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London, England, 1854-03-14 00:00:00

ON THE SECRET CAUSES OF SELF-ACQUIRED MISERIES

AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES.
THE SILENT FRIEND.
In Six Languages—Fittieth Edition.
CONTAINING THE Rzetzox FON PENVENTION OF DISEAII.

Illustrated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravings and

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THE ARGO.—lntelligence was received at Southampton
yesterday that the screw steamer Argo, which left Ply-
mouth on the 15th of last month, with the Cape of Good
Hope mails, arrived ab St. Vincent in 9 days 16 hours,
chiefly under canvas. She had then only consumed
75 tons of coals. She had averaged about 250 miles
a•by,

THE BALTIC FLEET.
At noon yesterday telegraphie,orders were sent to Sir
Charles Napier, in the Downs, to proceed, and in the
course of half-an-hour his gallant and unsurpassable fleet
was under weigh, and were soon off towards their desti-
nation, with a good south-west breeze and very fine
weather. The fleet consists of— :
Ships. Guns. Men. Horse-power.
18 1,048 10,170: 7,870
It is well and truly said that sucli a fleet never before
in the history of the world left any port for any purpose,
hostile or peaceful. Its strength is not so much in its
numbers—not even so much in the general character of
the men who form its complement. Its strength depends
more upon its commanders, more upon its immense
armament ; but above and beyond all other respects,
upon the power of propulsion each ship contains within
herself. This is our confidence, our assurance of safety,
that all on board that fleet, from the commander-in-
chief, Sir Charles Napier, to the stout landsman in the
shape of a London cabman, or the newly-raised marine
in the shape of an able-bodied pauper from the union,
will fight to the death for the honour of his flag. The
brave crews of these ships, from the steady experienced
gunners of the coast-guard, the harfiy, fearless yachts-
man, to the Irish fishing-boy, do pot want to be led
to the attack of the enemy ; the will be found
more difficulty, and more -Judgrnot and more dis-
cretion will be needed, to restraii them. All they
require is direction, and there are7*ln in this fleet
as capable of such direction ast rmy ; ever commanded
a man of war. Our confideneer4„ oiy, even with
this small but compact fleet 4, on gaged against
double the number of Russians, consists in this fact—
that the force is a steam force, no 'manoeuvring is re-
quired, no shifting of masts or sails is necessary to save
the ship from the consequence of utter helplessness, and
therefore destruction or capture. All that is requisite
is to place one screw-ship between two of the Russian
line-of-battle ships, or broadside on with one, and across
the bows of another, and British pluck will do the rest,
despite all the revolvers in the world. Let our screw
fleet only get alongside, and we feel confident that every
man in that fleet will receive a bounty from the Govern-
ment, after he has done his work, which will far exceed
any bounty that could be offered to him to enter the
service.

Many of our contemporaries have particularised the
Duke of Wellington, Princess Royal, and other ships
as the best among this screw fleet ; but the best judges
of the lines of a man of war, most properly select from
this powerful fleet three ships as the best models of the
lot, and they most justly point to the two-decker St.
Jean d'Acre, 101 guns, Imperieuse, 51 guns, and Tri-
bune, 31 guns. These are the new classes of the navy
for which the creditof designing and building are due to
Sir Baldwin Walker and his department, and do-übtless
they are the finest, most powerful, and most efficient men
of war in the world of their respective classes, and will
continue to be so until those that are now building in
the Royal yards shall eclipse them--Morning Herald.

HER MAJESTY'S SHIP HECLA.'S SURVEY.
PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.
The Hecla steam-sloop, commissioned for the special
service of conveying a large number of surveying offi-
cers to the Baltic to make soundings for the approach
of Sir Charles Napier's fleet, returned to Spithead this
morning. She left Hull on her outward voyage on the
19th ult., and anchored in the harbour of Flekkefiord
on the 22d, and left on the 23d for Christiansand (wea-
ther very threatening and snowstorms very prevalent),
where she anchored the same evening, and'Mr. Wel-
lington communicated with the British Consul ; from
Christiansand she proceeded to Christiania, and carried
a line of soundings across the harbour, thence to Frede-
ricksvarn, a small port near Laurwig, where she an-
chored on the 24th. The Commandant of that port fur-
nished a Government pilot and a set of Norwegian
charts for the whole of Christiania Fiord. She left on
the 25th for Laurvig Bay, and steamed about there,
then proceeded up Christiania Fiord, past Hosten to
Drobach, where she anchored in the evening. The an-
chorage of this place was found very bad • she left on
the 28th, and proceeded down the Fiord of 'Christiania.
On the Ist inst. she sighted the lights of Wingo Sound
at midnight, hove to, and proceeded at daylight in
through Warholm, Flemish, and Hawke-roads, and in
and out of the north, middle, and south qliannels. She
left Wingo Sound on the 2d, made for the Skau, on the
coast ofZetland, and proceeded along Albeck Bay
and Frederickshaven. She sounded all the way,
in the evening anchored in Nyborg roads; and,
on the 3d, passed between Kaloka and Spogo,
noting the leading marks in and , out ; also the
marks on the Vengeance shoal. Thence she went by the
Langland Deep S.S.W. through th Great Belt, and
anchored at, Kiel the same night. Skit* Kiel about 8
o'clock in the evening of the 3d, and arrived off Copen-
hagen on the sth, having made Dars Point on the pre-
vious morning, and examined the locality of the Plan-
tagenet shoal, where a line-of-battle-ship sank some long
time since. She found the shoal accurately marked on
the chart, and commenced her return on the 7th, so as
to be in the Channel on the 12th (as ordered). The
Danish Government, she found, had recently issued an
order that no vessel should anchor within a certain dis-
tance of the Trekroner Battery. The Heels, found that
the Great Belt is easily navigable. Christiansand ap-
peared to be the best port for a fleet to anchor in on the
coast of Norway, Wingo Sound on the coast of Sweden,
Nyborg in the Great Belt, and Kiel Bay, on the eastern
coast of Holstein, a little to the south of Schleswig, the
most advantageous of any for a large fleet. It is a ca-
pacious and most beautifui bay, and possesses the para-
mount advantage of communication by railway with
Hamburg, besides any amount of victualling supplies,
which are both good and cheap. Coals are also plenti-
ful, and may be had at a reasonable contract price. The
Hecla arrived in the Downs at 1 o'clock yesterday (Sun-
day) morning, and left for Spithead at 10 a.m. ; she fell
in with Sir Charles Napier's fleet, off Dover, at 1 30
p.m., in two divisions, under steam, and all plain sail.
The Admiral made signal to shorten sail, and for
the Hecla to commence supplying the weather
division with the masters and second masters
belonging to them, and two pilots (40 of whom she
had on board) to each. She commenced with the
last ship of the lee division, and did not finish trans-
shipping all the officers until 7 p.m. Sir Charles ex-
pressed to Master Commander Wellington his high
satisfaction at the opportune punctuality of falling in
with him, and the manner in which he had performed
the duty entrusted to him. After disembarking Com-
mander Scott, R.N., and Captains Fenwick, Bailey,
and Sidney Webb, of the Trinity-house, the Hecla pro-
ceeded for Spithead, where she arrived between 7 and 8
this morning. She came into harbour this afternoon,
and commenced coaling, to return to the fleet with des-
patches, and some necessaries for the Commander-in-
Chief. The Hecla met with no ice in the Baltic. Her
survey took her over 3,000 miles of sea.
Captain Hutton, of the Neptune, 120, flag of Rear-
Admiral Corry, has been exercising his fine crew in
gunnery this afternoon,

DEAL, MARCH 12.
The squadron which left Spithead yesterday afternoon
under the command of Sir C. Napier was perceived in
the offing at 3 p.m. to-day, under steam, and all sails
furled. Shortiy before 5 o'clock, the Duke of Welling-
ton, 131, with the flag of the Commander-in-Chief at
the fore, rounded the South Foreland, followed by the
rest of the division. The flag of the Commander-in-
Chief was saluted with 15 guns by the Cressy, 80,
Captain R. L. Warren, which was duly acknowledged.
The fires were banked up for the night, and the fleet
will probably sail at daylight to-morrow (Monday)
morning for the north. A. vast number of people ar-
rived yesterday by the South-Eastern Railway to see
the ships anchored in the Downs.
The crew of the Cressy, 80, Captain R. L. War-
ren, were exercised on Friday and Saturday at the
great guns. A target was moored at 800 yards' dis-
tance from the ship, the shots at which were fired
with great precision.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 13.
The screw steam-ship Golden Fleece, Commander
Stewart, with the 4th Regiment on board, continues in
the Sound. She will probably start for Malta on Thurs-
day morning. Throughout the day we have had occa-
sional strong breezes from south-east, veering to the
westward of south, and accompanied by rain as the night
approached.

SHEERNESS, MARCH 13.
The Euryalus, 50 guns, new screw steam-ship, Capt.
George Ramsay, returned to the Nore yesterday shortly
after the despatches were sent off. Her return was in
consequence of the two North Sea pilots not having
joined previous to her departure from here, and orders
being sent on board for her to proceed immediately into
the North Sea instead of proceeding to the Downs.
The pilots arrived here at 7 p.m. yesterday, and were sent
off from here at 8 30 p.m. by the Cuckoo steam-vesel.
The Euryalus left the Nore at daylight this morning,
with the Cuckoo in attendance, which will accompany
her as far as Orfordness ; she will there take out the
Trinity Queen's pilot, Mr. Joshua Taylor, and the
engineers and millwrights, who left here for the pur-
pose of completing the condensing steam apparatus with
which she is fitted, and by which 900 gallons of fresh
water can be procured daily while under steam. The
Cuckoo will then land them at Yarmouth, and proceed
to Harwich to convey volunteers for the navy from
that place to this port.

The Monarch, 84 guns (late guard-ship of ordinary at
this port), Captain John E. Erskine, slipped from her
moorings at 11 a.m, this day, assisted by the steam-
vessels Wildfire and African, and proceeded to the Nore.
On passing the Waterloo, 121, flag-ship, her rigging
was manned by the blue jackets, every ratline being
occupied, and three hearty English cheers were given
by them. This was immediately responded to by the
crew of the Monarch. The Monarch proceeded to the
Nore, and anchored. On the steam-vessel leaving her
she saluted the Admiral's flag, which was returned by
the Waterloo. The Monarch's crew will be paid their
advance to-morrow, and inspected, immediately after
which she leaves for the North Sea. :Her North Sea
pilots will be here to-morrow, ready to proeeed to sea
with her after inspection,
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Commander James Hosken (1853), who was pro-
moted last year when Lieutenant Commander of the
Banshee Mediterranean mail and speial service steam-
packet, is appointed to command the Belleisle, 24,
troop-ship, commissioned this day for service as an hos-
pital-ship iu attendance on the Baltic fleet.
Paymasters—Harrington Rogers Jones (1850), re-
cently serving in the Medea paddle-wheel steam-sloop,
to be secretary to Rear-Admiral Corry, in command of
one of the divisions of the Baltic fleet ; Edward D. Back
(1846), from the Calypso, 18, on the North American
and West India station, '
to the Imaum 72, receiving-
ship at Jamaica, vice Lyall, returned to England and in
; Charles E.. P. Hall (1851), to the Conflict
screw steam-sloop ; Nicholas Giles (1852), to the Basi-
lisk, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop. •
Masters' Assistant—James Kealing, to the' Bulldog
paddle-wheel steam-sloop at Portsmouth.
The Pyrenees horse transport-ship, Lieutenant and
Agent Butler, has been moved to the south -side of the
basin at Woolwich Dockyard to afford better facilities
for the horses being shipped on board. The vessel is
fitted to receive 52 horses, and they will be placed on a
platform in the hold covered with gravel. Four narrow
planks have been taken out the entire length of the
middle deck to insure free ventilation. Fifty non-com-
missioned officers of the Royal Artillery will take a pas-
sage in the Pyrenees.

DUBLIN, MARCH 13.
Captain Maude's troop of the Royal Horse Artillery
left Portobello barracks this morning at half-past 5
o'clock, and proceeded to the North-wall, where they
embarked for Liverpool, en route to Woolwich, to pre-
pare for foreign service. They were played to the place
of embarkation by the band of the 11th Hussars.
The head-quarters and band of the 27th Regiment
arrived in town on Saturday by special train from Castle-
blaney. The band of the 91st Regiment *as in atten-
dance at the railway terminus on Saturday to receive
them, and on their way to the Royal barracks they were
accompanied by several hundred persons, who cheered
them heartily. The regiment remained at the Royal
barracks until their embarkation on the same evening,
when they sailed from the North-wall in one of the Lon-
don steamers, which left that station shortly after nine
o'clock.

Volunteers amounting to upwards of 170 men, rank
and file, from the 92d Highlanders, came from Belfast
on Friday for the purpose of joining the 42d and 79th
Higland regiments, now under orders for immediate
embarkation. These troops embark under the com-
mand of Captain Lyon, of the 92d Highlanders. Volun-
teers from various other regiments, from various dis-
tricts throughout Ireland, arrived in town by several
trains on Saturday, to join the regiments now under
orders for active service. The various barraoks through-
out the city are full, and the men are in readiness to de-
part, only waiting the arrival of the vessels chartered
for their conveyance.

150 rank and file of the 49th Regiment arrived in town
on Saturday night from Birr, and were billeted in
Thomas-street and its immediate neighbourhood.
Two troops of the 2d Dragoon Guards have received
orders to proceed, under the command of Brevet
Lieutenant-Colonel Trench, from Dublin to Dundalk,
there to be stationed to relieve the 14th Dragoon Guards
on the 15th instant ' also, one troop to Belfast,
and one troop to Monaghan, which will march
on the 14th instant. A' squadron of the 4th Dra-
goon Guards is to proceed from Belfast and Monaghan
to Newbridge, replacing a squadron of the 11th Hussars,
ordered to Dublin. One troop of the 4th Dragoon Guards,
from Dundalk to Kilkenny, will march on the 13th, and
arrive on the 21st inst., to relieve a troop of the 11th
Hussars, ordered to join head-quarters, Dublin, prepar-
ing for embarkation for foreign service. It is expected
that the 3d Dragoon Guards will relieve the head-quar-
ters of the 2d Dragoon Guards atDublin on the 23dinst.
On Saturday morning the contingent from the depot
of the 72d Highlanders, selected as volunteers for foreign
service, took their departure from Limerick by train for
Dublin. As already stated, the entire depot stationed
in the Castle Barracks volunteered to a man to go to the
seat of war—to be draughted into two other Highland
regiments, the 79th and 42d, both of which were short
of their complement of men. It was, however, deemed
advisable not to disband the depot, but to make a selec-
tion of volunteers out of it. Accordingly, 140 men were
selected to go; and as they proceeded through the streets
this morning they presented an appearance such as would
do credit to any regiment. They were played off from
the Castle Barracks up to the railway terminus by the
splendid band of the 14th Regiment, and accompanied
by large crowds of civilians. Nothing could be more
warm-hearted than the demonstration. The volunteers
cheered as they passed along the street, headed by the
veteran commander of the garrison, Major-Gen. Flem-
ing, who rode before them on horseback, waving his hat
and joining in the spirit of the scene. The party of the
72d was commanded by Capt. Orme.

On the same day 60 horses from the field battery of
artillery stationed in Limerick were transmitted by rail-
way to Dublin, en route to Woolwich.

RUSSIAN PREPARATIONS.

A letter from St. Petersburg of the 2d, in the Cologne
Gazette, says:—
" People only occupy themselves here with the war-
like preparations for all eventualities by land ;or sea.
Twenty thousand pounds of gunpowder for the navy
have been sent from Cronstadt and St. Petersburg to
Petrozamock, and cannon and shells have been sent to
Cronstadt and Archangel. About 40,0001 b. of gun-
powder are to leave for the latter town. The war forts
are being fortified, and the coast batteries strengthened.
The Guards and Prince Paskiewitch are to leave us
shortly. The prince will first of all go to Warsaw.
Patriotic donations are continuing to be made. New
vessels are ready. The screw man-of-war the Orell, of
84 guns, and 500-horse power, is almost terminated.
The construction of the screw-frigate Maria, of 46 guns,
is rapidly advancing. These reinforcements for the
Russian fleet are worthy of remark, as it is not strong in
steamers. It is believed that Marshal Paskiewitch will
receive diplomatic powers, and Menschikoff alsct"
A letter from Cronstadt states that by order of the
Russian Admiralty another ship of the line of 120 guns,
the Empress Mary, has been fitted out. This will make
the Russian Baltic fleet amount to 28 ships of the line.
The Empress Mary is commanded by Captain Bondi-
scheft, and will form part of the first division of the fleet
now at Cronstadt.

SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. JUSTICE

TALFOU.RD.

STAFFORD, Melton 13.
This day the two Courts sat for the despatch of busi-
ness soon after 10 o'clock ; but before half an hour had
elapsed the most painful sensation was created by the
sudden death of Mr. Justice Talfourd, while on the
bench, and in the very act of addressing the grand jury.
So sudden was his lordship's death, that he was literally
carried out a corpse. The cause of death was an attack
of apoplexy, brought on, as it appeared, by the excited
feelings under which his lordship was addressing the
grand jury, in reference to the atrocious crimes by which
the calendar !of this county is stained on the present
even more than on ordinary occasions. His lordship, in
alluding to the state of the calendar, containing a list of
upwards of 100 prisoners, many of them charged with
the most atrocious offences short of murder, called the
attention of the grand jury to the fact that there were
no fewer than 17 cases of manslaughter, and 30 cases
where persons were charged with the crime of high-
way robbery. These crimes, his lordship observed,
might be traced, in a vast number of cases, to the
vice of intemperance, which was so very prevalent
in the mining districts ; and, while commenting
upon this state of things, his lordship feelingly de-
plored the want of sympathy which existed between
the higher and lower classes, and-urged the duty of the
superior ranks of society to take a more lively interest
in the welfare of those who were beneath them. While
commenting upon these topics, his lordship became con-
siderably excited and flushed in the face, and accurate
observers noticed that his voice became somewhat thick
and inarticulate. But, on a sudden, his lordship fell
forward with his face upon his book, and then swayed
on one side towards Mr. Sansom, his senior clerk, and
his second son, Mr. Thomas Talfourd, his lordship's
Marshal, who caught him in their arms. Dr. Holland' )
and Dr. Knight, two magistrates who were on the
bench at the time, immediately rushed to his lordship's
assistance, removed his neckcloth, &c., and called for
water ; but it was of no avail. His breathing was ster-
torous and his face livid, and but a feeble action of the
pulse could be felt. Mr. Justice Wightman was hur-
riedly summoned from the Civil Court, and hastened to
the spot, but only arrived in time to see his brother
judge borne in mournful procession on the shoulders of
six gentlemen from the court in which but two or three
minutes before his voice had been heard. We ourselves
saw the late leader of the Oxford Circuit and the be-
loved and respected Judge still wearing his scarlet robes,
carried to the Judge's lodgings adjoining the court. On
arriving there it was found that life was quite extinct. I
After a few minutes Mr. Justice Wightman returned I
into the Civil Court, but was so much overcome that he
could scarcely find utterance. At length he said, he
was grieved to have to communicate a most dreadful and
distressing occurrence—that his brother Talfourd was
no more ; while addressing the grand jury his lordship
was taken ill, and, according to the medical testimony,
he could not have survived five minutes. Under these
painful circumstances he felt it would be• quite impos,
Bible to go on with the court to-day. He would, there-
fore, adjourn both courts until toluorrow. this lot 4.

Thomas Noon TaHoard was born at Reading in 1793.
His father Was a brewer, and his mother was the daughter
of the Rev.-Thom.as Noon, miniite-r of an Independent
oongregation in that town. He was educated at the
grammar school of Reading, under Dr. Valpy, for whom
he invariably expressed an almost filial reverence. We
are not aware how he passed the three or four years
subsequent to his. leaving school, nor whether he
was originally destined for the profession of the
law ; but in 1813 he became the pupil of the cele-
brated special pleader, the late Mr. Chitty, with whom
he remained four years. In 1817 he began to practise
special-pleading on his own account, and he was called to
the bar by the Middle Temple in 1821. He joined the
Oxford circuit and Berkshire sessions ; and his local con-
nections, coupled with the highly favourable impression
left
.of his talents amongst his to wns-people and school-
fellows, soon gained him opportunities of earning dis-
tinction. He was always a ready, fluent, and eloquent
speaker ; and what he wanted in severe taste, he more
than compensated by feeling, fancy, and earnestness. In
less than the usual period of probation he made his way
to the head of his circuit, and held it against all compe-
titors, though some amongst them (Mr. Justice Maule,
for instance) were of a very formidable calibre of intel-
lect. In 1833 he applied for a silk gown, but finding his
;application not immediately successful, he took the
coif, and became a Sergeant. In the course of the same
year he was elected member for his native town,
Reading, for which he sat continuously till 1841, when
he temporarily retired from Parliament ; but he was
re-elected for Reading in 1846, and retained his
seat till his elevation to the bench. In his repre-
sentative capacity, he introduced two useful mea-
sures of legislation, founded upon just principles—
namely, the Custody of Infants Act, and the Copy-
right Act of 1841 ; and he made some successful
speeches, although his style was too florid for the House
of Commons. On one occasion, however, he brought in
a quotation from a favourite author with telling effect.
In the course of the debate on the national representa-
tion, on July 6, 1848, he said "he would remind the
house of some lines, in which the thoughts of Schiller
were conveyed in the words of Coleridge :
`The way of ancient ordinance, though it winds,
Is yet no devious way. Straightforward goes
The lightning's path, and straight the fearful path
Of the cannon ball. Direct it flies and rapid,
Shattering that it may reach, and shattering what it
reaches.
My son ! the road the human being travels,
That on which blessing comes and goes, doth follow
The river's course, the valley's playful windings,
Curves round the cornfield and the hill of vines,
Honouring the holy bounds of property!
And those secure, tho' late, leads to its end.'"

He was made a Judge of the Common Pleas and
knighted in 1848, and he is generallyadmitted to have dis-
charged his judicial duties with discretion, adequate
learning, ability, and conscientiousness. But the space
which the late Mr. Justice Talfourd has filled in the public
mind, and his claims to be remembered by posterity, are
almost exclusively owing to his dramatic productions, of
which lon is pre-eminently the first. The last two acts
of this drama are full of exquisite poetry, and mani-
fest a very high order of imagination ; but it was
far from successful as an acting play, and in our opinion
it is better fitted for the closetthan the stage. The same
remark may be applied to The Athenian Captive and
Glencoe. He was also the author of " Vacation Rambles,"
and a "Life of Charles Lamb ;" nor should we forget to
mention that, before his legal practice had become re-
munerative, he was a voluminous contributor to perio-
dical literature, particularly to the columns of the Lon-
don Magazine, when it sparkled with the happiest efforts
of Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Cary, and Charles Lamb. He
also wrote occasionally for the Edinburgh Review. In
fact, his warmest sympathies at every period of life were
with literature, art, and the drama ; and it is much to be
feared that the fortune he has bequeathed to his widow
and numerous family has been materially lessened by his
liberality to struggling merit and genius in difficulties,
or to what he, with his warm heart and trusting spirit,
was satisfied to encourage and relieve under these deno-
minations. He was emphatically a good man, as well
as a generous, high-minded, and richly gifted one ; and
he was one of those who, in our time, have flung lustre
over his profession, and repaid with interest the rank,
dignity, influence, and reputation which it has conferred
upon him.—Morning Chronicle.