The Sun. — London, England, 1862-04-28 00:00:00

B OURTON- ON- THE -WATE R RAILWAY, -UN Branch of Midland & Great Western, on Title doubts. WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT. Llelit CHARLES ACK ER L EY, R N., v CJLE, Solicitor, 36, Essex-street. —23 d March, 1562.—N0t beinz favoured by a report of this case, we are at fault in not beinsr able to give the offi cial substance in this suit by Plaintiff for loss of time at the office of Defendant, at own request,—not in conformity with the Master of the R)ll'ssmatters on petition —touching the above Railway and othe—Requiring under the Standing Orders of the Peers and Legislative enact ments three clear weeks' notice in the Gloucester papers. The plaintiff's witness, Ralph Disraeli (son of Benjamin the , t h e ex -Chancellor of the Exchequer),—Registrar of Roll's Court, on being placed in the witness-box, gave in an extract from his " Term day book," that the judgment was given on the 15th of March, 1862 ; the which, by the plaintiff's shying, the Gloucester journals of the Ist, Bth, and 15th—was wanting six days of the twenty-one— whereby plaintiff's name being in the same Act, 1 and 2 William IV., No. 54,* with his brother, Joseph Chamberlayne—both to sue and be sued under one Christian and one Sirename'—made it imperative, and ad mitted by defendant as a "sine qua non" for giving se curity to the shareholders. Yet—on cro.s-examination of Cole (defendant) by want of courtesy to the plaintiff, pro ceeded from his opinion that he was "a troublesome fellow," This case (No. 3,465), so peculiar in its views against the family solicitor, also Earl of Radnor and Dean of Gloster, as Lacy trustees—(controling in fact " the College of Ad vocat es")—benchers of the four inns of court, under a county Court summons and supcena fees for entering plaint se. Bd., on disbareng—out-Herods even.their civil law process on Justinian code, over common law, on suit for loss of Plain tiff's time (as a Merchant patentee) by Defendant's own letters, not admitted by the Judge—thus occasioning a re hearing of the case on the 6th of May.—Costs for de fendant, 15s. - - - Note.—This Act of 1832 is the only one in which two brothers, one in the Royal Artillery, and the other (plain tiff) in Royal Navy, sworn in as the 1825 II state " Nulla 0' to the ' Catholic' Emancipation Act of 1829—for making them by the 15th clause " a lay body corporate" (or as the French express it, faisant partea d'une corporation seen liere') on Primeval-tenets of Christianity—so Civil-service opposition of the War-office and Admiralty, &c„ by refus ing to strike out of the Army and Navy lists the double and treble Christian names of fashionable and heraldic import. ¶ By the Ist and 3d clauses of the Bourton Act Railroad Company (on its unregistered ' Inclosure' award), they are made to forestall the four-miles circumference of the Stow Market tolls, by judicial extra-name position of its King's Post Magistrate, by committee of foreigners in violation of the " Adam and Eve consorted" of 1822, for the criminal basis of the colonial common law for all, under this sworn power of the one State Arbiter, by clause 29 of its rider, 8 Vic-, c. 18—be being the ' Prince Consort' with the Indian lady for title to the American soil 'a la Gironde.' Au poids I qui fie donner cette idee si grande A la 1,,i civique.—.ecrite avec forte , Ou l'on voit que jamais I'ENGLAND ne marchande Quand, it faut par 10 sens gagner la Liberte I /TREAT I( E-RO ii AL, HAYMARKET. Lesse Mr. J B. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING, JOHN JONES. Attar which, at half-past 7, will be performed (108th time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Sother Asa Trenchard, Mr. Back stone ; Dundreary, Mr. n. Followed by the Spanish Ballet entitled THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA. Senora Pcrea Nene, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence a 7. • OYAL• LYCEUM THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer. 14 st Night of the ontinuous run of "Peep o'Day." THIS EVENIN G,:PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savournecn Deelish. Messrs. Waiter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falcone. Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Miss M. Hudson. After whi^h, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Witty and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. prhses as usual. Doors open athall-past 6, to commence at Bx-office open daily from it tills. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. I,WISPe, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE TREASURE. To be followed by, at a quarter to Eight o'clock, a new and criminal drama, In five acts, entitled THE GiILDEN DAGGERS. rrincipal characters by Mr. Focht( r, H.Widdi comb, Mr. G. Jordan, Mr. Potter, Mr. J. G. Shore, r. Ca h eart, Mr. Moreland ; Mesdames Elsworthy and Carlotta Le clercq. Mr. A. Harris is happy to state that he has succeeded in indu ing that eminent artist, I%lr. W. Telbin, to Rive the aid ot his unrivalled talent in the meluding tableau of the drama. NEW THFAIRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHL- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, the new domestic drama, entitled DOT : 3lesers. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington. Stephenson; Miss Woolgar, Miss Louise Keeley, Miss H. Simms, &c. After which (4th time), THE PHANTOM. Ruthven, Mr Di on Boucicault. Messrs. J. L. Tool. Emery, Billington, Paul B,dford, Stephenson, Sefton Misses H. Simms, K. Kelly, K. Bland, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Billington. Commence at 7. A S TLEY'S ROYAL AM PHITHEATRE.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Wonderful Performance of Mr. Bell's trained Eleptrnts. THIS EV EN ING. th e Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE RAJAH' OF NA GPORE, introducing two colossal Asiatic Elephants, pronounced by all to be the cleverest animals aver exhibited. To be followed by brilliant and daring feats by the un rivalled Troupe of Equestrians. Concluding with a laughable Farce. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. AND FINE C ANTERBU KY HALL ARTS GALLERY. The miraculous 'ST ECK EL at Ten o'clock. UNSWORTH, "or any other man" (the original), and EUGENE, late principal comedians of the Rumsey and Newcomb Minstrels, at a quarter-past ten o'clock. Grand Selections from " La Sonnambula," by Miss Rus sell, with Band and lull Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh man R. Comic by ?,tcssrs. llnsworth and Eugene, Mr. Randall, Mr. J. G. Forde, Mr. Hollingsworth, and Miss Caroline Parkes. rj' HE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.- Extra and Important Attractions for the Easter Holidays. RURSEY and NEWCOMB'S MINSTRELS (l In number), In their original burlesque, serio-comic, instrumental, and Terpsichorean Entertainment, THE OLIO OF ETIIIOI lAN ODDITIES. Burns' celebrated "Jolly Beggars," with characteristic Music by George Linley. Operatic Selections by Miss Russell and the entire Com pany. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jongh mans. A host of comic talent, including W. Randall and Harvey and French (the Nerves). Ballads, Ducts. &c., &c. ; and, at 11 o'clock, HENRI and PFAU appear in New and Extraordinary Double Feats on the Flying Trapeze. }IIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, lh. 36n.—AfLernoon, lh. 52m, TO-MORROW. -Morning, 2h. 10m.—Afternoon, 2h. 28m, NOTICE. All retaiLtances are, hcncßforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Fun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. (14,3 31 Sir • -' ~ rPtt j' . - vpu t • „‘ 0., t•; rx• s '•.; 'bict .:~. r~~. THE SU - N. LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1862. It was by a truly singular coincidence that upon Easter Monday, the 21st April, 1862, there should have appeared simultaneously—the one from the Press at London, the other upon the Downs at Brighton— I. The Three Panics : an Historical Episode. By RICHARD COBDEN, Esq., M.P. An octavo pam phlet, published by Messrs. WARD and Co. 11. The Review, by Geueial Lord CLYDE, upon the Sussex Downs, of 20,000 Rifle Volunteers. Accordingly as we may look at these tv,o start ling contrasts, through the spectacles now of those whom their opponents call bluntly the " Alarmists," 4)r, 'gain, through the spectacles of those whom their opponents call derisively the champions of Peace- at - any-Priee—maY each of S 83y, with AD DISON'S " gate__ t 4 The Bane and Antidote are both before me!" Instead of the D a „ g et and the volume, or rather the Scroll of PLATO" -an Enfield Rifle and this tell ing pa mphlet by M r . coBBEN Al t h o ugh, really and truly, in the remembrance of that ma gnificent demonstration made on Monday last on the White Hawk Down, near Brighton, we cannot but regard this brilliant an d i nterest i ng brochure of the Memb er for Roadale as little b_t ter than an anachronism —heartily glad are we, Eeverthelcss, to have the opportunity of Welcoming it. It is a consolation to think - that if l\lr. C OB. DEN'S eloquent voice is, nnhappilY, for th e t i me being hushed, by reason of that inopportune and obdurate affection of the throat that of late years has so often been the cause of so mush Par liamentary and popular disappointment—Mr. COB DEN'S pen can still be taken up again by him at in tervals, without detriment, or even inconvenience. So that, if we are still provokingly denied the satis faction of listening to him, we can, at any rate, read him ! And who that has ever turned over the pages of his other celebrated political pamphlets, such as the one en titled " England, Ireland, and America," or such, again, as that still more famous manifesto known as Russia, by a Manchester Manufacturer". there that already knows Mr. COBDEN as a pam phleteer, but will exult in his reappearance once more, pen in hand, no matter what the drift of his latest argument ? '—who is In a very succinct form Mr. COBDEN gives us in his present publication an animated History of " The Three Panics"—the three memorable Panics about what was thought, here in England, to be upon each occasion the imminent probability of an Invasion ! Panic the First took place in 1847-48, being ushered in by the publication ,of the well-known warlike brochure of H. R. H. the Prince DE JOIN VILLE. It was encouraged, as but few will fail to remember, and none certainly can have the temerity to deny, by the indiscreet issuing to the public of what was never intended to have been blurted out—namely, the letter addressed to Sir JOHN BURGOYNE by the Great Duke of WEL LINGTON. It was closed, this First of the " Three Panics,"in the most ludicrous manner in the world — by the most preposterous anti-climax, by the land ing at Newhaven of one " Mr. WILLIAM SMITH !" Without a wig, and with his whiskers recently shaved off—an elderly gentleman, huddled up in an old pea-jacket and an old blue cloth travelling cap —Mr. SMITH having until only a few days previously been known to all Europe during sixteen years as King LOUIS PHIL LIPPE, the sovereign of Constitutional France! Panic the Second dawned, it will be remembered, with the coup d'etat of the 2d December, 18M— when Somobnay nver at Par:a produced a very striking vignette illustration of a familiar passage in SHAKSPERE—by " stealing a precious diadem"— and—" putting it in his pocket 1" It elicited this time—not a Second Letter from the Duke of WEL LINGTON, but in lieu of that, the Militia Bill! It was closed, with more dignity than its immediate predecessor, by the breaking out of the Crimean war, and the apparition soon afterwards of the Anglo-French armies side by side, as opposed to Russia, before the walls of the beleaguered city of Sebastopol. Panic the Third and (thanks, under Heaven, to the Volunteer Movement !) we will hope Panic the Last began in 1859 with the reconstruction of the French navy upon a scale than neither the Great Louis nor yet even the Great NAPOLEON had ever dreamt of ! It close, this—as we now recognise it to be—most salutary alarm in England, with the building of formidable war vessels like the Black Prince and the Warrior, and with the organisation, in 1861, of a force of from 100,000 to 200,000 volunteer rifle- men ! After entertaining his readers, as an y one might be certain before-hand he would very readily con trive to do, with a picturesque and anecdotal narra tive of the Rise and Fall of these successive Panics about a French Invasion, Mr. COBDEN thus gravely sums up his argument :—" If," he writes, with an imperturbable gravity that is almost subversive of our own remembering what the words are that we are about to italicise as really remarkable words, falling from the pen of so keen sighted and bold hearted an Englishman ! " If," writes Mr. COBDEN towards the close of his pam phlet, " the people of this country would offer a practical atonement to France, and at the same time secure for themselves an honourable relief from the unnecessary burdens which their Govern ments have imposed on them, they should imitate a frank proposal for opening negotiations between the two Governments with the view of agreeing to some plan for limiting their naval armaments. This would, undoubtedly, be acceptable to our neighbours as it worild be beneficial to ourselves." Imagine _England drering a practical atonement to France—for what ? According to Mr. COBDEN'S own showing in this very clever but also very illogi cal pamphlet of his upon " The Three Panics" —for what ? Literally, we repeat, according to Mr. COBDEN'S own showing, for what not unna turally arose here in England out of— First of all—the insolent and unprovoked war brochure of the Prinne de JOINVILLE in 1847 ! Secondly—out of the astounding coup d'etat of 1851, the shock of which counter-revolutionary thunderbolt, vibrated elsewhere than merely under the waters of the British Channel ! Thirdly—out of the wholely uncalled-for recon struction of the French imperial navy in 1859: a reconstruction that, unless answered, had certainly an ominous significance, if only from the fact that France herself had no remote colonies of her own to defend, and no coast line in any way in jeopardy ! Yet—for what arose out of these three assuredly (at any rate two of them) all-sufficient provocatives —England it is now gravely suggested by Mr. COBDEN, would do well to offer to France a prac tical atonement ! After all, however—sweeping aside this ludicrous suggestion as not worthy of another moment's seri ous consideration—the under current of Mr. COB DEN'S sparkling and flowing argument is worthy, by reason of its depth, its swiftness, and its right onward course, of the nation's earnest and gravest observation. It carries us irresistibly and directly on to a conclusion such as every patriot in the land must upon the instant accept with a glowing heart and an open hand. The necessity of a reduction in our expenditure ! The necessity of an early abolition of the Income Tax ! The necessity of demonstrat ing by a rational economy the absolute truth of Mr. GLADSTONE'S assertion, that these annual incomings and outgoings upon an average of £70,000,000 are abnormal and exceptional. Yes —heart and soul in ell this, we go with Mr. COB DEN. But—further than this, or rather parallel with this—our hopes and wishes and resolves go heart and soul also for the maintenance, both by sea and by land, of our now, thank Heaven, strongly confirmed sense of National Security. The balance of news 'op the Niagara is, on the whole, unfavourable to the Federals. And, it must be remembered, with the loss of Mr. RUSSELL we have lost one of our most valuable critics, on the spot, of the accounts which we shall henceforth receive. The Northern press is now under a worse regime than that of France. Its corres pondents at the seat of war are those only whom Mr. LINCOLN avows he can punish if they do net send to their journals such news as the Government ap proves. Of course, therefore, we can have nothing approaching to confidence in Northern military accounts, and can only judge of their probable correctness by considering ail the circumstances of the case. To apply to the Northern papers M. JULES FAVRE'S remark on French papers —" They have but one editor, the President," or his Secre tary for War, Mr. STANTON. The difference between General BEAUREGARD'S acFederals is count of th e secon d d ay ' s b a ttl e , an d th a t of the great indeed. The Federals admit a loss of 7,000_2,000 of these prisoners. BEAURE no means of knowing the n umber o ede ir ral s; skilled and wounded, but the GriilDhas, °F course, has taken be can count— prisoners and guns" he and his inventory of thes e is, p r i soners f rom 8,000 Sir MORTON PETO'S letter, which appeared in The Sun of Saturday, claims the immediate atten tion of the public. We are all interested in its subject, for the question of national defence, not withstanding " the three panics" are past, will not be thought unimportant by any considerate person ; while the cheapest mode of securing it appeals, of course, to every Income-tax payer. In passing, indeed we ought to remark, that this is become almost entirely an Income-tax payers' ques tion. That most incurably unjust of taxes is now required solely on account of the extra naval and military expenses the country has seen fit to incur since the Russian war. Bring down these aristo cratical or departmental expenses to the still enor mous cost of twenty millions per annum, and not cnly would no Income-tax be needed, but the amount left in the pockets of the people would swell the Customs, Excise, and other taxes, till a splendid surplus would be left us. Income-tax payers, therefore, should bear in mind that they are directly interested in supporting Mr. LINDSAY, Mr. OSBORNE, Sir MORTON PETO, and all who are endeavouring to prevent the money of the public being blundered away, instead of being appro priated to those defences, to which we must come at last. We believe with Sir MOR TON PETO that when we have squandered unknown sums on fixed forts, we shall still find that they are next to useless, and that the money spent on them would have given us an iron fleet with which we could defy the world, and which would be as good a hundred years hence as when it was new. Sir MORTON shows by the evidence of the highest authorities what, from the first perverse resolve of our well-meaning but misguided Premier to this day, we have earnestly pressed, that ships not forts must be the defence of Spithead. We need not therefore repeat our illustrations of the fact, that no fixed fort has ever done material damage to a ship in motion, nor ever will ; unless, indeed, by a lucky accident—but we do not expend our tens of millions for accidental results. The ship is but a small target for the fort, and shifts its position, say 266 yards per minute ; the fort is a large and fixed 1 target for the ship, which is not hindered by her own motion from firing at the right moment to hit with certainty. Even the citizen who never shot a bird on the wing, can see in a moment the disad ivantage to the fort in places where the ship can, as at Spithead, keep in constant motion, so that the gunner, with his ponderous implement, has to hit, as it were a flying object. Now Sir MORTON PETO states his strong apprehensions that our worthy Premier is, after all, very reluctant to drop his early pet scheme, and we fear he has too much reason for his apprehension. Not only did the speeches of members of the Govern ment after the Shoeburyness experiments indicate an indecent haste to reverse, if possible, the strongly expressed opinion of the House of Commons, but the subject is referred to the old routine Commis sioners who helped Lord PALMERSTON by their first report, and who will as certainly repeat them selves. We all remember the late Bishop of LON DON'S attempt to please both the Puseyites and the moderate Churchmen by sagely allowing the candles to remain on the altar, but forbidding them to be lighted. So the Defence Commission, seeing that all persons perceived that iron ships were our only trustworthy reliance at Portsmouth, yet that the Premier was determined to have his forts, reported in favour of both. That is, in addition to the indis pensable and sufficient defence of the ships, we must pay as much more for fortifications as would be sufficient to insure all the great harbours in the kingdom without them ! We doubt not that Mr. OSBORNE and his compa nions will be at their post after Easter, but it will require the strong support of the country to enable them to retain it. All " The Services" sympathise with each other in extracting money from the Trea sury for what they each, with professional one sidedness, think the all important object. Each, therefore, comes to the help of the other. Then the Premier must be pleased. Then the Tories are always for spending, be it on what it may, and great as the grief may be that they are not the spenders. Then, again, hon. members are pushed on, indi vidually, by a few interested persons who get their ear. Altogether, the advocates of economy, even when, as in the present case, it is the economy of putting the right means of defence in the right place, are always at a disadvantage in the House. to 10,000, 13111 s 35 ! Of course he adds that Hence the importance of the country itself making the Confederates retired, not were " driven its decided opinions known, and not being deterred and ranted" back to Corinth. The latter is from expressing them by the old cry- that it is pro the representaijon of the Federals, but it hardly fessional work which we do not understand. We agreesA routed do understand it. We have the materials before us and with fleeing y o prisoners. The for understanding it. The professional men them other sr the m heavyea loss not o k e ep e e p p r i its on e prisoners. unfavourable item from the North is the selves have furnished them, and the public, as a jury, detention of MCLELLAN before Yorktown. We are quite competent to judge of their conflicting have already described the strength of its defence, testimony. and the Southern journals express their confidence We quite concur with Sir MOITON PETo that that M'CLELLAN will be driven back to Fort Mon- the country ought to look with " extreme referred roe. Even the journalists, however, whom Mr. faction" on any portion of this subject being referred STANTON can punish, report that large Confederate back again to the Commission of routinists, who reinforcements have arrived, and that the defence have already proved their incompetency. That the and attack will be on an extensive scale. We begin, present necessity for reconstructing our navy is a therefore, to think of a Sebastopol affair before fact which calls for the employment of a superior M'CLELLAN can march to Richmond. The class of minds, very different from the old easy- Southern papers also continue defiant. going officials whose " want of scientific and prac- Let us, however, look at the other side. Corn- tical skill has already cost the country countless modore FooTE is at work against the fortification treasure." We want a commission on national de next to Island No. 10, Fort Pillow. But those fences of "men of science, practice, and experience, who will be at the trouble of consulting a good map at once unprejudiced and unpledged." Unless will see that there is quite a series of forts, most of such a commission be appointed, we may rest them well placed, to be reduced before Memphis can assured that the mere waste at the Admiralty will be reached, after the reduction of which, five or six amount to a sixpenny, if not a shilling income-tax. hundred miles of river navigation between hostile with, of course, nothing to show for it. banks, supplying his steamboats with no fuel for It is gratifying naturally to us to find our general their voyage, would lie between the Commodore views, so strongly supported by a gentle aml New Orleans. The most serious thing against man of such practical knowledge, and entire freedom from theories and crotchets as Sir the Confederates, if true, is that General MITCHELL has occupied 100 miles of the Memphis MORTON PETo, backed as he is by the first and Charleston Railroad. To understand the rate knowledge in purely nautical matters great significance of this, the reader must remem- of Mr. LINDSAY. They are of the class of nien ber that Corinth, BEAUREGARD'S position, is who tell us what can be done ; and how to do it situated on this railroad—that it connects Missis- most economically as well as efficiently. It is their sippi and Alabama, where BEAUREGARD is defend- daily business to judge of this kind of things, after Fog himself, with the Carolinas, Georgia, and the conference with the first scientific men in each de- Atlantic coast ; that therefore to occupy it is to eat ro. G,LCII -- thc tnanderine on of lbo completely all BEAUREGARD'S communications with old Admiralty Board, of honest men, it is true, the Atlantic States—in fact, to isolate him—except but men without the requisite practice and know by a most circuitous route. And should the ledge, must be very provoking. Sir M. PETO is of Northern reserves comes up in great force in Ten- opinion that our conversion of wooden vessels, nessee, BEAUREGARD would have no alternative though necessary as a temporary measure, will ulti but to fall back along the New Orleans Railway, mately prove a costly inutility. The iron, first, adds which crosses the other at Corinth. Fort Pu- nothing to the strength; secondly, weakens there laski, the outer defence of Savannah, in Georgia, fore by its weight; and, thirdly, will not work is also reported to have fallen. But even with wood, without rotting and injuring it. Vessels the loss of the city itself, which will be built of wood and iron will soon cost enormous sums stoutly defended, would have no material effect on for repairs. the progress of the war. The sum of all appears to Sir M. PETO, however, is not one of those who be, that the Federals have received a fearful check censure without taking the reponsibility of saying at Pittsburg Landing, near Corinth ; and are yet what should be done. Here is his practical plan— unable to take the first step towards Richmond, " The olass of vessels which will in the end which must be through Yorktown—two checks in prove the least expensive, and the most efficient the most important parts of the war. On the other for purposes of defence, will, I believe, be found to hand, the Confederates have lost Fort Pulaski on the be iron ships, of sufficient size to mount large Atlantic, and Fort Pillow on the Mississippi is guns in central batteries protected by shields, besieged. While more important than all, if correct, and fitted also to act as rams, by the aid of General. MITCHELL has cut BEAUREGARD'S com- powerful steam machinery. Vessels of this munication with the Eastern, and much stronger, class have all the advantages of forts, with Confederate States. the additional all-important superiority of mo- bility. They may be manned with the greatest facility, and with the smallest number of men, There would be no limit to their durability ; and unless damaged in action, the only repair they would require would be a coat of paint. A sufficient number of these vessels for the protection of our coasts and harbours might be constructed in two or three years on the Tyne, the Mersey, the Clyde, and the Thames, for a far less sum than that which will have to be expended on fortifying Portsmouth and the other dockyards. The Government would find no difficulty in contracting for the construction of the hulls of these ships at fixed and certain prices. They could ensure perfection of material and work manship ; and the machinery and engines would be supplied by makers of unquestioned reputation, or furnished from the condemned vessels of the wooden navy. Competition for the construction of these ships would ensure, also, new designs and improved forms, which it is hopeless to expect to obtain from present sources." We have not the least doubt that Sir MORTON would be the best person to work his own plan. He is not a man who has failed in achieving any engi neering object he has undertaken yet, and this is entirely a question of engineering. We believe the nation would save millions of money, and secure far more efficient defences if Lord PALMERSTON were to place the whole matter in his hands in connection with one or two like-minded associates. Just as in the case of Crimean railroad, they would know what to do, and find the men to do it. Lord CANNING'S arrival in England, it will be seen, has come upon us all like a surprise. Upon a day, and at an hour, when least expected, it was announced that the ex Governor-General of India has landed at Dover. Although an address of congratulation had been prepared beforehand by the municipality of that seaport—although it was in readiness for presentation to his ex-Ecellency, by the Dover Corporation—Lord CANNING'S arrival came so abruptly to the knowledge of the Mayor, that that functionary had but time to hurry down alone for the purpose of at least offering his own individual felicitations. There is no doubt what ever that the mere fact of the noble Viscount's re- turn becoming known, will be enough to elicit wherever he may go, the cordiality with which all alike are disposed to welcome him. For, is not this the Proconsul who held the fasces of our imperial rule in Hindostan when all India was in open revolt against our authority, and who continued in power until long after that sanguinary rebellion had been crushed out, and even the blackened and blood stained evidences of it entirely obliterated ? Surely, if any ex-Governor-General from India deserves it, he is entitled to an earnest welcome home again upon the morrow of his arrival here in England. The extraordinary reforms, moreover, that have been introduced into the social, and political, and juridi cal, and moral, and intellectual systems of India, during the period of Lord CANNING'S ever memo rable administration—give the noble Viscount a direct title to any evidences that may be afforded to him of the grateful recollection of his se/vices during the last six or seven years among his own immediate and appreciative contemporaries. Already he has earned, and we hope before long, will have obtained, his Earldom. As a signal token of the approbation of the Crown, Lord CANNING'S arrival in England is announced simultaneously with the fact that he is at once to receive the Blue Riband—the highest purely honorary distinction within the gift of the SOVEREIGN. In the same batch of new Knights of the Gar ter, together with Viscount CANNING, all will rejoice to see numbered her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and, side by side with Earl RUSSELL, one of the most noble hearted and gentle hearted practical philanthro pists in the land—who needs, when we have said this, to be told that it is no other than the Earl of SHAFTESBURY Hurried and almost inarticulate though the welcome given to Lord CANNING was at Dover im mediately upon his landing, we doubt not that upon his lordship's appearance in the metropolis a demon stration, worthy of the man and of the occasion, will evidence to all England, end beyond the furthest confines of Europe, to our vast and remote pos sessions in Hindostan, the popular recognition of the:great and good services done both to the Crown THE SUN LONDON, MOND .ANT EVENING, APRIL 28, 1862. and to the country by this last returned, and, far LATI S I ' IN EW S. from least, among our Indian Pro-consuls. We hear so many helf-timed discussions on the state of the " National Defences," that it is very pleasant to notice how one practical experiment after another confirms the belief, which we oan but have after all, that we could give a pretty good account of any invader. We saw on Easter Monday with what ease and certainty we could place twenty thousand men on any threatened part of the coast at a few hours' notice; the Brighton review has assured us that we want nothing but a complete coast railway system to enable us to meet an enemy, let him make the attempt to land wherever he might. Last Thursday an artillery experiment with the ordinary field batteries of 12-pounder Armstrongs, gave us an illustration of what could be done by their firing from the beach among the boats of a landing army. The trial was made on a large num ber of floating targets, at from one to three thou sand yards' distance ; the firing was with shell, the accurate bursting of which, and the complete de struction of the targets excited general admiration and astonishment. " Hardly a vestige of the tar gets was left, and it was agreed on all hands that not a mart could have reached the shore alive." It is very satisfactory that guns so easily handled were so wonderfully effective. But, it may be remembered, that some of Sir W. ARMSTRONG'S most remarkable feats, those which at first excited so much astonishment, were performed by his small guns with wonderful skill. The breech-loading plan, indeed, appears to be best adapted to smaller artillery. Experiments with such satisfactory results are well worth their cost ; and though we should not grudge the cost of those trhich d.cruced en weakness, it is yet more gratifying to discover unexpected strength. RAGUSA, APRIL 27. Dervisch Pasha has determined to defend himself in Albania. The Bashi-Bazouks have deserted Hussein Pasha. The Montenegrins have taken Ljeskopoglie, and are cannonading Zabljak. A skirmish has taken place at Zubzi. Luca V acalovitch is concentrating his forces at Stolzi. BERLIN, APRIL 26. The semi-official Allgemeine Preussiche (Stern) Zeitung of to-day says : " The estimates for the public income and expen diture are to be published in future in the official Gesetzsammlung at the commencement of the fiscal year, with a view to serve as a guide to the Admi nistration. His Majesty has decided that the Budget for 1863 shall be laid before the next Cham ber at the same time as the Budget for 1862. " A more detailed statement of the income and expenditure of both Budgets has been likewise de termined upon, as the requisite arrangements can be accomplished before the period fixed for the assembling of the Chamber." VIENNA, APRIL 26. At a Ministerial Council presided over by the Emperor to-day the adoption, as a principle, of Ministerial responsibility has been resolved upon. The reduction to be made in the Austrian army will amount to 8,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry. TRIESTE, APRIL 26. News from Athens states that the King has ordered the establishment of a National Guard on (he Be/ 8 4. z,..4..0;r1. The Greek Chambers have been convoked for the 7th of May. The King and Queen were cheered by the people upon returning from mass. TURIN, APRIL 26. M. Benedetti and Sir lames Hudson, the French and English Ambassadors to the Italian Court, have left for Naples. THE HERZEGOVINA. RAGUSA, APRIL 26. 'rho Prince of Montenegro has accepted all the articles of the ultimatum sent to him by Omar Pasha. The Montenegrins, however, still remain in the Herzegovina. Omar Pasha has sent a messenger to the Prince of Montenegro, proposing the recognition of the complete autonomy of the Herzegovina by the Porte. The Prince has accepted the proposal. SUEZ, APRIL 26. The 'violence of the cholera in the Mauritius has abated. The prospects of the crops are good. Appre• hensions occasioned by the hurricane have dis appeared. Sugar unchanged. Stock in hand, 10,000 tons of Last year's crop. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 28. The royal mail steamship Shannon, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 286 passengers, 1,845,000 dols. in specie, and 1,700 packages of cargo. She left St. Thomas on the 13th instant. The account of the fire at Kingston, Jamaica, is confirmed. It occurred on the 29th ultimo, and is reported to have laid a large portion of the business part of the city in ashes. No such destruction of property had ever taken place in Jamaica before. Thirty-five business places were burnt in a few hours. The stocks destroyed comprised all kinds of merchandise. The loss is estimated at £200,000, only a small portion of which is covered by insurances. Attempts to fire the city on three different occa sions had since been discovered. Trade was much depressed, although the weather was fine. Coffee, very limited supply. Pimento, scarce. Sugar, 15s. to 16s. Exchange 90 days, I per cent. premium. At Barbadoes native provisions were scarce and dear. The crops were suffering from want of rain. Butter scarce and wanted. Exchange, 90 days, 490 dols. At Demerara the importations from the United States were moderate. Prices of breadstuffs were maintained. Shipping was wanted. Weather fine for growing crops. Trade dull, with a slight tendency to improvement. Exchange, 90 days, 483 dols. HER MAIESTI'S 2HEAT.RE. The long looked-for opening of her Majesty's Theatre took place on Saturday last, and never has there assembled within the walls of this, one of the most celebrated theatres in the world, a more brilliant and fashionable audience. The aspect of the theatre with its numerous tiers of boxes, each containing a group of the beauties of England, was perfectly enchanting, and if the opening night can be looked upon as any augury of success—in this instance we think it can—then a brilliant and successful season will be the result of Mr. Mapleson's bold enterprize. With respect to the company engaged, the new lessee has surrounded himself with artistes of the greatest eminence, at the head of which stands Madlle. Titiens and Signor Guiglini, and amongst whom is Signor Geraldoni, a new baritone, who made a most favourable impression on Saturday evening, as also did a Madlle. Doria (one rf, our own fair countrywomen, we believe), who possesses a clear and highly-cultivated soprano voice. The opera chosen to inaugurate the Beason was Verdi's latest and best, namely, "Un Ballo in Maschera," one, it must be acknowledged by all present on Saturday evening, admirably adapted to the an isles at " Her Majesty's." '1 he plot of the opera, of course, will be familiar to all playgoers, operatic or dramatic, it being, in fact, the same as that performed with so much success years ago at Covent. garden and Drury-lane under the title of " Gus tavus HI., or the Masked Ball." The reception given to Madlle. Titiens was one of those hearty outbursts which an English audience knows so well how to bestow on an established favourite; it was long, loud, and enthusiastic, ten thousand times to be preferred by a genuine artist to the fashionable bouquet-throwing system now so much in vogue. The Amelia of Mademoiselle Titiens in the opera is no novelty to the London public. The genuine hit she made in it last year at the Lyceum is doubtless fresh in the recol lection of our :musical readers, and as 'her performance was highly eulogised in our columns on that occasion, more than the passing remark that it was as good as ever will not be required. Her singing was superb, and her acting magnificent. Signor Guiglini's exquisite singing of the air "La rivedia nell' estasi " was one of the most delicious bits of vocalisation ever heard. It enchanted the audience, and of course had to be repeated to quiet the enthusiastic applause it elicited. Signor Geraldoni is an artiste of uncommon ability ; he can not but be a most valuable acquisition to the English Italian stage. At the conclusion of the opera the National Anthem was given with great effect—the solos being given by Madame Titiens and Madame Lemaire. The highest praise must be awarded to Signor Arditi and his splendid band. lie conducted it in a masterly manner, and the special recognition he received, when he appeared in the orchestra, was well deserved. Her Majesty has intimated that it is her Royal pleasure to bestow the vacant garters upon Lord Canning, the Duke of Somerset, Lord Russell, Lord Shaftesbury, and Lord Fitzwilliam. The Crown Prince of Prussia will take up his abode at Buckingham Palace, where a suit of rooms will be prepared and placed at his disposal during his stay in this country.—Court Circular. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at tended by Sir Richard Airey and Colonel Forster, left the Pavilion Hotel, at Folkestone, on Saturday, after a stay of four days, while on a tour of military inspection in the neighbourhood. His Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio has left town for Turin, in consequence of the demise of the Mar chese d'Azeglio, the marquis's mother. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll will arrive to eay at their villa at Campden-hill, from visiting the Duchess (Dowiger) of Sutherland, at Cliefden, near Maidenhead. The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa e&vendish are expected at Devonshire House to-morrow, from Lismore Castle, near Waterford. The Duke of Rutland arrived at his residence, in Cromwell-road, on Saturday, from Belvoir Castle. The Duke of Newcastle will arrive in town to• day, from Clumber Park, where his grace has been passing the holidays. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath have arrived at their residence, in the Stable-yard, from Long leat, for the season. The Marquis and Marchioness of Drogheda are expected in town in a few days, from Ireland, for the season. The Earl and Countess Grey arrived in Paris on Thursday last, from Nice, and are expected to reach London to-morrow. The Earl and Countess of Fife come to town to-day, from Buckingham, where they have been passing the holidays. The Earl and Countess of Devon have arrived at their residence in Berkeley -street from Powderham Castle. The Earl and Countess Stanhope came to town to-day from Cheyening Park, Sevenoaks. Viscount Castlerosse bas returned to town from his seat at Killarney, where his lordship has passed the Easter recess. Viscount Hood and Captain Malet arrived in town a few days ago from Canada, the former on leave of absence, and the latter officer from impaired health. Lord Brougham has arrived in Paris from Cannes, The noble and learned lord is expected to arrive in London on Friday or Saturday next. Lord and Lady Chelmsford will arrive at their residence in Eaton-square to. day from Paris. Lady Egerton of Tatton has issued cards for an assembly en Wednesday, the 6th of May, at her residence in St. James's-square. Baron and Baroness Meyer de Rothschild come to town to-day from Mentmore. Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel are expected at their residence in Whitehall-gardens this evening, from their chateau on the Lake of Geneve, where they have been spending the holidays. Sir George Cornewall Lewis, M.P., comes to town to-day, from visiting the Earl and Countess of Claren don, at the Grove, near Watford. Mr. and Lady Isabena Schuster and family passed through town yesterday en route for Chalfont Park, Bucks. The reception of the Japanese Ambassadors at Court is of course exciting a great deal of curiosity and in terest ; but at present it is not known whether her Majesty will receive the Envoys previously to her departure for the North, or after her return from Balmoral.- -Court Circular. THE NEW CHANCELLOR OF CAMBRIDGE.—The installation of the Duke of Devonshire as High Steward of the borough of Cambridge is to take place on the 7th of May. A meeting of the town council is to be held early in the day, and the Mayer will afterwards give a dejeuner dinatoire Advantage is to be taken of the occasion to in augurate new public rooms which have been for some time in course of erection in the town ; and in the evening there will be n public soiree at the School of Art, at which the Duke of Devonshire will distribute medals and prizes to the most deserving students. The Duke will also during his stay at Cambridge distribute the prizes and certificates awarded to the successful candidates at the Non-greraial Examination held in December. On Tuesday, the 10th of June, the installation of his Grace as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge will take place in the Senate house, when an ode written by Professor Kingsley and set to music by Professor Sterndale Bennett will be performed. Various other proceedings will also take place on this inte resting occasion, a public breakfast being spoken of inter FRANCE. BOURSE, April 26, Two o'Clock.—There has been only a very limited amount of business doing, but the prices of yesterday have been firmly main tained. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f. 40c. Railways also quiet. Three o'Clock.—The market closed as follows:- 4i per per Cents ... 98 55 Bank Shares 3140 Do end month.... 98 60 Credit k oncier 1515 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 70 40 Piedmontesc Fives 69 55 New 3 per Cents .. 69 60 Italian Loan 6B 80 Do. end month.... Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 837 50 Spanish Threes 62 25 Do. end month.... 842 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS, Cash. Account. Orleans 1290 1 . 191 50 Northern 1045 .. 1045 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1141 25 .. 1138 75 Geneva 375 .. 375 Southern Bll 25 .. 812 50 Western Eastern Sardinian 370 Austrian Lombard 685 683 75 GREECE. The Athens correspondent of the Nord writes from that capital on,the 17th inst. as follows: " Athens, April 17. " The tactics of our Government in spreading false news are truly admirable, and do it credit. Last Saturday I was at one of the Ambassadors', when he received copies of the following telegrams, with the request to forward them to his Govern ment in his despatches just leaving by the Austrian steamer : • " Entire dissolution of the revolutionists. A great number of families have left by land and sea. Continued arrivals of officers and men. This sad business is nearly over. (Signed) " HAHN. " Argos, April 11.' [SECOND DESPATCH.] " Ojatrides has left Nauplia. He says that the apostates have demanded a contribution of 13,000 drachms from Satros, who cannot pay them. The delay given him expired yesterday. Satros has been imprisoned in Fort Palimedes : his life is in danger. His parents must send money to ransom him.' " Now, all these telegrams are pure fabrications, and General Hahn did not sign them at all. Up to the moment I am writing the dissolution of the re volt had not taken place. Nauplia is still in the hands of Grivas, who knows quite well what he is about, and only a few families have left. They soon repented having done so, as they found no shelter at Argos, and were left in the open air with out food, while at Nauplia they had nothing to fear. The statement that Satros has been impri soned is also false. He himself has been outside the City and has denied it. Other persons confirm that, the greatest order prevails inside Nauplia. M. Tri coupi, whom I saw yesterday at the funeral of Sir Thomas Wyse, the British Minister (who died on the 15th inst.), has in vain endeavoured to to grant reforms. H av i ng with induce the King much eloquence exposed the evils which the na tion is suffering from the obstinacy in maintaining a system condemned by ail, which may lead to a complete stagnation of all business, and the neces sity of granting a general amnesty and changing the Ministry, M. Tricoupi was dismissed by the King with the observation that the inhabitants of Nauplia were leaving, and that the drama would soon be over. Please God it may be so,' replied M. Tricoupi, but I fear lest the Government will lose all respect by the capture of Nauplia, and then nothing will be able to check the passions that will be aroused, and all government will be rendered im possible. Thus notaing can change the course of events. Advice has been given in good time, but s fatality hangs over it. Let us hope that the solu tion will be in accordance with the desires of the Greek people.'" AMERICA, QUEENSTOWN, APRIL 27. The Royal Mail steamship Niagara arrived here at 8 p.m. She brings 87 passengers and 55,000 dole. in specie. She landed 129 sacks of mails and 14 passengers, and proceeded at 8 15 p.m. ; all well. _ (Per the Niagara, via Roche's Point, Cork Harbour.) NEW YORK, APRIL 15, EVENING. Gen. Beauregard's official report of the second da y'& battle at Pittsburg Landing says : " From 8,000 to 10,000 Ftderal prisoners and 3 6 cannon were captured, and the Confederates retired to their entrenchment at Corinth." The Federal War Department publishes a semi' official despatch, stating that the Confederates were routed and pursued as far as the previous orders of General Grant permitted. Tne same Cledpatal ru.tixor states that the Confe derates were now shut up in Corinth. Commodore Dupont officially reports that the blockading squadron captured the ship Emily St. Pierre, from Calcutta for Charleston, with a cargo of gunny-cloth. The same squadron also captured the British sloop Coyell, from Nassau, two miles from Charleston. The steamer Nashville is reported to have sr' rived at Charleston. The Federal General, Mitchell, has occupied 100 miles of the Charleston and Memphis Railroad. It is reported that the Confederates have left Fredericksburg for Richmond and Yorktown. Large Confederate reinforcements have arrived at Yorktown. It is reported that the siege and, the defence will be un an extensive scale. The Merrimac has made no further decisive movements. The new American treaty with Mexico provides that criminals may be remanded by the State autho rities of any State, without reference to the genera' Government. Savannah advices received at Fortress Monroe state that Fort Pulaski surrendered on the 11th unconditionally to the Federal gunboats. (Per Niagara, by Telegraph to Halifax, and from Queenstown.) NEW YORK, APRIL 17, EVENING. President Lincoln has signed the bill f o r the emancipation of the slaves in the district of Colure' bia. M. Mercier, French Minister at Washington, has left for Richmond. His hasty departure create much speculation. General M'Clellan is reported to be continuing active preparations to storm Yorktown. The Merrimac has returned to Norfolk. Commodore Foote, with the gunboat flotilla, ha s opened fired on Fort Pillow, Mississippi. Genera l Pope's command occupies the Arkansas shore. The Southern journals think that the Federal° will be driven from Yorktown to Fort Monroe, an d vanquished by the force under Gtnerals Johnstost Lee, and Magruder. The Southern press continues defiant. It is reported that the money voted by Congres s for coast and frontier defences is to be appropriate to the construction of iron-clad floating batteries. The Canada has arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, APRIL 17, EVENING. Money easy, gold 11 prem. Exchange dull' bankers' bills, 112; ; stocks buoyant. Cotton cell firm. Breadstuffs tending downward. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION' The following are particulars of the clock sent in by M r. Benson :—The frame of movement is nearly 10 feet looP made of strong iron planed to a fine surface and s troa l l e bolted together, having three great wheels measuring °le -2 feet in diameter each. They are made of the finest metal, as are all the other wheels, cut and finished by ti engine. All the pivots will work in gun-metal bosses 0'; in plummer blocks. These plummer blocks have fleTed been applied to clockworkbefore, and the advantage gai l/e is, that they allow of any portion of the clockwork b eia . removed without disturbing the remainder when it requi re cleaning, &c. It will chime the quarters on four be t . The chimes are the same as those of St. Mary's, at CA; bridge, but so arranged that by their intonation they 19 : 4 ; denote 2d, 3d, and 4th quarters, as the case racy be, W I will strike the hour on a fifth bell. These five bells We i g - a 50 cwt., and are from the foundry of Messrs. Mears, ho °% a compensating pendulam measuring over all 15 feet, viri Pe • will vibrate once in two seconds. The motive powe r 1 :4 obtained by iron weights of nearly a ton, which are Eah in one corner of the south front of the bition building, some two hundred feet from '-of clock itself, being connected with the clock by mean pulleys and lines carried under the floor of the exhibitio; the dial of the clock is placed in front of the building, °le the grand entrance in Cromwell- road, at a distance of near i ti , 300 ft. It is Oft. in diameter, was designed at the Sl3tirr Kensington Museum, under the superintendence of 1)"": Cole and Capt. Fowke, and manufactured by Mr. 2. 13 g 1 :b i1 : in his enamelled slate. But the special peculiarity -of clock is a new double lever remontoir, the ap plicatico which diminishes the friction or retarding force, and scio, allow of great motive power, even to the extent of sec er ii, tons, being used without disturbing the timekeeping 1 4 ° r e ties of the clock. It is always necessary, when there are great disturbing or impeding forces to overcome, Buell instance as the wind blowing against the hands of the cl°°oo or the dial being at a great distance from the movemen t v is the case with this clock, that a great mctive power 01 0 o r be employed ; and the advantage , theref ore , of this lee, invention is palpable, by preventing irregularities in rl ° iy keeping occasioned by the necessity of employing s e , gre at motive power — hence the superiority of this arritle, ment to clocks where great motive power is indispen!,,eb d lt is believed to be as large a clock as has been manuf actt 'd in this country, excepting the great Westminster clock' b e ll w ould strike with sufficient force to obtain a tone fro m 6 of equal weight to the W es t m i ns t er b e ll. Th e e ntire fi n es is of the highest c l ass . Th e f oun d a ti ons ' of the clocic erected by Messrs. li e lk an d L u ca s in solid brickwork, "0, sunk some 15ft. b e l o w the floor of the exhibtion. T heir mi ° er work is by P o tt er , of South Molton-street, who also v`oro, the four dial s to be placed at the cardinal points. Ale'ifill Jackson, of Rathbone-place, are fitting with their betnit work the exterior of the clockcase, which will b e de"orate by Mr. Croce. Messrs. Moniton are laying the ir erte°l3,lt, tiles round the base. The entire structure of the el°l3g, case is from designs by Mr. Leddle, of the South Kell° ton Museum. DUNDEE.—THE f SEAL FISHING. --O n Friday' - (3 a noon the screw-whaler Narwhal, Captain Deuchare, in the Tay from the sealing at Ol d Greenla nd , after all - r a Bence from Dundee of about six weeks. She has 01 1 about 1,500 seals, and after h avin g dischar g ed her c r ap ' will leave for the whaling abo ut Tuesda y next. Tl lO : e t tain reports that when he lef t the Dund ee , t he only i Dundee vessel ex the ground , had about 900 se als ; 813,c i ,fll j. other vessels of the fleet ave ra g ed from 1,000 to 2,00 u ";;0 —a Peterhead ship having the higher number.—Sco tsti: o , EXTRAORDINARY FISH CAUGHT IN THE r .--On Thursday night l ast, there was cau g ht b y the wen of Pittenweem, for Mr. James Muirhead, fish t files wen man, Edinburgh, a halibut of the g re ate st weiO di me nsions ever know n to be c aught in this quarter. t measured in length 6 feet 4 i nches ; breadth, 3 fee f ia o inches ; thicknes s, 12i inches at m iddle. T he weigl't of 2881 b. imperial. It was sent by Mr. Muirh ead to oil" the southern English markets for sale.—Scotsinan.