The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-06 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON, FRID NY EVENING, JUNE "6, 1862.

out to emp.loy thousands of men, but seem quite at
ease loitering along with a few hundreds. Thus at
Toulon there are four 36-gun ironsides com-
menced, and o n one of them of 300-horse power,
" a fair numbs it of men are employed," and she
is to be finished first ; but of three others we find
such accounts ViS six, or five, twenty-fourths com-
pleted—or " frame up, but very few men working
on it." So at Brest thxee are begun—but it is added
" little doing." Of one line of battle ship we are
told that she is in the same state in which she was 18
months ago. The larger proportion of the "ships,"
as Lord PALME/tSTON termed them, turn out to
be but floating batteries intended for the defence of
the months of the principal rivers, and not qualified
to go to sea at all. Five are actually but small
vessels " built in compartments and can be taken to
pieces for the purpose of easy transmission."
It is impossible to read this unquestionably im-
partial report, a report drawn up by gentlemen who
certainly would not underrate what they saw, and
not to learn a lesson or two from it. There is
obviously not a trace of rivalry of England in all
that is doing. The French Government is
bat slowly, though with steady slowness, building
what it does build, in accordance with the lessons
taught by their iron batteries before Kinburn—a
lesson our Admiralty had equally—though Sir
JOHN PAKINGTON in his wasteful zeal to " recon-
struct" the navy, perversely did it with wood,
leaving us the enormous cost rf reconstructing his
reconstruction. Had Sir JOHN been but ordina-
rily susceptible of instruction by facts, we should,
at perhaps half the cost, have been largely ahead
of France in ironsides. We are now, indeed, the
stronger, we might have been twice as strong as
we are, had not our millions been flung away by
the 'Tories on wood. Sir JOHN rubbed his eyes
indeed at last, but it was when he had a spent a
fivepenny income tax to little purposo.
We think it also clear that we ought not to re-
peat Sir JOHN'S example of a wasteful panic haste.
We have not yet, we may be quite certain, found
out all we shall soon know of iron-plated ships and
heavy ordnance. We can hardly doubt that the
French slackness in building is not merely due to
financial reasons. France wishes to profit by others'
experience. Like her, let us be as careful to avoid
building too fact, as building insufficiently. Let
us have the smallest sufficient number of the best
kind of iron-sides known, but let the PAKINGTON
folly teach us a lasting lesson of the enormous cost
of overbuilding while everything is in a transition
state. There is one result to which we must come
—we must have ships of war built, not of iron and
wood, but of iron only. Hitherto two difficulties
have stood in the way-Ist. The difficulty
of making the piates so a part of the
hull as to give strength to the vessel,
though this is said to be obviated. 2dly, The fact
that the experiments show a greater resisting
power from wood and iron combined than from iron
alone. Still, it is so certain, that a purely iron ship,
accident apart, will last for ever, while the wood
in combination with iron decays more quickly than
even wood alone—that iron hulls must be had. Till
our engineers and mechanics attain this, we ought
not to build a single superfluous ship. No candid
man will now pretend that the conduct of the
French Government requires that we should be
extravagantly hasty.

We may as well add, that what we are actually
doing in the way of constructing ironsides is ample.
On the 24th of February Lord C. PAGET said that
we had fifteen iron-plated ships built or building,
eleven of them to be afloat this year ; that in 1863
we should have another afloat, and in 1864 three
more. And these are not like the little warehoused
gunboats, or river floating batteries of the greater
part of the French ironsides, but powerful vessels,
varying from upwards of 4,000 to upwards of 6,000
tons burden. Then there is Captain CoLEs' vessel ;
and since the Merrimac and Monitor affair, orders
have been given to convert into cupola ships several
of our existing liners. We may surely feel secure
enough against any eventualities for the next year
or two.

The Heralds' College will not thank Lord LLAN-
OVER any more than Mr. ROEBUCK for advertising
the tricks of their trade. Open and recent as the
decisions of judges have been on the subject of
changing names, yet probably very few English-
men, beyond legal circles, had any idea that they
were at liberty to take any surname they pleased,
except by incurring the unknown cost of Heralds'
fees, or of an Act of Parliament. That Lord LLAN-
OVER, a law-maker, too, and technically a member
now of the highest court of appeal in the coantry,
should not know the law of the case, may well
excuse the ignorance of the rest of us. However,
whatever worth the knowledge be of, after the
amusing case which came before the House of Com-
mons last night, all Englishmen will know their
privileges. They will be aware that amongst the
other franchises enjoyed by the millions of this
happy island home, even those who have not the
electoral franchise, are free to elect a new surname.
They can be represented in society by the aristo
cratic name of HERBERT, instead of wearing out
life under the not to be identified names of SMITH,
or JONES, or ROBINSON. Nothing, on the autho-
rity of Lord Chief Justice TYNDAL, is requisite but
that a man " should cause himself to be known by
the name, and perform public acts under it,"--it is
then the judge says his real name. It is so even
for the purposes of receiving property by will, when
the testator has required the legatee to take any
name he mentions. In the case of DAVIS
V. SELBY LOWNDES, the judge observed that
" there was no necessity whatever to apply for
the license of the SOVEREIGN, which, though a
graceful deference, and a facile announcement of
the act, was no way enjoined by law. Mr.
LOWNDES had taken the name' of SELBY, which
was all the testator had required him to do
and he had 'taken' it just as legally by assuming
it and performing his public duties under it, as if he
had obtained the royal license to do so."
Now it is very natural that those who have
adopted the more costly means of giving publicity
to their aristocratic alias, should resent another's
intrusion on the same alias without payment of
aristocratic fees, being content with advertisements
in local papers, and with circulars to friends. It is
also natural that the recent acquirers of such an
aristocratic name as HERBERT should take alarm
at an invasion of that surname by the JONESES.
One JONES did it; but that JONES had married
the daughter of Lord LLANOVER ; and Mr. JONES
of Llanarth became Mr. HERBERT of Llanarth.
but when Mr. JONES of Clytha, without going
either to Parliament or to the QUEEN, set the
example of sty ling himself a HERBERT by the
cheap and easy process of advertisement, we do
Lot wonder that the Peer of the realm took the
alarm for his daughter's style and title. It seemed,
as Mr. HENLEY would say, as if there was to be
an " ugly rush" of JONESES into the Herbertcy ;
and Heaven defend the identity of the HERBERTS
of Llanarth if all the JONESES followed the ex-
ample of the JONES of Clytha. We can hardly
wonder that Lord LLANOVER wished to main-
tain the fences
and palisades of royal licenses
around the HERBERTS already within, and to
tolerate no outlying HERBERTs.
Lord LI!,A,NOYER'S friends;made as
good a defence

as might be for the displeased peer, yet most readers
will think that he laboured under two disadvan-
tages—one, ignorance of the law of the case, for
had he known this he would hardly have refused
the application of Mr. JONES for an introduction at
court, to a seat on the bench, and to rank in the militia.
The other disadvantage of temper, probably, was
the cause of the ignorance, for had he not grudged
the extension of the name of HERBERT he would
doubtless have asked his solicitor's advice, who
would have told him at once that he had
better not begin a contest over the busi-
ness. Well,—out of even Lords' mistakes good
may arise. 'Tis something to know that we may
call ourselves what we please, and that our act is as
potent we had supposed Royal letters patent, alone,
to have been. We should not be surprised if we had
quite a rush, after this, from the lists of SMITHS
and BROWNS, and from the not unfrequently almost
intolerable names which some, through no fault
of their own, inherit, to the region of euphonious
sounds, and not unpleasant meanings, and even into
that of aristocratic descent. Lord LLANOTER may
have unwittingly inaugurated a measure of Nomi-
nal Reform.

THE AMERICAN CRISIS.

LATESi NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCE OF WALES
AT MALTA.

MALTA, JUNE 6,
The Royal yacht Osborne arrived here at seven
o'clock yesterday morning.
The Doris and Magicienne followed.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales landed
at 11 a.m., amid great popular rejoicing.

The Prince will leave for Marseilles to-morrow

evening.

TURIN, JUNE 6.

In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies yester-
day Signor Inghetti (Minghetti ?) approved the
declaration of the Ministry. He considered that if
the Government was strong and the country well
organised Italy might speak loudly, and Europe
would listen.

Signori Lineo, Bertani, and Massari supported
the motion for an inquiry into late events, and
denied that the country placed confidence in the
Ministry,

ROME, JUNE 3.

The French troops have seized two waggons
laden with arms, near Albano, which were being
escorted by Pontifical gendarmes.

CASSEL, JUNE 6.

The Kasseler Zeitung of to-day says :—" The
Elector, taking into serious consideration the recon-
struction of the Ministry, has ordered Major-Gen.
Lossburg to form a new Cabinet.
The Municipal Council of Cassel has unani-
mously Toted M. Oetker the freedom of the city.:

MADRID, JUNE 5.
Eighteen ships are assembled at Alicante, it is
believed for a political purpose.
A telegram from Portugal states that troops have
been sent to repress the disturbances in the villages
of the North.

LISBON, JUNE 4.

Yesterday about 600 persons from the villages of
Mouzon and Villaduras revolted, and raised cries
of "Long live the King!" "May religion prosper !"
"Down with the taxes !"

TURIN, JUNE 5.
The formation of six new brigades of infantry has
been resolved upon.
Austria continues to despatch troops from the
Tyrol into Venetia.

The report that the Austrian army was being
reduced is unfounded. Some furloughs only have
been granted.
A great military force has been concentrated in
Venetia.

Many students have been expelled from the
University of Padua.

News has been received here from Naples that
the Canon of the Cathedral of Naples has been
condemned to lose his prebendary for showing dis-
respect towards King Victor Emmanuel.

THE HERZEGOVINA.

SCUTARI, JUNE 3.

A certain number of Montenegrins had assembled
in the village of Musterovici in the Montenegrin
district of Kalunska, to the west of the Turkish
camp. On Sunday, the Ist inst., Abdi Pasha
ordered General of Brigade Osman Pasha to drive
them from this position with six battalions, four
field-pieces, and Irregulars, under the command of
Djellal Bey. Osman Pasha attacked energetically,
but the Montenegrins, setting fire to the village,
fled in disorder.

At the same time Abdi Pasha, from his position
at Bielapavlovich, observed the approach of 8,000
to 10,000 Montenegrins, commanded by the Prince
and his father in person, who hastily marched against
Osman Pasha. He immediately despatched in that
direction two other battalions, two guns, and irre-
gular troops, following himself with one battalion,
one gun, and some Bashi-Bazouks.

Before the arrival of the Montenegrins Abdi
Pasha was able to occupy the heights behind the
village of Yenikoi, near Osman Pasha's right, where,
some days previously, a Montenegrin tower had
been razed. The Turks had scarcely taken up this
position when the Montenegrins vigorously attacked
in two divisions, approaching within 150 paces, and
sustaining the murderous fire of the Ottoman in-
fantry.
The attacks were renewed with fury on both
sides, but, although the Montenegrins succeeded for
an instant in repelling a portion of Turkish irre-
gulars, they were unable to resist the onset of the
infantry of the Ottoman line, and were forced to
beat a retreat, which soon changed into disorderly
flight to the highest mountains, pursued by. the
Turkish troops. The panic of the Montenegrins
was so great that they omitted their usual custom
of an occasional halt to fight while upon their
retreat.

The Montenegrins' loss is stated at from 500 to
60u killed, 230 of whom could not be carried away.
The Turks had 3 regulars killed and 48 wounded;
while of the irregula►s 23 were killed and 65 hurt.
A great quantity of muskets and ammunition and
three saddle horses fell into the hands of the
Turks.

FRANCE.

The Petrie of this evening says

".The report that Corbeba and Vera Cruz have
risen in insurrection is unfounded. Despatches of
the 14th ult. state that the inhabitants of Mexico
are becoming every day more favourable to the
intervention of France. The forfeiture of political
power by Juarez has been everywhere proclaimed."
BOURSE, June s.—The English funds have again
arrived with a decline of per cent. That fact has
caused a degree of heaviness in this market, and
closing rates of yesterday have been with difficulty
maintained. For the Account, Threes are now at
70f 40e. Railway Share Market quiet, and with
little variation in quotations: The market closes
as follows:-
41 per per Cents 97 30
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 35
New 3 per Cents
Do, end month 69 55
Credit Mobilier 825
Do. end month 832 50
RAILWAYS.

Bank Shares 3125
Credit 1. oncier 1620
Belgian 4t —
Piedmontesc Fives 72
Italian Loan 7l 95
Austrian
Spanish Threes 52 50
Home Debt

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1295 1300
Northern
New ditto • •
Lyons and Mediterranean 1103 75 .. 1112 50
Geneva..
Southern ..
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lon•bard ......

851 25 855 --
553 75 .. 551 25
562 50 .. 562 50

618 75 .. 518 75
613 75 .. 613 75

GREECE.

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There is a Ministerial crisis at Athens. All the
members of the Miaoulis Ministry have tendered
their resignation. The King is undecided. He
hesitates to form a Ministry out of the Opposition,
and he cannot find any man of mark to take upon
himself the responsibility of Government.

The Egyptian yacht Faid Gahaad, moored at the
Royal Arsenal-pier, Woolwich, is undergoing some altera-
tions in her machinery at the hands of the artisans of the
Royal gun factory, special permission having been accorded
for that purpose° by the Secretary of State for 'War. A
number of surface condensers and improved steam pipes
were yesterday taken on board. The Pasha yesterday sent
information to the authorities of the Arsenal that he should
most probably inspect the department this afternoon, ac-
cording to the intention expressed by the Hon. Mr. Murray
on his arrival. A guard of police is stationed at the en-
trance of the pier, with strict orders to prevent any person
whatever approaching the platform, or interfering with his
Highness's privacy, for which purpose a curtain has been
hung along the whole length of the bulwarks facing 41°
pier,