The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-01 00:00:00

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great satisholism. Boon after 7 o'elesk the
whole body of 'Ms Ben was filled to a bump's,
of whom the Oh ass *mod ao ismortherable
parties. At • day Wants. after the appeisted knout Ids prase
the Duke of Neermetie made hie epposessoe, sad sa saki
the chair wee greeted with long sad hearty hunts of o-
piates. On the platform also was VSeesst Gahm, M.P.,
the Hen. W. B. Daseomb., M.P., G. Z. H. Verses, Bv.,
M.P., G. H. V Illan,and the Han. Mrs. Visa..,
Bev. Jolla Twella, . Z. 8. M. Pease, Bev. Arena
Brooke, Bor. W. A. Plusdree, William Wilkinson, Bee.
(ibe Meyer of Bet/ add), Bay. H. 0. Ititehissos, Bev.
W. N. Branded, hi. Ihe ennui was neatly and tastefully
decorated with lags sod evergreen..
In him spinal introducing the business of the evening,
the Doke of HIWCOSTLI observed that thirty years ego
general opinion prevailed that societies of • kindred nate»
to the present ciao would lower the moral tone of the people,
would he detrimental to the general interests of the coun-
try, and would tend to sap the minds of the lsbouriag slums
from the principles of religion, and expose them to the de-
signs of me. who would lead them from the duty which
they owed to their king and their country. He did not par-
ticipate la thew old-fashioned 'otiose; he thought by being
well canted oat they would make men more peaceful and
entente& Eminent men had considered that they would
contribute to the spread of deism and irreligion, but he bad
thought they would have a very contrary effect, sad ulti-
mately rolls their moral character to • far higher evading.
But in many Lastest:es soschaniee' institutions had proved
(olives. He would point out some of the caves of their
failure. Ia the Int plea, their mashers were deficient to
elementary education. When childrea leave school at the
age of ten or eleven years a large gap intervenes, and when
they arrive at the age of adolescence they generally have
lost the advantage. of readies sad writing which they had
obtained in their early life, and this evil is a well-known
one, and cants now to an assort overwhelming extent.
Another an,. of the failure In the establishments of me-

chanies' imitations was the attempt to introduce into them
too much of the arts and sciences. He thought that Shake-
pare and other works of a similar kind might be studied,
but his advice was to study historical works; he
did not mesa the elaborate works of Hume and
Ihnollett, but the current events of every dry life whisk,
like the figures of the kaleidoscope, would be better un-
derstood, and tend more surely to the advent:4e of the
people, who would most Barely profit thereby. That Mali-
"aka, to be properly managed, must be lurked by the
working mes themselves; it might holmium red partially
supported by** gentry of the town sad neighbourhood,
but the working man was his own best judge fa a instal
way, and did not like to be kept in leading strings. Work-
ing men did not like to be trammelled by the rigid rules of
coereies, but liked to set and think for chummiest. Me
therefore, with the constitution of that amortiatfoo,
which allowed one half of Its committee to be constituted of
walking men, and ft would be their own fault if Its ob-
jects were not properly and suceeesfully carried out.
Great etrees bad been laid on the giving of Mauna, whisk
were all well enough in their way, but this to a certain ex-
tent woe turning the matter into an abuse ; it was like a
plough passing over the ground before the seed was
sown, and he thought the uneducated could not profit
so mush from lectures as from books. Of lee-
hirers, however, there were two clause, one that of the
itinerant lecturers, of whom he could speak with little
respect, as they were going up and down the coreia
merely to serve their own ends by what is
creaming" their audiences with what was neither
good in itself nor could be profitable to those who might
hear them. Of the sound clue, however, he should
speak with the very greatest -respect, and that was of those
gentlemen who cruse forward to give lectures to
these societies at the earnest request of their respective
members, not es finished masterpieces of science, but as a
partial system of elementary instruction.
i Daring the pre-
sent year he had been requested to give lectures n various
plum, bat had been compelled to refuge all each invitations
on the puede he had previously stated, and he must come
to what he mat consider the inevitable conclusion that
after all books are the most efficient instructor, and the best
adopted for the promotios of useful knowledge in saaociationa
like the one he was now addressing, and of all others of a
kindred natare. We were now living in an age of cheep
books and of good books, and it was now in the power of
any panels on the payment of a few pence a year to secure
to himself the advantages which such cheap and good
literature afforded. In towns like Buford, however,
the same facilities were not afforded in this re-
sport as in such place. as Manchester, where theist
Motorise extuded to several thousands of volumes •
still he was happy to hear that the Working Men's Amu:
dation at Raiford had a lending library, which he hoped
wield soon *steed itself, so that its various members might
limes opportunity of not only reading for and to thesis Ilya
hat of eztendlog thesis's* privilege to the members of them
families. His grass concluded by remarking that he had
thought it necessary to dilate at some length on the benefits
to be derived frees reading useful works, which could not
fail to make men good men, good subjects, and good
Christians; It to darn*, and to Christianise all those
armed the domestic hearth, and would not tend to sap best
to suntrap reUgios, without which all oar other kluge-
ledge was nothing but dross. Time was when men wove
eciltieg theft anagetere ; but the time had arrived when
every man weald wash himself, and be hoped the members
of the aresiades he wee then addressing would prosecute
the pea week they bad so worthily begun, and thereby
slake their *het at the true fountain of knowledge. (Loud
and cootineed sheering.)
Mr. ions Warn, the secretary, was then called upon to
reed the newt of the amodation.
The noble Quantum ailed upon Lord Galway to mote
the adoptive et the meet.
Lord em.wax, who on pretesting himself was goateed
with loud cheers, said that he should not trouble them with
many observations on the present occasion, especially alter
the lengthiaed and very interesting speech of the noble
duke, and all he had to do was to iodide them to adopt the
report. The emaciation, he found, bad not made those rapid
strides which it might have been expected to have done, but
he hoped It would do so, and progress as fast as Its most
sanguine promoters could wish it to do. Perhaps its non-
scansion might be owing to the smallness of the population
of Betford, for this had something to do with it. In his
own village he had endeavoured to form a library and
reading room, sad for this panics, be bad sent them the
noses and other newspapers, and had tarnished them with
a variety of "salsa books, but be bad failed of his object
because It was alleged that with the reading they had
mothiog to drink. He wee Fled to find, however, that
the Bettor& Working Men s ABlOSiatied had rejected
drink of that kind, and had offered to its members morn
substantial beverage. It (said his lordship) you tow-
heads and young men would encourage your wives and
sweethearts to partake with you of useful knowledge, them I
indeed, these societies would do all that could be expected
of them in Demeaning and ameliorating the social madltiem
of society. He (Lord Galway) hal sic hitherto demo mash
kw this aseeciatioa, bat he would endeavour to do mom;
and If they would allow him to make a small donation of
books, he would in a short time take an opportunity of
dotal/ so. (Applause.) He did not altogether agree with
the noble duke as to lectures. He hod read books until
he was almost stupefied, mid therefore be wee fond of
i lectures, because they brought home to the mind those
Impressions which the reading of bmks feequently failed
to impart. A child, for instance, would learn a langeage
—say a foreign language—from a person continuslly
speaking to it a such luggage, which books would fail
to impart. With regard to books you are frequently crammed,
bat for my own part Ido not like to be crammed. As your
representative in parliament, I take a great ir terser in the
welfare of the working dames of Retford, sod generally
throughout the country, and will do all in my power to
promote the social, moral, and religious condition of the
country at large. (Cheers.)
The Rev. BH. Vernon, the lion. W. E. Duccombe,
Will am Wilkinson, En., O. E. 11. Verson, Esq., M.P.,
the Rev. H. C. Mitchinson, Mr. Thome. Cottaro, the Rev.
W. A. Plum fire., the Rev. Arthur Brook, and Mr Kerby
subuquenily addressed the mi etiog. In the intervals of
speaking, some lively songs and glees wire and about
ten o'clock the meeting broke up, having proved a source of
pleasure to those present.—Nottio,gions JAit nal.

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