oporto vaned most highly ; and thee, alluding to the fami-
liar appellations mutually applied to each other by the Inha-
bitants of the five principal cities of Portugal, I mid the
tripe-dealers of Minn (tripeiree) wend rejoin greatly at
the Madame of the ceickee-hearts (news de sorktr). I had
to deal with ate of those headstrong matures with whom the
but enpuents are of no avail. I lea him no less Indignant
than eagry ; my *lead K. Jordeo obeerving that
he was regarded ea • hot-heeded man, even by
bin own party—thst the ministry had already once
taken the editorship of the *wad from him, bat that
high patronage had awed his reeteratims to R—
OM each dangerous and najsMileble meads ought not le
be noticed—that he himself attached ne imperious tr. the
Menke sad attacks of such an adversary ; that he was pars
sseelly exposed to his daily attacks for having athempid le
improve the public gardens, but that he had no Mho to
him ea that &coma; because he regarded him as • maim
We sew ass how the culpable peadblbei en-
nouseel to me have base Willed (Oa the pet
fed the !big there is) worse than • weaken; three behead
• amid of and a forfeiture of the presise meek to the
Tema govermen. We have not the Wein is intino-
sale the team; bat It mess to as impetellie bat that a
protest eheabl be entered against the pert elimispied to be
smigned to no la Portugal. Prance nano and troubles
as am; but at the same time she will be re peeled, end will
est allow her well-known gensmaity and her alt-bstrayed
etelidesee ra be abased.

I have given the concluding passage, not because
ft throws any light on the question, but because of
its peculiar tone of ambiguous threatening, observing
that the letter occupies the leading columns (glorified
by largo type) of the semi-official Pays.

The o;rstitutionnal has a long article against
free trade, a subject on which it is as ante-
diluvian as is the Univers on its religious
hobby-hone. The time appears ill-chosen for
the parade of these prohibition doctrines.
The new ally of France and England is about
to revise her tariffs, in order to meet the commercial
views of those two countries. It will probably
occur to M. Michel Chevalier and his friends to
avail themselves of the occuion thus presented, and
to urge the serious consideration of the hose branch
of the subject. How, in point of fact, can France
conscientiously auk China to place her on the same
custom-hoose footing with England ? What
reciprocity has she to offer China, under her present
system of ultra-protection--a system which shows
her to the world, commercially speaking, a century
behind England ? We shall probably hear more on
the subject from the Debate.