The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-14 00:00:00

obtain last quarterly saio'i rates. Spanish is little re,
quired, and a public sale of 150 serum; ut Guatemala is
antiouneed to take place. _
CoCELISEA.—This afternoon at public sale 43 bzzs
Cochineal went at a decline ~r Id to 2d per lb.
SALTPETRE.—HuIders of rough are not disposed to
accept lower rates at present, I:ldiot:eh large parcels
have been imported sine, this ray a, ek. Oo the psrt
of expurter.,s_aucl tile:borne sittde.:l,:t•S desire, however,
has been shown to. operate, and_ privately only small
p ace. - have been sold-. At auction 500 hags were Taken
in above-the-value. British Refined l'as been in excellent
request at the improved rates of 33s 6(1 to 345. For
Nitrate of Soda the demand is on the itiereese, and there
are no sellers under 13s per cwt.

OlLS—This afternoon 43 tun. f'Spermatpublicsalesold
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at 841 to 851 for foreign, and 87/. for headinatter. 60 tuns
Southern \\'hale sold—best double c..mpass fo.- 26/ 10S,,
single at 251 15s, and low black to middling pale 231 to
251 54 per tun, twin,* steady prices.
TALLOW.—This :csitternoon the pubLc sales went off
quiftly at elisiior rittr.s ; 199 pp South Ar:.erican st fling
at 45 to 46- 9‘l; Auntraiitut 455-6 t to 47i
61 ; 220 casks 01 Odessa taken in at 46, 9,1 to 475, mid
SO casks of tirA sort P.Y.C. at 47.61 to 4.9:2 3d per Cwt.
at ti which are ail Inwer prices.

A NEW PLANET.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—At half-past nine o'clock this evening I no-
ticed what appearcd to be a star of the 8 9 magnitude
in the 19th hour of right as not marked upou
Wolfer's map, and which I never saw before, though
1 have repeati illy rxamiced this part of the i evvens
during the present summer. Micometric observa•
tions by Mr. Bishop and myself have shown it to be a
new planet, evidently belonging to the group between
Mars and Jupiter its observed positions are :
G. M. T. H. A. Dccl.
h. m. s. d m.s. d. rn. a.
Aug. 13 at 9 35 17 ... 299 22 40.4 ... 13 27 2.5.7
10 45 19 ... 299 22 2.9 ... 13 `,7 31.3
I remain, Sir, yours vi•ry resp,cituity,
J. .
Mr. Bishop's Observatory, Friday night. U HIND.
WINCHESTER COLLEGE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
SIR,—In the absence of the Warden from Win-
chester, I trust I may be allowed to trespass on your
columns with one or two observations on the litter
signed " klumanitas et Yentas," in your paper of
to-day.
Now that the boys are dispersed for the holidays,
it is difficult to speak with perfect confidence of the
facts as they occurred on the Bth of July, in the case
of the little boy to whom your correspondent refers.
As far, however, as I can ascertain them, they are
these :—lle was sent to watch out at cricket for some
of the prefects ; and at the end of two hours was at
liberty to leave off, accordir g to a rule laid down
some years since by the present Warden, and, as far
as I know, always most punctually and cheerfully
obeyed. The day being one on which the usual
arrangements of time Vier? broken up on account of
preparation for the holidays, other prefects came to
play, and the game was continued. The boy in,
question was well pleased to go on watching out,
without claiming his exemption, and did so much
longer than was good for him; and the result is that
he is very ill—not, as the surgeon assures me, dan-
gerously, at present, but still very ill.
In this particular case, therefore, I have nothing to
add, except that, according to the IVt.rden's under.
taking, the circumstances will be exactly inquired
into on the return of the boys to school, and dealt
wish justly and impartially. The boy himself has
always seemed to he a cheerful, happy boy, and got a
prize in his class this half year.
But your correspondent does not merely wish to
draw your attention to this case. Ile protests
" against the whole system of tagging carried on and
allowed at 11'inchester--igainst giving the prefects
such uncontrolled power."
I beg that 3 our correspondent will observe that
where a large number of boys,from eleven to eighteen
years old, are assembled together, there is, indepen-
dently of all insti'utions, a great darget—indeed, a
certain prospect, that strength will often overrule and
tyrannise over weakness.

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If these tendencies are to he left simply to them-
selves, a fearful amount of cruelty, wantonness, and
• suffering will he sure to take place.
If it is attempted to control them by very close and
minute superintendence of masters, not only must the
attempt inevitably fail from the simple impossibility
of instituting and maintaining a superintendence suf-
' ficiently minute, but also the whole prospect of tree
and manly growth of minds and characters is de-
stroyed.
The system of fagging is a system (and the only*
one that I know that is capable of doing its work) of
government and protection. It gives to a definite
number of the most select boys in the school a re-
sponsible authority. It intrusts them with a limited
control, and places in their hands the duty of resisting
the tyranny of mere strength. Upheld by the school
authorities, and made strictly responsible, it furnishes
the noblest method of forming the characters of these
who exercise et, and those who live under it. I so-
lemnly declare that 1 could not bear the wei:Tht of
having 'leder my care 200 youths of such various
age, character, parentage, and habits it I lied not the
comfort of knowing that ;here was among them such
gradation of order and authority, such well under-
stood responsibility, and such established obedience,
as I:efel rue to believe that protection is enforced, order
maintaireJ, ar:d duty done, where neither my own.
eyes nor those of other masters can possibly_ see them.
If it is alleged that at Winchester this power is
excessive, or not sufficiently responsible, my reply is
that I know better.
So far from being excessive, it is hardly great
enough. In far the greatest number of instances
which I have known in which boys have suffered ill-
treatment, the cruelty has proceeded from great boys
in the lower parts of the school, the prefects having
been (as must occasionally happen) either timid or
feeble in their prevention of it. •
So far from not being sufficiently responsible, it is
the very first point in our administration of the school
to enforce this responsibility, because we are confi-
dent that upon it depends not only the entire benefit
of the system itself, but a great part of the well being
of the boys intrusted to our care. 1 may add that if
there be difficulty in the way of juniors complaining,
as your correspondent allures, the difficulty arises
from the unpopularity of complaints with the junior
boys themselves mute, more than from the prefects.
In conclusion, I can only repeat with tf.e %.% arden,
that I believe, and have good reason to believe, that
the boys, small and great, are happy, united, and con-
tented ; and assure your correspondent that he is
entirely mistaks n in what he assert- about the College
oath required by the statutes. It has no connexion
whatever with the subject on which he writes.
I should wish to add, for the satisfaction of those
parents who have been alarmed by. the firmer letter
of " Humanitas," that we have enjo3ed the most en-
tire freedom from all illness since Christmas, the case
of this little boy being the only one of at all a serious
complexion which has occurred.
Apologizing for this long but necessary intrusion
upon your paper, I am, Sir, yi ur obedient servant,
GEORGE MOBERLY,
Head Master of Winchester College.
Winchester College, Aug. 12.

On the sth a storm broke out in the commune or
Hellesmes (Nord) whilst two young sisters wire occu-
pied it, a field. They were both treken to the earl by
lightning. A moment after, the elder, who is married,
ruse, and expressed her surprise that she should have
fallen without being injured ; but her sister heard her
not—she was dead. The el, etre fluid bad d her
right toot, and part of her clothing, and had left am huiwound

nights
ago tocoalh'ng.
on the right side.
g nam4ll Dorchics, went a
" A brewer of Aix,
to a mill, accompanied
account :
rry some corn fives the following curious
The Liberal
Ondu Atnloird.sy
by a domestic.a tremendous storm broke
and the lightning flashing in a
The domestic trembled in every
most terrc manner.
hing the mill, crouched in the midst of
limb and, on reaching
sacks, and begun to pray fervently. .illorelties ridi-
ofeuwt,the thunder i'
someid iin as a coward, but on the storm increasing in
cu.(' ' .
he went an_d_satibeside him, and was join, d t y two
IN hi ht these. tour inoiviJuals were thus
fur},titassembled,i Pu. erb°ass if to give each e Hier
courag., a thunder-
clap shook the heavens, and an instant after the roof of
the mill was torn open, and the electric fluid entered, cut
(0 the braces of one of the men, run over the body of
Dorehies, broke his left thigh in three places, and pierced
his foot."
On Monday some bakers of Toura having refused
to sell bread at the• price file d by the municipal autho-
r ities, a crowd cunt stud and proceeded to the shop of a
man named Brunet.u, rue di. la Riche, and detpanded
bread. On his deeltuing that he shoula not sell any
unless be received 50c. above the price fixed, the crowd
entered his premises, and carried off the bread. VII!
for it the legal price. They then pr. seeded to the shop
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of a man named Voisin, rue de Grand Mara
b tehis
tiva:
similar acts took place. The police,
informed of what was going on, Cati.ae uil
just as they were about to take
tea
This}toythe crowd:
the bread front
wan declared
the slop of a baker oann d Auber
prepared
being
was intended for-
that the bread which he had
he
supplied. The com-
missarya regiment of infantry, which
er. c,iused him to aril the whole
(adticteh,
ehurv'elavusce,
separated.
—upcic, his
pautp)peeftt.sed the
of p
crowd, and
ti that we have
ot his stoek
It is with much regret
the d.-ath of Frederick Alausell, Esq., juret of the Royal
it soon atter
Court of this island, t, hich took place at hts resideucai.
at, the Vauxbelets, Si. Andrew's parish, on Tuesday-
morning. Mr. Mansell had been a member of the Belicht
since the 20th of February, 1830, and in the discharge oft
his duties proved hitusel! an upright and useful maliso-
trate. In private lire Mr. Mansell was defkrvedly re4,-
spected tor the friendlinvse of his disposition, the flank,-
ness of his manner, and his straight torward and ii suottri-
able ci,nduct. It is ge net ally expected that the. vaqsacY
on the he huh I Ceatiii .lied ty
the death of Mr; Mansell
will be fill. d up by the election of John lZhorJaa De.
Sausinart z, 1.;'_,4., late Qt.eeit's Comptriller, Nit-I:rose legal,
ki:owledge arid exp. rienee will make him 8. Vaill4'lolB ac.-
qul •i t in. Guernsey :.tur.
The 13,truness de Spetb has arrived at Esher I' tom trot
lajesty's marine residence, oaborue, Isle of Wi ghs.