The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-22 00:00:00

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THE WEATHER.-SITN OFFICE, OCT. 21,

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
60—highest since noon yesterday.
52—lowest this morning and during the night,
58—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.08.
WIND, North-Easterly ; light, with very fine weather.

THE SUN:

FRIDAY. OCTOBER 22, 1858.

Another moral and intellectual harangue to the
industrial classes from the lips of one of the famous
orators of Parliament ! Another earnest and
kindly address delivered by the Earl of SHAFTES-
BURY—this time to the young men of Bradford,
the young men of the local Christian Association.
Our columns, in truth, have latterly been crowded
with these kind of orations, addressed to the intel-
ligent multitude by men of eminence—who are thus
really making their holidays the busiest time
for them in the whole twelvemonth. What
with the British Association, presided over by
Professor OWEN, and the National Association for
the Promotion of Social Science, and the Man-
chester Athenaeum, and meetings at Leeds, and at
Bradford, and at Liverpool (very soon to be followed,
too, by another at Birmingham), we have had
enough and to spare in the way of eloquence, in-
struction, and philanthropy. The mind of the
northern provinces must by this time, indeed,
be pretty well saturated with wholesome
truths and generous principles. It can hardly
fail to have been stirred into attention and elevated
into noble aspirations. Lord BROUGHAM may be
said to have struck the keynote of the oratorical
harmonies at Grantham in his magnificent pane-
gyric upon Sir ISAAC NEWTON, when the comme-
morative monument of the great philosopher was
publicly inaugurated at his birthplace. Since
then the tone of the public orations has
been well sustained by Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
by the Earl of CARLISLE, by Mr. GLADSTONE, by
Sir JAMES S'I'EPHENS, by Professor OWEN, by Mr
RUSKIN, and last, and very far, in truth, from leas

by the earnest and gentle-hearted Earl of SHAFTES

BURY.

The address delivered by Lord SHAFTESBURY, on
Tuesday, at Bradford, in the presence of the assem-
bled young men of the Christian Asso-
ciation, was altogether one of the most
thoughtful and impressive harangues to
which the Noble Earl has recently given utterance.
It was a speech in every way calculated to better
the hearers of it. While Lord JOHN, in addressing
very recently the congregated artisans of Liverpool,
deprecated at the outset of his remarks any design
on his part to lecture or sermonise his audience,
Lord SHAFTESBURY' could hardly in reason be ex-
pected to do otherwise than in some sense speak
precisely thus 'to his audience—namely, in a great
measure, and by necessity both, to lecture and to ser-
monise. To understand how this reallywas in a man-
ner, as we have intimated, unavoidable, it is only
necessaryto bear in mind the difference between the
two assemblies. The assembling of three or four
thousand mechanics at Liverpool, comprised among
those gathered together upon that remarkable
occasion, labouring men of all ages, interspered
with their wives and daughters. The assembly at
Bradford, onohe other hand, consisted of
two or three hundred young men of a
somewhat more educated class, members
of the Christian Association, brought together for
the expikss purpose of listening to moral advice
from the mouth of a great politico-religious nota-
bility like Lord SHAFTESBURY. It was not simply
then in keeping with the purpose of the meeting
on
Tuesday evening last, at Bradford, that Lord'
SHAFTESBURY spoke half in the language of a lay-
preacher, half in that of a lecturer upon moral philo-
sophy—it was strictly speaking in direct fulfilment
of the design of the whole proceeding. And certainly,
so viewed, the Noble Lord must be allowed to have
acquitted himself, not only well, but to admiration.
The harangue was not merely worth listening to at
the time of its delivery—it was worth reading
afterwards. It was deserving of being separately
published—as we hope it will be. For it abounds
with thoughts eminently suggestive—truths con-
stituting, in the noblest sense of the phrase, food for
reflection. It was an oration conspicuous even
among the many brilliant orations recently
delivered in the provinces, especially in the
northern provinces—because of its having in a
remarkable way about it a really refreshing and
unnzisteleable daih of originality. It was not com-

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