The Sun. — London, England, 1852-01-27 00:00:00

Under the above Act, not only magistrates, but the lowest fellow in the police, may enter any Eaglishman's "castle," as he fancies his house to be, and without a summons, and without a warrant, and on his own bare authority, may haul him to a court of justice, where he may be at once committed to hard labour as a "rogue and vagabond," for three calendar months ! In vain may he ask to be tried by a jury; in vain may he hope to be allowed to see his friends or his lawyer. " No, " be will be told, "the prison regulations do not per mit this indulgence but once in three months." And if be be not well versed and learned in the law, and aware of the fact that he cannot appeal against " such act or determination" of the justice, if he allow seven days to elapse (and the prison regulations ac tually prohibit him from seeing a lawyer), then must he undergo the full sentence of three months' con finement and hard labour, either at that vile instru ment of torture the treadmill, or by solitary impri eeeeseer se a ..eta ewe dreary cell, compelled to pick out a given quantity of oakum every day, and for bidden to raise hie voice even in a hymn to his Crea tor, under penalty of three days' incarceration in an underground dungeon or dark hole called a refrac tory cell. Mr. Proctor was actually threatened with this punishment for merely bumming a few bars of " Religion never was designed to make our plea sure less." But who, Sir, are the wicked and bad men that are liable to these things ? The third section says, " Every petty chaprnan or pedler wandering abroad, and trading, without, being duly licensed," may be committed to the House of Correction for one month, and every person who shall " beg or gather alms." True, the blessed Jesus said, " Give to every one that asketh of thee." But this Castlereagh law, this worse than Turkish Act of Parliament, says, " nay, but give to everyone that asketh of thee one month's bard labour at the treadmill." But the 4th clause goes further—it declares that every person "lodging in the open air," though he be destitute of the means to procure a lodging, " shall be deemed a rogue and vagabond," and he may be kept to hard labour for three calendar months. This is consistent enough, for it we punish fur asking alms. we should of course punish for being destitute. Yet if we do this, let us not be guilty of the mockery of calling ours.3lves after Him who rebuked his disciples for forbidding the destitute to ask of Him. The Act creates a number of other offences ; and then authorises " any person" to apprehend " any person," and charge him or her with being an idle and disorderly person, or a rogue and vagabond, or an incorrigible rogue, and to take the persons so ap prehended and their " goods" before a justice; and their " bundles, parcels, packages," &c., may be in spected, and their money taken, and their goods sold, to defray their expenses at the House of Correction, &c. So that an entirely destitute person can be punished in person only, but a man having property is to be punished in his purse also. And this plan of seizing property is largely acted on, for even a man's private library has been stripped, and his books, globes, nautical almanacs, mathematical instruments, Sm., seized, and never seen by him again. Yet, in the days of " Wilkes and liberty," it was made the law of the land that books and . papers should not be liable to be seized except for high treason. Alas ! it is easy, by such an Act as this vile Vagrant Act, to annul and repeal all the liberties of Englishmen ; and so say the magistrates, " goods " means books and papers; and a fig for Wilkes, and a fig for liberty, and hurrah for the Vagraut Act, and the summary jurisdiction of the Solons who sit upon the bench of justices l And Heaven knows, Sir, they have reason to rejoice, for they have power, where any person " resists" a peace officer, or shall be twice convicted to commit him until the quarter sessions, and then he may be kept for one whole year at hard labour and in solitary confinement, and may also be " whipped," at the discretion of the said justices ! And all this with out any trial by jury ! Sweet liberty is this ! " But, oh !" will say the stickler for magisterial power, "the Act is only applied to vagrants, bad characters, &c., and, therefore, cannot do much harm." And some folk really think so, and conclude that as vagrants are usually poor and do not vote for Members of Parliament, we may safely treat Liberty as a nonen tity when she appears in their persons. Ido not agree with this doctrine ; but the objection is not true, for magistrates make a custom of sending spies into peoples' houses to induce them to break this law, and then pounce upon them, drag them from their homes, and sanction the police in despoiling them of their property, and then thrust them into a solitary cell, there to be kept to bard labour and undergo all the refinements of modern prison discipline, alias cruelty, such as wearing a mask and being subject to perpe tual silence. And this conduct has been recently brought by memorial before Sir George Grey, which 73 : 3t able 'Whig lover of liberty sanctions it, and de utttres that he will not interfere. And the Recorder in duty hand lays it down as law, that the magistrates are hand to send into an English gentleman's house "t o time see what he is about ! It seems high therefore, call ontheL t e hat the public take up the case, and dena gislat ure t o pare th e c l aw s of these magisterial And I tru s t that by amending the Va g rant Act. will send short those of your readers who think so for that House pa y s no petitions t o th e H ouse o f C ommons , 'son ma such a to long ones. Any pe y write uh a cap and send it toany e e petition on a sheet of fools to be effectualseould be Member t o present. But t hi s, meets.—l am, , done by the ti me P ar li amen t Sir, Yours , &c., R. .J. MORRISON. ORIGINAL ANECDOTE OF - E HORSE. , individually, than (From Kidd's London ..T o 4 711 cannot fairly The horse has puzzled u s more ' individually, any other animal; and though w e that we believe him to be gifted with e. y assert yea readily allow that Providence has placedrehls"'" highest scale of animal excellence. If we were 'T in the one-twentieth part of what we have seen to ad°rarireehlte connexion with the instinct of the horse, we should ea_ teed all bounds. Well do w e reme mber , when a mere boy, forming a strong attachment to a h an d some grey mare, rejoicing in the name of - Peggy." Her propor tions were large, her height considerable, and her pre sence noble. We were always to be found, whenever we were missed, in the stable with "Peggy;" or seated on her bare back, without saddle or madly galloping, or bridle, all over the fields in front of the house. The scene of these adventures was at Stockwell, Surrey,. The friendship existing between ou rselves and thi s charming creature, was nicely b a l a nced. Wo were, scarcely ever parted, e P egg ,, would come and kneel o n a ll fours" for us to mount; and when mounted, down went her ears, up went her tail, and away we flew, helte•r skelter—sauve qui peat! to the terror of all beholder e. Then would our exhausted playfellow bend down, wit h affectionate tenderness, to deposit her welcome load o n terra firma, just as carefull y, as she did to take it ti o .. Our age, when these achievements came off, and th ie early affection was formed, did not exceed seven years' If any thing could induce us to believe that animals were capable of " reasoning," su re l y it would be " Peg gy's" own dear self. She was the very paragon of af fection. I was her best, her dearest friend ; and sh-e, " the g o dd ess ( a fat g oddess, I m ust own !) of my idola- Y." There are p e rsons yet living wh o will read this., tr and remember vividly having seen the Edito r of " Kidd'.-:. I I.endon Journal" thus mounted!—even then layi ng t h e f oundation of a love for the animal creation, which 1 h as , never diminished, but &sib increased. A STRANGE SERMON BY A ROMANIST PRIEST. (From a Correspondent of the Clare Journa') I made a visit to the far-famed west last week, and having heard that Mr. Meehan, P.P. of Carigaholt, was to harangue the people at the chapel of Cross, on Sun day last, I accordingly waited, and obtained a place amongst the crowd. I send you the following brief outline of his sermon, which may serve as a s p ec i men o f the manner i n which, the poor people of the west are instructed by this agitating priest, and how landlords are held up to execration, and the plainest truths per verted and facts misrepresented, to work upon the minds of the deluded but well-disposed people. Father Meehan is making a last and dying struggle to stop the epirit of inquiry. It is evidently preying upon his system; so that body and mind seem " ill at ease." The western breezt is becoming too sharp, and is under mining a constitution which was once hardy and vigorous. Mr. Dually appears well calculated to bat tle the storm. Mr. Meehan then took his text from the 2d chapter of St. John. He said the Saviour and his virgin Mother were at a wedding, and that, notwithstanding what Pro- testants might say, they were at every Roman Catholic wedding, where the parties were previously prepared by confession and communion. He then said the lords and agents of the soil were busily engaged all the week amongst them; but that any person who sent his child to Mr. Kesne's school, or any other like it, ought to be kicked out of the parish. He observed that he would not curie them until he got an account of the children's names. and then he would let them see what he could and would do. He then called on Mr. Keane's spies to listen to what he was saying, and asserted that Mr. Keane's object was to make Protestants of their children, as he did of the schoolmaster (" Croobeen"). Ho told them Lord Palmerston was a soaper, and was kicked our, of office; that Louis Napoleon had immortalised his a complete revolution in Fra nce i n o am tw e o hours by inw a or n k da g half, and had sent an army to assist the Pope, who had uo army of his own to guard him ; and further, that Louis Napoleon appeared to he an instrument in the hand of God, and might yet free Ireland ; and that the time was fast ap proaching when England might want the Irish people to fill the army an d navy . H e nest ex h orte d t h em to resist landlords and agents for twelve months, and not let a n • inch of their right go with them; that, for his how p . art, he was afraid of no man. They all recollected souls, to the devil,childr camehte attacked the preachers on the road when they 0 abuse their holy religion. He (Mr.. Meehan s w o a l r d n'a( h i er them geinea, and n9t to sell their souls, or their . children's time of a brokener -Ls He knew a woman in Kilrush who aft en wa to d a sweep for seven years for a to Mr.:Keanenefod got sorry, and died in a short heart, This woman was a Catholic. He, therefore, warned tho mothers who sold their chil drendirec—t ing. " Croobeen " as they knew the road aneT. o w th r e k " bog, to take timely warn as like him, had some chance, but the children were lost for ever, and went the what they learned at the SOX eroad to damnation, from r horted them to say the Lita P ny of sschool. H e next ex long as the schools continued, andtheVirgin Mary as ce ase his efforts until they wer that he wou ld never 0 put d ewe e luded by urging them all to pray to the Vi; lie con and never cease calling on her to put down tlfe in Mary ' Such was the sermon I heard, the text being soupers. b the marr riage of Cana. FOX IN A DRAVING-ROOM A the meet of the Old Berkshire lieu • 6 wDaosEnaAtETlriiiiidnagyOs Kingston n Inn, near Farringdon, when Reyanardd covert in the neighbourhood and led soon broke from oce.At the latter place the' to the coverts of Tubney, last a nearly and eventually t s h l Appleton, y °: , la ti ull m d s a d ea e n t daa double, r ll t e t s i s i n el g s a l p n ; l ew d ent ag b a a i c n k , to Tahney, tra versingei but on arriving at that retraced his steps to Besie!sl-b of the mansion of the dash at the drawing-roorn window College, Oxford, village and finding himself very hard pressed, he made a the same groun,b, Rev. Dr. Foulkes Principal of Jesus and bolted through the glass to the no sm all by twoconsterna tion of the worthy doctor's domestics, followed or three hound s close upon his heels, and finally sought the shelter under th e sofa; this proved of no a vail, hounds waiving th e etiquette of an introduction, also through the window, and in a few seconds poor ----------- R v ard was completely run down and killed under the . THE CHATEAU or HAlkt,--This—n4;-w noted build- . ---- ., e 4 n half. The run occupied upwards of an hour and a dashed in s was erected in its present state by Odon IV. in 1 9 16, i i gi ''''' . on the place of a castle . dating probably from the time of the The huntsman and one of the whips were near at hand, Romans. The principal tower of this bastille .-- called " L , an, l raved considerable confusion by whippivg, off the Tour du Connetable de S. Pol." - . which w. ..re equ.lly Sager to ga i n admit- For the last thousand a ; other -on n ti), years this castle has served as a, state prison, and some of its' ; :twice to the drawing-room. The worthy mailer of the memorable inhabitants were j,liarles th e ' 1., has resolved upon X[., k France, in 923 ; Louis ,mg of France, in 1470; Mira- ' present of the brush to the learned doctor, as Simple, King of i hounds, James Morrell, jun. PQn making a beau, 1782, &c. Its external appearance ; .3 quite in ke ' With mediaml period 41 which it 17 ' 4 e reCtlcl,-.. e p in g , mem e nto of the novel circumstance. The Buikkrt • a FR ENCH RAIL WA Y -- TRAFFIC, The following are the last returns of the gross re-. eeipts of the principal French RAilwaY l7 : Passengers, RorrEN.--Prom Jan. 11 to Jan. 17 56,720.; goods, 9 4,732 f.; total, 151,4"1.. : Passengers, nvßit.—Prona Jan. 11 to Ja il ' 11 1 9,492 f.; goods, 43,5 37 f.; total 62,849 f. BonDEAux--Froca Jan. 6 to Jan. 12: 38,944 f.; goods, 6,298 f ; total, 101,202 f. Passengers, Passengers, NANTES.—Fros Jan . . 8 to Jan. 14 : A-- 24,626 f.; goods, 26.877 f.; total, 51,503 f. MARSEILLES.—From Jas. Ito Jan. 7: Passengers, 30,746 f.; goods, 21,496 f.; total, 52.242 f. LYONS.—Frons Jan. 4 to Jan. lilgel - 3, 145,500 E; goods. 79.894 f.; total, 225,390 : PasEesf. —......._______ THE VAGRANT ACT. THE STRIKE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The public will feel indebted to you for you do me the favour of inserting the drawing attention to the cases of oppression that are enclosed letter ? I cannot expect you to be respon now enacting frequently, under the authority of the sible for my opinions, for many will neither under. above Act. stand nor approve them.—Yours, &c., I trust you w ill f avour me w ith s p ace in your DALETII. valuable columns for a few remarks to draw attention to the character and working of the said Act of Par liament. After the war very many loose characters were thrown out of employment, and vagrancy be came a national evil. To remedy this state of things, the Parliament of 1815 passed the first " Vagrant Act," under the auspices of that bitter foe to liberty, Lord Castlereagh, whose very name ought to make every man of character hesitate before he acquiesces in any measure having its origin in such a source. That Parliament covered itself with disgrace by passing such a law ; for it has all the character of an Algerine act, and might well be thought to have originated among the bureaux of Austrian police, instead of from an assembly of English gentlemen, professing to hold every man as innocent until he be found guilty; for its whole drift is to punish upon bare suspicion, and that not of feeling, hut o f a new _ fangled crime, called " Vagrancy.' The Act of June 21, 1824, repealed that Ace, but re-enacted all its ty rannical and odious provisions ; and, bearing on the face of it cruelty and oppression, stands still the law of England, that fancied land of freedom, where it is said that every offender is entitled to be tried by a jury of his peen, which saying is beyond dispute, while this Act exists, a falsehood, " a delusion, and a snare." TO THE MASTERS WHO HAVE STRUCK. Gentlemen —It is not unusual when two persons or parties are differing, for a disinterested observer to think them both wrong, and that neither has found out " the more excellent way." Whether in the strike that is now threatening so much inconvenience and suffering, the workmen be right or wrong, it is not the object of this letter to exa mine or assert ; but I write to pronounce that you, the educated and the prosperous," who ought to set an ex to the uneducated a n d ample in " all good things the needy, are pursuing a course unworthy of your high position, and that cannot be justified by any principles or rules that should influence and guide an enlightened Christian community; and such I suppose you consider yourselves to be. But moral right and religious duty, and manly bearing are so little understood in a world where conventional usages, and commercial maxims, and interested objects get interwoven with them, that men, like yourselves, take up with notions, and follow out a course of conduct (as you are now doing) that are as contrary to truth and to every injunction of Jesus, whom they profess to follow, as murder or theft is contrary to Moses and the Decalogue. Gentlemen, you may be sur prised at what I am about positively, but calmly, to contend for ; but hear me. If the 12,000 men whom you have turned upon the world to starve, be cause they will not comply with your commercial notions, were to seize your mills and deprive you of your property, you would condemn them as doing what was wrong, and very justly refer to the Divine law by Moses, " thou shall not steal." But do you not know, and is it not worthy of your deep consideration, that you are equally guilty in the course you are pursuing towards them ? Is Moses every thing with you, and Jesus nothing 1' Are you to compel your workmen to obey Moses, and they have no call on you to obey Jesus ? Are they to be re stricted by Divine laws, and you only by commer cial maxims ? I repeat, and fear no contradiction, that the men would be guilty of no more sin in burn ing your mills than you are in depriving them of the bread they could earn ; and in the midst of the conflagration it would be as much a Christian-like shout of triumph, "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and nowt., tor your miseries are come upon you," as it is Christian-like in you to shut them from your doors, and with scornful lip sit down and drink the cup of luxury. I say, are the commands of Jesus and the Apostles to be nothing to you ? Is the injunction, " See that ye render to no man evil for evil, but overcome evil with good," to be no direction for you ? Are you to do " what you like with your own, " and resist the Divine com mand of "Look not every man on his own things, but every man to the good of others ?" Will you declare that this world's goods are absolutely your own, though you are cautioned to act as stewards only, and reminded that " you brought nothing into this world and can take nothing out ?" Are you to receive the smiles and approval of men, though Heaven has de clared that "he who seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion, in him dwelleth not the love of God ?" In short, will you remain callous to those awful words, "Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these my brethren, ye did it not to me; depart from me ?" 13ut perhaps, gentlemen, you reject religion alto gether as your guide, and neither expect your men nor intend that yourselves should be directed or re stricted by its injunctions. On what gr oun d s or principles, then, do you justify your con d uc t t h a t would not equally justify them in laying hold of your possessions. Does your having the power to turn them from their earnings, and your p ower t o li ve without their labour, justify you ? If so, if they have the power to seiz? on your property, and thus possess the power cf doing without you, are they not equally justified ? If you rest your conduct on the grounds that your,mills are your own, and that it is unjust to deprive you of your own, is not their ability to labour their own, is not the opportunity which the demands of the world give for their labour their own, and are you not equally unjust and become robbers in depriving them of their opportunities and powers? And add to which, your own consideration, that you can live without them, but that they must starve without you, and do you not stand before the whole world as by far the greatest sinners, adding in justice and obstinacy to the guilt of inhumanity ! Usve you never considered that they have possessions as well as you, and that you rob them of the power and opportunity they possess of supplying the demands of the world and of earning their bread ' I have not touched, gentlemen, on the abstruse subject of rights, privileges, and corresponding duties, which might be a more literary mode of ex posing your errors; but I have chosen thus to lay bare your direct duties and position irrespective of the rights and wrongs of others. Nevertheless, if we were to examine your conduct as to rights it would be easy to show that you can trace no right to do as you are doing to any higher source than power, and which is a kind of right you would be sorry to see your 12,000 men using in right earnest. Gentlemen, let it no longer be said with the force of divine truth, "Do not rich men oppress you ?" Let your mode ration be known unto all, and trample the silly pride that now leads you to obstinacy in the very dust. Yours obediently, Cheltenham, Jan. 24, 1852. DALETH. THE SUN, LONDON, GERMANY. The commercial treaty of the 7th of September between Prussia and Hanover has been ratified by a considerable majority by both the Hanoverian Chambers. ITALY. The Milan Gazette of the 20th inst. publishes the following notification : " The Royal Sardinian Government does not permit Austrian steamers, employed in carrying passengers ani merchandise on Lake Maggiore, to approach and anchor along the Piedmontese coast. The proposi tions made to that effect by the Imperial Govern ment were rejected because it was alleged the Sardinian Steamboat Company might be injured thereby. The law of reciprocity obliges the Austrian Government to suppress immediately the favour hitherto granted the Sardinian steamers to anchor along the Lombard coast. In future, the Sardinian steamers on Lake Maggiore shall always keep at a distance from said coast of at least 200 yards, and shall not be permitted to communicate with the Lombard territory by means of any species of boats intended to convey ashore passengers or merchandize, and vice versa from the land to the vessels. This enact ment is made known to the public, in compliance with the ordinance of Marshal Radeizky, Civil and Military Go vernor of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, dated the 12th inst., and its provisions shall be immediately carried into effect. (Signed) " The Imperial and Royal Lieutenant, " STRASOLDO. " Milan, Jan. 19, 1832." The Opinione of Turin, after publishing the notifi cation of M. StrasoHo, relative to the navigation on Lake Maggiore, adds "We have only two observations to make on that document, namely:-Ist. 'that Radetzky waited, before he adopted a decision, until the treaty of commerce with Austria should have passed the Chamber of Deputies. The adoption took place on the 10th inst. It was known at Milan on the 11tb, and on the following day Radetzky, to remove all doubt as to his intentions, enacted the measure in question. 2d. That there is a great difference between the Austrian and Sardinian steamers. The first are provided with guns, and resemble more steamers for war than for the conveyance of passengers, whilst the others are not armed and cannot excite any apprehension or suspicion. Thus the Sardinian Government, by pro hibiting the anchorage of Austrian steamers, is justified by the international laws. The resolution of Marshal Radetzky, on the contrary, is a mere provocation, not likely, however, to intimidate us." The Piedmontese Gazette contains the following on the same subject : " The Government of his Sardinian Majesty is not aware that any difficulty has arisen with regard to the anchorage of steamers employed in conveying passengers and merchandise on Lake Maggiore. The notification only refers to war steamers. Nevertheless, the Govern ment intends to adopt measures calculated to reconcile common interests." ADMIRAL OMMANNEY. Why did not Admiral Ommanney issue orders hat a steamer should be dispatched to the scene of the Amazon's disaster the instant the intelligence reached Plymouth ? Here is the Admiral's explanation :—" Mr. Vincent acknowledges to have landed at one o'clock, A.M., from the Marsden, and probably left by the express train at ten. During the nine hours neither himself, nor did any other person, agent or otherwise, come near me to furnish me with any information ; therefore I was in total ignorance of what had occurred, except from what I had heard from the general rumour." So during a portion of the nine hours young Vincent and the other persons who had been saved by the Marsden remained in Plymouth, Admiral Ommanney was aware from public aumour of what had occurred. Why did he not act? Because no one had made an application to him for assistance. Admiral Ommanney is in some respects like the Spanish King who suffered himself to be suffo cated in his chair of state rather than that any but the proper officer should meddle with the fire. The Royal patient, however, devoted himself, not others at the shrine of etiquette—Admiral Ommanney con tented himself with a vicarious sacrifice. Daring these nine hours, even if the susceptibilities of the great chief tain of the naval hierarchy at Plymouth had been in some degree irritated, surely, where human life was in question, something might have beendone. We won't talk about Mahomet and the mountain, but surely, if Mr. Vincent did not come to Admiral Ommanney, Ad miral Ommanney might have sent for Mr. Vincent. He might have rebuked or mastheaded the young gentleman, and have done precisely what his own humour dict a t e d and his dignity required, if he bad . extracted from hi m the particulars of the disaster and dispatched a steamer to the scene of action. Was it a time to play the Sir Anthony Absolute when the boats of the ill starred Amazon were, or might be, floating about helples s ly on the great waves of the Atlantic ? The trans action, forsooth, must be reported to the Admiral in duo form before he could act.. To such keep ing are the western waters of this Island intru s t e d! Were a French fleet to heave in sight, would Admiral Ommanney consent to take formal notice of the fact befure the officer in command had reported him self at the Admiralty-house as "safely landed from Cherbourg with guns and military stores?" We cannot admit the Admirers plea as any palliation of his neglect. The Amazon was lost; ho knew it by general rumour; he did not send aid because no formal application had been made to him by the survivors. Now what was Admiral Ommanney about all this time? Why, he was grumbling and gossiping with Captain Kennedy, of the Coast Guard, " who brought some vague account." No attempt was made by the peevish old seaman to arrive at the truth of the facts. He waited and waited—he and his friend Captain Ken nedy—" until some person should have come who would have afforded information, and have solicited ussistance had it been required." Think only of the certain benefit that would have resulted from the application ! Admiral Ommanney would, wider such circumstances, and upon such contin gencies, when the niceties of etiquette had been satisfied, and the applicant had b een trotted i nto hi s tsfie awful i p d ;esence, have hemmed three times, dilated his cheeks as often, and formally commenced proceedings. Young man?, he would have said—from this point we aepy the Admiral's letter—" some questions naturally I occur t 6 me as a sailor. Tell me as to the place where the ea t place, the state of th e w ind and th e w e, how the wind bl ew a f ter th e peop l e were put accident i d a e t n t t h e t took into the boat and after the explosion of the vessel?' And what then? What then? Shades of Exmouth and Collingwood—What then? " The an swers to these questions may be the groundwork for taking nto consideration the necessity of sendin g out a vessel. Why not call a court-martial to sit upon the question that . day week? Why not a d ver ti se th e reso lution "of taking the point into consideration" in three consecutive eounty papers before proceeding to act upon John Ommanney and his friend Cap tainit Did Ke Sir Kennedy y make up their minds to sleep upon it for fear of a c ti on too prec i p i tate? A n d a ll th i s while the poor creatures who had made good their es cape from the Am azon were t oss i ng a b out i n the wild waves in open boats without helm or rudder, drink or food! But, then, Mr. Vincent hadn't called and left a card on Sir John Ommanney—not even a " when he was about to leave for town: What right had Sir John Ommanney, upon any vague report, to assume that the vessel had blown up be fore any boats —save the one picked up by the Marsden —had got away from the ship? What were his own grounds of decision? Vague report and the gossip of his friend Captain Kennedy. Sir John Ommanney mast be told that the cause of the general indignation against him does not turn upon any trumpery question of con frontation between himself and Mr. Septimus, Octavius, or Decimus Fox. The charge against him is that when intelligence —vague intelligence, if you will—of so terrible a disaster reached him, he did not cause proper inquiries to be instituted upon the point, and that he did not act upon the answers he might have obtained to those inquiries in such a way as might offer a prospect of saving human life. No one is so unreasonable as to expect that Sir John Ommanney, at his time of life, should be seen scouring about the streets of Plymouth in search of a young midshipman, but he might have set other legs than his own in motion. From grey hairs we do not expect bodily activity, but prudence and foresight. The result has proved that other boats than the one in which young Vincent was had escaped—indeed he himself, on his first arrival, reported that another had been seen to got away. But the report of the lad—as the event has shown—was not to be trusted. Sir John Ommanney—the greater shame to him—left it to our French neighbours to send out a steamer to see if aught could be done to help the sur vivors. Our own tardy expedition has proved fruitless. What would have been the case had it been dispatched when Sir John Ommanney and his friend Captain Ken. nedy first sat down to talk the matter over together?- STAYS. Full expansion of the chest is equally essential to health as good air, for if, by our clothing or constrained position, we impede the full expansion of the lungs, healthy respiration is prevented, and the duo purifica tion of the blood impaired. Whatever compresses the chest or the abdomen impedes respiration, and, there fore, pressure from dress, bands, or stays, must always bor growth if if girl to expand with How encasiesd in these horridofa inventions? No girl g should wear stays till she has long done growing, for the chest continues to expand after growth has ceased; by the use of stays the size of the cheat is limited, and the ribs are actually forced to overlap, as I have seen in several instances. I question if any woman would really require stays before the age of 35 or 4 0—the best figures of ancient and modern times have never worn any stay s . W e h ave dismissed the swaddling-clothe s of our infants, an d we s hall succeed sooner or later in anni hilating n their notion wear them if they knew how much better they would stays for girls and young women. None would be without. After having been accustomed to their support, it is very difficult to discontinue their use, be ruse the. muscles of the spine having been superseded wood as lost their power of main • • taming the body in ' position, and without an upright u th ti e t bbyodthye-cbaaserbsarhouaysepieces of iron, bone, or 8 " 4 Y 3 the deformities produced by these machines be come visible. I hope will he considered antiquities of the mediaeval ages, and be only preserved balls of the eu ' t tous.—D r theelic relics lime to adornw i will arrive thearr i vmuseums stays and r. L. J. Beale. R. _.,OTAL ARTILLERY. AVOOLWIcH — , JAN. 2G.—Cap tain Dunlop's company was medically inspected at the Ord nance Hospital on Friday last, preparatory to their leaving the garrison on Thursday, the 29th inst., for Sheerness, to t r o eli h ev ea e d C -q ap ua ta r i t n er N s o ed n iaa th rn e same d ay companies be CORVeYed to and from Sheerness by a steamer. cOMP from the station. The company, under orders to return TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1852. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Jan. 26. Henry Fitzwilliam, alias Henry Bryant, 27, and Henry Hunter, 37, were indicted for feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-hcuse of Henry James Stokes, M.D., and stealing therein nine 51. Bank of England notes, and a dressing case, containing various articles of the value of 10/., his property. Mr. Parry appeared to Bryant, and Mr. Metcalfe for Hunter. It appeared that about seven o'clock in the evening of the 15th instant, the prosecutor, Dr. Stokes, of 23, Port land-terrace, Islington, heard a noise in the passage of his house, and on proceeding to ascertain the cause, he found the door leading into the street wide open, and on going into the street, he saw two men running away. He did not go after them, but returned to the house, and having suspicion that a robbery had been committed, he went up to his bedroom on the second floor front, and he discovered that a.drawer had been broken open, and a box containing nine Z 1 bank-notes, a dressing-case, and a workbox had been taken therefrom. He went up to the attic, and there he found evidence of the thieves haying effected an entrance by creep i ng a l ong t h e parapet from an adjoining house, which was empty, and breaking two squares of glass in the attic window, so that. an arm might be pa sse d through to unfasten the catch. On the bed he found the dressing-case and the workbox, together with a jemmy and other arti c l es , and a sock was picked up is the passage near the street door. The houses numbered 21 and 22 were placed by the owner in the charge of a policeman (who lived in 21) until they could be let, and on the evening in ques tion he was at home, and happened to hear a noise in No. 22, as of some persons on the stairs, and he went into that house with a candle. Ile then heard sounds as of persons running upstairs, and on waiting at the door he saw the prisoners suddenly rush out of the prosecu tor's, No. 23, and he pursued them. They got round a corner, but he came up with Hunter, whore he knocked down senseless, and when he revived the officer said, N ow I've got you;" to which Hunter replied, " Yes, and it's all the worse for us." He had but one boot and no s t oc kings on, and the s oc k found in the passage of No. 23 exactly corresponded with one found on the parapet of No. 22, and no doubt had been worn by that prisoner, but had been left behind in the flight. Bryant managed to get into Queen-street, but, the cry of " Stop thief having been raised, he was captured, and in his pocket were found a box of matches and a piece of wax taper. Five of the 51. notes were picked up just where Bryant was taken. He gave the name of Fitz william, and merely said he did not wi s h hi s f r i en d s to be made aware of his having been mixed up in such a transaction. It is supposed that they first got into the empty hohsel:sfo.22, and then proceeded along the parapet to the attic window of the prosecutor's house. The Learned Counsel addressed the jury for their re spective clients. The jury found the prisoners Guilty. The prisoners both pleaded guilty of having been pre viously convicted. The Learned JencE said Bryant was the husband of a woman wh o WAS tried, with another woman, a few weeks ago, before Mr. Witham, for picking pockets, and was sentenced to ten years' transportation; and he had sent Mr. Witham a letter, urging a mitigation of the sentence, on the ground that ha and his children were about to emigrate; and Mr. Witham's answer, informing him that he had no power to mitigate the punishment, and that he must apply to the Secretary of State, was found in his possession when ho was apprehended on the present charge, Bo that he planned this scheme to rob the prosecutor's house after declaring he was about to leave th© country as an emi gran t. Bryant said he hoped for mercy on account of his five children, who were now without a mother. Ho was sin cere in what he said in his letter to Mr. Witham as to emigrating with his children, and if ho had the op portunity, he would quit the country with his children at once, as he had a brother who would pay all the ex penses. The Learned JUDGE said they were no doubt profes sional housebreakers, and sentenced them each to bo transported for seven years. Frederick Hunt, 18, pleaded guilty to four charges of larceny. - Tho prisoner said he threw himself upon the mercy of the Court, and urged that en the very day on which he he had cure committed those th e ft s h o had made up his mi n d to quit crime, and t o repent of the many misdeeds mated, in th e h ope that he might do good t or hi mself and be of benefit to society generally. lie hstel resolved this only on th© day %%hex these new crimes were com mitted, and th erefore he b egge d for inercy.—(A. laugh.) t;enteneed to ore year's hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, CLERICENGVELL. Mr. Edward Lamb Sabin, barrister-at-law, of South square, Gray's-inn, ard Mr. Patrick 31‘Inty re, med i cal student, of Thornhill-place, Islington, were charged with having assaulted the police in the execution of their duty. Thompson, 174 G, said that at 2 o'clock on Sunday morning he and 150 G had a violent woman in custody, who resisted and attempted to bite, which caused him (Thompson) to lay hold of her arm and the hair of her head in order to prevent her biting. She screamed, e n which Mr. Sabin, on their arrival near Tasia-street, Gray's Inn-lane, told them to lot the woman go, and struck 150 Gon the head with a stick. Mr. M'lntyre, who was very drunk, seia..id him (Thompson) by th e arm, and tore his coat. Mr. Sabin was sober. 2,l•Donnel!, 150 G, and Solomons, 54 G, corroborated the evidence. Mr. Sabin, in defence, said he had walked from Ramp. stead, which he left at 12 o'clock on Saturday night. On his arrival near Gray's-inn he heard the screams of a woman, and merely went to take the numbers of the policemen, when he was taken into custody. He solemnly declared that ho never struck the police-con stable. Mr. M'lntyre said nothing in his defence. Mr. CORRIE said, he would not determine as to whether Mr. Sabin struck the constable or not, as he was perhaps excited at the time, under an impression that the officers were treating the woman harshly. The police had to contend with violent people, and no doubt it was necessary for the constable to lay hold of the woman's hair to prevent her biting. He discharged Mr. Sabin, but fined Mr. M'lntyre ss. for being drunk, and ls. for repairs to the constable's co a t SOUTHWARK. coppersmith, residing in Brunswick-street,-lane, was charged with attempting to murder Mary Lift; his mother, a woman advanced in years. The unfortunate complainant was unable to attend the examination, being confined in one of the borough hos pitals, in consequence of the s er i ous nature of the injury inflicted upon her by the hand of h er own son. The prisoner was in the house with his moth er on S un d ay , and as ehe was sitting by the fire he approached her gently and drew a knits across her throat. Assistance was rendered upon her crying out, whil e t h e son ran o ff to Ilorsemonger - lane Gaol, and demanded to be appre hended as a murderer. On the p resent occas i on h e assented to all the evidence against him, and was re manded. SHIP SEWS. NOTICE TO MARINERS. Apalachicola, Jan. 1. The following lighthouses have been entirely swept away during a severe gale, and it is probable they will not he replaced under nine months or one year. No light ship or temporary light have as yet been suhsti ated tuted in lat, in place 29 46 Nt.h,lon ot eier of the m . Dog Island was situ g. 8 4 44 W. ; Cape St. G eorg e, in lat. 29 35, long. S 5 5; C ape N., long. 85 27 W. San Bias, in lat. 29 3i 'Cannon - roar , Jan. 24. Sir —I beg to acquaint You s , for th e information of the dommittee for managing t h e affairs of Lloyd ' s, that a lighthouse has been erected in South Australia, at Cape Willoughby, on the south side of Kangaroo Island, at the entrance of Backstairs Passage, into Gulf St. Vincent. This light will be called the " Start Light," and will guide the mariners from the neighbouring colonies eastward of Adelaide. It is a revolving light, ated 35 deg. 50 min. 37 sec. south latitude,nd 258 deg. 8 min. east longitude.and situ a Elevation—bare Feet. . •.• 179 THE WEST INDIA STEAM-SHIPS. A TRIAL TRIP. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 25.—The Royal Mail steam ship Orinoco, W. Allan acting commander, arrived from the Thames this afternoon, having left Black wall on Friday, shortly after noon. The Orinoco is the second ship of the new - West India line, of which the unfortunate Amazon was the Pioneer, and, although a sister vessel, and resembling in size and in some other particulars the ill-fated Amazon, yet this steamer has not been built, nor her engines constructed, by the same parties. The Amazon was built by Messrs. Green, and the machinery supplied by Messrs. Seaward and Capel, while the Orinoco was built at Northfleet (in cons pang with the Magdalena, the third vessel of the same class for the %Vest India service) by Mr. Pitcher, and the engines are from the celebrated factory of Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field. Considerable interest will no doubt he attached by the public, not only to the perfurnaances of the Ori noco, but of the whole of the succeeding vessels of the class, and the particulars of their arrangement and equipment will be watched with much anxiety, the loss of the Amazon by fire, not long since, having drawn a great share of attention to the details and management of the important line of steam navigation to be fulfilled by these noble and beautiful ships. The following gentlemen accompanied the Orinoco on her voyage to Southanaptou—Captain C. E. Man gles, the managing director of the Royal Mail Steam Company ; Mr. George Mills, the chief engineer of the company ; Lieutenant A. S. Austin, R.N., ap pointed by the company to superintend the trials; Mr. Henry Pitcher; Mr. Maudslay, sen., and his two sons; Mr. Hughes, the Government engineer; Cap tain Hood, R.N.; and other gentlemen interested in steam navigation. Mr. Waterman, the Admiralty surveyor, left the ship a t G ravesen d . The rinoco was temporarily commanded by Cap tain W. Allan, a gentleman of great experience and intelligence in the West Indian steam service, who surrenders the ship at Southampten to her future captain, Lieutenant G. M. Chapman, R.N., late of the Tay, and proceeds himself to the Clyde, to su perintend the equipment of the Parana and Magda lena, the remaining two new ships of this line. It is melancholy to reflect that the unfortunate Captain Symons was destined to command the Orinoco, and only took charge of the Amazon in consequence of Captain Chapman not having arrived home from the Brazils in time. Before giving an account of the performances of the Orinoco and her admirable behaviour in a tre mendous gale which she encountered in the Channel during the whole of Saturday night, a short descrip tion of the vessel is necessary. Externally, the Orinoco very much resembles the Amazon, her great length, lofty rig, immense spread of canvas, and low funnels, giving her the appearance of a steam-frigate of the largest class, and not of a mere merchant steamer. Great Britain has just reason to be proud of the energy and enterprise of great commercial associations like the Royal Mail and other great steam-packet companies, which can build and employ steam-ships of this class. Although adapted for the peaceful business of conveying mails, passen gers, and cargo, yet the sterner necessities of war have not been forgotten or lost sight of, and in the event of hostilities, these ships, when supplied with the armament which they are designed and able to carry, would he converted into gigantic and powerful steamers of war, formidable, not alone for the heavy guns they would be able to use, but for the great speed they can attain, a speed superior to that of any steam-ships of war in the British, French, or Arne. rican navies. The Orinoco has, therefore, been pro nounced capable of carrying 26 guns, four of which, on the main deck, might be 10-inch Paixhan long range guns, of the heaviest size; the remainder short 32 or 24• pounders, as the case may be. Upon an emer gency, a couple of long 68-pounders, on traversing slide carriages, might be fitted to the spar deck, if that deck were temporarily strengthened by a few additional supports for that purpose. The dimensions of this noble ship are as follows : Length between the perpendiculars, 270 feet; length over all (figure head to taffreil), 301 feet ; length on spar deck, 2761 feet ; breadth from out to out of paddle-boxes, 71 feet 10 inches ; extreme breadth, 41 feet 10 inches; ditto for tonnage to a s i x -i nc h b ottom, 411- feet ; breadth moulded, 40k feet , depth of engine room at shaft. 26 feet 1 inch ; depth from under side of spar deck, 33i- feet ; burden in tons, builder's measurement, 2,245 31.94th5. The Orinoco, like the Aniazer, has nine boats, four of which are Lamb's patent lifeboat s , 30 f eet long and 8 feet wide, and calculated to carry 32 persons each. Two are swung forward over the fore sponson, end two over the aft sponson. There are also two large cutters, 27 feet long with 8 feet beam, each boat calculated to carry 35 persons, and pulled by 12 oars each. Besides this there is one mail boat, 22 feet long, 6 feet beam, able to carry 18 people ; a gig, 25 feet long, 5 feet beam, able to contain 10 persons ; and a dingy (rather larger than that supplied to the Amazon), being 17 feet long and 5i feet wide, and calculated to carry eight or nine people. These nine boats would be sufficient to provide for the safety of 234 persons. As it appears that the Orinoco has accommodation (that is, bed berths for 146 passengers), and as it is very rare that so large a number are carried by these vessels at one time, and as the crew, comprising officers, engineers, stewards, servants, stokers, seamen, coal-trimmers, and others, will generally number 105 provid e d w ith b oa t accommodation f t o h r a t t h t e h e s a h r i g p e i t s number of persons likely to be ever on board at one time. We are, however, assured that on an emergency and cutters would be cap a bl e (supposing they were of safely got into the wat er ) the lifeboats containing a much larger number of people than that mentioned above, and Captain Allan, as well as Mr. H. Pitcher, is of opinion that 300 people in fair weather could be sent a way from the ship in nine boats. We may remark here that in the sec ur i ng o f the Orinoco's boats the iron crutches, so much objected to in the Amazon, have been omitted. During the run round an experi ment was made with the forward starboard lifeboats, particularly with a view to ascertain how quickly these boats might be cast loose and go clear of the sponson. The operation was performed in less than three minutes from the time the men were called on deck, unexpectedly and without previous notice, to make the attempt. The Orinoco is propelled by two engines made by Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, of London, which are of the nominal aggregate power of 800,horses. These engines are on the patent double cylinder direct acting principle, and embrace all the most recent im provements applied to marine steatn machinery. Each of the four cylinders are of 68 inches diameter, and calculating the surface area of the pistons, are sup posed to be equal to two 98. inch cylinders such as are supplied to the ordinary side level marine engines ; and the boilers are eight in number, each boiler hav ing three furnaces, and possess an aggregate evapo. rating power of 9,000 gallons of water per hour; the paddle-wheels, 40 feet in diameter, are fitted with the patent feathering floats, which have been found so efficient and successful in their operation when ap plied to other steamers of this line. The whole of the machinery performed most admirably throughout the run from the Thames, and the bearings, which are ge nerally found to heat during the first trials of steam machinery, remained perfectly cool. It is almost needless to say that the Orinoco's engines were gene rally admired, not only for the finish and beauty of the workmanship bestowed on them, but for the general perfection of their arrangements, and for the smooth ness and freedom from all unpleasant motion and vi bration, even when the ship was steaming at full power against a heavy head sea and in a gale of wind. The ventilation of the engine -room has also been so carefully provided for, that the temperature was most pleasant, compared with the high temperature of the engine department in many, and, indeed, most other steam -vessels. We may also add, that from the time of getting under weigh at the Noce until arriving at Southampton Water the engines were not stopped for a single moment, excepting to take a pilot off the pNaadbSlea nfldoaot. on another occasion to re-adjust one of the Draught o f wa t er a ft, 17 f ee t 9 inches forward, 17 feet 6 i nc h es ; w h en :l ea ving Blackwell having 1,000 t ons o f coa l s , and with c have argoenntea draught of ca 400 tons of coals on board. It is calculated water of 21 feet on an even keel. thats tore with i a t l h l ready 'for sea, the Orinoco will be immediately flooded and may, in the event of leading from the spar deck. The magazine of the ship fie is fitted in a lead tank, with water from a pipe speed were made In on Friday. Two trials of again the last of the ficod The Orinoco started from her Blackwall at 1.30 P.M. Long Reach, on the first sides ag at the measured mil e , tide; and, tested on frmed botho in 5 minutes 10 se con d s, the distance was engines making 13 revo l ut i ons to a speed of .613 knots, about 12 ; s t atute milequ es , 4 the boilers. of 121 b. of steam in A with a pressure per hour, thee g second trial gave a result of 5 min. 33 sec., equal to 1811 knots, to which was added the influence of the tide, equal to half a knot, making a total of 11.311 knots. After remaining a short time off Gravesend the Orinoco proceeded to the Nore, where she anchored for the night, performing the run thence, a distance of 23 miles, against a four-knot tide, in 1 hour 23 minutesby , Masse the enginlop- es making 12k revolution s , t h e speed y's , when added to the adverse influence of the tide, giving a speed of nearly 12 knots, equal to 13 4.5 miles per hour. As the anchor rose sluggishly from its bed at the Nore soundings, a slight movement aboard the Ori noco evinced a consciousness that the sea was not quite as smooth as a duekpond. The wind whistled smartly through the rigging, and the nautical sages on deck, looking knowingly to wi dward, and seeing there a leaden sky, patched by whNsh clouds, scud ding fast down upon us, prognosticated plenty . 0 wind, dirty weather, &c,, and cheered each other b y communicating the result of their independent obser vations, or descended to visit friends in bed, and wait ing for the breakfast bell, with the same pleasing intelligence. Strange as it may seem the news was pleasing, for, as the great object of a " trial trip" is supposed to be actually to make trial of the capa bility of a vessel, it was, of course, desirable for engineer, builder, officers, and directors to have such a good opportunity as the promised gale would afford them of testing the sea-going qualities of the steamer. Particularly was it agreeable intelligence for the amateurs on board, who were in great dread of an involuntary visit to the well-known marine curiosity " the Lizard," or even to the rock of Lisbon in search of the hard weather, which now so kindly met them nearer home. At 10.15 A.M the steamer was rattling along at full speed against a strong tide towards " the Girdles," her engines making 12z revolutions in the minute, and forcing her through the water at the rate of 12 statute miles per hour. Every instant the wind rose higher, and with it the spirits of those on board. It was quite delightful to some to see the muddy sea breaking in butter-coloured sheets of foam on the numerous banks which lay around us, and occasionally one was favoured by having the precise spot pointed out where "the Royal Adelaide was lost with all on board," or where the "So and So" went down in a "dirty night last year." The sky became more overcast and threatening hour after hour, and the wind rushed down fiercely over the low lands of Sheppey from the south-west, and tore away as hard as it could to the North Sea like smoke. Small colliers flew before it, pitching and rising on the short seas, and now and then a stout barque or clipper brig, bound outwards, and anxious to reach the Downs before night, clapped on all sail, and came bowling along under double reefed topsails, and challenged the huge steamer, strong on their best point of sailing, but one after another she shook them off, and went along so steadily that there is not the smallest exaggeration in stating there was, at times, difficulty in believing she was in motion at all. The disagreeable tremor felt in steamers, especially in a tideway in shallow water, was scarcely perceptible. In the saloon one could write as easily as at his library table, and the vast frame of the ship seemed to bid defiance to winds and waves to shake its timbers. This quality was the theme of general approbation and remark, and to those accustomed to the peculiarly disagreeable jerking of steamers it must appear almost incredible; but the fact was so, and the largest and easiest line-of-battle ship could not have gone so smoothly and comfort ably as the Orinoco, not only at this period, but throughout her passage to Southampton. As she got out from under the lee of the North Foreland the gusts increased in vehemence, and we had the satis • faction of seeing large and well-found ships bearing up and bringing to for the night, unable to make further progress, while we were going as steadily as if in a canal. All under cover of the land appeared long lines of vessels, of all sizes, riding at anchor, and at midday a screw-steamer, which had b een battling the el emen t s o ff the oodwin, put about and ran in from sea towards the Foreland, and moored, having evidently had quite enough of it ouside. A perfect forest of masts was seen rising out of Ramsgate Harbour, where a whole fleet of small craft had run to escape the fury of the gale; for the wind had by this time reached to the dignity of being so styled. As the steamer opened the Downs the sight was splendid, one rarely seen by any but those gentlemen of England who sail upon the seas; an armada of ships, barques, brigs, schooners, and vessels of all s i zes an d all nations, were riding at anchor. The large ships were all busy striking topgallantyards and masts, and veering out a snug allowance of cable. Among them, " rocking to and fro," lay the celebrated American clipper ship Oriental, with her straight, long black hull, ugly Yankee stern, and sharp, fine bows and entry. She seemed to be taking it very easily, but the spray flew over her bows in sheets, and as she rose and fell, she showed a very fair share of her copper. The ships and barques had all plenty of foam at the bows, and now and then clouds of white drizzle flew over the forecastle and drifted over the decks to leeward in a temporary Scotch mist of salt water. As the look of the weather became worse instead of better, the Orinoco also got down her fore and main topgallantyarets, and the boats were lashed up more securely (a necessary precaution this, for it would not be agreeable to find the boats gone altogether when they were wanted). Every sail in sight, except herself, a few craft to windward staggering away for the ri ver as hard as they could carry, and a solitary Deal boat or two, looking out for a vessel in distress, was safe at anchor, but still " the trial" was the thi ng , an d a t any risk—the result proved there was but little—we were to push out to sea. Managing directors turned out in shiny suits of waterproof silk, oilskin and tarpauline hats. caps, and south-westers, were in great requisition. The captain appeared on the platform as impermeable to wet as a walrus, and the pilot, after some fond allusions to the superior comfort of a snug berth under the Foreland till daybreak, was obliged to submit to the exigencies of his position, and to convert himself into a human "crustacean" for the night, after repeated pithy outbursts of eloquence as to the "nastiness" of the weather, and the immense capabilities of the Foreland in a marine, terrestrial, and mooring point of view, that would have done credit to the late Mr. George Ro bins. It must be admitted that of the correctness of his statements there could be no possible doubt, and many en board were quite of opinion that " after all, perhaps, it would be better to take that pilot's advice." But ere darkness closed in the Orinoco was pushing past the Goodwin, on which for miles vast toppling mountains of water, crested with foam, ran their ter rible course, and bursting upon the sea that rushed to meet her from the Channel. On shoving out round the South Foreland the gale was at its height. It was with difficulty a man could make way against the wind on deck aft and foreward ; at times the gust would force the strongest back wards. The gigantic engines puffed and bellowed through their brazen throats almost in vain. More than half the force of one thousand seven hundred horses was completely neutralised by the gale, and the rest was at times but just sufficient to enable the steamer to hold her own. But still she met sea after sea beautifully, rising to meet it as buoyantly as a seafowl, " with lusty timbers throwing it aside, and stemming it with heart of controversy," andsleaving it to rush astern howling into the darkness. For hours, however, the lights of Dover and Folkestone on the one hand, and of Griznes on the other, glimmered through the mist, bobbing up and down, and seeming to hold their way with the steamer. It was an anxious time for all. A screw loose, a bolt broken, and there were a hundred deaths behind us—every one connected with the vessel was on deck, though the spray flew over the foremast and dashed right over the top of the fore funnel. Still she shipped no seas—her machinery worked exquisitely—as blandly almost as the watch in one's pocket. There was no straining—no stiffening. There was no bearing heated, and once only, during the whole time, did a little stoppage take place in one valve, which was rectified in a moment. In the squalls thick showers of rain fell, and the drops, mingled with spray and sleet, were driven by the blast as sharp as arrows against:the face. It was, in fact, a "frightful night." Channel pilots are pretty good judges of weather, and two of them agreed that worse weather could not be met. From the deck nothing could be seen but the black, starless sky, descending bodily on the water in dense clouds, which mingled with sea and foam, so that there was little difference between water and air—nothing heard but the furious ravings of the blast, and its screeming,through the rigging,upand or the hissing of the seething theywaves_hais. le ran lasted from broke against the stout ship. T 9 F.M. till 3 A.M. the following morning. ega The best proof of its severity is this, that, though the engines were working up to 1,600 horse-power, the Orinoco was eight hours in going from off Dover to off Dunge ness—a distance of about 16 miles. At 7 Beachye head was sighted N. by E., and in a few hours the steamer was in smooth water, having perfectly s a w., fled every person on board that a safer, easier seabeat could not be found in the world, and that she may be reckoned as presenting the highest combination of the in unr which thisivalled skill country excels in naval architecture and en g i neering. When in the vicinity of Stokes -bay this m orn i ng advantage was taken o f the opportunity to test the speed of the ship by several runs at the measured mile, the results of which were es:follow :- Ist run, in slack water, 4w. 59sec,, equal t o 12.0 4 4 0 0 knots ; 2d, sm. 9 sec., 11.650 , 3 —revolutions 13i , w i th 121 b. 'steam' 4 . m. 59sec., 12.0 Experiments were also made in turning the ship when under full steam, and she came round the first occ as i on i n 3m. 30sec and on the second trial in 2m. 30sec. It will be seen by the above that the Orinoco, on two trials, attained a speed of over 12 knots , equal to above 13i s t atute miles an hour in Stokes-bay. It must be remembered, however, that she was light, and that when fully laden with coals , stores , cargo, &c., h er ra t e of steaming through the water will neces sarily be considerably less. CADVEUTISEMENT.▪ Holloway's Pills an effi c i ent Cure for Diseases of the C▪ hest and Inflammation of the Lungs. —Mr. John Schoonenberg, of Paramaribo, Surinam, has suf fered fora considerable time from a severe cough, pains in the chest and side, an ultimately an inflamation of the lungs, and great fears were entertained that he was in a deep decline. After the best endeavours of some of the most eminent doc tors had failed to cure him, he tried Holloway's celebrated Pills, which have restored him to perfect health, and so satis fied is he of the result that he strongly and confidentially re commends their use to all who suffer from similar complaints.— Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establish ment, 244, Strand, London. By the death of the Rev. David Durell, rector cf Mongewill, a stall in Durham Cathedral has become vacant. The reverend gentleman had held that preferment since 1801. By his demi se t h ere is also a vacancy in Lord Cre we ' s Trust. Stone capping ... ••• ••• Total and is visible at sea 8 leagu e ,. Captain G. A. Halsted,R .N. , Secretary, Lloyd's. 241 ••• ••• KIRICALDY, JAN. 2 3 T .-- The schooner Jane, from Newcastle for Pettycur, sprung the pier, and it is d ou b tful if she 6 a leak and sunk near will be got up. NEW Yong, JAN. 14 . —The schooner Truxillo for St. John's, New Brunswick, from'Eastport, got on shore on the 13th of Dece m b er on the Two Sisters, and went to pieces; crew saved. During the gale of the 4 th inst. the steampoet, bill e th ead , spars, timbers, and planks of a vessel went on s h ore on Nantucket Beach; the planks were of birch, and the timbers of pacmetact, supposed to belong to a brig of about 200 tons. GRAVESEND, J AN. 26.--Wind, 6 r.M., S., li g h t b reeze, clear sky. Arrived—Catherine and the Brothers, from Hondu ras; Benaros, f rom China; Sir Robert Seppings, from Calcutta; Atalanta, from Porto Rico; Postboy, from Terceira; La Poule, from Cherbourg; William Jolliffe, from Havre; Soho and Neptune, from Harnburgh; City o f Paris, from Bo o l ugne; Sailed—Eros, for Lion, from Harlingen. Constantinople ; Dart, for Madeira; Richard Thornton, for Batavia; Caroline, for Rouen; Ann Morrice and A ei , , ; M adonna del for St. Michael's; Three Bells, for the Clyd e Curmea, for Naples. V ESSELS SPOKEN WITIL Arab, from Sal Francisco, for Calcutta, on the 16th of September, i , in lat. 2 N., long 131 E. Becares, from Shanghai for London, on the 26th of December, in lat, 2 N , long. 22 W. Atheistan, fr om Calcutta. for Liverpool, on the 2cl inst., in lat. 17 N., l ow .. lc 31 W. Ellerslie, from Bristol for N ow Orleans, on the 6th last., in lat. 23 N., lon from 35 . Semarang, --r om China for London, on the 13th of No- Vetia b.- r ; 1 ,al 'et. 29 S., lon g . 39 E. Amity brig, from of December, in lat. 3 N • lon g' Mauritius for Queenstown, on the 25th St. George, of Glasgow, 22 W. Ist. 30 ~ long. 24 W. for . Trinidad, on the ad inst., in M -A YN00T11.... 0n Friday evening a meeting was held in the Town•li2' 1 endow ment of M a y nooti ;' ; 1 ' Derby, on the sltbject of the Colle ge Mr. F. Gi.sborne in the chair y The hall w as crowded b w orkmen• The Rev. J. Scott moved a res o l ut i on condemnatory of th.e, Maynooth Endow• meet Act, which was met bva au mend meat proposed by the Rev. J. Griffith, an expelleli Wesleyan preacher, denouncing all State interference in religious matters. The Rev. J. Gawthorne and the Rev. J. Corbin supported the original motion, but the amendment was carried by a considerable majority. BANK OF FRANCE. The following is a return of the situation of the Bank of France on Jan. 8: ♦SSETS. Cash in hand ... L 460,705,264 88 Ditto in branch banks 109,401,772 0 Bills past due 319,405 26 Bills discounted, but not yet due, of which! 15,221,172 f. Oc. were received from the Branch Banks ... ... 55,126,691 85 Bills in the branch banks . ... 72,267,376 0 Advances on coins and ingots...,.. ... 460,700 0 Ditto by the branch banks ... 3,315,715 0 Ditto on French public securities ... 23,629,136 10 Ditto by branch banks... .. 3,144104 0 Ditto to the State un Bons du Trilsor... 50,000,000 0 Ditto to the State on the Treaty of 30th Juno, 1843 ... ••• ••• 75,000,000 0 Advanced to the City of Paris on the Previsional Loan of 20.000,000 f. ... 10,000,000 0 Reuter of the reserve fund 10,000,000 0 Renter, disposable funds 42,683,040 83 Investments of the new branch banks in the public funds ... 12,952,725 74 Eli:del and furniture of the Bank ... 4,000,000 0 Real property of the branch banks ... 3,416,771 0 Interest in N a ti ona l Di scount B an k ... 200,000 0 Ditto branch banks ... 103,000 0 —pcnses of administration of the Bank 510 58 Ditto of the Branch Banks ... 72,454 0 Miscellanecua 2,084,087 15 f. 938,882,754 39 LIABLLITIE ti. Capital . f.67,900,000 0 Ditto of the Branch Banks ... 23,350,000 0 eserve fund ... ••• 10,000,000 9 Ditto of the branch banks ... ... 2,980,750 14 Reserve-immobiliere ... 4,000,000 0 Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ....467,330,400 0 Ditto of the branch banks ... 127,695,850 0 Ditto to order (post-bills) 7,784,808 4 Account-current with Treasury creditor 71,996,361 12 Various accounts current. 116,177,749 18 Ditto in branches ... 24,232,127 G Bills payable at sight ... ... 9,363,000 0 Ditto at branches 3 330 531 0 Dividends payable ••• • • ... 1,110,727 25 Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 6,790 0 Expenses anticipated ... 118,135 89 Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 220,269 12 Ditto of branch banks ... ... 357,369 0 Re-discounts of th e l ast s i x months ... 168,450 0 Ditto in branch banks 240,432 0 Interest on protested bills 142,532 11 Miscellaneous ... ... 376,472 54 f.938 , ,882,754 39 Certified by the Governor o f the Bank D'ARaour. It appears from the preceding account that the cash in hand has increased by 5,576,000 f, The commercial bills discounted have decreased by; 9,463 f. The Bank notes in circulation have decreased by 5,319,000 f. The balance to the credit of the Treasury has increased by 7.191,000 E The sundry credits have decreased by 5,289,0001. BEAIIOENE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent front the General Post-office by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.] When made up in From what When PLACES. GeneralPost-ollice port dis- London. patched. due. America (by Brit. pkt.)N Jan. 30 .. .. Liverpool .. Feb. 1 America (by U.S. pkt.) N Jan. 27 .. Liverpool Feb. 4 America (by U.S. pkt.) 31 March 3 Soutinulapt, Feb. 14 Africa (West coast).. Nl4th of the month Plymouth Feb. Alexandria* •• Nil9th & 30th of mo. Dover Belgium • . Jan. 28 .. •. • • NlDaily .• Dover .. Daily Brazil .. , • .. Ml9th of the month Southampt. Feb. 16 Buenos Ayres 3119th of the month Southampt. Feb. 16 California(vlaChares)M2d & 17th of month I Southampt, Feki. 5 Cape of Good Hope N i 14th of month !Plymouth.. Feb. 3 Constantinople* .. • . N;7t/117th 27th of mo Dover .. Jan. 30 Central America .. Mi2d & 17th of mon. ISouthampt. Feb. 5 Channel Liles .. NIMon., Wed., &Fri.,Southampt. Tu. Te.Etat Chili .. .. • • . M 17th of the month ISonthampt. Feb, 20 France .. •. M &.NlTwice daily Eiover • • Twicedaili Greece* .• •• N ; 7 th 17 th 27th of mo !Dover .. Jan. 30 Hamburgh N Tuesday & Friday ;London Thee. Sat. lioiland .. . • .. M I Wednes. & Satur. ;London Mon. Thur Honduras . Nll7th of the mouth Southampt. Feb. 20 Ireland .. .. M& N !Twice daily .. Holyhead Twicedally India (via Sonthamp.) M'2oth of the month Southampt. Feb, 23 India (viaMarsoill es) N, 8 th& 24th ef month Dover • • Feb. 1 Mediterranean (via Sotithau,ton) 7120th of the month Southampt. Feb. 23 Mediten aneap. (via Marseilles) N 8 th& 24th ofmonth !Dover • • Feb. 1 Mexico 312 d of the month.. Southampt. !Feb. 5 51.adcira M 9th of tko month I Southampt. iFeb. 16 Malta* •• over Jan. ID 28 .N N; s s u th il l f ; t t h l3 2 2 s s i t h h o o f fm mo o l lo ov v e e r r t F ,e e b b . . 2 2 8, 0 3 ,1 0 7 t t h h 0 , I f e rn tli o , n 2 t 7 h thl Naples* Papal States* M I7th 17th 27th of mo' Southanapt. Jan. 26 FeninF,ular.. • • • • p orn „. Mdlith of the mo n th Southampt. Feb. 25 Tuscany* Nlstll 15th 25th of Mo Dover .. Feb. 2 West Indies 17th of the month Southampt. Feb. 5 West Indies (except Havanna & Nassau) M 2d of the month .. Sonthatept.iFeb. 5 The mails to those c ountries thus marked ( 5 ) are conveyed b 7 French packet M arse i lles. The direct Havre mail from London via Southampton during this month will be made up three times a week only, instead of daily. CaLirourna.—Mails M and from California, sta the United 6;410 are now despatched and due by every American packs. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. The following is the official statement of the quantities pi corn, &c., received in the port of London from the ports 10 Essex, from the 19th Jan., 1852, to the 24th Jan., 1/362, both inclusive :—. ii 01:4 4: p 4 Colchester .............. ... 3/ 225 435 Harwich ............... ... 560 -- Leigh ...................... . 322 1 62 20 103 83; "-',. Maidon ...........:=..... 1042( 195 100 151 466 3 3 0 14u CHELMSFORD, JAN. 23. Prices to-clay were as followv" Wheat, white, 445 to 498; red, 38s to 41s • barley, 26s to 29 5 ; chevalier 29s t o 33 s ; grinding 23s to 27 ' s ; malt 53r to bbs; chevalier 54 5 t o 56s ; oats 18s to 255; peas, partridge,. .2,,11, to 30s; white, 28 8 to 30s ; boiling, 29s to 325; dun, new', to 2es ; beans, tick, 26s to 295; harrow ticks, 27s to .30s; mazagan, 245 to 275. COLCHESTER, JAx. 24.—Wheat, white 44s to 49s ; red e s „ to 445 ; oats, 18 5 to 215; beans mazagan 265 to 28s; usiddl° and small 26 s t o 3 0s ; peas, white 30s to 325, grey, new .2SS is 303; barley, 283 to 34s per qr. KIRKALDY, JAN. 24.—The following are the quote:Wl ° for grain:_ Wheat. Barley. First 433 Od 273 6d Second 4ls Od 258 Od j Third 36s Od 23 3 Od I Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs HADDINGTON, JAN . . 23.—T6 grain at our market to-day : Wheat. Oats. 21s 6d 2Os Od 18s Od imperial, ie followinj Beans. —8 Od P ela nd . 9 - (ki —5 Od I s Od —s Od 293 Od to g are the ios iid. p ri g us of First ... ........... --s Od Second ............ ..... —s Od Third ...... ... ...... —s Od 1 Total quantity of Wheat in Do. Barley Do. Oats Do. Beans Barley. Oats. Bes Oa. 29s Od 22s 3d 32s Al 258 8d 20s 3d 30s ! t 23s Od 17s Od 285 414 market 760 qrs., 745 sAI do. 523 qrs., 508 sold do. 420 qrs., 406 sold do. 149 qrs., 149 Old COAL MARKE' Prices of Coal per ton at tl Bate's West Hartley 13s 6d Buddle's W. Hartley 13s 6d Burnhope l2s Od Ctrr's Hartley ..... 133 6d Howard's W. H. Neth. 13s 6.1 Longridge's W. Hartley 13s 6d North Percy Hartley l3s 6d 12: 9 0 d d 2 T ra o n w fi n e i l e d y ! . o .... ... .......... 1 1 6 9 d d lls 6d Walker's Primrose 15s Od 21 Wylam . Wall's End, &c. ;he close of the market : Lawson 14s 6d Belmont ...... ....... 163 9d Braddyll "ettotit Lxmbton Lumley ............ 16; PenBher l6s Od Russell's Hetton ...... 178. 3d Stewartia rs 6d Whitworth . l3i Od Sfaclean's Tees l4s 9 d, West Cornforth 14s 9 ' DerwentwaterHartley 13s 6 ` l ` Nixon's Merthyr and Cardiff ......... 2ls 03 61 ...... Sold, 34. Acorn 16s Od llshbarn Ships at market, BANFF, JAN. 19.—Sir John ROSS'S discovery ship f Felix, which was lat e ly purchased at Ayr by a comp , "1Y of gentlemen at this port, for the prosecution of the seal fialbell , has this morning reached our harbour, and is attracting great notice. We are glad t o le arn th a t, on her voyage t° Banff, she evin ce d sa i ling qualities of the first order—a mat ter of great i mportance in the trade for which she is des tined. She is a sch ooner of the clipper rig, very strongly f°l lined in oak, and coppered. -Aberdeen Journal ST. ALBANS BRIBERY Commissiort.—Yest was the day appointed by the Commissioners for rostuning the I -in the examinat of witnesses at St. Albans ii i, sc , g bribery and corruption practised in the borough, but no pro the to ceedings took place, an intimation having been fora . ar . 4 .rday far As tion to y resume the inquiry, it being now closed, in , io the Maor by the Commissioners that it is not the it mten the examination of the witnesses is concerned. BIRTHS. OF A BON On the 22d inst., at Pockferton Castle, Cheshire, the lady of J. Tollemache, Esq., On the 23d inst., at Leytonstone, Mrs. Mackenzie, widow of the late Stephen Mackenzie, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 22d inst., at Florian, near Torquay, Devon, t ile lady of Lieutenant-Celonel Percy Douglas. On the 22d inst., the wife of th e R ev. Alfred Wrig - o Addiscombe, near Croydon. MARRIED. On the 22d inst., at 74, Seymour-street, Eustont—sclu ilre ' by the Rev. Thom as Alexander, M.A , of Ranelagh Presby terian Church, Ch e l sea, Mr. Andrew' Thomson, son of Mr. Alexander Thomson, Old Shipping Company, Leit h, to Dinah, eldest daughter of Mr. William Scott. On the 24th inst., at the church of St. Mary, B rya nstou: square, Harman B a illi e H opper, E sq., Capta i n i n t h e 13;e0g% Army, son of th e l a t e .M a j or -G enera l H opper, to Mary Ellen Davis, yo ungest daughter of R. Ileatley, Esq., of Glou cester-place Portman-square. all, On the 22d i ns t., a t Llanbade rn -f awr , F ranc is Send Esq., of Worcester College, Oxford, youngest son of -L: . Kendall, Esq., of Pelyu-house, Cornwall, to Jane P. Ea 4 o ' t stone, only daughter of the late Horatio Hughes, Esq., Aberystwith. DIED. On the 21st inst., at Wherwell Priory, Hants, Colonel Iremonger, K.C., late of the 2d (Queen's) Regiment. On the 22d inst., at Burnham, Somerset, aged 80, Mrs. King, widow of Dr. King, Bishop of Rochester. On the 23d inst., at Banksidc, Southwark, Charlotte Ann, wife of Lieutenant J. T. Hinton, R.M., aged 51. At Cold-springs, near Baltimore, aged 37, Robert Henry' youngest son of William Spence, Esq., F.R.S. On the 23d inst., Mr. Thomas Hubbard, of Boley-binv Rochester, aged 64. On the 23d inst., Priscilla , daughter of the Rev. Rob ert Ro o h n ert t s h , e v 2 ic 2 a d r o i s Haverhill, ridge-wells, Suffolk, a ge d 24 . Catherine, widow of the late T. C. Burt, Esq. London: Printed and Published by 141URDO YOUNG• if N o . 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 1 1 Si Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Gooey of Duddlefsex, Tuesday, !wary 27, 1802.