The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING,

word, place all your confidence in your own energies
And industry. Go on from one degree of reading
and stu ly to another. Do not step because you
have achieved something in the way of self-improve
ment. Bat advance to more, f, more to more
again. It was a saying of ale Eenperor Napoleon,
" That there was never anything done as long as
there was still something to do. Felon may be
heaped upon Ossa, Alps upon Andes, but the skies are
still a long way off. We are yet near the ground,
after a whole life spent in efforts to soar above it. But
enough. Go on and prosper. Let the friends of
education rally round your Institute, and give to it
every help and assistance. Improveuient, we have
been told, is realised intelligence. And civilisation is
realised intelligence. And order is realised intelli-
gence. And peace is realised intelligence. It i 3 a
public treasure, a national capital, if I may so speak,
of which too large an amount cannot be invested.
Let it be your object to add to it continually. It
may be, as you go through life, that you will now
and then meet with some old-world enemy of popu-
lar education, who, having once taken up a prejudice
against it, still clings to it as vehemently and vigo-
rously as ever. He cannot deny that our institutions
are doing good, but he will ascribe it to accident and
chance-medley, and will maintain that they are seem-
ingly beneficial, but certain to be mischievous in the
event, which we would interpret to mean that de facto
they are capital things, whoever may assert that de
jure they ought to be very bad ones. I never hear
men talk in this fashion without being reminded of
the doctor who, having pronounced that his patient
would die in the night, was both astonished and angry
to find him not only alive, but much better, the next
morning. Still we will not quarrel with our melan-
choly prophets. We only ask them to fix their time
for the end of the world, and not to keep us
in a constant state of agitation by adjourning it from
day to day, as they find that the deluge will not
come nor the skies fall in. A prediction which is
neither more nor less than a floating policy, taking
in all time between now and doomsday, is necessarily
a safe one. I should like to see it put into a definite
and specific shape, within certain limits, and with
all particulars given of what is to happen within any
reasonable period. Or, if it may not be your
lot to meet with that now fortunately rara aeis an
enemy of popular education, you may fall in with
some of its iceberg friends, who damage it with the
obloquy of faint praise, and who keep wondering and
wondering, while they allow that it has effected much
good, when and whether, or if ever, it will accomplish
those mighty results in the world which its more en-
thusiastic and ardent champions anticipate from it.
But recollect the old saying that " Rome was not
built in a day." When Remus scoffingly leaped over
the walls of the infant colony, when Romulus, his
seat of government built of rushes and covered with
thatch, ruled over a thousand miserable huts, inha-
bited by the wild spirits who had gathered round
him, who could have foretold that it-would one day
become the mistress of the world, the capital of the
Caesars, proudly called the Eternal City, with its gor-
geous palaces and marble temples, its golden roofs, its
Pantheon, its Colisseum, and all its monuments and
miracles of art, whose full blaze of splendour none
can appreciate, but whose very ruins still rivet the
world upon them in awe-struck wonder and admira-
tion ? Away, then, with our doubters as to the
fruits which education is one day destined to pros
duce. They resemble children who pull up at night the
seeds which they set in the morning, and are disap-
pointed and disgusted that germination has not com-
menced and made great progress. But wise men
know, and think, and act differently. They plough,
and till, and harrow, and prepare the ground and sow
the seed, and then wait patiently for the long interval
to elapse after which the harvest will arrive. And in
educational husbandry, likewise means, not miracles,
must work out ends. There must be ploughing be
fere there is reaping. There must be a seed-time
before there is a harvest. Or take another illustra-
tion. The acorn has been called the father of forests.
But this patriarch of the woods is not surrounded by
its offspring at once. It is first planted in the ground,
and, for a time lost sight of, perhaps, forgotten.
But, nevertheless, it has entered upon its appointed
task. After a brief space a tender shoot, hardly to
be recognised by the eye, appears above the ground.
It grows. Heaven's warmth fosters it. Heaven's
moisture cherishes it. The shoot increases to a sap•
ling, the sapling to a tree, the tree to a gigantic
oak. "Eureka, the work is complete. And,
in like manner, the great task which our
educationists have undertaken to accomplish,
cannot be forced by any hot-bed process
into a sudden maturity like that of the prophet's
gourd. It is of the nature of things that it should be
gradual, perhaps slow. But we doubt not that it will
be sure. The acorn is planted deeply in the popular
mind. The schoolmaster, the institute, the lecture,
reason, thought, intelligence, all are fostering and
cherishing it. It has already shot forth, and is high
above the ground, Every day adds to its strength
and magnitude. Even on the confession of its coldest
friends, it has, from its very infancy, been producing
1 fruits gradually increasing to clustering profusion.
We may not fear, then, as to its power and influence
as it waxes greater and greater before the eyes of
men. To-day it effects much; to-morrow it will
accomplish more. Goon, therefore, and prosper, I say
again, as I finish. May the glorious cause of popular
Education increase and multiply, and grow on from
the seed to the tree, from the cradle of hope to the
maturity of reality ! May school be added to school,
and institute to institute, through all the lengah and
breadth of the land, as the branch only shoots forth
from the parent stock to send out other branches
from itself, the light of instruction extending
from the palace to the mansion, from the
mansion to the cottage, in the valley or on
the hill-side, from the city to the village, and from the
village to the hamlet, comforting the mariner in the
night watches, consoling the wayfaring man in all his
toils and troubles, cheering the solitary labourer in
the field, and illuminating the workshop with its
glorious beams. until at last the leaien of awakened
intelligence, spreading from country to country, and
from kingdom to kingdom, to the ends of the world,
and co-operating with the mighty and civilizing
influences of commerce, and the mightier and more
holy elements of Gospel grace, shall bring about that
brotherhood of nations of which angels have sung,
but which men have so long resisted, when peace and
good-will and love shall no more be strangers upon
the earth, but rule over it, triumphant and supreme.
He who contributes in the smallest degree to this con-
summation, may lay his hand upon his heart and say,
"I have not lived in vain."
The CHAIRMAN in putting the motion, said that he
could not help taking that opportunity of expressing
under how great obligations they were to Mr. Greene
and Mr. Aspinall. He called upon
Mr. H. GREGSON to move the next resolution,
which was a vote of thanks to the committee who had
arranged the details of the soireit.
Mr. W. JACKSON seconded the resolution.
Mr. J. S Etaamos responded, and, proposed is
vote of thanks to the Rev. Mr. Aspinal.
Mr. C. JOHNSON, jun., seconded the proposition.
Rev. J. ASPINALL briefly responded.
Mr. GREEN having taken the chair,
Mr. R. H. LUNDE proposed a vote of thanks to the
Chairman.
The motion was seconded by the Rev. W. 11. Ilan-
FORD.

Mr. HEYWOOD, in returning thanks, remarked that
he thought the subscription to the institution was too
low. lie also recommended that the evening classes
be formed into a regular evening school, under a good
system, and that an application for Government as-
sistance would, under such circumstances, not be
made in vain.
The meeting then broke up, and the parties ad-
journed to the ball-room, where dancing shortly after
commenced; James Heywood, Esq., M.P., and Miss
Thornber led off the first dance.
The arrangements for the ball appeared to give the
greatest satisfaction to all present. A deputation
from the Preston Institution, consisting of Messrs.
Gradwell and Cameron, were present.

TEMPERANCE MOYEMENT.—The third of a series
of six great meetings in furtherance of the temperance
cause was held last night at Exeter-hall; Mr. John
Cassell in the chair. The subject selected was, " The
claims of the temperance movement upon the teachers
and friends of Sabbath schools," in advocating which
the various speakers, each taking a separate line of
argument, endeavoured to prove—first, that it was the
duty of teachers to inculcate the principles of total ab-
stinence; and, secondly, that to do so, they must abstain
themselves. The chairman, the Bev. Jake Burns, D.D.,
the Rev. James Sherman, of Surrey Chapel, T. B.
Smithies, Esq. (late of York), and the Rev. Asa Mahan,
president
of Oberlin College, United States, addressed
the meeting in support of these opinions. It was strongly
urged that the inculcation of temperance in the school-
room, and before the child went forth into the world, was
a much easier task than it would be found after a few
years of the temptations of society. A great number of
statistics and interesting calculations as to the useful
purposes to which the money wasted on drink might be
applied were also read. One gentleman, Mr. Smithies,
gave the result of his inquiries into the inefficiency of
Sunday-schools alone for the purpose for which they
are intended. Ho thought the inculcation of temperance
principles might r, medy the evil. A fourth meeting
was announced to be held on the first Monday in
January, at which ten workmen representing different
trades are to take part, and Mr. Joseph Sturge is to
preside. A grand meeting is also to be held at Drury-
lane to close the season. After the usual complimentary
votes, and a hearty cheer for teetotalism, the meeting
brake up at about h4ll-past nine.
Crosses are ladders that lead up to Heaven.—
Eliza Cook's Journal,
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some pains
his
to ascertain the present state
and the surrounding localities. The crop is, we believe,
now nearly wholly gathered in, and the amount of
damage occasioned by the blight does not, so far as we
Can ascertain, exceed one-tenth; and even that tenth is
still valuable for feeding pigs.—Louth Advertiser.

FRANCE

M. Georges LAT:Ate, the son of the celebrated
Marquis de Lafayette, and the father of MM.
Oscar andlidmund de Lafayette, dic:l on Saturday.
The Standing Committees of the Assembly mc.t
in their rooms to examine the project of law for the
modification of the 472 d article of the Criminal
Code, relative to the execution, in effigy, of those
who are condemned by default. The article is as

toll° ws
" An extract of the sentence of the condemned shall,
within three [ "j from such sentence being passed,
and under the superintendence Gf the Attorney-General,
or of his substitute, bo affixed by the executor of cri-
minal judgments to a post planted iu the midst of one
of the public squares of the city, or town, which is the
capital of the arrondissement where the crime has been
committed."
The principle of the Bill which permits the substitu-
tion of the execution in effigy by a triple publication
of the sentence of condemnation, appeared to be
favourably received on the whole.

PANAMA, Oct. 26.
The steamer Oregon arrived here on the 23d from
San Francisco, bringing 330 passengers, and 700,000
dolls. in gold manifested, and 300,000 dolls. by pri-
vate hands. News from that part not very encourag-
ing. The mines are not producing what has been
represented, and much distress is expected during
the coming winter. Cargoes have been sold by
auction, not yielding 50 per cent. of first cost, and
in some instances parties have had to draw, to
cover expenses. There is in the harbour of San
Francisco about 95,000 tons of shipping, and pro•
bably they will during then inter months be able to
get away, as no doubt hundreds will be glad to
perform any duty either on shore or afloat to leave
San Francisco. The class of people now required
is agricultural labourers, with their wives and
families.
The outward emigration still continues. What
effect the arrival of the 'present mail and passengers
may have in the States it is difficult to say—any hopes
held out, the Yankees must be moving.
M. Dillon, the French Consul-General of the
Sandwich Islands, now on his way to Europe, has
been at variance with the Government of tliose
islands, and took possession of Honolulu for three
days. The British and American representatives
protested against the proceedings. It appears M.
Dillon has exceeded his powers, and his sudden de-
parture gives strength to the opinion.
All quiet in Chili and Peru. Mr. Wheelwright is
at present negotiating for a railroad from Copiapo to

the port. -
Panama has now become a central point, and a
busy scene presents itself from Chives to Panama.
We have the steamers from England and from the
States at Chagres, the steamers from the south and
one from California on the same date. Panama is
perfectly healthy at present, but Chagres, we hear, is
sickly.
We are anxiously awaiting the commencement of
the railroad, so as to make certain this will be the
route to the Pacific. No question as to its facilities
over any other.—Chremicle.

sudden or ruinous alteration in the standard nine of
gold.—Tiines.

RAIL WAY 'NYE L;AGSNCE.

MANCHESTER., SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE.—
A committee of shareholders has been formed at
Manchester, at a meeting held on Thursday last, at
which a resolution was passed to th.i effect that the
present position of the company requires the adoption
of measures for effecting a thorough and unrestricted
inquiry into its affairs.
AUDIT OF RAILWAY ACCOUNTS.—It is stated that
the returns to the circulars of the directors of the
London and North-Western Railway Company on
this question, showed, up to Saturday last, a vote of
8,000,000/. paid up capital stock against the proposed
measure of Government audit.
WINDING UP OF JOINT STOCK COMPAN'IES.—i-e-
-rernptory orders have been issued by the Alaster in
Chancery Sir George Rose on William Frederick
Hill and William Revell Vigors, contributories, for
the payment by them severally of 1,305/. and 2001. to
the official manager, by twelve o'clock on the 25th
of February, 1850, towards the winding-up and
discharge of the liabilities of the Godolphin Mining
Company.
THE EAST INDIA PENINSULAR. This company
has, we understand, chosen from amidst a host of
candidates three engineers, who will most probably
go out to Bombay by the next mail for the purpose
of proceeding at once with these works. The
gentlemen selected are Mr. James Berkley,
formerly a pupil of Mr. Robert Stephenson, and
subsequently a sub-engineer on the North Staf-

tbrdshsire line; Charles Ker, resident en-
gineer under Mr. Locke, on the Aberdeen line;
and Mr. Graham, a nephew of Sir J. Graham, also
a pupil of Mr. Stephenson's. We are informed the
board have had some difficulty and some difference of
opinion in making this selection for recommendation
to the Est India Company, who, it appears, have a
flat upon the subject. These appointments are
naturally con4idered subjects of deep anxiety to the
proprietors, because of the difficulties of the climate
and the character of the labourers to be employed.
The work will be one of no ordinary trial and
importance, and those who are interested in the
prosperity of India trust that this, the first experiment
of a railway there, will be as successfully conducted
as the great requirements of the country and the
nature of the undertaking demand.
BELFAST AND BALLYMENA.—BELFAST, NOY. 30.
Yesterday, the ninth half-yearly general meeting of
the directors and shareholders of the Belfast and

Ballymena gailway Company was hell at the com-
pany's station, York-street. The Hon. George Hand-
cock in the chair. The directors' report stated that
the arre;.:rs of calls outstanding had been reduced to
the sum of 4,7201., the principal part of which they
expected would be realised, and that they should be
able, before the end of next half-year, to close the ca-
pital account. There had been 18,293 passengers
fewer than in the corresponding period of last year,
and a decrease in the passenger receipts of
1,556/. 12s. 4d. In the goods traffic an increase is
shown for the same corresponding period of
2,925/. 16s. 11d., and an increase over the last six
months of 952/. Os. sd. After paying interest on
borrowed capital, and all expenses attendant on the
maintenance and working of the line, there remains
a balance in favour of revenue account of
3,3361. 14s. 51, out of which the directors recom-
mended a dividend being declared of 93. per share,
payable on the 13th day of December next, on all
shares paid up and entitled to dividend. The amount
left at credit of reserved fund being 1,036/. 7s. 21.,
exclusive of amount to be received for carriage of the
mails since the 6th of July, 1848. The report was
adopted.

PoLYTEC lINIC INSTI'T'UTION.
On Saturday evening a rehearsal, or private repre-
sentation, of a new and interesting series of enter-
tainments, philosophical and pictorial, was given in
the theatre of the above popular institution. Dr.
Bachhoffner occupied the lecture table in the
earlier portion of the evening, and delighted his
auditors by numerous chemical experiments,
elucidating the philosophy of scientific recreation.
From several of the examples, the learned
Doctor plainly showed that professors of magic
owe much of their wonder-working fame to
natural causes; thus, by the sid of the electric spark
clearly exhibited, and its action explained, Dr. Bach-
hoffner in an instant lighted some score of candles,
placed in a frame at a considerable distance. So
likewise the effect produced by chemical agency on
flame, was equally surprising—this was especially illus-
trated by a representation of the incantation scene from
Macbeth. A curtain was drawn apart, and discovered
three hags around the caul Iron, th,, flame proceeding
from which shed a blue and ghastly lustre on the coun-
tenances of the witches, rendering them perfectly ap-
palling. The means by which these and other equally
surprising effects are produced were explained in a
simple and straightforward manner, so that a very
juvenile capacity might readily comprehend the whole,
and this certainly is no small recommendation, as it
i was intimated that the new entertainments are in-

tended for the delectation of the visitors during the
approaching Chri,tmas holidays. If Dr. Bach
hotfaer elicited applause behind the lecture table
in the scientific department of the institution,
he did not fail to sustain it in the pictorial and less
severe portion of the evening's programme. Thia
consisted of a series of dissolving views of London, as
it was in the 16th century and as it now is. Much
as we admire representations of foreign lands, there is
a peculiar charm which invests one's own country
beyond all others, alai which renders a representatio❑
of it far snore attractive than the famous places of
antiquity. Pictures of Athens and Rome pall before
Our own Old London, testifying to the truth of the
words of the ballad, " There's no place like home," so
that it is not always the case that "distance lends en-
chantment to the view." Charing-cross two hundred
years ago was beautifully exhibited, and, melting
gradually before the eyes of the spectators, was su-
perseded by a fine picture of the spot as it now ap-
pears, with its Nelson column, fountains, academy,
St. Martin's Church, façade of Northumberland House,
and so forth. Old London bridge with its houses ; the
Tower, with the Traitors'-gate ; Old Cheapiide, West-
minster Abbey, Southwark, and other known localities
were in turn displayed, and, as it were, contrasted
with their present aspects ; the last picture shown
was the new Coal Exchange. This drew forth
thunders of applause. Each scene was accompanied
by the appropriate performances of a band of
wind instruments, which produced a very fine effect.
At the close of the representation, Dr. Bachhoffner,
who gave a familiar description of each view, pro-
nounced the name of Mr. Landells, the artist, so that

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it may be presumed the public are indebted to the
genius of this gentleman for what assuredly must
become one of the most attractive exhibitions in the
metropolis. A numerous and intellectual company
separated, highly gratified with the evening's enter-
tainments, their gratification having been much
enhanced by the courteous behaviour of Mr. Long-
bottom, the secretary.

ALLEGED DISCOVERY OF ,A CURE FOE, HYDRO.
PHOBIA.-M. Rocher d'fiericdurt, who has lately re-
turned from a journey in Abyssinia, has brought witb
him about a score of MSS. in the Ethiopian language,
all of vast antiquity and great literary value. They are
folio in form, hound in red leather, with the Greek cross
and strange ornaments on the covers. In some of them
the writing runs right across the page; in others it is
in columns ; in nearly all it is firm and bold in
character. Some of the MSS. are on history, religion,
and science ; one is a compete and very curi-
ous treatise on the mysteries of Eastern astrology ;
and one, which appears to have been written at the
beginning of the 11th century, contains a copy of the
Bible, which differs in some respects from the ordi-
nary version. To obtain these treasures, M. d'Heri
court passed a long time in Abyssinia, had to employ
daring. cunning, persuasion, and force, to go through
many extraordinary adventures, and endure many
hardships and persecutions. Ho has, besides, obtained
a mass of curious information on the religion
(which it seems is half Jewish, half Christian),
the manners, and the government, of the singular
peop!e who inhabit Abyssinia; has ascertained all that
could be learned on their country, of which so little is
known; and has collected all the facts calculated to
threw light on geology, mineralogy, botany, and other
branches of science. But what ie more practically im-
portant than all is, that :he has brought with him
numerous specimens of a plant, the root of which,
reduced to powder, is a cure for hydrophobia,
both is men and animals. Of its virtues Al.
d'llericourt had practical proof: four dogs and a
man, having been bitten by a mad dog, were, by
application of the remedy, cured of the hydrophobia
which ensued; whilst a fourth dog (bitten at the same
time by the same animal) to which the remedy was not
applied perished in all the agony of that terrible
disease. The virtue of the plant and the man-
ner of preparing it for use, wore explained to the tra-
veller by a potentate of the country, who assured him
that it was there generally used, and never Cent d, The
specimens brought over by M. d'llericourt have been
submitted to the Academie des Sciences, and a com-
mittee of that learned body has been appointed to teat
their effisacy. It, as is confidently hoped, they have not
lost their virtue in this European clime, the word will
soon be put in possession of the meals of curing one
of the most frightful disca;es to which fl ,sh is heir,
and M. Rocher d'Hericourt will have the glory of having
conferred an inestimable blessing on mankind.—Paris
Correspondent of the Literary Gazette.
THE COFFEE DUTIES.--On and after the Ist day of
January, 1850, coffee, kiln dried, roasted, or ground, will,
under the New Customs Act of 12th and 13th Victoria,
chap. 90, be admitted at the following duties, on impor-
tation into this country, .s•z.:—Of and from foreign
countries the lb. Bd.; of and from British possessions the
lb. sd. And by the 30,h section of tlis Act, it is enacted
and declared, that such of the several sorts of goods as
are by this Act charged with duty, as shall have been
warehoused wi:hout payment of duty upon the importa
tion thereof, and which shall be in the bonding ware-
house at the commencement of the duties imposed by the
Act, aro to be deemed and taken to be liable to such
duties.

S. H. Philo was brought: h(4 -,re the Lord M•:4vor,
in the custody of Michae: :Lydon, the efficer, upon
the charge of having ernt,zzled several sums of money,
the property of his employers, Messrs. J.-kill-mu, of
Mark-lane, wine and spirit merchants.
It was the prisoner's duty to receive money and
e7Jer it in the books ; arid it was proved that ho hod
given receipts for three several sums without haying
entered them in the books, and approi rated the
money to his own use.
Upon the first examination of the prisoner, a few
days ago, a man of very respectable appearance pro-
posed to bail the prisoner, after having spoken in the
highest terms of his character, but
The LORD MAYOR, by the advice of Mr. Goodman,
the chief clerk, refused to take bail, very much to the
chagrin of the applicant.
Mr. Humphreys, for the prosecution, said he was
sorry to be obliged to call evidence to show that his
Lordship had acted most judiciously in declining to
accept sureties, as the prisoner had been previously
convicted.

Mrs. Emma Phillips, the wife of Mr. T. Phillips,
engraver, stated that she knew the prisoner, and that
in the year 1848, at the summer assizes at Warwick,
she had attended as a witness for his prosecution,
when he •pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzlement.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
James Davis, a cabdriver, was convicted as a rogue
and vagabond, and sentenced to be imprisoned for
three months, for having stolen a carpet-bag con-
taining clothes, with which he had been intrusted by
a gentleman who was going abroad. The robbery
was committed at the Dover Railway terminus. The
cabman was, of course, deprived of his badge, and his
licence was cancelled. He would have been com-
mitted for trial if the gentleman had not been obliged
to leave this country at once.
MARYLEBOIVE.

Mr. John Conway and Mr. William Calder, said

to be gentlemen of-the highest respectability, were
brought before Mr. Long on the charge of having
created a disturbance at the house of Mr. Hampton,
59, Beaumont-street, Cavendish square, and who
dezcribed himself as being manager of the Palace
Club Chambers, St. James's-street.
A great deal of evidence was gone into, from which
it appeared that there had been some misunderstand-
ing between the complainant and a gentleman named
and in consequence thereof some correspond-
ence had taken place. One letter forwarded by Mr.
Calder was looked upon by complainant as being of
a hostile character; and ultimately both of the defend-
ants came to complainant's house, and a considerable
disturbance there ensued. The offenders were at
length given into custody, after much struggling and
threatening language on the part of one of them.
The origin of the quarrel did not transpire before
the Court, but
The MAGISTRATE, after having sundry letters put in,
and which were read by Mr. Phillips, the clerk, felt
satisfied that the complainant was entitled to the
protectiJn which he sought for, and ordered the
defendants to enter into their own personal reecogni-
zance of 2001. each, and also to find two sureties in
1001 each, for keeping the peace for the next twelve
months.