The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-12 00:00:00

GLASGOW.

We have been requested to state, on the best autho-
rity, that Mr. Hastie. the Lord Provost, will most cer-
tainly present himself to the electors as a candidate, and
that formal intimation of this will be given in due time.
—Glasgow Chronicle.
NORTH DURHAM.

None of the candidates have yet commenced a perso-
nal canvass, but Mr. Shafto's agents in each polling dis-
trict are working in a quiet way to advance the interests
of their candidate; and Mr. Shafto has addressed to
each elector the following circular:—
" Having offered myself as a candidate for the northern
division of the county of Durham, I take the liberty of
soliciting the favour of your vote and interest. I shall
take an early opportunity of paying my respects to
every elector in the division ; and I hope, in the mean-
time, I may be excused for soliciting by letter a favour
which is not in my power to ask in person at the present
moment."
It is now certain that Lord Seaham will not be a can-
didate, and there are indications that the influence of
Lord Londonderry will be quiescent in the approaching
struggle. Colonel Beckwith's party speak very confi•
dently of success, but there is no apparent concert be-
tween the Liceral candidates, and a coalition is now con-
sidered barely possible. If each candidate stands a con
test independent cf rival interests, the struggle will be
an arduous one in the present divided state of the Con-
servative party.

DURHAM CITY.
There will, in all probability, be a very animated con
sst for the city of Durham. Mr. Granger, the present
Liberal Member, will be again a candidate, with the
certainty of his election. Mr. Bright having some time
ago intimated his intention to retire, Colonel Thomas
W ood, now M.P. for Middlesex, and nephew of the
Marquis of Londonderry, is to be the candidate in the
Wynyard influence. His chance of success is doubtful,
as the differences between the Conservative a and Lord
Londonderry, arising out of the election of Mr. Bright,
are not unoerstood to be adjusted, and an influential
party of Conservatives will not support any candidate
brought forward in the Wynyard interest whilst past
misunderstandings remain unsettled. If the Conserva-
tives iteuld be brought to act with cordial union they
could si cure one seat. A second Liberal candidate in
the person of Mr. Fawcett, of Durham, Iligh Sheriff of
the ,cuunty, is expected to be in the field, and as he is
very popular in the city with the Liberal party, and has
many private friends who will not oppose him on the
,;cord
of politics, it is not improbable but he will beat a
Peel Ooptiervative, even under the powerful influence of
Lord Londonderry. _ _

PORTSMOUTH.
Two Tory candidates are announced, Captain Camp-
bell, R.N., and Mr. William Jones.

STAMFORD.
A meeting of a number of electors was held 'at the
George and Angel Inn on Wednesday, at which it was
resolved to send a requisition to Mr. J. Bolt, Q,.C., of
the Chancery bar, soliciting him to become a candidate
in the independent interest. From a statement made at
the meeting, it is fully expected that the requisition
will be accepted. It has been stated, from good autho-
rity, that the Marquis of Granby will again be a candi-
gthpeapßeru.rghley interest has
ndosttebe;enthme
eonthtieorned nominee
Aie rnNORTH CHESHIRE.
li
(From the Chester Courant.)
A meeting for promoting the election of Mr. W.
Tatton Egerton and the Right Hon. E. J. Stanley as
Members for North Cheshire, on the expected dissolu-
tion of Parliament, was held at Knutsford on Monday
last, and further adjourned to the 17th inst. From
statements submitted to the meeting there seems to be
no doubt that this political compromise will be success-
fully carried into effect, as the promises of support are
sufficient to secure for those gentlemen a majority of the
constituency. He will, therefore, be not only a bold but
a rash man who shall venture into the field to op pose so
formidable a coalition.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
(From the Cambridge. Advertiser.)

We hear that Mr. Maun6ell will not again come fora
ward as a candidate for North Northamptonshire, and it
is definitely arranged for Mr. Vernon Smith to solicit
the suffrages on Liberal principles. It is said tbat the
Conservatives have no objection to this arranpanent,
provided Mr. A. S. O'Brien is unopposed; but many of
the Whigs are confident that two Liberals may be re-
turned, viz., Mr. V. Smith and Mr. Jones Loyd, the
eminent banker, who owns considerable property in this
division of the county. Should both declare themselves
candidates it is thought that Mr. O'Brien will retire
rather than enter upon an expensive contest.
PETERBOROUGH.
(From the Cambridge Advertiser.)
All is quit t respecting Peterborough. Sir TL Heron
will retire, after tstenty-five years' faithful service; and
it is determined that Mr. Fitzwillitan and Mr. Caveudish
will be the future representatives.

, 84c.—After a month's
THE WEATHER, TRADE
undisturbed sunshine the temperature has become cooler, and
several refreshing showers have Wien during the present
w week. This ill be most favourable for the crops, eqiccially
on
potatotls are lo
in doking exceedingly well, ai there
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tsiti!i t,Ts lauds;
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the wheat
nuit-
tro, are mud.. infested with insects, chose ravages
have much [hinted what bid fair to be an extraordinarily
heavy crop. Since the price of grain has fallen there appeah
to beet better feeling among manufacturers, and the money
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AZOlittan

CAXTON MONUMENT.
(THIS DAY.)
A public meeting was this day held in the Great
Room of the Society of Arts, John-street, Adelphi, for
the purpose of promoting the erection of a monument to
commemorate the introduction of printing into this
country, and in honour of William Caxton, the earliest
English printer.
The chair was taken at two o'clock by the Right lion.
Lord Morpeth.
The meeting was numerously and respectably attended,
and among those present we observed—Rev. H. Milman,
Mr. J. S. Buckingham, Mr. Macready, Dr. Nuttall, LL.D.,
Alderman Wood, Charles Barry, Esq., Jordan,
Esq., D. Maclise, Esq., R.A., E. IL Bailey, Esq., R.A.,
Dr. Cuming, &c.
Lord MORPETH having been called to the chair, said—
Gentlemen, in proceeding to take the chair upon this
occasion, I am fully convinced that my filling so promi-
nent a place, and in an assembly so distinguished, must
be entirely attributable to the nature of the official posi-
tion which I occupy, and to the circumstance of its being
in some measure connected with the superintendence
of that part of our metropolis which has been designed
as the most appropriate site for the proposed monument
in honour of Caxton. You must all of you be aware
that the credit of this movement, if I may so term it,
whether in its original suggestion, or in the force and
feeling • with which it has been put forward, is
entirely due to my ljaverend Friend Mr. Milman.
I think you will be disposed fully to agree with me, that
the impulse could not have come from a more appro-
priate quarter ; for with respect to his official position it
is most fisting that a dignitary of the Abbey Church of
Westminster should have taken the leading part in a
proposition to do honour to the man who plied his
Florins craft within its hallowed precincts, and
in his individual capacity it is surely fitting
that a proposition to do honour to the earliest
English printer should have been suggested
by one who in many of its highest departments
has occupied so large and continuous a renown in English
literature. The appeal which my Rev. Friend has put
forward fully explains the grounds of the proposal of
which it treats, and they are such as I am sure must be
thoroughly understood and appreciated by such
an enlightened auditory as that which I have now
the honour of addressing. It will not be necessary that
I should remind them of the history, the merits, or the
claims of William Caxton. The authentic details of his
career are not so numerous as its achievements are me-
morable, and its whole tenor honourable to himself and
creditable to the country of which he was a citizen.—
(Hear, bear.) Born among the Wealds of Kent, among
speakers of what he himself termed the broad and
rude English of his day, he seems to have
derived from that genuine English soil much of its racy
and hearty spirit. At an early period of his life we find
him transferred to a decidedly metropolitan existence,
inasmuch as he became an inmate of the parish of St.
Margaret, and a member of the Mercers' Company.
But he was not confined either to a rustic or a cockney
life, for we find soon afterwards that Edward IV.
made him his agent for agreeing upon a treaty of com-
merce with the Duke of Burgundy, and there
have been assemblies in this country who would have
been well pleased to connect the first English printer
with some of the earliest practical expositions of the doc-
trines of free trade.—(Hear, hear.) Passing from that
topic to one more immediately concerning ourselves, we
find that it was as a sojourner at the Court of Bruges,
and as a servant in the service of Margaret
of Burgundy, that his attention must have been
attracted by the progress of that memorable discovery
in the noble states of Germany, which has been calcu-
lated, beyond all others, to afft ct the condition of the
state and destiny of our race. It was there that his in-
genuity must have been exercised upon those practical
details and mechanical contrivances, the difficulty and
expensiveness of which we are even now hardly able to
calculate, and it was there that he was first fired with the
glorious ambition of transferring to his own country that
copious spring of power and progress which be had seen
swelling up among the other civilised nations of Chris-
tendom. Whatever were his day dreams on this sub-
ject, he lived fully to realise them all. We find him
next, having returned to his own country, under the
auspices of the brilliant Edward, honoured, it would
seem, with the confidence of the accomplished Rivers,
and established, as I have already said, within
the actual precincts of the Abbey of Westminster,
and regularly dubbed " Anglia Prototypographers."
It is for the antiquarians to compile an authen-
tic list of his publications, but I believe that no
less than 64 works issued from the press of the earliest
English printer. It is sufficient for me to state that he
was the first person who gave that vogue which
printing only can give to the works of Chaucer, and
whose services to English literature he seems fully to
have estimated ; and I believe there is authority
for stating that he was a party to erecting
a monument to his remains. Besides the works
of Chaucer, he published those of Gower
and Lydgate. I do not know how I can better
illustrate his tendencies, and the disposition which,
through a long life, seemed to have verged very strongly
towards chivalry and piety, than by mentioning what
were his first and last publications. His first was the
tale of " Troy Divine;" his last was " The Lives
of the Holy Fathers," which be appears to have
completed on the very day which closed his
useful and pregnant life.—(Cheers.) Here, then,
I leave him, Gentlemen, to your discriminating esti-
mation, and to that suitable acknowledgment which,
having been but too long deferred by many succeeding
generations of his countrymen, it is now your privilege to
offer. Many of our warriors, of our statesmen, of our
sages, and our poets, have not wanted the votive marble
or the commemorative statue. But I would beg
to remind you how much every one of these
has been indebted to the invention of print-
ing, of which, however, it is the main value and
the distinguished boast, that it does not confine its
benefits to a distinguished few, to the favourites of for-
tune, or to the idols of society, but that it penetrates,
and gladdens, and enriches the masa and the many.—
(Cheers.) It is true that Homer, Plato, Virgil, and
Cicero attained their celebrity and their empire over
the minds of men before the existence of printing-
presses ; but it is the newspaper on every breakfast
table—Shakspere in every village library—the Bible
in every cotta,e—(Cheers)—it is the English primer
among the wilds of Australia, the English hymn book
in the streams of the Missouri—these are the products
and triumphs of printing.—(Cheers.) It is possible that
when the day—l believe I need not talk of possibility)
it appears that in our own day the electric telegraph
may make the operation of printieg proceed with
the rapidity of the lightning ; but, by honouring the
first introducer of that great invention, we are setting
the best example to succeeding races to pay the debt
which in its turn may become due to all the lengthened
series of great discoveries.—(Cheers.) I believe that
ten years have only elapsed since the men of Germany
amply redeemed the obligation which undoubtedly rested
upon them of erecting a monument to Guttenburg in
his own city of Mayence, and I belive the
genius of Thorwaldsen was engaged in moulding a
monument to that benefactor of his sp. cies. It is full
time that England should show how much she owes of
what she now is to the genius of the first English
printer.—(Cheers.) It is, therefore, with no doubtful
or hesitating feeling that I call upon the citizens of this
great metropolis, on the inhabitants of this flourishing
kingdom, the subjects of this extended empire, to pay the
debt which I conceive to be due to the merits and to
the fame of William Caxton.—(Cheers.) The exact de-
tails and design of the monument which your liberality
may enable us to rear to give effect to this pur-
pose had, perhaps, better be reserved for more
mature and select consideration. It certainly
appears to me that the suggestion contained
in the letter of my Rev. Friend, Mr. Milman, of making
the monument to the earliest printer indicative of puri-
fying and illuminating influences, is a very happy one.—
But, at all events, we shall all agree that the proposed
site for the monument is eminently appropriate. There
let it stand close to the haunts of his youthful industry
and of his life-long labours, associated with all the
venerable recollections of surrounding antiquity, and
serving also to date the enterprising efforts of modern
improvement. There let itstand close to that stream which
floats upon its tido that mighty commerce of the British
empire, to whose infinite expansion he was called upon
to contribute--close to those halls of the Legislature,
which, by their ancient recollections, and by their mo-
dern splendours, are worthy of the country and of their
own distinction—and, above all, close to that famed
Abbey which has raised its requiems over so many
immortal names—names which no one has done more
than Caxton to make heirlooms of our British glory.—
(Cheers.)
The Dean of WESTMINSTER and other speakers ad-
dressed the meeting, and the following resolutions were
unanimously passed :
" 1. That it is desirable to have some national testi-
monial to commemorate the introduction of printing
into England, and in honour of William Caxton, the
earliest English printer."
" 2. That the proper site for any work of art would
be the west front of Westminster Abbey, at the end
of the new Victoria-street.
"3. That a General Committee be requested to act
(three being a quorum), with liberty to add to their
numbers, and that the following constitute a Sub-Com-
mittee, to determine the nature, site, and details of the
erection of any work of art:—
" Charles Barry, Esq., R.A.
" Etty, Esq., R.A.
" Sir Riceard Westmacott, R.A.
" The Dean of Westminster."
"4. That public subscriptions in aid be received; that
the Rev. H. 11. Milman be the treasurer, and Mr. H.
Cole the secretary."
The thanks of the meeting were then given to the
Chairman, and the meeting broke up.

BRISTOL. SUGAR MARKET, JUNE 11.—Prices have
further given way this week, w,thuut however, brin4ing
the buyers freely into the market, and the transactions
since our last are merely for immediate purpo,es ; the
arrivals ure gravy and the assortment large. In rum
there is nothing doing, and purchases can be made on
easier terms. Thu refined market continues steady.—
,Bristoi Mercury.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS, June IL

Their Lordships met at Five o'clock.
Messengers from the Commons brought up several
Bills, which were ordered to lie on the tabie.
LUNATIC ASYLUMS (IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, this Bill was
read a third time and passed.
HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL.
The Marquis of NORMANBY presented petitions
from Birmingham in favour of the Health of Towns
Bill; also from Warwick, Canterbury, Coventry, and
other places, to the same effect.
PORTUGAL.

Lord STANLEY wished to know if the Noble Mar-
luis the Presidtnt of the Council had issued any in-
structions with respect to the prisoners of war that
might be taken by our naval forces off Portugal; and if
so, if he had any objection to lay them before their
Lordships.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that he had not
received the papers, and therefore he could not give an
explicit answer to the inquiry; but he might observe
that the surrender of the prisoners had been made with-
out any conditions, and that they were not subject to
&by peculiar restrictions.
Lord BROUGHAM then gave notice that he should
bring the subject of the armed interference v ith the in-
ternal affairs of Portugal before the House on Tuesday
next, and he trusted therefore that any information
which the Government might possess would be laid
before the House.

Lord STANLEY said that, under the circumstances,
and in consideration of the intimation of his Noble and
Learned Friend near him, he begged to give notice
that, on Tuesday next, he should move that their Lord-
ships should take into consideration the present state of
the affairs of Portugal, with a view to obtain further
information than any which they at present possessed.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that all
he had to state was that he really possessed
no further information than that which he bad already
given.
Lord BROUGHAM begged to explain, that as his
Noble Friend had given nutice of a motion, he would
withdraw his own inquiry.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH thought that good
reasons ought to be shown why this interference had
taken place, for the decrees of the Queen had been issued
on the 7th of October, and this interference had only
taken place within the week.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE—That might be at-
tended to at a future time.

SPANISH BONDS.
Lord BROUGHAM begged to present a petition
from the Society of the Spanish Bondholders, praying
the interference of the Government in their behalf,
and that the authorities in Spain might be induced to
pay the arrears of their debts. In making this motion
he could not but observe that it was equally detestable
and dishonourable for men to repudiate their debts, as had
been done with so much shamelessness by other countries.
The petition stated that the Spaniards had the means of
paying, for their revenue had greatly increased since
the debt was contracted. The petitioners prayed that
their Lordships would take their case into their most
serious consideration.

GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN
RAILWAY.
Earl FITZWILLIAM was desirous of calling the
attention of their Lordships to the report which had
been laid upon the table of the House of Commons re-
lating to the great Southern and Western Railway of
Ireland. 'lle report, which had been prepared by Mr.
W alker, recommended the encouragement of these un-
dertakings as one of the best means for getting rid of some
of the prevailing evils of Ireland. Hitherto the labourers of
Ireland had been unaccustomed to receive money wages,
but the introduction of these works into the sister king-
dom had produced a great change in that respect, and
he thought Government could not do better than give
their assistance to similar undertakings. He begged to
move that the paper be laid upon the table of the House.
Motion agreed to.
NATIONAL EDUCATION SCHOOLMASTERS
IN HOLY ORDERS.
The Bishop of EXETER rose for the purpose
of bringing forward the motion of which he had given
notice, a few days since, That it is the opinion of this
House that persons in holy orders not exercising eccle-
siastical functions, ought not, as such, to be ineligible to
the office of schoolmasters in schools receiving the aid of
Parliamentary grants. In bringing forward that motion
he felt deeply impressed with the necessity of her
Majesty's Government adopting that resolution. It was
highly necessary, for the benefit of the rising gen.eration,
that the principle of his motion should be carried out.
Many of those whose interests he was advocating were
persons of the greatest intelligence, and though not men
of the wcrld, they had their hearts free from those in-
fluences which would disable them from discharging the
duties of teachers, and were peculiarly well qualified to
impart instruction. He said that the Noble Marquis, on
the 25th August last, when the Minutes of Council were
drawn up, had made no conditions which excluded
clergymen from: the situation of schoolmasters. The
inquiry was as it affected the clergy. What was the fit-
ness or the unfitness of deacons to teach? It appeared
by the resolutions, that the parochial clergy were to
assistin the examinations, and if that were so, it followed
as a natural consequence that there must be a course of
instruction in which he could concur, for if it were not,
how could they take part in the examination ? Then
there was another question raised by these reselutions,
and that was as to how far the doctrines thought in the
school were in accordance with those of the Church of
England, and in conformity with the principles of the
authorised version of the Bible. The Right Rev. Prelate
then read a series of extracts from the resolutions, in
order to show the restrictions which are imposed upon
the clergy of the Church of England. He could not un-
derstand why a clergyman could be eligible to the office of
inspector, and yet be deprived of performing the functions
of a schoolmaster. It was an anomaly he could not account
for, and he hoped the Noble Marquis would explain
clearly and distinctly why so singular a distinction was
made. If a clergyman were incompetent to fulfil the
duties of one situation, surely he was capable of perform-
ing the functions of the other, and he must confess to
their Lordships, that he was quite at a loss to conceive
upon what grounds this resolution of the Council was to
be justified. The motives which governed the Wes-
leyan body in their recent negotiations were evidently
that they wished the Government to support them, and
that the same assistance should be refused to all
other sects, except those who might happen to agree in
the same religions opinions as themselves. That body
had most strenuously opposed the appointment of or-
dained persons to the situation of
.schoolmasters.
And the Government had, in his opinion, most
improperly given way to these objections. There
was one point to which he wished to call the
attention of their Lordships in the correspondence that
passed between the Committee of the Wesleyan body
and the Lord President of the Committee of Privy Coun-
cil, and that was with respect to the liturgy and cate-
chism of the Church of England. The Noble Marquis
had consented, in reply to the application ot the Wesleyan
body, -to permit the catechism and liturgy to be dis-
pensed with in their schools, and thereby encouraged the
Wesleyans in their resistance to the original minutes and
regulations on education. Ile denounced this conduct
of the Noble Marquis as most unjust, and a breach of
faith with the Established Church. But this was not
only done now for the first time, but the act itself was in
direct violation of the trust deed under which the Coun-
cil of Education was established. The schools carried
on with the funds raised by the minute of Council were
conducted upon the principles of the Established Church,
and yet their Lordships had an instance of her Majesty's
Government committing themselves to a course of pro-
ceeding that was in direct violation of those principles.
The schools established by the Wesleyans were formerly
only two per cent. of the whole number in existence.
and it was too bad that a body who had only availed
themselves of the minutes of the Council to so small an
extent should be suffered to extort such terms as those ,
of which he complained.—(Hear, hear.) What had the
Wesleyans done to entitle them to this concession, if
concession it were to be called? Why, on all occasions
they resisted the progress of education when based upon
Church principles. They resisted the educational
clauses of the Factories Bill in 1839, and • on every oc-
casion they had shown themselves antagonistic to all
advancement or improvement in the Church of England.
He would nut detain their Lordships further, but simply
move the resolution of which he had given notice—
namely, " That it is the opinion of this louse that per-
sons in holy orders not exercising ecclesiastical func-
tions ought not, as such, to be ineligible to the office of
schoolmaster in schools receiving aid from the Parlia-
mentary grants."
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE (who was, as usual,
inaudible in the gallery) was understood to say that the
motion of the Right Rev. Prelate expressed nothing, and
when carried it could be productive of no good. It was
proposed by this motion covertly, if not directly. to
establish the rule, that the education to be afforded by
the public money voted by the state to the council of
education should be conducted and administered only by
clergymen of the Church of England. Now, such a re-
solution would be in direct violation of the opinions of
Parliament, already expressed upon this subject. The
Honse of Commons voted the money for the purpose of
education, and to no other purpose could it be applied;
and yet, in the face of all this, here was
the Right Reverend Prelates asking their Lord-
ships to pass a resolution to sanction the
diversion of these educational grants to the promotion
of the Church. He could not consent to such a pro-
ceeding, but if the Church really required the aid of ad-
ditional funds to secure the services of a new class of
clergymen, let the Church come forward and tell the
Parliament and the country so, and not seek to attain the
object by indirect means. Let them understand what
they were about, and if they were to vote money for
educational purposes let the funds be applied to those
purposes, and to none other. The Right liev.v,Phi.trheltahhtee
himbwsedsaiecycaunsesdupon
tohfisa
subject.breach of faith
For
thein
could not see how he had laid himself oja.!lnel. to
such a charge. Parliament voted the
funds for the purposes
cat ion
Wesleyan
body grants m education,formed
He
doblwnae
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labtlheetsoe
theed
large proportion of the population of this' cwoulentr
could be blamed then, or how could he have laid himself
open to the charge of a breach of faith by consenting to
an arrangement proposed by the Wesleyans, which was
strictlyin accordance with the spirit and principle of the
grant, and would do away with the objections they must
Otherwise entertain, to participating in funds voted by
the suite. The Wesleyans Wele a most numerous and
powerful body, and he consider, d that it was his duty
to hear their opinions on the subject. And it, was be •
cause he thus acted that he had fallen under the censure
of the Right Rev. Prelate, and he was not ashamed
, of
the course of conduct which he had pursued. The re-
quest of the Wesleyan body was the most rational one
that could possibly be made to the Government. The
representatives of the whole body were abyut to went