The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-22 00:00:00

271 E EARL OF CARLISLE AT LEEDS.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle, the Lord-
-lieutenant of Ireland, visited Leeds yesterday for
the purpose of taking part in the inauguration of a
medical charity called the Leeds Hospital for
Women and Children. The inauguration was of a
plain and formal character. After the Bishop of
lipon had offered an appropriate prayer, the Earl
of Carlisle made a brief speech, of a congratulatory
character, observing that he should have another
opportunity of referring to the institution. ' The
noble Earl then went to the Town-hall, at which
there wala very large assemblage of persons, who
mceived his Lordship with much applause. He
Was met by the Mayor and Corporation, in their
robes of office, and the following address was read
to his Lordship by the Town-clerk (Mr. Smith) :-
16' To his Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle,
K.G., Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
We, the Mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough
of Leeds, in the county of York, desires most heartily to
Wielcome your lordship on the occasion of your visit to our
town, while we gladly avail ourselves of the opportunity of
giving expression to the profound respect entertained by us
and all classes of the large community we represent towards
your character and public life.
" In thus addressing your lordship we are reminded of
your former connexion with our borough, when you were
tne of the members of Parliament for the county and West
Riding of Yorkshire—a connexion which, while we look
back upon it with satisfaction and pride, we venture to hope
is associated with some of your happiest recollections.
" As your lordship's former constituents, we have ever
r egarded :the events of your subsequent career with warm
Interest, and it has afforded us high gratification that those
saoble qualities of mind and character which have won for
?Jour lordship such universal esteem have caused you to be
rejected for the distinguished and responsible position of
o.lle representative of her Majesty in Ireland.
" Your lordship has been endowed not only with exalted
!rank but also with great talents ; and most thankfully do
von, acknowledge that all have been combined in your life,
Riot for ambitious ends, but for the elevation of the depressed,
the instruction of the ignorant, the amelioration of the suf•
tferb3g, the discouragement of wrongdoing, the encourage-
Mient of literature and free institutions, and for the promo-
lion of the welfare and happiness of your fellow-country-
lmen ; so that your lordship has achieved much towards the
(reconciliation of class with class, and the promotion of a
rood understanding and mutual trust between the high and
Mhe low, the rich and the poor, throughout the realm.
" Most cordially, therefore, do we unite in presenting to
Sour lordship this tribute of our respect and regard, with
vin earnest hope that your life may long be spared, in order
that you may diffuse the salutary influence of your example,
and encourage in others the growth of those virtues which
have long adorned the honoured names of Morpeth and
Carlisle.
" Given under the corporate common seal this 16th day
lof October, 1861."
The Earl of CARLISLE then rose amid tumultuous
cheers, and after they had subsided he said—Mr.
Mayor and gentlemen, the presentatipn of this ad-
dress and the terms in which it has been drawn up
,are stamped with no common kindness, and they
"have produced in me a very full return of gratitude
and affection. (Cheers.) You have, indeed, not
-unexpectedly, reminded me of the connexion which
it was formerly my good fortune to establish with
you, and which it was my pride to maintain through
a long series of years and succession of events. It
is not here—it is not in Leeds, it is not among many
familiar names, and I am happy to say still, some
familiar faces, that I should be in any danger of
forgetting that I was once, indeed, an unsuccessful,
but nine times a successful candidate—(loud and
long cheering)—for the representation of the great
county of whose feelings and emotions Leeds has
ever supplied tho most active and ardent pulses.
Those were no sluggish times, and they had of
course their differences of opinion and their divi-
sions in action, to which it is a happiness, I think,
that we need not now recur. Indeed, for my part,
it seemed to me that a Yorkshire enemy was the
next best thing to a Yorkshire friend—(laughter)
—and far better than the cold friends of most other
places. (Applause.) To denote merely the nature
of the struggles in which they were then taking a
common part I need only mention the names of my
earliest and my latest colleagues. The first was
Henry Brougham—(loud cheers)—and the last was
Richard Cobden. (Renewed and protracted cheers.)
Those names speak for those measures which York-
shire did mere, I believe, than any part of the
empire to raise from the level of party conflicts
into national convictions—the abolition of slavery
and freedom of trade. (Loud cheers.) It is indeed
most soothing and reassuring to every feeling of
my heart to find that at so long a distance of time,
when the excitement of contest has died away,
when the impression even of great measures has be-
come faint, when my present occupations are remote
—when, saddest of all, I miss in their accustomed
places the faces and the smiles of several of those
who cheered my first appearance and encouraged
my early efforts in this crowded scene of public life,
such kindly and generous feelings are still enter-
tained concerning me. (Cheers.) Yon have been
pleased to make a passing allusion to the high and
responsible position which by the favour of my So-
vereign I hold in the sister kingdom. It so happens
that, while during 14 years of my public life I was
connected with the representation of Yorkshire,
during 12 years I have been !connected with the
Government of Ireland. As lam willing to hope that
the labours of my Irish office did not materially in-
terfere with the discharge of my duties to my con-
stituents, so I am confident that the Irish people will
not regard me with less favour when they shall learn
that besides the honour I hold from the Crown I have
mot lost the goodwill of my fellow-citizens. (Cheers.)
Ladies and gentlemen, the matter of an address
is of so purely personal a character that I feel
afraid you will think I have talked too much of
myself. Bat the very air arounl me is peopled
with personal memories, and the circumstances of
the occasion preclude all topics of political differ-
ence. But it is, at least, open to me to congratulate
this great community, not so much on their obvious
advance in material prosperity and external splen-
dour as on the honoured place which they have long
'held, which they still hold, which I pray they may
ever continue to hold, in every aim and undertak-
ing which have for their object to assuage human
suffering, to promote the physical, the social, the
intellectual, and the religious improvement of all
classes of the community; to keep bright the lamp
of knowledge, to keep steady the light of freedom,
and to raise upon the happiness and virtue of man
the fittest and most abiding temple to the glory of
God. (Cheers.)
The noble Lord was then conducted out of the
hall by the Mayor amid the most enthusiastic
greetings, which were taken up by an immense
number of Volunteers and others who had assem-
bled outside.
The proceedings were followed by a luncheon at
the M
—lige-hall, presided over by the Earl of Car-
lisle, who, in reply to the toast of his health, made
an elegant speech, descanting chiefly upon the
merits of the institution they had
met to inaugu-
rate, and making
prided at
appeal on its behalf.
Lord Stanley ed at the soiree of the Leeds
Mechanics
Belnstitute met with vaind Literary Society in the
Town-hall.
a very
cheering recep-
tion from a crowded assembly.
Lord STANLEY,Whe was loudly cheered
said that when, about this time last
honoured by an invitation from the members of
was
on rising,
sof the
Leeds Institution to occupy the position which he
now held, and which at that time had just been
filled by the Prime Minister of England, he hesitated
for a while to accept the invitation, onourable to
himself as he felt it to be, because hhe thought it a
serious thing for a man, or a set of men, to bring
together a thousand or two people to listen to them
and incur the most irreparable loss of all,—namely,
the loss of time—unless there was reason to think
that some good practical result would accrue.
Public speaking was only valuable when it led t.o
something being accomplished; and, just as
in
pr
Tate life, one of the most dangerous habits of the well
meaning man was the formation perpetually of good
resolutions, which he takes no steps to carry into
practice, so communities were never less likely to
make progress in any matters with which they had
to deal, than when its members got into the way of
repeating to themselves that certain things ought to
be done, and took credit for doing them, without
'YPIYing the only real test, that of personal action.
On the question which they had that evening to
consider, that of education, it appeared to him that
there had been a good deal of talk, and also a good
deal of action ; but with a few notable exceptions,
the talkers bad not liten workers, and the workers