The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-22 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

A correspondence from Gibraltar, to the 16th instant,
mentions the arrival there, from Malta, of the Vengeance,
84, Captain Lord E. Russell; Terrible, 21, steam-fri-
gate, Captain. Hope, C. 8.; and Encounter, 14, screw-
corvette 'Captain Gordon. The Vengeance in staying
in the liay got ashore, but by the aid of-the steamers
was hauled off the next day. As we have already
stated. the -Vengeance and Terrible remain for the prp-
sect at Gibraltar. The Encounter maybe hourly ex-
pected at Spithead.
Albion, 90, Captain Hope Johnstone, with the Inde-
fatigable, 50, Captain Smart, KAI., from Malta, for
Lisbon, passed Gibraltar, en route, on the 15th inst,, at
midnight.
Racer, 12, Commander Beddoes, may be daily ex-
pected at Devonport, from the Mediterranean.
The poor fellow Jackman, who was killed by falling
from the top of the Arethusa, 50, was buried yesterday
at Portsmouth. A large number of his shipmates at-
tended his funeral. _ _ _

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FATAL MISTAHE.—An inquest was held on Friday, at
the. Royal Hospital, Hasler, before C. B. Longcroft,
Esq., coroner, on the body of a seaman, named William
Nancarrow, belonging to her Majesty's ship Arrogant,
who died in the morning, from the effects of swal-
lowing chloride of zinc. It appeared that the deceased
was employed on Wednesday afternoon, with others,
in removing stores from the Arrogant to her hulks, an&
when below on board the latter, alighted on a two gallon
jar, which be imagined contained beer, but of which the
contents was chloride of zing. Having asked two mess-
mates if they'should like a drink, he drew the cork froin
the jar and drank some Qf the poison; his messmates on
tasting it diarelished it, spat it out, and ran up the lad-
der, when emetics were given to them, and they felt no
ill effects from it. Nancarrow, however, was pot found
until a quarter of an hour had elapsed, when he was
immediately sent to Hasler Hospital, where he expired
on Friday morning. The word*" poison" Wei marked on
the jar, but so dark was the spot in which it ryas found,
that the mark was not perceptible to the deceased. Ver-
dict—Accidental death.

Commodore Wyvil, at the Cape, by last accounts, was
about to proceed to the Mcztmbique, and it was said, in
accordance with instruelions from the Governor of Mau-
ritius, was about to negotiate a treaty witinhe sovereign
of Madagascar„....

SHEERNESS, MARCH 19.—Her Majesty's steamer
Fearless, Csptaiu Bullock, employed in .the surveying of
the Tharnes and Medway, came Into port' on Weducbday
at 7 o'clock P.M

Her Majesty's steam vessel Adder, James Watt,
master, returned here from Deptford yesterday at 8
o'clock ass., and left in the forenoon for Chatham.
Her Majesty's steamer African, SecondeMaster Gill,
arrived shortly after the Adder, and took up her moor-
ings in the dockyards.
Her Majesty's screw steam-frigate Horatio, 24, Cap-
tain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, is ordered to take her
coals on board forthwith, for which purpose the Legatue,
brig, Ord, master, is to be brought from alongside the
Fortitude, coal depot for steamers, to abreast the dock-
yard.
The Columbus, Gray, master, from Newcastle, hauled
into the discharging bay yesterday forenoon, and is to
commence unloading to-day.
The Thomas and Isabella, M'Kenzie, master, and the
Spray, Dixon, master, having discharged their• cargo at
Chatham dockyard, will sail.for Newcastle as soon as the
weather will permit.
The Mary Agnes, Burton Master, from Newcastle,
arrived at Chatham on Wednesday, with coal* for the
dockyard.
Ships in Dock—The Cyclops steam frigate, under-
going repairs ; Ganges, 84 ; Howe, 120 ; Consus, 14 ;
and Tribune, 30, screw steam frigate, building.
Ships in the Basin—The Amphiou, 34, screw steam
frigate, fitting as an advanced steamer of the first class ;
Horatio, 24, screw steam frigate, fitting for the service ;
Achilles, 76 ; Russell, 72, fitting as an advanced ship ;
and Gossamer cutter.
Ships in Harbour—Waterloo, 120, flag of Vice-
Admiral the Hon. Joceline Percy ; London, 90, Captain
the Hon. Montague Stopford ; Monarch, 84 ; guard ship
of ordinary, Captain C. Hope ; Wellington, 72, depot
store of ordinary, Lieutenant M`Nausara ; Lizard,
Myrtle, Fearless, and Cuckoo steamers ; African steam
tag vessel ; Thames and Hart tender:.
Marton 21.—Her Majesty's screw' steam frigate Am-
phion, 34, has her topmasts pointed. The placing of
new copper up to her load line of flotation was completed
on. Saturday. Her seams have been caulked where ne-
cessary:, and the painters have commenced their work
on the outside. A portion of the artificers of the dock-
yard have been taken off the other ships in dock, in
order to get her ready with the greatest dispatch.
Her ilajesty's screw steam-frigate Horatio, 24, Cap-
tain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, will be out of the hands
of the dockyard on Tuesday next. The brig Legstus
has been'taken into the basin for the purpose of com-
pleting her coaling. The bunkers will not hold quite
200 tons.

Her Majesty's steam-vessel Myrtle, Mr. W. S. Bour-
chier, master, proceeded to Chatham on Saturday morn-
ing with some invalids from her Majesty's ship London,
for treatment at Melville Hospital, and returned in the
afternoon with moneys for the use of the dockyard.
The intention of the late Board of Admiralty of
placing her Majesty's ship London, Captain the Hon.
Montague Stopford, in the Downs as a guardahip, has
been abandoned by their successors in office. Up to the
present time the service on which the London will be
-ultimately employed has not been determined on. It is
not improbable she will supply the place of the Albion
in the Mediterranean.
EXAMINATION OF MIDSHIPMEN AT THE EXPIRATION
OF FOUR YEARS' SERVICE IN THE ROYAL NAVY.—The
circular order of the 17th of April, directieg that "
midshipman having served two years in that rank, and
having passed the examination required of him at the
expiration of that period, is to receive a certificate from
'the examining officers to that effect; and that no officer
shall in, future be allowed to pass for the rank of lieute-
nant until he shall have served for a period of twoyears
subsequent to the date of such certificate; such order to
apply only to those officers who will have completed two
yeare servitude as midshipmen on the Ist of August,
1850;" has been under the consideration of the Lords
of the Admiralty, who have been pleased to-direct the
last line of the above regulation to be altered as fol-
lows:—" until he has served two years as midshipman."
Her. Majesty's ship Severn, 50, building at Chatham,
will be launched during the approaching summer.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 21.—A court-martial is ordered
to assemble to-morrow morning on board the Victory, to
try a corporal of Royal Marine Artillery, belonging to
the draught serving on hoard the Retribution steam-
frigate, for desertion from that ship.
The Blenheim, 60, Captain W. H. Henderson, C. 8.,
wasCtaken into the steam basin yesterday to have her
machinery attended to by the engineer depertment.
The Simoom iron steam troop frigate, Captain Kin....
come, sailed from Spithead yesterday morning to try
her efficiency during a week's cruise at sea.
The Yorktown American line of packet ship, Captain
Bradish, arrived at Spithead to-day from the Themes,
and sailed, after taking in passengers and stock, for New
York.
PORTSMOUTH GARRISON.—Major-General SiMpson,
a Peninsular and Waterloo officer, s appointed Lieu-
tenant-Governor of this garrison and Caminuid,,,in.
Chief of the south-western district, vacant since the pro-
motion of Lord Frederick Fitzclarence to the rank of
Lieutenant=General. The new Governor will commence
his duties on the Ist proximo.

APPOINTMENTS,
WOOLWICH, MARCH 19.—Commander J. F. B. Wain-
wright (1849), at present serving in a contract steam-
vessel, to the Winchester, 50. at kor ts oath.— . --
Lieutenants Henry S. Hillyar (1842) uncl
Nelson (1846) to the Witiohister.

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fl, ction suggested by a review of the week is that if the
Members of the present Goverrmient are in a new and
trying position, much the same may be said of their an-
tagonists. Lord John Russell, to be sure,- is well ac-
quainted with both sides of the House, but it is evident'
that both he and his friend; find their situation rather
novel and embarrassing. To have put themselves out:of
place by their own blunders and quarrels—to have etir-
rendered a commanding position to Mr. Disraeli and
some chairmen of quarter sessions—to be a majority at
the mercy of a minority—to be obliged by every consi-
deration of honour, loyalty, and patriotism, to :vote the
supplies and do the other necessary business of the suss
sion—and to wait for a dissolution under
.hostile aus-
pices, and a new Parliament possibly adeerse to their .
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cause—constitute an amount of disagreep,blo in esse
and in posse, for which even Lord ;John Russpl
after his long career is evidently . unprepared.
It now strikes us, that instead of asking, 'How will
the new Government behave ? we ought to have
asked, How will the new Opposition behave ? They
have behaved without method or concert. They have
asked a shower of questions, dictated the replies, and
lost their temper if the replies were not in their own
terms. Our Parliamentary columns have been loaded
with tedious disquisitions on constitutional and econol
mical ;questions, to all appearance composed, in the
American 'fashion, more for the public - than for the
House. An Opposition that deprecates delay and that
demands a dissolution before June spends a whole week
in personal altercations and essays upon general sub-
jects. Like Dionysius, first a tyrant and afterwards a
pedagogue, Lord John Russell, no longer permitted to
govern, gives, lessons in constitutional etiquette. At
least half a dozen times since his Lordship commenced
his long and useful career he and his colleagues have not
hesitated to 'disregard constitutional precedent for the
paramount claims of the public good; yet be can now
stand up and gravely tell Ministers they are bound, in
constitutional decorum, to divide the House of Commons
and appeal to the country on a principle which they have
not made the subject of a motion for two years. When
we add to these discUrsive and dilettante 'occupations an
interchange of complimentary remarks between the head
of the Government in the Lords and the head of the
Opposition in the Commons, ending with a direct charge
of " falsehood," made with equal levity and untruth by
the latter, we have said enough to show that Lord John
and his friends have still to learn the duties of Opposi-
tion, and are not yet at home on their side of the,House.
To ourselves of courstanothing would be more delightful
than a session of the most laconic brevity and smart-
ness. If the Opposition, confiding in that majority the
strength of which they, have so lately discovered, should
content themselves with simply voting the supplies and
outvoting every attempt to do more than 'the most ne-
cessary business, so as to enable all the world to get to
bed betimes, and mike the perusal of the Times rather
less than a day's work, it would be so much gain to us
and our readers. But we regret to say that everything
threatens a contrary result. We confidently antici-
pate the time, in June or July, when the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, half worn out with his thank-
less task, shall be imploring his three-headed Oppo-
sition to allow him to get through the business of the
House, and dissolve Parliament, in time for the pro-
mised autumn session; and imploring in vain. At least
tour hundred Members will not yet have addressed their
constituencies through the walls of the House, while
Lord John, Sir James, Mr. Cardwell, Messrs. Cobden
and Bright, and all the other chiefs, will still be groan-
ing under the weight of undelivered harangues. What
makes the proceedings of Parliament as brief as they
are is the fact that it is not a debating society, or a
mere nightly conivrsazione, there always being a motion
b fore, the House, to which every bedy must speak, and
'a division, to which ever)titing must tend. nacre is
now, however, to be no business, no legislation, nu mo-
tions except' of course, no tri.fi,ion—in a word, no rule
or limit to the most ambitious or most desultory elo-
qesece. It is understood taut both attics aro to we
blank cartridge, that is, to do nothin4., however much
they rosy talk; and that not only the most furious rhe-
toric, but even the rn-st businesslike expressions are
to be interpreted in-. as harmless a settee us.the make-
believe deb rtes in a Parliament of schoolboys. Thus, on
Friday night Mr. Osborne rose on the motion of the army-
estimates, and after a long and entertaining address said
gravely, " I propose to grant the Governmont
neither money nor men," and was supported in the
general tone of his remarks by Lord John Russell and
all the chief speakers of the Opposition. It appears,
however, on reference to the minutes, that there was no
real amendment before the House at all, twaleittr. Os-
borne had no wish to divide. He had no other object
than to " draw out" her Majesty's Ministers. As, in his
opinion, they refused to be drawn out, it is evident that
the victim of the sport is still scatheless, and ready for
the entertainment of any other gentleman who may wish
to draw it out. Such, therefore, in all probability, will
be the peculiar business of the session of 1852, and if the
badger la4s long enough, and terriers can be found with
sufficient pluck, there really is no reason why the ses-
session should ever come to an end. In a war-
fare which is warranted not to hurt it 'is not easy to
count the gains and the losses. The speeches on one side
may be batter than the speeches on the other, just as the
pamphlets on the one side may be better than the pamph-
lets on the other. One thing, however, is evident,
end' that is, that the conditions thus rigorously and
emphatically imposed by the late Government on
the now one are precisely those moat convenient to
Lord Derby.and the novices composing his Cabinet, on
the common estimate of their administrative capacity,
and also of their political position. It is assumed,
whether justly or not, that Lord Derby, Messrs.
Disraeli, Walpole, and perhaps one or two others of the
lot, can make very good speeches, bat cannot make laws
or develope a policy. It may be safely granted that
they certainly possess the former gift, and not so cer-
tainly the latter. Now, if these men had the choice of
their own conditions, what would they require? To be
allowed to speak and answer speeches as much as they
pleased, but to be spared the necessity of action. Or' all
things in the world a raw statesman must dread most
the responsibility of framing and carrying through an
actual Bill. Neither Lord Derby or Mr. Disraeli, at ail
events, have ever been ut a loss what to say, and have only
failed when obliged to commit themselves to • a defirete
measure. Then, into whose hands is the Opposition play-
ing when it tells the new Ministers they may talk es
much as they like, and shall have a good deal to talk
about, but shall not be allowed to do anything? Of'
course w ben the general election comes the Conservative
party will say to the electors. " Gentlemen, we were
noxious to do so and so ; our Lord Chancellor prepared
one measure, our Herne Secretary another; in fact, we
had many measures in preparation which we had reason
to believe would be most useful and acceptable. But
the Opposition, who had latterly been unsuccessful in
their own attempts at legislation, informed us that they
would not let us do anything lest they should lose in
the comparison. They would only allow us to talk,
which we flatter oureelvels we did as well as they. Give
us a majority, gentleman, and you ahall Goon coo that
we can act as well as talk." For our own part we
; should have thought that if the new Ministers are really
incapable of sound legislation, the best course was to
give them abundant opportunity of showing it; in which
case their continued failure would tell against them at
, the forthcoming election. But that strange infelicity
of measures and of men which broke up the late Admi-'
-isistration seems to have followed it into opposition. Un-
deniably the proceedings of that Opposition are at this
moment factious in the attictest sense of that word;,
being intended simply to disable a Government et the
serious cost of a whole year's. legislation. That factious-
ness we believe to boas suicidal as it is unpatriotic, and
likely to miss its own interests by following them too
.closely.
ADVERTISER.—It is perfectly
that Lord John Russell, in the anticipation of being
again called, before long, to form a new Administration,
has made, if not in specific terms, yet in a waY not to
be misunderstood, overtures of office to Mr. Cobden, and
one or two others of the Manchester school. It would
ghharef—or"LFoirrdst catch
sage advice of Mrs. Dods, when
probably be as well for the ex-Premier t ttoo rgeimveemibnesrtrtulsoe.
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places in his new Government
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Russell to distribute the
when ho has received the instructions of her Majesty
to form one. Lord John believes that that day is not
distant. In that convicton he is peculiar. We know
of 110•0U0 who shares it with him, unless it be those
cormorants for place, in whose minds the wish is
father to the thought. The country neither (lc-sires to
Bee the ex-Premier recalled to power, nor anticipate
such a contingency. If Lord Derby's friends wore as
ingenious as some persons give them credit for being,
-03,1 of apostles to create the
th they wimpression,ould labour with
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alternetive but a Derby or a
Russell Government. Persuade the people that the only
chance lies between the two Noble Lords, and the Tory
Caoinet, under the leadership of
Lord Derby, may have
a longer term of office before them than the most san-
guine of "their supporters have yet imagined. The
alternative of another Russell
Government
would , have a Powerful. effsct iwereceneiling the
country to the iefitctiois of a ' Derby Administration:
We say this On - the apposition that •' the eouutry
bad faith iu the probability of the mellege bvillg