The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-18 00:00:00

Tills Jur.H.2BB, THURSDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 18, 1855.

BOLTON NIICHANWS* INSTITUTION.

ADDRESS OF LORD STANLEY, ILP.

- -
On Tuesday evening a .oafs mita held in the Tem-
porises Ball, Bolton, seder the easpioei of the Mecksaiss'
Imitation, to selebrate the opening of their new wad @pa-
shas premises in Oxford.atreet. At half.past fieo 'Week
upwards of 600 member end (deeds sat down to tea. The
osespaay es the platform sommised Lord Stookey, M.P.;
T. Baran, Esq.. 11f P.. praideat of the isseltatioa
Crook, BK., M.P. ; P. Alaswortb, Ent ; J. Knowles, Esq.,
town dark; P. Maria, Erg.; E. Haywood, BK.; George
Ilutom, Esq., Bagley; J. B. Holden, Esq.; William Ka-
keel, Esq. ' • F. Bailey, Esq.; B. Asimartk, Esq. ; Jame
Knowles, BK., Begley ; George Wolstealtolme, Esq.;
James Bayley, Big. ; B. B. Bothwell, Esq., ilkarplos Hall;
John Gordan, BK., clerk of the pease; Hoary Ashworth.
Bsq.; the Bev. B. Best, La.
After tea Um gallery of Om hall was thrown open to the
ankles, spots paymeat of siapeass sash for admission, sad
ia a short time it was crowded.

TimmAs B•ixia, Esq., X P., rose and said—Ladies and
pntlemen, it is my duty to introduce the sable lord who
his so kindly promised to preside over us to-night.
Lord &mitre was received with repeated rounds of
glossing. Addressing the meeting as friends and neigh-
beers all, he begged to assure them that it was with hel-
loes of the most mange character, and MU than usual in-
terest, that he thud himself them, for the Ant time, pre-
samt and taking • public part in the tows of Bolten—a tows
whom name wee weaseled with that he bore by historical
essmisiesemess, at oats nteleacholy and isnot:hag. He con-
teemed he could not seeept the welcome offered to bits by the
inhabitants of that town, is which, from the days when
the Flemings Brat settled there, and brought with them
that skill and enterprise they were net permitted to dis-
play in their own home, down to that time, within the
memory of man living, in which Arkwright end others
worked out those discoveries which directly or indirectly
had affected the life of every one in that room, without
saying that the borough bad sot only held its
pound spinet competition as severe as say other;
town is the country, but they had proposed with
• rapidity aad progress out of the usual rate even
in the county of Lancashire. Lcokiag at stathties be fond
that in 1773 they had a population of less than 6,000. In
1801, as the :stares were then taken, the population es-
misled 11,000, mad within the last 66 years they bad in.
oresesd to ammo them 81,000, or is the properties of mew
thin more diem 8616 per cent. in something less than half a
century. Ho would say for those Lancashire tows, that
adusowledged Iffamiimeter as their centre, which exceeded
in popaletasssialpeeduelive power London itself, that there
was mem 116 mama illlasst industry and independence,
that the time of um Y general was leas occupied by trivial
=sari that amsept them it wee not an tumour and •
ft he aim They not rely admitted, but they
ashilicare truth, that that being who was act mentally
et gad his own nature, and failed
to those ebene w were due front his, and
whigh all owed so mumshees of satiety. He was sot there tit
Satter or to eemplimegit them upon the effort they had or
bad mot mode, and width might or might not be in the ratio
of themermiereial prosperity they had attained, but he would
frankly say, without disparagement to the efforts they had
made, that enough had not been done for the social benefit
of the lower classes. There were some public works which
no well ordered town ought to be without. He would in-
dicate what he considered were necessary. No place ought
to be withont accommodation for eolith worship. That was

saik-eiessediti There ought altoto be room i
in ear school. fur every child between the eget of five sad
fifteen, said measly room, but some effort ought to be made
by the phileathropbt sad the wealthy to get the children
east by their parses • and there should be iced seperis
teadenee, to see fiat the teaching was good 1. quality.
There, math, there could be so ground of dispute. Thirdly,
It Wu wrong that 30,000, or even 100,000, as I. some
places, should be cooped up, without something in
the nature of parks or public grounds, when working
nee and their families could take the benefit of
air in the day. Practical Manchester had set a good
example is that respect. Liverpool intended to follow
it up, and Preston bad already made up its mind sot to
be left far behind. Fourthly, they required • free public
library, fa • good (*steal position ; with mesas of selection
nommeasarate with the wants of the tows in which it was
situate. Oa that polat the people of Bolton bed displayed
• liege upset of publie spirit. Fifthly, public baths and
washlionses. Upsa that be would not dist*, for they were
already isstatilhhed hi that tows, sad be earnestly hoped
they might be esosesehal. Sixthly, they required please of
amasesseat sad recreation for working aces—a kind of poor
men's club, where he could find those comforts which he
sow ..fortunately sought at the publiirlionse, which would
be
as god where he would not be exposed to those
hen to which he was now subjected. Ouch places
of entertainment had bora established in various parts of the
seniory, both urban and rural. That would be an effectual
plea to rival what he was afraid was our ad:Waal vice—in-
Mammas,. Lastly, no urban community could be otimplate
width did net cestain name thatitation _fee the poinsinies
of efisestiss antoaget adults, such as Mkt iastitutioa the
opal** of which they had met to celebrate. He (Lord
fitsslay) should be glad to observe is every Lancashire
tows the seine spirit which had dictated those improve-
weds whisk that town (Bolton) exhibited aide by side with
the mast wonderful results of inventive ingenuity. The
aspen presented by rem" towns was that the streets were
crowded every evening with young men, who lounged there
because they had no other place but the public house or a
comfortless lodging. He knew there were °intentness' in
oar mode of life which bad a tendency to destroy or to
weaken local attaabment. He (the noble lord) referred to
that continuous movemsst of the population which was con.
squint upon those fluctuations which affected commercial
success. As an last mica, the population of Bolton contained
16,000 persons who were retuned as burn within the limits
of the county, and not of the town, while 9,000 were not
bon I. the ciosaty at all. He felt sure that the capitalists
of Belton knew both their duty sad Interest too well to
weaken that moral tie which results from cordial and
kindly cenneaioa between them and their workmen. We
were now getting into a different eoaditioa of society—
the esaditione were changed; there was no longer dopes-
des*, of one man awe another—a claim to obedience on
the cue baud sad a desire for protection on the other—those
days had peeled away. Tito danger, however, of the pre-
sent day was a belief is that which was only true economi-
cally as to the relation between the employer and the em•
ployed—that It amid be regulated by the principle of supply
sad demised. That wee not morally true ; and that notion
would only last uatil our present relations were better
taderutood the. they were at present. He did not mesa
to reproach the manafactursts with indifference to the con-
&doe of their operatives. He knew that a great deal had
been dose, ant that, too, in the kindest and meet benefisial
manner. He rather approached the nbject in a spirit of
envy—se envy of the advantages that were enjoyed by
those who could deal with a large sad intelligent papas
tie., sad sonoentrate their meg* fer geed apes a tangible
_ .
•sess. -

Is nal dkepleis k we; si auskisfitter w I

up a library. The distanw sou too gnat:die popalatin
too sparse, and dill/allies were promoted of whits they had
so knowledge. Then was a moos. therefore, that they
Aught be grateful that there "misted the opportunity of dolt;
sesis nom Betarning to the ismniato neasio■ that
bad ht then together, rho noble lard put than yaw
timer Whet are =telltales' lastitutleas ? What wine sig
mast to bet And what nay they Ineouts ? TWO Wltio
Olin resent thee about 999 of these institution* Is the
musty, perhaps rather ewe, all dung within thepesesat
=set of all= within the Yet 26 yews. Thu=
we, that in tansy ewe the quality el the
Mares= la them was Inenialient. They won a= vibe
Diaught Is be, what =op were utast to be, ee Wanting
Mt mole. The male mum sou thus eineasta•us
maturielly abaage6 Woe the time whoa Wel Wit?. ant
Tweety years soothers were so =WM libraries a
arnessaw, end the harass wee threw* *pea them, sad
Wag wen =pea= to redeem the mete lesions leastlms,
sad supply a vest eamiser of biellsessel wants. New the
rageireeseata of the times hal slmiapd. We had free =has
Illearise, sad a limited *usher et leeks were requital.
Neweeesses bad also is easy plasm hems established, mod
Isomiro mower. His lordship, I. soodedisa, spoke is taus
et awgroselattee of the present eflekasy sad fatale pew
spas et Sao koslitatise la when hewer Obey had that =at-
las sesembled.—Tbe epee= was resolved with great ea-
' —Matthaei? Basestitsr.

A SToIMT PaAcs-MEETING IN FncosuzY.
Yesterday mate( Mr. George Theorem emelnded an ,
address evilest the war, delivered to a, nuemerma andienea,
aseemblod is the BOUM Ilettoei-reen, Omtperotreet, Flea.
bary, with iambs a issolutloa emakimately et *be matt-
mama dan We., sad ealllag apes do 10,111 Vilest sad
the opprommtatime of the people la pallimmeat to b,la it
to a speedy "sad honourable" sesdisisa. Mr. Taylor
memoiel tbe mottos. Kr. Uttiag moved the following
milesimmt That this sleeting. /MUT*, the Wiltillefati
adios peen piety, se tooled empeanded, to be istoltual to
the host beeeeele of *le earestry, end their propoeitioas
asisalslal to Wow** peaks of England moats% lb*
ontiorm hereby iesesmese empbstically their attempt to
tome span its .antes sane, rejeeta their reeelettoo,
for a eigovese proomatiom of the war mail
est
I=llB 11:1 M rewiered powerless tar futon
Mr Rowell weasel the aniendemaste sad Mr. VAIL
Wilke empperted the original mem. The bunt was
likiks wow rentarits derogatery to the ohmmeter of Loeb
Melis was resehed wilt eme a stem of Moo
silim be
veral abates be woo sot allowed ft mimed. TM
**sea matreated the twain to boa Mr. wt bat
the gent aril spear prevailed every time that geodeemee
to email. At leagth a notice was pot as to
Illtaiber be shown be Mood or sot, sad the aillneolve
=Oil. Above few Mast., waged Is as laelbetael
*egg* hemmer, be eat deem. Tie slaloms tbea pet
Ma emeadasiok aid afterwards the *Ogled settee, sod
&Mitred the reedaties meniod ; bat meal poems were of
IllphlelS that the doubles *MIA is has hoes the ether way.
11,N1 lATI Duts os Ozooo.—Tho Dodgem of

0Z« bisasseed tbe private lamp sf Mr lab se;reee,l
inedadair priselpedy of vailltery weeks. re be prepared for
Ile see of the pad*. It it to lie opined is die la et
Jesism7