The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
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TO THE EDITOR OP THE BRITISH' PRESS.

Sin—ln your account of the tire that unfortunately broke out nn
Sunday morning, at half-past three o'clock, when the whole fondly
wire obliged to make their escape, almost in a state of nudity, trout
the attic wimlows, you say —" This is the second fire that has taken
place in this concern within a very short period." Stich statemt tit
is incorrect, for it would be recollected that the other fire alluded to
commenced in the printing-office of Mr. llensley, in June, 11119,
and commutiteatal to our house, which, with the houses of .Nle.
Salmon aid 3lessrs. Smith and ('o., sustained very eoitsiderable
injury. You insertion of the above fads will oblige. Sir,

Your most oloolient: wrv.ros.
11. F. FUN and CO3IP.INV.
15, Gough square, Fleet-street, Nos. IR.

FIRE LV LUDGATE HILL.

TIMTHEIt

Yesterday morning search was made among the ruins for
the boil) of Young, the fireman, said to have been killed, but
to the great, oy of his brother firemen, he made his appear-
ance, having been busily occupied during the night, in the
house of Messrs. Wilkinson and Co. Ile havin:.: hewn seen
standing on the wall at the south s;de of the building,
managing the water hose, and the wail failieg., dis-
appeared, and hence. originated the belief that he was

As yet it is mere conjecture what was the (Arse of the
fire, but it is found to have originated in the warchousva
end packing-rooms, which were closed and locked at sis
u'ek Lk ; the tiro not being discovered until eig!it o'cloek,
ini:dit account for the ascendancy whi.lh the liamts oh-
taim 41 by that hour.
The calamitous event has, in addition to the destruction
of rat immensity of uninsured property, caused an incon-
venience almost immeasurable to Slt-srs. IVilkiiren and
Son, as the entire of the stock pat-Led fur foreign markets is
dcr'royed. The wolkshops being ai n destroyed, all their
workmen are thrown out of employ, and the loss to thoe
poor artisans (their tools bt ing included in the tt:meral
wi-(•ek) is very great, and to many of them wilt lie irreco-
verable. The buildings found m have suffered. in addi-
timi to those we have already stated, are the Dolphin and
the Ship puldic-houses, and some stra,T;liur, weld tene-
ment.% in Evang,list-court._

The &mal conflagration has caused the ruin of nearly
twenty poor pc sons, who were plundered of their prop,•rty
by ilarity gangs of thieves with tle• most scandalous int-
pun;ty. Some of them tittered the house of Mr. Itith-rts,
in the Broadway, and actually seizeil a valuable pier glass
at,,l some richly chased frames, with which they were
moving otf, when stopped by some of the ( 'try Police, who
happened to know them. The rnflians w: re lodged in the
watchhouse. The eop,ines continued playing on the burn-
ing pile during the greater part of yesterday.

Dnr<t.s.—ln one year, the reign of Ilent y IV. of
France. four thousand Noblemen and Gentlemen were
killed in ditch. To check the sanguinary practice, Henry
made it treetop to give or accept a challenge.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

HIGHLAND EDUCATION SOCIETY.

(From the /menet:B Coarkr.)

We stated last week that a very extraordinary impression had
ben made. by the addresses of the Right Honourable ('harks Grant,
and his brother. Mr. Robert Grant, at the Meeting of the Society
for the Education of the Poor in the Highlands, which was held
here on the 11 current. It is due to the Northern public, and,
above all, to the mighty cause which formed, we doubt not, the
true source of the inaniration and eloquence displayed at that meet-
ing, to give as faithfid a report of those glowing addresses as we
can, though we are quite aware that the better part of the eloquence
of genuine feeling, is that which cannot be embodied in printed
language.
The Town hall was crowded, the meeting being attended by a
number of larded proprietors, by the Magistrates of the town, the
C'lergymen of the town and neighbourhood, and other respectable
individuals, of whom ladies formed a large proportion.
On taking the chair,
Mr. tiRAXT briefly opened the business of the day.
The Rev. Mr. F , of Kirkltll, the Secretary, then read the
report, an able and eloquent paper, which, besides much excellent
general argument, contains various interesting details, 'hewing that
all the schools at present in existence in the Highlands, both pa-
rochial and snciedes', are not equal to the instruction of above one
half of the young persons in the northern parts of Scotland.
It wait ordered to be printed.
COL BAILLIC. of Leys, 81. P., then, in a neat speech, moved the
Ant resolution, which was carried unanimously.
A vote of thanks was next passed to the Patron, President, and
other Offiee.Bearem of the Society.
The Cita' anew said, that he felt it his duty to the Royal Pa-
tron of the Society, to express the sentiments which he was sure
his Royal Highness would have expressed if he had been present—.
to thank them in the name of that Royal Person for the honour
they had done him ; and to declare the cordial interest which he
felt in the prosperity of the Institution. He also begged leave, in
the names of the other Gentlemen who had been mentioned, as well
as in his own name, to acknowledge the honour conferred upon
them. After a few further preliminary remark., Mr. Grant con-
tinued—" I must take this opportunity to congratulate the country
on the interest which this society inspires, and on the progress
which it makes in public opinion. It is satisfactory to observe
that, in every part of the United Kingdom, there prevails an In-
creasing impression of the necessity of education for the mass of
the people—and that, too, education founded on the bash of re-
ligion. It is only a few years since the progress of knowledge was
much impeded by two claimies of persons of very. opposite clime.
ten. The one class objected altogether to the principle of *ducat-
Ing. the laborious orders, as not only useless, but absolutely. per.
litmus. The other, admitting the importance of education to its
fullest extent, and urging its universal application, yet annexed to
such application this one condition, that it should he untrammelled
by the tenets of any particular faith. Now, the fallacy of the
abettors of both these opinions consisted in tuns :—Eachtook a gar-
bled and imperfect view of man—regarding him under some pecu-
liar and exclusive aspen, and entirely omitting to coin end in its
contemplation all the bearings, relations and depnidencies of his
situation. Those who would have confined education to the higher
clamp. how little did they advert to the real distribution of the best
gifts of Providence 2 Would they persuade us, that those faculties
which are bestowed by the Creator as well on the low as the high, on
the rich as on the poor, are yet given under the terrible dean
that with the majority of mankind they shall be bound in eternal
slumber. This then is a waste of creative bounty, a departure from
that economy by which the gifts of Pros-knee are in general no
less distinguished than by their abundance. Ilex we have mind
made in vain--an exuberance of endowments, innoxious only when
paralyzed, and destructive if developed into action ! %What then
becomes of the duty of calling furl' the gills of heaven into active
exercise ? A duty for the few—a crime and a ntin foe the many.
Happy theory indeed ; which would itircunnteribe, by the narrow
and adventitious contingencies of rank, and wealth, and station,
the high powers and boundless energies of an immortal spirit!
Which would command the spring to refuse its fragrance to the
poor, and to gbulden only the hearts of the wealthy ? Which
would tell the sun that he is destined to enlighten only the tower-
ing palace, and must never descend to visit the sequestered vale,
Of shed a benignant beam on the low roofed cottage. But, however
mischievous were the effects of this opinion, still deeper was the
injury inflicted on man by the opposite prejudice,—that education
without religion was abundantly sufficient. Strange for,.Tetfulness
--if it should not rather be termed criminal Hi' • !ness—to attempt
to train up an immortal being without any reference to his immortal
destinies ; to refuse to a creatute born to be responsible, every ray
of knowledge respecting his duties, his obligations, his happiness,
and his Judge ! IChat perversion of mind not to remember, if
reason be the glory of man, and if the exercise of the higher faculties
be his privilege, still that reason itself is then most eminent when
elevated to the contemplation of immortal truth,--the faculties then
most privileged, when they rise beyond the bounds of this narrow
horizon. to themes that extend over invisible worlds, and 1. c them-
selves in the long Bight of innumerable ages ! Both these classes
of prejudice have of late year sensibly diminished. It is now ad-
!bitted that education ought to be gene-rally diffused; and that it
ought to be built on the foundation of the Christian religion. This
question. however, is one of feeling, as well as of argument. I
know that the adversaries of education, derairing of winning
to their i'le the warm feelings of nature, have been desirous to
reduce the question simply to the colder deductions of reason.
Wisely, perhaps, because they are well aware that the genuine
impulses of the heart rebelled against her doctrine. And yet, if it
were necessary to forsake all appeal to the better emotions, and to
permit these disputants to transfer the contest to the province of
of eitl and metaphysical subtlety, I confess that I for one, confid-
ing in the strength of the eaase, should not shrink from following
them even to that dry and dusty field. Rut on such a question can
I condescend to have a recourse to frigid argument Shall I attempt
to move that there is something noble in generosity ? that to instruct
the ignorant and relieve the wretched is a wise and lauable employ-
r ent of wealth and power ? that the exercise of this best species
of el:arity, as it adorns the character, also exalts and ennobles it
that in the prosecution of such designs, while we satisfy the most
sacred of obligations, we, at the same time, give delight to the
most powerful and endearing of affections? Alan,' of the prejudices
which existed on this subject have originated in the very i !adequate
sense attached to the word Education. Education is not merely in-
struction in a few barren elements of knowledge--not merely the train-
ing tip of a human creature for the sole purpose of making his way
(as it is termed) in the world—of acquiring a certain measure of
wealth, of fretting a few feverish hours on the stage, and then pass-
ing into nothing. Education, in its true senile, is of a nature far
more sublime and comprehensive. It surveys man in all the yank.
tics and exigencies of his checquered and interminable existence.
It beholds him exposed to many perils, yet careless in the midst of
danger, the sport of a thousand passions, the child of adversity,
the victim, by hints, of blighting anguish, of gloomy remorse, of
dumb despair ; it sees him at times gay with Lope and full of joy ;
but it perceives also the imperding cloud and the approaching nies..
senger of death. Thus it watches his steps final the cradle to the
grave--and it watches in order to provide fur every crisis a de.
knee, a remedy, a consolation, a refuge and a triumph. This is
the true education—and who would not delight to impart such edu-
cation to a suffering and sorrowful aerie, If these considerations
be just, let us apply them to the case of our own countrymen.
This country has long been eminent for a superiority of intelli-
genec among the mass of the people; and this superiority has been
usually ascribed to a trer.eral system of national education. The
esample of Seidlanil hoe been produced as n splendid instance ef
the etfett of such a system. To that example the float distinguiel:-
cal writers and orators have appealed, and the appeal has in general
beer, without controversy, admitted. But it cannot be disguised,
that unless some immediate measures be adonted, this character is
in danger of being lost. Doubts have already atisen as to the
merit so claimed and allowed. Recent examinations, and even the
reser:relies of this Society, have in no small degree conirinuted to
dissipate the impreasioh to which I have alluded; let the iropres-
•ion was unquestionably just. Our ancestors reeogni7ed the prin.
ciple of national education : they adapted their proceedings to the
reumatances and dementia of their times: they stamped the chi:-
meter of their genius on each succeeding age. It remains for us
now to deckle, if that character shall or shall not be effaced from
the annals of Scotland. Let it be recollected, that w. li the infi-
nite variations of times and cite:mist:trees— with the MU:l*ton of
emnnierce—the advancement of the retired era--tire enlarged soil
ilieren•ing intercourse bet wren the !highlands and other parts of the
empire, and of the world—there occur multiplied temptations to
re' me, opportunities for rickme indoh.;eitec with impunity, sedue-
tior..‘ ! irierte eir.knowa, inducements to deviate faun the simph-
city ei* eneicnt manners ; and unless we interpose with a combine)
real vigorous effort, the character of which we have: been proud is

gone for ever. We shall not only be left without that j,re-emi.
nence, but we shall iveur the additional disgrace of having lost
that which we received—of having surrendered the vantage ground
on which the wisdom and piety of our ancestors hail placed the
penutritry of Scotland. It is lamentable to reflect on the represen-
tations before the Society ot• the state of ignorance in the Northern
Ilighhinds. It in lamentable to think, that there are at this mo-
ment tl sums of our tellow countrymen destitute of the means of
instrurtion—without the knowledge even of readirg, and without
hooks,or the power to obtain then!. Let us then follow the cx.
ample of oar ancestors—let us adopt the principle on which they
aettd ; and let us infuse fresh energy into our fainting institutions
—re-erect the bann.-rs which have been levelled by time, mid throw
no new ramparta round the menaced virtues and endangered prin.
dilas of our int-in-sling population.
I f to hear such accounts even of a foredo people would excite
nor shot ought to be our takings with respect to
those who are connected with us by common blood, and a common
inuere•.t ? I:csides this, I know• not how it is, but these represent_
tartans pealliarly ahi•eting when they relate to a country din.
tingni,ittd hir its natural beauties. This circumstance, as artionust
all hare experienced, seems in some sort to bring home the feeling
with a peculiar emphasis to our hearts. It is so instinctive a desire
to find noble and romantic scenery connected with a happy and en-
lightened people. When we contemplate the landscape of this
our Northern region, when we obsetve with what ecuherance of
grandeur Nig use bass built up the mommtiti, scooped out the valley,
mot lavialied the torrent, well may we exclaim with a modern
Author,—
I lon fair to night romantic Scotland yields.
Iler sloping forests and her heathy fields;
Iler long drawn lakes and winding rallies green,
And all th• enchantnient of the mountain scene. _

Rut, in the niiiht of these scenes is there not a misgiving of
heart? Is there not a want of union, a want of keeping in the
picture, nature so fair and perfect, man so ignorant and destitute ?
Let us rescue our countrymen from this calamity. Let it not be
saki— _ _

Alan is the only growth that deritilles here!
Let us raise the inhabitants to a height of metal improtaaest.

somewhat kindred to the elevation of the scenes by which they are
surrounded. Let us place a happy. harmony between the grandeur
and glory of nature, and the aspiratioos of the intellectual and
immortal being. Let us impart to them graces and virtues which
tower above the loftiness of their mountains, and eclipse the fairest
works of the visible action. Let us communicate to them in-
strerion, in the mode and line beat adapted to their feelings,
and most suitable to their circumstances. Let us give it in the
language with which they are most familiar—" the SIMMS
of the mountain tongue," endeared to them by a thousand happy
and holy associations—by the first lisping of infancy—by the
elute.' !elisions of parental affection—by the joys and cares of
happy childhoud—by the more awful cares, end pushups not
less solid joys of riper years—by the memory of friends who
are gone and of conipanior • with whom they took sweet
counsel together ; by the traditional legends which immor.
talise their a:tricot heroes—by the song which inspires the dance,
and the coronseh which bewails the departed—by the more sacred
aurnonitions which instruct the young and smooth the pillow of
declining again a word, by all the countless and complicated
sympathies which snake that language a spell and an ceche:unmet
to the unsophisticated heart. thrilling it with deep recoUeetions and
unutterable anticipations. If we feel any doubt on this satiric,
any reluctance to lead our aid to the promotion of this cause, were
it but possible to follow the influences of this Society in their prac-
tical operations—wee it possible to trace, step by step, its painful
and laborious march amidst thew wild and occluded district u,
among the cottages of the poor and the beds of the dying—by the
miserable hovel, by the wretched pallet, on the solitary hearth—
were it p•ssible to accompany some of its humble but meritorious
Muniments in this their humble pilgrimage of benevolence, to ob-
serve the evils that are mitigated, and the benefits that are coo.
(erred—to see the Ignotance that is instructed—the virtuous prin.
triples that are inspired—the remorse that is appeased—the guilt
that is reclaimed—the consolations that are whispered to pain and
sickness—the hopes that are scattered round the couch of death—
the gleams of glory that descend to brighten the narrow house
were it possible to observe the avidity with which the approachof
these messengers of kindness is hailed—to hear the acclamations of
welcome from a hundred voices, which seem to break out into their
chorus, tt How beautiful on the mountain are the feet of them that
bring gond tidings"—to catch the prayers breathed from the lips of
childhood, of matureyears, of expiring age, ascending to the
throne of the Divine Justice, and invoking Ws:slangs on the heads of
those who give their countenance and their co-operation to this
cause; then, indeed, these would be sights and sounds which would
rouse the coldest and animate the most sluggish bosom. Then
should we feel what deep reward is treasured up in the exercise of
benclicence—how truly he consults his own satisfaction who eon.
subs the best interests of his fellow-creatures—how admirably

proportioned to the benefit imparted, is the enjoyment appro.
primed—
Happier as kinder, in whateer degree;
And height of bliss but height of charity.
Such is the cause to which we summon all ranks of society and
all denominations of Christians. We invite all classes of Chris-
tiana—not because we would depreciate the value of the distinctions
in doctrine and discipline which divide the Christian world,—but
because we believe there are principles which infinitely transcend
those distinctions, however important and valuable,—principles
which shall remain when all those distinctions have vanished away.
and shall triumph over the wreck of nature itself. We invite all
ranks of persona—nr. because we would undervalue or wish to
forget those orders and gradations of civilized life without which
society cannot exist, but because we believe this to be a cause in
which the loftiest may lavish his exertions without degradation,
and the meanest without presumption. Such a cause can never be
dawned. It will uot, I persuade myeelf. be dissected by this as-
sembly. It will out be deserted by the Scottish people. It will
not be deserted (I speak it with reverence), by that Providence who
watches over the designs of man, and crowns with merited success
the disinterested efforts of virtue and benevolence.
Mr. R. Gaiter then rose and moved—
" That it bring evident from documents now before this meeting,
that many districts in the Highlands of Scotland are either wholly
without, or only partially in the enjoyment of this inestimable
blessing, and that many thousand young persons almost in our very
neighbourhood, are growing up in ignorance and neglect, it appears
to this meeting to be incumbent on all considerate and well-dis-
posed persons whatever, and particularly on all public bodies and
palish congregations in the northern parts of the kingdom, and on
all persons having an interest in the Highlands of Scotland, to sop-
port this Society, which has for its object the diffusion of know.
ledge among the poorer classes of our Highland countrymen: and
the members of this meeting pledge themselves individually to use
their best endeavour: fur the continued support of the Society. and
the promotion of that great object towards which its labours have
been directed." After thanking the Committee fur the honour they
had done him him in allotting to him an active part in the proceed-
ings of the day, he proceeded to the following effect :—" Though I
have not had the opportunity, Sir, of attending on any former occa-
sion, the Anniversary Meetings of this Society, it has frequently
occurred to me to witness similar meetings in other parts of the
kingdom ; and however distant the local scenes of the exertions of
such institutions, nothing can be more delightful than to observe
how uniform, how sympathetic, are the principles and sentiments
which direct and animate their labours. Allusions have been made
to the objections which are usually urged against all institutions
formed on the same model with the present, and directed like that
to the diffusion of knowledge among the humbler closest of the
community. In the Smith, certainly, too many objections still
remain ; and we must, perhaps, rather wish than hope to find the
purer climate of the northern regions totally exempt from them.
Some of them, indeed, are of a nature so extravagant, that even
Ito notice them may be to compliment them too highly. I cannot,
however, help observing, that I have heard it gravely alleged
against the Institutions in question. that, undsr the mask of philan-
thropy, they conceal some dark and sinister design ; that the prin.
sepal agents in them, at least, if not the w.ajority of the contributors,
are leagued for purposes hostile to the wellbeing of society • that
a plot is brewing, which shuns, and has reason to shun, the light of
day ; that arms are forging, hich at length will be wielded for
the destruction of our Establishments, both civil and religious.
I have been tortured to hear it observed, by an objector of the
description I have mentioned, that he was awaiting with anxiety the
developement of this secret and direful project; a crisis, which he
was satistiedeould beat no great distance. Now. Sir, in one point
assuredly L could not help concurring with this alarmist ; namely,
that nothing can be more natural than to expect the speedy explo-
sion of a secret confided to several millions of persons. Yet, since
th:s remark was made, years have elapsed, and the mighty plot still
continues undetected !—liiimense additions have been promiscu-
ously made to the ranks of the conspirators; yet the secret is still
kept with most perverse success ;—a circumstance which, consider.
irg the number of new levies and the warm and enthusiastic interest
taken in these plans of pretended benevolence by the di:erecter half
if the species, must he considered as one of the most astonishing
events on record I wish not, however, to treat with an appear-
ance ot levity a subject I regard as of the deepest concern. True it
is, that a mighty league has been limited ; and of that league the
Society which I have the honour to address constitutes an import.
ant branch. You are united together in a grand and extensive pro.
jest, you dr plan hostile proceedings ;—but what is the nature of
that project, and against whom are your hostilities directed?
.Igainst the bitterest and most malignant enemies of mankind—
ignorance, and error, and vice, and super.tition !—You ore com-
bined together far the subversion of a kin loin,—hut it is the
kingdom of men:al darkness and moral depravity ! 'rile arms you
wield are the arms of reason anti religion ; the instruments of con-
fusion you prepare. are the elements of order and social happiness ;
the hostile expeditions you meditate are missions of mercy; your
" notes of warlike preparation" are prayers to heaven for the success
of your benevolent labours; and your very battle.cry " peace on
earth and good-will among men ! " Other objections there are, of
a more rational, and yet a not much suture rational nature„—founded
on the notion that education must unfit the poorer orders of society for
the sphere which they are destined to fill,—that it must ann the
low against the high ; and in support of this apprehension, it is not
uriumal to point at the baleful' effects which were produced by the
difilision of knowledge in a neighbousieg country, within the me.
nary of the present generation. Ihe objenors, however, proceed
on the gross fallacy of confounding the effects of knowledge with
the effects of moral and religieuv knowledge; a fallacy never
inure strikingly illustrated than 11 the very precedent referred
TO. Ruin, indeed, and misery, were in that Instance produced
by the communication of light to sonic portion of that cool.
.icy who had r'' ions!, been debarred arum it; but the
light so given was the lustre of a false and spurious philiwephy
a light "w ieh dal to bewilder, and decried to blind." Those I
illitininatiope resembled the awful glare of the lightning, or the i
destreetive fire of the volcano, a) is thn.w indeed a disastrous
spiv:ldoor over the surface of the earth, bet which are eccompanied
with a darkening el the firmament, an extinction of all the lights
of heaven. The instruction, on the contrary, which Institutions
liks the present undertake to disseminate, is of a natur:• to give con.
sistency and stability to the 'NIe frame of the political fabric; it
is the light of the morning sun, s hich tails on the earth softly and
silently—which, instead of producing disorder nr confusion, dispels
both—which excites man to cheerfel and honest Labour—which
awakens into esis:ence a thousand thrms and lines that slept in the
darkness—and cover* the fare of nature weft every variety of beauty
and brightness and blessing. The truth is, that the arguments on
which I aiii commentine, arc ns preeosicrous as it would be to As-
sert that, by placing ballast in n she liar insecurity is increased,
or that the strength wid stabilize 4.1' a eytaniel arc diidir.islieel by
e,iring breadth and ampleness to its hese. Ir it were necessary to
quint,. authorities in opposition to such argements., I &Meld refer to
a brilliant collection 01 Lames; from time Athenian Sage, who ap-
11,1ai to have caught a glimpse of tie• truth, when he fetched down
philosophy has it is said), from its barren el, ration in the atmoe.
pheri., to order to apply it to the lmiinese 31111 4.1 S 3:116 111' common
men—to our own latickes, llurkes, and Johnson.. not one of whom
ever supposed that the pinned ear, ty of a nation could be endan.
renal by instilling into the minds of those who compose the great
majority of it, an enligleened acquaintance with those: high prin.
ciphs on which the sanely of the civilized world best repose*. On
an occasion like the present. however, I may petheps be ailowed
to appeal to a mere sa:rtel authority. I have even understood
it to he the peculiar genius of the religion which we profess.
that, in the ordination of the frame of Society, she cm:thine' a
state of civil and political gradation, with one of moral equality
—that, while she teaches all rank+ of MOO to be content with
their hut, and to respect their superiors, she at the same time aims
to exalt the minds of the lowest, and to raise them to the just
level of that immortal nature which they share in common with
the whole race. Thls tendency of Christianity was evinced, even
at the outset, by an incident to which I may, I hope, allude
without irreverence. When the I)ivine Founder of that religion
first appeared on earth, !leaven was pleased to select, from among
its bright inhabitants, an embassy, for the purpose of announc-
ing to man the mighty event that hid just occurred, and its intl.
mate connection with his destinies. And to whom was this taa.

jestic embassy deputed ? At that period there weer
of Palestine not a few personages illustrious in r
eapstt
grand. ur, and to whom, according to the estimate e'
the celestial mission might his have been addressed.
form of the Jewish monarchy had been revived untie
tronage, and was then shining with great though tribut
A yet loftier set of claimants might have been found •
imp
erial Rome wete there also, and her',
consul, and the fierce soldiery who had chained victory ,
in every quarter of the globe. And yet to none of thaw
the annunciation of heaven vouchsafed, But " there,
same country shepherds abiding in the fiekl. kaping
their Mock by night;" and to these humide ore
visitants were sent, and in their ears the glad
sounded. and to their eyes was exhibited that vision
glory, which never but once more shall be displayed
tel scene. I trust lam not guilty of irreverence in w
lusion ; but the ministrations of this Society, like
the heavenly heralds, are addressed to the peasant
Meld : he is the object of our labours—him we seek,
I to instruct ; to teach him that he is a rational and i
ing—'• a creature of large discourse, looking berme
render him capable of mental enjoyments, and that
the scale of being : to tell him further, that he is at
cial, and political being,—to lit him for the duties
to discharge as a member of his family, of his pins
his country—form him to honour the King, and reverence
and avoid those who are given to change,—to teach hi
and above all else, that be is, or aught to be a religious
loose him from the dust of mortality, and endue him we
the more than earthly obligations that are upon him,.
him for those vicissitudes which invariably belong to t
of human life,--amidat the seductions and temptations
he may be thrown, to fortify him with a celestial pan
the armour of light,—in the hour of vexation, or overwl
lanaity, to whisper to him the peace that passes under
and, an the agony of death, to inspire him with the hope
of immortality. If it be true, as the resolution in my'
and as the documents= our table too clearly show,
exists among our Highland countrymen, a lanientabl
moral, intellectual, and religious education,—if it b
fear there can be no doubt of it, that nearly half the ,
non below the middle age, are nearly destitute even of
of instruction,—surely this constitutes the most imp
all persons connected with the country, to join midi
present Society in its benevolent exertions. Nod*
certain as a historical fact, than that these our
were, by the establishment of a system of general en
cued from a state of crime, barbarism, and misery, and
hibit a conspicuous example of orderly habits and -
If they still retain that high character, there may h
believing that this is, in a great degree, the mere dee,
for the moving cause of all this excellence is very greed
and, indeed, if vigorous measures are not adqpted, '
become nearly extinct. Shall we not, then, use our
to remove this reproach ? Shall we not cour.• the
hours, and the moments that shall intervene until our
fated ? Is it not-sn object that may well absorb al
anxieties,—that may fitly exercise all the labours of
feelings of the humane, the pr iyers of the pious, the
wealthy, and the counsels of the wise ? And let u
member that, in this institution, as in all others
pnneiple of collective exertion, the proper feeling
ridual is, not to lean on his neighbour, but to thin,
act. as if the successof the whole enterprise depended
arm. The great works of benevolence, like those of
achieved not by mighty single crofts, but by the co-operan
cacy of a number of comparatively minute agents. Ti,
proceed ; and, however small, and silent, and insigniti
dividual labours may severally nppear, their combined
Ing effect will issue in the creation of a scene of
beyond the reach of the proudest antis of despotic ,
Wive wisdom t—
'• Scut thou this landscape smile ? The moisture:
That fills its reins and feeds its vernal hour,
It draws not from fierce storms, or driving sleet,
Or sea-like rivers rolling in their power.—
But from the still small brook, the soothing shower,
The dew scarce felt that falls with fall of even.-
These nurse each root, and foster every limier,
Till life and joy to all th' expanse are given.
And earth transmuted wear., the loveliness of hr..
Several other resolutions in furtherance of the objects
ciety were afterwards passed, and thanks were finally
Chairman by acclamation.

HA RKETS.

[From the London New Prier Current.
TUESDA'
COTTON—Our Cotton market was very quiet
purchases have been made at rather lower price•.
general, are very firm, and prefer waiting a revival ,
to selling at any reduction ; BourSons have been more
than for some time past, and may he quoted a little F
total sales amount to nearly 1.000 bales, all in t
Surat' .50. a fiid.; 10it Ilengals sgd. a fid. ; 200
did. ; 300 Pernains I I gd. a I !Ail.; 100 Bowed' V
Orleans 'JO. a ;id.; dIIU Bourbons 90. a HA. ;
Uld.
LIVERPOO,
The demand for Cotton has been very limited
week, the sales amounting only to 7,sist hag, the p..
descriptions may be considered to have declined about ,
from our quotations of last week, but many of the holders
inclined to sell at this reduction.

COFFEE—The Ceffee market was heavy last wee)
however, little variation in the prices; Doming
damaged Ws. 6d.: several extensive brokers with&
on account of the languid demand, and the advanced
port. The public sale this forenoon wais too inconsi
stitute a market currency; it however went oft' hea,
vious prices; 60 casks, nearly the whole Jamaica.
which sold 665. a Ms. The market is dull, but not
last week.

SUGAR—The purchases of 31usenvades tinning
were very considerable; the Sugars, strong and fine quality. es
tamed rather higher prices; the inferior, 555. a 575. sere much
pressed upon the market, and were purchased on lower fermi.
There is not so much business doing in Sugars this foremost
the prices are without the slightest variation. Ily public sale the
forenoon, 11l hhds. Is tierces llarbadoes Sugar went off with gr s:
briskness at Is. advance, 375. a 117s.Gd. In the Refined there sto
much heaviness in the parcels tbr shipping, on account of
season for export being so fits advanced: there was, hottever„
variation in the prices. Molasses were 21is. bd. In Foreign Se;r,
no purchases to any extent are lately reported.
FRUIT—Two public sales were brought forward last week. rl
sold at the follostng prices: red Smyrna Raisins 505.;
pulled Turkey Figs Mts. a las. drums fiat do. :s4s. ; queue: i'etit
pulled do Mts. half chests flat do. ;4; Sultanas Etis. a tri's„; b;
Smyrna Raisins, 414.; the above was part of the cargos oiMe
Nimble, Sultan, and Albion. Sixty-seven butts and f cr:rxer:s
of New Currants slightly damaged front 97a. a 102 s Ne'rr
lentia Raisins are taken Mr freely at :Ili,. ; Denies in betties ftri
slowly at 395.; the demand for Fruit generally rather in:prey:eh::
week.
111.:31P, FLAX, and TALLOW—TaIIow is not %o
DM yellow candle 356., and 1::23 at 34%. 3d. • 345. C 4 ; for Dr .t.',7
and September shipments 355. In Hemp or Flax there
alteration.
SILK—The prices of Silk are a shade lower; the mats(::'
heavy at the decline.
OlLS—Whale Oil is very dull at the inserted quotrt,:f
Greenland 231. ; Cod Oil is scarce, and in cor.sequence •24.b.5
been obtained.
111( I:—There coatinues to be a great inquiry for Rice; Cm,
line 33%. ; white Bengal 14a. a 154.
WINE—Tha purchases of Wine last week. 200 ping
pr
1820 and 11121, at about 371. per pipe ; 140 pipes Capc.f.or
121. a
Ct KOA—The Government contract renders the pr:ccs of I •
col nominal.
By public sale this forenoon, 78 arks Grenada Cocoa, good
lit,', sold 81s. a 83*
111•11, 1111.1.ND1', and (JOLLA PS—The
contract for Runt, Ilst,INM gallons, has a1:.•ct,...1 the price% 37: :-
wand for Leewards; there arc no parcels otremcg under It.: •••
Jamaica descriptions are also held with much lin! .1100.
alteration en Brandy is that th:re is ths: there are milers
eels at 2s. 9,1. housed. in tiereva there is no alteration.
I:AST INDIA S.l I.E—The only alteration since the !..*:l`..
India sale is in Nutmegs, which comment: a premium of 2d. 3 •
per lb.
i I ) PY—Fine Hops are in great demand. red are 54. hi; ht".
lit ITO 16 ONS--The quotation* of l'rovisiot a a::
last realised prices. Butters are 2s. higher.

GI.A9COW COTTON MARKET, Nov. 13.—1 n Mr:scour/0
the decline in the Liverpool market, our Cotton market has 1.
very flat this week. From the want of demand during t.
three slays, our quotations may be considered nontimil. The,—
amount only to 334 bales.

A 5tm...,,,g1e is now carrying on in the corn trade—eh c.
aide to prevent, and on the other to procure, the ornin:;,
the porta for the importation of barley.

IIIItTIIS.
At Chatham. on t!,.: 1 Ith instant, the lady of Lieutenant.cei-•
Pa' Icy, of the }loyal Engineers, of a von.
At It 'awl,: Glasaleui.th, the lady of Colonel, Leslie, •
of a daughter.
On the 9th instant, at Yester, the Marchioness of Tweed,fat:. t
a or.
daughter.
inli Per the wife of Nathaniel Ellison, Esq•
a

DIED.
At his house near Clara, on Sunday, the 7th Norcrnher„ in 11.
311th year of his age, the Very Rec. Dr. Poyie, Pastor of Kills'
and Horseleap, and Vicar-1;01ml of the diocess of Meath.
lio;ve.
or three days Wore his death, a decree was remind from
appointing him Notary-Apostolic.

HIGH WATER THIS DAY AT LONDON 1111DF-
Ilunung 17 min. artellfternova aaa._•hst
Printed THE BRITISH PRESS Odiee.. byJ. W. Cholas
18 at
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A SERMON wi
S. Clement
NEXT, the 'Mat in:
♦'urate and Eveninf
Chaplain to the Sciet4
mend the Education
tion Of 21k) Children.,
Parish, on the Math
such benevolent p
support tit" these Sell
Lien intentions to
Treasurer. Pr&y

EAST AND WE

PHIS °UTE.]
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frequently arise fror
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George, Botolph-L
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but Mirka, n 1 lave, Ilart.street ;
of the Jr.r.i.ad, tree ; St. Pancras, :
more ic nom • Pours Wharf ;
le hutch. The Vischeap ; St. Step,:
bond. sit..-71e 't. Swithin, Londo
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ldgate ; St. Bondi
or., '..4:0 e. U I &maim in the 11
throughout hs . re Wishast /
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ut fd. peril= I ontlon.--St. Anne,
holders an to gisnover.spare ; St.
a ,eonard. 1 oster.lane
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only at they& ' i • gh of Southwi
good eniiihn, luistehurch ; Claph
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' eney ; and unto, tii
g the last veil ' 'wishes and Town,
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