The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-05 00:00:00

YEBROWS, MOUSTACHIOS, and WHIS-
KERS produced in a few weeks, and Baldness removed and
prevented by the use of GRIMSTONE'S AROMATIC REGF,NE-
rtATOR, an essential Writ, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers,
I few drops of which cure headache in a few minutes ; it is also a
'nest delightful, fragrant toilet perfume. Sold only in triangular
bottles, protected by the Government stamp, at 4s. ; double the size,
is. ; and double this size, 1 Is. each ; enclosed in a Pamphlet, con-
taininz testimonials of undoubted authority, entitled " Three Minutes'
advice on the Growth and Preservation of the Human Hair, Etc."
SS most, 4s. Gd., 7s. 8d„ 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,
Oxford-street; Messrs. Butler and Co.,Cheapside Fisher and Toiler,
Conduit-street; Mr. Johnston, medicine warehouse, 68, Cornhill •
and by all Chemists, Perfumers, and others For Edinburgh, J. and
R. Raimes, Leith-walk;
_for Manchester, eresehe and Son, Adver
riser-office.

TO TEM LADIES.
This lady had the following letter inserted in the "Times" news_
paper on Aug. 7, 1116. Reader, remember, this letter was put int
the paper by the lady hereslf, as a testimony to me.

" Mrs. Weekley, of No. 3. Swan-street, Borough, takes this oppor-
tunity of publicly thanking Mr. W. Grimatoae, of the Elerbary, High-
gate for the efficacy of his Aromatic Regenerator, in having com-
pletely restored the h air on her head, after using it about four months,
and the whole of her hal ris much stronger and more luxuriant than
I own* was hefore the baldness appeared.
"Mrs. Weekley inserts this testimony to-the virtues of Mr. G.'s
Regenator, feeling assured that many ladies would gladly purchase
an I ls. bottle if they were as certain of its 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 perfume iti far
beyond any to her taste. She will feel %pleasure in answering any
lady of respectability to the abovefact ,X-3, Swan-street, Borough."
In cases of the hair becoming thin, weak, or turning grey, ate w
drops on the crown of the head 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 delicate ladies may use this delightful product of the
meet aromatic herbs and dowers with confidence ; its refreshing
odour removes headache and makes it a most necessary companion
to the toilet. In cases of nevous headache, your 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. If used on infants'
heads, it has such a peculiar cooling influence on the brain as to pre-
vent convulsions, as well as promoting the growth of hair.—See
aniphlet of testimonials.

Al: Hatters addressed to wtlliam Grimstone. HerbarT. Highgate.

A 8 B I A G E.
1%1 One half the world are desolately single, and the other
suppesiag them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a
sense of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes ens-
sitter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself nailer the pica
of caution and wor dly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un-
comprosing harry ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,
and broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
and social content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set-
tlement. Honour and justice demand that health should form an item
in the conapact ; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes er
aeglect weand more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if
these surmises concern yen, procure Dr. CULVERWELL'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 yon, by their titles, nor be hindered
DY misinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining
them. They are not intended certainly for mere idle cariosity, but
for the closet perusal of those mere deeply interested, to whom
they are offered as antagonistic 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
little publications claim your attention (same price Is. each,
by r oat le. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and
Avoid," and " How to be Happy." They are not merely
pamphlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the
mere ephemeral suribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's
life who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob-
servance of the maxim; he would inculcate—to do unto others as he
weald he done nuts—t) live after nature's laws—and to keep always
on the "sunny side of the way." The above works may be bad of
Sherwood, 23, Patern:ster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street • MannBo+ ,
Osfrahill; Nal son, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other-
who) *One the anther (who may be conferred with personally,
sad trsenings), 10, Argyll-plies Regent-street; end 411
!

RAIIA VVAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL. OCT. 4.

STUCK EXCHANGE.—Great Western, Quarters, were done
:o-day at 11 to 111/2 dis,, and but little business was
transacted.

LIVERPOOL, Om 4.

STOCK ExcriANGE.—The share market was in much the
s ime state as yesterday. The sales are—Birkenhead, Lan-
cashire, and Cheshire (late C. and B.), 6 per cent. till 1850,
1314—Caledonian, Preference, 9 —Glasgow, Paisley, and
Greenock, 16% Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consol. (M.
and L.), 36 dis.—London and North-Western, 1111/2 c.—
Ditto, New Quarters, % p.—Midland, 51—North British,
New Preference, Is. 3d. dis.—Scottish Central, 19—South-
Eastern and Lover (No. 4), Si. 18s. 9d.—Dutch Rhenish
63/4 c. dis.

MANCHESTER, Oc-r. 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, 5'%.
BIRMINGHAM, Our. 4.
_ _ _ _ _

STOCK EXCFIANON.—Business was extremely dull to-day.
The only transactimo were—Shrewsbury and Birmingham
(A), 7AI dis., and Shropshire Union, 3% dis.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO IRELAND.—Mr. P. Phillips,
the well-known artist, who went expressly to Ireland to
collect materials to illustrate the various scenes connected
with her Mtjesty's late visit, had the honour of laying
before her Majesty, at Osborne-house, on Tuesday last,
through Colonel the lion. C. B. Phipps, those sketches,
as well as others descriptive of some of the finest scenery
in Ireland. Her 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.—WO perceive, by the
letters and papers received from Jamaica of the 17th
inst., that eight Jews were elected representatives in the
House of Assembly, which contains altogether but forty-
s,,ven 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. Salem for St. Thomas-indhe-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 Je%ish
Members in a house of forty-seven Members, and does
not fear being Judaised by them. What an anomaly!—
Jewish Chronicle.

Tun BOILER ExPLosioN AT BURNLEY.—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 not 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 persona
should have to work.—Manchester Guardian.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIF.G.—The nuptials of the
Earl of Bessborough, 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 pavilion, 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
SOCIETT.—Up to May, 1849, 103 servants had contracted,
through this society, for Government annuities, amount-
lag to 1,6584; and bad paid towards the same 1,192/.
125. 10d.; whereas, from May to the present time, 199
servants have contracted, through this society, for Go-
vernment annuities, amounting to 3,4291. 105.; 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 5,475/. 16s. 11d.—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 your 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 2001. in other medicine and advice, without any be-
nefit, and had 35 ulcers on my body, a dreadful headache, and
pains all over me ; bat your Ointment and Pills have cured
me, and lam now enjoying excellent health." Sold by all
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
26th 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-
tana, be printed for the use cf tl-e Court of Pro-
prietors." Not anticipating any opposition to hia
motion, he should merely hand it in.
CIIAIRMAN—S ir Charles Metcalfe's minute has
already been printed ; it is therefore before the Court.
There is no use in printing it again.
Mr. SULLIVAN—It 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 read them
must come here. for the purpose. It is is desirable
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 for 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 dose 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 fur 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
momentous 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,-1 have
much pleasure in warmly seconding the motion of
the Hon. 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 .llindoo 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, however, to hope that what
has taken place, and what is still taking place in this
Court, will in some measure allay those 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 13ritish Government is there
connected. Above all, Mr. Chairman, I entertain a
sanguine hope that younelf, 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 arnais, enforced, its claims to the Sattara ter-
ritory.

CI; AIRMAN—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—ft 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 ; filo 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 following reply has been received by one of
the clergymen signing a requisition which was for-
warded to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury,
requesting his Graff; to name a day for a general
humiliation throughout the empire :
" Rev. 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 ito 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. " J. B. CANTUAR."

CHRONOMETERS.—FrOM a return obtained by
Captain Peahen, 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
purchased after the trials : —l4 by Loseby, 8 by Poole,
by Parkinson and Frodsham, 5 by C. Frodsharo, 5 by
Reid and Son, 4 by Birchen, 4 by E. J. Massey, 3 by
Appleton, 3 by Dent, 3 by Eiffe, 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 MGregor, 1 by Lister,
1 by Muston, 1 by H. Parkinson, an,t 1 by W. Shepherd.
Tha return also contains copies of ihe reports and opi-
nions submitted to the Board of Admiralty by the By-
droz,rapher and Astronomer Royal, ri lady° to Mr.
Loseby'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, howewr, a man
was taken to the University Hospital, 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, Mrs.
Langford receiving the club money for his funeral.
There the matter was believed to have ended, when, yes-
terday morning, everybody was surprised at seeing the
supposed defunct enter the house of his sister•in-law, on
SAffron-bill, alive and well, the one buried having of
COUI6O been anoiher person, but who, is still UnkLIONP.

NORTH-WEST SUB-UNION OF
MECHANICS' INSTITUTES.
(From the Leeds Intelliyencer.)
The opening of the North West Sub-Union of Mecha-
nics' and Literary Institutes was celebrated on Thursday
lat,:t, by a public dejeuner and soi,-ee, at the house of Mr.
Henry Milner, the Queen lintel, 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 an l 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 Ilogarth," 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, Rev. Geo. I)igby of Harro
gate; Rev. Dr. Hume, F.S A., of Liverpool; Ed vr. Baines,
q., president of the Yorkshire Union of Institutes;
Thomas Williamson, Esq , Mayor of Ripon, Rev. J. 11.
, Ryland of Bradford; and Mr. G. L. Banks, gene-
ral secretary and lecturer to the Noah-West Sub-
Union. The rest of the company wero seated at two
parent' 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.; Meters Bennett and Kennion,
and J. Richardson, Esq., of Harrogate ; W. M.
Lomas, Esq., president of the Wetherby Mechanics' In-
stitution; I'. M. Beaumont, E.g., Knaresborough; H.
Myers, Esq , Goldsborough; W. Williamson, Esq., and
Mr. J. Norman, Ripon; Robert Pollock, Esq., Leeds.
Delegates from all the institutions in the Sub-Union
were present as well as from other institutions not 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 Lister,
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 w ith which
the tables were 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 Queen—(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 our 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 met to cary out ono 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 band playing the National Anthem.
The toast of " The Queen Dowager, Prince Albert,
and the rest of the Royal Family," and " The Ladies," I
were next given from the chair and were honoured with
cheers.

The CHAIRMAN—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 had it not been for the
vast improvement in travelling I should not have been
here myself to address you. The 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 im-
provements we owe to education, and had it not been for
the extraordinary progress of education, my friends,
Ur. 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 this could not have taken
place but fur education.—(Applause.) Indeed, it would
be useless in me, in an assembly of this sort, to point
out the wonc'erful change which has taken placein this as
well a., in other 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 nc, the mere schooling, but the sort of educa-
tion which tends to enlighten the minds of individuals
Nud societies —(Applause.) We are this day assembled
to promote and encourage insitutions which may, and
have, and will ultimately improve the mental condition
of thousands of our fellow-countrymen—(Uear, hrar)—
and bring them up to the same state, I trust, of intellec-
tuel crgjoyment
_which we ourselves can command.—

(Applause.) I had the honour of presiding at a meeting
of a large 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 attachmenta natural and proper
feelinr, of attachment—to their superiors in station
in life, than that they should be left to gather
knowldge 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
befere 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 tt at I may be able to
propose the toast, " Success to tl e 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 in order that ho might give, as president
of the Yorkshire 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 Mme

fresh from the University of Edinburgh, where he had
been a fellow student of Lord Brougham---where 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 ho then entered

nto an explanation of the principles of the various me-

. .
chanic;il 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

n 1801, an institution which had continued to exist in

all its efficiency to this day. The School of Arts, in
Edinburgh, was founded with something of the same de-
sign, but not till eighteen years afterwards ; his friend,
Mr. Leonard Horner, being one of its most self-denying
and zealous promoters for several years. The first in.ti-
tution in England was established in London in 1823.
Early in that year, when residing in London, he heard uf a
new institution, he went in search of it, and, after some in-
quiry, found himself in an old chapel in Paulton-square,
where he found the first assembly, consisting of a num-
ber of men with dirty faces and black hands, attentively
listening to a lecture by Dr. Birkbeck, who having just
got established in London, had set himself to work at
his old occupation, doing good by the promotion of
science ; there he %las giving his audience a lecture on
practical and popular science.—(Hear, hear.) Shortly
after this Henry Brougham published a pamphlet on the
subject, which had a prodigious effect upon the public

mind. He (Mr. B.) went there, he heard that lecture,
saw those men and the eagerness of their reception of the
informa ion communicated, and he came down to York-
shire and did his little 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 and laymen, the first fruits of
Yorkshire ; and when they heard what the Dean of
Ripon had t ) 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, asd 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. Birkbeck 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.—(gear, hear.) Still this institu-
tion 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 be his station in life, who bas his faculties to
exercise on the good works of God above, or ,on the
works of man below. They had in some of institu-
tions a bard 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 desira-
ble—to the superior works of fiction. Well, it was af-
terwards found that Mechanics' Institutions might be
adapted, not merely 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 sufficient 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 noticing some of the advan-
tages which had resulted from the establishment of the
Yorkshire Union of Institutes, 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 their annual meetings in various
towns: last year it was 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. Well, 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
travelled about, went into places where there had been
no institution, talked to the people at first privately,
and afterwards more publicly, and thus be was the
means of forming other new institutions within the
limits of the sub-union.—(Great applause.) This sub-
union had been the means of establishing institutions at
Kirby Malzeard, Thorp-arch, Tadcaster, and at Top-
cliffe, 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 able to do so better than himself; therefore be
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 no

necessary that all should be as perfect in every de•
parttnent as those in their large towns. They began
with three great departments. The first and most im-

portant was the evening classes, i❑ which the young
were taught, some the mere elementary knowledge of
readirg, 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 good and comfortable 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 a,l might be benefitted by a circulating library
andreading• room. Next came the lectures on scientific
and other suhj(cts. It was not necessary a Mechanics'
Institution should have all these at once. If they could
get a wading-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' Institutio❑ 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.
He had one remaining duty to perform towards the
gentleman who had done them the honour of presiding
over them that day.—(flear, hear.) He thought he
might sum up all this in one expression. He is our
modern Hogarth, and with Hogarth's power he employs
his pencil in the promotion of the cause of temperance
and virtue; he ridicules vice, he exposes absurdity, be
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 w!io 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 bas been not to
bury them or hide them under a bushel; the natural
abilities I possess must come from a higher power than
myself, and 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
work for the benefit of any political party, I therefore
naturally left personal and political caricature; since
which I have done 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 out 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.) How-
ever desirable it might be considered to instruct the
humbler classes, let us look at what the results will be •
It will make the people mare intellectual intheiralcihagroaocd-
ter, and all more good and virtuous, and, like
people, desirous to see others happy as well as them-
selves. And I would say, ladies should feel particularly
it, no
interestedfor i nthesuccess
intellectualof institutions,msauncheveru sed a
for,woro ma
woman.
word.
No, it is not on record, or ever will be, ithtiast a high intel.
1, ctual mind was ever cruel to a woman. 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 humbly r classes, and to make their
homes happy and comfortable.— (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 iu 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 all over the land.—(Applause.) And, trust-
ing with all my heart 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, for 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 Rad see Whitt I 064 09 in Allures—.

(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, a'ter a shott 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-
scrod 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 Viscoant Goderich.
(Cheers.) Though I cannot pay to him any personal
compliment, I may pay a compliment to the class to
which he belongs. Ladies and gentlemen, lam almost
always drawing, and you must therefore excuse me if I
draw a comparison.—(A laugh.) I wish not to make
any invidious comparison; with any other nation of the
earth, for I wish them all well, but I cannot but draw
a distinetien 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
itself, and we all know that a title without honour is a
mere phantom. lam proud of introducing to you Lord
Goderich.—(Cheers.)
Lord Viscount GODERICH, 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 hare given you no reason for it.
I have a sincere desire, and think it my duty, to promote
education emongst all classes who have not had the same
opportunities and advantages for obtaining a good edu-
cation as I and others have had, at.d, as tar as possible,
to give them these advantages.—(Hear.) Perhaps there is
one reason which may have induced you to receive my
name with so much honour, that is my connexion with a
mechanics' institution in the county which has some
peculiar features. It is at a village, situated, as you may
have heard it said, at the verge of civilization—Kirby
Malzeard.—(Hear, hear.) But, thanks to such gentle-
men as Mr. Baines, and you gentlemen of Yorkshire,
civilization has at last so far penetrated into our country
that, at the beginning of last year, there took place,
amongst other revolutions, a revolution at Kirby Mal-
zeard, 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 establish this mechanics' institution ; they
hired a very small and inconvenient room, but it was the
best they could get, and they established a library and
reading room by the aid of persons in that district..
heard notbing,ot it till the autumn, when, coming 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 nothing to do
with the forming of it, the thing having been got
up by the inhabitants of Kirby Malseard, 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.—(Hear, hear.) It is from a love
to the spread of knowledge, and shows the advantages
of institutions being united together, that such an insti
tution should be established, and when we beard of the
North-West Sub-Union, we thought we should all be
interested 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 people 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 honour you have done me.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN next gave " The health of the Mayor
of Ripon."—(Cheers.)
The MAYOR of Ream having returned thanks, end
mentioned two or three pleasing instances in which per-
sons of the :humbler origin had, in consequence of the
education they received ill connexion with Ripon
Mechanics' Institution, been enabled to raise themselves
in society. He 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. Ile
said he felt that at that moment they had arrived at, to
him, the most painful part of the proceedings of that day.
Every ono must anticipate some misfortune of his life,
and look forward to the concluding calamity ; but ho
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.) He (the Dean of
Ripon) felt that if he wanted any such excuse for occu-
pying the situation he so frequently did in supporting
such institutions, that he was only following
the bright and noble example set by his decease d
friend. (Great applause.) His Noble Friend,
Lord Goderich, dropped the word " civilization " in rerer-
ence to Kirkby Maizeard, and he must confess that it
struck him as the most 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
tho fashionable tern] in which iett llectual 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
carat means it might, was an advance in civil;zation.—
(Hear, hear.) Well, he contended then that there was
no institution on the earth, viewed with an enlightened
contemplation of its real aims and ()Ejects, that would
compete successfully with mechanics' institutions in pro-
moting civil,zatioti; 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.—(Hear, hear, and applause.) Civilization he
took to bo with great propriety the genuine birth-right
of the legitimate improvement and development of the
human race.—(Hear, hear.) Now, as to civiliziion, it
depended upon the exact state of the bodies to whom yeti
applied it. Various masses of our fellow creatures were in
different conditions that demanded a different applica-
tion of a great remedial good for cur common eat ure.
For instance, suppose he went back to his old friends
whom he loug rum tabsred, and should ever remember
with sincere attachment, the North American Indians,
among whom he was for a long time—if he might ask,
" 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 Peace Society amongst them—(Cheers)—
and let them instruct them to employ arbitration instead
' of the tomahawk and the scalping-kuile."—(Cheers and
laughter.) There was the civilization, 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 weft in-
timate—he would take the Mohawk 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 other day that the secretary of the
British and Foreign Bible Society placed in his hand the
third edition of the Mohawk scriptures when he vie s
there their chief was anxious to reduce their language
to Brahma, 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 butte 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, ch mended this
measure of civilization also, So that, in point of fact,
we 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, sad what
we might class with it and describe—for be confessed 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. It y
so so far
afdaandre,
an dacitoitnthhdeautsdtmruiotoriueassi
discipline, you then had an honest m
man, a charitable man; and,
of citizens were concerned, youhada good patriot.—
(Hear, hear.) That constituted all that could be pre.
)ietdiev classesewed
7vwith
hf menmin
mind
fortyan d ournd
e fiftyr.
rehsro:anPrse.l Now since that period this
scylteiacanardtsei
Liadggn..Zuaffrs
aoprw:
class of persons had claimed to rise to a higher degree
of elevation. He did not say, because he believed facts
would not strictly warrant it, that this desire was im-
posed upon them, or 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 he
the more valued that particular class of feelings amongs
them, and for this reason; because if he bad found mat
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, bad
from above, as it were, aimed to lift up the labouring
classes to a higher degree of intellectual power, he
should have said, " Yc,u are aiming to make tools
of those persons for your own objects," and he for
one, and he believed all the history of men, bath
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 fact that the great masses of the
people were for themselves claiming intellectual advance-
ment. And when he used the expression, "claimirg
intellectual advancement," he deprecated the idea of
saying that they were insisting upon it as a prerogative
which either their superiors or their fellows were bowel
to communicate to them, for then you would have as
element compulsory, which we abliborred, instead of that