To the Editor of the Norru-Cntwa Datiy New:
Sm,—I notice in your issue of Saturday an able leader treating of the new Society, and of its sundry aims, recently formed in our midst: and which, I presume, having advanced so far in its existence survive its birth and better still to attract the support of a golden-tinted leader, bids fair promise, if liberally constituted, to develope into a useful and influential maturity—and perhaps even to wood old axe.
Tam convinced, were it not for the forbidding nature of the Society's title, that it would be much more extensively supported than now appears probable. True, the presidential and executive muster: roll looks strony, but the "mass" do not appear in force: neither do they make up in quality what they lack in quantity, Twere trite'and superfluous to repeat that no Society can hope to exist for any time, or in any vigour, whose basis is not firmly supported on the mass—intellectual. or otherwise; in this case intellectual, I trust.
A man, whatever his specific qualifications on the score of age, likes least of all to appear before the public in his youthful capacity; and naturally have his discussions and debates stigmatised by the badge of his youthful inexperience as hairbrained.
I think in that respect the title of the Society as it now stands is singularly unfortunate. The young men of the settlement alone do not' supply enough intellect to entirely support the institution, and the elder men of talent would be apt to hold back, as excluded by the designation, The happiest method would be to call the Association (of associations, what with the Shipowners and Tagboats, we have enough
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