The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-08 00:00:00

LONDON, TUEsDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1857.

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Offices-8, Meorgate-street.
DIRECTORS.

CHAIRMA 11. —JOHN C. MARSHMAN,Esry., late of Calcutta.
DEPITIT-CHAIRMAN.-81r R. MACDONALD STEPHENSON.

James Allan, Esq , Managing Director of the Peninsular and Orien-

tal Steam Navigation Company.
J. A. Arbuthnot, Esq (Messrs. Arbuthnot, Latham, and CO.)
Sir S. George Bonham. Bart., K.C.B. _ _

Joba Bowman. Esq. (Messrs; Forbes, Forbes, and Co.)
R. W. Crawford, Esq , M.P., Chairman of the East Indian Railway
Company (Messrs. Crawford, Colvin, and Co , London.)
Frederick(}. Dalgety, Esq. (Messrs. Dalgety and Co., London and

Australia).
Thomas Pent, Esq. (Messrs. Palraer, Mackillop, Dent, and Co.,

London). .
William Dent, Esq., late Director of the Hon. tho East India Com•
Parry._

George Dewhurst, Esq., Manchester.
W. Gladstone Esq. (Messrs. Thomson, Bonnar, and Co., London).
A dam Steusrt Gladstone, Esq., (Messrs. OgUvy, Gillanders, and Co.,
Liverpool).
Samuel Gregson, Esq., M.P. (Messrs. Gregson and Co., London).
Capt. Hall, 11./i.„, Director of the Peninsnlar and Ori-

ental Steam Navigation Company.
Christopher Rawson, Esq. (Messrs. Rawson, Sons, and Co. London).
Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. (Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths,
Lombard-street, London).
Alexander Wagon, Esq., F.ILS., late of Madras Civil Service.
(With power to add to their number.)
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and Smiths,

Somarots.—Messrs. C. H. and W. Fresbfleld and Newman.
BsoitEns.—Messrs.Scott, Cortborn, and Scotts.
SECRETARY.—CharIes Lennox Peel, Esq.

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unless a deposit of One Pound on each share applied for is previously
made to the bankers of the Company. The deposit wilt be returned
if the application is not acceeded to.

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50, 2e. 9d. To be had of the inventor, GABRIEL JOZEAU,
French chemist, 49, Haymarket, London, and all the principal
chemists.

CLANDESTINE EXTENSIONS OF THE
AUSTRIAN FRONTIER.

The Etuile du Danube publishes a letter from
Jassy, describing the process by which Austria,
year by year, nibbles off the territory of a weak
neighbour : . .

Prom the time that Austria laid her paws upon
the Bukovina, she has hid more than 150 leagues
of frontier in common with Moldavia. Even at the
_time of the first demarcation, when Turkey, with-
out posseisnag the right to do so, gave up two dis-
tt jets of Moldavian territory, Austria found on seve-
ral points the means of extending her frontier by
several square (German) miles beyond the amount
which had been elneaded to her. _ To this very day

the people execrate the name of the traitor, one
Cants, who, having been sent by a Fauariete prince
to superintend the works of delimitation, contrived
as the price of his guilty connivance that an estate
belonging to himself upon the frontier should not
be included within the Austrian territory.
As the ling traced out in this way was not pro-
perly and satisfactorily made, the military autho-
rities advanced their frontier guards every year,
under various pretexts, further into Moldavia.
Thee, every five or six years, the Austrian govern-
ment. demanded the formation of a mixed commis-
sion, in order to rectify, as they called it, the fron-
tier between the two countries.

The commissioners on this side, as soon as they
reashed the localities, being suborned with money,
sanctioned all the encroachments that had been made
up to the time of their arrival. Sometimes the Aus-
trian commissioners alleged that the frontier pre-
sented too irregular an outline, and that it was in-
convenient to guard it. The commissioners then
gave up a few thousand hectares more to Austria,
and the frontier was rectified.
At the end of some years, the same ceremony was
repeated, always ending in some fresh concessions to
Austria. On the side of Transylvania, where super-
vision was still more difficult on account of the
mountains, pretexts for these invasions neverfailed;
so that during the last half century Austria has ac-
quired along the entire line more than 200 square
(German) leagues. After this, who can doubt that
she is one of the great conquering powers 7
Whilst the Western Powers were shedding their
blood and spending their treasures to save anempire
without demanding in return for so many sacrifices
one inch of territory, the Austrian militia were every
day poaching some fresh strip belonging to Moldavia,
and along the whole line of the frontier, both on the
Bukovina side and on that of Transylvania, the in-
vasion was uninterrupted.
During the occupation alone there were sent in by
the frontier l roprietors more than 100 claims for re-
dres4, all of which remain unanswered.
Austria has now just demanded a fre,h commis-
sion of delimitation, and the Caimacan, in appoint-
ing as commissioner for Moldavia the logotbete John
Canta, alias Cantacuzene, decorated by the Em-
peror Francis Joseph, gives a proof of the solicitude
he employs in preserving the interests of the coun-
try, which he governs by the grace of the Sublime
Porte !
Should this new annmission yield all the ground
lately encroached upon, of which there is unfortu-
nately little doubt, Moldavia will have on the Aus-
trian side not a single.defensible strategic point left.
At all times, the crest of the Carpathian range, the
watershed between Transylvania and Moldavia,
used to form, as de jure it still does form, the fron-
tier between the two countries.
At the present moment the Austrians are found
quite at the base of the Moldavian slope. Another
occupation like the preceding one, and the fron-
tier, instead of being at the Carpathians, will spee-
dily be at the Pruth.
Nevertheless we must hope that things will not
be pushed so far. When the frontier of Bessarabia
and the Caucasus shall have been rectified, it will
be possible, I would think, to rectify the Moldavian
frontier likewise. In every,;case, I have no doubt
that a request to this effect will be made by the ap-
proaching divan ad hoc.

CLOSE OF THE TAPTON COLLIERY.

THE WORKMEN'S FAREWELL DINNER.
Ihe proprietors of this colliery, known as the
Lockoford Works, G. and It. Stephenson, Esqs.,
finally relinquished the undertaking on Monday
last, on which day the whole_of the man and boys,
numbering about 140, were discharged. The
works have been in operation upwards of twenty
years, and they have been abandoned in conse-
quence of the numerous faults that have been en-
countered, which rendered it impossible to work
the pit to a profit. Although this large number of
more and boys have been temporarily thrown out
of employment, it is gratifying to know that none
of them who are disposed to labour need be out of
work, as the adjoining collieries of Staveley, West
Stavely, Sheepbridge, and others, have found em-
ployment for all who have applied for it. Messrs.
Stephenson and the managers at Lockoford have
been aircious to secure good work for the men,
and we have reason to know that their efforts have
been successful. The affairs at Lockoford are being
wound up, and it is not improbable that the plant
will be sold by auction. On Tuesday last the
managers of the colliery, together with the friends
and the workmen, partook of a farewell dinner to
commemorate their separation from the colliery.
The repast was well served up in a large marquee
by Mr. Turner, of the Hare and Hounds, in a field
in the rear of the inn. There were present Mr.
Howe, engineer to the Clay Cross Company ; Mr.
D. Cooper, engineer to R. Barrow, Esq., of
Staveley • Messrs. J. and W. Parker, of Clay
Cross ; Mr. S. Parker, of Tapton Colliery • Mr.
Hudson, of West Staveley Works ; Mr. T.
Halli-
day ; Mr. Godber, of the Wingerworth Company ;
Mr. Longworth, of Staveley ; Mr. Heath and Mr.
Kirk, of Chesterfield, &c., Jive. After ample justice
had been done to the dinner, Mr. Howe was called
to the chair.
The CHAIRMAN gave in succession the healths of
the Queen, the Prince Consort, and the rest of the
Royal family, and in proposing the Army and
Navy he alluded to the affairs of India, and hoped
our operations there might be carried on with
success.
The CHAIRMAN next gave the health of the Duke
of Devonshire, Lord-Lieutenant of the county,
observing that he was glad to hear the noble duke
was in improved health. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. LONGIVORTII said the toast he was about to
propose, he was satisfied would be received with the
greatest enthusiasm., It was the health of Robert
Stephenson. (Cheers.) He should have been
glad to have proposed the health of his father had
he been living, because a better friend to the
working man never lived. He rose inch by inch
to be the first engineer in the kingdom. No man
was superior to George Stephenson, not even the
greatest lord in the country. He had great talent,
immense talent, and it was easy for any man to do
the same thing if he would devote himself to study
as Stephenson did. He had Not so much natural
talent as many supposed, but he had a great amount
of perseverance ; and he would tell them, as a man
of business, that unless they persevered they would
not make any progress. (Hear.) He (Mr. Long-
worth) began life with very little, indeed he was
not very well to do now, but he had advanced him-
self so far that he should not be very much in want
in future. He begged to propose the health of
Robert Stephenson, because there was scarcely a
more talented man living. (Drank with all the
honours.)
The CHAIRMAN said he wished to say a few words
in reference to the last toast. Their friend, Mr.
Longworth, had said that the late Mr. George Ste-
phenson had not much natural talent, but a large
amount of perseverance. But he (the chairman)
was there to say that Mr. Stephenson not only pos-
sessed a largo amount of perseverance but a great
amount of natural talent. (Hear and cheers.) Mr.
Stephenson rose from the lowest ranks. His father
was a' fireman, and earned 14s. or 15s. per week.
The late Mr. Stephenson commenced work in a tur-
nip field, at 2d. per day, but be rose step by step by
his own industry, perseverance, and natural talent
as well. We were too apt to look back upon great
things as matters of no moment or consequence to
us. We knew what a screw bolt was. It was now
considered a simple thing. Who was the man that
invented the screw b ? It was Mr. Stephenson,
and one of his earliest inventions. Mr. Stephenson
was also the inventor of the Safety Lamp, which
bears his name, and which was now considered su-
perior to the Davy Lamp, because it would not -ex-
plode in gas but go out, leaving the miner in dark-
esq, but in comparative safety. (Cheers.) In bring-
ing this lamp before the notice of the public, he had
to fight throughout against one of the richest men
in the country face to face., who took it up, and
Humphrey Davy was given 2,000 ineas,
1001. was given to Mr. Stephenson, how s
really and truly the inventor of the Safety Lamp.
Mr. Stophenson did not bring this invention to us,
by taking some gas in a bladder and experimenting
upocarpet drawing-room. No, he took it
in Byrd tried in th presence of men who
lleiattmeilii
ynl e a
rose like himself.e He was like all other
ultibring out these inventions. lie
poor men who

wanted capital, but the day did come when his
friends came forward and presented him with 1,000
guineas and a silver cup. The locomotive engine in
that day was in its infancy. We hid no railings
wi►h their branches, spreading over the country
like a net work to all parts of the weed. We 'now
thought vary little of these things. We could go to
a station, take our seats in a carriage, and travel
at the rata of 50 or 6) miles an hour without ever
thinking of tha ingenuity of the man who had
brought about such :ientitic aelfieventen ts. S teph ,n-
-son was the man, and up to the preFe .t day the lo-
comotive had not advanced one tittle, but was where
Stephenson had left it. He establishel one of the
best engineering manufactories that ever was
opened. In the making of the Manchester and
Liverpool railway he was opposed by lords and
dukes without number, and was told that it was
impossible for an engine to run over it, yet he sur-
moui.ted every difficulty by his own natural talent,
ability, and determined perseverance. He accom-
plished, in connection with that railway, one of
the greatest engineering wcrksthat were over known.
We could ride along from Liverpool to Manchester,
and we could ride across Chat Moss, a perfect
marsh, as safely as any other part of the line. But
the greatest engineers and the greatest scientific
mon of that day said that Mr. Stephenson would
never make a railway across Chat Moss, but those
gentlemen were wrong. They knew the difficulties
and obstacles a poor man had to contend with. It
was not ordinary natural talent nor ordinary perse-
verance that helped him onwards, but the posses•
sion of great natural talent and great perseverance
combined. (Hear, and cheers.) In railway mat-
ters there never lived a more talented man than
the late Mr. Stephenson. (Applause.)—Derbyshire
Courier.