The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-23 00:00:00

FEARFUL SHIPWRECK' ON THE CORNISH
COAST.

LOSS OF NINE LIVES.
(BY reLtavArs.)

Ton
a Liver-
_ that the
elevation of
morels, and that their education should not be en imita-
tion of that of the higher dame'. He denounced the
old-
fahioned mean still in vogue, of teaching dead lan-
guages, history, logic, and grammar, as the alpha and the
omega of education ; arguing that the English language,
English composition, French, and German, the study of
physical science and pure mathematics, were the most
desirable and useful studies for • clams who had to work
for their living. Knowledge (he said) of every kind ex-
cept heraldry bad some value—(laughter)—but they were
to select out of • greet number of candidates, and he
eddied to put before them the merits of those which
should have his vote and interest. In the first place, he
recommended to their notice • 'abject utterly despised
end overlooked in public schools and universities, and
that was—what did they think l—the English language—
(laughter and applause)—the language of Fox, the
language of Byron—a language richer probably, and
more varied in the treasures it contained,
I than any other language, and which began to be framed
and fashioned sooner than any other language in Europe,
I except, he believed, the Italian, which far surpaseed
I, in everything constituting the beauty of • language.
Was it not time that we, who spoke this language
and wrote in it--that we, whole enema in life con-
sisted in our being well able to express ourselves
in this language—we who made bargains in this lan-
guage, and who made love in this language—was it not
I time that we should not be limited to reading the
penny, or threepenny, or even sixpenny newspaper
of the day, but that we should, at least in our boyhood,
be tolled upon to remember what sort of writers England
I produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries! He
could only speak from his own experience. During his
Let two years at school hp was what was calledidle
boy," and he had many qualms of conscience on the sub-
ject. He had Latin and Greek enough to enable him to
go Oa passively with his class, and he did not care to go in
any more, but he spt his time in reeding works of old
English authors, and hem t say he owed all his success
in life to those stolen hours of reading. The power
of being able to read and speak his native lan-
guage with some precision and force had been more
valuable to him than all the rest he had learned in
the course of his life put together, and no man could
imagine till he bad tried how great was the improvement
he might effect in his mind by the study of our ancient
authon, full of their obsolete words and idioms. He did
not mean to say that • man should be • pedant, and use
those words in his ordinary conversation ; but they
would give him an insight to his mother tongue,
and the power of using it in ordinary matters
which would be bidden from him unless he made
the experiment. To take an illustration. Soon
and Byron, two of the greatest poets, also the greatest
Foss writers of their day—had both club feet, which was
the cause, in both instances, of their being confined for
several years to their rooms, and they spent their time in
devouring ell the English books they could get bold of.
The consequence was they both turned out very bad
Latin scholars and no Greek scholars at all, but probably
two of the most classical writers of the English language
in this century. e would also venture to urge
that every young man should be taught bow to
write • decent letter. (Hear, hear.) It was quite
extraordinary how people, even educated men, failed
to express themselves in writing a common letter on the
common affairs of life. French, written and spoken, was
an accomplishment also which it would be most desirable
to introduce, and was becoming more desirable every day.
In fact the thing was so evident that it need not be in-
sisted upon ; but it might be lidded, that whatever beauty
of expression there was in classic language might all bo
found in the best French prose of the day. Then if a boy
had • turn for languages, let him kern German. The Ger-
mans were a people not only already very great, but destined
to become much greater. (Hear, hear.) They were • people
with whom we had already many and close ten-
tions—(a laugh)—and were destined to have wore and
closer relations ; and the German language was • complete
key to the whole of classical antiquity, for every ancient
author was admirably translated into German with an
appreciation which we in England had no conception.
Homer was translated into German in the very same metre
which Homer wrote, so that a man reading it in
German might form a very fair idea of the poem.
Then with regard to the manner of teachinSug.
He would not begin with the memory. p-
g a child wanted to walk, would they say,
top ! think whet you are about before you walk ;
tell roe how many bones there are in your leg, how
many vertebra in your backbone." (Laughter.) He
should say " Let him walk tint and find that out after-
wards." That was all he said with regard to the study of
languages. Let a boy read the books and become so-
quainted with the words ; and when he had a sufficient ac-
quaintance with them, then begin to talk about the gram-
mar. Another thing, do not let them put crabbed and
stupid books into • boy's hands, but give him the most
amusing book they could find, the most amusing French
novel—something that would draw him on and make the
study • pleasure and delight to him. Instead of giving
him some insipid moralist--(laughter and applause)-
-let them give him a story that would give • little
insight into life. (Applause.) Then, he thought, they
would have done what they could to enable a young man
to make the best of what be knew. They would have
given him also a much wider sphere in which he could find
employment, because, of course, if he was fit for any avoca-
tion, the more languages he spoke the more fields were
open to him. He now returned to the other part of the
subject, to which he attached more weight, via, the
question bow the minds of youth ought to be
=
lined in our schools. For this purpoee be
the study of mathematics—not analitical
mathematics, but synthetical, which produced habits of
careful and continued attention and great accuracy of ob-
servation, and were the proper introduction to that which
be believed should be the real mainstay of the middle-class
education, namely, the study of one or other of the phymi-
col sciences. He did not mean the study of physical
science by rote, but he meant the intelligent study of
physical edema as exercising all the highest
faculties of the mind. Let them teach him to
make for himself over and over again those dile
Governs which had already been made ; calling
into exercise all the faculties of the mind ; ach
him to compare, teach him to think • teach him tote
dis-
trust his own crude and first generalisations ; teach him
to go beck and seek for errors where there had been any ;
and above all things, teach him not to be in • hurry to
form • hypothesis ; and if they did not make him a great 1
phyeical philosopher, they would give him that which i
was invaluable for the purposesof life—is scientific habit of i
mind which enabled a man,wher dealing with the practical
affairs of life, to collect by careful observation and minute '
inquiry all the materials for his judgment, and then to
exercise caution and diffidence ie forming that judgment.
It was very important that a man who meant to be sue.
woeful in life should get the habit of looking at things
as they were, and not to get the habit of looking at •
thing as true becalm he wished it to be true, and false ,
because he wished it to be false. That was a thing that
lured them to their ruin. He thought that alucation
could not diacharge • more faithful office than in engen.
dering such a frame of mind as would exempt a man from
these things. Then look at the advantage of such a premed- ;
ing. It was not like learning languages ; where • man bad
tot a good memory for language he was entirely oat of the
running andcould do nothing. A man might have the
-(7, most admirable judgment, keen observation, and the finest
9. faculties in the world ; but he had not memory for lan- ,
gunge, and could not distinguish himself at all ; whereas
this was adequate to all minds. It was not every mind
that could go far into it, but every mind could go some
way, and would be materially benefited as far as it could '
go. It was not like mathematics, where you had got —•—
, lame great proposition that any one could define, but I
it was made up, of a number of little matters, I Professor Leone Levi attended a meeting of the
which, however small, would gradually produce some-
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science, when we &wended frometmeretephenomenato ge-, Belo.
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of nature which we now dissevered hi these painful pro-
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we were able to raise ourselves to the contemplation of facture. Principal Greenwood, who was presen ,
bleached. It is stamped with the bleacher'. stamp, ant
these laws, which were hidden from the vulgar mind, Owens College was being put upon such a basis as would
to steed face to face with those wonderful dispensetions
of Providence, and to find them out for ourselves and
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PRNZANDL TSIVIIXDAT
Nicholas B. Downing, Esq., reports that yester-
day (Wednesday) the Prussian brig Die Sonne was lost on
the Pence Sande, nice sides from Ws plow. The lifeboat
Diehard Lewis, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institu-
tion, was got down there in two hours after receiving the
intelligence, but unfortunately was too late to be of use,
as the ship had gone to pieces, and the crew of nine men
were drowned.

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