The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-20 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

jtIDELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Proprietor and. Manager, Mr. Ben). Webster.
THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster.
J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby ; Miss Woolgar and
Miss Laidlaw.
To conclude with IN AND OUT OF PLACE. Miss
Julia Daly, Messrs. C. Selby and C. J. Smith.
Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, Xi.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls •
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, Is ; Gallery, 6d:
Actlng Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and' Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
Immense Success of "Mazeppa."
A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on
SATURDAY next, Aug 25. commencing at Two o'clock.
This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of
MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new
and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments,
introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po-
nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World.
To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders
of the day.
Doors open at half-past 6, performance commenoetat 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WERT.
Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolt'.

CANTERBURY HALL
EVERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from
MARTHA,
And Selections from
DINORAH, TROVATORE, MACBETH,
And numerous other Entertainments.
Balcony, is Hall. 6d.
Comics Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come
dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall.
The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised
expressly for this Establishment). for the performance of
Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with
Negro delineations, anecdotes, &c., in addition to the usual
entertainments.
The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday
Evening.

CONCERTS.-

THE WEATHER.—SUN ()Priem, AUGUST 19, 1560.
THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE.
61—highest since noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
64—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-20.72.
WlND—South-Westerly; rather fresh, with rain all the
afternoon.

AUGUST 20.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
66--highest since noon yesterday.
US—lowest this morning and during the night.
62—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.99.
WlND—West-North-Westerly ; fresh, with fine sun•
shiny weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. Om.—Afternoon, 4h. 20m,
To-moßno-w.-Morning, 4h. 40m.—Afternoon, sh. lm

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THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1860.

Fifteen thousand pounds were begrudged on
Saturday for the internal improvement of the
National Gallery, while from one to two hundred
thousand pounds sterling have been squandered on
those absurd and unsightly "boilers" down in South
Kensington. Now, viewing these two structures
even architecturally, the preference must be at once
accorded to that ridiculous stone cruet-stand in
Trafalgar-square. Compared with the hodge-podge
jumble of sheds, out-houses, Cockney imitations
of Swiss cottages, rabbit-hutch tenements, Bromp-
ton boilers " upon end," horizontal, perpendicular,
slantendicular, or otherwise linked together in every
conceivable attitude and direction—compared with
this (as we may term it) visible Charivari in wood
and metal, known among a considerable number of
Her MAJESTY'S lieges as the " Albert Folly," the
ludicrous structure disfiguring the Finest Site in
Europe, is really and truly quite a Vitrurian mas-
terpiece, or Palladian achievement. Yet upon
those Brompton Boilers or that South Ken-
sington Museum we have been lavishly ex-
pending sums amounting already to the gross
aggregate of £167,000 namely, upwards of
£60,000 for the land, upwards of £50,000 for
the collection, and upwards of £50,000 for the
buildings themselves. The best part of two
hundred thousand sterling freely given for
" Albert's Folly"—and a little item of £15,000
doled out grudgingly for an obvious and unques-
tionable improvement of the interior of the National
Gallery. The discussion which took place on Satur-
day in the House of Commons when in Committee
of Supply, prior to the division upon the latter vote,
is in many ways worthy of particular examination.
It serves to illustrate in a deplorably vivid manner
the muddling system, or rather no-system, upon
which we are in the habit of dealing with art-
questions, as a nation affecting to rank high in the
scale of Ruropean civilisation. From that discus-
sion it will be seen that every one who took a part
in it admitted frankly that no determination what-
ever has yet been arrived at as to the distribution or
concentration of our art-treasures, as to the future
organisaion of the British Museum and National
Gallery, as to the ulterior condition of the site of
Old Burlington House, in Piccadilly, or of the
new Museum at South Kensington. Nothing, in
fact—it generally acknowledged—has yet been
decided upon in regard to the whereabouts either
of the Royal Academy or of the National Gallery.
This, too, after all the Committees of Inquiry that
have sat tpon this problematic subject—entering
there (wlh a view to its solution) into the most
elaborate and lengthened investigations. Fre-
quently and openly, moreover, though these mat-
ters have leen examined, both in the Press and
in the Parlamatt—it was yet insisted upon from
both sides of the House of Commons on Saturday,
that no defnitive resolution in regard to any
one of them has yet been accepted. All is said to be
held still—as the phase is—in abeyance. We are
supposed, as a nation, to remain yet to the last irre-
solute as to what we shall do with our art treasures,

with our overstocked museum-collections, and with
Our long coddled, and dandled, and petted Royal
Academicians. The FACT being all the while that

we have nevertheless upon these matters arrived
now some time since at atolerably clear understand-
ing. Is it not perfectly well understood, for ex-
ample, that the National Gallery is to be the Na-
ti°nalGallery ? That it is only a question of time and
convenience when the Royal Academy is to remove
thence elsewhere .from the present obstructive
location,, (where the members of it have been so
long sq„a,t" 4.
11 at ale north of Trafalgar-square,
to the site at
pent occupied by Burlington
House in .
Dietultll3 ? Once get rid of the
Royal Academy, a
nil the space at our com-
mand for the laa,ional art-treasures in the
resent
gallery as it
p nolo stands
IS DOUBLED I
Directly that is done, NT,
mayfortilwith render the
National Gallery in its contents
worthy of its
designation.
urn notat
As it is at this moment THE national
part of our art treasures has to be looked fs „
o e
in the " National Gallery," but in the mu
The Sheepshanks collection—
South Kensington!

Vernon Collection—The Turner Collection ex,

there down in that " slouch of despond" near

Brompton stowed away in those ridiculous Boilers
—they are not where they ought to be peculiarly,
namely, under the rooftree of our " National Gal-
lery !" The masterpieces of TURNER, of HOGARTH, of
REYNOLDS, of CONSTABLE, of LESLIE, and of their
many illustrious compatriots, ought assuredly
on the face of it to find a permanent resting place
upon the walls of England's " National Gallery,"
more particularly those
Whate'er LORRALNE light-touched, with softening hue,
Or SAVAGE ROSa dashed, or learned Poussix drew I"

The accomplishment of this reaccumulation,
under one roof, of our now widely scattered and
still more and more widely scattering art treasures
—we may confidently assert once more to be (like
our eventual disposal of the Royal Academy in
regard to its whereabouts) merely a ques-
tion of time and convenience. Meanwhile, no
rational observer—not even the most cheese-
paring economist—will, upon mature reflection, can,
after a deliberate examination of the facts here re-
ferred to, seriously object to the outlay of the
L 15,000 voted on Saturday by the House of Com-
mons, when in Committee of Supply, for the im-
mediate increase of accommodation within the
walls of the National Gallery even as it now
stands.

The subject of National Education, which was
brought under discussion in the House of Com-
mons on Tuesday night, is one of great in-
terest as well as considerable importance. The
training of our present youth must affect the
future of the State, and the conflicting and
contradictory opinions which able and con-
scientious men entertain on the subject in-
vests it with some perplexity. The religious
aspects of the case are among the chief obstacles to
the establishment of a national system. Members of
every church or denomination too frequently seem
to consider that it is better to have no education
whatever than to be brought up in the tenets of a
rival sect. But notwithstanding all obstacles
the diffusion of knowledge is on the increase,
as is proved by the following statistics, which we
quote from Mr. Low E's speech on the question :
"During the first year the number of schools
inspected by inspectors was increased by
171 ; the number of children was ain-
creased by 58,357 ; the number of pupil
teachers by 1,200 ; certificated students by 990 ;
students in training by 85; children upon whom
capitation grants were paid, by 52,199; No less
than 247 new school-houses were built, with 178
dwellings for teachers, and there were 230 other
schools enlarged and accommodation created for
58,000 children. The number of children found
by the inspectors to be in the course of educa-
tion in the schools during the present year was
880,131, being rather more than 58,000 more
than the number last year, which was 821,744."
Still, that there is yet ample room for improvement
is shown by the statements made by Mr. HENLEY
relative to the number of the poorer class who made
their mark instead of signing their names in the

marriage register.-
Sir JOHN PAKINGTON'S motion is deserving of
the attention of all interested in this movement.
The right hon. baronet, who has always been a
sincere and consistent friend to the cause of national
education, called the attention of the House to the
amount of Government assistance afforded to
ragged schools. The value of these schools to the
class who are most in need of aid and instruction is
incontestible. They supply a want long felt by
the wellwishers of the people—a means of reaching
the lowest and most destitute classes, and of giving
them the best of all charity, by helping them to
help themselves. To bring in from the courts and
thoroughfares of the metropolis the band of ragged
and idle little urchins, who have no better or
more profitable employment than turning sum-
mersaults in the road, or tossing halfpence
on the pavement, to teach them the means of earn-
ing an honest livelihood, and to inculcate the broad
principles of honesty and morality and religion, is
surely an undertaking eminently deserving of every
encouragement on the part of those in authority.
The Government would have to bear the expense
of the prosecution and maintenance of many of
these neglected children, were they left to the
training of the streets and the evil influences
around them. Why then should they hesitate to
appropriate a large share of the educational grants
for th e far more satisfactory expenditure ofprevention
instead of punishment ? As Sir JOHN PAKINGTON
truly observed, "The Government were unwilling
to give the shilling to support ragged schools; but
they were perfectly ready to advance the pound for
the expense of prosecuting those who had been led

into crime simply from having been driven out
upon the highway without education and without
friends." The minute of 1856 was very favourable
to these schools, and it appears that the complaint
made by their founders and promoters is that it has
been repealed, and another of much less liberal
character substituted. According to the minute of

1856 allowance was made for half the rent of the
schools, a third of the cost of tools and raw mate-
rials, half the salaries of the master and assistant-

masters, and a capitation of 50s. for every scholar
who attended regularly. This has been found
too costly, owing, according to the member
for Droitwich, to the expense of the item for the
maintenance of scholars, and also to the fact of the
grants having been extended to refuges and other
places not properly coming under the denomination
of ragged schools. The minute which replaced the
one of 185 G only allowed half the rent of the pre-

mises and 5 shillings per annum for the scholars
according to the average number. A short time
since a memorandum was presented to the Govern-

ment, signed by more than 100 gentlemen, who
have been among the foremost friends of the ragged

school system. They stated that voluntary contri-

butions not being sufficient, these schools ought
not to be excluded from the national grant.

Among their claims to support they justly said that
the Parliamentary grant being intended to assist

voluntary effort, no schools in the kingdom had a

stronger plea, for in none had there been a greater

amount of voluntary effort exhibited. We cannot

but think that Mr. LOWE'S arguments, in opposi-

ion to the amendment, were most unsound. He

asserted that the amendment, if carried, would have

,he effect of dragging down education, and that

[f people found they could get more money by

calling schools ragged, a rush would be made
to Government for larger aid by that means.

The answer is at once apparent, namely, that the

respectable class of artizans and small tradespeople

would object to sending their children to a ragged

school. Mr. LOWE forgot the sturdy independence
and self-respect of the English character, no less a

characteristic of the peasant than the peer, when
he made that assertion. The same feeling that

keeps many half-starving in wretched garrets rather
than go into " the house," would prevent the

class above them from sinking to their level. Again,
those who would be compelled to give their child-

ren some kind of education before they could up-

prentice them or teach them a trade are less sub-
jects for Government interference. The youth of

such classes will gain mental instruction and learn
moral restraint whether the State give it them or

no. It is the wandering tribe who recruit our jails

and workhouses, our hulks and hospitals, who

stand in need of all that public grants and private
enterprise can do for them. Ragged schools, where
no rules and regulations bar the entrance, no invi-
dious comparisons deter the ill-clothed and unshol,
are the only means of reaching this class, of rescu-
ing the upspringing generation from what are,
humanly speaking, the inevitable vice, crime, and
wretchedness that await them, and of leaving to
those who come after us a band of honest
and industrious breadwinners instead of a
standing army of thieves and vagabonds
subsisting on the spoils of the respectable
classes. It is with these views that we regret so
deeply the failure of Sir J. PAKINGTON'S amend-
ment, and heartily hope that future consideration
will induce the Government to rescind their unwise
resolve, and not carry out the reverse of the old
proverb by awarding little help to great and urgent
need.

Not being an M.P., much less a peer, Mr. TROT
MAN has no means but that of a free press left him
to reply to official misrepresentations. The Duke
of SOMERSET would not, we are sure, intentionally
misrepresent him ; yet the evidence seems plain
that he has unintentionally done so. It was stated
that some of the merchant ships provided with his
anchors went on shore in the dreadful storm in the
Black Sea on the 14th of November, 1854. Mr.
TROTMAN says, " Not a single casualty occurred to
any of the numerous steam transports belonging to
the Cunard, the Royal Mail, the Peninsular and
Oriental Companies, &c., provided with TROTMAN'S
anchors." And well might Mr. TROTMAN be proud
of the following testimony :
" I beg to quote the unsolicited testimony of Captain
SCOTT, of the frigate-built ship Dunbar, 1,324 tons, ad-
dressed to his owner, and handed to me by the chairman
of the General Shipowners' Society for publication. Ho
states--' I have always found TROTMAN'S anchor (29 cwt.
cx stock) to bite immediately it took the ground; it never
fouls, and holds on to the last. Our safety depended upon
it the 14th November, and so satisfied was I of its holding
power that the opposite cable was allowed to surge round
the windlass with the lift of the ship.' At the same time,
her MAJESTY'S steam-frigate Retribution, 1,641 tons, with
his Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE on board,
had three navy anchors down, each weighing 52 cwt., and
steamed head to wind with her powerful 800 horse-power
engines to ease the strain, yet, in spite of steam and anchors,
she dragged more than half a mile in the course of an hour,
and, as a last resort, all her heavy gear was started over-
board, including guns,• shot, shell, &c. Now these state-
ments can be verified, or as easily refuted, by reference to
the log of her MAJESTY'S ship and the personal testimony
of his Royal Highness." 4

In reply to the observation " that no officer in
the Royal Navy would trust her MAJESTY'S ships
to these anchors," he says, "they have never been
permitted to try them, except in one instance—
the instance in which they trust to it the sacred
person, of her MAJESTY." Indeed, to secure the
safety of royal personages seems to be its chief
duty ; for Mr. TROTMAN tells us that the royal and
imperial yachts of all the crowned heads of Europe,
including those of the POPE, the SULTAN, and the
PACIIA of EGYPT, are supplied with TROTMAN'S
anchor. Mr. TROTMAN'S answer to every charge
appears complete, even to the petty higgling one
about price, and the unfair ones about the Royal
Charter, which, after all, a TRontAN's anchor of
5 tons 8 cwt. held without the harbour, and saved
from total destruction. Mr. TROTMAN, however,
offered to have one of his anchors of 50 cwt. tested
against one of the Admiralty's of 100 cwt. (the former
costing but £9O, the latter £365), and to abide
by the result ; and all without charge to the public.
If the experiment be not made, the country will
now think that on this question the Admiralty is
not worthy of its confidence. It will be held that
the safety of her MAJESTY'S ships is hazarded, or
entrusted to costly but untrustworthy anchors by
routine, officialism, and jobbery.

AUGUST.

FOR "THE SUN."
(By Frederick Augustus Lewis.)

A time of warmth and gladness—August thou
U rider the reign of Sol, did'st yield to man I
G od willed thee sunshine, August I and yet now
U rider deep gloom thy course but almost run !
S hall it then be that thus thou'lt pass away ?
T urn yet awhile, and yield the summer's ray !
Hackney-road.

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