The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-17 00:00:00

DERM IN STER.

On Tuesday evening a dinner was given to Mr. Ro-
bert Lowe, the new Member for this borough. Amongst
the company were Mr. Kitely (in the chair), Sir Thomas
Winnington, Lord Ward and his chaplain; Mr. Melville,
Mr. Westhead, M.P. for Knaresborough, and many other
gentlemen of the district.
Lord Lyttelton and Sir James Graham sent letters of
excuse, the latter being prevented from having to •at-
tend to a dinner given to himself by his own constituents.
Mr. LOWE, in returning thanks, after a panegyric on
Sir Robert Ike), proceeded to criticise the present Ca-
binet. As a❑ opposition, their principle had been to
combat every just concession and to stigmatise every
liberal measure as baneful in tho extreme; hut now,
as Ministers themselves, they represented no principle
at all, and he questioned whether they really enter-
tained any. When, in the whole course of our history,
did such a Ministry ever exist before as the
present, the indiv:duel members of which were
selected for no known qualifications whatever, or, at the
best, selected for the solo merit of upholding a principle
unanimously discarded by the country at large.—(Loud
and prolonged cheering.) Like the Manickeeans of old,
they impersonated the evil principle, which they kicked
down the back stairs as soon as it had brought them in.
Lie could not conceive whet business they had to retain
office, seeing that they had surrendered the only prin-
ciple they ever had, and that they had adopted no new
one in exchange.—(Great cheering.)
Lord WARD, in speaking to a toast, emphatically dis-
claimed having in any way countenanced the use of his
name for electioneering purposes. The cost in carrying
out free trade was made at the expense of his order; but
the advantages more than counterbalanced the loss.
That loss was only temporary, and would soon be more
than repaired, whereas the gain to the nation by free
trade was great, immediate, and permanent. Mr. Lowe
would only be a fair and honourable rival of his in every-
thing constitutionally liberal.

QUESTIONS FOR THINKING MEN.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR —Do newspaper editors act wisely when they de-
vote whole pages of their papers to glowing eulogistic
sketches of one whose merit appears to have consisted
in this—that he was a successful soldier?
generation Will the
underprinciplesu
sehof peace spread among our rising
a system?
Are we not feeling, even now, the evil effects of the
wars thus glowingly chronicled?
Has not infinite Wisdom declared, that he who is
" slow to anger is 'Dater than the mighty, and he who
ruleth his spirit, better than ho who taketh a city?"
Which will a wise man consider the " better pan"—
the fame of a Wellington, or the fame of a Jenner?

PRESERVATIOA OF LIFE FROM SHIP-
WRECK.
Yesterday a meeting of the General Committee of
the Royal National Institution for the Preservation
of Life from Shipwreck was held at the society's office
in the Adelphi ; Mr. T. Wilson, formerly M.P. for
London, in the chair. There were also present Mr.
E. Palmer, late M.P. for South Essex; Colonel
Blanchard, R.E. C.B. ; Captain M`Hardy, R.N.;
Captain Ommanney, R.N. (Deputy. Controller-
General of the Coast Guard); Captain Perrott ; Mr.
Edw. Hurry, &c. A contribution was agreed to in
aid of a life-boat to be placed forthwith in Lyme
Regis, constructed on the plan of the new life-boats
recently sent to the coast of Northumberland, and also
towards another to be stationed at Dover. A letter
was read from Lieutenant Ellis, R.N., stating that the
new life-boat for Southwoid, built by Mr. Beeching,
of Yarmouth, to be (as far as practicable) under the
society's regulations, had been placed on her station,
and had been lately tried in a gale and behaved
well. The boat is of the form usually given to
whale-boats, and the provision to right her, if upset,
is by means of water ballast, an iron keel, and raised
air cases in the head and stern sheets; her cost was
about 2801., towards which Sir E. Gooch, M.p.
and Miss Sherriff most liberally contributed each 100
guineas ; the boat is under the care of an experienced
local committee. The next business was the grant
of a reward of 61. to three pilots, of Pill, near Bristol,
who saved the crew of the schooner Primrose, sunk
in the Bristol Channel during the terrific storm on
the 11th ult. ; it took six long hours, amid the
howling of the storm, before the poor fellows were
got on board the pilot's skiff, and the schooner sank
just after the last man was rescued. A reward of 21.
was also voted to the master of the smack Brisk, of
Southampton, and 103. each to his crew, who had, on
the same day, saved the lives of three helpless fisher-
men, who were out at sea, fishing, near the Land's
End, and were suddenly overtaken by a heavy gale,
which completely prevented their return to the shore,
causing them to drift westward in a heavy sea. One
or two ves,els passed them, and offered to take them
on board, but objected to tow their boat, and the
poor fellows were determined not to part with her,
their whole dependence for a subsistence being in
their boats, to which they are often as much attached
as the Arab is to his steed. The meeting transacted
some other formal business, and the proceedings
closed.

UNIFORMITY OF TIME IN THE PROVINCES.—At a
meeting of the Town Council of Bristol, held yesterday
(Tuesday), it was resolved, by a majority of 27 to 3, "That,
in order to obviate the inconveniences resulting from the
want of uniformity in the time kept by Lhe public clocks
and the railway, Greenwich time be kept by all the clocks
under the management of the Council, and that a committee
be appointed to confer with the persons in charge of the
various other public and private clocks." In the course of
his observations, the mover of the resolution remarked
that he understood the municipal bodies in Exeter, Ply..
mouth, and Devonport were waiting the result of the
meeting in Bristol previously- to their deciding on the course
they would pursue.—Exeter Flying Post.
Lord awl Lady P. Fitz:llan-nee left Portsmouth en
' Tuesday. We understand they will sail for Bombay, in the
packet of Thursday next, from Southampton, proceeding by
the Overland Nate