The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-19 00:00:00

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AND HIINSTANTON RAILWAY.—The first
sod of this line was turned in the course of last week. The
project was first brought before the rublic in the autumn of
1855, and a commencement has at last been made with the
works.

SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.—During the week
ending Nov. 16 the visitors have been as follows :—On
Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days, 4,414; on Mon-
day and Tuesday, free evenings, 3,267 ; on three students
days (admission to the public 6d.), 895 ; one students' even-
ing, Wednesday, 95:.—total, 8,671. From the opening of
the Museum, 2,350,910.
CALLS TO THE BAR.—The following calls to the
bar were made yesterday:—Lincoln's-inn: Lewis Morris,
jun., Esq., M.A., Oxford (certificate of honour, firsi; class);
Edmund Wyndham, Esq., 8.A., Oxford; Wm. Edward
Hall, Esq., M.A., Oxford; Charles Bertie Pulleine Bosan-
quet, Esq., M.A., Oxford ; George Tyrrell, j an., Esq., B.A.
Cambridge; Samuel Hess Behrend, Esq., M.A., London;
Hugh Barklie Blundell M'Calmont, Esq., 8.A., Cam-
bridge; Edward Christopher Corballis, Esq., 8.A., Dublin;
Anthony John Anstruther Wilkinson, Esq., 8.A., Cam-
bridge; Edmund Story Maskelyne, Esq., 8.A., Oxford ;
Henry Brougham Miller, Esq.; Edward Thurstan Hol'and,
Esq., 8.A., Cambridge; and William Lethbridge, Esq.,
M.A., Cambridge. Gray's-inn: Joseph Burgin, Esq., and
William Nicholson, Esq.
THE REV. T. BINNEY ON PULPITS.—At the
opening of a congregational chapel at Stowmarket, the
Rev. T. Binney, after alluding to private feelings which
had induced him to come to Stowmarket, said he would
now say a word about the place itself—that platform.
(Cheers and laughter.) He was somewhat old-fashioned
in his ideas, and he rather liked a pulpit. He was very
decidedly opposed to a platform before he went to Aus-
tralia, but there he saw in many comparatively small
churches, without galleries, a raised dais, with a
table and desk. This ho liked very well in churches
without galleries, but if they had a platform, he should
say, do let them have what it pretended to be, and not those
sort of wings which he found in it—(laughter)—and, again,
the great iron spikes around it I (Laughter.) Ho would
have all these things dono away with, and a plain rail in
their place. Again, he never could see the use of setting a
man to speak over a great soft pillow. (Laughter.) Coun-
cillors and members of Parliament did not speak over pil-
lows. and why in the world should preachers have to do so ?
(Laughter.) He usually took them off when he preached,
and, if he had not been a stranger, he should have taken
the pillow off that morning.
THE PROSECUTIONS FOR BRIBERY AT WAKE-
FIELD AND BEVERLEY.-Mr. Boyes, the defendant in the
cases of bribery at the Beverley election tried at a recent
York assizes, and who was convicted of the offence, has re-
ceived notice from the Crown to attend before the Court of
Queen's Bench on the 22d inst., in order to receive judg-
ment. With respect to the Wakefield cases, it is supposed
that the press of business on the present term will interfere
to prevent Mr. Charlesworth's appeal from being argued
before Christmas. Hr. Leatham will not, of course, be
called up for judgment until the Conservative candidate's
appeal has been considered.

DEATH OF MR GODLEY.—WO regret to have
to !announce the death of Mr. J. R. Godley, Assistant-
Under Secretary for War, which took place on Sunday
morning at his residence at Gloucester-place, Portman-
square.

A commercial correspondent a few days back sug-
gested that it would be a service to trade if any new source
could be pointed out for obtaining spirits of turpentine, the
supply of which is interrupted by the blockade of the State
of South Carolina, whence it has hitherto been chiefly im-
ported. In reply it is said that any quantity may be pro-
cured from the Canaries and from Greece, the quality from
the former being equal to that of the American. Another
writer says that it abounds in the Mosquito territory of
Central America, and finally it is stated in the New York
journals, and by the parties interested in the Atlattic and
Great Western Railway, that the oil now obtained in enor-
mous quantities from the wells in Pennsylvania, with which
that line communicates, has a large amount of this spirit
available among its other constituents.

The rates for money on the Continent are higher
than in London at nearly all places, but the difference is not
such as to create any expectation of an adverse movement
of bullion. At Hamburg the terms are now much higher
than usual—namely, 41 per cent.—a further rise having
just boen caused by remittances of silver to Denmark and
Russia, which have raduced the stock' in the Bank to an
exceptionally low point. At Paris, in the open market,
the charge is 41 to 5 per cent. ; at Brussels and Antwerp
it is 4 per cent., and at Amsterdam and Frankfort 3 per
cent.

Intelligence was received yesterday of the loss
in the Baltic of the steamer Lyon, from St. Petersburg.
She was a fine iron vessel of 1,016 tons burden, and 380
horse-power, and was built in 1847. She had on board a
general cargo, but it is believed that her departure was
hastened on account of the approaching closing of the
ports, and that therefore a quantity of tallow that was to
have been sent by her was not all shipped. The loss will
fall partly on Lloyd's, and partly on , the large marine
offices.

THE ART OF BORROWING.--" My dear," said a
young Paris lady to a female friend, "do you believe that
miserly X would lend me three thousand francs ?" X was
the name of a well-known sporting man. "It depends
upon chance," was the answer. "How shall I set about
it ?" " Take a pen and write : My dear Alfred, I have
been disappointed in the receipt of some money this morn-
ing. Could you bring me, this evening, three thousand
francs, and at the same time carve a pheasant which I have
just received F—ERNESTINE.' " And do you believe,"
when the letter was sent, " that I shall have my money ?"
" With that note, my dear, you will not get any
money." Why did you make me write it ?"
" Because it was necessary that a first note should
precede a second —do you understand ?" " No."
gc Take your pen." " What I write again ?" " Three lines
only :—" My dear Alfred, think of my note as not sent.
Just after I had despatched it I received my money. Don't
forget, however, to como and sup with me. The pheasant
is superb." This letter was sent like the first. "Now, see
what will happen," said the lady friend. " Alfred will
feign not to have received your second letter, and will
make a show of generosity when he thinks that you need
no money. The rest is with yourself." All was executed
according to form, the sporting man gallantly offered the
3,000 f., convinced that they would not be accepted; but, to
his horror, the lady quickly pocketed the money. And, to
add to his disappointment, no pheasant was there to eat.
ROMANTIC CASE.— Galtgnani informs us that the
agents on duty in the Marche du Temple noticed, a few
days since, a young girl, apparently a vagrant, who was
endeavouring to s :11 a hair ring,
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Sauvais, that she was 13 years of age, and had been for
seven years past with a company of montebanks, who had
that morning abandoned her at Bicetre. When taken before
the commissary of police, she repeated what she had already
said, and also made the following statements :—" I was
born at Thann, at Bischviller (Haut-Rhin). About seven
years ago my mother sent me out for a walk with the ser-
vant, and we went into the mountains to drink new milk.
Whilst there the servant entered a house and played and
ran about till I got lost, when I met some mounteb nks and
went with them. I had a prayer-book with me, of which
they tore the leaves, so that I could not read what was
written in ic , but I have kept the silver clasp. The com-
pany consisted of 14 persons, four of whom were girls of
about my age. When the company left Bicetre the master
would neither allow me to go with them nor let me have
my clothes, but one of my companions gave me what I now
wear." The girl persisted in this story before the tribunal,
and the President postponed the further hearing till the 23d
inst., in order that propor inquiries might be made in the
mes.ntiiae.

THE OXFORD MAN AND TUE CAMBRIDGE MAN.
—lf stated very briefly, the chief difference may be said to
be that the Cambridge man is more practical. Whether
there is something in the method of training pursued, or
whether the different degrees of importance assigned to the
various branches of education may bo the cause, or whether
the pitting of man against man in examinations may operate
still more powerfully, the fact soon forces itself on tho at-
tention of all close observers. If two school friends part, and
meet again after spending a year at the respective universi-
ties, they are soon conscious that they no longer work
exactly in the same way. The Cambridge student has
learned to rogard everything as a task which he must
honestly and s eadily get through. To do it, and not think
about it, is his aim. Still less does he occupy himself with
thinking about doing it. He is too busy and methodical for
the agreeable but delu,ive pleasure of secondary reflection.
He has to master a subject, and all he cares is to master it,
and to go through it, so that ho may satisfy the practical
test of being examined in it and answering creditably. When
ho leaves college and commences a profession he works in
the same way. A law student from Cambridge, for instance,
has generally no very romantic views either of his profes-
sion or of himself. Here is a very complex, confused, vari-
ous piece of learning which he has undertaken to acquire.
To do the the thing well he must work hard, and must ut-
terly disbelieve that any knowledge will come unless it is
painfully obtained. He must cultivate a legal memory, note
carefully up all that he thinks he ought to know, and pre-
pare himself to be able to pass an imaginary examination
at the shortest possible notice. The Oxford student, on
the other hand, is more inclined to speculate about law, to
dally with its details, and to despise its confusion. Cam-
bridge men, so to speak, approach law in a humbled atti-
tude, and are consequently, perhaps, as a rule, better
lawyers after the received English fashion. A boating man
who has shaved through a pass at Cambridge will probably
read law precisely in the same way as a boating man who
has shaved through a pass at Oxford. But if we compare
the general body of men who have taken fair degrees or
been accustomed to read, we shall find there is a difference
in the manner In which the one and the other set approach
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