The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-04 00:00:00

after the eagerness evinced by the English journals to
publish the games of the late match.
"6. The maximum of time to be allowed for each
move to be 30 minutes."—Agreed to.
" 7. In the half of the games (twelve) both champions
to begin with the King's Pawn two squares." To this
M. St. Amant consents ; remarking, that, out of the 2 1
games of the last match, he had commenced- by this
move three times, whereas Mr. Staunton had done so
only twice. He however, further observes that in a
great match, such as that in question, he is of opinion
that no shackles or impediment ought to be placed on
either champion's style of opening.
" 8. E ich day's play to commence at 11 o'clock, and
whoever should be inexact to pay a fine of one guinea,"
—Agreed to.
M. St. Amant, in conclusion,:iayS :--'From the tenor
of your letter, the lapse of time that you have permitted to
pass, and concurrence of other circumstances, you—or
more correctly, the friends Sou have consulted—do not
appear anxious for you to renew your battle with France.
Not wishing to refuse explicitly, you make use of indirect
means, such as a victor supposes he can impose. Any
man of good faith will perceive this on reading your
letter. If the same disposition to recommence the strug-
gle is not winced on both sides, it is useless to prolong
the negotiations. For my own part I declare that Ido
Inot desert the field of battle, and that I recognise your
superiority only as accidental."—Galignani.

PROPOSED MAGNIFICENT NA-
TIONAL _ MONUMENT IN LONDON, TO

NEWTON.
To THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF LINCOLN, CHAIRMAN
OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS FOR
THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE METROPOLIS.
" Sibi gratulentur Mortales,
Tale tantumque extitisse,
HUMANI GENERIS DECUS."
A part of the inscription on the tablet to the
memory of Sir Isaac Newton, in the sanc-
tuary of England, Westminster Abbey.
MY LORD—Not having the honour even of the
slightest personal acquaintance with your Lordship
which might warrant me in soliciting an interview,
I most respectfully pray leave to address you through
the public press, on a subject to which I have always,
ever since I originated it, between 18 and 19 years
ago, attached a far deeper and more expansive than
a mere national interest. _

Your Lordship, I am quite sure, will agree with
me in my conviction, that the name and memory of
Newton belong not to England alone, but to all the
nations of the world.

I respectfully hope that your Lordship will not con-
sider me obtrusive if I beg, concisely, to enumerate the
following facts in proof of the undeviating perseverance
and fervour with which, ever since the time of its 'origi-
nation (Oct. 1825), I have urged my favourite project
on thepublic attention of England; a project in which
I take leave to say I have, and can have no personal
interest whatever. lam not a professional architect,
and, in addition to this, the nature of my avocations
and duties sternly exacts from me that my general
residence should be, not in London, but in my native
country, Ireland.
First, ii October, 1825, after one day visiting our
new observatory at Cambridge, then nearly- com-
pleted, under the influence of the train of meditation
inspired by contemplating the building—for who at
Cambridge could think of astronomy without recol-
lecting Sir Isaac Newton ?—I wrote from my college,
my own loved college Magdalene, a letter to the
editor of the Times, which was immediately after
published in that journal, suggesting the principle or
my design.
That design was then, and it is now, that, as an exqui-
sively appropriate national monument to Newton, a
magnificent dome, of mighty elevation and diameter,
should, like that which I had seen in Italy, at Assisi, over
the antique chapel, be reared by England over this house
and observatory in her metropolis ; the house and
observatory themselves being at the same time put
into as perfect a state of repair as British architec-
tural skill could devise, to protract their duration,
with all their sublime associations.
Secondly, I came to London from Cambridge and
made drawings on the spot from nature, and also
drawings of my design, elevational and sectional,
NS hich were beautifully lithographed by Mr. Scharf,
and which I published in the print-shops.
Thirdly, I presented copies of these to the Royal
Astronomical Society, the Royal Society, the Insti-
tution of Civil Engineers, and to many highly dis-
tinguished individuals.
Fourthly, in the summer of 1834, I came from
Clare to London, and was examined by a Committee
of the House of Commons, the Shannon Navigation
Committee, on the state of the navigation of that great
river, and also touching certain improvements ; and
deeming that to be a very favourable opportunity, I,
by another public letter with my name, in the Lon-
don newspapers, revived my long-cherished project
for the national monument to the illustrious Newton.
On this occasion the distinguished President of the
Royal Academy, Sir Martin Archer Shee, in response
to my solicitation, with the greatest courtesy and
kindness, gave me his permission to dedicate to him
whatever new pictures I might find it necessary to
publish from new drawings.
Fifthly, in 1836, Lord Monteagle, then Chancellor
of the Exchequer, honoured me by presenting from
me a petition to the House or Commons, and I was
subsequently honoured in the same manner by the
presentation of a second one to the House by Mr.
Hume.
These petitions were published in,several of the
London and Irish newspapers.
In the second, presented by Mr. Hume, I intro-
duced what appears to me to be a great improvement.
It
r ima
tee that, and
ia nothingua iao
a could
with beth
the spirit
o
feli-
citouslyf
appropriate,
my design, than that a statue of white marble, of the
most exquisite eßecution, of Newton sitting in medi-
tation, should be placed in this his observatory, where
he so often sat in life in celestial meditation, and from
occurredpp to
whence I am now writing to your Lordship, and
ploring from you and England not to let it, and the
house which it crowns so nobly, tumble prematurely,
in England's metropolis, into ruin and rubbish.
I do not deem
iitflictupon
expedient,
yourhav Lordshipingalrea the ai-
dytres.-
Pcritseecdtusorall ong'to a
details of the plan which I recommended,
as they are described in thejpetition presented by Lord
Monteagle.
In conclusion, I respectfully pray permission to
quote one passage frcm my letter from Cam-
bridge in 1825, a second from my letter written in
ROM MAGDALENE COLLEGE.
' Protected
London in 1834, and a third from my first petition to
the House of
Commons.
F'
FROM
mIiELETTER
in the manner I have described from
the dilapidating influence of rains and winds, the
venerable edifice in which Newton studied, or was
inspired, that palace of the soul,' might stand fast
for ages : a British monument more sublime than the
pyramids, although remote antiquity and vastness be
combined to create their interest?'
FROM THE LETTER OF 1834.

"The body of Newton has lung since mouldered
into dust and earth and ashes, and these are not diffe-
rent from the dust and earth and ashes of the other
great men of England who surround his sepulchre.
"But this airy hall,' the observatory, which I
now again, for the second time, call on England to
save from ruin, was the ethereal citadel from which,
while he lived, the spirit of Newton made incursions
into the abyss of celestial space—the empyrean—' the
blue serene'—the hyaline of Heaven; and in its
fight, made as if it had taken to itself the wings of the
morning, it seemed, as it were, almost to disidentify
itself from its human essence, and to bleild with
those superior existences described by Milton, those
pure intelligential substances with thoughts which
wander through eternity. "
FROM THE PETITION PRESENTED BY THE CHANCELLOR
OF THE EXCHEQUER.
" Sibi gratulentur mortales,"
And let the people of England exult above all others,
"Tale tantumgue extitisse,"
HUMANI GENERIS DECUS.

" Petitioner respectfully, most respectfully, hopes
that this appeal to the House of Commons will not be
mmvle in vain, especially in an epoch like the present,
when the light of science sheds an Elysian effluence
on the world ; although it be now, in comparison
with what it will be hereafter, only as the cool dewy
roseate dawn of a roseal•blushing morning, in com-
parison with the meridian torrid glory of the Arch-
Chemic Sun."
" This must be the case, in consequence of the in-
evitable progressive development, through fuVre ages,
of portions (to use the words of the mighty metaphy-
sician Locke) of those masses of knowledge which still
lie hidden within the secret recesses of nature."
I have the honour to be, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant,
THOMAS STEELE,

A member of the Cambridge Senate, and of the
London Institution of Civil Engineers.
Observatory of Newton, No. 35, St. Martin's-
street, Leicester-square, March 29, 1844.

METROPOLITAN DRAPERS'
ASSOCIATION.
A meeting of the Drapers' Association was last
night held in the Hanover Rooms, for the purpose of
taking those steps which may be deemed most expe-
dient for procuring an abridgment of the hours of
business in the drapery houses in the metropolis.
This Association, it is right to remark, does not con-
template any appeal to the Legislature for its in-
terference; it is formed on purely voluntary prin-
ciples, and seeks to accomplish its objects solely by
moral influences.. There is, therefore, all the differ-
ence in the world between its proposal to abridge
the hours of business and the legislative proposal to
abridge the hours of labour in the factories. There
is this much difference between the two cases—that
the abridgment of the hours of business in the dra-
pery trade would not lead to any diminution in the
amount of business done, whereas, in the case of the
factory operatives, the Ten Hours' Bill would be fol-
lowed by a reduction in the amount of work per-
formed to the extent of one-sixth. In drapers' shops