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LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1853.

Now ready, embellished with Nine Portraits,
THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE
E-ISSUE of the LIVES of the QUEENS of
ENGLAND.
By AGNES STRICKLAND.
COMPRISING ALL TIM RECENT IMPORTANT ADDITIONS,
PORTRAITS OF ALL TIIE QUEENS, 8:e.
To be completed in S Monthly Volumes, Bvo., price 10s. 6d. each,
E 123 ea :bound.
Published for Henry Colhurn, tiy his Successors, Hurst and
Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough. street.

teau, and L. de la Cherois, midshipmen, R.N., passed
examination on board her Majesty's ship Victory, qua-
lifying for the rank of Lieutenant, on Wednesday.
Mr. George Grandidier, secretary's clerk in the Corn-
naander-in-Chief's office at this port, passed at the same
time for the rank of paymaster, R.N.
Mr. Robert Grant, master's assistant, also passed for
second master, R.N.
We have received letters from the West India
squadron this afternoon. Since our last the Devastation,
6, paddle-sloop, Commander C. Y. Campbell ; and the
Daring, 12, Commander Napier, have been with the
Admiral at Grenada and Margarita. The Daring having
received dispatches of a satisfactory nature from La
Guayra, sailed on the morning of the 2d ult. from there
for Port Royal ; the Devastation having been dispatched
at the same time for Barbadoes, and rejoined the flag-
ship at Jamaica. The Calypso, 20, Captain Forbes,
arrived at Barbadoes from La Guayra on the 2d ult.,
having lost her officer of Marines (Lieutenant Lock),
and her surgeon, Dr. George Roe, havin;-r been ill ;
but he was better, and it is supposed the Calypso
will return to the Main. No other cases of fever
have appeared in that ship. The Cumberland (flag), the
Devastation, and the Daring are quite healthy. The
Dauntless has lost 83 in all, and her people are still en-
camped on shore at Barbadoes. 'the Highflyer sailed
from Grenada, it is supposed for Port Royal, on the
24th of December, the fever having increased a little.
The following promotions and appointments have been
made by Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, Com-
mander-in-Chief :

MR. COBDEN, M.P., AT HOLMFIRTIL

On Wednesday evening the annual Soiree of the
Holmfirth Mechanics' Institution took place, when Mr.
Cobden, M.P., for the first time addressed the inhabit-
ants of this obscure but important nook of Yorkshire.
Mr. COBDEN, M.P., on being called upon was re-
ceived with loud and vo'iferous cheering. He spoke
as follows :—Mr. Chairm an, ladies, and gentlemen,—
When I heard you, Sir, s'?eak of war, I could not help
feeling how much better 'A would be if we could have some
one to fight with here, for where there is perfect unani-
mity, where there is nobody to oppose us except that
phantom which has been conjured up, that there is some-
body opposed to education, it renders it exceedingly dif-
ficult for those who have to address you to engage your
attention and interest your feelings. And my difficulty is
much increased to-night in having to follow a succession
of speakers who, I will say, without flattery, have
equalled any speakers that I have ever listened to at a
meeting of this kind —(hear, hear)—speakers who have
given you practical arguments, cogent reasoning, and
strong declamation. Now, gentlemen, shall I confess
the truth to you, and tell you a secret. I am a very bad
hand indeed at speaking—bad at all times, but especially
bad when'l have nothing to prove, nothing to disprove,
and nobody to oppose. Everything here is admitted,
and we are all of one mind. Sometimes in the House of
Commons—confessing secrets again—where I feel my-
self obliged to say something on questions before the
house, and where there is not much occasion to speak,
my friend Bright, who perhaps sits beside me, some-
times says to me, as an indication that I wanted

Commander Heathcote, of the Cumberland, to be
Captain, and appointed to the Highfiyer, vice Matson,
decease&

Lieutenant A. F. Kynaston, Milt of the Cumber-
land, to be Commander of that ship, vice Heathcote,
promoted.
Mate Mr. Stubbs, of the Cumberland, to be Lieute-
nant of the satip, vice Kynastos, promoted. The latter
exchanges into the Dauntless.
Mr. It. Grog, Assistant-Engineer of the first-class of
the Devastation, to be Chief Egigineer of the third-class,
vice Burt, to the Dsimtless,rwhich it is- hoped,
will be able to move shortly to Bermuda, her cases not
being so numerous, nor the disease so virulent. Every
vessel which coaled lately at the Island of St. Thomas
has been afflicted with this awful fever, both men-of-war
and packets.

_something to excite me, " Would you not like some-
body to kick you now. (Laughter and applause.)
members of Parliament—again telling secrets—(laughter)
—members of Parliament call these, anniversaries ot me-
chanics' institutes at which they are obliged to give their
attendance, political treadmills—(lond laughter)—because

they say, " You are obliged to go, you are laid hold of

and forcibly imprisoned, and when you are there you are
always obliged to move to a certain step, and you must
not step out of it." (Hear, and applause.) Now, gen-
tlemen, I will not say I am here by coercion, because my
friends around me will bear testimony that I am a will-
ing and a delighted visitor here, but still there is some-
thing in the simile of a "political treadmill " after all,
because when I come into this room filled by constituents
and friends, and probably by men who sympathise with my
views on general public questions, one feels naturally dis-

SHEERNESS, FEB. 2.

The Rattlesnake, Commander Charles Trollope, is
ordered to leave here on Sunday next. The steam-tug
African will tow her from here to Portsmouth. The
Medea, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, of 350-horse power,
Commander John C. Bailey, now at Portsmoutll, it is
reported will accompany her, and tow her, as occasion
requires, until she arrives in the Pacific, after which the
Medea will proceed to Hong Kong.
The Espiegle, 12 guns, Commander George Hancock,
will be commissioned to-morrow by her commander.
The paymaster, Mr. John Doyle, has taken up his com-
mission to-day. The workmen of the yard had been
set on to expedite the forwarding this vessel with all
possible dispatch.

posed to talk about those things which would be likely m'ost
to interest my audience, and those topics on which their

thoughts and feelings may be often running. But lam
forbidden, and I would be the last to infringe on those
rules laid down by these societies. If there be one man
in this hall who differs from me in political opinions, even
if there should be but one, he shall find me respect his
opinions by the observance of that strict neutrality which
we all claim and afford at meetings of mechanics' insti-
tutions. Now, gentlemen, I come here to Holmfirth
for the first time in my life, not for the last time I hope
—(applause)—but I came, I must say, very much at-
tracted by the painful fame to which you attained

PLYMOUTH, FEB. 2.

Wind, east and moderate. Sailed this day, the
Pyrenees, convict-ship, with convicts for West Aus-
tralia.

Arrived the Axon, tender, with supernumeraries, from
Portsmouth. _

Arrived the Rochester, lighter, Savage, master, with
stores, from Pembroke.

uring the last year, about which I read so much, and
had the opportunity of seeing a great deal that was

THE MEDITERRANEAN.

The Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Deans Dun-
das, C. 8., in his flag-ship, Britannia, 12U, Captain Car-
ter, with his fleet, left Gibraltar January 25, and is by
this time very near Malta, at which port the gallant ad-
miral is to keep his fleet in readiness for instant service.
It is not correct that Lady Emily Dundas left Malta to
join the admiral at Gibraltar. Her ladyship waits the
arrival of the gallant and popular chief at the former port,
at which he has been a stranger almost ever since his
appointment. .

done to meet and mitigate your awful calamity. I
naturally felt that as your society here might have
suffered from that calamity to which your whole dis-
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trict had been subjected, that it was the duty of every
one who possessed any connexion, whether political or
otherwise, with this locality, to be here to-night to
aid your institution on its entering upon another year
of its usefulness. (Hear, hear, and applause.) And
now let me tell you that Holmfirth has acquired a
great reputation from what has befallen it. Towns
sometimes are celebrated for calamities as well as cele-
brated for great blessings and distinctions of another

kind : Lisbon, for instance, is never spoken of except in
association with the dreadful earthquake of the last
century, and Holmfirth is now usually spoken of
in connexion with the fearful calamity which last

year befel it. You have become a marked place,
the country are interested in you. A great portion

the benevolent population have interested themselves

for the benefit of Holmfirth, and, I must say, I think
that the Outpouring of hearty benevolence and philan-
thropy displayed last year in all parts of the kingdom
on the occasion of your suffering, was such as was cal-
culated to raise, not only our countrymen, but humanity
itself, in one's estimation. (Applause.) And lam
bound to admit also that the great probity, and mode-
ration, and strict integrity with which you have ad-
ministered the relief awarded to you, and the way in
which you have made a return of a large proportion of
that which had been contributed, stands unparalleled

Ln the annals of philanthopy. (Applause.) I said
co-day already I wish you had been more generous to-

wards yourselves with what you had to dispose of. I
wish you had not only contributed relief for past suffer-

ings, but had anticipated a little the distress which may
bang about you in consequence of last year's misfortune.

However, if you have lost something in money, you

have gained immensely in character and reputation, and
I think that is quite equal to the cash. (Loud applause.)
Now, I have heard something to-night of the particular
details of your institution. I understand you number
150 members. It is not so many as it ought to have
been, and it is not so many, I think, as you will have if
we meet again next year. But, considering the popu-
lation, and comparing you with other= towns which I

will not mention, and bearing in mind the circumstances
under which you are situated, Ido not think we have
any right to complain on the present occasion. (Ap-
plause.) But recollecting the advantages of your posi-
tion, and hearing all that I have heard of the benefit to
be derived from your institution, I do hope next year
will mark an increase in your numbers. (Hear, hear.)
A great deal has been said to exhort young people to
belong to this institution. Ido not see a good many
young people, but those who are bald and like myself
grey a little, are in considerable numbers before me.
Now, I should like the people to try the Chinese mode
of regulating family matters. In China, if boys are
found idling in the streets and picking and stealing, they
do not do as we do, take these young, untutored, and
unreasoning creatures before the magistrates, but take
them home to their parents and apply the bamboo to the
soles of the parent's feet. Now, though I would not
inflict corporeal punishment, I think we should lay it
at the door of the parents to be obliged to send their
sons and daughters to an institution such as this. For
what are the advantages they confer ? I have heard the

programme of your education here, and it is almost
equal to what used to be given in the public schools and
in first-class boarding schools. You may learn almost
anything here. Where are the excuses for being igno-
rant when 3s. 3d. a-quarter, or 3d. per week, gives you
the advantage of all this variety of instruction ? (Ap-
plause.) Now, this being so, how is it brought to bear
on the prospects of this people ? I cannot see how any
man can have a chance of being anything twenty years
hence except a navigator or a ploughman, except he has
learnt reading, writing, and arithmetic, because the
standard required for superior employments shuts out
all who have not got superior instruction. I have been
engaged in getting employments for persons, and whether
I have applied to a railway company or the London police,
I have experienceed the greatest difficulty in trying to
serve those people who had not got the education fitting
them for the employment ; so that putting it on the
ground of self-interest, it appears to be the pre-eminent
interest of parents to see that their children are educated,
in order that they may get some respectable employment ;
and here you have instruction made especially suitable to
the callings of the different parties who attend this insti-
tution. (Hear.) It has been stated that you have re-
ceived a number of models for drawing furnished by the
Board of Trade, or by the Committee of the Council on
Education, in London. I think to have made a supply of
models of this kind from a central society is very good. I
am not the friend of centralisation myself with reference
to anything which implies management, but to bring to a
centre in Manchester, Leeds, or London, these models of
art, or to offer what are considered the best rules and
arrangements, and to diffuse those models and rules
throughout the country as a means to enable localities to
improve by them in the best way they can—that I think
is unexceptionable and to be commended. These models
are sent from the Board of Trade, but I think I heard
the remark, that along with those models there came
from the Society of Arts information and instruction as
to manufacturers' patterns, or something of that sort.
Now, I have no faith in that. I have no faith in your
learning anything connected with your particular
branches of manufacture from the Society of Arts—whe-
ther you shall have stripes or checks, botanical forms,
hieroglyphics, or Chinese figures ; whether you shall have
roses or lilies. The Society of Arts cannot teach you
these things half so well as Mr. Schwann, or those who
buy them from you—(hear, hear)—you would never
think of going to London for designs of your patterns ;