The Press.
London, England, 1858-10-16 00:00:00

TILE QUEEN'S COLLEGE.

Lord BROUGHAM presided on Wednesday evening
at the anniversary meeting of the Queen's College, to
which, as the proceedings formed part of the pro-
gramme of the National Association, a great number
of members and associates were attracted.
Sir JOHN BAKINGTON, in proposing a resolution
urging the extension of general education not only
in colleges for the middle and upper classes, but
also in colleges and schools for the instruction of the
working man, made a most able speech. The right
honourable gentleman remarked that the fact
could not be disguised that a large portion of
the population was in a state of ignorance which
was inconsistent with their welfare, and op•
posed to the welfare of the nation, to promote
which it was necessary that every effort should be
employed to cultivate the intellects of our country-
men. He cordially concurred in the sentiment
which he had the honour to submit to the meeting,
and he congratulated his noble friend Lord Brougham
upon now presiding over the meeting of an institu-
tion, the foundation-stone of which his lordship laid
three and twenty years ago, and which had been suc-
cessful in promoting the education of the working
classes. He also congratulated the town of Liver-
pool upon its reformatory for juvenile offenders, and
upon its free library, the munificent gift of Mr. W.
Brown. Before closing his remarks lie ventured to
draw attention to the fact, that the building iu which
they were then assembled was originally intended
for a mechanics' institution, but it was not so now,
and be wished to throw out a caution against neglect
of that means of education in their anxiety to estab-
lish colleges.

THE DUKE OF RUTLAND AND LORD J.
MANNERS IN LEICESTERSHIRE.
THE annual meeting of the Waltham Agricultural
Association, which was numerously attended by the
gentry and others interested in the agriculture of the
district, was succeeded by a dinner, under the
presidency of his Grace the Duke of Rutland. Lord
J. Manners, M.P., Chief Commissioner of Works,
was also present.
The noble duke, in proposing " The Army and
Navy," said :
There never was a time when both services stood
higher in the estimation of this country, both for their
fortitude and bravery when before the enemy two years
ago in Russia and now in India. I believe that their
bravery and their fortitude have never been surpassed—
not only their fortitude in the field, but, what is still more
trying to the British soldier, their fortitude under the
influences of a bad climate and disease. I am glad to
see that a feeling is now abroad in favour of keeping up
our establishments. With the rest of the world, 1 was
at Cherbourg this year, and I saw those magnificent forts
bristling with guilt:, and the magnificent fleet that came
from Toulon on that occasion. It was in.leed a magnifi-
cent spectacle. lam not, however, one of those who are
called alarmists. At the same time that I wish to see
our establishments kept upon a proper and a secure footing,
my belief is that the Emperor of the French is perfectly
sincere end perfectly honest when he says that he wishes
to cultivate the alliance of this country. I believe it
because, though I believe him to be ambitions. I think
his ambition is of a higher nature than that of wishing to
invade a neighbouring country. My belief is that he is
ambitious of raising France still higher than she is at
present in the scale of nations: that he will do an by
encouraging her industry—her industry in her agricab
ture, her industry in her commerce and her manufactures,
and not by lying waste, if he were even able, the fields of
his neighbours, for that must and would react against the
prosperity of his own country. (" Hear, bear," and
' cheers