The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-18 00:00:00

assume.

Lord HARDWTCKE thinks that at this moment
there are other Powers that might put our supre-
macy to a very awkward test. We trust that this
may not be exactly so. But at all events it is suffi-
cient that there is even a doubt on the subject.
The nation will cheerfully meet the required
outlay, whatever it may be, to place our naval
affairs in a perfectly satisfactory position.

A magnificent demonstration on Friday illustrated
this year's proceedings of the National Association
for the Promotion of Social Science. It will long
be remembered at Liverpool. It was nothing less
than the assemblage in the Amphitheatre of some
4,000 working men, their wives and children—an
enormous gathering together of honest labourers
and their families to listen to some of the famous
" Parliament Gentlemen." Looking at the crowded
audience you saw, with an occasional sprinkling of
shirt sleeves, that the prevailing costume among
the men was the ordinary work-a-day dress of fus-
tian and corduroy. They were there at last to be
brought face to face with those men of whom they
had so often heard—the champions of their rights and
liberties, fellow-labourers in the cause of their ad-
vancement -- BROUGHAM, RUSSELL, MORPETII,
and ASHLEY. No wonder that while that little group
of orators and statesmen were assembling in an ad-
joining room, Lord SANDON exclaimed delightedly to
Lord BROUGHAM—" Only come and look at it ; you
never saw anything equal to it !" or that Lord
BROUGHAM himself, when he stood before the audi-
ence, acknowledged that the sight presented to him
was indeed " most splendid and magnificent." It
was with perfect truth that the noble and learned
Lora spoke to those assembled working men as a
working man himself. A working man, too, so
efficient and energetic that, as Lord JOHN RUSSELL
observed to the assembly afterwards—" in every
object that pertains to the well being of the people,
we cannot go a step without recognising the
hand of my Lord BROUGHAM." A remark
greeted at once, the report tells us, with
" great cheering," and followed up by Lord JOHN
with this happy and brilliant illustration—" When
two great generals," said Lord JOHN, "were carry-
ing on war against each other---TURENNE on the
one side and the Prince DE CONDE on the other—
the Prince DE CONDE had been for some time
absent many hundred miles away. There came an
alarm at night, and TURENNE was told that one
of his cantonments was on fire. He went out to
see it, and he found that such was the activity of
the enemy that one cantonment after another was
set on fire, till there was a whole circle of fire
around him. He said at once, ' the Prince
de CONDE must have arrived.' And what he said
with regard to the art of war, with regard to that
art of destruction, I say to you with regard to the
arts of peace, that when you find some work that
is beneficial to mankind, and that has made pro-
gress, you may say with truth, Lord BROUGHAM
must be here—he must be the leader I' " Again—
" Cheers" from the assembled workmen of
Liverpool. Certainly, 1858 has afforded the
noble and learned lord abundant evidence,
in one way or another, that he is in no re-
spect unappreciated—while he himself has given
signal proofs of late that he has in no particular
deteriorated his own extraordinary powers of in-
tellect.

After the speeches addressed to the working
men of Liverpool by Lord BROUGHAM and Lord
JOHN RUSSELL—both of the noble lords being
greeted, as they deserved to be, with acclamations
—two other popular and celebrated members of
the aristocracy obtained a hearing—the Earl of
CARLISLE and " his noble lordship" the Earl of
SHAFTESBURY. Finally, after a few words from Lord
SANDON, another orator stepped forward to claim
the attention of his fellow-workmen—an honest,
horny-handed Lancashire man, DANIEL Guy, who
obtained the privilege of proposing the thanks of
the meeting to the five noble Parliament gentle.
men who had spoken. There was a touch of Capt.
CUTTLE about the tone of the worthy mechanic ;
as when he said, " There's an old song among
us men something after the following—' There's
a 'good time coming !" A song written
by one only now in his prime—Dr. MACKAY will
be amused to find himself thrust back into the
remote centuries, like one of our old world ballad-
mongers. " Something after the following" :
" When found, make a note of," and so forth. Yet
DANIEL Guy spoke straight to the very point
—cheerily, hopefully, to his brother workmen
—simple words, having in them a rough
eloquence, very pleasant to listen to or to read.
Happier auspices, altogether, the associatidn could
not well have closed under. They encourage us in
the hope that their annual labours for the promo-
tion of social science may really prove of advan-
tage in bringing the various classes of the commu-
nity into direct communication with each other, to
their mutual benefit and common gratification.

The death of Lord Charles Wellesley will suspend
the showing of the pictures in Apsley House which we
mentioned last week.—The Critic.

The Middlesex Archaeological Society hold their
next meeting on Wednesday, at Enfield. The chair is to be
taken at one o'clock, by Lord Ebury, and the members
afterwards dine together at four.

Miss 'Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison have
taken Covent-garden for three months, and commence
operations therein at Christmas.—Mr. Lumley has gone to
Paris, and Mr. Gye has departed for Italy. Musical
World.

Madame Anna Bishop has arrived in London,
and is secured for a concert at Oxford ; engagements are
pending with the directors of the Crystal Pala& to make
her reentre at Sydenham before a London audience.--
Musical World.

The Sunday Times says that Mr. E. T. Smith
is among the candidates for becoming leseee of Her
Majesty's Theatre. _ _

"; King Henry the Fifth" is spoken of 'as the
Shaksperian play to be revived at Sadler's Wells during the
present season.

" It has been remarked," says the (Mural du
Havre, " that the Duke de Malakoff always goes to Eng-
land by way of Dieppe ; the reason is that the line passes
near his birth-place, Maromme, through a country with
which he is familiar."

Advices from Dresden state that a new census of
the inhabitants of the States of the Zellverein will take
place during the present year. It is fixed for Saxony for
the 3d Dec.

We are glad to be informed that the statement
respecting Lord Lyons's dangerous state of health has been
exaggerated. His Lordship has suffered from a return of
his old attack, but his illness lasted only a short period, and
has now entirely left him.
The Western Times states that Lord Ebrington
is now on his voyage to Madeira to pass the winter in that
genial climate with Lady Ebrington and family.
Henry Dove Sweeting, Esq., of St. John's College,
umbridge, who stood first in the list of successful candi-
dates- in the competitive examination for the Civil Service
of the East India Company in 1856, died a few weeks since,
we regret say, at Rungpore, Bengal, of fever, aged 25.