The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-22 00:00:00

THE SUN',

for America, Australia, and indeed for the world.
That place is Sand Bay, an indentation of the coast
nearer to the sea than Portishead ; and the advocates
of this plan are not only strong in that unconcerted
authoritative reinforcement, but they point to many
inherent and collateral advantages. One essential of
a great dock should be its ready accessibility ; and
in this respect Sand Bay is somewhat better off than
Portishead, since it lies but a little way off the main
trunk of the Great Western, and between two of its
branches, those to Clevedon and to Weston-super-
Mare. Sand Bay is barely two miles from that
trunk line ; the new railway which would of course
be constructed might, for less money than the Portia-
head branch by Rownham-ferry, be rendered direct,
and more ample ; probably furnished with double
lines. The whole of the section of coast, therefore,
that includes Sand Bay would be provided with its
own direct branch and side branches to what
may be called the suburban wings that would
inevitably extend coastways from the docks.
On the other hand the bay is right opposite
to Cardiff, and within ten miles of that port, and
within fifteen miles of Newport ; so that its supplies
of coal, iron, &c., would be at a peculiarly handy
distance. The Sand Bay plan has the advantage of
larger space within the natural port—space enough
for a navy ; the bottom is a firm soft mud, harmless
to ships, easy to build upon:; and at low-water mark
there is a sudden depth capable of floating the largest
ship in the world at all tides. These are Kreat posi -
tive advantages ; but the scheme also claims some
scarcely less important negative advantages. Some
of the dangers darkly illustrious in the traditions of
the Bristol Channel commence exactly at Sand Point,
the upper natural pier of Sand Bay, and extend in-
vidiously enough to Portished : theshoalacnaidlleßdaythise
English and Welsh grounds" occupies that portion of
the Channel on the Southern coast. s
clear of that peril; it has exactly the , westing"
which is prized in the navigation. of the Channel, and
seaward it is obstructed by no difficulties to the voy-
as they are offered, by
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two plans,
their respective friends,. for
. public support. It is not
for us, on the first inspection of the two, to pronounce
which is the better.
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traders, to Portishead. Evident natural advantages,
and the prospect of a certain substantive sufficiency
itself,
to
might attract us, with the county people, to
Sand Bay. But the right choice ought to be deter-
mined by important facts, which are not yet before
u. s in their bearing on the two plans ; and it will pro-
bably be for Parliament to decide. The day has per-
haps gone by when corruption could decree its golden
dictates to Select Committees on private bills; and
this question, which possesses a more than imperial, a
cosmopolitan interest, will be watched too generally
and too keenly to be decided on any other ground
than that of the essential facts.—Spectator.

IRELAND.
THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD.

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With a few exceptions, and those in quarters
where no better could be expected, the Irish press, of
all shades of politics, has not failed to do full justice
to the memory of the illustrious Duke, whose death
is regarded by all right-thinking men as the greatest
public calamity of modern times. The sneer of the
ultramontane Tablet has been followed up by a Gal-
way paper (the Packet), which thus concludes its
obituary notice :
" The death of the Duke is a calamity for the British
oligarchy, who ever turned to his counsel with faith in
the hour of crisis. The great captain is dead, and there
is not an unmoved heart among those he worked for so
long and well, and there is not a tearful Irish eye from
the blue bays of Cork to the cliffs of Donegal. May
Erin never rear such another sun—to tarn his mighty
genius to the service of her tyrant. Peace and forgive-
ness to his immortal soul!"
Another Galway paper (the Vindicator) altogether
out-Herods the foregoing. No one will envy the
feelings of the writer who could pen such language

as this
" The Irishman, Wellington, has gone after the
Englishman, Peel—the two eyes of England are out.
Henceforth she will want—but we trust will not obtain
—lrishmen to guide her armies, and councils she will
be obliged to trust to her sons, who are destitute alike
of the eloquence of Burke and the courage of Wel-
lington—stolid, stupid, swinish Englishmen. England
is weeping over the coffin of an Irishman who was loyal
to Britain though a traitor to his native country. That
Irishman was the greatest commander that ever
led the British armies to victory. He was emi-
nently successful, and this because he had such
legions as the Connaught Rangers to fight for
England, whereas other commanders who mar-
shalled in other days the hosts of Britain were encoun-
tered in their great pitched battles by our brethren
of the Irish Brigade. Were we still following the
standards of France—were we still as of old shouting
Faugh-a-ballagh under the bright emblazonry of the
silken banners of hostile countries—were our exiled
countrymen shouting and bleeding, as a hundred years
ego, foremost and vociferous in the armies of the French
Monarch, as when they pitched their tents beside the
foaming Elbe and the rapid Iser—when they bivouacked
in the glens of the Alps, and bled upon the margins of
the Padus, what would have been the consequence? The
field of Waterloo might have been another Fontenoy.
There was not an atom of chivalry about the Duke. He
did what he was paid for, and he did it well; but he did
nothing more. There was no heart in his fighting. He
was the beau ideal of one of those Swiss commanders,
who led their countrymen under the standard of
the Dutch against the Hottentots or Carribs. He
was in a word a Dagald Dalgetty, without the vain
boasting of that hireling soldier. He served a commer-
cial people steadily, rigidly, soberly, regularly, just as
a commercial people like to be served; it was such
generals as Wellington—men of a trading, quakerly
turn of mind, without any of that nobility of character,
without a single particle of that ennobling romance
which extenuates the faults and endears the memory of
the Godfreys of old and the Murata of modern times
—men like Wellington carried the banner of Carthage
into the Bane* of Spain; such men as he were hired
by the trading aristocracy of Venice to fight for that
suspicious republic in Greece; such men as he, dry
and chilly disciplinarians whom fame unwillingly shines
upon,' led the troops of the great Harem towns.'
Dien like Wellington, traffickers in war, are precisely
the men whom a nation of shopkeepers are certain to
evolve—a man who manages his troops well, but would
evidently manage a counting-house better. Wellington
never laboured for a moment under the delusion that
makes young and genere.us hearts consider the pomp,
pride, and circumstances of war as something glorious
and ennobling. He was no boiling enthusiast—tie was
cold, rigid, and calculating—in a word, the Iron Duke.
He devoted himself to the English service, and they paid
him with riches; but now that he is dead they cannot
give him eloquent praise, for they are an ineloquent
people. They hired him an Irishman, to fight the
French—they would now require to hire another stranger
—a Canning for instance—to pronounce an adequate
funeral oration over his corse—tor the English boors can
neither speak nor fight as more gifted nations do."
ARCHBISHOP CIILLEP.I.—" Ills Grace" of Dublin
is at present on a visit to the " Bishop" of Ross, at
Cork. Both Prelates contemplate a short tour to
as
France, on business connected with the Irish College
in Paris.
'WART TEACHING.—One of the subjects regarded
with moat interest in the Cork Exhibition, recently
closed,
peculiarly original and novel, wet the edu-
cational apparatus invented and constructed by M.
Claude
Mathercel, French Consul at that city. The
is to
ob-
ject of
aratus, as described in the local jour-
nals,brief and simple
former systems render
. the teaching of children matter of
slow and ires'oemaccomplishment, instead of being the
rocess which an obstinate ad-
herence to
time.
e too frequently renders it
pupils
apparatus consists of
at the present
lute instructed in various
of knowledge?
models by which the pu
branches
notice of his Grace the Ar:Zrocteds
_the particular
hjs visit at the Exhibition, and I
receiubldin,the dueing
dis-
tinguished stamp of his
.upprov_,.
al The manner inwhich M. .Marcel 's invention operates
f knowledge, is, to accelerate the
acquisition 0 we understand
(among other important subjects
with education), clearly connected
elucidated in
work about to be published from the pen of ma
Marcel, entitled ‘, Language, as a Means of Intellec-
tual Culture and International Communication:,
The name of M.
The Cork Examiner adds--" Marcel
has long held a high and distinguished place in Co„
nexion with educational movement!, and the views
in the courses of
which he bee frequently expressed
ivered in this
lectures he has from time to time del
and his
city have been at once original, instructive,
h
gressive. We may mention, in connexion wi.tad the
apparatus which M. Marcel exhibits, that he hc!
Plan and fashion out himself many of the tools and
instruments necessary to construct his ingenious
models. The objects and the uses of those imple-
ments he explained to several of the cabinetmakers
and woodworkers of the city, by whom they were at
once adopted, thus bearing a practical testimony to
their merits and utility," M. Marcel proposes to
exhibit those models at the Great National Exhibition
next year, when the Dublin artisans, as well as
amateurs in practical mechanics, may anticipate the
same valuable exposition as that presented at Cork.
—Saunders' News-Letter.

CALIFORNIAN GOLD.—The export of gold from San
Francisco, for the month of July, 1852, was as follows:
Pan"le, per Columbia, 300,000 dolls. ; Panama, per North-
erner, 1,650,090 dolls. ;
doll S.
Palmetto, 17,0c0' Panama, per Oregon, 1,800,000
; San Juan per S. S. Lewis, 46,681 dolls. ; China, per
dolls.—total dolls. •, Manilla, per Kensington. 28,252
. 3,841,933 dolle. The entire gold product of
California since
the discovery of the mines is thus esti-
mated :—Estimated product to Dec. 31, 1851, 140,931,103
dolls. ; estimated product frotu Jan. 1. to June 30, 1852,
33,849,7 U dolle.--total estimated product to June 30, 1852,
174,780,877 "18,--San Francisco Paper.
THE POLICE zoit AIISTRALIA.—SO eager were the
men to accept of the
—eretaiy of State's offer, that in less
than two days the lists were filled u
men. p by good and active
s.
young It is the intention of Government also to ap-
point a police commissioner for the colonies to carry out their
object.