TO

WORKING MEN,

AND ESPECIALLY то THE

WORKING MEN OF BRIGHTON,

THIS VOLUME,

CONTAINING SO MANY OF THEIR FRIEND'S UTTERANCES

IN THEIR BEHALF,

IS CORDIALLY DEDICATED.

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CONTENTS.

PREFACE

Two ADDRESSES:-

An Address delivered at the Opening of the Working

Men's Institute, on Monday, October 23, 1848.....

Preface to Second Address.

An Address delivered to the Members of the Working

Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on

Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the Question of the

Introduction of Skeptical Publications into their

Library....

Two LECTURES ON THE INFLUENCE OF POETRY ON

THE WORKING CLASSES:-

Delivered before the Members of the Mechanics' Insti-

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tution, February, 1852.

LECTURE I

LECTURE II

LECTURE ON WORDSWORTH:-

Delivered to the Members of the Brighton Athenæum,

February 10, 1853...

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NOTES OF A LECTURE, SPEECHES, &c.-

Notes of a Lecture delivered at Hurstper-point, in 1851,

to the Members of a Working Man's Reading Room 269

A Speech delivered at the Town Hall, Brighton, April

24, 1849, at a Meeting of the Inhabitants, called by

the Early Closing Association, presided over by the

Bishop of Chichester.

A Speech delivered at a Meeting of the Brighton Dis-

trict Association for Improving the Dwellings of the

Industrious Classes, held at the Pavilion, Brighton,

November 25, 1852..

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296

A Speech delivered at the Town Hall, Brighton, April

20, 1852, in reply to an Address presented to him by

One Hundred Young Men of his Congregation.... 308

A Speech delivered at the Town Hall, Brighton, No-

vember 14, 1850, at a Meeting held for the Purpose

of Addressing the Queen in reference to the Attempt

of the Pope of Rome to parcel England out into Ec-

clesiastical Dioceses under Cardinal Wiseman..

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