The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-03 00:00:00

THE READERS OF TUPPER.

Is it a hoax? or what Joe of " Great Expecta-
tions" would call " Such larks ! Pip, old chap," that
under this heading should have appeared the fol-
lowing communication in Saturday's Athenaeum :
" I am requested by the members of the Tupperian
Club to send to you, in their name, an indignant
protest against the shameful article which disgraced
your paper of Saturday. In this article you, in a
very offensive manner, ask, "Doesanybody ever find
a copy of Tupper lying about a drawing-room ?
If so, in what kind of house ? In reply to the first
question, I thunder forth No The works of our
Poet are too much valued to be "lying about" in
any such careless fashion. Thank Heaven, we
appreciate them too truly to treat them with such
irreverence ! I can assure you, however, that in
the studies of more than a hundred of our members
you will find the works of our Master in proud
proximity to the pure an peerless Pollok, side by
side with the mighty and nrlguifieent Montgomery.
You may ask, What sort of house 3 have the mem-
bers of this Tupperian Club ? We admit that many
of us are poor, but we all claim to be cultivated
gentlemen, and feel that our lives are lifted by our
noble patron, and that he helps us to see the won-
drous beauty of this universe, and makes the hum-
blest of us feel that, in his own noble words,—
The good that it pleases our God to bestow
We gratefully gather and prize.
The evil. It can be no evil I know,
But only great good in disguise.—Tupper.
As to the portraits to which you so insolently refer,
I wish I could send the likenesses of our whole club.
This I cannot do. Ido send our President and his
wife. I trust when you look on his intellectual and
noble countenance, and on her lovely visage, you
will feel ashamed at what you have said, and at once
retract the implied disparagement. We feel sure
that this protest is all but needless, and that the
motives which prompted your vile article are far
too apparent to be mistaken even by the most
simple reader. You are evidently misled by preju-
dice, blinded by envy, and reckless of the utter
infamy of your attack. We beg to inform you
that he who cannot erect a hovel can destroy
a temple. Do not think that in thus writing we aro
at all fearful for the good name of our great one.
We know that when his honoured life is over it will
be said with truth of him—
That nought but heaven shall cover his high famo,
And standing around his grave in worshipful
adoration, thousands who now contemn him, will
then confess—
That kings for such a tomb might wish to die.
The deathless lesson his noble life has given will
for centuries gladden the days of thousands, and
help to make their nights beautiful. When the
miserable scribblers of the Atherixtun and Saturday
Review and all they have done is utterly forgotten,
the name of Martin Farquhar Tupper shall brightly
blaze in the heaven of fame with grandly growing
splendour. Trusting you will, in justice to our
great one, give this a place in your next issue,—
I am, your obedient servant, JAMES WurrE,
Secretary of the Tupperian Club.
Gloucester, May 29, 1867.

SHIPPING IN rELLIGErics.

(By Electric Telegraph.)
GRArEsEND, Monday Morning.

Arrived, June, 2.—Diana, steamer, from Amsterdam ;
Rachel Blackwood, from Demerara; Cadiz, steamer front
Oporto ; Onegn, steamer, from Berdianski ; Lavinia, front
Guernsey ; Zwantina Margretha, from Oscarsham Portia,
front Wiudan.

Arrived, June 3.—Windward, from Hobart Town ;
Olivia, steamer, from Dantzic; Dolphin, steamer, from
Antwerp; Cologne, steamer, from Boulogne.

DE&I., Monday Morning,

Passed, Juno 2.—Kate and Anne of Fowey, and Syren of
Arundel, from the north, for the west; Clarendon, barque,
from London, for the West Indies; Weser, screw steamer,
from the oast, for the west'; Ariel of Wells, from the north,
for the west; ltemedio, barque, from Shield; for Odessa ;
Cowslip, fram Shield; for Barcelona ; Stephen and Eliza-
beth of Portsmouth, from the north, for the west.
Passed in tow, June 'l.—Windward, from Hobart Town,
fcr London; Bryn y Mor, from London, for Cape Coast
Castle.