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of the sense of the nation, as doing its duty towards the workmen, rather than it should be done as a kind of charity by private subscription. 153. _Sir Robert Peel._ You have been five years connected with the Working Men's College?--Yes; I think about that time. Is the attendance good there?--There is a fair attendance, I believe. Of the working classes?--Yes; in the other lecture-rooms; not much in mine. Do they go there as they please without going beforehand for tickets?--They pass through an introductory examination, which is not severe in any way, but merely shows that they are able to take advantage of the classes there; of course they pay a certain sum, which is not at all, at present, I believe, supporting to the college, for every class, just to insure their paying attention to it. You stated that you did not think lectures would be of any use unless there was what you called active intermediate study?--I think not. What did you mean by active intermediate study? if a man is working every day of the week until Saturday afternoon, how could that take place?--I think that you could not at all provide lectures once or twice a week at the institutions throughout the kingdom. By intermediate study, I mean merely that a man should have about him, when he came into the room, things that shall tempt him to look at them, and get interested in, say in one bird, or in one plant. While the lecture was going on?--No, that might be given once a fortnight, or once a month, but that this intermediate attention should be just that which a man is delighted to give to a single plant which he cultivates in his own garden, or a single bird which he may happen to have obtained; the best of all modes of study. 154. You are in favor of the Early Closing Association?--I will not say that I am, because I have not examined their principles. I want to have our labor regulated, so that it shall be impossible for men to be so entirely crushed in mind and in body as they are by the system of competition. You stated that you would wish the hours during which they would be able to enjoy the institutions to be as early as possible?--Yes, certainly. But it would be impossible to have them earlier than they are now, on account of the organization of labor in the country.--I do not know what is possible. I do not know what the number of hours necessary for labor will ultimately be found to be. Still you are of opinion tha
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