The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-13 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1853.

THOMAS HOOD'S GRAVE.—At a General
Meeting of the Subscribers to the HOOD DIEMOIIIAL, held
Dec. 2d. at the Whittington Club, it was resolved that the Subscrip-
tion List be CLOSED on the Ist of February, 1853, and
Miss F.LIZA. COOK,
Ma. MURDO YOING, and •
Six. JOHN WATKINS,
were appointed Trustees to the Fund.
The amounts subscribed are deposited at interest in the London
and Cvmmercial Bank.
Contributions are received by Mr. William Strudwicke, at the
Whittington Club, strand ; by Miss Eliza Cook, Treasurer, 54,
Great Ormonde-str. e:, Bloomsbury ; and by Mr. John Watkins,
Hon. Sec., 34, Parliament, street.
Among the subscribers are the following
His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K.G.• • • • •• ••
£25 0 0
T,e Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.1'....... 5 0 0
The Right lion. 11. Disraeli, M.P .... •• • • ...... 5 0 0
The Right Hon T. B. Macaulay, 31. P........• •.. 5 0 0
Sir Wiliam Frazer, Bart. • • ....... 5 0 0
James Harmer, Esq., • • •• . •
John Macgregor, Esq., M.P •• • • . .
Am Id Rogers, Esq. .. •••••• • • • • • 5 5 0
Mrs. Robert Elliot ... •••••• • • • • • • ............ 5 0 0
Ilicha•d Dawson, F,sq., M.D.... •• • • •
George Peabody. Esq .• •••••• • • • • • • ....... .. 5 h 0
Edward Moortnan, Esq..• ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • " 5 0 0
David s,alomons, Esq.. •••••• • • • • • • 5 5 o
Messrs. Spalding and Hodge... ••••••• • • • • • • • 5 5 0
Miss Eliza Cook 5 0 0
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Miss Cushman.... •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 50 0
Proceeds of an " Evening with Hood " at the
Whittington Club.. •• •• "'• •'
8 8 0
Murdo Young, Esq., and faintly ...... 44 0
Samuel Rogers, Esq • • ...... •• • ..... ••••• • • • • 3 0 0
C. W. Dilke, Esq... .••••••••• • • • • • • • • • •.... 3 3 0
Charles Lushingtin, Esq.. ••.• • 3 0 0
Elias Davis, Esq...• •• • • ..... •••••• • • • •• ••• 3 3 0
The Right Hon. the Earl of Ellesmere •• • • . 2 0 0
The Right Hon. Lord John M anners, M.P..• •.. 2 0 0
Sir James Duke. Bart., .... 2 2 0
R. Monckton Milnes, Esq., M P.• • ...• • • • 20 0
B. W. Procter, Esq., (Barry Cornwall) ••••.• • • • • • . 2 2 2 0
Douglas Jerrold, Esq •. 2 2 0
T. K. Hervey, Esq. ••••••• • • • •• • • 2 2 0
Rowland Hill, Esq., General Post-office ••• • •• 22 0
2 2 0
C. Mackay, Esq., LL.D. • •
C. W. Dilke, jun., Esq.. •••••• • • • • • • .......... 2 2. 0
'Edward Moxon, Esq.... .• •• • • ............ • . 2 2 0
James Coppock, Esq... • ... ..... ...... • • 2 2 0
Rev. Thos. Wilkinson, Durham
Collected by M. J. O'Connor, Esq , Morpeth,
Northumberland. •;w..,• •••""' • • ' • • • 2 2 9
Jas. Wyld, Esq., and family.... .•• • • • 2 0 0
mrs. Theodore Martin ('Hiss Helen Faucit) 2 2 0
A few Young Men at Slinpkin and Marshall's.. •1
5 6
Nine.half crowns from Manchester.... •• • .... 1 6
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle ••• • • • 1 1 0
The Right Hon: the Earl of St. Germans ••• • •• 1 1 0
The Right Hon. Lord Brougham • • ••• • . 1 0 0
The Right Hon. Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P. . 1 1 0
The Hon. and Rev. S. G. Osborne ••••• • • • •• . 1 0 0
Alfred Tennyson, Esq. (Poet Laureate 1 0
•1 1 0
W. M. Thackeray, Esq.• • • ••...... •
Charles Swain, Esq, . ..... .. •••• • • • • 1 0 0
W. C. Macready, E‘q ••.••••• • .• • • •• • • 1 1 0
J. Westland Marston, Esq
Mrs. S. C. Hall ..... _•• • • ....... ...... .•• .. 1 1 0
Albert Smith, Esq. ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • .. •• .• 1 1 0
W. CH. Kent. Esq. ••••• • • • • ••.. • ..... 1 1 0
Alfred Crowquill, Esq. •• •
William Jerdan, Esq.... •• .. ..... •• •.• .. 1 1 0
Hepworth Dixon, Esq.. •••• • . • • ,„ 1 1 0
Charles Gavan Duffy, Esq., M.P.. • • .... • • 10 0
It. Swift, Esq., M.P.. ...... .. ••••.. • • • • 1 1 0
James Macgregor, Esq., M.P....
B. Oliveira, Esq., M.P.. •• .• .•• • •
W. J. Fox, Esq., M.P • •
SirJohnKerle Haberfield, Knt. Bristol ••• • .. 1 1 0
Mrs Milner Gibson ... ••..••• • • • • • ............ 1 0 0
Thomas Ckeswick, Esq. • .. 1 1 0
J. B. Buckstone, Esq.. •••..•• • • • • • .• .... 1 1 0
Mrs. Fitzwilliam • • .. . • •
Rev. Felix Palmer. Frierning .....• • • ........ 1 1 0
Horace Mayhew, Esq ......... •.••• • • • • ...... 1 1 0
C. Cowden Clarke, Esq. ..
Dr. Robert Elliot, Stratford ••••••• • • • .. . 1 1 0
Elocution Class, Walworth Literary Institution.. 1 1 0
Temple and Wham...
Rev. J. C. Collins .. ... •• .. 1 0 0
Eight half crowns from Preston .... • • ...... • • 10 0
In pence from Bideford • • . •
In Half-crowns, from Bristol....
In Half-crowns and Shillings • • . • 0 11 0
In pence from Bristol.... ••• • ..
Jacob Brett, Esq., Paris.. .. .. 010 0
John L. Burnard, Esq., Bath ••..•• • • •• . 010 0
H. F. Lewes, Esq. ...... ••• • • • 0 10 0
Mrs. E. L. Wilkinson .. ••••..•• • • •• . • . . 010 0
Miss E. Ebsworth ...... •••• • • • _ 010 0
Miss Mitford. • ...... • • •.• • ......... 010 6
E. L. Blanchard, E5q.....• .... • ... 010 6
A few Poor Needlewomen.... • • .... • • 0 10 6
Frederick Hogg, Esq. • • .„ „„ „„ „ „ 010 6
W. C. Bennett, Esq ••• •• . • 010 0
Christopher Cook .......... _• • • 0 10 0
H. 11. Whipple .. • • .... ••••• • • • . ............ 0 5 0
Miss Ebsworth ...... •
W. H. Somerton, Esq . . . . 0 5 0
F. Adams ...... • ..... •..•• • • • • 0 8 0
.. 0 5 0
0 5 0
Charles F. Ivens .. • • ........ •••• • •
F. W., of Oxford ............ ...... .... • •
In other sums ............. .

THE EMPEROR SOULOUUE.AND THE

THE MADIA I.

HAYTIAN EMPIRE.

(From. the Times.)

The New York Herald of the 21st ult. devotes a
page and a half to the correspondence which took
place between the late Daniel- Webster, then
Foreign Secretary for the United States, and Mr.
Walsh, a diplomatic agent dispatched to Port au
Prince, in the month of August last, to co-operate
with the consuls of Great Britain and France in
endeavouring to patch up a peace between the
Emperor and the republic of St. Domingo. Accus-
tomed as we are to the dry punctilious and unin-
teresting diplomatic correspondence set forth to us
in Parliamentary Blne Books, the free and easy,
perfect-equality style of writing adopted by Mr.
Walsh is refreshing beyond measure. When
the current diplomatic news. fails to eke
out a dispatch, Mr. Walsh falls immediately
on gossip, and dashes off the sk9bthes of men
and manners, light, airy and vivid, which,
allowing for the prejudices manifested against a
people and institutions tainted with African blood,
are highly amusing and interesting. That Mr.
Walsh has what we on this side of the Atlantic
should call prejudices, though perhaps in the United
States they may be only accounted part of the na-
tionality of a free and enlightened citizen, we think
may be safely premised, when we
find Mr. Webster
in the draft of his instructions gravely cautioning
him " to keep his mind free from any prejudice re-
sulting from colour or forms of government, in his
dealings between. the Haytian Empire and the Do-
minican Republic, and not to deny justice to the
Emperor Soulouque because
monarchical and his subjects of African extraction,
or to be partial in his judgmentshis government is
in favour of the
Dominican Government, bee4l,lfio 4qs ' s officers are
o
'au race, and
composed for fiosr the
piubmlicaainn
ipnaritts' oil au
Further on
we find that one of the collateral objects of Mr.
Walsh's mission was to negotiate the recognition of
Haytian consuls at American ports, with the ,ex-
press stipulation that these consuls should not be
of African extraction. Considering that this went
to prevent the Haytian Government employing any
of its own subjects as its commercial agents, this
was pretty strong. We commend these facts to the
:notice of the Abolitionists. Mr. Walsh's descrip-
tion of the Emperor's appearance at opening the
Chambers is very amusing. For his political in-
ferences we cannot vouch :

Death has at last terminated the sufferings of
M. Madiai, and set a mark of infamy upon his
persecutors which no time will efface. We have
seen in the last few years many events to make us
question the progress of mankind, and even to
doubt the security of the noblest conquests of
liberty, of knowledge, and of toleration. The pro-
gress of free government has been brutally arrested
by anarchy and by despotism. The most culti-
vated and energetic nations of Europe have shrunk
into so servile a condition that liberty is denied to
every power of society, except to the arrogant pre-
tensions of spiritual domination. But, in the long
list of these follies and crimes, we have read of
nothing more extraordinary than that a humble
and inoffensive Christian man should have been
brought to a lingering death, by the will of his
SOvereign, because he dared to profess that
,evan-
gelical faith which is the sacred consolation and
firm hope of the most religious and educated por-
tion of Europe. The Sovereign on whom the ulti-
mate responsibility of this atrocious consequence
must fall, was not originally a severe or a cruel
ruler. On the contrary, till a recent period, his
dominions were the freest and happiest portion] of
Italy, and the acts which have since rendered
Florence the scene of persecution and oppression
are attributable, in great measure, to the terror
cams d in the mind of the Grand Duke by the

revolution, and the bigotry with which he is taught
by the Romish clergy to regard the circumstances
of his restoration. The Pope and the Virgin
Mary are, in his estimation, the authors of that
miraculous - event,i and his gratitude to these
supernatural patrons is expressed by a stupid per-
44eoution_oUllose who place their religious faith
upon the promises and the protection of -a-purer
faith. For this reason Madiai and his • wife were
selected to be the first victims of what must be
called . the Florentine Inquisition, for the whole
proceeding was in its nature and its results iden-
tical with the jurisdiction of that most holy
tribunal. The law itself, under which they were
charged with impiety, was wrested from its true
meaning, for the Leopoldine code was designed by
its authors to be the barrier of the religious liber-

ties of Tuscany, and not an instrument of Romish
persecution. These unfortunate and innocent per-
sons were judged with intolerance, and condemned
with extreme severity. The object of the Court,
or rather of the priests who instigated the prose-
cution,• was to make an example of them, and, if
possible, to strike terror into those who, in this age
and in the heart of Italy, are compelled to gain ac-
cess to the Bible with as much secrecy and peril as
the early disciples. The result of that trial aston-
ished and shocked every thinking man in Europe.
It seemed as if the whole battle of bigotry and
toleration was to be fought over again, if such acts
as these could be done by a Grand Duke of Tus-
cany in the middle of the 19th century. The strong-
est personal appeals were made to that Prince,
especially by the Courts of England and Prussia,
A body of eminent, pious, and conscientious men,
deputed by large multitudes of their countrymen
in England, France, Germany, and Switzerland,
proceeded to Florence to plead for innocence, if not
to remonstrate against injustice. All these exer-
tions were vain, for the keys of the Madiais' prison
were held in the grasp of superstition itself; and
the Tuscan Government affected a revolting insen-
sibility to the public opinion of Europe.
Hopes of pardon were still entertained at the
season which closes the year, and might dispose
even the Church of Rome to forgiveness.
Yet the Madiais themselves supplicated for no in-
dulgence but the reeognition of their Christian
rights, and they awaited their liberation from
the power which guides the issues of life and death.
In that form, to one of them at least, freedom came.
The husband Madiai, less strong in body and less
vigorous in mind than his wife, but not less con-
stant in his faith, expired a few days in captivity.
It is satisfactory to know that within a short time
of his departure he received the 'visit of M. Colombe
a Swiss pastor, who administered to him the conso-
lations of that faith for which he died, and that the
unceasing efforts of the Romish priests to obtain
his recantation entirely failed. The trials and
the virtue of martyrdom are not common in this
age, for the greater liberty of professing the truth
has lessened the danger and the honour of adhering
to it. But the examples of this firmness and
fidelity under persecution are but the more inesti-
mable when they are contrasted with the frivolity
and indifference of modern society. The strength
which enabled this poor Italian courier to resist the
authority of an unjust court, and to die under the
rigour of persecution, is the same which reformed
the church and changed the face of the world. We
know not with what feelings Leopold, Grand Duke
of Tuscany, received the intelligence that his victim
was beyond the control of human laws, but hence-
forth the name of Madiai is indissolubly associated
with his own. It was to satisfy his personal bigotry
and superstition that he allowed the course of
justice to be turned aside, the source of clemency
to be sealed, and the remonstrances of Europe to
be repelled. The church of Rome, acting through
his authority and mistress of his will, has shown
herself as unrelenting as in the worst ages of her
dominion ; and this Grand Duke stands last in the
detestable list of those rulers who have taken away
the lives of their subjects for conscience sake.
This, then, is the state of Italy. We confess that
the occurrence of such an event under the Tuscan
Government, supported by Austria and directed
by Rome, is more ominous and intolerable in' our
eyes than all that we have heard of political repres-
sion. When the Government of this very Grand
Duke was overthrown in 1848, it was justly consi-
dered an act of strange ingratitude towards a
Sovereign who seemed to have had the welfare of
his subjects much at heart. All such sympathy is
henceforth extinguished ; he has staked his power
and his existence on the force which protects his
palace ; and either on him or on his heirs an account
will one day be taken of his government. We have
little confidence certainly in the revolutionary party
in Italy, whose misconduct and incapacity disgraced
in every way the momentary interval of power
they enjoyed. The effect of that convulsion was
to extend the occupation of the Austrian troops
from the Po to the Roman Marshes, and to anni-
hilate the last traces of independence in the
smaller states. But we can conceive no greater
infatuation than that of the Italian Governments,
which have done nothing since their restoration
but heap up the materials for another and a
more destructive crisis. The consequence is, that
all hope of improvement, or even of toleration
for the progress of public opinion under such
rulers, is at an end—that they are viewed with
feelings of unmingled detestation by their subjects
—and that, with the sole exception of Piedmont,
• which is prosperous and contented, because it is
free, even the invasion of a foreign enemy would
be regarded as an era of joyful liberation. Such,
too, is their ignorance and impolicy, that at the
very time when they have most to apprehend from
the uncertain designs of France, these Govern-
ments have done everything that could degrade
themselves in the eyes of England, and to render
us indifferent, if not hostile, to their wretched ex-
istence. The Papal Court has ventured on an act
of audacious impertinence to Great Britain ; the
Tuscan Government allows British subjects to be
cut down with impunity, and punishes men and
women for reading the Book of Common Prayer ;
the Neapolitans relax none of their severity to-
wards prisoners whose sufferings have excited the
compassion of all Europe ; and Marshal Radetzky,
carries into effect more capital executions for poli-
tical charges than he ventured upon after the
great rising of 1848. We know not whether these
States may ever stand in need of the countenance
of England, but assuredly they have a long score
of past offences to wipe off before they will obtain
it ; we view the fate of their victims with sincere
commiseration, and we doubt not that those who
have had the weakness and cruelty to govern by
such means as these will one day pay the penalty
of the rights they have outraged and the authority
they have abused.

"His Majesty and suite were robbed in costumes just
arrived from France, making such a display as I have
never seen rivalled except at Franconi's,' in Paris ;
and certainly none but theatrical magnificences would
venture to exhibit such glittering and variegated splen-
dour in any other metropolis, however imperial. The
toilette of Souloque himself, was quite wonderful, espe-
cially the chapeau, with its numerous feathers tipped
with different hues. As to the enthusiasm of the people,
so loyally commemorated by the pen of the journalist,
all the wannest part of his description of it is indebted
for its existence to his imagination alone. All the
shouts in the streets proceeded from the throats of a little
mob of ragged urchins, who followed the Emperor as he
caracoled along on his Andalusian steed, and whose pa-
triotic feelings were doubtless raised to the highest pitch
of admiration by the marvellous glories of his appear-
ance. It may be safely affirmed from the mode in which
the Emperor is generally received by his subjects, that
he is only strong by position, and that there is no affec-
tion cherished for him, either political or personal. It is
the knowledge of this fact, and his desperate determina-
tion to sustain himself at whatever cost, that has
caused him to shed so much blood, in which he
has already dyed his hands so deeply that it might
have made their black one red.' Before his sudden
and unexpected elevation to the chair of State, he was
noted for the mildness of his disposition, amounting
to almost imbecility, and those who were the chief con-
trivers of his election imagined that he would be a mere
tool in their hands for the accomplishment of their own
ends. Never was there a more egregious miscalculation,
and most of these very men have already fallen victims
to their mistake. Since his assumption of an imperial
charge,' in which even a good and virtuous nature may
recoil,' he has fancied himself in a constant state of war-
fa:

re with plotters against his power and life, and acting
upon the maxim that the first blow is half the battle,
the moment he suspects he resolves to detroy. I
know,' said he to an informant of the highest authority,
that I am surrounded by persons who are seeking my
overthrow ; but they made me chief without my asking
them, and chief I will remain, if I have to use all the
powder in the arsenal in shooting at the villains.'"

£393 7 5

Future subscriptions will be announced in The Times and other
papers. Every subscriber's name will appear in Eliza Cook's Jour-
nal. JOHN WATKINS, Hon. Sec.

In a dispatch written at the close of his mission,
Mr. Walsh thus speaks of the condition of the people
and the Government of Hayti :

"It is a conviction which has been forced upon me
by what I have learned here that negroes only cease to
be children when they degenerate into, savages. As long
they happen to be in a genial blood h is the rattle and
the straw by which they are tickled and pleased ; and
when their passions are once aroused, the most potent
weapons of subjugation can alone prevent the most hor-
rible evils. A residence here, however brief, must cause
the most determined philanthropist to entertain serious
doubts of the possibility of their ever attaining the full
stature of intellectual and civilised manhood unless some
miraculous interposition is vouchsafed in their behalf.
In proportion as the recollections and traditions of the
colonial civilisation are fading away, and the imitative
propensity, which is so strong a characteristic of the
African, is losing its, opportunities of exercise, the black
inhabitants of Hayti are reverting to the primitive state
from which they were elevated by contact with the
whites—a race whose innate superiority would seem to
be abundently proved by the mere fact that it is ap-
proaching the goal of mental progress while the other
has scarcely made a step in advance of the position in
which it was originally placed. It is among the mulat-
tos alone, as a general rule, that intelligence and edu-
cation are to be found ; but they
are neither sufficiently
numerous, nor virtuous, nor enlightened to do more
then diminish the rapidity of the nation's descent, and
every day accelerates the inevitable catastrophe by les-
sening their influence and strength,
a et
odominion
of
what ofl the
have llsrae
" The contrast between the picture which is now pre-
sented by this country, and that which it exhibited when
underconfirm th
exulting and abounding' land_a land literally flowing
nch
with milk and honey ; now it might be affirmed without
latffor was affords melancholy
einladnecehdoa an
extravagance, that where it is not an arid and desolate
waste, it is flooded with the waters of bitterness or co-
vered with noisome and poisonous weeds. ' When I ar-
rived here,' to quote the words of an intelligent foreigner
who has been in Hayti since the epoch of its indepen-
dence, there was abundance of everything—now there
is a want of everything.'
" The Government, in spite of his constitutional
forms, is a despotism of the most ignorant, corrupt and
vicious description, with a military establishment so
enormous that, while it absorbs the largest portion of
the revenue for its support, it dries up the very sources
of national prosperity, by depriving the fields of their
necessary labourers, to fill the town with pestilent hordes
of depraved and irreclaimable idlers. The treasury is
bankrupt, and every species of profligate and ruinous
expedient is resorted to, for the purpose of obtaining the
means of gratifying an insane passion for frivolous expen-
diture. A great portion of the public revenue is wasted
upon the personal vanities of the Emperor, and his ridi-
culous efforts to surround i h
—lns& with a splenduor
which he fancies to be pre-eminently imperial. It is a
fact that the same legislature which voted him several
hundreds of thousands of francs for some absurd costume,
refused an appropriation of twenty-five thousand francs
for public schools. The population for the most part is
immersed in Cimmerian darkness, that can never be
pierced by the few and feeble rays which emanate from
the higher portions of the Social system, whilst there is
a constant fermentation of jealousies and antipathies be-
tween the great majority and the only class at all capa-
ble of guiding the destinies of the land, which threatens
at every moment to shatter the p'ol,hical vessel in which
they are so perilously working. As to the refining and
elevating influences of civilised life—the influences of
religion, of literature, of science, of art-.they do not
exert the least practical sway, even if they can be said
to exist at all. The priests of the altar set the worst
examples of every kind of vice, and are universally mere
adventurers, disowned by the Church, who alone can
come here in consequence of the assumption by the Em-
peror of ecclesiastical authority, Which militates with
that of the Roman Pontiff. The press is shackled to
such a degree as to prevent the least freedom of opinion,
and people are afraid • to give utterance, even in confiden-
tial conversation, to ought that may be tortured into the
slightest criticism upon the action of the Government."

[PRICE SD.

NAVAL INULLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 12.
Commander George B. Jeffreys, of Gosport, late of
the Driver steam-sloop, and flag-lieutenant to the Com-
mander-in-Chief on the Irish station, received an ap-
pointment thii morning as Admiralty agent in charge of
mails, and has left this afternoon by railway for Ply-
mouth to take up his appointment.
The Medea, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Commander
C. Bailey, has been undocked this afternoon, ' after
having had her bottom cleaned and her detects repaired.
The " British Lion;" a noble carving of which formed
the figurehead of the Windsor Castle, n3w the Duke of
Wellington, 131, screw three-decker, fitting for sea at
this dockyard, was removed to-day, to make room for a
colossal bust of the great warrior after whom she has
been re-named by the Queen's command.
The Marlborough, 120, sailing three-decker, under
conversion to a screw-ship, will be parted for lengthen-
ing amidships on Thursday.
The pay-books of the Phaeton, 50, Captain Elliott,
have been landed to-day for transmission to the Admi-
ralty. She will be sent hence to Sheerness, where she
is ordered to proceed as soon as the weather moderates.
The weather is still frightful. It has been blowing a
gale the whole day from south-west, and at the turn of
the ebb the sea looked "mountains." There has been
but little communication with the ships at Spithead, nor
is there any chance for the next 24 hours, according to
present appearances.

SHEERNESS, JAN. 11.

, The Lizard parted from her harbour moorings 'at about
3.30 a.m. this day, and drifted past several vessels
moored in the same range of moorings. The watch on
deck let go her anchor, but she was not brought up until
Phe drove down abreast of the guard-ship of ordinary
ie Monarch, from which ship assistance was sent, and
a hawser carried away from that ship by the cutter's
brew, under charge of Mr. Mugford, second master.
Shortly after this both anchors were let go from the
Lizard, and she was brought up off the Basin Moorings
Buoy. The cause of the Lizard's parting was the break-.
ing of the mooring ring, which unites the pendant to the
Mooring bridles.
The Imp6rieuse' Capt. Randle B. Watson, from Wool-
wich, after trying her speed between the Mouse and the
Waite Buoy off the Nore in Sea-reach, passed the Gar-
ison Point at 11.45 a.m., and at 12.5 passed Kitty-hole
oint at the head of Saltpan-reach, a distance of quite
tour miles, in the 20 minutes, during which time her en-
gines were stopped dead to allow the Myrtle to go along-
eide to put the pilot on board, giving her a rate of speed
bf fully 15 knots, with a strong gale dead an end. Mr.
Xsaac Watt, Assistant-Surveyor of the Navy, went on
board the Impdrieuse on her arrival in harbour, and pro-
ceeded to Chatham.

All the available force of the shipwrights and joiners
Is to be put on the Rattlesnake, Commander Henry Trol-
lope, so as to get her ready to leave on the Ist of Feb-
ruary next.
It has blown a hard gale here from south-west since
last evening, which has continued all day, and in con-
sequence the Tribune has not been launched.

An order has arrived to receive the frigate Phaeton,
Captain George Elliott, from Portsmouth, for paying
off here as per Admiralty order.
The joiners of this yard have sent in a petition to the
Captain. Superintendent to be forwarded to the Admi-
ralty, humbly craving their lordships to raise their rate
of day pay, which will in due course be forwarded from
here by Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford, Acting-
Captain-Superintendent.

WOOLWICH, JAN. 12.
APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS.
Chaplain and Naval Instructor Rev. Frederick W.
Smith, B.A. (1849), to the Odin steam-frigate, at Ports-
mouth.

Assistant-Engineers.—Noah D. Fry, to the Sidon
Steam-frigate, at Portsmouth ; Thomas Patterson, to the
Horatio (24), screw steam-guard-ship) at Sheerness.
Master's Assistant—Edwin Wise,[to the Leander, 50,
at Portsmouth.
Midshipmen.—.W. G. Anneley, to the Prince Regent,
90, at Devonport • A. J. Kennedy and H. E. Stephens,
to the London, 90, at Portsmouth.
Gunners.—Abraham Kingston, to the Calypso, 18,
on the North America and West India station ; James
Oliver, to the Rattlesnake, fitting at Sheerness to convey
stores to the Behring's Straits expeditions ; Richard
Rowe, to the Leander, 50 ; and Alfred Ward, to the
Fury steam-sloop.
William King, John Devonshire, and Henry Williams,
from the second class, to be gunners of the first class.
Owen Hickey, George Wills, William Chapman,
Charles Blanch, Ison Such, and John Archbold, gunners
of the third class, to be gunners of the second class.
Henry Keown and William Chaff, to be acting gunners.
Captain Charles'Farrel Hillyer (1852), and Commander
William Montagu Isaacson George Pasco (1846), have
been appointed to study steam at the factory at Wool-
wich - Dockyard.
. .

Her Majesty's ship Vestal, 26, Captain Cospatrick
Bailhe Hamilton, serving on the North America and
West India station, was at Havannah on the 10th of
December last, all well ; and a squadron of steam-ships
under his orders were cruising in the neighbourhood.

THE ARMY.

WOOLWICH, JAN. 12.

The following is a list of the officers and men of the
Royal Artillery and of the 34th and 69th Regiments of
Foot, who have died of yellow fever at Barbadoes, where
the companies of artillery and the regiments alluded to
are stationed. The whole of the deaths enumerated have
taken place in the short interval from the 27th of August
to the 20th of November, 1852 :

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- OXFORD, WEDNESDAT.-----At the close of the poll Chia
evening, Mr. Gladstone had a majority on the day's poll
of 3, and a majority on the gross poll of 116.
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DUMFRIESSHIRE.
Viscount Drumlanrig was- returned yesterday for
Dumfriesshire without opposition, Sir William Jardine
having retired from the contest.

. COUNTY OF HADDINGTON.
The election of a member for this county, rendered
necessary by the Hon. Francis Charteris having accepted
the Scotch Lordship of the Treasury, took place at Had-
dington on Tuesday. Mr. G. W. Hope, of LuffneF,e,
proposed the re-election, for the third time, of lvlr.
Charteris, which nomination was seconded by Sir .3-ohn
Sinclair, of Stevenson: No other candidate being pro-
posed, Mr. Sheriff Horne declared Mr. Charteris duly
and unanimously elected. Mr. Charteris then, at some
length, addressed the electors. He defended the Peelite
party from the charge of having entered into a factious
combination to turn out the late Government, and re-
viewed the events of the election and the short Parlia-
mentary session. The hon. gentleman's speech was re-
ceived with cordial cheering.

VOWS, ISLE OF WIGHT.—Jan. 12.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LAuNcii.—The public were gratified ,on Tuesday last
with the launch of the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's new steam-ship Vectis, of 1,000 tons, the first of
theirs built on the new principle, without timbers, being
all sold planking. She is the handsomest model of a
steam-packet, notwithstanding her magnitude, ever
launched upon the waters of the Medina. She, was con-
structed by Messrs. John and Robt. White, on their
" patented improved diagonal principle," and is intended
to form one of a fleet of steam-packets, upon the new
contract, to carry the mails between Marseilles and
Malta, and vice versa. At 12.15, everything being in
readiness, this splenidid production of the Whites' re
ceived the name of Vectis from the patriarchal sire of
the new firm, who, in his 80th year, pronounced the
blessing with " God speed, and success to the first of
the new breed," amid the hearty congratulations of some
hundreds of spectators, among whom we observed
several of the cognoscenti, and naval and scientifie gen-
tlemen. As soon as the noble craft was freed from the •
dogshores and sleets which held her, she glided majesti-
cally and slowly along her ways to her destined element.
There was a strong breeze blowing from the westward ;
nevertheless she was forthwith warped into the Medina
Dock, where she has been placed to be coppered and
completed, prior to proceeding to London, to receive
her 400-horse power engines, on the oscillating prin-
ciple, manufactured by Messrs. John Penn and Son.
On any former occasion of a launch from the " model
arsenal" of the Messrs. White a brief notice was all that has
been necessary, but as the Vectis is the first which has been
constructed on an entirely new principle, destined to form a
complete revolution in ship building, some ,few remarks
will be necessary as regards the method on which she
has been constructed. It would appear that the intro-
duction of iron ships into our leviathan steam companies,
as well as into the navy, threatened for a while the anni-
hilation of wooden ships altogether. To meet the re-
quirements and reasonable demands of the various steam
iron ships possessed over those of wood, some imp
companies, and to counterbalance the advantages whiched
method in the construction of the latter was absolutely
more
necessary, in order to render them
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Messrs. attention ;
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and, after successfully making a series
and models, at no inconsiderable cost, they at once
satis-
fied themselves of the practicability of their plan, and
undertook to build ships of any magnitude, and a yof
speed and internal capacity—and this by a . combination
de-
gree of sharpness, combined with all the requisites
n
without the necessity of ribs or frame
timbers. Their new mode of construction enabled them
of planking,
to produce vessels whose sides were only as thick as
an iron ship with ribs and ceiling. The frame b.being
entirely dispensed -with greater buoyancy was pra-
duced • and the ships were consequently enabled to
carry from 15 to 20 per cent. mare cargo in dead weight,
with equal speed ; or the same quantum of cargo as an
ordinary built ship, but with greater spCed in conse-
quence of being enabled to birve finer lines. In the mode
of construction, viz., two thicknesses of diagonal plank-
ing, and longitudinal outside, greater durability
and safety were effected over the old method, and by the
exclusion of vacant spaces, where foul air is generated
from the bilge-water, or dirt collected in the openings,
the plan was rendered more healthy. Moreover, in the
new method, there is freedom from rats and
other vermin, and, above all, the plan is particu-
larly adapted for men-of-war, from their being no
iron strapping or iron knees, and the sides being •
solid thera would be consequently less splintering
from shod, and particularly healthy in warm climates.
These improvements were thereupon patented by the
Messrs. White, as an improved, practicable method of
building large vessels more than as a new scheme ;
and feeling that they had bestowed considerable
time and attention to the subject, in prosecuting
their experiments, they consider themselves entitled,
to at least a recognition and some preference
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should the system they have introduced became
"lines" is the produce of their brains, and their brains
their bread, it is, therefore, gratifying to find that the
plans produced by these eminent architects were approved
of by two of the greatest steam-packet companies in the
world, and their confidence of the talents and practical
knowledge of these gentlemen have led the Peninsular
and Oriental Company to intrust them with the con-
struction of the Vectis, of 1,000 tons ; and the Royal
West India Mail Company, at the same time, gave or-
ders to construct the Solent, a steam-ship of 2,000 tons,
which is now building by the Messrs. White in their
yard. Independent of which, they have also laid down
the keel of another steamer to be of 450 tons, and to be
constructed on the same method.

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Last week, a West Indiaman, of 350 tons, was
launched from the same yard, which was built on the
diagonal principle, thus showing that the new theory can
be carried into practice on a small as well as on a large
scale, and is equally applicable for a merchant trader an
for a mail steam-packet.
THE LAMBING SEASON IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT.-1&
more disastrous season for the farmer has never be an
known. Three of our friends have lost more than. 400
lambs. The rain, which set in on the 21st of Octo'ber,
still continues, and very little wheat has been got into
the ground, and .we fear that much of that little has
perished, the consequence of which will be that rl, vast
aEßd.—readThfuelsosueath-owueststidgea.le
The
ell
Heimann,
breadth of barley and oats will be sown in the spr ing—
greater, perhaps, than ever before known.
csTeHan steam-ship, made two attempts
but bore
pro-
York yesterday,
cAmaenerderfiho;WarieEeeAwi
e up and remains.
The fleet in our roadstead ride well.