The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-30 00:00:00

TILE CAPE OF GOOD ROPE.

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY EVENING.
The Royal mail steamship Bosphorus, Captain
M‘Guiggan, arrived this evening. Her dates are
—Cape of Good Hope, March 22 ; St. Helena,
30 ; Ascension, April 3 ; anil St. Vincent, April
14. Her freight includes specie 1,200/., 560 tusks
ivory, 45 packages wool and general cargo. Gover-
nor Grey has determiriefl to remit the tenders for
the construction of the Cape railways to Captain
Galton in England, a course which is esteemed
satisfactory by the colonists. In his opening speech
to Parliament his Excellency announced the inten-
tion of the Imperial Government to confine the
King of Delhi in Fort Cox, on the frontier. The
offer to employ 10 disaffected Sepoy regiments at
the Cape has been declined. The 73d Regiment
was under orders to embark in the Simoom, at
East London, for India. The United Kingdom
has been chartered for the conveyance of troops.
The remount agents continue busily engaged pur
chasing horses. The attempts made to raise a
regiment of Caffres or Fingoes has failed. Hos-
tilities were apprehended between the Orange Free-
State Boersand the chief Mosbesh on the long
vexed boundary question. The Rev. J. Wilson
has been cruelly murdered iu Caffraria ; several
coloured herdsmen have been murdered by Caffres
within 100 miles of the metropolis, and a feeling of
insecurity is spreading through the country.
Wool, first quality, ls. 6d. to ls. Bd. ; second,
9d. to 10d. Elephants' teeth, 6s. 9d. to 7s. 6d. ;
horns, per hundred, 425. 6d. ; sheepskins, is. Bd.;
goats', 2s. 9d. ; wine, Poniac, per pipe, 241. ;
white, 141. ; Constantia, per half aum, 141. to 221.
Trade at Natal is flourishing.

In Table Bay, her Majesty's ship Hermes.
l Simon's Bay, the Seringapatam, the Castor,
the brig Persia, two Russian schooners, the
Digyte, and Strelox, and the Piastome gunboat,
were in port ; also the French fr:gate A,colde.
The Royal steamship Dane arrived out on the
18th of March. Her Majesty's ship Hecate,
Commander G. F. Burgess, was at Ascension
April the 3d; the crew had been sickly. The
south coast squadron is healthy. The Conflict
has recently taken a fine prize. Spoke, April
10, in lat. 12.05 N., long. 23.7 W., the ship
Her Majesty, 21 data out ;• April 27, lat. 45.45
N., long. 10.58 W., tbe brig Marie, of Ostend,
and the barque Perpetues.

THE REV. JAMES ASPINALL, M.A., AT
RAMPTON, NOTTS.

(From the .Retford and Gainsborough, News.)

The Rev. J. Aepinall, the worthy rector of Althorpe,
delivered his well-known lecture on " Travelling, Old-
fashioned and New," in the rooms of the Working Men's
Association established in that parish, on Tuesday, the
20th inst. The Rev. G. Winterton, the vicar, and pre-
sident of the association, pre-ided. There was an excel-
lent attendance, especially of the labouring class. The
lecture was admirably delivered, and the facetious anec-
dotes produced from facts, many of which had refer-
ence to the actual experience of the lecturer,
lorsught forth in due order bursts of applause. The
sublime was so pithily blended with simplicity that
it was fitted for the meanest capacity. The mein-
bets of the church choir of the neighbouring village
of Laneham sang some beautiful glees, accompanied
by the piano, in a very admirable style, which reflected
great credit upon their exertions. A vote of thanks was
moved by the Rev. C. W. Eyre, M.A., J.P., Lord of
the Manor, in a most appropriate speech, couched in
moat flattering terms, to the rev. lecturer.
Mr. ASYINALI, who, on rising, was received with loud
cheers, thus addressed the meeting :—ln returning my
sincere thanks for the vote just passed, I would observe
that I much like the name of your association the
Hampton Working Men's Association. There is a charm
in the very thought of working men associating together
for self-cultivation and self-improvement. (Cheers.) It
seems to be the dawn of a better and brighter state of
things ; and I especially like to hear of it, and to
witness it here in the very heart and the very centre
of the rural districts, and I hope that it is as the seed-
time of a rich intellectual harvest. (Cheers.) For myself
I would say that, although both think and feel that it
is high time that I should leave my place as a volunteer-
lecturer to young men, yet I still keep to the work as
liking better to wear out than to rush out---(loud
cheers)— and to run in harness as long as possible than to
be turned out to grass as used up and broken down, in
the pastures of rest and idleness. In my experience much
has been done to let in the light of education, and so
scatter the darkness which has so long oppressed the
intellect of the masses of this country. Schools, institu-
tions, libraries, and lectures are all helping on this great
work. But much more eas yet to be accomplished. Ili
some countries there is a law against a man filling his
neighbour's land with thistles from their growth in his
own fields ; and I sometimes wish that we had a law
in this country against those who, keeping their
families uneducated, afflict riot only their neighbour-
hood, but their generation, with the thistles of igno-
rance. (Cheers and laughter.) I read also in some
book lately that in Siberia no young woman is allowed
to marry until she can make a pudding. (Laughter.)
I do not know how it may be here, but it unfortunately
happens in some of our parishes that too many of the
young women who present taemselves for this ceremony
are, whew called upon to sign their names, found only
able to make their marks. (Cheers.) But, while the
rest of the world is improving, we, in the rural districts,
must not stand still. You have probably heard the story
of the careless housemaid, who, when reproved by her
mistress, answered sharply that she " was quite sure that
she had done her work well and thoroughly, but it was
all that nasty sun which would shine in through the
window, and show the dust in the corners and tee cob-
webs on theioeiling of the parlour." (Cheers and laugh-
ter.) And so, you may depend upon it, if we do not
keep; pace with the march of improvement which is stea-
dily advancing on every side of us, the light of instruc-
tion will soon flesh in upon us and expose the dust of
ignorance and the oobweds of prejudice yet hanging in
the Chambers of the rural brain. (Cheers.) "Keep
moving 'r ie'the cry of this " go-a-head" age. The express
train Of intelligence is dashing forward. Take your
places by it, and do not be left behind. But I spoke in
my lecture of travelling as an educator. I will give you
an instance, a very striking one, even before the intro-
duction of the railway. We all have something to com-
municate and much to learn, and those who fancy that
they know the most on teeir own strong point, may
occasionally gain additions to their stores from the most
unexpected quarters At the beginning of the present
j century, three men of the royal family of intellect took
their places one evening ie London by the mail for
Cambridge. They were the celebrated Porson, the
famous Dr. Parr, and Daniel Wilson, the late Bishop of
Calcutta. Presently a fourth passenger entered the
vehicle. He, unknown thee, but with a career before
him, was a raw-looking country lad, almoet a boy, but
nevertheless as full of scholarship as an egg is said to
be full of meat. He was from the north, and was now,
after the vacation, returning to the university, where he
had already kept a terns or two. He knew the college
dons, although they did not know him, and, shrinking
into the corner, modestly drew his cloak over his face,
and listened to the conversation of his seniors. They
were soon deep and earne-t in discussion of some mu-
tilated and imperfect line in one of the old Greek poets
ichylus I believe. Each had his own idea as t what
would restore its force, sense, and meaning. But they
could not agree. Porson and Parr were against Wilson's
reading, Porson and Wilson against Parr's, and Parr and
Wilson against Person's. (Cheers.) Tne debate was
long and rather warns, when all at once, flesh and blood
not being able to stand it any longer, the cloak fell from
before the face of the raw-looking youth, and he ex—
claimed, in a strong north-country dialect, "Gentlemen,
I beg your pardon fir intruding my opinion upon you,
but it has always struck me that the line you are speak-
ing of ought to be suppi)ed in such and such a way."
(Cheers.) An earthquake or a bomb-shell 'could not
have more surprised the three giants than did the voice
of this daring boy. Fr a moment or two they stared
at him in utter amazement, and then came a chorus of
all their toeguee together, " You are right, sir, you are
right, and it never strack us before." What is gross,e
shooting, or partridge shootiag, or pheasant shooting,
to what we see here ? The Lilliputian had brought
down and bagged three Gullivers at one shot—(loud
cheers)—and, what is more, he had made three fast
friends from that moment to the end of their several
lives. This hapeeeed, as I have told yon, even le, fere
the introduction of railway travelling. But the chances
of giving instruction and improvement in the same way
are now, of course, increased in a hundred-fold and a
thowand-fold degree. And only think, when you do
go forth on your travels, what a poor contribution to I
the picnic of intellect which fellow-passengers bring
together it would be to add nothing but ignorance to it.
And one word more to you young men before I sit down.
You must not allow impossibilities to grow in Rampton.
(Cheers.) They would be worse than thistles. You
must blot out the very word from your dictionaries, or,
if you suffer it to remain there, it must be as a horse in
its stable, never brought out but for use and exerci-e.
You must write on your foreheads, as the doorway of
the brain, "No admission here for impossibilities."
(Loud cheere.) You must improve yourselves that,
whatever may be your employment, you may, as
it were, have two strings to your bow, and be able, if
the opportunity comes, to call in head work and hand
work, as knowing that in these days of competition,
" A mouse who trusts to one poor hole,
Cau never be a mouse of any soul."

(Cheers ) But without looking to any worldly advan-
tage arid gain whatever, a man has his reward for self-
improvement and self-cultivation in the present pleasure,
swisfaction, and luxury of intellectual enjoyment. This
is ours, at all events, and, as to the rest, we will ray,
with the p !et on the other side of the Atlantic,
In the world's great field of battle,
In the bivouac of life,
Be not life dumb driven cattle !
Be a hero in the strife!
Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate,
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour andlo wait.

The rev. gentleman then resumed his seat amidst loud
and long-continued cheering. A vote of thanks wa,
then passed to the glee singers, and the National Anthem
having been sung by the whole company, they separated,
highly delighted with the evening's entertainment We
are happy to learn that the association is working well,
and is much appreciated, and reflects great credit upon
its working committee.