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which I have made and what have I then ?" But educate
them with reference to both worlds, for heaven as well as
earth, and then, when time and change shall have passed
away you have prepared them for eternity, in which you
hope henceforward to be fellow,dwellers with them, and
in the sight of that eternal being in whom was the full-
ness and the perfection of their happiness. But the reso-
lution went on to say the meeting were called upon to
educate as members of the Church of England the middle
Classes of society. Here he confessed at once a strong
sense of duty with some mixture of shame, for whilst he
believed that the church to which he belonged was
the first daughter of Christ's holy catholic church, and
however well others might have done, she had surpassed
them
all, he still thought there was something in which she
had been deficient with reference to the education of the
middle classes. Let us remember the great importance of
the middle classes—what they were—that they stood be-
tween the lower ranks and the higher—that the lower were
continually pressing themselves into the middle class, and
that from the middle class were continually arising those who
classes
occupy stations .in the higher. In short, the middle
asses were the shaft of the column, the lower orders were
the pedestal itself, and the higher orders, as told by the
great master of eloquence, were the Corinthian capital of the
column- If the capital was to stand, and if the pedestal was
not to be a mere ruin, the shaft itself must be strong—polish
it if you please, and flute it, but let it be strong—
ataskyeousucelsinrterials as you find, but work them as well
otherwise that which was intended to be
the support of them, one to stand upon the other, the
whole would be an inharmonious object, the beauty would be
.or unsightly and ruinous affair. He hoped he might be al-
wed to express his conviction, that if an education suitable
to the middle classes was to be provided for them, it must be
Something like our ordinary and old-fashioned grammar-
aehools, upon which should be engrafted such improvements
as the rapid strides in science made necessary, and as was due
to the advancement of the age. Such an education as used
to be given but which was now almost passed away. He
Could remember the relics of that former age, and men
brought up in the grammar-schools in the north of England,
tarmers and petty statesmen, who could take their Horace
out at dinner time, and their geometry, and solve quadrate
equations under a hedge, and who were not a whit less fit, as
tartness and citizens, for their duties. That race of men had
now passed away. Those men ranked with the Saurians and
tmegatheriutns of other days : they were gone, but we must
tash
try to get them back. We must have some such education
as is. There must be an education—a spiritual and reli-
go education, which mould not allow us a fashionable
anode
.ec of education, but demanded the thoughts, minds, and af-
t moms of men toextendthemselves into the vague and vagrant
generalities, to wander in the darkest regions of theoretical and
practical atheism. We must have a spiritual charge, with
intellectual education, which by a sweet'.ind curious but
powerful convergency should direct all to the great point of
love to God. It was thus wd must act. We must not allow
them to have an , edueationawhich would. carry every man
upon the wings of his own selfishness, whither those wings
might carry him, but which would make the community just
like God's people, when journeying through the wilderness,
When each arranged hiniself under the standard of his tribe,
and all around the ark of God, and when the ark stopped
they e topped, and when the cloud and par of fire went
before them;so the whole went in beautifulill and exact order
towards the promised land, whither they were directing their
steps. Such he said was the education we were called upon
to-give to the middle classes. It must be an education
Which, if he might be allowed the expression, would give
some antagonist development to those developments which
Were now so continually brought before us. Those develop-
ments concerning either the lower passions and appetites, or
antnething relating to the intellectual faculties ; and these
were being brought forward and exhibited and developed, to
to the danger and detriment of others of far higher moment.
And we must call out the benevolence, and the hope, and the
Conscientiousness, and whatever was necessary, not merely to
give beauty, to exhibit the beauties of form, tune, order, time,
and so on ; language if you pleased, but which should coun-
teract them whensoever they were dangerous, and give
them their true directions and noblest impulse whenever they
were properly directed. If this were our duty with reference
to the education of the middle and lower classes of society,
it must be asked what was the instrumentality wherewith
we should do this work. He answered it was the instru-
mentality of the church. What did he mean by the church
Did he mean something vague and undefined, something of
an etherial nature and an invisible and impalpable cha-
racter, something of which there must be a high and grow-
ing estimate formed in the mind as of many other unsub-
stantial realities, but which no man could grasp and pass
through their fingers like quicksilver? Did he speak of
something which the Son of God had himself ordained,
grounded upon himself as the chief corner stone, upon the
apostles and prophets, himself being the chief corner stone
--an institution meant to shew that God had a kingdom
upon earth, and to bring man into it, not as a kingdom of
meat and drink, but which was righteousness, peace, and
joy, in the Holy Ghost? This was the object f the church.
And what was the church ? Not the bishops and arch-
bishops, and clergy, the priests and deacons merely : they
were effectually and necessarily part of it, but it had been
well observed by the Bishop of London, it was the artisan
in his workshop, the merchant in his office, the pleader
in the court of justice, it was every man and woman in
every place in their station, from the Queen upon the
throne to the lowest peasant in the land. (Cheers.) This
was the church—the catholic church, and that portion of the
catholic church which Christ had established in these realms
—the Church of England. (Hear.) She was called upon
to be the ark in which the truth of God was placed, even as
the tables of the covenant were placed in the chest beneath
the mercy seat in the Holy of Holies ; therefore it was her
duty to spread the knowledge of that truth. Oh ! if they
could send as ministers a greeting every man of them to their
households and their congregations respectively, an address
to the church in that house, it would be a very easy thing
to educate the people. We should then find that every man
would be a prophet, a priest, and a king in his own family—.
that he was'doing the office of prophet according to God's
ordinance to teach them the way of life, and the truth, as
well as useful learning ; of priest, to carry the intercessions
of pity and love to the throne of grace; and of king, to go-
vern the family according as the laws which God had appointed.
It would then be delightful to go and enter that house, say-
ing, " Peace be upon this house," knowing that the blessing
of the Son of Peace rested upon it, and that it was go-
verned according- to his laws and regulations. And then
we should see that every family duty would be made
snore endearing by tht spirit in which it was discharged,

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and every family -trial lessened. by being borne Vin con-
formity with 'the r family enjoyments would
be doubled by being so assimilated, and family divi-
sions would be held as it were as a kind of schism in the body
of Christ, which men would shun and shrink from. But it
was not so ; and as the church was the depository of the
truth, it was her duty to extend that.truth; as the witness
for God, it was her duty to extend the knowledge of Jesus;
and as she was the mother into whose care was committed
every child received into her embrace and pale by baptism ;
so it was her duty to hear continually God's word, which
said, " Nurse this child for me ; not merely for a trade, for
au occupation, for a scientific discovery, for place high in
letters or arms, or whatever ground of distinction you please ;

but nurse this child for me, and I will give thee thy wages
in that child's present comfort and usefulness as it grows up,
in its suitable and fitting membership with the great body of
Jesus Christ, and in its future prospects as an heir of glory—
nurse this child for me." This was the language of the
Church of England' with regard to her children generally,
and certainly so with regard to the education which was to
prepare them, as consistent members of her body, and in an
especial manner of the body of Jesus Christ. Now religion,
Which was the mistress and superintendent of all right in-
struction, according to what they had heard from the
Chancellor's recital, _must alsabe .the superintendent of
general education ; and he would ask, into whose hands
should that education be most fitly entrusted ? Should it
not be entrusted as to its supervision to the clergy of the
Church of England ? He spoke as one of them, and so with
reference to the common good of this great matter, would
magnify his office: Should it be said that the clergy of the
Church of England should feed, according to the Saviour's
can:mend, the sheep of the fold of Christ, and not also feed
the lambs of Christ, according to the same command ? If
they were worthy of being ministers, to supply the grown
People with the stronger meat of higher gospel truth for prac-
tical and experimental religion, should they not also be
thought worthy of supplying the milk whereby the babe
should be freely nourisned up to its high destination? He
repudiated the charge brought against the clergy of the
Church of England, of being hostile to the advancement of
knowledge. The advancement of knowledge had been de-
rived from our universities—from those universities one of
which had educated the hon. gentleman near him, who had
expressed his hope that she might be a fountain of blessings,
spiritual, civil, and political, to the present and future times,
to this and other lands. From this and the other university
which the Chancellgr had mentioned, his own beloved Alma
Mate, , was owing the protection and extension of knowledge;
through many a slumbering century they were the cradles in
which that knowledge was nurtured, and now they wished to
communicate it throughout the length and breadth of the
land, under the blessing of God. The rev. gentleman then
proceeded to comment most eloquently upon the efficiency of
the church as an instrument of education—a position which
he clearly established ; and he concluded by moving the re-
solution.
W. E. GLADSTONE, Esq., M.P., then rose amidst very
marked and lengthened applause. He said—The resolution
which I have undertaken to second, in the presence of this
great and influential assembly, has been already read to you
by the rev. gentleman who preceded me, to the effect that
the education of. the middle and labouring classes ought to
engage the diligent attention of the established church. ,Now,
this is a proposition which, in the eyes of some of those pre-
sent, and at the present stage of the business, may have the
appearance almost of a truism ; and yet, notwithstanding, I
will venture to say that it is one containing a sentiment which
involves every question now contested between the friends
and opponents of scriptural and religious education. (Hear,
hear.) It is not held by any great or influential party, that
education ought to be communicated to men without the ac-
• companiment of religion .;—we have not yet arrived to such
a height of audacity as that any party maintaining such a pro-
position, should meet with'any considerable amount of ac-
ceptance from Englishmen. On the other hand, we have
not now to contend with the honest prejudices of some of those
who were once inclined to believe that we are to seek, in the
ignorance of the people, for the safety and permanency of our
institutions. We do not believe that man can be benefited
by the continuation of ignorance—that good can be generated
by the torpor of those faculties which God has given to us.
Go where e e will, we find it generally admitted that the peo-
ple ought be educated, and religiously educated too. The
question at issue—the question on which the result of all
these schemes of education depends—the question on which
hangs the alternative, whether education shall issue in the
greatest blessing or the most terrific curse that can befal man-
kind, is whether religion ought to be treated as a single and
isolated science, as a mere matter of scientific attainment, or
whether it ought to be a vital principle pervading every ele-
ment and topic of instruction, as the soul to which every other
topic is as the body. (Cheers.) Now, it is because we main-
tain strongly the one of these alternatives, and because we
deprecate the other, that the resolution I am now speaking to
is to-day proposed to this meeting. If it be true, as it is often
asserted, that religion may separated from the general matter
of instruction, then, indeed, it does not appey- on what ground
we venture to assert that education ought to engage the at-
tention of the church. It is said by many, whose delusions
on this subject I have ever deplored, " let the church teach
that which belongs to her ; let her not intrude into a pro-
vince which does not belong to her ; let her instruct
the people in the doctrines of genuine Christianity, but
not attempt to engross in her own hand the general educa-
tion of the kingdom." A more plausible sophism was never
uttered. It comes attended with many winning considera-
tions, with promises of peace and harmony on the one hand,
_ and with a representation on the other, that if we persist in
contending for the union of religious and general education,
we shall be persisting in maintaining among the people a
cause of perpetual discord. lam not insensible to the insi-
nuating nature of this representation ; but, nevertheless, I
Say that to that cause which is the cause of truth we must
give the first consideration, and that that which is the cause
of truth will likewise be found to be the cause of peace, and
that that. which promises to be the cause of peace and cha-
rity, and which disregards those principles from which peace
and charity can alone flow, will ultimately be found one of
the darkest delusions with which the human mind was ever
afflicted. Why is it that we are called upon to resist the
plausibility of those who contend for the division of religious
and general education ? Nothing can be more equitable than
theintentions of many among the number of those who con-
tend for the division ; nothing can be more perilous than the
general argument they urge, because it is just that degree of
reasoning that is likely to take those who pay little attention
to the subject. They do not say that education should be
without religion ; but they say, " Let the church give to the

children of the church that education which she thinks pro-
per; only let her confine herself within certain bounds, and
leave the rest free from her influence." That is plausible ;
but it is what we ought to resist to the utmost extremity.
(Much cheering.) I will not attempt to go at large into the
reasons on which that opposition ought to be grounded; but
I will endeavour to give these two reasons for the course
which I have recommended. In the first place, I admit that
in certain branches of culture knowledge may be communi-
sated without religion : that, for instance, to make men phy-
;cians or engineers, or to instruct them in many useful
1 of learning, is a thing that may be done without
.ny direct reference to religion. But even this is not true
of the highest branches of secular knowledge. While speak-
ing of things inanimate, of the powers of nature—how they
may be subdued, and enlisted into the service of man, you
may escape, though through great injustice, from any refer-
ence to religion; but is impossible that you can escape from
to Nature's God. But when you come to the
sciences which involve the nature of man—when you
come to the sciences which involve his destiny—when you
teach man to learn the lessons of wisdom from the re-
cords of experience—when. you come, not into the regions
of moral philosophy, but of history, you are then reduced to
one of two alternatives, either you must have the pupils in-
structed by those who have a sense of the truth of christi-
anity, or you must abandon them to practical infidelity. It
is in vain to teach men history, or anything concerned withhuman hopes and destiny, on ' principles of neutrality.
(Cheers.) The experiment has been tried, and a greater
failure was never exhibited. It must be taught with a sense
of religion, or they will be irreligious. But that it should
be taught with a direct mention of religion may be inferred
from one of the precepts which havebeen given for our gui-
dance, namely, that whatever we do, we are bound to do it
to the glory of God. (Cheers.) I say that if we are bound
to do small and mean things to the glory of God—if we are
told even to eat and drink to the glory of God, how much
more does the command hold good when we talk of subduing
the powers of nature, healing disease, or of putting into ac-
tivity the benevolent operations of art—above all, when we
ascend from the regions of matter to mind, and deal with
the faculties which God has conferred upon us, and with
respect to which man was declared to be made in the image
of God. To refuse o recognise religion in these branches,
is at once to deny that allegiance which we owe to this supre-
macy. (Applause.) Now, the principle on which I contend
that religion ought to pervade all systems of education, and
that no system of education can permanently raise either the
intellectual or physical condition of man, which is not con-
nected throughout with religion, is the principle
,which not
only approves itself in the abstract to our understandings,
but has ever been acted on since the foundation of the ehris-
thin church. I defy any man to name a period since the
christian church existed, at which she has not been the great
promoter of education, (applause,)—and in saying this, I do
not except from the proposition even those ages of darkness
when the mass of men were almost wholly destitute of in-
tellectual culture. Even then, small ae the amount ofm=ist-
ing knowledge was, the great portion of it was to be found in
the seminaries of the church. I say, without fear of offence,
that the monasteries, which afterwards became sinks of
i pol-
lution and corruption, were in their origin established for,
aod. n some degree effected, the maintenance of learning and
civilization ; and that through a long and dreary period,
when the generality of mankind were enveloped in darkness,
those monasteries did rear and send out some of the
greatest men that the world had ever known. But I now
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from the reformation ; and I ask, what was the effect of the
reformation on the measures which were then taken for the
cultivation and advancement of knowledge ? In the first
place, it is fair to say that the reformation gave a facility to
those measures, by the revival of learning ; and I refer to
that as a proof of a proposition of no small importance to
maintain and keep in mind, that the revival of learning was
eminently favourable to the maintenance of Christian truth.
But what followed the reformation with respect to the re-
vival of learning? If we study the subject of endowments
in this country—and a very curious one it is—we shall find,
on the whole, that this is the case. At the period of the
reformation, so far from a check being, given to religious
benevolence, the benignant stream, on the contrary, for a
century and a-half afterwards, flowed more freely and fully
than for the preceding century and a-half, but that it took a
different direction, namely, the founding and endowing of
schools—the very object on which we ourselves are this day
met. (Cheers.) Trace the history of those grammar
sohools which have done so much for the intellectual culture
of this country, and you will find that while few werefounded
in the reign of Henry VII., more were founded in the reign
of Henry-VIII., very many more in that of Edward Vl.
that they went back in the reign of Mary, and advanced
in
that of Queen Elizabeth—(great applause)—and through the
whole of the lith century there was a constant course of
benefactions directed to that great and valuable purpose,
thereby testifying the sense of those who were attached to
the reformation, as it was seen in the Church of England,
and their strong conviction that learning ought to. be aided
in connection with'the church. In the constitution of the
church there were embodied regulations which show how
completely this principle had been accepted and recognised
throughout her whole progress. Even when the chapters
were founded, it was considered one of the duties of the
clergymen there assembled to devote themselves, not only to
the teaching of scientific theology, but to the general educa-
tion of the people.
necessary, instead of dividing the task amongst many, to
concentrate it in one person, an officer was appointed in
every chapter, one whose duty it was to advance the insttuc-
tion of the people. And that officer was—and there is a
peculiar propriety in referring to it, from the
.fact of there
being one gentleman present on whom the title has been
appropriately conferred—the chancellor of the diocese.
(Cheers.) And I must say that if we are to take the speech
which he (the Rev. Chancellor Raikes) has this day deli-
vered as a specimen of his general intentions with respect to
education, or as a specimen of his powers in pleading its
cause before a great assembly, we cannot but be satisfied ;
and I cannot wish any better security for the performance of
the. duties. which the title of his office implies, than the fact
of its having been conferred on a man so zealous and able.
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that it form the foundation of the 'character of man, and be
the guide of every action ; and if It is to be regarded in any
other light—if it is to be treated as a merely speculative
thing, it becomes no better than an antique curiosity—one of
those monsters Of bygone days which were referred to by the
reverend gentleman (the Rel,. Mr. Buddicom), and we might
as well renounce and repudiate it altogether, as to say that
we can retain religion by separating it from the rest of know-
ledge, and base the rest of our life on other principles than
those of the Christian religion. We may well say that the
institution of these diocesan boards come to us commended
not only by an abundance of reasoning, which our own minds
can supply, and of authority which is derived from' universal
practice; and I, for one, am perfectly persuaded that these
institutions will extend, that they will remain, and that all
those theories which go to the inculcation of knowledge with-
out religion may also remain, as evil is not to be banished
entirely from the world ; but that they will never overcome
that true principle on which we stand, that a Christian coun-
try can have no stable advantage which is not penetrated and
pervaded by religious education.. It is true, indeed, that the
interest and excitement of a meeting like the present do not
avail to overcome the difficulties which lie in the course of
those who have an interest in this great work. We, who ap-
pear before you to-day, and lend our humble efforts to this
cause, are not those on whom the heat and burden of the day
falls. It falls on the humble schoolmaster in the remote vil-
lage, it falls on the clergyman in his cure, on such
gentlemen as the one who has undertaken the super-
intendence of the training college of this diocese, on such
men as my honourable friend the secretary, whose
unwearied energies are supported by the hope of your ap-
probation, as well as of future and more enduring rewards.
(Cheers.) Let them persevere in the task which they have
undertaken. Knowledge, I adtnit, may do something ; I
admit 'that scientific pursuits, apart from religion, may do
something to restrain the grosser excesses of vice. But it is
in vain to apply a palliative to the evils of human nature ;
it
it is in vain that we resort to other ways than those which
the Divine authority commands, and whatever may be done
for a time, however we may be deluded by partial successes,
in time the old disease of hunianity recurs with increased
violence, and in a more obstinate‘and aggravated form. To
that disease, we earnestly and humbly desire to apply the re-
medy which God appoints, not because it is the one which we
deem right and expedient, but because it is the one which He
has appointed. And because it is the one which God has ap-
pointed, we are not to be discouraged by opposition, preju-
dice, or lukewarmness, even if that had been greater than it
has been, but are to persevere in confidence with the work
undertaken according to the will of God, through the in-
strumentally of that organization of the church which He
himself has ordained—that work which has received the uni-
versal sanction of the wisest Mee in all countries and through-
out alrages, and which however obscured by temporary dif-
ficulties and obstructions, in the end must be successful in
that measure and in that time and degree which God himself
has ordained. (Great applause.)
The resolution was then unanimously carried.
The. Rev. CHAIRMAN mentioned, that in the list of gen-
tlemen who were absent from the meeting in consequence of
prior engagements, he had not read that of Lord Stanley, the
reason for which was, that the noble lord had no previous
engagement, but had a full intention and desire to be present.
He, however, was absent through. illness. He was confined
to his bed yesterday. when he had lost his voice; but he did
not till the last moment forego the intention and pleasure of
attending, thinking that he might that morning (Thursday)
be so far recovered as to be able to be here. -That hope and
expectation, he (the Chairman) was sorry to say, had been
disappointed ; but he was glad to say that another gentleman
had kindly undertaken, on the spur of the moment, to sup-
ply his lordship's place he referred to the hon. secretary.
The Hon. and Rev. HORACE Powys, Rector of Warring-
ton, then stood up amidst applause, which, having subsided,
he said,—Was there ever, I may ask, a more unfortunate se-
cretary ? My licon. friend (Mr.' Gladstone) says that I have
to do the work behind the scene's, and it now seems that I
have also to do something before the scenes; for I have to
come forward, as on the last occasion, under circumstances
most extraordinarily trying. Last year, I had unexpectedly
to fill the place 'of Lord Francis Egerton, who, with Lord
Stanley, 'was to have been here on the present occasion, but
has been prevented ; and now that it has been announced
that my noble friend (Lord. Stanley) is too ill to comeamong
us, at least with his voice—and to have him here without his
voice would be still more painful—l am again called upon to
fill the situation of an absent' speaker. I hope, therefore,
that you will make all necessary allowances, if, on the spur
of the moment, as the chairman says, I rise to take a resolu-
tion which was not originally intended for me ; and you must
excuse me if I scrupulously avoid, as I intend to do, all those
exciting topics which are usually most popular in a public
meeting, and come down, in the office of secretary, to the
mere explanation of facts, and put my audience in possession
of the details of this society, the principles of which have
been so largely put forth, and-.which, in the resolutions
passed, you have declared your willingress to support, by
promoting education in connection with religion, and to let
that religious education be in connection with the established
church ; by not confiningthat edueation to the labouring class,
or any particular class ; but at the same time declaring that the
middle classes demand and deserve from the church the greatest
degree of attention. The resolution which I have so rashly
undertaken is this—{The speaker read the resolution, which
was to the effect that well-trained teachers slid an improved
system of tuition were requisite for carrying out the plans of
the board.] Arc we, then, to conclude, from the necessity
of such a resolution being proposed to such meeting as the
present, that there is. a deficiency of well-trained teachers to
conduct- edueation on. -well-grounded principles ? Whether
Jou may he disposed to go with me or not, I cannot say ; but
the conclusion I have come to, from some little acquaintance
with the matter,.is
is, that there is a most lamentable deficiency-
of well-trained, spiritually-minded teachers. It may, then,
thatchurch
be very' naturally asked, " Who is to blame for this?" We
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as ever willing to undertake the duty imposed on her by her.
Divinehead. s It was also intimated that there has been for
some time in connection with that church a National Society,
of which the head of the church is-a leading member ' • but in
spite of all that, it is a lamentable fact, that there is a great
and deplorable deficiency of competent and spiritual-minded
men and women to undertake the management of the church
schools. Do I say that the blame. rests on the National So-
ciety ? for the deficiency has. been talked of, not only in the
present day, but in bygone times. I answer, in the name of

the society,—" No ; the blame does not rest there." The
National Society has been placed in this position:—lt has
had to supply the great educational needs of the country ;
but her means have been so limited that it was totally impos-
sible for her to undertake more than the mere multiplying of
schools, trusting to the clergy and local managers to conduct
them on church principles. The society has done its best,
and if the blame lies any where, it lies on the shoulders of
the nation at large, which has not, either through its repre-
sentatives in parliament, or by private contributions, afforded
means to the society to work out the plan which was originally
devised. This plan of the diocesan board, is, in fact, the
original plan of the National Society ; and therefore, you are
now called on to carry out that which would long ago have
been done, except for the lack of funds. The society has
multiplied schools to an amazing extent, and even within
this very district. I believe I speak correctly when I say
that within the diocese of Chester, within a very few years,
she has distributed upwards of X. 37,000. (Hear, hear.) But
some persons may perhaps be disposed to say, " You are too
hard, Mr. Secretary, when you pass so sweeping a condem-
nation on a very large number of schools and of school
teachers." I hope lam ; but I must tell you that I rather
glory in being the schoolmaster abroad." lam constantly
inquiring into the character of schools and schoolmasters,
and consequently into the effect of teaching, in the results of
the schools inquired about; and I am perfectly certain if I
were to state here the facts which I know, and which rest on
the most indisputable testimony, you would not only be con-
vinced of the truth of my statement, but be alarmed for what
is going on in the schools of which you may have so very
good an opinion. My search has brought me to this conclu-
sion, that there can be no practical separation of religious
and secular education without wedding secular education
with infidelity ; and I could prove, from the very place in
which I speak, that through the opinions of the schoolmas-
ters, through their practices out of school, and through their
known infidel opinions, perhaps not expressed in schools,
but certainly out of them, they openly propagated rank blas-
phemy and most deliberate infidelity. There are institutions
throughout the country, high in the estimation of the public,
in which there is actually a restraint placed on those who
were the teachers in those schools, so that they were bound
down, in accepting their offices, from teaching those truths
which they in their consciences believed to be inseparable
from salvation. Perhaps you will be startled when I tell
you that in one of the most wealthy schools in this country
—I believe I may say the most wealthy—the master, a cler-
gyman, was bound in a written agreement with the trustees
not to teach Christianity. What do I mean? I mean that
in that town—for it was not in this—there being a large
number of the Jewish persuasion, who wished to have the
benefit of a good education for their children, it was deter-
mined to admit them into this school, and the master was
bound down not to teach Christianity to them. Whether,
on the other hand, he was bound down not to Judaize the
Christians, I cannot say. Schools such as this were princi-
pally for the middle classes ; and in this diocese, from in-
quiries which I have made, I have ascertained the lament-
able fact that the* education of the middle classes is for
the most part conducted by persons holding Unitarian
or Socinian opinions. It is also a fact that the schools in
connexion with the church are only as one to four in com-
parison with those not connected with the church. The mid-
dle classes know and acknowledge this ; but they say that
they must have for their children an education suited to the
requirements of the age, and if the church will not provide
it, they must send their children where they can get it at a
reasonable rate. The consequence is, that they. have fallen
into places where, if they are not brought imp the religion
of the church, they are brought up in no religion at all, or
tutored in infidelity. Then, if you come down to the national
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but I could not ; I had no school. I raised a school. Year
after, I got master after master ; and year after year, I con-
tinued to look too closely into their conduct—for themselves
I mean—and year after year I was obliged to dismiss them.
Sometimes they complained that, being efficient teachers, I
had no right to dismiss them, and said that I had nothing to
do with their conduct out of doors. But the result was, in
my own parish, that the children, instead of being brought
up in godly habits, in veneration for the church, and re-
spect for the clergy, were completely neglected on those
points, and I had to suffer, from year to year, the great-
est and most grievous disappointments. Hence 1 myself
became an inquirer, and from an inquirer a schoolmas-
ter, and from that I became a little anxious to examine
into systems of tuition, and I found what is here stated
in the report, most boldly and plainly, that what is called
Bell's system of education, was most lamentably deficient in
establishing truth in the minds of children, and bringing them
up in holy and righteous practices. For instance, I went into
my own school, as I have gone into many -others—but 1
would rather show up my own school than that of any one
else—and I took a class and made them read the parable of the
prodigal son. They had read it so often that they knew it
by heart ; and at last I told them to put down the book and
answer a few questions. I put the most simple interrogato-
ries to them, but they could not answer one. I found that
they had been taught by rote to answer " Yes" or " No ;"
so I got one of them, and said, " Come, my little boy, shall
I tell you? The young son said to his father, lam hungry,
give me a great lump of bread. Was that it ?" Yes, sir."
I followed up this system, to convince myself beyond a doubt
that they were not properly educated. " Well, a book and a
piece of bread are the same thing, are they not ?" " Yes,
sir." So I took hold of the boy and said to him, " Here,
my little man, take this book and eat it." This brought him
to his senses, and he began to feel that he had been taught
mechanically ; and when I explained to the whole class
that
most beautiful story, and the mystery of love involved in it,
I never saw children more affectionately bend their minds to
receive the first precepts of Divine truth. Now, this is only
an illustration which I have given you, because I thought it
might interest our poorer and mechanical friends. (Hear,
hear, and cheers.) I found, from an examination of
the whole school, that they had been taught to read and
write ; but when I asked them what they believed, or what
their belief practically led to, they were utterly destitute of
that knowledge which was to lead them to salvation, or to
point out the path to it. Hence I became a schoolmaster,
and then the secretary of this society ; and, having had so
much experience, I recommended to the board, and they
wisely adopted the suggestion, that before they erected
schools or obtained school-rooms, they should procure e
number of persons well qualified to teach, and to ground the
children in religious belief. What, for instance, would be
the use of your building in this town so many churches, if
you had not such a body of clergymen as you have to offi-
ciate in them ? What would be the use of your building, if
you had inefficient or immoral clergyinen ? Would it do
good ? No ! harm ; for it would bring disrepute and dis-
honour upon the service of God, and lead all who knew them
to dishonour God with them. Would a master of a family
say, " I want there to have my offspring educated ; I care
not about the principles of the tutor or of the governess ;
let them have a great deal of knowledge, and bring up my
children to play well, and to behave like gentlemen and
ladies, and I shall be satisfied ?" Would not the man who
so spoke be called insane ? And shall we treat the children
of the poor in a way that we would not treat our own
children? (Cheers.) Would we say, " Never mind the
principles and practices of the man that is to teach
these poor lambs, so long as he is able to arrange his
class, and to make his monitors do the drudgery." The thing
would be insane; and therefore we have in the first instance
turned our minds anxiously to them who alone can carry out
our efforts—to the education of those who hereafter are to
teach. We have now laid the groundwork for introducing
throughout the diocese an improved system of education, in
lieu of this monitorial system. Don t misunderstand me ;
don't think that I condemn the system altogether, because
what is mechanical in a school, may very well be conducted
by monitors ; but what is spiritual must come from agents of
a spiritual mind. The heart of a teacher must be in his
work. If he would make spiritual children, the master must
be spiritual himself. What little boy is fit to teach those
divine truths which are to lead souls towards heaven ? There
must be some more effective mode, if we are to lead boys to
comprehend those things which are to lead them to everlast-
ing life. And if a clergyman himself is not able, to under-
take that himself, it is the more necessary for him to provide
in his. place a man or a woman in whose religious principles,
and in whose consistent religious practices, he can conscien-
tiously and fully depend, ere he commit to them the training
of the lambs under his charge. The step by which we have
endeavoured to provide for the religious wants of the church
in this diocese is, firstly, our training school, which is
our first and main object, and we have endeavoured to
establish that at Chester. This site has been objected to
as inconvenient, and on this point I would make a feW
remarks, by way of public answer to the objection. Ido
not think that any one would think au inhabitant of London
a very wise person, who said, " I derive no benefit from the.
Thames, because I do not live at the source ;" nor do I
think that an inhabitant of Liverpool would be disposed to
exchange the advantages of his position, at the sea end of the
Mersey, for one situated at nearly the source. It is not al-
ways those who are at the source who derive the advantages
they themselves wish for. At Chester will be the educational
establishment of those who are to teach. Our next object is
to establish in every portion of the diocese, in the most ac-
cessible portions we can find, schools in which those educated
at Chester can carry on the education of the district schools.
It is not at Chester you will see the fruits of all this, but in
your own neighbourhood, where the trained pupils will come,
and where they will be licensed to teach. Now, in obtaining
this institution at Chester, the report has stated that the plans
have been drawn, and that a site has been very nearly ob-
tained. That is to say, the building committee have been
attempting to enter into a contract with the owner of a piece
of ground there. Since the report has been published,
I am sorry to tell you that almost all hope of obtaining
that site is at an end ; and I think it is either the
sixth or seventh site which has been snatched from us
almost at the moment when we thought we were beginning to
build. A price was asked, in the instance referred to in
the report, which the Diocesan Society thought that they
were not able to meet. Having said so much on the words
of the resolution, and knowing that there is a great deal in
the shape of business to be brought forward, but which will
fall into abler hands than mine, I shall now leave the reso-
lution, by first of all reading to you the opinion of the Na-
tional Society with regard to the difficulties with Which this
-board may be expected to meet In the progress of 'the work
which it has undertaken. [The rev. gentleman read the ex-
tract referred to, which stated that the chief difficulty which
would have to be encountered would be the impatience of the
people to, see the sudden results from the great pecuniary
grants which had been made, when those results ought not to
be expected but in the course of years.] Let me, then, now
leave business matters, which I know must be very dry to the
audience, and appeal to you one moment as a christian
people, and a church people, whether this shall be the danger
with which the National Society has to contend—which shall
cloud, and perhaps thwart cur efforts. I trust that the
response from this town will be in the negative; I trust that
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will be with his church, if she fulfils her duty, to the end
of time. (Cheers.) But let me also remind you, and
not so much in the shape of appeal as in the shape of ad-
monition, from a weak Instrument indeed, but one who is
ordained to speak, on the highest authority, to' those who
ought to maintain everything connected with the temporal
as well as the spiritual welfare of the church—suffer me to
admonish you, in days like the present, not ,to leave your
clergy to fight the good fight of faith—not to leave to us
alone the work, as it is
our duty and not our honour to work,
though honourable as it is in his service for whom we per-
form all our duties—suffer us not to bend all our energies in
your behalf in vain ; but remember that that is a high and
holy talent with which we are entrusted, and that if we ne-
glect those committed to our charge in this world, their blood
must, in the next world, be upon our heads. Remember,
also, that talents are committed to every member of the
church, high and low, rich and poor ; and do not let it be
said, in this diocese, that the Chester Board of Education is
not able to carry out the great design on the principles they
were determined to act upon, for want of those means which
ought to flow in on her almost without asking, from a
Christian population. I call on the inhabitants of the
town of Liverpool, in the name of. the Diocesan Board,
and in the name of the church, to pour out of the abundance
of their wealth some talent, which may be but a trifle, but
which, if many trifles are put together, will enable us, hu-
manly speaking, to do all we want. When first the claims of
this board first advanced before the public, I calculated
that, if, only in thissiiocese, taking the poor. and the rich to-
gether, we could average .£5. only, we should have enough
to do a good portion of what we undertook to do. But after

a year and a half of no inconsiderable exertion, I am bound
to say that the average has not come up to anything like that
sum. Now, will the town of Liverpool hear a statement like
this, and go away, and say, " We have heard one or two good
speeches from so and so ; we are sorry that we have not
heard Lord Francis Egerton, and more so that we did not
hear Lord Stanley, and therefore the meeting was less inte-
resting than we expected ?" I hope not ; but that you will
go forth from this place, and say—" The church calls on
every one of ur for support ; she is acting on high and good
principles : she and her clergy will work out what is most to
our own advantage ; and she is in want of assistance. But
look on the side of our opponents, and see who is against the
church ; there, however, you will find no lack of money."
Politics will sometimes draw out money, when principles
will not. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) Here stands the
church upon her own foundation, anxious to make no com-
promise of principle with any party—nay, determined not to do
so, but leaning on faith for success; and on the opposite
side stands—who ? Note church, not those agreeing on any
one church principle, but those who have a bard and fast
bond of union—opposition to the church, and a determina-
tion to destroy her if they can. And when we see, as we now
do see, protestant dissenters, members of the true catholic
church of Christ, shaking hands, politically and cordially,
with those who have separated themselves from the church,
of Christ, and so clothed themselves with incrustations of
error, that you can scarcely trace anything like a proper
principle of religion amongst them—need I say that I allude
to the Romanist dissenters ?—and when we see protestants,
and those who speak against popery, and yet, in the matter
of education, say, " No ; the church shall not have that ; we
will cut off from the church that source of influence and
power, and thus enable us to pull down the church itself,"
is it not incumbent upon every one of us to exert ourselves
to the utmost ? An Unitarian minister at Bath said, " Give
me the choice of the schoolmasters' and I will soon work any
reform I please in the church." Come to our aid, then, all
who value truth ; come to our aid, all who would wipe off
error; join hands with the church, which has been the great
breakwater against error and infidelity ; come to our aid,
all who value the religious education of the country—all who
look to the exaltation of the nation, which shall grow, by di-
vine permission, out of righteousness ; give your hands to us ;
hold fast sound spiritual truth ; give us of your money ; sup-
port your church liberally ; act on your principles of faith,
and wait to see the result ; hut, oh ! let us not fight, in
Christ's name, the spiritual battle alone. (Loud cheering.)
The Rev. Mr. PARR, vicar of Preston, seconded theresolu-
tion. After a few appropriate introductory remarks, the rev.
gentleman said—l think it my duty in seconding this propo-
sition, to declare my full concurrence in the terms of it.
These are not times, ladies and gentlemen, in which any busi-
ness or any body of persons can afford to stand still. " For-
ward " is the word upon every side! " Advance! Advance !
is the cry, and that with a rapidity unprecedented in any
former times. We are not desirous to stand still ; we are
desirous to go forward ; but we cannot go forward without
asking " where are we to go, in what direction, in what road ?"
If heavenward, if in the direction to which truth and religion,,
point forward, if you please, as soon as. you please, and as fast
as you please ; but we must consider in what direction you
are propelled. Again, we must consider whether we are to
go forward in a manner becoming the church. If we are to go
forward let us go with caution and consideration against
the dangers and the difficulties of the way, and with that
provision for attaining the end we have in view, which has
characterised the church in all ages. Well trained teachers
and an improved system of education are essential to the ex-
tension of an useful education. It is time that the efficiency
of a school must depend entirely upon the teacher ; it is not
enough that it should be connected with the church, that it
should be well superintended, that it should have books and
methods of teaching that are approved. It must have a
living soul to animate it. Intellect must speak to intellect,
heart to heart, and the master must be able to give in the
school an impress of himself. If so, he must be a sort of
man whose impress it is desirable we should have—he ought
to be the model to his scholars; therefore it is important to
secure such persons to be instructors in the schools of this
board. The rev. gentleman, after a few further remarks
seconded the resolution, and it was carried.
The Rev. HUGH MeNeres, on rising to second the reso-
lution, was received with several rounds of enthusiastic
applause. He spoke as follows—Mr. Chairman, I am a
participator, and a sincerely grieving participator, in the
disappointment which we have experienced to-day—l mean
the unexpected and much deplored absence of my Lord
Stanley. (Cheers.) lam personally grieved in this matter
in common with your secretary, for I had hoped, as will be
seen by the managements for the meeting, that the noble
lord would have proposed the resolution now entrusted to
me, and that I should have been called upon merely to
follow up his descriptions of the plans adopted by the Chester
Diocesan Board, as to its operations and principles. lam
called upon to move, instead of second, the following reso-
lution—" That the Chester Diocesan Board of Education,
in connection with the National Society, has adopted a plan,
which in its principles and operations is eminently calculated
to secure, under God, the diffusion of true religion and useful
learning." In contemplating the success in any project it is
necessary to look not only at the means employed, but at the
materials upon which those means are to be employed. Now,
sir, much has been said to-day upon the subject of some of
the materials in question, namely, the middle classes of
society ; too little, I think, has been hitherto said concerning
a large class, which it shall be my duty, a painful one, to
bring under the consideration of the meeting—l mean that
class rapidly increasing by thousands, I might almost say by
millions, in our large towns and cities, and in the manufac-
turing districts of this county, who are in the very lowest
stage of moral degradation—masses where vice has spread all
her temptations, sensual pleasure all her seductions, folly all
her allurements—where guilt is encouraged by the prospect
of impunity, where profligacy is fostered by the frequency of
example. Sir, the statements laid before the public with
regard to the mass of the community to wh'om I now refer
are truty appalling ; they have served to arrest the attention,.
and to awaken the interest alike of the philanthropist, the
politician and the Christian. We hear, for example, from
our most accurate inquirers, that a tenth part of the popula-
tion of London are paupers, and that about 20,000 persons
rise every morning, in our metropolis, without knowing
where they are to lie down at night ; we learn that about
30,000 persons are every Saturday evening in a state of brutal
drunkenness in the city of Glasgow ; we learn that 60,000
persons passed through the fever hospital of Dublin in one
year ; and a celebrated foreign examiner of our statistics has
put it upon record that, within the last thirey years, the
number of persons accused of serious crimes hes increased
in England five times, in Ireland six times, and in Scotland
twenty-nine times. Sir, it is impossible for men, actu-
ated by Christian principle, tamely to behold this state of
things, and, like the priest or Levite in the parable, carelessly
pass by' on the other side; and it is equally impossible for
such men to confine their efforts to legislative restraints and
penalties, whereby they, indeed, may, in some degree, guard
the more orderly persons in the community from the spread
of the contagion, but leave the masses of human corruption in
all their inward depths, without even an attempt at ameliora-
tion in this life, or preparation for a better. Efforts are called
for—strenuous efforts—wise in their design and arrangement
—vigorous in their adoption—persevering in their applica-
tion. To penetrate the mass itself ; to contemplate its com-
ponent parts with compassion rather than with indignation ;
to approach them kindly ; to take advantage of parental feel-
ings on the one side, and infantine docility on the other ; to
awaken what remains of tenderness in a father's or mother's
heart, and snatch their beloved offspring from the vortex of
the destroyer ;—thins, stir, is an enterprise worthy of the high-
est ambition of Christian heroism, and in this enterprise it is
our high and animating privilege to be engaged. (Cheers.)
The plan adopted by the Chester Diocesan board is mainly,
as to any thing that distinguishes it in operation, to bring
christianity in the pure, plain, scriptural aspect in which it is
presented by our church, to bear upon those masses of the
community. (Hear.) I hope, sir, to be able to show, by
another line of argument, somewhat different from those.
various and valuable strains to which you have already
listened, that it is only the application of christianity to the
mass that can penetrate its depth, that from the nature of its
component parts it is impenetrable to any other application,
and that consequently, only the plan adopted by this board
and by the National Society, viz., the church plan, can take
the first step towards the diffusion among that part of the
population I no* refer to of true religion or useful learning.
I feel, indeed, the justice of many of the remarks and argu-
ments of those who say we cannot meet the exigencies of the
case by the best education we can give carried to the greatest
extent we can carry it. I believe, sir, that left to the agency
of such associations as the National ociety and the Diocesan
Board, supported by voluntary contributions, or even assisted
by the state to the amount of doubling those contributions,
we never can succeed in bringing even the outward appli-
ances of our educational system to bear upon more than a
fraction of the population. The evil consequences of this do
not confine themselves to mere numerical deficiency. They
extend in the shape of vastly increased difficulties experi-
enced with those whom we do reiteh. The influence ex-
ercised by the school has to contend not only against the
propensities of our fallen nature in the individual children
attending the school, but also against the overwhelming tide
of contaminating corruption in the surrounding multitudes
who attend no school, but are ready daily to mingle with the
schoolchildren the moment they are dismissedto their wretched
homes. A national system of education, I mean a system vi-
gorously made national in deed, and not in name only,would re-
move these extra difficulties, and would in one waygreatly re-
duce those opposing influences whereby our educational efforts
are now hindred from having fair play., But, sir, even if this
were done, and if numerical deficiency could no longer be
complained ofel-even if we were supplied with the means for
extending our efforts over the whole length and breadth of
the population, and for penetrating the masses already refer-
red to,—even so it is impossible we should meet the exigen-
cies of the case in any other way than by strictly Christian
education ; and for this reason, applications to the under-
standing of men only will never meet the exigencies of this
case. The bulk of mankind have a very melancholy medi-
ocrity of understanding compared with the vehemence of their
passions. There is; in uncultivated, unconverted man. a
practical ascendancy of the animal instincts over the sugges-
tions and the claims of reason. The gratifications of the ani-
mal instincts are immediate; and elle pain consequent upon
their excess, though certain, is remote. The suggestions of
reason do not wear the aspect of present gratification, but of
threatening restraints. Her claims, instead of inviting to
present enjoyment, demand a present sacrifice. Now this is
precisely what the bulk of mankind resist, yes, and even re-
sent. They cannot make such a sacrifice. Obliged by the
necessities of their condition to endure bodily toil every day
to a certain hour, the instantaneous reaction at that hour is
to bodily indulgence. This assumes various aspects of ani-
mal enjoyment in various individuals ; and what I am pre-
pared to maintain is this, that it is impossible successfully to
combat enjoyment by restraint.
" Naturam expellas fur* tamers usque recurret."
I give this as a classical comment upon the eloquent speech
of the honourable member, with whose address you were
all delighted. You cannot control present indulgence by
restraints, or the prospect of good, which gives no pre-
sent enjoyment. The thing is lodged in the basis of human
nature. Before intellectual knowledge can become an
enjoyment, many a painful sacrifice must be made, many
an hour of hard study must be undergone. Intellectual
enjoyment is the result of intellectual cultivation ; but
how, upon the mass we are now speaking of, is the process of
cultivation to begin ? How are you to approach their intellect?
They are preoccupied ; they are engaged in animal enjoy-
ments, and their mind will not receive an application which
is simply intellectual. This reasoning applies not only to
the scheme of scientific and intellectual attainments, but
to all cold, forced systems of ethics. It applies to all
bargaining systems, miscalled religion, which require the
performance of duty, or the endurance of suffering, as pre-
requisites for the enjoyment of peace. But, sir, it does not
apply to the gospel of the spirit of God. The gospel of
Jesus Christ brings present enjoyment. It creates a new
affection. It originates a first love. It achieves its purpose
by transforming the man, not by demanding those penalties
which, however powerful to irritate, are impotent to reforrse ;
but it transforms the man by communicating gracious enjoy-
ments, instantly carried home, warm upon his heart, by the
the Lamb of God. In the language of
immediate energy of
Scripture, " the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by
the Holy Ghost given unto us." There is a meaning in what
David says that this refers to, " My heart and my flesh cry
out for the living God." There is an enjoyment in religion
—in true religion—that comes even into the animal part of
man. lam bold to say there is a present enjoyment which
will combat, and which alone will in the first stage success-
fully combat, the cravings for animal enjoyment in the
masses I allude to. It is very possible that those who have
never experienced anything of this enjoyment of Christianity
may be tempted to an incredulous smile, at the enthusiasm
of saying that it possesses sufficient power to counteract the
animal instincts of the poor. But, sir, its efficacy is no
longer a matter• of opinion; it is matter of history—it is
matter of fact. We have read, we have heard, we have seen
its power. We have observed it in the haunts penetrated I
believe only, or nearly so, by the clergy, who Wow them-

elves into the depths of the most degraded-of the popula-
sion, to tell this truth. We Lave seen it in schools. You
hEve heard an instance of it to-day. You have heard an
instance of how the preoccupied minds of those little chil-
dren were arrested ; how their animal enjoyment was con-
trolled t=r a moment, and a better enjoyment originated in
them, while their pastor expatiated on the tenderness of
Christian love, and upon the manifestation of God's love
towards the returning prodigal. Yes, wherever the gospel
has been plainly and faithfully declared, there have been
illustrations of what our Christian poet sang concerning the
success of the missions in Greenland :

" The wretch who once sang wildly, danced, and laughed,
And sucked in dizzy madness with his draught,
Has wept a silent flood ; reversed his ways,
Is sober, meek, benevolent, and prays;
Feeds sparingly, communicates his store,
Abhors the craft he gloried in before,
And he who stole has learned to steal no more
Yes, Sir, Christianity is nut a theory only addressed to man's
understanding, but a life incorporating itself with his re-
newed affections and active habits and most satisfying enjoy-
ments. lam well aware that this view of Christianity, that
this representation of it, as possessing a living, present,
power of enjoyment, has been too frequently decried and
avoided as something enthusiastic and sectarian ; and that
we have been considered more proper, more prudent, more
judicious, more orthodox, and more genteel, when we have
confined ourselves to what, after all, deserves nothing more
than the mere name—the ethics of Aristotle mingled with
language desecrated by the union. But in so treating the
gospel, we have been defeating our own object ; we have been
depriving it of its power to reclaim for time, as well as of its
power to save for eternity. Among the middle, and espe-
cially among the higher classes of society, where artificial
wants are many, and artificial motives strong, ihere may be
much that is orderly, and there may seem to be much that is
moral, without any Christian principle, and without any
Christian enjoyment : but among the masses of society to
which I have referred, and for whose improvement we are
now associated. Christian feeling—aye, Christian feeling, I
am not afraid of that word, though I know how it has been
abused—l say, Christian feeling, that dictated to the Psalmist,
" My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God ;" that
Christian feeling which restores us to God, and is the only
effectual pioneer for the introduction of all that is valuable
among men. (Cheers.) These are some of the high grounds
upon which we ask for Christian instruction ; and, to make
the term more definite, and the meaning more precise, in
these days of doubtfulness, we ask for church instruction.
(Cheers.) Our church has never paralysed the gospel into
a frigid system of ethics—into a cold code of morals, thereby
depriving it of its power to impress the masses of the poor.
On the contrary, she presents it in all its warmth, energy,
and tenderness, in all the winning because pardoning love of
the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.
(Cheers.) Our church has never prostrated her children
into slavish traffickers for righteousness; thereby keeping
them at a distance from their father's bosom and the fatted
calf of their father's house, in the vain attempt to work out
for themselves a title of admission there. (Cheers.) No :
she gloriously declares that " we ate accounted righteous be-
fore God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ, by faith, and not for our own works and deservings."
(Loud cheers.) I need not expand this further, sir; but it
is refreshing, in these days of accommodating compromise,
to reiterate these statements of truths, in defence of which
our glorious army of national martyrs willingly embraced
the stake, and patiently endured the burning faggot. (Loud
cheers.) But it may, and ought to, be said concerning
our church, as it is written concerning her Lord, that
" the common people hear her gladly." (Cheers.) To win
your assent, therefore, to the terms of the resolution, 1 think
it is sufficient you should be informed that you should he sa-
tisfied, first of all, that the plan adopted by the Chester Dio-
cesan Board, in union with the National Society, is, in its
principles and operations, strictly a Church of England plan.
We have all learned that the master makes the school, and
all our best friends will rejoice to hear how our Diocesan
Board describes her master, the only description of masters
she desires to employ.—[The rev. gentleman then read an
extract, but owing to the honorary secretary declining, as
stated above, to furnish us with it, we cannot print the pas-
sage, which we regret the more as it was interspersed with
some valuable comments.]—l think, proceeded the rev. gen-
tleman, the observations I have offered are fully borne out
as completely applicable to this plan, in its principles and
operations, by the description given here of the teachers (in
the Diocesan Schools.) They are men qualified to set forth
that living energy of the gospel which is, at once, the only
power to make the first impression upon man, and the say-
ing power to carry on the impression, until man shall be
transformed into the image of his God. It is in the enjoy-
ment of God that the character of God's children is formed.
They are not called upon to form their character fitted for
that enjoyment, and then receive it. That is what the law
said ; but the law is weak through the flesh. They are in-
vited to come as they are, because God has come to them.
" Behold your God—this man receiveth sinners." The man
who will set forth Jesus Christ is bringing God to receive
sinners, in order that being received and enjoying communion
they may be transformed into his likeness, they may be blessed
into holiness—not driven ; that they may be in the enjoyment
of their Father's house. That is the man to go among
the poor, to win their hearts, to win them from the ale-
house and the gambling-table, and to win them to better
enjoyments. (Hear, hear.) But, sir, the members of our
church, and especially the clergy, have been accused, as has
been already adverted to, and in no measured terms, of being
enemies to the education of the people ; they have been ac-
cused of being hinderers of improvement, of being patrons of
ignorance. These are some of the flattering titles we have
received. It is not enough in answer to these to refer, as
we have heard to-day to our universities, because the accu-
sation and the taunt is not that the clergy kept themselves
ignorant, but that it was their policy to keep the people
ignorant. What is the plausible ground, the only visible
ground upon which this charge is advanced? It is that for a
season we were comparatively inactive with regard to the
education of the people. Now, let it be frankly granted that
there was a period of comparative inactivity, and let it be
asked, who were inactive ? Did the inactivity of that period
especially characterise the church, or was it not equally cha-
racteristic of her accusers? (Hear.) All slumbered; and
almost slept together for a season : and when the wak-
ing time came, who, I ask, waked up first? (Loud cheers.)
Who moved soonest ? (renewed cheers,) and who kept fore-
most ? (increased applause) when the government took an
education grant from parliament of £20,000 a year, and dis-
tributed it through the National Society and the British and
Foreign School Society, in sums proportioned to their re•
spective voluntary contributions, who, I ask, got the bulk o
the money ? (Immense applause.) And now-that the tam
system of proportionate distribution is to be resumed, who
I fearlessly ask, will get the bulk of the money ? (Cheers.
The funds of the National Society are in process of rapid am
most encouraging increase. (Cheers.) No sir, the charge
although industriously propagated and circulated, was utterly
unfounded. We have ever been friends, the tried and deter-
mined friends of the advancement of all useful knowledge,
especially which is most valuable, because valuable for eter-
nity, the knowledge of the one only true God, as he is in
Christ Jesus. That is the crowning branch of the tree of
knowledge, which will bear fruit in endless light, and love,
and glory. All other knowledge, without that, is, at the
best, but as the corruscations of a meteor, giving a deceitful
and temporary glare, and ending in the blackness of dark-
ness for ever. (Cheers.) If there be any knowledge incom-
patible with the knowledge of God in Christ our Lord and
Saviour, we are enemies to that knowledge. If there be any
system of instruction which excludes, or neglects, or even
places in an aspect of secondary importance, the knowledge
of God in Christ Jesus, we are enemies to that system ; not
to everything which may be taught in that system, but to the
system itself. They may teach many things which are useful
in themselves, and such as we also teach, but by depreciating
what is most useful, they set us in opposition to them as
systems. We derive an illustration of this subject from thecus-
tom, in former times, for kings to lead armies. We represent
the whole circle of knowledge by such an army, under its royal
general. The king himself stands for the knowledge of God,
as given in the scriptures. His commissioned officers stand
for the higher branches of science, as astronomy and mathe-
matics,—the non-commissioned officers, for the lower attain-
ments of mechanics, geography, and the languages,—and the
privates, for the knowledge of the common handicrafts of
trade, and arrangements of domestic life. Our desire is to
teach the whole range, beginning with the general, and all
down the line keeping up, and pointing out, the progressive
links of subordination under the general. In this connexion,
we are ardent lovers of the most universal knowledge. We
cultivate science in every branch; we urge forward every
practical improvement in mechanism ; we enlarge and cor-
rect our geographical observations; we study and impart a
variety of languages ; in every step, to the lowest link of the
chain, having paramount and practical respect to the highest.
But, suppose a school, established for the purpose of com-
municating knowledge concerning every link, except the
highest; or, a school in which knowledge of the lower links
is made the main object, and dissociated from direct and
habitual reference to the highest,—a system such as the Lon-
don University, from which revealed religion is avowedly
excluded,—or a system nearer home sir, like the Corporation
Schools of Liverpool (cheers), where, after all that has been
denied on the subject, the truth still is, that the first and
grand link in the chain, the first source of authority, the
general over all, is kept quiet until evening, kept still till the
hour comes, when a man upon one side, who says his face is
black, and another, upon the other side, who says his face is
white, come, and both are allowed in the school; each takes
a section of the children; one of them tells what must be
false, for both cannot be true. It is impossible. I can show
you in a very few words, although I do not wish to be ver-
bally controversial, where the black is and where the white
is. Against such a system we protest loudly, honestly, un-
compromisingly. The whole system is one of insubordina-
tion and mutiny ; an army without a general, and can lead
only to ultimate confusion and ruin. Give us the ge-
neral over all, and his authority pervading all ; and we
gladly join in all the alacrity of obedient loyalty. But
remove the general, or dissociate his authority from the
ranks, and we separate and protest against the rebellion.
What, then, is oar answer to those who bring this accusa-
tion ? Are we enemies, of knowledge among -the people ?
No : by no means. Let the knowledge of God in Christ
precede and pervade all other knowledge, as it of right ought
to do, and we -are friends of all knowledge, and cultivators
of all. But are we enemies of godless knowledge ? We are :
we never denied it, and I hope we never will. We are,
undoubtedly, determined and vigorous enemies. Godless
knowledge is what the devil delights in—a sharp instrument
by which he lacerates the unbeliever, having cultivated him
into an increased capacity of misery. But, sir, theri is an-
other point on which, with your permission and that of the
meeting, I desire to make a few observations. As the Dio-
cesan Board appeals only for private contributions, it may
possibly appear to'some, that to make allusion, at a meeting
of this kind, to the duty of the state in the matter of educa-
tion, would be in some degree out of place. Ido not think
so ; because the necessity for our appeals would he in a great
degree superseded if the state performed its duty in this
matter. (Cheers.) In the full foresight, then—or rather, 1
should say, in the matured experience of most vehement
accusations of bigotry, I have no hesitation in affirming my
conviction that it is the duty of the legislature to decide upon
some uniform system of education—uniform in principle I
mean, and to supply means for making it national indeed ;
and that it is not and cannot be their duty to countenance
and support fundamentally opposing systems. (Hear.) Our
petitions and arguments upon this subject appear to have
been misunderstood, and very clever replies have been given
to what we have never advanced. I allude particularly to
language reported to have been uttered in the House of
Commons last session. A debate arose upon some petition
against the continuance of the grant to Maynooth College.
The noble lord, her Majesty's Chief Secretary for Ireland,
is reported to have said—" They (the petitioners) started
with the proposition, that it was wrong to support a religion
of which they disapproved. That might be a very good opi-
nion to hold; but it appeared to him that any one who cell-
scientionsly held that opinion was bound to support the
voluntary system. How any one could, in common candour,
say that it was wrong to support a religion which they thought
, erroneous, and vet exact the very same support for another
religion of others who equally thought that erroneous,—how
they could allow the great majority of the people of this
country to impose upon the vast majority of the people of
Ireland the duty of supporting persons to advocate the tenets
which the' majority in Ireland deemed wrong, he could not
conceive. It seemed to him to be utterly at variance with
every notion of consistency, of candour, and of sense. In this
sense, the laws which required the payment of church-rates
from persons of ell persuasions ought to be instantly repealed."
This was very clever against a certain opinion but who aver
held that opinion ? Who were they that ever held it was
wrong to support a religion of which they did not approve ?
I cannot, of course, say of which particular petition the noble
lord spoke, as, I am happy to say, there were a great many
of them • but I may say for the friends of the church, that we
never alleged it was wrong to support a religion, or a.system
of education, because we disapproved of it. It was of this
the noble lord made so much ; remove this, end the elver.

:Cheers

volving tl

'less, which so adroitly retorted upon it, becomes very harm-
less. It is not because we disapprove of it, or we say that it

_ ~...... , .
is wrong to support it, but because it is opposed to the word
of God. (Cheers.) If the legislature say to us, "Multitudes
of your fellow-subjects deem it in accordance with the word
of God ;" and who is to decide between you and them? our
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answer, with all respect to the legislature, is, You are to
decide ; you are providentially placed in a condition and sta-
tion of influence for the good of the country, in which it be-
comes imperative upon you to decide many questions con-
cerning which the population of the country are divided. To
be able to decide is a part of your qualifications as senators—
to use your best abilities, and your most anxious and perse-

ring inquiries, in order to qualify yourselves, is a part of
your duty, as a conscientious representative, a patriotic sub-
ject, and a honest man. Upon other subjects you do this.
You study the science of political economy, and take upon
you to decide in the matter of corn-laws, on which the people
are divided. You study the nature and operation of munici-
pal governments of large towns, and come to decision upon
the subject of cot porations. You examine the complicated

interests of our colonial union, and decide upon questions in-
' ' respective powers and privileges of local legisla-

tures and in the imperial parliament.
cide, and it is right you should decide

In all things you de-
!. You are not kept

from decision by the indecision of the people, or by any dif-

ference of opinion, and_l should_ say, that any man-who can-

not make up his mind because his fellow-countrymen differ
in opinion, because his constituents differ.. in opinion, or from

any other cause, ought to give up his seat. (Loud cbeers.)
We claim decision at your hands ; and if you answer—` Well,

the only way in.whicb we can decide is by a majority ; and
are you prepared to abide by the decision of a majority in

►natters ofreligion and education ?'

The reply is,

' Whether

, -
we ire willing or not it is your duty to decide.' " (Cheers.)
We claim decision, even if that decision should be against
ourselves. We claim decision from the legislature, and say

to the country we demand it on all great questions
•

The ms-

jority, after all, must govern, right or wrong. They must
rule, though men shuffle for a time. (Cheers.) And the ma-

jority would rule immediately if men were straightforward,
honest, and decided. (Cheers.) Better decision than inde-

cision. We invite decision, even though that decision should
he against ourselves, and against our church. Better have

the majority 4o decide, proclaim the nation infidel or idola-
trous, and place the church in the position she was under

pagan Rome, thus keeping clear and clean the lines of demar-
cation between truth and falsehood. (Great cheering.) Bet-
ter this, than by the present system of indecision and incon-

sistency, to go on supporting opposing systems, voting money

for schools which teach the anfilltoni-ar;ist formularies of the

Church of England, and with the other hand voting money

or schools which teach the peculiarities of the Church Of

Rome. By deciding in any way, they will displease some
men : but by not deciding at all they dishonour God by a

dereliction of their duty Cby supporting opposing systems,
they stultify their own enactment. They are the keepers and
trainers up from infancy of two bands, not only of theolgical,
hut of moral and political gladiators. (Cheers.) Sir, this is
not too strong language.„ We charge the legislature with
being the fosterers of children fromlbeir inf.:tie), in opposing
systems, religious. moral, and political. They vote a grant of
money, a part of it for us who teach the christian doctrines;

who teach.the nature of sin ; and who say that the figment of

venial sin is opposed to the mind of God • who are pledged
by our ordination vows to teach that the doctrines of purga-
tory, penance, transubstantiation, and all the other hetero-

geueous mixtures of the middle ages, which Romish rubbish
have heaped upon the gospel. (This sentence was inter-
rupted, and its termination lost by loud cheers.) They vote
money, also, for the training of children from their infancy,

and for the employment of teachers to train them, that purga-
tory is a doctrine of the christian religion, that the relics of
saints are to be had in honour ; that in a piece of bread there
is truly—and I desire now to speak inn serious manner—
present the body, soul, life, and divinity of Jesus Christ.

(Hear.) Our legislature are guilty, in the sight of God and
of man, of encouraging, by.grants, both the " white" and

" tilack".

'—the truth aid the falsehood—the Christianity

and the anti-Christianity—the Church of Christ in England
and the apostacv of anti-Christ that is striving to usurp her
place. (Loud Cheers.) They teach both—they encourage

)th—they endow both. We turn upon them, and say,
Gentlemen, decide. Why will you decide upon corn-laws,
pon laws for the amendment of the registration of voters."

Sir, I sin sorry that we have not my Lord Stanley here—l
should have been very glad to have told his lordship of the
manifestation of your decision, nobly, boldly, firmly, and

ainly shown, with only a few clays'--Itwo or three days' no-

tice, afforded us by the delay of the question for a week, in.
this very place. (Loud cheers.) This house was then more
densely packed with gentlemen only than it is now with both
ladies and gentlemen ;—(loud cheers)—and but one expres-
sion animated the whole of decision, decision. (Cheers.),
Let England cry to her senators, decision. Let us have no
more indecision. Let us have no more Penelope-web legisla-
tion. (Loud cheers.) But, sir, England has decided. (Im-
mense cheering.) Look back at the decision of former times,
and be consistent with it. England has, by an immense ma-
jority decided, and the country is with the church, as the
church is with the bible. (Cheers.) The supremacy of the
bible in all legislation is the banner to be raised. The su-
premacy of the bible in all legislation ! Would that hon.
and right hon. members of parliament would not be ashamed
to attend to this, and not be ashamed to take a lesson from a
parson. (Cheers and laughter.) The supremacy of the bible
in all legislation ! This is the banner now to be raised, and

if raised in the proper hands, it will call forth such an expres-
sion and such a response as will cause the enemies of old
England, to the ends of the earth, to quail before the powers
of the resuscitated giant. (Loud cheers.) It is for want of
this that our power is paralysed. It is because there has
been trimming instead of decision ; it is because there
has been shuffling instead of decision ; it is because
there has been evasion instead of decision that the giant
has been lulled upon the lap of Dalilah. The lock
has been discovered. The scissors of Anti-Christ have
been carefully applied. Oh, sir, is the lock gone—is it
cut—or is it only discovered and threatened ? if it be
cut, England must fall, and, like the fallen giant al-
luded to, though may fall with her the pillars that

support the basis of all society in this hemisphere and
through the world, though she may prepare the way for the
coming of the great King, who will set up a kingdom and a
government that can never be pulled down, still her own
Jories are gone. Ichabod is written upon her walls, if the
ock was cut by the act of 1829, if the lock was cut when the
)rote.stant prhiciple was taken 'out of our constitution. But
I hope better things, and that the lock of Sampson remains.
I hope that the country has been awakened from her slum-
ber, and that the giant is still able to put forth his strength—
that he is still able to go,forth in the strength of God to coin--
hat his eaemies, ind to make the Philistities'reerfEitt still
Old England is herself again. (Loud cheers.) I have now
one word to what has been said by the hon. and rev. secre-
tary, that the people of this town will not suffer themselves
to do themselves the injury of allowiiw, their consciences to
be lulled by the pleasure they have derived from the meeting
of this day ; but that they will follow it up, and remember
that the object in view, in making a question of this sort po-
pular, is to better the condition, to elevate the moral habits,
of the people around ; that this is to be done by means, and
that we throw ourselves upon the public for the means to do
it. Failing a national provision, waiting if, peradventure, we
should find decision in our legislature, we, in the meantime,
ask contributions from you, that we may be able to multiply
masters properly instructed, schools properly prepared, that
the children of the poor may come into those schools, and be
instructed by those proper masters. For this we ask help at
your hands. I would fain hope that you require only to be
reminded of this, and the difference between this and some
of the meetings that have been held here ; that, whereas you
have been addressed from the pulpits of many of our churches
on behalf of some institutions, and have assembled here af-
terwards' this is the only opportunity you have fol. this insti-
tution. The reverend gentleman, after a few further obser-
vations, resumed his seat amidst loud cheers.
P. AINSWORTII, Esq., M.P., rose to second the resolu-
tion. He said,—l have been called upon unexpectedly,
Mr. Chairman, to second the motion of the reverend gen-
tleman who has just sat down. As a churchman, I came
here with very great satisfaction to support the present
diocesan schools of national education, in the principles
and doctrines of the established church. I come here free
from any political views. I understood that at this meeting,
and all meetings connected with these diocesan schools, no
reference should be made by any individual to politics; and
not wishing that the subject of politics should in any way
injure the cause of the established church, I came here solely
for the purpose of expressing my perfect satisfaction at the
manner in which this society is proceeding, and terco-operate
with you, and with every individual in this large assembly,
in promoting to the utmost of my power, the moral and
religious education of the country, in the doctrines and dis-
cipline of the established church of the country. (Hear,
hear.) After the various speeches which have been addressed
to you with so much eloquence and force, nothing, I think.
remains for me to say but this, that I have great pleasure
in meeting this large and influential audience, and that at all
times, either in my private or public capacity, it will be my
pride and gratification to promote the interests of the society,
and the spread of the principles on which it is founded.
(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN, 'after putting the resolution, stated that
the business of the meeting was now concluded.
CHARLES HORSFALL, Esq., said, he was sure the meeting
woad agree with him, that they ought not to separate with-
out acknowledging the valuable services of the chairman.
He would, therefore, move that the thanks of the meeting
be given to the Rev. Rector Brooks, for his kindness in
presiding, and for his conduct in the chair.
The motion having been seconded, was put to the meeting
by the Rev. H. POWYS, and carried with much applause.
The CHAIRMAN said he begged to return them his heart-
felt acknowledgements for the vote that had just passed.. He
could assure them that it had given him great pleasure and
satisfaction to take the chair on that occasion. He should
much have wished that their respected diocesan had been
there, to have taken it himself. In the absence of the right
reverend prelate, it became his duty as rector, and it was no
less his inclination, to preside. He would only add one
word before they separated, in reference to what had been
said with regard to their support of thatsociety. He did
not doubt that they cordially approYed of the principles that
had been advanced, and that they had exptirienced great gra-
tification.from the manner in which they had been advocated.
He hoped and trusted that the feeling produced would not
he evanescent, evaporating with the meeting, and vanishing
before the morrow, but that each and every one, as far as his
ability might extend, would gladly support the society by his
contributions, and encourage others, by his example, to con-
tribute also. (Hear.) He had. to tell them that any one of
their clergy would gladly receive their names as annual sub-
scribers to the institution, and he trusted that numbers of
them would adopt this mode of enabling their clerical friends
to carry into effect those plans and purposes to which they
had that day given so emphatic an approval, and which were
so well calculated to improve the temporal and spiritual con-
dition of the great body of the people. (Much applause.)
The meeting then separated, having lasted from eleven to
about four o'clock.

It will be perceived from an advertisement that the new
steamer Caledonia will leave this port to-morrow, for Halifax
and Boston. We wish her the same success that has attended
her predecessors.
NEW AMERICAN CONSUL AT LIVERPOOL.—The recent
American papers state, that Mr. Philip Schuyler, of New
York, has been appointed by the president to succeed Mr.
Francis B. Ogden, as American consul at this port, who has
resigned the office. The commission of the new consul
comes into operation on the 15th of October next.

RECRUITING FOR THE NAVY.—The walls of Liverpool
are covered with bills, inviting seamen to enter on board the
Britannia, of 120 guns ; the Howe, of 120 ; the Calcutta, of
86 ; and the Southampton frigate, all fitting out at Ports-
mouth, and Plymouth. Similar means are no doubt adopted
in other ports. The Vanguard and the Rodney have both
been manned by volunteers thus collected from London and
the outports.

We observe with regret that a portion of the land on the
south side of Cook-street is just about to be built upon theoncc.
old line of the street, foundations being already commenced.
d
was
The indispensable necessity of widening this
seen many years ago,
at North John-street, opposite hasl been
and one-third of the lengtthstbree 'inning
Temple;
widened. The convenience of the. public would be much
ewnt up to Castle-
promoted by continuing the line of impro.
street. It is understood, from the. discussions that have
expense of this taken place in the council, that the e
improve-
ment is the sole obstacle ; the pla'lPaenswer to this is, that
the corporation owns the north sidienof Cook-street, - facing
the whole length of the proposed improvement, and there-
fore the corporate estate would benefit directly to the'extent
of at least half the improvement. There is perhaps not any
Cook-street which connects such
street of the same lengttho:sn:
mportant parts of the .
a distance of the P
• eentrated in North John-street 1 town, situated as it is within so. short
principal docks, and the large traffic ton-
n-street and ita vicinity.

ARRIVAL OF THE PRESIDENT STEAM-

This vessel, which (we need scarcely remind our reader
is the largest propelled by steam which has yet traversed the

ocean, arrived here yesterday from New York, after a pas-
sage of about fifteen days and a half,—taking into account
stoppages outside of our harbour, to deliver her mail bags to
a small steamer; and to await the top of high water, so that
she might go into dock without previously casting anchor in
the Sloyne.

Very considerable anxiety had been excited amongst all
who are interested in the navigation of our port, for the
arrival of the President,—the more particularly as the Acadia,
of the Halifax Steam Mail Line, had accomplished the
voyage in the short and unprecedented period of 10 days.
Apprehensions, indeed, were expressed that some accident
had befallen the President, or, at all events, she was a com-
paratively dull sailer. The possibility of the first contin-
gency we by no means deny,—as a breakage in machinery,
however apparently secure it may seem to be, may arise in
nfarine, as well as in land or stationary engines. With re-
gard to the second,—we by no means incline to accede to any
prejudice that may arise in the minds of individuals as to the
comparative merits or isvopulsive qualities of the President,
and the Halifax liners, the whole of the last of which are of
equal size, and almost of equal build, and precisely of equal
steam-power. They are beautiful vessels, calculated for speed.
The President is also abeautiful vessel ; but she is calculated not

fore speed alone, (although she has perhaps accomplished
more in one hour, when in ballast trim, than any of the Ha-
lifax line),—but she is adapted also to carry a very consider-
able cargo;—and every practical man can understand the ad-
vantage which a transatlantic steam-ship, carrying only her
coals, and becoming " flying light," before she has accom-
plished half her voyage, has over a heavier vessel, with pro-
portionately less power of steam, and which conies into dock,
after a long voyage, with a large and valuable cargo. We
notice this merely with reference to the present voyage of the
President, as compared with that of the Acadia,—inasmuch
as we do not consider one or even two voyages of
either ship—and particularly as they sailed from different
American ports, as by any means affording a decided
proof of their comparative speed. We would neither apolo-
gize for the one, nor eulogize the other, as regards their first
voyages ; for we know that two vessels sailing on the same
day, from the same port, and to the same destination, may
meet with very different reins of wind, and states of the

ocean, which may retard the one and accelerate the other.
The President was signalled as being off Holyhead (and
considerably to the S.W.) at six o'clock this morning. The
day was stormy, with occasional showers of rain, and the wind

from the N.W. The Wm. Fawcett, Birkenhead steamer, pro-
ceeded from George's Pier soon after 11 o'clock, having on
board the agent and several of the directors of the British and
American Steam Ship Co. to meet the President. There was
a heavy sea running outside, with an up-coming tide • and
she consequently did not proceed far ; but found the ship off
the Magazines, and received the mail bags, and a few of the
passengers, which were landed at George' s Pier almost si-
multaneously, with the passing of the President in the river
immediately opposite: Amongst those whOanded from the
William Fawcett, was Captain Fayrer, of the President, who
immediately , hurried to the Custom-house, to report his
cargo, principally flour, on which the duty would rise con-
siderably this day. Despatch was therefore of the utmost
importance, and with considerable exertion the needful was
accomplished.
The President, on coming up the river, looked splendid.

Her speed was very considerable, though she showed not the
slightest cloud of smoke. She passed along the Cheshire
shore, and her huge length and bulk excited much adwira-

tiou. Her main and -wizen topmast were lowered, and
she had the appearance of a large ship of war under

jury-masts. 'When opposite Woodside, she rounded to-
wards the Lancashire shore, and (it being high water)
was soon afterwards safely docked in the Coburg, amidst
the greetings of thousands of spectators. She appears
as fresh and beautiful, both exteriorly and in her spacious ca-
bins, as on the day she sailed. She is considerably down by
the stern, from (we suppose) the coals being principally
forwards. .

LIST OF PASSENGERS, PER STEAM-SHIP " PRESIDENT,"
from New York to Liverpool.—Sir Simon H. Clarke, Bart.,
and servant ; Sir Claude de Crespigny, Bart. ; Thomas R.
Lowry, Andrew Normand, Lewis Lyman, George Haight,
W. 0. Bockee, F. Palm°, J. Lorenzon, W. M. Leman, and
R. Cochran, jun., New York ; J. H. Oberteuffer, H. Wil-
liams, C. W. Churchmen, R. Creighton, and E. M. Davis,
Philadelphia ' • W. Barker, Charleston, S. C. ; C. Auz6,
Mobile, Alabama ; Rev. W. Ritchie, Upper Canada ; Louis
Boue, Priest, Louisiana; R. G. Nicholson, Ireland; Henry
M`Failane, London; A. Gutierrez and servant, Havana ;
Charles Moore, Liverpool; Samuel Cassin, England ; H.
C. Indge, Barbadoes ; Capt. W. Kennedy, 2nd W. I. R. ;
Lieut. B. O'Brien, 2nd W. I. R. ; Louis Hoffman, Leipsic ;
A. L. Montant, D. Cutter, and B. Desobry, Paris ; N. de
Genlis, J. Defayne, C. Castagn, and A. Mayet, France ;
A. Blanc, Lyons; J. Coates, Paisley • E. Serening and G.
Setley, Philadelphia; F. Rodewald, Baltimore ; J. Taylor,
Stockport, N. Y. ; William Jones, England ; J. de Castro
and servant, St. Thomas, W. I. ; P. Curtis, Jacksonville,
E. Florida; J. H. Cockburn, Scotland; William Crowther,
England ; A. Mayor, Switzerland.—Ladies : Mrs. Jones
and two children, England; Miss Jones, do. ; Mrs. Creigh-
ton, Philadelphia ; Senora and Senorita Gutierrez, Havana ;
Mrs. N. Scholes, New York,; Mrs. Hamilton, U. Canada.
Total-55 gentlemen and ladies, 2 children, and 3 servants.
Her cargo consists of 2500 barrels of flour, 33 serons of
cochineal, and 100 tierces foreign tobacco.
A number of Custom-house officers came on board, and
narrowly inspected the luggage of the passengers, to some of
whom who wished " to be off" by the railway, they caused
some little, though perhaps unavoidable delay. The crowd
assembled round the Coburg Dock was greater than was ever
known at that comparatively remote but improving part of
the town.
On the day before the arrival of the President, the passengers
paid a deserved compliment to Captain Fayrer and his officers, and
also to Mr. Hough, the Providore of the vessel. At a general
meeting in the saloon—on the respective motions of Sir Simon
H. Clarke, and Sir Claude de Crespigney, seconded by acclamation,
the passengers expressed their entire satisfaction with the gentle-
manly and seamanlike manner in which Captain Fayrer and the
officers of the vessel had exhibited throughout the voyage ; and
their strong and unanimous opinion that a more commodious or
better sea-boat than the President never crossed the ocean. This
was afterwrds embodied in a handsome letter to Captain Fayrer
In a second resolution, the whole of the passengers expressed their
equal satisfaction at the liberal and sumptuous manner in which
they had been served during the passage by Mr. Hough, the
Providore, who supplied them with viands Ikc—and with wines of

As the President left the American shores on the
,y as the Acadia, she brings no further political news of
immediate interest. We cannot close this brief notice without
expressing our thanks to Capt. Fayrer for his,kindoess and attention
in not only filling our news bags with papers to the latest dates—
(to.which we shall probably recur) but in furnishing us with a pre-
pared list of the passengers and the following

the best quality
same da

ABSTRACT OF THE LOG.
Sept. I.—Hauled out of dock at 2 45 p.m. Abreast of
Sandy Hook at 5 p.m.; packet-ships Cambridge, St. James,
and Utica in company.
2.—Wind, W. to S.S.W. ; distance, 160 miles ; lat. 40 20
N. ; long. 70 40 W. Remarks—A.M., light airs and west,
passed a barque standing to the N.E. ; 6 P.M., exchanged
numbers with the American ship Wellington ; a ship in sight,
supposed to be the United States.
3.--Wind, variable, S.W. to N. ; distance, 223 miles ; lat.
40 59 ; long. 66 18. Remarks—A.M., fresh breezes and clear,
with lightning; P.M., squally ; 2 p.m., N.W. ; MIDNIGHT,
fresh breeze and.rain. _ _ _ _

4.—Wind, S. to N. ; distance, 190 miles ; .lat. 41 19 • long.
60 0. Remarks—A.M., 7, wind shifted to the southward ;
MIDNIGHT, fine weather and light.
s.—Wind, N.N.E. to E S.E. ; distance, 210 miles ; lat.
42 06 ; long. 57 38. Remarks—A.M., light breezes and tine
weather ; P.M., calm and clear. at 2, spoke the Oseola, Ame-
rican ship, twenty-eight days from Bangor, bound to Boston,
and six large ships standing to the S.W.
6.—Wind, N.E. to S.E. ; distance, 206 miles ; lat. 44 05 ;

long. 53 31. Remarks—A.M., fresh breeze, fine, and smooth
water, at 6 15, exchanged numbers with the Shannon, of
Kennebunk, running N.W.
7.—Wind, S. to S.S.W. ; distance, 230 miles • lat. 45 46 ;
long. 49 48. Remarks—A.M., strong breeze and cloudy, a
brig passing to the westward, and a three-masted schooner at
anchor ; 6 P.M., two schooners at anchor.
B.—Wind, S.W. to N.E. by N. ; distance, 238 miles ; lat.
47 16 ; long. 44 59. Remarks—A.M., heavy squalls, with
rain; MIDNIGHT, strong breezes and loudy.
9.—Wind, N.E., E.N.E., N.E. by E., E. ; distance, 163
miles • lat. 47 52 ; long. 40 52. Remarks—A.M., brisk gales
and cloudy, a brig standing to eastward, and a ship to west-
ward ; NOON, a brig to S.E. ; P.m., several vessels in sigitt ;
MIDNIGHT, light winds and heavy N.W. swell.
10.—Wind, E.N.E. ; distance, 172 miles ; lat. 49 46 ;
long. 37 25. Remarks—A.M., light airs and heavy N.E.
swell, at 6 30, exchanged colours with an English barque,
steering west.
11.—Wind, easterly ; distance, 200 miles ; lat 50 50 ; long.
35 03. Remarks—A.M., light airs with heavy north-easterly
swell on.
12.—Wind, N.W. to N.E. ; distance 246 miles ; lat. 51 17 ;
long. 26 56. Remarks—A.M., fresh breeze and squally.
13.—N.E. to S.S.W. ; distance, 22G miles; lat. 51 21 ;
long. 21 35. Remarks—A.M., 5 30, spoke the John Den-
nistoun, of Greenock, for Bay Chaleur, left on the 26th Aug.;
P.M., strong breeze with drizzling rain.
14.—Wind, N.W.,N.N.W. ; distance, 267 miles; lat. 56
46 ; long. 15 30. temarks—A..M., fresh gale, heavy sea ;
NOON, north-westerly gale, much sea ; P.M., strong gale,
heavy sea, at 11 15, passed the Great Western.
15.—Distance, 215 miles. Remarks—A.M., strong breeze
and cloudy ' • P.M., off Cape Clear.
16.—Off Arklow ; severe gale, N.N.E.
17.—Got a pilot at 9 A.M., off Point Lynas.

EXTRAORDINARY CHANGE.—There have been this week
employed on one farm on Chat Moss, 80 reapers, principally
engaged in reaping wheat, though twenty years ago the whole
six thousand acres scarcely produced a bushel of that kind of
grain.

HYACINTHS.—There is not a more beautiful flower than
the hyacinth ; there is not one more interesting to watch in
its growth, or that requires less care. Way by day its pro-
gress may be noted, and when the flower itself begins to
form, bud, and blow, the fragrance it sheds around is un-
equalled. There are many other bulbs which may adorn the
apartment in the winter, and which are pleasant, indeed, to
look upon when all without is dreary and desolate. We have
been led to make these remarks from having seen some very
beautiful bulbs in the window of Mr. Cuthbert, Clayton-
square, to which we draw our readers' attention.
HINTS POR THE. RADICALS.--Colonel Thomson has writ-
ten a letter to the radicals, in which, after alluding to that
profound ignorance so general amongst the working classes,
which renders them liable to be imposed upon by the speci-
ous sophistries of self-styled " liberals" and " reformers,''
who vainly imagine themselves more enlightened than their
neighbours, and therefore best calculated to be the great po-
litical regenerators of the age, he advises the chartists to look
keenly after every man who ever called himself a " good re-
former," or uttered the word " tory-radical." " Depend
upon it," says the colonel, " he was Lone that helped to ideal
your pig."—Halifax Guardian.

SINGULAR FRIENDSHIP.—About a month or two ago a
person in Perth received from the country a jay; but being
apprehensive that a cat in the house would pounce upon it,
puss was for some time carefully watched, but the slightest
disposition to annoy the bird, which had the liberty of a
room, she never evinced. After being a while together the
two became the best of friends, and on many occasions did
the cat actually carry a collop to her feathered companion,
not partaking of it until the bird had fed ; and the two often
slept together, the bird on the bosom of the cat. The other
day, however, the jay died, and puss appeared to be incon-
solable for the loss ; for twenty-four hours she lay beside the
dead bird, and refused to move or partake of any thing that
was presented to her. At last the bird was with difficulty
taken and thrown over the window, and poor puss has
scarcely yet got over the loss of her companion.—Perth
Courier.

IMPORTANT TO THE NAVY.—The following order, about
to be issued in the navy, will be hailed with great pleasure
by many of the members of a deserving class of men, espe-
cially those who have only their pay to keep up their rank
and station in the profession they have chosen :—" Admiralty
Order.—lt having come to the knowledge of their lordships
that an extravagant mode of living has been adopted in the
messes of the quarter-deck petty officers in some of her
Majesty's ships, which may lead to much inconvenience to
the discipline of the service, and must be very hard upon
those individuals who have only their pay to support them,
my lords therefore desire it to be intimated to the respective
captains and commanding officers, that their lordships dis-
approve of such extravagance being allowed in those messes,
and direct that Means may be taken to prevent this occur-
rence happening for the future.
The cleansing of the sanctuary—that is, the completion of
the wliole period from Daniel to the commencement of the
Tr illenium, 25,066 iears-:—Will 'take price in 1843.—Epieopol
Magazine.