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fully shown that though the ignorance, prejudice, and
selfi4hness may delay the success of a righteous cause,
Truth, under every disadvantage, will ultimately prevail.
(Great applause.) The rev, gentleman then proceeded
to read the petitions to both Houses of Parliament, of
which the following is a copy :
To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal in Parliament assembled.
The humble petition of the undersigned, residing at
and in the neighbourhood of East Retford, in the county
of Nottingham, humbly sheweth :
That your petitioners beg leave to represent that the
deeply distressed condition of the agricultural classes is
such as to call fdr the immediate and serious considera-
tion of your lordships.
That in this country for upwards of 30 years all tho
industrial energies of the people have been largely eeve.
loped, capital has been extensively aocumul ited, and
science has contributed its powers to subjugate the
materiallworld to man's dominion.
That the natural tendency of these causes is to promote
the prosperity of a country, and the comfort, content-
ment, and moral and physical improvement of the pepple.
That, nevertheless, the condition of the labouring
chases during this period has frequently been one of
the most severe distress, and that the agricultural,
commercial, and manufacturing interests have at in-
tervals of a few years been subject to most ruinous de-
pression.
That your petitioners attribute these evils principally
to the violent contractions and expansions of the cur-
rency caused by the acts of 1818 and 1814, and that
they are convinced that this country can never enjoy
more than a few years of prosperity at a time while
these acts remain in force.

That year petitioners particularly direct the attention
of your lordships to the facts that while trade is the moat
important articles of commerce is now made free the
price of gold remains fixed, that we engage to supply all
nation■ with gold on demand at an invariable price in
paper money, and that thus our domestic circulation is
made dependant on the demand for gold in foreign coun-
tries.

That with particular reference to the present state
of the country they observe that through all the
changes from adversity to prosperity the latter ham
always been arrested, after the country has enjoyed it
for a few years, by the efflux of bullion, in c mse-
quence of that being the cheapest article for export
whenever our manufactures have risen to a remune
rative price, and that this efflux has lowered prices and
forced the export of manufactures at a ruinous loss, and
by this means gold has been brought back to the coun-
try. Gold being brought back, the bank has again ieened
its paper, and restored prosperity till gold went put
again.
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your lordships
to make such amendments-in the acts of 1819 and 1844
as may leave gold and silver to find their price in the
market like other commodities, may provide a safe and
adequate paper money for domestic circulation, and
place the currency of the country upon a settled arid
satisfactory basis.
And your petitioners will ever pray, &c.
J. WA.Lxan, Esq., of Lound, made a few brief re-
marks, objecting to any petition which ecknnw-
leged free-trade principles ; but as he had evidently mit-
understood the reading of the petition he withdrew his
opposition, after referring to the document.
Mr. E. HODGKINSON, after a few reraerke on the ne-
cessity of a change in oar monetary system, proposed
the adoption of the petitions by the meeting.
Mr. Councillor WILKINSON seconded the motion, and
in doing which, took that opportunity of stating the
desirability of augmenting the society's funds by au
increased number of members, whose annual subscrip-
tions, he stated, would be 53. a year.
The CHAIRMA.N then put the motion to the meeting,
and it was carried ueanin.ously.
The CIIAIR3fIN then rose, and proposed a vote of
thanks to Mr. Twells, for the excellent and gratifying
lecture they had just heard.
Wit. CLUTEON, Eiq , seconded the motion, which was
put to the meeting, and carried by acclamation.
The Rev. Mr. TRKLLS returned thanks, after which
the gentlemen present attached their names to the
two petitions, and the meetiog broke up at near eight
o'clock.

Last night, between 10 and 11 o'er , the-Een.
of Shaftesbury addressed,a very spirited aspeech to
a large public meeting assembled 'CrOsbylhall,
Bishopsgate-street, at which he presided chair-
man, on the present position of affairs in Indii and
the future prospects, duties, and responsibilities of
the British rule in that country. In the early part
of the evening the Rev. F. F. Statham had de-
livered au extremely interesting lecture, the sub-
ject of which was "Our Indian Empire," inns_
trated by a fine series of models, pictorial represen-
tations, and specimens kindly lent for the occasion
by the directors of the East India Company ; and
at its conclusion,
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY took occasion, in. pro-
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alpoosrienpghraeegvnt3oaatined:of thanks to the rev. gentlere,an,
whose performance he passed a well-deserved
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I do not hesitate to say that I myself should rejoice,
and I would call on every one connected with the
British name to rejoice from the hottour of his
soul that that fearful mutiny took place, because
if rightly managed, it will bring with it the.mosi
manifest results, not only to this empire, but'to the
great interests of the people Of every other part of
the habitable globe. You Englishmen have, indeed,
great reason to be, proud of the nation to which you
b-long, but let that pride be of a humble and of a
humiliating character. You may well rejoice, I
repeat, that you belong to such a nation; but
rejoice still more that it has pleased God to give
such a character and di-position to the people
of this country that in a crisis of such a terrible
nature He has produced in that vast region of
India such men and such women, who, although
taken by surprise by this fearful catastrophe—hay-
ing been living in the .greatest security—never
dreaming, I will not say of becoming the victims
of.such atrocities, but that anything like hostile
feelings were harboured towards them by the na-
tive soldiery—many of them in the dead of night,
others without a moment's preparation, assailed
in a manner the most fearful to contemplate—l
say we have reason to be proud that, under all
these horrible circumstances, there has not been
found, so far as we know, one of the European race
in that vast territory who was wanting to the great
and unprecedented emergency—not one who for
an instant hesitated what to do, not one who would
degrade the name of Britain by a miserable cowar-
dice, not one who did not say, come what may, I
will put my trust in God, I will stand up for the
bot.our of my country and for the maintenance of
the religion I profess. The horrors that were perpe-
trated and endured exceed all power of imagina-
tion as they exceed all power of description, and
many of them are of such &character that it is said
they cannot be recorded. I have said all along,
and I say now, that there has been a very undue
reserve on this part of the subject. Many of the
atrocities have been revealed to us, but a vast• num-
ber have been suppressed. I repeat, there has been
a very undue reserve. The people ought to know
what has been done and what has been endured,
and that not with the view of stimulating angry
feelings, or what has been called vengeance, but
that you may know exactly what is the character
of the people with whom we have to deal, what is
the character of that religion, and what is the na-
ture of those institutions that have fostered such a
race, and have given the conception and the deve-
lopment to acts unparalleled in the whole history of
mankind. (Cheers.) I know there must be reserve
on such subjects, because the indecency of the de-
tails would be such that you could not commit
them to writing or printing, and expose them to

the perusal of the public ; but there are many
atrocities that have not been stated in all their
details' and much of that detail can be given
without trespassing too closely on the limits of
impropriety or danger. It is only this very day
that I have seen a copy of a letter written and sent
to England by an officer of rank who was one of the
first that entered Cawnpore a few hours, or, per-
haps, ouly one hour, after the perpetration of the
frightful massacto which was enacted there ; and,
think of the description he gives, and what was seen
by the whole soldiery, and you will not wonder at
tile exaspe;ation that was felt by every man among
them who bore the European name. On arriving
at Cawnpore he states—and he can scarcely permit
himself to write the sail story—that, to his unut-
terable horror and dismay he sisw a number of Eu-
ropean women stripped stark naked, lying on their
backs, fastened by the arms and legs, and there
many of them had been lying four and five days,
exposed to a burning sun—others had been more
recently laid•down—others again had been actually
hacked to pieces, and so recently that the blood
which streamed from their mangled bodies was still
warm. He found children of 10, 12, 13, and 14
years of ago treated in the same horrible manner at
the corners of the streets and in all parts of the
there, attended by every circumstance of insult, the
most awful and the most degrading, the most hor-
rible and frightful to the conception, and the most
revolting to the dignity and feelings of civilised
men. Cawnpore was only a sample of what was
perpetrated in various parts of that vast region,
and that with a refinement of cruelty never before
heard of. Women and children have been mas-
sacred before, but I don't believe there is any in-
stance on record where children have been re-
served in cold blood to be most cruelly and anato-
mically tortured in the presence of their horrified
parents before being finally put to death. (Sensa-
tion.) Can you wonder, where such a religion pre-
vails as that which has been described tonight
by my rev. friend, that the people should prove
worthy of their tuition when the opportunity
occurs of developing its fruits The character
of the Hindoo religion is te deify every passion,
every propensity, every moral sin, and every
physical abomination ; but I say you have great
reason to rejoice that in this emergency, and
amid all its frightful crimes and atrocities, Pro-
videnea has raised up for you a class of men
that will hereafter stand on a level with the best
arid greatest in the world's history. In the records
which have been placed before you this day you
may see the merciful finger of Providence providing
for us in the hour of necessity. It has pleased God
to remove Nicholson and Neill—gloat and noble
men—(cheers)—from the scene of their exploits and
their victories ; but it has also pleased Him to raise
up to take their places a man equal to the best of
them—Col. Greathed. You will see that he has
performed an action that for brilliancy is not to be
equalled in the whole military annals of India itself,
brilliant as they are. (Cheers.) Again, what name
can stand hereafter with that of Havelock ? (Loud
cheers.) Look, too, at Wilson, Outram, Eyre, and
Chamberlain, and look also at the brother of that
great man who died at Lucknow—Sir. H. Lawrence.
(Cheers.) I trust you will never forget those names
—you who are advanced in years, or yon who are
young ; I trust the country will never forget those
names, and I trust there will be no lack or delay on
the part of the country in awarding them the
highest honours which it is in the power of the
Queen to bestow or in the gratitude of the nation
to dictate. (Cheers.) See what great events are
before you, and see what a mighty field is open to
your energies. There never was such a field offered
to any nation, never such au opportunity afforded
for the display of prineiple, zeal, and patriotism—
for everything in a word, that can engage the hu-
man heart or employ the human intellect. (Cheers )
I trust the whole country will appreciate the open-
ing which is now before it. There are great open-
ings offered for commercial enterprise of every de-
scription ; but the greatest opening of all to which
this country is called above every other is to repay
the wrongs that she has received at the hands of
the people of India, who have endeavoured to
exterminate us, by conferring on the natives
the greatest benefits which it is in her power
to bestow— namely, the disseminating among
them the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ. It
for us to hold that country for this purpose,
and this purpose only, that, although we may look
to the eujoyreent of the temporal advantages
which arise from the possession of such an empire,
the great end for which it has been given ns, and
for which we receive it, is that the name of Christ
be there made known, and that those vast millions
be exalted in the social scale, in freedom of thought
and action, and in freedom of religion, to the same
position as ourselves, and that of the best and most
enlightened nations in the world. That is our
duty ; in that sense we must now undertake the
government of India; with that view we must
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The vote of thanks toMr.S put
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acclamation,fore 11 o'clock.
and carried with
terminated shortly be

DEFENCE OF THE DUBLIN COAST.—Government
given orders to the Board of Works for the construction
of a stroug battery at the end of the east pier of King.
town Harbour. It is to be armed with 68-poundersl
The work is to be commenced forthwith. -

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
JITLLIEN'S CONCERTS.

The Last Night but Ono.
Madlle. Jetty Treffr, Herr Deek (Primo Basso from
the Grand Opera at Dresden), Signor Veroni, and M.
Edouard Remenyi.
The highly Successful INDIAN QUADRILLE, aid
GENERAL HAVELONCS GRAND TRIUMPIIAL MARCH
THIS EVENING (FRIDAY, November the 27th), will
be produced the New Grand Descriptive Composition,
by M. Jullien, entitled THE INDIAN QUADRILLE,
and GENERAL HAVELOCK'S TRIUMPHAL MARCH,
performed by M. Jullien's Orchestra, assisted by the drums
and fifes of the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards,
and the Scots Fusilier Guards ; andi a Grand. Chorus, Rule
Britannia," and " God Save the Queen."
Prices of Admission—Promenade, is • Upper Boxes, Is, ;
Gallery, ls. • Dress Circle, 2s. 6c.; 'Private Boxes, 10s.
6d. and upwards.
rticulars, may be had at the Box.
Prospectuses with full pa
dice of the Theatre ; of all the principal libraries; and at
Jallien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street.

HEIM MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—
M. JULLIEN'S ANNUAL BAL
MASQUE, MONDAY, Nov. 30.
M. JULLIEN has the honour to announce that his GRAND
ANNUAL BAL MASQUE will, this year, take place at Her
Majesty's Theatre, on MONDAY, Nov. 30.
M. Jullien's present Bal Masque will be given with the
same splendour as has been displayed in those magnificent
fetes he has presented to the public on previous occasiors ;
fetes which have unanimously been prononnced as unsur-
passed in Europe. It will take place at Her Majesty's
Theatre—an establishment so famous for the splendid balls
which have been given within its walls under the most dis-
tinguished patronage. M. Jullien is determined' that this,
* Nineteenth Bal Masque in England, shall equal, if not
excel, any of its predecessors in brilliancy and splendour.
The Orchestra will comprise 110 musicians—Conducter, M.
Junin).
;4. The newest and most fashionable music will be played, in-
cluding M, Jullien's " Indian Quadrille," which has achieved
such signal success during the present season, and several
new Waltzes, Polkas, and Quadrilles, composed expressly by
M. Jullien for his Concerts and for this occasion.
The dances will be regulated by 14 Maltres des Ceremonies,
whose arrangements will be strictly carried out.
No one will be admitted except in evening dress or fancy
costume. This regulation will be strictly adhered to.
The whole theatre will be ornamented with garlands and
wreaths of flowers, in gold, silver, and colours. For this pur-
pose Messrs. Chabot and Co. who were charged with the
decorations for the grand ballet the reception of the Empe-
ror Napoleon 111., Stuttgart, have been engaged at a great
expense, and will arrive in England expressly to arrange, at
Her Majesty's Theatre, a display, which will be seen for the
first time in this country.
Mr. Nathan, of Castle-street, Leicester-square, has been
eppeinted Costumier to the Bal.
Tickets for the ball, 10s. 6d. The prices of admission for
spectators (for whom the audience portion of the theatre will
be set apart) will be, dress circle, ss. ; gallery stalls, 2s. 6d.
Private boxes from 3/. 3s. and upwards. Persons taking
private boxes will have the privilege of passing to and from
the ball-room without extra charge. Ticket for the ball,
places, and private boxes, may be secured at the box-office of
her Majesty's Theatre ; of the principal librarians and music-
sellers : and at Messrs. Jullien aid Co.'s, 214, Regent-street.

The doors will be open at half-past 9, and the dancing com-
mence at half-past 10.
Refreshments will be supplied daring the evening by M.
Epitemx, of the Opera Colonnade, and at 1 o'clock the slipper
will be served.

THEATRE !ROYAL, HA.YMA.RIEET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
rats EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with
a new Comedy, entitled AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Princi-
pal characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale,
W. Farrel), Miss Amy Sedgwick, Mrs. Buckingham White,
at Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam.
After which, a new farce, by the author of Box and Cox,
entitled TAKE CARE OF DOWB, in which Mr. Buckstone
will sustain an original chl.racter.
To conclude with THE SWISS COTTAGE.
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the
evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.)
First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d
Drees Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 o
Upper Boxes ... 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0
Pit 2 0 Pit 1 0
Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6
Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean.
LAST TWO NIGHTS OF THE TEMPEST.

TIM EVENING, will be performed S'aakspere's Play of
THE TEMPEST.
Preceded by a new farce, in one act, entitled A CASE
OF CONSCIENCE.

?THEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI.
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.

THIS EVENING, will be performed THE MIDDY
ASHORE. Miss Marie Wilton.

Alter which, a new romaLtie drama, called THE LEGEND
OF THE HEADLESS MAN, and in which Mr. Benjamin
Webster and Madame Celeste will perform.

Followed by the original Apropos Sketch, entit:ed THE
DRAPERY QUESTION ; or, Who's for India ? Messrs.
Wright, P. Bedford, C. Selby; Miss M. Wilton and Miss
)lary Keeley.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr.
Dillon.—Under the joint management of
Miss LOUISA. PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON.
THIS EVENING, will be pe formed Balfe's new opera,
THE ROSE OF W STILLE. Characters by Miss LOU's%
Fyne, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Marian Prescott, Mr. Weiss.
Mr. A, St. Albyn, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. Wallworth, and Mr.
W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon.

To conclude with the new Farce, entitled
_A PAIR OF
PIGEONS. Mr. G. Roney and Miss Cuthbert.
Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., S 2 25,, and £1 Us. 6d. ;
Stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.;
Gallery, 10.—The Blx Mice is now open daily, iron). 11 to
5, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jim.l

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Robon and Emden.
THIS EVENING, will be performed a new and.original
comedietta, by Sterling Coyne, Esq., called WHAT WILL
THEY SAY AT BROMPTON T Mr. Robson, &c.
To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by Robert
Brongh, Fsq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob-
e in, Cooke, Danvers, Etc. ; Misses Swanborongh, Thirlwall,
gughesa Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont.
Commence at half-past Seven.

Fel OYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Letioes, Messrs. Shepherd awl Creswiek.
THIS EVENING, will be performed THE. WIFE'S RE-
VENGE.

Atter which, INDIA, 1857. Messrs. Shepherd, Cres-
wick, W. Smith, Vollaire, B. Potter, Widdicomb, Belmore,
Tappiaa ; Mies M. Eburae, Miss Webster, Miss Chalmers,
Miss Johnstone.

To conclude with UP IN THE WORLD.

CA.NTERBURY HALL, eatmi noter-road.
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—Tho follow-
nt; company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
fl dem:Along from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &c., viz. :—Miss Russell,
Mrs. Badzey, Matille. Marietta, Mrs. Palmyro, Miss Bi-t-
-roll, and Madame Marietta; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr.
Renshaw, R, Grover, T. Farcant, S. Tones, J. Barker,
W. Melling, Senor An,onio, E. L. Hime, and Mr. St.
Albyn; Messrs. S. Collins, W. 1. Critch'ield, and E. Mack-
ney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master
Williams ; Di7ector, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at
Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock.