The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-20 00:00:00

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'embarked t'ne Admiral at Chatham, thelVildfire returned to
her moorings,in the harbour.
Her. kd.jesty's ship Waterloo, 120, Captin -,!,.iice°n:
Montagti Stoprord, struck the flag (blue at the fort) of Y
Admiral Percy, all, at sunset :on Friday Oeening, tn.
Admiral having proceeded on leave of absence for four days.
Captain iStopford being the'senior officer in -port immediately
hoisted his broad pennant at the main.
Her Majesty',s paddlewheel steam-vessel' Myril) Mr. S. Bourcbier master commanding, has been taken into .tne,
discharging-basin to undergo a refit.
Her Majesty's ship Vestal, 26 Captain- C. B.
has finished painting outside. Her topgalrantmasts' are on
end, lower and topmast rigging ratlined deeeVishe is all
ataut, and will be removed from the fitting basin during the
.
present week.
The official visit of the Board of Admiraltris postponed
until Wednesday next.
Mr. Alldridge, paymaster and purser, ha tellen
-ap his
commission for the Mega)ra, and not for the Vestal as inau-
vertently stated in our impression of Friday last.,
Wooravicx, JULY 17.—The Lords of the Admiralty an-
nounce their intention of paying an official visit .to this
dockyard to-day, and Commodore Henry Eden; :and the
heads of the departments, remained in waiting at the prin-
cipal office from ten o'clock, the hour they were expected,
until half-past eleven when a telegraph messay: was sent
down to inform the Commodore-Superintendent that their
uhouni director of the carriage
Lordships intended postponing their visit until 'the middle
tobhfr oeCnueoßgxl itentreawll roundeCAeis'le Arsenal,
ihe dockyard for the purpose had a carriage for lautchdiner litiemfbnotaitas
:pose shoiving
its advantages in launching life-boats to their LOrdships,
and Mr. Richardson, ,en-, and Mr. Richardson,jun., were
present with their life-boat, or life-raft, for the ptlrPose of
exhibiting its advantages for saving lives from shipwreck
or accidents at sea. Colonel Blanshard, commanding Royal
Engineers at Woolwich, whose' pontoons,have been intro-
duced into the, service for conveying troops across rivers or
narrow arms of the sea, with Captain Washington, R.N.,
Captain Perrot, and several gentlemen connected with the
shipwreck societies, arrived about two o'clock at-the dock-
yard, and witnessed the inventions experimenhd with,-
Colonel Colquhran having launched his boat fro. he, car-
riage several times with. twelve men fi2),raw' age
' the dins the hrtUrtheliv took '
place.'' The the boat
was very simple, and easily effected; by .backing the car-
riage
into the water under the slip from which the Agamem-
non was recently launched until five feet depth of water
was obtained, the wheels being about ten feet in diameter,
.and then raising the fore part, of the carriage, the boat went
down the inclined plane into deep water, and, by its own
momentum, went a considerable distance from the carriage.
The boat is easily landed by the same carriage from any
beach, however slightly inclined. Colonel Blanshard,
Captain Perrot, and several ladies and gentlemen, went on
the Messrs. Richardson's raft, and were rowed for some time
by six men, with six oars, up and down the river. Every
person admires the raft, as it can scarcely be upset; on a
former trial upwards of eighty men standing on one side
failed to upset it. Further experiments will be made with
these inventions when their Lordships visit the yard.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.
MIDDLESEX.
A very large meeting of the friends and supporters of
Lord R. Grosvenor and Mr. Ralph Osborne was held last
night, at eight o'clock, in the large room of the Beaumont
Institution, Beaumont-square, Mile-end-road. The apart-
ment, which will hold about 1,000 persons, was crammed as
full as it could hold.
Mr. OSBORNE, having been introduced to the meeting by
Mr. Hammack, the chairman, observed, that he had already
addressed two meetings that day, and felt like a racehorse
run off its legs. To carry out his sporting metaphor, he had
run ten heats for the Middlesex county cup in seven days,
and had taken two severe sweats that morning.—
(Cheers and laughter.) As the present Prime Minister
was connected with the turf, he might go en in
the same strain, and warn the electors in the
present contest not to let themselves be led away from
running the old Tory and Protectionist fox to earth by the
"No Popery" drag. It had been said that he was a friend
to Popery and to Papal aggression, and that Lord Bland-
ford was a Protestant champion—a sort of Protestant St.
George, who was to slay the Romiah dragon. Just let them
see how the case stood. In 1795 the Irish Parliament, which
was composed exclusively of Irish Protestants, who are very
different from English Protestants, for their religion in'a
great measure consisted in hunting their Roman Catholic
fellow-subjects, voted 8,0001. a-year to Maynooth for the
education of the Roman Catholic priesthood, not because
they liked them, but because it was expedient to do so, as
they did not like that the priesthood should imbibe what
were called French notions at the time, and that they should
be educated in Italy, Spain, or France. 'When the Union
was achieved—by what means it was not necessary for him
then to state—the grant was continued by the united Parlia-
ment ; and it was curious that Spencer Perceval, the Spooner
of his day, never objected to it.— (Hear, hear.) Govern-
ment after Government continued to rule Ireland year after
year by the old system of coercion, till, in 1845, Sir R.
Peel being advised of the policy of placing Maynooth on
a footing which would render it of service as a seminary
for educating the priesthood of Ireland, moved that there
should be a permanent addition to the vote of 14,0001.
a-year. Lord Blandford voted for that endowment—
he (Mr. Osborne) voted against it.—(Loud cheers.) And
now a new Titus Oates—and let them remember that old
Titus Oates was very nicely provided for—in the shape of
the chairman of the Middlesex magistrates, came forward
and picked him out as a friend to the Pope and Papal ag-
gression !—(Cheers.) It had been said on the hustings the
other day he had endeavoured to rob the Irish Church by
voting for Mr. Ward's amendment that any endowment to
Maynooth should come, not from the pockets of the people
of England, but from the funds of that
establishment. There
was always an attempt made to bind up the bloated Irish
Church with the establishment in this country, but he would
show them how the case really stood in Ireland, and
from Parliamentary documents, which could not be disputed.
He was obliged to take the census of 1841, inasmuch as in
the late census no diftinction was made between the various
sects, but as Irish Protestants had been as much affected by
emigration as the Roman Catholics had been by the famine
in the diminution of nearly 2,000,001) of the that
population,
the difference was not material. He found the num-
ber of Protestants of the Established Church Was
852,064, of Presbyterians 642,356, of other dissenters
21,808, of Roman Catholics no less than 6,427,7
hear.) Now, what were the revenues of these religious
derived from the State? The Established Church for its
800,060 persons received just 800,0001. a year.—(oh, oh!)
But that was not all, for since the time of the Union they
had recoived 1,000,0004 for the erection of churches
and glebe-)a6uses.— (Oh !) The Presbyterians received
grant, called the Regium .Dovum, of 32,0004 a year. The
6,5C0,090 of Roman Catholics received just 26,000/. Po j
annum.—(Hear, hear, and shame.) The 852,064 Pro-
testants had 2 archbishops, 10 bishops, and 2,000 cl,.ergi;
In England there was 1 bishop to every 412 benenca°'
in Ireland there was 1 bishop to every 118 benefices.
—(Shame !) Since the Union the money received by u"
Established Church was 5,207,0004, byProtestant Dissenters
12.--(Hear,
1,019,0001., by Roman Catholics 365,f0004—(Cheers.) Well,
he had brought forward a motion for inquiring into thatthe
Protestant establishment; he had voted for inquiry into
Regium Don'ini, and he was ready to, vote for an inquiry
into Maynooth.—(Loud cheers.) Let them understand i_lie;
well—he did not vote for it on the ground that he had
. .
right to inquire into the tenets of any man, or to Parrtt,
judgment upon the religious convictions of any body 0
eat,
hut on the broad principle that, as a Member of Parham
he had a right to see how the money which came out
__t the
pockets of the people was spent. Lord Blandford, ,0%,
other hand, would denounce the Roman Catholics 0%7
t dis-
tribution creed, but would not vote for any inquiry into -
with
the of the money by the various establishments.
with
the present contest, it was represented—he did not laid_
what truth—that a sort of transfer was to be made "e 3 was
dlesex ; that the chairman of the Middlesex magistret
ed for
to go into the Marlborough livery and be returnmiddle.
as had
Woodstock if the Noble Marquis came in.fforn
sex.--(Cheers and laughter.) The Noble suri,,--ef• no-
never appeared before the constituents till the day
urination, and
mination, when he had, the boldness to come forf,_vour of
tell them he was not a Liberal—that he was in favour
as
the game-laws, and thought game was as much Pll°l Lord
chickens.—(Laughter.) As to free trade, the Noble,,,,eat, and
had always voted against it till the very last mu'rcempert-
:wed that
be was now inclined to vote for what was calied
cation" to the agricultural interest. Ile really eu
b k to make
if he could pay the Noble Marquis 5001. a wee
la Osborne)
speeches, it would be the best canvass he (a`r. Mr. Dis-
could make.—(Laughter.) Talking of epeeches,,...blivy the
raeli had made a very curious one down at Al icir
breeches to
other day. He got on his topboots and leather Mr. Dis-
talk to his farming friends—for they must w
k ° Mr. Dis-
raeli in the country was a very,different person from free-trade
I raeli in London—and then, quite forgetting I
Pro-
budget, he said, in effect-4' Ah, the fact is' won't have it,
tectionist, you know, yet; but, ah, the people
i and try to
m a
and therefore we must think of something ,et were those
t.,..rates, which
take the burdens off land," Now, what
on the con-
burdens on land? Not the malt taX, for it
sumer, and not on the farmer; nor the cemit.,4 it should not
went to erect bridges and to make roads,atacipal rates,
church-rates
far as they
be forgotten that the towns had their L.
lighting and paving, and other charg so
2,000,0004
were borne both by town and country, and, ted for their abo-
'went, he could only say he had always vnr them. If there
lition, while Lord Blandford had voted fe_ ;vas the legacy
was any small excess on that score, therlticing
and probate duty on personal property, Prod tea, Well, then
a-year, from which real property was elCeoto vote against
what burdens was the land under?
ri
any attempt to shift the burdens of
tehe.hiandowner to the
corn-laws had
g
shoulders of the people, and he believed of the land.
been originally a great organized cool road h not an ultra-
lords to get high rents.—(Cheers.)
_,„euld give a large
_ ainst the prejudices
democrat, he trusted the people, and be."
thoughtextension
representative
t h the suffrage,
• delusion.—(Loud
le many. As a proof
governmentgovernment
Osborne
• and his nephew,
cheers.) The ballot was a protection
oott
the
ee
nfeeweesaenitdyaegfainthste thhaellpeatssmiorn.s of ,trae referred to the
correspondence between Lord London
Mr. lier, with respect to the repres of " his voters,"
of Down, in which the Noble Lord eaktaetion a the county
exposed a
and of the " family seat."
ent innuence and
test the voters from 4°
- vernt bad Put the screw
It was notorious how the Governmencies. In the case of his
ou the ports and dockyard constituen
nunild lose their s't
father, who had represented Ruc-:"-a their eyes, and said
T bh es:t
ntiber an 1
ti I
no t
ten
iwn ot
euerl
fdee
cr
et
iit :I: renoes
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intimidation had been carried
many of the voters came with teriars,ier
they, could not vote for h• for they w° . - ,-. i us,.
ion —(Cries of " Shame.") ureliaost.unprecedented ex-
tent; and he believed, when
• • -to the
Parliament met, they would
have such a scene of corruption and aces. At Derby, s
!mule him tremble for the eonseno sovereigns in bagfor
instance, they found a man with ,erson a a Sitting in a dark room. On that mans p
itletter was
moaning, and was sealed
found, which he had seen that intimidatioa
with the seal of the Carlton Club—(Cheers)—and he was
• behef—that the 1 t
„ e tter,
justified in saying—and it was ina letters "W. would
c" was signed with the initial le
intimate 8.,f
•
turn out to have been written by an friend of
of his Government.—
Lord:Derb '(Great
cheerio mention s, and by a member tion the name or par
men
ing,He never could of f political det •
Beresford withoutstrong feeling- e• - • estation,
ctionable
for he thmost obie. person he
ght him the
had told him so to his face .
--
had ever met with and he
(Cheers.) This ' the Government that had risen up as
told
the advocate was
aggression l Now he . them to
of Papal
beware, not of 12. f Protestant aggr
ession,--to fear
Papal but 0