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

FEBR U AR Y 16,

sloop, in charge of Mr. Davey, arrived at Devonport
from Portsmouth, on Friday morning, to form one of
the steam reserve squadron. She went into the harbour
in a thick fog ❑nobserved, and on the mist clearing the
signal men at Mount Wise were surprised by the appear-
ance of a fine steamer moored to one of the buoys uff the
batteries; her name, whence she came, how she got to
her station a mystery. Of course up went the " demand,"
and their fears vanished when the facts were known, but
the lynx-eyed "look-out men" were aetonished that it
was possible for a steam-ship, and a paddle-wheel too, to
get into the harbour so easily unobserved. This circum-
stance will no doubt give a handle to the alarmists to
revive once more the fears of invasion, and the case of
the Argus will be adduced to show the practicability of
any such attempt. It is right, therefore, to state that
the temporary commander of the Argus was a gentleman
who for many years previously to his appointment at
Portsmouth served as assistant master-attendant at De-
vonport, and, from constant practice, could with the
greatest ease feel his way into or out of Hamoeze with
any ship.—Herald,
Admiral Sir John Ommanney, Commander-in Chief
at Devouport, has UGlMinateci Lieutenant James A.
Dunbar (1842), to be his flag lieutenant, vice Warren,
promoted.
Mr. S. W. G. F. May having passed a first-class
examination at the Naval College, having gained all
the numbers, has been promoted to the rank of
lieutenant.
A return hes been made, in accordance with a request
from the Admiralty, of the detects of the Hydra, 6,
steam-sloop, Commander Belgra ve, on her arrival as
Davenport, on her way to the Cape with General
Cathcart.
Cormorant, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Chamberlain,
having coaled, left Portsmouth Harbour at ten o'cicck
o❑ Saturday morning, and proceeded to Woolwich to be
paid off. It should have been stated on Saturday that
most of the Cormorant's captures on the coast of
Brazil were made by her firmer commander, Captain
Schoenberg, who was promoted for his services in
that ship.
Rapid, 8, Commander Blane, was at Madeira Feb. 6,
from Devouport, on her way to the East Indies.
Devon lighter, Bon master, eailed from Devonport on
Thursday morning, with stores for Pembroke.
Hatnoaze lighter, Wood master, siiie'd 'from. Devon.,
port on Friday with stores for Pembroke; and from'
thence she is to proceed to Holyhead, to lay down a
pair of large moorings.
Argils steam-sloop has been taken to her moorings by
Mr. Brown, second master attendant, and given in
charge of Captain Ramsay, being added to the steam
reserve at Devonport.
Harbinger screw mail steam-packet arrived at Ply-
mouth on Friday afternoon, and was to sail with. the
mail for the Cape of Good Hope yesterday at noon.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 15.—A further investigation into
Goidner's preserved meats is going on at the Royal
Clarence-yard, Gcsport. This is a portion of the stock
brought back by the Hecla steam-sloop, lately returned
from the coast of Africa. About 200 canisters of from
51b. to 61b. each were examined yesterday, 30 of which
were bad and condemned; the rest exhibited a better
appearance than any we have yet seen. The Cormo-
rant steam-sloop, which arrived on Friday from Brazils,
also brought a number of canisters of the same stuff to
return into store; she had thrown a large quantity over-
board at sea, being unfit for food.
We have good authority for stating that a large expe-
rimental eqnadron will assemble at Spithead towards
the summer.
The Pilot brig will be paid off on Wednesday next.
The American merchant barque Philah, Capt. Hearn,
belonging to New York, from London for Cardiff, came
in contact, at nine o'clock on Thursday night, off the
Start, with a brig. Both vessels were working down
Channel on a wind. The barque has a small hole just
above water on the starboard bow, and her starboard
covering board, rail, and bulwarks are knocked away;
she entered the Sound this afternoon. The brig, it is
said, was not seen in time, in consequence of having no
fore topgallant mast; she was struck in the bluff of the
bow, and her bowsprit was carried away. A piece of
her jib with the word " Coker" was left on board the
Philah. After the collision nothing was seen of the
brig, and it is feared that she went down.
The barque Emigrant, Captain Kemp, which left this
port on Friday with Government spars for Portsmouth,
has on board what is supposed to be the largest piece of
plank in the world. It is cut from a blue gum tree in
Van Diemen's Land, is 148 feet long, 22 inches broad,
and 6 inches thick, and was intended for the Great Ex-
hibition, but no vessel offered capable of conveying it in
time for the opening. It is placed on the poop and top-
gallant forecastle of the Emigrant, and tails out 14 feet
over her stern, Some of the spars from New Zealand
are 90 feet long by 36 inches girt. Captain Kemp has
also several specimens of natural history, including a
very rare bird, called the " Parson Bird," which is about
the size of an English starling, but has a long beak. It
derives its name from its plumage, which is of a perfect
jet black, excepting two white feathers under the neck.
SUNDAY, 11 A.m.—The 12 patients from the Arethusa
are progressing favourably at the Royal Naval Hospital.
WOOLWICH, FEB. 14.—Commander Charles G. Phil-
lips (1848), who accompanied Sir John Ross in the Felix
to the Polar regions in 1850, and returned in 1851, has
just finished a course of study of steam at the factory at
Woolwich dockyard, and in the course of a day or two
will be examined by Mr. Atherton, the chief engineer.
The gallant officer had his course of study of steam in-
terrupted when he proceeded to the Arctic regions, but
their Lordships have so appreciated his services and zeal
that they have appointed him to command the Poly-
phemus steam-sloop of 200 horse, which will be com-
missioned on Monday at Woolwich.
The Sulphur sloop, some time ago sent up from Wool-
wich to Deptford to be broken up, is still so strong in
her timbers, having been built principally of teak, that
the order to break her up has been countermanded, and
on the application of Mr. Masterman, governor of the
convict ship here, she will be brought back to Woolwich
and be used, instead of the Wye hulk, as a washhouse
for the clothes of the convicts.

1852.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFOR NI ASSOCIATION.
(PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.)
Sir,—On Wednesday the 11th the principal debate
was en an attempt to prejudge the Education question,
advanced in the shape of a private Bill from Manchester.
So far as can be judged from what passed in the House,
the object of the Bill is this,—to levy a rate from the
sectaries on the ground of giving education, and then
knowingly and advisedly to proffer an education which
it is known the sectaries will not accept. As an illus-
tration, the plan is to make a Jew pay for his ticket to
a public dinner, the known intention all the time being
to set before him pork.
Now if men were honest, which they are not, there
would. be two ways to get out of this diffieulty. One
would. be, to determine that men should dine together
upon the meats on which they all agree, and that there
should be an omission of the disputed materials the ap-
pearance of which is the signal for immediate dissen-
sion. But then, say the dominant party, what a base
submission :hat would be! How is it possible, with
Christian opinions, to make so disgracetul a sacrifice?
Believing, as we do, in certain points disputed by the
()there, now can we give up the spiritual or temporal
food aG which our brother takes offence? No, we must
have it everywhere and in everything. We cannot ad-
mit of a mess of pottage which shall not be flavoured
with the disputed substance. We are the majority and
must have cur way, and it is this.
But there is yet another plan, which does not
seem to have been canvassed by the public. And that is,
that after the tickets have been. paid for, each sect or
party should have the privilege of ordering their dinner
for themselves; in short, a kind of dining by the carte.
Why should not the Qeakere, the Unitarians, or the
Jews, after contributing to the rate according to the
general law laid down, draw from the general mass,
after deducting expensey, the sum they could prove to
be proportioned to the rates paid; and so each sect ap-
ply it to their own educational nourishment, with such
sauces as they in their own judgment conceive to be
convenient?
The only objection which has been heard to this, is
that it would be degrading to the orthodox to take
money out of the same bag with a sectary. Which it is
hoped might with pantie be overcome. There would be
a demand for provision for. ascertaining theaus
tali to
paid by different sects, and for subjecting them
the same kind of supervision to ensure the sum being
properly aleph. d. The way would seem to be, to re-
quire that the members of any particular sect claiming
to administer their own funds, should dra'v out a state-
ment of the rates paid and sum claimed, with the names
of the claimants if thought necessary, and with the se-
dition of a declaration of their consent and intention to
apply the sum according to the general regulations of
the Act. The old Napoleon would have arranged the
whole details satisfactorily, in a decree of ten lines long.
The only ground stood upon in the debate, was the
right of majorities to coerce minorities. It is easy to
make a mistake on this point. There are 09825 where a
majority must decide; but this does not amount to a
tight in the majority to rob the minority. On the con-
trary (as somebody has said of juries) King, Lords, and
Commons exist only that security may be had for the
prevention of this very thing. And the reason is, that
if not, we might any of us be minority in turn. It-did
not appear to me, that those who handled the matter in
debate, did any of them go to the bottom of the ques-
tion. As it was finally put off for a week, perhaps
somebody may employ the time in looking further into
it. My own notion is, that instead of a cold resistance
directed to gaining delay, the shoulders of everything
non-conforming should be put to the wheel, to throw
out the whole with the greatest possible celerity.
Oa Thursday came up the question of " Preserved
Meats;" in which there has been an extensive failure.
Indeed the defence of the Admiralty appeared to a
great extent to rest, on the alleged impossibility of
knowing that packages of meat quite good this week
might not be found bad to-morrow. Which, if so, goes
to establish the desirableness of returning es far as
possible to the old signals fez. " fresh beef." At
the same time, when it is acknowledged that
Preserved Meats have been found good after five-
and-twenty years, it cannot be beyond the reach
of modern or futuro chemistry to diminish the
danger. The Admiralty strongly intimated, that keen-
ness was probably given to the inquiry, by the fact that
the preserved meats were not English;—in other words,
that they bad been bought at your shops in Bradford,
instead of being bought of the English beef-growers.
I do not think our friends at Bradford above halt under-
stand this yet. They have a sort of lurking sense of
impropriety, in seeing anything bought through the in-
tervention of their shops from foreigners, when it could
be obtained dearer and worse from somebody making
the same article at home. If in the present case the
beef was cheap and nasty, that is a different question;
and there is nothing for the Admiralty to do but give
their custom elsewhere, taking the hint, which perhaps
you would have given at Bradford before, to agree only
to pay for what shall be found good after a certain time.
On Friday a Bill to extend the Right of Voting for
Members of Parliament, and to amend the Laws relat-
ing to the Representation of the People, in Scotland,
was brought in. And the same for Ireland. It is easier
bringing in Reform Bills than it once was. Practice
makes perfect.

I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REFORMER,
Blackheath, 1G Feb., 1852.

COURT CIRCULAR.

-----
Her Majesty and his Royal Ilighnuaa Prima° Albert
attended by Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey and Lien.
tenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, visited her Roya
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday after.
noon at Gloucester-house.

Their Royal Ili;.,,hnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Alice.
Helena, and Louisa, and Prince Arthur, took their usual
exercise on Saturday in the gardens of Buckingham
Palace.

The Royal dinner party at Bucking-ham Palace on Sa-
turday included the Belgian Minister and Madame Van
de Weyer, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, the
Countess of Ellesmere, Lord George Lennox, and Lord
Marcus Hill.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court
and the domestic household, attended Divine service
yesterday in the private chapel of Buckingham Pa-
lace. The Hon. and Reverend Gerald Wellesley offi-
ciated.
Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the younger
members of the Royal Family walked yesterday in the
garden of the Palace.

The Chevalier Bunsen transacted business at the Fo-
reign-office on Saturday.
A deputation from the English and Irish Magnetic
Telegraph Company, consisting of Sir Charles Fox, Mr.
Harrison, and Mr. Crosbie of Liverpool, accompanied by
Sir T. Birch and Mr. Cardwell, had an interview with
the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere at the Board of Trade
on Saturday.
Colonel Wood had an interview with Sir George Grey
on Saturday, at the Home-office.
His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, accompanied by Mr.
R. IV. Grey, M.P.' had an interview on Saturday with
the General Board of Health, at their effi:...es, Whitehall.
A deputation from the Colonial Bank, consisting of
Mr. Charles Marryat, Mr. A Colville, and Mr. S. G.
Hoare, had an interview with Earl Grey on Saturday,
at the,,Colonial-office. _ _

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

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
FNcoeTuicAlrht--Eanl7ol4lB.e.en; Thurs.
I :1
°TI: shheee YeSauotffrilkokani Ihdi d;
HUNTINGAB : i Sat.ntos t- ySm 34.oharPddr sowP. to-morrow, Skip-bridge;
Thurs. Gilling-lodge; Sat. Skipwith-bridge-14.
Sir W. W. Wynn's hds., Wed., ?entre
Bychan;
Thurs. Llany Can; Sat., Green Dragon-10i.
The V. W. H. hds:, to-morrow, Lydiard-plain; Thurs.
Burdrop-park-11i. Sat. Foss-bridge-IQ.
The Tiverton hds., Thurs. Rawkridge-10i.
Mr. L. Steer's hds., Thurs. Milham-lodge-11.
The North Staffordshire hds., Wed. Three Crowns,
Stoke, near Stone; Fri, Betley-10i.
Lord Southampton's hds., Wed. Capons Ashby; Fri.
Wappenham; Sat. Tiffield-11.
The Shropshire hds., Thurs. Cound—ioi.
The Pytchley hds., Wed. Crick; Fri. West Haddon;
Sat. Sibbertoft-10,
Mr. L. Phillips's hds., Thurs. Leher-10.

HE METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.—Since our last
notice of this event, Hesse Homburg, against whom 40
to 1 was betted on Wednesday, has been backed freely
at 20 to 1.

A CHALLENGE TO THE YANKEES.—We understand
that Mr. Charles Mare, the eminent ship builder, of
Blackwall, has challenged the Americans to run a vessel
against any that they can produce for a thousand
guineas. The tonnage of the ships to be from fifty to
three hundred tone.
COLONEL HAWKER'S CARBINE.—The Ordnance Com-
mittee, on Tuesday last, unanimously approved of Col.
Hawker's new double carbine.

--- - ---- ------
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—THE ROYAL EXHIBITIoN,--
S. and B. Solomons, Opticians, 39, Albermarle-street, Picca-
dilly, opposite the York Hotel. A valuable, newly-invented,
very small powerful waistcoat-pocket glass, the size of a
•walnut, by which a person can be seen and known 14 miles
distant. They answer every purpose on the race-course, at the
opera-houses; country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 12
to 14 miles. They are invaluable for Shooting, Deer Stalking,
Yachting, to Sportsmen, Gentlemen, Game Keepers, and
'
Tourists. Telescopes possessing such extraordinary powers,
that some, 3 inches, with an extra eye piece, will show dis-
tinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn s Ring,
and the double stars ;
with the same Telescope can be seen a person's countenance 3i
miles distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles ; they super-
sede every other kind for the Waistcoat pocket, and are 'of
larger, and all sizes with increasing powers accorthegq•
Opera and Race-course glasses, with wonderful powers
Newly-invented preserving spectacle Lenses; immediately
they are placed before imperfect vision every object appears
clear and distinct, the most aged defective sight is brought to
its youthful, natural and original state. The Invisible Or-
ganic Vibrator, and all kinds of Acoustic iustrunrnts for relief
of extreme deafness. 39 Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, oppo-
sit* the York Hotel. '

HAYMAR KE T T 121 EA TICE.
A new five-act play, entitled trentan's Heart, was
produced here cm Saturday with to ordinary success.
The audience were taken by „surprise at being inforn
when the curtain fell on the last scene, that it was the
production of Miss Vanclenhoff. A perfect furore was
the immediate result, and a tempest of enthusiasm
greeted the authoress and personator of the heroine, as
she was led on by her father. The plot of the comedy
is not a complicated cne. Isolina (Miss Vandenhoff) a
blind girl of unknown parentage, is residing at the cot-
tage of an old Italian peasant (Mr. Rogers), whose son
Angiolc, (Mr. Barry Sullivan) devotes himself to the art
of sculpture, The old man has protected her feom her
childhood, and the youth haS beceme enamoured, of her.
Nothing stands in the way of an union between the
lovers, ti l unluckily the artist's fame reaches the ears
of the Prince (Mr. Howo), who is o great patron of art,
and he is invited from the home of his childheoei to
mingle in the splendour and the seductions of a Court.
The invitation be gladly accepts, not without fore-
bodings of ill on the part of Iselina, and, as might
be expected, hie heart is completely changed ;
ambition instead of love takes possession of his
soul, and he feels thee an anion with Isolina
would be a fearful bar to his exalted prospects. Hence,
when the poor devoted girt visits him in his family re-
sidence, she is coldly received, and finally conducted
from the door by one of Angiolo's servants. Exhausted
with grief and fatigue she falls senseless on the steps of
a palace belonging to the proud Marquis Albrizzi (Mr.
Vandenhoff), who is struck by her resemblance to his
deceased wife, and who, ou conversing with the old pea-
sant, discovers her to be his own daughter, lost its in-
fester? at a period of civil discord. Two years elapse.
Lana has been restored to sight, and is now the ac-
knowledged heiress of the Marquis; while Angie 10, con-
trite, and wishing to repair his fault, has anxiocsly but
vainly attemptly to find her. Of her early history
Albrizzi has inquired nothing, but the emotions she
in
be-
tween her heart, and he
gradeually secret
learns h
betrays when required to Sit fur her picture show that
si
rttoiedesrela
herself and the sculptor. Hence. when
Angiolo is sent by the Prince, now a suitor for Ise lina'a
m
band, to take her portrait (for he is'a painter as well as
a sculptor), he is required by her father not to utter a
syllable in her presence. Isolina, it will be remembered,
was blind during the whole time of her ecquaintauce
with Angiolo, and hence the silence of the exult will, in
the belief of A ibrizzi, surely prevent recognition. How-
ever, when Isolina enters, a sort of instinct, or rattler
perhaps, an abnormal acuteness in those organs of sense
which do not pertain to vision, causes her to feel strange
emotions at the sight of the artist, and she cannot help
fancying that Angiolo would have looked just like him.
The painter preserves silence till an officer erasers to
arrest him on the charge of having painted a seditious
picture, when his exclamation, " 'Tis false!" revels the
secret to the sensitive Isolina. This scene, which closes
the third act, is the great point of the play. The: accu-
sation has been brought about by the machinations of
Count Zellaminu (Mr. Stuart), a dissolute noble., who,
jealous of the predilection which a coquettish lady named
Giulia (Miss A. Vining) has shown for the artist
has prevailed upon one of his pupils to imitate his
style and forge his name, while painting the seditious
picture, which has afterwards been hung up in the mar-
ket-place. Angiolo is imprisoned, but Isolina obtains
money sufficient for his ransom, and sends it by Giulia,
whom she wrongly supposes a faithful friend, arid who
in her interview with the artist, makes him believe that
she is principal, not agent, in the transaction. How-
ever, the former love for Isolina has revived in the
bosom of Angiolo, and though, to express his grati-
tude, he throws himself at the feet of Giulia, he rejects
together the love and the liberty she proffers. Isolina,
on her side, though she has caught a glimpse of the
genuflexion from a loophole in the prison, and though
she supposes that her own offer is rejected, shows
herself unshaken in constancy by her firm refusal of
the Prince's hand; and when the sculptor, who has
been released on proof of his innocence, reappears, the
two lovers are rewarded for their fidelity, the
pride of the Marquis being overcome by paternal affec-
tion and the generous representations of the Prince.
A poetical conception is apparent throughout; and, if
the bold and vigorous touches which genius alone can
give are wanting in this dramatic picture, there is, at
least, sufficient sentiment, lofty enthusiasm, and warm
sympathy with the pure and beautiful, simply and grace-
fully expressed, to render it universally interesting.
There is great beauty in the language of this play,
which demonstrates the authoress to possess sensitive-
'less and imagination in a high degree. The fault of
Woman's Heart, as it now stands, is undue expansion
by means of poetic speeches and sublimated disquisitions,
which, however pleasing in the closet, tend to produce
weariness when enunciated tram the stage. We are
firmly of opinion that the day of five-act pieces is gone
by, and that no matter how copious and various the in-
cidents may be, how sustained the interest, and hese
well discriminated and prominent the characters, three
acts are fully sufficient to do full justice to the plot and
the parts, and quite as much as an English audience of
the present period can digest satisfactorily. Had Miss
Vaudenhoff's comedy been reduced within those limits,
it would have proved far more effective, and, consider-
ing the simplicity of its plot, it would not be
difficult to reduce it forthwith within eligible compass.
It ought to be condensed and expurgated to hold pos-
session of the stage. There is too much " talk,"
graceful, eloquent, as the language is throughout. As
regards the acting, the personation of the heroine, by
the accomplished young authoress, was replete with
grace and sweetness; and she delieereo her own smooth
and neatly-turned sentences with charming tact and de-
licacy. Her acting in the first and second acts, when
labouring under the infirmity of blindness, was charac-
terised by a repose the tranquillity of which was ea&
neatly touching; for it implied a pious and resigned feel-
jag, even in the midst of doubt, anxiety, and affliction. Ite
the latter scenes, when the more tragic sentiment of
the play is brought into activity, she was scarcely so
successful, though the maiden purity of a gentle nature
shrone through all, and created a personal interest which
remained undisturbed to the end. The situation to which
we have alluded, that in the third set, in which while
sitting for her portrait she is agitated by new-born
hopes, and is enveloped in the memories of the past,
could not have been delineated with greater
finesse, nor its points both histrionic and senti-
mental brought more vividly out. Mr. Barry Sullivan
declaimed the speeches belonging to the Angiolo with
care and discretion, those relating to the triamps and
prospects of the artist being delivered with especial
vehemence and emphasis. In this second assumption
this gentleman, it may be remarked, gave signs of a
general
ability which cannot fail to be useful to the
h.
management under which serves. is
He painstaking
-
and intelligent; and without being violent or laborious,
is wanted. Mr.
gives prominence where prominence_a.
.t.
na unmet leg character
Vandenheff sustained the sine
it may be presumed, on his
of the marquis, chiefly,
daughter's account, for such concessions on the part of
but common. Mr.
actors of his reputation are anything
d Stuart, Mr. Parselle, Mr.
Howe was the prince, a 3
Rogers, and Mira Amelia Vining were his coadjutors in
h s of the dramatis peisonce. The
remaining branches e
the
play, which has been put upon the stage with all the
be:min aids that it requires,
was, as we have already in-
tinaate
o, well received; and its announcement for " three
times ia arch successive week" by Mr. VandenhofT, was
welcomed with reiterated cheers from all parts of the
house.