The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-17 00:00:00

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Princess Charlotte—Martin Magill, Assist. Surgeon,
to the Prince Consort—Samuel Bimfield, Assist,
Surgeon, to the St. George—.limes Farrelly, Assist.
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The plating of the Royal Alfred frigate at Ports.,
mouth remains suspend( e, pending the final deeis
sien of the Admiralty in relation to the disposition
oc the ship's offensive ane defensive powers. In, he
naval intelligence .which appeared in the Sun of
the 13th inst. reference wus made to the correspon-
dence passing between Whitehall end Portsmouth
4lockyard respecting the ship. A doubt was then
expressed whether the Admiralty would sanction
any further reconstruction of the Royal Alfred,
which was already in a very advanced stage to-
wards completion as an ironcased ship. We tinders
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class of ship, both for purposes of offence and de.
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screw two-decker, she will add one more to the
total number of the Prince Consort and Royal Oak
class. She will be a vessel of 4,045 tons, and of

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William Marsh was indiC;ed for feloniously cutting and
wounding John Greenhorn, with intent to do grievous bodily
harm, at Haselbury-Plucknett, on the 16th of November.
When called upon to plead, the prisoner said—l should
ltke the case to be heard, if you please, Sir.
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The jury found the prisoner guilty,
The Judge then said to the prisoner—There are not
many men like you, but there are some, It is more credit-
able to be beaten than to take out a knife, It is a cowardly
act. I sentence you to be kept in penal servitude fur ten
years,

800 •horee power, woc den built from keel to topsides,
with the exception that her composite iron and
wooden upper dick will rest on rolled Butterly iron
beams, encased with armour.plating of 44in., except
at the extreme ends round the bows and stern.
where it will taper to 211 n. jler weakness in offence
will be that she wiiree'lim4ed in the size of her
guns on broadsides behind her armour ; and her
weakness in defence will be that her dlein. armour
will rest upon its 26in. of timber without any inner
iron skin. With the feeling growing stronger
day by day that it would be at the present
moment supreme ignorance to fix any precise
iimit to the size of the ordnance our future iron
ships will carry it cannot be wondered at that the
Admiralty have at length made public their alarm
and doubt as to the policy of still further going on
in the construction of a weak composite ship such as
the Royal Alfred. Tee plan laid before the Admi-
ralty to meet the case has been prepared by Rear-
Admiral G. Elliot, superintendent of Portsmouth
dockyard. It provides for a belt of armour of great
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- v0ceic1er0,32,443.-sttiut*4-11,,,ebeen o.ttnided with char
sacrifice of human life, occurred on the line of the Great
Western Railway, at the Pangbourno station, on the night
of Thursday last.

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From inquiries made on the spot it was ascertained that
a narrow gauge special luggage train reached Pangbourne
shortly before 10 o'clock, and from some defect in the valves
of the engine, which caused a want of steam, the train was
unable to proceed. The switchman, anticipating the arri-
val of the Birmingham express, directed the driver to get
on to the down line, and there appeared to be enough steam
to enable this to be done. Soon afterwards the down mail
was due, and it is said that some person in authority ordered
the luggage train to be removed from the down to the up
line. This was done, and it had not long been there when
the Birmingham express was observed to be in sight, and
the railway officials foresaw that something most fearful
must harpen.

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The anxiliary signal, when first seen by the driver of the
express train, was stated by him to indicate that all was
right, but almost immediately it was reversed, showing that
there was something on the line. He did all in his power
to stop the train, but it was proceeding at express rate, and
the space was too short to admit of the speed being at all
checked. The result was that the engine ran into the goods
train with fearful velocity, forcing the guard's break-van,
which was at the end of that train, over a salt van on to the
top of the third van from the end, where it remained, the
first salt van being. dashed into pieces, and the second very
extensively damaged.
The noise from the colision was tremendous and so alarmed
the inhabitants of the village of Pangbourne that all seemed
to feel at once that it was the result of an accident on the
railway. Many rushed to the station and rendered every
assistance that appeared to be required. The driver of the
express train, Abraham Hill, was discovered to be but
slightly injured in the ribs, and the stoker by some extra-
ordinary means escaped any material injury. The fearful
nature of the collision not unreasonably excited fears that
some of the passengers had been killed, and the general
anxiety was to ascertain what had been the effect of the ac-
cident among them. The carriages were instantly examined,
and it was gratifying to the people to learn that none of the
passengers had sustained any more iwonvenience than a
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The great thing remaining to he done was to clear the line
of the broken vans and the engine of the express, which had
got off the line and was embedded in the earth. The pas-
sengers of the train, railway (facers, and people of the village
all assisted to remove the guard's break van from the top
of the salt van, to which it had been driver, as already
described, by the express train. Great difficulty was ex-
perienced in the effort, and ultimately the van fell across
the clown line. Both lines were thus blocked, and proper
appliances being required for removing the obstruction, a
telegraphic message was sent to the Reading station for
assistance. Mr Bailey, the district superintendent, with a
staff of men, proceeded to the spot with the least possible
delay, and succeeded in getting the down line clear. The
axpress train was eventually despatched by another engine,
but its progress was interrupted at Reading, owing to an
engine having got off the ine near the Caversham road.
The down mail at night, and also the up mail early in the
morning, were both delayed several hours. The express
train, which was due at Paddington at 11 p.m., did not
arrive there until between 4 and 5 o'clock on Friday morn-
ing.

A number of men were employed the whole of Friday in
removing the disabled engine from its ?osition, and gettine
it on the up line, at Pangbourne station. In cons( quence of
this obstruction the down line had to be used for all trains,
so that great delay was necessarily occasioned to the ordi-
nary course of traffic. The desire of the railway officials
was to expedite the passenger trains, and to do that the
goods trains were detained at Reading. At one time on
Friday m3rning there were no less than 30 trains of this
description waiting to be despatched. Although a posse of
men have been at work all day, the up line, at the time of
the despatch of our parcel last evening, was not cleared,
There is no doubt a strict inquiry will be made by the
directors into the cause of this accident, which might have
entailed an awful sacrifice of life. The removal of the dis-
abled goods train from the down to the up lino no doubt led
to the calamity; but, for the sake of the public, and railway
t •avellers in particular, it ought to be ascertained by whose
authority it was done, and who is responsible for such an
act of utter carelessness in railway management.

THREE YEARS' CAMPAIGNEN G.—The American
papers say that there is a New York regiment which,
during their three years' service, has travelled by sea and
land more than 12,000 miles, fought 20 general engage-
ments, marched through 15 States, and has been under
Burnside, Pope, M'Clellan, M'Dowell, Meade, Sherman,
aad Grant,

the revolving turret, and the F (pare tower
which would:"protect its base. The unarmoured
portion of the ship's main-deck is intended to carry
eight rifled 150 pounder guns, two forward and aft
of the tower on each side. The arrangement of the
ship's defensive armour at the three points named,
it is calculated, would give the ship the same weight
of plating to carry that she would have if she is
finished with her originally designed coating of 41in.
spread over the whole of her sides, and which, it is
contended, can withstand nothing more formidable

than the ordinary 68. pound castiron shot. The rig
of the ship it is proposed to make as composi.e
is her armour and armament. Her mainmast
would be a tripod, on Capt. Coles's plan, while her
fore and mizenmast would retain the ordinary form.
With this arrangement it is calculated that the two
600-pounders in the turret would have a training of
62 deg. before and abaft the beam, the angle of
training btqween the fore and mizen rigging being
124ideg. In attacking anotborship that mounted only
broadside guns, the Royal Alfred, with her mixed

aystem, could place herself in a position the most
favourable with regard to the sea, and still fire at the

enemy from her turreted 600-pounders by the aid of
cane 124 dog, of training through which they would
work, while the broadside gunship must bear down
-ne9.rly-abaasn.of-,l4.AgreeL.befores -she -oo mkt- bring-
the fire of her gnus to bear upon the latter vessel's
turret, and would probably throw herself in the
trough of the sea and roll to excess, while the tur-
reted Alfred could keep her bow to the sea and thus
preserve a much steadier gun platform. It is also
argued in favour of the plan of Admiral Elliot that
recent experience with the Channel squadron has
proved that all of our ships attached to the squadron
that have carried their armour plating round their
bows and sterns have proved themselves wretched
seaboats, and that the proposed alteration in the
disposition Alfred's armour mustgreatly
benefit
et. The square tower which
is intended to protect the base of the turret, is also
her o
in f t h
thateß or
respect.
sl
p
intended to form a kind of transverse athwartships
and
epreventnd raked by an enemy's fire
o
weight of the Royal Alfred's
broadside under
aft, the
The sp
he be ing
proposed new arrangement
ra hti
would be I,Boolb. Such is the plan proposed by
Admiral Elliot for the reconstruction of the Royal
Alfred. It has been described with as few attendant
e
adoption may possibly ccn
v e•
weak ironclad into a most for-
mrin remarks
a br ks r
e as
notoriously
vessel, possible.
ossibl ebut. Its
there would be a more positive
chance of success for Admiral Elliot's scheme if it
was applied to an iron framed ship rather than to
the necessarily weak and yielding bottom of a
wooden
plan is applied to the Royal
Alfred,
a solitary instance of the
combined broadside and turret system, the Federal
American navy already possessing one vessel Of the
kind—the "Danderber
frame.
she will If
not the
h be e
g, a vessel with a turret at
each end and guns on the broadsides, the sides of
the ship being constructed at an angle of about 40
Jones's argulated target
at
or three years since.
The Terrible, 21 guns, paddlewheel frigate, 1,850
deg.
Portsmouth on
e t
some
tons, 800 horse power, master in charge Mr Fre-
derick Townsend, was taken out of the large basin
ilesausocthnelconsiderable repairs both in
was found,
some three years
in Sheerness dockyard on Thursday last. The
u ntdh,e
upon
inspection,essels of
afterher
atfht:eor r,eillotoloseo,
require
flhuhi
icerhre
theo hnearvyh'ull and machinery, that it was
etrhelagosuasrgidhnt almost better to break her ap. The Lords
of the Admiralty, however, determined that the
necessary repairs should be executed. The
vessel has been fitted with new boilers, while
the machinery has been carefully repaired at the
steam factory of the yard. Her hull has been
also nearly rebuilt, and the ship altogether may
be considered almost a new vessel. Previously to
being taken out of the basin it was found necessary

tide, as tho width
to take off the outer rims of the paddle-
hthe entrance to the
owfhteheelsv,
eaEnsedi two a
sw
tooait fgo e
aat hf jog!
basin. Even when this had been done while thevessel

was psssing out the sponsona were some distance
over the wharfs, and the paddlewheels were only a
few inches from each side of the jetty. The Terrible
is fully rigged, has got her armament on board, and

will be ready for sea about the Ist of January next.

She is now lying at moorings in the harbour, and it
is expected she will be shortly comminioned.
A draught consisting of 40 men of the 37th depot
have left Pembroke dock, under command of Lieut.

Rosser, for Dover, to join the regiment.
Major Burnside, 61st Regiment, Captain in-
structor of Musketry to the Bth Depot Battalion, is

about to be removed from Pembroke dock to the

School of Musketry, at Hythe, in order to fill the

appointment there of Lieut. Colonel. Captain
Mackenzie, 2d,lsth Regiment, is also about to join
the School of Musketry, in order to qualify as

Captain Instructor to the battalion, vies Burnside,

soner want to the shop of a Mr Hamlyn, a draper, at Taun•
ton, and bought some articles amounting to £1 8s 103. Ho
then tendered what appeared to be a £lO Bank of England
note. The change was given him, after deducting the amount
of the bill. The prisoner immediately afterwards went to
the shop of Messrs Chapman, drapers, Taunton, and there
he purchased articles similar to those he had bought at
Hamlyn's and he there tendered another apparently £lO
Bank of England note and obtained change for it. Hamlyn
had obtained change of the £lO note of Mr Patteson, the
landlord of the Castle Hotel, Taunton. The next day the
police having received some information, proceeded to Ex-
mouth, where they found the prisoner was a butcher. The
police charged him with having uttered the notes in Tann-

ton. The prisoner said he had not been in Taunton ; he was
taken to the lock-up and searched. He had nearly £2O in
his pocket, He had a key in his pocket, with which the
police opened the door of a house at Exmouth, which was

shut up. In that house they found two pieces of paper
which appeared to be £lO Bank of England notes, and they
also found the bills of Chapman and of Ha.nlyn. On Nov.
29, in the evening, the prisoner went to a draper's at Bath,
apparently very much intoxicated. He bought some calico,
flannel, and stockings. The bill came to V. 17s 3d. He ten,.
dared a £lO Bank of England note, change was given him.
He Paid his name was "Bun, of Box." All the five notes
were proved to be forgeries ; they were made from the same
plates.

The prisoner, in his defence, said he had a deal with a
man who appeared to be a farmer, at Bristol market, Ile
sold him some bullocks, and he received these notes in pay-
ment. He had thus lost all the money he had made during
all his life, and was now without a farthing in the world.
The Judge said there was no doubt these notes were
forged, and there was no doubt that the prisoner uttered
them. It was very unusual for an honest man to have five
forged notes in his possession ; but what made the prisoner
stop at Taunton and buy flannel and stockings, and give a
false name and address, and having obtained change for one,
why did he tender another when he had plenty of change in
his pocket ? There was no proof of anything the prisoner
had said.

promoted.

The jury returned a verdict of guilty.
The prisoner was then charged with having been con-
victed of felony (stealing sheep) in 1857 at Exeter.
He pleaded not guilty.
Proof was given of the prisoner being the same man, and
he was found guilty.
The prisoner said he did not know those notes were forged,
The Judge—Oh yes, you did. I think the best thing to
do with you is to shut you up for the rest of your days. I
sentence you to Id years' penal servitude.

James Nicholes was indicted for feloniously wounding
Elizabeth Nicholes, his wife, with intent to murder her.
Mr Warry prosecuted, and Mr T. W. Saunders defended
the prisoner.

The prisoner had been married 34 years, during which
period they had lived together. On the 10th December the
prisoner had been out at work all day ; he came home in the
evening tipsy; his wife was preparing his supper.; he *eked
for his spectacles, which she gave him. He then said, "If
I am living in the morning you will not be," and he took
down a marking iron, but he put it back again. The wife
said "I'm not afraid of you, and shall never be." This
seemed to annoy him, and he took down the marking iron
and struck her four times on the head with it. The wife ran
out of the house crying "Murder." She was afterwards in
bed four days. The police hearing of this went in search of
the prisoner, and found him in a field near his house. He
said he was provoked and could not help it, and he supposed
he ehould get a month for it. The surgeon who attended
the woman said she was in a critical etate. She was stil
under his care.

For the prisoner ic was urged that he was tipsy at
the time, and had not intended to du his wife any mischief
There were knives on the table, as they were at supper,
with which he might have destroyed his wife if such had
been his desire. The jury might ignore all intent, and find
the prisoner guilty of unlawfully wounding.
_ _

The Judge then summed up.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty with intent to do
grievous bodily harm.
The prisoner had been imprisoned for four months some
years since for assaulting his wife.
The Judge said it was almost impossible to hear this case
without feeling angry, but a judge ought not to feel anger.
It was a cowardly thing to strike a woman at all, much more
so his wife ; he was bound to protect her. Let men learn
that they were not to beat their wives. And if he (the
prisoner) supposed he should get a month, he could tell him
he would have much more than that, for he should sentence
him to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour,

The following appointments have been made at

the Admiralty :—Commander E. If. Murray to the
Achilles—Cornelius W. MDdrmott, Paymaster, to
the Cadmus--James L. Soathey, Paymaster, to the

MIDLAND CIRCUIT—LEEDS, Dec. 16.
(Before Mr Justice Keating.)
Chas. Jessop was indicted for breaking into the dwelling
house of Mr Barthelmes at Bradlord, and stealing a quan-
tity of plate.

Mr Bruce appeared for the prosecution; Mr C. Foster
defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prosecutor's family had gone abroad
and that on the 16th of September he locked up his house
and went off to Harrogate for a few days. On the 19th
a policeman, observing that the house had been broken
into, sent off to the prosecutor, who returned on the 20th
and found that his plate had been stolen. On the Bth of
November the police went to a beershop at Bradford called
The Live and Let Live ; they noticed that the name of
Brooks and not the prisoner's was over the door, although
the prisoner lived there, and on search being made they
found part of the plate concealed under the floor of one of
the bedrooms, and in the chimney part of an urn bel,nging
to the prosecutor. The prisoner said that the plate bad
been put there to be out of the way of the children. On the
prosecutor's wile going abroad part of the plate had been
locked up, and it was aok pug/0 whether the plate found
was the plate that had been locked up by the prosecutor's
wife or some left out for his own use during her absence,
The prisoner called a witness who proved that he had seen
the forks and spoons in the beershop some weeks before the
house had been broken into, and that those forks and spoons
were engraved with a B. The whole of the prosecutor's sil-
ver was engraved with a B also, and it was contended on
behalf of the defence that the plate was not identified by
Mr Barthelmes, as the only mark he identified by was the
B, which stood as well for Brooks as for Barthelmes.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of receiving.
The learned judge, as there was a previous conviction
proved against the prisoner, sentenced him to seven years'
penal servitude.
Charles Crosby was indicted for stealing a horse, of the
value of XlO.
Mr Lascclies conducted the prosecution ; the'prisoner was
undefended.
It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor, John
Stead, is a farmer living at Garford, end on Friday, the 7th
fieldOc October, ber ,
wherea servant of
wereof prosecutor'stthweoother
orsestook thekhe
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g into t ea.
He saw the prisoner about 50 yardsh from the field. The
next morning the horse was missed. A tollgate keeper had
a conversation with the prisoner, and saw him riding the
horse the next morning about half-past 7 o'clock. The pri-
soner then went to Selby fair, and, on some one offering to
boy the horse, refused to sell it, as the man wanted to ridr
rit out in the fair. Soon after he saw Henry Balls, a horse
dealer, in whose service he had formerly been, and told him
that he had heard the horse was stolen, He then rode off
in the direction of Gafford. The horse was found the same
evening turned loose on the turnpike road.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
His lordship said that he had formerly sentenced him to
15 months' imprisonment for a smilar offence, but this time
he should inflict a much heavier sentence on him, and sen-
teneed him to 10 years' penal servitude.

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HERALD,—Sarah Henderson, about thirty years of age,
now picking oakum in the House of Correction, is in her
way a representative woman. She is " well known to the
police by the cognomen of the Bloomer ;" she had torn her
clothing to tatters in the Eusteneread ; she had again rent
them into rags at the police-station; she has been charged
82 times and convicted 48 times in one metropolitan division
alone, and her ambition apparently is to live oat her life in
prison- When placed before the Marylebone magistrate on
Wednesday, she declared herself "sick and tired" of being
sent -to gaol for seven and fourteen days, or a month.
Sentenced to three months' hard labour, she pe-
titioned for six; and we have now to ask what terror
to such offenders have our correctional institutions ? Hero
is an idle, dissolute, vagabond creature, a nuisance of the
streets, who prefers incarceration to liberty, who enjoys the
former as safe, comfortable, aad healthy, and who only
makes use of the latter to bemire herself with drunkenness,
and ribaldry, while raising a clamour of shrieks and itmie
nine ruffianism in the public thoroughfares. Too little
attention has been bestowed upon this order of delinquents.
We have devoted endless speculations to the secondary
criminal, and oscillated between solitary, silent, and labori-
ous systems ; but to what does punishment come when a
wretched creature, only in her 30th year, who is known to
have been =dunned 50 times, implores that her term of
imprisonment shall be increased ? They tell us, oracularly,
that a bad person cannot be converted into a good person
by the simple expedient of shutting him up in a cell. The
process may, indeed, render reformation possible, break di
evil habits, and wear out pernicieus associations ; it may
prepare the way for further reformation ; but in such cases
as those to which we now especiallyrefer, when the chance
of reformation begins the authority of the law ends, and the
miserable sot is turned forth to the tavern bar, where her
first day of freedom is disgraced by drunkenness and
delirium. Would it be hazardous to prophesy, for ex-
ample,that this branded vagrant, Saralillenderson, after her
three months of penal correction, will immediately return,
to the degradation cf a female savage and pollute the very
kennels with her ignominy ? It is an accepted principle in
our times that justice must be measured out carefully and
upon a well-considered scale; but in this instance the ques-
tion is not so much one of justice as of social right and
mercy. Such a being is not to be dealt with as a criminal,
but as a lunatic, or as an incorrigible child, Will three
months' imprisonment remove her from daily temptation
and the stimulants to vice, destroy her ardour for intoxi-
cated excitement, sub lue the violence of her animal appe-
tites, or quench her craving for gin ? Assuredly not. A
comfortable cell, plenty of food, abundance of clothing,
artificial warmth and ventilation, medical attendance, a
teinsaenitylifteolneraasbnlee.
terrors—she enjoys it--and what else can society do with
Forchaplainth e waanind
woman
schoolmaster,
Henderson,
at renderall
events, the
pp
her ? That is the necessary and the difficult question.

DESTITUTION IN BETIINAL-GREEN.—Last Light
Mr. Jas. George Richards, the deputpcoroner, held
an inquiry at the Bricklayers Arms Tavern, Cullingwood-
street, Bethnal-garden, respecting the death of David W.
Keefe, aged 25. Catherine Keefe, of No, 22, Wellington-.
street, Bethnal-green, a sickly-looking young
woman
was accommodated with a chair, said that she was a woman, who
mg).
stress, and worked at a sewing machine for ono of the city
warehouses, but she had been out of employment through
sickness for 7 weeks. The deceased was a fur dresser, but
he was consumptive and unable to work: He had been under
the care of Mr World, the surgeon, but latterly he had dis-
continued his medicine. On Monday morning last he wished
to go to the Consumption Hospital at Victoria-park for ad-
vice, when she pledged her earrings to get the money for a
cab, but he could not go, as ha beeamo so much worse. He
got worse and died on Wednesday last. They were in great
distress, but never applied for parish relief. Dr. Llewellyn
of Whizeshapel-road, said that he found the deceased dead
in bed. There were no marks of violence on the body,
which was very thin and emaciated. The cause of death
was disease of the heart and lungs, no doubt accelerated by
the want of proper nutritious diet, which the deceased was
unable through poverty to obtain. The deputy-coroner
said it was to be lamented that the sister had not applied
for relief for the deceased, who no doubt had suffered great
privation. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with
the medical testimony.

ArEll'S pytp.E R
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.—Lord Palmerston at Romsey is one of those pie-
tur,es of Englfehlife and politics that we may some day
- 'ce the more because we no longer have them. The Pro-
wler walks out of Eroadlands, and in a few minutes is in
the New Corn Exchange of the neighbouring market town%
among the gentry and farmers of the neighbourhood. As
the chief man thereabouts, he opens the building, presides
over a dinner, proposes the toasts, and makes speeches. The
day's work is what may fail to the lot of any English gen-
tleman, and Lord Palmerston is only doing what any one
of 10,000. squires may have to do next week. But of course
be does it well, and wo all naturally care to hear what be
says, because we are at home with him, understand biro,
and know that even a short speech will give us a point or
two. The chief point is one which every farmer ought to
receive with respect from a man who, spending much (Allis
lime in the country, and having his eyes always open, has
been 'coking about him for near 70 years. In the course of
that time he tells the agriculturists of Romsey he has no-
ticed an immense change in husbandry. No doubt the pro-
gress has been quite as great as during any other 70 years
of the '2,000 that have elapsed since our ancestors depended
a good deal on acorns and beech nuts. It is only 30 years
since whole counties were nightly lit up by the destroyers s
of thrashing machines. Yet it was not because
flail-thrashe
ing was a light, or agreeable, or healthy
occupation—for
what with the heat, the draught, and the barn dust, it was
believed to have ruined many a good constitution, and
was left to men with more sinew than wit. Yet such is
the change, as Lord Palmerston observes, that the men,
whose fithers went about destroying thrashing machir.es
now insist on their use, and hold the fiail:too hard work for
man. The inference his lordship draws is that the steam,
plough will one day become as familiar. No doubt it will
and must. The price of corn must adapt itself to the
cheapest methods of productions, and they who cling to the
dearer will find themselves beaten, like the hand loons
weavers and all the crafts that persist is hand labour. Time
infertnce. however, does not rest here. Agriculture is a
progressive science, and they who expect to succeed i 4 it
must keep pace with every improvement. Sir Robert Peel
had to make many apeeehes at Tamworth, but we cannot
recall that he ever confined himeelf to such plain advice as
to tell the farmers to do their best, to keep ahead, and im-
prove as much as they could. That is Lord Palmerston's
recommendation, and, as it is evidently beyond the means,
of many farmers and beyond the scale of their farms to hat
steam ploughs of their own, he suggests that it may be
worth while to keep steam ploughs on hire, as thrashitg
machines are kept all over the country. Landlords may
lead the way by lending the steam plough, but such assist.
finer) can be but temporory, and must soon give way to more
businesslike arrangements. Another change Lord Palmer-
eton notices, with an eye to the future as well as the past,
and that is the preposterous weight and solidity of the carts
and waggons formerly in use—in days, no doubt, when. '
the condition of the roads and state of the ground made
strength the first consideration. But when agriculturists
complain of short crops, as, indeed, many have done this
year, i~ is excusable to notice that a good deal of the strengt h
of the soil still goes in weeds. When a field is all red with
poppies, or all yellow with charlock and the many other
weeds that wear that livery, we may venture to ask whether
it must always be so, and how it comes to pass. It has not
escaped Lord Palmerston's eye. We confess to sharing his
suspicion that the presence of weeds tells a tale of neglect.
Surely they may be extirpated at last, by continuous care,
for though thistledown is borne on the wind any distance,
thistle is not the worst foe to the crop. The moat numerous
and most inveterate enemies are those that deposit their
seed under their own stem, and are reproduced in future
years upon the very same spot. Surely at length they may
be destroyed, and it is one gain of machinery that it releases
a good deal of manual labour from such operations as the
destruction of weeds. It does not require a man to bo a
professed agriculturist, or a farmer in any sense, to see the
harm done by weeds. He may see in five square yards of
garden, or even in a flower-pot, the universal fate of a
plant choked with weeds in ever so small a degree.
We wonder whether Romsey appreciates the dis-
tinction of having a man of world-wide fame to
open its public buildings, and to preside over
its entertainments, and to be associated with it in history.
The county of Hants evidently holds that honour cheap,
and has taken another measure of its quality in its represen-
tatives. The University of Cambridge, too, has provided
in its own way for its public credit and Parliamentary influ-
ence. Bat Sir R, Peel, by the time he had worked his way
to light and truth, was not member for Staffordshire, or for
the University of Oxford, or for any considerable consti-
tuency, but for Tamworth. Such, then, are the localitea
ennobled by the greatest names of our age,—Tamworth,
Romsey, Tiverton. It is a matter of accident where amen
is born, or from what old town or ruin he derives his title,
but it is not accident that our great statesmen seem to
make their most familiar and most pleasant appearances at
small country towns, which bat for them would be as little
known as many hundreds more. Romsey has its fine old
Norman abbey, Tamworth has its castle. Both objects are
interesting to residents and visitors. but there ends the
claim of either town to national interest, excepting only
that it is associated with the name of a great statesman, with
many an amusing speech, or important manifesto. A time
may come, perhaps, when these associations will be classic,
and when names of merely local interest in these days
will recall to the student the virtues, the talents—possibly
too the liberties—of a former age. A time may come, per-
haps, when there may not be this plain speaking, nor will
it matter what a man can say when he will be able to do
nothing. We now find everywhere, as if from the soil of
Old England, free and generous utterances. We recognise
the voice of nature in the talk of men face to face, or the
somewhat more composed words of the man rather greater
than his fellows in his little Parliament of social peers.
Parliament itself can hardly match what is said in these
almost rural:haunts. It will be a sad day for England if
these local associations disappear from hor political annals,
and the grand story of British life be reduced to one long,
dull, angry controversy.

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