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LEEDS, FRIDAY.—Last night the Earl of Carlisle de-
livered the first of the two lectures which he had pro-
mised to the Mechanics' Institute here. •It was at first
intended that the lectures should be delivered in the hall
of the institute, a room capable of containing 200 or 300
persons; but it was soon found that the applications for
admission were sufficient to fill a room of more than three
times the size. Admission was strictly confined to the
members, with the exception of some ladies and a few
guests whom the directors had invited to meet his Lord-
ship. But the qualification of membership presented
scarcely any obstacle to the impatient desires of the
people. The entrance of members into the institute has
been more numerous than at any former period, and se-
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cheerfully paid the 15s. which is required as entrance-fee.
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perhaps of affording standing room to about 1,000 or 1,500
persons, was selected; and even this the largest public
room in Leeds, was inadequate to meet the demand, and
several bona fide members of the society were of neces-
sity excluded. The proprietary members with their
ladies- were placed in the orchestra, from the front of
which the Noble Lord read his lecture. A space imme-
diately in front was railed off for ladies, and beyond
that the space, as well as a small gallery at the other
end, was occupied by the subscribers to the institution.
The doors were to be opesed at half-past seven, but to
prevent inconvenience ladies were admitted to their seats
by seven o'clock. At that hour Albion-street, where
the Music-hall is situated, presented an animated ap-
pearance; each door of the hail being surrounded by a
dense crowd, who seemed to wait with impatience,
though with tolerable order, the hour of admission.
When that time came the pressure was for a moment
fearful. The gentlemen had seen a number of ladies
pass in before them, and there was a general apprehen-
sion that the place was already filled, and that none but
a very few more could be admitted. Hence every one
fought and struggled as if it depended upon his being
first whether he was to have admission at all. Once
settled in the interior, however, and finding their mis-
take as to the accommodation, the tumult completely
subsided, and the audience waited with the greatest pa-
tience and good humour till eight o'clock, when his
Lordship made his appearance on the platform, accom-
panied by Mr. Beckett, M.P.; Mr. J. G. Marshall,
M.P.; Mr. Goodman, Mayor of Leeds; the Dean of
Ripen; Mr. Baines, of the Leeds Mercury, President of
the West Riding Union Mechanics' Institution; Mr.
Wilson, President of the Leeds Mechanics' Institute,
and several members of the committee. Among the
la lies there were present his Lordship's sister, Lady
Mary Howard, the Misses Beckett, &c.
His LORDSHIP'S appearance was the signal for a burst
of rapturous cheering, waving of hats and handkerchiefs,
and every other demonstration of enthusiasm. When it
subsided, he said—Ladies and gentleman, I thank you
for the welcome you have given me on my first ap-
pearance in the character of a lecturer.—(Cheers and
laughter.) As lam anxious in all respects to conform
to that cnaracter, I shall begin at once to read my lec-
ture. his Lordship then read as follows, which occu-
pied about two hours in the delivery, during which time
the densely crowded audience, though they mnst have
been sorely discommoded, manifested no other symp-
tom than that of the deepest attention, alternating
with bursts of enthusiastic applause. After a few in-
troductory remarks, the lecturer proceeded thus—lt has
seemed to me for a very long time, I should say from
about the period of my own early youth, that the cha-
racter and reputation of Pope, as a poet, had sunk, in
general contemporary estimation, considerably below
their previous and their proper level. I felt ruffled at
this, as an injustice to as author whom my childhood had
been taught to admire, and whom the verdict my ma-
turer reason approved. I lamented this, because I
thought that the extent of this depreciation o❑ the one
side, and of the preferences which it necessarily produced
on the other, must have a tendency to mislead the pub
lie taste, and to misdirect the powers of our rising
minstrels. I allow myself the satisfaction of thinking
that there are already manifest some symptoms of that
reaction, which, whenever real merit or essential truth
are concerned, will always ensue upon unmerited de-
pression. I remember, too, that it gave me quite a re-
freshing sensation to find, during my travels in the
United States of America, that among some of the most
literary and cultivated portions of that great community
(although I would not more implicitly trust to Young
America than I would to Young England upon this
point), the reverence for Pope still partook largely of the

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PART V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its du- ander Pope. Ido not, then, pretend to plane him on
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very highest pedestal of poetry, among the few fore-
whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
most of the tuneful monarchs and lawgiVers of mankind.
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tion in society. 11. Packets, with advice, to 'et (Cheers)—has lately thus beautifully spoken—
" A mightier spirit, unsubdued by pain, danger, po-
wistment only . by: which , the fee, 11 ,•
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the lips of "thew ethereal beings whom he saw, with that
inner eye, whiCh no calamity could darken, flinging down
on the jasper pavement their crowns of amaranth and
gold."—((sheers.)
I fancy that some might with to make a further reserve
for the gentle fancy of Spenser, tholigh the obsolete cha-
racter of much of his phraseology, and the tediousness
inseparable from all forms of sustained allegory, must, I
apprehend, in these days, very considerably contract the
number of his readers. Nay, I can quite allow for the
preference being given to Pope's 'more immediate pre-
decessor, Dry" den, whose compositions, though assuredly
less finished and complete, undoubtedly exhibit a more
nervous vein of argumentative power, and a greater
variety of musical Thy thm. When I have mentioned
these august name,, I have mentioned all, writing in
the English tongue, who in my humble apprehension,
can possibly be classed before Pope. I may observe
that in this estimate I appear to be confirmed by the pre-
sent Commissioners of the Fine Arts, who in selecting the
poets from whose works subjects for six vacant spaces
in thealew Palace of Westminster were to be executed by
living artists, named Chaucer (who by his antiquity as
well as his merits was properly appointed to lead the
line of English bards), Shakspere, Spenser, Milton,
Dryden, and Pope. Though I conceive, and you will
readily concur, that the case I am endeavouring to make
gobd must be mainly established by my client's own
precise words—and the anticipated pleasure of sleeting
thebe to attentive ears has been, perhaps, my chief induce-
ment to undertake he office which I am now fulfilling—
yet I consider it will not be out of place for the object I
have in viewe especially before an audience of a nation
which much delights in, and is indeed much ruled by,
precedent, if I should quote a few approved authorities
(had time permitted I might haie availed myself of a
great number), merely for the purpose of showing that if
you should be pleased to side with the in this issue, we
shell find ourselves in companylof which tve shall have no
need to be ashamed. I shall also thuesfiereish a proof of
what I have stated above, that I am not straining after ori-
ginality or novelty of remark; indeed, I feel that I shall
make way in proportion as the testimony I adduce proceeds
from lips more trustworthy than my own. (His Lord-
ship here quoted a number of laudatory passages from
Savage, Warton, Dr. Johnson, Mason, Bolingbroke,
Lord Byron, &c.) There is another and more general
testimony to the reputation at least, if not to the actual
merits, of Pope, which may be here mentioned ; this is,
the extent to which his lines are quoted as familiar
maxims and illustrations of the :daily incidents of life,
and the common meanings of men, quoted often pro-
bably by persons who have little knowledge or recol-
lection where the words are to be found. I am inclined
to believe that, in this respect, and it is one not to be
considered slightingly, he would be found to occupy the
second place, next, of course, to the universal Shak-
spere himself. Allow me to cite a few instances. When
there has been a pleasant party of people, either:in a
convivial or intellectual view—l wish we might think it
of our meeting this evening—(Cheers)--we say that it
has been—
" The feast of reason, and the flow of soul."
How often are we warned—l have sometimes even heard
the warning addressed to mechanics' institutes—that—
" A little learning is a dangerous thing."
How often reminded,
" An honest man's the noblest work of God."
—(Cheers) Or, with nearly the same meaning,
" Who taught the useful science, to be good."
There is a couplet which I ought to carry in my own
recollection—
" What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards P
Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards."
(Laughter and cheers.) It is an aptj illustrationtof the
offices of hospitality,
" Welcome the coming, speed the going guest."
How familiar is the instruction,
" To look through Nature up to Nature's God."
As rules with reference to composition,
" The last and greatest art—the art to blot."
" To snatch a grace beyond the reach of art."
And then as to the best mode of convoying the in-
struction—
" Men must be taught as if you taught them not."
There is the celebrated definition of wit—
" True wit is nature to advantage dressed;
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed."
Do you want to illustrate the importance of early edu-
cation? You observe—
" Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."
Do you wish to characterise ambition somewhat favour-
ably. You call it,
" The glorious fault of angels and of gods."
Or describing a great conqueror,
" A mighty hunter, and his prey was man."
Do you seek the safest rule for architecture or gar-
dening, _ _

" Consult the genius of the place in all ;"
Or, with exquisite good sense,
" 'Tis use alone that sanctities expense,
And splendour borrows all her rays from sense."
(Cheers.) Are you tempted to say anything rather
severe to your wife or daughter, when she insists on a
party of pleasure, or an expensive dress, you tell her,
" That every woman is at heart a rake."
(A laugh.) And,then if you wish to excuse your own
submission, you plead—
" If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget them all."
(Cheers and laughter.) How oaten are we inclined to
echo the truth—
" That fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
And this too—
" That gentle dulness ever loves a joke."
Who bas not felt this to be true:
" Hope springs eternal in the human breast ;
Man never is, but always to be blest?"
When an orator, or a Parliamentary candidate, in which
last capacity I have often appeared before some of you—
(Much cheering)—wishes to rail at absolute governments,
he talks of
" The monstrous faith of many made for one."
Then there are two maxims, one in politics and one in
religion, which have both been extensively found fault
with, but the very amount of censure proves what alone
I am now attempting to establish, not the truth or
justice of Pope's words, but their great vogue and cur-
rency—

"For forms of government let fools contest;
Whate'er is best administered is best.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight :
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."
It is now time to judge Pope from his own works, by
which, of course, his place in the estimate of posterity
must finally stand. I shall pass hurriedly by his earlier
compositions. He tells us himself of the precocity of his
genius—

" I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came."
But his very youthful productions, on the whole, appear
to me more remarkable for thoir dates than theirin-
trinsic merits. He wrote his Pastorals at sixteen. In-
dependently of the age at which they they
appear to me trivial, forced, outof were
gittweilt theey
English soil and life to which they are by way of being
assigned. One piece of praise is justly their due: after
the publication of these verses by youth, we may call
himhar
mao
nbiooyusofEsnixgtleisehn,
became matter of rule and h have
bean written. Mr. Macaulay
says on this point, " From
thetime when the Pastorals appeared, heroic versifica-
tion written; and what is more,velrsde Inn not
dl
lion before
see
vawerh3a.gaafirl ragged haveorbeienn-
In the short poem of the Messiah,
long, all artists were on a level." It was surely better
that this level should be one upon which the reader
could travel smoothly along, without jolts or stumbles.
I do justice to the
stately glow of verse upon the highest of human themes.
Both Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warton give it a decided
preference over the Pollio of Virgil, which is conceived
with topics of close and wonderful similarity. Ido not
know how far they are right, but I feel quite sure that
both the Pollio of Virgil and the Messiah of Pope fall
immeasurably below the prose translation of Isaiah in
our Bibles.—(Hear, hear.) Windsor Forest appears to
be on the whole a cold production. It contains some
good lines on the poet Earl of Surrey—
" Matchless his pen, victorious was his lance,
An extremely pretty account of the
Bold in the lists, and graceful in the dance."
of a pheasant, a very poetical list of the tributaries of the
flight and plumage
Thames, and some well-sounding verses on the Peace of
Utrecht, then recently conclude& from which, in the
early part of this year, I was induced to quote some lines
which I thought very apposite to the proposed Exhibition
of the Industry of all Nations, at London, in 1851 :
" The time shall come, when free as seas or wind,
Unbounded Thames Shall flow for all mankind,
cernvepr:ss:wanBdu:
Whole nations enter with each swelling tide,
And seas but join the regions they divide;
Earth's distant ends our glories shall behold,
And the new world launch forth to meet the old."
(Loud cheers.) The odes written by Popo are de-
cidedly of an inferior cast. I need not say how inferior
to the immortal " Ode on St. Cecilia's Day," by Dryden,
who preceded, or how inferior to Gray or Campbell, who
have followed him. The ode, perhaps, of every species
of poetical composition, was the most alien to the
genius of Pope ; its character is
mraeptth,oda
vehement,
abrupt; hmenist,
abrupt; his is composed, polished,
haunt would not be the mountain-top or the foam-
ing cataract, but the smooth parterre and the gilded
saloon. You may prefer one bent of mind as you
would one form of scenery ; the question with
which I now invite you to deal is, not in what style
Pope wrote, but in the style which he chose, and for
which his nature best fitted him, how far he excelled.
Among the very youthful productions of Pope there
were also some adaptations from Chaucer, Ovid, and one
or two more ancient authors; in point of execution they
are only distinguished by their smooth versification, and
the matter of them ought to have forbidden the attempt.
In speaking as I have done of many of Pope's earlier
compositions, however I may assume myself to be a de-
voted admirer—partisan, if you should so please to term
it—l conceive that I have at least shown that hitherto I
am no indiscriminate praiser, who thinks that every-
thing which proceeds from his favourite must be perfect.
(Hear, hear.) On the contrary, though his facility
in writing verses was almost precocious, the compete
mastery of his art seems to have been gradually and
laboriously developed. "So regular my rage," was the
description which he has himself applied to his own
poetry. It was not so much " the pomp and prodigality
of heaven," which have been allotted to a few; it was
rather in the edifice of song which he has reared, that
nicety of detail, and that completeness of finish, where
every stroke of the hammer tells, and every nail holds its
exact place. His early friend and admirer, Walsh,
seems accurately to .have discerned the path of excel-
there lei= which Was open, for hip, when he told biW.