The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-29 00:00:00

ADDRESS PRE
BUCKINGHA'
At the close of Mr. Bu'
on America and Italy, Al
the 20th of December,
a large meeting of his fr
lowing address was pi
Committee of Manageme _
and unanimously and cordially agreed to by the
meeting, in the United Presbyterian Church of
Alloa

TO JAMES SILL BUCKINGHAM, ESQUIRE.
Honoured Sir,—At the conclusion of this your
third course of lectures, delivered in the town of
Alloy during three successive seasons, we beg leave
to express our gratitude for the valuable information
which we have received, and for the high intellectual
enjoyment we have experienced during each of these
three courses, from the commencement to the close.
If it is interesting to sit at the feet of a traveller
who has visited many foreign lands, it is peculiarly
interesting to sit at the feet of one who has perhaps
seen more of the surface of the globe we inhabit than
any man now living.
Some travellers who have seen much want' powers
of observation ; but Providence has blest you with
the rare talent of collecting and treasuring up rich
stores of information regarding almost every object
and every event coming in your way that could inte-
rest and instruct your fellow-men.
Some travellers can collect information, though
they cannot c)mmunicate what they have collected;
but all of us present, and many thousands elsewhere,
can testify to the admirable talent for description, and
that easy rational eloquence which give your hearers
almost as vivid an impression as if they had been
fellow-travellers with yourself.
Some travellers who can both observe and communi-
cate are tempted to confine their information to them-
selves; but you have felt it to be the enjoymentof your
heart, as you have made it the work of many
laborious years, to spend your strength for the in-
struction and moral elevation of your fellow--creatures.
In these courses of lectures, embracing as they
have done so many momentous topics connected with
political economy, and the science of government, it
was to be expected that your opinions would not on all
points coincide with the opinions of some of your
hearers. But even the few who sometimes were con-
scious of diversity of sentiment could not but admire
the manly frankness with which your views were
stated, and the gentlemanly good feeling which ren-
dered it impossible for the most sensitive to take
offence.

'We do not profess, Honoured Sir, to be ignorant of
your eventful and useful history. As the friend of
Eastern India, and its countless population, we have
observed yourself sacrificing exertions to promote the
good government of that vast and important depen-
dency of the British empire—exertions which were
praised by statesmen when in opposition; but which
have been forgotten by the same statesmen when in
power.
As a Member of the British Senate in two
several Parliaments, we have admired your suc-
cessful efforts in originating and promoting
many measures of moral and social reform ; and
as a philanthropist, in the important department of
education and temperance, and peace and enlightened
human freedom. NVe have been delighted with your
laborious exertions through the press, in your volu-
minous writings; and by the platform, in your admi-
rable lectures to enlighten the human mind to improve
the human heart, and to increase the aggregate
amount of human happiness.
We are well aware that like many other philan-
thropists before you, whose minds were in advance
of the age, it has been your lot to labour long for
the good of mankind with very little patronage from
the powerful, and with much pecuniary loss to
yourself. But you enjoy the divine satisfaction
of doing good, and as you have already witnessed
many of the blessed fruits of your labours, so you
may cherish the joyful assurance that the previous
seeds of wisdom and morality which you have
so extensively sown over the surface of society, shall,
in due time, under the blessing of a bounteous Heaven,
produce an abundant and a happy harvest.

- As you have intimated that this is likely to be your
last public visit to Alloa, it is with much sincere regret
that we have now to pronounce to you, Honoured
Sir, the painful word Farewell! To the
respect and veneration which we cannot but cherish
for you as an instructor, we feel that your frequent
visits and your familiar intercourse have warranted
us in adding the confidence and affection of friendship.
Although we should not be honoured with another visit
from you, we shall continue to take a deep and in-
creasing interest in your benevolent and self denying
labours, and we can assure you, dear Sir, that if our
warmest wishes are gratified, your life will be long,
and useful and happy.
It is our earnest and united prayer, that God may
spare you, and strengthen you to labour during many
years to come, for the illumination of this world's
ignorance, and the mitigation of this world's misery.
And when your earthly labours shall have come to a
close, may you, with your dear partner in life, and
your beloved family be admitted at last, through the
grace of the Divine Redeemer, to th it " better

Country," from which ignorance, and misery, and
sin, the cause of both, will be for ever excluded.
Signed in the name and by the appointment of
the meeting,
WILLIAM FRASER, Minister, (Chairman).

NOTTINGHAM SAVINGS' BANK.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—In your paper of the Bth inst. you admit a
communication which imputes dishonesty to the paid
officers of the Nottingham Savings' Bank. I have
known the secretary of that institution intimately for
more than thirty years, and I believe there never was
a more conscientious, vigilant, and active man of
business than he is, or any bank better managed.
Being the responsible person, he has ever been, not
only faithful and minute in the discharge of his own
duties, but kept so quick an eye over hiA clerks and
other officials, that I may add, in the words of the
editor of the .Nottingham Review, who from personal
investigation affirms—" The officials connected with
this institution have been men of high principle and
sterling integrity, and there is not a savings' bank in
the kingdom where more care is taken to preserve
the depositors from loss. . . . In Nottingham there
can be no possibility of fraud on the part of the
officers of the-institution."

As you have unintentionally given publicity to an
imputation injurious to the officers of the Nottingham
Savings' Bank, I have no doubt you will most readily
allow their vindication the same extensive circulation,
by admitting this letter into the columns of your next
nurnbt am, Sir, yours faithfully,
Dec. 28. VERITAS.

TIIE DURHAM DIALECT.—It chanced the other
day that a phonographic foreigner, a linguist, was pass-
ing through the county of Durham in a third-class rail-
way carriage, and jotted down in his note-book the con-
versation of some fellow-travelkra. Their language was
a puzzle to him, and ho has sent us a transcript of his
notes for publication, in the hope that the Hew. Blythe
Hurst or Mr. Elihu Burrit may s e our paper, and en-
lighten him as to the country which gave the speakers
birth. We think, however, we need not publi:h the
whole of what he has sent. A sample will do; and
without troubling the two. accomplished linguists, we
will furnish our correspondent with a translation:—

Ouistu?
Ugh? cobby.

How ere you?
Why, in good, comfortable
health.
Wairstubeen? Where have you been?
Dirm. At Durham.
Cevaw. Wairstubawin? So have I. Whether are ycu
going?
Phensooziz. To fence houses.
Cesaw. So am I.
We may add that the puzzled passenger, on alighting
at Gateshead with his carpet bay, was assailed (so be
says) with clamorous cries of" Queenseed! Queenseedl
Torkseed! Torkseed! " 'Ty cktturtuppuz! Tycktfur-
tuppuz!" and also fancied that the locomotive engine
must have dropped him on the wrong planet!—Gates-
head °beaver.

GOOsn-PULLINQ EXTRAORDINART.—A few days
ago, a bet was made between Mr. C. flames, son of Mr.
F. Ihmes, of Spalding, the extensive poulterer, and Mr.
John Ogden, who is in the same line of business there,
the former engaging for ono sovereign to pull a hundred
geese in "a workmanlike style" i❑ sixteen hours, in-
clusive of meal times. The match, which excited
some interest amongst those engaged in both the
above establishments, came off on Saturday last, many
friends on both sides being present to witness the
performance. At f►ve o'clock in the morning Mr.
"lames commenced " wringing" the first goose; and,
although the birds were exceedingly bad to pull, he
performed the task in fourteen hours and forty-five
minutes, consequently had one hour and fifteen minutes
to spare. Now, if we take cut of the fourteen hours
and three quarters the portions of time for meals which
were taken in the time stated, we have; hundred large
fat Lincolnshire geese, weighing from 101bs. to 141bs.
each, stripped of quills, feathers, and down, without a
rent or broken skin, in the short space of fourteen hours,
or one bird every eight minutes and twenty four
seconds ! We believe this to be the greatest feat in the
annals of goose-pulling. From fifty to seventy go( se are
considered a good day's work for one man.—Lincoln
Mercury.

RARE Bran.—A fine specimen of the 11Iergus
Aferganer and Castor of Linn—the Dun Diver, or
Sparring Fowl, Saw bill, &c.—was shot in the vicinity of
Ombersley, at Lord Sandy's, a few days since. It is
now in the hands of Mr. Robinson for preservation.
Considerable cosfusion prevailed among the early wr its ra
on ornithology reap( cling this bird in its miniature state,
from the variation of its plumage, but it is now clearly
ascertained to be the female of the Goosander. It is a
species of rare occurrence in these parts, although a con-
stant resident in the north of Scotland, in the Orkney and
other Scottish islands, advancing mere southwardly only
under the influence of severe weather. During summer
the great body of these bids retires to high latitudes, for
the purposes of reproduction. It may then be found in
Iceland, Greenland, Siberia, Kanatschatka, and Om; far
countries tat North America.— Wurccater )(Atrial.

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