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r — $[failings. THE READIEST INPEOMPTU.—A woman's tear.-Punch. AN AàlATEUit PPACTi,r!ONEr,A person not of the medical profession, but who prided himself in his knowledge of physic, upon one occasion, in the Court of King's Bench, to convince Lord Ellenborough of his importance, said, My lord, I some- times employ myself as a doctor." "Very likely, sir," said his lordship, drily, but is anybody else fool enough to employ YOn in that capacity Times. JUDGE BALL'S NosE,-Old Judge Ball had a very prominent .i fiery-looking proboscis on his fiery face, which seems to have attracted the special attention of a country witness, a chap about fifty or sixty years of age, who was under examina- tion in a nisi prius case at the late assizes, and who was evi- dently most reluctant to tell the whole truth." The counsel often, and apparently in vain, gave the monitory caution so much ia use here, Now, sir, mind you're on your oath." At last old Ball, getting annoyed at the time of the court being wasted ao longr by tiio apparent stupidity, and rambling and confused answers of the witness, said to him, looking at him at the same time very dignified and severe, What are you think- ing of, sir, that you give such confused answers—you're on your oath, sir ?" Why then, my lord," said he, us I'm on my oath, I was thinking of your lordship's nose." Old Ball loved a joke too well to take any notice of the reply, but found himself hard up to keep from laughing. OF GREAT MEN IN TROVBLOXJS TIMES.—The de- rangement of intellect amongst men conspicuous in political movements on the continent is remarkable. It has for some time been known that the mind of Count Stadion, the author of the new Austrian Constitution, has been affected and it appears that the same calamity has overtaken General Welden, late Commander-in-Chief of the Austrian army. M. Von Beckerath, the influential Prussian Deputy to theF rankfort Assembly and Member of the Regent's Cabinet; and M. Lesseps, the French envoy to the lioman people. WH EN- a person wishes to salute anothsr in Thibet, he Uncovers his head, puts out his tongue, and scratches his right car. SAID.—A New York paper says,—There is an attorney practising in our courts who has attained great notoriety, among other things, for bullying witnesses on the opposite side of cases when he is concerned. As it would not be right to give the full name right out to the crowd, we will merely call hinl Wyke, for short. There was a horse case—a very common ..Cas.3 upon our magistrate's docket — trying before Squire Snell- one day, in which Wyke happened to be 'fornenst the horse. A slow and 'Ca",y witness had been called to the stand by the plaintiff, who, in a plain, straightforward manner, made the other side of the case look rather blue. Wyke commenced regular cross-examination, which was cut short in the follow- ing manner Well, what do you know about a horse ? You Ii. horse-doctor said the barbarian, in his peculiar contemptu- ous and overbearing manner. "No, I don't pretend to he a b^rse-doctor but I know a great deal about the nature of the beast." That means to say, you know a horse from a jackass, Mien you see them," said Wyke, in the same style, looking knowingly at the court, and glancing triumphantly around the crowd of spectators, with a telegraphic expression which said, jlmv I've got him on the hip. The intended victim, gazing intently at his legal tormentor, drawled out, "Oh, ye-as —jes :rd neyer take you for a hoss The court could hot pre- serve its gravity through the scene that followed. A GOOD REASON.—" What do you drive such a pitiful looking carcase as that for? Why don't you put a good coat ot flesh on -utu ?" asked John Van Buren of an Irish. cartman about his birso. "A he«vy coat of flesh! mavourneon, when the poor can sc.xvcviy carry the little flesh there is on him? • I". Spirit :>f the Times. Go >U OR.N "RXGI-WII WEATHRH.-—A joke is tola by theboat- yf the hav <>f X aoles, of a Wappmg sailor in the Meditcr- wno called out to his shipmates one morning when 'lere happened, after six months' clear weather, to be a slight °o~"u Turn out, boys turn out! Here's weaiher as is weather none of your blue sky I" ¡ TIMES ARE CHANGED —A Botany Bay anecdote tells us of a who got so well on in the other wori (Australia) that rose to the bench and, making some harsh reflections on a P-irty brought before him, whom he lined 6s., the delinquent Retorted—There's the money! I well remember the time ia ;i;»gland when I would have liked much less to meet you with J, in my pocket." j A MODEST lioiTon,—"WE have tasted Dick's bottled. Edin- "^fgh ale," says the Manx Liberal, and can pronounce it a. good hearty swig in this hot weather id worth all v?.3 '-old- water of the Amazon, whatever teetotallers may say. ben we have h ilf-a-dozen long necked bottles sent us as in case, for review, we get on with some spirit; and if anyone 'i;> has a house to let will allow us to live in it for a year, rent ,r* then we will be able to tell the public whether it is a e or not. The country at large know not 1,1 ct they lose by being stingy with the newspaper editors." How TO Sow THE FIELD or s invented letters, );l raided the first crop of armed men. Sir Robert Peel Avas unlike him. lie sowed the letters of the alphabet, and up 'i'ang the police.—Punch. -VJ V put that right back where you took it from as the said when her lover snatched a kiss. '.V:i AT is better than presence of mind in a railway -.clent' ,q, Abscuceof body/'—Punch.

dPrnrrut 1lŒ!5. --4- Milt. MACHEADY.—The Hibernia has arrived in Liverpool, bringing fifty passengers, including Mr. Macready, who, previ- ously to his departure from Boston, presented 1,000 dollars to the families of the unfortunate men who fell in the Lite riots. A SYMPTOM OF IMPROVEMENT.—The Boston papers (U.S.) announce the promotion of Robert Morris, Esq. (a coloured gentleman), of Boston, to the office of justice of the peace. THE lION. AND REV. BAPTIST NOEL, —It has been stated, that the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel has received overtures which may lead to his becoming minister of the congregation assem- bling in John-street, Bedford-row, now under the pastoral care of the Rev. John Harington Evans. This statement is at least premature. The subject may have been mentioned; but no step has been taken on either side tending to the result spoken of. It may be well to state, that the church in John- street is not a Baptist church, but a church which is open to Psedobaptiats as members, and not merely as communicants.— It is reported that Mr. Noel is in treaty for the Rev. T. Morti- mer's licensed Episcopal chapel in Gray 's-inn-road. A FORTUNATE PURCHASE.—Some time since a. brig, at present called the Carleton, was put up for public sale at the London dock, and was purchased by Mr. Scott, a chain-lighterman, residinrr at Wapping, for the sum of E750. After undergoing considerable repairs at the New Crane-wharf, Wapping, the vessel put to sea under Captain Bacon, who had become part owner. It was afterwards found necessary to put in at Hartle- pool, where, whilst the vessel was undergoing some repairs at the interior part of the bulkhead, sixteen thousand Spanish dol- lars were found secreted in a place purposely hollowed out for the reception of the precious deposit. The dollars are of an old mintage, and very pure silver. The vessel, it is said, was origi- nally engaged in the slave-trade off the coast of Guinea, and the treasure so curiously discovered was probably the ill- gotten gain of some of the heartless wretches engaged in that traffic. AWFUL F, iitr,At St. Louis, the great capital of the south- west of the United States, a most disastrous fire on the 18th ult. swept over the principal business portion of the city, extending for nearly a mile along the Mississippi, e and consumed goods, warehouses, and stcam boats, 27 of the latter, several of them with cargoes on board,—to the value, as estimated, of between 4,000,001) dollars and 5,000,000 dollars. On the evening of the 17th, a steamer called the White Cloud, named after some Indian chief, took fire at the head of the landing, the wind blowing a gale from the north- east. It soon communicated to others in the vicinity, and in a short time 2G others took fire, and the whole were destroyed. From these the flames spread to the warehouses and stores, and were not quenched until the next day, but not before one half of the richest part of the city was destroyed. For more than a mile in extent along the river, and about half a mile back from it, every thing combustible was destroyed. Among the buildings lost were five banking-houses, three newspaper es- tablishments, every insurance office, and the whole number swept away was 300. Many lives were lost. Capital suffers deeply for a while, but labour gains by it. Many thousand emigrants at St. Louis and its vicinity will immediately be furnished with active employment, at increased wages; the shipyards of the Mississippi will swarm with active carpenters; the steam-engine factories in the neighbourhood of the town will be overrun with work. and a recuperative energy will soon make all right again. INUNDATION OF A CITY.-The city of New Orleans, after being for some time afflicted with cholera, is now threatened with even a more fearful and irresistible foe in the overwhelming waters of the Mississippi. The city lies below the high water level of this great river, and is guarded, as Holland is from the inroad of the sea, by dykes, or levees, as they are called, along the Mississippi. A portion.;of one of these levees above the city having been carried away, the waters were passing rapidly through the opening, overcoming all efforts to stop the breach, inundating the plantations below and actually pouring through some of the streets of the city. Our latest dates by mail are the 13th ult., when in many quarters the inhabitants were already driven by the invading waters to take refuge in the upper storeys of their houses. The destruction has already been immense. On the canal a large body of persons endea- voured to cut through the bank, to drain off a portion of the flood from a certain section of the city, when S00 armed men were placed there to preserve the main streets of the city from inundation. The bank was cut through, however, but no re- lief was thereby afforded to the submerged portion of the town. Conflicts were feared on this account between the authorities and the people, and we have a rumour to the effect, that one had actually occurred. Thousands of men are employed in a vain endeavour to dam up the crevasses, and great numbers of them are represented as dying off by cholera. Two orc&r:r;'J'=S have occurred also opposite New Orleans, destroying several plantations. Alarm and despondency prevailed at the late,t, accounts, and the waters continue to rise, and the ground to melt away—and worse than all, this is not yet the great Hood caused by the melting of the snows, which will not occur till June! Owing to the severity of the winter, another fearful rise of the Mississippi is then anticipated. A PROTECTIONIST TESTED.—The correspondence between the Duke of Bedford and his protectionist tenant, Mr. W. Bennett, of Lewsey, affords a complete practical refutation of all the hullabaloo made about iYee-trade in corn. Mr. Bennett at Willis's rooms came forward and deliberately stated that he had been robbed of one-fourth of his capital by free-trade; and his landlord, who had not long since granted him a lease of his .1 farm, thereupon came forward and offered to relieve him of that lease, aud make such an equitable allowance for the tenant's improvements as the case admitted of. It may fairly be sup- posed that Mr. Bennett jumped at his landlord's liberal offer; that he at once availed himself ot the opportunity to escape from the ruin he saw impending. Nut at all. He asks time for deliberation. He whines and he whimpers about unknown enemies seeking to seriously damage him" with his landlord, and rides off in vague generalities about tax- ation, and evades admitting having sold his wheat at a price which gives the lie to all his Regent-street declaration. Nearly two mouths have passed since the Duke of Bedford's offer was made, but Mr. Bennett has made no sign of accepting it,-Dail.J News. HEREFORD MUSICAL FESTIVAL.-The friends of this ancient meeting, and we believe that the name represents an immense majority of the inhabitants of the counties of Hereford and Salop, wilt be gratified to hear that Lord Bateman has, in the most handsome manner, consented to be one of the stewards of the unsuing Festival. There is now but one more wanted, and we have every confidence that next week we shall be enabled to announce the name of the eighth steward; the eight wi.l then comprise a stewardship which for distinguished position will be second to none in the long scries of upwards of a century. We may, therefore, now congratulate our readers on the cer- tainty of the Hereford Triennial Festival taking place in 18-19, and under such auspices as must ensure a brilliant meeting. We are authorised to announce that the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of the Diocese has readily accepted the oilice of vice preÜdt'llt,-l1cJ'éjÍJrd Timcs, A GIIIL belonging to W in Yorkshire, recently left home and dressed herself in male attire, for the purpose of bccoming used to the garb, she and her lover having agreed that she should live with him as a man-servant. She was discovered the other day at Manchester. It- is said she has become gre.aiy attached lo the garb oi the rough, sex, preferring it to the petticoats. STAN FIELD-XIALL.—The sale at Slanlield-liall is attracting great notice, and is likely to be well attended. THE lightning, attracted by a lady's steel busk, did serious injury to the wearer, a few days ago. ANOTHER AWFUL COI.LIBHY EXPLOSION.—-It is again our painful duty to record another of those destructive calamines in a coal district, with which, unfortunately, the columns of the L Mining Journal are too often blotted. On Tuesday, June 5>, between four and five o'clock, 33 men and boys went down the Hebburn Colliery, die property of Messrs. Eastern and Co., situated on the Tyne, about 11 mil above J arrow; and at hall- past six an explosion took place, by which 32 of them were in- stantaneously deprived of life--Glo only, a man 27 years of age, being brought out alive, and has recovered; his name is Win. Bell, but he can give no account of the a hiving been struck senseless at the moment ot the explosion. There were 70 more in a distant part of the pit who were uninjured, but in two hours double the number would have befen at work where tile explosion occurred, which was about half a mile from the shaft, and some of the bodies were dreadfully mutilated. The cause of the accident is, of course, unknown; the pit was always well ventilated, but there are great inequalities in the roof, which varies from 5 to 12 feet in height, in the cavities ot which the earburetted hydrogen lodges, and ii is expected that, i the severe thunderstorm of the previous day had disturbed the ventilation. The scam, which is below the Benshain seam, requires boring, to let oil' the gas, and the man who performed this duty was found at soric distance from the others, dead, with his Clanny lamp in order, but the wire gauze somewhat rumpled, j

Jnrts aim /igttna. I EDUCATIONAL GRANTS IN SCOTLAND.—From a Parliamentary document, just printed, it appears that, in 1848-49, the bum ot I £ 16,434 3a. 8d. was granted for educational purposes in Scot- land, of which £ 3,291 2s. 3d. was given to the Established Church, £ 12,521 lis. 5d. to the Free Church, and £ 328 10s. to other denominations. THE INCOME-TAX.—A return moved for by Mr. Moffatt, M.P., gives some particulars relative to the Income and Pro- perty-tax. It appears that in the year ending the 5th of April, 1848, the number of persons of all classes assessed to the Income-tax under schedule D amounted to 147,659, of whom 34,270 had incomes under E150 a-year; 38,825 under E200 29,909 under £ 300 15,043 under £ 400; 7,324 under £ 50 ); 5,532 under £ 600 3,043 under £ 700; 2,124 under £ 800; 1,713 under E900 875 under 1; 5,234 under £ 3,000; 1,483 under E3,000 703 under E4,000 400 under £ -5,000 788 under LIO,000 371 under E50,000 and 22 persons with incomes of X50,000 and upwards. The number of persons charged under schedule E, in the year 1847-48, amounted to 49,707, of whom 21;960 had incomes under £ 150 8,645 under 8,702 under £ 300; 4,049 under £ 400; 2,244 under £ 500; 1,040 under L-600 694 under E700 522 under ESOO 276 under £ 900; 188 under £ 1,000; 838 under EI,500 244 under £ 2,000; 166 under £ 3,000 55 under £ 4,000 23 under 5,000; raid 61 with incomes of £ 5,000 and upwards. The net total amount of the Income-tax received for the year ending the 5th of April, IS48, was £ 5,633,702 viz., C2,557,793 under schedule A £ 309,890 under schedule B £744,:273uJlder schedule C; XI,685,977 under schedule D; and £ 340,709 under schedule E. BAPTISTS IX THE UNITED STATEs,-They are divided into nine different communities, and the respective condition of each may. be seen from the following table :— Denominations. Churehes. ^n^ters. in'l Year. Mom1;,ers. Orthodox 8,204 4,950 3S,1C1 667,750 Anti-Mission 2,059 9:24 ],G6S 69, .-J2S Free Wilt 1,219 1,076 3,250 55,323 Six Principle 20 23 150 3,500 Seventh Day 50 40 350 6,200 Church of God ( Winebren- Church of God ( Winebren- ncrian's) 125 4(!0 10,000 Brethren (Tinkers) 150 100 250 8,000 Disciples (Campbeldtes) 1,600 1,000 4,500 127,000 Christian Connexion (Unit.) 650 528 5C0 35,coo Total in the United States 14,078 8,826 49,229 932,101 In the above table Canada with her 8,213, New Brunswick 4,823, Nova Scotia 9,231, Jamaica 32,250, and the Bahamas 2,687, are not taken into consideration. By the following table, which presents a succinct view of the numerical strength of the Baptists throughout the world, it will be seen that the United. States comprise the bellk of the body Churches, North America 14.4S2 9,16' 51,3S1 1,039,612 Eurooe 1,918 1.432 10.951 150,649 Asia1 112 113 2,109 9,S40 Al'riea. 20 21 18i 1,127 Grand. Total 16,562 10,726 64,622 1,201,22S They have fifteen colleges and universities, with 1,409 stu- dents and 2,456 graduates and the libraries in connexion with these institutions contain 72,450 books, 27,500 of which are in Brown University, llhode Island. In addition to these there arescven theological schools, with 152 students, 417 graduates, and libraries containing 15,450 volumes. IMPOKTS OF CHEESK.—Returns moved for by Sir Philip Egertoii, iNI.P., Sllokv that the gross total quantity of cheese imported into the united kingdom in the year 1848, amounted to 441,635 ewts., of which 286,474 cwts. were from various ¡ parts of Europe, 154.658 cwts. from the United States of North America, and 501 cwts. from British colonial possessions. The quantity of foreign European cheese exported from the united kingdom amoun ted to 3,414 cwts. The qualities of the cheese imported are not specified in the return. THE PJJOTLES OF HUNGARY.—" The extent of Hungary, including Transylvania, is above 125.000 square miles that of Great Britain and Ireland is 122,001, and that of Prussia about 116,000. The population of Hungary, according to the best authority, is nearly fourteen millions; that of England (in 181 I) was nearly litteen millions that of Prussia about sixteen millions. The papulation of the kingdom, like that of the empire, is composed of various races, amongst which there are differences of language, religion, customs, and sentiments. Of the 14,000,000 of people who inhabit Hungary, not more than 5,000,000 are Miijjars, about 1,282,000 are German. 2,311,000 Walla k-, and, of the remain- ing 5,400,000, nine-tenths or more areSclaves. The Sclavesare therefore as numerous as the Majjars and, although these races had at all times combined against foreign enemies-, it was probable that they would not unite in a domestic quarrel, as that with Austria might be cousi ered. When a great part of the colonists of the military !r aider, chiefly Croats and Serbes, took part against the Government of Hungary, a. td asserted a Sciave nationality as opposed to the Hungarian nationality, it was too hastily assumed, by persons imperf-ctly inLmned, that the whole Sclavonic population, equalling the Majjars in number, would be available to iii the war. I But the Seiave.s of Hungary are a disunited race, divided into rune different tribes, the greater part of which have nothing in common cxcept their origin. oft speak lan- guages or dialects which are mutually unintelligible*; and the Seiaves of different tribes are sometimes obliged to use the Aiajjar tongue as their only means of communication. Some oelung to the Roman Catholic Church, some to the Greek others are Protestant—Lutheran or Calvini.-t. and some, while they have submitted to the see of Rome, retain many of their Greek .forms a».d services, adhere to the G.e.-lc cah-ndar, an! constitute'a distinct communion. The Slovacks of Northern Hungary, numbering 1,600,('00, are partly llosmui Catholic Hungary, are partly llosmui Catholic partly Protestants, and have no intercourse or community I of language or feeling with the Seiaves of Southern and W enteiu Hungary, from which they are separated by the inter- vention of the Ma j jar country. The ltllthencs, also, in Nor her.i liu.»gcsiy, are distinct from the Slovacks, occupy a different p noon oi the slopes and spurs of the Carpathians, and have no connexion with the Seiaves on the right bank of the Danube, ironi whom they are separated by the whole breadth of Hun- gary and Transylvania at that point. amount to about 400,000. The Croats, not quite 900,000 in number, -are partly Roman Catholics and partly belong to the Greek Church. Vt hen religious toleration was established in Hungary, they exercised the power enjoyed by the provincial assembly to exclude Protestants from the country. The Shocks of Scd i- vouia Proper, and the Raseiens of that province aud the B.uuu amounting' respectively to above 800,000, and nearly half « minion, are-tribes of the Serbe stock, ol whom the greater part aahere to the Greek Church, and whose language is different from that of the Croats, the Slovacks, and the R.uthenes. The Bulgarians, about 12,000, the Montenegrins, about 2,00:), an [ the ends from Styria, about 50,000, are small.distinct tribes, speaking different .languages, and divided, by religious differences. But the whole of these Sealvonic tribes h-.ivo this in common, t'lley tire. itil a oi* "o til, race; and more than half of the Sclave p >puiatiou of ihmg.i.rv nas joined the Hungarians against Au3s.ru."—biack^oo: that., stimulated by the example and aided with tae assistance THK FIU&EHOW) LA.NO MOVEMENT. — WE arc* happy to slate of the Birmingham Soc-ioty, of I kind have sprung up all over the country, In the Society h is 700 members, Dudley 150, Stuur. ri.tge 30 Coventry 4 >0, Worcester 80, Stafford 100, Deray 700^ New- castle-upon- i'yne 450, Bradford 140, Cheltenham 2-a), y.aeiiield Qi/0, Snields 200, and London aoaut. 5,e0'), in i>iruuuaha?n, Dudley, Wolverhampton, Stourbridge, and Coventry, °1,3>; > allotments--will very speedily be made. Altogether these'lu* -1 been culled into existence a body of between lU.f-OO and men, who, by prudence and economy, have worked out their own political enfranchisement. With regard to the Binning- ham Society, it now numbers 1,500 members subscribing for 2,00d shares. It has already given allotments to 215 member* in North Staffordshire. i'lKK IrcsL'aAXCUS. — A return moved for by Colonel Sibthorp, M.l' shows that the grand total amount of the sums iu.ured. ti during the veur I JUS, on farming stock exempt from duty -i RIOTIELUON LOSSES IN CANADA.—A return, moved for bv Mr. ilawes, -shows that the gross total amount -claimed by par- ties iu Canada, and fi:e I before the present commission, tor rebellion losses in that colony, is of which i180,08H i- lor property, real or personal, damaged or destroyed, an-t C, 1, 8 7 r) far casual, speculative, or other losses. claimed before.the old commission was the amount awarded, f 1 0,292. j lH>i-i(5iiATioN.—Of the 62,303 persons inhabiting ths four Monmouthshire parishes, 82,170 were born out oid.hr-c i county and of the 83,:J12 persons inha. ntiiig fhe G^are.icrg.o;- i £ .'nre paris ues. 27,574 were born out of that county. ° 1 i

PEACE SOCIETY. The annual meeting of this society was held in Exeter-hall cn Monday night. Mr. C. Hindiey, M.P., took the chair just after six o'clock, at which hour the vast hall and galleries were filled by a concourse of persons, principally of the male sex. Among the more distinguished advocates upon the platform were—Air. Bright, M.P., Mr. W. Ewart, M.P., Mr. J. Hrother- ton, M.P., Mr. L. Hey worth, M.P., Mr. J. Ellis, M.P., Mr. G. Thompson, M.P., Mr. C. Cowan, M.P., Mr. J. Kershaw, M.P., Mr. S. M. Peto, M.P.; Revs. Dr. Burns, W. Stokes, J, Burnet, H. S tod dart, J. Ainslie; Messrs. G. W. Alexander, J. Scoble, Joseph Sturge, E. Burritt, &c. The CHAIRMAN, after congratulating the friends of the of peace upon the predominance of his o wn sex among the au .ienee. which he regarded as a proof of the progress which the question was making in the public mind, adverted feelings of gratification to the Peace Congress held at Brussels last autumn, and the Congress to be held in Paris next Angus;, which he trusted would be attended by every one who could well be present. They had been honoured by a notice in a journal which carried great weight with it in this country (hear, hear, and applause). They had been honoured by a column in the Times (applause and hisses), and a column .n the Times was worth a great deal to any cause (hear, hear, aid laughter; and for this reason, because some people read Times more than their Bibles (a laugh) and he Was a:raid that a great many people would not have had their attention called to this subject from the precepts oi the Bible so much as from the column and a quarter in the Times of that day. Toe strongest arguments upon whkh their opposition to all could rest might be found in the precepts of the Christian rc". gion, and that ground he woull nCVl r give up. He would;. detain them further, but call upon the secretary to read the report, which stated that more than 150 meetings have bet a held in the principal towns of England and Scotland, for the purpose of sustaining Mr. Cobden by a strong expression of public sentiment in favour of the eont.emplated measuie, and upwards of a thousand petitions had been sent in in its support. The St-CIIETAHY begged permission to add that three weeds ago Mr. E. Burritt and himself were in Paris, and had a leog interview with the illustrious poet-statcsinan, M. de Lauiar- tine (cheers). lie gave his full and cordial adhesion to the movement, and promised his assistance—first, as a n ember i j the committee, to make arrangements for the forthcoming e, gress in Paris, in August; and, secondly, as a member of the congress itself. The Peace Society would thus have an oppor- tunity of compensating M. de Lamartine for the ingratitude his fellow countrymen, by making hili-i the President of the World's Congress (cheers). After the congress, when the principal part of the members returned to this country, he be- lieved he might announce that M. de Lamartine would come over and attend a public meeting in favour of the Peace Society at Exeter Hail (much cheering). M. de Tocqueviile, other eminent persons in France and elsewhere, had also given in their full adhesion and with such persons as Mr. Ccbde i and Mr. Bright, who we,e engaged in the movement in this country, he thought they could afford to smile at the sneers of the Times (cheers;. # Mr. Bui GUT, on presenting himself to move the first resolu- tion, was received with loud and prolonged cheering. He said it was strange that this meeting had been made the subiect almost unmixed ridicule by parties professing to instruct and guide the public—both those connected with the public press and persons occupying other influential positions. There was a party at the present moment who were looking upon this meeting as a pleasant hailucinatioa on the part of a consider- able number of people and there were those who went í,) make up the collective wisdom of the nation who believed th they were people who were amusing themselves with visionary and impracticable theories. But he could not forget that these great organs of the press and these men in power, and in hi?1 places, had said and thought precisely the same of sever, other great questions on several other occasions (great che< •rt- ing). He for one was not therefore led at all times to desp.-i.x of either the progress, the soundness, or the ultimate success of a cause when he saw leading articles, in great newspapers, and hearct public men in high positions, expressing opinions t > the contrary; because he knew that it was not. in newspaper orifices, or in Government ouices, tha rincjples were ertner first discovered or advocated wit But on this question tne fnenas of the Peace Scheie s great advan- tage—that every irtaa was obliged to a t excellence -i the object winch tiiey proposed to attain (hear) -an-.i all th; their opponents could complain of was that the object w.:«! either not practicable, or that the means proposed were r.e•; likely to bring it about. It was said, that there always been war. Iliis they did not deny but surely, if the evil ha existed tor so long a time they were not to be accused of undue precipitation ii they now hoped to do something to put a st"- i to it (laughter and cheers). Crime and disease were as old as war but no one suppoac- it impracticable to meit together to suppress crime ami mitigate the sufferings arising from tiisea-e f hear, hear). Lsemedies were tried from these afflictions, an why should they be held up to ridicule, who in the face of day proposed a scheme, not by which war should be rendered im- possible, hut by which it should be rendered much less possi ble, and much less destructive to human nature, than it ha been in past times, or than it now was (cheers) ? These men to wiiom he had alluded had nothing to suggest theiuselv.s (chee.sj, 1 hey had not the honesty or the tho- roughly to investigate this great, question, and then they pooh- pooheci^tnoso wno aid investigate it, and said, they were vision- aries (enters). It must always be recollected that a large ehvrS or persons had interests in another direction than that in whi'd) the triends ot peace wished to travel; and although no one would say opemy, or even probably think, that war was a good thing, and that it should continue, yet, when they remembered tnat this large class were interested in the pr.p u'atiens for war and the expenditure in war, they could not' be surprise;! if these men should regard the peace policv with distrust, and favourably receive arguments that went to prove that their p:t practically be tn d and earned out (hear;. Loosing over Christian Europe such as it. was two years ago. Oeiore tne recent cii.siurbances broke out, it was calculated that- the various nations una been spending at the* rate of not lun.-h less than £ 200,0 0,000 a-year, not in war, hunt wardke prepa- rations, during a period of profound peace. The President* of the French Republic told them in his recent message (he spoke from memory) that Prance had now on toot about 4$<),0-yu armed yven, 40,000 horses, and he Knew not how much force of artillery. Prussia had 380,000 men under arms; and if the number of soldiers maintained by Groat Britain were added t the number, these three kingdoms alone poas.ewed at the nrr- sent- moment armies amounting to cousi,icraUjy mow i-ia<- 1,000,000 men. i'he two power, of Austria and Kussia had an united force considerably greater than that of the three Power- he had named, and in ail probability tne Christian nations of Ji'jrope wc;e u o.\ -u-1io^ deio,g ^-oi iters amounting in the whole to u.jwaids ot eo0,c e) in number men drawn entirely from tne pui.vmts oi industry, and the whole ot whet they mura produce lost, to the country aud the world (cheers'), 'i n friends of the Peace Society did not suppose that Mr. Cobden' resolutions would put. an end to war for ever, or that the intro- duction of arbitration clauses iu treaties with foreign Power- would make the quarrels between na.ions of such a nature tha- they could never lead to war. Nor did they suppose that arbi- tration clauses wouki avail when nations became like two ex asperated individuals who would not listen to reason, and wh wore 'carried awsy by their passions or that a nation would t. t ra ni [ne t upon without resistance, either by its own h Goven meiK > by i foreign riati m (great cheering). It might still b- louiid a p.'opie would, byforce agamst the head that upon mem, assert by tins (ueadiul method their right to freev A nut tney said was, that arbitration was good, as arbi- tration, .oid not tnat there were not many cases in winch arbi- tration was impracticable, as tor instance between a master ara ;i:s slave, But, as between nations in the position of equal. cao) were aide to prove that tin; proposition which they we. a oo id to sunnnt to i aroa oc-ot would be of immense ad van t o_ in preserving tiio peace oi the world. What they wanted ve- to mntkC a change in public Opinion, so that, on all occasion. tr nation should look tor peace and' love peace, and that tfat should shun war as the greatest of human calamities* and n only teaen the peopie, but tne < »overnmeut also, so to regard fcuceis;, I nere were cases where great and powerful aow -s- papeis had usrt only pointed out the origin of strife, but had ton many vase < fanned the dame of war, while the men engag-- •. in the military and naval profession# had been the iiao. eouu!>eders ot tne peopie. W had illustrious dukes, ma- euiinent naval heroes, and great admirals and comm.-tn em; but, instead ot calling them iu when we were at >,«- to »aK»w n-om tiieiu precisely how the work of ciestruct).. could be-1 be carried on, they were called in wu c '<»eu: at pence to tell us what to do when war shoe come, an wnetimr it was likely to come (hear, hear). committee sat i.-tst se.^sem upon the Navy E>timate>, examined a wnuie bevy oi admirals (a laugh), iie was sV'» thev ail expaaterl a *>\ at -rloo in the ioilowiuy week, and it i' falgar the week aiter"(a iaugh). Nay, they even »m<rx.vd -• up > i,'? map the very .->pnt where the next great batiie w: s t- tie Sought; some making it out to b« tU« LmdVeud, wm. pthas move d it a little higher up Than-iei —(<i laugh. "ii course Great Britain was to s vvwep .h; seas as in n