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Dec, 1852.

NATAL INTELLIGENCE.

PPaNiNit: -vv-I.IIX-LA.TE BOARD.

We find it announced that the following changes are
contemplated by the present Admiralty :—" Mr. James
Wells is to be appointed to the situation of master smith
in Portsmouth dockyard. Mr. Cotsell is to return, as
master smith, to Chatham dockyard, whence he was
lately removed. Mr. Sinalo, who is at present acting
master smith at Chatham, is to return to Woolwich
dockyard as foreman, the situation, from which he was
lately promoted."
We trust that there is no foundation for this an-
nouncement. We cannot believe that a new Board of
Admiralty would act so meanly as to reverse the decisions
of the former board, when the parties appointed are so
well known to be the most efficient men of their depart-
ment. We are disposed to give a fair trial to the new Board
of Admiralty, and to make every allowance for the
acts of men who are called upon to fulfil duties which
are strange to them, but we cannot tolerate such disre-
spect and contempt of the acts of the late board (of
which two officers of the present were members), and
such wanton abuse of power as would inflict injury on
such good and faithful dockyard officers as Messrs. Cot-
sell, Smale, and Co. For the sake of the civil service
we protest against such changes. On the behalf of the
dockyard men—not at this moment the least important
branch under the Crown—we protest against such in-
justice.

We trust the First Lord of the Admiralty will not be

the instrument of party revenge, or that he will lay him-
self open to the charge of gross inconsistency by cancel-
ling the warrants of one or two honest, hardworking, and
deserving officers of the dockyard, and at the same time
wink at not only the undue p/omotion, but the premature
appointment of certain naval officers who are near con-
nections of the present board. —M orning Herald.

APPOINTMENTS,
Surgeon—John A. Corbett (1849) to the Espiegle, 12,
Sheerness.
Paymaster—John Hay (1847) to the Odin, 14, steam-
frigate, Portsmouth.
Assistant—Surgeon Dr. G. H. Edwards (1847) to the
Espiegle.
Clerk—James T. Bignell (1848), to the Horatio, 24,
screw steam-guardship. at Sheerness.
Clerks' Assistants—W. H. Haswell and C. D. Duport
for examination.
Gunner—D. Colinburn to the Duke of Wellington.
Boatswains--S. Ackworth to the Duke of Wellington ;
Henry Clunn to the Espiegle.
Carpenters—Josiah V. Earl to the Duke of Welling-
ton ; Thomas Allington to the Espiegle.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 3.

Duke of Wellington, 131 (screw), Captain H. B. Mar-
tin,
got her topmasts, jibboom, spare topmasts, and a
great deal of her rigging on board to-day.
London, 92, Captain Mundy, has taken advantage of
the fine weather, and has been painting outside.
The Rodney, 92, Captain Charles Graham, C. 8., has
taken on board her powder, &c., at Spithead to day, and
is ready for sailing orders.
Prince Regent, 90, Captain Hutton, discharged' her
powder and shells tcr-day, preparatory to coming into
harbour to-morrow, to be examined, and have her copper

cleaned.
Asia, 84.—This handsome teak-built ship, having un-
dergone a most thorough repair, is now painting. She
has also been payed over on the copper of her starboard
side, with Mr. Hay's composition. The port side is to
undergo the same process, with Peacock's composi-
tion. She is expected to come out of dock on the 11th

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on board this afternoon, and is painting outside.
Banshee, 3, Lieut. Commander Hosken, steam-packet,
hauled into dock, from the steam basin ; her copper was
rather foul, and appears very thin. As a specimen of
beauty her mould is unequalled, and as fine both ends
as well as a rowing galley; her beautiful lines amply re-
paid the trouble of getting under her bottom.
The Mediterranean mail steam-packet to be paid off
here on Saturday next is the Medina not Minden.
The Cruiser steam-sloop, Commander the Hon. George
H. Douglas, was inspected to-day by Commodore Henry
Eden, and left at half-past three o'clock p.m. for Green-
'lithe, to have her compasses adjusted to-morrow. She
will then proceed round to Portsmouth in charge of her
First Lieutenant, William Lambard, should her com-
mander continue so indisposed as to be unable to join
her at Greenhithe. Commander Douglas will, in that
case, join her at Portsmouth as soon as he is sufficiently
convalescent.
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teau, and L. de la Cherois, midshipmen, R.N., passed
examination on board her Majesty's ship Victory, qua-
lifying for the rank of Lieutenant, on Wednesday.
Mr. George Grandidier, secretary's clerk in the Com-
mander-in-Chief's office at this port, passed at the same
time for the rank of paymaster, R.N.
Mr. Robert Grant, master's assistant, also passed for
second master, R.N.
We have received letters from the West India
squadron this afternoon. Since our last the Devastation,
6, paddle-sloop, Commander C. Y. Campbell ; and the
Daring, 12, Commander Napier, have been with the
Admiral at Grenada and Margarita. The Daring having
received dispatches of a satisfactory nature from La
Guayra, sailed on the morning of the 2d ult. from there
for Port Royal ; the Devastation having been dispatched
at the same time for Barbadoes, and rejoined the flag-
ship at Jamaica. The Calypso, 20, Captain Forbes,
arrived at Barbadoes from La Guayra on the 2d ult.,
having lost her officer of Marines (Lieutenant Lock),
and her surgeon, Dr. George Roe, having been ill ;
but he was better, and it is supposed the Calypso
will return to the Main. No other cases of fever
have appeared in that ship. The Cumberland (flag), the
Devastation, and the Daring are quite healthy. The
Dauntless has lost 83 in all, and her people are still en-
camped on shore at Barbadoes. The Highflyer sailed
from Grenada, it is supposed for Port Royal, on the
24th ofiDecember, the fever having increased a little.
The following promotions and appointments have been
made by Vice-Admiral Sir 'George Seymour, Com-
mander-in-Chief :

Commander Ileaithcote
Caputin, and appointed-to' of &:-uinberla4d, to be
..c the YEAflyer, viceMatson,
deceased.

Lieutenant A. F. Kynaston, First of the Cumber-
land, to be Commander of that ship, vice Heathc-ote,
promoted.
Mate Mr. Stubbs, of the Cumberland, to be Lieute-
nant of the same, vice Kynaston, promoted. The latter
exchanges into the Dauntless.
Mr. R. Grog, Assistant-Engineer of the first-class of

the Devastation, to be Chief Engineer of the third-class,
vice Burt, to the Dauntless, which ship, it is hoped,
will be able to move shbortly to Bermuda, her cases not
being so numerous, nor the disease so virulent. Every
vessel which coaled lately at the Island of St. Thomas
has been afflicted with this awful fever, both men-of-war
and packets.

SHEERNESS, FEB. 2.

The Rattlesnake, Commander Charles Trollope, is
ordered to leave here on Sunday next. The steam-tug
African will tow her from here to Portsmouth. The
Medea, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, of 350-horse power,
Commander John C. Bailey, now at Portsmouth, it is
reported will accompany her, and tow her, as occasion
requires, until she arrives in the Pacific, after which the
Medea will proceed to Hong Kong.
The Espiegle, 12 guns, Commander George Hancock,
will be commissioned to-morrow by her commander.
The pay master, Mr. John Doyle, has taken up his com-
mission to-day. The workmen of the yard had been
set on to expedite the forwarding this vessel with
.all
possible dispatch.

PLYMOUTH, FEB. 2.

Wind, east and moderate. Sailed this day, the
Pyrenees, convict-ship, with convicts for West Aus-
tralia.

Arrived the Avon, tender, with supernumeraries, from
Portsmouth. .

Arrived the Rochester, lighter, Savage, master, with
stores, from Pembroke.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.

The Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Deans Dun-
das, C. 8., in his flag-ship, Britannia, 12U, Captain Car-
ter, with his fleet, left Gibraltar January 25, and is by
this time very near Malta, at which port the gallant ad-
miral is to keep his fleet in readiness for instant service.
It is not correct that Lady Emily Dundas left Malta to
join the admiral at Gibraltar. Her ladyship waits the
arrival of the gallant and popular chief at the former port,
at which he has been a stranger almost ever since his
appointment.

MR. COBDEN, M.P., AT HOLMFIRTH.

On Wednesday evening the annual Soiree of the
Holmfirth Mechanics' Institution took place, when Mr.
Cobden, M.P., for the first time addressed the inhabit-
ants of this obscure but important nook of Yorkshire.
Mr. COBDEN, M.P., on being called upon was re-
ceived with loud and vociferous cheering. He spoke
as follows

:—Mr. Chairman, ladies, and gentlemen,—

When I heard you, Sir, speak of war; I could not help
feeling how much better it would be if we could hare some

one to fight with here, for where there is perfect unani-
mity, where there is nobody to oppose us except that
phantom which has been conjured up, that there is some-
body opposed to education, it renders it exceedingly dif-
ficult for those who have to address you to engage your
attention and interest your feelings. And my difficulty is
much increased to-night in having to follow a succession
of speakers who, I will say, without flattery, have
equalled any speakers that I have ever listened to at a
meeting of this kind —(hear, hear)—speakers who have
given you practical arguments, cogent reasoning, and
strong declamation. Now, gentlemen, shall I confess
the truth to you, and tell you a secret. lam a very bad
hand indeed at speaking—bad at all times, but especially
bad when I have nothing to prove, nothing to disprove,
and nobody to oppose. Everything here is admitted,
and we are all or one mind. Sometimes in the House of
4.
Commons—confessing secrets agai —where I feel my-
self obliged to say sometlibit'Oxr• uestions 'before- the
house, and where there is not muc occasion to speak,
my friend Bright, who perhaps sits beside me, some-
times says to me, as an indication • that I wanted
something to excite me, "Would you not like some-
body to kick you now. (Laughter and applause.)
members of Parliament—again telling secrets—(laughter)

—members of Parliament call these anniversaries of me-
chanics' institutes at which they are obliged to give their
attendance, political treadmills--(loud laughter)—because
they say, " You are obliged to go, you are laid hold of
and forcibly imprisoned, and when you are there you are
always obliged to move to a certain step, and you must
not step out of it." (Hear, and applause.) Now, gen-
tlemen, I will not say I am here by coercion, because my
friends around me will bear testimony that I am a will-
ing and a delighted visitor here, but still there is some-
thing in the simile of a "political treadmill " after all,
because when I come into this room filled by constituents
and friends, and probably by men who syrnpathise with my
views on general public questions, one feels naturally dis-
posed to talk about those th ings which would be likely most
to interest my audience, and those topics on which their
thoughts and feelings may be often running. But lam
forbidden, and I would be the last to infringe on those
rules laid down by these societies. If there be one man
in this hall who differs from me in political opinions, even
if there should be but one, he shall find me respect his
opinions by the observance of that strict neutrality which
we all claim and afford at meetings of mechanics' insti-
tutions. Now, gentlemen, I come here to Holmfirth
for the first time in my life, not for the last time I hope
(applause)—but I came, I must say, very much at-
tracted by the painful fame to which you attained
during the last year, about which I read so much, and
had the opportunity of seeing a great deal that was
done to meet and mitigate your awful calamity. I
naturally felt that as your society here might have
suffered from that calamity to which your whole dis-
trict had been subjected, that it was the duty of every
one who possessed any connexion, whether political or
otherwise, with this locality, to be here to-night to
aid your institution on its entering upon another year
of its usefulness. (Hear, hear, and applause.) And
now let me tell you that Holmfirth has acquired a
great reputation from what has befallen it. Towns
sometimes are celebrated for calamities as well as cele-
brated for great blessings and distinctions of another
kind : Lisbon, for instance, is never spoken of except in
association with the dreadful earthquake of the last
century, and Holmfirth is now usually spoken of
in connexion with the fearful calamity which last
year befel it. You have become a marked 'lace,
the country are interested in you. A. great portion

of the benevolent population have interested themselves
for the benefit of Holmfirth, and, I must say, I think
that the outpouring of hearty benevolence and philan-
thropy displayed fast year in all parts of the kingdom
on the occasion of your suffering, was such as was cal-
culated to raise, not only our countrymen, but humanity

itself, in one's estimation. (Applause.) And lam
bound to admit also that the great probity, and mode-
ration, and strict integrity with which you have ad-
ministered the relief awarded to you, and the way in
which you have made a return of a large proportion of
that which had been contributed, stands unparalleled
in the annals of philanthopy. (Applause.) I have said
to-day already I wish you had been more generous to-
wards yourselves with what you had to dispose of. I
wish you had not only contributed relief for past suffer-
ings, but had anticipated a little the distress which may
hang about you in consequence of last year's misfortune.
However, if you have lost something in money, you
have gained immensely in character and reputation, and
I think that is quite equal to the cash. (Loud applause.)
Now, I have heard something to-night of the particular
details of your institution. I understand you number
150 members. It is not so many as it ought to have
been, and it is not so many, I think, as you will have if
we meet again next par. But, considering the popu-
lation, and comparing you with other towns which I
will not mention, and bearing in mind the circumstances
under which you are situated, I do not think we have
any right to complain on the present occasion. (Ap-
plause.) But recollecting the advantages of your posi-
tion, and hearing all that I have heard of the benefit to
be derived from your institution, I do hope next year
will mark an increase in your numbers. (Hear, hear.)
A great deal has been said to exhort young people to
belong to this institution. Ido not see a good many
young people, but those who are bald and like myself
grey a little, are in considerable numbers before me.
Now, I should like the people to try the Chinese mode
of regulating family matters. In China, if boys are
found idling in the streets and picking and stealing, they
do' not do as we do, take these young, untutored, and
unreasoning creatures before the magistrates, but take
them home to their parents and apply the bamboo to the
soles of the parent's,feet. Now, though I would not

inflict corporeal punishment, I think we should lay
at the door of the parents to be obliged to send their
sons and daughters to an institution such as this. For
what are the advantages they confer ? I have heard the
programme of your education here, and it is almost
equal to what used to be given in the public schools and
in first-class boarding schools. You may learn almost
anything here. Where are the excuses for being igno-
rant when 3s. 3d. a-quarter, or 3d. per week, gives you
the advantage of all this variety of instruction ? (Ap-
plause.) Now, this being so, how is it brought to bear
on the prospects of this people ? I cannot see how any
man can have a chance of being anything twenty years
hence except a navigator or a ploughman, except he has
learnt reading, writing, and arithmetic, because the
standard required for superior employments shuts out
all who have not got superior instruction. I have been
engaged in getting employments for persons, and whether
I have applied to a railway company or the London police,
I have experienceed the greatest difficulty in trying to
serve those people who had not got the education fitting
them for the employment ; so that putting it on the
ground of self-interest, it appears to be the pre-eminent
interest of parents to see that their children are educated,
in order that they may get some respectable employment ;
and here you have instruction made especially suitable to
the callings of the different parties who attend this insti-
tution. (Hear.) It has been stated that you have re-
ceived a number of models for drawing furnished by the
Board of Trade, or by the Committee of the Council on
Education, in London. I think to have made a supply of
models of this kind from a central society is very good. I
am not the friend of centralisation myself with reference
to anything which implies management, but to bring to a
centre in Manchester, Leeds, or London, these models of
art, or to offer what are considered the best rules and
arrangements, and to diffuse those models and rules
throughout the country as a means to enable localities to
improve by them in the best way they can—that I think
is unexceptionable and to be commended. These models
are sent from the Board of Trade, but I think I heard
the remark, that along with those models there came
from the Society of Arts information and instruction as
to manufacturers' patterns, or something of that sort.
Now, I have no faith in that. I have no faith in your
learning ' anything e, ,nnected with your particular
branches of manufacture from the Society of Arts—whe-
ther you shall have stripes or checks, botanical forms,
hieroglyphics, or Chinese figures ; whether you shall have
roses or lilies. The Society of Arts cannot teach you
these things half so well as Mr. Schwann, or those who
buy them from you—(hear, hear)—you would never
think of going to London for designs of your patterns ;