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ENCOVRAGING REELECTIONS.

It is one of the wonders of history, that from the
creation a great continent has existed almost unpeopled,
though containing more treasure than all the searches for
gold set on foot by the covetousness of man have brought
to light in any other part of the globe ; a continent
blessed with the variety of temperate and tropical climate,
apt to nurse a great population, and lying within reach of
the two most populous countries in the world—of China,
long overcrowded—of India, whose shores teemed with
poor. Just men enough reach it to increase the marvel,
by showing that its forests had been found, though its
riches were kept under a veil. Had things taken their
natural course, China would have overflowed into it, and
so would India, and at this day it would have been re-
plenished with a hundred millions or more of Budhists
and Brahmins. By an unnatural law against emigration,
China holds in her swarms; by an unnatural prejudice
against the sea, India seals up her castes ; and the conse-
quence is, that through the long lapse of ages that south
continent lies awaiting its inhabitants, till, in the fulness
of time, a people are brought from the most distant part
of the earth's surface, with a light in their hands, which
the nearer and more numerous nations of Asia had not
received, and with a physical frame nursed under hardy
skies, to which the Asiatic continent would be unfriendly,
but which flourishes anew in the genial suns of
Australia.
Time is given for this people to take such a hold of the
country that nothing can sweep them off; there is lifted
up a veil which had since the creation hidden from man's
eyes the rarest treasure they ever gazed on ; and Australia
draws towards her torrents of population. More swiftly
than ever nation rose before, will this new nation rise—
numerous, powerful, and free—offering to the wretched
tribes of the isles which throng the southern and eastern
seas an example of what, under the elevating influence of
a true religion, an island race may become, and extending
to the great continent of Asia powerful influences in favour
of Christianity.

After briefly adverting to the vast accumulation
of colonial territory acquired by Great Britain in
North America, India, and South Africa, within
the last century,—to which he properly adds the
whole of Australia,—the review writer proceeds
with a consideration of the

PROSPECTIVE EFFECTS OF AUSTRALIAN ENTERPRISE ON

BRITISH EXERTION.

Nor is the reaction of Australia on the history of Europe
likely to be without the highest importance. At the time
the news of the gold discovery reached us, all the world
was basking in the rays of genial amity, under the dome
of the Crystal Palace. But as things were then running,
only one powerful European nation had great gold re-
sources,—Ruisia, which, annually drawing millions from
her mines, would thereby have been gradually fortifying
her one weak point, and preparingc, herself for European
ascendency. Australia, however, brings to light a store
of gold, compared with which her's is insignificant ; and
that is poured into the lap of England, giving new vigour
to every branch of her industry, new elasticity to every
source of her revenue, and an incomparable stimulus
to the energy of her people—a stimulus which carries hope
to the bosom of the lowliest, and sets prizes in view which
move even the idle to be up, and quit themselves like
men. Perhaps this last is the most important contribu-
tion to our strength of all. The hardy spirit which war
has too often been the only instrument for breathing into
a population, and which can never be lost without danger
to national independence, will be well served by the dis-
cipline which thousands upon thousands of England's
youth will cheerfully take on ship-board, in the bush, and
at the mines ; while the letters of these men, and their
frequent return, full of colonial energy, will constantly
act upon those who stay at home, and call out that strong
English ambition which, though well pleased and proud
at the spirit of our children, is not content to be out-done
by them. Thus, while the old country ministers to the
comforts of the new, the new will minister to the vigour
of the old—an effect which we have already seen in the
case of America, if we specify nothing but the one cardinal
article of shipbuilding, for all can see to how great an
extent we owe the splendid vessels, such as the Francis
Henry, and the Marco Polo, which now astonish us with
their swift tidings from distant shores, to the resolution
of our craftsmen " not to be beaten by the Yankees."
Another item of political strength for England, discernible
in the rise of Australia, is this : that should Providence
only grant our statesmen wisdom to make the connexion
with England, instead of a restraint, an impediment, and
a humiliation to the new country, a pride, a facility, and
a defence, as is the connexion of each new American
State with the parent union,—then the wealth and power
of our countrymen in the far south-east will give an ad-
ditional consolidation to our Indian and African posses-
sions ; the Cape, India, Australia, and New Zealand,
being each a depot of British power re-acting upon the
other, gradually acquiring common interests, and con-
tributing, in case of need, mutual aid and defence.

To many, the anticipations thrown out in the
preceding paragraph, will, no doubt, appear as the
over-drawn air-pictures of an enthusiastic dreamer ;
to others, and we confess ourselves of the number,
they will present a picture, too highly coloured, it
may be, but still a picture for the realization of
which, in a great degree, the course of events give
warrant of expectation. The question of who
should emigrate is taken up with spirit, and
answered with a degree of lively freedom conferring
on it all the raciness of friendly and intelligent
converse ; such being the case, we repeat the
question

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AM, GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

IN THE COURSE of his connexion with the "Edinburgh
Review," Jeffrey wrote not less than 200 articles for that
periodical.
PADDINGTON.—The village of Paddington, which was
once given to Westminster Abbey, and afterwards by
Edward VI. to the Bishop of London and his successors,
is now one of the most remarkable portions of London.
The story of its growth sounds like a fable. In 1801 it
contained 357 houses, and a population of 1,881 persons.
In 1851 there were 6,519 houses, with 222 in progress,
and a population of 46,306 persons. The rates were
levied in that year on an annual rental of £390,732; and
in 1852 this had been increased to £410,617.
ROMANTIC KARRIAGIL—M. Balzac, the French
novelist, exhibits another example of eccentricity in
matrimonial affairs. According to a Parisian correspon-
dent, the arrival of this celebrated author from Germany
caused an immense sensation in certain circles, owing to
the romantic circumstance connected with his marriage.
When Balzac was at the zenith of his fame he was travel-
ling in Switzerland, and had arrived at the inn just at
the very moment the Prince and Princess Hanski were
leaving it. Ealzac was ushered into the room they had
just vacated, and was leaning from the window to ob-
serve their departure, when his attention was arrested
by a soft voice at his elbow, asking for a book which had
been left behind upon the window seat. The lady was
certainly fair, but appeared doubly so in the eyes of the
poor author when she intimated that the book she
was in quest of was a pocket edition of his own works,
adding that she never travelled without it, and that
without it she could not exist She drew the volume from
beneath his elbow, and flew down stairs, obedient to the
screaming summons of her husband—a pursy old gentle.
man, who was already seated in the carriage, railing in
a loud voice against dilatory habits of women in general,
and his own spouse in particular—and the emblazoned
vehicle drove off, leaving the novelist in a state of self-
complacency the most enviable to be conceived. This was
the only occasion on which Balzac and the Princess
Henski had met, till his recent visit to Germany, when
he presented himself as her accepted husband. During
these long intervening fifteen years, however, a literary
correspondence was steadily kept up between the parties,
till at length, instead of a letter containing literary stric-
tures upon his writings, a missive of another kind, hav-
ing a still more directly personal tendency, reached him
from the fair hand of the princess. It contained the an-
nouncement of the demise of her husband, the prince—
that he had bequeathed to her his domains and his great
wealth—and, consequently, that she felt bound to requite
him in some measure for his liberality, and had deter-
mined in giving him a successor in the person of Balzac.
It is needless to state that the delighted author waited
not a second summons; they were forthwith united in
wedlock, at her chateau on the Rhine, and a succession
of splendid fetes celebrated the auspicious event.
UNITY OF FEELING IN RUSSIA..—It is a common opi-
nion in Western Europe that a people inhabiting so vast
and varied a territory cannot by possibility remain united,
and that Russia broken up, as it must ere long be, into a
number of separate dominions, will cease to be formidable
to the other powers of Europe. There never was a greater
mistake. To reason thus is to fall into the usual-error of
supposing that all mankind are placed in the same cir-
cumstances, and actuated by the same desires. There
have been many insurrections and revolts in Russia, but
none which ever pointed in the most remote degree either
to a change in the form of government, or to a separation
of one part of the country from the other. It is in As
Polish conquests alone that this passion has been felt.
Even when the Russians have appeared in revolt, as they
have often done, it was ever in obedience to the im-
pulse of loyalty : they combated the Czar in the name of
another Czar, not knowing which was the right one, as
the Scotch Highlanders did the Hanoverian family in the
name of the Stuarts. The principle of cohesion is much
stronger in Russia than it is in the British dominions,
infinitely more so than in the United States of America.
England and France may be subjugated, or broken into
separate states, before the integrity of Russia is threatened;
and many rival republics will be contending for the supe-
riority on the transatlantic plains, while the Muscovites
are still slumbering in conscious strength and patient
expectation under the sceptre of the Czar. The cause of
this remarkable, and, to the other states of Europe, moot
formidable unity of feeling in the Russian dominions is
to be found, in the first place, as that of all great national
peculiarities is, in the original character and disposition
of the race. The Russians are not, it is true, encamped
on the plains of Scythia as the Turks have been for four
centuries on those of the Byzantine empire ; they have
taken root in the soil, they constitute its entire inhabit-
ants, and are now devotedly attached to it by the posses-
sion of its surface and the labours of agriculture. But
they are not on that account less oriental in their ideas,
feelings, and habits ; on the contrary, it is that very cir-
cumstance, joined to their agricultural pursuits, which
renders them so formidable.. They unite the devotion
and singleness of purpose of Asia. to, the industry and
material resources of Europe. It is incorrect to say that
the Russians, like the inhabitants of Englazul and France,
are generally loyal, and only occasionally seized with the
disturbing passions of revolution or religion. They are
loyal at all times, and in all places, and under all cir-
cumstances. They/ can never be brought to. combat the
Czar but in the name of the Ciar. Devotion to the
throne is so interwoven with the inmost feelings of their
hearts, that it has become part and, parcel of their very
being ; it is as universal as the belief' in. God. or a future
state is in other countries, No disturbing orrival pas-
sions interfere with the unity of this feeling, which is
sublime from its universality, and, respectable from its
disinterestedness. The Czar is at once their temporal
sovereign, their supreme chief, whose• will law in all
temporal affairs, and the hegil of their church,. under the
aegis of whose protection they alone hope for entrance into
paradise in the world to come: The Patriarch. of Con-
stantinople is, properly speaking; thehead of the Greek
Chureh, but he is a foreigner, and at a distance; the real
ecclesiastical authority resides in thee Czar, whenappoints
all the bishops ; and his brows are surrounded in their
eyes, at once with the diadem of the Sultan. and: tiara of
thePontiff,"—Sir ArchibaldAlison.'sHistory c'Europe.

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.

TO THE EDITOR 01? THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

EDUCATION FOR THE BRITISH COLONIES.

LETTER 11.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STNADARIY.

ORIGIN Or HUMAN LINE: ZHEI GUMMY TICEORY.—
Mr. A.. Jackson Davies, the founder of a new American
seat who call themselves Spiritualists, . has, been
delivering lectures, in. which he propounded a some-
what novel theory of the origin of life. The Nor-
wich (LT.S) Examiner, in describing the lecture,
says: "God, be it known, never made. anybody,
according to the new philosophy—and the first pair did
not make themselves. Whence; then, came mean? Mrs.
Stowe's Topsy' was• not far out of the way, after all,
when she said she, was not made, but growed. The first
settlers, the- very first pairs of every living thing, man
and all, actually did grow-out of this ' terrestrial ball !'
Fact—if the old theologies. don't admit it. The philo-
sophy, you see, is this. Matter is progressive. The finer
qualities rise to the surface and go into business—subli-
mate—and become intellectualities. The molten, mass of
fire at the earth's centre- furnishes the motive power.
Thus, the- particles that day before yesterday were •a grain
of wheat, yesterday were nerve and muscle, and to-day
are sparkling thoughts ! Capital, is it not ? Man, to be
more particular, got along in this way. The- better part
of matter came out frora- the grosser by a natural law—
was warmed or steamed out—and coalescing- with water
at the beds of the oceans, formed a gelatinous compound
like brains—gluey,. gummy. This slush,. though much
purer than ordinary matter, was no more than raw
material for the new article. Then, by a further natural
process, this glutinous-mass underwent fermentation, and
evolved 'a--what do yon think ? Why, a lifeprinciple, as
steam from boiling wester—which steam or-principle made
a living thing of whatever absorbed it Hence life !
Hence oysters, and. all other folks ! Or, rather, hence the
first pairs of all lilting creatures ; for after life became
existent, this process was voted a humbug, and the world
was.peopled in a happier way. The lecturer said, that at
onetime, long befOre animal life was; in-the world, the
beds of the oceans-came to be immense-masscs of glutinous
matter resembbllg. brains—that the warmth of the earth
generated a fry; and that the steam that came up vivified
whatever it got into, making it live and cut about. We
cannot be mil3taken that gluten was, the-stuff—that gum
was the foundation, and that in a, general effervescence
life was evolved—though we may have failed in other
respects to grasp his full theory and discourse. This we
did look into,. Jelly and gum ! Transporting conception
And it mast be so. Davies says. it; we believe it; and
the extreme facility with whichmen-may.still be gummed,
ought to, satisfy our orthodox filionds, that ' it isn't any-
thing else?
AMESICAN TRAVEL,.—Thelate.celebrated Mr. Clay once
told the following anecdote, to a friend of ours :
Travelling, in early manhood, in a public conveyance in a
south-eastern state, he found himself in company of three
other persons, consisting of a young lady and gentleman,
her husband, and of a person muffled up in a doak, whose
countenance was concealed,. and who appeared to la in-
dulging in a tete-a-tete with Morpheus. Suddenly, a big
brawny Kentuckian got into the coach, smoking a cigar,
and frowned fiercely around, as much as to say, rta half
horse, half alligator ; the yaller flower of the forest, all
briuistone but the bead and ears, and that's aquafortis."
In filet he looked as savage as a meat-axe, and puffed out
huge voluhies of smote, without reference to the company
within, especially ofthe lady, who manifested certain timid
symptoms of annoyance. Presently, after some whisper-
ing, the gentleman with her, in the politest accents, re-
quested the stranger not to smoke, as it-annoyed his com-
panion. The fellow answered, " I reckon I've paid my
place. I'll smoke as much as I darn please, and all hell
shan't stop me no how." With that he looked dangerous,
and rolled hia eyes round as fiercely as a rattlesnake. It
was evident he had no objection to a quarrel, and that, if
it occurred, it was likely to lead to a deadly struggle. The
young man who had spoken to him shrank back and was
silent. Clay felt his gallantry aroused. He considered
for a moment whether he should interfere, but experienced
a natural reluctance to draw upon himself the brutal
violence of his gigantic adversary. In that lawless country
he knew his life might be sacrificed unavenged. He knew
himself physically unequal to the contest, and ho thought,
after all, it was not his business Quixotically to take up
another man's quarrel. Feeling pity for the insulted, and
disgust towards the insulter, he determined to take no
notice ; when, very quietly indeed, the cloaked figure in
the corner assumed an upright position, and the mantle
was suffered to fall from it without effort or excitement.
The small but sinewy frame of a man, plainly dressed in a
tightly-buttoned frock coat, with nothing remarkable
about his appearance, was seen, and a pair of bright grey
eyes sought the fierce optics of the ferocious Kentuckian.
Without a word, this "lay figure " passed his hand under
his collar at the back of his neck, and slowly and deli-
berately pulled forth a long, extremely long and glittering
knife from its sheath in -that singular place. " Stranger;
he said, "my name is Colonel James Bowie, well known
in Arkansas and Louisiani ; and if you don't put that
cigar out of the window in a quarter of a minute, I'll put
this knife through your bowels as sure as death." Clay
said he never forgot in after life the expression of the
colonel's eyes at that moment. The predominant impres-
sion made upon him was the certainty of the threat being
fulfilled, and apparently the same conviction impressed
itself ere long upon the offender. During two or three
seconds his eye met that of Bowie. His was the weaker,
and he quailed. With a curse, he tore the cigar from
between his teeth, and flung it, scowling, but downcast,
out of the coach window. Upon this Colonel James Bowie
as deliberately replaced his long knife in its eccentric
hiding place, and, without saying a word to any one else,
or even vouchsafing a glance at any one, refolded his cloak
around him, and did not utter another syllable to the end
of tholonrueye—New Quarterly Ret'iew,

Sin.,—l have read your critique on Mr. Grocott's
"Index to Familiar Quotations, and quite agree with
your remarks on the advantage of such a ready reference
to the gems of prose and poetry in which our literature
abounds. I have also read Mr. Grocott's book, and take
the liberty to question his title to the praise for perform-
ance which the design of his work demands. It is true
that he has arranged his examples alphabetically, and
in many cases given some parallel passages, which throw
some light on the sources of inspiration by writers who
had credit for originality, but he has not performed all
that was fairly to be expected of him before venturing to
appear in print as the literary lawyer. I will take for
instance the oft disputed authority for the doggerel rhyme,
"He that fights and runs away," &c. He gives us three
quotations, two from Butler, and one from Goldsmith,
each of them something like it, but neither of them the
one in question. Again he is far from happy in his titles :
,to a quotation from Swift, ending with Walls have
tongues, and hedges ears ;" he places the head " Hedges
have eyes ;" but why, because hedges can hear they can
also see, Mr. Grocott has not enlightened his readers.
Another of his heads is " Birds of a feather," which,
according to an old saying, " flock together," but his
examples are merely resemblances ; he does not favour us
with the authority for the old saying which he alludes to
in his title. Under the head of " little learning" we have
the couplet from Pope on Criticism, and so quoted part 2,
line 16, agairi under the head of " Drink," we have the
second line, " Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring,"
which is quoted from Pope on Criticism, line 216. I could
point to several other instances in which the headings
given to the quotations for their alphabetical arrangement
are so little according to method, sometimes the idea being
taken and sometimes a particular word, that I imagine an
index will be necessary to this Index, in order -to render it
of advantage to those who, desirous of using a quotation,
wish to do so correctly. Two parts of the work have,
however, yet to appear, and there is, therefore, time for
amendment ; but Mr. Grocott should in the meantime
solicit suggestions or contributions, which many are well
able and, no doubt, willing to furnish, and then he should
issue a new edition, with such emendations as may render
the work what it ought to be. He commences with the
quotation, "it book's a book, although there's nothing
in't ;" it is to be hoped that it is not an unintentional
allusion to his own production.—l am, Sir,
Wallasey, Jan. 19, 1854. A READER.

" Ducit amor patriae, et amor humani generis."
Sra,—lf a Board of Education were established for the
Colonies, it might be asked—how ought they to proceed in
their labours, for the promotion of colonial education P
This is a question that may seem to stand on the very
threshold of the subject, though, I may say, that it is not
absolutely necessary to detail all the modes in which such
a body ought to commence and carry on their labours.
They might proceed in many ways—the colonial wants
being so many and so varied. If a question of dispute
may be said, at all, to belong to it, it must be—in what
way should they first proceed Boas to supply these wants ?
Whether are schools, teachers, or apparatus most needed ?
or what system of instruction; is best suited, to.the different
states of civilization in which the. colonists are, and the
mutual and physical peculiarities of the different races to
which they belong. Which of these wants a board should
first begin to supply, and what system of instruction
adopt, might be subjects on which• some, of then might
differ and dispute. But one want, a- very important one,
which may be said to lay at the very foundationi of all
good edueation,„ and about which there• could- be no dis-
pute whatever,,is the want of normaltraining institutions,
to train, native masters for the colonies. This is'a want
obvious at the• first mention, and should be suppliedat
the earliest oppcstunity. Schools, to be effective, must
have teachers- who, understand their business ; and such
men can only be• got by being trained to it To educate•
should be as- much a profession as to practise in physic.;•
or expound the common law. None are allowed to prat.-
tise these. two profemions without having studied in the
great seminaries ofthe land, and been regularly examined,
and appointed thereto.- Quacks are not allowed to prat:
tise in-medicine; neither should they be allowed to impart
instruction.; if the• one• be dangerous, the' other is a
thousand-times more.sol. If so much care-has been taken
to prevent improper persons from' poisoning the body,
surely as much care should be taken to prevent a similar
class from• poisoning ther mind. Bad schools; with bad-
teacherspresiding over them, a high authority on.educa-
tion has. condemned as worse than none. Teaching im-
plies a faculty, and superior powers of teaching-implies
the possession of a superior faculty.
All meni with any knowledge of the art of teaching,
know that it is not every man—no, not event every clever
man—who can-mak ea good teacher. A good one must unite
diligence, knowledge, patience, and the faculty to impart
to others what he rnows himself. Manner,. character,
talent, information, and power, not only to, think,, but to
communicate the subjects of his thoughts, orally ; united
with skill, which can only be got by practice; are all
essentially necessary to form the efficient instructor.
Thus, it must be evident, that, such• men tuve• nut to be
culled from among the colonists• at pleasure. Training hi
the art of instruction is necessary to formthem.first, and
before this can be accomplished, training schools•must be
built.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1854•

The answer to this is a ready one. Look at our own
country, with its numbers of talented men for whom there
is no opening at all suitable to their abilities. Great
numbers are plodding on in secondary and subordinate
situations, whose mental qualifications well fit them for
the highest places in their respective situations and occu-
pations. Britain has hundreds of such men within her
shores at this moment, who would hail the opportunity of
going out to the colonies. But looking at the race of
teachers now rearing in the public schools of England,
with the numbers that already crowd the metropolitan
and provincial training schools, will there not be very
soon great numbers fit for the occupation of training
masters ?

Even the present race of masters in the national
schools are fit to take charge of the colonial training
schools. It would thus be the means of raising the
schoolmasters' office at home, because it would keep before
them the prospect of a more extended field of usefulness
in the dependencies. Ten or twelve years' servitude in a
large school at home, with the constant charge of pupil
teachers, would be an excellent preparation for training
teachers afterwards ; for the experience which masters
would necessarily have of teaching, and the qualities re-
quisite to conduct a large school well, would enable them
to cultivate those qualities in the youths of our colonies :
it would also cement a closer union between us and the
colonists. At the present time, a teacher in England has
no prospect before him but to stay where he is, or to pass
to another school like the one he is in. Other professions
have better prospects. The surgeon may rise to a phy-
sician; the barrister to the bench; and the curate to a
rectory, deanery, or see ; but the schoolmaster, to remain
in his office, must continue where he is, or pass to a school
in which he will get a few more pounds per year for his
salary. True, the office of the teacher, in a Christian point
of view, is one of great importance ; and, when faithfully
discharged, his hopes of reward hereafter may be very
bright indeed. But in reasoning on this subject, we must.
not treat them other than as human, and affected by mate-
rial interests, like other men. Bright examples, I know,
may be found among this class of men, who have for a
long period devoted their physical and mental energies to
their duties, never hoping for any other reward than that
which the sincere Christian hopes for hereafter. They
have laboured, with a single eye, to the promotion of the
glory of God, which their office so abundantly affords
them the opportunity of doing ; yet still if the opportu-
nity of becoming the head of a normal institution in the
colonies was before them, their office would be a much
more pleasing one for them to discharge. This aspect of
the question is an important one, and worthy of much
consideration.

The question is an important one in every aspect in
which it may be viewed; equally to the rich and poor;
to the clergy and schoolmasters ; to parents and their chil-
dren. Thus we would have stronger ties binding the
colonies to us than political ones. The latter interests
seldom last long without some jarring arising; commer-
cial interests awaken cupidity and avarice in the human
bosom, and may be broken at any time ; but spiritual,
mental, and-moral ones bind nations as with a silken cord
of friendship, and may last for ages. Thus' if training
schools were erected in all the colonies I have named, a
great impetus would be given.to the progress of education
in them. Between thirty and forty of them would (con-
sidering the aggregate population) be a sufficient number
at present. In England and Wales there are, at the pre-
sent time (including the diocesan ones), between forty and
fifty training schools. We have not too many with these,
for each county ought to have one in addition to the me-
tropolitan ones s but upwards of forty, for a population of
15,000,000, is not a bad number. I only wish the colonies
had as many ; they would produce great results, and at a
cheap rate.
In England and the principality (Wales), the outlay for
these schools during a period of seven years., i. e. from
1844 until 1851, was £353,403 ; the grants made by par-
liament, during the same period, amounted to-A:137,623.
These sums are large; but taken into consideration with
the extent of the edifices, and the costly nature of the
apparatus with which they are fitted up, &c.. they do not
appear extravagant.
In my next, I shalt beg to call your attention to the
fitness of the. West India Islands to be at the expense of
building these schools for themselves, and one or two
other points of importance connected with the subject ;
and, in the meantime; I am your obedient servant,
Rathbone-street, Liverpool,

JAMES LIMIER.

Jan. 19,1854.

NUISANCES- IN LIVERPOOL.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIG.ESC;

PREPEEMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. e
Rev. R. Allen, M.A., to the Incumbency of St. .101
Church, Halifax. _ _

Rev. J. Anderson, M.A., to the Incumbency of Lea gat
near Coleshill, Warwickshire.
Rev. W. Ayerst, 8.A., to the Junior Curacy of AO
Gordon-square. Ws
Rev. W. M. Beresford, 8.A., to the Incumbency of
near Aylesbury.
Rev. B. G. Bridges, M.A., to the Rectory of Blanknei,
Sleaford.

Rev. M. aanley,M.A., to the Curacy. of Mistley, Sot
Rev. T. Markby, M.A., to the Head MastershipotSt.Jl
wood Proprietary Collegiate School.
Rev. E. Mercer, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Eccle
near Leeds.

Rev. J. Miller, M.A., to the Incumbency of OrcoP'
RO5B, Herefordshire.

Re.v. T. Mitchell, M.A., to the Incumbency of St. FP
Newington, Surrey.
Adßev. M. T. Moriarty, to the District Curacy of St.
.44
Church, Six Towns, parish of Ballynascreen. county Pr ii
Rev. H. M. Moue, 8.A., to the Curacy of Brailsforut
Derby.
Rev. W. Pennefather, M.A., late Curate of Walton, MI
bury, to the Incumbency of Christ Church, Barnet. Rev. C. Penny, Incumbent of Babbenhall, to the In
bency of Hunningham, Warwickshire (not, as state
week, the Rev. C. J. Westropp).
Rev. H. Price, 8.A., to the Rectory of Kilybebil
Neath, Glarnorganshire.
Rev. R. S. Philpott, M.A., to the Incumbency of
Church, Clay-hill.
Rev. L. C. Randolph, M.A., to the Rectory of East GO
Berkshire.
Rev. W. E. Richardson, 8.A., to the Incumbency°
f
lade, near Leighton Buzzard.
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Rev. G. J. Ridsdale, M.A., to be Domestic Chaplain to
t
Duke of Devonshire.

Rev. J. Rutherford, Af.A., to the Rectory of Egdeal,
Petworth.

Rev. G. M. Sykes. M.A, to the Rectory of Bast Hatiel'v
Caxton, and the Vicarage of Tadiow, near Biggleswade.
Rev. J. N. Thompson, to, the Chaplaincy of Sulby Leno
Rev. T. Valpy, to the Church and District of St•
the Baptist, Leenside, near Nottingham. to
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Rev. J. N. Vlieland, Citrate of Great Ilford, Essay
Incumbency of Christ Chureh, Turnbarn-green.
Rev. R. Whitehead, M..,14, to the Rectory of Gotta:lostr'
near Dorchester.

Rev. F. Woodward, M.A., to the Curacy of St. re''
Bethnal-green.
The Rev. Reginald Gunnery, M.A., late curate
Mary's, Hull, has been appointed Association Secrew'
the Church of England Education Society.
Ti REV. W. R. DUNCAN, senior curate of St. Pete

has. been appointed a surrogate for granting ra°
licenses in the diocese of Chester.
DIOCESE OF CirEsTEß.,—The Bishop has licensed' e
at No. 38, Regent-road, Liverpool, for the perfornial,l,
Divine Services, for the accommodation of the inhabli,
of that part of the parish. The Bishop has reneWeel,
license for divine service in,the new church at Claug,P:,
cum-Grange, Cheshire, for one year, obstacles still CiP
to its consecration.

EPISCOPAL HOSPITkus-A—The Lord Bishop of
bury recently entertained. nearly two hundred °
necessitous poor of the neighbourhood at a subs%
dinner of roast beef and plum pudding. His lord
presided at the head of the table, carved for his hf
guests, and addressed them. in a kind and encour"
speech.

New ZEALAND.—A printed letter has been eft
from Bishop Selwyn by his friends in England, (1.11:0
Barnabas'-day, 1853, in which he notifies his intentl`col
leave New Zealand for England about this presentll.
Among the objects of his voyage, we are informed, '0
permanent settlement and. endowment of the tOl5
bishoprics at Lyttelton and. Wellington, and thel:`,
went subdivision of his extensive diocese. It is a 1
hitention to abandon his contemplated scheme 0. 4i
a college at Auckland for native misinc,..eieS fro t
Melanesian Island, as he finds, upon experience, Tdif„i
damp climate is not suited. to' constitution of ,11,1
who have lived on what be-calls "large reefs of
The other objects of the bishop are understood to be
.hi
neeted with the establishmentof a college of Church ro
masters, and a scheme of synodical action for the (IP
in New Zealand.

I know that the mention of training schools will awaken
in the minds of many, at the first glance, a dread: of the
cost which they must entail upon us and the colonists.
This reasoning.will only arise inthe mind through:reason-
ing from analogy. In England. these institutions are
imposing stone edifices ; displaying architectural.beauties
of the highest order, and full of complicated designs but
in warm colonies, bordering on the tropics, it is not
necessary that they should be so. In the warm, serene
climate of the Mauritius, some lightly-built place might
suffice, and so imother colonies; thus the expense-would
be greatly lessened, and the fears• of many removed. In
warm climatesit has been the custom for many ages, and
is so still, to teach in the open air. The ancients knew
the influence of nature over the human heart when they
took their pttpils.under the shade• of some nobleold tree
to instruct them. Her green page lay open before them,
and they could. discourse of her mysteries with effect.
That their teaching was effective; history has left no
doubt ; Plato taught in the open groves of Academia,
with the clear,.blue sky of Greece over his head; and that
his teaching was most effective, the number of his,followers
may fully prove. The open air teaching of his disciples
and proselytes placed him upon a throne from. which he
was not dethroned for many ages,. Zeno also, the founder
' of the schooLof the Stoics, taught at Athens in a very
open place ; it was in the Stoa,. where the merchants'
goods were landed, and which had. only a covering over it.
Aristotle also taught in a walk connected with the temple
of Pau, called Lyceam. In fact the teaching of the
ancients was very much in the open air, or in places with
very slight build. Their warm and, genial climates made
it pleasant for them to be in, the. open air. I could
enumerate the schools of most of the nations of the ancient
world, and describe them, to show. thetruth of the above.
In our own Eastern possessions, India, the children were
taught to read and write in the sand; and the Hindoo
village schools were mostly heldunder the shade of some
venerable tree. This was the case for ages before the,
country fell into our possession.
I have thus, Mr. Editor, called your attention to the
subject of training schools, for the colonies, and also
pointed out that they would, not need to be, in many of
our dependencies, the expensive things they are in Eng-
hunt; but that places far training the natives to the duties
of teaching should be in, them' no one will for a moment
doubt. The contrast between. the public schools of the
present time, and the dame and common day-schcols at
the end of the last century, fully proves the importance of
having men trained to. the. office of teacher. In feet, the
way in which youths are trained and taught will influence
their whole lives. The- poet Wordworth, who was, neither
too hasty in giving utterance to his sentiments, nor•untrue
to nature in them,, has told us that the child is " Father of
the man ;" and in. this declaration he has given out a
great truth in mental philosophy ; but still, though the
faculties and powers which rule the child are the same
that do the man, yet a great deal depends upon the train-
ing and direction given to them in youth., But we have
a greater authority, far, than Wordworth, for asserting,
that if we "Train up a youth in the way- he should go,
when he is old he will not depart from it." This is a
declaration in the Book of Life, made by the Royal.
preacher ; and one of great truth, which should be at..
tended to by educators. The youths in our colonies are,
babes in knowledge, even of a human kind; and, alas !
they are not even this in the Lord Jesus Christ and His-
righteousness. But they have hearts with the same warm
impulses; minds with the same faculties; and souls with
the same longings after immortality. They are to be
operated upon in the same way that our own are; what-
ever knowledge is presented to them they will suck in
like the dry sand by the sea shore which drinks up the
first waves of the returning tide which flow on to it.
Where these schools should be erected for the West
India Islands, I beg now to call your attention to. For
Jamaica one might be erected at Kingston, and for Trini-
dad at Port of Spain.. In Antigua, St. John's would
probably be the best place. Barbadoes has Codrington
College, and the situation of it of such a delightful nature,
that a wing added to it would be better than even having
it erected at the capital town. The college is surrounded
by gentle hills on all sides ; possessing also the superior
advantages of the sea breeze, and an unbounded view of
the Atlantic. A beautiful stream of water is collected
into a lake in its front. This situation is so favourable
for health and study, that it is the best place which could
be adopted for it. Where the islands are very small and
contiguous, one good-sized institution might suffice for
two: e. g., one at St. George's, the capital of Grenada,
might do for it and Tobago ; and one at Castries, in St.
Lucia, might do for it and Montserret. Another at
Rousseau, in Dominica, might do for it and St. Vincent ;
and one at Basseterre, in St. Christopher, might do for it
and the two small islands of Nevis and Anguilla. The
Bermudas and the Bahamas might be treated in a similar
manner. The Isle of Mauritius and its dependencies (the
Seychelles) might be treated in a similar manner to the
islands just named. Sierra Leone, Cape Coast Castle, and
the trading posts along the Gambia, might go in with
this class of colonies ; so might the Cape, Guiana, Hon-
duras, and Ceylon. Training institutions in these colo-
nies would not be so very expensive as some might sup-
pose, and they would be productive of all the good they
have been in England, and much more. All the foregoing
colonies are wealthy enough to erect good schools for
themselves. Jamaica, some years ago, gave as large a
sum as £30,000 for the purpose of religious instruction,
and could also give something for the sake of carrying
out a system of education. I will call your attention, sir,
to the revenues of these islands in a future article, hoping
to show that they are wealthy enough to do much for
themselves upon the question.
But it might be asked, whore are proper persons to
come from for presiding over all the training schools ?
How will you cow §ucll A 111311114 of talented mcu

Rev. 3. H. Compton, M.A., to the Incumbency of Ififir
End, Caversham.
Rev. S. Cooke, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Parton, NarfOlf
Rev. J. C. Cox, M.A., to be Chaplain to the Englia°
dents at Chantilly.
Rev. J. A. Cree M.A., Fellow of Magdalen College, Mfoti
to the Curacy of St. Mary's Church Dover.
t CAI 3
Rev. J. A. Crozier, A.M., to the Military Chaplaincto_aii
Rev. W. Cumby, M.A., to the Incumbency of
Northumberland. 10
Rev. J. Dennett, M.A., to the Incumbency of Alder
near Farnham. • d
Rev. W. Doyle, M.A., to the Incumbency of St. StePD
Church, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Lancashire. ot4l
Rev. W. C. Evans, M.A., to the Incumbency of Caro"
near Doncaster.
Rev. H. Garth, M.A., to the Curacy of Trinity Cb
Lambeth.
Rev. H. S Gill, 8.A., to the Chaplaincy of St. Lit
Baldwin, Isle of Man.
Rev. R. Goldham, 8.A., to the Rectory of Caldecote,o
the Vicarage of Newnham, Hertfordshire.
Rev. J. M. Hawker, M.A., to the Perpetual Curecf
Earley, Berks.
Rev. R. Hill, M.A., late Curate of Mansell Lacy, Here°
shire, to the Incumbency of that parish.
Rev. J. Hilton, M.A., to the Rectory of OrlingbueY/
Wellingborough.
Rev. D. T. Hobson, M.A., to the Vicarage of Berline°
near Gainsborough.
Rev. J. Hodges, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Middle°
near Rothwell.
Rev. W. Hulme, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of CAtt
Somerset. ri
Rev. It. L. James, LL.B., to the Curacy of Little Sem
Bucks.
Rev. H. C. Jenour, M.A., to the Curacy of All ."
Gordon-square.
Rev. R. Jones, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Penmaeo,'
port, Monmouth.
Rev. J. E. A. Leigh, M.A., to the Vicarage of Bray' ai
Maidenhead, Berks.

Rev. T. Smith, M.A., to the Incumbency of °nisei'''.
Newark.
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Rev. J. B. Sparrow, M.A., to the Rectory of Offtont4
,• ~,. ,
Rectory of Little Bricct annexed, near Needham, Sullro, "'d
Rev. C. Spooner, M.A., to the Curacy of St. &IWO
King, and St. Nicholas. Aeons, Lombard-street.
Rey. J. P. Stouter 8.A., to the Curacy of Ilraddon, 19;
Man.