The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-23 00:00:00

THE BRAZILS.

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 21.--The ship Emma, Captain
&will, arrived here to•tiay ; she sailed from Rio Ja-
m iro on the Ist, arid from Pernambuco on the 19th
November. There is no news of importance from
the latter place, but a private letter from Rio states
tirlt war between Rio Janeiro and Buenos Ayres will
take place to a certainty.
Commercial affairs at Pernambuco were in a
quiescent st-Lto. Freight of cotton to Liverpool was
id. per lb.

Sugar to British ports was 62g. 63., and to Con-
tinental ports 703., and was likely to be well sup-
ported.

Dates from Bahii, to the 11th November, inform
us that exchange ruled at 29 to 291, and freights
524.6 d., to the Channel for orders.
Commercial affairs at Rio Janeiro were steady.
Exchange on London was 29i ; freights, 555. to 60s.

SOIREE OF THE SUNDERLAND

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
The annual soirée of the members and friends of this
institution was held on Wednesday evening, in the
AVierreurn, Fawcett-street.
After tea, which was served in the library of the in-
stitution, the company assembled in the large hall, when
Mr. F. H. Johnson, secretary to the society, stated that
the committee had met with a disappointment which
had put them to considerable inconvenience; he referred
to the, fact that Mr. Butt, who it was announced would
preside over the meeting, was prevented by sudden ill-
ness from being present. Mr. Johnson then read the
following letter from Mr. Butt:—
" Towyn Lodge, December 16th, 1850.
" Dear Sir,—l do not know that I have ever been
more disappointed than at finding myself compelled at
the last moment to ask the indulgence of your commit-
tee for not availing myself of their very flattering in-
vitation.

`• I am unfortunately now most inopportunely suffering
from an attack of sore throat, which would make
travelling most imprudent, indeed more than impru-
dent, and even if I could move, would find it quite out
of my power to take part in a public meeting for some
days. s s _

."‘ I feel very deeply the deprivation of not being pre-
sent at a meeting in which I had promised myself so
much interest. I trust the disappointment to you and
the committee will be very slight, as you will easily find
a more able chairman, though, believe me, none who will
feel more pride and pleasure in occupying that position
than I would.

" I have the honour to be,
" Yours very faithfully,
"ISAAC BUTT.
" I ought to add, that until to-day I had no apprehen-
sion of being unable to go, or you should of course have
had earlier intimation."

Dr. ILIFF in taking the chair, remarked that ho had
agreed, on the application of the committee, to do the
duty of chairman till Mr. Seymour should arrive. He
could only express his great disappointment that a gen-
tleman of Mr. Butt's talent was prevented from being
present. His high professional character and eminent
literary attainments would hays rendered him a most
suitable chairman, had he been able to fulfil his promise.
Had Mr. Seymour been present to fill his place, they all
knew that they woeld not have had so much cause to
complain. As it was, however, they would have to de-
pend more upon their oven resources; and he hoped that
in the absence of those distinguished strangers they
would render themselves mutually more agreeable.—
(Cheers.) If he had had the least idsa that he should
have been called upon to fill the chair, he would have
prepared himself to come before them with some details
with reference to the institution; but as he had only had an
heus or two's notice he was unable to do this. He un-
derstood, however, that as to financial affairs the society
was in a batter state than it had been for many years
Fast.—(Cheers.) The number of members was increas-
ing from year to year; and their library was increasing
not only in the number of volumes, but in the acknow-
ledged value of the works admitted. He hoped they
might expect a still larger number of members. With-
out ssilise anything more, he would call on Mr. Spencer
Hall to address the meeting.
Mr. Hem. said he had certainly come there that even-
ing with en idea that he would be one of the quietest
persons present; and having been called on so unex-
pectedly to speak, he must claim their indulgence and
forgiveness if his remarks might be in some degree
incoherent and wanting in that consecutiveness
which they might have had, if he had been
prepared. If there was in the company any
one who from boyhood had been compelled to struggle
against a thousand obstructions to the develop-
ment of his mind, but who had in spite of all
obstacles risen step by step to the enjoyment
of the exercise of the higher faculties of his being,
he could sympathise with him truly and deeply, for they
were brothers. It was impossible for any one to under-
stand the value of institutions such as that in connexion
with which they had met, without understanding first
the want of them. Born in a remote rural district where
it was at that time hard to get a book without going a
great distance, or paying a very large sum for it, he
knew well the disadvantages under which many thou-
sands laboured, in improving themselves. It was evi-
dent that in such a town as Sunderland there must
either be a want of knowledges of the advantages of this
institution, or some conventional feeling adverse to it,
or else there would have been a still larger audience
present. He was glad to say that it was the earnest de-
sire of the committee of this society that its advantages
should be extended far beyond the mere limits of mem-
bership, that no grade in the town should be excluded
from it, but that for the future classes would be formed
which all might attend, whatever was their rank or po-
sition in society.—(Cheers.) When they considered how
much was frequently owing to the cnitivation
of a mind which otherwise might have remained in ob-
scurity, when they remembered that many of those who
were called great men owed their greatness to simple
pie influences of which the world might never have
heard, they could not over-estimate any effort, however
trivial, to extend the knowledge cf the advantages of
such an institution. If it was true that it was impossible
for a labourer to prattle to his child without influencing
mankind to the latest generation, if a Chantrey owed so
much of his fame to the simple circumstance of seeing a
rude artist at his labour, from which he learned to carve,
and having a taste for sculpture led to the prosecution of
that art, how unable must they be to calculate the ad-
vantages to every class of society from the efforts which
they might all make to extend the influecce of such an
institution.—(Cheers.) It appeared to him, drawing a
comparison between this town and others which he knew,
that with reference to iet,llectuel attainments, Sun's'er-
land stood in the rank of a full grown youth. It was a
thriving, industrious town, and possessed of considerable
animal spirits, but intellectual pursuits were not appre-
ciated as they might be in a short time; and for
that very reason it became of the mere importance
that good principles should be established in its
mind, so to speak, that it might one day he-
come, as he had no doubt it would, a town of far higher
rank in that respect than at present. He, therefore, felt
the importance of every one doing what in him lay to ad-
vanes such an institution. In proportion as they did so
they would be developing the purpose for which they
were placed on the earth, tied approaching the time
when all shams, guile, oppression, and deceit would be
consumed in one grand b►_czs of the light and wisdom of
the Omnipotent. In so far as they thus accomplish the
araud end of their existence, in so far would they have
realised a conjunction with that principle from which ell
troth and love proceeded—that state in which it would
probably be found that this woad had been a eitrple
scbeol, and that all ti,eir difficulties and trials, and every
event, as it were but siuLle letters or words on the er reed
I;a;,,c of creation, which was itself an embodiment and

index of some gran I corresponding principle in the
D:viee mind, from which the whole for our use and in-
struction had emanated.— (L-Jud applause.)
The Philharmonic Society having performed several
pieces of music, the Chairman announced that Mr. Sey-
mour had arrived, and ho desired to give up the chair
tai that gentleman. At the request, however, of Mr.
Se) moor and others he retained it.
W. Mom. SEYMOUR, Esq., barrister-at-law, was re-
ceived with loud cheers, and in a few preliminary re-
marks, expressed his regret at the absence of Mr. Butt,
and stated that I.e himself was wholly unprepared to
make any speech, havieg been engaged till after two
o'clock at York, and having only arrived in town a
few minutes. He had, however, on his way been
thinking on a few points, which he would endea-
vour now to state to the meeting. What, he would
ask, was the object of their presence there? It was not
for the simple purpose of hearing the music, although it
was very pleasing; it was not merely to meet each
other, and exchange words of mutual congratulation;
but for a more noble and dignified purpose—to promote,
as far as they could, by their example, and encourage-
ment, and co-operation, a taste for education, and, above
all, for self education among the labouring artizans and
the mechanics of this growing and important town and
neighbourhood. This object persons connected with
such institutions ought always to have in view. In :that
light then should they view the effect of education on
the working classes? Did not education, and escecially
self-education, show itself in their social, morel, intellec-
tual, and political development? The working classes
of this country could not assume an attitude worthy of
them in this age of progress, unless education had
exerted its influences on them intellectually, socially, and
politically. And what was the present condition of the
country as to social progress? Looking abroad with a
p‘iilosophic eye on this age, there were two things which
must strike them all—one was that there was a spirit
abroad, and the other that there was a fact giving lite to
that spirit. The spirit was life in as age of progress, and
the taw:, was that they lived in an age which was deve-
loping a people. It was because they lived in an age of
progress that they shoal encourage social progress
among the working classes.
"Men the workers! men my brothers!
For ard, forward lot us range"—

to quote an American poet, was the language he would
use in urging on the working classes to the noble and
dignified pursuits of literature. Man was to be edu-
cated bicauw of his kherent dignity as a man, and not
because it was his misfortune or his lot to be employed
at a certain trade. It was the spirit of man which
ennobled him, and rendered him worthy of education;
not the lot in which ho Witi cast. The deTolopment of
the grand intellectual powers which Providence had be-
stowed on him teas the first effect education ought to
Lave on tl'e working classes. MA ought to exalt the
labour by dignif)ing he labour( r. But there was another
reason why they should regard the cduc:ition of this
class as moitjinpe tint. They lived in days of progress;

he it raitwoys now (x'end rg in all quarters conveyed
tiicm along with arrow-like speed, bringing minds into
contact with minds in a manner which fifty years ago
would have been regarded as impossible; they had the
electric telegraph now conve3 ing messages fur the at-

tendance of a physician upon a dying man, now pressed
into the service of justice to entrap the murderer or the
thief; and aaidst all these pools rf progress was the
mind to continue inactive? When they had the means of
improvement were the to be left uneducated?
Were there to be no railway effects on their minds, no
touch like an electric shock, running from heart to heart
—the magic or e4ue.:tion which would enable every man

to converse on subjects of which they now knew nothing?
There was even a ni(le piscticdl view in which he re-
garded the question—viz., as to the effect which educated
labour wculJ have upon the country. He believed they
had entered on times in which any man to succeed and
gratify a reasonable and lawful ambition, to prosper in
any trade or business, must be an educated man.—
(Chec ri.) The times were such that there could be no
longer any indolence i❑ this respect. They must be up
and tieing, The eyes of the world were on Ecgland at
present. This country vt as now developing something
which had never before been seen. Not to speak of rail-
ways, electric telegraphs, and other triumphs of genius,

re were other 1:rt8 dawning around them—the arts

of peace and peace itself.—(Cheers) This country was
now standing forward and offering to the world the
olive branch, the mystic symbol and type of peace. He
could not say anything disrespectful of that noble pro-
fession which had fought the battles of England, for
to it they were indebted for the peace which they
now enjoyed ; it had given them the opportunity
of cultivating the arts of peace. But the very, effect of
this progress of peace and of this country standing forth
as the great leader and patron of the arts of peace in
these times, would be that the competition for labour
would be immensely increased. 'rho working man,
however, to succeed must educate himself. What had
elevated the middle classes? Macaulay in his " History
cf England" stated that little more than a century ago,
the curates of the Church of England used to perform
the most menial offices, and sometimes stand during
dinner at the back of the chair of a country squire, who
would now only be too glad to be recognised by a der.
gymaa. There was a time a hen the middle classes were
as much beneath &a aristocracy as the working classes
sre beneath the middle classes. What had produced the
elevation of the middle classes? What but education?

—(Cheers.) Therefore, he argued, that if the middle
classes had elevated themselves by education into another
aristocracy, and since the working classes had the same
opportunities of education, and far better opportunities
than the middle classes had, why should they not ele-
vate themselves in the social scale, and take up that
position which he believed they were yet destined to
hold ? While speaking of the working classes, it
just occurred to hinkto mention the case of the handloom
weavers, ninny thousands of whom were driven out of
employment by the introduction of machinery. These
poor men were frequently led away by such persons as
Louis Blanc, who took advantage of the ignorance of
some of them to impress their minds with erroneous
principles. If these handloom weavers bad been edu-
cated, they would have been better able to men the neces-
sary result of the progress of machinery, and to combat
against the oscillations of trade. These men merely did
the work of machines, but if they had been educated
they could have turned to some other employment to
obtain a livirg, instead of throwirg themselves on the
parish, or into the workhouse. Therefore, on all
grounds—on the high ground of the dignity of their
common nature, and their duty to cultivate the powers
which Gad had given them ; or in the lower sense, with
regard to the increase of competition in this country
from the increase of the arts and the spread of pecce ; or
on the ground of the effect of oscillations of trade on
uneducated men—he submitted that he had shown that
education was necessary, and that they were properly
emplo) ed in encouraging the social developement of the
working classes.—(Ct,eers.) But I,e must next speak of
a moral developen.ent, by which he mint the spread
among the corking classes. in the first instance, of a
spirit of independence—(Cheers)—second, a spread of
the spirit of self denial, and looktug to the future. Did
not the benefit societies, and othet similar institutions
springing up in the country, show a moral development
and a moral progress and advancement? This develop-
ment tended to make the home of every working man a
little domestic Atheetanm, and it was such a result of
which he was no F., the advocate. There was, moreover,
a social development, w hich was the effect of education ;
and also au intellectual development, which was the
proper end and aim of all who cculd read. " God be
praised for books," said an eloquent writer, " they are
voices of the dead to the living, and make us heirs of the
life of past ages." Books alone would make the working
man not only socially and morally improved, but intel-
lectually great. It seemed to him that the working
classes in this country were beginning to think for them-
selves. Man thinking was abroad. They saw proofs of
this daily; and in ten or twelve years a vast change in this
respect had taken place, On the grounds which he had
enumerated, then, he contended that this institution and
its members, and the object which they had at heart,
were entitled to the confidence and respect of the
people of Sunderland.—(Cheers.) But education could
not produce the effects which he had mentioned, without
also producing political progress, by which he meant that
consummation which would be brought about when the
working man was no longer the slave of an agitator, nor
depended on any other man for his opinions; but when
he would exercise his own free and independent judg-
ment on the great questions of the age.—(Applause.)
He was not afraid of such a development. Some said
that if the working classes were educated great danger
would arise. Such people seemed to compare those who
held opposite views, to the crew of the ship in which
Columbus discovered America, who, when they neared

the shore cf the new world, were surrounded by mists
end fogs for several days, and gave way to despair,
thinking of the dangers which might arise. Those
persons to whore he had referred wou!d tell those who,
like him, were engaged in the noble task of endeavour-
ing to educate the working classes, that dangers were
near, that breakers were ahead, and fogs and mists
prevailing. But if there were such dangers, he wished
to let light amongst them; to let education dissipate
these fogs, and show to the working classes what really
ley before them, and what that new world of develop-
ment was which he, had been speaking about. After
relating the Irishman's definition of " nothing" to be a
" footless stocking without a leg." Mr. Seymour stated
his definition of the same word to be " a Mechanics'
Institute without mechanics." This, he was afraid, was
too true with regard to the institute here. The result of
all their efforts ought to have shown itself; and he did
regret that the mechanics fur whom this institution was
designed did not take advantage of it. The institute he
understood had two objects, one of which related to
mechanics. He should like to see a collection of cheap
books to which they might have access at a cheap
rate, and lectures upon subjects likely to prove interest-
ing to them, such as anatomy, physiology, geology,
&c. He knew that excellent results had flowed from
such lectures in other towns, and he thought they
might be introduced here. He would undertake to
get Mr. Butt to deliver one lecture in the course
of next year—(Cheers)—and if Mr. B. did not come, he
(Ms. S) would deliver two in place of him.--- (Renewed
cheering.) He hoped some other gentlemen weuld
fellow this example. He concluded by referring to the
it,flnence which the ladies possessed in rendering the
institution ;successful, and in placing it in a position
worthy of Sunderland end its advancing prosperity, in
which he expressed his deep interest.—(Great cheering.)
Mr. BROWELL then exhibited several cf his beautiful
disselving viers, to the great satisfaction and delight of
the cArvny.
Several pieces of music having been performed,
Mr. TODD moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Seymour
_ _

fur his kilidness in attending the soiree, at grent per-
sonal inconvenience, and for his excellent address on the
oecasion.

Mr. CHALMERS seconded the motion, which was
passed unanimously.
Mr. SEYAIOUR returned thanks for the c;mpliment
raid him.

After some other speeehe::. a cordb.l vote of thanks
was passed to Dr. MIT fcr his kindue.s in comii g
ward to till the chair in the absence of Mr. Butt.
The meeting then separated.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, DEC. 21.
The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes.
The Royal Family took their usual airings.

His Roy-al Highness Prince Albert went out shoot.
ink' this morning, attended by Lieut.. Colonel the
Hon. C. B. Phipps and Colonel Bouverie.
The Earl of Lincoln, Lord and Lady Ashley, and
Lieut.-Colonel Reid (R.E.), arrived at the Castle
to-day, on a visit to the Queen and the Prince.

The Royal dinner party this evening included her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny
lio..sard, Baroness de Speth, the Earl of Lincoln,
Lord and Lady Ashley, Hon. Mrs. Charles Grey,
and Lieut.-Colonel Reid (R.E.).
Her Majesty's private band was in attendance in the
Castle after dinner, and played the following selec-
tion

Overture, " Die lustigen
Weiber von Windsor"...... Nicolai.
Invo caz'one all' Armonia.... 11. RM. Prince Albert
Aria, " Masaniello" ... Aub,r. _

DEC. 22.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning
in the Slopes.
The Royal Family took walking exercise.
Her Alpjesty and his Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert, her Royal Highness the Princess R,,yel, the
ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic
household, attended Divine service this morning in
the private chapel. The lion. and Rev. G. Wellesley

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also at
.enched the service.

A deputation, consisting of Lord Monteegle, Lord
J. Chichester, M.P., Sir De Lacy Evans, M.P., Mr.
Fi,zitephen French, M P., Mr. M'Cullagh, M.P.,
Mr. Tennent, 11. P., Mr. Sadleir, M.P., Mr. Greene,
M.P., Rev. Mr. Daly, Mr. O'Flaherty, Mr. Gregory,
Mr. Rainey, Mr. D. Daly, and Mr. Blake, had an
interview with the Transatlantic Packet-station Com-
mission on Friday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
Dispatches for the Governor of the Gold Coast
were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colo-
, nisi- office.

THE ARMY.—The 30th Regiment will move from
Walmer to Portsmouth on the 3d, 4th, and 6th of Ja-
nuary, preparatory to their embarkation for Corfu. The
91st Regiment will move from Dover to Liverpool in the
first week of January, to relieve the 52d Light Infantry,
which is to embark on the 7th proximo for Dublin. Major-
General Staveley is to leave Hong-Kong for England in
March next.

THREATENED STRIKE on the LONDON

an ; NORTH- WESTERN RAILWAY.
The following statement, respecting certain alleged
grievances of the firemen and enginemen employed on the
northern division of the London and North-Western
Railway, has been drawn up by Mr. Hardman Earle,
chairman of the Locomotive Committee. We are sorry
to learn that some apprehension is entertained lest the
enginemeu should leave their work this day in a body;
a step which cannot sail to cause great inconvenience to
the public, while it cannot be attended with any real be-
nefit to the men themselves:—

" The enginemen and firemen of the northern division
having made a formal complaint to the superintendent of
sundry alleged grievances, the directors of the Locomo-
tive Committee, on Tuesday, the 17th of December, met a
deputation from the enginemen on the subject.
" At this meeting the following enginemen attended to
explain the sentiments of the general body :—J.Murphy,
T. Stockdale, John Treshingbam, J. Waterworth, J.
Allen, S. Butterworth, George Eaton, James Turner, P.
Coleshill, J. Bowman, and E. Willians.
" To this deputation the Chairman of the Locomotive
Committee read the following copy of resolutions, which,
with other documents, had been transmitted to the di-
rectors, viz. :-r

" ' A Copy of Resolutions agreed to by the Enginemen
and Firemen of the London and North-Western Rail-
way, Northern Division.
" 1. That the three months' system be abolished
altogether.

" 2. That all those men that have signed the three
months' notice, their signatures shall be erased, and they
be placed in the station they were in before the signing
the three months' notice.

" 3. That no engineman shall be enforced to take any
but his own fireman, except in case of emergency, this
being continually enforced, to the inconvenience of the
engineman. _

4. That those men who have been reduced for ob-
ecting to sign the three months' notice be reinstated in
heir former positions.'

The committee then inquired whether these reso-
lutions correctly set forth the views and sentiments of
the enginemen, and the reply was in the affirmative,
after which a long discussion took place with the depu-
tation of enginemen, at the close of which the committee
stated, that in order to avoid any error or unintentional
misapprehension, they would, after due consideration,
send a written answer to the demands of the enginemen,
as declared in the resolution above recorded. The fol-
lowing is their answer:—

"In regard to the first resolution, that the three
months' notice should be abolished altogether,' the di-
rectors will repeat now what they stated distinctly to
the deputation of enginemen—that the system recently
introduced of requiring from all new enginemen and
new firemen three months' notice before quitting the
company's service was not adopted, as supposed by the
deputation, in order to bring about a reduction of wages,
but simply with a view to obviate the acknowledged evil
of a sudden stoppage of the line, occasioned, perhaps, by
some misunderstanding between the enginemen and the
locomotive superintendent. It must be evident that
ithout the protection of such notice the whole com-
mercial and postal communication between England and
Scotland and Ireland might be suddenly suspended, or,
if partially kept open, it would only be by means of new
and inexperienced hands; the public being thereby put
to the ri,k of delays and accidents, which it is the duty
of the directors by all practical means to prevent. But,
while thus endeavouring to insure the good order and
safety of the line, the terms of the notice (now ob-
jected to) provide that for any enginemen who desires
to make a bond fide engagement with another company,
or who shalt propose to go abroad, or, in fact, who shall
wish to quit the company's service for any valid reason
altogether unconnected with a general strike, the usual
fortnight's notice will be deemed sufficient. It must be
remembered, also, that the old enginemen are not re-
quirt d to Eutlscrite to the notice.

" The directors repeat that they have no intention by
this measure to reduce the wages of old and tried bands,
nor to obtain the services of those who are disposed to
sign for a lower rate of wages or remuneration than
what similar duties are perf.irm,cl for at present, nor do
they grudge the present high wages of 7s. per day as
the reward of long and faithful service, but they expect
in return a z,?alous and cheerful obedience to rules and
regulations framed in a liberal spirit, and calculated ge-
nerally to establish a system which will ultimately secure
reguLrity of the line, the safety of the public, and
the well-being of the whole concern.
" The second resolution must be considered as an-
swered in the reply to No. 1,
" No. 3. 'That nu engineman shall be forced to take
any but his own fireman, &c.'

The committee will engage that every engineman
shall be provided with a competent and efficient fireman;
and, as a general rule, as is the custom now, they do
not object to their remaining together. But they regret
that they cannot be bound, under all circumstances, to
comply with this demand of the enginrmen, as it would
be surrendering their undoubted right to the control
over their own servants, as well as yielding to a dicta-
tion which would be subversive of all discipline in the
establishment.

" No. 4. That those men who had been reduced for
objecting to sign the three months' notice be reinstated
in their former positions.'
" The committee deny that any registered engineman
or fireman has been reduced, or is intended to be re-
duced, for refusing to sign the three months' notice.
They avow that they will give a preference to all those
who are candidates for promotion who are willing to
conform to this reasonable regulation; and they are de-
termined to keep faith with any who have signed, or
who may hereafter sign, under such expectation, pro-
vided they are deemed to be equally well qualified to un-
dertake the higher duties as others who decline to sign.
HARDDIA.N EARLE,
Chairman of the Locomotive Committee
of the Northern Division.
" Liverpool, Dec. 21."

ST. BARNABAB CHURCH, PIMLICO.—This church
was re-opened yesterday for the performance of Divine ser-
vice. It was not generally known that the order which
had been issued on the preceding Sunday for closing the
church would have been so soon withdrawn, and conse-
quently the congregation was almost entirely limited to the
inhabitants of the district and the other regular attendants
at the church. There was no crowd assembled at the doors,
and the service was conducted without any confusion or in-
fringement of decorum. The Litany was intoned by the
Rev. Mr. De Gex, one of the curates; and at its conclusion
some curiosity was manifested to observe whether the large
wax candles which stand upon the altar would be lighted,
according to the custom which has been hitherto observed.
This, however, was not done. The Commandments were
read by the Rev. Mr. Fyffe, who stood at the north side of
the altar, with his face directed towards the south. The

sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Cowie, principal of the
engineering college at Putney, from the 6th chapter of St.
Paul's Epistle to the Romans, the sth and 6th verses. The
Rev. Gentleman did not make use of the prefatory sentence,
" In the name o' the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy

Ghost." which it has been hitherto usual to employ in St.
Barnabas Church. He directed his remarks to the illustra-

tion of the effect produced on every man by the rite of bap-
tism, and consequent admission into the membership of
Christ's body, and to the enforcement of the practical duties
arising from the new relations in which man is thereby
placed. His discourse was delivered with force and empha-
sis, and was listened to with marked attention. The Offer-
tory was then lead, and the congregation afterwards quietly
dispersed.
DEATH 01' THE CHEVALIER ARNOLDUS VANDEN
Banal.—Died on the 20th instant, at the residence of his
son, on the Grand Parade at Portsmouth, at the advanced
age of eighty-four, Chevalier Arnoldus Vanden Bergh, who
for upwards of fifty years performed the onerous duties of
Consul for the Netherlands, France, Austria, Portugal, Lu-
beck, Bremen, and Hanover, which some years back he re-
signed, and are now so satisfactorily performed by his son,
Lewis Vanden Bergh, Esq. From his honest and upright
conduct through life, Mr. Arnoldus Vanden Bergh acquired
the esteem and respect of a large circle of friends, who, with
his relatives, deeply regret his loss.
THE RIOT AT BIRKENHEAD.—After the evidence
of Thomas Hughes, given at Chester on Friday, that of
Thomas Coe, of the Liverpool police, was taken. He iden-
tified Haggerty, Feehan, and Fitzsimons. (A number of
bludgeons, pieces of iron, &c., were brought in, which he said
resembled the weapons used by the mob.) Sergeant Tom-
linson, of the Liverpool police, also identified Smith, Hag-
gerty, and Feehan as taking an active part in the proceed-
ings. At the close of the last witness's examination, it
being past four o'clock, the investigation was again ad-
journed till Monday morning at ten o'clock.
THE LATE SERVICE RENDERED TO THE FRENCH
EMIGRANTS sy THE LORD MAYOR.—The following letter
fro►n the Charge d'Affaires de France to the Lord Mayor of
London was received a few days ago by his Lordship. It
was caused by the active and benevolent interference of his
Lordship in the case of a great number of poor Frenchmen,
emigrants to California, in the Abyssinian, a vessel com-
manded by Captain Urbain :—My Lord,—The Minister for
Foreign Affairs of the French Republic has desired me to ex-
press to you his grateful sense of the benevolent protection
you have been pleased to extend to some French emigrants,
who have been obliged recently to have recourse to your
intervention against a Monsieur Urbain, who had misled
them. Having been specially informed of the interest you
have deigned to take in this affair, I feel doubly happy, my
Lord, in being ,the medium of communicating to you the
sentiments of my Government, and with every feeling of
the highest consideration, I have the honour to be, my Lord,
your Lordship's obedient and ♦ery humble servant. (Signed)
A. MAILESCALCHI, Charge d'Affaires de France."
ASSAULT BY THE CHAMPION OF THE THAMES.—

At the Richmond Police-court, yesterday, Robert Coombes,
the well-known waterman, was charged with assaulting
Eliza Horsley. The complainant, who had had two children
by the defendant, went to Mortlake for the purpose of asking
Coombes for some money for their support, when he induced
her to accompany him into a retired lane, and then offered
her 10s., which she rejecting as insufficient, he struck her
several severe blows on the head, and ran away. The Bench
fined the defendant 255. and costs.— Weekly bispatch.
IVe regret to hear that Lord and Lady Rivers have
sustained a severe and domestic affliction, by the demise of
their eldest son, the Hon. George Horace Pitt, who died on
Friday afternoon, after a short illness. The Hon. deceased
was in his 17th year, having been born in March, 1834.
OFFICIAL APPOIISTMEISTS.—Mr. Congreve Brack-
enbury, who has been for some time doing the duties of Con-
sular Assistant to the British Mission at Madrid, has re-
ceived the appointment of her Majesty's Consul at that
capital. Sir John Athol' Bannatyne Murray Macgregor is
appointed President and Senior Member of Council at the
-Virgin Islands. Mr. Philip E. Wodehouse, for some years
employed in the civil service at Ceylon, District Judge and
Member of Council in that island, will succeed Major Fan-
court as Superintendent at Honduras. Mr. J. V. Drysdale is
appointed Colonial Secretary for St. Lucia. Mr. Robert G.
Machugh is appointed Treasurer at St. Lucia. Mr. W. G.
Alves is appointed a member of the Council at St. Vincent.
Mr. R. Gordon is appointed a member of the Council at
Tobago.
The Yo: k, Newcastle, and Bernick Railway
Company have this week abandoned their ataiths in the
river Wear, and have commenced to lead the whole of the
coals brought down their Durham and Sunderland branch
railway for shipment in Sunderland dock.—Durham Ad-
vertiser.
kiprcules store-ship,': Master-Commander Fulton; at,
Greenhith2, is to le fitted with all dispatch, ,fs further
service.