The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 4.

TO OUR RZADKRiL

SPOI:TINU DiTELLIGENCIL

A !ate edition of the Exprese is published every
eveuistg during the r.icing season, containing the
results of the ilas'A rams.

Tue Associatiee which has grown up under the
name of the 3letmpolitan Evening Claws, some-
times disignisated from their former seat at Crosby
Hall, is to bo new-modelled and placed on •
broader basis fitted for permanence. 3lustof our
readers will have learned the reasons for the
change in the speeches of the Rev. CHARLES MAC.
KENZIE, the founder of the classes, and of the
Bishop of Lemnos at the Mansion House. The
claws have become too useful to be given up, and
too expensive to carry on upon the old system. It
is found, at the end of twelve years' experience, that
they can pay working expenses but cannot bear a
heavy rent. An effort is, therefore, now made to
raise a sum sufficient to buy • borne for them, and so
set them rent-free. There seems no reason whatever
to doubt of the complete success of the Association
under these conditions. The classes are valued, as the
number of student., they attract proves. Since
1848 about 6,000 pupils have received instruction
in the classical and principal modern languages,
Hebrew, elementary mathematics, English gram-
mar and literature, chemistry, book-keeping, and
the Bible. In the year 1800 the pupils paid
544?. to the funds of the Association. And
at the meeting ins Wednesday, Mr. Msekzezts
produced a list of 700 young men who had given
their names and addresses, stating their desire to
attend the classes and pay the subscriptions.
Considering that for the last two years the num-
ber of members has ranged between 600 and 700,
there appears no reason to doubt that those pre-
miers will bo fulfilled, if the arrangements for re-
organizing the Association can be carried out.
This, however, will depend on the extent of
support which the scheme may receive within
the next few weeks from the wealthy portion
of the City of London. A sum of 2,500/. is
wanted to make the classes rent-free. So much
must be raised to justify perseverance in the
work, and towards that sum 1,040!. was sub-
scribed at the Mansion House. The merchants,
bankers, and other men of business in the City
are now invited to glance at the Association, to con-
sider the tendency of its operations, the influence
it is calculated to exercise, and the guarantee of
success contained in its plan, and then, if it ap-
pears worthy of their confidence, to subscribe the
money still necessary for the successful execution
of the project.
The principle on which the Association is to be
reorganized is that of self-support, with its cor-
relative, self-government. This is a feature
essential to its success. Not even the cultivation of the
intellect is to be pursued at the price of self-respect.
The aid necessary to overcome the difficulties of a
beginning, assistance in raising the sum necessary
to establish the institution—a sum small in com-
parison with the surrounding wealth, but large in
relation to the means of its members—is all that
an be properly asked, and as we have seen, is all
that is necessary. It is well, moreover, that our
young men should remember, what we fear the
language of zealous friends sometimes leads them
ED forget, the truth that in many respects their
individual interest in self-improvement is far
greater than that of society in the same remit.
We are glad to hear from the Rev. Mr. MAUKENZI z
that some who first learnt Greek at these classes
are now occupying distinguished positions as cler-
gymen, and of the ten pupils who competed for
Government appointments that all were successful.
But the community would in any case have been
supplied with clergymen and clerks. And suc-
cess needs no reward. The virtue of
" getting on" is not one that requires to be stimu-
lated in these days. And not only of such
students as these, but of three who seek after know-
ledge with the most interested passion we ml,
say, on the testimony of universal experience,
" He that is wise shall be wise for himself."
On every account, then, this Association in its
renovated form should be self-supporting.
It is proposed that the Mettopolitan Evening
Classes should be reconstiteeed as the City of Lon-
don College. " Cutieye qtangi con-singe," says the
plassantetymologistCusetra LAKE, "a place where
people read together." " I think," he adds,
" public readingroonur the best method of edu-
" eating young men. Solitary reading is apt to
"give headache. be,iries, who 'liters that you de
rein 1' ',An is educated at Christ's Hospital,
%Atm a man to whose poirer as a teacher
sinus bas paid the highest tribute, Could afford to
joke about head aches. If the endowed institu-
tions of edncation which are so numerous in thia
country wen. honestly dealt with, there might be
less need of evening classes, and mines of Intellec-
tual wealth now unworked might be opened
to the pis ,fit of the country. But one
must take-- that is Mr. Msresezie and his
friends must tale—things as they are and adapt