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

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The infl a ti on of the immens e balloon, Le Globe, Was prevented in consequence of the state of the 'yveather on Wednesday, and this was expected to have caused some little disappointment, but the simul taneous cheers of the a , sembled thousands at the ascent of the less gigantic, but not less beautiful, 113ac hine, Le Zodiac, set aside all fears on that head. The selection of an earlier hour for its departure gave considerable satisfaction, and the wisdom of this dete rmination w as a p paren t i n t h e l engt h ene d end lclear view every spectator had from the gar dens from the moment when the elegant little machine Res, as on a former occasion, cut away from its hi ‘lrrto prot ect i ng guide, to the period w h en i t was hidden by the foliage of th e tr e es intervening, which Ove rhang the outskirts of Wandsworth-common. A Military gentl eman p l ace d hi s sp l en did f ou r-i n -hand d himself at the service of the lady, by whom she "as c onducted to the g a rdens within half an hour of her departur e . I t was rumoured in the grounds that .I\l 'hsieur Poitevin would ascend again on Monday, "4 that the gentleman who so kindly escorted kadanae Poitevin last night would descend in the Parachute with her. If Monday prove fine, we strongly recommend a Visit t o t h e gardens, lest the ascent and parachute de seer't of that day should prove the last of the season, a nd the spectacle is one that it is unpardonable to er nli t etjoyin g . Last evening the grounds were 'Blll ll "ded, and the ente r tai n m en t s pa sse d o ff de 4. PIE COMMANDERSHIP-IN-CHIEF. aßumour declares that the friends of Prince Albert qd of the D u k e o f C am b r id ge are b ot h sangu i ne l y r nt icipatin g t h e appo i ntment o f one or ot h er o f those Yal personages to the post of Commander-in-Chief. ti l t ? Such appointment can scarcely be desired by se best able to estimate the proper qualifications of tiol 'llan who i s t o r u le the military force of a great ati °IL What the public would say—should such an ap p o intment take place—may be easily anticipated. th . "-Oe foll ow i ng i s t h e pro b a bl e v i ew o f t h e m ili tary of an ges lik e l y to ar i se i n consequence o f th e D u k e ` ra ges death. Of course—since nothing is b e es ei , i ed - --we can only give the suppositions of those " oard c s. a quainted with the tendencies of the Horse th e Possibly— of politics bare not ton much influence— Stair may get the Guards. L o rd Hardinge, Constable of the Tower. trigact,Andrew Barnard, Colonel-in-Chief of Rifle 11, S ir George Brown, Commandant of a Battalion of Brigade, vice Barnard. fled h e claims of Lord Fitzroy Somerset to the digni the Post now v a can t are—his g reat experi e nc e o f lgr duties to be p e r fo rm e d. He has, indeed, been Years the moving man at the Horse Guards. He boaalth son of the firth Duke of Beaufort, and was e or t h il in 1788. H e en t ere d the army in 1804 as b il i z e t in the 4th D ragoons , and served with th e th,„ — ,_ e of Wellington in the Peninsula. He was at 'Attie of Waterloo, where he lost an arm. lie f O , B afterwards Secretary of Embassy in Paris, and o 1 - rci .i 4, i e t e years Secret a ry to the Master-General of fe Lord liardinge, who is also named as eligible ls at i d • k ; ommaudership-m-Chief, , was born in 1785, c onsequently, a few years older than Lord F. p e o rltoerse,t. He also is one of the veterans of the fi4 ll4ll 'a, and has much experience, both in the e( and a i'd in military official life. He has been S ee - r of the Ordnance, Secretary-at-War, Chief fou etary for Ireland, and Governor-General. He Lorrt. at Waterloo, where he lost his left hand. Hardinge has strong Tory prejudices.— rni ng Paper. A Sof WHEAT, FLOUR, an d BREAD. IVbE'xed i s a compar i son o f t h e presen t p rices o f e t , flour, and bread in London and Paris : bigbest quotation of wheat of the first quality 42 8 is 27f. 50,. p er 14 h e ctolitre, which is equal to Of t i;"". Per quart er; an d the hi g h es t p r i ce o f w hit e w h ea t folle first quality i n L on d on b e in g 54 3 . per quarter, it i tir ° 4 l 's that w h eat is rather more than 28 per cent. dearer Tbon than in Paris. p arie's ° highest quo t at i on o f flour of the first quality in as t 13 35f. sc. the 100 kilogrammes, which is equal to tki n 2l . Per sack of 2.801 b. English; and the highest quo it f ol n °I fl )ur in the London market being 435. the sack, th k „ Tvvs that flour is 221 per cent. dearer in London Paris. al t. e price of bread of the first quality in Paris is 41b, P''r kilcv,rainme, which is equal to nearly Sid. the do n 4°4 ( English weight; and the price of bread in Lon foil' at the full priced shops, being 7d. the 41b. loaf, it d on 's that b read i s about 31 per cent. d earer i n Lon it - ; 114111 in Paris. The eecond quality of bread in Paris te a 7, ° tecl at 24c. Der kilogramme, which is Equivalent to -1 ' l id. per 41b. loaf.' DONCASTER RACES. (THIS DAY.) ( 13 Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) The Park Hill Stakes. S er a on the Wing ... ... 2 4it atits, "' The Dolt Stakes. I ti ltl bie Noble ... 4t binger C4Ybantes 44A ... ... ... The Nursery Stakes. •• • 1 ... 2 meteca ran. Won by two length 4. Ter s 44 i b kngton, il gatoa ..• ••• ••• ••• ••• 1 ••• ••• ••• ••• 2 The Cup. Eight ran. L os: tt, 41. : 13 JOHN RUSSELL ON THE SUIIMIOY,cIoorck,BLEONr-d u °hn ... I.° ll Saturday last, at halt-past seven yilitosQussell and family passed through Callender, on their taip, e)enledi. On arriving at the base of the lofty mono trate,ai little westward of Gollintogh ,. Ford, where the cele bho, , c °ntlict took place between }az. James and Roderick l iais t " m tultnber of Shetland ponies were found in waiting, to t tlood i 's noble party in reaching the summit ! The day was 4 04 r8 ` 88 , and the ascent having been made in about summit t ' c 'r a c ' o t ia b _s, noble party enjoyed themselves on the /t hich , sous noble time, admiring the grandeur of the scene, d ell k 'or r omantic beauty and delightful landscape, it is , 4 c e n ,l ° `" ), i 3 nowhere surpassed in Scotland.d at halt- party halt-ast `ste t- 'eci the mountain in perfect safety, an their o'clo c k • w In the afternoon passed . thr . ough Callander a on c ube n aY to the Gart, highly delighted with their day's ex , , I) " - -aT7 c) „v-rri OF GOLD ARTICLES ONwhAo happeneds l ',,,!ttee 4l ng a stroll upon Arthur's Seat, Edinbur h unex saainB:Y,carn.e upon a secret deposit of gold and silver ~s.. Trio. iockets, a gold watch, and other valuable . l ‘ivortio eey made the discovery when climb . ing up a difficu t , i Sa ns ti ° I the rock on the side of the hill directly to the west '''''is 'Ws Ribs The articles were carefully concealed in a f t r t e i' Q t e p r i e a d e _ b ° a turf, which had been accidentally removed th e hole Qi Yfo e by one of their feet. On searching Ithttet:he:ablougtold watch, half-a-dozen gold guard t chams, ; It o ~o r sixteen gold seals a quantity of gold locke s ! and 'cltti. " 1. three silver_ _ watch ' chains, in value amounting to bO/ They at once brought the articles to I t t rt P i liee i. : ol :ace, Nvh • they remain for the inspection of any to t e r, lies wu° 14 aV have ere hadany articles of this description ,) aa there can be no doubt that the things found were $, nestiv e come by by those who secreted them. tilohater Bs .0! MATERNAL FANCY.—A few days ago, — °ll s t res iding in the hamlet of Armscott, near Shi.p -I°Ver , - i "or, upon going into one of his hen-pens, d.is 4tilee'uta...fav,rsourite hen of his .. daughter's tenderly brooding ii4e'kens,'.,..rrompted by curiosity to count the number of , I ,. , , lN•i tti t l . Stooped to remove the feathered matron, but i h a s hy _.' .pneculiarity of her nature ! offered some resist -4441.1iajee7),f, geart independent worthydt spirit, hand. However, he thurst . his hand il eZ r l, n tZi th i n __ er , , .but in wit p h e . n su e rp n rise he suddenly withdrew li e lse th 4 •K nis nand in contact w . ith . a number of feet it h 'eized ~e of a chicken. His curiosity was now greater. tvi t ,tooe or.Le.hen, drew her from the nest, when, instead of is 4 all tl,, u 'eltens, he found she was nursing a fine kitten, k l lot ~,".,' affection of a real mother. How it came there Oery"'.'uerstool, and how it subsists is a still greater to rt 4 4 ' a cat has never been observed to go near it,haendeotnahe ettabi ' , nal is very sprightly,and seems to enjoy t 4 ro,: cie Warr Ei th A ei of e old hen's winger Worcestershire '4 l ,_ 4 t eci . ( 127'F ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.— l' ti i t lZio r ~it t ` n b i o w a p i l) ear theratS don branch of this line, Western Union Railway, on ttl,evening, whic was of an alarming character., ap t q l - - ° Put m any icethat th e usual * AI ,ste r levening up goods train to London from hundred of lives in jeopardy. It_ p m 3 Nader eft the latter place at about half -pat four o'clock, th , :kisc n t,t through the Sapperton tunnel, and when near 'lti'hirie up one of the trucks by some means or other got oil to,:: lea n :" was smashed to pieces, the truck being literally he ft i l'!,. w er f,' , and the contents, consisting chiefly (ft na' _, r 4p',1.111 scattered over the line. How the truck go eL kids`% of ca,cials either cannot or will not divulge, but the t he r ails was blocked up, several rails were torn up, to y °P trafa • Oki e s op e c impeded. Luckily the 5 . 30 passenger train ta ct ed lster, which reaches Paddington at 10 e.m... had too ; but e L lfne while the goods train was shunted in a hagh th ew 4 ueavy excursion train, which had been delayed . Al c - ,5t4 3 ,,, r aiit of sufficient carriages being provided, tlijicel',B,„,d traveller , who had been to the Chepstow I N !fee ,;:a 1 t ete, were detained until past midnight, when Qiirltlatic,a,sufliciently cleared for them to pass on to their h ° to th'" '3windon - I - • ted that no serious injury was N k 'lly - 0 15e e who had th t e " ch s a ta rge of the train. ti oa l a rus e l f Tl iordtoic flosruAL, HATTON-GARDEN. e: oele — g ' , f the friends and supporters of this instiiu e,,stt'ese tY''Bterday in the board-room, the report of the "e la _ci 'i n . the „ l3o, pital afforded to all present the greatest r a ' k.:1 1 ,;'," -t' rem the statement of the senior surgeon, Mr. t 'br, bl Pai7 ee ' " Old Br 050-street, it appeared that the nimi listi are cil la nts on the books since the opening of the institu tcl h a I th lltel to 1 ,029, and that they had come (patients all th 4 e ktruie Ijnited liiii dom The applications of t hs 4 „%ehi tt k ed for in -door treatment . were far more numerous kleCate of ,accommodated, and were daily increasing; but 4 4( Irni at iV funds would not warrant the extension of v . t . b. _ . o for the present. "'an g itta G 4 ti he • . - -.1 . N0 man ever knows when, where, or t 4 'IR will marry ' 1 , kit about it nY. Ita all nonsense planning and specti e'Y • lou might as well look cut forasof.t spot h date steeplechase. You come smash down in the 0 ° I Your speculation.—Dublin University Ma- THE SUN, DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. WALMEE, SEPT. IG.—To the per!iculars which were published yesterday of the circumstances at tending the Duke of Wellington's eudcien 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-pest six o'clock it struck him teat 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 Chet his Grace ordered the doctor to be sent tor, and the valet at once knew that his master must then have been feelieg 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 Wahner Castle, the Duke has, when so disposed, taken an additional hour or halt 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 gr.-at a man will rake. Some say that he will bein terred as unostentatiously as possible at Strathfield , 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 Strattifieldsaye, but those likely to be well informed on the subject, seem to think that the Queen's ple 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 Walmer 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 flagstaffs, and the bands have been ordered to discontinue playing until further orders. (Fram the Times) We believe we should best describe the national feel ing at this remarkable period by saying that no ono can yet fully realize the loss which the country has sus tained. The Duke of Wellington, for generation after generation, had lived among us se loug, and had so adapted his presence and capacities to the changing exi gencies of time, that it requires some effort to look h ac k on more than the last stage of such an eventful li!e. For most political characters it would be distinction enough to say that they had been appealed to for nearly twenty yeare, 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 almost an historical aspect, but the great Duke was Premier before Lod Grey. Ile was the contemporary and colleague of Liverpool, Melville, Saimouth, 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 tion he exerted a materiel influence on the policy of Eng land when existing Ministers were in their cradles. Ile was a powerful and energetic mover in times which the P resent generation can only reach by st u dy, an d 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 gaze on a military life which had ter minatori, 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 bats and pigtails, gaiterssobad and breeches, b t r o be eeches. oftTehneycar rred unser viceable, and camp k e ttl es so heavy as to re tard their march. They were mercilessly the smallest transgr ess i on . Their officers,uscnotuilrgtehde pexoiorgeteniciaersdefptrhoemworaerd hrbardouingdbuicuetderwesist lo wiser views, were and legs which would now set th e ki ng d om i n a blaze were do as the unquestionable privileges o f a c l ass . Ituw o o inclinedar military reforms, t o t h it shoals s bori disparagi ng ly bo our firs o t duty of the ever that m he was reared in a school l u o u n c f past, and great tre e u Duke's a ll r e areet that the abolition of corporal punishment unlimited service must at first sight have appeared in his much as the five points of the Charter s eyes v er y 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 as 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 u 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 o f Poland, end the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, and he contributed more or less directly to the creation or recognition of half-a-th zm 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 Portugal 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 and 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 an episode in the life of the great Duke. He lived both before it and after it. He saw it rise, culminate, and sink, and a hundred names of im asytilflr.om the scene during continuancethe e rishable In addition to such reflecti ons as these, which of memory of . one passed greatera away 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 not keep pace with his life, there was no French General to be compared with ours. Nor were the other belligerent States more productive. If we were now to recapitulate the names and titles of those Austrian or 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 given him an incidental re nown; but Schwarzenberg, Wurmser, Wittgenstein, and Klrist have little honour beyond their own countries. Neither can England herself be said with justice to have ever known before the onlisrations of to-day. The deaths of Marlborough and Nelson supply the nearest parallels, but the cases are far from similar. Marl borough's unrivalled generalship was tarnished by his political disrepute, and so completely had the dotage of senility combined with the stigma of treason to depress his fame, that his decease, in what was long the chief chronicle of those times, is disposed of in a footnote at the bottom of a page as that of " the father-in-law of the Earl of Sunderland." More impressive, indeed, and affecting was Nelson's departure, for be died in the arms of victory, on England's own element, and before it had been shown by the great Captain of the Peninsula that we come' asp i re to military renown. But, though Nelson can scarcely be said to have done less than another, in that he left nothing to he done, it would be hard to • withhold from the services of half a century some higher Diced than that of even ten years glory. Wellingto n has been all that Nelson eras, and more than Nelson was permitted to be. His years have been protracted • to their longest span without an instant's remission of his services in any capacity which remained to him, and it is now for us to render the last acknowledgment of deserts rich have accumulated from ono age t o another. SUPPLEMENT, GRATIS consequence of the death of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Proprietors of the Weekly Dispatch have determined upon presenting a supplement with their journal on Sunday next, the 19th inst., The supplement will contain a copious biography of his Grace, compri s i ng his military and po litical career, with such episodical matter 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 forwarded to the .Dispatch Wee. COURT CERCUI.AE.. BALMORAL, SErr._ls. 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 Hohenlone Langenbourg, Lady Augusta Bruce, Mr. and Lady Agnes Dud, 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 LOCHNAGAR. CRATHIE, TUESDAY..---SiDee Sunday the weatb?r 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 cottare, 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 stags—the best day's sport he has yet had. In the evening her Majesty and his Royal Highness drove down to Merge!die 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 Captaiu Forbes, of Blelack, was present, with other district celebrities, and a very happy evening was spent. The Royal party returned to Balnaoral about eleven P.M. To-day 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 , :N DON, FRIDA V EVENING, HEREFORD MUSICAL FESTIVALS TUUR3DAY 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;" tladame 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 her 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 eecond 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 Cl. 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. DINIVEI? TO MR. M.P. FOR KID- LOWE, DERMIIVSTER. O❑ 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. LORE, in returning thanks, after a panegyric on Sir Robert Peel, proceeded to criticise the present Ca binet. As an opposition, their principle had been to combat every just concession and to stigmatise every liberal measure as baneful in the extreme; but 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 individual members of which were selected for no known qualifications whatever, or, at the best, selected for the sole merit of upholding a principle unanimously discarded by the country at large.—(Loud and prolonged cheering.) Like the Manichreans of old, they impersonated the evil principle, which they kicked down the back stairs as soon as it had brought them in. He could not conceive what 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 l o ss, 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. S IR ,—Do newspaper editors act wisely when they de vote whole pages of their papers to glowing eulogistic sketches of one whose merit appears to have consisted in this—that be was a successful soldier? Will the principles of peace spread among our rising gen era tion under such a system? Are we not feeling , eve n now, the evil effects of the wars as thus not giinowfiniitgelyWisdom declared, that he who is "slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who ruleth his spirit, better than he who taketh a c ity?" Which will a wise man consider the "better part" the fame of a Wellington, or the fame of a (Termer? PI?ESEI?VATIOA 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. f or 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 O mmanney , R.N. (Deputy- Controll er - General of the Coast Guard); Captain Perrott ; Mr. Edw. Hurry, &c. A contribution was agreed to in aid of a life-boat to be placed forthwith 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 Southwold, built by Mr. Beeching, of Yarmouth, to be (as far as pr a cti ca bl e ) un d er t h e society's regulations, had been placed on her station, and had been lately tried in a gale and b e h aved well. The boat is of the form usually g i ven 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, Al.p and Miss Sherriff most liberally contributed each 1001 guineas ; the boat is under the care of an experienced local committee. The next business was the grant of a reward of 61. to three pilots, 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 bowling of the storm, before the poor fell ows 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 , of S o uthampton, and 103 . eac h to his crew, who had, on the same day, saved the lives of three helple ss fisher men, who were out at sea , fishing, near the Land's End, and were suddenly overtaken by a hea v y ga l e, which asi ng in ve westwardnt e d the . return heavye t o thesea, shore, u One or two vessels passed them, and offered to take th em ethem to completely on board, but objecte d to tow their boat, and t h e dr p i r f e t poor fellows were determined not to part with her, their whole dependence for a subsistence oeing in their boats, to which they are often as much attach e d as the Arab is to his steed . The meeting transacted closed. some other formal busines s, and the proceedings 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 the 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 Devonport were waiting the result of the meeting in Bristol previously to their deciding on the course they would pursu e .—E xeter Fl y i ng Post. Lord and Lady Tuesday. We und ers t an d t h ey w ill s ail for Bombay, in the packet of Thursday P. Fitzwarence left Portsmouth on next, from Southampton, proceeding by the °ye/14nd route DEATH OF MR. A. IV. PUGIN. Our readers will learn with mingled feelings that the final niche has been set to that eclipse of intellect which had so awfully arrested, in its noon of vigour, the brilliant and usef u l career o f Ur. Pugin. His decease took place at hi s res id ence , at Banisgate, on Tuesday, the 14th instant, at five in the evening . Augustus Welby N or th more P ug in was the only child of August us P ug i n b y hi s ma rriage with a member of the Welby family, of Denton, in Lin colnshire, no w represented by Sir W. E. Welby, Bart. _ _ 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 painted architecture which has characterised this century, by various valuable and elaborately illus trated works, descriptive of mediaeval architecture, brought out in concert with Mr. 13ritton and Mr. Le Keux. Though he never practised as a con structive architect, several well known architects wire trained in his office, of whom his own more eminent son stood foremost. 'lnns trained in the daily study of those forms of whose manipulation he was to become so great a master, young Pugin first appeared before the world as the editor of a post humous work of his fattier. His own earliest publi cation was, we believe, a series of illustrations of mediaeval metal work. At this period of his life occurred that event to which we look back with the least pleasure —we mean his secession to the Church of Rome. In Pugin's case, however, there were circumstances which render e d t hi s s ecession most widely diff e r en t fr o m s i m il ar events w hich have subsequently occu rr e d. I n th e f i rst p l a ce, the Church of England of tho s e d a y s was, i n appea rance, an entirely different thing f rom th e C hurc h o f England of this day, permeated a n d rev i v i f i ed b y the Church revival. It was not, theref ore , to b e so much won dered at that Pugin, you ng an d ent h us iastic, and existing on the architectur a l g l or i es o f medimval Christendom, should in those times have been unable to see the Church of England, such as she was twe nt y years back, as we now behold h er . A ga i n , his heredi tary religion was Romanistn. Ilis father was a Roman Catholic till he settled in Engl an d, an d if he ever formally conformed to the Church of England, it is not on record that he illustrated his new profession by any extraordinary exhibition of z.al. Besides, of Pugin it can be said that he bas evinced a feeling regarding the Church of England very far removed from that manifested by later convt?rts. He threw himself indeed, particularly in his latter days, most warmly into everything which betokeneh! life in the English Church, with which he sympathioed to the fullest extent of the tether of a sincere Roanan Ca tholic. About this time Mr. Pugin made his earliest con spicuous appearance before the public in his pe‘luliar line, by th e p u blication of hi s racy and or iginal " contrasts ;" or, to quote the remainder of the t; tie page, "a parallel between the noble edifices of We fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and similar build ings of the present day, showing the present decay of taste, accompanied by appropriatevo lume, bearing date 1836, and text." The ssuing f rom " S t . M ar y's Grange, near Salisbury" (a house w hi ch M r. P ug i n i had built for himself; and was then inhabiting), showed that its writer and artist was a man of no or dinary stamp. Open to criticism as were some of the antithetic and trenchant pl ates, and no litt l e of the equally antithetic and t renchant prose o f this quarto, it was still a bi▪ t —a p a l pa b le, unmistake able hit—in spite of its being written as if to aggra vate all the prevalent feeling of the age, by telling it the bluntest and most disagreeable truths in the bluntest possible manner. In proof of that remark able necessity which guided, whil e i t i mpelled, the natural impetuosity of Paw▪ n's temperament, we may observe that in the second edition of this volume, published five years later, much o f th e text is re written, mote from blind, one-sided partisanship. It is ob servable that, in this second edition, " middle ages" is substituted in the title-page for " fourteenth and fifteenth centuries." Just as this period the communion to which Mr. Pugin had joined himself evinced considerable energy of church building, and hi s construct i ve as well as his literary abilities soon found consider able employment. His first church wa s th a t 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 and 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 Towers ; and the Roman C at h o li c cat h e drals at Kil larney and Enniscorthy, i n I re l an d. 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, ignor ance, pre j ud i ce, a nd 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 his, for example, most accessible, the church of St. George, in South wark—now elevated in the new hierarchy to cathe . him to refrain from decorating dral dignity—Pugin found himself called upon to in . extent for a real cathedral, a church whose stated price com pelledal- most indispensable feature, much smaller even of a church—the. clerestory—while (as he published.) at the time fighting a battle with the wise committee which affected to control him, in order to . make . sure of even as much it with that a chancel as the building now possesses. At last it was b u ilt and opened, and soon after its opening w as dral ; and persons who are not acquainted with . its history visit it, and go away with the impression that that " this is Pugin's a cath . e- Even in the one instance where he had almost carte . blanche—the church at Cheadle—be was placed in a type of proclaimed position of great disadvantage, for be was first en joined. to build a small and cheap church, and after its ground plan had been set, he w a s e njoined to develop it into a very dear one, and yet was not allowed to alter that plan so much as to give the proper length tahimederdal church. 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 on the principles of sound esthetics, as it can • Justly be charged upon Pugin. It is well known that the only building of his which he looked upon with anything like unalloyed satisfaction, .was that small but solid and original church which he so munifice n tl y erec t e d upon h i s own land, next his own hous e a t R amsgate — t h e one c hurch of which he was at once architect and directorsgeneral. And latterly —the truth must be told—this great man did not receiv e f rom t h e mem b ers o f hi s o wn communion that support w hi c h h e h a d a r i g ht t o expect. Various Roman C a th o li c arc hi tec t s b a d grown up i . n the school o f P ug i n, i m b ued w i th Puginesque principles, and gifted, it may be, with that malleability of temper which might perhaps induce them to carry out those principles more complyingly than the great head of the school would have consented to do ; and accord ingly they thus found churches to build in plenty, while " Pugin" was called in for the painted glass, or the metal work. St e rn justice, of course, compelled critics to notice, while he was yet living, the short comings of Pugin's works; but equal justice compels US now to say that we believe that he did not receive that measure of (airplay which his deserts demanded. It is hardly necessary for t 3 here to notice—well known as the fact is—how much that great national work, the "Palace of AVestminster" has all along owed to the taste and talents of . Pugin, ungrud g i ng l y bestowed to help its architect in carrying out that vast and intricate edifice. Sir Charles Barry, we feel convinced, will be glad to reflect that f u t ure ages will co nnec t th e name o f Pugin with his, i n spea ki ng of th a t g i gant i c reproduction of a longsforgotten style of i n di genous a rchitecture. Cut off compa ratively in hi s y ou th —without a title, and not R.A. — Pugin's is yet a name with which the most de corated of artists need never blush to have been as sociated. plying his pencil, P ug i n did But while a ss id uo usly not suffer his pen to rest in idleness. His Contrasts were, after an interval of a few years, foll owe d b y hi s two lectures on the true principle of Christian archi tecture, to which a smaller volume, called " An . written by P ugin, Apol ogy f or Chr i st i an Architecture," f ormed a sequel. C . loin n m th u e n yearsionin England, 1841 and 1842, t wo articles, on the rev i va l o f c hurch architectur e i n the d profusely adorned with illustrations of his works, appeared in the Dublin Review, and were subsequen tly republished in a N lume. Hi s Gl ossar y of Ecclesiastical Ornament showed considerable research, and is bea u tif u ll y illustrated; an d at a m uch later period, 1849, he pro 'inced a most graceful volume of " fl oriated orna ment" in c h romo li t h o graph, 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 th e re cent 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 balls for seeing and hearing, and on a mawkish predilection for modern Italian architecture, as the architecture of modern Rome. Pugin, as might he supposed, was equally disgusted and angered by this ridic u l ous di sp l ay o f neop h y t e presumption, and met it with a series of very vigorous and plain spoken articles, in which he spoke of the present Eng glish Church in 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 cu l t i vat i on o f the arts subordinate to it. To painted glass and mediaeval metal work he devoted peculiar attention, and under hie directing care Mr. Hardman, of Birmingham, established his beautiful ateli ers i n these two branches ' of art. Among the numerous courts in the Crystal Palace few attracted more attention and gave more delight than Pugin's " Medieval Court," rich in these departments. We may also observe that the eminent builder, Mr. Myers, was first noticed and encouraged by Pugha'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 moat striking, and he had no greater pleasure than to show his port folios of water-colour sketches, hit off 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 commanded, a merchant smack trading with Holland. The proximity of the sea wa s one g reat inducement which led him to fix his abode at Ramsgate ; and among the appendages of his me diaeval dwelling was a large cutter, 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 figure, dark complexion, and habitual attire had always more about them to 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 married, and leaves 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 a ffluent. —Chronicle. NAVAL 1 PI TELLIGENCE. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenant G. W. .E. Lloyd (1849), to the Ter magant, 24, screw-fri:ote, 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. Parches (1847), to the Electra, 14, Portsmouth. m a t e ..—W. H. Burnaby, to the Megeera screw troop-ship, Sheerness. Midshipmen—T. W. Howorth, to the El ec t ra ;W . G. T. Purcell , t o the Bittern, 12, Sheerness. Lieutenant Hoffmeis ter '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. Ile was universally respected for his honest worth and high i ntegrity. He spent a large fortune in introducing Porter 's anchor into the navy, and after years of toil and disappointment h as died just at the moment wben a fair trial of his anch o r 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 o th ers who were present on the eccasion. As the Imp er i euse would arrive too late for the tide to be taken into the basin at Woolwich on Wednesday afternoon, she was towed to Woolwich yest erday. The royal yacht tendor Elfin, Master-Commander Balliston, went down to Cowes yesterday morning to attend on Lady Barrin gton and the two princesses, The Fairy returned into the harbour from Cowes. PORTSMOUTH, THURMIA.Y. Commodore Talbot hoisted the broad pendant in Meander, 44, again 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 baoin 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 storesbip 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 bee❑ 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 Imperieuse, 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. Sin, —My attention has been called to an article in your paper of the 7th instant, in which it is stated ttat Mr. George Souter Johnston, now living, i s 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 your columns, as the article in your paper of the 7th instant (with persons unacquainted with the facts) might otherwise disparage my client's claim. I am, Sir, yours very obedientlY, „„ . EDWARD 1 7 .1, 0 Virr-al 26, Great James-street, Bedford-row , 15th Sept., 1852. EXTENSION OF STEAM UOMMITNICATION.--A new line of screw steamers has been established between Liver pool. New York, and Chagres, at low rates of passage money (first cabin 201., second cabin 151) The first vessel will sail from Liverpool on the sth December vessels next, and will be fol lowed in the first instance by other once month, until the 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 vie( Havannah and Nei The Hon. Captain Harris, brother to the Noble Foreign Secretary , a nd late M.P. for Christchurch, has left town to moon his consular duties Denmark, SEPTEMBER 17 1 1852. PLYMOUTH MAILS.-THE SCREW-SHIP INDIANA. :ILYMO*I4, THURSDAY. The Indiana, screw ste am-ship, Captain Lambert, sailed at four o'clock yesterday, with mails in charge of Commander Ti aurbarn, R.N., consisting of seven bags for Cape )wn, six for Cape Colony, four Port Natal, five Si arra 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 1 20,000/. in specie, and 400 tons of general merchandise. The following were among her pas song;ers :—Lieut. and Mrs. Soady, Mr. Bryce, Mr. mid Mrs. Blunt, Mr. Jasper Newson, Mr. Tate, Mr. S'te wart, Mrs. Hamilton and two daughters, Mr. A an, Mr. H. E. Harrington, Mr. R. A. Smith, for C ilcutta. Captain and Mrs. Benson, child, and SC avant ; Mr. 13. L. Gordon, cadet ; Mr. M. Is ,aacke, ditt o ; Mr. W. H. Stanes, Captain N . elson, Captain and Mrs. Russell, Major and INKrs. Cameron, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, Rev. IV [T. Blythe, Lieut.-Colonel Taylor, for Madras ; Mr. J. Bailey, Mr. R. F. Oakes, Mr. D. and Mrs. Wilsan, 111:7. R. H. Price, Mrs. Wright and Miss Wilson, for Ceylon ; Mr. Seymour, for Point de Galls ; Mons. l'Etang and family, M ons. and Madame Bedier arm child, for Mauritius ; Mr. Allen, Mr. Hedirgh, . and Mrs. Truter, Colonel Dalton and servant, Lit ut. J. Doyman, Lieut. 11. G. Simpson, for the Ca; ae. Che Indiana is the third of the splendid vessels of thif, class built by Messrs. Mare and Co., of Black wal I, and is in every way a sister ship to the two that have preeeded her, which are decidedly the best and mos t perfect efficient screw-ships afloat, taking into consideration the real amount of horse power to ton nnge• Several of the directors, including the chnirman, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Fox, M.P., and Mr. Lambert, together with Captain Ford, the com pailYa able superintendent, came round to this P° " in her- The number of passengers is con sidexably beyond a fair average at this season of the year, and the line and route to our Eastern possisssions taken by this line is evidently becoming the ,favourite. The regularity of the company's shipa has inspired a confidence, while the superiority of accommodation in the new vessels is so marked as to secure a decided preference. The great advantages resulting to this port from its being the place of de parture of the mails are becoming more developed by each succeeding mail, and even those whom the fury of politics for a time blinded to the true interests of the port begin to acknowledge that these are best served by securing the influence and support of gen tlemen connected—as Mr. C. Mare is —with the great steam navigation companies of the kingdom. It is reported another large steam navigation company is to be formed, with which the port of Plymouth is to be identified, and this being the case, the sooner atten tion is turned to the conversion of the harbour into a 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 matter deeply,interesting to the scientific 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 b e ena bl e d to s t a t e th a t th e compasses of theiron 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 vibratory action so destructive to the good indi 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—that 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 adjustment 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 point, and the report from Captain Matthews i s most anxiously expected.—l am, Sir, yours most obediently, JOHN GRAY Sept.te Gray and Reece), Strand-street, Liverpool, S 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 effect 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 charge will take place. From the great amount of labour which will be necessary in arrarging the branch posts throughout Scotland to suit the time of the new arrivals frool, 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 course yof delivery at eleven A.M. next day, instead of, as formerly, at two P.M., and that the letters for Lon don, which now leave Edinburgh at twelve at noon, will not be dispatched until 3.15 P.M. by the night mail for London. A similar acceleration will also take place as regards Glasgow and the north, and the branch posts throughout Scotland will be re-arranged to suit the alte rations iu the London mail, and will also receive the benefit of the intended acceleration. It is also intende d Berwick line. th e acce l era tion shall take effect on the., line. It will thus be seen that when the above arrange meat takes effect there will be a gain of three the delivery of the London mail, which willatwaoeucrrostnoslina derable benefit to the community, as an letter, posted in London the night before, can b e dis patched by the London mail leaving 3.15 P.M.—Caledonian Mercury. Edinb u r g h at ELECTRICITY : ITS INFLUENCE IN VITAL PROCESSES. A correspondent, "W. G." sends us (Builder) an essay on this subject, which, however, is, in the main, neither so new nor so conclusive as he appears to regard it. Between some of the phenomena of life and 00 _7 1 beautiful analogies, of those of electricity, there are certainly stronnjogares but there are the like a light; amongst the phenomena of electricity, beat, and th e ven and yet it cannot be decisively . itscertainfl . Never _ these are identical, far less electricity an a d n i c l light—are theless, ,that all three —electricity, heat't here cannot be intimately associ a t e d w ith vital action ' re na a rks, we give, a doubt. Wi t h t h ese f ew i n troductory - 0 regard as the without farther comment, t e: —" May not strongest points in the he anniverse—that universal that great binding chain of t principle, whose intensity power—that wonder-wer tikialessiblo diatances from the continues the same at t!- , --bo also the origin and earth's surface—' flectritictlytyand life, both animal and universal cans® of vihtaich the instantaneous action of easaywhliut ded vegetable, and by vv nE is telegraphed throughout the thought and fe e .l l , l e - t - us inquire; and, by way of illus tration, we neither an acorn nor any other seed Fillframe take as acorn and an egg. Now, it is that l kept dry, nor will an egg produce a vv. .-,ethee common temperature of the atmosphere chicken at uutr ) but both will inevitably perish , , least in this co 3' , ` a ' ndition be not changed well ani i m i a a k l n r o m vv i n nl If the if their co ac orn, . or a gram of wheat or of any other plant, b e in . buried moist earth, all the requisite conditions neces sary to its growth are fulfilled, because we surrou n d the seed with the means from whence the nutriment for the organization and construction of the plant i 3 derived ; and the electric circuit being also completed by th at s imple act, such nourishment is eistrinuted by the eh-. culating current generated as has been just pointed out; and this elcctro-chemical process constitutes in fact the only vitality of plants. The suspended vitality of seeds may be regarded as analogous to the broken galvanic or electro-telegraphic circuit in which the electrical action 1 is suspended." The dividend due the 30th inst. on the Danish Three per Cent. Loan of 1825 has been advertised b y M essrt . Rothichild. A notice has been issued f rom 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 teals h ave b e en as signed by the Government. The Earl and Countess of Tankerville have left Hertford-street, May-fair, for the Earl of Malmesbury's seat, Heron-court, near Christchurch, where the Noble Foreign Secretary is fsliortlY expected to arrive from Scotland. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, DONCASTER RACES. WEDNESDAY'S RACES CONCLUDED. The Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, h ft, with 50 added, were won by Lambton by two lengths, Audubon and Auchinleck close together, being four or five lengths from "Venison filly, the second; Peggy fifth, the others beaten off. Match, 200, h ft. Red-house in. Lord Derby's Longbow, 3 yrs Bst 111 b (received). Lord Glasg ow ' s Incognita, 2 yrs , ' 6st 81b (paid). In conclusion o f our notice of the "St. Leger Day," we have only to add t o 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 discomfo r t o f the thousands who had come from d ist ant localities , a n d from the simultaneous rash to the railway station, regardless of the " order of run ning" advertised by the authorities, and of the separate provision made for the Sheffield traffic, producing an extraordinary scene ef . confasion f or several hours; for tunately no acc ident o f any consequ ence occurred, and of the prodigious crowds who entered the town in the morning, only four persons were fcund to have been left behind—and those only from their own carelessness— on the departure of the last train. The arrangements at the station were personalty directed by Mr. Seymour Clarke, the general manager, and Mr. Denniston, the superintendent of the Great Northern line. THURSDAY'S RACES. Handicap S leepstakes of 10 sous. .Facii, la ft, with 50 added, for two yrs old, the secon dto save his stake. RA-house in. Mr. Morris's Charity, 6st (Wells) 1 Mr. Shepherd na Ace of Trumps, Est 121 b (Osborne) 3 Worthington's Jacquenetta, Est 511) , ... (Carroll) 2 Mr. Mr. J. Scott's Eaton, 7st 101 b ... (Flatman) 0 Mr. Wilkins'a Polly, 7st 21b Mr. G. Barker's fby Venison, Est 1 llb ...(Charlton) 0 Mr. Mercy's Velour, 6st 91b (car. Est 111b)...(Knott) 0 Mr. hleiklam's Ada, by Poynton, 6 st 91 b (Aldcroft) 0 Mr. H. Li s t er ' s L uxur y c, 6st 51b (Kendall) 0 Betting —G to 4 against Charity, 4to 1 agst Eaton, 4 to 1 agst Luxury colt, and 5 to 1 agst Venison filly. 2 to 1 was taken about Valour at the commencement of the betting, and 100 to 1 offered against her at the close. The Venison filly jumped off with the lead, and with Charity, Valou r , L uxury c., and J acquenet t a i n waiting, made play to the bend, where Charity went ahead , and, taking the lead near the distance post, won eas ily by two lengths. Run in 1 min. 14 sec. The Scarborough Stakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft. One mile. Captain Scott's Allegro, Bst 2lb 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 sovs. each, 5 ft, with 100 added; for two yrs old, Est 10lb; three, Bst 121 h; fillies and geldings allowed 31b; penalties and allow ances; the second to receive 20 SOTS. out of the stakes, and the winner to pay 15 sovs. to the fund. T.Y.C. Lord Clifden's Pelion, 2 yrs, 6st 101 b (Charlton) 1 Lord Derby's Longbow, 3 yrs, Bst 121 b (F. Butler) 2 Lo r r . d C J. D a 1 e a d w o s n o ' r s eB Verbena Anteve r c t g o , 1 t, 2 y 2 yrs, 6 6 , sl s 1b 7 t ilbo(A(dWe r e o l f l (Wells) 0 0 Mr. S. Hawkes's Paddy Bird's dam filly, Est 71b (Hiett) 0 Mr. Meiklaw's Stilton, 3 yrs, Sst 121 b (Templeman) 0 Sir C. Monk's Vindex, 2 yrs (Flatman) 0 Mr. J. Osborne's Exact, 2 yrs, 6st 121 b (J. Osborne) 0 Mrs J. M. Stanley's Corybantes, 6st 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 agat Longbow. In going to the post to start Vindex broke away and ()roll duppwualrldhsimofultp. ree parts of a mil e before Flatman was, after a long delay,lt was wit h off with the lead, and Witht t o t he post. Pelion jumped where Longbow took the se c ond A nte v p e l r a t c a, e ; t t Vindex, hs and hal f dis tance he great di ffi culty that he Verbena colt laid up, made runnin g to the distance, he joined Pelion, and they raced home, the young who got ' badly off a one winning by a head. Exact, 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 his stake. One mile. (22 Subs., 12 of whom declared.) Mr. Meiklam's Evadne, 3 yrs, Tat Ilb. (Alderoft) 1 Mr. G. Noble na Brawn, 3 yrs, sst Sib (Kendall) 2 Mr. Flintoff's The Reaper, 4 yrs, 7st llb (W e l ls) 3 Mr J. Osborne's Lady Agnes, 6st 121 b (Osborne, jun) 4 Won by a neck. Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, and 50 added for two yr s old; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b; winners extra; second to receive 20 sovs. out of the stakes. T. Y. o. (25 Subs.) Mr. J. Osborne na Lambton (Osborne, jun.) 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 (Manion) 0 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Belgravia (A. Day) 0 Won by two lengths. The Foal Stakes of 100 sovs. 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) j 7 to 4 agst Kingston (t) THE CESAREWITCH. 9to 1 eget Lady Evelyn 25 to 1 agat Vermuth L 2 to 1 agst LS Rut . 30 to 1 agst Mrs. Birch. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 1,000 to 60 egst Koh-i- 12,000 to 60 agst King Pe noor (;) pin (t). Paying and receiving on the St. Leger commenced this morning, and, us 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, Frtmev MORNING. LATEST BETTING. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) THE CUP. 11 to 8 agst Kingston 12 to 1 agst Caracara 7to 4 apt Tecidington Il2to 1 agst Harbinger. 10 to 1 agst Truth (t) Little Harry and S DE tilton are scratched. 1131% 1 20 to 1 agst Umbria'. 13 to 1 agst Orestes (t) 20 to 1 agst Cheddar (r) TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—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 com 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 n it was, painted dirty yellow, in capital letters, marked thereon. The sight of five-water tub was most hideous to drunkards ; their drank it grog was mixed up in it, and the out of an ugly member : , -at-Arma and "Drunkards' Tub," blaster-at-Arms officers mug under the upon the gangway, close under the Y on the quarter-deck. What they e h most down was thrown overboard, and :brown overboard respect able men allowed the entire to bedrinking out of the ee e o s uld not gulp rather than be disgraced by "Drunkards' Tub." Drunkards' Mess. The were not all members of the considered incorrigible me mbers of the Tub Drunkards' drunkards, and their punishmentthe generally of longer duration than those o . Allow me to add a Plan which we practised in the service—l mean &s -our second great gt i ev wen the East India Dress I were ed i ' o ll f T°:ueb. checkin g de sertion. with our men-of-war's-men, off the Mother Bank, their eery Bickerton, Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, Sir R. d r to the fleet not to grant leave to our issued an order t e he India fleet were at the Mother Bank. sailors while leave before the order had I bad given my men e ship, and on meeting Sir R. Bickerton c b r o i u m n o ci s fleelt w-e"rem usy laying n shore he was very angry, observing that, notwith standingohis order, he noticed my men with ~ H azard" on their hats. I assured him the order had not reached us in time. "But how can you bed our your men, many of them strangers, drafted into I told him my plan. ship but the other day ?" applicant for leave was to find two bondsmen, ;:ryt r ro e huu s es c rt the nature of their bond being that if the applicant did not return the bondsmen should never have leave from the ship so long as I commanded her. Sir It. 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 remarked to Sir R. B. that sailors, though they may play tricks with their officers sometimes, were generally true to each other. I must beg further to remark, in respect to the Drunkards' Mess that the members, after having served their time, were restored to their former mess, upon th e application of their former messmatcs to the commanding officer, and a promise of sobriety o n th e i r part. Your obedient servant, JNO. COOKESLEY , Retired Rear-Admiral. House, Portshead, Bristol, September 15, 1852. Rackley CONSECRATION OF A NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURC H AT GREENWICH. —Yesterday the Roman Catholi c new church of " Our Lady of t he Sea,, ' at Croom's-hill Greenwich, was solemnly consecrated 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 con ti nue d till near one. The church is the Gothic style, and o ne o f the f ines t s pecimens of church , architecture of m o d ern d ate, and is situate in a commancing position on the brow of Croom's-hill. The church is fre e of debt with the exception pensioners. Schools in con nex i on w i t h t h e c h urc h h a ve been established. The choir i s ent i re l y se lf- su pporting, i nc l u ding the organist. The ceremony excited much in. of about abo 6 u O t t e rest in the town and neighbourhood of Greenwich. THE LATE 'MANSLAUGHTER IN WESTMINSTER.--. 0 20 0/. The congregation is a l arge one, i nc l u di ng Yesterday . afternoon Mr. Langham, deputy coroner, held an adjourned inquest at Westminster Hospital, on the body of Ann Gibbons, aged seventy-th ree years, lately residing at 36, Vine-street,Westminster, who died from injuries inflicted on her by a man on the eve n i ng o f 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."