The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1856.

SOUTHAMPTON POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTION.

SHARE LISTS-THIS DAT.

On Monday night a large number of the members
and friends of the Polytechnic Institution, at Southampton,
assembled at the Royal Victoria Assembly-rooms, for the
purpose of coasidenhg, together with the Attorney-Genera.
Sir A Cockburn, Dr. Booth, and the Hon. and Rev. S. G.
Osborne, the benefits and adventsges derivable from me-
chanics instituter. Tea we. provided, during the disponi
of which al airs were Send by an efficient band.
Daring the evening some glees *ensues by amateurs.
Atter the tables had been cleared and removed, Mr. J.
R. drzenino, the pre s;dent of the institution, took the
chair, and having introduced the hosinem of the evening
and welcomed those who attended as visitors, called upon
the secretary, Mr. Pond, to give the meeting an on line of
the position and ►rorpreta of the instillation. It appeared
that it bad been 27 years in existence, during which time it
bad encountered many difficulties, notwithstanding 'bleb
the institution bed been the means of greatly &misting the
canoe of ion in Southampton. At present it was in debt,
the many cells which had been made upon their funds,
owing to the increase of members, hai to some extent been
the means of bringing about these difiLulties. The pre-
sent number of members is 380, sod the expenses, it
seems, art more then the proceeds can ecmfortabiy bear.
After commenting on these partieolan, Mr. Pond reed let-
ters iron Lord Stanley, Alfred Tennyson, George Craik•
shank, and Colonel J.dnes, espreseive of their regret in not
being able to be present that evening.
The meeting was first addressed by Dr. Booth, who was
followed by the Hon. and Rev. S. G. Osborne.
8 r A. COCKBIMN then roes and mid—l bun often had
the honour of addres,irg audiences in this room, bat I
could safely, and from my hoer, my that I addressed'
an audience with greater pleasure, because we all meet on
e .onon ground. The Southampton Polytechnic is one of
those institutions which any man may be proud to be on-
anted with. I tv p 3 the institution will not fail for want of
funds; it would to, MecreditaMe to all connected with it

Two °Timm
The railway ewe market today is again gene-
rally better. Most of the chief stocks have risen to
per cent. The appearance of the market continues
decidedly favourable. Lendoe and North-Western
stock is quoted 1021 to 103; Great Western. 88 to
1; Midland, 751 to #; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
881 to 89; South-Euterns, 22} to;; Caledonian;
so; to 3l; aid Great Northerns, 23/ to 24.
Namur and Liege 'hares are flatter, but moat other
foreign descriptions are well maintained at the late
rise. Buff ilo and Lake Huron, Great Western of
Canada, and Sambre and Meuse shares are better.

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end to the town at large if it failed for want of proper sop
port diffuse thou advantages of which it is capable. The
' chairman has adverted to the difficulties under which Usti-
unions of the hied laboured, owing to the state of the law
in reference to the holding of property, and pointed out
those difficulties to me wets ail the knowledge and sagacity
by wh.ch he is m eminently disticgoished ; and all I can
say is, that I will give my most anxious 'diction to the sub-
ject, and will do all 1 c.a to effect such modifications of the
law ea 1,111 remove the difficulties under which institutes*
of the kind Lboured. (dear, hear.) I say this not is
reference to Smattineapton slave, for if the litigation in
which the town is involved in a* faeces to the Hartley
Monist is Draught to a succeutul terminatioo, you will be
pl eon d beyom the reach of a mcimity for an alteration in
the low. 1 will, however, be note the lees active or ens*
geiic in getting the law amended, for I am interested tot
only for the welfare of this netiiution, but for the g, of of
all similar eccietise throughout the moots,. For what is
more important than the spread of enlightenment sad the
match of education I I cannot treat myself to dwell
on these topics, which have been so ably handled.
Bat I might say this, the, looking at the sub-
jest solely w.th reference to the interests of the
society and ol mankind, I cannot conceive anything more
Despotism th en the education of the groat melees of the
pe. plc. (Loud cheers) What was it that marked out
progress for thi last half century ? Nothing but the ad-
v+ooll of knowledge and the ipread all education. Where is
there a community whieb has not in the lot few years bees
'finned end shaken to its very centre by disturbances and
eullteleti.:ni of one rort and mother, and what is that which
his male Emitted what she la ? What le it that rallies us
mooed the throne end the cos titution under whets we live
end in which we move? Is it alone the spread of wealth ?
Is it alone the interest we have in the temporal prosperity
of the country ? No. There have been many who withia
the last few years have hal to go through the ordeal of
distress ma of poverty, of privation and of want. We have
bad fohueal viciuitudes and things to by the tempers and
the patience of men. What is it which has made the English
people the brave, the patient, and enduring people that they
are ? Not moiety those temporal things to which I have
been advert leg, tut the intelligence, the education, and the
spread of knowledge which has been going on amongst the
people. But 'decades has not, unfortuaately, resolved the
extended development it ought to have done.Uoheppily there
ere still large portions of the population to whine the bete-
tits of ethic ition have not been extended, but the necessity
of it is lc It oa all beads. Happily the pro judieee which at
one time prevailed amongst a large proportion of the wadi-
theories into t homed of education are becoming day by day
mere and more feeble, and classes cf all kinds end statesmen
of every opinion. are, with few *monitions, of the belief that
there is nothing more km ortsat for the NMI of the com-
munity than that the intelligence of the people should be
developed in every way possible. When it WM propored com-
move the stamp duty from newspaper, and thereby inners*
the political information of the soentry, an apprehension
"misted that bid lofermotion and vicious principles would
be circulated ; but I would tot believe is any such this'.
The more information wee spread the greater will be the
diffesion of Meow:edge, and the more we allow the unfet-
tered circulation of information, the latter will it be for the
peep's, and the better for all perdue of the community.
These principles are now actuating the feelings of the
whole body of Beigliolt Inatome'', and I ass sure they are
principles conducive to the welfare and imeects of the
community at large. I bail with the most cordial media
faction the movement which is now pies on fcr the spread
of education. It is true, that for she last two years the
social and progressive development in the people of Beg
land has been checked by the necessity of action and of
energy in another quarter. We have hod a great and a
mighty matest to swain. We have stemmed the torrent
of tyranny, and we have stool fur the Interests of Mediae-
tom and of mankind, and the emelt has been highly satis-
factory. The honour of Ragland km been eminently and
nobly sustained. The soldiers of the army of England
have never upheld the reputation of the country with more
intrepidity and bravery than daring the present war. But
there is ooe thing whisk equally strikes me, end that is,
that in no former war km the soldiery of England shown
suet eminently good endue% as in the one jest concluded;
and still more bay. I been struck with this tact, that in no
former war in which the flag of England has been
ueforled have the soldier. shown, by their conduct
and by their letters, each Settler latelligues end
narked understanding of that in whisk they were mused.
Teat this intelligeam of the classes width *apply our army
mae be serried out to its fullest extent by *dustless' in.
stitations of every di wription Steamboat the country Is my
mut ardent desire and hope. It is through the middle
awes of this country that education must spread amongst
those who are dependeat upon their daily labour. After
alluding to the great commends' advantages of Southamp-
ton m a motile poet, and the large and dell inueselag
trade of the town, the lesrud gentlemen his re-
marks by passing a high euloginm upon lbe public and
private worth of the presides% of the thalltheies.
Tie Hoe, Judge Seim! nut aibeeenl the meeting,
Meatless Is the sovietism@ of edelweiss. end the feed:tore
gives by iestitatioas of the Wad milit Ile mot asupport forteesediag mad peouffigffillite Ile
• vote of thanes to the Adieu sot &elm= emeladed
the remedial/ie. The Preach =dual air, "Pertain pow
la Syne, was played, with "OM save the Cason," In
hewer of the emegemeat drone.

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