The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-25 00:00:00

271 E 44 Rll .

The proceedings and finding of a district court-
martial, which assembled at Chatham a few days
since for the trial of an incorrigible character named
Francis Brady, a private in the Ist battalion of the
19th Regiment, having been approved by the
Major-General commanding the district, have been
promulgated to the whole of the corps comprising
the garrison at Chatham. The prisoner was ar-
raigned before the Court on a charge of striking
Lance-Sergeant Tanner, of the same regiment,
while in the execution of his duty, the sergeant
having occasion to reprimand the prisoner for some
breach of military discipline, which he resented by
striking him a terrible blow in the face. The pri-
soner bears the character of being one of the very
worst men in the regiment, his name being scarcely
ever out of the defaulters' book, while his general
conduct is of the most depraved description. Since
Ire has been under confinement it has been ascer-
tained that he had deserted from another corps pre-
viously to joining the 19th Regiment for the express
purpose of obtaining another bounty. During his
trial he behaved with the greatest insolence to the
president and officers of the Court, all of whom he
assailed with the foulest language and oaths. The
Court found him guilty, and sentenced him to two
years' imprisonment in the military prison, Fort
Clarence, Rochester. At the expiration of his term
of imprisonment he will be again placed on his
trial for his conduct before the court-martial.
The industrial schools of the Royal Artillery at
Woolwich having been last, week inspected by
Capt. A
-- Gleig, district inspector, assisted by
Mr. Whar,;ir
superintendent of the regimental
department
at Woolwich, the articles of clothing,
650 in number, made np in the schools during the
current half-year, were distributed during the week
children, in accordance with the
among the school
War-office regulations. Lady Dacres, Mrs. C. Bing-
ham, Mrs. Hare, and Mrg, Field superintended the
distribution. On Thursday last a concert was given
to the non-commissioned officers and men of the gar-
rison by order of Major-Gen,
R. J. Dacres,
K.C.8., commandant, at which upwards of 1,000
persons, chiefly soldiers, were present: Many offi-
cers and their families attended,
,including the
General Commanding ; Col. C. Bingham, Deputy-
Adjt.-Gen., Royal Artillery; Col. Kennedy, com-
manding depot brigade ; Col. Wilford, Governor,
Royal Military Academy ; Major Field, Deputy-
Assist.-Quartermaster-Gen., R.A, ; the Revs.
Hare, M.A., and G. C. Williams, garrison chaplains,
&c. A noticeable feature in this evening's enter-
tainment was the fact of the whole of the vocalists
being classes of non-commissioned officers and gun-
ners which were partly formed four months ago and
which have been instructed by Corporal Smith,
R.A. band. The concert, under the direction of Mr.
Smyth, the bandmaster, was most successful, and
will he followed at intervals by others. On Sa-
turday evening the school children's annual fete, dr
" breaking up," for the Christmas holidays, took
place in their schoolroom. This entertainment was
subscribed for in the most liberal manner by the
officers of the different corps in garrison, General
bacres heading the list with £5. Nearly 900 chil-
dren belonging to the schools were regaled with tea
and cake, at discretion. Upwards of 6 cwt. of plum-
cake and 1,000 oranges were consumed by the chil-
dren present. The rooms were gaily decorated with
festoons and garlands of holly and evergreens, and
centre of the walls bore the initial letters of her

The Danish brigantine Freia, front Konigsberg
to Dublin, grounded on the Dogger Bank Sand, off
Wexford, on Thursday night. At daylight, on
Friday;:a pilot boat, and afterwards a fishing cot,
attempted to get her off, but in vain. The master
and crew declined to leave in either boat. A snow
storm prevailing, the wind increasing, and the sea
getting up, the master afterwards made signals for
the fishing boat to return immediately, but it was
now too late, for the sea was rolling so high that
the fishing boat durst not venture near the sand-
bank. As soon, however, as the vessel's signals of
distress were observed, the Rosslaire lifeboat, be-
longing to the National Lifeboat Institution, was
immediately launched, and having promptly been
taken in tow of a f:team-tuz, she soon reached the
scene of danger. The sea was now mailbag very
high, but the noble craft, with her hardy crew—
after some skilful management, and incurring some
risk of life—succeeded in taking off the whole crew,
consisting of six persons. They were afterwards
safely -plat on board the steam-tug and brought to
Wexford. The lifeboat was reported to have be-
haved admirably, and to have given her crew every
satisfaction.

DUNGENESS, DEC. 22.

Last night the schooner Nathaniel, from Ham-
burg to Dublin, and the barque Kingston, of Hull,
from London to Algoa Bay, got on shore during
gale of wind and heavy sea, off Dungeness. The
lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution pro•
ceeded off to the assistance of both vessels, but
neither of them would accept of its help, although
the barque burned signals of distress. It was's.
bitter cold night, and the inspecting chief officer of
the Coast Guard reports that the lifeboat's crew's
conduct on the occasion was most praiseworthy. It
was expected that one or both vessels, which were
now in charge of Deal boatmen, will become total
wrecks.

(From the Lifeboat Journal.)
A beautiful illustration of one of the lifeboats of
the National Lifeboat Institution proceeding off to
a wreck, from an exquisite picture painted by Mr.
Samuel Walters, a talented artist of Bootle, near
Liverpool, accompanies the journal of the Society
for the January quarter. He was induced to paint
it from a generous motive, to help forward the
philanthropic objects of the Institution, by bring-
ing before the public, by a peculiar process of pho-
tography, a correct and picturesque view of the
valuable services of one of its boats. The vessel is
supposed to have struck on the outer ridge of rocks
called the Filey Bridge, on the Yorkshire coast.
The raging sea, the wild and angry sky, and the
rocky coast are depicted with a vigour and a truth-
fulness of delineation, which serves to impress the
fearful realities of such a scene vividly upon the
mind; while the sight of the lifeboat manned by
her gallant crew, proceeding steadily in the face of
the tempest, on her errand of mercy, conveys an
idea of the ability of the lifeboat service, and its
claims upon the benevolent sympathies of the pub-
lic, which it would be in vain to attempt to convey
by any mere verbal description. There is a matter-
of-fact simplicity, a living eloquence, in the ma-
terials thus brought together, and arranged by the
skill of the artist,into so pathetic, yet so unexagge-
rated a story, that renders the appeal which it
makes irresistible.

The list of the important services rendered by the
lifeboats of the Institution during the year which
is just closing has its own significance. It tells with
unmistakable accuracy, and with a fidelity that is
too thankfully felt in many a sailor's home, that
two hundred of our fellow-creatures have been
rescued during the uast twelve months from what
ttY be considered an almost certain death ; f5O
should be borne in mind, that the nw:tjority
of these lifeboat services were of such b, charae-
rector that could not possibly be performed by
any other human
agency. Let us give one such
illustration out of many. A few weeks ago it
blew a heavy gale
off Lyme Regwas given that a
vessel
indeeis. About eight
the alarm
o'clock at night
was in distress in the offing,
It
was pitch
dark;
d the intense darkness,
the strong gale
and the heavy surf on shore were enough said
the town, to appal any , the
mayor of zain entering the
lifeboat. After some short delay, however, the boat
was manned
by a gallant, crew—her coxswain
Thomas Bradley, being early at his post. Tar:
barrels were lighted up on shore, and the boat pro-
ceeded on her mission of mercy. Se truly awful
was the night, that nearly every one on shore
believed she would never return again. After
baffling the fury of the storm, and after an absence
of about an hour and a half, also lifeboat did return,

The telegraphic lines of Russia have advanced
into Asia, and are progressing with great rapidity.
Siberia will soon be traversed by them ; and it is
said that the Russian Government propose to con-
nect Siberia with America by means of a subma-
rine line along the Aleutian Islands. This
is by no means art impossible undertaking; and a
despotic Government has means at its disposal to
execute its designs withcut loss of time, which a
Parliamentary Government cannot hope to imitate.
It is not altogether impossible, therefore, that oar
American as well as our China news may come to
us through Russian channels.. And again we say
we are rejoiced to thinkso, especially if that know-
ledge will act as a spur upon us to take advantage.
of the most wonderful application of the greatest
known power of nature to unite ourselves with our
offshoots in the distant East, and retain in our own
hands, and under our own eye, the means of com-
municating with them.
Are we, with whom the knowledge of telegra-
phic communication originated, to be outstripped
by imitators P It may be said Russia can com-
municate overland with the East almost to
America. We can only do so by using the bottom
of the sea, We are aware of the distinction, and
we give it its due weight. But we must also call
attention to a further distinction, to that, namely,
which nature has placed between a deep sea and a
shallow sea—between a sea where, once submerged,
the cable is beyend our reach and must rest on its
own merits, and a shallow sea whence the damaged
cable can be fished up and restored to its primitive
efficiency. An examination of the published Admi-
ralty charts will show that, with the exesption of
a short stretch to the coast of Africa, a cable can be
laid from Malta to Alexandria in depths not ex-
ceeding fifty fathoms—that it can be laid unclea,the
same conditions as to depth, with a trifling excep-
tion, from Suez to Aden, and thence parallel to the
south coast of Arabia to India, again with the ex-
ception of one deep, but short stretch from the east
point of Arabia to India. Equally shallow water
exists between India and Singapore and Java, and
along the Dutch islands to Sydney, by the northern
and eastern coasts of Australia.

Here we have a magnificent field before us for
establishing telegraphs under our -own control,
both as regards their working and their mainten-
ance. It has been necessary for us
.to enter into
particulars and details, and in consequence of the
general want of information which exists upon this
important subject.
The time has arrived, however, for taking this
matter into our most serious consideration. Some
money has been lost in these undertakings, though
we venture to say hut little compared to their vast
importance. Much money was also squandered
upon railways. As regards one line of telegraph,
especially, we hope that the loss is not irremediable.
The lawsuit between the Red Sea and Indian
Telegraph Company and the contractors is, we are
happy to say, at length compromised, and the
stumblingblock which has for so many months
stood in the way of re-establishing our inter-
rupted telegraphic communication with India is
thus removed. lip to the present time neither
side dare touch the cable, the point in dispute
being which was liable in law to repair it. Reports
have been spread that the line could not be
repaired, which, being uncontradicted, by those
connected with the undertaking, have obtained
general credence. Now, however, the reason for
silence is removed, and we find that the engineers,
both of the company and of the contractors, who
have examined and reported upon the state of the
line, agree that it can be repaired and restored to
efficient working order at a moderate cost. This
is also rendered highly probable by the fact that
throughout nearly its whole length the Red Sea
and India telegraph lies in shallow water. The
copper and gutta percha have not been at all
affected by their residence on the sea bottom. The
outside iron wire, which has nothing to do with
the electrical 'efficiency of the cable, is generally
but little rusted, but in many places is almost
entirely gone. This is accounted for by the che-
mical action of the sea water, and in some places
of the sea bottom, upon the iron; in other places
the metals and substances of which the sea bottom
is composed have had very little deleterious effects
upon the iron. The faults which have stopped the
working of the cable, except those which are
breakages by anchors, have their seat in the gutta
percha, and are original imperfections in its texture,
or crevices accidentally left in it in laying it on the
copper wire. There are no signs of any mechanical
violence to the cable from any motion in the sea or
friction by the rocks. The cable shows positive
proof that it has lain at perfect rest, unless it ba in
exposed situationwvery near the shore.
Of the six sections of the Red Sea and Indian
line three are broken close to the stations in
shallow water, principally by anchors; one is
at work • one section is faulty, probably in
several places, but the water is shallow nearly
everywhere. The section between Kosseir and
Suakin is in deep water, but it is believed it can also
be repaired. It must be remembered that, no attempt
has ever been made to repair any of the sections
but one, and that was abandoned in consequence of
the dispute with the contractor.
We feel no doubt that the Government—for it is
in effect a Government line—will take immediate
steps to re-establish telegraphic cemmunication
with. India. We trust that they will cause the cable.
that is intended to be laid between Rangoon ana
Singapore to be laid between Malta and Alex-
andria. The distance is nearly the same, if cer-
tain deviations are allowed for) BO as to lad it
near the African coast, in shallow water. `Phis
cable has not been prevented from going to Ran-
goon because of its bad state—the cable has suffered
no injury whatever—but simply because it must
be laid between Rangoon and Singapore before
reach
i:.3oetxa:z.
next May, as the monsoon commences in that
month, and there is no time to fit up the ships with
water-tight compartments within which to lay the
cable,ili so as to ensure that the heating, of which
symptoms have exhibited themselves, shall not
dangerous
olvaei
dm b er betweenpwohi ne
when
. Rangoon
ahTne
gh
monsoon
00
nn s
andoo cable,n ceases,
Singaporeth e re f
aonr ed,
we trust it will not be left idle during these 10
months, but be utilised between Malta and
Alexandria,

GUILDHALL—RoheTt Williamson, principal
clerk to Mr. Tadant, bookseller and publisher, of
Ave Mat ia-lane, was charged with stealing 1;2, the
money of his master.
Alderman Phillips remanded the prisoner for a
week, and said he would accept bail for him if he
could procure it.
Alderman Phillips, in acknowledging the receipt
of .4.:3 3s. from " P. It ," for the poor-box, expressed
the havingatitication he felt at the means placed
at his' command, through the benevolence of pri-
vate persons in their contributions to the poor-box,
to relieve a portion or the distress and destitution
usually prevalent at this period of the year, and
which Was greatly aggravated at present by the
inclemency of the past season. A great num-
ber of aged women and other applicants
for the trifling assistance rendered on such
occasions to deserving persons, thronged the
court, and the greatest circumspection was neces-
sary to alleviate real suffering and detect imposi-
tion, to insure which every precaution,was taken,
and none were relieved who could not in some way
make themselves, as well as their wants, known to
the Court, or some one connected with it.

WESTMINSTER.—WiIIiam"EarI, a tall power-
ful man, was finally examined, charged with steal-
ing £6O worth of guld chains from the shop of Mr.
Alexander Hugh Rees, goldsmith and jeweller, 19,
Queen's-row, Pimlico.

Mr. G. Dennis, clothier, carrying on business
next door to the prosecutor, said, that a quarter
past 9 on the evening of the 11th inst. he was
engaged closing hisshop, when he saw the prisoner
approach Mr. Rees' shop, strike a heavy blow with
his fist at a large pane of plate-glass in the front,
snatch at something, and run off. Witness and
others who had seen the outrage committed fol-
lowed the prisoner, who was at last captured, but
not until he had proceeded a long distance.
Another witness proved seeing the accused snatch
some of the valuables from the window, and the
prosecutor said that gold Albert chains of the value
of X6O had been stolen. Although the prisoner was
strictly searched, none of the property was found
upon him, but a ticket describing the price of one
of the chains was found on, the spot where he was
captured.

The prisoner, who made no defence, was com-
mitted for burglary, the breaking and entering
being established by his hand having been within
the shop front at the time he snatched the chains
from their fastenings.

W ORS HIP- STREET.—John Reardon, a power-
ful Irish labourer, was charged with maliciously
cutting and wounding.
At 4 o'clock in the morning of the 18th instant
Ambridge and lierbert, two constables of the H
division, saw the prisoner drunk in Whitechapel,
making a disturbance, and with a crowd round
him. They dispersed the crowd, and the
prisoner walked away, but went so reluctantly
that the officers followed him to see that he did not
renew his noise, and the prisoner had not gone far
when he noticed Ambridge, and turned suddenly
upon him, and struck him in the face with some
instrument which glittered, and which, upon being
afterwards picked up, turned out to be a strong
clasp knife, inflicting a gash in his face from which
the blood poured profusely, and which has ren-
dered the constable unfit for duty ever since. Some
persons passing indignantly called upon the officers
to lock the prisoner up, and, notwithstanding the
blow he had given him, Ambridge seized him, but
the prisoner was so outrageously violent that boil
fell, and it was only after a severe contest with the
constables that he was at last overpowered and
!Bodged in the station.
Mr. John Comley, the surgeon, who was called
i n;:to the constable, said that, on being so, he found
a wound in his temple an inch in length and a
quarter of an inch in depth, and dividing the tem-
poral artery. The man of course bled very much;
the wound was a very dangerous one, and just such
a wound as the knife produced would be capable
of inflicting.
The prisoner denied the charge, protesting that
had no knife in his hand that morning at all ;
bit
Mr. Knox comnifthel him for trial.

tAMBETll.—George Thomas Lingham, a young
follow who was said to be most respectably con-
nected, but who has been for some time the asso=
ciate of practised thieves, as
charge of fraud. '• to Mrs.
The prisoner first exhibited a gold watou
Ovington, the prosecutrix, while the latter wu..
having some refreshments at the Rockingham Arms
pubiichouse, and said that though it was worth £2
she should have it for £l. The prosecutrix offered
him 10s. for it, which he took, giving her what she
believed to be the same watch in a small leather bag,
and disappeared. The prosecutrix soon discovered
that instead of a watch she had a brass locket not
worth a penny,
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, admitted

Dundee, Dec. 13

My dear Sir,—l am favoured with yours of the 11th inst.,
with reference to a statement made by me last month, thht
Great Britain had a greater number of persons in her Royal
avy this year than the entire mercantile marine of France,
both coasting and foreign, contains. That statement was
not ventured on mere hearsay, but is based on a careful
consideration of official documents, and will be fthind quite
correct, however surprising it may appear to those who
have allowed themselves, without investigation, to be de-
luded by unauthenticated paragraphs in newspapers, setting
forth the gigantic naval preparations of France. The facts
of the case are these :

On the Ist of July, 1860, the total number of men and
boys registered according to the French maritime inscription
was 156,383, classified as follows :-
1. Officiers, mariniers, et matelots 85,539
2. Novices et mousses 49,983
3. Ouvriers, &c 19,159
4. Mecaniciens, &c

Under the first head are ranked all sea-going men of all
ages, including not only those employed in the foreign and
coasting trade, but fishermen and also the sailors in the
Imperial Navy, with the exception of that portion of them,
about one-third (or 10,000), which are landsmen taken from
the military conscription.
Und©r No. 2 are enumerated the boys and the landsmen
omitted from No 1.

No. 3 includes ship carpenters, sailmakers, and all sorts
of labourers, whether employed in national dockyards or at
private establishments, likewise boatmenwho descend rivers
so far as the tide water.
No. 4 is for mechanics and firemen.

Now, in order to ascertain whether or not the assertion.
made In my speech is correct, we have to find out how many
of the above are bona fide seamen, serving either in the
foreign or coasting trade ; for you will observe that I did
not include fishermen, artisans, or sailors of the Imperial
Navy. We can only arrive at an approximation to this
number ; but the French commission of inquiry which re •
ported in 1850, set it down as 51,000, and in a very able
article entitled, "De la Marine Francaise," in the Revue
Contemporaine, M. 13; Mondy estimates at 55,000 to 60,000.
If we deduct from the gross .
number of 156,000 30,000 em-
ployed in the Imperial Navy, the same number of fisher-
men, 19,000 workmen, and 2,000 mochas:ics, there remain
75,000 actual sailors. Or we may adopt anotas7 plan. In
1859 the French had 14,708 sailing vessels, with a tora2age
of 960,936, and 324 steamers with a tonnage of 56,000=in
round numbers a million tons of mercantile shipping. They
reckon eight men and boys to every 100 tens, although in
Great Britain the proportion is very much less. The dif-
ference may be to some extent accounted for by their having
very few large vessels, and by the fact that small ships:have
in proportion more hands, but I suspect those French writers
who calculate upon a man or boy to every 12 tons take into
account the fishermen on the Newfoundland coast. But
even granting that they do not, and giving the alarmists
the full benefit of the doubt, S per cent. on a tonnage of a
million only gives 80,000 persons, or deducting boys, about
the same number of able-bodied men as M. de Mondy calcu-
lates upon. Well, then, we have this year 84,000 persons, or
77,000 men and 7,000 boys in our ships of war—a greater
number than that in the entire mercantile service of Fran ea'
computed according to any of the above methods. An easier
method certainly is to copy the figures from the table of the
maritime inscription, and in happy ignorance of the whole
subject to jump to the conclusion that all who are registered
are seamen. I was much amused the other day to observe a
writer fall into this error, and go on gravely taking it for
granted that he understood the statistics which he had dis-
covered. This is only one specimen of how the public are
misled by blind guides, and induced to sanction that extra-
vagance in expenditure which necessitates excessive taxa-
tion, prevents the repeal of the paper duty, the fire insur •
ance duty, and other obnoxious burdens, and renders im-
possible any reduction on the duties on the poor man's tea
and sugar. Any of your friends who were staggered at my
statement would do well to read the article in the Revue
Contemporaine, from which I have already quoted, the
writer of which mourns over the weakness of the French
Navy in comparison with that of England ; says that the
latter could block up the former in port, and destroy the
mercantile marine of France at the same time, and con-
cludes by declaring that if it were possible to establish be-
tween France and England a convention by which the
latter would engage to have only double the maritime forces
of the former, his countrymen would sign it with all their
heart. Nor must we forget that we have a reserve of 20,000,
or perhaps more, in our coastguard service and our volun-
teer naval reserve, and that the merchant shipping of
France is steadily increasing. It had in 1849 42,000 tons
less than it had in 1857; and without a flourishing mer-
cantile marine, there never can be a powerful naval reserve,
or even a reliable navy. The state of the case, then, is
simply this. We have 77,000 able-bodied men in our Royal
_'^vy, and 7,000 boys, 84,000 in all ; the French have
- 'T'hey have 60,000 able-bodied men, or 80,000 hands
$O,OOO. "- mercantile marine ;we have 240,000 or there-
in all, in their ._ - are increasing every day, theirs are on
abouts. Our sail ors - s hoped we may still sleep soundly
the decline. So it is to D.
as far as dread of the nave. resources of France is con-
misstatements are afloat,
corned. The most extraordinary ,ssele in the French
too, with regard to the number of vs_
ft- et that they bad
Imperial Navy. I.lately read one to the 0 es

On Friday, at the distribution of the prizes of the Liver-
pool Collegiate Institution,
The Bishop of CHESTER observed—Everything that was
going on around us ought to make us feel that, for 'many
years past, we have been making great and successful efforts
in all great towns, but in no town more than in Liverpool,
to raise the standard of education among the masses of the
people. No one could rejoice at that more than himself;
he thought it was working and would work for good. He
did not mean to say that great intellectual attainments were
always coupled with good moral principles in every indivi-
dual. Alas, some of the very greatest names in the'roll of
literary fame were sad examples to the contrary. But he
said this, that as a general rule intellectual cultivation was
in itself favourable to moral improvement. But far more
than that, and far more confidently he said it, education
when based, as in our country happily it was based, upon
religion, was the great instrument which the providence of
and had put in our power for elevating the moral character
of the population. (Hear.) But the more immediate ob-
ject he had in view was to remind his friends how impor-
tant it was that when the education of the lower classes
was thus continually on the advance, the education of the
higher and middle class should not be suffered to go down.
His young friends, when they left the school and grew up
to be men, would branch off into different ranks of life. No
doubt some would go to the universities, and enter into the
liberal professions ; and some in this town would engage in
the pursuits of commerce ; and others would betake them •
selves to the useful and respectable occupations by which
they might hope to advance themselves, by God's blessing,
in the world. They would not all have the same position,
but all those young gentlemen would have duties to perform
most important both to themselves, to their parents, and to
society at large. Now, he did not here mean to say that
no one but a man of education could perform those duties,
but he said without hesitation, other things being equal,
natural abilities being equal, a man of education would
always perform the duties of his station better, more easily,
more gracefully, than a man without educationwould do. On
that ground he wished them te bear in mind the great value
.of that institution to them e they had there the means of
getting education for their sons suitable to their future pros-
pects in life; and they had this advantage. that they could
keep their children at home, under the parental, roof,
watched by the parental eye, and under the blessed influ-
ences of the parental heart. It would be a very sad conse-
quence indeed, if, when the ranks below them were con-
tinually rising in the scale of education, the rank to which
they belonged was to go down, or even to remain stationary.
They ought to rise as the test were rising. A sense of noble
ambition and a sense of duty ought to stimulate them to
use every effort in their power to keep pace with this on-
ward movement in education, for that was what was essen-
tial to their usefulness, their influence, their respectability,
their dignity, and their future life. His lordship went on
to say that he had received three addresses from the prin-
cipal to the pupils—one on drill, one on music, and another
on the prayers of the school. The system of drill was part
of the school system at all times, and a very good part it was
It taught them not merely the duty of soldiers, but it en-
abled them to bear-themselves like gentlemen. (Applause.)
But, after all, the drill itself was but a stiff, formal, mecha-
nical thing. He hoped that now, however, it was animated
with a spirit of loyalty and patriotism. He hoped there
never would be any need for the arms of volunteers except
on the parade ground ; but if there should be need, the,
young men of England had shown they had a noble and
manly spirit, and were prepared to defend their country,
their wives, their sisters, and mothers. If ever the need
should arise, there was that noble spirit in the country,
which would drive back again into the sea any rash in-
vaders that might venture on the soil. (Applause.)
Dr. M‘NxiLn, in seconding the vote of thanks to the
chairman, remarked that we had all been rejoicing in this
volunteer movement. It had been a gratification to us all
to find that men of every grade of .ociety had been willing
te sacrilee their time, at considefable inconvenience, to as-
semble themselves together, and, under proper tuition, to
qualify themselves to be, if need be, the defenders of their
country. (Applause.) The movement had been sanctioned
by men of peace, because it had been held as a peace pre-
serving movement. They had all felt that when it was
known on the Continent of Europe that there were, in ad-
dition to the regular army, 100,000 or 200,000 mon in Eng-
land who had had such practice that at 200, 300, or 400
yards they could hit the bull's eye—and a fortiori a
Frenchman—that being known, he felt that our respected
allies on the other side of the Channel would think twice
before they ventured to land once on the shores of England.
(Applause.) This was all very well so long as the persons
engaged in this movement were men whose occupations
in life were already fixed, for there was little fear that
employers or employed would allow the business of their
respective stations to be interfered with by drill. But
when this system was extended to our universities, and
still more when it was extended to our schools, it did
require. a caution.; because it was quite possible that
the effect might here be more than was intended ; that

in some cases it might be different from, and very much in
the advance of, a peace-preserving movement ; that it might
be a martial, spirit-inspiriting movement; that it might
disturb some of those boys from the hitherto peaceful anti-
cipations of life. It was quite possible that after being
ensigns, and lieutenants, and captains, for a little while,
there might be felt a tameness, a disagreeable repugnance
to going back again to plain mister, or common John, or
Tom, or Harry, instead of being lieutenant or captain. And
it was quite possible that, after wearing those pretty belts,
with their ornaments, there might be a repugnance to go
back to a common unornamented waistcoat, especially if, as
was most likely, some young ladies in the meantime had
expressed their great admiration of these belts. (Laughter
and applause.) Now, the caution he would wish to give
them was just this—that they should guard against the
rising of this martial spirit in themselves, and look upon
this drill as a sort of superior gymnasium, in which
they were learning good exercise, but in which
it was not at all intenred they should be taught to be
soldiers. They should be learning how to walk, as was
well said. He had been delighted to see, in consequence of
the movement, that some of our commercial men, who for-
merly walked with their head before them, now walked
with their heads behind them—(laughter)—chiefly occa-
sioned by the right rev. chairman, who has got what is
called the scholarly bend or stoop, suddenly erecting his
head. Now, if he was not mistaken, there were mothers in
Liverpool who would remind them, if they get rather too
military in their tone—" John, you must not be getting
those soldier notions, for you are not to be a soldier." We
could get soldiers enough when the time came, and ho was
tz:ily afraid of the movement unsettling the minds of the
bm. He did not say a word against the drill, but only
against the abuse of it; and he was sure they would take
this caution in good part from one of their old friends.
The vote of th,anks to the bishop was carried by loud
cheering.
His LORDSHIP, in returning thanks, bid the audience
good-bye, and wished that the coming year might be a hap-
piness to all.
The national anthem was sung, to the accompaniment of
the organ, and the benediction having been pronounced by
the bishop, the proceedings terminated.

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BIBTIT .

ALisoN.—On the 22d inst., at Elm-row, Hampstead, 141.1.
David Alison, of a son.
DAwsoN.—On the 28d inst., Mary Jane, the wife of Or°.
H. Dawson, Esq., of 8, St. Mark's-square, Regent
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park, of a son.
RAwLiNsoN.:—On the 21st inst., at A.visford House, Sus
sex, Lady Rawlinson, of a son.

MARRIAGES.
MUMYORD—HiMMOND.—On the 22d inst. at at St. George'6
Church, Ramsgate, Mr. Saml. P. Mum.ford, of Lewis-
ham-road, to Mary Hannah, only daughter of the DO
John Hammond, Esq., of Dumpton, Isle of Thanet.
WAITT—BRACE.—On the 22d inst., at St. Andrese..ol9
Montpelier, Bristol, Thomas Waitt, Esq., Yetholni Haut
Kelso, Scotland, to Tryphena Brace, daughter of the la
til
Rev. John. Brace, Montpelier, Bristol.

DEATHS.
BucuANAN.—On the 21st inst., at Edinburgh, JaMeo
Buchanan, Esq., of Craigend Castle, aged 86.
CHAMBERS.—On the 19th inst., at The Cottage, Benhata•
near Newbury, Berks, Commander Ennis Chamber*
R.N., aged 35.
HAMBLIEY.—On the 21st inst., at North Cheam, SurreY,
William Hambley, Esq., late of Queen-street-place,
Southwark, aged 70.

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