11 NOVEMBER 1865, Page 2

Lord Stanley opened the Liverpool Gymnasium on Monday with a

speech on the value of gymnastics, which he praised as the best means of preserving health among those classes who earn their bread by sedentary pursuits. The new gymnasium is not for artizans, the subscription being 30s. a year, but for clerks, shop- men, and the lower professionals. The buildings have cost 14,0001., of which 10,0001. has been paid by subscription, but already 500 members have jpined the evening classes, some of them with an enthusiasm at which Lord Stanley seemed incline to smile, but which shows how deeply the want of meanrfor active exertion has been felt.