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London, England, 1858-10-18 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY; OCT. IS.
SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
4 SPECIAL EDITION of the “ EXPRESS,"
sestaining eta malts of the day's Races, is pub-
lished me, evening daring the Sporting Season, at
six o'clock.
Tim business of the mooed eartnal Imam of the
National Association for the Promotion of Social
Science was concluded as Saturday. We cannot
look beck on the past week without the strongest
feelings of thankfulness and hope. To say that this
serial has been successful would, we believe, im-
perfectly express the convictions of those who are
best qualified to judge of the fact. The vitality and
resources developed by the Association at Liverpool
have been each as few of its friends were prepared
for. The meetings and sections have been crowded,
not with passive audiences, but by people who had
evidently come to take part in earnest work. The
number of papers read, the wide range of the sub-
jeets, and the knowledge and power with which they
were treated, proved remarkably how intently the
improvement of the condition of the people is now
studied by minds of the beet order. No one can
have followed the proceedings of the week without
recognising an elevation of tone, an earnestness of
purpose, and a singleness of aim, which distinguish
the meetings from any similar gatherings hitherto
known in this country. It may be, as a weekly
contemporary reminds us, that social theory bee
been comparatively neglected at Liverpool; but we
• I I are not sure that many people will regret that. The
public at large, which, by the aid of the press, has
bees in a meaner present et the various meetings,
has consented to read its half-dozen columns a day of
talk about social reforms, because it knew that the
men who were talking on the subject last week would
be working for it dosing the other weeks of the year.
Now that the session is broken up, the writers and
readers of paper", dispersed over the land, will resume
their accustomed work, opening does alleys to light
and air, planting schools among ignorant popula-
tions, reclaiming the erring and miserable, and striving
to theme* the conveniences and raise the level of the
mass of their fellow countrymen. But the work
which the Association exists to advance is not coo-
fined to its members. It will probably do most
good by mating, nourishing, and stimulating a
sound practical public opinion on social topics. Every
patch of dirt, every malarious pool, may be said to
steed for some error, some prejudice, which needs to
be overcome ; and the missionaries of social reform,
who, in vestries, board", committees, or elsewhere,
contend against ignorance, apathy, and indifference,
will derive both weapons and strength from the coun-
sel and sympathy to be found in the Association.
The outlay of pains and efforts upon the Liverpool
meeting would havebeen amply rewarded if they had
only called forth that remarkable address in which
the Earl of SnArrassuav exhibited the principle",
means, and limitations of philanthropic effort. We
should be ready to place that luminous, comprehen-
sive, sad fervent speech—every sentence of which is
• text—in the hands of any intelligent foreigner
desiring to understand oar institutions and public
life, and bid him see in the confidence with which
the noble speaker sets to work to effect a great and
i difficult social reform by the unaided inflame, et
opinion, an illustration of that power which makes
ma the vigorous, progressive, and helpful nation that
ga we are. Lord SHAFTRIBITIT desires to raise and
secure the sanatory state of every household in
the kingdom. But he says—lf we were
looking to any central authority to direct
• the efforts of the whole kingdom in this matter,
we should be destroying the objects we had in view.
Unless the people take it up as their own especial
cam our labour will be in vain. Our object is to
excite interest, to stimulate inquiry, and collect all
the energy we can in separate localities, till the
head of every family is convinced that our prima-
pies are essential to domestic comfort and domestic
purity, to has physical condition and his lama
strength. We are associated to beget a general
interest, to bring out dormant talent, and excite
latent energy. "It is not by law, it is not by the
" desultory attempts of a few benevolent people, that
" these remits are to be attained. They are to be
" attained only by the constant and vigorous exec-
" cies of a wise, benevolent, and instructed public
" opinion." These are thoroughly English senti-
ments.
Nor is this spreading of right principles a some-
thing which may be taken up and laid down as if
It were a pastime. Look at the lot of those
err to yon, nye Lord SHLPTISeCnT. Ask your
self how much of the squalor sad wretchedness
whkh is at your door you might have removed.
" You have the knowledge ; you have the means.
" They have not the knowledge they have sot the
" mesas; and by everything holy, everything true,
" yogi are your brother's keeper." Mighty words
are these. The history of Christendom for centuries
has been to a great extent the history of mistaken
I I endeavoore to realise this truth. Men have felt in
all ages that in some way or another they had to
keep their weaker fellows. The most despicable
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tyrannies. both spiritual and temporal, of the pre-
sent day, are the degenerate and perverted remains
of agencies which onginally grew out of a felt ne-
cessity of falfilling that duty. Parents have been
—ere at the present day—robbed of their children
in the name of religion by people who owe all
their power to the credulous belief that they are
keeping from harm of acme kind those to whom