Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-20 00:00:00

THE -NORTHERA MONDAY, JlJl'sril24o, 185 S

_._tiSION, BY DR. GUTHRIE.
Yesterday morning, the Rev. Dr. Guthrie preached in
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Birkenhead, on behalf
of proposed new schools id the neighbourhood. There was
a very large attendance, and many were not'able to obtain
seats. The Rev. Dr. adopted as his text Zachariah 13th
chapter vii. verse. " Awake 0 sword against my shepherd,
and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of
Hosts : smite the shepherd and the sheep shalL be scat-
tered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones."
He said, .What think ye of. Christ ? A very appropriate
question to address to a Christian audience ; but a question
which even His own mother would have found it_ difficult
to answer. For never was a mother so perplexed what to
think of a son,-perhaps, as Mary was, by the enunciation
which-was heralded to her of the miraculous coneeption-7
the son of a virgin—the shining. host that seen lulu into
world—the shepherd bending around the manger worship-
ping the little infant as he lay couched in the straw. The
Eastern strangers were there viral their mystic attire, their
foreign loOks, and foreign tongue. The reverence with
which they gazed on the feeble infant, and offering unto
Him out of their treasures gold and frankincense and
--and old Simeon's joy
,aud rapture with which, as the
little child lay in his aged arms, he raised his eyes. to
Heaven and exchiimed, "Lord now then lettest thou thy
servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy sal-.
-ation." Out of these'things don't you believe that Mary's
would weave a splendid fortune for her son ? Yet,
mere was something dark and- hidden which the old man
let fall, which was calculated to give. the impression that
God had some horrible calamity impending over mother or
son, else why did he say that the babe should be spoken
against, and with the highest and deepest sorrow that a
sword should pierce.her soul. Mary did not know what to
think. No more, I believe, did the shepherds. There was
such a strange combination of the deepest humiliation and
the highest•glory about' our Saviour's birth. They were
sent to seek their King in a stable.. Was a King ever sat
in a stable before, and when wasn King ever.known before
to be found wrapt in swaddlini clothes, yet, with the song
of Angels wringing in their ears: and their eyes dazzled by
..the Heavenly gory. When the/ were led up to the stall
where the child lay, and .saw him couched among hay, it
was a hard thing to make these men believe that the in-
tint was none other than the long promised Christ, the
King of earth and heaven,' and- the very Lord .of Glory.
Now, brethren, as there was in this much to perplex
those who saw the

babe manger,
_so._ there
sentence I have chosen for my text,
.0 perplex
_devout men in the days of old.
Awake 0 sword against my shepherd, and against
the man that is -my lellom;'." . What sword is this that has
been sleeping, and why does it awake against the shepherd,
and what strange being is this that is at once the man and
God's ,fellow? Into what wonderful scene in the future
does it point ? The passage before us has been illustrated,
and all doubt removed 'from it by the greatest event that
ever happened in God's universe. There.is no doubt about
it now: The mist of darkness has been rolled away—
" Awake 0 sword against my shepherd." At that call the
curtain rises,; and what a spectacle is there, Through the
gloom of an eclipse., Mount Calvery stands before us, and
mid a crowd struck dumb with terror, a crowd of women
vhave their eves fixed upon a cross, and high upon
that middle broken. mangled, bleeding, :and dying,
tree,
hangs the man, the fellow of Almighty God. He dies the
_-2tan, but the sheep are saved. And now
justice sheaths her sword, and lets the church above and the
church below take up the song of the nativity. " The song
of glory glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, and
good will to the children of men." • With these few intro-
ductory remarks, let me bring your:attention, brethren; to
- 4.w0 features or points presented before us in this
oonsider, in the first place, as set before

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)ssential nature.
Lord of hosts.'
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" The man that is my

Some miles away

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coast
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_ .
s lonely unpicturesque rock, now
abandoned to the 'sea 'fowl, who scream and brood their
young among its,cliffs. , It was, in other days, it prison of
God's faithful martyrs in Scotland, .and atthough time and
weather has now filled it up, there was to be found in that
sea-girt rock, bubbling up through the rock, amidst a
briny deep around, a spring of pure
_and fresh water.
Where had that spring its source ? Did subterranean fires
distil the brine and send it up through the rock in a fresh
stream ? No ; its spring wa's faraway bosomed among the
mountains and quiet hills, where the sheep :cropped the
mountain flowers and the bees hummed among the heather—
fed by the snows, the diws„ and. showers of that lofty
region, there-sinkipg into the bowels of the earth, and
travelling silently and unseen many a
tli mile below the fields
• •
•. .EngS w ugnt away
amid the briny waters of that sea girt, a stream of Dm,:
fresh, living water. I -can fancy that the holy men that
were there shot up prisoners in Christ's name and cause, in
_the dark days of old, saw in that spring rising far -away
and far below its native foundation, an emblem of the
waters of eternal life. They would
.look to that spring in
Bethlehent stable descending' froth heaven, and which had
its rise in the throne of God. Brethren, for proof of that,
look at your text and ponder these words—the deep divine
meaning of "The man that is my fellow." Who saith
that ? An angel ? " The man that is my fellow, saith the
Lord of Hosts." Why, here, he who is a jealous God, who
will ribt"giie His 'glory to -another, makes this shepherd his
own equal, and he takes the babe out of Mary's arms,
he takes the babe out of Bethlehem's manger, and he sets it
on thethrone beside himself, and he cries, " Let all the
angels of God worship him." He makes him equal to
himself—"a fellow:" That is a term of contempt. If I wish
to speak contemptuously of a man, I call him a. fellow. So did
the people to Christ. They said, " This fellow casteth riot
out devils, but Beizeebub, the prince of devils." And when
they brought him to Pilate's bar, they spat-upon him, and
said, "We -find this fellew. perverting the nation." But,
see, that term; when applied by man, is one of scorn, but,
when anplied by God, is one of honour. "My fellow, "saith
the Lord of Hosts," teaching us that we are to give the
honour to the Son that welive to the,Father. When God
called the babe of Bethlehem " my fellow," he said, "-He is
rily equal, partner of my eternal throne, participator of my
incommunicable' divinity." Such is the aspect, brethren,
in which . Our Lord is . set before , us here.
I know very well' that some great men have bad as lowly
origin, and it is no hame to any man that he was born in
A cottage, and had poor father and mother. If he is
ashamed of his parents, they have a right to be ashamed 9f
him; and, sometimes, base menhave cast it into the teeth of
of great and elevated men, who have
_climbed to the very
apex and summits of ea'rth's ambition from the ladder's
lowest step, that they avere lowly born. But never did an
arrow* So miss the mark--never did a shaft so glance off the
polished steel-- as when they said of Christ, "Is that not
the carpenter's' 'son ?I' _and asked, with a sneer, " Can
any good thing come out of Nazareth ?" Why, brethren, it
was not out of Nazareth be came to bear these insults.
Before earth received him, heaven held him. Before bad
men 'rejected him, angels had adored him, and sung the
song of the nativity below to his infant ears—not as on the
ear of the -astonished-wrapt shepherds, but, like the song of
home, full of pleasant memories of mother's love, of sister's
voices, of a father's kindness on the ear of the exile, when
he is far, away in

4ome foreign land. The babe Mary
carried in her arms, the man crowned with cruel thorns,was
none other than the son
,of God. "My fellow," saith the
Lord of Hosts. - And, brethren, it is this dignity of the
Saviour that gives dignity to the saved. It is not title, it
is not rank; it is;-not wealth, it is not learning, that gives
true dir,omity_to man. The glory of the_ Saviour, like the
light Qf the sun; sheds light upon the- dull orbs beyond.-
True,- we are made of dust, we dwell in tabernacles of clay.
Touched by the handof death, ourbody is consumed before the
moth. Our life is a tale soon told, a dream, a shidow;
'';sir emblems, the foam of the river, the bubble on
With • God how- rtrecious is. even the beggar's
infinite excellence is there in the life of
It his. father's bosom to be a .nursling at a
+,—heavere,s,,bouodless glories for the dark
chambers of the tomb—to sae' you. To save yon'tke: Son
of God began. his troubled life within the walls of the stable,
and ended it on the arms of the. exoss ;Asid his infant head
an a pillow of straw, and his dYing head on a pillow of
;:- length, 11,1 the.depth* and the breadth of
..e of Christ p,asseth ail miderstatding. In the second
we will' notice our Lord's humanity. Thi buinanity
is any fellow, saitb. thO Lord of hosts;"; and he to whom
the Lord applies that term is the man that is "my fellow."
Not that when he became man our Lord laid aside his
divinity. He could. not. lie could not cease, to I)6`God.
am the Lord," he. says. " I change not." He was .God.
with us when a babe in his mother's arms. He was God
with us when he was tied to the whippin„.post,
and when
he offered up' .the bldody sacrifice of himself. Still God
with us when the AadOw of death was on his blessed faee._.
Still the Son whose unclouded brightness struck the beholder -
blind, and when. Jesus hung :upon that 'accursed tree he was
still God with its. God with us • that he might (rive life
through
death,_ joy through sorrow, pardon through
damnation, and to bring us from the very portals of death
into; the hates: of heaven and of glory. His language
4.- Abraham was, I am." "I and
e that- hth en me, bath seen
n;y—fal frather. ;ire e 0;e13.'" (41.`e`
fie - 0 • His isiniq were ato bring the Cl_e4d to life,
my , ' • • leap' the blind to see, the
the dumb to speak, the lame. ,o
wind to Nest at his word, thecwaves to bccora e still. `This

its tam
the prat(
soul; aad
Christ. 1
mother's brealn

proved him -divine. At the same time he was as true a man
as any iu this house. "Bone of my bone, and flesh of my
flesh" —feeling all the emotions, and subject, without sin,
to all the infirmities of our nature. " Hear, 0 heavens ;be
astonished, 0 earth." Such strong language, and not
stronger language than the case demanded,. has been used.
When we think of Him who was the son of God becoming.
man"io save us, why did he take upon him our nature'?
That he might take away our sins on him: He took
eyes that he might weep for us; he took blood 'that
he might shed it for us, and he took a brow that it might
be crowned with thorns. He took hands and feet that men
might nail them to the accursed tree, all that he might save
us As Paul says, "He was made like unto his brethern,
that he might be a .merciful and faithful high priest, in
things pertaining to:God, to make reconciliation for the sins
of the people, for in that having suffered, and being tempted
he is able to succour them also that are' tempted."
"Lo, I come to do thy will, Oh, my God ! Sacrifice and
offering thOu would'st not have : but a body thou hast
prepared for me, moulded it in the virgin's womb." He
abode in the womb, shut himself up in its dark and narrow
chamber, and put on a body. He put over it a garment of
eternal light, and stood before men a man of sorrow, and
acquainted with grief, Not that he put on the body, as I
put on this dress, but as 11 hien appendage. He took our
nature into blessed, intimate, honourable, eternal union with
his own. He filled humanity with divinity. There was
divinity in his hands —divinity in that hand they nailed to
the tree. The dead touched by it—the widow's
son starts into life. Divinity in his voice,
which wailed, " I thirst ;" it spake the storm
into calm ! Divinity in the dusty feet Mary washed
with her tears—they trod the bounding -billows: Now,
brethren, so intimate was the union between divine and
human nature, could death dissolve that union. Death
dissolved, indeed, the union, between soul and body in our
Saviour as in us, but it did not dissolve the union between
his divinity and humanity. He carried our humanity with
him to the heavens, and in what another aspect did humanity
then appear, compared with that day when Adam and
Eve, with heads hanging with guilt, came from the bush
or went weeping from th(
stood at the bar of God

In Christ our humanity

I am innocent." .In
humanity stood before Divine justice
and claimed the crown the crown which
sin had forfeited, but which Eve's long-looked for son had
won back on the sross of Calvary. He became a man to
save us. How ought we to prize the love of Jesus
which brought him from the throne of God to suffer and to
die for us ! Let me now, in the third place, brethren,
direct your attention to Christ's office as' set before
us here. Consider his office as a shepherd. " Awake, 0
sword, against my shepherd." God's people are often
represented as a 'flock. Do times of revival come—and
much need we have of them when breaths of heaven
sweep down the valleys, and at their touch the dry bones
shake and move ; when people are inquiring the way to
Zion ; when people say, " Oh, what shall I do to be saved ?"
How is it represented in the Bible ? It is said " The.
Lord hath visited his flock " How are his people Assured
of his care and his kindness ? It is in such precious promises
as this—" The Lord shall visit his flock as a shepherd ;
" I will feed my flock, and cause them to lie down," saith
the Lord of Hosts; "I will seek those which are lost,
I will gather those which are scattered, and I will
heal those which are sick, and I will strengthen those
which are weak." And, then again, as sometinies happens,
a congregation is left to a faithless pastor. Is the church
filled with ministers who think more of the fleece than they
do of the flock ? "I am against the shepherd," saith the
Lord of Hosts, " and as the shepherd gathers into the fold
in the day when they are scattered, so will I gather my sheep
from all the places in which they have been scattered in the
dark and cloudy day." Now, brethren, this is no peace of
Eastern poetry and fancy. There is a meaning in it, and
it lies in this: —ln the Past, men were strangers to com-
merce. They were even little familiar with agriculture.
The wealth of men in the East lay in their flocks ;
and when God, therefore, represents his people
as his flock, it is just in another way, saying how highly he
values them. They are, as it were, his wealth, his riches,
his treasury, his possessions. You see in this the value
that God sets on his people, in representing. them as his
flock. And if the people are his flock it is perfectly natural
that he who guides them and guards them should be repre-
sented as their shepherd Every flock must have a
shepherd. Now, God put over his flock Christ as his
shepherd. He is your shepherd in so far as he 'takes care
of you. He is God's shepherd in so far as God commits
'e of the flock to his keeping. lle is answerable

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for every sheep. There is not one of them shall he lost---
not one. "My sheep knew my voice, and they shall never
perish," he says. He has not only a cross, and not only a
crown, but ho has a crook as a shepherd. We are his sheep.
We are the flock ; he cloth us feed and for his sheen he
14,1,uutct.0 ub au. iuux 1 I,LIOW no view lit toe _muse mere
comforting than that of Jesus as a shepherd in the character
which is set before us. Some of the most comforting
and blessed truths in the Bible, belong to that
aspect of Christ. This tenderness to the young com-
forts—He carries the lambs in his arms. His kind 'con-
sideration for his people's weakness—he gently, leads those
that are with young.. His desire that you should be saved

- he leaves the ninety and nine to seek' the lost one in the
wilderness. His joy on the day that you are iaved—with
the poor sheep on his shoulders, see him, with light'
step and lighter - heart return, calling on the angels to
join in praise, and •ito share the joy of the Almighty
Power whose undying love watches over his child-
ren. " I know my sheep; My father who gave them
me is greater than all, none can pluck :them out of
my father's hand." And last of all his presence, when
his presence is most needed. In the valley where
every man goes alone --no company there, no mother,
sister, pastor, brother, friend there. Every man goes alone,
and every saint makes his way through shades and doubts,
and darkness, on to the gate of heaven. "The Lord is my
shepherd—l'll not want. When I wniv "-
he d

trk and the shadow of death, thou wilt he with
me. Thy rod and thy staff will comfort me." Happy the
sheep that have such a shepherd. He has given to them
eternal life, and they shall never perish. I will .now- turn
your attention, in the last place, to the sufferings of our
Lord, as set before us here under the fighres of

•
this text, " Awake, 0 sword, against my shepherd."
Heaven's armoury holds more swords than one.
There is a variety. of swords hanging on the
walls of heaven's armoury. There is the sword of the
spirt -that is the word of God-a blade that of heavenly
temper. Some swords are for our use. There are some'no
hand can wield, but God's alone. This is for our. hand. A
brave sword thatvery powerful; very' pointed. It is very
sharp, it will go into a man's conscience, it will' go intoa
man's heart. It is sharper than any two--edged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder not of body and of
soul, but of soul and spirit ; the Apostle says, "Armed with
that sword, and expert in the use of it. God's people must
fight." Bretheren, never let that sword be sheathed. Let
it ever be drawn and naked in your , hand. You
are to fight your way to heaven as a man- forces
his way through law's dangerous path, when from
behind every bush and rock, before he knows it, an enemy
may start up. Be expert in the use of that sword, your
safety lies in it. Have it' ever in your hand or at4our side,
and sleep with it at your side. 'Be ever ready to meet the
• devil with that blade' as- Christ met him. "Get thee be-
hind me, Satan; " and-is it not •writtpn that;in every case
.our Lord repelled the tempter? • There is..another sword
hanging in God's armonry, and at this moment it is stretched
over Euro
ipe. Famine, pestilence, war, that sword-. seldom
- -
sleeps ! It s now stretched over guilty-nations ;. and,
although they may cry " 01i, sword of,!the LoM, put thyself
up within thy scabbard ! how long will i it be instil
thou art quiet ! - Rest -and be "—the answer to
that' cry will. often come, . said' -not in the words of
the prophet, but in the- roar of battle, 4." Hpw can
it he quiet ? The Lord' -has - given _-it the charge."
None of these is the sword of my text. ; The sword
of my text is the sword which bas its einbleM, not in that
.which is borne in the battle, but in that which-is-borne
before the magistrate when he Walks in.-royal procession-:-
the sword of state and justice: The 'sword of,-Divine
-justice --how long had that sword slept It :had slept for
4,000 years. *4,000 years, had passed since the, fall in Eden,
since the sin committed there, and all the sins which
followed it had never yet been avenged. Justice bad
never yet been satisfied for • them—but now; the hour
was come, and the man was come: Jesus
undertakes to satisfy divers justice ; and under the figure of
the sword which his Father commands justice to draw and
sheath7in 'the bosom of the Sen. ; We have our Lord's
sufferings 'set before us here. e-They were-. vicarious suffer-
ings. He suffered, not on his own account, but on ours.
He died in our ropm.. He covered us with his own body,
and there he lies now covered with wounds. Every dumb
wound opens its bleeding mouth-to say to-you if.vou have
faith to hear it, " Behold how I loved you !" Let the sheep
gather round the dead shepherd. f The lion lies dead beside
him. Let his people gather round the Saviour's cross.
What a spectacle is there ! The darkness is gone,
and in the- light of God's reconciled countenance
figured by the beams which break- forth from tlweelipse, -
The Son of God hangs upon the tree! The blood of his
veins has filled a fountain, where invite you this day to
!ash and be clean. The foulest may wash here...: Here ,
erns are washed away. Beside it, the serpent with his head
crushed, lies writhing m in' death, and on its crinison. margin -

death is sitting. How changed is his- aspect ; reft of his
crown, robbed of his terrors. He holds in his hand another
crown to be bestowed upon every sinner in thiS house acid
out of it, who goes this day and lays himself at Jesu's feet,
and cries "Lord, save me, I perish." I began by asking,
`! what think you of Christ ? I now close with the same ques-
tion, after having set before you His divinity, His humanity,
his office, his suffering —" What think ye now of Christ ? "
Brethren, you cannot think too often of him : you cannot
think too much of him. May his spirit help us to set him
ever before us. May we never look on the sun sinking in
golden glory in the west, without thinking of the sun
which never .sets. May we never sit down to poverty's
humblest meal without thinking of the bread which comes
from heaven. May we never wash our hands in the morn-
ing without thinking of the blood which washes from siu.
May we never lie down in our bed at night without thinking
of him who had no bed but the dewy grass; no curtains but
the clouds of night. _May we never go forth to the garden,
to pluck a rose bathed in dew, and fragrant in
odours without thinking of the rose of Sharon which was
trampled in the dust for us. And may we never see a
lamb cropping the wayside flowers as the butcher leads it
to the slaughter, without thinking of the spotless lamb of
God, to whom John pointed the 'eyes of his audience, and
to whom I point the eyes of this, saying—" Behold the
Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world."
After the sermon .a collection was made in aid of the
funds for the extensionof the schools.

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES AT THE
GIRLS' COLLEGIATE SCHOOL.
On Saturday morning, the third annual distribution of
prizes among the girls of the Collegiate School, took place
in Hope Hall. The Rev. Rector Campbell presided, and
there were also present the Rev. Charles Lawrence and the
Rev. J. Wilson, secretary. The proceedings were. opened
by the girls singing a hymn, after which
The Chairman said : I have great pleasure in being able
again to preside at the annual distribution of prizes to the
girls in the Collegiate school; and rejoice not only in the
assurance of its stability in its present dimensions, but in
the hope that it will be shortly developed into a larger and
more widely-extended institution. Under the conviction
that the moral destinies of the world depen'd upen the
moral influence, and that the most potential of all moral
influences is female influence—as beginning the earliest,
when the mind is most susceptible of impression I believe
that the education of females is the most important work
in which we can be engaged—meaning by education not
merely the teaching of accomplishments for public exhibi-
tion in society ; not merely the sharpening of the intellect,
and the cultivation of the mental powers, but the moral and
religious training, and the formation and moulding of
character, which will have a permanent effect upon the
heart and life, and fit the recipient for the duties of time,
and the- prospects of eternity. The duties of a woman as
a wife and a mother are connected with the most vital
interests of society, and to qualify- her for the performance
of these duties is one of the noblest works in which we can
be engaged. "The influence-of woman," as has been well
observed, "is, or ought to be, a moral influence ; and that
it may have its full effect, the main object of their edUcation
ought to be to expand and perfect their moral nature, and to
implant deeply the fact of their influence, and their own
consequent responsibilities. This foundation being laid, let
women be elegant, be accomplished, be everything that
society requires of them, but let them not forget that their
power is not given them for themselves, but for God's glory,
and the good of their fellow-creatures. Thus shall they not
be only caressed, admired, and honoured, but happy—
happy in the happiness of usefulness, of devotedness, of love
—the only happiness here below which can give us any
foretaste of that which, is to be enjoyed above. Feelinc,
assured that such are the principles of the Collegiate Schools'
for girls, and such the high and religious motives of those by
whom it is conducted, I earnestly commend it to the support
of all who are anxious to promote the glory of God and the
well being of their fellow men. Ido not deem it necessary
to trespass at any greater length upon your time, and will
now call upon my friend the Rev. Mr. Wilson, -to whom
this institution is very deeply indehted, to read the report.
Mr.. Wilson then read the report.
The Chairman said he had received a letter from Mr.
Howson, whom he expected to be there. He read the letter,
which stated that, owing to the heavy week's work which•
Mr. Howson had had, he was not able to attend ; but no one
would, however, suspect him of indifference to the girls'
school ou that account. He had examined the schools, and
spoke very highly of them, expressing a desire to see them

increased in number.
The Secretary then read the list of prizes, of which the
following is a copy :

PRIZES IN THE FIRST CLASS.
Louisa Edwards —Mr. Howson's prize for Analysis and Grammar
K17:137 -lCfanF . . . . . . . .
•
Annie Tonge .. • • • . .. History.
Elizabeth Hall •• First Arithmetic.
Einntie-Worthington ' „ Second Aritheniitio.
Mary Candlin
.. Geography.
Alice Baines .. .. Class Prize.
Elizabeth Bythell .• . Reading and Recitation.
Catherine Ashcroft—Miss Lace's prize for 'Reading add Recitation.
Elizabeth Dutton . .. Elementary Science.

Maria Davies ..
Annie Colquhwon
Mary E. Corney..
Hannah-Haslein
Sophia Gray ..

PRIZES IN THE SECOND CLASS.
Beriptur
History.

Annie Kay
Eliza Ashont
Margaret Lewta,

Mary Thomas
Mary, Wood

Mr. Ilowson's piize for Grammar
First French.
•- .. Second French.
scripture..
'..Cles4 prize.
..Geo7raphy.

PRIZES IN THE THIRp CLASS.
•• •• •• .• .. Class Prize.
.. Mr. Ilowson's prize for Natural History
PRIZES IN PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
.. Class Prize.
..History.
Mr. Howson's prize for Scripture
scripture.
History.
History.

Margaret 13enyon
Matilda Leatherbarrow
Ellen Eastwood.. ..
Fenello Hunt ..

Catherine Garner

NEEDLEWORK

Mary cocks

Seriptui e

Isabella

Mr. Howson' _
Miss Eyre's ditto

1.! rancis Bell Miss Lace's Prize for knitting.
• The Rev. Mr. Lawrence said before they separated he
wished to move a vote of thanks to the chairman, whose
-duties had not been onerous, but he had discharged them in the
very kindly spirit for which he was so justly esteemed. His
presence amongst them was expressive of the warm interest
he took in the
,institution. - 'ln thanking the chairman he
would not forget to say a word about:Mr. Howson, who, he
was sorry to say,• wag not there, and he might be allowed
to say a word about him in his absence. He had first taken
care of the boys and their edUcation, and, in speaking of
him,* he did not know of anything that would express what
he was about to say better than the old ballad—
" His 'prentice han' he tried on man,
An' then he taught the lasses."
He concluded by wishing them every success in their pursuit
of knowledge.
The Rev. Mr. Wilson seconded the motion.
The Chairman thanked them for their kindness, and
expressed his pleasure at being present.
The proceedings concluded by singing the National
Anthem.

. .. . ...
THE RUSSIAN FLEET. .—2
The Times, in its city article, says that according
to the
,latest accounts, the utraost•,exertions were
being made in-all the naval departments. The Neva
division of the Russian fleet is now asserted to com-
brise eighty first-class gun:boats, constructed on the
est recent models ; while the Baltic fleet<consists of
thirty-five. -sail of the line, , fourteen of which, 'at
present at Cronstadt, are screw line-of-battle ships of
' from eighty to 120 guns each. -The Times says thilt,
-the shipments of machinery to Russia arc :stated to
haYe been on a scale Which witi'g o s far to account for
the necessity that has ekisted ft-,r the transmission of
gold,from St. Petefibur.oi. to London, especially ,as
similar erders have been -executed in America and
eisewheie, ninny of which are paid for by draught
on this .conntiy. Mary of our engineering firms
have still large Russian commissions to execute. 1

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In the Press, and will be published in a few days,
THE POLICEMAN'S CATECHISM
Including tbe celebrated Song of
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