The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-05 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1853.

MIDLAND RAILWAY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the NEXT ORDI-
NARY HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the Proprie-
tors of the Midland Railway Company, under their Act of Incorpo-
ration will be held at the Railway Station at DERBY, on WED-
NESDAY, the 23d day of February instant, at One o'clock in the
Afternoon precisely.

,ated this 3d day of February, 1853.
JOHN ELLIS, Chairman of the Board of Directors.
SAMUEL BEALE, Deputy-Chairman.
= fMs By order.
J. F. BELL, Secretary.

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Investment Association, by which a high rate of Interest may be
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7, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square, London.

Hiles
opened,

NAME OF RAILWAY.

BRITISH.

72
37

Aberdeen ••.•......•...•..••.
Belfast and Ballymena •• •• ••
Belfast and County DOwn.• • • • .......
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Bolton, Blackburn, and West York ..
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian-- • • ...• •• • •• •• •• •• •• ••

26%
85%
189%
94N

Cheater and Holyhead • • .... • • ..
Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ......
Cork and Bandon ..
Dublin and Belfast Junction .....
Dublin and Drogheda•. •• •• -• •• •• • ••
Dublin and Kingstown . ..... ........
Dundee and Arbroath
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction
Dundalk and Enniskillen.... • .......
East Anglian,... • • • • •
East Lancashf'e.• •• • • •• •• •• ••
Eastern Counties and N0rf01k........
Eastern Union• . •••• • • •• •• •• ••

Edinburgh and Glasgow .• • . ..
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee • • • • • •
Exeter and Credit0n........... .
....
Furness Railway ... •.••• • • • • •
Glasgow, and South-Western.. .. :* • •..•
Great Northern and E. L...........
Great Southern and Western'(lrelan d")
Great Western •••• • • • •• ..
Irish South Eastern •••• • • • • • •
Lancaster and Carlisle .. ••• • • ... :
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Leeds Northern .. • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • •
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport... •
London and North Western ••• • • . • ••
London and Blackwall.. • . • • • • • • • • • •
London, Brighton, and South Coast..
London and South Western... • • • •
Londonderry and Enniskillen .....
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Manchester and South Junction ••••
Maryport and Carlisle • • • • ••
•••••••
Midland Great Western (Irish) •• . .•
Monklands • ..... • • •• • • • • •• • • • • • • ••
Newcastle and Carlisle.. •• • ••.. • •
North British •• • • •••••••• • • • • • • • •
North Staffordshire ••••.••• • • • • • • ..
North-Western .. ••• • • • •• ..

171%
285%
188
319%

Scottish Central ... .. •••• 000000 •••
Scottish Midland •••••••• • • •• • • ••
Shrewsbury
andand Birmingham
Shropshire Union .. ••••• • • • •• •"•
South Devon • • • • • • • • •
South Eastern.• • • • • • • •• • • • • •• •• • •
South Wales .. •••••oo• G• • • • ' •
South York., Doncaster,
0.010
Taff Vale .....
Waterford and Limerick • • .• .. • • ••
West Cornwall ••• • • • ••••••• •• ••
Whitehaven Junction .• • • • • • • • • • ••
York and Newcastle, and Berwick
York and North Midland. •• •• • •

288 k
131

304%
279

Receipts.
1852. I 1853.

11,264
531
166

655
3,689
6,857
2,362

213
3,618
10,608
4,067
15,141
121
6,357
15,111
909

156
14,074
7,333

4,60 i
15,737
2,31 y
3,708
2,266

222
13,876
7,900

SPIRIT OE THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

( From the Morning Sebald. )
Three long letters have been published this week
in the columns of a morning contemporary. We
have already alluded to them. Paragraph after
paragraph—column after column; of the smallest
type—facts figures, metaphors, fallacies, and gar-
bled quotations, we have been compelled to peruse ;
at one time thinking of ;the writer, " nem/ morta-
hium omnibus horis sapit," at another expecting to
find that " Smith," " Jones," or some other name
familiar to " the ignorance of the public" was in-
dulging in the fashionable pastime cif writing letters
to the Times, when at last the mystery was ex-
plained by the appearance of " Your obedient ser-
vant, Richard Cobden."

The name was known to us as being the identical
Christian. and the same surname that is reported in
" Hansard" to have made some very foolish remarks
with respect to " our national defences" and the
future prospects of Europe in the beginning of
1848. The foresight of, these . was immediately
proved by divers revolutions, which, immediately
after their utterance, took place in most of the
capitols of Europe. The scenes of bloodshed and
war that followed dispelled the notion of the wis-
dom of the man who anticipated at that time that
the era of universal peace had all at once arrived.
Our own capital was happily an exception, thanks
to the precautions taken by that illustrious man, so
lately removed from the scene of his patr.iotic exer-
tions, on the ever-memorable 10th of April. Me-
mory supplying these facts, fancy our astonishment
at meeting with the following critical, observations
on the mental capacity of -the Duispopf Wellington.
on that-occasion. From no other
source 'could the
same have been anticipated (always excepting
the
22 mis-called Liberal members of the University of
Oxford who voted against the Wellington Testimo-
nial Fund last week) :—" An allusion to the infir-
mities of a great mind, however painful at the pre-
sent moment, is rendered absolutely necessary by
those who quote the authority of the Duke of Wel-
lington's declining years in favour of a policy which,
in my opinion, tends neither to the peace nor the
prosperity of the country. At thd'time of penning his
letter to General Burgoyne the Duke was verging
upon his eightieth year. Now, no man retains
all his faculties unimpaired to fourscore. Na-
ture does not suspend her labours even in be-
half of 4er favourite sons. The Duke was mor-
tal, and therefore subject to that merciful law
which draws .a veil over our reason and dims the
mental vision as we approach the end of the vista
which terminates with the tomb. But the facul-
ties do not all pay this debt of nature at once, or
in equal proportion. Sometimes the strongest part
of our nature, which may have been subjected to
the greatest strain, declines the first. In the
Duke's case, his nervous system, his iron' charac-
teristic, gave way. He who at 40 was incapable of
fear, at 80 was subject to almost infantine alarms.
This was shown on several public °woolens ; but on
none so strongly as in the provision made by him
during the year 1848," to which Mr. Cobden's re-
marks here apply, not the year of the Exhibition,
which he proceeds afterwards to comment upon.
On this subject of defences, then, " Richard is
himself again !" No !no! we are wrong. Let us
use his own language, as applied to himself. " The
faculties do not all pay the debt of nature at once, 1
or in equal proportions. Sometimes the strongest
part of our nature, which may have been subjected
to the greatest train, declines the first." In
Richard Cobden's case, his reasoning powers, his
aptness in dealing with facts and figures, anti his
common-sense, left him first. He began as a suc-
cessful agitator of class interests—was known as the
leader of a political school whose motto was " Self
and Co."—and ended in penning romantic letters
on the national defences. This infantine tendency
was shown on several public ocaasion.s ; on none
more so than in three letters he wrote to
the Rev. —, and published in the Times news-
paper. But to go on. Persons in this state of
mind (pace Dr. Conolly, we would so affirm)
are subject to extraordinary delusions on
particular questions. What, then, is it haunts
Mr. Cobden's mental vision ? We use his own
words :—" Are there no symptoms that we have
spirits amongst us who want not the will, if the
power and occasion be afforded, to play the part of
Burke in our day. He excited the indignation of

his countrymen against a republic which had
.decapitated-a king." - If- this- Vas an ,itinworthy
subject for the declamation of the greatthilosopher
and statesman, against whom and what would.
Richard Cobden, direct the thunders of his " un-
adorned eloquence." On this point he is frank
and explicit : indeed, all our statesmen are more
or less so in these times except Mr. Gladstone.
We therefore use his own words :—" When told
that the present Emperor possesses absolute and
irresponsible poWer, I answer by citing three things
which he could not, if he would, accomplish : he
could not endow with lands and tithes one religion
as the exclusively paid religion of the State,
although he selected for the privilege the Roman
Catholic Church, which comprises more than nine-
tenths of the French people ; he could not create
an hereditary peerage with estates entailed by a law
of primogeniture ; and he could not impose a tax
on successions, which should apply to personal
property only, and leave real estate free. Public
opinion in France is an insuperable obstacle to any
of these measures becoming law,. because they out-
rage that spirit of equality which is the sacred and
inviolable principle of 1789. Now, if Louis Napo-
leon were to declare his determination to carry
these three measures, which are all in full force in
as a part of his Imperial regime, his
England,
not be worth 24 hours' purchase ; and
ntEhronbgoolndaeny knows this better than he and they who
surround him.
The three eye-sores, then, in the British consti-
tution, which nothing but the " ignorance of the
public" suffers to remain, are—first, a Proteitant
Establishment for religion—hence his remarks on
Burke—hence his fear that there be some spirits
left who would re-echo the sentiments of the great
philosopher, when he said, " I wish to see tie
Established Church great and powerful. . • • •
I would have her cherish all those within, and pity
all those who are without. I would have her give a
lesson, of peace to mankind, that a vexed and wan-
dering generation might be taught to seek for
harlot-lapre-
tth of infidelity and indiffer-
ence." is no legacy duty on
not in
Secondly,thepose in the maternal bosom of Christian charity,
and
t a
real property ; lastly, that the laws of England are
such, with respect to property, that "an English-
that
may do what he likes with his own." For
this last grievance he would substitute " the sacred
and inviolable principles of 1789"._viz., " the con-
fiscation of property by the State ; or, to use his
own words, to uproot feudalism, and to establish
religious equality and freedom of worship, by ap-
propriating to the State the lands and tithes of the
Church.".
These were the main principles of reform carried
out by the Constituent Assembly, and which Mr.
Cobden would imitate. But, in justice to his
friends, Mr. Cobden adds that " the decapitation
of a king" was not included in the original pro-
gramme for the entertainment of the Constituent
Assembly. " Let us repeat, then—if for the
dozenth time—such opinions would never be put
forth unless by a writer who presumed most insult-
ingly on the ignorance of the public."

( From the Morning Pod.)
_ _

iraised, upon the
Crystal Palace
sk
simple issue whether a day of xtellectnal refine-
mentop quedesotinonsuwnhdaetyhser the
was
at Sydenham were not preferable to a day of
oWulhdenbe theen
sotting and idleness in London, we gave our voice
in favour of the trip to Sydenham.
.We went even
further. We took occasion to m§
amtain what we
conceived to be entirely a workinr,
man's cause,
against the deliberately expressed opinions of a very
respectable body of clergymen, who met at Zion
College to resist the proposed °Polling, on the
ground that it was a desecration of the Sabbath.
Our dissent from these reverend gentlemen was not
based on any imierior viiiw of the Sabbath to their
own. But we felt-1. That, with the religious ob-
servance of Sunday, a certain amount of intellec-
tual pleasure may be innocently combined ; 2. That,
as a working man's question, it Was highly desir-
able to consider it in the broadest possible view ;
and, 3. That, remembering how sadly the working
classes of London are accustomed to spend that
holy day, the attractions of the Syd.enh„, palace
might pave the way to something less coarse, if not
more religious, less demoralising, if not actually
edifying, and, on the whole, less mischievous, both
morally and. physically.

•
determination of two questions which is the
The decision appears to us to turn upon the right
Lord's-day ? and how ought it to be observed ?
On the first, we did not presume that, any discus-
sion would be raised. We were content to accept
theories s are put forth
the unanimous voice of Christendom and to acqui-
esce in the settlement upon which all Christian
Churches have framed their religious observances.
About the sec
and is, much
controversy. Twoond p
thper
the first makes the observance of the Christian Sun-
ooesitbeas th :

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day equally strict and obligatory with that of the
Jewish Sabbath, and applies to the former all the
Scriptures of the Old Testament which have express
reference to the latter. This was the view brought
in and adopted by the old Puritans immediately
after the Reformation. The second theory is that
which makes the day a Christian feast, to be ob-
served with holy exercises, rational amusement,
and moral improvement.
It was this last which was adopted by us in as-
serting that the Crystal Palace might be opened on
Sundays, within certain restrictions, without peril
to the interqtts of religion, or the well-being of the
community--in fact, without sin against God, or
injury to man ; and this view we are prepared to
maintain.

But we are not prepared to aid and abet the theo-
ries put forth at the meeting of working men at St.
Mar'tin's Hall, on Wednesday night, and which we
reported yesterday. We are ready t• aid their cause
by proving that intellectual amusement on Sunday
is quite compatible with the sacred duties of that
day. But we are not disposed to aid them in as-
serting that the same sacred duties are not obliga-
tory upon them. It is one thing to say that because
they are tied down to work all the week, therefore,
they may take harmless recreation on Sunday; but
quite another to propound, that, because the week
is all work, therefore Sunday is to be all play. It
is reasonable to maintain that Almighty God does
not enjoin a burdensome observance of the Chris-
tian Sunday; but it is profane to affirm that he en-

joins no observance at all.
The cause which the working men assembled to
promote was good so long as it was confined to the
simple object of securing the advantage. of aduaission,,
to the Crystal Pance on Sundays: Fhe sympathidg
of many religious.persons went with them, and they
were sure of strong support in many high quarters.
One only fear there was, which some persons warmly
expressed, that the tendency would be to a disavowal
of the sanctity of the day altogether, and an ap-
proximation to the lax practices which prevail all
over the Continent ; in which case, many who
strongly sympathise with the working men of Lon-
don would feel compelled to withhold their support
from the movement.

Unfortunately for themselves, the working men
have allowed themselves to be lured into this mis-
take. The shovi of learning which garnished the
speech of Mr. Henry Mayhew, on Wednesday,
was well calculated to mislead the unwary and un-
instructed. What could the working men say in
answer to learned references to ancient writers and
primitive fathers, told glibly out, and set forth in
imposing array ? When Pliny, and Justin Martyr,
and Socrates, and Gregory Nyssen, and Constan-
tine, and Cranmer, and Melancthon, and Calvin,
and Bound, and Paley, are heaped up in the face
of astonished butchers and bakers, what could they,
however generally intelligent, but submit with a
good grace to such ponderous testimony ? The
answer to his mischievous argument rests with
those who have had greater leisure and advantages ;
nor shall it be our fault if the working men of
London do not see the other side of the question.
Meanwhile, we earnestly intreat of them, as they
value their stake: in this great movement, at once
to repudiate and disavow that unsound, flagrant,
and mischievous declaration, into the passing of
which they allowed themselves to be entrapped on
Wednesday night. In no country in the world
have the working classes such friends as the work-
ing classes of this country have amongst those
whom Providence has called to an easier lot. To
the cause of the working man, not the aristocracy
only, but all the best of the great middle class of
the country, are prepared to give the ablest suc-
cour. Their dwellings, their literature, their edu-
cational institutions, their parochial privileges, their
physical and intellectual necessities, their political
rights, and social and moral advancement, are ob-
jects of solicitude to those able and willings to help
them. As a step towards these objects, a powerful
interest was at work to secure for the working men
an occasional Sunday at Sydenham. But, un-
doubtedly, the hypothesis on which they acted was,
not that the Lord's-day was a mere human institu-
tion ; not that its solemnities might be put aside
for mere intellectual substitutes ; not that there
was no obligation on the conscience of Christian
men to keep it holy ; but that there was no neces-
sary violation of its sanctity in a quiet visit to the
Crystal Palace ; that such a visit was quite compa-
tible with the fulfilment of religious duties ; that
some recreation working men must have ; that they
could have it on no other day ; and that, in default
of better, they were in a measure forced to take up
with such as London streets afford, and which are
amongst the worst that could be set before them.
On this broad, benevolent, and Christian view, a
large body are prepared to support the cause, and
ourselves amongst the number ; but we disavow
ex ammo the heathenish terms of the declaration
passed the other evening, and we ask the working
men, for their own sake and the truth's sake, to
disavow it, too. They must otherwise be prepared
to lose the strong support theyhave hitherto received
in this object from so many quarters ; for, assuredly,
a vast majority will consider as we do, that it were
far better the Crystal Palace be closed every Sun-
day in the year than opened but once on such prin-
ciples.

(Frain the Morning A dvertiser .)
We are glad to observe that public attention is
being directed, in the various metropolitan parishes,
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to the Bishop of London's bill, taken into Parlia:
ment by the Bishop of Salisbury, for the purpose
of making churchwardens the mere nominees of
the clergy, and rendering the vestry meetings
throughout the country entirely subservient to the

clerical will. As it is certain that the Bishop of
London will—if he can—force this measure through
the House of Lords during the approaching session,
it is incumbent on all who value their pdrochial
freedom, and are not disposed to place increased
power in the hands of the bishops and the clergy, to
employ their most active efforts to agitate this
question throughout the length and breadth of the
land, and convince " Charles James" and his order
that their attempt is thoroughly understood, and
that tho people of England are not in a humour

for any further concesions.
The inhabitants of St. Pancras have just held
their meeting, with the object of opposing the
further introduction of this rapacious measure into

Parliament, and their proceedings have been con-
ducted with a degree of intelligence and energetic
determination which, if imitated in every parish in

the land, or throughout London, and all Our large
towns, would convince his Lordship of London
that he has " ;taaen nothing by his motion."
St. Pancras, indeed, has reasons of its own to be
vigilant in reference to this new movement, having
suffered so severely in consequence of being under
the control of a self-elected and irresponsible body.
The Church Trustees, to whom we refer, it appears
from the statement of a churchwarden of St.

Pancras, Mr. Billet have; during the 33 years of
their existence expended 200,0001. of the parish
money. We believe few parishes have had more
reason to complain of the manner in which they
have been mulcted for the support of the church,
and particularly for the erection of the elegant pa-
rish church in the New-road, which, while it is a
monument of classic taste, is to many of the rate-
' payers a constant memorial of heavy taxation, to
which they have been compelled to submit.

It should be understood that the bill of the Bishop
of London, if it should become law, will put it out
of the power of the parishioners to prevent them-
selves from being taxed to any extent that may
comport with the liberal ideas of the episcopal lord.
He is well known to have a large heart wherever
he can find a largo purse to correspond with its dili-
tations. Liberal to his own family in the use of
his patronage, he delights also in the increase ofhis
power to give good incumbencies to his High
Church proteges, and if this business of the church-
wardens can only be managed, Isis noble soul will
be rejoiced in the certain increase of churches, and
the power of giving them away to the large crowd
of relatives and expectants, who are naturally look-
ing to him for something good, before his day is
gone by.
The churchwardens, it should be recollected, are
the only barrier to there-imposition of church rates,
to any required amount, and, as was observed at
the St. Pancras meeting, if the right of electing the
churchwardens is to be taken from the people, that
parish will not be long without a perpetual church
rate.

This is just the time for the expression of public
opinion on the attempt to annihilate the power of the
churchwardens. Itis said that the Bishop of London
has had the modest assurance to ask for the opi-
nion of the various parishes on his measure. We
could scarcely have believed that his Lordship
would have had the temerity to make such a re-
quest ; some men, however, are so blinded by am-
bition, and so courageous from success, that there
is scarcely anything they will not attempt, and
hope to succeed in. However, as his Lordship
has the boldness to ask for public opinion on his
new hobby, let him have it by all means and from
all quarters.
Let the Bishop of London be told from every
parish in England that the parishioners have duly

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considered his new measure, and do not like it—
that they have not become so blinded of late as to
be incapable of penetrating into the mysteries of
his scheme, and discovering in it an attempt to rob
them of their birthright as Englishmen ; that so
far are they from desiring to increase the power of
his Lordship, and his order, and the clergy, that
they are wishing that power to be considerably
curtailed, arid, as a political element, annihilated.
altogether ; and that they will employ all their
energy to defeat the new attempt to rob the& of
the portion of power they still enjoy.
It should be remembered, as was observed by
Lord Dudley Stuart at the St. Pancras meeting,
that this question affects every parish in England ;
it is not whether Tory or Liberal shall rule, it is a
question upon which every one who maintains the
principles of local self-government can have but
one opinion. We hope, as the time is rapidly ap-
proaching in which the Bishop of. London will try
again, that no time will be lost in giving free and
hearty expression of opinion on this subject every-
where, and that his Lordship will have no excuse
for saying he called for the expression of opinion
from every parish, that few have spoken against
the measure, and that, in the case of the large ma- '
jority, it may be taken for granted that silence has
given consent.

SOCIAL EQUALITY-MR. COBDEN AND

MR. BRIGHT.

( From tlte Morning Herald.)
With the exception of two gentlemen, born,
bred, and thriving at Manchester, all men, in all
ages, have admitted that inequality is the first law
of naturel- TherEave 'admitted not only that there
is a social inequality, but that Were must be, as an
inference, a political inequality; and, if even the
researches of those philosophers and moralists had
failed to convince us of the existence of such an

irrefragable and universal law, the analogy of na-
ture, animate and inanimate, would set the point
at rest. Are Mr. Bright and Mr. Cobden alike in
1 station ? Are Lord Derby and Mr. Cuffey co-equal
in intelligence? Can the sun, the moon, the comets,
and the planets, composing our system, bear any
comparison to each other in size, in the rapidity of
their" motions, in the destination of their celestial
course, or in the distribution of their particular and
internal elements ? Is not the parable of the sower
an emblem of life ? Is it not the exposition of the
fate of man, and a proclamation by the mouth of
the Saviour himself that poverty, whether of
the body, the purse, or the soil, is alone able to
equalise
.To this day, among shepherd nations—among the

tribes of wandering Arabs, a general poverty main-
tains a general equality, because the distribution of
wealth is poised as in a balance ; but old age and
high qualities of the mind or great beauty of person
put forth claims to distinction and to inequality.
In our own colonies—in the West Indies, where the
son of Africa walks unshackled, where the light of
liberty streams, like a beacon, from headland to

Leadland, almost from the very shores hemming
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the Gulf of Mexico to the insular cases of the
Caribbean Sea—even there,• unbending inequality
exists between the white people and the black.
Take America, too—for it is out of that soil Mr.
Cobden and Mr. Bright have dug the fanciful root
of their political and social equality—will they have
the effrontery to say that the wealthy merchant of
New York considers himself on an equality with
the street-sweeper. Would he give his daughter in
marriage to a common labourer ?
It is very true that these questions direct them-
selves to social equality ; but what reasonable,
patriotic man would lend himself to the propagation
of the perfect equality of political rights ? By such.
-a regulation—by the adjustment of an exact poli-
tical equipoise—our old friend Mr. Cuffey, or his
co-labourer, Mr. Bright, would naturally wish to
rule. Why should Cuffey be subservient to Card-
well, or John Bright to John Russell ? Cuffey
sounds as well any day as Cardwell ; and Bright is
quite as liquid as Russell. This refusal to obey
would terminate all government, and if there be an
end to government, what is the inevitable result ?
Either intestine war or a disruption of the whole
social fabric. Anon, despotism steps in to give
anarchy to death, and, after committing the deed
of strangulation, stabbing, or hanging, rises
exultant ; then shows, grasped in its gory hands,
the most fearful and uncompromising of inequalities
—the unconditicnal power of one.
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Mr. Cobden asserts that social equality- appears
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in its purest form throughout France, and he offers
very large odds that if the present Emperor of that
country were to organise an hereditary and aristo-
cratic Legislature, his throne would not be worth
24 hours' purchase. Perhaps so • but what has
the abolition, in the first instance, of the aristocracy
and of the Chamber of Peers done for France Y In
all probability, what Mr. Cobden does not desire
to see the annihilation of the House of Peers do
for England. Why, it has brought to our neigh-
bours revolutions, which, like the alternation of
day and night, have come periodically to sweep
away thrones, and to make continuous changes
which we trust have ceased.

All men have a right to the enjoyment of their
opinion, but they have not a right to the enjoyment
of an opinion which is built on false premises, and
is shown to be prejudicial to the structure of the
society in which they are permitted to breathe and
move. It is to be reprehended, therefore, that two
men like Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright—endowed
undoubtedly with some capacity of mind, and pos-
sessing, above all, that flow of language and plausi-
bility of manner, which, aided by the prestige of
their popular origin, force assumptions as facts on
the acceptance of unthinking crowds—should per-
vert gifts so full of good to uses so pregnant with
evil. It is to be reprehended that two such men,
holding in their hands the individual confidence of
a vast section of their poorer and less educated
countrymen, should ply tongue and pen to obscure
and mislead ; that they should take advantage of
the untutored perceptions of Manchester weavers
and Yorkshire Chartists, and invite their execrit-
tion of those institutions which have sprung from
the experience and deep meditation of the wisest
of our forefathers, and which the finger of time
itself, the leveller of all anomalies, has left com-
paratively untouched.

THE DUKE OP DEVONSHIRE AND HIS

TENANTRY.

(Front the Derby Reporter.)
It was our privilege to participate in the enjoyment
of a very gratifying scene at the ducal Palace of the
Peak on Monday last. The occasion was the meeting
of the Duke of Devonshire and a deputation of tenants ;
and a more delightful meeting, or one better calculated
to render pleasant recollections fixed and enduring, never
we will venture to say occurred between the owner of a
princely domain and a body of respectable tenantry.
A strong desire has long been felt by the numerous
tenantry of the noble duke to offer some becoming mani-
festation of the high regard and esteem in which his grace is
held as a landlord, and of their appreciation of his many
excellent qualities of head and heart, and the kind interest
he takes in the welfare of all who come within the
circle of his acquaintance. With the view of giving
practical effect to this prevalent desire, a preliminary
meeting of tenant fermers from each township in the
county where his Grace's property extends was con-
vened on the 25th of January, at the house of Mr.
Jepson, of Edensor. The gentlemen present were :
William Adsetts, Shottle ; George Beardmore, Peak
Forest ; George Bowmer, Shottle ; Selim Bright, Bux-
ton ; John Bromley, Derby ; William Booth, Pentrich ;
John Blackwall Cantrell, Wetton ; Lawrence Furness,
Birchill Farm ; Peter Furness, jun., Pilsley ; Charles
Greaves, Rowley ; John Green, Ashford ; Rowland Hea-
cock, Marston-on-Dove; William Jepson, Edensor; John
J. Mower, Miller's Dale ; G-. H. Osborn, Dore ; Charles H.
Robinson, Ashopton Inn; John Jepson Rowley, Raw-
thorne ; and William Sampson, Church Broughton. At this
meeting it was unanimously agreed to present to the
noble Duke a full length portrait of himself, executed in
the first style of art—if such a manifestation of their sen-
timents were acceptable to his Grace—and to obtain
permission to have the portrait afterwards reduced into
an engraving, in order that his Garce's tenantry may
have in their possession the likeness of a nobleman,
whose conduct, as a landlord, they appreciate, whose
benefiecence they admire, and for whom personally,
they entertain feelings of affectionate regard. A
committee, consisting of gentlemen from each dis-
trict, was formed for, the purpose of taking the ini-
tiatory steps in this, to them, most agreeable pro-
ceeding. They are as follows :—Mr. John Bromley,
Derby, Chairman ; Mr. Bright, Buxton, Deputy
Chairman ; Mr. Law ence Furness, Birch-hill Farm Se-
cretary ; William Adsetts, Shottle ; George Beardmore,
Peak Forest ; John Blackwall Cantrell, Wetton ; Wm.
Booth, Pentrich ; Henry Bowmer, One Ash Grange ;
George Bowmer, Shottle ; Peter Fidler, Biggin Grange;
Peter Furness, Pilsley; Charles Greaves, Rowley; Thos,
Gregory, Meadow-place ; John Green, Ashford ; John
Thomas Heywood, Staveley ; W. Jepson, Edensor ;
Rowland Heacock, Marston-on-Dove ; John J. Mower,
Miller's Dale ; G. W. Osborn, Dore ; Charles H. Robin-
son, Ashopton Inn ; John Jepson Rowley, Rowthorne ;
and William Sampson, Church Broughton.
The Secretary was requested to forward to the noble
Duke a copy of the resolution adopted, informing his
Grace " that a number of his tenantry met at Edensor
Inn, by appointment, with a view to obtain the permis-
sion of his Grace to sit for his portrait, to be subscribed
for by his numerous tenantry. And if his Grace would

kiroily consent, then a committee would be formed, wlu
• would beg to have the honour of an interview- with hii s
Grace, to. consult him as to the best and most agreeabb.)
mode of oarrying the proposed object into effect."
To thhe communication his Grace returned an answer.
couched in language which every one must admire and.
approve. , We are happy to be privileged to place thilit
document before our readers and the public
" Chatsworth, 26th January, 1853.
" Sir,- —I hasten to acknowledge the letter I have to-
day received from you, and to convey the sentiments I
entertain in my reply to the gentlemen, who, with your-
self have signed the resolution agreed to at a meeting
held at Edensor yesterday.
" Belie•re me, that, very few events of my life have
given me so much satisfaction as this proof of good-will
and kindntess from persons for whom I entertain the sin-
cerest respect, and whose character and conduct have
made me take pride in the connection that subsists
between us ; and on Monday, the 31st instant I shall
be truly happy to receive them here at whatever time
may be convenient to them.
" But, sir, I wish this visit to be made for the purpose
of enabling these kind friends to consider well this matter
before coming to a conclusion upon it ; for it is with no
assumed spirit of humility that I say, that though yield-
ing to no man alive in devotion to the interests of his
tenantry, and in cordial wishes for their prosperity, I
do not feel that I deserve this tribute. I have not made
myself sufficiently or personally enough acquainted and
practically useful to those who are so good as to over- •
look my faults of omission ; and the declining state of
my health makes me ever year less capable of attending
to their interests and occupations.
" When a man has attained the patriarchal age of my
relation the Duke of Portland, honoured and respected
in his career, there could be no hesitation in conferring
such distinction ; but had not my friends better reflect
again, and on the 31st be more prepared to entertain my
views on an occasion which, in whatever way it may be
decided, cannot fail to have been in its contemplation and
-eneral intentions a source of unalterable gratitude to
-0. —Believe me, sir, your humble, faithful servant,
" DEVONSHIRB.

Mr. Lawrence Furniss."

In accordance with a previous arrangement, the COM.
mittee, with one or two unavoidable exceptions, re-as.
sembled at Mr. Jepson's on Monday last, and at one
o'clock proceeded in a body to Chatsworth House, where
a kind and most gracious reception awaited them. The
deputation were met at the principal entrance by Sir
Joseph Paxton, who conducted them to the grand
library, where his grace immediately joined them. The
noble duke gave a frank and cordial reception to all
present, conversing with them individually on various
topics, and making many kind inquiries. The pleasant

greeting' over, his grace said--I believe, gentlemen,
you have all seen a letter I addressed to Mr. Lawrence
Furniss. Every word in that letter came straight
from my heart. I adhere to the sentiments I there ex-

pressed--; my opinion remains unaltered. I have a feeling
ofgreat dislike to cause you gentlemen, by accepting your
proffered kindness, so much trouble and so much ex-
pense ; and happy as I should be under all other consi-
derations, to receive the proposed manifestation of esteem
and good-will, I must now ask you to reconsider the
matter calmly, and will leave you a few minutes for that
purpose. In your decision, whatever that may be, I
shall most cheerfully acquiesce.
The considerate motives that prompted these remarks,
and the delicacy with which they were expressed, cannot

be too highly appreciated ; and they were received as
they were meant, by the deputation. On the noble
duke's return, Mr. John Bromley, the chairman of the
committee, informed his grace that they were greatly
obliged to him for the course he had pursued, but that
their m;nds were already made up on the subject, and
they hoped to have a consummation of their wishes.
His Grace having bowed his acknowledgmtints,
Mr. BROMLEY said :

"My Lord Duke—l have the honour to appear before
your grace on the present occasion in the capacity of
chairman of a committee of your grace's numerous ten-
antry, of which I have the privilege of being one. Oit
behalf of myself and colleagues, I beg to tender to your
grace our sincere thanks for the distinguished honour
you have done us in condescending to accept a portrait
of yourself, as a small and very inadequate testimony of
the high regard and esteem in which your grace is held
by us as a landlord.
" Allow me to state to your grace that our great desire
is to obtain a full length portrait executed in the first
style of art, so that it may be worthy to adorn the walls
of Chatsworth House ; and your grace will confer an
additional obligation by selecting the artist to perform
the work, and by making known to us the most agree-
able mode to yourself of carrying out this, to us, most
pleasing object.
" In conclusion, I have only respectfully to request
that your grace will permit an engraving to be taken
from the portrait, so that each of us may possess a like-
ness of a nobleman who will ever live in the hearts his
tenantry, and in the recollection of every well-wis of
his country."
The Noble DUKE, who spoke with much feeling, then
said, that the terms in which he had been addressed were
too kind, too flattering, and he could only hope that he
was deserving of them. He accepted this kind expres-
sion of their feelings with heartfelt thanks, and so long
as he lived it would be treasured in his memory. His
grace then intimated that as Sir Edwin Landseer was
unrivalled. l thought he could not make a better sug-
gestion than to name him. Sir Edwin would be enabled
to introduce into the picture some portion of that Peak
scenery which was dear to his grace, as he had no doubt
it was to those by whom he was then surrounded ;..but
in the event of its not being in Sir Edwin Landseer's
power to devote the necessary tune to the work, his
grace stated he would ask him to recommend some artist
in whose qualifications he had confidence. As regards
the engraving (added his grace), I can only say I shall
be too much honoured.

The noble duke accompanied the deputation through
the grand suit of apartments, and then invited them t o
a most recherché entertainment; his grace taking the
head of the table, and Sir Joseph Paxton the opposite
•nd.

Before adjourning to tie pleasure-grounds and conser-
vatory, Mr. John Bromley said as this was a special oc-
casion when they were partaking of the splendid hospi-
tality of their noble landlord, he trusted they might give
.ffect to their feelings, in accordance with the old Eng-
lish custom, by drinking the health of one whom they
revered, and who had ever manifested a lively disposi-
tion to promote the happiness and well-being of his
tenantry. The noble duke's health was then drank with
three times three hearty English hurras, with "another,"
"another," and "one cheer more." His grace betrayed
much feeling, and acknowledged this cordial reeogniti-
tlon in a graceful speech, referring to the events of the
morning which, he said, called forth most pleasing asso-
ciations in his mind; and he stated that the proceedings
of that day constituted it " one of the happiest of his
life." The noble duke subsequently alluded ~to Sir J.
Paxton, whose health he wished them to drink on this
auspicious occasion with three hearty cheers. For what-
ever of beauty (said his grace) you may see in the grounds
of Chatsworth, lam indebted to the taste, the ability
and the energy of Sir Joseph Paxton." The toast hav-
ing been honoured, Sir Joseph said that but for the taste
and munificence of his grace, it would have been impos-
sible to accomplish what he had done; for he had always
found in the noble duke a princely patron, and a gener-
kind-hearted friend.

The deputation then proceeded to the conservatory
and perambulated the grounds, accompanied by the
noble duke and Sir Joseph Paxton. The fountains, in-
cluding the giant " Emperor," were all in full,play ; and

the scene was in every respect charming. After par-
taking further of his grace's hospitality, the deputation
bade a kindly farewell to the duke, who expressed the
pleasure he had experienced in their society. The
noble duke, whose urbanity and kindness was most
marked throughout, was evidently delighted ; but not
more so than his visitors, who will ever cherish the re-
collection of their reception at Chatsworth House, and
the flow of kindly feeling reciprocated between landlord
and tenant.

CRUEL CASE or RAPE.—A case of rape of a very ag-
gravated and cruel character has just been brought
under the attention of the Bath magistrates, the sufferer

being an orphan girl only 16 years of age, named Mercy
Brimble. The prisoner was an elderly married man,
named George Nutt, and is a greengrocer, living in a
house in a garden near the top of Great Bedford-street,
Bath. He is a very zealous advocate of the Thomp
sonian herbal system. It appears that the poor girl
Brimble entered his service about eight months since.
On the 21st of January the girl had a severe toothache,
and her mistress advised her to go to bed, and told her
beat when her master came home he should apply some-
thing tci. t. The prisoner in the evening went to the 0.4
who was in bed, and rubbed some liniment into her
face. He then began to take indecent liberties with
her, by putting his hand under the bedclothes, upon
which she called out. The prisoner then got upon the
bed, and, having placed bis hand over her mouth, effected
his purpose, and, as the medical evidence proved, com-
mitted a capital offence. The girl said she would tell
her uncle, when Nutt said if she did he would turn her
out or kill her, and told her if her mistress asked her
what she had cried out about, to say that it was because
her tooth pained her. The girl did not tell her mistress,
because she was afraid of the prisoner, but the first time
she was able to leave the house alone, which was on

Sunday last, she went to her cousin, and told her of the
prisoner's conduct, and the matter having come to the
knowledge of the magistrates, the prisoner was appre-
hended. The facts above stated having been deposed to
in evidence, the prisoner was fully committed to take
his trial for the offence at the next Somersetshire assizes,
and application for bail was refused.
THE BRAUCHAMP TOWER RESTORATION.—It was with
no small pleasure that we learned that the Beauchamp
Tower was in course of restoration under the direction
of Mr. Salvin, who, we hope, will do his best to restore
the whole building, interior and exterior, to its proper
appearance. This is a movement in the right direction ;
and we trust that the same good taste which directed
this will cause the immediate removal of the covering of
Traitors' Gate ; and that when the national records are
removed to their new house, the beautiful and compara-
tively perfect portions of the interior of the White Tower
will be carefully looked after, and thrown open to the
public. The Beauchamp Tower sno iknown in history
until about the reign of Henry VIII., and is covered in
many parts, with brief and often sad memorials of nu-
merous prisoners. livery fragment of paint has been
carefully removed, and most of the inscriptions are beau-
tifully perfect. Even the places where the imprisoned
workmen have sharpened their tools may now be dis-
tinctly seen.—The Builder.
CHARLES DICKENS.—Mr. Dickens has, with great
liberality, presented a cheque for 3001. to Sergeant
Field, a superannuated officer of the Detective Police,
upon whose information he founded several articles in
Household Words, relative to the Detective Systeni.—
Derby .Reporter.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Farewell Season of Mr. Benjamin Webster as Lessee and Ma singer.

THIS EVENING, FEB. 5,

Will be performed the popular and highly successful Cora ady of
MASKS AND FACES; or, Before and Behind the Curtails—by
Messrs. Benjamin Webster, Leigh Murray, Stuart, Parselle, and
Lambert; Mrs. Stirling, Miss F. Maskell, and Miss Rosa Bean( :tt.
After which (never acted). a new and original Farce, calla I TO
PARIS AND BACK FOR FIVE POUNDS.
To conclude with the Farce of BOX and COX MARRIED and
SETTLED.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Tinder the Management et Madame Vestris.
THIS EVENING, Fn. 5,
Will be pertrmed the Comic Drama called A PHENOM ENON
IN A SMOCK-FROCK. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathe ws F.
Matthews, and Horncastle ; Miss F. Baker and Miss C. Mite hell.
After which, the new and popular original Fairy Extravaganza,
entitled THE GOOD WOMAN IN THE WOOD, in which Nlessrs.
F. Matthews, Suter, Hornesstle, and Templeton ; Madame Ye stns,
Miss Julia St. George, Miss Robertson, Miss Martindale, Miss :Ellis,
Miss Wyndham, Miss Eglinton, and Miss ROStha Wright will appear.
To conclude with LITTLE TODDLEKINS.
Sole Agent [or the Private Boxes, Mr. W. Aftcroft, 15, New
Bond-street.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL
Proprietor, Yr. B. W.ebster.—Directress, Madame Celesta.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 5,

Wili be presented the powerful new Drama of SLAVE MITI ; or,
Uncle Toni's Cabin—by Messrs. Alfred Wigan, 0. Smilt , and
Emery ; Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Miss Harding, Miss ii.eeley,
sad Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude witli the successful new Comic Pantomime, called
SELL GWYNNE ; or, Harlequin Merrie Monarch. Pr! incipal
I)anseuse, Mdlle. Anriol ; Clown, Mr. Fleamore.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET'.
Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean.
THIS EVENING, Frs. 5,

Will be performed the new and' original Comedy, in three acts, by
Dong)as Jerrold, entitled ST. CUPID ; or, Dorothy's Forte no (as
played at Windsor Castle, by Royal Command). Principal charac-
ters by Messrs. Wright, W. Lacy, Harley, J. Vining, Ryder, F.
Cooke, Everett, and Chester ; Mrs. W. Lacy and Mrs. C. Roan.
To conclude with the new and original Grand Comic Christ-
mas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN CHERRY ANI3 FAIR
STAR; or, The Green Bird, the Dancing Waters, at .d the
Pinging Tree. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Hulirus ; Pan-
taloon, Mr. Paulo; Columbine, Miss Desborongh.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 5,

Will be presented LILIAN GERVAIS. Supported by 31. essrs.
Compton, W. Farren, jun., Hoskins, Cooke, Edgar, Bender , and
Clifton: Misses Anderton and U. Gordon.
After which, JOAN DOBBS. John Dobbs, Mr. W. Ferrer , jun. ;
Patternoster, Mr. Compton.
To conclude with ROMEO AND JULIET; or, Harlequin Queen
Mab and the World of Dreams. Clown, Mr. Edwin Edward' .Is, with
his highly-trained Dogs.
Box-otilce open from Eleven till Five, under the superintendence
of Mr. Edward Chatterton.

ASTLET'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Crowded Nightly to witness the Extraordinary Holiday Attractions.
LAST WEEK BUT FITE of Mr. BATTY'S MANAGEN.ENT,
As he is about retiring from the Profession, having Let the 'theatre
to Mr. WILLIAM Coosa.
THIS EVENING, Fan. 5,
The Performances will cowmen's with the Equestrian Drama of
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.
After which, an unequalled Routine of Scenes in the Cirt ae
Te conclude with the Grand Comic Pantomime of FOR TUNIO
AND 1118 HORSE COMRADE; or, Harlequin and 1:114, Seven
Gifted Men.
Doors open at Half-past Six o'clock. To commence at Seven.
Box-offer open daily from Eleven to Font-. stage Man ►g er. Mr.
W. West.