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THE ROFAL VICTORIA PATRIOTIC ASYLUM. • T...
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Mr. Gladstone On Classical Education. Th...
Mr Gladstone proceeded to show the superiority of Wold method , of classical education over the modern S £ - ? conflUhff instruction in languages-to those ^ Mfc * are stilt spoken . The utilitarians , he observed , £ oul < Himit education to . what is simply practical ; but , By-the same , rule which declares that a man ought to JLnSrench , and disregard Greek and Latin , itr might Ire eaadithafc he- had better not learn even . French , but gfTO-alUhi ^ thne to the making of coats and waistcoat * Masse * oe nonsense-had been-talked and written on the subject ; but the instincts of mankind arc often wiser than their reasons and so the very- persons who advocate Ae modernviews- on this subject by their tongues and
, their pens , practically disavow them by sending their aonsv to Eton * Harrow , Winchester , and those other schools where classical education is given . If that is an inconsistency on the part of the parents , it is a happy © He- At the present day , there is an impatience in men s minds o £ any result that is distant . Such shallow persons might asfe , " What is the use of the eleetrze telegraph ? " on merely seeing the poles and wires , which xnigtffr seem to them erected for some idle purpose , though tfarough those wires is passing the mind of the world . Mr . Gladstone proceeded : — classical literature ?
* Is not that the case with ancient Are its results not seen in the character of the-men produced in this country ? If it is found that the minds of Bien under that mode of education are better fitted for oil t > he active duties of life than in other countries where it i * disregarded , is this not a demonstration to satisfy reasonable men that , although the results may come slowlv , and may be at the moment invisible , they must pCTsevere with their labours ; and then they will gain ¦ wha t is desired—to enable their children to . discharge all tfee varied duties of life . { Applause . ' ) That is the practical issue which we must be content to abide ; and all that I ask is that we be not tried by the test of immediate utility . If the objector will only be content to take the results of experience—and it is- a comprehensive ! school ^—that is the tribunal to which I should be
willing to carry it ; for I am convinced that the same amount of practical utility cannot be obtained by the substitution of any other system of education . ( -4 pplauseS ) ... I am willing to make additions and extensions to classical study , bat nofc to imply the loss of Avhat is indeed a delightful as well as useful study , or the substitution of anything directly opposite , however sabtle or however plausible may be tha arguments urged . I frankly admit that I rejoice at the study of the ancient classics , because I believe that in no small degree is due to them that love of liberty . which . is the characteristic of Englishmen , and which is never associated with , those wild theories of government which linve marked the- nineteenth century , and which , I think , show the necessity of . such teachers . For , after and
aH v liberty must not be mistaken for licBiuce ^ it often happens that in countries with democratic constitutions the freedom , of tha . body and of the mind is worst understood . If we cross the- Atlantic to thai wonderful republic , America , we shall find that theirconstitution is fax more domocratic than ours , but that there is far less true liberty . And I will not . shrink from expressing the opinion' that , although this country has beon the happy liome of well regulated liberty from a . very early period , yet that the love of that liberty and the comprehension of ! that liberty have been ia no small degree fostered and fortified in us . by the great masters , of antiquity and the lesson * which , they have afforded as . ( Apjdause . ) With xespect to the- cultivation of taste , when classical literature is condemned there will be such a descent in the taste * of- this country as will never be recovered from . "
Mn . Gladstone conceived that the rendering of the claasics-into-English is a far more stringent exercise for the mind than tl » a study of English writers , because of the accuracy of . ancient thought , and the exactitude and copiousness of diction found in the writers of Greece and Jlomei The study of those winters is aa exercise at once severe and delightful \ and it would be ditlicult to find any other study combining those two opposito qualities , Ab a rule , observed Mr . Gladstone , if you want to-find the man who host the greatest aptitude for acquiring new ftictay . and fcuo greatest facility for de * - sonbiaiv them to . others , it is he who . lias . hud . a . thorough classioar training . Still , wo should not wrap ourselves in the mists of antiquity ,, aiu . 1 refuse to open our eyes fo » foar ofl change . Whon ufcltanglh numbered with the dead ' , what amount of respect from ensuing 1 gone rat ions
- will those mou of our own time obtain , who are so prune to condemn , prooading eras ? No doubt ,. Lord Baconwho looked like the inspired niaator of infallible wisdom —w « 3 . perfectly right in saying that untiquity waa the youth * oB tike world ; but how wro modern times wiior ? Hy employing all the wiadonv that former fcimoa uceumulatod—by assuming possession ol" that . If , instead of thisj . waythrow overboard all that ' tha men off antiquity acquired , vre aco again in n now youth—limiting a froah start and ! another accumulation , of knowledge . A atill liighoc vuluQ . of the claaalca Mr . GdodaCono conceived Co DethoLoasnra tnoy afford ; that although the human intoUeofcattuiuod in the ancient worid u height to which fto . feiurod'jtr . would novpr roacli , again , tlm heart of mau beaamotmoraiand more ' corrupt , tho basest viee , a woru dos v « lapod ' and thai Divino Hffht was gwao . This loaaon Mr . Glad & tono bellvived ; to- booapccWUy necessary in tho
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The Rofal Victoria Patriotic Asylum. • T...
THE ROFAL VICTORIA PATRIOTIC ASYLUM . The Queen last Saturday laid the foundation stone of this Institution , which arises out of the Patriotic Fund , and which is about to be erected on Wandsworth Common . In front of an amphitheatre were arranged 200 children , viz ., 50 boys from the Duke of York ' s School ( with their band ) ; 50 boys from the Greenwich School ; 50 girls from the Soldiers' Daughters' Home at Hampstead ; and 50 girls from the Sailors' Daughters' Home . The Queen ' s arrival was announced by a royal salute-of twenty-one guns . Her Majesty was- accompanied by Prince Albert , the Prince of Prussia , the King and Princess Charlotte of Belgium , the Royal children ( with the exception of the Prince of Wales ) , and tiie Count of Flanders . On the Queen ' s arrival at the spot where . the stone was to be laid , Prince Albert ( as Chairman of the' Executive and Finance Committee of the Patriotic Fund ) read an address to her Majesty , which stated that the building was intended for the reception and education of the orphan daughters of those soldiers , seamen , and marines who had fallen in . the late war with liussia , and of those who might hereafter lose their Iive 3 in the service of their country . Tlie address then referred to the brilliant valour displayed . by her Majesty ' s forces in battle against the enemy , and the sympathy which if aroused in every part of the British Empire . It adverted to the
formation of tlie Patriotic Fund , which had produced no less a sum than 1 ,- ± 4 G , 9 S 5 Z . ; 8 S , 000 / . were allocated for the purchase of a . suitt . ble site , and the erection of buildings for the reception of three hundred girls under fifteen years of age ; and 140 , 000 / . bad been given for an endowment- Tha orphans admitted into the institution would be carefully instructed in their moral and religious duties , and in addition to a useful elementary education , wouM be taught those branches of industrial knowledge which would tit . them to perform tiie duties of domestic servants , and make them good wives aivl
mothers . The Queen replied as follows : — " I thank you sincerely for your loyal and affectionate address . I gladly avail mvself of this occasion to express the great satisr faction I have derived from the gratifying evidence presented to me of the manner in which ray faithful subjects , throughout the whole extent of my dominions , and in the most distant parts of the world , have evinced their genuine sympathy with my own feelings and adfortitude
miration for the grtllaut conduct and enduring of inv naval and military forces , by their munificent eontributiona Lo the fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of the brave men who have fallen in the discharge of their duty to their Sovereign and their country . You have fully justified the con ( idenec . placed in you by your judicious ami impartial distribution of these funds " , and I entirely approve of the appropriation of a portion of them to the erection and permanent endowment of an institution in the success of which I shall
ever feel the warmest interest . 1 am most happy to take a part in tlie foundation of this institution ; and I heartily concur with you in committing it to the Divine care and protection , and in praying thut the benev 6 lent objects with which , it has been designed may be to the fullest extent accomplished . " The stone was then luid with the usual forms , the Queen spreading the mortar with a silver trowel ; and the conclusion of the ceremony wad announcod by a second discharge of artillery .
The Prince Of Prussia In Tiie City. Pkix...
THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA IN TIIE CITY . Pkixce FuiGDisitiOK WiUuiAMC of Prussia was made n citizen of London on Monday . For this occasion , Guildhall was brightened with aa many flags , huruMic devices , yards pi' criinsou velvet , and udorainontd of gold , as 1501 . would purchase ; so that the somewhat dull place shouo wiirm and radiant with a summer fluaii of colour , A brilliant company , including several mombora of the Government and tho nriatoorucy , and a groat many of the foreign Ambassadors , tilled the building ; and , " at a littlu butbro one o'clock , tho Princes arrived . A deputation o £ tlio senior aldermen then conducted him , accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge , to tlio Lord Mayor and hia distinguished guosta . JUis HigUnosa wna received with much applause .
Tho Princebeing aoatud on tho right hand of tho Lord Mayor , with tlio Proasiim Ambassador next Iiiin , fcl » e minutaa of tho previous court ( having referanoo , among other things , to the conversion of Smithliold into a dead moat , market ) were road ovor and approved —a necessary form buforo proceeding to tho oLlier biwinoaa of tl » o Court , though having a very absurd qflwiit ; and Sir John Key , tlio Chamberlain of the City , roae > , and read a aoinewiial ! pompous address , in tho course of which , thora occurred tlxiai passage : — - ' ?• Wo may not forgot that tlio- guosfc whom our Queen has delighted to honour comoa of tho timo-hauouved
Brandenburg , is descended of a * distinguished line of princes , beginning with one on- whom the suffrages of contemporaneous history bestowed the' name ol 4 Great , ' and brought down to the times- of one-who Las everything of greatness- but the name . Yes , Sir , -we- are not ignorant how grateful to your eaxs , as- well as to those of your- fellow-subjects at home , will be any expressions of respect which this Court- rnay offer to him who now fills tiie throne of . your ancestors . If , owing to his lot having been cast-upon more settled and peaceful times * he has not exhibited those extraordinary and commanding qualities which distinguished the foundei . of his dynasty , or if he can point to fewer of those military trophies by which the immediate- successors of thai great man first raised the electorate to a kingdom ; am then consolidated and enlarged its po-wer , yet are tnen qualities in your Royal relative which , in this country al least , place him higher in- the-rank of potentates thai any of his predecessors—qualities -which , more thai that genius which laid the foundation of your na tion ' s- greatness , more than those conquests which en larged its territorial rule , mor-e than that vigoroui intellect which , if it dazzled the- people by its brilliancy , dazzled only to lead' astray , entitle him to tht love of his subjects and to the moral esteem of mankind . For ; Sir , I need scarcely remind yon ' thai we are a peaceloving nation . Renowned as wo are in the rough strife of waT and always ready for it , } -et it is our nobler boast to occupy the advanced post of European civilization ; to be tlie herald everywhere of social and moral progress ; to hail as brother " every potentate and every man who has at heart the interests of suffering humanity and the c : iuse of pure and undented ' religion . ¦ ' And sach a one , illustrious Prince , we see in your Royal- kinsman . ' Referring to the contemplated marriag-e of the Prince to the eldest daughter of our Queeir , the address contained a passage strangelygcapable of a double meaning . We read : — " You can well understand with what feelings oi emotion we contemplate the separation frorri us of an illustrious Princess , and how earnestly ice pray that she may find in the ' country of her adoption the virtues of an English Court and tJie happiness of an , English home . ' Of course no such meaning was intended ; but this seems to imply that there is not much chance of such a happy result .
The Chamberlain then advanced ,, and presented the formal document of the Freedo n of the City , enclosed iu the usual handsome box of solid gold . The Prince replied as follows : — " I thank you very sincerely for the kind sentiments which you have uttered towards my Sovereign , my country , and myself . These feelings will be appreciated , I feel certain , by them tio less tlian by me . It lias given me the greatest satisfaction to receive from the hands of tho municipal authorities of this ancient city tin honour which I must ever highly prize ; and I acknowledge in the distinction so
conferred upon me an additional token of tho kindly feelings evinced towards me by the British people . I trust that the confidence which they are willing to repose in me will not be unmerited , and that the future happiness of the Princess—my afiianced bride—may prove equal to my endeavours to secure it , and to tha devoted and hearty attachment which I bear to the Queen , your Sovereign . ( Applause . ") Allow nie once more to thank you with all my heart for tho cordiality of your welcome , and to assure you of my most fervent wishes for tho welfare and tho prosperity of tho City of London . " ( Continued chewing . )
At the conclusion of the reply , it was proposed' by Mr . Alderman Copulund , and . seconded by Mr . J . Vallance , that tlie proceedings of the Court , with the Prince ' s answer , bo entered upon the minutes , which was carried nein . coiu . Hia lioyul Highness then , accompanied by the Duke of Cumbringe , retired , jimid tho sumo acclamations which had greeted hia arrival , and proceeded to the Maiwion-houso , whure a cullutiou wa * provided fochis liiirlniestt anil the principal gueata .
Accidents And Sudden Deaths. This Daught...
ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . This daughter of Mk . Law ford ,, postmaster at the House of Coinnwui ) bus boon burnt to deaths . Sha was found iu her bedruum curly last Saturday morning with , her night clothes on ( Ire . Mur mother was awulcened by her screams , and tore this night-dress off ; but the child was so much injured that shodiod . S !» o appoara to Uavo beon reading by eumdlelight , ami tho Ilinno ia . supposed to liuvo caught tho muttruM . The cjoroncr ' a jiuiy returned a verdict of Accidental Doatu . Mwi Lawrforcl was only fifteen . — A . Httlo boy , four yreara old , bus also been lulled by lire . Uia pinafore UjuUod wbtlo lip was standing on the fonder , and ho died ia Uio London Hospitul from tho burns .
A barrowload of briuks fell last Saturday from a height of thirty Ceot on to tho bade of u . labourer in tho employ of tho London Dock Company , wJiilo stooping during hia work , at tlau baaomont of u now building . Ho waa nofc killed , but na removed to tho London Hospital in a tn-ocurioufl stuto . ' A man named Julian George Jlmxm fwU from a winuow a few d » ys ago , a depth of ftovpy font . JUiaefcuU was fractured , and U « died alinuflb unlnadiutolyv Tn . o inquoat ou tho bodioa , of . twelve personal killed iu
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Leader (1850-1860), July 18, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18071857/page/7/
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