The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-24 00:00:00

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t MANCHESTER ATHENIEUM.I
zuaIaNC.IIESTER, FRIDAY.—Last evening the fourth am-
, sotrte took place in the Free-trade Hall, when the
slt area r • , *att....it that large and elegant structure was crowded
1444,..,,,it•dressed
range-
ladies and gentlemen. The. ar
press
w ,s, nowever—tit least so far as the metropolitan F
sl:raecTeer.ned—were not of that perfectly. convenient
tdebr s.r its representatives had met with on previousrters
sert raise Formerly covered tables fur the reporters
Nit •siset' to nearly the level of the platform, but. on
co ()cession rough deal beaches, off which they w.e
IletsrePtellied t° wipe -the dust with their own handkerchiefs
dime aced on the level of the flooring, and so ni_
eohy Ytt °tides the platform, that it was with great
seen,dlm
e he
s.° tsuld hear the chairman, who could not b
fleatol?,°ll,o behind a table, without advancing teo the,
ea, „p 4 ton platform. The' band of the 69th Infantry.
toser'P'ent, and at intervals, during the evening, Pin) ed
it, eiiqiisito overtures, &c.
eltair,e itlght lion. Viscount Morpeth, M.P., w-aSpitnthitihne,
14a.`•11.11';,‘..taorglui,)ym.h,pia.,Grace the Archbishop of .
the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson,
f the Board
le f
,sir. Brown, M.P., Mr. M'Gregor, 0 . M.P.,
ll s liT" ; Mr. Brotherton, M.P., Mr. Bright,_aw
Cera„?w,ring, Mr. Edwin Chadwick, of the Poor Ik, 081°11 ; Dr. C. Mackay, Mr. W. H. Ainsworth,
t ..1: Chambers, of Edinburgh, Si,c.
wittila MORPETII, on Presentingreceived
himself, was
2.
Pittg3:,ll4 and I^n' °n
cheering. When the nP.
Ilse.; u'd subsided, his Lordship said—Ladies and ge _
itparsi,altntrust that I shall be believed when I say that 1
'llttiset• ° ray situation. With whatever incidents. of
Isowi 1311 or responsibility I may happen to be invested
re--honeured as I may be by the choice of
then o
Ssilig o,"nstite
h 1, ene3'—(Cheers)—on the other side of
tr)l4l%t
ale. bound your prospects—permitted, tas I,et am,
NI lv,'„ part in the highest councils of the State—yet sew, ra truth assure you, that I find something )very
to la;o.,sh, and large in the honour of being called upon
'-(Qhsl'e at the jubilee of the Manchester Athenmum
isith eers.) And this sense of honour, and, I may. say
t
heedlessetta3iw,sch truth, of difficulty also, is certainly not
14 s uen call to mind those who have preceded me
Noes ..a,!ne,Pest upon these brilliant occasions. The last
seirtorsoi this place, which I feel it a hardihood in
alld earrilise again, answered to the accents—deeT
gentle,fourd.
.(ClieeZas ow
Own
spirit—of Mr. Sergeanftthea
rumAthe-
itself hY, gentlemen, the name o
'
live.utterancesiistietsht: that it is a befitting theatre fo_r,nall.
, bard of lon and the Athenian c, P
thrilled ext bet"re hira, I know your spirits must have
lsizrk dinder the
party ,!1' In theaPell of so potent a magician as. . Mr.
ite4sieti Led lieve bee ery
r"ai which we are ha i here sheltered, I think,
hottest conflicts of political
L , .41, to have beeimpossible. even for. his most exposed
tilltztic , vc n blind to the point, the genius,' the
414(10. -i;' 'which played even around the wounds tehneny.
genic]
and
here, on this gorgeous stage, amid.
.thi
rY, on the topic familar to him, of literaturen,
%Id Print '' °I imagination, I, who could only read. ic_
t'essoi.i:nt whet he said, apart from all the kindling ahe
1)1411414.-tioenf time-,.-nd Place, can easily believe how t
term , wrach is not withheld from him even on the
4elkag•teund of political controversy, lAA have here
t
of the's.l into ench„tment. (Loud cheers.) On the
heldfie
11Po ti. annual occasions, the first at least that was
~,gllel, slasse'4l° a size and: splendour, this chair was.
natures`'ila ,„. it never can be filled more worthily, b. y_
,-"1, Leehst.—(Ap tense.) That bright and genial illltelsiCe master of ourP sunniest smiles and our. moat
ts7s4:s-tete:ets' Whom as it is impossible to. read without
toe, ads' and pliant sympathy, so it is impossible
hipeet at least I have found it so, without a depth. ofn
1f.5i0...11,11(1 a warmth of affection which the rare union utie t'llr qualities at one commands.—(Cheers.) I
tredeot: Isles it Ilay business to read what these, my
most hissers, have said. But this, while it ministered,
tomsTtattlhirel to my excitement, has certainly in nhoawt aiyt
nii:,' by embarrassment ; for I feel t
"'geed be an office irksome to you, and hopeless
tipd
Isyself, to endeavour to recal in fainter expression
Ivith tith fis.'bler colouring what was portrayed by them.
time
oufeah ~.'bier
and exuberance. I feel that, at this
at Ith 1.47' and especially in this place, it would be at
Nets' 11aPertinene to inculcate that knowledge in
en,o
41711444 y win ,
i "in a dangerous thing ; that commerce,
Nietauer-ginally formed, and which still ennobles such _ te't ; ealtY as this, is the natural ally of literature and
cud th , that the pursuits which may be here
.cultivated,
direct 0 nabits which may be here fostered, if rightly
thae, e4AaIA Properly guarded, aro such as to give a
kkAlee,.,\`' a glory to the lives and characters of men
and
and
key ,e( those who have preceded me, and of those who
l'illisisiltreurld me, that the impulses anti associations
With are impreised upon our own times are to hailedbe.
to
,i,,, gra titu a
L --e, and fostered with anxious attention,
fr.
lisp
eand transmit them. Ido indeed rejoice that En.s
l'eal h(3l?tn,iree seems in these our days to be rising to the_
ita emeSght of its osition, and to feel the true dignity or
eti
Itng--(Cheri B this the Tuscan, this the.
'f.citi°l.";..` t/,lis theATenetianuniay have done. The worthies
With hogush commerce are content to be merchants,..
e eot inter princes. If wehave
h the thrones
(Iteses upon seeking alliances with
41.
out
-eit .
our. tredicis, they
be their true
aim t° rail but they feel it ought now to of happi-
Iles;
of to the same level of knowled ,_
Pespi . Yirt°c, with themselves, the Yotl'aild(eheers.) I rejoice that in . .
wholemane
cbhoecisyt-ero,f
ht he e_
mechanical
tiere w "isPute the first city in the ancitondt or the mo-
1, °rid for manufacturing enterprise and ‘‘,silillY„„(34,,;hilve not been content with
be piled in
your sr '"'ea may jostle in your orstreets,
athat display of
that will ac-
taise s arthouses ; you have not thought it sufficient to
ealihsiactories tier upon tier, or magazines
it 3411c134te the traffic of the world, but you have thought
forllhail r hilliness too, to build and set apart. a home. andn_
tit
c't innocent nt ' njo •-ment —for useful instructio
Of tell;atqui ItCCODie heshment for lofty thought, a shrined.
(Lortic;lelse,Pl'lY, a Pallas Athenm,- in a Christian lan
'ther a" kindred
Long may it. .
be the resort—with the
overja,institutions,
-...
which it does not seek. to
where
aloe. ' °P eclipse, but rather to encourage and excite—
'll that
With them may it be the favourite resort,
or
th,,.,12.,t• are
industry may find
engaged and engrossed in the business
repo,'_uo.ur of this unparalleled. hive of
food for their
their" tor their flagglngs,spirits,
Nis manifold difference
a neutral ground for
to all the
best°n, and an impulse onwards and
t .
eit,,__ and highes
benefits
tendencies of our upwardsnture.—(Lnud
Of c'rs.) lam glad
any condition, to
to perceive that while the
k Your institution are not conqued o
denomination, so also they are not ex-
-413' class, to any
elesively appropriated e l ,
ven to one sex —(Laughter and
s played an important,
kelleerso Women have a wise e
dare to say not uniformly a beneficial,
Dart,°l9stlhims might dare
history. But, as civilisation advances,
~ have in
nall confidence that they will play both a more
'aavgenised and a more elevated part than they have
aver yet done.—(Cheers.) Among
.the manyr currentsedding
vajilich the restless activity of our istime. ever ettg, I trust that a prominen t one will be devoted.y to
mak
4,, e the educatiok of women sound, substantial, en-
aatened, all that it out to be to train those who, in
%ell ea.
eel —e, must be the real . .
trainers, and who may be the
gainers, of all our citizens and all our workmen.
od cheers.) From all I can gather, the whole-
t,,e.t° effects of your institution have not been
.confined
Its
While it has
"inwalls and its own operations. Walked
many kilts own rounds it has also been suggestive of
tratiedred processes; or, If I may borrow an illus-
le. nit !rora one of the disputed problems of the upper
fief._ its career of light and p!ogress it has thrown off
114 it'elf separate bodies, which harden into distinct
Fop I, and glow with independentlustre —(Cheers.)
t 5 the 'repulse of ideas thrown out an caught up here,
the'eq lecture rooms, in your school. gatherings, or in
it jat4ro earnest friction of your discussions—whether
y of your mem-
hopsnet eery much owing to the a
steoeY°l4 bfficers, your founders, that, to select an in-
tastee? the Public parks which add so much both to the
the and moral beauty o
h are calculated
lial
f this great city—(Cheers)
to h public baths and wash-houses, whic
lineell'e dPeper effects than on the melts skin and
heste--(eheers)--and all the attention which
.has been
agreat
cler''*ed on sanasory regulations—(Cheers)—ml
k to
otil','„et) utve their rise?—(Cheers.) Can you
aele: , e°llree for the foundation of your industrialoe
lieos for the weekly half-holiday in your wei?r_e-
(ehet:' or for the early closing of your. shops 4), qtti,B•) With respect to this last teesi„s co with
with the best interests and widest ex-
topic,done not re•
speill, of this institution, my
Posetit 'Y called to a meeting which I believe it is pro-
attenti?n has been
Of th t 0 bold on this same classic
Associa-
tiost e plane
and Salford Early Closmtg
me
w5....e...(et, ground, by the members
from
-t
14'n meerti.) My duties would prevent
is
pre pad invitation with
I doubt whether. i
.°
Ilt
1 - thei •• - which I have been honoured
t
tsPreeisti et meeting, and, indeed,
ferf". 1 the .'natter in which a stranger ought to in-
ain be ss',ean only say, that if any general arrangement
and the em-
ssoyed, ';'..vsd at between the employers
elvetalt hwuieit shall secure to the rising
f leisure
4°r bialr,se`,4l of Manchester a greater amount
manhood and
you
41 se-'; ;less recreation and for mental culture, no one
Will i",ce more cord' ll than'myself.—(Cheers.)
nheitreeive that I halsveyadverted to some of. thewm.oer.e,
iedeeds topics in connexion with this institntion, the
h
%dint. the duty
of i imposed upon me, of opening
.pro-
bOarld4 6.; tnis evening, in some sort necessarily de-
the
institati ',et me for a little time now turn
Yen wh '1
t° Yourselves, to you who are its members,
here I peren°.eonsttate it, you who are its life and essence,nce
hert,t4,:ve that one of the orators by whose eloquence
the
Youth
of° You have been delighted, when addressing
enapeasi Mnimhester arrayed before him told them with
otherwiss tu
AllllPire• Far be it from me to tell them
flame, 4„ who feel within themselves the sacred
girded 1,1.",,t1pe strung to the high endeavour, who
arethe
terms used the immortal race, I would address in
"Are t
virtue
hrlYsethee great moralist-poet, Dr. Johnson .
And •sss Lay views, proceed, illustrious youth,
guar ee o
Till
e' dth t the throne of truth;
Your soul indulge the generous heat, Till raPtive science yield her last retreat,
And eason guide thee with her purest ray,
-e.(ks.., Pour on misty doubt resistless day."
inn„• "La cheerine. ) It ' with these views, by patient
1,41ry t. •. re Li
wolLL.ruth, th
aft,, ~ uY dilieent study, by humble-minded searching
a? all real knowledge is to be wooed and
stee..iptt(oenhee,e.9.—equally, apart from that. shallow pre-
triey i t' Jamb sets up its owu speculations and sophis-
faith, n the place of conscious reason and a disciplined.
tiNu„..a_nd from that blind bigotry which bears down fair
;a s.,`"nt, decides against proof, and condemns without
nes wis,g• I have said that Ido not wish—that I could
ef the I. to damp or discountenance the purpose of any
that tising....
out around me to aspire; for I well know
or
ittrais is the property of no condition, the appanage
Reda ass• It will often be seen to rise, like the fabled
faces of old out of the ocean billow, from those sur-
hreah%,,s°eiety where you would least expect to find it,
seade_ "rOugh the surrounding uniformity, and shed
it..,
vva radiance around the new horizon.—(Loud cheers.)
14', hile lam ready to track its shining course, and to
't in its e ial warmth, I would also beg to remind
Yee t5,..4 thtg n.
4,14
that e:, is something more admirable than getiius,
is torte° ; thcr, is something
thom 4
hope utocceass,. ali_d
.that is duty.— (Loud moreeh r
s. valuabler.h e
Nit in 4,,eeeed in tho world, and to play a shining
the society around us, may often act