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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1862,

PUBLICATIONS.

Now ready, in 2 vols., with Portraits, 215.,
DOWN SOUTH ; OR, AN ENGLISHMAN'S
EXPERIENCE AT THE SEAT OF WAR IN AMERICA,
By S. PHILLIPS DAY, Esq., Special Correspondent of the
" Morning Herald."
"This publication is peculiarly interesting, and in every
respect acceptable. Mr. Day gives us personal and biogra-
phical delineations of the prindpal actors in the secession,
such as Jefferson Davis, the President, Alexander Stephens,
theVice-President, Robe' t Mercer Hunter, Secretary of State'
Howell Cobb, President of the Congress, General Beauregard,
&c. Mr. Day's lively and spirited sketches will be found
amusing in the highest sense of the term."—Illustrated
News.

NEW EDITIONS.
Cloth, 2s.
TALES, CONVERSATIONS, AND EASY
LESSONS, FROM HISTORY; with Questions. Being
the First Volume of the " Instructor."

Cloth, 2s.

LESSONS ON HOUSES, FURNITURE,
FOOD, AND CLOTHING ; with, Questions. Being the
Second Volume of the "Instructor.'

Cloth, 2s.

LESSONS ON THE UNIVERSE, ANIMAL,
VEGETABLE, AND MINERAL KINGDOMS, AND
HUMAN FORM ; with Questions. Being the Third Volume
of the "Instructor."

Cloth, 2s.

BOOK OF THE CALENDAR, THE MONTHS,
AND THE SEASONS ; with Questions. Being the Fourth
Volume of the "Instructor."

Cloth, 2s.

DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY, with Statis-
tics of the various Countries and Division*; with Questions.
Being the Fifth Volume of the " Instructor.'
Cloth, 2s.
ELEMENTS OF ANCIENT HISTORY; with
Questions. Being the Sixth Volume of the "Instructor."

Cloth 25.
ELEMENTS OF MOD,ERN HISTORY; with
Questions. Being the Seventh Volume of the "Instructor."
London : Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand.

MR. CHARLES KENT'S NEW POEMS.
Just published,

DR EA M LAN D. With other Poems,
By W. CHARLES KENT, Barrister-at-Law.

Fcap. Bvo., price 58.

" Mr. Kent has undeniable merits—warm and high-toned
feeling, a pleasant combination of grace and humour, and no
small power to individualise. Pope at Twickenham' is a
cabinet picture. Marianne' will commend itself to all
mothers by its gush of parental tenderness, and its acquaint-
ance with baby wiles and mysteries. Fructidor' shows what
Dutch fidelity of word painting the author can master when
he tries. His fruit is as vivid and well characterised as if
Lance had painted it."—Athenaeum.

"The charm of Mr. Kent's poetry, as it is the first condi-
tion of success to all poets, Is that he is in sympathy with his
subject and not only with himself ; that he is truly poet and
not egotist. Brit it is by no means his only merit. He is a mas-
ter of versification. The flow or his verse is smooth and me-
lodious, and enriched with a copious and ornate vocabulary.
`Shelley at Marlow' is a painting exquisitely delicate. The
vision of Shelley with which Mr. Kent presents us is almost
perfect. 'DREAMLAND' is a work conceived in a noble
spirit, and executed with scholarly taste, frequently with
flashes of true poetic inspiration. 6f he Dying Bridegroom'
is distinguished by a genuine pathos, which leads us to be-
lieve that Mr. Kent would succeed eminently in some story
of the affections."—The London Review.

"Mr. Kent's poems come before the world with the advan-
tage, not only of an author's name, but of a name already
agreeably and musically known in the metrical literature of
the day. Ills 'Aletheia' was very favourably received by the
public, and has no doubt been the companion of many
thoughtful readers who will gladly welcome another volume
from his pen. A series of portraits drawn with true poetic
sympathy and veneration, The best of all, we think, is that
of Scott. There is something in the lines that will remind
the reader of the chime of Scott's own verse."—John Bull.

" Verses, many of them extremely tender and harmonious,
and all indicating a mind carefully cultured and imbued with
ele,rant tastes." - Daily News.

ALETHEIA ; OR, THE Doom OF MYTHOLOGY.
With Other Poems. By the same Author. New Edition,
Fcap, Bvo., price ss.
London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts.

THE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE
fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S

- -
" GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES."
The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex-
perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in busi-
ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive.
intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all
is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully
examined in J. Grosemith's "Government upon First Prin-
ciples."

Sent and Co., Paternoster-row.

Justypublished, Bvo, in cloth, price 55., by post free, 55. 6d.,
(IN THE SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT of
V STRICTURES of the URETHRA; showing why they
so often appear Incurable, when hi reality they might be
removed by the most simple means.
By F. B. COURTENAY,

And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the
Cure of Strictures of the Urethra.

" This work is the production of a surgeon whose special
attention has been directed, through a long professional life,
to the treatment of strictures of the urethra. The cases
which Mr. Courtenay has given supply ample evidence of his
great discriminative power in the diagnosis of the various
kinds of stricture, and of the scientific principles upon which
their management is founded. By his systematic management
an immense mitigation of pain to the unhappy sufferers is
attained, and future mischief prevented. The work we can
most unreservedly and confidently recommend as a valuable
contribution, both to the general and professional reader, and
ought to be found in the private study of all who are subject
to stricture."—Aedical Circular.

obliged to confess that he had fallen into error in his state-
ment on this point. But the noble and learned lord was
more inaccurate than he thought he was. He (Lord Chelms-
ford) felt sure that the noble and learned lord was wrong at
the time he was speaking, but ho would not take upon him-
self at the moment. to correct him. They had now before
them, however, the act of Parliament, and it appeared from
it that there were three cases where a jury could be sum-
moned without the demand of a lunatic. Those cases
were provided for by the 41st, 42d, 43d, and 45th sections
of the act, which distinctly pointed out that the inquiry
might take place before a jury. First, where the Lord
Chancellor was of that opinion ; secondly, where the
master, having proceeded originally without a jury, saw
fit, in the course of the inquiry, that a jury should be
summoned; and thirdly, in all cases where the lunatic
was out of the alleged jurisdiction a jury should be sum-
moned. He thought the noble and learned lord on
reflection, therefore, must see that he ought to admit
his inaccuracy in two other cases besides that which he had
admitted.

The LORD CHANCELLOR—Those two other cases
were of a complicated nature, and the point arose equally in
Sir Hugh Cairns' bill. He thought, however, it would be
unnecessary to prolong the discussion farther. (Hear.)
Lord CRANWORTII said he felt bound in candour to
call attention to the fact that though the act was passed
eight years ago, there had only been 20 cases in which a
jury had been summoned. For five years he had had the
honour of holding the great seal, and his impression was
that in that time no order was made for summoning a jury
except upon the application of the lunatic. His noble and
learned friend might be strictly wrong in saying that the
summoning of a jury could only be upon application of the
hewas right.
BILLS BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
allegedThesubject lunatic,
EXCHEQUER
thenb
ut practically
dropped.
THE NEW FOREST.

The Earl of MALMESBURY called attention to the
imperfect preservation of the game in the New Forest on
the part of the Crown, which had produced a circular from
persons holding licenses to shoot there, offering prizes to
foresters for the destruction of vermin, and which circular
he considered derogatory to the Crown.

Earl GRANVILLE denied that the preservation of
game
in the New Forest was inefficiently attended to. It
was, in fact, a part of the foresters' duty to preserve the
game for persons holding licenses.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY.
Tho SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.

Major O'REILLY, who was introduced by Major Gavin
and the O'Conner Don, took the oaths and his seat on his
election for Longford. The hon. and gallant member took
his place below the gangway on the Ministerial side of the
house.

peered before the white man; and if a new colony and a
lreiorteod ria in
transport the
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new population were to be established in the southern
hemisphere, the sooner the natives disappeared the better.
THE VICTORIA TRANSPORT SHIP.
Sir 3. PARINGTON wished to call the attention of the
Secretary to the Admiralty to a statement which had ap-
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of the 96th Regiment on board. What he wished to know
was whether the statements to which he had alluded were
true. It appeared that the Victoria had been in the first
instance despatched with the 96th Regiment on board, and
was obliged to put back to Plymouth, having been com-
pletely disabled at sea, and having narrowly escaped foun-
dering. It was within his (Sir J. Pakington's) knowledge
that several officers had formed the worst opinion of the
ship, and were strongly disinclined to sail in her again. He
had in consequence addressed a private note to his noble
friend, inquiring whether the ship with the regiment
was to be sent to see again, and subsequently he addressed
a public inquiry to his noble friend in the house. His
noble friend stated in reply that the Admiralty had taken
all possible pains to repair the ship, and to ascertain whether
she was made fit to resume her voyage. His noble friend
stated that she had been surveyed by competent officers, and
that their report was such that the Admiralty had no hesi-
tation in again sending her to sea. Accordingly she went
to sea, but in three days her engines were disabled, and she
was, in fact, only saved by bearing up for Fayal. He wished
to have some explanation with respect to the statements to
which he had referred, and also to learn what were the re-
ports of the officers who had surveyed the ship.
Lord C. PAGET said that nobody could overrate the
importance of the question which had just been put, but ho
trusted that the house would not imagine that the Admi-
ralty had neglected any possible precaution to secure the
safety of our gallant troops. The story of the Victoria was
an unfortunate one. When she put to sea she encountered
a heavy gale of wind, and her fault was that she had not
very powerful engines. She was therefore unable to make
head against the westerly gale, and put back to Queenstown,
not because she was in danger, but because her coals had
run short and the weather was so bad. When she arrived at
Cork there were various defects to be made good, and the
admiral. at Queenstown hearing that there was amongst
the military officers a certain amount of alarm as to the
seaworthiness of the vessel, ordered a most careful sur•.
vey to he made, and the reports of the surveying officers
he would now read to the house. The surveying officers
were the captain, the master, the chief engineer, and the
boatswain of the Revenge; the master and chief engineer
of the Hawk ; and master, storekee per, and superintenden
carpenter at Haulbowline. In their report they stated
that they had inspected the hull, the rigging, sails,
and engines, and that they found that the several
several defects specified in the report had been made good in
a satisfactory manner. They had also tried the vessel under
way and under steam, and found that her engines worked
very well, that her boilers kept steam easily, and that her
speed was eleven knots an hour. Admiral Smart, how-
ever, directed the carpenters of the squadron to
go on board and try her rivets. They did so, and reported
that they had found the greatest quantity of water in any
compartment not to exceed two inches. They were of
opinion that the ship was a strong built vessel, and capable
of crossing the Atlantic at any time of the year. She ac-
cordingly went to sea again, but she fell in with a succes-
sion of hurricanes so dreadful that he believed the like had
not been known by any seaman that had crossed the Atlan-
tic. It was almost heartrending to think of the losses which
must have occurred. The Victoria sailed from Queenstown
on the 14th of February, and from her log it appeared that
she experienced moderate gales on the 15th. On the 16th

there was a strong gale, and so it went on till the 18th,
when the wind increased, with very heavy squalls. At 3,50
on the 18th there was a fearful gale; on the 19th a terrific
gale, with furious squalls and snow. On the 20th two men

fell overboard and were lost. At 1 a.m. on that day the
gale was described as having increased to a hurricane.
After that it moderated a little, but on the 22d there was a
strong gals ; and on the 23d the engines gave out : so that
the vessel had encountered furious gales for nine days with-
out any accident to her engines, and without any leakage.
On the 23d, at 5 p.m., a leak was reported. In fact there
was nothing but a succession of gales and hurricanes, and
indeed she appeared to have encountered weather ow& as
was almost without a precedent. A. steam transport called
the Trojan, freighted with stores, had actually foundered
in the midst of the Atlantic; but a portion of the crew had
been picked up by an American ship, the captain of which
deposed that he had been in the habit of crossing to Europe
for 26 years, and that he had never known anything like
the weather during a portion of February and the begin-
ning of the present month. There could be no doubt that
a vessel which had so long resisted the gales without dis-
aster was perfectly seaworthy and fit to cross the Atlantic.
He was bound, however, to say the Admiralty had
thought it right that the gallant men on board
her should not embark in that vessel at all events
any; more. (Hear, hear.) In conclusion, he must con.
gratulate the house on the noble conduct of the troops.
(Cheers.) Throughout that awful period Colonel Scovell,
the officers, and the men, had behaved admirably. They
had assisted in baling the ship and in clearing the wreck--
and it was owing in great part to their exertions that the
ship had been saved. (Cheers.)
Sir G. LEWIS observed that the regiment was at pre-
sent divided, and the War-office had determined that the
wing which had already arrived at Halifax should be
brought home again; and that the second wing should not
be sent across the Atlantic at all. (Hear, hear.)