The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-27 00:00:00

THE SUN,

LONDON, TUESDAY EVEN 'NG, JULY 27, 1852,

Burn twill of 20,862,100 florins of extraordinar y ex.
posts for the 2..e.ir 1851; 414,6 as fLrius be ,i:Jg
that
1, t,a p:44.1 to Russia in 1850. Allowing. fur the
ex
raordirary exthnnitare of the year 1851, it be
t',ll that the efficial organ makes out a reducZiow in tho
,P,
deft that
of that year, compared tyi:b. 1850,
18.180,734 iLrins.
te Ilan:burgh Correspondent contains a letter,
diated July 19, from 13,.iih:,wick, which. says
bSiree th'ee return of the Dubs, a question, which
ral`E'ffla slumbering for 30 years, has been again
legitimate
on the tapis—nan-lely, to decide whether the
'egitirnate descendants of the reignieg DUKE are to
Succeed to the throne, or those of Duke CuAnLns,
Who was declared incapah!e of reigninc;. As hoes
p
it ere entertained of seeing the reigning Dwin marr it
thought that the question will be formally solved
before long."
A letter from Hanover of the 90th states that the
Jellnoverian Ministers huve sent in %heir resignation.
On the 20th the Government of Electoral I-.l.es'e
1,1,11de a statement to the Second Chamber of the
Stunts of the financial .situation of the country. 'he
Jairwi •
ter of Finance &Oared that between three And
rout• .
the rat.li.ons thalers would be required to cover
expenses of the public debt in its augarearted
hqe.•
The Prince of PRUSHA has arrived at Carlsrulle.
'
itCC"."4In4 to a letter from Munich, the 13?:v iri -in
:etnnient ha; offered an indemnity it-2t4l.l°r°:.(3o°,zi°
inB
to the railroad company of the Pala ,
-ondttton • •
of the company undertaking to execute
rapidity the line of railway from Ludwig6Luten
Ituo l'i's'enbu-rg. It is on this point that it is proposed
':llend the Strasburg
(1 line to the frontier.
General CEIANGARNIER has arrived, at Gastena.

HOLLAND.
Ilardelsblad of Amsterdam, in order to
1))" an end to certain rumours, st4,tes that the
SF lltell Government has accepted from the United
thethe m
""'s • n of entering into negotiations with
"ceperor of JAPAN for putting an end to the
e-e'illion of all foreigners except the Dutch.

ITALY.
he.,Alt MoonE, the British Consul at Ancona, has
,"' sharply called to account by Monsignor
or Aauci,
AdP'l governor of that city. On the 13th inst. an
Is!riaa steamer arrived at Ancona from Trieste
lyith a
had Lumber of pasiengars on board, many of whom
Corn to attend the great fair of Sinigaglia, and
, ;'lr. Dikv,
_I an Englishirian, who came to visit a
.a,ather of his, who is mentally afflicted and under
aarge of
aua.
r MOORE, after which he was to leave
pg'ou by the same steamer on tho following day.
iji°ll.l the steamer Mr. DAVIS wrote to Mr. MOORE
li ett,
°ll:fling him that having inadvertently omitted
ing the
Papal Consul's visa affixed to his pass-
Ilticicit at Trieste, he feared that difficulties might ensue
0 objections be made to his lauding.
eej°na
reeelpt of Mr. DAVIS'S letter (time being very
mlrectoa to him)the consul started instantly for the
found
A, Of police's office, which he unfortunately
offi ''''°sed• He then repaired to the steam agency
th ee to see if be could arrange anything there for
I„l466enger, but found that office shut also. Mr.
ftchl,liE next went on board the steamer, and saw his
os;,7,lit,who. was under no restriction whatever, verbal
to The captain recommended him by all means
boatt wit the ship, so that Mr. Davit stepped into the
ofe,„"'t° Mr. Mooasa who took Lan to the health-
any asked the officer there whether there was
the reqrsint upon Mr.
.Davas'a movements, to which
hij replied that they had nothing whatever to do with
to set The consul, resolved to leave no stone unturned
foot,s"` his friend's brief stay in Ancona upon a regular
tnorl°g, then cowlucted him to the police-office once
aktioo
finding it still closed ia,e repaired to the Dele-
Yer nose
Palace of the papal governor. His re-
diste;ise was at dinner, and the consul, unwilling to
arr' him for what he considered so trivial a matter,
acti,"ged with his (the consul's) secretary to give
°f it to the police when the office opened at
tleire;(4loek in order to settle there the kind of
h ~,°r guarantee that might be required to repair
iaight error in the passport.
c • ep morning, to his utter astonishment, he re-
et e" frOrn the governor the following arrogant
oa4hunication, which sufficiently shows the animus
1 adin the
essecclesiastical, authorities and their constant
! to
taies and subjepick
cts
:quarrels with British represents-
" It has been reported to me that amongst the pas-
to.nogers who arrived yesterday
there4llsd's steamer, co,in rrom
vyas was a B sahjeet. named Join G. on bad the
.A.ustrian
Trieste to Sinzgaglia,
wa forbidden to disembark on account of passport
Davie, who
thin. ticg
the visa of the pontifical consul. Notwithstanding
, I aye been informed that
self ori board the said steamer, arid brit)
• presented your-
you, sir,
bringing, the
pas.
inng
aenger back with you, introduced him into i the city. I
do net knovv how to account fir such an infraction of
the pratiquo regulations having happened. You know
better than any wher pall,Gon that it is an interns:toned
right and custom with
discraburhinovernments
passenger from
who has not the. r
it
consular visa. If my memorygto prchi'oit any
equired
atarsato me that every time that ysounohtavdeecheiltvheerto c-
pernaLision for the disembarkation of English
ttaultbilioeteitah not provided with visas, I have granted it to you
therefore contrary to the regulations. After all this,
fro, ~ not knowing how to qualify the step of taking
regular
boardthe steamer a
repassenger not furnished with
r papers and whose disembarkation was conse-
quent!
Prohibited until my intentions were known, I
aticw_ demand. from you an account of the occurrence, re-
,e 2grig to myself, alter your reply, to return to the
ietterq seriou?. argument treated of in my present official
AI n this dictatorial communication, Monsignor
Imadem appears to have entirely overlooked the efforts
, by the British consul to accomplish the disem
4rltation of his friend, with the knowledge and con-
sent of the police authorities. Mr. MOORE replied in
e'vii terms, simply narrating the facts of the case, and
hen waited
to see whether the governor returned to
41" senses or not. It is absurd to call the landing of
?see Passenger a strange " infraction of the pratique
'egulations," as he was not called to appear before
any,. authority, nor were any steps whatever taken to
lluow aim, or the consul, that he was prohibited
from landing. His remaining on board at all, after
the passengers and goods were landed, was always
an act of tolerance on the part of the Austrian
captain.

illeanwhile his reverence has become the laughing-
stock of the town by the circulation of his letter, and
several of the foreign consuls who have perused it are
highly disgusted at its tone.

Mr. Stafford, M.P., the Secretary to the Ad .
rev, accompanied by his private secretary, Mr. 031.
!
T. G
Grant, left the Admiralty on Saturday' and proceeded el.
route to Malta, vid Marseilles, to personally inspect that J
portant Admiralty establishment in the Mediterranean. Thule
Hon. Secretary, we believe, comas home by way of Gibral-
tar, inspecting the Admiralty establishment there Also.—
1110 ruing Herald.
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GREAT BOAT RAM—The boat race between
Thomas Coombes. of Vauxhall-bridge, and Philip Chandler,
of Milbank, for 501. came off yesterday, and was most spi-
ritedly contested throughout. Thomas Coombes, the brother
of the ex-champion, has been before the public for many
Years, has earned considerable reputation as a scalier and
oarsman, and in the exercise of the prowess of the former
Won the . beautiful boat given by Mr. Simpson, the pro-
prietor of Cremorne, last week. Chandler, the son of the
veteran of that name, exhibited so much style and game
during last summer as deservedly to gain many friends,
some of whom backed him in the match of yesterday. The
distance contested was from Putney to Mortlake, and
eoonabes, although a stale man compared with his opponent,
Was the favourite, Chandler won the toss of station, and
took the best place. The start was extremely even, but was
succeeded by Coombes taking a slight lead, which he in-
creased foot by foot at intervals throughout, winning by
about two clear lengths, notwithstanding Chandler's very
manly endeavours to cnange the fortune of the day.
MANCHESTER UNITY OF Ono. FELLOWS. The
Members of the St. Thomas's Lodge of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, having for some time intended to present a
testimonial to Brother Wm. Henry Gros.* secretary to the
lodge, last evening was appointed for the " presentation sup-
per," which was given at Brother Booth's, the White Horse
cavern, North-street, Fitzroy-square. There was a very
full attendance of the " brethren." Brother Webb filled-the
chair, and in the course of the evening presented a very
handsome silver snuff-box to the secretary, expressing, in a
short pithy speech, the esteem of the brethren for that gen-
tleman, and their sense of his services to the lodge. The
secretary replied with equal brevity; and the healths of the
Chairman, the vice-chairman, Mr. Ewart, the worthy host,
Mr. Booth, and others, were drunk and acknowledged.
Atter passing the evening in the usual convivial manner, the
brethren separated at an early hour.
ANOTHER ASCENT OF MR. COXWELL.—OH Monday
evening this increasingly popular aeronaut made a second
aerial voyage from the Grecian, City-road, where a large
assemblage of spectators witnessed the ascent, which was
certainly one of the finest and best managed things of the
sort which has taken place this season. Mr. Hampton rose
some time after from th
Rosemary
thee far-famed m econtinentalß ranch, Is Islington,
aeronaut a n d
endeavoured to outvie
as
to height. The Sylph, however, maintained the pre-emi-
nence, and after remaini
the air, descended safelynktosnteainheso7 and three-quarters in
PEE-PAYMENT OF LETTERS ee-IPOETANT NOTICE.
General Post-office,
from the Ist August
next, all letters or packets for" Pt?e within the United
-ette or receiving-office
Kingdom, posted at any branch past iu London, or within the limits
hee London district post,
rat unpaid. Money
Must either be pre-paid by stamps orrlx
ewpttehr Permitted
pa 'meat for inland letters will
iniearteotei chief office,
.113 thesei offices. Letters or packets, feren),/,,gf
St. Kingdom, posted at the windows
t Kingdom,
may be pre paid b
prep to five
artAaina after which hour they must be eith
ts,nt unpaid. regulations do not extend
, or ,
to tettere
money or for places abroad, which may still be pre-paid by
'Paw, leaniPs, at the option of the sender.
8. eakN
G, Nims —The young Tory Member, Mr.
into a scrape. for South Northumberland, has already
got
ante exultingl
With exceeding ill taste he made his appe-ar-
on Thuradey, exultingly
betore a crowtrof Sir George Grey's friends
A cap was throwlicnibled in front of the Star Inn, Alnwick.
without at all hurtt? in the mob, and accidentally fell on,
attacked a Mr. Rottt;:gt Mr. Liddell; whereupon he savagely
This outrage excited
saved from its indignatii''
wt Ito Was nearest to him, with a stick.
crowd, and Mr. Liddell was only
of the Hon. Captain pr°„ne and vengeance by the interference
Is Said, to take legal pro-sri'le;k Grey. Mr. Ross intends, it
unprovoked assault ea leiteetnes against Mr. Liddell for the
On dit that Sir C. as.
..,aorcee the title of Lord T d Vat is
t6rkt,one made a Peer, by
re e

!.,PIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

•
FROM THE MORNHIG P.,..PEItS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.--The true claims of patine men to public
honour are extremely difenilt to csrefy. Even in re-
spect to the great character.) . the 1381 Century, there 13
hardly yet perhaps an agresraent of opinion. So rapid,
in the French revolution, were the caangea of popular
sentioeent that the Con nohow was forced, to were
dtceney's sake, to decree that no citizen should be re-
warded with national acknowiccigmente nil ten years
eater his decease. The canonization of a Popish saint
has been defered, we believe, by Pepal ordinances, for a
still longer period of historical prooetion; and it needs
eery little argument to show the propriety of the rule.
Yet, though barely two years hosa elapsed since the
death of Sir Robert Peel, we find his memory already
honoured by the spontaneous tributes of a whole eeople,
and ao uniform, indeed, has been the consent of admira-
tion, that the inauguration of the Tamworth statue,
which we reported on Saturday, suggested no expression
but that of general satisfaction. It was too late to
descant on Sir R. Peel's public character. The eulogy
had even already pronounced by the voice of the nation,
and symbolised by the visible prosperity of the country.
There still, however, remains a question for history to
solve—how far has this gratitude been truly merited?
wren the legislation of 1846 is reviewed by writers who
will lock upon Free-traders and Protectionists as mere ab-
strain s y mbels of an ancient fowl, what will bo the judgment
upon the statesman who, by his 07711 private resolution,
char:feed the social and financial aspect of a mighty king.
dons? It is hazardous to anticipate such a verdict, but
speculations are tree, and we may venture on the expe-
riment. As to the essential wisdom of Sir Robert's
policy there can be no longer any doubt. What he did
it has proved impossible for his most inveterate antago-
nists to undo. Taney have not been lacking either dispo-
sition or opportunities. A strong Parliamentary party
was formed and maintained upon the sleet() principle of
reversing, modifying, or compensating the acts of 1846.
In the won't course of constitutional occurrences they
have come into power, and according to the ordinary
measure of such power they ought now to be competent
to realize their views. But never was the contrast: between
party mechanism and public opinion more conspicuously
displayed. While protection was marshalling its comba-
tants in Parliament, Free Trade was doing its work out
of doors; and, before Mr. Disraeli could put the question
in " constitutional" form, it had been definitely settled
by the experience and acclamations of the people.
Protectionists were fain to go to the hustings with
the preliminary confession that protection was impos-
sible, and with solemn avowals that they entertained no
intentions of reverting to nn exploded policy. Neither
can it be said that these feelings were partial, for, al-
though everybody might not have been satisfied, the
" contents" did clearly form so large a numerical majo-
rity of the people as to compel the recognition of states-
men. This, indeed, was the true point of Protectionist
weakness. Considering how powerful a party Mr.
Disraeli succeeded in maintainiog, and how nearly he
could balance his adversaries in a Parliamentary divi-
sion, it was nothing less than the known convictions of
the unrepresented masses which could have restrained
his decision. There is no possibility of denying that
the legislation of 1846 has prodigiously improved the
finances of the kingdom, has been followed by a gene-
ral prosperity without example, and has hitherto so ap-
proved itself to the public mind as to be beyond reach
of reversal. To the argument that this prosperity and
satisfaction will soon have an end we can, of
course, make no reply, for prophecies are necessarily
uninstilable ; but we do not see how the most
stubborn Protectionist can deny that the people, up to
this moment, are so thoroughly satisfied with free
trade as to render even Parliamentary strength
completely powerless before public opinion. The
legislation, therefore, of Sir Robert Peel was essentially
Food—so good, indeed, that it wauld be difficulty to fled
any single act of any legislator so wonderfully justified
by its results. But, considering Sir Robert's circum-
stances and obligations, was his private resolution
equally justifiable? The party of which he was the
heed bad been formed, it cannot be concealed, on the
general principle of protecting those lawn and ordi-
nances which he boldly overthrew. Was he warranted
in thus " betraying" it? That the first duty of a
Minister is to his country and the second only to his
party, is what not even the moat bigoted partisan would
venture to deny, and, if free trade is the blessing which
it appears to be, it becomes a direct conclusion that any
statesman would have been justified in securing such ad-
ventages to the country at any expense to his Parlia-
mentary followers. Parties, even in their most exalted
sense, can be nothing but mere instruments of Govern-
ment, aitd, if the ends of Government are to be
sacrificed to its instruments, it is hard to see what is
gained by any Government at all. Sir Robert Poel
sagaciously descried the practical necessity of the
time. Ho concluded that the corn-laws must be
repealed, and that his conclusion was eminently just
has been now proved, not only by the experience of
millions, but by the iuvoluntary confessions of his ene-
mies. He repealed them, therefore, in spite, rather than
by the aid of his own party; but what becomes of a
party's boasted claims if it can do nothing more than
impede the exercise of superior wisdom? Is there any
men in the kingdom who, after the budgets of the last
six years—Mr. Disraeli's included—will say that Sir
Robert Peel ought to have withheld these blessings from
the country out of respect to party understandings? We
might safely leave the question in this form, but we con-
ceive the occasion suggests a rather broader generaliza-
tion. In plain terms, we are much of opinion that all
measures of large popular benefit—all measures which
consult the advantages of the many at the expense of
the few—mast necessarily be carried by some breach of
Parliamentary punctilio. It has been said that everything
should be done for the people, but nothing by them, and
there is some truth, as all history teaches us, in the as-
sumption that the masses are not always the best
judges even of their own immediate interests. This
maxim of nolitictl science, therefore, would seem to
warrant the confinement of representative institutions
within narrower limits than pure theory would sug-
gest, but it can only be carried oat with practical
success when the administrators of Government recollect
their unseen obligations, and give due thought to the
interests which are unrepresented by votes. It is cer-
tain that the House of Lords did not approve the Re-
form Bill, and almost as notorious, perhaps, that Sir
Robert Peel's House of Commons did not really desire
the repeal of the corn-laws. In each case a measure of
real justice and incidental necessity was carried by the
impulse of Ministerial power after Ministers had been
impressed by the popular will. Of this impression the
few and responsible members of a Government are
naturally more susceptible than the numerous acid irre-
sponsible members of a Parliamentary Legislature, and
they act accordingly. They are in advance of their
party, and they discern duties to which their followers
are blind. In the common course of events the machine
may work smoothly, but at conjunctures of periodical
recurrence even " great parties" must submit to be told
that a still greater party demands the preferential atten-
tion of their leaders. The safety of our constitution lies
in these its self-contradictions. Parliament represents
the people not by arithmetical computation of votes, but
because, yielding to impulses from above or without, it
records occasional conclusions against its own views and
wishes. For one of the greatest of these state opera-
tions the country has to thank Sir Robert Peel; for
others it may posoibly have to thank the bitterest critic
of Sir Robert Peel's measure.
E PROTECTIONIST PARLIAMENT.

U amicable E idiscussionrj DWe are
witha 10; :t tx
opponents,
pleasedp oncntg to halo
nour Et: e
mutual
and opposing prospects; and hence we readily reply to
the points made by our Whig friend in his last night's
paper. The only objection we have to offer to his
statement is, that he assumes us, in the article to which
ho replies, to be admitting certain things which we un-
questionably dil not admit. We said, more than once
or twice, that we were allowing the Liberal writers and
talkers to state the case in their own way; and that
even as so stated we did not see how tbry could reach a
satisfactory result. The reply of our Whig friend is as
follows:

•.................
" It is worth remarking, that the Min
i rejectswhile,
mani-
festo, to which we have above made eltusiOtezial for
the sake of argument, it accepts our premises,
conclusions. Conceding the fact of a M
nority, it denies that Ministers need therefore turn outi-
For, it says, if Lord John Russell were sent for, tee.
first question he must be asked by her Majesty would
be, how he proposed to govern now, with a majority of
inislerisi mi-
nority,
twenty or thirty, when he could not govern last Feb-
ruary with a hundred?
4‘ We take note that the Ministerial organ puts such
questions,
as a significant indication of Ministerial pre-
raeantimeuts. But, in the same of Cocker, if the Libe-
ba.ek, how
Libe-
rals cannot resume power with a majority at their
cm the Derby-Disraelites retain it with a
strengtht
nat the of
minority ?"
We " concede" no such fact, but we say, suppose that the
parties shall prove to be as you state it, i. e.,
will h
Government has only 300 or 305 votes in the
could not helpel Commons
—oi
House of Co
resigning, when what
hfoelolosiwav?.
DLisroaredliJhoandn
but Russell 26 o
supporters;
former 260? To thiseth
his
be able to resume office, and to
retain office, when
retain it
opponent has 300 in lieu of his
cannot resume power witehrnejoieder is, "If the Liberals
majority at their back, how
here hidden under plirasc:7ltl'' a
can the Derbyites minority?" Facts are
Nowa,
majority
practical difficulty was
we doubtieritY the fact greatly—
so they say. The Liberals have a ma-
jority,for one vote—a
votethis:
againstSa y tbLa to
rtdh they
Derby—we
question is, what one
greatly—
but let it be assumed. Our nexttn
thing; this?miTnoistorytttvoitne
but it is nugatory,
step can " the Liberals" take beyond
thisew to be done?
and dismiss a Ministry is one
ismade
a en anneals Are the
except you can set up
place the next
its room. Now, how
Your " Liberal majority"
_ _up of several
classes besides the pure Whigs and
few Peelites conciliated? Is their
Wade, Cullen, And,
Whig Ministry allotted? Have Lord
ere and
Lord John Russell made up their differences
above all, have the minions of
Wiseman ogre! d to support a Russell Administration?
In the latest Irish election proceedings wo meet with such
language as the following. Al the Tipperary nomina.
tion a priosr, called—
" The Very Rev. Dr. Burke, sail, Ireland was always
treated in the same manner, whether the Government
Places were held by Whigs or Tories, by the renegade
cated—one
Russell or scorpion Stayley.—(Deep and prolonged
groe-.,
)
g But one Government after another Cava
felttr the effect of the manner in which Ireland was '
Government after another 'nave been made
to feel that Ireland could not be so treattd with impu-
Cl,y —(Leuri cheers.) Yes, and one Governsaont utter
souther shall still be made to feel that Ireland cannot
be unjustlygh, is treated with impunity; but that so long es
of unjustlye treated she shall still be the great diffi-
eultyß„,eti has ugtird.—(lmmense cheering.) The renegade
shall be eaud,,ean made to feel this; seorpion Stanley
, sought to
ing ) it,a,,en to feel it in his turn.—(Vociferous cheer-
outrage to the feelings, the .letter by which he offered
extinguish and after the Bill by which he
the religion of the Catholic millions

of the Irish people, and of their fellow-Czt holies in Eng-
Icind end Scotto-A, was discar(Ld.—(llc,:r , hear, and re-
newed elieerslig.) Scorpion Stanley :3111111 owe his down-
to a ciafilar .ause,"

There will, probably ha forty or fifty men returned7from
Ireland by I.raests of this sort. Thew.) forty cr fifty
:Agents of .11•1111le and Cullen will agree in. a vote otge.inst
Lord Derby. But what will their votes be, .when a Rus-
sell Illiniatry aths their aid? Their immediate demand
will "Repeal tho Ecelcalaatical Title a Bill;"--a do-
mand which L-_,re. John Russell cannot even pretend to
comply with. Takit,g, then, these Cara° elements of
discJrd icto view,—], the Peelites to be 'treated .vitli; 2,
the Palmerston -party, however email, u ) be conciliated;
and, 3, the Lucesses, Duffys, Bredys, and MacGuires
to be bought over,—may we not well say, that
to bring this " Liberal majority " into the form
of au Administration will prove a task oven ex-
ceeding the temerity of a Russell ? But, it is asked,
" If the majority cannot carry on the Government, how
is the minority to do it?" We again repeat, that we do
not admit the fact that Lord Derby will be in a mi.•
nority. Btl, should it even turn out that he has but
305 votes in the now House of Commons,• we meet the
question by this plain answer. He will carry on the
Government, as a public duty,tecauso he will be tat the
head of the strongest party in the House. Let the
House of Commons consist of—

305 Conervatives,
15 Peelite:,
180 Whigs,
85 Radicals,
45 Irish Brigade,
25 Neutrals,
it may, and probably will, be suon found that no other
parry bur, the Conservatives can carry on the Govern-
ment. And ie ttlis st4te of things it may become a plain
duty, obvious to all, and denied by none, that Lord
Derby and his Cabinet should, amidst whatever difficul-
ties, abide by the helm and steer the vessel through
what all will admit to ba a very intricate and dangerous
channel.

DAILY NEWS.—Australia has decidedly risen in
the emigrationmarket since the discovery of its gold
fields. Looking heck on the emigration records of
former years, it is clear that all the exertions of enthu-
siastic coloaisere to turn upon Australian shores a mo-
dicum of the stream of emigration flowing perennially
from this country to America had been a comparative
failure. Australia was distant—to emigrate thither
appeared a step that could not be retracted—in short,
the sum total of emigration to the southern colonies
bore a smell proportion to the sum total of emigration
to the United States and the Canada?. But the tales of
" the diggings" have set all the world agog; and there
is now such u squeezing and jostling to get off to that
El Dorado that the emigrants' discomforts begin before
they quit their native shores. Now we have no wish
whatever to damp this spirit of enterprise. In Australia
there is more elbow room than iu this our crowded old
country; men can got on there with less of capital, with
less of toil and heart-sickening hope-delay; we said so
before the gold•fields were disoovered, and we say so
still. But we would fain whisper in the ears of san-
guine adventurers that their prospects of attaining with
comparative ease in that remote region to independence
and effluence aro not materially increased by the
discovery of gold deposits there; and that they had
better not make, as poor Dick Whittington did,
the gold too prominent and exclusive an object of their
calculations for the future. Gold is douotlees a very
pretty commodity. And in a country where there is
abundance of other elements of wealth to be had in
exchange for it, pockets full of gold are not to be de-
spised. But they who set their hearts on gold, and gold
alone, if placed in a position to acquire and store up as
much of it as their hearts can desire, are extremely liable
to realise the fable of Midas—to starve among their
stores of gold, and to deserve the ass's ears which
sprouted out on the head of that sapient monarch whom
the gods nursed by granting his prayer, that everything
he touched might be turned to that precious metal. The
mania will in time cure itself, but at
.present the dis-
covery of the gold-fields has set the wits of all Aus-
tralia a woolgathering—in a mach less profitable sense
than they were. before it was made. Some few years
back the Australians were rich in herds and flocks,
with unlimited range of pasture whereon new stock_
masters might rear as many sheep and cattle as they
pleased. Wool, tallow, hides, and so forth, were
produced in abundance to export in exchange for the
necessaries, comforts, and luxuries which the menu-
fee tures of the mother country produce. Food was
cheap and amply supplied ; wages were high; the
small capitalist found easily a profitable investment;
the penniless labourer soon earned enough to convert
him into a small capitalist; the last relics of the
state of society produced by convict transportation
were disappearing; Australia was as comfortable a har-
bour of refuge as the poor man could desire. But since
his
se
pgloeledgfhevieer has broken bfreorkreenw,outht,ethheerpdlsomuage hman has left
has
left his
master's cattle and sheep untended, the clerk has fled
from his ledger with entries half-made, all settled in-
dustry is paralysed and disturbed, men of all classes aro
scraping for gold with pickaxe and shovel, exposing
themselves to unwonted privations, now accumulating
sudden wealth, now toiling laboriously for nothing.
Nomadic hordes of gamblers are setting all their pros
pects in life upon a chance in the gold regions. The
confluence of the worst members of society, the rude,
grasping habits acquired even by those of better dispo-
sitions, sad the absence of a sufficient police, are ren-
dering the Australian El Dorado anything but a safe or
comfortable residence for respectable members of society.
We repeat that we insist upon these facts not to deter
intending emigrants from proceeding to Australia. This
social disarrangement can only be temporary, and they
who are forewarned of it may turn it to profitable ac-
count. Owing to the seductions of the mining districts,
the demand for labourers and clerks has become greater
than ever in the more settled districts of Australia, and tho
remuneration for steady industry has proportionately
augmented. We would have emigrants keep this in view,
and arrange their plans rather with a view to fill up the
vacuum left by the gold hunters, than to stake every-
thine' upon the chance of their being able to pick up
su lan wealth in " the diggings." Fortunes rapidly
made are as apt to be rapidly spent. Extraordinary
luck is the lot in this world only of the few. The wealth
that is acquired more slowly by steady industry is more
lasting, fur the habits contracted in acquiring it enable
men to retain and use it more wisely. There is a story
we have somewhere read of a party of adventurers who
were lured from Spain to the New World, when the
tales of Cortes and Pizarro made it as attractive to
Castilians as California and Australia are now to the
Anglo-Norman race. As soon as they landed all set off
to thegold regions with the exception of one, who, un-
moved by , the n and gibes
sought
out a i fle
pece of g round r: a rear the of
his
fellows,
coast,
set to
andwork to till it, as he might have done on the plains
:corn
of Estremadura. The gold seekers penetrated into
the interior, end, after a prolonged absence, re.
turned with rich store of gold, but wort and ma_
elated with privations and desperately hungry. Their
old friend refused to impart of the produce of his farm
except in return for their gold, and the prices ho fixed
upon his corn, flesh and wine were exotbitant ; but
they were starving, no other dealer in these commodi-
ties was nigh, and their pockets were soon emptied, we
pass over details. The prudent tiller of the soil explained
to his angry friends that his sole object had been to se-
cure them from perishing with all their wealth, and
teach them practically the true use and value or gold.
Toep then shared their acquisitions in brotherly fashion,
and returned an of them wealthy men to their native
The moral of this story is one that our name_
rous Australian emigrants would do well to lay to heart.

MORE T.ELEG1 AP11.9.
A very brief period will elapse before Belfast is placed
in direct communication with the three capitals of these
kingdoms, as well as with the capitals of the conti-
nent. Measures to this effect are at present in
: meeti:pton, progress, and will not, we are satisfied
with impediment or procrastination. The scheme of
telegraph actually agreed to by the new company takes
in Dover, Landon, Birmingham, Wolverht
Manchester, Bolton, Wigan, Liverpool, Preston,
Carlisle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Greenock, is
Great Bl'itain ; and Donaghadee, Belfast, Deb.
lin, Galway, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford, Cork,
graa wiresdn, t haeouiritenotnei:ir maednd i
dailya tjueoaptnoecwrhanets iu
si
operation
nr
between
erteawl senead. ni2,
..,wivi Linesreerpfol
line is
i eightsw tio..
extend from the latter city to London and Dover;
m merging
r g i e gm subterranean,
aa dsee
r
from Liverpool to Carlisle the the line, which_ is
itehseeonsists
Portpatrick to Donaghadee theour wires, and from
ofprseilximiinasaurlyatedw
companyires,bprepared
haveh
and al-
ready
arrangements for sub.
made by the same eminent engineers
Dover and Calais cable was fabricated. by
two-wire
th:
line between Dublin and Galway has already given the
most ample satisfaction to the directors of that line the
railway; and the same may be said of all the oneeee!
lines which the company have constructed in England
and Scotland. We may state that the scheme above---
projected the company intend shall be carried
most fully, and, we will, add, in a vary abort time hence,
As a proof of this assertion, it may be added thate•
the wires for the Irish inland lines are at present at
the Ulster Railway terminus ; that the wires
the County Down line are also at the Count
Down Railway Company's terminus ; and that tee
cables for immersion across the Channel are at Gate
head, at the Messrs. Newell's works, undergoing, u
the
spiral laying of the iron wire which is to encase
them. Inside tho external iron wire casing is, a
coating of gutta percha, in which the wire,
enclosed by Mr. Statham, of the Gotta P were
- ereha,
Company, some time since. The process at
the Messrs. Newell's must be nearly, if not already corn_
plated; arid, on that being done, and the wires tested, it
only remains to carry the rope to the harbour, and lee it
across. That this final operation will be attended with no
discomfiture that skill and ability can avert, is sufficiently
guaranteed by the success attending on the great achieve_
emeatenduring
r oi
nf
gthe
monumentDo v crand i Calaistheir
ability
i
Submarinel co 'prienl
go g rwaipt
with
-.:z
overcoming obstacles which, to other eyes, seem well
nigh impossible. That the company are entitled to
every respect and confidence we can assure our readers.
engage to do there
We have the authority of Mr. M'Neile, of the
Northern Bank, for stating that Vie proprietors are
shortly,
,Ligentlemen of the highest standing in
;inaoC.:
lei awn:er: etri:as le.
r 42rklue 3d
couf '3 Et
lbgalatntdh. they NeeVihilt" they
eureitances, we protaise ourselves the pleasure el
the important undertaking that is to Pleas us in in.
omgratulating one friends on the completion of
stantaneous communication with the principal seats of
i commerce in the world.—/Vorthern Whig.

wo k
Collegein
were exottvat.
dug up.
ingt Bsoamllleola jug or urn,
of potter's clay, woo It had a handle, and is sup.
posed to belong to the reign of the First or Second Edward.
It was found among some bones, but none were inside the
vestd....,.oaford Chronicle.
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MISEPRESENTATIONS REGARDING iIES-
MERISM CORRECTED.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—as medical mesmerists are not ellowed to be
heard in the medical journals, and are struck on the
mouth with the editorial shoe whenever they attempt to
vindicate their honour and uuclereoandiegs by meaing
known to the medical profession, wad the public the facts
that havo convinced them, and their reasons for the faith
that is in them, it is only through the tree unprefesaionai
press that medical men, who have practically, studied the
subject of mesmerism, can hope to obtain the; hearing
which is not refused to the worst of criminals before
conviction.
Having obtained for myself, from the daily press of
India, the " fair field and no favour," which was all I
asked, when the attempt was made to put me down also
by professional journalism, I cannot for a moment sup-
pose that English lay editors are less lovers of justice
and fair play than their Indian brethren, and will not
gladly give publicity to tho following vindication of a
greatly-traduced and deeply-injured gentleman, Dr.
E:liotson.
I beg to be permitted to explain for the information
of general readers, that the ()keys referred to in the fol-
lowing correspondence were two young girls, sisters,
formerly mesmeric patients of Dr. Elliotson, and who,
fourteen years ago, were said to have been found out and
exposed as impostors by Mr. Wakley, editor of the
Lancet. It would hardly be worth any one's while to
deiturb Mr. Wakley 's self-complacency, or attempt to
lessen. his reputation for smartness among the doctors,
were it not for the extraordinary logical edifice they
have reared upon this very narrow foundation, a hich
will, in fact, be shown to be no foundation at all. The
conclusion come to by the doctors generally from this
great case," is—that the Okays having been proved to
be impostors, and Dr. Elliotson deluded if not a " particeps
crirninis;" ergo, all so•called mesmerised persons and
mesmerisers, for the lest sixty years, are in the same pre-
dicament—either rogues all I rogues all! or a cross between
knaves and fools. In the judgment passed upon mea-
meris:a by the medical profession, the human understand-
ing appears
and
have been actually inverted by pride,
prejudice ; and charity, probability, and
pth laws
have been all equally lost sight of.
ae,ssioie of
f evident©,
I should think that most reasonable men, both in and
out of the profession, would feel disposed to suspend
ltehteti r judgments at least,
if after reading the following
er f Elliotson, t semen no t
of preferring the testimony of of go the length
his intellect and
ptuous person, dis-
experience to that of a hasty, presum
qualified by nature for the delicate philosophic investi•
gisooa
. he has recklessly thrust himself into, and which
he affects to decidelike a dictator.
L, it too much to expect after this, that the most de•
voted followers of Mr. Wakley, as a mesmeric authority,
will be content to accept a compromise, and permit the
o great Okey case" to be reckoned a drawn battle, and
that we may, for the future, be allowed to prosecute
oar search after truth without being interrupted by the
everlasting Gkeys ? I would only hint, in conclusion,
that tf .e to study optics, it is not usual to select a
blind instructor, and that when we desire to become ac-
quainted with foreign countries, their manners, and pro-
ductions, we do not apply for information to persons
who have never been out of the sound of Bow Bells in
their lives.
And yet, in the ease of mesmerism, men who know
nothing of the subject either from reading or experi-
ment, and who refuse to see the thing even, are consi-
dered mesmeric authorities, in preference to those who
have read, thought, observed, and acted for themselves
with a sincere desire to know the truth, whatever it may
be.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Perth.
JAMES ESDAILE,

My dear Dr. Elliotson,—l beg to direct your attention
to a circumstance that has lately occurred here, in the
hope that you will enable me to contradict authorita-
tively what I believe to be calumnies regarding your
former patients, the Okays.
In conversation the other day with one of the medical
effice;rA of the Perth Infirmary, he confidently asserted
that Mr. Wakley.had not only detected the imposture of
the Okeye, but that they had confessed it themselves.
I said, in repy,•that I knew many of the stories told
about them were lies; such as, that you. even had con-
fessed having been imposed upon, and that one of the
Ukeys had made a dying confession .of her imposture In
prout of Loy correctness, I sent the Doctor the Zuist of
a very recent date, in which you cited the case of the
Okey-s as beautiful and genuine examples of mesmeric
sensibility, and spoke of both the sisters as being alive
and well.
In return, I begged to be favoured with a sight of the
confession of imposture, which the gentleman said he had
seen, and would show me. He has looked over the
Lancet (his only authority) without being able to find it;
and, in cons• quence, I have offered to obtain the truth
from you direct, for his satisfaction. As this stcry is
very current, and popular among the grossly misled doc-
tors, I hope you will condescend to give it its quietus, as
I nave no doubt you can do.—Yours, very truly,
Perth, Ist July, 1852. JAMES ESDAILE.

My dear Dr. Esdaile,—lt is altogether untrue that
the Okeya confessed to anybody that they had prac-
tised imposition—it is altogether untrue that I ever con-
fessed that they had imposed upon me—it is altogether
untrue that any of the phenomena which they presented
were impostures. They did not exhibit a single pheno-
menon that has not occurred again and again in other
patients without number. .
Endless experiments of tile most beautiful and satis-
factory kind were shown to Wakley ; and at the time I
defied him, and, repeatedly since, I have defied him, to
disprove their conclusiveness. He pretended to have re-
peated a few—very few of them—without my results;
but he gave me no proof, for they were pretended to
have been done in my absence. I had made all my ex-
periments repeatedly, and with the greatest care; and
after his tales had been published, I repeated the expe-
riments for many months with all possible care and pre-
caution, and invariably found all my observations veri-
fied. The whole affair with him was one of peetleiarY
calculation. He told me that he was inundated with
letters from doctors who took in the Lancet;
and that
nineteen out of twenty were against mesmerism. Nine-
teen purchasers of Lancets pay more money than ono;pay
and nineteen, therefore, this unhappy, man tried to
please. The two Okeys are
now married respectably,
and mothers.
The falsehoods told of the sisters are now so state,
that I wonder any person should make himself ridiculous
by repeating them. Falsehoods are fabricated
without
any reserve of mesmerism and mesmerists. Many have
asserted in public speeches and in writing, that I was
compelled to resign my professorship at University Col-
lege; whereas I vacated it in contempt and disgust In
the middle of the session, and threw the whole body,
council, senate, professore, and students, into utter dis-
may and confusion. It was asserted that I
with confusion, and had gone off to the continent; and
this falsehood I traced to Mr. Liston.
Mesmerism is all true, my dear Doctor; it is ono of
the grandest truths in nature that man has yet observed
and
—grand in physiology was covered,
psychology, and of the very
highest highest importance iu both the medical and surg'.
treatment of disease. The gross ignorance of the al!_
dical profession in regard to it is digraceful to thera_4s
men of science, as men of art, and as men pr ofe 'Au g
Christrianity. They all must yield, and that speedily;
and the next generation will hear with sorrow and shame
the unworthiness of the present.
I remain, my dear Doctor, yours sincorslY,
July 3, 1852.
JOAN ELLIOTSON

SERIOUS RAILWAy coLL-g.TsiON•cd
Yesterday morning the inhabitants of Liverpool that a
the vicinity were greatly alarmed by a report 7"
xeur-
fatal railway collision had occurred between "I,: train
ion train from Hull to Liverpool, and a I"gr'smaany.
belonging to tho Lancashire and Yorkshire
with the the en"
The arrival of the superintendent of pollee w.ta
custody, for
gineer and fireman of the luggage train in ,I,3most
a time served to add to the excitement, and t'ediately
exaggerated reports of the disaster wore immediately
par-
spread throughout the town; but the folloiavrciesas
I be-
ticulars, gathered by our reporter from the o,hentie
longing to the line, may be relied upon as all` „sager
At half-past nine yesterday morning th°„Pedv, wail
train which left Manchester two hours Previt,nCasbire
3toPPiGg at the Bootle-lane station of tho Liverpool,
gad Yorkshire Railway, about two miles from
alarm was
and while the tickets were being collected an t a rapid
raised that another train was approaching, l'a,,,,engers.
rate, on the same rails. A panic seized the Pa
who jumped from their seats, and were rushingwhich proved
the carriages, when the approaching train, the out of
passenger
to be a luggage train from Comae, ran iat°
out several
train vritla•tremendous violence, throwing causing
persons from the carriages altogether, 'l;v all who
numerable bruises and contusions it' "
remained.
• ca to the luggage.
It appears that there were two
traiu—one at the head, and tehnegin
the driver of th© front
ther behind; the
' danger signals" were all up, and t" he train in time,
engine says that he endeavoured to been
at for the engine
and would have succeeded, had it not
at the tail.
erded office
Information was immediately forvr_betiee everyavail-
of the company in Tithebarn•strcet,twhe ~
, fed/ and the pas-
,laisce was promptly ia -west injuries were
sengera who had sustrined the,se the others taken
Conveyed to the Northern Hospital, and
to their own homes.
T fleeter Penny, of the
Superintendent Clough and -135., to make inquiries,
Liverpool police, repaired to the spot
0,
/ both engines,
and the result was that the drivers of
taken into
Robert Whitehead and. Johnifacksaes:Louse, where they
custody and conveyed to the eesis.doe n
Mr. Mansfield, the
underwent an examination ..before
of.
,gross neglect of
stipendiary magistrate, on the
crchtrain while tho danger
duty in running into a standiva ,
estigation, Mr. Mans-
signala were up. After a long In% to have arisen
field decided that the accident appearedf the company, and
from the defective regulations
understanding that
discharged the priaonersawitn 0
d•
were were to come up again if•‘'n'ure ,arc d
were suine females
Among the most seriously
I tjer in the E"rni i .g to take
A h % had started from Manches
5,
who left 3 esterday
a farewell leave of their relatives,
in an Australian emigrant
ship.

..--='.".._
A, IIE RAILWAY DIVIPF.NW.-4,ofldlnA and N,zth-
,vret,ozrn—it L; now said that this company will not pas.
mc)re thrla SV,
will not pay
per cent. in Ow place of 6, as :_upp,lsed.
aug
nittst tak,3 then 45,000/. out of the reservn. Great Nortlimi
The skilful in dividends say that this company
more than 3s. 9d. per share. which will be at the rate of l
Per cent. p3r anum. Blackwell—The dividend of this
fC'ord.tltle
2s. 9a•
is dealt in on....rhiveoSstilociiiii.ingEchbaasngbeeenatb2i.
;,. is about what
9th Caledon;.an
forthcoming, dividend. Dover-7s. 6d. to 8
this company is expected to pay. . Great Western --Various
fun-tours are current as to the dividend this company will
Pay ; 4 to 414. is talked of by some. —ii eraprlth.
, 211ADixtE CIIARTON•--TiliS charming artiste makes
ner first appearance this evening at her Majesq's Theatre.

WHAT MANY PEOPLE DO, BUT NO-

BODY OWNS TO.

.01BYanELIZA. CO: K.
thatn tshewritt(n
Some one has
shameful," leeratitude is a crime so
;as never yet found who would
confess himself Very true, doubtless, and
::::ei c°r
btcicooen.la33 sit.
e Butvn 1 rtYh genrun; i 3s: anotherlsouf:Li-nact.::gb hl
In'
crime .oure v
°iPll eclsei:ami ft
ee
tfir
aae°l xi
as-
sertion. --
limy in , •
might har
which the same .Y.'
but
c
Gentle reedee, didt
portance, certain!
you have encountered sinsuech" 'ally general commission, of
been said with equel truth.
to the
ever kaew the upright being
can-
dourwho wanodulsdelefo-nhfuemssiliation, that
rare
avir. e
shouldsnoring?
i zal t
recommend
you
of lav eit,
to be instantly taukaenveup
nasal :z''''
by Barnum, the Great Ameri-
can
snooze,"
a venerable uncle, who, after
hisean bSobtatiwe,mtaakn'es a
op
tohwe powerful r
whoful wherein his elysian dreams
sits
in her
Have you a dear old
vagaries
lights," affording no outward sign arm-chair, " between the
genxraaheniebdimt you a n side
is friendc hina fwh o, wearied alife e
dbut i
with
hn very,bill s
611 un-
certaindthe olfactory
sup
idepartment?nely on
his
is arousedto repose
guttural
measure?" by
his own semibreve
ahaatritne rsitnegesk::
sun.
cialeotpiwl.
nshgt;
darednates toofinsiinuatie to these wedorthiesAinndthbeiarvewalelungetnyeor-
ppelrapineiruantivnagr?n unvarnished
i f
found a resolute misdemeanour, that they
you have, pray have you
e and indignant denial of
hmaevnet mo-
ments
been the
psychological fact,
aisniovrifnagahien
of
face
notthe iimavpvartieadblgYuilt? It is u strange
that not one of us ever will owrange
n o arc so acutely aware of the un to
ific act and deed?
bnPontssiPenme thea a s c e n d Is
t it
when
wwheicrehaissteavdermaitsettratedheuanudtyeriat
chin form our most ostensible
,6 our incisors, whether
of countenance features,o pen mouth
frequentlya nd dropping
d ispl
ay
in
are observed they do justice to Rowland
late
loves and graces
dentifrice, or not. Fasci-
nation is out of the question while
un-
der the ridiculous inanity
pigs to
by
silent' ‘ drivin
nostrils;
%v h a
ttwbhaa out cantbuenymeeaan-
poppy-juice inebriation; and all the that attends
to market."
owned by Venus and Adonis are
gaaneautsheampeasrttmleeyatess:cavpheatfeom
impertinent
pre-
serve the curved line of Grecian chiselling, and keep the
sleept heH vaipws ipioytnhaarrcyel closed those
occupation
b°aaanodi ares
° constituted g utterly
Roman nose under due subjection.
nervous
rwrfelellernaumiabecranotfi
jests they are spared: what degrading
personalities they
are
free from. Nay, we even doubt whether Homer,
who was given to "nod," ever claimed the same degree
of veneration and esteem from those who caught him is
the fact as he gained from those who only reeg
his " song," unaccompanied by the shadow recognised
his
"snore." Unquestionably there is something very un-
dignified in the state of snoring, and personal conceit
would he reduced considerably in many, if we could se
ourselves in it. It was but the other day that WO hearde
a fast young gentleman, of fou y
r ears date, sa—
y t 0 his
paternal director, who had just started into life under
the alarum of his own strong trumpet-note—" La, Pa!
how dreadfully ugly you look when you make that
0 pa" prided himself on his " artistic"
noise;" and as
style of face—and this filial speech was uttered before
three ladies—it is not to be wondered at that the delin-
quent was ordered upstairs immediately. We ourselves
within the last week male a most well-intentioned re-
mark to a respected friend, touching the loudness of his
after-dinner snoring; when, amiable as he generally is,
he jumped at once into a. testy, snappish mood, and not
only flatly denied having indulged in a forty-pig-power
of snoring just then, but aseertod with mendacious per-
tinacity that he had "never snored .in his life." Mer-
ciful powers!—when we have heard him scores of times
through a nine-inch party wall, and wished him in any
neighbourhood but our own.• We
.might Nava accused
him of breaking the whole of the .Ten Commandments,
and he would have stood the arraignment with magna-
nimity, but he could not bear the imputation of "snor-
ing." We have a- young lady acquaintance who actu-
ally quarrelled with us through our ingenuous veracity
on the same subject. Let as, however,Vead guilty to
having made the-" soft impeachment" in the presence of
her "intended,"--an elegant youth, who patronized no-
thing more earthly than chicken, burgundy, and white
kid glovesaa-buestien we had• been goaded into it by the
eleepless nights she had inflicted on us, despite all our
entreating :ejaculations of Prey, Emma, don't snore
so;" and sundryforcible expostulations in the shape of
pushing and shaking. We heve heard since that the
match has been broken off, and we earnestly trust that
our unfortanate•expoeition had nothing to do with the
rupture.
Somehow, we have always entertained a most unre-
lenting antipathy to the soiled of "snoring," and Wage
war with every modulation of it—from the full and
brazen trumpet-peal to the incipient asthmatic mur-
muring. There is something so totally unmusical, so
essentially unromantic in the thing. We can put up
with " the loud laugh that speaks the vacant mind," and
heroically endure a baby labouring under a pin care-
lessly applied, but.,we acknowledga that snoring tries us
severely. ‘Ve can tolerate a squint, and even admire
some people'„ one-sided views; we can forgive an un-
symmetrical mouth, and frequently get up a positive
affection for a snub nose; but the handsomest man of
our acquaintance has ruined himself for ever in our
esteem, by permitting as to see hisn when snoring. Oh,
that utter idiotic, stupidity! that total extinction of life's
beacon-light which marked his countenance! Never
shall we forget id—and a ith Punch in his hand, too.
Only fancy a man being otherwise than " wide-a-wake"
over Punch! Surely we ought to be ashamed of
having such an acquaintance, you will say! Well,
perhaps we are,—at least, we can say this much, that
on seeing him twenty yards uff on Ludgate-hill the
other day, the remembrance
of his snoring features
arose before us with He spectre- 1 e power; we suddenly
devoted our mind and body to the
first shop wiadow,
and were absorbed for some
minutes
in the interest of
we do not recollect what, bus wo have a faint private
belief that we were staring at " heal Havannahs,"
" Genuine Pigtail," and highly -yoloured snuff boxes,
which Mrs. Ellis would not permit the most venerable
si woman of England" to take
a pinch out of.
There is no question that snoring is spiritually tabooed
by all respectabl •
par-
ticularly y-minded people; and if you wish
to wound the feelings
individuals, just ' or pride of any refined
insinuation that they
their p,oetical physique by the
should doubt the vtahli'idy* " snore.
' If our kind readers
let them ity or point of these desultory re-
marks,among their intimate f institute
a casual inquiry en the subject
of snoring frecartends: and if they elicit the con-
fessione'. she must be of a
most
than one in fifty—and he
tution—why, we beg st lax mental and moral coned-
But a sensible thought pardonhas for our flippant injustice.
just struck us—that by the
indulgence of our innocent
may be tempted to betrayg°°"-quill, some weary nose
may be legally indicted Pa its
own weakness, and we
this we would religioust " accessory before the fact;"
assure our readers that ywaevoid, for we confidentially
would much rather have
our nons, nse "sneezed at" thantime.—Eliza " snored over" at any
Cook's Journal.

MAJOR BERESFORD and the MORNING

CHRONICLE.
Major Beresford, r.t a dinntr given at Braintree yes-
terday to Sir John Tyrrell and himself, made the follow-
jug assertion:—

"The Mo;ning Chronicle is .continually attacking me,
though I have the pleasure occasionally of sitting on the
Barn° sofa in the same club with the editor of that paper.
Such is the state of society, where we are subjected to
the intrusion of those who make use of nll our intimate
rAsociations, who come to the same club as ourselves,
and who write letters and leading articles impugning our
conduct and blackening our tlarecters at the very same
table at which we ourselves aro engaged in our honest
avocations."

The only observation which we think it necessary
to make on this statement is, that there is not one
word of truth in it from beginning to end. Neither
the editor of this journal, nor any person who
is in any way responbible for what appears in its
columns, is a member of any club whatever; and no one
of the writers of the articles to which we suppose Major
Beresford to allude is a member of any club where any
portion of the secret election business of the Protec-
tionist party can possibly be conducted. We treat with
cmtempt the base insinuation conveyed by Major Beres-
ford's words, that any gentleman connected with this
journal ,is capable of betraying social confidence; and
such charges are rarely made except by mrn who are
too familiar with the idea of the detestable practices
which they so lightly impute. Let us add that, if there
is no more truth in his denial of having any connexion
with bribery at Derby than there is in the assertions
which he has hazarded respecting ourselves, we will ven-
ture to essure him that his chances of impunity before
a Committee of the House of Commons are not quite so
clear as ho would lead the Essex electors to believe.—
Chronicle.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The Admiral Superintendent
H. Prescott, with Y.r. Rice, Mr. Crodoch, Com_
msnder Worse)lci, and the foremen afloat, commenced
their annual survey of the ships in iardinary on Satur-
day. The Admiral mustered the officers of the ordi-
nary this (Monday) morning, and will conclude the sur-
vey of the ships this evening.
The Simoom iron troop steam-ship, Captain King-
come, was docked on Saturday, and although it is nuw
eight months since she was payed over,with Mr. Hay's
camposhion, she was perfectly free from weeds and
grass, having merely a little green slime, which washed
off with a scoop as the water left her, showing the coos-
position firm and hard, and perfectly free from rust, ex-
cept were the chain cable had rubbed off the composi-
tion about the bows, and where the stages had :rubbed
along the light water-line. Many naval officers went
under liTr bottom, and were astonished at the good state
it was in.
The Sprightly steamer, Master-Commander Allen,
went down to Hurst Castle this morning with several
engineer officers.
The Retribution steam-frigate, having coaled, went to
Spithead this morning. The greatest expedition has
been used in coaling ail the royal squadron. The Vic-
toria and Albert, and Fairy will go to Osborne to-mor-
row morning; and it is reported that the Court will
probably proceed on a water excursion on Wednesday
next, visiting Sheerness, the Channel Islands, and Os-
tend. The Fire Queen steamer was tried on Saturday
and made a speed of 13 knots 5 fins. along the measured
mile in Stokes-bay.
DEVONPORT, JULY 25.—Spartan, 26, Captain Sir W.
Hoste, was mustered, inspected, and exercised by Sir J.
A. Ommanney, the commander-in-chief, yesterday, when
the gallant Admiral paid some very high compliments
to the officers. Considering that only a month has passed
since the ship was commissioned, it is astonishing to
what order and efficiency she has attained. She will be
paid advance to-marrow by Commodore Seymour, and
it is reported that she will sail on Tuesday or Wednes-
day next.
SHEERNESS, MONDAY.—IIOV Majesty's steam-tug
vessel African, Second-Master Gill, left port yesterday,
at 2 P.M.

Her Majesty's ship Meander, Commodore
.Talbot,
fitting at Chatham for service tne Cape of Good Hope,
is progressing rapidly in her equipment. A party of
riggers from the dockyard are employed on her. She
does not get able seamen as quickly us was expected.
Several of the young shipwrights of the yard have en-
tered en board as part of the carpenter's crew.
Her Majesty's ship Wellesley, 72, is undergoing a
thorough repair, and will be under the hands of the ar-
tificers at Chatham for several months.
An agent of an emigrant society has been inspecting
her Majesty's ship Dartmouth, and some other old
frigates at Chatham, with the view of purchasing them
for the purposes of emigration, if found for siirh
service. The African Screw-packet Company have also
sent a competent person to examine these vousls as to
their aptitude for being fitted with a screw-propeller.
Captain Warden, R.N., appointed to the Fisgard, is
ordered to be placed under the immediate direction of
Sir B. Walker, Surveyor of the Navy, and is to inspect
the stowage, armament, and general fittings of all ships
getting ready for sea. Captain Warden is also to have
the supervision of the vessels contracting for the con-
veyance of mails.

The second series of experiments on anchors, which
comm.,anced on Friday, and were continued during
cs consequence
Sa-
turday, are suspended for a few days,
repre
in onse
of the presence of those gentleme
shipowners of Great Britain being required inut'g the
daring the early part of the present. week. The Londontriai
will leJ resumed on Friday next, at nine AM. and .
pro-
bably not be concluded until the Monday following.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Barracouta, during her
cruise in the Channel with the royal squadron, has
proved herself to possess greater speed than the Samp-
son, Odin, Magicienne, and Retribution. The following
are the particulars of the trip from Cowes to Dart-
mouth, and from Plymoul. to the Needles, which will
ba read with interest by our nautical friends:—
Shortly after the embarkation of her Majesty, off
Osborne, at 9 30 A.M. of the 19:h inst., the steamers in
attendance on the royal yachts were ordered by signal
to rendezvous at Dartmouth, and to make the best of
their way to that port. They forthwith proceeded at
full speed in the lollotving order:—

Elfin.
131uck Eagle.
Alagicienne.
Barracouta.

Vivid.
Victoria and Albert. Fairy.
Odin.
Sampson.
Re :I Ibution.

The Barracouta very soon passed the Retribution. In
about 20 minutes afterwards she was ahead of the Odin,
in another 20 minutes sho was in advance of the Sampson,
and in half an hour more she passed the Mac,°icienne.
The Sampson was now evidently regaining her lost
ground, and in 10 minutes was abreact of the 13arracouts,
retaining her position tor about 20 minutes, when she
gradually dropped astern. Oa the Barracouta'a arrival
at Dartmouth the Sampson was 1 miles astern, Magi-
cienne 4 miles, Odin about 6 miles, and Retribution
nearly 7 miles. On the arrival of the Royal yacht, &c.,
they proceeded to Torbay, where they remained for the
night, and left the following morning for Plymouth
Sound. With the exception of the Retribution, the
Barracouta has less horse-power in proportion to her
tonnage than any of the other steamers alluded to, viz.,
the Magiciense, Sampson, and Odin, as the following
statement will 'show :
Magicionne, 1,255 tone, 400 horse-power; proportion of
tons to one-horse power, 334.
Sampson, 1,297 tons, 467 horse-power; proportion of

tons to one-horse power, 2 80.
Barracouts, 1,048 tons, 300 horse-power; proportion o

tons to one-horse posver, 3.49.
Retribution, 1,641 tons, 400 horse-power; proportion of
tons to one-horse power, 4.10.
Odin, 1,310 tons, 560 horse-poWer; proportion of tons
to one-horse power, 2.34.
Early on the morning of the 22d inst. the squadron
assembled outside the Sound, about a cable's length from
each other, Magicienne being ahead,. Barracouta and
Sampson close together, Odin one ship's length, and
Retribution two ships' lengths astern from this position.
At 6.20 A.m., the signal being made to proceed for the
Isle of Wight with all dispatch, they started at full
speed, with a light breeze on the quarter, and under all
plain sail. The speed of the Barracouta was now 11*
knots, and at 6.40 she passed the Magicienne. The
Sampson, while the breeze lasted, was gradually coming
up with the Barracouta, but as it failed she dropped
astern. At noon it fell'calca, and the steamers furled
all sail. The Barracouta's sped was now under eleven
knots, and she was in adiance of the Sampson three and
a half miles, of Magicienne live miles, of Odin six and
half miles and of Retribution nine and half
Shortly after one o'clock the latter ship was so far
astern of the Barracouta as to be out of sight, and at
three p.m. the smoke of the Odin was barely distin-
guishable. The distance from the point of start-
ing outside Plymouth Sound to the Needles is 108 miles,
to Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, 112 miles. The Barracouta
arrived off Yarmouth 55 miuutea before the Sampson,
1 hour and 10 minutes before the Odin, 1 hour and 13
minutes before the Megicienue, and 2 hours and 35 mi-
nutes before the Retribution. Ilere the Barracouta,
stopped to allow the other steamera totse up position
p through; the
in two lines, for the Royal yachts to
Retribution, however, was too far astern to join them.
The time occupied by the Barracouta
in making the
passage to the Needles was 9 hours, showing, sn average
of 12 miles an hour. She had a tide running 2/ knJts in
her favour for 7 hours, and against her for 2 hours.
Making allowances for this, her actual speed through
the water was at the rate of 11 miles an hour, the en-
gines working well the whole time. The Sampson ua.,
questionably sails better than the Barracouta, and, had
tne;;wind not fallen light, would have been ahead of her.

Win-
grove 26.—Coalca6"der
grove (1846), to study steam at the factory at Woolwich
doeky ard.
APPOINTDIENATS:
Rviciinc:vevnatuveecya,
Master George J. Gibbons (1846), at presmenatisteariviin,,g
in the Coast Gaard, the Imaurc, receiving thin at
Jamaica.
Assistant-Surgeons—Joseph
M.D. (1845), at present serving in the Terrible stnAni:
to Malt
frigate, on the Mediterranean station,
Lords. of steam-vessel,
dniMi:aslttY
pital; Samuel Denny, M.D. (1850),
116, at Devonport, to the Terrible, vice
attending of ter
T he
on Lighteningthe L
Uring their
Allen, returned to Woolwich on Friday
official visit last week to Sheerness and Chiral RM.