The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-25 00:00:00

Portsmouth Dockyard,

Our chief naval establishment at Portsmouth at
the present time contains afloat on the magnifieent
water space of its harbour, alongside the jetties of
its dockyard, in its two basins, and its few avail-
able docks, vessels that:stand on the active list of the
Admiralty official Navy List, and therefore exclusive
of hulks or other vessels for harbour duty only,
having an aggregate tonnage of some 122,000, and
possessing a nominal engine power of upwards of
35,000 horse. Neither are there included in this
immense force the screw wooden gunboats in com-
mission in the port or those in reserve—the latter
consisting of six of 60-horse power in the First Di-
vision of the Steam Reserve, seven of 20-horse power
in the Third Division, and two of 60-horse power in
the Fourth Division, the latter being two of the im-
proved class of gunboats. In the presence of this large
amount of tonnage and engine power, Portsmouth
dockyard, with its two basins, its ten docks, five build-
ing slips, vast smithery, foundries and workshops, its
charges in the Navy Estimates for nearly £173,000
for officers' salaries and allowances, wages to arti-
ficers, gas, contingencies, &c., might be expected
just now to be one of the busiest centres of naval ife

Ln the world, and that its basins and docks must be
full of ships and its building sheds resounding with

the clang of the workmen's tools creating new ves-
sels to suit future wants. No idea could well be more

fallacious than such a one. Not a piece of iron or
timber for the construction of vessels lies under the
capacious sheds of its building slips, which are thus
giving no return for the capital expended on their
construction ; nor are its docks or the waters of its
two basins occupied to their full extent. The empti-
ness of the slipways may be set down to the super-
ession of wood by iron in the building of fleets for

the future ; and the partial occupation of the docks
and basins to their entire incapacity, for want of
length, breadth, and depth to meet present require-
ments. and the consequent necessary alterations which
they are now undergoing, so far as their design and
position will admit of its being done. A brief walk
round Portsmouth dockyard will best describe the
work in hand, so fas as relates to the shipping and
the accommodation afforded to the ships by the
basins, docks, and jetties. The steam basin itself,
completed in 1848, and having a wharfage of 950 ft.,
's6oft., 597 ft., and 450 ft. respectively on its four
inner faces, has been but a short time again avail-
able, having been dried out for nearly three months
to deepen the water over its floor, and will shortly
have to be dried out again to admit of some required
alterations being made to the aprons and entrances,
&c., of its communicating docks. At present only the
wooden frigate Mersey, 3,733 tons and 1,000-horse
power, lies within the ample space of this basin. She
is undergoing very extensive repairs preparatory to
joining the First-class Reserve for commission. In
the second basin—the old ship-fitting basin—lies the
Calcutta sailing line-of-battle ship, fitting as a prac-
tice tender to the Excellent gunnery ship, in lieu
of the old Illustrious, now rotten and shaken to
pieces by the firing of the ordnance on her decks.
The Calcutta is a fine, sound, teak-built ship, and
is being fitted for her future service with every care
for her efficiency as a gunnery ship, and also for ,
the personal comfort of the officers and men who
may be on board of her: Besides the Calcutta are

the Thunderer, target ship, the Minstrel, gunboat,
and the Laurel, hulk. The Thunderer has been
cut down to her lower deck ports and fitted amid-
ships with an iron-sided and floored roofless room,
25ft. in length and the width of the ship, in which
all armour-plates tested at the port will in future be
tested, the muzzles of the guns being 25ft. from the
faces of the plates under trial when fired. The Laurel
hulk is placed here for the use of the crews of the
ships in the adjacent docks as a washhouse.
No. 1 dock, 228 ft. in length, contains the Advice,
a small paddle steamer of 197 tons, placed there
yesterday to clean and repair her bottom. No. 2
dock, 221 ft. in length, containing the Furious—the
last of the paddle war ships in Portsmouth harbour

—a vessel of 1,287 tons and 400-horse power, un-
dergoing survey for repair. In No. 3 dock, 251 ft.
in length, is the Royal Alfred, now converting a
second time to an iron-cased ship, and intended to
carry ten 300-pounder rifled 12-ton guns, if they
are ever made for her. The ship is all to pieces in-
board at present, but the work is being pushed on
as rapidly as shipwrights can be expected to do where
they have more iron than wood to deal with. Ten
large port-holes, about 9ft. by Bft., are being pre-
pared for each of her ports. These will be hammered
into one piece, with the port in their centre, will be
of great weight, and, resting on the outer skin of
the wooden hull (let in on the planking), will afford
great support to the armour-plating round the
ports. In No. 4 dock, which is 206 ft. in length, is
the iron screw troop ship Simoom, receiving a
thorough overhaul in hull and machinery, and other-
wise preparing for commission by Capt. Lethbridge;
an officer who, as commander of her Majesty's
screw troopship Adventure, was held in high esteem
by the military authorities of the south-west and
other military districts. The Simoom is a fine
capacious ship of 1,989 tons and 400-horse power
engines. In No. 5 dock, of 204 ft. length, is the
Pearl, screw wooden corvette of 1,469 tons and 400
horse power, just completing in one of those exten-
sive repairs lately referred to by Mr. Seely in the

House of Commons as exceeding in total cost the
original purchase. The Pearl will be a very useful
class of vessel, but she has no speed. In No. 6 dock,
190 ft. in length, is the new gunboat Cherub, ordered
to undock on the 22d inst. No. 7 dock, which is a
continuance of No. 10 (forming together the south
entrance to the steam basin from the harbour) is
now undergoing a deepening of its floor of sft, and
is, therefore, non-available. No. 8 is in temporary
use by the Orontes screw troopship, Capt. H. Hire,
which has been recoated below the water-line with
pigment non-fouling, &c., compositions, and is or-
dered to be undocked on the 24th inst. It is some-
what curious that these new iron screw troopships
should require so often docking. The new troop
galley constructed on the dockyard plan and fitted
on board the Orontes during the past summer is con-
sidered out of repair. This is said to be owing:to:the
large fires which are requisite to give the requisite
heat for cooking with it; in boiling and baling the
consumption of fuel averaging nearly 15cwt. per day,
and fires have to be lighted by 2 a.m. each day to
get the ten's breakfasts ready by regulation time.

These are serious defects, and yet the Admiralty or-
dered one of these galleys to be placed on board the
Edgar prior to her sailing for Lisbon. 'As a contrast
to this it is but fair to notice the galley placed by
the Admiralty orders on board the Duke of Welling-
ton training ship on the planpatented by Mr. Grant,
superintending storekeeper of the Royal Clarence
Victualling-yard, Gosport. This galley has proved
a perfect success, both in point of time ocmpied in
cooking and in consumption of fuel. Since it has
been placed on board upwards of 40,000 rations- of
soft bread have been baked by it for the use of the
crew. Its average daily consumption of fuel is less
than scwt. With these facts it is almost inexpli-
cable why the Admiralty do not generally adopt
it in her Majesty's ships. To return more im-
mediately to the docks : No. 9, 250 feet in length,
is used as a breaking-up dock, and now contains
the Alfred, late a target and experimental firing
ship for the gunnery ship Excellent. The Alfred was
the first vessel made use of in England as a target-
ship for testing guns and armour-plates, and during
the time she has been breaking up in No. 9 not only
have pieces of iron and steel of all forms and sizes
been removed from her frame, but several live shells
have been found embedded in her frame, and have
necessarily been removed with every care and re-
turned to the gunnery ship Excellent. No. 10 dock
contains the new paddle despatch vessel Helicon,
preparing for her trial and commission. No. 11 is
a dock still in the hands of the contractors and
about four-fifths completed, and, therefore, will be
for some time to come yet unavailable for service.
The building slipways of the yard, as we have already
observed, are vacant, the last vessel launched from
them being the Helicon, now fitting for commission
in No. 10 dock. Alongside the jetties of the yard
are lashed the Minotaur, Valiant, Warrior, Salamis,
Osborne, Lightning, and America target-ship.
The Minotaur is our latest iron frigate from the
Thames, and handsome as she undoubtedly is in her
hull, she is certainly unsurpassed for ugliness in her
spars and rigging aloft, where her five masts, 12
crossedyards, and compound tracery of rigging seem
to have been designed for the special purpose of
affording a certain mark to an enemy's shot in action
and an equal certainty of fouling the screw of the
ship when knocked away and overboirci. It is un-
derstood that the Admiralty have decided already on
substituting single for her double topsail yards, with
fidded topgallantmasts to her topmasts. The ship
has been sparred and rigged on theoretical, but most
certainly not on practical principles. But two out
the four blades are yet fitted to the Minotaur's
screw, and therefore, for this as well as other reasons,
the ship will have to be placed in dock before she can
make any trial of her speed. She may equal the
Warrior in point of speed, but it is not expected she
can excel her. Three of the 12k ton smooth-bore
150-pounder guns for the Minotaur have been landed
at the dockyard by one of the Ordnance steam
transports from Woolwich. The Valiant iron frigate,
a sister vessel to the Hector, is completing alongside
the jetty north of the Minotaur for trial and com-
mission, and ahead of the Valiant lies the renowned
and as yet unsurpassed Warrior, cleared out and
dismasted, and waiting to be taken in hand by the
dockyard authorities for repairs and refit. For this
purpose she will be floated into the steam basin, if
practicable, on the 25th inst. The shipshould have
been in the steam basin months since, but the
deepening of the basin's floor rendered the delay
which has thus occurred unavoidable.

Just ahead of the Warrior lies the Salamis, pre-
paring for foreign service—most probably in the Dar-
danelles, in attendance on the British Ambassador at
the Court of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan, but
with her boilers requiring some repairs ; and next
the Salamis lies the Royal paddle yacht Osborne,
Commander John D'Arcy, completing the renova-
tion of deck and cabins for the service of Royalty.
At the extremity of the yard lie the Lightning,
paddle steamer, and the American target ship—the
former waiting a chance to enter the steam basin and
the latter her turn of entrance to the breaking-up
dock, having finished her career as a target-ship.
Off in the harbour, mid-channel, the Royal
paddle-yacht Victoria and Albert is lying at her
moorings, preparing for a voyage to Dublin with
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and wait-
ing for ontranee to a dock, which she cannot obtain
before the 25th inst. The Octavia frigate, fitted
with experimental engines, lies lashed alongside a
hulk off the dockyard, rigged, armed, and stored in
readiness for commission. She is a Symondite-built
wooden frigate, of 3,161 tons, and 500-horse power
engines, and carries the bow with which she was,
originally constructed. Rumour assigns as her
future captain, Captain M. Connolly, some time
since commanding the Sutlej, as flag captain to
Rear-Admiral J. Kingcombe. Besides the work thus
going on in the different vessels we have enumerated
in the basins, docks, and alongside the jetties of
Portsmouth dockyard, there is certainly other
going on in generally unnoticed places in the
nooks and by-ways of the Master-Shipwright's
department, in the foundries, the smithery, the
mast-sheds, the boat-houses, and a score of other
places ; but it is an indisputable fact that the pro-
gress made in this description of work since the in-
troduction of iron in a greater extent in a ship's con-
structfon has fallen in the proportionate ratio in
which iron has superseded wood. In the steam
factory department the organisation is more perfect
than in any other department of the yard, and the
results are necessarily the more satisfactory ; and
even the casual visitor walks through its long vista
of workshops, where he sees every inch of space oc-
cupied by labouring machinery and its attendants,
with far greater satisfaction than he does past the
basins, docks, and wharves or jetties, with their
forced inactivity and the evident languor of mind
and body they evidently impress upon all who ap-
proach them.
Portsmouth dockyard possesses a collection of
models of ships from a very early date, and a goodly
and most interesting collection of records ; but even
in these matters no care has been taken for the
future. Ships of ancient lineage are shown in side
models, but without name or date of build ; for no
record has been kept until late years of the doings of
past naval architects in the mould loft, nor has any
record been kept or books or documents of past
times. -As-with the docks and basins, so it has been
with all things, besides, in the yard, and the ancient
motto inscribed over its gate was doubtless " Rest
and be thankful."

APPREHENSION OF A SUSPECTED MURDERER..---At
an early hour on Friday morning a telegram was re-,
ceived in Glasgow from the chief constable of St. Helen's,
a town about 12 miles from Liverpool, which intimated
that a young man named James Dickenson, a bottlemaker,
aged about 22, had loft Liverpool on Thursday by the
Liverpool and Glasgow steamer Princess Royal, and that
ho was wanted on the charge of having caused the death
of a young man named Edward Rowson,.by drowning. De-
tective Donnelly and Sergeant Muir were at once despatched
to await the arrival of the steamer. So soon as the Princess
Royal was moored alongside the quay, Donelly went
aboard, and among the crowd of passengers he speedily
espied his man, who was standing in the centre of a group
in the forecastle of the ship. Upon going up to him and
asking if his name was " Car bell," the prisoner replied
that it was not, and stated that he came from St. Helen's
near Liverpool. Upon being informed of the nature of the
charge which was laid against him, he became greatly
agitated, but declared his innocence of the crime. He sub-
sequently stated, however, when being searched at the
police-station, that he was in company with the deceased
Edward Rowson on the night he was drowned, and that
they had both been drinking to excess. After three o'clock
in the morning, the prisoner and deceased were going home
together, when the prisoner left his companion for a few
minutes for a private purpose ; and that, upon his return
to the spot where he had left Rowson, he found that he
was gone. Ho continued to shout his name for some time,
but receiving no answer, he went home. Tho prisoner is a
light-built young man, and has a frank, honest countenance.
A telegram was immediately despatched to inform the
authorities at St. Helen's of the capture.—North British

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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TIMES.—Among the saddest of spectacles is that
of youth stricken down by an untimely fate. Still
more is the imagination affected when Death knocks
at the doors of Kings and summons away the inheri-
tor of a mighty name, unbounded power, and untold
wealth. The untimely decease of the young Czare-
witch will not only throw a great Empire into mourn-
ing, but will call forth regret and pity wherever the
news is heard. In the first freshness of youth,
betrothed to a Princess whose qualities promised
him every happiness, with a Throne for an heritage
and the half of two continents as a dominion, he has
died at the early age of 21 years. Nicholas Alexan-
drowitch was born on the Bth (20th) of September,
1843, and was named after his grandfather, then
the most powerful Sovereign in the world, and the
accepted arbiter of Central and Eastern Europe.
His short life has been divided into two periods by
a great war and by a social and political revolution.
His earliest lessons were those which every Russian
Prince or noble was taught during the reign of the
late Czar. An iron rule at home, a high-handed
and domineering policy abroad, both founded on a
belief in the irresistibility of the Imperial power,
must have filled the delicate child with strange
notions of the destinies to which he was called.
But he had grown from boyhood to manhood
under milder auspices. Russia, worsted in a con-
test with Europe, has been engaged for the last ten
years in effecting those internal reforms which
Nicholas despised, but which a wiser, because a
more humane, policy has now accepted. In his
father's Court he had all the advantages which able.
and zealous instructors could confer, and might
have learnt the art of government by watching his
country while passing through the most momentous
change in its annals. To his temperament the new
state of things would have been more fitting than the
old. He was little qualified to wield the power which
his grandfather loved, to face Europe with his hand
on his sword, ready to throw it into the balance
whenever any one dared to measure rights with him.
But such an Emperor as his father is the young
Nicholas might have been. An Emperor of Russia
is not necessarily a barbaric chieftain who must hold
sway and awe mankind by the sternness of his
aspect or the obstinacy of his will. The progress
from military despotism to civilisation and to the
rudiments of constitutional freedom which must be
made by Russia during the next generation might
have been, perhaps, advantageously effected under
the sovereignty of this Prince. Power might have
naturally been transferred from the Throne to the
people, and the cause of good government might
have been advanced by the reign of one who had not
the energy nor the taste to be a stern military ruler.
But all speculations on the talents and character of
the young Czarewitch are now at an end. For some
time his recovery had been hopeless, and such have
been the sufferings of the patient that it is almost a
relief to know they are over. His death has been
accompanied with the most touchingincidents. From
his northern capital, the Czar has hurried across
Europe to his son's sick bed. He arrived in Paris,
attended by the chief dignitaries of the empire, whom
the solemnity of Muscovite traditions required to be
present at the closing scene. In profound depression
he met the French Emperor, exchanged with him a
few words of courtesy, received the condolences
which Napoleon offered in his own name and the
name of France, and then without delay continued
his journey to Nice. He arrived in time to see his
son alive and to be recognised by him. The Princess
Dagmar, who, with her mother, the Queen of Den-
mark, had repaired to the bedside of her betrothed,
was also able to take a last farewell. It seems but
the other day that among the instances of good for-
tune which had occurred to the Danish family the
prospective union between this young lady and the
heir to the Russian throne was recorded. Since that
time fate has borne hardly upon her father, and now
it has struck at her own hopes. There are few in-
stances of such bright expectations so suddenly
clouded. The heir to the throne is now the Grand
Duke Alexander, who was born on the 10th of
March, 1845. This Prince is said not to have robust
health, and it is no secret that for some time there
have been speculations as to the probability of the
claims of both the Czar's elder sons being postponed
to those of the Grand Duke Vladimir, the third son,
who is just eighteeen years of age. In Russia the
claims of birth have never had that sanctity which
belongs to them in Western Europe. Like the
Eastern nations generally the Russians have an
extraordinary reverence for the reigning house or
race,but little care about setting aside an individual
member of it. Not to mention the revolutions and
dethronements of former times, there is a direct
precedent for passing over an heir in the succession
of Nicholas, in 1825, in preference to his elder
brother, Constantine. But there is time enough for
these considerations. The present Czar is in the
prime of life, and we may hope that long before the
Empire need think of his successor the new Czare-
witch may have outgrown any feebleness which at-
taches to his youth, and have gained health and
strength for his high functions. For the present we
can only express our sympathy with the afflicted
Sovereign and his family. Neither the rivalries and
distrust which have marked the relations of Eng-
land and Russia, nor the war in which they were
engaged a few years since, can blind this nation to
the greatness of the Russian people, the power of
their ruler for good, and the praiseworthy objects
which the present Czar has desired to accomplish.
For one of the most meritorious Sovereigns of
Europe, governing a race which is rapidly advancing
in civilisation and power, the English people must
feel due respect, and the death of his son will bid
them lay aside international jealousies, and join the
remotest populatlons of Asia in their condolence.
Judging by the past, Russia will never want a ruler
capable of the arduous duty of governing her. Ex-
traordinary men and even more extraordinary
women have attained to the throne and have done
their part successively in bringing the most secluded
races of the world into the light of knowledge and
civilisation. Whatever ill-fortune may fall upon
the Imperial family, there will be always some scion
found to continue its magnificent traditions. This
is the best consolation that can be given to a pa-
triotic and high-spirited Prince. One child may be
taken from him, but the stock is not likely to fail.
The present loss may be hard to bear, but the
father's grief need not be mingled with fears for the
future destinies of the State.

HERALD.—The surrender of Lee is not only the
greatest misfortune that has yet happened to the
South, it is the crowning disaster, in which we seem
to see the end of all. The tumultuous wave of
Northern aggression has at last swept down before
it that proud and towering cliff against which for
four long years it has dashed itself in vain. At the
close of the fourth year of the war the North has
prevailed—as we all along feared it would, but
hoped it might not. And is it, then, all over with
the Southern people? Have all their sacrifices, all
their heroism, alltheir long-drawn agony of four
years past, been in vain ? The very thought is
enough to call up a blush of shame into the cheek of
a man who is accustomed to boast of his age, who
believes in the march of mind in the 19th century.
The spectacle of the fall of a brave nation which
has struggled for its independence as the South has
struggled is a sight at which angels might hide their
faces, at which men might shed tears of blood. It
is one thing to admit that the Confederates have
been worsted in battle, it is quite another thing to
allow that they have been subjugated. The Indian
Prince refused to believe in ice, and according to his
light was justified in his unbelief. Until the matter
has received the most absolute demonstration we
r
_refuse to accept as a fact what is contrary to our
experience and subversive of all the lessons of history.
A great nation never seems so great as when in the
hour of its triumph it knows how to_ extend mode-
ration to a vanquished enemy. It is by following
such a policy that the great nations of Europe have
more than once in late years secured at the same
moment the fruits of victory and the profit of mag-
nanimity which is to make friends of foes. The
French and English, after the fall of Sebastopol;
offered terms to Russia which she could accept with-
out humiliation. Napoleon 111., after the crowning
victory at Solferino, gave everything back to Aus-
tria except the half of Lombardy which she could
no longer defend. It is neither the duty nor to
the interest of the North at this juncture that
it should press hard terms upon its enemy.
The choice is open to it of accepting a com -
promise of some sort, or driving the South to a point
of desperation in which it will call to its aid all the
resources of despair to enable it to prolong t
is .he con-
test on the most unequal terms. There still left a
Confederate army, which is said to number as many
as 150,000 men in the field. That army may retreat
beyond the Mississippi, and carry on the war in
Arkansas, Western Louisiana, and Texas. If the
worst comes to the worst, the defenders of the lost
Confederacy may cross the Rio Grande and offer
their swords to the Emperor Maximilian in Mexico.
Armed bands of guerillas, sallying forth from the
mountains, finding a refuge in the swamps, be-
friended by cottagers and planters in every State of
the South, may prey upon the Federal commerce,
cut off in detail the Federal garrisons, and keep up
the war ina desultory and predatory fashion. The
opportunities of Southern resistance are not yet
over, and by continuing the war in some fashion or
another the South may yet succeed in tiring out its
foes. The President of the North will now probably
issue a proclamation and an amnesty, and attempt
to dictate, after the lordly fashion of a conqueror,
the terms on which the Southern States may re-
enter the Union. The attempt at reconstruction is,
nevertheless, Quixotic and absurd. The difficulties
of the North, so far from being at an end, are but
beginning. The very idea of a Federal Union places
all the States which compose it on a footing of

equality. The fundamental dogma of -the American
constitution is, that the right to govern consists in
the consent of the governed. How can the Southern
States be received back without allowing them the
same status as the Northern States ? How, even
after their failure in the field, calf any government
be imposed upon them without their consent? Either
the North must hold them down in perpetuity by,
force of arms, or it must withdraw its garrisons an
a
leave them their freedom of action. In the first case,
it will be impoverished by the necessity of keeping 11P
an army of half a million of men, while the penee,
which it seeks for will be a chronic state of civil
war ; in the other case the act of re-union will be
speedily stultified by new resolutions of secession.
The reunion of the several states is still practicalli
as utter an impossibility as it has been at any tine
since the commencement of the war. If the Norfn
should take advantage of the weak condition of the
South to offer terms which should combine the
prospect of an immediate and practical benefit to
the States north of the Potomac, with such an
amount of acceptability as that the South would be
likely to accede to them without arriere pensee, then
indeed there might be peace, and every soldier on
each side of the boundary might return to his how e;
An absolute cession of the great Border States of
Virginia, Kentucky,. Tennessee, and Missouri—an
alliance, offensive and defensive, between the sec'
tions of the Union, which, for most practical pur-
poses, would be again one people—a scheme of CO'l'
mon action in regard to foreign affairs, and the
ambitious policy which incites Americans of both
sections to territorial aggrandisement at the expense
of the great Powers of Europe ; the maintenance °A
a restrictive tariff on European manufactures, and
absolute freedom of trade between North and South;
the abolition of slavery, and the substitution of some
regulated system of negro labour on plantations ;
these are terms which the South might accePtt
although with reluctance. The result would be the
actual, if not the literal, restoration of the Union'
and the opening of a grand future to the America"
Powers. The mistake which the North is too rikei
to commit is, that in stretching after the shadow .it
will lose the substance ; in seeking to humiliate 151
enemy it will mar its own prospects and accorePlis
the ruin of both. A peace between the North and
South, an affiance, federation, reunion, or recew
struction of any sort, however much to be desired on
.
philanthropic grounds, would certainly be the worsb
thing that could happen to England. Our Go-
vernment has done everything that it can to
discourage the Confederates. It cannot blame
them now if they should seek to bury the past
making common cause with their late enemies
against us. The proclamation of Mr. Lincoln,
closing all the conquered ports of the South against
European trade, is a proof of the unamiable teroPf;
in which he regards us, of the scanty gratituu
which our Ministers may expect for their neutralitt
The recognition of the South at the time whell.,r
star was in the ascendant would in all probabwl
have put an end to the war, and have made
American unions instead of one—two nations wnicl
by their rivalry, would have held each other,
check, of which one at least would have offered 11;
a lucrative commerce, and which would never have
combined against Canada or Mexico. The blued t
committed by our rulers may have been though
excusable when its possible results seemed too remote
to be discussed. These results are now imminend
and threaten to be of the utmost gravity. It 111'4
tax all the wisdom of our rulers, all the resources ,4
our country ; it may cost us hundreds of millions
money and thousands of lives to avert--if we e3n
indeed avert it—the danger which the supineness
has
timidity of Lord Palmerston's Government no
brought down upon our heads or bequeathed a 8
incubus to our posterity.