The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-10 00:00:00

"My dear Palmerston,—l see by the London papers of
Wednesday that the good peoplo of Southampton intend in-
viting me for the Bth of January to meet you on the occasion
of the Hartley Mechanics' Institute, and I greatly lament
that I shall be long before that time gone to the South until
the beginning of February, when Parliament meets. it is
impossible to have a more grateful sense of Mr. Hartley's
munificence, and of the wise application of his important
bequests. I only wish that he could receive, like our excel-
lent friend, Mr. Brown, of Liverpool, the cordial thanks of
all his countrymen. The foundation of any institution
which must so greatly promote the instruction in science
and literature of the middle classes, as well as others, is
truly:a national benefit of the greatest magnitude. But I
grieve to think that our fellow -citizens, from the armed
state of the world in these times, must combine their
studies with volunteering. As in some of the Turkish pro-
vinces, from the want of good police, the ploughman is
obliged to cultivate the ground armed in self-defence, so
our shopkeepers and agriculturists must cultivate the field
of knowledge in arms. That they have universally come
forward in obedience to this bard necessity gives me, as it
has given you, unspeakable satisfaction but no surprise.
The shopkeepers, as well as the agricultural class, are quite
ready to defend themselves, and I would advise no one to
doubt the zeal of either; for if any one does, he will find
the one class (to borrow a phrase from the farmyard) quite
ready to take the bu,l by the horns, and the other (to use
the language of the counter) showing the stuff they are
made of, and proving very awkward customers.

"With all the good wishes of the season, believe me,
yours s'ncerely, "H. BROUGHAM."

LORD DERBY AND M. JULES JANIN.

The celebrated French critic, fully appreciating
the excellence of Lord Derby's delightful transla-
tion of some of the best odes of Horace, recently
confided to a friend in England a copy of his own
French version of that author, with a request that
he would forward it to his lordship. M. Jules
Janin joined to the work some graceful French
verses in honour of the noble translator. The gift
has been most graciously acknowledged in the
following letter, which does equal honour to the
writer and to the French author :
" Knowsley, Dec. 31, 1860.

Sir,—A long and painfpl illness, of between three and
four months, has thrown my correspondence greatly into
arrear, and will, I hope, be accepted as au apology for my
not having earlier acknowledged with thar'a the receipt
of your letter of the 20th ult., with the volume which you
have been good enough to transmit to me on the part of M.
Jules Janin. May I beg you, when you have an opportu-
nity, to assure that gentleman how highly I feel flattered
by the compliment which has been paid me by one so highly
distinguished in the literary world; in sending me a copy of
his work, accompanied by his autograph, which will greatly
enhance its value. At the sane time, lam bound to con-
fess that he has done me too much honour in classing me
with himself in the list of trrnslators of Horace. All that
I have attempted in that way has been theltranslation of a
few of the odes, two of which have appeared in a publica-
tion of a friend of mine, and which I presume are those
which M. Jules Janin has honoured with his approval.—
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,

" DERBY."

A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA.—A bottle, contain-
ing the following, has been picked up on South Shields
sands :—" North Sea, Feb. 2, 1866—Dear Friends—When
you find this the crew of the ill-fated ship Horatia and Cap-
tain Jackson, of Norwich, is no more. We left Archangel
on the Bth January, all well ; on the 2d February we hove
to under close-reefed topsails, after scudding before the
gale for 10 days ;we have not been below for six days. A
Norwegian brig hove to for our assistance. Four men got
into the jolly boat, but after leaving a sea struck her, and
sank her, and the four men were lost. Our crew consisted
of eight men, master and mate, second mate, and two boys.
While lam writing this, I have just left the pumps. We
are not able to keep her up—eight feet of water in the hold,
and the sea making breach clear over her. Our hatches are
all stove in, and we are worn out. Our master made an ob-
servation to-day. We are in 60 N. lat.; wind, N.E. I write
these few lines, and commit them to the foaming deep, in
hopes that they may reach some kind .hearted friend who
will be so good as to find out the friends of these poor suf-
fering mortals. lam a native of London, from the orphan
school—John Laing, apprentice. We are called aft to
prayers, to make our peace with that great God, before we
commit our living bodies to that foam and surf. Dear
friends, you may think mo very cool, but, thank God,
death is welcome. We are so benumbed and fatigued that
wo care not whether we live or die. John Ross, John
Thompson, James Lee, Jos. Brig took the boat on the 21st
of January.—William Ham, Peter Young, Sam Jones,
James Bruce, William Ham, chief mate; Thomas Wilson,
second mate; John I.4aipg, and Frederic Taff, apprentices,"