The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-24 00:00:00

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

The Duke of Beaufort's hounds, Friday, at Chavenage
Green ; Saturday, the Bell, Old Sudbury-10i.
The Craven hounds, Friday, Great Shefford ; Satur-
day, East Woodbury Down-10i.
Earl Fitzwilliam s hounds, Thursday, the Kennel-10.
The Kendal Harriers, Friday, Milnethorpe— 9.
The N.F.H., Thursday, New House ; Saturday, King's
Copse.
The Vine Hounds, Friday, Bramley-11.
The Odiham harriers, Thursday, the Kennel-10.
The Hursley hounds, Friday, Ashley Wood-104.
The U.P. hounds, Friday, Wheelton-11.
The Whitefield harriers, Friday, Norton, Gloucester-
road-10.
The Carlisle hounds,Thursday, Sebergh am Bridge-10.
The Wigton harriers, Friday, Hesket New Market-8.
The Union harriers, Friday, Raby-9.
The Eamont harriers, Saturday, Armathwaite-10i.
Sir John Cope's hounds, Friday, West Green ; Satur-
day, Burfield Scrubbs.
Mr. Brand's hounds, Friday, Hexton-14.
Sir W. Carew's hounds, Thursday, Thorns.
The F.8.H.. Thursday, Roserow-104.
Mr. Watson's hounds, Thursday,Woodhorn Moor-10.
Sir M. W. Ridley's hounds, Thursday, Higham Dykes;
Saturday, Newton Underwood-10i.
The Haydon hounds, Saturday, Gunnerton--9.
The Allendale hounds, Saturday, Bruntridge.
The Slaley Hounds, Saturday, Swallow Slip-9.
The Torquay harriers, Thursday, Higher Rocombe,
The Ayrshire hounds, Thursday, Stairbridge ; Satur-
day, Sornbeg-101.
Boroughbridge harriers. Friday, Thornton Bridge, 101.
Chesterfield harriers, Friday, Glasshouse Common, 94.
Mr. Wyndham's hounds, Friday, KnoyleWindmill, 10.
Lord Portman's hounds, Friday, Milton Park.
The Middleton harriers, Friday, Upton Lovell.
The H.H., Thursday, Nutley Church ; Saturday, Grey-
well Hill.
Mr. Farquharson's hounds, Friday, Winford.
Hambledon hounds, Friday, Swaumore House-101.
The 8.V.H., Saturday, Stalbridge Hill.
Col. G. Wyndham's hounds, Thursday, Valdoe Cop-
pice-113-.
Carmarthen hounds, Friday, Bronwydd Arms-10.
Pantykendy hounds, Thursday, Llanwch-9.
Tivyside hounds, Thursday. Coedmore Lodge Gate, 10.
Viscount Emlyn's hounds, Friday, Hoplas Gate-11.
Pembrokeshire hounds, Thursday, Nayland—lo.

EMIGRATION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin—Seeing that a great movement is in embryo to
seduce an immense troop of our suffering countrymen out
to the inhospitable shores of Australia, in order that the
cry of distress may be shipped away out of our hearing,
I cannot but rejoice to find an able, influential, and ster-
ling advocate like yourself coming before the world, and
lifting up his voice against the dastardly contrivance, in-
-sufferable deception, and reckless project of our enlight-
ened governors, who are busy to bring about this false
and extravagant expedient.
it The money-makers, land-
jobbers, ship-owners, emigration-agents, and emigration-
puffers have had quite too long their own way, and it
is full time that we should be shown the other side of the
picture. Hundreds of families who were doing well in
England have been induced, by the lying advertisements
of such parties, to give up their all, and sink themselves
down in the illusive enterprise of emigration. Thousands,
I can assert, are now pining away in our Australian pro-
vinces, without work, subsistence, or hope, who, had they
stayed at home, and had common liberty been granted
them for the play of their industry, would have been
living in their native country, surrounded with comforts.
Works have been printed and largely circulated to work
'upon the public feeling ; no money has been spared for
this purpose (because it always afterwards pays) to get
purchasers to the land sales ; but any attempt that has
been made to interrupt, or cause a pause for considera-
tion, has always, by well-managed means,been putdown.
Hence I am glad and grateful for the charity ycu have
shown to arrest the current of rapine and destruction
now in operation. Few, it is true, have spoken ill of the
colonies ; but some have attempted to make people ac-
quainted with the prospects awaiting them. I read a
pamphlet published by Smith and Elder, by a Mr. Dixon,
who resided ten years in the colonies of Australia. He
speaks very differently about an adventure to Australia
to what those do who live in London, and have an inte-
rest in sending their fellow-creatures into exile and po-
verty. But such works as this are put aside. They
must not be brought into light ; no, no, it would never
answer. But I trust it will answer you to persevere,
and write down all false, wicked, and inhuman imposi-
tions. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

ONE 'WHO ONCE THOUGHT OF EMIGRATING.
Leicester, Nov. 17, 1841.

We have heard-that a Puseyite Curate of the
Established Church at Lichfield was, on Sunday last, or-
dained a Romari Catholic priest.—Leeds Mercury.

THE LATE LORD ELGIN.

" INfoc,,Fc, Efrz xat xafiTt:
PLUTARCII, Periel. ch. 13.

This Nobleman, to whom England is indebted
for. the most exquisite collection of statues and
antiquities that ever adorned a land—monuments
of art, which Plutarch spoke of in the phrase
above, "as transcendant for their grace and for
their beauty,"—died at his residence in Paris
last Sunday. Hereafter the marbles which are
called by his name will be the best monument
to his remembrance, and their history a lasting
memorial to the boldness and perseverance which
he displayed on the occasion of transferring.
from a foreign soil, and from the hands of illite-
rate and destructive Moslemin, the noblest relics
of Athens, after they had lain almost unnoticed,
and corroded by the lapse of 2,500 years.
Thomas Bruce, K.G., late Earl of Elgin and
Kincardine, and also Baron Bruce of Kinloss
and of Torry in the peerage of Scotland, was
born on the 20th of July, in the year 1766. Hav-
ing entered the army, he rose through its seve-
ral grades till he arrived at the rank of Lieute-
nant-General. His Lordship succeeded to the
honours of his house on the demise of his bro-
ther in 1771.

His Lordship's first marriage was with Mary,
only child of William Hamilton Nisbet, Esq., of
Dirleton, in the county of Haddington, on the 11th
of March, 1799, and by this lady he had issue
George Charles Constantine Lord Bruce, M.P.
for Southampton, now Earl of Elgin, and three
daughters, two of whom are now married. This
marriage, however, being dissolved by Act of
Parliament in 1808 (the Countess wedding sub-
sequently Robert Ferguson, Esq., of Rait), he
married secondly, on the '2lst of September,
1808, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of James
Townsend Oswald, Esq., by whom he has seven
children—viz., four sons and three daughters.
The second son, Robert, is a Lieutenant.Colomel
in the Grenadier Guards, and his first son a Ba-
chelor of Arts. •

His Lordship, the sixth Earl of Elgin, eleventh
Earl of Kincardine, and one of the representa-
tive Peers of Scotland, claims descent from no
less illustrious root than the Royal House of
Bruce, as is indicated by his name. The noble,
but melancholy motto of the " Bruce of Ban-
nockburn" still blazes on his escutcheon, and its
monosyllabic " Fuimus" points to the olden days
of glory. Among his more immediate ancestors is
the Sir Geo. Bruce of Carnocks, who carried on his
great commercial works at that place, and who
petrified King James for an instant when he
was displaying to him his extensive works.
The coal which supplied his immense salt-works
was wrought at a distance under the sea, and
then shipped at a moat under the sea-mark.
James VI. expressed a desire to visit these great
coal-works, and was conducted through them
to the moat, but his Majesty was filled, says
the old historian, with dismay, on finding him-
self in the midst of the sea. He was conducted
back, however, in a pinnace, and sumptuously
entertained by Sir George at his own abbey of
Culross. For Edward Bruce also, one of King
James's trustiest advisers, his Majesty enter-
tained such an affection as to dowry his daugh-
ter Christian with a marriage-portion of 10,0001.
upon the auspicious occurrence of her union.
The wife of William, the eighth Earl, whose
maiden name was Janet Roberton, was noticed by
Hamilton, of Bangour, amongst the first beauties
of the time, and the Countess of Elgin, who died
in 1810, filled, with great credit to herself; the im-
portant station of Governess to the Princess
Charlotte. His Lordship had two seats, one of
which was Archerfield House, and the other
Broom Hall, both in the county of Fife.
But the chaste and spirited sculptures which,
from the hand of the immortal Phidias, adorned
the Parthenon, and gratified the correct eye of
Pericles and all Athens, form the most grand and
noticeable feature of his Lordship's life, and to
these which have given so great a celebrity to
his name we at once proceed. Stepping forward
at the critical moment, and rescuing these pre-
cious remains of art from the destroying hand of
time, and from the more destroying hand of an
uncivilized people, his Lordship bestowed a bene-
fit on the classical and artistic schools of Eng-
land, as well as spreading a taste for the Fine
Arts over the kingdom at large, which will ever
be held to his remembrance. The difficulties he
had to undergo in that task, and the almost in-
superable obstructions which he overcame, will
be seen in the ensuing account, which is that
which generally was accustomed to fall verbatim
from Lord Elgin's own lips:—
The history of these venerated marbles may
be thus succinctly told. Lord Elgin, when he
had just been appointed Ambassador to Con-
stantinople, met with the celebrated Harrison,
of Chester, at Edinburgh, and inquiring of him
how he could best make his residence near
Greece conducive to the promotion of architec-
ture, sculpture, and other arts, lie was advised
by Harrison to have casts taken of the columns,
sculpture, and architecture scattered through-
out Greece, and particularly concentrated at
Athens, chiefly for the purpose of ascertaining
the mode of " turning the volume," and having
the real projection, with the real variety of light
and shade, which must considerably surpass any
drawing or draught. Mr. Harrison also advised
Lord Elgin to take casts of whatever remains of
monuments might still be in existence. Pitt,
Dundas, and Grenville, when applied to by Lord
Elgin to support his project, said they could not
advance the public money for such an under-
taking. Lord Elgin, however, unassisted, sought
out for the best English artists, moulders, de-
signers, &c., but finding that they were in full
employ at home, and demanded an exorbitant
price, he, upon the advice of a friend, secured
the assistance of six distinguished Italians, who
were enthusiastic in the cause, and with them
repaired to the East. With this view he engaged
Signor Lusieri, a painter of reputation, who was
then in the service of the King of the Two Sici-
lies, together with two architects, two mo-
dellers, and a figure painter. These six
foreigners fixed themselves at Athens, in
August, 1800, and prosecuted their enterprise
with ardour. They were at first, however, greatly
discouraged by the Turks, who at that period,
namely, during the occupation of Egypt by the
French, entertained an enmity against all Chris-
tians. The Turkish Government required from
them as large a sum as five guineas for one day's
inspection of the architectural remains. How-
ever, when the English had conquered Egypt
soon after, and then restored it generously to
the Turks, the greatest popularity was enjoyed
by Lord Elgin's confederates. The original ob-
ject of Lord Elgin has been stated above ; but
when he observed the state of things—that the
Turks were daily mutilating the statues, and
using their heads for cannon-balls, and that
European travellers were every day coming and
breaking the statues into fragments, and taking
away portions--he altered his original plan, and
determined upon transmitting to England, all
the valuable monuments he could collect. Lord
Elgin nett 'Obtained from the Turkish Govern-
meilt a full license to examine, measure, and
remove whatever he pleased of these antique
monuments, and lie proceeded accordingly toput
to work at least three hundred workmen.
Several eminent persons had attempted this
achievement, and had obtained similar faculties
from the Porte, but they had uniformly failed.
When Lord Elgin and his associates bad sur-
mounted innumerable difficulties, and embarked
their treasure, the vessel was accidentally driven
upon a rock, and went down with all themarbles.
However, recourse was had to Greek divers, by
whose efforts they were all regained.
Of the entire collection of the Parthenon
marbles, it may not be unworthy of remark,
that the only other piece of sculpture which was
removed from its place for the purpose of ex-
port, was taken by M. Choiseul Gouffier, when
he was Ambassador from France to the Porte.

Lord Elgin's expenses in forming this collec-
tion were large and heavy, they amounted from
1799 toJan. 1803 t 062,4401., including 23,240/.for
the interest of money, and according to a supple-
mental account, continued from 1803 to 1816, his
additional expenses amounted to no less a sum
than 74,0001., including the same sum for interest.
The valuations or money prices set upon them
before they were purchased by the Government
for the British Museum, were widely different.
Mr. Payne Knight estimated them at 25,0001.,
Mr. Hamilton at 60,8001., and the Earl of Aber-
deen's conjectural estimate of the whole, with-
out entering into particulars, was 35,0001. The
Townley collection of marbles, which were in
excellent condition when bought by the British
Museum, were purchased in 1805 for 20,000/. ;
and the marbles at Phigalia, in Arcadia, were
bought at 15,0001. From these comparisons
some estimation of their actual worth may be
deduced.

Considering how highly the cultivation of the
Fine Arts has ever contributed to the reputation,
character, and dignity of every Government by
which they have been encouraged,' and that the
maturing of the popular mind and its growth
towards excellence is opened by the study of
monuments of high art, our Administration did
no mean service to their country by the pur-
chase of these inestimable models.

Lord Elgin was in his 76th year. He was, in
addition to his other titles and offices, a General
of the Royal Archers of Scotland, a favoily
trustee of the British Museum, and a member of
the Privy Council. The Earl was at all times a
generous patron ofliterature, science, and the arts.