The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-03 00:00:00

. It le not for me to tell you what would be the
ierrjette peat population that seethes around me at the
pausal moment, supposing they were not Instinct
with► that intelligens* which will eatable them to
maks use of your liberality, and derive those Messily's.
which your beaelicenc• plsoes before them—(hear, beer)—
Bir Julio Potter, I would say that I trout this advantage—
i• feet, I know that it will be fully appreciated. (Hear,
hear.) For ft I. Indeed one of the proudest sources of satis-
tastiest to the Englislusen to think that this intelligence
whisk you have here, as it were, imbedded is not confined
to say clam of the ounatunity. It is from districts like this
of yours that has come forth that impression which hu now
become, u it were, a part of the popular creed of this coon-
try—that it is in the education, the sound education of the
people of this miner, that the prosperity of this
country is to be found. (Chun.)
The Earl of WILTON seconded the evolution, which
was " That in the free reference library this meeting
hails wititrent=re a provision for the wants of the
gebelert the of every class, and in most branches
anemias% 111161111110, sad art ; and gives its firm expectation
that by a esatiaeasee of popular aid this department of the
institution will long be a centre of intellectual improve-
ment"

The resolution was carried unanimously.
Mr. BRIGHT, M.P., then rue and said—The resolution
which the committee have placed in my hands is one which
to my mind appears to be not very necessary for the objects
of the meeting, and for the BUCOVIIS of this institution, be-
cause it merely asks the town council of Manchester to do
their duty with regard to it. It is as follows : " That in
transferring to the corporation of Manchester their farewell
offering, as embodied in the free library, the contributors
express their fullest confidence that the trust reposed In the
municipal body will be fulfilled so as to realise
the :most sanguine expectations of its founders." But
when this resolution was put into my hands it was hinted
to me by a gentleman very likely to know that
I had better my very little about the corporation—(" hear,
hear," and laughter)—that, in point of fact, there were
persons who took an exaggerated, and, perhaps, unfair view
of what it is p• there were others who felt the corpora-
tion rather as the instrument for the levying of the local
taxation. (Laughter.) Well, but let every man bear this
in mind, that all persons who have examined the condition
of Manchester some few years ago, and know its condition
sow, believe that there is not, as I believe there is not, a
corporation in the United Kingdom that within the last
ten years has done so much for the permanent advantage of
the town with which it is connected as the corporation of
Manchester. (Cheers.) And although the burden of rates, as
we all feel, is not inconsiderable, let us at any rate, if we
cannot get rid of the rates, look at the bright side of the
question, and see the advantages which wo derive from
their expenditure. The council, as you have heard, hare
not the power to Increase this library. I doubt if it has
the power to the extent which the founders of the library
intend, even to conserve the library in the position in which
it now is before you. The Libr,ries Act, as you
are aware, is a very . inefficient and incomplete
measure, and I was in the House of Commons
when it passed, and if it were not keeping the
meeting with what hardly belongs to it, I could
describe some of the difficulties which Mr. Ewan and Mr.
Brotherton, who were the parents of this act, had in pass-
ing it through the House of Commons. And it is an extra-
ordinary fact that the opposition to this bill came almost
entirely from that side of the house which is composed of
country gentlemen, a great portion of them having had, no
doubt, an education at one of our greet universities. These
gentlemen opposed this act on the ground, and I hope by
this time they have found it was not a very judicious
ground, that there were certain borough in certain agricul-
tural districts that were incorporated, and that it would
not be a judicious and proper thing to add to the
burdens on land by passing a bill of this nature.
Now I am quite sun that it is not for any class to say that
those connected with agriculture, or those connected with
manufacturer, can dispense with each instruction as this
library affords to the people. lam sure it would be better
for this country, better for every manufacturing labourer,
and every agricultural labourer—every manufacturing ca-
pitalist, and every farmer, if they were well read and well
instructed in all those branches which are accessible in this
library to the population of Mancherer ; and I hope that
wh this question may come before the House of Com-
mons, we aball dud on that side of the house which has now
the government in its hands, a ready and cordial agreement
with regard to the objects and advantages of institutions
such as this.
_ _

WM.
BROWN, Esq., M.T., seconded the motion, and
it was carried unanimously.
Mr. CHAS. KNIGHT moved :—" That the promoters
and friends of this institution most earnestly desire that the
example saw given may be followed by the establishment
of similewilinrios in the populous cities and towns of the
United ikeellows, and that the effect of this new feature in
our salsa sassemy will be manifested in the growing in.
6.12 Yd Improvement of the English nation."
.111LICIN, Mayor of Nottingham, seconded the
MOON&

Mr. P. CUNNINGHAM moved :—" That, in common
with many friends of suelsisititstions this meeting regrets
We the est of psetkinest uselor wlah this library wilt be
ectobeelsi IMO* eseado M peovielso for the purchase of
boa. Mt of l& rats, sod tenses do Pis detect may be we.
marled by ugly legislative sesslement, especially as the
penny rate will be amply sndiallek in large towns, for
this and every other pargese of One libraries.'
Mr. ASPINAL TURN pit mended the motion.

Dr. VAUGHAN moved, " That onr warmed thanks are
due, and are cordially tendered, to the distinguished noble-
men and geotlemen, who have oome from a distance to
sanction, by their presence, an event so interesting to every
lover of literature, and to all who desire to strengthen the
influences which conduce to the elevation sad happiness of
mankind."

The MAYOR haying taken the chair,
The Bishop of MANCHESTEIt moved, n That this as-
eemblage cannot separate without offering its most frateful
acknowledgments to 81r Joha Potter, for his deep interest
and unremitting exertions le behalf of this institution,
from his purchase of this MOAN/ n tilke pumas time ; and
for his valuable advisee is &einem ei the committee ; ea
its representative= the emeentioa ; owl es the president of
The The reeeedlees oeiefiel about three o'clock.
Me. Meiske. UM. el Manchester, and the Earl of
Mutlfrisbeery wen te sigma oar evening meeting.

A MAR To DItAW I—ln the beginning of the last 11
==mers bens in 1710—there was a string nun
Topliam, who attained great popularity. Re
wag bred am a carpenter, but his taste led him to tarn pabli-
ma, sad he became halt of the Red Lion, near Um dog la
Idoortelds, a situation chosen for the sake of the gymnastic
emenhee of which the ring la Meerilelds was the theatre.
Turban idled la be pablicAsenee Winne, but smageled
as a mate, 'beaded teem, and exhibited his
Malaga %town& He hamedbie booms ever a turnpilurpte ;
M elestimst his arm oat ondegagened a pewter quest is
bit imam se tamh it bad Irma made of egg.
_shell.
asrepad byte at an inn in Derby,he named tbabilehea
Crime kennel his neck after the faddeaufames•
Dotty, be Met ay a weightless eginitat
ban, ;ad pat lam, boa and all. ever the wall into
asifin,d. Oa booed a West Indiamea be Wormed •
sailer a INSSIOSiIt at his ear, break=
obeli be as be was in the habit of b
peerbr pole. At • ram la the H=rolidide=
mpg& by • men in a cad. be wast gal Om
sort booltweadm oat of the gm& be spite of the dram* et
the logos to Avg it on. TVllmpoi, In booms laid a
wager that if his age were about a tree,three horses
amid not UtbimikaLfroma it. eaparbarsat wee tried, mad
the beams whipped, gweemil walk* aside, so that
Tomb* mai Bat whet • bee Mew ho was. Ha
was the mon to dam I on gala an that three sub
men would draw • brew If I meld get them into Drury.
Ime.—Dialossa's liortalcit Womb.
PonaT.--The aided Bengali poem ago
teat is the " Clausal" of Tiablimaken. It is an epic cab-
Intim of the glory sad pram of Mead! or Paravati, and
aat ple. the game pleas slang_ Ileagral epics as Milton's
" Comas" escaping arms AVM banes. It is &sided'
= surant, It oomeameme with • to Ganes%
gad Sawa. Them follows an amosani
of the amber, of wdeL IM roam shall bare the salegomme.
Lobilumbea was the sea of Damns, who lived ga the
Lads of • wealthy wardades, don to the city of ilimbebas.
The Naga and steed Lam Mow as grief, and died at a
petriesdial age. magoecled to the paternal
inzetei h
geibseing Wmemo INS far bilimat. Then it wee
UMW was *god et ihe Wad of the govern-
ment of tbe tilos preelmem ma tyrannised over errata
anabolism mad thole depaalest ryets. Yabikankaa wen
kma the plate of bb birth, with his wife awl
rem
be bad to groom Ilia
AM Dana& as be beaks, he Ammo
imam Ho flenemittbm7L7diess Chaadi, girt allb
her Mem had eamo to adamaimended ft is
her Wm. Man he mob% ho isimumbod tosoniel
the gummad, sad monad ga liejamsey. Se ism
eloped before he swathed Atm.
_thl (AY of
The him of this plate mativedi Nat with every am* oi
favour, and made him batrambr to his only soot upon a
liberal allowases. White "leashing the young idea bow
to shoot," Katikankan wrote the 0 Chandi."—Calcutta
&mine.

DEATH AFT= EATING
needay Mr. G. S. Brent bald as et the PAWNS
Victoria, Starch-green, wipes the rime
who was killed by eating ahmulthree•—• trades er ma'
room—neat,' the following eingelu eirenniresen This
cue was very peculiar, as its Mary prune. Athasesh As-
ceased bad bees la the situation Mat months, Nit Wed
many yeses is the valeabewaseth se 111111F4101$ then his
moor—knew his nese. ad tbseakee le set tlw seebrieeet
of " Joheny." Eves se pelithis gem at by age could be
made. It appeared framer widows, that on Wednesday a
lad, named George Turner, gathered a pint of cbanipignons,
which ho cooked at the Victoria, and equally divided be-
tween himself, an old man of the name of Newton, and
deceased, all of whoa partook of them seasoned with
pepper and salt. I ly after eating the champig-
nons, deceased was wind with a violent vomiting, which
continued the nest and** following day, when he was con-
fined to bed ; and Aitken& Mr. Keen, surgeon, was called
in, and applied every maid* antidote and remedy, he died
in great agony the same sight. Upon making an autopsy,
Mr. Keen found the siimech highly isilassed-by the chem•
pignons—and which hdthonnatio• 11111111111% death. But Mr.
Keen gave it as his oaiales that the Nubs thus would not
have proved fatal had set deemed led a wild, dissipated
life. Mr. Keen further shamed that the other parties
who ate the champignosa were set at all affected. The
Coroner observed that in France champignons were eaten
in large cinantities. Verdict—" Accidental death."
Tue HisrontAN RANKe is now in Brussels con-
sult:en the archives of the state for fact. relative to French
history in the 17th century.