The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1850.

HARE ON THE GORHAM

Lit not yam hearts be distracted by this twofold
moss of ea ambiguous weed, Yoe believe it to be a work
of divas gram, by which the child I. grafted into the
Char= of Christ, into the Kingdoms of God, that through
the spirit it is brought under the teaching of the spirit.
This is all that the church requires oat to believe as • condi-
tion of imarcisiwg her ministry. The fartker definition of
the. gram eke Mum open to then whom the spirit abaft
Masai= millearatt it. Will you, then, leave her
should not 'peek of such en sot, but that many have spoken
ol it as semoding they were euntemplating u possible, as,
at arab temilossaeles, probable sad almost auxin ;—will
yes lbsesits her, born= wederetaade the word regene-
In rate la mom dillemat from pours needi you desert her
ads hoer of her argent need, a which none feel
more deeply than you—in this day of her peril, a peril which
your abandonment of her would grievously, formidably, sig
gismo ? Ton have long been making with dread on the
growth of what you deem punk:doss errors within her.
By tour presence within her you counterbalance thou
errors ; ft you quit her, they will become fatally predome
neat. Therefore in the name of our beloved mother, as
well es of the Hula whom ChrXt has plead under your cars,
I would conjure you to pause, and poniltr carefully, with
=rout prayer for the guidance of the spirit, before you take
any decisive step, and depart trees the post when God has
placed you.
Oa the opposite aids again ha large body, containing some
whom I love, many whom I highly respect, very many who
have laboured zealously and devotedly is the cause of our
Lord and of his church. With these, I must tionfeee I cannot
feel Messina sort of sympathy, sithoegh on the immediate
qaestion in dispute say opinion coincides with theirs. For
I cannot relax the oorsclusive =idease that our church
preanteues ever 7 baptized child to be regenerate; and as
this is the doetnue of the whole church from the beginning,
so die it seem to me of great importance that, under a
attain sense of the word rote to, this 'truth should be
reataisect as the ground of all chart= teaching and
Crigg. Bull, though the former party appear to me to
all her an error, they have beta expecting that they
shoWd have to suffer fur conscience sake. and have been gird-
=heir hears to do so ; and to such persons, however
a they may be, no good man will refuse his loving
reverent syntrohy. They have not—these at least whom I
have had in salad, have not been trying to impose their
=miens epee their brethren. They are merely pleading
for freedom of coescerna, for what they believe to be the
truth, and almost that corrupt, pernicious conception of
baptism, which ascribes a tunnel effelicy to it, without the
slightest wettest in the words, and in d, hence of the spirit of
Saijeure, as well as of all Mots. Au excess of seal against
such an error nay well lay claim to bone indulgence. Oa
the other hand, their opponent. have nothing pessenally to
dread. Whatever the decision may be, it cannot =leach
Weir opinion. Should it be determined that Mr. 03rneliell
view or hip:instil reg e !ion does not incapacitate him for
holding preferment in our church, the utue at that would
follow would be, that on this, u on so many other points,
our church admits of a considerable latitude of opinion, and
has sot laid down her dogut-e so definitely that they can be
enforced by civil posture. But even in this Cale there is no-
thing in such a decision to impugn any other view—Arch-
deacon Willerforces, for instance, or Dr. Pose'''. These
remain jil.t where they Were; aid the advocate: of them re-
tain their full liberty to hold and to inculcate them. Surely,
each being the case, they who have always sachem with re-
probation of the sin of echem, and who can hardly bring
themselves to acquit the reformers of th.t sin—although their
case was totally different, in that they were not showed to
hold and teach what they believed to be truths of essential
moment—cannot think it justifiable to quit the ministry
of our church, Weems the church is belt by her supreme
judicial tribunal to open her arms somewhat wider than
thee would wish her to do. Sorely they, above all men,
are bound to declare that such an Let would be a meet
presuniptu.as sod reprehensible exercise of pr.vate judg-
ment, not in upholdine ties sitered rights of individual 0041-
scions., but in condemning one brethren and the whole body
of our eturch. Sorely, too, it is a ;remain genet Christisa '
meekness end Lye, to desire that a large cumber of our
brethren, many of them exemplary kr their weeks of (shit sad
labours of love, should be driven out of the church, or ea
lest out of her ministry, not ler any sin of omission sr eing-
mission, but bee sue they cleave coneceentieuely to as
opinion, of the erroneouiness of which they cannot be con
'ince& Rather would a rod man with that they should
remain where they are, trusting that, if they continue le
serve God with the same fidelity ace rding to their knows
ledge, their eyes will in time he opened to p rceive as muck
mare dila* truth as may be needful for t4rs.
Can it indeed be that then ere persons, who, for the sake
of eatablishing the truth, as they would soy,—that is, of
rotting up some determinate dogmatical proposi.ion COS-
°treeing the efficacy of baptism,—and s ill more with the
view of cenfotiog and einemg their opponents, would wish
to obtain a peremptory sentence, whereby those opposing.,
comprising, hundreds of the best, godliest, most faithful,
most devoted ministers of our church, would be driven
into as agonizing str b, out of which they +Gill hardly
perceive an outlet except in retigning their cures of
souls ? Would it not be most painful to see rumbas of
good men competed for cons:ience sake to fall into schism ?
Would it not be a terrible calamity to our church to be de-
prived of seamy of her beet ministers, in these days of hard,
perilous strive again-t the powers cf evil ; Ought we not to
di precate,aud to dealt we can to avert such a catas•roph. ? To
this sod we—those especially who attach such a paramount
impotence to a sight notion on the matter in dispute—should
not merely try to establish our own opinion dogmatically
and historically, and content ourselves with exposing and
refuting the miss atenkente and misarguments of oar erring
brethren ; we should also acknowledge the trutes, by a too
ex: soave attention to which they were lcd into their error,
sad are upheld in it; and we should endeavour, patiently
and rently, , to disentsegle thews truths from the moues
which adhere to them' and to clear up the ambiguities and
perplexities by which the controversy has so long been pre
uacted. Above all, we should set to work honestly end vigi-
lantly to purge our own view from the exaggerations and
erroun whereby it has perettually been corrupted and per-
verted, and whereby it has repelled those who cannot rcri-
fiee their reason and conscience to the dictates of an imperious
authority.
For instance, they wt o rightly maintain that our church,
in accordance wi.h the whole church from the tint ages,
asserts the doctrine of baptismal regeneration, are apt to en•
cumber tt.is truth with proposition, convening the nature
and effects of baptismal regeneration, which find no sanction
in the teaching of our church, and which turn that truth
Leto a mischievous and repulsive falsehood. Thus in a mo-
dern work of great merit I find at stated, as the opinion of
our church, ' that in baptism the nature of the o'er Adam Is
exchanged for that which was refashioaed in Christ." Mow
can it be otherwise than that such a statement, which has
not the slighted support in our symbolical books, should re-
volt those who have any regard for the testimony of their
sewes, or of their understanding, or of their reason, or of
their moral sense? This presses shows how gamily
person., when they let their words ten away
with their thoughts, may fall into baptismal trea-
substantia• ion. Our church asserts the change oh
state in baptism, that we are brought out of • rate of nix
titre into a state of grace, into the kingdom of God, that
we are brought into that church, which is the body of
Christ ; it also believes in the imperil-1 of spirituel grace
at baptism ; but it does not say a word about a change of
nature; nor is it very easy to understand what they who
use this expressers mean by it. One might fancy, they had
weer asked themselves this question. In the present case,
the only evidence alleged to show that our church holds
this extraordinary doctrine, is " her declaratl in that the aal-
Vallee of haptised infanta, dying before they commit actual
sin, is affirmed in Baipture." Yet what does this declara-
tion show consenting a chimp. of nwure ? What does it
imply beyond a change of state, that the infant has been
brought into a state of salvation? To this, I believe—
though it seems to me very unwise to exact an a-sent to such
a proposition concerning the state of baptised infanta after
death, as a condition of exercising the ministry of the Gospel
—most persons would cot unwillingly subscribe.
I hive heard it said indeed that, if the deci-ien pronouneed
favourable to Mr. Gorham, our church would thereby
eat herself off front the church catholic; inasmuch as aka
would repudiate 'hat article of the Nicene Creed, whereto
we confess our belief in one bark= for the remission of
sins. What will uot people assert in the feverish excite-
ment of controversy? A more brittle logical chain wee
devised to justify the excesses of passion. Our church
would still retain that creed ; nor have I heard that any-
body has ever iron/tied a wish that she should expunge this
article from it. All her ministers, all her meniben, would
go on avowing their belief in it every Sunday, in all her
churches and chapels, in the most solemn part of her service.
Mr. Gorham himself would do so. Mr. Gorham himself would
doubtless declare that he believes in it fully—that he has
never dreamed of disputing it. I em not aware that way of the
advocates employed on this occalion—emineat as were their
ability and ingenuity, and the research they had bestowed on
their cause—ventured to use this argument, which, if valid,
would have decided the victory in their favour. At all
events, if they di.:, an adverse Judgment would only prove
the more manifestly that it bad been weighed in the ?alum
by peewee of consummate legal perspicacity, and had been
found wanting. Yet private judgment, er rather private
caprice, is to bike au:h a momentous, perilous plunge, as Is
Implied in quitting the ministry of the church, or perhaps
the church the if, after pleating its foot on such a logical
qalcksand. Whereas, at the utmost, even supposing there
were any validity in the inference, the judgment would
merely prove that our present highest court of legal appeal—
a court acting entirely upon legal grounds, without pretend-
ing to pronounce upon doctrine, except legally with refer-
ent* to civil penelue. to ensue from it—does not hold that
the law of the church is sufficiently determinate to warrant
them in enforcing those civil penalties. lies it not beta seen
continually how dill .ult it is, through the imperfections of
thoaght and language, to frame a law which cannot be
evaded, even when the legislators have a distinct purpose in
view? A remarkable instance of this has been afforded by
the recent judgment which nullifies the Factory Act. Yet
one hears rational men declaring that such a jactietal sen-
tence would destroy the catholic character of oar church,
would cut her off from the church of Christ, would un-
church her. as the phrase is. What! are we to hold that our
Lord, who has hitherto been present with his church in
Ragland fur so many centuries, through so many trials—
who has borne so patiently with so much lukewarmness,
with so much coldness, with so much earelmeness and
worldly.siindedness, and has vouchsafed again and again to
struts and renew sod ',viva her by the outpouring of his
sphrit, and who has messed of late years to be preparing her
end gtrdirg her for the battle with the legions of Antichrist,
smiling her from every quarter—will now depart from her
and sbaedort her, because the Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council does nut think that Mr. Wuhan's opinions
diequedify hint from holding preferment ? Are the sun end
moon end stars to drop from their spheres, Weause a tile his
been blown off from a neighbouring home ? Surely so long
as we are allowed to hold the truth and to snob it, our dory

le to reeula 4 ear aura, fa the poet to which God bas
railed u. Whet wee St. Paul's warn, whoa the (Meth=
sad the Oortathleas were telling sway fres the trash ? Dhd
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TEE
MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL AT MANCHESTER.
it, 4.
After visiting the worksM ANCH
of MesIN
srs. TBNaseaArythan and
Waken, at Patrieroft, and the Swinton Indastrial and
Training &heels, on Wednesday, m described in my peeler-
day's letter to the Express, Lord sad Lady Ransil and
party propertied" in the afternoon, to some of the large
matt Astoria. la Manchester. Their first visit was to the
establishment of Mn Was. Feirbeira, CM., a mediae
manafaetery to some extent of the same @harsher u that
they had abated at Patriarch. They wane conducted over
the works by Mr. Pairbeirn himself, and were first taken
IMO the department when railway locomotives an built.
Then were at the time Iron 121. 16 lownotivee on the
stocks, In raises stages of progress, so that a good opportu-
nity was afforded e/ 'human' the &Area; preemies.
Aleonptthe esviaes the in the coarse of amstrnetion are
wise handed task deems for the North Wasters Compsay
and the Meter hallway, peculiar for their smallness and
lightness compared with the lecossceivn now is mural me.
Tney amidst of as engine and tender In one machine, and
are scarcely half the weight of the engines acid tenders
in ordinary use. The object of the companies is one
of mammy, the quantity of fuel used by one of
these eastuee being orimparatively mall, while they
posses quite 'efficient power for the trains or
companies paella( thrmgh lightly populated (hotness!
No portion of the iron fittings for the tubular Irides across
the Menai Straights was remaining on the promisee, but his
lordship took mach interest in the drawings soaneeupd with
the bridge, and especially in the mode: of a common railway
girder bridge, erected on the same principle far rivers of
smaller span, the parapets of these bridges being two parallel
tubes, supporting a bed for the railway to pass over between
them.

The next plies visited was the manufactory of Maus.
Parr, Cattle, and achinists, who maks the machinery
shied, usedCo.,'
In cotton mills, and are noted especially for their
patent card making mesehines a eel by weavers.
The distinguished visitoes next
_peoceeded to the We-
bested Mayfield Print Works, Namibian, the esta-
blishment of Messrs. Hoyle and Sons. They arrived
hue about half-pest four o'clock in the evening, and
were received at the Lodge gates by Mr. Alderman Neild
sad some other putout, of the firm. Those were the
lest works which the
,party had visited In connection with
the cotton maaufastures, and they appeared to take a deep
fateful in the various proem-Noes exhib teed to them. Lady
Fanny Russell, especially, seemed to interest herself In the
young females employed In the first room of the premises
which they visited. This was the 'agreeing room, where
the long cylindrical copper rollers us.d for printing the
calico, mousszlineede-laine, and other fabrics receive those
striking and beautiful patterns which at this delightful
spring-tide season of the year are beginning to fascinate the
eye in every direction where they are exhibited in the shop
windows throughout the kingdom. The employ-
ment of females in this branch of industry is
at present an experinernt only, though I think
it is one likely to answer. Of course they are not put 141,311
the kind of work requiring the skill and science of an expe-
rienced hand cog . The mode adopted is to place them
under the euperiuteadence of an able workman as overlooker,
and this man prepares the patterns for them on paper, which
is pasted on to the copper rollers with great care and nicety,
a' d they have wily to follow with the g the outline
thus delineated, nit were, on the metal iteeli. The cylinder
machine printing room, into which the party was nest in-
%reduced, is one of the finest workshops of the kind in the
world. It is spacious, lofty, well ventilated, and in every way
rendered as comfortable and hellthy for the workpeople em-
ployed in it as circumstances will permit. There are 20 ma•
eh i tie s in it, each mu bine tended by two men end two boys, and
each capable of prieting from one to aix colours upon the cloth
at once. Each of these cylinders, when at its greatest speed,
will turn off about • piece of cloth, or 30 yards, per minute ;
so that it might be said that the whole 20 machines in the
room are capable of printing about 20 miles length of ladies'
dress pieces per hour! Be the old system of block printing
the utmost that could be dons was about four pieces per day
by one person, or 120 yards. The system of block printing
has not yet bean wholly superseded, but it is now un•
doubtedly lest disappearing before the progress toewaide
perfection which machine printing is making. The great
difficulties indeed to be surmounted have not been in toe
printing, but in the engraving department ; and these have
to a great extent been conquered by the ingenuity and
per.everanee of Mr. Lockett, of Macchester, who, loge
toer with his father, have established the reputation of
having done more u engravers to calico printers to over.
come the obstacles to the sate se of machine printing than
any men in existence. The next rooms which the Premier
and Lady Russell visited were those denominated the
" s oyes." Stoves, however, in calico Tinting works, are
not necessarily places for diffusing heat or warmth; and
these in question are merely enclosed and roofed area, in
which, without artificial heat, the pieces of cloth, after re-
ceiving the mordaunts at the printing machines, are sus.
pended from hooks at the top of the room to dry, and for
eviporative purposes. To this end it is necessary that the
atmosphere should circulate freely through the place, and
these soralled "staves" are Principally contrived with •
view to securing this result. Perhaps not one in a hundred
warmly of your readers wi.l understand what we mean by
" mordaunts," and iticety-nine at taut of the number will
be at a lOU to impedes the deep interest which the disen-
guished visitors at the Mayfield dye and print works on this
°evasion had reason to take in the processes hen alluded to.
These who have seen letter-press pruning, or the printing of
a sheet like the newspaper they are now reading, are aware
that the colour or ink used in the proses., whether
black, red, or blue, is conveyed from the metal
to the paper at once in the machine; but the
printing of patterns upon cloth is a very different
matter. Instead of colours, whet are called " mordaunts"
are the substitutes for printing ink, and these mordaunts are
%nosily composed of metallic oxides dissolved in aseeti: acid.
Take as an example alundas (the basis of alum), or oxide of
iron, dissolved in vinegar ; this is a common " mordaunt"
used for the purpose. And the mordaunts being deposited
on the cloth by the printing machine, the next thing is to
asp erste the elements of which they are composed and get
rid of one of them. The drying (or, as it is called sgeicg"
process), does this by causing the vinegar to fly off and
evaporate, leaving tee metallic oxides only upon the fabric.
Thus the beautiful and striking patterns upon dress pieces
which so astonish and rivet the attention of the
beholder may be delineated upon the fabric in
elmost colourless hues composed of the se oxide.,
when they came from the printing machine ; and
it is in the dye vat that the finishing stroke Is given to the
process which is the crowning miracle of the whole. For
you see the cloth *Seeped in the dye vat, and expect it will
come out of the same uniform colour all Over ; but behold,
it emerges glowing with the various shades and tints of the
rainbow ! In fact, the dye which has rendered one pert of
the printed pattern black, may have given a red Dolour to
another portion, and a puce or a purple to a third; whilst
the groundwork on which the pattern is designed to be
exhibited, will have rejected the dye altogether wed remaia
unchanged. Of course these extraordinary results nave their
origin in the chemical disetveries which have been brought to
bra, on the art; and Lord and Lady Russell and party spent •
considerable space of time with Mr. Graham, the partner
who has the direction of this department, in his laboratory,
witnessieg experiments illustrative of the silvan-
, tages which the science has conferred upon the
calico printer. Mr. Neil exhibited to Lady Rus-
sell the proton of dyeing the lilac colour, for which the
Mayfield establishment has acquired such celebrity, and the
party were next taken to the part of the establishment
where the mousselline de-laine bleaching is carried on. One
of the most interesting procures which can be witnessed
here is that called " sulphuring "—a process in which an
important improvement has recently been discovered and
patented, which is here at work. Those who have handled
the beautiful shawls of Cachmere are aware that they are
remarkable for a softness which we look for in vain in the
woollen fabrics of all other countries; but this new process
of sulphuring bids fair to enable our manufacturers almost
to vie with their eastern rivals in this respect. The old pro-
ems consisted in suspending the pieces of cloth in an air-tight
room, so that the fumes of sulphur Gould be made to envelope
them; but the new process causes the cloth to travel
across the room filled with sulphur, and to pass
under rollers,—the =colluded action having the ef-
fect of driving the sulphur thoroughly into the cloth,
PO that it exercises an influence over the whole of the woollies I
texture. The party afterwards visited the meek ma op
warehouse of the establishment, where Lady Fanny RUMOR
honoured the firm by selecting a beautiful dress piece of
mouselline-de loins, the pattern consisting of a small wide@
leaf edged with chocolate, on a pale blue ground. Tam
noble premier and his lady expressed themselves much geed-
lied on leaving the premises after a sojourn there of an hour
and a half, and the party at once drove off to Claymont.
The workmen of Messrs. Hoyle and Sons appeared to take
great Interest in their visitors, and their excitement was such
at times that it was with difficulty they could ba kept at
their work, and restrained from giving vent to their feelings
In the mode so congenial to English habits by shouting the
welcomes which they would have foond it so much more diffi-
cult to express in appropriate and befitting language.
Sir B. Heywood had Invited a party to meet his noble
guests at Claremont to dinner, and it included besides the
members of his own family, the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop
of Manchester, the Very Rev. the Dean (Dr. Bowers) of
Manchester, E. R Longworthy, Esq., Mayor of Salford; Sir
Thomas B. Birch, Bart., M.P. ; William Rayner Wood,
Esq. (son of the lath M.P. for Kendal); and W. Fairbairn,
Este., C.E.
This morning Lord John Russell, Lady Fanny Russell,
Sir Benj sun Heywood, and party, were again engaged
in visiting the public buildings and large work.
shops of Manchtster and Salford. The first vide of
'he Premier was to Sir Elkanah Arm:tage's cotton 'pinning
manufactory at Pendleton, where the noble lord had the
opportunity of seeing the various processes of preparing,
dressing, spinnlno, and weaving cotton goods on a large
scale. His lordship on entering the mill expressed a desire
to see the whole of the processes and trace the raw material
from the bale as imported, through all the stages of mum
facture till it was woven into cloth. On an open bale being
shown his lordship, he :piked to see one of ened in his pre
mince, sod was particular in tracing the material in each
process, including dressing and cleaning, carding, roving,
doubling, spinning, and weaving. Lod, Fanny Rouen, as
well as the odd • lurd, took a deep interest in the meiotic-
rev., and soli. ited a specimen of the materiel in each stage
of its pro.tress, including cotton in the uneleaned and cleaned
state, in rovings, in 'ern, and in the tom of threads put
together for warps. Lud John Russell sad Lady Remelt

hit 111 IMAM IS the healthy and elesaly:appsanuies of
the egmealleasin etds mill. The patty arrived at the Peal
Park Leek N, Belford—one of these magnificent promote
1111111111116eMaidaler inhabitants of Manchester sad Salford
Sidle us the Adis generally. which stand
WO illustrative of the munificence
of later days—at a little after halt-past
U t was inn his hadship had signified his mil.
llnsgent to /waive the address of the Salford Corporation,
Mid GS the previous day. The elegant mansion in the park,
linuisrl_y the seat of Willies' Garnett, Esq. (now of gum-
miest Park, near Laseaster), is now the repository of the
new public library, reently raised also by public subicrip-
doe and the library itself was fixed upon athe reception
tech kr his lordship and party. Thu circumstances under
' which the library was obtained have been already. stated in
W Ezprus. It Is now about three mouths steee it was
opened, end the subscriptions In books and towards books and
spoliation for a museum moult to 3,0001. Toe library
it-
self contains upwards of 6,000 volumes, and so well hal it
been appreciated that the deliveries by the librarian to be
rot d upon the premises have already nearly
reached 8,000 volumes. Upon the table of the library,
when his lordship arrived, were a set of handsome
folio volumes, comprising " Gonkl's Birds of Australia and
Birds of Europe," beautiful) y engraved and coloured. It
lea present from the Earl of Derby, and is understood to
bengal upwards of 2001. The Premier arrived in the
park, accompanied by Sir Benjamin Heywood, Mr. Oliver
Heywood, and his lordship's secretary, and wes received at
the entrance by the Mayor and ex-Mayor of Salford, who
introduced him into the ltbrary. A large crowd had amem•
bled to witness the arrival of his lordship outside, and lined
the carriage drive through the park. In the library were
some of the principal members of the town council of Sal.
ford, and we also observed present Mr. James Heywood,
mu of the members for the northern division of the county
of Lancaster. On his lordship entering the library, he was
loudcheered, and having taken a seat, was addressed by
Mr. Luagworthy, who at once proceeded to the ceremoty for
which they had mumbled.
HU WORSHIP said—My lord, it is with high ratifica-
tion, as the Mayor of this borough, that I have the honour to
present to you the address, unaaimously agreed to by the
town council of Salford, and it is with feelings of great grati-
fication that within our borough and its vicinity we welcome
you as the prime minister of the crown. In your persoo,
my lord, we recognise still additional motives of high appre-
ciation, when we ,consider the many great measures with
which your name has been connected daring the long period
of y tar public career ; measures ef great value to ourselves,
and great benefit to the community, for which we feel deeply
indebted to the gnat exertions your lordship has lead* in
obtaining them. I will proceed without troubling s cur
lordship with a long speech to read the address of the town
council.
The mayor having read the address, then presented it to
his lordship.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL Immediately said—Mr. Mayor,
I thank you for the manner in which yeu have preseeted the
address, and it Is wish great pleasure that I proceed to an-
swer it. Ilia lordship then read the following answer to the
address:—" Mr. Mayor, and Gentlemen of the Borough of
fiallord—l em mace gratified by the address you have done
me the honour to present to me. lam happy to find that
you attribute to me a love of social progress and of eonnitu-
tional lib.rty. It will be my endeavour to continue to de
serve that approbation. You are fully justified in saying
that much remains to be accomplished, and that fur her
measures, both fiscal and moral, are required, Lr the well.
being of the people, to improve institutions, in accordance
with the sate of the people, and to fit the people for
improved institutions, are both of them noble tasks. Your
position qualifies you to take a lead in the second of these
labours; and I am happy to acknowledge Vogt you are
doing much to raise the mind,, and direct to worthy
oejects the pursuits of your fellow citizens. I trust
you will be rewarded by seeing en increased spirit
of loyalty and religion, and that the content of
your community will prove the success of your exertions."
The noble lord arrived at the Town Hall,Mutchester, aecut
a quarter after 12 o'clock at noon, were he bad signified his
"Wit:guess to receive the &Meese voted him on the prise ious '
day by the corporation of Manehester. The mayor's parlour
was fixed upon as the reception hall, and here the address
was presented, in the presence of the whole body of the
councl, including James Kershaw, EN., 14 ; Sir Elks-
nab Armitage, David Price, lesq ; Joseph Brotherton, Esq ,
M.P. ; Atel•cman Seuttleworth, Alexander Kay, E-q.:
Alderman Wild, Aldermen Hopkins, and Alderman Wil-
lett. His lordship was roxived with loud cheers, and
JOHN POTTER, Esq., Mayor of Manchester, then ad-
dressed his loroshin as (educe My Lord John Russell,
assure your lordship I feel very keenly my own inabnity
adequately to do justice to the occasion which has brought
us together this morniug. I cannot but este em it a eery
high and distinguished privilege that it his fallen to my lot
to be the first mayor of Manchester who has had the honour
tat receiving the Prime Minister of England in this town
(Chun.) My lord, on behalf of my fellow citizens, I bid
you a most cordial and moat hearty welcome to this town.
My lord, I welcome yen to this town not only as the First
Minister of the Crown through whom we can express out
loyalty to the Queen, oar ardent affection for her pneon, and
our admiration of her high virtues, but, my lord, I also
welcome you as a statesman whose name will never be for
gotten. We earnestly hope that your visit may be
the forerunner of similar visits from those who from time
to time may occupy the high post—(cheers)—which it is
your honourable distinction to fill at this moment. We
reel satisfied that
I tees of the crown must be fru;tfel of information
to themselves, and result to the advantage of England.
My lord, I rejoice,that you have been good enough to bring
Lady Russell amongst us. (Cheers.) We cordially hope
that both your lordship and Lady Russell may long be per-
milted to live to witness the moral and intellectual and
social advancement of this country. (Cheers.) My lord, I
.• beg to call on the Town Clerk to read the adduce.
Tue TOWN CLERK having read the address,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said—Mr. Mayor, let me in the
Ifirst place exyress my thanks to you for the manner in which
you have discharged a duty which must be most grateful to
t as, feelings. Looking upon you as the representative of this
, great manufacturing community, it is inset gratifying to me
to fled that any part of my conduct should have met with
your approbatiou, and likewise to find that my visit t this
; town has been considered as tending in any way to give me
better information, and further means., of promoting the
well-understood interests of the country. (Cheers.) I can
• oely regret that at this time, when the preparation and
discussion of measures for parliament occupy necessarily so
; large a portion of my time' my visit must be necessarily so
, extremely short, that any knowledge I could in this short
time acquire will certainly be insufficient for means of legis-
: lotion. Bat, at the same time, I beg you will take It as an
II earnest that the promotion of the manufactures of this country
' is an object of the highest importauce, and that it will be
I ever considered by me as my duty to obtain the best infor
matson I can, in order to give my advice to the sovereign,
whe has ever uppermost in her heart the welfare ef her sub
pmts. (Cheers) You were good enough to refer to the cir-
cumstance that my wife accompanied me in this visit, and I
can assure you that it would be quite impeuible for me to
prevent her from taking part in this journey, from her
anxiety to observe these wonders of the manufactures, and
eisoistialyortolaiosthiintip:thatelbfouthoupirocmghpoeeie,ltebiydmat:
Ail!, and of invention, of which the, with the rest of the
' community, had heard so much. et me now proceed
therefor* to sewn the address which you have done me
wtheeloohonmwour:e,porenseanot
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ofH
—Mr. Mayor, gentlemen of the borough of Manchester—l
ion
thank you heartily for the kind manner in which you have
district. lam much gratified by the approbation you have
bestowed on my public conduct. lam glad to have the
opportunity of more correctly
short and cursory inspection, the magnitude of the interests
which are connected with the borough and neighbourhood
of Manchester. There are two modes- in which a govern-
ment can foster and promote trade and commerce. The
first, which is the leant direct, but the most powerful in its
effects, is by securing to every man the impartial administra•
tion of l.w, and the enjoyment of personal and political
freedom; the other is, by the removal of restrictions and
monopolies affecting trade, agriculture, and manufactures. It
has been my endeavour to promote, humbly but earnestly, in
both these ways, the great interests of labour ; bat I cannot
give the chief place to the efforts of statesmen, even far more
effective than mine, for the advancement of these objects.
The free spirit, the independent mind, the patient industry,
the inventive skill of the people of this realm, have been the
main causes of growing population, increasing wealth, and
augmentcdpower. You have done me the honour to observe
that, is seeking to amend and reform, I have endeavoured
to nuke the least possible disturbance of existing arrange-
menta ; and I am rejotced to find that my caution has met
with your approbation. lam confident that in no part
of the empire would the adoption of an extr.:ine policy,
in what.yer direction it might tend, be more sensibly and
more calemitously telt (in the suspension of business, the
diminution. of trade, and the interruption of confidence)
than in this great centre of manufactures. While, there-
fore, I am a warm (rend of prcgrests, I am convinced that
it if above all things desirable that any reforms which we
may propose should be calmly weighed, and, when proved
to be desirable, effected without disturbance to the peace of
the country.

A great nninbcr of people had assembled ou'side the
Town-hall by the time of his lordship's Cepartore, and
cheered him heartily as he entered his carriage. From the
Town-hall his lordship went to the Exchange, where he
was introduced by the Mayor of Manchester, and accom-
panied his worship through the building amidst the hearty
cheers of the gentlemen assembled. After partaking of
latch at Sir Benjamin Heywood'. bank, where Lord
John Itussell rejoined Lady Fanny Rumen, and the
remainder of the party, the elisting&shed visitors
proceeded to the silk mill of Messrs. George Smith and
San, Lower Mosley-street, Manchester, and from thence to
the Oxford road Twist Company'e mills, and to the large
wholesale warehouse of the Mayor of Manchester.
I shall describe more minutely his lordship'. progress,
however, in my next letter. His lordship was well received
wherever he waa recognised. The weather has been incle-
ment, and the movements of the party have no doubt been
circumscribed to some eats nt by that circumstance. It is
expezted that Lord and Lady Russell will tsko their depar-
ture fee the metropolis to-morrow morning, or by the even-
ing exprcsa train at the latest.

TIDE FRAUDS OM THE HAMBURG CUSTOM 110111 E—
. flifientil to the frauds said to h we been eraetisel on
the Hamburg revenue, by a house in the Manchester trade,
we have since been Informed that they were committed by a
confidential clerk, whn was entrusted with the procuration
f^r the custom. house, and who had been twenty lire yeen in
the employment of the house in question. They were peso
Used by him entirely fur his own ends, and (u he has glace
con'tesed before the authorities) without the knowledge of
any of the firm. The import duty in Hamburg is one-half
par mat. ad raforaa.—Afasohesta. Esaminer. • `