The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-02 00:00:00

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THE MERCHANT NAVY.—The twin-screw steam-
ship, Far East, Henry Jones, commander, from
Hongkong, arrived off the Isle of Wight on the 29th ult.
She brings the following passengers:: Lieut. Grant, 85th
Regiment, from Capetown ; Lieut. Taubman, sth Regi-
ment, from Capetown ; Mr. Wilson, Mrs. Wilson, two
children and servant, from Hankow ; Mrs. Eaton, child
and servant, from Shanghai ; Mrs. Henry Jones, two chil-
dren and servant. On Nov. 22, in lat 20 and long 75 E.,
the S.E. trade winds failed. Thence she had light variable
winds, rendering it necessary to keep the ship under steam
until Dec. 7, when she made the coast of Africa off Algoa
Bay. There the wind set in from S.W., and all the coal
being expended it was necessary to put the ship under
canvas and beat to windward, to Capetown, where she ar-
rived Dec. 13. After leaving the Cape, the trades were
found to be unusually light, and they failed in 2 deg S.
In 32 deg. the N.E. trade winds faikel. After this she en-
countered calms and thick weather until Jan. 21, in lat 45
deg N., and long 20 deg W. Then the wind set in from
N.E. to E., blowing hard gales, with a high, confused sea.
She spoke, on Nov. 30, the British bark Coeur de Lion,
from Fouchoufoo for London, in lat 28 15 S., long 28 40 E.;
Nov. 30th, Marryatt's Code, 2d pennant 8,537, Hamburgh
ship, lat 28 15 S., long 28 40 E. ; N6v. 30th, Ist pennant,
9,857, British bark, rend 6,947, rend 4,036, lat 28 15 S, long
28 40 E ; December 11, the British ship Falcon, from Mau-
ritius for London, lat 34 57 S, long 23 11 E. ; 13th, the
British bark Peterborough, from Macao for London, lat 34
57 S, long 19 53 E ; 17th, let pennant, 6,519, Hamburg
bark, lat 31 14 S, long 13 31, E. ; 19th, the British bark
St. Oswin, from Singapore for London, lat 27 48 5, long
8 6 E ; 29th, her Majesty's ship Wye, from St. Paul's for
Ascension, lat 8 25 S, long 10 35 E. ; January 4, the steam
tug Conqueror, from Falmouth for Calcutta, and the
British ship Eliza Shaw, from London for Japan, both in
lat 5 N, long 19 31 E; 9th, British bark, second pennant
2,378, 6,209, 2,843, lat 15 N, long 26 38 W ; 14th, French
schooner, showing two flags PP and 71, first white and
second coloured ; 15th, British bark Copiapo, from Co-
quimbo for Havre, lat 32 50 N, long 51 30 W. The ship
Sea Star, 654 tons, Commander Alexander Louttit,
belonging to D. Louttit, Wick, from Adelaide for
London, arrived at Deal on the 30th ult. She brings
2,186 bales of wool, 2,733 cakes copper, and a quantity of
back, leather, horns, hoofs, and bones. In the cabin were
the following passengers—Mr. A. Giles, Mrs. Woodbridge,
Mrs. Louttit, Mr. and Mrs. Boor, and Mr. Mitchell. She
sailed from Adelaide Nov. 5, rounded Cape Horn Dec. 7,
and crossed the Line Dec. 29. Between the meridian of 85
deg. and 120 deg. E. and lat. 49 and 56, she met numerous
icebergs. Throughout the whole passage she experienced
favourable weather till the 21st ult., when she was 240
miles W. by S. of Plymouth, where she had a succession of
easterly gales.

have passed away at any period of the world's history with-
out great changes of some kind or other taking place ; but he
might appeal to the knowledge and recollection of many
whomhesaw congregated around him and before him, when
he said that during the last century, and more especially
during the latter part of it, no similar period of time had
winged its course which had been attended with so great
and important and momentous changes ; while so rapid had
they been, that if a sleeper were to wake up after a hun-
dred years' slumber and see what was now the aspect of
things, he would look around with astonishment and won-
der. (Hear, hear.) He was not alluding to the changes
which had place in respect of nations. Nations and
empires
sh keadtarian
risen
and
fallen,
but he was looking to those
changes more immediately connected with men and man-
ners. He was old enough to remember the time when the
different classes of society were separated from each other.
Men looked at each other from a distance, and they knew
little of the circumstances or feelings of each other. Still
less did they know of the skill and industry which pre-
vailed in other countries, but which was not to be found
among themselves. In this respect the change that had
come over them was most marvellous, and he was sure that
all classes appreciated the vast advantages which had flowed
to them from this greater interchange of ideas and senti-
ments. If he was asked to say what class had prospered
most from this change, he would say that the capital of the
pillar seemed to have become more stately and garnished
from the embellishments which those changes had thrown
around it. It was true a poet had said— _

"Slow rises worth by poverty depressed ;"
and even at the present day, while he admitted that poverty
had a depressing tendency, at the same time the new state
of thought and feeling which had risen up seemed, in spite
of difficulties and drawbacks, to throw off that depression
and to join in the sentiment of another poet, who bad
said— _

" Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow ;
The rest is all but leather and prunella."
1t was therefore a matter of thankfulness that this change
did not confine its operations to one class of the commu-
nity, but that it operated on all classes. If he wore to ad-
vert
late Prince
ltaoevent Consort who,by
e highest class, he
theth Greatere fo
xbunEdthibgn
that it was
the of
1851, had inaugurated the good work in which they were
now engaged. If, then, the example was thus set in the
highest places of the land, he would be ungrateful if he did
not admit that it had been readily and cordially followed
by the employers of labour everywhere throughout the
country. That was exemplified in the attention which was
paid by the employers of labour in large towns to the com-
fort as also to the improvement of their workmen, in pro-
viding places for their wholesome recreation, and where
they might have opportunities of improving their minds. It
was also exemplified in other respects by some employers
giving their workmen leisure for summer excursions ; and
having a charge in ono of the Channel Islands, he could
testify to the fact of some of them giving their workmen
£lO for excursion purposes, having seen them enjoying the
fresh air of those islands, and heard from their own lips
what their masters had done for them. These workmenso
highly appreciated the boon that they brought memorials
of their visits to these islands home with them, and one of
these in not a few instances was in the shape of a walking
stick made of a substance of which walking sticks are not
generally made of, viz., the cabbage tree. (A laugh.) Thsse
things therefore he looked upon with feelings of great satis-
faction, as they could not fail to be productive of the
greatest benefit to the community. The right rev. prelate
concluded by expressing an earnest hope that the exhibi-
tion would be productive of the greatest benefit and bless-
ing, not only to the promoters of it, but also to the exhibi-
tors, and every one connected with it.
Mr. G. M. MURPHY, one of the honorary secretaries, then
read a prefatory statement setting forth the origin of the ex-
hibition, and the means which had been taken to bring it to
maturity. It was stated that the guarantee fund, which it
was proposed should be £l,OOO, now amounted to £l,lOB
ss. 6d., the numbers of guarantors being 96, many of
whom were working men. He stated at the same time that
the Chancellor of the Exchequer had intended to be present,
but that having to attend a Cabinet Council ho could not
possibly attend. Letters of apology had also been received
for Sir Charles Gilpin, Mr. Harry Chester, and Sir Thomas
Phillips.
The Hon. W. CowPER, M.P., next addressed the meeting,
and congratulated those present on the success to which
they had brought the nndertaking. It was most gratifying
to see the works of so lrrge a body of their fellow working
men spread out before them in the manner in which they
were in that building. Such a sight was peculiarly inte-
resting to those who had done their utmost to obtain for the
working cla#see leisure hovs 133 the shape of the curtail-

the Egyptian carriages, beyond inventing four-wheeled
vehicles, and the art seems to have slumbered for many
centuries. It revived at length and attained great excellence
in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries, and became spread
over other countries. In the time of Queen Mary, 1556,
we find mention made of a coach suspended on leather
braces ; this may have been sent to her from Italy, by her
relations who then ruled over that country. This was the
commencement of the improvement in the art of coach-
building in England, and which art was soon so extensively
patronised that the writers of the times foretold that the
use of carriageswould enervate and enfeeble the people,who
ought to be satisfied to travel on horseback as their fore-
fathers had done. We may congratulate ourselves, how-
ever, that although carriages are now in daily use by all
classes of society, we see no signs of that enervation which
our ancestors predicted. Since the introduction of railways,
the number of carriages has multiplied to an extraordinary
extent, assisted by the reduction of the tax upon them, by
Mr. Gladstone, in 1853. This increase has moreover stimu-
lated industry and invention. The sound and honest cha-
racter of English carriages has long been appreciated
throughout Europe and every country in the world, and for
many years has secured a preference for the English trade.
Our carriages have, for upwards of half a century, been
considered the best in the world, both in design and dura-
bility.tThe idea of rewarding working men for great skill,
as well as master manufacturers, is not new ; like many
other seeds, designated to bear good fruit, this idea arose
during the organising of the Great Exhibition of 1851. It
is a matter of regret that we have not been able to promise
protection and full security for inventors of new and
useful improvements. The patent law, as it at present
exists, is both an evil and a good, the dread of exhibit-
ing before the invention is secured, often prevents the
very exhibition in which hints for perfection might be
gathered on one hand, and beneficial sale for the im-
provement be secured on the other by this sort of
publicity. These exhibitions specially offer encourage-
ment for young journeymen to make known their own
original ideas by drawing and models ; they can thus gain
opportunities for advancement and becoming known. Had
the committee been able to make the proposed exhibition
more generally known, and to have given longer time to
prepare objects for exhibition, a much larger number of
exhibitors and interesting drawings and models would
probably have been the result ; but the' near approach of
the London season, during which the time and strength of
both master and man are taxed to the utmost, forbade any
lengthening of the time of preparation, and to defer the ex-
hibition to the autumn might have been to cool down the
cordial and expectant feeling that had been raised. It was
thought better that a small collection of objects sufficient
to fill the hall, containing in itself examples of modern pro-
gress, with relics of the past and memorials of true excellence
in the art, the whole enshrined in its fitting place of exhi-
bition, the hall of the Company of Coach and Coach-harness
Makers, would bo better than attempting a more ambitious
exhibition."
The noble CHAIRMAN, in reply, said he had to congratu-
late the operative coachmakers of the City and of England
generally on the successful start now made of an exhibition
which, he trusted, would be followed by beneficial results
to the coachmaking trade and to the community. It was
only by making the public feel on these occasions that they
were interested in these exhibitions that they could hope to
meet with that support which would make them permanent
institutions, as he hoped this would be. (Hear.) On the
score of use there never was an epoch, when the inventions
which it was the object of this exhibition to encourage were
so likely to be advantageous to the public in general. In
former times carriages were confined to so limited a num-
ber of persons that the public generally felt but little inte-
rest in them. But now, thanks to the prosperity which
prevailed, the luxury of a carriage, he was happy to say,
extended to a larger class of the community than was ever
known before, and therefore there was endless opportunity
for tho development of talent as applied to the trade of
coachmaking. It would be difficult to enumerate the vari-
ous classes of carriages which were now in demand. He
might, in fact, say that too much was sometimes demanded
of coachmakers, and there was hardly a :limit to what
people wished to have. (Hear.) No doubt that might be
pushed too far. To people living in the country, and who
had to travel a great distance, lightness of the vehicle was
the great object ; while others might wish for strength
and solidity. Many improvements bad been nude in these

Mr. BANCROFT moved the re-election of Sir J.
Paxton, M.P., as a director.
Mr. BEALE, M.P., seconded the motion, and it
was carried unanimously.
Mr. Richardson, the retiring auditor, was re-
elected, and the proceedings concluded with a vote
of thanks to the chairman.