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vtfeet of l'aioe's works -to that district sevroteeu
year. go. There. was thee' no want or work.
. The looms were generally employed, yet outrages
i.f the moot waiitotiaand desperate kiwi bad beet§
committed. Bakers' shops and provision ware-
houses were broken open and pillaged, and riot was
she order of the day. At the clOse of die.late war,
10,000 loom. were thrown out of employ oil the
same sprit, and notwithstanding the uuiuu of
ease and poverty isl the neighlwurbood. not is single
outrage had • been committed. To what was this
closiege of character to be traced, but the Amelia.
ratios& of feelings god habits created by the emelt-
/•1011 of ethicatiou a 111 l ng the ciiildrewin the neigh-
bourlsoigl, amt iti re-actiou, es lie before sail, uo
the *ls or their parents ?—(Apjilesse.) —W ben
the riots were committed. slot more thaa 9110
eltddrett were three receiving education ; now. on
same spot, tlwre were snore than 8,000. If
'decrease to pauperism were emoted, theft he would
bay, educate the poto.—(4‘pp/tatfle. I—This as. at
.Duch lIIMC reit .its rem could
edy thanu he afforded
by ashy statute. It would give a moral
rlrca ion to the mods of the people. which no act
of the 'ratsl slurp could excite. He kid 'lately been
at a Bible Alerting to the country. where the Pro-
fcrsurs of Religion had a Criteria 'Alerting for the
purpose of wiring into the general fund .11w rums
kereiv,4 by diem for this purpose its their thlierent
districts'. lie would relate an sorcitute that oc-
curred throe, which ,s Nike isi vol s the great
went of roltoedoi 11l . A pour 01 employed in bile
cintoti-s) • g (lost a very lucrative) hue in the
neighbourhood, who lied received her education lii
Suu.lav School, hail gone to her Minister to t
ou-
tnbute her mite. This poor girl'. tiler was un-
tillie to Wl.lk, and aid she lutist go to subsist mt
the parish.. '6 No," said Mary (fur that was the
girl's name). " while I have baud% to wok. you
shall never receive parochial alit. I shall work a

little earlier and a little later, and then there will
hr gh for us both." ( Loud applause.
NVliesi the time of the General Meeting of the
Bible Society took place, Mary said she must get
up a little earlier, and stay up •a little later stillaise
'oii bring asked the reason fur. this ektraurditiety
exertion, she told her mother it-was to earn a little
money to send to the Meeting. " Or' said the •
mother, they will expect nothing froluisa."
" 0! hut I must give it," said Mary, " for lowa
great debtor to that Pawned Book." She then by
early mod late working got six shillings, which she
took to the Minister—lie refused it from a know-
leilt4e of her eirCurnstances, but at length lteiu
inspormiled, her,
said he would take half of it; she
ateadrodly persevered in waking him take the
whole sum, and lie was obliged to comply with bee
wish, lest he should wake her miserable by per.
revering in a refusal.—f App/ouse.)—This was the
gift of a Princess—it could never be surpassed.—.
I Applause. I-11ring in the ucighltourhood, lie Mall
anxious to see a girl of whom he had heard so
much. He went to her Minister, who said at first
Ire knew not how to send fur the girl, lest lie should
hurt her feelings by the message, being for mere
curiosity:, but lie soon recollected that she listafy
wanted a Bible fur a friend ; he therefore sent to
her, to .ay that a friend was then at his i‘ouse who
had a Bible to give her ; the came, and returned
thanks, but said that her friend had lately got one.
She, however, afterwards took it, recollecting that
there were but few Bibles at a neighbouring Sunday
School. The Meeting would, perhaps, like t. frj,
soother anecdote of this good girl.—.(!leer.JE.
About two years ago great distress auJ poverty
prevailed its her neighbourhood : she had then
saved a trifling sum of money, for the purpose of
buying a little chest of drawers to keep her scanty
wardrobe. She gave this money to the poor in her
neighbourhood, rod relinquished her fist intention
of its application.—(Applawse.)—Need he say one
word more as to the benefit of general education
aiming the pane-4 Applause. ) A u allots. a had
been made in the Report to the progressufeducati 111 l
in:lreland. He knew it as a fact, that the children,
after going from school into the little cabins of their
parent-, had an adult circle formed around them,
greedily receiving through the chililreii the pure
lesions they had learnt. The Cathodic clergy had
also co-operated in the most efficient Roomier to
give effect to this plan. indeed there were •
merable instances in that country where. in cabins.
and by the roadside, crowds listened to the child
who read aloud its Bible; perhaps no less than
100,000 were so engaged each evening in different
parts of that country—(Appluasej—and it was re.
workable, that. in the proclaimed districts, the
spirit of education had not taken deep root ;
wherever it had, the people were improved awl
orderly. The worthy Gentleman concluded by au
appeal to the Ladies, to snatch by their aid the youth
of both sexes from temptation and vice. Educa-
tion wonld effect this salutary change.
Mr. WI mummies was received with great •p-
-;Arose. He said that the glorious cause of educa-
tion, so far from being in a declining state, was now
rising more glorious than ever, said every day wore
and more •I• 'eloping its influence for the improve-
meat and :at;ipiness of inankind.—/Alpp/anse.)—
To those h.) had lived in the world so long as he
hail, it was natural to revert to past events. It was
pleasing in this retrospective reference to are the
prowess made during the last thirty years of all
these iiis.itutions, on which national glory and true
greatness in their best sense depend. While they
rejoiced at the glories obtained by their arms in
every rpontar of the world, they had 16.4 day
still 11111 re to rejoice at the Woollies.., triumphs sib-
tamer' by Muir charity and benevolence-o.a t,.1
—at those exertions, which went to ceitielit
t oat love oii earth, which the blessed God of tote
in Heaven recommended. lie hoped, by the
prove's of Vais philanthropy, that the tune WO/lhl
cover nitro hallo'sl dio•eidictis r:ould end, awl
war it-elf be extirpated.—iiippluier.)—lt was
rode superfliiims at this time to cal! the intention
of such a Meetiog NS the present to the 'edit% of

rated in the bot Jun Of its poretils, and insole tliern
feel Milroy to the centre of their fi Iv ;,it eon-
;nerved 'heir habits here. and taught them how to
maim lespirniess hereafter. There was Mr end Its
the enumeration' of the blessing* which this eyeless
was calculated to oispense.--/App/oNse,)—Tlye
time had Koue by a brit their sordid astrolabes's
%erre made, which built thr and grent-
best or one country on the misery and degradation
of Mother. The trArtd now saw that tiesteli4 lutist
Ise receprottal, and that Ili proportloll as our coun-
try view in wealth and happiners, its neighbour,
by I iiiii rely emulating its exisiatiele. would par-
I
riCipiter iu these leenetiott.—/
ov•triti had Sri a great
.I.llllllde to the world.--
[They had generously mid dossitesesteelly diffused
'ducat' to reel', quarter of the globe, tool every
Ptivilextrel nation was t 'sting the blessings that flowed
from it. hi India itself, it was footed fr the
Report that they had succeeded in breaking dowse
these detestable loariers winch the wickedest.** of
Man hid erected few the degradation of Isis own
speciei.—(Alpplartse.)—Tory bad in their career
of
.)etietrokiicr cruised the Atlantic, as if in rubel-
',demi of that little when it was said they wools'
hare no sea to pass. He would again coogratulate
them on tht bright prospect before their eyes.—
It might lie said, that there now existed a
great prevalence of crime; but yet they ghoul('
tecolleit that Ilse Almighty,. to leis wisdom,
had preiritleet them witlt the • meths. of • counu
terecteine tile evil, by platting in itheii 'sends thew
melon of teriiversal education. It was truly tout,
that de 1111 l raliz neon always,"to a certain exited, fol-
war—a• if 'Providence Merely ordained that
man sl Id *offer far the misery lee inflicted on Ins
fellow-creatures.—(iinvirease.)—War was the nurse
of misery and critio, and peace the parent of haP-
pine's%amid virtue.--( iipplause.)—lii voting their
thanks to the venerable King and Royal Family,
for their power Eel aid in the cause of education,
he wer• sure the day would come when the spirit of
that venerable. Monarch would look down from
Ilesveis on the good lie had done on earth. and
would ftelert, as the most glorious period of Isis
long reign, that part of it ise which lee patronised
the (Josiversal System of Education —(Apphruse.)
—lt was difficult to explain in foreign countries
how much more happy and powerful were tholie
Monarchs e hose power was of a limited nature to
those who had absulate allay—the former had their
lineally support iii the hearts of their people, while
the latter mile reigned by the operetion of fear. 111
the British Constitute 111 l loyalty and liberty were
interwoven. The Hon. Gent. eloquently eulogis-
ing the virtue* of the Royal Family, and earnestly
appealing to tlw Meeting to emulate their example
io supporting- this Socie(ll,-reof op-
phosse)—he concluded by a motion of thanks to
the Royal
alosissireir stoiettorvo BILLIISU. from Paris, a
Mother of the Order of the L-gidn of Honour,
hose used spoke as follows:
" May it please your Royal Highness—The
triply unexpected honour cuorerred on Inc by
the Committee of tins Society, in iietroostitig me
with the task to second the Resolution
just reed, I consider as a great reward of my
humble and successful eserfeavours to introduce, in
cou"orreltyr with my colleagues iii the Consistory oif
the Protestant Lutheran Church in Paris, of which
I was a member and secretary for many years, the
British 'system of instruction in the school of that
church, the first. I believe, established in France.
This achool has hems often meutioned with parti-
cular resists in the reports of the French School
Society ; and this Meeting will perhaps be pleased
to !morn, th.st as far as two years ago, several Catho-
lic Ladies belonging to an brefer cousecrated to the
educed 1111 l of the. poor of their sex—and teen a
Spanish Lady sent expressly for that purpose from
her cometry, have been trained in that school, on this
most beneficial system. I have been highly grati-
fied to hear, by the Report of your Committee,
the progress of this system in my country, used I
hope that the patronage of my enlightened Ket.g,
and his unshaken fidelity to the great law of equal
protection to his subjects of all vs-ramose/ens, will, in
as very short p-rind, secure ise France the triumph
of light over darkness.
" Your courtesy, Ladies and Gentlemen, will,
I ate sme, excuse toy imperfectly speaking the
English language; but this Society having assumed
the name of British and toreigit School Society,
you are unavoidably exposed to experience very
often what hal:peeled in the first Christian assembly
iu Jerusuleue, after the Ascesisson of our Lord, tee
Itearril; persona of every country in the world de-
livering, set tititlll4l merlin:4m lb this great Metropolis,
their thanks for the support that so large a part of
the English teatime utturels to every isigitsiiime cal-
culated to ;nu 1111 l te the general Welfare of maokind.
I ..toot but lay hold on this opportunity to re-
peat the admiration I feel, in coinensiision with
the I's tends of religion, jostler, ;wave, I huma-
nity through all she world, fur the illustrious Prince
in the Chair, who Waren his let .Ii 'taboo by his
support of every Charitable Institutioa to this
co 1111 l -y."—(Jppleuse.)
He these seessoded the Resolution.

Wiuts.eFottci; remarked, that the tincture'
of foreign idiom in the speech of the lest Gentles.
man made his services more voloyee. It was it
happy time to see hational distinctions give way to
litit..:l of titiiverstil brodwrhood sod kindness, for
the hehetit Whitever provinciality
then: was iu t' ee isi.rthy Gentleman's idiom, it wee
clear t her • w•,..t.na e,ter well the Jame &slim; in his
I•e,rt nod thrill. —(Applaust.)
1.11:.• HOY AI. C711.1.14:114 S, lu 11ttirljoix thanks,
s!,i•l, the mniion consisted of three daninct heaths
"I be li•-t refcricd to the patrocage this Society ros
e._•iseil from their r. vereci Minaret!, ice whose time
on inuirlieent institution 11:1,1 passed
r.ithout the glary of h.s prutectiou.—(e/pp/ause./
—Wherever that venerals!i! 11211 W all wits
ante tee p,e net ‘l4lll. The second poet, respectin4
the Poielce hteg.n., paid el proper regard Its the
had .4foruily she,-

Their canse inen so excellently supporttd by
Inc Hem. Priem' near him (Nfr. Wilberforce;'), that
ht had to say un this subject. The 110MertOd
. principles of his Hon.Friekid were so well
thatit Wab inipossilde he could Inter ens ritinty—he
stood now pleelgetlintheir cause, indeed it was lin•
POSAilile Orr man who emancipated tile Black, and
broke his 'chinos, cools,. do otherwise to dime of
the same plexion wit:. himself. He had ploved
that eilticatiou was necessary to uphold that
amid of Irre. lons and I.br ay Ili 111111 country, for the
support of which the present Royal Faintly had
been called to the Throne.—(Applaw t.J—W heel
allusion was made to the increase of crime, It should
be remarked, that tlir Metrii;eolis tlitl not furnish a
proper criterion. The population of the ,suited
Kingdom was about Iti,uoo,ooo, of which 1,500,000
were (according lam the bills of mortality) in the
capital, and, of course, in such a mass, milNuy de-
',raved soil vicious characters must always be
found. He was glad to end the Report contaiiied
such flattering accounts from the Continent—the
visit of the Emperor of Rnsilia to this country had
been, in this respect, productive of much benefit ;
and their worthy Treasurer, %Vahan' Allen, had
dune much good in his repeated conferences with
his Imper.al Mujerty on the sultiect of this
system of relocai 1111 l .—f Great uppluf!w.).--"nie
Duke of Saxe Wrier'., was an excellent
mutt,
and the worthy descendant, Of flint tonally sling'
bud iessisted to bring about the Reformation.-....
(iippluise.)—ft was false to say that this system
of education was uticolinected with the irropmgation
certainly dictated uo particular
erred, but it carefully required that each child
should on she Sabbath Day, be sent to his posit-
color pastor for religious instruction —(Applause,)
-4-Gtid on 'the Monday he was questioned as to the
test'efthe sermon he loud heard preached. No child
wentad.nitted withqut his religion being known, so
it *as idle to say their system excluded the princi-
plea of religion, while, en the contrary, its very
foiltulation was laid in the hest religious instruction.
As for himself, he stood pledged to 'iuPport.the..
Soriety, and he would continue to du SO to the latest
hour of his existence, and in despite of every.
dillicultv.—( ispirmse.)
Mr. 'Alderman WOOD proposed the vote of
thanks to his Grace the Duke of Bedford, who
was a true friend to education and humanity.--
I pplause.` —With reference to the increase of
c e, it had been greatly exaggerated. Street
robneries and acts of that kind were not now ac-
companied with that violence which formerly sc-
companied such outrages; and many persons were,
lie believed, sent to Newgste most unnecessarily,
for very 16031 trliencts. lie alluded, with great
satisfaction, to the benevolent efforts of Mrs. Fry,
and other Ladies, who had .refortued the female'
Piirouers its Newgate, and lie trusted the Ladies.
present would, by giving education to the infant
pour, emulate tiwir esumple.—(Applause.)
Captain emulate
(of the Life (ittards) seconded.
this mot mi..

The Rover. CHAIRMAN read n letter from the
Duke of Bedford, regretting that lie was detained
on the Continent by the precarious state of his
health, which prevented him from attending this
Meeting, in the bovines* of %dilell he felt a deep
interest.
Mr. MILLER tend the Report of the Ladies'
branch of the School Society.
Mr. Neu, in moving that it be adopted, al-
luded to the powerful influence which the Ladies
exercised society, and cougratulated them on
using it as they did on the present occasion, in dif-
fusing that greatest of all blessings--educatiou
among the pour. Those who had raid that this
plan of education had iiitroduced a lexi.y in re-
ligion, must be prepared to @hew that the Bible
had such a tentleney ; for unless they could do
this, their argument was ridiculous. The Bible,
in fact, constituted the foundation of their whole
Mr. B. (iRIFFLNiittoi seconded the motion, and
said, that au eloquent Barrister of the sister kiug-
dotn iMr. Phillips) in speaking of this plan of
education, had appropriately esidobat here iudeed
we did not tender learuing for apostacy.—(eip-
plause:)—The Emperbr of Russia was justly
struck with the value of general education whet' lie
saw die children in St. hall's, and how much more
P 4/ would lie have been had he been ',resent at that
fine exhibition of children of every Chilstien demo.
initiation, lately at Islington, who were educating on
the plan of this Society —(Applucte.)
Mr. JOSHUA VAN OBLE, Vict-Presit)ent of the
Jews' School, begged to add his public declaration
of the excellence of this Institution. He returned
thouilts nu the part of the Jewish children, for the
benefit they derived from it. It was, indeed, not
coupled with any (.articular catechism—it was pre-
cisely fur that reason lie thought it the best, for
every sect could partake of its advantages; there
was sio turns of religion that could not benefit by
it. In Ira than twelve months, the Jewish children
were taught by this plan to read their bible bothin
Hebrew end English.—(Applause.)—They were
availing theinerlyes •of it in Bourdesux, Amster-
dam, and Rotterdam. It was a matter of as-
tonishment, to hear an insinuation that religion
was injured by their eystern.—(elpplarrse.)—
Could religion he injured by a steady perusal of
the Holy Scriptures ?—(llear, hear.)—Could that
*rites,' be called hostile to religion, which had at
its head Quakers, a sect the moat rigid of all
Christians—end at its end Jews. the most rigid of
all religion* in the forms to which they adhered ?
He Own pronounced a warm panegyric upon the
merits of Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. W. Allen, Dr.
Scheabe, and the lute Joseph Fox.—(.4; iduase.)
The Rev. B. Raysoe said, that this Society did
rte orb of (1.. y could not effect—it illiiiniteited
with the light of knowledge, of reerlatioii, oral in-
tellect, every !Hitt of the globe at the same moment.
--(Applause.)—lt strut birth like the stripling in
1101) Writ, and overthrew the Corinth tit Iguw
mare. The Rev. Gentlemen tlwri appealed to the
to il the bees-tits of the still