The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-25 00:00:00

MR. CRAWSHAY.-HOW TO MAKE

A FORTUNE.

Mr. W. Crawshay, the most powerful of "the Iron
Kings" of the principality, gave a sumptuous enter-
tainment on the 15th instant, to the inhabitants of
Merthyr and Dowlais, at the Bush Hotel, Merthyr.
Upon his health being drunk, Mr. Crawshay gave
she following graphic account of the rise and progress
of his faro& as irenmasters, and of the gradual pro-
wess eft iron trade of South Wales. He said, "I
ask not for public life; I never did; my whole object
being to enjoy the esteem of those I see before me,
and of the men whom I employ ; to know that I en-
joy their goodwill is my greatest gratification. God
grant that my sons at sixty years of age may receive
the same compliment from your successors. My
connexion with this place is so well understood, that
lithe remains for me to tell you ; but, if I do describe
tfflbu the first part of my grandfathers life, I trust
you will receive it in the way in which I intend it.
I mean that it should be heard, not by setting suns in
the world, but by rising suns, and think not,
gentlemen, that I am proud- or make a boast of
my origin ; although I tell these things, and am
in one sense proud of them, yet I do not boast of
them. My grandfather was the son of a re-
spectable farmer at Normanton,in the county of Y
ork.
At the age of 15 father and son differed, my grand-
father could not agree with his father—the reasons
are unknown to me, and my grandfather, an enter-
prising boy, left Normanton, for London, and rode
his pony up. When he got to London, which in
those days was an arduous task of some 15 or 20
days' travelling, he found himself as destitute of
friends as he possibly could be. He sold his pony
for 15/, and during the time that the proceeds of the
pony kept him he found employment in an iron ware •
house, kept by Mr. Bicklewith. He hired himself
for three years for 151., the price of his pony.—
(Cheers.) His occupation was to clean the counting-
house, to put the desks in order for his master and the
clerks, and to do anything else that he was told to do. By
industry, integrity, and perseverance he gained his
master's favour, and in the course of a few months he
was considered decidedly better than the boy who
had been there before him. He was termed 'the
Yorkshire boy, and the Yorkshire boy, gen-
tleman, progressed in his master's favour by
bis activity, integrity, and perseverance. He had
a very amiable and good master, and at the end of a
very short period, before he had been two years in his
place, he stood high in his master's confidence. The
trade in which he was engaged was only a cast-iron
warehouse, Riad his master assigned to him, the York-
shire boy, the privilege of selling flat irons, the things
with which our shirts and clothes are flattened. The
washerwomen of London were sharp folks, and when
they bought one flat iron they stole two. Mr. Bickle-
with thought the best person to cope with them would
be a person working for his own interest, and a
Yorkshireman at the same time. My grandfather
sold those articles, and that was the first matter of
trading that ever he embarked in in his life. By
honesty and perseverance he continued to grow in his
master's favour, who, being an indolent man, in a few
years retired, and left my grandfather in possession
of this cast-iron business in London. That business
was carried on on the very site where I now spend
my days, in York -yard, London. Various vicissi-
tudes in trade took place in the course of my time.
My grandfather left his business in London and came
down here, and my father, who carried it on, supplied
him with money almost as fast as he spent it here,
but not quite so fast ; and it is there I spend my
time, engaged in selling the produce of this country,
and you know to what an extent the iron produce of
this country has risen up. My grandfather esta-
blished the ironworks at Merthyr and Cyfartha, but
my father was not left the whole of the Cyfartha
establishment—he was only left three-eighths of it—
but by purchase he obtained the whole of it, and by
his benevolence I have succeeded to it. During my
time the concern has not dimished, and I pray God
it never may diminish; and I hope the rising gene-
ration will see that by industry, integrity, and perse-
verance wealth and rank in life, in the profession they
have chosen, are attainable by everybody. Who started
with humbler prospects than my granfather ? No
man in this room is so poor but that he can command
fifteen pounds. I have told you this before, and lam
proud of it. Depend upon it that any young man
who is industrious, honest, and persevering will be
respected in any class of life he may move in; and
do you think, gentlemen, that there is a man in
England prouder than I am at this moment ? What
is all the world to me unless they know me ? And
you all know me, and you would not be here to-
night unless you thought me entitled to your good-
will."—(Cheers.)

DISEASE AMONGST POTATOES.—It is with great
concern and regret that we are obliged to notice the fact
of disease now existing in potatoes to a considerable ex-
tent. During the last month (Sept.) it had been no-
ticed here and there, and spoken about, though sparingly,
it having been the general opinion that it could hardly
be expected this year's produce would be entirely free
from disease, as must probably some few among the seed
potatoes might have been slightly diseased, and have
escaped detection. Until within the last fiwtnight this
was generally thought to be the extent of the evil ; but
the potatoes brought to this city on the last two market
days have shown it to be otherwise, for no; only were
partially diseased ones observed amongst them in several
instances, but after they had been kept a few days, the
number of infected potatoes was found to have increased.
The disease communicating thus rapidly, sugg sty at
once (now that the season for storing them has arrived),
the great importance of thoroughly examining those
which are to be laid up, and of adopting the most ap-
troved plans for keeping them in a sound state as long as
possible. There were fewer carts with potatoes in our
narket on the last two Saturdays than there had been
or several weeks previous, and the price which had
some down to fourpence and fourpence-balfpenny per
stone, has now risen again to fivepence-halfpenny and
six pen ce. —Carlisle Journal.
The Observer, of yesterday, Oct. 24, gave eight
folio columns of Commercial and Monetary Aflairs, up
to the latest period of Saturday. The Observer, of Sun-
day, Oct. 10 and 17, which together contained sixteen
folio columns of City Intelligence, Revenue Tables, &c.,
have been twice reprinted, and copies: of either can be
had all this month (October). Price of the Observer (40
columns), 6d. There is scarcely a club-house, institu-
tion. library, or news• room, in all England, Scotland,
Ireland, the Continent, East and West Indies, America,
&a.. in which the Observer is not taken in, and fre-
quently duplicate copies. The extensive publication of
the Ohserner commences at six and concludes at ten
o'clock on Sunday morning. A Monday edition of the
Observer, with accurate Markets, best adapted for the
country and abroad, is regularly published at tour
o'clock on Monday afternoon. It will be seen by the
subjoined article that the Observer, of Oct. 24, will fur.
nish the latest possible iutelligence to the United
States:—From the Observer, Sunday, Oct. 24—., De-
parture of the steamer Washington from Sonthampton,
this day.—The great importance of every hour's intelli-
gence at this particular crisis in mercantile and mone-
tary, affairs induced Mr. Peabody, a gentleman lung
connected with she American press, to send copies of
to-day's Observer by a special messenger to Suuthsmp-
ton, to be ulaced on ward the steamer Washington, for
the New York and Boston papers. This vessel was to
leave Southampton at an early hour this morning for
New York. The Observer is the only London paper ac-
tually printed and published to-day which will be sent
from England to America by this conveyance, and it
contains, consequently, one day's later news. We
should remark, that this spirited effort on the part of the
gentlemen referred to, is only another instance of his
successful endeavour to convey to his countrymen the
latest European intetligence."
• DESPERATE LEAP PROM WESTMINSTER -BRIDGE.
—On Saturday forenoon, about eleven o'clock, con-
siderable excitement was created amongst the persons
passing over Westminster-bridge, by an attempt at
suicide. It appears that the unfortunate individual is
named Crawleyshire, and has long carried on an exten-
sive building establishment in Derby. During the past
few days he has been visiting the mq&opolis. At the
boor before stated, he was observed to bsount one of the
pier heads of the bridge; and bcfure he could be stopped
be leaped head-foremost into the river. An instant
alarm was given, and in the course of a few seconds, a
son of William Campbell, and another waterman, rowed
to the unfortunate man, and at great risk succeeded in
palling
him into their boat. They then conveyed him
Westminster g
Hospital, where he was put into a warm
bath, and everything done for him that the nature of
his case required;
and it is to be hoped that he may
recover from th
lust idea
can tae effects of his submersion. Not the
formed as to what induced the party to
make such a desperate
attemptl uprri his life.
Assoc rATION
AND Scisoos.s.---An assoZt!ItECTION OF CHURCHES
_told, for the erection of either(' 16
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forming,
we areem tporary or permanent
churches and schools, for such parishes or clergymen as
may require them,--and to rent or lease them, as is
done in the case of buildings intended forca temporal pur-
individual
poses. The plan has been pursued
churchesf have
Hague
enterprise) for some time, and various('
---.4htis been constructed, including one for
the Vvlsieh was commenced and finished within rt, en
days). The rent has, in no case, been calculateoC;
higher average than at a rate of 2d. per week, or Bsat6cr
per year, each sitting.—Ruilder.
END OF THE LONG Vecanox.----Yesterday the
long vacation, properly so now called, terminated. By
the alterations consequent on the passing of the Uni-
formity of Process Act, no declaration, plea, replication,
or other pleading can be filed or delivered between the
10th of August and the 24th of October. This day
(toe 25th) may therefore be considered as the first day
of the practical term, as declarations may now be filed
or delivered ; and in all cases where the parties' time
for pleading. replying, rejoining, demurring, &c., ex-
pired on the 10th of August, such plea, replication, or
other pleading must be delivered this day to prevent
judgment. The time for appearing after service of a
writ of summons, viz. eight days, was not affected by
the limitation of the' time for other proceedings, but a
defendant served with a copy of writ of summons as
bound to appear within the eight days after service.
THIII METROPOLITAN BENEFIT SOCIETY'S ASYLUM.
—The Venerable Archdeacon Manning has presented
W. to this valuable institution, the objects of which are
warmly supported and advocated by Lord Robert
Grosvenor and Lord John Manners. Several Provident
and. Benevolent Institutions have also.
donations to its funds,recently presented