The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-29 00:00:00

THE IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW.

This magazine contains a notice of the survey of
Ireland, by Dr. Pery ; a long account of Cock-
burn's Life of Jeffrey, with a selection from bis cor-
respondence, a detailed description of the streets of
Dublin, which affords considerable instruction on
many points of national interest. The last article is
on the poet Moore, which after narrating theLevents
of his life, eulogising his talents, and proclaiming his
wQrtl9, ~concludes by expressing an earnest hope that
'the country he served as a patriot, and adorned as a
poet should seek to do him honour ; an enduring
'monument it is said is raised in other cities and in
other lands to the memory of the great departed, and
the birthplace of the bard should not be found want-
ing in the cause.

COMMBECIAL TRAVELLERS' Scaoors.—Yesterday
the half-yearly general meeting of the subscribers and friends
of this useful charity, founded in 1846 for educating orphan
and necessitous children of the above body, was held at the
London Tavern; Mr. Masterman, M.P., took the chair. The
chairman in the coarse of his speech called attention to the
state of the fund for the erection of the schools, and ex-
prosed a hope that the public would support the committee
in their.good work. The report stated that the subscrip-
tions for the past half-year had amounted to 2,416/. Os. 5d.,
and that the annual subscriptions had increased greatly,
being equivalent to 14 per cent. There are at the present
time in the asylum 117 children, consisting of 47 girls and 70
boys. The total amount received for the building fund up
to the present time was 10,300/. The report having been
adolited, the Meeting elected 7 boys and 3 girls from a list of
21 candidates.

THE INDIAN Cor,trarioN.—The sale of the second
portion of this collection, which was commenced yesterday,
realised only 3701., the beautifully inlaid marble chess table
fetching no more than 471., and a large proportion of the
things the rich textile fabrics especially, going at exceed-
ingly low prices. As an example of the bargains obtained,
we may mention that three bundles of black ostrich feathers,
each containing about 100, brought 53., while the most
valuable of the kinkobs from Benares, a crimson silk and
gold brocade long shawl, with a tine deep green and gold
border, yards wide and 3} yards long, was knocked down
for 131.155.

The friends of Count d'Orsay will regret to bear
that for some time past that gentleman has suffered severely
in his health, and that his medical men are not without
serious uneasiness on his account. He has been recom-
mended sea-bathing, and is to leave Paris for Dieppe in a
few days.

THE FINSBURY BOROUGH.
TO THE EDITOR OF "THE SUN.
Sia,—ln your first leader of the 17th inst. you
sustained Mr.: %%Tyld's right of succession to Air.
Wakley's position as the representative of this bo-
rough by an examination of his political principles,
having said, in some observations leading to this amt•
lysis, that " his capacities, apart from his office as
legislator, have for many years forced upon him the
attention of the community as one of the most emi-
nent of living geographers. ' In these days of in-
trigue for Parliamentary power, when it is next to
impossible to predicate whet men's future conduct in
Parliament will be by reference to their' latest pro-
fessions, it may be sound policy to obtain from even
well-known Liberals a declaration of their political
principles,and they will cheerfully give it, as a necessity
of the times. For unknown men this policy is im-
perious. But necessary as it is become to make all
candidates feel that, ,if elected, they go to Parliament
to honestly sustain the political principles of their con-
stituents, and not the vagaries of their party leaders,
electors will hazard their purpose if they do not act
continuously in this e matter. Let me state their
danger.
A ma" is ambitious Of `a seat in Parliament,
and he happens to have some influence in a county or
a borough, bat he has only a dreamy feeling for poli-
tical. principle; his intellect has never enabled him to
push this feeling into a noble mental power. In this
event what is his conduct, as shaped for him by: elec-
tors demanding his declarative consent to their cate-
gorical principles ? Why just this. He studies them,
and puts forward addresses conforming to them, duly
prepared by some practised Writer, and simply tested
by, such proclamations the
'eta shall seem to be as
fit: for Parliament as he frora whom the electors
might have acquired their
principles—as he who in a
first Parliamentary career had furnished proof that
the principles were practically his own.
It is in cases of this sort that electors will do well
to ponder before they give their votes—to look at
the antecedents of the candidates, and to ask them-
selves, by a reference to the9e, which man is most
likely.gfaicslt
a tot
.that
ao? t d
theoltums
wicnirldel dboi
be
, a
waneldl
Memberfholr shoefel fmF
.ha ort onl
ioa umpro: nan dts e
ought
u thegh Le-
tot have been enlarged by more ennobling processes of
thought than are necessary for the respectable manage-
ment of peddling mercantile aura and
mechanical
corporate duties. There should have been such
an education of the intellect as would enable it to
comprehend every measure presented to it for consi-
deration, or tested by a given 'principle; and this
quality of mind is rarely generated in a counting-
house. It is not destroyed in
61Intin houses, but a
mere ledger-man rarely possesses it. Is there a man
opposed to Mr. Wyld at all likely to have received this
important education _f I think not,
And now let us recur to your
•observation on Mr.
Wyld's notoriety, as " one of the
most eminent of He is, and I wish to arrest
living geographers,"
attention to this fact, for the purpose of explaining
what his professional studies have done for the educa-
tion of his intellect in his character of Legislator.
For myself, I only know him for
the knowledge his
useful profession has produced, and
the quality of
mind it has engendered ; and I take leave to give it
as my firm belief that Parliament does not at present
possess ten men equal to him in respect of statistical
power
acquirement and apprehensive
e-eer on such sub-
jects. Were it not inviduous to do so, I would give
the names of the men who may be his equals on this
point, but I would, at the same time, flatly.
they are his superiors. It would be a strange thing
and
if he were not thus qualified, for it is within my in-
formation that; for years past, in dis-
charge of professional purposes, he has been in
familiar communion with the most eminent statistical
thinkers of the age in all parts of the world, and o
1.
his mind is ripened for such investigations. Know-
ledge and power such as his will deny that
-be increasingly
dictate opposed to
wanted in Parliament, and I ask
what equivalent
istoplio
esse
opposeds sedbyloahnyimc:in
historian. He is
qualification
laitkioelny
For some time past I have had to notice sugges-
ctiaounlsayfr,oonri
Dickens, editors in
orour
J e
rr
o Londonld s b
o u a
pressed
stand for Finsbury.
I now find that. Macaulay has gracefully declined
to do so. The repentant men of Edinburgh should
have the brilliant essayist and
worthy of them, and were it not for his History I
should regret that they rejected biro,
Pia 15
ebres that
I fat:
History, how-
ever, he would not have written had he remained in
Parliament, for he has said that absence from Parlia-
mentary excitement was necessary for
a man girding
himself for a great literary work.
Let the great his-
torian's assertion be pondered by those who would
thrust other literarysmen into Parliament, however
inferior their position to his.
He Macaulay is not to be had.
--e goes to Edin-
burgh ; and may he represent that place so long as
he can wag his eloquent tongue ! As to Dickens and
Jerrold, it would be a national calamity to distract
either of them from the literary labours they both so
admirably discharge. They belong to the commu-
nity, and it is to be hoped that the men of Finsbury
have too much sound sense to dreg either of them
from his proper vocation. Is it supposed
that their
time is not fully occupied ? Would any man make
either of them less a writer that he may become a
struggling and questionable Member of Parliament,
to say nothing of the chance of signal defeat at the
hustings ?
Rejoicing in the certain return of Macaulay to
Parliament for Edinbprghp it were idle for me to deny
that literary men never make sound politicians in our
English conception of political capability. For this
eminent man I have neither reproach •nor fear. The
quality of his literary labours
has necessarily sobered
his mind.

But there is an important consideration which I
prevent every think ought tohigh-minded Liberal
from appealing to the Finsbury
constituency at this
late. period of the canvass, ani I submit it for the
judgment of the thinking public. Would it be manly
for any Liberal individual recognised as a gentleman,
on any borough influence of personal prestige, to
come forward as-a candidate at this, the eleventh hour
of a canvass from other Liberals ? Upon the turf the
horses start together and fairly struggle with each
other to the winning
post • and I have never heard
;
that it was admissible to let is a fresh horse just at
the end of the race. Would it not be true wisdom,
on every consideration, to control a race between men
-
by rules as safe as those established for brutes ? We
live in strange political times ! Men seem to be
diverging from the
manly arrangements which
used to make ambition look very like virtue. Now-
adays every detestable trick is considered fair if it
have the sanction of apparent success. Let us, how -
ever, hope that there is lofty' honour in the eminent
men whom others are
endeavouring to drag to the
;
hustings. If Ibe right
-n what is due to their own
self-respect, they will bide their time for Parliamen-
tary position, and, hen +l,
W they feel the right time come,
advance to the field of contest at the manly hour, like
Apart from all considerations connected with the
Ftriusbur
of opinion that this matter
Finsbury contest, I am
deserves public notice.-1 am, Sir, &c
London, June 24.1.

_
ANNIVERSARY OF HER MAJESTY'S
COROIVanoN.
Yesterday being the
fourteenth anniversary of her
Majesty's coronation, banners floated in the breeze on
the top of Somerset House, the Admiralty, Tower, Mint,
and other Government establishments, and from the
mast-heads of several of the vessels lying in the river.
A merry peal was rung from many a church spire, on
which banners were hung out in honour of the day. No
review took place in Hyde Park, to the great disappoint-
ment of many persons who visited the park at an early
hour in expectation that there would be a grand military
display there, and beyond the booming of the Park and
Tower guns, echoed back by those of Woolwich, no mi-
litary exhibition took glace.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 28.--The anniversary of our
Gracious Majesty's coronation was kept to-day with all
duo observance. By the express desire of the Mayor,
B. Bramble, Esq., the townspecple closed their, shops,
and kept a general holiday. holidays were also given 3
to the people of the dockyard tad to all persons con-
nected with the Government
de to
At eight
o'clock the ships and vessels, including yachts and mer-
chantmen, dressed in colours it honour of the day, and
Royal Standard flags waved from the garrison, the dock-
yard,
_Mr. Hollingsworth's, and other flag_staves. At
noon the :guns* of the Platform battery, and from the
men of war at Spithead and in harbour ,and thousands
boomed fortk
Royal salutes. The day waavery fine,
of persons took advantage of excursion trains and excur-
sion steamers, and all seemedfrom their noisy hilarity
to be enjoying themselves amazingly. The beautiful
bells of St: Thomas's Church Imre ringing occasionally,
and Southsea common, which now forms (thanks to the
late governor, Lord Fitzelarence) a beautiful place of
recreation, was crowded with cricket players and pro-
menaders.

THE REV. DR. ACRILLI AN H CHAPEL.--OR
Sunday morning a vast number of persons, attracted by
curiosity arising out of the recent prosecution in the Court
of Queen's Bench, flocked towards the chapel in which Dr.
Achilli has for some time past officiated, under the impres-
sion that he would allude in the course of his sermon to the
circumstances attendant upon the trial in which he was so
prominently concerned. The chapel in which the Rev. Gen-
tleman has hitherto officiated is a small, unpretendicg-
looking building, situate in Dufour-place, leading out of
Broad-street, Golden-square, a neighbourhood in which a
great number of Italians resiJe, the majority of whom, how-
ever, remain in connexion with the Roman Catholic Church.
It is said that amongst these persons Dr. Achilli was making
many converts, and that his congregation, at first a very
small increasing until the charges just in-
vestigatedone, was
we gadrermaudalyelagainst Lim, when his audience dwin-
dled so rapidly that he was compelled to abandon his Minis-
terial labours. Accordingly those who on Sunday repaired
to Dufour-place, eager to catch a glance of the doctor, expe-
rienced a great disappointment on learning that the chapel
bad been closed for a month past.
THE HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY.—Yes-
terday Prince Albert reviewed the Honourable Artillery
Company, of which corps his Royal Highness is colonel-in-
chief. his Royal Highness and several military officers of
high standing expressed themselves in terms of the highest
approbation, bation both as to the appearance of the company And
,
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