The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-14 00:00:00

THE EARL OF
_CARLISLE AT
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MORPETEI.

MORrETH, SATVlLDAY.—Yesterday evening the
Earl of Carlisle delivered a lecture in the Town. hall
of this ancient borough, under circumstances of con-
siderable interest. A few days ago, it being known
here that the Noble Earl was shortly about to visit
his relatives, the Hon. and Rev. F. R. Grey and
Lady Elizabeth Grey, at the rectory in this town,
the committee of the Mechanics' Institute, of which
his Lordship is the patron, assembled and passed a
resolution inviting him to avail himself of the occa-
sion Of his visit to give a lecture on whatever subject
he might choose to the members of the institute at
large. The resolution was duly communicated to
the Noble Earl by the secretaries, and in the course
of a day or two elicited from his Lordship a courteous
reply to the effect that he had not had time to prepare
an original lecture, but offering to read his lecture on
the " Poetry of ope." The committee gladly em-
braced this proposal, and the necessary arrangements
were made tor the occasion.
The Noble Earl arrived here by the mail train on
Wednesday night, after attending the banquet given
that day at Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Mr. Ord, and
immediately proceeded to the rectory, where ht
joined the Countess of Carlisle and the Dowager
Countess Granville, who are also at present on a visit
there. On the following day his Lordship, ac-
companied by his agent, Mr. Fenwick, of Nether-
ton, visite:l the magnificent new church of
St. James, the foundation stone of which
was laid by him a few years ago, and which has been
erected by voluntary subscriptions collected under the
auspices of the pious zeal of his brother-in-law, the
Hon. and Rev. F. R. Grey, the rector of this town.
They also inspected, under the guidance of the Rev.
Mr. Lowe, the new Roman Catholic chapel built re-
cently in Aidgate, on a beautiful site which was for-
merly part of the garden belonging to the residence of
Lord Collingwood, one of our naval worthies.
Yesterday evening, preparatory to the lecture, the
fine old Town Hall, erected under the superintendence
of Sir John Vasibrugh, was brilliantly lighted up for
the occasion, and by eight o'clock, the hour appointed
for his Lordship's arrival, was completely filled by an
audience of nearly 300 persons, consisting of the mem-
bers of the Mechanics' Institute and their families and
friends, including the wealthier classes and a great
number of the trading and operative inhabitants of the
town, all of whom were admitted by ticket. The
raised bench from which his Lordship spoke wasth
adorned with several choice bouquets 0f
votive offerings of ladies in the town. Shortly after
eight o'clock the Earl of Carlisle, accompataiedYby his
sister, Lady Elizabeth Grey, entered the ball, and
their appearance was the signal for_ a round of en-
thusiastic cheers. The principal members of the
committee occupied seats in the immediate vicinity of
the chair.
On the motion of Mr. Wenso_et,. librarian, Mr. A.
Okerlton, the deputy-judge of the Manorial Court
Leet and Court Baron in this town, was called to the
chair, and briefly introduced the Earl of Carlisle to
the meeting.
His LORDSHIP then pro ceded at once to read the
lecture on the poetry Of Pope, which he delivered in
the winter of 1850 to the members of the Mechanics'
Institute at Leeds, as will be still in the recollection
of our readers. To numbers, however, of the present
audience the subject had all the freshness of novelty,
to others, who had previously perused it in print at
the time of its first delivery, the interval that had
since elapsed was sufficiently long to reinvest its se-
cond reading with considerable interest; but the
pleasure and the charm of listening to it from the
lips of its amiable and accomplished author were on
this occasion new alike to all. The thorough ac-
quaintance with his theme which the Noble Lord ex-
hibited throughout, his nice and delicate criticism, his
profuse but still judicious selections from the writings
of the great author whose merits he was expounding,
and the unaffected warmth and feeling of his elocu-
tion, kept the interest and attention of his auditory on
the stretch for nearly a couple of hours, while the in-
teresting quotations which he gave in illustration of
his subject moved them ostensibly to admiration, to
laughter, and to tears. The lecture was frequently
interrupted by the plaudits of the company, and on its
conclusion, which was loudly cheered,

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The Rev. W. AYRE rose on behalf of the com-
mittee, and, addressing the meeting, said he had been
requested to propose a vote of thanks to the Noble
Lord for his kindness in reading to them the lecture
to which they had listened with such d,;,light and sa-
tisfaction.—(Cheers.)
Mr. CLEMITSON having seconded the motion, it was
carried by acclamation.
The Earl d CARLISLE then rose and said—Ladies
and Gentlemen, you must allow me, in a few words,
to express my very deep sense of the honour I have
just received at your bands, in the first place to the
mover and seconder of the late resolution which they
have so considerately brought forward and so very
kindly as regards myself, and to yourselves for the
prompt and cordial manner in which you have re-
ceived what they proposed. I assure you, when I
found that it would be acceptable to the members of
the Morpeth Mechanics' Institute and their friends to
hear me read a lecoare, I felt quite justified in em-
bracing the opportunity which a short visit to this
town put in my power to comply with a request so
obligingly made.—(Cheers.) I felt also there was
something not wholly ioappropriate in a lecture
which had been read for the first time among those
who witnessed the close of my political life—my old
constituents of the West Riding of Yorkshire—being
repeated among those who witnessed the commence-
ment of soy political life, my first constituents in the
ancient borough of Morpeth.—(Loud cheers.) With
reference to the lecture itself which I have had the
honour of reading to you, it has been once or twice said
to me," Do you think that the audiences you assemble
to hear your lectures would be likely to relish a lecture
on the poetry of Pope ; and might it not be better to
compose a lecture which more directly tended to pro-
mete the cause of moral improvement ?" Now,
with respect to this matter, I have only to say—first,
with regard to any want of sympathy in my
audiences, 1
always feel inclined to believe that where
there is the realfe presence of beauty or delicacy, or
fne and high
Tesponsi ve chord in it is always sure to strike a
ril ell human bosonas—(Cheere)— and if I wanted assurance corroborated on this
point, I em certainyl
tive and intelligent shouldhearintz find
it in the very atten-
my lecture this evening. With you have given to
. reference to the other
point, as to the r absence o any direct
mo-
ral utility in the topic I have
to works Of chosen,fa_e I certainly do
mot wish to assign
tions of poetry any higher pl,ous yuclar the composi-
occupy. But as we see in the voyestecathey really
which we tread, among all its abundant
il earth on
useful and substantial products—its stone, is.tt,ores of
its iron, and its lead7there are also Veins :f
mcoal,
precious, shining metal, its gold and silver, and as
even in its
darkest
recesses and its deepest %mires
you will find sparkling gems and precious atones,
its diamonds, its rubies, and its garnets, so I believe
that among those matters which more directly
minister both to our temporal advancement and
our spiritual progress, while we give them their just
and lawful supremacy, the Supreme Architect of
r
nature, the Founder both of the material and the
moral world around us, has wished that we should
enjoy and appropriaos to ourselves the sparkle and the
play of life—all thst is contributed by the rich stores
Hof fancy, and by the gorgeous dreams of poetry—not
in preference to, but in conjunction with the more
grave and essential matters whi .h minister to our ma-
terial, intellectual, and spiritual growth.—(Loud
cheers.) I; is with these feelings that I have felt no
reluctance to ask you for a little while to indulge in
1,29 more light and graceful objects of pursuit, not
wishing to place them above those
of real import-
ance, but thinking it would bnot
ri3 wholly inappro-
P Ite to diversify the
daily „yes. humdrum occupations of our
(Renewed
with a little fancy and a little poetry.—
alway, Ivlisheehdeers.) The audiences which I have
-with mechanic's
draw around me are those connected
ous portion of
the community,
the working and labori-
to express 1/13, „e community, because:l really wished
(Cheers)—aud :fse of the real dignity of labour.—
both in advancingthe important part which it plays
general ameliorationouorf national greatness, and the
I wished to evince of mankind.—Loud cheers.)
tribute either by the" strength of their sinews, or
fort and well-being of the ,oturniesouree to the com-
among them, to show how ren,hul'it.tY, and by coming
members of the same Community, 'eel that we are all
all the same great end before us, thaathod,.that we have
as far as we can, in our day and geneiroacnotributing,
prosperity of our common country,
andtiton,
dto the
the great work of human progrees.--(Cheers3 advance
sure among the institutions which in
our day nain
distinguishing themselves in this onward course, are
will always be 'a great gratification to me to hear of
the prosperity of the mechanics' institute of this town.
For reasons dating through some centuries no-.v, I
have a right to feel strongly interested in this town ;
that.interest has been confirmed by the uniform
kindness I have always experienced among you, and
I wish that both in your ordinary occupations and in
the rational amusements with which you diversify
your daily life, T
. ou may always pursue
that which is
" honest, pure, lovely,d f"report," and that
an e good
all such liberal institutions may fin:l3n among you
to the very utmost.—(Cheers.) I shall not forget
the kindness with which you have received me, and I
beg permission to take my leave of
you with every
good wish for your happiness and wellbeing, and
more especially for the prosperity of your valuable
institution.—(Loud cheers.)
The proceedings, which were of the most interest-
ing and harmonious character throughout, then ter-
minated, and the company then left the hail.

Lady Peel and family have arrived at Galway upon
t tour of the wept country,

THE SUN,

FRANCE.

The General of Division Letting, President of the
Committee of Cavalry at the War-offize, has left
Paris on a mission to Hungary, where he is to assist
at the grand military manceavres which are to be
executed in the neighbourhood of Comorn by a por-
tion of the Austrian army, commanded, it is said,
by the Emperor in person. The Imperial review,
which is to inaugurate the military operations, is to
take place on the 14th inst. Colonel Caillier, of the
Staff, and another staff-officer, aide-de-camp of the
Minister of War, are also to be present at these
man ceuvres.

The French merchantman Uruguay entered Havre
on Thursday night, bringing accounts from Monte
Video of the 21st July. The British steamer Vixen
had arrived there, having on board Sir Charles
Hotham, Envoy Extraordinary of Great Britain, sent
on a special mission to the River Plate. The Cheva-
lier de St. George, the French Envoy, who had
reached Rio Janeiro, was hourly expected.

DENM ARK.
Our Hamburgh correspondence contains accounts
from Copenhagen of the Bth init.
The Danish Industrial Exhibition has been closed.
Messrs. Peto, Ricardo, Althrop, and Andrews,
who are travelling in Denmark on business con.
nected with the railways of that State, have had the
honour of an audience from the King.
The Royal Family of Sweden have arrived at
Hamburgh.
The Copenhagen papers state that the work of
razing the fortifications of Rendsburg will be begun
on the 17th. The War Department has ordered 500
men to be employed for the purpose. The expense
of the work will, it is supposed, be covered by the sale
of the materials.