The Express.
London, England, 1855-11-14 00:00:00

LORD JOHN RUSSZLL ON PROGRESS.
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. Yesterday evening a lecture was delivered by

Lard Jelio &moll, st Envie 0.11, u so introduction tic
Mu 'Plater i 5.,,. of the Young ilm'e Christi= Ambula
tion ; dr* subject of it Coins " The Murder midrib bus
recopied Moral sod Political Progress." The assume-

neat of the alibis lord's intended appearance is the now
popular shaman of a public lee t had previously welted
mach interest, sad when he presented hineeelf on the plat-
form, about five mistime before eight, be was greeted with
a spontaneous and hearty burst of sheen from a very
speeded indicate. The chair was takes by the Berl of
ISMAZTRIBORT, president of the 111100C/AliOn ; and among
those present were Lord Paamare, Mr. Verses Smith,
M.P., Mr. Beaumont, M.P , the Hon. sad Rev. M. When,
the Rev. Cason Blekentetb, Le. Prayer having bees
eased,
The CHAIRMAN said—Ldbe sad gentlemen, on 1111 nab
Gormless as the prima- the °peeing remarks of the *bair-
ns& might he he exesedingly short ; but ea Winced=
they ought to he briefer than anal, benne the proverb
" Good win* seeds so bull" is in this instance singaluly
applicable. (Cheery.) The noble lord who bee so kindly
undertaken to open this nuns of lectures seeds no praise
of Miss sad no fatrodectica to yea ; his ewe great repute•
ties is mere than refileiest. I will, therefore, at ease re-
quest my noble (rind to commence the lecture which he
has bees es geed as to promise us.
Lord Jona RIIIISRLL then rose, sad, after the loud sad
learseatiamed cheering with whisk be was resolved bad
subsided, preseedeci to say :—Gentlemen, my noble friend,
year chairman, has said mast truly that I have undertaken
the task of delivering the opening lechers to you this even-
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fog. I embus that after I kad dose so, wkils I felt deeply
the ►o.esr that was offered so, I essid not kelp being
appalled at nay uadertakiag. Although I cortainly cannot
' lay that I era linseed to public speaking, yet the delivery
of as address et this kind is to ate unusual, sad I fear I

shall not Forkful the task la a manner adequate to its
isaportaaos. I mast my, likewise, that the subject which I
have chosen, sad which is one upon which I had bestowed a
great deal of thought and attention, when I cams farther
to consider it seemed so vast that I can bat open scorner of
the held, I ma but make a beginning, as it wen, upon
the subject ; and is what I hays to deliver I may seam to
you in Easy pasta to be proving that which has bees
abundantly and frequently proved—to be enforcing that
which seeds no further enforcenteat—to bs wasting time

*post discussion' the thine of which has loag dace bees
theertaised. At the same tine, I think you will perceive
that it is set stauseful to threw somewhat of the light of
past history upon the future, and that the easy find some
guide to the future in looking back to snore that have been
committed, sot by barbarous asthma, but by some of the
greatest and Moot enlightened maw mankind. I have
undertaken to point out some at least of the obstacles which
retard morel and political progress. The latest lecture
gives in the coarse of l&M, was ea " Oppositioa to great
loaned's= sad Discoveries." Nor was abundant material
wanting to sash a theme. Roger Bacon, C.< pumices,
Galileo. sad, at • later time, Harvey sad even Neon*
of impious instances of redatthes to ths Mission of
light. Bet if the obstacles to the progress of physical science
am greet, how much greater are those which impede morel
red politieal advancement! Mathematical demoestraties
sad physical experiment cony wit► them a &ludo irre-
sistible face whisk pierces through the thickset %mien
of prtadies and sucontitioa. When Galilee showed
throadh his telescope, the satellites of Jupiter, it
was difilthlt for the most obstinate pedant to dolly the troll
of his diesevery. When Newton demonstrated, by a series
of geometrical propcsitioas, the doctrine of Wreaks, those
who under neod his ressoniag could set long withhold their
swat to his ecoelssioa. But in respect to mondani' poli
ties] truth 11111 have net, la the drat place, the setae set-
tasty ; sad, lathe sthesd plash we have to thatessi agelast
men than the pride of Willett, the tenacity of prejudice,

mai -the tKe. ei liebit ; ere bey' -te contend ;salmi tie jet.

lousy el power, the empire of niperatitim. aad the alarms
of timidity. Net to arise this lastest farther. I will at
saes thew yea by as magpie wbat I mesa. The boat mos-
aleatory ea Nemtoa's prtaciple is Irritant by Jacquies sad
Le liseur, two members el the theist, of Jesus. This tom-
oratory is se simple sad ...plea that it taahlos a press
vibe bas bat as hawking lusowledp of asthma's' to
comprebead sad to master the sublime diseoverim @Mew-
ma. There was, however, • trUllog Andes to the petal.
Godes of Ibis eammestary. The Peps had, by lb dame,
ferbiddsa say sae to maistida the &striae Odle modes of
He earth. The Missed /nails disposed a His diasol.y
very wily. They relied a seam is *tie part of the
' Irak, deditiss teat they bowed wIO WO* meninges