The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-05 00:00:00

TTIE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, A'UGIITST 5, 1854.

B. Pi,. RE MARK ET S.
(THIS DAY.)

CLUTCHING AT I.I73IORTALITY.

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" A man gets up in the morning on his own premises, but
little knows where he may sleep at night." The Czar of all
the Russias has lately been within au ace of offering in his own
person a practical confirmation of this well-known saying.
What would the British public have thought—what would
Europe have thought—what would the King of Prussia in
his cups have thought—what would Omer Pasha in his fez
cap have thought—what would the allied troops have thought
—and, finally, what would the Three per Cents, have thought,
if, about this time, the Czar of all the Russias, the Archduke
Constantine, and the Archduchess, and the Russian Admiral
in command at Cronstadt, had been sent home by Sir Charles
Napier in the small steamer which had captured them ? Im-
probable as the tale may appear—impossible the catastrophe
—it was fairly upon the cards within the last few weeks. The
facts are these :—A short while back, while the allied fleets
were lyingc, before Cronstadt, an English yacht, belonging
to Lords Lichfield and Euston, with Lord Clarence Paget
on board, ventured somewhat too near the guns of the place.
Suddenly a puff of steam was seen on the Russian side, and a
small Russian steamer put out to sea, with the evident inten-
tion of cutting off the English yacht. On board of that steamer
were the Czar Nicholas, his son the Archduke Constantine,
the Archduchess his wife, and the Russian Admiral, who all
went forth to enjoy the satisfaction of an easy triumph over
the poor little yacht. She is, in point of fact, stated to have
been in the most imminent danger of capture. The Czar,
however, was destined to be foiled in his anticipated little
triumph, as he has already been foiled in his hopes of many a
great one. An English war steamer, seeing the danger to
which the yacht was exposed, advanced with all speed to her
relief. Shortly she obtained such a position that the English
oyna ca
shi to
nwwa sa
was safe aofne
e;
baent dw
et
ehne
tohnel only
wquestionl
wart at mstea
ma remained—ftohre do ins
ones-
under English, the other under Russian colours. Could the
English but have known the valuable freight which that
little yacht contained—could the captain but have known
that by capturing her, or sending her to the bottom,
peace would have been restored to Europe, and pro-
bably a million of human lives, first and last, 1:4
saved, we have no doubt that he would have carried one or
other of the alternatives into effect, even though his own de-
struction, that of his ship, and of every soul on board of her
bad been the inevitable consequence. As it was, he saw
nothing before him but a little trumpery steamer—he had car-
ried his purpose of relieving the English yacht into effect—
and remembered orders, which certainly had been issued, to
the effect that no English ship, upon the mere heroic impulse
of her commander, should be thrust into the lion's mouth.

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We have no doubt that this was so, and that when the Eng-
lish captain gave his orders for putting the head of his steamer
round, he did so with the feeling that he had very satisfac-
torily discharged the duty with which he had been intrusted.

Little did he suppose, at the moment, that he had lost proba-
bly the greatest opportunity for obtaining personal distinction
which had ever been thrown in the way of a single man. The
English nation venerates the name of Lord Nelson for the
sake of certain little affairs in which he was engaged
off Cape St. Vincent, at the Nile, at Copenhagen, at Tra-
falgar, and elsewhere, but not all of these wonderful,
important, and heroic achievements combined would have had
such an important influence on the history of the world as the
capture of that little Russian ship. It was given to the
captain of a small steamer to change the face of Europe in ten
minutes well employed, but in pure innocence he missed the
chance.

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I It is seldom, indeed, in modern warfare, still more rarely in
naval warfare, that monarchs themselves run any danger of
capture. Napoleon, to be sure, at Arcis-sur-Aube, was com-
pelled to cross swords with a squad of Cossacks in the
twilight, but he was after all a general, not a king, by trade.
If we remember right, upon one occasion, poor old George
111. was in danger of capture from a French privateer off
Weymouth, and was only saved by some marine chance which
has slipped from our recollection. In medieval history there
are, of course, the cases familiar to every schoolboy of King
John of France at Poitiers, and of Francis I. after Pavia. But
what comparison would there have been between the case of
the Black Prince waiting on a medieval King, who went
to battle in a coat of mail, and the grand surprise
of the Russian Czar landing at Portsmouth—no, at Newhaven
—while all Europe was in commotion upon his account ? We
are, of course, speculating upon history of a very hypothetical
character; but still the event did so nearly occur as to jus-
tify speculation upon its consequences. In our mind's eye
we can see Lords Aberdeen and John Russell communicating
the information to the houses in their own dry and cautious
manner. What would Messrs. Bright and Cobden have said?
What would Colonel Sibthorp have said ? The newsmen
would have gone bellowing the information about the streets,
end their cries would have been regarded by the testy old
gentlemen in Belgravia but as mere leasings for the sake of
deceiving the lieges and interfering with their digestive
functions. What should we have done with the Czar, when
we had got him ? Reckless, unprincipled, and merciless as
he has shown himself to be, we should have been anxious to
treat him like a gentleman, and make him comfortable during
his sojourn among us. But at Berlin and at Potsdam !—let
us suppose the information to have been brought in while the
glasses were well charged with champagne, and the King and
his Russian friends were devising a fresh counter-proposition
which had emanated from the Bamberg Conference. The
Czar is taken !—he is in England—he is in the Tower—he is
pretty well after the voyage—as easy in his mind as can be
expected—but he was very sea-sick. What would the good
folks in Wurtemberg and Bavaria who have bedizened their
coats with Russian ribands and orders have made of the in-
telligence—and M. Mazzini and the Italian Reds ? There is
the Emperor of Austria, too, busy with his levies, and re-
joicing at his loan, which would have given him still higher
t t tbhea tp,
rtoheee
ewdasr
tobe
mogthaert
purposes. There are, however, two sets of people
et
to aalp.epalacy
agnraetnifidc,abtieonwawshaent
liberty
eeictamy
whose acts we should have been . most desirous
to behold, as the fact of the capture was forced
upon their convictions. We should have liked to be in
Cronstadt while the Czar was steamed away under the eyes of
the garrison. Next to this, which would perhaps have been
the most interesting point of observation, it would have been
most peculiarly delightful to stroll through the Bazaar at Con-
stantinople, and listen to the gossip of the old Turks when
they were at last convinced that their old enemy the Czar
was really within the grasp of the Allied Powers—a prisoner
of war!

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On the political consequences of such an event we must
scarcely venture to speculate. The imagination of the his-
torian who is called upon to write the history of the events
which did not occur may fairly recoil from the magni-
tude of the subject. Little petty questions, such as
those connected with the Sulina mouths of the Danube, the
navigation of the Black Sea, the freedom of the Cireas-

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sianmountaineors, the restoration of Finland to Sweden,
&c., sink into comparative insignificance by the side
of the chapter which might have been written on
the result of the Czar's yachting expedition off Cron-
stadt. The wonder of it is that all this time we
are not dealing with a fable, nor with the result of a
drunkard's inspiration, but with sober and serious fact. The
Czar of Russia, the Archduke' Constantine, and the Arch-
duchess, were the other day as near capture and transmission
to England as it is possible to be without having actually in-
curred such a catastrophe. Such is life and history—such a
strange mixture of chances and improbabilities ? What an end
to the Russian war ; and to think, in all soberness of thought,
that.at might really have come to pass, had the captain of a
little English steamer known who were on board the little
steamer the other day off Croiastadt !—Tinte3.

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NORTH OF EUROPE STEAM NAVIGA-

COMPANY.TION

A meeting of this company took place yesterday—Mr.
S. M. Peto presiding—when the report of the directors
was unanimously agreed to. Although under the head
of settlement the accounts are made up yearly, it is in-
tended in fat& to devise means for declaring a dividend
every six months. The developement of the traffic has
realised the highest expectations, and the receipts for
the half-year have amounted to 47,9551., against 19,7371.
in the same period of 1853. The average increase each
voyage has been 1471. 6s. 6d., while for July the ratio
is even greater. Two of the company's fleet having
been chartered by the Government, the general capabi-
lities of the routes have not been shown to their full ex-
tent, but when the whole of the vessels, including those
in course of construction, are in service, the success of
the undertaking will, it is expected, be still further esta-
blished. No fresh call is at present to be made. The
following is extracted from the report :

" The whole of the lines of communication referred to in
the last report are in continued operation, and the receipts
are increasing in a most satisfactory ratio, while on some
of them the directors have been obliged to place additional
ships ; they propose to place shortly a second weekly boat
on the Grimsby and Hamburg route. The Tonning is still
in the service of the Government between Portsmouth and
the Black Sea, the City of Norwich between Portsmouth
and the Baltic fleet. The Harwich Railway will be com-
pleted and open for traffic during the ensuing month, when
it is intended at once to carry out the routes originally
proposed between that port and the Low Countries. The
directors have the satisfaction of stating that they have
received from the board of the Eastern Counties Railway
Company the assurance of its co-operation in the prosecu-
tion of the trade from this point. The cattle trade between
Denmark and this country is proceeding satisfactorily,
and the opening of the cross line of railway from the
North Sea to the Baltic during the next month by the
Royal Danish Railway Company must add largely to the
importance of the Danish trade, which will be still further
augmented by the line from Tonning to Rendsburg, join-
ing the line to Hamburg, also to be opened this year.
The whole of the coaling stations of the company being in
England, from the shortness of the voyages made, the
difficulty and cost incident on the increased freight and
cost of coals which has pressed on other companies has not
been felt by them. Although, as was stated at the last
half-yearly general meeting, the accounts, according to the
deed of the comqany, are only made up once a year, the
directors, considering that moat of the proprietors would
prefer a half-yearly dividend, beg to state that at the next
annual general meeting they recommend that they may be
authorized to declare an interim dividend of such amount
as they may think fit. The last call was promptly met.
The sixth call, which at the time of the last general meet-
ing was anticipated might be required, has not been made,
and will not be made at present."

THE CIVIL SERVICE.—Audit-office, Somerset-House
—Mr Peter Cunningham, F.S.A., Senior Examiner of
the Second Class, has been appointed Chief Clerk and
First Class Senior Examiner, vice Bathurst, promoted ;
Mr. Walter Carew Cocks, Junior Examiner, has been
appointed Senior Examiner of the Second. Class, vice
Cunningham, promoted ; Mr. Thomas Henry Phillips,
Assistant Examiner, has been appointed Junior Exami-
ner, vice Cocks, promoted. Temporary Department for
Examination of War Accounts, Audit-office. Mr. .
Whitestone, Senior Examiner of the First Class, has been
appointed Acting Inspector ; Messrs. C. Creed and John
Llewellyn, Senior Examiners of the Second Cl
theass,
First
ive
been appointed Acting Senior Examiners of
Class ; the lion. H. R. Curzon and Messrs. Charles
Osborne and Hay Cooper, Junior Examiners, have been
appointed Acting Senior Examiners of the Second Class ;
Messrs. Alfred Davis, Francis Pothocier, J. J. Bum-
ford, E. 0. Jones, and George Baker, Assistant Exa-
miners, have been appointed Acting Junior Examiners ;
there are several vacancies in the Class of Assistant Exa-
miners. General Register-office, Somerset-house."' Air.
G. Wyatt, Junior Clerk, has been promoted to the Assis-
tant Class., vice Martindale,
superanuated ; Mr. James
Lewis, Extra Clerk, is appointed Junior Clerk, vice G
Wyatt, promoted. Custom has
Customs. - Mr. G. Beakhee
appointed Searcher at Cardiff ; Mr. W. R. B Whit n
MOTO
has been appointed Clerk in the office of the
ces has
Controllerof Tea Accounts in London ; Mr. James W
been promoted from the Fourth to the Third Classol Clerk-
ship at Portsniouth ; Mr. W. C. Cudderford Queen's
Warehousekeeper, has been promoted to the Sixth Class
on the increased establishment at Plymouth.--Civil
Service Gazette.