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N0.18,723.] LONDON, THURSDAY E E
SEPTEMBER 23, 1852.
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THE NATIONAL PATENT STEAM FUEL
COMPANY.
(Completely Registered.)
The Directors beg to announce that this COMPANY is now
COMPLETELY REGISTERED, under the powers of the 7th and
Bth Vie., cap. 110, having rece ved the usual Certificate to that
effect from the Registrar.
The Directors take this opportunity of assuring the Shareholders
that having every confidence in the pro!perity of the undertaking,
they and their friends have subscribed the necessary amount of
capital for the purpose of complying with the conditions of the Act
of Parliament.
The Sharehollers, therefore, will not be required to sign the deed
of the Compauy until after a dividend has been declared.
By order,
OSMUND LEWIS, Secretary.
The National Patent Steam Fuel Company,
49 Fenchurch-stree., Sept. 21,1852.

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THE NATIONAL PATENT STEAM FUEL
COMPANY.
The Shareholders are informed that the necessary proceedings
will be immediately adopted to obtain a Royal Charter of Incorpo-
ration, by which the liability of each Subscriber will be limited to the
amount of his shares in the capital of the Company. The Directors
have much pleasure in announcing that in consequence of subject attenof
-
tion of the public having been lately directed to the
Patent Fuel, the merits of the Steam Fuel of this Company manu-
factured with pitch, have been fully established; and, independent
of its being a preservative of health on board ship, it contains supe-
rior capabilities of quickly raising steam, retention of strength in a
tropical climate, impossibility of spontaneous combustion, and eco-
nomy in stowage, by which fully twenty-five per cent. in bulk is
saved. Cargoes of this fuel are now being shipped
hirat Liver
and con-
pool
from this Company's works at Queen's Ferry, Flintse,
tracts to a considerable amount, extending over the next three
years, have also been submitted to the Directors, which will be exe-
cuted as soon as the Company's works in South Wales are completed.
By order,
OSMUND LEWIS, Secretary.
The National Fatent Steam Fuel Company, 49, Fenchurch-
street, Sept. 21, 1852.

THE NATIONAL PATENT STEAM FUEL
COMPANY.
The Directors have much pleasure in referring the Shareholders of
this Comn to the following List of Liverpool Steamers which
have been supplied with the FUEL from the Works at Queen's
Ferry, Flintshire :
Name of Steamer.

Where for. When Supplied.
. ....Mediterranean •• .. 3l March, 1851
11. 31 March, 1851
17 July, 1851
- 4 August, 1851

Rattler .... •
Arn0.......
Rattler .......• • • • • • •

Pirate .....• •••• • • • • ++ •••• • . • . . ,
Brigand .... •••• • • • • ........11 Seitember, 1851
90
•,
Astrologer ..... ..... 8 October, 1851
~
........ 10 February, 1852
Astrologer
..... . ..3 March, 1852
fl,
City of Manchester .. America ..... .......
March,6 March, 1852
Arno •.. .... .. .... ....Mediterranean .... ..12 1852
.12 March, 1852

Brigand .... •••• • • • -
Arabian .. ••••• • • • • -

"..22 March. 1852
........22 BiarchrlBs2

Pirate ........ ••• • • •

10 April, 1852

Pirate

27 April, 1852

Grecian....
City of Manchester • . America .. 30 April, 1852
City of Glasgow ... • ..28 May, 1852
If
Sarah Sands ........ •, ...„.., Julie, 1852
Arno ............ .. _Mediterranean _ls Jane, 1852
. ...15 June, 1852
Tiber.... f t
City of Manchester ..Amoica ............22 June, 1852
Grecian...—. . ..... Mediterranean
Tiber ........... ..... .. • • ....30 June, 1852
f 0
........14 August, 1852

Arno .••••••••••••••• .........
~
Orontes .......• • • • • ••
~
If
Livorno .....• ••• • • •.. ..... 11 oeptember, 1852
The numerous certificates which have been granted by the en-
gineers of the different steamers prove the favourab pin
le oion they
entertain of the superior qualities of this Company's fuel, and of their
decided preference to its use on board their vessels over the best
steam coal of the kingdom.

OSMUND LEWIS, Secretary.=
The National Patent Steam Fuel Company, 49, Feneharch-street,
;ptember 21, 1852

S,
MIDLAND RAILWAY.
Secretary's Office, Derby, 21st Sept., 1852.
To the Holders of Midland Bradford Scrip.
I am instructed to remind you that the second and last instalment
of 801. upon each Midland Bradford Share will be due on the 28th
instant, and that the directors reserve to themselves the right of re-
allotting those shares upon which the amount is not paid on or
before that day.
By order

J. F. BELL, Secretary.

ALLSOPP S PALE ALES.
BARON LIEBIG ON CERTAIN LATE ANONYMOUS
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Extract of a Letter dated Munich, 12th September, 1852,
Baron Liebig to Mr. Henry Allsopp, Brewery, Burton-on-Trent. from
"To my great astonishment and concern, my attention has lately
been called to several anonymous articles and advertisements
headed by my name, such as in the --, whose author altogether
misrepresents the motives of my remarks, and even goes so far as to
say 'that I had never analysed your beer, nor perhaps ever tasted it
in my life,' and to allege a retraetation on my part of the original
statement.
" I emphatically declare that I had not the slightest knowledge of
these anonymous articles, the contents of which I entirely disapprove
of; and that in every respect I adhere to the statement ntade in my
letter to you, which certainly you were, and are at perfect liberty to
publish."
" Munich, 12th September, 1852.
BRITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH,
NEW-ROAD, LONDON.
THE HYGEIAN OR MORISONIAN SYSTEM OF MEDICINE.
1. All animal bodies consist of fluids and solids.
2. While in a state of embryo, all animals consist entirely of
fluids.
3. It is f and by th flids that tho solids are formed.
4. The fluidsrom contained nu
the human body are four times the
weight of the solids.
b. The chief of the fluids is the blood, from which all others are
derived.
6. The blood not only repairs every part of the human machine,
but also carries with it all the rubbish or decayed parts, to be depo-
sited in the intestines, previous to being expelled along with the ex-
crement.
7. The blood is the life—the primum mobile--the first agent—from
which all others derive their origin.
8. Health depends upon the purity of the blood.
9. The purity of the blood depends upon its having free cutlets for
its decayed particles.
10. Disease is induced by the choking up of these outlets in the
mucus on the inner
bowels by reason of an accumulation of glary
surface of the intestines, &c.
11. This accumulation is occasioned by anything that weakens the
circulation or hurts digestion, but chiefly by the poisonous drugs and
bad treatment of the Faculty.
12. The impurities thus detained in the blood occasion every spe-
-
cies of disease, according to the quality of the humour, or the parti
cular locality in which it is lodged.
13. AU disease• arise from one source, therefore they may all be
cuieu oy one medicine.
14. Th sufficiently mast be a vegetable purgative, larioxious in it-
self, yet powerful to pervade the whole system, clear
away the abovementioned mucus, and purify the blood.
15. The discovery of a vegetable compound, capable of being di-
gested, and mixing with the blood, so as to impart to it that energy
requisite for ridding the body of all superfluous humours, was a de-
sideratum.
16. This discovery has been made by JAMES MORISON, the
Ilygeist, in the composition of the Vegetable Universal Medicine,
commonly known as Morison's Pills, ofthe British College of Health,
Hamilton-place., Ring's-cross, New-road, London.

[T. No. 6.]

—For the last three months samples
ofAUTUMN.—For
N
Un
materials have been daily pouring in from all the
celebrated manufactories in the world, The amplitude of pattern
and magnificent finish displayed in these new styles for Autumn
have afforded full scope fur the matured judgment of E MOSES
and SON'S buyers, and the novelty, quality, and price of
offered to them in preference to any other Establishment, induced
goods
them to give the earliest orders on their usual nagnificent scale.
These new materials, for every description of Dress, are now sub-
mitted to the incomparable skill of distinct classes of artists,
Britis
and Foreign, in the employ of E. MOSES and SON, and will shortiy
be presented in novel styles surpassing every other invention.
E. MOSES and SO ara by immense purchases on their invariable
ready-money principle, have secured great allowances, and conse-
quently their new styles for Autumn will be charged lower than on
any previous season.
FROM ALL NATIONS TO TIIEn
the wold, the gold
mines are not exhausted, nor the labour market overstocked. The
superior equipment of many of the English is everywhere acknow-
ledged ; their means of comfort facilitates their
manner, B. success.
ETha MOSE St every
emigrant may be outfitted in the best possible
and SON have employed all the advantages of their magnificent and
universal trade, and that practical experience with Outfitting, which
is the result of undeviating attention to the largest business in the
world, conducted for the benefit of every class of emigrants to all
countries on the globe. Outfits may be selected to any amount the
emigrant desires, or the most profitable nestiments may be made in
Clothing, Hosiery, Boots, Shoes, Hats, e., all expressly pre-
pared for Australia ; a separate section for Emigrants' Outfits, con-
veniently connected with the other departments of their magnificent
business, where every article may be obtained at the lowest price,
and superior in quality to the productions of any house in the uni-
verse.
Fall Lists of Outfits, and all information relative fors ailing of
vessels and cost of passage may be had on application, post free
to any part of the kingdom.
SPECIAL NOTICE.—E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments will
be closed on THURSDAY next, September 23, and will re-open on
FRIDAY morning, September 24, at Seven o'clock.
CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the
public against imposition, having learned that tile untradesmanlike
falsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " it's
the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for
obvious reasons. They beg to state that they have
CONNEXIoN WITH ANY Establishments, BousE IN OR OUT OF LONDON,
except their own as follows
London City Establishment, 154, 155, 15e, and 167, nainortea, 83,
54, 85, and 86,
-endae, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London Westd Branch, 606, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2,
and 3, Hart-street, all communicating.
Yorkshire) Branch, 19, Bridge-street.
Bradford (
Sliefflold Branch, 36, Fargate.
aferehant Tailors, Clothiers, MUM'S, nosiera Fullers, Boot
and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters for Ladles and Gentlemen.
The aastaelishments are closed from stuiset Friday to insect on
aaturdays, schen businaro is renamed till Twelve o'clock.
A new Book, entitled " The Library of Elegance," containing a
fall list of prices, and
o directions for self-measurement, can be had,
gratis, on application, r forwarded, post-free, to any part of the
aingdom.
A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1852 can be had, gratis,
an application.
lei l'on pane Francais. Qui si parla Italians.
Bier spricht man Deutsch. I Aqua se habla Espanol.

Dg. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS.
To be had of Sherwood, '23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho,
47 Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Csrnhill ;or direct from the author ;
,
price One Shilling each;
ENJOYMENTbypost,I 0
s. 6dr.
LIFE.
"Health, Recreation, and Rational Use of Time."
CorrErirs :—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings—Ex-
cursions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills,
Forests, Fields, nigh-roads, and other pleasant places—Country
Tripsta,
and Rambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evenings at Home
—Music—TEhe Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping,
Bathing,
Air, Rest,ase, Occupation, &c., &h.

FRAGMENTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Two Vols.
Vol. I.
VISIT TO THE LAKES ; SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, Occ,
Vol.II.

TV LASES OF KILL iItNEY ; REMTNISCENCEFI OP
DUBLIN, &c.
111.
%TAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID,
" That three score years and ten our course may run."
A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner-
vously-debilitated health and enfeebled
business, o constAutir
study, andon, that haraem-
sses
the young, besets the ;flan of pleasure,
bitters old age ; with an
and rules for the diet and physical regu.
.atlon of every-day life.

IV.
TIM PASSIONS.

"What pan:ons hurt the body—
ever heard ." t imrove,
Truths as refined as Athens p
SCEJECT :—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old ago. The ad'
vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringement.. The casual-
ties oflieentionsnesS and dissipation, with Plustrations graphic,
rative, and remediative. Advocacy of early
marriage&

V.
THE MARRIAGE STATE.
To bo or not to be, that is the question."
rnmlLLmmit :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and
reli-
gion regarding marriage to be observed by either sea. Time an
choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and
By R. J. CITLVERWELL, M.D.
figure, toi secure
Physical defectiveness Sterility
and its conversion.
Cases, &c. healthy cfisprig, with the art of rearing them.
and its removal.
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'THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
62 SATURDAY, SEPT. 18th last, was published a
DOUBLE NUMBER of the ILLU D
NOBLESTRATEhe LONDON NEWS
DUKE,
,
price One Shilling, containing the LIFE of t
Illustrated with‘the following splendid Engravings :—His Birth-place
and Residence of his Family in Ireland—Battle of Talavera—The
Storming of Badajoz—Passage of the Douro —Waterloo : The
Farm-house —" Up Guards and at them "—" The Old Guard never
Surrenders "—Charge of French Cuira.siers—three Splendid Por-
traits : His Grace. as Field-Marshal, as Premier, as Chancellor of
the University of Oxford—The Congress of Vienna—View of Apsley
House—Wahner Castle—With other interesting Engravings, Illus-
trating a complete Life of the Duke, occupying forty-eight columns
of the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Besides Twenty other
Engravings of the News of the Week.
On SATURDAY, SEPT. 25th, 1852, will be published, in a
SPLENDID DOUBLE NUMBER, a Continuation of Illustrations
of the Life and Death of the Duke of Wellington : namely, Cas-
tlecarbury, the seat of the Cawley family—Church of Laracor,
adjoining Dangan Castle—The Wellington Column, at Trim—
Waimer Castle, Exterior ; Entrance to the Castle, and plan of the
Duke's Bed-room—Walmer Church, Exterior ; Interior—the Duke
attending service—Bust of the Duke, by Noble—Wellington Chair,
Bust, and Waterloo Flag in Windsor Castle—A Street Reminiscence
of the Duke—The Duke's Horses—The Duke on Horseback—Also
" A Dirge for Wellington ;" Poetry by Charles Mackay; Music by
Sir 11. R. Bishop—A Portrait of the Countess of Mornington, the
Mother of the Duke —Plan of the Funeral of Lord .Nelson, in St.
Paul's Cathedral.
The accompanying Number of the ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEWS contains the French President's Departure for the South—
Inundation of the Rhone—Algerian Antiquities in the Louvre (Two
Views) —" Stockwell," the Winner of the St. Leger, 1862—West-
wood House, the Seat of the Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington, M.P.—
Burning of the ship " Thomas Thompson"—Sword and Centre-piece
presented to Sir C. J. Napier—The Opening of the Grand Neapolitan
Dock by the King of Naples—The Philanthropic Society's Harvest-
home, at Red-hill—Prize Poultry exhibited at Great Yarmouth (Two
Illustrations)—Teignmouth made a Free Port—Opening of the
South Wales Railway. (Two Views), with other Engragings.
PRICE OF THE TWO NUMBERS, ONE SHILLING,
Regular Subscribers will receive GRATIS splendid LARGE EN-
GRAVINGS of the PROCESSION
a lasting meßmorialFUNEß of the national
mourning.
Office, 198, Strand.

Free, by Post, for 18 Stamps.
WELLINGTON : the STORY of his LIFE,
his BATTLES, and POLITICAL CAREER. Illustrated
with numerous Portraits and other Page Engravings. Forming the
Volume of READABLE BOOKS for October.
Is. ornamental boards, Is. 6d. cloth gilt.
Henry Vizetelly, Gough-square ; Clarke and Co., 148, Fleet-
street,

On the Ist of October will be published, Part I. of the
aISTORY of the BATTLE of WATERLOO,
and of the Campaign in the Netherlands in 1815, with a
brief Memoir of Field Marshal the DUKE of WELLINGTON, illus-
trated with Maps and- Plans, Portraits of Wellington and Blucher,
and-thirty-font. Etchings by GeorgeJonee,-Rectn-It.A. Therievelith
Edition. To be completed in 81x Monthly Parts, each containing
80 pages of Bvo. letter-press, two or more Maps or Plans, and six
Illustrations. Price Half-a-crown.
Published by L. Booth, Duke-street, Portland-place, and all Book-
sellers.

BARON LIEBIG, Mr. ALLSOP, and the
MEDICAL CIRCULAR. Threatened legal proceedings for
imputed defamation. Dr. Glover's denial of his certificate in favour
of Mr. Alisopp, with the Editor's remarks on the monstrous Beer
Puff. See MEDICAL CIRCULAR (No. 10) of this day. Price 3d.,
by post 4d. Office 4, Adam-street, Adelphi. The trade supplied by
Gilbert and Co., Paternoster-row.

OMFORT in SHAVING depends on the proper
A...} use of a good Razor, an efficient Strop, and a Paste to renovate
the surface of the Strop when it becomes black and choked with the
steel from the Razor; to these must be added a Soap that will not
dry suddenly on the face, and a smooth taper-pointed elastic Shaving-
brush. Unless all these points are attended to, and the Razor
wiped and stropped after shaving, that operation must always be a
troublesome, even if not a painful one. Those gentlemen whose
shaving apparatus is defective are invited to I. J. MECHI'd Esta-
blishment, No. 4, Leadenhall-street, London, where they will not
only obtain all they require for the toilet reasonable and efficient, bat
may also procure gratis, his instructions for easy shaving, stropping,
&c.—A large assortment of Papier-mache manufactures, dressing-
cases, work-boxes, and writing-desks, bagatelle-tables, &c.

IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS,
Just published, by H. RaiMere, 219, Regent-street, London.
No I.
Second Edition, with Additions,
Bvo., in cloth, price 55., by post free, ss. 6d.,
ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA ;
with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors
n relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the
Generative System, or Sexual Hypochondriasis.
Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD.
"Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi-
cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first
time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the nonmedi-
cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall
detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his
power to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851.
—" The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this
distressing malady by translating this little book, and by laying bare
the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to
cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object
than to fill their own purses. The difference between true Sperma-
torrhcea and the various forms of disease which resemble it are
accurately described, and thus a safe guide is offered for the
treatment of the malady"—Medical Circular, May 5, 1852.
—" We have delayed so long upon the contents of the preliminary
chapter, that we have scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of
the subject specially treated of by Dr. Pickford ; but the moderate
price at which the ' brochure' is sold, places it within the reach of
every one interested in the matter."—Dublin Medical Press, April
18,1852.

THE REGISTRATIONS.
CITY OF LONDON.
The revision of the lists of voters was resumed yes-
terday morning, commencing with Queenhithe and
Vintry ward.
In the list of St. James the Evangelist, Garlick-hill,
the name of James Wise, 193, Upper Thames-street,
was objected to by the Conservatives, on the ground that
he had left his residence and gone abroad.
Mrs. Wise was in attendance to support the vote, and
she stated that her husband was the occupier of the pre-
mises No. 193, Thames-street, where he had carried on
the business of an oil-and colournian for the last. three
years; but, on the :!7th of July last, he sailed !Ti the
Dinupore vessel for Australia. Ile, however, did not
intend to remain there, and would shortly return.
Mr. Brown, on the part of the Conservatives. put it
to the Revising Barrister, whether a person s name
could be retained on the list who had gone to Australia?
The REVISING BARRISTER said that ho might have
gone there to obtain a " nugget," and then to return to
Eogland.—(A. laugh.) flu should retain the name on
the list.
Mrs. Wise said that she had been put to some incon-
venience in leaving her business, aed wished to know if
she could not have some remunertr ion for her attendance?
The REVISING BARRISTER (addressing Mr. Brown)
said he did not think that 71. would hurt him.
Mr. Brown said this was a most egregious sum to
award in such a case as costs. Surely
an objection taken
to a person gone to Australia could not be considered a
frivolous ground of objection.
The REVISING BARRISTER said that it might be a
good ground of objection next year, but was not so now,
and adhered to his former order for 78. costs.
The other lists presented no feature of public interest.

Mr. Huggett asked for a case, on which to obtain. the
opinion of the Court of Common Pleas. The decision
was one of the greatest importance, as, if upheld, 3t
would disfranchise 2,904 persons in Westminster; and
the number would have been still greater, had not the
officers of three parishes, acting
the law, refrained from returning as defaulters those
who had not paid up to the sth of January.
His HONOUR granted a case.
In a subsequent cause, that of J. Burman, a claimant,
it appeared that no demand at all had been made of the
year's taxes. on their own view of
His HoNotra hold that it came within the decision in
Ford's case. The taxes were due, whether demanded
or not.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE.
Amongst the claimants in St. Margaret's parish was
Mr. Henley, in respect of his house, 22, Great George-
street. He was in the list as James Warner Henley; and
the claim had been mad© for the purpose of having it
corrected to " Joseph %Varner Henley," which was done.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL AT STIRLING.
STIRLING, TUESDAY EVENING.—Lord John Rus-
sell being resident this season at the Garth, near Stir-
ling, the magistrates and council of that burgh re-
solved to present his Lordship with the freedom of
the corporation. Arrangements were made for
receiving his Lordship in the Court-house today,
that the honour might be publicly conferroci on him;
and at half-past one o'clock, when he arrived, he was
loudly cheered by a large concourse of people in the
square, and a crowded attendance of the principal
inhabitants of the burgh within the building. The
Noble 'Lord was accompanied to the platform by the
Lord Provost and magistrates, the Dean of Guild, the
Treasurer of the burgh, S:r James Anderson, the
Member for the Stirling burghs, and several members
of the town-council. Lady Russell and several mem-
bers of the family were also present.
Provost SINTERS' then addressing Lord John Rus-
sell, said—l now address you in the name of the ma-
gistrates, town council, and inhabitants of Stirling, on
the occasion of presenting your Lordship with the
freedom of this ancient royal burgh. Your Lord-
ship having taken up your residence for a time in
the neighbourhood, a general feeling was ex-
pressed by the citizens of Stirling that you
should be asked to accept the freedom of
the burgh, in testimony
the virtues• of the sense we entertain of
which adorn your high rank, but more
especially
'
of the distinguished talents and patriotism
which have raised you to such eminence in the
country,-_
(Cheers.) -
) It is the highest compliment
we have in our
pleasure in Power to confer, and I have much
statingt that the
holding differennwtn proposal was unanimously
agreed to by the
council, composed of gentle-
menhave on some points differencesattached of opinion as a com-
munity we are ardently
civil and religious liberty, and
cannot be unmindful
of how much we owe to the illustrious
Bed-
ford for the sacrifices they madehave
e house of
this nation those privileges it now enin securing to
An ancestor of your Lordship, who lived beers.)
times, I mean Lord William Russell, suffered in troublous
for holding those principles.,_tbQrfr distinguished
ered death
member of the same family, tbZ;th Duke of
Bed-
ford, 100 years ago, gave utterance to this noble
sentiment, then held by few, that it was his settled
maxim "that persecution for religious principles only
added strength to the sect it was intended to destroy,'
and we cannot forget the efforts which have been
made by your Lordship in recent times to secure for
the nation freedom and toleration.—(Cheers.) Your
great public services, and the virtue displayed in your
life, have secured for you the respect of your country,
and it is our earnest wish that your Lordship may
long be spared to the country, of which you have
been such a distinguished and valuable servant, and
to adorn the list of burgesses of this royal burgh.—
(Cheers.) Allow me, therefore, to place in your
hands this diploma. The Provost then handed to
Lord John Russell the burgess-ticket, which was
thus inscribed:—
" At Stirling, the 21st day of September, in the year
1852, which day the Magistrates and Town-Council of
the burgh of Stirling being convened, they receive and
admit the Right Hon. Lord John Russell to the liberty
and freedom of a burgess, qua guild brother of the said
burgh, with power to him to use and exercise the whole
liberties, privileges, and immunities thereto belonging,
as full and freely in all respects as any other burgess has
used and exercised, or may use and exercise, the same
at any time, bygone or to come.
The diploma was finely lithographed and had the cor-
porate seal of the burgh attached to it, the whole
being placed in a silver box ornamented by the burgh
arms. In conclusion the Provost said, " Allow me
just to say, that rarely indeed do the burgesses of
Stirling confer this honour on any of their fellow-
countrymen."
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who was much cheered, said
—Mr. Provost, ladies, and gentlemen, I beg leave to
return my heartfelt thanks for the honour that has
been done me by the Provost and Town-Council of
Stirling. I deem it a very great distinction to have
been chosen a burgess of a burgh so renowned in
ancient history, so favoured by its natural position,
and so well known for its patriotism in modern
times. I feel it a still greater compliment that, as
your provost has said, gentlemen of different political
opinions from mine have concurred in conferring upon
me this honour.—(Cheers.) I cannot expect—no
man can expect, in this free country, that the opinions
he may hold, as those which seem to him best calcu-
lated for the benefit of the country, should meet with
the concurrence of all the various parties into which
this country is divided ; but it is a proud thing, and
1 feel it to be a proud thing, that the intention has
been recognised of endeavouciug, to the best of my
power, to serve that country to which I belong.—
(Loud cheers.) You have alluded, Sir, to some ser •
vices which it was my good fortune to perform in the
cause of religious liberty. I entirely concur in that
sentiment to which you have referred—that religious
persecution only strengthens the sect which it is in-
tended to suppress; but beyond the great motive of
policy, I think it is our duty not, on account of reli-
gious difference of opinion, to subject our fellow-sub-
j ects, in possession of as great a right to serve the country
as we have, to any penalty or disability on account of
that difference of religious opinion. The great ruling
maxim on this subject was given by a monarch who
reigned over this country, William 111., when he
said, Conscience is God's province."—(Cheers.)
That maxim, I conceive, contains the whole of what
is justice and policy on this matter.—(Cheers.)
There is another subject to which I may likewise be
permitted to refer ; it is that question in which for
many years—l may say for more than ten years—l
was engaged, and which about 20 years ago I was so
fortunate, under the direction of Lord Grey, to
bring to a successful termination—I mean the ques-
tion of an improved representation of the people in
Parliament.—(Cheers.) Whatever might be the de-
fects of that representation in England and in Ireland, I
think no one can deny that in Scotland some change was
needed to adapt that representation to the intelligence,
to the power, to the wealth of the people of this part
of the United Kingdom.—(Cheers.) And I think
the extent of the change that was then made may
be somewhat appreciated when i say that, according
to my belief; the numbers who at the last election
for Edinburgh polled for Mr. Macaulay and Mr.
Cowan, and made them the successful candi-
dates, was a sufficient number to have elected
the whole of the representatives for Scotland
before the Reform Bill was introduced I—(Cheers.)
Not more than 3,000 persons had then the right of
electing the representatives for every county and
every burgh in Scotland; and I am sure it that
state of things had lasted to the present day, it would
not have been a matter of contest or party dispute,
but all parties would have agreed that such a state of
things could no longer continue.—(Cheers.) You
will permit me, perhaps, to allude to another subject,
upon which, though there has been great difference of
opinion, I think we are now approaching the ti •
me
when the minority will indeed be small—l mean that
subject on which the late Sir Robert Peel introduced
measures of the greatest importance, and which, I
believe, have been of the highest benefit to the
country. I believe, as I have said, we are now ap-
proaching the time when the benefit
will be acknowledged, and thatwhatever of those measures
will
difference of opinion with respect mayebss
UM'S
to be advocated, it will at least bto future _n
d i that
cheapness of food to the people 5
large CORCH.rsre a
benefit
which the people must enjo atls ;his
country
exists. These certainly haveyasohneg rTn cipal subjects
upon which, during the been Py
Parliamentry
course of
career, I have taken prominent aed leading part.
Fa •
r be it from me
a
to expect that then which I
have taken should be approved by.all.
otdtoo nboet even
is .
say that I should expect my motdvi.secs
tinon to find that
construed ; but it is a great
satisfaction
of this burgh,
this town-council, and the
ienhma oltives, and that they
have not misconstrued there
benefit of ray country.
believe I did my best_ for Now gentlemen, having appeared
—(Loud cheers.)
V.; assemblage,
I own I feel—although
here to-day in t"? rimrnediately to introduce the sub-
it is not an occiatsi
jos 8
n occasion on which I have to
ject—yet,
in ouabslic, I cannot refrain from noticing that
speak occupies all men's minds—to which the
event whic f
all is now directed—l mean the loss
attention o
country has sustained by the death ofthe
which this
puke of Wel 1. ingot n I must say that, while lam
one 0-
those who most admired that great man, I am
not one o f
f those who think that we ought to be so
dazzled by the fame of his exploits that we should not
endeavour to gather objects of imitation even from the
conduct of a man so great and so illustrious. While
many of the actions of his life—while many of the
qualities which he possessed are unattainable by
others, there are lessons which we may all derive
from the life and the actions of that illustrious man.
It may never be given to another subject of the British
Crown to perform services so brilliant as he performed;
it may never be given to another man to hold
the
sword which was to gain independence for Europe,
to rally the nations around it, and while England
saved herself by her constancy to save Europe by her
example ; it may never be given to another m
after having attained such eminence, after anan,
equal
unex-
ampled series of victories, to show moderation
in peace as be had shown greatness in war, and to
devote the remainder of his life to the cause of inter
nal and external peace for that country which he bad
so served; it may never be
given to another man to
have equal authority, oillal thewith Soverewu he