The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-02 00:00:00

THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, SErr. 2
THERMOMETER, EC THE SHADE.,
68—highest since noon yesterday.
50—lowest this moriLag and during the night.
67—this day, at noon.

13.anostavira, 30.30.1
WIND S.E.—dull, foggy weather, with occasional sunshine.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

state of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitud%

fasTnios—Wind W.S. W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
TuitmccoGE—Wind S.W., calm—overcast.
GREENWICH—Wind S. W., gentle breeze— overcast.
&Boon—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
Swarnorr—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
The returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Tuesday morning at nine
o'clock

tittrizlNGAß—Wind S., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
Poots—Wind S.W.. gentle breeze—cloudless.
Rotoramtp--Wind S. W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Lasonsgran—.Wind W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
WAY—Wind S., gentle breeze—overcast.
DABLENGToN—Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
8U--Wind S.W.. calm—rain.
BizArromt—Wind N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1852.

Prosperity seems now to have fairly " set 'ln " upon
Guild of Literature and Art. Yesterday
ytheevening
h
another illustration of this was afforded splen-
did banquet given to the originators and promoter
the scheme, in the noble building of the hbeni:u
of
In honour of an occasion so peeu l r m
at Manchester.
interesting in its character, the Mayor of the good
good
city acted as chairman, having on his right hand and
on his left two of the most illustrious authors in the
language—two of the most brilliant intellects of
the age of VICTORIA—CHARLES DICKENS, the
most popular writer of his time, and Bur,
Wing LYTTON, the most accomplished man of
letters of his generation. From the outset of
this humane and beneficent project we have watched
every stage of its development with peculiar solici-
tude. From the first inkling of its inauguration,
after the initiatory festivities at ICnebworth, it has
been manifest to the public that there has been dedi-
cated to the cause of the Guild of Literature and Art
th.. e fervent energies, and we may even say the affec-
ttlate interest of the distinguished men who have
othen participated in the general advancement
a I the enterprise. It could not indeed but prove
sour
to urea of gratification to every benevolent nature
have thebeetlit eagerness with which those who
vation of le— otters eminently successful in the culti •
of those 4:Liltl.:aye pressed forward to the assistance
nate.. There hive been the most signally unfortu-
thoeraething generous, and beautiful,
and elevating in
ta.neous sympathy
ot:itu'Play of this genial and spon-
eome renowned throuhtheo part of men who have be-
most remarkable of n: the world as among the
t ngt themselves heart
English literature—in de:011.0. have shed a lustre on
and soul, hand and brain,
a home for those writers voil the creation of '
old in poverty through have grown
tune rather than through blamelessblameless misfor-
vidence. Annalists cannot yery Palofite impro-
themselves down, like GEORGE GROTE, it ben write
anker and
historian," any more than bards can frequently,) like
SAMUEL ROGERS, be dubbed " banker and poet: We
don't, it is true, so repeatedly as of yore, find record
of these worshippers of the Muses scribbling in the
vicinity of chimney•pots and pantiles, as depicted in
the celebrated picture by WILLIAM HCGARTR, and
in the melancholy history of DAVID FALLEN.
There are more for the
profitable
employment of literary abilities than
existed in those mournful e ' :
times when CHATTERTON
drank poison in Brook-street Holborn, when OTWAY
strangled himself
in endeavouringi
to appease the
pangs of famine, when Bur,GELL drowned himself
in the River Thames, and
when BUTLER died the
death of a dog in the midst of squalor and des-
litu49l2. Jieference was made on Tuesday wren-