The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-17 00:00:00

MR. HOPLEY ON EDUCATION.

The following note is appendsd to the Second
Lecture of Mr. Hopley's Series on education :
" _Mere are many into whoa.) hands these pages
may fall, who will find a portion of the truth con-
tained herein tco hard fur them. That education
is to be the agent, under God, of banishing crime
[.and misery from the earth—that health, inteleA,
and morality, are destined to more and mon
abiund, until, in God's good time, perfect obedi-
ence to the Creator's laws shall b. big about perfec-
tion in the human race—this though it. has been
agitating, more or less confusedly, the minds of
deep-thinking men from the period of the in,-titu-
tion of the Jewish priesthood- to our own day (as
seen iu the w.!rks of Moses, Solomon, Esaias, Plato,
Bacon, Butler, and various other writers, sacred
and profane, as well as of 'ancient and of modem
times): is yet so contrary to the habits of thought
which have obtained throughout the World, that it
needs must bs.. looked upon by not a few as the
offspring of mere enthusiasm. But science is
making rapid strides ; and the further science
,advances, and the more, carefolly. the Scriptures
. are studied in connexion with its advances the
greater will the wonder grow that for thousands of
years after God has declared that He wills not the
death even of a sinner—that for upwards of
eighteen centuries after Christ has preached that
God is love'—the bulk of mankind should. have
coniaued with such erroneous notions of the
Creator's great designs.
Through evil report, therefore, and through
good report, the author intends (God blessing the
effort) to prosecute, to -the best of his -ability, his
arduous undertaking. And he, earnestly and
affectionately prays of all those who shall see in
these leaturss valuable truth, that, for the sake of
themselves and others, they will help tp spread the
same abroad. And to those who would feel in-
clined to cavil with• the work, lie would say,
`Find fault with the style, for, it is that of an
erring man, but beware, lest in cavilling ye fiLd
fault wAti ti nth, for that is God's. And to such as are,
though kindly-intentioned, inclined to doubt —and
to such as would hope, but afraid—the author begs
to suggest, as a fitting theme f )17 reflection, the
,calmly-written words of one of the profoundest
thinkers that the world has ever known :---‘ Do not
despair,' is the faithful counsel of the illustrious
Bacon—' Do not despair, as imagining that the
project for a grand restoration is infinitely beyond
the power of mortals to execute : for in reality it
is the constituted means of stopping and prevent-
ing universal error.* As our state ,is mortal and
human, a full accomplishment cannot be expected
in a single age, and must, therefore, be commended
to posttrity. tNor may man hope to succeed, if
he arrogantly search for the sciences in the nar-
row cells of his own understanding instead of sub-
missively in the wider world. • . . . We antici-
pate that the fortune of, mankind will lead this
commencement to such a termination as it is not
possible for the present race of men to conceive)

but God forbid that wa should ever of-

fer the dreams of fancy for a model of the world,
but rather in his mercy vouchsafe to us tlie power
of writing a revelation and true vision of the traces
and moulds of the Creator in his creatures.'t

"Every one, however humble, who does his beEt
in, the cause of truth, helps to hasten that resto-
ration' for which our prophets and wise mm have
laboured.

" 'May Thou, therefore, 0 Father, who
stowedst the visible light as the first fruits of Thy
creation, and who infusedst into the fashioned man
a portion of Thine intellectual light for the accom-
plishment of Thy works,. protect and guide this
work, which, issuing from Thy goodness, seeks in
return Thy glory.. When Thou surveyedst the
works which-Thy hands had wrought, Thou sawest
that all were very good, and Thou didst rest ; but
when man turned to the works of his hands, he
saw that all Wa3 vanity and. vexation of spirit, and
he found nil rest at all. But if we labour iu Thy
cause, Thou wilt make us partakers of Thy vision
and sabbath. Humbly, therefore, do we beseech
Then, thtt Thou will keep us s'eadfast in our re-
solve; and that Thou mayest see fit to endow the
human family with new blessings through our
kands and the hands of those (and oh ! that they
May soon be many !) on whom Thou shalt bestow
the same spirit.' Amen."

*lnfiniti errorii finis et terminus legitiraus.
t Instauratio Magna. 1: Ibid.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Sept. 17.—Wind this day at noon, S. Vir.;
light breeze and fine.
OFF QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 15.—Arrived—Erin-go-Bragb,
from Callao, and proceeded for Liverpool.
HULL, Sept. 16.—Wind S. W.—Arrivel—Sweden, from
St. John's.

LERWICK, Sept.. 15.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Esoorsea,
from Bilboa.

OFF PYL3IOIITII, Sept. 13. —Arrived—Plinee Albert:
from Jamaica.

SWIN9EA, Sept. IR —Wind N.W.--Arrived —Niths-
dale, from Calileira.
PLYMOUTH, Sept. 16.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Sacramento,
for Bombay.
GLOUCESTER, Sept. 16.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—De-
epatch, from lam ail.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ,
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday, 10 A.M.

Wind S.I
Arrived—Two Friends, from Cardiff; Despatch (s),
Jersey; Susanna, Newport; Alliance (s), Havre.
Sailed—Matthew Thompson, for Newport; Pet, Sun-
derland; Courier (s), Jersey; Havre steamer, Havre;
Argyll (s), New York.
LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning.
Wind S.W. _ _ _

Arrived—J. N. White, from Now Orleans ; Seringapa
tam, Bombay; Enterprise, Bahia; Moreton Castle, Porto
Cabello; Susannah, Mikrseilles ; Lusito, Passages Italian,
steamer, Havre ; Bamberg, New Orleans; Orinoco, Prince
Edward's Island ; Urania, Marseilles.

QUEENSTOWN, September 15.

Wind S.S.W.

Arrived—Jewess, from Richebuoto ; Rosina, Calao;
Reliance and Mountain Eagle, Bahia • Tartaro, Odessa;
Sumpter, S.. John's, ; Iraman, Taganrog ? Augusta,
Odessa ; Harmonia, Galatz ; Langatden, Carthagena
Soveroiga of the Seas, Callao; Mischief, Labrador; Stag-
hound,.St. John's, New Brunswick ; Amazone, Giardano ;
Marco' Polo and Lisa, Odessa : Holvetein, Altama, and
Hope On, Lagum ; Australia, Cardiff, pumps choked ;
Tribune, Callao ; Isle, Demerara.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAM.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday, 9.30 a.m.

Wind S.W. • tide 2:!1 hour.' flood, fine. •
Arrived, 1611). Duo de Brabant, from Moulthein ;
Dahlia, Ceylon ; Cornwallis, Calcutta • Edgar I'. Stringer,
St, John's, ; Jackson, Cronstadt ; Robinson, Con-
stantinople ; Friendship, Memel ; Rotunda, Mirausichi ;
Queen-Amelia, Trinidad de Cuba: _ .
Arrived, 17th,--Soho, from Havre; Triton, Calais; Mil-
ford, Altona; Sea Star, Shanghai ; Ecliptic, Miaatlan
York Town, New York ; Tornado, St. John's New `Bruns-
wick; Jemima, Riga ; Deptford, Trinidad ; General
Totdlcben, Libau ; Faret, Gravelines ; W. Darley,

Sailed—Favourite, for St. John's, Newfoundland.
DEAL, Thursday, 9 a.m.
Wind, S.S.W., light.
Passed —Her Majesty's ship Rhadamanthus, from the
westward, for London ; Paris and London screw steamer,
from London, for Paris ; Paris and London, frem Paris, for
London; Colinda, Sunderland; Dorothea, St. Vincent,
London.

Anchored—Princess Louise, from London, for Barba-
does; Pestonjee Bomarjee, Sundeiland, Cape of Gocd
Hope.
Sailed—Chanticleer, for Jamaica; Clio, Demerara, with
others outward bound.

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THE VICTORIA TRANSPORT.—The fell swing is an ex
tnct from a letter received yesterday from an Artillery
ofEcer on board the Victoria, dated St. Vincent, Thurs-
day, Aug. 27, 8 a.m.:—" We have had a splendid ruu ;
our smallest day's log was 190 knots, our greatest 240,
Our fine weather has been uninterrupted. The nights
are delicious—we lie on the decks and spin yarns for
hours and hours. During the day the heat is very great
—BB degrees in our cabins, 130 degrees in the engine.
room. We have only seen two ships for seven days.
We ar3 treated most liberally on board. Thedyagnivdehhauvoset
hock and .-berry every day for dinner, and champagne
on the Sabbath and Thursday, We shall never have to
eat salt meat the whole way out. Fresh
rolls every day, and we have allkiods of frruiaetff!ay, and
that
fruit tarts for dinner every day. The men,be
i too,so
cover seen a ship in which they were
our lines 'bay,: fallen in pleasant places.
ni
that St. Vincent is 2,380 nautical
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from
welt
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A see
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and we have published it off in 10 days 2 2Y
hours. will
are well on board. •

FIRE ON TUE LiIVElt TILIIIES.—A fire was discovered
yesterday morning in a vessel on the river Thames
laden with spirits. The lower steam fip-at followed the
vessel, got to work, and finally extinguised the
but not before a vast quantity of the spirits was
destroyed, and serious injury done to the craft.
We are requested to state that the list of officers to
Whom the Turkish Order of the Medjidi4 is tobepre
sented, published on Saturday by some of ourcontem-
poraries, has been published without authority, and is
incorrect.