The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-28 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY GARDENS.--JULLIEN'S
C DNCERTS. The MOZ A.11.T CO AMEMORA.TION.--A
GILAND SELECTION of the works ot this illustrious composer will
be given early in September, to commemorate the 100th Anniversary
of his girth.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
This Theatre will Open for the Semen on Monday neat, September
the Ist, whir will be presented (first time under the present manage.
ment) Sheridan's tragic play
Plof
ZARRO.
Rolla, by Mr. C. Kean ; Elvira, by Mrs. C. Kean.
After which will be produced a new petite comedy, in two acts,
entitled.

offences I But what is fb .e fusillade, the
gibbet, or the guillotine in comparison to the fate
•f those buried in a living tomb and experiencing
_ _

lingering deaths I The summary punishment
would have been real mercy in. comparison to what
they have endured for so many wasting years.
Let the false pretences then be unsparin Ay ex-
poked, and the real state of affairs under which
such things are possible, placed in a correct point
of view, so that " he who runs may read."
It is not the least striking proofof the awful con-
dition ia which they are involved that so many per-
sonspiaced at the mercy of their taskmasters should
be ready to oome forward to reveal " the secrets
of the prison-house," and to risk the further tor-
tures to which they may be exposed in conse-
quence. They have boldly affixed their names to
the heart-rending statement—have braved the
wrath of their keepers—rather than tamely submit
to a continuance of their unmerited and unendur-
able miseries. Their truly pitiable case has been
made known to the world. It is " wafted on the
wings of the Press" throughout the length and
breadth of Europe ; and ALEXANDER and FRANCIS
JOSEPH, and even BOMBA. himself, may
boast of their comparative leniency. What
are the horrors even of Siberia to those of
Cayenne ? Intense cold is even more tolerable to
a European constitution than the sweltering heat
of a tropical sun. What are the banishings and
confiscations of " the Red Emperor,' to the
terrible sufferings inflicted by the Junior Member
of the Imperial Family on his victims ? If ever
there was a case for remonstrance, if ever a
friendly nation. might fairly and legitimately in-

terfere on behalf of the subjects of another Power,
it is in the deplorable instance under notice.
Surely the representative of England at the
Tuileries might make an application on behalf of
these sufferers, and afford an opportunity to Louis
NAPOLEON of removing what will otherwise remain
an indelible blot on his escutcheon, a permanent
stain on his character, which cannot be eradicated
by any amount of success, however brilliant
or striking. The groans of the political
victims at Cayenne will ascend to HEAVEN, and
bring forward at some period or another, however
long it may be postponed, a bitter retribution.
There is an avenging NE3IESTS that pursues such
crimes, and insures a fearful expiation sooner
or later.

To " reap what you have sown" would seem to
be simple justice. The tradesman who, with
patient perseverance, accumulates a little store of
wealth, would feel himself aggrieved if deprived

of it, and would successfully challenge the sym-
pathy of his neighbours under the deprivation.
The merchant, whose warehouses groan with the
luxuriant freightage of the ships his enterprise

has despatched to every quarter of the globe,

giving employment to hundreds and contributing
to the enjoyment of all, would count himself ill-

used if he were shut out from the market, and

deprived of the means of converting his stock-in-
trade into money. The lawyer, whose eloquence
and astuteness have reflected credit on the bar,

and done good service to the cause of right,

would see cause to murmur if the honours of the

profession were denied him. The soldier and

sailor, whose skill and valour have con:

tributed to the safety as well as the glory
of the State, _ look for promotion and other

rewards as for an undoubted right. The
common sense of mankind, indeed, has un-

mistakeably pronounced that claim to be just
which is based on the principle of reaping where
you have sown. Yet, strange to tell, in this
country, at least, that class which of all other
classes has done most to swell the renown, aug-
ment the material resources, and promote the
wellbeing of the people, has, generally speaking,

been regarded as without the boundaries, so to
speak, of the operation of the principle, and has
only sown that others might reap. It has been,
and still is, the fate of men of genius, and not

least that section whose bent has been, or is,
towards mechanical invention, to be thus wrong-
fully dealt with. And the worst of it is, the
injustice of such treatment seems by no means
to be generally recognised. It is exceedingly
difficult, in fact, to convince many individuals
that a man CAR have any fair claim t) share in

the product of his brains. Even Government,
which should be on the look-out to reward public
benefactors in cases where reward is likely to be
acceptable, is, to judge by its acts, stark blind or
worse in relation to such claims.

Look at the treatment experienced by HENRY
CORT and his descendants—HENßY Con; the
father of the British Iron Trade—the ingenious
inventor, who, some seventy years ago, rescued
the country from dependence on Sweden and
Russia for her supply of wrought iron !
HENnY CORT, who originated the process
whereby wrought-iron is manufactured cheap
by the flame of pit coal in the puddling furnace,
and the hardly less important process, also,
whereby this cheap wrought iron is passe 1 through
grooved rollers, so that the manufacturer is
enabled to produce twenty tons of bar iron in the
same time and with the same labour previously
required to manipulate one ton of inferior quality.
It is in the age of railways and tubular bridges

the request made. Ho asked for no remune-
ration from Government, though he had expended
20,000/. in bringing his processes to perfection.
All he asked was what could not be denied—
patents to protect his rights. These being ob.
tained, and contracts to pay him 103. per ton for

;he use of his processes, signed by the leading
ronmasters, in steps a high officer of the Crown

—the Treasurer of the Navy and Secretary of
War—seizes his patents, and, under an extent
obtained, it is alleged, by the perjury of a confi-
dential deputy, sundry freeholds, value 3, with the
stocl and goodwill of a lucrative trade, at 39,0001.,
were handed over to the son of a public defaulter
in the Treasurer's office

The spoliation was sufficiently barefaced and out-
rageous. The remainder of the story is not out of
keeping with the beginning. Of these iniquitous
proceedings poor CORT could get no ace mint to the
clay of his death in 1800, nor has any been ren-
dered since. Two or three years after his decease
Parliament appointed a Commission of Naval In-
quiry to examine into the charge against the finan-
cial department of the navy—when it came out
that the Treasurer and his confidential deputy, a
few weeks before the sitting of the commission, had
indemnified each other by a joint release, and
agreed to burn their accounts for something ap-
proaching a million and a half of the public
money which had passed through their hands
Of course all the evidence in CORT'S CASA had
vanished with the accounts in smoke. HENRY
CORT was ruined, and his descendants deprived
of the patrimony even he posseased before his
genius had enrolled him high in the list of na-
tional benefactors !
Let us be just. The heaven-born minister,
whose boson friend had perpetrated the spolia-
tion, relieved CoßT's distresses by a pension of
2001. a year, from which, however, 401. were
unscrupulously docked. This was in 1794—five
years after—and some six years before C•RT
died. A pension of 1201. was nominally oon-
tinned to his widows only 1004 being paid to her 1

In 1816 she died also, and two pensions of 251. 6s,
each we re granted to her two unmarried daugh-
ters, of which they were not suffered to receive
more t ban 19L At the present time HENRY
CORT'S descendants are well nigh starving. Such
was th e fate of one of our greatest national bene-
factor i--such is the condition of his offspring. Let
the reader but look around at our iron shipping,
our raEtways, our engines, our suspension and
tubular bridges of iron, our iron batteries and
palaces, and say whether this is or is not most
dishonourable and degrading to the entire nation !
But, it may be urged, this is the fault of suc-
cessive Governments. Government is, and ought
to be, as it may, for th honour and benefit of
the people. If just thoughts were entertained of
the ri; ;Ms of inventors such treatment would not
be enperienced at the hands of Government.
Since CoßT's time-...at the present day, in this
impression of The Sun, the claims of public bene-
factors. like COST have needed and need vindica-
tion. If Government fails to spoliate, capital
is at hand prompt and eager to undertake the
task, and a BESSEMER requires a friend to cry
" hands off" to men who build up princely for-
tunes by robbing the poor inventor of his capital
under the plea of furnishing "cheap iron," There
is rank injustice in the public mind in all that
concerns the rights of genius, otherwise capital
would not need the warning, and Government,
acting for the nation, would, aignalise, by marks
of distinction, and other rewards of a more sub-
stantial nature, the estimation in which the great
benefactors of the country deserve and ought to
be held. In the entire Peerage and Pension List
where will yola find a greater public benefactor
than CoRT

DEPARTURE OF HER MAJESTY FOR

SCOTLAND.

This morning, shortly after seven o'clock, her Ma-
jesly, Prince Albert, and the Royal family took their
departure from Buckingham Palace, and proceeded to
the station of the Great Northern Railway, en route
to Scotland.

The Royal cortege arrived at King's cross at a few
minutes before eight, and was received by the chairman
of the company, B. Denison, Rig., M.P., Mr. Packe,
Mr. Seymour Clark, the general manager, and a large
body of other officials connected with the company. Her
Majesty having alighted from her carriage, was con-
ducted to the train ; and her Majesty, Prince Albert,
and the Royal family having entered the saloon, the
signal was given, and precisely at the hour appointed
(8 o'clock), the train quitted the station.
The royal train was driven under the superintendence
of ..rchibald Horrocks, Esq., and several of the direc-
tors occupied one of the carriages.
The most perfect arrangements for the accommoda-
tion of her Majesty had been made by the railway offi-
cials, and everything was conducted with the greatest
•rder and regularity.
There was an immense concourse of persons colleoted
outside the station, and as her Majesty passed she was
loudly cheered.

(By ELEOTaio TELEGRAPH.)
YORK, THURSDAY.
The train conveying her Majesty, Prince Albert, and
the royal family arrived here at 12.44.
The royal party partook of luncheon at the Royal
Station Hotel, and immediately after proceeded onwards.
The Queen was enthusiastically received.

Sir Robert Peel has taken a dog-cart with him to St.
Petersburg, and his smallest tiger. The hon. baronet is
ap.arently intent on "astonishing the natives."

adan:ie Grisi and Signor Marco are passing a week
or two at Shanklin Island in the Isle of Wight.
_ _

The heir presumptive of the Grand Duchy of Tus-
cany left Berlin on the 22d for Stettin, whence he will
proceed to Copenhagen.
" Prince de Demidoff," says a letter from Vienna,
" who was lately in this city, has been struck at Kea-
Bingen with paralysis, and is considered in considerable
danger."
Ths Prussian Government has decided, at the King's
eapecial instance, on allowing the Church to administer
for itself. Tile ecclesiastical authorities are soon to meet
in a general synod for that purpose.
Tin MARCMIS Or CHAIN2OO.—We have much plea
sure in announcing that the noble marquis, who has
been seriously indisposed at Wotton-house, is now so
far recovered that he is euablcd to leave his
Bucks Herald.

FARNBOROUGH, Aug. 27.—The 72d Highlanders,
consisting of 18 officers and 545 men, left this shtion
this mort,ipg for Portsmouth, en route to Guernsey,
under the command of Colonel Parke.

Toe Dean and Chapter of Peterborough have appointei
the Rev. W. A. White, late head master of the Cathedral
Grammar School, to the rectory of Northborough—
valut, 3301. _ _ _

It is understood here (Berlin) that a warning has
been given to King Ferdinand of Naples that if any
outbreak takes place in his dominions he is not to look
to fJreign assistance from any quarter for its suppression.
Austria has joined.in this warning.
The railway from Oberhausen to Arnbeim, joining the
Dutch and Prussian lines, is ready for the use of the
public. The inauguration is fixed for the Ist of October.
Marshal Radetzki has permitted a refugee, the Mar-
quis Raimondi, to return to Lombardy, and has ordered
the sequestration on his property to be removed.
The traveller can go now by land or sea from Paris to
Sc. Petersburg for 150 francs. This sum used to be paid
15 years ago for a trip to Marseilles.
DE VT a or LINDPAINTIE.—A. letter, dated Stuttgard,
Aug. 22, in the Augsburg Gazette, states that Lind-
painter died at Nonnenhorn, on the Lake of Constance,
on the Lake of Constance, on the 21st inst.

A massive silver ring, with the inscription in old Eng.
lish characters, " Ave Maria," and tne initial letters
" J " and " T," separated by two hands clasping each
other, has been recently dug up in a garden at Bramp-
ton, Cumberland.
VIENNA, August 27.—The Emperor of Austria has
off -red pardon to the Austrians who enlisted without
permission in the Anglo-Italian Legion. Fcur hundred
of thcse men are about to take advantage of this mea•
sure, and return to their country.
TURIN, August 26.—The Italian Correspondence
announces that the Papal Commissioner at Ravenne3
has sent back to the Mayor a petition signed by the
communal councillors, praying for elective councils.
General Stakelberg has arrived here.
A letter from Berlin says that the King of Prussia has

invited the Emperor Alexander to be present at the
grand military manoeuvres that are to take place about
the end of September in the neighbourhood of that
town. By that time the festivities of the coronation
will be over, and the Emperor will go to the manceuvres
at Kalisch, where an army of 100,000 men is to be con-
centrated.
The Prince de Ligne, envoy extraordinary of the King
of the Belgians, accompanied by the Pr ince:is of Ligne,
arrived at St. Petersburg on the 16th. The Prince was
t 3 be received by the Emperor on the 20th. The diplo-
matic corps, which is to represent at the coronation the
various states of the civilised world, want only the
Pope's envoy and the Turkish ambassador to be com-
plete. These two personagea will proceed to Moscow
direct.
SALE Of THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S PREMISES.
—Yesterday, at Garraway's coffee-house, Change-alley,
Mes re. Farebrother, Clark, and Lye offered to public
auction the premises long occupied by the Horticultural
Society of London, 21, Regent-street, Waterloo-place,
with gallery in the rear, held on lease from the Crown
for an unexpired term of sixty-two years, at a ground
rent of 1501. per annum.—Knocked down at 4,9001.
NIGHT SCENE IN A YOUNG LADY'S BEDCHAMBER.—
Lat Tuesday night, which will be remembered as one of
the warmest of the season, a young lady at the " West
end " was excessively frightened at a little circumstance
which transpired about the hour of midnight. The
young lady, whose beauty is only equalled by her mo-
desty, and whose " eye's dark charm " has caused more
than one waistcoat to palpitate, had retired to her cham-
ber, when, atter laying aside the greater portion of her
wearing applrel, she committed herself to the tender
embraces of Morpheus, whose soothing influences were
aided by the cooling breath of Zephyr, who came in at
the open window and fanned her cheeks with his fea-
thery wings. In a word, she was sneoz'og finely. It
was about midnight, when the young lady was roused
from her delicious slumber by hearing a noise at the
window. Half unclosing her eyes she was startled by
the sight of a corpulent form, apparently struggling to
gain admission to her chainber through the open win-
dow. It struck her at once that the intruder had been
caught by the rear of his unmentionables by a nail or
some other sharp instrument, as he seemed to be strug-
gling with a stern determination to enter. Her first
thought was to faint, her second to give the fellow a
push, her third to jump out of the window as soon as he
jumped in, her fourth to scream, which was immediately
carried into effect. The whistle of the locomotive on
the Iron Mountain road, when it gave its first snort on
the 4th of July, was but a whisper to the scream of the
young girl. The whole house, and half the neighbour-
hood, were awakened by the cry. The old folks, three
female servant,, and two big brothers rushed to the
rescue, and broomsticks, mop-handles, and bootjacks
flashed in the gaslight as the household entered the
chamber of the frightened beauty. An examination of
the figure in the window dispelled the fears of all, and
changed the screams of the young lady into shouts of
laughter. The imaginary "fat man" was only her
own darling hooped skirt, which she had hung on a
hook near the window, and which the wind had inflated
I and set in motion. There was no more sleeping in the
home tha4t Jowl Hoak; Aug. 11.