The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-12 00:00:00

APPOINTMENT.

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WOOLWICU, JAN. 10.—Commander George Le G.
Bowyeer (1851), recently first lieutenant of the Mean-
der, 44, on the Pacific station, to study steam at the
factory at Woolwich Dockyard.
Lieutenant John W. Pike (1848), having completed a
course of study of marine steam-engines at the factory
at Woolwich Dockyard, was examined by Mr. Atherton,
chief engineer, on Thursday and Friday last, and on
passing satisfactorily received his certificate.
The whole of the officers studying steam at the Wool-
wich factory went down the river on Friday as far as
Greenwich in the Fury steam-sloop, Commander Ed-
ward Tatham, to witness the working of her engines.
The Fury remained at Greenhitha to-day, to have her
compasses adjusted by Captain Johnson, and will be
tried at the measured mile in Sea Reach on Monday, and
then proceed to Portsmouth, where she will be paid
advance wages before leaving for the Mediterranean.
The vessel could have been doubly manned before leaving
Woolwich with ordinary seamen, and she is but a few
short of able seamen, who are only to be obtained with
difficulty at the usual ports.
The Dee steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander West,
was paid off here to-day.
The Avon West India Royal Mail steamer has been
taken out of the East India Docks at Blackwell, and
proceeds round to Southampton, to take out the next
Mails for the West Indies.

THE CARD CHEATING AT BRIGHTON.
On Saturday this case came on again before Mr. Jus-
tico Erle, at Chambers, on an adjourned hearing, upon
the summons taken out calling upon Mr. Sill to show
cause why Hump, the prosecutor, should not substitute
Mr. Dunn, another attorney, in his stead, to conduct the
prosecution against Broome and others, tho defendants
in the case.
Mr. SILL, after having called his Lordship's attention
to the important points put forward as a ground for the
proposed change of solicitors, proceeded to read an affi-
davit of considerable length in reply to the statements
made in support of the summons. Documents were also
referred to of much interest, and which, he said, he cited
for the purpose of throwing light upon this part of the
proceedings, and of bearing him out in the allegations
he had made when this summons first came before his
Lordship, that the application was made for the purpose
of stifling the prosecution.
After some discussion,
Mr. Justice ERLE said, that although there was no
doubt that Mr. Hemp had a perfect right to appoint any
attorney bio chose to manage his private affairs, he (the
Learned Judge) felt that after the magistrates at
Brighton, who wore fully cognisant of the case, had
thought it right to appoint the head officer of police of
that w
not
nominate
tornaptreomsecr.upu,aniinsttoeabde otfheMr. Hamp,
attorney
to
the prosecution. he could
d
The matter therefore ended by the Learned Judge
making an order that Mr. Sill should deliver his bill of
costs within four days to Mr. Hamp,and that on pay-
ment of the costs by the latter, Mr. Sill should deliver
any papers, the private property of Mr. Hamp, but not
such as were essential to the conduct of the prosecution.

SEVERE GALES IN THE NORTH.
During the last six or eight days there have been
some violent gales in the Frith of Forth and St. George's
Channel. There has been such a heavy sea off White-
haven that the fishing boats have not been able to ven-
ture out, and but few trading vesself have left the har-
bour. A good deal of damae has been sustained by
vessels at sea, but happily nog lives have been lost. On
Wednesday morning the Earl of Lonsdale steamer
tre -
left
Whitehaven for Liverpool, but there was such a
mendous sea, the head wind from the south-west was so
terrific, and the vessel pitched with so much violence
and made so little way, that it was a long time before
she could make the headland off St. Bees, and the gale
was then so violent that Captain Richards was discreet
enough to order the steamer to be put back, and
accord-
ingly returned to Whitehaven after beating about with
great violence for nearly three hours. The Earl f
Lonsdale, which belongs to the WhitehrgeonodSbteoaamt,
but so violent was
vigation Company, is considered a very Nanaod-
has weathered many a gale; that of
Wednesday that it was not safe to proceed to Liverpool.
She She was to sail, however, on Thursday evening,rut e
pool.
gale still prevailed, and probably it would
not be consi-
dered safe for her then to proceed to Liverpool. During
the whole of Thursday there was a tremendous
Whitehaven. The Queen, a splendid boat,
the same company, made Whitehaven harbour blolisagsCenalgyoatot
the time when the Earl of Lonsdale was going out on
Wednesday, and in spite of a heavy sea sailed again for
Belfast on the same night.

pARgs FOR THE PEOPLE.—The forest of Hain-
E
ault, ssex,
v (oin the borders of London, is about to be alie-
nated froth the rown. Before this is done, I would propose
that three or four hunured acres should be reserved, to form
a public park. The close neighbourhood of this disposable
remnant of the foleland of our Saxon forefathers makes it
very desirable that a portion of it, as a breathing, place of
pure air, should be dedicated to the community. HOW much
places for healthy recreation are needed, it is superfluous to
telL In the proposed, there might be, hereafter, raised an-
other ferroritreous temple—of statuary, for example, wherein
the history of our country might be read in marble and
bronze—where the memories of illustrious men of our land
might be gratefully preserved.— Correspondent of the Builder.

THE 'MINISTRY.
(From the Observer.)
The conjectures respecting the Ministry have been se
industriously set on foot, and so indefatigably repeated,
with all sorts of additions and variations, that every
paper, Whig, Tory, and Radical, Ministerial, anti-
Ministerial, and quasi-Ministerial, have considered them-
selves bound to have something very knowing and pro-
found to say upon the subject. At this season, just
before the meeting of Parliament, there is a rare crop of
rumours in the absence of news. We shall all have plenty
to write about when Parliament meets. In the mean-
ing of Parliament will bring
time we are all greatly left to conjecture what the meet-
ing
speculation;r
isi
n g b ow ma
un
cdhi toifs
it, not
after
year we are never free from those interesting rumours,
and the gossip that peculiarly belongs to the season.
This year, in the absence of other domestic excitement,
likely as possible, and yet:errfec;
the retirement cf so prominent a membr of the Cabinet
forth. In any ordinary
as Lord Palmerston has given rise to more than usual
amount of conjecture and of comment upon passing
destitute
place
in
Parliament
rliament foundation.
at
affairs. It is natural to expect all this; but it is sur-
prisinga
as ol t nh, ae bi
sl
moste t o
superfluous, e
pxa pret c t
utterlyandvast
quantity of conjecture is ventilated—looking as
the very commencement of the
With respect to:the immediate cause of Lord Palmers-
ton's secession from the Ministry it is not our intention
to forestall in any way the explanations which will take
session. The cause, or causes, of that event—of which
it would be affectation for any one to make light—will
be then and there truthfully and fully revealed. After
all that had passed in Europe and in the country and in
Parliament in relation to that able and distinguished
statesman—not only as related to the organized assaults
upon the liberal policy of the Government, but the more
inveterate attacks upon the Minister who was its ex-
ponent at home and abroad—after, especially, the great
debate and division in the House of Commons the ses-
sion before the last—after all the great changes which
have come over Europe in the last three or four years—
after all the battles that have been fought in Parliament
and in the press—coupled with the balanced state of
parties and of the various shades of opposition—consi-
dering all these things, it is not wonderful that conjec-
ture should be more than usually rife, and that state-
ments should be hazarded with more or less of probabi-
lity as to the now blood that was to be infused into the
Government to replace that which is lost. And yet,
after all, there is really very little to be said. The
policy of the Government is in no respect changed.
'The vacant office is filled up. There is actually no
office in the Cabinet empty. There are two offices, not in
the Cabinet, to be filled up. The offices of Paymaster
of the Forces and Vice-President of the Board of Trade,
as held by Lord Granville, were combined with one
salary. There is also an Under-Secretary of State,
who, according to law, cannot be a Member of the House
of Commons. By the statute of Anne it is provided
that only two Secreteries of State are to sit in the House
of Commons. It may be observed en passant, that the
permanent appointment of three Secretaries of State is
of a later date. This rule is held to apply to the Under-
Secretaries also, and, as the two gentlemen who fill those
offices, Mr. Bouverie and Mr. F. Peel, are in the House
of Commons, the third Under-Secretary cannot be a
Member of that House. The rule was first established
on constitutional grounds, although it is an arrangement
that a certain school of Ultra-Liberals now denounce as
more honoured in the breach than in the observance.
But, at all events, there it is ; and it may, perhaps,
become a question whether it is useful or injurious in
thus limiting the selection of the Crown with respect to
those offices in the State that are called " Puha-
mentary." There it is, however ; and this, with the
offices just vacated by Earl Granville, are all the offices
to be filled up at present.
Without entering into the very ingenious disquisitions
of our contemporaries, we are able to state our own con-
viction that the present Cabinet will meet Parliament
in substantially the same condition thatehey are in at pre-
sent. With respect to the negotiations that are so con-
fidently alleged to have taken place, we believe they
have no existence save in the imagination of their inge-
nious authors. So far as precise facts are given it is
possible to be more explicit still. It was confidently
and unhesitatingly stated that Sir James Graham had
an interview with Lord John Russell, which lasted three
hours, on Wednesday last. Notwithstanding the pre-
cision with which time and place are given for this three
hours' interview, the simple fact is that Sir James Gra-
ham had no interview with Lord John Russell at all.
The Right Hon. Baronet was in town the greater part of
the week, and came up specially to attend the meetings
of the Chancery Reform Commission; which sat daily
during the week at Lincoln's Inn, and of which Sir
James Graham and Mr. Herley are the two lay mem-
bers. As Sam Slick says, " that's a fact."
So far as conjectures go, we do not pretend to judge
better than others. But wo should have little difficulty
indeed in surmising, after all, that should any further
changes be found necessary, and should the Government
require to be strengthened, as we are so constantly told,
the recruits will be from the ranks of the same party,
and little confidence indeed could be had in any combi-
nation where honest conviction and honourable identity
of opinion and congruity of action were not to be the
basis of the arrangement. There is rather a loose mo-
rality abroad upon these subjects. Every one points out
his own friends. Each dwells upon the propriety of some
incongruous combination of dissonant and opposite ma-
terials, which he is fain to call strength, but which, on
the contrary, would carry the seeds of dissolution in its
own bosom from its very birth.
There is one point dwelt upon which is right, if
rightly understood. This country must be governed
upon broad and comprehensive principles. Let us add
that these principles must not only bo broad and corn-
prehensive,ibut also well defined. Of these the Parlia-
ment and the people of England will judge. The prin-
ciples of the party in power are well known and truly
tried. The Opposition will also, it is to be presumed,
put forward a programme upon which they can agree,
and to which, before it is successful, the people of Eng-
land must assent. It is proverbially easy to find fault.
We are constantly told that such and such people exist
who can be brought into consultation on public affairs;
and in the next breath we are informed that such and
such people aforesaid are good for nothing. We are
to have a broad basis for an Administration, and
yet the materials for such basis are shown to be
utterly unsound one after another. The crochets of
the Manchester school are paraded in lieu of
statesmanship one day, and the pro-Popery of the
Peelites is extolled on the next, without a thought being
given all the time to the dangers of the one course, and
the thorough British unpopularity of the other. It would
be worse than madness, worse than folly, it would be
again. We are told that the Ministry is not strong or
commanding enough; but no other party is strong.h ora
a crime to knock down before you are ready to build up
commanding at all. There have been Ministers witen
larger following in Parliament, but they had"contend
against against a more combined Opposition—an Opposition
disposition
saw its way to power on principles open
practised and recognized. There is a
great
the
en the part of the Opposition (professed)
t 0
00me of their
al-
leged differences of the Liberal party.
and strength ee
disinterested zeal for the constituency
strength to
their opponents might be more legitimately
after all. The
themselves. These qualities relative,areebic
mind of England—
question will be, where is the.pu
ewer of the country.
for there will be the governing p.
the Ministry, and the people
The Parliament will judge
will j udge the Parliament
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BANBURY, SUNDAY.--A murder, attended with MURDER
cir-
cumstances of an unusual and unnatural character, the
nephew of the unfortunate
the horrible crime, was committed
(Saturday) evening. The victim is
a jewelleri named
taoswn. carried
u e iso n
an a
John Kalabergo, who for many yea
thriving trade in the High-street of this i
is
Italian. His business was not confined to the limits of
made afrevcieuheinelte a'
the borough; and he Possessed
i7ditphrofiwthainclhe
wtahrees)nehieghbouring country. He started
distance
advanceat night, he was murdered near
yesterday, accompanied by
i(u°lpauodrneeneo Yn
swe
throughiot fh thhiess e excur s i o n s
his nephew. ReturningWilscote-hill, a
of of three miles from Baebury.
body upon the road, b
A woman, in
horse and cart beingt. a carrier's cart, found the dead
settowpepeend,ssixomaenwdhssetvennesor'clßocaknb;uhryis,
about the same
thengun. theime. The body was conveyed to a
public-house in
Bhdoistcovered that his:death had been caused by a
village of Wilscote, hard by. It was
wound, the ball havir‘ontered the back of the
skull. There was also a contuall:wound upon the fore-
head. The pockets had not been rifled; a 101. note, up-
wards of 31. in coin, and a bank receipt for 3001. being
found therein. If the object of the murderers was plun-
der, it has been effectually defeated. While these events
were taking place, the companion of the murdered man
had reached Banbury, where ho made known the death
of his uncle, stating (we are told) that they had been
attacked by three ruffians, and seeing the uselessness of
resistance, he had fled across the fields to the town. A
visit to the scene of the catastrophe was immediately
made by the authorities, and a consideration of the pecu-
liar circumstances of the case led to the arrest and de-
tention of the nephew until such time as his innocence
can be satisfactorily proved, and a coroner's jury have
pronounced their verdict. The deceased was an elderly
man, we believe upwards of 70 years of age, but well and
hearty for his years. Ho is believed to be possessed of
considerable property for a man in his station. his
nephew had been living with him for some months. A
short time since the young man purchased a pistol of's
gunmaker in the town, and this is one of the strongest
facts against him. Up to this time no weapon has been
discovered, though a strict search has been instituted.
The coroner's inquest will be held to-morrow (Monday).

THE LATE STABBING CABE AT TEMPLE BAB.
The man James Huilley, who was stabbed in Ship
Temple-bar, on the morning of 21st December, by Ge yorge
Henry Davison (who was remanded by Mr. Nall, of Bow-
street the next morning), has suficiently recovered to be
able to leave King's College Hospital this day, where he has
-ard,
remained since the occurrence. Numerous o vertures have
been made to him to compromise the matter, by the friends
of the prisoner, who have constantly visited him since he
entered the hospital.
The Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha is about to pro-
ceed to Vienna, to be present at the opening Of the will of
the Duke Ferdinand, his uncle.

" WILLIAM STONE,
" Fourth Engineer of the Amazon.
George Mills, Esq."
This letter conveys no information relative to the pro-
bable cause of the fire on board the Amazon, and con-
jecture is as rife as ever as to the origin of the confla-
gration. It is the opinion of Mr.l Mills, the company's
engineer, that the fire broke out in the fore-hold among
the cargo, as the flames were first soon coming up the
fore-hatchway, and this has been confounded with the
fore-hatchway leadinr, to the forward boilers, a totally
distinct portion of the vessel, although not a great dis-
tance from the boilers ana forward funnel. If the fire
originated amongst the cargo, it is to be feared that some
portion of the merchandise stowed there consisted of
combustible materials, or that some description of gets
was generated, which in process of time ignited, sad
spread with tearful and uncontrolled rapidity. Whether
this supposition be correct or not it is impossible to say,
but it is hoped that some of the survivors at Brest will
be able to give their testimony and opinion, so that a
reliable conjecture may be formed of the cause of the
catastrophe.
The boatful of persons which got away, and is alluded
to in William Stone's letter, is thought to be the boat
fallen in with by the Marsden. If not, it is to be hoped
it may have been picked up by some outward bound
vessel. Two boats at least now remain to be accounted
for, and some time will elapse before it may be said
with certainty that all but the 46 who have been landed
at Plymouth and Brest have perished.
The packet brig Brilliant, Captain Caldbeck, arrived
here this morning from Madeira. Although she has
crossed the Bay of Biscay, she has seen none of the Ama-
zon's boats or crew, and no vestige of the wreck. She
spoke a large war-steamer, outward bound with troops
for the Cape of Good Hope.

We understand that the following communication has
been addressed to the owner of the ➢iarsden:—

" Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company, No. 55,
Moorgate-street, London, Jan. 9, 1852.
" Sir,—By desire of the directors of this company I
called at your office this morning, being the earliest mo-
ment after the inquiry hold yesterday at Southampton,
respecting the destruction by fire of the Amazon, to ex-
press to you, as owner of the brig Marsden, the great
admiration of the directors at the conduct of Captain
Evans, in so kindly receiving on board that vessel the 21
persons who escaped in a life-boat, and in bearing up to
land them at Plymouth, by which their relatives and
friends have been spared much suspense and cruel anxiety.
" Should any expense have been occasioned, either to
you or Captain Evans, by the return to England and con-
sequent slight detention of the Marsden, the directors
will be most ready to receive the particulars, with a view
of defraying the same.
" I am to add that a copy of this letter will be sent to
Captain Evans by this evening's post, with an intimation
of its being the intention of the directors to present him
(through you) with some mark of their approval and
respect. .

" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" E. CHAPPELL, Secretary.
" Mr. Gibson, 19, Gracechurch-street."
Mr. Trewicke, the unfortunate second officer of the
Amazon, and who had command of the watch on the
fatal night, was about to emigrate to Canada on his re-
turn home in the Amazon. It was to be his last voyage
as a sailor. Though a first-rate officer, he had a strange
dislike to the sea. One of the boys who was lost in the
Amazon was named George Jerram, aged 17. He bad
always assisted his father, who is a Southampton fisher-
man. This boy had entered on board the ship without
the knowledge of his parents, and they were broken-
hearted when they took leave of him. Many of these
fishermen have a strange horror of steamers.
The Royal Mail Company have rewarded Mr. Vin-
cent, the heroic young midshipman of the Amazon, by
appointing him 4th officer to the Thames. They aro
about to present him with a quadrant, on which will be
engraven a record of his heroism and pre-eminent merit;
and he has been ordered to replace everything he lost in
the wreck at the expense of the company.
Most of the churches and chapels min Southampton
have been filled to-day, in consequence of the clergy
and ministers improving the event of the wreck of the
Amazon by imploring sympathy and support for those
who have been rendered friendless and fatherless by
the catastrophe, and holding up the judgments of God on
earth in all their terrible sublimity us a warning to
the thoughtless and the guilty.
The loss of this ill-feud ship (says our Plymouth
correspondent) has formed the subject of painful excite-
ment hero since Tuesday, when the 21 persons rescued
by the Marsden were landed here. One of the passen-
gers, Lieutenant 11. Grylls, of her Majesty's ship Sidon,
is well known and much respected in Devonport, and
is the son of the Rev. Mr. Grylls, the esteemed incum-
bent of St. Neots, in Cornwall. The gallant young
officer had been advised to delay his departure, in con-
sequence of the anticipated death of another son, who
died shortly after the lieutenant's departure, on the Ist
of January.
The interest created by this sad calamity increases
rather than diminishes, every fresh ray of hope, from
whatever source, and whether founded upon fact or
simple supposition, serving to keep alive the excitement
caused by this tremendous catastrophe. On Saturday
one of the survivors, who with twenty-four others, was
conveyed.into Brest by the Dutch barque Ge rt 'tlid
which had picked them up at sea, had imMediatelyrupot
his arrival in London, an interview withp the directors of
the Royal West India Mail Ste
acket Company.
This gentleman communicated to themal all that he knew,
and added one most important point, which we hope
may turn out to be correct, that, in his
judgmeat, there
arc tbree,boats besides those already accounted for, with
part of the crew and passengers on board, which escaped
from the wreck. These boats have not yet been heard
of; but he thinks there is every reason to hope that they
have been picked up by some vessel proceeding to the
West Indies; or assuming them to have cleared the
Amazon, and not to have been picked up, they have
bean driven to the southward, towards the coast of
Spain.