The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-25 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EiTENING, oC i oßEft 23, 1855.

SALE BY AUCTION.

TO RAILWAY CONTRACTORS AND OTHER LARGE
CAPIT A LISTS.
Gloucestershire and Monmouth-hire. The Hotel, Gardens, Lawn, 8111 New Passage Ferry, II miles from Bristol.
R. LIMA is instructed to SELL, by
t AUCTION, at the Commercial Sale Room, Bristol, on FRI.
DAY, the 2,1 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 Henbnry, in the county of Gisuceste.r, adjoining
the shore of the River Sevens, and about 11 miles from the city of
Bristol.

And at the same time and plaice will be Sold,
The ancient Passage or Ferry, across the river Severn, from the
New Passage on the Gloucestershire side to the Black Rock Hotel
on the stonniouthshire side of the river, withitia 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, arid all the Tolls, Fines, Paymelts 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 106 miles would cownect the
Ferry with the Midland Railway, the Great Western Railway, and
the Bristol and Exeter Railway. Steam-vessels upon the system in
u-s between the Cheshire and Lancashire shores at Liverpool, be-
tween New Holland and Hull, and at the Frith of Forih, 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 t hannel, 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 reserves 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 he adopted as an initispenuble mode
of communication between Bristol and Monmouthshire and South
Bales.-

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NOTE.—The Hotel, Lands, and Ferry will he offere 1 for Sale in one
Lot or hi several Lots, as may be announced at the time of Sale.
To view the Premises apply to the Tenant ; and for further parti-
culars to the Aue:ionuer, at Bridge-street; or to SAVERY, CLAair,
and FussELE, Solicitors, 12, Corn-street, fit Istol.

a paddle steamer, while on the rendezvous in the Straits
of La Parouse ; she had, however, seen nothing of our
allies. On the afternoon of the 27th the Hornet steamed
over to Castries Bay, with CommOdore Eiliot 'on hoard,
the other vessels eontiniiing at anchor. Had she found
the bay reoccupied by Russian vessels (which she did
not), ere cannotunderstand what object the mission would
have served, for she could only have returned and int-
mated the fact to the Admiral, the enemy being mean-
time warned to prepare for an attack, or again to
execute his escape. • She returned on the morning of the
29th without having seen anything, and having executed
a very imperfect reconnaissance of the head of the gulf,
which was pronounced unnavigable. The Admiral,
without more minute surveying, appeared now for the
first time (if we may judge of his thoughts by his pro-
aeedings) to take it for granted that the enemy could not
have escaped to the northward; but must have passed
his squadron, and got out of the Gulf of Tartary to
the southward. He at once weighed and ran down the
gulf under all sail. On the Ist of July he fell in with the
French frigates Sybille and Constantine, put the Spartan
and Hornet under the orders of Commodore Elliot.
of the Sybille, and gave him A roving commission to pro
teed, along with the French ships, through the Straits
of La 'Perouse and thence to the Amoor settlements, to
Port Ayan, or Okhotsk---in fact; whereier be chose,
while he himself returned to Hakodade in the Winches-
ter, with the Bittern in company.
`.` Many make suffioiently bold to doubt whether the
proceedings of Admiral Stirling during this, or, indeed,
lastseason, have been'such as to reflect that credit 'on
hmself and honour on his flag which were to be looked
f. r. During the whole of last season no ship belonging
to his command was to the northward of the parallel of
Nangasaki, which is about 3 deg. North, while it was
well known that there was no—Russian settlement to the
Southward of 52 deg. All he had to show for the sum-
mer work of about 14 vessels under his immediate direc-
tion was a convention with the Governor of Nangasaki,
which, be it good, bad, or indifferent, is believed to be
.more in the province of her Majesty's Plenipotentiary
than of the naval Commander-in-Chief, particularly ill
time of war. Whether his preparations during the win-
ter for the spring campaign displayed the required fore
sight or resulted in the completeness, efficiency, and
earliest despatch of his vessels is a point on which one
who has wintered in Hong Kong is bettered qualified to
pronounce an opinion ; but a sad improvidence has been
apparent to all who have sailed with him in reference to
coal, that most important munition of modern warfare ;
and, had his squadron been in action, the want of a de-
pot of other materiel of war would have been seriously
felt. The scattered state of this squadron during April ,
awl May is, perhaps, more defensible; but it will never
tease to be regretted that the force under Commodore El-
liot was not stronger or was not more efficiently backed.
Elad the Spartan, instead of cruising uselessly about the
Kurile Islands, accompanied the Sybille, the Russian ,
squadron would in all human probability have now been
in an English port as prizes, instead of being safely
ensconced behind impassable sandbanks and fortifica-