The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1860

PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of
Chancery, made in the matter of the estate of Charles
Augustus Townley, and in a cause "Innocent a.,,rainst Town-
ley," all persons claiming to be creditors of CHARLES
AUGUSTUS TOWNLEY, late of Mincing-lane, in the city
of London, and of Burleioli-villa, Bridge-road, Saint John's-
Wood, in the county of kiddlesex, colonial broker, who died
in or about the month of February, 1859, are, by their:solici-
tors, on or before the 31st day of January, 1860, to come in
and prove their debts at the Chambers of the Vice-Chancel-
lor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, No. 3, Stone-buildings,
Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, or in default thereof they will
be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Order.
Monday, the 6th day of February, 1860, at one o'clock in the
afternoon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing, and
adjudicating upon the claims.
Dated this nineteenth day of December, 1859.

CHAS. PUGH., Chief Clerk.
CROSLEY and BURN, 34, Lombard-street,
Plaintiff's solicitors.

earth. We are happy—we are free—we are in-
structed—we are generous. Why is it that we are
so? It is because the various classes of society have
a good understanding with one another. Ido not
believe in any man who sets one class against
another. For me, I consider myself to belong to no
dais, and think my honourable friends on my right
and left will understand me when I say so. (Cheers
and laughter). But this I will say, that if you would
put your finger upon any one thing which dis-
tinguishes this country from any other, it is that
the great, powerful, and rich, consider themselves
bound in dutyto educate, to guide, and to provide for
the poor. What have we seen ? In the days of our
ancestors, I mean those who have had forefathers
—(laughter)—there was not that intercourse
between the rich and the poor that exists now. They
had not then any intercourse together. But now
what do we see ? 'We see young noblemen, gentle-
men of what is called genteel birth, associating with
and going and lecturing to working men. That,
my friends, is a great sign of the times. Nothing
gives me more pleasure than to see Lord So-and-So
lecturing to working men, nothing more pleasing
than to see young Mr. Buxton going as he did on a
recent occasion to argue with working men, and
that too on the subject of strikes. That was a
courageous thing, but it was not Mr. Buxton's
courage only, it was a sign of the times. Do you
think that he would have done that in the time of
our grandfathers ? I think not. He would have
turned upon his heels, or rather not him but his
shadowy forefathers, and said, " Those fellows, they
must be kept down." But now it is thought fit,to.
argue the matter, and you endeavour to go through
their minds, not through their bodies, and the great
object is to lead men to the right by force of rea-
son, not by means of brute force; My friend the
chairman said he was overpowered by the presence
of tines members of parliament on the platform.
Well, do you think you world have had three
members of parliament a hundred years ago ?
(Laughter.) I mean if such a meeting could have
been formed. Not a bit of it. (Renewed laughter.)
We live in great times, and Middlesborough is one
of the wonders of the age in which we live. I have
heard something about your growth. Well, Middles-
borough is a great fact ; but I do not know what
you will say when I tell you that I never heard of
it until my friend, your secretary, wrote to me.
Well, then, as I said Middlesborough, is a sign of
the times. We go rapidly a-head, and what our
grandfathers would have thought unworthy of
them their grandsons do, and they find that they
take the right method of governing mankind. We
now see to the educating of men, and training them
in the right way by building mechanics' institutes.
This much marks the change in public opinion upon
that subject. There are here two knights of two
different shires to do you honour on this occasion ;
as for me, I am -but a simple borough man.
(Laughter.) And besides that, they are your na-
tural leaders, the one being the member for your
own division of Yorkshire, and the other for the ad-
joining county. But when 1 speak of leaders do not
misunderstand me. Ido not mean that they govern
you by making you swear as they swear—not one
word of it. The gentlemen on my left hand come
here ; they employ their capital and their know-
ledge, and this benefits the great body of their
countrymen. They do not ask you to obey them,
but to promote your own interests, and by so doing
you next promote the interests of your country. I
believe that the great body of those whom I am ad-
dressing are working men; My belief is that the
time will come when the working men of England
will see that their interest lies in being
instructed ; that they will make the me-
chanics' institute their college, and that every
town may have its Oxford and its great professors,
its teachers and lecturers, those men who endea-
vour to guide the intellect and create feelings with-
in your minds, arising from the instruction you re-
ceive, and that enjoyment you receive in this way
will be very different from that which you receive
from the beer barrel. (Cheers.) I believe that
that time is coming, and nothing gives me greater
hopes of it than the scenes I have seen to-day.
Well, truly, as Mr. Cayley has said, it has been my
lot to travel in the United States, where towns
spring up like mushrooms. The sun goes down
over a wide extended plain which to-morrow, when
it arises, is covered with a town. Well, within 10,
I am told within 25 years, there was only one single
house here, the site of which was pointed out to me
to-day, and now you have a population of nearly
20,000 inhabitants. You have within your reach
the means of that great increase of power and in-
fluence—l mean that most hard and toughest mate-
rial, namely, iron. You have iron on the one side,
and coal on the other, and you only want energy
between the two, and you will be a great people.
(Cheers.) How are you to get this ? Why, by for-
swearing all the base deteriorating pleasures that
arise from every sensual enjoyment. If you will
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may not raise yourselves in material wealth, but
you may gain the means of making yourselves
happy. Now there are remarkable instances
in our own times of what may be done by
intellectual energy. I can point out one notable
example, viz., Geo. Stephenson. (Applause.) That
man, by means of his own intellectual power, raised
himself to great wealth and distinction. Well, but
it is impossible for the great body of working men
to attain to his position. But there is another man
I would wish to point out to you, who is not so well
known as Stephenson in England, but he is one
whose example is well worthy of imitating—l mean
Hugh Miller. (Cheers.) That man was originally
a stonemason, and by his own energy he made him-
self one of the greatest geologists of the present
time. Unfortunately, both are now dead. Stephen-
son' has gone to his long home, so has Hugh Miller ;
and though you may not attain the position of Ste-
phenson, that which was attained by Hugh. Miller
is within the reach of you all. Every man may
make himself an instructed man, and may make in-
tellectual enjoyment the great end of his life; and
he is the example I would place before you. Let
those lessons I have been endeavouring to inculcate
sink deep into the hearts of the working men of
England. Now, sir, I think I have well nigh tired
you. (No, no.) I would ask you to believe me when
I say that there is no habit productive of so much
real enjoyment as the habit, acquired in early
youth, of reading. Let your object, then, be to
get a few works for yourself, and then seek to in-
crease the library in connection with the institute.
I have lived a pretty long life, and I have gone
through some struggles in my time, but my great
pleasure has been retiring from the world and get-
ting my book. You may not always be on good terms
with a friend, but a book never quarrels with you,
never turns sulky; you open the book, and flnd:its
calm white face always ready to give you instruc-
tion. No matter what happens, it is always the
same, and therefore I would say to the working
man, always strive to fall in with a good book.
Do not look right and left for something to amuse
you so long as you can go to the library. If you
have not a book of your own, you can get one from
the library of the mechanics' institute, and you can
take it home and read it to your family. By so
doing you will promote your own happiness and
take more and more pleasure in reading. I would,
therefore, say that those who have endeavoured to
gather together the means of raising a mechanics'
institute at this early period of the history of your
town have been the greatest benefactors of the
town. It will be the means of your entertainment,
and will be a great means of education: Depend
upon it there is nothing by which you can do so
much good to the country, no way in which
you can so much benefit the race, as by dis-
seminating amongst the men among whom you live
intellectual enjoyment; and, therefore, I congratu-'
late you upon tke rise and progress of your
mechanics' institute, and my hearty prayer is, that
it may continue to prosper as it has done. (Loud
and prolonged applause.)

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