The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-18 00:00:00

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SHAKSPE ARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the
account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Greenway, Barwick;
Stratford-upon-Avon; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
or their london agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
Glyn and Co., bankers, London.
The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip-
tion list to the nation most earnestly appeal to the admirers
of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee
rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the birthplace of Shakspeare, but the centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at King's-cross.
Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH,
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.
This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
mality of zovernors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.
The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support,
to et,able them
daily present themselves. to sdmit and relieve the distressing cases that
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Mas erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.: Glyn
and
Co. ; w M Co., Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and ame, Deacon, and Co. ; reverend, Gurney, and
Cndo. ; i
athe Nsbet
Hospital and. Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool
STANFORD S. SMITH Secretar
a.

RONAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATnowEss—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
) BEHDENT—Vice-AclmeGal, tFh.eßD.su.ke 'of Northumberland,
CrtAmmAx—Thos Baring, '. sq., M.P., F.R.s. v.p.
,;EPUTY-CIIAIRILAN—Thomf;6 Chapman, Esq., F.h.s., v.p.
P...-t'PEA L.
The Committee of :Tianagement have to state that, since
,be beginning, of th.,e year 1860, the Royai National Lifeboat
lllspatitution has expended £32,00 on various Lifeboat Estab-
nents pll ttie Coasts of Eng,and. Scotland. and Ireland.
gociiheet numb,ee of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
or 41.,"rad other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
Tr Auspo a expended £67,
,•16,48,--41 services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
ion in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
has is
The
ot 123 Lifebo
cortimr-eari iages, and Boat-houses.
00 on Life-boats, Life-boat
the genernZittee desire to express their grateful sense of
British mild, B,,uPnert which they have received from the
income, thenyY 13°
has enabled tiigy.arintx the past few years, a support which
rests on them te:
-- to establish their present magnificent fleet
Deeply sensibta on the shores of the United Kingdom
state, and i however, of the great responsibility that
• elaixttain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
boats. whi I, carer?ro Practised in the management of their
effected by a large and permanent
annual
coun'aymen to aid 4a,rneatly appeal to all classes of their
great and truly natiou'aT In upholding and perpetuating so
The Committee g-rnt f a work.
tributions:— e ullY acknowledge the following eon-

Fier Majesty the Queen £ s. d
Campbell. the Hon. Mrs. G. • • annual 50 0 0
Clerk. Colonel, R.A. .. • • .. annual 50 0
.. ..
.: • • annual 10 0
.. annual 1 1 0
Contra and Co. Messrs., Bankers :*
0
• • 4th deu 10 0 0
CE'urirer,ieL,
don. •
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., Lea '
Fenwick, • • Id don. 25 0 0
G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Tran-
sporting' Carriaie
••• •• •• don Harvey, Rev. G. U. and. airs. • • '' • • 250 0 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. .. .... • 30 0
7th don. 10 0 0
Moore, Rev. G. B. • • •.• • • • • don. 15 15 0
Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich ....
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, 8.C.1 . .. • • 30 0
annual 2 0 0
Thomi a, Lady, Weston-super-blare, collected by her
Ladyship .. • • • • • ' • • • • 16 16 0
Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .• • • annual 50 0
Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re-
Pred by tho Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
eercival. and CO. 76, Lombard-street ; Messrs. Coutts and
t,„_', 50, Strand; N'lessrs. Berries, Farquhar. and Co., 16, st.
andres's•street, London ; by a I
the Collectors of Customs
Rfchilankers in the Unitedliingdom; and by the Secretary
jnime•rd Lewis; Esq., at the Office of the betittgiOn, /f,
44:1qeet, Adolphi, London, W.C;._:

No one believed that of healing
consisted in the application of mere external
remedies. The art of curing recognised the
healing in the vital power. It existed in the
constitution, in the frame, and the object of
medicine was to bring forth those latent curative
powers of nature which had to act in a given way.
Although outward appliances might assist indi-
rectly, the main object was to stimulate and assist
those latent powers given by nature, and the cure,
so to speak, wisely aided and seconded, was in our-
selves. And so, with respect to the mind, lectures,
and conversazinnes, and libraries and museums were
all ends to education. But the true, the real edu-
cation was that which was performed within, and
which none but the individual himself could perform
for himself. Self-culture might be divided into three
distinct ranges or spheres, and had to be applied—
first, to the intellectual powers; secondly, to the
power of acquisition—the power of aggregating
what is without to our own minds; and thirdly, to
the cultivation of the moral powers. These three
powers were distinct. The first—cultivation of the
intellectual powers—had little or no aid from with-
out. That was a work from within. Each man
must cultivate his own intellect, his power of judg-
ment, his power of acting through the operation on
the operations of his own mind. The second—the
power of acquisition—was of a mixed character. It
was the power of bringing into oar minds and under
the judgment of the intellect that which was pre-
pared by others, and which we did rot ourselves
make, and which was not within us. It was mixed;
there was the double operation, the acting upon ma-
terials which we had not naturally within our reach
through the means of the faculties within us. The
third power,
again, was of a mixed character—that
portion of our being which, while it has
to be cultivated also within, yet has its action
without, because from that come forth duties and
obligations which reach those that are without our-
selves; so that one is purely inward, the second
is partly exterior through its objects ; the third
is partly exterior through its aims. Beginning
with the intellectual powers, they were subject to
a triple subdivision.

TROT: GHT--.T/kiAGINATION.--31EMORY.

Z here was, first, the power of thought,
and what immediately depended upon it ; and
then came the imagination and the memory.
Upon the two latter points his remarks would
be very short, because the principles Which he
was about to lay down were embodied in
the first point, on which he wished fully
to open his mind. He did not intend to go into
any metaphysical definitions or explanations of the
power of thought, believing that he could make his
meaning more clear by comparison and by illustra-
tion. He would take the sense of sig.tt as the one
parallel to thought in the mind, and trace its opera-
tion.

The eye A BEAUTIFUL COMPARISON.
was never satiated, never satisfied
with seeing- Whatever the multiplicity of objects,
they held no place, but were coutinually changing
If we walked into the country alone by a
pleasant.
path there was not an instant in which we did not
see something—the trees, the cottages, the distant
mountains—as we moved the head and inclined it in
a different angle, as We moved the pupil of the eye,
every possible change
relation a
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ha
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sae objectsebjecte pwr ee
took place in our bodily
anneidngt h e
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Eo ax tesr ecse ont
lmtyeele pet iocwt connected,
theui
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thought; We were never a moment without think-
ing. Even while reading a book there was a train of
ontrol. One thought succeeded another,
thought passing through the mind over which it ex-
ercised no c
more linked, more united by the power of association
than the objects that met the eye. That corresponded
exactly to the action of the eye. It would be exceed-
ingly difficult to render an account of the thoughts
passing through the mind during the day. But
there was another power—the power of arresting
thought, and there commenced the self-command
necessary for self-culture. A man might pass a
whole day never distinctly distinguishing any ob-
ject with his eye; but by exerci6ng a certain

He wished especially to impress on those
who cared for the cultivation of their
own minds the necessity of making use of this pro-
cess, which might be described as the second pro-
cess of thought. It was necessary at once to check
anything that was luxuriant, that did not tend to
produce fruit, that tended as it almost always did
to some amount of eccentricity. The moment a fa-
vourite thought began to haunt the mind, when it
returned again and again with new vigour, and the
mind took a pleasure in dwelling upon it, it shou d
he checked without a moment's hesitation and cut
away; and a man having acquired a control over
his thoughts, over his mind, would at once deter-
mine that the idea should not dwell in his mind.
Otherwise it might be the beginning of a thousand
monomanias. Indulgence in such ideas was the
way in which they became fixed in the mind.
They returned again and again. He was not
speaking of moral consequences, but of intel-
lectual consequences. There was not a more
serious impediment to self-culture than that of
allowing a dominant thought to assume a propor-
tion to the rest of the faculties which was not in
proportion with its own value. Of this there was
no question, and he might lay it down as a certain
intellectual result, and say never allow what might
be considered a favourite idea, or fancy, or imagin-
ing, to dwell for any length of time in the mind.

THE SEED OF INSANITY.

It had been said, and he believed with truth, that
there was hardly a mind so strong as not to have
within it the possible seed of insanity, and that seed
might be found in this form—a single idea, without
any reason to account for its taking possession of the
mind, might go on developing until it became a
sort of morbid feeling, resulting in the manner
which he had indicated. There was a third and
greater application of the mental power. It con-
sisted in not merely being able to arrest
thought, to dwell upon it, but in being able to
etudy the principles and earnest thoughts which
were within the mind—being able to have the power
of directing all the energies of the mind to their
so:ution and explanation, and so to treasure up
within ourselves the principle drawn from sound
and solid reflection.

SPEAK ONLY WHAT YOU THINK AND 33ELIEVE.

He would not go ::nto detail, but the ap-
plication was this. There was nothing more
common Van for persons to like to dispute—
to discuss a subject, to provoke by the earnestness
with whin they pursue a paradox and answered
every objection and difficulty raised against them,
and then oay it is all a joke—it was done by way of
trying my E kill against yours. A man ought never
to take a put which he did not believe. Inward truth-
`,illness was as necessary to the formation of a sound
moral character as was exterior truthfulness. He
would say, never maintain a thing that you do not
believe—never dispute a principle for disputa-
tion's sake—never consider it a mere recreation
to be warring on the side of falsehood.
or immorality, or anything that is wrong. Heknew
one instance in which the fondness for disputation
and discussion had led to the person who did not
believe in his cause bringing the other over and
converting him to a falsehood. Such a course of
proceeding was a serious moral offence. The mind
ought in everything to be accustomed to form a just
judgment. If it became accustomed to loose ideas
of truth and falsehood, what would be the result
when it had to pronounce a stern judgment on it-
salf, to overcome temptation, and when everything
depended upon that uprightness of mind which was
able, from long practice and constant training, on
na occasion to swerve by a hairsbreadth
on ono side or the other ? That the training of
the mind must be by the individual was self-evi-
dent. No two persons thought and felt alike.

THE ELM AND THE VINE.

lie would illustrate his meaning by refer-
ring to a wail-known fact, although it might be re-
garded as rather commonplace. From the earliest
ages poets and agriculturists had considered two
trees as intimately united together•—the elm and the
vine; and those who had visited the beautiful plains
and valleys of Italy must have been struck by the
loving group and their verdure and fruitfulness.
The elm grew up a stately tree. The vine crept up
by its side, a miserable sapling, without vigour or
strength, unable to sustain itself. The one tree lent
strength, the other gave beauty. They were born
together, their roots were mingled almost inseparably
beneath the soil, they lived upon the same food,they
sucked up nourishment from the same ground, they
drank the same dew and the same rains from hea-
ven. And yet no skill, no power could make them
the same. The husbandman might trim and prune
"a "rich the wit unwh es he &mod, he Would

A person growing up ought to train his
mind so that he should not fall into any-
thing intellectually immoral. He would lay
it down as a fundamental principle that
every thought partook in guilt of the nature of the
action to which it naturally led or tended, and
therefore if the ultimate end of anything in the
mind would be wrong morally, wrong in action,
that thought so immoral must be pursued with
greater vigour and animosity than any thougitt
that was loose and foolish, and ought to he at once
eradicated. The greatest crimes were often com-
mitted in two different ways. The first was em-
bodied in the little proverb, " Opportunity makes
the thief." A man might have been strictly honest
until the opportunity of committing a crime pre-
sented itself to his mind, As an illustration of
this he might mention a case which occurred in
London some years ago, when a most respectable
lady and gentleman were murdered in the night.
The clue was sn simple that the perpetrator of the
murder was instantly arrested. He bad stolen
nothing, and had been on the best possible terms
with his master and mistress. Before his execution
he stated how the murder had been committed.
He said, " As I was cleaning the plate in the pantry,
knowing there was a staircase that led directly to
the master's room, the idea suddenly flashed through
my mind how easy it would be to assassinate them,
and I went upstairs and committed the crime."
There was the opportunity, and there was not
the power of moral control. Another way which
led to the commission of crime was allowing a
thought to grow for years and years, until it ripened
into a monomania, when it might have been checked
by resistance in the first instance.

CLOSING REMARKS.

In conclusion, His EMINENCE observed that
the result of all this training of the
intellect was the formation of character. A
man ought not to be too solicitous about the forma-
tion of character. He could not form it. Character
must grow. It must be the result of many circum-
stances. If there was one thing of which men were
more ambitious than another it was what was com-
monly called " character"—" He is a man of charac •
ter." Now, what did that mean ? A man of firmness,
a man of determination, a man who would carry
through his projects—that was a character the most
envied. But experience had taught the truth—that
the firmness of small minds was obstinacy, while
the firmness of great minds was perseverance in the
midst of difficulties, resembling the course taken by
the water springing from a fountain high up in the
Alps, which after overcoming every obstacle becomes
a great river, end eventually finds its way into the
mighty ocean.
At the conclusion of the address a cordial vote of
thanks was given to his EMINENCE, who in acknow-
ledging the compliment said he should be happy
at all times to render his assistance in promoting
the interests of the institution.

The French Consul at Pernambuco has sent to
the Societe d'Acclimatation, a number of animals,
among which are a royal vulture, a guaras, or flamingo,
two Brazilian golden pheasants, an electric fish or torpedo,
and two large aras (birds of the parrot tribe), male and
female. One of the latter was last year the unconscious
cause of a useful discovery. Having ono day thought pro-
per to pick off the inflammable matter from a quantity of
Lucifer matches, it was soon seized with violent convulsions.
The Consul, its master, guessing the cause, forced a spoon-
ful of mixture of water and arnica, or leopard's bane, down
its throat. As this remedy seemed to produce a good effect,
it was repeated for several days, and so conscious was the
bird of its bencficznt effects, that it at length used to come
and ask for it of its own accord. At the end of a week it
was perfectly cured. The Jardin d'Acclimitation has also
received a Chinese rose-tree, the flowers of which change
their colour three times a-day.
FAST LTVING._The present age lives only for
the minute. Railway guards and omnibus conduc.
tors have not the sole monopoly of the expression " Hurry
up." The poor little baby of 1863 is made to recognise it,
and allowed short time for growing aLd learning. It is to be
taught precocious habits of personal cleanliness, at what
cost soever to its health, lest some trouble be else incureed
by the lazy nurse. Young girls must shorten the excellent
period of doll-playing to become miniature belles, and marry
early. Young boys must smoke early, thus forfeiting a
gradual steady vigour, and using perfected for sham manli-
ness. Young ladies must go through their education with a
hop-skip-and-a-jump celerity which is sate in all cases to
ensure superficiality. Everything must be abbreviated, cut
short, and curtailed. Nobody has any time for anything,
and so prematurely old age comes on ; end, looking with
weary eyes over the back-track of time, its travellers see
many a quiet shady spot where they wish they bad stopped
to rest, instead of galloping at break-neck speed along life's
dusty highway.— Fanny Fern.
The flowers in Covent-garden surpass these of every ether
county, for the reason that every improvement in their cul-
ture is instantly adopted. From the same cause Herring's
magnetic brushes and combs surpass every other means for
restoring grey hair to its original colour, and curing the most
inveterate cases of neuralgia and nervous headache. They
do this with almost undeviating certainty. N.8.-..Counter-
felts are beipg made,. Offtete, 32, 13aEipc;hali7Etreet, London•