The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-22 00:00:00

THE SUN,

DARLINGTOIk7...Wind S.W.—fine.
Stiiir—:Find S.W., strong breeze—rain.
NEWCASTLE—Wind S.W.—fine.
BgArrocK—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast
B-oktwlcK—Wind S.W.—tine.
GLASGOW—Wind S.W.—cloudy.
EDDTBURGII —Wind S.W.—fine.

The returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Wednesday morning at nine
o'clock :

KINGSTOWN (Durinn)—Wind S.S.W., calm—rain.
POOLE—Wind IV.W., calm—partially cloudy.
PETERBOROUGH—W in d S.W., gentle breeze—partially
cloudy.
CREWE—Wind W, gentle breeze—fine.

THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, AUGUST 22.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
75—highest since noon yesterday.
57—lowest this morning and during the night.
75—this day, at noon.

Bersordwrzn, 30.08.
WIND S.W.—light breeze and fine sunshiny weather.

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with an unyielding confidence, yet in the spirit of
the purest impartiality, that we advisedly defy any
continental city to produce their equals. Foremost
stands that mighty and symmetrical edifice on
the north side of Trafalgar-square, within
whose gigantic galleries are hung the treasures
of the great masters of the pictorial art,
cleaving the firmament with its series of vast
and wondrous domes ; whilst at its feet two taper
fountains of elaborately-carved porphyry, rising from
pellucid basins, fling, like colossal cataracts of RAW•
Lislos, their liquid tributes in a thousand jets
of diamond spray high into the air. Next, guard-
ing the western avenue of London, the eques-
trian statue of Field-Marshal the Duke of
WELLINGTON affects the beholder with unutterable
admiration. Despite an ephemeral but factious op-
position, fostered too by some who ought to have
known better, the unyielding taste and energy of
Sir FREDERICK TRENCH succeeded in securing for
this matchless production the most appropriate and
commanding site that, by the utmost ingenuity,
could have been selected. The Victor of a Hundred
Fights is thus enabled to behold his own imperishable
image each morning as he arises from his luxurious
couch : fruitur lama suet. The spirited position of the
fiery-eyed war-horse " smelling the battle from afar,"
the chivalric aspect of the rider—ah ! how tame and
poor the vaunted Cmun DE LION set up by some foreign
pretender to the glorious art at the western end of the
Paxtonian Palace, in comparison with this colossal
triumph of the sublime and beautiful ! And how
consoling to the feelings of every right-minded Eng-
lishman to gaze at last upon such a stupendous me-
morial of the gory laurels of Waterloo, solitary
though it be, seeing that we are overrun throughout
the length and breadth of the land with innumerable
realisations in stone and bronze of the na-
tional gratitude to the Hero of Trafalgar'and
the Nile I Thirdly, with excusable exultation
we would point to those royal beasts, the
supporters of the time-honoured arms of England,
reared upon the piers of the entrance gates of Buck-
ingham Palace. He that can gaze unmoved on these
unparalleled specimens of statuary must indeed have
a soul as stony as the blocks from which they have
been fashioned. To ourselves they have ever proved
provocative of high and holy feelings. Intense
energy, palpable in the physiognomies of the haughty
quadrupeds, is even still more powerfully developed
in the strenuous muscularity of their nether parts.
Each guardian of the royal shield seems proudly to
bid defiance to aggression on his regal charge, me-
nacing the insolent invader with a physical reception
of most formidable nature. Eternal honour to the
brain that conceived and the hand that exe-
cuted those glorious personifications of the
might and majesty of England's queenly sway !
As yet, the evil anticipations of those croakers
who prognosticated dire and deplorable results from
the great gathering of nations beneath the Taber-
nacle of PAXTON, have signally failed of accomplish-
ment. A spirit of harmony and happiness appears to
have pervaded all ranks and classes of the vast mul-
titudes who have flocked in daily hosts to inspect the
marvellous treasures which the industrial ingenuity
of various climes has piled in rich and dazzling
variety within the crystal confines of the World's
Great Fair. No acrimonious feelings, no symptoms
of discontent have been evinced ; no anarlings of envy,
hatred, malice, or uncharitableness, have been heard.
Yet all those felicitous appearances may
be fallacious. We may be dancing blind-
fold on the verge of the precipice. In a
twinkling the gulf may yawn, the mine may
explode, and, realising the apprehensions of a re-
nowned Hibernian senator, " we may awake some
morning and find our throats cut." The fashion of the
revolution we cannot possibly predict, nor to whom
the supreme destinies of the regenerated nation may
be committed. But should the dreaded day arrive,
may our earnest adjuration not be made in vain.
When the arm of triumphant patriotism is raised to
sweep away the vile monuments of the past, to efface
the recollections of a tyrannic Throne and a ferocious
Peerage, may the chief wielder of the popular power
be, in one respect at least, merciful in his strength.
Whoever thou art, 0 Coming Man! whether
FERRAND or FEARGUS, REYNOLDS Or ROLLIN, SIR..
THORP or SNOOKS, remember in the bright hour of
freedom's sunrise, that
" as the Emathian conqueror bid spare
The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower
Went to the ground,"
the triumphs of ever-living art should be held as sacred
as the memory of departed genius. Hurl not the Iron
Duke from his lofty pedestal, and deface not in the
park of St. James'e the king of beasts and his mys-
terious comrade. As memorials of British taste they
have commanded a unanimous and world-wide repu-
tation, and should cruel destiny decree their ruin,
the world, alas can never hope to " look upon their
like again."

YORK AUGUST MEETING.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH..

The Scramble.

Cutler

Senorita

Brahmin

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Bramham Stakes.

Hookem Snivey ...
Sir Rowland Trenchard

GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES.

Nancy . .
The Ban ...
Marlborough Buck

9 ran. Won in a canter.

THE DUCHESS of KENT.—Her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent and suite, who left Brodick Castle on
Monday morning, arrived about ono o'clock at Adrossan,
and immediately afterwards proceeded, via the Glasgow and
South-Western Railway, to Paisley, where they arrived be-
tweea two and three in the afternoon. At Paisley an engine
belonging to the Caledonian Company was attached, and her
Royal Highness proceeded along the Clydesdale Junction
and Caledonian line to Greenhill Junction, where she entered
upon the Scottizh Central line, and proceeded direct to Lau-
rencelsirk, where the distinguished party remained for the
night, and yesterday proceeded to the Highlands.
STATE OF TRADE.—MANCHESTER, AUG. 21.—We
have had a firm and active market both in yarn and cloth.
The demand for printing cloths, narrow shirtings, long
cloths, and domestics continues to carry off the produce
without change of price. In India goods, including 40-inch
shirtings, madapollams, and jaconots there has been an im-
provement both in price and demand. On the arrival of
letters by the Overland Mail buyers held aloof from the mar-
ket, showing no great anxiety to execute the orders re-
ceived, but the advance in the raw material at Liverpool
appears to have had an effect this morning, and they have
been buyers to a fair extent. Most kinds of goods suitable
to that market, however, being comparatively low, they have
not been able to supply themselves without yielding a slight
advance. In yarn of all descriptions, both suitable to the
home and foreign trade, there continues to be a good busi-
ness; and prices are hardening with the advance of the raw
material.

FOREIGN CoiNAGE.—Licensed victuallers, shop-
keepers, and the public in general, cannot be too particular
in looking at the silver they take, as in consequence of the
large number of foreigners at present in the metropolis on
a visit to the Crystal Palace, a vast quantity of francs, ten
sous, and five sous pieces, are in circulation, as well as many
other foreign coins, which pass off very easily for shillings,
sixpences, and fourpenny pieces, if taken in a hurry, and are
a loss to the receiver, and trouble of getting exchanged.

LOWESTOFT RAILWAY AND HARBOUR.--The ac-
counts to be submitted to the half-yearly meeting, on the
23d, have just been issued. The capital account shows a
total outlay of 323,3271. Is. 4d., of which 141,3701. 16s. Bd.
was consumed in the construction of the railway,
197,556!. 19s. 2d. for harbour works, the remainder in
general charges, including 6,5941. for the establishment of
creosote works, and the very praiseworthy item of 2901. for
" Lowestoft Dispensary and medical attendance to work-
men." The share capital realised 243,1551. 10s. 5d., which,
with the addition of 80,000!. loan on mortgage, brought up
the receipts to within 1711. 10s. 11d. of the outlay. The
revenue accounts for the half-year showed :—Harbour re-
ceipts, 2,938/. 9s. ltd.; railway receipts, 2,655/. Is. 5d.;
miscellaneous receipts, 5031. Bs. 5d.; total, 6,096/. 19s. 9.
Harbour expenses, 2,536/. Os. 6d.; railway expenses,
9,714/. 13s. 2d. ; miscellaneous, 119/. lls. Bd. ; total,
5,3701.- ss. 4d.; showing a profit for the half-year of
726/. 14s. 6d.
DUBLIN AND BELFAST JUNCTION RAILWAY.—The
strike among the stonemasons on this line continues, and
about 500 who have hitherto received from 20s. to 30s. a
week are out of employ.
NEW CONVICT DEPOT.—Spike Island depOt being
overcrowded with convicts, and the gaols being seriously in-
commoded by this class of prisoners, inspections have been
made of the several Government islands around the coast,
with a view to their adaptation for the safe custody of con-
victs. It was at first thought that Whiddy Island, in Bantry
Bay, would have been made a convict depot, but the inten-
tion, for some reason unexplained, was abandoned. Bere
Island, at the entrance of Bantry harbour, was the next place
taken into consideration, but that was reported as unsuitable
Scattery Island, in the Shannon, was the next place, and it
is believed that it has been determined to make it a convict
depot.—Cork Constitution.
His Excellency Baron Bentinck, Ambassador to
the Court of Great Britain, and suite, arrived at the St.
Kathaiine's Wharf, early yesterday morning, by the General
Steam Navigation
~.Conapany'a mail ;steam-ship RaMbow,
from Lotterdatm