The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-14 00:00:00

ETENING, OCTOBER 14,

MALLING.—We are picking as fast as the weather
will permit us. Average acreage estimated at 10 cwt.
BOUGHTON IMIONCHELSEA.—SO far as we concerned,
there is nothing against us but the weather, Nvhich
prevents our getting on with the picking so fast as
we could desire. In many gardens the crop is
very heavy, while in others they come down light.
Duty 260,000/.
SUTTON VALENCE.—We are injured by the wet
weather, but the hops are very good. Average from
11 to 12 cwt.

EAsT FAILLEIGH:—NearIy finished the picking;
hops good in quality as well as quantity ; average
acreage 12 cwt. Duty 260,000/.
TENTERDEN.—The picking around and about is
now nearly brought to a close; in many places they
have already finished; what few are left are going
off very fast, owing principally to the late very heavy
rains with which we have been visited; upon the
whole, however, the crop this year bas been excellent
both as to quantity and quality.
GOUDHURST.—A few planters have made a finish.
They have found the produce fully equal to their
expectations. Mcre will wind up during this week,
but there are several plantations in which the poles
will not be pulled until the latter end of next week.
The rain last week inundated the bottoms, driving the
soil from many gardens.
SEVENOAR.S.—Picking is very nearly closed in this
neighbourhood. The crop has been excellent, but the
late rains have done some injury.

HINCKFORD AGRICULTURAL CLUB.
POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT.
CASTLE HEDINGHAM, OCT. 10.— Yesterday the
annual meeting and dinner of the members of this
Conservative club took place at the hotel in this
village. The leading members mustered in consider-
able strength, and great anxiety was evinced with
respect to the forthcoming Ministerial policy.
At the dinner Mr. 'W. Saville Onley presided, and
was supported by the Right Hon. W. Beresford, M.P.,
Mr. C. Du Cane, M.P., Mr. Miller, M.P., Captain
Bullock, Mr. Vicars (brother-in -law to Lady Ray-
leigh), the Rev. John Cox, &c.
The customary toasts of patriotism and loyalty
having been duly honoured.
Mr. VICARS proposed "The Health of her Ma-
jesty's Ministers."
The toast was drunk with all the honours.
The Right Hon. W. BEaESFOED rose to respond,
and was greeted with enthusiastic applause. He
spoke nearly as follows :—Mr. Chairman and Gentle-
men, The toast of "Her Majesty's Ministers"
,ounds somewhat extraordinary to the ears of Castle He-
dingham meeting. I have attended this meeting now
for several years, but this is the first time I ever heard
it proposed.—(A laugh.) If it has been delayed for
a long period, however, I must say that the enthu-
siasm with which it has been drunk on the present
occasion ought sufficiently to satisfy us of the kindly
feeling which the members of the Hinckford Agri-
cultural and Conservative Club have towards a Go-
vernment which, though lately installed in office, has
long been a friend to the agricultural interest, and
allied in its feelings and sympathies to the people of
Essex.—(Cheers.) I wish that the task of returning
thanks for this toast had fallen into the hands of one
more capable of responding to it from his position in
the Ministry, or who might feel that he was less
maligned than I have been, and that he might return
thanks for the Government without drawing upon
his head, from some hostile journal, words of obloquy,
because thanks were returned by my lips. The
Government, you may depend upon it, are desirous,
in every situation, and in the position which each in-
dividual occupies, to do their duty by the country,
which has called them by its " general voice," I say,
ta displace a Government which was universally ua-
p)pular, because inefficient, and to take the reins of that
Government into theirown hands, although those bands
were fresh and unused to such a task.—(Cheers.) That
Government, you may depend upon it, will try to do
thei, best, and I think if you look at the short period
duriig which they have held the reins of office, you
will ind that they have not flinched during that short
periol from doing their best to improve, at the same
time that they have maintained, the ancient institu-
tions 6. the country.—<Cheers). That Government
has notdrawn back from effectual, efficient, and true
reforms where they were necessary. They will continue
to axercse that just discretion in pursuing reforms
where thy are necessary, but they will stand by the
constitutah,
and will maintain the institutions of the
country, le they civil, military, or Protestant, with
a fervour Ind a determination which I trust the people
of Englandwill
respond to by their approbation and
support.
—(lear, hear.) It has been said, and I say
untruly said, that her Majesty's Government came
into office upm the principles of protection, and that,
having come is upon those principles they have adopted
the tenets of tleir adversaries, and have seized hold of
and are ready to carry out all the dogmas of free trade.
I deny that position is' tot°. I know no reason that
any man has tosay that the Government are Free-
traders; and I seay the other position also, that they
did come in in he slightest degree upon the princi-
ples of Protecticse That is a strange thing for us to
say, but it is not the less true.—(Hear, hear.) There
were causes whch operated and produced it; but
for one whole yea. preceding our assumption of office,
we did not as a party, not did any individual—
acknowledged as a leader of that party-.'-bring for-
ward one single notion in which Protectionist mea-
sures were in On slightest degree involved. How,
then, can it be sail. that we came in upon the princi-
ples of Protection? I deny it.—(Hear, hear.) In
the year 1851, fir a very short period, we were
andwhat was the
John Russell was
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of Commons upon a ques-
tion of Parliamentary Reform—beaten by his owr
friends, and resigned the reins of office. Well, we
—when called on form a Government, which we
could not have comeseplated—were accused that we
came in upon the Fri3eiples of Protection. But no,
we were called on t);:orm a Government because Lord
John Russell was unable to manage his own party, or
to stand,
ani
and
hisLo Lord
eni parliament.o sse llreturned
and resumed We failed in that
object
the reins of power, and they remained a feeble,
wretched, tottering xdministratiois,luntil he got rid,
by I think unfair aid underhand means, and in an
ignoble manner, of be mainstay and great sustain-
ing power of his Covernment. He cast over that
most talented man :,ord Palmerston—he cast over
the man who still shei a lustre over his feeble Admi-
nistration, and he found that he had cast off his own
right hand when he Tared to go into the battle with-
out his armour.—(Cheers) He found, when he
brought forward his Militia Bill, that the only man
..
who could have direct.d it and carried it for him was
againag
ainsutphoinnor,haendmLiilotri! J. Russell was turned out
Will any man of com-
mon sense then say, Nylon we caine.in at that moment
and formed a Government, that we did so on Pro-
tectionist principles ? The word Protection" was
never mentioned except incidentally once, and then it
was not received. I sea then that when we came in
in last February or Mach, we came as a Govern-
ment tekiug up the rein; that bad been thrown down
without cause or justice. We came in at the
command of her Majesty to support her in her
just prerogative, and not to allow the official bu-
siness of the country to be thrown into the hands
of Sir James Graham aid his Irish associates, or of
Mr. Cobden and the Manchester school.—(Cheers.)
Therefore I say we honestly and truly may declare
that the first proposition which was advanced is un-
founded and unjust. We did not come in upon Pro-
tectionist principles, or upon a Protectionist motion,
but we came in to do the duty of the country at the
bidding of the Sovereign; and while that Sovereign
and the country uphold us, we are determined to
fulfil those duties ; and the country, I believe, is fully
satisfied with the manner in which they have been
performed up to the present moment.—(Hear, hear.)
Whether or not free-trade principles have been
adopted no man can really state, except by looking
back at what has already occurred in Parliament. It
is impossible for any men connected as we are with
the great agricultural party, not to see that while
great, and, I honestly declare it, considerable advan-
tages have flowed from the adoption of free trade to
many other interests in the country, yet that those
evils which I and others predicted have resulted to
the most important class of the country, viz., the
agricultural class.—(Hear.) It is impossible to deny
that that class Las been suffering, since the measure
of free trade was adopted, in a degree very nearly,
if not fully equEl to all that we predicted ; and that,
too, in spite of 411 the noble and disinterested efforts
of the owners and occupiers of the land to maintain
y
their position by their own exertions, and to endeavour
by every
chance
mosta easily, as ifl g t
oinjury
great
to meet the evils which resulted from
that measure. That the effects of that measure and
the disastrous results of recent legislation might be
most
o efficaciously,
other
interests, a nd
remediedth e least
by the adoption of a moderate fixed
duty on corn,
which would at once be a means of revenue to the
Country, and of a slight protection to the native
grower, who has a right at least to a fair equality
with the foreigner in his own market, is an opinion
which I have ever stated, and one which I honestly
and fairly declare I still adhere to. That was the
opinion of the Prime Minister, as we all know, in the
commencement of the present year ; that it. continued
to be his opinion even late in the present session we
can know from his having openly and honestly de-
clared it in the House of Lords.—(Hear, hear.) But
Lord Derby did proclaim to the country that, as a
general election was at hand, he thought it was
more fair, under all the circumstances tinder which
he was called to the a/ministration of public affairs,
to leave the decision of that point to the
constituencies of the country, and to promise to abide
by the verdict which those constituencies should re-
turn upon that subject. That verdict has been taken.
By the office—if I may call it so—or rather by the
situation which I filled so long for that party—l am
too well acquainted with the lists, majorities And

minorities of the Commons, not to be able in taking
up a list of the Parliament which has just been re-
turned to perceive that there is a decided majority of
Members in the Lower House inimical to the feeling
and measure of protection to agriculture. If I differ,
as I certainly do, from the wisdom and justice of
their views, yet, notwithstanding, I must acknowledge
that I myself and those who think with me are in a
minority, and I ask—is it wise and prudent, when
you see you are in that minority, to force forward a
question which can but involve those whose interests
you wish to the utmost of your power, and at every
fair risk, to uphold—is it wise, I say, to force that for-
ward when you can gain no advantage by it, but will
bring considerable evil—heavy blows and great dis-
couragement upon other interests which you also are at-
tached to ? They say—it is a Scriptural phrase—that it
is useless "to kick against the pricks ;" and I firmly
believe that in this instance, if we were to stir this
question, rnd moot it in an unfortunate moment, we
should only throw further back the interests of those
for whom we would make any sacrifice. There are
other interests in the country, some of them nearly as
high, others higher still, which would be endangered
if we were to moot the question of protection when we
cannot attain it. Are we to run the risk of sacrific-
ing the Protestant institutions of the country by
bringing in Sir James Graham and his Irish bri-
gade?—(No, no.) Are we to run the risk of bring-
ing the Monarchy itself in peril, by bringing in Lord
John Russell and the democratic principles which you
have beard alluded to ?—(No, no.) These are ques-
tions which every honest agriculturist is bound to ask
himself ; and having done so, he should pause before
he forces his representatives, however willing they are
to act, into a battle which could bring him no good,
and where his retreat might be most difficult to cover.
The adverse journals—those journals which for years
have advocated the principles of the Manchester
school, which have derided all the evils of the agricul-
turists, and which have mocked the distress of the
farmers—have lately, I perceive, been holding out a
desperate bait to a distressed farmer to turn in pi-
teous clamour against his own friends. It is hardly
to be supposed that those free-trade journals have
adopted that line because they are repentant, or feel
any real good will to those whose miseries they
mocked. I believe myself that wfaat they wish to
do is, to raise the ire of the farmer, and to persuade
him that those who are really his best friends are not
so true to his interests as they profess to be, in order
that he may turn round upon those friends and put
them in that awkward and disadvantageous position
that they may not be able to hold the reins of office,
and so let in the very men who have hitherto been
the greatest enemies of the agricultural interest, and
who have injured them deeply, would, if they were
returned to office, only be adding insult to their in-
juries. Depend upon it the resumption of power by
the Whig party, backed as it must be by the assistance
and addition of the members of the Manchester school,
will be but a signal for more heavy blows and greater
discouragement to the owners and occupiers of land.
Be not deceived farmers—be not led astray
by the false lulls of traitorous friends ; but remember
that there are vet in store more and more evils to be
pulled from the Pandora box of Whig misrule, if you
bring back to power Lord J. Russell and the family
clique we have displaced. Lord John Russell has
been lately on a tour of agitation—he has been sound-
ing the tocsin against us in the north—he has been
bidding high for every assistance that he can get to
turn us out on the re-assembling of Parliament. The
democratic principle, we know, is one which may
bring fearful results in its train. It is one which,
out of power; the Whigs are ever ready to take up;
but certainly I must say that when they are in
strength and power they eschew it as much es any set
of Tories ever did, and are as aristocratic and domi-
neering a set as ever held office. But that democratic
influence, if promulgated by them in opposition,
however aristocratic their tendencies may be, when
they come back to power will be too strong for them ;
and the men who out of the House adopt such doc-
trines, and praise and bolster up such influences,
must succumb to their force when they come into
power.—(Cheers.) They cannot darn up the cur-
rent which they themselves have let loose, and they
themselves will be smothered and annihilated in the
force of the torrent.—(Hear, hear.) Lord John
Russell, at Perth, also stated that the agricultural in-
terest had for years been kept alive by the use of
strong stimulants. If, by strong stimulants he means
those laws which were repealed by the Free-traders
in 1846, then let Lord John Russell and those that
support him remember this, that at that period there
other laws in force which I consider to be strong
stimulants, and which the Free-trade party did not
when in power also repeal. If protection laws were
strong stimulants to the agricultural interest, what, I
ask, was the effect of the money laws, which Sir R.
Peel brought in in 1819, with regard to the monied
power?—(Cheers.) They, I consider, were strong
stimulants. They were stimulants without which
the monied power never could have domineered as it
has done over the agricultural and landed power.
They were stimulants which Lord J. Russell was
fully aware of; and holding power as he did for six
years, from 1846 to 1852, he still left them upon the
statute book, in disparagement and in the face of his
own statement at Perth. that strong stimulants are
not the line of policy which he could praise e. aaeps.
I believe they are strong stimulants.—(Hear, hear.)
I wish not to injure other men's property, but if
strong stimulants are not allowed for the landed
classes, I say they should have been stopped to the
monied power. The Government which is now in
power will, I trust, in a short time mature those
measures (to which I am not admitted) which may
rectify that class legislation, for such I maintain
those laws are.—(Hear, hear.) They may remedy it,
and I trust they will. They may bring forward mea-
sures of greater justice to all classes. They may, and
I trust they will, bring forward those which will be
particularly adapted to the relief of the most dis-
tressed portion of the empire.—(Cheers.) I trust in
the integrity of the head of that Government. I
trust implicitly in the talents of many members of
it ; but, great as those talents may be, I fearlessly
and honestly trust in that conscientious belief which
a Government called to power in the manner they
were, and assuming office as they did, must feel, and
will feel, in all that they carry out.—(Cheers.)—lf
they proceed, they will deserve the gratitude of all
classes ; and if they fail,. I trust they will return to
their private stations with characters undiminished,
with reputations untarnished, and, above all, with
consciences free from the infamous remembrance of
having undertaken offices which they were unable to
fulfil, and having given pledges which they have not
redeemed.—(Ttee Right Hon. Gentleman resumed his
seat amidst vociferous applause.)
The CHAIRMAN then gave " Prosperity to the
Hinckford Agricultural and Conservative Club."
The Rev. J. Cox acknowledged the toast, and en-
tered into a lengthened detail of the circumstances
connected with the election for North Essex.
The proceedings terminated with the toasts of " The
Committee" and " The Stewards."

1852,

day after that on which the Duke died; a meeting •
had been called, a candidate fixed on, a messenger
dispatched ! And yet these very men tallk of un-
due precipitancy and want of delicacy. We trust
we have proved the charge of breathless haste not
to belong to Lord Derby's friends. Let us next
do away with the impression that Lord Derby
owes his nomination to the party that met at Oriel.
They were not his friends, whatever they would
feign themselves, nor did they bring him forward.
Who did? The meetings at Oriel were no secret.
The decision that those who assembled there had se-
lected the Duke of Newcastle was whispered about;
and next, the mission, voluntary or deputed, to the
Duke, was hinted first, and afterwards affirmed to be
a fact. Late in the afternoon seven or eight members
of Convocation who happened to meet on business,
hearing what was going forward in the University,
resolved to give the Convocation generally an oppor-
tunity of expressing its opinion. They were, too,
unwilling that a small party arrogating to themselves
the power to elect a Chancellor should be allowed to
dictate to the whole body, and they accordingly re-
solved to address the Earl of Derby and ask his
Lordship's permission to propose him. There was
no time to be lost. One of the gentlemen went to
the venerable President of Magdalen, and found him
not only ready to lend his name, but decided in his
opinion that Lord Derby was the nobleman most
eligible for the Chancellorship; so on that evening
they issued the following notice, with 21 names,—all
they could muster on so short a canvass :
" OIPORD, SEPT. 16, 1852.—The undersigned
members of Convocation, believing the Earl of Derby
to be eminently qualified for the Chancellorship of the
University, invite all those who are of the same opinion
to unite with them in a request to his Lordship that
he will allow himself to be put in nomination for
that office :
Martin Joseph Routh, D.D., President of Magdalen.
Henry Foulkes, D.D., Principal of Jesus.
B. Jenkyns, D.D. Master of Balliol, Dean of Wells.
Philip Wynter, President of St. John's.
Benj. Parsons Symons, D.D., Warden of Wadham.
John Wilson, D.D., President of Trinity.
Junes Thompson, D.D., Rector of Lincoln.
Philip Bliss, D.C.L., Principal of Sc. Mary Hall.
B. Bandinel D.D., New College, Bodleian Librarian.
Thomas Henry Whorwood, D.D., Magdalen.
Richard Higgs, D.C.L., Fellow of St. John's.
Richard Michell, 8.D., Liucoln, Public Orator.
S. Reay, 8.D., Alban Hall, Laudian Prof. of Arabic.
Thomas Short, 8.D., Fellow of Trinity.
Philip Duncan, M.A., New College.
Edward Wetherell Rowden, M.A., New College.
Washbourne West, 8.D., Fellow of Lincoln.
George Augustus Browne, M.A., Magdalen.
Henry Mender Roberts, M.A., Magdalen.
John Ell& Robinson, M.A., lradham."

, .
This was followed by a request that all who as-
sented to the proposal would send their names to the
Public Orator. _ _ _

On the following day six names were added :
Charles Atmore Ogilvie, D.D , Canon of Christ
Church, Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology.
Thomas Whale, 8.D., St. John's.
William Dyke, 8.D., Fellow of Jesus.
D. V. Durell, M.A , Christ Church.
Harris Smith, M.A., Fellow of Magdalen.
Edward John Chaplin, M.A., Fellow of Magdalen.
By this time the first circular became known, and
on the 20th, 48 additional appeared, among whom
were—

Thomas Gaisford, D.D., Dean of Christ Church.
Richard Lynch Cotton, D.D., Provost of Worcester.
John D. Macbride, D.C.L., Principal of Magdalen
Hall.

Rob. Bullock Marsbam, D.C.L., Warden of Merton.

On the 21st about 60 gave in their adhesion, and
the movement being generally understood, names
were added day by day, till the number exceeded
1,200, and was increasing rapidly up to the day of
election. After this statement, does the Earl of
Derby owe his proud position to the Oriel meeting ?
Nothing can be more true than at the third meeting
at Oriel College, holden after the circular dated the
16th had appeared and was doing its work, the Bishop
of Oxford, well knowing that all opposition would be
hopeless, contrived to obtain a reluctant vote from
those assembled in favour of Lord Derby; but this
was a measure of sheer expediency. We have no de-
sire to promote ill•feeling, but there are not wanting
some who speak in no measured terms of complaint as
to what took place on that third meeting, and the
means that were employed to stifle opposition. With
this we have nothing to do. The Bishop of Oxford's
name was appended to the invitation to Lord Derby
on the 24th, so that allowing it to have been two days
in coming from Cuddesden to Oxford, it was sent at
least a week after the first movement was made. So
much, then, for the breathless haste of Lord Derby's
friends ! So much for the early support given his
Lordship by the Oriel meeting!—Herald.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

OFFICIAL VISIT OF THE LORDS COMMIS-

STONERS OF THE ADMIRALTY.

DEVONPORT, WEDNESDAY.—As stated yesterday, the
Board visited the dockyard as early as nine A.M. They
were received by the Commodore, Superintendent Sey-
mour, and after transacting some business at the office of
the superintendent proceeded to an inspection of the
various storehouses, the building ships, the ships on the
stocks, &c., and other portions of the establishment.
At half past eleven their Lordships mustered the work-
Lecu, —ho worn granted tha till 0v...6,
occasions.
The Board then embarked in the commodore's barge,
and proceeded to visit the new steam-yard at Morice
Town. Mr. Baker, the contractor, was present, and
other persons connected with the works. The inspection
was of the closest character, and, judging from what is
said to have been the observations of their Lordships,
the importance of the early completion of such portions
of the works as will render those already completed
available to the service was generally acknowledged. On
quitting the works, the Board !proceeded to the screw
bans Pareil, 81, Captain Dacres, new steam line-of-
battle-ship. On leaving the vessel they returned to the
dockyard, and having partook of some refreshment at
the commodore's, the Duke of Northumberland com-
menced his levee, and continued to see officers until
five, when the levee was adjourned until one o'clock this
afternoon. The following are among the officers who
attended the levee:—
_

Rear-Admiral—Richard Curry.
Captains—Jeffery W. Noble, Edmund Young, Charles
Clarke, John Foote, Henry Timpson, Josiah Britain,
John Monday, Josiah Oake, Samuel Wriford, Charles
Hillyar, Charles Wise, George Woolcombe, Charles
Basden, Wm. Hillyer, George E. Patey, A. Luckraft,
W. F. Lapidge, F. H. H. Glasse, Jarvis Tucker, W.
Holman.

Commanders—Edward Herrick, Philip A. Helpman,
H. Bernard, Henry S. Hunt, Josiah C. Gill, Win. Walker
(a), W. H. Kennedy, Junes, Win. Speck, Fres. Per-
kin, Charles Patey,l J. B. Craig, Edwin Collier, Peter
Maingay, Chas. Chapel, Robert Masan, Thos. Shapcote,
Charles Hall, J. J. Rorie, Horatio Jauncey, John Rains,
Edward E. Gray, Samuel Morrish, Josiah Griffiths, W.
R. Nicolas.
Lieutenants—Edmund C. Doraville, Edmund Malone,
F. E. Budd, John Nicolas, James Yule, Thos. Williams,
Thomas D. Williams, Thomas Goss, W. E. Farmer,
Edward Youel, John Adamson, George. S. Bourne, Geo.
H. Blake, Francis Coull, Francis J. D'Agailar, John
Morshead, Richard N. Williams, J. Pitfieid, J. E. P.
Risk, James Smail, Edward Digby, R. B. Miller, Samuel
Tancock, Alexander Young, Robert O'Brien, Win. Lane,
Charles Boulton.
Masters—Georgo Giles, Richard Thompson, George
Biddlecombe, Jabez Loano, James T. Russell, Robert
C. Allen, Henry Thomas, Edward Rose, Chas. Graham.
Pursers—Thomas Shanks, Robert Henry Billion, Jo-
nathan Gain.
Royal Marines—Major Robert Leonard.
Lieutenants—Alfred D. H. Nepean, E. C. Doraville,
W. H. Moore, R. V. Allen, Dunn, Josiah G.
Shanks, &c.
In the evening their Lordships entertained the heads
of the several departments and a party of private friends
at dinner, at Moorshead Hotel, afterwards patronising
by their presence the ball in aid of the funds of the
Orphan Asylum.
Among the company present were—The Duke of
Northumberland, Sir Thomas Herbert, the Hon. Captain
Duncombe, Mr. Augustus Stafford, M.P., the Hon. Cap-
tain Pelham, Sir Baldwin Walker, Colonel Green, Sir
J. Heron Maxwell, Bart , R.N., Admiral Sir J. A. Om-
manney, Captain Lowe, Mrs. Lowe, Miss Ommanney,
and Miss Agnes Ommanney; Commodore and Mrs.
Seymour, the Misses Seymour, Lieutenant Sullivan, and
party; Colonel Green, Colonel Coryton, Mrs. and Miss
Coryton; Colonel Giles, Rear-Admiral Manly Hall
Dixon, Admiral and Mrs. Pascoe, Captain Rich, R.N.
(Victualling Yard), Captain Nias (St. George), Captain
Ramsey (Magicienne), Captain Mitchell, R7/I.' Cs tain
Hewlett, R.N., Captain Scott, R.E., and Mrs. 'Lott'
Captain Collier, Miss Collier, Miss Vigor, and Miss
Nooth; Captain Sydney Grenfell, R.N., Mr. Triscott,
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titude titude and good taste displayed on the occasion.
To-day the Admiralty visit the Royal Marine Bar-
racks and Victualling-office ; subsequently to which the
First Lord will resume his levee at the Commodore Su-
perintendent's-office. In the evening the board dine with
Admiral Sir J. A. Ommanney, K.C.8., Commander-in-
Chief, and according to present arrangements
quit this
place by the express train at 10.25 A.M.
We are sorry to report the death of Dr. Frederick N.
Slight, surgeon of her Majesty's ship Indefatigable. We
believe that accounts of this melancholy occurrence have
been received at the Admiralty, but we have not as yet
been supplied with the iSeIS.
APPOINTMENTS.
THE LEANHER.—The following re-appointments have
been made to the Leander, 50, at Portsmouth :—Lieute-
mint, Charles H. May; Paymaster, Robert Wilson;
Mate, James Hardy; Midshipmen, Lord
Edward H.
Cecil, Arthur Couburn, St. Vincent Luke; Naval Cadets,
F. M. Ommanney and Wallop Brahayon. The other ap-
pointments to this ship are—
Surgeon—Thomas I_l2F. a.lNev . owunl,avkiecean Ida W. Richardson.
llynnear
ASZiStaD ,-Surgeons
Navel Cadets—A. E. Dupuis and E. H. Altrey.
will be seen that in the appointments to the Leander
the first lieutenant, jaymaster, &c., have been reap-
pointed, but the burgeon has been superseded. The
surgeon of the Arrogant, it will be remembered, was
re appointed to that ship when the was recommissioned,
although he had only served in a brig before he was
appointed to the Arrogant; and duricg the service of

that ship in the West Indies he was cruising in f;110
squadron at home, whilst Surgeon Kinnear, of Idle
Leander, who has been superseded, has served in that.
ship during her whole arduous period of commissio a•
Dr. Gallagher may be a most efficient medical offict rt,
but his selection for re-appointment to the same obi P.
whilst others are suspended on re-commissioning, 13,
trays a favouritism which many think is ne just to th
seniors of the mtcliertl branch of the naval service. Tb
roster of Somerset-House evidently requires revisioi
and will, doubtless, be more closely scrutinized b. r
Whitehall than it has been of late.—Herald.

Paymaster—Thomas C. Thomas, Volcant
steam-vessel, coast of Africa.

Midshipman—J. E. M. Wilson, to the Agamemnon,
90, Sheerness.

Clerks' Assistant—John Kiddie, to the Victory fug-
ship, Portsmouth.

At the recent meeting of the Royal Cornwall Poly'
technic Society, held at Falmouth, the society's me 01
was awarded to Mr. Alexander Moore, foreman of sh
wrights in Devonport Dockyard, for improvements ja
the construction of screw-propellers of stecm•ships, a•nia
from the application of which considerable economy and
other important advantages are likely to arise.

PORTSMOUTH. W EDNESDAY.—Leander, 50, Captailt
G. St. Vincent King, was paid off, all standing this day,;
and will be re-commissioned to-morrow. A number of
her men will rejoin her.
Prince Albert, American packet ship, arrived at Spit-
head this morning from the river, and sailed again for
New York, with a fine casttrly hreese.
Daring, 12, Commander G. Napier, and Bittern, 12,
Commander Vansittart, were paid advanced wages on
Tuesday afternoon, and will sail for their respective
destinalions on Thursday.
Conflict screw steam corvette has been thoroughly
repaired, and will come out of the south dock on Satur-
day next, rind be taken into the steam basin.

inflexible, 6, steam-sloop, Captain Woo!ridge, which
towed round tho Duke of Wellington, has completed
her fuel, and taking on board stores for the Ditditer-
ranear,,

Desperate, steam-sloop, Lieutenant Commander
Stevens (act.) sailed this atternnon for Plymouth, where
she will rejoin the steam reserve.
Encounter, screw•corvette, Captain O'Callaghan, will
come out of the steam basin on Saturday ready for
service.

Ocean Queen, convict-ship, left Cowes to-day with
convicts for Australia.

Seaflower, cutter, arrived to-day from Jersey, to be
paid off. Her crew and lieutenant-commander are to be
turned over to the Mercury.

The Bittern, 12, Commander Vansittart, and the
Daring, 12, Commander Napier, were paid advance to.,
day, and will sail to-morrow for the East and West
Indius respectively.

The Ar.rogant, 46, screw-frigate, Captain Fremantle,
hauled out of the dock this morning to complete her
refit in the basin.

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Lords of the Ad.'
miralty will hold a second levee this morning, and after.
wards dine at the reiidence of the Port Admiral, Sir J.
Ommanney. Their Lordships attended the ball, held
last evening at Moorshead's Royal Hotel.
The Melbourne, Australian mail steamer, while under
weigh in the harbour, by some mismanagement came in
contact with the Pallas, coal hulk, and the Pike Govern-
ment steam-tug, which was lying alongside the Pallas.
The force with which the vessels came into collision wag
very great, and the shock carried away the jibboom of
the Melbourne, several planks from her bow, besides
her port cathead; and, altogether, inflicted such damage'
on this beautiful vessel, that it is feared some days must
yet elapse before she can proceed on her voyage. Her
passengers, of which a largo number were on board •
were thrown into a state of confusion which can
be better imagined than described. Irrespective of the
damage sustained by the Melbourne, the Pike steamer
had her figurehead carried away, and several injuries
about her bow. The Pallas coal hulk had also her bows
stove in. The vessels are now lying together, and it is
believed that artificers from the Dockyard will be at
once set to work in order to repair the damages sustained
by the Melbourne. The onus of the affair rests, it is
said, on the shoulders of the pilot, who, however, was not
in Government employ.
WOOLWICH, OCT. 13.--Th© Terrible steam-frigate,
Captain James Hope, C. 8., having been all cleared oat,
was paid off today at this port. She is to have neW
boilers, and undergo a thorough refit, to render het
again available for service as sooa as possible.
The Wasp steam-sloop, Commander Lord John Halt
will leave Woolwich at daylight to-morrow for Green-
hithe, to have her compasses adjusted, and then procrecl
to the Mediterranean, for service on that station. The
Marquis of Tweeddale paid a visit to Lord John Hsi
to-day on board the Wasp.
The Dee steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander George
J. C. Smith, is expected to leave Woolwich for the
Cape of Good Hope station about Saturday or Monday
next.
The Hercules, Commander Baynton' at Blackwell,
for the purpose of embarking emigrants for Australia, is
still short of petty officers and able seamen.
Captain Miller, Lieutenant Douglas, 2 sergeants,
corporals, and 62 privates, of the Woolwich division 0
Royal Marines, have received orders to proceed 10
Portsmcuth for service in the Leander.