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diff --git a/42087-0.txt b/42087-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7fb72e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/42087-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1045 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Third Annual Report of the Kensington +Parochial Institute, by Anonymous + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Third Annual Report of the Kensington Parochial Institute + + +Author: Anonymous + + + +Release Date: February 13, 2013 [eBook #42087] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE +KENSINGTON PAROCHIAL INSTITUTE*** + + +Transcribed from the 1852 W. Birch edition by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to the Royal Borough of Chelsea and +Kensington Libraries for allowing their copy to be used for this +transcription. + + + + + + THIRD + ANNUAL REPORT + OF THE + Kensington + PAROCHIAL INSTITUTE. + + + * * * * * + + 1852. + + * * * * * + + President. + THE VENERABLE ARCHDEACON SINCLAIR, + VICAR OF KENSINGTON. + + Treasurer—MR. HAWKES. + + Hon. Sec.—REV. S. PRICE DAVIES, M.A. + + Council. + +MR. BELLWORTHY. MR. WILLIAM HUNT. +— BIRD. — MERRIMAN. +— CLARKE. — SMITH. +— CURTIS. — STANHAM. +ADMIRAL DEACON. — TASSIE. +MR. EALES. — WADDILOVE. +REV. J. H. HOWLETT. — WARNER. +MR. J. HUNT. + + * * * * * + + KENSINGTON: + PRINTED BY W. BIRCH, HIGH STREET. + 1853. + + * * * * * + +*** SUBSCRIPTIONS _and_ DONATIONS _to the Kensington Parochial Institute +will be received and acknowledged by the Treasurer_, MR. HAWKES, +_High-street_, _and the_ REV. S. PRICE DAVIES, _Hon. Sec._, 17, _Lower +Phillimore-place_. + + + + +THIRD ANNUAL REPORT. + + +THE Council of the Parochial Institute have pleasure in submitting for +the adoption of its members, and the consideration of the inhabitants of +Kensington, their Third Annual Report. + +Having upon former occasions detailed the circumstances of its formation, +and demonstrated upon solid grounds the expediency of meeting the +increasing intellectual requirements of the community, by the +establishment, throughout the country, of societies for the diffusion of +a healthy literature, and a cultivated taste, it will be their present +purpose to recount their own success in stimulating these objects, while +suggesting to their fellow residents the privilege, policy, and duty of +enabling them to develop the existing agencies of mental recreation, by +liberally conceding to their claims an united and comprehensive support. + +Nor will such a retrospect be interesting only to those more immediately +concerned in producing the results recorded. The popular use of +reading-rooms, libraries, and lectures, is not connected with questions +of merely individual or local importance; it is of imperial bearing: for +while their multiplication and prosperity afford criteria for determining +how far the desire of knowledge animates the people, indifference to +learning and incapacity for self-instruction are attested by their +failure or neglect. These are amongst the outward manifestations of +those unconscious tendencies by which the philosophical observer +estimates the bent and genius of the age. As in the multitudes who +throng to gaze upon the line of armies manœuvring in the pomp of mimic +war, he reads the love of military glory, if not the lust of conquest; as +in an inordinate devotion to games, and theatres, and spectacles, he sees +the traits of frivolity; so in the steady application of the faculties to +the improvement of the mind he recognises the characteristics of a wise +and understanding people. But these diversities of national choice and +temperament cannot be consigned to the speculations of the theorist. +They enter largely into the deliberations of the practical statesman. By +their influence, the distribution of political power is confessedly +affected. Rights that could not be confided to an ignorant, are freely +accorded to an educated population. Already the principle of an +educational qualification has been mooted as the safest mode in which the +extension of the franchise could be granted; and in considering the +claims of various constituencies to a participation in the representation +of the country, it is far from impossible that the government would +accord a preference to localities, maintaining in efficiency and +prominence well organized institutions of social and intellectual +progress. + +It is pleasing to reflect that this neighbourhood need not shrink from +such an inquiry. For though its growth has been unprecedentedly rapid +for the last ten years, private liberality and public munificence have +combined to preserve its ancient pre-eminence over other suburban +parishes. It is still in truth, as well as name, “the Royal Ville” of +Kensington. But whilst it is creditable to its patriotism that it has +erected, within this recent period, four new churches, has built a +dispensary, and raised other public structures of much architectural +merit and of great utility; whilst in these edifices, dedicated to the +noblest ends, religion and humanity, evidences are shrined of an +enlightened and active desire of improvement, no attempt commensurate +with the importance of the town has yet been made to purchase or erect a +building where neighbour may meet neighbour in a spirit of good-will and +unity, and by intercourse and the exchange of daily courtesy, and the +pursuit of knowledge, which civilizes and blesses parishes as well as +nations, communities as well as individuals, and which ought ever to be +found in alliance with religion itself. + +Kensington, central Kensington, with its parks, and gardens, and palace, +the birthplace and residence of monarchs, rich in historical +associations, almost the home of genius; where Cromwell swayed the +destinies of Europe; where William of Orange sojourned, Lord Chancellor +Nottingham dwelt, Sir Christopher Wren planned and built, and Sir Isaac +Newton solved the problems of astronomy; where George II.’s children +played, and Queen Victoria was born; which is linked in memory with the +names of Addison, Horner, Canning, Wellesley, Moore, Wilkie, and +Wilberforce, and still retains within its limits some of the most +distinguished authors and artists of the day, possesses no Public Museum, +no Public Library, not even a Lecture-Hall. + +But though it be a matter of shame and disgrace that this omission has +never been adequately supplied, much of the substantial advantage +attached to the Athenæums of the manufacturing towns, and the +Bibliothèques of the continental cities, has been modestly provided by +the Parochial Institute. + +Small though its reading-rooms unquestionably are, situated in a street +removed from the central thoroughfare, and of outward appearance but +little in unison with the wealth, respectability, and literary reputation +of St. Mary Abbott’s, they still are known and patronized. From the date +of their opening, three years ago, they have been becoming more and more +frequented. At first they were attended only by those who had joined the +Institution with the wish to encourage so good a work. Now they are +subscribed to by many who appreciate their convenience for their own +sake. This is a wholesome sign—the turning point of success in such an +undertaking. For though it be necessary and right to bring to bear upon +an infant project all the extraneous aid that can promote its object, no +factitious support will permanently avail. To ensure a prolonged +existence, it must be sustained by its own merits. It is not till +interest comes to strengthen principle that the prosperous future is +secured. But in a country constantly and triumphantly calling attention +to the freedom and purity of its press, it can hardly be necessary to +expatiate on the benefits accruing from its wide and impartial +circulation. From the publication of Milton’s Areopagetica, these have +been acknowledged. None can say how much the English habit of reading +newspapers tends to enlarge the national views. Men cannot see, day +after day, the various problems of political and social moment, debated +before them by the ablest advocates, without confessing that cogent +reasons may be urged on either side. Half an hour spent daily in +perusing the current reviews and magazines is usefully employed. By it +the mind is kept informed of the events of contemporaneous history, is +enabled to form an independent judgment upon measures requiring the +sifting of discussion, and led to correct, modify, or expand any +sentiments too carelessly adopted, too obstinately defended, or too +narrowly based. + +Thus silently, it may be, and unconsciously, prejudice succumbs to +reason, party strife is mitigated, and argument, not force, enthroned the +constituted arbiter of conflicting wills. Hence arises the desirableness +of a Newsroom in every populous place, in which each phase of opinion may +be represented by its own peculiar organ. Few private establishments +enjoy this privilege—most persons confine themselves to a single journal, +entertaining ideas precisely identical with their own. They have +consequently nothing but a reflection of themselves. They lose the +advantage of filtrating their notions through other minds. Of old it was +said, “beware of the man of one book.” But the man of one paper is +infinitely worse. He usually fails to rise above the natural tendency to +a contracted sphere of thought, and rapidly subsides into a state of +one-sided conviction, as illiberal, as it is irrational. This is a trial +to which no sensible inquirer after truth would willingly subject +himself. On the contrary, he will concur in forwarding any plan to +obviate its danger. The Parochial Institute embodies such a plan. +Therefore, he will enrol himself upon its list of members. + +It must not, however, be supposed that facility of access to the +ephemeral publications is either the sole or the main intention of this +Society. For whatever necessity exists for affording to the industrial +and operative bodies opportunities of consulting periodicals of approved +ability, morality, and loyalty, it can only be subordinate to the study +of more substantial literature. Experience demonstrates that the habit +of reading once acquired, is seldom lost. No obstacle ought consequently +to be suffered to interfere with its attainment. The incipient student +should be free to range the entire field of knowledge. All that its +ample page contains, should be unfolded for his choice. And though his +early flights be wild, his attempts discursive, he will gradually +contract his circle, and settle down at last. This has been +instructively verified by some of the quarterly subscribers, whose thirst +for light reading was at first excessive. Three sets of novels per week +scarcely sufficed to satisfy this eager craving. Now all this is +changed. The catalogue of books procured from Churton’s, for 1852, shows +a most remarkable diminution in works of a romantic character. Even +those demanded, are of a higher and better description. But the staple +orders consist of travels, biographies, histories, and treatises on +religion. Such facts throw light upon the probable working of free +libraries. They bear out the belief, that if judiciously selected, and +kept up by successive additions of modern writers, a numerous attendance +and issue might be expected. Nor would such an enterprise be attended by +any ruinous expense. Excellent histories are now published for three +shillings a volume, while the pamphlets on miscellaneous subjects, +currently known under the name of Literature for the Rail, embrace some +of the most interesting essays, travels, and disquisitions in the +language. The Council would bring this topic strongly before their +fellow-parishioners, in the hope of inducing many to make presents in +augmentation of the library that they now possess. Its after increase +can be only a question of time. A free library is the corollary and +supplement of national education. Other parishes are beginning to +understand this. Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham are setting a +good example. Marylebone is about to follow in the same wise path. It +is too palpable an error, to give the people an appetite for reading +without furnishing them with the means of satisfying it, for a long +continuance, in a country so practical as England. Only let it be +admitted, and the remedy will not be withheld. May Kensington take the +initiative in its rectification by applying it to its own requirements. + +But the readiest access to books, the most unwearied diligence, and the +highest ability are not enough to render one man independent in a +scientific inquiry of the discoveries of another. The more the +philosopher investigates the unseen causes of visible things, the more he +is compelled to have recourse to a division of labour. Human life and +human memory are alike unable to grasp an universal knowledge. Hence the +acutest intellects devote their powers to master definite departments of +science. They do not aim at an impossible omniscience. Relying on the +truth and ability of their collaborators, they receive their conclusions +as their own. Nor are these communicated commonly in special treatises, +but through the more familiar media of lectures. On such occasions, he +who is the teacher of to-day, is not too proud to be the pupil of +to-morrow. Faraday, Murchison, Owen, and Herschell sit alternately at +each other’s feet. But if this be true of these hierophants of nature, +what shall be said of her neophytes? It is clear that to those engaged +in following their craft, their trade, or their profession, time is a +main object. But if they cannot unravel processes, they fain would know +results. These are easily attainable by the method above mentioned. A +good lecture will oftentimes simplify abstruse problems, and make +intelligible the most complicated machine, when books and diagrams convey +no comprehensible meaning. Perhaps no literary association in the +metropolis can bear witness to this fact with a more vivid realization of +its accuracy then our own. Since the publication of the last report, we +have been familiarized with the wonders of creation in all the kingdoms +of nature. With Mantell, we have read the records of primeval worlds, +traced by the finger of omnipotence in those fossilized remains, which +mock the palaces of Nineveh with their recent age. With Morris, gathered +up the laws that regulate the distribution of the springs and waters of +the earth, and learnt how man can call its spirit from the chalky deeps +for purposes of use or ornament. With Noad, investigated the phenomena +of light. With Wheeler, ranged from star to star throughout the +immensity of space. With Weld, explored the coasts and channels, creeks +and bays of those inhospitable regions which, clustering round the +Northern Pole, guard with indomitable tenacity the Western Passage, +despite the energy, endurance, and perseverance of the hardiest +adventurers. With Pettigrew, examined the internal structure of the +microscopic insect. With Scoresby, marvelled at the physical +organization of the whole. One voice, which we had hoped to hear, was +silent. Severe indisposition postponed for ever Professor Cowper’s +explanation of the cotton-mill. Since then, both he and Dr. Mantell have +been summoned to their rest. In the one, practical art laments its +clearest elucidator; in the other, science mourns her most attractive +commentator; in both, the Parochial Institute has sustained a grievous +loss. Yet amongst its pleasantest associations must ever rank the +recollections of their lectures. The idiomatic phraseology, homeliness +of illustration, unaffected delivery, and telling earnestness of +Professor Cowper, who by this very ease of manner beguiled you into the +idea that you were actually learning _with_ him, not _from_ him, will be +blended in the memory with Mantell’s graceful elocution, refined imagery, +and enthusiastic love of his favourite study, by the combined force of +which he carried his audience with him, and led their thoughts from +nature up to nature’s God. Alike disinterested in character, alike +confident in the victory of knowledge over ignorance, alike the firm and +generous promoters of infant institutions founded to ensure this end, +they shone as twin stars in our local firmament, bright examples to the +possessors of similar endowments to consecrate their use with the same +unostentatious perseverance to the cause of goodness, civilization and +truth, bright examples to all as fosterers by personal exertion as well +as by pecuniary sacrifice of parochial societies appealing to every moral +and patriotic feeling for extension and support. For the many lectures +that he delivered in Kensington, Mr. Cowper never accepted any +remuneration. Dr. Mantell gave his services for half his customary fee. +Not, however, that they are the sole instances of this discriminating +benevolence. To Mr. Weld and Dr. Scoresby, the cordial acknowledgments +of the Council are equally due and tendered for gratuitous addresses. In +contrasting their generous dedication of time, convenience, and ability +to the task of popular enlightenment, with the selfish spirit that +repudiates whatever is not subservient to personal benefit or +gratification, it is impossible to overlook the elevating influence of +mental culture. Of all the pleas for indifference to, or withdrawal from +an association for diffusing useful and scientific information, none is +so unworthy, so sordid, or so mean as that commonest of excuses, “_It +does me no good_.” + +Such an allegation can only arise from a most short-sighted policy. For, +let individual preference be what it may, the time is past for saying to +the advancing tide of scientific inquisition, “Thus far shalt thou go, +and no farther.” The incessant discoveries and inventions of modern +years have quickened with the throes of mental energy the masses of the +nation. Its strong sense is alive to the power of knowledge, and +circulates from the head to the extremities of the social body. The +magnetic experiments, to which the whole philosophical world is looking +with the most intense curiosity, are conducted by one who entered life a +shop-boy. The solution of deep metaphysical propositions is not without +attraction to the hard-headed ratiocination of the operatives of +Lancashire. There are those who have wrestled out; by abstract +reasoning, the cardinal verity of the immortality of the soul. The +mechanics of London number in their ranks many ardent thinkers. When the +recent lecture on cohesion and gravitation was delivered at the Museum of +Practical Geology, so large an audience of working men was collected, +that, though the issue of tickets had been purposely increased, upwards +of two hundred persons were refused admission at the door. Now it is +folly to ignore this spirit of investigation. You may guide, you may +control, but can neither deny nor crush it. Wisely, therefore, has the +government recognised its prevalence; wisely has the Queen recommended in +her speech from the throne, its association with practical art; and +wisely will those towns and cities act which avail themselves of whatever +facilities the legislature may decide upon offering, to give it salutary +scope and exercise. In a circular forwarded from the Society of Arts to +the different Institutes of England, a series of questions was proposed +in reference to this end. The answers returned by the Council will be +found in the Appendix, for the information of members and others, who +will then understand how real the movement is, and how great is the +expediency of frankly and heartily ensuring its success. Should the +suggestions contained in this document be approved and carried into +execution, they can hardly fail to give an impulse to self-instruction; +while the annual exhibition of models, inventions, and machinery, would +afford an opportunity for the social intercourse and mutual improvement +ordinarily attached to the pleasant enjoyment of an evening +conversazione. + +But are these aids to rational recreation really brought within the reach +of the industrial population? Can the apprentices and shopmen of +Kensington afford to join the Institute? Is not the cost of membership +too expensive for their purse? Such can hardly be the case. Admission +to the reading-room, library, and lectures is accorded to subscribers of +half-a-crown a quarter; while a yearly payment of one guinea gives its +donor a voice in the government of the society. The analysis of these +sums shows a result of less than a half-penny a day for the former, and +of under sixpence a week to the latter class of contribution. Frugality +itself cannot object to such a scale. Taken individually, the advantages +are worth their price;—collectively, they are emphatically a bargain. + +Subsidiary to the main channels of intellectual culture, are the +Elementary Evening Classes, held at the Church-court school, under the +superintendence of two masters from Battersea College. They were +instituted for the sake of the young persons who are unable to attend the +day schools, and include a due proportion of adults. The class for young +men and boys meets upon Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday; that for young +women and girls on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The attendances to the +close of 1852 were very satisfactory; 120 girls and 40 boys having +enrolled themselves upon the books. An interesting peculiarity connected +with the female class is its use by servants whose education has been +neglected. Several who could neither read nor write on their first +entrance, have attained a tolerable proficiency in these subjects; and of +those who have grown up to age for service, and taken situations, some +have been wise enough to return during their intervals of employment, to +pursue the studies with which the duties of their place had necessarily +for the season interfered. The subjects now taught are limited to +reading, writing, arithmetic, and geography. But it is proposed to add +music; and should the Society of Arts carry out its principles in this +parish, linear drawing, languages, geometry, and mathematics would also +be encouraged, were a sufficient number of names inscribed to constitute +a remunerating class. The payment for the present course is two-pence +weekly, in advance; but proportionably higher fees would be required to +ensure the services of masters capable of conducting the higher branches +of education. + +If these facilities for instruction are not accepted to the full extent +that might, prior to experience, have been expected, it ought not to +check the genial philanthropy by which they are provided. All that we +can do is to offer privileges. It rests with others to turn their use to +profit. And if, in the attempt to raise the social and mental position +of those who minister to our daily wants, we are unable to achieve all +that we desire, it is still a noble and a worthy ambition, warranting the +sacrifice of some prejudices and the risk of many disappointments, to +endeavour so to order the arrangement of our literary and scientific +agencies that + + “Our needful knowledge, like our needful food, + Unhedged lie open in life’s common field, + And bid all welcome to the vital feast.” + + + + +APPENDIX. + + +THE chief advantages which might be expected to result from a combination +of the Provincial Institutes with the Society of Arts would be, in our +opinion, the following:— + +α. The formation of a Central Library, from which Local Institutes +might, from time to time, borrow supplies of Books on the same or more +reasonable terms than they can now procure them from the large +circulating libraries of the metropolis. + +β. A staff of Lecturers might be provided by the Society of Arts, +competent to give interesting and instructive information in a popular +form; such staff to be selected by a Council, who, from their position +and attainments, would be entitled to general confidence. Each +Provincial Institute might be allowed to choose its own Lecturers from +this staff, without being necessarily restricted to it. + +γ. The models, diagrams, &c., now provided by the individual lecturers +at a considerable expense, and often with great personal trouble, might +be furnished by the Society from a central repository established for +that purpose. Many of the articles required, particularly drawings and +diagrams, would probably be executed by the students of the School of +Design, who would thus possess an opportunity for the practical exercise +of their art. + +δ. That useful inventions and apparatus might be exhibited in the +various localities of the Metropolitan and Provincial Institutes; and if +the specimens were only shown for a short time in each place, a small +number of each article would suffice. These circulating exhibitions +would probably be attractive, and perhaps excite more notice than +permanent museums. The Society of Arts might lend the articles for +exposition gratuitously or at a low price, on condition that the +Institute supplied the room, and made itself responsible for loss or +damage. + +ε. That each Institute, in its collective capacity, would be considered +so far affiliated to the various Scientific, Literary, and Philosophical +Societies, as to receive annually, on application, a copy of the +Transactions, and as many tickets, for attending Meetings and Lectures, +as each Society may find it convenient to allow. + + + + +STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS, 1852. + + Received. 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