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Mr. HOBIIOUSE then read the names of the 411- a s
lowing gentlemen, whom he proposed should for. m
the committeee—viz., Solicitor-General, Queen's
Advocate
Montague Smith, Hon. G. Denman, Sir Hugh.
, Sir Fitzroy Xelly, Mr. Mellish, Mr.
Cairns, Mr. Selwyn, Mr. AnyTAlett, Mr. Daniel, Mr.
.1- R. Quain, Mr. Alfred Wits, Mr. Hy. Matthews,
Mr. G. W. Hastins, Mr. Puilln, Mr. Joshua 'Wil-
liams, Jr. George, Sweet, Mr. iames Dickinson,
Mr. George Druce. Mr. Nathaniel Lindley. Mr.
John Westlake, and Mr. F. Vaughall Hawkirth—
which was agreed to.

A vote of thanks to the chairman wah' proposed.
by Mr, Daniel, seoonded by the Hon. Geage Den-
man, and carried unaniraouiy.

THE GALE OF YESTERDAY.

The storm of wind and rain which swept
and soo:a
whole metropolis throughout the gr7ater opvaerrttiol.;
yesterday has been productive of the most disastrous
the morning, gale cum-
conscquEnces, not alone in exposed quarters, but
ma I seonciena thea
nmeoasrt
lysheltered spots.
irl
made itself perceptible in the river, which assumed
the aspect of the sea itself, so strong was the force of
the wind and rain. It was with the greatest diM-
culty the steamers could be navigated between
London-bridge and Chelsea, while below the bridge
many of the vessels broke from their moorings, and.
at much personal risk the others were secured..
From inquiries made at the various shipping depots
last night it was ascertained that several vessels due
in the middle of the day had not arrived, and it was
supposed, or at least hoped, they had lain ..`,O, while
several which should have left the dock's were
obliged to stay till the storm had abated. .It was
reported that a steamer and a collier Tesse 1 bad
come into violent collision just below London-bcidge,
by which two men, in consequence of the slitick,
fell overboard, one being, by dint of great exertion,
saved, and the other unfortunately drowned, but
no authentic particulars could be gleaned.
In the afternoon a man named Thompson, about
thirty-five years of age, while proceeding down
the Caledonian-road, was felled to the ground
by a portion of '
a large chimney pot, which was
forced by the • wind from the top of a house, and
falling on the poor fellow's head caused a frightful,
scalp wound. He was immediately convoyed to
'wlt
a doctor's, and afterwards taken to his resi-
dence at Kentish-town in an insensible c 7ndi.,
tion. Another accident,wl
.and which it is exp. ,cted
will prove fatal, happened
Seven Dials, w;'sere
an old woman, aged about seventy,
was injured i n a
similar manner, but more severely, and from in,
she will not recover.
At Notting-hill and Shepherd's-bush the force of
the wind and rain was very severely felt, more
especially in the temporary buildings and g las' ;
keep
hothouses of the innumerable gardeners who '
establishments there. In several places a large
amount of property had been destroyed, and in the
grounds of the Messrs. Zimmerman two of the
hothouses were blown down. At Chelsea, too,
similar injury is reported to have occurred ; while
in Dulwich, Peckham, and Camberwell the property
destroyed will amount to a large sum.

The Suspected Murder and. Robbery at
Limehouse.

EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENT.

Yesterday the police obtained information whi ch
tends to throw some light on the mystery surrour d-
ing the death of the late Mr. John Driscoll, whose
body was found in the river Lea at Limehowe,
under circumstances that gave rise to an inference
that he had been robbed and murdered.
It will be remembered that the deceased gentle-
man, who was connected with engineering works at
Corunna, in Spain, had arrived in England only
three days, when he suddenly disappeared on the
30th of October. Though a reward was effered for
any information respecting him none could be
obtained until his body was found last Monday in
the river Lea. In his pockets were found a pair
of soldier's gloves, pipeckyed, and marked 14 11,
330. About £lB that he was known to have had
in his possession was missing, but 18s. and a silver
watch were in his pockets. The family expreised
their apprehensions that the deceased had been rob-
bed and foully dealt with, because he had on the day
of his disappearance mentioned that while be
was getting a draft for £55 cashed at Messrs.,
Huth and Co.'s, in Moorgate-street, a man.
watched him, and afterwards followed him, and
put his hands into his pocket. He had requested
his aunt to take charge of about £4O of the money
for him while ho went out to take a walk on Black-
wall pier, saying that he feared that the man was
still watching him. Ha then went out, and was no
more seen. He had come to England about the
purchase of machinery for the lighting of the town
of Corunna with gas. He was of sober habits. His
friends feared that he had been drugged and robbed,
and the strange circumstance of a pair of soldier's
gloves being found in his pockets and £lB being
missing gave the case a very sinister aspect.
The owner of the military gloves has now been
fonnd. Owing to the publicity given to the f
commandant of the 14th Hussars, at resent acts the
P
sta-
tioned in Manchester, directed John De c
aux, 330
D troop of the 14th Hussars, to call upon the police
authorities in that city. Da Caux made a statement
to the following effect :—That he met the deceased
in the Whitechapel-road, and
Was asked by him to
take a glass," and then to go to the theatre ; and
as he (De Calls) was himself
going to the Princess's
to meet his brother and to see one of the actors, they
both proceeded there, and
(De C m
aux's) brother, Ed Were there joined by his
und De Cans, They re-
mained there about two
went in a cab hours, when they left and
to a place which he called the Bala
Theatre, accomparil •
ed by a female, whom ho alleges
deceased had
Victoria. formed an acquaintance with at the
his While they were together deceased took
gloves and u h
De-
ceased then
rose and left the Bala Theatre with the
ea
female in a De Cans affirms positively that
this Was the ast he saw of the deceased, as he and
his brother remained at the theatre after deceased
left. He also states that deceased was then partially
intoxicated, and that he had at time a gold
watch t Id
watch and chain in his possession.
The police are now endeavouring to find out
whether this singular statement is based upon fact;
and if so, the next step will, of course, be to ascer-
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LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 3, 1863.

The changes which the last few years have
ected in the railway traffic in England are almost
incredible. They certainly would have appeared
Incredible if foretold some twenty years back.
Tn,
..re is hardly
two
ces so great a distinction between the
differentvina‘iti maps of France, as divided into Pre-
epartments, as there is in the travel-
ling ml
p
and the England gland as affected by the Roads
some time Itli,:3'a. The change which has fur
is
nocv
malting itself especially
the whole system
especially felt in the head
and heart of the
a transformation esempire' Landau is undergoing
genius of the Arabiac:;l3lete as that effected by a
oluglita• Where our fathers
walked, we ride, and From London to York was sons will go by steam.
Delace a coach and horse
journey, now from Charing.
Bte
London Bridge
is a matter of railway tram °tlir
LoneQneery shortly it will
be as natural to the
n
eeinghbouring
railway train to pay a reorati° step into a
execute a commission in 4 g visit, or
street as it is for the Venetian to aese
d into his
gondola. The practical convenience
of
these
changes, as effecting business men in this
pre-
eminently busy age, when time is computed, not
by days and hours, but by minutes and fractious,
is of immense importance, and the railways who
are responding to the great demand for speed will
very certainly reap the profit of their speculative
enterprise. It is said that the new railway
just opened between Charing.cross and the
city has cost no less than aCI,OOO a-yard!
but even that enormous outlay implies no risk
on the part of shareholders. This is a " great
fact," which, more forcibly than a hundred argu-
ments, exhibits the wonderful extent to which rail-
way travelling is adopted by the British million.
I a proportion as the public convenience and rail-
way prosperity increase so must the prudent can-
Von
of the authorities become more vigilant in all
dint
t regards the public safety. As an evidence
'tee railway travelling is not in itself more
marily dangerous than other modes of traffic
we record today a painful case in which by the
carelrsi
ne" of arailway omnibus driver a promising
youth Was rendered
a helpless invalid for life. A
very heavy swat':
r damages will afford but
a poor compensationn f
dii,tinguihed
Collor the blighted life which
his
SO touchingly arilnsel, I‘ir- Sergeant SHEE,
happened
tIY alluded to. This
accident might have
any stage coach
with a reckless driver. Most ofthe
accidents on
railways are due to similar cause, want
of thought
and want of care. In many recent instanns danger
has been incurred or very narrowly
avoided by the
dangerous custom which su frequently prevails
in
a carriage road cross a rail
country parts of letting
Way Hue. The Prince of WALES some few months
back had very nearly been subjected to some ctlia,

imitous accident of this kin 3. The crossroads, and
the many mischances more or less significant
of which they are the occasion, demand the
attentive consideration of the railway authorities.
At the same time the discipline maintained with
every subordinate connected with the line should be
as strict as that preserved of old with the Roman
soldiers. Such considerations must not be lost sight
of by the railway "powers that be," now, at the
moment of their great :and successful enterprise.
On their success we may cordially congratulate both
the enterprising originators and the promoters
of the new London lines, and the public,
whose convenience will be so materially en-
enhanced by these improvements. Dr. DARWIN
might, indeed, consider himself a true
prophet could he now behold "the flying car"
impelled across Hungerford Bridge by the might
of that "unrivalled steam" whose marvellous
achievements he so wonderfully foretold.

MR. BEECHER cannot complain of being unap-
preciated. His return to America has been the
signal for one of those extravagant outbursts of
welcome in which the inhabitants of that country
take so deep a delight. It would have been impos-
Bible to overrate the reception accorded to the great
man. Animated by the occasion, Mr. BEECHER
spoke in somewhat a different strain from what he
did in his speeches over here. He was more mode-
rate in his tone in some respects,and more gracious
in his demeanour. His expressions of pleasure at his
ret'irn were evidently genuine, and it is certainly
better that be should be in a congenial sphere in-
stead of wearing himself out by endeavouring to
force convictions upon those of opposite tendencies
to his own. He was wasting his energies to no
purpose in trying to cram his ultra notions and ex-
treme views into the minds of those whose general
opinions were diametrically opposed to him, and
who regarded him with a jealous, and even perhaps
a prejudiced eye. The time of probation is past,
and the wanderer returns to his home, the pilgrim
regains his native land, and the shores resound
with delight, and the people vie with each other in
acclaim, and make his restoration among them a
sort of jubilee. It is interesting to dwell upon the
short discourse of the hero of the scene, because
although he distinctly said that he was not going
on that occasion to make a " speech," still he ex-
pressed his views concerning the country he had
visited in his brief tour ; and sometimes an un•
guarded sentence uttered among friends, where the
armour of defence is for a moment thrown aside,
is more likely to reveal the true state of feel-
ing, and disclose the actual conviction of the
mind, than when, with due state and solemn pre-
paration we listen to the studied oration, full of
well-weighed sentences, and rife with that peculiar
frankness which often hides all that we want to
know, and prevents us from hearing all of which
we are particularly anxious to be informed. It
must have been especially satisfactory to his hearers
to learn from Mr. BEECHER that thoughout the
period of his extensive wanderings, in England,
France, Switzerland, Northern Italy, Germany,
and Belgium, he was deeply impressed with nothing
so much as the memory of those he left behind him,
and the thoughts of a return to them were the load.
stone of his way. When Mr. BEECHER comes to
talk of our localities he is sure to put some bitter
ingredients into the discourse. When he mentions
this country the best he can say is the questionable
compliment implied in the line—
" England, with all thy faults, I love thee still."
There is so much to complain of in us and our nation
that it seems surprising he should take the trouble
to do so at all. Why not let us alone, some might
impatiently exclaim ? But these cavillers are in
too much hurry; they do not perceive that the
orator of the American pulpit has recognised a
mission that has taken him across the broad Atlan-
tic to preach the words of wisdom, and lay the
truths of important subjects of great and glorious
import before cur benighted lives. He is now
enjoying the respite from his arduous toil, and re-
counting to enthusiastic bearers what ho has under-
gone from the perils of the deep, and the struggles
with minds unconverted to the great doctrine of
freedom, which he tried to inculcate upon them.
Mr. BEECHER makes a short allusion to the
reticence practised in France. He says
he looked at the people, for he was
" denied any other privilege of intercourse
with them." Perhaps experience will one day
show the rulers of that nation the incalculable losses
that they incurred in not being permitted to listen
to the New World notions which are so powerfully
unfolded by the energetic oratory of Mr. BEECHER.
After travelling the beautiful and vine clad coun-
tries, he bent his steps again to England, and it is
encouraging to hear that, on the occasion of his
second visit, he found less cause for displeasure than
on his first arrival. He breathed freer, and said,
" Thank GOD for Eogland !" He appealed from
"England misinformed to England better in-
formed." The reminiscences of his experiences
here appear to have been very satisfactory to Mr.
BEECHER, and this must be a source of great plea-
sure to his friends, when they remember the great
exertions he made, which in some places were so ill
requited. It might strike a sober observer that there
is ample scope for the exercise of powers of mind
and energy of endurance among his own people,
without Mr. BEECHER making all this parade of
our " wrongheadedness, prejudice, and corruption
among commercial classes." Allowing, for the sake
of argument, that some great thinker and social im-
prover went over to the great continent where these
utterances were heard, might he not with truth and
reason declare that there was wrong, bitter and in-
excusable violence, abroad among the people ?
Might he not tell the States at strife for an idea
that they were darkening the promise and sapping
the strongholds of their country's strength, by
covering the soil with the corpses of her
children e Might they not strive to inculcate
the
If
thi was doctrines of forbearance, and prove that liberty
does not lie in
controlling the destinies of others.
_We
shouldnever done or said, what rage and indignation
would BPVSad from one end of the land to another
hear the last of impertinent in-
terference and abprejudices. At all events, if
we are so faulty, ailrtdi.
must bo taught. by foreigners
our duties and our work, let it not be an emissary '
from the land so rife with
' Pteeudices who tells us
meotti be a citizen of the
to be quit of them—let it, e ,
inancalusteesrtsionbu; tatnhdemle-t
who would see no
them-
selves, who calls our
, lib'r ties
~
wronel;-ehrendeeedn:
man of the raoe \eh, e__
ate
carrying on
theriot most eceltudnetrp3l-orabie war the world has
dare to speak
ness." There is consistency in all things, and
even
a word against our
an American idol should be forced to recognise its
laws and bend to its supremacy. It is to be feared
that no faults are found at home because that Would
be unpalatable discourse. But the eloquent and
earnest speaker who knows so much, has more to
learn if he is ignorant that the wisest thing a friend
can do is to tell of what is irjurions to those in
whom he takes so deep An interest. Flatterers may
cejole, and mistaken well-wishers call out peace
when there is no peace; but the men of deep
thought and real feeling, who have their country's
welfare at hear;, will, at all times and in all places,
risk their own popularity rather than let a known
evil or a manifest wrong in the sigl t of OOD and

man be carried on without their voice being raised
in protest or their energies exerted in its uprooting.
These are the real friends, and the kindest bene-
factors to their race, and it is to be regretted that
such are so few.

mwaofttyh ei s dtits
et i
value
acltui veem placedarks
on
nf a highlyeducation. civilisedon Long
caoftmOn One
after the rough and illiterate manners of a young
state have died out and the love of war in its rulers
has become changed into the science of Government,
there is usually a long lapse during which a great
gulf divides the few members of the privileged
classes from the ranks below them. It is thought
enough if the very rudiments of education are con-
fined to the better sort of people, and the masses
have commonly not even the desire to learn. Bock
learning, as it is scornfully termed, is looked upon
with much the same disfavour as the good old Earl
DOUGLAS expressed when he felicitated himself on
the fact that only one son of his "could pen a line:,
In countries where the principles of constitutional
government have not been established, there is very
often a feeling on the part of the rulers that it is
safer for the people not to be too learned, that the
less they trouble their heads about such matters the
more submissive and quiet they are likely to be.
This idea, like many others, is both right and wrong.
There is no force so unmanageable or dangerous as
an ignorant mob when once its passions are fully
roused, and it is urged on by wily and designing
leaders. On the other hand a superior mental
training, while it renders men amenable to all just
laws and disposed to support law and social order
for their own sakes, makes them unwilling to submit
to tyrannical and unjust measures, and qualifies
them for offering that firm and prolonged
resistance to despotism which has so often
fought the battle of our English liberties.
The difference has been admirably summed up by
one who has been one of the great pioneers of
popular education in our own day. " Education,"
says Lord BROUGHAM, " makes men easy to lead,
but difficult to drive ; easy to govern, but impossible
to enslave." It is, therefore, a favourable sign of
the times that in most parts of Europe great efforts
are being made for the extension of popular know-
ledge. In parts of the Continent, indeed, education
is in some degree compulsory; but such a system is
contrary to the spirit of English rule. All that is
done among us must be based on the voluntary
principle ; the people themselves must wish for the
blessing before they can be made to receive it. At
first sight the application of this principle to the
case in point might seem of rather doubtful result,
however admirable it may be in other matters.
Ignorant persons are by no means the most likely
to appreciate the blessings of knowledge. There
are few children who would not prefer a game at
play to their school-books, and in later years the
disposition to learn, uncultivated in childhood,
grows still less. By the time the untaught child
has reached man's or woman's estate, not only has
he lost the little aptitude he possessed for acquiring
didactic information, but he has begun to think he
can do very well without it, and to look with some-
thing like contempt on those who talk much about
the advantages of education. But, notwith-
stauding all difficulties, the principle, sound
in theory, works well in practice, and,
thanks to the encouragement and facilities now
offered on all sides, there is no lack of students to
come forward not only from the idle and untrained,
but from the desk, the workshop, the manufactory.
At a meeting recently held in Hertford with the
object of distributing the prizes and certificates
gained by the successful competitors at the late
examination of the local board, in connection with
the Society of Arts, the Right Hon. W. COWPER,
M.P., delivered an address on this subject. He ob-
served, in commenting on the occasion that had
brought them together, that it was impossible to
help those who would not help themselves, and that
it was, consequently, a source of gratification that
so many young men availed themselves of the op•
portunities offered to them by the Society of Arts
and other institutions. He said very truly that the
certificates obtained by the successful students would
be doubly valuable to them ; they were not only
proofs of their abilities and information, but they
were testimonials to the steadiness, self-control, and
perseverance which had enabled them when their
day's work was over resolutely to turn aside from
the amusements of their age to cultivate their minds
and pursue their studies. Knowledge thus acquired
is not easily forgotten, and the very effort made to
apply the mind to such objects, is in itself a species
of /rental training. According to the recently de-
veloped theory, that as much may be learned by chil-
dren in three days a week as in six, it would
not be surprising to find that many of these young
students who probably lament the impediments in
their way, have learned more, and in a surer fashion,
than a large Froportion of our college students.
The highest prize given by the Society of Arts has
been won by a clerk in a London office, and we may
be sure that such a distinction has not been won
without long hours of tedious arid unwelcome labour.
" A certificate," said Mr. COWPER, " bearing such
testimony to the patience, the industry, and the
self-control of those young men must hare great
weight with all those who are seeking to employ
persons of their character, and will be to theea as
good as the title deeds of an estate, for they are title
deeds of those mental and moral qualities which it
is a blessing to them to be able to show." The future
opening before a young man of such a character,
possessed of sound faculties properly cultivated, is
truly a very wide one. Industry, knowledge, and
resolution are the chief steps in the upward ladder
to fame and fortune, and many a self-taught man
his climbed to the very top. The future of our
country, as Mr. COWPER justly observed, rests
mainly in the hands of the middle classes, and the
best security we have for the maintenance of our
public rights is to be found in their mental and
moral training. The lessons of history serve to
point the moral of the scenes going on around us;
the teachings of science are in every way valuable,
the love of art and literature is a refining and ele-
vating influence that brings countless blessings in
its train. Such advantages are now, thanks to the
efforts of the wise and good, placed within reach of
all classes, and we trust the youth of England will
never fail to do honour to the adoption of the volun-
tary system in education, as in all other spheres of
our social and political existence.