The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1884.

gister of proprietors, resolutions to the above effect were
carried, and the meeting separated.

WE ST YO RK SHIRE.
The report of the directors stated that the expenditure to
the 30th of Juno last, exclusive of the Mcthley Railway,
had been£3So,773. The receipts for the half-year on revenue
account had been £14,438, the working expenses £3,570,
leaving a net sum of £10,868 applicable for dividend. The
total sum at the disposal of the directors was £20,6531
out of which they proposed to divide £10,148, leaving
£10,C05 for the reserve fund. The directors referred with
satisfaction to the steady increase of the general traffic, and
stated that the opening of new lines shortly would cause a
considerable augmentation of income. The completion of
the Batley and Methley branches was an event not far
distant,

CAMBRIAN:
The first half-yearly meeting of this company was held
at tha offices, Bridge-street, Westminster, on Saturday,
Earl Vane in the chair.

The report congratulated the shareholders upon the suc-
cess of their efforts in the last Session of Parliament, and
upon the course of policy which had been pursued. It sAted
that the Oswestry and Newtown, Llanidloes and Newtown,
Oswestry, Ellesmere, and Whitchurch, and Newtown and
Machynlleth railways, had been amalgamated under the
title of the Cambrian Railways Company, and their agree-
ments with the London and North-Western Company had
been sanctioned by Parliament. By those means the
public interests would be better served. By the opening
of the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast line the railway system
was complete between Aberystwith and Lancashire and the
manufacturing districts of the north on the one hand and
London and the south of England on the other. The Mid-
Wales line would shortly be opened, by which they would
have direct communication with South Wales and the north
of England. In an act authorising the leasing of the
Shrewsbury and Welshpool line to the North-Western, or
to that company and the Greet Western Company, the
Cambrian Company obtained the insertion of a clause pre-
venting anything being done prejudicially to their arrange-
ments with the North-Western Company.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
said ho was firmly of opinion that their railway would prove
very profitable if properly managed, because there were
ample means for developing and carrying on a large traffic,
while their arrangement with the London and North-
Western Railway Company would prove of great mutual
ad vantage.

Mr TooTAL seconded the motion, which was carried,
Captain Johns, Mr H. Gartside, Captain Pryce, and Mr
D. Williams were then elected directors. The election of
other directors was adjourned to the 2d of September.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed that a dividend at the rate
of £5 15s per cent. per annum be declared upon the ordinary
capital, payable on the sth of September.
Captain JOHNS seconded the motion, and it was carried:
Mr G. Lewis was appointed secretary, and the meeting
was adjourned to the 2.d of September.

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEDS, Friday.—We have to report a quiet trade
in the warehouses during the past week. Few
buyers hate been in the market one or two of the
wholesale London houses have been represented;
with this exception there has been comparatively
little doing. Fine Utica unions have been the chief
things inquired for, and although these goods have
not been in such great request as of late, still the
supply is not yet equal to the demand, the falling
off of which will enable the manufacturers to satisfy
the wants of the merchants better than they have
been able to do for some time past. Low-priced
'unions have not been much inquired for, and as
many manufacturers have been engaged in making
this class of goods, the stocks in their hands are
now accumulating. Witneys and pilots, in plain
and fancy makes, and black all-wool cloths have to
a fair extent changed hands. Manufacturers are
frilly employed, and rates firmly upheld in all de-
partments. The increased value of money and the
apprehension of higher rates have checked the de•
mand for English wool, and little has been done
during the week. Many manufacturers are well
supplied at present. Clothing wool is in moderate
request, and for some sorts at the public sales
prices have not been fully maintained.
MANCHESTER, Feiday.-0a Tuesday, and still
more on Wednesday, the general feeling was one of
great depression, and on all sides business was re-
ported to be at a stand. But there ensued rather
more ease in money circles, and the apprehended
further addition to the rate of interest did not take
place yesterday. A sense of relief has consequently
spread over this market, and we have been receiv-
ing more cheerful reports from both sellers and
buyers, especially in the latter part of to-day. Yarn
—A limited business has Leen effected by German
merchants in 60's to 80's twofolds, and some singles
also, including 28's to 32's, and aslow as 12's water,
principally on Russian account, and all at fall prices.
Something has been done, too, in 50's to 100's mule,
but not in 40's, for Calcutta, and in 30's mock water
for Bombay. We hear of no transactions for the
Levant, unless a little extra hard may have been in-
tended for that quarter. Manufacturers have ven-
tured upon cautious and sparing purchases of twist
and weft cope and throstle warps. They have,
however, scarcely touched 32's twist cops, but they
have taken higher numbers, especially of wefts. As
regards prices, we may state that, a couple of days
back, buyers might have found a weakness among
the spinners of short staples, except certain superior
articles, which they did not meet with to-day.
Naval and Military Intelligence,

The Board of Admiralty, consisting of the Duke of Somer-
set, K.G., Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Fred. Grey, K.C.8.,
Rear-Admiral the Hon, J. R. Drummond, C.B, and Mr
Childers, M.P., the Civil Lord, with their secratasy, Lord
C. Paget, M.P., diseqsarked on Friday morning from the
Admiralty lach,t, at 11 o'clock, at the Royal William Vii.
tualling-yarde Plymouth. Their lordships were attended by
the Controller of Victualling, Mr Char:ee Richards, the
Director of Work's, Capt. Clarke, R.E., and Sir R. Mayne,
:11..C.8., Chief Commissioner--and Mr Mallalieu, Inspect-
ing-Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police. The Com-
mander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir H. Fremantle, K.C.8., ar-
rived immediately afterwards. Their lordships were received
by Captain Superintendent Douglas Curry, R.N., Com-
mander Wheeler, the Master-Attendant—Mr Samuel Tris-
cott, storekeeper—and Mr Thos. Ingram, clerk of works,
&o. After inspecting the slaughterhouse and bakery their
lordships proceeded to the office of the Capt, Superinten-
tendent, where they formed a board, and deliberated nearly
an hour on some affairs connected with the department.
They inspected the store in which the officers' mess traps
ore deposited. Quitting the establishment by water they
proceeded to the Royal Naval Hospital, through the wards
of which they were conducted by the principal medical offi-
cers. The rooms being erected for the recreation of conva-
lescent patients were also examined. Having lunched on
board the Osborne their lordships proceeded to Torpoint
and reviewed the men belongingto the gunnery ship Cam-
bridge. They were divided into six companies, under com-
mand of Capt, C. J. F. Ewart, and Lieuts. H. F. Nichol-
son, Clayton Mitchell, and Cecil Stanley, and deployed
into line, broke into open column, formed squares, d.c.. in
a very creditable manner. From four field-pieces on the
ground a salute of 19 guns was fired. The band of the
Royal Adelaide was in attendance. At about five p.m.,
their lordships went on board the training ship Impreg-
nable, 78, Capt. Frencis S. Tremlett, in Hamoaze, and
inspected the boys at general quarters and gunnery and
small-arm drill, as well as sail drill, and examined
the register books showing their progress in school. Since
the last Admiralty inspection 600 boys have been trained ;
the Impregnable, with the Implacable, St Vincent, Bos-
t cawen, and Wellesley, sends about 3,000 lads annually into
ships as they are commissioned, and to vacancies on foreign
stations. All boys of 16 capable of passing the examination
are rated first class. The sailing brig Squirrel takes them
occasionally from Devonport into the Channel for sea exer-
cise. After short visits to the training ship Impregnable, and
the flagship Royal Adelaide, Capt. F. B. P. Seymour, C. 8.,
the Luke of Somerset and his colleagues landed en Mount
Edgcumbe-park. In the evening they dined at Mount Wise
with the Port Admiral, and they subsequently were present
at the ball under their patronage at Pearse's Royal Hotel,
Plymouth, in aid of the funds of the Orphan Asylum.
On Friday Earl do Grey and Ripon left Devonport in the
steam tender Princess Alice, and inspected Tregantle and
Scerasdon forts in Cornwall, and the land defences in Caw-
sand Bay, at Dhvisand, and on Staddon Heights. In the
afternoon Admiral Drumnionl and Mr Childers visited
Tregantle.
On Saturday morning at 10 o'clock the Lords of the Ad-
miralty reviewed the men belonging to the Steam Reserve,
who are commanded by Capt. Wm. Edmondetone,•C'.B., of
the ladus. The inspection took place on the jetty at Key-
ham stearnsard, and their lordships seemed pleased with
the appearance of the force and tfie arrangements for its
government. At half-past 10 the Duke of Somerset held a
levee at the saes of the Adtniral SuperintenJant. while
some of his colleagues went on board the new screw kteam
ship Mega)ra, 6, in No. 2 dock, fitting for a store transport,
and training ship fitzedtteahle, 21, C.ommailder Samuel B.
Dolling, in Hanroaze. Shortly after 2 o'cieck the Duke
of Somersat, Admiral Sir F. Grey, Admirals Eden and
Drummond, Mr Childers, 3.1 P., and Lord Clarence Paget,
inspected the Plymouth division of Royal Marines Light
Infantry in the 13arrack-square. The division presented
arms, and the companies were marched past in slow and
quick time. There were under arms 1,061 of all ranks; the
present strength is about 1,800, for which number the bar-
racks since their enlargement have sufficient beds. In 1860
there were but 919 beds. The area of the parade, 369 by
133 feet, will soon be enlarged to 432 by 204 feet, in conse-
quence of the purchase by the Admiralty of all the eastern
side of DurnfJrd-street contiguous to tho barracks.
To-morrow the Lords of the Admiralty will reach Ports •
mouth, in their steam yacht Enchantress, from Davenport.
The Duke of Somerset will hold a levee at the Royal Naval
College in Portsmouth Dockyard on Friday next. Naval
pboes
officers intending to be present must leave their names as
possibly do
by dosotahteitr lordshipsheeollege.
duTrhin°g their
officialdinner
stay at Portsmouth, on board their yacht; the Port Ad-
miralearly as they
can
will
and Naval commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir
M. Seymour, u.C.8., will entertain their lordships and a
large r4rty at the Admiralty-house in the dockyard, and
their lordships will patronize the usual ball given each year
for the benefit of the Seamen and Marines Orphan Schools
at Portsmouth.
A naval court martial assembled on board her Majesty's
ship Victory at Portsmouth on Saturday for the trial of
Lieut. Henry C. Wogan, serving as third lieutenant on
board her Majesty's screw troopship Orontes, on a charge
of drunkenness. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was
sentenced to dismissal from the Orontes and to lose four
years' seniority.

The experimental signaling between her Majesty's
steamer Pigmy in the Channel, St. Catherine's Down, in
the Isle of Wight, and the Semaphore tower in Ports-
mouth Dockyard, conducted by Capt. F. Bolton, of the
12th Regiment, and Commander Colomb, R.N., has been
resumed, and will be continued during the visit of
the Board of Admiralty to Portsmouth. On Thurs-
day last at 10 p.m. Vice-Admiral Sir M. Seymour received
a message at his residence in the dockyard from the Pigmy
in the Channel to the following effect;--" Pigmy at sea,
15 miles off St. Catherine's. Heavy sea running. Has the
Admiral any commands ?" The experiments have been
attended with the most complete success. A perfect and
rapid system of signaling will be established for the conjoint
use of the army and navy, which will be of great impor-
tance in our system of national defence.
The Fisgard, flagship of Commodore Dunlop, C,B„ at
Woolwich, now undergoing a thorough °valiant at her
'moorings, has been found overrun in many of her timbers
with a species of rot and decay, which it is stated will inca-
pacitate her for any lengthened service, and render useless
any attempt at repair so as to fit her for the practice of the
heavy guns daily in use for training lads. The masts are
likewise rotten and unfit for service. The old frigate, after
being withdrawn from the list of her Majesty's line-of-
battle sliips soon after 1810, was taken up for her present
duty, and has been moored off Woolwich dockyard in yearly
commission since that period. Her accommodation is con-
sidered too scanty for present emergencies, and it is comae-
t inently proposed to replace her by afhip of larger capacity.
Captain Blakely's 11-inch oast iron gun, hooped with
steel, and which broke one of the hoops-under proof a short
time ago, having been repaired, was again proved at the
Woolwich butt on Saturday. The gun is 16 feet long, 43
inches in diameter at the breech, and 20 inches at the

muzzle. The gun was fired two rounds, with a charge of

5211 b. of powder, and a cylinder weighing 6101 b.- and

showed no signs of strain or damage. Major Freeth,
Inspector of Ordnance, Captain Gordon, C. 8., Superinten-
dent of Military Stores, and other officers were present,
and conducted the proof, and also Mr. Campbell, represent-
ing the Blakely Ordnance Company. The gun, it is stated
is manufactured to the order of the British Government,
and will now bo despatched to St. PetCrsburg,
Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Sir. J. York Scarlett, the Adjutant-
Genetal, and Lieutenant. General Sir Richard Airey,
Qaartarmastet,General, have left the Horse Guards for a
few weeks' leave of absence from their affical duties.

The Hilattlays, screw troopship, Oapt. E. Lacy, sailed
from Portacarth, on Saturday, for Kingstown with the
53d Regiment on board, under the command of Col. Ha-
renco. The 53d will disembark from the Himalaya at Kings-
town, en route for the Curragh. She proceeds to Canada from
Kingston with detachments belonging to different regi-
ments serving in Canada, and will return to Portsmouth
with two-thirds of the Guards now serving there.
The Urgent, screw troopship, Capt. S. Henderson, will
embark at Portsmouth on Tuesday draughts of men to join
the service companies of their respective regiments in Ca-
nada, and will return to Spithoad from Quebec with one-
third of the Guards now serving in Canada.
In consequence of the harness issued to the troops on fo•
reign service in numerous cases having been found unfit for
use on its arrival, a committee of officers, appointed by the
War Department, has been ordered to make an official sur-
vey of the stores at Woolwich and report on them. The
officers, consisting of Lieut.-Col. Austen, commanding the
2d division depot brigade, R.A.—Brigade Major Sherring-
ton, Military Train—Capt. Fenn, superintendent of the
harness depot—and Mr Parkyn, assist.-superintendent of
military stores at Woolwich, made the required survey on
Saturday last. Various portions of the stores of harness and
saddlery were selected by the committee, and subjected to a
heavy strain under the hydraulic machinery. Those portions
only which bore the test well returned to store.
Capt. Andrew Clarke, R.E., is appointed by the Duke of
Somerset, Director of Engineering and Architectural Works,
in the place of Col. Godfrey T. Greene, whose resignation
of that office we announced a few days ago.
The following appointments have been made at the Ad-
miralty :—Commander P. W. Pellew, to the Warrior—
Lieut. 0. Morice, to command the Hardy, vice Campbell,
superseded—and J, E. Bearcroft, nominated to a naval ca-
detship.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

TIIE " SPECTATOR" ON THE O'CONNELL DEMON-
STRATION.—There is to our minds something almost
impressive in the accounts of the Dublin procession
in honour of O'Connell. Englishmen always turn
with a sensation of disgust from accounts of Irish
ceremonial, and very often they are as right as they
are discourteous. Incompleteness is the character.
istic of the Celt as completeness is of the Saxon,
and the mixture of tawdriness and squalor, bright
colour and wretched rags, magnates in uniform and
paupers in frieze, brilliant eloquence and rubbishy
declamation which make up an Irish demonstration,
will never be tolerable to a people who least of all
nations understand the Oriental.= with which the
true Milesian is so deeply tinged. On this occasion,
however, the imagination, which in Ireland as in
Asia so often does duty for the heart, was honestly
touched, the people gave themselves up to their
own ideas, and every incident was marked by a
genius utterly alien indeed from our own, perhaps
inferior in type, certainly inferior in results, but
none the less real and worthy of respect. The middle
class Englishman who despises it despises also the
poet who can only sing songs which stir millions for
generations, but who has no capacity for making a
fortune or even perhaps earnitag his daily bread.
The banners were we dare say tawdry enough,
Irishmen are pretty sure to concentrate themselves
on the device and leave the streamers ragged, just
as Englishmen are sure to have their silk all perfect
and their devices grotesque; but imagine an English
crowd adhering in that way to a central idea, and
that idea a memory of the past ! In the long pro-
cession which took two hours in passing each point,
and must have numbered therefore two hundred
thousand persons, thoasands of disconnected minds
had been at work, yet there was not a device, or a
banner, or a scarf which did not strive to recall a
lost nationality. Always that green colour, always
that sad Hibernia—the figure which runs through
all Irish sculpture, and poetry, and caricature, as if
the very soul of the wittiest race in Europe had been
steeped in melancholy—always the harp, and the
crown, and the emblems telling of a time which
never existed, but which lives in the popular ima-
gination as if h had but just passed away. The
symbols were present on the trades' banners, on the
flags of the societies, even on the grotesque ensign
the Adam and Eve with which the Dublin tailors,
by a bull only Irishmen could have devised, indi-
cate their trade. Imagine an appeal to the tradi-
tions of Essex or Suffolk ploughmen or artisans !
Only in Ireland of the three kingdoms would a
procession so full of symbols have been appreciated,
only in Ireland could that strange air of sad memory
have been thrown over a great popular demonstra-
tion, only in Ireland would men have found mea-
sures to march to I:ke " Let Erin remember the days
of old." It is all very unpractical, and visionary,
and disheartening to men who think that life
ought to be a struggle instead of a regret, but if it
had occurred any where else, in Switzerland or
Italy,Englishmen would hare recognised that there
was poetry in the scene, quick sympathy, warm
imagination, capacity for realising abstract ideas
among the people who devised it. Those qualities
are not so useful perhaps as calmness, and judg-
ment, and industry, but after all Attica is an ideal
us well as Manchester. The object of English Libe-
rals should be to give the Irisa free scope for the
qualities they do possess, to use the great addition
they make to the intellectual resources of the Em-
pire, not to exclaim hopelessly that such qualities
are naught only because they are not their own.
The hearty conciliation of Ireland, the absorption
of the island into the Empire as Scotland has been
absorbed, the creation of a unity so cordial that
there should be but one Britain, north, west, and
south, wourel be worth all our conquests, and it can
never be achieved, never be !loped for, till Eng-
lishmen understand not this or that Irish demon-
stration, but the nature which makes such demon-
strations possible. The expectation which now re-
tards all liberal action for Ireland, that of the
emptying and re-peopling of the island, is we believe
mere delusion. We cannot forget that we onto re-
duced her native population to less than a million
and a half only to see it advance again unchanged
and unchangeable. Even if it were not, if it were
conceiveablo that Ireland should one day be filled up
with Scotch men,we should have gained in temporary
political ease, only to lose infinitely in all that
variety which makes up political strength. On the
object of the demonstration English opinions will
of course differ very widely. O'Connell has, how-
ever, now been dead long enough for a fair estimate
to be formed of his merits and his life, and English.
men aro after their wont slowly beginning to shed
bit by bit their old opinion of his career. Unscru-
pulous he certainly was, for the Orientalism of his
countrymen, the inability to perceive as well as to
sp ak the exact truth, from which the Saxon is,
often from sheer dulness, unable to depart, was of
course most conspicuous in their representative man.
Agitator he certainly was, but it hardly lies in the
mouth of the men who carried the Reform Bill and
the repeal of the corn laws to pronounce agitation
in a good (muse a crime. Hostile to the empire he
certainly was, but.he was a Roman Catholic man of
genius bred under the old penal laws, and we who
believe that the French Opposition have a right not
only of agitation but of revolt for freedom, cannot
honestly condemn the man who hated a power
which placed every native Irishman under disabili-
ties, which barred up every career, doomed every
man with ambition to insignificance, refused even
the one right Napoleon concedes—a right to a voice
in deciding the amount of property to be surren-
dered to the State. O'Connell faced us fairly, by
action carefully restrained within the limits of the
law carried a legislative measure by a use of the
right of meeting granted to every opponent of the
corn laws, by an organisation not so dangerous as
that which in 1831 made of every open space in
Birmingham a nightly drilling ground. Possessed
of almost royal authority over six millions of his
countrymen, taunted and assailed every week by
the dominant two millions, refused a voice in Par-
liament, refused the career open to every Irishman
who happened also to be a Protestant, he carried
Catholic Emancipation without revolt and without
bloodshed, and in so doing added all the potentiali-
ties of usefulness existing in six million brains to
the Imperial strength. It was a grand service done to
England as well as Ireland, a heavy crime removed
from the conscience not of Ireland but Great Britain
and if we have not the self-restraint to perceive the
truth, so much the more credit to the Irish that after

the man who secured them justice has been absent
17 years they can still meet by scores of thousands
to keep his memory green. We English are not
playing that, never shall play that part, towards the
framer of our Emancipation Act—the Reform Bill

of 1831, No reasonable Englishman now doubts
that emancipation was an act of justice, and for a
nation to repay the man who secured that justice
with gratitude, even with exaggerated gratitude, is
surely no sign of wart of national heart. Do we
blame Neapolitans because they almost canonise
Garibaldi ? and why is not kindliness as fair to our
poor countrymen of the West—for the Irish are
countrymen just as much as the Scotch—as to the
race equally Southern, equally Catholic, equally
Oriental= who prepare similar demonstrations in
Southern Italy P We appreciate the podesta who
heads a procession in honour of Garibaldi, why sneer
at MarSwiney, because he similarly honours a man
who did for'. is people as much, and who can make
to himself no return ? Is it because MacSwiney
sounds to Jones and Smith and Higgs a comically
common-place name P With the latter part of
O'Connell's life we buy() of course no sympathy,