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mile and a ha If broad. Thai tomb is a sad affair fa.-
such a man; it , has an inscription upon it denoting that
it vies erected by John Strutters, marble mason! It is
placed under a glaring red building, something between
a coach-house, and a cage; the Senate had once procured
the consent of: the family to have it removed to the ca-
pitol, when a bricklayer, a labourer, and a cart arrived
to take it off one morning, at which their indignation mo-
lly rose. There are few; hings remarkable in the
house, except the key of th© Bastille sent by General
•►yette to General Washington, and a sword sent to
kin ley itecleriek the Great, with this address, " From
Ike eldest general of the age to the best." I
made a rapid journey, by steamboat and railroad,
tiareuel the states of Virginia and North Ca-
rolina; the country wore a universal impress of
exhaustion, desertion, slavery. I spent a fortnight
at Charleston, the capital of her more energetic
sister, South Carolina. This town and state may be
looked upon as the head-quarters of the slave-holding
interest. I am bound to say that I spent my time there
very pleasantly; there was much gaiety and unbounded
hospitality. I have made no diseeise of what my opi-
nions upon slavery were, are, and ever must be; but it
would be uncandid to deny that the planter in the sou-
thern states has much more in his manner and mode of
intercourse that resembles the English country gentle.,
man than any other class of his countrymen; he is more
easy, companionable, fond of his country life, and out of
door pursuits. While I was willing not to shut my eyes
to any of the more favourable external symptoms or mi-
tigations of slavery, other indications could not come
across my path without producing deep repugnance. On
the very first night of my arrival I heard the deep sound
of a curfew bell; on inquiry I wry told that after it had
sounded every night about nine o'clock, no coloured per-
son, slave or free, mark that, must be seen in the
streets. One morning, accordingly, I saw a great crowd
of coloured persons in the sireet, and I found they were
waiting to see a large number of their eolour, who
bad been taken up the night before on their return
from a ball, escorted in their ball dresses from the gaol
to the court-house. Indeed it was almost principally
with relation to the free blacks that the anomalous and
indefensible working of the system appeared there to de-
velop itself. I was told that the slaves themselves looked
down upon the free blacks, and called them rubbish. I
must not omit to state that I saw oue slave auction in
the open street, arising from the insolvency of the pre-
TiOiLS owner: a crowd stood round the platform, on
which sat the auctioneer; and beside him were placed
in succession the lots of from one to five negroes. The
families seemed to be all put up together, but I imagine
they must often be separated; they comprised infants
and all ages. As far as I could judge, they exhibited
great indifference to their changing destiny. I attended
a meeting of the convention of the Episcopal Church of
,South Carolina. Whether it may be for encouragement
or warning to those who wish for the introduction or re-
visal of such synods at home, I mention the point then
under discussion. It was—How far it was proper to show
deference for the opinion of the bishop. In point of
neatness, cleanliness, and order, the slave-holding states
appeared to stand in about the same relation to the free
as Ireland does to England. Everything appears
slovenly, ill-arranged, incomplete. Windows do not
shut, doors do not fasten. There is a superabund-
ance of bands to do everything, and little is thoroughly
done. [His Lordship having left Charleston arrives at
the Haysnnah after a voyage of 12 days.] How en-
chanting to the senses at least were the three weeks I
spent in Cuba! How my memory turns to its pictu-
resque scenes and balmy skies. During my whole stay,
£he thermometer scarcely varied from 76 deg. to 78 deg.
iv the shade. I am disposed to weeder that these re-
gions are not more resorted to by our countrymen for
enjoyment of life and escape from death. Nothing was
ever so unlike either Europe or America as the Ha-
vannah; at least I had never been in Spain, the mother
country, which I suppose it most resembles. The courts
of the gleaming white houses have a Moorish look, the
interiors are much covered with arabesques, and on the
outside towards the street they have immense open
spaces for windows, in which they generally find it
superfluous to put any glass; the carriages are called
volsntes, and look as if they had been intended to carry
Don Quixote. Then how delicious it used to be, late in
the evening, under a moonlight we can scarcely imagine
to sit in the square called the Place of Arms, where, in
a space tanked by some gleaming palm trees and four
smell fountains, a gay crowd listeeed to excellent
music from a Spanish military band. It is certainly the
bandsomeet town I saw in the new world, and gives a
great idea of Cie luxury and splendour of Spain in her
patmy days. The billiard-rooms and ice-saloons streamed
with light; the great theatre is as large and brilliant as
almost any in Europe. Again, how full of interest were
some visits I paid in the interior both to Spanish and
American _households. I cannot condense my impres-
sions of the scenery better than by repeating some short
stanzas which, with such intuencEs around me, I could
not help perpetrating. I hope that, while they bear
witness to the intoxicating effects of the landscape and
the climate, they do not wholly leave out of view the at-
tendant moral:—
Ye tropic forests of unfading green,
Where the palm tapers, and the orange glows,
Wkere the light bamboo weaves her feathery screen,
And her tall shade the matchless seyba throws :
Ye cloudless ethers of anchanging blue,
Save as its rich varieties give war
To the clear sapphire of your midnight hue,
The burnished azure of your perfect day.
Ye tell me not my native skies are bleak,
That, fleshed with liquid wealth, no cane-fields wave;
Tor -Virtue pines, and Manhood dares not speak,
And Nature's glories brighten round the Slave.
Among the country houses I visited was the sugar estate
of one of the chiet creole nobles of the island—(l do not
know whether my hearers will be aware that the proper
meaning of a creole is a person of European descent
born in America). I wee treated three with the most
refined and courteous hospitality; ana what a view it
was from the terrace of golden corn-fields, and fringing
woods, and azure see! The treatment of the domestic:
slaves appeared kind and affseticnate, and all the negro
children on the estate repeated their catechism to the
priest, and were then brought in to dance and romp in
the drawing-room. Generally there does not appear to
be-the same amount of repulsion between the white and
coloured races as in the United States, and there is the
pleasant spectacle of their being mixed together in the
churches. Still the crying conclusive fact remains, that
the average negro population died off in ten years, and
had to be recruited by continucus importations, which
are so many breaches of the solemn treaties between
Spain ,and us. On one coffee estate which I visited—
and generally the coffee cultivation is far lighter than
that of the sugar cane—a still darker shads was thrown
upon the system, as I was told from a most authentic
source that there was great difficulty in preventing
mothers from. killing their offspring. 'General Valdez,
who ass captain-general of the island during my
visit, is thought to have exerted himself ho-
nestly in putting down the slave trade. I
believe it has been as much encouraged as ever
under some of his successors. [Lord Carlisle, after al-
luding to the state of political parties in Cubs, describes
his departure from the island and arrival at New
Orleans.] The good I have to say of New Orleans
must be chiefly confined to the St. Charles Hotel, which
is the most splendid of its kind that I saw even in the
United States. When it is at its full complement 560
dine there every day-350 of whom sleep in the house;
there are 160 servants, 7 French cooks; all the waiters
whites, Irish, English,French, German, American. The
very intelligent proprietor of the hotel told me he thought
the Irish made the best; he has them all together every
day at noon, when they go through a regular drill, and
rehearse the service of a dinner. I went from New
Orleans to Louisville, on board the Henry Clay steamer.
1,600 miles, which lasted six days. The first 1,100
miles were on the Mississippi. (Aster a voyage of 400
miles up the Ohio his Lordship describes a visit that he
paid to Mr. Clay, at hie residence in Kentucky.) The
qualities which rivet the Senate and captivate his al.
herents seemed to me both heightened and softened by
his frank, courteous, simple intercourse. He lives with
his family in a modest house, among field* of deep red
soil and the most luxuriant grass, growing under very
thriving and varied timber—the oak, sycamore, locust
tree, cedar, and that beautiful ornament of American
woods, the sugar maple. He likes showing
some English cattle. His countrymen seem to
be in the habit of calling upon him without any
kind of previous introduction. Slavery, generally mild
in the pastoral state of Kentucky, was certainly seen
here in it 4 least repulsive guise; Mr. Clay's own negro
servant, Charles, was much devoted to him ; he took
him with him on a tour into Canada, and when some
Abolitionists there wanted him to leave his master, " Not
if you were to give me both your provinces," was the reply.
My next halt was at the White Sulphur Springs, in the
western portion of Virginia. The season had not yet
commenced, early in May, so I was in sole possession of
the place. One of my southern friends had kindly
plaevid a delightful little cottage at my disposal, and I
enjoyed in the highest degree the unwonted repose in the
solitude of virgin forests, and the recesses of the green
Alleghenies. Here were my brief farewell lines to the
small temple-like cupola over the bright sulphur-well
from which I used to drink many times in the day:—
" Hail dome, whose unpresuming circle guards
Virginia's towing fountain; still may health
Hover about thy crystal urn, and bring
To cheeks unused their bloom! may beauty still
Dwell on thy billowy swell of wooded hills,
And deep ravines of verdure; may the axe,
Improvement's necessary pioneer,
Mid forest solitudes, still gently pierce,
Not bare their leafy bowers! This votive lay,
Like wreath of old, on thy white columns hung,
Albeit of scentless flowers from foreign soil,
Scorn not, and bid the pilgrim pass in peace."
I again turned my face to the west, and passed Cincin-
nati, which, together with all that I saw of the State of
Ohio seemed to me the part of the Union where, if
obliged to make the choice, I should like best to fix m
abode. It has a great share of all the civilisationw ith and
e
applianoes of the old settled states of the east,
richer soil, the softer climate, the fresher spring of life,
which distinguish the west. It had besides to me the
great attraction of being the first free state which I
reached on my return from the region of slavery,
and the contrast in the appearance of prosperity
and progress is just what a friend of freedom would
always wish it to be. I embarked at Chicago on the
great lakes; but here I must desist from pursuing my
devious wanderings on those large inland seas, and on tho
opposite shore of Canada. Many thousands of miles
have I steamed away over Lakes Michigan, Huron, Erie,
Outwit); the Rideau Canal, the St. Lawrence and Ot-
tawa livers. Seine of these I traversed twice, and they
supplied some of the most interesting and picturesque
features of my long journeyings. I should have scru-
pled in any case to touch upon the politics of Canada,
and indeed my pauses at any fixed spot were too short
to qualify me for the attempt, even if it had been de-
sirable. It is a magnificent region, especially its
western portion—happy in climate, soil, and scenery.
r hoWeier, only attempted to dash off two slight
sketches from my Canadian recollectiOns. Hero is tho
Bust. I stood in a terraced garden on the summit of a

high promontory, running with a steep angle into the
basis made by the River St. Lawrence, of which it is no
exas; aeration to say that the water is as clear, bright,
ace. above all, green as any emerald; here, upon I be-
lie vs.. the most imperial site in the world, stand the cite-
de l city of Quebec; the shipping was lying in great
qt lent ay close under the rocky steep, and was dotted for
a cons iderable way along the shining river; in front was
th .e inland of Orleans, well-shaped and fall-peopled;
rid/ Se upon ridge beyond, ending with Cape Tourment,
clef ,tended on the river; the shore on either side gleamed
wi th white. villages, and the town below seemed to climb
or almost leap up the straight precipice, broken with
hi gh cersent roofs and glittering tinned spires. The flag
of Eng;land waved upon the highest bastion that crowned
ties rock, the band of the Queen's Guards was playing in
the -garden, the clearest blue of western skies was above
my head, and rising above the whole glowing scene was
the commemorative pillar to that General Wolfe, who on
thi s spot transferred to usEnglishmen, by his own victory
ar .d death, and with the loss of 45 men, the mastery of a
J n ti ent. [Lord Carlisle here sketched another scene,
v which he witnessed in the centre of Leko Huron, on
one of its countless islands.] Entering the United
States again, I made a rapid journey by Lakes Champ-
lain and George, by Ticonderoga and Saratoga, historic
names; spent four very delightful days in most attrac-
tive society in a New England village, reviewed the
beauteous impressions of the Hudson, and taking leave
of friends not soon to be forgotten, on the quay of New
York, left the hospitable shores. You will have per-
ceived that in these desultory notes I have not attempted
to pronounce any formal judgment upon the American
people, or the great experiment they are conducting in
the face of the world. The extreme diversity of habits,
manners, opinions, feelings, race, and origin, in the se-
veral park of the wide extent of country I traversed,
would render the difficulty, great in any case, of such an
undertaking, still mere subtle and complicated. The
striking contrasts in such a shifting and variegated as-
pect of society make me feel that any such general and
dashing summary could only be attempted after the
fashion of a passage which I have always much admired
in Gibbon, where, wishing to give a fair view of the
poetical character of Claudian, he sums up separately
his merits and defects, and leaves his reader to strike
the just balance. In some such mode it might be
stated that North America, viewed at first
with respect to her natural surface exhibits a
series of scenery', various, rich, and, in some
of its features, unparalleled ; though she cannot, on the
whole, equal Europe in her mountain elevations, how
infinitely does she surpass her in her rivers, estuaries,
and lakes. This variegated surface of earth and water
is seen undt r a sky warm, soft, and balmy in summer,
clear, blue, and brilliant in all its latitudes,, with a trans-
parency of atmosphere which Italy does not reach, with
varieties of forest growth and foliage unknown to
Europe, and with a splendour of hues in autumn before
which painting must despair. With respect to the
moral aspect, I :naturally feel the difficulty of any suc-
cinct or comprehensive summary infinitely heightened.
The feature which is the most obvious, and probably the
most enviable, is the nearly entire absence, certainly of
the appearance, and iu a great degree of the reality of
poverty; in no part of the world, I imagine, is there so
much general ease and comfort among the great balk of
the people, and a gushing abundance struck me as the
prominent characteristic of the land. It is not easy to
describe how far this consideration goes to brighten the
face of nature, and give room for its undisturbed enjoy-
ment. Within a mere span of time, as compared with
the general growth and progress of nations, the industry
at once steady and persevering, of the in-
habitants, has cleared enormous tracts of fo-
rest, reared among their untrodden glades spa-
cious and stately cities, opened new highways
through the swamp and the desert, covered their un-
equalled rivers with fleets of steam-boats and craft of
every form, given an extension to canals beyond all
previous experience, and filled land and water with lasting
miracles of successful enterprise.. The traveller, wafted
with marvellous ease by steamboats and railways over
prodigious spaces, cannot but indulge in what may ap-
pear a mere superficial satisfaction at the accommodation
he meets with in the hotels of the principal cities, which
ere regulated on a scale and with a splendour and even
cleanliness which he will find scarcely rivalled in the
capitals of Europe. However absorbed in the pursuits
of business, agriculture, and trade the citizens of these
young Republics may be, and though it would seem to
be their obvious vocation in life to cultivate almost bound-
less wastes, and connect almost interminable distances,
circles are nevertheless to be found among them in which
in point of refined and agreeable intercourse, of literary
taste and general accomplishment, it would be difficult
for the great capitals of the elder world to surpass; the
bench and bar, as well as other professions, can boast
well of the solid and brilliant qualities by which they are
adorned; and while much occurs in Congress that must
be deemed rough and unseemly, the chords of high and
generous feeliug are frequently struck within its walls
to accents of noble eloquence in the universal fluency
of their public speaking they undoubtedly surpass our-
selves. In runt life I doubt whether the world ean
produce more examples of quiet simplicity and prospe-
rous content than would be found, I might say most
prominently, in the embowered villages of New Eng-
lond, or of the sunny valleys of Pennsylvania. I am
sure that I am not wanting in respect for the operative
classes of the district, but I cannot conceal from myself
that the appearance of the female factory population of
Lowell presents some points of favourable contrast.
Among the more opulent portion of society, an idle man
without regular profession or fixed pursuit is the excep-
tion which excites observation and surprise. The pu-
rity of the female character stands deservedly high, and
society has been deemed by some to be rendered less
agreeable by the rigid devotion of the young married
women to their households and nurseries. It is some-
thing to have travelled nearly over the e hole extent of
the Union without having encountered a single specimen
either of servility or incivility of manner—by the last I
intend to denote intentional rudeness. Elections may
seem the universal business, topic, and passion of life, but
they are, at least with but few exceptions, carried on
without any approach to tumult, rudeness, or disorder ;
those which I happened to see were the most sedate, un-
impassioned processes I can imagine. In the free states,
at least, tito people at large bear an active, and, I beliese
on the whole, a useful part in all the concerns of internal
government and practical daily life; men of all classes,
and especially of the more wealthy and instructed, take
a zealous share in almost every pursuit of usefulness fled
philanthropy; they visit the hospitals and asylums, they
attend the daily instructions of the schools, and give
lectures at lyceums and institutes. I am glad to think
that I may be treading in their footsteps on this oeca-
sion. I have already mentioned with just praise the
universal diffusion and excellent quality of popular edu-
cation, as established especially in the states of New
England, the powerful empire state of New York, and I
may add the prosperous and aspiring state of Ohio.
Without venturing to weigh the preponderating recom-
mendations or deficiencies of the voluntary system, l may
fairly ask what other communities are so amply sup-
plied with the facilities of public worship for all their
members; the towns, old and young, bristle with
churches; they are almost always well filled; the
Sabbath, in the eastern and northern states at
least, is scrupulously observed, and with the most
unbounded freedom of conscience, and a nearly
complete absence of polemical strife and bitter-
ness, there is apparently a close unity of feeling
and practice in rendering homage to God. Though
it would appear difficult, and most certainly be un-
graeious, to paint the reverse side of such a country
and such a people, a severe observer would not be long
at fault. With respect to their scenery itself, while be
could not deny that within its vast expanses it contained
at times both sublimity and beauty, he might establish
against a charge of monotony, to which the immense con-
tinuances of the same surfaces, whether of hill, valley,
wood, lake, or river—the straght unbroken skirt of
forest, the entire absence of single trees, the square
parallelograms of the cleared spaces, the uniform line
of z,g-zsg fences, the staring squareness of the new
wooden towns, all powerfully contribute. In regard to
climate, without dwelling on such partial influences as
the malaria, which desolates the stunted pine-barrens of
North Carolina, and banishes every white native
of South Carolina from their rich-plains during the
entire summer, the hot damps which festoon the trees
on the southern coast with a funeral drapery of grey
moss, the yellow fever which decimates the quays of
New Orleans, and the feverish agues which line the
banks of the Mississippi, it would be impossible to deny
the violent alternations of temperature which have a
more general prevalence, and it is certain that much fewer
robust forms and ruddy complexions are to be seen
than in our own more even latitudes. Passing frum the
physical to the moral atmosphere, amidst all the vaunted
equality of the American freemen, there seemed to be a
more implicit deference to custom, a more passive sub-
mission to what is assumed to be the public opinion of
the day or hour, than would be paralleled in many
aristocratic or even despotic communities. This quiet
acquiescence in the prevailing tone, this complete abne-
gation of individual sentiment, is naturally most percep-
tible in the domain of politics, but I thought that it also
in no inconsiderable degree pervaded the social circle,
biassed the decisicns of the judicial bench, and even
infected the solemn teachings of the pulpit. To this
source may probably in some measure be traced the re-
markable similarity in the manners, deportment, conver-
sation, and tone of feeling, which has so generally struck
travellers from abroad in American society. Who that
has seen can ever forget the slow and melancholy silence
of the couples who walk arm-in. arm to the tables of
the great hotels, or of the unsocial groups who gather
round the greasy meal of the steam-boats, lap up the
five minutes' meals, come like shadows, so depart? One
of their able public men made an observation to me,
which struck me as pungent, and perhaps true, that it
was probably the country in which there was less misery
and less happiness than in any other of the world. There
are other points of manners on which I am not inclined
to dilate, but to which it would at least require time to
be reconciled. I may just intimate that their native
plant, tobacco, lies at the root of much that we might
think objectionable. However necessary and laudable
the general devotion to habits of industry, and the prac-
tical business of life may be, and though there are
families and circles in which no grace, no charm, no ac-
complishment are wanting, yet it cannot be denied, that
among the nation at large, the empire of dollars, cents,
and material interests, holds a very preponderating
sway, and that art and all its train of humanities exer-
cise at present but an enfeebled and restricted influence.
If we ascend from social to political life, and from man-
ners to institutions, we should find that the endless
cycles of electioneering preparations and contests,
although they may be carried on for the most part
without the riotous turbulence or overt bribery by
which they are sometimes but too notoriously disgraced
among ourselves, still leave no intermission for repose in
the public mind; enter into all the relations of existence;
subordinate to themselves every other question of in-
ternal and foreign policy; lead their public men, I will
not say their best, but the average of them,to pander to the
worst prejudices, the meanest tastes, the most malignant
reaentmouta of the people Lat each cuange of admiuia.

tration incite the new rulers to carry the spirit of pro-
scription into every department of the public service,
from the Minister at a great foreign court to the post-
master of some half-barb srous outpost—thus tending to
render those whose functions ought to withdraw them the
most completely from party influences the most unscru-
pulous partisans; and would make large masses welcome
war and even acquiesce in ruin, if it sole-aced that they
could thus counteract the antagonist tactics, humiliate
the rival leader, or remotely influence the election of
the next President. It is already painfully felt that as
far as the universal choice of the people was relied on
to secure for the highest office of the state the most
commanding ability or the most signal merit, it may be
pronounced to have failed. There may be less habitual
and actual noise in Congress than in our own Parlia-
ment, but the time of the House of Representatives,
not without cost to the constituent body which pays
for their services, is continually taken np, when not
engrossed by a speech of some days' duration, with
wrangles upo❑ points of order and angry recrimina-
tions ; the language used in debate has occasionally
sounded the lowest depths of coarse and virulent acri-
mony, as the floor of the Legislative-hail has actually
been the scene of violent personal rencounter. Toe
manners of the barely civiliz d West, where it has
been known that counsel challenge judges on the bench,
and members of the Legislature fire off rifles at the
Speaker as he sits in the chair, would appear to be gra-
dually invading the very inner shrine of the constitu-
tion. Having done justice to the strictness and purity of
morals which distinguish many of the more settled por-
tions of the continent, it cannot be concea:ei that the
reckless notions and habits of the vagrant pioneers of
the West, evinced as these are by the practices of gam-
bling, drinking, and licsntieusness, by an habitual dis-
regard of the Sabbath, and by more constant swearing
than I ever heard anywhere else, fearfully disfigure that
great valley of the Mississippi, destined inevitably, at
no distant day, to be the preponderating section of the
entire Union. It is at this day impossible to go into any
society, especially of the older and more thoughtful
men, some of whom may themselves have borne
an eminent part in the earlier struggles and
service of the commonwealth, without hearing the
degeneracy of modern times, and the downward ten-
dency of all things, despondingly insisted upon. At
the period of my visit, besides the numerous instances
of individual bankruptcy and insolvency, not, alas !
peculiar to the new world, the doctrines of repudia
tion, officially promulgated by sovereign states, had
given an unpleasing confirmation to what is perhaps the
prevailing tendency among retired politicians. I have
reserved for the last topic of animadversion the crowning
evil—the capital danger—the moral plague-spot—
slavery. 1 have not disclaimed the original responsi-
bility of my own country in introducing and riveting it
upon her dependencies; I do not disguise the portentous
difficulties in the way of adequate remedy to the great
and growing disease; but what I cannot shut my eyes
on is, that while it lasts, it must still continue, in addi-
tion to the actual amount of suffering and wrong which
it entails on the enslaved, to operate with terrible re-
' action on the dominant class; to blunt the moral sense,
to sap domestic virtue, to degrade independent industry,
to check the onward march of enterprise, to sow the
seeds of suspicion, alarm, and vengeance in both internal
and external intercourse, to distract the national coun-
cils, to threaten the permanence of the Union, and to
leave a brand, a bye-word, and a jest upon the name
of freedom.—(Loud applause.) Having thus endea-
voured without consciousness of anything misstated
or exaggerated, though of much that is wanting and
incomplete on either side, to sum up the good
and the bad, I leave my hearers to draw their
own conclusions from the whole. There are large ma-
terials both for approval and attack—ample grounds
both for hope and fear. Causes are occasionally at work
which almost appear to portend a disruption of the Fe-
deral Union; at the same time a strong sentiment of
pride about it, arising partly from an honest patriotism,
partly from a feeling of complacency ir. its very size and
extent, may tend indefinitely to postpone any such
pregnant results; but whatever may be the solution of
that question, whatever the issue of the future destinies
assigned to the great American Republic, it is impos-
sible to have contemplated her extent, her resources, the
race that has mainly peopled her, the institutions she
has derived or originated, the liberty which has been
their:life-blood, the industry which has been their off-
spring, and the free Gospel which has been published on
her wide plains and wafted by her thousand streams,
without nourishing the belief and the hope that it is
reserved for her to do much, in the coming generations,
for the good of man and the glory of God.—(The
Noble Lord resumed his seat amidst loud and long-con-
tinued applause.)
When the cheering had in some degree subsided,
Mr. GOODMAN, Mayor of Leeds, came forward, and
moved the following resolution:—
"That the warmest thanks of this meeting be given to
the Earl of Carlisle, not only for his two remarkable and
highly instructive lectures, but especially for the empha-
tic intimation he has thus spontaneously and spiritedly
given, that there is no social rank, nor official position,
nor public eminence, however distinguished, that may not
with honour to itself recognise amongst its duties the
promotion of these admirable institutions for completing
the education, and raising the moral and intellectual
character of the people."
Mr. BECKETT, M.P., seconded the motion, which was
carried unanimously, amidst enthusiastic applause.
The Noble Earl briefly acknowledged the compliment,
and the meeting then separated.

I[IER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS.
THIS EVENING.
The LAST WEEK BUT ONE of the present season.
Mr. Howard Glover's Gran :1 Selection from " HERO and LEAN-
DER," for the second time, this evening.
Grand selection from a MS. Opera, entitled" Hero and Leander,''
preceded by an Original Overture, composed expres•ly for these Con-
certs, by Mr. Howard Glover. The principal parts will be sustained
by Mdlie. A uttri, 311,3 Poole, Mrs. Alexander Newton, Mr. Frank
Bodda, and Mr. Sims Reeves, with a full English Chorus.
Overture to William Tell - Rossini. •
Grand Selectioh front Halevy's opera, La Tempesta—L. Negri.

Lab,tzky's Quadrille of" All Nations."
The Solos in " God Save the Queen," in the great Quadrille of All
Nations, will be sung by Madile. Angri. The Military Bands, the
Corps of Side Drums, and the English Choristers,
Itossini's Stabat Mater will be produced To-morrow Evening.
Musical Director, Composer, and Conductor—M. Balfe.
Conductor of La Musique de Danse—Herr Labitzky.
Promenade (admitting to the Half-Circles, Gallery? 1 6
and Pit Stalls) • • .. • • • • • - • •
The Doors open at Half-past Seven, and the Concerts will com-
mence at Eight, and terminate about Eleven.
Boxes and Stalls to he had at the Box-office, where Programmes
of the performance n be obtained.
Mr. Thomas Masto. s of the Polytechnic Institution, the Coloseum,
and Royal Botanic and Zoological Gardens, will supply the Refresh-
ments and Wines, &c., &c.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brotnpton.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed EVERY ONE HAS fIIS FAULT.
Alter which A RADICAL CURE.
To conclude with THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER. Krout, Mr.
H. Bedford ; Amelia Rosenthal, Miss A. Vining, Luise, Miss P.
Horton.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste,
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a new and original Drama, entitled JESSIE
GRAY. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Boyce, 0. Smith, P. Bed-
ford, Madame Celeste, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam.
After which a new Farce called THE SCHOOL FOR TIGERS ;
or, The Shilling flop. Captain Kiteflyer, Mr. Boyce ; Major Stiff,
Mr. Worrell; Mr. Panels, Mr. Wright; Alexander Panels, Miss
Chaplin.
To be followed by a new and original Farce, in the Vulgar
Tongue, to be called JACK IN THE GREEN; or, Hints on Eti-
quette.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S TIIEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. C. Keaa and Mr. Keeley.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed an entirely new Play called THE TEMPLAR.
Characters by Messrs. Ryder, Fisher, Belton, Addison, Vining, Cath-
cart, Everett, C. Kean ; and Mrs. C. Kean.
After which BETSY BAKER; or, "Too Attentive by Half."
Characters by Messrs. J. Vining, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss
Murray.
To conclude with TO PARENTS and GUARDIANS.

Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr.
Massingham ; of whom also places may be taken at the Boa-office,
Oxford-street, from Eleven till Four o'clock.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestris.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed SIMPSO' AND CO.
To be followed by A DAY Dr RECKONING.
After which THE RINGDOVES.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed THE HUNCHBACK.
After which SPEED THE PLOUGH.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Ratty.
Last week of the gorgeous Spectacle. _ _

Extraordinary series of attractive lovelties. Second week of the
Revival of TURPIN'S RIDE to YORK.
THIS EVENING,

The Grand new Spectacle of THE ENCHANTED PALFREY ; or,
The Warrior of the Crescent. _ . .

Together with Batty 's Splendid Scenes of the Circle, introducing
the Magnificeat Stud and Company of unequalled Artistes.
The whole concluding with the Equestrian Drama (for the first
time these five years) of TURPIN'S RIDE to YORK.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson.

CROSSING CITY THOROUGHFARES. A correspon-
dent suggests that a lighted subway with shops (which would
soon pay expenses), should be formed under the street cross-
ing from Fleet-street to Ludgate-street, and another from
Bridge• street to Farringdon-street, as the thoroughfare there
is really frightful and dangerous. A previous correspondent
suggested the formation of light foot-bridges above the
streets for such thoroughfares. Both of these plans have
before been discussed in our columns. Enormous as is the
traffic in omnibuses and cabs, waggons and bullocks, along
Fleet-street, at certain hours, it is even more so along King
William-street and London-bridge. There, too, the street is
considerably wider, without even a halting-place in the
middle, where it begins to be at the worst, near the Monu•
ment : there any tedious attempt to cross at particular hours
is, indeed, most dangerous and fearful. The obviation of risk
to the foot passengers in crossing such thoroughfares, in
whatever way effected, would be a most useful work, and is
every day becoming more urgently necessary. Could not
something iv; done before the hubbub of next year takes
place? Perhaps no improvement whatever will be more es-
sential than this. We hope that the projected alteration of
London-bridge itself, for behoof of foot passengers, to which
we have already called attention, is not being lost sight of.

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION IN A Cow.—An In-
verness paper says that last week one of the small tenants at
Embo, county of Sutherland, having a cow swollen with over-
eating of turnips, Mr. Colin Munro, manager, probed the
animal, and as he performed the operation the farmer's wife
stood over him with a lighted.candle. The heated air or gas
from the cow took fire at the candle, and blazed up, to the
no small astonishment of the parties. It was with difficulty
extinguished, without doing material injury.
LEGAL APPOINTMENT.--The office of Prothonotary
of the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, vacated by the resig-
nation of the Hon. Mr. Plunket (son of Lord Plunket), has,
it is said, been conferred on Mr. Sausse, Q.C., and Crown
prosecutor on the Leinster Circuit. The emoluments are
1,000/. a year. U &
r.
uses is a Roman Catholic.

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