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

THE ARMY.

The Royal Marine Artillery, at Portsmouth,
under the command of Col. Tate, were yesterday
officially inspected, on Southsea-common, by Major-
General Lord W. Paulet, C.B. His Lordship will.
inspect the Royal Marine Light. Infantry of the
Portsmouth division to-day, at 3 p.m., on Haslar-
conmon.
The following reinforcements, selected from vari-
ous cavalry and infantry regiments, have been
placed under orders to embark for India to augment
the various cores serving in the Bengal Presi-
dency, orders to that effect having been received
at Chatham garrison :-26 officers and 1,933 non-
commissioned officers and men of the Royal
Artillery, selected from the three divisions of the
depot brigade at Sheerness, Woolwich, and Wor-
ley ; 1 officer and 18 men of the Ist battalion 29th
Regiment, and 21 men of the 77th Regiment, from
Chatham ; 4 men of the 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars,
from Maidstone ; 10 men of the Bth (Royal Irish)
Hussars, from Canterbury ; 1 officer and 33 non-
commissioned officers and men of the 34th Regi-
ment; 1 officer and 64 men of all ranks of the 54th
Regiment ; 1 officer and 44 men of the 88th Con-
naught Rangers, and 6 men of the 97th (Earl of
Ulster's) Regiment, from Colchester ; 1 officer and
29 men of the 3d battalion Rifle Brigade, from
Winchester ; 6 men of the 82d Regiment, from
Canterbury; 1 officer and 44 men of the 42d Royal
Highlanders, and 1 officer and 31 men of the 79th
Highlanders, from Stirling ; 2 officers and 77 non-
commissioned officers and privates of the 27th En-
niskillens, and 1 officer and 33 men of the 48th
Regiment, from Cork ; and 2 officers and 32 men of
the 80th Regiment, from Buttevant. The whole of
the above detachments will embark at Gravesend,
for Calcutta, as soon as the necessary amount of
tonnage has been taken up for thelit by the Council
of India. In addition to the above, the following
reinforcements will embark for Bombay—viz., 842
non-commissioned officers and privates, belonging
to the 3d (Prince of Wales's)Dragoon Guards,Royal
Artillery, 28th Regiment, 33d (Duke of Wptling
ton's) Regiment, 44th Regiment, 56th Regiment,
72d Highlanders, 95th Regiment, and 103 d Royal
Bombay Fusiliers. Detachments to the number of
752 pen of all ranks, with 20 officers, selected from
the 17th Lancers, Royal Artillery, Ist battalion Ist
Royals, Ist befitilipilBth Royal Irish, 3d battalion
60th Rifles, 66th Regiment, 69th Regiment, 74th
Highlanders, and 91st Regiment, will also embark
for Madras, and 8 officers and 216 non-commis-
sioned officers and men of the 7th (Princess Royal's)
Dragoon Guards, Ist battalion 4th King's Own,
Ist battalion 19th Regiment, 51st King's Own
Light Infantry, and 71st Highland Light Infantry,
for Kurrachee. The total number of reinforcements
about to be despatched to India exceeds 4,000 men
of all ranks, with 95 officers.

Inspector-General A. Anderson, M.D., has been
appointed principal medical officer at Chatham gar-
rison, in succession to Deputy-Inspector-General P.
Gammie, who has been ordered to embark for India.
Inspector-General Anderson will commence his
duties on Saturday next.

THE DISASTER AT THE UNDERGROUND

RAILWAY.

The district surveyor of the Board of Works,
with Mr. Fryer, clerk of the works, made two ex-
aminations of the southern portion of the Fleet
Sewer yesterday—the first at 2 a.m., and the second
at 12 at noon. The portion examined was that part
lying between Vine-street and West-street, at which
point the large bell mouth of the sewer is situated.
The report made by those gentlemen is that a most
extensive fracture has taken place in the crown of
the sewer arch, and extending for about 300 yards
in length, with every symptom of a still further
extension. Should this occur, it is considered
probable that the railway works now going
on in that part will have to be suspended,
pending the repair -or reconstruction of the sewer.
Mr. Cooper having consulted with Mr. Dethick, the
contractor for the sewer work, it was pronounced
unsafe to allow any sewage water to pass along the
fractured portion, and Mr. Dethiek at once opened
the dam, which diverted the water from the railway
cutting into the new trench, along which it had
been flowing freely since Tuesday, and the water
is now again pouring with great force into the rail
way cutting. The timber bed of that portion of the
trench or "grip" completed on Saturday was then
taken up for the purpose of sinking the bed of the
trench at least six feet lower, to be on a level with
the invert of the old sewer. The new " grip" is
also being rapidly pushed forward, and will now
have to be carried under Castle-street, as the re-
admission of the water into the sewer after its in-
tended. diversion at Coppice-row cannot, owing to
the fracture, be permitted at any nearer point. It
is now feared that the entire reconstruction of the
whole length of sewer between Coppice-row and.
West-street, where the railway terminates,
ll
become necessary to ensure its safety. Should this
unfortunately be the case several months delaythe
will take place in the opening of the ailway,
ended until the
works at this point must remain sop
r
sewer is completed.
a very
b o Tu
rhheo groundod of t h eintomediate neig h.
ion of the water,
dangerous state, through the net
employed by
and several labourers were yesterday .
to remove their main pipe
the New River Company
surroundinglate accident tish eg
the fallen timbers, were
employed in removing
labour to prevent
ordered to desist from theireimarn
lying across the ruins of the railway, and others
accident.

TITE GREAT MONT CENTS TITNNEL.--By the
termsre
justctohnr\o-eangliiiol‘niontC cons i
nieltl:edeefxrap3e,nedrepr(,ofrtolr
ionately the
g
the French and Italian Governments and
t by
Victor Emmanuel Railway Company. The French Go.
vernment is to contribute a rum not exceeding C 60,000,
and the Victor Emmanuel a sum of £BOO,OOO, interest being
guaranteed on the latter at the rate of 41 per cent. The
Italian Government is to undertake the execution of the
at tunnel of
works and find the remainder of the requisite capital. If
the works are concluded in less than 16 years from January
last the French Government is to give an additional sub-
vention of £24,000 upon every year saved out of the 15.
The works are to be measured up periodically, and interest
at the rate of 5 per cont. paid by the French Govern.
ment to the Italian Government on the expenditure in'
coned o far,

" 63, King William-street, E.C., Jane 25.
" Sir,—The illustration, in a mercantile form, of
the points at issue between the Northern and
Southern States of America, given in your Money-
Market and City Article of this day, comparing
those States to a firm composed of eight partners,
whose articles of partnership do not contain any
limit of time, or any provision for dissolution, is
undoubtedly a correct comparison as far as it goes ;
but by diving a little into American history, the
writer might have made his simile much more full,
and his‘case much stronger, which you will perhaps
allow me to do.

" He might, and, indeed, he ought to have said,
not only that in the articles tactually ruling the
partnership any Emit of time was omitted, but that
in the articles of partnership previously existing
between the very same parties there was an express
proviso, a fundamental clause, saying and repeating
over and over again, the partnership shall be per-
petual,' which proviso or clause of perpetuity the
said partners, in making their new and actually
ruling articles (in many points_ u copy of the previ-
ous ones), had carefully expunged from those'
articles, together with everything that could in any
way bear on the subject, thus clearly showing that
they fully intended each of them to be free to sepa-
rate from, or at least not to be bound to remain for
ever in, the partnership.
"In fact, in the ' Articles of Confederation and
Perpetual Union' between the 13 States of North
America, done at Philadelphia on the 9th of July,
1778, ratified by the 13 States on the Ist of March,
1781—which were the Constitution of the United
States of North America until the substitution
thereto of the actual Constitution on the 17th of
September, 1787—the 13th and last article says :

" . . . The articles of this Confederation
shall be inviolably observed by every State,
and the Union shall N perpetual ; . : and
we, the delegates
confirm each and every of the said articles of Con-
federation and perpetual Union, . . and

solehinly plight and engage the faith of our respea-
tive constituents . . . that the Union shall be
perpetual.'
" And the second article institutes a Commission

to be drawn from the Congress, ' to hear and finally
determine all controversies between two or more
States, concerning boundary, jurisdiction, or any
other cause whatsoever.'

" In the Constitution of the 17th of September,
1787, the actual one, not only is there no allusion to
time, duration, or dissolution of the Union, but,be-
sides carefully expunging from their new Constitu-
tution the contents of the 13th article of their old
one in respect to perpetuity, the States were so jea-
lous of remaining unshackled, and free to separate
at will, that they did actually expunge also from
their new Constitution the A rticle 2 of their old one

—evidently from fear that in case of the secession of
one or more States the remaining ones might, in
abuse of their majority, form under the said Article
2 a Court of Commission, and pretend to adjudicate
on the case.

"To follow the simile of your illustration:—
" If the five partners mentioned in it were foolish
enough to go into Chancery in order to retain the
three seceding ones, against their will, can any im-
partial and. diointerestea person doubt for a moment
that, on proof being given not oily of the absence
in the articles of partnership of any provision for
its duration, but of the positive and wilful expunc-
tion from them of a provision for .perpetuity con-
tained in the previous articles between the same
parties, the Court would not even grant prolonga-
tion for one day of the partnership, but would
simply fix a delay for the distribution and appor-
tionment of the assets and liabilities.

,‘ I think you might complete the said illustra•

tion by inserting this, on an important point which
has not yet been touched or even alluded to by any

one.
" I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient
servant, "A. P."

THE CO.RONERSHIP OF CENTRAL

MIDDLESEX.

The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex met yes
,erday, and have convened a meeting of the candir
dates for Friday, when the election will be fixed.
The nomination day is expected to be Friday, the
4th of July, and the polling on the following Mon-
day. It appears that the writ was only issued from
the Petty Bag-office in Chancery on Tuesday, not
having been applied for before, and when applica-
tion is made for the writ for the western district it
will be forthwith granted. The fiat of the Lord
Chancellor was dated on the 18th of June, and the
writ de Coronatore eligendo was signed by the
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery. There are three
candidates for the coronership of central Middlesex,
and the election will test the opinion of the free-
holders of the district, as only freeholders of the
district are eligible to vote, whether the appoint-
ment should be given to a legal or medical man.
Dr. Lancester, Mr. C. E. Lewis, and Mr. Cameron
are candidates for the central district. In the event
of a poll being demanded it will be confined to one
day—from Bto 4 o'clock—being the first election
since the act of 1860 (the 23d and 24th of Vic., cape:
116). The nomination will take place at Mary
be ap-
pointed. According to the 16th section
sts charges,
and Bth Vic„ cap. 92, all reasonable co ,
sheriffs may expend, or be
and expenses which the
bone and polling booths at other places
11 b k
liable to, in and about providing ofpo - oo s,booths,
coaflithe 7th
.
and clerks (such clerks to be paid not more than one
guinea a-day) for the purpose of taking the poll,
are to be borne and paid by the several candidates
in equal proportions. The central district is bounded
on the not th by Hertfordshire, on the east by the
parishes- of Enfield, Edmonton, Tottenham, and
paid to each of
Stoke Newington, on the south by the city of Lon-
t
d
west by the parishes of Kensington, Willesden,
of Westminster,
of
Kingsbury, Edgware, and Little Stanmore. The
Middlesex magistrates are to meet on Friday,
to fix
tchhooaenr
do
a and
ne
lr o
unt of
8t
oh
to b e salary
appointed, e be
The late Mr. Wakley
e the new
oe liberty
a -y e a
r
out which h e had to pay a
deputy and all his expenses
• Mr. Humphreys, to
whom has lately been assigned
the eastern district,
has a salary of X 1,500
a-year, and has to pay his
expenses. The Middlesex magistrates, in their
petition to her Majesty on which the division was
made, stated that the salary of £l,BOO paid to the
coroner of the western district was " sufficient to
remunerate two coroners," and a question may arise
as to the expenses of each coroner in travelling
over a long district. The western district is bounded
on the north by Hertfordshire; on the east by the
parishes of Hendon, Hampstead, Paddington, and
the city and liberty of Westminster, and on the
south by the Thames, and on the west by the river
Colne. There are four candidates for the western
district—two medical and two legal gentlemen, so
the question will be raised in each district whether
a legal or medical man shonld be appointed.
ho ttt

.must be
HANDEL'S MIISIC.—As to the merits of the
music of Handel, there is no doubt that ho is first and fore
most among the professors of tho divine art. Others havo
excelled in special compositions, but he, having at a com-
paratively early period of his life achieved pre-eminence
in opera, struck out for himself a new course ; for his
oratorios, though suggested by previous works,
acknowledged to be the creations of an original genius with
which the works of former composers will bear no more
comparison than the steam toy of Hero of Alexandria with
the beautiful and powerful engines of modern machinists.
—London ,Society