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London, England, 1850-01-07 00:00:00

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D. Lo. ... •••••.... 10s.
Louvain Ila Sambre ... 74 —
Luxembourg .... 7.1/2... sea -
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Madrid and Valontia... 2
N-:,.,, :411 d Liege ...,.. 20 .. .. -- „.......,
Northern of France. l4/. 85... 1% die
Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 • —
Paris and Orleans
Paris andßotten
Paris and Strasbourg
Rouen and;fifavre ...... 20
Sambre and Meuse 2O ..... 21/2... ......
Strasbourg and Basle
Tours and Nantes l3 ••• ... •1.90,
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and H .. asselt .... 20
West Flanders 83,4 •• •.• ...... •..

MINES.

Anglo-Mexican loo— —
Asturian Mining Com... 15
Australian ..... ...... 4 .
Blssora Range ~. ... 28s. .. ... ... . ...
Blaenarvon Iron & Coal 50
BJlonos Scrip ...... ....
BrazilianCotaes&Cuiaba 30 ......
..._Do. St. John Del Rey 15 ...,.. -- .. ......

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JAN. 7.—Wind N.E., moderate breeze aLd
fine, with sharp frost.
DEAL, JAN. 6.—Wind E.N.E. to E.S.E.—Acrd.
Triton, Olue, Batavia for Amsterdam; Paradise, Clare,
Calcutta; Lord William Bentirick, Allen, Manilla;
Essex, Roxby, Mauritius; James Holmes, Head, Deme-
rara; Copia, Mowlan, Richibueto; Catharina, Bahia;
Diana, Meurio, Havannah ; Brenda, M'Kay, Prince
Edward's Island. Arrived from the River, Orator, Cal-
cutta; Mary Sparks, Bombay; Lioness, Algoa Bay.
Arrived from the lilver, and sailed, Arno, Vancouver's
Is'and; Una, Algoa. Sid., Fanny, Mauritius; Favo-
rite, Port Philip; British: Empire, Calcutta; Toronto,
Madras; Osborne, Cape of Good Hope; Don, Africa,
with the rest;of the outward bound.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 5 AND 6.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. An-
tigua, Nassau; Caroline, Newfoundland; Ztbalon, Hart,
Pernambuco; El zabeth Hastings, Jamaica; Parthenon,
Woodbury, New Orleans ; Helen M•Gaw, Tucker,
Philadelphia; Albion, Quebec. Off port, Moselle, Africa.
CLYDE, JAN. 4.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Mary and Ann,
Colville, Demerara. Put back, Cadet, for Adelaide,
South Australia, after being on shore.
OFF THE SOUTH FORELAND,—Christine Hugens, Bok,
Batavia; Hellsgonda Catharina, Radeloff, Surinam, both
from Amsterdam ; Brodrine, -Furst, Charlestown for
Hamburgh.
SCILLY, JAN. s.—The Waterloo, St. Andrew's, N. 8.,
to Hull, arrived here to-day, and is expected to dis-
charge.

ILFRACOMBE, JAN. 6.—The smack Hannah, Hayle to
Newport, sprung a leak, and was run on the sands in
Morte Bay yesterday; crew saved.
CARDIFF, JAN. 6.—The Elizabeth, of Budeford,
Southampton to Newport, is on shore at Scilly Island,
and has been scuttled; will be got off next spring tide if
the weather be moderate.
GRIMSBY, JAN. 6.—The Mary, on shore near Somer.
cota on the 4th instant, has been got off without much
damage.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Schiller,
Jansen, New Orleans, from Bremen. Sld. Bangalore,
Moreton Bay, N. S. W.; Louisa, Callao; Alexander,
Galveston.
COWES, JAN. 6.—Wind N.N.E.—SId. Iledwig Char-
lotte, Rio Janeiro.
TEIGNMOUCH, JAN. s.—Wind W.—Arrcl. Jane and
Susan, Seymour, S. John's, Newfoundland.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Wind E.N.E.—SId. Julundur,
Adelaide, South Australia; Chelar, Bombay; Hiram,
Bahia.

FALMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Wind W.N.W. to N.N.W.
strong breezes and squally, with hail storms.—Sld. Pen-
guin Packet, Madeira, Teneriffe, and Brazils.
OFF BRIGHTON.—Sir Robert Peel, New York.
_DARTMOUTH, JAN. 6.--Wind E.—Arrd. Mary Jane,
Abraham, Labrador.

THE SUN,

Customs • . •••••• • • • •
Excise • . • ••• • • • • • • • .
Stamps .. • • . • • • • • • • •
Property Tax • .

12;361,161

12,737,044

stock was good. On the whole the demand for mos
breeds ruled steady at last week's prices. The prime&
old Downs sold at 4s 2d to 4s 4d per 8113 s. Prime smal
Calves moved off steadily at last Monday's quotations.
otherwise the Veal trade was heavy. We had a very
moderate inquiry for Pigs, yet late rates were well sup-
ported in every instance.

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from the door" of himself; wife, 15€1 _ 4,:nownTd
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A FEW THOUGHT e- ..:=7-7P,#: _ 1
(From Eliza Co ' ::- , ' ' ;'Yff ':;:::•:- To know ourselves is the s.,' ate,st '7ll.ostc;' '")
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humanity, if we do not gain -Itl ef
!. is futile. But inasmuch as it 4canh i m „......
be our end. Our aim is God, who's loth i 7 eye on all," because He is near to all and know et
History teaches us the great relationship, and
the use and power of every part of
character ; in great results it shows us the
springs of daily life ; but to gain this teaching
we must overcome some difficulties. Histories are
imperfect records, depending
times and persons which on the character of the
produced them. The earlier
were written when mind was very young, and thus
detailed only the strong-coloured and wonderful in
event—coronations,
wars, pomp, and show ; while,
as time advanced, we bad more of home thoughts,
giving rise to popular movements, and swaying, by
their growing force, the energy of nations. Were
history perfect there would be no wonder in it, for it
would be but a tale of familiar life and hope. Such
will be the history of future days—nay, of ours ; for
each mind records its own convictions, and the press
is stamping them upon the rich history our time is
building for futurity. Yet, as such is not the record
from which we learn, we must think the more; having
but the gross materials, we must connect the structure
for ourselves; and as the chemist is unable to form
a substance by synthesis, until he has found its
elements by analysis, 20 we can form no standard of
ancient motives and mind, until we have known our
own. So lel; us not be buried in the Past; one thing
lights us to another; we must seek to be omniscient.
The past is littleness—the future, boundless mystery;
in one we live to nothingness—in the other, to inac-
tion ; for he who waits for the future, is like the man
who lay waking to mark the time of his sleep. That
is ever far. It is ours to work, to learn from retro-
spect and hope in the power of a present Now ; for
by encouraging the widest view and hope, we are
rising nearest God. A limited thought is brutal.
There is another difficulty, and that is the misty
notions of pride and glory with which all history is
choked. These things belong not to creative action,
but to perfected being ; the glory of one age is the
disgust of another; one man's pride is another's scorn.
Therefore these are of the mind, dependent on its state,
and confused by its ignorance. Who can tell
where glory lies ? Is creation glorious ?it is only
when some amount of it appears to our short
senses. We call a fair landscape glorious, but find
it composed of objects by themselves uninteresting;
the pencilled flower is glorious, but its smallest
particles we cannot see. It were idle waste of
life to watch each grain of sand drop in the hour-
glass ; yet, when the globe is emptied, we say a
glorious power has acted, for an hour of time is gone.
Where was the glory ? The thought of God, that
moved the hour, was present ere the first grain
dropped down. " Time was made for slaves," and
man is slave to his position ; he needs to see a glaring
result, before he can be conscious of a moving cause;
thus he sees the strong-drawn past as glorious, and
his own life, of which he has to feel each moment, as
poor and common. place. Would that man would
love the pure and homely, hunting not gross glory,
which would teach him to seek crossing the ocean 'at a
stride, deeming the gradual means contemptible.
Glory is perfection--it is in our aim, but not our
grasp, we must struggle up to it by slow and quiet
steps. What we learn from history is this—in what
our fathers have done well, let us follow—where
they have failed, let us seek a better path ; for when
by certain means we have often and vainly striven for
an end, we know the means are wrong,
Nations have grown to power, and died away—but
this wi:l not always be; as every failure has had its
cause, so, when that cause is removed, the failure will
not be. Greed induced the stronger communities to
overcome and swallow up the weaker, until others
rose, strong enough to bind the strong nations, and
spoil their goods ; thus verifying the prophecy of old,
" What is wrenched by force, can by force be re-
stored ;" and where there occurs irregularity, nature
will shortly right herself. Thus old nations rose and
tell; glitter shows not strength, for when the sun
shines brighcst the cloud is big with rain. We have
an under-current of life ; they shone, but we burn, and
the heat that renovates us, radiates all around us ;
it flows from land to land, giving life to all : it must
be eternal, for it completes the magic circle; em-
bracing all the earth, it flows ever round. It is cer-
tain that where there is not between nations free
intercourse, trade, and knowledge, there must be pre-
judice, partiality, greed, and passion, which are the
seeds of ruin.
The world has a quiet lustre mow, spite of its
recent revolutions ; these are but the outward signs
of turmoil, the efforts by which nature throws off
accumulated injustice and wrong, which, were it
carefully removed on its first dawning, would need
no such violent expulsion. War may rage around,
while peace is ripening within it - customs, still
acting, are already dead, and we feel but the flutter
of the unconscious nerves ; , the lightning flash
is never seen till the fluid is gone by, nor actions
till the thoughts that bore them. Life shall progress
with a full tide, but noiselessly as the electric stream
passes from link to link of an unbroken chain ; it is
only in rupture there is noise and show. Let us be
great in our single worth, renewing ever the law of
God. It is yours and mine to work the way of
charity, and remember—" charity begins at home.'

E. M. S.

COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.

The members and friends of this institution held
their general half-yearly meeting at 28, Bloomsbury-
square, on Saturday morning. The chair was taken at
one o'clock, by Dr. Hodgson, principal of the High
School, Choriton, near Manchester.
The SECRETARY read the report of the council,
which, after some discussion upon provincial matters,
was adopted.

The I%ev. Dr. WILSON, the dean, made a few brief
remarks on the nature of the examination of the can-
didates, who upon this occasion consisted of seven-
teen gentlemen and two ladies. According to the
opinion of Mr. Hind, the senior moderator, there was
every reason to be satisfied with the attainments of the
candidates in mathematics. He animadverted upon
the absurdities of most elementary treatises on
arithmetic.

After some further observations of an opposite
character from Dr. 'WILSON, the Chairman proceeded
to deliver the certificates to the successful candidates,
whose names are as follows :
Classics—Class 1, nil; Class 2, Hayward, Mac-
donnell ; Class 3, Harris, Smith. Mathematics—
Class 1, Stoppard ; Class 2, nil ; Class 3, Acus,
Cheyne, LEeming, Swift. Elements of Commerce—
Class 1, Ellis, Class 2, Brightasb, Phillips, Walliker.
French—Class 1, De Candt, Jones, Turrell. Spanish
—Class 1, nil; Class 2, Bernoit. Italian—Class 1,
nil , Class 2, Bernoit. In the Ladies' Department—
Miss Brandenburg, Miss Bryant. Miss Bryant passed
a very satisfactory examination in Latin.
Mr. KINGSFORD, one of the examiners of the col-
lege in history, made a few brief observations upon
the attainments of the gentlemen who had sub-
mitted to examination in his department. The replies
to the questions which, in conjunction with his co-
adjutor, Mr. Wynte, he had proposed, often evinced
much good sense and natural capacity upon the part
of the candidates. It was a great pity that the
talents of these gentlemen had not been properly
cultivated; their knowledge was too often ill digested.
The opponents of this institution alleged that the
council required knowledge from the candi-
dates, but made little efibrt to impart it. He
hoped that this objection would soon be removed by
the speedy establishment of courses of lectures upon
educational subjects. Whatever might be the diffi-
culties that impeded the acquisition of knowledge by
the teacher, those difficulties must in some way or
other be overcome by him. To obtain the means of
living was a matter of difficulty in all professions and
mococsutpdaitffiiocnuslt; was
of all pr
fnesostiotnos
—hteh aet
would be free from the usual preliminary hin-
drances. Ile stated the objects of the college to be
threefold-1. To raise the standard of
lopfeethteedtetahcaht the
teacher—
would
knowledge
and education. 2. To prevent improper persona
from becoming educators. 3. By urousitig public
qualified to. obtain a fair retnunera-
opinion in its favour, to enable those teachers who
two objects
yufi,rstthe last might be safely left to take •
were accomplished by
setttremunera-
tion. were.
oriftpsqliteitf.e:t
After some discussion respecting the election of a
President of the Council in the room of 11. S. Tus-
ptietwiletire:o htd lately resigned,and a vote of thanks
to Dr. ldgson, the meeting broke up.

A - - --
AA Nor ACCIDENTS.—On Tuesday last a man
named Hodson broke his leg on the Steep Bill, Lincoln.
This same man, within the last three years, has twice
before broken his legs, and twice had his feet severely
crushed. The last time he bad his foot crushed he was
working at the (.3astle, and after the accident he was
taken to the hospital, where he lay for ten weeks, the
surgeons meanwhile being occupied in endeavouring to
effect a cure without amputation. They failed in doing
so, and an order was made for his admission to an hos-
pital in London. The surgeons at this establishment
took off two of his toes, and after healing the wound he
was sent home. His foot soon became bad, and he was
again admitted to the hospital at Lincoln, where the
whole of his foot, except the heel, was amputated, and
he recovered. Some generous individuals, about three
months since, entered into a subscription, and purchased
the poor fellow a patent foot. He had just begun to
walk about the town with the artificial limb which had
been given to him when he slipped on the Steep Hill
and broke his leg. lle is again in the Lincoln Hospital.—
Nottingham Journal.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
visited her Royal Highness:the Duchess of Gloucester,
at Gloucester House, on Saturday.