The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-27 00:00:00

EVENING;

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FRO3I THE 71,10itNING} PA.P.EILS OF TRIS,DAT.
TIalE5.--41abiagh the gentle Men of the Anti-Corn-
Law League who assembled the other day at Manchester
have wisely determined to wait for an actual declaration
of war, souse of them show a nervous anxiety to pro 7
voke Lord Derby to that fatal and unnecessary step.
The worthy chairman, whose solid speeches have so
often given his hearers a keener relish tor " the una-
dorned eloquence" of the next speaker, will evidently
he grievously disappointed if to-morrow's post does not
bring him the news of Lord Derby's political suicide.
" The head of the new . Government," he says, "is
pledged to-the restoration of protectioti; it is not a
question with him of to-day or yesterday, nor will it be
a question of to-Morrow, , tillit is disposed of. With
him it-is the sole object; and almost the perpetual aim
of his party, in desiring- ato renew the Conservative
element in the Government—to restore protec-
rl if:Cr Sm3Orstalsl rlpti er.t) tiGg errhgeereW thani l6°11.; .one usually thefireo finds
and reiteration, V 70.811 of us knOW ia' weak feral
in "kw langt'nge of ,b4sicees-like or serious men;
. , s often a wea
of exeggeratien. IV it- really true that Lord Derby
eteedi at this moment cotnraitted to Arlie at protection.
in -that blind and determined :feishien heie described?
Wereit so; we 'Shetild 'nOt' have a' word to sey to his
Lordship, for wesiteuld-i4rtitinly think it as little kind-'
ness Whim. as to the 'country to' flatter him with the
hope 'of aasingle week's power. Bat what- is the proof,
the sole proof, on which Mr. G. Wilson ventures this
earl
strong and alarming estimate of I. Derby's intentions?
The proof is such that the estimate falls to the ground
the moment we hear it. "He. did not know if gentlemen
nad read attentively his statement' at the opening of the
present Parliament, but he (Mr. G. Wiison) 'perceived,
'on referenee to that -statement; that lie'veas as distinctly
position could he—to the, restoration of the corn-laws."
with most laudable
net in an official
ed : ,
then b
ie
n—
proceeded,
as
ns ,o• , an'
13 man
Y all that- Lord
Derby, sold the • first night of , the . session on the sub-
M fairness,pledged r;G.
i sWt
to tel.
qic°u°l Wilson
ject of protection.- This we will not :quote over again,
'tor it is spite unnessary to do so. 'All that Lord Derby
said on that eccesiou, whether . in, his, speech,er when
cross- auestioeed by Lord Yarborough, etrong as it was,
end explicit es it was, only amounted to a decided
opinion iu favour of protection, Emden desire to see it
aestored. His opinio, he said, had undergone no alter-
a - tion, But, is any roan committed fairs-
,. try given course
of actien,by the mere - expressiott .01 his opinions and'
wishes? There are very few statesmen, if any, who
have not iiften given utterance to opinions and aspira-
tions which they do not dream of - bei—e
8 able to carry
into action. In this land of free thought, send in a Le*,
gislature the atmosphere of which is
as flee as that of
the ptiblio, platform or. the private, hearth, ester", man is
permitted to express his opinion without_ entailing the
reeptinsibilitY of a pledge. If we oacteaegiek
to ostracise
men of their opinions, we shall -lose not; iely valuable
• Menabitt,"vih at is more; that freedom of speech which is the
breath 'of free States, and which enables as to know whoin
we hive to deal with. We allow.a man to, hold an to
avoii'ifie atitirect opinion in favour of the exclusive.pree
tensions of the Chureh eof EnglanCi, or the Church of
Itoint•infaviiur of any point of the Chartez.---in- favour
of deitiociattie'liestitatiene, or
_any_other possible or im-
possible change, so longaec he is content to shape his
hotuai measures to the ,circumstepees of the times and
to the'dertiaudi of the peoPle. We did not ourselves un-
derstand 'Lord.-Derby to goat all beyond a strong ex..
Preisieb or Ottinieb. Ner is this any new remark of ours,
. for in our observations on his speech We said-- -
e" The Earl of Derby in fact is bidding fir power, and
the.iiiy
,Moderation of his toile hetarena a, Man already
trembling with Ministerial responsibility. But
we
defy any auctioneer of political property to describe the
okeet terms of the bid in this instance. If the Protec-
tiouists have commissioned the Earl of Derby for this
Pdic6, We must beg to inform them that, th'ough he has
gtatified the ears of a polite, assemblY, and won, the
price of his rivals, he has not dOne .the business
:with which he was charged. Re has not told the'
.liouses of Lords what he is prepared to do, and
whether he is irisincilititely prepared to do anything at
all for the good of the agriculturists. • All that he asks
for his own followers is, leave to doubt whether, after $
few years, it may not,pethsPe be advisable.to-levy a duty
of 3s; or 4s. a quarter ee foreign wheat. This possible
pioblematiepaulo post futurum expedient is the moat solid
and Appreciable item in his budget, or rather the oil
One—the solitary crumb of hope left at- the bottomef
his .political wallet." - '
Among other observations to the same purport we also
observed, that " there Was scarcely a hit in the speech
which- lnight not Have been interchanged is the most
amicable spirit between the members of • the Government
themselves, and.certainly none that • should preclude the
hope of Lord Derby's • own ultimate co-operation." Of
course we may even now be'mistaltent but that we, our
impression at the time, before there was any immediate
expectation of a Ministerial crisis. That impression of
the speech we seennreason to alter; and if it be true,
Lord Derby it at this-moment quite -at liberty to post-
pone the question of free • trade altogether till the
people are evidently sick of it...--6 time which his
Lordship may - think very - near, - but which we
think about ay remote a contingency as tie ap-
proach of it cornet or any other purely speculative
events Mr. G. Wilson does not, indeed, state the case
against Lord Derby without any qualification. He only
says that his Lordship is as distinctly pledged "as any
man not in an official position could be. That is con-
siderate ; but he might have carried his consideration
somewhat further. A man not in an ofieiel position
could have pledged himself very much more, or .rather
he could have pledged himself, which Lard Derby did
net on this occasion. Had his Lordship asoved a reso-
lution, and divided the House on the Cern-laws' or
some other kindred question, and so stest into power
—or had he announced what he meant to do in the event
of his accession to power, either of those courses would
have been a pledge which it would have been nece""Y
to redeem. But hafact then' ' of the sort 1 'll
e is nothing
this instance. Lord Derby, ea the: conigjeooolCOnnt ,01
the session, merely said that his opinion NVOI unchanged'
in vigorous hgt not, very. serious labua e. Wat doubted,
;tea we must be permitted still to doubtg whether he
011
*as not ." cajoling' . his. more hoist' 81auu trouble-
sante follower), though quite tine' ert
cit)y his mere
sensible and intelligent allies. lea IVett; says "1 will
dee" or "I would do," or commit himself to any course
of Wattle
,which- the people .did not demand of than
Centiot a• lien `out Of Office'. de . naut3h morhe more
: And have not men out of office does n'acuee—riasi
very lately? Mr. G. Wilson, then, should have 0.------
his qualification much further. "rite words he quoted
pledged Lorcl.,Derhy. to. nothina b t to speak the truth, I
not to- immediate action. Ravioli'stated his abstract
opinion, and having taken nothingby' 3
it, done nothing,
obtained nothing, he stood wholly unp!edged. Had
he simply said that he thought the. Church of England
had a claim to every man's cit'', in this island, and that
the day would Come when all men would hock to its
scum, he would not have been .thereby hound to pro-
pose -a law -against dissent or a re-im osition of the Test
0 H -
and Corporation Acts. - a.
-'5 WIZ -into:office, not in
conseauence of 'anything . he has said this session, or
anything he has said at all, but simple because, one
.Government having relic'---, he
c'---, ne h ppenato bo the only
Mau who can form another. Of course,a- we find ourselves
considerably abused for stating the a
ase
natural light. We are trimming, • • are singing
h d "—we are
a a peen° e worshipping the rising sun—we are
undermining the obligatioa of piedees_ste are asking a
feir trial for confessed political millefacters. But we
are acting only in' the - interest, a . truth, commoni
sense, and our country. 'What can be the possible ad-
„tentage of trying to entangle a largo party, compre-
.eeiiteug a majority of the country gentlemen, and many
.wont useful anchexcelleut man in tat a one net of error, and
potting on them a: perpetual , bread of political disability?
la the people, of. ,England are tO. go on at this rate,
blesting every •perty in suc'eestion, and, tying to every
thee', Deck all 'thee foolish things,. all the hasty things-,
Al! 64 l'eatiggeT c a tie ee
----no', and all the' merely semi'
Menhir of cases s th'engS; he harry aaae 'dropped in the
whole• of his career's and then call them pledgee—
Jet them look to it, for they will not Only damage, th'cy
.will utterly ruin,thetr cq4
ntrY. Here we are with four
distinct parties in the Legislature, neither ea them at all
approaching to- a majority in
the , lower House.
Our -onlY chan". of good government, is -that
these . four parties should think )383 of their
differences end more of their commee points; and
that instead of representing e }star ,
schools of
abstract opinion they should
`meet on the common
ground of practical improveinent As this is really the
only chance for the nation, we cannot respect the zeal of
those who amuse themselves by baiting and badgering
enthusiastic or loquacious
every e politician to stick to
has said 'or
everything he done, however, he may wish
to forget it. To us it seems much of a piece with the
schoolboy trick of trying to persuade two inoffensive lads
'that they are each others enemies, and m
, e ust fight it out. •
Of course there are people who think they have an in
(crest in the ruin of every party in its tore; but they
must be looking government to some other form of
than
that we live under. We see no op, kit% whatever
atever for the
nation, except every party
should have the greatest possible freedom of action!
room for repentance,_ encouregement to conversion, and
-oblivion of errors, that cr. moraleed consistent, * ._,
the maintenance of politicaly anti eise ,
faith. y with
'DAILY NEWS.— When the Earl of '-'"
. Derby was last
tharteed with the fornittioia'or a Ministry, he evinced
Some retention of his early principles,. and
of those i-
ialous which satiated. hies even after ta.
t
ee separatiou from
the Whigs. AirremembeihOw,• even whoh-a declared
such
Tory, be objected to the sending),
a with as' Lord
Londonderry to the Court of . St. -Petershor-h
K Ia the
yams spirit, when Lord Derby was training his Cabinet
lasayear, he ierknowit to have
.Ite acted Sir htratiord
Cannitii to be Minister for 'Foreign Affairs.,
`We
now
find the inexperienced Lord
_Dittiaalmeesthury ft
etiolated. to
atet -poet... This -may either. rta Ifrorn - its not being
nobaßsudor re, ~ ~
Worth, while to reuiCee *ens 04.66. iii a mini an impudent
Psitit'''ili 'Cl'iad'vetst‘kts°' til: tion; the othea reason clay a few
instates' ur •:-----,-,-, Ellossi4 by not -a - ; ; ma)? "13
;h- desire to conciliate
:ling, gooliiit,ng to the
Foreign,Otlicie Sir Stratford
deter e known to
y occasions as a
hsve acted en
want'
Lard Malasesbury
is
smeotnned
considered;
to eheapower.
more prepir men t . sidated;
and withouetutes. afar .We do o conciliate
' • Austria. - übt, however, the
Resits* , and, 'own
eonciliation." There is no ;epee
peasibility of their r
it is impestibl '''
--
in force; • e • the Hoitie
Act at Present. rr iv Minister can
"Minister or. the ° e -f• lateens with re gretify the
degree and pretensions o
It K _ speet to Hun-
. . .
_Li 6_
eoseuth should rearm
ariaa and Italtau ref. g
te:..
continuo' t lecture, '
d tiazz ni othere is
hithertat'telk, an „
,Can be ceerc.d
:no Beitiehlaw whereby
the)lf admits, thatt or silenced.
' Andrieteleedi the Tinies itse
excited th it is no par-
' Ifneelish Ministerehat
er 6 resentment an
.hostility or Prince Sehwalenibs Fe,
bbiutst.that it is the
.ecotiotry ttedeeelieelend, and ,c 1 , and its way of
.thinhing, that are odious and intolerable to the Aus,
strians. • I'Ve have the mitfortui e to be a oonstitutionel
People, and to enjoy, the liberties oi aseoeiatioh and the
Press. For theao qualities Louis Napoleon dreads sed
Prince Schweizeuberg detests. us. But 111 m is this to be

remedied? What can Lord Malmesbury do in the bust•
ness but make lame excuses for what he may not ad-
mire, but cannot ' prevent? In the dispatch recently
published of:Prince Schwarzenberg to Lord Granville,
it iseplainly said that if the British Government does not,
make use of ell tee legal means in their potrer to render
innoxious the Austrian refugees, the Austrian Go-
vernment will torment and persecute English travellers
in the Austrian dominions. This pleasant threat has
reference, no doubt, to the expected return of Kossuth to
this country. If you do not gag Kossuth, threatens Prince
Schwarzenberg, we will molest and impriton all the cu-
rious and commercial English who venture into Bohemia,
visit Vienna, er go to see pictures or gondolas at Ve-
nice. The Times proposes a ready remedy for this,
which is, that Englishmen should stay at home; if they
do go abroad, that they omit. Austria and the Venetian.
terniteines filen their route, consoling the reselvee with•
the hope than then 9 e a. good time coming, ;wee's a Übe-,
eel A.astrien'Sliiiister may rise to power, ,who may not
make it life business Or his policy to peittecizie Ehglish:
'Min.. We do not think that John Bull, `young or old,
no; be muck inclined to take this hint,,er respect this in-
terdiction. They will venture to Venice or to Carlsbad,
and they will prefer the Trieste route,_ by Which they
escape quarentine, tottay other. Besides, if Schwarz reeherg
succeeds ixildAerrieg Englishmen from 'teeing amongst
his stibjects, Louis Napoleon will try the same, and then The Ordnance estimates h just been •'
' and we
ave isewea ,
we shalt be fairly t,xpelied from the continent and be
are now able to see what the authorities propose to do
banished
_. not merely from the remote Vienna, but the in this department of the
neighbourieg Paltde Royal. Boulogne will become for- public service. Comparing the
sums about to be' *demanded from the Parliament with
bidden groalid. And Englishmen will be condemned
thoie voted for similar purposes last year we find an in-
to the peine forte et
_.dure of spending their money at crease under the heads of pay and allowances of 36,7421.;
increase under
9o9ft. home. We doubt mach our countrymen's submission
t• an d undercommissariat
scientific
branch"su ppl te
aan
a
to such severity as this. We should soon have associa-
tions for cpening the continent, and instead of putting increase of 10,2531. 'The enormous cost of the Ordnance-
down KoSsuth and Lotus Blanc by such means, . they
office itself is reduced from 75,9501. to 75,580/, showing
would become the most popular men in England—and the wonderful saving of 3701. Other reductions on cer-
n& all the Malasesburys in Downing-street could quell tam branches appear on the statement, which winds up,
them. Russia, however, is not so personal or so full. of however, With the announcement that 25,666/. more will
pique as Auatrie. And Lord Derby may hope that- by be required in the coming year than was asked in the
means.of Wet Russian alliance what he once repudiated past. One thousand extra men are proposed ti, be
and despised, he may, secure England, and all that added at this additVui cost to the Ordnance military
England holds dear on this side the Rhine. But Russia cot p.
, .
abhors Constitutional Government*, and is reseived to There can be no better time than the • present for in-
tolerate them no' more. It has set •up the antagonist trodncing to the notice of the new Master-General of the
principle of legitimacy and divine right; and evidently Menace,
.amtate -the 'public, the' defective state of the
deems mat no other bulwark can bravo the tide of revs- royal regiment of Artillery; and when speaking of that
Wien. Loots Napoleon has not won Russian favOur, corps, we refer of• course more particularly to the proper
because Russia sees' the Bonaparte' throne based'upon
.expenditure of the sum it costs—that is to say, about
force atone, and' not upon any principle•that •nduld re- 400,0001. a jear of the- public money. But first one
_cover the -respect of . tfie people, or. netain that of the word• about stores.
army. The restoration of the Bourbons, the elder first, To the 'Ordnande the nation has entrusted the care of
is the reigning idea at St. Petersburgh. And it is pos- all onr engines of war, powder itosnofootee:‘,7, ..a coast
Bible bit teat a restore:tea of-Uelainm to Holland'should batteries, and the 'organisations of the corps whose par-
make part of the same scheme. As to the choice, pre- ticular duty it is to work these engines and man these
diledons, or resistance of the people, rulers now know batteries. And how has this trust been fulfilled? Sim-
how thet can be overcome, and they regret having ever ply thus: that at the end of six-and-thirty years of
actel on the belief that it .could not be overcome. To peace there is scarcely anything of a satisfactory nature
restore the'.statns of 1815, in the west of ,Europe, is to show for the vast sums expended. Whenwe are ask-
then the dominant idea, with which Louis Nipoleon ing for additional national defence, this becomes a really
'istr be halt menaced—half gulled. Will the Toidee be vital question.
srty spectacles of -to it ? or , has Lord Malmesbury
a pOur powder magazine, worth hundreds of thousands of
sufficiently magnifying power to - have discerned the pounds, is situated on the River Thames, and open on
small and hidden symptoms of these great changes and every side. A spark from any Gravesend steamer, when
cotaingedangers? The veteran of foreign diplomacy. the powder is put-out to dry, might occasion an explosion
wil, teSwever, soon ' give' the first leeson to the new which would shake the very Ordnance-office in Pall-mall;
statesmen of Downingtstieet, and make them- - believe whilit•to protect. this store from incendiaries, who might
that adhesion to the new Holy Alliance is the only mode in safety • any night lay a train for its destruction, there
of saving England from war and invasion, and 'a j nnc-
arenot hall a dozen -sentries. Custom may be a good
Liao of all Europe against her. We have nodotibt that thing in its way; but it never can be shown to the satis-
On Times will then discover that • Englienchwas in ex- faction of the people of. England, that-because it has been
trecie danger, and that the only safety for England lies usual to store powder at Purfleet, it should there be
iii a renewal of the Alien Bill, the proscriptiou of nth, stored for the future; and that because some twenty
gees, full satisfaction to be given to Austrian and Rim- years ago not more than halt a company of artillery
'police. If with these conciliating measures Slit-
elan could be spared to garrison the place, that the garrison
terlsoel and Piedmont be abandoned to the dictation or snould stilt be restricted to so small a force, when there
nmupatien of Austria and France—if England suffers are hundreds of artillery-men learning wahine drill at
all these things, then Lord Derby, and Schwarzenberg Woolwich for want of something else to do.
and Nesselrode, will welcome Englishmen as fellows of Our splendid and most valuable arsenal at Woolwich
the right sort, whom no police need meddle with, but is also totally unprotected. As far backas the time of the
who are ready to act es police for the gagging and fet- great Freachrevolution, a distinguished officer—General
tering of Europe, if required. How far the Tories are Tarleton—explained to the House of Commons its ex-
likely to fulfil theseh hopes and prospects time will tell. posed situation, Ina from that day to this nothing has
The names of the new Ministry certainly give ne war- been done beyond improving certain field officers' guar
rant of their acting as honourable and patriotic English- tern. ' Yet we have fortified arsenals such as Portsmouth
men should expect. and Plymouth, and central situations like Weedon,
• HERALD.—W hen the Greeks,. after the battle of where guns and cartridges could be much more safely
Marathon, 'would have awarded theiprizseo the man who stored- than at Woolwich. Such improvemeuts would
had deserved most of his country; to decide among the not cost the nation one -penny. There would be no oc-
nnmerous claimants, and arrive at the most satisfactory casion for removing one brick from the Woolwich arse-
conclusion, they- hit on the following expedient. To ntiL . Guns might be cast there; cartridges might be
every deputy they gave two votes, and, on examining manufactured there; but when once guns are finished
the result of the poii, it WAS fotitid that every man Pve and cartridges packed, let them he at once sent off. If .
the first vote for himself, sand the second for Thenais- stores are required at Gibralta, Canada, or even for our
toelss; and ,thus truth prevailed when selfishness no own southern counties, could they not be forwarded far
longer stood 'in the way. Not unlike the claims of The- more rapidly and expeditiously from our southern sea-
mistocles is the position of the present Protectionist ports, besides affording employment to certain people—
Ministry in relation to the other political parties in the termed fire-masters—who have for the most part nothing
S tate, Judge of the claims of each oft these separately to do? Another point, also, should not be overlooked.
to that prize which the present Administration Would it not be as advisable to mount such guns as are
has received, and they will tell you that they already made in such batteries as we possess, instead of
alone are competent to the task of government, and keeping them locked up at Woolwich? Would it not be
that they alone fully understand the wishes of the better to use well what we have, than to be crying out
nation and are prepared to carry them into effect. The for extra money to build more batteries with? But
young Peel party, if we may trust their organ, are the now let us turn to the. Artillery.
exclusive posseesers of intellectual statesmanship—they If, however, the resources which we possess in arms
are the 'bright comet on the political horizon, but with- are not properly applied, the state of the Ordnance corps
out itettait. They look forward to the time when au in- is still worse. There are at Woolwich five batteries of
tellectual Ministry 41101 displace what they modestly foot artillery and three troops of horse artillery, which
call the present race of iucapables—the Whigs are should give us a complement of forty guns fit for service;
drivellers; the Reformere' ignorant and unmannerly ; but how does the case stand? We find upon investiga-
the Protectionists, behind the age. It will never be tion that to put a troop, of horse artillery on a war foot-
well with the world until mankind open their eyes to ing it would be requisite to break up the whole of the
those blessings in store for them, which they have three troops at Woolwich, and furthermore to beg
hitherto overlooked in a most unaccountable manner— horses of the troop at Newcastle. Again, the foot field
until they ferrOt out from their modest retreat this batteries are formed for the purpose of bringing into the
knot of philosophers, who are ready to put the nation field guns of a heavier calibre than those used by horse
to rights in a trice, with the same ease as they is cold solve artillery, but so far from this being proper, they have
a syllogism. The Reformers, on the other hand, regard the only six-pounder guns, so that it the men were given
Peelites with unmeasured contempt ; they look on them nine-pounder gnus, they would have to leave their am-
as a spurious broOd, a cross, a hybrid between Whigs
milnitionnereggone behind.: And all this saorifice of effee
and' Tories, with the faults of both, and the excellences
cieney; is made just . to, 0 able to ".show off" on Wool-
of, nether.. If they do not express' that contempt, it is ,;viett-comnicin,. previously—es Sir Charles Napier well
because` they feel that this party has lei ability to do shys—to enjoying champagne luncheons. Upwards of
mischief, and therefore they care not about its incline- some dczen companies of men are retained at Woolwich,
tier. Of thetopinions they entertain of the Whigs, 'we tinguard Our
.arsenal; a duty which the sentries in Ports-
ge:ve copious proofs in our , impression of Wednesday. mouth dockyard could do just as well, yet by keeping the
At the late meetings in Finsbury and Marylehone, stereo -and-gnat' 'at ' Woolwich we withdraw twelve bun-
amendments were- moved on the-original resolutions; not Bred efficient Men from our coast defences. Yet session
in.order to aeften the asperity of ',their language • towards after session siee.e,the representative of the Ordnance, get,.
the :defunct Cabinet, but to aggravate it •terefoldo e The up in his Place ' in the
Louse, and congratulate the
Witt Oa had -haunted ,;the councils of the. countrY7— nation on • the' Maloney 'of. the
artillery.
they were " wanting in petrified integrity''S--" the Re- . The ,proptieta to add
one thousand men to the artil-
form Bill:Wag an idle mockery and a delusion"—" Lora lery looks'-like au
._ -addition to our means of defending
John hecl' deb:lived the nieoplie for six years, and done no- England. Do not let the people be too mire of this.
thing,for them"—these wore some of the flowers of Liberal This additional' thoitiand Men is to give, we are told, ten
rhetoric with which the speakers perfumed the memory of extra won' each
.company--but half the artillery
the late Whig Administration. 'Butthey have quite se mo- companies are serving abroad, a fact which we can
dest artassiiranee in their ownmerita and Capabilities as the scarcely suppose' the Ministry to have been ignorant of
youngePeelites have in theirs. Mr. Bright has no mil" when their plan was made known. Consequently, • our
givings about the. First Lordship of the Treasury; Mr. thousand ' men may—so far:is force in England is con-
Hume of his fitness for the Chancellorship of the Ex- caned, be, in reality, only half that number.
chequer te Sir Benjeinitnllell's rubicund ambition would .. The chief oppoSition to putting the. regiment .on. a
not blush under thet honour of the Home Secretaryship • '' footing. arise' from the , difficulty of coming to
Secretaryship; proper _ e
nor would Air. Cobden feel strange (however the country any agreebaent en to how promotion should be given to
,a might) in seat at the Board of Control. They feel no the officers in • the higher ttenks,—a - consideration core
hesitation about the justice of their own claim', or to teinly of some weight, and which, unless duly settled,
whom the prize should be awarded. To whom else, in-
would give, orrathsr.does give, .us officers who from
deed, except to those who know what trade is, by a feel- age and debility are totally unfitted for command. Tois
ing experience of its workings and mysteries—who it was that caused a division of the regiment into bat-
know what money is, by having petised their lives in its tallow, each battalion having its head quarters at
acquirement—whose years have not been spent among
Woolwich, with a lieutenant-colonel and an adjutant;
men of birth and 'education, in the atmosphere and thus giving twelve colonels and twelve adjutants to do
among the• traditions of statesmen, but in- the actual what might be easy work for any two efficient officers.
hard work of the mill and the factory, MI to Many a good plan for remedying this has been pro"
whom the cabalistic letters ..C. s. d. are " the be-all posed, but one was too French, another too RusLian,
and the end-ell" of ' this sublunary,, world. and so on—as if an 'English plan must be something
Verily, if the conceit of Pythagoras -was a just one, unique. We - have imitated foreigners in too many of
that all difficulties in heaven. above or in tare-earth their bad points to be too proud of adopting some of theirthe
below were resolvable by numbers, if it' be. possible to good ones. .There are, howeverotwo well of
.b • mr•
cipher away all political complexities, it the essence of Master-General's consideration—one made Y
wisdom is. comprehended within the calf-skin Cooker, retitle
Hume and the other by Colonel Chesney, the enc
Messrs. Cobden, and Bright are the only helmsmen fit commander of the Euphrates expedition.
captain
for the State. Why will not the nation have them? Mr. Hume proposes that the rank
of
secondn expensive.
The third and the last party aro the Whigs, now mute of artillery should be abolished as useleseeaseid.
It is a
from theid last defeat; but whose evening organ at last For its utility not a word could ever
ab
captain in the
puts in a tacit claim to the gratitude and regard of the sort of brevet rank, its holder beingatillery. At present
nation, on the ground of their long experience in office, army, but a bond fide lieutenant of r___
two heads to one
their silent and successful progress. In these respects there are two captains to a coropaannyk
is
not sufficiently
undoubtedly the late Administration has claims above house—for. the .distinction of
.r
all others—it may well gain the first vote for .itself, thebe great to induce the second captain W obey the first with
second for the present Ministry. If long continnaance , any great alacrity.
Gods Colonel Chesney's proposal is to do away with the
a Claim to respect and a privilege for place, i
name let them have the full use of that claim,common
In
tend- present battalion system, and its consequent imposition
with all abuses which have only the merit of long. doing nothing at Woolwich. And really
of field officers
.
ing to shelter them. But i'f length of years bring honour, Woolwich has so outgrown its original purpose, that the
with them; and if this be all sooner some decisive measure is taken to change the
they also bring incapacity . .
fault that time will system the better. At present we have'
that their successors want, it is a . whole an innu-
-1 kupon
each of these parties look merable host of colonels, lieutenant-colonels
easily mend. Just as , adjutants,
from some fancied merit and t ff urgeons actually
a a -s not knowing what to do with
their own claims as supreme,
reason do they • - But although the servicewould
liar to themselves, for the same their tune. be tat once
Peculiar accusations against improved by Colonel Chesney's i
throw out the roost incompatible . - ptan, no promotion
the present Ministry. One party reproaches
ty reproaches it with in would be lost; for the colonel proposes that every two
another thinks it b arteries of field artillery should be formed into
capacity and intellectnal inferiority;
of
men
''. tery on a war footing, with a field one bat-
wo clever end too brilliant, bat not composedofficer to command it.
g and inexpet A judicious arrangement.
figures • another regards it as too f
youth' arc always ex• Probably the idea that
rienced in the ways of oar; a Our the formation '
or another use-
and too less battalion at head-quarters
cluiming that the last Alibis y
tr was too old would attract public t
a -
11 at the same time tendon gave origin to the
beekneyed. Different winds blow a scheme of giving ten men per
ass. For the company instead of raising
from different points of the political
cco,in, pi,, ,
1 , men have ons, thousand
dition to our home force. But
lust six years, and viifahl the last Cabins:,°''s they hay(' any public tiseesure to b the time has gone by for
beiti Calling out for new blood iu thec' !itouggled .np -in the dark.
estoen have been The nation likes to lino
been ceruplaining that no young
St'lltoud or .more urn Ow that _the w tor what it pays taxes, and is
brbught ferward, and none were more_ . ,
_denew b money so paid - should be properly ex-
organ. W''. n" pended.
f
gent in the cry than the Pentivcistrya number o
Lord Harding© is aand he
—4° have a new infusion inthe. forward--aild now has
now
an soldier of some reputation, 8
vdinig-Statesinen have been broughtnd more experienced opportunity of making groat improvemeemt.
in the de
what itethe'cry? "We want older
.io,tien
an older set ' - pertinent which he has undertaken to goye
statestnen." - Impose, on thd n nsfatent- organ The country is willing towhat is right; but, if we
pay
same co are to pay well I well. Let us have
of men, and then the.
ere want • yoneger
military I ' tot, us- be served ' . ,,._,, ~...
will veer roUnd ' end ell, . hes beeo raised realities—not costly, '.tinselled, InPec"*" in
-
will . . effietee' shani •
tnia," •'A ' geaeral •' cola . ,or' on ,in - 4.7 Daily News.
..„ •
of gentile
that Mere' %Vac 'n° meta of ' varlet& red-tapemm; , . one
the Mirtstrye—tothing but ono in .
peecedente told records. .
--- ------- The venerable
• Dnenti or Anennisuor BinnitAY.—
utinitl. to travcl beyond its ownh/. -into -the. preterit A. Il
Do I.' INit'rralr. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, whose
at at tteronan tics born .
r., his I,lolltotterest enemies cannOt tom nahgerimaillnese was noticed in this paper yesteeday, died
mini", ti"net° 'll° d emus, and et the eauee at a quarter to . six. o'clock on Wednesday morning, at his
rebut and
arts ' ' • ,bliu. The death of this ex-
authority Pra'" °' great t brillient parts and acuteness residence 'n Monntjoy• square,
been
a 1 _ _
Christian
.
authority excleing, that
of the Exellequee„ who. ,cellent prelate, mese of for-
are iiiiiitted for a: Chan .
cra
rna,,ce,
ali _
t . hearance in- a country wl,-- -
It this is ru ~. it d themoderate menof the several - • •
religious
deee not see that a _ is deeply regretted by .
ted spirit? No'. knot can hold, i - • - • The parish priests and prebendiaries of the
a narrow and clieeop
• - %ins; he would discover sofas in the t enomenationg.
semble in a day or two, to select a Vicar-
suth a shifting,
-Peres°!e;the crystal with A . magnifying dieeile arc toa:
ill be entrusted with the ecclesiastical au-
flaws. or "—AL fia*s. 'Sikh are the ' -
Camtular, Beliei the • ppointinent of a new Roman Catholic Arch-
les,' to discover . . amiable thority anti .1
g ~. , f , disappointed selfishness . Prove, to bishone t• • •
occuptsbun® ° e aspereers of the present .ltd minis- A decree has just been issued by. the Spanish Go"
thin and othermime- ,
t s formed' of mete of triedabilityt for the ancharge of certain certificates, amounting
tration that e.l and they will r
o) eci)soo _ ,
e issued in 18•48-, in sat!sfaction of claims of .13ri
known integrity,
9• Provo that t-
la subjects , according to an arrangement between the two
hvitide wen of gemt• • . such is the case, and us . il, , •
Die rate of interest paid upon them has been 5 per
in say that they want men of -experience. point tam •
they w of Stanley, \Vela I- - cent, and it was stipulated that Spain should have the
iron fie
to tee esinsei.,.. g.on, Sugdon; and Han- eon of redeeming them during the first four yearrs
at ,
dingo, find they wid assert: they want young men. Pro- date of their issue at
55. and at any subsequent Pe .0
' the names lAht r-
. , ,
Of Walpole, Mannpra, at young Stan- aeon giving six months' notice. She has DOW aVa! c
d they will stilt have
ley, an another shift—they require self ~f this.
.rice they
clause, and . •it • the latter p
e, therefore is at
rranired under the
leen of figures. Prodace the names of win be paid oil. tit Et„„te, ono . .. , The debt having been
also would have felt
Hell and they will teem something else. Their aueesieedeetes et the British Governmenit;in,,lants in e„, a 0"
fastidiousness is' like that of Benedict, the bachder, and. he
.. e maintain the rights cf
thefi eceeularly met, and the
arises pretty much from the same cause. " Till all graces fault,. th
_interest. has always b, , ,
..,.s
as high hi 66.
grace. - price of the certificates in the.mgge‘ ''''
via one woman, one woman shall net come to my

04DNANQE 'ESTIMATE&

---
Feb. 17 and 24 (Robert Stephenson
Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.
virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never '
4 aa an
colourexc eI ! eiet t
pleaseenusi-
look on hei; mild;. or conee not near me; noble, or not Esq., M.P.; V.P.,pilaipethr,e,ci hoanir)t,htehepderismcuansseinotnvvonayMroi
.. _
-I, fer an tingelf-of gosohdalldbisocoonfrseu!
clan; and "her hairoccupied the whole of theca evenings.
God!! AbOilt a 3 definite as this last would be the al ways,
The importance of diminishing the cost of mainte-
oljection 'in the meuth of the Chronicle aad others,
nance of way was admitted
by all thespeakers, and
against the present or any other Minhary, not of their
own formation, even if it combined all qualities, as per- numerous improvements introduced for that purpose
feet and as plentifully as to suit the captious fancies of a were mentioned. Those which appeared to have ob.
Benedict. A Ministry that shall suit all tastes and meet tamed the most general approval, were Mr. Fowler's
all objections is a thing impossible, like any other per- long chair ; Messrs. Adams and Richardson's fished
fections. In the present one there is at least such a joints ; Mr. Samuel's fished chairs; Mr. P. W. Bar-
combination of talent, experience, official capacity, and
young blood, as will satisfy the candid. More cannot low's cast-iron sleepers ; and Mr. W. H. Barlow's
qualities,
self-supporting broad-flanged, wrought iron rails.
fairly be demanded, unless Lord Derby descends Each of these systems were shown to possesslpeculiar
to au, electieism in politice, which iS as objectionable as 1Rv0...18n
.T.
jude,ea,:,::
electicismin relegfor. , A fair and-temperate 'edvocaerof
latter corral); id
but 'eappeared to be admitted, that the
his own views will conimand the respect of the nation;
__w
that th ne the greater number
. of advantages,
vwe are fain to believe; of all parties, however diversified now
works e e more powerful machinery of. the iron
their opinions. ' For there are plenty of questions in.
and in- the iron lines, without timber sleepers, was combated;
which, if all cannot agree, yet all can combine---sanitary, facility, eel& at a less cost. The asserted rigidity of
and it was stated that, from the evenness of the joints,
social, and even commercial—for the well-being
tercet of the country.
' the wear and tear of the rolling stock would be dimi-
nished, the cost of maintenance of the permanent
way would be materially reduced, and that provision
against theeffeets of the contraction and expansion of
a long length of rails rivetted together need not be
made, as in practice the anticipated effects were not
experienced.
It was stated, that the system of fishing the joints
had been practised in Germany for some time, and
that as far back as 1838 rails with a hole at each end
bad been exported from this country ; it appeared,
however, to be the general opinion, that these. holes
were not intended for fishes, but for traversing pins to
hold down the ends of the rails in the joint chairs ;
however, within the last few years the system of
fish
in Germany.edjointsha
had been introduced with great advan-
tage The numerous varieties of form proposed by Mr.
Adams, for inflexible girder rails, for hollow iron
sleepers, for. a.combination of timber and stone bear-
ings, &C., were discussed; the system of accumulat-
ing all kinds of assumed forms was censured, as hav-
ing a tendency to retard the introduction of unprov-
menti by -practical . engineers • and the compound
rails were objected to as being fess substantial at first,
and more 'expensive to renew than Barlow's rail,
which, when exfoliated on the surface, could be again
' rolled, at a cost of less than 2/. per ton ; the other
inc.aifiemsioila were not unuaidored. to be required, as
with the present experience in railway affairs, with
good materials, care in putting them together, and
keeping the whole in oeder, a . good travelling road
might be made and maintained on any of the usual
stems. Up to the present time a strong bridge-
ril, firmly secured to a strong longitudinal balk of
timber, soundly packed with dry gravel ballast, and
well drained, had been admitted to be, if not the best,
one of the' -best kinds of permanent way. It
remained to be demonstrated by time what amount of
improvement was introduced by the continuous
broad-flanged rail, which it was admitted did appear
to be well adapted for foreign lines, but with respect
to them it..was contended, that in almost all the
tropical climates there were some kinds of timber
which resisted the white ant, and those would neces-
sarily he used ; but it was probable that the use of
iron might be found ultimately more economical, even
it' it were more costly at the outset.
On the question of stone block railways, it was
urged that on several lines so constructed, where the
traffic was considerable, but the velocity did not ex-
ceed ten or twelve miles per hour, the rails lasted
well, and the cost of maintenance of way was light ;
but that where the velocity was great the rigidity
was objectionable, and caused too much wear and
tear of the rolling stock.
In the various statements of the cost of mainte-
nance of way, it was essential to specify what items
were included in each, in order to arrive at any com-
parison. When iron was cheap and timber compara-
tively dear, the proposed system of cast iron sleepers
and of very heavy continuous rails might be advan-
tageously adopted, but in countries where timber was
, abundant and iron must be imported, the system of
longitudinal timber sleepers and light rails would of
necessity be adopted.
With respect to the ca,t-iron sleepers on the South-
Eastern Railway, it was stated, in reply to questions,
that there was not a greater amount of breakage than
with ordinary cast-iron chairs, although the system
had been principally tried on a part of the line where
the traffic was very heavy and the ballast was very
bad, and that the offer of Mr. Taylor, the contractor,
to maintain and renew those parts of the line laid with
cast-iron sleepers, for 21 years for 1001. per annum,
sufficiently proved the fact.
It was urged also that it was impossible to draw
any accurate deductions from the expenditure in
maintaining a wood sleeper line for six mouths, as it
might appear in the next half-year that an apparent
saving had been made at the expense of increased de-
terioration.
It was urged that the duration of rails must depend
on the quality of the iron, the proportion of its
weight to the traffic, end the velocity and amount of
that traffic. That the question of the cost of main-
tenance of way was, up to the present time, almost
an insoluble problem, the elements being inconstant,
no absolutely parrallel cases being in existence, and
unless all ehb conditions were distinctly given, no
comparison ' between different systems cculd be
established. ..
The paper announced to be read at the meeting of
Tuesday, Much. 2, when the monthly ballot for
members will take place, was "On the Electric
elegraph, and the principal improvements in its con-
struction," by Mr. F. R. Window, Assoc. Inst. C.E.

THE FRENCH' GOVERNMENT AND 771 E
- • INDIAN MAIL.
The Semaphore,. of Marseilles has the following on
the subject brtfinem o
ission f the Indian mail:—
. "In the struggle entered into between the two coun-
tries of which Marseilles and Trieste are the champions,
every one is aware that the victory will remain with the
one which shall - gain a speed over the other; politics
will have bat a very slight influence in the affair, and
England will definitely give the preference to the shortest
route. The question, therefore, is to asoerteln whether
the passage of the English mail through France is
effected with the greatest pos
only necessary to follow
with some attention the march of this service, to see
that there is much wanting both in rapidity and regu-
larity. To quote only one example, we will say that
the mail which left Marseilles at the end of January last
took 86 hours to reach London, although the journey
might, if necessary, have been mide in 48 hours. Every
one is 'generally agreed in attributing the trequats
delays which the English mail meets with
French territory to two principal ~. on the
in the examination and ofclassifiih!tion-aus es
thel tll
e
iabout
which takes place at the Post-office
Mar-
seilles, lo
es, and which occasions aat Mar-
two hours'
time; the second results from thess necessity of waiting
for the fast-trains on the rail
from one hourwtoaytenwhhieenhrec,aueseeeserdanfoogtheter
delay, varying
the hour of the arrival of
evidently falls . the packet. The first delay
within the lalxclusive domain of .the Go-
vernment. If we
whichhas t h e
interests
esmeritts
hinformed, the Prefect, who
ofi assumingde the initiative in all affairs
communication to the apartment, has just addressed a
that the sorting of Government, in which he suggests
made at §I _ the letters from India should be hence-
forthmail
all the site, which would save to the English
seille2. That in timewhich is lost in that operation at Mar-
this serious fact is the most rational means of reme-
dyingtons inconvenience, and it is hoped that
this suggestion may be acceded to by, the Post-office
is more oomph
authorities. The second cause of delay ' •
-
cared. In order to remedy it it would suffice that
special trains should be placed at Marseilles at the dis-
posal of the English courier on the arrival of the packet.
But here there arises a question of expanse, which must
be first solved. There probablY
:exifits in the contract
which has been entered into between the French Post-
office and the English Government for the transmission
of the India mail, is blank as far as concerns the trans-
port by railway, and which blank it will be proper
to fill up. On the other hand, the dispute which has
arisen between the Post-office and the Avignon to Mar-
seines Railway. Company, relative to the transport of
dispatches, is not yet settled, and will doubtless act on
the service of the India mail, which is thus reduced to
the condition of a private undertaking. In such a state
of things the English courier only takes a special traiu
under very particular circumstances, and never except
by paying the expense of it. The Prefect,An his ap-
plication to the Government, has said nothing on too
subject of the expense; he has confined himself to
pointing out facts, and the ineovenienoes which result
from them, and
demanding that they should be remedied
by having the necessary arrangements . made -in order
that the moment the English mail is landed, the courier
may-find a train, either special or not, b a fast one,
always rea3y to start with him. The Cha tuber of Con,
mores, to which the Prefect communicated his intended
application,. ha.s also supported it by an application. The
question thus put cannot fail to receive u speo.ly soln-
MU, and one in conformity with the interests of the
country. It must not be forgotten thitt i'. is the whole
of Franco, and not Marseilles alone, which is itattreattd
in preserving the transport of the Indi •-
'.hues iiiiculd be neglected to o

'caul

l'aitcnox.—LaA evening 3.
Mr. John,Villiers Shelley, took place
tneefM
Covent ardor. for the purpose of receiv-
ing of the mends 0..(c.
hotel,
of his political opinions, as a candidate
the Piazan eztolilali:
the eventual retirement of
fitn-wg citYrepresentation upon
Lnehington. At a quarter to eight o'clock the chair
was taken by Mr. Thomas Front. Mr. Shelley then camo
forward, and having expressed himself in terms consistent
with the liberal character of his address, declaring himself
favourable to vote by ballot, short Parliaments, free tra
proceeded to-notice other topics not mentioned in that do-
cument: He engaged to oppose church-rates as being as
much an insult to the Churchman as to the Dissenter ; he
was for defending the country by the navy, rather than tor
looking to a militia for safety. He wr,elcl labour for the
education of the people, and assert their right; to self-govetr..
went. At the conclusion of his address, Mr. Shelley received
a vote of confidence from his audienCe, and a promise of their
support when the election should occur.
NrwBPLPa3 ST Amp,.., —Yesterday a return to Par-
liament was printed, showing the Stamps issued to news-
papers, &c.. from 1837• to 184 inclusive. The return ex.
tends to ,47 folio pages. There is no summary given, but
the acooOnts issued to each paper are mentioned.