The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-11 00:00:00

SIR DAVID BREWS7ER.

We have to record the decease of Sir David
Brewster, one of the oldest of our scientific philo-
sophers, who, born in the last century, has contri-
buted largely to the record of the physical dis-
coveries of the past sixty years—a man who, de-
voting himself from early life to investigations in
the regions of experimental science, had earned the
respect of his country, from which he obtained well-
merited honour, as well as the recognition of scien-
tific bodies all over Europe and beyond the Atlantic.
He died last evening at his seat, Allerley House,
near Melrose. Sir David Brewster, D.C.L., LL.D.,
Knight of the Guelphic Order of the United King-
dom, was born at Jedburgh, in Roxburghire, on
Dec. 11, 1781. His father was rector of the grammar
school in that town, and, being devoted himself to
the Scottish Church, determined upon bringing
his four sons up to be ministers of that establish-
ment. Three of them entered the Church and
obtained livings. Dr. Brewster of Craig, and Dr.
Brewster of Scoonie, who were remarkable
for their piety and their superior intelligence,
have not been long deceased ; Patrick, who ably
filled the post of minister of the Abbey Church of
Paisley, died in 1859. Sir David was his father's
second son, and completed his studies, duly ob-
taining his license to preach ; but the state of his
health was urged by himself as a reason for giving
up the Church, and refusing a living which was
offered him by the Duke of Roxburghe. It seems,
however, probable that his inclinations towards
scientific inquiry, which he bad commenced by ex-
periments as early as 1799, had a considerable share
in influencing his decision. His earliest investiga-
tions were on the inflection of light, and his success
at the commencement was a stimulus to further
effort, and led to his continued investigations in
this domain. of physics, which he afterwards so
largely enriched. In 1806 he published am edition of
" Ferguson's Lectures" with notes, and in the same
year projected andcommenced the "Edinburgh En-
cycloradia," which was completed in 1830 under
his editorship. In 1807 the University of Aber.
deen conferred on him the honorary degree of
LL.D., which was followed later by an A.M. from
Cambridge, and the D.C.L. of Oxford. In 1808
he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh. At this time he was engaged in
the study of optics, and in 1811, when writing
for the " Edinburgh Encyclopedia," he was led,
by a suggestion of Buffon's, to build a lens of
zones of glass in such a manner as to collect the
rays of light and refract them into parallel beams.
This plan has since been largely employed for
light-houses. In 1813 he published his " Trea-
tise on New Philosophical Instruments," and con-
tinued from time to time to issue memoirs and
papers upon optical subjects and questions con-
nected with the constitution and properties of light.
In 1815 he had the honour of receiving from the
hands of Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal
Society, the Copley medal for his discovery of the
law of the polarisation of light by reflection. Not
long after he was elected a member of that learned
body. In 1816 the French Institute awarded him
half of the 3,0001 r. prize for the most important
scientific discovery of the past two years. In 1819
Sir David Brewster, in connection with Professor
Jameson, started the Edinburgh Philosophical
Journal, which was continued till 1824, and from
that year was carried on by himself alone under the
title of the Edinburgh Journal of Science. In 1819
the Royal Society awarded him the Rumford and
the royal gold and silver medals for further dis-
coveries in polarisation of light. The Royal Society
of Edinburgh also twice awarded him the Keith
prize, for the discovery of two new fluids in mine-
rals, and for his analysis of solar light. It was in
1816 that he invented the kaleidoscope, for which
he took out a patent, but this proved a very unprofit-
able investment, as it was impossible to sustain
his claim against copyists. In 1825 the Institute
of France elected him a corresponding member,
and similar distinctions were sent him by the
Royal Academies of Russia, Prussia, Austria,
Sweden, Denmark, Italy, and Belgium. American
scientific bodies also sought the honour of enrolling
him among their foreign associates. In 1831 ap-
peared his " Life of Sir Isaac Newton," and in the
same year he largely assisted in realising, if he
did not originally suggest, the formation of the Bri-
tish Association at York. In this year he received
the Guelphic Order, and in 1832 was knighted
by his Majesty King William IV. In 1835 a
" Life of Flamsteed" Was published, and in this
work appeared serious aspersioflB against Sir Isaac
Newton. Brewster made every effort 4..4_1 again
evidence to confute these statements, and iu pub-
lish an enlarged edition of the Life of Newton. In
1837 the lion. Newton Fellowes gave him permis-
sion to examine a large mass of papers which had
belonged to and concerned Newton, and which were
at Hurstboutne Park. lle went down and stayed
ft week there, being ably assisted by Mr. It. A.
Fellowes, who copied out for him many of the
papers. Some time after, Lord Portsmouth, at the
recideAt bf bord Brougham, sent all the papers to
Sir David, they having been admirably arranged
by Mr. 11. A Fellowes. At length, after much
trouble, the letters of Flamsteed were obtained and
Newton was successfully cleared of the aspersions
which had been cast upon him. The enlarged edi-
tion of Newton's life appared in 1855. So recently
as the last year Sir David had bteheen
shade
en
of
faltlehde
upon as a veteran to combat
departed philosopher, and eventshave pthroeveedurtihousat
his judgment was correct concerning
forgeries of the correspondence between Newton
and Pascal. In 1832 appeared his work on Natu-
ral Magic," and in that year, on the decease of
Sir John Leslie, Brewster was appointed Professor
of Natural Philosophy in the University Qfl Edw.

burgh ; and the testimonials which, as a matter of
form, he sent in as a candidate, form a remarkable
collection. Among the names of those who rent
him such letters are those of Sir John F. W.
Herschel, Dr. Briockley, Bishop of Cloyne ; Dr.
Lloyd, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin ; Dr.
Whewell, G. B. Airy, Sir W. R. Hamilton, Lord
Brougham, Lord Napier (President of the Astrono-
mical Society), Sir G.Mackenzie, Jeffrey, John Dal-
ton (Manchester), the Duke of Gordon, the Marquis
of Tweeddale, Sir T. Brisbane (President of the
Edinburgh Royal Society), Sir James South, and
many others of note. In 1838 the Crown appointed
him Principal of the United Colleges of St. Salvator
and St. Leonard, St. Andrews. Jn the year 1849, on
the decease of the great Bet zelius, the Imperial In-
stitute of France elected Sir David to fill the vacant
place in the list of their foreign associates. The late
King of Prussia also sent him the Order of Merit
founded by Frederick the Great, and in 1855 Napo-
leon 111. appointed him an officer of the Legion of
Honour. In 1859 he was unanimously elected Princi-
pal of the University of Edinburgh, and after having
been secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
and vice-president for many years, he was elected
its president in 1864. Sir David Brewster leaves
behind him a monument in his published writinPA,
which would fill a small library. His "CAest"'
published in the " Cabinet Cy.clopxdia,4 is 4d:4(1-
mirable popularised treatise on a diffieUlt subject.
His " Natural Magic" was a companion volume to
Sir W. Scott's " Demonology and Witchcraft," and
despite Sir David's skill, by. no means explains the
legends recounted in Sir WUlter's book. It is to be
regretted that Sir David, when he gad the oppor-
nity, should have refused to investigate phenomena
the first sight of which greatly astonished him, and
concerning which he unfortunately was led to make
contradictory statements. Besides his direct con-
tributions to scientific knowledge, the biography of
Sir Isaac Newton and the " Martyrs of Science"
may be set down as in the domain of history. In
1854 he wrote, in reply to Whewell's odd specula-
tion, entitled " The Plurality of Worlds," a short
treatise under the name, "More Worlds than One,
the Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the
Christian," the latter phrase touching on an issue
which the philosopher of Cambridge had in no way
raised. Be his faults, however, what they may, he
has left behind him a name which England, and
especially Scotland, who boasts him as her proper
son, will delight to honour.

THE HOUSE OF COMSIONS.—Two new members
will have to take their seats in the House of Commons on
its reassembling this week—viz., Mr. Lowther, returned
for Westmoreland, in the room of the Hon. Col. Lowther,
deceased; and Mr. W. H. Maxwell, returned for Kirkcud-
brightshire, in the room of Mr. J. Mackie, deceased. The
total number of new members returned to the House since
the dissolution in July, 1865, has thus been increased
to 62. The names of these new members are :—Lord J.
Hay, Mr. J. Candlish, Mr. R. Arkwright, Vie Hon. G.
Denman, Mr. M. Wyvill, Mr. H. Herbert, Mr. H. Whit-
more (who obtained his seat on petition), Sir E. Lechmere,
Mr. N. Eckorsley, Mr. J. Goldsmid, Mr. J. E. Gorst, Mr.
C. Capper, Sir J. Hay, the Hon. E. W. Lascelles, Mr. R.
Eykyn, Mr. C. Edwards, Mr. B. Osborne, Lord Amberley,
Mr. D. Fordyce, Lord Eliot, Mr. M. Chambers, Mr. T. B. T.
Hildyard, Mr. Lowther, Mr. W. H. Maxwell, Mr. W. B. Brett
(who obtained his seat on petition), Mr. J. A. Smith, Mr.
R. Nicholson, the Hon. J. M. Henniker-Major, Mr. F. S.
Corrance, Mr. P. Vanderbyl, Viscount Barrington; Captain
D. Pennant, Mr. Howel Gwyn, Captain White, Mr. Jervois
Smith, Mr. R. Garth, Mr. J. Bowen, Sir C. Lanyon, Mr.
E. De la Poer, Mr. A. M. Kavanagh, Mr. J. Vance, Sir J.
B. Kerslake, Mr. E. K. Kerslake, Mr. E. G. Stopford, Mr.
Smith Barry, the Hon. 0. Duncombe, Mr. G. Morris, Mr.
H. Labouchere, Lord Ronald Leveson Gower, Mr. H.
Edwards, Mr. H. M. Jackson, Mr. G. Dixon, Colonel E. A.
Somerset, Mr. W. Keown, Mr. 11. S. F. Winterbotham,
Lord Hubert Canning Burke, Mr. R. R. Warren, Mr. G.
H. Finch, Mr. E. S. Gordon, Mr. M. W. Thompson, Mr. T.
T. Paget, and Mr. Jacob Bright. Several elections are
now pending—viz., Argyllshire, by the retirement of Mr.
A. S. Finlay; Cambridge University, by the elevation of
Sir C. J. Selwyn to the judicial bench ; Holston, by the
appointment of Mr. IV. B. Brett as Solicitor-General ; and
Bristol, by the anticipated resignation of Sir M. Peto.
PICKING HOLES IN COATES.—Belgravia, which
really scarcely does justice to the quarter whence it takes
its name, has opened its chaste columns to a most mali-
cious attack on the character of poor Romeo Coates. The
most disgraceful imputations were freely made by the
ignorant and reckless writer on Mr. Robert Coates' private
character. These have been most perfectly refuted by
those who were intimate friends of the late gentleman.
This nuisance is a growing one; certain scribblers, whose
utter ignorance of their subject is only exceeded by their
presumption, haunt, like literary ghosts, the graves of dead
men, more or less celebrated in their lifetime, and dig up
the corpse for the purpose of defacing it. We are not sur -
prised at Belgravia finding a place in its columns for one
of these pieces of calumnious twaddle. We shall be sur-
prised if they find a place for an apology. Why not, out
of compliment to the author of " Circe," change the name
of this notorious magazine to Whitechapell —The Toma-
hawk.

1V RECK AND Loss of LIU. —The schooner Jane,
of Portrush. struck on Cans Rock. near the Skerries,
yesteraav, evening, and sank in deep water. Four of
her crew were drowned.

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MUNIFICEN.X.—The Bolton Guardian says that Mr.
Seddon, of Westhoughton, has signified his intention
to erect. at an expense of £5,000, a 'new church in
the place of the present old chapel of case of St.
Bartholomew. in that township.
CounT MARTIAL ON A SUSPECTED FFNIAN. —The
court-martial re-assembled in Dublin on Saturday for
the trial of James Rourke, private 86th regiment, on
a charge of going in the procession on the Bth December
last. Witnesses were examined in support of the
charge. The prisoner in his defence denied any con-
nection with Fenianism, and his mother and sister
were examined, and deposed that the prisoner was in
the house- of the former in Winetavern-street.at the
time the procession passed. The Deputy Judge
Advocate having summed up, the court adjourned.
SCENE AT A FIRE. —A disastrous fire, and one that
almost terminated fatally to more. than one inmate,
occurred this morning on the premises of Mr. Sward,
tobacconist, 16, Oxford-street. The proprietor and
his wife were absent from home The tire broke out
in the basement, and speedily shot through the
upper part of the premises, rendering the escape
of those in the house, comprising the servant-maid
and three or four children, almost impossible
An immense crowd collected on the alarm being
raised, and the firemen being soon on the spot, praise-
worthy efforts were made to rescue the persons named.
The cheering of the crowd was most enthusiastic, as
the children were one by one rescued from the back
and front windows of the dwelling. The servant was
saved by one of the firemen literally dragging her
from the burning building by the hair of her head.
The cause of the fire is unknown. The premises
were insured in the Imperial Fire Office.
FORGING SCOTTISH BATIK NOTES. —On Saturday,
at the Birmingham Police-court, two men, described
as Charles King, retired licensed victualler, and
William Breckenridge, agent, both livingl for
tittreminugr:
ham, were charged with obtaining
pose of forging bank notelvior. hlnegßpritaistehs Loirnen gra-
Mottemm, in applying
pany—a Scotch bank.
the exertions of the police,
for a remand, said that,
byuld be conceived had been
as infamous a fraud as
detected. There was no doubt, as the evidence would
show, that it was the intenatinokn,of the prisoners, having
to transfer it, and so
obtained a note of thetheb
passing amongst
forge bank notes, for purpose of
the highland cattle dealers- in Scotland, persons who
.... great preference for a bank note of the Linen
hau - ' "her persons, no doubt, were concerned
Company. ..,.... 'es far as was at present known
with the prisoners, bui. - -,,ilty. The Mayor re.
the prisoners were the most 4
manded the prisoners until Friday. -unable
stsgt.]=lfenceforth no one will doubt the .... •-,
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whose health has been perfectly restored by it after tutfty Oafs
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The Cork correspondent of the Daily ,f 8 thus writes,
on Monday :—" The four prisoners captured in Market-
street last night, with three others arrested subsequently
by a police patrol, were brought up for examination before
the magistrates at the police-office this morning. Public
interest, of course, centred in W. Mackay, the alleged
leader of the party, who was the first put forward, and
against whom a charge of high treason had been entered.
His appearance greatly disappointed the legitimate
expectations of a public anxious for sensational
incidents. It was with much surprise the pub•
lic saw a slight and delicate-looking stripling,
wearing a languid and half-contemptuous expression in his
countenance, put forward and charged as the redoubtable
Fenian leader. Mackay has litt7e in his aspect to denote
the astonishing energy and daring with which he is
credited. His lithe figure suggests the idea of supple.
ness rather than strength or endurance. His complexion
is pallid and unhealthy, and the air of languor which
seems habitual with him appears to correspond with
physical weakness. The attitude he assumed in the
dock and his general manner were slightly theatrical,
and he was evidently desirous of acting the part of the
political prisoner with becoming contemptuousness for
the law and indifference to its dangers. But for the
rapid, piercing glances of his eyes, Mackay would not
strike the observer as a person of acute intelligence ; but
they reveal some of the energy and vigour veiled under
the blase, indifferent air which he assumes. His face and
dress bore some traces of the struggle of the previous
evening. The prisoners put forward with Mackay were,
with two exceptions, of the labouring class and were
middle-aged men, whose mature and muscular features
contrasted strangely with the slight boyish form of their
leader ; while their coarse determined features offered a
not less striking opposition to his pale and
refined countenance. When his name was called
Mackay did not answer, as if he did not recognise
it as his, and when asked to state what his
nine was if it were not Mackay, he at first declined
to give any informat— ion on the subject, but afterwards
said that he had given the name Patrick Murphy the pre-
vious evening, and that if the prosecution were not satis-
fied with that, it was their business to shew who he was.
Head-constable Geale was then examined, and stated that
the prisoner was the William Mackay who had previously
been in custody in this country under a warrant from the
Lord-Lieutenant. Geale then detailed the circumstances
attending the prisoner's capture, stating that there were
at the time a large number of persons in the house who
tried to rescue the prisoner from his custody. Upon
Geale's evidence Mackay was remanded for eight days.
Subsequently he was identified as the leader in the raid on
the martello tower, in the robbery at Allport's, and as the
person who was in command of the insurgents at Bally-
knockane in lass, March."

The Earl of Derby, who is recovering from his
attack of gout, is still so weak that he will, it is thought,
be unable to come to town for the meeting of Parliament.

A lady correspondent of the Drogheda Argus
writes that last week while taking a walk in the demesne
of Lord Massareene, she came upon a party of men
drilling. One of the men came up to her, asked her
name, and where she was from. On being told, he said in
a stern voice, " Madam, I will permit you to go on your
business if you solemnly promise not to announce what
you saw here until three days are over." She gave the
promise, and the three days having elapsed, she now com-
municates what she saw to the press.

ANOTHER HORSE-FLESH BANQUET.—Between
thirty and forty of the principal tradesmen of Ramsgate
have been invited by Mr. Bicknell, a resident of that
popular watering-place, to a banquet at the Falstaff Hotel,
for the purpose of testing the qualities of horse-flesh as an
article for human food. The bill of fare included the fol-
lowing :—Soup, "Flying-horse." Side dishes—Race-
horse patties, Shetland pony, with salad dressed with
horse oil. Joints—Roast fillet of horse, " Royal Charger"
stew, &c. The horse-flesh was sent from Paris for the
purpose, and was prepared by a French cook. The flesh
was dressed and cooked in various ways, and the company
are said to have been unanimous in expressing their
approval of the flavour of alLthat was set before them.
THE REPAIR OF PARISH CHURCHES.—Mr. Cole-
ridge, Q.C., M.P., having had a case submitted to him by
the Town Council of Bodmin, has given an opinion that
the repair of Bodmin Church is not an object to which
the surplus funds of the borough can be applied within
the meaning of the words of the Act , " for the public
benefit of the inhabitants and the improvement of the
borough." Mr. Coleridge adds : "No doubt the repair of
a parish church may be, in one sense, very much for both;
but not, I think, in the sense of the Act, which is con-
cerned with secular and not spiritual objects. I think no
court would be inclined to hold that municipal corpora-
tions were intended by 5 and 6 William IV., c. 76, to have
the power of applying their surplus funds to such an
object ; apart from the fact, that to do what is suggested
would be taking the funds of a borough to do what of
common right is the duty of a parish. lam not prepared
o say, as a proposition of law, however, that a corpora.
tion may not be liable (contrary as such a liability would
be to the ordinary law and custom of the realm), by
chatter, by prescription, or, possibly, in virtue of some
endowment, to repair a parish church."
FRIGHTFUL DEATH OF A SOMNAMEULIST.—Mr.
Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, has held an inquiry at
the Sutton Arms, Carthusian-street, Charterhouse-square,
respecting the death of Mr. John Howard Mann, aged 27.
The deceased was the son of Dr. Mann, and resided with
him at No. 4, Charterhouse-square. He was town tra-
veller to Messrs. Walters and Son, silk manufacturers, of
Newgate-street, and on the 15th January he went to the
stock-taking supper given by the head of the firm at his
residence in Highgate. He returned at one o'clock in the
morning, and it being the rule at his father's house that
no one should come in after twelve o'clock, a bed was made
up for him in Mr. Walters's room in Newgate-street. It
appears that on two occasions he had got up, asleep, at his
father's house and walked about until awakened by coming
into contact with the furniture. An hour after he
went to bed in Newgate-street he arose, opened the
window, and stepped out in a somnambulie state on to the
leads. In going along he stepped on a skylight and fell
through with a t,rrific crash down to the ground floor.
The porter, Laughlin, was arotis.Al by the nuke of the fall,
and found the unfortunate somnambulist insensible under
the broken skyli ht, and terribly injured. He was con-
veyed to St. Bait' oloinew's Hospital, and ultimately to
No. 4, Ch: r '.ei 1 or-al.square, where he died. Mr. Coleman,
house-surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, said that
deceased's was apparently fractured at the base,
his collar I o c was broken, and his ribs were injured.
He stated the day after the occurrence that he could form
no opinion of how the affair happened to him. The jury
returned a verdict, " That the deceased died from the
effects of falling through a skylight while walking in his
sleep."

ATTEMPT OF A WIFE TO MURDER HER HUSBAND.
—On Monday afternoon a man rushed from Oldham-
gardens, a small locality adjoining the House of Correc-
tion, Coldbath-fields, bleeding copiously from the thrt'at,
and claimed protection from his wife, who, he said,
had cut his throat. lie was at once seen to by the
neighbours, and Dr. Brown, of No. 1, Wilmington-
square, attended upon him promptly, and recommended
his instant removal to an hospital. This was done.
The sufferer was conveyed to the Royal Free Hospital.
It was then found that the patient was suffering from a
severe wound across the throat, about three inches and a
l'alf in length, deep, and the windpipe had been entirely
s 3vered, and several large veins cut through. This occurred
shortly after four o'clock, and as some ugly reports had
spread about that a dreadful murder had been committed,
P.C. John Back, 96 T, proceeded to the spot, and took a
woman named Sarah Britten into custody on a charge
of cutting her husband's throat with intent to kill him.
When brought to the police-station, she denied altogether
having even attempted to injure her husband in any way,
but
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s atihdr
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hpe passion said. he would either cut his
throat or cut her se s
and rushed from the house. She accounted for some blood
on her apron and arms by saying that when he had cut his
throathe ran about the room, and the blood was spurted over
her. A young woman who lived next door to the parties said
the husband ran out of the house covered with blood, but
she did not hear any quarrelling in their house previously.
The injured man is a leather pocket-book maker, named
George Britten, aged 57 ; his wife's age is about 51. From
the accounts given by the police, it would appear that
both of them had been out drinking together during the
day. A knife was found which much resembles a
shoemaker's, and with which it is thought the crime
-'s perpetrated, whether by one or the other,
-narks of blood are on it. The wife

but nn
2o knife has been found, evidently not
rather boasts that'
knowing of this one being the possession of the police.
The woman, oft being confrOnt:ttd with her husband
in the hospital, shewed great nerve ; she had previously
said that he never could accuse her before her face of cute
ting his throat, but when be was asked
id Icut you
the question h
said " Yes." The w You did
`wife then said "D)
throat?" and the husband said
" .' Tlac
wife : " Oh, you wretched man,
how can you say
that ?" The husband : " I wish that I could say that yot
did not ; but you did cut my throat." The wife : "Oh
may God forgive you !" The husband : " I would try t(
screen you if I could, but you did do it." Mr.Jeffresor.
then ordered the woman to be removed, in order that the
patient should not be further excited, and Mrs. Britten
was taken to the Clerkenwell station. The man Britten
ig going on well, and great hopes are entertained of 14'
recovery.

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