The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOADON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1864.

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—&,s THURSDAY, FEB. 18, 1864.

Lord MELBotRi,, E'a happy-go-lucky remonstrance
with any more energetic Ministerial collsagw-
4, Why can't you leave it alone ?"—appears to have
been only partially accepted as a hint for a guiding-
principle by the leaders Of her Majesty's present
Government. It is adopted unconditionally by
them in regard to all the really Great Powers in
one very important public department,
though it
is not in the least acted upon in another. It is
is adopted unconditionally, that is to say,
(in regard to the really Great Powers)
in the War Department, and not the least
bit in the world in the Diplomatic Department.
In the War Department Ministers, so far as war
itself is in any way concerned, appear to have quite
int:do up their minds to "leave it alone." No mat-
ter at what sacrifice of honour, of prestige,
o' influence, of reputation—no matter what may
be the prweecatives to interference—no mat •
ter how heinous or detestable may be the
outrages perpetrated—Ministers have, at once
blandly and doggedly, made up their minds to
" leave it alone." The atrocities perpetrated by
Russia in her Polish Provinces may be such as
absolutely cry to heaven for vengeance. No matter,
" leave it alone." The horrors of a Civil War, that
has lasted now during several successive year, in
peopled by our own kith
America—in that land
and kin, squandering, there, blood, and lives, and
treasures with appalling prodigality—the horrors
of this most miserable war beyond the Atlantic
may te quire manifestly deepening and mn.tiplying
deplorably. No matter—" leave it alone." The
two great Powers of the Germanic Confederation,

two out of the Five Greatest Po 'vier ain Europe,
may lawlessly band together their . fighting men,
horse, foot, and artillery, and may, then in open
violation of treaty rights, in &fay ,ce of the law
of nations, advance beyond the, frontirm of a
lesser Power like Denmark for the 1 gurpos a of carry-
ing out by brutal violence a most - 3 agmat scheme of
territorial spoliation. No matter-
—").eave it alone."
The heir apparent may hay e taken to wife
but one brief year since the el( lest daughter of the
lesser Power thus infamous? y outraged. Mais
is no affair ,of ours—" leave it nimpMe—it
alone." That eldest daugb Ear of Denmark, now
the adopted daughter of . England, may but
one brief month since hav e brought an heir to the
heir of the most constitr itional and beloved of the
long line of our sove reigns—no matter—we will
show our loyal'ql we will show our jealous
regard for on e own honour (implicated in
this shameless i nvasion of Danish soil by the banded
armies of Pr issia and Austria) we will show our
patriotic devotion for the maintenance of Eng-
land's fair fiame, of her influence, of her re-
putation t ,afore the whole world, by letting
things raw .i their course just as they may. We
will "lea. /e it alone." Denmark may be the victim
of a mos' t criminal adventure on the part of two
Powers, either one of which single-handed would
be a cry el overmatch to the invaded kingdom as
an assailant. It is our impression, it is our
conscie r ,tious conviction, that the invasion
of tl 3 e Danish soil is a proceeding
precise y of this most execrable character—
no zrizLtter—we will " leave it alone." Prussia
is 01113 of the Great Powers—Austria is one
of the Great Powers—together those two out of
the Five Great Powers of Europe are surely very
form.idable—" leave it alone !" So is it, as a
plaio, bald matter of fact with regard to the
Foreign Policy of England in the War Depart-
ment'. If only the same exceedingly safe—rather
contomptible perhaps, but perfeetly safe—policy
(safest least so far as immediate consequences go)
could be recognizable in any way, could be adopted,
could be acted upon, in the Diplomatic as
rigii!lly as it is thus being acted upon in the War
Department ! There—in the Foreign Department
par excellence—the presiding genius, having as
strottg as ever upon him the cacoethes scribendi, wal
on ao account whatever " leave it alone." He is for
ever interposing, interfering, meddling, and
muddling, ad infinitum: certainly, judged by JOHN
BULL'S palate, usque ad nauseam. Nothing will
induce him to " leave it alone." He interfered
between the People and the last real chance of a
Reform Bill, four years ago, with his dog•in-the
manger Resolutions—and we know well enough
what has come of it. 'We know well enough
that, precisely because of his Resolutions, ever
since then we have had Reform quietly cushioned
and shelved. Just exactly in the same way
this inimitable Statesman, and diplomatist, and
administrator, this upsetter of coaches, and
malapropos propounder of Finality as a political
principle, this inventor of a Foreign Polity that
is next to no Policy at all, this great Ministerial
MARPLOT who, after winning his Garter and his
Earldom, can simper out to the ration " Rest
and be thEinkful"—Earl RUSSELL to-day, in regard
to Foreign Affairs, as yesterday in regard to Reform,
just exactly with the self-same pertinacity and per-
versity, interferes only by a dead certainty to make
bad worse. He meddles only to muddle. The
results of his happy diplomatic interference are
painfully visible, indeee., at this moment alike in
Poland, in America, in Schleswig-Holstein. To-
day, as we have said, the MARPLOT of the
Ministry—to-motruw ho may be regarded as, the
',JONAH, and may then he treated accordingly.

On Tuesday evening Lord CARNARVON called at-
tention to a very important subject—the Beitish
claims upon the United States Government. The
noble lord entered into the question at some length,
and did ample justice to the case of those who were
concerned in the affair. He said that his efforts
were chiefly directed to inquiries concerning those
who, on "vague suspicion," had been arrested, or
subjected to great losses of property, and he ex-
pressed his opinion that the Government were
bound on behalf of those persons to demand " ample
compensation and redress," This is strictly true,
and contains a principle in which all must concur
who appreciate what ought to be the first thought
of public men, and is always considered to be of
primary importance to the Statesman and the
patriot—the protection of our countrymen abroad.
It is a sad state of things and a lamentable position
of affaies if the Englishman, who boasted in the last
generation that his " Flag had braved a thousand
years the battle and the breeze," and was mighty to
protect those who sought refuge beneath it, and
that "on his empire the sun never set ;" yet he
could visit any part of it secure from injury and
shielded with an invincible panoply, must now be
browbeat and insulted at every turn, and the flag of
his country be powerless to save even himself from
assault, or even at times to preserve his life.
The cases recorded by Lord CARNARYON are enough
to excite the strongest indignation, and to awaken
the fears of all, if they are only studied with due
attention. Who can deny that, according to the
transatlantic reading of the ease, ratified by our
Government, " neutral rights are on the verge of
extinction." The notable instances of infringement
upon this principle, so strikingly manifested in the
affair of the Saxon, and the capture of the Tusca-
looza, received due mention, and great stress was
laid upon the suspicious circumstance of the instruc-
tions sent out by her MAJESTY'S Government, with
an intimation that they must be strictly adhered to,
being allowed by the arrest of the vessel, which the
Governor of the Cape had previously refused to de-
tain, acting with proper spirit and a discretion
which did him infinite credit. Surely it is not
often that such transactions are brought under the
notice of Parliament, as the details which bear re-
ference to these American affairs. The second part
of Lord CARNARVON'S speech treated of the claims
which the " United States Government made upon
her MAJESTY'S; Government for damages alleged
to be done to American ships by the Ala-
bama and other Confederate cruisers." Here
he animadverts upon Earl RUSSELL'S most
unfortunate observation in his despatch con-
cerning the Alabama, that he waited until
the question could be candidly considered. This
was certainly as maladroit an admission as any
that could have been made, and entirely did away
with
the impression of the noble Earl's previous
declarations that his Government were not respon-
sible for the ants of the Alabama. The noble Earl
found it convenient when the charge was brought
home to him in the House to express his dissent
from the reading of his remarks by the speaker,
but what other interpretation could possibly be put
ApßleNsAißnVOreNspeencutnteoiaotuerd i snot me
re
very,
upon
importantthem
P oprrdi n cei
course with America, and it would be well for the
reputation of the Foreign Sleretary and the wel-
fare of the country if they were more heeded than
they are likely to be :—" In the history of our in-
tercourse with America, I think our experience
amounts to this, that the whole object of English
statesmen should be to limit these debateable ques-
tions, and never allow them to be kept open." There
can be no more fatal error than the one into Which

Earl RUSSELL has fallen of " tiding over difficul-
ties," as Lord CARNARVON has forcibly expressed
his mode of procedure. This is not the way to
manage matters, or to gain the desired ob-
ject even, for it is well known that people
always prefer to hear the worst at once, if
only fairly stated and openly argued, than
to be put off by the specious promises of
fair seeming professions, which ultimately turn
out to be groundless and illusory. Earl RUSSELL'S
reply was about as unsatisfactory as it could be in
every way, and as unworthy of the tone in which
the Foreign Minister of this country should treat
such subjects, as the subjects themselves were cha-
racterised by violence and disrespect for the recog-
nised rights of belligerents, the claims of neutrals,
and the honour and good faith which should exist
between nations, whether in peace or war, In
the first place the House was informed that the
captain of the Vanderbilt could do no more than
express his regret. Was there ever such a mon-
strous assertion. Lord CARNARVON very properly
inquired whether he had placed the guilty party
under arrest. To this query the noble lord was
compelled to say that he had no information. Ac-
cording to this new version of justice, if Lord
RUSSELL saw a man commit a murder, and the
miscreant expressed regret, he would suffer him
to escape. Circumstances may differ in detail, but
the fundamental principles of justice are the same
whether an offence is committed on English ground
or on the high seas, in the purlieus of St. James's,
or on the eoast of Africa. With respect to the
Tuscalooza the law officers of the Crown, as usual'
are to take the blame. What would the noble lord
do without these convenient scapegoats. They are
to be responsible for all the sins of omission and
commission with which the Foreign-office stands
charged before the Parliament. If the Foreign
Secretary sought to be a little less legal and a great
deal more just, how much better .ffairs would look
for himself and others. The noble lord, however,
doubtless irritated by the constant attaeks made
upon his conduct during the halcyon period of the
recess, became aggressive in his turn, and after
taunting Lord CARNARVON with urging him to
make war upon America, he wound up by declaring
that all laws which allowed warlike vessels to be
fitted up for the Confederates were a scandal and
a " reproach," and that they ought to be made more
intelligible. This is doubtless the fulfilment of the
threat or promise made in Scotland some months
back; bat Earl RUSSELL had better take heed
before he attempts such a change as that con-
templated in the latter part of his speech. There
is a limit to all things, and the day that sees him
lay such a proposition before the House as that to
to alter and restrict our laws to suit the Federal
Government will seal the doom of the Cabinet of
which he is a member. If he would escape an igno-
minious close to a long political career, let him avoid
an act which would thus sully his fame as a states-
man, a Minister, and a patriot in the annals of his
country's history, where his ancestors have held so
honourable a position, and shone forth so conspi-
cuously in the cause of civil rights and the sacred
claims of liberty.

The Navy Estimates for the current year will be
scanned with some curiosity'after the promises of
retrenchment. The lavish expenditure of the
Admiralty, expenditure as profitless as uncalled-for,
has long been a favourite subject of attack for mal-
contents and financial reformers. Even Admiralty
officials find it difficult to defend the enormous de-
mands which are made upon the public for work
often inefficiently and awkwardly performed. There
is, perhaps, no department of the public service to
which the British public would be so little likely to
grudge a liberal supply as the Navy, and it really
seems sometimes as if the whole Admiralty establih-
ment reckoned upon this feeling. It is cne thing,
however, to pay money cheerfully for work well
done, and another to pay for unfinished experi-
ments, for continual alterations, for building and
rebuilding, for cutting down, and other vagaries
constantly being gone through in our dockyards.
In the estimates now published there is certainly a
decrease, though bat a slight one. The net expen-
diture of 1863-4 was £10,462,322 ; the net expen-
diture of 1864-5 is calculated at £10,169,022 ; thus
leaving a net estimated decrease of £300,000. The
principal items in which it is intended this reduc-
tion shall be made are the estimates for seamen's
wages, victuals, and clothing, and for naval stores.
On the other hand, there is a proposed increase for
wages to men employed in naval works at home.
The recent innovations on the old-established
theories of shipbuilding have naturally made a
great difference in the sums required for timber,
masts, hemp, canvas, &c., and although there
is also a reduction in the amount set down for
armour plates, iron beams, and other similar items,
this is due to the number of iron ships and gun-
boats now building by contract. We have no wish
to find fault with this plan, which very probably
will secure to the country better built ships at a
less cost and in quicker time ; but it would be quite
as well if our Admiralty, while thinking of eco-
nomy, turned over its old stores, and considered
whether they might not be put to some profitable
account. The removal of a few guns would lighten
many of the old wooden vessels sufficiently to en-
able them to bear the weight of an iron belt just
above and below the water line, which is the
quarter where the protection is really worth having.
The missiles of the present day will penetrate any
ordinary armour plating, and if a shot is to go
through a vessel, it may as well do so without the
additional mischief occasioned by splintering
through the iron. No vessel can bear the weight
of an armour plating solid enough to defy the
monster guns of the day ; but a belt round the vici-
nity of the water-line might be made sufficiently
thick to be of real service. There is no reason why
our old wooden walls should be cast aside as unfit
for further service, when a little management would
convert them into a ready-made fleet, at hand in
any emergency. In the present threatening aspect
of foreign affairs, we can hardly tell how
soon we may be called upon to put
forth our naval power, and it is surely folly
while preaching economy and efficiency to neglect
such an important means of saving, since by its use
we should not only avoid expense but delay, and
be able quickly to equip a formidable fleet ready at
any moment for the purposes of attack or defence.
The retrenchment which is to take place in the
seamen's wages, victuals, and clothing, owes its
existence to proposed economy, which we heartily
trust will never be suffered to be put into practice.
At a time of perplexity and anxiety, like the pre-
sent, when the arrogant pretensions of the Federal
Government threaten every day to involve us in a
naval warfare, when the shadows of a coming war
that shall convulse the greater part of Europe are
darkening over us, it is surely most unwise, most
impolitic, most preposterous, to take steps which
must tend to weaken our navy prospectively and
permanently. The saving effected by the reduc-
tion of 500 seamen, 1,500 men and boys of the coast
guard service, and 2,000 boys of the number serving
afloat, will make a very inconsiderable difference at
the end of the financial year; but it will produce
very marked and disastrous effects on the British
navy. Unless the country has grown much more
parsimonious, the Government much more careful

of the hundreds than even before, or the House of
Commons especially censorious, £20,000 or
£30,000 will make a very little difference in the
estimates of 1865 6. But year by year the
service will suffer from just the deficiency which it
is hardest to supply. Not only the number of sea-
men will have been reduced, at a time when we
ought not to lose a man unnecessarily, not only the
valuable auxiliary of the regular service—the coast-
guard—will have been shorn of its usual propor-
tions, but the boys who are to supply our future
navy, who year by year recruit the ranks of our
able seamen with the most efficient material—men
trained to the work—are to be diminished by a large
number. This is beginning saving at the wrong
end indeed. It reminds one of the old adage about
being penny wise and pound foolish. In case of
sudden alarm or emergency, the consequence will
be that a large sum will have to be paid to ignorant
and perhaps incapable men hurriedly enlisted into
the force without previous training or experience.
It is in ways like these that the public money is
wasted, and the public service brought into disre-
pute. Efficiency is the real economy, and so long
as we have a fleet or a navy at all it is no sort of
seying to have it badly manned. Whatever other
changes modern science may have effected, it has
not men by any other con-
tri v
a n e succeededeand inu n
ti replacingl
suc ha discovery is made our
authorities would do well to remember that there is
no extravagance like misplaced economy, and that
whatever may be the merits of monitors and Whit-
worth guns, it is upon our seamen we must mainly
rest for the maintenance of our naval supremacy.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

AMERICA.
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St. Thomas's Hospital and the Corporation
of London.

On Tuesday a special general court of the
governors of St, Thomas's Hospital was held at the
Terminus Hotel, London Bridge, Alderman Sir
John Musgrove, the president, in the chair, to take
into consideration a matter in which they have been
brought into collision with the Court of Common
Council in reference to a proceeding about to be in-
stituted in the Court of Chancery, at the instance of
the corporation, touching the future site of the hos-
pital. The summons stated that the court of
governors was convened to receive a report of the
recent act of the Court of Common Council in using
theseal of the Royal hospitals without the authori,y
of the governors, and in disregard of the formalities
required by the Act of Parliament, and to authorise
such proceedings as might be necessary to protect
the rights of the governors.

It appears that by an act 22d Geo. 111., c. 77,
passed in 1782, and which embodied an agreement
entered into between the corporation and the pre-
sidents, treasurers, and acting governors of the
Royal hospitals, St. Thomas's among the rest, for
their management, it was provided that the seai of
the several hospitals should be kept by the Cham-
berlain of London for the time being, and that all
leases, deeds, and other instruments relating to the
hospital or their estates, revenues, or possessions,
after the same should have been examined and
signed by the presidents and treasurers and a com-
petent number of the aldermen ar.d other governors,
should be left at the Chamberlain's office from time
to time for the seal to be affixed, with a docquot or
writing explaining their purport, upon which
such documents should be sealed in the next
Court of Aldermen or of Common Council which
should first happen, without any reading, a-3dition,
examination, or alteration of the same. That being
so the Court of Common Council, without the
knowledge of the rest of the governors of the hos-
pital, affixed the seal of the hospital, at a recent
meeting to a retainer to Mr. Nelson, the City
Solicitor, to carry into execution the powers vested
in the governors by the St. Thomas's Hospital Act,
and they empowered him to make such application
to the High Court of Chancery in the matter of the
site as he should deem necessary or expedient.
This act on the part of the corporation appears to
have given umbrage to the rest of the governing
body, and at meetings of the grand committee of the
hospital, held on the 26th of January and the 12th
of February, resolutions were passed expressive of
regret that recourse should have been had to
it, and stating that it is subversive of the constqu.
tion of the Royal Hospitals, as settled and esta-
blished by law. The solicitor to the hospital, Mr.
Wainwright, has also been instructed to take such
steps as in the opinion of counsel are necessary and
proper, not only for rendering the unauthorised
proceeding of the Common Council nugatory, but
also for maintaining unimpaired the rights anc:,
privileges heretofore enjoyed by the hospitals unthr
the act of 1782.

After the minutes of the grand committee had
bees read,
Dr. LEESON moved a resolution to the effect that
the Court desired to express its full concurrence in
the views of the committee in reference to the pro-
ceeding of the Common Council, and authorised the
committee to take such steps as, in the opinion
of counsel, were necessary to protect the gover-
nors and to maintain the rights and privi-
leges of the hospital, under the statute of Geo. 111.
He also moved that Mr. Wainwright, the solicitor
of the hospital, be directed on behalf of the gover-
nore,to give notice to the charity commissioners of the
proceeding which counsel had advised to be taken,
and to apply for the commissioners' warrant to
authorise such proceedings. He said that while
they were in apparent opposition to the City of
London, they all felt that it wus not the Corporation
of London as a whole, but a certain party in it, who
were taking steps in regard to the hospital which
were objectionable to the views of the general body
of the governors. A very erroneous opinion pre-
vailed that the hospital was indebted to the Corpo-
ration for a great part of its funds. In a report of
the charity commissioners a full account was given
of the disputes which in times gone by arose
between the corporation and the donation governors,
and which were supposed to be amicably settled by
the act of 1782. Now, however, the donation
governors were much in the position of the Danes
in relation to Schleswig-Holstein, for an attempt
was made to set the treaty aside, and it now be-
came a question whether this Royal Hospital was
to be governed solely by the corporation, or whether
the corporation was to be associated, as heretofore,
in its government by a number of large-hearted
men of great experience and independent means.
Mr. STEWART, a member of the Common Council,
denied that the seal had been clandestinely affixed
to the retainer by the Court of Common Council,
and he questioned that they were precluded by the
terms of the act from doing it in the manner they did.
It had been impated that it was the act of a clique
in the Common Council, but he denied that any such
clique existed. The corporation of London believed
that the hospital was about to ba re-erected in a
wrong place; and all that they wanted to do as
governors was to prevent that, in the public inte-
rest. There was a long list of noble-minded citizens
who from time to time had given immense sums of
money towards the endowment of that and other
of the royal hospitals; and the corporation, as the
representatives of these men and in their own right
as governors, were only desirous of doing their duty
before the world in this important trest, and had
no sinister parpose to serve.

The PRESIDENT, in reply to Mr. Maudslay, said
he believed the seal affixed to the document in ques.
tion was the seal of all the Royal hospitals.
A GOVERNOR contended that by the statute the
Common Council were limited to a ministerial act
simply, and had no deliberative power, inasmuch as
they were required to seal even without reading.
Dr. LEESON said that this was the first occasion
on which the seal of the hospital had been so used.
After acme further conversation, in which Mr.
Alderman Salomons, Mr. Johnson (the treasurer of
Bridewell Hospital), and other governors took part,
the resolution was put and carried with few, if any,
dissentients, and the court adjourned.

ROYAL COLOSSEUM.—Our readers, although
familiar with the prefix " iast season," to the an-
nouncements of this famous institution for some months
past, will scarcely be prepared to realise the fact that it is
no longer one of the sights of London, There are all sorts
of rumours prevalent with respect to it. Some go to the
length of demolition, others, on the contrary, speak of
entire renovation, with new and special entertainments under
the entire d irec tion of the untiring acting managerMr,Nim roc.
Nothing, however, is yet possibly known as to the future,
but it is to be hoped that an establishment which has
afforded so much delight and gratification to many thou.
sands of our country folks and foreigners may be preserved
for the greater number who ktiew it only by report, and
cannot possibly realise the great interest which it possesses.
With the disappearance of the Colosseum London will pre-
sent one feature the less.

THE WAR IN DENMARK,—Mr. Bentinck will, on
Monday next, ask the President cf the Board of
frade " whether her Majesty's Government have re-
ceived any confirmation of a statement which has ap-
peared in the public journals, to the effect that the Prussian
authorities in Schleswig have extinguished all the coast
lights in that locality on the shores of the Baltic ; and, if so,
whether British shipping will not be exposed to great in-
convenience and risk in consequence of that proceeding ;
and whether, in the opinion of her Majesty's Government,
such a proceeding is in accordance with the usages of civi-
lised warfare, in cases where the safety of neutral vessels
is thereby compromised."
THE CONCIERGE OF PARIS.—The privileges of
the concierge are bearable. Let him take the biggest
log when you are supplied with half a lead of wood. You
pay him the expected gratification when you return home
after midnight. You cannot help the friendship that springs
up between him and your cook. He must know when the
price of peaches is low enough for your pocket, and that
you quarrelled with the cobbler over his charge for mend-
ing your shoes. Every detail of your contract with the
traiteur is his property. You drink Bordeaux at 25 sous
the litre, and he knows it; and it is only when you have
friends you go even as far as Beaune, The fowls are too dear
in the market to-.ay for Madame; the cook has told him so
with a toss of the head ; and he holds that are bier pee de
chose. A friend out at elbow has paid you a visit, and went
out arm-in-arm with you, and to-toied you. The landlord
has called three times for his rent. It is the privilege of the
concierge to be posted up in the doings of the back staircase,
and of the front staircase, of your establishment. You fur-
nish Sunday afternoon conversation to him and his friends.
—Once a Week.

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Feb. 11'
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice'
drove out yesterday.
The Hon. Mrs. Bruce and 3lajor-General
rnour
Pr n attendeher Maj.
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the Hon. Emma Lascelles.
Captain Sir Leopold M'Clintock, 0
had do
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honour of being received by the Queen yesterdeYa
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her Majesty's ship Aurora in Cowes Rods,
The Prince and Princess of Wales., 5,
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The Prince of Wales hunted yesterday With t
East ox
Sussex fhounds.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales drefe
to the meet. FEn. 17.
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This morning the Prince and Princess of
vine,
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visited Battle Abbey (the seat of Lor_ alOll,
M.P. for Hastings), where there are
,rerulec
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some magnificent ruins of the old Priory e
commemoration of the battle of Hastings,
spot where, according to tradition, ling 114:11r
fell.
Their royal highnesses drove in their
gonette, and were attended by the Hon. grs'
Coke and Major Teesdale. ',ward+
0 wing to the change of wind to the rwrtP.e of
the princess, this forenoon, had an opportoioch
witnessing one of the prettiest sights at slell.tleocif
this coast presents—the passing of a large
s.hips and coasting vessels, which had been et
the Downs by the westerly wind. 03
,e
of the coast is there so good an opportunity "es at
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the shipping sailing up and down Chant'l
Hastings. From the windows of the Novi., e j
etl3o
bad,
Hotel
a magnificent view of the sea can be had'
the
the eye taking in the bay from BeachYKep oil
F irlight Hills, and away to Dungeness °int
the east.
The prince and princess received at din °r
01
terday
G Viscountess and Viscount lacelYilil. g'
eneral and Mrs. Hankley. To-night Jr.N ,to
c urteis, master of the East Sussex foxbouti°' i
dine with their royal highnesses. ; "0 the
The prince, it is believed, will again J°lo the
Bexhill
harriers tomorrow (ThursdaY); 111,5,0
meet of the East Sussex hounds at
Friday. # the rail'
A large number of people assembled a'
way station and at the Royal Victoria Hotel to-day'
it being generally rumoured that the aueeill °f
pay a brief visit to the Prince and. Vrficess
Wales.
o°6
The Commander of the Forces and Lad,' "ti 105
liralker had the honour of entertaining h• 1051'111i° tbe
Prince Alfred at dinner on Monday. rises,e
Dreschler Hamilton fami:y played before the Ftae
was pleased to express himself as
much gratified
performance. „„briage
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cam"
at 01011'
entertained a select circle at dinner last evening
tester House. ICei"a°

The Duke and Duchess of Wellington r`-
selectl,h atecireAlleaartgduiinsnearnd m
Apsley House last osliroioOttil
have arrived in town from Eaton Hall, stet
Marchioness o/, serer for
ci2es
season. i P"
The
CeGruqreuotsie,s,sesannodr-sMarchioness of W13,41001'
arrivedrfhe Mina quare from Hatapsteael '-
Berks. 0 f e
Villiers have arrived ionf
E Egerton
Egerton of 'Patton -and the 11°°"„att0"
-000--
ge,ton have returned to town from visiting'
L Viscountess Holmsdale, at Linton Park, StaplelArto ili
as few days from their seat, Elmhameli
WjiletroTp l etre dfr or: acllo4i:sitel;
Lord and Lady Sondes are r ted 0 tt); 0
;lei,c,Norfoll'' -Gir
season. artice4 dip

Lord and Lady Southampton have .
town for the season. 0 ier
The Cnancellor of the Exchequer left to
terday for Osborne. h aha
lie
Lord Methuen and the Hon. Mr. get- 10
arrived at the St. George's Hotel, c CO
Sir William and Lady Surtees have le'tA
Hotel, Dover-street, for Silamore House, Staff°r"; to °I;
DEATH OF LADY HEATING.—We regesir fleo,
nounce the death of Lady Keating, the wife et
of colon,
Singer Keating, one of the justices of the Coat l fe AIN°
Pleas. Her ladyship was the daughter of the -a
tt)
PEawnehl
inrDortoandu announce
Thornton
ohpF
roe
neßltro3aAntghßeitoionurifstEth.s;seani Scotland,
u T 1-1 VE N • ''''l g Ruth „ ally
General Evans, of the Royal Artillery. ire 136 St
iAeeictuTdhenotthe death of the Right Hon. Baronesh-ire.
of
fourth baron, by Lady Mary Elizabeth Leelie' f the °die
f F Freeland,wreaesl
dnar Per
gri:l3l: tse b-ae-ocof °s,ll:refla
le ole
the sixth Earl of Leven. On the excinctio ° toreatlo
line by the death of her brother, fifth Lord Sulady. ' 1.,
barony devolved on his only sister, the deceased „ of :j5OO
late baroness married, in 1806, Mr. Walter ke:;ereer°o
perstown, county Wexford, by whom she 115 d 010„14
issue. The barony devolves on Walter Joao oriel.
of the deceased baroness), an officer in the Rif°
matesprovide .....-----------...........z7 "..... T ell!:
year, The number to The argil. de-
AUXILIARY MILITARY FORCES.-- '-- railit,-
;708b3e cfoarlletdheu
stated at 128,969, but a deduction is made from ,actla"ot
of pay required to the extent of one-fourth for ' vote,
IV 316'
of officers and men not enrolled or absent.
are of 0r
the Volunteer corps is to be £328,260, all lucre, 101°061
owing to the numbers reported efficient pevin6: volsa 50s,
was anticipated. The capitation grants to °
tht'llery 'l°44
are calculated at £163,269—namely, to the Ariti iflos,°; st
pd disembodied ddiaeyds ,
the
troiailiiiitoogipii
£29,223; to the Light Horse, Engineers, and; 40; all err
£101,032; extra capitation grant, at 108, .2"' Tots fell
4s for administrative battalions, £7,557' 1149,50'
rolled pensioners and army reserve force is"' 1..
ester'
yeomanry cavalry will not be assembled this Ye'i -feo' 0
A DANISH FRIGATE IN THE C1101".„:,,' j, 46' :lit
day morning the Danish frigate Neils " "t Ply
seen about seven miles beyond the breakwater ''sviiitl ij-4ed,
under steam and canvas, steering due south ;
..eviertPco.
with a fresh breeze. Her coal bunks have
beel'to' blo' vie
.Captain Getleitt, on application being rod°,toitrio titre
didly announced his intention to seize the 'it aleta ito
Milost and Budua, at Plymouth, if he ea ugh„ Austaree itt
miles outside the English coast. Besides t`-.0 Srbl'.igea
there are two Bremen barques and one rrue°l3l,en tog&
same harbour. A Plymouth branch pilot hal3 go these her
on board for a short service (nominally bet We-will 110 fair
and Portsmouth). The course of the frigate 13, ill t coo"
south-west of the Eddystone, where she Willa dowo r oast
way track of all merchant vessels going up air' „Jo 1/e Sa.
nel; but a continuation of this course will ~.roiorl or*
Brest, where is the Prussian frigate Thetis (h ocel;00.
lish)—an encounter with which the Par': outh °rl
quently referred to during their visit to PIP- WO
day. l'ari otea
M. Eugene Simon has returned t° ,ori is troeaf
China, after having accomplished a rais°,ll3o a end 0
to him by the Emperor. He has brought witvvi-lo cos
rooot
Chinese sheep, called ongti, consisting ef
fit'oooo a 910,
ewes, remarkable for their fecundity. This _ the %o°, the,,
made by the French residents of Shanghai t'-',,e,t. 0'43; ‘l,ll
Society in the Bois de Boulogne. FiltY per
at 0, birLoilecl/
ewes produce lambs twice a year, and three vese volt
per cent. produce two at a time twice a Year..hdo 0r0.1.,00'
are of the middle size, and resemble the Seiz_`f'til,,, Dl._ogei
to Suetoorit'ciliaoSe.ioo wool, though long, is very interior to that ',._ be 0;4°,130er•
It is proposed to send French sheep
with masters of ships coming from ChinafntAGGsl,
dog
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.--A MAN '1" oa at,
,ot fis
MILES BY A RAILWAY ENGINE.
watt, a Ber,:ia tin
evening, the I;th inst., a man name" '
ssencrer "og to"
Hillend, Fordyce, had left the 6.59 Patvinsfd Et:, tre,
Rothiemay station, and was walking westward
11.0 goool6ll'lo di:
line, but had not got many ye.rds wen
high Wi'' irCeif f
came up on him, and owing to the veil L;130 did p.OOO.
not hear it until it was close on him. `V en viiielie ega:
it he gave e spring, and threw out his 1.70 J, of 00_0 ale
them providentially encircled the drW-hdraged ai.0,00
His body went in below it, and he way
feetoa th° 5 Dell
his reig)l' The
train stopped at Grange Station witho ,id as 'n ad, ,
His feet were badly torn, but not sw '1 the grotitore Tr
been expected, owing to the soft sno
ar
and tnerfoo,eu 0
goods train did not stop at RothieM . 913.
nialos v'cooeelf_
at full speed when it came on him, wWOG_ so the
of. II;
rence the more astonishing., as one c '' _ tile SP ,
_l, one!
was cared for during the night at till LI:L;(1,y, •••
how he could have escaped being killced,,u;,,re 11,...°Lvnafit
Wed
was removed to his friends in Hunt y nett red
1
shire Journal. ,7 I_,-It is moos
eeking ot 0 giod
of the " Iron Duke '' that, 5 010 pro vibot
,able THE BEST MILITARY COSTVAI" •
to 010 ilitall
with respect to an improvement iOO nottaaa
r0a0,,,
attire, he once asked an old Vattrla.
t6o'ght t
on; g
of clothes he would choose, if he d g _lease Y
r leo bo°
battle over again. fAI a iOO
•,...,,f, 0 . :teu.
the veteran replied.
_.-The rriu'irins°"e o°l
THE HEIR APPARENT.
aei,,erv, Date „no th
patr,niseci hair- brushing by ni °L'ooo' of sv-
of the establiahnleats for the Pwr
formance. "My shirt-sleeve., I'