The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-04 00:00:00

1 The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. F. G. Shaw, to the
Cumberland; Sub-Lieutenant Nelson Byng, to the
Malacca ; W. L. H. Browne and W. S. P. Graves,
midshipmen, to the Malacca ; the Rev. R. Picton,
to be chaplain of Bermuda Dockyard, vice Jackson,
appointed to Haslar Hospital ; the Rev. J. W. L.
Bamfield, to be chaplain to the Victory, as addi-
tional for service at Haslar Hospital until the Rev.
Mr. Jackson returns to England ; and Chas. H. S.
Douglas, master's assistant, to the Oberon.

Rev. W. Brook on the late G. W. Gordon.

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The discourse yesterday morning at Bloomsbury-
Chapel was founded on the 22d to 26th versos of
St. Luke. These verses, as our readers will remem-
ber, were indicated by the late Mr. Gordon in the
communication he made to his wife within a few
minutes of his death. It seems that this fact occa-
sioned the selection of them for Mr. Brock's morn-
ing text. We append the Rev. gentleman's con-
cluding remarks :
"In reading these words of Christ, then, we are
affected with surprise. Whilst reading them we are
placed upon our guard. Having read them, we may
be re-assured of the compensation which they fore-
tell. And now let me tell you why I selected for
our meditation these words of Christ. They were

' the words which comforted the heart of the late Mr.
Gordon, of Jamaica, as he was about to die amidst
all the accompaniments of ignominious and infamous
disgrace. In a letter to his wife, or rather on
the outside of the envelope in which his letter
to her was enclosed, he wrote down, "Luke 6, 22
to 26." It was terrible unrighteousness which was
being done to him, but there was a Divine
witness to the unrighteousness. It was cruel
wrong which was being inflicted on him, but note
was taken of the infliction. It was, as men regard
things, an indelible dishonour which was being flung
on his good name ; but inquisition would yet be
made into the dishonour. As seeing Him who is
invisible, he believed that he was thus shamefully
put to death for the Son of Man's sake. Then
does the preacher believe that Mr. Gordon was inno-
cent of the crime laid so vehemently to his charge ?
The preacher believes this, that, so far as any evi-
dence° is before the British public' , he was innocent •
not perhaps of rashness and indiscretion, but of hein-
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and capital and treasonable crime. Why, we have
literally nothing in that direction but the assertion
and the re-assertion that he was guilty of the
crime. Of depositions by credible witnesses, or of
anything analogous to such depositions, we hear
not a single word. What may come to hand in
the future we cannot tell, although had there been
anything to come, we may be allowed to wonder
that it has even for an hour been delayed. Should
there reach us anything in proof conclusive of his
guilt, I for one will be amongst the first to retract
the opinion that I now advance, and not only ad-
vance, but maintain, that he was innocent of the
charges on which he was so unconstitutionally and
so audaciously put to death. I might say much of
hurrying him from the jurisdiction of the civil law
into and within the jurisdiction of martial law. I
might speak of the tribunal before which he was
arraigned and by which he was condemned, con-
sisting of three subalterns, and whether as to rank,
Or number, or competency nothing more. I might
dwell upon the cruel fact that, though he was sen-
tenced to be hanged on Saturday, he had no notice
of the sentence until the Monday morning, about
an hour before it was to take effect. I might make
mention of the bitter jeers and gibes with which
he was assailed at the time of his execution, and of
the execration which has been heaped upon his
memory by the island press. I might indeed
present one point after another of Mr. Gordon's
case until your indignation would be aroused, as
your fathers' indignation was aroused some 40 years
ago, by the now most illustrious case of Mr. Smith,
of Demerara. But I forbear, at least at present,
hoping, as I honestly aver I do, although it is
hoping against hope, that some information will
reach us whereby our indignation will be appeased.
In the meanwhile, and awaiting such information,
I hold the opinion that the man was hated, and re-
proached, and cast out as evil for the Son of Man's
sake. What saith one gentleman who knew him?
" I have for a long time regarded Mr. Gordon as a
truly religions man, wholly incapable of the diabo-
lical_outry t 4- him." What saith
Wesleyan missionary, who has just returned front
Jamaica? "I knew him well, and have been asso-
ciated with him at Wesleyan as well as at Baptist
missionary meetings. He was a man of extensive
information and of most generous influences, and
he had laboured long to promote the interests of
his fellow creatures. I believe that he was tho-
roughly devoted to God. Not any good work
was there which did not find a hearty supporter in
George William Gordon." What saith an eye-
witness of his behaviour on board the ship which
was conveying him to the place where prompt and
pitiless execution could be made sure ? " His
general demeanour was calm. He was frequently
reading his Bible and humming psalm tunes one
after the other." But what saith his own letter to
his wife, written within the brief hour which inter-
vened between the announcement to him that he
must die, and the death itself ? Just a passage or
two : " I do not deserve this sentence, for I never
took any part in or advised any insurrection—all I
did was to recommend the people who complained
to seek redress in a legitimate way. However, it
is the will of my Heavenly Father that I should
suffer thus in obeying His command to
relieve the poor and needy." I thank'
Him that it is in such a cause I suffer.
Say to all friends that I die innocently; comfort
your heart, and do not be ashamed of the death
your poor husband will have suffered. The general
has come for me and I must close. I wish more
time had been allowed. Now, my dearest one,
most beloved and faithful, the Lord bless you, and
help and preserve and keep you. I pray for the
governor and for the general, and for the soldiers
land sailors. The Lord be merciful to them, and
bless them. And now may the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ be with us all.—Your truly de-
voted and now nearly dying husband—G. W.
GORDON." That was the letter, on the envelope of
which was written, " Luke 6, 22 to 26"—and I say
___you, I know, consenting to what I say—that the
letter was in fullest keeping with Luke 6, 22 to
26. It is the letter of a man who lived and who
acted for Christ's name sake. It is the letter of
a man who was dying for Christ's name's
sake. Its ring is the true, genuine evangelical
ring— and its tone is the unerring evangelical tone ;
its indications and its instincts are the right trust-
worthy evangelical instincts and indications. That
a hypocrite could emulate the letter is possible, and
that a fanatic might imitate it is possible, but he
would be, I safely may affirm, a fanatic without a
predecessor, and a hypocrite without a rival. The
letter is fragrant with the evidence that its writer
was neither fanatical nor hypocritical, that what-
ever his imperfections and his failings there awaited
him, as thank God he was able to anticipate,lto a
crown of righteousness which the Lord, thde
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KENTUCKY TBASII.—We learn, says the Boston
Commonwealth, that at a recent classification
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admitted to Phillips's Academy, E, w
tucky youths and a colored lad. The latter had passed a
very creditable examination, and was advanced to a higher
rank than the Kentucky applicants. So disgusted were
these Southern gentlemen that they precipitately Withdrew
subscription from the seminary and returned to their homes, not " wish-
ing to associate with niggers," as they delicately stated
their grief ! A letter lately received from that State re-
grets that the young men did not remain at the institution,
especially as the means for the education of one of thorn
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supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manu-
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h
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the axsistance of elaborate machinery,
in being the first to
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through, es to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach.
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Dr. Hassall in his work, "Food and its Adulterations,',
says—" Cocoa contains a great variety of important nutritive
principles ; every ingredient necessary to the growth and
sustenance of the body." Again, "As a nutritive, cocoa
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lb. by grocers, confectioners, and chemists.