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

THE EARL OF CARLISLE AT

MORPETH.

MORPETII, SATURDAY.—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 pr2pare
an original lecture, but offering to read his lecture on
the " Poetry of Pope." The committee gladly em-
braced this proposal, and the necessary arrangements
were made for 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 he
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, visited 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 pions 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 Aldgate, 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 Jahn Vaabrugh, 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 was
adorned with several cheice bouquets of fiewers, the
votive offerings of ladies in the town. Shortly after
eight o'clock the Earl of Carlisle, accompanied by 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. WILSON, librarian, jr. A.
Charlton, the deputy-judge of the Manorial Court
Lest and Court B iron in this town, was called to the
chair, and briefly inteoduced the Earl of Carlisle to
the meeting.
Has LOILDskIIP then proceeded at once to read the
lecture on tlae 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 nambere, however, of the present
audience the subject had all the freshness of novelty,
to others, who had previously perused it in print alt
the time of its first delivery, the interval thati: had
since elapsed was eufficieatly long to reinvest
se-
cond reading with considerable interest; but a- the
pleasure and the charm of listening' to it from' the
lips of its amiable and accomplished euthor were on
this occasion new alike to ail. The thorough ac-
quaintance with his theme which the Noble Lord ex-
hibited throughout, his nice and delicate criticism, his
profuse bat 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,
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 delight and sa-
tisfaction.—(Cheers.)
Mr. CLEMITSON having seconded the motion, it was
carried by acclamation.
The Earl of 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 hands, in the first place to the
mover and seconder of the late reso!ution 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 lecture, I fell quite justified in em-
bracing the opportunity which a short visit to this
town put in my power to comply with a request co
cbliginely made.—(Cheers.) I felt also there was
something not wholly inappropriate in a lecture
which bad 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 my 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
tc hear your lectures would be likely to relish a lecture
on the poetry of Pope ; and might it not be better to
composemot e
a lecture which more directly tended to pro-
the cause of moral improvement ?" Now,
with respect to this matter, I have only to say—first,
with
audiences, reg a rilto any want of sympathy in my
always feel inclined to believe that where
there is rleiresence of beauty or delicacy, or
fine and high fee
always sure to strike a
responsive chord it
511 human bosoms—(Cheers)—
and if I wanted my ass
I am certain assurance
point,e should corroborated on this
atten-
tive and intelligent hearing
find it in the very
With
which you have given to
any direct
my lecture this evening,
reference to the other
point, as to the absence of
mo-
ral utility in the topic I have
not wish to assign to works of fancy o'rlteheertainly do
ecompolsli-
choseepuerpose of
composi-
tions of poetry any higher place than
PhYsicaltb y
eyarrthea
occupy. But as we see in the
all its abundant stores ono
which we tread, among f
useful and substantial products—its
stone, its
coal,
veins its iron, and its lead—there are also of more
precious, shining metal, its gold and silver, and as
even in its darkest recesses and its deepest fissures
you will find sparkling genv and precious stones,
its diamonds, its rubiee, 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
nature, the Founder both of the material and the
moral world around us, has wished that we should
enjoy and appropriate to ourselves the sparkle and the
play of life—all that is contributed by the rich stores
of fancy, and by the gorgeous dreams of poetry—not
in preference to, but in conjunction with the more
grave and essential matters which minister to our ma-
terial, intellectual, and spiritual growth.—(Loud
cheers.) It is with these feelings that I have felt no
reluctance to ask you for a little while to indulge in
moose more light and graceful objects of pursuit, not
iing to place them above those of real import-
ance,. but thinking it would be not wholly inappro- I
Pr"te to diversify the
da humdrum occupations of our
(ily lives
Renewed with a little fancy and a little poetry.—
always wished cheers.) The audiences which I have I
to draw around me are those connected
with mechanic
ous portion
m of
the
s institutions, the working and labori-
to express community, because:l really wished
y sense
(Cheers)—and the of
the real dignity of labour.—
both in advancing important part which it plays
ourof national greatness, and the
general amelioration
I wished to evince my re ankind.—(Loud cheers.)
tribute either by the strength of their sinews, or
by their ingenuity and resoucon-
of
fort and Well-being of the community,
to the com-
t
y, and by coming
among them, to show how much I feel that we are all
members of the same community, and that
all the same great end before us, that of contributing,we
have
as far as we can, in our day and generation
prosperity of our common country, and to advance
the great work of human progress.—(cheers)
.‘
I am
sure among the institutions which in our d" are
distinguishing themselves in this onward course, it
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 floe-, I
have a right to feel strongly interested in this tow, ;
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, you may always pursue that which is
" honest, pure, lovely, and of good report," and that
all such liberal institutions may flourish 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 hatl.

Lady Peel and family have arrived at Gal way upon
a tour of the west country.

THE SUN,

FRANCE.

The General of Division Letang, President of the
Committee of Cavalry at the War-office, has left
Paris on a mission to Hungary, where he is to assist
at the grand military mancouvres 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 Caner, of the
Staff, and another staff-officer, aide-de-camp of the
Minister of 'War, are also to be present at these
manceuvres.

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.

DENMARK.
Our Hamburgh correspondence contains accounts
from Copenhagen of the Bth inst.
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 for'ifications of Rendsburg will be begun
on the 17th. The War Department bas ordered 500
men to be employed fur the purpose. The expense
of the work will, it is supposed, be covered by the- sale
of the materials.