The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-22 00:00:00

MARK LANE.

There was a moderate supply of new English wheat on
sale here to-day. Dry parcels sold steadily, at full prices,
but damp qualities met a slow inquiry, on former terms.
Old produce was held at extreme rates.
The show of foreign wheat was seasonably good. Nearly
all descriptions moved off steadily, and the currencies were
well supported.
Floating cargoes of grain were in fair request, at full
prices.
For barley there was a steady demand, at extreme rates.
New home-grown equalities changed hands at 36s to 40s
per quarter.
The malt trade was inactive, on former terms.
Good and fine oats ruled firm, at extreme currencies, but
for inferior qualities the trade was in a sluggish state, at
late rates.

Beans were firm, at fully Monday's quotations.
New grey peas 38s b 40s, and new white 42s to 43s per
qr. ; the trade for them was firm.
In flour sales progressed steadily, and its value was well
maintained.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English 880 l3O / 1 440 930 l4O I 510 sack?.
Irish
-
Foreign 18,660 7,570 28,320 500 sacks,
2,810 ble.

LORD BROUGHAM A 7 SCARBOROUGH.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Right Hon. Lord
Brougham delivered an address in the Music-hall,
Spa-saloon, Scarborough, in behalf of the Mechanics'
Institute of that town. Mr. Henry Walker, the
President of the Institution, occupied the chair, and
introduced to the audience

Lord BROUGHAM, who, on rising, was received
with loud applause, which having subsided, the
noble lord said—l believe you are aware of what
has given rise to my meeting you to-day. About
eighteen months ago, or rather less—in May last
year—l was to have attended and presided at the
union of the Mechanics' Institutes of Yorkshire, and
also, I may add, to have accepted of the kind hos-
pitality of your worthy fellow-townsman, Mr.
Woodall, the late president of the Scarborough In-
stitution. Unfortunately, I was taken seriously
ill, and for three or four days it was perfectly
impossible that I could leave my home. I
was therefore obliged—l believe for the only
time in my life—to send medical certifi-
cates to account for my absence. That illness,
though severe, did not last long, and I was
the only person who lost by the circumstance, for
my place was supplied by my learned and excellent
friend, the Lord Advocate, who happened to be in
this neighbourhood, and who, I have no manner of
doubt, from all that I have seen of him, discharged
the duties of the office most admirably. (Applause.)
I never had an opportunity of hearing my learned
friend in the House of Commons, he having within
the last thirty years become a member ; but I know
his talents, his learning, and his experience, from
the great abilities he displayed as a presiding officer
at a Congress meeting in Glasgow of the Social
Science Association, the year before last, There-
fore, I have no manner of doubt that I alone was
the sufferer by the accident to which I have adverted,
for a better president than the Lord Advocate you
could not possibly have obtained. (Hear, hear.)
But the consequences of that disappointment to me
were, that, when I arrived here last week, I was
asked to meet the friends of the Mechanics' In-
stitute—that most useful and important estab-
lishment—and I could not, after what had hap-
pened the year before, refuse to comply. But in ad-
dition to the pleasure I have in meeting you now,
I have very great pleasure in seeing in you some of
my old Yorkshire constituents and friends. (Loud
applause.) In my connection with them, though
it was short, there arose what I reckoned the
greatest honour of my life—to be elected for this
county before it was divided into three ridings.
(Renewed applause.) Whilst in that circumstance
I am afforded great pleasure, I have also happiness
in meeting them when attending here on behalf of
a mechanics' institution, one of those establishments
in which for very much above 30 years I have taken
the warmest, the deepest interest, and in which I
with my late friend, Dr. Birkbeck—also a York -
shireman—exerted myself. And I find the greatest
possible gratification from the fact that this Me-
chanics' Institution at Scarborough can well vie
with some of the most successful institutions of the
kind. (Applause.) It has been crowned with very
great success, and of late that success has resulted
in a large extension of its premises, in the erection
of a new building, which was opened somewhere, I
believe, about a year ago. I have had occasion to
look into its proceedings. Not only have I care-
fully examined its reports and that most important
feature of it, the catalogue of the library, but I yes-
terday morning went over it and saw the rooms,
which I find are devoted to lectures, to meetings,
and to reading; and I particularly looked into the
library, and was much gratified to find that the
books were thumbed in a manner beyond any de-
scription of mine—(applause)—convincing me that
they are constantly in circulation and are constantly
read by the members. I myself had great pleasure
in presenting to that library this morning some 11
or 12 volumes of my own publications, not on ac-
count of any value I attach to them, but as an ex-
pression of good will. (Applause) Now I have to
consider in the first place the teaching part of the
institution, the classes which are attended by boys
and young men under 21 years of age. When a
great and celebrated King of Sparta, Agesilaus,was
asked what ought boys to be taught, he replied,
" Teach them that which will be useful to them
when they vv,ome men," Now that .n.iog of Sparta
was no doubt a great Warrior, a very eminent man
in his age, but he had a particular love for children,
and it is recorded of him that when some of the
Spartans—men rather grave in their habits—found
him riding about on a stick, and laughed at him for
it, be said, " You may laugh now, but you will not
laugh when you have boys of your own." (Cheers.)
That puts me in mind of what an eminent poet in a
neighbouring county said, when he was giving his
opinion rather strongly of one who was at the time
renowned as a great man, but who the poet consi-
dered a great curse, viz., the first Napoleon. The
poet's expression was, " Wisdom is found with chil-
dren round her knees." The King of Sparta was of
that mind, and took pleasure in attending to his
children. Nothing could be more judicious, nothing
could be more sound, than the advice he gave—to
educate boys in that which will be of use to them
when they become men. In regard to another
branch of the Institute, I found the adults were also
most ably and satisfactorily provided for. For its
size, and for its amount, I never saw a better collec-
tion of books than there is mentioned in the cata-
logue of the library of this institution. (Applause.)
It has been with singular and excellent judgment
that the choice was made, combining as it does
all that is instructive, that is interesting, and
that is entertaining. There are books of every sort
that can be useful to men of business, whether me-
chanics, shopmen, clerks, or persons engaged in any
other occupation_ It is hardly possible to exagge-
rate, to overrate the benefits conferred on the people
by such institutions. Those men by assembling in
the reading-rooms, and studying at home the books
which are lent out—by conversing among them-
selves, and by attending the lecture occasionally,
gather that knowledge and information which is
most adapted to their station, and which will be
useful to them in after life. Their station, too,
may be thus improved; they may rise from it to a
higher station according to their diligence and ac-
cording to the knowledge they acquire. I have
named two great men, Agesilaus and Napoleon.
But there is a much greater man of later times than
either of them, I mean my illustrious friend the
late Duke of Wellington, who I have heard once
and again declare that the great superiority of the
constitution of this country over that of all other
countries was, that every man, however humble
his pursuit, may rise to the highest office of the
state. In the list of lectures to be delivered in con-
nection with the institute, and also in the catalogue
of subjects taught at the classes, I observed that
design was particularly mentioned, and that there
are books, drawings, maps, and plans provided to
assist those who are learning to design. Now, since
I saw these at the institute I have seen a prize
essay, written by a working millwright of Derby-
shire, of the name of Briggs, who shows conclu-
sively that there is not a thing in which greater
progress can be made than in design. It is, there-
fore, by improving our design, by architects and
students improving themselves in design, that we
must hope to rival. our neighbours on the continent
(Applause.) I have alluded to this essay as an en-
couragement to all students of design. I may per-
haps be allowed to mention a lecture on " Rome
and its Times," by my learned friend Mr. Forsyth,
a Queen's counsel, practising on the Northern Cir-
cuit. Tnere is a rule in mechanics' institutes to ex-
elude from discussion all subjects of a controversial
nature, whether of politics or religion; and there-
fore I will not add a single word as to the risk Mr.
Forsyth would have run had he alluded to modern
instead of national Rome, to which his lecture ap-
plied, for I think he could not have mentioned that
subject without expressing some discontent that
Rome is not annexed to the kingdom of Italy.
And I should not have wondered to hear him
mention that that State was more remarkable
for being the centre of superstition and the motel
of bad government than for anything else. But
that is excluded in Mr. Forsyth 's lecture. It is im-
possible to deny, it cannot even be doubted, that
Scarborough, the queen of watering places—(ap-
plause)—has
suffered.). like the rest :)f the country,
from the prevalence 041 distress at this time. I hope
and trust that
that distress may not last long. Of

one thiag I am certain, that no stop can be put to it
by us, or put to what is still more deplorable to con-
template than eves the distress from which we our-
selves are suffering—l mean the dreadful state in
which our kinsmen of the United States, or rather
of the dis-united States, are placed. I say lam cer-
tain of this, because we find one part of the States
fighting for separation and independence, and the
other part struggling for conquest—we find them
involved in the unexampled horrors of civil war.
I hope for their sake, as well as for the sake of
France, and England, and Belgium, and the rest of
the world, that this state of affairs is not to have a
very long duration. But I know, I feel confident—
as confident as I have a right in this free country to
think of the past, the present, and the future—that
unless the most absolute neutrality on the part of
England and France—and still more of England
than of France—(applause)—without even inter-
vention by recognising the South, which is an ex-
pedient recommended—is regarded, the greatest
hardships, instead of any good, would be done ; and
the greater likelihood would there be of their con-
tinuing the horrible contest. In the present state of
distress there is a most remarkable and gratifying
circumstance to be reflected upon—the conduct of
the working classes. (Hear, hear, and applause.)
Nothing can exceed the noble determination of those
classes, even when they are suffering the most bit-
terly, to abide by the law, to complain of no one for
not promptly relieving them, to perform such ope-
rations as they are still enabled to do, to carry into
effect all their means—the means of saving—and
even to combine improvement with eavlng in order
to keep themselves as long as possible from receiving
relief from the parish. They have done all they can
do to subsist without appealing for aid to the parish,
trusting to Providence to make the duration of their
sufferings as short as possible. Looking back to
thirty or forty years ago, when there w,re many
cases of distress and evil times, I see now every dif-
ferent state of things, as for instance in 1822-3-...
the time of the Luddites. Viewing th conduct
of those men and the admiral eondue of our
fellow-countrymen in Lancashire and the West
Riding at the present time, the contrast extreme
and most gratifying—(hear, hear)—and cannot
account for the difference or explain itiny other
way than by attributing it to the greatimprove-
ment of the people by education id other
means. As the fast friend of the work classes
all my life—(loud applause)—as the lit friend,
to the extent of my poor powers of th cause of
education and the diffusion of knoiedge to
all my fellow men, this result is to me mt gratify-
ing. (Renewed applause.) But I maids° add,
that if the working classes of Lanceshir and the
West Riding, and parts of Lincolnshirdiave con-
ducted themselves in a creditable, .an xemplary
manner, the masters—the eapitalists--hie behaved,
generally speaking, as well as it has bu possible
for them to do. The sacrifices whictibave been
made by numbers of those capitalists 1 order to
keep their mills open exceed all belief. They de-
serve the greatest credit, and in praisin the work-
men let us not forget the masters, ford one is a
real friend of the working classes whoieot a friend
of the masters ; and, above all, reember that
there is no more fatal mistake than touppose that
you raise the position of the working Pn by taking
their part—as it is called—against hat of their
superiors. I really ought to apologa for having
stated things which are too obvio; to require
illustration—(a laugh)—but I couknot take ad-
vantage of this opportunity to e3,-.0,S to you my
deep gratitude for your kindness tme upon this
and all other occasions without trorlieg you with
these few observations. (The nob lord then re-
sumed his seat amid prolonged appse.)
Sir J. V. JOHNSTONE, Bart., M'., moved that a
vote of thanks be given to Lord Baugham for the
honour he had conferred upon tb institute by his
visit, and for the eloquent and pcverful address ha
had delivered, and that the me6ing rejoiced that
in his venerable person the cans of education had
still a most illustrious patron andforemost advocate.
He took occasion to notice the s,read of education,
and the benefits conferred on the people b 'he
establishment of mechanics' institutes. They haL
heard of late years a good dealsaid about improve-
ments, and in his opinion the country was now be-
e.-1-niDs to ron.;tra the benefit of the reformation in.
the laws, and of mau,, :,,,,tittitiours, with as
of which the name of Henry Brougham was pr e-
minently identified, (Applause.)
Dr. MURRAY, the first president of the Scar-
borough Mechanics' Institute, seconded the resolu-
tion, and stated, in the course of an eulogistic
speech, that when he was at college at Edinburgh
there were two students whom it was universally
allowed would rise to great and extraordinary
eminence in after days. Who were those students ?'
they were Henry Brougham and that distinguished
man, Francis Horner_ At that time education had
progressed but little, but SOON afterwards Lord
Brougham and others began to interest themselves
for the benefit of the working class, by establishing
the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
and by introducing almost every branch of litera-
ture in the most clear and comprehensive style.
(Applause)
The CHAIRMAN put the resolution, which was
carried by acclamation.

MR. EDWIN JAMES.

FRYER v. LORD WILTON.

At the Judges' Chambers, Sergeant's Inn, Lon-
don, on Tuesday, this case, which was an action
brought in the Court of Exchequer to recover
£2,000 on a guarantee given by Lord Wilton in
consideration of the plaintiff forbearing to toke
proceedings for one day against Mr. Edwin James
as a debtor to him for £22,000, came on for hear-
ing. Two summonses had been obtained in refe-•
rence to the trial, and a commission ordered to
examine Mr. Edwin James in America. Mr. H. F..
Lewis appeared as counsel for the plaintiff; and.
a clerk from the office of Mr. Kobel on the
part of the defendant. The summons to show-
cause why this cause should not be taken at
Liverpool, on the present circuit, was first heard.
Mr. F. H. Lewis said the plaintiff had been
delayed in his action against Lord Wilton on
the guarantee he had given for Mr. Edwin Tan.ieg
on his application for a Commission to examine Ml'.
Edwin James in America, and afterwards abandon-
ing the same, so that now it was itoportant that
the case should be heard on circuit, without waiting
over the long vacation, and it could be het,lrd at the
assizes at Liverpool.—Mr. Justice Willes said he
did not see how he could grant the application.—
The Clerk who attended for the defendant remarked
that it would be contrary to the act of Parliament.
—Mr. F. H. Lewis observed that the action would.
heve been tried at the present sittings at Guild-
ford, but the defendant, who had pleaded fraud.
and conspiracy on the part of the plaintiff with.
Mr. Edwin James, had obtained the Commission
he had mentioned, and then the venue changed
into Lancashire, and he thought the learned
judge at Liverpool would not mind losing a little of
his vacation trying another case.—Mr. Justice
Willes thought his learned brother on the circuit
would have no vacation at all, seeing that there=
were 156 cases entered for Liverpool, of which 44
were special juries. He could not grant the appli-
cation, but a count might be added for interest On
the guarantee. The second summons was for an
order to rescind the commission ordered to examine
Mr. Edwin James in America.—Mr. F. H. Lewis
said as the other side had given notice to abandon
the commission, even after a commissioner was
ready to sail for New York, he had to ask his lord-
ship that the order might be rescinded,' and that the
matter might be referred to a Que en counsel to.
take an account between the parties, the action being.
on a guarantee. His lordshipwas not disposed to grant ,
the applications, seeing. that Lord
F. H. Lewis
Wilton had.
pleaded fraud and conspiracy.
remarked that the abandonment of the commission
was, in effect, the abandonment of the defence. Mr..
Edwin James was put forth as a necessary witness,
for Lord Wilton, and, in fact, his own attorney,,
Mr. action for Lord
ewCalserkdepfernoddiuncged to his lordship some
,
documents to show that when the commission was
Knobel,,_Th
obtained it was intended to examine Mr. Edwin
James ; subsequent information had induced the
abandonment of the comtni Esion.—Mr Justice Wines
said he could not take h.
upon imself to say there would
be no defence, nor did he see immediate necessity
to any
to dispose of the '
action at once.—Mr. F. H. Lewis,
thought the easiest way
would be to refer the case
to a Queen's couusel. r. Justice Willes asked the
other side what objection
The Clerk said
he had no instructions ; adding
that, under the act, the cause could not be tried at
Liverpool,- Mr. Justice Willes : I am not on that.
maY say I decided it a century ego. (A laugh.)
fir. F. H. Lewis asked the learned Judge to refer
the ease, so as to save the expense of an application
for that specific purpose.—His Lordship declined
to interfere. The case might well wait until after
the vacation.