The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-16 00:00:00

MONDAY

FEBRUARY

sloop, in charge of Mr. Davey, arrived at Devonport
from Portsmouth, on Friday morning, to form one of
the steam reserve squadron. She went into the harbour
in a thick fog unobserved, and on the mist clearing the
signal men at Mount Wise were surprised by the appear-
ance of a fine steamer moored to one of the buoys off the
batteries; her name, whence she came, how she got to
her station a mystery. Of course up went the demand,"
and their fears vanished when the facts were known, but
the lynx-eyed "look-out meu" were astonished that it
was possible for a steam-ship, and a paddle-wheel too, to
get into the harbour so easily unobserved. This circum-
stance will no doubt give a handle to the alarmists to
revive once more the fears of invasion, and the case of
the Argus will be adduced to show the practicability of
any such attempt. It is right, therefore, to state that
the temporary commander of the Argus was a gentleman
ho for many years previously to his appointment at
Portsmouth served as assistant master-attendant at De-
vonport, and, from constant practice, could with the
greatest ease feel his way into or out of Liamotize with
any ship.—Herald.
Admiral Sir John Omnaanney. Commander-in Chief
at Devonport, has nomina,ed Lieutenant James A.
Dunbar (1842), to he his flag lieutenant, vice Warren,
promoted.
S. W. G. F. May having pasted a first class
examination at the Naval College, having gained all
the numbers, has been promoted to the rank of
lieutenant.
A return has been made, in accordance with 4-request
from the Admiralty, of the defects of the Hydra, 6,
steam-sloop, Commander Belgrave, on her arrival at
Devonport, on her way to the Cape with General
Cathcart.
Cormorant, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Chamberlair,
having coaled, left Portsmouth Harbour at ten o'eleek
on Saturday morning, and proceeded to Woolwich to be
paid off. It should have been stated on Saturday that
most of the Cormorant's captures on the coast of
Brazil were made by her firmer commander,
Captain
Schomberg, who was promoted for his services in
that ship.
Rapid, 8, Commander Mese, was at Madeira Feb. 6,
from Devouport, on her way to the East Indies.
Devon lighter, Bon master, sailed from Devonport on
Thursday morning, with stores for Pembroke.
Hamoaze lighter, Wood master, sailed from Devon-
port on Friday with stores for Pembroke; and from
thence she is to proceed to Holyhead, to lay down a
pair of large moorings.
Argus steam-sloop has been taken to her moorings by
Mr. Brown, second master attendant, and given in
charge of Captain Ramsay, being added to the steam
reserve at Devonport.
Harbinger rorew mail steam-packet arrived at Ply-
mouth on Friday afternoon, and was to sail with the
mail for the Cape of Good Hope yesterday at noon.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 15.—A further investigation into
Goldner's preserved meats is going on at the Royal
Clarence-yard, Gosport. This is a portion of the stock
brought back by the Hecla steam-sloop, lately returned
from the coast of Africa. About 200 canisters of from
51b. to 61b. each were examined yesterday, 30 of which
were bad and condemned; the rest exhibited a batter
appearance than any we have yet seen. The Cormo-
rant steam-sloop, which arrived on Friday from Brazils,
also brought a number of canisters of the same stuff to
return into store; she had thrown a large quantity over
board at sea, being unfit for food.
We have good authority for stating that a large expa
rimental squadron will assemble at Spithead towards
the summer.

The Pilot brig will be paid off on Wednesday next.
The American merchant barque Philah, Capt. Hearn,
belonging to New York, from London for Cardiff, came
in contact, at nine o'clock on Thursday night, off the
Start, with a brig. Both vessels were working down
Channel on a wind. The barque has a small hole just
above water on the starboard bow, and her starboard
covering board, rail, and bulwarks are knocked away;
she entered the Sound this afternoon. The brig, it is
said, was not seen in time, in consequence of having no
fore topgallant mast; she was struck in the bluff of the
bow, and her bowsprit was carried away. A piece of
her jib with the word " Coker" was left on board the
Philah. After the collision nothing was seen of the
brig, and it is feared that she went down.
The barque Emigrant, Captain Kemp, which left this
port on Friday with Government spars for Portsmouth,
has on board what is supposed to be the largest piece of
plank in the world. It is cut from a blue gum tree in
Van Diemen's Land, is 148 feet long, 22 inches broad,
and 6 inches thick, and was intended for the Great Ex-
hibition, but no vessel offered capable of conveying it in
time for the opening. It is placed on the poop and top-
gallant forecastle of the Emigrant, and tails out 14 feet
over her stern, Some of the spars from New Zealand
are 90 feet long by 36 inches girt. Captain Kemp has
also several specimens of natural history, including a
very rare bird, called the " Parson Bird," which is about
the size of an English starling, but has a long beak. It
derives its name from its plumage, which is of a perfect
jet black, excepting two white feathers under the neck.
SUNDAY, 11 A.m.—The 12 patients from the Arethusa
are progressing favourably at the Royal Naval Hospital.
Woomvicm, FEB. 14.—Commander Charles G. Phil-

ips.(lB4B), who accompanied Sir John Rosa in the Felix

to the Polir regions in 1850, and returned in 1851, has
just finished a course of study of steam at the factory at
Woolwich dockyard, and in the course of a day or two
will be examined by Mr. Atherton, the chief engineer.
The gallant officer had his course of study of steam in-
terrupted when he proceeded to the Arctic regions, but
their Lordships have so appreciated his services and zeal
that they have appointed him to command the Poly-
phemus steam-sloop of 200 horse, which will be corn-
missioned on Monday at Woolwich.
The Sulphur sluop, some time ago sent up from Wool-
wich to Deptford to be broken up, is still so strong in
her timbers, having been built principally of teak, that
the order to break her up has been countermanded, and
on the application of Mr. Mastermsn, governor of the

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convict ship berP, she will be brought back to Woolwich
and be used, instead of the Wye hulk, as a washhouse
for the clothes of the convicts.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.

WOOLWICH. FEB. 14 —lllesecond-lientenants who
were appointed to commissions on passing their exami-
nations in December last, having joined the garrison
after six weeks' leave of absence, have been attached to,
and will do duty with, the following companies until
further orders:—

Second Lieutenant T. B. Strange to Captain Dal.
.on's company, Ist battalion.

Second Lieutenant Francis Lyon to Captain Beres-
ford's company, Ist battalion.
Second Lieutenant A. P. Joy to Captain Lefroy's
company-, 4th battalion.
Second Lieutenant T. W. Blakiston to Captain Fitz-
gerald'a company, sth battalion.
_..

Second Lieutenant A. L. Kaye to Captain Marston's
company, sth battalion.
Second Lieutenant Edward Keate to Captain Cock's
company, 6th battalion.
Second Lieutenant W. F. Walker to Captain Ellis's
company, Bth battalion.
Second Lieutenant J. Smith to Captain Idaude's com-
pany, 9th battalion.
Second Lieutenant A. T. G. Pearse to Captain Har-
rison's company, 11th battalion.
Second Lieutenant John L. Clarke to Captain Hen-
derson's company, 10th battalion.
Second Lieutenant C. E. Torriano to Captain Tay-
lor's company, 4th battalion.

16, 1852.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
(PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.)
Sir,—On Wednesday the 11th the principal debate
was en an attempt to prejudge the Education question,
advanced in the shape of a private Bill from Manchester.
So far as can be judged from what passed in the House,
the object of the Bill is this.---to levy a rate from the
g
sectaries on the ground of giving education, and then
knowingly and advisedly to
is proffer an education which
it is known the sectaries will not accept. As an illus-
tration, the plan to makea Jew pay for his ticket to
a public dinner, the known intention all the time being
to set before him pork.
Now if men were honest, which they are not, there
would be two ways to get out of this difficulty. One
would be, to determine that men should dine together
upon the meats on which they all agree, and that there
should be an omission of the disputed materials the ap-
pearance of which is the signal forimmediate dissen-
sion. But then, say the dominant party, what a base
submission that would be! How is it possible, with
Christian opinions, to make so disgraceful a sacrifice?
Believing, as we do, in certain points disputed by the
others, how can we give up the spiritual or temporal
food at which cur brother takes efface? No, we must
have it everywhere and in everything. We cannot ad-
mit of a mess of pottage which shall not be flavoured
with the disputed substance. We aro the majority and
must have cur way, and it is this.
But there is yet another plan, which does not
acorn to have been canvassed by the public. And that is,
tbat after the tickets have been paid for, each sect or
party should have the privilege of ordering their dinner
for themselves; in short, a kind of dining by the carte.
Why should not the Qieltere, the Unitarians, or the
Jews, after contributing to the rate according to the
general law laid down, draw from the general mass,
after deducting expenses, the sum they could prove to
be proportioned to the rates paid; and so each sect ap-
ply it to their own educational nourishment, with such
sauces as they in their own judgment
conceive' to be
convenient?
The only objection which has been heard to this, is
that it would be degrading to the orthodox to ' take
money out of the same bag with a sectary. Which it is
hoped might with pains be overcome. There would be
a demand for provision for, ascertaining the amounts
paid by different sects, and for subjecting them all to
the same kind of supervision to ensure the sum being
properly applied. The way would seem to be, to re-
quire that the members of any particular sect claiming
to administer their own funds, should draw out a state-
ment of the rates paid and sum claimed, with the names
of the claimants if thoueht necessary, and with the ad-
dition of a declaration of their consent and intention to
apply the sum according to the general regulations of
the Act. The old Napoleon would have arranged the
whole details satisfactorily, in a decree of ten lines long.
The only ground stood upon in the debate, was the
right of majorities to coerce minorities. It is easy to
make a mistake on this point. There are cases where a
majority- must decide; but this does not amount to a
right in the majority to rob the minority. On the con-
trary (as somebody has said of juries) King, Lords, and
Commons exist only that security may be had for the
prevention of this very thing. And the reason is, that
if not, we might any of us be minority in turn. It did
not appear to me, that those who handled the matter in
debate, did any of them go to the bottom of the ques-
tion. As it was finally put off for a week, perhaps
somebody may employ the time in looking further into
it. My own notion is, that instead of a cold resistance
directed to gaining delay, the shoulders of everything
non-conforming should be put to the wheel, to throw
out the whole with the greatest possible celerity.
On Thursday came up the question of " Preserved
Meats;" in which there has been an extensive failure.
Indeed the defence of the Admiralty appeared to a
great extent to rest, on the alleged impossibility. of
knowing that packages of meat quite good this week
might not be found bad to-morrow. Which, if so, goes
to establish the desirableness of returning as rar as
possible to the old signals for " fresh beef." At
the same time, when it is acknowledged that
Preserved Meats have been found good after five-
and-twenty years, it cannot be beyond the reach
of modern or future chemistry to diminish the
danger. The Admiralty strongly
intimated, that keen-
nese was probably given to the inquiry, by the fact that
the preserved meats were not English;—in other words,
that they had been bought at your shops in Bradford,
instead of being bought of the English beef-growers.
I do not think our friends at Bradford above half under-
stand this yet. They have a sort of lurking sense
it of
improp!iety, m seeing anything bought through thein-
tervention of their shops from foreigners, when could
be obtained dearer and worse from somebody making
the same article at home. If in the present case the
beef was cheap and nasty, that is a different question;
and there is nothing for the Admiralty to do bat give
their custom elsewhere, taking the hint, which perhaps
you would have given at Bradford before, to agree only
to pay for what shall be found good after a certain time.
Oa Friday a Bill to extend the Right of Voting for
Members of Parliament, and to amend the Laws relat-
ing to the Representation of the People, in Scotland,
was brought in. And the same for Ireland. It is easier
bringing in Reform Bills than it once was. Practice
makes perfect.

I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REFORMER,
Blackheath, 16 Feb., 1852.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
attended by Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey and Lieu-
t,•nant.Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, visited her Royal
Highness th© Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday after-
noon et Gloucester-house.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of WaleF, the
Prircess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princesses
Helena, and Louisa, and Prince Arthur, took their usual
rxercise on Saturday in the gardens of Buckingham
Palace.

The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace on Sa-
turday included the Belgian Minister and Madame Vin
de Weyer, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, the
Countess of Ellesmere, Lord George Lennox, and Lord
Marcus Hill.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
their Rojal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court
and the domestic household, attended Divine service
yesterday in the private chapel of Buckingham Pa-
lace. The Hon. and Reverend Gerald Wellesley offi-
ciated.
Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the younger
members of the Royal Family walked yesterday in the
garden of the Palace.

The Chevalier Bunsen transacted business at the Fo-
reign-office on Saturday.
A deputation from the English and Irish Magnetic
Telegraph Company, consisting of Sir Charles Fox, Mr.
Harrison, and Mr. Crosbie of Liverpool, accompanied by
Sir T. Birch and Mr. Cardwell, had an interview with
the Bight Hon. Henry Lahouchere at the Board of Trade
on Saturday.
Colonel Wood had an interview with Sir George Grey
on Saturday, at the Home-office.
His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, accompanied by Mr.
R. W. Grey, M.P., had an interview on Saturday with
the General Board of Health, at their offices, Whitehall.
A deputation from the Colonial Bank, consisting of
Mr. Charles Marryat, Mr. A Colville, and Mr. S. G.
Hoare, had an interview with Earl Grey on Saturday,
at the,Colonial-nffice. _

Mr.-Baines and a deputation had an interview with
Lord John Russell on Saturday, at his official residence
in Downing-street.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. John F. South, Pre-
sident of the Royal College of Surgeons, Mr. Cover
Hawkins, Vice-President of the College, and Mr. Ar-
nott, had an interview on Saturday with Sir George
Grey.
The Oxford University Commission had a meeting on
Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of
the Treasury in Downing-street. Present, the Bishop
of Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pem-
broke, the Rev. H. G. Liddell, Mr. J. L. Dampier, the
Rev. Professor Powell, the Rev. G. H. S. Johnson, and
the Rev. A. P. Stanley (secretary).

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Horseheath-mill; Sat. Shadwell-court-10t.
The Suffolk
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The York and Ainsty lids., to-morrow,
Thurs. Gilling-lodge; Sat. Skipwith• bridge-114 ;
Sir W. W. Wynn's hls., Wed., Pentre Byehan
Thurs. Llany Can; Sat., Green Dragon-10i. ;
The V. W. B. lids., to-morrow, Lydiard-Dlain; Thurs.
Burdrop-park-11i. Sat. Foss-bridge-10
The Tiverton lids., Thurs. Hawkridge —lOl.
Mr. L. Steer's lids., Thurs. Milhana-lodge-11.
pton's Eds., Wed C
The North Staffordshire hds., Wed. Three Crowns,
Stoke, near Stone; Fri. Betley-10i.
aSmat. Tiffield—u. Capons Ashby; Fri.
WTLaPhoPreedSn73hosruomptt:shire lids,, Thurs. COunda-1)
Crick; Fri. est Haddon;
The Pytehley hds., Wed.
samt.
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Thurs. Leher-10.

THE METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.—SiIICO our last
notice of this event, Hesse Homburg, against whom 40
to 1 was betted on Wednesday, has been backed freely
at 20 to 1.
A CHALLENGE TO THE YANKEES.—We understand
that Mr. Charles Mare, the eminent ship builder, of
Blackwall, has challenged the Americans to run a vessel
against
guineas. The tonnage of the ships to be from fifty to
any that they can produce for a thousand
three hundred tons.
COLONEL HAWKER'S CARBINE.—The Ordnance Com-
mittee, on Tuesday last, unanimously approved of Col.
Hawker's new double carbine.

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