The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-16 00:00:00

ON MONDAY, JULY 18,

And during the week, the National Spectacle of THE BATTLE
OF WATERLOO.
Mr. W. Cooke's Scenes in the "CIRCLE," by artistes of celebrity,
introducing Miss Emily Cooke, the Star of the Al ens, who Leaps
Forwards and Backwards through 16 balloons. Also, the Twin
Perrots, whose Whimsical Feats must be seen to be appreciated.
To conclude with tie successful Flippo Drama of THE CEASE ;
or, LIFE ON TEE TURF, in which a real Fox Chase will take
place.

Doors open at Half-past Six. Box-office cpen daily from Eleven
to Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. w est.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS,
THIS EVENING, JunY 16,
CHUSAN and the FEAST OF LANTERNS.

Splendid MENAGERIE, containing many hundred interesting
Specimens of Natural Ilistory. 4.IODFREY'S unrivalled MILITARY
BAND. Vocal and Instrumental Concert. Two Songs by MISS
Cicely Nott. Solo, Clarionet, by Mons. Wuille. The whole con-
cluding with the most extraordinary spectacle ever exhibited, "The
Feast of Lanters" and explosion of Chinese Fireships. Brilliant dis-
play of Fireworks by Southby.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tuts DAT —Morning 20 min. after 9 I Evening 50 tain.aft. 9
vb_moßßow—Morning 23 min. after 10 I Evening 1 min.aft.

THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, JULY 16,
THERMOMETER, LAT THE SHADE.
69—highest since noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
62—this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 2912.
The barometer has risen 40 points since yesterday.
WIND, S.—Morning fair, but cloudy ; noon, rain.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1853,

The inferiority of Ireland to the sister country
has been a subject of frequent regret and reproach,
but never of controversy. Try it by what test
you will—apply that test to any class—compare
the wealth, the industry, the order, the diffusion
of property, the social habits of the people in the
two nations respectively, and the result is still
the same. The difference between the state of a
rural district in Ireland and the state of a similar
district in England would be inadequately mea-
sured by half a century of improvement. In one
respect alone this general law does not hold good.
In a single branch of social progress, and that no
unimportant one, the lead has been taken and
maintained by the poorer, the more turbulent, and
the more bigoted community. We speak of
education. Even admitting Lord JOHN- RUSSELL'S
sanguine statistics, and putting aside all ques-
tion of the quality, apart from the quantity of the
teaching given, we believe it can be demonstrated
that a larger numerical proportion of the Irish
peasantry attend some school kept by a competent
master than is the case with the corresponding
class in England. And the reason is plain.
While we have been disputing our neighbours
have acted. The very circumstance which at first
seemed most calculated to impede the educational
movement—the existence, namely, of a population
divided in religious opinion, and of which only a
small minority belonged to the Established Church
of the United Kingdom—has proved in its results
most beneficial. For when the question of a
really national teaching came to be entertained by
Lord GREY'S Cabinet, it became obvious that a
departure from traditionary practice was inevi-
table. To instruct the mass of the people through
the medium of a Protestant clergy was manifestly
impossible. To instruct them through the medium
of their own priests was possible indeed, but
manifestly inexpedient. Yet instructed they
must be, and that through the operation
of a single combined system, otherwise the
Protestants of the south of Ireland scat-
tered few and far between—would be wholly
excluded from the benefit of the proposed grant.
Neither could a separate vote for the establish-
ment of purely Roman Catholic schools have
been carried in the then temper of the public
mind. One alternative only remained. Sectarian
differences, incapable of being reconciled, must
be utterly disregarded. An educational system
must be framed, not indeed hostile to clerical
influences, but independent of them, and in
which the strictest neutrality should be enforced
between the claims of contending religionists.
Such a system was devised by Lord GREY'S
Ministry, and submitted to the Legislature by
Mr. STANLEY, now Lord DERBY. It met, as
might be expected, with bitter and sustained
opposition. Session arts+ session, from the hour
of its introduction, the same charges were re-
peated with the same acrimony and the same
ill-success.
No words which the proverbial
asperity of theological hatred could de-
vise were too Edwin
as they thoufor the indignant and,
ght, betrayed Protestant party.
The National Board was " anti-Christian"—it
was CCanti-Protestant"—its
recommendation of
Scripture extracts was " mutilation of the Word
of GOD"—its general teaching "an attempt to
break down the principles of religion." Every
Bishop whose support it received was denounced
as a traitor to his order. The mom liberal of
the Irish clergy, who accepted, if they
did not
altogether approve, the regulations of the B,
were threatened and calumniated. The oardgreat
majority unfortunately held aloof ;
and in their secession they were countenanced by a largo sec-
tion of the Protestant gentry, especially in Ulster.
Rival establishments were founded, on principles
exclusively sectarian, with the avowed object of
outbidding, and thus discountenancing those
which Government had' patronised. Twenty
years have passed since this quarrel began ; and
though it has lost something of its original asperity,
and though, through all kinds of discouragement, the
schools have made their way steadily, the opposi-
tion still continues, backed by a powerful party
in Parliament, and insidiously fomented by the
Roman Catholic priesthood. It would seem, at
first Sight, that this latter class had everything to
lose, and nothing to gain, by the extension of a
System so detested by their own bitterest enemies.
And they themselves, by the apparently cordial sup-
port which they gave it, have favoured the idea.
Some, indeed, threw off the mask, and openly de-
clared that, so far as their influence extended, no
school should be frequented by Roman Catholic
children which was not exclusively and professedly
under cleriCal control. Put
shrunk from so hazardous an avowal,
arger number
preferring to
, which they
submit, for a time, to restrictions
evaded, rather than by open hostility to p - judice the people of England against their
cause. They even seemed to throw them-
selves heart and soul into the movement. Early
and late they were to be found in attendance
on the schools. Every opportunity was taken by
their organs in the press, and their represmtatives

Our readers may probably have seen a family
of fat pigs reclining in swinish comfort amidst
the heaped straw of their stye. With what
grunts and groans and sullen recusancy they yield
to their keeper's foot if he seeks to make room
for one or two more hogs. Their high displea-
sure, however, abates when they discover that
the new corners add to the warmth, without
rendering the straw too scanty ; the grunts and
squeaks then subside to a dreamy undergrowl of
satisfaction. So it is with Sir C. WOOD and the
East India Directors. His bill is the swineherd's
foot, the Directors are the pigs, the largest and
most comfortably ensconced Hogg being, of course
at first, the most obstreperous at the disturbance,
though now all seem to be sinking into dozing
indifference. This comes from the conviction that
however roughly Sir CHARLES may have thrust in
his foot as a commencement, he is a careful and
considerate swinekeeper at bottom, and means no
harm. Nevertheless, there are loud squeaks
heard about the yard, because behind the keeper
come certain scavengers who, without care for
the hogs, look only to cleaning out the stye in
which he has lodged his bristly charge. The
approach of those maleficent rufllers of hoggish
felicity has produced all manner of swinish
disapprobation from the deep grunt of Parlia-
mentary orations to the treble squeaks of small
pamphlets and dinner sarcasms, the last espe-
cially promulgated by ladies who tremble for
the despotic power of the Directors, hitherto
so beneficially exercised for "poor John, and
Dick, and Harry." The Directors have, in fact,
thousands of partisans busy at work in
secret and in public, striving to prop up
their reputation as good governors--when, in fact,
this very partisanship proves that they are only
good jobbers. Yet the eulogiums are so strong
and so loud that those ignorant of the subject are
dumbfounded, and those who are well-informed
astounded, by the impudence of the declaimers !
Let us take one illustrative example.
Mr. CummlNG BRUCE, unless belied by the re-
porters, asserted, in the face of the House of Com-
mons, that one irrefragable proof of the Direc-
tors' good government was " that no insurrection
had ever taken place against the rule of the Com-
pany ;" and another, that " in Scinde the sway of
the Company had been received with a willing
spirit, if not with gratitude." Examine these
assertions.
When Lord ELLENBOROUGR reached India as
Governor-General, nearly the whole country south
of the Nerbudda was in a state of insurrec-
tion, and a two years' war was necessary to put
down that of the Circar or Southern Mahratta
country, for it would be ridiculous quibbling, to
say that war was not virtually one against the
Company's Government. And does Mr. BRUCE
mean to assert that the second Punjaub war was
not also virtually an insurrection against the
Company's authority ? This last might, in-
deed, appear a straining of the argument
against him, if he had not quoted as proof
of the Company's popularity in India the state of
the newly-acquired dependencies, instancing espe-
cially Scinde ! Is the true state of India, then,
so utterly a mystery in the House of Commons
that a Member can dare attempt so gross a decep-
tion as this ! Scinde receive with gratitude the Go-
vernment of the East India Company! No ! Scinde
received with gratitude the Government of
Sir CHARLES NAPIER, and the Directors and other
subordinates made every possible effort to thwart
him, to disgust the people, and to urge them to
throw off the rule of England. For nearly five
years after the conquest that province was distinct
and separate from the Government of the Direc-
tors ; they had nothing to do with it officially ; it
was governed by a Crown officer, and furnishes, in
truth, the most irrefragable argument against the
rule of the Company, and in favour of that of the
hClortown. Sir CHARLES NAPIER, a Crown officer,
conquered and conciliated the people of Scinde,only without regard to the system of the
Directors,t but directly and expressly in opposition
i 0 the
system, which he held to be pernicious,
iced just, and silly—to use his own words, "a legal-
system of robbery ;" and yet we have Mr.
CummlNG BRUCE proclaiming the gratitude of the
people as a proof of the goodness and popularity
of
GratitudeenltO the Court of Directors for their
might traverse the le n
government of Scinde Mr. CUMHING BRUCE
gth and breadth of the
land without discovering a single Belooch that
knew or ever heard of the Court of Directors!
Yet they are not unacquainted with "gratitude."
NAPIER is ever in their memory. Years after he
had ceased to govern them they saw their old
warrior Governor once again ; but how changed
was his position ! Insulted by a jealous Govern-
ment, he passed through Scinde from his command
in India under the cloud of their displeasure, de-
spite of which, and unlike Asiatics, they cumbered

the path of the fallen man with affectionate re-
verence ; and when he had left their shores for
ever, those rough children of nature sent after
him a token of their devotion ; and it is worthy
of record, that the value of the gift accepted-
-300 guineas—is not one-tenth part of the amount
suohsei cribed and proffered by the generous Bee-
o•te. This, :,then, Mr. QUM:DUNG BRINE

GERIIAN PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Her Ma-
esty, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, the Hon.
Miss Stanley. the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Lord Camoys,
Colonel Bouverie, and Colonel Seymour, honoured the
German Plays with her presence last evening. Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady
Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Cowper, also
honoured the performance with her presence. Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, and her
Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge, at-
tended by the Baron Knesebeck, also honoured the thea
tre with their presence.
GOVERNOR-GENERALSHIP OF INDIA.—The rumour
has been revived, and meets with credence in well in
formed political circles, that the Duke of Newcastle will
be the successor of Lord Dalhousie, in the Governor-
Generalship of India. Lord Dalhousie's time is nearly
up, and it is understood that he is anxious to return to
this country.—Morning Advertiser.
ELOPEMENT.—A rumour is extensively prevalent of
the elopement of the young and beautiful wife of a
North Devon baronet with an officer of the 35th regi-
ment.—Trewraan's Flying Post.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.---011 Thursday last were
celebrated the nuptials of Sir James Drummond, Bart.,
of Hawthornden, North Britain, and Eleanor, the lovely
and accomplished daughter of Sir James and Lady Mary
llamlyn Williams, of Clovelly Court, Devon, and Ed-
winsford South Wales. The bride was attended to the
altar by a train of beauteous bridesmaids, and the re-
ligious ceremony was performed by the Hon. and Rev.
George Fortescue, uncle to the fair fiancee.
TiE ROYAL GARDENS AT KEW.—A large quantity of
paper, manufactured from Manilla hemp, has just arrived
by a vessel from the -United States, addressed to W. J.
Hooker, director of the Royal Gardens at Kew, and in-
tended to be employed for scientific purposes in the Her-
barium attached to the gardens, and the Lords Commis-
sioners of her Majesty's Treasury have given the proper
authorities of the revenue directions for its free delivery
for that purpose.