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The first annual dinnir 3l} _connection. with the.
Mechanies 'lnstitution took place on
Saturday evening, when amongst others Lord
Stanley and several other members of Parliament
were present. After the preliminary toasts had
been disposed of,
Lord STANLEY rose to give the toast of the even-
ing, and was very warmly cheered. After some in-
troductory remarks his lordship said—ln speaking
of the position and prospects of popular education
in England, and especially in these districts, there
are two difficulties to be encountered. In the
first place, a speech on educational matters is not
usually very attractive either to hear or to read.
One reason of that is the very importance which we
all feel attaches to the subject. It is not a new
thing to anybody, but one on which most of us have
thought and read—on which all of us have heard
something, whether we wished it or not, and on
which members of Parliament, generally speaking,
have heard much more than they desired. (Laughter.)
Consequently, when people open their newspaper,
and see a column headed " Lord So-and-So on
Popular Education," the chances are that nine out
of ten of the readers turn the sheet over, remarking
perhaps that the editor must be badly off for news.
(Laughter.) In the next place, not merely educa-
tional matters, but all questions of home adminis-
tration or concern, occupy at this moment in men's
minds a comparatively subordinate position. There
are before us at this time questions of momentous
European interest, of which the next year or two
may witness the solution, and it is perfectly natural,
and not unreasonable, that people of all classes
should be drawn rather to speculate whether Italy
can be united, the Turkish empire hold together, or
the desolating wars of half a century ago must be
repeated in this generation, than to attend much to'
the humble, homely, commonplace affairs of their
county or parish. Now, gentlemen, both these things
must be so, and lam not disposed to complain. It
is rather an advantage than the contrary, that a
subject which to those who are really zealous for
the common good presents the deepest interest,
should not be one which lends itself most easily to
the convenience of those speakers who only wish to
make out of it what is called political capital. Also,
whatever internal improvements be imperilled or
delayed, it is well for the power and influence of
England abroad, and even for our safety at home,
that the English people--never really in earnest on
more than one subject at a time—should have given
their minds to military preparations and national
defences, with a unity and a'determination such as
the oldest among us can recollect to have witnessed
before, and which leave comparatively little time or
thought for matters less pressing at the moment.
Perhaps the cause of education does not really lose
by being less prominent in men's thoughts than it
was a few years ago. We have time to reflect more
calmly, and therefore to judge more fairly upon
many points which were formerly involved in con

troversy and dispute; and with every year that
passes we get a little at least of that practical expe-
rience, that invaluable teaching of facts, of which I
believe most Englishmen agree in thinking that a
very little is worth all the speculation and theory
ever spun from the ingenious brains of men. (Hear.)
There are one or two conclusions on the subject of
education which appear to be universally come to.
The first is that on whatever system or principle
you establish what are called primary school s—
whether set on foot by the landowners individually
or by ratepayers as a body, whether assisted by
Government or left alone, still we must expect that
a very large proportion of those who attend them,
' leaving them at the age they do, will acquire
nothing beyond the bare rudiments of knowledge—
the power to read, write, and cipher. Of course
there are many exceptions, but that I believe is the
general rule. These schools are not places in which
education can be given, they are schools in which
opportunities are given to those who attend them—
if at a later period of their lives they so please—to
educate themselves. That fact being once admitted,
I think this consequence follows—that the impor-
tance which has often been attached to the particu-
lar system on which schools are conducted is very
greatly diminished. Provided you can get the chil-
dren to attend them, that the masters are compe-
tent, and the discipline good, I for my own part
care little on what system the schools are estab-
lished, believing that they do not give education,
bat only give the means of acquiring it hereafter ;
and the direction which the studies of the man will
take is very little determined by the accident of the
school he has attended. (Hear, hear.) The other con-
clusion in which I think people have come gene-
rally to agree is, that what we have to complain of
in educational matters is not so much the number
of children who attend any school at all, inconsi-
derable as it is when compared with the population
as a whole, but rather the irregular attendance of
those who do frequent the schools, and the early
age at which they leave, with the consequent liabi-
lity to lose altogether in later years even that small
portion of knowledge which may have been ac-
quired. If you could ascertain—which you cannot
—the proportion of young men who can read and
write well at the age of 17, and the proportion of
these same persons who can read and write well at
30, you would find the falling off between those
two ages far greater probably than almost any of
us have an,idea of, even among those who have at-
tended closely to the subject. Now, neither the ir-
regular attendance nor the early leaving can be alto-
gether remedied, as both are attributable mainly
to the desire—natural and honourable in itself, and
more prevalent, as I believe, among the working-
classes of England than in any other country, except
perhaps the United States—which every lad has to
get his own living as soon as he can, rather than re-
main a burthen to his parents. We very often com-
plain of parents taking away their children from
school, but I believe in many cases the children
have quite as much to do with it as he parents, be-
cause a lad feels himself more of a man, and has a
natural pride on the first day he begins an indepen-
dent existence, and can carry home the earnings of
his own labour. If, then, the time of school attend-
ance must be short, and the attendance itself irre-
gular, and if at the same time there exists, as is un-
doubtedly the case, a very general desire among at
least a' part of the working classes for the means of
further instruction; we are inevitably led to the re-
quirement of some institution holding to the
ordinary school a similar relation to that in
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In some of the great towns, as Liverpool, Man-
chester, and, I believe, Leeds, mechanics' institutes
are really flourishing, and accomplishing the ends
for which they were set on foot. It is sometimes
objected that persons frequent them who arc of a
wealthier class than those for whom they were in-
tended. Well, so long as working men are not ex-
cluded, or don't exclude themselves, I see no harm,
but rather good, in this mixture of classes, provided
it take place naturally, and without any affecta-
tion. And while the son of the mechanic is learn-
ing it is quite right that the son of the small trades-
man should not be remaining
idle. As a general
rule, however, these institutions, while supplying
a want throughout the country which is generally
felt, and while accomplishing much good, have un-
deniably fallen short of original hopes and expec-
tations. Sometimes the libraries on which they
chiefly relied for attraction were scanty or ill-chosen
—very often the lectures, being desultory or incon-
secutive, were not capable of imparting real infor-
mation : sometimes political or sectarian feeling
crept in, and of course ruined everything; and
even where none of these causes operated, the public

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