The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

a Cabinet almost as evanescent, a Cabinet of merely ;
1 168 day
s—the Cabinet of Lord GODERICH. Under
the Premiership of the Duke of WELLINGTON, there
was sub-equently, in 1828, formed an Administration
the interval of whose existence extended over nearly
three years, namely, over two years and 301 days
altogether. Then came the Reform Cabinet, the Ca-
binet of Earl GREY—a Cabinet lasting three years
and 231 days, that is from 1830 until 1834, in which
latter year Viscount MELBOURNE was nominated for
the first time the First Lord of the Treasury. Upon
this occasion, however, Lord MELBOURNE
and his colleagues continued in office only
128 days being succeeded in the same
year, 1834, by the Duke of WELLINGTON,
and his Grace, after remaining for twenty-two
days in the capacity of a sort of My-Lord-High-
Everything, being in his turn succeeded in that same
memorable year of grace 1834, by Sir RoBERT PEEL,
immediately on that illustrious statesman's return,
from his inopportune visit to the Eternal City. The
" Bedchamber Plot" prevented Sir ROBERTS con-
tinuance in office beyond a
period of just 131
days—Viscount MELBOURNE being in 1835 called
upon to organize his Government. It is
this Government we have already particularized
as the longest-lived since the fourteen years' Govern-
ment of Lord LivaarooL. Having spread its au!ho-
rity over an interval of six years and 138 days, it
also expired—dying disgracefully the death of ex-
haustion. After wards, in 1841, Sir ROBERT PEEL
was authorised by her MAJESTY to draw out the list
'of his Administration. Wonderful though the
achievements of that renowned Ministry were, both
in number and magnitude, they were all accomplished
within an interval of four years and 97 days, when,
in 1845, Lord JOHN RUSSELL was sent for to Edinburgh,
and empowered by his SOVEREIGN to form (if he
could) a new Government. Nineteen days having
been exhausted by Lord JOHN in gallant but ineffec-
tual attempts to collect together a sufficient number
of administrators, Sir ROBERT was again induced, in
1845, to assume
only compelled to theret responsibilitiesretire
from
a power of o
of which his geniu • • thefficseplenbdeoinugr
s and patriotism had so remarkably
illustrated, after extendi •
ng his authority over 188
days additional, ,having been victorious in establishing
the tradefree-• •
principle, and baying been defeated only
upon the question of carrying into effect another
coercion Bill in regard to the people of Ireland. As
is by this time tolerably well known to the
majority, the Cabinet thereupon formed in 1846
by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, after surviving
exactly five years and 239 days, was followed
in the February of the present year by the inaugura-
tion of the Earl of DERBY'S Government. it is
manifest, therefore, from the above particulars that
within the last forty years England has had no less
than fourteen Administrations. Against the continued
recurrence of those brief and sudden changes it
should be the assiduous effort of our more patriotic
statesmen to guard, if possible, henceforth. Other-
wise, the affairs of the empire must be per-
petually liable to fall into confusion—a progres-
sive and uninterrupted system of government being
altogether impracticable without the prevention of so
many injurious political fluctuations. Against the
repetition of this Ministerial incertitude the empire
must, at any rate, be forewarned under existing cir-
cumstances. In 1827 there were two Cabinets, in
1845 there were also two Cabinets, while in 1834
there were, as we have shown, actually no less than
three Cabinets in rapid succession. In 1852, at least,
lot us be spared the agonies of political uncertainty.
England, it should be remembered, has no particular
affection for the mere Dissolving Views of Go-
vernment.

Almost the latest among the inventions patented
before the passing of the new Patent Law Amend-
ment Bill through the Houses of Parliament was that
of BAGGS'Steam Stamp Machineryfor Crushing Gold
Quartz and Metallic Ores—one of the most extraor-
dinary because one of the most simple and effectual
contrivances of modern times—and one, moreover,
which, from its character, must be altogether in-
valuable to the thousands interested in the gold-
diggings of Australia. From an elaborate descrip-
tion of this curious and important piece of me-
chanism, contained in the Mechanic's Magazine of
Saturday last, it appears to us tolerably evident that
the principal advantages claimed for his inven-
tion by the patentee are those which will be
found most acceptable in the mining world—those of
economy in time, cost, and power. Already, as is
well known, there have been various patents the
principle of which has been the endeavour to apply
the direct action of steam or of atmo-
spheric pressure to the movement of a
:orge hammer—but hitherto in each instance the
attempted application has proved inefficacious, and
we after another these patents have consequently
spired without being productive of any advantage.
According to the interesting account before us in re-
ference to BAGGS'S new patent machinery, however,
" the improvements which have been made in the
construction of this description of engine within the
last few years have invested it with a cer-
tain degree of novelty, and it is in the
application of the principle here named to a
qew and useful purpose, and in the details
whereby that application is rendered practically effi-
cacious, that the present invention consists. Wherever
rollers and 'ordinary stamp-heads are employed for
crushing ores, a separate and independent steamsen-
gine, with its shaft, fly-wheel, and connecting gear,
is necessary to produce motion; but here the appa•
ratus is complete in itself, and the steam from a small
boiler being once turned on, the required movements
of the stamping engine are thenceforward automatic,
and independent of extraneous aid. It feeds itself in
adjustable proportion with pigs of coarse metal,
pieces of rock or ore, and, as these are reduced to
powder, it clears them • away. The operation is
self-acting
thiee hml
eagleel
entirely conducted in the dry way, no water being
necessary, as heretofore. It is almost needless to
speak of the immense power obtainable from the
percussive force of steam, or the advantage of such
anm application as the • present." How this enor-
mous
e
ous power is obtained in the newly patented
machinery may be very readily specified. " In
common
iftmtt otufifoea la l hammer
g hammers it is customary merely to
materia faonrdce of steam, and then to allow
by't bY
first gently lifted, s
soou produced
oettahasetceeadm ithen suddenly blown down
Theto be
crushed with the full force
oaerneequence is, that every blow
sized pieces o:rolcikke, shot from a gun, and no fair-
withstand its power.
strokes per minute, and ife en
Tohr regulukcan for a moment
engine' makes about 80
weighing about 2 cwt. be placepdi:
eunderffocr oetahvreesrey stainbo metalwp ..,
head, and allowed to advance
elaoism at the rata of about 2 inclyl
it may be, as it were, fairly beaten to -
in practice
pieces in
about twenty seconds. Of the result a portion is in
flue powder, and another portion rough,
engine 5. a'tic, requires to be again passed through the
complete the pulverisaatliloen;
mlacthiisnefouunpdon
that a second and sin
principle is best adapted for this purpose
That the result of the contrivance has been in the
highest degree satisfactory
appears from a declaration
made in the Mechanic's Magazine by a very compe-
tent authority, Mr. ALFRED TAILEMAN, of the Spitty
Copper Works, Llanelly. In a communication dated
the 23d ultimo, that gentleman observes of the new "
I have now had it fully at work for
steam stamp,
two months ; the quantity 'of coarse metal it will
crush with ease is about 20 tons in 10 hours—about
two-thirds is crushed fine, the remainder would re-
quire to be stamped a second time, to reduce it to the
same fineness. The steam used is very
little, and the
crushing force very great: large lumps of the metal
o wn
(which is very bard) are immediatelybroken d
when I say _ large, I mean 'nova
a
paving-stones." An engraving,
contsainbiegd
in
ns
the ordinarysam
e
number
tneut of t
of the scientific periodical from which we
havealreaa y qu,lted, shows clearlyenough thearrange-
heengine as seen in elevation. Uaon the sub-
ject of the
mrematked--,, nery the Mining Journal has already
coming into op Theseereti ne w s.amping engines are already
have given great '
a rc both here and abroad, and they
sfaction where they have been
adopted. As pretet:t
power with great eimpfi.a combination of extreme
city, portability, and cheap..
ness, we cannot but recato
tut
the mining world, and particularly them to the notice of
aria, to those who are
contemplating the exportationu of machinery for
crushing gold quartz, or au
y description
of metallic

ore." From the united evidence, therefore, of the
Mining Journal, of the manager of the Spitty Copper
Works at Llanelly, and of the Mechanic's Magazine,
it would appear that in BAGGS'S Patent Gold Quartz
Stamp-Machinery, a really valuable boon, has been
secured to the mining world generally, but more par-
ticularly just now to the gold-diggers of Australia.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
Count D'ORSAY, ao well known for years in the
fashionable circles of London, died on Tuesday night.
He bad been suffering for some time, but the imine-
diate cause of his death is attributed to cold caught
lately in a boat at Havre. It is almost needless to
say that the late nobleman was generally regarded for
his amiable qualities. A short time ago the PRINCE
PRESIDENT conferred upon him 30,000 f.
a year as
Conservateur des Beaux Arts.
It is understood that not only will there be no
military review on the 15th, but the National Guards
are not to receive the eagles, so long intended and
promised. Tae new flags will probably be sent to
the Legion with
'mom ' out any ceremony. The conclusion
drawn these rumours are little flattering to the
Bourgeoisie.
The Municipal Council of Avignon has voted
25,0001. for files to he given on the occasion of the
visit of the PRINCE PRESIDENT of the Republic to
tbat city.
'We read in the Moniteur—" There exist along the
coasts of Algeria coral-banks of great richness, which,
notwithstanding the efforts of the administration to
encourage the natives of France, are worked in great
part by foreigners. In order to turn as much as pos"
bible that fishery to the profit of our own manufao.
turers, the Minister of War has just decided that
there shall be granted for the preparation and cutting
of coral in Algeria premiums of 300 f., 2001., and
1001., with medals in silver and bronze. These re-
compenses are comprised in the general list of prizes
to be accorded for the agricultural and industrial ex-
hibition which is to take place at Algiers in the month
of September next.
The body of Marshal EXCELMANS has been depo-
sited in the vaults of the Invalides by the side of that
of Marshal SEBASTIANI.
Marshal HARISPE and General ORNANo have each
been spoken of as likely to succeed the late Marshal
EXCELMANS as Grand Chancellor of the Legion o
Honour. A Paris correspondent of a Brussels journal
states that the decision of the PRINCE PRESIDENT has
been made in favour of General ORNANo.
The Moniteur Algerien of the 30th ult. publishes a
list of pardons and commutations granted to a certain
number of the transported prisoners, among them
four from the department of the Seine. They are
M. J. B. SANDoz, whose sentence has been commuted
into that of surveillance, and MM. IsinoßE Lass Ens,
A. GARDEMBAS, and A. DESGRINGES, who are to be
expelled from the French territory.
The market fluctuated rather considerably, but left
off at an advance on the closing rates of yesterday ; Threes
for the account having bean last marked at 761. 15c.,
and Four-and•a-Half per Cents. at 105 E 400. The
n
market closed as follows:—Three per Cents., for cash,
76f.; for account, 76f. 15c.; Four-ad-a. Half per Cents.,
for cash, 1041. 70c.; for account, 1051. 40c.; Bank of
France Shares, 2,8851.; Austrian New Loan, 95f. 753.;
Spanish Threes, 48f. 50c.; Neapolitan not quoted.
RAn.wevs.—The Share Market has been pretty firm,
at 1,4251.; Rouen, 930 E; Hav re
and some of the lines are again hi her.
375 E; Mher. Orleans closed
4821. 500.; Basle, 310 f • Northern, 675/4 Paris and
Strasburg, 662 f. 50j ;
• Paris and Lyons, 7721. 50c.;
M,nterelu, 221 f. 25-4 Dieppe, 2751 ; Bordeaux and
Testo,l6sE; Western, 620 f.; Lyons and Avignon, 605 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN' RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, At7G. 4.
Dijon and Besangon, VA—East Indi ,n, 27/4—Grand
Junction of France, 51/2—Great western of Canada Bonds
(2d issue, 1856), 10714—Luxembourg, 7—Northern of
France, 26%—Ditto, 201. 3 per cent. Bond; 13%—Paris
llavre, 14 West Flanders, 4%
'll Sambre and Meuse, 7
and Lyons, 20—Paris and Strasbourg, 2534—Rouen and
—Western of France, 10%.

SPAIN.
We have received the Madrid journals of the
30th ultimo.
The Gazette publishes the receipts of the Treasury
for the month of June, which amount to 99,250,744
reals,
being 4,666:878 reels less than in the corre-
sponding month of 1851. The general receipts for
the year ending the 30th of June were 585,496,922
reals, or 10
,335,915 reels less than in 1851.
The Municipality of Seville has just imitated the
example given by that of Cadiz—it has applied to the
Government for authorisation to sell the rural pro-
perty of the town, to purchase with its produce
shares in the Andalusian railway. One of these
properties, the Sierra de Tejada, is twenty-four
leagues in circumference, and by being divided into
moderate lots will bring an exceedingly large sum.
Tranquillity prevails everywhere throughout the
country, and the people are busily employed with
the construction of railways and works of public
utility.

MADRID BOURSE.—The Three per Cents., 45 3-16 ;
Exchange on London, 50 35 paper.

GERMAN Y.

A telegraphic dispatch received at Brussels, from
Berlin, states that the Prussian Gazette, the official
organ of the Government, declares that the secret
treaty between the three Northern Powers, published
by the Morning Chronicle, is a pure invention.
The. Duke of SAXE COBURG GornA has addressed
to the German Governments, as chief of the Ernes-
tine branch, a protest against the incorporation of the
DUchy of Lauenbourg in the knish monarchy.
The King of GREECE left Vienna on the 29th ult.
for Carlsbad.

Tt3e Emperor of AUSTRIA arrived at Cronstadt, in
Transylvania, on the 27th ult.
The negotiarions between Berlin and France, for
the acceAsion of that country to the Austro-Germanic
Postal Union, have been just now concluded, and
those with Denmark, on the same subject, are on
the point of being terminated. The postal congress
will hold a conference at Berlin in the month of
October next, when it will have to pronounce defi-
nitively on the question, and at the same time on
the proposition for a fresh reduction of the postage
of letters. It may, therefore, be anticipated that
the public will enjoy the results of this union early
io the year 1853. According to the official report
for 1851, the Prussian post-office conveyed in that
year 68i millions of letters, of which 35i millions
were inland letters.

Among the important propositions that are to be
discussed at the railway conference that is about to
take place at Stuttgardt, when 45 companies are to
be represented, are the following:-
1. That there shall be a junction of all the trains
on all the liues, so that no time may ba lost in the
conveyance of passengers from one line to another.
2. That railway insurance companies for the con-
veyance of merchandise be established.
3. That all the clocks on the various lines be set
at the same meridian.

The Government has- already authorised the in-
surance companies for railway travellers. Every
traveller, by paying a small premium, will, in case of
accident, receive a considerable sum for himself or
family.

The Archbishop of FHIBUUG, in the Grand Duchy
of Biden, has condemned 140 priests to retire to con-
vents for a given time, as a punishment for having
refused to execute certain orders given by him on the
occasion of the death of the Grand Duke LEOPOLD.
This condemnation was, it appears, published in vio-
lation of some legal formalities, and the Government
intends to proceed against the Archbishop in conse-
quence. On the other hand, most of the priests re-
fuse to obey the Prelate's orders, and it is not known
what be will do against them.