The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-20 00:00:00

Sir John Tobin

Sir Get rge Drinkwater
Sir Thomas Brancker
Sir Joshua Waloo:4ey
T. Both, Esq.

T. Case, Esq.
D. Nelson, Esq.

Wm. Rathbone, Esq.
John Garneti, Esq.
John Taylor, Esq.
Nicholas Ruskell, Esq.
Wm. Brown, Esq.
Wm. Earle, Esq.
Richard Dawson, Esq.
Hugh Hornby, Esq.
Thomas Todd, Esq.
Thomas Tinley, Esq.
William Potter, Esq.
T. B. Barclay, Esq.
R. H. Jones, Esq.
Elias Arnaud, Esq.

VV. 1-1. Dcbie, Esq.
Duncan S:ewart, Esq.
James Aiken, Esq.
C. Tayleur, Esq.
J. S. Leigh, Esq.
ChaF. Rawdon. Esq.
J. C. Ewart, Esq.

COMMI'

Wm. Stuart, Esq.
C. T. Dunlaic, Esq.
Geo. R. Woodward, Esq.
W. P. Bushby, Esq.
Jaques Myers, Esq.
Thomas Sands, Esq.
Chitties Turner, Esq.
Harold Littledale, Esq.
John Myers, Esq.
Cottirgham Moss, Esq.
Thomas Moss, Esq.
Thos. 13. Molyncux, Esq.
James Tyrer, Esq.
John B. Neilson, Esq.
R. Harrison, Esq.
Elias Mocatta, Esq.
John Greenshields, Esq.
Edward Parry, Esq.
Captain Bevis
Ellis Yates, Esq.
William Wood, Esq.
Ambrose Lace, Esq.
C. M. M'Murdo, Esq.
W. Tayleur, Esq.
R. Edwards, Esq.
G. Malcolme, Esq.
W. Fosberry, Esq.
F. Maxwell, Esq.
J. B. Yates, Esq.
I. 0. Bold, Esq.
Jas. Rawdon, Esq.
Nicholas Robinson, Esq.

From T. J. Pettigrew, Esq., Surgeon, F.R.S.,
to Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly,
opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King William-street, Bank of
England.—" Gentlemen,--I have no hesitation in replying to
your inquiry as to the results obtained by the use of your
improved spectacles; being in the constant habit of reading and
writing for many hours together by lamp-light, it is but justice to
say, that y our newly.invented spectacle lenses have afforded me
the greatest comfort. When I employed the ordinary pebbles, I
never failed to experience in the morning a great irritation in the
,
eyes. Since I have used your admirable glasses I suffer from no
inconvenience .of the kind. I shall ever feel grateful to my good
11 friend, Dr. Blun dell, for having drawn my attention to the subject.
—Believe me to be Yours, very respectfully, T. J. PETTIGREW, 8,
Saville-row, Jan. 4, 1839."—" M. G. Sir Howard Elphinstone begs
leave to say that the Spect: toles he has now had some time in use,
have fully redeemed the assurance of the Messrs. S. and B. Solo
mons as to their excellenc,, , and having found so much comfort and
advantage from their use , far preferable to ever), other kind of
Glasses which he has been in the constant habit of making use of
for a great number of years, —l3, Norfolk-street, Park-lane, the 6th
of November, 1840." The 1 &sass. Solomons' Operative Voice Con•
doctor, when fixed into the cavity of the ear, the faintest whisper
at a public assembly is hint,/ with distinctness,—No connexion with
pers,o,, an
persons of the same ham
TROUT ?.
ROUT FtsiillVG.—ln a few hours' fishing
during two days of last wreck, Mr. William Flinn, of this cit,
and a gentleman from 1 3irmingham, killed forty-five pounds
weight of capital trout in the Lug, in Lord Batenian's water, in
the neighbourhood of 310 rtimer's Cross. The sportsmen used
the fly only, and such suck less so early in the spring bodes well
pasts 'Jim in the coming season.— IVorca-
far this contemplative
ter Journal.

SUPPOSED MURDE R OF A FEMALE AT
;ht on Sunday the policeman on
ISLINGTON.—Soon after dayli,
duty, whilst going his rounds iu the Chalk-road, near the
Sutton Arms, discovered the hot ly of a woman in a pond only
three feet deep; the precise spot where she was taken out is
near the centre, so that she could not have walked in in a mis-
take or fallen in whilst labouring un, der intoxication.

PRICE sd.

DR. KENNEDY.
(From the Shrewsbury Chronicle, April 16. )
Dr. Kennedy, the present head master of Shrewsbury
School is dissatisfied with the " slight outline" given in our
last Chronicle, of his very long explanation of what he con-
ceives are the causes of the decline of that school; since
the promotion of his illustrious predecessor, Dr. Butler,
to the see of Lichfield ; indeed, Dr. Kennedy asserts that
the school began to decline two years before he was appointed
the master.
We shall not attempt to satisfy Dr. Kennedy that over out-
line of his written speech (or reply) was: correct ; bttt we
think we can satisfy the public, or any temperate person, on
that point. His charges against us areas follows:
I. —That " the Shrewsbury Chronicle prOfessed to give "a,
report of his reply.
11. —That he never said-4! lucrative offers had been. made
to him " prior to his acceptance-of ShrewsburY t;chool.:
lll.—'l hat he " never used the word Ccmmercial."
IV.—That he "said nothing of bending to the times be-
cause the times would not bend to him."
The above are all the objections he enumerates.
We will now quote Dr. Kennedy's exact words, in his letter,
contradicting our " outline " of the proceedings; and, in con-
trast, we will quote the "outline" we gave of his meaning:—
I. I.
The Chronicle. Dr. Kennedy's Letter.
We cannot do more than A paragraph professing- to
give a slight outline of some be a report of the reply made
parts, &c. by me.
Dr. K. alludedto the tempt- " I never said lucrative
ing and lucrative offers he re- offers had been made to me
ceived from other places from other parts."
[than Shrewsbury] which Yet in Dr. Kennedy's
offers he resisted from his af- written speech, sent by him to
fection to his fond and illus- the newspapers, he says—
trious teacher, and his love " I resioed prospects which
for Shrewsbury schools. were held out to me of a
highly flattering kind. —An in-
come larger, more certain, and
more free from anxiety, with
a mansion more agreeable than
I knew awaited me at Shrews-
bury."
In.—"l did not use the word Commercial."
Our words are, " It was his intention to establish Philosophical
and Mathematical Classes, in order to fit the pupils for any
walk in life, whether literary or commercial."
The Doctor's expressions (alluding to his alterations in the
Schools, or " bending to the times,") are these :—" An-
other very important advantage has been gained in the ap-
pointment of a special Master for Mathematics and Arith-
metic." Is Lot " Arithmetic" " commercial?"
IV.—"I said nothing of bending to the times because the
times would not bend to me."

Our report of this part, we admit, is inferential. But is not
the " appointment of French Teacher "—of " a new Spe-
cial Muter for Mathematics and Arithmetic "—" the new
regulation for exempting from the higher kinds of verse
compositions those boys not destined for College ;" are not
these expressions sufficient to justify our informants, in the
inference they drew from the quoted words, that there was
a symptom of " betiding to the times "—a symptom of
yielding to the desire for a Commercial Education for the
sons of the Burgesses of Shrewsbury?
If there were any inaccuracies, we have shown there are
none in our account of Dr. Kennedy's speech—the fault is
his own. He read his speech to the meeting and he sent
copies to other papers, and refrained from sending a copy to
us; contrary to the practice of his illustrious predecessor. We
therefore gained our information from the best sources open to
us—from several intelligent persons who listened to Dr. Ken-
nedy's address. From the length of that address, few were
enabled to carry away more than an outline of its purport—
none could attempt to repeat the precise words made use of.
We have consulted each of the persons from whom we
gained our information, and we have their authority
to SAY that every word appearing in the paragraph complained
of was used by them in detailing the proceedings to us. Each
of these gentlemen is a well-wisher, and anxious as we are for
the prosperity of Shrewsbury schools; and this disposes at
once of any intention on our part to do those schools an injury
by misrepresenting the statements of Dr. Kennedy.
We fear that the present gratulation to Dr. Kennedy is too
much attributable to political party-spirit—perhaps not in him,
but certainly in others. His illustrious predecessor,
_during
thirty-eight of patient mental labour, cultivated many
scholars in Shrewsbury, and innumerable others who are now
scattered over the globe. Did the Tory Corporation, or the
inhabitants of Shrewsbury, ever address Dr. Butler during
thirty-eight years? Never.