The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-14 00:00:00

THE TREATY OF THE THREE , NAVAL I.N TELLIGrENCE.
NORTHERN POWERS. Our obl'uary yesterday announces the death of Com.
(nom the Morning Chronicle) meeder Richard Murdoch Robertson.. We notice the
Is is ur • -
ettaestentaibes that the etirpeous solemnities by mournful intelligence feelings of deep sorrow, for
with
which the whole ot France will to-morrow' be summoned in the death ot teat good and gsliant officer the service
to admire and to adore, will d rive some portion of their has lost '
one who amongst all classes of society was an
interest from the instrumentality of the Morning honour to the profession; and a numerous circle has
Chronicle. Despite the running fire of insinuations and lost a staunch friend and a pleasant and worthy ace
contradictions to which we have been exposed ever since qatuntance.
the secret Minute of the Northern Powers appeared in In the navy r•
our columns, a largo portion of the .tarusd. cbefore from h's first e;oylasmentler Robertson Wa3 well known
which that brilliant exhibition of decorativetalentaudience
is to and a first- into it as a most excellent ruessmate,
be unfolded remains constant to the
persuasion
that wle. a irited, whilst- at the same time he was considerate and
cer. Ile tea; generous and high-
be
have imparted an ulterior significanceaiuthe to the laure forbearing.hes As a midshipman ho was the life and soul
wreaths, the Church services, Catherine-wheels. of hip---,-he.was dashing and daring, and his resources
Heralded by an amnesty, and , celebrated' with the offering for fun and frolic were inexhaustible, and even up to the
of those semi-divine honours which mark their object days of sickness and disease he maintained an unsubdued
as the founder of a system,
edant era, a dynasty—is the dash of his youthful characteristics. He was ever a safe i
15th of August really destined
expend Empire? If suchc, givee birth to the long- and familiar equal and a kind and generous superior. Like
aaslinco,n34l ie- the event, will it many others who were weary of peace-service, and no
be a defiance to those reput, whichoh the Convention promotion for the bard-working officer, he entered the
recorded in this journal revealed? the other hand, if Portuguese service during the civil war. He served for
no:such sequel ensue, will the determinedad opposition some time afloat as First Lieutenant of the flag-ship under
h
which the Convention indicated hav anything to Sir Charles Napier, and acted a conspicuous part in the
do with:the postponement of an inevitable consummation? several sharp and dashing affairs ashore in which the
We have:decidedly contributed our share to the attrac- blue jackets were engaged. IR that service, too, he
tiveness of the only political holiday which the French made many lasting friends, who remember and relate
law permits to be observed.
We have stood with folded arms before the dropping with pleasure the exploits of the brave and gallant de-
ceased. Subsequently iu the navy ho obtained the rank
discharge of dinientis, not from vs ant of regard for of lieutenant. and worked hard in that grade for his su-
own character, nor from an inadequate estimate perior step; but, although he was the son of an old,
responsibility which we had taken upon ourselves, bthuet distinguished, and respected officer, ho failed to obtain
because we were firmly convinced that our opponentswwith lieutenant
his rank until 1847, when he was promoted from first
could be shown in the end to have been firing
d, that of the flag-ship St. Vincent, 120, Sir Charles
we should be contradicted, and perhaps maligned, if we Ogle having selected him for that appointment solely on
Aacrunt of his good name and character in the navy.
gave publicity to the document which had been commu-
nicated to us; but we decided on our course, after due Collegeo. commander he passed some time at the Royal Naval
Admi-
comparison of the credibility attaching to such contra- rally at Portsmouth, and in 1851 was appointed
dictions with that belonging to the authority from which his a
i
agents to one of the Cape screw-ships. It was during
our intelligence was received. It is not to be supposed land in voyage,l in the Harbinger, which returned to Eng-
that, as has been insinuated, we ever pretended to have daily anticipateda7last, that he became so ill that his death was
received the minute in question from -the Chancery of Plymouth on the passage home. He reached
any one of the signataries. If we expressed any opinion which his sensena most exhausted state; notwithstanding
of duty was such that he would not al-
on the point, it would be that those articles of agree- low the dispatches with which he was charged to be de-
ment have never found their way to any official recap- livered by any one
eisited him
but himself into the hands of the post-
tacie whatever. Whence, then, did we receive them, and master.
was the source of our information in a quarter to which Dr. Rae, the highly-respected. Inspector of Hospitals at
there was any strong likelihood of their penetrating? Plymouth, kindl♦•
assumption that the three Monarchs, at in which shipwhheerye,
after proceededon board the Harbinger,
Now, on the u
to London, and thence to
their recent meeting, had affixed their signatures to any Edinburgh, undergoing a most painful ope-
paper the substance of which our publication represented, ration with the greatest fortitude,
he expired last week
there was but one individual in Europe to whom they at the early age of 43 years.
communicate it
were likely to commun , even before it came to What might have been his fate had the same success
the knowledge of their own Foreign ministers; and of juniors attended his exertions in the service we will
there was but one class of persons who, after that per- not pretend to say; but this we that a more effi-
sonage, and through him, were likely to become sharers cient and gallant officer—one who know,
onwold do more honour
in the secret. To that class we knew that our informant and credit to the rank does not exist in the senior list.
belonged. We knew,
moreover, that ho was above all He was attended in his last moments by his affectionate,
suspicion of mystifying
or deceiving others, whilst it warm-hearted brother, who has brought his remains to
lANA..—Woo ead and
was well nigh ridiculous to. suppose that he had been London for interment.—Herald.
jati/di
ams
Nor did we neglect to scrutinize PRIZE-MONEY
mystified himself.
tih,
and the
the probable weight and cogency of the motives which Co. have given notice to Captain John Ad
had led to the determination that the document officers and crew of her Majesty's ship
.Gladiator, who
in question should be laid before the world. There are entitled to share in the proceeds arising from the
was the probability of a desire that some degree capture of the slaver Juliana, on the - t June, 1850,
p in,
of notoriety should be given to the powerful protection that the distribution thereof will be made on the 7th
extended to that one of the great French parties which of September next, at No. 1, James-street, Adelphi, d
repugnance to the expected proclamation where the list will be recalled every Wednesday aannel-
felt peculiar
of the Empire on the 15th of August. And there were Friday for three months :—Flag, 46/. 12s. qd. ; captain,
other reasons besides, pointing in the same direction. S7l. Ss. 104 d.; second class, 15/. 18s. 9d.; third, 121. 15s •
The chief of that party had recently taken on himself fourth, 71. 135.; fifth, 41. 9s. 31; sixth, 3/. 16s. 6d.;
"
to impose on its members a policy which they little seventh, 2/. lls.; eighth, 1/. ss. 61; ninth, 15s
• 'Aid • ;
relished, and which they did not in the least under- tenth, 9s hid.
stand. But, as soon as the terms of the Northern Con- PORTS:N.IOI3TH, FRIDAY.—The heavy rain that fell last
vention were known, the explanation of this policy was evening had the effect of lulling the gale. The wind
easy, and its wisdom became evident, moderated during the night, and this morning the ships
By those who—unaware of the particular circumstances at Spithcad that had been lying for the last two days
under which the Convention obtained publicity—have with their lower yards and topmasts struck, got them
controverted its authenticity on general grounds, ob• up this morning.
jeetion has been taken to its form and language; and We are sorry to say that an accident occurred during
great weight has been attached to the improbability the gale, attended with loss or lite. One of the wherries
that it would first see the light in an English that ply between Point and Gosport, while crossing, was
newspaper. We might easily evade the first-mentioned capsized in a heavy squall of wind and rain; the boat
thet wo gave the paper, not in contained a waterrnan end six passeng rs.
difficulty bv repeating Provide
full, but in abstract. While, however, we decline to ally, one of the men on board the yacht schooner Dolphin
pledge ourselves to the verbal accuracy of its expressions, saw her go over; he promptly gave the alarm to his
we affirm our belief that it states correctly the conside_ shipmates, who wore all below sheltering. Their boat,
rations upon which the decision of the three Monarchs then hanging in the tackles, was soon lowered and
was based, as well as the decision itself; nor do we see manned, and rescued six of the persons. For a short
anything in the peculiar tone of these considerations time it was supposed all had been saved; but soon one
which militates against their genuineness. The politi- man was found to be missing, who proved to be a marine
cal philosophy which is noticed as out of place in a bandsman, named' Rowe, who must have sunk before the
treaty may easily have crept into a minute comprising Dolphin's boat got to the spot; he has, we understand,
the articles of a private understanding; and, in the form left a widow and three young children to lament his loss.
which it here assumes, it tallies strikingly The greatest praise is due to the crew of the Dolphin,
with the views which at least two of the by whose energy and prompt assistance so many persons
signataries are known to entertain. Flimsy as were saved, several of whom were under water, and ac-
is the theory of legitimacy which the docu- tually sinking when got hold of by the Dolphin's men.
ment enunciates, how often have we heard it from the The Tiger steam-frigate, Captain Giffard, has re-
mouth of Frederick William! and how infinitely ceived orders to take on board as many provisions as she
more rational is the language in which it is expressed can stow for foreign service, but as yet her destination
than those wildly mysterious propositions which every is not known.
student of diplomatic history admires in the text of the The Niger screw steam-sloop, Commander Heath, has
Convention which issued in the Holy Alliance ! Nor been brought from her husk this morning, and into the
must we forget to state, while referring to that Conven- old basin, preparatory to her being brought into the
tion, that, like the document now in question, it bore Angle Dock.
the signatures of the three Sovereigns, and not of their The Edinburgh, 56, screw-gunnery ship, Captain
Ministers—a fact which disposes of one of the minor ob- Hewlett (acting), hauled out of dock to the basin to-
jections which certain critics have started against the day. She is ordered to Plymouth, and will take up
genuineness of the agreement of last May. As for the moorings at that port. She will come out of the basin
supposed external improbability of such a document to-morrow.
being first made public in our columns, it vanishes The Harpy iron steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
altogether when placed beside the known achievements Williams, will be paid off on Monday at this port. Her
of English journals. Attention has already been di- perilous voyage is the theme of general comment and
rected to the circumstances under which the Treaty of wonder. It is reported that prior to her starting from
Unkiar-Skelessi became public. That treaty pro- Rio an official survey was held upon her, and it was
mired consequences certainly not less momentous than officially " reported ' she was untrustworthy for so long
does the present Convention. It was equally strange in and dangerous a voyage. Notwithstanding this, she
its form, and equally unlooked for. The motives for was sent.
keeping it secret for a time from all Europe, except the The Simoom, 16, screw steam troop-ship, Captain
contracting parties, were quite as strong as in the pre- Kingcombe, will be removed from dock to the steam
sent case. Yet, though the Morning Chronicle, on ex- basin on Saturday, and the Termagant, 24, will take the
elusively publishing it to the world, was assailed with a vacated dock.
succession of denials alternately indignant and disdain- The Vestal, 26, Captain C. B. Hamilton, will be paid
ful, is there a man living who now entertains a doubt advance here on the 16th.
that the conductors of this journal had really possessed The Victoria line-of-packet ship sailed from Spithead
themselves of a copy of the Treaty? this morning for New York.
Satisfied with the strong presumptions of authenticity The following young officers (mates and midshipmen)
whicb were furnished both by the intrinsic character of passed examinations in navigation at the Royal Naval
the Convention and by the source from which we re- College this week, qualifying for the rank of lieutenants:
ceived it, we should, under any circumstances, have Messrs. Battiscombe, Arthur, Calcraft, Patterson,
examined with jealous scrutiny any attempt to impugn it Goolden, Coxon, Hatchard, and Garland.
on the part of those who were chiefly concerned in The following second-masters, R.N., passed at the
establishing its non-existence, or in resenting its publi- same time for the rank of masters:—Messrs. Cox, Lle-
cation. It is not our fault if the latitude given to the wellyn, Creak, and Searle.
French official, or somieofficial,journals by the withdrawal Mr. Percy Earl also passed an examination qualifying
e
of the vigilant supervision once exercised by their con- for entry into the navy as master's assistant, and t
temporaries—coupled with the reign of terror under following young gentlemen qualified for entry into the
p
sg service as naval cadets:—Messrs. Buckle, Osborne, Fitz-
which the independent portion of the press is placed,
must always throw a doubt on statements, however roy, Boys, Jacob,
positive, proceeding from French authority. Again, in Dolben. These have all been app i
looking at denials which might emanate from the sup- Victory, pro. tees. 13y am, Hamersley, M
ointed to tohlye ff.neuase: and
Sprightly sailed this morn-
posed parties to the Convention, we could never leave DEVONPORT, AUG. 12.
out of consideration the p
possible that owerful reasons which would ing with supernumeraries for Portsmouth.
towed out of
induce them to neutralize as much as which, Trincomalee, 24, Captain Houston, was
looked at from their own point of view, must appear a harbour this afternoon by the. Confiance
.steam• tug,
most dangerous and culpable act of indiscretion. But, when she salutcd the flag of Admiral Sir J. A. °lnman
the Impregnable. Her
in fact, not only has our publication of the Convention. ney, which was answered by
by Mr. Thom P-
straw,
met with no denial whatever which is worth a compasses will be adjusted to-morrow P
straw, but the character of a series of lame attacks on son, the Queen's harbour-master.
its genuineness actually lends the strongest possible ex Falmouth lighter sailed this afternoon with stores for
post facto support to the antecedent presumptions in its Portsmouth.
favour. The Jesuitical paragraph from the Prussian Camel lighter, Faben master, arrived this morning
Gazette leaves us doubtful whether it means to deny with stores from Pembroke.
that the alleged agreement deserves the technical Jo the Sound—Queen, Hogue, and Trincomalee.
appellation of a Treaty—which is a point not worth In Harbour—lmpregnable, St. George, Sanspareil,
discussing—or whether, admitting the existence of the Sylph. Confiance, and the Devon and Camel.
agreement, it impugns the fairness of our abstract. The In Moan:in—Tortoise, Rochester, and Duck lighters.
remarks of the Austrian Lloyd, which do not go beyond Gcodvsill lighter, Patrick master, will sail this even-
au assertion that the Convention is " apocryphal," look ing with stores for Sheerness.
marvellously like a covert attack on the policy which APPOINTMENTS.
dictated it; while a long semi-cfficial article in the Jour- Woonwien, AUG. 13.—Surgeon Hugh T. S. Bue-
na/ de Francfort is pregnant with admissions of its genu- ridge, M.D. (1844), to the Sampson steam-frigate, at
ineness, for it reiterates in substance the considerations Portsmouth.
enunciated in the document which it affects to denounce Third-class Assistant-Engineer W. B. Stephens, to
as spurious.
, oa
the Magicienne, 16, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, at
Moreover, all the while, the French Government has Portsmouth.
been absolutely mute. It is true that, in its anxiety to Gunner Jonas Nash to the Penelope steam-frigate on
avoid the attentions of M. de Maupas, the Aase,nblee the west coast of Africa station; and Acting-Gunner
Nationale had accompanied its reproduction of the Con- John Bull to the Cygnet, 8, steam-sloop,,
the same
veution with a hint of its untrustworthiness. There is station. .
a school of theological criticism which, when you point Boatswain William Weston to the Tortoise, 12, store-
to a set of independent and incidental notices, as evi- ship, at the island of Ascension.
dente in favour of a detailed recital, turns your flank The Onyx, Dover mail steam. k
Pac et, Lieutenant-
by retorting that the history has been manufactured Commander George Raymond, has completed her re-
out of the tributary passages ,• and, in the same pairs here, and will leave Woolwich on Sunday morning
spirit, the Asseniblde insinuated that the Convention to resume her duties as a mail packet on the Dover
might have been fabricated out of the diplomatic station.
communications which had already appeared in an The Greenock, 10, iron screw steam-frigate, of
cri,556-
English newspaper. This ingenious idea was caught horse power, was taken out of the inner basin to-day, to
up by the Patric and the Pays, and was made the text make ready for trial down the river.
of se- number of
of articles, the very length and earnestness of which The Agameinuon, 90, river.
hands employed on board to- 'e
pedite her
'w steam-ship has a great
deprive them of all weight as a dententi.
condary and derivative contradiction—published in fittings, and will be completed in engineer depart-
journals which are semi-official iu so far that they may meat by John Penn.and Sons in the
weeks from
about six
say what the p
lease • till it is convenient to disclaim this time. One of Mr. Grant's distilli apparatus bas
them—is all the denial which the Convention has pro- just been put up capableof producing 50 gallons of
yoked in France. The official organ of the Govern- distilled water per hour.
ment, which honours the English press with a very
full share of its notice, has not printed a line on a
subject which all Europe has been occupied in discussing,
There is but one inference which all reasonable men
can draw from this data—viz,, that the document which
appeared in our columns is in harmony either with the
suspicions or with the information of Louis Napoleon's
Government. It is not impossible that the explanations
which the latter is said to have demanded may result in
what are called satisfactory assurances. But though
such an event may count as a point gained for the Pre-
sident in the game of diplomacy, we shall still believe
that we have been the means of laying before the world
an historical piece as authentic as it is curious and ina.
aortant. —__

The commercial advices-rrora Y'ork are very
islett..om And the
satisfactory, money being in increased
,11,n7tice from Cali-
stock market buoyant. The later ing'; and four hours
fornia (brought viol Nicaragua, in 2! „dip of Spaniards and
running time) was numberortant. 73Aring by their labour
Frenchmen, to the of St, iuriposa river, had all
reached tome gold deposits in ',of armed Americans, who
einembered, of the celebrated
been driven off by an asseni'lluit the place in '24 hours.
had ordered every foreigner w
• Di be rem
This is the district, it nerins to the promoters of London
leases offered upon higl'n'iiing of the present year. From
companies at the g
bi,e-o dates are to the 14th of July, but
Mexico the telegraluila the general state of affairs. The in-
there was 110 g
chan :the Indian depredations formed an addi-
fhe general disorganization of the country.
creasing
. - looluounts from Mazatlan, the Governor had im-
tional eleaten
According:6- French and Spanish Consuls on a charge of
prisoned . in the recent disturbances there. At Vera
articipating
stated that a company had been formed to run
boldness
weteam its
ruz.ohips monthly between that city and New Yerk,
°t Tampico Bavannah, and Charleston. Letters
calling
Peru of the 28th'
of June mention that Garibaldi had
from eru
returned to Lima from China, and allege that the Govern-
inept of Ecuador had offered him the command of their
troops to oppose the piratical attack of General Flores.
THE QUESTION OF CIIRISTMAS BOXES TO POST-
LETTaR, CARRlERS,—Yesterday (Friday) at two o'clock,
Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P. (who had come up to town
expressly fur the purpose), Mr. Masterman, M.P., and Sir
J. Duke, M.P., had an interview with the Postmaster-
General at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, to
advocate the principle that the letter carriers of the London
district should, in consequence of the inadequate remuneration
they receive, be permitted to be allowed to receive Christ-
mas-boxes. The details of the conference of course did not
transpire fully, but on the Noble Lord and his Honourable
Colleagues leaving, an intimation of a most elating nature
was made to a deputation of the men, that their case had
been favourably considered, and that the prohibitory order
would not, at least for the present, be re-issued, but the
matter would be left between the postmen and the public,
and it was intimated that there was a project to iucrease
the pay of those valuable and over-worked eervants of the
public,—Morning Advertiser,

CHEER UP."
(From " Hactenus," by M. F. Tupper.)
Never go gloomily, man with a mind,
Hope is a better companion than tear;
Providence, ever benignant and kind,
Gives with a smile what you take with a tear;
All will be right,
Look to the light:
Morning was ever the daughter of night;
All that was black will be all that is bright,
Cheerily, cheerily then I cheer up.

Many a foe is a friend in disguise,
Many a trouble a blessing roost true,
Helping the heart to be happy and wise,
ew .
With love ever precious and joys over n
Stand in the van,
Strive like a man: _
This is the bravest and cleverest Ilan
Trusting in God while you do whs you' can.
Cheerily, cheer_______ily then! cheer up.

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