The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1863.

NEW NOVEL.
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
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Also now ready, in 3 vols.,
GOOD SOCIETY. By Mrs. GREY, author of
"The Gambler's Wife," &c,
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Now ready, in 3 vols. post bvo.,
THE CREAM OF A LIFE.
11 By a Man of the World.
"A ekver and entertaining book. We have read it with
pleasure, an I have but faintly indicate,i the stores of enter-
tainment it contains."—London Review.
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TARA: A MAH /LATTA TALE.
By Colonel MEADOWS TAYLOR, M.R.T.A.,

Author of " Confessions of a Thug," arc.
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EXTENSIVE EARTHQUAKE in ENGLAND.
This event, on the night of the sth October, was fore-
told in ZADKIEL'S ALMANAC for this year, p. 23, to
within three days. It is the third earthquake that has oc-
curred this year as predicted.
Rar The Almanac for 1564 now on vale, price 6d.
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11 H E 0X F 0
13, D,
6, OXFORD STREET, W.

THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections
from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE. CLARA, the
MAID of MILAN, and Bellini's SONNAMBULA.
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs.
Green, Bernardi, Huish, &c., with full band and chorus.

Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Flute Solos by Drew Dean, &c.

Comic, by UNSWORTII (" or any other man "), Eugene,
W. Randall, George Hodson, and those marvellous French
Clowns, Messrs. ARTHUR and BERTRAND.
Also, a Performance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his
wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain-
ing a full baud of 40 instruments.
The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated,
and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis.
Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, Is. ;
private boxes, 10s. 6d.

CANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order
to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasinz crowds,
Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro-
fessor Pepper and HenryDircks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral
Illusion, " THE GHOST," to the Concert Hall, where a
new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample
view of the Illusion from Stalls, Balcony, and body of the
Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give
(with all that gentleman's latest improvements and effects),
REPRESENTATIONS EACH EVENING, at half-past
Nine o'clock.

All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual,
including Operatic Selections, Sic. ; Comedy by Unsworth
(the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E.
Marshall, and the marvellous Arthur and Bertrand.

110 YAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The
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Grand Divertissement—Favourite Opera Selections—NlCO-
SlA, the eminent Violinist—RAPHAEL DE SOLLA. the
Infant Tenor—LANGLOIS, the Great Juggler. ,Every
Evening.
Doors open at 7—commence at half-past 7.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Great
Musical Attraction Immense success of SIGNOR
NICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every
Evening.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly.
The se elegant Rooms are NOW OPEN for the Winter
Season. They have been entirely redecorated.

Musical Director, Mons. Jullien, of monster concerts cele-
brity. The band is selected from the Cry.tal Palace, the
Italian Operas, and the Household Troops of her Majesty.
Doors open at 8 o'clock.
Admission, I s.

Manager—M. GRENET.

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THE GREAT SHIP.—A meeting of the commit•
tee of shareholders appointed at the special general
meeting of the Great Ship Company on Friday, the 2d inst.,
to confer with the directors relative to the best steps to be
taken to relieve the undertaking from its present embarrass-
ments, was held on Saturday, at the offices of the company,
in Monument-yard, City, with a view to the consideration
of their report, to be presented to the adjourned general
meeting of the proprietors, at the London Tavern, to-day.
It is believed that the report will recommend the immedi-
ate adoption of such steps as may best enable shareholders
to obtain some return of their capital, rather than that the
ship should be sold and then thrown into bankruptcy.
There are sheriffs' officers now on board the vessel, under
an Admiralty warrant, issued at the suit of the Brig Jane
capsized off Cape Clear, and whose owners demand compen-
sation to the extent of between £5,000 and £6,000.

OUR LADY NOVELISTS.—" Thirty years ago,''
says the Saturday Review, "no one could have •
believed what a brilliant future was going to open before
the eyes of Englishwomen, and what a lucrative and en-
gaging profession was about to be created for their benefit.
Authorship has introduced quite a new era in their existence.
If they can but write novels their fortune is made, and if
they cannot write novels they may write tales, or at the very
least they can surely write tracts, and advice to the poor, and
poetic musings. Th,are are heights in their profession just as
there aro valleys, and no one can despise authoresses in the
days of ' Adam Bede' and' Heart's Easo.' The authoress of
1 Adam Bede' goes, we confess, higher than we should have
supposed a woman could go, for she unites many excellences
that the world has hitherto thought reserved for met. If
there is another woman who has ever shown original hu-
mour in print, we cannot recall her to mind. ' Romola' also
makes it clear that she can enter into spiritual difficulties,
and can view the range of spiritual facts with a breadth, a
calmness, and an insight that we should, but for her, have
considered exclusively masculine. Miss Martineau, too,
though not very strong on subjects like these, shows that a
imuum can treat politics and political economy with inde-
pendence and good sense. In the walks that are more pe-
y their own authoresses every day show surprising
power. They especially
overcome set
ddifficulties, themselves
euit i toes , paintand
for
th contempo-
rary
English life, and they deserve the highest credit for the
skill with which they
in-
genuity with which they combine the various elements
which an admiring public demands in these works. It takes
an infinite number of little efforts of skill to write such books
as the ' Chronicles of Carlingford ;' and in the lower range
of feminine fiction—in the works of Mrs. Wood and Miss
Muloch, and the authoress of ' Denise—there go to the
making of a saleable, commendable novel merits which show
that the composition of a novel is by no means an easy
thing. As for mere tales, the quantity produced by women
every year is past all calculation ; and although fiction of
some sort is the general vehicle for the thoughts of
authoresses, yet they produce a considerable amount
of other matter, and with fair success. Nor is there the
slightest sign of this state of things ceasing,
or any reason
why it should cease. The public that reads the novels writ-
ten by women, or relishes the publications in which the
compositions of women habitually appear, is a public that
continual:y increases. A lively novel by an authoress of
Iname is as good and as certain a piece of property as can be
found, and therefore we may consider autbvarship as a. per-
manent profession for Englishwomen, and. it is very well
worth examining what are the prospects it r Bally hold 4 out

DEATH OF LORD LYNDHURST.

The brilliant career of Lord Lyndhurst amounts
to a political and legal history of three reigns. It is
a miracle of good fortune, a curious and unique
chronicle of shrewdness,ability and consummate tact.
It is the record of a life agitated by political pas-
sions up to the time when the veteran ceased to be

a palitieian, and became, in his extreme old age, a
patriot in whose wisdom and moderation both the
great parties in the State could implicitly confide.

Truly a strange and chequered life closed at five
minutes to three o'clock this (Monday) morning,
when the great ex-Chancellor breathed his last

at his paternal house in George-street, Hanover

square. Born an American loyalist under the sove-
reignty of George the Third, he saw his native place
become the stronghold of ultra-republican Puri-
tanism, and witnessed the establishment of the Re-

public of which he has lived to see the irretrievable
disruption. Whiggish in his youth, and friend and
fellow-traveller of Volney, he accepted without

scruple (though, perhaps, he may not have courted
it as he appears to have done) the patronage of the
Tory Prime Minister. He defended the State pri-

Boners accused of sedition, and was so little uncivil
to the Government that he was baited for and in-

stantly hooked to the land of promise—the Treasury
Bench—without the faintest show of wriggling.
One of the grandest of his early speeches in the
House of Commons was made against Roman
Catholic emancipation. A few months later saw
him Chancellor under the Minister whom he had

attacked, and who had withered him with a storm
of merciless sarcasms in the previous debate. Holding
a high judicial office which is understood to involve
abstinence from party politics, he turned out a
. _ _

Ministry, and might, if he could, have formed

another on its ruins. Such are some of the peculiar

features in the history of Lord Lyndhurst. For the
last 10 or 12 years, he has held a truly enviable posi-
tion in the House of Lords and with the country.
Lord Lyndhurst has lately kept aloof from party.

Though voting with the Conservatives, and occa-

sionally assisting them with his counsel, he has
poured forth the wealth of his eloquence, the mel-
lowed wisdom of his green old age, his wonderful
stores of scholarship and historical illustration, his
profound sagacity and the lessons of his varied ex-
perience for the benefit, not of his party, but of his
country. It is on account of the imposing gran-
deur of his old age that we all lament his death,
that the Queen and statesmen of all parties have
daily made anxious inquiries after the health of the
venerable peer.
The great lawyer who was destined to be three
times Lord High Chancellor of England, first saw
the light in Boston, Massachussetts, within the
transatlantic possessions of his Ring, George the
Third, the date of his birth being the 21st May,
1772. His father and mother were both conspicuous
persons in their way. John Singleton Copley
(whose Christian names were his son's also) was a
distinguished American artist. He was the son of
a Mr. Richard Copley, of Limerick, by the daughter
of Mr. John Singleton, an ancestor of the Single-
tons of Queinville Abbey, county Clare.

Apropos of his profession, a curious story is told.

In his boyhood he came down to dessert one even-
ing when his hospitable father was entertaining
some of his aristocratic friends, and he found the
company discussing the merits of the various pro-
fessions. " And what will you be ?" asked one of the
guests to little John Copley. "Anything," inter-
posed his father, "except an artist." Mr. Copley
then continued, " why not a lawyer? The highest
honours are open to a great lawyer. John may get
a good circuit practice, may then become a King's
counsel, may obtain a seat in Parliament, may then
please his party and be appointed Solicitor-General,
and Attorney-General—nay, Jack, if he is clever,
and distinguishes himself in the House, may even
become Lord Chancellor !" How this prophecy,
which must at the time have seemed a rhapsody,
was literally fulfilled is matter of history. But we
anticipate.

Whe❑ Copley the younger was called to the bar

the nation was in the throes of a great revolu-
tionary epoch. Paine's " Rights of Man" on one
side, and Burke's fiery philippic on the other, were
in every one's mouth. The young barrister was
inclined to espouse the apparently generous side of
liberty. He began his career with chambers in
Brick•court, Temple, and in his second floor he had
his first brief visits frcin Messrs. Willett and Co.
and Mr Murray, whose son came to be his secretary
in his chancellorship, He soon managed to secure
a large business ; in fact, he acquired the greater
part of that of Sergeant Rough, the leader of the
circuit, who had fallen into bad odour with the at-
torneys. Copley Was more fastidious than Gifford,
who was said to draw pleas for almost nominal
sums, but he made his way in time. He became
first known in the higher circles of the law by his
" Case of the double return for Horsham," in 1808.
But it was not till nine years after this that the
young lawyer attained any eminence out of " Nisi
prius." In 1817 the demagogue, Henry Hunt,
called a meeting in Spafielda, which ended in the
riots that led to the execution of Cashman, for
the murder of a Mr. John Platt, and the trial, for
high treason and sedition, of Arthur Thistlewood,
James Watson, John Hooper and Thomas Preston.
Sir Charles Wetherell and Mr. Copley were re-
tained for the defence. Sir Charles, though a ram-
pant old Tory, had conceived some spite against the
Government, and in his speech for the defendants
launched out into virulent abuse of the Ministry, its
spies, and its general villanies. Mr. Copley was
more shrewd, especially as Lord Liverpool was
present, and in his address, which was a master-
piece of reasoning on the law of high treason,
avoided the absurd indiscretion of his senior, much
to the Premier's satisfaction. About this time

Wetherall and Copley were toasted all over London
as the " People's friends !" At the trial of the pub-
lisher of the Quarterly for an alleged libel on Col.
Maceroni, Copley being.
for t
he defence, the Duke
of Wellington and Lord Liverpool, who were sub-
pccuaed in the case, were on the bench. So pleased
was the earl with Mr. Copley's speech and manner,
that he sent him an invitation to call on him after
the trial. Did Mr. Copley want a seat in the
House ? Nothing better. It could easily be ma-
naged then, and Mr. Alexander Maconochie (after-
wards Lord -Meado whank) resigning his seat, Mr.
Copley was returned forthwith by Mr. Holmes for
the borough of Yarmouth, Isle
of Wight, on the
28th of March, 1818, without any condition, pledge,
or promise. Lord Liverpool
is reported to have
said (though the remark is also attributed to Lord
Castlereagh), "I'll set, my rat-trap for him, baited
with Cheshire cheese.: A few months later saw
Mr. Copley Chief Justice of Chester in the room of
Sergeant Best.
It fell to the lot of Sir John Copley, as Solicitor-
General, to take part iu conducting
the prosecution
of the wretched Princess of Wales. What a spec-
tacle was that ! The noble-looking Castlereagh,
the " plucky" Sidrnouth, the calm and impassive
Liverpool, the profoundly-learned Eldon, the patrio-
tic and impulsive Grey, and the honest and sagacious
Lansdowne filled the seat of judgment, before which
Copley pleaded, with a Lawrence to look on the
,
scene with a painter's eye, and a Keane to study the
play of the passions in the memorable scene before
him. Sir John ColileY's cross-examination of the
witnesses on behalf of the Princess Caroline was
terrible in its minuteness and its searching character;
but he behaved coatteoonlY to the wilt-icily objent of
and he offended nobody on
all thPse long debates,
either side. The people rushed out from the House
e
's splendid summing up, to
of Lords, after Copley
eclipse of that memorable year.
witness the great
It was curious that he should have officially to pro-
secute (and with fatal success) for high treason, in
thur Thistle
1820, the same At:. wood whose acquittal
in 1817 was achieved by his eloquence and tact.
To the amazement of the world, the great lawyer
_ lived on beyond his 90th year; Tent from London

to the country, and back again, with the changes
of the seasons; saw his friends, and counselled his
party. The death of a nonagenarian is rarely
painful—rarely gives a long premonitory notice
of its approach.

Lord Lyndhurst literally " fell on sleep." The
the " dune inclementia mortis." The noble lord
was imperceptible. He did not experience
change
had been present at the marriage of his only child
by his second marriage towards the close of June
last. Those who saw, will not easily forget, the
appearance of the aged father as he was borne on a
kind of litter into St. George's, Hanover-square,
his glassy eyes, his helpless limbs, and withal the
inimitable neatness of his dress and the nobility of
his countenance, which not even the troubles and
work of 90 eventful years could efface. Curiously
enough another nonagenarian had signed the re-
gister book of St. George's that morning—the
Dowager Lady Grenville, widow of a Prime Mi-
nister of the last century, the accomplished Lord
Grenville, Chancellor of the University of Oxford,
who had been present, previous to the marriage of
the Hon. Miss Copley, at the marriage of Mr.
Mrestby Moore with the daughter of the Hon. G. M.
Fortescue. At the conclusion of the season his
lordship left London for Tunbridge Wells " in ex-
cellent health." He returned to town a week or
ten days ago, had an access of weakness, and died,
as his father had done before him, in the old house
in George-street, Hanover-square, which should
henceforth be historically famous.
By his first marriage with Mrs. Thomas, to which
we have referred before, Lord Lyndhurst had a
eau and four daughters. The son, John Singleton,
born in August, 1824, died in September, 1825.
His eldest daughter, Sarah, was born and died in
1820. Another daughter, the Hon. Susan Penelope
Copley, born 23d July, 1822, died 9th May, 1837.
The eldest survivor of his daughters is the Hon.
Sarah Elizabeth, born 16th March, 1821, who mar.
tied, Jan. 8, 1850, Mr. Henry John Selwin, the
unsuccessful Conservative candidate for Maldon at
the last general election, and eldest son of Sir J. T.

Ibbetson-Selwin, of Down Hall, Essex; and the
other, the Hon. Sophia Clarence, born April 15,
1828, married Mr. Hamilton Beckett on the 14th
of December, 1854. Lady Lyndhurst died in Paris
on the 15th of January, 1834, at the Hotel du Rhin,
Place de Vendome, and on the sth of August, 1837,
his lordship married in Paris, Georgiana, daughter
of Mr. Louis Goldsmith, by whom he leaves issue
au only daughter, Georgians, born 11th May, 1838,
and married 25th June, 1863, to Mr. Charles
D acane, M.P. for North Essex.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The east division of the Channel fleet (as briefly
announced by telegram in The Sun of Saturday)
Spithead on Saturday, from Devonport.
arrived at
The -Warrior and Resistance, iron frigates, first
hove in sight, and the latter anchored at Spithead
by 8 e.ra, The Warrior lay to in St. Helen's Roads,
and did not anchor at Spithead until 11 a.m. The
Admiral, in his flagship, the Edgar, in company
with the Emerald, wooden screw frigate, did not
arrive at Spithead until 5 p.m. Both ships had
remained for some hours off the Isle of Wight,
where their crews had been exercised in firing with
shot and shell. The passage from Plymouth Sound
to Spithead was made with reduced boiler power,
and on Friday night the Resistance, with three
and contending with a strong S.E.
boilers in use,
gale,maintained a steady rate of speed of six knots.
The officers of the two irouclads speak in the most
enthusiastic terms of their ships' behaviour at sea,
but at
the same time admit that a somewhat diffe-
rent form of bottom would give them more stability,
and lessen the tendency they have to roil. Still,
with even this admitted fault, it is contended that,
on the whole, they are better sea boats than our
heaviest wooden frigates of the Mersey and Orlando
class. seamen always speak flatteringly of the
ship in which they serve ; but if there be any truth
in this comparison drawn between iron and wooden
ships, than our ironclads must be very much better
sea boats, or have been very much better handled,
than the French ironclad squadron which is now
undergoing
extensive repairs at Brest, in conse-
quence of the
damage received during its first expe-
rimental cruise. Reverting to our own ironclads, it
appears to be the general opinion of officers serving
in them that the Resistance and Defence class must be
more generally serviceable as war ships than the
Warrior or Minotaur class can ever be. The latter
undoubtedly possess the advantages belonging to
beauty of form of great speed under steam, yet, from
their extreme length, they cannot be turned so
shortly or so readily manoeuvred as smaller vessels.
These facts will possibly hold good so long as our
ironclads are propelled by single screws ; but now
that it has been so repeatedly proved that ships can
be made to
turn uPoe their own centre as upon a
pivot when
propelled by two screws, the chief ob-
jection to ships of the Warrior's length seems to be
overcome. A ship constructed for two screws would
also possess much greater bearings at her midship
section than
a single screw vessel ; she would con-
sequently roll less, and be a much better sea boat,
than any vessel with a single screw could possibly
be, and would also draw one-third less water than
with our present ironclads. A vessel like
is the rule
the Warrior must draw a certain draught of water
in order to develope the power of her 1,250 horse
engines and her monster screw. In shoal or narrow
waters such
a ship is helpless ; she can neither ap-
proach sufficiently near a shore battery nor ma_
nceuvre in front of it. Had the Warrior been built
for and fitted with twin screws, her lessened draught
of water would have enabled her to be taken so
much nearer the shore and be manceuvred as might
be wished when she had reached the desired posi-
tion.
The following appointments were made on Fri-
' day at the Admiralty, :_Henry V. Russell, master,
' to the Dasher ; Francis Braddon, assist-paymaster,
to the Black Prince ; E. Lilley, engineer, to the
Indus for the Cordelia ; h
r
r-- —mil" Pattison, of the
Hornet, promoted to first class assist.-engineer ;
and John Runnels, assist.-engineer, to the Indus for
the Gladiator.