The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-20 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING 5 OCTOBER 20, 1855.

SALE BY AUCTION.

TO RAILWAY CONTRACTORS AND OTHER LARGE
CA PI \MATS.

Gloucestershire and Monmouth hire. The Heel, Gardens, Lawn, and
New Passage Ferry, I I miles from Bristol. .
ix 4 R. LILLY is instructed to SELL, by
L AUCTION, at the Commercial Sale Room, Bristol, on FRI-
DAY, the 2.1 Novembe,, at One o'clock precisely,
The Hotel, Garden, Bowling Green, extiis ye Stabling, Coach-
hoires, and, Outbuildings, at the New Passage, with two Cottages
and Gardens, and about eight acres of Meadow and Pasture Land,
all in the parish of Flenbury, in the county of Gloucester, adjoining
the shore of the River Severn, and about I l miles from the city of
Bristol.

And at the same time and place will be. Sold,
The ancient Passa
ge or Ferry, across the river Severs, fro-n the
New Passage on tho Gloucestershire side to the Black Rock Hotel
on the monnioutlishire side of the river, within a few furlorgs of the
'south Wales Railway; together.with the Quays, Piers, and Landing
Places on the Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire shores, and the
NI!, called Chissell Pill, and all the 'rolls, Fines, Payments and
Emoluments receivable on account of the said Ferry, Piers, 61,1)5,
and Landing-places. •
A reference to the Map of England will immediately show the
important position of this New Passige Ferry. It affords the
shortest route between the West and South-West of England,
Bristol, Bath, Salisbury, and Southampton; and Monmouthshire and
";cntli Wales; and also between Bristol, Herelbrdshire, Shropshire,
and Liverpool ; and a railway of about 0!.., miles would connect the
Ferry with the Midland Railway, the Great Western Railway, and
the Bristol and Exeter Railway. Steam-vessels upon the system in
tuts between th- Cheshire and Lancashire shores at Liverpool, be-
tween New Holland and Hull, and at the Frith of Forth, could con-
veniently ply across the New Passage Ferry; and an immense teethe
in passengers and goods now carried on with Monmouthshire and South
Wales, across the Bristol channel, or by the circuitous route of
Gloucester, would be the immediate result of such an improved com-
munication.
The South Wales Line would be reached at a point only fifteen
miles from Bristol, which, via Gloucester, is upwards of sixty.
The above Property well deserves the attention of Railway Con-
tractors, or of any Capitalist who is disposed to secure the command
of one of the most important Railway routes in the kingdom, and
which must at an early period be adopted as an inoispenssble mode
of communication between Bristol and Monmouthshire and South
Wales.
NOTE. —The Hotel, Lands, and Ferry will he offere i for sale in one
Lot or in several Lots, as may be announced at the time of Sale.
To vets' the Premises apply to the Tenant; and for further parti-
culars to the Auctioneer, at Bridge-street; or to SaviaY, CLASS,
and FeSsELE,-14olicitors,-12, Corn-street, tar istol.

EVENING' LECTURES at KING'S COL-
LEGE, Loudon.—On and after Monday, Oct. 29, KING'S
COLLEGE WILL. BE OPEN on Five Evenings in the Week for
Classes in the holy Scriptures, Latin, French, German, English
Language and Composition, Modern history and Geography, Ma-
thematics, Arithmeic and Book-keeping, Landscape, Figure, and
%!odel Drawing, the Elements of Chemistry, and in the Principles
and Practice of Commerce.
A prospectus will lie forwarded, on application to J. W. CUIC-
NING LI M, Esq., King's College, London ; and lull information m
be obtained at the College from 10 to 4 daily, and from 6 to 8 every
evening except Saturday.
17th Oct., 1855.

R. W. JELF, D.D , Principal.

SALE OF OLD STORES AT GOSPORT.
ADMIRALTY, SOMERSET-PLACE, IStli October, 1855.
r HE Commissioners for Executing the'Office of
.19 Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and lreland, do hereby give notice, that on FRIDAY, the 2d Novem-
ber next, at 12 o'clock at noon, the Captain Superintendent will put
up to Sale; in the Boyd Clarence Victualling Yard at Gosport, severa
Lots of

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OLD STORES
colsisting of serviceable Tongues, Old Provisions, Biscuit Bags,
Staves, Casks, Paymastprs' Implements, Necessaries, &c., Bcc., &C.,
all lying in the said I(s.rd.
Persons wishing to view the Lots must apply to the Superintendent
or notes of admission for that purpose.
Catalogues and Conditions of Salo may be had here and at the
Yard.

ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIIRENT'S CASINO
NOW OPEN for the winter season. The following
lusie will be performed by his celebrated Rand during
he week : March aux Flamheaux. Waltzes —The Lily
,1 the Valley (D'Albert), Zephir Lufte (Gung'l), Fenella (Tinney),
Ethel Newcome (Laurent), La Sultane (Bosisio). Quadrilles—Le
;tot du Pastel (Larnotte), Lea Hugenots (Laurent), Palermo (D'2,'-
ert), Bride of Lammermoor (Tinney), 11 Trovatore ( futton).
Volkas—Des Hulands (Lamotte), Italie (Gaviolo), The Lillian (D'Al-
ert) Des Coucous (Bousquet), The Zottaves (Laurent). Galops—
fhe Imperial Guards (Laurent), The Heels (Streatber). Schottische
—La Guirlande de Fleuri (Rosquet), La Varsoviana (Laurent). Prin-
cipal Cornet a Piston, bI. Boulcours.—Doors open at 8. Admission
ine : billing.

TO LOVERS -OF FISIL-100 GENUINE
YARMOUTH BLOATERS for Gs., package included.
THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP

to :the agricultural interest, . that the anticipations
of the agriculturists arising from • the operation of
flee trade had altogether vanished, and that agriculture
was now presperous. (Hear.) There were; doubtless, a
variety of circumstances which caused the greatest de-
pression to the agricultural interest. The Change to
which lie bad referred was effected at a time when they
were unprepared' for it, end when' other laws and ens-
toms which prevented the,overflovelV capital to the land
ought to hate bees abolished. Mittens, however, were
now changed.. They had high pril4s, they had agricul-
ture thriving because they had made a number of im-
provements, and he felt 'quite convinced that, though
those high 'prices might have doer them goocl,'yet that
.their prosperity was: more .owing to the great itn=
provements that they' had madein the cultivation of the
land than to any temporary advance in priceS. He could
not help thinking, at the same time, that they ought not
to rely on those high prices. The,war might last for a
time, but he hoped it would be 'bought to a speedy,
honourable, and satisfactory coleision. And when that
time came, they might rest assuretethhte there would be
a reaction, and they must be prepared to meet that
change by improvements in the culetation of the land.
(Hear.) They must rety upon their own exertions for
those improvements, and this was the proper time to do
sc. He thought that a. new era was fast dawning fOr the
agricultural interest. The time was, when meetings of
this kind were first commenced, that they felt a great
step was taken to improve the condition of the labour-
ing classes ; but it seemed tfiebiin they must do something
more—they must look higher uP the tree, so to speak,
and they must endeavour, if they could, to remove all
those laws and abolish all these customs which interfered.
to prevent the flow of capital into the cultivation of the
soil. He believed that by adopting this course they would
do more than by any other means to 'promote the happi-
ness of the humbler classes—(hear)—asid to forward the
objects which those societies bad so much at heart, He
always felt that when these doors were' somewhat forci•
bly opened for the admission of ferpign produce it was
only fair that the principle-of fr4e - trade-should be ap-
plied also to the raw material—the land itself—and that
all these technicalities and difficulties which interfered
with the tree 5-er oftind from a willing owner to -a
willing
.purchaser should be entirely removed. (Hear.)- -He ap-
pealed to them whether, in a country like this, where
the population was fast pressing on the means of sub-
sistence, it was right that we should retain any of thosel
laws and customs which interfered-with the free cultiva-
tion of the soil, which greatly oppressed the labouring
classes, and did great injustice to the whole community.
(Cheers.) He found from statistics that there were in
Great Britain and Ireland no fewer than 15.000,000
acres of waste land capable of improvement and cultiva-
tion, but which were not cultivated at all. In England
there were said to be about 4,000,000 acres of waste
land capable of cultivation ; in Scotland, where the land
was hicked up under a close system of entail more severe
than in England, there were no less than 6,000,000
acres capable of cultivation; and in Ireland, 5,000,000
acres which still remained without cultivation. He was
struck with the remark of Lord Stanley the other.day
.to the L;verpool and Manchester Agricultural Associa-
• Lion. Has lordship said that if any man retained land
in his own hands• which he had not the power to im-
prove, and did not sell,.he was a wrcng-doer to the coin-
munity. (Cheers.) If that remark was applicable to
an individual, how much more so was it applicable to a
legi-lature which allowed a number of laws to exist (not
obsolete laws, but which were Frictly in force), which
compelled a man to keep in his own hands that which it
was utterly impossible for him to improve. (Hear.) The
hon. gentleman proceeded to coMpare the position of a
landowner in these circumstances to that of a soldier
who had inherited a machine for making stockings, and
which was entirely useless to him* so long 'as it remained
in his hands. 'By converting thee machine into money,
however, the soldier did that which benefited himeelf,
while-at the same time it becae m'an instrument for in!.
creasing the wealth of the community. The hon. gentle-
man having made some further remarks on the existing
laws relating to the tenure of land; concluded by thank
ing the company fir the honour they had done him in
drinking Ins health.

Mr. DMJMMOND, in replying to the toast of his health,
said—With respect to what had falleri from his hon. col-
league in the representation of the county'on the sub-
ject of entails, he might state that from the first moment
he had a seat in Parliament he had laboured hard to
get-a registry of titles to land throughout the kingdom,
which would do away with a great many .of 'the com-
plaints to which Mr. Locke King hail alluded. That
plan, he cat happy to say, was nove in course of being
carried out after a long delay, the present Solicitor-
General having taken up the subject most Warmly.
He assured them the opposition he had met was not
from the landowners themselves, but from the laVyers,
including old chancellors, half-dead chancellors, and live
chancellors. It was a great thing to get a man who had
mortgaged his estate to understard that he had really
no longer got it. When once you got to understand that,
you had gained a great step in the right direction.
He would tell them this, that unless they got leases they
never would farm their land in a 'satisfactory manner.
He would give them one or two itslanees_. One was9the
case of a- connexion of his.'Oevikitklhelloath of Eland
where there were no leases ; and when the tenant' there
said to Mr. Cain!, on his visit to them, that dial had
no leases, that gentleman omitted that fact in his corn-.
municatiou to the public. It did not suit his book. But
though there were in that case no leases, there was a
regular valuation every year, which in point of fact
answered the same purpose as a lease. With regard to.
his own conduct in Parliament, he could honestly say
that he had endeavoured all alone to look at things and
not at sounds. He positively cared nothing about a mea-
sure which was called conservative, or which was intro-
duced by a party said to be conservative, if in point of fact
its tendency wasdestructive. And if it was destructive, he
always voted against it. If, en the same principle, he
saw a motion propounded having the factious object of
turning out an existing government, without having a
better at hand to supplant it, he always gave such a mo-
tion his most strenuous opposition. He really thought
that it would be better to have no government at all
than some that' he had.seen. At present they had five-.
parties in the House of Commons, any four of which were
able at. any moment to devour the fifth. His belief was
that their real danger consisted in the propensity of the
House of Commons to become the government of the
country—to become the executive instead of being sim-
ply the legislature ; and
.against such a system he would
always contend. (Cheers.) He would now propose to
them the toast of the evening, "Prosperity to the Chert-
sey Agricultural Associaiion." Lie was exceedingly
glad that this association had continued in force for up-
wards of 20 years, and sorry that in other parts of the
country kindred societies had died away. He could not
understand why farmers did not feel it to be an advan-
tage to them to meet together now and then and talk
over the business of their daily lives.. Manufacturers
were accustomed to do so, and a farmer was a manufac-
turer. He thought in the first place they were wrong
in not getting leases ; but it was 'no use preaching to a
farmer unless you could show him something.
The very
last time he had the 'pleasure of seeing them in that
room, even shoeing them something would not do,
for he remembered a shoemaker or a tailor bring-
ing into the room on that occasion a practical illustra-
tion of a most enormous produce having been raised
from a single seed. He mentioned this to show how
much might be done by superior cultivation. On that
occasion a gentleman at the other end of the room said
it was all very well for gentlemen farmers to come and
humbug the practical farmers in that way—(laughter)—
but there the thing was before his eyes. It was said
that seeing was believing ; but this gentleman saw and
did not believe. The fact was, if the tenant farmers
could not be induced to meet together on those occasions
to talk over their own affairs—it the mountain would
not come to Mahomet, Mehemet must go to the moun-
tain ; and if the farmers would not come and partake
of such a dinner as they had bad that day, then the
country gentleimen must provide a dinner of bread and
cheese and onions, and come in smock-frocks to meet
them. (Laughter.) They had heard a great deal about
the improvement of 'cottages, model cottages, and so
forth, but he should be obliged to any one who would
tell him how to build a cottage and make it profitable.
Te was said, look at the Scotch, and see what they have
done in this respect. Why, throughout Scotland there
were but two rooms in all their cottages, which, in their
own language they called a " but and a ben ; and no
matter how many children there were, they were stowed,
just like herrings in a barrel, all together in the same bed,
He must say, howeverenotwithstanding, that the Scotch
peasantry, on the whole, were more moral than those of
England. He would tell them more than that. He had
endeavoured continually to turn small families out of
large cottages and to put large families into them. But
what was the consequence ? Why, they shut all the
children into one room and let the other, IT this asso-
ciation would tell them how to keep people separate who
ought to be kept separate, he for, one would be much
obliged to them. The hon, gentleman, in conclusion,
urged the advantages of deep ploughing, and the advisa-
bility of granting leases for 7, 14, or 21 years.
After some other complimentary toasts, the company
separated. . -

GRAND ROWING MATO/I.—The grand rowing match
between John Mackinney, of Richmond, and Kelly, of
Wham, who contended in August last at the Royal
Thames National Regatta, will take place on Wednee.
day next, from Putney-bridge to Mortlake, for 2001.
The event is one of great aquatic interest, and large sums
of money are laid out at evens upon the result.
• DEATH OF LIEUT. JOHN R. OUSELEY.— We regret to
bear from Kiel of the death of Lieut. John R. Ouseley,
of H.M.S. Pembroke, eon of Sir W. Gore (formerly Bri-
tish Minister in Brazil and the River Plate) and Lady
Ouseley. This promising young officer, aged 21, was
landed from the Pembroke on acc mint of the extreme
weakness to which .he was reduced by illness, brought
on by exposure during th© bombardment of Sweaborg ;
and although his father; who had been summoned by
telegraph, procured the best medical aid, which for some
days gave' hopes of his recovery, the disease when he
landed had advanced t)o far to be overcome. His fune-
ral took place on the 9th at Kiel, in the presence of his
father, the British and French Consuls, the captain and
officers of the Danish war-steamer Hecla, and some Eng-
lish residents. There was no English man-of-war in the,
harbour of Kiel at the time. The usual funeral honour
" w:re paid by the Danish' naval authorities.

ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF SIB
HEN-BY WARD.

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The Indian .Mail brings the intelligence that an at-
tempt has been made on the life of Sir Henry \Yard, the
Governor of Ceylon, by a CiugaleEre, WilQ is represented
by the local papers to be a wild-looking wretch, the very
tout ememble of a ruffian, who would use the knife with-
out the slightest compunction. He Lad been known
for ms ny years as a notorious thief ; he was originally
emplozzed as a canteen man in the barracks, but his
thieving propensities and evil .disposition shut him out
from any further employment, The Particulars of the
attempt are thus giveb ' • •

Miss Kate Ward, about gun-fire, on the morning
.of
the 7th of Svternber, Bearing a noise in her room; where
she and her sister' slept, perceived a man bolting her
door on the inside. He remained there some little time
examining the things on the dressing and about the
room. When he left the room, Miss Ward made an
alarm,. on which the man picked up a knife, and after
threatening her, hastened along the passage, passing the
Governor's room, Just as his Excellency was coming
out, alarmed by the noise, The Governor, armed with
a Colt and stick, pursued him down the passage into the
drawing-room, and on coming up to' him the'man turned
round and came at him with the' knife. The Governer
' then fired at him, and, not wishing to kill Lim, shot him
throu,;ll the shoulder, and afterwards kept him at bay,
until be wa,snventually secured by the. Peons, not, how-
ever, until he had wounded two of tla,mi with the knife,
a small table one, belonging to the hiuse, and which he
picked up in the passage leading to the bedrooms. He
~only took a sheet used as a table cover, which he found
in the passage, and a towel, and from his behaviour
seems to be more a madman than a thief.- Had the Go-
vernor not been. armed with a pistol the consequences
might have been very serious. He never spoke a word
all the time. The man,' who is now in the hospital, has
two wounds on the lower part of the neok on the left
side. These do not communicate, so far as the medical
men have been .;Ible'e Wascertain. It is dobbtful"Ae-
ther the wounds have :been produced by a bullet or, the
bayonet of a soldier. He has also two other wounde,
one on each side' of the wrist. ' He has a stupid look,
and the:suspicion has been thrown out that he is insane;
but he has been recognised as a gaol bird and as a despe-
rate character. He has marks on his back of former
punishment. In a few days it is expected he will be able
to attend the court. •