The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-18 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

THUNDERSTORM DEAL.—ON Thursday -evening
Deal was visited by one,of the most awful thunderstorms
known for some years; it was continued for more than an
tour, the flashes of lightning being very vivid and -strong,
.accompanied by heavy rain.
BURGLARS ROUTED.--,OR Saturday Mr. Hamilton's
family, Rutland-crescent, Glasgow, were alarmed at finding
the first-floor parlour windows open and a ladder standing
upon the road, and against the casement. Silver plate
and.other articles lay within reach ; but nothing was re-
moved, except a bottle of 15etehnp, and a china plate with
confectionaries—the plate itself being found on the grass
plat before the door. Their preservation from plunder
was owing to a cockatoo in the house, which is accustomed
to raise itsynotes whenever an unusual sound is heard
during the-night; and it is presumed that it had held
forth the moment the stealthy tread of the intruders fell
upon its ear. The thieves hearing sounds so wild and un-
natural must have conceived that the evil one was de-
nouncing them, and made a rapid exit SeCOrdiolleY•
DESTRUCTION OF A RAILWAY STATION.—Of all the
accidents connected with the history of the railway, it is
difficult to conceive of one more singular in character, or
more destructive in extent, than that which occurred on
Wednesday night, at the Great Western Railway Station,
in Reading, by which the shed, covering one of the plat-
forms, was levelled with the ground, but without the loss
of a single life. The goods train from Basingstoke is due
every night about ten o'clock, and made its appearance at
the usual time. The side flap of one of the trucks was
hanging down, so ao to come in contact with the pillars,
and as the train was going at a considerable speed,. the
flap struck with great force against each successive pillar,
forcing them out of the
Perpendicular , and as it struck
the last, the principals across the upper part of the shed
gave way, and the whole fell in from the centre with a
tremendous crash, and burying a number of empty car-
riages in the debris. The conductor, driver, and stoker
on the goods train escaped uninjured,' though a portion of
the building fell on some of the trucks in that train Had
the accident occurred a few minutes later, the sacrifice of
life must have been very great. The down mail
VMS due at 10.12, and at the time of the roof falling was
within view : it would have had to remain under the roof
while passengers alighted and the mail bags were fx-
ehanged, and the stoppage of carriages usually occurring
beneath the centre of the shed, the result could not have
been other than most disastrous.

STEAM-ENGINES SENT ABROAD.—It is shown by official
returns that in the month ending the sth ult. the value of
steam-engines exported was £36,710.
SECRETARY OP STATE FOR SCOTLAND.—The Conven-
tion of Royal Burghs has forwarded a memorial to her
Majesty, praying for the appointment of a Secretary of
State for Scotland.— Scotsman.
THE REV. HENRY H. DUKE, M.A., vicar of Westbury,
Wilts, has been elected Mayor of that borough for the
next year : it is seldom that a clergyman fills the muni-
cipal chair.
THE GREAT NORTHERN COMPANY have, it is said,
offered Lord Fitzwilliam £60,000 a year for his coal mines,
on a lease for fifty years. A considerable portion of the
coals supplied to the Great Northern come from the pits
of his lordship.
POOR REMOVAL.—From a return, it appears that the
number of paupers who became chargeable in 1852, under
the Poor Removal Act of 1840, was 643,860, and that the
cost of maintenance and relief to such removable poor was
£023,961.

OFFENCES IN WonEuorsEs.—From a parliamentary
document it appears that the number of inmates of work-
houses who were committed to prison during the year
1852 for offences committed while they were such inmates
Was—in England, 1,760; and in Wales, 28 ; total, 1,788.
PROPOSED HYDRAULIC RAILWAY.—A new style of
railway, substituting water for atmospheric pressure, has
been proposed both here and in France, with a view to
economical working and security from accident. The
actuating power is to be obtained by means of continuous
water power between the rails by artificial pressure. The
water power is worked by peculiar mechanical arrange-
ment, and it is proposed to place the apparatus at distances
of 300 feet along the line. _ _ _

THE BARNSTAPLE BRIBERY COMMISSION.—The chief ,
commissioner (Mr. Michael Prendergast), at the termina-
ltion of the proceedings, delivered an address, in which he
I had
expressed his sorrow at what been proved to have
taken place in a town where the Gospel was preached from
the pulpits of the various churches and chapels. Several
of the dissenting ministers, in consequence, agreed last
week to hold "special, religions services for humiliation,
prayer, and exhortation, in reference to the recently,maui- .
fested corruptions in the borough." Meetings for prayer
were accordingly held, and addresses were delivered on
"moral purity,"—the most interesting fact being that
many of the preachers received £6 each for their votes.
A HASTY WEDDING.—About a month ago, a well-
known character in the neighbourhood of Leigh, who lately
• came. into possession of about £l,OOO, was drinking at a
public-house in Leigh, and becoming communicative in-
formed the landlord that he was about to get married to a
woman he named.. The landlord not approving his choice
called in a buxom widow, " fair, fat, and forty," who gained
a livelihood by washing, and introduced her to the sigher
after matrimonial bliss, as just the sort of wife he required.
After a very brief conversation he offered her marriage,
and, as a proof of his sincerity, presented her with about
£4OO and a gold watch and chain. The necessary pre-
liminaries having been arranged, the marriage was solemn-
lsed at the parochial chapel, Hindley, on last Monday
week. The interesting event has excited much talk in the
t neighbourhood, the parties being between 60 and 70
years of age.
CAPTURE OF AN OUTLAWED GOLD-DIGGER.-011
Thursday Michael Thomas Stacey Welsh was captured at
Southampton, under the following circumstances :—Some
years ago Welsh was made a bankrupt, but he had previ-
ously disposed of his stock, &c., as a draper, which busi-
ness he had carried on at Romford, Essex. He absconded,
. and, in due course, was proclaimed at outlaw, and nothing
I more was heard of him until about three weeks ago. It
was then ascertained that Welsh, after his bankruptcy,
made Australia the place of his refuge. Here he became
a dealer in gold, and amassed above £8,000; he returned
to England about a month since, in the Indus ; he visited
the metropolis, where he gave sumptuous entertainments
at some of the first-rate hotels, and his lavishness to the
employ6s impeded the officers in eliciting information. A
satisfactory clue was at length obtained to his movements,
and Mr. Walker, one of the trade assignees under the
bankruptcy, proceeded ou Wednesday to Southampton,
and found that Welsh had taken a berth on board the
Hermione, lying in those docks. Mr. Walker succeeded
in effecting the capture of Welsh, when it was found that
he was possessed of above £7,000 in gold, and -other pro-
perty. Russell, the detective officer, was then despatched
with a warrant, to bring the delinquent up to London,
with the view to his committal to Newgate ; and of course
all the creditors under the bankruptcy will obtain their
debts in full. _

EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE.—At the Westminster
Police-court, on Wednesday, a quiet-looking, elderly
woman, solicited the magistrate's assistance under the
following circumstances :—Applicant complained that her
daughter, a girl of 17, had gone through the ceremony of
marriage without being blessed with a husband. It was,
of course, at the time of the nuptials, supposed that she
was being united to one of the other sex, and they went:
to York to spend the honeymoon, but her daughter, to
her great surprise, discovered that she had been married
to a woman in male attire, and the mother of three chil-
dren. Applicant stated that the pseudo-husband was first ,
introduced to her in female attire, under the name of
Mrs. Panton, but, after an intimacy of some months,
suddenly appeared in the costume of a gentleman, an-
nonncing himself as Mr. Albert Guelph, and declaring
that he was issue of George IV. and Queen Caroline, but
hat for certain reasons his existence had hitherto been .
kept a profound secret, but that his love for her fair
daughter had wrung it from his heart, and induced him 1
to appear in the becoming habiliments of his own sex, in
' lieu of the feminine attire he had been disguised in for
years, by direction of a very benign old lady, who met
him periodically in Park-lane, and supplied him with
cash ad libitum. As he dressed very fashionably, and
always had plenty of money, applicant, believing the story,
consented to their nuptials, particularly as the soi-disant
Mrs. Panton and her daughter had, upon the occasion of
little visits, slept together before, and so Miss Robins
changedier name for Mrs. Guelph, on the 12th of Sept.,
18b2, by license, at Highgate Church, but, alas ! soon dis-
covered that Mrs. Penton was a woman after all, although
endeavours were made for a considerable time to induce a
contrary notion.
1 ELOPEMENT, AND CAPTURE OP TEE LADY.—A short
time since, one of those exciting affairs, an elopement,
disturbed the equanimity of the quiet village of Bures.
A blooming damsel of sweet eighteen—the only child of
a respectable farmer• in the neighbourhood—had been
wooed, and, so far as her consent was concerned, fairly
won, by a veterinary surgeon, somewhere about Sudbury ;
but the powerful veto of the parents had been put upon
the match, and when they met it was by stolen interviews.
True love, and especially love at eighteen, could not long
bear the restraint, so at one of their evening rambles it
was arranged that the lady Should dry up her tears of
disappointment, take to herself the husband of her choice
without saying". by your leave" to papa, and set up house-
keeping on her own account. How to evade suspicion was
the question ; but the wit of the lady speedily hit upon a
mode, and instead of resorting to rope ladders and post-
chaise,and pistols, she stole softly out, and ensconced herself
in her father's van, just as it was about to leave for the
mill, and under .cover of some friendly sacks she contrived
to reach the railway station, and was quickly whirled to
Sudbury. When -the bird had fairly flown, the conscience
of the maid servant, who was in the secret, began to grow
uneasy, till at "length she betrayed all to the parents.
Instantly whip and-spur were in requisition, and a fiery
horse, and a load to match, went at topmost speed to
Sudbury, where thelady was captured, torn away from the
arms of her lover, and borne back in triumph, leaving the
veterinary surgeen,--like " the last rose of summer," to
wither alone. The lady has since been hidden in the wil-
derness of London, krader•the protecting care of mamma,
-till she arrives at the age of discretion.—Essex Herald.
ROMANCE IN Rna.t, LHT.—At Rutland Assizes, in
March, 1841, Samuel 'Oareby, alias Kirby, aged 21, and
George Bell, aged 26, bath of Stamford,, were convicted of
,slaughtering a sheep, and sentenced to ten years' trans-
portation. A wedding tad been arranged between Kirby
and a young woman named Sarah Anne Bunning, who
was enciente by him; lint the conviction prevented its
solemnisation. At the time the offence was committed,
'Bunning was sleeping in the house of Kirby's mother;
and on its coming to their knowledge that suspicion at-
-±ached to Kirby of having.slaughtered a sheep, steps were
immediately taken to remove some mutton from the pre-
mises ; and as Bunning was seen by William Dougworth,
a ,gamekeeper in the employ-of Lord Exeter, to take from
under her clothes a shoulder of mutton, and throw it over
a hedge in the George close, •she also was apprehended on
suspicion of being implicated in the offence. She, however,
was, discharged, but compelled to become a witness against
her sweetheart. Upon sentence being pronouneed, a
painful scene was witnessed in eourt ; the young woman
shrieked, threw herself upon her -lover's neck, and became
overpowered with grief. Kirby -afterwards averred that
he had nothing to do with slaughtering the sheep, but
being about to be married he aceepk4l of the mutton that
had been .taken to his mother's 'house. Sarah Anne
Bunning •obtained a livelihood for herself and child by
making stays; and latterly she had 'been in the habit of
visiting the ndighbouring villages for the purpose of re-
ceiving orders. One day last week shelled been to Mor-
cott on buaipess, and entered a railway carriage at Luffen-
ham station to return to Stamford. There were several
men in the_carriage, one of whom eventually find his eyes
so intently on upon her that she was induced to change

- .
her position, with the view of escaping the apparent rucie-
ness. The man recognised the features of his new fellow-
traveller, and again " catching her eyes," exclaimed, " I'm
the man, I'm the man." The voice of Samuel Kirby, to
whom she was to have teen married eleven or twelve years
ago, then fell upon •her ears, and this extraordinary meet-
ing led to her having 'hysterical fits in the carnage. She
regained her consciousness, and the train approached
Stamford. On alighting at the station both proceeded to
the female's home in Water-street, where it was speedily
Arranged that the long postponed wedding should forth-
-with take place. A license was procured without delay,
and on Saturday the marriage was celebrated at St. Mar-
tin's Church. It appeared that after Kirby obtained his
liberty he proceeded to the old diggings, where he was
successful. He then resolved upon ,coming to England, to
offer his hand to his old sweetheart, and to return with
her to Australia. On the day the nuptials were celebrated
Kirby gave his wife £6OO to take care of, and they pro-
ceeded to London to receive another large sum from the
Australian hank.—Stamford Mercury,

HOLLOWAY 94 OINTMENT AND PILLS, EFFOCTUAL RE.
MEDIES FOR ULCERATED SORE LEGS.-EXtFSCI of a letter
from Mr. Mackentie, of Industry, Montego Bay, Jamaica,
dated Sept. 25, 1854, to Mr. Melhado, agent for that district:
—Dear Sir,—you may, no dout, be surprised at the nume-
rous calls I make upon you for Holloway's pills and oint-
ment. It is not to cure any ills of my own that I use them,
but to alleviate the sufferings of the poor about me. I have
by their means just caused a dreadfully ulcerated leg to be
cured, and I have another case in hand, which has been bad
for twenty-four years, and from former experience I expect
that it will be healed also.

BLAIR'S GOUT AND BYIRVIIATIC Pm!. Extract of a
letter written by John Molar(' Wheeler, Esq.,. Collector of
Customs, Jamaica. having been.
. handed his brother, at
Swindon, to Mr. Prout, for publication .
Iknow you have
never had occasion to take Blair's. Pills, but let me emphati-
cally tell you, in mercy to any friend who may suffer from
gout, rhuematic gout, lumbago, .sciatica, rheumatism, or any
branch of that widely-allied family, to recommend their using
them. In this country they are of wonderful efficacy ; not
only am I personally aware of their powers, but I see my
friends and acquaintances receiving unfailing benefit from
their use. I would not be without them -
on any account. It
taken in the early stage of disease they dissipate it altogether •
if in a later, they alleviate pain, and effect a much speedier
cure, than by any other means within my knowledge." Sold
by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London; and by all respectable
Nfedicine VeMi(ls throughout the United Kingdom, ?rice
26. 9d. per box --

31R. BAINBRIGGE'S LECTURES ON
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE MIND.

ON Friday evening, W. H. Bainbrigge, Esq., F.R.C.S.,
delivered, at the Collegiate Institution, the second lecture
of his series on the Physiology of the Mind ; and the
great purposes of education as training man, during his
infancy on earth, for his immortality in Heaven. The
audience was of a highly respectable and influential cha-
racter, and 'much more numerous than on the previous
occasion ; including members of most of the principal
families in Liverpool and its vicinity. The reception
given to the accomplished lecturer was most cordial, and
respectful in the highest degree.
He proceeded to remark, that it is only when we con-
template the miseries resulting from ignorance, that we
can estimate the value of knowledge. Disease and penury,
injury to the fine mechanism of the bodily organs,•and
declension of the mental powers, result from the unexer-
cised intellect of man ; while the cultivation of true
knowledge elevates the child of earth into the heir of
Heaven. A wide—an illimitable—field of knowledge pre-
sents its fair vista to the inquiring mind ; and just as
man devotes himself to contemplation, what at first I
appeared to be the horizon limiting research, opens and
presents to view a boundless extent of unexplored sub-
jects, the investigation of which is dependant on the will
alone. Knowledge impels to higher and still higher
points of elevation ; but ignorance, the result—almost
the synonyme—of idleness, induces a downward tendency,
assimilating human nature with that of the lower crea-
tures of creation. In promoting our well-being, know-
ledge has a two-fold operation ; the first unfolding those
great physiological facts which tend to the preservation
of the body, and the development of physical organisation ;
the second throwing its light upon the mind, opening
new fields of wonder— new glories in creation—new ma-
nifestations of the Divine mind. We may, indeed, talk
of the "good old times ;" but this our own age, on inves-
tigation, will be found to be the world's meridian glory.
If there were corporeal giants in the early times, we can
boast colossal minds. Yet even knowledge may be per-
verted, and it is ever productive of evil if it be not active for
good. Never was there a period in which false systems had
greater success—never one in which unfounded pretensions
were made to look more specious than the present. That
most fatal form of error, truth perverted, challenges philoso-
phy itself ; and mixed with a portion of ackowledged truth,
it recommends itself to minds too indolent to prosecute
investigation. As one instance, look at America. There
a people emulous of superiority in arts and arms, is de-
luded by the monstrous absurdity of "spirit rapping." ' In
the absurdities of this delusion, we may see the value of
having a right direction given to the pursuit of knowledge,
so as to render it effectual in advancing human happiness.
It was in mercy that our great Creator made the progres-
sion of our mind dependent on the development of our
bodily organization. It is because the mental faculties are
weak and powerless, that childhood is joyous in the re-
dundancy of its growth, fearless because ignorant of danger
and evil, and happy beyond all thought. From these and
many causes, it is necessary that we should practise the
strictest uniformity in our system of education. With
children it must ever be " line upon line, and precept upon
precept." The labour is never completed, and nothing but
love and duty can keep the mind close to a work that has
no end. Strong in either of these motives, doubly strong
in both, the parent will go on uniform in action, correct in
principle, and just in the application of well-arranged
discipline.
Having inculcated the indispensable necessity of stimu-
lating and maintaining self-respect in the youthful mind,
the lecturer next proceeded to a consideration of memory,
observing that, in all systems of education, the faculty
called memory is that on which its progress mainly de-
pends. The fashion of the present day is to assume that
children should not be required to learn what they are un-
able to understand ; it is plausible enough to declaim
against the old-fashioned tyranny of exacting long lessons
to be repeated by rote, the matter of the lessons being
beyond the comprehension of the child ; but let us see
what nature says, and leave the matter to her guidance.
It is an unmistakable fact, that memory is the first avail-
able faculty placed at our disposal. The babe remembers,
while in all else the mind is a blank. Which of us
would say a child should not be taught, at least, its
prayers until it could be made to comprehend the great
existence which it is taught to cry to as " Our Fa-
ther, which art in Heaven?" Forbearing to employ the
memory, until the other faculties are developed, must
greatly cripple the course of education. Do not let us
imagine that memory, in the young, can lie wholly in-
active. It will exercise itself, and that on things useless
—often highly injurious. We all know how easily a child
can learn long passages by heart, which we, in our ma-
turity, would find almost an impossible undertaking, even
with the readiest knowledge on the subject. The reason
is clear. In different stages of life, we require the services
of our different faculties, in greater or less degrees. The
mind of the child has been fitted by the Divine Being for
the ready reception of that material on which the other
faculties are afterwards to operate. Memory accumulates
' a magazine of facts, without which, talent is helpless ;
and even genius must fly with a clipped wing. Since
everything that is new, can only be fresh combinations of ,
i the old, neither talent nor genius can exercise their
' strength unfurnished with these stores of the intellect,
which memory alone supplies. As life advances, and the
other faculties come into operation, this, which is so be-
neficial a preparatory, gradually loses something of its
vigour. Where it has been well trained it continues a
most useful aid ; but where it has been neglected it falli"
into ready desuetude, which no after effort can counteract.
The child learns its lesson, exercising the one function of
the brain, but leaving that organ undisturbed by other
operations. Gradually other faculties successively take up
the intellectual labour, working on the materials acquired
by memory, and without which they could do nothing.
By the operations of memory the child lays up those stores
of facts gradually to be rendered available as life rolls on ;
invaluable, too, for combination, illustration, and all the
purposes of mental chemistry. Comprehension, combina-
tion, deduction, reflection, the various operations of the
mind reciprocally give and receive assistance, working in
advantageous harmony, but memory undoubtedly stands
alone and independently, although a clear comprehension
. of any subject facilitates the operations of memory, and
stamps the images more vividly and permanently on its
tables.

Vague ideas necessarily engender vague recollections, and
dreamy reminiscences are as valueless as the fleeting sha-
dows which surround our pillows. The power of fixing
the attention ought to be most carefully cultivated in
every system of education. Excellence in any walk of
life can never be attained without it. Excellence on any
point, be it ever so trivial, will never wait on divided
thoughts. The ability to concentrate the mind, fixing it
at will on the proposed subject, and bringing all its best
faculties to bear upon it, may be acquired, and, by the
' judicious management of the parent or preceptor, soon
confirmed into an invaluable habit. Nothing great or
good can be done without it. By means of this power,
some of the greatest evils of onr nature are remedied and
I counterbalanced. Possessing this, we are enabled to rise
1 above that dissipation of thought which often leads the
wandering thinker into so much evil. This power gives
us the ability to fix our attention on the wholesome and
the good, and to banish from us those temptations which
throw the scattered ideas into confusion, and make them
as often range themselves under the wrong banner as the
. right, too frequently yielding the victory to the spirit of
evil. As regards the interests of this world, it would be
difficult to find any power so valuable ; but when we
think how mach its influence may affect our position in
connexion with the interests of another world, probably
no point in the whole range of educational effort can vie
with it in the vast importance of its endless consequences.
It is of the. utmost value to press this consideration
upon all minds, because it comprises one of those physio-
-1 logical deductions which prove to us in what way the
means entrusted to our care, in the existing present, may
affect the eternal future to which it is ever leading on.
The power of fixing the mind upon one given subject, is
not more valuable for the interests of this world, than it
is for that which is to come. Who can tell into what in-
fectious atmosphere, among what pit-falls and precipices
a wandering mind may stray ? The more luxuriant the
imagination, the greater the danger. Even in our most
solemn moments, what trains of idling, distorted thoughts
may pass between us and the one pure idea that should
then engross every sensient faculty. How deeply do the
best of us bewail these distractions, finding that we have
lost this power over ourselves ? In after Years, except
for the good of the intention, most of us struggle fruit-
lessly against the evil. It is in early youth that a child
should he taught this power. The thoughtless gaiety of
those bright days may obstruct our exertions in fixing
upon the youthful mind the importance of this lesson!
Such inquiries as those referred to, naturally lead us to
a consideration based upon them, of the proportion of
labour to be required from the brain in the course of edu-
cation. Nothing can be of greater importance than clear-
ness of views upon this subject. The difficulty lies in
the scale being an ever varying one. That which is easy
to one species of organization, and in one stage of de-
velopment, is difficult, even impossible to another. It is no
strained hypothesis to say that physiology influences the ci-
vilization and refinement, as well as the morality of every
country. The heights of its intellectual tides are marked
in the histories of nations : they depend upon education :
education depends upon physiology : and thus physiology
affects the well-being, physically as well as mentally, of
every land upon the surface of the earth. It is, then, our
duty carefully to ascertain the extent of mental power
which we may calculate upon in the organization of the
child.
To.effect the best practical development of the youthful
intellect, we have seen the impropriety of applying se-
verity—the evils which follow on its application—bow it
alienates the will and stultifies the faculties. Let us con-
sider what the contrary course may lead to. We may
invite to effort, and approve the effort with encourage.
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spirit will breathe animation into all its workings, invigo-
rate the body, infuse an elastic energy into the whole
system, and thus the processes of education will be ren-
dered as agreeable as they are successful.
In all the processes of mental training we must bear in
mind the potency of will. The will of man has u con red
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Dacron. The will enables men to endure privation and
suffering, which endured it, must needs prove
mortal. It has inspired men with the capability of per-
forming acts of heroism far beyond their natural powers
and under its influence women have deedsaccomplished;
for which their sex and corporeal structure alike unfitted
them. In his last published volume of the history of
Europe, Sir Archibald Alison furnishes us with a physio-
logical fact which bears upon this subject. Lord Ex-
mouth, undertaking his well-known expedition against
Algiers, would receive none but volunteers to share
with him the danger which was looked on
as extreme. Thus the first enrolment was
an act of the will, and the consequence was, that the
' mental energy so bouyed up the spirits of the men, that
throughout the cruise scarcely a name was ever found
upon the sick-list; and when the Queen Charlotte was
paid oft; on her return home, " only one man had died,
excepting those slain in action, out of a thousand who had
joined her three months before." See, then, the power of
will, even in the preservation of life. Perception and

combination lead on to the formation of just judgment. so
necessary to the right appreciation of all things. We are
daily struck with instances of ignorance, awkwardness,
and inaptness in various individuals, and we are apt tO
think them belonging to an inferior formation ; but the
conclusion is a wrong one.• Their ma-adroitness only
springs from want of the just exercise of those faculties
with which they may have been as richly endowed as
others who may at the same time be making distinguished
figures in life. The simplest thing is strange to the most
talented, coming in its newness. See, then, the necessity
for early practice of the various functions of our organiza-
tion, both mental and bodily. If we neglect their cultiva-
tion, at the periods nature has appointed, imagining that
at-some future time, when they are more expanded they
,
will prove in a higher degree fruitful, we might as reason-
ably expect to gather our harvests when we sow- our land..
Our work must be done in the morning of life. It is true,
that in later periods of life, the will has accomplished Her-
culean labours ; but experience sufficiently proves that the
omission of early education can never be supplied. There
is a softness in the texture of the brain which leaves it
open to impressions, becoming more and more indelible
as it gains stability, while, as the process is advancing,
the difficulty of fixing any mould upon it goes on increas
ing. This is the reason we all remember the most trivial
circumstances of our youth better than the events of riper
years ; and thus it is that the Divine Being has fitted
youth for the reception of that teaching so essential to the
well-being of after-life.
After remarking at considerable length upon the im-
mense value of cheerfulness and sweetness of temper, in
all our dealings and intercourse with children, Mr. Bain-
brigge eloquently and convincingly pointed out the advan-.
vantages both to the teacher and to the taught,—to the
parent and to the child,—of mutual and implicit confi-
dence in all their intercourse and employments. He.then,
after painfully picturing the consequences of neglect upon
childhood, and contrasting it with the results of a judicious
and careful training, concluded by saying, all the advan-
tages of this life are transitory. The goods of fortune are
precarious. We may accumulate wealth, and bequeath it
to our offspring ; • and yet, who can say it shall not melt
away like snow in the sunshine ? If we can bequeath vir-
tue, a good name, and unblemished reputation, these are
things over which time can exercise no power. Temporal
possessions may pass into other hands ; but a mind en-
lightened by intelligence, and a heart trained into habits,.
which not only fit the individual for the duties of the pre-
sent life, but prepare him for the fruition of a more glo-
rious state, are gifts more valhable than the world with all
its splendour can bestow. They are beyond the power of
fortune; of which neither time nor chance can deprive him.
The effects of a well-directed education, even in a single-
child, may conduce to the temporal and eternal welfare of
multitudes yet unborn. _

The lecture ws.s attentively and earnestly listened to
throughout, the interest evinced by those present seeming
to grow with its progress. The third lecture of the series
will, be delivered in the same place on Friday evening next.