The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-16 00:00:00

2EIR. URQUHART AT PRESTON.

On Sunday evening, Mr. David Urquhart, who is.
at present sojourning at Lytham, visited Preston, in coin-
pany with a gentleman whose name our correspondent•
'
could not learn, in order to address a meeting of the Fo-
reign Affairs Committee and their friends. There were
about 40 persons present. Mr. Urquhart delivered a
characteristic address, embellished, as usual, with violent
epithets applied to his audience, and Englishmen in
general, such as "you ruiscreants,7 "you scoundrels,"
"you idiots," "you fools," "you allowed this," &c.
Being asked if an extension of the franchise would be an
antidote tothe evils of which he complained, he entered
into a speech of half an hour's duration, in which he
said that the man who used the word " reform" was
either a threefold idiot or a threefold knave ; and he
talked about "restoring the ancient-constitution of
England." 'Mr. J. J. Merriman, editor of the Preston
Guardian., who bad only casually come into the room,
then rose, and at some length exposed the sophisms of
Mr. Urquhart, who interrupted the•speaker, and said
he "did not come there to be talked to, but to talk."
The audience, however, insisted upon Mr.- Urquhart
maintaining order, and Mr. Merriman proceeding with
his address, Mr. Urquhart took up'his bat and retired
in a state of indignation.—(A Voice, "There is-one mis-
creant going now.") (Laughter.) He was then fol-
lowed by hie unknown friend.—Mr. Merriman went on
with his address, and demoliehed the fallacies of Mr.
Urquhart. He was supported by another speaker, who
asked the committee what was the practical and feasible
antidote to the evils of which they, along with Mr.
Urquhart, complained t He condemned the visionary
scheme of "the Pharisee Urquhart," who certainly was
not "as other men are,"' who was constantly be-slaver-
ing himself with praise, and denouncing as " heathens
alt beside." He ridiculed Mr. Urquhart's conduct as
suicidal and highly improper ; he came there to them
for their co-operation, and then very paradoxically
dubbed them "idiots, miscreants, and fools," with the
greatest impartiality. After some further discussion,
during which Mr. Urquhart was very roughly handled,
the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to
Mr. Merriman.—Mandiesier Guardian.

HOW TITUS MANLIUS MACAULEIUS WAS
MADE -A PATRICIAN.
A LAY OF ANCIENT ROME.

(Prom Puna.)
The Consul Palmerstonius
liath ta'a down his Debrett,
And o'er its storied pages
His anxious brow is set.
Those are not age's wrinkles
The Consul's cheek that plough,
It is not time that sprinkles
.That snow upon his brow.
The wrinkles are such wrinkles
As a Consul should display :
" Up to a wrinkle" meaning
Up to the time of day.
And if the greys hairs mattered,
Their presence 'twould explain
To call them snow-flakes scattered
To cool that hot young brain.
The Consul closed the volume--
He closed it with a bang !
And he seized his slate and pencil
From The wall where they did hang ;
And straight he sat to ciphering,
And out a sum he brought ;
And bis sum was of six figures,
And it ended with a nought.
Then gaily tripped the Consul
To the .rarium straight,
And before Cornelius Levies
He thrust the scribbled slate.
" Check you, Cornelius Levies,
These figures all and each ;
All figures at thy finger-ends,
Hest thou, save those of speech."
Dry and a-dust, eat Levius,
Scanty of words and slack :
And he proved the Consul's figures,
And the slate he gave him back.
"Now, read off the sum total,"
And Levius read it through—
From left to right, not right to left—
Nought, two, eight, six, and two 1
So the united ages
Of the Patricians stood,
When Consul Palmerstonius
Vowed they must have new blood.
" What though your novi homines
Do not always wax in wit :
Oft Patricius, like Poeta,
Proves nascitur non, fit."
" Besides, as after physic
The matron gives her child
A crust of blandest honey,
To make the bitter mild ;
So 1, for the Patricians,
A. pleasant peer must find,
To take away the savour
Wens'dalius left behind.
Patres madorunb gentiwn,
Patres minorum, too,
Your seats upon those benches
To sources strange are due :
The fruit ofjpr al bye-blows,
The growths of courtier-slime,
The brawny sons of rapine,
The heirs of reckless crime.
"The sword bath dibbled often.
Holes from patrician seed ;
And many a lawyer's tongue hath licked
All shoes, and oft unfet',l,
No stooping found too lowly,
No crawling thought too mean,
If but a Conscript Father
He might at last be seen.
"The Sword, the Tongue, the Purse have there
Their representing men—
Remains one tool of greatness
Unhonoured there—the Pen.
The consulship of Planous
An era still we see :
Wby should not Palmer:denies
Be notable as he ?
"I'll raise to the Patricians,
One who ne'er wore steel, nor lied,
Whose weapon was his goose-quill,
Whose pleadings were world-wide;
:Whose foes were Falsehood, Prejudice,
Fraud, Sophistry, and Wrong—
With which he held wit-combat,
Wit-combat, brave and long !
"So, when that Palmerstonius
Hath gone where all ,nust go—
E'en those whose brains glow fiery
'Neath coronals of snow :
Write by the Appian way-side,
On the tomb where he is laid,
Of Manlius Macauleius
He a Patrician made.'"

THE CHEBTNI7T CROP.—A letter from Limoges states
that the chestnut trees in the Limousin are breaking
down under the weight of the fruit. Never in the
memory of man was there seen so large a crop of chest-
nuts as this year. They will be as remarkable for quality
it 4 fcr size iu consequence of the favi,urable weather.
CATTLE FROM THE NORTH OF EIIROPE.—The gross
imports of cattle into Lowestoft barbour last week from
Ilusuno, Frederickstadt, and Tonning tDuchy of Sobles
wig) amounted to 1,024 beasts and 1,298 oxen. The
North of Europe Steam Navigation Company's steamer,
the City of Norwich, Captain Oliver, and the Tonning,
Captain Russell, arrived on Friday ; and the Cumber-
land, Captain Ricers, followed on Saturday. The Cum-
berland brought 221 beasts and 220 sheep, and the other
vessels having equally large cargoes, the stock was de-
spatched to town in five special trains, as they bad been
consigned, al usual, to metropolitan firm.. A telegra-
phic message, received on Saturday from Lowestoft,
states that a fourth steamer, the Royal Victoria, Capt.
R se, was also expected to arrive in time to enable her
cargo to be despatched to the metropolitan market. It
ii probable, therefore, that the total arrivals will be as
heavy as last week. The importation will continue for
about six weeks, or longer, but they will be suspended
• during the winter months.