The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-13 00:00:00

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him with dictatorial powers over the matron, waste
fe,and mistress—and more than all, from the circular
friread yesterday by the chairman, which makes him
the irresponsible judge of what complaints are to be
brought before the directors, that there exists a
determination to concentrate in the superintendent
tthe functions of the house committee, to which he
ought to be kept in strict subjection ; to clothe him
gw;th a sort of kingly authority; and to make not the
restablished fact, but the bare suspicion of being disaf-
fected towards him, a ground of dismissal from its
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charity.
Sir, if your official were really " an angel from
heaven" he might exercise such powers meekly and
with advantage to the institution. But let me remind
you, if you have forgotten it, that after all, he was
chosen by the directors only as a pis oiler, because
ithey could not get their late immaculate secretary.
And further, let me hint (most reverently) a doubt
whether one for whom you require to make a clean
sweep of every official connected with the e,rtablish-
inclit, be the most likely to bear himself mcekly
, under such a weight of authority.
,i
, But no; I forgot, when I said "every official,"
: that there is one with whom neither you, Sir, nor the
superintendent, nor the directors, appear to have any
. quarrel—the most important official in the establish-
ment—l mean the Schoolmaster. Ii ut the question
yesterday, and I huml4 think that of itself it war-
ranted a special meeting—" what is the educational
state of the institution ?" I could get no answr rto
this plain question, except that Mr. Cook, the Go-
!vernment inspector, had given no report. But why
shave the directors newtr applied for a repast ? I
affirm, Sir, (can you or the directors deny it ?) that
the result of his examination was in the last degree
,unsatisfactory. Yet month after month runs or, and
we hear no complaint regarding one who is alleged to
"he the most inefficient officer in the establishment,
while others, who are known to be efficient, are
threatened with deprivation, because, forsooth, they
are suspected of holding opinions regarding yr ur
superintendent's merits not quite so extravagant sa
!the directors, who see comparatively nothing of him.
iThey seem, indeed, to be so busy riding their super-
intendent's hobby, that they have no leisure to look to
the proficiency of the children, or the competency of
the master.

Have I, or have I not, justified my want of confi-
dence ? I submit that in your avowal of yesterday
—in the exorbitant powers conceded to the superin-
tendent—and in the admitted inattention of the direr•
tors to the educational state of the asylum, 1 have
ample grounds for concluding that any such feeling
as confidence would be utterly misplaced.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A. P. ST&WART.

HECTOR ROSE, ESQ., To DR. STEWART.
30, Nottingham-place, Dec. 3, 1849.
Sir,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your
,letter dated the 30th of November, which, as I was
'from home the greater part of the day, I did not get
11,611 late on Saturday evening, and too late to reply
to; as Ido not mean to enter upon an epistolary
warfare, or to do more than express my opinion in the
proper place, you must excuse my requesting that
you will not favour me with any mere letters upon
the subject of the management of the Caledonian
,Asylum.

I remain, Sir, your obedient bumble servant,
(Signed) LECTOR ROSE.

DR. STEWART TO HEC I'OR ROSE, ESQ.
74, Grosvenor street, Dec. 3, 1849.
. Sir,—l find by your note of this date, just re-
ceived, that you have fallen into the mistake of sup-
posing that I expect you to reply to my animadver-
sions on the remarks you offered to the meeting on
the 29th ult., and on your conduct as a director of the
Caledonian Asylum. Allow me to assure you I had
no such expectation, for I did not believe that you
could find any reply to make.
But I regret to find that I have fallen into a more
.serious error in expecting, as I certainly did, that you
would have frankly accepted my emphatic disclaimer
of any such sinister and factious motives as I under-
stood you to attribute to the whole of the requsi-
tionists. You must therefore excuse me for having
given you credit for a love of candid and fair dealing
lof which, I suppose, you wish me henceforward to
!consider you guiltless.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

A. P. STEWART.

M. IVAN GOLOVINE AND
M. MARTIGNY.

The Legislative Assembly of France voted last
week a law respecting emigrants and their naturali-
zation in a reactionary sense. The chairman of the
commission, M. Martigny, spoke on the subject in so
iunt:eeling a manner that it drew forth from M. Ivan

IGoluvine a spirited and energetic reply, which we
copy from a French paper:—

M. IVAN GOLOVINE TO M. MARTIGNY.
" London, 6th DEC.
"I hear, Sir, that you have spoken in terms of
bitter invective against emigrants of all nations and of
all countries. Y( u styled them, I am told, adven•
tuners having no country. You hate dreamed
they tell me (for I do not read the debates of an As-
sembly which has given forth to the world suchgreat
prcots of its worth) that your profound meditations
nave shown Sou that refugees have, in every age and
in every country, fomented rebellions. I hear your
name, Sir, for the first time, but your patriotism does
not seem to be an enlightened one. A man has never
'eft his native village, his country, his cottage, and his
norizon, the fields that environ him. When he un-
derstands but one language, he has no love for any
country but his a ND, and he would be happy to see it
flourish at the expense of all others; but
when he has resided among other nations, he knows
that they are brothers. I remember, Sir, to have
he trd, on the Place de Green, early in March, 1843,
a man in a blouse declare a truth which the publicists
themselves could not have better expressed—" We
wish that foreigners should feel as much at home with
us as if they were in their own country, in order that
we may feel as much at home in their country as in
our own." I know that M. Dupin is not of this
opinion ; be thinks, forsooth, that men whO are
citizens of the world do not acknowledge the duties of
citizens, nor those of family; but although unchangeable
M. Dupin is not infallible. The French emigrants
have borne arms against their own country, but, on
the other band, some of them have done good
service to those countries that have received them as
friends. M. L. Bonaparte has been useful to the ar-
tillery of Thurgovine, and to the London police 1
The Belgian army was formed by the assistance of
Polish officers. In France the Polish emigrants
received under Louis Philippe 20 sous daily,
but they have developed every branch of in-
dustry, and the entire sum received by them has
never amounted to the interest of the great debt
contracted by the grand army at Warsaw, and which
-the Chamber of Deputies refused to pay to the Rus-
sian Government. Will you venture to assert that ,
the events of the 24th of February were brought
about by foreigners ? and for every single refugee
that took part in the insurrection of June, were there
not 100 Bonapartists ? Your men in power, when
banishing the Polish Democrats from Paris, actually
asserted that they expelled them, not because they
took part in the affairs of France, but in those of all
Europe ! ! Why should I speak to you of the unity of
.nations, you who recognise only the unity:ofall polices?
A foreigner is subject to the laws of that country
in which he resides, and receives in return protection;
when, therefore, a refugee is accused, let him be
tried, but do not expel him the country. A law that
places the power of banishment iu the hands of the
Executive is a brutal and absurd law. Do you know
what M. Rebillot calls meddling in French affairs ?
To write French. And it has actually occurred in
the provinces, that a self-satisfied and conceited man
•• having before his eyes the mortal dread of his
daughter becoming enamoured of a Polish gentleman,
asked for, and obtained the banishment of the object
of his suspicion.
The day may come when France will learn to value
national hospitality, and respect the rights of man.
I am, &c.

TESTIMONIAL
TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES.

THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY
OF EVERY NATION WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND Lx-
BE RT Y."—Kossu th's Protest against Russian Interven-
tion.

Subscriptions may be sent to the following bankets:--.
Messrs. Coutte and Co.
Messrs. Drummond.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ;
or to any one of the members of the committee formed
to carry out the Testimonial.
further Post-office orders to he made payable to Murdo
Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand.
Subscriptions already received . £1,153 15 1*
Part of a Eubseription for Hungarian and other
Refugees entered into at .N ewcastle-upon.
Tyne, per Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P. ...

I 0 0 A

Total

£1,163 15 li

IL M. Louis Philippe, accompanied by Queen.
Annelle, the Duke de Nemours and the Duke and.
Duchess d'Aumale, attended by the Generals d 8
Houdelot and Dumas, visited the exposition of French
Arts and Industry on 'Wednesday evening. Their
Majesties inspected with great attention all the pro-
ductions exhibited, and entered with visible interest
into the explanations offered by Monsieur Sallan-
drouze and the exhibitors, and expressed themselves
to all in their usual felicitous manner.
Mr. Iligham, Secretary and Comptroller- General
to the Commissioners: for the Reduction of the Na-
tional Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of
'the Exchequer yesterby.