The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-20 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SEN.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3, 1863.
Sins—Having endeavoured to convey to your readers
briefly—probably in an inefficient manner, but neither
lightly nor inconsiderately—my opinion upon what may be
called the active anti-British sentiment pervading the
" prominent," and as they call themselves " ruling politi-
cians " of the Northern States, it was not toy intention to
volunteer further remarks on that particular point. How-
ever, the last mails from Europe have brought here the
reports of speeches made in Great Britain, by members of
our Government, as well as by one of that denomination
of the representatives of the Washington Cabinet known
as the " quasi Envoy,"
Without it being necessary to quote at length from, or
to refer more than generally to the details of the " ad-
dresses" of our Attorney-General and Mr. H. Beecher, it
will be seen by any person who reads the speeches alluded
to, that upon one point there is, to a great degree, a coin-
cidence of opinion between the exponent of British policy
and the semi-official agent of the governing politicians of
the Southern States.
Mr. Beecher states what he must know is contrary to
fact—viz., that general good feeling towards " Great Britain
and the British" is the rule in the Northern States. Sir
R. Palmer gives, I admit, a " safer" opinion, but an igno-
rant one :—" There is (he says) not that unfriendly feeling
toward this country on the other side of the Atlantic which
some seemed to think."
It may appear rude and dogmatic to describe the two
statements as I have done, but if persons volunteer
opinions upon matters of importance to my countrymen
relative to matters of fact in this country, and which
opinions a nearly three years' experience here of " men,
manners, and things," enables me to declare are erroneous,
I really am obliged, for the sake of required brevity, to in-
dulge in no circumlocution.
I have tither object nor intention to follow those who,
for party or other purposes, try to " make things pleasant,"
which had much better be known in their reality, and looked
in the face.
If Sir R. Palmer had been delivering an opinion upon a
strictly legal matter—even if a lawyer, I would have been
diffidentin contradicting him; but I am certain that if he
had taken the trouble to collect fair "evidence" upon the
"case" in question, instead of stating to his audience—as
he did in effect—that "some persons" exaggerated the ill
feeling towards England, stated to exist on this side of the
Atlantic, he would have been obliged, in truth, to admit
that any exaggeration, in the ordinary sense of the word,
could be hardly possible.
It is my wish to inflict on your readers and myself as
little in the way of any disquisition upon the "feeling" or
"sentiment" of the majority of persons in the Northern
States, as possible. As to the Southern, not having been
there, and under the peculiar circumstances of their case,
it would be presumptuous in me to refer to them on the sen-
timent part of the matter further, at present, than to hope
that the future impartial historian will be able to describe
to his readers, that the course pursued towards the South
by our country has been consistent with our international
precedents; and that the working of that always baneful
thing called fanaticism, together with the more indirect
action of various pecuniary " interests"—forming a part,
but only a part, of the nation—have not, inter alia, led to
115 pocrisy in "some," and to injustice in many," on our side
of the Atlantic."
There is one circumstance which may possibly
have
escaped the notice of those who have loisftetnheadto,orread,
the assertions of those quasi
diplomacy (and in that category I include that small Washington
por-
tion of the " British" press, and the political organisation
in Great Britain and Ireland, which, very common report
states, are afflicted, a subsidised ramification of the ruling
political parties and factions of the " U.S.A.") and that
is—Why, if there is so much good feeling towards Eng-
land as these clerical and lay quasi-envoys allege,do they
signs
not produce to their British audiences some and
tokens of it ? wily do not these " practical men," when
they return to their country, at least deprecate to their Ame-
rican audiences the senseless violence of the anti-British
feeling which they admit exists among some of the news-
papers' and some of the " orators," and so forth ?
As a matter of fact, I defy any one of these quasi-envoys,
or their friends in England, to show that in this country--
say for the last two years--there has bsen one bona fide
effort made by any public man to do anything, by speaking
or writing, of a sustained nature to create any good feeling
in the minds of the American people towards Great Britain
and the British,
If there are the "thinking, sober, second thought" people
in the U.S. that Bishop M'llvaine, Mr. Weed, and Mr
Beecher wrote and talked of, why do they " make no sign?""
However, it must be admitted—and assuming there is
"free speech" in this country—that if the roost frantic
hatred of our country and people is the general character-
istic to which the masses of all political classes of each sex,
and of every age, have either worked themselveos,orpbueieun.
worked into, we British may wonder and regret it for both
nations' sake, but we cannot formally or officially om
But what I do complain of is the organised attempt to
humbug my countrymen which has been, and is being,
practised.o
1 must admit it is difficult for thosewhon
lknowd
the truth in this country to read with reasonable tempern
the assertions made as to the " good feeling:, to England.
Such may exist in the minds of the quasi-envoys, or in the
moon, but assuredly has no place in the politicians in the
aggregate, or in the majority of the people of the Northern
States—that is, if words and actions are criterions.
One of these demi-diplomats—Mr. Thurlow Weed—has
been often talked of, and described by himself and others
as having rendered " immense services" to the cause of thb
Washington Government when in Europe. Although most
of your readers never, probably, heard of the gentleman
it is a matter, now, of published American history, that he
was despatched by the Washington Cabinet, with Bishop
ll'llvaine and Archbishop Hughes, each in his way and
,i district " ,o propagate the " good cause and Abraham
Lincoln," as one of the semi-official press in New York de-
The will of Sir William Bellaire, Kt., late of scribed it. Mr. T. 'Weed probably affords a tolerably fair
specimen of the " material" considered necessary for, and
Malbarton Lodge, Norfolk, and of Oakley-square,
of the course pursued Washington quasi-envoy, and
London, was proved in the principal registry by his
- therefore I shall conclude 3 this letter by a necessarily (for
son, Edmund Hooke Wilson Bellairs, Esq., power post) rapid sketch of this one out of the many so-called
being reserved to his son, 'William Bellairs, Esq., diplomats sent, as they are described in American phrase u
B
also an executor. The personalty was sworn under logy, to "instruct John Bull and the female B 11., ' °-
£40,000. Sir 'William married, in 1822, Mary, It was announced in sundry Northern journals, in and
about January, 1862, that " Mr. Thurlow Weed was to go
daughter and heiress of E. Hooke, Esq., of Malbar-
to England and France asa diplomatic agent." Having
ton Lodge. He was Exon of the Guard, 1837-49 ;
well
.
inquired from personsacquainted with the "pro-
formerly Captain in the 15th hussars; and served vincial" politicians, I was informed Mr. Weed was con-
in the Peninsula, and at 'Waterloo, where he was sidered one of the most astute and able " managers ;„
or,
wounded. Sir William attained the ago of seventy, as they are named, " wire-pullers "of the New York State
and executed his will in 1858. After making some Legislature, and the right-hand man of Mr. Seward in
pecuniary and specific bequests, he leaves his pro- domestic-political managements as to elections, and so on.
party amongst his three sons in certain
It was also stated that he had rendered many under oblig a-
proportions , i
tions to him, n the matter of contracts, k.c. Be this as it
bequeathing the residue of both real and personal may, at the period
mentioned (January 1862), a letter ap-
estate between his eldest and youngest eons, who period in the various journals, Mr. Weed's own amongst
are his executors. the number, stating that be had o')served the references to
The will of John Bowyer Nichols, Esq., of Han- him, ascribing a sort of official character to his intended
ger-hill, Ealing, Middlesex, and of 25, Parliament- "visit to Europe," but that it was a mistake, that he in-
street, was proved in London on the 6th inst. by his
tended going, but only on his own affairs." Well, he did
80138 and executors, John Gough Nichols, Robert g
o and at intervals there were letters in the journals here
'
from him,mentioning, among many things that are now for-
Cradock Nichols, and Francis Morgan Nichols, gotten by me, but which can be referred to if it were neces-
Esqrs. The personalty was sworn under £360,000. sary, as I kept all the newspaper notices, that he was re-
The will is purely of a family nature, dated 1860, ceived "in the highest society with the greatest cordiality,"
and has three codicils, dated 1881-2-3. The testator that Earl Russell had favoured him with several interviews,
has left his property amongst his sons and and that not only he found persons in England inclined to
roportions, describing the make things pleasant, but ththat ho had managed to make
daughters, in various p them still pleasanter
Washing-
estates and properties each are to possess,
ton Cabinets. This was makingasfeabout te chaeusseubsotfan
tcheee
of
NtVhaes heinof.
a liberal provision for his unmarried daughter, munications, ss far as the public were concerned, that
and a further provision for his other daughters reached here until the return of the "quasi-envoy,'' as
beyond their marriage settlement, and appointie g he at length admitted himself to be, to New York
1862. " Ovations," "serenades," and the
his three sons residuary legatees •; his eldest son iu June,
to receive all his MSS. and to select works from otherl der
amdons,,trartairoanisnanust
"prominent"
arrive this
icoulnt,rya,
his private library to the value of £2,000 ; also some pgorepeutead Mr. Weed.P Your readers willpronbabalry excuse my
presentation-plate to be held as heirlooms. referring further to the speeches made on those occasions,
The will of "William Tooke, Esq., late of Bedford- except that they appeared very satisfactory to all " eon-
ciwtiehoere
was proved in London, by the cerned,"
row, Russell. Square,
I 'lliain Tooke, E
executors, Arthur 'VI sq., the son, One of the journals stated, that
Washington
and Wm. Hol!owes, Esq., the personalty being never be known outside, and onlyisir Win
Weed had rendered
To his son he leaves his his county
twhat imltmisentsreuesearlvlictehse
ne.syspapers were not so
"probably.tbe it would
sworn under £140,000.
real estates, situated in Essex, Harts, Middlesex, compolimernyt'aTy; one or two asserted Mr. Weed was nothing
and elsewhere, and all the residue of his personal but a " jobber" as he always was, but that ho merely went
&e. cheap, to sell them in,
To his two daughters are left bequests to make money by buying rifles,
property. dear. Nevertheless, all parties
in addition to their settlement on marriage, and to and to the "U. Sl.,"e
each of his nine grancichildren a legacy of £2,000. Bull."
agretedththe abtetl\tlerr.efVjedhvneNrvyas a very "smart man," and had
Legacies are also left to several other members of
personal friends. " got
two months since, a long account appeared in what
is called the Government organ here, the New York Times,
his family and to
Wand that the statement of Mr,S t e w art marjori. obviously- furnished
isbnyga tohateh 'ea'
energy,
oubt ages:,-,(elnipvrroe ylv .le In'e
prevented
(I stated
the
d Fa,h,nry: among
banks's will contained in our impression of the 31st ve r y many oatchuetrntehs
nit, was in some iespects incorrect. Mr. Marjori-
dGipovloemrnament remonstrating on the subject of thee
property was sworn, as stated,
hreeremwinaadedathe. French minister (Count de
fleet," and the intended but abortive effort to choke ups thene
banks's personal
by his will he bequeathed harbours of the Southern States, and mentioned incident
under £lOO,OOO, anci
the daughters. of his bArio-
legacies of £2,000 each to .
oribanks and ally that
,h,ethhtad,
chreandcy England had not
there, the late Sir John Mai,'
fewr. bMee°nrngYa)ilty of in order to extend
was steeped up to the armpits inertheemibillions," that "she
Edward Matinribanks ; and after 12aki,ng
somesome old
specific bequests to other relatives and I,:' of all unarmed Sepoys," and the account proceedseodteof
otherinnocent,
specific
by him
Ewmt such effect, that the intended article in the
and valued servants, he divided the residue ,8 congenial..ahnd relevant arguments stated to have give
used
,Ilep,,eartor's address to the Senate, &c., remonstrating
his other property equally between his nephe..
and executors, Edward Marjoribanks, jun., and
against
~._ ,
_one fleet" was not only struck out, but (Mr.
Fro-
Dudley Marjoribanks, M.P., he received praise from French ministers,
Bushey Grove. The
landed property in Herta passed, by entail, to his Weed stated)
and certainly reui,"ed applause Jroin "politicians" here for
brother Edward.—lllustrated London News.

MAJOR-GENERAL CAMPBELL'S
PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF THIRTEEN
YEARS' SE KVICE AMONG THE WILD TRIBES OF
KHON OMAN, for the Suppression of Human Sacrifice.
" Major-General Campbell's book is one of thrilling inte-
rest. and must be pronounced the most remarkable narrative
of the present season."—Athenaeum.

Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

Now ready at all Libraries,
ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL.
Fourth Edition, in 2 vols., post Bvo.,
r
ACHEL R A Y.
By ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly.

MR. CHARLES LEVER'S NEW SERIAL.
In Monthly Parts, is.,
LUTTRELL OF ARRAN.
By CHARLES LEVER.
(No. I. December 1.)
Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly.

Now ready at all the Libraries, crown Bvo., price 65.,
BEAUTIES OF TROj'ICAL SCENERY,
and Other TROPICAL POEMS. With Notes.
By the Author of " The Nuptials of Barcelona."
" This work contains many beauties."—Morning Post.
"The amatory passages are worthy of Thomas Moore."—
Critic.

"Eminently snooessfnl has the writer been."—Sporting
Review.

London: Robert Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly.

NOTICE.—ETON SCHOOL DAYS will be
ready at all the Libraries on Wednesday, Nov. 25. In
one vol., post Bvo., price 10s. 6d.
London : John Maxwell and Co.. 122. Fleet-street.

NOTICE.-A TERRIBLE WOMAN ; OR,
STRONG AND TRUE.—The New Novel, by AUSTYN
GRAHAM, will be ready, in two vols., post Svo., price 2 is.,
on Wednesday, Nov. 25.
London: John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street.

NDTICE.- AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN
ENGLISH DETECTIVE, by WATERS, will be
ready at all Libraries, in two vols., post Bvo., price 21s.
London : John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street.

Early in December will be published, in Two Volumes Bvo.,
printed with old-faced type, on Hall's best tuned laid
paper. Portrait. Ornamental binding.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BERTRAND
DU GUESCLIN. A History of the Fourteenth
Century. By D. F. JAMISON, of South Carolina.
London : Trubner and Co , 60, Paternoster-row.

PUBLIS LIED BY HER MAJESTY'S GRACIOUS PERMISSION.
MEDITATIONS on DEATH and ETERNITY.
Translated from the German by FREDERICA ROWAN.
Svo., pp. 386, cloth boards, price 10s. 6a.
DITTO. Smaller Edition, crown Bvo., printed on toned
paper, PP. 352, price 6s.

DEDICATED, EY PERMISSION, TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS

THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
THE LORD'S PRAYER. Illustrated in a
Series of Etchings by LORENZ FROLICII. In one hand-
some quarto volume, appropriately bound in cloth, price 15s.
" M. Frolich's ' Lord's Prayer' (with an etched dedication
plate and prefatory plate, and ten etched designs illustrative
of the text) is dedicated to the Princess Alexandra, as in duty
bound, the artist being a loyal Dane, and is about to be pub-
lished in this country. It is a work worthy to be laid at the
feet of so fair and gracious a lady. . . Nothing is more in-
genious in these designs than the way in which tee earthly
and the heavenly are combined and contrasted."—Times.

DEDICATED TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS LOUIS

OF KESSE.
MEDITATIONS on LIFE and its RELIGIOUS
DUTIES. Translated tr,m the German by FREDE-
RICA ROWAN. Published by Her Majesty's gracious Per-
mission. Being the Companion Volume to " Meditations on
Death and Eternity." One Volume, Svc., price 10s. Bd.
DITTO. Smaller Edition, crown Svo , printed on toned
paper, pp. 338, price 6s.

DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION OF HER MAJESTY, TO
H. R. H. THE PRINCESS BEATRICE.
New Work by the Illussrator of "The Lord's Prayer,"
"Illademoiselle Lilii," &c.,
In 1 vol., small 4to, handsomely bound in cloth, price 55.,
THELITTLE DARLING at the SEA-SIDE.
A Series of Drawings by LORENZ FROLECH. Text by
her Mamma.

London : Trubner and Co., 60, Paternoster-row.

, This day, Never Before Published, price 28.,
BEL DEMONIO. A LoVE STORY.
By PAUL FEVAL,
_

Author of "The Duke's Motto."
London : Ward and Lock, 158, Fleet-street.

IT ALIAN cHUR CH,
22, HATTON-WALL, HAT TON-GARDEN.

Next SUNDAY, November 22, High Mass, at 11 a.m.
Music—Mozart's No. 12. Offertorlum—" Da Domino Cor
Tuam," Mendelssohn.

Vespers, with full orchestra, at 7 pam—Zingarelli's " Lau-
date," Novello's " Salve Regina," cherubini's "0, Salu-
taris," Lutz's "Tantum Ergo."

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(,• cYSIA.I--FER
Vif
EXPERIMENTS AT 5110t1317txx,1:14,71;KA4.
i 4( -niz4
/ _ate , 1, •
A preliminary trial of Sir William ArtnsU77,, 4e4720
monster gun, lately manufactured at Elsciiisk-=•
the War Department, was made yesterday at Shoff a s
buryness, with the most satisfactory results. The
day was all that could be desired. A slight mist •
out at sea lifted just before the experiments com-
menced, and the sun shone out as clear and as warm
as on a spring day. The wind, too, which in. the
morning was somewhat cold and biting, moderated
into a gentle breeze setting across the range, pia
sufficient to watt away the smoke from the mouth,
of the gun.
Sir William Armstrong's gun weighs over 2'''
tons, and is mounted on an ordinary gun carriage
of great size and strength. Its length over all is
dlsi
atmt . , e
ttehrat of h
is
i 3 at.3ei bore
andbeingis 2r
filedf t Its
o.
nthei‘ inter:
shunt-
ing" principle. The grooves are 10 in numher, and
turn once in 65 calibres. In its construction it
differs but little from the other large muzzleelead-
ing guns manufactured under Sir William Aim-
st,•ong's direction, consisting of a number of coiled
tutio of enormous strength shrunk one upon thee
other: The thickness of the walls of the gun at
thet
cech is 2085 inches, the total diameter at the
r u ons
• 'tieing 55 inches. It carries a conical cast
iron hollow'.
ot
beaded shot,weighing 5101 b., or a shell
of ordinary ant:
traction weighing 6001 b., and ca-
pable a bursting charge of no less
The charge used yesterday
pthaabnle
4 ofo he. po uft a p t:e
cm
with shot was 70. b., with Obeli 60Ib.
meAncltehd at oughhaltf-hpeaset loxpernt
,
thee first
until after 12. By the time every wy
hed the
experiments
t shot were to a
nas read
ot whs
a v not t fire
the interest of the spectators hadt s of
hiergeae
On
highest pitch, and it was amid exclamatt
• to it and
surprise and wonder from even veteran artille
than the men serving the gun put in rists
rammed home first the powder, looking e
a tolerable boloter, and next the conica.•
cast-iron hollow-headed shot, measuring nearl Y
30 inches in length by 13.3 inches in diameter, anandi
weighing as much as a small family. The shot s
first. placed in a cradle anti lifted to the mouth of
the gun by means of movetele shear legs provided
with blocks and pulleys. The cradle hinges on to
a couple of hooks on the mouth of the piece, and,
holds the ponderous shot in the ill 'oper position for
being rammed home. Though t•`18
gun looked
strong enough to have borne loading' to the muzzle,
the spectators naturally ensconced that,
,selves be-
hindbreastworks about
the traverses and the place,
taking care to choose positions commandiiir a full
view of the targets running out to sea acroOs the
well known wastes of sand. The gun was given., one
degree of elevation, and the word passed that all
was ready. The last bugle call was sounded, and
the great gun was fired for the first time. The
ponderous shot burst from the mouth of the piece'
with a terrific rush and roar, striking the sand at
about 700 yards from the shore, leaping and dash-
ing onward, ricochetting five or six times, and
finally burying itself near the 4,000 yards' target.
A rush was of course immediately made to the glen
to see its condition, An attentive examination,
however, soon proved that not the slightest injury
had been sustained by it in any part ; in fact, that
it was what every one knew it would turn out to
be—a perfect piece of workmanship. Two more
shots were then to be fired at the same elevation,
the second and third reportsbeing apparently rather
less loud than the first. It was a matter of frequent
observation during the day that the report of this
gigantic piece of artillery was much less than its
size would have led one to predict. The next three
rounds were fired at an elevation of 2 deg., after
which followed three at 5 deg., and three at 10 dog.
Three dead shells weighing 6001 b. each were then
fired with charges of 601 b., a3oolb. round shot with.
a charge of 701 b. completing the day's experiments.
The acuracy of the firing is also a very remark-
able feature. The deviation, as will be seen from
the following results of firing each round, was un-
usually small :
Round Charge. Elevation.
Shot. lb. Degrees.
1 70 1
2 70 1
3 70 1
4 70 2
5 70 2
6 70 2
7 70 5
8 70 5
0 70 5
10 70 10
11 70 10
12 70 10

THE CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRA-

LIAN MAILS.

4-
The Peninsulto and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Ripon, Captain E. Christian, arrived at
Southampto❑ at noon yesterday with the heavy
portion of these mails. She brought 78 passengers
(viz., 29 first-class, 35 second-class and aervants, 11
children, and 3 deck). On freight she had £12,473
2s, 6d. in specie, 830 bales and 10 cases of silk, 8
cases of plants, 21 packages of elephants' tusks, 4
casks of wine, and 145 packages of general mer-
chandise.

The Ripon left Alexandria on the 7th inst., Malta
the 10th, and Gibraltar the 15th. Between Alex-
andria and Malta she experienced northwesterly
winds, with occasional heavy squalls, accompanied
by rain and thick weather; from Malta to Gibraltar
strong variable winds, with heavy squalls, rain,
and thick weather; and the remainder of the
voyage light airs and fine weather.
During the passage home the following steam-
ships were spoken by the Ripon :—Nov. Bth, the
Ceylon, lat. 33.5 N., long. 24.35 E. ; 9th, the Vectis,
lat. 34.25 N., long. 20 E.; 11th, the Poonah, lat.
37.32, long. 9.50 E. ; 15th, the Iberia, off Tarifa ;
and 16th, the Florida, off Cape Roca.
At Alexandria on the 7th were the French fri-
gate Perdrix and the usual Egyptian fleet.
Her Majesty's ships Queen and Gibraltar were
at Malta on the 10th, and the Racoon, Redpole, and
Procris at Gibraltar on the 15th.

The Swedish frigate Vanadis, Captain Haver-
man, 43 days from Cariscrona, calling at Copen-
hagen, Portsmouth, and Lisbon, arrived at Gibraltar
on the 12th instant, and remained there when the
Ripon left. On her arrival the frigate saluted the
garrison with 21 guns, which compliment was re
turned immediately from the saluting battery, and
she also saluted the Swedish Consul with nine guns.

The Spanish screw sloop Concordia, 2, Lieut.
Campos, left Malaga on the sth inst., for the penal
settlement of Melilla, baying on board M. A. Merry
y Colon, the Spanish Cnarge d'Affaires at the Court
of Morocco, the Spanish Consul, and two Moors.
She also carried 85,000 dollars from the Morocco
treasury to indemnify the Riffians, and terminate
the difference regarding the limits ceded by the
late treaty.
The Spanish papers contain an account, extracted
from the Cuba journals, of the destruction of a Spa-
nish steamer by fire, attended by fearful loss of life.

In its main features the story has a great reseal
blance to' that of the Amazon, which was burn'
some years ago on her voyage from Southampton
to the West Indies. Like the Amazon, the Spa-
nish steamer (the Mexico) was on her first voyage.
She was plying on the line between Vera Cruz and
the Havannab, and left the former port on Oct. 12.
On the following day, when 90 miles from land, be-
tween Capes Catoche and San Antonio, a fire broke
out in the cargo and spread with great rapidity, baf-
fling all the efforts made to check it. The account of
what followed is derived from 16 persons who were
saved in one of the boats. They say that they suc-
ceeded in launching one of the boats and getting
clear of the ship; that they lay off at a short dis-
tance, some 40 or 50 yards, in order to save others
who might have courage to throw themselves into
the water. The scene on board in the meantime
was most heartrending. Seventy passengers were
left on board ; the flames were rapidly spreading
over the vessel, driving the poor creatures for a
short refuge to the poop. The shrieks and gestures
of despair of some were mixed with frantic and con-
fused efforts of others to save themselves. Theso
last, acting under the influence of terror and despair,
and without order or method, defeated their own
object. One boat that was lowered was dashed to
pieces against the accommodation ladder. Another,
when lowered, got loose from the tackles and floated
away empty. A third, which remained alongside,
was sunk by the numbers who jumped into it. A
few minutes after this last catastrophe the whole
ship was a mass of fire, and after a short time filled
and went down. The 16 persons who had got away
in the first boat endured great hardship, and were
five days without provisions. They at last reached
the shore between the River Legarto and Cape
Catoche. Here they fell in with a boat which con-
veyed them to Sisal.
The following British merchant steamers had
arrived out at Gibraltar :—Nov. 7, the Sicilian, Cap-
tain J. Groome, 91 days from Liverpool, for Palermo
and Trieste ; same day, the Marathon, Captain W.
F. M'Arthur, 7 days from Liverpool, for Malta,
&c.; 9th, the Poonah, Captain J. S. Field, 4 days
21 hours from Southampton, with mails, for
Malta and Alexandria ; 11th, the Britannia, Capt.
J. Mullett, 13 days from London ; 12th, the Coper-
nicus, Capt. R. Godsoe, 61 days from Liverpool, for
Malta; 13th, the Ella Constance, Capt. W. Riches,
10 days from Newcastle, for Alexandria ; the Lon-
don, Capt. W. G. S. Hall, 8 days from London ; the
Tiber, Capt. W. Trant, 61 days from Liverpool, for
Palermo and Messina; 14th, the Dom Pedro, Capt.
Tannock, 16 days from Glasgow, for Salobrena ; the
Dido, Capt. W. Abbott, 61 days from Liverpool,
for Genoa, Leghorn, &c. The following sailing
vessels, all laden with coals for Gibraltar, had also
arrived out :—From Cardiff—the schooner Alpine,
T. Walker; the bark Ocean Spray, W. Snowden ;
the bark Belle, I. Bell ; the schooner .iEron Lass,
J. Jones; the bark Jubilant, R. Golightly; and the
brig Promise, G. Adamson. From Swansea
the schooner Belwelty, J. 'raid. From Sunderland
—the bark Pearl, D. Theodorsen.
The bark Caractacus, Capta.sJs.p
oAndrews,ken on
t the
ef
land
h
from Shields for Barcelona, w
inst., all well, 25 days out, by the Jubilant, arrived
at Gibraltar on the 11th. The bark CoronE.,lla, of
Sunderland, from Swansea for the Mediterranean,
24 days out, all well, was spoken on
the
Belwelty; arrived at Gibraltar on Bth by the
the 9th. The brig
Ada, of and from Sunderland, for Alexandria, 25
days out, all well, was spoken on the 7th off Cape
Trafalgar, by the Alpine, arrived at Gibraltar.
The French schooner Aigi e, Captain L. Madec,
which arrived at Gibraltar
the Spanish cutter Abelian
on the 10th inst., bad
her with only one boy oni ro inrd tow, having
miles N .
ff found
Spartel on the Bth.
an Italian bark on The Abelina was run into by
from the night of the 7th, name un-
known,ardiff. The crew of the cutter
jumped overboard and swam to the bark, the mas-
ter, it is supposed,
The Abelina being drowned in the attempt.
was leaky.
The Italian bark Resita, Captain P. Qaeirolo,
from
Genoa, arrived at Gibraltar on the 13th inst.,
having on board two of the crew* of the British
schooner Calpe, from Marseilles, with salt for the
River Gambia, with which vessel the Resits had
been in collision at 4.30 a.m. on the 11th.
The British brig Lisbon rolled her ingst oci.
board in a heavy swell off Cape Sines on tisi
lvletr e
about
50 and on the 13th she was taken ie. tow,. b.
efu ig
on the fol-
lowing miles north of Cap© Si. Vincent, by
Nina, and on their arrival off Apes' into the bay by
lowing day they were both towed
the steamtug Lion Bel
wee.
Gibraltar exchanges re quoted as under on the
14th :—London, 96 days' date, 491 to ; ; Paris ditto,
5f 260; Marseilles, ditto,' Of 27c; Genoa, ditto,
of 28c ; Madrid,.eight days sight, 4 prem. ; Cadiz,
ditto, par to dis. ; Seville, ditto, par to s dis. ;
Malaga, ditto, par to prem. ; Barcelona, ditto,
prem. ; Almeria, ditto, par ; Valencia, ,ditto, par;
Alicant, ditto, par.

yards.
748
785

DeviatrOn.
1 left
1-5 left
on line
1 2-5 left
on line

789
1,160
1,148
1,184
2,400
2,338
2,308
4,080
4,176
4,187

on lino
4 left

on lino
on line
Leta

on lino
4 loft

60 5 1,880 2 left
60 5 1,898 3 3-6 left
60 5 not found

RoicluithdShot
31G GO 1 9GO 3 3-5 left
Up to the sixth round the initial velocity was
taken by Captain Noble with the very ingenious
electric-balistic apparatus invented by Major Navez,
of the Belgian army. The mean initial velocity as
determined by this delicate instrument was found
to be as possible 1,200 ft in a second.
The last round was not fired until nearly dark.
Thus ended one of the most important and inte-
resting series of experiments ever performed at
Shoeburyness.
Before the party left the ground the gun was again
most attentively examined, but not the slightest flaw
could be detected by tho most critical artillerist
present.
et of larger size is being built to test the
target
A g
during
n
smashing capabilities of the great gun, and will be
comThpelerteedwienreab
presentout t h rdeuc weg eks.
the
day
Gen. Tulloh ,
Hay til.andthemiii
Gen. Decree, Colonels Lotto
Heath, Sir Wm. Armstrong, Mr. Vim. Fairbairn,
Y 1 Davies, Bingham,
Majors
and Anderson,
and many other notabilities Millman,tary Canapdtairt
en-
gineering world.
The gun was easily served by a party of 20 men.
At first, not being:ace
ustorned to such a monster, the
men worked rather 8l
to their work the Slowly, but as they became used
pat last succeeded in abridging
the space of time Tho between the rounds to 10 minutes.
destructive powers of " Big Will" (as the
monster
might well be
christened) will be enormous.
A shell with a bursting charge of 401 b may be
readily fired from it, the largest charge yet used in
a shell being, we believe, no more than 81b.
To-daya
series of
experiments will be made to teat
i the powers of the gun lately manufactured at Wool-
' wish on the principles advocated by Mr. Lynall
i Thomas.

O No GIBES'
wir,co.-
,{ ntAdarable, and
No HOME complete without a
SEWING-MACIIINE. Simple, compact, efil—e ,dre' etas of a
noiseless. Warranted to fulfil all, the e ono application at
perfect family machine. Prospectru.l '-'
No. 135, Regent-street, W;--EA°T . i full-length model of
HUNT, THE POISONER oisoned his wife and
. -
this notorious criminal, who
who
hlatelyhims p
elf took p ,is now
cam of
oison
two children in a cab, and Physiognomy, in,
added to Madame Tussauel,
Chamber
Baker-street.
--
~A new tenor, M. de
PARIS THEATRioALD
at the Theatre Lyrique, in
Querey, is to PP
a- -ear ugalde 0) for Reiza.—A new
" Oberon,"
with , Madame
derbeek, has appeared at the Italian
Adalgisa, Mdlle.
Norma of Madame de La Grange. " Les
Opera, to the
Carthage;--, by M. Berlioz, a grand Homeric,
Troyeas a
with a
prologue (two other acts, includ-
ing in five acts,
opera, ' of Cassandra, and the entry of the
prophecy
the . havinm been retrenched), has been pro-
Wooden horse in .
~ . ,
, a
the Theatre Lyrique,Paris. montme,
pro-
duced at
acts, by AL Octave Feuillet, the principal part
play in five
of which is
acted by M. Lafont, has just been produced
with the greatest success at the Thilatre Gymnase, Paris.
—" L'Aieule," by N. Dennery—a ghastly story, in its in-
cidents apparently resembling Sir Bnlwer Lytton's
..Lucretia"—is drawing all "the town" to the Ambigu.
_But "the news of news" is that the Emperor has an-
nounced free-trade in theatricals.
COLONEL CRAWLEY'S MODE OP CURSING, accord-
ing to his own exquisitely naive explanations:—
" In no single case can the most virulent of those brought
forward as evidence assert that I ever ' cursed,' or swore at.
or otherwise denounced or consigned to perdition, or uttered
imprecations against, any one, be he oflicer or soldier,
under my command. The utmost they have been able to
say is that I have said—' By God, gentlemen,' &C.; 'De::
my heart,' &c.; ' D—n me,' &c.; but in no one f
can any one of them assert that I have ever utteredi:uch a
and phrase, as that for which Captain Weir requiredtain
weir.,
~
ob-
tained an apology, viz., ' D—n your eyes,
Captain
live colonel
There is something very quaint in seeing a real
the
old
Jo,
take credit for following
if filler—" Don't damn my eyes, damn year
is also amusing to see how instinctively
recognises the fact that he is not under his own command.