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the giver of all good, and in the immensity of the
great sacrifice that has been made for mankind, the
great religious difficulty would be found in no very
long time to disappear. But we have not yet ar-
rived at that state of opinion, or that state of edu-
cation. It is therefore absolutely necessary as it
appears to me, whether you will look upon it that
the state of difference is for ever to subsist, or whe-
ther you suppose that in time we shall get overthese
difficulties, thatfor the present at least the voluntary
efforts of those who love mankind and who have a
feeling of regard for their neighbours and the safety
of society should combine to provide by what are
called ragged schools, and by schools of a simildr
description, a supply for the wants to which I have
adverted. I believe that if those wants are sup-
plied, although we certainly can never hope in our
most sanguine expectations that temptations will
not divert many from an honest and religious
course, yet that the number of those who are sent
to prison, who not having originally vicious incli
nations, are yet perverted by bad example and the
circumstances of their position—that the number of
of those who are criminally punished will very
much decrease, and society be a great gainer
thereby. Let us consider in every respect how
much we can do by enabling those children to lead
au honest life, and to obtain the means of know-
ledge. However elementary the instruction may
be, a knowledge of reading and writing puts into
their hands the great instrument by which emi-
nence of every kind is to be achieved. The young
person availing himself of the talents which God
has implanted in him will, finding that he has
these instruments in his hands, pursue his own
course ; and we know that in this free country,
happily, from among the humblest ranks and pur-
suits there have arisen men who have benefited
their country by their discoveries in science, and
by their services in the State and in the field—by
the abilities they have displayed in the law and in
the church. Such being the case, in this point of
view you render areal service to the country. But
the moral service you render is of still far higher
importance; for instead of havingthese poor persons
wandering about the streets, and thus led into crime,
if you can induce them to pursue au honest course
of life—if they can be recommended by those who
have seen their conduct, whether as shoeblacks or
in_ any other occupation, as steady, honest, and
faithful—if you can thus procure employment for
them, you not only benefit the whole community,
and add to the prosperity and stability of the coun-
try, but you have the consolation of reflecting that
you have not neglected the immortal part of those
who are your fellow-creatures. (Cheers.) Such, as
I conceive, is the foundation of the effort to estab-
lish ragged schools in great towns. Of course there
will remain those who refuse their aid, who are so
involved in vicious inclination and crime that it is
not possible by this means to reclaim them. But
can any one say that we have hitherto done our
utmost in this respect ? Is there not still a great
defect, a great want of effort for this purpose I
Have those who have been blessed with affluence,
as a, consequence, it may be, of their own applica-
tion and industry in the various trades which are
pursued in this country, used those means for the
improvement of their fellow-creatures as well as for
the enjoyment of those luxuries and comforts which
wealth has placed within their reach ? lam afraid
the answer must be that hitherto iu this country,
however we may pride ourselves upon our know-
ledge, our freedom, and our power, there is still a
great duty to do to our fellow-men in this respect.
I know that there does exist in this country, and I
have no doubt in this town, a wholesome spirit of
independence, which induces those who wish .edu-
cation either for themselves or their children rather
to pay for what they receive, and thus to be under
no obligation to any one, than to receive eleemo-
synary grants for their education. (Cheers.) A. gen-
tleman who holds a high position in the House of
Commons told me that in this neighbourhood he
had established an evening class for elementary in-
struetion on matters of science. He made it, as it
were, a free school. It was very little attended, and
likely to be a total failure, when he made it a con-
dition that a certain sum should he paid by all who
attended. Immediately the school began to fill, and
vary soon a respectable class were in attendance,
because, while the people saw that it was something
worth their paying for, they felt they did not part
with any of their independence, as they would have
felt they were doing by receiving gratuitously in-
struction for which they were well able to pay. They
did pay, and they received the instruction. I my-
self am connected with a school to which those who
pay a certain sum, and are not able to pay more,
May come and receive elementary instruction • but
tliose whose means enable them to pay are at liberty
to do so, but receive no better instruction than those
who pay the smaller sum. You might suppose tied
none would pay the larger sum, but the fact is that
more than one-half of those who attend pay the
larger sum, in order that they may retain
hat which is highly valuable—that sense of inde-
pendence arising from the consciousness that they are
paying for that which they receive, and are not
placed under any obligation to those who conduct
and had established the school, but that it is a free and
reciprocal bargain between man and man, and that
they who receive the benefit are as fully independent
as those who confer it. (Cheers.) Now, it is a most
valuable thing to cultivate that feeling ; E believe,
as you ,have been told, that this Ragged Schools
Institution ought not to go one inch beyond the
purpose for which it was intended, and that if you
syere succeseful in, giving education to the children
aind parents freely and without payment, who could
well afford to pay for it, you would be doing, injury
instead of lemefit, and that a certain degradation
If mind would accompany the reception of it.
I The MAYOR moved " that the meeting rejoices to
recognise in Lord John Russell the untiring advo-
date of education among all classes of tae commu-
nity, and that the best thanks of the meeting are
clue to his lordship for his kindness in coming a
great distance to preside at this meeting." (Cheers )
This resolution was cordially received.
Lord J. RUSSELL. (Loud cheers)—l have now
to return, and a very pleasant task it is, my thanks
for the manner in which you have passed this reso-
lution. Before Ido so, let me say, with regard to
jhe collection, that since 1401. has been raised in the
room means will be found to induce others to add
their subscriptions, and so make the entire amoun..
There is a proverb which says the absent are always
in the wrong. I hope that in this case they will
not be in the wreng by withholding their sub-
scriptions, though they have not had the pleasure
:of being present. - With regard to my . coming
here to-day, I am sure it has been a very little in-
convenience and a very great pleasure and gratifi-
cation. (Cheers.) lam glad to see every effort
'made to promote education, whether it be the edu-
cation of the highest classes, condneted at the Uni-
versities of Oxford or Cambridge, or others which
have been founded for the education of the very
poorest in ragged schools. With improvement
in the mind I look for improvement in man-
ners, and the abandonment
_of those grosser vices
which belong rather to our animal than our intel-
lectual nature, and which degrade the name of man.
Many may remember—perhaps not a great many,
but I for one remember—that 40 years ago there
existed a very anxious and uneasy state of society.
The Government of that day had the greatest dis-
trust of the people. They were passing laws almost
every session which a member of the Government
described as laws of severe coercion, and the be ir-
ing of the people was full of resentment and dis-
trust. Daring these 40 years there has arisen a
very different state of feeling—a feeling on the pert
of the Government of entire trust in the people,
and on the people of great loyalty to the Throne
and of confidence in our institutions. We do not
now find men of the higher classes spending tlL'ir
evenings in a degraded way, and ladies of wealth
do not gamble away their fortunes. May we not
suppose that a similar change will take place in
those whom fortune has not so favoured ? With
education furnishing the means by which we speed
our days and ev.iniegs in more intellectual pursuits,
which, according to a great ()rater of antiquity, are
delightful in prosperity, a comfort in adversity,
which go Ai ith a man when he journeys and remain
with him at home—pursuits of this kind will take
the place of intemperate indulgence and vicious
appetites. Though there may be some portion of
the community yet indulging in such habits, we
may hope they will be much diminished. I shall
ever remember this day with satisfaction. lAm
grateful for the manner in which I have been re-
ceived, and I trust•to merit the good opinion you
have been p!eased to express. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. JOHN WiLsoer, grind€r, then came fore and
an I presented Lerd John Russell wit' an ad lie e .9,
vote I to his lordship at a public meeting of the
working el tsses he la on Tuesday evening.

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tation from the Jews resident in Sheffield, also pre-
an adds: S 3 thankinff Llrd J. Russell for his
exertions iu b..half of religious and civil liberty.
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so far prevailed as to prevent those men (my prede-
cessors) being listened to. That to which I owe the
success of any efforts I have made in conjunction
with the -House of Commons was, that public
opinion was ripening at that time, and finally
declared in favour of those measures of which
I have been the humble advocate. (Loud
cheers.) We all know, and we have seen it
in the present year, that upon the decision of those
who possess the franchise depends ultimately the
solution of the great and important questions which
from time to time agitate the country. The House
of Commons may be of one opinion, the House of
Lord of another ; the Crown may be dissatisfied
with the decision of one of those bodies; the opera-
tion of the constitution may seem to be suspended
for a time ; but all persons ultimately acquiesce in
the decision of those who possess the franchise.
Now, gentlemen, in allotting the franchise in the
Reform Act, we who framed the act were solicitous,
while we made a large extension of the franchise,
while we destroyed nomination—at the same time
to carry those changes into effect peaceably and
quietly, because, whatever other classes may suffer
in the course of violent changes, I am persuaded
that those who belong to the working classes of this
country are the most likely to suffer in any change
which sets at war with each other the different
classes of the community. That lam sure the work-
ing men feel,land therefore it was that in the Reform
Bill, though at the time it was thought unduly
bold, and though many characterised it as rash,
Lord Grey and those who acted with him knew that
they framed their measure in a spirit of caution,
and that it was better to frame it in a spirit of cau-
tion than to run any risks to the peace of this great
community. Gentlemen, I believe the time has
come—and the Government of the day has allowed
that the time has come—when the franchise may be
further extended, and I think, nearly in the words
of the Prime Minifter, that large classes who have
not hitherto possessed the franchise should in future
enjoy and exercise that privilege. You will not
doubt, I hope, that I shall be very glad to see a
measure introduced by Government by which the
franchise will be thus extended: And lam persuaded
that the time which has elapsed since the Reform
Bill of 1832 has enabled many classes to so improve
themselves and their means of judgment as to exer-
cise that franchise for the benefit of the community.
it is the difference between this country and many
others that its institution rests upon a large basil,
and that not only for the special purposes of
an election, but likewise in the constant and daily
operation of our constitution. You see it in your
municipal franchise ; you see it in the proceedings
that take place in various parts of the country, in
the expressions of public meetings, in the writings
of the daily press. It is thus in fine, and together,
that those changes that took place expressed the
will of the community. Perhaps it would be diffi-
cult to name another nation which exercises that
power with equal calmness, equal sobriety, and
equal temper and judgment. (Cheers.) But such
I am persuaded is the character of this nation. You
may differ from me, I may differ from you, on dif-
ferent occasions and on separate measures ; but I
go heartily with the working men of this country
to see their franchises extended, and that all classes
of the people may have increased satisfaction in the
working of their institutions. I think there has
been from time to time an undue jealousy between
one class and another. I have often seen with pain
that attempts were made to deprive those who are
in the ranks which entitle them and their descend-
ants to seats in the House of Lords of the good feel-
ing and sympathy of the country. My opinion has
always been with one of our poets, that—

"They who on glorious ancestors enlarge
Produce their debt instead of their dicharpe."
(Cheers.) lam convinced that they who have an-
_castors to boast of are only more bound to consult
the welfare of the community ; and that, knowing
that this country has never flourished except in the
enjoyment of liberty, it ii their duty especially t
promote the liberties of this country. (Cheers.) I
trust, therefore, that in all future changes that may
take place, as well as in previous changes, while we
extend the bounds of religious liberty, and I trust it
will be done soon—while we extend to the Jean that
liberty which has been given to the Protestant Dis-
senter and the Roman Catholic—while we extend
and fortify our institutions, that it will be done
with the common consent of all classes in this
country and that thus this country may continue
to flourish ; that we shall not see, as some envious
persons have presumed to conjecture—that we shall
not see our power in any part of the globe diminish.
I am convinced that it would be a great cruse and
injury to mankind if the power of England were to
be in any way crippled. I trust that we may con-
tinue to grow greater and greater, and that we shall
use that power for the benefit of all mankind.
(Cheers.) I hope gentlemen, that I may allude ins
few words to a subject which has greatly occupied
the public mind. "trust no on.ewill believe that we
are about to suffer a diminution of our tt rritory in
the East. 1. believe, on the e-mtrary, that if our ex-
ertions are well directed, we shall find that that
empire will be established with greater solidity
than it has ever been before. I knowvery well that
some of the Sheffield blades—(laughter)—and those
blades cut sharp—will be employed in the service
of their country, and like every Yorkshiretnan, and
like every manof this country, I have nodoubt that
th y will do their duty. We shall know in futureto
whom we can truss, and we shall knovv in whose
hands we ought to place arms again. We shall be
then enlightened by experience, and I have that
' faith in the courage of this country, and that faith
in its justice and humanity, that I feel sure that
while it has strength to gain the victory it will have
moderation to make a good use of that victory.
(Cheers.) There are other questions- which will re-
quire the most careful deliberation and the appli-
cation of the greatest wisdom on the part of Parlia-
ment. Upon those questions, of course, I shall not
touch at present; but we ails:gee—we in this root'',
we in all parts of the country agree, that when an
effort is to be made we must not shrink from it.
We must be prepared to meet it, and then this na-
tion will come triumphant out of the struggle. (His
lordship resumed his seat amid loud applause.)
A call was made for " three cheers for Lord John
Russell." This was heartily responded to, and the
meeting then broke up.

THE MAIN DRAINAGE OF THE
METROPOLIS.

Yesterday a meeting of the Metropolitan Bowd
of Works was heti in the Council Chamber, Guild-
hall—Mr. J. Thwaites in the chair.

The following document was presented to the
Board from the First Commissioner of Works, :
" Office of Works, &c., 8,0. 24.
" Sir,—On the 22d Dec. last the chairman of your
board presented to the first Commissioner of her Ma-
jesty's Works, &c., a plan,_ marked B, fur the main
drainage of the metropolis. This plan was for warded on
the 31st of that month to Capt. D. Galion, R.E., and
Messrs. Simpson and Blackwell, civil engineers, who
were appointed to consider and report upon the plans
of the main drainage of the metropolis in clnfiraiity
with instructions sent to you. (The letter here set forth
the instructions given to the referees.)
" d. copy of these instructions was sent upon the same
day for the information of your board.
" On the 31st of July last the First Commissioner re-
ceived a report from the engineers to whom the instruc
tions wore given, and a copy of nat reprt was for-
warded to your board on that day. The app.-ndix an
plan referred to in that report were not then ready, but
they were received here yesterday evening, and I am
directed by the first Commissioner to forward them to
you to be submitted to the Metropolitan Board of
Works.

"In sending in a complete form the report of Captain
Douglas Galton, and Mes-rs. Simpson r..nd Black w,ll,
with the appendix and plans, I am requested by ay.::
First Consmiviener to request the c insideration of your
board to the propositions thus laid before them, which
having been maturely considered and recommended by
such eminent engineers as the gentler on to whom thi,,
important question has been referred, must be well
worthy of attention.
"I am also directed to inform you that the Fir,t
Commissioner does not approve of the plan D.—l am,
sir, your obedient servant, " GEORGE RUSSELL,
" A.,si,tant Secrotar-.
"To the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of
Works."

It was moved and seconded that a copy of the
report of Captain Galton and others, tegether
the appendices and plans, be sent to each member.
The motion was unanimously carried.
Mr. H. L. TAYLOR complained that the letter
from the First Commissioner of Works, wh'ch had
been received on Thursday afternoon, hail n‘A
been made known to the members.

After a short disclus!on, it was agreei that t' o
plans and appendices should be taken into con-
sideration on a future day.
The rest of tLe business was entirely of A routiLe
character.

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IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING.
STATE OF BELFAST.

It appears that a meeting of the magistrates of
the town and neighbourhood of Belfast is to take
place this day, at the instance of the Marquis of
Donegal, to consult upon the best means of pre-
serving the peace of the town under the existing
state of excitement. Refeiring to tit's step, the
Banner of Ulster says,.7.

" We have reason to believe that some resolution will
be come to in reference to open-air preaching, and espe-
cially to the proceedings which took place ou last Sab-
bath, in consequence of the telegraphic message fent to
our worthy mayor by his Excellency the Lord Lieute-
nant. We believe if another such message be sent his
Excellency will find such difficulties in the way of its
execution as will make him pause betore he sends ano-
ther. We can inform his Excellency that obedience to
ais order on last Sabbath was not the most agreeable
duty the magistrates have performed in Belfast, nor one
which they would like renewed again."
_ _

Mean While the head and front of the excitement,
the Rev. Hugh Hanna, the would-be modern John
Knox, has addressed the subjoined manifesto to the
mayor mid magistrates of Belfast :
" Gentlemen,—l know that by this time you are
kesnly aware that on the past Sabbath you exceeded
your commission, and made grave infraction on the con-
stitutional rights of a large body of the most orderly and
respectable citizens of Belfast. I dispute your authority
to remove any assembly of peaceable citizens from the
private unenclosed ground whereon upon the past Sab-
bath I first encountered you. I dispute the power of the
Lord Lieutenant to invest you with such authority.
But, whatever may be the law on this point, any com-
pe'ent lawyer will inform you that you had no right to
enter on and expel us from the enclosed yard, the ulti-
mate position I occupied with my open-air congregation.
In a rude, and almost a barbarous way, you dispersed
an uroffending people, dealing more rigorously with
them than you ever did with any riotous mob that da-
maged and disgraced the town. One of the men under
your command cocked his carbine and levelled it at my
breast, and many have to complain of the outrageous
conduct of the police under your command. What
course the hundreds whom you dispersed—each of
wheat has ground of action against you—may adopt, I
cannot tell ; but for my own part, I now respectfully
demand from you an acknowledgment of your error
and an apology for your conduct. I am one of those
who look with extreme jealousy on every stretch of
executive power, and I will strenuously resist in a con•
stitutional way its every infraction on constitutional
right and privilege. Your compliarice with this demand
will vindicate the liberty of the subject and avoid the
necessity of litigation. " Yours respectfully,

" HUGE( HANNA."
Referring to the snail's-pace progress of the Go-
vernment investigation the following observations
of the Belfast Mercury are but the echo of public
feeling, at least as far as persons at a distance from
the scene of action can be supposed competent to
form an opinion :
" It is really full time that the commissioners should
interfere to stay the interminable flow of irrelevent evi-
dence which is fast tending to bring the whole inquiry
into disrepute. What object is to be gained by heaping
evidence upon the top of evidence, the whole purport of
which is merely to prove that rioting took place ? It is
not, as we understand it, the duty of the commissioners
to report on the point whether a greater amount of
vagabondism exists in Sandy-row than in Pound-street
—their object is not to discriminate the minute shades
of criminality that may exist between the desperate fac-
tions that are a disgrace to our town—on the-contrary,
the plain purpose of their inquiry, according to their
commission is to investigate into the origin of the riots,
and to report on the same, with such suggestions as they
may consider calculated to guard against their repetition.
There can be no doubt that the state of the labouring
population in Belfast is one favourable to such riots :
hut we opine it does not form any part of the duty of
the c ommissionera to examine into the sanitary condition,
considered morally and religiously, of that population.
We therefore discard the subject from present considera-
tion, and desire to give a practical aim to the
inquiry. At present the commissioners, amidst the
vast mass of wholly irrelevant evidence, have
done nothing more than ascertain the cause of the
Jelly. rioting. They have not advanced much
beyond 'this point. They have consumed nine days,
far 'the must part in listening to very ridiculous
and inconclusive evidence, and this, too, while such a
protracted inquiry is calculated seriously to injure the
trade and prosperity of our town. It appears that up
to the present the inquiry has been without practical
aim, while it has not been conducted according to any
system, legal or otherwise. It is altogether a hodge-
podge' affair ; and the result will be a ponderous blue-
book of evidence, from which the public in general
will turn in disgust—it will never be read. Our de-
sire .is, and we are certain it is shared by the influ-
ence and intelligence of the town, that the commis-
sioners should ascertain as fully as possible the causes
of the rioting, and then take evidence as to the most
effectual means by which a recurrence of such semi-
barbarous conduct shoull be in future guarded against."

EP

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER RACES-FRIDAY.

LATEST BETTING.
CESAREWITCH.
100 to 8 agst M. Dobler (taken)
10 0 1 agst the Pluth colt (taken)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
30 to 1 agit the Pluih c,lt (taken to 501.)

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The Chesterfield Handicap of 5 sous. each, with 50
added, for 2-yr-olds. Winners extra. Tne second to
save his stake. Three quarters of a mile. (10 subs.)
Mr. Barber's Prince of Denmark, 7A, (inc. 51b
,extra)'

(Dales) I
Mr. J. Merry's f by Chanticleer, 7st (Plumb) 2
Mr. Allisou's Madame Ristoli, 7,t 71b (Charlton) 3
The Trafford Handicap of 5 sov'. each, with 50 added.
Winners extra. The second to receive 10 sovs out
of the stakes. One mile. (12 subs.)
Mr. Dods worth's Skycutter, 3 yrs, 7st 21b(Challoner) 1
Mr. Dawson's Red Whits and Blue, 3 yrs, 7st 215
(Bullock) 2
Mr. Barber's Lord Nelson, 3 yre, Bst (Dale.) 3
Mr. G. Robinson's Attorney-General, 3 yrs, 64 111 b
(Piercy) 4
The Wilton Handicap of 100 save, added to a sweep-
stakes of 5 sovs each. Winners extra • second to re-
ceive 10 sove out of the stakes. Mile and three-
quarters. (23 subs.)
, .

Mr. J. Osborne's Tiff, 4 yrs, Est 101b......(Challoner) 1
Mr. Ridley's Hospitality, 4 yrs, 7st 61b (Bullock) 2
Mr. James's Kenerdy, 3 yrs, 54t 8:b ..... . —(Pritchard) 3
The City Handicap Plate of 60 move. Winners extra.
Half-a mile. (25 subs.)
Mr. Henry's Greenwich Fair, sit 61b (Plumb) 1
Mr. Jackson's Julia, 2 yrs, s+t 21b (Madden) 2
Mr. Jackson's Gbika, 4 yrs, Est 911) (Bullock) 3

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE•
MENTS.

On the 15th inst., King of the Forest out of the Cam-
bridgeshire, having been left in by mistake.
On the 16th inst., all Sir J. Hawley's horses out of
their engagements this year, except Adeliz.
On the 181 inst., at 1 a.m., Imp.aieuse out of the
Park-hill Stakes.

On the 18th inst., at 2.40 p.m., Sermon out of all his
engagements this year.

On-the 19th inst., after 6 p.m., Leamington out of the
Eastern Counties Handicap.
Oa the 21st inst., at 9 a.m., Ibex out of all his Leices-
ter and Monmouth engagemehts.
On the 22d inst., at 9 a.m., General Williams out of
all his engagements.
On the 22d inst.,, at 9 a.m., Warlock out of the
Northallerton Handicap.
On the 22d inst., at 4.10 p.m., Lord Derwentwater
out of all his engagements.
In the article under this head, last week, Cultivation
should have been out of all her engagements this year
only ; and all Baron Rothschtl.t's horses out of their
Doncaster engagements except Scribbler.

Skirmisher, after the Houghton Meeting, will leave
George Abdale's stables for John Scott's at Whitewall,
where he and the remainder of Capt. Saville's horses
will in future be trained. •

NEWMARKET.--Cave Adulam and Brazen, 2 yre,
have arrived at J. Robinson's stable, to be trained for
their engagements.

Black Tommy has been sold to Mr, Sutton for 2,000
zuineas, and half the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire
Stakes should he win them.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

WHITEHALL, SEPT. 23.
The Queen has bawl pleased to make the following ap-
pointments, under the provisions of the act 20 and 21 Vic.,
cap. 71, for thq rogulation of thc care and treatment of
lunatics, and for the provision, mainten trice, and regula-
tion of Lunatic.A.sylutni in Scotland, namely ;-17npaaid
Commissioner and Chairman of the General Board 'a Coro,
missioners in Lunacy for Scotland—Wm. Hugh Elliot,
Esq., (commonly called Viscount Melgund). Paid Com-
missioners—James Coxe, Esq., M.D. and William Francis
Browne, Esq., M.D. Secretary—William Forbes, Esq.
The Queen has also been pleased, under the provisions
of the above-mentioned act, to appoint, by Warrant under
the hand of the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, one of her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State—Sir Alexander
Charles Gibson Maitland, Bart., and George Young, Esq.,
Sheriff of the county of Inverness, to be unpaid Commis-
sioners of the General Board of Commiseioners in Funacy
for Scotland. •

WHITEHALL, SEPT. 23.
The Queen has been pleased' to appoint John Kinlocb,
Esq., to be Inspector, under the Act of 20 and 21 Viet.,
cap. 72, to render more effectual the Police in counties and
burghs in Scotland:
WHITEHALL, SEPT. 21.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the night Hon.
W. Francis Cowper to be President of the General Board
of Health.

WHITEHALL, SEPT. 24. •
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. James
Campbell to the church and parish of Balmerino, in the
presbytery of Cupar, and ceunty of Fife, vacant by the
death of the Rev. Johnl Thompson.
The Queen has also been pleased to present the Rev.
John Barnett to the church at Shieldbag, in the parish of
Applecross, in the presbytery of L)chcarron, and county of
Ross, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. Roderick
Nicholson to the church anti Parish of Applecrose.
REPRESENTATION OF OLDFIANT.
By virtue of an act, passed in the 24th year of the reign
of his Majesty King George the Third, iutituled, " An
act to repeal so mach of two' acts made in the 10th and.
15th years of the reign of his present Majesty, as autho-
rises the Speaker of the House of Commons to issue his
warrant to the Clerk of the Crown for making out writs
for the election of members to serve in Parliament, in the
manner therein mentioned, and for substituting other pro-
visionsp for the like purposes :"
I do hereby give notice, that the death of James Platt,
Esq., late a member serving in this present Parliament for
the borough of Oldham, hath been certified to me in writ-
ing, under the hands of two latembeis serving in this pre-
sent Parliament, and, that I shall issue my warrant to the
Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the elect •
ing of a member to serve in this present Parliament for the
said borough of Oldham, at the end of 14 days after the
insertion of this notice in the London Gazette.
Given under my hand this 17th day of September,
1857.

JOHN EVELYN DENISON, Speaker.
BOARD OF TRADE WHITEHALL, SEPT. 24.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade anti Plantations have received,
through the Secrata'y of.Stlto for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from Her. Majesty's Ambassador at Paris,
enclosing copy of a French Imperial Decree, increasing the
quantity of salt permitted to be taken on board vessels for
U.° fisheries in Yarmouth Roads, and on the coasts of
France, from 90 kilos. to 100 kilos. per ton measurement.
BOARD OF TRADE, • WHITEEIALL, SEPT 25
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The Right Honourable 'the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Tra, e and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Agent and Consul-
General in Tunis, reporting that the Duty of 12. per cent.
ad valorem, lately levied upon the importation of Palse
into that Regency, has been withdrawn.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, SEPT. 25.
3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lientenant John Joseph
Corrigan to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sarel, whose
promotion from the 9th Light Dragoons on the 25th
August, 1857, has been cancelled.
7th Light Dragoons—The cornmiaaion of Captain Sir Wm.
Russell, Bart., to bo Major, without purchase; to bear
date 13th instead of 14th August, 1857, as previously
stated.

Bth Light Dragoons—John Mathew Bid lie, Gent., to ba
Cornet, without purchase, vice Hanbary, promoted ;
Sergeant Thomas Richar,is, from the I+3th Light Dra-

gcotis, to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Haymes,
promoted.
11th Light Dragoons—Riding Master R. R. Harrison
Dungate is permitted to resign his commission.
Military Train—Lieutenant James Powell to be Captain,
without purchase,' vice Penton, appointed to the Bth
Light Dragoons. To b 3 Lieutenants, without pnrcbase
Ensign Frederic Bond, vice Powell ; Ensign John Bruen
Rutledge, vice Caldwell, appointed to the 7th Dragoon
Guards.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain Phillip
Davos Margesson to bo Captain, vice P. F. G. Scott, de-

ceased ; Brevet-Major Win. Henry Randolph Simpson,
from the Supernumerary List, to be Second Capt., vice,
Margesson ; Captain Frederick Alexander Campbell, on
the Supernumerary List, to bo Lieut.-Col. ; Capt. Henry
Philip Goodenough to b 3 Lieutenant-Col., vice Thomas,
retired upon half-pay ; Second Captain James Frederick
D'Arley Street to be Captain, vice Goodenough ; &mon .1
Captain George Kepple Taylor, from the Supernumerary
List, to be Second Captain, vice Street; Second Captain,
Archibald Motteux Calvert to be Captain, vice Brevet-
Lieutenant-ColoneJ. C. W. Fortescue, promoted to b 3
Mejor Unattached, under the 13th clause of the Royal
Warrant of 3.1 November, 1854
_; Lieutenant George
Sisson Harward to be Second Captain, vice Calvert ;
Lieutenant William Frederick Moore has been permitted
to resign his commission.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant John
Paynter, to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase,
vice Viscount Kirkwall, who retires; Ensign and Lieu-
tenant George W. Knox to be Lieutenant and C+pta,in,
by purchase, vice Robert Farquhar Shaw Stewa-t, who
retiree ; Robert Alfred Cnoliffe, Gent., to be Ensign
and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Paynter; Gerard
Smith, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by pur-
chew, vice Knox.
21 Regiment of .Foot—Ensign Alexander Robert A. Boyd,
from the 92d Foot, to be Errign, vice Gray, whose trans-
fer from the 97th Fuot cancelled ; Robert Hamilton
Simpson, Esq ; late Paymaster, British Italian Legion,
to be Paymaster.
14th Foot—Cape. Wm. Heywood, from half pay 14th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major John Dwyer,
whcse Brevet rank has been couverted into substantive
rank, uuder the Royal Warrant, 6th Oct., 1854.
13th Foot—Captain W. 0 Try en Taylor, from half-pay 18th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major John Cormiek,
whose Brevet Rank
-has been converted into Substantive
Rank, under the Royal" Warrant of 6th October, 1854
Lieut . G. B. Pocklington to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Borrow, promoted; Ensign Hugh Shaw to
. be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Pocklington ;
Sergeant-Major Thomas Watt to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Shaw.
20th Foot—The • surname of the Captain restored to full-
pay on the 30th July, 1857, in the Gazette of the 7th ult.
is Meares, and'not Mears, as therein stated.
2111-Foot —Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Pym Harding, from
half-pay Unattached, to be Lient.-Colonol, vice Boileau,
who exchanges; Brevet Lieut.-Colonel H. B. Harvey,
from Galfepay..3Bth Foot, to be Major, vice Brevet Liet.V.-
Colonel Francis Pyrn Harding, whose Brevet Rank has
been convertcld into Substantive Rank, under the Royal
Warrant of,Oct. 6, 1851; Ceptein Sir G. A. Robinson,
Bart., to be 4ajor, by purchase, vice Brevet Lieut.-Col.
Harvey, whoeretires ; Lieut. Boner Millett Deane, to be
Captain, by eturchaeo, vice Sir G. A. Robinson.
27th Boot—Freilerick Alexander Campbell, Gent., to be
Ensign, wiihinit purchase, vice Venour, deceased.
28th Foot--Ensign William Seaton is permitted to resign
his commission.
41th Foot—ileuiy Gal land Matthews, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchaspridee Salle, promoted.
47th Foot—He4y Willisni Marshall, Gant., to bo Ensign,
without purchase, vice Thomas Bailie Thomson; for
whose services her Majesty has no further occasion.