The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-24 00:00:00

TIM CUSTOMS FRAUDS IN BELFAST.

A BeYid correspondent of Saunders's Netes
Letter writes as follows. The letter i, da:ed Thurs-
day night :
" There is no longer any doubt entertained that John
James Moore, the principal in the large robberies of tea
and the fraud on the Customs in Belfast, has succeeded
in effecting his escape to America by the steamer Asia.
He managed matters most adroitly. On the Thursday,
while the Custom-house officers were searching his bonded
stores and loosing the chests, of which some 780 turned
out to be `dummies,' containing, instead of tea, tad,
broke, and straw, he was seen on 'Change, chatting un-
co ecerse dly, and tut o sing suspicion off its guard. He
did net leave Belfast by the Liverpool bJat that evening,
nor did he leave Belfast by the early express train for
Dubin, but he took a car, drove to Lteburn, where he
entered one of the up-trains to Dutilio, and it was
from ytur city that he crossed the Channel. A
genleman fr.in Stock ort met him on board after
tie steamer left Kingst 'von, and there could be
no doubt about the ideniiScation. Moore was just
in time in Liverpool to prcceed by the Asia, and Bates,
the private detective officer, who was formerly con-
nected wish the Liverpool police ast blishment, saw a
person erely way answeeng his description going on
board the Asia and paying for a second-class casskes
with a 201 note. At t' is time a telegraphic tiespatch
respecting Moore was in the hands of the levcrpoi
police, but It now appears it had not been acted upon.
A detective officer was despatched to Liverpool from
Belleet on Friday night by the Semaphore steamer, but
he arrived just in time to be too late, as the etna.
plena and Asia passed each other at the Sloync um-
mu, ie
daetely l
he
eoxrtphectea'bioannneolf,
qt:oenEntehlfiahseatld: lending
succeeded °ego: eosdntee dat
r,cigwrtiyttihingahnoeffaA, hearing that
rttaehllatc:
nNevit °ay: n
not to inter-
ceptm ored raagP haet,id officers on board, armed with a warrant for
steamersweoeuc e
dshs enf successful, which
t, aafnlt dor
fur the signal, and Moore
on her outward passage. They were disappoint, d ;
olVif"irnet'eBrcaeprrteinsgt, theleft
outtßh ee Ariaffadr
osefuili
delinquent
gtuhetietnehtee
the Asia had taken the southern route. The
aisnnAo
wdmliaruaglti:
otrhne,
retalmtnaheanGdreera
t ofßtehpe
Republic,
tahrperuelpstrecaution of providing
laugh-
ing havingdupe
dupes
ibeaun stoamk taken, the
and speculating as to the best way of employing his ill-
gotten Rain. His clerk, Harbison, is stilt in oustedh
not having succeeded in getting bail ; and the other
alleged partieeps eriminis,
Henley, is at larg his friends
having promptly come forward to give the neces'arY
b Beth are bound, as stated in a previous commu-
nication, to appear at the ass zee for trial. I may add
that large quantities of Moore's teas are unpaid for to
the London and Liverpool houses ; that he received
good deal of cash in town from parties to whom !se,
duty sold
chests at the long price, representing them
&
paid f and that, so plausible was his inanone
quest
manner of proceed-
ing, ha sucoeeded in taking in some of t
on the Customs
h
houses in town. The extent of the fraud
is under 5,0001., and on private
parties it' will reach
souse 10.0001."

THE NIcOL n.LONUMENT.-.......116Dundee Courier Sap :
This monuniet.t is completed—it stands 50 feet high On
and the Lord Provostof
a commanding eminence, about a hundred yards from
I:o'll:Preside on the 000a5i0D4,
the spot wtere the poet was born, on the farm of Little
Tulliebelton, Auctergaven• The committee hay.
arranged that the inauguration shall take place on
Perth haa
Thursdaycouee nte d

Yesterday seventeen years had passed since the
'ouudation of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution
bras
en-
traa laid, and 14 years had elapsed_sinceewheon,
the
eg of the schools, The Reve.d
Principal, availed
,aighly gifted and mach respected
iiinself of the opportuvity totheollovr the exaraple of
he great public schools of,
At half-past 11
y.c”ountry, and set a
lay apart as a " Founder aa
.he whole of the boys froeu the three schools met
of the founders in the
emeriti
le governors and
Teat hail, Among
those present on the platform
E• Gladstone M.P.
Ur. Browne M.P. ;
ffere—ther _Right Hon.
Revs• D. Sta- Nell Are
e, hdea-
Anders? n, Dr.
eel Jones, A. Hirsch, Cowan,
,y'ee, PrinveiPala H. P. Linton (Divinity Lec-
:urer), and H; G. Vernon (chaplain of St. Aidan's
.
Cell re)
H. Jenlesi Barry, John Stewart Apple-
Lawrence
Lenny, and Dr. Hillcoat ; Alder-
man Cooper, kr.a..M. Gregson, Mr. Josias Booker,
i;be Rev. 0. W. ktl,qclerwood, of the upper school ;
Rev. J. Cox, hea,l master of the middle school ;
and Mr. J. Mich, Id, head master of the lower
school ; also the stue'teuts of St. Aidau's College, of
which institution the ell, ev. J. S. Howson is one of
the council.
The Rev. Mr. Howson' a(Principal) took the chair,
and, after a hymn had ,Seeen sung, addressed the
wetting.
was received with
Mr. GLADSTONE, on is, ;rs g,
loud cheers. He said, —Mr. Principal and gentle-
men, and—l scarcely know laow to address you,
the principal portion of my au, ; I cannot call
you fellow-townsmen, for you ,ere not Liverpool
men yet, and I am hardly a Liveak;nool man ; but I
was what you now are—a lave' -pool boy, and
therefore, if you will allow me, I n;e.ll call you fel-
low-townboys. And I assure you aeerdially that
that name is no more than a faithful aye: significant
sign of the interest that I ea-neatly feel in your wel-
fare, and of the satisfaction and pleasure wh.; e.h it gives
tare to come among you, and to witness the a•soults of
the devoted labours of those who are employed in
giving you instruction. (Loud cheers.) I have but
1 the to say to you, for the limitation of my own tlene
is in point of fact, your surest security that I shoul,cl
not unduly trespass on your patience. But my first
duty is to congratulate you, sir, on what we hav:e
teen here to-day. There is no situation more hon-
oth able—none more arduous than such a situation
as you fill, and none, I will confidently cap, which
givers to those who perform it a stronger claim upon
the sympathy and support of the community ; be-
cause, although your labours are not unrewarded
substantially, yet they are labours which severely
task the energies both of mind and body, and they
are labours of which the reward, substantial as it is,
is one little appreciated by vulgar minds. I trust,
kir, you will always continue to receive that which,
after the favour of the Almighty and the approval
of your own conscience, which I have no doubt you
most value in heart—the reward ofia future distinc-
tian—hut above all, the gratitude and affection of
your boys. And certain I am, from the sight I have
seen, that the relation which subsists between them
and their teachers is not founded on those vulgar
and false ideas which schools of a certain fashion
once brought, unhappily into vogue ; but they are
the relation of paternal care and love and confi-
dence tf the admiration and affection of the boys.
(Cheers.) You have reminded us to-day, sir, of the
yoathfulness of this institution. I think you said
tee schools were opened in 1843—that is to say,
thhay are 14 years old, or, in other words, I believe
they Lave come to the years of discretion ; and if
what I have seen to-day be the result which they
have produced in the early state of their minority,
they are such as, I think, augur well for the future.
(C..e -rs.) It is true, undoubtedly, that you have
bat little of the stores of classical lore in which
the universities abound ; but you have, I hope,
in your Principal a representative of the great
in titution to which he belongs, and he has,
1 trust, before him a long career of constantly in-
credsing and accumulating honour, ripe manhood,
answerable to the vigorous youth of the college over
which you hare presided, and then a green old age,
suet as is the happy lot of many similarly engaged
in this &Faure.' country—the green old age of
which it is the double characteristic to have attained
to full maturity of wisdom, but to have lost no-
th;ng of primitive and original vigour. Now, sir,
I am ashamed to venture even a single remark on
tee subject of education, which you have handled
8, ably and so wisely in the discourse we have heard
frau you. But one word I will venture to say,
fot it is no more than just to you, considering I
have taken the liberty of coming among you to-
day. I do not enter into the question which you
I"ve opened—that most important qnestion be-
tween what is called the public-school system of
England and the schools conducted upon the basis
of this great institution, which do not, as a general
rule, imply the necessity of the removal of boys
Leen under the parental roof ; but I think we can
ell f el that the diffcrence3 of the institutions are
!admirably suited to the differences in character,
aed that both the schools that are founded on
what you term the public-school system, and like-
v. Lie the college of the nature of that over which
a on preside, may find ample and abundant scope
i educating the youth of England, may each of
303 by its own proper functions satisfy a want
hich it would impossible for either of them to
Bat sfy if they steed alone. I have no doubt., sir,
that you borrow largely from those ancient and
venerable institutions the sacred fire, if so I might
call it, that has so long burnt upon your altars ;
nor have I any more doubt, on the other side, that
those institutions have much to learn from you,
and that they likewise will learn it ; that, through
the medium of your career and experience in an
ins itudon like this, they will practically and ea--
pedmentally learn the nature and direction of the
eliauges and extensions that they must make in
their system, and how and when to apply those
chinges. And if it be the characteristic of change
in the educational establishments of this country
the t it is ordinarily slow, yet we are fully entitled,
on the other hand, to say that it has been almost in-
variably sure and safe, and that the best of that sure-
m_ssan d safety is that wenever perceive a disposition
to recede from that ground whichhas once been made
no unwise and hasty adaptation of experiments an
abandonment of which, after they have been adopted,
would entirely shake the confidence of the youth of
this cauntry in their teachers in the institutions
where they are receiving their education. I greatly
rejoice to think of the manner in which, iu the
schools of this country, the union of an ancient
ssical training with these important accomplish-
ments which are demanded by the specific events of
th age, and by the various classes of the commu-
ri is carried out. I cordially rejoice that the
disposition to adopt these extensions is now felt—
and I will venture to speak more confidently of the
institutions with which I have the honour of being
mesh intimately connected—in the University of
Oxford, and I believe. also in the University of Cam-
bridae, and they will, with no reluctant and no lag-
g rd hand, be found co-operating with you, and
lending you all that is within their power of sup-
poat and assistance; viewing you, not as antago-
itists, not as rivals, but as co-operators and friends
in the great work in which you are so well engaged.
And from what we hive seen and heard to-day
in convinced, if I needed to be convinced, that the
anode of teaching here pursued is not pursued as an
object of ambition to the master—not as a mere
meaus of making daily bread—not with the mere
V ow of attaining temporary popularity, but under
tee deep conviction that life is a serious and earnest
ineteee ; that the daily duties to be done by us all,
LY yos who are growing up, as well as by us en-
gaged in its labour and its battle—that those daily
duties are matters of record before the eternalmore
th-oee ; and that, as it is, there is nothing
reiserable than the destruction of a human soul
and its depravation ; and that, on the other hand,
nothing in the existence of man is more glorious
than the training and developing of the human
oni in all its powers and capacities to answer
the purpose for which the Almighty has sent
rt ieto the wort I. (Cheers.) Now, sir, I re-
to think that this institution will be, as
▪ ialieve it is, an important im-,ens of s'reegth-
iilng the connexion between Liverpool and the
ancient universities of the country. I never visit-
-, •
•ranale
y oen, I never visit this great seat of enter-
isk,t
tnacxointrnerce without deeply wishing that
• foe it it coulr it would
be strengthened and e n ded,
- ,ar The u'eiwv?uld be for the benefit of both
tEiities cm% afford to loose their
hr id of places lake fad or Manchester ; and
aye—with very great vrer.r
i,—Liverpool
and MancLeA' r, eannolaPtioertd I:fsit.thYout great detri-
mant, to see tho destruction
their connexion
itathe universities.(Load cheers.)
The old
. universities of the county stand in an r °si-
lo ,). They have Po longer "fler,ol.l OefTlt
!-d of the accomplishments of civilised life. eArlearillg
of tie most distingnishe.d men, many of the nonit.
eccomplishei men, are and will be reared from this
time forward, as they have been for several gene-
- re,,ion3, and perhaps in an increasing degree, apart
f:ona these ancient universities. At the same time
. ihink an impartial of server will see that those
-ancient universities have laid their foundations both
broad and deep in the social life of this country,
that for a long period—long, long after the
Y'ungatit of us has laid his bones in the grave—it
"ill Probably
Caanbridge still
remain true that Oxford and
been to our b to our children, as. theyhavoef
mental culture
forefathers,tb the great fountain bead
which others who
well must be contented
e have to fa:d the standard after
Vow' and hope to do
to copy. We
in teases of this kind everall know that
question, How high wiything depends upon this
.& cording to the height hold your standard ?
yor the highest educating

body will be the recognised height of institutions
of this kind. Whatever raises Oxford or Cam-
bridge will raise schools of this description. What-
ever lowers Oxford or Cambridge will lower these
i also. And if from these go forth the moat abun-
dant and fertilising streams for hunian culture, thee_,,
I say, it is an honour, and an ornament, seed a
benefit to Liverpool that by theenergies of hee. own
citizens has been founded an institution like this,
which tends to place the flower of her youth in
schools in more vital connection with those
ancient Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
But, upon the Other hand, I trust there are none of
us here present who believe that there is a natural
or necessary antagonism between the pursuits of
commerce and the pursuits of learning. In no pe-
riod of the world in which civilisation has flourished
have there been wanting citieswhich have exempli-
fied in a most significant manner the felicitous con-
nection between the pursuits of learning and the
enterprising spirit of commerce and trade. There is
nothing in the engrossing character of commerce,
in its demand upon time, or in its influeuce upon
the mental habits of those engaged in trade, which
ought to create a difficulty in those who pursue it
between their love on the one hand of religion and
duty, or on the other of that literature and those
ennobling pursuits which add so much both to
sweeten the cup of life and exalt its natural and
moral tone. 1 hope that this influence on the in-
dustrious classes will go forth more largely into
those great and powerful centres which cultivate
commercial enterprise. We should all join in the
hope that the great Universitiestof the land may be
found practically to associate more largely than
• heretofore with what may be called the trading or
middle class of the country. I, for my part, parti-
cipate in the satisfaction which, no doubt, you have
all felt in seeing these Universities during the pre-
sent year, I may say at a moment's notice? but in
all heartiness and in a spirit not to be mistaken,
offer to place themselves at the bidding and com-
mand of those who, like yourselves, areendeavour-
ing to organise a plan whereby education not given
iu the Universities themselves may, nevertheless,
be brought to the test, and may receive the stamp of
merit from the authorities connected with the Uni-
versities. I heartily wish well to such a scheme.
(Cheers.) There is one other subject upon
which I would venture to say a word, because it is
a subject of importance even in Liverpool. I say
even in Liverpool, for I don't think there is a place
ion the country se independent as Liverpool as to
the necessity for a demand upon the public service
fur employment. Such is the march of Liverpool
—such the growing extent of its field of commerce
—that within a comparatively short period it has
quadrupled its population. Such, I say, is the
rapid extension of that field that it opens legiti-
mate fields 'of employment for more hands then can
be found available for its services. (Hear, hear.)
But, at the same time, I dare say it will happen
that many among you will be looking to the pub-
lic service ; and I cherish a hope to see the en-
trance into that public service put upon a footing
more honourable to education and industry than it
has been heretofore. It is not satisfactory, sir, in
my mind, that people should go a-begging for I,ub-
lie office—in my mind public offices should not be
considered as favours bestowed upon individuals,
but as opportunities for rendering useful, arduous,
and honourable services to the country. And
if there be opportunity for such useful, arduous,
and honourable services, the conferring of these
should not be held as a matter of favour from
the State. That which is called patronage
may be a curse and plague upon the country ;
and, upon the whole, I am inclined to
think that it is. But in the nature of things you
cannot get rid of it altogether. There is indeed but
one way in which it could be got rid of. This system
of patronage is most rigidly employed in the en-
trance to the public service. If a man wants to get
his son into the army, or into the navy—into any
branch of the civil service, even to a landing waiter-
ship in the Customs—it is a matter of political beg-
ging, a matter of political influence. (Hear, hear.) I
say this with great respect, in presence of a member
of Parliament, who, lam sure, has had as little to do
with this sort of thing as myself. I may be permitted
to hope that the day is coming when the basis of en-
trance to the public service—l don't now speak of
promotion for merit, for that could hardly be left
open to competitive examination—but I trust the
thy is coming when, as far as regards entrance into
the public service for young men, nearly every
office that can be named will be holdup in the face
of the country as the prize for the best candidate
who offers himself to gain it. (Cheers.) It will,
in my opinion, be a great and happy day, amid all
the difficulties that attend this subject, if we can
sae, as I really believe we shall see, these offices of-
fered as the premiums and rewards of honourable
exertion to the boys who, however they may have
distinguished themselves by their talents, character,
and conduct at schools, feel that their natural career
lies in the direction of rendering service to their
country as the holders of public offices. Now,
Sir, I have run out the limited sand-glass by which
lam bound upon this occasion. I should be reluc-
tant, after what you have so well done upon this
subject, to detain you any longer. I shall there-
fore only say that the disjointed remarks which I
have laid before you will serve—if they serve
nothing else—as a proof that my interest in this
institution is cordial and sincere. I will only say
one word more before I conclude, and I will
take my text from a name that is at present an
honoured name—a name of great popularity in
England, and one regarded with interest in every
homestead of the land. There still remains
in some quarters a vulgar notion that there
is a natural antagonism between corporal and men-
tal excellence. I trust that corporal education will
never be forgotten—that the pursuits of manly
sports will always receive the countenance and en-
couragement not only of the boys who engage in
them, bat of the masters who are responsible for
these boys. There is a great deal of cant abroad
that the bookish boy, or the hard-working, stu-
dious boy, although very fit to sit and study with
book is hand, is not fit for the practical purposes
of life. There is much of that cant abroad, and I
would, fur the purpose of putting a more liberal
eysters in force in regard to entrance into the pub-
lic service, read to you an example in point. I
have selected from the Atheneum of a few weeks
ago a passage which relates to a man around whose
name there is now concentrated more of public in-
terest than about the name of any other man of the
day. I mean Gen. Havelock. (Great cheering.) It
appears that Gen. Havelock was a Charter-house
boy; and the writer in the Athenaeum—I am not
responsible for the authority—but he states, what
.is net altogether improbable, that at school General
Havelock had a nickname, and the nickname was
" Old Phlos." There are very good scholars here,
no doubt, but I am not quite sure if at a first glance
they would understand the term. It appears that
"Old Phlos" is an abbreviation, and that without
the prefix it means philosopher. The paragraph in
the Atheneum runs thus :—" Old Phlos' is a
name which we are sure must be now making the
heists of old Carthusians dance with pride and de-
light. The Charter-house has boasted of many
scholars who have sprung into eminent men ;
among others, Crashaw, the poet ; Addison and
Steele, the essayists ; John Wesley, the religious
reformer; and Lard Ellenborough, the Lord Chief
Justice. To the list will surely be added Old
Phlos.' The pet name will be remembered by Car-
thusians, whose memory can go back some 40 years
or more." And what was the character at school of
this Gen. Havelock who is now distinguishing him-
self by a temper, a courage, an activity, a zeal, a con-
sistency, and a dogged and dauntless resolution equal
at least to that of any man England has produced
during this century ? The paragraph in the Athe-
nceum proceeds :—" They will not have forgotten
the gentle and thoughtful lad who used to stand
looking on while others played, and whose general
meditative manner procured fur him the name of
' Philosopher,' subsequently diminished to Phlos,'
and occasionally applied as Old Phlos.'" That
young and popular philosopher is the soldier at
whose name the hearts of Englishmen beat with
honest pride. " Old Phlos" of the Charter-house
is Havelock, the hero of Cawnpore. (Great cheer-
ing.) This is my list word. I conclude by wish-
ing prosperity to this institution—its heads—every
one of its pursuits, and each and every of its de-
partment 1. (The right hon. gentleman concluded
amid Lud cl•eering.)
Th i assembly then separated amid renewed
deal s fur Mr. Gladstone.

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