at our door, escaping from a cruel master, we try to accost him in the spirit or in the words of a well-known philanthropist, “Come in, brother, and get warm, and get thy breakfast.”  And when distinguished American philanthropists, who have done so much to undo the heavy burdens in their own land, come over to assist us, we hail their advent with rejoicing, and welcome them as benefactors.  We are well aware that a corresponding feeling would be manifested in the United States by a portion, doubtless a large portion, of the population; but certainly not by those who justify or palliate their own oppression by a reference to our lamentable intemperance.

We rejoice, madam, to know that as abstainers we can claim an important place, pot only in your sympathies, but in your literary labors.  We offer our hearty thanks for the valuable contributions you have already furnished in that momentous cause, and for the efforts of that distinguished family with which you are connected.

We bear our testimony to the mighty impulse imparted to the public mind by the extensive circulation of those memorable sermons which your honored father gave to Europe, as well as to America, more than twenty-five years ago.  It will be pleasing to him to know that the force of his arguments is felt in British universities to the present time, and that not only students in augmenting numbers, but learned professors, acknowledge their cogency and yield to their power.

Permit us to add that a movement has already begun, in an influential quarter in England, for the avowed purpose of combining the patriotism and Christianity of these nations in a strenuous agitation for the suppression, by the legislature, of the traffic in alcoholic drinks.

In conclusion, the committee have only further to express their cordial thanks for your kindness in receiving their address, and their desire and prayer that you may be long spared to glorify God, by promoting the highest interests of man; that if it so please him, you may live to see the glorious fruit of your labors here cm earth, and that hereafter you may meet the blessed salutation, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”

NORMAN S. KERR, Secretary.

STEWART BATES, President.

GLASGOW, 25th April, 1853.

LOUD MAYOR’S DINNER AT THE MANSION HOUSE, LONDON—­MAY 2.

MR. JUSTICE TALFOURD,[D] having spoken of the literature of England and America, alluded to two distinguished authors then present.  The one was a lady, who had shed a lustre on the literature of America, and whose works were deeply engraven on every English heart.  He spoke particularly of the consecration of so much genius to so noble a cause—­the cause of humanity; and expressed the confident hope that the great American people would see and remedy the wrongs so vividly depicted.  The learned judge, having paid an eloquent tribute to the works of Mr. Charles Dickens, concluded by proposing “Mr. Charles Dickens and the literature of the Anglo-Saxons.”