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

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, oCTOBEit 20, 1855.

SALE BY AUCTION.

TO RAILWAY CONTRACTORS AND OTHER LARGE
CAPITALISTS.

Gloucestershire and Monmoutiphire. The Elotel, Gardens, Lawn, an
New Passage Ferry, 11 miles from Bristol.

4R. LILLY is instructed to SELL, by
t AUCTION, at the Commercial Sale Room, Bristol, on FRI-
DAY, the 2d November, 185`, at One o'clock precisely,
The Hotel, Garden, Bowling Green, extens ve Stabling, Coach-
houses, 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 Henbury, in the county of Gloucester, adjoining
the shore of the River Severn, and about 11 miles from the city of
Bristol.

And at the same time and place will be Sold,
The ancient Passage or- Ferry, across the river Severn, from the
New Passage on the Glouce,tershire side to the Black Rock Hotel
on the Monmouthshire side of the river, within a few furlongs of the
South Wales Railway; together with the Quays, Piers, and Landing
Places on the ,Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire shores, and the
Pill, called Chissell Pill, and all the Tolls, Fines, Payments, and
Emoluments receivable on account of the said Ferry, Piers, Quays,
and Landing-places.
A reference to the Map of England will immediately show the
important position of this New Passage Ferry. It affords the
shortest route between the West and South-West of England,
Bristol, Bath, Salisbury, and Southampton; and Monmouthshire and
South Wales; and also between Bristol, Herefordshire, Shropshire,
and Liverpool ; and a railway of about lOyv 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
e between the 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 traffic
in passengers and goods now carried on with Monmouthshire and South
Wales, across the Bristol Channel, or by the circuitous route of
Gloucester, would he 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 •leserves 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 indispensable mode
of communication between Bristol and Monmouthshire and South
Wales.

NOTE.—The Hotel, Lands, and Ferry will be offered for Sale in one
Lot or In several Lots, as may be announced at the time of Sale.
To view the Premises apply to the Tenant ; and for further peril-
culars to the Auctioneer, at Bridge-street; or to SAVICIIT, CLass,
and FIISSELE, Solicitors, 12, Corn-street, Bristol.

EVENING LECTURES at KING'S COL-
LEGE, London.—On and after Monday, Oct. 29, KING'S
COLLEGE WILL BE 0 I'EN 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, Arithmetic and Book-keeping, Landscape, Figure, and
Model Drawing, the Elements of Chemistry, and in the Principles
and Practice of Commerce.

A prospectus will be forwarded, on application to J. W. CUN-
NINGII Esq., King's College, London; and full information may
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, 18th October, 1855.
THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of
I Lord High Admiral of the United Kincdom of Great Britain
end Ireland, 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 Royal Clarence Victualling Yard at Gosport, tevera
Lots of

TO LOVERS OF FISH.-100 GENUINE
YARMOUTH BLOATERS for 65., package included.
THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP

ARTICLE OF FOOD
forwarded to all parts, on receipt of penny postage stamps or P. 0.0.
(preferred). Send full and plain direction, county, and nearest sta.
tion.—Address THOS. LETTIS, jun., Fish Curer, Gt. Yarmouth.
" This is the third season Mr. Lettis has supplied us with Yar-
mouth bloaters, and we find the quality excellent.—J. Brashowe,
house steward, Blenheim Palace.— Oct. 20, 1554."
" Mr. Lettis,—As soon as you send out your genuine bloaters, I
shall be glad to have a supply as usual ; those I had last year gave
great satisfaction.—A. F. Conrroux, Ambassador's Court, St. James's
Palace.—Oct. 1, 1855."

HR. HENRY DRUMMOND, M.P., AT THE
criERTSEY AGRICULTURAL MEETING.

Yesterday the annual meeting of the Chertsey Agri-
cultural Association, established for the encouragement
of deserving farm servants and agricultural labourers,
was held in the town of Chertsey. The proceedings as
usual on all such occasions, consisted of a ploughing
match and a public dinner afterwards. The ploughing
took place in fields belonging to the Rev. J. C. Clark
and Mr. J. Bailey, in the immediate vicinity of the
town, and the day being singularly fine for this season
of the year, a considerable number of people were at-
tracted to the spot. Prizes to the amount of between
201. and 301. in the aggregate were afterwards distri-
buted among the successful competitors.
The dinner, with which the business of the day was
appropriately wound up, was held at the Town-hall at 3
o'clock ' • and among the gentlemen present were Mr.
Henry Drummond, who acted as chairman, and Mr.
Locke King, two of the members for the county ; Mr.
Robert Gosling, the late high sheriff; Colonel Sumner,
Mr. J.' J. Briscoe, and Mr. W. K. Hesseltine. The
labourers also dined at the Bell Tavern. The cloth
being removed,
Mr. DRUMMOND, in proposing "The Queen," said—
We are apt sometimes to forget that it is our duty to
drink to the Sovereign, whoever that Sovereign may be;
but, owing to the great virtues which surround the pre.
sent Sovereign—we are in so much admiration of her
virtues as a wife and a mother, that those things which
are but the accessories, and which make the ornament,
are really sometimes mistaken for our loyalty itself.
The toast was drunk with acclamation.

Mr. DRUMMOND then gave "Prince Al hert, the Prince
of Wales, and the rest of the Royal family," and in
doing so said the'royal family was nothing more nor less
than like the family of any farmer now hearing him ;
and he should like to know what any one in that room
would say if an impertinent neighbour, on learning that
a young man had fallen in love with his (the farmer's)
daughter, were to turn round and remark that it was a
very improper marriage. (" Hear, hear," and a laugh.)
Would he not instantly tell such a meddler to hold his
tongue, and mind his own business ? He (Mr. Drum-
mond) asked simply that the same degree of forbearance
should be evinced towards the domestic affairs of the
royal family as a man in the position of a farmer had a
right to claim. Because Mr. Walter, Mr. Delane, and
Mr. Dasant said that a female member of the royal
family was not to marry such and such a person, was
that a reason why the marriage should not take place ?
He (Mr. Drummond) said it was a most abominable act
of interference ; and if they (the meeting) would not
suffer such meddling by strangers with their affairs, upon
the same principle they ought not to allow it is the
affairs of others. (Hear, hear.)
The toast of " The Bishop Clergy of the Diocese" fol-
lowed, to which the Rev. Mr. JENNINGS briefly re-
sponded.
Mr. DRUMMOND said the next toast upon their list
was "The Army and Navy, and those of our Allies ;"
and it was very well in those postprandial speeches and
cheers to profess great regard for the army and navy ;
but if that was the case, how came it that they (the
public) encouraged all the calumnies and slanders that
were spoken and published against them ? Lord Raglan
was the victim last year of the most scandalous false-
hoods. He did not say wilful falsehoods, because the
persons who uttered them could not know the facts—
but they were nevertheless falsehoods ; and when Sir
John M‘Neill was sent out to the Crimea he made no
secret in telling the whole truth, as it really was,
and justified Lord Raglan in every single particular
for which ho was blamed during the last year. They
allowed these calumnies to go on without inquiry,
and they ran away propagating them abroad, and
then they wondered that the people on the Conti-
nent had no great heart to join them in the war.
He happened to be a short time in Germany during
the present autumn, and one day he dined at a
table d'iwte, at which the company were mostly Ger-
mans, and all more or less acquainted with the
English language. An English gentleman came he and
began to talk very big about the war. He asked, among
other things, why we did not bombard Odessa ? The
reason, he said, was, that Mr. Sidney Herbert had sent
out orders not to bombard Odessa, and assigning as a
reason that he had some private property there. He
(Mr. Drummond), addressing the gentleman in question,
said he would no doubt be happy to hear so gross a ca-
lumny as that contradicted. He himself, he added, had
seen with his own eyes a despatch written by Admiral
Dundas to Admiral Hamelin, begging to be allowed to
go and bombard Odessa. Hamelin referred the matter
to General Canrobert, who refused to allow them to en-
ter upon the enterprise ; and Mr. Sidney Herbert had
no more to do with the fleet not going to bombard
Odessa than any gentleman in that room. The very
same course was now being pursued with regard to Gene,
rail Simpson. What would they think of five or six
general officers sitting down and dictating to the Attor-
ney-General, Sir FrederickThesiger, and men like them,
how they should conduct a Chancery suit On the
same principle, what could so many tenth-rate lawyers
in this country know about military tactics, or how to
conduct a great military campaign ? And yet these
were the men who bad been leading the country by the
nose all along. (" Hear, hear," and a laugh.) He said,
if our generals and army fought our battles with Russia
in a distant part of the globe, it was our duty to fight
their battles at home, and to see that the calumnies to
which he had referred received no credence at our
hands. (Hear.)
Colonel SUMNER briefly acknowledged the compliment
paid to the army and navy.
Mr. R. GOSLING then gave "The Members for the
County."
Mr. LOCKS KING, M.P., in responding to the toast,
said it was a matter of great congratulation to him, see-
ing that he had long taken a very active part in the
, repeal of certain- laws which were detrimental

to the agricultural interest, that the anticipations
of the agriculturists arising from the operation of
free trade had altogether vanished, and that agriculture
was now prosperous. (Hear.) There were, doubtless, a
variety of circumstances which caused the greatest de-
pression to the agriculthral interest. The change to
which he had referred was effected at a time when they
were unprepared for it, and when other laws and cus-
toms which prevented the overflow of capital to the land
ought to have been abolished. Matters, however, were
now changed. They had high prices, 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 done them good, yet that
their prosperity was much more owing to the great im-
provements that they had made in 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 brought to a speedy,
honourable, and satisfactory conclusion. And when that
time came, they might rest assured that there would be
a reaction, and they must be prepared to meet that
change by improvements in the cultivation of the land.
(Hear.) They must rely upon their own exertions for
those improvements, and this was the proper time to do
so. 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-
hag classes ; but it seemed to him 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 those 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)—and to forward the
objects which those societies had so much at heart, He
always felt that when these doors were somewhat forci-
bly opened for the admission of foreign produce it was
only fair that the principle of free trade should be ap-
plied also to the raw material—the land itself—and that
all those technicalities and difficulties which interfered
with the tratifer of land 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 those
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 locked 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 Liverpool and Manchester Agricultural Associa-
tion. His 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 wrong-doer to the com-
munity. (Cheers.) If that remark was applicable to
an individual, bow much more so was it applicable to a
legislature which allowed a number of laws to exist (not
obsolete laws, but which were srictly 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 eoinpare the position of a
landowner in these circumstances to that of a soldier
who bad inherited a machine for Making stockings, and
which was entirely useless to him so long as it remained
in his hands. By converting the machine into money,
however, the soldier did that which benefited himself,
while at the same time it became 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.
hag the company for the honour they had done him in
drinking his health.
Mr. DRUMMOND, in replying to the toast of his health,
said—With respect to what had fallen 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 had alluded. That
plan, he was happy to say, was now 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 lawyers,
including old chancellors, half-dead chancellors, and live
chancellors. It was a great thing to get a man who bad
mortgaged his estate to understacd 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 instances. One was the
case of a connexion of his own in the north of England
where there were no leases ; and when the tenants there
said to Mr. Caird, ou his visit to them, that they had
no leases, that gentleman omitted that fact in his com-
munication 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 along 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 was destructive. And if it was destructive, he
always voted against it. If, tin 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.) Ho would now propose to
them the toast of the evening, " Prosperity to the Chert-
sey Agricultural Association." He 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 theta in that
room, even showing them something would not do,
far 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, Mahomet must go to the moun-
tain ; and if the farmers would not come and partake
of such a dinner as they had had that day, then the
country gentlemen 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.
It 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 " 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, however, notwithstanding, 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, If this asso-
ciation would tell them how to keep people separate who
ought to be kept separate, he for one would bo 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 MATCH.—The grand rowing match
between John Mackinney, of Richmond, and Kelly, of
Fulham, who contended in August last at the Royal
Thames National Regatta, will take place on Wednes-
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 OP LIEUT. JOHN R. OUSELEY.—We regret to
hear from Kiel of the death of Lieut. John R. Ouseley,
of H.M.S. Pembroke, son 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 account of the extreme
weakness to which he was reduced by illness, brought
on by exposure during the bombardment of S weaborg ;
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 too far to be overcome. Ris 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 honours
were paid by the Danish naval authorities.

ATTEMPT ON TEE LIFE OF SIR
_HENRY WARD.

The Indian Mail brings the intelligence that an at-
tempt has been made on the life of Sir Henry Ward, the
Governor of Ceylon, by a Cingalese, who is represented
by the local papers to be a wild-looking wretch, the very
tout ensemble of a ruffian, who would use the knife with-
out the slightest compunction. He had been known
for many years as a notorious thief ; he was originally
employed 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 given :
Miss Kate Ward, about gun-fire on the morning of
the 7th of September, hearing 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 Governor
then fired at him, and, not wishing to kill him, shot him
through the shoulder, and afterwards kept him at bay,
until he was eventually secured by the Peons, not, how-
ever, until he had wounded two of them with the knife,
a small table one, belonging to the house, and which he
picked up in the passage leading to the bedrooms. He
only took a sheet used as a takle 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 neck on the left
side. These do not communicate, so far as the medical
men have been able to ascertain. It is doubtful whe-
ther the wounds have been produced by a bullet or the
bayonet of a soldier. He has also two other wounds,
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.