The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-31 00:00:00

UNITED ASSOCIATION OP SCSI

The second sod concluding meeting of this asso•
elation took plan yesterday at the house of the Society of
Arts, and the business consmsnced with a lecture by the
Rev. G. R. Hitlfi, alisplain general, "On the 'saurus of
the Teacher in Promoting Civilisation." His object, he
add, wan to illustrate the importence of the teacher, and to
inquire how much he wan the cause, how much the effect,
of eivilleatiou. Speaking strictly he wan neither one nor the
ether, but still there were may particulars is
whisk be combined both. Henn in proportion es
Naiad gradually obtained the victory over matter.
the walling of the teacher came to b held
in pester respect. Education might be said to have begun
Is Paradise, where Bre received bar knowledge from Adam.
Adam brought her animal', and named them,—the Hitt
beginning of object tinehleg. Throughout tree whole of
saver lite motel culture went no further, until the greater
letercesuasnication of the species celled for the use of
symbols as representatives of ideas. The atone hatchet
typified war, sad thus began picten-writing ; from
picture-writing came hieroglyphics, sad the latter disap-
peared to the more generally appliceble alphabet. If they
took a superficial review of put ages, they might be led to
imegise that the people were then much more enlightened
than at present. The erection of the Pyramids, it was true.
required an extraordinary amount ef scientific knowledge,
bet then that knowledge wits toothed to a few. The
people employed is those stupendous works knew no more
of the principles leader which they acted than did the
bullocks that drew the bricks or the mules that tarried to
them their Mile provisions. The same, with some
qualification, might as said of easels Greece. Far be it
from him to deny the obligations we were under to the
Athenian who lived 400 years before Christ, with whom
one day well spent were worth purchsaieg with
• whole exiitesee. To sit beside Epicurus is
hie garden, to walk with Plato to the An-
dante, to hear Zeno propound his philosophy in
the Petah, wore indeed an intellectual pleasure that
could set be too highly valued. Or, to walk to
and fro with Aristotle in hie Lyceum, to listen ea
be poured forth tonente of wisdom more rapid than
the Them that was creeping by—who ciuld look back in
inseginatisa at such tones and times, or form to himself
visions of the Pangaea to its integrity, and decorated with
the sculptures of Piddles fresh from the master's hand,
and of the temples of the Dloenri glowing with the pro-
d"tions of Peartnetua's pencil, or transport him-
self to the south of the city, where alone he
Gould hear &plunks and Aschylue, without con-
chiding that there. if anywhere, the ecboolmeater had
fulfilled hie mission ? But no, the few became wise, while
the many ressaleed le mortal darkness. In the whole of
the Athens of Pericles there woo not a single bookshop. In
Rome some Mutsu woo made, se schools were estalniehed
to the time of the deeetaviri, and • state provision was mode
fee them under the emperors. They all remembered
Home% &scripting of his own school days. A dark period
followed the Vandal irruption, and it remained dark
until the revival of letter, which began is Ireland,
where it wee supposed Vandalism had not teethed. Then
Bode obtained his 'dimities, and it was in the celebrated
sebsel subsequently founded by him in York, that Alma,
the somber of Cherie:seise, was trained. About that time
were beaded the great seam of learning, Paris. B..logna.
Pavia, end Oxford; bat darkness again spread Over Europe.
end wee not disponi/ esti' the revival of literature ander
the Redid. In Reglemik the reformation, issued of pro-
moting the good work, tesded M retard it, as the greedy
isoutine, despite the remenstreasee of Cramer. Latimer
Ridley. and Amhua seised on the property of the church.
and devoted it to their o ern use. la Scotland the ease was
different, for there the followers of Knot retained
the property of the church, and applied it to the system of
parochial edatatios, which subsequently produced each bo-
bolink' offset& He Meted thus. good an simple would
be followed, and that emu general scheme of education
would be established for the benefit of the people.

TM ..,slag tittle, teraitheted with lit iatethetiag
Wagon. by Mr. W. WLeod, os the mode of tesebieg phy-
siology fa satteale; sad that of the evening was steady oath-
plod by a testate sad esporatieato with plalatophie apparatus,
romilosted by W. Sadimstrr.
TM Midi leamirtall with the sisal vote of thmkt t
the maids&

MOVIZOITS OF SPECIM.—LiVIRPOOL,
Netwithemndleg the ausellnees of the
the Ualted Illstra, pee the Arabia, ea I
Mg to 2811,040 Milers, the greater
deflate) was ow amowat of merchants i.
skit pot is lord the Canard screw ate.
Litt% whist' sailed yesterday afternoon
WINDING-DP OP MINING COMP
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list of 'Wiesbaden liable is shoat to
two guineas per share has jest bees
liabilities of thh mammy. which •
mines la the Masco of Belstoe. bat
lees. At petition has bees preseated
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required to discharp the debts of
Midst Company. The Birch Tor
Whip wesed up. An racial manager
I. lout tato and settle the affairs of t
Company, the liabilities of which are
are to be taken te dispose of the •

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