The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVE NINC4, MARCEL 29, 1862.

A ...7FINITY SEED-VESSEL7I4 TRUST', in 19 LEVIT., not d 18.
:PWTON's Terra-firma Ind. Allies, on PITT'S ord n Cl., April
7th 1797, Trinidad-1811's (on / Mt' ague St. Lucia-void, '96,
Ghent's Aug. 24, 1814-42's v Christi- drama), Prizage.
Fels 89 93 Cromwel's 15°N 3ty Art. 1-5 vS. Denis KAmerica,
¶c- 3.9-27 neer FOOT day-6 II 6-h. tideile-mensn-7 to 22.
FIX CHRISTIAN-ORDER' SHIP-PIRATES
ON ' s CORPUS ' RED-LINE' FLAG HOIST.
In re Benchtrs-Andelson, on Lafoitt's Armed neutrality to
Car-abo° Major An Ore's-1780 Cow-chase' Crimea' d so, by
'Lockhart's Cromwell 3ty, 23 M. 1655-8, in 16 Car. u c 2.

By 27 H. S c. 21' Lege Plod' lib. iv., ¢ x—for criminal law
on Harburg's sideral—as Washington extradition In.-6ccu-
lation act anent La course' as lof the four pleas of Crown-
sky-transit Q.--sr Fiat-zarth. Arks-dow 530 N. Dublin'.
Mayor 0: Southampton, *rear-admiral of England's flag
galley--Man's Jurfey isl 6 Wight's Gaulie-coq coastguard
will-set ships Nashville, Sumter, for felony on Yankee Spy
ship 1-Teirvey Birch, Crosby,' by Torphichen Kt. Sumpter-
hors'*,-Qannebroq'-fair Ost-men, about 19th Nov., 1861,
unde.r Dannebrof Ord.-xts. white on red flan.
I-A..(a)-Efex rota Court 'Ormond Shire Mote 6' the Isle's
to, Navarchlde'l 4, lay sites of Rhodes. Not Uofplacet-jesu,
jf 1802's Amiens ELsinore (au'ourre'y in AD 1182, Kts.,
,so p 59, BODIN lib. /on Dagobert's WILL I-C), slaves of St.
Denis' mer-ecumeurs, Art. 191658, in Gray' ' Lacy's Clara
bench're Ship'ng 3ty 1854, t 5 4, Jan. 6—Lon. Gazt.
By (b) Terra-neufndland [Reavini-factor of Lisbon wine
license Co's newspaper set-off, on It. Junot-invasion, 1807,
for Pompey's Sea-afric'rs ,o vex, on Bristol's (g Liver-g-pool,
Xangdon), admiralty kalendar super altemarc qum afcend9
et defcent°blique'] o"r Placentia, free of Trinity dues.
So (c) Ireland's A-putt le-rage Act 1811 on '25 Finisterro
'warrant [by Pcrtigal-brazil, Feb. 19, 1810, for 'l2 tariff, to
jaro no N. Scavage free] on nob, alliance abolition Bien-
ft/stifles t clubs; by Hamond, & Stuart. (Signed)

P=ll Brant ijA.S Qtr ET, (MaiRV medal-Gaspe Saq`lni6,
Arephew of 9- J. Brant-1775 and CABotsaqin9 Peter Toma-
-1825 410, x. Brunswie), Quebec's Bouche of Court' 6 R. rt.
Montague § C ACKERLEY, as .London-free Sworn
-oFf.7&B's—(Final come% of review, 1825-37)—Executor-s
Dormer-Oct. 28, 1790 -FERIA. L. WOTTON iowEs, P. C.
: : . . • Maiden-osp "N perwicidaw Nov. 16, '6l].
EnnQter 9th, Bouche tPython * °genius, no-Neuter.
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TRIBAL-AMERICA S ULSTER' PLANTA-

TION-SHIFT, § IN E-BCI7-RIAL WILL*TRITSTS.
RETRO-LONGITUDE 284 YR'S ACT, 2-3 NY, IV., C. 92, § 4
.j Tic. c-39 ¢ 4, 1842, NAVE : : 9th Q. AN-leNTY. 132 yr, so
s, (=, *lNNlJetsam rota 'Lbgan-jer OUT-flot-semi plc. N.
'Wall,,-.rnurem 24 March--29 Sept. wend - finang/ 6 April
A_jeulian° Cul de sac Twe-,, -ed fishrv-park /awsets, in conic
sections 1200 Isospiral o•• 9• • e by Enks Juptr comet r.
CARIES.--It is my EASTPORT Pl9.9,efifq-pt. void-line 90/.
a-year R.N. unsought duty, as of 16 Car. u. c 6—to state, in
opposition to RUPERTii lawyers of British church, That the
coastguard-map officers of San Jacinto & Santiago de Cuba,
acted on' PowNALL'd King's-post-grantee-Franklin, 1762-
4, on Penn's 21st Regula parliament, Art. xx.,—No planter
can leave without a three week's market -notice of Utrecht
3ty-plot slaves-care, under a Justice pass. Ships aiding such
Car. V's rn life-Malta woo S. James'-street persons of Dane-
}wog order of Ile St. Thom& and it. Jean—open to right of*
*search'—x G. zc2§ 4 on Jan.l4 May 1814-Dec. .•• : :
.. • A e'r-hd. [J. SGUTHWORTII, el. of synode
Gitownox, spkr, Oct. 28, 17011-Re-form 189 g bill'd '32, for
Retro-webster'd -'42 in CASS, by Palmerston, '57-8. So-
-COMPASS -a- _EffiQVIA GAP(-)PONTI SPIRIT-Q-LEVEL.
JAR- ICONE s PERIGEE LONGITUDE-AUGURY,
eN NAVE CINQUE PORTAL LATITUDE, REPULSION CURVE,
_ _

In ginq'nt span-long 50° by Polar* above & below declin.
eoar..in p astrs-geOgraph . • • : : to (Mover's 4, Arrow off-
etnd-on'Diepp's-R.ouen to Lizard-rt. 9'r iel'isle's Quadra-
culmination Tropic-wend t°wrds min.orga's LanFue a'oek
40e N. Its state rope-lay Anchor t flag-tow'r pros--by Tyre
round the fixt earth, as of Titus Vespasian'e March-night
zone-meter of yr 79, in 1824-35's L'Echekiriar-Shellbred
convolute-Leet-crts.-to America's flown-south meridian
460 e w. for its Turloch base N. line September evapora-like
Xarayee-Nile-'-metre'd lake (on :* 40. Plough-ken 3 Jaqo.
a.), of Vil-Bella'fack're-mento 1713 R. negro plot of /Thrazil,
'C. Horn' d from my Modon-l. tusk 3ty, July 6, 1827-28.
Sachims-The Illustr. London News, No. 1,119, p. 538,
giyees, Clarendon's 5-Georgia re, car9lineA in Philadeph's
Pensylvan-arm°rial (word scale, as H. 6, Keeper of the
touch, 'resolve of its Councileboardl on Middletone's fons-
ahre (' Fodinse-regales, of James L's 72 New River' share
-1-plug in London's 1327-Goldsmith Co. of Philadelphia, on
Enoland's royalty 36 ones £500) a-tested by Wotton &Mon-
t.' ague, so CAR. Hyde's Swedish colony grant 1662's in
Hild rheim Abbess, 1672-Foxy-Penn's 81-1701, in Quakers
affirm act 1749, on '77 Indn.'s Vectigal land rents, £lOO,OOO,
or Can'ngs Rnsh-transfer by H. C. comite's Cl 2 Feb. 1836,
Thaxton, tor a Percy-bastard Smithuos's Peguliarinstitution'
Af Qakr-Jests patrons & advocates), withundersign to Q.
.An's & Pombal U.P. Chapelr's Consul Act, 1826. i ,
So Rome's Jan. 6-yr /wind commission of-1826 Educe.
ode 30-32-37 Aborigines-rep. N. 4461 for school 2d mars
1841, Convention, Bulo, Palmerston & Labouchere, thro' P.
Webster & Perley's 3d Sept., '4l, election of Peter B. o'r 99
/ifeleases, not without Ackerley's name, to 14 Geo in. 1774,
'uild'ng-in Sagmd Brant (act on old J. Adam's Quincy A.
and H. Clay's Ghent note, Sept. 9, 1814), as Stow-tower'd,
for filadelph-Lancaster Duchy Crt. Longbro, Gloster, '75 by
Atkins Edgcumbe EhandOs Chamberlayne (Hugh Chem-
herlen & Gold fmith Co's-r, N. R.-hd.), Stegglee plug-i.
Saga's-The cause shift of jPride-Seminoles & Cherokee
Creek indians of Georgia's trust (by 1802 Hudson-u. &S.
Sea Ns. Co's 1000 in. of Mississipi, lodg'd sw. of Mt. Plea-
sant in rear of The 1-bred white plant'ra or build'rs, under
Lancaster FRAME 1746-65 (Anderson, Lovel-Percival-ss
Plasentia-pt. Ind. menan trust 1812-'43-61), Art. i. suss., for
Taixt Coasifirn Crt. of 6 Planters and 6 Native Indians, as
re-set on admiralty Ecole of St. Paul's, Bermuda 10 M, by
Philadel's partizans, p 66, colonize-off, Boston-Judge Jay
--31 May, 1853 GREY's [thus Deerfoot's isyefellow scholar-
ship' Trinity e-Col., Cambridge, 1861, 8 Dec. Exhibition-rs,
Ylliot's may '5l col. lets], term negro for Indian not in 1726-
mew le. C.Q. G. r. Carib life-grant '32, in Adair fraud.
So Galveston New shire-Crt' on French-british Andre
3tys, Jan. & Nov. 1840, as prefac'd to Extradition Washing-
ton Act for Indian (Sept. 3, 1841) election of F. ' Basket' -
soul of Abbot Laurence & Ashburton compact d on Spitheacl
(P. contreler Sir Guil' ame Penn)-A.ckerley's sworn -in Nor-
tvay-1468•-sponsor of Inaaian lady 1820 for Act 1843's nmpery
(9 Sept.lBl4) over crwt.-Texas-Hundred 6 & 6 partners, for
En gland's law, smiting St. John's Jruf/m xts. of Gothland's
C +tine: Q. (Sv.,edon ntgs , 65 to Boromeo's Kirk-tax-10ths &
Trent council forage subsidy, 1776), on Rugis xt. Mathew,
rob., 1807-8, in 'Kensingtonf Yr' M. Peto+Kt 54 -e
`7eviot-1847 as Trent-The felon fix of Slidell & Mason,
_Dsnske-papal vessel, of Scarlet & Anton'lli, Dec. 1853, was
sight as black-repub/is. So Godairform'd image, outcast Red
fndian & C. A. truste, made the Kirk Scapegoats 40 yrs of
Luther-calvin Swissicon4ul fraters de Sac' a double titre, on
bronzed-iPBN's- P•statue. (19 Levit. v. 33)-148 v. 116 g
Arßic'rs.-By pyre- Odic longitude Act's on 1818 ('24-32
rtill pending), §4.9, subjects or su'ject, have equal ASTOR'-
ENNER rewards. Think on the barib 3)5 vote-swamp, of
your danger in joining Vaccine px.-markdst white faces or
negro indian Fetish nerlin'rs, 1792 6, thus forbad noticing
the late False Proclamation as headed in Times and Post
of 16th Nov., " A britt'sh Convention between ENG‘Gxv•r
Arance, & Spain," dated Oct. 31, 1861, wherein [Gib'raltar
ft. Germani-en-laye inter-rope nations, on Ist Ratisbon tax
eeng forth] Common law ors'ls-pact is not for Indian by
High cotstracting partl2:e-' on its K-Chanlos (Danewark 9r-
Elbe-,89 qtr s-a. 1714-23) arpent-ss-hogf hd tobac'-so
" command ',Ad words, that long have slept-to wake,
Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh spake. '
1. My admiralty RED-flag, is th' Enn°terr Gap-line-tiree
&me of water !imits (the Flag Union of the crosses by 3rd
Jac9bo I. is a Christian Zollverein trade flag x and not
for war by Micmac Ordnance issue) from Tower nave T
343, of Jan. 31 1842. The Merchant's jack, on board Car.n's
Hotel-P.Olll. Trent, had no white border, Rome's transept-
Congregate church has no sea limit or Necuter' flag.
2. That the Latin'd words Britt'sh-[Britain, St. George's
nu St. Patrick's Order, 1783-channel, for outing the word
England from Log-wood 3ty 'B2 Court christian sea charts,
.set without Gran i'mreton's yr -Annona (in Justinan lib. 4,
T. 18, § 2), under the X span fvu'er3's Double on nd'd. R-gal
.1%-of Ju1y,1521 on 1761-72's faw-Trajan' dby Span'sh Texas
Crts. (moron-„ by 11. Geo. in, c 55) 'Comes rerum Privataeurrt,
A.D. 131, 'edict of Hadrian, Gruter 578.5. by assumed Clerk-
Pope-o,on of St. Denis-h, so by the word except France in
March 3, 1815, U.S. 3ty" prior to Blucher and Wellington's
signature [for reset of Avignon Jewjesuits of 2d Melchisidek
orler. 20th Oblationcodes on a moving Eartherror] June 17,
1315 , 'the eve, of their battle of Waterloo's Brazil'd Pedro 2,
pa gywede Leo pold-Jesu' 28-30's Brune-eGai/lard'.
3, Saving my N. Z. Waitanzi'd 512, by t-Bunbury-like
Sir Gore Ouseley's foist on the 800 Sachime sign for Gross
:ebels in nay name, seen (by his Wabash Walker'd Central
America, for 1047 Bamberg-Sigismond life-tie, to a Savoy-
-WV:Wert, on a Gov'ness Parquet', an's Uphenue 1809
Inca !Nape .Turk'ng Mexico) from England, caused his papist
,envoy Aldharn to be shot, as sacrificing the Indians to ,svac-
e•irre-priests ;wolves men-against the umbilical j'Arpent-
,;.save Violation of Goal's : : Acre, on Ackerley's Fini B erre
Peeral-pivot, 29th Aug. 1825 (to Pithequsa's i51e,!,409 N,
and its Doubletitre scholastic)-at £9O for all, including the
MosraoßAdoctrine as of nohun'd Phil. re's) Manila channel
of official letter, which elected indian Peter-the law's font
by Peel & Derby's Queen-kin PUmerania'd Zollverein-Kt.-
Icing of Prussia at Windsor Castle, 1842-as, of Poland's red
.Russian Dutch loan 1832-act, 99 yr, on Mingan's 9fqr. NW.
America (now in secret by Canada's 1837 Hinckslhaver V. de
-Paul ° rebels at Yanke's back), without his pay or ken.
4. The wall'd-Russell 31st Oct. ratification (of § London
Gaz' a g , Nov. 16, not within 15 days, is illegal by Extra-
Ditie,n 1842-Parliament), it being on a supplement of the
nark's Mau'ry-regents of Macie'smithson Institution April,
W43,0n Gladsßux ton's !Lc. comtee. U.S. Zdistrict Colum-
LI a's midwife Congress '46, l' Etertie 18-i-19, Art. 1. § 3.
•

Sachims—This chain—to 1730-2's will-crt. of Assistants,
Scots Cur, of J. i. Georgia h proves the Privy cabinets named
Oct. 31, '6l, are not on RIND & CAN NING's dictum, thus
'pposed to th' En-NormanCie laco of Nations of 1824 & 35,
'tor Go' raising the revenue—on yearly election of paid
-Laymen—no 10th-yr Exhifiition Lisbon parliaments—to
" Scorn arbitration as a stain "
162,6 § 13]his To 9th, and 10th of William's reign. [nO 10th.
L rsa plow-wheel gist, for my Ennosigcen
Monte-
Z'a'4-right, to give recognition of all £ dues from America
Ask."Tel„o,colonization of the whites [till Gov'nr.Royal
,Otty ,n,, 8 E. St. Thomas paptest Dane-pact, :850 X- theft of
love 't46tlBlnd Bruce-chief, to my life], by a brother &sister
church-'_e bldand's skyrnark (now die-joined with t- Pope,
, .fihang,;,l":_water sccts on minister's money), of the site-A
p„%ultYred"ll-Th as its Cone/all-on-4m finite law.
a.m M p.,4BQUMT Ntaware The flag-union Jak,
p•Bul©. 3-J. 1., corn-hill-Tow'er'd Income-tax-
Temple 7 ' freeman, Antip.,d'n crown-colony chief
Labouchere. c'tr. 1842, —The criminal law's Extradi-
+fr.' r 2 March, '4ll PaP,3•mile off-shore Sea-constable,
Tr. l'erleY' coutirtng America',rpaddlede of Admiral's
Sept, '4 t's tler„47:l' canter u -Guizote set-
rexilla'ry Crt•,l •t "• New Zealand's deadprooffit
0)
Cart 0i vr•le'poy Stil'lord Warden
for let sin' by ro!!.._auntedatoar 'Goat seer--
Aekerley, § c rionßaling-3ty .* N.
.17: C' .FIARLEs
Inthou'd En Gland 'Special et itaCnb-'7e f
Aug 1825, by Admiral G. D0,49---htv -Ra1(413 (29 • • :
'Stuart de itothsay Sec. Atarcus Crown-
Alliance abolition, of 6- A _cm.
In Can' ng' s tiolY
nlabs), Standard weight-hearer of 1817 Lieut.
double-oathii'd '1);-pay-vietim—suppm.tor BiPeu,
'of Mohawk 10 Yrs, by hod Indian Mary (4te nien
March's murder-ti' (IS.O 'lRtiors virginale
-tenerure corpus CireiA 6' in (411,4,ec's Or,rnond_
liamliton-lialhom,ie, on his 1),III14, a• 'nide, '25_42 8
as Crown- pag. e-P/eltiug-ride G'r Gotland/mind 11Roosiv_
dues with Atilt.-J. Foster), ,as Montague sub- In Norton_
tidy nosekild loan Ilescript Jan. 14 ?lay -1‘ 14- letter-
'2o'st to major Cartwright's surro,,-ateCY in Tr. trove.
1322'99;s red-turban'd Hen. 4th, On V
' Hen. .'s 17 or. .
2 ? c
Sigismond-W. Ilry(1 yrs yaps-colony' martin 5. Jig' V to
Gonsa:vi 1816 re,oIA-159. by 7, on urban 8' Seoitoh
Orkney-1520h on H. B's will 1749-Krigsmirin [Advocate
STUART iwortley-Neweornen's-en tionfaionike'-niotit
3824] pass'd ix C. A.'S Heligoland.name act 1-2 W 4, n"
of Julyls2l-62 Luthei:. calvin's man, as England
Pk.er(iessl, refused by Can'ing to ll4mon!ii, as his Lt. k,
juxiior- oll:c,r did t 2nd 1.11. tmorancy hi-d Heron duty.
Whose A-'JAIL' X-shield of seven-fold, Phdehier'
la Inn-shroud's all safe, and makes HlM—bold,'
4l'cba 2991862 (unpaid Christ-man PETEA2O yrs), Loudon.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1862.

So last night, after all, preliminaries of capitula-
tion were offered and accepted. Once more Lord
PALMERSTON has readily shelved the measures of a
colleague, when they seemed likely to give him
trouble; and once more the strength of pecuniary
interests, although but a recent creation of our
Parliament, has triumphed over the administra-
tion. We are not surprised. What body of repre-
sentatives of the ordinary character, with seats to
keep, could stand such a charge as that of the
Wesleyan Merrimac, Captain SCOTT, commander;
it was worked by a three hundred thousand pounds
grant in aid, power, and its relentless '• prongs"
threatened a rent among the local supporters of
each member assaulted, which would almost cer-
tainly sink him at the next election. The House
was fairly run down. Hon. members had to think
of their parliamentary life. And we doubt not that
most of the regular supporters of the Government
were but too thankful when they found that a
council of war had ordered Mr. LOWE to haul down
his flag.

It was not one moment too soon. The speeches
of the previous night from Mr. OSBORNE, Mr.
ADDERLEY, and Mr. BAINES, not to mention others
less thoroughgoing, showed that if the subject were
discussed much longer, a wholly new aspect of the
case was dawning on the country. It would have
become difficult to defend, not the mode of payment
or of paying for results merely, but payment at all.
The minority report of the Commissioners, hitherto
unnoticed in Parliament, was obtaining a promi-
nence likely to render the kind of compromise re-
port of the majority of doubtful wisdom. If
the Government would save the system in any
shape, and if the beneficiaries under the old code
were to get anything at all in perpetuity, the
sooner a settlement were come to, the better, so
the Cabinet seem to have thought. The result is,
that bravely as Lord GRAN-VILLE has fought on
behalf of the national exchequer, that is on behalf
of its not paying for work unless the work was really
done,—the Cabinet, as a whole, thought discretion
the better part of valour, and have offered terms
which the opposition accept, Mr. WALPOLE
"amiably," Mr. DISRAELI daintily.

Nominally the concessions are a compromise,—
not, says Mr. LOWE, a settlement which shall give
a triumph to the advocates of any particular opinion,
but one which shall end in a manner satisfactory to
the country and conducive to the great interests in-
volved in the question of education. We hope it
will prove so. Satisfactory to the clerical, managing,
and teaching interest it will certainly ba ; since it
" involves on the'part of the public," we are toll, " a
very considerable pecuniary sacrifice." If, there-
fore, the great grant-receiving interest be wise, it
will not provoke much more discussion of the sub-
ject ; the grantees' party appear indeed anxious to
secure more time ; to put off further debate till
after Easter, the object being, apparently, to see if
the guardians of the public purse, having yielded
So
much to pressure, cannot be made to yield a little
more, to yield perhaps all, so far as paying money
is
concerned; that being the7real object of the agita-
tors. if so,
we only hope they will overshoot their
them alre
mark ; thEtt
ad the 11use
has yielded too much to
y, being certainat to become before long
the opinion of all irily
The points conceded areal hen.
substantial portion of the fly three. First, a
641'44 is to be giTen on

the general report of the inspector—that is,
money is still to be largely voted for
reports, on inspection, such as Mr. ADDER-
LEY described so justly—reports on "general
order," " good moral atmosphere," and such vague
descriptions, are to be followed by a grant—and the
only object of returning to these empty generalities
is stated to be, to make the grants to the teachers
and managers more " certain." Whether the Go-
vernment will persist in ascertaining results which
can be tested, and making a more substantial pay-
ment for these, remains to be seen ; if not, the nation
will, after all, be cheated out of its money for the
benefit of merely amateur educationists. We wish
children to be clean, orderly, and decent, and espe-
cially to learn to bow properly to their betters—to
the clergyman and his wife and daughters more
particularly—and "to all who are placed in autho-
rity over them." Still we grudge the payment of
nearly a million a year for this sort of thing. To
teach them the three elements (unless they can
learn them without our help) we should not
grudge it.

Next, the Government gives up grouping the
children by age—that is, it gives up requiring that
masters shall teach the children by a certain age
what they ought to know by that age. We wish
the children of the poor may be gainers by this—
that the grantee party will be so is quite certain.
Money will flow from the Treasury, Mr. LOWE
assures them, wonderfully faster, and that is
,of
course the great merit of the concession. Then,
thirdly, the pupil teachers are to be more care-
fully secured, not in their rights, but in the
expectations which masters and managers had led
them to form. How " conciliatory" the proposal
—it stands thus—if the school has not earned
enough for the managers to pay the pupil
teachers by its grants, the Government will make
it good—if it receives more than it wants the
managers are to retain the surplus ! Surely we
may hope that no managers will have the face to
ask more than this. We wait, of course, to see the
concessions in print—but, so far as we can under-
stand them, little check will now be left on the
indolence of teachers and the neglect of managers.
In regard to the last two resolutions of Mr.
WALPOLE, those which have nothing to do with the
details of the Code, but which provide for the
bringing before the country in January any material
alteration proposed to be made in the regulations ;
also for Parliament having a month to express its
opinion on the proposed alterations—in regard to
these, no objection can be taken. Alterations ad-
verse to the interests of the Exchequer, as well as
favourable to it, may be easily made by the Govern-
ment of the day ; and, if we remember rightly, the
Government of which Mr. WALPOLE was a member,
sinned in that way more than any other, considering
the shortness of the time they were in office.
On the whole, the surrender of last night must be
regarded both as a Government defeat and a triumph
of newly created interests. Never was measure
more honestly conceived in the public interest than
that now reduced to nihility. An immense depart-
ment had grown up, and was rapidly growing,
which was proved to have left unbenefited the vast
majority of the children of the poor which it drew
enormous sums for teaching. The test of "no work
no pay" was proposed by the Government, and those
who ought to have done the work forthwith raise
such a clamour on the insecurity of their pay that
the House of Commons is frightened and the Go-
vernment bows to the threats of the forty thousand.
Small encouragement this to all Governments to
get the nation work for its money. Paying its
officials is to be the grand thing.

The Confederate iron-plated steamer, the Merri-
mac, has certainly given the world a taste, at last,
Of what is likely to be, henceforth, the new system
of naval tactics and the future character of mari-
time warfare. Adieu, for ever, to the " old wooden
walls," " famous in heroic story," in the records
both of ancient and modern history, in the annals
both of classic Greece and living Britain—erst-
while, but even in the latter instance we may be
certain no longer, of affording an im-
penetrable barrier against foreign in-
vaders. " Farewell, a long farewell," to the
" hearts of oak," heretofore the shields of our insular
independence—the human hearts of oak manning
those floating citadels can hereafter be alone
counted upon with anything like implicit reliance
as the guardians of our imperial rule. So far as the
exigencies of the age ere concerned, we might really
almost as well resort to the old lumbering style of
naval architecture peculiar, let us say, for example,
to the days of his Majesty King HENRY VIII.,
when our commanders upon the deep were in the
habit of clambering up on the lofty deck of a huge
fantastic structure something like a magnified city
barge, the said commanders being arrayed in steel
corslets, each carrying a baton like a gilded rolling
pin, each combining amphibiously in his own person
the dignities of General and Admiral ! We might as
lief revert, we say, to that old obsolete style of naval
architecture as retain unaltered, unmodified, unim-
Iproved, the later style of our wooden frigates and
three-deckers. Hitherto, so far as any actual con-
flict itselt has been concerned, the changes intro-
duced in the navies of England, viz., of France or
of America, have been changes, to a certain extent
at least, of purely conjectural efficacy. We had—
until these recent tidings from the opposite shores
of the Atlantic came to us—simply to draw our
own conclusions theoretically as to what might
be the consequences in future seafights of so
complete and absolute a transformation.
It was not alone that sails, as means
of propulsion, had been superseded almost entirely,
at any rate bad been wholly subordinated to the
application of steam as a motive power. It was
not, again, merely that the huge, floundering
paddlewheels first of all in vogue as the precise
implements used for the purposes of propulsion by
the steam-engines constructed within our men•of•
war—it was not alone that the old paddlewheels
had in most instances given way to the more secure
and reliable, and to a certain extent, one might
almost say, indestructible screw propeller. It was
that to the steam engine, to the screw propeller,
to all the greater or lesser improvements
applied by engineering science to the enhancement
of the latent forces and the varied capacities of
our giant war vessels than had within the last
few years been added—by ourselves, by our Gallic
neighbours, by our youthful kindred in America,
in what were formerly known as the United
States, united now no longer—a complete casing
of iron to one war ship after another. Instance
the grandest instance of all, our English Warrior !
Instance, that appropriate symbol of the French
incentive, la Gloire ! Instance the now historical
Merrimac—just fresh from battle, dented by can-
non-halls, smirched by gunpowder.

The world no longer conjectures, America her-
self no longer " calculates" what may or may not be
accomplished by one of these great iron-clad war
vessels—we all now know for certain the perfect
efficacy for warlike purposes of that new method
on maritime wars, of this new and
improved style of naval architecture. There are
henceforth°acrying actual facts to go upon. We can now
look back to recorded experiences. The story of
the merrimgc's triumph Qver the two Federul

1 wooden frigates, the Congress and the Cumber-
land, is worth reading and pondering about all
over again. It has been related anew in a very
lucid and compact form in a communication pub-
lished to day by our chief morning contempo-
rary, a co.blmunication addressed to our
contemporary by a correspondent of undoubted
intelligence, a correspondent who evidently
understands very well what he is writing about.
" We find," he says, "that the Confederate iron
plated steamer Merrimac, in commencing the action
with the Federal wooden frigates Cumberland and
Congress, fired two guns at the former, and then
struck her with her sharp bows, making a jagged
hole in her side seven feet in extent. The Cum-
berland immediately began to sink, when the Mer-
rimac backed a short distance and ran into her a
second time, making a terrible hole in her, the
water running into her at a furious rate, and
finally sinking her." The Merrimac next turns
her attentions to the Congress, and, in less
than an hour, the latter strikes to her iron-sided
adversary. The Congress had 50 killed, includ-
ing three officers, 27 are reported wounded, and 40
prisoners. The correspondent then goes on to
remark that " the Cumberland is reported to have
had about 150 killed and wounded. The 100 lb.
shot of the Cumberland, and the shot from the bat-
teries on shore, are stated to have produced no effect
on the Merrimac, and it is also said the 1801 b.-shot
of the Federal shield ship Monitor, which after-
wards arrived at the scene of action, produced but
little more effect on the Merrimac's iron sides than
did the 1001 b. shot of the Cumberland, and that it
was demonstrated by the result of the fight that it
was of little use to fire balls of less than 2001 b. at
her." And finally, "W. L.," the correspondent
whose remarks we are here quoting, thus completes
his narrative .—" The Merrimac continued her
fire, assisted by two gunboats, up to the
evening, now throwing shells into the Federal
camp at Newport News, and engaging the Minne-
sota and other Federal vessels, the St. Lawrence,
Roanoke, and Mystic arriving during the afternoon,
and proceeding up the James River. In the even-
ing the Federal turret ship Monitor, Capt. Erics-
son's iron battery, arrived from New York, and next
morning the two iron vessels engaged each other
for two or three hours at long and short range
without producing any perceptible effect upon each
other, although the officers of the Monitor claim
penetrating the sides of the Merrimac with three
shots. Her hauling off from her action with the
Monitor was most probably owing to her fuel or
ammunition running short. The results of this ac-
tion prove that iron-plated ships will not bedestroyed
so easily as many people may imagine when in
action." The conclusion to be arrived at from all
this—and the above account of the action of the
Merrimac is so succinctly given that we have un-
hesitatingly yielded to the temptation of repeating
it—the conclusion to be arrived at from all this we
take to be conclusive. Nothing under a 200-pounder,
we now know, can be of the slightest utility when
discharged against the hull of evena hastilycontructed
floating armadillo like the Merrimac of the Con-
federate Government. It is suggested, in conse-
quence of this proven fact, that some of our war-
ships should, henceforth, be mounted with no lesser
ordnance than 300-pounders. For, obviously, unless
a whole broadside of 100-pounders be conveyed upon
a given point of an enemy's iron-cased' war steamer,
the steel shell or crust of that war vessel will remain
unflawed and impervious to the shock of battle. It
becomes in obvious, therefore, that wooden warships
should be as rapidly as may be, and as strongly as
may be " clothed all in steel," and in the next place
that they should be every one of them armed, not
a select few amongst them, but all of them without
exception armed—invariably--with heavy ord-
nance'.

The arrival of the New York has not added
much to our previous information on the state of
things in America. Some, even of the New York
press, describe the retreat from Manassas like that
of Prince GORTSCHAKOFF across the harbour at
Sebastopol, as " a great success." Probably the
Federals had little inclination for a battle even if
they had known of the retreat. The Richmond
papers assert that it was made for purely strategic
reasons. The question, however, is, was it not the
strategy of the Federal Generals in the West, and
of BANKS at Harper's Ferry, which compelled the
Confederates to retreat strategically. In the pro-
bable state of the weather it is not likely that
the Federals will be able to follow at all
promptly their retreating enemies ; and we
may not, therefore, for some time hear
of movements in Virginia. All, however, as so
often observed, depends on the point respecting
which we have but presumptive evidence—the spirit
of the South. One account tells us that the Fede-
rals were welcomed at Winchester, the town not a
great way from Harper's Ferry. Other accounts
breathe nothing but Southern rage and desperation.
In the West, on both sides the Mississippi, the
gain is clearly with the Federals. In Missouri and
Arkansas the military triumphs are complete. On
the Mississippi, Columbus has now been abandoned ;
at New Madrid, further south, they have followed
the example of Columbus; and at Memphis—the
commercial capital of Tennessee, and almost on the
border of the next State, Mississippi—the inhabi-
tants seemed divided in opinion whether to burn
and quit the place or to remain and take the good
the Federals might bring them. Such a state of
things would show at least a strong and desperate
Confederate element in the place. Fresh Federal
victories are also announced in Tennessee.

As might be expected, the affair of the Merrimac
has caused Congress to make large appropriations
for the purpose of building iron-clad vessels, and
with the extraordinary energy American mechanics
and engineers have shown, we may expect that in
a very short time they will have a powerful fleet
of ironsides afloat in almost incredibly short time.
More than fifteen millions of dollars (£3,000,000)
are already voted for iron-clad gunboats, batteries,
and the requisite navy-yard works. In this kind
of work they will rapidly outstrip the South,
having so much larger manufacturing power at
their command. Meantime the Merrimac was
repairing, and we may yet hear of another brush
between her and the Monitor. The sum of the in-
telligence is, that the Confederate army in Virginia
will take a strong position about halfway between
Washington and Richmond ; that it has not with-
drawn all its troops and batteries from the Potomac
lowerthat the Federals have it all their
own way downao ;
n the Mississippi and the Border States
there ; that the Confederate troops suffer great pri-
vations, but do not yet speak of giving up; and that
the Generals FLOYD and PILLOW, who managed so
badly at Fort ])onnelson, have been suspended by
SFFFEIIB°N DAvIS. They seem well to deserve it.
Thus the struggle is still as far from showing signs
of speedy termination as ever; the South being
mystery of secrecy, that any event,
still uosst, e a
may
be announced any day.

Francis Countess of Albemarle and Colonel the
Hon. V. Cust have left town for Stoner, Newton Abbott,
Devonshire.

Viscountess Newport and Miss Anson have
returned to the Earl of Wilton's, at Melton Mowbray, from
Belvoir Castle.

Lord and Lady Forester have arrived at
Novibray. Melton