The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-23 00:00:00

• JULY 23, 1846.

(Cheers.) That question must come under, the consideration
of Parliament, probably for final settlement. I may here
state that I am opposed to excessive differential, protective,
and prohibitory duties of every kind whatsoerer.—(Hear,
hear, and cheers.) Sugar at one period, as stated by
Lord Brougham in 1817, produced 2,778,000/. per annum
to the revenue. The Chancellor of the Exchequer thought
in his wisdom that he could increase the finances of
the cmntry by raising a further differential duty. He
expected a great increase to the revenue; but the fact is,
that the consumption of sugar was so materially abridged,
that instead of being increased, the revenue from that article
fell ..off to 2,530,000/.—(Cheers.) There are many other
articles, equally the subject of excessive duties, which pre-
vent their due enjoyment by the multitude. I am quite
aware that the revenue cannot do without a duty upon
many articles, more especially articles of luxury; the rule
should be to combine the maximum of revenue with the mi-
nimum of cost to the consumer.—(Cheers.) Ireland is the
next subject to which I ought to allude. Ireland has been
experimented upon for the last two hundred years by admi-
nistrations of various political sentiments; but I Ear that
little has been done to make her's a happy and contented
people.—(Hear.) I am most desirous for the Irish people to
see that we think them no longer a conquered nation—that
we give them equal rights and privileges with ourselves—
that we forget we are separated by the Irish Channel, and
that we treat them with the same kindness as the inha-
bitants of Yorkshire treat the inhabitants of Lancashire.—
(Cheers.) The educatio❑ of the people also is a very im-
portant consideration, and one winch I should be ex-
tremely glad to see the Government pay more regard to
than Ciovernments have hitherto done, and tq' do it in
such a way as not to interfere with the religious feel-
ings and views of any particular sect.—(Cheers.) To
be useful it must be general, and whatever our religious
creeds may be, it is most important that we should have a
moral community.—(Loud cheers.) The poor-laws also afford
a subject worthy of deep consideration. I fear that the poor
of this country, far from decreasing. are on the increase,
and if any amendment of the poor-laws should be brought
before the house of Commons, so far as I am able, and as
one voice goes, I shall endeavour to prevent you being plun-
dered by worthless pretenders, but at the same time to
relieve to the utmost infancy, old age, and real cases of
distress.—(Hear, hear.) The sanitary condition of the
country is another object requiring the attention of the
Government. In many towns the masses of the working
population, the industrious bees of the community, occupy
cellars much less comfortable than the mud huts in Ireland,
of which we hear so much.—(Hear, hear.) There is a great
svnn t of water in many of Our towns. and Government must

PRICE SD.

PROPOSED EXHIBITION OF
HAYDON'S PICTURES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The recent death of Mr. B. R. Haydon, the painter,
under the melancholy circumstances of embarrassment and
suicide, hastened, doubtless, by a keen sense of his neglected
merit, and the opposition of the "Royal Academicians," who
have at last, although too late, appreciated his talents by
forwarding for the benerit of his family a " gift" of money,
by doing which they acknowledge their own sense of in-
justice to the deceased—demands the consideration of the
humane to his family. As the late Mr. Haydon died so
unfortunately, it would now be good for a plan to be
adopted, by which his bereaved family would reap some as •
sistance by the exhibition of his paintings.
It is suggested to the Committee by this medium, that if
the Lord Mayor would centlescead to allow the use of the
Guildhall of the city of London, to show the paintings
en masse gratuitously, and the Committee for managing the
subscription would get some considerable quantity of the
likeness of the late artist, and st peison or two appointed to
sell them at a small consideration, I have no doubt money
might be gathered by such means.
I beg leave, at all events, to request the Committee to
make a continued exhibition of the pictures in all places ob-
tainable, and thereby realise something for the widow and
family of a singular and eccentric man of genius, de-
streyed by influences that prevail in high places.
I shall be obliged by your insertion of the above, if you
think it proper to appear, and remain, Sir, your obedient
servant, A CONSTANT 'READER.
Marylrbone-street, Piccadilly, July 20, 1846.

ARMY TEACHING AND ARMY
FLOGGING.

(From Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper.)
The Government is about to raise the character of the
soldier to a high moral standard; it will teach him bis
true dignity, as an immortal being; in the meanwhile, it
will flog him like a beast.
Certain Government advertisements have lately
gemmed the papers—advertisements offering fair re-
wards to schoolmasters, fitted and accomplished for the
task of teaching military scholars. The friends of edu
cation were gladdened by the evidence of newly-
awakened liberality on the part of the Government ;
for the stipends offered to military schoolmasters
were in many cases far above valet's or butler's
wages. It was more than pleasant to discover that
the true dignity and importance of the schoolmaster were
kits.a..=l, It) 1,2 • Mnr` NOo
trained minds were to be rated somewhat above moo wlio
trained horses. The army—that melancholy mass of
ignorance, taken in the mass—was to be refined, elevated.
We were no longer to behold in so many red-coated
bipeds, in columns or hollow square, so much mere brute
power—moved and swayed, and put into attitude, and
bid to march and halt, and bite cartridge ends, and draw
the mortal trigger at command ; with no more in-
dividual will, no more self-accountability, than a
machine. The soldier might say to Perkins's steam-
gun, " Thou art my brother," for the creature of human
affections and the thing f the foundry were equally
moral agents—were equally supposed to think of the
bloody work allotted to them. But this mortal darkness
—so thought the jocund readers of the State advertise-
ments for military teachers—was to pass away. The
soldier was henceforth to be cultivated. His reason was
to be enlarged and purified ; his affections softened ;
his
entire moral being elevated that be might make the
nobler hero. That he may no longer blindly, ignorantly,
do the behest of his superiors—firing and bayoneting,
according to orders, with not a thought of the deaths he
dealt ; of the streams of blood he loosed from living
bosoms—it has been proposed to educate him ;to culti-
vate his moral sense to take a proper pride in his busi-
ness. Mr. Carlyle in his " Cromwell," avers that every
soldier ought " to think himself God's soldier, killing
God's enemies ;" and to possess red-coated enthusiasts
with this most amiable delusion is probably the high
purpose of those who call aloud to the country for mili-
tary schoolmasters.
It has, however, been objected that as we educate the
soldier as a thinking, contemplative being, so shall we
risk the enfeeblement or loss of those elements that now
create armies. The very cruelty and remorselessness of
war, it has been urged, demands the coarsest agents.
" We do not make revolutions with rose water," said the
Frenchman. Battles are not to be fought by squares and
squadrons of scholars and philosophers. Teach the
soldier to think, and think rightly, and what will his
thoughts tend to as he treads his monotonous sentry-
pace ? May not some mischievous spirit—all rebellious
to the might and glory of the Horse Guards—prompt
the tool-sentinel, the man-engine, to take himself to
bits ? to sit in calm judgment upon the true beauty
of his uniform, his cuffs and facings ? To question
the ennobling utility of that iron tube, that hard.
dead piece of walnut, hugged in his arm until,
by use, it has almost become incorporated with the
?Maybe apt
tt thisto
a nbaol;ks
e-
tuar:ceiry imt,
sentinel,
l
the real worth of pipe-clay —and so, be tempted to re-
nounce it:- A fear of this has arisen in the minds of
men, otherwise greatly pleased at the prospect of be-
mtaaungh?z paedpanrgto of
pedagogue
him;icc
be-
holding iA future fighting battalions, highly cultivated
beings ; elevated, polished doers of the grim behests of
bloody war.
Fear not ; be at ease, gentlemen. The Government
will rule after its own wise fashion ; after its own saga-
cious alternation. If the hero be educated, he shall still
be flogged. Arithmetics and primers, and books of re-
ligion and morality shall be familiar to the soldier as
the roll call, and so shall the cat. Though school-rooms
be furnished the halberds shall continue. The Govern-
ment, wisely inconsistent, will reserve to itself the cat-o'-
nine tails, h a education and philosophy should over-
refine its martial students.
Our paper contains an account of the last refractory ,1
scholar, remonstrated with by the drummer. The
soldier is dead ; and as the case is still before the
Coroner, we shall return to it. The dead man com-
mitted a grave offence, he violently struck his sergeant.
Nevertheless, he should have been otherwise punished. ,
The infliction of the lash upon a human being degrades
not him alone who suffers, but shucks and disgusts—or
failing to do so, the mischief is still worse—all who
behold it. Imprisonment, forced labour, compelled soli-
tude, may be visited upon evil- doers ; for each degree
of punishment may carry with it moral correction. But
the first lash lowers man to the beast, and his spirit is
degraded or broken for ever.
And so the British soldier is to be carefully educated,
and duly flogged. We are to engage schoolmasters for
the army ; we are to teach the military morals and
philosophy ; but, as at the dames' schools, the urchins
are kept in awe by the exhibited rod, Iso in our acade-
mies for heroes, the educated, elevated warricrs, are not
to shut their eyes to the cat.

CHORLEY.
MESSRS. R. COBDEN AND CO.'S TREAT TO
THEIR WORKPEOPLE, TO CELEBRATE THE
REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS.
It was with no small pleasure we witnessed the passing
of the train containing Mr. Cobden's workpeople on
Wednesday last. Amidst other rejoicings, none could
be more appropriate than that of the hands employed at
the works of the Champion of Free Trade.
All the hands met at the Crosse Hall Works at six
o'clock in the morning, attired in their holiday dress,
and looking highly respectable. They marched
through Chorley to the railway station in the following
order :
Two men, one carrying the portrait of R. Cobden, Esq.,
M.P., painted by one of his own workpeople ;
the other carrying a portrait of J9hn
Bright, Esq., M.P.
Crosse Hall Band, who played in excellent style.
The Females.
The workmen according to their various branches, all
wearing medals, suspended by a blue riband, con-
taining the portrait of R. Cobden, Esq.
Children, about 260 in number, carrying small banners
with various mottoes, such as "Cobden for ever ;"
" God save the Queen ;" "Bright for ever ;"
"Free Trade with all the world."
The large and elegant banners contained the follow-
ing :—"Cobden for ever ;" with a crown in the centre,
under which was inscribed "God save the Queen"—
" Glorious achievement of the Anti Corn Law League."
Before the children was another band of music, which
played appropriate airs. The company, consisting of
the workmen, their wives, and friends, amounting
to upwards of one thousand four hundred persons,
left the Chorley station at half-past seven, and arrived
in Fleetwood about a quarter past nine. A procession
was here formed, the children first, headed by the band
up to the Mount, where three hearty cheers were given
for their safe arrival. Buns and coffee now commenced
being distributed to the youngsters in a tent erected by
Mr. Hornby of the Fleetwood Arms Inn, capable of
holding about 400 children. This being over, a e
band
number
of the workpeople commenced dinner (th
playing all the time), and by relays the dining con-
tinued till about four o'clock. the leaders_ and
managers of the procession dining last.
The At dhi ne ra.letrt:
the following toasts we
of her Majesty," with three times three. Band,
National Anthem.--44 The healthCobden, Esq.,
M.P.," with three times three, which was heartily ril-
-1 sponded to ; band playing " See the Conquering Hero
Comes."—" The health of Frederick Cobden, Esq.;"—
" John Bright, Esq.;" all drank with three times three
cheers. Amongst the company at dinner was J. W.
Garside, Esq., surgeon to the works. The weather was
beautifully fine, and the lads and lasses enjoyed them-
selves much on the heath in a country dance. The en-
joyments of the day were enhanced by short trips in ex-
cursi3n steamers, of which great numbers availed them-
selves.
About half-past six, the company, highly delighted
with the pleasures of the visit, and the liberality of their
employers, returned to the station in the same order as
before. It was nearly eight o'clock before the immense
company started back, with the flags and banners waving
in the air, and the music playing ; and when they passed
Preston a little before nine, it appeared as if the whole
town had collected to view and welcome " Cobden's
hands" on their return. In half an hour they were safe
in Chorley, not a single accident having occurred to mar
the pleasures of the day.
The whole of the hands, numbering 660, men, women,
A and children, had their day's wages paid, besides all the
is., other expenses of railway, sailing, refreshments, &c., by
zted H. Cobden and Co.—Preston Chronicle.
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If you wish to be happy, keep busy ; idleness is
harder work than ploughing, a good deal. There is more fan 111
Bwoatini an hour than there is la xitwning A =wry,