The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1852.

I Contracts are being entered into for the construction of
masses of rock on a large scale in the open air, whereby
picturesque effects will be produced without the violation
of geological facts and laws. and this section of the Na-
tural History department will prove extremely attractive
from the restoration of colossal extinct animals which
will accompany it. Among the curiosities thns ex-
hibited will be working models of the mastodon, the
glyptodon, the inylodon, the ichthyositurns, and the
plesiosaurus; and if these do not astonish and amuse the
multitude we shall despair of the fame of such men as
Professor Owen and Guvier. The Raw Produce Col-
lection is attracting great attention, especially in Liver-
pool, where the directors have secured the aid of Mr.
Archer, who exhibited in llycle-park the remarkable
and complete illustration of imports at that port. With
regard to the space set apart for exhibitors, Mr. Belshaw
who is especially charged with the direction of it, has
Just returned from a visit to the principal seats of our
manufacturing industry, and his inquiries go to 'prove
that the company may expect to realize a largo annual
income from the letting of stalls. In describing the in-
terior arrangements of the building two other points
remain to be noticed. The first relates to the disposal
of the machinery, which is to be placed in an extensive
basement story formed by the rapid fall of the site for
the building towards the park. Thus a very convenient
arrangement is affected, at the same time that the
architectural grandeur of the prine:2ll facade is greatly
heightened lay the additional elevation. The second
point, and one of much importance to the aspect of the
interior, is, that the galleries which ran along both sides
of the nave in the old palace, obstructing the view, are
done away with, and the outside ones are alone retained.
In these will be placed the lighter and more valuable
articles of manufacture, such as occupied them in
Hyde-park.

that ho was a carver and gilder, of St. Mary-street,
Liverpool, was brought up on remand, charged with
stealing a quantity of wearing apparel from the White
Bear public house, in King-street, Hammersmith.
On Thursday evening, the 14th inst., the prisoner en-
tered the above named public house, with a carpet-bag
in his hand, es if he had been travelling, and inquired if
he could be provided with a bed. Mrs. Millward replied
in the Affirmative, and he was shown to a bedroom next
to one occupied by a young man named Edward Griffith's.
The prisoner slept in the room all night, and in the
morning, shortly before nine o'clock, he came down stairs
with his carpet bag, paid his reckoning without ordering
any breakfast, which was the usnai custom for per-
sons to do, and left the house. No suspicion was then
attached to him, but a few mlnutne afterwards,
upon Mrs. Millward going up stairs to ascertain if
all was right, she discoVered Griffithe's box in his bed-
room, which contained his wearing apparel, completely
empty. She instantly informed her husband that
Griffiths' clothes had been stolen, and it was then sus-
pected that the prisoner was the thief. The prisoner
was accordingly pursued and apprehended in the Grove,
walking in the direction of Shepherd's Bush. He was
brought back to the house, and Sergeant Lowe, of the T
division, who had been called, found the carpetbag
locked. He then searched him, and discovered the key
in his pocket. Upon opening the bag the officer found
two coats, a waistcoat, two silk handkerchiefs, and other
articles, which Griffiths identified us belonging to him.
The prisoner was discovered wearing three pairs of trou-
sers, two of which were the property of Griffiths, and
also another waistcoat, belonging to the same person. In
the pockets of the prisoner Sergeant Lowe found a cap,
a cigar case, and gloves, which Griffiths said were his
property. He also said that the whole of his property
was quite safe in his box when lie left his room about
8 o'clock in the morning.
raynter committed the prisoner fer

SIR 11. BUL WER'S MISSION TO ROME.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

TO TIIE EDITOR OF TUE DAILY NEWS.

- -
Protestant Association Office, 6, Serjeant's-inn,
Fleet-street, Oct. 22, 1852.
Sir,—Allow me to invite the attention of yourself and
your readers to the enclosed correspondence of the sub-
ject of diplomatic relations with the Ccurt of Rome.
I have tha honour to remain, Sir, your obedient
servant, JAMES LORD, Chairman.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.

The Lords of the Admiralty will arrive here to-mor
row morning to commence their official inspection. On
Wednesday evening their Lordships personally patronize
a ball in aid of the Seamen 1:411c1 Marines' Orphan
Schools, at Holiingsworth's rooms.
The Niger, 14, acrew.sloop,Cuminander Heath, went
out of harbour to Spithead on Friday evening, and ship-
ped her ammunition yesterday, prior to sailing. It has
hitherto been supposed that Jack would desert his ship
unless his wages were kept in arrear. That such is not
the case has been proved by the fact of the Niger having
left this port without a single " straggler," although paid
down to the 30th of September. This is, we believe, a
very rare ease. The Niger may be manned with an
unusually steady crew, or she may have unusually popu-
lar officers; but at any rate it sugars well for the new
system of mouthly payment to the seamen of the fleet.
The Sappho, 16, Commander the Hon. A. Cochrane,
was inspected, and her crow mustered by the Port-Ad-
miral, and exercised in gunnery by Captain Chads, CJJ.,
rater day, prior to her sailing in the evening to be paid
off at Chatham.
The Termagant, 24, screw-frigate, Captain Giffard,
left Spithead this afternoon for Queenstown to endeavour
to make up her crow.
The Arrogant, 46, screw-frigate, Captain Fremantle
will haul out of the fitting basin on Monday.
The Oriental Queen,convict-ship, which lately touched
at this port for couviets fur transportation, and which
arrived at Plymouth oti Sunday last, carries out a total
of 230 felons, mostly on tickets of leave, and a draught
of the 11th Regiment, consisting of Ensign Petrie and
49 men, commanded by Major Reid, 99th Regiment.
Her destination is Van Diemen's Land.
The three-decker, Marlborough, on the stocks in this
dockyard, is ordered to be named the Windsor Castle.
Mr. H. Davy, Assistant-Master-Attendant of this
dockyard, died on Thursday.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Derby,
My Lord,—You were pleased to favour me with a
prompt reply to my former letter, dated June 26, and
to give an unqualified denial to a report to which I had
drawn your attention with reference to the alleged mis-
sion of some diplomatic agent to Rome to treat with
the Pope in certain important subjects then re-
ferred to. Since then 3 rumour has gone abroad
attended with some matters of so circumstantial s
kind as to give a probability to it,'and to have impressed
many with a belief of its truthfulness. The rumour
to which I now refer appeared in substance in the Pebats
and other papers. It is to the effect that Sir Henry
Bulwer had visited Rome, and when there had an inter-
view with Cardinal Antonehi, on which occasion Sir
Henry is represented as having hinted that it would be
advisable for the British Government to accredit to
Rome an agent with a higher title than that of consul :
and that Cardinal Antonelli replied that it would be
time to discuss such a question when a papal nuncio was
admitted to the Court of England.
May I then request of your lordship information on
the Renewing points :
1. Whether Sir Heery Bulwer has been accredited
as ambassador or minister to the Court of Rome, or
to act there in any diplomatic relation en behalf of
the British Governeeent ?
2- If any communication, official or otherwise, has
been made by him or others to her Mejeety's Govern-
ment of any such interviews as is above referred to ?
Your lordship's exaited position may place you above
noticing mere ordinary rumoure, but I trust that in a
question of so much importance, and in which many feel
so strongly, and ono thus specially brought under your
notice, a speedy and satiefactory reply will be afforded.
I have the houeur to remain, ley lord, your lordship's
I obedient servant, JANIss LORD, Chairman,
Oct 18, 1852.

PLYMOUTH, OCT. 24.
Her Majesty's steana-vessel Pao, 4, Lieutenant Com-
mander T. C. Smith, arrived from Woolwich on Friday,
and having taken her coal on board, was placed at her
sailing moorings on Saturday. She is appointed to sail
to-morrow (Monday) for the Cape of Good Hope.
liar Majesty's frigate Alarm, 26, Captain G. Ramsay,
wont up harbour on the 22nd. Her crew will be paid
off on Friday, the 28th inst.
The General Screw Steam Navigation Company's
mail-packet Hellespont, Captain W. Watts, arrived here
on .Vriday, and is appointed to sail to-day with mails for
Sierra Leone and the coast of Africa, having been taken
up for the voyage by the Royal African Mail Steam-
packet Company, preparatory to the completion of their
own ships.

Downing,• street, Oct. 20, 1852.
Si.,---I am directed by Lord Derby to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 18th inst., in which you
request to he informed whether Sir Henry Bulwer has
beenlaccredited as ambassador or minister to the Court
of Rome, or to act there in any diplomatic relation on
behalf of the British Government ; and also whether any
communication, official or otherwise, has been made by
him or others to her Majesty's Government of any in-
terview with Cardinal Antonelli; and I have, in reply
to your first question, to acquaint you that Sir Henry
Bulwer has not been in any way accredited to the
Court of Rome ; and with respect to your second ques-
tion, that it does not consist with Lord Derby's duty to
answer any inquiries as to private and unofficial com-
munications which may have passed in conversation be-
tween Sir Henry and Cardinal Antonelli, or any other
person at Rome.--I am, sir, your obedient servant,
James Lord, Esq. W. P. TALBOT•

SHEERNESS, SUNDAY, 8
Her Majesty's ship Ganges, 84, launched at Bombay
in 1321, is undergoing extensive repairs, and will be out
of the shipwrights hands in January next. Although
built of teak her stern frame is rotten, and will require'
to be replaced by a new one.
Her Majc3ty's ship Howe, 120, is reported to bo com-
pleted in her repairs by the Ist of April next year, at
which period she will have been in duck nearly two
years.
Her Majesty's screw line-of-battle ship Agamemnon,
pi. captain Sir T. Maitland, will be fully rigged by the
middle of November, and ready for sets by the '2Bth of
December, a month earlier than previously intended.
Fur this purpose the hands at present employed on the
Ganges, 84, and the Miranda steam-sloop, aro to be
taken off, and, together with all the available force of the
dockyard, set to work on her. A portion of the seamen
of the London, 80, advanced ship, are daily employed in
her equipment. She in entering men slowly and is conic
400 short of her complement. When ready for service,
she is to have none other than the best Welch coal,
which, causing but little deposit, is better adapted to
her tubular boilers than coal procured from the north
country. Another ship of the same class is ordered to
be built on the same slip from which she was launched.
ller Majesty's paddlewheel steam-vessel Tartarus,
Lieutenant-Commanding R. H. Risk, will hare made
good her defects in a few days, and will be ready for
sea by the first week in November.
Her Majesty's ship Superb, 80, has been removed from
abreast Chatham dockyard to moorings lower down the
Medway.
The Chatham, yacht to the Captain Superintendent,
Peter Richards, C. 8., arrived yesterday with moneys for
the public service, and returned to Chatham in the after-
noon.
The officers and crews of the Waterloo, Agamemnon,
London, &c., were mustered on Friday by the Hon.
Montagu Stopford, Flag-Captain to Vice-Admiral the
Hon. Joscelino Percy, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief.
Lieutenant Gordon, her Majesty's ship London, who
has been at Portsmouth during the last few weeks raising
men, has returned to his duties on board.
Two large anchors on the plan of Mr. J. Aylen, Mas•
ter-Attendant, aro ordered to be forthwith constructed
at Chatham-dockyard.
The usual members of the Anchor Committee are in
daily deliberation on the subject of their repent.

The League Banquet at Manchester is now drawing
near, and great anxiety is manifested among the corres-
pondents of the council of the League to secure places.
Letters are coming to hand from all parts of the country,
and the applicants include four su4elostis of the French
government. The first issue of tickets was on Thurs-
day, and up to noon the next day 700 or 800 had been
sold, independent of the applications from a distance.
The following additional members of Parliament have
accepted invitations: Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, M.P.,
Lambeth; Mr. Robert Inahern, M.P., South Shields;
Sir George Goodman, M.P., Leeds; Mr. T. Kennedy,
M.P., Louth; Mr. S. M. Pete, M.P.' Norwich; Mr. W.
M. Sbee, M.P., Kilkenny; Mr. Richard Gardner, M.P.,
Leicester; Mr. M. Sullivan, M.P., Kilkenny; Mr. James
Sadlier, M.P., Tipperary; Mr. W. H. Gore Langton,
M.P., Bristol; Sir John Foster Fitzgerald, M.P., Clare;
Mr. John Green. M.P., County Kilkenny; Mr. F.
Scully. M.P., County Tipperary; Mr. P. O'Brien, M.P.;
King's County; Mr. John Ball, M.P., County Carlow;
Mr. Richard Swift, M.P., County Sligo; Mr. Thomas
Thornely, M.P., Wolverhampton; Mr. W. M. E. Mil-
ner, M.P., York • Mr. John Brady. M.P., Leitrim; and
Mr. H. Brown, AP. Tewkesbury.
MODERN CYCLOPEAN WALL.—A recent number of
the Allgerneine Zeitung contains an interesting account of
a visit which the writer had made to inspect the progress
of building a wall in the manner called Cyclopean, at
Dusternbrook, near Kiel, in Schleswig-Holstein. He
considers the effect of the work and the style of execu-
tion far superior to any of the numerous remains called
by the same name which ho had seen in Italy, and goes
su far as to give it the preference over any other kind of
wall, so far as the plain, vertical surface of the material,
apart from ornamental accessories. is concerned. He
thinks that the polygonal stones, exerting their pressure
in all directions, must insure stronger work than squared
stones, however closely jointed, which only act in the di-
rection of gravity. Indeed, the innumerable many-
sided and multangular stones of all sizes seem run to-
gether into one compact mass, of which neither time
nor age will get the better. Neither mortar nor any
other means of binding the stones together is employed;
but the greatest care is taken in fitting :the granite
blocks ono into the other, the vacant spaces in the wall
a 3 it is carried up being accurately taken off with a lead
tape (blei.stange) forced with a hammer into all the angles
of the openings, and then applied to the flat hewn face of
the block best suited, and next to be brought to its pro-
per shape by the workman. From the workmen, he learned
that the directions given them by the architect were—
" Five-sided and six-sided blocks, seldom four-sided;
straight lines, obtuse angles, joint upon angle and
angle upon joint; all according to the lead tape,
and only inclined junctions." In fact, all the
junctions between the blocks were found to be in every
gradation between the perpendicular and the horizontal,
without coinciding with either of them. In this obli-
quity of the joints the author detected the arch principle
of construction as applied to the work, and the workmen
pointed out to him, that each stone either pressed or
rHoeursr.
Malinke
H e was uwnaasb let
hteo eaamr ne
oft h e
thename oi
if dt hr awr ch ho i t
hade e t.
supported, with every one of its sides, however nume-
n
e
said that the cost of the work was less than a squared
stone wall ; that it was much stronger, so that he should
have used it in several larger buildings if he had been
acquainted with it sooner ; moreover, that this kind of
building was to be preferred, because every stone, large
or small, can be used up in it. Generally, the writer
holds this polygonal or Cyclopean kind of building to be
especially applicable in, first, hydraulic works, as it offers
nowhere a continuous joint to the water ; second, in for-
tifications ; third, for railways in substruction and steep
coverings, and in the cellar story and even in the next
story of large buildings and palaces. In these mortar
would be used, not as a means of connecting the stone,
but only as pointing to the joints, so that the immediate
contact of the stone should not be interrupted. In con-
clusion, the writer recommends the adoption of this
method of building, according to determined and clearly
defined principles and rules, as altogether practical,
wherever the material for polygonal blocks is found—a
method which is at least to us a new one, and not simply
a more careful execution of the long-used rock walls, or
an ornamental imitation of an old style, as in the Wal-
halla, of which practical method, in short, the Cyclopean
wall, near Kiel, is the first example that has been exe-
cuted in Germany.— The Builder.
THE BALLOT.—Mr. Cobden in a letter to the un-
successful liberal candidate for Montgomery remarks—
It is to meet each crying evils that you describe that the
ballot must be adopted. It is not as a cure for bribery,
that I advocate secret voting, so much as a shield against
intimidation and coercion. The remedy for bribery is
the enlarging of the small constituencies, and the ballot.
With 28 millions of people to be represented in Parlia-
by 656 members, there ought not to be any small consti-
tuencies.
TUE MARIONETTES IN LIYERPOOL.—The perform-
ances this week have been slightly varied. Mr. A. Browne
delivers a new introductory address, and then follows the
burlesque of " Bombastus Furioso." Next, we have a
duet from Norma, the performances of the Ethiopian
melodists, a comic song, and the splendid spectacle of
" Aladdin." The audiences are numerous, and if we
may judge by the roars of laughter and thunders of
applause with which the efforts of the puppets are
grectei., greater favourites never appeared before the
Liverpool public, We are not at all surprised that it
snould be so, for the performance of the Ethiopians alone
is no natural, and withal so ludicrous, that all classes aro
provoked thereby to, we had almost said, the most out-
rageous laughter. The scenery is splendid, every scene
being a perfect picture in itself ; and the action of some of
thelilg
to uresisgraceful, if not always natural. For children,
a visit Marionettes wilt be a great treat; and although
largee
d forin
numberst h e
mattenderni n nightly, gh
performances,t , the y re
which specially
tai
cep placero-
v
every Saturday.—Lirerpoot Mercury, Oct. 29,
NEVER .11EsrAia.—A couple were married at
King's who had "wooed" for 37 years,

WOOLWICH, OCT. 23.
APPOINTMENTS.

Surgeons—William Robertson, M.D. (1843), from the
Hogue screw steams-hip, at Portsmouth, to the Leander,
50, at Portsmouth; James G. Buchanan (1846), to the
Impregnable flag-ship, at Devonport.
Master James Tonkin (1832), at present serving in
the Waterloo, 120, flag-ship, at Sheerness, is appointed
assistant-master-attendant at Portsmouth dockyard, vice
Henry Davy, deceased.
The Princess Alice, Dover mail steam-packet, Second-
Master Rutter, lett Woolwich on Friday evening last to
resume her duties on the Dover station.
The Dover iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel of 90-
horse power arrived at Woolwich on Friday evening
from the river Gambia, on the coast of Africa. The
Dover was brought home in charge of the chief-engineer,
and there are only four other white persons on board,
the remainder of the crew being all Kroomen.
It was Lieutenant Thomas Saumarez who has just
returned from Africa, and not Lieutenant Philip bau-
marez, of the Terrible, who has been appointed to the
Victoria and Albert.

LAW REFORMS.—The first day of Michaelmas '
Term, when the new course of procedure in the Court
of Chancery comes into operation, is rapidly approach-
ing, and some anxiety is felt both by professional men
and by suitors with reference to the working of the new
system. Such anxiety is not groundless. The impend-
ing alterations relate not merely to the practice in the
courts, but they also transfer the direction of the details
of a suit to the Judges sitting at Chancery in substitu-
tion of the present Masters in Chancery, and yet to the
present moment no general rules and orders for regu-
lating the form and mode of procedure before the Judges
so sitting at Chambers have been promulgated. The
practitioner is lett without chart or compass, and will be
obliged to act in working out a now system without
having had the opportunity of considering the effect and
operation of the rules which he will ho required to ob-
serve.
MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.--WEDNINP.
RIMY, SATURDAY.—A shocking tragedy has just been
perpetrated hero, a married woman having drowned her
child, aged 15 months, in a tub, and afterwards made an
attempt on her own life by hanging herself. The cir-
cumstances were investigated last evening, by Mr.
tho district coroner. A number of witnesses
were examined, and the following is the gist of their
testimony : The alleged murderess, Sarah Smith, is the
wife of a moulder, employed at the ironworks of Mr.
George Adams, of this town. On Saturday evening last,
about five o'clock, Smith, the husband, came, home from
his work, but could not find his wife. After looking
about the house, he discovered her hanging from a hook
in the pantry by a handkerchief, which she had tied
round her neck. He cut her down, and found her in-
sensible, but by prompt surgical assistance she was re-
stored. , Almost immediately afterwards the dead body
of Smith's little child was found in a tub of water, over
which a tea-tray had bean placed. The tub was a
small one-1 foot 8 inches in height, and 1 foot 2 inche
in diameter. After the mother had been taken into cus-
tody, Mrs. Chowle, a neighbour, asked her how she
could do such a thing as kill .her child ; to which she
replied, "I will tell you all about it, I left the child
in the brewhouse, playing with its chair, while I went
to the cistern for water. When I returned, I found
it iu the tub, with its head downward'. I pulled him
out, but ho was nearly gone. I felt afraid, and I put
him in again, and went and hanged myself." She
afterwards repeated this statement, and denied that
she had killed the child. Mr. Bailey, a surgeon, of
Wednesbury, having examined the prisoner on the
evening of the alleged murder, gave his opinion that
she was labouring under temporary insanity. The jury,
after a charge from the coroner, returned a verdict of
".Wilful murder" against Sarah Smith.