The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-03 00:00:00

ADAAIE TUSSAIM'S EXHIBITION.-
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Mr. Hughes, M.P., and the Working Men's

College.

A meeting of the members of the Working Mon's
College was held last evening, in the lecture-hall of their
institution, in Great Ormond-street, for the purpose of con-
gratulating Mr. T. Hughes upon his election for Lambeth.
There was a very numerous attendance. The Rev. F. D.
Maurice, M.A., principal of the college, occupied the chair,
and among those present were Mr. Layard, M.P., Mr. C.
Neate, M.P., Mr. John Ruskin, Professor Cairnes, M. Louis
Blanc, Mr. Rossiter, Mr. Shorter, Mr. Hastings Hughes,
Mr. J. J. Merriman, Mr. J. L. Ludlow, Mr. Solway, Mr.
Dayton, Mr. R. Newton, &c. Apologies for non-attendance
were received from Mr. Adams, the American Minister, Mr.
Goschen, M.P., Mr. Torrens, M.P., and Mr. J. S. Mill, M.P.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said he stood
there as the representative of the students of the Working
Men's College, and while congratulating the electors of
Lambeth upon returning Mr. Hughes as their representa-
tive, he also congratulated the students of the college upon
the fact that Mr. Hughes still belonged to them. The only
reason that could be given for inviting the electors of Lam-
beth and other gentlerrien to attend upon this occasion was
that the members of the college knew the man who had been
chosen by the electors of Lambeth even bettor than they
did. They had known him intimately for the last 17 or 18
years, and they had always found him a faithful and true
man. They had therefore a right to offer their congratula-
tions to the electors of Lambeth, based not on what they
hoped Mr. Hughes might do, but upon what they knew he
had done. (Cheers.) People were told before the passing of
the Reform Bill, and had been told continuously since, that
the only chance for men of cultivation and education to find
their way into Parliament unless they were very rich, was
that they should be returned for nomination boroughs.
Ho had always believed that the charge was not true, and
it never could have had a stronger confutation than in the
return of Mr. Hughes. for Lambeth, of Mr. Torrens for
Finsbury, Mr. Gosch.en for London, and Mr. Mill for West-
minster. He rejoiced heartily, on the strongest moral
grounds, that that confutation had been given, and he espe-
cially congratulated the electors of Lambeth upon return-
ing as their representative so able and distinguished a man
as Thomas Hughes. (Cheers.)
Mr. SHORTER moved " That we, the members of the
Working Men's College, hereby offer our most hearty con-
gratulations to Thomas Hughes, Esq., one of the founders
of this college, on his election to Parliament. (Cheers.)
Mr. R. NEWTON, in seconding the resolution, referred to
the steps which Mr. Hughes had taken during his connec-
tion with the college to elevate and improve the condition
of the working classes.

The motion was unanimously agreed to.
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college for having called together those new friends who
had manfully stood by him in the recent conflict in order
to give them a. certificate that they had not made a mistake
in taking him as their representative. He owed much to
the institution in which they were assembled, and
he
esteemed it one of the greatest privileges of his life to have
fallen in with their principal when he came up as a youth
from Oxford. Seventeen years ago they commenced their
work by establishing a ragged school yard on the opposite
side 'of the street. Subsequently they extended their ope-
rations, and endeavoured to spread throughout the country
the principles of association and co-operation. Mr. Maurice
was their English leader, but they got their ideas from the
other side of the Channel ; and he was delighted to see
then present the man who was one of the first to make
those principles known in France—M.Louis Blanc. (Cheers.)
Although he had not been able to agree with all the views
of M. Blanc, he thought that all those who had endea-
voured to deal practically and theoretically with great social
questions owed a deep debt of gratitude to that gentleman.
He (Mr. Hughes) had at all times done all in his power to
heal up breaches and to introduce terms of peace into
the war, as it had been called, between labour
' and capital in this country. He felt that our prosperity
as a commercial nation rested more than anything
else upon the extinction of that strife by peaceful measures,
and he saw in the calmness with which these questions were
now discussed, and the mind and thought brought to bear
upon them, a better state of things than formerly existed.
Differences which had long existed were being gradually
healed, and masters and men were becoming united, feeling
that they had but one interest, and that that interest was
the interest of the whole country. (Cheers.) There was
a time when a very different state of things existed, when
men were misunderstood, and when no portion of the re-
cognised press would stand by them and put forward their
statements as fairly and truthfully as they had a right to
expect. He had done what he could to make the press of
the country more fair, and to give afair field on both sides,
but the part he had taken was extremely small compared
with that which had been taken by some he saw in the
room at that moment, and whom he congratulated on the
success of their exertions. For many years ho had con-
tinued his education in that college, with results for which
he never could be too grateful to the institution. When he
first came to London he was a member of one of the most
distinguished colleges of one of our oldest universities, but
his education was wanting in many respects, and-it was
not until he had belonged for some years to this humble
working men's college that he really began to understand
that the word " college" meant something more than a
place where a man learned to row, and take degrees, and
sign articles. It took him some years to find out that the
word " fellowship," when connected with education,
meant something more than £2OO a year until a man got
married, with the chance of a living if he took orders
in the Church of England. (Laughter and cheers.) He
had received benefits from his connection with the col-
lege for which he never could be adequately grateful.
The principles which to some extent he had brought with
him, when he assisted in founding the college, had received
tenfold confirmation from the social life and the whole
meaning and work of the place. It was now wrought into
him as a conviction, and as a thing of which he was as cer
taro as he was of life, that the men who were engaged in
the hard work of mailual labour were v,o capable of the