The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-10 00:00:00

LOUD JORN RUSSELL AT LEEDS.

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The most brilliant and successful soiree ever held,
is connictinn with the Leeds Mechanise' Institute slit
Literary S•xiety, took plan on Wednesday night, antler
the presidency of Lord John Russell. The scene of the
soiree was the Music-hall, which was crowded to excess by
a most enthusiastic audience. Ilia lordship took the chair
at 7 o'clock, prior to which for two hours every seat in the
hall was occupied. Around his lordship on the platform
was as array of distinguished guests, including Lord Beau-
mont, the Right llon. Mr r. Baines, M.P., Sir George
Goodman, NIT., the lion. and Rev. the Dean of Repute,
Henry Cole, Esq., C. 8., Professor Phillips, F.It.S., George
Cruikshank, Esq., the Mayor of Leeds, E. Baines, Esq., and
the leading gentlemen of the locality.
The I.IIESIDFNT of the Institution opened tbe proceed-
ings by giving a statemeut of the present position and
prospects thv institution. The nunsber of members was
2,003. The finances were ell a m-art satisfactory state, the
treasurer having a balance in hand.
Lord Joon RUaalltLL nee to address the meeting amidst
the most enthusiastic plaudits, ech, ea and re-echoed lions
every part of the ball fur some moments. When ailcuce
had been in some measure restored, he spoke as follows :
Ladies and gentlemen,—Your excellent president having
eonseyed to me a wish that I should preside at this met-
ing of the Leeds Mechanics' Institute, I host great plea• are
in complying with his request ; for, since the first institu-
tution of mechanics institutes, I have had the greatest
satisfaction in seeing how much they have contnbuted to
the instruction of those who belong to them, and to the
general knowledge and the general welfare of the country.
I had the pl..ruarr of avuothy lye. Ilirkbeck to the begin-
ning of these institutions. (.• liver, hear," and cheers.)
I wish now, as far as I am able, to address you upon some
points of gs neral concern. My ignorance of the particulars
and details relating to this institute would make it an im-
perOseses on my part if I wore to attempt to go into those
details to nhich your president has referred. I am glad
to see by the list report of the institute that the various
objects to which it is intended to minister—the schools, the
classes, the instruction of various kinds, and the library—
have been all well aupported, and that there are no less
than two thousand members b:longing to this institute. It
occurs to toe, however, that if I could address anything to
you worthy of ob.srvation, it would be rather upon the
general state of knowledge at this time, and the prospect of
what is before us, than upon any particulars relating to the
lasutute over which I am now presiding. Let us °Meese
how very elaerent the present state of affairs is from the
time when the great foundations acre made for the
purpose of education and instruction. Before the Refor-
mation. and immcdia'ely afterwards, gnat aunts of
money: and broad lands were gives for !the purpose
of ensfowing academies, colleges, and schools, for edu-
cation. Oar ancestors thought, and I believe
wisely thought, that the best plan that they could
adopt won to promote, or to provide, the means of
teaching th, science and literature which had bees
derived from ancient nations, for in those days those
sciences and that literature contained all that was known to

The a Ivancernent of literature and science; for while the
former has opined out to ill, votary the archives's, the past,
and is heroine the depository of the present fur his ihstruc-
bon and guidance, so also to the steady pursuit of the
latter does the Englishmen owe the elevated rank of his
futherlAutt among tit,. nations of the earth." Hu heartily
commended this sentiment to their approbation.
HINILT PFAU, of Darlington, supported the emit-
meet.

Sir Ganuoe Gooomsm, 11.1'., was received with loud
cheers on rising to propose the neat sentiment, which was
u follows :—" That it is the effect of such institutions to
bring about cordlility and friendly feeling among men,
who, however widely they may otherwise differ, are still
ly desirous of producing for themselves end their
neighbours the greatest:amount of general good."
Mr. 0301tUll Cavtrsn.tna supported the resolution in •
speech of some length. Turning to mechanics' institutions,
be said it behoved all women to uphold them, for they
were institutions for the increase of domestic happiness.
(Applause) Young ladies, he would especially beg to bear
in mind, that young men in mechanics institutions would
make the best sweethearts; that the best sweethearts were
likely to nuke the best hushande ; and the best husbands
would be found to make the but fathers. (Loud laughter
and applause.)
Lord John Russell then vented the chair, which was
taken by Mr. Kitson, and a vote of thanks was accorded
amidst enthusiastic acelamations to Lord John Russell, the
audience simultaneously risingand cheering vociferously for
some time. Thanks were also awarded the other guests
amidst hearty applause.
The proceedings terminated shortly after 11 o'clock.

PRESENTATION OF THE ADDRESS OF THE
IOWN COUNCIL OF LEEDS TO LORD JOHN
RUSSELL.
The Town Council Wring determined to present
an address of welcome to Lord John Russell, on his visit to
this town, it was arranged that the presentation should
take place in the saloon of the Music Hall at eleven o'clock
yesterday (Thursday) morning. The address, which touched
upon the principal political events with which Lord John
Russell has been connected, wu presented to his lordship
by the mayor.
Lord JOHN Mosul_ acknowledged the complement in
appropriate terms.
His lordship, accompanied by Lord Beaumont and the
Right Hon. H. T. Baines, 'left Leeds for London by the
12.40 p.m. Cheat Northern train.

be really worthy of study—contained the most perfect
works upon rubjects of geometry and science, and con-
tained the best model of literary writing. lam tar from
thinking, theretore, that our ancestors committed an error,
either when they directed the education of the young al-
most exclusively to those objects or when they desired that
a great length of time should be given to that knowledge.
But we hare to consider that in the present day we
stand an a totally different position. Not that we ought to
forget what advantages we have derived from the science
and the literature of ancient nations. Upon the geometry
delivered to us from the ancients has been founded all that
increase of knowledge which ended in the discoveries of
Newton. From the writings of the poets of antiquity the
great poets of modern times have derived the best
models they can imitate. From the jurisprudence
of the Romans are derived the laws by which most
of the nations of the continent have been ruled. But
whale this tribute must be paid, it is a paramount object of
attention, that we, us the course of more than three cents
ties and a half that have elapsed from what is called the
revival of literature, have added to the stores and we have
received immense stores of our own—that by the side of that
rich mine we have opened other mines, which, if not
of as rich ore, are mere easily worked, and more abundant
is their product. (Corers.) It was Loral Bacon who first
pointed out that the mode of the pursuit of science fur
modern nations ought to be different from that mode for
the discovery of truth which had been pointed out by some
of the greatest philosophers. (Hear.) It has been mach
questioned whether Lord Banos was as exact guide by
which other discerners have been able to pursue the track
of knowledge and of invention. And upon that point I
think it is certainly clear that it was not Lord Bacon that
enabled a Galileo and a Carlene—that enabled a Pascal and
• Tycho Biache, a Copernicus and a Kepler, to make the
great discoveries which have immortalised their names.
But what is true is, that be at • very early period laid
down the rules by which all modern men of science have
guided themselves. lie pointed out the road which they
have followed, and laid down more clearly, more broadly,
more ably, than any one else, the great method by which
modern discovery should be pursued. You will find, 1
thine, Hyatt pursue this subject (if those who belong to the
Mechanic's Institute should study the works of Lord Bacon,
one called the " New Organ," the other on the augmenta-
tion of science), that the latest discoveries, the latest inven-
tions, have been made according to that mode which he
pointed out. In • work that was published but a year ago
—Mr. Feutairces account of the experiments he adopted
under the direction of Mr. Stephenson, by which he was
enabled to construct the tubular bridge at Conway and
over the Menai Struts—you will find that all those experi-
ments are according to the roles which Lord Bacon bud laid
down. (Applause.) Take another instance—a work on geo-
logy (an d• most interesting work it is), by Mr. Haigh Miller,
called " The Old Red Sandstone." You will find that an
interesting work, and as remarkable for the beauty of its
style as for the importance of its matter. And you will dad
there that Mr. Hugh Miller, being at let • mesa vaseitioi
in a stone quarry, pursued in his melba of ineaselsetien
the same rules which Lord Besse nesse rat Yeses __-aril_
ere laid down, and which hove thus bosoms tits iramiletise
cad the law, as it were, of nadirs edema (Cheers.) And
new, gestion'ssa, having said thus mesh with regard to
the friend method, let me beg leave le ray that, stale-
mated ea an nimbi the mosaban of the Marimaire* institute
✓an be he the mire nine= Initial lan has made
te great a pregnms—that kaanatiat so en nese dinar
rise which have given us a yews a/ trig Issensima, sad
ban been the cause of the ilissmony of the detente tele-
graph—that wonderful aad isammodleagy seal @dosses sn,
by which such dimoverie in the Madly of this mesa sad
methods by wash they are made mese be to yes. I woad
earnestly rem you that than is sr @dense whir,
themes its pta@sW welt Misr ulna the @saran uyim the
Lad, yet it is worthy of the deepest study; ea enema of
the ressalissat results which it sahib. The mime
wtia 1 snail is astroaosay. (" Hoer, bear;" sad disme.)
Whores tins ate hang begun their nalleingHesl Mono
with the denim whim of
Nowlin
game
thou te the sad, and Maws, the works el Nowlin blatssif—
(and so man iatressing works can be polusil by no
malwasalisre)—witit • view of miss bre Ins tint he
diseased On gnat taw of pedietia by whisk his am
will be fre ens keens; es whether mandni thandess
with mere rimier sessuas of aileseere, gins is mayor
the works el Its der, mina by Ilk IdsTlaabeß smil
other animal mai whites, I aty. yea rano the ems War
or Os other, yea snag in le hers& with thetpesiamg-
Manse of the arm whisk is inilded to you is astro-
nomical aposeitises. iser.) that
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fie/ I
arid it is but lately that it has boss had that rem=
of the heavens which soma so be state milsideasof
sous clouds, devoid of ampthri Ms fans of wait or
form of suns, are till of onall—onall le sparer* to vs,
bit, is fact, stano—rehape of very great mapitade, bat at
isnassusely room ininsee. So that, as at were, • sow
'heaven is roma to es; tad it apposes that se Mari to
views • thawed years is let as • day, • theasal adds
are but as • snob. (Applenso.) Ladies sal sratismin,
I certainly will an enemy' le detain you, sad te earn
70.11 r time by sysakisi of say of those able
mesas which else has *sir delight sad their utility.
Let me only say that ram NMI= be %paw
mistake than that whir yeamiled • number
ago—l may say wise lAN villa this OW.I. I=
eery to say that it it sew hag years age shies I moos lids
this district. and, in esompany with • liana and smiable
man (the late Professor Playfair), visited your feeterios and
workshops. I was strat—l could not hail to be work—by
the ingenuity that was displayed, and the wean! that was
obtained. (Hear, hear.) But I own net I bet the mane-
tutoring distracts with somewhat of a hang that
so greater means were used to and obtain know-
ledge, and that a theory seemed to prevail—fate and un-
founded theory I em sun le was—that those who are coati-
neatly occupied in toiling tad spiwobsg, in hammering
end in forging, could not reds It. dam or bar the masa
of penetrating the rectum of Wow eel of literature.
Hear," and cheers.) I benne that admire +mann
false. (Applause.) And ezperlease, Wink has proved
that while scrum and literature add le the skill, and te
the ability by wash the utissa andents his
on the other heeds kis Nil is erselemed by the sessint
thinking that be am teed sad robust amain whim his
hour of leisure ch
op arrive. (Cheers.) t
hat mint
sanguine are the hopes of yeati. In •joinmel that 1 hint
at that time, in which I =Maligned the ram mserass-
tones that I had visited, and the landissis vet I Ind
seen, I ended with • kw sinnetient at the mead and in-
tellectuel state of the ineaufasaming diedista, sad espremal
a confident hope that great improvement woad be made im
these respects. (Cheer..) And I sons now, after thineg
period, to rejoice in the that that hope is
fulfilled. (Applause.) Xi than maviligur sairt
lordship in conclusion, I sea posonrial yen win sbiae by Its
institutions which you ban, and by the faith which you
hold, and that you will aim the country to which you
belong. (Loud and pretreated ebsering.)
The Right Hon. N. T. Barxm, M.P., next addressed
the meeting, enforeinu the sentiment, " Prosperity to the
Leeds Mechanics' leatitute, and to all similar societies, r
they not col Pcfnese, but materially ranni, the Min-
isgest of the chief reeourees of intellectual enithadea."
sRICOIIMIII of DOWCASTIS supported** samliment.
Mr. Haar Cote, C.D., in a neat rash, Inger' the
art sentiment—" The matiewed saansion of @sheds of
dada, led a class isetrustise as the paryle—shase
limn is gnat esseepoe, de we leak in the seism a lads.
and re perm@ of slash mealmearl as en
ap ord! ihe astir* peallionelladjasir rut-
laighseerl WNW
PIULLSPO depyteled the sestina.
2141MIONT rat addremed the ?eft os the cab
"The Ideastion of the Pavia.
Tbo artiment wee @be spoken to by the Ha. sad Rev.
lie Dsma a Zoom.
The *uv. 0. WitnniMis art quits be the sistinems..

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1852.