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police. My opinion is, that no insonvenience
the metropolis from the existence of
tions within it."

MIR MILWER LYTTON .
ONE of the most brilliant soirees
Leeds Mechanics' Institution took
day evening, under the presidency
The Music-hall in Leeds, as the
commodious edifice to be found
adopted for the ffte, and densely
proceedings being throughout most
thusiastic. On taking the chair,'
evening made an eloquent and mu,
dress to the guests assembled --
"He alluded to his recent visit
burgh, with whom knowledge v
had then come among those with vs...—
holiday. But in both these communities,
university and in the busy manufact,
the same grand idea—the recognition
supreme arbiter of all those questions
were either settled by force or -- -
which are even stronger than law
fold fully of despising peat ages t
one in which we live, the disposit
disdain the generations that ha
savages, without railways and at
sentimentally despise the present
and vulgar, complain that we ha
great ideas, and that railways and
care for, Sir Edward said he should
persons at their market worth, and s
valuation. Our ancestors needed •
had made us free. Looking out up
at present, he found quite enough 1
men. There was no doubt of our
also members of the great family
down a map of the world, and see
it is yet civilised at all. Africa
of savages and wild beasts ; Asia
civilisation which produced slid
Babylon ; and, even in Europe,
tories, once the seat of empires,
or degenerate civilisation ! In
valleys of the richest soil ; the corn
withers as it stands. In Italy the a
is stifled, men's minds are divided
less infidelity and the most abject
cany, which gave to modern Europe
literature and freedom, the very sl
condemn you to the Austrian's sabre ,
sentative of the learned Medici thinks
coming together if an English gentl
in the cottage of the poor. While
civilised world, happily as yet •'•
barriers of nature, the Emperor ,
over barbarous millions, and shocks
and religion of this century by
Crusader to disguise the ambi
of all Europe there are only t—
are in the full vigour of progressive
manic race, in which is included '
of the Baltic, such as Sweden
populations, also kindred, of
the people of France ; and the p,
These three great European races,
aspects of civilisation, all had some
common. There was first the milder
This spirit had rained up all those
heard of in the last century, affecting t
people ; it was this which sought to ca
liness into the abodes of misery
directed merciful attention even to tho
society, seeking to reform criminals
them ; which had introduced '-
prison-houses, and, except in rare
punishment of death out of ow
comitant with this development
takes a more material and less _
in the last century. He could not
be less spiritual or poetical either i
covers that the divine beneficence
nature, even to the gas which had
escaped from us in smoke, with
the wildest tales of the Eastern is
baronet then spoke of the educational
great races and of our own country, an
I trust that education in this country
ther paid for and altogether regulated
hear.) I hope in this, as in all, that
with the vital principle of self-government
tinction to centralisation. (AT-.
shall live to see the day when J.,
America, the education of the people
desire of the people, consenting, in local .
rate upon themselves for oducation—.(.
thus interested in seeing that the educao
kind that their money can produce.
some rigid and inflexible state -
every improvement which the
can suggest to the emulation
plause.)"
The meeting was afterwards
tary of the institution, the M.
Mayor of York, Mr. Charles
Goodman, M.P., Mr. Edward
gentlemen. A vote of thanks
Lytton for his presence and
proceedings.

SATURDAp
no ineonvenience trims to
ace of two police juxisd,c.
roN AT LEEDS,
soirees ever held by the
took place on We 4
dency of Sir E. B. Lyttes.
as the largest and most
found in the town, was
usely crowded, the whole
rat most spirited and en-
hair, the president of the
rid much-applauded ad
Id
sit to the students of Edia.
was taakwork, whereas he
th whom knowledge was a
communities, in the quirt
nufacturing town, he found
nition of intelligence as the
stions which, a century is,,
stilled by those prejnebees
tw. Adverting to the two
and of undervaluing that
sition which leads a man to
have gone before as dad
I steam-engines, sad Kill
ent time as commonplace
have no great men, and no
oci steam-engines are all we
should like to buy those
and sell them at their own
ed no justibeatiost, for they
upon the world as it estate
gh to justify us as Engtah•
our progress • hut we were
ily of man. Let them take
see how small s preload
a remains the same &mall
is has fallen back from the
uch cities as Nineveh and
what vast and fertile tern•
now present only a crude
Spain yea pass din:rash
torn where it is lazily sows
the arts languish, literature
ided between the most life
ject superstition. In l'ne
rope the earliest lessons of
^y shape of your hat idgit
sabre ; and the royal ream
thinks heaven and earthen
gentlewoman drops a bible
While on the borders of the
tt divided from ne by the
or of all the Rushee nips
cocks alike the eiviliaatim
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