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rig OCTOBER 5) 1849.
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NEW WEEKLY NEWSPAPER.
On SATURDAY, October 6th, Price THREEPENCE, Stamped,
will be published, the " WEEKLY TRIBUNE," a Journal of Demo-
cratic and Social Progres s. This Journal will be the staunch and
independent organ of that great movement party who are seeking
to extend the liberties of the people, anti emancipate labour.
London: Vickers, Holywell-stre,t, Strand.

ATION AL LOAN FUND LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.

26, CORNHILL, LONDON.

Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament.
The leading features of the Society aro guaranteed of an ample
Proprietary Capital.
Moderate Rates of Premiums. •
Two-thirds Premium Loaned to the Assured.
Annual Division of Profits.
Half the Premium may remain as a Loan for Five Years.
Extensive Travelling Leave granted, without extra Premium.
Moderate extra Premium for Residence in Tropical Climates.
N.B. The last Annual Bonus to the Assured varied from 27 to 65
per cent. (according to age) on the Premiums paid. •
Examples of Bonuses already Declared, and Options.

Bonus in Puma- Sum the
Annual Policy
addition Bonus Inent Re-1 Assured
c Pre- taken s in duction ("Inlay bor-
to
sured. ..unt
;,; mium. out in As Cash. Annual row on
Premium. Policy.
£ s. d.I £ s. d £ s. d. £ s. d.
1837 276 14 3, 128 14 3 21 7 2593 6 8
1834 251 18 10115 14 818 12 8543 17 9
£ 1839 226 6 0102 15 1 16 2 91494 8 10
60 1000 X s.d. 1840 178 0082142 12 14 11,445 0 0
0
74 3 4 1841 174 0 0 78 3 4 12 3 393 11 1
1812 147 4 2 7 5 15 10 10 2 4 346 2 3
1843 99 18 4 44 8 4 6
.15 11 296 13 4
1841 62 6 8 27 13 4 4 4 0 247 4

Trospei
r Any of
arilei

:time% with tables of rates, Ice., may be had at the office,
its branches In the country ; or, on application, will be for-
)st free.

W. S. B. WOOLHOUSE, Actuary.

GUARDLA.N FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY.
Yo. 11, LO3IBAIID-STREET, at the Entrance of the Old Post-

office, London.
DIRECTORS.
JOHN MARTIN, Esq., M.P., Chairman.
THOMSON HANKEy, jun., Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
r renry Hulse Berens, Esq. Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq.
John Dixon, Esc George Lyall, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. Stewart Mat oribanks,Esq.
Sir Walter It. Farquhar, Bait Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. James Morris, Esq.
John G. Hubbard, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq.
George Johnstone, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.
Joha Loch, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq.
TOES.

AUDI'

N. W. Robarts, Esq. j Samuel Joaes Loyd, Esq.
Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
AcTuaar—Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S.
In the LIFE DEPARTMENT, Assurances may be effected at
:ow Rates *without participation in the Profits; or at moderate Rates
with participation in one moiety of the Profits every seven years. At
each of the three Septennial Divisions which this Company has made,
the Bonuses amounted to about 1 per cent. per annum on the sum
assured, or about 27 per,cent. on the amount of premium received ;
and the whole amount of Reversionary Bonus allotted by the Com-
pany exceeded 530,000/.

LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro-
vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have
attained in each case a value not under 501. ,

In the FIRE DEPARTMENT, a Return of profit was declared
on the 6th of June, upon the premiums received on all Policies
which had been in force seven years at Christmas 1848, and the same
is now in course of payment daily (Friday and Saturday excepted),
between the hours of ten and three o'clock, at the Head Office ; and
Also by the Agent; in the Country Districts.
Not ice is hereby given, that Assurances which expire at Michael-
mas Day must be renewed within fifteen days, at this office, or with
Mr. Sams, No. I, St. James's-street, corner of fall-mall; or with :the
Company's Agents throughout the kingdom, otherwise they become
void.

GEORGE BETS, Secretary.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.-8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London; 97,
George-street, Edinburgh; 12, St. Vincent-place, Glasgow; 4, Col-
lege-green,Dnblin.

DIRECTORS.
JAMES STUART, Esq., Chairman.
CHARLES GRAIIA.If, Esq., Depury.Chairman.
H. Blair Avarne, Esq. F. Chas. Maitland. Esq.
E. L. Boyd, Esq., Resident. William Banton, Esq.
Charles Dowries, Esq. F. H. Thomsdn. Esq.
D. Q. Henriques, Esq. Thomas Thorby, Esq.
J. G. Henriques, Esq.

SECOND SEPTENNIAL DIVISION' OF PROFITS.
This Company, established by Act of Parliament in' 1834, affords
the most perfect security In a large paid-up Capital, and in the great
success which has attended it since its commencement—lTS ANNUAL
ENCORE REIM' UPWARDS OF 99,0001.
Tnll4l the Company added a bonus of 27. per cent. per annum on
he sum insured to all Policies of the participating class from the
time they were effected, to the 31st 01 December, 1840, and from
:hat data to 21st December, 1847, 2%1. per cent. per annum was
added at the General Meeting on the 6th of July, 1848.
The bonus thus added to policies from March, 1834, to the 31st of
December, 1848, is as follows:

Sum Time Assured. Sum added to Sum added to Sum payable
Assured. Policy inlB4l PolicylnlB4B at Death.
£5OOO 13 years 10 maul £683 6 8 £787 10 0 £6470 16 8
5000 12 years 500 0 0 787 10 0 6287 10 0
5000 10 years 303 0 0 787.10 0 6087.10 0
5090 8 years 100 0 0 '787 10 0 5887 10 0
5090 6 years .. .. 675 0 0 5 675 0 0
5030 4 years 450 0 0 5450 0 0
5000 2 years 225 0 0 5225 0 0

the Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and
mly one-half need be paid for the first five years where the In-
surance is for Life.

Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident
)Irector, No. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. London.

THE CATHOLIC LAW and GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
No. 8, New Coventry-street, Leicester-square, London.
TRUSTEES.

The Right Rey. Nicholas Wiseman, D.D., 35, Golden-square.
The Right Rev. William Morris. D.D.. Acton, Middlesex.
The Right Hon. the Lord Stafford, Cossey Hall. Norfolk.
Sir Henry Paston Bedingeteid, Bart., Oxiotirgh,- Norfolk.
sir Richard Jenkin3, G.C.Ii., Director of the Hon. the East India
Company.
Thomas liarnewell, Esq., 15, York-terrace, Regent's-park,
Thomas Eyre, Esq., 62. Pultenr•y-street, Bath.
James Marshall, Esq„ 24, Carlton Villas, Maida-hil

The Richt Rev. William Moriis,l.ls,,:Acton, Middlesex—Chairman.
Michael Forristall, Esq., 13, West-square, Southwark—Deputy
Chairman and Managing Director.
S:r Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the Hon. tho East India
Company, and of the London Joint Stock Bank.
Rev. Thomas Doyle, D.D., London-road, Southwark.
Edmond Beales, Esq., Carlton Villas, Maida-hill.
Henry Clark Duppa, Esq., Malmain-hall, Stoke, near Rochester.
Geor;e Drew, Esq., Streatham; Surrey.
James Marshall, Esq., 24, Carlton Villas, Maida-hill.

AcTurany-:Willlani Henry Archer, Esq.

SECIIETARY—WiIItam I;Torria, Esq.

Prospectuses, Forms of Proposal, and every information promptly
forwarded on application to the Actuary or Secretary, at the Office,
6, New Coventry-street, Leicester-square, London.

ATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION,
Ni for Mutual Life Assurance, Annuities, &c.
48, Gracechurch-street, London.
Enrolled under the Acts of Parliament relating to Friendly Societies.
DIRECTORS.
Chairman—SAMUEL lIAYIIITRST LUCAS, Esq.
Deputy-Chairman—CHAßLES LUSHINGTON, Esq., M.P.
William Miller Christy, Esq. Robert Ingham, Esq.
Edward Crowley. Esq. Robert Sheppard, Esq.
John reltham, Esq. William Tyler, Esq.
Charles GilMn, Esq. SamuelWiLson, Esq., Alderman.
Robert M. Holborn, Fsq.

PHYSICIANS.
J. T. Conquest, M.D., F.L.S. Thomas Hodgkin, M.D.
BANKERS—Messrs. Brown, Janson, and CO.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Hardwick and Davidson.
CONSULTING ACTUARY—CharIes Ansell, Esq., F.R.S.

Members whose renewal premiums became due on the Ist of Octo-
ber, are reminded that the same must be paid within thirty days
from that time.

.....
Copies of the last Report, together with every other information,
may be had en application at the office.
JOSEPH MARSH, Secretary.

London, October 4, 1849.

YEBROWS, MOIJSTACHIOS, and WHIS-
-4 KERS produced in a few weeks, and Baldness • removed and
.revented by the use of GEMSTONE'S AROMATIC REGENE-
RATOR, an essential spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers,
I few drops of which cure headache in a few minutes ; it is also a
most delightibl, fragrant toilet perfume. Sold only in triangular
hottles, protected by the Government stamp, at 4s. ; double the size,
's. ; and double this size, Ile. each ; enclosed in a Pamphlet, con-
talninT: testimonials of andsubted authority,entitled " Three Minutes'
Vivice on the Growth , and Preservation of the Human Hair, &c."
ly post, 4s. 6d., 75.8 d„ and 125., for money orders only.
Sold wholesale only at Grimstone's Herbary, Highgate, near
London ; and by Messrs. Barclay and Son. Farringdon-street ; Sanger,
Ozferd-street; Messrs. Butler and Co.,Cheapside Fisher and Toiler,
Conduit-street; Mr. Johnston, medicine warehouse, 63, Cornhui -
"Lad by all Chemists, Perfumers, and others For Edinburgh, J. and
R. Raimes.Leith-walk ; for Manchester, eresehe and Son, Adver
Aser-office.

TO THE LADIES.

This lady had the following Utter in the "Times" news.
paper on Aug. 7, 1346. Reader, remember, this letter was put Int
the paper by the lady herself, as a testimony to me.
" Mrs. Weekley, of No. 3. Swan-street, Borough, takes this oppor.
tunity of publicly thanking Mr. W. Grimstone, of the Herbary, High-
gate for the eilcacy of his Aromatic Regenerator, in having com-
pletely restored the hair onher head, after using itabout four months,
and the whole of her hair is much stronger and more luxuriant than
lever was before the baldness appeared.
"Mrs. Weekley inserts this testimony to-the virtues of Mr. (I.'s
Regenator, feeling assured that many ladies would gladly purchase
an I Is. bottle if they were as certain of I,ta virtues as she is, from ex-
perience, not only in the restoration and production of hair in abund-
ance, but as a cure of nervous headache ; as a toilet peribmeitl far
beyond any to her taste. She will feel a pleasure in answering any
lady of respectability to the abovefact..-3, Swan-street, Borough."
In eases of the hair becoming thin, weak, or turning grey, afe w
drops on the crown of the bead occasionally, every week, will pre-
vent the hair from coming away with the comb, make it strong, and
prevent it turning grey, rendering the hair luxuriant and curly. A
few drops on your hairbrush before brushing the hair, will give the
hair brilliancy, causing it to curl.

The most dedicate ladies May- use this delightful product of the
mein aromatic herbs and flowers with confidence ; its refreshing
odour removes headache and makes it a most necessary companion
to the toilet. In cases of nevous headache, pour ten or twelve drops
on the grown of the head; if very bad, repeat it every quarter of an
hour. In most cases relief is certain in ten minutes. It produces
hair on children's heads in a few appplications. 11 used on infants'
howls, it has such a peculiar cooling influence on the brain as to pre-
vent aonvulsions, as well as promoting the growth of hair.—See
oiniphlet of testimonials.

Ai'letters addressed to William Grimstone. Herbarv. litigheatc

A R It I A G E.
in One half the world are desolately singe, and the ether
cappoling them married, questioasNy contented. Dinidence, or a
sense of right determine the fbr,ner, and miscalculated hopes em-
eitterthe latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea
of caution and wor dly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret AD-
comproshig harry; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,
and broken health, are the groat hindrances to domestic happiness
and social content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set-
!lament. Honour and justice dera cud that health should form an item
In the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or
neglect weand more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if
these surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULVERIVELL'S little
MEMOIRS "On Single and Married Life," pub. in 2 vols., Is.
each (by post, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). let no imaginatively
refined, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered
oy misinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining
them. They are not intendel certainly for mere idle =tufty, but
far the closet perusal of those mere deeply interested, to whom
they are offered as antagonist is to the empyrical trash put forth on
the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or
together, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other
tittle publications claim your attention (same price Is. once:,
by root ls. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and
Avoid," and " How to be Happy." They are not merely
pampilots, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the
mere ephemeral seribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's
life who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob-
sorveaca of the maxims ha would inculcate—to do unto others as he
weEtt he done unto—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always
on the e
"stuuty side of the ay. Th above works may be Lad of
Sherwood, 23, Patera :ster-rwew ;" Carvallio, 147, Fleet-street • Mann,
39, Grabill; Nelson 467, West Strand; or direct (by post or other.
vitae) from the sutler (who may be conferred with personally,
mornings and eventage), 1#3,, Argyil-plago Aegent-atreet; and all
1300liaollus,

York,

PUBLICATIONS.

THE EDINBURGH REVIEW,
No. CLXXXIL,
Will be pub:lshed on Saturday, the" 13th of October.
coNTENTs:--
I. Reason and Faith ; their attims and Conflicts.
11.. Agriculture and Science.
111. Tennyson's Princess—Schoco:s of English roetry.
IV. The Electric Telegraph.
V. Schools of Design.
VI. Unsound Social Philosophy.
VII. Statistics of Coal.
VIII. Pepys's Diary.
London : Longman and Co. Edinburgh : A, and C. Black.

DEDICATED BY SPECIAL AUTHORITY JO HER MOST

GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
Just published, Part 1., price Is. and 33 , and the First Division,
handsomely bound in morocco cloth, gilt, price 7s, Gd.
R. MONTGOMERY MARTIN'S NEW WORK.

THE BIRITISFI COLONIES; their History,
Extent, Condition, and Resources : Illustrated with Maps
of each Pow.ession, and Portraits of the most celebrated Promoters
and Detriders -of our Colonial Empire; adapted fur the use of
STATESMEN, MERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS and intended
EMIGRANTS ; from the most recent official details (by permission
of Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the Co'onies), to which will
be added a copious Coloni 1 Gazetteer. By R. MONTGOMERY
MARTIN, late Treasurer to the Queen at Hong-long, and Member
of her Majesty's Legislative Council in China.
To be completed in Ferty•eight Parts, at Is. ; Sixteen Parts, at 3s ;
or In Eight Divisions, hrmdsomely bound In morocco cloth, gilt,
price 7s. 6d.
" In the valuable compilation made by Mr. R. 31: Martin may be
obtained the fhlleA and most authentic information in regard to the
history, the extent, the condition, and the resources of the British
Colonies."— Evening Sun.
Published by J. and F. Tall's, London. and New York.

NOTICE!
Now ready, at all the Libraries,
In 2 vols, post Bvo.,
•

THE LORD 'OP THE MANOR;
Or,

LIGHTS AND SHADES oy..COUNTRY LIFE.
By the Author M.
• " Raby Rattler," " Rowland Bradshaw,'" &c.
William Shoberl, Publisher, 20, Great Marlborough-street, London.
*** Orders received by all Booksellers.

This day is published, a New Edition, in foolscap Bvo., price 95., of
LAYS OF THE scurrisu. CAVALIERS.
By W. E. AYTOUN
. . . .

Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Edinburgh.
Wiliam Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London.
To be had of all Booksellers.

This day is published, in post Bvo., price 6s.
1. EAVES FROM. THE JOURNAL OF A
_a./ SUBALTERN DURING THE CAMPAIGN IN THE
PUNJAUB, 1848-49.
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London ; to be bad
of all Booksellers.

This day is published, in Bwo., price
XPERIAIENTAL - AGRICULTURE ;
Being the Results of Past, and Suggestions for Future Ex-
periments in Scientific and Practical. Agriculture. •
By JAMES F. W. JOHNSTON, & E., &c., &c.
Author of " Elements of Agecultural Chemistry," &c.
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London; to be had
of all Booksellers.

WEDENBORG'S WORKS.
A. In the present momentous era the attention of reflecting
Christians of all denominations is especially invited to
SWEDEN bORG'S RUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION,
Con' alning the Universal Theology of the New Church. 932 pp. Svo.
Price 10s. 6d.
Sold by W. Newbury, 6, King-street, Holborn, of whom may be
had complete Catalogues of Swedenborg's Works.

LAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS.
~141 Copy of a letter from Mr. J. J. Wilson, Chemist, Moak Bar,

" To Mr. Thomas Pront,

1' 14th June, 1847.
" Sts,—Having suffered most dreadfully for the last six years from
repeated attacks of the gout, and receiving no benefit from the best
medical advice I could obtain, I was induced about six weeks ago to
try a box of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills. When 1 commenced
taking them, which was in the afternoon, my feet and elbows were
very much swollen and inflamed : I was suffering the most intense
agony. I had that night sound and refreshing sleep, and awoke in
the morning comparatively free from pain; and before I had finished
the box. I never, was better in my life : they have not only entirely
removed the gout, but have also very much improved my general
health. I have since recommended them to feur individuals, who
br.ve suffered much from gout and rheumatism • and V•ey all speak
highly of the benefit they have received from them. If you think
my case worthy of insertion among the many cures effected by your
wonderful medicine, you are at perfect liberty to publish it.
" I am, S:r, yours respectfully,
" J. J. WILSON."
. . .

The above testimonial exhibits the never-failing effects of this
valuable medicine, which affords to the afflicted with gout, rheuma-
tism, lumbago, sciatica, and all analogous complaints, speedy and
certain relief.

They require neither confinement nor attention of any kind, and
invariably prevent the disease attacking the stomach, brain, or other
vital part.

Sold by Thomas Front, 229, Strand, London ; and by his appoint-
ment by all respectable Medicine Vendors throughout the United
Kingdom. Price 2s. 9d. per box.
Ask tor BLAIR'S GOUT and RIIEITMATIC PILLS, and observe
the name and address of " Thomas trout, 229, Strand, London," im-
pressed upon the Government Stamp affixed to each box of the
Genuine Medicine. •

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL. OCT. 4.

STOCK ExciburaE.--Great Western, Quarters, were dcne
0-day at 11% to 116 dis., and but little business was
transacted.
LIVERPOOL, Oar. 4. .

3iocs Excamcoll.—The share market was in much the
s roue state as yesterday. The sales are—Birkenhead, Lan-
cashire, and Cheshire (late C. and B.), 6 per cent. till 1850,
I 3 4—Caledonian, Preference, 9 Glasgow, Paisley, and
Greenock, 16',4 Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consol. (M.
and L.); ' 36 dia.—London and North-Western, 1111 c.—
Ditto, New Quarters, % p.—Midland, 51—North British,
New Preference, Is. 3d. dis.—Scottish Central, 19—South-
Eastern and Lover (No. 4), 51. 188. 9E— Dutch Rhenish
6% c. die.
MANCHESTER, Ocr. 4.

STOCK EXCHANGE. —The transactions to-day were as
follow :—London, New Quarters, 7-16 p. North Stafford-
shire, 7 11-16 dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Preference,
10 c. Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 534.
- BIRMINGHAM, Ocr. 4.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—Business was extremely dull to-day.
The only transactions were—Shrewsbury and Birmingham
(A), 738 dis , and Shropshire Union, 3 die.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO IRELAND.—Mr. P. Phillips,
the well-kuown artist, who went expressly to Ireland to
c:dlect materials to illustrate the various scenes connected
with her Majesty's late visit, had the honour of laying
before her Majesty, at Osborne-house, on Tuesday last,
through Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, those sketches,
as well as others descriptive of some of the fiaest scenery
in Ireland. ller Majesty was graciously pleased to ex-
press her approbation of the fidelity and beauty of the
drawings, and commanded Mr. Phillips to prepare a
series of subjects from the sketches presented to her.
RETURN OF EIGHT JEWISH MEMBERS TO THE
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, JAMAICA.—We perceive, by the
letters and papers received from Jamaica of the 17th
inst., that eight Jews were elected representatives in the
Home of Assembly, which contains altogether but forty-
seven Members. The gentlemen thus honoured are—
Mr. Magnus for the parish of Trelawny (which ranks
second in- the island); Mr. George Phillips for St.
James; Messrs. Lindo and Hart for St. Mary; Mr.
Edward Lucas for Port Royal; Mr. Lyon for St. Do-
rothy; Mr. Salom for St. Thomas-in•the-Vale; and Mr.
Philip Laurence was again returned for Kingston.
Whilst at home the Lords dread the unchristianising of
a Parliament having 650 odd Members by one Jew, a
Parliament in the English colonies admits eight Jewish
Members in a house of forty-seven Members, and does
not fear being Judaised by them. What an anomalyi—
Jewish Chronicle.

THE BOILER EXPLOSION AT BURNLET.—We gave
in our last a brief account of the frightful casualty
which occurred on Tuesday week, by the bursting of a
boiler at Mr. Slater's mill, Sandy Gate, near Burnley,
and stated that two persons had been killed, and two
others so severely injured that they were nut expected
to recover. We regret to add that the loss of life was
greater than we mentioned, three persons having died on
the day of the explosion from the injuries received. In-
quests were held on the bodies on Friday morning, be-
fore Mr. John Hargreaves, the coroner. After a
lengthened inquiry, the jury returned a verdict of acci-
dental death in each case. They added, that they ex-
onerated the boiler-maker from all blame, but recom-
mended a stronger construction of boilers in future; they
recommended the engineer to take care that in future the
peg indicating the pressure should be of proper length; and
they recommended to all millowners that boilers should
be placed in separate buildings, over which no persons
should have to work.-111anclicster Guardian. _ _

• MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The nuptials of the
Earl of Bessborongh, the Master of the Buckhounds,
and the Lady Caroline Gordon Lennox, eldest daughter
of the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, were solemnised
yesterday, at the episcopal church of Fochabers, ad-
joining Gordon Castle. The Earl of March and a select
circle of the noble relatives of both families assembled
at the ducal seat early this week, to be present at the
auspicious solemnity. A spacious pa'vilion, on the lawn
fronting the castle, was erected for a grand dinner and
ball, in accordance with the wish of the Duke and
Duchess that the tenantry and farmers, as well as their
dependants, should make merry on the happy occasion.
No expense has been spared to carry out the arrange-
ments for the rejoicings. • .
THE SERVANTS' PROVIDENT AND BENEVOLENT
SOCIETY.—Up to May,1849,103 servants had contracted,
through this society, for Government annuities, amount-
lag to 1,658/4 and had paid towards the same 1,1921.
12s. 10d.; whereas, from May to the present time, 199
servants have contracted, through this society, for Go-
vernment annuities, amounting to 3,4291. 10s.; and have
paid for the same, 4,2831. 4s. Id.; making in the whole.
for eighteen months, 302 servants who have contracted
for Government annuities,
amounting to 5,0871. 10s.;
and have paid for the same to the Government, through
this society, no less a sum than 5,4751.165. I Id.— Builder
{ADVERTISEMENT.]—An astounding Cure of 35
Wounds by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Extract of a
letter from Mr. Jeremiah Reed, of Molong, near Sydney,
dated 25th Sept., 1843. "To Professor Holloway. Sir, I
owe a debt of gratitude to you for my almost miraculous cure
by the use of our Ointment and Pills, after seven years in-
tense suffering, caused by exposure to wet and cold. When I
commenced using your remedies I had already expended up-
wards of 200/. in other medicine and advice, without any be-
nefit, and had F 5 ulcers on my body, a dreadful headache, and
ins all over me ; bat your Ointment and Pills have cured
me, and lam now copying excellent health." Sold by
Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244,
Strand, London

SATTARA ANNEXATION CASE.

The following speeches Were accidentally omitted
by our reporter at the General Court of Proprietors,
held at the East India House, on Wednesday, the
26:h ult., on the motion for printing additional papers
in the Sattara Annexation Case :
Mr. SULLIVAN moved " That Sir Charles Metcalfe's
minute of the 28th October, 1837, on the right of the
native Princes of India to adopt heirs, and the docu
ments referred to therein, together with all corre-
spondence relative to adoptions made in the families of
Holkar and Scindiah, and of the Princes of Rajapoo-
two, be printed for the use cf the Court of Pro-
prietors." Not anticipating any opposition to his
motion, he should merely hand it in.
CHAIRMAN-Sir Charles Metcalfe's minute has
already been printed ; it is therefore before the Court.
There is no
.use in printing it again.
Mr. SuLuvatc—lt has been printed for the use of
the House of Commons, nut for the Court of Proprietors.
There are only two or three copies on the table in the
Proprietors' room, and those who wish to vid them
must come hers! for the purpose. It is is'Hesirable
that all who took part in the former discussion should
have these papers to refer to.. Besides, it is only the
minute that has been printed, not the documents re-
ferred to in the minute; which are of the highest
importance. •

CHAIRMAN—It is not the practice to add to papers
that have been called for by the House of Commons,
and printed fur the use of that House.
Mr. SULLIVAN—The Chairman is in error both in
his doctrines and his facts. It is constantly the prac-
tice to add to papers which have been printed by the
House of Commons, upon motions made for such
additional papers in this Court. This was dome more
than once in the old Sattara case. When a special
Court was held in 1844 for the consideration of the
Sinde papers, it was adjourned upon the motion of
the Chairman—that though the papers had been
' printed for the House of Commons they had not been
printed for the Court of Proprietors ; that it
would be unfair to go into a discussion of so
important a subject without previous preparation ;
besides there were additional papers, all of
which ought to be in the hands of the
Proprietors before the subject was brought
formally before them. As objections are made to
the production of the papers, no choice is left me
but "to show that they cannot be withheld from us
without injustice. The Court will have to thank the
Chairman for the speech I am about to inflict upon
them—l had not purposed to say a word. Mr. Sulli-
van then proceeded to contrast the opinions given by
the Court of Directors and of the Bengal Govern-
ment upon the right of adoption with those given by
Sir Charles Metcalfe. He said that the decision had
been come to as if the question had never before been
agitated ; whereas it appeared from Sir Charles Met-
calfe's minute that it had been agitated twice at least
before, and decided on both occasions in the teeth of
the decision which had been passed in theSattara case ;
that that decision had been come to in ignorance
of the existence of these' papers ; that as in a court of
law he should be entitled to a new trial, on the
ground that the verdict had been given in the absence
of material evidence, so in this Court he should be
entitled to ask for a re hearing of the Sattara annex-
ation case, on the ground that the question had been
disposed of in ignorance of documents which, if pro-
duced, would materially have influenced the judgment
of the Court.
Colonel DICKINSON seconded the motion. He said
—Under a corresponding view of the import of the
papers now moved for, and of the injustice and con-
sequent impolicy of the sequestration of the Sattara
principality, and deeply regretting, when this most
moment ,us question was first brought under review—
and although such a course of proceeding had been
urged upon the consideration of the Indian Govern-
ment by its accredited minister, Mr. Frene—that an
opportunity was not afforded the aggrieved parties to
Advance and substantiate the grounds upon which
they laid claim to continued sovereignty,—l have
mucii pleasure in warmly seconding the motion of
the llon. Proprietor who has just sat down—a gen-
tleman, it must be unnecessary for me to remind a
single member of this assembly, for whose unwearied
and disinterested exertions in the great cause of their
amelioration all ranks and degrees of our own sub-
jects, and every native state in India, have long owed
him a debt of gratitude which they can never ade-
quately repay ; and in whom it is equally well
known by all who hear me that so many princes,
still in unmerited exile, have uniformly found a not
less able than eloquent and unflinching advocate. I
shall not on this occasion, Mr. Chairman, take up the
time of the Court with any lengthened comments on
that masterly compendium of the Hindoo law of
adoption by the late Lord Metcalfe, which has burst
as it were with meridian splendour upon myself and
so many other members of this Court. I will merely
observe that if anything could elevate to a still higher
pitch the fame of that enlightened and experienced
statesman, it is the evidence arising out of this
momentous document of his sacred regards
for those adoptive and most cherished rights
of Ilindoo Sovereigns, of which I lament
to think the Government of India has recommended,
and the authorities in this country have sanctioned,
so unexampled and, as it appears to me, so gross a
violation. Ido venture, ho Never, to hope that what
has taken place, and what is still taking place in this
Court, will in some measure allay these apprehen-
sions which must have been awakened from one end
of India to the other, for their intermediate humilia-
tion, and the eventual extinction of almost every
dynasty with which the British Government is there
connected. Above all, Mr. Chairman, I entertain a
sanguine hope that yourself, and those gentlemen by
whom your views are supported, will be among the
last persons in this Court to withhold a cordial
assent to the production of the papers now moved
for, the evidence arising out of which is of vital im-
portance for quieting the minds of so many of the
native principalities, tending, as there is every reason
to believe it does, to fundamentally impugn the doc-
trine, and materially to invalidate those other grounds
on which the British Government has asserted, and
vi et armis, enforced, its claims to the Sattara ter-
ritory.
CHAIRMAN—I have a great objection to the
expense of printing the documents. They can be
laid in manuscript upon the table of the Court.
Mr. SULLIVAN—It will not be fair to cast the
expense of printing documents of great importance to
India upon the public. If we do not print them they
will be printed for the House of Commons. We shall
lose a few months ; the expense will be the same in
the end, only that the Crown will pay it instead of
the Company.
The CHAIRMAN then put the question for print-
ing, which was carried in the negative by a show of
hands.

GENERAL DAY of -HUMILIATION.

The fulloiving reply has been received by one of
the clergymen signing a requisition which was for-
warded to his Gran! the Archbishop of Canterbury,
requesting his Gran to name a day for a general
humiliation throughout the empire :
" It v. Sir,—A memorial has been forwarded to me,
signed by yourself and several hundred clergymen, de-
siring me to authorize a day of humiliation for the pro
vince of Canterbury. It is a matter of much gratifica-
tion to perceive, both by this and by many other proofs,
that there is so much of pious feeling throughout our
land, so ready a recognition of the hand of God, whether
in adversity or prosperity. lam bound, however, to say,
in answer to the memorialists, that I have iso power to
comply with their petition.
" In my own diocese I have recommended the ob-
servance of a day of humiliation. In any other dioceses
I could not attempt to recommend, much less to autho-
rize, such an observance without encroaching on the
jurisdiction of the diocesan bishop, and claiming a pri-
vilege which only belongs to her Majesty in Council.
" I remain, Rev. Sir, your faithful servant,
" Oct. 3.

CHRONOMETERS.—From a return obtained by
Captain Pechell, which has been printed by order of the
House of Commons, it appears that the number of chro-
nometers which the Board of Admiralty have given per-
mission to be placed on trial at the Royal Observatory,
Greenwich, during the last five years, amounts to 219,
by various makers, the following of which have been
pnrchused after the trials :-14 by Loseby, 8 by Poole,
7 by Parkinson and Frodsham, 5 by C. Frodsham, 5 by
Reid and Son, 4 by Birchall, 4 by E. J. Massey, 3 by
Appleton, 3 by Dent, 3 by Eiffo, 3 by Hutton, 3 by
Webb, 2 by Carter, 2 by Fletcher, 2 by Norris and
Campbell, 2 by C. Shepherd, 1 by Baker, 1 by Connell,
1 by Clarke, 1 by Hewitt, 1 by M‘Gregor, 1 by Lister,
1 by Muston, 1 by IL Parkinson. atri 1 by W. Shepherd.
Tha return also contains copies of the reports and opi-
nions submitted to the Board of Admiralty by the Hy-
droqrapher and Astronomer Royal, rtlative to Mr.
Losrby's mercurial compensation for chronometers.

SINGULAR CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.—About
eight months ago a young man, named Langford, left
his home, and not being heard of for some time, was sup-
posed to be dead. A few weeks since, however, a man
was taken to the University hirpital, and there died.
Not being owned, his description was made known, and
on being seen by Mrs. Langford, she declared the body
to be that of her husband. As such he was buried, Nirs.
L-ingford receiving the club money fur his funeral.
There the matter was believed to have ended, when, yes-
terday mernir,g, everybody was surprised at seeing the
supposed defunct enter the hcuse of his sister•in-law, on
Saffron-hill, alive and well, the one buried having of
course been another person, but who, is still unknown.

NORTH-WEST SUB-UNION OF
MECHANICS' INSTITUTES.
(From the Leeds Intelligencer.)
The opening of the North West Sub-Union of Mecha-
nics' and Literary Institutes was celebrated on Thursday
last, by a public dejeuner and soiree, at the house of Mr.
Henry Miner, the 1:211'2011 Hotel, Harrogate. The de-
jeuner was served at two o'clock, in the spacious public
drawing room of the hotel, and consisted of viands of
the choicest and most elegant description. About 120
guests sat down to the repast, fully one-third of the
number being ladies. George Cruikshank, Esq., the
celebrated artist and charicaturist, not inaptly styled
" the modern Hogarth," presided, and at the same table,
which stood on a platform extending across one end of
the room, sat the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Ripon,
Lord Viscount Goderich, Bev. Geo. Rigby of Harro
gate; Rev. Dr. Hume, F.S A., of Liverpool; Edw. Baines,
Esq., president of the Yorkshire Union of Institutes;
Thomas William ton, Esq.. Mayor of Ripon, Rev. J. H.
Ryland of Bradford; and Mr. G. L. Banks, gene-
ral secretary and lecturer to the North-West Sub-
Union. The rest of the company were seated at two
parallel tables placed at right angles to the chairman's
table, and reaching nearly the entire length of the room.
The following gentlemen acted as stewards:—John
James Harrison, Esq.; Doctors Bennett and Kennion,
and J. Richardson, Esq., of Harrogate ; W. M.
Lorna', Esq., president of the Wetherby Mechanics' In.
stitution ; T. M. Beaumont, Riq., Knaresborough; H.
Myers, Esq ; Goldsborough ; W. Williamson, Esq., and
Delegates eeg jate Norman,
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situate
in the district which it includes. Amongst the gentle-
men who attended as 'delegates from kindred in-
stitutions, in addition to some of those whose names
are mentioned above, were. Mr. James Hole, secretary
of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes; Mr.
John Dunning, secretary and lecturer to the East-Riding
Sub-Union; Mr. William Ingilby and Mr. G. Elliott,
Ripley; Mr. T. Kettlewell, Pateley Bridge.; Mr. Fisher,
Masham; Mr. Rider, Tbirsk, and Mr. Thomas Luger,
Barnsley. By the kind permission of Earl de Grey, the
admirable band of the Yorkshire Hussars were in attend-
ance, and, by their performances, both diversified and
enhanced the intellectual portion of the entertainment.
After justice had been done to the edibles with which
the tables wore furnished,

The CHAIRMAN rose and said—Ladies and gentlemen,
the first toastlshall have the honour to propose to you,as
you will anticipate, will be the Qaeen—(Applause)--a
name honoured from time immemorial. It is not usual
to pass any panegyrics upon that celebrated and noble
personage, but upon this occasion, I may just advert to
the circumstance of ours glorious Queen taking such a
deep interest in every institution where the interests and
benefit of her people are at stake.—(Applause.) It is
so marked and so peculiar for so high a personage to
descend to such minute particulars in reference to these
institutions that I think I may be excused for coupling
the circumstance with her health on this occasion, when
we are ntet to cary out one of those institutions in which
she herself, as well as her noble consort, takes such in-
terest in promoting. I therefore have the pleasure of
proposing " The health of the Queen."
The toast was drunk with three times three cheers,
the bawl playing the National Anthem.
The toast of " The Queen Dowager, Prince Albert,
and the rest of the Royal Family," and " The Ladies,"
were next given from the chair and were honoured with
cheer.%

The Crurieteer—Ladies and gentlemen, as I tra-
velled yesterday by the railway from London to this
place, I could not help drawing a picture—being an
artist that was very natural, perhaps—(Laughter)—
drawing a picture in my imagination of the difference
between the means of travelling now-a-days, and what
there was in the days of the celebrated Richard Turpin.
—(Hear, hear.) The celebrated "ride to York" you
will all remember, whether you believe it or not; and I
could not but be struck with the extraordinary difference
there was between the highwayman popping his masked
face and presenting a brace of pistols at the window, and
the honest, jolly, John Bull, face of the railway porter
demanding your ticket instead of your money.—
(Applause.)—This is not all; for bad it not been for the
vast improvement in travelling I should not have been
here myself to address you. Tho journey itself would
have been sufficient to deter any man of moderate
courage from undertaking it.—(Hear, hear.) It used to
be the practice for people to make their wills before the
undertaking of such a journey; but we now have merely
to will to go, and we almost immediately reach the place
which we wish to go to.—(Applause.) All these ha-
provements we owe to education, and had it not been for
the extraordinary progress of education, my. friends,
Mr. Banks, would not have been able to have
written to me; I could not have answered him ;
and, indeed, every fact and circumstance of
a meeting like tles could not have taken
place but for education.—(Applause.) Indeed, it would
be useless in me, in au assembly of this sort, to point
out the woneerful change which has taken placein this as
well as in oth©r countries in consequence of education.
When I use the word " education" you will understand
that I do not mean the mere mechanical teaching, the
mere A II c, the mere schooling, but the sort of educa-
tion which tends to enlighten the minds of individuals
and societies —(Applause.) We are this day assembled
to promote and encourage institutions which may, and
have, and will ultimately improve the mental condition
of thousands of our fellow-countrymen—(Hear, hear)—
and bring them up to the same state, I trust, of intellece
fuel erjoyment which we ourselves can command.—
(Applause.) I had the honour of presiding at a meeting
of a largo mechanics' institution in London, and I there
stated, in consequence of some observations which had
fallen from some of the members, that a great educa-
tional movement was going on. This was some time
back. I was quite persuaded of it from the fact of many
gentlemen of philanthropic disposition and of influence
being engaged in the matter. I then stated that I was
satisfied that a great and extraordinary educational
movement was going on, and I find every day that the
truth of my observation is verified. And I then stated
my belief, which I can only repeat upon this occasion,
that unless the higher classes assist in educating the
lower classes of society they will educate themselves—
(Hear, hear)—and it will be much better that we should
all join in a brotherly union, and that they should grow
up with a feeling of attachment—a natural and proper
feeling of attachment—to their superiors in station
in life, than that they should be left to gather
knowledge with a discontented spirit.—(Hear, hear, and
' applause.) lam quite satisfied, from what I know of
society, that unless this educational movement goes on,
and to a very great extent, and unless it is aided by the
aristocracy of the country, that the masses who are now
increasing day by day to a most fearful amount in some
localities, will, like pent-up floods of the great waters,
burst through their bonds and sweep all order and rule
before them.—(hear, hear.) That will be one of the
consequences if the now educated classes neglect to
educate their brethren of the lower classes.—(Hear,
hear.) But, happily, such an event as that will not take
place, in this country at least, because I feel that in
every quarter where I go there is but one feeling on this
all-important subject. There may be a few paltry
exceptions, but there is one great and universal feeling
of kindness and of generosity. It only wants being put
into proper training, and I am quite sure that ultimately,
by little and little, it will grow to the mighty effect that
I hope and trust will be produced.—(Applause.) I make
these observations in order that I may be able to
propose the toast, SUCCCFS to ti • Yorkshire Union of
Mechanics' Institutes," and in doing that I will take
leave, if you please, to couple with the toast the name
of Mr. Edward Baines.—(Applause.)
EDWARD BAINEs, Esq., who was applauded on rising,
said, he could only suppose that the gentlemen who bad
made the arrangements bad placed him so early in the
list of speakers iu order that he might give, as president
of the Yot kshire Union of Mechanics' Institutions, an
explanation of the principles and objects of those insti-
tutions, as there might be amongst the company visiting
Harrogate, and who did them the honour of being pre-
sent on this occasion, those who were not so well ac-
quainted as persons who came from the smoky manufac-
turing districts with the origin and objects of these in-
stitutions. He would, therefore, just say a few words
with regard to the origin, the character, and the aim of
these institutions. He believed the year 1801 saw a
Yorkshireman—that wonderful man Dr. Birkbeck—c etne
fresh from the University of Edinburgh, where he had
been a fellow student of Lord Brougham—whera he had
been drinking in with Henry Brougham, he should have
said, the stream of knowledge. He went quite a young
man to Scotland, and in consequence of his scientific
attainments, was appointed president of the Andersonian
Institution at Glasgow. It occurred to his mind, that
to those men who were solely engaged in mechanical
occupations, the higher class of skilled mechanics, the
smiths, the carpenters, the makers of steam-engines,
those engaged in the arts of designs, the bleachers, the
dyers, and those occupied in the cotton manuracture, it.
would be useful to understand what they were en-
gaged in, and he determined to inform them of
the principles of mechanical and chemical science
on which the various arts they were daily
carrying on were founded.—(Hear, hear.) He deter-
mined in the most practical and plain way to gather a
number of these men around him, and he then entered
into an explanation of the principles of the various me-
chanical arts in which they were engaged, then into an
explanation of the principles of philosophy, and from one
thing to another it grew till a Mechanics' Institution at
Glasgow, the first of all similar institutions, was formed
in 1801, an institution which bad continued to exist in
all its efficiency to this day. The School of Arts,in
Edinburgh, was founded with something of the
his friend,ame
de-
sign, but not till eighteen years afterwards ;
The
first Mr. Leonard Horner, being one of its most sel h
self-dens ntingand zealous promoters for several ye sir
insti-
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listening to a lecture by Dr. Birkbeck, who having jute
got established in London, had set himself to work at
his old occupation, doing good by the promotion of
science • there he aas giving his audience a lecture on
practical and poplar science.—(Hear, hear.) Shortly
after this Henry Brougham publiblied a pamphlet on the
subject, which had a prodigious effect upon the public

[PRICE OD.

mind. He (Mr. B.) went there, he heard that lecture,
saw those men and the eagerness of their reception of the
informseion communicated, and he came down to York •
shire and did his lit tie utmost to establish similar institu-
tions to the one in London. They had with them to-day
Lord Goderich and the Very Reverend the Dean of
Ripon, clergymen tied laymen, the first fruits of
Yorkshire ; and when they heard what the Dean of
• Ripon had to say, when they heard the simple story of
Lord Goderich, he ventured to assert that they would
go away saying—if these noblemen and gentlemen had
raised themselves to so much honour and had done so
much good, they also would try what they could do in
their various associations ; and from that small assem•
bly of a hundred people there might go forth, on the
wings of the wind, seed that would produce much fruit,
and send forth seed again in their turn, aed thereby
help on the good and great work of disseminating know-
ledge and diffusing information.—(Applause.) He had
said that the first object of Dr. Birkbock was to teach
mechanics and chemistry, to teach men connected with
the manufacture of steam-engines, hydraulics, hydro-
statics, and hydrodynamics, to be of a good understand
ing, more intelligent in the application of those arts
which had revolutionised the manufactures of this coun •
try, and which were destined to accomplish still greater
things in the world.—(Hear, hear.) Still this institu•
Lion had a restricted scope. It was confined to men in
the mechanical arts—the higher class of skilled mecha-
nics. These, though a considerable number, were but a
small portion of the community, and chiefly found in
manufacturing towns. But most happily it was at length
determined not to confine the teaching of Mechanics'
Institutions to mechanics ; not to confine them even to
popular science, but to open them out to the vast field of
intellectual improvement which lays open to every man,
whatever bo his station in life, who has his faculties to
exercise on the good works of God above, or ,on
.the
works of man below. They had in some of the institu-
tions a hard battle to fight against the prejudices which
existed in favour of confining them to the mere teach-
ing of mechanics, but at last these prejudices
were overcome, and it was determined that the
books in the library should not be confined to
the mere teaching of mechanics, but should be
extended to all works calculated to refine and elevate the
mind; works generally useful and proper for man, such
as works on history, astronomy, books of voyages and
travels, and even—and this to his mind was most deeira-
file— to the superior works of fieion. Well, it was af-
terwards found that Mechanics' Institutions might be
adapted, not nu-rely to large manufacturing towns, but
to the whole population of small towns and villages, and
it was of course soon found that it was possible to es-
tablish them in places which before would not have
furnished a suffich nt number of members to support
them. Institutions began to multiply, and by and bye
arose that Union of Mechanics' Institutions. Twelve
years ago they formed the West Riding Union of Insti-
tutions, and then extended it to Yorkshire, taking in
the whole county. After noticii g some of the :lven-
tages which had resulted from the cetablishment of the
Yorkshire Union of Institute., Mr. Baines said the last
feature of utility in that institution was the greatest and
most unexpected, and has tended to establish new insti-
tutions. They held th,ir annual meetings in various
towns: last year it way held at Hull, the year before at
Sheffield, at Leeds, at Harrogate, and at various other
places; and they had always found, wherever they had
gone, an effect that had been produced by the meetings
held and the speeches delivered and reported in the
newspapers. W(11, then, there was formed within the
Yorkshire Union of Institutes a sectional or sub-union in
the East Riding, formed by some very zealous men, who
thought they could continue their union with the York-
shire association, and also do good by a sub-union
among themselves; they appointed a secretary, who
travel!, d about, went into places where there had been
no institution, talked to the people at first privately,
and afterwards more publicly, and this he was the
means of forming other new institutions within the
limits of the sub-ut.ion.—(Great applause.) This sub-
union had been the means of establishing institutions at
Kirby Malzeard, Thorp-arch, Tadcaster, and at Top-
el.ffe, near Boroughbridge, so that the formation of
four Mechanics' Institutions had been the work
of this sub-union already.—(Applause.) He had not
expatiated on the advantages of knowledge to the
humbler classes; the Chairman had done so in some
degree, and there were others to follow him who
were Ale to do so better than himself; therefore he
should not longer detain them. He had thought it
necessary to enter into these explanations, from which
,they would see it was not, atter all, so difficult a
-thing to form a Mechanics' Institution. It was not
necessary tieht all should be as perfect in every de•
partment as tho:e in their large towns. They began
with three great departments. The first and most im-
portant was the evening classes, in which the young
were taught, some the mere elementary knowledge of
reading, writing, and accounts, others chemistry, others
drawing, and various other branches of useful know-
ledge. This was the first and most important, as al-
most all who had risen to distinction, and he could
mention several, from the education received in these
institutions, had been taught in this way. But what,
in point of time, preceded these evening classes was
the providing of a gcod and comfortale reading-
room, for the whole of the population might have
the benefit of this at once; the rich might not only
give their money, but they might send some books,
and all might be benefitted by a circulating library
and:reading-room. Next came the lectures on scientific
and other subjects. It was not necessary a Mechanics'
Institution should have all these at once. If they could
get a reading-room they had a nucleus for an institution,
and some they might get to pay subscriptions, and others
would follow the example of his friend, Mr. Schwann, of
Huddersfield, a gentleman of benevolent mind, who
night after night went to a Mechanics' Institution to
teach where they had 700 or 800 young people who
were taught. Therefore they might get their reading-
room and library first, then their lectures, as they could
induce their clergyman, their minister, their doctor,
their nobleman, or others to give them; and let him say
that those who gave papers to Mechanics' Institutions
were more indebted to them than those institutions were
for the lectures delivered ; some people might not know
it, but more good was got from writing papers than by
hearing them read—(Hear, hear)—that he could say.
Ile had one remaining duty to perform towards the
gentleman who had done them the honour of presiding
over them that day.—(Hear, hear.) He thought he
might sum up all this in one expression. lie is cur
modern llogarth, and with Hogzrth's power he employs
his pencil in the promotion of the cause of temperance
and virtue; he ridicules vice, he exposes absurdity, he
enables us to laugh when we may and when we ought,
and he does that so well, that, as was well said of Sir
Joshua Reynolds, he improves " his pencil our faces and
his manners our hearts."—(Loud applause.)
The CHAIRMAN—Ladies and gentlemen, when I look
round this room and see such an elegant assembly as
this before me, and when I consider the men of mind and
rank who support me on this occasion, I ask myself,
what have I done that I should be permitted to place
myself in such an enviable and elevated position. Well,
I hardly know how to answer that question, but I pre-
sume it can only be because I happen to be an individual
whom it has pleased God to bless with certain talents
and abilities, and all that I have done has been not to
bury them or hide them under a bushel; the natural
abilities I possess must come from a higher power than
myself, arid to them I owe this more than to anything I
can myself do. At the time when my talents were
directed or rather misled by others, and before my own
mind was fully formed, I must have done many mis-
chievous things as a caricaturist. But when my mind
was formed, and I began to act for myself, I determined
—as it had always been against my own private feeling
to hurt the feelings of others—l determined never to
commit a personal caricature; and feeling that, as a
gentleman and as an independent man, I never could
ork for the benefit of any political party, I therefore
naturally left personal and political caricature; since
which I have dune the best I could to amuse, and,
where I could, to instruct the younger portion of
the community ; and the only reason why you re-
ceive me with this marked kindness and attention,
is because you have understood my object, and
have been satisfied with my efforts.—(Cheers.)
The fact is, I have merely touched a chord in your
breasts, which you have all responded to, and of kindly
feeling for cur race, which you all possess.—(Applause.)
I have a very good opinion of the world at large—(Hear,
hear)—it is only with the worst and the smallest part of
it that you need not be pleased.—(Hear, hear.) You
know that good actions are not buzzed about, good men
are not generally held up to the popular gaze; but it is
the impudent, the base, the arrogant, who will make
themselves known; yet they are only few. Ladies and
gentlemen, I will not detain you many minutes with my
own affairs, but I will just offer to you one observation
or two on the point on which Mr. Baines has so well and
so ably addressed you—the great end and aim of these
institutions, for that is the point.—(Hear, hear.)
°;ev;
ever desirable it might be considered to instruct
t ill bee.
It humbler classes, let us look at what the result!
It will make the people mere intellectual in their harac-
nd, like all good
ter, and all more good and virtuous,
people, desirous to see others happyand,
as well as them-
ladies should feel particularly
selves. And I would say,
interested in the success of such institutions, for, my
word for it, no intellectual man ever ill-used a woman.
No, it is not on record, or over will be, that a high intel-
lectual mind was ever cruel to a woman. It is only the poor
uneducated brute, and those do not exist to any extra-
ordinary extent at present. In conclusion, I would say,
the great aim and end of those institutions is to improve
the character of the humbler classes, and to make their
homes happy and conitoriable.— (Hear, hear, and ap-
plause.) This should be the great end and aim of our
lives; and when we come to consider that by these means
the great mass of mankind is being mended and im-
proved in their character and condition, you will agree
that the result will be the bestowment of a greater de-
gree of happiness amongst mankind, and by this means
a love of the great altar of domestic happiness will be
extended a!! over the land.—(Applause.) And, trust-
ing with all my ',cart and soul that those institutions
will not only succeed in this locality, but that they will
spread over the whole face of the earth, I shall feel en-
eouraged to do all I can in my own locality in the same
cause, fur when I came here, to support, as I thought,
only two or three institutions, I found such extensive
ramifications, institutions doing what I prophesied long
ago they would do, I was cheered and gratified, and I
' shall go to work and gee what I can do in MM.--

(Hear, hear.) Ladies and gentlemen, I have only once
more to thank you for your kindness, and I beg to wish
all of you good health and happiness.—(Applause.)
The CHAIRMAN, attar a short pause, again rose and
said,—Ladies and gentlemen, you will excuse me for
rising again so soon. I have a toast to propose, and
unfortunately my acquaintance with the gentleman is of
so short a duration that I cannot expatiate on his per-
sonal qualities, but when I mention his name many here
will be able to fill up the hiatus I have left. I then
mention to you the name of Lord Viscount Goderich.
(Cheers.) Though I cannot pay to him any personal
compliment, I may pay a compliment to the class to
which be belongs. Ladies and gentlemen, lam almost
always drawing, and you must therefore excuse me if I
draw a comparison.—(A laugh.) I ash not to make
any invidious comparisons with any other nation of the
earth, for I wish them all well, but I cannot but draw
a distinction between the aristocracy 'of Great Britain
and those of any other country.—(Hear, hear.) I defy
anything like comparison between them; in fact the
aristocracy of Great Britain is the great star of honour
its( If, and we all know that a title without honour is a
mere phantom. lam proud of introducing to you Lord
Go&rich.—(Cheers.)
Lord Viscount GODEMCII, who was received with
much applause, said—Ladies and gentlemen, I feel quite
unworthy of the honour you have done me on this occa-
sion, and I am afraid I have given you no reason for it.
I have a sincere desire, tied think it my duty, to promote
education amongst all classes who have net had the same
oppertunities and advantages for obtaining a good edu-
cation as I and others have bad, aed, as far as possible,
to give them these advantages.— (Hear.) Perhaps there is
one reason which may have induced you to re ceive my
name with so much honour, that is my connexion with a
mechanics' institution in the county which has acme
peculiar features. It is at a village, situated, as you may
have heard it said, at the verge of civilization—Kirby
Malv:ard.—(Hear, bear.) But, thanks to such gentle-
men as Mr. Baines, and you gentlemen of Yorkshire,
civilizeticn has at last so far penetrated into our country
that, at the lei ginning of last year, there took place,
amongst other revolutions, a revolution at Kirby Mai-
ze ard, the result of which will, I trust, be more stable
than those of many other revolutions have been.—
(Hear, hear.) It was a number of individuals who got
together to e stablish this mechanics' institution ; they
hired a very small and inconvenient room, but it was the
best they could get, and they established a literary and
reading room by the aid of persons in that district.
heard nothing of it till the autumn, when, corning into
the country I saw, in large gold letters, the words
" Mechanics' Institution."—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
I was pleased to see it, and though I had nulling to do
with the forming of it, the thing having Leen got
up by the inhabitants of Kirby 3lalaeard, I did all I
could to support it.—(Loud cheers.) From that time it
has continued to flourish, and now the library consists
of three hundred volumes, which, if you were aware of
the nature and small extent of the village, you would
think a fair library.—(flesr, hear.) It is from a love
to the spread cf knowledge, and shows the advantages
of institutions being united together, that such an insti
tution should be established, and when we heard of the
North-West Sub-Union, we thought wo should all be
Tote rested in its success, We want instruction, and I
can say that I have received much instruction from the
speech of Mr. Baines, and can tell the pope what to
do better than I could before I heard it. It is by these
means that small Mechanics' Institutions are carried on.
We might have perished, or we might have gone as far
in the wrong direction without the aid of the North-
West Sub-Union, as with it we shall now go in the right.
—(Hear, hear.) Ladies and gentlemen, lam extremely
obliged for the tanoun you have done me.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMIff next gave " The health of the Mayor
of Ripon."—(Cheer:..)
The MAYOR of RIPON having returned thanks, rnd
mentioned two or three pleasing instances in which per-
eons of the :humbler origin had; in consequence of the
edecation they received in connexion with Ripon
Mechanics' Institution, been enabled to raise themselves
in society. Ho concluded by proposing " The Health
of the Dean of Ripon,"—(Cheers.)
The Dean of RIPON, on rising, was received with loud
and reiterated plaudits from the entire audience. Be
said he felt that at that moment they had arrived at, to
him, the most painful part of the proceedings of that day.
Every one must anticipate some imis!'ortune of his life,
and look forward to the concluding calamity ; but he
never rose to speak when he felt himself to be the sub-
ject alluded to, without real and sincere pain. But he
would relieve that pain, by passing away at once from
himself to express the language of sincere lamentation
for one who was taken away—the best, the most en•
lightened, and the most amiable of friends of Mechanics'
Institutions—he meant his late Right Rev. Friend, the
Bishop of Norwich.—(Hear.) He did feel it to be im •
possible, so soon after the Right Rev. Prelate's decease,
almost hearing the echo of his interesting voice in his
ears—for he was in Ripon only three weeks ago—he
could not let the opportunity pass without expressing his
sincere regret at the loss which these institutions had
sustained from the removal of the Right Rev. Prelate
from amongst us.—(Hear, hear.) Ile (the Dean of
Ripon) felt that if he wanted any such excuse for occu-
pying the situation he so frequently did in supporting
such inedttitions, that he was only following
the bright and noble example cet by his (Recast d
friend. (Great applause.) His Noble Friend,
Lord Goderich, dropped the word " civilization " in refer-
ence to Kirkby Malzeard, and he must confess that it
struck him as the must appropriate term to describe
what the great efforts of mechanics' institutions really
aimed at. It was to promote the great ends and de-
mands of civilization—(Hear, hear)—and he delighted
to hear the word from his Lordship's lips, because it was
the fashionable term in which intellectual theorists were
now addressing themselves to the tastes and fancies and
the affairs of the present day. Everything, now, let it
come from what source it might, and be promoted by
what means it might, was an advance in civilization.—
(Hear, bear.) Well, be contended then that there was
no institution on the earth, viewed with an enlightened
contemplation of its real aims and objects, that would
compete successfully with mechanics' institutions in pro-
moting civilization; but when he spoke of civilization,
let him not be misunderstood as applying it merely to
one favoured class of the community. It belonged to the
masses.—(llear, hear, and applause.) Civilization ho
took to be with great propriety the genuine birth-right
of the legitimate improvement and development of the
human race.—(Hear, hear.) Now, as to civilization, it
depended upon the exact state of the bodies to whom you
applied it. Various masses of our fellow creatures were in
different conditions that demanded a different applica-
tion of a great remedial good for our common nature.
For instance, suppose he went back to his old friends
whom he lot g remembered, and should ever remember
with sincere attachment, the North American Indians,
among whom he was fora long time—it he might elk,
"What civilization do they want?" his answer was,
" They want the decencies of civilization, clothing, in-
dustry ;" and perhaps if there was any additional ele-
ment of civilization which they wanted, he would say,
" Send the Pt ace Society amongst them—(Cheers)—
and let them instruct them to employ arbitration instead
of the tomahawk and the scalping-knife."—(Cheers and
laughter.) There was the civilizttioe, perhaps, which
a very large class of his brethren—he might truly and
affectionately say his brethren—of that community really
wanted, and were only capable of. Then if he went to
another class of the same people with which he was in-
timate—he would take the 11ohatek nation--who were
now rising fast into an improved state of intellectual
and Christian employment; and he might say with great
joy it was only the ether day that tho sectetary of :the
British and Foreign Bible Society pieced in his hand the
third edition of the Mohawk scriptures when he was
there their chief was anxious to reduce their language
to Brabms, if it were possible, that they might have some
literature among them.—(Hear.) These were times in
which a greater or a more advanced degree of civilization
was demanded. Then suppose he took the Chinese, of
whom comparatively we knew so little, but we knew
enough even of them to remember that the distil guished
man who was so celebrated an architect as to built the
great wall of China, at the same time burnt all the
books of his country, we should say that even that ad-
vanced nation, so mysteriously ancient, and so signally
celebrated in the history of the world, de mended this
measure of civilization also, So that, in point of fact,
wo applied the general element of improvement to all,
according to their circumstances, and we felt that under
the providence of God, who has appointed all things ac-
cording to his own will, each member, and family, and
tribe of the human race was entitled to make that up-
ward progress in the improvement, and the enjoyment,
and the blessings of those faculties which God has given
him .—(Cheers.) Then come to the great masses of our
own country and let us inquire what, up to a recent
period, say within forty or fifty years, was the ordinary
measure of civilization among the operative, teed what
we might class with it and describe—for Le confeseed he
did not like the term—the lower classes of this country.
Well, if you took merely their ordinary faculties and
habits, their civilization consisted merely in the proprie-
ties of life, in its decencies, in its courtesies, in the inter-
course of man with man, and in their forbearance from
base and violent treatment. If you
man, an
an industriousdtothatmortil
discipline, you then bad an honest
man, a charitable man; and, so far as the duties
of citizens wore concerned, you had a good patriot.—
(Hear, hear.) That constituted all that could be pre-
dicated of our lower operative classes of men forty or fifty
years age, as persons endowed with mind and under-
standing.—(Bear, hear.) Now since that period this
class of persons had claimed to rise to a higher degree
of elevation. lie did not say, because he believed facts
wouldunpeotusttrhm,
strictly warrant it, that this desire was im-
posedor that it was forced upon them by any
exhortation from the classes above them • and he valued
it the more because he believed that it had arisen spon-
taneously from amongst themselves, from the exercise of
their own judgment, their own desire, their own aspira-
tion, their own knowledge of the capabilities which Go
has given them to occupy a higher station in intellectua
enjoyment, than they had hitherto possessed.—(Hear
hear.) And he said, as he had already observed, that be
the more valued that particular class of feelings amongs
them, and for this reason; because if he had found that
persons of particular opinions, of particular projects, either
as to politics or religion, or as to any general subjects
connected with the great movement among them, had
from above, as it were, aimed to lift up the labouring
classes to a higher degree of intellectual power, he
should have said, " You are aiming to make tools
of those persons for your own objects," and he for
one, and he believed all the history of men, both in-
dividually and collectively, held cheap the man wh
was the tool of another. (Applause.) It wa
for this reason that, lookiag at the movement which we
had among us—which was irresistible, which was endu-
rable, you had the feet that the great masses of the
people were for themselves claiming intellectual advance-
'neut. And when he used the expression, "claimirg
intellectual advancement," he deprecated the ides of
saying that they were insisting upon it as a prerogative
which either their superiors or their fellows were bonni
to communicate to them, for then you would have as
element compulsory, which we abkorred, instood 0 Oat