The Free Library at Manchester having been opened on Thursday,.
in the presence of the select few, the inauguration was ratified in the evening by a meeting in the Library tall, of the indiscriminate many. Mainly, the speakers were the same, but there was a marked difference in the sub- stance of the speeches. The Bishop of Manchester said, the working classes now have an opportunity of showing how far they are willing to improve their minds and morals. Lord Shaftesbury added an appendix to the speech of the Bishop. Mr. John Bright was rather political in his remarks, and advocated the repeal of the taxes on knowledge. Dr. Vaughan gave a useful lecture on history "ad populism." Mr. Monckton Milnes was instructive on the difficulty of reading to the most advantage : it is four hundred years since the art of printing was invented, and yet how small a proportion of the human race knows anything about books ; and how much smaller the proportion who ever read them ; and how much smaller the proportion who remember what they read! Dr. Watts and other speakers wound up the evening.
Dr. Hogarth, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Hexham, was formally installed at the Cathedral Church of St. Mary, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, .on Wednesday.
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