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

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been appointed Colonel of the Woolwich Division
of the Royal Marines, in the room of Lieut.-Gen.
Philips.

Col. G. R. Langley, Royal Marines, is to receive
the good-service pension vacant by the retirement
of Col. W. 11. March.

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. 11. S.
Douglas, master's assistant, to the Oberon.

Rev. W. Bro3lc on the late G. W. Gordon.

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The discourse yesterday morning at Bloomsbury
Chapel was founded on the 22d to 2Gth verses 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 Hini 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 charg ?
The preacher believes this, that, so far as any • ." •
dence is before the British public, he was inno'
not perhaps of rashness and indiscretion, but
ci hein-
ous4ne
and capital and treasonable crime. Why ,
we have
literally nothing in that direction but the, assertion
and the re-assertion that he was grAlty of the
crime. Of depositions by credible wi'messes, or of
anything analogous to such deposit=ions,,
we hear
not a single word. What may cometo hand in
ft
the future we cannot tell, althou'- had there been
anything to come, we may be 'allowed to wonder
that it has even for an hour beer. delayed. Should
there reach us anything in
13..to'Jf conclusive of his
guilt, I for one will be amr,j)
'gst the first to retract
the opinion that I now ao.4.rance, and not only ad-
vance, but maintain, t'.lat he was innocent of the
charges on which he
so audaciously put was so unconstitutionally and
to death. I might say much of
hurrying him fre the jurisdiction of the civil law
into and withi., the jurisdiction of martial law. I
might speak. of the tribunal before which he was
arraignedand by which he was condemned, con—
sisting cd three subalterns, and whether as to rank,
or nur Aber, or competency nothing more. I might
dwel
upon the crueTfact that, though he was sen-
ten.ced to be hanged on Saturday, he had no notice
of the sentence until the Monday morning, about
a-4, hour before it was to take effect. I might make
mention of the bitter jeers and gibes with which
lie 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 hilted
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 religious man, wholly incapable of the diabo-
-1 lical outrages ascribed to him." What saith
Wesleyan missionary, who has just returned from
1 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 hail laboured long to promote the interests of
his fellow creatures. I believe that he was tho-
I 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 : 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 fer the general, and for the soldiers
and 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
letter was in fullest keeping with Luke 6, 22 to
—you, I know, consenting to what I say—that the
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, a
believing
crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous
Judge, will give him at that day. And
that with my heart, I commend mydiscourse
to
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and brotherly remembrance
of Mr. Gordon's death.
the inscrip-
tion be
" For the Son of Man's sake" mg
your reconsideration in continuance, in respectful
u
tion on his tomb.

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KENTUCKY TRASII.—We learn, says the Boston
Commonwealth, that at a recent classification of candidates
admitted to Phillips's Academy, Exeter, were two Ken-
tucky youths and a colored lad. The latter had passed a,
I it
eolty " stated Wish-
ing very creditable examination, and was advanced to a higher
rank than the Kentucky applicants. So disgusted were
these Southern gentlemen that they precipitately Withdrew
f
tnoa ry
with aid
niggers,
retur n e
,d, taostheirhomes,
dedelicately
their grief ! A letter lately received from that State re-
grets that the young men did not remain at institution,
the
especially as the means for the education
of one of them
were obtained by private subscription among the friends
of the family, and the loss by the journey to and from
Now Hampshire was very considerable
Why will " darkeys "have brains, to the donors!
and thus seriously dis-
turb young men who are educated
icpractitioners,
by charity ?
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were to be obtained
to no preparations of cocoa either attrac-
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