State journal & flag., 1846-10-02
Good Sentiments well Expressed.

We extract the following from a speech made by Geoge W. F. Howard, (Lord Morpeth.) on he occasion of his reelection as Knight of he shire for the West Riding of orkshire, ,fier having accepted the of flee of First Lord Commissioner of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests tin the Rus sei Cabinel.) The speech was made July 18th, and is reported m the London Times of the goth.
 'I have presumed that you will be of opin- ion that even liter thus much has been ef- fected-even sfler we have got free ad- mission of com, sugar, and other articles which minister to our subsistence or enjoy, ment-we should not think that our task was completed, or that we could fold up our arms and feel that there was nothing more for government to do. Hear, hear) rather feel tha. we are like traveller, who may arrive in his journey through hilly country upon piece of table land during the earlier penod of his ascent, and casting his eyes backward, may discern the valley from which he has mounted, and by the length of the road, and zigzag windings of the path beneath him, may perceive that he has made a material advance. But does he, on that account, abandon all idea ol go- ing further? does he lay down his burden and make permanent halt? No but, of. Ter wailing for little time 10 recover his breath and to recruit his strength, he lifts his eyes, and seeing he distance yet before him, he bends his steps onwards and upwards, where height rises upon height. and hill up. on hill, and does mt think of desisting from his onward course 9f resigning himself to inglorious ease, untllhe has gained the gilt. tering pinnacle where glory dwells, and has trod lhe highest summt that honest ambi- lion opens to victorious, virtue (cheers ) and, therefore, upon the same principle, think you will see that there is no apprehen. sion of Government imagining that they have arrived al that very satisfactory and stationary point, when they may feel that they have done all that is to beNdone, and have nothing more to do. (Hear) do not believe that such a state of things, even if atiainable, would be desirable. There is no,hing So exhilarating to the human mind, and so bracing and useful to lhe human fac ulties, as progress. Hear, hear.) In many cases il beats possession hollow, IA laugh ) This may be seen in numberless instances. Many person who has spen, the best of his days in honest but most laborous exertions for his livelihood, when the time at last comes for him to retire from his shop, his mill, or his farm, feels that he is sadly out of ,,ln opl ,ha ho, ba ba. 1. trl in his imagination, 10 ease and enjoyment hang very heavy on his hands. Upon the same principle the miser never seems 10 en- joy the the treasure which he has given his anxious days and sleepless nights 10 amass, and even if it were possible for men to at tain unto perfection, 1 believe they would begin to feel that the proper sphere for them was not earth, but heaven. (Cheers.) be. lieye you Will be apt to agree with me, ,ha, it wilb be salutary for any administration who may be entrusted with the conduct of affairs for long time to come, to improve upon the work they find set before them, and to try to carry out and if possible outdo, what either they themselves or others may have done before. (Hear.) The relaxation which hns recently taken place in our com- merclal code, and 10 which 1 have already made ausion, mainly, perhaps, affects the physical and temporal wants of our nature 1; spect and in that field much remains 10 be done to contribute to the physical and tenn poral ell.being oft vast body of our fel- low countrymen. (Hear, hear.) Amongst other matters the lodgings of the bulk of our population are far other than what we should wish to see them, hear, hear, and they are capable of almost indefinite i'm. provement, by receiving increased facilities for the acquisition of fresh air, of good wa.
 Hear.] And have reason to hope that the concerns of my own departmt mt may give me some means and opportunities of considering those highly important parts of our interior domestic policy and if so, 1 for one shall feel that l might be engaged, perhaps, on more noisy and more showry, but not upon more useful or more really no. ble objects of solicltude. Cheers Eut our physical wants, our creature comforts, even the health of our bodies, are not those which most materially affect our character, as people. or the place which hope we shall preserve and improve in the annals of mankind. We have happily, and trust for ever, got rid of all monopoies in the way of food, in the way of class interest. Hear, hear.] But though it may not have been intended, there has hitherto also been too much of monopoly in what concerns the human mind and the education of the mass. es of our population. [Cheers.] wish that also should cease--that those studies and pursuits which contribute so much to intellectual refinement, to enjoyment, 10 the elevation of the human mind, should no longer be considered the peculiar property of the more wealthy and easy classes. bul should be brought home to the doors of all our workmen and the hearths of all our cottngers [cries of 'hear, hear; anl that no matter Tn what walk of life you may any of you tread, no matter what branch of hon. est industry you may bo engaged, and l fear even sometimes be too much engrossed, that, at all event, for the generations rising around you, for he children of your love. for the hope of the country, additional means and facilities will be afforded for that instruction, that complete moral educa. ton of the whole character and the whole '