The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-17 00:00:00

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN T
PERANCE SOCIETY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUS,
Ste,—Having been present at the Meeting a the „
British and Foreign Temperance Society, held
Music-hall; Store street, and reported in your pap M iti§tci. , ,
evening, which states the meeting was, at intervals, of a '
most uproarious character, owing to the interruption of
a large body of teetotallers, who congregated in great
numbers in the Hall; allow me to say that there were not
400 persons in the whole meeting, and never could
an audience have sat more quiet on any occasion—not
even a single murmur escaping the lips of any present,
notwithstanding the Chairman's opening speech being
one continual attack on the principles of teetotalism.
The disturbance was caused solely by the Chairman's
refusing either to read, or to allow Mr. Miller, (who
had been seated on the platform from the commence-
ment) to move an amendment, which he had previously
submitted to the chair, and which he rose to move as
the Chairman was about to put the resolution, the
Chairman having intimated no dissent to Mr. Miller's
proposition before he rose. Mr. Miller, in reply to a
question put to him, stated he had been a member of
the Temperance Society from the year 1838. The ap-
pearance of Boatswain Smith, so far from tending to
enforce order, served only to create confusion and • dis-
order, from the unfavourable reception he met with from
all parts of the Hall.
Marylebone, June 13, 1844.

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J. P. DRAPER.

HOW TRADE SUPERSEDES
FEUDALISM.

As long as war lasts, the Nobles, who must be
soldiers-, rule very well. But when peace comes, the
Nobles prove very whimsi mil and uncomfortable mas-
ters ; their frolics turn out to be very insulting and
degrading to the commoner. Feudalism grew to be
a bandit and brigand. Meantime trade (or the mer-
chant and manufacturer) had began to appear : trade,
a plant which always grows wherever there is peace,
as soon as there is peace, and as long as there is
peace. The luxury and necessity of the Noble
fostered it. And as quickly as men go to foreign
parts in ships or caravans, a new order of
things springs up ; new ideas awake in their
minds. New command takes place, new servants
and new masters. Their information, their wealth,
their correspondence, have made them quite other
men than when left their native shore. They are nobles
now, and by another patent than the king's. Feu-
dalism had been good, had broken the power of the
kings, and had some very good traits of his own ; but
it had grown mischievous, it was time for it to die,
and, as they say of dying people, all their faults
came out. Trade was the strong man that broke
it down, and raised a new and unknown power
in its place. It is a new agent in the world,
and one of great function; it is a very intellectual
force. This displaces physical strength, and instals
computation, combination, information, science, in its
room. It calls out all fCrce of a certain kind that
slumbered in the former dynasties. It is now in the
midst of its career. Feudalism is not ended yet.
Our Government still partake largely of that
element. Trade goes to make the Governments insig-
nificant, and to bring every kind of faculty of every
individual that can in any manner serve any person,
on sale. instead of a huge army and navy, and exe-
cutive departments, it tends to convert Government
into a bureau of intelligence, an intelligence office,
where every man may find what he wishes to buy,
and expose what he has to sell, not only produce and
manufactures, but art, skill, and intellectual and
moral values.—The Young American, by R. W.
Emerson.

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UNFREQUENCY OF ACCIDENTS IN RAILWAY TEA...
vimallo.—Captain Laws, R.N. in his recent vidence
given before the Ledger Bridge and Bradford Parlia-
mentary Committee, stated, that upwards of one million
and a half of passengers had been conveyed over the
Oldham Branch Railway since its opening, and yet not
the slightest accident had happened to a single pas-
senger; and this too, although the town of Oldham was
entered by means of a stationary engine, with a gra-
dient of 1 in 27—a freedom from accidents not to be
paralleled by any other mode of travelling, when the
number conveyed is considered.
BENEFITS OF COMMERCIAL RECIPROCITY .—At
Paris, in the best appointed houses, and at dinners,
which for costly materials and admirable art in their
preparation could not be surpassed, the effect is always
considerably lessened, and by a mode the most mortify-
ing—by the mere circumstance that every one at a
French dinner is served on a cold plate. The reason of
custom, or rather a necessity, which one would think a
nation so celebrated for its gastronomical taste would
repel, is really, it is believed, that the ordinary French
porcelain is so very far inferior that it cannot endure the
preparatory heat for dinner. The common white pot-
tery, for example, which is generally used, and always
found at the caf64, will not bear vicinage to a brisk kit-
chen fire for half an hour. Now, if we only had that
treaty of commerce with France NN hich had been so
often on the poirq,of completion, the fabrics of our unri-
valled potteries, in exchange for their capital wines,
would be found throughout France. The dinners of
both nations would be improved; the English would gain •
a delightful beverage-, and the French, for the first time
in their lives, would dine off hot plates. An unanswera-
ble instance of the advantages of commercial reciprocity !
—Coningsby, or the New Generation.
DYMCHURCH.—New discoveries are daily making
at Clobsden. The immense mass of broken Samian
ware, of exquisite workmanship, and the great variety of
domestic utensils, as well as funeral urns, the forms of
which can be easily traced and defined, even in their
fragmental state, prove that Dymchurch was an im-
portant station in the Roman times.—Dover Chronicle.
A COUNTERFEIT FRESIIMAN.—A very interesting-
looking person, habited at all points like an under-
graduate, was brought before the magistrates on Thurs-
day, charged with creating a disturbance. So attractive
was the appearance of the handsome gownsman, that
hundreds of men, women, and children, followed him in •
his peregrinations the previous evening. The anxiety of
the populace at length became so troublesome, "that the
police interfered, and invited the youth to the station-
house. Their guest created an inexplicable commotion
amongst officers and men ; there was a mystery
not to be unravelled, until at length a sigh burst
from a gentleman in blue, and the truth was told.
"In one s,oft look what language lies l" No man, but a
lovely woman was under their protection. They invited
the lady incog. to make that house her home for the
night, and they' would introduce her to the magistrates
of the town in the morning. On her appearance before
George Fisher and Julian Skrine, Esqrs., her name was
found to be llestor Sale ; she had been induced to act
this counterfeit character by some ladies in Barnwell,
and she promised, if the magistrates would forgive her,
that although she might wear the cap and gown again,
she would eschew the breeches. With an intimation
that the repetition of her frolic might lead her to the
treadmill, she was discharged.— Cambridge Chronicle.
BRUMMELL IN THE TENTH HUSSARS.—Brummell,
though an elegant appendage to the corps, was too much
about the person of the Prince to be a diligent officer. The
result was, that he was often late on parade, and did not
always know his own troop. However, he evaded the latter
difficulty in general by a contrivance peculiarly his own.
One of his men had a large blue-tinged nose. 'Whenever
Brummell arrived late, he galloped between the squadrons
till he saw the blue nose. There he reined up, and felt se-
cure. Once, however, it happened unfortunately that during
his absence there was some change made in the squadrons,
and the place of the blue nose was shifted. Brummell, on
coming up late, as usual, galloped in search of his beacon, and
having found his old friend he reined. " Mr. Brummell," cried
the Colonel, " you are with the wrong troop." " No, no," . .
said Brummell, confirming himself by the sight of the blue
nose, and adding in a lower tone—" I know better than that;
a pretty thing, indeed, if I did not know my own troop." .
His promotion was rapid, for he obtained a troop within three .
years, being Captain in 1796. Yet within two years he threw
up his commission.—Blackwood.
PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF THE RUSSIANS.—" As
regards personal appearance, the hideousness of tha
women, and the comparative comeliness of the men, have
caused the latter to be considered as handsome by many
travellers. Their dense hair, thick beard, and mous-
taches, white teeth, and the loose drapery of their semi-
Asiatic dress, are all apt somewhat to mislead us ; but -
when we see these men as soldiers, cropped, shaven, and .
dressed in clothes which show the figure, the illusion
utterly vanishes ; we find the face, that appeared hand-
some when hidden by tufts of hair, mean and inexpres-
sive ; the Herculean frames, when stripped of the sheep-
skin, sink into insignificance, and are always distorted by
the great protuberance of the stomach, occasioned by the
want of nutritious quality in their food, and the conse-
quent quantity required. The Marquis de Custine is
enthusiastic in his praise of the male beauty of the Mus-
covites ; but it is evident that he has been misled, partly
by the circumstances above-mentioned, partly from having
jtidged of the race by the servants and coachmen of
noblemen—but these are no fair specimens, being chosen
for their beauty out of thousands of serfs ; and, lastly,
from confounding with the pure Muscovites the people of •
the Ukraine, which is already Cossack. The most con-
clusive evidence on the subject'of the personal appear-
ance of the Russians, is to be derived in St. Petersburgh,
from the examination of the Imperial Guard—a selec-
tion from sixty millions. There are many thousands of
men, all up to the six foot standard, and yet it would be
difficult, when stripped of their padding, to find twenty
men equal to the first promiscuous twenty in Queen
Victoria's first or second Life Guards or Blues."—New
Monthly.
EARLY EDITIONS OF SHAKSPEARE.—The sale of
Mr. Jolly's books which took place last week, at Sotheby
and Wilkinson's Rooms, included all the collector's early edi-.
tions of Shakspeare's plays and poems, and lie can have no.
reason to complain that they brought low prices. The first.
folio, of 1623, produced 861., with the verses of Ben Jenson
merely in fac-simile and that only from the second impression,
which was sold for 25/. The copy of the third folio, with the
title-page 0f1663, instead of 1664, was knocked down at 17/. 108.
The second edition of Richard M. brought 171.175. ; and the
edition of Richard 11.,0f1605, 111.55. It is probably a mistake
to suppose the edition of The Merchant of Venice, by lleyes,
.the first ; that with the name of James Roberts at the bottom
of the title-page seems to have better claims to the dis •
unction, as that printer threw off some copies with his own
name, before he'disposed of the publication to neyes ; how-
ever, the first sold for 141., while the last only produced 2/..125.
6d. The gem of the sale, so to speak, was a copy of Venus and
Adonis, of 1594 (not '1593) when it was first printed, in
a very perfect state, although considerably reduced in
size. The biddings for it commenced at 50/1 and were car-
ried on to 106/., when the hammer fell. "The Sonnets of
Shakspeare," an indifferent copy, was bought for 33/. The
surreptitious edition of Shakspeare's Poems in 1640, was in-
debted to the fine portrait, and the good condition of the
book, for the 10/. at which it was knocked down. What
was called in the catalogue the Shakspeare Goblet," and
from which Garrick is stated to have drank at the Drury-
lane (apt the Stratford) Jubilee, produced.3ol. It was stated
that r. Jolly had given 40/. for it ; but an attempt was
made in the room to depredate it, as if it were not 'genuine.