The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-07 00:00:00

COMPETITION.

After all, it must be admitted that Competition has
already done the civilized world great service, and ac-
complished more towards diffusing the benefits of in-
dustrial enterprise, than any single agency that could be
named. Competition has led to most of the splendid
mechanical inventions and improvements of the age.
It has stimulated the shipbuilder, the merchant, the
manufacturer, the machinist, the tradesman, the shop-
keeper. In all departments of productive industry it
has been the moving power. It has developed the re-
sources of this and of other countries—the resources of
the soil, and the character and qualities of the men who
dwell upon it. It seerns to be absolutely necessary for
the purpose of stimulating the growth and culture of
every iedividuil. It is deeply rooted in man, leading
sympathies, and -or
him ever to seek after and endea'vour to realise some-
thing better and higher than he has yet attained. Of
Co-operate with
course, man is much more than a competing being. That
unfettered
is only one of his characteristics,.. and not the highest
noblest. He has sensibilities,
%spirt-
., t to be, bene-
tions, which draw him on to unite end
others in works for the common good.ou7hi
with each other
But under
individualism, there may, and there
fie,ent co-operation for the general hap
unite to labour, to produce, and to shareplues's. Men may
the fruits of corporate industry.
cumstance3, there will be the instinct any cir-
the opportunities for Competition"ulet of Competition,
with necessary evil, there will be ~ and,
.though mixed
results of Competition.—Eliza the ultimate beneficial
—,........_ --a Cook's Journal.

CONSUMPTION OF CON.E ON RAILWAYS.—The in-
creased
consumption of coke, and consequently of coal, from
which it is made, since the introduction of the railway sys-
tem, is truly remarkable, and still is not to be wondered at
when we take into consideration the thousands of miles of
iron way which girdle the land, the hundreds of locomotives
continually roaring and belching ferth steam, and the number
of passengers and quantity of merchandise daily collveyed
hundreds of miles to their destination. From a circulartrade
recently received, we find that in one house alonet ine
New-
castle-on-Tyne, that of Messrs. Straker and Love,
has more than doubled in the past three years;
d 8 of 40,000/.
nightly pay-bills, wages, &c., amount to upwards
carriage of
per annum, and they pay in railway
coke, upwards of 60,0001. a year. Their_
dthey expect to raise
upwards of 200,000 tons per annum, theirh trade
od-
tn and from their collieries this year aboutan_sl.oo,
These coals are principally from the J 6 an
district of Durham, are
Bitch-
burn Collieries, in the Auckland
coal, and the coke pro-
ducedceoopoe tons of coals.
known generally as a productive gas
power, leaving no
from sulphur, and of. highevaporative boiler tubes remaining unin-
jured.—Mining Journal.

PRESERVATION OF THE CRYPT OF GERRA.RIA HALL.
—At the last meeting of the British Archaeological Associa-
tion,
a communication was read from Mr. J. W. Butter-
worth,
urging the society to transmit a remonstrance to the
City authorities against the demolition of the ancient and
beautiful crypt of Gerrard's Hall. The chairman, Mr. T. J.
Pettigrew, said that, ardent as was the desire manifested by
the members of the association on the subject, he feared the
preservation of the crypt was impossible ; the City architect,
and surveyor, had exerted all their skill, but without
effect, to prevent its downfall. He understood that in conse-
quence of the site of the crypt being some feet above the
level of the neighbouring ground, its removal became neces-
sary, in order to carry out the City alterations and improve-
ments. Therefore, he entertained no hope that any remon-
strance now would stay the hand of destruction. Mr. C.
Egan said that, in London, a city celebrated fot able archi-
tects and talented engineers, surely some scientific spirit
would be found capable of devising a mode whereby the line
of street might be deflected, and consonantly too, with im-
provement, from the route originally planned. Assuredly
the enlightened citizens of London would not suffer the per-
petration of an act so Vandalish as that contemplated. Ho
therefore hoped that Mr. Butterworth's suggestion would be
ia as'hic h M After
f tr.
adopted, being satisfied that if the City authorities could
only be induced to re-consider the matter, they would find
atlniatatnLime eantegdineaenrdingiudteiffiresetuinltgiesowisecraession,
notinsupersble.
White, Mr. Planche, Mr. Deave,bury, and Dr. W. W. Petti-
grew, took part, it was ultimat,,laeispropohsed by Mr. to-an, and
seconded by 11Ir. Lawrence H;.,-wo,rt , m.p._ -,
" Tbat the
council of the British Archaeological kssociation be requested
to take such steps as they may deem desirable, for thcciarprrieed-
servatian ,intact of the ancient crypt of Gerrard's Hall."
Holloway's Ointment and The !notion, having been put by the Chairman, was
unanimously.
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