The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-22 00:00:00

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE,
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, NOTHING TO NURSE; Mr. Swan-
borough, Mrs. Selby.
After which THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS ; Messrs.
C. Selby, J. Bland, and J. Clarke, &c.
Followed by THE BONNIE FISH WIFE.
And I'LL WRITE TO THE TIMES.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following Company
of Vocalists are engned for the pertbrmance of-Selections
from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES,
*LEES, DUETS. &c., viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey,
Miss Brunch, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague,
Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Andiirson ; Herr F. Jonglimans,
Mr. Renshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio,
E. L. Mime, Mr. Badsey. Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell,
Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Forde and E.
W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks—Harmonium,
Mr. Courtnay—Director, Herr F. Jong,tmans. Commence at
7 precisely. Suppers, &c., until 12 o'clock
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NOTICE.--4rhe Proprietor begs respectfully to announce
that in the month of October,
A FINE ARTS GALLERY,
now in course of construction, will be thrown open in oon-
nexion with the above Hall.

THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, SEPT. 22.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
65—highest since noon yesterday.
61—lowest this morning and during the night.
67—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.82--a fall of nearly half an inch, indi-
cating that the equinoctial gales are "in the wind."
WIND, South-Easterly, but variable, with fitful sultry
weather, and slight rain occasionally. -

THE SUN.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 18M.

It is right to do homage to genius and merit, in
whatever shape they may be manifested. The
representative men of every age—the benefactors
of mankind, who would at one period of the world
have been regarded as demigods—in another were
canonised or embalmed in the odour of sanctity—
should be held in grateful remembrance, and their
bright examples held forth to stimulate the rising
generation to show how greatly their interests can
be advanced by endeavouring to imitate the
example of one starting with no extraordinary ad-
vantages—nothing that is not within the reach
of almost any boy in this favoured and happy land.
The inauguration of the statue of Sir ISAAC
NEWTON at Grantham, yesterday, was a cheering
spectacle. It was a celebration of the fame of the
greatest mathematician the world ere saw, and one
of the most distinguished men of the age—one who
by his labour has already erected for himself a
" monumentum ere perennius," who has already
passed the allotted life of man, but who still
happily:enjoys a green and vigorous old age—
attended to do honour to the occasion. It was,
indeed, no ordinary occasion when Lord BROUGHAM
proceeded,:in plain and ordinary language, simplex
munditus, to show how greatly the world is in-
debted to the intellect and industry of NEWTON.
He stood before the admiring spectators a " Nestor''
of science—not garrulously prattling of the cele-
brities of his juvenile reminiscences, but speaking
reverently and discreetly of the master mind who
had explained the mighty scheme of the universe,
and showed so clearly and distinctly the details of
the planetary system, that it was rendered per-
ceptible to the humblest student of nature,
of ordinary capacity—:.of that NEWTON, of whom
LEIBNITZ, his greatest rival, on one of his greatest
discoveries—just as ADAMS and LE VERRIER have
been rivals respecting the discovery of " Oceanus"
—said, that "taking mathematicians from the
beginning of the world to the time when NEWTON
lived, what he had done was much the better half."
And yet with all the modesty for which, like other
truly great men, he was so pre-eminently distin-
guished, he described himself as but " a child wan-
dering by the great ocean of truth, and collecting
a few scattered shells from its shores."

The account given by Lord BROUGHAM of the
labours' and discoveries of this truly great man,
" whose reputation," as has been well observed,
" will endure to the last syllable of recorded time,"
is worthy of the inspiring subject. Sir ISAAC
NEWTON, whose monument was the Soldr Systthn,
required njt a statue. So long as that systeim shall
exist, the name and fame of the scientific pieifeer
who explained what had previously been mysteries,
and shed light where there had previously been
darkness, will prevail amongst those who are pur-
suing the path which he had opened. The Plane-
tary System is to him what St. Paul's was to Sir
CHRISTOPHER WREN.
The simple principle of gravitation, ascertained
through a mere accident, when he was but 25
years of age, was the forerunner of many discoveries
sufficient to render any name illustrious. NEWTON
had fortunately that indefatigable industry which
enabled him to turn all his labours to the best
purpose. He pos:vssed a rare, perhaps unparalleled
combination of inventive and calculating powers.'
He rapidly seized on.. any truth, and *as enabled to
trace out the results, bowever complicated, and, mire-
bile dictu, not a siugh s one of his numerous and elabo-
rate calculations h tuned out to be erroneous,ev€ n

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