The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

FRASER.

If we may judge from the article on Chartism,
which appears in this month's Fraser, the cause of old
Toryism must be desperate. Laughed at by the well-
educated of the upper classes, and repudiated by the
great body of the middle and lower classes, Tories now
make a high bid for Chartist support—which, how.
ever, they will not get. The disorderly plunderers
(not real Chartists, by the bye,) who take advantage
of every popular assemblage to ply their dishonest
trade, will no doubt be but too happy torender their
assistance ; in fact there have frequently been rela-
tions heretofore subsisting between the parties—the
disorderlies in question having ever been known as
" the Tory mob," the gentlemen who did the mischief
in Lord George Gordon's riots, and who, at Birming-
ham, wrecked the house of Dr. Priestly ; but of the
real Chartists, of those men who honestly
seek to effect political emancipation by moral
means, not one will lend a helping hand
to the Tories, notwithstanding the hearty abuse of
the middle classes and the sneers at the special con-
stables in which these worthy old Tories think
proper now to indulge. The non-political portion of
Fraser this month is excellent. The opening paper
on " Recent Discoveries in Astronomy" is evidently the
work of a writer who not only thoroughly under-
stands his subject, but who possesses the rare
talent of making it understood also by others. His ac-
count of the manner in which M. Le Verrier and Mr.
Adams were led to discover the new planet Neptune
is, perhaps, the most successful attempt yet made to
popularise mathematical science. The paper on
Beligoland is peculiarly interesting at the present
moment, when there is every probability that that
rocky island may again become the great entrepot
for articles of British manufacture destined for the
supply of the Continent. We have in this number
reviews of the memoirs of Mademoiselle de Launay,
of Landor's Hellenics and Latin Poems, of Rosen 's
Campaign in Algiers, and of Sir Thomas Mitchell's
recently published work on the Australian Colonies,
in addition to the continuation of the " Armourer of
Munster," and the current " History of the
Month."• •

INTERESTING • MARRIAGE BEQUEST. Yesterday
morning a young woman was married at the parish
church of St. George's.in-the•East, who had been edu-
cated at Raine's Charity Schools, situate in Old Gravel-
lane, Wapping, and who, on -that occasion was entitled
to a marriage portion of 1001., in pursuance of the will
of the benevolent founder. In 1719, Henry Raine, Esq., li
who amassed a princely fortune as a brewer at Wapping,
founded a school for fifty boys and fifty girls. He after-
wards endowed an asylum for the reception of forty
girls, who were to be maintained, educated, and trained
up to service, who, after arriving at the age of 22, pro-
ducing satisfactory testimonial(, were twice a year, viz.,
in December and May, to draw lots for a marriage por-
tion of 1001. with a honest and industrious person of St.
John's Wapping, or St. Paul's, Shadwell. After the
ceremony a sermon was preached, and in the evening the
trustees, at a dinner, presented to the happy couple a
purse containing 100 new sovereigns.
THE ConDEN TXSTINONIAL FUND.—A meeting of
the committee of the Cobden testimonial fund was held
at the Town-hall, Manchester, on Saturday morning,
when a number of the principal contributors to therfu
were present, including Mr. R. Hyde Greg, m. W.
Rawson, and Mr. George Wilson, the thrers •
three treasurers;
with Mr. J. Heywood, M.P., Mr. Alderman
worth, Mr. Alderman Potter, Mr. T. 8..
Potter,
Ashton, MShuttle-
Kershaw, M.P., Mr. R. Ashton.
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.
Henry Ashworth, Mr. Thomas Woolley, Air. W. Bick-
ham, Mr. W. vans,
Mr.
~Josephbfr Simpson, Mr. T.
Sales Schwabe, Mr.
r J.
Hunter, Mr. Edmund Potter,
of Littleborough. It
Thomas Barnes, and Mr. Schofield,ubscribed was 79,0001., from
appeared that the amounte
be placed at Mr.
(11:11 ct e d for
Cobden's
Of the whole notwithstanding the com-
mercial dsubscribed, all within about
which
balance 4 Sf°7°4l.,oboaoadim.
2,0001. bad been
mercia Wilson, who read the report from the
' depression which had prevailed; and of this
deficiency, Mr. to be
treasurers, stated that probably 1,5001. more would vet
be received. The delay in closing the subscription was
attributed to the great depression of trade, and the ab-
sence of•
Mr. Cobden from home. A most complete
and flat contradiction was given by the three treasurers
to the statements and insinuations put forth from time to
time, as to a misappropriation of the money subscribed,
-
these gentlemen declaring they held themselves res
ponsible to Mr. Cobden for the whole amount named at
any moment. The whole of the money had not re-
mained in the banker's hands, however; some portion
having been invested, with Mr, Cobden's consent, to
greater advantage, and one moiety had been expended
in the purchase of the estate known as Mr. Cobden's
birthplace. The balance was in cash, and ready to be
paid over by the treasurers so soon as the mode of doing
it should be determined upon. These explanations ap.
peared to give the highest satisfaction to the gentlemen
present, and a sub-conmaitteo was appointed to audit the
accounts.