The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-25 00:00:00

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THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to acid another
home to tho 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected from
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in file years. Here are brief details of a few
of the most recent cases :
F. V., aged 16, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father.
M. A. F., aged 13, homeless, both parents dead.
A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother.
8. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C,. B. aged 15, fallen, mother dead,
aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
_IL S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents,
ri-,• IL, aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead.
B„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead,
„... B. !Red 17, fallen, both parents dead.
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41-`• A. W. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
B_, D., aged is, fallen, both parents dead.
The new home the Committee wish to form would be for
girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who
hate
Joenbrin led astray from the path of virtue.
or by Xmas
Barclay Daniel Cooper,will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Zarolay andc..QBms,tltrideTireetreteet,Cheapeide;

Mr. VILLIERS, who was received with loud cheers,
after expressing his gratification at the position
which had been assigned to him in the proceedings
of the day, said—Fortunately the tone of
addresses on these occasions is rather one of con-
gratulation than of argument, and we have not to
bring forward any new project upon which we have
to depend for your faith in our system; nor have
we to announce any failure in respect to which we
have to appeal to you for our relief. (Cheers.) We
are rather here announcing a great success— a suc-
cess which has been taken as the basis of extended
operations with a view further to carry forward the
original purposes of our project. (Cheers.) In fact,
what is called the literary institute of Willenhall:—
the old institute—by increased connections and ex-
tension of business, feels bound to enlarge its pre-
mises and extend its business. It is matter of no-
toriety that this district has in a most' marvellous
manner progressed in its material wealth. There, has
been a development of manufacturing industry and
commercial activity that can hardly be paralleled in
any other place in the country. (Cheers.) When
that arises suddenly in any district those arrange-
ments are not easily provided that are now deemed
essential to our first-rate and most civilised com-
inu
old institute startednitiesltwasforth
atPurpose the projectors of
the that project. They desired
to facilitate the intercourse between classes that
could not otherwise meet—to give to the working
classes easier access to information and knowledge
—and to found a convenient place for their reading
the usual organs of information. (Cheers.) Fortu-
nately, the prosperity of this district continued to
increase, and from the success which attended the
institute as then established it became the more
necessary to enlarge its arrangements ; and it is for
that purpose that this structure has been erected,
and that we are' now assembled to celebrate its com-
pletion. (Cheers. When we look at the character
of the building—when we consider that it has been
supported by voluntary contributions—and when
when we also consider its purpose, it is impossible
to say that it is not most creditable to those gentle-
men who have been its promoters, and also reflects
the greatest credit on the town. (Cheers.) This in-
stitution owes its origin to benevolent and public
spirited men, whose names I shall always associate
with it. I have had the nominal honour of being
its president from its first establishment, and I feel
proud- of that honour. I always thought that the
institution would be a benefit to the town, and I
believe that institutes of this character may be ren-
dered successful, and may by becoming the nucleus
of operations for the diffusion of knowledge be ren-
dered extremely useful to the working classes, and
may become important aids in the great educational
movement which is now fortunately spreading over
the country. (Cheers.) I have no doubt of the
success of those institutes, or of the confirming
success of the spread of education generally. The
circumstances of the country are most favourable to
that success. We are in a statemf I may say almost
unparalleled continuous prosperity, and we must
not disguise from ourselves the fact that this is a
most important element in the result of any effort
that may be made to instruct and educate the work-
ing classes, because their physical condition must
be their first consideration. It is that on which we
base all our expectations of elevating their charac-
ter and spreading information among them. The
working man must be at ease in his physical well-
being before you can successfully appeal to his
mind. (Hear, hear.) I think this district itself
offers you the assurance that this must be so, and as
an illustration I may remind you of what were my
impressions when I was first acquainted with it
exactly 30 years ago this month. (Hear, hear.)
When I first visited Willenhall, I came for the pur-
pose, first, of asking and afterwards of acknow-
ledging the honour and favour which I have ever
since enjoyed. I was pleased with the simplicity
of character and opinion of the people, but it
did strike me that in its moral aspect it was
somewhat rough. (Hear, hear, and laughter.)
I was told that if I wished to commu-
nicateoe
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But, fitßenrhatioretrattirh minds than the subject of education or what
we are now met to discourse upon, and if anybody
at that time had talked of erecting au institute, it
would have been thought that he had ill-selected his
you had searched the
subject.
oelin tA that time there was was only one day-
thousand houses of which it might have consisted,
you could not have discovered in any one week more
than 50 copies of the public journals or periodicals
of any kind. You may yourself judge of the con-
trast between that and the present time, when no
less than a thousand copies of the public journals
enter the town weekly. (Cheers.) But I must say
that at that time complaints were made that trade
was bad, and not only that trade was bad, but that
it was so not by the visitation of Heaven,-but rather
by the meddling of man. (Hear, hear.) That was
the state of mind in which I found the people of this
district at that time, and such was the back-
ward state of education. I don't know that
it differed much from other parts of the
country, for there were certain things which dis-
heartened and discouraged the friends of educa-
tion and those who desired to spread it among
the people. The effect of a few years' schooling was
soon dissipated by a few years of want. , (Hear.) I
am not going to refer to history or to politics. I
will only say that the curtain has fallen upon that
period, and that I hope we shall never see the like
of it again. (Hear, hear.) It is our better fortune
to stand here at this time and to contemplate a
scene of a very different character, and I think that
those who have striven to benefit the working man
and spread learning among the working classes,
must rejoice at the position which the subject occu-
pies at the present moment. (Cheers.) The ques-
tion of education seems almost to supersede every
other. People of every condition seem to be
awakened to their responsibility of striving to bene-
fit their humbler brethren in this respect. Parlia-
ment votes annually £BOO,OOO a year for educa-
tional purposes, and an equal amount is derived
from other sources. (Hear, hear.) All the mis-
chievous delusions about the danger of over-educat-
ingt the poor have been dissipated, and experience,
too, of the most recent kind seems to point to the
information of the working man as offering the very
best assurance for the safety of property and of our
institutions. (Cheers.) The only question that seems
to be in doubt is as to the form and quality of the
education that shall be provided for the poor, and I
the
e3s ithis
in
fulfilling
am not disposed to differ with those who say that
`• there must be a limit to the provision made by the
to the state of public feeling and
h
State for school purposes. But my particular rea-
son forgenerallikreferringposition of the question of education, so
far as it is provided for the poor, is to draw your
attention to the very great advantage it gives to
institutes
their purposes and
(Hear.) If it is considered that the poor
inticatnnenotoansif. o
rd the time to obtain instruction, surely

sion of the State can do little more than provide
them with the mechanical part of education, which
gives them the power of acquiring knowledge by
means of reading and writing. These institutions
provide means for employing the leisure hours of the
working man wisely for himself and beneficially for
the community. (Cheers.) I know there are per-
sons who question the advantages of these institu-
tions, because they say the instruction, given is above
that which is necessary for the working man, that
the opportunity is not given the working man to
profit by them, that the working men generally have
not supported them, and that they have failed. That
would lead to the inquiry, why have they failed, and
could they have succeeded under the management
which has been applied to them ? If this institution
had been placed in Willenhall at the time to which
I have referred, and books, and maps, and philoso-
phical instruments had been provided, I believe you
would have found the building and the stores of
knowledge where you had placed them, but you
would not have traced the steps of the working man.
They have not considered the capacities of the worl
ing man. They regarded him almost as a philoso-
pher requiring only books and instruments. But if
these institutes wish to do the good they profess—if
they wish to employ the working man's leisure hours,
and afford him all the information he is capable of
acquiring, they must consider what are his condition
and circumstances, and what is his capacity, and
adapt their arrangements to that purpose. (Cheers.)
One argument used against these institutes is that
the people have not sufficient leisure to come to the
lectures or the library—that they are exhausted by
physical toil in the course of the day, and require
diversion and relaxation and not the trouble and

force of study. An answer to that objection seems
to be afforded by the working men themselves. A
man must be unfortunate at this period of the world
if he has not half his life to himself. I hope that

few people work more than 12 hours a day, and I
trust there are many who work much less. Now,
what have we seen lately, and what is becoming
common throughout the country ? It is what are
called "Working Men's Exhibitions." A very large
exhibition was opened in London, and the principal
articles exhibited were the productions of working
men—articles not connected with their own avoca-
tions merely, but •with other branches of art and
science. That exhibition was opened by Earl Russell
and closed by Mr. Gladstone, and the prizes were
distributed by Lord Shaftesbury. The exhibition
itself created a great sensation. The example is
about to be followed in other parts of London, and
I have seen an intimation that one is to be formed

in the midland counties, containing the productions
of working men in their leisure hours. (Cheers.)
That is the practical answer to those who say the
people have no leisure to amuse themselves, or to
employ their time beneficially. (Hear, hear.) It
seems to me that if the people have time to employ
their leisure in evil, they have also leisure to employ
it well. How the people employed their leisure in
this and neighbouring counties in past times, there
are sufficient records to show. If they have time
to witness brutal sports and degrading practices,
surely they must have time to employ for more ele-
vated and beneficial purposes--(cheers)---and more
especially when a universal feeling prevails that that
ought to be the manner in which diey should employ

their time, in contrast to the manner in which it was
spent in former times, when there was too much en-
I for the degraded mode of life followed
by the working man. (Hear, hear.) I say, then,
that these institutes ought to succeed—(cheers)--if
they consider what the circumstances of the people
are, because we learn, from all those who have ob-
served the character of working men, that owing to
the humanising influences to which they have been
subject of late, there has been a "very great change,
and there is a great desire for intellectual improve-
ment and recreation. They are ready to avail them-
selves of it whenever it is offered to them. (Cheers.)
Why, then, should some provision not be made ?
Why should our institutions be merely philoso-
phical cabinets ? Why should not arrangements
be made to suit the peculiar circumstances of the
poor ? lam glad to find that in this institute pro-
vision is made for concerts, lectures, as well as
general reading and the perusal of the daily.
papers. All of these are rational and im-
proving modes of occupying a man's time. I under-
stand that whenever a good concert takes place, the
working man is ready to divert himself, if the charge
is within his means. I understand also that even in
the agricultural villages there are readings, at the
low price of a penny, from some of our best English
authors, and that the rooms are crowded. (Hear,
hear.) I understand also from one of the lecturers
who is in the habit of visiting large towns that the
rooms are always crowded when the lecture is suited
to their tastes. Surely all these things might be
brought within the sphere of the operations of such
an institute as this. I feel so much confidence in the

judgment and energy of those who have promoted
and carried the institute to a successful issue that I
am quite sure they will have observed in what re-
spect other institutes have failed, and in what way
they can carry out their objects with most effect,
and I am sure that in the course of a short time we
shall find the working classes within this district as-
sociating more closely with the institute for the pur-
pose of pleasure, recreation, and instruction.
(Cheers.) If I might be allowed to make a reference
to one want in your arrangements, it would be that
I do not see any intention of connecting this insti-
tute with the school of deiign. Now, that is really
a most important matter for the manufacturing
classes throughout the country. (Hear.) Au inquiry
lately took place in the House of Commons as to the
effect of these Schools of Design which have been
in operation during the last 20 years. They cer-
tainly have notbeen well managed, andhave not had
all the success that was hoped for, but on reading
the evidence I was astonished at finding what ad-
vantages have been derived from them-:--first, by
the students themselves, and then by the manufac-

turers, and the influence which they have on our
trade with foreign countries. (Hear, hear.) Opi-
nions have been expressed in the House of Com-
mons that nothing could be more important to the
manufacturing interests of the country than to
cultivate the art of design, and to improve the
style of the artizan in that respect. The com-
mittee in their reports state Iliat the impression
which they have received '1 ,the evidence is
that Schools of Art have contributed largely to
the improvement of the taste of the country of late
years, and that great national advantages have been
derived from them—(cheers)—that schools of design
had recently been reconstituted. There is a central
department. It is supposed that the schools will be
conducted with greater advantages than heretofore.
It enables institutions like this to put themselves in
relation with it, and by paying a small sum they
will have the advantage of models and various other
things in connexion with art. We must not forget
the importance of this advantage. We are, gene-
rally speaking, equal to the producers of most coun-
tries ; but if there is one respect which we pay to
others it is with regard to taste and design ; and
although we have now the advantage of free trade,
we must not forget that we must take free trade
with all its consequences. We have derived many
benefits from it, but we never shrunk from the ex-
pectation of an active competition with the foreigner,
and it is in this particular respect that the artizan in.
England, in competition with foreign artiz antsh,elirs
carefully trained. (Hear, hear.) Certainly,
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