The Press.
London, England, 1858-10-02 00:00:00

The Earl of CATUSSLE moved the resolution :

Success to the Leeds Mechanics' Institute and Lite-
rary Society and all similar societies. as they materially
promote the development of tlr, chief resources of intel-
lectual cultivation.

In the course of his speech the noble lord said
have rejoiced to perceive the evidences of your moral
progress, as it has been testified by the encouragement
given to education by the multiplication of mechanics'
institutes, literary societies, and schools of art; by the
added facilities for public worship ; and, what is the best
proof of good education, by the spirit of order and obedi-
ence to the law which has distinguished your swarming
hives of industry. So that, while, on the one hand, your
population has recruited the armies that grappled with
Russia and reconquered India, on the other hand it
scarcely needs for its own control n handful of constables.
An 3 no more 'striking proof of this, as has been aptly
remarked by our chairman, could have been given than on
the late suspicions occasion of the ♦isit to this town of our
beloved Queen, whom you received with such a fervour of
welcome u burst through all barriers, and with such a for-
bearance of respect as male yourselves the living barrier
when the material one was swept away.

Mr. R. MONCKTON MU.NES proposed—

The ezteasim of the Schools of Art, as they impart a
taste for artistic beauty, and give familiarity with the prin•
ciples on which it rests.

lii the course of his speech the hon. gentleman
said :

It was the conscientious study of nature alone that
could make the great and complete artist. There had
been a time when this was forgotten, when people had
considered art as something which was merely to prelticc
what was callel effect. They had all seen pictures—
probably many of them painted by their friends—of which
they had said, when they had nothing else to say about
them, " 111 w very pretty the effect is." Perhaps the
objects represented were not always like the objects in
nature ; perhaps there never were such trees or such
cows, and there never was anything the least like the
representation of the skies ; still the remark was made,
1' The effect on the whole is very good." That was
just such a remark as, in speaking of a subject of
science, would be expressed in these words :—" This
theory cannot be proved at all ; I don't see that it can
be pat to any goof , practical use, nevertheless it is a
very good theory, ani has a very fine effect." Nova,
that would not be thought at all useful, and they might
depend upon it, it was not more useful in art Without
careful conscientious study of art nothing worthy could
be produced. It wcs the conscientious study of art
which was behind the works of the great artist, behind
the majesty and dignity of Michael Angelo, behind the
he auty and glory of Raphael, and behind all the graces of
Corregglo; and it was that which he was very glad to see
was the characteristic of English art at the present day.
Men might laugh at its peculiarities, they might scoff at
some of the extravagances into which it had run; but
nevertheless it was a matter of congratulation that the
artist no longer thought that he conkd produce certain
wonderful effects out of his brain, following his own
hand at mere momentary impulses, but that he must be
a hard-working student and a careful observer of natine.

SIR JAMES BROOKE ON MISSIONARY
LABOURS IN SARAWAK.

OA Monday evening the annual meeting of the
Society fur the Propagation of the Gospel in Fireign
Pans was held at the theatre of the Collegiate
Institution, Liverpool, which was crowded with a
very fashionable audience. The chair was occupied
by the Lord Bishop of Chester.
Sir JAPES Bitoozz made some interesting state-
ments as to missionary experiences in Sarawak.
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