The Press.
London, England, 1857-11-07 00:00:00

Vrabintiat.

LORD BROUGHAM has visited Leeds during the
present week, and on Tuesday evening delivered an
address upon popular education at the Leeds
Mechanics' Institution. In the course of his address
Lord Brougham referred to the Indian rebellion
It is a common thing to compare it, and I have heard it
so compared, to the sudden explosion of some great volcano,
laying under ruins by its devastation the fertile plains
beneath ; but it differs most materially from that, because
volcanic explosions are always preceded by some warning.
The giant who is fabled to groan beneath Etna moves and
heavts the mountain—gives a warning—before the torrent
of liquid fire is poured forth to lay waste the plains below.
To find anything like the recent, the sudden, the instan-
taneous outbreak of what has taken place in India, we
must go to the East itself far a comparison. There is
nothing like it but the typhoon, which suddenly seizes
upon the ocean, rippled by no wave, and instantly raises
that ocean, without further warning, mountains high. So
the whirlwind of rebellion which broke out in the East
burst forth without the whisper of the breath of a breeze to
warn anyone of what was about to ley in devastation the
whole of that superb dominion ; and yet, sudden as it was,
unprepared as all persons were, without the possibility of
the least preparation, our countrymen, both civic and mili-
tary, were (to their eternal, immortal, and imperishable
glory be it said) ready instantly to rise to do their duty
and to sacrifice themselves. (Long-continued cheers.)

In the present position of affairs, Lord Brougham
did not appear to regard the " neck " of the rebellion
as " broken " :
Don't let it be supposed that because Delhi is taken that
all is over and that all is settled. Part of the north-west
provinces still remains in the hands of the rebels. Oude
is not reconquered. Lucknow—l feel unspeakable
anxiety even in mentioning the name of Lucknow.
Heaven forbid that there should be round for that
anxiety , but Lucknow we don't yet know to be relieved.
Then there are those hordes from Delhi, scatteredover the
country, carrying on a kind of guerilla war against us, which
we know from experience in the Peninsula was far more
fatal to the French than our own unconquered legions.
All this is still to do.
The noble and learned lord, having paid a high and
well-deserved tribute to the courage and constancy
of our troops in India, concluded his address amidst
the cheers of the assembly.
Mr. M. MILNES followed the noble lord with an
essay upon the effect of the study of literature and
the fine arts, which he considered " calculated to
refine, the sentiments and elevate the character of the
community."
Dr. Hook, the Earl of Ripon, Mr. Pease, Mr.
Booth, and several other gentlemen having addressed
the meeting in favour of extending the facilities of
instruction to the middle and working classes of
society, the proceedings terminated.

HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE performed
the ceremony, on Thursday, of laying the ccruer
stone of the new national schools now erecting at
East Retford, and in the evening attended a meeting
of the Foreign Gospel Society, at which his grace
delivered an address reviewing the course of the
operations of the society in different parts of the
world. In the course of his address the duke re-
ferred to the missionary efforts in India. He
thought " great timidity and vacillation" had been
shown on the subject of the propagation of Chris-
tianity in India :
He was prepared to admit, nay, to assert, that while
on the one hand missionary officers were tolerated as a
kind of service which he for one, either in his place in
Parliament or in any other assembly, would equally and
at any time be prepared most strongly t ) repudiate, yet,
on the other hand, the privilege of missionaries of the
Church to reside in Ilindostan was not given. Perhaps
they would say great blame was attacSed to the Govern•
ment for so doing, but he was not prepared to say to what
extent the conduct of the Government was improper.