The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-22 00:00:00

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LEICESTER RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
(Continued from our Third Edition.)
The Two Year old Stakes.

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The Handicap was won by half a length.

IRELAND.
THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD.

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With a few exception 9, and those in quarters
where no better could be expected, the Irish press, of
all shades of politics, has not failed to do full justice
to the memory of the illustrious Duke, whose death
is regarded by all right-thinking men as the greatest
public calamity of modern times. The sneer of the
ultramontane Tablet has been followed up by a Gal-
way paper (the Packet), which thus concludes its
obituary notice :
" The death of the Duke i 3 a calamity for the British
oligarchy, who ever turned to his counsel with faith in
the hour of crisis. The great captain is dead, and there
is not an unmoved heart among those he worked for so
long and well, and there is not a tearful Irish eye from
the blue bays of Cork to the cliffs of Donegal. May
Erin never rear such another son—to turn his mighty
genius to the service of her tyrant. Peace and forgive-
ness to his immortal soul!"

Another Galway paper (the Vindicator) altogether
out-Herods the foregoing. No one will envy the
feelings of the writer who could pen such language
as this :

" The Irishman, Wellington, has gene after the
Englishman, Peel—the two eyes of England are out.
Henceforth she will want—but we trust will not obtain
—lrishmen to guide her armies, and councils she will
be obliged to trust to her sons, who are destitute alike
of the eloquence of Burke and the courage of Wel-
lington—stolid, stupid, swinish Englishmen. England
is weeping ty:er tee coffin of an Irishman who we: loyal
to Britsia though a traitor to his native country. That
[Tishman was the greatest cummander that ever
led the British armies to victory. He was emi-
nently suce.eisful, and this because he had such
legions as the Connaught Rangers to fight for
Eng and, whereas other commanders who mar-
shalled in other days the hosts of Britain were encoun-
tered in their great pitched battles by our brethren
of the Irish Brigade. Were we still following the
standards of France—were we still as of old shouting
Faugh-a-ballagh under the bright emblazonry of the
silken banners of hostile countries—were our exiled
countrymen shouting and bleeding, as a hundred years
ago, foremost and vociferous in the armies of the French
Monarch, as when they pitched their tents beside the
foaming Elbe and the rapid Iser—when they bivouacked
in the glens of the Alps, and bled upon the margins of
the Padus, what would have been the consequence? The
field of Waterloo might have been another yontenoy.
There was not an atom of chivalry about the Duke. lie
did what he was paid for, and ho did it well; but he did
nothing more. There was no heart in his fighting. He
was the beau ideal of one of those Swiss commanders,
who led their countrymen under the standard of
the Dutch against the Hottentots or Carribs. He
was in a word a Dugald Dalgetty, without the vain
boasting of that hireling soldier. He served a commer-
cial people steadily, rigidly, soberly, regularly, just as
a commercial people like to be served; it was such
generals as Wellington—men of a trading, quakerly
turn of mind, without any of that nobility of character,
without a single particle of that ennobling romance
which extenuates the faults and endears the memory of
the Godfreys of old and the Murats of modern times
—men like Wellington carried the banner of Carthage
into the llanos of Spain; such men as he were hired
by the trading aristocracy of Venice to fight for that
suspicions republic in Greece; such men as he, ' dry
and chilly disciplinarians whom fame unwillingly shines
upon,' led the troops of the great ' Hanse towns.'
ilen lilt° Wellington, traffickers in war, are precisely
the men whom a nation of shopkeepers are certain to
evolve—a man who manages his troops well, but would
evidently
manage a counting-house better. Wellington
nevermakes laboured for a moment under the delusion that
,I_ young and generous hearts consider the pomp,
pride, and circumstances of war as something glorious
"u ennobling.
cold, rigid, !?. He was no boiling enthusiast—ho was
He devoted anda calculating—in a word, the Iron Duke.
him with eiehina, sell to the English service, and they paid
over his corTte
give him
eicaßuieillettit now that he is dead they cannot
They hirtßraise, for they are an ineloquent
people. The
—a Canning for instawncree
French—they Would hired him an Irishman, to fight the '
quire to hire another stranger
funeral oration pronounce an adequate
coonthteem"plate short
as
more
etor the English boors can
glisfteLi nations do."
Bishop" Grace"
fo fDoss,Dublin
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France, on business connected with the Irish
tour College to
in Paris. ,-, -
INFANT TEACHING.—One of the subjects regarded
with most interest in the Cork Exhibition, rec.ntl
closed, as peculiarly original and novel, was the eduy
cational apparatus invented and constructed by z,,.a.
Claude Marcel, French Consul at that city. The
ob-
ject of the apparatus, as described in the local jour-
nals is to render the teaching of children matter of
brief and simple accomplishment, instead of being the
slow and irksome process which an obstinate ad-
herence to former systems too frequently renders it
at the present time. The apparatus consists of
models by which the pupils are instructed in various
branches of knowledge. It attracted the particular
notice of his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, during
his visit at the Exhibition, and received the dis-
tinguished stamp of his approval. The manner in
which M. Marcel's invention operates to accelerate the
acquisition of knowledge, is, we understand
(among other important subjects connected
with education), clearly elucidated in a
work about to be published from the pen of M.
Marcel, entitled " Language, as a Means of Intellec-
tual Culture and Interuational Communication."
The Cork Examiner adds—" The name of M. Marcel
has long held a high and distinguished place
in con-
nexion with
i _ educational movements, and the views
which he has lectures
bfrequently expressed in the courses of
city have e has from time to time delivered in this
pro-
gressive, been at once original, instructive, and pro-
apparatus vsWhei may
mention,
in connexion with the
plan and fashion out eh M. Marcel exhibits, that he had to
instruments n out himself many of the tools and
models. The necessaryc to construct his ingenious
imple-
ments he explained and the uses of those imple-
and woodworkers of
several of the cabinetmakers
once adopted, thus bearing a practical testimony to
exhibit those models at 3;:ile Great National Exhibition
Dublin artisans, as well as
amateurs in practical mechanic'''.
same valuable exposition as that may anticipate the
presented at Cork.
—Saunders' News-Lotter.