New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-26
SOCIAL SCIENCE IN ENGLAND


sIvE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. PREsEEr.
fFRoM ThE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT or THE faIBUHS1
LEEDS, Oct. Tin q cold and spacious hall
Of the conservatory caste moderate assembly Of social
philosophers occupy the area the Galleries are quito
empty; the copous platform Is slowly nled By mute
committee. who silently take paceS They mighsbe
committee from Dumb Asyum who themselves wefs
speechless. For not word s spoken. Nobody intro.
duces anybody and nobody In the audience except per
sona acqnaintdnces Of the sad Dumb Committee know
VINO who. After time appears that dapper htta
gentleman occupies the central seat who takes ous o.
bis pocket set ofprnted papers aud begins to read.
Bur as the hall bad 10 hear H. for time knows
wha saying. The gentleman reading and wearing
tlF. "at1 OF Grand Companion Of the Bath, n Bir
JOHN lNkington, Bart, NJ. p G. c. B., and he Il dev-
ering the Inaugural Address Of the Fifteenth ANIMAL
Congress Of the National Ass citation for the Promcon
Of social Science, in the Hall OF Mechanics InEtuuon
Leeds on the 4th VI October, 1871.
The Association meets late this year. and II has chosen
Leeds TO appear Inland hardly any town In England
needs social science more Long ago. In the days when
Dr. Adam Clarke was famous as Wesleyan comnentS
tor upon the Bible, he declared Leeds 70 be he garden
Of the Lord" He did not mean this in physical sense,
for no town could have then fewer claims to such do
scription Now Leeds like other great Epesh towns,
IA acquiring buildings Of considerable architectural mag
niacencc. Toe Mechanics Institution, having some
what Egyptian exterior, Is an imposing building Tho
Town Hall is Q costly and would be an Imposing strue-
tufe, had IL proper space 70 Aho
toria Hail. thochief in the pile lavishly deco
rated possesses marble statues Of repue and an organ
famed for its splendor and power The law and corpora
ton courts attached TO this hail. indeed included In It,
afe sufficient 10 enable all the sections OF the Association
10 meet under roof-a great advantage anywhere,
and especially In Leeds, where prudent philosopher
takes umbrella with his ticket OF membership OF the
Association.
At the British Association for the Advancement OF
Science, the President for the past year always attends
the new Congress- announces that hs term OF ONCE mas
EXPIRED and introduces the President 70 the chair
II the President be Duke Prince he will do this but
in the Social Science Associations this civy to the new
President and the public is not shown, and the Illus
trous who is to preside for the comes down
to strange town and craws unknown and unannouneed
into the chair Sir John Pakington s OF the Cen
sentative politicians who has always been honorably
friendly to popular education OF he intended his
political and ecclesiastical friends to have the control Of
1t, and probably the chief Conservative whose
peated Establishments Mr.. W. E. Forster seduced that
right honorable gentleman into giving Church Of En-
gland Education bill TO the great scandal OF Dissenters
There Is Union Church Education Society which Is OPP
posed to the Birmingham League which represents the
Nonconformist views. Dir John turned his inaugural
address into plea for the UnOnsaid he should re-
gard it as a national lmeaning church, misfortune
when Mr.. Forster 1.-THE Quaker minister with Puritan
blood In his veins he told Parliament HIMSELF shall
cease be Education Minister" Sir John ayerred that
there may be differences Of opinion about isolated
points" in Forsters biwhen there have been for
two years. among the great Nonconformis party sense
of outrage Isolated points," but upon the most
fundamental principles Of nOnconformlng equity The
Pakingtonan way Of putting II would never give any
stranger an idea Of this.
Leeds is evidently not enthusiastic about Social Sci
ence Hotels, railway stations, tsSwarehouses
nrmares, are In this town upon Opulent SCALE and
Leeds compose assembly Of as welldressed and
handsome women any manufacturing town In En-
gland 1t s however not going to gladden. the eyes OF
Social Science Congress by display Of this briiance.
The Mayors soiree of Thursday night in the Victoria
Hail. presented sprinkng of the beauty which parkles
along the valley Of the Are. But, Like most middle
class loneliness in England, 1t Is of highly conscious
order. The social philosophers are not Of brilliant
species; they think Of their ideas than
their dress, and have mostly curvninear
shoulders and deficiency of chest. Men Of mark are
not numerous this Congress- Dr. Hastings the founder
Of the Association; Mr. Edwin Pears its energetic Secre
tary; Mr.. Robinson, administrator are Of course,
here Sir John Bowring is not present. nor Prof Faw-
cett NJ. p, who make the sections animated by making
peregrinations through them all. Mr.. Alderman Carte
NJ p for Leeds supplies to some extent such ofces bf
his genial and ever-accessble services and NJ Munde
NJ p Is here busy with his arbitration schemes belie'-
ing it to be his mission bring together by the hsat
and who, at present are together by tn
We have Baboo sarsipada Barnergee, from India
and two young japanese gentlemen, the Of thu
their eyes though they intended to see. Jeu sanjoh
the name OF the and Gronoske YOshyana the name
Of the other.
Miss Mary Carpenter goes about the sections attended
by good Hindoos. She always has few in her train
inclined to mOnotheism, and who may possibly become
Unitarian preachers. BabOo Keshub Chunder Sen was
made much Of having that turn Of mind. Good HndOos
20 to Miss Carpenter when they come TO England
Leeds by the way s the paradise OF Untarans Their
great chapel at Mill HILL in the center Of the town, 10
commonly called the Mayors Nest" since nearly every
wealthy member Of the congregation has been Mayor in
his day. Mr.. Vernon Harcourt Q. c. N. p for Oxford
better known Historicus Of The Times, and who i'm
presses mankind with the idea that he is better
tented with himself than any man ought to be this
side the millennium, walks the sections like Saul He
lately amused the country by explaining his
relationship to royalty. he Is one OF eur fu.
ture socitOrGenerals. Sir John Karslake a recent
Conservative soliciorGeneral was TALL Sir John Cole
RIDGE present one. Is taller and Mr. Vernon Har-
court Solicitor General expectan Is taller STILL he
has a commanding presence, a good voice. and . self
possession worth $4,000 year TO political barrister.
To-day he delivered the opening address Of the Law Sec
ton, and, odd to say, charmed the policemen at the
doors, who told me how sorry they were that
they were interrupted In listening TO him by
their duties Perhaps they too legally inclined.
I rather think they wondered what an excellent
Inspector the honorable and learned gentleman
would make. Mr. Leon1 Levi, famous Hebrew stasti.
chan, presdes IN the Jusprudence Department as an
acting Vice President he has long copious gray haIr
and carries his hands his restless head like bundle
OF decimal fractions business their account.
Mr.. 8. Goodwin, the editor Of TIE Builder,
superintends the Health Section, and explores miaS
matic quarters with his usual and peFilous Avidity.
Here Is Mr.. Asaear Hill, who with his newly devised
Labor Ners intends to enable masters to find and
men TO find masters. Mr.. Hill writes Day Dreame,"
and deals himself with realities His DAY Dreams Is
book Of hearty songs with dash Of raciDess Of sentt
ment and expression and the poet himself contrives