The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-07-28 00:00:00

LORD BROUGHAM AT MANCHESTER.

Lord B.rougharn attended a meeting of the students of the
Manchester Mechanics' Institute, at eight o'clock on Tuesday
evening. His lordship having examined the senior boys in the
first ToUr "rules of arithMetic, and some. of them iu the rule:cif
three, practice, and even in vulgar fractions, Mr. B. Heywoed
thanked his lordship for his kindness, and intimated a wish that
he would be pleased to bestow upon them a few words cd.advice.
The pnbleand learned schoolmaster then addressed the school
at great length ; in the course of his speech he said "that be
should like to see a greater number of artizans and mechanics
belonging to the institution than were now connected with it,
.and thatit was for the common interests of both master and
. man that the latter should learn learning"-.-would not wisdom be
alio a valuable addition to the mechanics' store ? but his lord-
ship did not attempt to draw the distinctiOn between wisdom
and knowledge. His lordship admitted, in his discourse, that
knowledge of itself would not fill the belly, but said, that it
would lead to more lucrative occupations so as to supply their
bodily,wants with greater ease and facility. Here again he ap-
peared to forget that these more lucrative occupations which
are now to be obtained would decline in value exactly in pro-
portion to the increased supply of the persons qualified to till
them. Hence it follows, that the knowledge of which his lord-
ship Ircl been talking is not likely to; till the belly. Lord
Brougham also told his auditors that he had never been one of
those Who preached that the people ought to be contented with
their lot. They ought, to use the language of the steam-engine,
to "boil" as high as the law would allow; they ought not to
reach the " explosive" point ; but certainly they should keep
at " boiling beat" till their grievances were redressed, and their
fair demands conceded. But while he would not preach con-
- tentaient under grievances, he would say that discontent should
arever exceed the bounds of the law. Let the people proceed
with firmness of temper, looking neither to the right hand nor
to the left till their legitimate objects were effected."
Lord Brougham did not attempt to define what were or were
not the legitimate objects to be effected, or what were the " fair
demands" to obtain the concession of which he counselled them
to keep at "boiling heat,". or "boil as high as tbc law would
allow." ' Upon this subject, therefore, every one of his hearers
was left ,to drew,his own conclusions. Is not this rare advice
from an ex Lord High Chancellor ? and, if followed, how long-,
will it' be before the " boiling heat" reaches the explosive
point ?

We had almost forgotten to notice that Lord Brougham dis-
claimed the authorship of '-an admirable course of teeth' e 4 on
political economy," attributed to him by common fame'. lie
only read them in manuscript, and had made some alterations.
They were, he said, written by a friend whose name he was not
at liberty to mention.

Lord Brougham made a similar exhibition of himself at the
Bolton Mechanics' Institute on Friday.

THE CORPORATION CONlMrssioNEßs.—The Quarterly .Iteriv,
publisbed.last week, thus speaks of the above learned gentle-
men::-" It might have been expected that an inquiry into such
institutions w0..11.1 have been intrusted to men of ale, highest
character and whose position in their profession would have been
at once a test of their capacity, and a pledge fur their fairness.
Whit was the fact ? Twenty gentlemen were selected, nineteen
of whom we take upon ourselves to say were as barristers nearly
unknown in We•ttminster hall, some of them even were strang-
ers in that little nook in which the counsellors keep their wigs
and gowns. •

THE: RUSSIANS IN CONSTANTINOPI.E.—Are we prepared to
look Coldly on, while Constantinople shares the fate of Warsaw,
while this key-stone is added to the arch of Russian ambition ?
And can we persuade ourselves that the moral influence which
such a conquest would exercise over the whole mahometan
world, the actual power Russia would thereby acquire in the
Mediterranean and in Southern Europe would neither affect
the security of our eastern possessious, or bring danger to con-
stitutional freedom in the west? Russia, during the contest in
Poland, resembled, if we may so express ourselves, a vast, hut
in-assorted mosaic; kingdoms, provinces, and districts acknow-
ledging one common authority, but without any community of
customs, language, or religion, made up the unwieldy and•dis-
cordant mass; and the intrinsic weakness of such an empire
was sufficiently proved by the difficu:ty the court of Petersburgh
experienced in subduing the Poles. But let Russia possess
Constantinople, and her position will be fearfully changed.
Austria, vacillating between her selfish fear of constitutional
freedom and her dread of Muscovite aggression, may be com-
pelled to throw hex bayonets into the Russian scale. The sup-
ple Asiatic will bow with humility, though with teluctance'to
the conquerors of Stamboul. Poland is-already prostrate. The
Black Sea will 'afford a secure; and admirable nursery for her
seamen, and its rivers will supply inexhaustible means for con-
structing a navy. ' New sources of commerce and wealth will be
opened to her; that which was disjointed and weak will be con-
solidated and strengthened; and the armies she now employs
to subdue and control her distant and turbulent provinces, will
be wielded to promote her ambition, and extend her conquests
in civilized Europe.—British and Foreign Review.