The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1863.

OLD—First prize of £25, to Mr. John Ford, jun., of Rush-
ton, Blandford, Dorset—second prize of £l5, to Mr. Walter
Farthing, of Stowey-court, Bridgewater, Somerset—and
third prize of £lO, to Mr. William Smith, of Exeter.
CLASS 4.— DEVON COWS, ABOVE 4 YEARS OLD—First
prize of £25, to Mr. John Overman, of Burnham, Sutton,
Norfolk—second prize of £l5, to Mr. William Heath, of
Ludham-hall, Norwich—and third prize of £lO, to Major-
Gen. the Hon. A. N. Hood, Cumberland-lodge, Windsor.
HEREFORD BREED.

CLASS S.—HEREFORD STEERS, NOT EXCEEDING 3 YEARS
OLD—First prize of £3O, to Major• General the Hon. A. N.
Hood, Cumberland-lodge, Windsor—second prize of £2O, to
Mr. Richd. Shirley, of Bancott Munslow, Church Stratton,
Shropshire—and third prize of £lO, to Mr, Henry Bet-
tridge, of East Hanney, Wantage, Berks.
CLASS 6—HEREFORD STEERS OR OXEN, ABOVE 3 YEARS
OLD—First prize of £3O, to Mr. Wm. Heath, of Ludham-
hall, Norwich—second prize of £2O, to Mr. Wm. Symonds,
of Lambourne, Rcmford, Essex—and third prize of £lO, to
Mr. William Aldworth, of Frilford, Abingdon.
CLASS 7,.—HEREFORD HEIFERS, NOT EXCEEDING 4
YEARS OLD—First prize of £25, to Mr. Henry Bettridge,
of East Hannay, Wantage, Berke—second prize of £l5, to
Mr. Wm. Groves, of Walk-mills, Shrewsbury—and third
prize of £lO, to Mr. Chas. Hunt, of Widemarsh, Hereford.
CLASS B—HEREFORD COWS, ABOVE 4 YEARS OLD—
First prize of £2O, to Mr. George Pitt, of Chadnor-court,
Dilwyn, Leominster—second prize of £l5, to Major-General
the Hon. A. N. Hood, of Cumberland-lodge, Windsor—and
third prize of £lO, to Mr. Joseph S. Draper, of Thingehill-
grange, Hereford.
SHORTHORNED BREED.

CLASS 9.—SHOETHORNED STEERS, NOT EXCEEDING 3
YEARS OLD—First prize of £3O, to Mr. John Thompson,
Badminton, Chippenham, Wilts—second prize of £2O, to
the Earl of Radnor, of Coleshill, Highworth—and third
prize of £lO, to Sir A. de Rothschild, of Aston Clinton,
Tring, Bucks.
CLASS 10.—SHORTHORNED STEERS OR OXEN, ABOVE 3
YEARS OLD—First prize of -00, to Mr. William H. Baker,
of Cottesmore, Oakham, Rutland—second prize of £2O, to
Mr. Robert Swinnerton, of Weddington-grove, Nuneaton,
Warwick—and third prize of £lO, to Mr. John B. Thomp-
son, of Anlaby, Hull.
CLASS 11.—SIIORTITORNED HEIFERS, NOT EXCEEDING
4 YEARS OLD—First prize of £25, to Mr. Charles Swais-
land, of Crayford, Kent—second prize of £l5, to Mr.
Richard Stratton, of Stapelton, Bristol—and third prize of
£lO, to Mr. John Faulkner, of Burton-on-Trent, Stafford.
CLASS 12.—SITORTHORNED CONS, ABOVE 4 YEARS OLD
—First prize of £25. to Mr. Thomas Matthews, of Merton,
Thetford, Norfolk—second prize of £l5, to Mr. John Lynn,
Stroxton, Grantham, Lincoln—and third prize of £lO, to
Mr. Charles H. Abbott, of Long Ashton, Bristol.

second prize of £5 to Lord Wenlock, of Much Wenlock,
Shropshire.
CLASS 41.—FAT NETHER SHEEP OF THE SHROPSHIRE
BREED, Two YEASS OLD (ABOVE 23 AND UNDER 35
MONTHS)—First prize of £l5 to Mr. Thomas Horley, jun.,
of The Fosse, near Leamington, Warwick— and second
prize of £5 to the Earl of Aylesford, of Packington-hall,
Coventry.

papers supply, and which has a most baneful effect on the

whole North American character. Newspapers will al ways be
a great portion of the intellectual food of a people,and our own
are conducted in a verydifferent spirit, False and wrong their
views may often be, but in general they are advocated fairly

and temperately; the arguments are addressed to the judg-
ment of the people, or t o the best and noblest, and not to the
base and vulgar passions of humanity. (Cheers.) I trust that
popular education will soon be far more universal than it is.
I believe it to be as much a necessity of our age as air, water,

or the food we eat. If in America education has not had all

he good effects which it ought to have had, I say when the

air we breathe is impure, or the water we drink is foul, we
take measures to purify and to cleanse; we do not dream of
cutting off the supplies, and what we have to consider is not
whether the people shall be educated or not, but how the
fullest and purest education shall be afforded. (Cheers.) I

believe institutions such as this may do much good I

am glad to see by the subjects of examination that nothing
very high is aimed at. What is principally insisted on is a
sound structure of knowledge of your own English lan-
guage. If you can thus induce young persons leaving school,
who have a natural taste for the acquisition of knowledge,
to study some of the masterpieces of our language, either in

poetry or in prose, you will have fortified in the moat effec-
tual manner their minds against the reception of anything

which is base, ignoble, or injurious. (Applause.) lam not
going to imitate the Americans by exaggerating. I know we
cannot by societies such as this reach the great masses of
the people. It is only a very little way we can go, but our

direction is good, and m e do get hold of those young per-
sons leaving school who have a natural inclination to study,
and whose minds, if not directed by such institutions as
this in the right way might, on the contrary, be perverted

to the wrong way. (Cheers.) Ladies and gentlemen, I

am reminded by that part of the resolution which refers to

she distress that in former years there were some grounds

on which a comparison might be drawn between Lanca-

shire and the Northern States of America. Both coun-

tries excelled beyond any other in energy—both were
making money faster—in both the manufacturers and
capitalists were richer, and, I believe, the labouring
population were better off than in any other part of
the globe. In both the science of the application of ma-
chinery to the wants of mankind had reached a higher per-
fection than any where else; and in both that extension of
the powers and use of machinery had exercised a marked

and decided influence upon the public mind. May I be for-
given if I say that in both the subject of my comparison,
perhaps, an impartial observer might have detected some of

:he same faults and weaknesses ? Perhaps iu Lancashire, as

in America, we have in former years been, If it is a fault,
almost too self-reliant. Perhaps we have trusted too much
to ourselves for the continuance of the prosperity which we

so long enjoyed. Perhaps we have been a little wanting in
sympathy with the feelings of the rest of England. Perhaps
we thought that not only were we stronger and richer than
the inhabitants of the rest of our country, but wiser, and

that the time would never come when we should need, their
assistance. To continue the p4rallel, I am sorry to say that

;o both at the same moment and from the smile cause a

heavy blow and great misfortune have occurred. But here
the parallel comes to an end. While in America every day
the war continues each side only learns to hate the other

with still more bitter hatred, while the Northern States
seem not content with the war they are waging at home,
but look with distrust and suspicion on all countries abroad

—countries which I do believe from the bottom of my heart
do not wish or intend any evil to them—in Lancashire, on
the other hand, it was only when we knew adversity that
we found out that the people of the rest of England were our
friends and brothers. (Cheers.) Lancashire will not soon for-

get the heartinfle, the generosity, the spontaneity of the
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movement with which all England came to her assistance,

(Cheers.) And England will not soon forget the heroism and
fortitude with which Lancashire has borne her troubles. We
know England better,and England knows us better,than any
time the last 20 years; and if we have suffered it is worth
something to feel we are heart and soul and hand in hand
with all our brothers in this great nation. (Cheers.) While in
America the prospect grows darker and darker, and every
day of war seems only to push further onward in the future
the final result, whatever it may be, here I trust we may
say without boasting that we have passed through the
blackest darkness of the night, and that calculations as rea-
sonable as can be made prove to us that after another win-
ter of less severe hardship we shall at last emerge again into
something like our former state of prosperity, (Cheers.)
One more point of interest, I think, there is. It was our
good fortune to know at once, or very soon after this cala-
mity fell upon us, what was to be its extent, and to be able
to take measures to meet it. Lancashire was a strong man
beaten down, almost paralysed for a time ; but life is slowly,
though painfully, returning. But the other subject of my
comparison does not know, even yet, what is the extent of
her calamity. At this moment, I believe, nine-tenths of
the people of the Northern States are enjoying a greater
amount of apparent prosperity than ever they enjoyed
before. I was astonished the other day to read in the speech
—I forget whether of Mr. Cobden or Mr. Bright at Roch-
dale; I think it was Mr. Cobden's—that not a citizen of
the United States was the poorer for the war. I will not
believe that either of those distinguished men could be so
false to all the long-cherished doctrines and theories of their
lives as to suppose there can be anything sound or real in the
prosperity which that people are now enjoying. Do either
of them doubt for a moment that for every hour of this false
and inflated prosperity a dreadful reckoning must surely
come ? No, ladies and gentlemen, I say that the utter pro-
stration which fell upon us was infinitely bettor—and we
ought to thank Providence for it—when compared with the
fatal prosperity with which the United States of America
e now cursed. It was far better for us to know at once
and take measures to meet the calamity, and slowly and
feebly to recover from it, than to go on recklessly, as those
States are doing now, into a course which all thinking men
must know can lead them to nothing but utter and
complete national ruin. how long that day may be
averted it is impossible to say—but if there is any truth in
history, and if we can derive any information from its les-
sons, I think we cannot doubt, however much we may de-
plore, that a catastrophe such as the world has never seen
must overtake that once flourishing and prosperous country.
Atter some concluding remarks his lordship sat down amid
much cheering, and the resolution was unanimously passed
Subsequent resolutions recog nised the success of the in-
stitution and of the science and art classes. '