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

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1853.

NICOLL'S AUTUMNAL PATTERNS are
NOW READY.

EXCELLENCE and ECONOMY combined, as illustrated by the
well known Patent PALETOT, at Two Guineas.
..

In England, France. or Germany, the best talent, workmanship,
and materials are secured by H. J. and D. NICOLL, 114, 116, 118,
120, Regent-street, and 22, Cemhill, London.

A LLSOPP'S PALE ALE. The WARM
XX, WEATHER.—The recognised beverage in India for person.
of both sexes is ALLSOPPN PALE ALE, where its healthful and
invigorating effects have been long recognised, and supplied in the
finest condition. Bottles, Bs. per dozen quarts ; pints, 55.; half-pints,
3s.—lmperial me sure only (by which the public gain one-third);
and kilderkins, 18 gallons (for draught), 30s.
II ARR INGTON PARKER, 53{, Pall-Mall.

ONT BLANC will CLOSE on SATURDAY
Evenhur, Sept. 10, and Re-open on Mr. ALBERT SMITH'S
return from the Continent. During the present week the Entertain.
ment will be given Every Evening at 8, and Tursday and Saturday
morning at 3 o'clock. stalls, 3s. ; Area, 28. ; Gallery, Is.—Egyptian
Hall, Piccadilly.

LATTRENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL Rooms,
(Lessee, Cues. C. LsunENT, OnslOw-hous., Fulham •road).—
The above Rooms will are now OPEN FOR THE SEASON,
and will continue open every evening, with LAURENT'S
CELEBRATE!) BAND. Admission, Is. Doors open at half-past 8 ;
Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and ter cinate at half-past li.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
PATRON—H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT.
CHANGE of the LECTURE on " THE THAMES." The SECOND
PART of an HISTORICAL LECTURE on "THE THAMES,'
from its Source to its Estuary, by GEORGE BUCKLAND, Esq.,
assisted by Miss Manche Youngs, with NEW SONGS and NEW
DiSSOLVING SCENERY, on Tuesdays and Fridays at four o'clock,
and every Evening except Saturday at IN ine.
LECTUBES.—By J. H. Pepper. Esq.: On PHOTOGRAPHY, with
Illustrations, Mornings and Evenings
By Pr. Bachhoffner : On ELEW.IIO-GILDING and
SILVERING.
The LANCASHIRE SEWING MACHINE exhibited in Use
and explained Daily.
Open Mornings and Evenings. Admission, .ls.; Schools, and
Children ender. Ten years of ago-Half-price.

SHREWSBI7RY and BIRMINGHAM and
SHREWSBURY and CHESTER RAILWAYS.
The COMMITTEE of SHAREHOLDERS have to announce that
the proposal for au AMA LGA.M ATION with the GREAT WESTERN
COMPANY will be submitted for the consideration and approval of
the Shareholders of the above-mentioned Companies, at SPECIAL
ME ETING4, to be hold'-n as follows, viz.:—
SHREWSBURY and CHESTER—At the Royal Hotel, Chester, on
TUESDAY, i-ept. 13, at Two o'Clock p.m. precisely.
SHREWSBURY and BIRMINGHAM—At the London Tavern,
Bislr pate-street, London, on WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14, at Ta o
c'Clock p.m. i recisely.
Shareholders in favour of the proposed Amalgamation are ear-
nestly invited to transmit their proxies without delay to the under-
signed ; or to the Seer, taries of the Comprnks at Wolverhampton
and Chester respectively, on or before FRIDAY next, the 9th inst.
By Order of the Committee.
GEORGE WOOLCOTT, Secy.
12, Buckingham street, Adelphi, Sept, 7, 1853.
No person will be entitled to vote as a proxy, unless the instru-
ment a; pointing such proxy has been transmitted to the Secretary
of the Company not less than forty-eight hours before the time ap-
pointed for holding the Meeting at which such proxy is to be used.
N.B.—Blank Prox'es will be forwarded upon a:'plication to Mr.
Woolcott, No. 12, Buckingham-street, Adelphi, London.

of human life. If lie is seven or eight minutes behind
his time at the end of a journey, beset though it be with
a thousand casualties, producing delay beyond his con-
trol, he is mulcted in a day's pay, and, in ordinary cases,
constantly liable to be reported at head-quarters from
time to time.

On hi 3 return to King's-cross, at the close of the ex-
periments, Captain Wynn proceeded to examine John
Higgs, the driver of the pilot engine attached to the
coal train with which the collision occurred, who has not
as yet made any statement before the magistrate at
Clerkenwell. He stated that the train he had in charge
consisted of two trucks of oak timber, five coal trucks,
five trucks of coke, a break van, and an engine and ten-
der,—the tender varying the usual course, going before
the engine ; that he arrived at Hornsey station at four
minutes to 5 o'clock (the station master fixes the time a
minute earlier), that his train was then on the up-line,
and, having to leave five trucks of coals at the Horn-
sey station, he proceeded to shunt the train on to the
coal siding across the down line on which the express
was shortly to travel; and that in doing so the engine
tender got off the rails and stood an impediment on the
down-line. He added that the average run from King's-
cross to Hornsey by the express was between seven and
eight minutes on a fine day. Just before reaching the
distance-signal the line inclines towards Hornsey, and
after passing that point it begins to decline towards the
station. He gave a graphic description of the collision
and of the position of the down train and the obstruct-
ing body after the shock.
Captain Wynn, accompanied by Mr. Sturrock,
Leech, and Mr. Budge, then went to the company's
engine depot, near the terminus at King's-cross, and
closely inspected the injuries which the express engine
and tender and the tender of the pilot engine had sus-
tained, but he seemed wholly at a loss to account for the
tender getting off the line ; and to this moment that
matter
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and company's
to
no pa
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motive
s parties
who have investigated it.
Mrs. Harrison was still in a precarious state yester-
day, though a little bettor than on the previous day.

AMERICA.

We published yesterday a summary of the news
brought from America by the Humboldt. The
following is some additional intelligence by the
same vessel :

The Humboldt has on freight about $500,000 in
specie for Havre, and gold coin value $35,386 for
London. She brings dates from New York to the
27th ult.

The steam-ship Cherokee, which was destroyed
by fire at New York on the 26th ult., belonged to
George Law and Co.'s line of packets. At the time
of the disaster the Cherokee was filled with cargo,
and the loss to the owners and freighters amounted
to about $lOO,OOO to the former, and $500,000 to
the latter.

The yellow fever still continued at New Orleans
with all its malignity, and with an unchecked ten-
dency truly frightful. The number of deaths in
one day had reached 315, and at the last accounts
the average mortality was but little below 300. It
had become an opinion that the epidemic would
not cease so long as there was material for it to
work upon. 400 discharges from cannon were fired
daily, tar barrels were burned in the graveyards
and infected places, and the streets cleansed as well
as they could be with the small force at the dispo-
sal of the municipality, without, however, in any
way lessening the virulence of the disease. The
amount of subscriptions for rendering relief had
amounted in various places to $137,577, and others
were pouring in.
The New York Herald publishes the dispatch of
Lord John Russell to Mr. Crampton, in reply to the
letter of Mr. Everett in reference to the proposals
of England and France to the United States for a
tripartite treaty for the protection of Cuba. To
this document is also appended a brief dispatch
from Mr. Crampton; relative to an interview be-
I
tween Mr. Secretary Marcy and the British and
French Ministers on the subject :

" LORD J. =WELL TO MR. CRAMPTON.
" Foreign-office, Feb. 16.

• " Sir,—Lord Malmesbury received just before leaving
office the note addressed to you by Mr. Everett, and
left it for the consideration of his succeosor. The absence
from London of the ambassador of Frabse has hitherto
prevented that communication between the two Govern-
ments which the circumstances of the proposal made
jointly required. I have now to inform you of the view
which her Majesty's Government take of Mr. Everett's
reply to our overture. It is doubtless perfectly within
the competence of the American Government to reject
the proposal that was made by Lord Malmesbury and
M. Turgot in reference to Cuba. Each Government
will then remain as free as it was before to take that
course which its sense of duty and a regard for the in-
terests of its people may prescribe. I should have satis-
fied my obligations as Secretary of State by this obvious
remark, had not Mr. Everett entered at large into argu-
ments which the simple nature of the question before
him hardly seemed to require. The Governments of
Great Britain and France, when they made this pro-
posal to that of the United States, were fully aware of
the growth of power and extension of territory which
have marked the progress of the United States since
the period of their independence. The absorption or
annexation of Louisiana in 1803, of Florida in 1819,
of Texas in 1845, and of California in 1848, had not
escaped them ; still less did they require to be reminded
of the events of the seven years' war, or of the American
war.

" It occurs to her Majesty's Government, therefore,
to ask for what purpose are these arguments intro-
duced with so much preparation, and urged with so
much ability ? It would appear that the purpose,
not fully avowed, but hardly concealed, is to pro-
cure the admission of a doctrine that the United
States have an interest in Cuba to which Great Britain
and France cannot pretend. In order to meet this pre-
tension, it is necessary to set forth the character of the
two Powers who made the offer in question, and the
nature of that offer. Mr. Everett declares, in the out-
set of his dispatch, that the United States would not
see with indifference the island of Cuba fall into the pos-
session of any other European Government than Spain,'
&c. The two powers most likely to possess themselves
of Cuba, and most formidable to the United States, are
Great Britain and France. Great Britain is in posses-
sion, by treaty, of the island of Trinidad, which in the
last century was a colony of Spain •, France was in pos-
session, at the commencement of this century, of Loui-
siana, by voluntary cession from Spain. These two
powers, by their naval resources, are, in fact, the only
Powers who could be rivals with the United States for
the possession of Cuba. Well, these two Powers are
ready voluntarily to declare, severally and collectively,
that they will not obtain, or maintain for themselves, or
for any one of themselves, any exclusive control over the
said island of Cuba, nor assume nor exercise any do-
minion over the same.' Thus, if the object of the United
States were to bar the acquisition of Cuba by any Euro-
pean State, this convention would secure that object.
But if it is intended, on the part of the United States,
to maintain that Great Britain and France have no in-
terest in the maintenance of the present statics quo in
Cuba, and that the United States have alone a right to
a voice in that matter, her Majesty's Government at
once refuse to admit such a claim. Her Majesty's pos-
sessions in the West Indies alone, without insisting on
the importante to Mexico and other friendly States of
the present distribution of power, give her Majesty an
interest in this question which she cannot forego. The
possessions of France in the American seas give a
similar interest to France, which, no doubt, will be
put forward by her Government. Nor is this right at
all invalidated by the argument of Mr. Everett that
Cuba is to the United States what an island in the mouth
of the Thames or the Seine would be to England or
France. The distance of Cuba from the nearest part of
the territory of tha United States—viz., from the
southernmost part of Florida, s 110 miles. An island
at an equal distance from the mouth of the Thames would
be placed about 10 miles north of Antwerp, in Belgium;
while an island at the same distance from Jamaica would
be placed at Manzanillo., a town in Cuba. Thus there
are no grounds for saying that the possession of Cuba by
Great Britain or France would be menacing to the
United States ; but that its possession by the United
States would not be so to Great Britain. There is one
argument of the United States' Secretary of State which
appears to her Majesty's Government not only unfounded
but disquieting. Lord Malmesbury and M. de Turgot
put forward, as a reason for entering into the proposed
compact, 'the attacks which have lately been made on
the island of Cuba by lawless bands of adventurers from
the United States, and with the avowed design of taking
possession of that island.' To this reason Mr. Everett
replies in these terms, 'The President is convinced that
the conclusion of such a treaty, instead of putting a stop
to these lawless proceedings, would give a new and
powerful impulse to them.' The Government of Great
Britain acknowledges with respect the conduct of the
President in disavowing and discouraging the lawless
attempts here referred to. The character of those at-
tempts, indeed, was such as to excite the reprobation of
every civilized State. The spectacle of bands of men
collected together, in reckless disregard of treaties, for
the purpose of making from the ports of the United
States a piratical attack on the territory of a Power in
amity with their own State, and, when there, en-
deavouring by armed invasion to excite the obedient to
revolt and the tranquil to disturbance, was a sight
shocking, no doubt, to the just and honest principles of
the President. But the statement made by the Presi-
dent, that a convention duly signed and legally ratified,
engaging to respect the present state of possession
in all future time, would but excite these bands
of pirates to more violent breaches of all the laws of
honesty and good neighbourhood, is a melancholy avowal
for the chief of a great State. Without disputing its
truth, Her Majesty's Government may express a hope
that this state of things will not endure, and that the
citizens of the United States, while they justly boast of
their institutions, will not be insensible to the value of
those eternal laws of right and wrong, of peace and
friendship, and of our duty to our neighbours, which
ought to guide every Christian nation. Nor can a
people so enlightened fail to perceive the utility of those
rules for the observance of international relations which
for centuries have been known to Europe by the name
of the 'law of nations.' Among the commentators on
that law, some of the most distinguished American
citizens have earned an enviable reputation ; and it is
difficult to suppose that the United States would set the
example of abrogating its most sacred provisions. Nor
let it be said that such a convention would have pre-
vented the inhabitants of Cuba from asserting their
independence. With regard to internal troubles, the
proposed convention was altogether silent- But a pre-
tended declaration of independence, with a view ofim-
mediately seeking refuge, from revolts on the part o
the blacks, under the shelter of the United States,
would justly be looked upon as the same in effect as a
formal annexation. Finally, while fully admitting the
right of the United States to reject th9_pr,?polalr
Turgot,
Great made by Lord Malmesbury and de Tu
Great Britain must at once resume her entire liberty,
and,
M.
rty,
and, upon any occasion that may call for it, be free to
act Rither singly or in conjunction with other Powers,
as to her may seem fit.
" I am, &e.,

c,J. RUSSELL."

"MR. CRAMPTON TO THE EARL OF CLARENDON.
"Washington, April 18, 1853.

" In obedience to the instructions contained in Lord
John Russell's dispatch of the 21st of February, I have
read to the Secretary of State of the United States, and
placed in his hands, a copy of his lordship's dispatch of
the 16th of that month upon the subject of Cuba.
" My French colleague having also received instruc-
tions from his Government to communicate to the Go-
vernment of the United States a dispatch upon the same
subject, and very much to the same effect, it was agreed
between us that we should, as upon former occasions in
regard to this matter, make our communications simul-
taneously, and we accordingly waited upon Mr. Marcy
together for that purpose on the 16th inst.
" Mr. Marcy, after having listened attentively to what
I M. de Sartiges and myself read to him, said that he
would submit the observations of the two Governments