The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-23 00:00:00

(Stamped ld. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

their numbers, so with the lighter parts of literature and the
more ephemeral productioma. If you are to feed the river from
to generation you must have • mutant province
LetTrVOIST works. I apprehend that It is • 'pedal pur-
pose of this fund to meet the cases of necessity which arias
among those persona whose vocation it bee been to apply
themselves less to the description of work that ie called for
by the immediate taste of the public, and to apply themselves
in a greater degree to the more solid, though perhaps to the
Ira attractive, productions. To takes familiar illustration—l
have before me the last account of the distribution of the
fonds of this institution. I see a clamitication of authors
relieved according to the different deediptiose that are given
of them. The two largest loins awarded in any class during
the year 1858, are 35W. and 3165 respectively; and both thaw
sums are given to authon of works of a description which are
not always immediately poplin., that Is, to science and art.
That le one of the purposes which le served by the establish-
ment °french a fund. And if there be a danger with respect to
the solid parts of literature at all Um= I fear there is no
doubt that that drape iv aggravated by the circumstances of
the present day. We live in times when there is a wonderful
multiplication of the different brandies a knowle, sad
in that there is the greatest contrast between the °raffled= of
the educated MR of the peen= day sad the educated
men of former tram. If we go back foe a few oz.=
or even for a few generations, the well
man of those dila was a man fa pommel= of
all the knowledge of his time. Toe know per-
fectly well that that has now become entirely hope-
less. The expeaden of the sea of lamination has been
each that ft le Impossible to traverse It, and while the number
of men that can now be celled well educated in the high
sense of poseerang a general command end view of know-
ledge leearessely thaita, we her to der that se time goes

on we shall NO soma CW 4;4Whi, more end moo.
of the division of labour, more and mom necessarily of what
Is meat more to be apprehended, viz., s slight and sum-
dotal biftematics made up by expelant' end temporary
resources, bat lees of that comprehensive manias—less of
that commanding view which rests time the peesseloa of
'event and rammed so well as of solid looomplf.Smeat, and
which woe at the Weis of the colonesi stinoture of the
fame of deepest men of former pus. (Hier, hear.) The
solicitations of the world and of active life are constantly
growing upon us. There are certain mum in operation,
with continually incressiog power, that tend to draw us in a
direction adverse to that concentration of thought which is
requisite for all sound productions in the mimed literature.
Is the simple but emphatic words a Wordsworth—
" The world is too much with us, late and soon;

betting and spending g wets oar powere.
Little we see in nature that is oars,
We've given our hearts away—a sordid boon."
Now whatever tends, as this institution teeth, to maintain
the vital warmth of the heart involves a principle of sound-
ness, and constitutes a witness en behalf of the devoted stu-
dent and the laborious thinker as contorted with the mere
followers of those pursuits which happen to be oonnectedwith
an immediate popularity. (Hoer, haul Now lam happy
to think that as this institution professes to extend your
bounty to other countriee so it In itself a charac-
ter that I. peculiarly English. tis a remarkable trait of
Beelleh character and life, that so much is done in this
country by maenad free sad voluntary associations ; and in
addition to its other merits, and while it possesses • character
which asexiates ',with other countries, it may be also said
of the Literary Feed that it is eminently national. (Hear,
hear.) It la among us perhaps more than any other country
that the peculiar dangers of the age prevail. It is here that
material development rune its most rapid race. It is the im-
mense spirit of enterprise—it is the unbounded development
of trade and commerce—it is the practical, energy of the Eng-
lishman, which, while it secures to him and to his country a
great predominance in the affairs of mankind, continually
tends to lead him away from those more tranquil pursuits
which you reek to relieve or to reward. (Hear.) Bat let
me say on behalf of my country are word, at least.
with reluctance,. because I owe the remark to a distinguished
foreigner. He IS the only historian, I may say, of our uni-
versities—the only person who has entered deeply into the
remarkable records of their growth, big, and experience,
through the many long ages that they have dispersed rich
streams of knowledge and civilisation over the land—l mean
M. Huber. He is comparing the study sad acquirements
of England with those of his own country, Cimmaay. Ho
takes up the cudgels, to use a familiar phrase, for us, against
ourselves. He says, "You Englishmen depredate yourselves
became the catalogue of your authors is mon acenty than owe.
There cannot he a greater mistake. Its Germany almost
every educated man is an author ; It Reese& you have a
large class of educated men, and a very corddereW. elms of
men who may fairly be termed men of letters, who either
have never put pen to paper, or at any rats have never put
ppiaper to press." That is true, and I think it is a just and
laudahb distinction which England may claim that in all
the walks and professions of life—whether you take her
statesmen, her divines, her physicians, her lawyers—
or what class you will—you will and always a
large number of men who are enjoying the benefits
of true literary cutters ;who are keeping up the standard of
thought and language ; who are diffusing around them the
influenza of a pure taste ; who aro reaping the advantages of
the mental discipline that follows from true and solid train-
ingcanaille% a literary dame far mere extended
train-
than the mare dam of authors. Ti.. see I mike of this is,
that if it be so, then this is a wintry in which such an insti-
tution as the Literary Fund ought to be well, handsomely,
and liberally supported. (Hear, hear.) Hers you have an
abounded accumulation of Wealth ; here you have large
means of education imperfectly used—imperfectly developed,
but still I trust in course of Lelowatds more
effective use and more complete •
• t. Then you
have those old foundations which thew m of former timea
set apart with a view to the prosecution of teaming, still
subsisting and still doing good where they are effective—Lill
capable of improvement where they are lesseffective than they
should be. Here you have the old traditions of educaeott,
sad the civilisation with which it is °corrected. I rejoice to
titlark it fa In this country that for the first time the
happy idea has been cateeived of founding an insti-
tution for the purpose of administering to the pa-
radise needs sad claims of areh.rre, and I feel •
profound conviction that in this country there is no insur-
mountable difficulty In finding the fonds of that biotite-
tion with ao liberal • hand that they shall become thoroughly
adequate to meet the great purposes which we have in view.
It requires but little to commend to your hearts or to your
minds the cause of this institution—perhaps without words
you would have received the toast with as touch warmth as
you will receive it now. The words that I have used are no
MOM than • feeble trollop:ay to the greatness and the eleva-
tion of the objects and porpows contemplated by the Witte-
lies ; and I close by commending once more to your good
wisher the active and zealous support of the Royal Literary
Fund. (Cheer,.)
Mr. It. BELL read a report showing that, from 1790 to the
present period, 61,0001. hod been dispensed in relief to neces-
sitous authors ; the 26,7751. of this sum had beau distri-
buted during the last ton years, and in the lost year 1,8401.
had been granted, being • much larger sum than in any pre-
vious year.
The total subscriptions collected during the evening wire
1,6004

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, JUNE 22.—APPOINTMENT5. -- Cep.
tains T. Cochran (1857), to the Amphioe, 36, screw steam
frigate, at Bheernere, controbeioned ; R. Maguire (1855), to
the Impbriense, 51, screw steam frigate, at Portamoutb,
oomunimaioned; end J. I. B. E. Free (1864), to the Orion,
91, screw steam ship, at Queenstown, vice Houston, in-
ealidtd.
Commander 11. I). Mickley (1847), to the Gladiator. 6,
peddle.wheel steam frigate, at Devolved, commissioned.
Masters : J. 8. Smith (1861), to the In:Odense ; and E.
Rowe
Raven port. (1850), to the Donegal, 101, screw steam ship, at
Burgeon A. Woodcock (1844), to the TrabJgar, 120, at
inteereem.

Papuans J. T. Wells (1863), to the Atsphion; R. A.
Cumming (1851), to the Imperious, ; J. Tweedie (1850 h to
the Mars, 80, screw steamship, at Sheerness; C. C. let
(1844), to be additional to the hauls, 60, on e
sinks st Milford Haven; sad W.H. Norman (1844),arta
Milford o
the Doasp
Amdatant•Parnasters J. B. Rawlings (1860, to the Mars;
J. R. C. Sullivan, to the Donal; C. H. Cooly, to the
Clerks B. C. Taylor, to the Mar; sad D. Bogue, to the
Donenal
Anteat•Clark R. J. B. Smart, to the Ajax, 60, strew
steam/hip, ca coastguard service, at Kingstown.

WOOLWICH, Ices 22.
The Industry, iron steam-vessel, Muter Com-
mandos. Hodges, is ordered to proceed down the viva to-
morrow, to the measured mile, under charge of an officer
free the &Mary department, for the purpose of tasting the
condition of her anthem and machinery, and on her ',turn to
proceed to Deptford (should her trial trip prove setiefactory).
and !wave a cargo of stores tut Rio de Jaasiroand Aecension,
ROYAL Yuma: ACLDIXT.-1.1 addition to the prises
awarded at the examination yesterday for merit in the various
departments of study, a prize Les been given to Gentleman
Cadet C. Brown for beteg the best ride shot. In accordance
with mount orders from the war department, the most amen-
dos additions will shortly be carried out at the Institution,
la order to accommodate an towered number of cadets,

CHATHAMng, Jinn 22.
An Admiralty order was received this mewliby Colonel
H. W. Parke, commandant of the Royal Marines, directing
Captain J. Taylor and a detachment of slaty-five non-com-
missioned officers and men to proceed to-morrow morning to
Plymouth, there to embark on board the Donegal, 101,
screw steamer, fitting for the Channel squadron.
This morning a detachment of RN 100th (Prince of
Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment, to the number of 00
non-commissioned officers and- men, under the command of
Cept. J. Clery and Lint. C. H. Carriers, left the Hut bar-
nob', sad proceeded to Deptford, where they are to embark
in charge of a large party of convict!, who are about to be
forwarded to Gibraltar, to be employed an the public works.
This afternoon a party of sick and wounded troops arrived
at Port Pitt Hospital front India, having disembarked at
Gravesend from the Haat India troopship Barham, which
sailed from Madras oaths 22nd of February. The troop., to
the number of 39 min of all ranks, with 28 women and chil-
elms, belonged to the Royal Artillery and 74th Highlanders.
During the purge, which occupied 120 days, one birth and
one death occurred on board. 'The invalids were, on their
snivel at Fort Pitt, medically inspected, when nine were
admitted into hospital and the remainder sent to the invalid
depot. Most of them Wife wounded or disabled in the con-
dices with the mutineers. A private of the Rifts Brigade
was brought home a prisoner, hiving been tried by general
court-martiol and sentenced to 14 yeas' penal servitude, foe
striking an officer.

PORTSMOUTH, JVNE 22.
The Imperieuse, 61, screw frigate, was commie.
elected this morning for Csptaia John I. B. E. Erne,
(1864,) and is to have a complement of 600 men.
The Gorgon, 6, paddle wheel steam sloop, Commander
Bedford C. T. Pnu, arrived at Spithead this mora-
lag bun the ',Award.

THE LOU OP H.Y.B. HERON.

A court-martial, comprieing Captain G. T. Gordon,
H.M.S. Asia, president; Captains Sir W. Host*, Bart., R.
Berrie, A. Parquahar, R. S. Hewlett, C. 8., T. Hope, T.
Wilson, W. Edmonetone, J. Fare, and R. B. Crawford,
sareobted yesterday on boud H.M.S. Victory, lag-ship,
Portsmouth, to try Mr. Mindy', gunner, the only surviving
end the mayivlng aew of her Majesty's lota brig
' Heron, for tholes. of that vessel.
The " finding" .at le the following
_effect —The court
wee of opinionthat the loss of H. M. brig Heron wan
caused by foundering at an, la s heavy squall, owing to the
*Sleet in charge of the deck not taking sufficient precaution
by shortening seil,although the squall gave sufficient warning
of its approach. The court wan further of opinion that no
blame was attributable to Mr. Mindry, and adjudged him to
be Sally s..qoitted.

WORCESTERSIIIRE MILITIA.—ThiS regiment as-
sembled for their annual twenty-one days' training at the
depot, in the Tything. Worcester, on Monday and Tuesday.
About 760 men answered to the roll. call on the Heat day,
which is considered to be by far the beat muster that has
taken place in that city since the embodiment of the corps.
On Tuesday the number wes considerably augmented, and
by the next few days it is expected there will be few short of
the complement of 1,000 man. The regiment is drilled in a
field near the depot. and so far shows signs of improvement.
ROYAL SOUTH MIDDLESEX MlLlTlA.—Lieutenant-
Colonel &liven has lamed a notice requiring the men be-
longing to this regiment teamemble at Hounslow, on Friday,
the 16th of July, far the metal 21 days' training and
exercise.