The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-15 00:00:00

DEATH OF A CONTEHPORARY OF BURNS•

cni,
The living links which now rem
ily
remain to connect
the po
et Burns and his times with th ray a
generation must be very few, indeed.. r4s
hundred and two years have come
• is now more
the poet first, saw the light, and 1_1„, that bourne
than sixty-four years since lie-"Peavu. and gone since
from -whence noDa ‘'rho has seen, or
the man or woman still ,' consequently,
Ito Bard, must
been acquainted with, the vale of years. One of
traveller. r.etti il's
be descending far into the
was removed the other
the few such characters was removed the other
da' by the dtb 0f Mr.
John Martin, feuo.r at
day by the death
thfe
parish of Kilbarchan w' ho
Bridge of Weir, 1
ninety-first year of his ' age. He
died there on the
Dumfriesshire,
having been born
was a flatly!
of in the parish. of Clo seb urn, on the Bth of June,
1770. In his young days he was employed
as a farm-servant in Galloway. He also learned
the trade of a " customer weaver ;" but
about forty-three years ago he removed
with his family to New Lanark, where
he was employed at the cotton mills there. He
afterwards removed to the village of Bridge of
Weir, where he died, after a sojourn of about 39
years. Robert Burns and Robert Martin were
acquainted somewhat with each other, but Burns
was his senior by about 11 years. They were both
present at a wedding in 1792,which took place at the
farm of Laigh, in the parish of Morton, in Niths-
dale, Dumfriesshire. Robert Martin was then 22
years of age, and Burns 33. The old man, in re-
ferring to the circumstance of his meeting the poet
at this marriage, used to tell with evident satisfac-
tion that, " Though there was nae fiddling nor
dancing at it, yet they were a' happy, an' Burns was
just as douse and decent as any o' them:" At the
Centenary meeting held at Bridge of Weir the com-
pany had Mr. Martin brought up i . n a comfortable
conveyance, and placed on the right of the chair-
man ; he was looked upon with interest, and they
were proud of his company, as one who had been
contemporary with the poet, and who had enjoyed
the fellowship of_the. illustrious Scotchman whom
they had met that night to honour. Re seemed to
enjoy the occasion—he was happy, told a story, and
sang a song. He has now ,passed away" "like 16
shock of corn fully ripe—Ayr Observer. •

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THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, SEPT. 15, 1860 e
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

64—this day at noon.
51—lowest this morning and during the night.
64—highest since noon yesterday.
BAnourrun-29.59; falling.
WIND -So u t h-Westerly ; rather fresh, with cloudy
weather, but fine. It rained in the morning.

Paris to the Pe•:ho—recollect, moreover, that nine
whole months were allowed to elapse before any offi-
cial notice whatever was taken in Western Europe
of a deed of infamy the knowledge of which had
made the blood of every Englishm4n boil with in-
dignation. And even then of those nine months

when the silence was at length broken—it was

broken not by England but by France ; the
French EMPEROR being the first to speak at all
upon the matter—announcing at last to Europe,
in so many words, that " a serious expedition
combined with the forces of' Great Britain would

chastise China for her perfidy."
Impunity like this cannot but have the
most lamentable effect upon our prestige
in those Chinese waters, and cannot but
exercise the most disastrous influence upon the
councils of the Chinese Government. Yet we are
acting thus towards a nation that might (if but
dealt with as we could deal with them) be awed
readily enough into submission ! To appreciate
at once, how readily, it is only necessary to note

the manner in which Captain OSBORNE records the
astonishment produced among the wonder-stricken
junkmen of Shantung by the appearance amongst
them of her MAJESTY'S steamship the Furious
amazed, when they " now, for the
first time saw a huge apparition advancing against
the tide, uttering strange noises, and glaring
upon them with huge eyes of red and
green (the steam lights), and beating the
water like one of their own mythical dragons of

the sea. No wonder they exclaimed " yaw !"
Observe them again, those astounded Chinese, as
they behold the tars from the Furious taking some
of our gunboats up the winding current of the
Peiho, when, writes Captain OSBORNE, "the
whole male population of a village (might be seen)
ranged along the banks, on their hands and knees,
and performing kotow as our gunboats passed!"
When " some more frightened than the rest"
shouted to our interpreter—" Hail, great King.
Oh, pray be pleased to disembark and reign over
us." When, among other incidents of a like kind,
" One man at a village . . . improved upon the
proceedings by placing himself on his knees, in the
position of adoration, and continued so long as
H.M. gunboat Bustard remained in sight." An
unsophisticated people like this ought, in reason, to
be treated otherwise than we are treating them
now, than we have been treating them, for the last
half century. Ignorant and treacherous to the
last degree of ignorance and treachery, they have
been allowed to feel but partially the mighty power
of England—they have been reasoned with by a
confiding diplomacy only to be encouraged to perpe-
trate crimes like those that dishonoured our out-
raged flag upon the waters of the Peiho—
when (instead of being reasoned with thus fully
by diplomacy out of mistaken notions on our part
of a humanity that they could not understand) they
should have been made to feel at once summarily
and vividly the irresistible force at our command
both upon sea and upon shore. To put an end to
these miserable periodical wars with China, to close
the epoch of their continual recurrence, it behoves
us at length that we should scatter to the winds
these puerile notions of a false humanity and
spurious philanthropy—that we should rather than
this (in the true interests of humanity and philan-
thropy) carry conviction to the obtuse intellect of
China, a full and lasting conviction that it is idle
on her part to tamper thus perpetually with the
forbearance of the leading powers of civilised
Europe. This can alone be done now by carrying
the war at last into the heart of the stronghold of
the imperial sovereignty of China—by advancing
direct upon Pekin, and there dictating terms to the
Chinese that shall guarantee their future amity
with a race they have so often outraged from a
mistaken notion of its incapacity to approach much
more to assault and capture the capital of the
Celestial Emperors !

The above was written before the arrival of the
last China mail. We may now expect that the
next mail will bring us news not only of the land-
ing of ourstroops, but the capture or destruction of
the Taku forts, and the advance upon Pekin. The
capture of the capital is the only argument that
will bring the Emperor of CHINA and his deluding
Mandarins to a true sense of their position. We
have repeatedly expressed our regret that the
Expedition was not undertaken by England alone,
for recent events have too truly proved the folly
of seeking the aid of those who only encumber
us with their help and then claim all the glory.
We suspect that this China Expedition will be
the last of our going into partnership with the
politest nation in Europe, and yet the most
gasconading and presumptuous in the universe.
Henceforth let England stand or fall by her own
intrinsic might alone.
England hates coalitions in the Cabinet, and she
is honest and strong enough to hold her own by
sea and land. Freedom and despotism can never
cordially coalesce. It was a foolish attempt from
the first, and may terminate disastrously. There
can be no true friendship where jealousy is predo-
minant, and vanity the overruling " idea" of
national glory. Away with it—now and for ever-
more!

We are frequently favoured by a contemporary,
in his comments upon the career of distinguished
public men, with the moral, that it shows what
any Englishman of fair abilities may be, or do. It
strikes us that this moral might be deduced for
English Lords from the career of the son of their
Conservative Leader. Most of them might well
despair of emulating Lord DERBY himself for
though at the University, and frequently since then,
he has applied himself to work with no little dill.
gence for a time, yet it is more to high natural
endowments—to a considerable share of the genius
of oratory especially—that he owes his position.
The gifts of nature would have made him a dis-
tinguished man had he been born a butcher.
He would have risen to some station, in which he
would hare been able to adopt the reply of another
great man, to one who taunted him with his origin
—" had your father been a butcher you would have
been one too." But Lord STANLEY has received
few gifts from nature, except those which are sup-
posed to be at least within the reach of most Lords.
He can work ; and he can work till he masters a
subject; and, if he has got his crotchets, he has a
very considerable share of good common sense. Had
all hereditary legislators used such capacities as
they possess with the diligence and honesty
of Lord STANLEY, the House of Lords
would have been a formidable competi-
tor indeed with the House of C3mmons ;
since, do what we will, in this country of a tho-
roughly free press, the House which shows the
most capacity for business, and the most good sense
in its debates, would carry the nation with it. Of
course such good sense would not suffer the House
to be far behind the political advance of the day,
and such a hereditary house would, we fancy, com-
mand the same comparative respect here, as the
Senate in the United States. The idleness of
the great men of the Lords is what really
keeps their House uninfinential. That same
indolence makes them Conservative, and
compels, at present, even a Dguy, to paitmapet in