The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-06 00:00:00

The Grand new Spectacle of JOAN OF ARC ; or the Mall of Or-

leags, with new and costly costumes.
Together with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle.
T. conclude with JONATHAN; or, The Man of TWO Madan.

Box-office open from Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson.

HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE

THU DAY —Morning 0 min. after 4 I Evening 16 min. after 4
To-Moazow—Morning $3 min. after 4 I Evening 47 11111. after 4

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, MeRcH 6.

THERMOMETER, LI THE SHAWL.
45—highest since noon yesterday.
28—lowest this morning and during the night.
41—this day, at noon.
BARomETE-R, 29.72.

WIND N.N.E.—strong breeze and fine weather.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
KINGSTOWN ( DCBLI-N) Wind N. W., gentle breeze
overcast.
PLYMOUTH—Wind S., gentle breeze—heavy rain.
PORTS3IOUTEI—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
BRIGHTON—Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast.
HAsTlNGs—Wind W strong breeze —overcast.

SouTHANErroN—Wind S., strong breeze—rain.
FOLKESTONE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
BASINGSTOKE—Wind S., strong breeze—overcast.
GREENWICH—Wind S.W. gentle breeze—overcast.
SWINDON—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—rain.
OXFORD—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—rain.
I...kmyrropr —Wind S.W., strong breeze—rain.
CO LCHESTE ft —Win d S.W., gentle breeze—rain.
C.AMBRIDGE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—rain.
IltamixouAm—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—rain.
YARMOUTH—Wind S.W., strong breeze—rain.
LYNN—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—rain.
CONWAY—Wind W.S.W., gentle breeze—rain.
110LYHEAD—Wind N.N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
LANcAsTER.—Wind S.W., calm—overcast.
Wurntv—Wind W.N.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
BERWICK—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
The returns from the following places indicate the state 01
the wind and weather on Tuesday morning at nine
o'clock :
MoLuxamt—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—frost.
PETERBOROUGH—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
CREWE— Wind S., gentle breeze—cloudless.
YORK—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
LANCASTER—Wind W., calm—foggy.
ETTAP—Wind S.E. calm—partially cloudy.
WHITEHAVEN—Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
BoArrocK—Wind S.E., gentle breeze--partially cloudy.

THE

low eulogiu ms like these, transparent flatteries
like these, become rather nauseous when ap-
lied directly to the men flattered and eulogised.
Theisare drunk in, doubtless, by greedy ears, and
are welcomed by fervent acclamations, but when they
come to be reduced to print next day they appear
with a somewhat sorry grace in black.and-white.
Added to all which, Mr. COBDEN is damaging the
very cause he is attempting to advance by the erro-
neous and mistaken manner of its advocacy. For
surely it stands to reason that—if the men in the
upper galleries of a theatre are so conspicuously en-
lightened—if the spokesmen among these toilers of the
community are the most gifted individuals in the
land from the circumstance of their not being the
spokesmen of the middle and the higher classes—if
all this be really the case, as Mr. COBDEN says it is,
why then common sense tells us that no very pressing
necessity can, by possibility, exist for abolishing these
same vilified and vituperated taxes upon knowledge.
With enlightenment so peculiarly diffused among
the working people of the United Kingdom—where
the want of dissipating their ignorance ?
With such exquisite refinement of intellect,
and such delicate sensitiveness of disposi-
tion—where the need of removing imposts said
to weigh so heavily upon both the popular mind
and the popular temperament ? Again we say with
Mr. BuacuELL—Fudge 1 It is precisely because
the humbler classes are not so enlightened, so refined,
and so remarkable for their blending of knowledge
and morality, that we are just now advocating with
all the ardour of enthusiasm the need of the remis-
sion of these same taxes upon knowledge. It is
precisely because we cannot recognize among
our artizans and labouring population generally
the tokens of any such moral and mental advance-
ment as the one here prematurely panegyrised by the
Member for the West Riding, that we; are solicitous
to witness the organization of a regular system of na-
tional education, and to behold, with this purpose in
view, the removal of the duties at present affixed to
the materials requisite for its diffusion. Satisfied
upon these points, we have too sincerely and earnestly
at heart the interests of the working classes as a body,
to listen with indifference to any such ill-timed
and most injudicious arguments. We are too
really anxious to recognize the carrying out
of the present movement against the pernicious taxes
on paper and advertisements, to regard with indiffer-
ence the articulation of sentiments which cannot fail
to retard the progress of the beneficent agitation. It
is, therefore, with feelings of genuine regret that we
perceive the abilities and the influence of Mr. COB-
DEN so egregiously and miserably misapplied as they
appear to us to have been on the occasion of the im-
portant meeting yesterday convened in St. Martin's
Hall, Long Acre. Let him restrict himself to
the logical illustration of an abuse, and to the
manly advocacy of a reform, without striving
to ingratiate himself with his auditors and the work-
ing people generally, by any such melancholy toady-
ings and flatteries. He will .then find no reason
whatever to dread the accusation of being a success-
ful or a disappointed demagogue, and give no cause
either for the regret of his admirers or the derision of
his antagonists.

Substantial testimony has already been afforded
that the promoters of the Exhibition are no mere
dreamers—that testimony being the Crystal Palace of
Industry. From the magnitude of that remarkable
edifice, the scale of the entire undertaking may be in
some measure estimated. From the symmetry of its
proportions, some faint idea may be formed of the
skill employed in the general conduct of the enter-
prise. For not less care has been devoted to the
arrangements of the Exposition by the Commis-
sioners than has been manifestly dedicated to the fa-
brication of its home of glass and iron by the con-
tractors and the architect. The manifold regulations
required to be enforced betimes 'by the former, with
a view to simplify in some degree matters which must
otherwise have remained inextricably confused if
only by reason of their very multiplicity, would
be scarcely credible but for the remembrance
that the festival about to be celebrated is one
enlisting the sympathies of the various nations of
both hemispheres. The enormous extent of the
preparations, in short, would be more than sufficient
to bewilder any but men as amply qualified as the
members of the Royal Commission. Naturally
enough the vastness of these same preparations has
awakened among the more sanguine hopes in the
highest degree chimerical and illusory. Instead of
looking upon the scheme simply as one calculated to
impart a wholesome stimulus to the industry and
ingenuity of the multitude throughout the globe,
they have pictured to themselves, as the consequence
of the Exhibition, the dawn of an age of peace which
the union of science and religion may ultimately
perfect to a millennium. Thus, at least, we should
interpret the predictions. As if any better result
could possibly anticipate, than the one we have
already hinted at, the encouragement of handi-
craft and the applause of philosophical ex-
periment, the excitement, in short, of a genial
and beneficial emulation among the labouring classes,
of the different nations of Christendom ! Ont of the
extravagance of these very fantastic prophecies of
good have come equally exaggerated and erroneous
forebodings of evil as the result of the entire enter.
prise. Warnings of the most sinister kind ima-
ginable have been croaked about by the human
ravens of the community—the project appearing in
their eyes a perilous provocation of all the ills re..
puted to have emanated from the box of PANDORA.
" Pride shall have a fall," is the text of these lugu-
brious inuendoes : and in proportion to the pleasure
evinced by the masses generally speaking in the pro-
gress of the arrangements, have their dismal hints as
to their issue become more audible.

Now, without indulging any ridiculous visions of
advantage as likely, to our thinking, to accrue to the
people from the approaching Exhibition of Inter-
national Industry, we must confess at once that
we are very far indeed from participating in
the alarm of those who look forward to its
commencement as to the beginning of a great calamity.
Oa the contrary, we find ourselves disposed to await
with feelings of confident satisfaction the opening of
the Crystal Palace, calculated, as we are convinced it
is, to forward in a very great way the blessed labours
of civilization. That it may be the ulterior means of
placing mankind at large on a more amiable footing
in regard to each other we believe, and hence we are
not altogether disinclined to view the undertaking as
the probable medium through which the chances of
war may be somewhat diminished, and, at any rate,
through which its rigours may to some appreciable
extent be mitigated. Apart from this more senti-
mental way of estimating the value of the
present plan of intercommunication, however,
we are not reluctant to consider with some
degree of complacency a proceeding which must
tend very materially to familiarise the races
of the world with their respective methods of
experiment and fabrication. From this wide diffu-
sion of knowledge an almost infinite amount of
benefit must accrue to the peoples of the earth collec-
tively. Science must be matured by the interchange
and industry promoted by it to an extent hitherto
regarded as impracticable. The more laborious com-
munities will be encouraged to a continuance of their
assiduity ; and the more indolent be awakened from
their torpor by the contrast of results shaming them
into activity. Practical advantages must therefore
ensue from the Industrial Exposition as its certain
and inevitable consequences. Added to the material
benefit in this manner conferred upon the multitude
by the originator of the scheme, there are others of a
subordinate kind, relating to the improvement of
the social condition of the people, which cannot be
altogether overlooked. Less estimable they may
seem to be to the majority when compared to
the good arising to commerce and manufactures,
but eminently' deserving of attention they un-
questionably are to every seriously reflective tem-
ptin of some
eorament.Happiness, according to the subtle defini-
philosopher, does not so much consist in
the success of our greatest undertakings, but in the
agreeable and satisfactory arrangement of all the little
petty details of life in the twenty-four hours. So it
is to a considerable extent with reference to the nobler
qualities of a community. Sermons, or dogmatic
teaching of any description, homilies and moral es-
says, and ultra-religious Acts of Parliament,
and matte!s of a similar character, affect
the disposition of a people
in no way. at all,
when cgutraded with the influence of habits and

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