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      by our own , the only effect of the "Voluntary Education Conference will be to create a well-founded distrust of the voluntary principle , both in education and religion . " European aspects afford occasion for much comment . " The Coming Storm" is the topic of the Bedford Mercury . The editor of which concludes an excellent leader in the right spirit : — " It is time we cleared our minds of cant . For our parts , we have a real horror of war ; but if we are shut up to choose between armed men against unarmed , —a prolonged war in which the weapons of one side are prisons , and wheels , and thumbscrews , whilst the other side has none , and a war which shall give the combatants ' a fair field and no favour , ' then we honestly confess we prefer the latter . "

      The Macclesfield Courier gives a fair summary of Palmerston ' s oration at Tiverton , and asks in reference to his remarks on free-trade : — " If the two classes of landowners and capitalists ( both important feeders of industry ) must be losers , we cannot hope that the final result will be beneficial to the country . Why are rich men fleeing from the country with their money and goods in spite of the blessings of free-trade ? Why are poor men also fleeing in spite of their alleged greater command over the necessaries and conveniences of life ? The taxes are less than they were before the high tide of emigration began to flow . " The most striking topic in the Leeds Times is " The Education Controversy , " a paper particularly well written .

      " What we desire is to see a national provision for the education of the people ; but we do not desire the extinction of the voluntary principle . Our belief is , that the country will be the better for having both agencies in active operation . The one will be a stimulus and an example to the other . The rivalry which may be expected between the voluntary and private schools and the public schools , will serve to keep both up to the mark , and contribute , from separate sources , to keep full and flowing the current of educational improvement . " The feeling of the Liberal provincial press , on the new Heform Bill , is pretty well represented by the following from the Liverpool Albion : —

      " We presume that the new Reform Bill , like that of 1832 , will go upon the principle of enfranchising some boroughs which have increased up to a certain mark , and of disfranchising others which have sunk below it . It will also extend the suffrage . It will embody , we take it , Mr . Locke King ' s proposition for giving ten-pound householders the right of voting in counties . And we trust that the protection of the Ballot will likewise be conceded . But all this will , of course , depend upon the attitude of the people . If they remain silent , the

      forthcoming measure will be one of miserable crumbs and scraps , which will give no satisfaction to the country , and which will be contemptuously rejected by the Lords ; while , if they speak out , a good bill will be introduced , ami the peers , who have marvellous method in their madness , seeing the strength and determination of the popular wishes , * . vill not offer the same resistance to a hurricane which they will present to a zephyr or exercise in a calm . In short , the handwriting on the wall must come from tho country , and then the measure proposed and carried will be a fair copy of it . "

      The Woloer / tampton Herald with its accustomed heartiness , defends the Roman Republic from the " charge of terrorism ; " decides in favour of secular education as opposed to the Manchester and Salford scheme , and the voluntary system advocated by the Congregationalists ; and supports the programme of the Parliamentary Iteforin Association . The ( Jlasgow Chronicle thinks that it is becoming more and more apparent that the people , if true to themselves may obtain " a large and important measure of reform . "

      " There will be largo biddings for popular favour in reform ruin , if the people stand out for a hi ^ h price ; but if tiny show themselves willing to nell their favour cheap , the buyers will only he ciicoiiia ^ i'il to drive them down to the lowest possible figure . " The Advocate of Dublin speculates on tho great changes which steam ploughing will introduce in agriculture : —¦ " The eMeets of these changf'K will be to aHmrnilate agricultural to ljciici ; il iminuf . ' ieturiiig operations more than they are at present ; ; md to give increased advantages to tlie lari / . e holders of land , who alone will be able to take advantage of them . The tendency to the consolidation of farms which now exists will be thereb y promoted , on account , of the greater difficulty which the Hinull fanner will then experience in holding his ground against , the increased competition to which he will be exposed . TheMe are important considerations to he kept in view in the management of landed property . "

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      Lord Calthorpe expired a few days since at Lyons , ia his sixty-fourth year . George Gough Calthorpe was son of the first holder of the first title , by Frances , daughter of General Carpenter . He succeeded his brother Charles , the second lord , in 1807 . He never married . He is now succeeded by his brother , the Honourable Frederick Gough , born 1790 , and who married , in 1823 , Lady Charlotte Sophia Somerset , daughter of the sixth Duke of Beaufort , by whom he has had issue several children . The family is a junior branch of the old family of Goughhall , in the county of Stafford , of which Richard Gough , the celebrated antiquary , was a member .

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      On Wednesday , according to the words of the act , " from and after the 1 st of October , " the powers of the Lord Chancellor vested in the new Court of Appeal . Although her Majesty was empowered to appoint two persons on the passing of the act to the office of " Lord Justices , " no appointment has been officially announced . It is , however , known that Lord Cranworth and Sir James Knight Bruce ( with a title ) have been appointed . They have , however , not been sworn in ; and the delay , it is believed , has occurred in consequence of the Vice-Chancellorship . Is is understood that neither the Solicitor-General nor Mr . Beth ell will accept the Vice-Chancellorship ; and the appointment , it is expected , will cither be given to Mr . Swanston , an able equity man , or to one of the Masters in Chancery . If to the latter , then another vacancy of £ 2500 a year will occur . By the act , the Lords Justices must be sworn in before the Lord Chancellor or Master of the Rolls .

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      The Emperor of Austria visited the Lake of Co on the 23 rd , and the Lago Maggiori on the 25 th . The military evolutions at Soinma were to commence on ' following day . The Grand Duke of Tuscany arrived at Monz n tho 22 nd , and alighted at the imperial palace . The Bishop of Exeter consecrated a new ch ch at Landscove , on Saturday . Count Batthyani , who arrived at Marseilles n the Mississippi , with Kossuth and the other Hungarian refugees , is at present in Paris , with some members of his family , and purposes residing there . He separated from his companions in misfortune at his own desire .

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      EAST INDIA NEWS . Indian news , which ia up to September 1 , and which arrived in London on Wednesday , contains two facts ol public intoreat . Dhost Mohammed , who is not dead as reported , but particularly vivacious , has taken advantage of the death of Yar Mahomed Khah of Herat ( which took place on the 4 th of June ) , to send his son , Hyder Khan , with a large army , to invade Herat by the Bulkkill route . It is considered likely that the young Khan will ask for , and probably obtain , the aid of J ' eraia in repelling the invasion . The Bengal Railway Compnny have advertised for tenders for the construction of tho

      second section of their line—viz , from J ' andova Raneeminge , which will complete the experimental undertaking upon which the expenditure of a milli " . sterling was sanctioned by the Court of Directors . An extended survey of the country beyond Burdwan is m contemplation , with the view of settling the question as to the ultimate direction of the line . The fiite for tli « terminus at . Howvah lias been decided on . In Bombay contracts have been let for the line from Borec-Buiukr to a place called Persid Point , on tho other side of the Tannawater . About ten miles remain to be contracted for to compete the experimental line , sanctioned by tuo Mast India Company . A survey of the proposed extension lines will b , > undertaken next cold season , unlew * Government withholds it . H Niwiction .

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      T II K I . A T K U A I . V . SA heavy and destructive « al (* set in from the north caK on Thursday week , and continued without . mU'imitwut for forty-eig ht , hours . Previous to the breaking fortn oi thin terrible wind the , couhUth were iunn i » K close uii J land The wind suddenl y vcere . l , and before Uwy < ; i ) Ul < [ run out to hcu many of them were driven ashore , an dashed to pieces , while thorn * who manii ^ cd to run w « ' ^ curried up hh far as the Yarmouth KoihIh bclore i . n « j could bo brought to . Tho hcu on thiH range of count ; w » Htrewed with portions of wreok and cargo , ° ®"" , ahowiuK the disamrous tcnulta of the storm . Revert "

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      DJ'IATII OF FKNNIMORK COOT Kit . JuiiH'N I'Vnniinoic (' ooj > er , whose name bus been , and in , one of tho household words of the century , died at Coopers ! own , liin patrimonial estate , about one o ' clock on Sunday , tin * I lth oi . September . He had Itc'cii gradually declining in health for Home mont . b . s , and Jei ' t New York on the 1 st of June , hoping that change of air and Hcene would rewtoio his Htrcntfih ; l > ut he only went home to die . The A '/ w York Trillion ' , of . September I ( J , contains mi affectionate . sketch of hiri life , which we reprint . " Mr . CoopeT wan born at Burlington , New Jersey , on the 16 th oi September , 178 !> , and had ho lived one day longer , he would have been nixt . y-two yours of

      age . His father , the late Judge Cooper , was a large landholder in Otsego county , in this State , residing alternately at Buriington and Cooperstown , and giving his name to the latter township , which has since been distinguished as the residence of the worldrenowned jauthor . He received the-, rudiments of a classical education under a private instructor at Burlington , continued his studies with an accomplished Episcopal clergyman in Albany , and was prepared by him for Yale College , which he entered in 1802 . At this early age , scarcely turned thirteen , he was ill-qualified for the attainment of academic distinction ; still he held a respectable place in his class ; and in the department of ancient languages is said to have outstripped every competitor . It is

      certain , however , that he had not yet manifested a vocation for a literary life . No one who then saw the blooming and somewhat reckless youth , who it is understood had already begun to develope the spirit of sturdy independence which afterwards took the shape of wayward obstinacy , could have predicted or suspected the position which he was destined to win among the literary men of his country . A native passion for the sea , and an unconquerable love of adventure , led him , among other causes , to solicit admission into the American navy , at that time in its most imperfect infancy , and in 1805 he entered the service as a midshipman . He remained in the service for six years . The influence of this period of his life is indelibly stamped upon his subsequent productions . It enabled him to describe the minutiae

      of nautical affairs with that breadth and boldness of touch which could be commanded by no writer who had not himself been rocked on the giddy mast , and to whom the taste of salt water was not more familiar than the fountains of Helicon . With the vivid impressions of experience , obtained in the fresh and wondering age of boyhood , with a creative imagination singularly alive to the impulses of external nature , and with a freedom and energy of delineation which is imparted only by the possession of actual knowledge , he had a store of materials for the production of ' tales of the sea , ' which , had he written in no other department of fiction , would have decided his reputation as a consummate master .

      " In the year 1810 , Cooper resigned his post in the navy , was married to the lady who survives to mourn his loss , and took up his residence at Westchester , in the vicinity of New York . He remained in this place but a short time , when he removed to his patrimonial estate in Cooperstown , and pursued in earnest his career as a writer of fiction . He had previously published his maiden novel entitled Precaution , a work which gives little promise of the noble creations with which his name has since been so honourably associated . Within fifteen years he successively issued The Spy , The Pioneers , The Pilot , Lionel Lincoln - ; and The Last of the Mohicans , triumphantly legitimating , his claim to the character of an original and powerful novelist .

      " Soon after the appearance of The Last of the Mohicans , in 1826 , Mr . Cooper sailed for Europe , where he remained for several years . During this time he wrote several of his most successful works , including The Bravo , The Red Rover , and The Prairie , and soon established a reputation which , with the robtist qualities of his personal character and the dignified frankness of his manner , made him a welcome visitant in the most distinguished European circles .

      " His most valuable productions after his return to the United States are , The Pathfinder , The Destroyer , The Two Admirals , and Wing and Wing , all of which display his admirable power of invention , his bold conceptions of character , and his rare mastery of graphic and impres-Hive portraiture . His more recent performances , in . which he endeavours to u . se the novel as a vehicle for political declamation , are wholly unworthy of his fame , and will only leave a blot on the memory of hiw geniuf . Their general' Htyle ia forced , artificial , and often repulsive ; with little grace of expression

      and no dramatic vigour of plot ; showing the exaggerations of a morbid fancy rather than the healthy action of a fertile imagination ; and steeped deep in the bitter prejudices of apartitian , with whom passion ( j ; ave the litw to reason . In this sphere of composition , it is most charitable to believe that Mr . Cooper was out of his element . We certainly find his better Hclf , and , wo hope , bin truer self , in his earlier productions , which are redolent of the bracing atmosphere of the forest and the ocean , and which breathe u Hpirit of trust in humanity and reverence for the inMtincts of the universal heart . Destitute ; of tin ;

      wisdom suggested by calm and unimpftHHioned contemplation , remarkably deficient , in the power ol consecutive reasoning , with no hcuhc of the fine and Hubtlc discriminations which are usually essential to the detection of tiuth , Mr . Cooper should never have foinnken bin peculiar province of fictitious creation , to n . HHiime the odice of a didactic writer on questions of ethics and politics , and his failure in thin attempt wan made more coiimjhchous by the brilliancy of hi . s aelnevementH in a more congenial sphere . It i « painful to observe such utter worthlesHnesH of endeavour in a man whose ability had raised him to an eminence which the most aspiring might envy . "

      Prince Albert has sent £ 25 towards payment of the debt upon the Gardens at Aberdeen . Lord Carlisle is at Balmoral . The Reverend Charles "Walter Bagot , rector of Castle Rising , in the county of Norfolk , and one of the sons of the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells , has been appointed to the office of Chancellor of the diocese , vacant by th resignation of the Honourable and Reverend William Towry Law . Joseph Hume received by spontaneous presentation the freedom of the burgh of Inverness on Saturday last . The Treasury have consented to advance the sura of £ 1500 to Colonel Rawlinson , to enable him to continue his researches in Assyria .

      PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP . The Queen and her family will leave Balmoral earl y next week . Great preparations are being made at Liverpool and Manchester to receive her Majestv and the latter borough has aspired to the civic dignity and civic robes . Bloomerism still provokes endless gossip . The escapade of Mrs . Dexter in Finsbury , its ignoble conclusion , and the pluck of the young lady who led the meeting on the occasion , have afforded infinite amusement . Ought not the English phenomenon to be called Dexterism ? Queen Victoria has presented to the Queen's College Birmingham , a full length portrait of her Majesty , be placed in the New College-hall .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 4, 1851, page 940, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1903/page/8/