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London, England, 1853-11-26 00:00:00

vernments. Active support was not at present available
for the end in view, and as for positive support the Govern-
ment did not want it. Let us take time to examine the
state of affairs at home. Right and might combined, vic-
tory would ally itself to justice. Russia is at present met
by her equal, and the effect of foreign support has only a
tendency to destroy self-reliance. The Porte has declared
that it has proclaimed war on grounds common to England,
and the moment that the Russians crossed the Pruth the
Western Powers ought at once to have interfered. Not-
withstanding vacillation the Sultan resisted the weight of
all European authority, and he (Mr. Urquhart) called upon
this meeting in this matter to resist the British Govern-
ment. He feared that a storm was about to break nearer
home than Russia. The policy of the Czar was calculated
to involve us in war with our equal, with France. (Cheers
and hisses.) Some dissented—he was accustomed to oblo-
quy and dissent ; the matters he propounded was too ab-
struse for a nation to follow ; but present obloquy was
future power. States in the midst of greatness had fallen.
The Athenians ran after news, admired the splendour of
their buildings, and held their Peace Congress. It might
be that our attention, directed from the real policy of the
n3my, would in the end prove disastrous.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.
Mr. PROUDFOOT moved, and Mr. G. Ross seconded, the
third resolution—

" That a memorial to her Majesty, embodying the senti-
ments of the foregoing resolutions, bo transmitted to Lord
Palmerston, her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home
Department." _

Votes of thanks having been given to Mr. Urquhart for
attending the meeting,. and to Mr. Moir for his conduct in
the chair, the proceedings terminated.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 25
Her Majesty is expected to-morrow, about half-past
12 to pass through this port en route to Osborne.
The Leopard, 12, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Captain
George Giffard, returned to Spithead this morning from
Malta with about 200 military invalids, including their
wives and children, in charge of Lieutenant Boyle, R.A.
They were landed at the dockyard this afternoon by the
Sprightly, port tender, Acting-Master Allen.
The Fairy and Elfin Royal yachts went out to Spit-
head and the Solent to-day to make a trial of their ma-
chinery, being ordered to embark the Queen and Court
to-morrow at Gosport for the Isle of Wight.
Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Parry has been appointed
by Lord Aberdeen Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich
Hospital.

PLYMOUTH, N0v.25.
Her Majesty's steam-transport Rhadamanthus sailed
on Thursday afternoon with artillery for Woolwich.
A sailing frigate went up Channel, inside the Eddy-
stone, at three o'clock yesterday afternoon. She had a
white ensign at her peak end, and was under three top-
gallant sails, topsail, and courses, having the wind from
west north-west.

A Dutch barque-rigged paddle-wheel steam-vessel of
war was off the port at 11 last night. She was 65 days
from Batavia, bound to Amsterdam, and on Tuesday, in
a gale from south-east, had her paddle floats knocked to
pieces and received other trifling damage.
IN HARBOUR.—lmpregnable, 104, flag of Admiral
Sir John A. Ommanney, Capt. A. Lowe ; St.
George, 120, ordinary depot ship, broad pendant of Com-
modore Michael Seymour, Captain John Kingcome ;
Edinburgh, 58 (screw,) gunnery ship, tender to the Ex-
cellent, Captain R. S. Hewlett ; Confiance, towing
steamer, Master W. Martin ; Sylpb, 4, Port Admiral's
tender ; Avon, 3, tender to the Impregnable, Master
A. J. Veitch ; Nautilus, 6, apprentices' exercise brig,
Lieut. S. B. Dolling.

IN THE SOUND.—Hogue, 60 (screw), steam guard-
ship, Captain W. Ramsay ; Vulture, 6, Captain Fre-
derick H. H. Glasse ; Magicienne. 16, Captain Thomas
Fisher.

WOOLWICH, Nov. 25.
APPOINTMENT.

Master's-Assistant Henry G. Swainson, to the Juno,
26, at Chatham.

The Black Eagle steam-vessel, •Master-Commander
Petley, was taken out of the basin to-day, and has now
resumed her former station at the moorings in the

stream.

The Myrtle, steam vessel, has had her defects made
good in the steam basin here, and will leave to-morrow
for Sheerness, to resume her duties as a steam-tug at
that port.

Intelligence was received here by the last mail from
Constantinople, that the Sharkie Egyptian war steamer,
well known in the river Thames as the Pasha of Egypt's
yacht, had entered the Black Sea, to take possession of
a Russian ship-of-war which had run aground. It is
probable the telegraphic intelligence published today
refers to the same information, contained in a private
letter, which says :—" The Turks have taken a Russian
man-of-war in the Black Sea. The crew have arrived at
Constantinople. Particulars are wanting." The same
letter said the Sharkie was ordered to bring the crew of
the Russian ship•of--war to Constantinople.

AN IMPROVED ANCHOR FOR THE NAVY.---A Chatham
correspondent sends the following :—" An order has
been received from the Admiralty that the anchor (one
of Porter's) that their lordships ordered to be altered,
when the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, with other
officers of the board, recently paid an official visit, to the
plan of Mr. Cotsell's, master-smith at this yard, is to be
sent to Woolwich, to be tested, it being now complete.
It weighs 49 cwt. 2 qrs. Mr. George Cotsell is to
attend the testing ; there will also be present several
naval officers and gentlemen to witness the trial, power,
and strength of this anchor ; its principal dimensions are
nearly the same as the Admiralty anchor ; the shank
and arms are flattened, which gives more strength
in the line of the strain ; and the inner surfaces
of the palms are kept straight to the proper angle,
which will cause the anchor to nip the ground
readily, and to hold firmly when once inserted, which is
very essential ; and for the purpose of weighing or trip-
ping the external curvature of the arms of the anchor is
preserved. It is very simple and strong, and in case of
accident easily repaired ; it can be fished, cotted, &e.,
with facility ; it possesses all the properties of the ordi-
nary anchor, with the advantages of portability ; under
excessive strains it will be less liable to be broken at the
clutch than the ordinary anchor. Mr. Cotsell's anchor
has been highly spoken of by Captain Thomas L. Mas-
sie, who took one of his anchors out with him in her
Majesty's ship Cleopatra, in May, 1849."
Now, with all respect to Mr. Cotsell's improvement,
we submit that there is already an improved anchor
under the patent of Trotman's anchor, which was offi-
cially reported by the anchor committee as possessing
generally the best qualities of all the anchors tried, and
in justice to that gentleman we contend that any im-
provement suggested should have been carried out by
the patentee.—Herald.

METROPOLITAN COMMISSIONERS OF

SEWERS.

A special
general court of the Metropolitan Commis-
sion of Sewers was held yesterday morning at the Ses-
sions-house, Newington-causeway, for the purpose of
hearing summonses against defaulters on the Surrey and
Kent district rate, to receive reports and presentments
of nuisances, and to transact such other matters of busi-
ness as might require immediate attention. The Com-
missioners present were Mr. Richard Jebb, the chair-
man ; and Mr. George Baker.
Mr. G. H. WOOLEYCH, the secretary, read the state
of the cash account, from which it appeared that there
was an available balance in hand of 60,676/.
Mr. Bloyd, the sequestrator of the benefice of St.
Olave's, Southwark, appeared before the court to receive
judgment as to his liability to pay the sum of 51. arrears
of rate, and the sum of 101. new rate, chargeable upon
him in respect of sewerage rates for the Surrey and Kent
district.
The CHAIRMAN, in giving judgment, stated that this
case came before the court upon summons but it
involved the same question as that appealed against by
several other parties. His decision in this case would
also decide those of the Rev. G. Baker, the vicar of
Fulham ; the Rev. Dr. Jackson, the rector of Battersea;
the Rev. Dr. Sketchley, the vicar of St. Paul, Deptford,
and several other cases. In some of these cases there
have been appeals in regular form, but this case appeared
before the court on the summons. He had, since this
matter was last before the court, inquired into the prac-
tice of the old commission, before the present Metropolitan
Commission of Sewers was established, and had also
looked into the law of the case. There were great dif-
ficulties in repeating that conclusion, but it was clear,
after the consideration the court had given to the case,
that the rates must be remitted on this occasion. The
present case presented some peculiar circumstances, but
he should come to the same conclusion. He found that
the' benefice of St. Olave was managed under the provi-
sion of a local act of Parliament, the 57th George 111.
In that act provisien was made for giving a stipend to
the rector, the income under the Tithe Commutation
Act being found insufficient for the support of the in-
cumbent, by a rate upon the parishioners, and that is
rated to the poor. The question to be decided was,
whether it could be placed on the same footing as eccle.
siastical tithes, and he was of opinion that the fair inter-
pretation was, that it did stand on the same footing.
Upon looking over the old records of the Surrey and
Kent Commission he found that no rates had ever been
paid, and he was of opinion that the present case came
within the provisions of the 76th section of the Metro-
tphoelirteatno
reCommission
Murf . Sewers A His
woyed was entitled to judgment,there
mission of the rate, and orders would be given to the
proper officers that he should not be troubled for the
future.

The matter then dropped.
Several parties were summoned for the nonpayment
of rates, nearly all of whom complained that they had
not proper sewers provided for their use, but the chair-
man told them that was no excuse, and ordered the rates
to be paid within a week.
Some routine business having been transacted, the
court adjourned.

THE LATE RAILWAY CATASTROPHE IN IRELAND.—It
is stated that there are now no hopes of the recovery of
Mrs. Latham Blacker, one of the surviving sufferers from
the railway collision at Straffan. She is at present lying
at the Terminus Hotel in a very weak state of body and
mind. During the past week her sufferings have been
intense, and her medical attendants are of opinion that
she cannot possibly survive for more than two or three
days at the furthest. Legal proceedings against the
railway company have been instituted by the nearest re-
lations of the late Mr. Christopher McNally, a Dublin
solicitor, and of Mr. Bateman, of Cork, both of whom
lost their lives on the evening of the dreadful accident.
GOLD TO RUSSIA.—A further sum of 80,000/. in gold
has been sent to Russia. An opinion prevails, however,-
that the greater portion of the amount lately despatched
will before long return.