The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1850.

NATIONAL
REFORM ASSOCIATION.

Tostefaay evening a soiree on road oak took
pl.s. tießriderkotas Hoak Losiespbablase ander the
;I ts ef the Suathwark erSemesifimp and Yiaaaid
Anseititisa. Tbs easapaaF y
esserhiedi fa Ike larg sle
mem of the betel —*e'er/est, ea ems NM* la tho hogwash
—at Were& sir, and Alai Min amp pest Ia Minim is
re earl eeffee, at ea atheneed pedal el Ifte sa envie
dessert wr provided, and*. Foesediaps were also edlessed
at intervals by some emelleet Toed sad Melseasatal node.
the meal parts Wei siebbsd by ths Orin palmilislas
of Miss Cabin. Asesess Maw ea the dais ware tile WOW.
I.g: rocipcx, Esq., in the shale • Krim T. Aida"
R. Ls Blond. J. Mama, J. Thesitesb T. isammisyj W.
Howard, J. B. Slidell, H. Biking's., . Newman, J. A.
Lyme, J. Orommith, Apology Pellet', Dr. Beane, Dr. Brady,
I. J. Blake, Lake Embletaa, J. Herrin, The. Walker,
W. Duke., R. Harris, Thos. Bailey, J. K. Webb, T. Res-
pell, Ind, May, Brook, Laagley, Slued, White, Lee,
Alszeader, T. J. Thurber, T. J. Nicholls, Harry Preece,
R. Gimbal, sad the pester Rawer of the will, knows
reformers of the borough.
Toe People's Anthem was then sang, the whole assembly
hieing in the sense.
The SECRETARY (Mr. Howard) reed letters of apolm
Sera several gammasa who bad been invited to attend;
Mem Me. Locke Kier, sad Mr. Cobden, M.P.,
aelpettlag their inability to be prosaic; from Sir W. War
Werlit's private secretary, stating that the bon. baronet was
elsest hem tows, sad would be so for a considerable time ;
Seim Si: Joshua Wabash', and from Mr. Hume.
Tee CHAIRMAN ran stated that it had been arranged
that the business part of the proceedings should be embodiedra"
is a single resoludon, aad urged on the meeting the neersity
of peneverisie Ahem in the core.
Mr. THWAITES proposed the following resolution:—
" That this sasetiag. nerds. with satisfaction upon the pro-
speedier of the aggregate useably of the members of the
Neural Reform Aroda loa. held on Monday, the 141 of
October last, at the London T , and upon the gratifyieg
remit of the Jamie held at the same plies on the seresding
des ay, rejoices in the eff.nt which those ineetiogs have
manifestly produerd upon the public, as evideneed by the
metropolitan and perinatal um., and, haviag congregated
together this evening for the premed** by every lawful
means of the great end eoestltutiosal objee's of paella•
wintery and dearial reform, strongly urges upon the In-
habitants of the borough of Southwark particularly, fa
common with the people at large, the imperative duty of in-
creased support of the effects of the National Reform Associa-
tion." The great lesson which the people bad first to)earn;eru,
he observed, that of seltralianee. and that was one reason
why he aympethbed with mestinp whit* had for their end,
not revolutioa, not the uprooting of the eonstitation, not
the alteration of the ship, bet the smearing that it should be
better mart He (Mr. Dural's') wanted se reform
beyond rat of tier( to every male adult a voile in the
*eking of the laws by which he was aemasd.
The Fuliameatei7 and Finaocial Referee Amer.
don did not go so fax as that, but be geld r-
eadier. ire with them r far as they went, Masers
that the time had arrived ter all earnest triads N sad=
vane—al (needs of popular rights end jp:sie= the mares
to suite with this association ; and he that when
its objects had been mined, tbe ameleisa itself would
feel that mamboed mirage was the only seem basis. Whoa a
junction had one been effected between the farming and the
working Meese, the people would have power over the
parseeiringe el the nation, and rue would be an end pat
to class localities and eajnot tirades. (Chun.)
Mr. WALKER seconded the resolute, which wee
adopted eaanimously.
The meeting was subsequently addressed by Mr. Tindal
Atkinson, Mr. Arley Follett, sad Mr. Searle, sad the
amembly dispersed at a late hour.

Scorn Devoic RAILWAY.—An extraordinary gene-
tal mecum of the shareholders is to be held at Exeter, on
Tuesday, N0v.,12, to take into consideration the following
'pedal report of the directors :—" la compliance with the
resolutiv adopted at the meeting of the 24th September
last, the directors hays proceeded to consider the terms of
an arrangement between the holders cal 604. and 251. shares,
with a view to admit both closets to an immediate partici-
pation in the revenues of the company. TOP directors have
submitted a case to the eminent actuary, Mr. Ansel', and
hue had the advantage of repeated conferees's with that
gentlemen, the result of which has been to induce them
unanimously to recommend the following arrenpment :
That the sum of tea shillings and ninepenee per annum be
paid half-yearly in perpetuity on sub 251. shut, the first
payment to become due on the 15th March, 1851 ; such an-
nual sum to be paid as an equivalent for all arrears and
future payments of interest guaranteed to 16th March,
1867, and in satisfaction of all further claims in
reepret of the 251. shares until March 15, 1867, sane the
surplus net revenue shall permit a dividend to be made as'
the 501. share*, exceeding 6 per cent. per annum; in which
ease this arrangement will not preclude the holders of 251.
shares from participation in the surplus, rateably with the
holders of 601. shares, as provided by the original term on
which the half shares were issued. That after March 1.5,
1857, the holders of halfeharee shell, in addition to the sun
of 10.. 91. per annum iv perpetuity, on each 251. share,
divide rateably with the holders of 501. shares, In "copes: of
any farther amount applicable to dividends on such shares.
Any arrangement of the 'nature contemplated will require
the traction of parliament; and the directors propose with
the concurrence of the proprietors, to introduce a bill in the
next edition which .ill embrace the following objet's:
—l. To carry tow effect the proposal to capitalise the
debenture debt, which bee been several times before
the proprietors, and hea in principle neeived ,their re-
peated sanction. 2. To enable the company to carry
oat the arrangement now proposed between the holders
of CM. and 251. shares with the assent of a prepou-
denting majority of :nth clasp. 3. To authorise the
creation of capital, in place of suzlt portions of the ori.
Rini parliamentary capital as are now maimed, or shall have
been s dead or forfeited. With reference to the first
object of the bill, the directors propose that the dividends on
the debenture stock should be payable in priority to thaw
on all other climes of share*, the stock ranking nest to the
debentures. It is proposed that the maximum dividend on
the debenture stock shall net exceed 5 per cent.; and it may
be hop -4 that, with the ineressing credit of the company, it
may be eo issued that the average rate of Jokiest on the
reseal debt will be considerably reduced. In regard to the
esegad object the directors feel assured that the arrant meat
sew proposed b torten the different claws of aharettoldi re is
ewe which all may adopt with a conviction of its justice and
policy; sad they cruet that the proprietors will, therefore,
give it that measure of support which shall ensure its being
serried into effect at au early period. No payment ofdivi-
dead could he made prior to the royal meat to the intended
hill, bet immedistrly after that event the first half year's
payment might be made on the 251. shares; and
gosh dividend as the then state of the
would afford might be declared on the 501. shares. With
respect te the remaining object of the bill, it will enable the
semi:mil' to tender ay..ilsble wh it may be expedient
te do so, the whole of the share capital of 1,600,0001. already
authotised natter the first and second acts; but it will not
authorise any addition to such capital. The application of
revenue in part liquidatien of the floating debt, which wog
reported in Aetna, with a further sum of about 10,0001, la
the current nail's's', and arrangements which have been
maws for poi:posh:4r payment of a considerable amount for
Hoed periods, have eo far reduced the pressure on the !nods
of the company, that the directors do not anticipate beteg
obliged to call on the proprietors to satiation any immediate
issue of new shares, ender the powers lest 'du rad to; and
as it is not tutreameable to anticipate that a progressive in.
provement to the oompaare affairs will facilitate the raising
of the new capital when the necessity trim, on better terms
than could now be expected, it will be the object of the dipo-
lar@ to defer the arrangements for this purpose as mask as
predate
DEATH OP LORD RANCLIFIPIL—Thin noble lied,
who for many yews has led a retired sad quiet life expired
at his seat, Bann; Hall, la the minty of Noniagits6, at Mn
o'clock yesterday (Fridayl morning. The
Right m. Augustus Henry Anne Perkins, was Dmw
Raudiffe, in the peerage of baked, and a Miami of My
land. He was IMAM en the 10th of Jaw, 1785, semested
his father, Themes Borebby, Ant baron, November 17,1100,
and married Lady Elisabeth, eldest daughter of Ofierxe,
sixth Earl of Greased, en the 16th of °ember, 1807. the
lordship had for many years bean separated from Lady
Knack& ( oho survives him), sad has died whitest
—....nuently the title of bares is antis& The

1.7.;;;.
Tames) Parkins, of Reddingien, sear Nottingham, sad
with it a very small ponies of the late noble lord,.
estate. The rest M the heirable property, between 1,0001.
sad 2,0001. a year, is easseeded taby 13i: Rieittrd Levies*,
Ben., of Kaookdries Code, toasty Westmeath, see of his
lordship's eldest sieter, married to BM Riehard
father of the preerat basset, as the 3rd of December, 1810.
Bet every pennyworth of keirable property, which is sap-
ped se be very masidarable, is willed to tore. Bart, who
be about 23 years ha& been living upon Intimate mew with
his lordship.
ADNIILALTT INQUIRIE3 AND INSPECTION OP RAH.
!OURS AT CARDIGAN AND Naw QC/AL—Repeated ma-
'Minus having bees wade relative to the obstructions owed
to the navigation of the vine Tivy, Is Cardiganshire, so
inquiry has takes plains before Captain 'lambuses's, R.N..
the Admiralty impostor of hansom% who hen beim wet
down as a oommissienor to inspect and report on the nbirot
Captain Weabingtoa held kis ooart at the Town-ball, Car-
digan, to hear the eemplatet of ponies. an sable to a peas
don presented to the Beard of Aisalralty acme time slam,
praying inquiry inth eke alined grievances. The petitioaen
mated that great damage ha been done to tka nangetion et
the river sad the harboar, aad, in order to prove the ems.
witnemem from Llsehred stated that when the tin plate works
were earned on there years ago the tide flawed up beyond
Llechryd-bridp, that the water supplied the do works, mia
that bargee used to pees freely up and down the deur.
This cannot be `sesemplished now, owing he the
large quantities of rubbish whisk lad beta emt btM tie
river from the ertesaire elate gastrin now belag worked ma
he banks, at iiigenso. Is eassequenes Ere aid seals me
sow wined firma Cardigan et a gni* moues. lbsersl
sow madam wan as=issd caspaeleass showed
WA the thee beim C is *a Yr mrp sok
abollswar, swiss ts alts asailassl islialls4=
was denied ism lam lb* isaidas Os Asada
vas alle gives SNIPORNIS the dais al bar, sot las *Vt.
fag se the nails rot the wadi oflbdwr, @NI IM
.II amid OM ride es ass *ls
Irides. Ili Newt tad with =gib!
sire= sal wined Coedfar
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'Wed sad Impalasi the- ismiseer at New Posy teem
ertilell plies a memoNal had boom ens to the Lori el the
Aisiasigh MO; dist lobes,rah* Weis b. honed
thask

THE NEW POPISH BISHOPRD
AT LIU:MOMS.

A meeting of the parishioners of Limebouse eon-
veiled by,the ehariewermas aad merseini lasompUene with
a requiutioes. namenvely read. me held yassiodal, at do
Tows-hall, Claseiblene,Limebmen,he the parpose, se stated
in the plain bated tang brOeseaNdentiea the alarming
mmeminNMl* Wonted kriber asks= he the
Pip id leak guiles of mabiling ant**
Hahn of Great Britain awl listen, a Boman
Oaths& Iblemesin, add adorin a pentacle her Majesty.
=that her Majesty will, with no advised her met
hie Privy Caton, les igosidnisaly pined to take
ememe he the hasediate rsereenn eif the Peps% oreg_aan
hi syyliashig the Buy. Dr. Winans. im Asehhieberee Wen
minter Min yeammt may Ileum menelgehm On He "el
of the Of pewee mimed le the milt awl tatemtiem of
the Imo ef Mb email, astiessiiiis to ile
free red leimame ineeignows, end emenegy ft the sepia
man, aeon sad d me men argon meregaiga
mature *hied ems Monyaimenig the heet
aad Mann nem* of aB her lege ins*Me.
The Re,. G. Edema who is famdwmiaa the loofa el the
Milltery Mot Mudd end the Rev. sun. Williams,
lasenheat of St. 3...., Helenas Eon George Rolm%
curate of at. Anne's; Rev. Hemp Enos, assistaist carats of
151. Anne's • Rev. Bayly, Boyne minim ; IMr. Alfred
Blyte, Mr. are, Mr. Suave, Dr. Cumin, Mr. W. W.
Jetsam, Mr. Litley, Mr. J. Y. Roberson, Mr. J. C. Bed.
path, Mr. Nathan. Lint. &me, R.N. Mom Hitch add
Blackburn, coureinardem, Mr. vestay sleek, Mr.
F. Alum, together with a seasiderable amebic of the
other principal hibabitesteef the parish, di eaten as well
as apiseopaliam, were daleat
The CHAIRMAN i the moonier, xpreweed
the Nunn it gave kin se take the chair ea sone as
poems ocesedon, and hie hope that any diligence that might
take plum would be soodoeted with temper and fair-
ness, but Pill with that firmer and denies whin
the einuesitiones called for. It bed bout said that
in regard to the late Papal Ball egpoiating a Ro-
man catholic hierarchy Ins this onney, they were
lighting with a shadow, but he them& as Engllehmen
and Noonan, they would not Widely Neon dun to the
lade fa whisk they lived, or the , they mined, or the
religious peinigke in whisk abbey boa hem nartneed,lll they
did eat seep hewed M ono the Gated tionigaised at-
tem" Men led bees meads lei Reeked spiritually
Mina thakdoillyttecof the bin* N . (Cheers) It
had also hon mod thee Ma mumnes whin had exalted so
mach ekem is the salad el proteeleat Beaked was nothing
more an extension of the einem wieeneery by which
the *hop of Rene had hitherto ihriated the ministerial
appointments and Venetian of his edhereate in these king.
dem He (the Chairman) could net admit that plea which
partook of that Roguish snidely_ whisk had always ette-
mercerised the proceedings of the Vanua. It was true that
the bishop of Rome had for a keg time governed hie ad
hermits haze by means of what were called vino apeuelie,
and he admitted that no one had • right V. complain that the
Pope should make provision that those who were of his com-
munea should receive spiritual beans and saperintendanes
by competenthands duly recognised by the head of the
church. But those perms, though they were called by the
Roman esthetics themselves, had no territorial jurisdiction
oar did they assume ',MMus' supremacy, or any of thee
pretensions which the late Ball declared should be the pre-
rogative and dignity of shoes who might he seat here in the
seas capacity in future. (Hear, hear.) The vicars epos-
Mao heretofore always took their titles set tem any e:112
wee, but from superseded or non-existiag sus. But,
lag to De.Wiesmen, this eeaatry was than regarded by Rome
" as a planet that had strayed out of its orbit"—(" hear," and
a laugh)-mad was in a schiimatical state. He looked upon
this Memo of the Bishop of Bone's as en open, avowed, and
unaligned attempt to overthrow and subvert e Protestaat
faith of this country—that faith which was founded
upon the scriptures, which England and leaked had se
espied, which not only churchmen but all orthodox dissenters
received as the only trite faith drawn from the gospel, and
necessary to mane salvation. (Cheers.) And what was it
that the Bishop of Rome desired to introduce in ite stood ?
He had no wish to open up any theological questions;
but he would an them to look at the condition
at Bpain of Italy, of the papal power itaelf—(hear)—
and at that vary flourishing papal kingdom the Brink, and
this say whether they were prepared to 'tibias this country
se popery, whisk east a torpor over all that it came in contact
with„lettsred the intellect of man, cod destroyed his energy
sad his liberty. (" No, never.') Within the last Sew
years the church of Rome had declared that the Virgin
Mary was immaculately conceived—thus den*, that which
was the foundation of the Christian faith—that Jesus Christ
was the only one who came into the world without sin, and
therefore the only one who could nuke atonement for sin-
ners. Any church, however large, professing such a doc-
trine, it was their duty to prevent by every means in their
power from obtaining a hold or raising up her banner
' amoogat us. (Loud cheers.)
The Rev. Mr. WILLIAMS moved the first resolution,
declaring the Pope'. appointment of Cardinal Wiseman as
Archbishop of Westeniast, r to be a direct encroachment on
the prerogative of the crown—an assumption of power at
variance with the institutions of the country, and an attempt
teener the union of chorth and state. He ma not ose of those
who felt alarm at the present proceedings of Rome, LT he be-
lieved the protestant religion, which was founded on the word
*God, possessed within itself the e !cantata of indistructihdity
—(hmar, hear)—but it was our duty at such a crisis to
strengthen each others halide, in order that we might hand
down that mountainous, the blessings of which we enjoyed,
M oar mirceinors untamined.
Mr. DIXON, in seconding the neolation, observed that
the religi as liberty of this country was one great source of
Me political freedom. He did not wish in the least to diminish
the liberty which 1131111111 attunes enjoyed here, but, on the
ether hand, he was not disposed to allow them to take
away any of that liberty which he row possessed. (Cheers.)
Tee evolution was pseud unanimously.
Mr. SPENCE moved the second resolution, to the
effect that the meeting viewed with indignation the contem-
plated attempt to restore completely ?the Roman catholic
hierarchy in Great Benue and Ireland, as being subversive
of loyalty add fidelity to the throne, and tending to destroy
✓eligious liberty.
r. CLTMMING emended the resolution. He congests-
laud the parish of Lieehouse on being the foremost in the
metropolis in resisting this aggression of the Romiah church.
Without undernilong the rellaiou onsideratioes, he looked
upon the gentian rather in apolitical than • religious spirit.
It should be remembered that the agents of. Rona always
acted in a two-told ',putty—enlistees and political—their
object bang to extend the political as welt as the spiritual
Wastage of the Pope. As it appeared to him, they were not
there to speak amnia one religion or another, but to resist
the myosins spirit of a foreign government when directed
against this country. (Hear, hear.) Tao cha-acter of the I
gmermant of Rome was stereotyped. Its character was
Meek falsehood, covetousness, and entity. Hawing this,
and man the efforts it was now making here, it behoved
the fro people of England to be vigilant, and resist at the
wait the attempts of the agents of Room to increase the
power of the lead of their of oreh.
The Rev. R. B. BAYLEY (a dimities minister) also
spoke in sot of the resolution.
The reselatles wee then pat sod carried.
The Rev. Mr. HARRIS, of Bennalgreen, moved a re-
tonne resemmondiag teat protestant, generally should,
Making al poises of difference oa son emential points,
mite together M withstand the inroads and attacks
made apes the Mush by its avowed enemies, and resist the
subtle, insidious, wad therefor* dangerous, assa2lM of false
friends. He took occasion to thank the Bishop of London
Ire the manage in which he had so unmistakably spoken out
is the subject, aid also the nem whieb, Makin: all dif-
ferences on ether questions, had aim one end of tbs country
le the other raised its Mei in amedeme with the true *pint
of peotestant Ranted. (Cheers.)
The motion was mended by Mr. W. Jonesow, and sap-
" Ned by Mr. Rename, a diameter, who spoke egliwelt'
nein rates, het said he would rather live ander the epees,
el the protestant then that of the Roan% @burn, kneeing
that wean the latter rated liberty was at an sad.
The resolution was then eluded, se was me moved by
the Rev. H. Bores, and seconded by Mr. Laurie, signeng
M a petition to nu Majesty embodying the preview Mai'
Om, and anther adopting an address le the bine Of the
Nome, pink; him to use hie infinceree ill the WOOD off
Leeds to pass a law to setae* the sermon of the Qom
sad the royal prerogative inviolate, and to provost Susi" '
eeteeenscies from issuing titles inemelsesat with the law N
the land.
• so pas we. appointed to carry cat the objects of the
lailiMes were then voted to the chairman. which henna
been ackaowledged, the proceedings terminated.

It is with feelings of pfeeenre that we (Exeter
Thing Post) publish the following official letter, with re-
ference to the supposed sanction of (*arousal to the steps
moody taken by the Pope. It was addressed to a gentle-
man is tbis city :
Downforstroot O 28. 1850.
" am directed by Lard Jam Russe
ll) toM. inform you,
in 'sewer to your question whether a list of Roman catholic
prelates contained Is a newspaper is masa, that he has no
other mesas of judeing that you have yourself—namely, by
reading the bull of the Pepe in the nowepepers.
"To the sexed qamtioo, ' whether the 'realm a the
above Popish bishoprics, or the appointment thereto, bare
raeolved the sanction and approbation of ha Majesty's ati
sisters ;* Ism directed to answer that they have not reosived
seat suctfou and approbation.
"I am directed further to Mate that Lord Mint°, when in
113111., wr not vanished on this memo, and sever gave
any epoirstenanos to it.
I have the honour to be, dr, your obedient servant,
" R. W. GRIT."
Lune.—The Rev. Dr. Hook, vicar of Leeds and
rang dies, hasjaat laud a circular, aanoaacing "that as
Meneley nest a meetly; of the elergykl the dummy of Lads
will be held la the yummy of the porta thank, to take iato
'eossideraiss the propriety of addenda; the Lord Bishop
of the diocese epee the weak offered to the chunk and
state of Ragland by the Underseas pride end tyranny et a
tartish primes and potentate, who neither bath, nor might
to have, may jarisdation, power, reporierity, putimiaosse,
or authority, ecclesiastical or aPiritaal, within this realm.
but who lase lately established, ro far as Ia bin lies, an he-
retail and hitimatioal blare:shy amongst as • Ma also, in
the met or tke clergy deciding upon an adieu a his lord-
ship, to draw up, or appoint a eenririttee to draw
ealTsistek
an address as shall express the sentimehts oldie

APCMHICAIIasi Hatz.—Nasas et gentlemen who
pawed their szeasinetion ism Kiellie• sad prestige a
medicine, sad resolved eertillestes to pestles. ea Thstedsy,
00. 31. 1360: Jam* Beady. Dews; Emboli dykes,
/adds, Yotkailie.

GREAT EDUCATIONAL CON-
FERENCE AT MANCHESTER.

Nov. 1.

The great end °occluding meeting of the cocgreeo
took plus het evening, at the CUM Exchange. The build-
fag was eio crowded, although capable of amootodating
more than 2,000 people, that the secretary felt called upon to
express regret that they bad not been able to procure • larger
building. The Free Trade Hell, he said, was engaged; sad
they had procured the wood best room In the town. He
was sorry it was so inadequate to the wants of the meeting.
The announcement of a donation by Mr. Lomb*, of 600 t. to
the asesedation, made to the meeting alter the second resolu-
tion had bees agreed to, on the modition of which the gift
had been made, was received with great cheerier; and te.•
interest fettle the proceedings may be conceived from the fact
that the very large and crowded Ludlum present, though sa-
tirise the greatest (nem:modems, from being obliged to stand,
was kept together from 7 mail within • few minutes of 12
o'clock at night. Amongst the company on the platform
wino R. Cobden, Esq., M.P., Richard Harris, Esq., WP-,
William Hargreaves, BK., of the Grams, Milotborp ;
W. B. Mame, Esq , Manor House, Fair Beat, Wrotham,
Kent, chaireasa ; Rev. R. Thorp rector of Burton Overy,
near Leioseter ; Rev. W. F. Walker, Oldham ; WiUtam
Edward Forster, Bsq., Rawdue Hall, Leeds ; Rev. J. A
Bayam, Nottingham; Mr. Alderman Weston, C. B. Raw-
lins, jun. Baq. Welter Ferguson, Bag., John Atkin and
others, (e'en Liverpool ; Joseph Batley, Bei., Huddersfield ;
John Mills,Beq., and John Brooks, BK., Asbton.ondee-
Lyne; Dr. Saiterthweite, Tulketh Hall, Prestos ; John
Stores Soil, Req., Halifax ; Holbrook GasksU, Req., Pros-
Warringtoa ; Peter Rylandrnurch
Hugs Reid. Esq , Nottingham ; Rev. A. F.,Blythe, Chem-
tarffeld ; Rev. H. W. Croakey, Derby ; Alexander Henry,
M.P., James Heywood, M.P., Rev. Loaned Batson, D.D.
sad L.W. Bacon, of New Haven, Coln., U.S. ; Rev. Patrici
Brewster, Paisley • and G. J. Holyoake, London.
W. B. HICKBON, Euq. (editor of the Westtaituter Re-
view), presided, and In opening the proceediega coups-
tnlated the assembly and himself upon the object and
teximicia of the meeting. They were aseembl.d in the
cams of moral sad mental program- a ammo which
should take precedents of all others, as affording the
best guarantee fee the safety of all social and political
changes. Alladlag to the power of the people to effect
their own deliverance from the bondage of ignorance, he
mid it was ono of the lessons which the men of Man-
chester had eat the democracy of this country, that it
was to themselves they must trust when • battle was to
be fought, and not to the heads of politics! parties, or to
the chiefs of privileged orders. (Cheers.) Let them assert
and exercise this power, he &intended, and they would
soon obtain the secession of the statesmen of the land.
(Applause.) Having taken a general view of the means
which hod been hitherto adopted to effect the educa-
tion of the people, the Chairman described the agita-
tion which led to the ea ablishment of the committee of
council of education,—ut establishment which, from the
dissatisfaction which was felt with the government plan, on
account of its partiality sad inefficiency, paved the way for a
broad national system such as the one which the association
now formed proposed to effect. He sat down amidst mach
cheering.
The Rev. W. M'KERROW, having announced that the
meeting wss one for conducting the business of the anode-
tion, and not for debate, read over the names of the gentle-
men who had been unable to attend, and from whom !stun
had been received. The names, in addition to those reed at
the Conference, were those of Alexander Henry, Esq.,
M P with • donation of 1001,—(ekesn)—and Richard
Gardner, Esq., with one of 501. (Cheers.) A letter had
also been received from L,rd Melgund. _

The Bev. J. A. BAYNES (of Nottingham) moved the
first resolution :—" That the existing educational provision
to: this pantry is very defective, both in amount and
qUality, and demands the serious attention of every friend
of moral progress." He expressed his extreme satisfac-
tion that, notwithstand:ng the varying matt rials of which
the Conference was composed, the whole of the resolu-
tions bad been earrisal noaninionsly. It seemed to him
like an augury that former strifes were about to eau',
and that Moro energies which had long been severed and
divided were to be united to promote the cause of the
people's elevation.
JOSEPH BATLEY, Esq. (ol Hudderefield) seconded the
resolution, arguing that the only security for national
and Nth accent nt was the virtue and progress of the million,
and that this virtue and progress was mainly to be brought
about by t►e national scheme of enucation proposed by the
associatton.

JOHN AIKEN, Esq. (of Liverpool), supported the reso-
lution, drawing a powerful contrast between tee condition of
England, as it regarded ignorance and pauperism, and
America, where a system of popular education was
thoroughly established. The speaker further conteaded that
the question of education involved not only moral duties,
bat also the commercial progress and prosperity of the coun-
try; and he maintained that if England intended to pre-
serve her maritime equality with the United S aces, she must
look to the intellectual improvement of her people, fum
whom the officers and 11•111Lta were chosen. (Cheers.) The
resolution being put and carried unanimously,
The Bev. Dr. DAVIDSON (of the Lancashire Ind.-
pendent College) moved the second resolution That any
system of public schools, to be ge lly acceptab.e to the
people of this country, must be confined to secular instruc-
tion." He did not subscribe to Dr. Johnson's detiuiiico
of the word "secular," because, taken in the sense of un-
holy, it laid the ministers woo supported the Lancashire
scheme open to the charge of being either knowingly or
ion -meetly favourers of infidelity. The entire Bible was
certainly meant to he kept away from the schoole, extracts
only being admitted; this, however, was not loom any die.
like to the Scriptures, but because they could hope to
attain a comprehensive and national system of education, to
which either protestant or catholic could accede, without ex-
eluding the entire protestant versi,m from the schools. Did
those who wanted the win le Bible admitted /I qoire that it
should all be read ? If not, they meant that parts should be
used, and this amounted to the same thing as the extract*
of the association; the only diff recce bring that in the one
case the selections were to be made by an iatelligent body
of men, and in the other were to be left to the caprice of
Ignorant schoolmaster who mialit take them in hand.
The Rev. W. F. WALKER (of Oldbam), in secmsding
the resolution, said that the committee of council had done
much to forward the cause of education, since they had sent
oat • gnat number et better qualified schoolmasters than
bad ever been in England before. It remained, he con-
cluded, with the working classes to furnish the means
where./ this improved system of instruction could be carried
info effect.
Mr. COBDEN, M.P., on ruing to address the meeting
was received with prolonged acclamation. He said, Mr.
Chairman, Indies, and gentlemen : the very first excision on
which I had the honour of addressing a Manchester Audi-
gees, was upon a question connected with this. It was at
the foundation of the Manchester Atheneum. Teat was In
the year la% end for more than two years after that, I
think theonly question on which I appeared beton a Man-
cheater audience, was in connection with national education.
I well remember as long as 16 years ego, meeting Mr.W.ilker
at the York Hotel, in the effort, at that time not very suc-
cessful, to form a society for the promotion et gener,l educa-
tion. Now, I mention these fact., not with the view of
showing my own inconsistency in being here
now ; that's of very little coesequence; but I wish to draw
our attention to the fact that at the time I am 'peeking of
I had the pleasure of uniting with many gentlemen who
eatertained similar polities! sentiments with myself, who
are not now in the ranks of national educationalists them-
selves, bat are, I am afraid, On this qoastion to be ranked
among oar opponents. (Hear.) New, I want to call our good
friends beck to their original opinion. (Hear, hear.) How
kit that them gentlemen, the great champions of civil and
religions liberty, are not now the advocates of an biotite-
this for the preservation of those prime:pies which they have
se much at heart? How is it that they are not ining
with as to advocate the enlightenment of the people,
epee which alone the eivil and religions liberties of
the people can rest? (Hear, hear.) Here is a plan
on a principle emanating from the society of which we form
a pare ken tonight, intended for the very purpose of re.
Roving the diesenten from this dilemma, and runevieg from
them the Wombs under %hick they suffer ; and we have
the fullest convietioo, and entertain no doubt whatever, that
when ear fineds hive the opportunity coolly and diem's-
elonately to sounder the question now submitted to
them, they will as a body unitedly jails our ranks In
the eivemey of this mph= of education. (Hear, hear.) For
what kit werFe to do ? We do not propose to interfere
** with teachings,
the fundamental principle of
dissent betas repudiate • state aid for religious :rabies.
ThagetiesaonwM km/ sat now been addreetieg et, has made
a Tema* In whisk I skink we cannot altogether concur, when
he states that the plan is one whieb excludes the Bible from
the school'. (Chan) Now, what I understand by the plan of
this emaciation le this, that it is one which does not ompal
the scholars to peed the Bible, if contrary te their eon.
meditations movictioss, or that of their parents, but I em
not a party to the exclusion of the whole Bible.
from any school when the local board can unite is Intrr
during It. For instance, one-half of out parishes in the
United Kingdom, and a great deal more, are smell rural
parisbee containiog a few hundreds of many
cease with only • parish church, where there is not a tipple
dimwits!. I dm% understand this to be a plan which will
prevent a eosamonity like tine, where ell are agreed, from
harken the whole Bible intredneed into their schools. What
1111 do may is this: we will not ressymil the reading of the
Bible, when that shall have the sliest probably of deter.
Meg Boman catholk• and others trees seeding their dill-
dna to the schools. But I have said It before, and I say it
now—for you mast repeat your aremmente till yea find them
coming bock to you from your very sammies—l have said it
before, the first time I had the hamar of addressing the asso-
ciation in this town, we pa eight ROMs= a psi at least
to the teachers of wise as meek I will
venture to my, u Is paid in any Christina country en the
tea of the earth; sad we don't propels to take away one
shilling from these teachers of Christianity; we tell them,
those' they byre not taught the to read write, or
spell, or know even the y of their seighbostiog
granmearsocw"ria—ii(4,lB:the:Tveklarar4=nut—.w.
tot ofevethethtehmetZeineeet..." Ignoranti.dried.oties et
In three neessoommattees; and yet these parties, the
parties to the in whisk eight millions per annum
are exceeded religious training, them parties have
the effrontery to 0011111 • forward and tell us we are
miring :althea, the
their
_peepletaithanwhernirreligeiremereedammetr
the
e(oC:prizis)
side. (Loud thews end laughter.) I my, if yen are
afraid of the mama, lee mom the effect upon the New
England states. Whyrtbe seheola in the New England
mates have given the them ea education which,
impend with oats-1 mere secular Matron ion—might
well make as blunt. Oar opponents, however, will not dray
that ear visa of oiosstioa might gin IKON secular la

streetimo; bet they say it will produce infidelity aid irre!i-
ese. But what has Seen the effect la New England ?
Wows will you find, among all the protestant countries in
the amid, • country which ie, par taw/knee, a religious tom-
sainity,stompared with the New England states? What ere
r testa ? Do you reply," The number of pleeeeof worship ?"
• they hare far more chapels and churches, In pr.por-
litla to the population, than we have. Is it the observatien
of the Sabbath? Why, I have been there, and I have seen
chains rat SCION the streets 00 • Stlatilly, to. prevent the
traffic interfering with the celebrations of religions worship.
(Haar, hear.) Is it the reepe.t paid to the ministers of
eel con ? Why, I can vouch for it, that there is no country
ia Europe where the ministers of religion are treated with
mach lid deters, ea as in the New England stem (Hear,
hear.) Is it that forms of reticent are omitted there, whilst
we observe them? Why, if this meeting had bean in the
New England states, I sppul to Dr. Baden, whether you
would not have beget* your proceedings to-night with
prayer. Their courts of law begin their trials without
first uttering up • prayer. The sheriff calls for
_prayer
before the fudge begins to administer the laws. Every-
thing in the New Eng and States betokens the diffusion of
and the respect paid to religion and the extension of know-
ledge. Take the numbsr of missions supported for the con.
version of the heathen—take any test you please, and I
affirm that the people of the Now England States, where
this system of secular education is adopted, are • more re-
ligious body than the English people, or any protestant
community that you can mention. I say, then, that I want
such • system of education here as they have in the New
England States. What I want is • system of education
which, whilst it will leave the people fully as religious
as they are now, will also give them that secu-
lar knowledge which the Americans are now taught.
When we have questions submitted to us as politiciaus,
which, sixty years ago, were evolved frees the studies of the
most profound thinkers of that age, but which have now
become the every day topic, of politicsl warfare—and we live
in • state of society calling upon men to exercise their faculties
of judgment upon questions of this complexity—it is necessary
tor the safety of society to educate the people up to the
condition in which they are to be found in any country upon
the face of the earth. But I want to see better safeguards
for morality in this country. (Hear, hear.) Are we so
moral that we can dispense with the all, of the athool-
master ? Why, what have been theists exhibitions in this
country ? Have there been no great crimes so prominent
catastrophes that have warned us of the state of the sub-
stratum of the population ? I want public schools In this
eountry to purify the moral atmosphere of the state, and to
elevate the mental condition of our population. One half
of the people of this country cannot read with any com-
fort and satisfaction ; but when they have read two or three
lines, and they cones to • long word—a word of three or four
syllables—down goes the book in duple. (Lstetliter.) I
tell yen to ask those of your opponents who oppose you on
religions ground., and profess to have so much more religion
than the rest of us—ask them how • nun can be a protes-
tant unless he can read the scriptures ? Why, is not votes-
tantiera itself founded on the very assumption that every man
exercises his private judgment oa them? (Cheers.) Well
then, • sincere protestant, a religious man, who oppose• us
for wishing to teach people to reed, is standing in the
way, I consider, of the progress of those very religious doe-
trines which they ars bound by their own eoueientious
eonvictions if possible, to advance. (Cheers.) While I
allow to Roman catholic' the freest indulgence of their opi-
nions, and while I will never vote in the Howse of Commons
to prevent them from having the freest scope and earners of
their religion moll thie, country—(cheers)—yet I say as •
protestant, and I say to the proteatenta who are opposing us,
If you want such • religious people here 01 they have in the
New England states, help us to give the people the power of
reading the scriptures in their own native tongue. (Hear,
hear.) Now, air, this question having been promulgated
in its, present form, having been brought before the country
as emanating from Maechester, it will be expected that
this controversy will be followed up in the same spirit which
hes hitherto characterised Manchester la this agitatiou.
(Hear, hear.) You have not many of the difficul-
ties we had before in another agitation, but you
have some greater obstacles than we then had to encounter.
It was proposed at our meeting yesterday to doings the
Lancasbire Public Schools Association into the National
Public Schools Association. Now, I think that was very
necessary and very wise, and for this reason—it is of
very little use your educating tameable* unless you
educate those parte from which Lancashire is supplied
with its population. We are apt to tbink. and our
enemies are disposed to keep up the delusion, lay charging us
with the facts, that the great slums of ignorance and vice
and misery are ill our large tows,. There never was •
greater mistake. Take this great ft yof Msnchester, and
I will venture to say that not one half of the po-
pulation were born in Manchester. They are immigrants.
And where from? Why, from those fountains, the overflow
of whirls furnish these great towns with population, the
rural villages, the agriceltunl districts of this country, and
berate, any attempt to stop the progress of ignorance and
its consequences, vice and misery, in large towns, will be
utterly futile, eta long as you direct your attention merely to
the education of the people of Manchester and of the other
great towns of Lthcathire. You must secure a low which,
as in the Me of the New England statee, as in the osse o!
Massachusetts for instance, compels every locality, every
parish, to furnish • school and the means of education to the
whole population to furnish not merely a building such as
our orders in council are now aiming at doing, furniabiog
Lerida and mortar of which we have more already than are
used ; but to furnish a master and the means of giving in-
struetion to the great body of the people in all parts of the
country. (Applause) Now, to obtain such • law as thet,
you must agitate, and you must bring public opinion to bear
upon parliament. Yost will have to make this a hustings
question. (Cheers.) I hare had an opportunity lately of
testing and proving that the great difficulty in dealing with
agricultural labourers is that of being able to do anything
for them because they are not sufficiently educated to serve
themselves out of the immediate sphere of their daily occu-
pations, and I would say, therefore, es a matter of self
self-
interest, if you wish to give the people an ambition to go be-
yond the bounds of their little parishes, where they are
often rooting upon the miserable allowance of some two or
three little loaves of bread • week—if you wish to make
them despise that state of existence in which they now liver
teach them reading, writing, arithmetic), and gurgrapey—
let them know something of what is g ing on in
the cAonies of Americo ; let them feel the am-
bition which the middle class people entertain to
remove from the scene of their birth, In order to advance
themselves in life, and with the prospect of returning
enriched or benefited to their former home. Ido not put it
on principles of belt-interest : I say it is our duly, if we wish
to see a community worthy of the name of Englishmen, we
must educate them better than they are now. Oh what a
fund, oh, what • mine of riches, Ices neglected iu the mess
of the populatios of this country. Thank what a nee it is—
that noble race which produced a Burns, a Shskspeare, or a
Milton ! (Cheers. t Aed then think bow many hundreds,
nay thousands, of this race have pined in stet d ignorance,
like the very ox they drive, because they had not the
elements, the mere tools of science placed in their hands.
because they had not been taught to read or write and
Jetsetters they have been deprived of the opportunity of
adding to the glory of the ceuntry and the fame of the people
with whom they were surrounded. (Great cheering) You
quatrel with their vices—you say they are drunken; would.
not you be drunken—l speak to the people of a more ele-
vated class, to theme in easy circumstances—would not you
be drunken, u your forefathers were not a century ago, if
you had not had Nome stimulus applied to your intellect,
and some other resource+ be-idea the dram to produce that
excitement which, mental cr physical, is necessary for the
healthful existence Of the people ? (L tud sheen.)
Take toe people of a superior rank, to whoni I refer:
go back only forty or fi'ty years. At that time
when there was not found upon their drawing room tables,
as there now is, this multitude of cheap literature in its meat
attractive forms to invite them to constant study ; when
books were acarcely ever turned over by the class to which I
refer—what was their constant habit ? Drunkenness ! And
how were their evenings spent ? Why—for want of even
intellect or activity of mind enough to sustain a conversa-
tion among themselves—behind pieces of painted pasteboard,
playing at cards ; there was not an evening party without a
card table, simply because they had not intelligence and
activity enough to furnish each other an evening's amuse-
ment without such resources. (Hear, beer.) Well,
now you find the people—l speak of those in easy circum-
stances—complaaning thattbe asys and evenings are too short
for them. Such are their increased resources, and such are
the occupations for their minds, such is the differacee in
education, that the evenings are spent not In such frivolity as
drinking and curceplayiag, but 'in intelligent communion ;
and the evenings and the days are too short for the enjoyment
of these intellectual qualifications. (Chan) But would not
the working classes, it they were taught to read and write,
and if they were taught not merely reading and writing, but
something of their owe nature, and of the laws of the nature
which surrounds them, would not they find other solace, and
other resources for gratification than in the ginahop, or the
dog-fight, or the pitch.and-toss of the public house I Yes,—
already they sbow symptoms ot improved tuts. See how they
flock to our =wiped entertainments, end how they resort to
the cheap trains to make themselves better acquainted with
eaters. (Cheers.) Rove they not shown, that even without
the advantages of education they possess an honourable
aspiration to throw off the old shin—to find comfort in better
and more Christianlike enjoyments! Then •on all these
. _

grounds, whether it is on the' very humble plan t,4 i^tprov:ng
the taste for national smasemente—wbetber this, or to give
to men the power of judging, what they will be called upon
to judge, of the political destisies of this emstry—or whe-
ther it be to judge of the highest of all quetions, that of
their religious faith—or whatever the motive may be—give
the people instruction, elevate their minds, improve their
Welders, stimulate thermion, and I will be brand that in
every phase In which yon can view mankind, they will some
out better and happier tor the proems to which we have sub-
mitted them. (Prolonged cheering )
The Bev. Dr. BACON (of Newhaven, Connecticut, United
States) followed in support of the resolution, and WAS greeted
with a hearty bunt of applause on rising to address the
assembly. His speech oonsisted chi, By of • staff meat of
foots in regard to the common school system of his owl!
meetly. The state of Connecticut wee one of the smallest of
the vest union. The north eastern, or New England states,
were the oldest districts of the country, with the exception of
some few settlements at the south ; and the system of com-
mon sehook there established was, as it now stood, identical
in almost every feature with that defired 14 the mio-
gramme and proposals of the Lancashire Association
there being schools for welly education in every locality,
supported by local taxes, governed by the people them-
selves, and controlled exclusively by the lout authorities
representing merely the people of each locality. In the
stelae of Connecticut and Mamachusetts—the two moot
thickly populated of all the states In the seion—a person
might travel upon any highway from moraine to night, day
alter day, in every direction, end he would never be
more than • mile nom a school-bones. (Load cheers.)
Hers aad dim, et the tournedos of two goads, he would

4

ww—w—e—^
see • hula wereteadine Imilifloy, which mien reeognised
es the district 'short Tee haleab (saes of New limileata were
what was milted in Amulet " Tecte's." In ilexlead We aid ,
not keow what s Yankee was. AU Americans were aotTais.
kiss, soy mere than all the subjects or Quin //Lewis wire
Seotchmea. (Lseghtinr.) The Yankees were the Seem el
Atomics, end the Scott were the Yank, es of Great Brittle.
(Renewed laughter.) Tbsy would dad Timken every.
where but is Scotland, sad Scotch everywhere bat is New
Earilead, es be told • lady with whom he was werveriag
the other day. "Why ?" she &eked : becalms they wen
bath Yeekeeire ,;" or, as they expressed it la New Sep
lead, th•Lkinrdketheir em-tottit est. (Chien sad mreat
low•beev. The donned fee k•ewledge made it se Obat
folly in to tax seempapens as it would be is tax
Bassist of life. They would as seem think, is kis sosstry,
of Metes the hilt which God peered from the see, the
trona al tiro atmosphere, the peer maa's Bible, eit his net
mpea the fltlottstb, a. tax his edeertimmosts sad hie mar
ppm (Clam) Armagh* tbit *nap Amman "Mien
at Naglisi when, Dr. Beets stated that idaeonlay's his-
tory Gould be brash, for 60 sews. (lb.) ; while is Ragland
maplewas • poises sad aMa Give to the Itilisb
the persatry a the savisalara Maim sad
retool eansbes—this system of oommons sebeels, the salver-
lsl diSssis• of knowledge, dNene hitherto " saes sad
ibblooleas MS.." would his tarp aad break late ia.
mane , sal a Onawsll Amid " still be /elitism °lbis
••••tity% " (L•od spalsan.) predated
lbeires, sad who wss Rens ? •
is
pimoomt, ale
bad the sonnea *animism whisk be lbe sod odd time
(latish he ia was *gels to Beetled), every
lemma ajoyet Hs tells.= *eel &Mau*. mahatma
side: bet die Walt of pair was la his, tho ROA el kant-
Wee etas to tab. aid of pains, sad Seeder' adoend Ike
noway of Robert Ryas ss ems of kit linaltosa weemans.
(Clam.) Rea whin was die Bens oldie ROW goonsatry
Re wae yet
sites'
sone ler*
("Renewed tbs halm= of Ml=
et anima ited alesalia. enewal
mammal Retyli Mast (man of tbeld Soi Riad-
Mae.") sod wbe few miser wee a waknemla s gamy,
es so tweet man* of pair banditi has alsser
rity emmell lbe massawy of Bootland, the gabs" pm-
seeded M glee examples of Americans who had rkes to
dittlo __ MOM say only ormestica bat **Om bi the
osemmea forme*
The reesielleit being put sad canisd,
The CHLISKAN easeseeed that halted received • mut.
manieation tram Mr. &award Lambe, ea ieflemtoirl gentle-
man of tke easily of Norfolk, sta"ss his Initiation if the
meantime whisk had just been carried were adopted by the
antlag. of pressatiag to the fends of the remesistlea the
sum of 6001. (Loud cheers.) An order for this sem he
(the chairmen) bad received that day, and he 'Mold or
the morrow pima it le the hands of the weever. Mr
Lambs, who was absent lawn home is ill bee'tb, wrote—
=diet the esubresce of the 30tk may aid is
t of a satires' errociatioe, sad I Weil MI that
la assiang la its fornation I have net lived is vas. It
ommethiag to ken koala im—

"Toe Wiegman of twee or sword
That mortal erne last or pined !"
1 eia hardly upset to live Hag owner to join fa the shoat
of victory, bat to have ►elped forward such an object to a
gratilioation of which I would act be deprived, and It will be
a same to me *souk many a sleepless night of illness."
(Lewd chows)
The Rev. II THORPE (of Leicester), moved the third
resolution—" That the schools ought to be supported by
local mesa, wed sensed by load authorities epecis"y
sleeted by the rate-payen foe that purees."
Mr. J. STORES SMITH emoaded the resolution, which
was carried oasainiously.
The Rev. Mr. CROSSILY, of Birminghea, moved the
fourth ersolatioe—" Tint skis sjetem emineatly practiel,
and, 'Marisa clear of all maseieciriour Kraals. wind
be say of adoption, and bentficiel in results." He urgrd
steelier the aecaiiity of mug's g minor prejadkne and dif
fiessois, with regard to amen of detail, Morels, to advance
the great principle at stake.
Tire resolution wee seconded by the Rev. P. BREWSTER
of Paisley, and carried.
Mr. HICKSON having vented the chair, it wet taken by
Mr. Commit, sad a vote of thanks unanimously pared to
the ObiliflNllN of the evening. This concluded the promedings
about a averted to 12 o'clock.