The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-14 00:00:00

TITTRSITANT to an Order of the High Court cf , will .-. -' it qn.edily be increased l" These gloomy
IL - cha-,c,-,,, nyteein P. came wiere!n!Tlio3.llenr. Stran,ways ' predictions have already been fully and completely
is plainiff, and ille)alit tlaker Leslie derei,a,mt, all persnos ejair•Alng
is
ne. Credit.rs • f WI
1.17:T.Er., Lite of Mirk.arn'pin.,,,. vt,rified. The Back Directors yesterday resolved
rhelAen. It the enttnty Of lti.l:llrges, ~.fetttlntott, the inte,tatc, i•I the i
rr., Toth, Ts muted. who ilie.l in or nhoot the month of Angnit, IV'3, i ou an ftivance to an uniform rate of interest of
be Vieir seloilor., on ar Ir:fee the 901 ,lAr of I) cell-1w... l:',1. i .
-.-<, 0,„,.n,,,,• cell- Vice-Olnu- 7 per cent., thus -abolishing the distinction that
,;to.e.boading. i.irwc,in•,-
Til he perettiptorlls.• et- previously existed between bills coming to math-
' rity at more or less than sixty days. Nor is
this all. It was alto decided that bills
haVing leers than 30 days to run will not be re.;
discounted for the brokers; so that virtually credit
annot now he obtained for more than a single
month, and that at the ruinous charge of 7 per
cent.,l)37 the Leviathan, which implieS a cost of
.r.,...-;
at least, 8 or 9 per cent. to trading and manufac-
mring firms. - The discount houses, following the
old lady's lead, have advanced their rate for
money held on call to (1 per cent., • and. -a similar
allowance ig made on depv,its by the joint-sto-ck

to come in and prove 111,-,r aebt4 It,
eeror Sir Tliehint T
inn; ~r in drfinit
&ivied from the IsP7lP9t Of ;he said con'er.
Tnes.l3y, tlim I rob dlv ;Vet o'cleet. in the
ternoon. at the alid ChamberA, la ap:-..0int,1 tor !xn:-In';', nnot ao.judi-
Sttine 000 n thee:3l4i.
Dated this stII ;lay of iCavT•rat-.or.
MT A 1tt.1,3 C'h'ef
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7. dolin-trc,t, P.Nlforl•nr,v. l'lrOntira Solieitots.

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1 THE POLYTECHNIC,' INSTITUTION.
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.. • SOLE LESSEE—J. 11. PEPPER., _Mg.
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It is somewhat remarleeble that, while the me -1 • - . ----ele---. .
tro-politan population have been patiently waiting The enterprise of Mr. Pepper, as the Sole
1 Lessee and Menager of --the Regal Polytechnic
tobo rid of the sewage, the retention of which
; Institution, really appears to be inexhaustibl©.
has been found so prejudicial to longevity, the I
His Programme, 'just now, or Syllabus, or what-
metropolis has been flooded with the moral drain- I
i ever else we may please to call it, is marked by an
age of the Continent, German and Italian- rascals entire series of Novelties, or, as our allies across
and cut-throats to wit, " the offscouring •of all the chennel have taught us to say, by a succession
things," whose prolonged retention is fraught of new and interesting "Specialities." No Wonder,
with more immediate danger to life than the other,
therefore, that out of anenterprise like this, coin-
we bined with a remarkable Sagacity of selection, and
though much more easily to be got rid of.
an indomitable energy, aedan unflagging perseve-
content ourselves with calling attention to the
ranee-Teo wondeee.weeeey, that out of an union
coincidence, without pointing the moral to be •
• - - • of al, these laudable qualities combined, Mr.
derived from it. Pepper should have contrived to draw forth
As our readers are aware the eseilteuent of the portions .. of . success in 'alcioet every one
foreign mercenaries, in the Bri'!ish service met of ' the' carious and contrasting motions of his
large and motley establishment. Insomuch so that,
from the first .with our most marked disapproval.
now in 1856, nearly 2) years from the date.of its
Sulsequent events have .proved to demonstration
original establishment, we still find
.the Royal
the correctness of the view taken by The Smn of
Polytechnic Institution flourishing among the
the. Mattee.' Abroad' the various -foreign .leeions wreck efm.nch younger and more shoWily preterie
thus enrolled have not been of the slightest service liens
undertakiegs of, a scientific character. The
to us, but, on the. contrary, their enlistment has
dot/ism/on, in more senses than one a masa of
involved 'us in the gravest difficulties with neutral "artificial ruins "—the Adelaide Gallery.the mere
Powers, actually all but occasioning war between vulgarshow-reomalternatelyof mammotletrees and
ieon a gaudy
us and the -United States. 'At home they have Preposterous marionettes—the Pan opt
neither benefited us by their example as soldiers pile of gilt gingerbread, abandoned to dust and cob-
webs, its -.fountain dry, its organ silent, its doors
-nor as citizens ; have -utterly failed to secure the
:double locked by the iron force of bankruptcy—the
confidence of the population, and at their very one only success among these scientific- caterers to
`the public amMement andthe popular instruction
beSt done no more than draw their pay and jabber
during
.drill. Their virtues being of this negative ' being the "old original'' structure et 309, Regent-
character, what have been their vices ?- i 'Week street, inCorporated by Royal Charters in 1838 and
by week, forfore long before their breaking .nn, in 1852, the illustrious Patron of -which is H.R.H.
the public ear has been shocked. by narra•
the' Prince Consort, the' SelelLessee of which is
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Mr. J. H. Pepper, Manager and LeetUrer; the
tives of outrages on their part as - wanton as industrious and indefatigable !
they were cowardly, and alaiost invariably elle- . Simultaneous-with the crowning triumphs of the
racterised by a murderous intent. Now it WAS
Polytechnic Institution in this year of grace 1856
.
an -unoffending civilian beaten or stabbed, now a —and, doubtless; having a great -deel to do with
few British soldiers having to defend their lives those same successes—there is.especially noticeable
against oVerpoWering numbets, and now -some the important event, in the history of the Institu-
tion, of the Unidn recently effected between the
swindling transaction as heartless as impudent,
• - - „Society of Arts" and the " Royal Polytechnic."
i followed by some atrocious murder, as if to set • .
• - Au union so eminently successful, that already we
forth the capacity for evil of this dire importation believe in this First Term, 1855,- the number of
pupils enrolled has reached an aggregate of no less
in the boldest relief. Such -was the conduct of
than 390 altogether ! As indicative of the charac-
thethese foreign mercenaries during the war--e.such
use of these auxiliaries for whom nothing was ter of the result it may be here briefly notified that
deemed' too much, and whose treatment up to the current time-table of classes for this winter ses-
their discharge has been of a nature admirably
sion- marks a diversity of subjects for each succes-
sive- week -as remarkable as the following :--For
calculated to excite feelings of discontent in the'
Monday, Arithmetic, Algebra, and Chemistry; for
mind of the far less favoured British soldier.
• Tuesday, Geometry, Mensuration, and Geography;
And now when the public ought to have been, for Wednesday, HiStory, Literature, and the
ridden of them—abundant time having elapsed for French Language i for Thursday, Mechanics, the
that desirable consummation—they are still Elements of Mechanism, and the German Lan-
among us, not a whit improVed, but more guage; and for kriday, Book-keeping. D. White
dangerous to the public peace than ever. Instead being the arithmetician and algebraist ; Mr. Pepper
and Mr. Buckmaster the chemists ; Mr.. Tear the
of - contemplating occasional forays in the
g • eometrician ; Mr. Chapman the geographer ; the
camp, they' are scattered abroad throughout the *
Rev. C. Boutell the exponent of the belles lettres ;
metropolis, to be met with everywhere and on all Mr. Bridge the mechanician ;Mr. Macpherson the
occasions, affording proof of the wisdom of their accountant; and Messrs. Roublot and Heidenheim
being shunned. No woman's delicacy can be said the linguists. It is observable, however, altogether
to be safe from the pollution of their touch—no apart from the union of the Society of Arts and the
manly protecting breast from the sharpness of
Royal Polytechnic, that the popular scientific Insti-
tution r of London displays a really remarkable
their steel. Inflamed with beer, purchased by
variety of attractions upon the long catalogue of
money ohtained at no cost, but that of the tax- - - •
its stereotyped advertisernent. For example, be-
payer, the rascally hand obeys the impulse of the ginning on the 3d of this present month of Novem-
licentious eye, and the rebuke of offended woman- ber, at eight o'clock in the evening,e there are the
hood, no less than the interference -of .the indig- Musical LecturesbyG.,A. Cooper, assisted by seve-
nant spectator, is ',met by a thrust: :with the ral able artistes, and by a choral aid of no less than
Rapper himself
in • .
cowardly knife. 'Thepolice meet with no better 100 voices. Again, Mr
,in addition te' his :attractive Lecture (with
fate, their short staves availing little in astruggle
Experiments '
arid Dissolving Diagrams) upon
with the murderous blade. In one day, and that - ' • ,
Bessemer's new and marvellous process of manufac -
day yesterday, 'the' Guildhall, Worship-street, and t • •
urine. iron and steel—recently delivered two lee-
Thames Police-courts were simultaneously en- turesnpon the ".Chemistry of Fireworks"--a theme
gaged in the iniestigation of outrages such as we appropriately selected for Wednesday, the sth of
`have described, and c )mmitted by discharged- 'November, 'and brilliantly illustrated for the mos.-
\ members of one or other of these mercenary sion by a variety of miniature fireworks, con-
legions., 'No one's life is safe With them. At the
latter . police-court the astounding. - intelligence structed 'by 'the skilled hand of Mr. Darby, the
• eminent Vauxhall Pyrotechnist. Besides these
allurements on the Programme of the Polytechnic,
was eliminated during _the. proceedings, that - - - .0
therehave been—there ' are still t) be—divers re-
" there are about fifty men • belonging :to markable -
literary attractions.: There " have been,"
then British Italian Legion pronging about for example, Mr. \Vatter. ROwton's Inctures on
Stepney and Whitechapsl; and they are' the Writings- of the .most popular Author of the
all armed with bowie knives and stilettos." - Those Age, our glorious and in many respects incomper-
who entertain. the desire that their days may be able Box ! And .with these appreciative protec-
tions upon the Weeks-of Charles Dibleens—D rama •
long in the land will be disposed to postpone their
tie Reading; of ". Uncle -,,r,v.irtctbin" by ' Miss
visit's to this locality. As for the women they
Mary E Webb, the, coloured netive of Philadelphia,
must put a Bridle en their tongues, endbe exceed-
15S•, who first read the masterly fiction of Harriet
iingly gentle in their repulses if they- would escape. B. ktewe in London, at Stafford House, before the
at once violation and murder. assembled guests of her Grace the Duchess of
How long is this sort of thing to continue 1 -Siitherland. There are "to bee' critical and pee-
How long are peaceable British citizens to find tical lectures by Mr. Tell Tophain, on the 17th
instant upon Levi Byron, and on the 14th instant
their native meridian darkened by exposure to.
.
atrocities that would hardly be tolerated under an ups' ThoiaftS.Meore. Again, amen the coining
wonders of the Polytechuice the public have
Italian sky t Were these mercenaries refugees
prornuie held on. to them of enjoying, on the -
from foreign tyranny, with no other fault than
an inveterate love of liberty, and two or three Geology and Physical Constitution of the Moon—
black sheep among them broke the peace :same an with a Fissile: glance, let us hops, by the lecturer,
offensive fashion, they would be promPtlY.enotteh upon the vexed question about the relation of our
dealt with by the Home-office• The act which -lovely satellite up en its a.xii ! And another allur-
ing Lecture, On ' the 15th proximo, by Mr. Reim-
arms the Home Secretary with exceptionable
S . upon the ti Beauties of Creation," with
powers ought surely, if in force at-all, to be turned
te
especial regerd to .the means whereby man
to some good account. ' Why are not these becomes acquainted with them this partici"-
_
cowardly rut brought at once under its opts- lac lecture upon the Beauties of Nature being.
ffi
ration ? Why are they not one and all driven out in point of feet, the first of a series of lectures
of the metropolis and transported to the lands which 'on the exquiSite theme of the "Five Senses."
gave them birth, and are doubtless glad .at the There are, besidei all this, several minor attractions
col-
thought of having got rid of them ? Favour in a. very noticeable jest now among the marvels
thee at the Royal Polytechnic Institu-
high quarter may do much, but it cannot he per-
lected toge
then. Noticeable even among the whirling wheels
mitred to throw its shield over drunken. reprobates •e• - -
and pinions, and steal straps of
and assassins like theee. If
_Sir G. GREY would themoving meeeorreachitterye---among such familiar
not have the odium of these transactions_ cast on wonders (wonders etill though so long familiar) as the
himself and the • Government of which -he is a diving bell, and the electric machine, and the steam
member—if he has any fellow feeling with his gun and the like scientific miracles !, One eing
outraged and endangered countrymen and wenn- G. Harvey exquisite Dissolving Views -of `b Life.
the- West"--erevealing the growth from -the rude
try women, and is. shocked, as they are, at- being in -
Le Hut to the magnificent City, among-the Fields
subjected or exposed to such ruffianism, he will g
• - -and Forests and Prairies of the Theited Staler—
order an immediate por..e hunt, which shall not
Dissolving Views accompanied by an Illustrative
cease until every member of these legions thrceigb- Lecture by Mr. Leicester
.Buekinglaam.• Another
out the country 'is beaten' up and placed wider of these noticeable recent additions to the Poly-
surveillance; preliminary to the speediest possible technic being /.e.peteoe Montanate's ingenious Col-
delineative of thedifferent oh arac-
deportation. .Ne have, surely, native villains in lectionof Figures e . , •• • •
Savageand Civilised,
tors of "Mexican Life"--Life, e . .
abundance to guard ourMlVeti against, without
with all its varied . costumes and attributes. A.
having the schist' of continental rascaldom in ad- - - : -fe toallthia—can there
Shilling being the admission e
dition—the wielder of the knife and the stiletto, beanyliarvele then, that. that old and favourite
as well as the :wielder of the life-preserver , and haunt of sight-seers continues still night after night,
the garotte. noon after noon, and morning after.morning, to be
I crowded, that success still follows like its shadow
I. upon. the enterprise displayed by
Mr. J. H. Pepper

SNOW.—Tha bills in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorsetshire,
were covered with snow on Monday night ikst.
NEWPORT MONNIOUTHSHIRE).—CharIes Lytle, Esq.,
R.N., was elected Mayor on Monday last.
Sir A. Cockburn, the Attorney-General, has succeeded
to the ChiefJusticeship of the Common Pleas, is a great
grandson (says the Balk Chron;ele) of Dr. Ayscongb, a
former Dean of Bristol. He is heir presumptive to the
baronetcy at present held by his uncle, the Dean of
Yolk, and lately hell by another uncle, the late distin-
guished Admiral Sir George Cockburn.
. DEATH OE LORD FCARSDAT,E.—We regret to announce
the death of the Right Hon. Nathaniel Curzon, Brron
Scarsdale,. which took place at Farnah-hall, near Derby,
on Wednesday last. The late Lord Scarsdale was born
on the of January. 1781, and was consequently in
his 76th year. The heir presumptive is the Rev. Alfred
Curzon, of Kedleston, second son of the late Hon. and
Rev. Alfred Curzon, who was born in 1801, and who
married: in 1825, Sophia, daughter 'of R. Holden, Ea q.
Mr. W. P. Andrew (chairman Of the Schiele and-Eu-
phrates Valley Railway Company), Captain Cole,. Mr.
J. Entwistle, Mr. G. K. Fairliohne, Col. the Hon. A.
Gordon, C.B , Mr. Arthur Hudson (Superintendent of
the Australian Agricultural Company), Mr. J. B. Heath,
F.R.S. (Consul for Sardinia), Mr. W. H. Hovel, of J. us-
t ratio), Sir Charles Nicholson (Chancellor of the UniVer-
aity of Sydney), Commander Montagu O'Reilly,
and Mr. Wm. Stamland, Civil Engineer' have been
elected Fellows of the Royal GeograPhieal Society. -
THE WESTICINSTERIIMPROVEMENTIBONDHOLDERS.-A.
meeting of these bondholders took place yesterday, Mr.
Ogle in the chair, when two plans were submitted to
induce them to adopt the Westminster Land Act ob-
tained last session, and to subscribe additional money,
with the view of resuscitating the property. A strong
feeling was manifested against any such proceeding, and
it was contended that a full investigation of the acitninis
tration of the Westminster Commission is essential for
the interests of the bondholders and the public... The
suit in Chancery already instituted will, it is asserted*
diaellse the disreputable circumstances connected with
the operations of that body, and be attended with bentki
Eclat results to the creditors.

in his management of tae Royal Polytechnic Insti-
tution ?

Mr. Maitland, secretary, to the Civil Service Commis
sion, 'will also act as secretary to the Civil Service Su-
perannuation Commissioners.
THE PARLIAMENT S'isREET ASSASSIN, MARLET.—For
prudential reasons, the fatal termination of the assault
on the unfortunate man Cope was concealed from the
assassin, Marley, in the House of Detention, until
Wed-
nesday evening, when he was visited by the Rev. Mr.
Jephson, the chaplain of the prison. When, in the course
of his interview, the reverend gentleman informed Mari
ley of. the death of the ill-fated Cope, he never expressed
the slightest contrition for his end, and in his demeanour
was callous and hardened in the extreme. In answer to
some observations, he replied that be had faced death too
many times to fear it now. In a subsequent part of the
yes-
terday, evening, being spoken to by a warder, he said that be
was not afraid of death, and would "go to the gallows
Imilesaslir.i_cleAffotelirohwiisnegomroittal from Bow-street, yes-
Genend
Nonate,
hae:eexhealragitne
exclaimed
twoiltfhuel
omffin:rxdresr,,
hheisheavrerilahlavaet
come to stop with you for some time." He was speedily
consigned, to his cell, which he will occopy until his trial.
GENERAL CIIANGARNIER AND THE MARQUIS OF NOR-
‘e
teen,. c add'_ ;Saline b,
Cbaogarnier to thleetßterinslisael
Nov.lo, 1856.—Mr. Editor,—There has been pointed
out to me in one of the letters dated.from Paris, inserted
In yogi. journal of the 9th Nov., the following sentence
A great deal was said at a certain period of th
h e confi-
and
dential conversations between the Emperor Nicolas
Sir Hamilton Seymour on the subject of Turkey. Rus-
sia would in her turn hold a fine baud if she possessed
certain letters addressed by Lnrd Normanby to General
Changapier—letters which it has not been thought,
apropos to publish, but which are not destroyed.' I
have never received a single letter from Lord Normanby
relative to the fdreign policy of England. Receive, sir,
etc , " CHANGABNIEIt."

Lag even:ng a romantic play entitled " Fabian, or la
Wiesalliance," was produced at this theatre for the first,
time, and mot with the most decided succas. The play
is a new adaptation of The B:a;:k Doctor," and there-
fore to recount the tale through all its cimplerities 01

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be needless. The leading incident of the version pm-
duced last evening will be understood by the following
brief description. The " mesallianne," from which the
play takes it; nave, consists in a marr:age with a cer-
tail] Pauline de la Raynario, the daughter of the Mar-
quii de Is Raynarie, asd Fabian, a mu!atto, who its&
been a slave to the marquis, but bas recovered his fret•
dom for having save;l the life of his master. Be
studies medic'ne, and eventually becomes celebrated
for certain cures he has performed. His fame spreads

in all directions, and a fever of a dreadful character vi
siting the isle of Bourbon, the scene in which earlier
portions of the play is laid, his aid is eagerly sought by
the white folks, who before had only endured his pre•
sence. The Marchioness de la Raynarie and her daughter
Pauline are seizzd with the fever, and the mother, who
is saved through the skill of Fabian, quits tle island to
return to France before her daughter has suftloiently
recovered to proceed with her. News arrives of the
death of the marchioness, and marriage takes place be-
tween Fabian and Pauline, who believe; herself to be an
orphan. The mother has, however, escaped death,
and she summons her daughter to France. Upon
Fabian's arrival • the marriage is discovered, and
•be is thrown into the bastile. The capture
of the fortress by the, people releases him, but his incur
ceration has bereft him ef reason. A friend finds out
by whose orders he was immured, and Pauline is de.
nounoed to the Convention as an aristocrat. Her
hiding-place is, however, discovered, and Fabian, while
endeavouring to convince the mob that the lady is his
wife, is struck dead by 'a bullet aimed at Pauline.
The part of Fabian was sustained -by Mr. C. Dillon
with great ability. In the scene in which he is taunted
• r his negro birth his acting was that of a con-
summate artiste, and elicited unbounded applau,e•
Indeed the whole performance was distinguished
by an avoidance of point-making, and without
once overstepping the modesty of nature he held
the feelings of his audience entirely at his Com-
mand. Mrs. Dillon's Patiline was a chaste and delicate
performance, and in certain parts of the play she exhi-
bited great power. and pathos. The other charaeters
were very efficiently sustained. The play bas been put
upon the stage in a very striking manner ; and some of
the effects, for instance the rising of the waters in the
muia'to's cave, and the storming of the baskile, are ex-
traordinary. At the termination of each act of the drama
Mr. and Mrs. Dillon had to appear before the curtain,
n obedience to the call of a delighted audience.

MISS P. LORTON'S ILLUSTRATIONS,

Mrs. German Reed last evsning resumed her bighls-
attractive entertainment at the Gallery of Illustration,
Regent-street. The audience was exceediney nurnereu4,
an& if the first night of a season can be taken as a cri-
terion, a season of unexampled success is certain. The
chief features of the performance did not rest upon any
novelty, and it is not necessary on this occasion to say
more than that Mrs. Reed's powers were as cunTicuous
As ever, and that she really merited all the applause she
received.