The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-19 00:00:00

ARRIVALS OF SPECIE.

The following numerous arrivals of specie have
taken place at the metropolis from the places men-
tioned :—The American line-of-packet-ship American
Eagle, arrived from New York, has brought 3
packages of specie, consigned to two different firms in
the metropolis; the Oriental Queen, from the
Mauritius, 1 case of bullion, individually addressed ;
the Tourist, from Calais, 1 bag of gold, addressed to a
firm in London ; the vessel Inchinman, from Calcutta,
4 cases of specie, consigned to a firm in London ; the
Crusader, from Bahia, 1 bag of silver coin, similarly
consigned ; the Pauline Houghton, from Bahia, 2
cases of specie, consigned to order ; the Denis,
from the Mauritius and the Cape of Good
Hope respectively, 1 box of silver coin individually
addressed, and 5 cases of specie, consigned to
order; the Athenian, from Madras and the Cape of
Good Hope respectively, 1 case of specie, individually
addressed; the Anglo-Saxon, from the Havannah, 1
box of silver ; the American line-of-packet ship Sir
Robert Peel, from New York, 1 keg of specie, indi-
vidually addressed, and 20 packages of specie, con-
signed to a firm in the metropolis; the Mary Nixon,
from Madras, 1 case of treasure, similarly addressed;
the Lucinda, from Bombay, 1 box of specie, con-
signed to order ; the Greyhound, from the Cape of
Good Hope, 2 boxes of specie, consigned to two
houses in the metropolis; the Scottish Maid from
Valparaiso, 4 mats of bar silver, consigned
to a metropolitan firm, and 2 mats of bar silver
consigned to order; the Wilton Wood, from
Monte Video, 1 box of specie, consigned to a
firm in London; the London, from Madras, 6
kegs of specie, individually addressed; the Daphne,
from Bordeaux, 1 case of specie, consigned to order ;
the Benah, from Whampoa, a quantity of copper coin,
consigned to order; the Carlista, from ,Belize, Hon-
duras, 1 package of coin, individually addressed ; the
John Brewer, from Bombay, 1 box of specie, simi-
larly addressed; the American line-of-packet ship
Prince Albert, from New York, 3 packages of
specie, consigned to the Bank of British North
America ; the Circassian, from Cadiz, 9 packages
and 2 bags of specie, consigned to a house in the
metropolis; the American line-of-packet ship West-
minster, from New York, 1 case of gold ore,
consigned to one firm, and 1 package of specie,
consigned to another in London ; the Belfast, from
Calais, 1 bag of money, addressed to a house in the
metropolis; the Samuel Enderby, from the Mauritius,
2 cases of bullion, addressed to individual houses, and
4 packages, consigned to order ; the Nautilus, from
the Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope, 1 box of
specie, consigned to a firm of eminence in the
metropolis ; the Standerings, from Algoa Bay, Cape
of Good Hope, 1 case of specie, individually addressed,
and 1 case, consigned to a firm in London; and the
William and Sarah, from Oporto, 11 cases of specie,
consigned to the Bank of England.

MR. BLOKE AND WESTMINSTER

ABBEY.
Really it is high time that Mr. Blore should cease
to be allowed to do what he likes in Westminster
Abbey. If deans and chapters cannot do without
him, let him go to Chester, or Carlisle, or even York
—to some place, in short, with very few or no asso-
ciations to remove. Why detain him in Westminster
amid monuments and recollections which he cannot
understand—and can destroy ? Dean Ireland (Gif•
ford's Dean Ireland, by the way) permitted him to
destroy the identical small square stone, with " 0 rare

Ben Jonson" upon it, which Jack Young put over
Jonson in the north side of the nave of West-
minster Abbey. The man who smashed the Port•
land Vase; the cook at Mr. West's, who singed geese
at Michaelmas with Massinger's unpublished plays ;
and Malone, who painted Bhakspere's bust at Strat-
ford-upon-Avon, were deatructives of the same kind.
But this is not all that Mr. Blore has done or is
doing. He induced the Dean and Chapter not to
repair the monument to Chaucer, because it was not
a monument of Chaucer's age, and therefore could
not and did not (which it does) contain the ashes of
the father of English poetry. The same Mr. Blore
actually took up the blue flagstone covering Cow-
ley's grave, and bearing Cowley's name, and packed
it away as a stone of so many square feet and no-
thing more.

A primrose by a river's brim
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more.
And now this identical Mr. Blore, by permission of
Dean Buckland, Mr. Milman the poet, and others,
has destroyed one-half of glorious John Dryden's
monument, and removed Sir Godfrey Kneller's bust
and Pope's ennobling epitaph to where the bust can-
not be seen, and the verses cannot be read. Poor
Lady Kneller I Have all her activity and desire for
a lasting perpetuation at Twickenham and West-
minster Abbey been to no purpose ? She was busy
enough to get Pope's monument to his father and
mother removed from the place in which it is still to
be seen (unless Mr. Blore has been recently called
in) ; and the poet, who opposed her at every turn,
paid her with a kind of epigram epitaph—
One day I mean to fill Sir Godfrey's tomb,
If for my body all this church has room.
Down with more monuments; more room (she cried),
For I am very large and very wide.
If " Down with more monuments ! " be Mr. Blore's
cry, then "Down with Mr. Blare!" must be ours.—
.Athenceurn.

DEATH OF PROFESSOR TENNANT.—It iS with MD.
treme regret that we have to announce the death of Mr
William Tennant, Professor of Oriental Languages in
the College of St. Mary, St. Andrew's, but more exten-
sively and enduringly known as the author of " Anster
Fair," and various other works in general literature,
which took place at his house, Devon Grove, Dollar, on
Sunday last.—Scotsman.
INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM.—At the forthcoming
November election, among the number of candidates is
the child of John Charles Frederick Piercy, two years
and nine months old, whose father was one of the un-
fortunate London Fire Establishment, who perished in
the execution of his duty at a fire in New Crane, Shad.
well, on the 28th of July last. The deceased's widow
was left with two children. The case is strongly recom.
mended, and it is hoped will prove a successful one on
the day of election.