The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER F 27, 1860.

LATEST NEW S.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

PARIS, SATURDAY.

The Illoniteur promulgates the convention sup-
plementary to the Treaty of Commerce between
France and England, and which was concluded on
the 12th of October.

The Customs Tariff subjoined to the said conven-
tion will come into operation on the Ist November,
1860.

The Moniteur also says :—" The Cpinione Ra-
tionale published a note which it was asserted had
been communicated by the Austrian Embassy at
Paris to the correspondents of certain journals.
We are enabled to give a denial to the source
which has been attributed to this document, and to
declare in the most formal manner that it rests
upon premises entirely destitute of foundation."

TURIN, OCT. 26.
The following is the result of the voting upon
the question of annexation at Palermo :
Total number of votes registered, 36,267.
Ayes
Noes
Annulled .. l5
The Opinione contains the following official an-
nouncement :

" Signor Farini, having been appointed Extraor-
dinary Royal Commissioner at Naples, is replaced
in his post of Minister of the Interior by Signor
Minghelli.
" Signor 3lontegemolo has been appointed Com-
missioner of Sicily."
The result of the vote in the city of Naples
shows that 154,000 have voted for annexation.

PARIS, OCT. 26.

The Patrie says :—" The news published by the
Opinionel ationale relative to a congress is not sup-
ported by auy authentic information."
The Pays says —" The information of the Opinion°
Nationale is incorrect."

The Opinione Nationale says :—" We believe we
are in a position to state that Austria had proposed
to enter upon negotiations with the French Govern-
ment in order to bring about a pacific solution of
the Italian question, and that in case of unsuccess
Austria would resort to arms with the countenance
of the Sovereigns her allies."
The same paper adds :—" This news, however,
greatly require authentic confirmation."

THE WARSAW CONFERENCE.
WARSAW, OCT. 26.

On account of the illness of the Dowager-Em-
press of Russia, alterations have been made in
the arrangements for the departure of the
Sovereign s.
There will be no hunting excursion.
The Emperor of Austria leaves before noon to-

day.
The Emperor of Russia and the Prince Regent
will leave Warsaw this afternoon.

PARIS, OCT. 26.

To-day Baron Hubner had a private audience of
the Emperor at St. Cloud. To-morrow he will
proceed with Count de Bourqueney to Chantilly,
on a visit to Lord Cowley.

Baron Hubner will leave for Vienna next week.

MADRID, OCT. 2G.

In yesterday's sitting of the Cortes the opposition
announced their intention of making interpellations
on the subject of the foreign relations of Spain.

The Government having declared itself ready to
rep/3- to any question, the interpellations were ad-

journod.

Spain having protested against the entry of the
Sardinians into Roman and Neapolitan territory,
her Ambassador has received orders to quit Turin.
A charge d'affaires will remain to conduct the
business of the legation.

THE SIEGE OF CAPUA.
The Paris papers publish the following tele•

gram :

NAPLES, OCT. 24, EVENING.
The capture of Capua, which has been an.
nounced, is not confirmed.

Victor Emmanuel is at Steoni, about 20 miles
from Capua, with 25,000 men.
A battle is shortly expected between the
Neapolitans and the Piedmontesc."

The following is the note in the Opiniono Na-
tionale alluded to by the 111oniteur. It is given
in the Opinion in very prominent type. The in-
troductory observations are signed M. Gueroult
"We (Opinion Nationale) believe we are not
committing an indiscretion by making public
the following note, which is said to have been
communicated to the correspondents of certain
journals at Paris by the Austrian Embassy, and
a copy of which has found its way into our
hands. If, as we have every reason to believe,
this note is not denied, it would result there-
from that the casus bell will be distinctly put by
Prince Metternich as regards the Italian question,
and that Austria is assured in this circumstance of
the support of the Sovereigns who share her views
of international law. We need not point out the
gravity of the situation that would be thus inaugu-
rated by the return of his Excellency the Austrian
Ambassador.

1 " "The Embassy of his Majesty the Emperor of
Austria is authorised officially to declare, on
instructions received from Vienna, that the
reports of extraordinary:concentration and increase
of troops in Venetia with the object of mak-
ing an attack upon Piedmont, are devoid of
foundation ; also that the nomination of General
Benedek to the command the army of Italy bears
no such construction ; nor do the instructions and
information as yet' received authorise the Embassy
to believe that an immediate attack of Piedmont is
in the intentions of the Imperial Government. It
is believed that his Highness Prince Metternich is
charged, on his return, to enter into diplomatic
negotiations (pourparler) with the Imperial Go-
vernment of France on the Italian question, and on
a pacific and equitable solution of that question.
And it will only be after the failure of this last
effort that the Emperor of Austria, in accordance
with the Sovereigns who take the same point of
view of right as himself, may make an appeal to
arms to assert the rights and principles stipulated
in the last treaty."

FRANCE.

PARIS, OCT. 26.

BOURSE, Oct. 26.—The market has been more
buoyant, and the business transacted has been at
improved, quotations. Threes for the Account are
now at 69f 5c ; Orleans, 1,373 f 75c; Mobilier, 707 f
50c; Northern, 973 f 75c; Mediterranean, 917 50c ;
Austrian, 487 f 50c ; Lombard, 485 f. The follow-
ing are the last quotations :-
4f per per Cents ... 9.5 GO Credit Fonder 9OO
Do. cud month.... 95 50! Belgian 4i
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 80' Roman
Bank Shares 2840 1 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 706 25 , Spanish Threes 4B
Do. Account 702 50 Homo Debt

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1365 .... 1366 25
Northern
New ditto _ .. 833 75
Lyons and Mediterranean 915 • • 915
Geneva _
.. 332 50
Southern ........ -
Western.
Eastern
Sardinian......
Austrian
Lon^bard ~ .... ~ ~ „ 435 •-- I , 482 450

LORD PALMERSTON AT LEEDS)

LEED S, FRIDAY.

THE CORPORATION ADDRESS.
Lord Palmerston was received at the Leeds
Town Hall shortly after noon yesterday, by the
Mayor (W. Kelsall, Esq.), and the Corporation.
The following address was then read by the Town
Clerk (J. E. Smith, Esq.) :
" To THE RIGHT 1-10n)UILABLE LORD VISCOUNT PAL.
MERSTON, M.P., LU., FIRST LORD OF HER MAJESTY'S
TREASURY.
" We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the
borough of Leeds,, in the county of York, gladly embrace
the opportunity which your lordship's visit to the town
affords us of offering for ourselves and the great consti-
tuency we represent, a tribute of respectful gratitude for
your able and distinguished public services, how extending
over more than half a century. We thankfully acknow-
ledge, as characteristic of your lordship's Parliamentary
and official life, a steady adherence to those sound prin-
ciples of government which, under Providence, have se-
cured our national honour and happiness, loyalty to the
Sovereign, the maintenance of law and order, and the pre-
servation of our glorious constitution, by reforms adapted
10 the progressive requirements of the country, and neither
prematurely foreed upon it before it was prepared for them,
nor timidly or selfishly withheld when they could be advan-
tageously accomplished. Imbued with these principles,
and endowed with the high requisites (or British states-
manship, your lordship has been alike distinguished as a
Minister of the Crown, and a champion of constitutional
and social improvement ; strengthening the people'si reve-
rence for the Crown by the beneficial exercise of its powers;
and promoting constitutional and social improvement by a
powerful support to the great measures of Catholic Emanci-
pation, Parliamentary Reform, and the Repeal of the Corn-
laws. In our foreign as well as our domestic relations we
owe to your lordship a large debt of gratitude. Amongst
living statesmen it is to your lordship that the glory of
making the name of an Englishman as much respected as
that of an ancient Roman pre-eminently belongs. Under
your guardianship, a British subject, if innocent of crime,
is secure in every quarter of the globe. Nor has the benefit
of your lordship's administration of foreign affairs been con-
fined to our own countrymen. Other nations have, at critical
periods, owed to it their escape from impending war; and you.
lordship's counsels have ever tended to the preservation of
peace on the only basis that can perfectly secure it a due ob-
servance of the reciprocal obligations betweengovernors and
governed. Against the excesses of irresponsible power on
the one hand, and unbridled license on the other, your
lordship's warning voice has been often raised ; and the
wisdom of the warning exemplified by the blessings flow-
ing from its observance, or the calamities resulting from its
neglect. Your lordship's high qualifications for the public
service happily led our beloved Queen, with hearty satis-
faction to her Parliament and her people, to confide to your
hands, at an important crisis, the most honourable post a
subject can fill—that of Prime Minister of England. The
energy and ability with which the difficulties of that crisis
were surmounted, and the skill and judgment with which
your lordship has presided over the national councils
during your tenure of office, constitute additional claims
(which we are proud to acknowledge) on our admiration
and gratitude, and strengthen the confidence which we
share with the great body of our fellow-subjects that under
your lordship's guidance our country will steadily continue
in its course of loyal attachment to the Sovereign, reverence
for law and order and judicious improvements in its time-
honoured institutions."

Lord PALMERSTON, in reply, said—l ean assure
you, Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, tbs-iit it is impos-
sible for language adequately to axpress the high
feelings of pride and gratifisation with which I
have been inspired not only by the cordial and
friendly reception which I have met with from the
inhabitants of thin great city, but more particu-
larly by the kina and flattering expressions—too
flattering I am conscious—of confidence contained
in the address which has just been read. Under
any circumstances, such proofs of goodwill and
confidence from a great and important portion of
the community would be most gratifying to the
mind of any man, but I feel peculiar pleasure, be-
cause I have had, through friendship and through
official relations, a sort of connection with this
great borough of Leeds. It was my good fortune
to enjoy the personal friendship and to receive
the valuable official assistance of your distinguished
townsman, the late Mr. Baines, a man of whom it
may be said that he was the type of an English
gentleman—(cheers)—esteemed and respected in
private life, and endowed with those statesmanlike
qualities which fitted him to perform important
functions in the service of the State. (Cheers.) I
trust that I am not flattering myself too much in
thinking that I claim a continuance of the friend-
ship which I enjoyed with him in the person of his
respected brother. (Cti'eers.) But, gentlemen, if
public men undeep";) labours and anxieties in the
performance ofi their public duties, they receive an
ample rewg:ird in such marks of personal confidence
and gerid will as those with which I have been
honc,ured to-day, and especially when they proceed,
as in this case, from one of the most important
communities in the kingdom, one of those great
seats of industry which constitute the wealth, the
greatness, the prosperity, and the dignity of the
United Kingdom. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, in
your address you have embodied opinions founded
on just principles of national government, you have
expressed your sentiments as to the propriety and
necessity of progressive improvement in all the in-
stitutions of the country, but you have wisely ob-
served that those improvements should not on
the one hand be forced prematurely, nor, on the
other hand, be delayed too long. (" Hear, hear,"
and cheers.) It is perfectly true that men who
have deeply reflected on possible improvements,
rl 'who have convinced their minds of thegood which
would result from such changes, are often impa-
tient of the! delay which necessarily intervenes be-
tween the conception and the execution ; but these
rapid and " pen stroke" improvements may suit
despotic countries, where the executive Government
is all in all, and where the nation is compelled to
obey those impulses which proceed from above ;
but in a country like this, where the whole nation
participates in the function of Government, where
.public opinion is as powerful as the edicts of the
governing authority, there time and delay are often
[
essentially necessary for the accomplishment of
good and useful legislation. (Cheers.) If improve-
-1 meuts and reforms are not fully discussed, if all the
objections on the one side and all the advantages
on the other are not put forward before the mind
of every reflecting man, if public opinion is not
fully prepared for the change, the good tact which
might otherwise result from such changes is not
fully and properly accomplished. And thus it has
been with all those great improvements which you
have mentioned in the address that has been just
read. (Hear, hear.) It is perfectly true that
within the last 30 years greater improvements have
been made in the laws and institutions of the coun-
try than perhaps were accomplished in any coun-
try or by any nation within the same period of time.
We have seen that great disgrace to human nature,
negro slavery, abolished—(cheers)—by a sacrifice
nobly offered and nobly endured by the country—
a sacrifice great indeed in point of money, but
which was amply compensated by the great and
honourable result which it attained. (Hear, hear.)
We have seen our Catholic fellow-subjects placed on
a footing of equality with the Protestant part of
the community. We have seen those laws which
related to dissenters—the Test Acts—repealed.
(Cheers.) We have seen the corn laws repealed—
(loud cheers)—a change which produced content-
ment and prosperity to a very large portion of the
community; for whereas before, when the seasons
were adverse, and the price of food was raised, it
was natural men should think that the high price
of provisions was created by the sordid avarice of a
section of the community ; whereas every man must
now feel that if his food is dear, it is the result of
the inclemency of the season, and not in consequence
of any misgovernment of man. We have seen the
changes made in the laws regulat in fs -ress.:sipai cor-
porations—changes --ss'i",), important with reference
to the gra.ad principle of local self-government.
And we have, more than all, seen the groat improve-
ment in the political organisation of the country
which was effected by the parliamentary reform of
1832. (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, all these changes
were the result of long discussion, of conflict of
opinion, and of conflict of interest; and if it were
not so, if it had been accomplished by some sudden
stroke of the pen, they would not have resulted in
the good which has been effected by them, being the
result of discussion, and coming upon a country pre-
pared to receive them, and sensible of the advantages
they brought with them. (Hear, hear.) Gentle-
men, this address which has been read has adverted
in terms for which I beg to express my heartfelt
gratitude—has adverted to the general ;system of
administration, and aspecially to our foreign rela-
tions, If, gentlemen, the Government of which I
hare had the honour to be a leading member has
been successful in its conduct of affairs, the merit is
due, first of all, to the generous support which it
had received from the people of this country, to the
unbounded confidence of the Crown, and to the dis-
tinguished ability of those colleagues of whom the
administration has been composed. (Hears) We
have indeed been successful in assisting to spread
political liberty in other countries beyond our own
—(hear, hear)—not by dictation, not by armed in-
terference not by imposing on nations unwilling or
unprepared innovations even calculated for their
goon, but by assisting those who were helping
eaemselves, and by aiding the development in other
countries of those principles Of political freedom
which we have the happiness of enjoying
in our
own. (Loud cheers.) It is thus, gentlemen, that
in Belgium we have contributed to the establish-
ment of the system of govsrnment which has
rendered that country as happy and prosperous as
any other country on the face of the earth. (Hear,
hear.) It is thus that we assisted the Spaniards
and Portuguese in obtaining constitutions modelled
on the general principles of our own, and we have
contributed greatly to the happiness and prosperity
of those nations. We are now seeing in another
Part of southern Europe changes in progress which
I trust may lead to the establishment a a system
in Italy as conducive to the happiness and prose
perity of the Italians as, unfortunately, some of the
Governments which have existed in that country
have contributed to their unhappineo and their

biisery. (Hear.) But, gentlemen, our action is the
action of opinion alone. (Hear.) We leave the
Italians to deal with their own affairs, and all we
hope and wish is that other countries should follow
our example—(hear)—and that the people of those
regions, favoured by many of the gifts of nature,
should be allowed to arrange their internal affairs in
a manner which may seem to them best adapted for
th^l:: aappiness and welfare. (Confirmed applause.)
You have been pleased to say in the address,
that by the attention paid by the Government of
this country to our fellow-subjects travelling and
residing in foreign parts they have been clothed with
the protection of England wherever they may harm-
lessly and innocently be. Why, gentlemen, that
must be so, because a country great and powerful
like England, whose inhabitants are educated in the
principles of respect for the laws, and whose people,
when they travel abroad, go for the purpose of com-
mercial enterprise or for individual instruction or
recreation—who never indulge in plots and conspi-
racies, however they may differ in opinion as to the
merits of the institutions in the lands they visit—
(hear) —I say that the inhabitants of such a country
as this must be respected wherever they go, because
they are sure that their countrymen at home will
not look with indifference upon insults and injuries
which may be undeservedly visited upon their fellow-
men. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, you have alluded to the
maintenance of good order in this country. No doubt
it is the desire and the duty of the executive govern-
ment to watch over the maintenance of order in the
kingdom whose destinies are committed to their
charge ; but happily in this country that duty on
the part of the Government is easy, and reduced
almost to nothing. The peculiar character of the
English nation, and that which strikes foreigners
most when they visit our shores, is the manner in
which the people of these realms govern themselves
and maintain order among each other. (Cheers.) It
is that spirit of order, that obedience to rule, which
not only affords the best security for internal peace,
but which, applicable and applied as it is to all the
concerns of public and private life, is the elemen-
tary principle on which the wealth and increasing
prosperity of the country is founded, not only in its
public respects, but even in its commercial and in-
dustrial avocations. I say, then„ that for this the
Government of the day can take but little credit.
It is the people of the United Kingdom to whom
the merit is mainly due, and no doubt it is
to the daily and yearly increase in the diffu-
sion of instruction and education among
the people, the decline of which it is im-
possible to contemplate, that this spirit of
order is mainly attributable. You are pleased
also in the address to refer to the loyalty of the
people of this country. Well, Mr. Mayor, that
loyalty is innate in the mind of every British sub-
ject—(loud cheers)—for if there is one peculiarity
perhaps more than another which belongs to the
British character, it is a sentiment of gradations of
rank. Every rank knows its own position. Neither
is it jealous of those above, nor does it treat with-
out respect those who may happen to be below.
There is a general consciousness that in human
society there must be degrees, and that the preser-
vation of that gradation is essential to the welfare
of the community, and that feeling—and that sen-
timent—is directed with increased intensity towards
the sovereign who sits on the throne. (Hear.)
But if at all times that abstract feeling would lead
the people of this country to sentiments of fervid
and devoted loyalty, it is yet our happiness to be
ruled over by a sovereign who possesses in a degree
never surpassed all those qualities of head and
heart which are calculated to secure to her the
deep-rooted affection of every one of the subjects
which she governs. (Hear.) It is true, as you
have observed, that our sovereign is deeply imbued
with the principles of the constitution of which she
is the head, and little indeed is the merit of those
who are appointed by her to administer in her
name, if they follow in that track which she points
out to them to pursue, and if they in the adminis-
tration of those powers which she confides to their
hands are sedulously and strictly observant of the
limits which the constitution of the country has
imposed on the executive authority. But there is
another point in which our sovereign peculiarly
deserves the admiration and the gratitude of the
country—for not only are her cares directed to the
time present, hut with a far-seeing foresight she
has trained up and educated her royal children.
She has imbued them so deeply with all those sen-
timents and feelings which fit.them to be members
of that royal family whom we have the happiness to
look up to, that even after that day—long we hopo
to be deferred—when her reign may cease, she will
bequeath to her people the legacy of a family worthy
to succeed her and sure to obtain the confidence
and affection of the country. (Loud cheers.) And
thus, gentlemen, though of late years we have.seen
in othr countries sovereigns who have been so un-
fortunate as to lose the confidence'of their subjects,
and to entail both on themselves and their people
all those calamities which arise from such a forfeiture
on the part of the ruling authority, we have the
satisfaction of seeing in this country that every day
rivets more closely those bonds of affectionate
attachment which now exist, and which I trust
never will be diminished between the sovereign and
the subjects of the realm. (Hear.) My Lord Mayor
and gentlemen, I beg again to return you my
warmest thanks, and to assure you that expressions
like these of confidence and good will, on the part
of such an important portion of the community, are
the greatest encouragements which public men can
receive in the discharge of their duty, and the
amplest reward by which the honest and conscien-
tious performance of those duties can hope to be
followed. (Hear, hear.)
The MAYOR then called for "Three times three"
for Lord Palmerston, which was heartily given, the
loud bass of the organ being used as an accompani-
ment, and adding considerably to the effect of this
demonstration.

The proceedings concluded with a round of cheers
for Lady Palmerston.
After the presentation of the address the Mayor
entertained the noble lord and a select party in the
State rooms to luncheon. The "Health of Lord
Palmerston" was given by the mayor in compli
mentary terms ; and the noble lord, in replyin
apologised for the necessary brevity of his remarks,'
and stated that he had arranged to visit during the
aftereodn some of-=the great manufacturing 'estab-
lishments, which had contributed so largely to the
prosperity and the happiness of the inhabitants,
and at the same time to the welfare and greatness
of the country. His lordship concluded by giving
" Prosperity to the town of Leeds."
The toast was responded to by Mr. W. BECKETT.
Lord PALMERSTON next proposed " The health of
the Mayor."
His Worship, having responded, gave " The Re-
presentatives for the West Riding, coupled with
the name of Sir John Ramsden, who briefly re-
turned thanks.

The noble viscount then departed from the hall,
amidst loud cheers from the guests as well as from
the crowds collected outside.

MEETING OF THE RAGGED SCHOOL AND
SHOE-BLACK BRIGADE.

At three o'clock this afternoon a meeting of the
supporters of the Leeds Ragged School and Shoe-
black Brigade was held in the Music Hall. The
orchestra was occupied by the children of the school,
who, in the interval which occurred between the
assembling of the audience and the arrival of the
Premier, occupied the time by singing several
hymns. Many of the unfortunate children showed
their literal qualification as pupils of such an in-
stitution, many of them being without shoes or
stockings, and bearing other outward evidences of
extreme poverty. On the arrival of his lordship
the National Anthem was sung.
His lordship having taken the chair, Mr. R. B.
Small, the honorary secretary, read the second
annual report.
Lord PALMERSTON was enthusiastically received.
On rising to address the company, his lordship said
—Ladies and gentlemen—and I put ladies before
the gentlemen, not simply on account of the courte-
ous deference which is due always to their sex, but
because we are met upon an occasion of charitable
benevolence, and in actions of charity and bene-
volence the ladies always take precedence from the
kindness of their nature over the male part of the
community. (Cheers.) There cannot, lam sure,
be anything more interesting to the minds of all
those who sympathise with the condition of
their fellow-creatures than institutions of this
description. They rank among many of those great
social improvements which have been made in our
arrangements in odern times. Undoubtedly, it
recent times only that the benevolent
is not
of t‘ he wealthy and the pros-
and active charii;
perous has been directeu ) better the condition of
those in humbler classes of life. But formerly the
attention of men was directed simply to afford
bodily relief. The comforts of the ody were con-
sidered to be sufficient to occupy the attention of
i.m.ps
those who wished to relieve their fellow-crs...—r—
It is only of late years that public attention has b:en
Ys
active and suczessfull directed to the minds ot
men, as well as to their bodily comforts—(hear,
be
hear)—and there canno institution more
usefully applicable to the intellectual and moral
culture of the rising generation than that for
the encouragement of which this distinguished
meeting has now assembled. (Cheers.) If
we look upon it simply as regards the poor
crea'tures who are the objects of the institu-
tion„
it is plain to see that nothing can be
mor e praiseworthy, and nothing can be more use-
fill, than institutions of this sort in their effect.
We •all know that from the arrangements of Prow,-
den ce it is impossible to effect that in large commu-
niti es there shall not be the rich and the poor—it
i# i npossiblo to hope that human arrangerAl)l4s

•

shall entirely relieve the humbler classes of society
from the pinching affliction of poverty, and all
those distresses, both physical and mental, which
arise from such a condition. But wealth and com-
fort may alleviate the infection of poverty—(cheers)
—and there cannot be a better direction of genero-
sity than that which this institution points out.
There must be in all great communities—and the
greater the community the greater the development
of industry, and the greater accumulation of popu-
lation the more will the class exist—there must be
in a great community a least number of children who
either have parents whose poverty prevents them
from caring as they ought to-do for their children,
or whose improvident and dissolute habits render
them negligent and indisposed to give that care
and attention, which even their limited means
might enable them to afford. (Hear, hear.) There
must also be many who, by the visitation of Provi-
dence, have been from the earliest period of life
deprived of those parents upon whose care and at-
tention they ought to have relied. Well, then, in
these cases, institutions of this sort step in to
rescue the neglected child from the improvidence
or neglect of its parents. They rescue the orphan
from the destitution which too often besets him.
They give to those children early habits of industry,
early habits of order, instruction of a moral and re-
ligious descripticin, early instruction in those things
whit h may conduce afterwards to their success in
life ; and when we see the vast demand which
this great city affords for the industry and
intelligence of every working man and womati,
within, we may see that those seeds which are
thus sown in the minds and habits of these little
children are not sown to run to waste and to bloom
without-result ; but as surely as you instruct those
children in the means of proper, and social, and
orderly, and moral life, and in the means of procur-
ing by their industry their livelihood, so sure will
it be when they come to a day when their labour
may be profitably employed, they are certain of
finding an adequate demand for that labour, and
profitable remuneration for its exercise. (Cheers.)
As far, then, as sympathy for these unhappy little
beings extends, we should have adequate, com-
pletely adequate motives for assisting an institution
of this kind. But if we take a larger view, and look •
upon these institutions as bearing upon the social
interests of the country, we shall, in that view also,
find the strongest possible motives for encouraging
and enlarging these establishments. (Hear.) One of
the great evils of civilised society is the uncivi-
lised portion of the:community. (Applause.) There
must be—and it is vain to hope it should not be—
there will be in every great community a certain
amount of crime, of offences, of dissolute habits, of
recklessness and improvidence. But the amount of
these evils will greatly depend upon the direction
which is given in the earliest years of life to the
minds of the rising generation. (Hear.) It is true
that it may sometimes happen that those who have
had instilled into their minds, in early childhood
the best principles, may in after life yield to
temptation—be led away by fortuitous circum-
stances, and desert those paths in which they were
early instructed to go. But these cases are com-
paratively rare. You will find that the great
source of offence and of misfortune—for crime is
misfortune—the great source of all those evils which
afflict large communities and nations lies in this :
the want of early and proper instruction of child-
ren in the first years of their life. (Cheers.) Well,
we may take in moral and intellectual things,
examples from what is done in physical and mate:
rial matters. Why, if you want to dry a morass—
if you want to get rid of noxious exhalations from.
unhealthy districts, you don't simply go to pump
out the water which lies stagnant upon the ground,
but you go to the source of the evil, you go to the
head of the spring which perforates into these
marshy districts, and by turning its spring into
channels diverting them from the country which
they impregnate you lead them in a healthy cur-
rent for the use of mankind, and, by so diverting
them, that which used to be a noxious morass you
turn into profitable, and cultivated, and healthy
land for the use of man. (Cheers.) In the same way
I say we should intercept the sources of crime at the
fountain head. Inculcate early in the minds of the
children of the country maxims of religious and
moral principles. Teach them betimes the value
and importance of rules, regulations, and orders.
Teach the child, even in his school hours, to be
I obedient to certain regulations, and you will find
I when he becomes a man that he will, be more ready
to submit to the laws of his country, and to main-
tain order in the society of which he is a member.
(Cheers.) Well, then, if you succeed in thie—if
you rescue from vice and crime a vast number of
those unhappy children, who if left to all the
hazards and temptations to which their condition
exposes them, would become criminals and victims
of the law, I say you are conferring an enormous
benefit on society—a benefit not confined to the day,
not confined to the creatures who are the objects of
your charity, but a benefit which becomes every
day greater and more extensive, which pervades
the whole mass of society, and the advantage of
which will be felt in future generations as well
as in the present time. (Cheers.) A point was
mentioned in the report which has been read
which shows another and important bearing of this
institution. You have been told that that had
happened which in human nature might have been
expected—that though instruction, moral and
intellectual, in the ordinary course of nature, de-
scends from parent to child, yet that some time
that current will be reversed, and moral and reli-
gious and intellectual instruction *ill go upwards
from the child to the parent, and where the child
has been well brought up and instructed and the
parents have had the misfortune of being differently
situated, the example of the child will operate
upon the conduct of the parent, that parents
be reclaimed from habits that brit...es them to
poverty and disgrace, by seeing in the example of
their children that which they will blush not to
be able to imitate and to follow. (Cheers.) I cannot
believe that in the great, wealthy, commercial town
like this, full of charitable institutions, where
men of capital and men of comfort already libe-
rally and generously contribute everything that
tends to the comfort: and well-being and wel-
fare of those who are below them, I cannot for a
moment believe that the appeal which has beon
made by the Secretary in the report which he has
read will not be attended with complete success,
and when the Secretary this time twelve months
shall read the report of the proceedings of the year
which is about to begin, he will be able to answer
you that this institution, although comparatively
of recent establishment, has yet thriven like a
vigorous plant which has already. by its branching
shadows overspread a great portion of this great
and important town ; and that the benefits which
its founders contemplated have begun to beds ampiy
realised. If that be so, I will venture to say
that the people of this great town of Leeds wit
have done an act which will not only be highly
and gratifying to their feelings when,
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satisfactory
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they reflect upon the results,
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value and importance on of ills
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THE BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENT LAW DE-
PUTATION.
—A meeting held yesterday, prelimi-
nary to the reception of the deputation by Lor a
Palmerston, attended by the delegates of the ya
rious Chambers of Commerce and Trade Protection
Societies of the West Riding, Samuel Morley, EF,q.,
of London, and Mr. J. Russell, secretary of The
Mercantile Law Amendment Society, it was una-
nimously resolved :—" That this meeting is of
opinion that it is most desirable to urge upon the
Government to adhere to the principle of the pa;r-
ment of the official assignees embodied in clause
101 of the bill of last session, providing also th at
the further payment of the official assigneesbeyond
the fixed salary should be subject to the consent of
the creditors' assignees.

' FAILURE OF MESSRS. DAVIES AND CO., BANKERS.
—The failure was announced yesterday afternoon of Messrs.
Robert Davies and Co., bankers, of Shoreditch. The fact
of their being in difficulties had transpired before the tee-
gTshuasttaei:::
mination of business and a run ensued, which compelled
them to close their doors. Their customers were mostly
sPeculatior Is.
among the shopkeepers of the neighbourhood, and the it
ce-sheext
total liabilities are believed not to exceed £140,000. Tile
liquidation, it is feared, will prove unfavourable—ponib 17
an.hcaev.in
not exceeding 100. in the pounsedtna,tutchcefipr
some large losses from advances on buildingd
Before the stoppage took place the Len en and Count_
bu..t. the baian_
rßeannkdersevderwealtappaueachedastotfoorpastesvi
blishment, however, will open a branch in the 10ca1i,..,
LI and
will endeavour to mitigate the effect of 141.ess_.
is• Davies'
stoppage by making ad yFees on the security of the divi-
dends to which the creditors may__ appear entitled. An-
nexed is the circular issued by I‘lesra. Davies and Co :
October a—Sir,—
" 187, Shoreditch,
the failure of a firm which. _g y indebted to us, we are
, under the painful necessity of closing our banking-hoime.
Under these circumstances, we have applied to the Lon-
don and County B. t lessen, tos.,e n, as far as possible, the im-
mediate inconvenience 0 our customers by making ad-
vances to them, which, as_7ive have been this day informed
may be obtained on application at their banking-house,
South a se. i House, Threadneedle-street. Ameeting of
-ur creditors will be held at the London Tavern in lr h
-.street, on Monday
next, the 29th • is pps-
inst, at 12 for 1
t' -. Precisely, at which you . 9
are particularly requested
o'clock _ • —We are, sir, your
to attend. -rEs and Co." very obedient servants,
RosmaiDAN•
war, 'taken from
wholgold . , m the Bank to-day, but the
e of the £152,(7,_ 0 ,bY the Red Jacket, whose arrival
was announced yestera. v.roorning., will go abroad.
DEATH OF THE I), TKE DECAZES.—The Duke
Deoczos died on Thursday i.-1 Paris, in consequence of ass
accident which befel him at T61111:4• ~
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HEALTH OF SHEEP.—Mr.i,,,vll§, Mr. Hemming,
and many others, who have given The: leg's Condiment to
sheep, record a favourable experience of its use. All declare
t heir sheep to be healthier and freer from disease, where the
condimep tis properly given. Writers on the natural his-
tory of the sheep unanimously mention that MO animal
refill 41.1)11' gill cansfimlnfrf( foci,

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