The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, S.ITURDAT, OCT. 12.

TO OUR READERS.

%PORTING INTELLIGENCE.

• !Ate edition al the &pews is published every
sivenixg olnrin% the racing SWAM" containing the
malts ul the day's races.

TN "ugly rush" to the platform, which we saw
in the earlier pert of the week, gives Mr. Gcse-
wriest's appearance at Liverpool the character of
a compeesation. The oratory of the right ho-
nourahle ntleman owes its charm so much to
variety and nealth of thought, grace of expr..s
aion j peed with precision, and, above all, a beau- i
tiful order, characteristic of the highest class of
and w. little to the adventitious aids of time
and place, tbat even the distant reader rinds it
easy to share in the delight with which a brilliant
and an :thetitive audience heard his address on
Thursday at Liverpool. The occasion was in-
spiring. Mr. (;LAWITI,NE addressed his fellow-
tOWll,lllVll, lII,t to celebrate the opening of an in-
stitutien of public education, which owed its origin
inanity to the liberality of another townsman, Mr.
WILLI t u Bime, whose munificence as a founder
and benefaetor is as well known as his princely
rank iii the commercial system of the count j.
The new School of Science, though established
by an independent effort, is grafted on the Free
Library and Museum, and is designed to
afford to the classes who live by labour sound 'in-
struction in natural history, chemistry, mathe-
matics, awl physics, by means of class lectures.
About a hundred of the leading friends of educa-
tion in Liverpool, selected from every class and
denomination, bad united to settle the basis of the
institution, and the funds were provided by the
subscriptions of the inhabitants. It is in this way
that in our large towns, where prejudices are
softened, and co-operation is made easy without
sacrifice of principle, the superior cultivation of
the more favoured classes of the community be-
comes diffusive, and a strong helping hand is
reached out to those who are ready to undertake
study in order to qualify themselves to do the
work of society.
Such is the practical character of the Englishman
that he acquires by means of natural intelligence
and determined perseverance much that in other
countries is attained as the result of speculation
and study. Many persons observing this fact, depre-
ciate scientific training. But if anybody will remark
the after procedure of those who have achilved
much by force of natural genius, they may notice
that such men take care to give their children the
advantage of a systematic education. For, how-
ever easily lookers-on may philosophise about
the independence of native talent on the aids of
regular instruction, the men who have made their
way without those aids know that what is called
self-education is the most costly education of all.
In spite of this fact, such an education may be the
best for some characters in certain circumstances ;

just as in agriculture one may soe the loss re-
sulting from the lower economy of peasant culture
sometimes more than compensated by tho stronger
motives to exertion which attend proprietorship.
But let not those to whom the benefits of regular
instruction are held out, mistake the value of the
boon. Mr. (lir usross showed by many an en-
tertaining instance in the history of science, the
near connexion between the wonderful adaptations
found in organized nature and the inventions of
man ; and in the history of mind nothing is more
certain than this, that the way to strengthen Cie
creative faculty, the faculty of a Warr or Srs-
ruassoN, is to discipline the mind to habits of ob-
servation, comparison, and reflection, and this is
the work which is to be done at the Liverpool
School of Science.

Mr. Guearross congratulated hie Liverpool
hearers on that union of classes which is charac-
teristic of this courtry, and of which the meeting
in St. George's Hall, crowded with representatives
of every order of the community, was • token.
He further went on to reflect in • tone of com-
placency on the fact that the pursuit of science
had often been the means of bringing forth frim
an obscure lot those who deserved to be eminent
among their fellow-citizens. The names of
FARADAY, GIOIA= Bvarnasisox, Davy, and HUGH
Itnarta naturally rose to view in connexion with
Ibis observation. And he added, in a sp;. it, as it
seam• to na, worthy of his character and station :
" I do not desire, in mentioning the progress
" achieved by individu►ls, that we should appeal
"to merely selfish motives. It is not the mere
" possession of money that constitutes the be-
" nefit. It is not the mere filing of this or that
" man that constitutes the benefit. It is the
" healthy action which is communicated to the
" whole social frame in a country where class
" mixes with class, where no man can stand
" simply upon tradition, although tradition is
" justly respected here, but where the very lowest
" and humblest of the community, by diligence and
" perseverance, by making a full and regular use
" of the gifts which Providence has committed to
" him, may bring himself forward into the fore-
" most ranks, and thereby not only reap &dean-
" tages for himself, but may yield to others an
" example that will again become the spring and the
" spur to honourable industry." These remarkshave
• peculiar relevancy at the present time—a value
of which the right honourable speaker may not
have beuu aware. Fur the constitution of society,