The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-27 00:00:00

stiipt, with the exception of the shirt

The features of the raiser

le culprit under-

went a great change a few hours after death. In.the course
of the day a great number of applications were made by the
friends and acquaintances of the deceased to see his body,
but in no instance did Mr. Cope, the governor, comply with
the request. Several medical men of eminence have seen
the corpse, and declare that they never saw, for the stature
of the man, so muscular a frame.

On Tuesday night, a daring attempt was made to set fire
to the extensive distillery and premises belonging to Sir.
Felix Booth. Bart., at old Brentford. It appears that about
three o'oclock. as police constable James Cuishan, T 110,
was proceeding round his beat, he observed a quantity of
smc.

e issuing from the bullock-house at the rear of the
premises. The building in question is very spacious, being
upwards of 300 feet long, and on the ground floor frequently
contains nearly 500 head of cattle. while the floors above are
filled with ground gra!n, to the value of from £lO,OOO to
£12,000. On Cuishan's hastening to the spot, he found
Mr. Swan (one of the managers) with the watchman, and
other persons were already there, when by great exertions
the flames, which were found to be raging in a narrow passage
leading to the feeding place, filled with a quantity of shavings,
were soon extinguished.' Had the fire remained undiscove-
red a few moments longer, the whole of that portion of the
premises must have been burned. No carpenters' work
having been done for three weeks in the building, the fire
must have been caused by some incendiary.

The following paragraph, which originally appeared in the
Morning Post, has been copied into nearly ail the papers :
—" The Bishop of Worcester has issued a letter to the Rural
Dean of Birmingham, in which he forbids the public use of
the term Puseyite as applicable to those entertaining Tract-
tarian opinions." The fact on which this statement is foun-
ded is briefly as follows :—An unwritten notice having been
given in a church at Birmingham, that lectures would be
delivered "on the coincidencc between the doctrines of the.
Tractarians and Romanists," the clergyman who gave the
notice inadvertently used the term " Puseyite" instead of
" Tractarian." This circumstance having been mentioned
to Dr. Pusey, at Oxford, that gentleman addressed a letter
of complaint to the Bishop of this diocese;' who, in conse-
quence, transmitted, through the Rural Dean, a letter to the
clergyman in question, expressing his Lordship's sense of the
impropriety of Using, in the house of God, and in the time of
Divine service, epithets derived from the names of living
persons ; and trusting that it would not occur. The clergy-
man who was addressed wrote an explanation of the case,
fully concurring in the propriety of the Bishop's view, with
which his Lordship expressed himself perfectly satisfied.
INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EN-
LARGEMENT, BUILDING, AND REPAIRING OF CHURCHES
AND CHAPELS.—On Monday, this society completed the
first quarter century of its existence, when the members held
their annual meeting, at their

embers, 4, St. Martin's-
the Alchbishop of Can,

lergy c

:men present, were the Lord Bi;'

of Gloucester and Bristol, Worcester and Bangor, the Dean

of Chester, the Archdeacon of Bristol, the -Re.v. Sir H.
Dukenfield, the itev • 0. Beinioon, Eurl puma, T.nrfi Kenyon
Sir R. Inglis, &c. The secretary read the report, which
contained a brief outline of the proceedings of the society
since the last anniversary, and the means it possessed and
expected to obtain for carrying out its objects. During the
year, 178 applications were made from different parts of
England for means towards the repairing and enlarging ancient
buildings, and for the erection of new churches and chapels ;
431 grants were made by the society, by which 41,555 persons
were accommodated with sittings, of which 30,048 were
free. For defraying the expenses of those sittings £19,090
was voted, being £3,453 less than what had been voted the
preceding year, when 45,757 sittings were provided, at a cost
of £22,543. This saving was the result of a skilful applica-
tion of the funds, without sacrificing the proper character of
the sacred edifices. In a short period every village, manu-
facturing and agricultural district, would be fully accommo-
dated with sufficient church room. The society had, how-
ever, to lament the deficiency of its funds as compared with
its demands. The calls liable to be made on those grants
amounted to £50,985, while the available sum did not exceed
£47,759 ; and as the " Queen' Letter" would not be issued
before next year, it was imperative that renewed exertions
should be made to increase the finances. The donations for
the past year amounted to £3,500, including £5OO from the
Queen Dowager, £lOO from the Duchess of Gloucester, £5OO
from the Duke of Northumberland, and £6O the tithe of a
layman's professional income. Upon the motion of the Rev.
Charles Benson, seconded by Mr. G. T. Eascott, M.P., the
report was adopted. Lord Kenyon moved, and the Bishop
of Durham seconded, a most flattering and well merited vote
of thanks to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, for
his unceasing attendance to the interests of the society, and
the church generally. His Grace returned thanks, and ex-
pressed his conviction that her Majesty would issue the
" Queen's Letter " early next year. Archdeacon Thorpe,
Sir H. Dukenfield, the Bishop of Worcester, Mr. Cotton,
governor of the Bank of England, and Mr. Lound, ably
advocated the claims of the society. Thanks were then
voted to the vice-presidents, committee, trustees, and audi-
tors of the past year; and three clergymen and six laymen
were elected members of the committee.
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THE AGRICULTURISTS AND THE TARIFF.—In the course
of the debate in the House of Commons on the introduction
of the tariff on Monday night, in reply to the charge of
having deluded the farmers, Sir Robert Peel made the follow-
ing observations :—When I spoke last, there was a prevalent
apprehension and alarm at the proposal which I had made.
I then said that it was not consistent with the part of a true
friend of the agrtculturists to assume that that panic was
well founded; and the reason which I gave f not acting
on those apprehensions, was my belief that ior t would be
found, before we got to the end of the tariff, that those
apprehensions were at an end ; and the communications which
I have received from the country prove the correctness of
that impression. I think I may say that the panic has
already passed away. I said at that time that the then
diminution in the price of cattle was attributable to other con-
current causes, as the price of fodder; and I felt very con-
fident that when the sober judgment of the country was applied
to the consideration of this subject, thoseapprehensions would
give way to the natural consequence of that sober judgment.
Now, I have looked into a country paper, and the country
papers afford a very good indication of the feeling of the
country ; and I take this account, which is a report from
Liverpool :—" The price of cattle is still rising; there was a
large supply in the market ; but the prices were very high ;
we stated a fortnight ago that the diminution in price was the
consequence of a mere panic and would not continue." If,
then, I had acted on the panic, I should have been left in the
lurch by the panic. (Laughter.) " Monday, May 16.—We
have had rather a large supply of cattle ; but the prices are
very high ; beef, 61d. to 7d. ; mutton, 7d. to 'ad." Now,
the price of beef and mutton being 7d. and 71d. at Liverpool,
I put it to every intelligent gentleman in this house whether
it is right to continue the present prohibition? (Hear.)
Why do I take Liverpool ? Because Liverpool is the port
into which the Irish supplies enter. Now, supposing twenty
years since any one had said to a Liverpool man, " Look at
the present supply of Irish cattle, I will tell you what
it will be twenty years hence," wouldn't his natural an-
swer have been " Why, the English graziers will be
ruined ?" In 1820 the number of cows and oxen brought
from Ireland, I am not sure whether into England or
Liverpool only—was 16,966; and on an average of the last
five years there have been brought from Ireland into the port
of Liverpool alone 472,000 cows and oxen, or upon an average
about 94,000 in each year. What has been the effect of that
enormous increase on the prices? So far from the English
grazier being injured, the prices have risen, notwithstanding
that large increase. (Hear, hear.) Under these circumstances
is it wise to continue the present prohibition ? (Hear, hear.)
Are we not bound to look for a wider area whence to draw
our supply? (Hear, hear.) Take the average of the five
years preceding the last five and the importation into Liver-
pool from Ireland was 54,800; compare that with the average
of the five following years, which was 94,400; and do not
these facts suggest important considerations ? Is it not a just
and almost necessary inference, that the population is in-
creasing more rapidly than the supply ? (Hear.) Whence then
is our supply to come? Look at France, Holland, Belgium,
and the States of the Germanic Confederation—their oP
ula-
tion is sixty-five millions of inhabitants ; they require cattle
for their own supply of food; they are all, I believe, importing
countries, and in each of them lam afraid the price of cat-
tle
and meat is rising, and the consumption increasing in
proportion to the population. The noble lord says that at one
time we contend that we ought to remove the prohibition,
and at another we justify it on the ground that the price will
not be much lowered. I wish we could make a considerable
reduction in the price of meat. (Hear, hear.) But take the
case of Liverpool : we see great improvements in steam na-
vigation ; we see great supplies derived from Ireland and
Aberdeenshire, and yet no benefit is derived to the community
from these great improvements in our navigation, or from
these great supplies. (Hear, hear.) Still there is the same
progressive rise in price. Is not this conclusive proof of the
necessity of removing the prohibition ? (Hear, bear.) 0,:,,,i712
in 1
the lather hand, the agriculturist views the eesPr!..,
alarm, I am bound to tell him that his apprehensione
founded ; the chief advantage of removing the P7is
that we
the chief benefit to the community, in my 00"
...ot glint constant
shall hereby be taking a new security
of decease in this
progressive rise in price ; and that, in. car _ wise- and justifi-
country, or any sudden or rapid rise;gize
pa of foreign cattle.
able precaution to permit the mtrod

The Bank of England have lent' £400,000 on railroad
mortgages
The 1

_sins appear, from statements in different news-
papers, to have done a great deal of good throughout the

Jersey, which may be reached from London in 18 hours by
the steamers, contains at present 20,000 English residents.
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Four thousand tents, and a large supply of blankets, have
been sent over to Hamburgh, for the relief of the sufferers,
by order of her majesty's government.

Mr. W. T. S. Daniel, of the M
Chancery bar, has been appointed
Ipswich, vacant by the resignation of

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Navigation Company's We;
the passa

land Circuit, and the
the Recordership of
;;ir C. F. Williams.

The General Steam

Royal, made

nine hours, being the quickest pk.
SUGAR IN THE OLDEN TIME.-
the Fourth of France, sugar was s.
that it was sold by the ounce by apothecarleb,
ruvian bark is now sold.--Echo du Monde Savant.
EFFECT OF RAILWAYS.—At the annual meeting of the
proprietors of the Sheffield Canal, held last week, the usual
dividend was omitted for want of funds.

of Henry

) rare in that country,
nearly as Pe-

A poor woman, resing, near Cardiff, v
with twin children, joined at the breast.
when born. The mother has since died.

lately confined

They were dead

The fruit trees have
but, on close inspectic
Kentish Observer.

been making a good show of blossom,
a, are found to be beset with insects.—

The Prussian State Gazette announces that the Duke of
Brunswick has ordered collections to be made throughout
his territory in favour of the sufferers from the fire at Ham-
burg. •
THE ALTAR.—At a recent meeting of the Exeter Archi-

tectural Society, Dean Lowe read
of which was to Et

one of the objects

Lt on each

s, there ought to

niche, in which

sacrament might I

there is no royal road to music any more than to learning,
yet the adoption of sound and rational principles in a branch
of education upon which no inconsiderable expenditure of
time and money is bestowed, cannot help, when generally
diffused, to lead, as in the work before us, to the most bene-
ficial results. TI

)C a great satisfaction to,
" Your affectionate humble servt
" THO. OXFORD."
In the signature " Tho. Oxford," it is scarcely to be ex
pected that the ordinary reader would recognise Seeker, then
Bishop of Oxford, but afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury.
The letter is interesting as coming from such a man to Dr.
Watts; as referring to " Watts's Improvement of the Mind;
and to the estimation in which the doctor's works were held
in the university ; but it is still more curious and interesting
from containing, on the fly leaf, Watts's draught of his reply
to the above, in short hand, with his signature, " I. Watts,"
in a good, upright, legible hand, at the foot. The short-hand
is a system long since obsolete ; one which was invented
many years before Byrom, or Mayor, or even Gurney, pub-
lished his. It is extremely difficult to decypher ; the more
so, because Dr. Watts has apparently engrafted upon the
system itself some alterations and adaptations of his own ;
but the writer of this article having succeeded in decyphering
the letter, thinks it worthy of record and preservation. It
is remarkable, that the reply to a letter dated June 19, 1741,
should not be written before the March of the following year,
an interval of nearly nine months. It will be seen that Dr.
Watts writes both the old and new style of year. Now, after
•emaining concealed beneath these old, almost unknown
ihort-hand characters, for a hundred years, the doctor's let-
ter again sees the light :
To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Oxford, near
St. James's, Westminster, March 1, 1741-2.
" My•Lord,—Perhaps in the middle of last summer, I bad
the honour of a line from your lordship, wherein you were
pleased to take very kind notice of a book I presumed to offer
to your understanding, and amongst many occasional civili-
ties by which you honoured me, you gave me a friendly invi-
tation to wait upon you in the winter.
" Indeed, my lord, I scarcely designed it ; for my strength
and capacities are not the same which your lordship knew in
former years. My spirits are few and low, and old age hath
made its advances upon me, in so far adding those of the
mind; so that I dwell much at home, and feel a sort of shy-
ness of great company, which is a usual attendant on feeble
nerves. Besides, the late important revolution in state affairs
must needs employ your lordship's thoughts in them, that
you stand in need of no such interruption.
" I cannot but congratulate your lordship on the share you
are spared to have in the fast reconciliation of the two first
persons in the kingdom. May peace and blessings from on
high ever attend the royal house, and may all your lordship's
acts for the welfare of the church and the state be under a
most effectual word of Scriptures from the God of heaven !
" Adding all duty, submission, and respect, I am, my lord,
your lordship's most obedient, humble servant,
(Signed) " I. WATTS."
The letter is endorsed in the same handwriting as the signa-
ture, " Ld. Bp. Oxford, June, 1741." Then in short-hand
characters, " Thanks for the Improvement of the Mind ;' "
and again, in ordinary writing, " Answd. March, 1742." It
is clear that this letter had escaped the notice, or the draught
of it in short-hand eluded the inquiries of Watts's biographer,
Dr. Thomas Gibbons, who, in his life of that divine, inserts
several letters from Secker to Watts ; amongst them the one
given above ; and adds, as a note to the words, " your book,"
—" Dr. Watts's Improvement of the Mind, or a Supplement
to the Art of Logic," as if doubtful to which Seeker alluded;
whereas Dr. Watts's endorsement of the letter shows that it
was the former. At the period of this correspondence, Dr.
Seeker was about 48, Dr. Watts about 69, an age at which
his own touching description of his feeble state might natu-
rally be expected to be given ; and the rather as, in a letter
to his father, written six years previously, he says, " As I
feel old age daily advancing on myself, I am endeavouring to
be ready for my removal hence." " The late important re-
volution in state affairs" appears to refer to the change of
ministry, when Sir Robert Walpole resigned the premiership,
and was succeeded by Mr. Pulteney (afterwards Earl of
Bath). The " fast reconciliation of the two first persons in
the kingdom," doubtless alludes to the public reception, in
February, 1741, by George 11., of his son, the then Prince
of Wales, after a long estrangement. Shortly before, when
Sir Robert Walpole found his power declining before the
growing majorities in the parliament of what was called the
country or Leicester House party, at his instance a message
was sent by the Bishop of Oxford (Secker) to the Prince of
Wales (regarded as the head of that party), offering, if he
would write a submissive letter to the king, that he and all
his counsellors should be taken into favour; that £50,000
should be added to his revenue, £200,000 be immediately
disbursed for the payment of his debts, and suitable provision
be made for his followers. The prince, however, declined
this proposal, declaring that he would accept no such condi-
tions so long as Sir Robert Walpole continued to direct the
public affairs. The resignation of that minister, therefore,
paved the way for the reconciliation of the king and the prince.

SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS'
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

The fourth anniversary festival of the above charity was
celebrated on Saturday at the London Tavern, when about
150 gentlemen, principally consisting of officers of the army
and navy, and of the Hon. East India Company's service,
sat down to an entertainment of the most recherche descrip-
tion. Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford presided, sup-
ported by the Bishop of Norwich, Admiral Sir G. Cockburn,
Admiral Sir W. Gage, Admiral Sir H. Digby, Admiral
Sykes, Major Oliphant, Sir C. Lemon, M.A., Admiral
Young, Ron. Captain Pelham, &clinical Skipay , and the Rev.
Dr. Croly. Upon the removal of the cloth,
The hon. and gallant chairman proposed " The health of
her Majesty the Queen," which was received with all due
ho our
The Chairman then gave " Her Majesty the Queen Dowa-
ger, the vice-patroness of the institution," and in doing so,
detailed the great benefits the inhabitants of Malta had expe-
rienced from the visit of her Majesty to that island. He par-
ticularly alluded to the great want of church accommodation
under which the inhabitants had laboured for many years
past. This, he observed, had now been supplied by the pious
and munificent liberality of her Majesty, who bad expended
upwards of £7OOO in the erection of a Protestant church.
(Cheers.) And he would further remark, that when an ad-
dress of thanks from the people of Malta was presented to her
for her munificent gift, she replied that their thanks were not
due to her personally, but to the people of England, who had
enabled her to aid this and other works of a similar character.

(Loud cheees.)
The toast was enthusiastically responded to.
Glee—" Sleep, gentle lady."
The other loyal toasts having been drunk, that of " The
Army and Navy " followed.
Sir G. Cockburn returned thanks for the navy, and Major
Oliphant for the army.
• 9,

Air—" Rule Britannia."
The health of " The Bishops of Norwich and the other
prelates and clergy who had lent their valuable assistance to
the society," was the next toast proposed.
The Bishop of Norwich returned thanks.
Solo and chorus—" Sound the loud timbrel."

The Chairman then rose amidst loud cheering to propose
" The Shipwrecked and Mariners' Benevolent Society, and
the health of the President, Sir G. Cockburn." The esta-
blishment of this institution, he observed, completed the list
of our naval charities—(hear)—for they had now afloat a
number of the most useful institutions. He would com-
mentte with the noble charity, Greenwich Hospital, where
they clothed and daily fed 2,700 veterans, besides maintain-
ing 100 boys (and they were soon to have another hundred),
to whom they gave good nautical instruction, in addition to
which they were taught various trades to enable them to earn
an honest and respectable livelihood while going through
life. They then had the Dreadnought, where sailors of all
nations were received, distress and disease being the only
passports for admission. Next they had the Marine Society,
where some hundred of boys were trained for the sea. Then
the Sailors' Home, for the reception of distressed mariners,
and last, though not least, the present excellent charity.
(Cheers.) He would now propose "The Shipwrecked and
Mariners' Benevolent Society, and the health of the Presi-
dent, Sir G. Cockburn."
The toast was drunk with three times three, and one cheer

more frequently repeated.
Song—" The Fisherman's Widow."
Sir G. Lockburn, in returning thanks, said his gallant
friend had stated to them that this society was alone wanting
to complete the numerous benevolent associations in the me-
tropolis relative to maritime life. lie would own that it had
been a matter of astonishment to him that an institution
like this had not long before been established, particularly
when it was known that the annual average number of wrecks
on the coasts of the United Kingdom was upwards of 1,000.
(Hear.) Formerly, a poor fellow, after being wrecked and
cast ashore, could obtain no assistance till he got to his re-
lations and friends ; and it often occurred that he was obliged
to wander as a beggar and a vagabond through the country.
Now, however, his wants were supplied by the agent of this
charity ; and, if wounded or sick, he was attended to by that
officer with fraternal kindness, and provided with medical
advice till he became convalescent. Then, again, the poor
widow left by the death of her husband in the greatest dis-
tress, perhaps with a large family of children, was visited at
her cottage by the agent, who informed her that, although
the friends of the charity could not restore to her the man of
her heart, her husband and protector, yet that the institu-
tion would do all in its power to assuage her grief, and pro-
vide for the immediate wants of herself and family. (Cheers.)
Various other toasts were drunk, and the company did not
break up till shortly before 12 o'clock.
The subscriptions of the evening amounted to £914, in-
cluding £67 subscribed by the ladies.

A SHOWER OF "RED" RAIN.—The Courrier Grec states
that a red rain had recently fallen at Tripolitza and elsewhere,
and that the minister of the interior had collected information
respecting that remarkable phenomenon, which would be
submitted to the examination of the medical board.

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INTERESTING TO ARTISTS.—The commissioners appointed
by her Majesty for the encouragement of the fine arts in the
United Kingdom, have issued a notification to artists, in-
viting them to compete in the production of designs for
frescos to decorate the walls of the new houses of parliament.
The inducement held out shapes itself into the form of pre-
mitms for the best sketches in the following proportions :
Three premiums of £3OO each, three of £2OO each, and five
of £lOO each, to be given " to the artists who shall furnish
cartoons, which shall respectively be deemed worthy of one
or the other of the said premiums." It is satisfactory to
perceive that tke royal commissioners have begun their task
at the right end, by inviting competition ; and we doubt not
the result. will be that native talent will thereby be enabled
a personal szulibsher.lP
to vindicate the pretensions which it has often lacked the
opportunity of asserting.
We regret to see, by letters from Hamburgh, . that. her
Majesty
the more magnificent
of X 9,000 subscription for that devoted city, which is strictly
spoken of tion, and. comes from her privy purse, is
tingly and disparagingly. It is compared to
Queen. We
the Emperor of
, attrficent subscription of the Emperor of Russia
mruegarded, therefore, as unworthy of England's
of her
must remind the inhabitants of Harnburgh, that
The British government
parlia..ment ; and in thentp can st s gift is as the head of the govern-
ment—thatMajestyo is a gift from a private person.
that not to be recomm give nothing but by a vote of
resent condition of our own people,
sanction. The great ended- The Emperor needs no such
distinction,
gift of the government of sent by
sums is, that the £9,000 sen, therefore, between the two
I of a private, but exalted per
that Russia will probably not contribute -I.'t
merchants and citizens, while En
not less than twenty thousand
or perhaps five times that amount w'illn bi
the Russian Emperor is the
her Majesty's gift is that
us further observe,
England much more by its
pounds, alread subscribed
urgh.
probably
collected. (1 o uNbyl
We
trust
her trust that, by.th.ese few remarks, we have placed
ofdibsaeptopricobtahtelocuit,idzeensesrves
graero:
Ma-
jesty's subscription, as compared. to that of Ptael
of ipperor of
Her Majesty, picosPteera lightd
for her proPPt and spontaneous contributiou..-Sun. Praise

stock, Kenyon, and Redesdale
After the usual examination of thelchildren,
The Rev, M. Sinclair, the secretary, read the report, which
was of great length, and contained matter of the most inter-
esting character. The principal features in this document
were those having reference to the grants which had been
made by the committee during the past year, the want of
school-accommodation in various parts of the country, the
means taken to educate the poor children who are employed
in mills and factories, the establishment which had been
opened for the training of masters and mistresses for the
schools, the method of organising, and the management of
existing schools, the improvement of the teachers, and the
success which had attended the efforts of the committee on
each of these particular points. The report stated that "in
the disposal of your fund for school-building, the object
which your committee have invariably kept in view has been
to call forth the largest possible amount of local efforts, and
to produce the greatest attainable extent of church education.
The whole number of cases is 316; the total sum granted is
£15,881; and the number of scholars accommodated is
52,180, being a larger number by 11,907 than in any preced-
ing year.
On the subject of " school accommodation," the report
went on to say—" As a proof of the inability now existing,
even in populous places, to supply school accommodation of
any kind, a clergyman near Manchester, after stating that
' during the last eight weeks he had been distributing provi-
sions weekly to more than 1000 persons,' thus proceeds—
' My only school-room is an empty cotton mill, from which
we are liable to be ejected every moment, the mill being part
of a bankrupt's estate. In this room, which contains neither
fire-place nor stove, we have assembled throughout the win-
ter 200 children. A great many more would have attended,
if a fire could have been made in the room.' "
This statement is followed by many others, each showing
the pressing necessity there exists for further accommodation
for the administration of education amongst the poorer
classes. In many instances there are not any school-houses,
and instruction is now given in public-houses and beer-
shops. Another communication stated "that it was estimated
that in the towns of Ashton-under-Line, Stalybridge, and
Dukinfield, there was a population of nearly 60,000 within
seven miles of Manchester. About 90 per cent. of this popu-
lation belonged to the working el::sses. Now, there was not
for that enormous mass a single endowed day-school, no na-
tional school, no Lancasterian school. At the eastern extre-
mity of Stalybridge a large school was in thet course cf,
erection. In Dukinfield, with a population of 20,000,,'
continued the statement, " there had never been a church or
chapel belonging to the establishment. A church, however,
was about to be consecrated." With respect to the pro-
vision of education for the children in mills and factories,
the report said, " In the last report, it was stated that your
committee had resolved on making more than ordinary ex-
ertions to provide the means of education for children em-
ployed in mills and factories—not so much with a view of
supplying the deficiency as of showing what might be done,
even under existing legal provisions, for the moral and re-
ligious improvement of that unhappy class. Your committee
have now to state, that their experiment has been followed
by the most gratifying results. The factory inspector fcr the
West Riding of Yorkshire (Mr. R. Saunders), after stating
that the number of factory children in his distriqVmounts
to 10,000, thus proceeds :--` The success which hattended
the exertions of the National Society in behalf' factory,
children is very encouraging. Nearly every factory lhild in
the districts assigned to the society's schools at Leeds and
Bradford now attends them. The last official return give
about 180 in attendance at Leeds, and nearly 300 at Brad-
ford. No objection to the mode in which these schools are
conducted has been made since they have been in full oper-
ation, either by a parent or child.'
The school-room which has been built by the society in
the Manchester road at Bradford " is now attended by 950
children on Sundays, and 330 on week days.; In reference
to the " Training Establishment," the report thus pro-
ceeded : _ . .

" Your committee last year stated, that in accordance w

public opinion, preparations had been made to open an es-
tablishment for training youths to be schoolmasters at Stale-
ley-grove, Chelsea, where an eligible site had been purchased
by the society for that purpose. Your committee have now
to report, that the dormitory for the accommodation of 56
pupils has been completed ; that a chapel to contain 400
persons has been erected and consecrated ; and that a model
school, as a place of practical instruction for the pupils in
the art of teaching, is now in operation, and attended by 110
scholars. The original outlay upon this establishment is
large, it exceeds £20,000. But taking into account the ex-)',
tent of ground purchased, the number of buildings to be 4
erected and fitted up, and the respectability of appearance
considered necessary in edifices of a somewhat collegiate
character, the society could not, perhaps, expect to do so
much on cheaper terms. The annual expense to the society
is estimated at £2,000, and will be strictly limited to that
sum. The payments of pupils are at the rate of £25 annu-
ally from each pupil during his period of training, which, by
recent arrangements, may vary from one year and a half to
three years. Each pupil, after a probation of three months,
is apprenticed to the society till the completion of his 21st
year. The number of apprentices is at present 35, of whom
10 are entirely free, and 10 partly so, being charged £l5 a
year instead of £25. For these exhibitions, which were con-
sidered necessary at the opening of the institution, special
grants have been voted.
The reading of the report elicited frequent demonstrations
of approbation.
The Bishop of Chester rose to move that this report be ap-
proved and adopted, and in doing so availed himself of the
opportunity to dilate with considerable force on the endless
benefits which certain portions of his diocese bad derived
from the efforts of the society to disseminate a system of
education based on the principles and tenets of the esta-
blished church. The statements which were to be found in
the report were,calculated to awaken every rightly directed
mind to the vast importance of 'such a system' of edurari....
being disseminated throughout the country.
The Rev. A. M. Campbell seconded the resolution, which
unanimously carried.
The Bishop of Worcester then moved the following reso-
lution :—" That the exertions of the committee to extend
and improve elementary education, by providing schools for
children employed in mills and factories, by establishing
institutions for training young persons to be schoolmasters
and schoolmistresses, and by sending efficient teachers to or-
ganise schools in union with the society, have the entire con-
currence of this meeting, and form a new claim to support
from the friends of education and of the church ;" and
proceeded to point out the innumerable advantages which
were to be derived from the rules laid down and the course
pursued by the society. In no part of the country
would the system be more beneficially felt than in the
manufacturing districts—districts, in which, from the
existence of ignorance, the deepest corruption had grown
up. The children of the manufacturing districts were
peculiarly objects for the consideration of that society.
(Hear.) He might here mention that in the time of Edward
VI. applications had been made to the crown for grants for
the education of youth from two particular places within his
diocese. Of these Birmingham was one. In the one case
there was awarded a grant of the annual sum of £2O, and in
the other, that of Birmingham, a grant of certain lands which
at that period yielded the like amount. But what was the
present relative position of the two grants ? Why, in the
one instance the payment of the £2O a year was continued,
whilst in the other the grant of land produced no smaller a
sum than £B,OOO per annum. (Hear, hear.) There was,
therefore, no lack of funds for the education of children at
Birmingham. (Hear, hear.)
Lord SANDON seconded the resolution, which, like the one
that preceded it, was unanimously agreed to.
Archdeacon Wilberforce moved the next resolution, to the
effect, " That the best thanks of the meeting be conveyed to
the noblemen and gentlemen of the committee appointed to
collect subscriptions in behalf of the society, and for their
zealous and unwearied exertions during the last three years,
to enlarge the circle of its supporters."
Archdeacon Manning seconded the resolution, which was
carried with acclamation.
The Bishop of London then rose to move a vote of thanks
to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, for his constant
attention to the concerns of that society, and for his conde-
scension in taking the chair on that occasion.
Mr. Whately having seconded the resolution, it was carried
unanimously.
The Archbishop of Canterbury briefly, but effectively re-
sponded to the compliment.
r The meeting then separated.