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told more eloquently than words could do, what grief was felt at the loss Brighton had sustained. Foremost in this genuine expression of feeling were the working men of the town-the men he was proud to call " My friends-the working classes."

November 15, 1858.

TWO ADDRESSES.

LECTURES AND ADDRESSES.

An Address delivered at the Opening of the Working Men's Institute,* on Monday, October 23, 1848.

BROTHER MEN AND FELLOW TOWNSMEN,

I owe it to you and I owe it to myself to give some explanation of my being here to-night to deliver an opening address to the Working Men's Institute. I owe it to you, or rather, to some of you, since it is only a few weeks ago that, on the plea of ill health, I professed myself unable to deliver a lecture to the Brighton Athe

* A third edition of this Pamphlet having been called for, I have sent it to the press unaltered; for though the Working Men's Institute, owing to certain errors in the details of its organization, has for the present ended in partial failure, yet the very circumstances of its history have only confirmed me more than ever in the principles which it was attempted to express in the following pages.-F. W. R., Oct. 1850.

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