The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-11-23 00:00:00

FROME.

OPENING OP THE MECHANICS' HALL.

The Lecture Hall and Reading Rooms, which have
been recently ereated for the me of the 1111601111111011 of
From., were opened on Thursday last, and the proceed.
loge were of a very intrreeting character. The cost of
the buildinge hem been about E 1,600, nearly one•hel of
which own remain.' ea a debt upon the iodate, The
committee, therefore, eppeal to the public for aseletenee.
Mr. Moult, the member for the town, has subscribed
1100 towards the undertaking, beshiee !Tenanting
number of busts., which now adorn the sluice of the hell,
whieli le the largeet and most ooluniodious room In the
town, Ths hull-dingo have been erected by Mr. Butler,
from deelgue by Mr. Chapman, and the whole work has
been acoomplielied in the whort spew of nix months.
The ineugural inciting, which took piece at noon, was
meet numerously end reopectably attended. The chair
wee templed by the Mod Noble the Martptle of Bath,
who was attended by the Lord Bishop of the Diremee,
the Hon. and Rev, tlidney (lodulphin Oeborne, Sir
E. Hoare, Bert., Mr. 1). Ninon, M.P., Lord Edward
Thymic, Rev. J. IV. E. Bennett, Mefor Boyle, Rev, T.
Johffe, W. Duckworth, Edit., G. W. kilueppard,
Rev: N.
,Maiming,
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The Noble Horquls mode 4 few observations oonimen-
dotory of the object" of the undeaaking ; and Hr.
Philter hiving laid before the meeting a itatetnent of the
floancial poHtion of the institution, the Hon. mid Rev.
8. U. Osborne, who had tinily undertaken to deliver the
Immoral othireas, woe introduced to tho meeting.
The Hon. And Roy, M. U. Osborne sal he should not
ettempt to trios the history of fdeuhanios' Institutiom,
for with limb they were all doubtless familiar. We
know, he said, what we are, but we oho not stop to
inquire how we came to occupy that posit on. Living In
a hustling, progreasing ego, our only question was—
" Who, is our reel interest in this beetle—ls the world
leaving us behind, or are we in our station of life well
up with those who ore shoring it with us?" Fur him.
"elf he had long token a deep interest in the working
claws, and purhapa mon" e Ironton At Rugby even now
remember the pale, inquisitive boy who honored the
sides of carpenters' benches, epent hour* at a journey•
11144 watehmaker'", and who at out Winter's, the Meok.
smith, had 4 miniature forge and tinvil of hie own, owl
in.ent his last 'Milling to celebrate the forging of his Orel
shoe, In this vegrbund life he felt the greeteet inturest
and delight. Thinking that he wonlii not live long, the
workmen showed hime rough, kindness which he slionld
never forget, (Hear, hear, He elwaya loved to con•
verse with working men, and his Intercourse with thlot
had led him to know much of their virtues, more then
ho liked to say of their failings Where they 'lire
moot exposed to evil WM in the ebuee of their Wens
hours—thou hours which were at their own, not their
employene illepoul. Those wore the hone which proved
either their bane or their blueing, Those Immure Humid
therefore be precious, fur it WM Wll4ll/111 be ray "Hoek ionte
ease, some relaxetion in innocent nouullation which Inky
make you hut this time of your freedom lee* the
machine and more time man." ((Jheers.) He did col
mean to say that the working man Woe better anywhere
than at home. Institution of tide kind were put to
their noblest use when they led a man to Reek how•
ledge which, if earned home, would make him more
happy, because more contented, They were perverted
when they were employed to lure men from thou
home' where their beet 'fronton ihould reel, He had
too high an opinion of hie fellow nom to suppose that
they would all bonnie drunkard!' or 'ramblers, because
without an Institution they were left to their own re.
scums Ho believed that inch inatitutione formed a
powerful muting* to plaeee of objeotionable runt, but
Its could not ouncribe to the popular idea that lectures,
libraries, and periodicals funned a panaosa for the fall.
lump of the elan to whomn they ware offend, Their
three chief elements of their NOON/ Were their libraries,
the Ignores given within Its walls, and their rolling
dock of periodicals, suehu as newspaper' and reviews. In
filling the shelve. of their librery, the alas' for whomn
the books Were intended should not be lost HIM of.
Nputimodie study required It. food to be offered in a
einuple, not a eoncentrated form. A day's toil left the
body more or less weary., no mental energy was alto.
"ether proof spinet sushi wearineee Nature would
avenge I,seself. When the Rosh WIN tired, the Intel.
loot would be °pressed, Under such oirounntantwo
heavy volumes on one subject would prove I timers
muter 1 he bad not emiMaient 1110ek of intellect left to
determine to go through them. The meohonic did not
some to study that, the ',slue of which he might "ppm
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Natural Hiatory. The winner wbo petted a
ciii spider,
wept inounaulebly when It died, would hare Ise
wider feeling If he hail been requallited with the lisbb
which hail eines been thrown on Its orgaillaation by 61
miurtioupo, With regard to Isulany, geology, and pa
grophy, there were e number of elementary work.
twould never wuiueeiut to look upon ichigullitill110:11111:1461401141
(Omen ) True genius wanted little lirlp
liens a nays The light of 'midi men an Henisulm.img.
plieneuit, end Hugh Mi %mild alone won eliongli—ig
would verve out its with pith through every obstacle.
Illear hear) • Time luuum, end rev, gentleman ilia
proceeded to offbr ewe remarks upon Intones, by
wimp, he wild, good service had been done. Unfortu-
wiggly, however, the supply wan as yet unequal to the
demand, The general fault of lectures sal illlll they
were above the oomprohennon of the working nesse',
It wee one thing to Antonini, another to instruct, le-
stem% of a silbjeut being presented in plain's:lpp. end
illuetrAnd by bold diegrions, those illegrains VMS no
too often the utter. ph/tonal fremings of the uretur, and
his lecture MI minion wonderful fur in flow of languege,
but 'till very barren of praotleal mulls. (Hear, lien,,)
li, out the contrary, the Inane'r addressed itself to the
taste wine! previdleti, that lane might be improved—
tufty it might be elevated, (Cheers,) With regard to
works of Action, he said, except In the ease of Con who
abileined on religious grounde from reading ouch works,
he feared he must uonfeu to the conviction that
thin otimulAtlng literary food we. the principal
limit of all thu.. who read simply fur ainoesiiiinit.
lie did not, however, 04,0 to them, for we
crippled the neefulneal of these institution' when
we puffed up the working-el with an exonerated
view of their hitellectual power, and In the end we
only inflicted ilinepointinent opal mantle." and them by
setting up Mg a standard that which we 'menden could
beet reed fur our good. (Cheers) Moine of thong boobs
presented valuable histor Gal fads, and the trials and the
triumphs of the highest principle' of our nature, and
many were the great morel truths which these ounvoyell,
it well mild, and with omile truth, that the mat burden
of thine works was Always some tile of love ending
happily or absinth,* as the one maybe, But after ea
a novel was only a drama prowled on a nolselses nap,
and its chief intention lay in the feet that it pourtraya
linereatlng and poileible events of that life In whioli we
Item. our own seletenee, And who would dare to say
how much of lifo—its hopes, its trials, it. sorrow', Rd
temptellone, end It. plenures—rested on the reviled and
eft-told tele of love, We might decry sentiment all we
would, but, till the hopes of earth were changed for the
ontallity of eternity, it would yet remain the Artikill
element of our "octal selenium, (Cheers,) With regard
to newspepers and whet are called " populAr perish,'
he inivocated their extensive Introduction, on the ground
that in then days every man should be (miller with
the working of the Engliili conalitntion. It hid beila
argued that there was a danger of making men politician".
but In Ids opinion the danger win all the other way, in
keeping them in unwin political Ignorance. (Churn)
The working men of this country were never
more peacefully disposed, never more free front
the power of knevish agitators than at this monism g
at the same thus lie had never known thins in •
closer bond of union, A greet deal had lately been mid
with reference to the anonyinoue eheraater of the Ind-
log articles which formed go attractive a feature of Ike
ileily and weekly prom He saw no room, however,
for the slightest doubt on the subject, and he believed
that the whole power of the prima rested on thole lead-
ing artiales. The editor had to select his pilaff for their
power and ability perfection of private character MIA
often unattainab fur it was well known thin great in.
tellectual attainment' often ea-elided with great weak-
nen of ehareater. If, then, the newepaper were mid.
the vehicle of individuel opinion, the known privet*
eliarainer and profenion of the writer might weaken the
Moe of tlint opinion if it illii hut altogether prevent lile
giving it, (Hear, hear,)History would nutoontredlet
liliiu when he laid Mitt the Prow liral Aim woken what
Hngland'e bout publlo men had not dared to utter, but
WIIII yet reJoiseel to hear it mid. He advocated, there-
fore on adherence to the Prevent ayelein, and geld it
wuul,l be the fault of the working turn themoolvee
if they did nut gather much velumble %selling front She
newepapere Anti perlotioelm plain' at their &posit, The
Hun, and rev, gentlemen ounoluded by entreating them.
In the inulat of all their oludies, In the millet of all their
Intalleatuel Morel, mil to overlook the true prinelplor or
tulluiton, whish 'mild nut fall to make them happy bath
fur lima And for eternity, (Laud elivero,)
Ittemlutiune were then moved and wounded by the
Lard Ithilinpuf the Plume, Mir H, R Muer', Bert, Mr.
Maul', M.P., Meier Hoyle, FAward Thynno, Hev,
T, lt, Johiff,, Rev. W. J. it, Anniett, mid other., and
the proceedings were brought to a elm by a eurdiel vete
of Updike to the noble Chairmen, the Lord Biellup, and
Mr, Colourne,
There Wee etierWerde a dinner it the (how Hotel,
And hlm the @mini/the hell Wee ripened for a grand eum
sort, Handel'o " " WAN performed,. with a bend
And (Meru wintliting of more 111611 100 perrelar end
the elude proeowlinge pawed off in 6 most 11111617
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