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London, England, 1852-10-02 00:00:00

OCTOBER 2,

would be dashed to pieces against its pier, which abutted
on the line, he imprudently jumped from the van, fAing•
upon his arms, which wcro frightfully fractured. The
poor ferow inatiz,diately removed to the house of the
head porter, where he received every kindness, and was
attended by a surgeon, who set his fractured irubs. The
wheels of the truck were much worn, which ittvolves
charge of blame somewhere. It should bo mentioned
that soon after the guard leaped off the train was brought
to a standstill, which could have been done in the first
instance by the driver shutting off the steam, had the
guard had the meson of conveying to him the necessity
for the act.

IRELAND.
THE VACANT BISIIOPIIIC.
DUBLIN, FRIDAY.—The Evening lierald states
that the names of the Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan,
D.D., is "mentioned with confidence in connexion
with the appointment to the vacant see." The same
authority also names either the Rev. Dr. Singer, or
the Very Rev. the Dean of St. Patrick's, as the proba-
ble successor of the late bishop. Dean Pakenham is
brother-in-law of the late Duke of Wellington. No-
thing definitive can be known for some days.

THE INDUSTRIAL F XHIBITION OF 1853.
In addition to the munificent offering of 20,0001.
towards forwarding the objects of the Irish Industrial
Exposition, Mr. William Dargan, the eminent rail-
way contractor, has agreed to enlarge the amount by
a further sum of 6,0001. to complete the work of
which he was the author.

THE LATE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
The Limerick Chronicle republishes, after a lapse
of eventful years, the following letter of the illus-
trious deceased, respecting the state of the Limerick
district in the year 1808 ; a letter written on the eve
of his sailing from Cork to command the army in the
Peninsula, and wherein the Duke exhibited a pro-
found knowledge of the condition of Ireland and the
character of its people :

" Coils, July 7, 1808.
" My dear Sir,—According to the desire which you
expressed in the conversation which I had with you at
Lord Ilarrington's on Wednesday-, I proceed to give you
my opinion on the nature and circumstances of the com-
mand which you are about to exercise in the county of
Limerick. In the first place, I must point out to you
that the situation of a general officer commanding in a
district in Ireland is very much of the nature of a de-
puty-governor of a county or a province; he becomes
necessarily charged with the reservation of the peace
of the district placed under his command; and the Go-
vernment must confide in his reports and opinions for
the adoption of many measures relating solely to the
civil administration of the country. From these cir-
cumstances it is obvious that it is the duty of every
general officer to make himself acquainted with the local
circumstances of his district, and with the characters of
the different individuals residing within it, in order that
he may decide for himself according to the best of his
judgment and information, and that he may not be mis-
led by others.
" This duty will be still more obvious by a conside-
ration of certain circumstances which exist in nearly all
parts of Ireland. It frequently happens that disturb-
ances exist only in a very small degree, and probably
only partially, and that the civil power is fully adequate
to get the better of them; at the same time, the desire to
let a building to Government for a barrack—the desire
to have troops in the county, either on account of the
increased consumption which they occasion of the ne-
cessaries of life, or because the increased security which
they would give to that particular part of the country
would occasion a general rise in the value and the rent
of land, which probably at that moment might be out of
lease--or, in some instances, the desire to have the
yeomanry called out on permanent duty—occasions a
representation that the disturbances are much more
serious than the facts would warrant. Upon these
occasions, letter after letter is written to the com-
manding officer and to Government ; the same
fact is repeated through many different chan-
nels; and the result of an inquiry generally is,
that the outrage complained of is by no means of
the serious nature or of the extent which has been stated.
The obvious remedy for this evil, and that which is
generally resorted to, is to call for informations on oath
of the transactions which are complained of; but this
remedy is not certain, for it frequently happens that the
informations on oath aro equally false with the original
representations. The general officer, then, has no re-
medy, except, by his acquaintance and communication
with the magistrates and gentlemen of the county, to
acquire a knowledge of characters, and to become ac-
quainted with all the circumstances which occur.
" It frequently happens that the people who do com-
mit outrages and disturbances have some reason to com-
plain; but, in my opinion, that is not a subject for the
consideration of the general officer. Ile must aid in the
preservation of the peace of the county, in the support
of the law; and he who breaks the law must be con-
sidered in the wrong, whatever may have been the
nature of the provocation which he has received.
-' It is posaible that grievances may exist in the county
of Limerick; provisions may bo too dear or two high a
rent may be demanded for land; and there may be no
poor-laws; and the magistrates may not do their duty as
they ought by the poor; but these circumstances elf eel
no reaso❑ why the general officer should not give the
military aid which he may have at his command to pre-
serve the peace, to repress disturbance, and to bring those
to justice who may have been guilty of a violation of
the law.

"In respect to the gentlemen of the county in which
you are posted, I recommend to you to attend particu-
larly to the Lord Chief Baron O'Grady. You will find
him well informed of tho transactions in the county of
Limerick, and well acquainted with characters, and dis-
posed to assist your judgment. I also recommend to your
attention Mr. Dickson, the late High Sheriff for the
county; and Colonel Vereker, the Member for the city
of Limerick. There may bo, and certainly are, other
gentlemen in the county of Limerick on whose informa-
tion you can depend; but I have requested Mr. Trail,
to whom I send thi3 letter, to apprise you confidentially
of tho names of those whom you ought to consult.

" Believe me, &e.,
" AnTIIIIR WELLESLEY.

"Brigadier-General Lee."

FIRE and LOSS of LIFE at SHEERNESS.
SHEERNESS, THURSDAY.—Soon after eleven o'clock
last night, this town was thrown into the greatest alarm
by the outbreak of a most fearful fire, involving a melan-
choly loss of life. At present the number who perished
has not been correctly ascertained. One of the Royal
Marines is known to have been burnt in his bed, and a
Royal Artilleryman was killed by the falling of a stack
of chimneys; there aro others missing, and it is feared
that they have suffered. The premises in which the
fire originated were those of the Duke of Clarence Inn,
situated immediately opposite the Royal Dockyard and
the Naval-terrace, at the extreme east end of the Blue
Town. The alarm instantly aroused the authorities at-
tached to the garrison and dockyard, and speedily a
strong force from the Waterloo flag-ship, Captain the
Hon- M. Stopford, the London, Monarch, and Horatio,
with the Royal Artillery fromthe barracks, under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel England, arrived at the
scene of destruction. The yard engines were promptly
gotinto operation, but by that time the flames had ex-
tended to the adjoining buildings of Mr. Fife, chemist,
Mr. Tyler, bootwaker, and some wooden tenements near.
and it was anticipated that the conflagration would prove
one of considerable magnitude. In order most effectu-
ally to arrest the progress of the fire, the Artillery pro-
ceeded to make a breach by pulling down four brick
houses. The Marines and seamen from the different
ships, under the joint direction of the Captain-Superin-
tendent Charles Hope, Captain the Hon. M. Stopford,
Commander Marsh, and Lieutenant Christopher, re-
doubled, if possible, their efforts, and, notwithstanding
the serious aspect of the fire, they succeeded in prevent-
ing its destroying other buildings than before stated.
Several adjacent premises, however, have suffered. The
post-office was once or twice fired, and but for the
spirited exertions of the soldiers and sailors would have
been consumed. The Marine who perished had taken
a bed at the Duke of Clarence. During tko raging of
the fire a stack of chimneys gave way, and falling upon
oue of the Artillerymen killed him. On the muster-roll
of the Marines being called four or five were missing,
and fears are entertained that the bodies of some of
them will be found under the ruins. The origin of the
fire is thought to have originated from some careless-
ness in turning off the gas, but this is not known for
certain. A largo portion of the property destroyed is
reported to be insured. Wo regret to add that Captain
the lion. M. Stoplord sustained an injury to ono of his
eyes while engaged in directing his men, but it is hoped
that it is not of any serious character.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—THE ROYAL EXRIBITION.—A
valuable, newly-invented, very small powerful waistcoat
pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be
seen and known l 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 in-
valuable for shooting, deer stalking, yachting, to Sports-
men, Gentlemen, Gamekeepers, and Tourists.—Te be had
at 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, observe, opposite the
York-hotel. Telescopes—A new and most important in-
vention in Telescopes, possessing such extraordinary powers,
that some, 3i inches, with an extra eye piece,
show distinctly, Jupiter's Moons, Saturn's Ring,
andre:
li
Double Stars. With the same Telescope, weighing only three
ounces, distant,
nnede every
ounces, can be seen a person's countenance 31
supersede
and all
and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They
other kind for the waistcoat pocket, and are of I
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ca
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can
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Race-
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Solomons, Opticians, have invented
Spectacle Lenses, immediately they
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its youthful, natural, and original state. The Invisible Or-
fcoustic instruments for relief
eAe-street, ob-
ganic Vibrator, and
39, kindsAlbrmarl o
of extreme deafness.
serve opposite the York Hotel.
THE PROJECTED ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH TO
An[ERICA.—Some further consideration appears to have been
given to a project, which we some time ago noted, for a line
of telegraph, partly submarine and partly overland, between
Europe and America, rid Iceland and Greenland. The route,
it is said, has been partially surveyed by two young engineers,
Messrs. Harrison brothers, who appear to consider the pro-
ject as practicable. How they propose to overcome or
obviate the tremendous submarine influence of icebergs in
Greenland or elsewhere, we do not know. The mere length
of line, we think, might be no great obstacle. The Danish
Government are said to be favourable to the scheme, and are
willing to render every assistance as far as the route crosses
their territories.—Budder.

APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The
preliminaries of a marriage are on the tapis, to take place
about Christmas, between the Hon. Edward Bellew, son and
heir of Lord and Lady Bellew, and Miss Bryan, only daughter
of the late Lieut.-Colonel George Bryan, of Jenkinstown, in
the county of Kilkenny. The bride elect will, it is said,
bring a large dowry to the house of Barmeath.

A MINISTER IN OXFORDSHIRE.
dllelientl'sreesrehlect;:lgt t°ife. ul t°urTlofarireclatoll ! sends him to Perifteaße,nll in the
hcaosuhletyeewn
which following is the speech
of
Tthhies gßeingth!ectiluA.t J. W' UTIIEN—LFY M P said—To a
free-born Englishman to meet a large4' and" independent
and irfluential body of his coahlntrymen upon any great
public occasion must be at,
gratification and pleasure; but wt,lllies. matter of high
in addition to that,
a meeting is called to do especial honour to humbleb in-
dividuals like myself and my co
doubly a matter of gratification,
to imagine itieliate•°•re.
—(Cheers.) lam eot so weak aSP
individual
can
ia my: elf or my colleagues can giveny
to us, or can have a chance of ei ;
b*.v.ng to us, any such
, of comiort,
an honour; but I know that vve are indebted fir it
cause, to
to the cause with which we have been long atso-
ciated—a cause for the sane of which many of us titve
made considerable sacrifices of time, of etiSe
and of everything that a man values most---a
uphold which Ido not now appear for the first time be-
fore ituudreds of my fellow-countrymen in this town_
and a cause which yet, by the blessing of God, as long
1 as I live I shall hope to see flourish and be maintained.
—(Cheers.) My Honourable Friend who proposed
this toast to y our notice has called your attention
to many subjects, and, among others, to the opposi-
tion which We encountered at the last election.
Vexatious as that opposition was, I am sure it was
mainly so both to myself and my colleagues, because
we felt that for no earthly purpose, and fur no '
fair, honourable, legitimate cause, were you called from
your business and occupations at a time when it was
especially inconvenient to you, to enable you to show,
as you did, with an unanimity which—l will not say was
not to be expected, because I knew how an appeal would
be responded to, but with an unanimity which I be-
lieve will do much to teach the people of this county
what the true feeling of this county is and has been;
and I hope it may have the effect of preventing such
vexatious proceedings in future.—(Applause.) As I
before observed, upon any occasion a person who has
the honour to represent a large and independent
county like this, must feel the highest pride and gra-
titude in meeting such an assembly; but for myself,
personally, I cannot but feel that I have other
causes of thankfulness. I have heard the mea-
ner in which the health of Lord Derby, the leader of
the Conservative party in the House of Lords and Prime
Minister of England, has been received; I have heard
the manner in white the health of Mr. Disraeli, the
leader of the Conservative party in the House of Com-
mons—both of them members of a Government of which
I have the honour to be one—has been drunk by ycu;
and I cannot but feel that I have especial occasion, there-
fore, to express to you the deep sense of gratitude and
high exultation I entertain at teeing so large and so in-
dependent a portion of my countrymen assembled to-
gether to support and do justice to the principles of that
Government.—(Loud cheers.) There are special reasons
why, at this time, I should feel that pride, and I shall
not hesitate to advert to them, because if ever there
was a period when the press of this country, almost
from one end of it to the other—some of it actually
in the hands of the parties who were not themselves able
to conduct the Government of the country, and another,
not uninfluential part of it which generally delight to
abuse everything, even the proceedings at public dinners
and public meetings—has ?united to oppose the Govern-
ment of the day, it is the present.—(Hear, hear.) To
oppose it, and for what? Not for any act it has done,
but because it has what they call "no principles." Now.
if I understand anything of the feelings of the gentlemen
assembled, that Government has received, and will re-
ceive your support because you believe it has principles.
—(Loud cheers.) As this has been so much and so
loudly insisted on—echoed, I may say, from one end
of the country to the other—l shall, with your per-
mission, if I do not trespass too long on your time,
endeavour to trace out a little what have been
the principles of that great party with which I have the
honour to be associated, and what are, and will con-
tinue to be, their principles to the end.—(Applause.)
It is not so many years since but we remember the for-
mation of that great party. We have been told, in-
deed, at public meetings, that the whole nation is for
the Queen and the House of Lords; but it is not so
long ago that the House of Lords was threatened with
an inundation, and some forty or fifty new Peers were
introduced to control them. Public notice, also, was
given to the Bishops to set their house in order. Then
at our meetings we did not hear so much of all par-
ties being of one mind about the House of Lards.—
(Cheers.) I rejoice to say that, for her Majesty and the
monarchy of this country there has always been but one
feeling, any party holding a different opinion on that
subject being so contemptible as to be absolutely be-
neath notice. The exalted virtues of the lady who is
now Queen place her in a position that no person would
for a moment question. The institution of royalty itself
receives additional strength iu this country, where for
so many centuries it has flourished, from the lustre
which she reflects upon it.—(Loud cheers.) The next
subject in order, which did not follow with any halting
steps, was the confiscation of the ecclesiastical property
of the country to secular purposes. That was the mat
measure in order which the Conservative party refused
to have anything to do with. They set their faces
against it, and Lord Derby left the Government
with which he was connected because he would not
sanction that transaction, and would not purchase the
support of the Irish priests and their nominees by being
party to such a bargain.—(Cheers.) I ask you, gentle-
men, is there no principle in that; and I ask you whe-
ther those men who have so assailed us as having no
principle have lately conducted themselves in such a
manner as to give you any warrant for doubting th it
should another Lichfield-house compact be entered into,
they would be ready to join it for the purpose of re-
gaining power?—(Cheers.) The next question which
followed, and which shook the then Whig Reform Go-
vernment to its centre—the question which first gave the
Conservative party a tie, or a majority of ono (I forget
which), in the House of Commons—was whether the
people of this country, by the aid of the State, should re
ceive a religious or secular education. Now, I ask you is
that a question of principle, or is it not?—(Cheers.)
Are children to bo taught that " the fear of God is the
beginning of wisdom," or are they to receive a merely
secular education, and be let loose to pick up their reli-
gious principles where they can? That was rho first
question which shook the Whig Government and laid
the foundation for the accession of Sir Robert Peel to
power. I ask if that principle does not still remain in
all its force, and whether the same party who wanted to '
introduce it twelve or fourteen years ago, aro not now
again ready to proceed with the same measure? There
is another question which it is very convenient for those
parties to pass over in silence. What, I wish to know,
were their opinions with regard to the maintenance
of the Reformed Protestant Church in Ireland?
Read the speeches of the late Prime Minister, Lord
John Russell, in the Elouse of Commons, in 1844 and
1845, upon Mr. Ward's motions for doing away, or, as it
was termed, " dealing with" the Irish Church, and tell
me whetber the persons who opposed those motions by
their votes and speeches, were actuated by principle or
not?—(Cheers.) Now, I am not going to shrink from
any of the great public questions which are before the
country.—(Cheers.) I have gone through these which
are of all time, and which are not to be altered by thit
or that change of Government. They are of all time,
and the men who have them will hold them to the end,
while those who have them not will be constantly nib-
bling and bringing them forward bit by bit, as they
did the appropriation clause when out of office; though,
when they find they can held power without it, we
hear no more of it.—(Loud cheers.) What happened
in 1840? The Whigs then proposed certain great
commercial changes, and their proposals did, no doubt,
lay the foundation of all the changes which took place
during the next seven years. These commercial ques-
tions had never in this country before been made party
questiOns. No party had ever before been formed on
those questions, but men of both sides voted indifferently,
according as their feelings and judgment led them.
The late Sir R. Peel's Government was the first that
hounded on the country upon those questions. They
were the first, in 1841, to make them an electioneering
cry. In 1840, when those gentlemen were in OW'
sition we heard a great deal, and they taught all 7po.
o
trusted in them to believe that there was
thine unholy in buying sugar which tfra::olar2vlo.
produced—that it was irrelieious and m
Well, was that changed in 1846, when they sup-
ported the Whigs in carrying the very measure wince
they themselves denounced ? Surely, if it were wrong
in 1845, it could not bo right in 1846, and men will be
disposed to ask themselves whether those gentlemen
were sincere in the opinions which they entertained.
Five or six years passed on, and great changes were
effected in 1846, and because the 250 gentlemen, form-
ing, perhaps four-fifths of the great Conservative party,
who had held those principles uninterruptedly and un-
broken from 1832 and 1833, when they first formed
party, did not suddenly, and without reason assigned,
turn round on all they bad previously believed, and say
that it was wrong to do that which in 1840 they had de-
clared to be right, but chose to say, " We see no ar-
guments or reasons to make us change our opinions,
and we wish to see the operation of those great mea-
sures upon the community at large before we give our
assent to them;"—because they take that course, people
turn round upon them and say, " They have no prin-
ciples." If that be the case I do not know what a prin-
ciple is.— (Cheers.) We have been accused before and
since of this, and have been asked what right had we to
any share in the government. That is a question which
I may almost say has been yelled out from ono end of
the country to the other. The government did not
wasfall
into our hands from any motion of our own. Itin
the hands of what is called " the Liberal party,' who,
having a large majority in the House of C"aamersso'
abuses us,
,
cer-
tainly, so straugely managed their affairs
dis-
gusted the nation—the same press whiochansowit
does
mind you, abusing them quite as much .
that on a motion which they themselves, at the
icom-
mencement of the session, declared. n the Queen's
Speech to be of the greatest consequence to the safety
of the nation, they were defeated. Having riot been
backward in blowing up the panic which then prevailed
about a foreign invatton, at all events, it not blowieg it
up, taking no means to lessen the alarm which was telt,
men
Lanibdelrableglitenvethi3 could not muster 150 men to support
ustly felt, throughout the country, those
the Bill which they wanted to bring in.—(Cheers.) Bitewas that all? They did not even choose to try with a
second measure, but actually hit, up the Qucett's hu.si-
n es
to telte care of itself. Accord-
ing to doctrine
e countrytrin e nobody
was fit to take tho govern-
ment unless he had been in office before; but it so hap-
pened that no other men were in that position except
thdeilref' dtt
themselves—(Hear, hear, and laughter)—therefore
they left the Country in this dilemma—either they
were to continue ia everlasting possession of the reins
of power, or hit up the Government when they took a
pet, or whenever they pleased, and then say, " There is
nobody fit to take the Government because he has not
been in the Government before." Well, but that is
not a very convenient position for the country to

THE ARMY.
GENERAL ORDER.
Dept4-Adjutant-General's-office, Woolwich, Sept. 25.
Lieutenant-General Viscount Hardinge cannot sepa-
rate hitabblf from the office of Master•Gcneral of the
Ordauce Department without expressing his best thanks
to the Board officers, to the General and other officers of
ranks,
as well to the gentlemen of the civil
of the department, for the zealous support and
aabbrnaleucahes esistance he has at all times received from them
during the period he has presided over this important
department of the State.
Lord ilardinge is confident that this department will
alvveys maintain the high character it has achieved by
its conduct in the field, and for its scientific and skil-
ful r.-aangemerats in providing the various equipments
on which the efficiency of the navy and army so essen-
tially depends.
In taking leave of the officers, civil as well as
he will
mili-
tary, he begs to assure them of the deep interest
always feel in their welfare and honour.
H. D. Ross, Deputy-Adjutant-General.
GENERAL ORDER.
Woclwich, Sept, 29.
The following General Order from the. Horse Guards,
dated the 27th instant, is promulgated for the informa-
tion of the Royal
_G
General Order.4
Horse Guards, Sept. 27.
" i
to appoint Colonel Richard Airey
to be his Military Secretary, his Lordship desires that
the correspondence of the army may be addressed
hat officer, conformably to her Majesty's regu-
inge, Comrnanding-in-Chiet.
nThebee Lnie pleased to
Commanding in Chief,
hating
through t
lations.
"By command of the Right Hon. General Viscount
Li ard
" G. BROWN, Adjutant-General."
GENERAL ORDER.

" Woolsvieb, Sept. 29,
The following General Order, issued from the Horse
Guards on the 28th inst., is promulgated !or the infor-
mation of the Royal Artillery:—