The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-07 00:00:00

LOAD STANLEY ON PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
♦ " " company have just built in Liver-
peel, sow the Philharmonic-I=U, • large gymnasium, one
of the finest, if sot the finest, in Europx trader the diner--
goo of Mr. Molloy, the fancies gruanareb, the building
has been fitted up with mil the most resent iroptoveseents
sad noveltice, sad already the ember of rubeeribers ex-
eseds 500, with a constant daily ameesion of fresh Bus-
bus. The formal *pease was fixed for the 30th October,
andel Ilse presidency of Ulla Stanley, but owing to the .
%otiosity festivities it was postponed until last wreak& I
Lord grasLse, alter some istroduotory runteles laving
reference to the institution itself, aid—One word as to the
object, or rather the objects, which the promoters have
in view. khay people look an • gyinsaahus, • piss* of
teaching, that is, for athletics exercises, as though it
were v. yea= Ala, or • she. slab, or an Alpha
stab, • thing whkh is a hobby to • few imdividials, sod .•
whisk other join for unuernent, ee beau* it is • fithies;•• -
orbeceum it helps to pass the time. tieir If it were ode. -
that, though 'I should my nothing against it, sad though I
should think that the promoters bed made • inn, Ignodbk
investment of their spare cash aed their spare time, I
amid hardly have 000sldered that it required or deserved
the formality of • onemenial opening. and assoredly I
should sot have due that which is suer to nee perfeelly
=rl ahead net have stood up to make awn& on
est. Bei I bold that it is far mess than
• mere place of amenneisst. -We In Europe, sad men
erapeoiadly mein 2010.41.8.1.11.61140.4. a IMP gibiNihei-• -
soda existence. Alreadrmore than half the population of
England resides in towns. With peace maintained, aad •
with an increase, or evet• outtimanon,of our =meet rate
of prosperity, tbs• proportios will, in a few years, be far
greeter. But I need nut appeal to 'aural statistics. We
who have lived to middle age in this neighbourhood—we
who have seen the groat sit —extending from the sew
docks of Gusto* ca the one side to the aandhilla of Bootle
on the other, who have watched the gradual disappearance
of the green fields, and the spread, in their stead, of stem=
and lases, and who have daily before oar eyes the long lines
of villas which spays up at every adjoining railway statics—
at Broad Green, at Hoyton, and at Roby—should requite
no proof from books or parliamentary returns to tell us
how rapid and how continuous is the increase of the
put of the population engaged is some one of the timer
branches of commerce, and dation', for the meet part, to
sedentary pureed= is wooded loyalties. Whet is happen-
ing here is, though not quite to an equal extent, happenisg
also in a great part of England. But we know, also, ear-
thing elm ; we know that even under the greatly im-
proved sanitary
.000ditinia of the hat few yeare—and let
me say, In puttee, that it is nothing lees than a shunto
us that, sotwithrtandingmll that bas been effected, and it is •
groat deal, Liverpool should stand nearly highest co the
aeath-rate of England—even after all that has been dolm—
an that drainage, and water supply, and perks can do, urban
life is never so healthy as that paned ia the pure air
and active pursuits of the count y. What are the aria of
that diffusing' ? lain not now spealdng of the labouring
and artisan art, with whom I admit at once that this in-
stantion has little to do. Bat if I mune to the clue above
them—to the class of clerks, of young men engaged in
shops, of all whose days are pawed sitting on stools in
ahem often elan sad crowded, sad I might take in a higher
claw still—l say at once that one great came of feeble
constitution and depressed energies is the arena) of bodily
or muscular exertion, combined with the pressure of
what is is *coos degree metal occupation, though
often mental occupation of • very ineehaeleal kind.
Of course. habit will de mule. Of mum, also, individual
000stitotioos rot But every medical run and every es*
who has studied sanitary matters, kaowe that life pried
within four walls during the week, with only the variety of
• walk on Saturdays sad Sundays, will very seldom be •
healthy life is the true sense. For, by " healthy "we
mar, or ought to mein, not the mere 4OSOPI of healthy
sot the mere capacity to go through aa ordinary day's work.
but that state in which existents Noelf is felt to be an
enjoyment ; in which all simple and =aura *seam are
appreciated, and the little, every-day anxieties of our heti-
roe sit lightly upon us. If there are, se is undoubtedly
the ern claims amoeg us who run all to morale,sad with
whom brain never gets • chance of bring developed-
1111Mille, ploughmen, sad the like—so there are alums who
seem to have no further idea of using their mueslis then
is implied in walking to their plus of businnes (and veer
often they take as ;:oensibas to save the time), sad whose
utmost bodily exertion is driving • pen for hours together,
aid handling their kale and fork al dieter. Now, I may, end
Ile without °Seem. that in the latter ekes the human
tin is to my Wad hardly more astidestory than
ha former. Take your navvy, sad you ham a fine
sample of animal developmeen but I or afraid
you have very little else. Take your clerk, abut up from
year's end to year's end ; you have a quick, active brain,
the nervous system over excitable, but the animal frame
feeble and badly developed. I remelt him—l am sorry
for him. The fault is sot his • but that of the life he leads.
But I say of him that he is ;sot, physically speaking, the
stuff out of which we wish the middlenbasses of Ifogland
to be made. If it were bh—which I fear it hardly
la—to tram the history of families is detail, we ahead be
startled to find how sway of theeseenegodi is purely seden-
tary pursuits die out ; and how the gape bare to be
filled up, year alter year, from the hardier rural
population. There are other evils of • purely
sedentary lan to which is this ocespony I eau scarcely
advert. Or is that physical feebleness leads to &premien.
That depression may be relieved by the easy and always
sonnothis resource d drink ; sad thee, sooner or later, we
know the end. Is other respects, too. neediced main mad
all who have studied health (grottoes, will understand the
very vague phrases I have and. It is net may to overrate
the doges, to which habits of morality among roes ander
middle age are connected with healthy physical mealtime.
and. above all, with sufficient bodily exercise. Well, then,
I think we shall ogres as to this peopositios—that, in
Liverpool, as in all great towns, them exists • elms exceed-
%sly numerous and yearly increasing forwhombe ties omen
of their business so opportunity of bodily training or exercise
is provided. Ora they make such opportunities for them-
selves! Of course, in • certain sense, they ern. There is
no physical impmeibility in it. But oar climate is damp
sad dull ; our streets are sot atteactive; sad perhaps one of
the least entertaining of human oceepaterne is that which I.
called " tads' a constitutional " oe the high rood. Them is
also the expenditure of time. As optablialonest Wm this
•es wawa* is • emoestrated form, sad its rooms will
probably be most frequnted—in the emir
that is, at a time of day when during several months
yew out-door nature, especially in the town, Is not
/ agreeable. So mach I have to MT qt the ems of this
Gilding. Only or word more. Ido set fear that support
will be wasted. Thom who have watched the propene of
the movement tell me that smug the you( men
who take to them exercises, many do so with
a kind of enthusiasm which is quite remarkable
to witness. Still, I fled so fault with that. We all like
to ea men take up a thing in earner, whether Is be work
or play. Bat to those who are keenest about it I would
offer one word of warning. Recollect that it is a thing
that may be easily over done. Dos% ride • hobby too
hard. The object—the satioaal object of a =ante' of this
kind, is not to make athletes out of men who have not to
live by their noweles, but to develop monad, and
healthy, and manly ocentitntiona. His lordship oentleded
by expressing an =meat wish for the sneers of the institu-
tion.

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THE LONDON FARMERS' CLUB. —List evening
the first meeting of this influential slab duce its location
at the Salisbury Hotel wee held is the great WPM of that
building. The chair was taken by Mr. Robert Leeds, the
eminent Norfolk farmer, end the subject for dlecuesion—
the cattle plague—was introduced by Mr. Charles Howard.
of Biddenham, Bedford. He first noticed the history and
nature of the disease, and its recent appearance In this
country. Ha then proceeded to treat of the curative, reme-
dial, sod preireetive memo. He spoke of what the farmers
themeelves could do aid had does to arrest and extirpate the
disease, and concluded by giving his views at what should
be done by government in this and any future outbreak of
the malady. His °Orden was that all markets and fairs
should be impeded for a metals time, and that wherever
the dames appeared la any pariah or township all ingress
and egress should be stopped is that parish or townyhip,
aid probably the inerrant:idle( planes. He she edeised '
that as inventory he taken of all mamas is billeted
parishes by goveroment inspectors, who should be re-
naked to make an inspection weekly ; and that the polite
should be charged with the duty of mein that the rega- •
Intsons es to traffic are carried out. He aseeklared the
the adoption of more vigorous measures would be fraught
with the (thanes incouvenieoce to tho farmer and the
public, end would Marred paralyse the whole cattle trade
of the country. He =detained, and adduced mote, that
the plague was a coutegioue diseaae aed an imported one ;
but et the mine time deprecated any attempt to Interfere
with the importation of foreign cattle, remarking that no
thicking mao in these days would with to obstruct the
free supply of the people's food. He, however, eonteoded
that the 'overcommit were bested to use all precautimary
erasures to protect the English farmer from danger by •
infection of foreign cattle. Professor Simonds followed Mr.
Howard, and spoke at great length, agreeing generally
with the Mews enatie'sted by the introducer of the subject.
An animated diectusim followed, sad theme mes of the
meeting was terminated by the custemary t thanks.
Dv BARRY'S DYGICIOUR PSALM Hlsrostro

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