The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-09 00:00:00

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THE GREAT Srrir COMPANY.—Surprise and great
dissatisfacti(in are expressed by some of the shareholders of
this company at the alleged intention of the directors to
move an adjournment of the meeting fixed for next week,
so as to postpone all explanations for another month.
Looking at the statements in circulation regarding their
mutual dissensions and recriminations, and the financial
difficulties of the concern, it was to have been supposed
they would have insisted on an opportunity of meeting their
constituents without the needless delay of a single day.
It is urged, consequently, by persons interested, that there
should be a full attendance on the 15th. If any motion,
however, is intended to be discussed, it will be neeeesary,
that three days' clear notice should be siven.

OLD BROWN ON HIS TIIIAL.—OId Brown thought
only of freeing as many .negroes as he could reach; and he
attempted it in a wild sort of way, from which anybody
whom he had consulted would have augured nothing but
failure and destruction. Destruction to hid own life will
apparently be the result. He is sentenced to death; and
will probably become a martyr, idolised by all negroes. But
a failure his scheme is not. This is partly owing to his hav-
ing appli9til an unexpected test to the security of a slave-
bolding society, under the circumstances of the time ; and
more perhaps to the influence of his personal bearing on all
witnesses. At first he was with difficulty preserved from
death at the hands of the citizens, thmtgh he lay on the grotind
wounded. By degrees one citizen after another became late-
rested in what he said, and inquisitive about whathe thought.
In a few hours the great work was done—he had opened a
new world t' a whole community. The governor, honour-
able senators, chief citizens of every class, approached the
old yeoman with deference, with gentl -mess, with over-
whelming interest. They ceased to reproach him, and per-
haps.to pity him ; and people out of doors began to think
them bewitch( d. All this was because of the great disc, •
very he had been the occasion of their making. What was
this dismwry,? It was that a robust-minded yeoman, a
God-fearing man, reared in the primitive of course of Bible-
study, who was pare from worldly aims, actually believed
the personal freedom of men of any race a cause worth
living and dying for. Under the coerced press, and the
restricted preaching and literature of the slave State, such
a notion had never found entrance to the understanding of
the citizens, who had fancied all abolitionists to be thieves
and cowards. Old Brown's devotAness to his cause, and
his indifference to his own fate, at once fascinated every
'generous-minded man who came near him. His new ad-
mirers would have deferred his trial till he could obtain.
counsel of his own choice, and till he had somewhat re-
covered from his wounds—wounds in the head, which at
times impaired his memory ; but the frightened community
would hear of no delay, and Old Brown was carried on his
,bed into court. My readers have probably seen some
'account of the trial, and have registered in their minds his
short speech on receiving his sentence of death. Ale voice
and manner of that speech will no more be forgotten on the
spot than the matter and the words,—Once a Week.