The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-02 00:00:00

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SEPTEMBER 2, 1852.
N°.lB 705.]
LONDON, THURSDAY 1. r,
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ROYA.L HOTEL, LOWESTOPT.
The Proprietor 9f this Hotel has much pleasure in informing
his Friends and the PaOlio tha during the winter he his provided
extensive suites of bedrooms, in addition to the wing constructed last
summer; this evil prevent a recurrence of those disappointments
which so frequently took place from his Ina nits to accommo late
his friends in the past year. It is his intention to persevere in that
sourse which has already given such general satisfaction, viz., to
combine the est ,iines, Viands, Attendance, and Cleanliness, with
Alroderate Charges.
The F3.lthrity of Lowestoft, the excellent hathinz, and beauty of
its neighbaurhood, far ridieg and walking, are too well known to
require comment. HOW Err ha, only, therefore, in conclusion,
to call attent on to the easiness of u.ccus and lowness of fares front
the ?laces, a list of which is sub and to express hts hope that
he will continue to experience that liberal support with which he
haS already been favoured.
Every Wednesday and 7;aturday, until farther notice, Passengers
may be b6oked as utlicx:—

After- Fares to Lowestoft and back.
From boon - -
at Ist Msg. ld Class.lll Class,
.....,--.....,..----
H. 14. s. d. s. d. s. d.
London...
Cambridge 345 12 0 9 0 6 0
St.Tves 2 57777
Chatteris ...... •• • • ........ 233 14 0 10 0 70*
Peterborough ......... ..... 3 0
‘Visbi ach..... ••• • • ........ 3 1.5
starch
Ety
420 9 0 6 9 4 6
---

* Arriving at Lowestoft at 7 45.
Ti?,kets will he available for the return journey by the trains leav-
tog Lowestoft at 3 P.M. on week days, or any train on Sundays,
within seven days of the date of Issue.
In addition to the ordinary established trains, fast Express'Trains
will, on and after the Ist of August, leave Lowestoft at-1,4 ,before 7
A.m., arriving in Lonion at 11 o'clock ; past 4 e.ru:,, arriVlng in
London at 10. And from liishops,gate Station at 5 P.M., arriving at
Lowestoft at 25 min. past 9. •
Family Tickets are issued at the London Station by all trains to
Lowestoft at about the charge of a single fare, available for the re-
turn journey any time within 24 days of issue.

PATRON—H. R. 11. PRINCE ALBERT.
OYAL POLYTECHNIC
ot) LECTURES.
Ey J. U. Pepper, Esq., on Testing Gold, and, on the Anltralinn Gold
Districts ; and also on the Alleged Adulteration of the Burton Bitter
Alnwritkfitryehninei,' - ..-
By Dr. Bachhoffner on the Patent Polytechnic has Fire: and on
the Mode of Preserving Fresh Provisions, illustrated by Specimens
from.Mesirs. Ritchie and M`Call, and Samples of Fadenilhe's So-
Milled Preserved Milk, and Moore's Patent Concentrated Milk.
By Mr. Crispe, on Morralrm Patent Needles.
By George inickland, Esq., on %tusie and Musicians, at Home and
Abroad, with Vocal Illustrations, assisted by Miss Blanche Younge,
RA.. of Music.
New series of Dissolving Views.- Superb Specimens of the Patcut
Silvered Glass, &c.
Asmission, is. ; schools find Clhildren under Ten years of age,
ialf-price. For Hours, see Programme. •

CREMORNE GARDENS.
On the Banks of the Thames, King's-road, Chelsea.
Waterside Entrance close to Battersea bridge Pier.
Fare by Steam-boat from Lon lon-brid.,e or any of the inter
tombe
e-
diate Bridges or Wharf Piers, 3d. Strangers should request
anded at Battersea br:dge f Cremorne. Fare by
:haring-cross, 3d.; from the City and remotest parts ofOmnibus the Eastfrom-
nd, 6d.

Proprietor, Mr. T. B. SIMPSON.
The Pyrotechnic Displays by the Chevalier Mortram.
Open for the Season.
By Desire.—Re-enortgem ent of Louis Soutiler's Cirque Oriental.
A new Grand Spanish Comic Balkt, entitled Le Barbier de Cadiz,
very Evening at Half-past Seven o'clock.
Tuesday and Friday, the Italian. Brothers in their Double Tra-
cyan], the celebrated
TupeeszdeayP.erfForringaayn,ce,anadt elevation osfigonClorfeept.
Ourarig-Outang Contortionist.
Wednesday and Saturday, Grand Globe and Wheel Ascents, by
Herr Franz de Bach, on a Narrow Platform, 160 feet long.
THIS DAY, September 2, a most extraordinary IlippodromaEe
spectacle, conducted by M. Soullier, who has engaged the cele-
brated Parisian A. ronaut, Poitevin ,who will in..ke a Grand Balloon
Ascent, accompanied by the Italian Brothers on the Double Tra-
peze. Admission on this occasion, 2s. until Seven ; after Seven,
Is. The Hippodrome Peformance begins at Half-past Four, and
the Balloon ascends at Half-past Six.
Ala uninterrupted succession of Entertainments from Three o'clock
until near Midnight, including
Every evening, at a Quarter to N ine o'clock, in the newly-decorated
ravilion, in addition to the following attractions, Louis Souther's
cirque Oriental, and the best Equestrians of the age. For partial.•
lars, see Special Bills.
Principal
e"Nsf,easnsir,si.m./i,aPoC,
ney, cAtiobre
srtodmeillelra,cKh ,e,Fnrpr
Lze
ode
Snoauclhliejre,'SinigdneornVacildherini ; Madlles. Clementine and Olga Soullier.
Admission to the Circus from the Gardens :—Promenade, Pit, and
Boxes, Is.; Amphitheatre, 6d.
Open at Three o'clock.
Admission, Is. ; Children, Half-price.
On'Sundays, after Four o'clock, by Refreshment Card, price 6d.
Table d'Hote at Six o'clock, 2s. 6d.
Private Room for Dinners and Coffee.

__—
Oat straw, from 7s Od to 9s Od per kemple of 16 stones tron
wheat ditto, 8s 6d to N6d ; barley ditto, 7s Od to 8s Od.
Hay, from 9d to lld per stone ; new ditto, 7d to Bd.

COAL MARKET.—YESTYIIDAY.
Prices of Coal per ton at the 'close of the market :
New. Tanfield ......... 12s tit Stewart's ....... ... 155 93
Redheugh Main ...... 1.2 s 33 Hartlepool..
Wylam . l3s 6ilHeugh Hall
'
Wall's End, &c. Keno° 15s 03
Barton ... .... - 03
Walker
Ede.-n. Maio •..... ..... a. 144 cd Thorntey
1.1..t-arour . 11s 3.1 itackhouse
I.3rad,lyll
9,..tr0n
Has .. 155 93 Nixon's Merthyr and -
.1..,:g hien
Russell's Hetton . ..... 15s 31
Shins 8t r2.arket, 57 Sold, 48

THE GUILD OF LITERATURE AT

MANCHESTER.
Mr. Charles Dickens and his friends having been
solicited to visit Manchester a second titne, for the
purpose of repeating their amateur theatrical repre-
sentation% in aid of the fund designed to establish a
Guild of Literature and Art, the owners of the Free
Trade Hall very liberally placed that building again
gratuitously at their service for last eviining, and 00
V-,e-prEvious eVOrfing a public banquet.-was given to
hem at the Athenmum. About 250 getitlinen were
w.f....sent, under the presidency of Mr. Robert Ilsrnes,
Mlyor of Mlnchenter, and amongst the leading
;:owpany at•serobled to do honour to the guests were
1111. Thos. 13azley, president if the Chamber of Corn-
fnerop, Sir Eikanah Armitage, tl,:bn Potter, Mr.
S flr. E. It. Langsvorthy, Mr. Jos.
Brotherton, M.P., Mr. Alex. Henry, and Mr. R. N.
t'hilips.
The -guests were: Sir E.
13. Lytton, M.l'., C.
Dickens, Esq., D. Costello, Esq., C. Knight, Ef-q., J.
W. 'Popham, Esq.; A.
Wilkie Collins, Esq., Frank Stone, - Esq., P. Cun-
ningham, E.qt, W. H. Wills, Esq.' R. Ball, Esq. ;
and.after the cloth had been removed, Mrs. Dickens
and several other ladies occupied seats in the ban-
&petting room.
The CHAIRMAN having given,
"The members for
Manchester and Salford,"

Mr. JOSEPH BROTIIERTON, M.P., responded to the
:oast.

Mr. JAMES CROSSLEY, in proposing the toast of the
evening, said it becomes my most pleasing duty to
express the high gratification we must ' all feel in re-
ceiving in this city, on such a missim,
and seeing
guished company who represent" lht , • fends of the
present on: this occasion,
Guild of Literature and Art, "ea, , ,
as our gues , the distin-
o : log to bear.
upon us the old artillery of genius, wit, humour,
learning, dramatic talent, and scenic power,
to coerce
by means the most effective, by means the most
delightful, our adhesion to this grand scheme of
judicious and far-seeing benevolence.—.(Applause.)
The Guild of Literature and Art originated under
such auspices as scarcely ever gave sanction or
authority to any similar public undertaking, and
supported by a series of brilliant,' efforts which have
scarcely a parallel in our annals. There can, Sir, be
but one opinion—that it is a noble design, and that it
has been as nobly sustained.—(Cheers.) There is no
one who is in the slightest degree conversant with the
literary history of his country—and a sad, melacholy,
and humiliating history it is—but must have been
aware of the necessity of some such provision as,
without infringing upon the high feeling of manly
independence, without impairing the self-respect of
the individual, should extend to the author and
the artist that assistance which at certain
stages of . each of their precarious precessions
may prove of most inestimable benefit ; some such
,
provision, in short, as, interposing like a good angel,
thand over-toiled
poet of Keswick. To afford that provision by some
e exemplary, the
might have rescued Chatterton from " grimvisaged
comfortless despair ;" might have saved many a bitter
pang to the lofty soul of Johnson, and many a cor-
roding
most
accomplished,
t e
the
but
over-worked
adequate endowment, united with arrangements of
an economical and provident description, became the
anxious study and care of those whose splendid, and
splendidly deserved, literary success has never caused
them to lose their interest, or their sympathy with
the sufferings or the wants of the very lowliest of
their species ; least of all with that part of it to which
they were knit, and attached by kindred feelings,
and whose history, whose habits, whose 11
peculiarities,
and whose requirements they understand so well.
These distinguished leaders of the public mind, come
bined with as powerful a phalanx of friends distin-
guished in every department of literature and art as
ever actively co-operated in any work of good, pro-
posed, in aid of that great design, entertainments
which have electrified and delighted all parts of this
kingdom, and all classes, from royalty downward,
and which had afforded us that grand desideratum
in these days, when every invention of luxury
seems almost exhausted—a new pleasure of the
most exhilirating and agreeable character, while
engaged in gravely performing the duty and second-
ing the beneficent intentions of the founders of
the guild. To those founders, and gratifying it is
to know that now, on this occasion, we have the
honour of entertaining them—will ultimately, in all
human prsbabinty, belong the praise—and a prouder
or or a loftier it is scarcely possible to imagine—of
having infused new elements of happiness, indepen-
deuce, cud security, into the candidon of those whose
profession and whose mission it is to ettrilis.l.and in-
struct mankind, who give us the only true and real
endowments, and whose gifts are the only perpetual
inheritance of their species ; and we, therefore, may
surely claim, as matter of right in their hour of need,
some endowment of the perishable and transitory
goods of fortune. To realize that endowment, we
have. seen, and we now see, with what hearty good-
will, with what harmonious co-operation, in these
days when so much is said of literary jealousies, but
which appear to me to be like those mists that
are said to gather around the base of the sacred moun-
tain, but never obscure its top—two distinguished
spirits of the age, who have deservedly won their way
to the pinnacle of literature, have exerted their va- 1
rious and matchless powers.
e With my estimation of
the value of this most wise and provident undertak-
ing, with my opinion of the value even to their own
high reputation of the parts they have taken in it, I
would humbly say, that brilliant, and no doubt per-
manently fixed and enduring as will be the fame of
those admirable pictures of life and manners, those
most powerful representations of character, of tbought,
and passion, by which the two great masters of com-
position that I have
exquisite and such extended delitheir ener-
getic
ght, yet •
endeavours by this of active 1
great scheme
benevolence to improve and exalt the condition of
those who may be professionally connected with lite-
rature and art, will constitute not the least claim to
affection and gratitude in the irreversible fiat of pos-
terity.—(Cheers.) I - might, Mr. Chairman, for the
subject insensibly leads me on, remark further upon
the many points of hope and promise connected with
the establishment of the guild, and particularly with
what might be reasonably expected from the discharge
of its appropriate duties, in which it appears to me
that the public is so much concerned, and which are
annexed to the offices of guild ; as well as to the
effect which may be reasonably expected in fostering
prudent and provident habits in literary me' But,
Sir, I feel that in further extending what I had to say,l
I am merely depriving this good company of an anflp e
feast of solid enjoyment, and therefore, without ur-
ther preface, I shall proceed to read the toast
whichf
be ore
has been entrusted to me, observing, however,
I do so, that as this is, I believe, the first occasion on e
which the distinguished individual with whose nam_
it concludes had been publicly present in this city,
I
trust I may be allowed, on behalf of myself and maPy
others who are now present, to take this op p o t urnaittiy.
of expressing our grateful thanks for the high g
fication we have received from his contributions to
lit excellent,
literature so extensive, so varied, and so
and from the manner in which be has alwayssus-
tained,lite-
in his own person, the honours ofotlleee
rary character.—(Cheers.) The toast is— r I?
ru
ted
rity to the Guild of Literature and Art, cop
W
ith the Health of Sir E. Bulwsr Lytton, Bart.
M.P."— (Loud cheers.)
Glee--" Spring's delights."
Sir E. L. B. LYTTON Bart. ~ M.P., then rose, and
tinned cheers.
was received with loud and long con .
He •
.e said—Mr. Mayo It is, indeed,
r and gentlemen"— ,
with no ordinar emotions that I rise to reply, on
behalfofmyself y d
an my colleagues, to ' o n
the very el que t
propd and to
manner in which this toast has been ' it.
received. .
the cordial warmth with which yott
Manchester, in this
But here, indeed, in this of
town
we authors may
great capital of intellectual industry!,
otherhood—(n ar,
d brear,
well hope to find fellowship an
bear)
—f or we, too, the same as the people of Man-
chester, are the children of skilled labour.—(Hear,
hear.) Everything
great, everything that has elevated
the world,
comes
man, everything that has civilised .
familiar in the mill of
from that principle which is as
the closet of the scholar—
manufacturer as it is in the
and thatprincipleis,labour at the command of skill.
x Our first father was
—(llear, hear, and a 1
malaise.]
ordained to live ,by the sweat of the brow; but the
brow is the domain of thought, and the moment that
labour begins, thought is awakened.—(Hear, hear.)
'IN of that we value all labour alike ; we estimate its
worth, not according to the amount of work that is
done by the hands but according to the degree of
intelligence which' is brought to bear upon the
work. If labour is the origin of all capital,
bodily labour is only the raw material, and
mind is the great manufacturer.—(Hear, hear.) Gen-
tlemen, wherever we lock we shall find that even the
commercial prosperity of the people is proportioned
to the degree in which mental energy controls phy.
sical force. It is this intelligence which has enabled
England to grasp the wealth of the world with one
band and to diffuse it with the other throughout
thousands of reproducture channels. If, at this mo-
ment, we could annihilate in the interior of Russia a
number of people equal to the population of Man-
chester, the loss would be scarcely felt beyond a
province ; but if we could strike Manchester from
the map of these isles, the link that unites together
the ends of the world would be mapped asunder. Ire

one case we should only destroy men, and is the
other case we should destoy ideas.—(Cheers.) The
ships that carry your goods from haven to haven hear
with them not only cotton—they bear civilisation.
And here it is that we
iaLssaeslsw;hibeehcaytinsue
and
du
authors may boast that we con-
oumaterial wealth that freights those
tribute even to they
heanntlemen,owe more of that wealth to the.
ideas
.have ga`hered
and tilsa.vens their vessels, and
if
it all
tothe moles of Peru
cravingcannot wonder that
flrvoienii,b(t)iolekni,tg
kings owe their purple,
lionour.4 or
markets their merchandise,
a hamlful of authors,'" you
mental labour that
in-eding aid for ourselves, are" inspired v,,ith
sense of the dignity of our
in the
hier-
archy of mental labour, dodesire to lift
great
above the chance of degradation
those; who adorn
and ennoble the order to which we belong --(Bear.)
This is the main object of the guild '
' - -I
behalf of myself and colleagues, I will verys(h,z:wrntlyi On
plain the origin and purpose of that institution. It is
not quite two years ago since a few gentlemen,
emi-
nent in art and letters, met at my country
house for
the purpose of a dramatic entertainment ; you have
seen those gentlemen perform, and you can well con-
ceive the delight that their acting would give to a
rural audience.—(bear, hear.) Well, one day when
we were conversing together, it occurred to us to have
some play performed in the provinces for some bene-
volent object; and one said, " And why not, for the
sake of some distressed man of letters ?" and another
said, "Why not, for some permanent benefit to litera-
ture itself ?" and thus, in the course of that general
conversation, the outline of our present scheme be-
came visible. Ido not think there is one of us who
would wish to arrogate to himself the exclusive merit
of that idea; it grew out of our general interest in.
the cause, and was ripened by our general enthusiasm.
—(Cheers.) As I have no taste nor talent for acting,
it was settled that my contribution should be a play,
which has been raised far beyond its merits by the ex-
cellent acting of my colleagues..—(llear.) When the
play was written, I ventured, with the concurrence and
co-operation of my colleagues, to draw up an outline
for the general design and constitution of the guild—
in short, to embody our common notions. Now, we
were all agreed first upon this—as a principle, that
we would endeavour to divest this institution, as much
as possible, of the mere character of a charity. It is
in vain to boast of the dignity of letters, ualess we
can inculcate that which is the foundation of all dig-
nity—l mean independence—(Hear, hear)—unless
we can establish a kind of right to whatever aid or
relief our funds may enable us to bestow. Now, we
attain that right at once, by adopting the principle of
a benevolent and provident society, in connexion with
assurance against the contigencies of the future.
Every member of the guild must therefore be bound
to contribute something towards its funds, and some-
thing towards some
.insurance company either con-
nected with the guild, or any other company which
he chooses to prefer. By this we obtain a secondary
advantage—that we do inculcate those habits of self-
reliance, of prudence, and of foresight, in which it
has been said that men of genius are too often deficient,
but which no 111111:1,
.whatever be his genius, has a
right to consider himself above.—(Hear, hear.) It
has been said in an old Latin proverb, that no deity
is present where prudence is absent, and we do not
desire in behalf of literature that any one of its
labourers should call upon others to help him,
until he has shown that he has done his best,
like a man, to help himself.—(Hear, hear.)
Now, gentlemen, having thus laid the foundation of
this institution upon the principle of a benevolent or
provident society, we adopt the name of " guild," be-
cause that is the old English name for those associa-
tions in which members of some particular class or
calling co-operated for the benefit of each' other. Our
next object was to raise a man of genius, an eminent
man of letters, from the absolute necessity of daily
task work, which is always very precarious in its
profits, and which may often oblige a manindefinitely
to postpone some work which mightimmortalise
himself and instruct a nation—in fact, to take a man
of genius from being a mere bookseller's hack. We
therefore propose, if our funds allow us, to institute
a certain limited number of life annuities, which,
though they shall be sufficiently modest, will still
suffice for all the simple wants of a scholar. We
shall not consider it necessary that any candidate for
these life annuities should make a profession of
poverty or destitution ; because, if we were to
make poverty a qualification, though what we de-
sign ba a tribute of gratitude to merit, we should
give to a distinction the character of a humilia-
tion.—(Hear, hear.) While we propose that these
annuities should be given to those more eminent men
of letters, s, to those whose years are matured, or whose
reputation is ackhowledged, we shall propose also
a secondary mode of relief to those who have
struggled upwards in the more arduous part of their
career. We are sure that there are
very f t:w profes-
sional men of letters who will not recap one period of

_ . .
morrow—when a small pecuniary aid,
their lives when they were almost in a despair of the
if assured for
one or two years, might have enabled them to face
all difficulties, and have saved them from broken
energies and shattered health ; and enabled them,iner-
hope, to accomplish some work which would have
raised them to independence and reputation. Now,
there was such a crisis in the life of Schiller, the
great German poet. At a time when beset with
cares and difficulties there was danger that that fine
genius would have been bowed to the rudest drud-
gery and have had his character soured to misan-
thropy, two foreign noblemen prevailed upon him to
accept a small annuity for a period of three years,
and it is to the effect which that aid produced on
him that we must ascribe the wonderful change that
took place in the direction of his talents and views of
mankind. From that period he devoted not only his
genius but his conscience to his art, and he became
one of the most elevated and moral of the writers
which modern times have produced, instead of be-
coming what his earliest work promised, one of the
most dangerous and revolutionary.—(Hear, hear,
and applause.) You, therefore, see, gentlemen, that
the modes of relief we anticipate to be twofold;
first, a permanent mode of relief in the way of life
annuities to those whom the public recognise to be
the chiefs of arts and letters • and next, assistance
for a more limited period and to a smaller amount
perhaps, for one, two, or three years, j according to
the discretion of our society, to those who shall have
given sufficient promise of industry to enable us to
hope that they may one day rise to be chiefs them-
selves. We do not profess to give anything like a
momentary relief, by way of alms or charity. We
leave that to the noble institution of the Literary
Fund, which is amply sufficient for this purpose ;
although by the laws of this society, it does not, and
cannot, fulfil our object, since it cannot give more
than fifty pounds at a time, and cannot bestow any-
thing like life annuities. The Artists' Fund is also
subject to similar limitations. Our next object will
be, if the society flourish, to connect it as much as
possible with the great body of the people by some
link of general utility and instruction; if for instance
we should be able, so we hope we may be able,
to make the guild undertake, as a corporate body,
to give lectures gratuitously at all the principal
mechanics' institutions and at other associations in-
tended for the instruction of the people through-
out the kingdom.—(Applause.) At all events it is
with a view to some purpose of that kind, to show
that we attach tuition to whatever emoluments we
bestow, that we have borrowed something of acade-
mical names for those who will receive the emolu-
ments—calling the life annuitants professors or fel-
lows, and calling those who are admitted to salary for
a limited period by the name of associates. I, for
one, consider it indispensable that we should attach
something of educational duties to the salaries which 1
we give, as a general principle; because the moment
we attach payment to the duties all sense of degra-
dation vanishes.—(Hear.) Gentlemen, it would
detain you far too long to enter into the complicated
matters connected with anything so complicated as a
constitution. At the same time, I do think that we
shall conquer a great practical difficulty—that is, of
obtaining a fair and impartial tribunal to decide on the
claims of the candidates. I think we shall be able to
establish a fair and popular electoral body ; and I am
sure that we shall spare no pains to render the choice of
candidates'as free as possible from the preponderating
influence of any particular sect or clique, and open to
public opinion. Gentlemen,
of
feve that ultimately it will be
krbemegarded as a recognition of ge-
nius, member of this guild, and that
tlant hhi
do
oi
sss wholesome:aialnancrtitihope,eionBnaonwttodai l
sllcbahbde eemoac
mere charity to distress.—(Bear,
hear.) But in the meanwhile we shall have effected
at least these objects : We shall have invested a prin-
cipal of pecuniary aid given to those who adorn oat%
country with a more just and elevated characterth
they have yet assumed. We shall
habits of prudence „ our
and foresight amongtile his
brethren ; and if our society flourishes itnwo.
own fault hereafter if any eminent
should in his old age either need a patro I letters
"In
or dread a
shall establish a familiar
gaol. Ido hope also that we .themselves, which at
link not only between authors Jong
the present time is wholly av ,
more scholastic learning
institutions in which the
their soul for knowledge,
en-
thusiasm for its masters ; and,,
out ultimately all our J but between our
antolose associations and
and
hanic and operative bring
them and their generous
in fact, if we can carry
objects, I hope that we shall
have inculcatedn

have laid the foundation-stone for an institution which
may serve authors as a guild, and tend to instruct
the public as a college. In the meanwhile we are not
to forget that this is the first time in our OWD country
in which authors have come forward manfully to pro-
viil-, for themselves in the time of infirmity and old
age, without cringing to th. Minister for a ponsion—
(El,ari hear)—or wirimut lowering the respect due to
tii..ir talent-; by n painful exhibition of distress.—
(Ileilr, bear) it is a reproach to our age and ~nr
e.untry Nvhen .sotn,2 grey ve:eran—some B-lis,rius of
Let:er•—stands in our street, &howinz tl-..i woun?,s
Ilhieli Ise ha, rev-ived in his iv: rs %rith the Gots and
053 Arandal:, and begging for pence afrer he ks served
Gt:olerrion, it does not be-
an empire.---(Aopiause.)
come me here to say what I think of the services of
my colleague?, authors ;:nd ar:ists, themselves prac-
tically acquainted with the condition and feelings of
their brethren. Seeing in this guild sow-thing
that may rai,e that condition and respect those
ft-elings, they have devoted to this cause
their energies, their talents, and their time,
which to them is wealth. And foremost
amongst all operations, forward amongst all diffi-
culties, confident amidst all sneers and cavils, has beat
the great heart of that man who has done so much to
render literature popular, and the people literary.
More on another occasion I should say, but I content
myself with this passing homage to a name that must
be rising to
every lip—l mean the name of Charles
Dickens.
—(Laud cheers.) entlemen of the ulti-
mate success of
and very this guild Ido not entertain a doubt ;
much of
t is
that success it will have owed to
the encouragementManchester.it has received in this town of
true we have obtained the favour
of our Gracious Sovereign and her Illustrious Con.
sort ; we have had the
sym-
pathy of one whose princely active. co-operation and
heart and expanded
mind dignify him
honours—l mean his Grace theti his coronet and his
foremost amongst our list ofbut Duke of Devonshire,
subscribers,. and our first
name in rank and letters ;
institutions, the guild would still, like all hump
have secured the
elements of vitality and duration, if it did not enlist
the hearts of the people in its prosperitylu and progress.
5 call our
—(Hear, hear.) And it is to
various
our and to others, whom I may perlyiae
towns in
fellow-
operatives in skilled labour, in the
that we
which our design has been made knowune,
which
owe something much more than a munificent
addi-
tion to our funds—we owe the influence
your example has given to the circulation of s
great truth, that all departments of intelligence have
a common interest in securing dignity to noble labours,
and raising up into an aristocracy of our own the
artisans of thought and the craftsmen of civilisation.
—(Cheers.) We may, indeed, as was said by my
friend Mr. Brotherton, differ widely in politics—we
may take different views as to the contests of party or
as to some of the theories of civil government ; but as,
after many ages, we have established in these isles
the sublime doctrine of liberty of opinion, so let us
raise above the influence of that want which often in-
flames the judgment and sours the patriotism, those
writers who, from their silent closets, do send forth
the opinions which ultimately govern the market and
the senate; and perhaps more and more, in advancing
time, we may find that indeed men of books are wise
conciliators and gentle arbiters in the strifes and con-
tests of men of action.—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen,
you all remember that story of Aladdin, which we
have read in our childhood, in which a poor youth de-
scended into a cavern, and brought back from its re.
ceases an old lamp. Accidentally he discovered that
by the mere friction of the lamp a mighty genius ap-
peared at his command. Awed by the terrors of the
spirit he had summoned, he at first only ventured to
apply its powers to satisfy his common and his hum-
blest wants—to satisfy mere hunger and thirst.
But gradually accustomed to the presence of the
gigantic agent, he employed it to construct palaces, to
amass treasures, to baffle armies, and to triumph over
foes, until, at the close of the story, the owner of the
wonderful lamp is the sovereign of a peaceful em-
pire, assured to his remote posterity. Gentlemen,
that story is the type of labour at the command of
knowledge—(Hear, hear.) When wee first find the
lamp, we are contented to apply its gnius solely to
our common physical wants; but -as we are accus-
tomed to the presence of that spirit we have sum-
moned, we find we have obtained a secret which
places the powers of earth, air, and ocean, at
iusthe
left com-
mand of man.—(Applause.) That gen, to
iteelf, would be a terrible and a threatening minister,
because that genius here is only rude physical force,
hut to him who possesses the lamp, the genius is a docile
azel a benignant minister, because her physical force
is the slave of intellectual will.—(" Hear, hear," and
applause.) Now, gentlemen, in that same pilysiettl-
force—which in the phrase of the day is sometimes
called the "power of the masses"—lies a grave
problem for all thoughtful men to resolve.—(clear,
hear.) Knowledge has brought us face to face with
it; and knowledge must either instruct that force, or
it will destroy the invoker. May, then, therefore, all
those who possess that knowledge, who are gifted with
the lamp, use it only for generous and useful pur-
poses, so that the genius whose strength could rouse
the earthquake, and whose breatie could bring down
the storm, may only come to enrich the treasury and
assure the empire.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I have
now the pleasing task of concluding the observations
which I have trespassed upon you, by showing
with
how
much we do desire to connect our institution
institutions of a popular nature—how 'much also we
desire, if we become a corporation, to place beforeoation
us
the example of perhaps the most popular corporation
the I have now to pro-
that exists in this country;
pose to you " The health of the Mayor of Man-
chester.'
The MAYOR, in responding, said that both in his
be feltexc.eedingly
public and his private capacity,
gratified at the manner in which his health had.been
received. Manchester had hitherto been exceedingly
successful in the selection of mar", and he with his
best wishes and will should endeavour to tread in their
footsteps—(Hear, hear)—and he was sure that. if he
could by any means contribute to the wellng of
the inhabitants of this town, he should be exceedingy
gratified.—(Applause.) The next toast was one which
he could have wished had fallen into abler hands than
his; but be was relieved from saying a great deal
upon it, because it was well knon to all present
that they were visited by men of vewry extraordinary
powers ; and remembering the sacrifices which
they made in coming on this errand of mercy,
they ought to respond to the toast which
he had the honour to propose with all the good-
will and unanimity which it deserved. Coinciding,
a 3 he did, with the sentiment that the day had now
arrived when civilisation could no longer forget or
neglect the civilisers, but that rather some extraordi-
nary effort should be made to protect during life
those who after death were revered as the monument a
of their time, and regarded as the loftiest nobility of
the land, he had great pleasure in proposing, and was
sure they would join him in wishing health and hap-
piness to " The Amateur Company of the Guild of
Literature and Art, coupled with the name of Mn
Charles Dickens."—(Loud applause.)
Mr. CHARLES DICKENS, who was received with
loud and hearty cheering, said—Mr. Mayor and
gentlemen, on behalf of the company of friends who
act with me in more senses than one; and on my own
part, who am their representative and mouthpiece
here, I beg to tender you
wouhr. _ best thanks for the
splendid recognition with
us to-night. Ido so with feeling
you have honoured
aandee iniF of unus.ualseaarer-
nestness, because I myself
deeply and truly', sensible of thea heartfeltthosefrcieegaiity
with which we have ever beenfire
town.— Cheers. From o tion of the
ur rs as p
a. _an of
tceivgeut in this noble
actor's craft here,_ on behalf of a worn- feces
i“.
letters—the author of many excellent drams tieces
with no
still constantly produced upon the stage, kindt oof re-
kind of advantage to himself, and W i thL d
f own to this
menabrance of him that I ever beard
ass been so true
happy hour, a Manchester audienc
;lenge towards us,
to us, so hearty with us, so a
of= felt as if we were
that in playing to it we have a,
.L. And Ido as-
playing to one great-hearted IrIV
Curtain shall fall
little
to-
sure you that when o .probably, upon that
last tune,
morrow night for the
._aci that encouraging voice,
beaming countenance n e
f gladdened us, we shall feel a
that have now r
mimeo kind, and a regret at parting that
sorrow ooutlive
"Ithe fiction of the scene. After what
will long
at
Bard so eloquently said by my friend Sir
you have heiw
Lytton on the scheme to advance
er
Edward 13u.
l bod of friends have been associated
svhich this litt e y
li
I feel that it wou ( net he reasonable in me
togetior• You with any observations respecting its
to trouble
general claims, or the immense service which had
been rendered to it by Manchester. In taking the
field to promote that object, we thoroughly and sin-
cerely knew it to be a good one—thoroughly and
sincerely knew it to be a Just reproach to letters and
to art that it had been too long neglected—and were
thoroughly and sincerely resolved to do all that in us
lay to help the need which we knew to exist. Our
little labours have, indeed, been labours of love.
Careful business consideration of every detail of this
project, and the most solicitous regard to the more
pressing exigencies and weaknesses of our order, must
now constitute the strength of the guild,and
must now
be the foundation of its steady claim to general
public support. What we have done has merely
been to set it going, and to give it, as we hope and
believe, a steady, onward impulse. If I wanted,