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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2664, 31 August 1871, Page 2

Princess Theatre. —ln of the recent heavy raips, the Company have so far been detained from their projected visit up country ; under these circumstances they purpose to give an “extra” ’performance this evening, the pi-iccs to all parts of the house being reduced to one-half the usual charge. A good programme has been provided, consisting of “ The Youth who never saw a Woman,” “ Toodle.?,” and' the “ Nymph of the Lurleyberg” ; as there is some appearance of the weather clearing up, we hope there will be a good house. The Results of Protection again ! —lt is not improbable that one effect of. the Victorian tariff .will be the establishment of a direct trade between the mother country and Tasmania. Of late years that island had drawn most of its supplies of European manufactures from open stocks m Melbourne; and at the same time Tasmanian exports necessarily found their Way through the same channel to Europe,

ami here also some profit accrued to Melbourne. But as it is the policy of Victoria to cut up our inter-colonial trade root and branchy the .TasmfthiauS—small blame to’, them— tfill naturally make an effort to Revive and extend the direct commercial inter-, course of their colony with Great Britain, Education. — A petition signed by upwards o£ 2000 parents and guardians of nearly 6000 children of various denominations, attending the. public schools of the Province, wag transmitted for presentation to the House of Representatives, praying that the present educational system of Otago may not be interfered with. We arc in-, formed that several petitions from different districts have not been received. Presbytery of Dunedin. The Presbytery met in St. Andrew’s Church last evening, for the purpose of moderating in a call to a pastor for that church. The moderator, the Rev. Mr Alves, presided. Owing, no doubt, to the weather, the attendance was very small. After a sermon had been preached by the moderator, a form of call was produced, and it was resolved to make a call to the llcv. John Gow, of Hokitika, whose name was accordingly inserted in it. We understand that commissioners were thereafter appointed by the congregation to prosecute the same. In consequence of the continued heavy rain the attendance was not so large as it would otherwise have been, notwithstanding, there - were 54 signatures attached to the call, which we are informed now lies with the office-bearers for the purpose of receiving additional singnatures.

A Liberal Education. —Professor Huxley gives the following as his ideal of a liberal education :—That man, I think, has a liberal education who,has been.so trained in his y-outh that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ea®o and pleasure all the -work that, as a mechanism, it is ca-. liable of; whoso intellect is a clear, cold logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth, working order, ready, like a steam engine, .to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forgo the anchors of the mind ; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of nature, and of the laws of her operations ; one, who —no stunted ascetic—is full of 1 fe and fire, but whose passions are trained to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience ; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of nature or art ; to hate all idleness, and to respect others as himself. Such an one, and no other I conceive, has had a liberal education ; for he is, as completely as man can be, in harmony with nature. He will moke. the. best of her, and she of him. They w'ill geton together rarely ; she, as his ever beneficent mother; he, as her mouthpiece,-her conscious self, her minister and interpreter. Mr Sykes announces that the entertainment advertised for to-morrow (Friday) evening at the Masonic Hall will be, in consequence of the unfavorable weather, postponed till further notice.