The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-06 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1857.

W4511,00711111N 4LYD CLIRIS SCHOOLS.

The fourth annivertnary dinner of this iffelitntion
too► place rat:clay evening at the London Tavern, and vas
attended by about 260 peer The chair um taken by Mr.
CHAILLEN DICILISM.. Amongst than prammt .ere Sir J.
Doke, M.P. ; Mr. Reopen, M.P. ; Kr. Alderman and Sheriff
lAWrrltrie ; Mr.W. Leaf, trsamer of the institu,inn ; Mr. B.
Morley, Mr. J. Bradhuxy, Mr. W. H. Hassell, Mr. W.
°relators:, Mr. Deputy Holt, Mr. 0. Lawrence, hon. mama
tary of the moiety ; Mr. H. L. Lad, Mr. A. Calffecott, Mr.
R. Belonosts, Mr. 0. liontledge, Mr. Dower, Mr. J. BM"
sad Mr. J. A. Dix.

Alt;r1;;;Iottiled been dawn, the CHAIRMAN pared,
with his tonal felicity of expression, the halt& of The
Queen," connecting the toast with the premenes of • large
number of ladies In the gallery, who ruled those prsi,& se
bee Msjosty ruled England. (diem and laughter.)
The next tout was The Prince Consort, Albert Prince
of %Velem, and the rest of the Royal Family," which, like
the paneling one, WAS duly reapouded to.
The CHAIRMAN then rid—Ladies and gentlemen—ln
this great commercial city, heaped up with riches on every
Bide, to which hungry eyes are ennetimea turned arras the
as, throe two great aetviote, " the army and navy." even in
times of the prufuundest peace, should never be forgotten.
(Ehears.) But I ago sure you will agree with me that in
dew so different times they should, " in our flowing cupa,"
be "faddy remendered"— (cheer.) —remantered in ind-
ent* eionnezkes with recent act. of gallantry that have won
W admiration a the world— (cheers)—remenibead in intl.
mete moue:ion: with a manly composure in the face of
pennlessosanda eherfal gemignation meter " the shadow of
death" only to be equalled by the modesty, the gentlenews,
and the perfect and profound elf-command allay. attendant
upin their great bravery. (Renewed cheena.) I understand
that there happens to be no officer of either venire here to
acknowledge my tnaat. It wears to me, however, that this mat-
ter. very little, for throughout the eiviliecd world the members
of both services are at this moment practically thanking us.
(Hear, bear.) Wherever duty fa to be dote, they ere thank-
ing us; wherever fame and honour are to be pined, they are
thanking urn; wherever the sun china, they are thanking
or, aye, even where rho nun doe not shine—in the long
night of • polar winter—one of those makes at !mot is now
thanking urn with most eloquent speech. Ladies and gentle-
men, I beg to propose " The army and navy."
The CHAIRMAN next rid—treatise and gentlemen—l •
mat now /elicit your attention kw a few minutes
to the came of your assembling together—the main
and real object of this evening. gathering • for I euppise
we are all agreed that the motto of these to is not " Let
am at and drink, for to-morrow we die," bat, " Let us eat
and drink, tor to-morrow we live." (Chem.) It is became
• great and good wait ix to live to-morrow, and to-morrow,
and to-morrow, and to live • greater and • better life with
every succeeding 43-morrow that we eat and drink here at
all. (Ltd cheers.) Conspicuous on the card of admiediin
to this dinner is the word "Bobaolik" This set me think-
lug thin morning whet me the sorts of school. that I
don't like I found them, on oonaideration, to be rather
ININISIWILS. I don't like—to begin with, sad to begin, like
charity, at honse-1 don't like the sort of school
to which I moo went myself—(laughter)—the rem
@petted proprietor of which was by far the most ignorant
man I have ever had the pleasure to know—(laughtor)--ons
t`a worst-tempered men perhaps that ever lived, whose
business it wee to make as much out of us, and put as little
into an, am ble—(groat laughter)—and who said us ist •
figure which I remember we used to delight to atimate as
amounting to exactly 2/. 4.. M. per head. (Laughter.) I
don't like that art of Khoo' because I don't see what bust-

;diot]e; u the top of it u.

tom, cad Imam° I never could Understand the wh'olesomo-
nen nf the moo preached by the abject appiairunte and
degraded coalition of the tescLars, who plainly said to us by
their looks every day of their lime, „Boy., never
be Intoned • whatever you ors, above all things be
warned from that is time by our sunken aedut.
by our poor pimply nor —(lgnghtrar)—by our nieure diet,
by our add beer, end by one extraordinary suits of clothes—
(roars of leughter) —of which no Lumen being mu my
arbether tLoy ere mud-culuund turned black or black
turned snuff voloured—(fresh laughter)--a pant upon which
we ourselves am pealed ly unable to offer any ray of enlight-
meat, it is so very long 'Mee they were underuod and now."
(Continued laughtm.) Ido not like that sort of echoed,
bemuse I have MVO!' yet lost my ancient empicion toti,hing
that curium conic:ideate that the buy with four brothers to
come always got the pima. (Great laughter.) In
fact, and in abort, I do not like that sort of

sihi;ol. whkh is • periti. dulls and abomistbio humbug
slturber. (Hear' hese.) Attain ladies sad gossibuten, I
&at t like that sorts( sclutl—• IttLies' school—whit which
the other school end w dance on WeJasedays, where the
?i!tug Indic, se I kick bsck upon tbc2n. neer, seem to me

*lanais to hise Ir. n to new stairs and diagnire—the letter
ciatecrning a plume of widish know nothing at "his day,
that hounds itiibuctoo on the noritionst—(laughter)—and
wit, re memory al w.)O depict. the youthful nithraller of my
first *IL Won ill. for ever entailing against a wall, in s carious
mschino of wood, which erinfined her innocent feet in the
drat dancing position, while those arms, which should
Save encircled my ,jackot—;great Liughter) urn on.
arms, I say, were pinioned behind her by en inttrument of
torture Anita • barkbeerd, filed in the manner of a double-
direction poet. Agsin, I don't like that sort of
wheel of which we have a noteblo eintoplo in Rent, which
was established ages age by worthy reholsra sad good men
long deceaeod, whom munificent endowments hoc' been
monstrously perverted from their originid parte or and which
in their diatortad condition are .truggied for mid bought over
with • most indecent pertinacity. Again, 1 don't like that
sort of .hod--end I liars seen a gr. at many inch in these
Tatter those—where the bright childish incigination is utterly
.liiwounigul, end when those bright chtl lush fares which it
is so very good for the wisclit among in to remember in after
life—(hear, bur),—and when the world is too touch within,
cert., and lato—are gloomily and grimly 3 scared: out eif
countenance ; where I have never nun among the pupils,
whether boy. or girls, anything but little parrots and small
c •teuleting hines. (Cheers.) Again, I don't by any
ntritne Ike 11.6 in loather breeches. and with m. rifled

booksts f.r bonnets which file long tLo street. in lona toe-
lens's* rows ander the escort of that sorprieizor Fritish
monotor—a beadle—(me Laughter)—whose oyooott of in-
etraction, I JIM afraid, too /often present. that happy union
of eotsnd with .ILO of which • very natorkablo 111stence 1.
. . . .

givesiin • grave report of • trustworthy eau)
the effect that • boy, in great repute at school for his learn-
ing, presented on his slate, ea one of the ten COTlle.a.uid-
w tuts, the perplexing prohibition," Th iu ahalt not eneemit dol.
dr u m." (Laughter.) Ladies and goat lemen, I coach, also that I
don't like thou schools, even though the instruction given in
them be gratuitoua, where those sweet little voices which
ought fob, heard ',peaking in very different accents, anathe-
neatiaii by rote any human bring who does not hold what is
taught there. Lutly, Ido not like, and I did not like a one
rare ago. cheap distant school,, where neglected children
pine from year to year under an amount of neglo,,t, • Ant, and
youthful misery far tat mad even to be glanced at in this eh. err
tol sairmbly. (flair. hear.) And nou, ladies nod gentlemen,
perheps you well peewit me to sketch in a few worda the
sort of 4.h00l that Ido like. (lieu, hoar.) It is • school
established by the members of an induetrinus and useful
order, which supplies the comforts and graces of
tale at every familiar turning in the road of our existences ;
it he • school established by them fur the orphan and uoursei-
, tone children of their own brethren and sisterhood ; it is •
plan Keying an eduction worthy of the en—an education by
them invented, by them conducted, by them watched over;
It ie a plane of education where, while that beautiful biptory of
the Christian religion is daily taught, and while the life of
Ural Divine T. ocher who hirurolf took little children on big
Lurie la daily studied, no sectarian ill-will nor narrow human
dogma is permitted to darken the foe of the dour heaven
which they disclose. It is • children's school which is, at
the same time, no ter • cbildren's homo—a home not
to be confided to the Mlle of cold or ignorant pinengere,
11114 by the nature of its foundation, in the toured of
was to pus into hands that have as mach natural
right to deal with it ss with the weeks of the
highest mountains or with the depths of the sea,
tot to be from generation to generation whainistere d by men
living in precisely such homes ea throe poor children have
lost—(choors)—by men elway. bent upon making that re-
placement such • borne ss their own dour children might lind
•egy refuge in if they thrmarelves were taken early away.
14. -innerly ark you, is dd. • drawn which has any
aYim to your sympathy f le this a sort of school who h is
deesrvieg of your rapport, This is the design, the. the
wheel, whose strong and simple claim I have to lay before'
yes te•aight. I newt particularly entree, you not to sup-
plies that say fancy and unfortunate habit of firtion ImerAny-
thing as do with the picture I have just pruentol to you.
(neer, her.) It is sober matter of fact. The Warehouse-
woes emff Clerks' &horde, established far the maintaining,
*AN& lea 'domain°, the orphan and 11[1.610i1Otla children
dohangieyei Is the wholesale trades and manufactures'
a es twos lisidam, aro, in fact, what I hare jou
aselled. Vim sink Om both penes were originated only
dear years ay. Is lout six weeks of the undertaking
Ihe yews mem, if thenneleas and quite unaided, subscribed
the lugs toe ad Loco. The sebnols hare been opened only
three yeses; they have now on their foundation 39 children,
and in a fhw days they will hare six mere, making • total of
45. (Chum.) They hare been meet munificently satiated
by the bade at groat morcontile houses, numerously rrpre-
mated, I am happy to my, around me, and they hove
a funded capital ef almost 14,0001. This is wend. rful
progress, bat the aim most be still npwards, the motto
always " Eseelsior." (Cheer,.) Yen do not need to be told
that dee-and-forty children PM form but a very small pro-
portion of the orphan and necessitous children of thure abs
have bees setrumed with the wholesale undo' and mania-
terse of the United Kingdom; you do not require to be ho
formed that the house at New-cross, rented far • small term
of years, in which the schools ars at present esimblished, aan
milord bat mast imparted accommodation for ruch a breed&
af design. To carry this groat work through dm two se.
=Mlles denier of better and bast there mu be snore work,
ensireco-aperatfon—more friend!, more Trey, Than be the

=4177 give the money. (Char* and laaghter.) «(nI
*as V Me ocher WWI" in thaw ouhools whicit I

'would commend to yew special attention and approval. Their
benefits are reserved for tie andiron of sobsailiers ; that is
to ny, it is an essential prbelple of the Institution that it
most help those wham parents have helped them, and that
the unfortunate children whom father bee been so ins, or so
critnimd, as to withhold a subscription eo stoeslinely ewll
that when divided by weeks it amounts to only threepence
weekly cannot in justice be allowed to jostle out and shoulder
awe tile happer children whom father has had that little
mrstlevogbt, or done that little kindness which was
reqtdake to secure for them the benefits of the
institution. (Bear, hear.) I really cannot believe that
there will long be any each defaulting parents. (Cheers.)
I cannot believe that any of the intelligent young seas who
are engaged in the wholesale homes will long neglect this
obvious, this easy duty. (Hear, hear.) If they suppose that
the objects of their love, born or unborn, will never want
the benefits of the charity, that may be a fatal and blind
mistake—it can never be an encase ; for, em posing them to
be right in their anticipation, they should do what le asked
for the sake of their friends and comrades around them,
armored that they will be the happier and the better for the
deed. Theme.) Ladies and gentlemen, this little " labour
of love' of mines now dose. I most heartily wish that I
could charm you now net to see me, not to thick of me, not
to hear me—l most heartily wieb that I could make you see
In tnyatead the multitude of innocent and bereaved children
who aro looking towards these rebook and entreating, with
uplifted hands, to be let In, (Cheers.) A very famous advo-
cate cue raid, in speaking of his feels of failure when he bad
fret to ere an in court, being very poor, that he felt his little
children tugging at hie skirts, end that recovered him.
(Bear, hear.) Will you think of the number of little children
who are togging at any •kirts when I ask you, in their name.,
on their behalf, and in their little proems, and in no strength
01 my own, to encourage and arrest this work. (Cheers.)
The least—. Prosperity to the Warehousemen and Clerks'
Sehooli'—was moat cordially received.
Sir J. Due e propmed, in most laudatory terms, which
wore moot enthusiestically reeponded to, " The Health of the
Chair . . _ .

CIIAIRMAN, in replying, said the fifth of November
wee so very notorious and inauspiciotia a day on which to be
publicly exhibited on a chair—(great laughter)—that he most
confess ho had several times that evening felt an Irresistible
impulse to look around hint on the table for his lantern and
matches. (ltenewed laughter.) Ile was, however, at that
moment resumed by the circumstance that ha had no mask
to fall off. (Cheers.) He wan exactly what he appeared to
be, deeply penetrated by the reception which he had met
with, and by OP, great kludnesa with which his small ser-
vice. had been welcomed.
_ .

The next toast wee "The Corporation end Sheriffs of the
City of Loudon," which Mr. Greatorex proposed, and Mr.
Shrriff Lawrence returned thank. for.

-.......
The CHAIRMAN then prop-wed "The President—the
Liellion. Lord John Russell." He mid he should do
so superfluous and so anneceseary se to descant
talecTas lordehip's many, faithful, long, and great public
servime—(cheers)—upon the honour and integrity with which
he bad pursued his straightforward public course through
every difficulty, or upon the manly, gallant and courageous
cheesier wherh rendered him certain, in the ryes alike
of blonde and op ta, to rise with every rising
coos ion, and wh like the anal of Solomon, la
the old Arabian story, enclosed in a not very largo casket
the maul of a giant. (Loud cheers.) He bad felt perfectly
arils that that would be the response ; fur in no English
assembly that Ire had ever seen um it neceoeory to do more
than mention the name of Lord John Russell to ensure
manghstation of permed respect and grateful remembrance.
(Cheers.) It being his pride and privilege to enrol the reta-
ke:l of the toast among his personal friends, ho should take
en early opportunity of tiling him that he was not forgotten
at that swannery. (Cheers.)
The toast wee drank with RAI h cordiality, and was followed
by the health of the Tremont, Mr. W. Leaf, proposed by
Mr. S. Moat.ze.
The CIAIILSAN mat peppered " The Reined Mr. W. H.
Roma end the Prem." He observed that, under circum-
stances of the greatest digicolty, Mr. Russell wrotedemri pain
of the Crimean campaign which rivalled in their brilliancy the
'Twee productions 01 the greatest novelists, and equalled in
their tidslity and regard fur truth—as he had often
hard toetigod by the best authorities—the most
whitely productions of the moat deliberate historians,.
(Cheer.) Spanking of himself, the chairman remarked that
he was Miami born and bred to the poem, his earliest work-
bag yeses haying Leen prised in the gallery ..f the Home of
ICommoner. sad be must be Mae indeed, or hare a roue la
shorter memory than he believed he possessed, if anything
that reneerned its honour or reputation mold he indifferent
to him, or if it were not one of the foremost efforts of his
life to do everything he could to uphold its :heratter.
(Chews.)
Aft*. most enediel reeponee to the toast, Mr. Russell
returned thanks in felicitous terms.

The company than dispersed.
Several subscription hats were raid during tho rung'
sad the Mist amount announeet es baying been subwribitl,,
including laoo/. collected by • deputation to Glugow, was
upwside of 2,400 i.
The mueleal department was under the able direction of
Mr. F. Kingsbury, tweeted by Mitts Rebecca low4rx and
Mies Ryke. and Messrs. LoaterAsylor. Harries, and Stroud.
Mr. Toole displayed his wonted efficiency aa the toast-
master.

THE LYDIAN HUME

A public meeting, convened by the Aboriginen
Protection Society, was held yesterday evening at the
Friends' Meeting-house, St. Matin's lens. The meeting
was rather thinly attended.

Mr. bls.betibm Lowis, a retired Indian judge, took the
chair, and in opening the proceedings said that the object for
which the meeting had boon convened was not to censure
present or putt governments of Indic, so much as to impress
upon the public, If possible, the opinion that whatever might
bo the (Tinto, of the purple of India, they were still objects
for consident ion, if not for humanity. (Hear, hear.) Omit
winos, it was true, hod taken place, but they were not un-
beard-of crimes, as letter ones bad over and over again
been onomitttd in various parts of the world. But still
grout crimes bad been motivated, and the dealing
with them should be left to the law. Let ft ho
remembered :bat si tho commeocement of the Indian mutiny
. . . ,

the gaols were all thrown open, and it wee an ascertained fait
that by that art 16,000 of the worst criminale were et once
tat loose en the country. They were principally Dacoits, an
hereditary COCO of robbers and murderers, and hod most of
them been under eentenee of imprisonment for life. Their
habit WAS to go into villages awl torture the inhabitants, to
discover their hoards, and such had been their conduct in the
preeent mutiny. They bad all flocked into Delhi. With
respect to the atrocities at Cawnpore, he had it on the beat
autherity that deo women were not diehenoured, and he felt
that amid all the horrors of that terrible scene there was
Nana coneolatien ic this well-authenticated feet. (Hear,
hear.) 'The first greet ranee of the present mutiny was, he
belies ed, the hatred of the people of India. The init.-
aioneries had petitioned for • cornmi,eion to inquire
into the mune ot this hatred. but the government had not
thought ).rope to comply, and were in fact to this day more
Ignorant on the subject than any other part of the population.
A resident, writing to Dr. Doff, chief of the Calcutta school,
boro testimony to this fact, and said that the mutiny merely
brought out the Intent feeling. The Times believed and wrote
that the mutiny welt merely military, but the fact was that
the natives were to A man inveterate egainet everything that
had • white fere. Another testimony woo that of a native of
atrpriaing intelligence, one who had been brought up under
hie (Dr. Lewinle) own surneWance. Thin person stated that
the haling of hatred on the pert of the natives towards the
English was intent.. they said that the word of the English
had once been graven on brass, but was now merely written
on water, and thict, having got the whole country
tinder their rule, they at last and completely
threw off the mask. This was no Thueythiliesn
spec b, he could seance the meeting, but the re .1 spoken
sentiment of • high caste native. The affair of the hew-
petties wean° mystery to him. Ile had ling known that
mischief would come of It, and hod published his opinion;
but, with the usual fatality, his warnings were neglected.
Another remarkable feature of the mutiny man that the exert
bad been PO well kept by our native dependents. Bente of
them must have known it, and Mill nowhere was there any
previous Intimation given. Our euppreeeion of puttees and
of Infanticide had nut offended the narives. In those caeca the
country was with OA ; but in our interference with the marriage
kw and that of inheritance we had incurred heavy and general
odium. In India each (shiny was a Fort of joint stern Ottol
peny, to which the property was common, and thegovernment
had neently peered IL law providing that a man might be-
come Christie sod atilt claim hie share of the family Whorl-
taro,. 'this the natives looked upon se • violation of one
of their fundamental swages. We had also tempered with
the law of adoption, and in the cow of the Rajah of Nsg-
pore had done much worse, for we had mold the ,jewels out of
his crown by public auction at Calcutta. (Hear, hear.) He
flout now cry a word or two reepecting Outlet Our eitue-
t there had been this. We maintained a subsidise y twee_
and stipulated to give the King resistance whatever becalkal
for it, but our assistance bed proved to be the embrace cit e
bear, for we squeezed him to death, and then toot pos.
erasion of the dead body. (Hear, hear.) A recent writer
(On. Low) stigmatised our setters of that country as worse
Nrn eny of the seta of Warren Hastings. As to the mew
plaints made of the King, the fact was that so great was the
auihority of the British Resident, that the sovereign became
disgusted, and took no interest in national affairs. But tits
worst feature in that tranicaction was our ingratitude. In
our difficulty the King had eubecribed largely to our hea—
ths total mum lent by hire being forty-taloa of repeat, or
460,0001., which sum was never repaid, while our only return
WAP to confiscate his territoriee General Low firmly believed
that Conde wee the key of the present mutiny. It was fre-
quently asserted that the anifemnariee had been a math canes
of it ; but be believed that no charge could be more fella-
clone. (Cimino.) Looking at what the charsoteg of thew men
had been hem the time of Schwartz down to the present day,
this wee net eurptising. So much had that estimable men
bees teded by the natives, that nyder Ali gave him a
wh owt In the height ot the Canonic war. The trade

was, that the native" had no antipathy to the nalmicaarias,
but looked upon them se harmless, holy mem Lead Elks-
borough had io the Howe of Lords escaped the asimioesries
of being the cause of the rebellion, and this had rouged op
on influential antic.. gentleman in Madras, soma
who bad positively stated that the natives held the -
&ries in the bMbrat eStilllololl and ...poet. With regard to
the imputed atrocities, he believed there wee grog egaggers-
' tion abroad, sad that wally which bad been described
could not pomibly have been committed. Lord Shaftoobory
Lad quoted Lady Quilting aa a witness to theme atrocities ;
but it was very draw, if Lady Canning was deeply im-
pressed with native atrocity, that Lord Canning should at
this moment be counselling detuonoy and forbearance.
(Hoar, hear.) Lord Shdtembary wished to de the mutiny as
a merely military mutiny, but Lord Shaftesbury wee tamely
connected with the government, sod It would be very oon-
cement to the latter to propagate each a notion, as it would
atop all invest_ igatftm into their own shortcomings. (Hear,
hear.) He looked upon much of what Lord Shaftesbury
bad raid ea calculated to stimulate vengeance, of which he
believed there had bean more than enough already. (Hear,
hear.) It arm only yesterday that he had been told, at thi;
India-hoes, that the 160 men liberated by Mr. (Mutt
had all been subsequently put to death. (Shame.)
With respect to our treatment of the natives,
it was much worse than slut it had been under

the Mahornetaos~~ln the r eig7of A7kbar, HieTioes
were admitted to all offices of the state. The prince
married a native princess, and did everything possible for
the Sidon of the two recce. Aurtingzein, being a bigot,
adopted a different policy, and this it was laid led to the
downfal of the Great Mogul. After an allusion to the torture
question, and the quotation of some entreats from the report
of the torture connuission,l4r. Lewin concluded by aalltne_on
e Mr. Jorins, who moved the first resolution, " That,
the government is called upon to punish the authors of the
atrocities lately committed on our countrymen, country-
women, and helpless children, in India, justice demands that
full inquiry be made, in onlor to 'separate such heinous
criminals from other ',mons who, tboogh they may not have
been wholly innocent of revietsuce to the authority of the
government, have been far Ina guilty." Ile deprecated in
strong terms the tone of vengeance dept.! generally by
the English press towards the people of India, and
argued that such exhibitions of our Christianity were
enough to make the potionsl creed disgusting to the
people of Indio. (Hear hear.) They had also the
Commander-in-Chief, Lord Shaftesbury, and other high and
influential persona houndingun the peooe of England to stern
justice, which wee in fact vengeance. He was for justice
too, but justice not without full and fair Inquiry, or without
mercy. (Hear, hear.) The Sepogni had been guilty of
momentary outbreak, but let not eir services of 100 years
be forgotten. If they had cumin, d atrocities we bad taught
them in Cabal how vengeance en. to be inflicted. But had
no Weenies been committed nearer home? Had there not
been a cow) 8/tat in a neighbouring nation, and had they
not beard of a whole tribe of peaceful men, women, and
children smothered in the cans of thirst (Cheers.) Mr.
June, proceeded to charge the government with destroying
the laws of adoptive inheritance, when
A GenTLEllaX in the meeting corrected the epeaker, ex-
plaining that lard Dalhousie had only altered the law in the
case of royal families. He had not touched the law as re-
garded the general population.
Mr. J ONES thanked his interlocutor, and proceeded to ex-
plain the laws of inheritance and adoption at considerable
knob, telling attention to tho fact, that inimedistely on the
annexation of a province one of the first duties of the resi-
dent was the investigation of the Zanindar's title.. Now,
be should Like to know Low a government proposal to inves-
tigate titles in England would be revived by our nobility and
landholders. He would venture to assert that even Lord
Shaftesbary himself would rime against such a proposal.
(Loud cheers.) After one or two further observations be
concluded by moving the resolution.
Mr. ROAEKT FOWLER seconded the resolution. Ile de-
blorc4 the inhuman call for vengeance which had been raised
y the pews of this country, then which he said nothing
°mild be more repugnant to the doctrines of our common
Christianity. It was with great regret he saw Lord Shaftes-
bury amen that "God knows the Illepoys had no cause to
revolt." Ile had expected other remarks from a man so
generally esteemed tor his Christian philanthropy.
Mr. Downs, before the revolution was put, wishedto read
a leader from the Time of 1947. which he said conhseted
atrougly with what he termed 0 the atrocious leaden," which
lad recently appeared in that journal. Having done eo, the
revolution wu put and carried unanimously.
Other resolutions, inculcating mercy and deprecating blind
vengeance, were then put and carried, and the proceedings
terminated.

TIM DUNE OF NEWCASTLE ON INDIAN
41RAIII8.

The Duke of Newcastle performed the ceremony
of laying the corner-stone oldie new National Schools, now
in ceuro) of erection at East Retford, on Tuesday last, and
in 010 evening attended • meeting of the Society fur the
Propagation of the Bevel in Foreign Parts. His grate de-
lis., rid n speech in (avow of the objects of the society, and,
after reviewing the course of its operations in venous parts
of the world, be referred to the church in India. From the
information which he at present possessed ho could not join
in those strong terms of reprobation which had been launched
against the government authorities by many who hod epoken
and written on this subject. The most opposite opinions
appeared to be hell ea to what we should do when the
strong arm of power had been established in India. To
judge from what they heard, some people would overcome
all difficulties by being " all things to all men."
That appeared to be the view which some people
toek of this matter, while others advocated • po-
licy of • totally different character, which they hardly
avowed though vainly hoped—he would not call it a
! propagation by sword and cennon, but a compulsory propa-
gation of their creed. Now. as regarded the first of these
matters they bed certainly little temptation to attempt any-
thing of the kind. How had measures of that kind suc-
ceeded already f How had too great • deference to the reli-
gious feelings of the people been met ? Why, in this way—
the greased cartridges had been eeised upon as a pretext for
rebedion, becauae, they said, we had been endmvouring to
tamper with their faith—we had been establiehing a dynasty
opposed to theirs—the Afahomedan—by fire end swmd.
Well, then, that failed. or at all events systems similar to it.
As regarded compulsory conversion, he weld hardly think
that any man could maintain that this principle we, not
alien to the habits of the people of England and utterly alien
to the genius of Christianity. We could not, with eor en-
lightenment, adopt the theories of the Talmud, nor, as Chris-
hiMllle, imitate the Billeries of Mehemet. So, we were not by
compuleion of every kind to force these rose into a false
Chruttianity, whole we were not able by conviction to bring
to our faith. He paid that government power must neither
be used to control or disturb the religion of the
natives. Complete toleration must be given. When he void
toleration, he meant nut onlj must compulsion of every kind
be avoided, but that which was as bad, namely, seduction—
which be (meld only call • broad species of fraud—must bo
equally avoided. They must neither attempt by compulsion
nor by reward to make Christiana of men whom they could
not convince. He believed the latter was as alien to the
merit of Christianity so the former. Any man who came to
be so convinced Mal little better than a believer in the faith
he had just left. But If they were not to do this they might
at any rate avow their faith and act in accordant with it.
They might show their Christian conduct and they might
adopt • Christian pulicy. They might show in private life
those virtues and chararteristim wheel would induce the
natives to follow the belief of those whom they could not
help admiring and respecting. Surely, it wield Le no diffi-
cult matter for the natives to draw a contrast between the
Christian lives and policy of those who now govern them,
ite compared with the monstrous lies and wicket:lmm, the
treachery and horrors perpetrated before their eyes by them
who ruled them in former days. It was by euch examples
as these—Ly ouch conduct as that—the spread of Chris-
tianity would be effected hi that great continent of India.
(Cheery.)

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OP LONDON. —At the
monthly general meeting, held yesterday, at the &deity's
House, In Hanoremequere, John 8. Oaekoln, F..sq , in the
chair, Mean. H. B. Mildmay, G. T. Saul, end T. P. Blyth,
were elected Fellows of the Bochdy ; and Captain the lion.
Lucius Cory and Messrs. D. W. Chapman and F. Woolbeot
were propteed se candieletes for the Fellowship. The report
Mated that various interesting animals hod been added to the
collection *Moe the last meeting, and among them an ex-
tremely lamutiful mese of &bells, from Ilfracombe. The
number of visitors during the current year have amounted to
819,073. The first evening meeting of the society for
scientific purpowe will be held on Tneedwy next, November
10, se 9 p.m._

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCTETT.—'fho opening
meeting of this society will be held on Monday next, the 9th
Instant, at ball-put eight p.m., nt Burlington-home, Picca-
dilly, wham the following papers will be read :-1. Notes on
the North Australian Expedition, under Mr. Gregory, by T,
Baines, artist to the expedition with views and illustrations.
2. Late Discoveries in the Country to the North of Mount
Serie, by Assistant Surveyor-General G. W. Goydro, in
command of the South Auxtmlian expedition communicated
by the Right. Hon. H. Lakoncliere. 3. Results of Dr.
Tager • end Corporal Magnum'. Astronomical Observations

Us Central Africa; Loroptjed et the mep-room of the R.G.S.,
by Mr. Chlorite, R.N. 4. Notre on the But Shies Expedi-
tes ender Caplan!. Spoke.
LIVERPOOL ROYAL BREWERY COKPANT.—AR
ardor Or bora Sued by the Muter of the Rots to hive this
sempsay wound op, end fir that purpose Mr. Buda, has
bow ambled ollkdal manager,