The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-25 00:00:00

IHE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

The rush of goods into the building has not yet
commenced. The most remote of our colonies seem
to be the first in the field. St. Helena followed
close upon the goods from Liberia, and on Saturday
the collection from Prince Edward Island was de-
posited in the French Court, and yesterday that
from Newfoundland. These latter, of course, con-
sist entirely of colonial produce, but, among other
specimens from Prince Edward Island, is one which
may be fairly called a wonderful natural curiosity.
It is the largest and longest spar that has ever been
seen in this or any other country. That at Kew
Gardens, 190 feet high, was thought to be the lar-
gest single stick that was ever seen, but this gigantic
pole from Prince Edward Island completely dwarfs
it, being no less than 240 feet from end to end.
Placed straight on end by the side of the Monument
it would overtop even that lofty column by 38 feet.
Of course, it cannot be put upright as it ought to be
in any part of the building itself, and, as leaving it
on the ground would be simply to lose all its beauty
of proportion, a good suggestion has been made to
erect it, supported by guy ropes, as a monster flag-
staff in the centre of the Horticultural Gardens. It
will be a work of no ordinary difficulty to rear this
spar on end, but in order that there may be no
excuse about its not being seen to the fullest ad-
vantage the colonists are themselves sending over
a party of riggers to hoist it on whatever site they
may get. Certainly the colonies seem all entering
into the spirit of the Exhibition with a zeal and
enterprise that almost outstrip the manufacturers
of the mother country. Canada is sending a very
fine collection of goods and produce, while Austra-
lia will be represented by a really superb exhibition,
and its Government has given £lO,OOO towards de.
fraying the expenses of sending it over, and setting
it out with proper effect. Among other curiosities
coming from Australia is a wooden obelisk, dead
gilt on the outside. This column is nearly 70 feet
high and some 10 feet square at the base. It repre-
sents exactly the bulk of gold which Australia has
sent to this country since 1851, and which in all
amounts to nearly 800 tons. The base of this
column will be surrounded by various specimens
of gold quartz from the different reefs, nuggets,
alluvial gold, washing-cradles, &c. In the depart-
ment of machinery in motion will be a quartz-
crushing machine in full work, and for the supply
of which a cargo of gold quartz is now on its way
to this country. In addition to this most charac-
teristic obelisk, another of grey polished granite is
coming from Scotland, from Mr. Sims's works at
Glasgow. Both the form and the inlaid gilt orna-
mentation in the sides of this are exceedingly beau-
tiful. This is to be erected in the centre of the nave
at the eastern end. At the western will be Mr.
Bell's beautiful obelisk commemorative of the Ex-
hibition of 1851. At the base will be allegorical
figures of the arts and sciences in bronze, and, be-
neath all, fountains of water flowing into a marble
basin which surrounds it. There will be many
beautiful trophies of this kind in the nave, on both
sides, and as fast as the painting of the roof pro-
gresses, and the great travelling scaffold is moved
lower down, the work of laying their foundations is
proceeded with. Elkington is to give a very beau-
tiful trophy, and so also are Kerr and Binns, of the
Worcester Works, both firms doing this in addition
to their ordinary exhibitions in the side courts.
There are to be plenty of fountains ; in fact, in this
matter there seems to be almost a superfluity. The
great firm of Minton is preparing a most beautiful
one in china, and there are two very fine and large
ones of east iron from France, for which it seems
our neighbours have positively no room in their
Court, so that they are going begging for a place
anywhere. Room somehow or other will be found
for one in the nave, but the other must go to the
Horticultural Gardens. The first picture came in
from Switzerland on Saturday, and the first English
goods in the shape of two superb marble washstands
with mirrors from Mr. Jennings, of Holland-street.
The nave is nearly half painted, and much of the
rich effect which it will have when all is done can
now be realized. It certainly comes out remark-
ably well. The greater part of both of the
transepts is also finished, and the scaffolding
is being pulled down as fast as the beams

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can be drawn away and sawn up for flooring for
the northern courts. The latter are nearly all
floored, and the gallery which will give access to
the refreshment-rooms from the building is being
rapidly finished. The domes are nearly glazed in,
and the work of decorating the eastern one was
begun on Saturday. The designs for the adornment
promise to be rich and appropriate in their effect,
though, in consequence of both domes being now
completely filled up with scaffolding, Mr. Crace
labours under the disadvantage of not being able to
judge of the effect of anything till the scaffold is
down, when the mistake, if any be made, will be
beyond recall. As far, however, as can be judged
from small designs for such a vast interior, the ge-
neral tone of the colours adopted appears to be all
that can be desired. It is necessary, however, that
the painting of these domes, like all the rest of the
works, should be hurried on with the utmost pos-
sible rapidity, for the dome scaffolds have yet to
come down before the nave can be floored or the
daises at each end erected, and the removal of the
scaffolds alone will occupy the best part of three
weeks.

There is no concealing the fact that the works
are getting behindhand, and this from no fault on
the part of the contractors. There was a dreadful
rush of business during the last few days preceding
the opening of 1851. But the work, though done
hurriedly, was at least done, for of the total of
20,000 English packages only 182 were admitted
to the building after the Ist of May. It is hop-
ing against hope to expect that the same will be
done for this display. The French Commission-
ers are already very busy in mapping out their
splendid Court, which will be one of the gems
of the building, though rumour has much exag-
gerated the sum which it was said to be spent
in its decoration. They depend almost entirely
on the effect which their goods will produce ; the
mere decoration of the Court is to be with them
a very secondary consideration. They have
obtained permission from the Commissioners to
enclose their whole Court with partitions reaching
from the basement to the first gallery, and from the
first gallery to the girders beneath the springing of
the nave ribs. This ;permission was absolutely ne-
cessary in order to give them hanging space for
their papers and carpets—but the Commissioners
at the time they gave this boon, with the utmost
impartiality, allowed the English and all foreign
Courts to do the same. Sheffield this year must
look to itself when it enters the lists against its
German rivals. Krupp's steel works at Eissen, in
Rhenish Prussia, have gradually attained a world-
wide celebrity for the almost military discipline
which prevails there, and for the extraordinary
steel castings it turns out. Only two or three
years ago scientific journals contained accounts of
the manner in which the almost impossible feat, as
it was then considered, of making a piece of cast
steel weighing 11 tons was performed. But Krupp
will send to the Exhibition this year one piece of
cast steel weighing no less than 21 tons. Ten years
ago the manufacturer who talked of making such a
casting in steel would have been thought little short
of insane. On the other hand, as a set-off to this,
our porcelain manfacturers are likely to hold the
supremacy -they have lately
comers, and Kerr and Binns, of the Worcester
Works, Messrs. Minton and Copeland, will each in
their various branches of ornamental and useful
works, prove over-matches for all that Sevres or
Dresden can do. gained against all

The condition of :the roads immediately around
the building is attracting the serious notice of the
Commissioners. The traffic of heavy materials of
all kinds during the winter has cut them into deep
ruts, which extend below their very foundations,
and has worn them into such holes as to be almokt
dangerous during the night to light traffic. It is
said that nearly 30,000 tons of road metal will have
to be laid down to prepare them for the continuous
traffic that will be going over them in the summer.
But, as this matter is now, we are glad to say, being
taken in hand energetically, it may be considered
as almost virtually settled. Not so, however,
with the road across the Park. After months of
discussions, deliberations, inspections, and delays,
the final settlement seems now more remote
than ever. In the first place, it was proposed to get
the parishes to effect the work, but, as they could
not agree, they would not do it, so the Board of
works was tried, but they could not. Parliament, it
was known, would not give a penny, and thus at
the very outset the plan would have been nipped in
the bud if the Society of Arts had not, with the
utmost liberality, come forward and offered to raise
on debentures the sum necessary to make the road.
With this offer Mr. Cowper immediately closed,
and it only remained to decide on the course the
road was to take. The Society of Arts recommended
a temporary one, and the Chief Commissioner of
Works obtained the assent of the Crown, without
reservation of any kind, to a road across Hyde-park
to Kensington. The committee of the Society of
Arts agreed in the importance of not interfering
with the ride in Rotten-row, and suggested to make
use of the existing carriage road from the Victoria-
gate to the magazine ; to use the present drive over
the bridge ; to pass through a short tunnel under
Rotten-row, and come out at a temporary gate op-
posite the Exhibition-road. If it was necessary to
widen the existing road the cost would not be great
and by a little modification of the railing on the
Serpentine bridge a separate track could easily be
given to the riders. The only disturbance to public
interests would be the temporary introduction of
public vehicles over a small portion of existing
drives in the park, and it was not doubted that
what her Majesty has been pleased to tolerate
.ently
in
front of Buckingham Palace would be patiently
endured Hyde-park during the time of the
Exhibition.
The works for a temporary road
thus proposed by the Society of Arts were esti-
mated to cost less than £6,000. But the Chief
Commissioner of Works preferred a permanent
road, and the Society of Arts offered to becote the
medium for raising the money (£30,000) necessary
to make it. Accepting this basis of negotiation,
Mr. Cowper at first thought of making a road down
the ha-ha between Hyde-park and Kensington-
gardens. For a time this plan was the favourite,
but the idea was soon given up, and in
turn Mr. Kelk's road, Capt. Fowkes's road, and
Mr. Pennethorne's road were each examined, and

for a short period adopted. Any one of these last
three routes would have met all questions of con-
venience, cheapness, and avoidance of interference
with the ride and drive roads. But within the last
few days the Chief Commissioner of Works threw
them all over, and decided on a road of his own.
This enters Kensington-gardens at the Lancaster-
gate and issues out at the Coalbrook-gate near
Kensington-gore. The route is intended to be taken
along the Broad-walk, which is to be obliterated
and sunk 14 feet for the passage of the traffic, and,
in fact, destroyed altogether. This road practically
cuts Kensington -gardens completely in two, and if
it is adopted with a view to the subterranean rail-
way passing under it hereafter, the effect of the two
tunnels will be to so drain the soil as to kill half the
trees in the Gardens. When this plan was proposed
to the Society of Arts it was found that not only
would they not consent to raise any money to maim
it, but that those who were willing to take h
t thee same
de-
bentures would much more gladly spend
amount of money in opposing the whole plan to the
very utmost. 'That the House of Commons will
ever consent to the formation of a road that cuts
Kensington•gardens in two, that is so far westward
as to be a mere strip of thoroughfare having no
communication with any of the great metropolitan
channels of traffic, and is withal the most unsightly
and expensive route, is not thought probable for a
moment. The real mischief lies in the fact that no
other plan will be considered until this has been
,
definitely thrown by which time it will be too
late to carry out any for the opening of the Exhi-
bition. But Mr. Cowper has pledged his word that

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May he will give a temporary one across thet4arka
to be used during the Exhibition. So that, after
all, it is only those whp ride and drive in the parks
who are likely to be the real sufferers from the de-
lay caused by his present mosiiinpopular and ill-
judged selection.—Times.

ROMAN GOSSIP.

A letter dated Rome, Feb. 20, says :—ln the
midst of his troubles, spiritual and temporal, Pio
Nono retains a sufficient dose of attic salt in his tem-
perament to allow of an occasional sally, even at the
expense of his own situation. A learned Roman
advocate, charged with- the compilation of a volu-
minous legal work on behalf of the Government, a
sort of digest of decrees and decisions, has been for
some time in the habit of presenting to his Holiness
each new volume of this work as soon as it issues
from the Stamperia Camerale or Papal printing
office. The circulation of this work was important
before the Church was bereft of its fairest provinces,
as every commune in the States was obliged to sub--
scribe for at least one copy ; but now the restricted
boundaries of the ecclesiastical dominions afford but
a limited number of contributors to the publication.
A few days ago the advocate went to the Vatican
with the last volume in his hands, and had the
honour of presenting it to the Pope. His Holiness
opened the book precisely at the ominously headed
chapter, "De Molestiis," and immediately ex-
claimed, "Signor Avvocato, I shall read this chap-
ter with great attention and int-el—Tat, in order to
find out the legal remedy for the many and grave
molestations (melestie) to which I have been lately
subjected." " the. _
•
advocate with condoling ascent, *l-fear,--ffaViour
troubles cannot be alleviated -by such, tribunals
as the Rota or the Segnatura." " Perhaps not,," -
returned the Pope, smiling, "for our situation
is certainly .critical, but, after all, people fare a
great deal worse elsewhere than in Rome, and we
are spared many of the horrors which are everyday
occurrences in Milan, Bologna, Florence, and espe-
cially in Naples !" His Holiness has evidently been
led to believe that out of the Eternal City all is
anarchy, license, and bloodshed ; but different ac-
counts are brought by travellers arriving from
Palermo and Naples, as well as from the northern
provinces of the Italian Kingdom. Meanwhile, to
prevent anything-like anarchy or bloodshed in the
ensuing Carnival, the Governor of Rome has de-
cided that theeight days' festivities are to be solem-
nised without the exhilarating accompaniment of
masks. People are not usually inclined to make
fools of themselves without some disguise or other,
and, consequently, from this circumstance, and from
the Political agitation prevalent in the city, the
Carnival of this year is expected to prove a fiasco.
But, whether good or bad, it will be witnessed by
thous-ands of foreign spectators, for forestieri are
crowding into Rome in immense numbers, and
British subjects form the majority of the travellers.
They Anglican extra mow chapel affords too limited
accommodation for the whole of the congregation,
and if it were the custom for Protestants to kneel
likei Catholics outside churches and chapels when
fu4 within, the ample crinolines of our fair countly-
wobaen would reach half-way up the opposite Villa
BoOhese.
+. portion of these erratic beings
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that
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by! Easter.

THE QUEEN OF NAPLES.

Ila the course of last autumn a turret-shaped
di dem, emblematical of Gaeta, was presented to
th Queen of Naples by a number of English
ladies. We are enabled to publish a copy of her
Mtajesty's reply :
'Noble Ladies,—lt could not be otherwise than.
Otteful and very agreeable to me—the precious
eft which you have been pleased to offer to me,
t ' e thoughtful delicacy that suggested the design
o r it, and the flattering address which accompanied
it , and in which I observe many of the best names
o the noble aristocracy of England and of that
g nerons Ireland ; both types and exampigs of
1 yalty end of constant devotion to the august
Sovereign who so gloriously sways their destinies.
In not separating from my beloved husband, who
po bravely contended for the holiest rights of his
eople and of thrones—in choosing to share with
lira, even to the end, the privations and perils of a
ong siege—in dedicating myself to the best of
my ability to alleviate the sufferings and the pangs
a so many gallant men who fell victims to their
luty, their unfaltering fidelity, the love of their
King, and the independence of their native country
fn a war the most unjust, I did nothing but fulfil
the sacred duty of a Christian, a wife, and a Queen.
Happy that I am if, in so acting, I have been able
to deserve the regard of minds so noble, and of
hearts so generous as yours.
Constrained now to live far from my adopted
country and from a soil to which so many dear
affections bind me, and which I so much love ;
.wounded to my very heart through the fratricidal
and ruthless war, which spreads desolation and
terror over the most beautiful region of Italy, it is
some comfort to me at least that even in that fa-
voured England, where so many calumnies have
been spread, so to deprive a just but unhappy
cause of the potent support of public opinion and of
an enlightened Government, there are not wanting
noble hearts that were moved by an unmerited mis-
fortune.

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That thought will tell you better than I could
express how sincerely grateful I am, and how very
dear to me has been this spontaneous testimony of
affection and of sympathy among the many others
with which it was sought to honour in me a Royal
calamity borne with resignation, and not without
courage.
Receive, then, my thanks, one and all, whose
names shall ever remain engraved on my heart,
and believe in the sentiments of my entire affection.
Rome, Sept. 21, 1861. MARIA:

RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES
IN PARLIAMENT.

Yesterday, before the examiners of the house, the
andcer t
ai
n Enniskillen
arrears
of Railway
Company
hefoLor
capitalisingndonde
divid-
end on preference shares was withdrawn. The bill
for the Croydon sewage, to enable the board of
health for that district to connect and discharge the
sewage of the locality into the main sewer now
being constructed by the Metropolitan Board of
Works, was-also withdrawn.

COMMITTEES ON RAILWAY
BILLS.—The follow-
ing committees to inquire into the merits of the
'imposed new railways on the South-Western and
Eastern districts are appointed to assemble Oil
March 4 :—A committee, consisting of Lord Stan-
ley, Viscount Holmesdale, Mr. Leigh, Mr. Onslow,
and Mr. Seely, on the Bishops Waltham, Botley,
and Bursledon Railway ; London and South.
Western (Additional Powers) ; Great Western.
Railway (Additional Powers) ; Dartmouth and
Torbay; North Devon and Okehampton ; Somerset
Central and Dorset Central ; Weymouth and Port-
land ; Lostwithiel and Fowey ; Moretonhampstead
and Soutb Devon ; North Devon and Dock; Lana-
ceston and South Devon; and Exeter'Bristoland
and Chard and Taunton Railways. Acommittee
consisting of Mr. Hassard (chairman), Mr. J. E.
sstmacitkhpo,
1,1,r0.n Ht
the
mbe r s tn'Mr. Adams,a n
(Nesir
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Eastern°Eas tCountiesern and
Counties otherd
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bAmalgamation ;
n ; Eastern Union ; London and Midland, and,
ies)
proposed for the accommodation of
Counties district.
theoth other
Easternra ilways

RACE BETWEEN DEERFOOT (THE INDIAN) AND
BRIGHTON (ox NoßwrcH.)—Yesterday, Doerfoot's match
at Brampton against John Brighton was decided. At four
o'clock the men came upon the ground, and the prelimi•
naries having been arranged, the signal was given to cora--
mence the struggle. The Indian opened to his pace in
remarkably good style, the freedom in his action contrast..
ing remarkably with his mode of going in his early matches.
At the finish of the mile (4 minutes 55 seconds), Deerfoot
was just in front, The second mile was completed in 10
minutes 55 seconds. The third in 15 minutes 33i seconds,
Brighton holding the lead. The fourth in 20 minutes
26 seconds ; the fifth (half the distance), 26 minutes ; the
six miles 30 minutes 47 seconds; the seventh mile in 36
minutes 47 seconds. On the finish of the eighth mcle
the(42
minutes 14 seconds), the Indian was just in front. on__.
termination of the 36th lap, this ending the ninth mile
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(47
minutes 46 seconds), the Indian was just in
front.
competitors had now entered upon the tenth
and a finer struggle was never witnessed.
last So dan
lap Deerfoot
did Brighton
last mile,
stick to his man, that it was only in the
was enabled to break from him ; being run in 53
a winner by four yards, the On miland one
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AIR. and MRS. CHARLES WEAN lanewill RTH ISE-
I- APPEAR at the Theatre-Royal Drury-,
EVENING (TUESDAY, Feb. 25, in LOUIS XL
On Wednesday, 26th, Hamlet ; Taursday, 27th, Louis XI.;
Friday, 28th. hamlet ; and on Saturday, March 1, The
Wife's Secret.
With the PANTOXIBIE for the last five nights.

ROYAL

ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT GARDEN.
Under the management of
i Mss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrson.
THIS EVENING, THE LILY OF KILLARNEY.
Misses Louisa Pyne, Susan Pyne, Jessie 111`Lean, and
Topham ; Messrs. Santley, H. Haigh, E. Dussek, C. Lyall,
Patey, Wallworth, and W. W. Harrison.
To conclude with HARLEQUIN GULLivER; or, Giants
and Dwarfs. Messrs. W. 11., F., and H. Payne, H., E., and
S. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.
Commence at Seven.

•d- EA'llt Y AL, HAYMARKET,
Les.ee, Mr. J. B. Brickstone.
THIS EVENING, to commence with OUR AMERICAN
COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothem ; Asa Trcnchard,
Mr. Buckstone.
After which, a Comic Christmas Pantomime,
' LITTLf?
MISS MUFFET AND LITTLE BOY BLUE • or, Hale-
gain and Old Daddy Longlegs. Louise Leclereq,Charles Le
clerc% Herr Cole, G. Becket, and Miss Rosin.
Commence a• 7.

traction, that there is visible now a distinct
decrease in the Naval Estimates for the present year
as compared with the previous y ear of £846,283.
The member for the borough of Lambeth however
cannot for the life of him see it. And according to
his invariable custom he rages against the unmiti-
gated extravagance of our annual maritime expen-
diture.

11 0 YAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer.
U
THIS EVENING, Feb. 25, the new and original Drama,
entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs.
Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Fill-
(loner ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston.
Alter which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza,
entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, The Fairies of
the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrock. Principal charac-
ters by Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cioely Nott, and
%Res Lydia Thompson.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 8, to commence at
7. Box-office open daily from 11 tills.

Lord CLARENCE PAGET, however, is not alone
carped at by that implacable foe of every Secretary
to the Admiralty, Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conser-
vative, in succession. The language of condemna-
tion is audible from the very opposite direction, im-
mediately the noble and gallant member for Sand.
wich has resumed his seat upon the completion of
his frank and sailor-like but also luminous and states-
man-like speech in explanation of the new Naval
estimates. Extremes again meet in this instance,
as they are said to do proverbially. Sir JOHN
PAKINGTON cannot rest a moment without pro-
testing against—not (you may be certain of that)
the extravagance of the expenditure, but, on the
contrary, against the (as he deems it) extremely
ill-considered cause for retrenchment just par-
ticularised. The right hon. baronet regrets
the extent of the reduction in the Channel Fleet
as announced in the noble lord's statement. A pro-
test of that kind from Sir JOHN. PARINGTON can-
not, however, be regarded as anything very sur-
prising under the circumstances. He whose
vigorous administrative powers called our pre-
sent Channel Fleet into existence may be borne
with surely when, on evidencing a certain jealousy
at the prospect of its diminution, at the prospect of
what he regards to be its injudicious and precipitate
diminution. The advisability of maintaining s
strong fleet upon the home station is undoubtedly a
thing universally admitted as beyond denial. And
the use of the Channel Fleet as a means of training,
disciplining and practising the navy is also a fact
in itself sufficiently obvious. Yet out of the
76,000 men asked for last evening by the Admi-
ralty Secretary (and obtained for them), while it is
proposed to set apart for service "in the Me-
diterranean, 9,800, and in North America
and Mexico, 12,200, inclusive of 700 marines re-
cently disembarked at Vera Cruz, making a total
of 37,200 men and boys : on the more distant sta-
tions, 17,000 men and boys, making the whole force
54,200, exclusive of marines, dockyard-riggers,
able-bodied pensioners on shore, and 10,000 coast-
guard volunteers"—how small a proportion is re-
quired for the manning of our Channel Fleet 1
Sufficient, merely to man two line-of-battle ships,
two iron-cased frigates, two corvettes, and four
sloops ! Certainly, it does seem a small
proportion truly, with M. DE BOISSY
raving in the Imperial Senate about the ad-
visibility even now of making a grand descent
' upon the shores of Britain! Only it should be re-
-1 membered that while the channel fleet is to be cat
down to the particularly moderate proportions pro-
Iposed by Lord CLARENCE PAGET, in his newly re-
counted estimates, the total force is still to amount,
he tells us also in the same breath, "to 12 line-of-
= battle ships, 2 iron-sided ships, 38 frigates and cor-
vettes, and 90 sloops; showing a total of 149 ves-
sels of all sizes. Besides which there are to be
2 coast guards-ships and 9 blook-ships, which will
I bring the grand total of steam ships up to about
160 !" Nor is this all. Referring to iron-cased ships
of war, Lord CLARENCE told the House yesterday
" that 12 of these vessels would be ready in the
coming year, that three more would be finished in
1864, and that when Captain COLES' ship was built
there would be a fleet of sixteen !" True it is, no
doubt,asLordPALMERSTON himself,later in the even-
ing, took occasion to remark, that the activity long
displayed in the Imperial dockyards of France has
not up to this moment evidenced any appreciable di-
minution—that, in spite of all their boasted financial
economy of late, the French Government have but
very recently issued orders for ten more floating
batteries, really meaning iron ships of a smaller size
than ordinary, while at the same time they have
not sixteen, but twenty-six, iron ships either com-
pleted or in rapid progress towards completion !
No matter. With England's weather eye open, and
with her unrivalled capacity, at the first instant's
notice, for making up any deficiency in this
way so soon as that may appear to the
House of Commons to be in any re-
spect seriously advisable, we cannot but think
that Lord CLARENCE PAGET'S account of the pro-
vision made for the coming year to be, in the
fullest sense of the words, adequate—the econo-
mising French Empire—and even the terrible M.
DE BOISST, with all his Salmoneus thunders—to the
contrary nevertheless, notwithstanding.

LO YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, THE TWO POLTS. Mr.Widdicomb.
After which, the new Mystic Drama, in four parts,
entitled THE ANGEI, OF ManTIGHT. Mr. Ryder, Mr.
Potter, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Widditomb, &c. ; Miss Marriott,
Miss Fielding, km
To conclude with THE YANKEE HOUSEKEEPER.
Mr. and Mrs. Florence.

NEW THEATRE-R 0 YAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
360th, 361st, 362 d, 363 d, 364th, 365th Nights of the Engage-
ment of Mr. and Mrs. DION BOLICICAULT.—Last Four
Nights of The Octoroon and The Dublin Boy.
'THIS EVENING, the great American Drama of THE
OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion Boucicault, S. Emery, Billington,
Jamison, Mrsdfod, Stephenson, Eburne, Powell, Romer,
11. Lewis ;. Billington. Mrs. H. Marston. Miss Latimer,
Miss Denvil. To be followed by THE DUBLIN BOY.
Andy, Mrs. Boucicault. To conclude with MARGERY
DA W. Messrs. D. Fisher, Billington. W. Smith, Miss Wool-
gar, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7.

AT E W ROYALTY THEATRE,
Dean-street, Oxford-street.
THIS EVENING, A NICE QUIET DAY.
Followed by the screaming Farce of CARNATION OF
CARNATION COTTAGE.
After which, the succesful Opera Buffo, entitled LE MARI-
AGE AUX LANTERNES. Mr. John Morgan, Mesdames
gitanley, Payne, and Mason.
To conclude with A CHINESE ROMANCE.
Commence at half -past 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
THIS EVENING, Feb. 25, will be produced a Grand
Eastern Spectacle, forming one magnificent array of splen-
dour, introducing Mr. Bell's wonderful Performing Ele-
phants, the largest in England, entitled THE RAJAH OF
NAGPORE.
To be followedby a brilliant routine of matchless SCENES
IN THE CIRCLE, supported by the most aocomplished
artistes of the day.
Concluding with a favourite Farce.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle.

CANTERBURY HALL.-VICTOR JULIEN,
"the FLYING MAN," at half-Past Nine
n success of "THE ENCHANTED HASH " by
Mr. Continued Mars at a quarter-Past Ten.
Grand Selections from "La Circassienne" by Mdlle. Negri,
with Band and a powerful Chorus, at Ten o'clock.
Also the following combination of Comic talent, viz.: Mr.
Mr. Frederick French, Mr. J. G. Forde, Miss Har-
riet Coveney, and Miss Greene.
Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission—)3all, Bd. ; Stalls mad Balcony, ls.

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TICE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.—
" LES MERVEILLES GYMNASTIQITES"
RENBT (aged Eleven years), and PFAIJ (aged Nine years),
From the "Cirque Napoleon," Paris,
y{FhOse Double Feats on th Flying Trapeze are unsurpassed
sltill, and grace, EVERY EVENING.
Their perforinances do not in any way interfere with the
_Musical Entertainment, which as usual consists of Two
vperatic Selections alternately from " Trovato Macbeth,wad," "La Traviata," " Simon Boccanegra," ","
sae,, by the entire Company, Full Band and Chorus—(Con-
ductegby Mr. F. Joughirlans)—And Varied Vocal andlnstru.
Mental Attractions, the Comic portion by Miss Harriet
Coveney,.Messrs. Sam Collins, Wood and Son, M. P. Foster,
and W. Randall.
Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

AIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TSUI DA.Y.—Morning, 11h. 24m.—Afternoon, h. m.
TO-3108.8.01v.-Morning, 12h. 3m.—Afternoon, 12h. 35m,

TEE WEATHE
OR.—METERO, IN THE SHADE SIIN FFICE, FEBRUARY 25, 1862.
THERM.
38—highest since noon yesterday.
35 lowest this morning and during the night.
38.—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.17.
WIND—N.-Easterly ; fresh, with dull cold weather.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 25, 1862,

Altogether the statement made to the House of
Commons in Committee by the noble lord the
Secretary to the Board of Admiralty when , yesterday,
according to annual custom, bringing forward the
Naval Estimates for the next financial year, must
be regarded as in the highest degree sgtisfactory.
Mr. WILLIAMS, of course, quarrels with it. And he
quarrels with it—also, of course—on the score of its
extravagant expenditure. But then that is his
metier —that is precisely the one sole aim and object
with which the hon. member for the metropolitan
borough of Lambeth occupies his seat there as such
in the Commons House of Parliament. He exists
with the perpetual consciousness upon him that
the garment—" figuratively" speaking, that is,
in a purely £s. d. sense—has fluttered down from
the shoulders of the late economic member for
Montrose upon his (Mr. WILLIAMS'S) own. Hence,
invariably, upon all possible and as everyone else
might deem it impossible opportunities that purelyex-
official auditor of the national accounts, the member
for the borough of Lambeth, wraps the said garment
about him in es dignified folds as its scanty propor-
tions will admit of, and launches the thunderbolts
of his eloquence against t.very estimate, good, bad,
or indifferent as the case may be ! Upon every esti-
mate without distinction, immediately it is sub-
mitted to the House of Commons in Committee—
denouncing it as profligate and monstrous in the
scope of its expenditure. No matter what may be
attempted by this or that Administrator in the
way of prudential retrenchment, it matters nothing
toitthe arch economist. There is no pleasing him.
_ appetite for diminution after diminution would
appear to be altogether insatiable. There was just
an illustration of this last evening. For example,
the Estimates
for the new financial year under the
head of the .
Admiralty Department shows a dis-
tinct lopping o—u of expenditure amounting within
that twelvemonth, as compared with its immediate
predecessor, of but
very little short, indeed, of a
good round million sterling. The fact we are
referring to admits of very easy
explanation. For
the financial year now about to commence—that is,
on the sth of April next, for
I.lhcieeryeathr,e thhaetadis,
of
1862-3—the expenditure
the Navy Estimates, the Secretary to the Ad-
miralty tells us, will amount. ju.t as nearly
as can be calculated beforehand, to the
burn of £11,794,305. A-nd remembering as
who amongst us can fail to remember—tallying as
the amount of this particular disbursement does „o
rie-irly with the aggregate wrung out of the
national pockets yearly under the odious name of
the Income and Property Tax—remembering, we
say, that the expenditure during th
du e financia
thel y
year
ear
now about to expire, that is ring
1861-2, amounted under the bead of the Naval
Estimates to the sum Of £12,640,688—the fact
becomes obvious, is as plain as a pikestaff, is as
clearly comprehensible as any accurate quotient
pencilled down under the simplest sum a sub-

Mr. HADFIELD'S Qualification for Offices B

stands for its third reading to-morrow. Mr. NEW-
DEGATE will perhaps take a division upon it ; but
we trust that the honourable member will forego
the pleasure of harassing Mr. HADFIELD in what
Mr. OSBORNE has designated the private members'
session. There is one feature in the law as it now
stands which is so unfair, that if it were but gene-
rally known, an alteration would be imperatively
demanded. The bill is to repeal a declaration to
be made by certain public officials on assuming
office—that they will do nothing in virtue of their
office to molest the Church of England in
its lawful privileges. The officials may
be divided into two classes high officers
of the State, the army and the navy, and municipal
officers—town councillors, aldermen, and mayors.
These are the gentlemen whom the mighty Church
of England fears may do it injury, unless fettered
and bound by a declaration as elastic as an india-
rubber band. The declaration is, indeed, perfectly
useless. A Churchman like Lord DERBY and Lord
CHELMSFORD—two of the few State officers who
have obeyed the law—would not, in virtue of offioe,
or without it, do anything to injure the Establish.
ment. By them the requisition to make such a
declaration would be viewed as an insulting intima-

tion of unjust suspicion.
But suppose it tendered to the most violent
voluntary ; suppose him mayor of some radical
borough ; how could it repress his zeal or diminish
his opportunities for attacking the Establishment.
He would go away, and the same evening would
attend and preside at a meeting for the separation
of Church and State, and for relieving Bishops from
their legislative duties, and all the rest of it; and if
the Vicar of the parish quietly rose and reminded
him of the declaration he had signed in the morn-
ing, of the inconsistency with it of the Mayor being
advertised to take the chair, and of his opening
speech, his Worship would be at no loss for a reply.
First, he would tell the reverend gentleman that
the advertisement was not his doing, and that he
was not answerable for other persons describing
him as they pleased—that be should probably not
sign himself Mayor in any of the proceedings.
Next, that he did not mean to injure
the Church, but according to his judgment
very much to benefit the Church as a Church.
Again, that he was not seeking to " disturb" the
ecclesiastics
in their present possessions, for he
meant to proceed by
legal means, which could not
be called disturbance, and
-
that he did not dream of
interfering with their life I •
nterests. And, perhaps,
he would conclude with the general assertion that
he should 49 nothing, dereligible as he might think

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1862,

it, and not really injurious to the Church, by virtue
of his office, but as the plain individual JOHN
CLOTHYAR.D, whose citizen's rights were not de-
stroyed by his official position. Indeed we can
hardly conce.ive of any man intelligent enough to
take an intereot in so wide a question as that of
the separation of Church and State, who would
not be intelligent enough also to perceive
that the declaration is to him a practiced nullity.
He could have no kind of objection to it, except
that stated by Lord CHELMSFORD last year—which
amounted simply to this, that if of no practical use it
was a badge of subjection to Dissenters, and a sign
of the predominance of the Church from which they
dissent. He resents, therefore, the declaration
much as he resents church-rates, not on account of
its importance, but because it is an insult—an insult
retained distinctly to tell one class of her MAIEsTY's
subjects that they are on account of their religion—
although they pay for it—inferior to those whose
religion is upheld at the charge of the State.
But the point to which we ask the attention of
a Parliament consisting of English Lords and
respecting
ntlemen, is the gross inequality of the law
this declaration as it is actually worked.
An annual Indemnity Act is passed for persons
who have neglected to make the declaration, which
indeed came in the place of the old and profane
Sacramental Test, in connection with which a simi-
lar act was regularly passed. But that act, so
far as we remember, was so arranged as
to cover all classes of persons who neglected to take
the Sacrament after being appointed to office. In
regard to this declaration, it is just the reverse.
The high State officers adverted to are allowed six
months, at any time in the course of which they may
make it. The municipal officers are allowed but
one month ! Now, as Parliament always meets
within six months of changes of Ministry, the most
important officers of State, safe behind the In-
demnity Bill, rarely make the declaration.
But as the municipal elections take place not
long after Parliament rises, if the municipal
officers do not make it promptly, their election is
void ! Lord P _ ALMERSTON may remain in office
without it ; the country alderman's election is void
if he omits it ! Is this English—one law for one
class of persons, a different one for another class ?
If Mr. NEWDEGATE and the Lords insist on keep-
ing the declaration, foolish and insulting as it has
turned out to be, in the name of English equity
and fairness let them place all public personages
in the same position. Let not lords and their class
have more favour before the law than borough
tradesmen. Six months for all or one month for
all. Indemnity for all or indemnity for none.
Surely this is but common English equity. We
hope, however, that their lordships, this quiet year,
will good temperedly consent to pass Mr. HAD-
FIELD'S bill.

13ayswater Road—through Kensington Gardens—
tunnelling under Rotten Row—tunnelling under
the carriage drive parallel with Rotten Row—and
indulging in other vagaries equally preposterous !
Really one could only think of this sunken
road. of the Chief Commissioner's as guarded

upon both sides bat by one appropriate barrier,
namely, a genuine ha-ha! Remembering the
speeches delivered by this Chief Commissioner—
himself the very antithesis to that extremely ideal
being, "the right man in the right place," for the
right hon. gentleman has, ever since he took his
present office, been proving himself to be, as surely
as he possibly could prove anything, decidedly
" the wrong man in the wrong place"—remembering
his frequent speeches anent the horse-ride and anent
this more or less subterranean road from Bayswater
to the Exhibition, we can only wonder that any of

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our Administrators could by any possibility become
so perfect a victim to such exceedingly ridiculous
hallucinations. Remembering these speeches of
his, we are disposed to exclaim with the lisping
fop in BULWER'S play of " Money"—when EVELYN
quotes against him certain dreadfully apropos
lines of the poet—" That fellow COWPER says v ewy
odd things !"
However, in contrast to the Chief Commissioner's
nonsensical proposal for a sunken and tunnelled
road through Kensington Gardens, let us give at
once the very rational and, as it appears to us, truly
admirable suggestion, this day put forth by our
chief contemporary :
" We have a road, capable of being easily widened, from
Victoria-gate to the Serpentine ;we have a bridge more than
half as wide again as the narrow part of Park-lane crossing
the Serpentine, and from the south end of this bridge we
have the means of giving vehicles access to the Exhibition
without a single tunnel or viaduct, and without interfering
sensibly with the convenience of equestrians. This may
be done by appropriating to the new road a belt of ground
along the boundary of Kensington-gardens up to Queen's-
gate, and throwing into Rotten-row, if necessary, an equi-
valent space on the Park side. Even if half the breadth
of the last bend in Rotten-row were thus lent to the public
without compensation, the loss would be little felt by
riders, few of whom avail themselves of it. Or, if a still
shorter route were desired, the road in question might
still be carried over or under Rotten-row, and the carriage
drive to the head of Exhibition-road—a point scarcely two
hundred yards distant from the south-east corner of Ken
sington-gardens, The only reasonable objection to this
route is one that can easily be removed. It may be
doubted, perhaps, whether the existing. bridge is broad
enough to accommodate foot passengers as well as cabs and
private carriages. Actual inspection will satisfy any one,
we think, that by a different distribution of the space from
parapet to parapet four vehicles might pass across it
abreast, leaving an ample passage for pedestrians, though
not the handsome promenade that now unites the two sides
of the gardens. If, however, the whole breadth should be
required for wheels, it would be easy to throw out lateral
footways supported by light ironwork, and thus to over-
come the single real obstacle to be encountered."
The suggestion thus offered to-day by the Times
will be found described more at length in another
part of our impression of this evening.
7

We have not failed to express ourselves as
strongly as we felt on the shirking of the slaver;
question by the Federalists. We censured not
only the thoroughly pro-slavery Message o
BUCHANAN, but the bear-with slavery Message o
LINCOLN. Above all, we denounced the military
insanity as well as the unrighteousness of the PRE-
SIDENT'S violating the Constitution, right and left,
in everything but its sheltering and protecting
slavery. We feel the more pleasure, therefore, in
noticing the smallest approach towards consistency
on the grand subject of strife between North and
South. Mr. SUMNER not long ago in a vigorous
speech placed slavery in its bearings on the
present contest in its true light, but he con-
cluded without proposing the proper practical de-
ductions from his speech. We are therefore pleased
to see that the great Anti-slavery Senator has at
last placed himself wholly in the right in regard to
the present state of things.
On the 11th we are informed that Mr. SUMNER
offered a series of resolutions declaring that the
revolted States have committed felo de ae, and that
their relations as members of the United States no
longer exist—that their allegiance has been
severed, and the Federal Government owes no
obligation to any pretended State Government
usurping certain territory—that individuals occu-
pying such territory owe allegiance to the general
Government only, and the general Government to
the individuals—therefore persons heretofore held
as slaves may look henceforth to the general
Government for protection as individuals. A
motion to lay these resolutions on the table was
carried by a vote of twenty-one to fifteen.
These resolutions may have something a little
more lawyerlike in their cast than is needful ; and
the position of the slaves being defined as that of
individuals authorised to look for protection to
the general Government is not quite all we should
wish. It is, however, on the whole a safe series of
resolutions; and, we can only wish, though we
little hope it, that the Senate may ultimately
adopt them. If the States Governments are declared
to have lost by their treason their claim to the alle-
giance of the inhabitants of the States, this would
of course lay the foundation for reconstructing
society anew in the States when political society has
broken itself up. The real meaning of the resolutions
is obvious enough ; still we confess we should have
preferred something much more explicit. It would
have been more frank and manly, as we conceive,
to have resolved that—as the South had broken its
allegiance to the Federal Government on account
of slavery, though the Government had remained
but too faithful to the disgraceful clause in the
Constitution by which it is recognised, the Federal

Government declares that henceforth slavery no

longer exists wherever it asserts its authority. Of
such a resolution even the slaves themselves would
well understand the import—they would know that
the North meant their emancipation, and all rea-
son assures us that from the promulgation of that
gospel, the negroes would hail the North as their
trustworthy deliverers.

Our contempary the Times has, we are perfectly
well satisfied of this, by a very simple and common-
sense suggestion, exactly hit it. We mean in
regard to the hitherto somewhat bewildering diffi-
culty as to the discovery in time of a line of com-
munication from the North across Hyde-park to
the Exhibition. Mr. COWPER, quite as a matter
of course, could think of only one possible means
of doing this. Namely—it is the old story in his
regard—by injuring as much as he could contrive
to injure the sylvan beauty of Kensington Gardens.
His scheme we took occasion to protest against in
these columns of ours at the first mention of it as

in every way an extravagance. It was an enterprise
upon the face of it about as welcome, about as
rational, about as charming in every point of
view as Mr. CowPEß's famous hobby the Horse
Ride—a hobby that he has so perversely mounted
more than once, and on which he has essayed
hitherto, we rejoice to think, in vain, to ride
rough-shod over public opinion. The Chief Com-
missioner's fantasy this time, however, involved
among other absurdities an expenditure of some
£30,000 sterling and that, remember, for
a temporary convenience, and (it made one
angry to think of it) a permanent diOyurement.
It was to necessitate this hideous day-dream of the
Chief Commissioner's morbid imagination an enor-
mous sort of railway cutting or dry ditch from the

EWS.

PARIS, FEB. 25.

The Moniteur of to-day announces that, up to
yesterday, the amount of 4,+1.- per Cent. Rente pre-
sented for conversion was 50,500,000 f., the property
of 90,399 holders.

The total number of Obligations Trentennaires
presented for conversion was 273,779.

PARIS, FEE. 24.
In the Senate, this evening, the discussion on the
address was continued.

M. Troplong exhorted the senators to preserve a
conciliatory and moderate tone in the debates.
M. de Boissy regretted that France had assisted
England in revenging herself upon the Chinese
He was of opinion that the money expended in the
Crimea and in Italy would have been better applied
towards a descent upon England.

M. Billault, regretted the remarks of M. de Boissy.
Language of this description between two great
nations equally proud, equally sensitive upon the
point of honour, was a misfortune. He thought it
useless to revive French animosity towards Eng-
land, When the policy of the Emperor tended, upon
the contrary, to appease such feelings.
MM. Thayer and Charles Dupin spoke in favour
of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
The continuation of the debate was adjourned
until to-morrow.

TURIN, FEB. 24.

In the Chamber of Deputies to-day Signor Mop
dini inquired if the Ministry had received informa

tion of insults offered to the Italian consul, by his
fellow-countrymen at Malta.
Baron Ricasoli replied that he had just received
a report of insults offered by some reactionary
adherents of the Bourbon party. He had requested
explanations upon the matter from the English
Government, and had claimed protection for Italian
subjects. The ancient friendship of England for
Italy was a guarantee that ample satisfaction would
be given.

BERLIN, FEB. 24.

The National Zeitung of this evening states that
in the sitting of the Committee of the Chamber of
Deputies upon the German question, Count Bern•
storff said :

" The point of view from which the Government
regards this question is exhibited in the well known
recent notes. The Government of the King recog-
nises that the necessity of the union of German
States under one single head in military and diplo-
matic affairs is bound up with Parliamentary re-
presentation. But as the realisation of such a union
depends upon negotiations, it is impossible to enter
into further details respecting its extent.

" The Government recognises that the Chamber
is at present called upon to express an opinion
respecting this question, and will welcome a de-
claration in accordance with its own views. It

especially finds support of its endeavours in the
proposals of the Grabow party. The motion of the
Party of progress, although harmonising in direc-

. _
tion with that-of the Grabow party, is based upon
assumptions in point of principle which the Govern-
ment is unable to adopt."

PARIS, FEB. 24,

The Paris papers of this evening publish a tele-
gram from the Piraeus, stating that the insurgents
who occupy the 'citadel of Nauplia had demanded
to be alloWed to capitulate, and that the insurrec-
tion would be thus subdued.

It is believed that the King will change the
Ministry, and then dissolve the Chamber.

COPENHAGEN, FEB. 24

The Berlingske Mende of to-day denies the
statement of some German papers that England,
France, and Russia have inquired of this Govern-
ment, in identical notes, what interpretation Den-
mark places upon the engagements undertaken by
her in 1851 and 1852 with reference to the affairs of
Schleswig-Holstein.

THORN, FEB. 24,

Advices from Warsaw state that an ordinance of
the Governor of Poland has been issued to-day
ordering that neither judicial investigation nor
arrest for offences committed prior to the state of
siege shall in future take place.
General sympathy is felt for the new Archbishop
of Warsaw.