The Sun. — London, England, 1852-09-17 00:00:00

/-01.rrer,,CREMO PA R GARDENS, FO -"4 SAFE RACHUTE DESCENT OF The AIADAME POI EVIN. inflation of the immense 11,:iloon, Le Globe, u$ prevented in consequence of the state of the 17,, v a s the r on Wed nes d ay, an d t hi s was expecte d to , °lt caused some little disappointment, but th e simul ,s4, s cheers of the assembled thousands at the r„ , "t of the less gigantic, but not less beautiful, `bane, Le Zodiac set aside all fears on that head. ePe sel ect i on of an earlier hour fcr its departure gave liclerable sa'isfaction, and the wisdom of this d c ‘i i etertnination was apparent in the lengthened an clear every sp , ctator had from the gar n'or.ci the moment when the elegant little machine h,;„ a s on a former occasion, cut away from its hi hiricr protecting guide, to the period when it was k et i by the foliage of the trees intervening, which etu" gor _ the outskirts of an sw t . h-cominon. A t p gentleman placed his splendid four-in-hand il n'elf at the s!-rvice of the lady, by whom sheher, cone luc:ed to the garden; within half an hour of eParture. It was rumoured in the grounds that qjirlsiQur Poitevin would ascend again on Monday, lads th at the gentleman who so kindly escorted p l ,;, t he Poitevin last night would descend in the .furher. " tri t”e with tit]E,7! ° , h cla7 prove fine, we strongly recommend a Ice ;) , t he gardens, lest the ascent and parachute de knd ~ € 1 that thy should prove the last of the season, trait sPectacie is one that it is unpardonable to t ‘ tow,ini ( qing. Last evening the grounds were and the entertainments passed off de y. 71141 --- CONISIANDEII6IIII 3 -IN-CHIEF. ttd `l,,nlour declares that the friends of Prince Albert 40i 0 ° .` t he Duke of Cambridge are both sanguinely I Pati tqval„ rig' the appointment of one or other of those Any Pers tmlages to the post of Commander-in-Chief. thi i , a , t , l ch appointment can scarcely be desired by 4 17 ' °est able to estimate the proper qualifications of o iii r4a4 who i s t o ru l e th e m ilitary force of a great 1 1013 0 %; What the public would say—should such an Tl. Lt netit take place—may be easily anticipated. the folhwing_ is the probable view of the military tfq? likely to arise in consequence of the Duke i leeid„ e d li kgton's death. Of course—since nothing is ;;: s". W e can only give thy, suppositions of those ‘ )l l4o ll4 ittted with the tend, ncies of the Horse 4 te e r i Y---if politics have not too much influence.— Lo r 4 d ri i,of Stair may get the Guards. si r 'ltlrdinge Constable of the Tower. B tii;;,l A4 drew Barnard, Colonel-in-Chief of Rifle Sir ( . I' . 44.117 i 'rge Brown, Commandant of a Battalion of Th o „,ade, vice Barnard. D ;s:alcai of Lord Fitzroy Somerset to the 4 °a'i bs da t a_ vacant are—his great experience of tr ;7 B to be performed. He has, indeed, been 1 71) i year the moving n man at the Horse Guards. He O t°i" aO rl of the fitth Duke of Beaufort, and was "ts t — ; 1788 . He entered the army in 1804 as ,1 11 the 4th Dragoons, and served with the he bittl Wellington in the Peninsula. He was at of Waterloo, where he lost an arm. He Or oi B . l l % r Wards Secretary ' of Embassy in Paris, and d oatle' Years Secret a ry to the Master-General of d• fel th t' liar clinge who is also named as eligible 44 (1 c e jt: rnande ' rship-in• Chief, wes born in 1785, la'ttler, et " Nuently, a few years older than Lord F. e i ''is4 l , l ' Re also is one of the veterans . of the n - d ' a and has much experience, both in the t Otit Et- i. : io military OEIII life. He has been ,tr, f ° ` the Ordnance, Secretary-at-War, Chief 1 4 ' ' 11 Rlii ar a Y, for ad Governor-General. He Waterloo, where he lost his left hand. qrG ,alge has strong Tory prejudices.— , g -raper. P ttle v 4 4448 of IV lIEAT, FLOUR, and BREAD. 4 ,,tat, -e f i ce „. ( lis a comparison . of the present prices of iti b N hi ":;_ and bread in London and Paris is t quotation hectolitre, wheat of the first quality tt,, 2 1, be : 11 50c. per which is equal to We 6' 05 1 quarter; . and the hi hest price of white wheat ktvto that quality . in London ' being 54a. per quarter, it Drli o Wheat is rather more tau 28 per cent. dearer I,ltile than in P ar i s . i n h : Rbeat quotation of flour of the first quality in Sc. the 100 kilogrammes, which is equal to it';° l l;tr e n r seek of 2801 b. English; and the highest quo tol(),,;(l4t,')ur in the London market being 435. the sack, 4 in n "t flour is 221 per cent. dearer in London 11 1 ,ti D " r is. ikltri P c r , le e ()f bread of the first quality in l Paris is ,; I °4ranuine, which is equal to near _. the ,itilZlish weight • mid the price of bread in Lon. 11 i5 lts' ; I ," full priced - shops, ' being 7d. the 41b. loaf, it 1, 1 U lm: 7.0 bread is ab o ut 31 per cent. dearer in Lon -010 4 4 Paris. Th e secon d quality of bread . Paris atls 4 ta 24c. ner kilograme, which is gum ent to Z'A. per 41b. loaf." aa 'XCASTER RACES. (THIS DAY.) ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) The Park Hill stakes. %11 °II the Wing 114 3 ' ''• • • • ot.lo tbi ti N ter ... I ... 2 ••• 3 The Don Stakes• ... 1 ... 2 t lt h "114 'TI i t ea ... ... . 111 rikteen ran. Won by two lengths. i t l . 4 di t , lo gtoti The Cup. tato4 .. ••• ••• ••• ••• ." ••• The Nursery Stakes. ... 1 ... 2 ... 1 ... 2 Eight ran. I , Lo ¢1) tiOR N RUSSELL ON THE SUMMIT OF BEN. " Situ '44 11 their 1 %3 7 last, at half-past seven o'clock, Lord I L iil ) t o b enf and family passed through Callender, on littl ed i• Oa ar r i v i ng a t the base of the lofty moun - V co o : t' westward of G llintogh Ford, where the cele - Yak h - ,,., -1 t took place between Fitz. James and Roderick otaleb--wer e Loh , e of Shetland ponies were found in waitinto Party in reaching the summit. The day was the ascent having been made in about three i tl !eo e 'i ( l r ble „ party enjoyed themselves on the summit f ll i g t for to " 4 ole time, admiring the grandeur of the sc!n!, 'l4 4 0a, Mantic beauty and delightful landscape, it is 11 1 rid n, is t k fe ,ed th nowhere surpassed in Scotland. The party Fir ° QlOO..'. mountain in perfect safety, and at halt-past t D o o aY t° tlie afternoon passed through Callender on e Uart, highly delighted with their day's ex 4,,kk.rtgt lNV o i lt n l. OF G OLD ARTICLES ON ARTHUR'S yeqjing — ' s daY afternoon two tradesmen, who happen x ed . tamaestroll upon Af - thur's Seat, Edinbuldrgaha, n and silver TRelq ,°Pon a secret deposit of "li he ° exets a gold watch, and other valuable arti- t 41 0 a Yfl aad e the discovery when climbing up a difficul t ti t ,'''et 4 l, l :oolt on the side of the hill directly to the d wes a l ' s 'hs• The articles were carefully conceale in 10. f l Pla,:y, a turf, which had been accidentally removed f R one of their feet. On searching the hole ; ° , l ' al kt t e _gold watch, half-a..dozen gold guard chains, thS L th re gold seals, a quantity of gold lockets ? and 4•ll, l `,'ere ab ° silver watch chains, in value amounting to ‹t i lea l , t e.oft ° ll t 50 1. They at once brought the articles to t. t 'ee „,', where th e y rema in for the inspection of a ny ‘ll,: h 4 a h;aY bsve had any articles of this description can he no doubt that the things found were t 4 Co Lk, Ag a ln, by by those who secreted them. •, o ATI. ANAL FANCY.—A few days ego, e t, Qto in the hamlet of Armscott, near Ship ''oll: favo n Aen going into one of his hen-pens, flis tlumth.e, t. n rite hen of his daughter's tenderly brooding ‘4`)Nvi - ; h e r°r oPted by curiosity to count the number of st ooped to remove the feathered matron, but DeQ i k.P e culiarity of her nature, offered some resist 14'411:tle o pg at the worthy farmer's heed. However, We,t,iktf b„, ber independent spirit, he thurst . his hand l ke 1 4 ,cliti` t h , but with surprise he suddenly withdrew . it, kOkii„ 4 ,,e4,, f " i ' hand in contact with a number of feet 104 `qt,l l , - , a chicken. His curiosity was now greater. ef h . ."„ en, drew her from the nest, when, instead of '')) 11 4 I fr ''en s, he found she was nursing a fine kitten, li'ter,tfle a , - „'etion of a real mother. How it came there ‘ 4 4 ; r " , andsubsists is a still greater ,f,,fiei_ cat ° , B how it (4 41 i 8 . 58 never been observed to go near it, and the ' L waro t aerY sprightly, and seems to enjoy the 4 of the old hen's winge.— Ce shireWorceste k(s P 3 liN TON ';ILV CI ,` 4 t THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-- 0 i b (l ‘' itim ap Pened on the Swindon branch of this line, P,N 4 J epp,;:wn as the Great Western Union RailwaY, on f; k ts t ave - p ' ll i n t g, which was of ` art alarming character, and th, many hundred of lives in jeopardy. It aP" se,hari" let t u ,',ual evening up goods train to London from thOli to Rot th `ue latter place at about half.p four o'clock, 1 1 4 1 4 1 4 41 , be :ugh the Sapperton tunnel, and when near tre tl ieqnd 1 ,,, a 70f the trucks by some means or other got oil 41,,N:flashed to pieces, the truck being literally 'lp l ite i , t ,t se at ; 'he contents, consisting chiefly of bags oftoltoe. of„lred over the line. How the truck got ofl fr t ,,_th e 't raTclals either cannot or will not divulge, but the 1)1/4,1 t r , s tr . was blocked up, several rails were torn up, ‘4tl ,l'ecst ir nPeded. Luckily the 5.30 passenger train 10 ; the which reaches Paddirgton at 10 P.M,. had '2 l lki l 4 lit l 'ne while the goods train was shunted in a l if, ‘t tt t he v, 4° 3 7 excursion train, which had been delayed tti: l , l el l / ' l l ',efi, and t ot sufficient carriages being provided, who had . been to the Chepstow 4 tl t lj,„ t i tn...' were detained until past midnight when th ", S wi u . iently cleared for them to pass , on . to their \k l Tl ese whono. It is stated that no serious injury was liret. hs ott had the charge of the train. . 2E I C 1 - I(,:,PITAL, BATTON-GARDEN. 3't. R the friends and supporters of this insti.u- L . :,;leti ° , l l th e ' b rd o a s Y . in the hoard-room, the report of the () -pital afforded to all present the greatest th.,,,,f4ll,:,til,erie.orf,(.loroi,itlnie statement o . f the senior surgeon, Mr. ' l l 4 ts on road-street, it appeared that the rinin ttN tk l 'tefl t `no books since the opening of the institu -111014 4 flo,'!e 1: 1 4, 1 1,( 19, and that they had conic from all e°ehf o 2, Kingdom. The applications of patients 4t, 4efoin-door treatment were far more numerous I t ch it th e 'f.u .TnSion _na s °date , d, and were daily increasing; but t would not warrant the extension 11i - th 'staq fo r t s present. t 4 e I rn a rry_. 0 'nen ever knows when, where , or m Its all n onsense plann i ng an d specu ti,,Pl. 41,N1,'Et t t at ., °"Lt inigbt as well luck nut fo ft spot EI of chase. You come smash down in the "r speculation.,.—Dublin University THE SUN, DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. WALMEIL, SEPT. M.—To the particulars which were published yesterday of the circumstances at tending the Duke of Wellington's sudden illness and death nothing remains to be added that at all alters its character, or could do more than minister to an impertinent curiosity. It may be mentioned, how ever, that when his valet first roused him at half-past six o'clock it struck him that his Grace appeared to wake up with a greater effort than usual, and that when at half-past seven o'clock he again went to him he seemed still more disturbed. It was on the second occasion that his Grace ordered the doctor to be sent for, and the valet at once knew that his master must then have been feeling very unwell, for he was always reluctant to call in medical aid, believing that he knew better than any one else how to manage his own con stitution. For some little time, and especially while staying at Waliner Castle, the Duke has, when so disposed, taken an additional hour or half hour's rest in the morning, and the circum stance, therefore, that he did not at once bestir him self when awakened of itself produced no alarm. The arrangements for the funeral stand over until the arrival of the new Duke, who is expected to morrow. In the interval there is a good deal of speculation as to the form which the obsequies of so gnat a man will take. Some say that he will be in terred as unostentatiously as possible at Strathheld saye, in a spot selected by himself for the purpose, while others believe that he has made no such choice, nor left any instructions whereby the natural wish of the Sovereign and of the country to honour his re mains with a public funeral might be prevented. For some time past an impression has certainly prevailed that the Duke had expressed a wish to be buried at Stratbfieldsaye, but those likely to be well informed on the subject, seem to think that the Queen's plea sure will decide the manner and place of his interment. It is not quite certain that the telegraphic mes sage recalling the Marquis of Douro to Weimer Castle will have found him at Frankfort, but, as it was sent through the Embassy, it was sure to reach him with the least possibly delay. PORTSMOUTH GARRISON, THURSDAY.—The follow ing district order was this day issued by the Acting Lieutenant-Governor, on account of the lamented death of Field-Marshal his Grace the Commander in-Chief :—" Until further orders no music is to play in public, except what may be absolutely necessary for the performance of duties." WOOLWICH GARRISON, SEPT. 16.—The melancholy intelligence of the death of the Duke of 'Wellington, was telegraphed here on Tuesday afternoon, and caused a universal feeling of the deepest regret. The flags were raised yesterday half-mast high on the various flagataffg, and the bands have been ordered to discontinue playing until further orders. (From th© Times ) We believe we should best describe the national feel fag at this remarkable period by saying that no one can yet fully realize the loss which the country has sus tained. The Duke of Wellington, for generation after generation, had lived among us so long, and had so adapted his presence and capacities to the changing exi gencies of time, that it requires some effort to look back on more than the last stage of such an eventful life. For most political characters it would be distinction enough to say that they had been appealed to for nearly twenty years, in every crisis of the State ; but these twenty years would not carry us even to the Duke's own Mi nisterial career, and this career itself did not commence till a military life of prodigious celebrity and duration had finished. Even Lord Grey's Premiership now wears almcst an historical aspect, but the great Duke was Premier beforo Lord Grey. He was the contemporary and colleague of Liverpool, Melville, Sidmouth, Castle. reagh, and Bathurst—names which have long been con signed, with various remembrances, to the pages of the past. Though not absolutely a member of the Administra• non he exerted a material influence on the policy of Eng land when existing Ministers were in their cradles. He was a powerful and energetic mover in times which the present generation can only reach by study, and can scarcely comprehend without an effort. The great Duke's actual span of life was extraordinary, but it acquires almost a character of immensity when we think of the events it embraced. Into the fourscore years of Arthur Wellesley were crowded the revolutions and wars of two ordinary centuries, and the course and con summation of these wars and revolutions were controlled in no small degree by his own achievements. The pe rusal of the biography which these columns have con tained will have sufficed to show what stretch of com prehension is required for so marvellous a view, and, what liberality of consideration is due to a representa tive of such bygone times. The great Duke had been in the confidence of Cabinets who were little less des potic than the Cabinets of Austria or Naples, and yet he survived till the days of Disraeli and Cobden, and was not a Protectionist. In directing our pze on a military life which had ter minated, after almost thirty years of conquest, before a political life of more than thirty years of wisdom had begun, the prospect is still more astonishing. When the 73d Regiment was first joined by the officer who but this week was living still, there was scarely a single feature of a soldier's condition or duties corresponding to what we now see. Costume, character, discipline, and equipment were all and altogether different, and the uniform which Arthur `Wellesley first assumed would now excite surprise in a dramatic representation. Men wore powder and pomade, cocked hats an d pigtails, gaiters and breeches. They car ried muskets so bad as to be often unser viceable, and camp kettles so heavy es to re tard their march. They were mercilessly scourged for the smallest transgression. Their officers, until the exigencies of the war had induced wiser views, were aP • class. the pointed and promoted through interest a l one; and do ing which would now set the kingdo m i n a bl aze were then s transacted as the unquestionabl e privileges of a It we are ever inclined to think disparagingly of great Duke's military reforms, it should be our first duty to recollect that he was reared in a school long past, and that the abolition of corporal punishment and unlimited service must at first sight have appeared in his eyes very much as the five points of the Charter might have ap peared to Mr. Pitt. At the commencement of that career which has only just ended the very face of Europe itself was such a s can hardly be conceived. There are now five great Powers; there were then nearly four hundred states pretending to sovereignty. There was an empire of a thousand years' renown which styled itself the Empire of the Caesars, and there was a famous old republic which had survived from ages earlier still. When Arthur Wellesley received his first commission in the service of Great Britain the monarchy of France was thought the most absolute and stable in the world; Spain was a powerful kingdom, and Poland an existing state. The great Duke witnessed the extinction of Venice, the fall of Poland, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, and ho contributed more or less directly to the creation or recognition of half-a-dczsn kings. In the interval there occurred the most monstrous metamorphosis of Europe which had been seen since the days of Charlemagne. All the kingdoms of the continent, from the frontier of Purtugel to the banks of the Vistula, and from the Ger man Ocean to the Gulf of Otranto, were subjugated to the sway of a single French soldier, under whose unpa ralleled policy arid dominion a new race of statesmen and generals sprang rapidly into being. But this mighty revolution, which almost provokes the incredulity of the present age, was but en episode in the life of He saw it Duke. He lived both bef ore it and after it. rise, culminate, and sink, and a hundred names of im perishable memory passed away from the scene during the continuance of one greater still. In addition to such reflections as these, which of themselves would suffice for a time to bewilder our ideas, it must be remembered that the event which we have now to solemnize is virtually without a precedent. Neither this nor any other country has ever, in modern times, lost such a son. The obsequies of French Mar shals have within a few years been celebrated with becoming pomp; but, excepting that wonderful con queror, whose conquests did riot keep pace with his life, there was no French General to be compared with ours. Nur were the other belligerent States more productive. If we were now to recapitulate the names and titles of those Austrian cr Russian or Prussian commanders who stood side by side with our great hero, or fought in other fields for the same cause, they would obtain but a partial recognition. Blucher's credit, as Wellington's comrade, has giv(n hi m an i nc id en t a l re nown; but Sehwarzenberg, Wurm ser , Witt genste i n , a nd Klrist have little honour beyond their own countries. Niither can E! gland herself be said with justice to have ever known before the obligations of to-day. The deaths of Marlborough and Nelson supply the nearest parallels, but the cases are far fr om s i m il ar. Marl borough's unrivalled generalship was t arn i s h e d b y h i s political disrepute, and so completely had th e dotage of se nility combined with the stigma of tre ason to depress- his fame, that his decease, in what was her , ° the chief chronicle of those times , is disposed of in a footnote at the bottom of a pg.) as that of " the father-in-law of the Earl of Sunderland." More impressive, indeed, and affecting was Nelson's departure, for he died in the arms of victory, on England's own element, and before it had been sh own by the great Captain of the Peninsula that wo could aspire to military renown. But , though Nelson can scarcely be soid to have done less than another, i n that he left nothing to be done, it would be hard to withhold from the services of half a century some higher meed than that of earn ten years' glory. Wellington has been all that Nelson vat, and more than Nelson was permitted to be. His years have beenremission protracted to their l o n ges t s pan without an instant's remission of his services in any capacity which retnrned to him, and it is no w f or us to ren d er the lust acknowledgment of deserts which have accumulated from one age to another. SUPPLEMEN T , G RATIS I—l n conseq uence of the death of his Gr ace th e Duke of Wellington, t h e Proprietors of the Wechlil hisTatch have determined upon p r esenting a supplement with th e i r j ournal on Sunday next, t h e 19th inst., The supplement will contain a copious biograp h y o f his Grace, comprising hi s m i litary and political career, w ith such episodical matt er connected with so eminent an indivi dual as may complete the sketch of his varied and extraor dinary life. All orders should be given to the newsvendors in town and country without delay, or f orwar d e d to the Dispatch Office, COL. tii` BALMORAL, SEPT. 15. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert went yesterday to the Balloch Buie, accom panied by the Princess Royal. The dinner party yesterday included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Serene High ness the Princess Hohenlohe Langenbourg, Lady Augusta Bruce, Mr. and Ludy Agnes Dutl, and Mr. Brooke. Mr. Secretary Walpole, accompanied by Colonel Jebb, visited Parkhurst Prison, in the Isle of Wight, yesterday. Dispatches were sent to the Governors of the West India Islands, from the Colonial-office, yes terday. THE QUEEN AT LOCRNAGAR. CRATME, TUEEDAY.--Siliee Sunday the weather has been very cold and wintry, and our loftier hills have more than once assumed their winter shroud of snow. Yesterday her Majesty walked out and visited several of her cottars, with whom she left appropriate marks of her Royal benevolence in the shape of useful articles of clothing for the winter season. His Royal Highness went out shooting, and killed five beautiful stage—the best day's sport he has yet had. In the evening her Majesty and his Royal Highness drove down to Abergeldie to attend a ball given by the Duchess of Kent in honour of the birth-day of his Royal Highness the Prince Leiningen. The piper of Captain Forbes, of Blelack, Was present, with other district celebrities, and a very happy evening was spent. The Royal party returned to Balmoral about eleven P.M. Today the weather is still wintry, but her Majesty, with that courage and self-confidence which she is at all times ready to display, ascended Lochnagar, on which the snow was lying in some places pretty thick. The atmosphere was exceeding chilly, but the exer tion necessary for the ascent in a great measure nullified this inconvenience, and her Majesty seemed to enjoy the somewhat adventurous excursion very much. She was accompanied by Prince Albert and the Royal suite. L 5 N ON, HEREFORD MUSICAL FESTIVAL. THURSDAY MORNING.—The Cathedral this morning was again well attended, there being between 600 and 700 present. Previous to the commencement of the performance Handel's "Dead March" from Saul was played, as a mark of respect to the memory of the illustrious Duke, the whole of the orchestra and audi ence standing. The complete oratorios of St. Paul and the Last Judgment formed the programme, and were most successfully performed. Madame Novello repeated the beautiful aria "Jerusalem," and Miss Williams "But the Lord is mindful," at the request of the Right Rev. Dr. Hampden, the Bishop of the diocese. The choruses were particularly effective. Our report yesterday was sent off before the con clusion of the service. The Creation was finely performed, Herr Formes declaimed the opening recitative, and Mr. Sims Reeves sang "Now vanish;" Madame Clara Novello " The marvellous work," all with great effect. The first motivo of " Rolling in foaming billows," is well suited to Formes' peculiar style of singing. Madame Novello sang With Verdure Clad" exquistely—it was the gem of the morning's performance. In the second part she equally distinguished herself by ber singing of the air "On mighty pens," in which she introduced some judicious curtailments, thereby relieving it of the many repetitions which occur in the melody. Herr Formes, in the air, " Now Heaven in fullest Glory Shone," and Sims Reeves in the recitative and air, " In Native Worth," sang admirably. Spohr's beautiful cantata, God is Great," opened the second part. It is one of this great master's best compositions, and is replete with all his graceful mo dulations and wonderful instrumental effects. The collection at the doors amounted to 2571., being a decrease of 61. on the collection of last festival after the second day's performance. The concert on Tuesday evening was badly attended, not more than 230 persons being present. Beethoven's symphony in D was carefully played. Madame Clara Novello and Herr Formes sang in a manner that astonished provincials. DINNER TO MR. LO WE, M.P. FOR KID- DERM IN STER. On Tuesday evening a dinner was given to Mr. Ro bert Lowe, the new Member for this borough. Amongst the company were Mr. Kitely (in the chair), Sir Thomas Winnington, Lord Ward and his chaplain; Mr. Melville, Mr. Westhead, M.P. for Knaresborough, and many other gentlemen of the district. Lord Lyttelton and Sir James Graham sent letters of excuse, the latter being prevented from having to •at tend to a dinner given to himself by his own constituents. Mr. LOWE, in returning thanks, after a panegyric on Sir Robert Ike), proceeded to criticise the present Ca binet. As a❑ opposition, their principle had been to combat every just concession and to stigmatise every liberal measure as baneful in tho extreme; hut now, as Ministers themselves, they represented no principle at all, and he questioned whether they really enter tained any. When, in the whole course of our history, did such a Ministry ever exist before as the present, the indiv:duel members of which were selected for no known qualifications whatever, or, at the best, selected for the solo merit of upholding a principle unanimously discarded by the country at large.—(Loud and prolonged cheering.) Like the Manickeeans of old, they impersonated the evil principle, which they kicked down the back stairs as soon as it had brought them in. Lie could not conceive whet business they had to retain office, seeing that they had surrendered the only prin ciple they ever had, and that they had adopted no new one in exchange.—(Great cheering.) Lord WARD, in speaking to a toast, emphatically dis claimed having in any way countenanced the use of his name for electioneering purposes. The cost in carrying out free trade was made at the expense of his order; but the advantages more than counterbalanced the loss. That loss was only temporary, and would soon be more than repaired, whereas the gain to the nation by free trade was great, immediate, and permanent. Mr. Lowe would only be a fair and honourable rival of his in every thing constitutionally liberal. QUESTIONS FOR THINKING MEN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR —Do newspaper editors act wisely when they de vote whole pages of their papers to glowing eulogistic sketches of one whose m erit a pp ears to h ave consisted in this—that he was a successful soldier? generation Will the underprinciplesu seh of peace spread amon g our r i s i ng a system? Are we not feeling, ev en now, th e evil effects of the wars thus glowingly chronicled? Has not infinite Wisdom declared, that he who is " slow to anger is 'Dater than the mighty, and he who ruleth his spirit, better than ho who taketh a city?" Which will a wise man consider the " better pan"— the fame of a Wellington, or the fame of a Jenner? PRESERVATIOA OF LIFE FROM SHIP WRECK. Yesterday a meeting of the General Committee of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck was held at the society's office in the Adelphi ; Mr. T. Wilson, formerly M.P. for London, in the chair. There were also present Mr. E. Palmer, late M.P. for South Essex; Colonel Blanchard, R.E. C.B. ; Captain M`Hardy, R.N.; Captain Ommanney, R.N. (Deputy. Controller- General of the Coast Guard); Captain Perrott ; Mr. Edw. Hurry, &c. A contribution was agreed to in aid of a life-boat to b e pl ace d f o rthwith in Lyme Regis, constructed on the plan of the new life-boats recently sent to the coast of Northumberland, and also towards another to be stationed at Dover. A letter was read from Lieutenant Ellis, R.N., stating that the new life-boat for Southwoid, built by Mr. Beeching, of Yarmouth, to be (as far as practicable) under the society's regulations, had been placed on her station, and had been lately tried in a gale and behaved well. The boat is of the form usually given to whale-boats, and the provision to right her, if upset, is by means of water ballast, an iron keel, and raised air cases in the head and stern sheets; her cost was about 2801., towards which Sir E. Gooch, M.p. and Miss Sherriff most liberally contributed each 100 guineas ; the boat is under the care of an experienced local committee. The next business was the gra n t of a reward of 61 . to three pi lots, of Pill, near Bristol, who saved the crew of the schooner Primrose, sunk in the Bristol Channel during the terrific storm on the 11th ult. ; it took six long hours, amid the howling of the storm, before the poor fellows were got on board the pilot's skiff, and the schooner sank just after the last man was rescued. A reward of 21. was also voted to the master of the smack B r i s k, o f Southampton, and 103 . each to his crew, who had, on the same day, saved the lives of three helpless fisher men, who were out at sea, fishing, near the Land's End, and were suddenly overtaken by a heavy gal e , which completely prevented their return to the shor e , causing them to drift westward in a heavy sea. One or two ves , els passed them, and offered to take the m on board, but objected to tow their boat, and the poor fellows were determined not to part with her, their whole dependence for a subsistence being in their boats, to which they are often as much attach e d as the Arab is to his steed. The meeting transacted some other formal business, and the proceedings closed. UNIFORMITY OF TIME IN THE PROVINCES.—At a meeting of the Town Council of Bristol, held yesterday (Tuesday), it was resolved, by a majority of 27 to 3, "That, in order to obviate the inconveniences resulting from the want of uniformity in the time kept by Lhe public clocks and the railway, Greenwich time be kept by all the clocks under the management of the Council, and that a committee be appointed to confer with the persons in charge of the various other public and private clocks." In the course of his observations, the mover of the resolution remarked that he understood the municipal bodies in Exeter , Ply .. mouth, and Devonp or t were waiting the result of the meeting in Bristol previously- to their deciding on the course they would pursue.—Exeter Flying Post. Lord awl Lady P. Fit z:l l an - nee l e ft Portsmouth en ' Tuesday. We understand th ey w i l l sa il f or B o mbay, in the packet of Thursday next, from Southampton, proceeding by the Overland Nate FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1852 DEATH OF MR. A. W. PUGIN. Our readers will learn with mingled feelings that the final close has been set to that eclipse of intellect which had so awfully arrested, in its noon of vigour, the brilliant and useful career of Mr. Pugin. His decease took place at his residence, at Ramsgate, on Tuesday, the 14th instant, at five in the evening. Augustus Welby Noraimore Pugin was the only child of Augu s t us P ug i n by his marriage member of the Welby family, of Denton,in Lin colnshire, n ow represented by Sir W. E. Welby, Bart. with a Augustus Pugin, a native of France, though settled in England, was by profession an architectural drafts man, and was much distinguished in the revival of pointed arc hi tecture which has characterised this century, by var i ous valuable and elaboratelyillus trated works, descriptive of medieval architecture, brought out in concert with Mr. Britton and Mr. La Keux. Though he never practised as a con structive ar c hi tect, several well known architects were trained in his office, of whom his own more eminent son stood foremost. Thus trained in the daily study of those fur ms of whose manipulation was to b ecome so great a master, young Pugin first appeared before the world es the editor of a post humous work of his father. his own curliest publi cation was, we believe, a serie s of illustrations of mcdixval metal work. At th i s period of his life occurred that event to which we lack back with the least pleasure —we mean his secession to the Church of Rome. In Pugin's case, however, there were circumstances which rendered this secession most widely different from similar events which have subsequently occurred. In the first place, the Church of England of th ose days was, i n appearance, an entirely different thin g f rom the Church of England of this day, permeated an d rev i vified by the Church revival. It was not, th e r e f ore, to be so much won dered at that Pugin, young an d enthusiastic, an d existing on the architectural gl or i es of medieval Christendom, should in those times have been unable to see the Church of England, such as she was twenty years back, as we now behold her. Again, his heredi tary religion was Romani sm. Hi s f ather was a Roman Catholic till he settled in England, and if he ever England, it is not on record that he illustrated his n ew profess i on b y any extraordinary exhibition of zea l . Besides, o f Pugin it can be said that he has ev i nced a feeling formally conformed to the Church of regarding the Church of England very far removed from that manifested by later converts. He threw himself indeed, particularly in his latter d ays, mos t warmly into everything which betok ened life in the hes Roman Ca- to the e s l is h extent C hur o c f h , tholic. fullest t w he it t h et wh her inh of a sincere About this time Mr. Pugin made his earliest con spicuous appearance before the public in his peculiar line, by the publication of his racy and original " contrasts ;" o r, t o quo t e the r ema i nder of the title p ag e, "a parallel between the noble edifices of the fourteenth and fif t e en th cen turie s , and similar build ings of the present day, showing the present decay of taste, accompanied by appropriate text." The vo lume, bearing date 1836, and issuing from " St. Mary's Grange, near Salisbury" (a house which Mr. Pugin had built for hims e lf, an d wa s th en inhabiting), showed that its writ er an d a rti s t was a man of no or dinary stamp. Open to criticism as were some of the antithetic and trenchant plates, an d no little of the equally antith e tic and tr enc h ant prose of this quarto, it was still a bit—a palp a bl e, unmistake able hit—in spite of its being writt en as if to aggra vate all the prevalent feeling of the age, by telling it the bluntest and most disagreeabl e truths in the bluntest possible manner. In proof of t h at remark able necessity which guided, while it imp e ll e d , t h e natural impetuosity of Pugin's tempera ment, we may observe that in the second edition of this v o l ume , m published five years later, much of the text is re written, in a spirit and with intention s t h e most re mote from blind, one-sided partisanship.fourteenth andlt is ob servable that, in this second edition, "iddle ages" is substituted in the title-page for , fifteenth centuries." Just as this period the communion to which Mr. Pugin had joined himself evinced considerable energy of church building, and his constructive as well as his literary abilities soon found consider able employment. His first church was that little Romanesque chapel so conspicuous from the rail way station at Reading. This was soon followed by the more important new Roman Catholic churches at Derby, Macclesfield, Hulme near Man chester, and Birmingham, the latter designated from the first as a cathedral. It would be, of course, unfair to criticise these early attempts at illustrating principles so long allowed to rest in oblivion. Indeed, their architect has rendered any criticism out of the question by the openness with which, in his later writings, he has dissected those very structures upon which his earliest reputation was so deservedly, for the time, based. Among his ear liest and most constant patrons, the Earl of Shrews bury dud Mr. Ambrose Lisle Phillips stood conspi cuous. Commissions flowed rapidly in, and among the numerous structures which he built we shall only mention the large Roman Catholic churches of St. George, in Southwark ; St. Barnabus, in Notting ham ; Cheadle, built for Lord Shrewsbury ; the Cis tercian Abbey of St. Bernard, reared in the moun tainous tract of Leicestershire, upon a wild moor be longing to Mr. Phillips ; Alton Castle, near Alton 'rovers ; and the Roman Catholic cathedrals at Kil larney and Enniscorthy, in Ireland. Numerous, however, as were the churches which own the name of Pugin, there is not one in which this great architect had fully fair play. Vast results for insufficient means—large congregations and spreading areas, with scanty money to cover them—were, we believe, all but invariably the con ditions upon which he found that his services would be at all accepted. And when these services had been engaged, ignorance, prejudice, and all the obstinate caprice of amateur false taste and sacer dotal self. sufficiency, were put in play to mar the result. In that work of hi s , for example, which is most accessible, the church o f St. George, in South wark —now e l eva t e d i n th e new hierarchy to cathe dral dignity—Pu g in f oun d himself called upon to spread, over a s p ace o f ground sufficient in extent for a real cath e d ra l, a c h urch whose stated price com pelled him to r e fr a i n f rom decorating it with t h a t al most indispensable f ea t ure, even of a much sma ll er church—the clerestory— w hi le (as he publ i s h e d) at the time fighting a b a ttl e with the wise comm itt e e which affected to control him, in order to make sure of even as much of chancel as the building now possesses. At last it was built an d o pened, and soon after its openin g was proclaime d a cathe dral ; and persons who are not acauainte d w ith its history visit it, and go away with t h e impression that " this is Pugin's typ e o f a cathe d ra l c hurch." Even in the one instance w h ere he had a l mo st carte blanche—the church at Ch ea dl e—he was p laced in a position of great disadvanta ge , f or he was first en joined to build a small and cheap church, and after its ground plan had been set, he was en j o ined to develop it into a very dear one, and yet was not alter that plan so much as to give the proper length which he desired to the chancel ; while driven by the haste of the patron for whom he was working to go to an excess of mere colour, as little to be defended it can on the principles of sound esthetics, as justly be charged upon Pugin. It is well known that the only building of his which he looked upon small but solid and original church was that allowed toh with anything like unalloyed satisfaction, munificently erected upon his own lan d, next his .. own house at Ramsgate—the one church o f which he was at once architect and director-general. And.d latterly —the truth must be told--this great man did not receive from the members of his own communion that support which he had a right to expect. Various.n school of Pugin, imbued with Pugin° which he se Roman Catholic architects had grown up . i and gifted, it may be, with that m alleability of temper which might perhaps induce them to carry out h those o principles more complyingly than the great ead f the school would have consented to do ; and accord ingly they thus found churches to build in plenty, que principles, while " Pugin" was called in for the painted glass, or the metal wor k. S tern j us ti ce , of course, compelled critics t o not i ce, while he was yet living, the short comings of Pugin's works; but equ al j ustice com p els us now t o say that we believe that be did not receive that m easure of fairplay wh i c h his deserts demanded. It is ha r dl y necessary f or us here to notice — well known as the fact i s —h o w much that gr eat na t i onal work, the Palace of wastnsinste" has all along Pugin, owed to th e t as t e an d t a l en t s of ungrudgingly bestowed to h e lp its architect in carrying out that Charles Barry, we feel a vast and i n t r i cate e difi ce . Si r convinced, w ill b e g l a d t o reflect that future a ges will connect th e name o f Pugin with his, in speaking of th a t g i gantic reproduct i on of a long forgott en style of i n di genous arc hit e cture. Cut off compa ratively i n hi s yout h— w ithout a title, and not R.A. Pugin's is et a name wit h which the mo s t de y sociatt d. corated of artists need never blu sh to have been as- But while a ss id uous ly plying his pencil: Pugin did , asufferafter r his an Contrasts not r e years, followed by hi. two lectu res on the true princip le of Christian archi tecture, to which a smaller volume, called "An Apology for Christian Arch itecture," f ormed a sequel. In the years 1841 and 1842, two articles, on the rEvival of church architecture in the Homan Communion in England, written by Pu g i n , an d prof use l y adorned with illustration s o f his works, uppearkd in the Dublin Review, and were subsequently republished in a vo lume. Hi s Gl ossary o f Ecclesiastical Ornament showed considerable research, and is beautifully illustrated ; and at a much later period, 1849, he pro duced a most graceful volume of " floriated orna ment" in chromolithograph, being illustrations of how the forms of living flowers can be adapted to the symmetrical shapes required in ecclesiastical ornament. About this period some of the more active of the re i cent converts—including particularly the " Orato ' rians," and the writers in the Rambler—rendered themselves very conspicuous by the extravagant and offensive manner in which they combined their advo cacy of the most extreme ultramontane doctrines with an original system of church arrangement and decoration, founded on the conventicle idea of making churches mere halls for seeing and hearing, and on a mawkish predilection for modern Italian architecture, as the architectur e o f mo d ern R ome. P ug i n, as might be supposed, was eq ua lly di sgus t e d an d ange red by this ridiculous display o f neop h y t e presum pti o n, and met it with in a series o f very v i gorous an d plain spoken articles, in which h e spo k e o f t h e present Eag glish Church a tone remarkable in the productions of a member of the Roman Church. It is understood that at the period of his lamented illness he was en gaged upon a larger and more elaborate work upon the same subject. While studying architecture, Pugin was equally zealous and successful in his cultivation of the arts subordinate to it. To painted glass and mediaeval metal work he devoted peculiar attention, and under his directing care Mr. Hardman, of Birmingham, established his beautif u l a t e li ers i n these two brunches of art. Among the numerous courts in the Crystal Palace few attracted more attention and gave more delight than Pugin's " Mediaeval Court," rich in these departments. We may also observe that the eminent builder, Mr. Myers, was first noticed and encouraged by Pugin's discerning patronage. His skill as an artist was remarkable. The public are pretty well aware of his powers as an architec tural draftsman. But as a landscape artist and a colourist his talents were most striking, and he had no greater pleasure than to show his port folios of water-colour sketches, hit of! with the rapidity of lightning, and embodying some pic turesque nook of a Kentish field, or some transitory effect of brilliant sun-set which had arrested his ready glance. Innumerable are the anecdotes current among his friends of the characteristic, often eccentric, always energetic, and always warm-hearted brusquerie of Pugin's character. He was a very Boythorn ; and woe to the Skimpole who tried to humbug him, or the Dedlock who essayed to lord it over him. To the last he combined a love of the sea as only second to his love of a Gothic church, and at one time he owned, and sometimes c o mmanded, a merchant smack trading with Holland. The proximity of the sea was one great inducement w hi c h l e d him to fix his abode at Ramsgate ; and a mong th e a pp en dages of his me diaeval dwelling wa s a l arge cu tter, with which he was always prepared, with his merry men, to push off to the rescue of any vessel in distress upon the Good wins. His short figur e , d ar k comp l ex i on , a n d habitual attire had always m ore a b ou t th em t o remind a stranger of the sailor, than to give any clue to the person before him being the great Christian artist. Mr. Pugin was thrice m arr i e d, an d l eaves a widow and a large family. We doubt not that his national deserts will receive public attention to them, as we fear that at the time of his seizure he was far from affluent. —Chronicle. PLYMOUTH MAILS.-THE SCR.ETV-SIIIP INDIANA. PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY. The Indiana, screw steam -ship, Captain Lambert, sailed at four o'clock P.M. yesterday, with mails in charge of Commander Thurburn, consisting of seven bags for Cape Town, six for Cape Colony, four Port Natal, five Sierra Leone, one Simon's Bay, one Calcutta, one Ceylon, two Ascension, four Mauritius, one Madras, two St. Helena, and two St. Vincent. The Indiana took 120,000/. in specie, and 400 tons of general merchandise. The following were among her pas sengers ;—Lieut. and Mrs. Soady, Mr. Bryce, Mr. and Mrs. Blunt, Mr. Jasper Newton, Mr. Tate, Mr. Stewart, Mrs. Hamilton and two daughters, Mr. Ash, Mr. H. E. Harrington, Mr. R. A. Smith, for Calcutta. Captai n and Mrs. Benson, child, and servant ; Mr. B. L. Gordon, cadet ; Mr. M. liaacke, ditto ; M r . W . H. Stanes, Captain Nelson, Captain and Mrs. Russell, Mejor and Mrs. Cameron, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, Rev. Mr. Blythe, Lieut.-Colonel Taylor, for Madras ; Mr. J. Bailey, Mr. R. F. Oakes, M r . D. and Mrs. Wilson, Mr. R. H. Price, Mrs. Wright and Miss Wilson, for Ceylon ; Mr. Seymour, for Point de Gale ; Mona. Giliot i'Etang and family, Mons. and Madame Bedier and child, for Mauritius ; Mr. Allen, Mr. Lledingh, Mr. and Mrs. Truter, Colonel Dalton and servant, Lieut. J. Doywan, Lieut. 11. G. Simpson, f or t h e Cape. The Indiana is the third of the splendid vessels GI this class built by Messrs. Mare and Co., of Black wall, and is in every way a sister ship to the two that have preeeded her, which are decidedly the best and most perfect efficient screw-ships afloat, taking into consideration the real amount of horse power to ton- Z t ff i e r - man S , ei‘veirr.al Ellis,of the directors, including the Lambert, together with Captain Ford, lilE the aid com ir : pany's port in her. able superi n t en d en t, cam e round to this The number of passengers is con a'd erably beyond a f a i r average at th i s season o f the year, and the line and route to our Eastern possessions taken by this line . is evidently becoming has the fa i v n o s u pi r r i e te d . a n T o h n e fid re e g n ul ne rt w y h o il f e th t e h c e inomsuppaenry'sristhy oflPa accommodation in the new vessels is so marked as to secure a decided preference. resulting to this p or t f rom its Thebeing g r t e h a e t a placedya advantages ges de parture of the mails are becoming more developed by each succeeding mail, and even thosewho m the fury true th i nterestses e are t o h f a p p o n l i r t t ic h s a f g o i r n a t timen aacknowledge blinded d to ge the that served by securing th e i n fl uence and spPport gen tlemen connected—as M r . C. M are i s —with thef great steam navigation c om p an i es o f the kingdom. It is reported another large steam nav i ga ti on company is to be formed, with which th e p or t o f Pl ymouth is to be identified, and this being the c a se , th e sooner atten tion is turned to the conversion of the h ar b our i nto a best o f safe and convenient anchorage for large class steam vessels the better, for it will be impossible that the Great Western Docks, extensive as they have been considered in comparison with the anticipated require ments of the port at the time of their projection, will be equal to the accommodation which the extended trade of the port will require. THE COMPASSES OF IRON SHIPS. The following letter (says the Liverpool Courier) will be read with much interest by all persons con nected with iron ships. It is satisfactory to know that the compasses of iron vessels can be accurately adjusted, and this letter will be a welcome piece of information to all who have an interest in iron ships and steamers, a perusal of which Mr. Gray states, will be sufficient to show the importance of this letter:— Sir,—The magnetic phenomena incidental to iron craft being a matt er d eep l y :i nteres ti ng t o th e scie ntific world, any peculiarity that may have a tendency to render them navigable in all parallels of latitude, without deviation, is a desideratum "most devoutly to be wished." It was a source of particular gratification to me, and must be to all deeply interested in the success of iron ships, to be enabled to state that the compasses of the iron screw -steamer Sarah Sands were examined by me, on Saturday morning last, in order to ascer tain whether any change had taken place since I last adjusted her; and, after swinging the ship, not the slightest alteration was discoverable in one compass situated almost over the screw, and in the standard compass, about 15 feet further forward, the error was so small that alteration of the magnets was scarcely necessary, and this after a period of nearly six years. It was likewise satisfactory , to observe that, in lieu of any increase in the original amount of error in the standard, there was a diminution, which peculiarly characterises the majority. The extreme accuracy of this vessel is well worthy the attention of iron ship-buildrs and machinists generally, in showing the imperative necessity, not only for making them strong, but also that their motive power shall work so smoothly as to enable them to "glide through the waters," in lieu of creating that vibrators , not;.— to Lac cation of a compass and the permanent magnetic character of the hull itself. This steam-ship has been a most valuable agent for the determination of a moot point now being inves tigated—thct is, whether iron ships undergo a very important change after crossing the Equator or not. For years I have entertained the opinion that, for all practical purposes, the adju s tment on Professor Airy's principle will answer equally well in both north and south latitudes, and which this vessel has demon strated beyond all doubt. Simultaneous bearings were taken by Captain Thompson and his chief officer in various parts of the Straits of Magellan, and the result clearly showed that no deviation whatever took place. By this time the Great Britain will also have ascer tained this p o i n t, an d the report from Captain Matthews is m os t anx iously expected. — l am, Sir, yours most obediently, JOHN GRAY (late Gray and Reece), Strand-street, Liverpool, Sept. 14. ---,- ACCELERATION of the LONDON MAIL A paragraph has appeared in some of our contempo raries regarding an acceleration of the London mail, which was stated was to take effLct from the Ist of Oc tober. That such an acceleration is in contemplation is perfectly correct, but we are auohorised to state that the arrangements are not in such a state as to allow it to take effect from the Ist of October, and that no intima tion has yet been received as to when the change will take place. From the great amount of labour which will be necessary in arranging the branch posts throughout Scotland to suit the time of the now arrivals from, and departures for, the south, some time must yet elapse ere the proposed arrangement can come into operation. We may state, however, in order to show the nature of the proposed alteration, that the let ters leaving London at eight in the evening will be in the courso of delivery at eleven A st. next day, instead of, as formerly, at two P.st , and that the letters for Lon don, which now leave Edinburgh at twelve at noon, will not be dispatched until 3,15 P. N. by the night mail for London. A similar acceleration will also take place as regards Glasgow and the north, and the branch post s throughout Scotland will be re-arranged to suit the alte rations in the London mail, and will also receive the benefit of the intended acceleration. It is also ihnotreunrnsieeidn. that the acceleration shall take ef f ect on the Berwick line. It will thus be seen that when the abov ac e nas ar arrange meat to g a dis patched ment takes effect there will be a gain of th the delivery of the London mail, which wPI b. derable benefit to the community, as - "nsi letter posted in London the night befor e , n w Edinburgh at by the London mail leavin g 3.15 r,M.—Caledonian Mercury. ELECTRICITY : ITS INFLUENCE IN VITAL PROCESSES. A correspondent, "W, G.: , sends us (Builder) an essay on this subject, w hi c h , however, neither so new nor so conclusive as he a ears to regard it. Between some of thephenomena PP •f and '°n" of li e beautiful analogies, of those of electricity, there and is, in the main , are certainly strong amongst the phenomena of electricity, heat, an d t l e g ven and yet it cannot be decisively ascertained° that ever but there are the like analioghiets. these are identical, far less electricity and f fight —are theless, that all three—electricity, intimately associated with vital action, tha t® remarks, we give, a doubt. With these few introductory re gard as the without farther comment, What il u d w e d e to ; and r a cannot be " May not strongest points in the essay whose intensity that great binding t he of the power —that wonder-working principle,cessible distances from the continues the same at all ace auniverse —that universal i u bo also the origin and earth's surface— '6lectri - and life, both animal and universal e _ which the instantaneous action of cause of vita lit y vegetable, and by li n g is telegraphed throughout the feeling us inquire; and, by way of illus tration,animal frame? acorn and an egg. Now, it is thought and e_ that neither an acorn nor any other seed we ll known -- kept dry, n or will an egg produce a germinate if we will tak e an will geraii c hicken at the com mon temperature of the atmosphere (at least i n this country), but both will inevitably perish . be not changed lf the it ion if theirornd B grain of wheat or of any other plant, bo acorn, co buriedin moist earth, all the requisite conditions neces saryits growth are fulfilled, because we surround to seed with the means from whence the nutriment for tiou and construction of the plant is derived ; the eeorganizi and the electric circuit being also completed by that simple act, such nottri.hment is distributed by the cir culating current generated as hr's been just pointed out; and this elcctro-chemical process constitutes in fact the only vitality of plants. Tue suspended vitality of seeds mr,y be regarded as analogous to the broken galvanic or electre-telegraphic circuit in which the electrical action 's suspended." The dividend due the 30:h inst. on the Danish Three per Cent. Loan of 1525 has been advertised by Messrs. Rothschild. A notice has been issued from the office of the Spanish Financial Commission, stating that the tenth auction of the foreign redeemable debt will take place at Madrid on the 30th inst., for which purpose 781,599 reals have been as signed by the Government. The Earl and Countess of Tenkerville have left Hertford-street, May-fair, for the Earl of Malmesburv's seat, Heron-court, near Christchurch, where the Noble Foreign S ecre tary it ehortly exPectea to arrive from Scotland. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DONCASTER RACES. WEDNESDAY'S RACES CONCLUDED. Tho Sweepstakes of 10 sow. each, h ft, with 50 added, were won by Lambnin by two lengths, Audubon and Auchinleek close together, being four or fire lengths from Venison filly, the second ; Peggy fifth, the others beaten off: Match, 200, h ft, R e d-h ouse i n . Lord Derby's L ong b ow, 3 yrs, Bst 111 b (rece i ve d ). Lord Glasgow's I ncogn i ta, 2 yrs, 6st 81b (paid). In conclusion of our notice of the " St. Leger Day," we have only to add to the few lines sent from the course that the rain continued to fall steadily for some time after the conclusion of the races, adding in no small de gree to the discomfort of the iousands who had come from distant localities, and from the simultaneous rush to the railway station, regardless of the " order of run ning" advertised by the authorities, and of the separate provision made for tho Sheffield traffic, producing en extraordinary scene of confusion for several hours; for tunately no accident of any consequence occurred, and of the prodigious crowds who estered the town iu the morning, only four persons were found to have been left behind—and the,:, only from their own carelessness-- on tho departure of the last train. The arrangoments at the station wore persousLy directed by Mr. Seymour gclierd mansper, and Mr. D t .nniaton, th e superintendent Clarke, "Ie of the Great Northern line. THURSDAY'S RACES. Handicop Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. esch, h ft, with 50 added, for two) rs old, the second to savo his s '•ake. Red-house in. Mr. Morris's Charity, Est (Wells) 1 Mr. Shepherd na Ace of Trumps, 121 b (Osborne) 3 Mr. Worthington's JaequeceMs, 6 A Mb ... (Carroll) 13 Mr. J. S co tt' s Eaton, 7st 10Ib (Flatresn) 0 Mr. Wilkins's Polly, 7st 21b _ (T. Lye) 0 Mr. G. B ar k er ' s fby Venison, Est 1 11 b ...(Cherlton) 0 Mr. Merry's V-lour, Est 91b (car. 6st 111b)...(Knott) Mr. Meiklam's Ada, by roynton, Est tub (Aldcroft) 0 Mr. H. Lister's Luxury c, 6st 51b ...,........(Kendall) 0 Betting -6 to 4 against Charity, 4to 1 agst Eaton, 4 to 1 agst Luxury colt, and sto 1 agst W i llson filly. 2 to 1 was taken about Valour at the commencement of the betting, and 100 to 1 offered egainat her at the close. The Venison filly j made play to the bend, w h ere Charity went ahead, Charity, Valour, L uxury c., jumped off with the lead, SL'd with and Jacquenetta wlitingt taking the lead near the distance post, won easily O r two lengths. Run in 1 min. 14 sec. The Scarborough Stakes of 20 sous. each, 10 ft. One mile _ _ Captain Scott's Allegro, Bst 21b ......... (J. Osborne) 1 Mr. A. Nichol's Phantom, Bst 21b ...... (Templeman) 2 Betting-2 to lon Allegro, who won, hard held, by half a length. Run in 1 min. 47 sec. The Eglinton Stakes of 10 sous. each, 5 ft, with 100 added; for two yrs old, Est 101 b; three, Bst 12Ib; fillies and geldings allowed 31b; penalties and allow ances; the second to receive 20 SOU. out of the stakes, and the winner to pay 15 sovs. to the fund. T.Y.C. Lord yrs, Est 101 b (Charlton) 1 Lord Derby'sPelion, Longbo 2 Longbow, 3 yra, Bst 121 b (F. Butler) 2 Lord Caledon's Verbena colt, 2 yrs, 6st 10lb (Wells) 0 Mr. J. Dawson's Anteverta, 2 yrs, Est 71b(Aldcroft) 0 Mr. S. Hawkes's Paddy Bird's dam filly, Est 71b (Hiett) 0 Mr. M e ikl am ' s Stilton, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (Templeman) 0 Sir C. M on k' s Vindex, 2 yrs ( Fl atman ) 0 Mr. J. Osborne's Exact, 2 yrs, 6st 121 b (J Osborne) 0 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Corybantea, Est 101b-.(Toovey) 0 Betting -2 to 1 agst Exact (t), 9to 4 agst Pelion, 5 to 2 agat Vindex, 6 to 1 agst Stilton, and 10 to 1 agst Longbow. In going to the post to start Vindex broke away and ran upwards of three parts of a mile before Flatman could pull him up. It was with great difficulty that he was, after a long delay, got to the post. Pelion jumped off with the lead, and with Anteverta, Vindex, and the Verbena colt laid up, made running to the distance, where Longbow took the second place ; at the half dis tance he joined Pelion, and they raced home, the young one winning by a head. Exa c t, w h o got badly off a bad third, Anteverta fourth. Stilton and Corybantes, who also lost start, were the last two. Run in 1 min. 43 sec. The Cleveland Handicap of 20 soya. each, h ft, and five only if declared, with 60 added; second to save hie stake. One mile. (22 Subs., 12 of whom declared.) Mr. Meiklam's Evadne, 3 yrs, 7st lib (Aldcroft) 1 Mr. G. Noble ne Brawn, 3 yrs, sst 81b (Kendall) 2 Mr. Flintoff's The Reaper, 4 yrs, 7st llb (Wells) .3 Mr.:J. Osborne's Lady Agnes, fist 121 b (Osborne, jun) 4 Won by a neck. Sweepstakes of 10 sm. each, and 50 added for two yrs old; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b; winners extra; second to receive 20 sous. out of the stakes. T. Y. C. (25 Subs.) _ _ Mr. J. Osborne na Lambton (Osborne, jun.) 1 Mr. S. Hawke's Towton (Bumby) 2 Mr. Woffenden's The Queen (Templeman) 3 Lord Chesterfield's Begum colt (Nat) 4 Mr. Meiklam's Hatchett (Cartwright) 0 Mr. Morris's Charity (Marson) 0 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Belgravia (A. Day) 0 Won by two lengths. The Foal Stakes of 100 sous. each, h ft. One mile and a half. (6 Subs.) Lord Exeter's Stockwell - walked over. LATEST BETTING. THE CUP. 7 to 4 agst Teddington (t) 1 7 to 4 agst Kingston (t) THE CESAREWITCH. 9to 1 agst Lady Evtlyn 125 to 1 agst Vernattla l 2 to 1 ag6t L© Jaif ov t 1 .6.0 Alt`• II ~11. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 1,000 to 60 agst K 2,000 to 60 agst King Pe noor (t) I pin (0. Paying and receiving on the St. Leger commenced this morning, and, as far as it went, passed off quietly; many heavy accounts, however, remain for the town settling on Monday, so that no opinion of its issue can be given; it promises to be tolerably harmless. The weather to day has been remarkably fine, and the attendance good. DONCASTER, FRIDAY MORNING. LATEST BETTING. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) THE CCP. 1 to 8 asst Kingston I 12 to 1 per s ,st Camara 7to 4 ugst Teddiugton 112 to 1 agst Harbinger. 0 to 1 shat Truth (t) Little Harry and S DE tilton are scratched. 1B Y. 1 20 to 1 sgst Umbriel. 13 to 1 agst Orestes (t) 20 to 1 cost Cheddar (t) TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUE. SIR, —Having read an article published in your excellent paper of Saturday, the 11 th inst., upon a subject of the utmost consequence, as it respects our Navy, relating to the recommendation by Sir John Ross of the adoption of a Drunkards' Mess, I feel happy in corroborating and bearing testimony to that most effectual means of suppressing drunkenness, having practised the plan on board the ship I cow manded, Hazard sloop of war, where we most effectually established sobriety and good order, with out ever having recourse to flagellation. Attached to our plan was a Drunkards' Tub, a very ugly tub it was, painted dirty yellow, in capital letters, marked thereon. The sight of t t hl:, tub was most hideous to drunkards ; their five-water e it and " Drunkards Tub, grog was mixed up in it, and the members dra nk t Arms out of an on the quarter-deck. What they ugly mug under the Maste r : officers upon the gangway, close under the eyes t he l f d not gulf) down was thrown overboard, overboard respect able men allowed the entire to be drinking out of the rather than be disgraced by hers of the Tub "Drunkards' Tub." Those Drunkards'llem Mess. The were not all members of thethrown overboard Drunkards' M drunkards, and their punishmenth the Tub. Allow me to add a duration than those of e t d of checking the progress of considered incorrigible pd ge t n h e ec r o a wmu lly of longer our second great plan which we practised e when the East India outw.ard sertion. At a tilne laying off the Mother Bank, their bound fleet ractviislweieteaservice—l mean da- Nve i r 3 e o with our men-of-war's-me v, crimps an order to . issued the India fleet were at the Mother Bank. sailors while Sir R. Bickerton, very Commander-in- m fl e a e n t d n e n r- t i n to - C g h r i n e n f t a at enve Portsmouth,tn nu I had B ickerton and on meeting R. reached our ship, my men leave before. Sirthe order had his order, standing on shore he was very angry, observing that, notwith standing on their hats. I assured him the ordkar he noticed my men with d given . b a d not reached us in time. "But how can you trust your men, many of them strangers, drafted into your ship but the other day 2' . I told him my plan. The applicant for leave was to find two bondsmen, the nature of their bond being that if the applicant did not return the bondsmen should ri:Ner have leave from the ship so long as I commanded her. Sir R. B. liked the plan, and desired me to report to him, which I had the pleasure of doing, that every man returned according to his leave. I rc_marked to Sir R. B. that sailors, though they may P_, l l l tricks with their officers somet i mes, were gener'Y true to each other. I must beg further to remeskt in respect to the Drunkards' Me ss , that the memb ers, after having served th e i r t i me, were restored to L" b; former mess,the applicati o n of their for mer upon messmates to the c ommanding officer, an d a promise of sobriety on their part. Your obedient servant, Rackley H ouse, P or t s h ea d, Bristol, sto- I September 15, 1852. °ePßEeSarrj-Adnu' * ral. jN°gt°ir CONSECRATION OF A NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CH eRCII AT GREENWICH.. —Yesterday the Roman Catholic new church of " Our Lady of the Sea," at Croom's-hill Greenwich, wa s solemnly consec rated according to the rites of that Church. Dr. Grant, the" Bishop" of Southwark, officiated assisted by a numerous body . of the clergy. The services commenced at seven o'clock in the , morning, and continued i till near one. The church sin the Gothic style, and one of the fi nes t s pecimens of church architecture eJf modern date, iand is situate in a comm!incing position On the brow of Croom's-hill. The church is free of debt with the exception of about 2001. The congregation is a large one, includiog about 600 pensioners. Schools in connexion with the churc,`t have been established. The , choir is entirely self-supporting , r i nc l u ding the organist. Ihe ceremony excited much in terest in the town and neighbourhood ofGreenwich. THE LATE MANSLAUGHTER IN WESTMINSTER."'" Yesterday afternoon Mr. 'Anglian), deputy coroner, held f a djourned inquest at Westminster Hospital, on the body (Nf Ann Gibbons, aged seventy-three years, lately residing at 36,. Vine-street, Westminster, who died from injuries inflicted on her by a man on the evening of Sunday week, the particu lars of which have already appeared. The jury, having de liberated for some time, returned a verdict of " Manslaughter -- against some person unknown." NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenant G. W. E. Lloyd (1849), to the Ter magant, 24, screw-frigate, Portsmouth; J. H. Crang (1840), to the Hercules emigrant-ship, Chatham. Assistant-Surgeons—Dr. J. Barclay (1846), to the Dee steam-vessel, Woolwich; Dr. Thomas B. Purchas (1847), to the Electra, 14, Portsmouth. Mate—W. H. Burnaby, to the Megmra screw troop-ship, Sheerness. Midshipmen—T. W. Howorth, to the Electra ;W. G. T. Purcell, to the Bittern, 12, Sheerness. Lieutenant Hoffmeister's death has been reported as having occurred on board the barque Chebar, nine days after leaving Calcutta, on the 20th November, 1850. We regret to state that Mr. James Honiball, well known in the navy as the patentee of Porter's anchor. died a few days since. He was universally respected for his honest worth and high integrity. He spent a large fortune in introducing Porter's anchor into the navy, and after years of toil and disappointment has died just at the moment when a fair trial of bis anchor has overcome official prejudice, and has established its claim on the mercantile world. After the launch of the screw-frigate Imperieuse on Wednesday, the highly respected builder, Mr. Wil cox, entertained at his official residence the Surveyor of the Navy and Lady Walker, Mr. Watts, the as sistant surveyor, Captain Warder, R.N., and others who were present on the occasion. As the Imperieuse would arrive too late for the tide to be taken into the basin at Woolwich on Wednesday afternoon, she was towed to Woolwich yesterday. The royal yacht tender Elfin, Master-Commander Balliston, went down to Cowes yesterday morning to attend on Lady Barrington and the two princesses, The Fairy returned into the harbour from Cowes. PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY. Commodore Talbot hoisted the broad pendant in Meander, 44. twain yes terday morning, and Rear Admiral Prescott and the pay clerks proceeded off to her to pay her crew "ad vance. Her state room has received the necessary alterations, and she will probably sail either on Sa turday or Sunday for the Cape to relieve the Castor, Commodore Wyvill. Medea, 6, steam-sloop, is under the shears at Ports mouth, being masted; she will be prepared for com mission. Powerful, 84, having undergone a thorough repair, was taken out of dock at Portsmouth into the old basin yesterday. Stromboli, 6, steam-sloop, was taken out of Ports mouth Harbour on Wednesday, and tried along the measured mile in Stoke's Bay, to test her engines and machinery. She returned into harbour, and went alongside the Maidstone, coal-depot. Trident, iron -steamer, Lieut. Commander Harvey, sailed .from Spithead yesterday afternoon for the South American station. PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY.—Her Majesty's steam vessel Avon sailed with supernumeraries for Ports • mouth on Monday, and returned yesterday. The transport Diligence arrived from Portsmouth on Monday, and sailed on Tuesday with stores for Gibraltar. The steam block-ship Hague, Captain Ramsay, will be masted to-day. The storeship Cornwallis, having been masted on Tuesday, was warped to the jetty to be rigged by the riggers of the dockyard. She will be sent to Hong- Kong to relieve the Minden. The Cloud yacht, the property of the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe, was taken into dock yesterday to have her keel fitted. The Chatham hulk, depOt to the artisans working on the breakwater, having been repaired, was taken out of dock on Monday, and towed by the steam vessel Confiance to her moorings in the Sound, in the Admiralty anchorage ground. Vesuvius, 6, steam-sloop, is receiving new copper in the angle dock at Portsmouth. The Trafalgar Indiaman sailed yesterday for Cal cutta. The Tudor, outward-bound, is hourly ex pected at Spithead. The Gladiator, 6, steam-frigate, has been removed from the steam basin to-day, and placed alongside the Camperdown, 104, in readiness to enter the Neptune dock, to be overhauled and refitted. The Encounter, 14, screw steam-frigate, has been taken into the steam basin to-day, to have her defects repaired. Her new commander, Capt. O'Callaghan, hoisted the pendant to-day. First Lieutenant Searle, of the Royal Marine Artillery, embarks to-morrow on board her Majesty's ship Dauntless, in the room of Lieut. Hewett, gone to Hasler Hospital. WOOLWICH, SEPT. 16.—The Agamemnon, 90, was taken out of dock yesterday, and remains in the basin for the convenience of the engineers and others at work upon her. The Inaperieuse, 50, screw steam-frigate, was towed down the river from Deptford to Woolwich to-day by the Monkey and Zephyr steam-vessels, to have her engines, of 350-horse power, by John Penn and Son, fitted on board at this port. ANNANDALE PEERAGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—My attention has been called to an article in your paper of the ith instant, in which it is stated ttat Mr. George Souter Johnston, now living, is son of Lieutenant-General Johnston, and that the latter was grandson of the first Earl of Hartfell (in your paper called Hartfield). That this is quite impossible, is sufficiently clear (amongst other reasons) from the well-known fact, that the four grandsons of the first Earl of Hartfell were cotemporaries of Charles the Second. I am concerned as solicitor for Mr. John Henry Goodinge Johnstone, whose petition for the dignities has been referred to the Committee of Privileges, and will be brought on for hearing next Session, and I beg the favour of your insertion of this letter in you r columns, as the articl e i n your paper o f the 7E" k instant (with persons unacquainted with the fact..-3) might otherwise disparage my client's claim. I am, Sir, yours very obediently, EDWARD FLO 26, Great James -street, Bedford-row, 15th Sept., 1852. EXTENSION OF STEAM COMMUNICATION. —A Tlew line of screw steamers has been established between Liver pool. New York, and Chagres, at low rates of passage money (first cabin 20/., second cabin 151.) The first vessel will sail from Liverpcol on the Bth December next, and will be fol lowed in the first instance by other vessels once a month, until th e ships now in course of construction are completed, when the service will be extended to twice a month. These vessels after discharging cargoes at New York will proceed to Chagres, and return to Liverpool via Havannah and New York. The lion. Captain llarris, brother to the Noble Foreign Secretary, and late M.P. for Christchurch, has left town. to assume his cvusular duties iu Denmark. b 3. 0 3 3 3 4 2 0 3 3 I° It s i ised 273 36 5 3 54 so l s 10 ( 1 BD 03° ed• Lceli p