The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-27 00:00:00

THE CONCERTS AT EXETER HALL.

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The Wednesday Evening Concerts have been revived
at Exeter Hall, though not under the former manage-
ment. The views of the present projector are of a more
extended character. An orchestra of very ample dimen-
sions has been secured, and the names that have been
published show that most of the best players have been
engaged. The selection of the instrumentalists have
been entrusted to Mr. Benedict, the accomplished com-
poser. Upon this gentleman has been bestowed the
office of director. The particular plans of the speculator
in this new musical undertaking have not transpired ;
but we conclude that he has no other intention than
that of giving good and popular music to the public at
an easily accessible price. He binds himself by no de-
clarations as regards native talent, but will doubtless,
if it offers itself in a practicable shape, make it available.
The array of names which he has issued as soloists and
vocalists is very imposing, and artists of the highest
repute are announced to appear during the progress of
the six nights of which the first series of concerts is to
consist. All our best English performers are named,
with whom will be associated such of the most distin-
guished foreigners who happen to be within the tempta-
tion of an engagement.

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The first part of the scheme of last night was devoted
to the Desert of Felicien David—the celebrated sym-
phony, or more properly cantata, which some few years
ago worked up the Parisians to a pitch of enthusiasm
bordering on fanaticism.

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The second part of the concert—preceded by the
National Anthem, sung by Miss Stabbach and others—
contained several agreeable vocalities, the most remark-
able of which were Lindsay Sloper's clever scena, "Joan
of Arc," rendered by Miss Dolby with her usual graphic
force ; Loder's ballad, "There's a path by the water,"
which Miss Isaacs sang so naively as to win an up-
roarious redemand ; and a scena from the Lombardi, in
which a Mdlle. None made her first appearance before
an English audience. This young lady established her-
self very favouzably, and promises to enjoy a considerable
share of popularity. She has a mezzo-soprano voice,
the quality of which is full and rich, and unquestionable
experience. The taste and feeling with which she gave
the air of Verdi were facts which the audience at once
appreciated, and she was assailed with an encore that
was irresistible. Mr. Lawler, Miss Cicely Nott, and
Miss Poole were each contributors of a song ; and Mac-
farren's madrigal, "Maidens, would ye 'scape undoing,"
was sung by the chorus, who also gave the once-famous
glee, "The Chough and Crow," with pleasant effect.
In the course of this part, Mendelssohn's "Rondo bril-
lante " was performed by Miss Arabella Goddard, whose
extraordinary executancy afforded the customary grati-
fication, and elicited the customary applause.
The ball was crowded in every part.

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DALMORAL.—The Queen's residence at Balmoral, con-
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progress, and promises, without great. pretensions, to be
a piece of solid and real construction. The south and
east sides have been roofed in, and will speedily be
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with dressed granite, the mouldings and ornamental
portions being carved on the spot. A correspondent
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or windlass. He says that every block of granite—
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considerable celerity ; larger blocks are conveyed by
four Highlanders, on a couple of poles. Primitive, cer-
tainly. The castle will have two towers when completed.
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THE SUN, LONDON, PITURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER O, 1853.

gence they possess. When I hear people advocating
temperance—and I myself am a temperate man—l fall
back upon this conviction, that the way to make them
temperate is to find them other sources of intelligent
excitement and recreation than that which is offered at
the present time. And I consider that one way to do
that is by giving them education. And I say, moreover,
that if a man is deprived of those resources for intellec-
tual and moral enjoyment which education alone can
give him, he naturally falls back into excitements and
sensual indulgences, because excitement of some kind all
human beings must have. Well, then, I say, whether
it be sanitary improvement we want, whether we want
a moral improvement of the people by making them
more temperate, and thereby giving them those greater
resources by which they can themselves secure sani-
tary improvement—l say education lies at the bottom
of it all. Again, I see in different parts of the
country great social movements between different
classes of the community. For instance, in Preston
and other towns there are twenty or thirty thousand
people out of work. Not a chimney but is cold and
cheerless—neither smoke nor steam saluting our ears or
eyes in those communities. There is an amount of
misery and desolation there to be seen that must follow
from laying down work and stopping the wheels of those
seats of industry for a month, six weeks, or two months.
Why does that arise? I have no hesitation in saying
it springs from ignorance ; not an ignorance to he
charged to one party in the dispute. It is an ignorance
on both sides which leads to such results. Do you sup-
pose that when the world becomes more intelligent you
will have such scenes as that—of whole communities
stopping their labour for a month •r two, and causing
such misery and desolation as may not be extinguished
for five or six years to come ? No ; when men come to
understand the principles on which the rights of wages
and the rights of property depend, they will not settle
their matters in such a bungling way as that, which
brings so much misery upon all parties concerned. Why,
even now we see great progress made in this respect.
We do not find, every time the cessation of work by 25,000
of
blood the community takes place, the military called out and
sWe see an amount of passive endurance
which certainly, if it had wisdom and true
policy
at its
back, would be highly commendable. We
see none of
that violence which we formerly saw, and we shall live
to see the time when another step will be taken in intel-
ligence—when men will settle those matters, not by re-
sorting to blind passion—not by the multitude o f gathering
together, and vituperating one another—but we shall,
instead of that, see perfect liberty given to all parties,
whether it be masters or whether it be men, to arrange
these things according to their own interest and will ;
and when that is the case the rate of wages will be settled
just as quietly as you see the price of any article settled
in the market. You do not find when people go to
market with their cattle, with their potatoes, or any-
thing else, that the dealers in potatoes, for instance,
strike against the buyers ; that the sellers stand by with
folded arms, whilst all the potatoes rot, and perhaps re-
solve that they will starve rather than submit to the
terms of the buyers. No, it is the higgling in the
market that tranquilly decides what the market value is
from day to day ; and thus the thing is settled without
those shocks and collisions, and waste of property, which
we now see arising from what I consider the most unfor-
tunate, and, speaking of it as a sign of intelligence, the
most discreditable thing passing in our time. Now,
understand, I am not saying a word as to the right of
either side in this question. I believe that both parties
think themselves right ; nay, both parties are right in
trying to get the best terms they can, the one for their
labour, the other for their capital. All I say is, that if
there were more intelligence upon these questions, upon
that law which decides invariably and inexorably the re-
lative nature of labour as well as anything else, these mat-
ters would be settled without that hideous suffering which
I deplore to see accompany these strikes and struggles in
our manufacturing districts. (Cheers.) And when I say
that intelligence will put an end to these things, I am
merely stating what has been done already in America.
You cannot point to an instance in America—where the
people are more educated than they are here—of total
cessation from labour by a whole community or town,
given over as it were to desolation • nor, I repeat, will
you see it here when these principles are understood,
and the enlightenment which such institutions as this
are intended to promote shall be spread throughout the
whole community. This brings me back again to the
necessity of schools. We want schools that shall teach
these principles, and accustom the people to think of
these matters, and be able to take a calm and reasonable
view of the questions affecting their own interests, and
not be led away by passion, or allow others to mislead
them by appeals to their passions. I say schools are
necessary, and we shall never be safe as a manufacturing
public, as a mining people, until it is invariably the case
that we have schools by the side of every large manu-
factory, and at the mouth of every pit. (Cheers). Now,
I have just alluded to America. When I came through
Manchester the other day, I found many of the moat
influential of the manufacturing capitalists talking very
carefully upon a report which had reached them from
a gentleman who was selected by the Government to
go out to America, to report upon the Great Exhibition
in New York. That gentleman was one of the most
eminent mechanicians and machine makers in Man-
chester, employing a very large number of workpeople,
renowned for the quality of his productions—a man
known in the scientific world, and appreciated by men of
' science, from the Astronomer royal downwards. He '
has been over to America to report upon the progress
of manufactures and the state of the mechanical arts in
the United States, and he has returned. No report
from him to the Government has yet been published,
and therefore what he has to say specifically on each
topic cannot be known until it has been so made and
published to the country. But it has oozed out in Man-
chester, amongst his neighbours, that he found in Ame-
rica a degree of intelligence amongst the manufacturing
operatives, a state of things in the mechanical arts, which
has convinced him that if we are to hold our own, if we
are not to fall back in the rear of the race of nations, we
must educate our people, to put them upon a level with
the more educated artisans of the United States. We
shall all have the opportunity of judging when that
report is delivered ; but sufficient has already oozed out
amongst his neighbours to excite a great interest, and I
might almost say some alarm. I must say that lam
delighted to find an intelligent man, selected because all
the world would admit his competency to the task, has
come back from America prepared to let the English
people know the truth as to their relative position in
point of education, as compared with the mass of the
people in the United States. I went to that country
nearly twenty years ago. I remember that on my return
I wrote a pamphlet on the subject, in which I recorded
my solemn conviction that in less than twenty years
after that time—and that was written in 1835—England
would be brought to a consciousness that it is from that
country—from her own blood, better educated than her-
' self—that she has to look with apprehension in the
future career of manufacturing and commercial rivalry.
Well, if it should turn out that this report from
America is as I have heard it, I am delighted that it has
ccme from a quarter so competent in every respect that
no one will question its accuracy. lam delighted, be-
cause I want Englishmen to know a danger, if there is
one. Napoleon used to say, "If there is any bad in-
telligence come from any quarter, wake me any hour of
the night, and let me know. Good news will keep, but
bad news one cannot know too soon." I say of the Eng-
lish people, that let them know of any danger to the
country, or any difficulty to surmount, and there is no-
thing within the compass of human beings that they
cannot accomplish. The great danger for Englishmen
is our being so encased in insular pride and prejudice,
so given up to a sort of Chinese notion of our own supe-
riority, that we won't open our eyes to what is going on
in other countries, until it be too late. lam anxious to
see the subject of education in America brought before
this country in the way I have indicated. Why should
America be better educated than England ? Do you
think that a new country has an advantage in educa-
tion ? Quite the contrary. A new country has a wil-
derness to cultivate, and the primeval forests to level,
every road to make, every bridge to erect, and every-
thing that can give it the advantage of colonisation to
provide. That community is not in a position success-
fully to rival in education, if the old country does its duty
to its people. Quite the contrary. An old country,
with its population concentrated, has far greater opportu-
nities and advantages than a new country. It has greater
wealth to bestow upon it, greater facilities by which to
draw the individuals together, and ifyou find a young coun-
try, beating an old one in the career of education, depend
upon it, it is because of some neglect or fault on the
side of the old country. We do not read of ancient
Greece, when she sent forth fresh colonies, letting them
become the teachers of the mother country. No. Athens
remained the teacher of the world, and it is a shame and
a humiliation to find that a young people, that were
swarmed off us as it were but yesterday, should be pre-
sented to us as an example and lesson in education.
(Cheers.) Now, I hope that it will not be said that
e
there is anything in these remarks at all out of place
in an assembly such as this. It appears to me that
such such a subject as this should be discussed,
ed to
such a meeting as this, where all may
feel a strong interest in education. If peoplethebeas
ofw would
resolve to do it, I would not even now despair
_e
the world
country in a generation or two surpassing au
adopt
fuse to
in education. But we must not ret
.es.
We must
im-
proved machinery from other co.urn.unnks,
refusing to
not be like the Chinese with their
model. If we
build ships according to the Eui:opea
at the other side
find there is a better system
by limited to adopt
existing
of the Atlantic, we must not
itsbe
too conceited
that it is better
it, provided it has shown
than our own. If we find the Arnoferivecsasnesisb,ewateinagt uosncine
usaie.linTghey sent a yacht here,
with all the hu-
mility jennies, or in thte
go and see how they beat
and it beat us.
ne: to work, and by adopting
.and. improving them, beat
mility of children,
all their improvei s
return. So, if an American picks
them in rei,u • our
want to know how he does it. And if we
locks, we
know that
makes better locks, and will sell them
cheap, we he
buy them without scruple. But it seems that
in the question of education, though we have presented
to us a system which has worked well there,
which has
been partially adopted in Scotland, and with similar re-
sults, we have never adopted it here. And what so
natural as that we should follow the same rule with re-
fard to ed ucation, as we do with regard to machinery
r spinning cotton, or in regard to the construction of
ships I take it that the result being in favour of the
American education is a proof that they have adopted a
better means than we have, and if we are ever to equal
or rival them, we must`not be ashamed to adopt
their system, and, if necessary, even to improve upon it
There is not a party, I hope, in this country now op-
posed to education. I believe there is not a party that
does not consider ihere is more danger upon the whole
in our artificial state from ignorance than from educa-
tion. I believe there is not one here, whatever his
political predilections may be, that would not hence-
ivrtili whatever we may be doomed to undergo from

straitened circumstances, owing to decline in com-
merce, or from difficulties of a strictly political charac-
ter—whatever may be in store for us in the way of
troubles or of disasters, there is nobody will say it is
not better to have an educated people to meet them
than to have to encounter them in the masses of igno-
rance and with unrestrained passions. (Cheers.) For
all of us must admit that the mass of the country
do govern. In the last resort they are called in to arbi-
trate on all questions that touch our national interests ;
and we must all admit that it is best to have an arbitra-
tor who has been trained to think—who has been accus-
tomed to weigh and discuss reasons, and to deduce con-
clusions from facts and evidence—it is better to have
parties of this kind to settle great national questions than
to refer such mighty interests to the arbitration of ignor-
ance, prejudice, and passion. (Cheers.) Now, ladies
and gentlemen, if I have said too much on this subject,
either for you or those who may read what I have
spoken, I can only say, that I feel so strongly the great
importance of this subject, that wherever I meet with
men having education for their aim, I cannot be respon-
sible for withholding my remarks on our wants of juve-
nile education. (Cheeas.) It is not possible to com-
pensate for the deficiency of education in our juvenile
population by any such institutions as this. We may,
in some degree, atone for the deficiencies—we may com-
pensate for lost time ; but we cannot have a really edu-
ducated and safe community unless we begin at the be-
ginning by training the young. Our friend who will
follow me will, I dare say, deal with part of the subject
better than I can. I can only say that whether you
look at the question of education in the interests of mo-
rality or religion—whether you look at it as a matter of
interest or happiness, individually or in its relation to
the welfare of the State—in whatever way you regard
this question, you may depend upon it, the highest in-
terests, the dignity, the honour, and the happiness of
the people are bound up in this question of education.
Some other routine business having been transacted,
the meeting separated.