The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-26 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR.

Mr. John Rennie, in a letter to a contemporary,
says :—" I have seen with much pleasure, in the
"Naval and Military" article of your journal of this
day, that, in their report on Portsmouth harbour of
last month, Messrs. Taylor and Davis, masters of
Royal Navy, say—' In the fair-way channel there
is a depth of 17 ft. at low water of spring tides, of
27 ft. at high water of neap tides, and of 30 ft. at
high water of spring tides ;' and that the report also
states that there are no indications of travelling
shingle, that the sides of the cut have not caved in,
and there are no symptoms,to render it prudent to
desist from dredging a still deeper channel. On the
contrary, there is every encouragement to dredge
at once for a depth of 20 ft. at lower water of spring
tides, or 30 ft. at high water of neaps. To effect
this the shingle forming the bar will have to be
removed at an average depth of 2 ft. 4 in., which
gives about 41,000 cubic yards for dredging, the esti-
mated cost of which would be about £3,500' The
above successful result completely establishes the
correctness of the opinion contained in the report
of the late Joseph Whielbey, Captain Foulerton, of
the Trinity-house, Mr. Ralph Walker, and myself,
to the Admiralty, dated the 16th of January, 1823,
wherein we recommended that the above shoal, at
the entrance of Portsmouth harbour, should be re-
moved by dredging, which, unfortunately, was not
adopted for many years afterwards. Portsmouth
harbour may be still further greatly improved by
adopting the plan set forth in the report of Mr.
Johh Murray and myself to the Admiralty, dated
the 27th of January last—namely, by constructing
a properly-designed sluice with locks across the
entrance of Langston harbour, so that the vast addi-
tional quantity of tidal water contained in Langston
harbour may be diverted at pleasure to any extent
required through Portsmouth harbour, and thus,
combined with the operation of dredging, net only
the bar but the whole of the harbour in front of the
dockyard may be scoured out and deepened to a
much greater extent—which is required for the
general purposes of the navy at Portsmouth."

The Algerian journals state that last week. a
violent shock of earthquake, which lasted about three
seconds, took place at Relizane, in the provineei‘f-Oran,
the noise made resembling that of a train entering a tun-
nel. Bottles and other utensils were thrown down from
the shelves in the hoases, the wainscots disjointed, and the
vh,:ocv. Li.° w,Ans net-inched. A number of houses were
cracked, and among them the barracks of the Gendarmes.
The direction of the movement appeared to be from the
south-west to the south-east, that is, coming from Mascara.
Since the morning, the sky had been cloudy and the wea-
ther close.

A Breslau letter states that lately, at the theatre
of that place, when Schiller's " Maid of Orleans" was being
performed, the words of Dunois, "The nation is base that
does not sacrifice all to honour," here hailed with enthu-
siastic acclamations; and on the declaration of Charles
VII., that " Kings hold their crowns only by the grace of
God," being uttered, 50 or 60 students burst out into a loud
fit of laughter.

Advices from Warsaw state that the whole of
the railway is new open from that city to St. Petesburg, and
trains run regularly between those two places.
THE SHEFFIELD CEMETERY DISCLOSURES.—
Isaac Howard, the sexton at Wardsend Cemetery, was
again brought before the Sheffield bench, yesterday, on the
charge of disinterring bodies. Fresh evidence having
been adduced, Howard said—l acted entirely under Mr.
Livesey's directions—(sensation)—and never otherwise.
In the latter part of 1861, Mr. Livesey told me to disinter
the bodies of those interred in 1857 and 1858, and remove
them into the catacomb. These were all children. Mr.
Livesey entered all the bodies that were disinterred in the
register, and the books will explain where they came from.
I believe Mr. Livesey did this under the belief that all the
children had gone to dust. I disinterred these bodies with
all the care I could. The books will show how many were
removed and who they are. The prisoner was committed
for trial. Bail was allowed—the prisoner's own recog-
nisances in £2OO, and two sureties in £lOO each.
The Bohemia of Prague of the 20th says:—
" Having been the first to speak of the application made by
the Prince of Croy-Chanel to the Cardinal Primate, we
have just been officially informed that the Emperor Francis
Joseph has ordered that the mortal remains of the old King
of Hungary, of the race of the Arpad, Bela 111., and his
wife, Anna Commene, shall be suitably deposited in the
cathedral of Buda. We cannot too highly commend this
religious determination of the head of the house of Haps-
burg, who thus gives satisfaction to a national feeling."

" I have turned many a woman's head," boasted
a young nobleman of France. "Yes," replied Talleyrand,
" away from you."
How foolish for a man to sell his brains for the
sake of pleasing a little place in the bottom of his mouth,
not too inches square I

A lady at Algiers has just been condemned to 50f.
fine, for sending two 100 f. notes in a non-registered letter,
The lady had affixed the fire sells required for a registered
letter, but fearing to lose the post threw the letter into the
box without completing the formality of registration.
Vicomte Flelion de Barreme has been cited to
afppoai before the Tribunal of Correctional Police of Nice,
." having caused a pamphlet, entitled " De Libertate," to
tnheeplrinted and distributed, that work being considered by
tempavr authorities of a nature to excite hatred and con-
t against the Government, and discord among the
people.

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PROGRESS OF TELEGRAPHY.—A plan for the
better detection and prevention of crime in Ireland has
been laid, within the last few days, before the Irish exe-
cutive. It is proposed to connect the police barracks of
Ireland by telegraphic wires, thereby enabling the consta-
bulary to encircle any district where a crime is committed
the moment information reaches them. Agrarian and other
offences are generally perpetrated by strangers hired from
a distance, who at present have trme to escape back to their
own districts before they can be intercepted by the police,
hence the necessity of' a rapid communication between the
police barracks. For this purpose mounted constabulary
are kept at present at a cost of about £40,000 per annum
whose services, it is assumed, might be dispensed with by
the substitution of telegraphic wire, which can be laid at a
very small expense compared with that incurred for the
1 horse police.