The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-16 00:00:00

EVENING ST-N

COURT CIRCUL •
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—'Tie, Q, ep aud PrilCe
Albert walked this morning to4delaid Cottage, thris'ogb
the Slop 6, and returned by the Home 4iic to the Castle
in a pony phaeton. •
Prince Albert, attended bp the Marq
,of Exeter,
Earl Delawarr, Mr. George Edward Alif64,, anal
dward Bowater, enjoyed the sport of shooting tilis
morning at the
_Flemish Farm.
The Duke of Wellington Lords Wharncliffe, Had-
dington, Ellenborough anti Aberdeen, Sir R. Peel, Sir
E. Knatchbull, and Mr. Greville, took their departure
to-day.
Her Majesty and Prince-Albert rode out in a pony
phaeton this afternoon, the Prince driving. In a second
carriage were the Countess Delawarr, Lady Elizabeth
West, "Viscount Sydney, and Earl Jersey. In a third
carriage were Lady Portman, lint:. Misses .Paget and
Lister, and Earl Delawar:. In a hearth carriage were
the Marquis of Exeter, Viscount Sydney, and Sir
Robert Otway. Si; Edward lio:;ater attended on horse-
back.
The Princess Royal, who is lacking very well, was
taken an airing to-day. The Earl of Liverpool and the
Hon. C. Murray ro;fe ort on horseback this afternoon.
Ac the Privy Council hell at Windsor Castle on Tues-
day afternoon the Right Hon. the Marquis of Lothian
was, by command of the Queen, sworn of her Illaesty's
Most Hop. Privy Council, and took his place at the Board.
The Marq'tis .Lothian, as Captain of her Illajcsty's
Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard, has appointed Mr.
Ellerthorp, the Clerk of the Cheque, as his Secretary.
His Royal Highness the Duke ot Cambridge has re-
turned to his residence at Kew.
The Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Lord
Wharncliffe, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Ellenhorough, and
Sir Edward linatclibull, returned to town yesterday
morning, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Sir Robert
Peel, the Duke of Welling on, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord
Wharncliffe, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James
Graham, Earl of lladdington, Earl of Ripon, Lord El-.
lenborough, and Sir Edward Knatehbull.
The Council sat upwards of two hours.
Sir George Arthur and Mr. G. C. Young (irom Nova
Scotia) had interviews with Lord Stanley yesterday, at,
the Colonial-office.
Sir Alexander Grant had an interview with Sir James
Graham yesterday, at the Home-office.
Despatches were received yesterday afternoon at the
Colonial-office, from Lord Sydenham, Governor of Canada.

TEACHING BY REALITIES.
The public have hitherto knoen little more of Mr.
Lovett than that he is a clever, honest, sturdy Chartist,
who submits to imprisonment rattier than comprofflise
an iota of his opinions. We Pew beg to introduce hint
to them in a new characi7er. Bred up a ropemaker, he
has taught himself the art of cabinet-making, and
has become a finished .workman. - 'While he has
been a most active politician, he has also been
devising plans of education, to which his skill as a cabinet-
maker has been subservient. His efforts to awaken the.
bulk of the working classes to a proper sense of the in knowledge, are already known to our readers by the clever work which he and Mr. Collins
wrote while they were in Warwick gaol. His present
production may be said to carry out in detail one recem-,
mendation of that book, and is intended to assist pa-
rents and teachers in imparting easily useful knowledge,
to their children and pupils. It is a series of first 1-ss.
sons in spelling, connected with a view of the actual ob-
ject of which the name is spelled. Mrs Lovett
has constructed a. heat box of the Shape and
appearance of a book, which tontains three
or four aletabets, and a proper frarae, into which the
lette7:s can he easily placed. le << drawer, divided into
a great number of comparteLents, are numerous speci-
mens of natural and artil4.eial objects, such as steel-pens,
wafers, peas, pepper, celfee, corn, copper, tinfoil, sponge,
India rubber, &e. Animals and birds are represented by
pictures. The objects may be as numerous and diver-
sified as any person pleases, and they may be ar-
ranged in, a scientific order, so as to instruct
the youngest child in some of the great scien-
tific divisions. The object of this apparatus is
to give children correct ideas of words by teaching them
in connection with things ; to teach children to spell
each word as the idea is presented to them, instead of
burthening their memories with tasks of words, the
meaning of which they do not understand ; to call forth
their observing faculties by their examination of things
in order to ascertain their qualities and uses ; gradually
to accustom them to composition, and the elements of Eng-
lish grammar. The mode of teaching is this: the teacher
should select an object from the drawer and present it
to the children for their examination, first asking oe tell-
ing them its name, which when told, one of them should
be instructed to compose such name with the letters in the
frame, inside the lid ofthe box. After they hare thus learnt
to compose the names of different objects, they should
be taught to compose the names of'their most obvious
qualities, thus—A Pea is round and hard—Cork is soft
and light. As the children progress they should be
taught the more difficult qualities of objects as well as
their uses, thus—Glass is smooth, bright, and brittle.
and can be made elastic, so that dresses can be made 'of
it. India rubber is opaque, elastic, flexible, inflammable.*
and tough ;it is made of the juice of a tree, anti is used for making cloth elastic, waterproof, &c. Copper is
heavy, sonorous, fusible, elastiesmalleable, ductile, com-
pact, and tenacious ; it is a mineral, tr,d is used for mak-
ing boilers, pans, money, &c. To ascertain all the va-
rious qualities of objects, ths, children must be taught
to exercise their senses of seeing, hearing, smelling,
tasting, and touchier, and when practicable, experiments
should be made render every quality obvious to their
senses. Tittei should not be taught to compose a word
till they understood its meaning.",
M. Lovett makes no pretension to the merit of first.
proposing teaching the use of words in conjunction wide
objects. That plan has been acted on for many year* and is now generally adopted in infant schools ; but ,
Lovett's apparatus theilitates the carrying it into e•.;„„_
Lion. It will supply, we think, a delightful m
r tins fez-
parents to instruct their children and enable til,oto to has
part their own knowledge, acquired ie_ practice, in a
graceful and useful way, to their offsyr:Ang. Mr. Lovett
is untired in endeavouring to do good, and he deserves
all the encouragement which i4(l:de to modest and perse-
vering merit.

DISE-4..SED MEAT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
noticed a paragraph in your paper of Tuesday
last, copied from the Liverpool Chronicle, which states
that an old ittan died from eating bad or diseased meat,
and that thirty-one others were sensibly affected.
It is a common practice for farmers, dairymen, and
the like, to dispose of the carcases of their diseased
stock to salesmen, for which they receive about half or
quarter the value of the animal when in a healthy state.
The meat so disposed of as wholesome, is retailed as
such by some of the most respectable butchers in Lon-
don. Thu most dreadful consequences—as that which I
have just instanced—are the result of this abominable
system, by which a great number of the working classes
are severe sufferers.
It is high time that the attention of the Legislature
should be called to this growing evil—an evil rendered
the more pernicious by the chance of diseases being en-
gendered, to say nothing of the risk in which our lives
are placed. I hope, Sir, your able pen will ever be
exercised against a system so base as that to which I have
briefly adverted.—Your obedient servant, J. LS.

—_-- - -
DREADFUL COLLISION AT SEA.—Late on
Sunday night last a collision of a most fearful character,
attendant with the total loss of the schooner Surprise, a. fine sailing vessel belonging to Jersey, took place in the
roads off Yarmouth. It appears that the unfortunate
vessel above mentioned was commanded by a Captain
Inley, and was on her voyage to Cadiz, having left New-
castle
on the previous Thursday. On Sunday evening
she arrived off Cromer Lighthouse, and in bearing down
the Channel a violent ale came on from the north-
west, which by 10 o'clock had increased to a hurricane.
The Surprise weathered the storm admirably, and was ma-
king about
.10 miles an hour, when she was run into by a
collier brig called the Robert and Ann, belonging to Sun-
derland. The collision was dreadful, the Surprise being
cut down to the water's edge and the bows of the brig
partially driven in. lir,tediately they were disentangla
it was discovered thr.:,, the Surprise was in a sinking
state,
re.
and the crew,
took to thervpurups, which they worked vigorously for
in. (ne hope of running the ship on shore.
tome tin r..,, but to ito purpose ; the water gained
the long
upon. tnent, and they were compelled to take tol,iln
'kit:at and stand clear of the vessel. In about half
where hour
after she drifted on to the Cross Sands,
up at day-break by a vessel passing, and
quickly became a total wreck. The crew
‘e
Ttaheycost of the
landed. The other vessel was saved.
Surprise is stated to be 3,00 a.
—Almost all the.
THE WEATHER AND CROPS.
be cut ; and'.
to grain in this neighbourhood appeafitt-spresent
enjoy,
the
with such delightful weather as we
Glasgow a similar
harvest will proceed rapidly.
Sunday the thermometer
werei,ez.e psiacfkeel.,d.
change has taken place.
On the early soil::
cutting process is
in the vale of Clyde the .
et the quantity saved is not
pidly to a close, though as
stood at nearly 80 deg. in
iv of the weather last week ;
great, from the fickle nau
this time would effect a nm'si be-
ti(-I)en•shadei:ocess is drawing ra.-..
but ten dry days from
make many a farmer independent
be-
neficial clearance, andhowever fitful it might be. Harvest
of the future season,
counties mac'
and _Nairn.
general in the
In the neighbourhoodt
there is a great quantity of corn cut
of Inverness, alsos,
in general, throughout the country,
down. The crops
less from the long-continue 4 rain
have suffered Aberdeen,oper atiens
3a
iroe
ran,o,,w
;ined,th
than might preLty.
have been feared.—Edinburgh Advertiser,.
woman called on Dr. B----- one lay
in a great , ,
d a penny. "Pray, Madam " her son
the
thee
had swag."` •
A good woman
of trouble,andp,,eo7l • . 'her son
0 Sir, certaiultr
" .as the reply. " Then i
.. 't w;'' - '
not, n
I pass, of course," was
Wednesday h. Court of Directors was held at
facetious ni- -• •
of the facet ysician
Indiaiii.is. it a counterfeit ,
P:ofise, when Christopher Webb Smith,
Esq. was appointed a provisional members of the Council
of India ; and James Henry Crawford, Esq., who took
his sect in the Council of Bombay, on the coming away
of Sir James Carnac, but 'evil° will vacate the same wet
thetphoe OcErt reply
laprs: tlyV :('
the assumption of the Government by Sir William t
Council io-
Macnaglat that Presidepnpiten, was re-acyointed a provisional meta:or-OV'
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—Yes,
terday afternoon, as a merchant-vessel was coming 'up
the Thames, she suddenly struck on a sunken P,lioal,
which caused such a concussion that the masterovho was
at the helm, was strut(( suddenly by the tiner, which
laid him senseless on the (leek. It was found that Ilia:
jaw-bone was broken, and also several of his ribs. No,
time was lost by them ate and the crew in getting- himt
into the boat, when they conveyed him on board the
Dreadnought hospital-ship, where every assistance was afforded him by the surgeon, but he
expired an hour
afterwards.

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