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

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1846.

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''• 01 urIESTER ATHEINXITM l powerfully as an incentive ; but it is to be feared
peal soiree raDAY.— rnst e--,•;nr-, the cow.-' 1-1.-
,:i • , ,
that such a 13,,pe. has too, niiu..h . engrossed both the
took place in th Free-trade Hall, when the
4 0 that large and tstructure
lent area f etiorts sold the admiration or mankinu.—(Loud cheers.)
• h an ex ression
with well. d • alegan was crowded
I remember being reatly struck once wit p ..
which was used by . .
ie,nts, , 0 se ladies and gentlemen. The arrange- a friend of mine, though you will
Was ri wever—at least so far as the metropolitan press perceive at once that it is not to be understood quite in
concerned—character not of thatperfectly convenient its literal acceptation ; but the expressionwas! thatthe
.r its representatives had met withprevious " Heaven was made for those who had failed .in
eelshon
world." " Now, there are all sorts of unbecoming and
ratins Formerly covered tables for the reporters wo ..
twheil:e_reaciese.d•to nearly the level of the platform, but on unenviable feelings, which often may accompanyh and
d
tota'.yl,,esiotn rough deal benches, off which they were embitter failure, as, on the other side, every bright
werePel,l d o wipe the dust with their own handkerchiefs blessed quality of the heart and. the mind may enhance. it
eiat iPlaced on the level of the flooring, and so imme- and adorn success. But to aim at success, to meet with
cult; Ywder the platform, that it was with great diffi- failure and not to grudge it, to be outstripped bya rivalear
ai h..
spo. could hear the chairman, who could not be seen, and yet to hear a rival's praises. with
.an unwounded
d.
sroj ke behind a table,withoutadvancing to the
—these are efforts and triumphs beside which the or di-
Was tof the Platform,nary successes of the world are light and trivial.—
"as Present The band of the 69th Infantry
men , and at intervals during the evening played (Cheers.) Success: after all, in almost every walk. of
,r;s:xliquisite overtures &c' '
life, from the aspiring statesman down to the ambitious
alai,. Right Ron. Visco'unt •Mor eth, M.P , was in the Parish-beadle, will very often be found to consist. of
Lore, !Uiorted by his Grace thePArchbisho.p of Dublin, very coarse, obtrusive, and vulgar. ingredients,. certainly
1,.,5, -S,filr ngton, M.P.
_,_ the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, of no heavenly temperament; while there is no grace
f
'O7, •i,".rall,dier. Brown, Mere Mr. M'Gregoi of the Board of character, no spring of self-reliance, no element o
Co. Bee, ;. Mr. Brotherton, M.P , Mr. ' Bright, M.P., progress, with which failure,
.when not. earned by ourd
Corarois ?long, Mr. Edwin Chadw.ick, Of the Po or• kW own lathes, and when sustained with an even
Dan
kr. w.s,_,l°ll ; Dr, brave spirit,. may not ally itself.—(Hear,. hear.)t ttree-
C. Mackay, Mr. W. H. Ainsworth, Lora
,jiharnbers, of Edinburgh, &c. pend upon it the world,. in more instances han
With 10 d °RETrr, on pres nt' himself • d
e ing, was receive can think of, has never discovered or crowned its best.
in Golconda more
Manse and long-continued cheering. When the sip• —(Cheers.) There are diamonds
tl, had subsided,his precious than the Pitt diamond or yother diamond
•%en, to r
diarm of royalty.
appreci rust that I shall be believed when I say that I that ever blazed. upon the
shells more lustrous
rhstinetio my situation. With whatever incidents of There are pearls in unopened
of beaut
e15e,,,,, nor responsibility I may happen to be invested than any that ever yet shone on the neck
known
tseae":-a—honeured as Ima be lethchoice of no- (Applause.) The ages, as the ass ny,have .
hie opatitueney—(Cheers 3'thee side of the their Homer, their Raphael, their Newton,. and their
to t*al‘t'ehleh bound your ros)—
eotn othertttedasi
am
Shakspere; but I doubt not there are in the human
can Withs Part in the highest councilsesPoefrmthe State—yet I creation, as in all besides, prodigalitieslhr which have never
zlew,fre truthyet been fathomed.—(Cheers.). .e believe it to be t e assure you, that I find something very
true, that nothing that was ever given to us has, excep
to Preside's" and large inthe honour of being called upon
by our own fault, been. lest or thrown. away. What,
(Cheers at the jubilee of the Manchester Athenaeum.
vdth ') Andafter all, is the material point? Is it to be Homer, to
as this sense of honour, and I may say
lesse rnaoh truth difficult" • be Raphael, to be Shakspere, or to be merely thought a
_ nee wh,_ , ,of y also, is certainly not
d tpoet, or an unparalleled painter? Is it to
transcen an . .
'a the sato so 1 call to mind those who have receded me
the conceive in the inmost soul the lineaments of
,Holy
echoes of ree;l)°s,t upon these brilliantoccasions. The last
self to rouse Pact, Plse, which I .
Mother and the Divine Babe, or the idea of Lear on the
feel it a hardihood in my-and earnest ''e again heath, or of Macbeth at the banquet; or is it merely that
b. , answered to the accents—deep, gentle, . .
--(Cheers la' ut' ewn spirit—of Mr. Sergeant T lfourd.shouldcommend the or crowded
would-be critics
ileum itself ? Wh„,a h
audiences should shout "Bravo " in the pit?—(Loud
the utterances supea•r,.. gentlemen,. the name of the At
all
-1
cheers.) Carry away with you this great truth—carry
e,e.Next
a the it)aatttNti
ofit ilsona befittingaathe
Aththeeantenfo:a
p it to your daily task, or to your evening leisure, to the
illpilled il
dt befare him, I know your spirits must have quiet of your homes or to your social musters—that it
Israeli, n er the
spell of so t t ama magician as Mr, matters comparatively little what you may seem to be;
Pkrty ft. In the very hottestPo conflictsenglof olitical it matters even proportionately little what you may
it wouilTl which we are- happily
here
sheltered, p
I think actually do, but it matters everything what you are.—
' \lento, t "Ve been
h
d (Loud cheers.) What you may seem is subject to a thou-
brimati 0 have been 1311. ssi e, even for. is mos expose
h sand accidents and misapprehensions. What you may do
blade, eYi which Playedind to the point, the genius,
ht e
is often under other control than your own. What you
13even around the wounds t ey
Niel aodnt here, on thisare is under your own—you may be all you should .be.
of ail, a itor
, y, on the t
gorgeous stage,. amid this con-
Depend upon it, however humble may be any of your
...tele Print Oct of Y' imagination opie familar to him, of literature,.
positions in life, however obscure the labour which. en•
essae whats..., I, who could only read. in
~. dtoir,;, of time :__.7101, apart from all the. kindling ac-
arrao'llon, which niau place, can easily believe how the grosses the precious hours as they pass—however insig-
nificant your whole life's drudgery—in this mean and un-
envied position, in this wearing and numbing drudgery,
4,0
,rOULICI of political lwithheld from him even on the
you may mould for yourselves the qualities, you may
,r ti,es(teianto
enchantmeicial catoruodvecra,r3m.)uston havethe herefirs t
build up for yourselves the characters. which princes,. if
they knew them, would trust—which multitudes, if they
If'rl thia nsn't,al occasions the first at least that was held
„led, a,,, °ale of size andsplendour,this could discern them, would adore.—(Loud cheers.). I
,-,aari uu it never
feel that in touching on such high topics of morality
atv ales bi_, can be filled more worthily, by
and conduct with scarcely authorised lips, I may subject
aetase, th cKeils--(Applause ) That bright and genial
-"sela e master * myself to imperfect explanations, and to much miscon-
ts selfish , er of our sunniest smiles and our most e
,le tuo tears, Who .. . . - struction. I know that it is often thought that ad-
te k strea masit is impossible to read without
dresses delivered upon such occasions are too_ a_pt. to
sa, now, at ley and pliant sympathy, so it is imossible
minister to the pride of man, and to the undue adulation
of Peet 4 Ut I have found it without a depth of
It_ and a _ so, .
of the intellect. I disclaim all such tendencies. When
ha,ougalar warmth of affection which the rare union
I tell you you may be all you should be, I do not exclude
re , qualities at one commands. (Cheers.) I
Pr date-acte
v from the method of being so those aids and sanctions
mostestor it m-
, y business to read what these, in
ti! hi hi s' nave said. But this, while it ministere'd which are too high for me here to dwell upon. lam
.as
Illiilli, Y toconfident as any one, that reason as well as Christianity
ney excitement, " •
a/041, ee e__ has certainly in no way
makes humility almost its most prominent grace.—
to
islo ledeoci7 embarrassment ; for I feel that it
(Cheers.) Who would not be humble, who felt as he
tied
,Yself, to bye
an office irksome to you, and hopeless
the loveliness of virtue and the magnificence
W'lh""h fl'ebl encleavour to recal in fainter expressions ought.,. ,on, , er colouring whatportrayed by
was
oree eo richt,
of those fortunatewho have lately added a, new
men
of d„, ess and exuberance. I feel that at this
beautifullysaid
planet to our system, or who, as was
cost an ht.' and especiall in this lace, it would be at
tern, .t Pertinence to inculcate that k 1 d in on an earlier occasion, " have lent the lyre of heaven
Whichrn. y will b 0 now ege no
another string"—l should like to ask them whether their
seori •a dangerous thing ;that comrn -
erce, . . tale • glaally fspirit has not rather recoiled in modest awe, than swelled
art anity .ormed, and which still ennobles such a .
; and as this is the natural of literature and
and that 4, , ally
in self-sufficient presumption, before the secrets of that
direste bib. 'ue pursuits which may be here cultivated,which they have been enabled to dart a more
space into
..
..ed Itg Nvh:_,
am may be here fostered if • htl
e , rie v far. seeing glance than any of their fellows ?—((,Beers.)
''n-,rae' a la" Properly
\elisern,‘ a gor guarded, are such as to give a
to our enlarged and perfected vision, unfold the whole
.
gifte, se) 1 47 to the lives and characters of men .
bright mechanism of stars, and suns, and systems. The.
11,,,5,f t, do indeed feel, with the most ardent and
laws which will then serve to explain to us why their
:,. sertso"so who have preceded me, and of those who 'ltch and me, that the
tyitt. are in) , impulses associations
only supply us with fresh reason for bein more
Bra-ti, 4 gratit pressed upon our own times are to be hailed
hg
It :t and n'e, and fostered with a •attention, to
anxious verent, more acquiescent, more lowly.—(C eers.)
Sco transmit t• Ido indeed I feel that I ought to come down from the clouds, and,
rsai. , anneroe them. -
indeed, 'from everything else, and I certainly could
G
o 'eight of its
in these our days to be rising to the
h lighted more radiant spot on the earth
% allinfr._. Its position, and to feel the true dignity of hardlyhisavetoenmablrn—
y (Cheers.) I have only to
qo4oeße,°i.hie,heers.) But this the Tuscan, this the thanhoe tthatpaTlswenho ashen have partaken in its excitement
Ivitillir Enoii
,ktne 'Venetian may have done. The worthies
will bear away with them, not only the transitory
, °lit hl:i s" commerce are content to be merchants, .
which th e e must so easily excite but a
' not • 'ng Princ If have M dicis they emotions
..e sc ri ,
_.
oft_ ietft, _ es. we our e ,
settled determination, followed up by a corresponding
;Ina urope b " "Pon seeking alliances with the thrones
practice to give fair play and full scope to all the highest
„ to raise' llt they feel it h to be their true ' . • • • •
tie , ou t now
of which the institution is, and may be made
peas' Of virtue0 the same levelof knowledge, of happi- Purposes.
p, .
,e , with
ass more capable.—(Cheers.) This must e one y
You•"(eh themselves,
ciat . failed to e,,,, all disr,eers.) I rejoice that in Manchester, be-have observed, at least such is the case with
most
ale' Worielte the first In the ancient or the mo-
el fo,
.___ city .
institutions of a similar character, how very much of
andmechanical
Weaft,Yoe ba._ manufacturing enterprise
the whole work is done by a few out of the whole yournum-
which ve not been content with that display of
" rna• • ' b .1 a •
rat
Ware
ar y Jostle in your streets, or epi e in .
her. Now, I want to ino3ulate all of you with the same
45 fhouses .
and l' h d • • Iwant to call uon each
active en ig tene spirit.
eoroe arie_ , you have not thought it sufficient to
it
o,nodato „3 tier upon tier, or magazines that will ac- man and woman among you to make the wor your own
a hY_ ur bu,ini'ne traffic of the world, but you have thought —to put more individual energy into the collective body,
for4unt for i "3, too, to build and set apart a home and so that no member of the Manchester Athenaeum shall
of grew& snocent enjoyment—for useful instruction.-- think that he has done his duty unless he has done some-
(er Philos° 4,seeomplishment—for lofty thought, a shrine thing,. according to his individual opportunities and
othth h PaY, a Pallas Athenw. in a Christian land.— abilities, to give encouragement, efficiency, and credit to
ere eers \ the institution of '
and ~ ~ Long mag it be the resort—with the which you have such reason to be
ve
d L
z.l Itindred institutions, which it does not seek to Proud.—(Loud •—( oud cheers.
,‘, ) As to myself, I have only fur-
ele '7 or eclipse, but rather to encourage and excite—
. ther to sa, that ir, when strains a glitter of scenethis
44 ti! With them may it be the favourite resort, where has passed away—when the of music are
th, ,at are engaged and engrossed in the business or and silence has fallen on the voice of the sak • hushed,
t labourof •
unparalleled hive of industry may find the stillness of your quiet homes, or amidPetheer—lf' le
epos this . .
clang of
their e for their flagging spirits, a neutral ground for your daily labour, you shall have derived a single enco
tea r Manifold differences, invigorating food for their ragement to ennobling reflections and to worthy pursuitus--
Ise,!°ll, and an impulse onwards and upwards to all the or if, still more, any one of you—for such times come on'
"'and highest tendencies of
0, our nature.—(Loud all of us—when he smarts -under the sting of frer lam glad to perceive that while the benefits disappoint-
ment, or under a sense of the world's coldness and
alien-
your institution are not confined to any condition, ation, shall be reminded how little this really
•.°Y class,
to any denomination, so also
and that, as have ventured to say, failure is one of the
they are not Elusivelyex-
ii2fl_ appropriated even to one sex.—(Laughter and appointed means of access to heaven—if any word of
!irs.) Women have -always played an important, mine shall have contributed to this encouragement, or to
i:e'11911 I might dare to say not uniformly a beneficial, this alleviation, I shall then feel that I have. not come to
nrcua this world's history. But, as civilisation advances, Manchester quite in vain. The Noble Viscount resumed
rt 2 e all confidence that they will play both a more his seat amidst long protracted cheering.
eve" tale ed and a more elevated part than they have His Grace the Archbishop of DUBFIti next addressed
erVet done.—(Cheers.) Among the the meeting. He said My Lords, ladies, and gentlemen,
many currents
410: the restless activity of our time is ever eddying I was invited in the first instance to attend this meeting,
use, I trust that a prominen t one will be devoted te and was re dto make some observations, whatever
queste
li `e the d .
thte e ucation. of women sound, substantial, en- might occur to me, in reference to the subject of it,
ktiv 'led, all that •it ought to be to train those who, in without, of course, the possibility of its being supposed
be tease' taus
trai tbe the real trainers, and who may be the that I could give you any information respecting the
'''(l., tiers of allcitizens andallofthis institutionthat I could come for-
ett, , our
4%1 4 cheers.)
its
to • o efe,ot From all I can gather, the whole- ward merely to pronounce an empty panegyric upon
,_ :is o._, Sof your institution have not been confined merits, which are so much better known and appreciated
m" diked walls and its own operations. While it has b ourselves than by any one else.lt would be quite
any 4 its own rounds it has also been. superfluous for detain • 1 lengthened.
trai kindred
noit fp__ processes; or, it I may borrow an illus- observations upon the important and beneficial tenden-
f‘sti,', in i:_uta one of the disputed problems of the upper cies of such an institution, because, I think, the very
, o' in
of light and progress it has thrown off circumstances of my leaving behind, in Ireland, very 'gnat; ealLsepa,rate bodies, which harden into distinct important and pressing business, to be present on
to'9 reap" glow with independent lustre.—(Cheers.) this occasion, shows how very highly I value an institu-
Itt the hes jask you whether it is riot very much owing tion of this sort, and how warm is the sympathy which
the
lector of ideas thrown out and caught up here, I have with all the supporters and members of it.—
it n 7 ttsore:e.rooms, in your school gatherings, or in (Cheers.) Very likely I may be expected to say, now
Lets tun 'u• nest friction of your discussions—whether that I have come over, and have visited and inquired
rs verY much •
atttae, Your bit e owing to the'agency of your mem- into your institution, what I think of it ; and, it is
41ste$ thteirrs' your founders, that, to select an in- something to say with respect to it, that lam not dis-
e,„ ree and lc parks which add so much both to the appointed. I shall not, for I think that that would be
tolle Public al beauty of this great city—(Cheers) an affront to you, say that I feel surprised at the origin
lto_aaee :,Le oaths and wash-houses, which are calculated of such au institution, or that it is anything more than
noaeta-e(els''eQ_Per effects than on the mere skin and I expected from a great and wealthy place like this.
tlNr°,.tven o,,e,rs)—‘and all the attention which has been I feel, on the contrary, that cherishing that love
othor'e ow: :sian.aeor.y regulations—(Cheers)—in a great of commerce and activity necessarily characterising a
leesour ,oeir rise?--e(Cheers.) Can u loon to citv like this to have paid all attention to every subject
hee'ols, r ees for the foundation ofindustrial connected wi,th ain d h neglectedether so
sses or th yourg ,an to ave altg
(Ch,_ or f.,, 0 weekly half-holiday in your ware- important an institution for the improvement and en-
est4!s.) w.r.• the early closing of your shops e— lightenment of yourselves and fellow citizens, would have
reesio•Y_ eosinog.l'll, relpect to this last topic, one not re• subjected you to just reproach. I trust that you will
apeolZ of ti;:ett with the best interests and widest ex- think it no insignificant praise if I say I think you have
Dos', cell Is institution mv attention has been done your dut —(Cheer • ) I 1 in
' -; . . . y. . ... . was great y interes e
of toil ' i'd to -
u 1 old a meeting which I believe it is pro- hearing of such an institution in so very important a
ti e Manche° 0n.,.... this same classic ground, by the members portion of the United Kingdom—in a city which, I
tteoe
.(Che, t,er and Salford Early Closing Associa- think, may be regarded in some respects as a kind of
to Ptie, the cre) duties
ofthe •
ta atteuetit mvit My would prevent me from representative
t Precis that tx, •
ation with which I have been honoured out flattery—of that lam incapable—nowhere do I feel
erf,„_ ely the meeting, and, indeed, I doubt whether it more completely in England than when I am in Man-
ten 1;7, I can " (natter in which a stranger ought to in- chester, because it has to boast of some of the most dis-
Ployes arriv,,d "ly say, that if general arrangement tinguished arts, and some of the most characteristic feats
Wo `•,/ Which at between' any - of energy, which the British
i inaut ieh 8, ~ the employers and the em-
or ID, good
_, eau secure to the rising manhood and other countries we may see the plough at work; we may
tsili 'atusle, "i Manchester a greater amount of leisure look upon splendid . armies and upon fine architecture ;
n rejoi ss recreat*
e,ill ee_ ee more lola and for mental culture, no one we may see many things to be found in many parts of
tliasiorr rceive t.,. cordially than myself.—(Cheers.) You the kingdom, but none so characteristic of the people who
1 deep move I have adverted to some of the more were reproachfully termed "a nation of shopkeepers."
osEdie, the du tin connexion • kthis institution,which, We have lived to see that " nation of shopkeepers" ob-
ty ins wit..
Itilttid ga of th• --P°sed u opening lain military, as well as other triumphs,
i_ . ed. _ la
e_ . upon me, of the pro- over those who
ob-
i_ Let ril ng, in some sort necessarily de- have so reproached
bthem.—(Cheers.) But I conceive
You 'l3a to e for a little • j who eb Yoursel time now turn from the that all these. triump. s are insignificant, compared with
, pereeiv nstititte . vos, to you who are its members, the great triumph of g wealth, comfort, and eivi-
l'eeretoe ' that it,
e you who are its life and essence. lisation over so many parts of the world as
this empire
re one of
youth of youAl hay the orators by whose eloquence does, by means of her manufactures and commerce.
ontlhiThasis t'a lehestereen delighted, when addressing the I say, then, that it would be a reproach to so wealthy,
4 ersei, ° aspire. an
before him told them with so populous, and so active a city as this, if no attention
Ne„' All wii ror be it from me to tell them were paid to anything but the mere pursuit of gain • ,
R woo wee 0 feel within consider thatyou were doing lauded for struo themselves the sacred and therefore it is that I
'tas used the in,nlortg to the high endeavour, who are duty, and nothing else than a duty, in establishing and
ic
Are 1:7
the great
race, I would address in the supporting such an institution as this, with the working
And thosevirtue thy vie‘t moralist-poet, Dr. Johnson : of which I trust you will have more and more reason to
t_.
allirtuc
guard vtS, proceed, illustrious youth, be satisfied every year of its continuance. I understand
1 ,0,.._
ow . hee to the throne of truth ; that the fruits of it have been perceived in the improved
sriii craesser:c_ I indulge the generous heat, character of the rising generation who have partaken of
7. y,4_7_ !ence yield her
„,..And :0"2`41 guide thee with last retreat, its benefits, and I trust that those good fruits will be
ine"'llteh c(s• pour
en misty doubt her purest ray,
To instruct you, however, in
aciktisy , eerin,..‘ ~, , resistless day." seen yet more and more.
such an
'ter ' L'Y dilie;,' It
IS with these vi by patient the benefits, the objects, and the character of..
sveo ruth th '"t study b. h bl •
views, institution, would, as I have said, be impertinent in me,
81413--(eft; at all real k,bo3'wl udrn
ise-minded searching iwho k 'much less of it than you do. I have even
innfiles
I,Zse),_--equally apart from
to be wooed and less knowledgenow s
than
f4hk the placen sets up its own 3
speculations
shallow pre- jar institution, but perhaps of this whole class of insti-
at, e, and f. of conscious peculations and sophis- •
a great
a ,Rtillnent from that len .. reason and a disciplined tons; for, although I have been engaged for .
no earn ' "cides a • a
n bigotry which bears down fair number of years in the diffusion of knowledge in one
(ifOtt ertaisZ• / have
egaTtsit, proof, and condemns without shape or another—in what may be called education,
know-
that risiotc? danlP or discountenance at Ido not wish—that I could either complete or partial, since all diffusion ofb
Of genius').Yollth countenance the purpose of an ledge is a portion of education—yet I have never eeont.
no Is thearound me to aspire • for Iwell know specifically connected with an institution. precisely
-0 _4 elas,. ~ prOperty of no , • -
/
is With. the higher and
ifi;aed
034
or•
old
will often be condition, the appanage
hr °,401 Bop; d out of the seen to rise, like the fabled have been officially connected. I have been connected
stiee' throetY Where you would
billow, from those sur- with the education in one of our universities, which. are
de,
rad iu_ gh the surrou _ least expect to find it, seminaries for the highest classes, the nobility,
butnaLwhilo roe around the undlng uniformity, and shed gentry,, and learned professions; and lately, in a
Yoe'rkin its a°3 ready to track its `beers.) still more important degree, I have been con-
,at thege9ia soarmth, 1 its shining course, and to netted with charity schools; but that which is imme-
tha 'use tr.
virtue
is ethin would also beg to remind diately between the twe, that which tends to imprcee
- ellen g,
_e'.3a,tratue
;m heregisre(s)orematirable than genius, the classes between the learned professions and
Ih)l4rt
to sure
.that is duty ___.(tLieng more valuable
the very lowest of the people, I. have . not been so
lit the aln the world. ud cheers.) The •
specifically and closely connected with. Still, education,.
society , and to play a shining in some shape or other, either by actively engaging in
arOlitad us, may ofteu act the work, or by publishing or
editing
winlo connected with

great difficulties to encounter in that department of the
diffusion of knowledge which has chiefly occupied me
ror the last fourteen years. You will understand that I
allude to the introduction of national education into
Ireland—(Cheers)--and, sympathisi ng so warmly and
so strongly as I do in this place and in this institution, I
cannot feel a doubt that you also feel some sympathy
with what is going ou in the sister country, and in the
difficulties and exertions of those who have been labour-
ing to enlighten and improve it.—(Applause.) I can-
not suppose that you look upon the Irish as aliens, and
as persons unworthy of your regard.—(Loud cheers.)
I cannot suppose that you grudge them the know-
ledge which you say you are eager and anxious to
diffuse among yourselves.—(Renewed cheers.) I cannot
suppose that ycu would wish them to be, or consider
that they must necessarily be, irreclaimable barbarians.
I sympathise warmly myself with all your exertions,
and am delighted to hear the manner in which you have
manfully met and overcome the difficulties which threat-
ened this institution in its infancy. I have also had
great struggles on the other side of the water, and I am
happy to say, that with the blessing of Divine Provi-
dence, the Irish national system of education will prove,
when there has been time to make itself thoroughly felt
—that is, when the generation brought up under it shall
come into activity—l do trust that it will prove one of
the greatest boons which has been conferred by Govern-
on any part of her Majesty's dominions. And I think
that I should be wanting, not to myself merely, and to the
Government which has been supporting that system, but
I feel that I should be wanting to the cause of education,
should be wanting to the rights and claims of the poor
Irish, if I neglected to take this opportunity, if
you will so far indulge me, of giving a contradiction to
some of those calumnies with which our Irish national
system has been assailed.—(Loud cheers.) I would not
hear this Manchester Institution assailed with any ca-
lumny in Ireland, or elsewhere, when it was in my
power to repel it—(Loud cheers)—and I believe that
none of you here would willingly listen to any calumny
that tended to disparage the merits, or to defeat the ob-
jects, of such an institution as ours.—(Applause.)—
Ours, ladies and gentlemen—l mean the national system
of Ireland—is not a godless and irreligious system.
We do not undertake to teach the whole of their religious
belief, to give the whole of their religious education to the
children of different denominations—because we could
not possibly do that for all of them together, without
violating the consciences of some of them. We do not
propose, therefore, to give a complete education. The
system is to leave to the parents of each child the reli-
gious education of that child, the right of religious educa-
tion in that mode, be it right or wrong in my opinion,
which they themselves think the best.—(Much cheer-
ing.) We give to the children jointly, and in friendly
intercourse with each other, all the instruction which
they can conscientiously receive together. And so much
of that instruction, I am happy to say, consists of the
knowledge of sacred history, of those great truths of
our common Christianity in which, thank Heaven, we
all agree, much as we differ upon other points. I could
produce from many of the national schools, where the
children, to the extent of more than seven-eighths,
are generally Roman Catholics, childrea who would
stand an examination, not only in secular learn-
ing, but in knowledge of the Scriptures, with any
school that you may select in this country.—(Cheers.)
But the denial of the Scriptures to those willing to read
them, you have often, I dare say, heard charged against
the system, and I would put it to you, as plain English-
men, whether it is right to force upon children any re-
ligious instruction which their parents may disapprove.
I never can believe that the Founder of our Religion,
who, when he was apprehended and dragged away to an
ignoble death, declared that he could call on more than
twelve legions of angels to his rescue, and who told his
over-zealous disciple to ;put his sword into its sheath—
I never can believe that it was his intention or desire
that his sacred word should be forced upon any one
against his will, inclination, and conscience.—(Applause.)
I will only notice one more point, which Igive not as the
only one that I could produce, but as a sort of specimen
of the falsehoods and misrepresentations by which our
system has been combatted, and which I think will, in
the end, tend rather to strengthen than to weaken it, be-
cause falsehood and misrepresentation would not be re-
sorted to by opponents if they had facts and truths on their
side. What I allude to is the report which has been often
circulated, that although it is allowable, it is said, for
the children whose parents do not disapprove of it, to
read portions or extracts from the Scriptures, yet, if any
one child should object to the reading, that precludes
others from the benefit, and shuts out the Bible from the
whole school. lam bound to believe that those who
circulate that report do not know its falsity. If they
have taken any means to ascertain the truth of their
statement, they must then be repeating an utter, and
deliberate, and calumnious falsehood, for it is totally
without foundation in truth. But I can only acquit them
of the wilful falsehood by supposing that they have
utterly neglected to make any inquiry from the many
hundreds of persons perfectly ready and able to give
them the information. There is no shadow of founda-
tion in truth for this scandalous story, and I wonder how
any one, not overwhelmed with prejudice, should give
credit to anything so absurd. If, at the appointed hour
for religious instruction—for an appointed hour there
must be ; there is I believe, in every school, and there
is in ours—any child is forbidden by hisparents to attend
religious instruction, what is the consequence, do you
think ? That all instruction is at a stand ? No ; you
would say, " The child withdraws." The child whose
parents disapprove of particular religious instruction,
whatever it may be, that commences at a fixed hour,
say from two to three o'clock, withdraws ; but it would
be absurd and ridiculous to say that the whole school is
thereby excluded from that religious instruction. Why,
any person who may object to what I am now saying
would not thereby be able to prevent all who are pre-
sent from giving their attention. He would only hare
to withdraw himself.—(Laughter and cheers.) No one
needs to stay, if he does not like it. But lam happy in
being able to add, that although the parents of many of
the children have objected to send them to schools where
religious instruction has been forced upon them, the
children of all denominations have in a vast number of
instances remained when it was left optional, because
they saw that no fraud nor force was intended against
them. And you may be sure that this is the only way
in which any people, and more particularly the Irish,
with the parents ; but never attempt to kidnap their
children and to make proselytes of them. This is not
can be enlightened. You may reason and expostulate
a fair mode of procedure. But offer them that which is
good, and in most cases you will find, if it is offered in a
spirit of frankness and conciliation, it will be willingly
accepted.—(Hear, hear.) I ought to apologise for
having detained you thus long in what may be con-
sidered a digression from the matter in hand ; but I
felt assured that the
sympathy I have towards this
place and institution must be in some degree
responded to, and that you would feel the same sympathy
with the wants, and with the efforts to relieve them, of
the poor Irish, as I do with your efforts and success.
With respect to the institution that is now occupying
our principal attention, of course you cannot need any
instructions or suggestions from me, because you have
experience to guide you. It is not an institution formed
for or calculated to
give a complete education ; but it
does seem to me, from all the reflection I have been able
to bestow upon it, and from all the inquiries I have made,
to be best adapted for the wants and circumstances of a
int hethis place, denomination
er
theof leisure—that
elderbusy, populous, thriving place like this. It is only a
small portion of time—that portion which comes under
seoutos
the cultivation of their minds. That portion, how-
ever, may be very profitably employed—if merely in
innocent amusements, if there was no enlargement of
the faculties, no improvement of the character, no eleva-
tion of the man in the scale of social life, I should
say that, being merely innocent, it would be a great
recommendation ; for we know too well the leisure
hours of those who are occupied for the greater part of
the day is likely to be devoted to anything but innocent
relaxation. But I believe that the lectures, together
with the library of this Athenaeum, are as well adapted
to meet the wants of relaxation and mental improvement
as anything could be in such a place. Lectures alone
give but imperfect and crude sort of notions to those who
have not access to books. Books, again, are a sort of
spacious sea, on which an unpractised student, without
any tutor to direct him, might be apt to be lost. But
lectures excite the desire to read, and point directly to
the way in which the best course of reading can be
taken. The books supply the want which the lectures
have created. The lecturer will not have taught his
pupils all that they feel desirous to know, but he will
have taught them where to seek for knowledge and
where to find it. And I consider that this Atheumum is
analogous to those great engines of your industry which
excite the wonder of all strangers, and which bring
wealth from all parts of the earth. A single individual,
who used merely his own books, would require a large
library to educate himself tolerably ; and he would re-
quire the care of a tutor, or an instructor of some kind,
to guide him. A single weaver at the loom will accom-
plish but little. But you have got machinery by which
thousands and thousands of spindles can be turned at
once. You have got machinery by which one person
can perform the work of tens of thousands; and you
d
can thereby produce
a quantity of the best commodi-
tiese a h
at a small expensn w
.t e greatest ease.
The Athenzeum ls analogousith in character to
that machinery. One library and one lecturer
will serve at the same time to instruct hundreds and
almost as well as if each ha
d
the of persons,
the library and lecturer to himself.. For this reason, it
is an institution particularly suitable for a large, popu-
lous, wealthy, and thriving place '
"Ike this.—(Cheers.)
Let not the cultivation of your minds be in such a state
as that you shall be put to shame by the wonderful
machines you have constructed for the spinning of
cotton
o
and of various manufactured gds Continue in this
blessing of Providence further your
course, and may the
endeavours ! Continue to work this great and mighty
engine ; and whatever dangers you may have to en-
counter, by care and diligence you will surmount them,
and the benefit will be incalculable. For my part, I
wealthy
come from a city far less _ than yours ; but, I
shall keep in mind, most tenaciously, all that I have seen
and learned here, and I shall apply, so far as I am able,
• principles and the practical maxims I have
all the princip
accomplishment learned towards the of an object which
for years I have had in view—the extension of the
dbeyondthe labouring
benefits of an improved education
classes of Ireland, to e'hem my attention has hitherto
been confined, to the middle
classesovergrown of this country, that
by those who
they may not be surprised and
are their inferiors in station.—(Cheers.)
After a long oration Mr. D
from ANN SON, one of the
lecturers of the institution,
Lord EBRINGTON addr
_
essed tie meeting. His ob-
servations were mainly _
directed to prove that, so far
from being incompatible with mental refinement and
elegant accomplishment, the honourable pursuits of trade
and industry had done more to promote them than all
the much vaunted glories of war, or the pursuits of
ambition.
Mr. W. CHAMBERS, of Edinburgh, gave an interesting
sketch of the difficulties he had encountered in his early

it, or by superintending or forming establishments for
the prow-lion of education, in some shape or other, I
have been connected with, very actively and zealously,
for about 38 Years—(Cheers)—and I presume that those
who have done me the honour of calling upon me to ad-
dress some observations to you this evening, have done
so from the thought, perhaps, that I should have to com-
municate to you some of the results and observations
emanating from my own experience. I shall do so, but
very briefly, begging you, in the first place, to bear in
mind that when I said that I had been for 38 years con-
nected with eduction, I did not mean that I had been
occupied in making speeches upon it.—(Laughter.) I
have been engaged in the practice of it, and not in
haranguing upon it ; and therefore it is not to be ex-
pected that I can address you with the same eloquence
that others may do who have not seen and done so
much as I have.—(Cheers.) In spite of all the dangers
threatened by, and objections raised to, the diffusion of
education, still, upon the whole, I am more and more
convinced that the wide diffusion of knowledge will al-
ways tend more or less, in the end, to the diffusion of
every other good.—(Cheers.) I have spoken of the dangers
attending it, and dangers there are; I do not disguise it.
I believe that on this point I do not differ at all from the
Noble Lord who has so eloquently addressed you, when
he spoke of there being no dangers in the diffusion of
knowledge ; I believe that he meant, as I do, that the
dangers are not to be put in comparison with the dan-
gers of ignorance.—(Cheers.) It is impossible, by
keeping men in darkness and ignorance, to secure them
from temptation. It is impossible to guard men against
evil ; though you were to shut them up in the cells of
hermits, they must be exposed to temptation, in one
shape or another. Men are liable to be deceived and
misled; but it is in darkness more than in light, in twi-
light more than in full sun, that error is liable to be
mistaken for truth.—(Cheers.) I should be ashamed to
dwell at any length, especially before such an audience
as this, on the advantages of knowledge ; but I would
have you be well assured, for I can say so from my own
convictions and experience, that the advantages of dif-
fusing knowledge are not so generally admitted as might
be supposed from people's professions. I know for a
fact, that there are some persons who deprecate the
diffusion of knowledge, but yet they will give in to it,
and profess to favour it, merely because they find that
they must swim with the stream, and cannot oppose
it. I am continually meeting with persons who are
for embarking in the vessel of education, in order
that they may be able to retard its career. They
are deprecators, above all things, of too great
a diffusion of knowledge, too much education for
the people, too much knowledge for their station in life,
which, they say, is likely to " puff them up." Something
may be given, but not too much. Why, of course, no
one is an advocate for too much of anything—(A laugh)
—but if all mankind, down to the lowest peasant who
follows the plough, were to obtain as much knowledge as
was ever possessed by the most learned man that ever
lived, I should still say that is was very far for being too
mueh, provided that it was a well-digested knowledge,
and' there was a well-balanced cultivation of the faculties.
—(Cheers.) I suppose there are comparatively few
who apprehend danger to loyal principles, submissive
obedience to the Government, and all the other social
virtues, from the sort of knowledge diffused in this place
among the middle classes of society, any more
than they apprehend it from a diffusion of the
same sort of knowledge amongst the peasantry.
The same argument, in fact, will apply to both classes.
If the mere knowledge of his letters tends to make a
man less contendedly submit to his lot as a labourer, one
does not see why more extended knowledge should not
unfit him for some other subordinate station. Why
should not knowledge, if that be its tendency, make all
men try to rise above their station, all but in the highest?
I believe that the danger lies here, that where know-
ledge is very rarely and scantily communicated, the one
who, by some good luck, happens to get above his fel-
lows, will think himself fitted to be removed to a higher
class. But communicate the same knowledge to all that
class, and they will not be raised above it. One of the
greatest Conservatives that ever lived—all would agree
with him Dr. Johnson was so—used to say, when speak-
ing upon this subject, " Why, sir, if a man has a laced
hat, he thinks himself too good to go to the plough ; but
if all men wore laced hats, we should soe men ploughing
in laced hats."—(Cheers.) But, then, there is this
objection, and it may lie against all communications of
all human good of every kind—an educated man, of
cultivated intellect, but a bad man, which he certainly
may be, is more dangerous than he was before. It is
very true. A man who possesses the use of his limbs
is more dangerous, if he be a bad man, than the cripple.
—(Cheers.) A man who who has the use of speech and
of his eyes is more dangerous, if he be a bad man, than
a blind or deaf mute ; but, unless the tendeney of the
cultivation or the mind is to make man worse, we are
rebelling against the dispensations of Providence to re-
fuse any good to our friends and countrymen, to those
above and below us, on the ground that it may be
abused.—(Cheers.) This, however, I wish particularly
to point out, though it must have occurred to most of
you, wherein does consist the great danger to the com-
munity of a man of cultivatedintellect and great powers
sharpened by exercise, if he happens to be a bad man?
What is the chief danger to be apprehended from him?
Why, that he will act as a demagogue on the unthinking
multitude. He persuades the ignorant to receive his
statements, to adopt his fallacious conclusions, to follow
in all his wild schemes. He makes them his instru-
ments. lie may incite them to rebellion, to all sorts
of mischievous and dangerous conduct. Take away
these instruments, by making those men good judges of
truth and falsehood, and he has no longer anything to
work upon.—(Applause.) The agitator, the dema-
gogue, the partisan leader, all the mischievous men
who turn their talents and acquirements to such an
account as that, are a kind of quacks. .It is well
known that if a man has a certain knowledge of
chemistry and medicine, he may play on the credu-
lity of the ignorant by persuading them to swallow
his mischievous drugs; but if all understood medicine
there would be none to take his quack medicines.—
(Cheers.) Let all men, therefore, be so educated as to
be capable of distinguishing the true from the false, and
then, however ill-disposed a man may be, he will not be
able mislead others. I cannot conceive of such a
thing as a lawless and violent mob consisting of well-
instructed men, even setting aside moral instruction.
Supposing that they were all bad men, there would be
more generals than soldiers; but they would not be so
ignorant as to allow one to mislead the rest. I conceive
that the best way of guarding against the danger of
putting power into the hands of bad men is to diffuse as
widely as possible that power which knowledge confers.
—(Chep.s.) But lam convinced also that the tendency
of knowledge is not necessarily to secure good moral
conduct and character, but to further and promote it. If
our religion was a system of blind superstition, people
would be the more religious the more blind and unthink-
ing they were. If our Government were an unjust and
oppressive despotism, men would submit to it more
readily the more they were reduced to the state of brutes
and children. But if the conduct which we recommend to
them as men and Christians be conformable to right
reason—if our religion be based upon solid evidence—
if our Government be founded on just and fair principles,
those persons will be the best Christians and subjects,
other things.beinkequal, who are best able to distinguish
between truth indlalsehood.—(Cheers.) I wish to be
distinguished from those persons who consider that the
mere diffusion of knowledge constitutes the whole of
education. I say that it is a good thing, but Ido not
say or think that it is the whole of education; and I wish
no one to go away with the idea that I consider every
man the wiser, or likely to be the better, or the better
educated, for all the knowledge he may have obtained,
unless it is well regulated, and a judiciously balanced
cultivation of the faculties. But I say that knowledge,
as it goes, is a good thing, and the people should be
merely warned against the danger of ill-balanced
knowledge. The man who entirely devotes himself to
the cultivation of some faculty, to the neglect of the
rest; the person who devotes his attention to the culti-
vation of the intellect, to the neglect of the moral facul
ties, all these persons may be advanced in their own
particular
way, but it is a narrow, ill-balanced,
injudicious, hurtful education. What I maintain and
contend for is, that it is not in that case the knowledge
of something that does .the harm, but the ignorance of
others. It is not the cultivation of this faculty, but the
neglect of that. The same church, or other place of
worship, that may be sufficient for a small populatian,
becomes utterly inadequate for a large population. In
like manner, the same degree of moral and religious
education which suffices for a young child, or a person of
very limited attainments generally, becomes deficient
when he has acquired a great deal of secular knowledge.
The church, in his own mind, has become too small for
him ; but then, the evil is not in the increase of the po-
pulation, but in the want of other churches—not in the
cultivation of his intellectual faculty, but in the neglect
of the moral part of his nature. My argument may be
illustrated by reterence to the growth of the human
frame. In the case of children who are ricketty, we are
accustomed to say, that the head is too large for the
body, or the limbs too large for the trunk ; but we find
in this case, not that the head or the trunk has grown
too much, but that the limbs have not kept pace with it
—that the growth has not been even and well-balanced.
And it may be added that, when a child is growing, it is
not only far better, but tar easier, to encourage the
growth of the defective parts than to stop the growth of the
body altogether. The latter is impossible ; the former
may be accomplished by medicine and diet. I say, then,
that when a community is advancing in mental culture,
it is not only far wiser, but far easier, to give that cul-
ture
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- .
struggles to cultivate literature, contrasted with the ad- ' HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO
vantages enjoyed in these days by the most straitened in IT A TFIELD HOUSE.
tir.ir means, who pursued knuwledg.., un ler difficulties. HATFIELD, FRIDAY NIGHT —The Earl Talbot and
He strongly urged the acquisition of knowledge, and the Viscount Ingestre arrived at the Marquis of Salisbury's
study of literature for their own sake, independently of last evening in time to join the dinner circle.
the fame or advantage which might be derived from The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by the
them, and concluded a speech of considerable ability, noble host, and followed by the distinguished party re-
delivered with great modesty and propriety, by proposing siding at the mansion, entered the great hall shortly
"Thanks to the Board of Directors of the Athenmum '
for their efforts to render the present meeting interesting after eight o clock, the baud of the Hefts militia, sta-
tioned in the music gallery in the hall, playing the well-
and instructive." known tune of " The roast beef of Old England.
Mr. M'GREGOR, of the Board of Trade, in seconding The customary
arrangement of the guests was some-
the motion, expressed the great satisfaction he had de- what departed from. Her Majesty was supported on the
rived from being present at that celebration. He had right by Prince Albert, and the noble host on the
been highly gratified by the results of the inquiries he Queen's left. In succession to the Prince Consort sat
had made as to the usefulness of the institution.— Lady Mildred Hope, the Marquis of Exeter, and the
(Cheers.) If there was any community in the world Countess Spencer and Viscount Melbourne; the Countess
among which intelligence could be more eminently use- of Gainsborough, the Duke of Wellington, the Mar-
ful than another, it was in a great manufacturing and chioness of Exeter, sat in the same order, on the left of
commercial community like that which constituted the the Marquis of Salisbury. When the company were
population of Manchester and its surrounding districts. seated, the Rev. E. Faithful], Rector of Hatfield, and
—(Cheers.) The history of manufactures, commerce, domestic chaplain to his Lordship, said grace.
and navigation, was the history intelligencee and of The banquet was of the most sumptuous description,
civilisation. In those countries were igrace pre- and comprised all the luxuries that wealth could procure.
veiled the people were the least advanced in wealth and The desert was ,particularly excellent, and was placed
prosperity; they were in a state of the greatest desirada- under the able superintendence of Ferdinand. When all
tion and immorality. On the other hand, they 'found the company had taken their seats at the banqueting
that with intelligence nations became great, virtuous, board, that ancient chamber afforded a brilliant coup
and powerful.—(Cheers.) If they examined the condi- d'ceil, the hall being illuminated by a great number of
tion of European nations, they would find this to be lamps, in addition to more than twenty Chinese lanthorns,
universally the case, while in such countries as America suspended by an invisible wire from the pendants in the
they found anarchy the result of ignorance, and her un- roof. The table was lighted from superb gold cande-
developed resources the effect of deficient intelligence labra, alternately with which were costly vases containing
in her citizens.—(Cheers.) It was greatly to the credit natural flowers. All the attendants were in full dress, and
of Manchester that while the inhabitants had been iu- each wore a silver badge of the Salisbury arms on the left
dustriously engaged in the pursuits of trade and com- arm. The effect was truly magnificent. The Marquis
merce, they had not neglected the conveniences of the of Salisbury rose at the conclusion of the repast, and
rising generation. Manchester might well be proud of proposed as a toast, " The Queen."
that institution, which had encountered and overcome The military band struck up " God save the Queen."
all its difficulties; certainly the committee were entitled The health of her Majesty was then drunk, the whole of
to every praise for the perseverance, integrity, and the guests rising from their places.
ability with which they had attended to their duties. The Noble Host then gave " His Royal Highness
The vote having passed, and been duly duly responded Prince Albert," when the band performed the " Cobourg
to, Lord Morpeth left the chair ; and the Mayor having March."
taken it,
At a quarter to ten o'clock her Majesty retired from
Mr. M. PHILIPS proposed a vote of thanks to Lord the banqueting-hall, the ladies leaving at the same time.
Morpeth for having kindly consented, six months since, Prince Albert and the Noble host, and the guests, sub-
to take the chair on the present occasion, and for the sequently adjourned to the splendid saloon, where the
distinguished ability with which he had performed its Queen and a select circle had assembled. At the re-
duties. It was impossible to do justice to the graceful tirement of the Queen the band played the national
readiness and good nature with which his Lordship had anthem.
accepted the office of president on that occasion ; and, Previous to her Majesty and her Royal Consort
although it was very inconvenient for public men to leaving for their private apartments, twelve of the
make such engagements so long beforehand, he must German artists who have recently been employed, under
say, speaking as a commercial man, they drew upon the the direction of Mr. Sang, in the embellishment of the
1 Noble Viscount at six months, and he was kind enough interior, afforded the royal party much pleasure by
to accept at sight. Since that period his Noble Friend singing some popular vocal music of that country.
had attained high office under the Crown ; but, although In the selection were, " Die Capelle," " Das Schwart-
his occupations and public duties had become much more lied," " Der Vogel," and " Der Kohler-bauerbube."
onerous than they were before his acceptance of the The Marquis of Salisbury, as colonel of the South
post, he had allowed no private convenience, no public Herts Yeomanry, gave the privates and non-commis-
duty, to interfere with his engagement to be with them. sioned officers of the four troops a substantial entertain-
-(Cheers.) He was quite sure when they reflected on meat in the riding school, and before the assemblage
the intimate connexions whlch subsisted between the separated, the health of the Qu, en and her illustrious
Noble Lord and the large constituency he represented, husband was heartily drunk, as well as the health of the
similar in many respects, both in character and pursuits, noble colonel. The officers dined together at the Salis-
to Manchester, they had touched a chord that vibrated bury Arms Tavern.
in unison with their own feelings—(Cheers)—and he This morning, long before noon, the park was
called upon them all to show their gratitude to the thronged with thousands of people, who came in quick
Noble Lord for coming among them, and for the splendid succession into the town from all parts of the country.
address he had delivered.—(Cheers.) By the kind permission of the Noble Marquis not the
Mr. W. BROWN, M.P., seconded the motion, which slightest obstruction was offered to the admission of the
was put by the Mayor, and carried by acclamation and public, and no restriction was placed over their move-
waving of handkerchiefs.
ments ; beyond that no one ' was allowed to transgress
Lord MORPETH said, after the marked kindness, and, further than the northern court, which was amply suffi-
I must say also, after the admirable patience with which cient to satisfy any moderate desire.
you have listened both to myself and to those who sue. It was a most beautiful day, the sun shining with all
ceeded me during our already protracted sitting, I should the warmth that could be expected in the autumn
think myself indeed inexcusable if I inflicted a further season. The park in the northern direction presented
trespass on your exhausted attention. But it is impos- an animated appearance from the hundreds of strangers
sible for me to withhold the utterance of my deep and flocking in parties to witness the bullock that was being
sincere gratitude for the cordial welcome which I have roasted whole a short distance down the north lawn.
now experienced from you. I have already told you The Queen and his Royal Highness did not go out in
what my sense of the honour done to me was ; I could the early part of the morning, nor did they attend
hardly tell you, before I had experienced it, my sense of prayers in the chapel. The Duke of Wellington and
the pleasure I had received. I had heard much indeed the majority of the guests staying in the mansion, at-
of the annual assemblies, but I must say the result has tended the service, which was performed by the Rev. F.
infinitely surpassed anything I could have expected. I Faithful', assisted by the Rev. A. B. Starkey.
had heard much of the Free-Trade Hall, though I His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by
must not now talk about free trade. But I certainly the Marquis of Salisbury, about half-past ten went out
did not look upon its birth-place with any disrespect. to shoot in the southern part of the park. The Duke
—(Cheers.) I did not, however, expect to see it of Wellington, the Marquis of Exeter, Lord John
radient with all the decorations of the Alhambra and Russell, Lord Charles Wellesley, the Earl Spencer, Mr.
shining like a feast of Chinese lanterns.—(Cheers.) Your J. M. Balfour, Mr. G. E. Anson, Colonel Buckley, and
excellent Member has alluded to my present connexion Colonel Seymour were of the party. The battue was in
with the immediate service of the Crown. Certainly, what is called Coombes-wood. Prince Albert killed
the superintendence of her Majesty's Woods and Forests nearly 150 head of game, and the Duke of Wellington
would not seem to bring me into immediate connexion was successful, considering that the Noble and Gallant
with the chimneys and furnaces of Manchester ; but 1 Duke did not exert himself in the sport. The Marquis
believe I may say with truth that there is no department of Exeter made some excellent shots. The result of
of the public service which may not receive valuable and the morning's sport was, on quitting the plantations at
useful instruction in your good town and enterprising one o'clock, a return of killed-158 pheasants, 4 par-
community of Manchester.—(Cheers.) He has also tridges, 152 rabbits, and 4 hares, giving a total of 318
alluded to the constituency, so kindred with your own head.
in many respects, with which it is my happiness and my Shortly after the shooting party returned to the man-
pride to be connected. lam not going to allude any sion, luncheon was served in the winter dining-room.
more to foreign than to domestic politics ; but I cannot The Queen and Prince Albert, and other noble guests of
help exclaiming, in the spirit of a former French King the Marquis, were present.
who had an eye, perhaps too keen—an eye to meddle The carriages were ordered at three o'clock to take
with Spain—(Loud cheers and laughter)—when he said, the illustrious company a drive in the park. In the
" Henceforth there are no Pyrenees "—I feel, after meantime the populace had congregated in the park in
the links of rapid communication which now bind to- large numbers, and had mostly assembled in the
fiether the two communities, which fasten together northern court, and without its boundary in the park,
our White and Red roses, " There is no Blackstone where several carriages of the neighbouring gentry
Edge."—(Cheers.) But you all have been listening were drawn up by the road leading to the north avenue.
for a long time to our wise saws and our grave maxims; Her Majesty and the Prince Consort passed out at
I must not forget that you are now called to more en- half-past three o'clock, and entered the pony phaeton
livening measures and to more exhilirating movements. which had been provided. The illustrious visitors were
Your Member said he would indulge in a commercial preceded by the Marquis of Salisbury, Colonel Buckley,
allusion; well, I say, I see before me enough of the raw and Colonel Seymour, the Equerries in Waiting, and
material—(Loud laughter)—of melody and of beauty, the royal outriders in scarlet liveries. After the Queen's
to weave into a fairy web of graceful gaiety and light- carriage were the Earl of Morton, the Lord in Waiting;
hearted gladness.—(Cheers.) I commend you then to the Marquis of Exeter, Viscount Ingestre, and Mr. J.
give full sway to the genius of the hour.—(Cheers.) M. Balfour, on horseback, and two open carriages and
You have already heard to-night a great deal of wisdom; four, containing the Countess of Gainsborough, Lady
but there is philosophy in mirth as well as in wisdom.— Mildred Hope, the Countess of Brownlow, Lady Charles
(Cheers.) You have been told that the English are Wellesley, Lady' Braybrooke, Lady Blanche Balfour,
intensely industrious. lam sure to-night we have been and the Hon. Miss Dawson.
intensely wise—l now exhort you all to be intensely As the pony phaeton came by the western gateway,
merry; and I cannot take my leave of •you with a better and passed through the north court to the north avenue,
wish than that you should throughout the whole course the vast body of spectators saluted her Majesty and the
of your lives be, in happy alternation, both very wise and Royal Prince by loud and long protracted cheering, to
very merry.—(Cheers.) which plaudits the Queen and Prince condescendingly
Dancing then commenced, which was continued till a responded by repeatedly inclining towards the multitude.
late hour. The Queen and party then proceeded to view the
ancient tree, so carefuliy preserved at the turn of the
northern and eastern avenues, called " Queen Elizabeth's
Oak," from that Queen having been seated in the shade,
of its umbrageous branches when the death of Mary was
announced to her. We understand that her Majesty ex-
pressed herself highly pleased by the sight of the oak,
and as a memento of her visit to the spot had a small
branch lopped from the trunk to be preserved. From
hence the carriages were conducted to the vineyard to
view the beauties of that fairy retreat. Her Majesty
and Prince Albert alighted, and entered the gardens,
and walked to the lower terrace, which give a good com-
mand of the grounds. It may be as well to state that
the vineyard is on a slope, at the bottom of which runs
the river Lee. As the Queen was there a desiccated
floe er of the hydrangea was presented to her Majesty.
Her Majesty appeared gratified at the gift, and gave the
floral skeleton to her maid of honour. The party next
drove round the park, and in the course of the road saw
the pollard oaks for which the park is so famous. The
illustrious party returned to the mansion at half-past
four, after an agreeable drive.
The Duke of Wellington took equestrian exercise
during the absence of the Queen, and wherever he made
his appearance he was enthusiastically cheered.
The l)uke of Rutland, the Marchioness of Exeter,
Lord John Russell, the Earl of Brownlow, the Earl
Talbot, and Lord Marcus Hill walked to Queen Elizabeth's
Oak, and afterwards went over the vineyard.
While the royal party were absent in the park, the
Marquis of Salisbury's dependents were regaled on the
lawn. Mr. Farebrother, the land-steward, was present
to superintend this entertainment, but it was far from
interesting, the bullock, which was roasted whole at an
enormous fire nearly twenty hours, being greedily de-
voured. Strong ale was supplied to those participating
in the feast.
The officers of the Yeomanry Cavalry lunched at the
house to-day, when they comprised Captains Paris,
Gaussen, Halsey, M.P., and Thornton ; Lieutenants
Meyer, Stratton, Branton, and Gaussen ; Cornets Sir
Henry Meux, Bart, Lewis, Kinder, Pelly, Sir Robert
Murray, Bart., Kemble, Crawley, and Parker. During
her Majesty's visit the Hoddesden troop, under the com-
mand of Captain Paris, have mounted guard, and were
relieved in that duty this afternoon by Captain Thorn-
ton's troop.
All the principal families of the county have been
honoured by invitations as well as the clergy.

MR. VILLIERS, M.P.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

SlR,—Having observed in your police report of to-day
that the man who was taken up at the Athenaeum
Club-house yesterday for creating a disturbance there
pleaded in defence of his conduct that he wanted to
serve me with a writ, may I request you to give insertion
to the following statement? This person, for upwards
of a month past, has been writing threatening letters to
me, demanding a sum of money, and intimating that he
would attend at the different clubs to which I belong,
and that he would stop the members and inform
them that he had a writ against me. To these letters
I have given but one reply—viz., that I never had heard
of the writer in my life, that I was totally uncon-
scious of having incurred any such debt as that alleged
against me, and that to my recollection or knowledge I
had never received any application whatever from his
apparent employers; but I added, that if he or his em-
ployers could show that I was indebted to them, and
would make an application for payment in the usual and
proper manner, I would attend to it without delay;
and taking it for granted that there was either
error or something worse in the background, I left
a written statement to the above effect with the
porters of the different clubs which I frequented.
Since writing that statement (about three weeks ago)
I have never received any application upon the
subject. I have been at the clubs every morning.
I have never directed the servants to deny
me to any one; on the contrary, I have always been
accessible to any one desiring to see me. Finding,
however, that the person in question was in the habit of
calling at the clubs at his own time, and after I bad left
them, making this a pretence that he could not see me,
and informing the servants that he had a writ against
me, taking it for granted that he had some unacknow-
ledged purpose of, perhaps, extortion in view, I
directed the porter of the Athenaeum, in case of my
absence, to give him into charge of the police upon
the first occasion of his creating a disturbance, or
obstructing the members of the club, as he had
threatened to do. By this step I felt assured that
I should come to the knowledge of his real object.
The circumstance occurred yesterday, as I had anti-
cipated, and the porter attended to my instructions
Had I been aware of the apprehension of the party, I
should have attended before the magistrate to apprise
him of all the facts, as the conduct of the offender was
totally unwarranted and quite inconsistent with the
legitimate object he pretended to have in view, although
quite consistent with the object I have suggested. I
take the step of making this case public, as I have little
doubt that the fear of publicity is the calculation (often
too successful) usually proceeded upon in such cases.
I am, sir, your most obedient servant,
Brookes's, Oct. 23. C. P. VILLIERS.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse, attended
by Baroness Scheel, Sir Andrew Barnard, and Baron
Meysenbuch, left Cashiobury-park, Herts, the residence
of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday afternoon,
and travelled to town by the London and North-Western
Railway. The Princess was visited at Marlborough
House, Pall-mall, by his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of
Hesse.

ESSEX QUARTER SESSIONS, OCT. 23.—This day
being appointed for the trial of William Clare and
William Quinlan, the engine-driver and stoker in charge
of the luggage train which caused the accident at the
Stratford station of the Eastern Counties Railway, the
prisoners, who had surrendered in discharge of their
bail, were placed in the dock, when Mr. E. James, for
the prosecution, stated that the prisoners having been
already tried and acquitted of manslaughter, no evidence
would now be offered. The Chairman said, that on
looking over the depositions he saw very little evidence
against Quinlan, and he should have felt botind to have
ordered his acquittal. No evidence, however, being
offered against either, all the jury would have to do
would be to return a verdict of Not Guilty. The jury
did so, and the prisoners left the bar with their friends.
THE BLIND TRAVELLER.—The celebrated blind
traveller, Lieutenant Holman, returned to this country
on Thursday evening, after an absence of upwards of
six years, during which time he visited Portugal and
Spain, Algeria, and all the places in the Mediterranean,
penetrated Egypt and Syria, crossed the desert to Jeru-
salem, and finally made an extensive tour through the
least frequented parts of the south-east of Europe, in-
cluding Hungary, Transylvania, Servia, Bosnia, &c. As
on all former occasions, this extraordinary man travelled
perfectly alone. He has returned in perfect health and
spirits.—Liverpool Mercury.
AMATEUR TREATRICALS.—EarI Fitzhardinge has
recently come out in the character of the Elder Brother.
Mr. Grantley Berkeley, in the part of the Younger
Brother, was not very happy. He ranted a good deal,
and was not sufficiently subdued ; but we have no doubt
he will tame down as he gets more experience.—Punch.
The Marseilles mail to India, which was to leave
to night, will, in consequence of the accident to theßipon
steamer, be delayed till Tuesday evening, the 27th lust.

Her Royal Highness went to the National Gallery,
and was conducted through the different rooms. Her
Royal Highness, attended by her suite, also visited and
inspected Westminster Hall.
In the evening the Princess of Hesse, attended by
Baroness Scheel and Baron Meysenbuch, honoured the
performance at the Haymarket Theatre with her
presence. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz (attended
by Baron Knesebeck), and his Serene Highness Prince
Frederick of Hesse, also honoured the Haymarket
Theatre with their presence yesterday evening,
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, left her residence, Clarence
House, St. James's, at three o'clock on Thusrday after-
noon, on her return to Frogmore House, Windsor.

SuEnrraiv KNOWLES.—May we venture to ex-
press the hope that Mr. Knowles may yet, and at no
distant period, have bestowed on him a pension adequate
to his merits—he expects no more. If those whose pro-
vince it is to confer such marl of a nation's gratitude
upon individuals whose time, tent, and strength of soul
and body are, or have been, devoted to the enriching of
our stores of literature, Reglect or refuse to listen to his
claims—ignorance of them they cannot plead—then the
country, independent of the Government, must be ap-
pealed to; and, together with those of other localities,
Mr. Knowles has, from former (association, a peculiar
claim on the opulent merchants of Glasgow.—Renfrew-
shire Maaazine.

MR. o'dONNELL.—Mr. O'Connell is to arrive in
Dublin on Monday next, and it is supposed that he will
attend the weekly meeting ci the Repeal Association on
that day,