The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-25 00:00:00

the brogue so a 3 to be able to come round' the Gene-
ral."

It is well known that the General had been for-
merly a furious " native American ;" that he had
written very energetically against allowing foreigners
the rights of citizenship until they had been in the
country 21 years, or until they had served five years
at least in the American army or navy. The hero
shows that he feels the necessity of being particularly
obsequious to the sons of the Emerald Isle, and they
certainly cannot complain that he is not so.
There is not much local news of interest. Mr.
Howard, the late proprietor of the Irving-house in
New York, one of the most popular and magnificent
of our American hotels, has recently sold his esta•
blishment, and it is supposed that he intends to visit
London, and open an hotel there on the American
system at an expense of half a million sterling.
Mr. M'Kay, of East Boston, has nearly completed
a clipper ship, which, it is supposed, will surpass in
size and sharpness any merchant ship now afloat. She
is to be 300 feet long, have a breadth of beans of 50
feet, with 28 feet depth of hold, three decks, and a
register of 3,400 tons. She is to be diagonally
braced with iron, and built as strong as the best ocean
steamers. Those who have seen her say that the
beauty of her model exceeds that of any of our vessels
hitherto built. She is not made on contract, but will
be offered for sale when completed.
You will have observed that there have been seve-
ral very perceptible ups and downs in our money
market during the last few weeks. The time is ap•
proaching which I spoke of last spring in one of my
letters, when the first symptoms were becoming visible
of a monetary crisis in this country. I remarked
at the time that this was inevitable, and that it
would come before a long period had passed. The
enormous extension of paper money, the immense
multiplication of cur barking institutions, the pro-
digious number of loans effected by our railroads,
canals, builders, real estate holders, and speculators of
all grades, the influx of gold from California, even the
impetus given to our trade by the Australian move-
ment, and, in a word, the unwarrantable expansion of
our enterprizes of all kinds throughout the world,
must to every shrewd and forecasting mind have indi-
cated the inevitable approach of a commercial revul-
sion. But the moment of its arrival I have never
believed to be so far off as those men have who have
been most mixed up with the agitation. Our credit
in Europe is good—perhaps it never was better. But
your capitalists ought not to shut their eyes to the
present state of things in this country, and I hope
these few remarks, with my former letter that I have
alluded to, may have some tendency in arresting an
unwarrantable expansion of public and private credit,
for may Heaven save us from a recurrence of such
disgrace as we suffered in the days of our all but uni-
versal repudiation!

MONUMENT IN LIVERPOOL TO THE
DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

A meeting of the inhabitants of this town was held at
noon on Saturday, called for the purpose of giving the
inhabitants an opportunity of expressing their feelings
upon the great loss the country has sustained in the
recent demlse of his Grace the Duke of Wellington.
The Worshipful Mayor, THOMAS LITTLEDALE, Esq.,
presided, and the meeting was attended by a large
number of the gentlemen, professional men, and trades
mon of the town, of all creeds and parties.

The MAYOR, en taking the chair, said ho had much
pleasure in calling a meeting for such an object, and to
show how great the feeling was in the town, he would
mention that three different memorials had been got np
in one day, bat they were now merged into one, the
more expressively to convey the general and undivided
opinion which existed. He hoped the same unani-
mous feeling would actuate them now, and that a me-
morial creditable to the town would be erected.
(Cheers.)

CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P., rose to move the first
resolution, and said ha regretted it had not fallen to a
more capable person to propose it ; but ho felt that no
eulogium was required, as the name of Wellington
would live as long as the records of this great empire
existed; and so long as the name of Englishmen existed
upon the earth, so long would generations of his country-
men recount his deeds with pride and admiration. (Ap.
plauie.) He concluded by moving the following reso-
lution.—" That this meeting, desirous of testifying the
high estimation in which the character of the late Duke
of Wellington was held by the inhabitants of this
borough, and appreciating those great talents which,
during his long life, were unsparingly devoted to the
service of his country—resolved, that a public subscrip-
tion ho opened for the purpose of raising to his memory
a column, surmounted by a statue, to be placed, by per-
so-;nn of the Council, in some suitable situation of the
t3wn." ((:beery.)
WILLIAM BROWN, Esq., M.P., seconded the resolution.
He said, whatever difference of opinion might prevail as
to the policy which had involved us in Continental wars,
there could bo none as to the military merits of the Duke
of Wellington. No man ever evinced a greater love of
country; nor was more careful of the lives of the soldiers
under him, always attending to their commissaries. No
man had ever shown more patriotism than he had done.
Ho had been the faithful counsellor of her Majesty, great
in war, groat in the senate, and his name would live in
the hearts of his countrymen. He hoped there would be
no backwardness on the part of the burgesses and inhabi-
tants in subscribing funds for such a monument as should
be a credit to the town, and show to the nation that we
appreciated his qualities. There never was a man who
had acted through life with more disinterestedness than
the Duke—who never, in the course of his difficult and
arduous career, ever attempted a job. It was impossible
for him to say anything of his merits which faithful his-
tory would not record. (Loud applause.)
The resolution having been put from the chair, and
carried unanimously, a committee was appointed to ma-
nage the details of the proposed memorial, after which,
on the motion of F. B. Horsetail, Esq., M.P., seconded
by Archdeacon Brook, Mr. F. E. Moss was appointed
Treasurer.
Mr. ELIAS ARNAUD related that, in 1830, he was one
of a deputation who called upon the Duke to invite him
to visit the town, and ho had on that occasion expressed
himself in the highest terms of Liverpool, and, with the
gallantry of a soldier, said., he should bo highly delighted
to see the "Lancashire witches."
The Mayor having vacated the chair, Mr. Brown was
called thereto ; and on the motion of Mr. L. Mozley,
seconded by the Earl of Sefton, the thanks of the meet-
ing were voted to the Mayor, who briefly acknowledged
it, and the meeting separated.

PROPOSED REPEAL OF THE CATHOLIC RELIEF
}SILL.—At a meeting of the Manchester Protestant and
Reformation Society, held in the Free-trade Hall, Man-

cheater, on Thursday evening—the Rev. Hugh Stowe
in the chair—the following resolutions were passed:—'
That the grant to Maynooth, so utterly wrong in prin
ciple, has been abundantly shown to be no less injurious
in practice, more especially iu the conduct of the May-
nooth-trained priesthood during the late general elec-
tion; and that, therefore, a petition to the House of
Commons for its repeal bo adopted. 2. That it is high
time to move for the repeal of the Relief Act of 1829,
as utterly incompatible with the liberties of this coun-
try, the rights of Protestants, the free action of the Le-
gislature, and the safety of her Majesty's Throne. The
meeting was a very large one; but there was a large pro-
portion of the sofor sex. The speakers included, besides
Mr. Stowell, the Rev. Pierce Connolly, late Roman Ca-
tholic priest, and chaplain to Earl Shrewsbury; Rev, H.
W. M'Grath; Rev. Mr. Richardson, Rev. James Bard-
sley, Rev. Mr. Trail, and Rev. G. T. Parke.
CAMPBELL THE POET.—Dr. Beattie, the biographer
and friend of the poet, has addressed the following letter
to the Inverness Courier, describing a graceful tribute to
his memory on the part of a French gentleman, who now
inhabits the house in which he died at Boulogne-sur-
Mer:—" At Boulogne my first visit was to tho house
where Campbell died, and which, after seven years' ab-
sence, brought back many recollections connected with
the closing scene. Over the door of another house in
Boulogne, in which Le Sage (author of Gil Blas) ex-
pired, there is a tablet recording that event. I had long
thought that the death-place of Campbell was entitled to
a like distinction, and now was the time for carrying it
into effect. The house is now occupied by the President
of the Civil Court, a man of letters and a cordial admirer
of the poet, and no sooner was the design mentioned to
him than he cordially applauded it. I then consulted
with Mr. Hamilton, the consul, and we fixed on the fol-
lowing brief inscription, similar to the one dedicated to
Le Sage:—" Ici est mort Thomas Campbell, auteur des
Plaisirs de l'Eperance. xv. Juin sincccxuv.
It is
engraved on a tablet of black marble with gold. letters,
and is affixed to the outer wall of the chamber in which
he died. I was gratified by observing the respect paid
to the memory of Campbell by the French, partic•
ularly
by the distinguished official who occupies the house.
He has taken pains to preserve the rose-trees and shrubs
and flowers which the poet admired and cherished during
his brief sojourn; and ho delights in presenting visitors
with a rose from i
the poet's tree.' The chamber is held
sacred; and when I tell you that even the small pieces
of cloth with which I had stuffed the crevices to exclude
sound during the poet's short slumbers are undi▪
sturbed,
you will join with me in thanking the worthy French-
man, who, in doing honour to the memory of Campbell,
has complimented the whole country.
THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—The offers of large sums
made by several parties for monopoly of the " pickings" to be
found beneath the boards of the Crystal Palace )vere all
refused by the Contractors, Messrs. Fox and Henderson, who
generously gave permission to the 1 ,bourers employed upon
the spot to appropriate to themselves any " treasure trove"
which they might chance to light upon in removing the
planks of whith the flooring was composed, and in turning up
the surface of the turf below. These findings have been
quite godsends to some of the men employed upon the works.
Coins of copper, silver, and gold, crochet purses, studs, rings.
lockets, &c., have been turned up daily, to say nothing of
gold and silver headed canes, and other miscellaneous articles ;
and one day last week a poor man was fortunate enough to
stumble RNLI a purse =taming between 71. and Si.