The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-03 00:00:00

" experimental disciples of his scheme for the new
formation of society." Would they sacrifice their in-
terests in favour of his ambitious dreams ? Why
should he step between them and their daily bread ?
Why should the non-society men suffer for the mis-
deeds of others ? He advised them to make the do-
cument " the rule of the shop ;" he denied that any
skilful, steady, industrious man would ever want
employment when it was to be had, and advised
them to have nothing to do with strikes, for though
" the harshness of some employers is bad enough,
the tyranly of a strike executive is worse still."
Seldom have we so much sensible counsel to the
working men in a single speech. The homely
" unadorned eloquence" of Mr. PLUM3IER has some-
thing of the ring of RICHARD COBDEN in it. It is
that thorough English outspokenness which " takes
the bull by the horns." We hope that the failure
of " dividends," this week, even of ls. H. dividends
a fortnight, to men who three weeks ago earned
more than £3 in the same time will clench Mr.
PLUM3IER'S arguments, and save the deluded and
heir families from folly and ruin.

What's in a name ! " A rose by any other name
will smell as sweet" is a proverb no less true than
trite ; yet, nevertheless, the name to be bestowed on
a new colony or a new city is not altogether unim-
portant. It has fallen to the lot of British rulers
and British adventurers to give a name to many
spots in many quarters of the globe—from the
Southern continent, whose fairest portions are
known by the title of our ancient Cymrian princi•
pality and the name of our present Queen, to the
lonely capes and snowy islands among the Polar seas,
where hardy Englishmen have given their names
to the desolate regions few others dared to explore.
An interesting task has fallen to her MAJESTY in
the selection of suitable appellations for the new
colony which her reign has seen inaugurated, and
for its capital. The name of the colony is in every
way suitable—rendering due honour to the
memory of the great Genoese discoverer. It
is now announced that the capital of British
Columbia shall be called "New Westminster,"
to be in its time, no doubt, a worthy 'rival of the
similarly named capital of the Empire State—" New
York." It is doubtless not without a motive that
her Majesty has selected a title thus linking the
new land with the old. It will keep fresh in the
memories of the emigrants who will people those
vast solitudes the old associations and home
thoughts. The very name of their capital will
bring before them visions of the stately abbey that
has seen many a changing line of sovereigns since
the days of EDWARD THE CONFESSOR—of the sena-
torial chambers, where the liberties of England
have been striven for no less valiantly than on the
tented field—of the hall where the old " trial by
jury" links the people of progress with the days of
Saxon ALFRED. And as another generation rises,
with all the fresh and vigorous energies of their
new country, untrammelled by the fetters of cus-
tom and civilisation in the old, the name of their
capital may teach them to temper their unchecked
freedom by a veneration for the old land that has given
them their laws and their liberty. When the wild
regions where the bear and the marten have been
the solitary denizens, and the fur trapper or the Red
Indian the only travellers, shall see crowded cities
and cultivated fields take the place of trackless
snow and pathless forest, the name of " New West-
minster" may remind its inhabitants that they have
a claim to share the memories and traditions of
their forefather's fatherland. It .may teach them
to emulate the fame of their city's sponsor, the
statesmen and heroes, the poets and philosophers
that sleep under the shadow of its Abbey ; the
judges and councillors, whose weighty wisdom has
presided in its Hall; and the eloquence, the ability,
and the patriotic spirit that have stirred and
swayed its Parliament.
Let us, then, wish all prosperity to our new colo-
nial capital, and trust that the bonds of fellowship
and old association may never be broken between
the mother country and her vast possessions in the
great northern continent of the West, but still
" Be linked in sympathy with auld langsyne."

Among the many advantages that will accrue to
the public from the proposed extension of the rail-
way lines through the metropolis, to a grand focus
at Charing-cross, will be, let us hope, the diminu.
tion in the number of those heavily-loaded vans
which now threaten the passenger with accident
and disaster. The accidents arising from the care-
lessness and hardihood with which they are packed
are of frequent occurrence, in the City more espe
cially. The melancholy death of a gentleman
in King William-street from this cause is of
recent date ; and it is but a few days
since a lady and gentleman in a cab were
nearly crushed by the falling of seven bales of
silk from a heavily-loaded waggon in Calthorpe-
street, Gray's Inn-road. The immense height to
which the loads are raised must have strack every
passenger in London-streets as extremely dan-
gerous. Even supposing them to be securely
fastened at starting, the continued oscillation of a
long journey loosens the cords and allows tne
smaller part of the baggage to slip. It was from
this cause that the accident in Calthorpe-street
occurred, and from the great height to which
the vans are packed, a comparatively small weight
falling on a passer-by might inflict a serious in-
jury, if not death. The vans, loaded with empty
fruit and vegetable baskets, leaving Covent-garden
on the evenings of market days, are so numerous
and unwieldy as to compel the removal of the large
lamp on Waterloo-bridge some time since. It is
quite time that some attention were paid to this
matter, since the frequent occurrence of these acci-
dents in narrow and crowded thoroughfares en-
dangers the lives and limbs of all who traverse the
streets of the metropolis.

THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND,

BALMORAL, AUG• 3

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Con-
sort, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Princesses
Alice, Helena, and Louisa, and the Prince Arthur, attended
by Lady Churchill, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Sir George
Grey, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, the Hon. Sir C. B.
Phipps, Lord Charles Fitzßoy, Major Elphinstone, and Sir
James Clark, left Holyrood Palace at a quarter before nine
o'clock for the St. Margaret's station, and proceeded by
railway to Banchory ; after remaining half an hour for lun-
cheon, her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort and the Royal Family, and the ladies and gentle.
men of the household, proceeded in travelling carriages to
Balmoral, where the royal party arrived at a quarter before
six o'clock.

His Excellency the Russian Minister and the
Baroness Brunnow entertained at dinner, last evening, at
Chesham-house, their Imperial Highnesses the Grand
Duke Constantine and the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia.
There were also present his Excellency Count Strogonoff.
his Excellency M. D. Hawrowitz, Col. Chestakoff, Col.
Greig, his Excellency M. de Golownine, his Excellency M.
Mainowsay, Count Bloudotf, M. de Sabouroff, 11. de Tol-
stoy, and Capt. Boyce. His Imperial Highness the Grand
Duke Constantine dined with the Baron and Barer es
Brunnow on Saturday last, when a select circle were ix-
, vited to meet his Imperial Highness.
His Highness Prince Pierre .Troubetzkoy has
arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from the
continent.
Her Excellency the Baroness Brunnow has been
suffering from severe indisposition during the past few
days. Her excellency was happily sufficiently recovered
to receive their Imperial Highnesses the Grand Duke Con-
stantine and the Grand Duchess Maria of Russia last
evening.
The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived at Lansdowne
House yesterday from his villa at Richmond. The noble
marquis leaves in a few days for Bowood, Wilts.