The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-05-11 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF TUE BRITISH PRESS.

Sta,—The number of suicides, which has increased to
such an alarming extent of late, has drawn the public at-
tention to this crime; and as prevention and not punish-
ment is the only means of putting a stop to this dreadful
practice, I would ask how Is it that these means, wisely
appointed by our ancestors for this end, arc rendered for
the most part entirely nugatory ? I need hardly particu-
larise what I allude to, viz. the Coroner's Inquest. Ido
not impugn the conduct of the humane juries who com-
pose such inquests ; but I would submit that this institu-
tion is become a mere form, whilst in forty-nine cases out
lof tifty the verdict is the same. lam aware this is no new
1 complaint ; it is at least as old as the time of Young, who
I
alludes to it in a pointed manner in his Night Thoughts.
If you think the following extract, from one of our old
ecclesiastical writers (Wheatly), wiU be the means of in-
ducing a stricter inquiry into cases of self-murder, it is at
your service ; and I only wish the suggestion at the end
may not he thrown away on the parties to whom it applies.
If they would but act up to this advice, I am Confident we
i should have fewer instances of this horrid crime than now
disgrace the national character. - ...

I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,

1,ont1" Slay 8.
" The scandalous practice of Coroners and their inquests, not.
withstanding the strictness of their oath, in almost constantly re-
turning every one t,,uilty of self-murder to be twit comets niextir
(though the very amrists:tees of their murdering themselves are
frequently a proof of the worminess of their ;mites)' sufficiently
shew how h their verdict is to be depended upon. They plead,
indeed, that it is hard to give away the substance of a family : but
these Cattlemen should remember that they arc not sworn to be
charitable, hot to be just ; that their businese is to inquire not what
is convenient and proper to be thine with that which is forfeited, but
how the person Mlle by his dattli—whether by another or by him-
, self ; if by himself, whether he wss fish, de se or son rumpus metals.
the cr, indeed, summons srl he pleases on the jury,
And then delivers to them what charge he pleases, it is easy enough
for hint to influence their judgments. and to instil a general Rupp°.
anion that a self-murderer must needs be mad, since no one would
kill himself unless he were out of his senses. hut the jury should
consider, that if the ease were so, it would he to no purpose for the
law to appoint a formal inquiry ; for, according to this supposition.
such inquiry must be vain and impertinent, since the tact itself
would he evidence sufficient. It is true, indeed, there may be a
„,,,,„/ • imuinois; that is, a misapplication of the understanding,
in all self-murderers. Hut this sort of madness does not conic under
the cognitance of a jury ; the question with them being not whc- •
ther the understanding was misapplied. but whether there was any
understanding at all.—ln short, the hest rule for a jury to guide
themselves by in such a cass is, to judge whether the signs of mad-
nom, that are now pretended, would avail to acquit the same per-
son of murdering another man if nut, there is no reason why
they should be urged as a plea fur acquitting hint of munlermg
himself."

• Voting say--" I grant the deal is nuttiness,
11,1 t the niatltstms of the heart."

eniTISII A VI) FOREIGN Arnow, SOCIRTY.

The Nineteenth Anniversary of this excellent institution, in.'
ferior m none in general usefulness, &AI superior to all„ except per.
haps its goat conteitipmary, the-British and Foreign Ilible Society,
in the magnitude and conipreheltsivencss of its object, was Mo.!
prated voiced/it, in Freemasons Dell, Great Queen-street, Lin.
roln's Inn-Odds, by a most nunmrous and highly respectable com. 1
party, among whom we distinguished his Royal Highness the Duke '
of Sussex, Lord John Russell, lord iii dusts, T. F. Buxton, Esq.'
M.P., Wm. Williams, Esq., 31.1'., Dr. Morrison, Itoltt. ()wen, I.
Esq., et New Lanark. 31. Benito, of Milan, to. hr., but the ,
number of Jodie' rensiderahly prevailed.
Ills Royal llighcos the Duke of Sussex was to have taken the'
chair at twelve o'clock, but that having long passed by, and the
Royal 1./uke not being arrived, it was apprehended somethlng had
occurred to prevent his Royal Highness from atteeding the Meet.'
Ing, and it was therefore thought advisable to proceed with the Mt. !
sinesa of the day by calling Lord Jolts Russell to the Chair. 11l is
Lordship had not, however, been long in it before the Duke of
:,1114,,X was announced. and wlmo, ton coaxing thereon, *as meat
entbuslestiesilly applauded.
The Noble Lool inimorliately quitted the Chair. and the Royal
I)ukc having taken it, rose and stain! to the meeting that he' was
sorry he could not come hetiwe, hut his carriage had experienced
an obstruction in the street, or he sliott!:l,tive arrived sooner.

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His Royal nigline.s then said, " IV, motto do Ireful, perhaps,
in making up for the time lost that by proceeding at once to the
loudness of the slay, and therefore I shall call upon the Hee- Ale-
Cramp to read to you the Report of the Committee."
The Reverend Gentleman then read a. very full report, which,
in reference to the State of the Soci.ny's funds, observed, that
although the permanent income had received but We max-
ohm, yet the Society was then obeyed from is large portion or the
heavy debt with which it bad been MI lung encumbered. At the
end of the year 1822, the amount onliquidated was 76'J11. A se.
pante subscription set en foot for dirt purpose, had proititrod
already 16701. its, (.d.; and those gentletivn to whom the Society
had been indebted for loaned 2kOL retspce!ively. advanced by thi ni
for the erection of the Cattail School, had generously agreed to
relinquish 1004 each; togetlfei 'with three years' hottest on the
triode sum g and by this means the debt wall then reduced to :it
The Fishmongers' Company had contrihuted since the last annual'
meeting tem A donation of 304 had been received front the
Cluthworkene Company • and also a legacy of 6001 bequeathed to
the Society by Miss Catl:erine Wedgwood. There had heat a new
auxiliary formed for North Middlesex, including FAmontiol, Tot-
tenham, and the neighbouring villages. Another had been esta-
blished at Birmingham. In Southwark an Association had bees
lately natituted, entitled the " Southwark, Lancaeterian School
Amocia on," and which bad chiefly-
originatd with young men
who b receirtol their education at the Central School. To the
auxili existing at Bristol, Bath, Uxbridge, nigh WYeomber
1
Plyinon , and.Tavistock, the !Society was indebted for important
aid. The report then proceeded to recommend to the friends of
• the Instintion to associate themselves together, and canvass the
several districts in which they, resided, for the formation of further 1
auxiliary branches, on which the Committee conceived the future I
prosperity of the Institution greatly depended. The report then
stater!, that since the establishnsiot of the' central schools, nuncio+
had been supplied by them terla,Off•boys, and 7,1;23 girls. Un-
doubtedly great benefits had been thereby conferred on the Bo-
rough or Southwark and its vicinity, in which the Central Schools
were situated, which might be considered as the best.eiluattad dis-
trict in ik metropolis. Mt . the object of this institution was not
local. 'lle central establishment might be regarded as the main
spring, which set the whole machinery in motion, and wan Ind.
neatly connected with every port. These schools were the centre
of a cutlet, whose circumference Included all nation. The report
then stated the result of a public examination of the boys, at which
' T, f. Buxton, Esq. presided, and which was of the w sot satisfac-
tory d ocription. They were examiner, in their knowledge of the •
facts, doctrines, and precepts, of the Bible; and their answers,
expressed in appropriate passages of Scripture, excited lively in.
• taut among all present. The Committee believed that the en-
, gagent nos of the day not only proved the superiority of the ban-
easterian method of education. hut oho produced a conviction that
the object of the British and Foreign School Society was, to give in
the strictest sense of the whida, a Bible education. Mention was
made at the last annual 'meeting of two Greek youths from the
island of Cyfrus, who were placed unda the care of that Society,
by two (lent alien of lanidon. Their names were Georgia% Con-
stantine, ant Demetrius Piecidi : the fanner was 17 years of age,
the latter 14. When they were admitted into the echoed they
knew nothing of the English language. but they could then read
fluently and write correctly ; they were able to converse with pro.
priety, and at the public examination, their replies to the mica-
uons proposed were prompt and satisfactory.
The three Madagascar lads, who remained in the school at the
last Ger.cral Meeting, were shortly afterwards removed, and placed •
under the care of respectable persons at Manchester, in order to be
instructed in the occupations for which they were respectively dd.
tined,
,previous to their return to their o Daring
own land. Dang the pest
yaw' 1. persons had !camel the system at the Central Schools, with
a view.to employment as schisilinasters. fifteen schools had been
permanently supplied with masters, and sixteen others had received
temporary Assistance, during the illness of their teachers, or in order 4
to effect tatelexe-oroantzation. Four missionaries had also attended i
for instruction ; and in mentioning that, the Committee suggested •
the desirableness of allowing to all missionaries, before they left
this country, sufficient time to acquire a competent knowledge of ,
the British system"; as they were convinced that early religion In. •1
unction would be found, under the blessing of (lott, one of the ,
twat powerful means of destroying superstition and vial. 'BUM.
gence laid been nearside( fourteen rico schools having been funnel
during the past year. From the schools already existing (of which
there were supposed to be 0:1 the British system about 4011) but few
reports had arrived.
laudable diligence continued to be exerted in securing the attend-
nu of the children at some place of worship, to be chosen by their
parents, on the Lord's day ; this was a measure which had been
constantly practised at the central schools. That the good effects
of 'capitol instruction are witnesatd in an improved state of morals •
among the lower classes, began to be unlined, as it had been some
time anxiously looked for. Examples of juvenile delinquency ,
were lit was true) deplorably numerous; but it should not be for-
gotten that much greater publicity was given of such occurrences
than at any former period of our history, and that for one authen.
anted instance of an educated offender, hundreds of individuals
eel* be rented to, formerly pupils in the Central Schools, whose
characters were correct, and whose lives would bear close Invest!.
galas. The scripture lessons were becoming increasingly popular:
A third edition, in the Bvo. rise, had been published since the last
Leo sal meeting, making a total of 6,1510 copies. The Committee had
been informed that those lessons had been reprinted at Beaton apd
• New fork. It was intended to proceed forthwith in die publics-
, don the third part, in the tabular form, in the modern Greek lan-
guage. Jr would be mutat:Meted that the about-mentioned portion
of the lesions had been already printed in the Russian. Italian,
French, Spanish, and Portuguese languages. To Ireland the Com-
mittee turned with feelings of grateful exultation. Disgraceful as
had beat the ouuages conintitteal there, it was sonic n'Jeviation of
their regret to know that they Intl been ermined to the least educated
districts. In the diffusion of scriptural knowledge. " The Society
for proinoting the Education of the Poor in Ireland" was advancing
with gigantic strides. The success of the past_ year was moat es-
hilarating. Aid had been given in the establishment of 325 new
school*, and 3114 grants had been made of books, stationary, and
school requisites. The number of schools in connection with the
Society was upwards of 1.000, containing more than 70,000 scholars,
and 121,888 cook& of useful hooka had been circulated in the past
year. making a total of 704.4 depositary
0 since the opening of the
in 1817. Lending libraries for the poor were also becoming very
counuon, and fur these 07 grants were made in the course of the 1
year, co:„.isittoyfel(.2:eyoteneB:l4lclie'nint I"ittinol,n'inruisdeat eventually
promote,
promote, in a high degree, both the temporal and the spiritual wel-
fare of Ireland. In proceeding to furnish a condensed accouet of
the progress of education in foreign countries, the Committee felt
they had to undertake a task partly pleasing and partly painful. i
The Society would hear of difficulties and dirtimragonents in some
quarters, and of cheering success in others.
Of France the report rim again untavourable. Government hid
withdrawn its assistance, and hostility to Scriptural instruction ,
mooed lamentably prevalent. It eau thought there might he still 1
00 to 100 schools in France. The number in l'aris •aa 22, and I
were supported by the City, and contained 5,000 scholars; they •
were reported to be going on well.
Very little intelligence had been received from Spain. The flou-
rishing schools at Seville bad been suppressed on the appmach of
the French army, and it Ins not improbable that • similar disaster ;
had occurred iu other place. The central schools, however, in
Madrid were pmspering. assisted by the direct patronage and per.
sonal superintendence of the Inke del Infautadore
The accounts from the Netherlands were very encouraging.
DO Excellency the Baton de Fah k, the Minister of Public In.
struction, zealously promoted the sprees! of education among the
pnor, which object was patronised bk his Majoty the King of the
Netherlands and the Prince of °rang:.
By a communication front Copenhagen, It appeared that the Bri-
tish system had been introduced into Denmark, under the auspices
of the King and Queen of that country.
M. fierelius was irrosecuting his labours in Sweden, if not
with splendid success, yet not without beneficial results. The
number of children receiving instruction in that country wen
shout 3,500. By the persevering exertions of the Russian Bible
Societies, great progress was made in the design of supplying
all the nations and tribes of that immense empire with the sacred
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Scriptures : and the general establishment of Schools would be
necessary appendage to those efforts. The Model School at St.
Petenihurgh, erected and endowed by the Emperor, and superin-
tended by Mr. Heard, was solemnly opened last year, in thy pre-
sence or Prinre Alexander Holitzin, the l'rincess dleshtehersky,
and several other distinguished persons. The School for Foreigners
had been eminently suemsfuL The numbers thronging for ad-
'Masson were so great that a large building was found requisite,
and a line hall, capable of accommodating children, had been
engaged.
In the lonian Islands the cause of education prospered, which it
was hoped would facilitate the measures projected for the improve-
ment of I irrece. A master was shout to be sent out to that moss
interesting country, mad intelligent tireeks were much delighted
with the plan. And the Conimittee beg to he allowed to ex
mos their assurance that at no very distant period the land of
Socrates, disenthnilled and regenerated, would again become the
birthplace of the wise. the great, and the good.
The accounts Rom Malta were not to tocuuragirg, arising from
the need of more ample pecuniary supplies.
In India the cause of Scriptural education gradually advanced :
many thousands of children were then under instruction. The
Alissionaries at Madras had recently fortwil a new Education
Society, for the instruction of the young on Scriptural principles
throughout the provinces of Peninsular India. for this purpose
the British system was to be adopted.
'Phe ifevirableness of extending the benefits of StctiprOml instruc-
tion to :he iohnbitants of the Chit/ray empire world be felt and ae-

knowladged by ali. It might be hoped that thepreseC vipit of Dr.
Morrison to this country would lead to WOK plan for the mom.
plialuxent of thot important object. At the last general meeting
mention was made of an association having been formed in Madeira.
contemplating the establishment of schools in every part of the
island. The Committee were able to state that that design wan in a
fair wav of being realised.
In reporting the state of education in the Colonies, the Cotmnhteet
begged to remind the Society that their plan was better adapted than
any other to the existing circumstances ofiliose parts of the empire.
ithen the population ordinarily consieual of persons wittily (Mil-
ing from one another in religious 'endows+, and jealous of foreign
Interference, it was obvious that no sectarian or exclusive mode of
instruction could succeed. The British system, be merging the
distinctions of sect, and opening the door of knowledge to all. was
}nowt in be wlniirably tutted to the lute of society in the colonial
possessions of this country, and had deservedly obtained general
approbation.

The Report then gave a favourable account of the of
education in the Isle of France, the Cape of Good lope, SIP'
Wert India Islands, Nova Scotia, sod Canada. In the United
IStates of North America the importance of early Instruction wee
, justly appreciated. New England and New York in particular
hail set a r.oble example to the rest of the world. In New Eng-
laed education was secured by law, and supported at the eublic ex-
I pane, a tax being levied on the inhabitants for that purpose, than
which none* was :adorn more cheerfully paid. The estate of New
: York had appropriated upwards of a talliloll of acres of I tnd to
that okiect, by the 'ale or which a fund would bc_provided fur the
i encourageninit and at... Leann of schools. The official returns on
the subject of education in the state td New York, for the year
; 18,n, contained scoounn of nearly 8,000 schools, in which more
than 40011 0 children were instructed. Many of these sclieols wore
. established on the lleitielisystern. From Staab .Irnerica lade M-
I telligenee had been received during the pest year. Mr. Townson,
to wn.ose real South America was so MAC.' Indebted, bad recently
, org mired a model school at Linn. The Governmert not Peru
warmly patronised the plan, and the funds were supplied from the
public treasury. Still more edit:wally to secure the apremi of edu-
cation, it was seamed, by one of the articles of the new Conatitu-.
Iliation, that alter the year 1340 no one should enjoy the privileges of
citizenship who was pot rile to rood and write. Numerous ono&
d been previously established in Colombia, Buenos Ayres, and
in Chill, in which the scripture lessons were used under the sere,
tion of the legislature ; and an inert:Ant demand for bibles hod
been one of the first fruits of that measure ; thus affurdiug another
proof of the identity of 'lie objects pursued by that Institution sod
the British and Foreign Bible Society. Thin, yeses had not yet
elapsed since the system of mutual instruction was first prornuL
gated by Joseph Lancaster, within which period several millions of
children had received th'e benefits of scriptural education.
Lord Jotter RUSSELL rose. Ile said that he could hardly have
presumed to present himself thus early to the meeting, were it not
that his father had luid some care in the first establishment of the
Society which they se-e then met to support; and that althoulth bit
Nelle parent was unable, by indisposition, to attend that day to ,
testily the continuant eof his most ardent wishes for the success of
the Sc&ete, he begged to assure his Royal Highness and the meet. kg, that his heart was present witli them ; ant he was himself bap.:
Ipy a• the opportunity then afforded him, of decllring his atneh-
mint to an Imoitution, tehetioned no lees by the Loa:lies. tif itabb-:
ject than by the illustrious patronage it received. They Vierd
not then met together to prove to the world the unfits!
that Society, ot t•i demonstrate the great benefits that w
accrue to mankind by the enlightenment of the human mind.
Those things were reitnowledged by all ; their goodonw admitted
by all who had either in themselves experienced the bodge In.:
luence of their operations, or had witnessed the ameliorating and
happy effects produced by dint in others. I/id the, ever hear any
man who had been educated say that lie regretted it, as annum-
stance fraught with calamity, and as a source of many of the illy
'which possibly he might have had to encounter? Or, on the other
hand, did they ever hear any who had not been educated say it was
their happiness, and that their social enjoyments were relished with
a putter zest by the absence of an enlightened intellect? Cel-
t/duly not; therefore the present assembly must feel, that in *deo•
ruing so philmothropic • cause as that of universal instruction,
they were, in fact, greatly promoting the real happiness of the pow.
His Lordship could not repress Ins joy at their having the con-
tinued support of his Royal highness; it. was an ineontedible
proof that there prevailed a wish iti the hearts of Royalty to pro-
mote, by their own personal 'abeam, the welfare and happiness of
the lower cleseeti • indeed It gave him unalloyed satisfaction, to con-
template how closely were the interests of the two grand classes of
society interwoven with each other. Wealth and rank were not
backward in mskirg this recognition; and the general diffusion
of knowled_p would, ha trusted, more and more blend them
together With regard to the report which had been read, he
could not help remarking, that while' there Were some thiap
Sandalled in it which were calculated to make them rejifice, them
wain others that had a yore different tendency. Ile should not
touch upon smany of the point* containd in that report, but at
that part of it which spoke of Ireland—unhappy Ireland I—he
certainly felt considerable pleasure. When he reflected on the con-
dition of that ill-fated countij, whose portion it had been for mane
age to drink deeply of the bitter waters or adversity,—when to
thought upon the relates ha which that Island had long stood with
respect to England, chilled anal oppressed by the wikintiest acts of
power, with net one kindly sympathy shewn Mtwara her, and wheat
he reflected that that relation was now going to bt tumid into be-
netolence on the o;:c hand, and gni...Bade on the other, he could rot
Irodreln expressing his most ardent hopes, that the destiny of that
country, was about to be changed, and dist the bond which ought
ever to have naked her with this kingdom would at length be drawn
,closer and Omer, until the happiness of the one Isle was
identified with that of the odor, and the Immune both promoted,
by one all-embracing system of an enlarged and liberal policy,
founded on reciprocal confidence end good feeling. He had said
there was on: part of the Report which he regretted. It appeared
that there was a coldness existing on the part of some of the powers
on the Continent tower& the scheme embraced by that Society.
Education was contemplated by those powers as the fosterer of sedi-
tion, anti thin to have enlightened subjects was the same thing as
having rebellious ones. But such opinions well bespoke the nature
of the Governments which promulgated them. It was well known
that Where the eatablishments of a country were liberal and en-
lightened, the education of the people would teach them to per-
oßve the advantages of those witablisdments and be the means of
binding their allegiance more firmly, if pussilile, to their king, and
drawing forth their attachment more *gin and devotedly to tbo
laws and constitutions of their country. He was happy to perceive
this tacit acknowledgment on the pertof devote to the overtoweving
power of education, and to find that the enlightened portion
of the world were thus held sworn and inveterate enemies to
• every snecies of tyranny. It gave him pleasure to observe,
that notwithstanding these partiaj obstructions, yet the die-
fosion of education was taking a tepid stride over the continent
of Europe, and extending its benefits to the most distant
parts of the world. The Noble Lord then moved the first re-
solution, which was, that the general diffusion of scriptural educa-
tion, b6th at home anti abroad, afforded great encouragement to the
friends of knowledge, and called for gratitude to Almighty Clod,
`who had so eminently blessed the measures adopted by that So-
ciety', and that the Report then read be approved and printed.
T. F. Br :tow, Esq. M.P. rose to "wood the resolution. Us
observed, that the Noble Lord hes mid that his motive for appear-
log before them was to testify the hereditary interest he felt towards
the British and Foreign School Society. It had afforded hint, in-
deed, great pleasure, to see that cause, which had been and con-
tinued to be so well patronised by the father, so ably supported by
the son. But his motive in coming before that meeting wee to
declare his support to a Society towards which he had, he acknow-
ledged, long tell a very different attachment to what he then did.
Belied not been an enemy; indeed, to the Society ; but, what the
Report said was as bad, he had been a cold, suspicious, doubtieg,
inactive friend ; and as doubts bad appeared to hitt% and direst
views prevailed in his mind, perhaps he should not do amiss by
t *hewing how he had differed, and in what those differences became
removed. The object of the Society, as far as education was con-
e mod, had always been his favourite subject; but, in its diffu-
sion, he certainly hail entertained an opinion which circumstances
bad since changed. Ile was once much with a gentleman whose
judgment he was bound to approve, who always told him that there
were three things detrimental to the poor, and that those *Teething'
were—reading, Ailing, and arithmetic. (Laughter.) Ones soy
petty theft was comituttid in the parish, he used so reds:no—
" Thero—ses the fruits of educatioo--that conies of SenCbilttipm
poor to write!" Or if ever husband and wife were known to e,
he would say—" What wonder is it ; why they an both ? '
There was one thing, however, he used to say, which I man whir.
could read and write could never do—he could never keep amonnw.
"For instance," said he, "there was a man in my perish who could
neither reed nor write, and yet he was • better keeper of accounts
than any Other person in it. As the Hon. Gentleman was anxious
to learn this curious method of book-keeping, which seemed to pos-
sess cunsidetabie notrity in Its plan, he went to the person's house,
who shewed hint bis journals, ledgers, and waste-hooks,eurioedy
manufactured in all respects, and with the same materials of a cheat
of drawers. The* he examined, and found in one corner a numba•
of peas, In another beans, here a few corns of wheat, and there of
barley --and thus the learned arithmetician developed his syoteir..
Well all went on right enough, and his time ea a calculator thee-
rishesi ; but alas ! on one unlucky day a rat gut into the hooks, red
made desperate havoc with the cash accounts, mernorandirms, te:d
balance shectsuf our accountant, and all the line !nitric of horse-heal
mathematics became depusited in the belly of the rat. Now edti-
MINI could nut be thus devoured. The 11one:ruble Gentle:re"
teem proceeded to state, that he hadknowu that the Society gave i-,•
Auction, but he did not know whether it give the best ie.
grunion. He always considered educabon to be of great ore;
but mere education, without religious instruction, appeared tti
him to be comparatively nothing. A child of good moral
education, though incapable of reading a singe wad.
was infinitely happier than he whose intellectual mind alone was
informed, but whose moral nature remained debased. The Ho ..
Gentleman then said, that he had been invited by some gendemea
to attend the public e•amination of the boys at the central schools,
and that he had accordingly done u'; the result of which was a
cotivicion on his ' it, that the institution did, in the most ague-
factory manner, combing a religious with a general educatios, and
that while he was supporting the British anti Foreign Bible Su-
-1 ciety. he was advancing the great cause of Christianity throughout
the world.
WM. EVANS, Eaq., moved the second resolution, being the
thanks of the niectiiig to the different Auxiliary Societies. He
• said, that having heard that his Koyal iligliness was likely to be
dmpriraryfteracintaetltito:chatattmendste7ittiligt,,g.tthhniiensngruietoLtrtaineg.,li..isewightetzi.i..d.wienmntme.
n.lfintotelp,it:feeswuliti.b.:,:x.re.g 7,
the son of our late revered Mooatch. who, at • time when preju-
dices strongly ceis•ed, had expreseed an aketioutee and enlight-
ened wish,
able to read the Bible. The Rev. Gentleman then bore testimony
to the exemplary manner in which the bOyti ail 6rls had. ac-
that all his subject, deroughoott his dienisions might bo
sciattiidt,utsol tseehemthseelvesdenatusntahe.r7hubuctzlniyhastrintsosimidllese luementelyted,by
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POETRY.

SIGNS Or RAIN.

%dic, and app.la to those who sedendy desired to see religion
prevail all over the world, to give the Society their liberal support,
or that event could not take plaice without the spread of education
In Arose countries where the Coos of Christ had not yet been
I !tees up.
Just.est Jon N Ott awry, Erai. seconded the resolution.
Lord MI trip ii moved the third revolution, expressive of the joy
felt by the Meeting at the existence and success of the various So-
t vies that had been formed to promote education on Christian
goicipleti tt roil/bout the world.
TI a Key. I tr. II on luaus seconded the tesolution, and expressed
his hope that the Society would not overlook his countrymen, the
Chinese,in their work qt Christian benevolence.
T. S. RICE, Eat'. M.P. moved the fourth resolution, expressive
of the most respectful sense entertained by the meeting of the
honour red support allinded to the Society by his most gracious
M ajThesty.
e Rev. W. oti a w EY seconded the resolution.
W. Atte: s. Esq. Treasurer, then read the accounts as audited,
the remit ul which we have given in the extract from the report of
the Committee.
E. PAILS ITS moved the fifth resolution—Thu the most grate-
ful arknowledgmenui be presented to her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, Patrotims; to the bodies, the Vice-Psuonesses,
sed the Members of the Ladies' Conimittee.
The Rev. W. R. EY Att%oX, frtmi Ireland,-seconded the reso-
lu•ion. He observed, that the Irish were divided into two great
classes; the one, that portion of Irishmen to whom the English
language was known ; and the other, consisting of two millions,
who are utterly ignorant of a single word, save their own native
Irish. He was happy to hild that the British anti Foreign Bible
Such ty had at last determined to translate the Bible into the Irish
language--that ass the true key to the Irishman's heart.
the get. FRANC I% ELLE It a y moved the sixth resolution, be-
teg the thanks of the Meeting to his Grace the Duke of Bedford, to
the Vicet-Proodents, and to the Treasurer and Secretary.
James Slit.t.as, Esq. seconded the Retolation.
Ili* Korot. Hiatt • vss then said, before be put the motion he
should take the liberty to read a letter which had been received
front the Duke of Bedford with his subecoption of DWI. The
Duke, his friend, was always active in the cause of the people, and
of every geed institution, and, he thanked Uod, was one of those
tredieary friends of all that was beneficial to society. His Royal
Rattiness then read the letter.
Wm. A ti.r.u, Esq. seconded the relation, mid in doles sn
raid an affectionate tribute to the memory of his late respected
hided, Joseph Fox, whose heart, he said, had been with the
faelety to the moment of his death.
'l4e) Rer. fl. CLAYTOIi then moved the thanks of the Meeting
to Highness the Duke of g, fox, and to his Royal
itAiligai
N The Prince of Sate Coburg, foe the honour of their
oen patronage of that Soel to his Royal Highness
tile Duke t f Sussex, foe the coming and obliging manner
tit which he I a I been Wooed to preside on the present fleOlitiOn.
Tin Rev. J. M. CRAMP recoodod the motion which having
been carried, lass followed by considerable apple:rec.
lint ROYAL EIIOHYKIS said, that •n rising to make hisseknow-
letlimenta foe the honour confuted upon hinitielf, and kw his royal
relative, he should first speak for hint, and tetum his thanks to
the company, anti to ware them that his heart (his Koval High-
ness believtd) *as fully with them in the great came they then
had 111.1 to promote. He also begged to express his thanks to
the company. Ile could not, however, retire without joining
his congeal nlations at the interesting repast they, had then capon-
tat red, anti it hit, Noble Friend was desirous of moving the first resolu-
tion, to attest the hllinge of his noble I se hereditarily towards
the grand uhiert propoeed by the British and Foreign SehoolSusiety,
how north did lie feel that Mitigation, when he reflected that his
Foy ii Parent hall patronised that Society. And although there
are tnen who are capable of endeavouring to throw obstacles In the
way of this Society. yet their eilivrts would be ultimately im-
am/ding; and he then knew those of them, who, If his Royal FA-
thor ha been alive, would not have dared to oppose it : when they
/3W the House of Russell, the House of Fitzwilham, and other no-
ble personages', all advocating and upholding thisSocietwhen
the., saw these, they need not be afraid going on in their noble— work.
He believed one of the greatest reasons with these who a
education was their own ignorance ; they were afraid, that if
pp or should beenine lammed they would discover their ova Intel-
lectual barrenness. In adverting to the conduct of the ("enthaantal
Powers, his Hoyal highness said his principles were well keown
hr would not, therefore. su them • and as tu one of dm;
Powets, he was stores to find that spirit of opposition to the
de•semminatildt of intelligence which was manifested by hint for
he had known him in his earl* days, and was convinced that he
was of •4100.1 heart ; but as to the other., he left them to posterity,
sed be had no doubt posterity would do then justice.
The Meeting then adjourned.

AN rxellst ?OR NOT ACCErTINO THE INTIMATION OT •
?KILNS, TO MAKE AX EXCURSION WITH HIM.

B the lac IH. Jenner.
I The hollow winds begin to blow,
2 The &WS WE black, the grass is low ;
S 'fits alallalls flews, the spaniels sleep,
4 And VII from their cobwebs peep.
lases t the sun went pale to bud,
4 'rho wean in haloes hid her head
7 Tbelpikag shepherd heaves a sigh,
8 Far ass. AO haintow spans the sky.
9 The walkout damp, the ditches smell,
In Clued IN the pink-ey'd pernell.
11 Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack ;
'l2 Old Petty's joints arc on the rack
13 Loud quack the ducks. the peacocks cry;
I The distant hills are looking nigh,
IN flow restless are the snorting swine,
Is The busy Sees disturb the lone;
17 Low o'er the grass the swallow wings;
IS The cricket too, how sharp he sings ;
19 Puss on the hearth with velvet paws,
Sitg, wiping o'er her whisker'd jaws.
21 Through the clear stream the Saha rise,
ti And nimbly catch the incautious dies.
25 The glow..womis, numerous and bright,
2.1 Illuni'd the dewy dell last night.
2:, At dusk the squalid toad was seen,
211 flopping and crawling o'er the peen;
17 The whirling wind the dust obeys,
2/1 And in the rapid eddy plays;
29 'the frog has chang'd his yellow vest.
311 And in a russet coat is drew.
31 Though June, the air is cold and still;
32 The mellow voice is shrill.
33 My dog, so shred in his taste,
3.4 Quits mutton-bones, on grass to feast;
35 Anil see, ton rooks how odd their flight,
30 They iit:lihte iNding kite,
37 An went tate to fall-
-38 Asd
it e piercing ball.
39 'Twill surely rain, I see with sorrow
411 I hir jaunt most be put nit to-morrow.

Yesterday we received a file of Canada Papers. One of
their contains the speech of the Commander-in-t'hief on
closing the Legislative labours of Lower Canalls. lie
alludes to the disputes between the thivernment Authori-
ties and the !louse of itepresentatives, and states that they
ate referred to England for adjustment. lie then coin,72-
tulatts the country on the greet itviwovemetits in lipperand
Lower Canada.

Accounts from St. Peteriburgh of the gist ult. state,
that the Emperor could not be prtieut at the Easter cere-
mony. on account of his late indisposition. Sir Charley
Rapt, our Ambassador, will visit kitgland this summer,
on leave. Mr. Cathcart, the Svretary of Legation, is ap-
pointed Ambassador to the German Litt, and will shortly
at out for Frankfort.

M 1.41 SO IN TR IS KC E.---Copper ores sold at Cam-
M3V 6, Intt tons. Average produce, 7i.
Buantity of line Copper' 1651 tons, cwt. Amount of
sale, 15t,1141. la. 6d. Aretagestandani, IVA. to.
•-•

Tnr LAN? Oar o► THU Luvresiv.—Tholinall
num-
ber at Ticket% remaining to draw have the unprecedented Mamba
at Twelve Capital Pti,es, Including Two of Twenty Thousand
Pounds, which. as well as every tither Prise, must all he drawn on
atstarday, the 3.11 inat. when all finally closes. A few undrawn
Tickets and Shame are an Sale at the Contractors% who hope to
distribute tie above at their Old Offices, Nu. 37, Vornhill = Ne. 11,
netball', and No. ill, ►layntarket.-mil. and J. hivewright, Con-
tractors.

Witbolo's', the c debrated Ind 4 t wa riot, known Ly the narnc
ar the Pillphri, atm led the huatileinAliana to the attack. upon Fort
Minas. in 1813, when near four hundred men, women, and chit.
dren went nuviraurcil, and aho afterward,. voluntarily gave hinivelr
up to Views! Jackaun, died near :Ilootisclicr, in Anima, on the
10th ult.

k:svrart of • letter, dated New ()Acorn', March 23:" The
situation of our nuirlet Mr the last six 1111 l tithe has been such as to
utter no inducement to adventurer in produce prices, which hare
been much higher than advice. from abroad would authorise, owing
to the necessity of dispatching vessels, with which our port is still
crowded ; the number it greater than ever before known ; freights
are consequently low, lie. to France. About 2-3d+ the crop of
egitue has come to market ; that of laudanum, it i+now ascertained,
will fell anoiderably short of last year. Tolracco conics in slowly.
We have not more this NM lol+. in market for sale."
•• Masco 31.
"Since writing the foregoing to material alteration Ims taken
place. Comm is brisker, though no alteration in price. Cotton
ha+ been shipped to Liverpool at 1.241. and to Atlantic ports ut
This ---- • 'le ship Virginia. which vessel has been
t sail fur your port in ballast at twelve
are in cireslntlon respecting the cause.
`‘ ruche extensive speculation."

Fla, been shipped to Liverpool at I.". 11. and to Atlantic ports ut I
per bale. This goes by the ship Virginia. which vessel has be
chartered at a high wita,to fail fur your port In ballast at twel
basin notice—many repots are in cite:elation respecting the caw
It is said to be connected with some extensive speculation."
EXCHANtiRti.
• ASISTIIDAII, MAT 7.—i.oniios, 3v ; nom months, 39 4.
tismauenis, MAY 4.—Lotakai, 36 44; two months, 31i It
PrTitlawilillirlai
I Aram 314—..boridon, V 11-3:tt Paris, int
Retain, Mae ....Lowden, three tuontbs, f 21.