The Express.
London, England, 1855-11-23 00:00:00

(Stamped id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

• sposaktiat hiss that it say aaswer—es, lastly, sad this

is SU sae favoUrable ease, sresiareslves improve apes cos-

tea memo ; lost this eon sly be the result of sa! s:pstl
saes hardly earned and dearly bought, sad which, after
ill, en only sa►rest a ossaparatively short spate of time,
and a small nusalosr of ezperiments. From some of tkees
esnesseas we bops for mash proems; for the mind, how-
ever lade_, has so materials to work with, and re-
males ha promos of phenomena the causes of whisk

are Midas from it. Hai time Law of Nature—these
DMus Lowe—are capable of befog diseovered sad
vadsobted, sad of Wag Wed sad made oar

awn. TIVW is t►e task of science—asid whilst misuse

dieemoss sad teaches these laws, art teaches their applies,-
dia. No pursuit is, therefore, too ieeignificant sot to be
sapablo of booming tho subject both of a soignee sad as
art. The Ilse arts (as far as they relate to painting sad
sculpture, whisk are seinethase confounded with art is
gams% rest oath. appliratisa of the laws of fora and
labour, sad what asp be galled the sebum of the beautiful.
They do sot rest ima say arbitrary theory oa the modes of pro.
&Wag plessarabis emotions, hat follow flied laws, sore
diNsult, perhaps, to seise they those regulating the material
world, Nieuwe belsagisg partly to the .pbsn of the ideal

sad war. spirilaal asessose. perfestly appieslelle sad
teeshable, beak abstrestedly sad historically. fray the
weeks of diffeseat ages sod asthma. (Chests.) No Inman
parfaits asks may material progress stain sakees be brought
to bear spat the... We dare seem, aeserdiagly, assay of
them slumber for amnia ; bat from the nosiest that
science has touched these with her magic woad, they hare
smug inward sad taken strides whisk wane sad almost
awe the beholder. Look at the treasfornatioa whisk has

pane ea around as does tba laws of irrsvitatios. elestrialty,
rasisatisse. mod the expensive power of beat bays
Meese knows to au It has altered oar whole
state of cameos awe sight sap the whole face

of the gtobo I we .we this to rekato., sod seams
altos; sod .he has other treasures la store for so, if

we will bat all her to our assistance. It is sometimes
objected by the ignorant that seisms 1, aneertain sad
changeable ; and they point to the many exploded *maw
which ham bees superseded by others, as a proof that the
present knowledge may be also assaead, and after all not
worth having. Bat they are not aware that while they think
to cast ►lame upon Menet, they bestow, in fast, the highest
praise upon her. For that is peesnisely the differences between
Meuse and prejudice: that the latter Mope stubbornly to
its position, whether disproved or not, whilst the bream is
an wearrestable movement towards the fountain of tenth—
cariag little for cherished authorities or sentiments, but
continually progressing—feeling no false shame at her short-
comings, bat, on the sootrsry, the highest pleasure when
freed from as error, at having advanced another step towards
the attainment of Divine troth, a pleasure not even intelli-
gible to the pride of ignoranee. We also hear, not entra
quently, seisms and practice, scientific knowledge and
common sense, contrasted as antagonistic. A strange
senor t For science is eminently practical, sad mast be so,
as she seas and knows what she is doing; whilst are
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common practice is condemned to work in the dark, apply-
ing natural ingenuity to unknown powers toebtain a known
result. Far be it from use to undervalue the creative power
of genius, or to hrewd common penes as worthless
without knowledge. But nobody will 011 me that the urge
genius would not take an incotnpuably Weber Bight if
supplied with all the EMUS which knowledge can impart,
or that common sense does not become, in fact, only truly
powerful when in possession of the materials upon which
judgment is to be exercised. The study of the laws
by which the Almighty governs the universe is therefor*
our bounden duty. Of these laws our great academies and
seats of education have, ratter arbitrarily, selected only two
spheres or groups (sa I may call them) ex casaniie Pans
of our national eduation—tbe laws which regulate quart-
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titles end proportions, which form the subject of anthem
tic*, and the laws regulating the expression of ear thoughts
through the medium of language, that is to say grammar,
which finds its purest expression in the clinical languages.
These laws are most Important branches of knowledge
their study trains aed elevates the mind. Bat they are
not the only ones ; there are others which we cannot
disregard—which we cannot do without. There are,
for instance, the laws governing the human mind
and its relation to the Divine Spirit—the subject of logic and
metaphysics. There ars those which govern our bodily
nature end its connexion with the soul (the subject of phy-
siology and psychology. More which govern human
society and the relations between man and man the subjects
of:politim, jarisprudenos, and political economy, and many
others. Whilst of the laws just mentioned some have been
recognised as essentials of education in different institutions,
and some will, by the course of time, more hilly assert their
right to recognition, the laws regulating matter aedlonn are
those which wN constitute the chief object of your pursuits;
and se the principle of subdivision of labour is the ono
most congenial to our age, I would advise you to keep to
this speciality, and to follow with undivided attention
chiefly the soleness of mechanics, physics, and chemistry, rani
the fine arts in painting, sculpture, and architecture. You
will thus have conferred an inestimable boon upon your
country, end is a short time have the satisfaction of wile
nosing the beneficial results upon our national powers elf
production. Other parts of the country will, I doubt nog,
emulate your example, and I live in hopes that all them
institutions will some day find a central point of union, and
thus complete their national organisation. Thanking you
once more for having allowed me tourist at the foundation
of your institutiou, 1 wish it growth, vigour, and prosperity
with all my heart. (His Bela Highness resumed his seat
amidst enthusiastic cheering.)
Lord STAIILST Of ALDISLIIT proposed the next tout,
The Health of the Emperor of the French and our bravo
Allies," which was received with loud end protracted
cneedng. His lordship eulogised the tenantry with which
the French had shared the perils of hardly contested battle
fields with our own troops, and observed that the Sardinians
were a people on whose present condition and prospects we
must always look with the deepest interest, as they had
shown that they knew haw to rally round thi standard
of freedom, which they knew how to enjoy rationally. As
to the Turks, they had stows that they deserved to be
fought for, and that they poeseeesd some of the ..reetest
qualities of a great nation. But it was the frank and loyal
conduct of the Emperor of the French which had 'spinally
gained the confidence and admiration of the people of this
country daring the present struggle. We all felt that the
Emperor was a firm friend and ally on whom we could rely
in every emergency.
The noble PISSIDINT said he fused seme difficulty in
doing justice to the next teen. Whether he looked to the
patient endurance of our soldiers of privations and of die
seas—srliether he looked to their indomitable courage in the
tam of the enenhe confessed his admiration W 66 math
suited. It might have been thought that, after 40 years
of pest*, oar soiem bad degenerated ; but no ouch thing
happened ; and the same seal, end the same daring, and
du sane devuodoess to their *sentry, had ehsracterited
both the army and navy in a degree which must be gratify.
lag to the people of this wintry: His lordship concluded by
giving The Army and Navy," coupling with the former
the name of General Sir Harry Smith, and with the latter
the memo of Sir Hobert Peel.
Sr. H. Sierra was received with cordial chisels'. He said
that, after the meaner in which the toast bad been received,
nothing was left for a veteran like him to lay than that the
jevsnils soldiers of our army bad covered our semi and
themselves with laurels in the present war. The British
army ea sot degenerated, and so long as the present
anisette was preserved we should be victorious under all

eireentstenese.
Bit BOBSZT Pus, in replying for the nary, enlarged
upon the irenerout rivalry for the honour and plory of the
country which existed between the two branches of the
service.
At this stage of the proeeediage his Boyal Highness cad
nits retired amid the loud and hearty plaudits of the vast
essnablege.
The toast of " The bishops, clergy, and ministers of
glen," was given freer the chair, and responded to in as
eloquent address by the Lord Bishop of Metteltester.
Tin noble Plineinairr proposedthe health of her Ma-
jesty's ministers, observing that so long as they manifested
a sincere desire to uphold the honour and glory of the
country they would receive the support sod approval of the
country. The toast was received with great cordiality.
Lord STANLIT 4105 AILDSILBT nturned thanks, observing
that it was a remarkable circumstance that ia the midst of
the present war they should have met together for the pur-
pose of inatignitatiag • great work of ran like the owe
which bad brought them together that day. In all seek
nadertakinp bee Majesty's ministers felt the greatest syn.
pithy acid lamest.
Lent Untwist= •said—My lord I am sailed apes to
panne to yes the toast of " flames to the Birmingham
sod !Midland Institute.' It might have been eosin salon
ewe men capable of doles it jostles, bait' weld b
assi!re bees
'strutted to so tadtridost son aortoos for e are and

imprevomest of them for whom immediate benefit this
institute was &sigma; Ronald have been entrusted to no
one more deeply impressed with the importance, nay even
with the absolute necessity, of the movement which you am
at this unmeant engaged in inangerating, nut only for the
elevation and happiness of the working classes, but atm for
the maintenance of the manufacturing superiority of
Greet Britain Is the workshops of the world. The
prisciple, I apprehend, of this institution is to offer
to ell elasees, whether masters, foremen or workmen, the
means of studying and Domprebending those processes and
powers of nature with which, in the pursuit of their daily
maidens, they have to deal. You do not, I apprehend,
intend to remain satisfied with an appeal only to one
halite( men's being, to his reasoning powers alone. I pre-
sume it to be your desire to enlist all his faculties, to train
the eye to interpret nature's upset, to train the ear to un-
dastand her vaiee, to treks the touch and the taste to act
where the diarissinatiag pewees of the other organs fell.
The unedunted workman is like the blind and deaf, fit
only for some limited mechanical task ; he has no este
whims to employ kis sited. He works on, therefore, like
• Meeldne et see moresslng round of monotonous toil. No
winder, then, that his spirit should rebel against • drudgery
whisk hams undeveloped his nobler faculties, et which be
is esmions; no womb, this he should turn in disgust to
some praessit eltogether batelketaal, se aliens, tangible from
his erelomien. (Chum ) And what is the cossequesce ?
liallii:c7timb praetor', be attains, the mere leathers
Os ham whisk he has led. Re become. listless ,at
hisses* Imes credit in the factory. His family suffers, his
peeltion humor • false position, be is eansitious of merits,
whirl be dose not dad the world reedy to acknowledge, his
example is rather shunned than followed; bet pow, ibrough
your admirable institution, you not only arable him to
reemelle the aspirations of en intellectual being with the
worldly duties of a husband and a parent, but you open eat
to him a sew lasgasge, the language of estate, and whom
before he moved hoodwinked and indifferent, he was now
presented to his ebrapened ad inquiring senses wonders
such as the bookworm in his closet—nay, such even as the
Maoist in his laboratory has
of eauleamariog by fruitless efforts to raise himself above
the mechanise' calling which drags him down, he now has
the satisfaction of nide; his calling Into an art—en art
worthy of all the interest that an intellectual being has to
bestow, and if he attain ersellimee there is • higher mem
opened to him le which he may distinguish Itimielf, servehis family, and benefit hie country. Seek is the system,
such ere the benefits of the institation whisk we are met
this day, seder the auspices of his Royal Highness, to in-
august*, sad worthy they are of the enlightenedcoothim
sire is whisk they tithe their birth. I might here sloes my
remarks, end ask you to drink the toast, but I
feel I have mother, • painful duty to fulfil,
namely, to tell you what will be the penalty
if the boon eared by this institution be rejected, or if the
other manufachitiag tones neglect to follow roar example,
end omit to present similar advantages to their iohabitants.
Our hearts and seals are ab orbed by this Russian war. We
feel, and we feel rightly, that the character of England
and the honour of England are there at stake, and no
sacrifice must be spared. But there is another war which
may be more ademitous in its results, which is being waped
not ia some confined spots of an enemy's territory, 3,000
miles away, but • war waging here at home, involving not
the interests of Turks, but the bread of our
children and the destinies of our countrymen. We
seem to have forgotten that, by adopting absolute free-
dom of trade, we have cut down the gauntlet of &Game to
all nations, that we are fighting for superiority in our own
markets, in those of cur colonies, in every bones through
the habitable globe where there exists money or credit to
buy. We expect to hold our ground. Have we, up to
this moment, held our ground ? (Hear, hear.) At the
close of the war, In 1815, we were superior in all the arts of
usu. Are we so nowt Has not the tortoise crept up to us
while we were sleeping upon our seamed superiority ?
Let us take nearer dates. You have among you
jurors of 1811 and jurors of 1855. Do they tell you that
we have kept our place ? They do not tall me so. It would
be strange, indeed, if we did keep our place, inferior as we
are in all that scisatific knowledge which cheapens and faci-
litates the application of labour; unless, indeed, knowledge
be weakest' and science • farce. (Cheers.) We were
ready enough to twit with ignorance uuusuffering army in
the Crimea. Are we, nobles, manufacturer., farmers, week-
mem, a whit lees ignorant in our several capacities than they ?
Under these eirensestaoces, It is not to the government we
must look for • remedy, but to ourselves. Oar government
is oonstituted to follow public opinion, not to lead it.
Emmett in the perpetual contest of party strife, the posi-
tion of our ministers is that of the Jews in the time of
lira, who built their temple with trowels in the one hand,
but with the sword in the other. How can they who can
scarce pass through an obstructive parliament remedies for
manifest and acknowledged dangers how can they
be expected to expole themselves to certain defeat
by demanding from a niggardly Hones of Commons
expenditur to meet distant and as yet unperceived dangers ?
But it is fot unite for as that we have at this moment near
the throne, a d wielding the authority of the crown, a prince
who, raised • ove the sphere of party o edicts, has at the
Mae time kart r views, more lasting interests than those of
ear public men absorbed as they are by the party conflicts
of the day. lie h I promoted science by every means he could
employ. He accepted and worked out, as no one else could
have worked our, the Exhibition of 18.51,—n0t that it might
afford a passing stimulus to industry, but with the deeper
view of showing us how we stood in the competition of in-
Matey, sad bringing us to a due sense of our danger. He
has, lastly, on this occasion come forward to inaugurate this
new and important movement by hie presence and his
advice, to roue us from oar self complacent dreams to a
sense of our danger If once the giant strength of this
country were awakened, the Mammas of prejudice and
routine and ig would fall away like Samson's withs ;
the only danger would be lest many a wholesome cheek,
many a wise restraint, beneficial to our malarial character,
should be cast off as en locumbrance ; but If we remain
with folded anus and take no heed, or if we goon teethe,/ the
people only with desultory information—diverting their
minds from the serious work of preparation for the real
business of life—treating them, as the nurses of your towns
are said to treat the infants committed to their ear., quiet-
ing them with cordials at the same time that the, cloy
their appetites and stint their progress—why thee the
result is clear—our manufseturee must sink. The employ-
ment of our population must go—and thus this England, of
which you are so justly proud—the store-house of nations—
the refuge of the oppressed—the pattern land of order—oh, it
will be • wilderness again, peopled with worse than
wolves, peopled with starving, desperate outlaws. (Cheers.)
This is the toast of the evening, and it may well move our
sympathies. I hope it is the beginning of a great change
which will restore prosperity to the mans lectures of Bog-
land. (Cheers.) I give you " Success to the Birmingham
sad Midland Institute," and couple with it the health of
=Tindal. (Cheers.)
LYTTILLTON proposed "The President of the Royal
leolety, and the Scientific Institutions of Great Britain,"
to which Lord Wrotteeley, President of the Royal Society,
replied.
CleklIDOS Wave Rosaries, E-q , High Sheriff of War-
wiekshire, proposed "English Literature and the Fine
Arts," which was responded to by the Earl of Stanhope.
C. W. Boeings, E.q., gave" The Health of the Mayor
of Birmingham," which was received with great cordiality.
His Wesson., in making his acknowledments, observed
dist it had formed a portion of hieofficial duties tauten his
Royal Highnt as Prince Albert to the railway station. The
Prime had repeatedly charged him to express his sense of
the hearty reception which had been given to him by the
people of Birmingham, and especially did his Royal High-
ness wish that hie thanks should be tendered to the working

slum.
Tito toasts of " The Chairman, Lord Catborpe," and of
" The Ladies," followed, and brought the promischags to a
lam aboat half•peat 6 o'clock.

His Highness Maharajah Doleep Singh has just
evinced a fine feeliag for the country of his temporary
sojourn, first, by forwarding a liberal donation to the Army
and Navy Pensioners' Employment Society; and oust, by
receiving several of the wounded soldiers from the Cristo',
recommended through its means, into his service at Roe-
hampton, on very comfortable condition'.
Countess Fortescue is still unable, from indisposi-
tion, to leave town. When sufficiently recovered, her
ladyship is to proceed to Brighton.
The Countess of Leioseter gave birth to a son on
the 90th inst., at golkhatn, Norfolk.
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., and Mrs.
Disraeli, have left Nitabendon Manor, on a visit to the
Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, at Hatfield.
Miss Thornhill, the wealthy heiress of Dinky
Hall, Market Harborough, nes married on Tsaday. The
event sassed some excitement in the neighbourhood, se her
same and that of others (who have attempted, but vainly,
to win her band) nave been before the public. The bride-
groom is William Capel Clarke, Esq., of Sanely, Mid-
dlesex.
Mr. Labouoltsre has appointed Mr. Higgins, of
the Colonial Ofilee, to set temporarily as his private se-

ecstasy.
The Rev. William Leeper, 8.A., has been collated
by the Lord Bishop of Norwich, to the Viserege of All
Babes. is Booth Lyae, is Norfolk, is his lordship's gift.
MM. Charles and Francois-Victor Hugo have
surly °sapless& a ^ History" of the resist proesedisp
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