1-1(3 MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION 



Thomas Wyse, Esq., M.P., then rose, and addressed the section, 

 in one uninterrupted flow of eloquence, for the space of half an 

 hour; in which he contended that though education in England, as 

 far as it had proceeded, might not have realised, to the full extent, 

 the expectations formed of it, yet that no one could deny the effects 

 it had produced where it had been conducted on a comprehensive 

 system, dealing with the whole man, and adapted to the de- 

 velopment of his moral and physical energies. In alluding to the 

 defective state, generally, of the schools, both public and private, in 

 Great Britain, and to the incompetency of the majority of persons 

 employed in the work of tuition, which he ascribed to the neglect 

 and indifference with which that class of persons are usually re- 

 garded, he took occasion to pay a very handsome compliment to 

 the Bristol College, which, he said, embodied the true principles 

 upon which alone a sound education could be imparted. 



The Rev. E. Stanley warmly insisted on the beneficial influence 

 which the instruction imparted to the poor had exercised in his own 

 neighbourhood ; he, however, should be happy to see a more com- 

 prehensive system than that at present employed, and he doubted 

 not that the result would be correspondingly beneficial. He had 

 lately returned from the continent, and there he saw — not in the 

 city merely, but in the mountain-village — effective schools, accessi- 

 ble to the lowest classes, in which a course of education was pur- 

 sued calculated to inform and elevate the mind. In these schools 

 he had found the masters, from their acquirements, capable of con- 

 versing with him on any subject; indeed, they were men with 

 whom he should feel it an honour to be associated : and these were 

 the materials with which our own schools must be constructed, if 

 we desired to impart to the rising generation a really intellectual 

 education. 



Section G. — Mechanical Science. 



President— Davies Gilbert, Esq. 



Vice-Presidents — M. I. Brunei, Esq., John ltobison, Esq. 



Secretaries — T. G. Bunt, Esq., G. T. Clark, Esq., William West, Esq. 



Committee — Captain Chapman, G. Cubitt; Esq., J. S. Enys, Esq., William 

 Hawkes, Esq., E. Hodgkinson, Esq., Dr. Lardner, Professor Moseley, 

 M. le Playe, Sir John Itennie, George Rennie, Esq., John Taylor, 

 Esq., Rev. W. Taylor. 



Monday. — The business of this section opened with Profes- 

 sor Moseley's " Observations on certain points connected with the 

 theory of Locomotive Carriages." The Professor commenced by 

 stating that there were many gentleman present acquainted with 

 the practical working of steam-engines, but the relations between 

 the theory and practice were not perfectly understood. The piston 

 of a locomotive engine was pressed on either side by a force ; one 

 resulting from the friction on the road, and the other from the pas- 

 sive friction of the engine itself. If it was lifted from the ground, 



