The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-02 00:00:00

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On Monday next will be published,

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THE . INTELLECTUAL RAILWAY;
A S,ries of Inventions, designed to facilitate the
acquirement of several departments of Education.
By WILLIAM H. CROOK, L L.D.

The following branches arty now be had, price 10s. 6d.
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The ELEMENTARY BRANCH, for Reading, Spel-
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The BRANCH for ENGLISH GRAMMAR; illus-
trating one thousand five hundred points in the Structure
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CABINET MAKERS' SOCIETY,
71, LEADENHALL-STREET.
• WAI. THURNELL solicits the Nobility,
Gentry, and Public, to inspect the largest and
• best selected Stock of CABINET and UPHOLSTERY
GOODS in England, warranted of the best Materials of
the Society's workmanship, (suitable for all purposes, from
the cottage to the mansion,) enrolled agreeably to Act of
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Mechanics, who all combine to produce only the very best
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Society provide fur its members in sickness and old age,
burial, and fir survivors at death. The Society beg to
return sincere thanks to their numerous Patrons, includ-
lag Royalty, Nobility, and many of the first Families in
the Kingdetn, Ix the extensive and generous patronage
bestowed on them during the last fourteen years, and hope
by their humble endeavours to merit future favours; at
• the same time elrnestly solicit a trial, as the only cri-
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Establishment can be fairly estimated. Every article is
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warded by letter, post-paid only.
By Order of the Trustees,
,Leadeoludl-street. THOS. HASLER, Secretary.

SIR WALTER SCOTT and the CHILDREN

WITH A WATCH.

(From that clever and amusing little work the Toiler.)
Among the Reformers whom Sir Walter Scott lo nours
with the title of children, and who, he says, have got a
watch in their hands, which, in sheer ignorance, they are
breaking to pieces, are to be found the green understand-
ings of the Duke of Sussex, Lord Grey, Lord Holland,
Lord Lansdowne, Lord Plunkett, Lord Aithorp, the Lord
Advocate, and others of his Maj-sty's Ministry and Privy
Council ; and tt.e.e unripe infants are encouraged in their
• sport by the innocent and rosy-checked companionship of
Messrs. Bentham. Bayley, Tooke. Mill, Mimilly, Norman,
Grote, sundry Smith., Joneses, Thompsons, Evanses, and
Napiers, be,ide,i the editors of the best newspapets,
' and of almost all the periodical-.
On the other hand, let us see who are to be found
among Sir Walter's men.—among those masculine under-
standings which are distinguished by their opposition to
these childish ones,—beines of a gigantic re :eh of intellect,
and who impress everybody with a profound sense of it.
There is Sir Charles Wttherell and Sergeant Best, and
the Duke of Newcastle, and the Duke of Wellington (the
" mad 'Minister," as he prs dieted himself), and Lord Lon-
d 'nderry (a gentleman who does not even know what a
nurse is, so long has he outlived the sallies of his child-
hood), and Mr. Perceval (who proposes that hungry men
should fast), and Mr. Goulhurn, and Mr. Bankes, and Sir
Robert Inglis, and Mr. Alderman Atkins, and Sir James
Scarlett (the happiest of calculators), and Mr. Attwood,
and Mr. Sumner (who throws ink-stands), and my Lord
Rolle the grammarian, and the experienced Mr. Praed,
and candid Peel, and comfortable Sugden, and the esti-
mable solidity of John Wilson Croker, and the profound
Duke of Gloucester, and the perfect Duke of Cumberland.
If a Roman Senate ever beat these we will be hanged.
A single Sir Charles Wetherell would have sufficed to
make the Gaul retreat. There is no puerility here, no
childishness either of feeling or understanding, no takers of
virtue for granted, or believers even in such a thing as
change; no breakers of watches out of ignorance, or of
heads, or even of Priscian's head. They have all arrived
at man's estate, some of them at a great !rimy other men's
estates ; and their faculties are in such perfection, that
nothing can stand before them. Sir Charles Wetherell
carries it hollow in the Lower House,
By plain heroic magnitude of mind,"
and in the Upper, the Lord Chancellor, though allowed to
be a precocious young gentleman, has nothing to say for
. . himself. Best, Londvnderrv, and Wellington, all make
f• hint feel his insi3niticance. Ile is the little boy, and they
the great men.
All this is clear as " the sun at noon-day." The child-
hood of the Reformers we allow, and their incompetence to
be watchmen ; but still there is one thing in Sir Walter's
simile which puzzles us. kis accuses these children of
spoiling the watch, by putting the regulator " backwards
and forwards." Now their putting it forwards may be
conceded but how have they attempted to put it back-
wards? We fear it is the unaccountable elders that have
been doing this, and that the sole movements which coo-
atitute the dangerous part of the counteraction are theirs.
The Reformers are simply for putting the regulator t)11.
Ward, because time has advanced ; it is the Anti-Re-
formers who arc for putting it backward; arguing, with
inconceivable strangeness, that no true hands of a watch
are intended to advance with time, but always to remain
at one hour; if at the hour of midnight so much the
better. Our fathers slept happily at that hour, argues Sir
Walter, and therefore why should we ever wake ? It is a
very Fretty " witching time of night ;" and, for my part,
sleep as warm as can be. What signifies how they sleep
in Ireland, or in Kent or Sussex ; or in brick kilns, or at
strret-doors, or on London-bridge, or without a supper, or
after the deaths of three children ? It is very well with
Clerks of Session, I assure you ; and being well with
them, it must be well with every body. If a Clerk of
Session
is Well fed, it shows that the people are all happy
In Gloucestershire.

It is stated that 'Whitehall chapel will not be
°Pfned for divine service for a year and a half to come;
the repairs on the beautiful exterior of the building are
nearly completed, tile rear of the edifice presenting a simi-
hr appearance in architectural embeLishment to the facade.