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    " 3 . The Governor-General m Council desires me to express , in the strongest language of cordiality and sincerity , the high and grateful approbation with which the government of India regards exertions on the part of its officers which are so eminently calculated to reflect Honour on the British name , and to add la rgely to the material happiness of the people whom Providence has lately confided to our care . " 4 . I am directed to say that you , and the officers under you , may rely with implicit confidence upon the desire of the Governor-General in Council to manifest his appreciation of the wise and benevolent object you have proposed to yourselves , and of his readiness to afford you at all times every encouragement and aid whici can be supplied by the full measure of his power , "

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    THE AMERICAN AFFAIRS . THE TARIFF . The Secretary of the United States'Treasury has sent in his report to the Senate , containing the proposed alterations in the tariff " . The revision of the customs'duties is the subject of first interest in the annual report of Mr . Guthrie . His plan of revision is briefly and very clearly set forth . It is not complex in the detail , though by what difficulties ; it is ' . likely to be surrounded in practical execution , the public will best judge after the publication of the list of free articles , and the schedule of ordinary and extraordinary duties . The whole system of levying the revenue from imports is to be reduced to three : 1 . The present free list is to be so enlarged as to take from the present annual resources of the department 8 , 000 , 000 dolls . 2 , The

    dutiable articles are all to be brought under 25 per cent , ad valorem , or 100 per cent , ad valorem . The articles bearing the highest duty , and all articles in the free list , to be specified ; all others to bear 25 per cent . 3 . The ad valorem system is to be adhered to , unless Congress should deem it wise to make an exception in favour of specifics on iron , with a view toigive more steadiness to that great interest . These modifications will reduce the revenue , first , by the 8 , 000 , 000 dollars on the tree Ust , and also 4 , 500 , 000 dollars by the re-adjustment of the maximum and minimum duties . Together 12 , 000 , 000 dollars , which it is thought will still leave the Treasury an income of 45 , 000 , 000 dollars a year from the Custom-house . The modifications of the tariff are not designed to go into effect until after the 1 st of January , 1855 .

    Much of the report is given to the estimates and business detail of the department . The total imports and exports of the fiscal year ending the 30 th of June last were : imports 263 , 777 , 265 dollars ; exports 202 , 965 , 375 dollars . * For the fiscal year ending 30 th June last , the- purchases of the public stock amminted to 6 , 394 , 508 dollars . This swelled the actual expenditures of the 3 'ear to 53 . 026 , 818 dollars . For the current fiscal

    year , the revenues are calculated to be 56 , 572 , 079 dollars : the ordinary expenditures , actual and contingent , exclusive of the public debt , 46 , 203 , 325 dollars . During the first quarter of the year , and to the 3 rd December inst ., the purchases of the public debt amounted to 9 , 670 , 421 dollars , or 16 , 064 , 929 dollars from 1 st July , 1852 , to 3 rd December , 1853 , of which present Secretary has purchased 12 , 722 , 779 dollars since 4 th March last .

    THE NAVT . The Secretary of the Navy , in his annual report , advocates the re-organisation of the navy , and recommends the appropriation of 5 , 000 , 000 dollars for building several steam-propelling frigates . He says there arc not forty vessels which could be brought into service in ninety days , if needed , lie also recommends the- establishment of machine shops , and an increase of enlistment-men from the present number ( 7500 ) to 10 , 000 . Under the head of ' | reorganisation of the navy , " lie recommends a retired list on reduced pay for the faithful who have become infirm ; the discharge of the inefficient who have no claim on the bounty of their Government for

    services rendered ; promotion regulated by capacity and merit , and not by mere seniority ot commission ; pay to some extent controlled by sea service . A board of officers of various grades , to be selected by the president , can bo convened periodically to report to him the names of those who , in their judgment , should bo made the subjects of the rules prescribed , but their report to bo binding on the president only rio far as ho deems proper . A system of rewards and punishments to the eallors , and hononrablo discharge , is suggested aa a moans of encouraging more permanent enlistments . The secretary is decidedly opposed to the restoration of Hogging in the nuvV .

    THIS AKMY . The- Secretary-at-War , in his annual report , says ; —After a full consideration of what is now and probably will hereafter bo required of the army , I urgently recommend that the minimum organisation of ull companies be ilxcd , as in the mounted rifiemon

    at sixty-four privates , and that there be added to the present military establishment one regiment of dragoons and two regiments of riflemen . The increase is materially less than that recommended by the commanding general , and is considered absolutely indispensable to the proper efficiency of the military service . It will give a minimum organisation of 15 , 528 officers and men , but may be expanded if the limit fixed by the law of June 7 , 1850 , be continued , to 17 , 414 ; and on a war establishment of 128 privates per company , to 27 , 818 , giving for a state of war an effective increase of from 10 , 000 to 12 , 000 men , without the creation of new regiments .

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    THE CHURCH AND THE WORKING CLASSES . Most of our readers know that the Rev . Frederick Maurice has been one of the principalworkers and promoters of the recent co-operative experiments of the working men of London . It is , therefore , natural that they should feel a manly sympathy for him under his recent treatment by the authorities of King ' s College . Accordingly we are not surpiised to find them , presenting him with an address . This they did at a festival in the hall of the Working Men ' s Association , Castle-street . The room was exceedingly crowded ; amongst the company were several ladies , and a number of the personal friends of Mr . Maurice .

    Mr . Joseph Corfield took the chair , and in a brief speech explained the object of the meeting , and paid a high compliment to Mr . Maurice for the exertions he had made to improve and elevate the workingclasses of the metropolis . With regard to the dispute between Mr . Maurice and the Council of King ' s College , and which had led to his separation from that establishment , it was not his intention , nor was it the intention of the committee , to express any opinion . He would only say , in reference to this point , that it was to be expected that with his kindly disposition arid known benevolence , Mr . Maurice would give a more liberal and a more genial interpretation to those passages of Scripture relating to future punishments , than those would do who

    were not impressed with similar feelings . But whether Mr . Maurice ' s interpretation was right or wrong , he thought the course which the council of th e college had pursued towards him vms not calculated to narrow those divisions in the Church of England which unfortunately existed . It wan a fact which there was no disguising , that the clergy of that Church did not at present possess that influence over the working-classes which tbeir position , their talent , and their means ought to give them ; nor would they possess it until they followed Mr . Maurice ' s example , and instead of merely preaching to them from the pulpit , came amongst them , made themselves acquainted with their feelings , their wants , and their defects , and endeavoured to elevate and instruct them by practical means . ( Cheers . )

    The following address , which bore the signatures of 960 persons , was then presented to the reverend gentleman by a deputation of the committee : — " TO TUB KKV . FKEDERICK DKNISON MAURICE , M . A . " Dkak and UBsriscricD Slit , —Tlia undersigned members of the working class of this metropolis desire to express to you those feelings of admiration and regard witli which your conduct has inspired them . To the greater numbor you are known chiefly Irom the services you have rendered to tho class to which they belong , by your efforts to improve their condition and introduce a higher and purer tone into their daily life , and from the sacrifices you have made for tho maintenance of what you conceive to be vital and essential

    truth . Those only among them who have enjoyed the pleasure and the pr ivilege , of personal communication with you , am fully understand tho extent to which those services have been enhanced by tho urbanity of manner ami kindliness of heart which your intercourse with them has uniformly exhibited . It is with pain and bitter regret that they have become acquainted with recent events connected with your position as a public teacher in one of tho chief educational establishments of this country ; and while they desire to avoid any expression of opinion as to tho theological aspects of tho dispute which has unfortunately arisen , they are convinced that , that establishment will bo less favourably regarded in consequence of its results ; and tho authorities in connection with it h iving looked upon you as unfit to rank among its most honoured toucher ? , working men will come to the conclusion that tho . se authorities are not entitled to their

    ' respect . As working men , living among working men , knowing their views and Jet-lings , they assert with confidence that the affectionate regard i ' or you which they have attempted to express may be accepted as a faithful reiiox of the feelings entertained by many thousands of their fellows * , and they believe that if anything tends to bring tho many into real communion with the Church , it , is that it numbers among its members men like yourself . That you may long continue to puvttuoyour useful and honourable career ; that tho eminent services you hnvo confessedly rendered to tho Church and to tho cause of education may meet with a more generous and grateful appreciation ; that those who at present inwundor-Mtaud and misrepresent you may learn by your example , a"d that thoy may at least omnkto you in tho wisdom and zeal with which you huvo advocated tho emise of tho working

    man , is the sincere and earnest desire of those whose names are hereunto suspended . " In returning thanks Mr . Maurice dwelt at length on the relation between the Church of England and the working classes . After a brief allusion to his expulsion from King ' s College , he continued : — He valued this expression of their approbation , not on . account of his own acts , but for the cause in which he had laboured to some extent , but in which others of his brethreD , some of whom were now present , had laboured far more , arid whose representative , when he was put so prominently forward to receive the thanks of the working classes , he could enly look upon himself to be . What he had done was merely in the performance of his dutv as an English clercvman in .

    carrying forward the business of the Church , for which he believed it had been sent into the world—that business being to testify to the world , and bear witness of—the love of God for man in the great work that had been accomplished for his salvation , and to prove thereby that men of all classes and all stations were bound to unite and go forth as the helpers , the instructors , and the deliverers of their brethren . This was the business and the duty of a Christian Church , and this was the business and the duty for which the Church of England existed . This was _ the testimony which the clergy had to bear ; and if they did not feel they had a right to bear it they had better give up their profession altogether , and say " our mission is nothing , our position is a lie . " The present meeting was a proof that there was a power

    in the land , which , if exercised , could not but operate for good — -the power of the Church in uniting all classes together , " and claiming the working men as sharers in the great work of conferring the highest blessing the world could possess . It was clearly recognised that the power existed , and that it should be exercised not to oppress any class , but to aid— -not to crush down but to raise up . ( Cheers . ) But while the working -men .. were thus forward with , their gratitude whea they believed that power was exercised properly , he trusted they would be equally ready with reproof when , they felt that it was neglected . The word " education" was used in the address in reference to bis late connexion-with King's College ; he hoped that word would not be allowed to fall without some result . The hall in which they were assembled had been established as a hall of association for those

    who were bound together as fellow-labourers , but it was also a hall of education—education being one great purpose of the association . Now , as every one appeared to have his own particular scheme and notion of education , let those who were pledged as members of that association to work with and for each other , determine upon some plan of their own , and , within their own sphere , carry it out . Something had been done last year in the ' establishment of classes and otherwise , let something more be done in the ensuing year , and in this way they would confer more practical benefit than if they talked for years about the possibility of doing something greater in a larger sphere . For himself , if circumstances prevented his working as he had worked , and would wish to work , in one department , he felt

    that it was his duty to work more in another . He believed the educational institution with which he had until lately been connected had been , and was still , doing a great work for the middle and higher classes of society—he Loped it would continue to do that work . There were dear and honoured friends of his connected with thatCollege , in whose hearts and understandings he had the greatest confidence , and ho . trusted they would go on labouring , and tliat the highest amount of good would result from their teaching . But it was his duty , in conjunction with those whom he was now addressing , to consider whether they could not do something of the same kind for the working classes , and extend to them something of the same kind of training and instruction which the other classes enjoyed . He solicited their aid

    to this end , and requested them to furnish him with such hints and suggestions as might occur to them , so that working men and their children might bo brought within tho influence of those collegiate institutions which of lato years had been so beneficially extending their operation in this country , lieturning to tho duty of clergymen , he remarked that tho church could only maintain its influence by working for tho union of all classos . Tho clergyman ought to feel that ho was not identified with one class more than witli another , and that he stood amongst thorn not to glorify himself or his order but to bring all classes together . Tin ' s duty was moro especially incumbent upon them at a time like the present , tre

    wliea tho war of cl . isses was becoming more and more - mendous , as exemplified in tho strikes in tho north of England . But while it was the duty of the clergy to endeavour to allay tho unfortunate differences that existed , and to bring about a reconciliation , they must remember that such a . reconciliation could never bo effected b y merely preaching to the workmen about tho law of supply and demand . Lot them endeavour to prove that tho strife iu which tho workmen and masters wero engaged was hopeless ami ruinous to both , and to show how the money which was raised with so much of sacrifice by the former to support the strike might bo employed for their permanent benefit instead of their certain injury . ( Oheera . )

    Mr . Mauricu wound up with a stirring allusion to the Eatttern war iu illustration of his viowa : — He liad done all Jie could to make tho Churchmen ' s message a real One , and not a sham ; and ho had always Jield that they ought not to Hay they wero bringing blessings if they wero not . When he suw two great countries struggling together—one the country of the Mussulman , and tho other going forth with a proud and Christian name , Hinging Christian songs of victory—when ho saw that country desiring to set its hoof upon tho nationality of all other countries iu the world , and tlmt it was pledged to put down that , which was right and put forward that which waa unjust —when he felt that onu foot of that groat bear wan resting upon Hungary , and the other upon Italy , then he felt that when that power wont forth in tho name of the Cross ho w « s bound on such an occasion to rejoice in tho victory of tho Crescent , rather than iu that which pretended to bo the supporter ot truth and was not . ( Great applause . ) This waa u principle which ho would carry out anywhere .

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    December 31 , 1853 ] THE LEADER . 1253

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 31, 1853, page 1253, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2019/page/5/