The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-22 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1858.

..ur a UGURATION OF THE NEWTON
MONUMENT AT GRANTHAM

(PlOl 0171 OWN 117071111.)

GRANTILiIt, Bin. Z.

The inauguration of the statue of Sir Law Newton
was alakestsd have this day with greet pimp and eirenoey,
and in the midst of • we 02111010 w al pereer• wit* woe
Minded by the oesseica iron the ennonailing MAAS, he
chiding ma of Deimos trees ell parte of the waren. It
will be deskehin in the tine pia* that I shoot Nets the
ciresnasteness est of white the temoriel sad the hdhsl—
ir it mei be selled—originats• • vaned wee of
goosed at the seetth and al High-errest, Genallows, lately
knees se Wood-hig, battery mild by Its edging ems cat
lit Pater's-hill, wee bag 01111111101 II MIGNON te the
Ms, and at lag* a dealielnallan wee ease to test sa
atimpt Nimbi be made le Wirers sod causensat it. As-
esteingly, whoa themON tree diemenessd at a roseliag
et the Town Cased a negpsdon was thrown oat by Mr.
F. Kant that a Makes Y lenoor of Sir laws Newels would
farm a very great end a wry appropriate ornanseet to the
▪ This ensgedices nest with • lavottrable receptive;
the teembere . the resmil lease ly bard themerter
tato • perbkoal cameitsse, moth Mr. Winter as their
asesseary, end gave his the peers be hed requbsd.
Xt. Wisner, le wholes energy said test Sr eseepiele moors
ad the anderisidas is Featly doe, lest se the fa going to
lose" and having algid en lalredastlos to lord Roos,
the peaddent of the Royal Seststy, lds kedship szlesesed
lime/ es vary lisviseraide le the ohms. Mr. Winter next
aeeght en interview with lard Beraghsse, who at coos
shad most bawdy Ws the Pasta, and paled to do all
he coati le musts as meets. The pried bean re:eired
the sisaila of the Royal fkiday the awl mew were
adepts b kieg it before the pails, rah a view of obtain-
leg releeripataa. Fla Majesty the Qua sad the Pram
011•11111. plillifter pleased to sentden the aadortakiag
by Oar puts ad to end a eabeorlake of 1001. •
assmittee, emitting d the Earl of Harrowity, Sir Girlies
Rafe Welby, Dad., Major-Osaerel the Hat. Sir lidersed
Cask Sir Merles Istetlaks, and Robert Staphsesta,
ILP., ess aggekted to alai ea meta to execute the were,
sad tharaeke eventually ildhpen Mr. Thad.
Of the aseentar of the salad and sot here ea* as ea
sale deadpan of it amend Is the Daily New of Friday
lout The pedestal oa which the figure meads is also be. a
data by Mr. Thad. It is If is high, sad we oat by
Mr. ISONSIbuII tb 1141431.1111meti0 quarries near Holy-
head. The Mal height tithe Awe end pedestal together is
27 test. The *Ow hen the vest, looking on the mad
whisk Nevins sent hare pined eilmever ha ems it
Ganthea. The Wel mead ettleorthei was 1,63 W., of
whisk OM eves anielhaled by the bbebileatt of Gnathat
and the adighbeenheed. The At eta, Maas le Or ga of
the Tara Cooed, bet sow that the Teat OMNI and in-
habitants have saearda la their palennethy Ara it is
to be hoped that they MR lea ao tame to impair* the sae
at St Peter's-DM, and making it worthy of the monantatt It
now bears.

Althotse the people of Grantham Yaw been the prime
moms ia the erectioa of the Newt= emesnesat, it must sot
Is supposed that Sir Immo wee meek bora In the town. Ile
woe bons, es is pretty gesereily kno•a, is the nelghtourbg
hamlet of Weddell's, ea Chrletmes-day, 1642, Um come
yeeele week Ide greet preemie edam died. The Maser.
home to leek iliorlos was bora to .ow 000mplod by )(r.
Wookoloo, ea lbo flallowlis dloorfplka of Ito proud se.
pool ad etoolldon Ida not bo reed without interest.

The pried* tat al lie baser has a Tatars aspect, sad,
wilt** saraptisa at the windows sad door, le mainly
Mang with Ivy. Ababa i beetisd la the wall, was the
dear, whit the hibcarigbeselptke, W serissaated by pre
Aida bears salder-apice:—" la this Ilester-asses Sir Lam
Ifindia, Leigh; was beta 11th December, A.D. 1612."
Oa satarbs the bpi, vlabral as ilmasaa, attiatioa is
directed is aa sesique mewled el beaming the
door : hem at of the Moss VON wldeb
are vary thick, • strong oaken bar Od, backwash
sod hrwards at will, mad when plead across the door lams
• mum hsersibi. Proceeding up a wide mad Saab& stair-
s." the clamber fa which Sir Imo was born le as the lath
and Is sabered by an old oak panelled door. The roots Is
capealoss, with • "bedew looking westward, cc the right of
which, over the fireplace, Is • white marble tablet, fined is
its present pranks when the Manor-hones was repaked is
1798. It contains the following
Bir Isere Newton (son of Isaac ifewloa, Lord ci the
Manor of Woolethorps) was born In this room, December
26, 1642."

"Nam sad Natmd► laws lay ►id la night,
God said ' laa Nave= los,' aad ►ll was light."—Pwa,

An old cupboard with carved panels and a sketch of the
osiebrated apple-tree, with • piece of the tree itself, are oh-
hob of attraction in the room. On the window sill
• book is laid for receiving the autographs of Adore.
On the right of the stab-cam la • room supposed to have
been the sleeping place of the celebrated teas. In deemath-
met corner a space 9 feet by 6 feet 9 inches is partition&
sal is shown as " Newton's Study." Two windows, sow
blocked up, ars included—one looking east, the other south.
It le understood that at the wish of the Lady Caroline Tumor
the lights are to be replaced, se her ladyship rightly cm&
dere that there is somewhat of incongruityie Newton's wady
beteg destitute of light.
At the south end of the home is a mew dial, mid to have
been lied by the philosopher's own hands. Upon this nth
time hem worked Its usual effect, and it is sow threes mop
em a mark of interest is those who visit the beam The ripple
tree which imggested to the mind of Norton hie Nyder of
gravitation no longer nisei, bat two grafts bola the Mend
stock arenow growing luxuriantly and are well lades with Milt
The neat points of attraction which cameos the pest aro.
raw with the town of Grantham are the Grammar &think
where he was under the discipline of Mr. Henry Stokes, and
the home in Grantham where he lodged, Mau occupied by
' Mr. Apothecary Clarke, to whose youeg end bloontiag Weft
he pad kb lint, sad perhaps only love. The college, how-
ever, does not appear M possess my other arnerial d lie
peat showerss then the Memos which moat alweye war-
round @shoot posed of peat are ; and the thigiag-keen
la ,Nth Mae* his little weir docks gad windmills, end
other reckerial ocatrithaor, is matimeorphosed into •
ream iriek handles of goodly end mbelential proportions.
It would be eat it pros here, after the arcade begs mud
apathies el the aerie lord who bon the shist port la the
beiguretkin is USW into any dregs of the satregeset
ewer of Newton, bet the ordinary Nan of the world will not
be &pissed to its that he, who, through the complex
emehiely of spire* end diapers, the elehrestag the true
theory it the lessons, was had it • game at cards, sad
I set Mena of his Israel at the rare, as the following
NOM from his note book prove :—" My bachelor's coconut,
17e.11." " At the tavern emend other Mesa, 11." " Lost et
verde twice, 16e." " Oranges be ray deer, 41. 2d.''
There is rowdy enough in them entries In the handwriting
of Newton himself to justify the remark of Voltaire, but
whisk that sneering cynic applied to his commentary on the
Preplissiee :—" A pparawiesth pal a thula per liaises*, Is
seas benithe Is la eaphiorri ga'il swell ear elle."
It thy be add, rid it he. Irma add, that it was a dispose
le else aerty 110 pre ice the death of Newton to roll by
three* emery' a asnanesnt to such a man in his native
piths. Tithe ere ineneseats to hi. fame no doubt
in Vestal's*, Abbe, and in Cambridge, and mill
are eabriag sees is the math of his labour, but there is
penal der repined that so lour a time ham been permitted to
reps without thaw a record to him in his native deem or
Mdl events in Nome locality " open unto the Mr sad is the
sky." Konigsberg bee toe inonsineat of Kent; Berlin d
Bags/ Only lest yew ell that wee literary and Audi* is
Gensisay seseahled at Weise* on the inanimation
of the Illiellend-436the-fichiner rearausemet. Fume

else per Meow to bar poet saes; sal Pi the
pram' amok& the nay alepe es Nelda' vas thet et
TesiMaelle, sad till esseetly tke ably Illosisplay of hits
whisk arm at all worthy et the Naas. vie that of Biol. It
le set worthy the pukka el the =Wry la other resperes
diet It should be AIN itairiese amtersue. AM than Is pair
hly ae elms of mesa to when hamar et this kid Is sr masa
dm tram a pod sad fro pia* as the aim 1..0 is wima
Narks bakerl—dis ass cf scheme wad phlkispirge. Lilo
bar alaumpapee they Ma mine do beam at liste.
log lON Om% too, that sae swot wood to the storm
floantes dank We beisleek. Anattogenta who PM masget
the Greeks samoted Prorldeaoe with dloblty, wee
1 baldish Aztalede led trots Meaty pasaaties be
Oki* vbsee be Seek relso. R%W Buss was pet Me s

; dungeon by the eaptirlor of his tease as a sorcerer. Remus
was dencemosd se a Mate orkainal for opposing the authority
of Aristotle, and was ameselnateil In the days of Bt. Bar-
thekanew. Amara; to order to live at ems, dad from
Priem to Holland; and them he was not at tam, kar
he was permeated by the theologian Wades, and Wended
by the tons atheist ; Gel to, at the age of TO, wee Snead to
" eiders, clans, sad Mist the aver sad barmy thee the son
was the main of the world, and immoveable, sad that the
earth wm not the emirs, rid mamba ;" and them who have
rued Yr. Hackle's work will dad in passe 841 and 342 maple
evidence to show that what ha cells the great °Mauston
of matildad " played the same part in Nevem'. time, end
did asiwythlag is their power to obstruct the Royal &misty.
Than instenoes—and the fiat might be greatly prolonged—
should teach the people that their real friends—the as. by
whose safiniep may step in the progress of mankind has
been merked—are men like Newton. It le, therefore, highly
to the amour of the people of Grantham that they h►ve set
so good as szionple, and that they invited memo from all
quartets to be pesesat at the sohmn inaugaration of his
statue.

At coo think the nobleman sod geatkoasa taking part in
tha proondsa ma at Go Otaawasmattooi, sod proceeded
limos to lii. Talat'addlUa Ow limit ore, :
iwort Kilitai
The Baud a the Royal of
Swath Ltaai. okialtbs Mitts.
Tows Flai. erlar. Town neg.
PONOMIIIL Cldse Comolatia Pottormw.

XOOO Boer. Mese Beam )lace Bearer.
Rz-34yer. The Noyes. The Remise. Towu Clerk.
The Vicar end Peroshil Clergy al the Borough.
The Mama nod Berseglt Megjanstes.
The Uses Osesti—fte• lseest.
The Be. of the eftemase-eebeel—ftest steer*.
BM Basel Boy wafts Ptisdpie.
Beassi Boy, any* the t
T he
elmer@ bevaded by
Newton.
Third Boy, serrytag Newton's Prism.
The Miners of tin Gramm. School.
The Lied Bishop of the Diocese.
Dr. Whewell
Trla , Right Ron. Professor Owen.
%
Maawr of Lord Bronglasse.
Camino of Selection.
Major-Oseeral the Rea. Sir B. Cast, K.C.11.-81r G.
Werby, Bert.
The Sculptor. The Yosuedas.
W. Thad, Req. Nuers. Robinson and Co.
The Secretaries.
The Nienben of the Committes—thres .bowel.
Gnaw= attending by iinviterice—three abreast
The mute wee by Church-terrace, Vuleit7llo4 sad RISE
knee.

The appearenoe which the proarsion prorated, brume
Myr( sad lead prying m It approached the pion of the
atstar, was wry imposing. On their snivel, Lad Bergh=
took Me seat ca s chair which wee raid to have Weer* to
Sir Isaac, sad was loudly cheered.' Ilmnswilately bridled Wm
were mad the Xagor of Grantham, Mr. Ostler, sad the
Bishop of Lincoln. On the sesta around we noticed Sir J.
Trollops, M.P., Mr. Milan, M.P., Dr. Wiriest', Praiser
Owen, fir J. Baia* Mr Benjamin Brodie, Lord A. Comp-
ter, Dr. Latham, end a most numerous assemblap of Mir
sad Bailers. Whim sll was seated, the covering which
1111 sew ald the slides fromiviewLwas withdrawn, and a
chorus of clears bane from the assemblage. The noble
rare steed oat in the bright sureise in all as repeat pro-
redoes, and its character and expression ware the thane of
Banned admiration.

Lord BKOUOMLL atter lases had hem oblides', roes
and geononaced the ape to white we have referred. New
admesearernants (eisserved the treble feed la the course
of his address) hue been makraken spa • met sods,
patronage& by the amillemee d rivel governments;
new mperimeole !eve been perdented with improved app.
rltaau;slitrielte delloot„ alffszes;asi bare bra
by the ce" in the dere dila to ersrtre
maenad optics, as well ea Waist, ewe Ile atria; the
thway tad the hat have thee kat eempasedeed
reamelle together in moo paha beniy
that thow hes nmained unimproved. end Me great
pia* le grain" with to arm mai maim
new ids ha the aide.
_zed el the diamehme,
eel elk the aitry, IMP hea the karr he emir
dem maidrei at saes hi the mighty lid or era
IN Immortal
eisr. llat th. sestamplia of Newton's dbectorhe
vied air ileedep them voolikor at his meabler peen
The Vett with whin it sir k aot e., dile( then
metal. The 'Mediu a MeIIISUISIN tad bk eapeliele Abe
Nakao mad reined de wirifiag aerie the hese
flee or the wee, wW metimileg dark bathe
resew at lb pMems, edges ebelease, ems die se
gond ad eigesh yst so
"g thel they boa ap•
dots eat hied the am*. The raldwie, les, which
✓ibeak% mil the maer with wash thaterrystesa4lle
e, sir dem inn to dime kis
only idea= bk Meelpha ths rim beim mid
karea• ene when mess* bath micaeraged sad ilia
tit swesire to mit kW** perm New maw the
blind demi le • 111Ylir, whisk kw se nosy woof Me
modem weed pedaled the eights di lima ealM
" Had ens still paid that hip le • its
Whisk may God and Nig jendy
The weans mes had been OSP 11111010
bad pi MI miglit dei the sea vat ink
And all Pe dese, that ebbe maira des,
Had been sided W DM savage eyes."
Nor Is. it be laattred the the Ihip melted by
ontisorpliNse the emaime dMe peat is ar=easi
degree whatever the Mai eg nedlsmigertilly,
le the lift wilVe la lteraleggdom Ma Mi. The
ltdifor her vfaelado• Pe-
lage sziesied, by ha while dim anti give Mime
le die; met by de pig *dee, btu by the in&
omillood tledelmed „M* el the moire of
Wei Landis, when aid at thetiVuslebie is Berlin
his opinion of Newton, sell that. " minsaikkes
from the beginning of the world le this when
Newton lived, what be bad dens wee eon the
brow half." "The Priecitia we aver nik •
ressient of the profound pie whin ride to
an the greatest law of the askenee," me the words
Laplace." That work see& permainent above
all the other productions of the he... aid." " The dis-
covery of that simple and mord ler, by the pima d
the verity of the objects which it misees, min basour
upon the interline of man." La Orange, we an till by
Deltrobre, wee wont to describe Newton a the poi
genii that ever existed, bat to add how (urinate be was
oleo, " became there can only coos be found a qui a the
universe to establish." " Never,' mys the father et the
locates of Francs, one filling • high place smog the most
andesoi of its members—. never" says M. Belot, "wee the
supremacy of intellect se justly established end so f%re;
based In metbeanial mad in experimental
en equal and waist an imp*
.00mbiniesdne pis
ler both la he highest degree." TM ' Primate " he mom
Ms greatest work ever produced by the mind of mew, wading,
I. tie words ol Halley, that • nearer approach to the Divine
airs Ise net Med to
•motii • " fleet giving
te the mail e method dikesea," says Feeleadle,
" Ldtalts di h ePsmsthaes; be dole bre be. bison
Is bestow it upon aaa^ " Dees Newtoo," L'Hopitel a hid,
"sleep and wake Moe ether seen P I dears Dim to Egad( as
saki/ gooks hoes item" To so
merwand bonetert Li= thee sidled Si dr lof-
ettlaos the aims semi d all on, MS whims We,
as of sa bast weeper& k the ire
doer hulk the seed aid at whim beak the
ara nee bad only geed, gem eed, as iworled
hes been rake by those sakes whin erseleil dame to the
trig sad ooagaeroes, the soonrges of mealdnd, vines lives
were peed net to the poi al truth eat the prim
d adteheall, area whose lips V troth ever dim& le
leg Imelda is mall& if i wily had to alai lag
Hoi—ebas Is skim Wiz knot thirst of power or oir
asaes, tripled es ell the rights sad 'paired trtrill .seal
of ark tadow.criamoote&me °m the Whelan,
bided while it deeded, end who, marring the Roman
Imperor's noble dewed the day lost that saw the
sae go down woo In t Ihemaremes, se ski Medved or
tßentbetrayleaks raidal, or dm isidgesee et seek ;
d monmele se endemil iambs d the
adm lbw
bunt ei the wieway el the est
illustriouset m mate 4 vie. Nret that bk
own memtreasa, dimly pail ol beteg deed in
hi dose, should have left this duty to that m-
oire, after • marttry end a half ol pined
reementa sat4wheateste, mil be &mil
streTadhe niergiese ef
his way plenty be ended
k llsheme sink al:lsst—" pa ma kr • racerimed
Yoh erid." "If yea seek 11
kr • issiemet lift up yaw
eyes le the white show deb hi ben." Nor when
we riled the fiiesc esetnea inekmatka—. The whale
seri is the namemeat d Mmeirlews mme"—eau we rep
sit el dedarkg ad the lib aalvares Nowton's. Yet
la sling the mei whit his Shores, seer the
plan elide bath, se des ire lie lines
were milk& eel we at eme oar bait
pride se dim etas is ad% .4 Wily ~air
=.tent d the Dlvisaixt;eldell dderd ta
woo ear the so Oftsd M etnepro•
boa Ihe rein e with., iall Pity umbel to
mai
Pir el Me alma the seems 4 stliegui assue..
ben aid mai
'!M ask se& lima Is* when treks was died te
with the seed pima aismille, aavldd to the mast a
lead nod hag madam& gleaille.
The MATOS 11111111 Velndolllblardsldp with gm de-
greatly bound eery el the "PrerWM" whin be
miredol bit
lordship woeld 11111111•Maille &Ye
The oromany ligides Wo
est erm
half-pest two, sed if di 400 Wks sod pale
mensal Ens to si mama *ors Alive" pkpmd