The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-23 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Commander James H. Bridges (1850) has been ap-
pointed from the Naval College, Portsmouth, to be Ad-
miralty agent in charge of the Cape of Good Hops
mails, vice Wainwright, appointed to the Winchester, 50.
Commander Barnard and the officers and men of the
Vesuvius, steam sloop, Devonport, are ordered to be
turned over to the Vixen, 6, steam-sloop, Portsmouth.
Another unfounded statement appears in some of our
contemporerits, dated "Sheerness," with respect to the
London, 92, at Sheerness. She was never ordered to
the Downs, as asserted some weeks since, and therefore
the order is not countermanded, as stated yesterday.
Both order and countermand have no existence.
We are informed that orders have been received at
Devonport to the effect that the Pbcebe, 50, building, is
ordered to be completed with all possible dispatch, to be
launched this summer, when a newfrigate, to be called
the Liffey. is to be laid down in the same slip. We trust
that, this order for launching the Pbcebe will be rescinded.
It is a useless waste of money to launch 50-gun sailing
vessels wben we are converting our three-deckers into
screw-ships. This Phoebe ought never to have been
laid down. Her designer was the great bolsterer-up of
the " intuitive system of ship-building" which has half
ruined our navy, and helped to bring upon us the odious
income-tax. By some Navy-office manoeuvre he con-
trived to get an order to lay down this Plicehe before her
sister:ship, the Indefatigable, was tested, and since the
latter has been. tried she has turned out to be inferior,
instead of superior, to one or two of the other 50-gun
frigates. It was this system of building iron ships upon
the lines of those that bad never been tried that has
filled our ports with a usele....s stock of men-of-war.—
Herald.

Commander George Martin Hunter (1844), on the
reserved half-pay list, died Soutbsea. Ha was son of
the late General Sir M. Hunter.
Conflict, 8. screw-sloop, Commander Skipwith, received
on board at Buenos Ayres, the late Governor, General
Rosas.
The Rev. Godfrey Kingsford, chaplain to the convict
establishment at Gtbraltar, committed suicide, on Friday,
the 12th inst., by cutting his throat with a knife. The
jury composing the inquest gave a verdict of temporary
insanity, and he was buried the next evening. He W2B
a zealous preacher, and much esteswed by ill classes in
Gibraltar.

DOCKYARDS.— The following superannuations have
taken place in Devonport Dockyard :—George P. War-
ren, shipwright, 221.; Robert Tresidor, a joiner, 24/4
and John Htegings, 151. per annum each.
THE MINIE RIFLE AND THE MARINES. Captain C.
W. Adair and two aergecets of the Plymouth division of
Royal Marines, left head quarters on Saturday for
Woolwich, in accordance with an order from the De-
puty-Adjutant General, to receive instructions in the use
of the new rift, musket, under the direction and superin-
tendence of Major Brownrigg, of the Grenadier Guards.
Captain and Barrack Master Toby, of the same division,
having served ten years in that capacity, becomes en-
titled to an incrase of 53. per diem pay, with the rank
Major.
PATIENTS SENT To SICK QUARTERS ON SHORE.—
The folio a ing Admiralty regulations have recently come
into opmtioo :—" My Lards Commissioners of the Ad-
miralty. are pleased to diract that previously to sending
any patients, whether officers or men, from her Ma-
jesty's ships to sick quarters en shore (excising to
naval hospitals, or to established surgeons and agents),
a statement is in each case to be required from the me-
dical officer of the ship, signed and approved by the cap-
tain, or commanding officer, of the particular nature and
effect of the disease, and of the reason why the patient
could not be safely treated on board ; and when there
is no medical officer on board, the same information is
to be required from the professional person to whom the
patient is sent. Tee rates. charged for the subsistence
and medical attendance of the patients are to be also
stated ; which rates are to be as reasonable as possible
consistently with providing proper accommodation?' The
above statement is to be transmitted in every such case
to the Directors General of the Medical Department of
the Navy.
PORTSMOUTH,- MONDAY.—The Superb, 80, Captain
Purcell, arrived at Spithead this morning, from the Me-
diterranean station. She left Malta on the 21st ult.,
and Lisbon on the 15th inst. She encountered a conti-
nuance of violent adverse gales from the time she left
Malta until she made Gibraltar, after which she made a
smooth passage to Lisbon. The Dragon steam frigate
was the only English man of-war left at Lisbon, and she
towed the Superb over the bar. Commander Dirom,
late First Lieutenant of the Albion; Lieutenant Kirk,
7,h Royal FusilierS; and 'Mr. Rundle, Chief Engineer,
N R.., of the Terrible steam-frigate, have come home
passengers in the Superb, which also brought all the in-
valids from the hospital ashore at Lisbon left behind
when Commodore Martin left the Tagus, with the ex-
neption of thiee orluur, who were not in a fit state to
bn removed. She has brought home condemned upwards
of 4;000 canisteri of Goldner 's "
"preserveeseved meats"
(about 34,0001b5.1) to return to y Clarence
Victualling-yard. The Superb is in good re-
pair, although she may be said to have had
a sist years' commission :instead of three, as s
sshe was
paid off all standing and immediately re-commiioned,
Her orew have been got into fine serviceable order by.
Captain Purcell. although he had the refugees of the
Irish coast to make seamen of. These will now be dis-
banded-750 good serviceable men—according to the
existing mode of manning the navy, as the Superb ill
ordered to be paid off on the 31st inst. During
the violence of the gale in the Mediterranean, on her
paorage home, ihe lost a seaman off her foretopsailyard.
who was drowned.
The Vixen steam-sloop went oat to Stokes Bay to-
day to try her speed and exercise her machinery. She
brought to off the dockyard stairs on her return to
harbour, where her compasses will be adjusted.
The Bulldog steam-sloop was taken into the steam-
basin to-day to receive new boilers.
The Victory and Rodney sent up their service lower
yards-and topmasts to-day for the suusmer.
• APPOINTENTS.
WOOLWICH, MARCH 22.-s-Assistant-Sur
W. Bradshaw (1847) to Hasler Hospital, vice Henry
Slade, to the Winchester, 50, at Portsmouth.
Chief-Engineer—T. T. Murray to the Maps, 6,
paddle-wheel steam-sloop, of 350-horse power, at Ports-
mouth.
Assistant-Engineer--Joshua Robinson to the Tartarus
steam-vessel, protecting the fisheries on the north coast
of Scotland.
Masters—Thomas C. Pullen (1844) to the North
'
Star taking on board stores at Deptturd for the
Arcticexpedition; Francis H. May (1844) to the Winchester,
50, at Portsmouth.

PROMOTION.
Mate—Alexander C. Balling&II (1850), serving in the
Cumberland, 70, flag-ship on the North America and
West India station, to the rank of Lieutenant.
The Assistance, Captain Sir Edward Beloher,
and the Resolute, Captain Kellett, Ca,
vessels fitting
for the Are' ic expedition, were taken out of dock on Fri-
day last, and are both alongside the wharf well at the
west-end of the yard, taking on board the necessary
stores for their voyage to the Arctic regions.
•

23, 1852

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
-riom THE MORNING PAPERS OP THIS DAT.
TIMES.—Lard JOhn RUsbell has made the timely
discovery that tie does not carry along with him either
his provisional supporters in the House or the people
out of doors in any attempt to stop pablio business. He
now advises the House to do what it is happily disposed
to do of. its own accord, viz., to proceed at once to the.
Army and Navy Estimates, and pass them without,
delay. Even Air. O..borne undertakes to offer no further
opposition. Both these gentlemen excuse the 'con-
fessedly obstructive course they took on Friday night by•
alleging the ambiguity of the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer's explanations on Monday and Friday night. As
generally happens with reluctant apologists, they have
a little overstated their alleged provocation. "We
were told also," says.'- Lord John, referring to the
Ministerial explanations of Monday, the 15th, " that
they did intend to bring forward measures of
considerable importance, which would lead to a
session -of at • least the usual length." . We -have
taken the, trouble to refer to Mr. Disraeli's speech
on !het evening, and we coui4 find a sieele ex-
pression that b -sirs cut this 6t)..1f mew.. Li introdueing
the m,astir,s which he held to he of such-iinportencene 1
to demand the ateseutioo of the House, ev.-a,i4 i•s erg-.I
sent Efst© of suspense, he, distinctly sol;ci-ed the on.-
oper4tior! ,4* I artiel, in sarete r. to biiee that sespeese t:,
the earliest possible c)cclus-i,n. . A‘ There are, es all
gentleman- Mated kpow, :measures of an exigency which
cannot b: eteglecierbeend in icy opieten alter's, are seem i
meatuies not if eio formal a ch,:a-1,e;., het not of a 1,,.;51
imp ,rtf...lit nature, that I thick Jueit tr) he p•istnil. Dal:
if gentlemen opposite autetehre that, so far' as we 'aril
personally cimottroed, we mete-a:gee:lea unnecessarily
to proletig thlAreeena ststi, of affaire, they indulge a i
very ,great mistake: I sh ill, however, mention some
measures that I think should be introduced without den
lay -. . . . . three meesurea with, regard to :which,
on the, part of the Goveeerceent,- the greatest
efforts will be exerted to secure' their speedy pass--
ink." These three ineseurea he explained to be the
disfranchisement' of St. Albank aid. the appropriation of
the four, vacant. seats,
.the Chancery Reform Bill, and
the internal defences; and in each case he pointed poat ,
that there was 'necessity of action, and no'need---Of ',
delay:. TO-save this he suggested that the Chancery
measure might be introduced in the Lords. Now, hav-
ing taken our stand on fair play, we beg to
,inquire who-
ther this justifies Lord John Russell's statement that
Mr. Disraeli had announced measures that would lead to
a session of at least the usual length, and Mae-hair) of
" ambiguity" founded on that statement. We con&
denTly assert that nothing but an overweening sense of
his aristocratic position can account for the wantonness
which has led Lord John to fling about this and other
charges since he found himself on the Opposition
bench. The real ambiguity which has haunted Lord
John Rumen and his friends for the whole of last
week, and has betrayed them into so many blun-
ders and incivilities, has been the very 'sutural
difficulty they felt in understanding their own sin-
gular case, as a majority in opposition. The gen-
tleman, in a well-known work of fiction, who fancied
his head had twisted round on his shoulders, of
course quarrelled with all the existing arrangements of
his dress or his furniture. Lord John is just now suf-
fering a similar visitation, though of a real, not a fanciful
character. He is always forgetting one of his conditions,
either tnat he is no longer Minister, or that he may
really do what he pleases in the House. We have
pointed out on several occasions that he really need ask
no questions; he may stop any vote or any measure
that he pleases, and it is for him to consider whether
it will be for kis credit or advantage to do so. At last,
after exactly a month's reflection. Lord John has dis-
covered that it is for him to lay down the business of
the session, and that he may enforce an appeal to the
people whenever it is his pleasure to do so. At least,
ne can on his own supposition that he still commands a
majority in the House. If he wishes to reserve for his
own Government the honours of such a Chancery
Reform as Lord Truro will permit, he can stifle Lord
St. Leonard's measure the very hour it comes within
the grasp of the Commons. His Lordship has
at last discovered the potentiality of mischief inhe-
rent in his position, and has accordingly dictated the
programme to be observed for the rest of the session.
The estimates are now to be forwarded with the
utmost dispatch, and his Lordship generously throws to
the Chancellor of the Exchequer every Thursday, in
addition to the days now reserved for Government or-
ders. This liberal and not less politic concession was
made in a speech of judicious brevity, and we really
seem to be already in the rapids of an approaching dis-
solution. In order to hasten the decision, Lord
Brougham, in the other House, has moved, with Lord
Derby's acquiescence, a Bill for shortening the interval
now required between a general election and the assem-
bliog of a new Parliament. Fifty days might have been
a reasonable time a century since, when it was almost
a month's work for a man to arrange his affairs in the
north of the island, and settle himself in the metropo-
lis; but, as space may be said to be destroyed in these
days, there is no occasion why Parliament should not save
time accordingly. The magnanimity which Lord John
Russell has at last thought fit to display extends, in the
first imam, to the passing the Mutiny Bill and voting
the supplies, and then to d permission, which it would
not have been easy to refuse, to bring in the,Militia
Bill,-,and possibly—for that is-not distinctly expressed—
the proposed measure for St. Albans. Bat, even if we
throw in the Chancery Bill, the permission does not
amount to very much, for Lord John and his friends
evidently will have a good deal to say to all these mea-
sures as soon as they oome before the House. We shall
be very much surprised if one of them leaves the House
of Commons in such a shape that its authors would re-
cognise it for their own. The permission so generously
accorded to Government is merely a permission to be
beaten : at every stage of their measure, for the better
the measure the greater will be the reason for not letting
Government pass it in the original form. Lord John has
suffered, too much in the mutilation and change of
his own legislative progeny, not to retaliate at
the first opportunity, and that opportunity will now be
afforded. Mr. Walpole has announced his Militia Bill
for next Monday. On that day, therefore, will begin the
singular conflict, and, though the Bill is said to be now
in the very best hands in the country, and those neutral
hands, we may expect to see it entirely changed by its
Whig nurses, or torn to pieces in the struggle. With
the certainty of a scene so harrowing to the feelings of
Government, and so little conducive to the reputation of
the country, one could almost advise her Majesty" Mi-
nisters to put our southern : ports in order, to keep a
powerful Squadron always in the Channel, and to leave
the Militia Bill to a Government really able to carry one
of their own. If ttrat buggestion be thought premature;
it may rat least be borne le mind, and auted on as boon
as the Opposition shows itwif obstinately resolved not to
accept any measure from the existing Government.
ADVERTISER.--i, The Morning Advertiser is doing
infinite damage to the Liberal cause." 6 ) writes a
Member of Parliament—it recipient of past, and expect-
ant of future, Whig favours. The language 0 tee
plain Elvish is, that
Hon. Gentleman, tranalated into
the Morning Advertiser is doing infinite damage to the
Whigs—that class of politicans being, in his vocabulary,
synoultuous with the cause of Liberalism. We have no
objection to own the soft impeachment of having done
no inconsiderable amount of damage to the Whigs. But
if our Hon. Correspondent will only lend us his ear :Or
a few seconds we will whisper into it a great fact, which
probably has not betore occurred to him. fhe greatest,
enemy of the Whigs is neither the Morning Advertiser.
nor the Times, nor any other opponent in the press.
Their greatest enemies are themselves. They have
damaged themselves beyond the hope of recovery
They have played the part of suicides. The ex-
Premier and his quondam colleagues in the Cabinet
have done it all. So far from this journal having
precipitated the downfall of the Whigs, we warned
them, times without number, of the perilous course
which they were pursuing. Had they listened to our
warning voice, and adopted the line of conduct which
we counselled them to pursue, they would not only have
still been in office, but been a popular and powerful Go-
vernment-. But they rejected our advice. The ex-Pre-
mier spurned our counsels when we told him to make
concessions to popular feeling, and, as an earnest of hip
good faith, to break up the " family" compact, and base
his Government on a broader foundation. He would
not listen to our advice. He fancied he was in a position
to disregard and defy public opinion. And as if the
illiberal, narrow line of policy which he pursued, and hii
habit of systematically snubbing all the independent
Liberal Members who brought forward motions, or made'
suggestions in favour of popular progress, had not been
sufficient to draw down odium enough on his G ~
vernment, be mast needs, in the arrogance •°
fancied statesmanship of his own littlemind,"1
ignominiously expel from the 0;,-,rtuaita of L.
reign, a man who gave greater weight and strength
to his Cabinet than all its other memberse put together.
his ingenuity for several hours to devise In sober truth, had the ex-Whig
sertehmeiemrosatpepffleiecd.
teal way of destroying his Government, extinguishing
the little that remained of the
not have bean more successful. '
bringing the Whigs, as rest'
Nevero diare.pute,
a Part Pint prestige
of
^Me nabmee'os:il
man would say, turned
work more completely. lie bit'
hin;eirs not only,
did . maanneidjeriet
a:ling...street,
bat he has so effectually shut theodustoorjobhenh,iwsnd him. as to
leave no hope of his return, ejection is
his own act and deed, and so will tie his perpetual ex-
of Coriolanus.
elusion. "Alone I did it" was'tibe exultent exclamation
" Aloud I did it"
and salt-reproachful accents of .the ex-Whig Premier.
Lord
in John Russell, admit,promises better behavionr
future should
Cheshana- 1 we to
powe4 sAt the
he ever be restored . •
p ace gathering he gas'
amendment. He pledged himself a
a specific promues of
b se his next Go-
will be the despqn+eg-
,
All men are peni-
vertiment "on a broader nottoir•
their vast misoondubt
tent, or at least appear to be, when
But who will believe
has brow ht
and protestations them into trouble.
of the ex-Whig
Premier? We, at eu
the asaeveraie.
bc gto be excused; from .re-
rlis statements. We haih had too
pesiug any faith' in
time of the truth of the well-known
1 many proofs in our

" Vows made in pain,
Ease will recant as violent and void,"
to attach any credit to the promises of the Noble Lord,
made in Moments of emergency, that he will demean
himself better for the time to come. The ex-Premier
deprecated any recurrence to the past state of matters
on the ground, implied, if not explicitly expressed,—
' that when he formed his Ministry in 1846, he was not a
free agent. No doubt it must be very unpleasant to his
Lordship to be twitted with the miserable Ministrywith
which he contrived to jog on for five or six years. drw aw-
ing his salary all the while with as little compunction as
it be and his colleagues had constituted the most efficient
Cabinet which ever sat in Downing-street. Some of our
readers may remember the story of the creditor in the
play, who, when the party to whom he was
indebted, reminded him in the most delicate
manner possible, that he would have no ob-
jection to receiving back his money, summed an

injured air, and said —" I know I owe you the money;
it is quite unnecessary to remind ma of it. Don't do it
again. It is very painful to my leelfegs ,to have any
reference made to it." Nor is the (mete of the ex•Mft-
' nicer diesimilar• to that of the Irishman, who, on being
I tried and connoted at the bar of
•criminal court.- was
asked what -be had to say why sentence of death should
not 'he passed upon him? "Faith, your honour, I wish
.the subjeot dropped entirely. I think a great deal, too
much has been said upon it already." On the same
IPirciy"::sl49n,ol: lyoonrdJohn's dislike to any recurrence to the
composition of his Ministry, and the course of his poi
natural enough, but sufficiently islet
ligible. Bat even assuming it to be as the Noble
Lord represents, that he was placed- ander cimunie
stances: whico he could not control, when, in 1846, be
froorninieLdbhatist:abei, dneto,whnewt,owteheshdoayuld like to know, will
from
acoount for, or justify, the policy which he' pursued
of his resignation?
111'" was not surely the policy of hie
tion
:4:01 libatl:"lugt eh: If su in citSlPkP•itnnicsii .)watootutihledis
contrary,l ownas , hveinbseev ewSra:l elti:dgtrhoa sap
haeit of elnrif)ing Publicly
parentaac,of aii hie leading m,
colleague,' that hw 4 the shs,atu!til:°o• ;Past rj -11side*°';l4' tivly it(!ilre cst;e:
we preeurtie, pese,eud to btey t,,,,t
de
er
in irk '
.9 of
manner, whenc,vet they eeeige,l,,
sparhim on to a more
itt e: al nAirtie kt„,„ _
ay not all. nod the
Nuille L9r:l its.hr mattes, „um croat.ury to 4„..ijove,
he Victure4 iifieustmsoce,, when nis MiniStr
:in .1846—though. what Oaf)! Cir eGitIMLISIC .were he
-does not concksc.,i'd t 0 inrotie " IW~nc, wits nit,
,4e tette -it for gra:loll, - pretend -that he
8.9 51160
„isni equally till, victim of
.circum'stanees twelve months
ago. Be was then cot of office twice is the brief space
oheicetiight. • And why?:•Becanstrof thweseekietional
character o his Cabinet. • -.l;lad- ht. peeff'What noiv
professes to be, tetrieed of poptilii progress,
.he
nave then gladly and gratefully .availed himself of to
faVourableTan opportunity uf:• ridding --himielf-
" family" party, 'and .reconstriicting his Cabltintl:Cti-e, •
comprehensive basis. Instead of that, finding that
Lord Stanley could not then form a Ministry,- ho fan-
Cied he might return with impunity to Downinutreet
with his former colleagues in a-body. He and t.), did
so return, and the Noble Lord, not apprehendingany
danger to his Government from the Protectionists,
not only became more illiberal in his policy than-ever,
but actually -expelled 'the, only 'Liberal man,in his
Ministry,--tu make way for Lord Granville, another
member of the , "family" coterie of. incepables.
And. yet, in the face of all these plain, palpable,
crushing facts, the ei-Virhig Premier has the cool
effrontery to tell the country, that in forming his late
Cabinet, and continuing to govern by it, he was the
victim of circumstances. The country knows better.
It has an opinion of its own, grounded on facts which
are patent to all. It is only because he now sees that
that he has recourse to the
the
disingenuousa
whichem he
i sup w
device iot h
o oolfd him,nt
throwing o
control.wi n g
So far
from on L
the
stancesor
d
John Russell feeling any disposition, if left to himself,
of have nohesitationin
sa gettingying ,
thatrilid of
Lhioardmble eseargbuyitt w
failed, d, as the ea-Premier
imagined he would, to form a Government, Lord John
would have again returned to Downing-street with the
Baovu3ereZafcahmeidlyh"itCinesaelbftht as
istibmeefo,rea. has
heartily glad of it. country fair
fairly