The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-11 00:00:00

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

Vice-Admiral Smart, K,H., naval Commander-in-Chief

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.n the Mediterranean, returned to Malta from Naples on

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the 28th ult., carrying his flag on board the Marlborough,
121, Capt. C. Fellowes, and accompanied by the Gibraltar,
81, Capt. J. C. Prevost; the Royal Oak, 35, ironclad, Capt.
F. A. Campbell ; and the Resistance, 16, ironclad, Capt. W.

C. Chamberlain. The Marlborough is preparing to return

to England, after the visit of the Lords of the Admiralty,
who are expected here from Toulon in the Admiralty yacht
Enchantress to-morrow or the day following on a commis-
sion relative to the much vexed question of the proposed new

dock. Capt. Clarke, R.E., who lately succeeded Col. Green
as Director of Naval Engineering and architectural Works,
has already arrived from England, as also Mr Gabrielli,
contractor for the excavations in the new port. The Lords
Commissioners expected here are the Duke of Somerset,
Rear-Admiral Drummond, and Mr Childers. Rear-Admi-

ral Robinson, Controller of the Navy, is also on board the
Enchantress. no Gibraltar will probably hoist the
Command er-in-Chiet's flag on the Marlborough's leaving.

The Revenge, 73 (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral H. R.

Yelverton, C. 8.), Capt. the Hon. F. A. Foley, returned
from Tunis, Sousa, and Sfax on the 4th inst., leaving the
Phoebe, 35, Capt. T. Fortescue, and the Pelican, 17, Com-

mander Comber, for the protection of British interests. Her
Majesty's steam gunvessel Wanderer, 4, Commander M. C.
Seymour, lef t port on the 29th ult. for Patras and the Pirous
of Athens, with stores and provisions for the Liffey and
Trident. The Firefly, 4, Lieut.-Commander G. R. Wilkin-
.

son, arrived on the idinst. from Trapani and Marsala. She
will return in a few days to resume her survey on that coast,
where she has been doing important eervice, the whole of

that region, strange to say, being very imperfectly known,
and very erroneously laid down in the charts Among other
things it has been ascertained that the rocky island of Ma-
rittimo, which was believed to be only seven miles in cir-
cumference, has really a circumference no less than 14 miles.
The paddlewheel frigate Magicienne, 16, Capt. Armytage,
arrived on the sth inst. from Patras. Deputy Commissary-
Gen. G. Home, as officer in charge of the commissariat at
Malta, arrived here on the 29th ult. from England. The
Rev. S. Clark, chaplain to the forces in this garrison,
left Malta last week for England, having bad his post
transferred to Woolwich. The English schooner yacht

Redgauntlet, Ca/,t. J. N. Ferrall (proprietor), sailed for
England on the 30th ult., having one passenger, Mr P.
Nolan. The Cicile, schooner yacht, belonging to the Mar-
quis of Drogheda, arrived on the 4th inst. from byra, and
leaves on Saturday for England. The Turkish war steamer
Mohubri Souror, having on board the Turkish commis-
sioner, arrived from Tunis on the 24th ult., and continued
her route on the 27th for Constantinople, accompanied by
the steam tender Peki Cherif. Her Majesty's ship Chanti-
cleer, 17, Commander J. E. Risk, arrived this morning from
Sfax, and the Racer, 11, Commander J. N. S. Saulez, came
in shortly afterwards from Benghazi, having been employed
in assisting at the operation of repairing the Malta and
Alexandria cable. The Egyptian screw frigate Ibrahimie
came in this morning from Alexandria, bound for Marseilles.
On entering port she gave and received the usual salutes.
The Bristol, 39, 600 horse power, is being rapidly pushed
forward for the first division of the Chatham Steam Re-
serve, and has a large number of hands employed both aloft
and on decks in rigging and bringing her forward. She is
nearly complete in her rigging, but there is still a large
amount of work remaining to be executed on board. Ac-
cording to orders received at Chatham, her armament will
consist of 14 8 .inch guns, and 12 64-pounder rifled guns
on rere chock carriages on her main deck ; together with

four 110-pounder Amstrongs on slide carriages, and one
110-pounder Armstrong on revolving carriage on her upper
deck. _ _ _

The paddlewheel steamer Terrible, 21, 800 horse power,
fitting in the steam basin for the first class Steam Reserve,
in readiness for immediate commission, is rapidly approach-
ing completion, and is all ataut as to her rigging. By
direction of the Admiralty every possible exertion is to be
used in getting her out of hand and ready for the pennant.
A numerous body of mechanics from the steam factory is
busily employed in the work of fitting her engines and
machinery on board. The orders received at Chatham for
her armament direct some alterations from thosa previously
ordered, and she will, according to existing arrangements,
mount nine 100-pounder Armstrongs, 10 8-inch 60 Gift
smooth• bores, and a couple of the old 63-pounder 95 cwt
cast-iron guns. _ _

Yesterday the officers seamen, and Royal Marines belong-
ing to the iron frigate Achilles, 20, 1,250-horse powers Capt,
E. W. Vansittart, who have been berthed on board the sail-
ing frigate Gloucester, 50, in Chatham harbour, during the
time the ironclad vessel has been fitted for sea, were turned
over to the Achilles, the paddlewheel steamers Adder and
Otter being employed in the work of conveying the officers
and seamen from the one vessel to the other. Only a few
mechanics now remain employed on board the iron ship,

nearly the whole of the workmen having again resumed their
duties at the dockyard, the ironclad frigates Lord Warden
and Bellerophon employing the whole resources of the
establishment. The Achilles was to be ready to take her
departure from Chatham to-day ; but late yesterday it was
announced that she was not likely to get away from her
moorings until to-morrow or the following day, when, ac-
cording to existing arrangements, she proceeded to the
Nore. There she will remain for a few days for the adjust-
ment of her compases and other matters, proceeding thence
to Plymouth for the customary docking before leaving for
her first cruise.
Her Majesty's screw troopship Urgent, Capt. Samuel H.
Henderson, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning
from Quebec, with the 2d battalion of the Scots Fusileer
Foot Guards on board, in the following strength : Colonel
F. C. A. Stephenson, C. 8., in command ; Lieut.-Cols. E.
Neville, Hon. R. Mostyn, and G. H. Moncrieff; Capts. E. M.
Beresford, W. S. Rooke and Mrs Rooke, Hon. S. Massey,
G. Smith, Duke of Athol° and Duchess of Athole ; Lieuts.
T. P. Grahams, Lord Rosehill, G. Gosling, and P. Begot ;
Captain and Adjutant S. V. Stephenson; Quartermaster
W. Smith ; Assistant-Surgeon H. Turner; Captain V. St
J. N. Barne, Assist.-Surg, F. B, Baker, attached to the re-
giment from other corps ; 30 sergeants, 24 drummers, 24
corporals, 455 privates, 4 officers' servants, 64 soldiers' wives,
62 soldiers' children, and 4 sergeants, 3 corporals, and 2
privates attached to the regiment from other corps.
There was on board four officers' horses. The landing of
the heavy baggage of the battalion commenced from the
Urgent, alongside Portsmouth dockyard, at 10 o'clock yes-
terday morning, and at 2 p.m. the men had marched to the
north end of the yard, preceded by the regimental drums,
fifes, and pipes, and had formed up in fours alongside the
special train. It consisted of 25 carriages and two guard
and break vans, which had been prepared and brought into
the yard for their accommodation. In rather less than 16
minutes more the train had left the yard for the Landport
and Waterloo station of the London and South Western
Railway Company. The disembarkation of the troops was
effected under the personal direction of Col. Shadwell, As-
sistant Quartermaster-General for the South-west District ;
and to the energetic management of this officer, coupled
with the prompt and very efficient manner in which the
South Western Railway Campany's officials seconded his
efforts may be fairly attributed the present perfection of the
system in use at Portsmouth for the embarkation or disem-
barkation of troops.
The following draughts have left the camp at Colchester
to join the service companies of their respective regiments :
—B4 non-commissioned officers and privates of the 76th
Regiment have proceeded to Southampton to embark for
New Zealand, and 25 rank and file of the Ist battalion, sth
Fusiliers, have left for Woolwich to join headquarters at
that station. Mr G. Turner, of Jpswich, has been appointed
by Earl de Grey and Ripon auctioneer for the sale of cast
cavalry and artillery horses for the depot at Colchester.
Le Cuvier French steam corvette arrived at Great Yar-
mouth a day or two since.

THE BOMBAY MAIL,

By the present mail we have advices and papers
from Bombay to Sept. 9. There is nothing of
striking interest in the news. The principal events
will be found in our extracts from the Bombay
papers.
The limes of India says :

The Viceroy's prospective visit to Lahore in October next
is for the purpose of holding a durbar to receive all the
chiefs of the Punjaub province. The 20th is the day ap-
pointed for the durbar. His excellency will return to Cal-
cutta immediately after, and open the legislative session,
which is expected to be an important one. En route Delhi
will, for the first sime since the rebellion, be one of the
stations selected for a durbar.
Sir Alexander Lawrence, son of the late Sir Henry, and
nephew of the Viceroy, met with instantaneous death by a
bridge over:a precipice in the Thibet road having given way
under his horse.

An embassy has just arrived in Cashmere from Hokand,
an independent sovereignty in Central Asia, en route to his
Excellency the Viceroy, to procure the advice and assistance
of the British in reference to the attempts of the Russians
to make a high road for troops through that kingdom.
The old pretender to the throne of Thibet having raised a
force in Chinch, is threatening Thibet proper. The Bhoota-
nese will thus be disappointed of the assistance upon which
they have been relying from Thibet, the Lama having his
hands full at home.

The Judicial Commissioner of the Punjaub has confirmed
the judgment of the sessions judge at Umbella, Sir. H.
Edwardes, In re Mahomed Shuffee and others, all of whom
are to be transported for life.
A commission is to be appointed to investigate the causes
and origin of the great irregularities in the working of tele-
graphic communication throughout India, and to examine
into the efficiency of all officers and employes connected
with the department.
The Government estate at Dapoorie (near Poona), con-
sisting of 80 acres of land, with numerous buildings, is to
be sold by public auction, under the orders of Government
on the 22d inst.
Sir W. Denison, the Governor of Madras, has refused to
carry out Sir C. Wood's instructions relative to the position
of the Indian local officers, on the grounds that they are
opposed to the Royal wishes, and are a flagrant violation of
the guarantee granted by the Imperial Parliament to the
officers of the army of the Ilate Company. His excellency
is of opinion that the officers of the European regiments
who were tramforred to the service of the Crown should
have been allowed to retain Indian pay and allowanoes,
and that the manner in which those regiments were officered
was unjust, illegal, and contrary to the guarantee given to
the Indian service.
Preparations for the Bhootan expedition are progressing
fast. A large supply of ordnance has been shipped from
Calcutta to Assam.
The Nawab of Kotah has been b uilding a strong forti •
ficat ion in his province. The Government has insisted on
demolishing it, and the Nawab finds he must consent,,

, .
Two officers, one selected by the commander in chief in
India, and the other by the lieutenant governor of Bengal,
have been appointed to arrange for the establishment on
the Bhootan frontier of a line of defences as was directed
by the Viceroy in council last June.
An inundation occurred at Mooltan which swept nearly
all the civil station into the Chenab. The water was four
feet deep on the highest roads. Immense destruction of
property, and crops extensively ruined.
A report on the general sanitary condition of the
Bombay army, by Dr A. H. Leith, president of the sani-
tary commission for Bombay, has just been published,
greatly modifying the conclusions of the Royal commission
on this subject,

A long and valuable paper by Major Martin, her Ma-
jesty's 4th Regiment, containing suggestions for mitigating
the pilgrim nuisance, has been sent to Dr Leith, with a re-
quest that he would favour government with his opinion as
to the best practical means of dealing with the evil.
The Hindoostanee fanatics who found a residence in Ca-
bool have been driven out to the westward beyond Herat,
and completely dispersed.
The inhabitants of the KubhooValley in Munipoor (Bur-
mah), a district which was restored to Ava on the conclu•
sion of the treaty with Burmah, have petitioned the British
Government to be again taken under its care, in conse-
quence of the oppressive character of the Government of
their own people.
A line of railway has been decided on which will connect
Indore, Neemuchi, Nusseerabad, Ajmore, and Jeypore with
1 Delhi.

The contract for the extension of the south-eastern line
of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway to Hyderabad in
the Deccan will be given out at the beginning of next year
in two portions.

Premchund Eoychund, Lq., has contributed the muni-
ficent sum of two lace of rupees for the erection of a univer-
sity library in Bombay. The gift is unfettered by conditions,
and has been accepted by Government.
Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway will be
opened throughout on the Ist Nov. next.
The Wages Bill was read a third time and passed the
Legislative Council of Bombay on the 3d inst., minus the
3d, 4th, 6th, 7th, and Bth sections.
It is stated that Sir C. Trevelyan retires from India in
April next, and that no successor with the title of Finance
Minister will be appointed. The manager of the finances
will bo a secretary merely.
Col. Durand is to be appointed Governor General's agent
for the states of Rajpootana. He is to be succeeded in the
foreign secretaryship by Mr W. Muir.
Favourable accounts continue to be received from the die •
Wets of the state of the crops. Ina few localities there has
been a scarcity of rain, and the crops have suffered.
In Bombay we have had about 60 inches of rain. We
have therefore considerable leeway to make up, our average
being from 75 to 80 inches.
We find the following in the Bombay Gazette:—
Mr Thos. Weeding, of the Bombay civil service, and
acting judge and session judge of Kurrachee, committed
suicide by cutting his throat while in a fit of delirium from
fever, on the 26th August.

Dr. Leith's report on the general sanitary condition of the
European troops of the Bombay army has been published
by Government. The ratio per 1,000 deaths to strength in
1863 was only 12.06, and in the last 15 years it has de-
clined from 29.0 per 1,000 to this rate.
There are bad accounts of the new crop of cotton in the
Bombay Presidency, which, it is understood, will at all
events not exceed in quantity that of the previous year.
It is reported that the cotton crop will, in all probability,
be much less this year in the Bengal provinces than it was
last year.
It is rumoured that his Excellency Sir WM. Rose Mans-
field expects to proceed home shortly to undertake the
duties of Secretary of State for War, in succession to Lord
De Grey— and that Sir Hope Grant will succeed Sir Hugh
Rose as commander in chief in India.
His Excellency Sir Hugh Rose will be at Lucknow in
the end of November, from whence he will proceed, to Cal-
cutta, which is in future to be the headquarters of the Ben-
gal army, and not Simla.
The first portion of our troops intended to be sent against
the Bhootanese will push towards the Bhootan passes by
the end of October next, but by what route it has not yet
been decided. The country is in a very disturbed state
owing to the intrigues of the minister.
The line of railway which is destined to connect the
North-West Provinces with Bombay, it has finally been
settled shall run via Indere, Neemuch, Nusseerabad, Aj-
mere, Jeypore, and Delhi ; and a branch line will be con-
structed to meet it from Agra through Muttra and Ulwar.
A sad case of wholesale poisoning has occurred at the
Byculla Schools in Bombay. Fifteen boys partook of some
arsenic which was picked up by one of them in their play-
ground, one of whom died from the effects of the poison.
All the others have recovered. Mr Cassels has introduced
a bill into the Legislative Council for restricting the sale of
poisons, which are now procurable in any quantity without

licence. , pay
lau master of her Majesty's 72d High-
who was reported to have absconded as a
defaulter, has been entirely absolved from any imputations
High-
Captain
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Is,Fihowow, le,r,
on his character; his accounts, which were at one time
thought to be in an unsatisfactory state, having turned out
to be all right.
There has been a great inundation at Mooltan, and fears
are entertained in regard to the overflowing of the Chenab,
which is expected to burst its banks and produce a catas-
trophe like that at Sheffield. The river has been obstructed
by Col. Walter, C,8., com-
ainst
—Ai t is
commissionsup osed by glacier—near its source.
has a
been
appointed by the Viceroy to inves-
tigate
the
the Rev. W. Simpson,
buriale of those who died at part of that gentleman in
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Agra during the latter part of 1857, when the cholera was
raging there, and the deaths were very numerous.
The Court which tried Major C. Murray, of the Bengal
Staff corps, for circulating an offensive letter reflecting on
the character of his brother-in-law, Major W. Binney, of
the same corps, has found him guilty of unmilitary, but not
of ungentlemanly, conduct, and has sentenced him to be re-
primanded, which sentence Sir Hugh Rose confirmed.
Col. Eden, the political agant in Meywar, has'again been
mobbed by a number of rioters, who attacked his house and
tried to seize him with the intention of killing him. He
was saved by the young Rajah, who fortunately came to
hie assistance in time to prevent his being torn to pieces by
the mob.
A notorious Thug has been captured in the Sealkote dis-
trict of the Punjab who is accused of having been impli-
cated in 57 cases of poisoning, and has five times made his
escape from prison.
The Rifle Association of Western India are now hold-

ing their annual meeting at Poona. The shooting has been
good. The Challenge Cup was won this year by Mr D.
Beynon, and the same gentleman has also carried off the
silver medal presented by the National Rifle Association of
England.
Lieut. Clarke, of the F battery 14th brigade Royal Ar-
tillery, whilst out shooting near Deese, on the borders of
Rajpootana, on the 23d August, was sadly maukd by a
lioness, and has had to suffer amputation of the left arm.
Terms of peace have been finally ratified between the
A.meer of Cabool and his brothers, Sirdar Mahomed Ufzul
Khan and Sirdar Mahomed Auzim Khan ; and the Ameer
was expected to return to his capital about the end of

August.
Another seditious proclamation has been going the rounds
among the Mahomedans on the North-West frontier, to the
effect that Prince Feroze Shah is still alive in Arabia, and is
engaged in collecting forces to re-conquer India from the
British.

A smart shock of earthquake was felt at Guadur, on the
Mekran coast, on the 25th August, at a quarter to one o'clock
a.m., but it did not do any serious mischief. The wave
passed from north to south. Portions of the ledges of the
Mekran and Guadur mountains were thrown down with a
tremendous crash.

The following important official changes are about to be
Made :—Colonel Durand gets Rajpootana, to Le succeeded
in the foreign secretaryship by Mr W. Muir; Mr C. B.
Thornhill obtains a seat on the Sadder bench of the North
West Provinces.

OBITUARY.—Thomas Weeding, Eq., BoMbay Civil
Service ; Mr George Woodhall, of the firm of Chesson and
Woodhall ; Lieut. J. S. Humphrey, Royal Artillery ; and
Captain Clermont Hugh Costobadie, 3d Dragoon Guards.

Sir George Grey at Morpethi

On Friday evening a public meeting:was held in the Cor-
poration Hall, Morpeth, in aid of the Morpeth Young Men's
Mutual Improvement Association. The Right Hon. Sir
G. Grey, M.P. for the borough, occupied the chair, and
there was a large attendance of the inhabitants of the town.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said he had
great pleasure in accepting the invitation he lately received
to be present on that occasion, and to take part in the pro-
ceedings of that evening's meeting. (Applause.) He was
sure the association on whose behalf they had met required
no arguments from him to recommend it to their encou-
ragement and support. He Lund that the association had
been two years in existence, and that during that period a
number of young men belonging to that town had enrolled
themselves as members. He found, also, that during that
time it had not only acquired, by purchase or by gift,
many useful and instructive books for the use of its mem-
bers, but that there had been. in addition, historical read-
ings, and lectures had been delivered by various gentle-
men, from time to time, on subjects of literary and general
interest, well calculated, as far as he could judge from
their subject-matter, and from the character and names of
the gentlemen that had given them, to promote what he
found stated in the circular of the society to be its object,
viz,, the intellectual, moral, and religious improvement of
those young men that enrolled themselves members of the
society. Such an institution, if young men availed them-
selves of it, would, besides their moral and religious im-
provement, tend to qualify them for the competitive exami-
nations which they all knew were the doors to almost all
employment in the civil service of the country, But they
would find that the objects those institutions had in view
were still higher than any considerations that might be at-
tached to such as aimed merely to prepare a young man for
these competitive examinations. They must consider that
they would encourage direct industry and talent in the ac-
quisition of knowledge by establishing a system which held
out to young wen of talent and industry that reward which
was due to the exercise of their industry, and the posses-
sion and right use of those talents; but, at the same time,
there was something of a higher character aimed at—to give
solid and substantial knowledge and to tend to the forma-
tion of those habits and principles that would be useful to
the young men hereafter, when they entered upon the
duties and responsibilities of life. There was a mechanics'
institute and a reading-room in their town, in which many
gentlemen took a very warm and very laudable interest. It
was a valuable institution, which gave an opportunity of
profitable mutual intercourse, and gave also to its members
an opportunity of access to works of a standard character,
as well as the periodical literature of the day; but they
must all feel that it did not supply what was one of the ob-
jects of that institution to provide—namely, means of im-
provement, moral, intellectual, and religious, to young men
at that very important period of their lives, between the
time of, their leaving school and their arrival at manhood,
and entering upon the ordinary duties, cares, and respon-
sibilities of life. The Mechanics Institute would, there-

fore, be considered as a kindred, but not as a rival, institu-
tion; for those young men that best appreciated the advan-
tages that institution held out to them would be best able
to appreciate the advantages of the Mechanics' Institute
hereafter. (Applause.) They had also in that town schools
which were, he had no doubt, well calculated to lay a solid
foundation of useful knowledge, and calculated, also, to
form sound principles in the minds of those boys instructed
in them. But in schools of that kind the learning was
mainly of an elementary character, for, considering the early
age at which boys generally left school, they must be consi-
dered as having only received the foundation of their future
education; and that future education must depend very
much upon the habits of young men on their emergence from
the schools. (Applause.) If any boy leaving the school at
the ordinary age when boys left it thought his education
finished, and that he need not exert himself to improve his
mind and acquire knowledge, he might be assured that in
after life ho would have cause to regret his neglect, and find
that he had not secured many things conducive to his well.
being in life and hie position as a member of society. To
speak of education as distinct from instruction, which was
only given in the schools, and which, though most valu-
able in itself, must yet be considered as only the foundation
of education, and of the means of acquiring useful know •
ledge in after life, and of forming good habits and sound
principles, led him to quote from what struck him as a
most admirable discourse on education in its widest sense,
delivered lately in York, by the archbishop of that province.
In that discourse, he said—" Education is the training of
the whole mind for the world around it,for the duties it has
to discharge here, and the services it has to perform to its
God and Saviour—the mental, moral, and religious train-
ing of souls marked by God for His own." If he accepted
that as a definition of education in its widest sense he did
not think there was one amongst them that could Bay his
education was ended, for they might always be improving
themselves in the sense in which education was defined so
well and truly by the • archbishop. Bat while education
might thus be going on through life it was important to
bear in mind that youth was the time most especially ap-
proximate for mental culture—to the acquisition of know-
ledge and formation of sound principles and habits
such as would be valuable to them as long as they lived. It
was the seed time of a rich harvest they were all to see
hereafter. But, unfortunately for many, they neglected it,
and wasted their youth, spending their time in sensual in-
dulgences. He could not, therefore, impress too strongly
upon the minds of those present who had already availed
themselves of the advantages of that institution to improve
to the fullest extent their opportunities, being assured that
if they did so, they would meet with their reward,- and never
have cause to repent devoting that which they could spare
from their ordinary work and their recreations—which he
for one would not wish to see them deprived of—to improv-
ing their mind, so as to profit by the advantages held out
to them by institutions like that. He found, however, in
the circular which had been read, that with reference to the
object for which that meeting had been held its usefulness
was limited for want of funds, and that " it is now proposed
by a public meeting to make the institution more widely
known, and, by the aid of honorary members, to obtain a
more commodious apartment in which to hold the meetings
weekly, and purchase some works of reference, so that the
present members may have increased facilities for pursuing
the studies and amusements by which they have been bene-
fited, and that others may be induced to participate in their
advantages." He was quite sure there would be every dis-
position on the part of those placed in a position to do so to
support the existence of an institution like that; but with
relation to that one thing suggested itself to his mind, and
that was that they should not allow institutions of that kind
to depend too much on extraneous aid; for if they were to
produce the fruit they wished to see they must be main-
tained and managed chiefly by those for whose benefit they
were intended. In course of time their value would be
appreciated ; and if those for whose benefit they were in-
tended were willing to make a sacrifice in order to maintain
their institutions and make them inde pendent they would
succeed so much the better. It was quite right there should
be honorary members, because there were many who were
willing to assist those that wished to help themselves, and
who showed themselves capable of acting independently in
matters affecting their own interest. In referring to another
portion of the circular he found two objects pointed out
which ho did not consider came wit hin the class of ordinary
expenditure. These objects were s aid to be the promise of a
more spacious apartment and the purchase of works of re-
ference. These seemed to him to be legitimate objects for
which they might call in others to assist there's. It was very
desirable that they should have a more commodious place
of meeting than the room at present appropriated to that
purpose; and he hoped that they wor ad be successful in
obtaining that help which they sough t. He had alluded a
short while ago to the Mechanics' Institute, and he ws.
bound to say that, useful as it might be, the room in which
its meetings were held was not worth y of the institution and
its objects—(applause)—and he hop ed, for its own sake, and
for the reputation of Morpeth, it v 7ould soon have a better
place of meeting. (Applause.) Ile did not know whether
it was practicable at all, but ho Ti =Awed to suggest that it