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with plans and proposals, but nothing is more
arduous than to say in what manner the errors may
be rectified. In every sense of the word, such a
society as this must be an advantage, end it is
earnestly to be trusted that Lord STANLEY'S earnest
and eloquent speech may not be unproductive of
results, both immediate and perspective, not only
in gaining the means of assistance now, but in
serving to convince some Rho doubt, and confirm
those who waver, as to the propriety of
affording help to the establishment and sup-
port of this and of kindred institutions. As
Lord STANLEY observed, there is nothing so
expensive as poverty or that succeeds like success,
and there is plenty of room for exertion of all kinds
to conduce to the well-being of this establishment.
Aid," emphatically concluded the noble lord,
" although this is but a small matter, I confidently
believe that in this, as in every other matter,
Manchester will not forfeit but increase the great
name for liberality that she has obtained during
the two years of the cotton famine."

The address of the Archbishop of YORK, at the
Huddersfield soiree the other evening, was not
without interest, and the remarks he made on the
literature of the day contained a good deal of truth.
Generally speaking, the heads of institutes and
public libraries are far too severe in their strictures
on works of imagination. They are too rigid in
their exclusion of all that dots not directly tend to
positive instruction ; and the consequence is, that
while those who have a taste for science, history,
or other branches of study, are glad to avail
themselves of the works put within their reach, the
far larger and more mixed class of general readers
turn in disgust from the to them dry
and unattractive shelves. This is surely
a great mistake if these establishments
are intended for public use and profit, and not only
for the good of a very limited ❑umber. There is
no denying the evident truth that by far the largest
proportion of readers in every class prefer what is
styled light literature, reviews, magazines, and
works of fiction to solid treatises or learned disqui-
sitions. Surely it is better, then, to meat the general
want with a liberal supply of good material,
rather than, by refusing to provide what is most
wanted, drive the readers to the extravagant
trash which is always within the reach of those
who have a penny or two to spare. If MIIDIE
introduced as sparing a supply of fiction into his
extersive shelves, wo suspect his operations
would very soon be considerably curtailed ;
and it has undoubtedly been the mistake
of many conscientious well-wishers of the poorer
classes, instead of really catering for their wants,
and substituting good for bad of the same material,
to try to force them to live up to strict theories and
to put inclination and habit altogether i❑ the
shade. We suspect if these libraries and institutes
were made more attractive, we should hear fewer
complaints of thin attendance and diminishing
numbers, and it would be well if those who really
wish to cultivate the taste and raise the intelligence
of cur masses would begin with the small end of the
wedge instead of the large one. Nevertheless, the
Archbishop's remarks un the evil tendencies of that
extravagant" sensational" literature which is now so
fashionable are perfectl3 just, and it is by employing
these wholesome and interesting works with
which our literature is so abundantly supplied, to
neutralise their attractions, that we shall best sues
teed in counteracting these evil influences, and
not in running altogether counter to one of the
great wants of civilized man—the gratification of
the imaginative faculties.
he National Polish Government.

TO THE EDITOR. OF THE SUN.
Sir,—Be so kind as to publish the folio% ing lines in your
worthy journal :
After previous advice from the N alone' Polish Govern.
ment I have sanctioned, on the 14th August last, Colonel
Louis Oborski, Captain Constantin Bobczynski, and
Anthony Zibicki, Polish gentlemen, as members of the
Polish Committee for Great Britain and Ireland. They
are the only persons authorised to seek aid and receive
donations from the generous British nation for the cause of
Poland,

A. GUTTR,
Commissioxer of the N ationaYl Polish Government
for France and England.
Paris, Oct. 24, 1861.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—At the Council
held by the Queen at Windsor Castle, on Tuesday last,
Parliament was further prorogued from Friday, 11th inst.,
to Friday, the 13th of January next.
FUNERAL OF ANEW ZEALANDER.—On Tuesday
afternoon the remains of Ananea Te Tauhou, the
native of New Zealand who died a few days since at St.
Mary's Hospital, were buried, in accordance with a wish
he had expressed, in Clewer churchyard, near Windsor, The
deceased was a native of Ngungwu, Bay of Islands, New
Zealand. He was induced some months since, by a person
named Haggerty, to visit England with some of his coun-
trymen, for the ostensible purpose of seeing the Queen and
the wonders of England, but really that the person who
brought him might speculate by showing him and his
companions at public exhibitions. Finally, having been
defrauded of about £3O, he was left in a destitute condition.
He contracted bronchitis and consumption, fell ill, and
died in St. Mary's Hospital on Thursday. A. benevolent
lady, who had interested herself in the case of these New
Z 3alanders, and rescued them from the abject condition in
which they were left, was with the poor fellow when he
died. He expressed how much he had longed to see Wind-
sor, and she promised him that he should be buried there,
which pleased him very much. The bady was removed from
London, and followed by several of his compatriots and
some friends who had known him abroad. The funeral ser.
vice was conducted by the Rev. T. T. Carter and the Rev,
James O'Brien. Ananea Te Tauhou was 33 years of age.
TIIE REWARD OF TIEROISM.—On Tuesday even•
ing a public meeting was held at Willenhall, near
to Wolverhampton, to present to a labourer in an ironworks
in that locality, named Henry Hughes, the thanks of the
Humane Society, embossed on vellum and framed; and
also with a purse of £7, which had been subscribed for him
in the town. The presentation was made by the Rev. G.
H. Fisher, J.P., the incumbent of Willenhall. On a pre-
vious occasion Hughes had teceived the medal of the
society named. Twice he had, at the imminent risk of his
own life, saved the lives of others. Once he saved five
children from drowning in a pool of deep water; and in
February last other five children had sunk beneath the ice
of another pool, when the heroism of Hughes alone pre-
served them from death.

CHARGE OF STABBING.--At Tadcaster, on Mon-
day, Mr Thomas Matthews, a farmer of 250 acres
of land at Tadcaster, was charged with having cut and
wounded George Lazenby, on the 19th ult., since which
date, until yesterday, the prosecutor had not been able to
appear. On the day named there had been a sale of turnips
in Tadcastor, and at night a number of men mot at the
Wild Man Inn. The prisoner was very noisy, and ulti-
mately was rejected. Suddenly he reappeared in the par-
lour, and fastened upon the prosecutor, who cried, ''he's
yucking' something through my neck " In a few
sceonds
Matthews was covered with blood from two wounds, one in
the cheek, the other, and the more serions one, in the neck,
near to the lirge blood vessels. All the soft parts of the
neck were divided, and the windpipe was laid bare. Mr
Ireland was still attending the prosecutor. Mr Broaroy
said he should reserve his defence of his client, The
prisoner was then committed for trial at tho Assizes, but
the Bench said, on application being made, that they
would grant bail to the pri/oner, himself in the sum of
£;300, and two securities in £2OO each.---khegeld Daily

DEATH OF THE CORONER FOR EAST SUSSIX.-It
is with unfeigned regret we chronicle the death of
Mr F. 11. GAI, of Lewes, a gentleman well known in
Brighton, and who for the last 35 years has been coroner
for East Sussex. The sad event happened at the deceased's
own residence, School-hill, Lewes, on the afternoon of
Monday last. From a county contemporary we learn that
Mr (Tell, although in his 80th year, attended to his public
duties as coroner, &co., up to within a few days of his
death. He officiated at an inquest held at Uckfield on
Monday, the 24th ult, but upon his return expressed him-
self as feeling somewhat unwell, He retired to bed, which
he never again left from that time, and was constantly at-
tended by his medical adviser, Mr Turner. He gradually
sank from a natural decay of the vital powers, and on the
morning of the day of his death there was such a decided
change in him that him medical attendant gave up all hopes
of his recovery. The family of the deceased gentleman
were summoned to his bedside, and in their presence he
peacefully breathed his last,-13righOn guardian,