The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-17 00:00:00

THE CAPE MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Friday, Sept. 16.—The Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty have now under considera-
tion a new series of arrangements with reference to the
dates on which the ships of the General Screw Steam
Shipping Company are to leave Calcutta, the terminus
of their voyages. When these alterations take effect,
the several ports touched at by these ships will have
increased postal communication provided for them, and
the new system will be especially beneficial to the
Cape and South African trade, inasmuch as it is,
we believe, proposed that the outward mails shall
reach Cape Town in sufficient time—viz., about the
20th or 22d of each month—to enable the merchants
to send their replies to England by the homeward
packets, which will be made due at the Cape within
two or three days after the arrival there of the outward
ships. The course of post from Southampton to the
Cape will thus be reduced from 95 to 75 days, and if we
may judge from the remarkable punctuality already se-
cured by these fine ships, as exhibited in their recent voy-
ages, there will be little, if any, danger of failure. The
dates to which these vessels have respectively reached
the Cape on their return from India during the past
months will show how closely their time has been hitherto
adhered to. The date at which the steamers should,
under existing regulations, reach the Cape is the 19th of
each month. in November last the ship of that
month arrived on the 18th, in December on the 16th, in
January on the 20th ; in February, March, April, June,
and July on the 19th. In May there was no mail, the
Mauritius having met with an accident to her ma-
chinery. One of the conditions of the new arrange-
ments will be, that in future the mails conveyed by the
Screw Company's steamships are to be landed at, and
embarked from Southampton instead of at Plymouth,
as heretofore. This alteration, so long desired by
the company, which has fixed its head-quarters
at this port, will be of great 'advantage, and will save
considerable expense, delay, and inconvenience to the
company, while the public service will not in any way
be deranged or prejudiced by the change. By advices
received from St. Vincent's we learn that the Queen of
the South made an excellent passage to that island of
12 days from Plymouth. This ship had been under sail
only six days out of the twelve, and in her steaming
had reduced the expenditure of fuel to the low average
of only 17 tons per day. This result, in a remarkable
degree, proves the great superiority for long sea voyages
of full-rigged ships, fitted with the screw as an auxiliary,
and constructed with sailing lines favourable for rapid
propulsion.

ROYAL CHARITY.—A communication addressed by
Earl St. Germans to the Lord Mayor notifies that the
Queen has been graciously pleased to cause the sum of
5001. to be placed in his Excellency's hands for distri-
bution among the public charities of Dublin.
MUNIFICENT LEGACY.—The treasurer of the Royal
Orthopaedic Hospital for the Cure of Deformities has
just received the handsome bequest of 2,0001. from the
executors of the late Mr. J. R. Durrant, of Newgate-
street. The hospital in Bloomsbury-square is entirely
supported by voluntary contributions, and such bequests
are of course most acceptable.
EXAMINERS OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY. By an
act of the late session the salaries of the Examiners of
the Court of Chancery are fixed at 1,5001. a-year, and
their retiring pensions are not to exceed three-fourths.
In consequence of the oral examination of witnesses, a
new form of oath to be taken by examiners has been
framed in the act.
DEATH OF MR. GEORGE BRADSHAW.—This gentle.
man, whose death from an attack of cholera at Chris-
tiana we announced yesterday, was a member of the
Society of Friends, and was well known for his benevo-
lence. He was the proprietor of the well-known Rail-
way Guide, and had an extensive printing-office at Man-
chester, and had recently opened a branch office at
Newton-le-Willows, half way between Manchester and
Liverpool, engaging for his purpose the once-celebrated
Conservative Hall, erected there behind the Leigh Arms
Hotel. The Conservative Hall was erected about 1835,
in the first phrenzy of the reaction led by the Carlton
Club after the passing of the Reform Bill, and the utter-

We must also endeavour to get rid of the pal- ante of the rem
ark by the late Sir Robert Peel, that the
tbraatt.tloenof the constiTtihition was to be faught in the regis-
try feeling of aiming at being thought some-
perarielyy succeededfrom
the Whigs;in
thing higher than we really are. " What Lancashire courts.tem
will MRS. GRUNDY say ?" is the interrogatory ; since lost ground, the hall remained unused, and was
the answer whereto proves the rock ahead, for many years untenanted and going to decay, but Mr.
useful
lhaw rescued it and turned it to a better and more
the source of extravagance and annoyance,
that embitters the existence of many fami- employpeudrpa largeeas a
number
office, in which
rinefhacnds ich are Asiatic
cholera
now
lies. The moment we leave home—so soon carried him off after an illness of less than nine hours,
interred as we enter into any place where we are un-
sedhto hi i
e was
known, we endeavour to be thought members of land by the written
nsewxtfre very soon after death. He had
to
booats,aybuthtatthheevsehsoseulldbyrewtuhrinohtoheEwng.
the aristocracy, to induce waiters and chamber- to have come brought the news of his death and burial.
maids, who have never before seen us, and among He was in his 53d year.
whom we may never again be brought to su THE LATE Mn. STRICKLAND, F.R.S.—Mr. Strickland
, p- was appointed Deputy-Reader in Geology at Oxford on
pose that we are very great accustomed
people,
the occurrence of Dr. Buckland's sad illness. He was a
to show and magnificence, and unable to spend a well read and practical geologist, taking part in the pro-
Single
It is the -
day without these indispensable
interest of
or, at least, to
pearances are e
we
squander
who
adjuncts.
these persons to be deceived,
foundest discussions at the Geological Society, and ever
ready to communicate knowledge with kindness and
precision to all who applied to him. His loss will be
seem to be deceived, and the ap- much felt. both at the Geological Society and in Section
put on. For that purpose Cof the British Association. He was elected a Fellow
rail at those wh_°n, ney we cannot afford, and then
We pass by thuelakesetaabcivantage of our weakness.
finances, and select
moving in very differ:se
Tingly pay for the ace::
and obtain the call for
provincial town, and for Pi of the Royal Society last year, to the great honour of
tdheeemeeodunhcimil and satisfaction ctthiaotn
distinction. his friends, who had long
suited for persons highest histrionic honours, who has so frequently been
spheres, who wil-
- pert 6 2 in
Rhine. The object is to orastonish
he is astonished in the first instance, the
those
suited to our Tun YOUNG GIRRICI.—This little aspirant to the
~
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tested by the severest critics, and earned the highest
encomiums d
Romeo
on from olinv
edne
sa numerous
w andi
,with
attentive
the
accustomed audiences,
success.play -
an English As some evidence of his dramatic power, we may men-
Sherry on the tion that this mere child has already repeatedly given
waiter, and m'hatis accfounhted by the best authorities a truthfuld per-
' Mrs. GRUNDY, fearing Viator, particiatwhies .le the John,DonationprineetAertchhuarraHctearmsleotf
Norval, Jaques,
JAaquuersey,iteKing
feeling on the following morning, when the nbiltthe 1 b A most opportune style of dress has just been invented
layrioyuirlaneigh.bours, the French, who are certainly singu-
delivered to the departing guest, who has forgot.-
ten the transient triumph of the preceding even_ which dio)pnyo in meeting
ucrgest ihreemqsueilrveems etnotso,thtleires.remltedisieos
obvi-
ous
ing, and is quite alive to the X. S. d. view of the oaisapttlelatto nothing can be more inconvenient, and less
subject, and the magnificence of the order, is femaleddour variable. climate, than ninny portions of
asocostume which our fashionables adopt at certain
merged in the magnitude of the payment-..the saEllludens of the year. To illustrate this fact, we would
retribution that awaits the recklessness of the or cloat,
the exposure of the chest in the ordinary mantel
assumption of grandeur and gentility. The inventive genius
intended for warmth and health.
greater this fact, and
If we inquire of the class who have far
ing the evi as. produced a novelty completely meety-
experience in the comforts and expenses of Eng- Opening
is
5.
airtz aetdruly elegant mantel, in which an
lish hotels than any other—the commercial tva- whilst the lower orgundsesr to
pass overn
fa the bonnet ; and
vellers—we find that they obtain excellent accoo- ,
pf
_el folds,
I tely ectuhreesuver resembles the falls gi in
eftull, aannddgreaocine-
modation, on very reasonable terms. That every ' This decided novelty
ye neik and chest from inclemency.
-
civility is shown, every complaint at once respect- ,others just imported, byas been shown to us, amongst
the Messrs. Jay, of Regent-
fully attended to, and that few men live better sWeet.