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OFFICIAL DESPATCHES.
WAR OFFICE, Nov. 13.
Mr. Secretary Herbert has received a despatch
with enclosures, of which the following are copies,
addressed to him by Lieutenant-General Sir J.
Hope Grant, G.C.8., Commanding the Forces in
China :

HEAD-QUARTERS, TIEN-TSIN, SEPTEMBER 2, 1860.
Six,—l have the honour to report that on the 24th Au-
gust a private letter was received from Lieutenant-Colonel
March, Royal Marines, commanding at Shanghai, stating
that reliable information had arrived of the intention of the
rebels to attack that city.
The garrison of Shanghai then consisted of one company
of Marine. Artillery, about 400 of Royal Marine Light in-
fantry, and the Loodianah Regiment of Sikhs. I accord-
ingly despatched the 44th Regiment forthwith to reinforce
them, and sent Brigadier Jephson to take the command.
On the 27th August, a report arrived, informing me that
the rebels had actually attacked Shanghai, and had been
repulsed.
Before leaving Shanghai, in June last, I had instructed
the officer commanding at Chusan to send reinforcements
to that place if called upon ; and accordingly a force, as per
margin,* arrived there from Chusan on the 17th August.
On the 18th, the rebels attacked the city, but were re-
pulsed ; and on the 20th August, they made a demonstra-
tion against the foreign settlement, but retired on being
fired into. I enclose a copy of Colonel March's reports of
these affairs.
I have since heard that the rebels have retired altogether,
and do not intend to molest Shanghai any further.
I am informed also that Mr. Bruce has written to Hong
Kong for the 11th Pdnjaub Infantry, which I had previ-
ously requested him to do, in the event of his requiring as-
sistance. There is consequently now a very large force at
Shanghai, and I purpose leaving them there until the ex-
peditionary force breaks up.
The measures taken by Colonel March, for the defence
of the city and foreign settlement, appear to have been
taken with judgment and success.
I have, &c., J. HOPE GRANT,
Lieutenant-General, Commanding her
Majesty's Forces.
The Right Honourable the Secretary
of State for War, &c.

SHANGHAI, AUGUST 21, 1860.

Srß,—l have the honour to report, for the information
of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, that at about
2 p.m. on the 18th, the rebels in some force approached the
walls of the city, threatening the south-east, south and
west gates.
1. They advanced under cover until they were near
enough to be fired at with effect with canister and smooth
bore muskets. About 4 p.m. they retired to a distance of
three or four miles.

2. Captain Budd, of the Royal Marines, who commands
in the city, and is posted at the south gate, informs me that
he thinks the loss of the rebels from the fire on the walls
must have been very considerable; they left behind several
flags, &c.
3. On the morning of the 19th, they evinced an intention
to advance, but suddenly withdrew.
4. The officer in command of the forts in the city de-
scribes their numbers to be from 5,000 to 7,000.

5. Yesterday, at nine a.m., I was informed that our
pickets, on the racecourse, were firing on the rebels. I
called out all my force, and on my arrival on the race-
course, found that the rebels, formed in four columns, and
carrying black, red, white, and orange flags, were in some
force a little to the left of the settlement threatening the
King-po Joss-house; they were sufficiently near to encou-
rage us to fire a few rockets and shell at them, with what
effect I cannot say. About 2 p.m. they retired, and took
up a position about four miles off, their right being appa-
rently a little in advance of the French convent of Sic-a-
vrei.

6. They appear to be concentrating their forces for an
attack on the city and settlement.
7. Their numbers I should estimate at 6,000 or 7,000.
8. This morning the rebels are encamped in two places,
at a distanco of about three miles from each other, and from
this city.

9. Up to this time, 10.30 a.m., they have shown no dis-
position to advance.--I have, &c.,
(Signed) W. H. MARCH,
Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Marines,
Commanding the Garrison.
To Capt. Biddulph, &c., Military Secretary.

Sir twn,Tr AT7 Aug. 26, 1860.

Sir,—l have the honour to report, for the information of
his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, that on the 22d
instant was sent, by Mr. Forest, the interpreter to the Le-
gation, to the rebels, the notification, a copy of which I
forwarded in my letter to you (No. 1, 18th August), and on
the following day an answer, a translation of which by Mr.
Consul Meadows herewith enclosed, was received.
1. On the morning of the 24th instant I was informed
that nothing was to be seen of the enemy, and I learnt
from Colonel Fevre, commandant of the French force here,
that the missionaries who had left the convent at Sic-a-wei
on the approach of the rebels, had returned there. It has
been reported to me that placards were found on the walls
of the convent, announcing their return in ten days; they
are now, I understand, at a place called Si-pool, about 15
miles off.

2. from the accounts I have received I am inclined to
think that the force they brought down to Shanghai did not

exceed 3,000 men.
3. Captain Budd, of the Royal Marines, the senior
officer within the city, speaks highly of the steadiness of
the Royal Marines and Madras Artillery, under Captain
Wlntyre, of the latter corps, and that of the company of
Royal Marines under Lieut. O'Grady, and the detachment
of the Regiment of Loodianah, under Captains Maxwell and
Cavanagh; the accuracy of the fire kept up at the various
posts is proved by the loss which the rebels, it is ascer-
tained, suffered.
4. With the zeal and activity displayed by Lieut.Glasso,
of the regimnt of Loodianah, commanding at the Ning-po
Jess-house, I have every reason to be satisfied.
5. The firing of the Royal Marine Artillery, under Lieut.
Williams, from the race-course on the 20th was also very
good.
6. Her Majesty's ships Nimrod and Pioneer, the former
moored off the settlement, and the latter above the city, did
good service with their long-range guns.
7. I wish to bring to the notice of his Excellency the
spirited conduct of Mr. (Interpreter) Forest, in volunteer-
ing to take the notification sent by the Commanding Of
of the Allied Forces to the camp of the rebels on the
22d inst. ; he was attended in his somewhat dangerous un-
dertaking by Private Phillips, of the Royal Marines, like-
wise a volunteer, who carried a flag of truce.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) W. H. MARCH,
Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Marines,
Commanding the Garrison.
To Capt. Biddulph, &c., Military Secretary.

PROCLAMATION SENT TO REBEL CAMP AT SHANGHAI

Report having reached us of an armed force having been
collected at Shanghai, we, the Commanders of the Military
and Naval Forces of her Britannic Majesty at Shanghai,
hereby give nntice that the city of Shanghai and tho foreign
settlement are militarily occupied by the forces of her Bri-
tannic Majesty and of her Ally the Emperor of the French,
and they warn all persons that if armed bodies of men
attack or approach the positions held by them, they will be
considered as commencing hostilities against the Allied
Forces, and will be dealt with accordingly.
Shanghai, August 16, 1860.
To the Commander of the Forces in occupation of
Soochow, and other places.
Translation of Reply.

Le, Imperial Commissioner of the Sovereign reigning in
virtue of the True Decree of Heaven, &c., hereby issues a
Notification :

Whereas the appointed period of the Tsing (Manchoo)
dynasty having expired, the true sacred Lord was sent into
the world to.save it. And I, having been honoured with
his command to perform the work of Heaven by punishing
the crimes (of the rejected dynasty), have, from the time I
rose in the cause of right in Kwang-se, never fought a battle
without conquering, and Rover attacked a city without tak-
ing it.

A short time back, on our armies occupying Soochow,
your countries once and again pressed us to come to Shanghai
to discuss personally the various matters connected with
foreign trade. Hence it was that after retaking Sing •Keang
I came hither, not to seek a quarrel and to fight with foreign
nations, but to offer them a treaty of open commerce.
And, on now perusing the communications of your coun-
tries, I am in the highest degree surprised at the extrava-
gant perversity of its language.
I would submit to you. that I, under the loyal Prince,
have the general command of a large body of officers and of
an innumerable army, and could have no difficulty in causing
the instantaneous destruction of an insignificantly small
city such as Shanghai. When I, therefore, come to the
place, and station my troops motionless before it, it is really
in s spirit of pure regard and of consideration for our common
faith. Had lat once ordered a hostile advance, the mem-
bers of the same house would have been turning against each
other, and we could not have failed to incur the ridicule of
the Tsing dynasty.
With the Tsing dynasty your nations have now a quarrel
—you cannot have forgotten the battle at Tien-tsin. But
our State, in at present carrying on a war, has no other

*. One hundred of the 90th Regiment ; one hundred 19th
punjaub Infantry ; three Madras Artillery glum

object than to regain our own country. We are at enmity
with the Tsing dynasty, but with foreign nations we have
no quarrel.
Your countries attach much importance to open com-
merce and trade. Now, the advantages to be obtained from
us would be greater than those given by the Tsing dynasty,
for, after the establishment of peaceful-relations with us,
unrestricted commerce might be carried on at all places
without exception.
But the wild and fallacious nature of the communication
which has reached us is such as renders it quite inexplica-
ble. I must conclude that there is no consideration for the
feeling that should make us of one mind, in virtue of our
common religion, and that there is, it may be, en intention
of seeking a quarrel.
For these reasons, I hereby issue a notification for the
common information of the foreign nations (at Shanghai).
If you desire to carry on open commerce, in accordance
wjth an agreement, you can at once come and consult on
the terms of an agreement. If, however, it is your wish to
make difficulties and to engage in hostilities, then my
troops move as a flood, my commands go forth unchange-
able as the hills, and we can only await the time when
victory and defeat declare themselves. I trust that you wil
not bring sorrow on yourselves.

An earnest notification.
The 14th day of the seventh month of the tenth year of
the heavenly kingdom of Taeping.
True Translation,
(Signed) THOMAS TAYLOR MEADOWS, Consul.
True Copies,
ROBERT BIDDULPH, Captain, R.A.,
Military Secretary.

LORD PALME.RSTON AND THE
LONDON SALTERS' COMPANY.

Last night the Master and Wardens of the Wor-
shipful Company of Salters entertained Lord Pal-
merston, the Duke of Somerset, Lord John Russell,

and other distinguished guests, in their magnificent
hall, St. Swithen's-lane, City. Sir Charles Wood
and other members of the Government were also
invited, but were prevented from attending by
other engagements. Besides the Ministers above
named, there were among the company, which was

upwards of 200 in number, Baron Rothschild, M.P.,
Sir J. Duke, M.P., Mr. W. R. Crawford, M.P.
(the Parliamentary representative of the city), Colo.
nel M'Murdo, C. 8., Commodore Drummond, the
Master of the Merchant Tailors' Company, and the
Master of the Skinners' Company. Mr. John Cur-
teis, the Master of the Company of Salters, pre-
sided. After dinner, which was of a very sumptu-
ous character.

The CHAIRMAN proposed " The health of her
Majesty," which w as received with loyal enthusiasm.
In giving the next toast, " The healths of the Prince
Consort, the Prince of Wales, and the rest of the
Royal Family," the Master observed that they
must all have read with deep interest the stirring
accounts which had been published of the Prince
of Wales' recent tour. The cordial welcome which
his Royal Highness had received from our friends
on the other side of the Atlantic must have been
most gratifying, not only to his illustrious parents,
but also to every person in the United Kingdom.
(Cheers.) He was sure that all present earnestly
prayed for the safe return of the Prince. (Hear,
hear.)
The CHAIRMAN, in introducing " The Navy, the
Army, and the Volunteer Corps," eulogized the
merits of the sister services, as displayed in their
latest achievements in China. With regard to
the noble body of Volunteers, he must say that
if there was any young member of the Salters'
Company who had not yet joined that force it
was his bounden duty to do so immediately.
(Hear, hear.) He begged to associate with the
toast the name of his Grace the Duke of Somerset
for the navy, and that of Colonel M'Murdo for
the army, that distinguished officer, who held the
position of Inspector-General of the Volunteer
Corps, being entitled to represent the gallant ser-
vice to which he belonged in a two-fold capacity.
The toast was duly honoured.
The Duke of SOMERSET.—My lords and gpriflo
men, I rise to thank you on behalf of the navy.
The British navy has at all times commanded the
respect and attachment of Englishmen ; but of late
years more than usual attention has been directed to
the progress of that service. I believe I may say
that the navy has advanced, and has enswered the
expectations of the country. lam not one of those
who feel there is any danger that peace will be
violated, but at the same time I think it right that
our navy should be maintained in a position in
which it may be able to uphold our interests and
vindicate our honour. That, I believe, is the opinion
of every man, of every profession and every party.
In endeavouring, therefore, to keep up the effi-
ciency of the navy we are only doing what every
Englishman regards as a common duty, and to the
discharge of that duty the Admiralty will of course
earnestly devote themselves. I, gentlemen, may
say this for the navy, that if ever they should be
called upon to defend their country in the serious
battles that might have to be fought if a naval war
were again to arise in Europe, whether those
battles took place between ships of one kind or
another, I believe you will find the English sailor
to be of the same stuff as in former days—(cheers)
—that he would be able and ready to face every
danger, and far more eager to approach near to
his enemy than to fight him at those long distances
of which you hear so much in connexion with some
descriptions of naval artillery. I think the Eng-
lish sailor would like immediately to close with his
enemy, and would be likely to make that enemy
regret that he had ever encountered him. (Hear.)
But whatever may be the future course of events,
we onght to be prepared to meet it; and, therefore,
although such preparations are attended with con-
siderable expense, I am sure no Englishman will
grudge the outlay when he knows that it is neces-
sary for his country's safety and his country's
honour. (Cheers.)
Colonel M‘MunDo, in responding for the army,
said it was always gratifying to a British officer to
hear his comrades in arms well spoken of, especially
when the service to which they belonged had, from
its earliest history down to the capture of the Taku
Forts, invariably done its duty. (Hear, hear.) To
one who, like himself, was not unacquainted with
the pernicious features of our recruiting system, it
had often been matter of wonder how such acts of
rue heroism had been performed in the ranks of
he British army. From what class, for instance,

was that man Moyse, of the Buffs, drawn—that
obstinate but intemperate hero who, when com-
manded to" kotow" to the Mandarin before whom
he was taken captive, preferred to have his
brains knocked out rather than " prostrate him-
self before. any Chinaman alive ?" He hoped that
the system of the recruiting sergeait would soon
pass away, and that employment in the army would
be eagerly sought by the respectable youth of the
country as an honourable service. (Hear, hear.)
His connexion with the Volunteer force had been
referred to. He was bound up heart and soul in
that movement, seeing in it a great security for the
safety of the country. It had been his duty, with
the co-operation of the staff, to test the value of
these noble corps, and he could state that we had
78 solid battalions, comprising about 42,000 men,
who, he could declare, would be fit in a very short
time to take their place with the line. (Cheers )
Besides these there were upwards of 36,000 other
Volunteers, who, although composing scattered
corps, had already been brought into 68 different
administrative battalions, which were also ready
to take the field, if need were. True these corps
had not often the means of coming together for
drill; still when they did muster for that purpose
the manner in which they had moved had asto-
nished all who had witnessed the reviews at Hyde
Park, Edinburgh, Knowsley, York, Glocester, and
many other places. These 68 administrative bat-
talions, consisting of 36,000, could move almost as
well as the 42,000 men constituting the 78 solid
battalions which he had mentioned. Thus we had
between 70,000 and 80,000 volunteers equal to the
conditions of the line of battle—(cheers)—and it
was expected that in the course of next year the

remainder of this large force would be brought into
the same organisation of administrative battalions.

Even now they were capable of doing their work
in a campaign. Considering this movement, then,

in all its bearings? and remembering the facilitie
offered by our eitended railway system—a most

important element in all our future strategical com-
binations, he saw no cause to fear for the safety of
this country as long as this magnificent body was
kepb up steadily and efficiently. (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN regretted that he was not gifted
with the eloquence requisite to do justice to the.
next toast. They were honoured that evening with
the presenee of several 'of her Majesty's Ministers.
Among them was Lord Palmerston—(cheers)—a
statesman whose brilliant and lengthened career
had shown him to be earnestly desirous of peace
and yet determined at all times, under all circum-
stances, and, if need were, at all costs to uphold the
honour and dignity of his country. (Cheers.) He
had thus helped to place England in the proud
position she now happily occupied among the great
Powers of Europe, by which she was enabled by
her moral influence, if not by her material strength,

,o assist other nations in their efforts to win some

portion at least of that glorious heritage of liberty

with which we ourselves were so highly blessed.

Hear, hear.) There was no man now living in

. ,
whose hands the interests and the honour of the

nation could be more safely entrusted than they
could be to Lord Palmerston. (Cheers,) But it

was not to affairs of State alone that the noble
lord's public services were confined. Whether he

presided at an agricultural meeting, at a mechanics
institute, or a ragged school, or whether he advo-

cated the claims of a shoeblack brigade, to all he

gave the benefit of his valuable aid and counsel,
showing how they could achieve the greatest
amount of public good. (Hear, hear.) In the
name, therefore, of that ancient corporation he
begged to give the noble lord, together with his
distinguished colleagues, a cordial welcome, and to
express a fervent hope that he might long be
blessed with health and strength to guide the
councils of this great and powerful empire. (Loud
cheers.)

Lord PALMERSTON—Master Warden and Gentle-
men,—l can assure you it would require more than
that eloquence which your excellent chairman has

disclaimed, but which I think he has proved himself
to possess, adequately to express the feelings of

gratitude inspired in us by the too flattering man-
ner in which you have been pleased, as far as I am

personally concerned, to propose this toast, and by
the cordial manner in which this distinguished
company has been good enough to receive it. But
I beg for myself and my colleagues to return you
our most sincere thanks for the kindness you
have shown to us this evening. It is needless, I
am sure, to say that there can be nothing more
gratifying to men who are engaged in the public
service than to meet on occasions like this assem-
blages of their fellow-countrymen, who thus testify
towards them their goodwill and their approval of
their public conduct. It is one of the greatest re-
wards for labours past, and one of the most welcome
incentives to further exertions. You are, therefore,
gentlemen performing a good public act when you
thus encourage public servants to persevere in the
discharge of their duties to the State. (Hear, hear.)
To a Government daily occupied in watching the
progress and prosperity of the country it must be
gratifying to see that they possess the goodwill of
those who carry on that commercial system which
is so important an element of the greatness, power,
and dignity of a nation. Descending from that high
topic, and turning to another subject suggested by
this assemblage, I may be permitted to say that,
having an interest in the prosperity of Ireland, I
attach a value also to the good opinion of this Com-
pany who are known to be among the best land-
lords in that country, who devote their amrl. mcaut3
not only to the improvement of their own estates,
and to setting an example to the rest of the king-
dom, but in caring for their tenants, providing for
their comfort, for the education of their children,
and everything that concerns the welfare and hap-
piness of those who depend upon them. I regret,
gentlemen, that some of my colleagues whom you
honoured with invitations were prevented by un-
avoidable engagements from enjoying your hospi-
tality, but I am happily accompanied by two dis-
tinguished members of the present Government,
who hold some of the most important departments
of the State. (Hear, hear.) There is my noble
friend the Duke of Somerset, who conducts the
business of the navy, and my noble friend Lord
John Russell, one of your members—(cheers)--who
is charged with the management of the foreign
affairs of this country. You may rest assured that,
while my noble friend the noble duke devotes to
the duties of his important department the untiring
energies of his manly mind, your navy, as far as
human exertions can make it, will be fully
adequate to every exigency which the course of
events may create. (Hear, hear.) You may also
rely that while my noble friend Lord J. Russell has
the conduct of our foreign relations they will be
carried on in a manner consistent with the interests,
the dignity, and the honour of Great Britain.
(Cheers.) My noble friend, all through life the
friend and champion of the principles of freedom,
has lately had to perform duties connected with the
development of freedom in one of the most interest-
ing countries of Europe. (Hear, hear.) You have
seen him watching the progress of events in Italy,
a country to which he has not only directed the
energies of his mind but of which he has a know-
ledge acquired by personal visits. You have seen
him at one time endeavouring to check those rash
impulses which threatened to renew wars which if
renewed might have blighted all the best hopes of
Italian freedom. (Hear.) You have seen him on
the other hand using the great power and influence
of England to exhort other countries to follow her
example by abstaining from all interference with
the events passing in the Peninsula, and by leaving
the Italians to settle their own affairs according to
their own views of their own interests. (Hear,
hear.) I trust, gentlemen, that before long my
noble friend will see the accomplishment of his
earnest wishes, and will be able to witness the
triumphant success of the principles of which he
has been so steady, so persevering, and so consistent
an advocate. (Cheers.) You have alluded, Mr.
Warden, to an event which has awakened the
deepest interest in the mind of every English-
man. I mean the visit of the Prince of Wales
to the North American continent. It was to
be expected that when the future hope of Eng-
land visited the subjects of her Majesty in our
North American provinces he would be received

with that enthusiastic affection which becomes
a loyal and attached people. Our anticipations
have not been disappointed. The reception of the
Prince has been worthy of the people who gave it,
and honourable to the family of which he is so
distinguished a member ; and we may hope that
that visit will cement more closely those ties which
I trust are long destined to bind together that
portion of the Queen's dominions and the mother
country. (Hear, hear.) But we had not an equal
right to expect that when "Ais Royal Highness visited
the United States he would be received with any-
thing more than the courtesy which civilised
nations accord to distinguished members of the
reigning family of another country. But I must
say it has been most gratifying to witness the cor-
diality, the heartfelt kindness, the generous hospi-
tality, and I may say the enthusiastic delight with
which the illustrious Prince was welcomed by our
cousins in the United States. (Cheers.) They have
shown themselves, indeed, to be a noble and gene-
rous people—they have shown that they have not
forgotten the common stock from which they and
we have sprung; and in spite of events which, if
not buried in oblivion, might have produced some
slight alienation between us, they received our
future Sovereign, not as if he were a stranger be-

longing to another land, but as if he had been born
in their own country, and had been a citizen of
their own Republic. (Cheers.) I trust, gentlemen,
that the remembrance of the generous kindness thus
exhibited by the people of the United States will
ever be cherished by the people of these kingdoms.
I believe the memory of the Prince's visit will long
survive in the breasts of the American nation, and
that these mutual recollections will tend more
closely than over to knit together those two great
branches of the same noble and I will say illus-
trious stock. (Cheers.)
The MASTER then gave " The Members for the
City," which was duly honoured.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in responding, said—l rise
to return thanks in the name of my colleagues,
and in my own, for the compliment which you
have paid us ; and I am glad to see that, my three
colleagues being present, you have before you a
complete representation of the city of London.
(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) And here, in their
presence, let me say that there is one thing which
I think members of Parliament, and especially
those representing such wealthy communities as
this city, ought in future to attend to ; that is,
to provide a sufficient force, and one not
more than sufficient, for the defence of the
United Kingdom and the great empire of which it
isZa part. We have at various times, as I have seen,
been too subject to hot fits of extravagance, and
then again to cold fits of economy. (A laugh.) We
have heard from my noble friend the First Lord of
the Admiralty, and from the gallant Colonel who
is so distinguished a member of the aimy, that
which they had to say upon our defences. Now, I
would observe that if the Ministers of the Crown
bring forward extravagant estimates, let those esti-
mates be retrenched. But if they introduce such
estimates as are fitting for this great country, as
only give a proper insurance to its wealth, its pros-
perity, its independence, and its liberty, then I
trust there will be a steady continuance in those
expenses, and that the nation, wealthy as it is, will
not grudge the necessary sacrifices for such great
objects. (Hear, hear.) Allow me now to offer a re-
mark or two respecting the important department
with which I am immediately connected, and with
regard to which my noble friend at the head of
the Government has said a great deal too much in
my praise. Of this, gentlemen, I am persuaded that
he who is charged with the Foreign Department of
a great country like this need not have recourse to
those wiles, those intrigues, and those subterfuges
which are supposed to form the proper trade and
the proper weapons of a diplomatist. My conviction
is that in speaking the language of truth and jus-
tice—speaking it calmly and with moderation, but
yet with firmness, never disguising the truth, the
influence of this country is to be sustained and aug-
mented, without any of those intrigues to which
those who think themselves clever diplomatists are
apt to resort. (Hear, hear.) Such, gentlemen, is
the view which the present Government have
adopted. When they assumed office there was a
great contest going on in the shape of an active war
which presently ceased,but then took another form.
In that contest a great country, eminently civilised
—full of men of talent and genius, men of an as-
piring disposition, took a part. The question was,
what was the fitting course for the English Go-
vernment to pursue ? The course which we
pursued from the commencement, which was an-
nounced by my noble friend in the House of Com-
mons, which we have repeatedly declared since
then, and which my right hon. friend the Home
Secretary stated last year in the Guildhall, on Lord
Mayor's-day was this—that we should do every-
thing in our power to give the Italians fair play,
to leave them to settle their government for them-
selves, and to say what manner of government and
what persons to donduct it they deemed best suited
to their own interests. (Hear.) And if,
gentlemen, in the course of the changes which have
taken place, the Italia, people have thought fit to
expel a dynasty—if they have thought fit to call
another Prince of another family to assume the
rule over them with a view to obtain good govern-
ment, I think that, seeing it is what we have done
ourselves, we should be the last persons to blame
them. (Hear, hear.) And when we reflect further
that that act of our ancestors, that expulsion of a
Sovereign who had misgoverned, that call to the
throne of a Prince endowed with heroic qualities,
has given us 170 years of liberty and prosperity, I
believe, as great as any people ever enjoyed, of
prosperity as remarkable as the history of any part
of the globe will furnish—l say, when such have
been the consequences, it is not for us to censure
others, who, following our example, hope for the
same liberty and the same prosperity. (Cheers.)
Gentlemen, my noble friend Lord Elgin is engaged
in a most difficult task in China. Upon him and
his colleague, the representative of the French
Emperor, depends the choice of the course to be
pursued—a course which may involve the safety of
all British merchants trading and residing in
China, and may affect our future commerce, and
all our future relations with that great part of the
population of the globe. All I ask of you, gentle.
men, is not to give a blind and unlimited confi-
dence to Lord Elgin, but to give him so much of
your confidence and your forbearance as to believe
that he, a man of experience in these matters,
a man of abilities which no one will deny,
will apply that experience and those abilities
in the way that he thinks best fitted to secure
these great objects, to let not a spot or a
speck stain the honour of this country, and at the
same time to consult and to cherish the great inte-
rests of peace. Gentlemen, I ask of you that for-
bearance and consideration for a man who at 15,000
miles distance has to deal with those great ques-
tions. Praise has been bestowed, and most justly,
on those who in our army and navy have been
vindicating our reputation and upholding our in-
terests. I ask you with the same readiness to give
credit to the man who is conducting our diplomatic
relations with that distant empire ; and be assured
that neither he nor the Government at home will
ever permit the character of this country to be tar-
nished or endangered by anything which may take
place there. (Hear.) It is not for ourselves alone
that I speak. We occupy a position on the globe
too important to be hazarded or lost—a position on
which depends in a great measure the future wel-
fare of other countries. It is our business, it is our
duty to act with moderation, but at the same time
never to forget, never to conceal, never to blush for
those great principles which have made us what
we are, and which, I hope, will long maintain us
in the same proud position. (Cheers.)
Lord PALMERSTON, in proposing the " Health of
the Master Warden," said he understood it was the
practice of the Salters' Company annually to elect
their chief. Far be it from him, who happened to
be the chief of another company—(laughter)—the
Cabinet, to imply that this rule of the Salters should
be introduced into his company. He admired their
rule as applied to them, for it had, in producing the
election of their present excellent chief, undoubtedly
worked most satisfactorily. At the same time, the
circumstances of the Cabinet were wholly different,
and he did not think it would be equally beneficial
to subject its chief to annual election. (Laughter
and cheers.) He had the greatest pleasure in
proposing the " Health of their worthy Master
Warden."
The toast was cordially received and briefly
acknowledged, and, after a few other complimentary
toasts, the company retired.
The musical arrangements were under the direc-
tion of Mr. Francis, who was assisted by the Misses
Wells, and Messrs. Benson, Donald King, and G.
Buckland. Mr. Harker ably officiated as toast-
master. The dinner was provided by Mr. Chater
and Co., of the London Tavern, and fully sustained
the reputation of that establishment.

Lord John Manners has left town for Hughenl
Manor, on a visit to the Right Hon. B. Disraeli.

CHdNI CS' INSTITOZ
•
Lord Lyttelton, Sir J. S. Paking
Adderley, M.P., Sir J. Shuttlewortik-4
Lloyd Baker, Mr. Barnet Blake, and
men who take an active part in the _
movement, attended a soiree of the Worcestershire -
Union of Educational Institutes, held at Stour-
bridge on Tuesday. The chair was taken by Mr.
Foley, M.P., and there were also present Mr.
Brown-Westhead, M.P., Mr. W. 0. Foster, M.P.,
the Hon. F. H. W. G. Calthorpe M.P., Sir W.
Lambert, and many of the clergy Of the district.
The report stated the number of institutes that
had joined the Union, and it was resolved W admit
others—one from Gloucestershire—into the Union.
H Theis lortdChsHehiAirpl individual
iAvrdhuaavl
enumeratedi efficiency."
tchiee
nacaddresseddy.vl the meeting,
Llrd LYTTELTON moved the first resolution
"That unions of Mechanics Institutes lead to in-
creasentthea
then from an union of those of a district, whereby
mutual_ aid could be rendered to each other.
Sir J. KAYE SHUTTLEWONTH seconded the reso-
gmessedlv derivable
sab nl
first from mechanics' institutes d
reso-
lution.

gir J. PAKINGTON moved the next resolution :
That in order to secure the benefits of general
examinations every effort should be made to pro-
mote the establishment of classes at individual in-
stitutes."
After some introductory remarks, he said he did not
recede one iota from the opinion which he had ex-
pressed in public and in private over and over again
in various counties of England and in the House
of Commons, that the greatest boon that we could
extend to our countrymen, and the greatest
benefit that we could confer on our country,
to promote, and to extend a
was to organise,
system of sound education for the people. (Cheers.)
The word " education" was a large and comprehen-
sive word. It consisted of many parts. The con-
struction that was most commonly placed on it when
used in public assemblies, and in
classes connection
England,w th
the great body of the working
and the sense in which they were mostitnhethehal
of applying the word, was, as meaning
elemen-
tary rudimentaryildileation, of the working g
gcrleasusneds.
(Hear.) Schools for children must be the
work for all education, and they had all heard of
the insufficiency of those schools. They had all heard
of the badness of schools, and they had heard of the
religious difficulties which unhappily, and he (Sir
John) thought unnecessarily, had too long beset
the subject. They had all heard, too, of the financial
difficulties which beset the subject. All these vari-
ous matters, directly bearing on the subject of edu-
cation, had been referred for consideration to
Royal Commission. He hoped they would shortly
receive the report of that commission, and that when
that report was placed in their hands they would
find pointed out in it the mode in which several, if
not all, of those difficulties were to be removed.
But, whatever the recommendations in that report
might be, and however successful it might be in
pointing out the remedies for those difficulties, the
present state of the population and the demand.'
made upon them were such that elementary educe-.
tion must and would cease at about the age of 12
years. Sir J. Kaye Shuttleworth had referred to
the Act of Parliament requiring that all children
employed in factories should be educated up to 13
years of age, but, taking the age of 12 years as the
point at which elementary education among chil-
dren of the working classes ended, he felt that he
was placing it practically at a high level. His be-
lief was that, in the various distinctions which ex-
isted between the social position of the richer and
the poorer classes of this country, none was greater
than as respected the age at which education ceased.
The children of the wealthy were considered at the
age of 12 years as rather at the commencement than
at the termination of their education. It was about
the close of the first stage of education, the stage
at which the pupil was at the little boys' school ;
after that he would probably go to the school for
older boys, and thence to one of the Universities,
or some other training ; but with the humbler
classes education terminated altogether at the age
of 12 years. And what was the result ? That while
the wealthy classes from the age of 12 to '2l were
taking up knowledge continually, and every year
cultivating more and more the human intellect, in
too many cases the children of the working classes
were forgetting what they had learnt before. (Hear,
hear.) They saw the result of this practically in life.
What was the cause of the intellectual superiority
of the wealthy over the working-classes of society ?
It was the influence of education. Of this a remark-
able illustration might be pointed out in that new,
but he hoped permanent, institution of England,
the Volunteers. They had been told that the Volun-
teer Riflemen became in point of drill and in the
skilful use of their weapons in three months equal
to the ordinary soldier of the regular army in a year
and a quarter. (Hear.) Why this difference ? It
was because the one was better educated than the
other, because he had acquired during the early
years of his life an aptitude, a power of using his
faculties, which enabled him to acquire more readily
whatever skill was required, whether in volunteer
exercise, in trade, or in any other industrious
employment to which he might direct his attention.
This was the value of mechanics' institutes. They
stood to the working man in the place which public
schools and universities held in relation to the
wealthier classes. The only difference was that
the children of the wealthy man were sent to the
public schools and universities by their parents,
whereas with the working men all that could be
done was to offer them their opportunities of im-
provement. He believed most sanguinely that there
must result a great addition to the material pros-
perity if we could induce working men generally to
avail themselves of these opportunities ; and he
agreed with Sir J. Kaye Shuttleworth that nothing
would tend so much to cement society together as
this. He wanted something which should enable
the working man after the age of twelve years
to improve the education that he had received, to
cultivate his intellect himself, and to become an
educated man, and he btlieved that nothing would
be so beneficial in this way, nothing so likely to
insure that object, as an union of these institutes,
by which mutual intelligence might be communi-
cated and common action promoted. He was glad
to learn that the Worcestershire Union of Insti-
tutes had resolved to unite itself with the Society
of Arts. He had received a long letter on this,.
subject, which expressed so much the advantsgeeaadeat
this, that perhaps they would allow him
Chester,
passage. The letter was from Mr-
who had long been connected with H.tdha.er C
What I
of Council on Education. mmittee
hope is, that this creation of the tdh into industrial
may in a few years be develope
esaociety of Arts
make
university. If once we cat?
and to undergo examination,
among members of mechanicsx it the fashion
' lminossttituatlels
tthoesdtuiffidy.
.
culties which still beset education
thweiilrl bcehriledmreonvetdo.
Educated parents will not a
be uneducated ; rates for defraying the
w
he exipilennsoetsboef
their own instruction and examination
abhorred ; the religious dinffidcubletlyn,ghraevdtuncg
istence in the institutes, a
eanoteoxa
En -
inimum in the schools, become rudimentary, will
I be of no account, and I fancy that in the scheme of
the Society of Arts you will see much to approve ;
and not least tit it endeavours to lead the people
of this country to do all that they can themselves
to educate themselves on the principles of common
sense, instead of running everlastingly to the poli-
tical government with the cry of " Come and edu-
cate us. He (Sir John) subscribed heartily to
these sentiments of Mr. Chester.
suggested by the report which
He
HhadWboueeldn onlylai
detain them further by one ord
two brief remarks,
before them that day.
He congratulated the mem-
bers of the Union on the general tendency of that
report, which he thought was most satisfac-
tory. He had heard with regret the word "despon-
dency" fall from the Lord-Lieutenant and Sir J. I.aye
Shuttleworth.
despondency ylvas quite time that they depre-
cated;
not understand the wbourtd
h. e
11( Sei rt
thought
uPg akht
tnhgetroen ) di
wered
two words which ought to be expunged from the
English Dictionary—those were " despondency "
and " impossibility "—(hear)—for who would tell
them in these days of the electric telegraph what
was impossible ? He never desponded himself in
his life. Let them not despond, and they would be
successful. (Cheers.)
Mr. ADDERLEY advocated the plan of public
examination and awards. What was it, he asked;
that gave such success to the Volunteer moveree.nnt _
Did they suppose it was the possibility of invasion
No such thing. It was the trials of skill from time
to time that led men to emulation, and the constant
holding out of objects of ambition and the rewardt
of recognised merit in the country.
other speakers
Mr. Holland, M.P., and several
closed at 10 o'clock;
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