Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-17

IN.EEsI LII GEN Ger. G 4
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z,3si The last nnmber.Eof Baraard. Journal Of.
E@IHcGt1on, has a fine dissertation on t6a If.
sS1 ano character of Lord Brougham, by Mr.. 3 r
sears, OF New York, from " hich we make the
following. interesting extracts s,eeN S1s
MS YOUTH.
.; MS parents, though neither wealthy nor dis
G.stlc9 oy arIstocratic titles, were in com.
loFtaole circumstances, and occupied a hipblr
respectable social position. In childhood ~
was delicate and feeble to such a degree-being
SUBJECT to frequent attacksof illness-tbat onl9
ia.U! ~ hoPes were entertained that he would ever
astaln a,. the age OF manhood: The apprehensions
!i :tus eXcited were rather increased than diInin
lshed by the precOcious dcyeIopment of his
mental faculties-another child Of the Rro,nr.
9 I9lh lamIly. whose intelligence and memory had
oeen equally remarkable having died in HE
tenth year-tor young Henry had NOT onIy
learned to read with facility, aud to perform
simpler operations in arithmetic, when six
years oio, but was capable of recitiny whole
passages from Waller, Dryden and Pope, With
pnerrlng accuracy. The family physician concur
red III the opinion that it was not desirable to
encourage his intellectual progress as long as
MS heath continued in this precafious state
for over SIX months the child was scarcely per-
United to see book. Finding that he was
nothing the better physically, if not the worse,
lof TINS PrlvatIon, his aunt-a literally educated
sensible maiden lady-toOk upon herself the
responsibility not only of furnishing him such
BOOKS as he wished, but devoted herself earnest.
y-to teaching him. She had been engaged
nearly year at this labor Of love bcIoFe Tho
secret WAS discovered; and, as slitt,y Har~
ry had then become rs healthy as any of
ms playmateS, it is almost needless to saw flat
she dt natreceivc much blame from his l,arents.
although the doctor fuIt somewhat mortified
"hen II hecatne evident that, after all, it was
not his leaned and skilGul advice which was .t
-,,1tr
episode, GitiIns it is in ITSELF aud early in, the
| iiie OF Brougham as it occurred is worth men
nomng thus puremthct;cally, as an additional
Instance of the Important influence exercised
" woman on the early education Of iliustriouS
men. II is one TO which Lord Bronulam refers
himself with pride and gratitude to this dav:
aud the remembrance of which has rendered
him through life ttc uncompromising friend of
the gentler sex.
EFFORTS IN FAVOR OF EDUCATION
line general opinion was, even at the begin
ming Of tile present century, that the working
classes decided little education, if anv-thot r
they could read their Bible and PRAYER book
with toicrah!c correctness, and sign their names
when called upon to do SO, they were sufficiently
learned. Nay, there are those who conscientis
ouSiy believed that it would not be safe for the
state to teach them more; and it was taken for
granted that such of.them as were disposed
could easily learn this much at the private vii.
| luge schools, or from the parish Clergyman
And the people themselves easily believed what
their betters totd-them. That such opinions
should have been entertained IN England, at so
recent period, may well seem strange, but the
fact is indisputabe.
Those who look little further back, however,
at the history of education in England, can
hardly be surprised at the opposition which
Henry Brougham had to encounter at every
step OF his progress in the good work. Whom
the learned Erasmus undertook to promote the
Of it,0 0vE, T,;,
with still more serious obstacles There were
those, even among the professors Of that now
famous institution of learning, who regarded
Greek with so much horror rs an hereical if
noe Satanic language, that they pronounced
the Greek New Testament can impiouS and
dangerous book, while they regarded a Latin
version, of the same as the Holy Scrin.
turc. No wonder that Erasmus was forced
to withdraw from college in which such
| professors were the principal instructors;
and that those known to be studying the Satan
| ic language were hootcd and hissed at in the
Streets After many vain efforts on the part of
learned men on the Continent to reconcile the
most enlightened of the islanders to the language
iof Homer aud Plato, lEschylus and Aristotle,
| Euripides and SLoDginus, itrcquired the absolute
and determined interference OF Henry Will and
Cardinal Wolsey to secure its students protec>
tion within the walls Of the university But
there is this material difference between Eras
mus aud Brougham. The former sought te
render the rich learned, the latter to render tho
poor intelligent 1t was not expected that the
condition Of the wealthy would DC much i'm
Proycd-by knowledge Of the Greek, whereas
the benefits accrung to the poor from even the
rndiments of education would be incaculable-
Erasmus was employed and encouraged by the
great, and lbeiaIy paid for his Services
Brougham was oppressed by the great had no
encouragement but that afforded by his own
generous aspirations, and far from receiving any
! o1Iy IL
Vancement of the good cause.
DEFENCE OF QUEEN CAROLINE.
Mr. B1ougham had now become one of the
most popular men in the kingdom. There was
scarcely any case of Importance for which his
legal services were not sought after, either by
plaintiff or defendant. This, however, did not
prevent him from establishing model school
for the use of tile poorer classes in London, in
1919, Immediately after the debate on tho Edu-
cation Committee was brought TO close he
visited the new school twice or three times
week; often taking part in the exercises himself
and always taking deep interest both in the
moral and intellectual progress of the students
This is the manner in which be was spending