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    , ¦ ators and acquirers of knowledge . The workman now , without foing many yards from , his home , may acquire a knowled ge of distant countries which was gained by adventurous travellers who had traversed the burning desert or encountered the stormy ocean—who had visited the Arctic regions , or gone to the extreme of the southern hemisnhere . ' The mechanic has now an opportunity of acquiring the results of these painful exertions without stirring from ] iotixe . ' He has now also the means of applying to his own purposes all the knowledge which men of d ^ op science have gained by laborious processes , whether in chemistry , jn mechanics , or any other branch ; and he is enabled easily to profit at a small expense from the investigations which have been so arduously pursued by others . The

    mechanic is also , by these institutions , initiated into the secrets of nature , the contemplation of which tends to elevate the mind ; and while , on the one hand , it teaches every man how insignificant a portion he is of the great universe which science unfolds to him , it must also , on . the other , render him more contented with his'lot , ' and more resigned to bear those individual evils which Providence in its wisdom may have ordained him to suffer . The mechanic in his small room , by the library which is placed at his command , is enabled to know the wonderful contrivances by which insects too small to be seen by the naked eye are yeb formed with all the artificial conformation of farerer beings—that although you cannot perceive

    them , yet that they have joints , and limbs , and veins , and blood that circulates , and lungs that breathe—that they are endowed , although in minuteness hardly conceivable by man , with all the elaborate contrivances which we find in the larger objects of creation . The mechanic also by these institutions is enabled to carry his mind to the more elevated and distant regions of the universe ; he is enabled , not merely to understand the wonderful mechanism of that system of which this earth forms a part , but he can carry his views further , and learn that there are visible to ic

    those who have the command of the marvellous telescop , improvements of the day , eighty millions of suns , all of them probably as large , though some may be larger , than ours—all of them surrounded by planets like our sun , and containing probably an indefinite number of beings , all the creatures of the same great inscrutable power which made this world— -the contemplation of which subject must , I think , raise the mind of the mechanic from earthly , low , and vulgar considerations , and tend to direct his mind with fervent devotion towards that great and mysterious Beinsrfrom whom he derives his present existence . "

    Then coming to one of the local subjects of the day —the institution of the Savings Banks—he spoke homely maxims with force and freshness . " Well , then , if these institutions are advantageous to the middle age of man , so also are savings banks valuable establishments for the benefits they confer upon declining age . There is no maxim of life more important than this , that a man should make the day conducive to the morrow —that he should bo willing to forego tho enjoyments , the temptations , the allurements of time present , for the purpose of laying up a store which shall ensure to him comfort in time to come ; and the observance of that maxim . is no less productive of comfort and happiness in this world

    than essential for our well-being hereafter . Those who net upon that maxim will find themselves comfortable , wealthy , and respected . Thoso who , on the other hand , are careless of to-morrow , and think only of to-day , and waste and riot in extravagant and needless pleasures those means which ought to be , laid up in store for their futuro support—they will lose the respect of all their neighbours , and , what is still a greater loss , they will loso all respect i ' or themselves . "Well , gentlemen , nothing can bo more < "alculatod to encourage the habit of forethought and providuni-o than theso savings banks ; and I trust that tho good effect of the establishment of ono in this town will be 'is groat ns it has been proved to bo in other places where similar institutions have been founded . I trust that tho

    workman who by his industry and skill is now in tho receipt of ample wages , instead of squandering ( as perhaps Juuny may now bo tomptcd to do , by . tho want of any proper moaiiH of accumulation ) iu dissipation , in drunkenness , < " in other momentary indulgences , a largo portion of his <; nvui )) gs , will bo induced to lay by that portion for the future support of himself and his family ; and dopoml Ji poii it , Uuit ; if 01 ico tho habit is acquired , and a man begins to feel that by providence and forethought , by H . ' ivuijr Up a iim () day |) V dttv mu [ WC ( , ] C i , y -wo ,, ! ^ i i " a « 'uiimlal in < r a store which will stand him in stead when

    • i rain y day comen , when ago and infirmity prevent him . y 'otn labouring with tho same activity aa ho Im . s been ablo o < u > heretofore—wIkmv once that habit is gained , bo will " . "' } a source of pleasure as well as of advantage- —ho will ( in < l i ( , source of honest pride to himself to know that Jl « hiiM been collecting toother a littlo stock for himself , J | na ho will be a fur happier as woll us a far more rcspeet-» |> 'ii member of . society than ho would have boon if ho had "' ssipated in daily mid weekly riot and extravagance thoso " mm ) which ought to bo otherwise and more advantatmo'w ' y applied . " h

    On tho education of women , ho spoko wilh equal ' nitli . ' ' "I'licrn i ; i ono tiling , I think , H | , ill wanting to complete ¦''« ' institutions of thin town . 1 menu a n « hool for the jl'ieation of giHs . There is an excellent boys' school , but > . ' m ' " ' !>' ' " ¦ ' similar establishment Ibr girls . Now , ^• 'nUoinnn , i ( , ih woll known that tho education of women . <> l I ho (> real . est importance to society . Men may be '" Ij'ixl | , l , o rou h stones of whioh tho fabric of society in , 1 ' . , "' . . y lll > 0 tlui strength and tho resisting portions of n > i , labrm ; )) ul , women are that liner commit without which "oho rougher ingredients would not find order or eonsin"noy , a , i , l without wliioli there ran bo noboruity no form j" > lastiiifr endurance . Wo ail know tho important inumico wIncK is exerted by women upon the welfare of ' " . > whether it i , 0 ; | , ] 1 ( , capacity of daughters , of sisters wives , or of mothers ; and therefore , independently of a "y regard for tho fairer mix—a regard , howe-vor , which I

    am persuaded all whom I now address feel in the strongest degree —( a laugh)—the most selfish consideration , a single regard for ourselves , a mere regard for man , abstracted from and independent of woman , ought , to lead us to endeavour so to mould and educate the rising generation of the female community that they mav be as well fitted as it is possible for good training and . instruction to make them , to perform . the various duties of life in the capacities of daughters , sisters , wives , and mothers . I therefore commend to your consideration—though it forms no part of the institution now about to be established , I commend to your anxious and earnest consideration the establishment also of a girls' school at Melbourne . "

    As a pleasant wind-up to the proceedings of the day , the townspeople dispersed themselves among the grounds of Melbourne gardens , which were , by the kind permission of Lady Palmerston , placed at the disposal of the committee for the benefit of the institution . Beats also plied on the lake for the accommodation of excursion parties .

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    LETTERS PROM PARIS . [ Feom our own Correspondent . ] Letter LXXXVIII . Paris , Thursday Evening-, Sept . 1 , 1833 We are still lying in a dead calm . Little or no news floating about . Excepting always the eternal Eastern , Turkish , or Turko-Russ , or Russo-Turk question , which is considered here at Paris to be more embroiled than ever , there are no other matters worth mentioning . The Bourse , however , is disquieted , and totters again to ti fall . There are two causes for this : —

    1 .. The tidings of the harvest . 2 . The disposition of Turkey to resist . As to the harvest , the result of the crops is now completely ascertained . The whole of the south of France , and all the eastern departments , saving the Lorraine and the Beauce ( the latter indeed is the great provision market of Paris ) are severely affected . The northern departments and the western coasts , on the other hand , present a satisfactory yield .

    Taking all results together it is estimated that the total deficit in the French crops amounts to an eighth , or fifteen millions of hectolitres ( about 1 , 125 , 000 tons English ) . The JPresse , in its commercial bulletin of the 2 Sth ult . reckons the total deficit as double this calculation . I only trust that journal may be in error . la every town throughout France the price of bread has risen , and murmurs are already heard . What will it be in the winter ? The Government fancies it has acted

    with extraordinary discretion in forbidding the public journals to discuss the question of " subsistence , " in assuring the public through its own organs that it has taken all the necessary measures to meet contingencies . And yet mark what a mistake this conduct of the Government really is , for while the public press is compelled to maintain absolute silence , the measures taken by the Government preventively—such as the suspension of the sliding scale in the import duties on grains—has excited public attention more vividl y than twenty newspaper articles , and has alarmed the country to an extraordinary degree . A deep and wide

    uneasiness prevails on the subject . 1 ar-sccing men discern a double danger . In the first place , a commercial crisis , and na its immediate and certain consequence , a political crisis . Add to this tho country being now completely in the hands of jobbers and . Tows of every description , it is likely enough that these gentlemen will work up the corn prices to a formidable pitch . Hence it is that many men of business , who have cordially accepted tho present regime , begin to lmvo their misgivings ; and those who frequent the Hour . se aro disposed to get rid of their negotiable . securities at tho prices to bo got now : which are relatively tho most advantageous that

    can ho expected . Hence this decided tendency to a full which begins to scare the official world in the midst ; of its triumphal rejoicings . No doubt this official world , over so prompt to cherish illusions , is ready to attribute the downward tendency of tho funds to the anxieties attendant upon the tardy solution of the Eastern crisis , rather than to tho more sinister presentments of difficulties sit home . If , however , tho Government , had taken time to reflect , it would have recognised the unpleasant 1 'iicl ; that , on the very day when tho MonUcur triuniphnntly announced the adhesion of Turkey to tho propositions of the Vienna Conference , the funds fell

    seventy centimes . It might , therefore , have reasonably concluded that another element of apprehension was acting Upon the public funds , and Unit ; that , element was no other than tho failing crops . But bow can you expect , people who have " laken all necessary m / i ' a . wras , " who liuvo . "' provided for all contingencies" to entertain uny alarms ? It is only parties incurably hostile , and men blindly and radically ovil-intontionrd , who can for a moment hesitate to bow in trustful KubmiMnion before that , terrestrial I ' rovideuco which in otherwise ; known as a " paternal government ; . " With regard to att ' urs in tho Hnnt , a few new points havo urison , which , if not of capital importance , do yot ¦

    deserve to be noted . The Moniteur , in announcing the adhesion of Turkey , said that the Porte had adopted the Note of the Conference , with some changes of redaction of no importance . As to the nature of these verbal modifications , the Government organ maintained the strictest silence . The Journal des Debats , however , pierced the mystery . Its correspondent ai Constantinople , who is known to be attached to an embassy in that capital ,

    writes—1 . That the Porte demands that the phrase assuring to the Greeks the advantages which other Christian communions enjoy should be rendered more precise in meaning , since it could not consent that , under the pretext of religion , they should he withdrawn from the rights and obligations of all Mussulman subjects . 2 . The Porte insists that it be clearly affirmed that the treaties of Kainardji and Adrianople do not attribute any right of protectorate to Russia over the Greek church in the East .

    The news received yesterday from Constantinople directly confirms this version , and gives , besides , some curious details respecting the deliberations of the Divan , and of the Grand Council of Notables . The Divan assembled for six days out of eight . During these six days every deliberation resulted in a majority of eleven in fifteen members present . These eleven members were constantly for resistance ; two members only were for the acceptance , pure and simple , of the Note ; while the two others- —viz ., the Grand Vizier and Rescind

    Pasha , abstained from voting . In the Grand Council the votes were almost unanimous for resistance . The final result was , that conditional acceptance , with which you are now acquainted . Nothing , then , is yet concluded , or rather , as M . Guizot said last Saturday , " nothing is yet begun . " We in Europe have committed the immense mistake of not taking into account the stateof public feeling in Turkey . The Governments are all for peace at any price : they have tried to botch up a peace ^ and now we see the good results of their precious operations !

    J 2 n attendant , Bonaparte is enjoying- himself . He strolls on the jetty at Dieppe , en bourgeois , and gets quite red and uncomfortable when his steps are pressed upon by the gaping crowd . He has already had inserted in the Vigie de Dieppe two notices , requesting that he may be left in peace . He is like Sylla : without noting other points of resemblance I moan , he wants to become a private individual again at certain days and hours . Old Jerome and his son have been to visit him from Havre , in the Reine Hortense steam yacht : but it seems there has been a tiff ; for they went back again yesterday . Persigny was sent for by telegraph . What is tho matter ? I shall try to find out . Meantime , private letters , arrived in Paris to-day , report that the Due do Nemours and the Comte de Chambord havo had a conference . S .

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    CONTINENTAL NOTES . Lours JSTatot . eon nnd his Empress are doing their best to make an " enlightened despotism" popular at J ) icppe . Some unsightly forts , long an eyesore to the inhabitants , were romoved in a single day ; and tho Empress lias designed a public garden which is to bo immediately commonced . " Three popular novelties ( Writes the Paris correspondent of tho ]} a ity News ) now divide the attention of the ' . Parisians , tho Hipj ^ opotamus , tho Sole , ami tho roof-seats on tho omnibuses . " " Coco , " as the hippopotamus is culled , hns been for weeks past an occasional aliment to tho ( J / iarimiri . ' Ho ifl regarded with tho snmo affectionato interest that attonded his cousin in the Regont ' s-park , nnd tho tip of his noso is anxiously looked for by crowds of morning vinitorN . The . Parisians aro taught to bolievo that their hippopotamus is the first specimen of tho raco over brought to ' Europe , totally ignoring our onrlior acquisition . Tho new oumibuRoa , fitted like ours , with double roof seats , havo also been a fertile theme for the Charivari . It appears that tho startling novelty of pat » scngorrt on the roof of thoHO vehicles is richly enjoyed by tho citizens , who ride up and down tho . IJoulevards of an evening "for tho fun of the thing . " The other lion of Paris at the present time is tho Hole , a fjood-sized trading vessel with three masts , which , after a tedious voyage , made ils way from . ' Havre up to Paris . The Bole experienced great difficulty in getting through the numerous bridges , and grazed several rorlcH bordering fbo narrow channel , unknown , it is hahI , to the river pilots . Tho Parisians hope their oily will , wilh tho improvements io bo made in navigation , 'become a sejt-port . The Prince and . ' Princess ' Mural , ahs at Marseilles , wljffro they have given a grand dinner to tho officers of the American vessel , the Uumfwrlantl , many of whom are old friondn lif the Prince .

    The I'Yenoli " Ocean" squadron of evolution is now completely organized . It consists of the first-rate mixed vohnc . l , tlio Mimttibollo , on hoard of which Vioo-Admiral Brunt ; will hoist , his lla ;* until tho Napoleon arrives ; tho . seeondchiHH t \ Wi \) Jlonuilc ; tho mixed vossclrtv / .- /< & 7 < i > 7- / 7 s and Juan , liarl ; t , l » o Dtu / imsoliii , bearing tho ( lag of Kear-Admiml Oharnor ; tho steamer Napoleon , ox ) ieoted from tho Mediterranean squadron ; tho mixed frigate I ' omuno ; tho team fri / jiito ( Jajf' arolli ; the steam corvette Infernal , ; nml tho Blorvm corvotto Roland . liroot iu tho rullymi ; point of

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 3, 1853, page 845, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2002/page/5/