The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-13 00:00:00

Many meet their constituents in order to render
accounts of their respective stewardships, and to
receive well-merited applause for faithful, consis-
tent, and efficient services, Or possibly to explain and
justify doubtful votes or absence on urgent occa-
sions. Others avail themselves of every striking
event in the localities they represent, and are gene-
rally accompanied by some faithful friend of similar
opinions, so as to afford excitement to the people
and ensure a large audience to listen to the words of
wisdom that may fall from their lips.
Such an occasion occurred at Tynemouth
on Tuesday. Mr. W. S. LINDSAY, as member
for the borough, with his friend and political
coadjutor, JOHN ARTHUR ROEBUCK, duly at-
tended, in order to give their impressions on current
events, and at the same time to render honour to
one of those truly noble institutions—Mechanics' In-
stitutes—which are springing up in every direction
throughout the length and breadth of the land. A
handsome and spacious edifice, devoted to the cause
of popular instruction, and the cultivation of intel-
lectual pursuits, was thrown open to those who will
doubtless profit by the great advantages freely ten.:
tiered for their acceptance. An inaugural address
from some well-known gentleman was required, and
Mr. ROEBUCK readily undertook the duty, which,
although politics, his especial hobby, were excluded,
was still a labour of love—one on which he could
enter with all his heart and soul, and which he was
admirably qualified to discharge. He had but brief
notice, inasmuch as it was not till coming down in
the train, that Mr. LINDSAY told him that he was to
occupy the position which Lord BURY, but for a
domestic bereavement, would have filled. He, how-
ever, required but little preparation. His mind was
amply stored with topics suitable for the occasion,
and which could easily be brought forward. The
advantages of education would be fully appreciated
in the birthplace of GEORGE STEPHENSON, who,
until the end of his valuable life, deplored the defi-
ciencies under which he laboured deficiencies
which materially retarded his efforts, and proved
the greatest obstacles to the brilliant success which
he ultimately attained. No such difficulties can
now impede any one willing to avail
himself of the opportunities offered. The
boy or man, hungering or thirsting after know-
!edge, can easily satisfy himself, and if he is duly
impressed with " the pricelessness of learning," and
the great fact that " knowledge is power," he will
not remain apathetic and indifferent, or consider it a
hardship to learn, or his attendance at school a favour
to others, for which they should be grateful, and he
himself rewarded.
Mr. ROEBUCK was peculiarly felicitous on the
point that learning and intellectual enjoy-
ments were not so much required to elevate a
man from his sphere as to make him happy
in it. We must all be contented in the state of life
to which it has pleased GOD to call us, and know-
ledge can only elevate one man because others
are deficient. It will, however, prepare him for any
emergency. He will be enabled to launch his tiny
boat on the tide that leads to fortune ; and even
should it not advance his pecuniary interests, it will
his enjoyments. He will find " sermons in stones,"
instruction and amusement in the commonest
products of the Earth, and become fully qualified
to peruse the book of Nature, which the DEITY
hath opened before him.
The Honourable Gentleman also referred to the
fruitlessness of " good intentions and the place sup-
posed to be paved with them." He uttered the bold
assertion that, " the greater part of mankind intend
well, but don't know how to do well." Without
quite agreeing with Mr. ROEBUCK'S philanthropic
views as to the " good intentions" of the great ma-
jority of men, we fully and cordially concur in the
opinion, that the best possible intentions may be
defeated by ignorance, which would convert into
curses what might and ought to be blessings.
The allusions to the flies at Cherbourg, and the
effect which that great fortress may possibly exer-
cise on the destinies of the world, by Mr. LINDSAY
and Mr. ROEBUCK, the experienced and lilt-dy
sailor and enterprising shipowner, and the sea-sick
landsman, were exceedingly happy. Both these
gentlemen concurred in the opinions to which
we have already given expression, that there
is nothing to cause reasonable apprehension in
any English mind, much less "to fright the isle
from its propriety." It is in such a spirit—a generous,
cordial, and cheerful appreciation of the great work
that has been accomplished—that the matter should
be received. The noble harbour that has been
created by skill and science will, we trust, be one of
refuge rather than of aggression. It will afford pro-
tection to the vessels of all nations, and more espe-
cially to those of England. Many a tempest-tossed
barque will find shelter—many a gallant seaman will
obtain safety from that which we are told was created
for very different objects. Why, then, should we
envy France the completion of this mighty under-
taking? We could not object to any purely defensive
work. We have no aggressive designs—no wish to
assail our neighbours—and were Cherbourg ten
times stronger it would be a matter of pro-
found indifference, save that we should sympa-
thise with the satisfaction of our neighbours,
and "be joyous in their joy." As to the chances of
aggression, we shall answer in the inspiring language
of Mr. ROEBUCK, who delivered in far better lan-
guage, the sentiments and opinions to which we have
repeatedly endeavoured to give expression. "De-
pend upon it," said the Hon. and Learned Gentle-
man, " that we who are here need not be alarmed
by anything that my friend has seen, while we
have institutions like the present." " Depend
upon it, that while you have stalwart arms,
that while you have clear-thinking heads,
you will need to fear no despot that the world
affords—let him come from France, or Austria,
or Naples. The free soil of England, washed by
the free ocean that is around her, guarded by
her sailors, is secure against the world in arms.
I am but a poor creature, yet I could turn
out to-morrow. Depend upon it, every man,
woman, and child among us know what we
have in England—we have freedom here. We
should lose that freedom if we were conquered by
anybody from abroad, we should cease to be England,
we should cease to be the head of the world, which
we now are. We hold up to nations a torch that they
see in darkness, and, inasmuch as their darkness is
greater than our light, the more brilliant is our illu.
mination. Well, then, my friends, depend upon your-
selves; depend upon your intelligence, depend upon in-
stitutions like these, and every despot in Europe will
tremble, as they do now, at your name. You are Eng-
land, you stand at the head of civilisation, and you need
not be alarmed at any Cherbourg. You are Eng
land, against the world in arms."

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IGENCE.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—NEW THEATRE.
MARTHA.—Last Night of the Season.
TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), August 14, the last night of the
season will take place, on which occasion will be performed
Flotow's Opera,

TURKEY.

MARTHA.
Lady Enrichetta, Madame Bosio; Nancy, Madlle. Didide ; Plum-
kett, Signor Grazianl ; Lord Tristano, Signor Tagliatico ; Sceriffo
di Richmond, M. Zelger ; and Lionello, Signor Mario.
Conductor, Mr. Costa.
In the Incidental DivertissementMadlle. Zina, Madlle. Delcchaux,
and M. Desplaees will appear.
The National Anthem, "God Save the Queen," will be sung at
the conclusion of the Opera.
Commence at half-past 8.
Pit tickets, 10s. 6d.; amphitheatre stalls, 10s. 6d., 78., and Es.;
amphitheatre, 2s. 6d. Second tier boxes, 22 128.6 d.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Play of THE
MERCHANT OF VENICE : Shylock, Mr. C. Kean ; Portia, Mrs. C.
Kean. Preceded by the Farce of DYING FOR LOVE.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS E VENING, the Comedy of COURT FAVOUR : supported by
Messrs. Emery, Belford , Poynter, Turner, Misses M. Wilton, Hughes,
and Mrs. C. Melville. After which, HUNTING A TURTLE : by
Messrs. Belford, Burt, Turner, J. Clarke, and Miss M. Wilton. To
conclude with RAISING THE WIND: by Messrs. Belford, Turner,
J. Clarke, Mrs. C. Melville, and Miss E. Wilton.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENIN G.—The following company of Vo-
calists are engaged for the performance of Seleetions from all the
popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &c..
viz :_miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brunel], Miss Ray, Madame
Baitoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson:
Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr: Renshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling
Senor Antonio, E. L. Rime, Mr. Badzey, 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,
Courtnay ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at seven
o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock.

THE SUN.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1858

Petitions are pouring in upon the Colonial Secre-
tary—in reference to our trade in the East, in
reference to our trade in the West : recommending
the retention of our position at Sarawak—advocat-
ing the adoption of the Panama route to Australia.
The solicitude of the mercantile world in this country;
in both instances, we cannot but deem in the highest
degree timely and judicious in its manifestation. It
is most desirable that the postal service between
these islands and our antipodes should have the
benefit of an instant and rational reorganisation. It
is no less desirable that Sir JAMES BROOKE should
not, after all these years of heroic self-devotion, be
left unaided at the last by her Britannic MA-
JESTY'S Government. His Excellency has dedi-
cated to the task of realising the day - dream
of Sir STAMFORD RAFFLES, the best years of his re-
markable life, the whole of his extraordinary
energies, every fraction of his own private fortune,
his genius, his courage, his peace of mind, his indi-
vidual comfort, and all this with a matchless and
unflagging perseverance. Tt may be perfectly true
that the hope originally entertained of finding and
working profitably certain hypothetical coal-mines on
the north-west of Borneo may have been, as we
believe it has been, utterly dissipated. Sarawak is,
however, not only a desirable possession, viewed
simply with an eye to its being a coal depot.
Granted that there is no coal discoverable any where
along those coasts, yet it does not necessarily
follow that therefore the island should be
forthwith given up by England altogether.
Borneo is otherwise a valuable, in some respects
a wholly invaluable, colony by reason of its
mere geographical position. It is to the trade of the
east the 70v al'. of A RCIIIMP DES. It is literally to
all intents and purposes for England—The Key of
the Tea Caddy ! Holding Sarawak, we command
the mercantile transactions in those remote seas, the
commerce of China, of Japan, of all the fruitful spice
islands of that glorious Archipelago. It is in itself to
the Indian Ocean what Malta and Gibraltar are sepa-
rately to the Mediterranean. Retaining Borneo, or at
least our present standing ground upon its north-west
coast, we hold sscurely within our grasp a guaran-
tee for the maintenance in war no less than in peace
of our vast interests, commercially, in that far
corner of the eastern hemisphere. No matter i:
Pekin and Canton are undergoing bombardment
"rom British artillery; no matter if, simultaneously,
) QUEEN'S army, scattered over the length and
!adtla of Bengal, is undergoing the severest hard-
ps consequent upon unseasonable campaigning
inst an enormous disproportion of sanguinary in-
gents—let us still maintain our position at that one
Jortant point on the route to Hong Kong, and the
rests of British traders will not suffer in the
run either from a foreign war or from a
in our own dominions, a conflict as sangui-
it is internecine. Besides—in regard to the
'f Borneo, the faith of England is solemnly
'he Rajah of Sarawak. Let us withdraw
self-imposed responsibility of fulfilling
reiterated promises, and shame will
-epeat-L-we are pledged to it. By
m the engagements voluntarily and
ered into by us—we shall be acting
unjustly ; we shall be guilty of
'ngratitude ; we shall be sacrificing
position, and a glorious oppor-
meanest of all motives by which
be actuated, a paltry fear of a
that must in the end, by neces-
firectly, prove, to say the least of
merative. There are, moreover,
3ered, positions that to be retained
-ay be pecuniarily remunerative.
'nstance, already particularised as
)ns ofours in the Mediterranean—
.. So with Sarawak—knowing
; supposing it, for the sake of
wise fruitless and unprofitable
'ace, as a mere watchtower or
and observation, it is worth
' said, at any cost—certainly
Inable expenditure. For
%-be forthwith secured.
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on a temporary
~.pose of bringing
t... 1 issue —of deciding definitively
„nether or not the colony he has
..tgle-handed and alone, by the mere spell of
..is genius, summoned into existence shall or shall
not be shamefully sacrificed by the mother coun-
try. He at least has this one grand satisfaction
—that he himself has done his very uttermost, that
upon this glorious venture he has staked everything
he possesses in the wide world. Shall England be
put to shame by the magnanimous course pursued by
one of the truest of her citizens, a private gentleman
of ample fortune and complete leisure, who has given
both ungrudgingly to the maintenance of her interests
at the remotest extremity of this olden hemisphere ?
The abandonment of BROOKE and Borneo without
an effort—now—after all that has been said and
done—will be nothing less than a deplorable catas-
trophe. Heaven forbid that an act of turpitude so
cruel remains to be inscribed upon the annals of this
generation of Englishmen !

RAIL
Cash•

This is the true point of view in which the matter
should be regarded. It is that in which we have en-
deavoured to place it, and we rejoice to find so effi-
cient a collaborateur as JOHN ARTHUR ROEBUCK.

His Royal Highness the Dukeof Cambridge is
suffering from en attack of gout.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary, after the departure of the Heredi-
tary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz for Germany
intend to leave Cambridge Cottage, Kew, on a tour of visits
in the nort‘,.
Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Edward of Saxe-Weimar have arrived at Gordon Castle,
near Fochaber;, the Duke of Richmond's seat in Scotland,
, where the Prince and Princess remain several weeks.
The Marquis of Lansdowne and the Countess of
Shelburne have left Lansdowne House for Richmond. The
Earl of Shelburne retnains in town.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford and
north Ed Scotland, for the au
their youthful family have
tarrivedumn at Tuba House, in the
The Marquis and Marchioness De Goyeneche have
arrived at the Brunswick Hotel from the Court of Spain.
The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma
Stanley left town yesterday for Chevening, Sevenoaks,onavisit to the Earl and Countess Stanhope.
The Earl of Aberdeen, who arrived at lladdo
House, Aberdeenshire, at the close of last week, from Lon-
don, is surrounded by a select circle. Lord and Lady Haddo
have arrived there from the Ranger's Lodge, Blackheath.
Guizot, the well-known French statesman, arrived on
Friday last, and is now staying with the noble earl.
The st'
Earl of Harclwicke haslefstotuothacoto
wntvojn.oin the
countess and Atnily at Sydney Ledge,

Now that the Parliamentary campaign has termi-
nated, that an armistice has been proclaimed be-
tween rival parties, every available opportunity is
eagerly seized on by Right Honourable and Honour-
able Gentlemen to explain their views, and " free
their minds" of the matter accumulated since the
closing of the Imperial Palace at Westminster

E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1858.

Britannic, a name which would recall to the de-
scendants of Britain the glories of their ancestors,
and which would not be improper when we consider
the immense country over which the new
colony will extend, and its future destiny, as
the great mainstay, with Vancouver's Island,
of the empire in the Pacific. That unreliable and,
indeed, untruthful paper, the New York Herald, says
that Sir Alan obtained his title from his hostility
to the United States. This is a completely menda-
cious statement, The fact is, after the affair of 1838,
Sir Alan was thanked both by the sympathisers and
. the rebels, whom he had defeated, for the admirable
judgment, combined with moderation, which he dis-
played at a time when they might have expected
' from him the most rigorous measures. With regard
to the statements put forth in some of the papers
here, that his general infirmity of body precludes
his undertaking such a charge, it should be
stated that Sir Alan has lately returned
to his native land, as I said in my last,
quite rejuvenated. The gallant baronet is yet
in the prime of life, his mental and physical
faculties are in no degree impaired, and no man
could be found in British North America better
fitted to organise and develop a new dependency of
Britain, or to enlist the sympathies of the people.
Sir Alan possesses a degree of firmness not sur-
passed by any person in the country, and at the
same time his manners are so conciliating, and his
judgment so ripened by experience, that the thou-
sands of all nations now pouring into the new
colony would feel implicit confidence in his manage-
ment of the affairs of the new colony.
Many Canadians have already embarked at New
York for the new gold regions, and others are pre-
paring to go overland, either by way of Minnesota
or by our own recently reopened route—the Red
River. Nothing better shows the progress of the
country than the huge placards which decorate our
walls, stating that steamers will leave on such a day
for "Fort William," "Lake Superior," "Red River,"
&c. The circumstance speaks well for Canadian
enterprise, and the opening of a fortnightly mail
route to Red River is one of the best acts of the late
Administration.
Should the new Government acquire strength, the
fate of the Hudson's Bay question, so far as Canada
is concerned, may be said to be settled. We cannot
understand here why Mr. Labouchere kept from the
Hudson's Bay Committee, of which he was chairman
the news of the gold discovery, of which he was wel]
aware, as well as your correspondent, a year ago.
Does not this fact sufficiently establish the com
plicity of the right hon. gentleman with the corn
pany ?

—' That the sum of $24,644 claimed for his mills, which the
law permits him to hold, is certainly objectionable, and
ought not to be allowed by the commissioners.'
"Yovcd by Mr. J. 11:‘I1-HENEY, sec,flitled by Mr. R.
CAINS—‘ That the demand of £1,400 a-year for income of
mills possessed by him is, to say the least of it, singularly
absurd.'
" Moved by Mr. J. D. BRYSON, seconded by Mr. JAMES
MURDLE—'That this meeting is of opinion that the com-
missioners will have no difficulty in setting all the fore-
going claims aside without any remuneration to the
seigniors.'

" Moved by Mr. WM. GRANT, seconded by Mr. NEIL
CAMPBELL--` That this meeting considers there exists no
claims for which the seignior is entitled to any remunera-
tion except for cens et rentes, which are in this seigniory
much higher than ever contemplated by the feudal system;
and although the judges decided that the system did not
bind the seignior to any fixed rent, the commissioners
ought not to adopt the high rate charged in this seigniory
as a basis for the remuneration for them; and although this
meeting admits the legality of the claims for lods et ventes,
it considers the seignior has already realised more from
them than should suffice for their commutation.'
" Moved by Mr. JOHN SAITE, seconded by Mr. Tilos.
WILLIAMS—,‘ That the Mayor, James M'Ardle, A. Moore,
James Sangster, Wm. Rice, Thomas-Williams, James Cairns,
W. Cross, John Smellie, John Rodgers, Don. Abercrombie,
John Crutchfield, Charles Stewart, James A. Bryson, Alex.
Steel, and John Anderson, shall form a committee to adopt
such measures as may be found necessary for the purpose of
aiding to establish the rights of the censitaires.'
"Moved by Mr. DONALD ABERCROMBIE, seconded by
Mr. CHARLES STEEL—' That the foregoing proceedings be
published in the Montreal Gazette and Argus.'
" Moved by Mr. JAMES A. BRYSON, seconded by Mr.
JOHN STENVART—' That the thanks of this meeting are due,
and are hereby tendered, to his Worship the Mayor for his
able conduct in the chair.'"

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