The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-17 00:00:00

ETON MONTEM.

FROM ♦ CORRISPONDVM) '
The triennial and ancient' celebration of Eton Man-
tern took place yesterday, when the sons of Old Etona
shone forth in all the, gay varieties of costume which
art or fancy could ; indeed the splendour of the
dresses far eclipsed in magnificence those of anyformer
period. From an early hour in the morning, the road
from the. Metropolis was crowded with carriages, con-
taining an elegant assemblage of females, friends,
and old Etonian, all anxious, to witness and parti-
cipate in the 'support of‘ this interesting ceremony.
At an early hour in the morning, the accustomed
procession took place round the College-yard, when
the Captain (Mr. Pickering) having spoken his ora-
tion, proceeded to marshal his tiny warriors, and salt-
bearers were dispatched in every direction. to levy the
accustomed contributions upon the passers by—a ser-
vice which was performed in: a very gentlemanly and
decorous manner. At about half-past one, the assem-
blage of nobility and gentry at. Salt-hill was very con-
sideralde ; but .much disappointment was expressed
when it .was known duo his Majesty would 'tot be,
According to his gracious intention -able to attend. A
.little eforetwo, the grand cavalcade ,of ,Montem made
its appearance, extendingfor half a mile along the main
road.from Slough, and-in front of the ancient druidical
Mount, where the Ensign (Mr. Vallaneey) was quickly
seen displaying his skill and prowess in gracefully wav-
ing the silk flags, which forms the principal feature of
_the Montem ceremony. The scene Was at this. mo-
ment unusually brilliantly, as, independent, of the
Sparkling of the embroidered dresses of the Etonian,
the lustre of bright eyes And charining faces in the our-
rounding .carriageS, aided BY all the advantages .Of fa,
shionabre embellisliment,icoded, in no inconsiderable
-degree, to heighten the splendour of the picture.--
Among the moat distinguished of the visitors, many
nr*ihom must entertain a filial regard for old father
Etona, we observed his Grace the Duke of Nortlunn-
berland, Lords M,Donnel and, Rolle, Sir C. Coekerell,
Mr. Canning and -family, Mr. Robinson, and many
others of equal note. A very splendi& re•
past for the Etonians and their friends was, as
usual, prepared at Mr. 13otham's, where: forty tables,
including one for Dr. Keate, the Masters, and twenty-
- six-distinguished visitors, spread-forth a most' inviting
banquet to commemorate' the pyous day:. The col-
lection was not, we hear, quite &pia 'in amount to
sonic former occasions ; but this Will be' the less re-

grated, when it is known the amount is not a consi-
deration with the present Captain, whose family is
very Wealthy. Poor old Herbert Stoekhore, the Mon-
tea's Poet 'Laureate, made his usual grotesque ap-
pearance in his tritiinpbal car, attended by his grace-
ful helpmate, and drawn, as aforetime, by his-high-
bred Arabian pony, eimunting hie own verses, in
imitation of the ancient God of Song, and levying
contributions by the sale of copies, in accordance with
the more modern Professors. The'commencement of
his Ode is so truly original, that we are indiiced to
give the first six 'isms,- as a specimen of its unique
style ,
4, fierbertes *calibre, once more •
In spite of age k end piing rhenmatic,
flop down to Minttent with Verses sttit;
To wake the Musa; as I have done before.
For why should I ilea-beil,.groaning and hickerinF,
When I ought to he up, to sing Captain Pickering r"
A very large body of the London light-fingered com-
pany attended,. and had 'just commenced budness,
without issuing even a prospectus' when the arrival of
a party of Bow-street artillery; under those able tacti-
cians, Messrs. Townsend,, Sayers,, .Bishop, Smith,
Taunton, Ellis, and Perry, Made a very unexpected
attack upon the rye brigade, and succeed in routing
the banditti before tbey,had done any very consider-
able damage to the pockeut of his. Majesty's liege sub-
rect. The day proved most amq)icious, qua the regu-
tions were excellent, every thini passing; ft up to
the time of our leaving (six oeloek)without the
slightest interruption or accident. • '

SCOTCII ILLUMINATIONO-:-In one of those little
editorial tiffs which are said now and then to take
place between Stoddart and Mudford 'about the long
Primer. and the minion, the former gmttioman went into
a icing aritkancnt in praise of MS countrymen, and tins
argument he clenched with these words :•-•4‘ I tell you,
Sir, that the Scotch have a dearer lit than any
other people on the face of the earth.'--`r Si) they
may, replied Medford good naturedly, " for you know
they ere

LONDON,
WF.DNES.DAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1826.

The Gazette of last night containkExtracts of Des-
patches, addressed to Earl BATITUKST, by the late
Major-General TURNER, dated at Sierra Leone, on
the 2d and 3d March last, giving an account of his
proceedings during the expedition which he had
undertaken to the Sherbro' Country, for the purpose of
more effectually putting an end to the Slave Trade in
that District. His, exertions on that expedition
brought on the fatal illness, which deprived his Coun-
try of his valuable life.
The immediate object of the expedition appears to
have been the attack of the great Slave Dealers, who,
on the signature of the Convention prohibiting the
exportation of Slaves, had joined those of the Galinas,
and were assembled hi eonaiderable force on the Boons
River, *here they seized our people, and set at defiance
our power and rights. These Slave Dealers were all
Mulattoes, deseendants'of Europeans, and men gene-
rally educated in England ; their education gave them
great superiority, and their wealth, great power.

The force which General `l' it had under his
command was very inadequate to the object ; but Capt.
W. F. Co WE K:of his'lViajesty's ship Leven, employed
on the surveying service in the ,river, having very
handsomely offered his coroperation and the 'assistance
of the Albatross schooner, with several officers and
men of the squadron—the attack was made and
the success of thee enterprise was
~most complete
—the stockedil of.' Boom, and the principal town
of iVfaceaba, with eight smaller towns, having
been reduced to ashes, and all the ordnance, arma,
*nil ammunition found in the strong holds, taken)
together with a considerable number or prisoner&
The gallantry of all parties engaged seems to have been
most conspieuous ; and the wretches, who (as the
despatchers state), live and fsttertijy- on the 'blood and
ce
miacry of their fellow-creatures, re ived a chastisement
well merited by their infamous proceedings. The pe-
rusal of these despatches excites a painful interest from

the circumstance of the gallant officer by whom they
were written being no more, and of his death having
been occasioned by his arduous exertions on the ser-
vice which he himself describes. Every man' of feeling
also, will deplore the lamentable extent to whfch Slave
dealing appears still to exist in Africa, and its evil in
fluence (5n the passions both of the Natives, and the
Foreigners engaged in this horrible traffic. On this
subject, we shall offer some further observations in a
few days, when we expect to be in possession of some
strong facts, illustrative of the conduct of France and
other countries, with respect to the Slave Trade.

~~~r,!~!'1ew~-

As the General Election is now so near at hand,

we cannot help expressing our hopes, that the Electors

throughout the kingdom will give their votes less
under the influence of prejudice than they generally do

on these occasions. The late distresses of the Country

have had at least one good effect—that ,of sobering
men's minds in a great degree.

There is nothing more dangerous than establishing
watch-words and tests on particular subjects, by the
adoption of, and subscription to which, candidates are
to be approved or rejected, rather than by an estimate

formed from the whole tenor of their liyes, The cry of

" Cheap Corn," or " No Popery," may, in some places,
serve the purposes of mean persons who: have no other
Merit ; hut will any one who pretends :40. tprineiple,
endeavour to exclude an upright and able man from
a place which he has long filled with credit to himself
and advantage to the country, because he may differ
with him in some one point on which the best men are
not agreed ? Who would wish to see the House without

of all the Capulets." How great is the contrast
months ago the London University, (the Deity of
the hour) was sweeping along in all the full tide of
success ; wisdom came with her, and her progress was
the quick march of intellect ; the trump of Fame,
(trumpeter, Tom CAMPBELL,) was in the van ; the
great flag of knowledge, borne by Dr. Butxszeir,
floated above her head; and Liberty, personified by'
Mr. BROUOIXAm, supported her train.

Yet, although it be actually defunct, or at least
immediately in articulo mortis, still we repeat it, the
London University will not wholly pass away. It has
been the. work of a political party, begun and carried
on for a political motive, the
,character of that party has
mingled itself up with their scheme, and has been cola,
promised by it. The ruling character, the :,mager
spirit of a Party; like that of 'an individual, lies tamed
beneath the restrictions of policy or the observances of
society ;--like the subterranean torrent,—its course, nay,
even its existerice, is only to be traced where it is found
occasionally breaking its way to the: surface. The
project in question partook strongly of the peculiarities
of the individuals with whom it originated. In cones!).

tion it was wild, dangerous, andimpracticable ;--the
ostensible advantage was specious enough, but in
r sality, emi ty as a dream,
the real political motive
glaring, and impudent to a wonder. It has failed
egregiously and entirely. For our lives, we never
could see why an University was wanting in the Cite
of London F It is wretched stuff to tell us that we
must of necessity build ourselves an University, be"
cause Paris, or Petersburgh, or the capital of each
German Principality, boasts one :—arguments of 'this
kind may serve for lack of something better to begin
a prospectas or open a speech : but it:is intrinsically
nothing. The question is, do we want.tin University?
and, if we do, is London the proper place for its erre-
'ion, and are the Whigs fit persons to frame its Jaws
and superintend its foundation ?
With regard to the first question, we beg leave to ob-
serve that, considering the very crowded state of our
Universities,. and their great distance from some of
the most populous and enlightened portions 01 the
empire, the foundation of a third University in i! well
chosen situation (the county of Durham for instance),
does by no means seem an unreasonable or visit:owl
project. But it is essential to its prosperity that such
an establishment should have the power of conferring
degrees, and that with regard to fellowships,
scholar'
ships, &c., it sinstitutions should equal, in point of
respectability, the more ancient foundations
of Oxford
and Cambridge.
Now, to-the London University not One of these
remarks can in any way be applicable ; no degrees 4nd
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to be conferred, no scholarships, fellowships' &c. t°
offered. The apprentices, clerks, sbopmen, and men'
milliners of the metropolis were to be excited to she
pursuit of learning by that unsophisticated admiration
to
'4-4 it, so natural to their situation, and to essential
their habits and. occupation.
denote to study, the ill digested mixture
strange
When're consider the time these men will hlve
:4)f
knowledge it is proposed to give them, and this
to derive
Practical advantages they can ever expeeb
from it,—the progress of knowledge to be made in l".
London University, and the value of a high place
the Cockney tripes, will be somewhat lightly apP
ren_.

ciated.
Of what service =such an education be to any
]ding
what chance can he have in society with men ho
iding
the degrees of Oxford and Carabridge ? Tile 30°1
/ fill
is obvious, (loguiiur BROUGHAM). Is be -.
have learned at least sufficient to inflate lino
,hot
with the belief that his education surpasses
of his betters, and learned it under men holdiebgi
and professing to hold, sentiments subversiVe of i
.
existing Government, and contrary to the religion 1:
by law established. Such a man has surely not belt'
wolVivvuldoemseh:ernrase
ill trained to sedition." We agree with him perfrel ;*
.ing the present forlorn condition of the project' '
„ ch
in knowledge is to be expected under Whig aII 1 I 'leo
and to anticipate a charge no doubt hereafter Woo
however, to show what roes
made, that whereas in our day the buman intellect j
atbonleminoeusarist;(l on this subject than, consiarl
marching away (God knows where) under the cooo'ilai
of Me HENRY BROUGHAM, M.P. its progre,°,7,l'c
most unjusiltiably arrested by the authority of rte' the
Government, the intrigues of a bigotted cier,L'of 6
scurrility of a licentious Press, and the thane--
discerning Public.

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The German Mail of this morning P°'lB:te
it
particular feature of interest. A prsato it",
Smyrna gives a different version of the littael‘
HUDSON LOWE.

• O'
DIIINICOr VA a
Tn
_ . Majesty the King, who, since his accession to tn
, e
has applied his attention,lsith unretnitting exertion, t°,..Aw-- Olt
of his Government, left the capital to-day, accontisnlwido -ref
blessings of all the faithful inhabitants, to enjoy. in
~.../4"to
beyond the Alps, the relaxation which is so neetsm"ig
health. We understand we shall have the pleasure ofd
?dainty again about the middle of next month.
the bth
Ills Majesty the King of Wurtemburg returned on 02ur0
May to Stutgord, front his excursion to Weinu'r' hI4
was to go on the Bth to Wiesbaden, to spend some ilsYr
aunt, the Prim of Wied Kunkel. •

„,Ar 9'
A private letter from Smyrna, of th:l7:l"Aitplr'lli—g-iv_e4ll,-.'';
f.oll_owing account of the intended attack on Sir ilalloot I-Aw;:i4
_26.r Hudson Lowe has been here for . some ritiya. rris'ev, 16,' ot
before yesterday, he ran the risk of being assassinate, or c; 4, cll
very ill treated, in his lodgings. A clerk is the Ai” °t. thgapar:ill
litation had determined to eccengv hiefortuer Elre."'''i..,e, 011
this view forcibly entered the house ; 124, Sir Iln'Ll'n' ;71,, lief
at that time on board the aimbrian 'Mitotic'. Thi* 11.--1`

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ever, has :caned a great sensation : the clerk has been arrested,
and Sir Hudson Lowe has taken some soldiers from the frigate to pro-
tect him.- Capt. Hamilton and-the English Consul have complained
to the Consul of France. The clerk, it seems, excuses himself by
saying that he was intoxicated; but it appears that he had been
instigated by several other Frenchmen."

NURIMBURG, MAY B.

The failure of the house of Fries, at Vienna, is one of the
greatest misfortunes of the kind that has occurred for a long time,
at Vienna ; and the ruin is said to be so complete, that , according
VI the latest accounts from the Imperial capital, the effects do not
promise the creditors above five.per cent. (hie. great house is re-
ported to have lost above a million of florins by this failure, which
does not seem improbable; when we consider that the late chief
partner of the house of Fries, is the same. Mr. David Parish who'
has appeared as one of the principal Contractors in most of the
great Loan* that have have been negociated for some years past.