The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-07 00:00:00

(Cheers.) I have listened to the report which bee been
tea to von with unmixed feelings of satisfaction. (Hear,
beta) I don't think—without flattering you—that for
eabstenual result., for admirable practical weakens from
very email means, that there sea be say report shown in
England that surprises it in merit. I erns hers with no
such idea that I could make you a speech on the subject
of education that would stimulate you to thereased efforts to
what you us already doing; bat I do feel here the inde-
pendence of having the honour to represent this district in
perliannat, in having the privilege el comiag to be ono of
you to listen to the ft port which has just been reed to you,
and is haviag a Niue in the 'Minced= which I am sure
you mat aol feel at the result of your labcore. I understand
teat this society d Item in one respect from almost any similar
iastination in the comatry. I believe eon admit menthen for
I the shortest possible dine, even ter the small space el a week.
(Has, beer.) Generally speaking, you know people are
nquirid to ribs:ribs for a month, or even a quarter, lettere
they as be admitted as members of edscationsl into eating.
You allow a ragnmer to come to you with only 3Sel. in his
hand, for • week's tri il—and wisely, I think—and then, if
he likes, he can go to the dram hop and get three half Et
worth. (Cheers and Inghter ) If men can get three
ludfpencer wail+, at the itralhabop, why should
not thee have a dram at your institution and ea
how they like it, and I wall be bound, when they come and
have one trial they will most of them be disposed to row
to repeat the dose. (Chan and laughter.) For what is it
e cos offer them ? Wh ace merely the mans of advancing
themselves in the world—end that is • greet and important
object to those who have to live by their labour—hat these
speehneas on your walls show of bow mush use this institution
easy be to them—to those intended to be sea ow or joinery,
or deigmme, ee dyer or wavers, or print( n, by tarnishing
the meass,the only mesas, by which they an attain to
anything like a respectable position in their several calling'.
Again, this lastittenn offers yeast, men the no-
p termite of learning the art of reading and writing
with facility. And see how much of useful employment
and profi able labour the mere obtaining a kneeing of
reading and writing offers to the working elan."! Why
from all employments worth having the working classes
are shut out, unless they hove aequired the talent for read-
log tied writing. For instance, go and ask one of y sue
friends and patrons to in himself in getting you • 5(05
Lion on • railroad ; why, the first thing that is slaked will be,
"Can you read and write ?" if Lot, you cannot be employed
on a railroad, or bay* any useful or profitable employment.
Again, if you ask any of year hiends to try and get you an
employment ender government—you had much hatter try to I
get employment in any other way--(a laugh)—but it you
try t 3 get an employment as exciseman, or teleowsiter,
or in any other public Ohne the first question diet
your Patton will be ethic' is, "Can your sliest
rood and wit'. ?" Therefore, in these does unless •
young man he. acquire d a k mere:dee of reading and writing,
he is positively shut out from almost the whole of the
gradations of social life, sad if he has not get his foot on
toe first step of the ladder of promotion, he most 13, shut
out all the days of his life. Be' it is not the men sdvance-
meet A will give him in the wale. If • man is to remain
in the rank of a day lab nun all his life, it is an ices inn-
Me advantage to hint that he should be placed in a pod.
non to enjoy there mental recreations which education alone
can enable him to have t B wens what is the alternative ?
I saythats man must have tome sort eructation' nineties
—ezeitemat if you will—and if a man cannot indulge in
mental relaxation end enjoyment, he will 1,11 to ph' sad ,
and sensual relaxation and niunient. (lira, t ear )
People are afraid now to avow openly and publicly
any objections to these occupations which you are
now math, to ; and I rejoice that we Were SCA living
thirty Of forty JOIN forward there were still men who
had the auditory to come and say it wee not good
for men to learn there thing., because ears they remained
ignorant, they would not remain subservient; inn that, if
they did not remain subservient, no order could be mei.,
tate ed in society. I melanin that we are more ore. rly
every day we live. I maintain that there is more respect for
property and reel vazk-1 mean real rank; I d'o't won
mere wealth, associated with uselessness and idleness—bet
mere retie et for worth, greakr security for property, and
greater security for life, every year that we Ire; and I
se attribute importantthe benefits to society mainly to the
prover of %integre, such as we are met to celebrate.
(Cheers.) And after all, gentlemen, doret let a dreier teem
currier, I am sure you weal not wish it to he dispuord
from us, that alter all this institution is but the subsets. e
in many respects of what ought to be other and better
means of education to the as of the people. I re-
spect all the institutions that have been established by the
Wesleyan body, or any ether religious body to give the
people education; but st:11 I say the very existence of an
institution like this, drawing young men sod boys together,
combiong to low themselves inetreetien in meta matters as
I have referred to, is a peer that there is something leek-.
ing, that something more in wanted that what now izn a
D • not lot it be begotten by those who arc fathers and
re others of (oath's do nit let them forgo tel.: besides lieu
tutioss such as this, there are ether schools to which young
people go on week days to receive imstrarion, tho, in which
young people ought to be torn& Let points bring up the if
children ut a way which will give them a fair nese. when
they beano of an age to go out enthe world. Be'
wheel I say this, I do not mean to say teat such
iarituti one as this will not always be seers try. I tele le
they will be nocessery. I have hoardsomething stint a penny
savings bank. Why, that carrebrati a eli I ban sires 'y
aid about these movement.; that if there should be any
goo I drug estahlisked, some other good thing would be stiri
CO !MOW it. There is a germinating principle about every
good thing in this life. What has brought your penny
swings bank into • zietence bre, but that there were
kindred spirits ready to take up and organise, and work that
nail's( idea 1 Why has it come to this icstituoion instead
of going to some meeting in the tap-room of a public hone ?
Incense here is the natural soil her such an extollent eh.
to take root. (Cheery.) I have somewhere seen it stated
as the remark of a man who has had lone experience in
such metros, that he never knew an instance of • pawn
wso had seen • pound becoming a pauper. 1 believe there
is a great deal of truth and plausibility in that observation.
, Teach a youth, teach • boy or girl, to begin laying by their
pence, teach them that maxim which Franklin used to teach
the American people, that if they took care of the piece the
1 pounds would hike ate of themselves; and if they once
acquire the habit of saving they will never go back to waste-
I tames, drunkenness, or idlenew. There is soother idea I
tint has been mentioned to ate since I have been here : 1
unoentend that • plan of ; letting by somethieg for the
purpose of visiting Lendon next year to see the great txhibi-
tion has also been taken up in your arsociation. I under-
stand there are some individuals in the institutfot who ate
endnyou:ing to lay by their money in order to go L win
at It year to re tne far famed eabibition. I don't know
whether it is generally known, but it should be known, that
by • retest dectsion by the railroad propoittors in different
companies, in co opetation with the royal commissioners in
London, all members of arociaeone and members of clubs
for the purpose of eidetic nieney to go to London nest year
are entelrel to be carried to London and back for half the I
present isle of the parliementary trains—that is, for tall ,
the lowest fare you con go in now. I thick
this Would be generally kaolin, as it is only a roast '
decision come to in L 'laden within a very few days. '
Recolleet, Toe may not see it again; and I will
tell you why. Because, as soon as ever that ezeibi
non is Mr. FMIIOI will lay in her claim to have
the neat general ezhibiti nof the malts of the world's
iadastry ; and depend epee it, the salt exhibition within
for or five 'ears from this teas will be at Pane; and no
wiener will that exhibition be at an end, than we shell have
Austria. or Prussia, or Chentany, or Russia, patting in their
claim ; and so it will make the tour of tee world, end yea
gel have Americs following their example. We may not
live to see soother i shibition in London, therefor* don't lose
the opportunity, because every one of your children will
reproach you for not having visited it. I went you to go to e
what other countries an do as well as yourselves. Ido net
wont you to think that manufacturers are going to profit
much by exhibiting tee results of their skill, or that Mean
facterers abroad are coming here to steal the brains of our
countrymen. Whet you cse produee and foreigners on
produce re much Utter rewards d by such merchants ea
tour pees dent here, and by their custom, than they Ever will
ee by any exhibition. I shall be most tiara stall limnto beer
of the progress of this institrion. Dn't rest ratithood wi la
Sot) Err mbrn ; Irma hoar reeve I come again smoNot
you next year, as I liege to have the pleasure of do ing
—(chars)—than it is increased to 1;200 members ; and that
the 200 teases have bon at least increased to 300. And
when we meet semis I hope we @ball have a room in which
the tempetstare is getnewhat better, and where • man's
heath may have some chance of exerting itself for your
assaensent. (Lend cheers and laughter.)
The Rev. H. R REYNOLDS, H.A ,mode an elegant
speech in seconding the motion, and the matirg was after-
wards addressed by Dr. HODGSON end other gentlemen.
The proceedings terminated about sloven o'clock.

MR ROMISH Cut RCII IN THE UNITED STATEN—
• correepoadest, wri'iog from New York, rays:—" Arch.
bishop Hughes, who her just left to in order to go to Rome
to roc ie@ the pains from the Pope, delivered s lecture
here a few dip since, in which he *seeded the positive and
Sapid decline of protestantism in this country end in Europe.
The haute 'lofted much attemion here, but I undertake to
my it was a fallacy from beginning to end—false in its feet@
and in its ieferene.e. The only additions made to the Rowan
oatholil church here ere derived from Irish and German
estimation. Tho only Americans who being to it are the
Immediate descendants of for. inners, who keep up a show of
reverence for the church in order to control the votre of these
poor Mnoratt people. It is with the greatest difficulty the
Romish ehniehes are kept up in this city. All the congre-
gations are deeply in debt, and in danger of being meld. All
the Irish servant men end women are tared a few mats.
earth a week to keep the priest, from starving ; while on the
other hand, the protestant churches of all denomination,
• are liberally sustained, without any resort to eoropulsion re
o ensures. If protestantiain in on the &elicit here we cannot
waive it."

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