The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-15 00:00:00

ACCIDENT TO TO THE &MLA.

SOI3THAUPTON, Saturday, May 13.—8 y the arrival of
the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Sultan
we learn that the screw steamer Simla, Captain Brooks,
was spoken on the 9th instant off Vigo, and that she
reported having broken her screw propeller in two places,
and that steam power was in consequence quite useless.
The Simla, it will be recollected, left Southampton on
the 6th instant for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria,
with the India, China, and Australian mails, and had
on board also the mails for Melbourne and Sydney,
taken out of the Great Britain, besides a very large and
valuable cargo, 300 tons of stores and provisions for the
Government, to be landed at Malta for transmission to
the fleet in the Black Sea, and specie to the value of about
90,0001. sterling. The screw, it appears, was broken
by having struck some portion of a floating wreck ; and,
no spare one being on board at the time, the Simla had
to trust entirely to her canvas. She was going about
eight knots, with a fair wind, when spoken by the Sul-
tan. It is supposed she would make Gibraltar, and
there endeavour to repair temporarily the damage sus-
tained. The company have a spare screw at this port,
and it was at first deemed advisable to ship it on board
the Sultan or Colombo, and to send both these steam-
ships to Gibraltar, there to meet the Simla, and trans-
ship her mails, passengers, and cargo for conveyance to
their destination. For this purpose Captain Engledue, the
superintendent of the company, ordered these vessels tobe
prepared for sea, so as to leave Southampton on Sunday
or Monday. Subsequently orders were, however, re-
ceived this evening from London, countermanding their
departure, and the Simla will have to make the best of
her way under sail alone, or with temporary repairs
(should such be practicable), to the Mediterranean.
Great delay to the mails will necessarily be experienced,
and the steamers on the Suez side of the isthmus will,
of course, be kept waiting. If the Simla gets favour-
able weather, she wiil probably make a fair passage to
Malta, whence the mails might be sent on by the
Vectis or Valetta to Alexandria, but if foul winds are
encountered in the Mediterranean, it is uncertain when
that island may be reached. The Simla is a most mag-
nificent ship, and, independent, of her steam-power, is
fully rigged as a clipper barque, so as to take the greatest
possible advantage, on all occasions, of a leading wind.
We regret to learn that a serious accident had taken
place on board the Simla just previous to the disaster to
her screw-propeller, the third engineer having been
killed by falling down the engine-room upon the work-
ing parts of the machinery. The unfortunate man was
dreadfully mangled, and died almost instantaneously.

THE CITY OF GLASGOW STEAMER.—The New York
Journal of Commerce publishes the following report by
the captain of the schooner Canton, arrived at New
York, and remarks upon it :—" April 12, saw a steam-
propeller off Achlin's Island (Bahamas), from five to
eight miles distant—sails furled ; she was undoubtedly
lying at anchor, as she was head to wind. There did
not appear to be anything the matter with her.
Saw no one on board. Several small vessels, ap-
parently wreckers, were in the vicinity, but did not
appear to be going to or coming from her. She
was apparently about 1,000 tons burden ; sup-
posed her to have been a surveying vessel." We
further learn verbally that she had windsails set, —no flags ;
the stack very short and back, between the fore and
main masts—nearer to the latter. The distance between
the fore and main masts was noticed as being consider-
able ; that between the main and mizen very much less.
Boats were hanging on the quarter and at the stern.
The vessel stood very high out of the water The fol-
lowing is a minute description of the City of Glasgow :
Built of iron; 1,610 tons register, but at sea appears
much smaller ; length over all, 258 feet ; breadth, 34feet
3 inches ; 350-horse power ; sides black, bottom dark
yellow, white full-length female figurehead, scroll work
and name board on each bow ; imitation quarter
galleries ; bad no bulwarks proper, but network around
her supported by an iron rail, painted yellow, which
might easily be mistaken at a distance for wood-
work ; decks yellow ; was barque rigged, with bow-
sprit and jibboom ; her smokestack, which was black,
with a white ring near the top, was abaft the foremast ;
house on deck also abaft the foremast; she carried the
American ensign at the fore ; blue pennant, red edges,
with her name in it, at the main ; blue signal, with a
black star in it, at the mizen, and the British ensign at
the mizen gaff. Captain Johnson further states that he
is positive that the above vessel was afloat ' • that if she
was in distress she could not have been in the position
reported— viz., to windward. Had she been in dis-
tress she would probably have come through the Maya-
guana passage, and made some of the more windward
islands. The passengers by the Canton also state their
belief that this vessel was not in distress, and
also to the best of their knowledge that there was no
white about her smokestack ; and one of them still
further states that he h. as seen the City of Glasgow, and
is pretty positive.that.it
.was not she. Captain Johnson
also states that in his judgment, and allowing for the
distance from him, she was not over 1,000 tons burden,
that she was either a war or surveying vessel, and that
as it was contemplated to build a lighthouse at or near
that locality, she might
.havu been there for the purpose
of fixing the site ; which is also the opinion of the
passengers.
THE MAILS—LIVERPOOL, May 13.—The British and
North American mail steamer America, Lang com-
mander, took her departure hence to-day for Boston,
with a large number of passengers, a full cargo, and a
heavy mail. The South American and General Steam
Navigation Company's screw steamer BFasileira is re-
ported to have reached Bahia on the ruorning
and that
of the 14th
ult., being 2(q days' passage from Liverpool,
she sailed on the following day for Rio Janeiro, booked
full of passengers and cargo. She will be due at Liver-
pool on the 27th or 23th inst. La Plata, belonging to
the same company, reached Pernambuco on the 7th ult.,
21 days passage from Holyhead, and sailed on the fol-
lowing day for the River Plate. Their new steamer,
the Bahiana, sails hence on the Ist of June, and will be
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The crew of the steam gunvessel Jasper, Lieutenant-
Commander Crawley; were paid wages on Friday, and
the next day she left Plymouth Sound for the Baltic.
The steam-sloop Stromboli arrived at Plymouth on
Saturday from a cruise in the Channel.
Captain Curry,- First Lieutenant Ifsler, and Second
Lieutenant Napier, with two sergaliA, two corporals,
-one- fifer, and 90 privates, embark; on Saturday on
board the Calcutta, 84, Captain Stopford.
The Nautilus apprentices brig went down Channel by
the Eddystone on Saturday afternoon.
The Brazilian Government steam-vessel Santa Cruz,
built in London, which injured her boilers coming
down Channel, and put into Torbay, was towed into
Plymouth Sound on Saturday by the steam-vessel
Brunswick, Portsmouth trader, Capt. T. Russell.
Mr. J. C. Barlow, Master (late of the Waterloo, 120)
took up his commission at Sheerness on Saturday, and
joined the Formidable, 84, guardship of ordinary, Capt.
Superintendent Christopher Wyvill. Mr. John Edg-
combe Skinner, clerk's-assistant (first appointment), has
also taken up his commission and joined. The ship is
progressing very slowly in her fitment as regards her
rigging, in consequence of the riggers being stationed on
work more urgently required for immediate service.
The Wellesley, 72 guns, guardship of ordinary at Chat-
ham, Capt.-Superintendent Peter Richards, C. 8., &c.
is progressing smartly with her rigging under the
direc-
tions of Mr. C. Gahan, Master of the Poictiers. They
areisetting up all her lower standing rigging, and she has
been coppered up to her deep water line. It is the in-
tention of the Admiralty that this ship and the Formida-
ble shall be fitted and stowed so as to be ready for sea
on the shortest notice.
The Hannibal, 90 guns, new screw steamship, Captain
the Hon. F. W. Grey, at Chatham, has her masts and
spars all a-taut, her topmasts rigging ratlined down, and
her lower rigging fore and aft is all ready for being rat-
lined. She has now upwards of 500 men on her books,
The seamen of the Waterwitch, 8-gun sloop, Corn. A.
H. Gardner, are to be paid their wages, and will pro-
ceed on immediate service in another ship. Vice-Admi-
ral the Hon. Josceline Percy has been pleased to say he
will use his influence with the Admiralty for their mess
not to be broken up, but to get them all draughted to
the same ship. The officers are also to be paid their
wages, and proceed into other ships for duty, as directed
by the Admiralty. The Waterwitch will not be commis-
sioned again, as she requires very considerable repairs in
her topsides, caused by the excessive straining of the
rigging and masts on the upper parts of her hull, fore
and aft. The captains and commanders of the shipping
fitting out in this port at present, are all trying to gain
for their respective ships this little handful of blue-
jackets.
The Janus, 4 guns, paddlewheel steam-vessel, Lieu-
tenat-Commander Colin C. A. Kane, remains waiting
for orders to proceed on particular service. The Rus-
sian seamen she brought round have all been sent to the
receiving ship Crocodile, where they were eagerly sought
for by shipowners in the port of London, and engaged
at wages rating from 3/. to 61. per month.
We were premature in stating, as we did on Friday
last, that the Russian brigantine Johanna Emilie, ar•
rived here under false colours, had been condemned. We
have learnt that the case is at present undergoing inves-
tigation by the Admiralty proctor. The capture was
effected jointly by the three landing surveyors stationed
at the London Docks. Of the fate of the vessel there is
little doubt—she will be confiscated, but the consignees
anticipate release of the cargo, on the plea that it was
shipped at Lisbon on the supposition that the vessel was
Hanoverian, having been advertised as such—by which
they were deceived.
The Soufflier iron war steamer, belonging to the
French Government, and in command of Captain Man-
trac, entered the Tyne on Friday to coal and adjust her
compasses. She left on Saturday morning for the Baltic.
She is a handsome new vessel, evidently of great speed,
and is from Cherbourg. The officers and men, the few
hours they had to spend on shore, met a hearty recep-
tion from the inhabitants of Shields.
Captain Sher ringham, who has visited several of the
Devonshire towns to enrol men as Coast Volunteers, was
at Appledore, in the North of Devon, last week. After
explaining the object of his visit, the gallant captain
succeeded in enrolling more than 20 of the watermen,
pilots, and coasters of the place. In joining this new
corps the men are consulting their pecuniary interests,
inasmuch as they receive 16s. per week while on duty,
and all their travelling expenses are paid ; in addition to
which they are found provisions if exercised on board
ship, and that too in the most dreary month of February,
when there is scarcely anything doing on the sea or on
the river.
By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship
Sultan, which arrived at Southampton on Saturday, we
have dates from Gibraltar to the 6th inst. The British
transports Bombay and St. Vincent, with troops, passed
the Straits of Gibraltar on the 3d inst. The Eveline and
Blundell, having detachments of the 17th Lancers on
board, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Lawren-
son, put into Gibraltar on the 3d, having lost four horses
on the voyage. They proceeded on the same day for the
East. Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Megmra, with
the 38th on board, passed the Straits on the 4th inst.
The second division of the 89th Foot, under command
of Major the Hon. Charles Daly, arrived on the 3d in
the ship Gomebza, seven days from Cork. They disem-
barked the same day, and marched to Windmill-hill
Barracks.
It is positively stated that an Anglo-Fr ench army
will occupy Greece before the month of June shall
have been many days old. The army of occupation, it
is said, will consist of somewhere about 15,000 men,
of which 10,000 will be contributed by the French.
The regiments forming the English portion of the
force either have already received. or will in a
few hours hence receive, their orders for immediate
embarkation. They are the 20th Regiment, at
Plymouth ; the 34th and Ist battalion of the Rifle Bri-
gade, at Portsmouth ; the 21st and 63d, in Dublin ; and
the 97th, at Windsor. As soon as the steam-transports
are ready (and all haste is being made to make them
above
these troops will embark. The departure of the
troops will leave the head-quarters of only four or five in-
fantry regiments in the kingdom, and it is in consequence
determined on to call out some 15 or 20 of the best
trained regiments of the English militia for garrison
duty in this country and in Ireland.
Captain George E. Hillier, half-pay 80th Regiment,
has been appointed Deputy-Assistant .Adjutant-General
in Dublin, in succession to Captain Mackenzie, 92d
Highlanders, nominated Brigade-Major to Brigadier-
General Airey, on the staff of the army in Turkey. The
situation of Assistant Military Secretary is vacant by
the resignation of Captain Hillier.
The head-quarters of the 12th Regiment arrived in
Cork on Thursday by train from Dublin.
The fourth troop of the 11th Hussars embarked at
Kingston on Friday. The fifth and last troop of this
fine regiment will go on board this day (Monday). Their
departure is greatly regretted. A better behaved corps,
both privates and officers, never formed part of the Dub-
lin
Tharrison.
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order for the 97th Regiment to march from the
Sheet-street Barracks, Windsor, on Monday (this day),
has been countermanded in consequence of the American
steam-ship Orinoco not being in a sufficient state of
readiness to proceed immediately with the troops to the
Mediterranean. The day for the departure of this regi-
ment from Windsor is now fixed for Monday the 22d
instant.
VICTORIA RIFLES.—The Duke of Wellington, and not
the Marquis of Salisbury, as erroneously stated, holds
the rank of lieutenant-colonel in this corps.
FOOD FOR THE BRITISH TROOPS IN TURKEY.—The
authorities at the Horse Guards have had under their
consideration a newly-invented meat cake, which seems
to be admirably adapted for soldiers engaged in a cam-
paign like that in which we are about to embark in
Turkey. Each cake affords three good meals, weighs
71 ounces, divided in three rations of 21 ounces each,
which can be eaten dry, or when broken up and mixed
with warm or cold water affords a nutritious soup.
These meat cakes are easily stowed away, and a soldier
might, with ease, carry a dozen in his haversack, to be
used as reserved rations whenever the supply of other
provisions failed, thereby being independent of the com-
missariat for twelve days. Mr. O'Brien, in the second
edition of "A Residence in Wallachia," referring to
this invention, says, " I have more than once tasted
the soup made from these cakes, and found it excellent.
Mr. Colquhoun approved of them so highly that he sent
some to Constantinople, with a recommendation that
they should be used in the Turkish army. I understand
it is the intention of Mr. Pouteau, the inventor, in con-
junction with his brother, who resides in London, to
establish a manufactory of these meat cakes and other
provisions, and to supply them at a moderate price to

FURTHER PARTICULARS.
There was a general belief on Saturday morning that
this noble vessel would be christened by the Princess
Royal ; and even after the ceremony was over, those
who viewed it from a distance persisted in saying that
this youthful Royal personage performed the baptismal
rite in honour of her distinguished father. The account
of the launch in our Saturday's edition stated the fact
correctly—viz., that it was her Majesty who stepped
forward and broke the bottle of wine against the bow
of the Royal Albert. We find, however, that a Sunday
contemporary fell into the error of attributing the act
to the Princess, and two morning journals to-day repeat
the mistake.
In addition to the particulars we have already given
of the interesting event, we may mention that it was
Sir J. Graham who handed the bottle to her Majesty,
and explained the manner in which it was to be thrown.
The bottle was a small one, of clear crystal, filled with
sherry, covered with fine thick Honiton lace, and having
two wreaths of roses, thistles, and shamrocks entwined
round it. It was attached to the good ship by silver
cord.
The following details of the size, tonnage, and con-
struction of this ship will be read with interest ;—The
Prince Albert has been somewhat less than twelve years
constructing ; in this, as in many other particulars, dif-
fering widely from the old school. of naval phip-building, •
when it was-no unusual' thing to hear of shigiva
being as many as thirty or forty years upon the stocks.
Mr. Oliver Lang, late master shipwright of the dock-
yard, had the honour of desiguing her, and her keel was
laid down on the anniversary of Prince Albert's birthday,
August 26, 1842. It was originally intended that she
should be a sailing ship of the line, but the value of the
screw as an auxiliary propelling power for men-of-war
was shortly afterwards demonstrated, and when she was
more than three-fourths completed, in January, 1852,
she was altered to a screw ship of the line, lengthened
by 15 feet, thereby adding about 300 tons to her esti-
mated tonnage, and making room for the screw-propeller
and its machinery. Her carpentry and interior con-
struction differs materially from the former mode of
shipbuilding ; great mechanical skill has been exhibited
in the diagonal bearings, and other additional strength-
enings she has received to enable her to withstand the
shock of her powerful armament ; and Mr. Rice, the
present master shipwright, by whom her completion has
been carried to a successful issue, has exhibited much
good taste and ability in finishing off the details. The
engines are being fitted by Messrs. Penn and Co. ; they
are of the patent trunk principle, and of 500 horse-power
It may be not uninteresting here to glance at the pro-
gressive improvements that have taken place in the size,
construction, and armament of our men-of-war within
the last fifty years. It is unnecessary to go back to the
days of Henry VIII., when Woolwich was first raised
to the dignity of a royal dockyard, and when we find
the bluff monarch personally inspecting the new ship
that had been built for and named after him, the Harry
Grace A Dieu, the largest vessel ever built up to its time,
1515. The destiny of this vessel was peculiar and unfor-
tunate, as she was burned forty years afterwards in the
dockyard in which she had been built. Although she
was at the time the wonder and admiration of the world,
the Harry Graced Dieu would have but a poor chance
with one of the smallest frigates recently despatched to
the Black Sea or the Baltic. Coming down to a period
only fifty years ago, let us take the Victory, of 104
guns, in which Nelson achieved his crowning triumph
and met his death, in the moment of victory. In her
day she was regarded as the perfection of a line-of-
battle ship. She carried 104 'guns, and measured 186
feet in length. Her breadth was 521 feet, and her bur-
den 2,162 tons, while the weight of her broadside was
nine hundred pounds. Advancing thirty years later
we have the Caledonia as a model. She carried 120
guns—her length is increased to 205 feet—she is
about a foot broader in the beam ; there is an addition
of 600 tons to her burden, which is about 2,750 tons,
while the weight of her broadside of metal is nearly double
that of the Victory, or about 1,7501b5. Before us is the
latest effort of naval science, and it is only by a contrast
such as we have bee' making, or by comparing her side
by side with a line-of-battle ship of a former period, that
we can fully estimate her gigantic size, or tremendous
power. If the thing were practicable, there would be
no difficulty as regards space in placing the Caledonia
in her hold. The extreme length of the Royal Albert is
276 feet, she is therefore 30 feet longer than the Duke of
Wellington, and her extreme breadth 61 feet ; her bur-
den is 3,760 tons, and the weight of her broadside of
metal more than four times that of the Victory, and
more than double that of the Caledonia, or close upon
4,0001b5. The mere weight of timber-and iron in her
hull alone is 3,000 tons, and when thoroughly fitted and
equipped the weight is no Jess than 5,000 tons. A peep
at her interior discovers to us the resources and arrange-
ments of a little town, for such we may not inappropri-
ately consider the population of 1,100 men by whom she
will be manned. There are no less than five decks de-
scending gradually till we arrive at the recesses of the
hold, where are placed the stores, the magazines, and
the machinery. On the upper deck is the poop, where
the commander usually takes his station, the quarter-
deck, the gangways, and in front the forecastle. Below
this is the main deck, the great working part of the
ship ; the third is termed the middle deck, and the
fourth the lower, or gun-deck, on which the heaviest
guns are generally placed, and the flooring of which is
constructed with unusual regard to strength and soli-
dity. This lower deck is some six or seven feet above
the water line, so that the ports may be opened and the
guns may be worked with safety even in a rough sea,
and here we leave the light of day and descend below
the level of the water to the orlop deck, where the cock-
pits are placed. A Stray shot will occasionally find its
way even here ; but several feet lower down, where lies
the gunpowder to the amount of some forty or fifty tons,
stored away in the fore and after part of the hold, all is
darkness and gloom—and all, it is hoped, is perfectly
secure from an accidental spark. These magazines are
approached by passages and guarded by strong doors,
which are never opened until every fire and light in the
ship (except the Argand lamp, which lights the maga-
zine, and which has its socket surrounded by water), is
extinguished. Attached to the magazine is a pipe con-
nected with a cistern of water, so that in case of fire it
may be in a minute or two inundated. But in the event
of the magazine being flooded, the ammunition is per-
fectly safe—the cartridges are in hermetically sealed
zinc cases, so that by means of another stop cock the
water can be turned off, and the ammunition is again fit
for use. While these precautions are taken with regard
to the safety of the ship; her machinery is also equally
well protected. The coals are stowed away in bunkers
to a thickness of twelve feet on each side of her engine-
room, so as to render it impervious to shot. The
screw itself will weigh about ten tons, independently
of the shaft, a beam of wrought iron of a weight and
dimensions almost incredible, if we did not take into
account the tremendous power required to impel a float-
ing mass of some five or six thousands tons, at a speed
of 12 or 13 miles an hour through the water. The
screw can be readily detached and hoisted on dock in a
few minutes, while being so deeply submerged when in
its proper position it is out of the range of shot. It is
estimated that the speed of the Prince Albert will be
13 miles an hour, and at this speed, with her tremendous
weight and power, she would cut an ordinary man-of-
war to the water's edge without firing a shot.
Her armament will be arranged as follows ; on the
lower deck there will be ten 8-inch guns for firing shells
or hollow shot, and twenty-six long 32-pounder guns.
On the middle deck will be six 8-inch gun,, and thirty
32-pounders. On the main deck, thirty-eight 32-
pounders, and on the upper deck twenty 32-pounders.
On the forecastle there will be a 68-pounder gun,
mounted on a pivot, and this last will be one of the most
formidable of all. The gun will weigh five tons, and
will throw a sulid iron shot of 681 b. weight a distance
of three miles. If any one has stood upon the platform
of a battery when heavy guns have been fired, he must
have witnessed how, after a few discharges, the massive
granite and the solidly-lpitted oak and iron framework
has been shaken and dislocated by the force of the concus-
sion, and he can fancy what must be the strength of the
timbers of a man-of-war when a whole tier or broadside
of these guns is discharged at once.
The total number of guns will be 131. The Royal
Albert is, however, pierced for 140 guns, to which
amount her actual armament might be increased by the
addition of nine light guns.

THE RUSSIAN FRIGATE DlANA.—Advices from Val-
paraiso to the 3d alt, state that the Diana, 52, left
Valparaiso on the 23d of March for the Sandwich
Islands. The French frigate Forte, 60, left at the same
time for Callao. A Valparaiso paper says :—" During
the time the Russian frigate was in port her officers and
men were often on shore. The officers are rmarkably
intelligent, well-bred, and good-looking men,e and have
by their urbanity, affability, and gentlemanly deport-
ment secured the esteem and good wishes of many
persons here, both native and foreign. When questioned
as to the prospect of war between Russia and France and
Great Britain, they were naturally reserved. But when
asked, in reference to the probability of a hostile encoun-
ter between the Diana and President, what were their
opinions of the issue, the Russian commander was only
heard to say—' We shall never strike our flag.' From
the appearance and character of the officers and men,
we can readily believe that they are capable of keeping
their word, and would rather sink with their ship than
survive the disgrace of a defeat." English coals were
selling at $l6 to $l7. Freights to England were quoted
at 4/. 10s. to 51. 10s.

tfbro was a,- far superior arms- we _
so the Czar has always regarded war as a very low am
clumsy method of compassing " annexation." A
political map of the Russian empire is one of the
most startling of modern pictures. Wyld has put
upon its parts the various periods of their acquisi-
tion. It looks as if it were made up entirely of pick-
ings and stealings. Here from Persia, there from Turkey,
now from Sweden, again from China, or Poland, and nearly
all within a century anda, half, the cribbed portions make
up so much as to leave the original homestall of Muscovy
an insignificant patrimony. All have exactly the same
history. The reigning thief casts about him to see
where among his neighbours discontent is greatest, or
treason most practicable. Thither in secret, or on a
friendly visit, he sends his agents and his roubles. Cor-
ruption and faction-nursing do their work. Rebellion
arises—revolution threatens. The Emperor of All the
Russias enters the disturbed districts to "restore tran-
quillity" which he alone had interrupted. A little more
intrigue, treachery, bribery, ripens a friendly intervention
into a protectorate—and from the latter the step is in-
sensible, gradual and easy, to " incorporation " into the
great Muscovite empire. These " taking ways " have
become peculiarly obvious and transparent in the case of
Turkey. In every absolute Court there is a strong
Russian party. The Emperor of Austria is a mere regal
imbecility. The King of Prussia is a miserable sot, who
breaks the bridge of his nose after dinner by running
against his cherry trees in his garden. Half the courtiers
of every German 'potentate are the mere pensionaries
of the Czar. Their silence or sympathy purchased,
he proceeds to " restore tranquillity " to the Crimea.
He pities the Wallachians and Moldavians. He
is grieved at the turbulence of the Circassians. " You
know the rest." These have merely his political sym-
pathies. But the Greeks ! are they not Christians ?
Are they not of his own Church ? Can he be blamed
for the depth of his interest in, and the intensity of his
affection for, fellow worshippers, persecuted for con-
science sake by the heathen and the infidel ? So he
takes the Greek subjects of the Sultan into pay. He
corrupts the old Mussulnian faction in the Divan. He
opens communications with, he subsidises, the patriarchs
and other priests of the Greek church in Turkey. He
"remonstrates" through his Ambassadors with the Porte
on the persecution of his Greek subjects. He gradually
accustoms the latter to turn from their own Sovereign,
and to look to him as their protector. He smuggles un-
considered clauses into protocols and treaties, which
begin with recognising his access to the Sultan as a
mere friendly adviser in reference to his dealings with
his Christian subjects, and are gradually swelled by jesu-
itical misinterpretation into the assertion of a right to
protect them against their own lawful monarch. Then
comes the " got up quarrel," which is the pretext for his
entering Moldaviato restore tranquillity, and now in place
of incorporation, he is brought face to face with the power
of France and England. The plot is begun afar off. He
approaches the Helleues of Turkey through those of
Greece. King Otho and his rascals are his mere sti-
pendiaries. He intrigues with the vagabonds of the
lonian Islands. He gets the Greeks of Turkey to
transfer their allegiance from the Sultan to himself or
the German or other Sovereigns, so that their Ambas-
sadors may become protectors of the Sultan's own
people against his lawful authority. He induces Otho
to " try it on" with England in the case of Don Pacifico.
He nurses the:offence of sheltering the Polish and Hun-
garian refugees into a quarrel, until Lord Palmerston
orders our fleet to the Dardanelles. See what has oc-
curred now. No sooner do France and England declare
war against him, than he wheedles Servia into rebellion,
and the entire Greek nation everywhere rises at his
signal of !eevolt. He even tells Austria that he will
arm Poland, and set up Hungary in array. Mr.
Cobden has taken for his clients the Greek houses in
England trading with Turkey. He denounces the pro-
clamation of the Sultan ordering out of his dominions
all Greeks, subjects of Otho. Yet what could he do ?
As a measure of safety what would we do, if, when our
very existence as a nation was perilled, we had in the
very centre of our dominions persons who had renounced
our allegiance to set up against us the protection of
other Powers, and who were secretly abetting treason
and rebellion against us by their sympathisers ? These
London and Manchester houses have been detected in
the fact of raising subscriptions in aid of the Greek
revolt—many of them have avowed it—and yet they
have the consummate effrontery to complain of the only
measures open to the Sultan to secure even the very
seat of his Government from the dangerous consequences
of their intrigues. A sort of sentimental sympathy, a
poetical pity, for these Greeks requires examination.
Russian agents, who find that there is no longer any
chance of detaching any portion of public opinion in
this country in favour of the cause of their tyrant, now
endeavour to write up Hellenism, and advocate the
erection of the Greek nation into a great federal re-
public. We do not doubt that the Sultan would gladly
get rid of them. We are very certain that no Power
but Russia would oppose the establishment of a Greek
kingdom, or a Hellenic federal republic. But the truth
must be told—" 'Tie Greece, but living Greece no
more." Some great delusion appears to exist as to
the numbers of the Greeks. The lonian Islands
can only muster 220,000 souls. The subjects of
King Otho do not reach 1,000,000. We cannot trace
in Turkey more than a million and a half. They
cannot make up a national census of three millions among
them all. It is impossible to make a political Power in
the East of Europe out of such materials, If it were
practicable in the abstract, the Greeks are incapable of
executing the mission. In England their merchants are
despised and mistrusted. They are without integrity or
principle. In London " Greek-houses," as a general
rule, are regarded as not worthy of reliance. The terra
" levanting," which means absconding from one's engage-
ments, owes its origin to the conduct of trading concerns
in the city connected with the Levant. The fact is, the
Greeks, as a people, have passions, but no hearts. They
are moved by impulses, not by principles. Without ear-
nestness, moral intensity, anything sincerely believed or
the object of any active faith, either mentally or morally
or theologically (although they are abundantly supersti-
tious), they do not present any spiritual elements out of
which a nation can be made. They have a republic
in the lonian Islands—yet they prove themselves
utterly incapable of government, entirely unworthy
of freedom—we are inclined to suspect oven unfit
to form an independent society susceptible of any
permanent cohesion. They have a constitutional e
?
mo-
narchy under King Otho—what progress h_sa, they mad
since they were redeemed from Turkey . To call them a
nation is ridiculous. They are a confused Babel crowd
of unmitigated scoundrels, without honour, humanity,
or courage. In Turkey it is not surprising that they
are despised. There is but too much reason for Turks
refusing accepting their testimony in courts of law.
They are now to Europe at large what in the time of
Augustus they were to Rome. They cannot be honest.
It is not in their nature to speak the truth. They know
not what faithfulness or gratitude means. They are
the ready instruments of every wrong-doer who will
buy them, and the alert panders of every vice. That
the Turks conquered them—that they rule them and
keep them down now—that a mere handful of Osmanlis
have quashed their revolt and crushed them into obe-
dience —these are facts which prove equally the vast
superiority of the one and the futile ineffectuality of the
other. The fact is, the Mussulmans are honest, true,
have deep moral convictions, and manfully act upon
them, whilst the Greek Christians are, and have, neither
the one nor the other. Of the one there is hope,
but none of the other. The attempt to embark our
theological sympathies on the side of Russia and
Greece is really to libel Christianity. He who knowing
not his master's will yet obeyed it was accepted, when
the disobedient professor was rejected. The Samaritan
was declared to be the neighbour of the Jew who fell
among theives, when the orthodox priest and Levite
were utterly disowned. Not every one who crieth
" Lord ! Lord !" but he who executes his precepts, is
the true disciple. That because a cruel, unscrupulous,
rapacious, and snivelling tyrant declares that his sole
object in stealing his neighbour's kingdom from him is
to extend the kingdom of Christ, a crew of book-making
clerical quacks should crown him as the providential
messenger of God, to universalize the reign of the Re-
deemer, is only too painful a proof of the fact that ortho-
doxy regards the Gospel not as a code of moral prin-
ciples, but as a mere farrago of articles of belief, to be
apprehended only speculatively, and swallowed by an

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Napier removed to the Renown, a 74-gun ship,
car-
rying the flag of Sir John Borlase Warren. That
gallant admiral, though not one of our first-class
naval celebrities, was a very distinguished officer. He
had joined the navy at a very early age, but after
making a voyage or two he entered himself at
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he became pupil
to Martyn, the eminent botanist. On attaining hie
majority, Warren purchased Lundy Island, in the Bri-
tish Channel, and amused himself for time yachting, and
afterwards again joined the navy, in which he rose to
eminence. Under that admiral young Napier went of
the expedition to Ferrol, and proceeded to the Mediter-
ranean, where, in November, 1302, he became a mid•
shipman, on board the Greyhound, 32 guns, commanded
by Captain W. Hoste. He afterwards shifted to the
Egyptienne, 40 guns, in which he made a visit to .St.
Helena, and in 1804-5 he successively joined the Me-
diator and Renommee frigates. He was made a lieu,
tenant on the 30th of November, 1305, into the Coma-,
geux, 74, Captain Richard Lee.
Those were stirring times when Napier was coma
mencing his career. The country looked to the navy as
its defence against foreign invasion, and as its principal
resource in asserting its rank amongst nations. The
prowess of our army had not as yet been proved in the
Peninsular campaigns, and it is not too much to say
that the blue jackets were far inure popular than the red
coats. There are some still living who remember with
what enthusiasm the most eminent of the naval heroes
of that time were hailed on their appearance on public
occasions. The highest place was accorded to them at
the feast, and the most beautiful partners assigned to
them in the ball-room. They had dispelled the panic of
invasion, sustained our public credit, and given additional
glory to our historical annals ! The musical piece of
" The Waterman" enjoyed an amazing run in those
days, and Dibdin's words and Incledon's tones were
familiar to every tongue and ear.
One can easily imagine how, in such times, a bold
dashing spirit like that of Napier panted to have
an opportunity of performing some gallant exploit.
Nor was he long without an opportunity of proving
of what stuff he was composed. Though after Tra-
falgar the enemy did not attempt to dispute the
command of the ocean, he endeavoured to annoy
our commerce and insult our colonies, by detach-
ing his ships-of-war in various directions. The
Courageux, in which Napier was a lieutenant, was part
of the squadron commanded by Sir John Borlase War-
ren, when, on the 13th of March, 1806, the Marengo
and Belle Poule were captured ; and, having shown his
energy and zeal for the service in a variety of ways,
Napier, in 1807, was made acting commander of the
Pultusk brig, then serving in the West Indies, and the
Admiralty confirmed the appointment in the same year,
so that he was a commander at twenty-.me years of age.
In 1803 Napier was appointed to the Recruit, an 18-
gun sloop, on the West Indian station, and in her
he fought his first action on his own account, and
right gallantly he fought it. There was at that time
a noted French corvette called the Diligente, carrying
24 guns, and manned by 140 men. She was com-
manded by a brave and vigilant officer, Captain Le-
marcsquier, and she had baffled the efforts of our
best ships either to take or damage her. On the 6th of
Sept., 1808, Napier was cruising in lat. 17 deg. 50 min.
north, and long., from Greenwich, 53 deg. 20 m. west.
The wind was east by north, and a couple of hours after
dawn, while Napier was standing closehauled on the
starboard tack, he discovered the Diligente, in the N.E.,
going free on the larboard tack, in the direction of Mar-
tinique. The Recruit immediately tacked, and Napier
hoisted every rag of canvas that he could spread. At
half-past 7 in the morning he fired two shots at the Dili-
gente, and hoisted his colours. A little after eight the
Diligente also tacked, as her skilful captain endeavoured
to keep the weather-gage, and shortly afterwards he
hoisted a French ensign.
At half-past eight the two vessels passed each other
within pistol shot, the Recruit on the larboard, and
the Diligente on the starboard tack. They exchanged
broadsides, and at the very first discharge Napier
received a severe wound, from which he still suffers,
as is seen in his limping gait. His thigh was
broken, and the officers in vain endeavoured to per-
suade him to go below ; but that would not meet
the disposition of one who was not only " ready" but
" aye ready." After delivering three broadsides the
two vessels then passed out of gunshot, but tacked, and
again exchanged broadsides. The Diligente then wore,
with the intention of raking the Recruit astern. But
Napier was the clever Frenchman's match at everything
and he wore also, and brought the French ship to close
action with the larboard guns. The two vessels then
continued manoeuvring and discharging at each other,
and, though severely cutting up the rigging, the Re-
cruits crew did not suffer much from the enemy's fire ;
but her second lieutenant was seriously wounded. At
half-past eleven the superior weight in guns of the
Frenchman told upon the Recruit, whose mainmast fell
overboard, and hung down the stern, trailing in the sea.
Napier then worked his bow guns as hard as he could,
and, recollecting Nelson's maxim, " Always board a
Frenchman, but outmanoeuvre a Russian," he made
several attempts to board the Diligente,
in but the latte
adroitely sheered off and succeeded raking the
.Re-
cruit ; and, in the disabled state of the smaller English
vessel, While making the
there was every chance that the Frenchman
would be enabled again to rake her.
• attempt to do so, a rattling fire was kept up from the
Recruit, which blew up a piece o.f the Dip enter quarter
and cut away her boat filled with small-arm men. On
this the Diligente put her helm up, and ran away before
the wind.
The ships remained within sight of each other, out of
gunshot, till the afternoon. Napier and his second
lieutenant (as before stated), along with several of his
sailors, were wounded, but only one seamen was killed.
Every attempt was made by Napier to continue the
action, but the Frenchman declined the polite invitation.
When Napier, after having rebreeched and remounted his
cannonades, bore up to close again, the Diligente set
courses and toggallants, and bore away rapidy. Napier
rigged a jurymast ; but the Recruit was a slow sailer,
and before evening fell the Frenchman was out of sight.
The loss of the Frenchman could never be clearly
ascertained ; but, as the Diligente fell into our hands
afterwards at the capture of Martinique, we know that
she was 370 tons ; and the loss amongst her crew must
have been very considerable to justify her captain in
scudding. away before an English vessel greatly his
inferior in guns and tonnage. In Captain Lemarcsquier's
account of the action lie says that several English ships-
of-war hove in sight, and that it was from them that he
ran away ; but his excuse was like an Old Bailey alibi
—to be believed in " with great scepticism." The Re-
cruit was obliged to make her way into the nearest port
to get a new mast ; and, for the present. Pilot will leave
Napier refitting in Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes.

PILOT.

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—The eighteenth
public drawing to determine the rotation of choice on
all the estates purchased for distribution amongst the
members of the Conservative Land Society took place
place on the 13th inst., at the offices, 33, Norfolk-street,
Strand. The allotment of the St. Margaret's estate,
near Richmond, on the 7th of June, imparted great
interest to this drawing, rights of choice being now
in eager demand. The Rev. Dr. Worthington and Mr.
Cribb, members of the executive committee, and the
secretary, superintended the drawing. Messrs. Cowling,
Cundale, and Coylyer were the scrutineerg. The
firers
n n umbers
drawn were 50, no less than 11 being grouped i t
and twos. The seniority list will be increased 22 by
this drawing, 960 being the last share number on the
order of rights by date of membership. It was an-
nounced that no less than 9,641 shares had been taken
up to the 13th inst., representing a subscribed capital of
452,050/., of which more than 100,0001. had been paid
up, the withdrawals being but a small fraction on the
gross amount. It was stated that the allotments of the
Oatland's Grange estate, formerly the property of the
Duke of York, at Weybridge, in West Surrey ; of the
Seven Sisters estate, at
.Tottenham-green, Midcllotsex ;
nineteenth
juneatthderas
and of the second portion of the popular Roun
Park estate, Brighton, East Sussex, would take pl: tee in
28th of July.
the
JuneW edr) easndda y, drawing
gthis qiiuxaer -cider%
meeting of the society in Freemasons'; Hall.