On Monday night, a Working Men's Club and Institution was
opened in the Union Hall, Artillery Street, Bishopsgate Street, Mr. G. J. Goschen, the member for the City, in the chair. The chair- man made a speech of much ability, in which he remarked that in the present day in England there was a remarkable double movement going on, the working classes striving to be reckoned among the cul- tivated classes and the cultivated classes striving to be reckoned among the working classes. Amongst the former was growing up a zeal for culture, among the latter a zeal for labour. This is, we believe, a true picture, and it is impossible to say which of the two classes is the most urgently in want of some share in the birth- right of the other. Probably labour without culture is in a more hopeful condition than culture without labour. We are happy to see that Mr. Goschen has been chosen to second the address on the opening of Parliament.
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