The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-03-18

English Statesmen and writers are full OF
good, orderly, earnest set phrases about educa-
ton, the hopes Of labor and of man. A good
sign. Yet we wish they had more Of the praefi.
eal-that is, that they would carry out into life,
and the affairs of life. their eloquent thoughts,
and fine sediments.
Cleanliness and Education, says Douglas Jer-
rold, arc mouth-exalted hand maidens Of social
dignity and happiness. Yet soap is taxed-and
light is melted out al a certain price, guaging
heaven like liquor cask-and paper Is taxed,
and the fiscal stamp is lined upon the permission
to ask for work. Continues he:
As Wet Nurse, a respectable young woman
wants q place. Eighteen. pence says the
CHANCELLOR of the ExcHEouEn; 'eightsen- pence
to the State, before you can advertise a good
supply Of milk in the newspapers
sAs needlewoman, or to wait upon two or
three young ladies', is the desire of humble hon
esty to earn her daily bread. very proper says
the CHANCELLOR; nevertheless, eighteen-Pencs,
If YOU please, for leave to advertise your needle
and thread
AS good plain cook in gentleman family,
is the desire Of a mddle-aged woman without
inc umbrances. Still, cook cries the Minister
the necessary, the inevitable eighteen pence
ere BY means Of the newspaper, you can gel
footing in a kitchen
But Lord Morpeth is doing As well preaching
he is trying to help On alI-and, therefore. We
can hear his speech with pleasure. He made q
very capital one certainly, at Manchester, before
the Mechanics Institute, orirather on the occs.
sion Of laying a corner stone Of one. We copy
from it his opposite aIlusion &c, and happy turn
of the fabulous story Of Vulcan and Venus:
Those of you who have the op portunity Of CO IN
sulting the old legends and classical mythology
are aware that among the fancied deities with
which they peopled their world, one more es.
pecially was regarded as the God of labor and O
handcraft, Vulcan by name, who YVES awayi
represented as employed in huge smithies ans
workshops, hammering at heavy anvils, blowing
huge bellows, heating furnaces. and begrimmeC
with SCOT ana dirt. Well ladies and gentlemen
| for this hsrd-working and swarthy looking di
vin,y they wished to pick out a wife, (lous
laughter.) And they did not select for him
mere drab a person taken from tho scullery o
kitchen dresser, but they chose for him Venus
the goddess of love and beauty.
, Now, ladies, and gentlemen, pick out for IN,
the moral Of this tale, for believe that moth
| ing ever was invented-certainly nothing b,
Grecian intellect-which has not its meanin,
and its moral. have no doubt that all the lie
gends of our own country-that the one even @
your own neighborhood, the Dragon Of Vanity
| itself, has some appropriate allie CORY and mean
i.g, il We only knew how TO find them out
But what is the special meaning Of the nnarriag,
of Vulcan with Venus--of the hard work IN,
artifcer with this laughter-loving queen--of Ia
| Dor with beauty
What is it, ladies and gentlemen, but this
/ That even in busy hive Of industry and toll
like this, even here, upon a spot which Is il
many respects no inapt representation OF the IA
bled workshop of Vulcan-ev-n here, amid tn,
clang Of anvils, the noise Of furnaces, and tn,
suffering Of forges-even here, amid stunning
sounds and sooty blackness, the nind--she un.
trammeled mind-may 60 forth, may pierce tn,
dim atmosphere which Il poised around us. ma,
wing its way to the frser air and purer ligh
which are beyond, and may ally itself with al
that is most fair, genial, and lovely in creation
(applause.) So, gentlemen, | say, your labor
your downright, hard, swarthy labor, may make
itself the companion, the help-mate, and the
husband Of beauty. dare say, and have reas-
on to believe, from the inspection which | am
able even now 10 command, and have no doubt
d more intimate acquaintance with your wives,
sisters and daughters, would enable me 10 prove
that l was not wrong in my illustration. But
above this beauty, say your labo- may ally it.
self with intellectual besuty--the beauty con.
nected with the play Of fancy, with the achieve
meRts Of art, and with the creation Of genius
beauty such as painting fixes upon the glowing
canvass--such as the sculptor embodies in the
breathing marble-such architecture devel-
opes in her stately and harmonious proportions,
such as music clothes with the entertainments of
sound. But there liz beauty Of a still higher
order, with which feel more assured il 10 still
open to IL to unite itself. l mean with moral
beauty--beauty connected with the affections,
the conscience, the heart, and the life, cloud
cheep.)
II is most true that in the busiest and black
est Of your workshops-in the most wearying
and monotonous tasks Of daily drudgery, an also
in the very humblest Of your own dwsllings-
by the smallest Of your firesides-you may, one
and each of you, in the jealous and cheerful
discharge Of the daily duty. in respect for the
just rights, and in consideration for the feelings
Of others-in meekness and sobriety Of spirit,
and In the thousand charities and kindnesses of
social and domestic intercourse-even thus you
may attain to, and exhibit the moral beauty to
which have spohen--beauty beyond all others
in degree and excellence, beaause in proportion
as II can be reached il makes up the perfection
Of mans nature here below, and is the most
faithful reflection Of the will Of his Greater, zap
plause;) and thus close my explanation Of the
marriage of Vulcan with Venus, of labor with
beauty.