The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-09 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—May I not be allowed, as Chaucer's trans-
lator and admirer, to protest againt the Vandalism
that would destroy so valuable a relict of the great
poet's century as the time-honoured Tabard, whence
his pilgrims started for Canterbury, to make way
for a railway station, where few will know even the
name of Chaucer, and few still care for him or his
works ? Must modern progress be converted into
a Juggernaut's car, always busy eradicating the
traces of the past ? Is its motto to be delenda est
Carthago? While Paris is being shorn of all its
picturesque features and the traditions of its med:ca-
val times, I hitherto always admired the pious care
with which the tangible relics of a bygone era were
cherished in your provincial towns and out-of -the-
way nooks. I have seen Shakspere's dwelling honoured
as a shrine, and the memory of even inferior geniuses
lovingly fostered in the places they iuhabitei, and
where they exercised their influence; and shall the
father of English poetry not excite sufficient reve-
rence to prevent this contemplated desecration ?
That is the question which I should like to see you
ask of your numerous readers, who, on your appeal,
might perhaps bestir themselves in time to avert an
irreparable loss to the lovers of 'antiquarian lore.—
I remain, sir, yours respectfully,

Jan. 3, 1866.

LE CHEVALIER DE CHATELAIN.

Kemorial Tomb to Leigh Hunt.

As PROPOSED BY MR. S. C. HALL, THE EDITOR OF

THE " ART JOURNAL."

At the close of a singularly charming and appre-
ciative " Memory of the late Leigh Hunt," which
appeared recently in the pages of the Art Journal,
the accomplished Editor of that publication, himself
the writer of the " Memory," added the following
footnote, or as it might be called postscript :
" He was buried at Kensall Green, but unhappily
there is, as yet, no monument to record his name
and preserve his memory ; that is a reproach to all
who knew him, and to all who have read, admired,
and loved his many works—a generation that reaps
the harvest of his labours. His works will, indeed,
do both—they will be his monument—more enduring
than of ' piled up stones'—and they will preserve
his name for ever among the foremost men of his
age and country. But it is not right that the
crowded ' graveyard' which contains sculp-
tured tablets of so many illustrious authors,
artists, and men of science, should be without one
to this great writer, and I appeal to the thousands
by whom he is estimated to remove from England
the reproach. It will gratify me much if I can
obtain contributions for that purpose, in addition
to my own. A large sum is by no means requisite.
Such a monument as Leigh Hunt would have de-
sired should be unassuming and unpretending as
was his career in letters ; and if I am so happy as
to receive responses to this invitation, I will set
about the work."

Since then, Mr. Hall has energetically set on foot
a movement calculated very speedily, we believe, to
lead to the realisation of his kindly-hearted design.
Quoting his own footnote (as here already given),
at the head of a Circular Letter, addressed espe-
cially to men of letters and admirers of the genius of
Leigh Hunt, Mr. Hall writes :
" I have added the above to a ' Memory of Leigh
Hunt,' published in the Art Journal. May I respect-
fully ask your aid in this matter, to the extent of a
guinea or half-a-guinea.—Yours truly,

C. HALL.

8, Essex-villas, Argyll-road, Campden ."
_ _

And already we believe the response has been
such that the chief part of the BUM required for the
erection of the proposed monument over the hon-
oured but as yet unmarked grave of Leigh Hunt in
Kensall-green Cemetery, has been secured : as will
be understood indeed upon a glance down the pre-
sent list of subscribers :-
1. B. W. Procter, Esq. 21. Mrs. Milner Gibson.
2. John Forster, LL.D. 22. C. R. Reynell, Esq.
3. W. C. Macready, Esq. 23. John Dillon, Esq.
4. Charles Dickens, Esq. 24. W. J. Allen, Esq.
5. Theodore Martin, Esq. 25. J. Ridley, Esq.
6. Edmund Oilier, Esq. 26. F. W. Fairholt, Esq.,
7. Sir F. G. Moon' Bart. F.S.A.
7. Wilkie Collins, Esq. 27. E. M. Ward, Esq., R.A.
9. Charles Kent, Esq. 28. Edmund Yates, Esq.
10. G. Cotterell, Esq. 29. G. J. Do 'Wilde, Esq.
11. C. Ratcliff, Esq., F.S.A. 30. John Bright, Esq., M.P.
12. Sir John Bowring. 31. Martin Tupper, Esq.
-13. Sir Rowland Hill. 32. Payne, Esq. (Maxon's)
. _

14. Sir E. L. Bulwer Lytton, 33. Blanchard Jerrold, Esq.
Bart. 34. Colonel Cunningham.
15. W. Smith Williams, Esq. 35. W. H. Russell, Esq.,
16. J. Durham, Esq., P.S.A. LL.D.
17. Chas. Hill, Esq., P.S.A. 36. Edwin Arnold, Esq.
18. G. Godwin, Esq., F.R.S. 37. John Ruskin, Eq.
19. P.Bennocli, Esq., P.S.A. 38. John Hunter, Esq.
20. James S. Virtue, Esq. 39. S. C. Hall, Esq., P.S.A.

*** Those others who would enjoy the privilege
of participating in the grateful labour of raising this
memorial stone over the remains of Leigh Hunt
would do well, therefore, at once to forward to Mr.
S. C. Hall their intended guinea or half guinea
subscription.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This I ay.

The market opens with quiet demand. Sales
probably 5,000 bales.

THE MURDER AT MOUNTAIN Asir.--The coroner's
inquest upon the remains, as supposed, of John Davis, was
adjourned till Thursday net.
CONVIOTION,_ FOR AtILUDER..-r-EDINBURGII, Mon-
day.—Brown, the mate of the schooner Nymph, of Mon-
troso, has been found guilty of murder of the captain of
the ship off Forfarshire coast. Sentence delayed.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

TEE MILITARY REVOLT IN SPAIN.

I3AYONNE, JAN. 8.

General Prim has gained the mountains of
Toledo, 'whither he is being pursued by General
Zavala.

General Concha has taken up a position at Man-
zananes, in order to bar the passage of General
Prim into Andalusia.

News from Madrid states that General Eschague
was about to leave that city at the head of fresh
forces.

The insurgent garrison at Avila have crossed
over into Portugal.

The provinces continue quiet.

R O M E.

ROME, JAN. 8.
At a Consistory held to-day the Pope nominated
a Patriarch, three Archbishops, and 12 BishopS.
Msgr. Ledokowski has been appointed Arch-
bishop of Posen.
The Bishop of Osnabruck has been named Arch-
bishop of Cologne.
His Holiness did not deliver any allocution.

VENETIA.
VENICE, JAN. 8.
The Central Congregation of Venice has elected
a committee for the purpose of examining the
reforms necessary for the development of the
autonomy of Venetia.
Several ordinances of the Governor of Venetia
have been published, suppressing the district com-
missioners and creating 22 vice-delegates. The
communes are in future to correspond directly with
the Provincial Congregations. Venice is placed
directly under the Governor, and the Central Con-
gregation of the provinces is suppressed.

FRANCE.
PARIS, JAN. 9.

Count Walewski and the Duke de Mouchy have
been elected members of the Commission for the
Exhibition of 1867.

CHINA AND JAPAN.

SIIANGHAE, Nov. 2G.

Sir Rutherford Alcock has arrived at Pckin at a
critical moment. The anti-foreign party are en-
deavouring to carry out an exclusive policy.
The Inspector-General of Customs has been dis-
missed without a cause.

Articles of war are being manufactured in large
qlantities.

General dissatisfaction is felt at the irregularity
of the mail service. Several mails in succession
have been days behindhand.
Trade generally is brisk.
The cotton crop has failed.
Advices from Japan state that the combined
expedition had returned in consequence of the
Mikado's refusal to open the ports' of Ossaca and
Ilioga.

Advices from Shanghae for the 9th December,
received via Gallo, and published on the sth inst.,
announce that the Mikado has since sanctioned the
treaty, and that the ports would be opened on the
Ist January.

A chamber of commerce had been established at
Yokohama.

AUSTRALIA. AND NEW ZEALAND.
MELBOURNE, Nov. 26 (via Alexandria).
A motion of want of confidence has been intro-
duced in the Legislative Assembly, and resulted
in a majority for the Ministry.
The Tariff Bill has been rejected by a large
majority in the Legislative Council.
The Ministers refused to bring in the Appropria-
tion Bill, and announced the prorogation of Par-
liament and an appeal to the country.
A petition to the Queen to recall the Governor
has been signed by members of the Executive
Council.
Great dissatisfaction prevails.
SYDNEY, Nov. 22.
Advices from New Zealand announce further
skirmishing with the natives. They had been
attacked at Opotiki, and several were shot ; among
them one of the principal murderers of Mr. Volk-

ner.
The natives at Poverty and llawkes Bays were
laying down their arms.
Kawa Pah has been captured by the volunteers.
The rebels suffered great loss.

New Year's Day at Rome.

ROME, Jon. 2.

•
Yesterday the Pope held the usual reception at
the Vatican, at which the Diplomatic Corps, the
members of the various episcopal colleges, the Mi-
nisters, the Council of State, the Municipality, the
officers of the Pontifical army, and many other high
functionaries, offered their congratulations for the
New Year.

General Count de Montebello and the officers of
the French army of occupation paid their respects to
his Holiness at noon in the Hall of the'Consistory.
In reply to their congratulations, the Pope is stated
to have expressed himself in the following terms :
" I accept with pleasure the good wishes expressed by
your General. As in previous years, I give you my apes-
toile benediction. I have been informed, and have re-
peatedly heard, that the French army is to leave Rome. It
is, therefore, the last time that I have the satisfaction of
giving you this benediction. I bestow it upon you, then,
with all my heart, full of affection and love.
" I will remind you of what was said by the great Apostle
Paul :—'Scio quoniam intrabunt post discessionem lupi
rapaces ;' and, applying it to present circumstances, thus
translate it,— ' I know that after your departure the savage
beasts will enter.' Then I shall be like Jesus before ascend-
ing Golgotha, when he prayed in the garden of Gethsemane
and an angel came strengthening Him. lam too miserable
to be compared to Jesus Christ ; yet I also shall pray to
obtain consolation. I shall pray for poor Italy, which has
been made an unhappy country, and has been precipitated
into an abyss of misery, impiety, and irreligion. But I
am departing from the subject before rue. I shall pray for
France, for the whole French army, whom I esteem, and
for the Imperial family ;—I shall pray for you all, to whom
I owe so much. May God, therefore—God the Father,
Author of all good—bless you; may the Son, eternal wis-
dom of the Father, communicate to you that wisdom so
necessary amid the difficulties of life ; may the Holy Ghost,
eternal love of the Father and the Son, inspire you with
that love, so that you may love one another !"
All the officers were subsequently permitted to
kiss the ring of St. Peter.
In receiving the Finance Minister the Pope is
represented to have again expressed his unshaken
resolution to ignore the September Convention,
and not to accept, either on the question of the debt
or any other, any arrangement implying the aban-
donment of the rights of the Holy See and the re-
cognition of facts accomplished in defiance of those
rights.
- - - - -

The Holy Father is also said to have communi-
cated to the Finance Minister a letter that he had
written to the Emperor on the subject of the pro-
posal contained in the Convention, that Italy should
pay that portion of the Pontifical debt due from
the former provinces of the Church. His Holiness
promised to acquaint the Ministry with the Em-
peror's reply as soon as he received it.
A telegraphic despatch from Frosinone announces
that five other brigands namely, Andreozzi,
Marino, Colella, Silvestri, and de Filippi—had sur-
rendered themselves to the authorities. Up to the
30th ult. twenty-three brigands had surrendered in
accordance with Article 9 of the Edict of the 7th
December. .

erepita '7\l4Y .
(firtular.

HER MAJESTY.

- -

OSBORNE, Monday.

Her Majesty, their Royal Highnesses Princess
Ilelena,PrincessLouise, and Prince Arthur attended
Divine service at Osborne yesterday, which was
performed by the Rev. G. Prothero.
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice attended
the service at Whippingham Church.

Royal Geographical Society.

• -

The Royal Geographical Society held one of its
monthly meetings last evening, and it being veil
generally known that M. P. B. Da Chailla was
to -read on the occasion a paper describing his
second journey into Western Equatorial Africa
an unusually numerous audience was drawn to-
gether by the circumstance. Sir R. Murchison, the
president of the society, occupied the chair, and
among the general company were Mr. Adams, the
American Minister ; Lord A. Churchill, Mr. Craw-
furd, Sir IL Rawlinson, M.P., Mr. G. Poison, pre-
sident of the American Ethnological Society ; Pro-
fessor Owen, &c.

The minutes of the last meeting having been read
and confirmed, and some other preliminary business
having been transacted,

The PRESIDENT introduced to the meeting his
friend M. Du Chaillu, to whom he was sure they
would give a most hearty reception. (Cheers.)

M. DU CIIAILLU then mule forward amid re-
newed cheering, and having stated that for the last
two years he had no opportunity of speaking Eng'
lish or French, and had, therefore to claim the in-
dulgence of the audience for any deficiency they
might observe in his pronunciation, proceeded to
read his papers. He left London on the 6th of
August, 1863, and .on the 9th of October in the same
year he reached a point called Ferman Bay, on the
African coast, immediately to the south of the
Equator. He advanced eastwards to the Ashira
country, where he had been on a former journeYl
and where he was well remembered and kindly re-
ceived. He had many offers of marriage pressed upon'
him, but these he had respectfully declined. (A laugh.)
In reading the works of Grant, Speke, and Burton
he observed many words which were identical with
and which closely resembled words used in the dis-
trict be-had traversed, and lie had no doubt that the
tribes of western and eastern Africa had formed_
originally one common stock. He had' seen during
his travels numbers of gorillas, and he saw nothing
after his renewed experience to retract in the account
he had already given of those animals. (Cheers.)
After he and his party had been about three weeks in
Ashira a visitation of smallpox ravaged the country.
Misery and destruction were spread cn every side,
and he was himself reduced to a most dejected,
and prostrate condition. He could not procure
sufficient nourishment, and he and his 11 coal-.
panions had upon one occasion nothing to eat for
four days but two monkeys, and very agreeablefood
they thought them. (A laugh.) He was ultimately
enabled to continue his journey eastward, and in
the course of those travels he met with a singularly
diminutive race, their average height being only
from 4ft. 4in. to 4ft. sin. After he had advanced
200 miles further than any European had yet pene-
trated his undertaking was brought to an unexpected
termination by an accident. He reached a village ill
which one of his men fired off a gun, and,
contrary
to his intention, two of the natives—a man and 3
woman—were killed. The villagers became at once
excited, and attacked himself and party with their
bows and arrows. He could not blame them for the
.
suspicion and irritation under which they acted, and
he therefore forbade his men to fire on them. lie
then ordered his followers to retire, which they did,
at first in good order, while he himself remained ill
their rear, as he believed he was in a less degree
than they an object of resentmentto the excited na-
tives. A panic, however, soon seizedthe party ; they
threw away all the articles which they carried; be
himself felt compelled to join them in their flight,
and to part with many of the most valuable things'
which he had in his possession. The result was that/
although his men energetically rallied, he lost all his
instruments as well as his ammunition, and all that
could have enabled him to continue his journey with
advantage. He at once, therefore, retraced his WO
westwards, and immediately afterwards made b 1
way back to England. M. Du Chaffin concluded his
address by his expressing his gratitude to Sir
Murchison and Professor Owen for the support bie
had received from them throughout his labours, an
u
amid all the opposition with which he had to contend.
Sir It. MuRCHISON next briefly addressed the meet-
ing, pointing out the remarkable qualities which 31*
Du Chaillu had displayed throughout his travels'
and observing that it was not perhaps generally
known that he had undertaken his last journey ell
tirely at his own expense, and that he had been enabled,
to do so only by devoting to that object the whole °'
the money he had derived from the sale of his very
remarkable work on Equatorial Africa. He had at
the same time exhibited a skill, hardihood, alld
courage worthy of the gallant country—France---111
which lie was born, and Englishmen and French-
men both would gladly welcome him as their oWn'
(Cheers.)
Professor OwrN then spoke in support of the
veracity of M. Du Chaillu, remarking that all the
statements for which he had been most attacked had
been borne out by subsequent evidence. He bau;
for instance, made the unwelcome announcement
that he had met with a race of cannibals. 1113
statement had been called in question; but it had bee-
,„
confirmed by Captain Burton, who had followed hill/t
over the district he had traversed. Then with resPeea
to the gorillas he felt sure that if M. Du Chaillu ha;
given any false account of their habits he should have
found some traces of that falsehood in the kness;
ledge he had been able to obtain of the conformistiet
of those animals. He bad not, however, the slightest
reason to suppose that what had been said IT ,„.
Du Chaillu on the subject was in the slightest re-
spect untrue. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. DUNKIN, one of the assistants of the Greenci
with Observatory, then came forward and stated
that he had been astonished at the multitude al&
accuracy of the astronomical observations which'
Du Chaillu had made. it
Mr. J. CRAWFURD, the chairman, said he 010
to be his duty to declare that he found it impossiu'o
to believe in the existence of the race of &oral.
which M. Du Chaillu stated he had met in .Afrief3c;
These people, if the statement were correct, wee'o
smaller than any human beings that had yet beis
known, and he could not understand how it 'et
possible that they could live in the midst of 'nth
races who appeared to speak the same language. ran
M. Du CIIAILLU observed that those people r,,0
away when he approached them, and he had been gut,
to examine only one or two of their number ; i_
with respect to them, he had only to repeat facts
as
they had come under his actual observation.
The meeting then separated.

TEA DONE TO A T.—Perhaps there is no reallf
,11
truer test of the delicacy of sensuous percePti°
than a high tone of feeling on the subject of tea. Tifb-61
is nothing that is easier to make, granted of course ": e
proper quality of tea to start with, without any experi„e?i°
at all, than tea, and yet there is nothing inwhich
more hopeless to expect even moderate excellence fr°lr;:
person of unrefined mind. A cultivated man or woman
troduced to this beverage for the first time will on the gill
experiment easily grasp the whole points of the case3"—vat
take care to extract the true aroma without extracting tb:s
horrible colouring matter which is got by letting the t
brew, as the revolting phrase is—" brew," as if it were bevelt
—will see tho critical importance of seizing the 212°T,c,
when the urn or kettle just boils, and no mare than bono
is at 212 deg. Fahrenheit, and not higher—for eliciting the
full fragrance of tea, and will have a fine feeling" f°r 0
function of cream in softening without overpowerivg,
tof
most refined of sedative, the most stealthy and OW°, ett
stimulating, beverages. But preach to an ordinary kitc'l.l.- 0
maid for 40 years of the true rationale of the processgle
her Messrs. North or Messrs. Twinings' best Seuell°9`)
now as low as 4s. 10d. a pound, thanks to Mr. Gladstonweli
green tea is never permissible to a pure taste—and sh°„tin
produce you, after a life of melancholy endeavour ,51)',asp
wrestling not with any external difficulty but with the
.1
of her own organisation, a cup of as coarse kitchen te,
At
she would make for herself out of " a very decent Artidleico
2s. 4d." with skimmed milk, and that refuse of animalcu:li
and dried treacle called brown sugar—an ingredient l'ill.lc,o
alleviates rather than exasperates the unspeakable 11°11°1
of such a decoction as this.—Spectator.

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