The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-07 00:00:00

"BETTER LATE THAN NEVER,"

LEWIS'S ALTERATIVE PILLS will be found
./../ on trial, after ev, ry other means has failed, to cure the most
inveterate cases of Bilious uisorder, Indigestion, and every derange-
ment of the Liver, Stomach, Kidneys, or Secretory system. They
are entirely vegetable, and, .chile removing obstructions, purify the
blood, clear, the complexion, reeve the chest of phlegm, strengthen
the nerves, and restore tone to the whole system. Prepared and
sold by HINGSTON, HUISH, and Co., la, Old Bond-street, price
Is. 1%d., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., See , retail by all medicine vendors. Sent
by post ors receipt of postage stamps.

AMERIOAN AFFAIRS.—The further accounts from New
York this week by the Atlantic show a renewed
provement in the stock market. At the same time,
owing to the shipments of produce to this country, the
rate of exchange was declining, although the present
steamer has brought specie to the extent of 100,0001.
Even, however, if the remittances should fall off by the
next two or three packets, they are likely to be aug-
mented by the dividends which have to be sent to Lon-
don during January. Business was increasingly active
in all quarters, and the railroad receipts, as compared
with the corresponding period of last year, continued in
almost every instance to show a great advance. A re-
port regarding the Illinois Central Railroad, in which a
considerable interest is held on this side, had just been pub-
lished by the chief engineer, to the effect that the construc-
tion of the entire line is going on rapidly, and that it will
certainly be completed at the appointed time. The mar-
ket for imported goods was firm, and, as the arrivals
during December had been moderate, the stock was not I
larger than at the end of 1852. As the reduced tariff
recommended by the Government will not, if it be
adopted, come into operation for a year, and the notice
for the Government purchases of United States' stocks
would expire on the 31st of December, attention was
. directed to the question of preventing the continued
accumulation of surplus revenue meanwhile, and the
consequent hoarding of specie in the Treasury vaults.
One plan suggested, and which was still before Con-
gress, was to allow the importers of railroad iron a credit
of four years for the payment of duties.
Guerro.—We understand that the Peruvian Govern-
ment has instructed its agents in this country to advance
the price of guano to an amount equal to the advance in
the rates of freights during the past year,--Shipping
GOGZ4(C.

And here let us do our countinen the justice to say,
that this indisposition to believi anything unfavourable
to those of whota they wished ifithink favourably, and
to whom they had shown a ibicere friendship, is in-
finitely to their credit. It is tia -Much to be regretted,
that confidence so generous slfbuld have been abused,
and that friendship so sincere should have been mis-
placed.
But it will not ba so muclikoniar. • . If the English are
slow to believe anything whit*- is ungenerous on the
part of those on whom they had lavished unbounded
kindness, they feel all the more 'strongly, when
it no longer admits of doubt that that kindness has been
ill-requitted. The eyes of the nation are fast opening to
the fatal state of matters in the Most exalted places in
the land, and they wiil feel and act accordingly. A per-
fect flood of light has, within the last few weeks, been
let it on the public mind, and the people will never again
be deceived.

We knew not that we have ever seen more unmis-
takeable indications of public indignation than those
which we now witness at the disclosures which we have
recently made. Nothing could touch the national sen-
sibilities more strongly than the discovery that England,
instead of being governed for the English, and in ac-
cordance with English principles 'and opinions, has been,
in reality; governed in consonance with German notions,
by German influences, and for German - purposes.
Nothing could be more calculated to create a powerful
prejudice against Germans, than the discovery of the
fact that Germans have been busy, and, what is more,
successful, in a certain sense and to a certain extent,
in intriguing at the Court of England., What were
mysteries before become plain as the noon-day
sun. What was incomprehensible to the unsophis-
ticated; unsuspicious minds of the people of this
country; is easily and perfectly comprehensible now.
The secret of that anti-English, degrading, and in-
jurious policy, which the Coalition have pursued with
regard to the Turkish question, is now as transparent
as crystal: They were subjected to an irresistible ex-
ternal preisure. A power beyond the walls of the Coun-
cil-chamber guided and governed them in every delibe-
ration they had, and in every aot• they performed. They
had no will of their own. They were the veriest slaves
of others. They were no better than so many mere
marionettes. They did as they were bid ; they moved
when and as the wires were pulled:
And this, too, in a great country like England--the
greatest in the world ; but,• we say it with sorrow, great
no longer. It may -recover its moral as well as its mar-
' tial greatness ; but that will only be • when the existing
system of governing the country at home and abroad,
by secret and unconstitutional agencies, has been de-
stroyed, and English minds and hearts are again at the
head of affairs, in reality as well as in name. If the
people would see the lost prestige •of their country re-
stored, if they would see England once more at the head
of the nations of Europe, -taking the• lead in all that is
just, generous, and great—they must take care that no
foreign influence. obtain access to the councils of the
Sovereign,, and .that thoroughly_ English feelings and
thoroughly English views prevail in all the deliberations
ofi eurMinisters of. State.. "England for the English"
must, become the motto of future Cabinets, as well as of
the country. It must be the guiding principle of those
in power, as well as the rallying cry of the people. And
to insure the adoption of that motto on the part of Mi-
nisters, it will only be necessary that it should be uni-
versally adopted in the country.
With this view we trust that, at all the great popular
demonstrations which are about to be made in reference
to the conduct of our Government with relation to the
Turkish question, the cry of " Etgland for the, English"
will be, heard loud and loiiip„ it Ting-tirenngh the
halls or rooms in which the ineetlifxralie pla'6o,-and be
reverberated by the walls of the blifidings. Let it sound
from shore to shore—from the centre to the circumference
of the British empire. If this be done, all may yet be well.
Dismay will be carried into the Court and the Cabinet,
and, from very fear, if from no higher or nobler prin-
ciple, we shall see an end put to that sinister system of
secret, un-constitutional, un-English influences with the
Ministry of the day, which has dishonoured the name
of England, and destroyed its prestige everywhere—
which ha,S subjected us to the charge of treachery to
Turkey, of truckling to Russia, and of placing in the
most imminent jeopardy the peace of Europe.
But before we can have any reason to believe Coburg
influences have ceased to operate in the councils of the
country we must have a change of Ministry. Nothing
is to be expected from the present then. They have lost
everything that pertains to the English character, by
their constant association, for so long a period, with
parties whose predilections are thoroughly German.
It may be doubted, indeed, whether it has not so
far become a political habit with them to subserve
the purposes
,of those who have been their German
masters, as to proceed in the same course, without
the promptings under which they have hitherto acted.
Be this as it may, they cannot remain in office. The
country does not repose the slightest confidence in them.
Nor will the country ever 'believe that the Coburg dy-
nasty has been entirely overthrown at the Court and in
the Cabinet, so long as the Coalition, or even a majority
of their number, remain in Downing-street.
To the ignominious expulsion, therefore, of the men
now in office—it would be a misnomer to say power, for
power they have none—the country must direct its im-
mediate and exclusive attention. These men have sacri-
ficed their country's interests, to a feeling of utter
servility to parties who have no constitutional status in
these realms, beyond that of the other subjects of her
Majesty, and who, consequently, have no right to inter-
meddle in any Way with polities. And until these per-
sons are expelled from Downing-street, and men of
thoroughly English feelings appointed in their place,
we can have no ground for believing that Germanism
has ceased to inspire and regulate the foreign policy of
this country. Until a consummation so devoutly to be
wished has taken place, let us repeat, that the only
-motto for the people of Great Britain in the present con-
'uncture
,innst be—.,, England for the English."

CompLETION Or TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION BE-
TWEEN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND.—The English and
Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company, having completed
their present operations, telegraphic communication is
'now perfected between Stranraer, in Scotland, and
Queenstown, through Belfast, Dublin, and Cork. The
first message received at Dublin from Queenstown was
from Rear-Admiral Sir William Carroll, to the Lord-
Lieutenant. It reached College-green between twelve
and one ion Monday, and was conveyed to the Vice-
regal Lodge by Mr. Jenoure, the company's manager
for Ireland, who brought thence a reply from his Excel-
lency to Sir William Carroll, which was transmitted at
once, and delivered in
Queenstown by three o'clock.
The laying of the wires being finished between Stanraer,
London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, Dublin will very
shortly be in close communication with these cities.
TURKEY AND. RUSSIA.=-OD Wednesday last a public
meeting of the inhabitants of Chester was held in the
Theatre Royal, for the purpose of expressing an opinion
on the Russo-Turkish question. Resolutions were
adopted to the effect that England would be justified in
taking instant steps for an open declaration of war
against Russia. The meeting was convened and pre-
sided over by the Mayor of Chester.
GROSS SUPERSTITION.—At the quarter sessions at
Bristol on Thursday, oa fortuneteller named Richard
Harris was tried, first for having stolen a half-sovereign
from a young woman,
under the following circum-
stances :—The prosecutrix was a female servant living
with a respectable family, and was 21 years of age.
Having beard of the reputation of " the Cunning Man,"
she applied to him for the purpose of having her fortune
told. This he did, and told her he could make a charm
for her which would have the power of compelling the
affections of the opposite sex 'towards her, so that she
might have whoever she pleased for a husband. He then
asked for a sovereign to work the charm. She, however,
had but half a sovereign, having procured which he draw
a certain charm, in the shape of a heart, and then took
some paper, in which be pretended to pack the coin, and
told her that it was the magic
handing back the package,
love charm, and that she was 'to keep it in her pocket
for nine days, at the end of which time she would have
everything she had wished for during the time. The silly
girl believed what he told her, and pocketted the charm,
having first, as she thought, ascertained that the half-
sovereign was safe inside. Female curiosity, however,
induced her shortly after to open " the charm," when
she found that the half-sovereign had been changed for
a sixpence. Upon this he was given into custody. The
prisoner, in his defence, cross-examined her adroitly,
and elicited that she had previously bad some charmed
tooth-powder of him, to procure her a husband, and in
excuse he said it was all a mistake—he was a conjuror,
and only did it as a sleight-of-hand trick, intending to
_return the money. He was subsequently tried upon an-
) other and precisely similar charge, except as to the
L amount of money, and having been convicted on both
indictments he was sentenced for each to four months'
imprisonment with hard labour.

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BOSPHORUS, DEO". 25,
At'Beicos Bay—Britimnia (flag), Agamemnon, Queen,
Trafalgar, Albion, London, Rodney, Vengeance, Bel-
lerophon, Sanspareil; Leandei, and Arethusa. Steamers
—Terrible,' Sampson, Firebrand, Fury, Inflexible, and
Niger.
At Therapia,—The Furious.
At Constantinople—The Tiger.
The Caradoc leaves to-day with despatches for Mar-
seilles.
Retribution, Fury, Inflexible, and two French
steamers„ were ordered suddenly on the 21st December,
to "get up steam, with all despatch and proceed to Con-
stantantinople, as an ,insurrection was apprehended
there. The Inflexible returned the following morning,
and made the signal " All is tranquil." The other ves-
sels returned in the evening. . Owing to the presence of
so large a squadron, and the apprehension of any epide-
mic arising, sick quarters have been establised•at Thera-
pia, under the medical superintendence of Surgeon Rees,
of the flagship, assisted by Assistant-Surgeon Cotton,
M.D., of the Arethusa, and Assistant-Surgeon Irwin,
of the Britannia. This is a most desirable step, as the
season
,of the year and the distance from Malta forbid
the transport of sick men to the hospital there.
Lieutenant Blake additional of Britannia, is appointed
to the Fury, vice Lieutenant
Morgan, to Sanspereil.
Lieutenant Whimper, additional of Britannia, is ap-
pointed to the Wasp, •vice Pritchard, in command of
Ardent. _ _ _

Rear-Admiral Lyons and Captain Symonds turn over
to the Agamemnon on the Ist of January, as their
doing so at this date will facilitate the making up of the
ship's accounts. The Arethusa sails directly afterwards
for England in command of Captain Mends.
The Agamemnon arrived at Constantinople yester-
day forenoon, after a splendid passage of four and a-half
days from Malta, out of which she hove to for a night
off Tenedos. Her run through the Dardanelles was ex-
traordinary, her rate of going being at least 13 miles an
hour, before a southerly gale, under close-reefed topsails
and courses. She only used steam for two days during
the passage.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 6.

The Basilisk, 6, paddle steam-sloop, Commander the
Hon. F. Egerton, was paid down to-day, and her ship's
company granted leave for a few days.
The Sprightly steam-vessel, Acting-Master George
Allen, R.N., commanding, returned with the surveying
party of Royal Engineers from Hurst Castle last night.
The Blenheim, 60, screw, guard-ship, Capt. the Hon.
F. T. Pelham, is undergoing a through examina-
tion. Her bottom is not in the best possible state ; her
copper also is very thin, and much worn forward. She
got her main and mizen tops over to-day.
The Shannon 51, screw—Blocks are being laid to be
carried to a certain height, to allow for the extra length
of this formidable screw-frigate. She will be built under
the same shed that the Princess Royal was launched
from, and will be several feet longer than that vessel.
Her keel will be laid the latter end of next week.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. g.

Commander Wm. H. Kennedy, who since

1848, has been Inspecting Commander of the Coast
Guard force in this district, has just obtained (2d of
January) promotion to the rank of Post-Captain. This
officer was First Lieutenant under Captain Sir Baldwin
Walker in the Constance, from which ship he was made
a Commander in 1846, and shortly after this commenced
duty in the Preventive Service.
A letter from one of the crew of her Majesty's frigate
Spartan, 26, Captain Sir Win. Hoste, dated Shanghai,
October 31, states that at that time the crew had to go
ashore every evening to mount guard in the English
church by night for the purpose of protecting the inter-
est of the resident British merchants. The Spartan had
been. aground, and was appointed to leave shortly for
Hong Kong and Whampoa, where she would be docked.
The writer expected to pass Christmas-day at sea.
Arrived at Plymouth, on Thursday afternoon, the
Vassiter Tidjerat, Captain Bianchi, Ottoman Govern-
ment steamer, from Constantinople, bound to London,
to procure new boilers, and to repair her machinery.
This vessel is English built, and left Plymouth about six
years ago, since which she has been employed as a tran-
sport in the Turkish service. She left Constantinople
in the end of November last, and has touched at Malta,
Gibraltar, &0., arrivin at Falmouth on Wednesday,
but brings no new information,* her news being fore-
stalled through other channels. Her object in calling
at Falmouth and Plymouth was to obtain a supply of
coals, and having procured them at Plymouth, she was
expected to proceed on her voyage yesterday evening.

SHEERNESS, JAN. 5.
The Cyclops, 6, paddlewheel steam frigate, Master-
Commander Robert W. Roberts.—ln consequence of a
very heavy fall of snow, unprecedented for many years,
and a severe frost, the dock gates have not been opened
to undock this frigate. In most of the public thorough-
fares of the yard they have been compelled to carry the
snow away hi carts in order to proceed with the usual
yard duties. The snow and frost continue unabated,
with a strong wind from east to east by south, with the
barometer down to 28 20, and the thermometer at 26.,
and falling.
The Goodwill lighter, J. Partrick in command, bound
from this yatd to Portsmouth with stores, put back yes-
terday, having parted from her bower anchor while rid-
ing between the Nore and the Warp. _

The Banshee, 2, paddlewheel steam vessel, Lieutenant
Commander Louis R. Reynolds, and the Sprightly pad-
dle-wheel steam vessel (tender to Victory at Portsmouth),
are daily expected here with volunteers for ships in com-
mission and seamen draughted from the fleet at Ports-
mouth, in lieu of seamen draughted from the ships in
commission here, for service in the Royal George, 120
guns.

JAN. 6.

The Adder, paddle-wheel steam-vessel (tender to
Poictiers, guardship of ordinary at Chatham), J. Mun-
chin, Assistant Master in command, arrived here yes-
terday from Chatham with 19 seamen and one warrant
officer for the Cressy, 80 guns. The seamen were sent
round from Devonport to Portsmouth by sea, and sent
on from Portsmouth, via rail, to Chatham, on their route
here.

The Cressy, 80 guns, screw steam line of battle ship,
Capt. Richard L. Warren. The masting of this ship
was completed yesterday under the directions and super-
intendence of Mr. Jonathan Aylen, Master-Attendant
at this yard.
The Pallas, William Penfold, master, has completed
'the delivery of her cargo of coals for the use of her
Majesty's steam navy here, and sailed yesterday for the
north.

The Champion, of Lynn, Henry Smith, master, from
London, bound to Hartlepool, put in here yesterday
with loss of an anchor and part of a chain cable (parted
from) while riding at the Nore, and with damage to her
windlass.

The Wildfire, paddle-wheel steam-vessel (tender to the
Waterloo, 120 guns), . Second Master George Brockman
in command, left here at 10 a.m., yesterday, for Dover,
on particular service. Our late respected Flag Captain,
now Rear-Admiral of the Blue, the Hon. Montague
Stopford, took a passage round to Dover in the
Wildfire.

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The Waterloo, 120 guns, flag-ship, Capt. Lord Fred-
erick Kerr. The Paymaster of this ship, Mr. John H.
Cook, being senior Paymaster at this port, is appointed
with the master of the said ship, Mr. John C. Barlow,
by the Lords of the Admiralty (as per Admiralty regu-
lations) to inspect and survey all cattle previous to
their being slaughtered for the use of the navy here ;
and, so stringent are their Lordships' directions for the
terms of the contract being duly complied with, that
these officers are at all reasonable hours to have access
to the contractor's slaughterhouse and stores where
meat for the use of the navy shall be deposited. and, if
found necessary, they shall have full power to condemn
slaughtered meat when dressed:, although the cattle shall
have passed survey and inspection when alive. This
order has been found necessary to prevent cattle with
internal diseases, epidemics, &c., being served for the
use of the navy, such meat, on survey, been de-
clared unfit for human food. Mr. George Filmier, butcher
of this place, a highly respectable tradesman,
has been
approved by the authorities to slaughter, dress, and send
in meat for account of the contractor here. The average
daily supply to the navy here is about I,ooolb.

WOOLWICH, JAN, 6.
APPOINTMENTS.
Master R. W. Ward (1850), to be Fn rat Master of the
Argus revenue cruiser.
Mate Gerald R. Fitzgerald (1852), from the Royal
George, 120, screw steam-ship, at Devonport, to the
Pique, 40, at Devonport.
Midshipman Charles D. Davies. to he Cressy, 80,
Dorm" steam -ship at Sheerness.

ATPOINTMENTS.
- Captain Francis Toner, of the Hon. East India Com-
pany service, has been appointed recruiting officer for
the company's army at Liverpool. •
Sir John Cheape, K.C.8., has been appaded Aid
.e4l
de-Camp to her Majesty. • --
Lieutenant-Colonel Cuaynghame (half-pay, 51st Regi-
ment), has,been appointed aide-de-camp to General Vis-
count Hardinge, commander-in-chief, vice Captain
Charles Earl of March, unattached.
Lieutenant Littman, 3d West India Regiment, has
relieved Lieutenant Chamberlayne, Ist West India
Regiment, as Fort Adjutant at the Bahamas.
Lieutenant Orme, 3d Light Dragoons, and Captain
Bickerstaff, 6th Dragoon Guards, have been appointed
aides-de-camp to Lieutenant-General Jackson, , com-
mander of the forces, Cape of Good Hope.
Ensign Beasley, 3d West India Regiment, has been
appointed garrison quartermaster at Jitinaioa.
Captain Gore, 71st Foot, has been appointed assistant
military secretary to Major-General Gore, commanding
the forces in Nova Scotia, vice Captain Bourke, 34th
Regiment.
Captain Smart, 76th Regiment, has been appointed
aide-de-camp to Major-General Gore.
Captain Hankey, 69th Regiment, late deputy-assist-
ant quartermaster-general, has been appointed major of
brigade at Barbadoes, vice Brevet-Major Robeson, Ist
West India Regiment.
Lieutenant the Hon. A. Bury, 69th Regiment, has
been appointed fort adjutant at Trinidad, vice Lieuten-
ant Joyce, 2d West India Regiment.
Captain Maneor, 48th Regiment, has succeeded Lieu-
tenant Kippen as acting paymaster of the depot.
Lieutenant Swann, 54th Regiment, has been appointed
acting paymaster to the depot.
• Lieutenant Baker, 85th Regiment, has succeeded Capt.
Grubbing as depot paymaster.
Lieutenant Grimston, 2d Foot, has succeeded Ensign
Belfield as depot adjutant.
Lieutenant Bedingfield, 48th Regiment, has suc-
ceeded Lieutenant Welby as depot adjutant.
Lieutenant Shiffner, 54th Regiment, has succeeded
Lieutenant Clarke as depot adjutant.
Lieutenant Daubeny, 67th Regiment, has relieved
Lieutenant Jameson as depot adjutant.
Lieutenant Fielden, 72d Regiment, has been appointed
depot adjutant.
Staff-Surgeon T. Foss, M.D.; has relieved Staff-
SurgeoniverpootT. D. Hume, M.D., at the ,'recruiting Depot,
Captain Rawnsley, Royal Artillery, has retie.; ed
Captain Beatty at Kilkenny.—British Army Despatch.