The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-20 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 19.—Commander Von Donnop,
lately mail agent in one of the Cape screw-vessels. bas
been appointed to the command of her Majesty's screw-
vessel Vulcan, vice Master Commander Penn, super-
seded by the new regulation of the Admiralty, by which
troop-ships are in future to be commanded by captains
and commanders.

The Echo, with two fiats in tow, proceeded to Cowes,
this morning, to remove the depot of the 36th Regiment,
370 strong, to Southampton, en route to Pembroke.
The Arethuse, 50 Captain Symonds, was towed out
of harbour this morning by the Tiger steamer, with
royal yards across, and joined the squadron at Spithead.
The Tiger proceeded afterwards to test her engines and
machinery along the measures mile.
Tho Sampson steam-frigate, Captain Jones, has re-
ceived her crew on return from leave, and will be ready
to go out to Spithead and join the squadron assembled
there to-morrow. _ _

The Vesuvius steam-sloop, recently brought to this
port from Plymouth, has been taken in the steam basin
to make good defects.
Wind, south; weather fine.
DEYONPORT, APRIL 1 S.—Lieut. Stevens, of the Steam
Reserve, has been appointed to take charge of the steam-
sloop Desperate. She has taken in two mouths' pro-
visions, powder, and other stores, and can be ready for
sea at any hour should the Commander-in-Chief at
Devonport give his powerful assistance.
Sailed on Saturday morning the Devon, lighter, Bond,
master, with Mr. Brown, second-master-attendant, and
party, for Glasgow, to navigate the Brisk, steamer, from
Glasgow to Devonport.
Resistance, troop-ship, embarked a detachment of the
97th Regiment on Friday, and sailed on Saturday for
Halifax.

The sailing orders for the Pestongee Bomangee, con-
vict-ship, arrived this morning, and she sailed at one
this day.
Hauloaxe, lighter, Wood, master, is tailing in stores
for the Comet, surveying-vessel, at the Isla of Skye,
Scotland. She will return via Liverpool, to convey old
stores to Devonport.
We had a shift of wind yesterday afternoon, it having
been east for seven weeks, with the exception of two or
three days. Yesterday it shifted to south, and then to
S.W., but very light. The whole fleet of wind-bound
vessels got under weigh, above 200 in number. This
morning it came in to north, a fine breez and has com-
pletely cleared the Sound, Catwater, Stonehouse Pool,
So., of all the merchant vessels.
In the Sound—Dauntless. In Harbour—lmpregnable,
St. George, Leander, Magicienne, Vixen, Britomart,
Sylph, Avon, Hotspur, Confiance. In Ilsmoaz 3—Camel,
Tortoise, and Manouvrer lighters.
APRIL 19.—The Rolla left the Sound this morning to
renew her task of relieving the homeward•bound ships
detained by the easterly winds in the chops of the
Channel. The Nautilus brig, Lieutenant Dolling, which
has been employed on the same service, has just made
her numbers, and is coming into the Sound.,

THE MAGELLAN PIRATES.
Great excitement prevailed at Valparaiso in conse-
quence of the arrival of the Virago (her Britannic
co gm-
a-
jesty's steamer) and Chilian brig of war Meteor, ac
panying the American schooner barque Florida and Bri-
tish brig Eliza Cornish, with the revolutionists of the
Magellan Straits. They all landed on the 24th. Cain-
biaso, the murderous leader, being
heavily ironed
conducted in a birloche (cab), but looked very cool,,
end
amused himself by twisting his moustache and noddinhere areg
to any chance acquaintance in the crowd. T
350 in all, 180 of whom were taken by the Virago from
on board the Eliza Cornish in the Straits, the balance
having been brought from Chiloe, where they had been
taken to, while on board the Florida a counter revolu-
tion on board having mastered Cambiaso and
his man, and delivered the vessel up
to the
Talbot, of the Eliza
legitimate authorities. Captain
Cornish, Mr. Cornish, p of the
assenger, and son
vessel's owner, Mr. Shaw, owner of the Florida, and
eight other (including one woman), were all shot in cool
blood, without any apparent cause but just to satisfy
Cambiaso's craving for bloc
od. s soon as the news
y,
reached Valparaiso of the massacre on board these yes-
eels, a dispatch was sent to Commodore at
Al'eaule
Callao, then on his way to Panama, who immediately
w
fri-
returned to the former port had been em plo toith the United States
-valparaiso to Monte Video.
Bete Raritan. These vesses yed Con-
vey the rebel troops from l
When the Virago passed through the Straits on her
formed the
way from England to the Pacific, Carnbiaso
plan of taking her, by inviting the officers to a banquet
on shore, there giving them poisoned drinks, and sending
poisoned provisions on board. Fortunately the apothe-
cary of the colony, to his honour and credit, positively
refused to be a party to such an infamous aftkir,
therefore, did noi 6hake him. Ere
and the
threat of being shot,
this, Cambiaso and hie PliniOng have probably received
weir doles%

iQ.

LITERLTURE.

aucHAUD'S- .ELISTORY OF THE CRU-
SADERS. Translated from the French by W.
Robson. 3 rag.— Vol. 1. Routhdge, Farring-

dorh• street.

Although it is the history of times long past, the
chief actors in which are separated from us by ages,
and many of whose, events seem enveloped in the
" twilight of fable," still the record of the Crusades
must be to all thinning minds an object of interest.
Apart from their important influence over society,
and their effect on the spirit of their generations, it is
interesting as well as instructive to consider the
motives that induced so many to forego their existence
of comparative comfort at home to encounter the
most toilsome and perplexed lives, and to run the
chance of meeting with the most painful and linger-
ing deaths. Indeed, all the ills to which flesh is
heir seemed arrayed against them. After passing
through bnstile lands, after enduring shipwrecks and
disasters at sea, they had to meet in the fiery desert
troops of enemies to whom that scorching soil was
native ground, and to whom that horning atmosphere
was native air. Suffering was indeed the badge of
all their tribes, from the first departure from the home
they would never in all human probability revisit,
till their final miseries and frequent deaths in the great
and terrible wilderness in which there is no water.
It is asserted by many writers, perhaps truly, that
all were not sincere in their professions nor honest in
their practices who were leagued together in the
bands of Crusaders. Human nature was ever the
same virtually, in all countries►, through every
age, in whatever • undertakings there have been
been, but it is certain that one of its brightest pages
is that which chronicles the Crusades. It would be
well if the present age, amid its worship of, gold and
its cultivation of luxurious refinement, could exercise
a little of that spirit of devotion and self-sacrifice
which lighted up the doings of the heroes of antiquity,
and drew down the acclamations of their greatest
enemies. It was not zeal without profit that inspired
them, nor was their enthusiasm entirely misplaced,
since it has shown what man can do and dare, when
actuated by a glorious cause. Human aspirations
cannot look to higher, nor can human igenuity
devise grandeur motives than those which
propelled the Crusaders, and it has never
been shown that any equalled them. The best
proof is in the fact that nothing daunted them. If in
troubles, they expected them ; if in want and priva-
tion, they bore their Master's cross ; if their friends
fell away, they had gone before them to their great
reward; and if cast into dungeons, the enterprise that
imprisoned them led captivity captive; while the last
trial that can await all was their crowning triumph.
To conquer others is the motto of a warrior in life ;
in death he must conquer himself. And who rose
more superior to the King of Terrors than the cham-
pion of the Cross, over the gloomy horrors of the
foreign grave, into which he would be flung by un-
hallowed hands after the flames of the stake and other
torturing devices had done their worst ; he spread the
spotless robes of martyrdom, and the scene of his ig-
nominy was made bright to his senses by a halo of
glory caught from the opening gates of Paradise.
If such could be endured for the cause, it was not a
selfish, worldly one; and it is to be:questioned if those
who decidedly despise it as of earth, earthy, would
undertake so much themselves for the avowed cause
of Heaven. It is always easy to find fault, and no-
thing is too great or good to escape ridicule ; but
abuse is not argument, and many who criticise the
faults of others are only endeavouring to parade their
own cleverness. The pilgrimages to the Holy Land
are over, bnt the pilgrims, to use the words of the
biographer of Lord G. Bentinck, " they have left us
the legacy of heroes, the memory of their great
names, and the inspiration of their great examples ;"
and it would be well, if on rising frum the perusal of
their histories, we were to imbibe some of their
energy, their patience, and their courage, to carry
with us into the battle of life ; then, when assailed by
our numerous trials, their spirit might inspire us to
go and do likewise.

TILE GREAT CITIES OF TILE ANCLENT
WORLD. By Theodore Alvis Buckley, 8.A.,
of Christ Church. Routledge.
A highly attractive and instructive work, presenting
most forcibly to the mind of the reader the images of
the great cities " in their glory and their desolation."
It must be profoundly interesting to those who have
studied the events and actions of distant ages to have
the scenes where those events took place and those
deeds were performed brought before them, not only
as they are, but as they have been. Conspicuous
among the list stand the names of Babylon, Palmyra,
Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome. Others less known
also find a place, such asTyre, Ephesus, Elis, Veil, and
Scandinavia. The following is taken from the In-
troduction :
" When we view the sand-buried monuments of Egyp-
.

tian magnificence on their own site, or study the fiag-
meats which, thousand of miles away from the places
they adorned for ages, form the greatest ornaments of
our own museums; when we read of the convulsions
of nature and the wars of men which have produced vast
and sudden ruin, or when we examine the minute poly-
pus which has wrought as sure but more tardy destruc-
tion in Calabria, tha❑ its deadly predecessor the earth-
quake, we feel that even ' the worm and the moth' have
their niche in the temple of history. What the head-
long sway of armed forces has spared, that the minutest
things of earth have claimed for their own, and the same
almost invisible agency that has partitioned the depths
of the ocean with coral reefs has eaten away the well-
chiselled marbles that once bore witness to the pride of
man's greatness. Did we seek to write history with
perfect accuracy, how humiliating its details, how minute
its subdivisions !"

THE TRAVELS of ROLANDO ; or, a Tour
Round the World. George Routledge and Co.
A new edition of this work has long been called
for. It includes travels in Morocco, Egypt, Arabia,
the Cape of Good Hope, and Batavia, and many in-
teresting accounts of the customs and inhabitants of
those countries are introduced. Wandering Arabs,
snake charmers, Hottentots, elephants, lions and
crocodiles are encountered, and numerous illustrations
are given. It is translated by Miss Aiken, and newly
corrected and revised by Cecil Hartley, A.M. It is
an excellent combination of instruction and enter-
tainment, conveying valuable information under the
form of exciting incidents and agreeable descriptions
of foreign lands.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, with their Royal
Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal,
Prince Alfred, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa,
and Prince Arthur, and accompanied by his Serene
Highness Prince Leuplod of Saxe Coburg, left Windsor
Castle at twenty minutes before three o'clock yesterday
afternoon, for the station of the Great Western Rail-
way, in Windsor, where a guard of honour of the Cold-
stream Guards, with the band of the regiment, received
her Majesty on her arrival with the usual honours.
The Queen and Prince left by a special train, attended
by the Countess of Desart, Lady Caroline Barrington,
the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, the Hon. Beatrice Byng,
Earl Talbot, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps,
Hon. Joseph Denman, RN., Lord Colville,
Colonel
Francis Hugh Seymour, and the Master of thea p ddington
House-
hold. The august party were conveyed to. Captain the
Albert and the
which conveyed her Majesty and Princwhere seven of the Queen's carriages wee
re in readiness,
the 7th Hussars forming the escort.
Royal party to Buckingham Palace ; a detachment of
fore four o'clock,
ham Palace at twenty-five minutes before
H The Queen and Prince Albert arrived at Bucking-
ham
and were received by the Master of the orse, the Lord
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, Lord George Lennox,
and Colonel Wylde.
al Highness Prince Albert,
and Colonel F.
Her Majesty tied his Boy
Colville, and
with their presence last
accompanied by his Serene Ilighirss Prince Leopold of
Saxe Coburg, and attended by_t e Countess of Desart,
Fremantle, Chairman of the Board of
H. Seymour,
honouredEa r l
evening.
official residence in Down-
ye,r vaite
hisw withom
CuSsitromTsh,ohmaadsan the Chancellor of the
Mr. John Wood, ing-street.Chairman of the. Board of
Inland Revenue, had also an int •
erview with the Right
Hon. Gentleman.
Exchequer yesterdinat
Lord Lyttelton had an interview •
ton yesterday at the Colonial Office.
with Sir J. Faking-
ton
deputation from Burnham
in-
terview yesterday with the General(Somerset) had an
their offices, Whitehall. The deputation consisted of
Reed, Gunter, and Hobbs.
Sir Thomas Gladstone had
an interview with Mr.
Secretary Walpole Dispatches were yesterday at the Home-office.
Sunday from thereceived at the Colonial.offioe on
Governors
of Hong Kong
Dispatches were received and Ceylon. yesterday from the Governors
of Canada and of the Mauritius.
Dispatches were sent yesterday
Colonial-
office to the Governors of from the Gibraltar and Malta, the Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, the Governor
of Ceylon, and the Governor of Hong-Kong.
D

UCEIY or CORNWALL.—A return printed by
order of the House of Commons, showing the receipts and
disbursements of the Duchy of Cornwall, for the year ended
31st December, 1851, includes under the head of receipts,
among other items, 8,609/. 15s. balance at the bankers, to
the credit of the account of the council of his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales, on 31st December, 1850 ; rents
and profits of courts, 27,046/. 9s. 74d.; produce of the
royalties of coal mines in Somerset, and royalties and reser-
vations of dues and rents of mines and quarries in Cornwall
and Devon, 7,1421. ss. 11d. ; and annuity received from the
Consolidated Fund under Ist aad 2d Vie., c. 120, in lieu of
tin coinage duties, postgroats, and white rents, 16,216/. 155.;
total receipts, 61,2721. 2s. 7d. The disbursements, amount-
ing in the whole to 53,593/. 16s. 2d., include, among other
items, 39,902/. 10s. payments made to the trustees and trea-
surer of his Royal Highness; and 13,061/. 118.2 d. for salaries,
superannuation allowances and annuities, donations and
charities, law charges, tithes, rates, taxes, income-tax; _
and
other incidental charges; leaving a balance on the 31 t
cember last of 7,676/. 6s. sd.
f the
DUCHY OF LANCASTER.—From a return
ituiceN °
issued) it appears that the income, with 1) baeimas last
Duchy of Lancaster in the year ending .1y;00/. was paid
amounted to 35,9981.25. 9id., out of which
papia ants the
to her Majesty's Privy Purse. After varieu (yesteray
I balances were 5,2871. 3e. 41

FLEE TRADE.
The prosperity of cur manufacturing towns is so pa-
tent and splendid a fact that nobody now has the har •
dihood to dory it, unless it be in the draggling tail ref
some maudlin rhapsody which the writer well knows :s
too worthless for criticism. Take any men, women, cr
children from any considerable town in the northern or •
midland districts, and tell awns that the people are now
unemployed, soarving, houseless, and miserable, and
your hearers wiil set, you down as a maniac broken loose
from some
_neighbouring asylum. But when we pass
from the condit4s of the towns to that of the rural dies
trietse we come at once' to a sphere where the greatest
vicissitudes make comparatively
little show. If yea
drive through a prosperous manufacturing town, you see
factories and new streets rising on all sides; crowds of
well-dressed women and children passing to their work
or their homes; new shops, new suburban villas and
gardens—facts all vivid and significant as a poet
or a painter would venture to describe .
01 the other hand, a rural village, whether in the height
of prosperity, or in the depth (if adversity, present*
much the same aspect to the casual speck ter. In neither
case is it likely to exhibit new streets, new edifices, well.
dressed crowds, showy shops, or any; ontOvard circuu.- •
stances of happiness and wealth. Hence the `e is rather
more latitude for opinion in measuring
the p,•ogress of
such a place, simply because the proofs" are root 'dig
subjecta fidelib'is; you have not the same palpab i? test.
To this must be added that notorious disposin Qa to
grumble, which is the invariable instinct of farmers, and
which communicates itself in a greater or less degree to
all classes connected with them. The landlord is alws„3
the most complaining of capitalists, and the labours.'
the least satisfied of operatives. But as for the farmer,
no course of the seasons, no combination of the eh -
meats, no proportion of sun and rain, ever did or ever
will satisfy him. So from him, at least, we may wait
long enough before we shell find an explicit admission of
prosperity.
But even our rural population is now too prosperous
to conceal its condition. The valued corresponds-tit to
whom we have so often been indebted for painful re-
velations of the state of Dorsetshire, and other agricn'l-
tural counties, has lived to see, as he now infoms us, a
delightful change come over that dreary scene. Even
in that dark region of Protectionist squires and un-
protected labourers, he discovers, on a careful induc-
tion of all orders and classes, that nobody has to com-
plain of free trade. Landlords get their rents without
the necessity of permanent reduction; the clergy get
in
npseagecet in their ; theestablishedehari-
ttts and subscriptions;
benevolence is not overwhelmed with demands;
labourers fare better even with their wages in some in-
stances reduced ; tail wheat and " casualties," as the
butchers call them, are not in such request ; boards :If
guardians have not so much to do. • W h tux ever way yen
took, the same agreeable symptoms meet the eye. Be
it free trade or not, be it California, or emigration, or
simply a kind Heaven, so it is in fact ; Dorsetshire is
saved, and its great pattern squire, by a remarkable co-
incidence, finds himself in power just at a time when he
has nothing more to say ; with his party in the
ascendant, his cause is bankrupt, and the great patron
of landowners, framework knitters, handloom weavers,
and other distressed classes, has now nothing to do but
convey to her Majesty the decisions of courts-nsartial.
We are very far from asserting that free trade, and
free trade alone, had produced all these gratifying
results. In the skein of human affairs there are many
different threads, and, if Providence seems to forward
the development of the new policy,, it is not for us to
disown that opportune aid. But this we must say,
that when many circumstances of the national pres•
perity can be directly referred to free, trade, and when
the evils that were predicted have not come to pass;
when manufacturers are prosperous, and agriculturists
are not ruined; when artisans, mechanics, and labourers
are all thriving,--:ehen we must claim a victory. If that
be not allowed, then there can be no appeal to resnitai
and no end of controversy. Our Dorsetshire correspon-
dent has brought the question to a very simple issue,
so far as regards the, sinister auguries of Protectionist
prophets. He asks that his county may be polled,
and says that the labouring class will return eat
almost unanimous verdict in favour of Free Trade.
But even Mr. G. F. Young has at length crowned
his long crusade by admitting the general prospe-
rity. He cannot deny it ; so he accounts for it
after his own fashion. It is not owing to free trade, he
declares, but in spite of free trade. It comes of the
famine, of emigration, of California, of Australia, and
wo know not what besides. We shall not venture now
to disturb the serenity of the Hon. Gentleman's convic-
tions, or to mar the perfect squareness of his theory.
Let us hope that he believes what he says. Happily, he
has come to the same practical conclusion as the
rest of his political friends. Whether " the
big loaf," which he says will convert him when
he sees it permanently secured to the labourer
by free trade, or tome other more potent conaidera-
ration, has moved him, certain it it, that the last of the
Protectionists, has now merged protection in the para-
mount necessity of a Conservative Administration.
Here are the lest words of Mr. G. F. Young:—" Let
me, then, solemnly conjure you at this crisis to take, as
electors, the only course that offers a chance of averting
the consummation of your destruction. If you begin
now to reconstruct corn-laws and navigation-laws, and
fixed duties and sliding scales, and diminution of
burdens, and the thousand and one expedients with
which friends perplex and enemies decoy you, be as-
sured you are lost. Divided and distracted,
you will be defeated. Lord Derby's Government
will be displaced. Lord John Russell, ' taking
to himself seven other spirits more evil than himself,'
will again be installed in power, and your ' last state
will be worse than the first.' * * Again, thee,
I say, select as candidates men whose character is a gua-
rantee for their honesty, and ask them now only the one
question, ' Will you support the Government of Lord
Derby?' It is too late to raise other points."
Mr. G. F. Young is certainly taking the only possible
course. Therein we commend his prudence. But we
are not so sure that even this only possible course will
give
him the satisfaction he desires. Lord Derby, with
protection, is intelligible.enough. Lord Derby, without
it, is an enigma which neither his friends nor his foes
have yet attempted to decipher, and Mr. G. F. Young
evidently recoils from the task.—Times.