The Sun. — London, England, 1870-09-15 00:00:00

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THERE is a significance in the course pursued by these terrible Prussians throughout the whole of their proceedings since the war commenced. Pouring steadily towards the frontier line, immediately war had been declared against them, they only crossed it after it had been crossed by their antagonists. It was after the ostentatious attack made in the presence of the EMPEROR and the Prince IMPERIAL, on Saarbriick, that the CROWN PRINCE won his first victory at Wissemburg. It was because not only Saarbriick, but Kehl, had been shelled by the French, that bombs were thrown by the Germans among the roof-tops of Stras burg. They have always in fact acted rigorously— in retaliation. So invariably have they done this, so systematically have they given a quid pro quo at every turn in the dreadful contest, that our very first thought on reading the announce ment of that explosion at Laon, with the King's comment upon it, to the effect that it was unquestionably the result of treachery, our very first thought was as to how the Prussians would retaliate. In every instance it is as if they took a leaf out of the book of their defeated and still de feated enemy. Fas est ab hosts doceri, they have seemed to say to themselves. So it has been, in point of fact, throughout the whole of the military operations. So it has been in regard to the ulterior aim and object of the war. Germany has said, through her Kaiser, " We don't in any way enter upon this conflict with a view to ter ritorial aggrandisement. We aspire simply to vindi cate the integrity and independence of our common Fatherland. But—as you, the French, appear to be bent upon seizing what you have long coveted, that is, the Rhine Provinces, we will not only prevent your having them, but we will take security to ourselves that you shall never be in a position to enter again upon any similar course of proceeding, namely, by ourselves taking possession of the whole of Alsace, and of a considerable portion of Lorraine. Strasburg and Metz have been formidable ob stacles in our way, we will take forcible posses sion of them also, and keep them henceforth as our own permanently." From first to last, the Prussians, in this way, have so kept within the law that the French may be said to have inva riably taken the initiative, the Germans contenting themselves, so to speak, with reprisals, but reprisals of a most formidable character. It is thus in niggard to the very attitude assumed by them towards France, towards her ostensible Government, towards her capital and its inhabitants, and last of all towards surrounding neutrals. The KING'S avowed policy has, no doubt, had its modifica tions since the war commenced. His MAJESTY'S decla ration at first was that he made war on the Emperor NAPOLEON, not on the French people. The EMPEROR has since then fallen into his hands as a prisoner, but the war of the KING with France is still con tinued. The KING now says, " You, and more especially you the Parisians, were the real insti gators. You, it was, who made night and day hideous by frantic cries of , a Berlin,' and by yelling in chorus along the boulevards the revolu tionary hymn of the Marseillaise: We will teach you to do notning of the kind in future. How ? Even by taking Paris itself by violence—and in Paris d'etating the terms of a thorough and per manent pacification. As for intervention on the part of the neutrals, we will have none of it. They have held aloof so far. Let them hold aloof a trifle longer." Among the many wild rumours recently afloat in Paris there was one to the effect that the King of PRUSSIA had gone mad. But, at the least, there is a terrible method in his madness, will be admitted we should suppose, by this time , even by the Parisians. SCIENCE has small chance of being heeded just now. In the din of war the opening address of the President of the British Association will have fewer readers than usual, though the President be no less distinguished a person than Professor HUXLEY. And yet the address which he delivered last night at Liverpool was not without inte rest. Following the example of his immediate predecessor, Professor STOKES, he preferred to deal chiefly with that branch of inquiry which he has made more peculiarly his own, instead of giving a view of the whole domain of science. The origin of life is a problem that has been deeply studied by Professor HUXLEY and by philosophers long before him, from LUCRETIUS downwards, and indeed be fore LUCRETIUS. Such a problem was sure to fasci nate thoughtful minds. At the same time, only ultra-materialists could hope to solve it. Philosophers might ascertain the conditions under which life might exist, or under which it might be pro duced, but the actual creating cause, the prinzum mobile, was sure to remain veiled from their eyes, and to be visible only to the faith which believes in a personal Deity. Not the less do the experiments which Professor HUXLEY and others have made add to our stores of knowledge. We gather from them these conelusions—lst, that a fluid eminently fit for the development of the lowest forms of life, but which- contains neither germs; nor any protein compound, gives rise to living 1 1:11 h SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTO I BER 15, 1870. JOHN GOSNE.LL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from riemy, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price lb. 6d Eted Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames street, London. Ult things in great abundance, if it is exposed to ordinary air; while no such development takes place, if the air with which it is in contact is mechanically freed from" the solid particles which ordinarily float in it and which may be made visible by appropriate means; 2nd, that the great majority of these particles are destructible by heat, and that some of them are germs, or living particles, capable of giving rise to the same forms of life as those which appear when the fluid is exposed to unpurified air. 3rd. That inoculation of the experimental fluid with a drop of liquid known to contain living particles, gives rise to the same phenomena as exposure to unpurified air. 4th. That these living particles are so minute that the assumption of their suspension in ordinary air pre sents not the slightest difficulty. On the contrary, considering their lightness and the wide diffusion of the organisms which produce them, it is impossible to conceive that they should not be suspended in the atmosphere in myriads. These conclusions may appear to be of value only to Savants. Yet in them is comprised the whole rationale of disease. In the three years 1863, '64, and '69 the total number of deaths from scarlet fever alone in this country was 90,000. This, be it re membered, is the returnof the killed alone; the maimed and the wounded in this war of pestilence—those whose health has:been ruined, whose life will be shortened— are not included. How are we to save this great army of sufferers ? Only by studying the causes of disease, only by tracing out the germs of that life which is death. At present the people perish for lack of knowledge ; but patient investigation, "the diligent, loving study of all the multitudinous aspects of Nature, the results of which constitute exact knowledge or science," will, we confidently trust, avail before very long to save them. Two months ago to-day war was declared by the Duke of GRAMONT in the French Senate, and by M. OLLIVIER in the Corps L6gislatif. Two months ago . the French Premier entered "with a light heart " upon a conflict which, however it might end, was certain to be one of the most bloody and desperate in all history. Two months ago—only two months—the Paris mob was shouting " Viva la Guerre !" and " A Berlin !" Where is the Duke of GRAMONT now ? A refugee on British shores. here is M. OLLIVIER No one knows for certain. Where is the Paris mob, and where are the journalists who excited them by constant stimulants into a war fever ? I\l. EMILE GIRARDIN, the most inveterate of them, the man who when everyone was content to have peace,: continued to scream for war—this man so brave with the pen has no stomach for a sword, and has fled, leaving hi. readers to be shot down by the Prussian needlegun, to be torn to pieces by Prussian shell. Only two months ! It seems scarcely possible to believe it. Into those 62 days the events of a cen tury have been compressed. And now the " To Ber lin" of July 1.5 has given place to the order that on and after September 15 no one will be allowed to enter or leave Paris. The world contains no parallel to a change so stu pendous. Will the nations learn the lesson ? TOPICS OF THE DAY. Lion have a life-saving fleet of 226 boats, which ' contributes yearly to the saving of many human beings; at some places & An a scarcely less cieditable manner than off the shores of Cornwall. It is at this point, however, that daring and courage on the part of the crews is probably at all times of shipwreck most required. In the interesting history of Cornish wrecks furnished, the reader cannot fail to be struck with the singular bravery with which sailors seem ready to meet death at moments when it seems but too nel,r io them. In a case of rescue by the rocket apparatus, in a very terrible sea on a winter's night, we are told that the master of the ship from the troubled waves encouraged file workers on shore by his cheery cries of " Ay, ay," almost as . much 'as the landsmen who were most anxious to see this man and his crew saved. The following extract from the letter in the l imes will explain better what we mean :—" Brown again ! cries, Ay, ay,' and is submerged by the next breaker. The captain and his mate are clinging to the masthead. Have you the line ?' is shouted. Cheerily, but yet more faint, Ay, ay,' reaches our straining ears. The block is fixed. The hawser is hauled out ; a few more anxious moments, and Brown is lifted over the cliff. We feel, for we can not see, the dripping, battered, cheery little fellow, who, after shaking like, an old Newfoundland dog, ' rushes to the cliff edge, to help in hauling np his mate Joe, of Clovelly. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. A GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its uristine hue, no matter at what age. J NO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the moat eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. it is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, is each; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, nelud ng brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 9E, Upper Thames-street, Lon ion, E.C. THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. GATETY—DoIIy. Bluebeard. Beggars' Opera. VAunEYlLLE—Chiselling. Two Roses. Don Carlos. STRAND--A Day After the Wedding. School for Coquettes. Idle 'Prentice. Chops of the Channel. PRINCESBBI9 I —Wanted, 1,000 Milliner& The 13.Nppars& The Happy Man.! RcriaLTY—Our Nally and F.. M. Julius Otlcesat, the Irregular Ram 'Un. Ornom—Poppleton's Predicaments. Handsome Is that Handsome Does. Undine. NATIONAL STANDARD—LittIe Emily. Venus versus Mars. ALHAMBRA—Grand Ballet and Varieties. CnEmourni)—Fireworks, Ballet, &c. MADAME TUSSAIIVB (Baker-street) —From 11 a.m. till 3 p.m. and 7 till 10 p.m. Is.; extra rooms, 6d. ST. JAMES'S HALL.—Christy Minstrels. Every evening. PonnrEmuno--Professor Pepper's Ghosts. Afternoon and Evening. THE USE OF FORTRESSES. It must be conceded by anyone who has heard of the resistance offered by Strasburg, Metz, Toul, Phalsbourg, and Verdun, in the present war, that fortresses situated in the interior of a country are of great value in diminishing an enemy and in holding territory. Owing to the superior numbers of the German soldiers they have been enabled to attack fortified towns and vet have sufficient men still to boldly defy the French capital. It is questionable, however, could they have been so successful, had all the fortresses been well provisioned and well supplied with ammu nition before the Prussian corps arrived without their walls. This is the great secret of fortresses— to have bomb-proofs, for • holding not only food and powder, but also men, and it will be next to impossible for auy besieging army to demand sur render. A writer in the Times contends that England ought in this respect to glean experience from the Franco-Prussian struggle, and that she ought speedily, instead of employing her troops daily to march past an inspecting general, make them find occupation in throwing up fortifications, and in learning how to hold out successfully through a siege threatened by any foe round the bulwarks of the country. The same writer thinks it foolish in the extreme that all the eggs should be crammed into one basket at Woolwich. What would have been the condition of the French now, he asks, if their only arsenal had been at Metz ? TILE NEW AMBASSADOR OF PEACE. M. Louis-Adolphe niers, whose diplomatic Mis sion is just now creating so much interest, is one of the most celebrated of living Frenchmen. H e was related to the poet, Andre Chenier, who perished in the Revolution, and distinguished himself greatly in his early studies. In 1821 he came to Paris to seek his fortune with his friend, M. Mignet, who has since gained a European reputation. The two future celebrities were so poor that with difficulty they reached the capital, where they immediately devoted themselves to literature and journalism. M. Thiers's writings soon attracted attention, and he was attached to the editorship of the Constitutionne/: His articles were indicative of the future statesman and historian, and as a literary and political cr;tic he speedily took a high place. In the world of politics his progress was no less rapid than in the world ( f letters. He entered official lire immediately afte r the Revolution of July, 1830 , and held successively the posts of Under-Secretary of State, Minister of the Interior, Minister of Commerce and Public Works, President of the Council, and Minister of Foreign Affairs. In all the eventful changes of his time he played a prominent part, like his great rival, M. Guizot. 'Thiers, however, possessed the good fortune not often enjoyed by statesmen, of being able to solace himself with litera ture when he fell from power. His principal works are the " Histoire de la Revolution Francaise," and the " Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire ;" but his minor contributions to the literature of his time are numerous. The coup cretat sent him, like many other eminent men, into exile, but in 1863 he returned to political life as a Liberal deputy for the Department of the Seine. M. Thiers, as is well known, was one of the principal supporters of the design of fortifying Paris. He has the credit of having been, notwithstanding, a resolute opponent of the war which is rendering those fortifications .16 valuable, and which it is now his mission to arrest in its disastrous course. WRECKS ON THE CORNISH COAST. It is said that nowhere round the English coast heavier seas roll and lash themselves on the rocks with such fury as off that portion of it intervening between Hartland Point and the little town of Bude, in Cornwall. A long record of the wrecks in Bude Bay, and a narrative of the noble deeds performed in saving, or in attempting to save life, while vessels were foundeling upon Bade Bar, have been con tributed to the 'Ames by a writer, who thinks thereby that increased interest may be excited in the work of establishing lifeboats round the coast, and especially at places in the ex treme south of England. The writer in his Chronicle notably refers to the services of the noble lifeboat I presented to Buds in memory of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Moore Garden by her children, but he states with pride that the English Lifeboat Associa- :)- N - c - e y\ . rrri s r - I .AV (El Y i 11 " I t rillitar HER MAJESTY. + BALMORAL, SEPT. 12. The Queen, attended by Lady Churchill, went out in the morning. In the afternoon the Queen drove to Birk Hall, ac companied by Princess Louise, and attended by Lady Churchill. Count Gleichen arrived at the Castle, and dined with the Queen and the Royal family. Lord Halifax had also the honour of dining with her Majesty and the Royal family. GALLANT LIFEBOAT SERVlCE.—Newbiggin-by the-Sea, Norfolk, Sept. 12.—A fishing-coble was observed in distress abovt two miles from this place a few days since. The lifeboat William Hopkinson, of Brighouse, which belongs to the National Lifeboat Institution, was promptly launched, and after a desperate pull, and amidst onsiderable difficulty, succeeded in taking the three men out of the coble. BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.- -GRATEFUL AND COM FORTING.—The very agreeable character of this preparation has rendered it ageneral favourite. The Civil Service Gazette re marks :—" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the flue properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills." Made simply with boiling water or'inilk. Sold only in tin-lined packets labelled—JAmEs EPPs & Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, London.—Advt. THE LOSS OF THE CAPTAIN. Captain Sherard Osborn, who has throughout taken a prominent part in the great turret ship con troversy, writes to the Times respecting the terrible disaster which has deprived him of two of his dearest naval friends and comrades. He feels bound to watch over the repute of the turret system, and attributes the recent catastrophe to the attempt to make the Cap tain a sailing as well as a fighting vessel. Turrets, says Captain Osborn, have been worked at sea in all weathers. " Low freeboard ships of the Monitor class have been tested in all seas—in the storms of Cape Horn, the Gulf Streara, and the Baltic, bit in every case under steam only. The desire of our Admiralty to make all their fighting ships cruise under canvas as well as steam induced poor Captain Coles to go a step further, and to make a ship with a low freeboard a sailing ship." Prior to the first cruise of the Captain, Captain Osborn had a long conversation with Captain Coles, and urged him to. be cautious in his experiments, and especially to take care in bad weather to furl all sails, and bring the ship under steam. Captain Coles agreed, but his first cruise gave him greater confidence in his ship's stability, and he was satisfied she could beat any sh.p in the fleet under sail. Captain Osborn wrote to him, deploring the importance which was attached to this point, and reminding him that a tur ret ship ought to be a fighting ship pure and simple. had the Admiralty, says Captain Osborn, accepted Captain Coles's first design, instead of building an oddity like the Monarch, and challenging the inven tor to produce a real turret ship which should sail as well as she, the sad tale of to-day would not have to be added to our naval records. The Times, in a leader on the subject, says • that in the account of the catastrophe there are four distinct elements of danger, the low freeboard, the heavy top weights, the masts, and the hurricane deck. Three of these features belong to the turret-ship type, but the masts were a fatal invention, forced upon the inventor to make his ship independent of steam power. If Captain Burgoyne's last order could have been executed, the ship might have been saved. The limes thinks it should be remembered that if the Captain was the least seaworthy ship of the squadron, it was acknowledged by every man in the fleet that she could have destroyed the whole squa dron with one exception. The principles for which Captain Coles contended so long will not be given up, for a seaworthy turret-ship, if it could be constructed, would be the most powerful type of a man-of-war. THE PUBLIC HEALTH. The prevalence of scarlatina in the metropoli3 just now is causing much uneasiness. The deaths from that disease last week were more in number than those of any corresponding period since the middle of last December. The epidemic is chiefly noticeable in the thickly populated districts of the West-end, indeed,the children of the poorer classes are alone said to be the sufferers. Relapsing fever, the ravages of which mused so much depression and sorrow among labourers' families in London this time last year, has, happily, almost disappeared, only one death from the fever being chronicled last week. Diarrhoea continues to decline in fatality, the deaths from this cause being within the seven days ending on Saturday only one third of the number recorded a few weeks since in the metropolis. The total number of persons who died from the London population was 04 below the average. In the nineteen large towns of the king dom outside the capital itself, the ratio of the mor tality was as 25 deaths annually to every 1,000 of the estimated population. AMERICAN VIEWS OF THE WAR. The American press manifests the greatest interest in all that concerns the European - war, and indulges in constant speculations as to its results. The New York Herald calls attention to the fact that Prussia has revived the system of warfare which . prevailed among the nations of Western Asia nearly three thousand years ago—that is, the arming and march ing to the field of the able-bodied men of the nation en masse, and the settlement of the dispute involved in a single campaign. As David, in his decisive campaign against the Syrians, gathered all Israel and passed over Jordan, so King William, in the campaign against France, has gathered all Germany and passed over the Rhine. We thus find that, modern warfare is returning to the system which was in forco thirty centuries ago in - Western Asia, when Europe was known only as a wilderness of savages. The Herald does not allow Prussia the credit of reviving the ancient system of marching en masse, but declares that in the late American war the loyal States of the - Union had eleven hundred thousand armed men in the field. They were sent because the States wished to make the war short, sharp, overwhelming, and decisive. By following this example, Prussia' has dwarfed the grandest cam paigns of Napoleon 1,, and nerthrown the calcula tions of Napoleon 111. THE LOSS OF THE CAPTAIN. ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 14. The following particulars respecting this lamen table catastrophe have been taken from the deposi tions of Mr. May, the gunner, and the 17 men who have returned to this country in H.M.S. Volage. It appears that Mr. May, feeling the Captain un easy, left his cabin soon after midnight, and pro ceeded to the after turret to look at the guns, when he suddenly felt her heel steadily over. A heavy sea struck the ship on the weather side, and she then turned gradually bottom upwards, and went down stern foremost in two or three minutes. Mr. May was washed overboard out of the top of the turret, and was eventually picked up by the second launch, the boat in which all the remainder of the survivors were saved. All those rescued, with the exception of Mr. May, belonged to the watch on deck, and the men appear to have been washed overboard as the vessel turned over, one of them having actually stood on her bottom " where the keel would have been had she had one." he Ist and 2nd launch with the galley were stowed one within the other, and when the canvass cover of the next had been cut the first launch appears to have sunk from under the second one, whilst the men in the second launch threw the galley overboard, together with all the articles which could be spared, so as to lighten the boat as much as possible. The launch appears, immediately after the vessel sank, to have drifted past the steam pinnace, which was bottom upwards, and to which Captain Bur goyne, Mr. May, and five seamen were clinging. Mr. May and three of the men jumped off and gained the launch, but it is not clear whether Captain Burgoyne jumped or not. It seems certain, how ever, that he gave orders, whilst clinging to the pinnace, to the men in the pinnace, to "be care ful of their oars, as they would want them much." The launch tried again to approach the pinnace to save him, but the sea was running too high to admit of it, and in the attempt to turn the boat one seaman, Lamed Myers, was washed out of her and lost. Captain Burgoyne was not seen afterwards. The launch with Mr. May and the rest of the men, 18 in all, then bore up for the land, and after twelve hours pulling, without food or water, they reached Finisterre, from which place they pro ceeded to Corcubion, and were taken on board the Monarch on the afternoon of the 9th inst. Mr. May says that he cannot speak too highly of the conduct of all under these trying circumstances, and mentions especially the services rendered by Charles Tregenna, leading seaman, who worked. the oar by which the boat was steered ; the rudder hav ing been found useless and unshipped; stating that he (Mr. May) and others wished to relieve Tre genna, but none managed the oar so well. It was, therefore, resigned entirely to him. The ship seems to have been unable to right her self, and the waves appear to have washe 1 ever the tops of the turrets, and between the gr ,:;s of the • hurricane deck. The period of the catastrophe m ust have been shortly after midnight, as Captain Burgoyne was heard by some of the survivors to give the orders to let go topsail sheets whilst the middle watch was being mustered. The whole of the ship's company, both officers and men, appear, according to the Ftatements of the survivors, to have had great confidence in the capa bilities of the ship. The following letter, probably the last letter he had written, from Captain Cowper Coles, will be read with interest. It was addressed to a friend in England, who has sent it to the Times:— " Captain, at Sea, 120 miles from Gibraltar, Aug. 14, 1870. "As we may expect to be in to-morrow, and an oppor tunity for letters, I write to you a line. We have had, so far, a most satisfactory and successful cruise. The greater part of the cruise has been under sail and steam, and when there was sufficient wind to have the ships under command, the fires have been banked. " Admiral Sir Hastings Yelverton, I am glad to see, is a great man for keeping the ships under sail, when practi cally it can be done with economy to fuel. " Keeping the ships in their prescribed order of sailing under sail, with orders only to use steam if necessary to keep station, results in a great saving of fuel, and practice to the officers (so much wanted) in keeping station and handling their ships under sail. The Inconstant, Captain, and Hercules have shewn themselves the best ships in this point, the Inconstant and Captain having kept station and performed the evolution of ' Port division to become star board division by passing through the line without steam,' while all the other ships had to use steam. " The Hercules, so far as speed under sail goes, is equal to the Captain, but is uncertain in her steering, and on one or two occasions has been very erratic in her move ments. On one occasion, being asked by si o nal the reason she (the Hercules) could not get into station, she said the ship would not answer her helm. This is, no doubt, in consequence of the balanced rudder, and the large hole before it in the stern of the ship, which with twin screws there is not, and gives this ship (the Captain) obviously a great advantage in steering and handiness under sail. One day, with a rattling breeze two points abaft the beam, the Captain and the hercules were ordered to disconnect screws and try rate of sailing ; the ships were q ickly under royals, all sail and port stud sails; they a peared to fly from the rest of the squadron, and would soon have been out of sight although the squadron was pressing on all sail, had not the recall been. made. The disconnecting of our screws made the differ ence of about a knot and half speed when they revolved. It was a neck and neck race, and I was delighted at the performance of the Captain, proving that a ship with twin-screws can sail. In a twenty-five mile run, the Hercules claims to have gained 400 yards, but in conse quence of the Captain's foretopmast stud-sail boom having been sprung before, she could not set her foretop mast stud-sail for nearly an hour, thus losing one of the most important and drawing sails on this point of sailing the area of this sail being 2,032 square feet of canvas. In returning to the squadron, when both ships were under the same sail, the Captain headed the Her cules, and was back in her station some considerable time before her • and so ended another glorious day for Her Majesty's ship Captain. " I have not heard yet the opinion of others in the fleet as to our sailing, but I think it will be found that Sir Hastings Yelverton and all will give her great credit for the character she has sustained of a cruiser under sail alone, performing evolutions and keeping station without steam, and shewing that Sir T. Symonds was rather premature in his conclusions that ships like the Captain could not cruise in company with a fleet under sail alone. " Good as the Captain is in her sailing, I see my way clearly to making her equal in sailing to any sailing frigate in the world, or in building another similar ship. The great economy in masting ships is obvious even from this cruise alone. The ships have been about 134 hours under sail alone, and 59 hours under sail and steam. Allowing £1 per ton for coals would, in round numbers, make a saving of at least £l,OOO, supposing that the ships would have been steaming during that time at the most economical speed, so that I see no reason to deviate from the conclu sion I came to and recorded in 1860, that we must have two distinct classes of ironclads, the sea-going turret cruiser, with full sail power and full steam and the turret-ship with full steam and auxiliary sail power. A fleet of Captains could keep the sea, manoeuvre, or go round the world without using a pound of coal; so that, besides the saving of fuel, a great saving can also be claimed for the fewer number of men. For instance, take this present fleet of six ships (leaving the Captain out) — their crews vary from 750 men to 605 (against the Captain's 500 men), making a total of 3,915 men ; whereas, to man the same fleet, were they all Captains, would not only give us a much more powerful fleet, but we should save 915 men. Allowing this to be at the rate of £74 per head per annum (see Lord C. Paget's statement in the House of Commons), it would be a clear saving of £67,600 per annum, or seven ships and three-fifths could be manned with the same number of men instead of six ships. " Looking at these facts without prejudice, and that one of our best and most practical Admirals, Sir T. Symonds, reports that ' The Captain could destroy all the broadside ships of the squadron in detail,' to build any more broad side ironclads would be suicidal, and might be justly con sidered a wasteful expenditure of the public money ; while the fact of this Administration having given the Captain a fair trial, and proved to the country the great economy of the turret system, can be written by the hand of economy to eternity. " I think Sir Hastings Yelverton deserves great credit for his unfearingly putting the ships under canvas, when keeping in station, and saving fuel ; and, it appears to me, so far as I can see, that he is the right man in the right place. But I see my way to establishing greater economies. We have a good deal of drill, and the Admiral inspected us, or rather came on board for one day to see us fire, and he expressed himself much pleased, and said he should pay us another visit. There is an excellent spirit in the ship, and the fleet. I could not help joining in the excitement when shifting topsails the other night, and in unhooking the sail burton of the maintopsail got my leg jammed be tween it and the bridge. The doctor tells me I had a narrow escape of losing my leg, and so it would appear from the colour t - fit now, as it is black, raw, and yellow from the knee down to the heel, and when I do move I hop about like a crow on one leg. Remember me kindly to Osborn, and excuse this hurried scrawl, but believe me to be, with kindest regards to Mrs. 8., " Yours ver = y sincerely, • COWPER P. COLEs. "P. S.—August 16, 1870, Gibraltar. —At 10.20 a.m. yesterday we arrived, and all came in very prettily under sail and steam, and anchored simultaneously, and found here Sir A. Milne with hi s squa d ron . . The flee" are to go to sea on Friday morning, but we do not kne w where for." A friend of the late Captain Coles speaks of him , 35 „ follows':—ln the Rus s i an W ar , w h en our fl ee t Was at loss how to carry their fire into shallow waters agn al ' the forts of the Sea of Azof, he, extemporised the farooss Lady Nancy raft (which was built, I believe, in night), bearing one big gun an d an iron shield to protee, the gunners ; and this was the germ of the monitor sn;i revolving turret, which have si nce rev ol u tionised rin v architecture. When the original Monitor sank in t , stormy sea, he at once devised a breastwork which was v . rise out of the deck, and render the turret principle al 3 l ) ;.' e cable for ocean service. It is no secre t, I believe that much regretted that the Capt a i n h a d not the height above . the water which he origi na lly i n t en d e d. He put est i. : weight into the hurricane deck to secure it against fader ; knowingarising from the vibration caused by firing the moil guns below, that he, as a private inventor, co hope for no mercy if ship broke down in any respe,% But he could not a ccoun t f or more th an 170 of the T t : tons which she was in excess of the calculated weio Probably it was like apprehensio n w hi c h i n d u ced Alen, i s— , o Laird to insert an extra strength of c o n st ru ction, anu make assurance doubly sure. His invention of triP% masts has never been favo ure d by our Admiralty, the French Navy contains 14 or 15 ships of war 031 . 1 : strutted with tripod masts. A no th er o f the inventi?'; which he patented was a clever contrivance for cover lrl 2;, iron ships to prevent their bottoms fo u ling. It has b e ' t , tried with great success i n h ar b our s erv ice, but has nose ; as I understand, been yet tested thoroughly at sea. 111 e b e are only a few instances of th e m en tal activity of the man. Coles was not always r i g ht. H e had little scion education. But he had i n hi m th a t na ti v e genius Nril! c o can almost supply the want, and for which e duca% is no sufficient substitute. He carried to 1 4 , highest development a quality i n which our Navy hasb e a ' always eminent, a readiness of devising expedients n makeshifts for an emergency, and his perseveranc e c o working out an idea was extraordinary. I can see 111 f now, an invalid in bed, w ith a s i m pl e f our -l eg ged desk; common deal of his own construction, planning the det of a gun-carriage for th e C a pt a i n ' s 25-t on g uns, il ac nothing short of this constant devotio n to his W" . 01 would have enabled him to succeed, as, in sPi te r e all hindrances, he has do ne . F ore i gn Governments rce, t, quick to recognise his merits, an d th e l a t e P r i n ce Cons e '.t with his customary perception of what was best and ra° ,:d useful in science and art, lent him his countenance 3 sympathetic aid. But from the Prince's lamented de 3,0 until the accession of Mr. Childers to office, he met W il d his superiors at the Admiralty with nothing b u t slight, a o f discouragement "He has died in the moment the victory, and is so far happy." But, when I consider, es public loss—aye, and remembei those ten small cbil ur i s e of his, with whom he was so fond of playing seeming t o the youngest and merriest of them all,— " Ah me, the blinding tears " Rush to my eyes—l cannot see him more. of It seems that Mr. Childers's son was only rec e° transferred from the Monarch to the Captain. of A meeting of naval officers, on full and half-paY,',, e , retired, was held on Tuesday at the Royal Naval Co Portsmouth, for the purpose of takin the necessary*, for the formation of a fund for the relief of the wia, n ° orphans, and relatives of the seamen,officers i • ma r stokers, &c., lost with her Majesty's late turret-shiP tain. The meeting was numerously attended, and the e, o ia• was taken by Flag Captain George Hancock, in the wino able absence of Port Admiral Sir James Hope. Cal? g, Hancock, after referring to the object of the niee' ve rf said the Captain was an experimental ship in which e t he naval officer was much interested, and relative t° peculiar construction of which everyone, no doubt,..„ o f their opinions on one side o r th e o th er . B u t the OW this country was the first lin e o f d e f ence o f the 13r t ti! Empire, and every officer and man servi n g in e times held their lives on precarious tenure. In a tlwtbe peace like the present, the loss of such a ship of Captain and her officers and crew, with the excep r ia the seventeen Saved, was most extraordinary. P g sg eb his past career he had no recollection of—indeed, 1 1 ° ay e hutance had occurred—as a ship of the Captain's tona,oo and manned by so large a crew, having down in the very midst of a fleet, The e o ,,at stood alone and unparalleled in its horror. The 5, Di tion of the widows, orphans, and relatives left felt the officers and crew of the unfortunate ship must, convinced, not only have obtained the strongest holdlod the sympathies of the naval profession, but also up.on off' of all classes of the community throughout the king` ., Committees were then formed to receive subscriptions. FRIGHTFUL ALPINE ACCIDENT. .0e The Journal de Geneve gives the account of a terrl.D, accident upon Mont Blanc :—" Three travellers, allni man and two Americans, with three guides an d ife porters, left Chamounix on Monday morning to O r o : that day and sleep at the Grands-Mulets. The w es #0 was fine, but the next morning there was so vi° le , ll ;ir storm that the inhabitants of Chamounix natural l Y - ,of posed that the travellers would have given up the iu e ; t d an ascent of Mont Blanc, and would not have cini:re the Grands-Mulets. There was, therefore, no specting them in the valley. News came, it is true, 11 ',0 1 evening, that from the Croix de Flegere and from they had been seen starting for Mont Blanc in sP i "'„,e' the tempest, and that they had arrived upon the p_ oi r ck dary's Hump, an hour's march distant from the 51-1- 0) That they had been seen suddenly to collect together, the to hold fast one to another, and then to disappear , e 1; snow wreaths raised by the wind. In spite of this, e> ';e l people persisted in believing that they must have shelf 0 themselves against the wind in some nook or creviceshe the ice, and therefore there was no occasion to fear Or r o f result. However, when the next day the propr iet° the Pavillon de la Pierre-Pointue arrived, expreasi ng ol, astonishment at finding that no one had re-dese eti ,tib people began to have serious apprehensions regardi li jii fate of the travellers. The day was too far advan u ee vi render it possible , to make any immediate sor e ', on the following morning thirty-two young, r doc of the valley went off in search of them. u ;,jle tunately, the shocking weather which P re p . jerr 3 prevented them from passing the Pavilion of :00' Pointue, situated at two hours' journey from Cha ra :beit' l They were 'obliged to retrace their steps withou t e d able to do anything. On the following day a new at • t tti e was made by 12 courageous young men, but ag ° i / 0 th e rain and the wind would not permit them to s° mountain." A later despatch says that the names of the o. travellers were Mr. Cohendal (from Scotland), and Bean and' Mr. J. Kendal, Americans. LITERATURE. CHARLES LEVER'S NEW SERIAL STC PS : ' O I The Cornhill for September opens brilliantly commencement of a new serial story from a master 01.1 It is entitled " Harry Richmond," and is umnistal‘ecii, from the inexhaustible author of so many r° jelr fictions from " Harry Lorrequer " to " Harry mond." The opening chapter is startlingly e ff n f o ' 4 The characters of the old grandfather roused out ;clo'f slumbers, and of the tall, comely, questionable 0 1 ' 1 7 ' , routing up the whole household long after nigh tf %tio ° ' e powerfully contrasted. At the close of their coute''oeo O little Harry Richmond, the future hero of the ,; 0 0 1 , a child, is spirited away by the father from the t-,6,40 father. With the second chapter, however, entitled ,of Adventure on my own Account," the charm of th e tive really commences. Here the writer is at his b bd In the very manner of him,there is nothing hackn e Y e ; fun and frolic of that manner arise out of the intiOd tY lations suddenly established between little Harry tl) good-humoured stalwart ne'er-do-well, who 111 ' 9 0 1 . spirited him away at nightfall from his grandfath er ' ro lff notion set on foot in his regard is that he has in ble d P ei ; the " Blood Rile," as one of the more unsophist ie n , sonages introduced intimates under her breath- - " W pi ef " her friends all said 'No !' like the run of A titi A, down a fiddlestring." Chapter 111. takes us, " bo il child-hero of the tale; down to an old fa.r i f . e Dipwell Farm byname, which " in rain or in suns'Oor,,: a constant resemblance to a wall-flower." Here rg receives one day a letter from his father, far ° :ig, f' London, the letter-carrier on the occasion being ° Consequent upon this, writes the boy, " I ea sleep, and woke imagining the bird bursting out of Here, too, at this old farm-house, coloured lihel3ed flower, he makes the acquaintance of a little curb' Sa girl often his playfellow and bedfellow, one INl 3 b i el v fo f .1 I winter, " who would have danced on a Sun el°l o' 7 ' 4 fairing, and eaten gingerbread nuts during he foilPio story." Leaving Dipwell Farm, Harry, in s chapter, has a taste of grandeur. It meets hiT ie ° e return to London, in the very entrance hall of 1 ; 0 5 ' home, where the child notices the " enchantmen t 43 , f r 0 lfl fountain playing, thin as whipcord, among f e. - - 011: rock basin." Another touch of the child's fancy try t rit e rent in his mention of one of the characte rs ', 3 ,o eo r reasoning with another, the former putting the ner .e e that " it seemed to have perched on his foreitn e, te exposition." The airy, bright imagining, in a ll l in g us good hope of the sequel of the new story pro 900°:0 be one of the blithest productions of its strittl°o,o genius. With the utterly uninteresting ilit e j o e 3 0 3 accompanying the letterpress before us, h°W Cbs r y long to see once more the radiant descriptions ° e, to e ! Lever, realised, as they used, once-upon -a-tirji 4 - 0 0 ,,d realised by the etching needle of Ifablot Our whole interest in the Cornhill this niontl:: in. this first instalment of " Harry Richm und:' st h °l( d ej DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the large 00,0e41' of whisky in the world. 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