The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-07 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

Most of the Ministers present in Paris proceeded on
Friday to St. Cloud to transact business with the Duke
de N
einours, who, according to some, had been appointed
-Lieutenant General of the Kingdom, and to others, mere
President of the Council, without a deliberating vote.
Marshal Soult is to manage the business of the Depart-
ments of Forcien Affairs and Marine during the ab-
&eh" of M. Guiaot and Admiral :thicken.
On Wednesday the Prince de Joinville was mingled
with the crowd visiting the tent in the Garden of the
Tuileries. His Royal Highness has become much sun-
burnt.
The Minister of Marine left Paris on Friday morning
for Eu.
T• he Revue de Paris states that the affianced bride of
Royal Highness the Duke d'Aumale, the daughter
Austrof the Prince de Salerno and neice of the Emperor of
Austria, is alike remarkable for personal beauty and
ia,
qualifications.
lth..oethbeingsi
The Duke d'Aumale is expected at Paris about the
tt.minTghe Prince will thence repair to Naples in
of November, the period fixed for his mar-
relltge with the daughter of the Prince of Salerno, whom
Tueheisito conduct to France after the nuptial ceremony.
"like de Mont ensier is to accompany his brother
to Italy. P
famous parasol was exposed to view at the In-
on on Friday. It is placed open, behind the iron
,• ",ngs f the choir. The colours of Morocco are placed
-11,1,"e pilasters at both sides of the grand altar.
the I.7l''';'llessager, alluding to the rumour of the loss of
arrivedsays:—" The correspondence, which has
cot at the Ministry of Marine up to the present day,
to waillt? Jlothing which can give the least foundation
short a" "as been rumoured on this subject. After a
to t„e.6taY at Sainte Croix-de-Tenkiffe, this frigate put
w•eth ay
on the 2d of August, in most favourable
• er, and • ' ation has been re-
ceieee t Since then no information
the ‘,O„ ° create any uneasiness as to the remainder of
Jags ,
was to •141';'e de Paris announces that M. de Glucksberg
beas::),,le,ave Paris on Saturday is ith the treaty concluded
cent .r ranee and Morocco, and ratified by the two
'Actin
g ewers.
ef the Uourrier de la Drome gives the following statistic
Pratteee Produce of silk in the several departments of
Passed Very little more than fifteen years have
there since there were only six departments in which
th,, were extensive plantations of mulberry trees,. for
aidegleneral rearing of silk-worms. To these might be
earri,,dsixteen othrs, in which this cultivation was
manner., but on a limited scale, and in a precarious
haeet,_ Now, however, forty-two new departments
capitni,iten hP this profitable employment of time and
depart se that we have sixty-four out of the eighty-six
that
clothed with mulberry trees, and producing
'LIT' hit: gatrieeaet7 °r lesser quantities.
rt javnet et es the
o '''"r contains a very long ordonnance rela-
rerouore iun4actqi nof property its Algeria, the gua.
Witt- co, parhasers, and the various points connected
eutils.iti°The object of this ordonnance is to
7ls
Is.. the difficulties which, owing to an imperfect
tgeelil3tlijahi,ohnatveerphriitshoe.rto prevented the due development
333' royal ordonnance of September, 1844, the manu-
facture
The • gunPossder is formally prohibited in Algeria.
For
I,rnportation of foreign gunpowder is also forbidden.
anet„trie future no powder is to be sold in Algeria but
" as comes from the royal manufactory in France.
The i nvitaofficesent out from the Lord Chamberlain's-
en Wednesday to the Duke of Wellington, Sir
Zulthert
he e Peel, the Earl of Aberdeen, &c., were counter-
ear -Fc'4 on Saturday, when a reissue was made, the
the Queen's invitation to be from Tuesday
`kBth to Monday next instead of Wednesday the 9th,
iewhich day it seems it was at first arranged that the
"g• ,' of the French would reach Windsor Castle from
ortarnouth.
rieTe Castle
Duke of Richmond, and a large party from Gor-
" left that ducal residence early in the last
Week, for Inverness, to be present at the northern
reeeting.
The Marquis of Bute left Cardiff Castle, his seat in
Wales, on Monday last, for his estates in Bedfordshire.
• the Earl of Bosse, who has been attending the meet-
Wgs of the British Association at York, proceeds to
righton at the end of the week on a visit to the Dowager
Cuuntess of Bosse.
The Earl and Countess of Radnor and Lady Jane
lolouverie are passing the autumn at Coteshili Park, near
l'arringd on, Berks.
The Earl of Aboyne presided et the anniversary dinner
of the Peterborough Agricultural Society on Thursday.
Earl Cadogan has gone to Weimer, and the Countess
and Ladies Augusta and Honoria Cadogan, who arrived
flora Brighton on Wednesday, have left town to visit
triQ Earl and Countess of Sandwich at Hinchinbrooke,
ilantingdonshire.
The Earl of Eglinton's birthday was celebrated by a
lecillablic dinner at Irvine, and general entertainments in
hT•ejent Parts of his estates in Scotland, last week. The
ty;:"est expressions of admiration were promulgated by
h.r,?ntented tenantry holding farms under the Noble
throefltse excellence as a landlord is deservedly praised
T• he 1,14 his large property in that country.
Ladies Earl and Countess of Eldon, and the youthful
eeretP:avile,:ribst:lo::sOetl who are on a visit to the Dowager Lady
e.l on the West Cliff, at Scarborough, ar's not
ee _ „ to return to Hamilton-place, London, until the
present month, when they proceed to Encombe
for the winter.
The c DatIIiC3aLLALIVISOUB.
treesh °lint St. Aulaire, Ambassador for France to the
hotel, GC°llrt, has taken apartments at the Railway
The psPort, to wait the arrival of his royal master.
as an infi`eale•••illobert Taylor, who made himself notorious
ia
the earl , preacher and writer, is no more. He died
has
here Part of last month at Tours, in France.
s.
resignedo
tp
tne
ofthe.ptarpuetrha.in the report that Sir W. Symonds
his oft.ce s
of Surveyor of the Navy, as stated
The inau
buke oe Neali'lation of the monument in honour of the
place tonseorrolawgton, erected in Glasgow, is to take
made, and a lar Extensive preparations have been
parts of the olignetrlllithber of the nobility, from various
Tile satesea.:
eing Present Y. have signified their intention of
tovlheeirnteresting ceremony.
roaster_ •
h•se so
and 450 hu P a steam-frigate, of 1,299 tons' burden,
at , s tparight
,designed by Mr. Oliver Lang,
half-past f (11 001wiCh Dockyard, was launched
istrieoeithenea?leftohfonuour o'clock, sex., on Tuesday last, in the
merous naval and military officers, and al-
flehionable families in the neighbourhood.
hate,arin-buildi
abuut ngS of Mr. Priddle, of North Stone-
:et:red on
cur miles from Southampton, were
thendisco-
nt,„ffanfderrrk,etaise:Sedaturday. An express was immediately
spot, tire-engines, which were speedily on the
must efficient assistance in saving a
great deal of
nary, ni
alntdis stated that four ricks, gra
I:i.lrltilva,tz
r:ttle.s, a lar •
ge quantity of corn, and other pro.
that it is not' insured to its
tile Set Strong Suspicion exist that the fire was
Th an incendiary
theirChsrtist Executive have officially, and thrceigh
Secreta
Paid, the List
announced, that unless they are better
until nue): will resign within a month. They state that
they Mr. O'Connor has stood the needful, which
cannot
their • expecti,,, him to continue any longer, and. that.
printer's
ene more otti is so large that they cannot give him
60u., orders.
]liar thsea Castle is ordered to be appropriated as a mi-
for the sameclobj'a
pris°°, to contain
fitted 100 offenders. Another build-
ifitfeeltt Weedon,
g rnents is 4,000/. are
ealustolayto
for
ft these n
Saturday oot third
The elsewhere,
estimated
ers, arran e
last the overseer of the parish of Bay-
atr°aPPeared before
attend at Hertford
barriser, se 4°T. mr. James Espinasse, the revising
halt's, to show cause why he did not
by th,) Aet
of pari9n the previous Thursday, as required
nested with hi,
norufaw:a.te meet, to discharge the duties con-
ither read ee• His excuse was, that he could

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DE
..„ ATR OF ADMIRAL SIR JOHN
to BERESFORD,
biART., K.C.8., AND G.C.R.—We have to announce the
death of this distinguished fla4-officer which took place
on IVednesday, at Bedaie, in Yorkshire. The deceased
Admiral, Sir John Beresford, was born in 1769, and was
the natural son of George first Marquis of Waterford,
and brother of of
Beresford. He married three
times. Sir John Beresford entered the navy in the
Year 1782. In 1796, while in the command of the Lynx
sloop, he captured La Concorde, of fourteen guns, and
Year
Captain of the Raison, fought a gallant action
with the French frigate Vengeance. In 1801, he was
present, and rendered great services at the capture of the
Islands of St. Bartholomew, St. s, &c. He CM'
Martin '
Inanded the Theseus at th©~
attack on the enemy in Aix
roads. In 1813 and 1814, he was actively employed on
this e American station, in command of the Poictiers. On
return to this country, he was selected by the Lords
of the Admiralty to escort Louis X.VIII. to Calais, on
that monarchs restoration to the crown of France. In
the succeeding month, he was created a Baronet of the
ilnited Kingdom. He was first elected a Member of the
tease
of Commons in 1812. In 1835, on Sir Robert
eel succeeding to the Administration, Sir John was
appointed one of the Junior Lords of the Admiralty,
yaptuand contested the borough of Chatham with the Hon.
in Byng, the result of the election placing Sir
John 10 a minority of twenty-five. Since the • termina-
tion of that Parliament, the deceased had retired entirely
r°ol public affairs, and resided mostly at his seat in
Yurkshire. His naval commissions were dated as fol-
-I('''s :--Lieutenant, 4th of November, 1790 ; Com-
mender, 6th of July, 1794 ; Captain, 25th of June,
;779t1510;
fßear-Admiral, 4th of June, 1814 ; Vice-Admiral,
May, 1825 ; Admiral, 28th of June, 1838. He
IS succeeded in the Baronet 7 by his eldest son, Captain
tt,Geerge Beresford, now Sir George Beresford, Bart.
~;' Illit WELSH CATTLE FAIOUT cattle fairs
"ring the month of September have been but thinly at-
tended by the drovers who usually purchase for the pur-
Pro,se of driving cattle to the English fairs and markets.
",e failure of turnip crops, together with the short crops
t'ilenaY and straw all over the kingdom (with very few
"eeptions) are alleged as the reasons. Compared with
business usually transacted at this season of the year,
the
c °mount of transactions has been small. Cattle fit
`c't slaughterng; were scarce, and a demand at 40s. to
4a. per cwt. to sink the offal; prime sheep are worth
sd. per lb., also to sink the offal. Pork and bacon pigs
ate a little on the advance, while small ones, and bare
tores are at a very leer price; good horses are scarce
bet
in demand, while p-or ones are nearly unsaleable.
I.‘ Abergwilly fair, on Wednesday last, the show of
1...."114ta was very indifferent, and few changed hands.
14°41es rued nearly the same as at the September fairs.
Welshman,

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Ti 1E MANCHESTER ATHEN2EUM.

(From the Times.)
:o one can read the brilliant addresses made at the
aurr ee of the Manchester Athenaeum, without feeling
a dc Arlie pleasure, first, in the excellence of the occa-
sion 1, then, in finding it so worthily celebrated. It is
the great difficulty of our age to bring things toge-
ti war. Either there is profusion or lack. What
it ,ight .tell with noble effect if well bestowed, is
tf irown away where it is. We have literature and
to ste enough, but then it is all in a class, heaped
tsgether—of as little use as a well-stored magazine
ten miles off the devoted band who are selling their
dear because their ammunition is exhausted.
On the one hand there are thousands who are daily
pining for the occasion which is to bring out their
pov vers. Their one great lack is opportunity. Oh for
son iething to do—somebody to work upon—something
to assure me I am a real man, and not a shadow, with
an actual call and business in this world. Mean-
while a street, or a wall, or a less visible barrier,
separates you from a sphere where it is all opportu-
nity, all raw material ; everything to be done. The
ele mentee of grandeur lie waste because the soul of
order ;.5 absent. There is plenty of rudeness, wild
nature of men and things, unorganized multitudes,
blare:7,sh incessant toil, furious energies, noble instincts,
gieeantic capabilities, everything vast and shapeless,
ties sooty workshop of the Cyclops. All this waits
to, be informed, and trained to beauty and greatness.
tas yet that cannot be accomplished. Strength is
rude, and refinement is coy. The one resents inter-
fex ence, the other revolts from its task. Thus
both are wasted. It is then a great beginning
that literature should be seers raising its head in the
midst of our great marts of industry, and summoning
to its aid some of its most favoured sons. It is
not necessary to abate one's satisfaction with the
salvo, that literary institutions, libraries, news-
rooms, with the appendage of gymnasia and balls, are
not sufficient. Such a caution is even less needful in
Manchester than in the enlightened metropolis. True,
they may satisfy and fill the mind. To that abuse
are all Heaven's gifts obnoxious. They are, how-
ever-, good as far as they go. It is a good thing done
—,an actual step in advance—if minds or hands here-
tofore occupied in mere mechanic arts should ask ad-
mission to the worlds of imagination and taste. '
Imagination is near akin to faith, and taste to good-
ness.
The ideal is the school of truth. With all the
many weaknesses and temptations of literature, who
that has it would not have had it ? Let those who
declaim most eloquently on its engrossing, or '
enfeebling, or secularising tendency, consider within
themselves whether they are not on the whole
gainers by this perilous gift. Why, then, should
he who would be miserable without his bookshelves,
dictate to others an abstinence or a deprivation
which he would himself be the first to break
through ? He owes half his thoughts, and more than
half his tone of thinking, to literature. It is the
grrmmar of his mind. It is also his no slight social
bond. He tries to communicate his thoughts and
feelings, and finds himself unintelligible to the
crowd—intelligible only to the initiated few. Piety
opens its mouth to denounce literature, and finds
itself speaking the language and recognising the
mission of its imagined rival. In the act of condemning
philosophy it is itself guilty of the crime. Let it be
remembered, too, that the gentile world was provi-
dentially led through a course of arts before it came
to the gospel. The truths of Christianity were de-
veloped in the schools, and grew into a divine philo-
sophy, the awful literature of Heaven. Those fathers
whose mind and language have sunk deepest into the
memory of the Church were bred on the lap of
Pagan science. Let such pursuits be only followed
in a spirit of gravity and reverence, and no one need
fear the result. Some will think this a superfluous
advocacy of what must speak for itself. Of course
they will also set down the speeches of Mr. D'lsraoli,
Lord John Manners, and Mr. Smythe, as idle and
fruitless displays. But there is a wide-spread and a
deep-rooted prejudice against the higher and finer
accomplishments, against every branch of learning
which does not pretend an obvious utility. It is
agreed that the sons of manufacturers must be manu-
facturers, and no more than manufacturers; and that
if you try to make them more, you will fail alto-
gether. Writers who furnish in -their own style abun-
dant proofs of the powers and delights of a
classical education, are so ungrateful or so
thoughtless as to think the wealthy master of
five hundred operatives will be better and happier
and abler without it. "He will have to cast accounts
and compute profits. Then he must learn bookkeep-
ing. He will have to improve his machinery. Then
let him study mechanics. He will have to pay wages.
Let him acquire a positive taste for compound addi-
tion. In order to make out and execute orders he
must be handy at practice. Geography also will be
wanted occasionally." Offhand writers seldom mean
all that they say, but we do not see what other
meaning to assign to the following passage in Mr.
Cooke Taylor's Tour in the Manufacturing Districts
(f Lancashire :
" I should be very much puzzled if I were asked to
point out a dozen schools in the country where youth
could obtain instruction in those branches of knowledge
which are the best calculated to train them for a life of
commerce and active business. In plain terms, the ma-
nufacturing youth of the higher and middle classes are
not trained for the order to which they must eventually
belong, but for an order to which there are few chances
of their ever attaining, but after which there is all but
a perfect certainty that they will render themselves mi-
serable by aspiring. This defect is sufficiently notorious,
and one consequence of it has passed into a proverb,
that There is but one generation in Lancashire between
clog and clog.' If manufacturers cannot be induced to
associate themselves into a distinct order for their own
sake, they ought certainly to do so for the sake of their
children, and, above all things, they should assert the
dignity of the commercial character by a public recog-
nition of the extent of information necessary fur the
commercial profession."
On the contrary, manufactures and commerce
seem especially to crave the greatest possible infusion
of literature. They know best their own want. The
manufacturer sends his son to a public school, and is
anxious to see him an accomplished scholar. To be
able to do this was part of the vision which, from his
earliest life, concentrated and sustained his efforts.
But for this hope, he would have continued to this
day a smug, self-satisfied, eating, drinking, and sleep-
ing, fifth-rate tradesman. Deprive him of mental
advancement, and his wealth has lost its value. This
is Dr. Cooke Taylor's own supposition. He is cen-
suring the folly of commercial men who wish to make
their sons scholars and gentlemen. What's the use of
money, if they are not to do this ? The process of
mechanic production induces a conceit of power,
which breaks out into overbearing arrogance. A
man who has secured the most glittering of human
prizes, and has that which all mankind seem running
after, is too conscious of his success. his activity
becomes rough and tyrannies The fine arts are use-
ful in this stage, though such a mind will scarcely
apprehend any other than their most sensual ap-
plication. There is another stage in the manufac-
turing history—another class, to which literature is
indispensable. What can wealth do, or be, without
it ? Dr. C. Taylor will answer, " Let wealth go
on producing wealth." Experience shows that it
will not. The youthful possessor or expectant of
thousands per annum is apt to contemplate his wealth
till his mind becomes as laden and lumpy as his ingots.
To possess and to enjoy is his life. Soul and body he
yields himself to the passive delight. The gold enters
into his soul. He devours it with his eyes before he
comes to its actual use. Such is the being whom a
man of real genius proposes to keep at the desk, to
the exclusion of other art or science. A worse danger
remains. It is impossible that the mere pursuit of
wealth and mere mechanic employments should so
satisfy the mind as to render it even ordinarily secure
against the sensual allurements to which wealth is so
easy a prey. High religious feeling is the gift of few;
but against that host of lower dangers a gentlemanly
education is at least an immense auxiliary. Any-
thing in the mind, if only innocent, helps against
sense. The education of the workin classes has
already done wonders in Lancashire. oit must be
ascribed the affecting resignation with which so vast
a mass endured the virtual famine of 1840-42. The
higher and intermediate classes are advancing in pro-
portion. Of course, one watches with anxiety, and
even suspicion, the sudden efforts of a newly-gathered
population ; but the auspiees are good at present.
They only want leaders.

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
The meeting of the subscribers to the Athena um,
at Manchester, held on Thursday last, was one of no
common character. The numbers present were com-
puted at 3,000 ; but it is not to the greatness of the
gathering that the importance of the meeting is to be
ascribed. The character of the assemblage, the
speeches delivered, and the spirit which pervaded the
intelligent throng, were the circumstances which in.
vested that meeting with a special interest. By far
the most important characteristic of the meeting was
the entire absence of party feeling. Never did men
of more opposite principles assemble together. Who
could be more opposed to each other in their political
faith, than Mr. Cobden and Mr. Benjamin D'lsraeli
Mr. Milner Gibson and Lord John Manners ? The
same diversity of political sentiment prevailed among
the more humble individuals composing the body of
the meeting. And yet the most harmonious feel-
ing pervaded the entire proceedings. Mr. Benjamin
D'lsraeli was in the chair. The speech of the
Honourable Gentleman was able and eloquent ; but
it possessed a still higher quality, especially con-
sidering the political party with whom the speaker
has hitherto acted : it was a thoroughly liberal
speech. It was more : it was a manifesto in favour
of the organisation of a party who shall disconnect
themselves from any and every faction, and be solely
influenced in all their actions by an earnest desire to
promote the well-being of the people. Mr. D'lsraeli
denounced, with withering effect, the narrow, exclu-
sive, sectarian feeling which has hitherto, more or
less, largely characterised the various factions into
which the politioiana of the day have divided them-