The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-17 00:00:00

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f...,.-eannibals, not reaching up even to t p: r
civilisation of the Feejee islanders. That cl*,
race which the Europeans came in corVi
upon that continent. But what has been kr o -77,
of the two races. The Indian race—the noble e
—incapable of domestic life, incapable of any bui
wild and nomadic pursuits, has been driven back.
to narrower circles, with diminished means or
subsistence; not to degradation, but almost to
extinction. Those noble tribes have, in fact, almost
disappeared before the adviancing wave of our civi-
lisation. The other race—the ,negi o race—with all
its foulness, with all its prosaic. vulgarity, naturally
servile, timid, and domesticated, ,has been—in spite
of the institution of slavery, if yo u please—raised
up higher and higher in the soci'a 1 scale, until it
furnishes heroes and heroines for medern romances,
themes for modern songs, and invited by statesmen
into the social circles of
iluropean equolity. The
institution which has done so much for this race
should certainly have some of the odium viehich has
been thrown upon it deducted. But lam tot'd that
having brought them to that point of civilisaten it
is our duty—a duty that we owe to Christendom—
to emancipate them.
answer that British statesmen,
Well, I have to,
British philosophers,
n all unite in the testimony
ttliadtßthreiteismhatnrcaivpealtls,ieorn of that race at this time,
and especially by the mode pointed out by those
people in the North who are so clamorous for con-
stitutionaleappallingthat
manycb u r
so
government, would bean
e
to both races. (Hear, hear.)
ybewenithcosnaffeertryedsayupon that race,
or
boons not, I t
whichhi n kbla
vme a
that the earnest conduct as Christians and, fellow-
men which we have observed to the inferior race_
inferior inconsequence of centuries of barbarism and
ignorance—are sufficient guarantees to civilisation
that if the time should ever come when we have
reason to believe that liberty would be a boon to
them and not a curse, we shall be prepared to con-
fer that been upon them also. And if, indeed, tho
time should ever come when they are capable of en-
joying freedom, and when they themselves assert
their right, we could not if we would withhold that
boon. It is said by those who have been misrepre-
senting the South, and said for years to English
audiences by men who have never lived
in the
South—and who do not know as much of her
people and of her institutions as you do, because
they are blinded by fanaticism—who have always
hated us when union was not their pretext, but
when under the banner of disunion they poured
forth a:stream of falsehood and vituperation on us
—these men have stated publicly in England that
the negro in the South was deprived of all the rights
of a human being by the law of the Southern States,
that he was considered entirely in the light of a
chattel. Now, I assert to you that that statement
is untrue. On the contrary, the laws of every
Southern State regard them as brethren and as
Christians, and they have had thrown around them all
the guarantees of personal security which are thrown
around every other class. The law denouncees the
penalty of death on him who naurders a negro, and de-
nounces the punishment of imprisonment in a peni-
tentiary against any person committing a penal act
against him. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I will
close what I have to say simply by thanking you
for the demonstrations of interest and sympathy
which you have made for our country. I know
they exist in every English mind, and they cannot
be kept out by any barriers of Custom-house regu-
lations, by the regulations of States, or neutrality
proclamations. (Hear, hear.) Like an ethereal
essence, it has already leaped over its bounds, and
tends to raise the hearts of our people to higher
thoughts and more heroic deeds; and that, gentle-
men, is the secret of the enmity which has been
shown in the North to your people ; but I hope the
time may soon come when the South can answer for
England. (Loud applause.)

Various other toasts of a local character were
then given and responded to, and the proceedings
did not terminate till a late hour.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS,

This board held their usual weekly meeting yesterday, at
their offices in Spring-gardens; Mr. J. Thwaites in the
chair.
The cash ,statement showed the balance in the hands of
the treasurer to be £202,552 4s Ild, Government securities,
£87,590 9s Id, and total of cheques ordered but not pre•
sented, £28,653 I6s 7d.

REPORT PROM STREETS COMMITTEE.

This report, recommending that the sum of £5OO by way
of loan from the general current account of the board to
the Finsbury-park current account, the Finsbury-park ac-
count being charged
berg withrepedaid; the deposit rate of interest until
the amount shall and that a cheque be drawn for
t\heinagrb(itFriantosursu'reyh-paragrk,” was
es)anwunrteincgeivtoed.£22l 13s 2d, " In re
Wing
NDEMBANKMENT WORKS.
Th
committeeE ItNfor the above works brought
TENDERS
wholeE RSb FORoar board
Ola l
up the following report
Spring-gardens, Oct. 16, 1863,
teehohna.vebotaordreopforttheth2adt,ininsto„btehdeiy have
etoe
considered the question of Mr. Ridley's tender for the con-
struction
the"rYesooulurotifoctnohmeomfThames embankment works between West-
minster andlVs bc
auteieloto:a dbnridgheasv,ianng fudeahraevelilnysteiotuntseidderfeuill
tihne-
quiries on the
same, have arrived at the following resolution :—' That, in
the opinion of this committee, the result of their inquiries
respecting Mr. Ridley's competency to carry out the por-
tion of the Thames embankment for which he had tendered
is not sufficiently satisfactory to warrant this committee in,
recommending the board to accept his contract.' "
Mr. Newton moved that the report be adopted.
An amendment was then moved by Mr. Legg that the
tender of Mr. Ridley be accepted.
A long and animated discussion then ensued, in which
Messrs. Freeman, Robinson, Lowman Taylor, and others
took part. It was contended on the one hand that Mr,
Ridley, in addition to his securities being unsatisfactory,
was incompetent to undertake such an undertaking ; and
that, having tendered to complete the work for £495,000, ho
had met the objection by stating that arrangements had been
entered into with Mr. M'Cormack to carry out the under-
taking, the great objection to this being that Mr. M'Cor-
mack had tendered for the work at an increased sum of
£137,000 on Mr. Ridley's tender, and that if such a coali-
tion were allowed it would give rise to jobbery in all the
board's undertakings. On the other side it was contended
that although Mr. Ridley's securities were deemed unsatis-
factory an offer had been made which ought to be consi-
sidered a fair and just offer to meet that objection, that Mr.
Ridley would deposit £20,000 as a substantial guarantee for
the completion of his contract; and with respect to tho
charge of incapacity, the many certificates which ho pro-
duced showing his competence to undertake works of greatic.
magnitude fully entitled him to retain the contract which
had been granted him,
On a division the amendment was negatived by 4 atodnst
23. The original motion was then put and carried.
tod for
After some discussion as to the course to be adq_outwit..
the construction of the work the board went int.°ll'ota,„d
tee ; and, on its re-assembling, the Chairnaaan
tract should
that the committee recommended that the ;ism,
which.
be given to Mr. Furness, on his tender for Etii:bvoard, after
being put as a motion, was carried; anded.
transacting some routine business, aclioirn

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ALLEGORICAL MEANING Or roil STORY OF JACK
~,,- it not be a political
AND THE BEAN-STALIC.--11, poor lone widow ; his
allegory ? Jack is the only st'n ordered by cruel giant,
and in 'd al
ace, was betrayed, robbed, in ~ splench pa ace, keeps
downsviel's hen that lays golden eggs,
who eats human flesh,
two large money-bags, a golden harp. Jack's poor mother
and diverts himself with
tant to tell the young man how his
is forbidden by this tad. Nevertheless, when the miraculous
her garden, and the boy is prompted,
father was ill-tree
bean-stalk gToazir
d love of adventure, to climb to its top,
by his ambitionth e
upper region in which the giant's castle is
he discovers
then, by the exercise of his cunning and
situated'h,„ recovers one by one, those articles which had valour,
his f thor's property , after which the giant is de-
boon't allow, supposing that we could trace the origin of
stroyeo
~.., to some country
this B'''', where the primitive inhabitants.
an oppressed and impoverished race, had long nourished
feelings of hatred towards the conquerors, and envied their
luxury and wealth, We ought thus get a plausible interpre-
tation of the tale. Jack would be the leader of a conspiracy
or an insurrection by which the subject race, in one gene-
ration, obtained redress and vengeance for the injury done
to their fathers. The personification of their native country
as Jack's mother would be natural enough. The varie-
gated beans, which Jack purchased and sowed in his garden,
to grow up into the convenient bean-stalk, might remind us
of an incident which has been more than once repeated in
real h' i
114'3', where peculiar coloured beans have been
distributed, as tokens of recognition among the partisans
of a political conspiracy, just as the chupatties or small
cakes were passed from hand to hand among theseephoLs
throughout India before the revolt in 1857.
Th
prerogative of
which laid the golden eggs might signify the P
taxation ; and the golden harp might stand for the
There
rae
clans of
minstrels or troubadours attending upon
a aot:1ro collection which
g
are ssveral other well-known tales in thisaceollan,
be might, by the sagacity of some eruditero German,
or political
con-
strued into allegories of great, social, ret.lz
events,—Zondon Review.