The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-18 00:00:00

N°.17,700.1
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7 JUNE 18, 1849.

(RAND NATIONAL FETE
In LORD DOLLAND'S PARK,

YELL GWYNNE TAVERN and CHOP-
HOUSE, Ball Inn-court, Strand, for Luncheons, Dinners,
ind Suppers, Three Doors East of the Adelphi Theatre, and opposite
Warn street.

On WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY next,
Under the immediate Direction of the SCOTTISH SOCIETY of
LONDON.
Competition In archery, and for the Championship in the Scottish
National Games of running, leaping, throwing the hammer, puttim
the stone, tossing the caber, broad-sword play, sword dance, strath-
speys, reels, performance on the Great highland Bagpipe, &c., &c.
The Nobility and Gentry in the country are respectfully inform,:
that it is quite impossible for the Secretary to an,wer the numerous
letters he has received on the subject of Stand Tickets, the Commit.
tee have, however, in order to meet their wishes, giveriinstructions
to the builder to increre,.: the Stand, so as to accommalate fifteen
hundred persons ; the extra Tickets will, therefore, he on sale until
Two o'clock on Tuesday, if not disposed of before that time.
Vouchers for the GRAND STAND can be had only of the Patrons
and Honorary Directors, a list of whom may be obtained at the mu-
sicsellers.
Grand Stand Tickets. One Guinea each; and Tickets for the
Wings of the Grand Stand, Half-a-Guinea each, may be retained as
passports to any part of the field, and also for re-admission on the
second day of the Fete.
Tickets for any part of the Field, with re-admission on the second
day, ss. each, or 15s. for a party of tour (if applied for on er before
Tuesday, the 19th), may be had at the Libraries, and of the principal
Musicsellers, where also may be had Tickets for the Wings of the
Grand Stand until Two o'clock on Tuesday, after that day the
Tickets for the Field will be 7s. 6d. instead of ss. •
One Ticket of any class will admit two children tinder twelve
years of age.
For the better accommodation of the Nobility and Gentry proceed-
ing to the Grand Stand, a temporary Gateway has been made on the
Notting-hill-road, opposite Norland. square, where carriages can set
down within a few yards of the Stand. Parties with Tickets for the
Wings of the Grand Stand will enter by a gate near Ncrland-square;
and those for the Field by the gate, opposite Boyne-terrace, all the
gates being on the Netting-hill-road.
The Gates will be open at Eleven, and the sports will commence
at Twelve o'clock.
All communications relative to. the private examination of the
Pipers and Dancers (which will take place at the Society's Club-
house on Tuesday, the 19th), and other matters connected with the
competition, are requested to be addressed to the Secretary, at the
Club-house, Hanover Park, Peckham.

Messrs. ARCHER and HOLT most respectfully invite their
rlends and the public to patronise the Nell Gwynne Coffee-room,
:rhich has been fitted np In the style of the period in which she lived.
Visitors-to the Theatres, Citizens, and Gentlemen connected with
;omerset House, and the Banking Houses in the vicinity, will find
'he Table d'Hote, which takes place at Half-past Five precisely, the
itost comfortable and reasonable In the metropolls.—Fish and
-Joints, 2s. per head. Hot Joints until Eight, and Suppers unti. One
''clock. Private Dining-rooms excellent Beds, superior Wines and
spirits, fine Ales, and Barclay and Perkins's Stout.

N.J. An Entroice also from Maiden lane,

r 14. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET.
A Lecture on Floral Botany, by Thomas Graham, Esq., M.R.C.S.,
in Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at Half-past Three.—Lecture
,y Dr. Bachhothivr on Master's Patent Process of Freezing, &c.,
n which the formation of Ice in a red-hot vessel will be shown.—A
.ecture on Character, with Musical Illustrations, by J. Russell, Esq.,
;very Evening at Eight o'clock.—Lectures on Experimental Plilloso-
by.—The Microscope.—The Dissolving Views include scenes in Van
)iemen's Land, from Original Drawings taken on the svt by J. Skin-
,er Front, Esq. ; also a new Series of Dioramic Effects, by Mr.
Chromatrope.—Diver and Diving-bell.
_ . . .

,-/pen daily from Eleven to Five ; and in the Evenings (ipeluding
turday) from Seven till licit-past Ten.

Admi;slon, Half-price.—The New Catalogue, Is.

el RAND FLORAL AND FANCY FETE,
pstronized by her MAJESTY, in aid of the ROYAL
ASYLUM of ST ANN'S SOCIETY, for Children of those once

a prosperity, at Hanover-square Rooms, on THURSDAY and FRIDAY
text. Contributions gratef ally received by
E. F. LEEKS, Secretary.

2, Charlotte-Row, Mansion House.
Mr. Leeks has mun pleasure in acknowledging 5/. forwarded
For St.-Ann's, with I. S. C.'s warmest wistes.

TO ENGRAVERS, ARTISTS, AND PUBLISHERS.
WAPTlST,,TTFEDreadylfol‘riPrliE;tip„gl'ex.ereEuticAdYby, anaemi,,SenTt
AErEti,Lt.
an Hfsto-ical subject would be preferred, where copies have not been
issued. Size of subject from 2 to 3 feet, by 16 to 21 inches, with
lowest price and where a proof of plate can be seen.
Address to Mr. G. Smith, 66, Union-street, Ryde, Is:e of Wight.

RESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.
N._.l Direct Communication between LONDON. and _DUBLIN.
Three Times a Day, ,la HOLYHEAD.
In. corsequenea of notice from the Postmaster-General, an_ Extra
Mail Train will,'on and after the 19th instant, leave Chester at 10 25
p.m. daily, on the arrival of the 5 p.m. ExprM Titan from London,*
arriving in Kingston about 530 a.m. A Train will also leave Holy-
lead at 1 35 a.m., in connexion with the Steam-packet leaving Kings-
;own at 7 p.m., arriving in London a: 1 p.m.
The Daily Communication will be as under :
Arrive at Kingstown
About
10 30 p.m.
5 30 a.m.
11 15 a.m.

Leave London.
9 0 a.m.
*5 0 p.m:
8 45 p.m.

Leave Chester.
2 55 p.m.
10 5.5 p.m.
3 45 a.m.

Arrive at London.

Leave Kingstown Leave Chester.
(Dublin lime).
8 30 a.m. 5 15 p.m. 11 0p m
11 0 a.m. . 9 35 p.m. 4 50 a.m.
7 0 p.m. 6 30 a.m. 1 0 p.m.
A mail Train will leave Liverpool at 9 p m., in connexion with the
10 25 p.m. Train from Chester, and a Train will leave Chester for
Liverpool at 4 50 a.m., in connexion with the Boat leaving Kings-
town at 7 p.m.
*N.B. No Express Train at 5 p.m. from London on Sundays.
By order, J. 0. BINGES.
Superintendent's Office, Chester, June 9, 1849.

THE NICOLL PALETOT WAIEROOMS,
114, 116, 120, REGENT-STREET, and 22, CORNIIILL.
Many have assumed the use of the word PALETOT, but Messrs.
NICOLL are the sole Patentees of the design and material.

NICOLL'S Wholesale and Counting
House Departments for the London Branches in the Skp-
ping and Woollen Trades are in CIUNGE-ALLEY,
and 120, REGENT-STREET.

FABLES for the FANCIFUL.
No. I.
THE SPARROW AND THE GOLDFINCH.
One day, while in my earden•chair I sat,
Two plumy people joined in friend:y chat.
The fads were these, as far as I could see, •
A goldfinch perched upon my cherry-tree;
Soon after which, a lowly sparrow came,
Presuming he'd a right to do the same,
And having neared his nek:hbour, inch by inch,
"Chip," said the sparrow, " Twittle," said the flitch.
A pause ensued, as oft it does with us,
But soon the sparrow broke the silence thus :
" I often wonder, sir, indeed I do,
by I'm viewei•as so much less than you-;
In vain do I endeavour to engage,
I've never been considered worth a cage ; •
But as for you, wherever you may fly,
Mankind regards you with a curious eye.
Pray what's the reason you are valued so,
Is it your song, or what, I wish to know ?"
•• Nay." said the well-dressed goldfinch, " I presume,
'Tis not my song, but my superior plume ;
'Tis true, my friend, I've learned to sing a little,
But scarcely any more than • twittle, twittle.'
You may depend, Sir, 'tis the way I'm decked—
Respectable appearance gains respect ;
Look at my golden wings, my scarlet cap,
You ve I'm quite a gentlemanly chap;
If you could wear my coat you'd shortly know
To what extent appearances will go."
Here ceased the entertaining conversation,
While I myself supplied
THE A PPLIC ATION.
Since personal appearance goes so far,
I'll mire than ever prove what Moses are.
Moses a' d Son's famed Mart is just the place
To furnish fashions of superior grace ;
The fit of Moses, true to halt-au-inch,
Will prove the language of Cie golden-finch.
Whoever may in uses' dress be decked,
Will meet with honour and with.due respect ;
And this assertion nobody will mock,
On vlewitt, Messrs. Moses' summer stock ;
And thus conclndes my unassuming fable,
Which I've improved as well as I was able.
LIST OF Pitlek.:4.
SEAM MADE.
Men' Spring, and Summer Wrappers.. from £0 8 6
The Hulwer, Pacha, Paletot, and every descrip-
tion of light Over-c0a15........ 1 2 6
Cloth Over Coats, of a light texture, and hand-
somely trimmed ..
Do. do. lined with silk. ...... ••.• .• 1 8 0
Do. do. superior quality .... •
Jean and Holland Blouses ••••• • • • • • 0 2 9
Fancy Victoria do. .. •• • • .. 0 4 0
Tweed ••••.•. 0 4 6
0 17 0
Frock Coat
Spring and Sumrzer Trousers .. ••.• • • ...... 0 4 0
Doeskin and Buckskin d 0....... • ..• ........ 0 7 6
Spring and Summer Vests in every variety.; 0 1 6
Black and Figured Satin Vests • • 0 4 6
Black superior quality .. • 09 6
White Marcella Vests
Men's Black Cloth Vests
Boy's Spring and Summer Vests •• • • .• •• .. 0 0 10
Boys' Hussar and Tunic Suits •••• • • • • ...... 0 15 0
Men's Fishing Coats in great variety •• .. •... 0 4 0
MADE TO =ABOVE.
Paletots made from a variety of material, fitted
for Summer wear ••...• • • • •
Do. very elegantly trimmed .. • • • • ...... 1 8 0
Superior Cloth of a light texture.• .
Ditto ditto lined with silk..., •• • • 2 2 0
Ditto Dress Coat.. ••.•.. • •
Best do. 15 0
Superfine Frock do. ••
Best do. •••• • • • •
Fancy Doeskin Trousers. .. • • 0 16 6
Black do. •• • • ...... ••.• • • •• .• 016 0
Best do. .• .... •• • ..... • • .... 1 6 0
Black Cloth Vests ••..•••• • • • • • • 0 8 6
Splenlid Satin Vest.. • •
Hussar and Tunic suits ..
Superfine do .. •••••• • • • • • •
Men's White Marcell% Vests
Fishing coats in endless variety from 0 10 6to 1 16 0
Elegant Dressing Rob• s in great
variety .• ••• • • • from 0 16 oto 5 0 0
Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes notice.
A Suit of Clothes complete for IL 10s.
The new book, entitled the " Great Fact," with full directions
for Self-measurement, can be had on application, or forwarded, post
free, to any part of the kingdom.
Notice— l he Shawl and Parasol Department are new replete with
every novelty of the season.
Observe—Any article purchased, either ready made, or wade to
measure, if not approved of will be exchanged, or the money returned.
E. MOSES two SUN, Tailors, Woollenarapers, Clothiers, flatters,
flosierr, Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, 154,
155, 156, and 157 Minories, and E 2. 44, 85, and 86 AlOgate, City,
London; all communicating with each other, and forming one vast
Establishment.
Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret having to guard the public
against imposition; but having heard that the untradesman-like
falsehood of being connected with them, or " It is the same concern,"
gas been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons,
they beg to state that they have no connexion with any other 'loupe
in er out or London, except their Branch Establishments, 36, Far-
gate, Sheffield ; and,. 19, Thornton's-buildings, Bradford, Yorkshire:
anl t'u,se who require cheep and genuine clothing, Soc., should call
at or send to the vlinories and Aldgate, City, London ; or either of
he Branch Establishments, as above.
Take Notice,—This Establishment is closed from sunset Friday,
to sunset Saturday, when bustess is resumed till twelve o'clock.

Ll'turreted by 26 Anatomic:Li Coloured Engravizurs on steel.
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA,
CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE,

,A 1 AV AL CURFOSITIE S.
x_ Ivory Models of thi PEGASUS, the HEROS, and the AT-
LANTE, on a scab of unprecedented magnificence, will he offered
'or sale at the Grand Fancy Fair for the Royal General Annuity
society, on TrESDAY pext, at the Bazaar, Baker-street. _ . .

The'Price o: the Pegasus is 6001., and that of the Heros and At-
[ante 2001. each.

TO MR. PROU.T, 229, STRAND.
"No. 208, Piccadilly, London, October 19, 1847.

_ . . ... ,
" Str,—lt is now three and a half years since I was sorely afflicted
kith Rheumatic Gout, the suffering from which induced me to try
,a 1 the proposed remedies that extensive medical experience could
devise, without Obtaining any satisfactory relief from pain. During
one of the paroxysms a friend advised ine to try BLAIR'S GOUT

and RIIEiLitIAIIC PILLS, observing that he had In some severe
cases taken them himself, and they proved very successful. I in-
stantly adopted his advice, and to my joy the excruciating torment
soon began to abate, and a. few boxes restored me to health, since
which I have bad no return of the complaint.

" I trust you will give publicity to my case, that suffering humanity
may know how to obtain a remedy fer this distressing disease.
" I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant,
" MICHAEL NASMYTII."

The above testimonial Is a further proof of -the efficacy of Blair's
Gout and Rheumatic Pills, which afford speedy relief to those afflicted
with gout, rheumatism, luiubago, sciatica, tic dolcieux, pains in the
head and face, and all analogous complaints.
The never-failing effects of BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC
PILLS in curing every description of Gout and Rheumatism, have
secured to there a celebrity unequalled by any medicine of past
or present times. They not only give relief in a few hours. but re•
store to perfect health in an inconceivably short space of time. They
are equally speedy and certain in lumbago, sciatica, pains in the head
or face, and indeed in every rheumatic or gouty affection : in fact,
such has been the rapidity, perfect ease, and complete safety of this
medicine, that it has astonished all who have taken it ; and there is
scarcely a city, town, or village in the kingdom but contains many
gratef!l evidences of its benign influence.

Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London, and, by his appoint-
ment, by all respectable Medicine Vendors throughout the United
Kingdom. Price 2s. 9d. per box.
Ask for BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe

the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," im-
pressed upon the Government Stamp affixed to each box O:fthe
genuine Medicine.

NAVAL IN TELLIGEN CE.

PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 15.—Admiral of the- White Sir
Edward William Campbell Rich Owen, G.C.8., G.C.H.,
will receive the Admirals' God Service Pension, vacant
by the dt-ath of Vice-Admiral Hid.

The ship's corporals and others, of the Victory, having
received a good dial of money heretofore for showing
that ship to strangers, and such gratuities having been
thought important enough to he applied to a more ex-
tended field of service, it is intended in future to apply
the funds of such voluntary contributors to the purposes
of charity, as will be seen from the following card, which
is now givc,n to every party visiting the above time-
honoured old ship:—

" HER KAZESTY'S SHIP VICTORY.

"It is most earnestly requested that visitors will not
give any money to the persons showing them the ship.
" Whataver gratuity they may feel disposed to give
they are requested to deposit in •he box at the entering
port, provided for the benefit of the Seamen's Hospital,
and the Seamen and Marines Orphan School."
Mr. Larcom, gunner, who was one of the four saved
from the wreck of the Avenger, is appointed to the Blen-
heim steam guard-ship, vice Rattray, dismissed by court-
martial.

Lieutenant Fenwick has been appointed to the Vic-
tory, for service in the Rolla, apprentices' brig.
Lieutenant Lang, successor to the late Lieutenant
Compton, in the Victory, is doing the duty of Flag-
lieutenant to the Commander-in-Chief, in the absence
of Lieutenant Cochran, in the Hecate steam-sloop.
In Port and fitting—Victory, 22, Commander-in-
Chief's flag-ship; Illustrious, 10, flag-ship of Admiral-
Superintendent; Victoria and Albert, royal steam yacht;
Exeellvnt, gunnery practice ship; Blenheim, 60, block
steam-ship, and guardship of steamers; &all Aver, cutter
(tender to Cuckoo); Rolla, 6, exercise brig for naval
apprentices; Fairy, Fire Queen, Elfin, Myrtle, and Bee,
steam-tenders; Echo, steam-tug; Fanny, yacht of Com-
mander-in-Chief; Poi timouth, pay yacht and yacht of
Admiral Superintendent.
At Spithead—Supet b, SO, Captain Purcell.
In Deck—Princess Charlotte, 104; Rodney, 92;
Grampus, 50; Devastation, 6, steam sloop; Fairy, steam•
tender; and Success, hulk, breaking up.
In the Old Basin—Vindictive, 50. _ _ _

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In the Steam Basin—Ajax, 66, steam block ship;
Retribution, Penelope, and Sidon, steam frigates;
Scourge, Phceoix, and Polyphemus, steam sloops; Vic-
toria and Albert, royal yacht; Urgent and Sprightly,
steam packets.
Wind—B.S.E. (very variable); light winds, and dull,
oppressive weather, with rain at intervals.
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PLYMOUTH, JUNE 14.
THE BASILISK (PADDLE) AND NIGER (SCREW) STEAM.

VESSELS.

The comparative beat-generating surfaces of these
ships are—
Basilisk—Area of grate per horse-power, .543 square
feet; arca of tubes, 13.11 square feet.
Niger—Area of grate per horse-power, .586 square
feet; area of tubes, 13.45 square feet.
Considering the boilers were made by different manu-
facturers, their proportions are nearly alike; but the
tubes of the Niger ere behind the bridges (the lower
line of tubes is below the ashpit). The tubes of the
Basilisk are immediately above the grates.
During the recent trial those tubes of the Niger which
are in the smoke box farthest from the fire were partly
filled with soot, and at the furnace end ashes accumulated
so as to choke two tiers of tubes. The boilers of the
Niger can only maintain steam of about 41b. per square
inch, those of the Basilisk can keep it at 81b. In conse-
quence of this disadvantage the Niger was not iu a posi
tion fairly to contend with her competitor.
On the 9th instant the two vessels tried an experiment
in towing, when it was found that the Niger towed the
Basilisk at the rate of 4.8 knots per hour at an expen-
diture of fuel of 2 tons 3 cwt. 2 quarters per hour; and
the Basilisk towed the Niger under the same circum-
stances 7.67 knots, with an expenditure at the rate of 1
ton 13 cwt. per hour. Under the inspection of scientific
officers a series of experiments are now making in har-
bour on the relative merits of the machinery and boilers
of each vessel.

Wind—Southerly.
CHATHAM, JUNE 15.—The Castor, 36 guns, Commo-
dore Christopher Wyville, Commander Bunce, dropped
down to Gillingham-reach, and after taking in her
powder was towed on Wednesday to the Nore, where
she will be inspected by the Port-Admiral. She will
then proceed to Plymouth, and will be paid her advance
on her arrival at that port. One sergeant, one corporal,
and three privates of the Royal Marines from this divi-
sion have embarked on board, for service at the Island
of Ascension.

Captain-Superintendent Peter Richards, C. 8., ap-
pointed to this yard, arrived yesterday afternoon from
Pembroke, by the Chatham yacht, and immediately
proceeded to his office to transact business.
The Boscawcn, 70 guns, which is completed as an
advance ship, is not yet out of dock; she will be taken
out next spring tide.
The Juno, 26 guns, is ordered to be brought forward
for commission, and she will be taken into dock as soon
as a place is vacant for her.

The Quail naval lighter, from Pembroke, having on
board Captain Richards's furniture, arrived yesterday,
and when she was off the Isle of Wight fell in with a
severe squall of wind, which carried away her bowsprit
and topmast. The Duck naval lighter has also arrived
with stores and part of the furniture of the Captain Su-
perintendent, from Pembroke; and the Devon naval
lighter, from Plymouth, has arrived with copper bolts
taken out of the San Josef, 110 guns, which has been
broken up at that yard.
WOOLWICH, JUNE I.s.—The Grappler steam-vessel,
Commander Lysoght, arrived here this morning at half-
past seven o'clock from the coast of Africa, to be paid
off, alter serving her full period on that station. Rear-
Admiral Dundas, C. 8., was expected to visit the vessel
this afternoon. The Grappler had to put one of her ma-
rines on shore at Sheerness to be tried by a court-martial
at that station.
The Minx steam-vessel, fitted with a screw propeller,
was tried down the river yesterday under the charge of
Lieutenant Rob2rtscn. The Minx has been fitted by
Messrs. Seaward with a locomotive engine of 10-horse

power, and it was to ascertain her capabilities that the
trial tock place yesterday. The vestal left Messrs. Sea-
ward's establishment at the City Canal at 7 30 A.m., and

on arriving at Long-reach the speed was ascertained to
be 4} knots per hour on the average of three runs up
and down the river. It is intended to try her again with,
a screw of a different form.
The Undine steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Jones,
mail packet on the Dover station, is ordered to Wool-
wich to be paid off.
PORTSDIOUTH, JUNE 17,—During the present month
three of her Majesty's ships—the Arrogant, 46, Captain
Fitzroy; the Plumper, 11, Commander Nolloth; and the
Red nar,l,ll, Ccmmander Cracroft—have sailed from this
port, furnished n ith fhe Government distilling and cook-
ing galley, constructed by Mr. Grant; other galleys of
the same kind are also in course of manufacture for the
largest chose of vessels. The Datuatless, 1,496 19113

the Termagant, 1,556 tons ; and the Encounter, 906
tons—all new ships, on the screw principle—are or•
dered to have first-class machines of the above des-erip-
tion. By the improvements made since the introduc-
tion of these galleys into the naval service the quan-
tity Of fresh water obtained by the distillation of salt
water during the period it is required to keep the fires
alight in the galley for the purposes of cooking, will, on
the average, supply each individual on board the ves-
sels with one gallon of distilled water every day !
The latter kind of water continues to be preferred for
drinking and culinary purposes to the water usually
supplied to ships ; it passes immediately (tom the con-
denser into the water tanks at the same temperature
as the surrounding ocean. In these tanks it becomes
perfectly aerated, losing altogether the vapid flavour
common to all distilled water in the course of a few
hours, without the aid of chemical preparation or me-
chanical arrangement, by the simple fact of the action
imparted to the fluid by the motion of the ship when at
sea. A seties of very interesting and important experi-
ments have, however, been made, and are still in pro-
gress, on board the Illustrieus, 72, Captain Yates, bear-
ing the flag of Rear-Admiral Prescott, C. 8., in this har-
bour, by Mr. Cross, with the view of imparting at the
the moment of distillation the oxygen of which the
water is deprived in the process, and giving to it -that
briskness which is found in spring water. This is ef-
fected by passing a proportionisto current of electricity
through the particles of water by means of an extremely
esixmpperlyimaenndissemlf-a'aaectihngaveapbp:ertu
riahis. The
ghlysatisrfaecsutoltrsy.of the
The
only point to be determined is, whether any artificial
means, either chemical or mechanical, are required for
aerating distilled water on board ship, as it is found that
such water becomes sufficiently aerated in the course of
a few 'hours by the motion imparted to it by the ship;
but if the distilled water is reqnired for immediate use,
Mr. Cross's application produces the object desired most
eff,Tt
The (}oast-guard instructors in gunnery, who have
been selected from the 25 districts (from Harwich to
Penzince), and who have been hulltud on board the
Menai frigate, under Commander Jerningham, have been
sent- back -to their stations, having.; during a period of
five weeks, qualified themselves to instruct others; and
their general good conduct, attention, and proficiency,
have merited the approbation of the gunnery officers of
the Excellent. Five gun platforms are constructed in
this dockyard by the carpenters of revenue cruizsrs for
the districts of Lyme, Exmouth, Salcombe, Fowey, and
Penzance, and two more at Sheerness, for Harwich and
North Yarmouth. Instructions have been issued from
the Admiralty for the necessary ordnance and dockyard
stores to commence the instruction in.the great gun ex-
ercise; and from the spirited manner in which the coast-
guard have taken to this important duty in 1847 and
1848, we may expect that after this season the coast-
guard will prove a valuable, well-disciplined force for the
protection of our coast, either ashore or afloat.
Early 'yesterday morning, John Sylvester, sawyer;
whilst attending the circular saw in the wood mills in
the dockyard, sustained some frightful injuries. His left
hand came in contact with the saw, and was so lacerated
that, on being carried to the surgery, it was found neces-
sary to amputate the greater part of the hand, an
operation which was most skilfully done by the medical
officers of the establishment.

FLOATING OF TIIE ,BIUTANNIA
TIMITLAR BRIDGE OVER THE MENAI
STRAITS.

ENAI STRaITS, SATURDAY EVENING.
Totked t
e
great
favourableo operation of flosetieg this stupendous struc•
o r irrerd
phase to witho
f tide s o
amuchand
w wind,
reeist th
either
ymtrhi
)e,
e
scientific world, is now definitively fixed for Tuesday, at
the r
mos
in the morning or at half-past five o'clock in the even-
ing. The calculations of the engineers engaged in tho
transaction rather lean to the latter conclusioe, although
the movement is altogether dependent on the state of
wind and weather. Extraordinary preparations are
being made for the spectacle, and thousands are expected
to be present at the launch of this great product. of' the
engineering genius of the age. At Bangor, just by, there
is no species of accommodation to be d, every bed be
ing occupied at a premium. On Monday or Tuesday Sir
R. Peal, who it is said will be present at the launch, is
expected at Plas Newydd, the seat of the Marquis of
Anglesey, who entertains a select circle of visitors. Lord
Vivian, Lion. 0. Stanley, Sir R. Bulkeley, and other dis-
tinguished residents, are also to receive visitors of note.
Amongst those who have already arrived, and who are
expected to be present, are Mr. Brunel, the engineer ;
Mr. Locke, M. 1?.; Ron. Arthur Kinnaird, Alderman
Thompson, M.P. • Mr. R.D. Mangles, M.P.; Sir Charles
Douglas, M.P.; Mr. W. Jackson, M.P.; Mr. Vignolles,
C.E.; Mr. Errington, C.E.; Mr. Bidder, C.E.; Captain
Moorsom, R.N.; Mr. J. B. Boothby, Mr. J. Ledsam,
Mr. Binger, and several of the directors of the London
and North-Western Railway. At the present moment
the coast alongside the Britannia-bridge presents all the
appearance of a huge encampment. There are upwards
of 1,000 persons employed in the preliminary prepara-
tions, including some 100 seamen from Liverpool, under
the command of Captain Claxton, who released the Great
Britain. Mr. Robert Stephenson, with his assistant,
Mr. Edwin.Ciark, the engineer, has been down several
days past superintending the requisite arrangements.
Special trains for those who intend to he pre-
sent at the spectacle, aro to be run from
various parts of the principality; . return tickets,
first and second class ava!lable for two days,
are to be issued at all the stations to enable personxto be
present, and giving them the right of admission to a
spacious platform, already erected, on the top of one of
the tubes on the Carnarvonshire side of the straits, where
there will be seats for 3,000 or 4,000 people, and whence
a most admirable view may be commanded. Other
large stages are in course of erection, so that
the straits on either side will present a vast
amphitheatre of spectators. Extra trains are to leave
Bangor after the process of floating, all the arrange-
meuts of which were completed this evening. There is 'a
fleet of steam-tugs in the channel. A special steamer is
to come over from Kingstown Harbour with visitors from
llreland. Several officers connected with the Admiralty
and the Railway Commissioners are expected. The
tackle to be employed in the process is of a stupendous
character. The tubes are to be transported from the
Position they now occupy alongside the coast by eight
large pontoons, manned by 100 seamen, and they will be
gradually floated as the tide rises. At about an hour
and a halt before high water, the current running at
about tOur miles an hour, the tube on the pontoons will
be dragged out into the middle of the stream by twelve
powerful capstaus and hawsers, the latter more than two
miles in length and four inches in diameter, reaching
from the pontoons at each end to the opposite shore. To
guide the tube into its place with the greatest possible
precision three large hawsers will be laid down the
stream, one end of them being made fast to the towers
between which the tube is intended to rests and the
others to strong fixed points on the two shores. To
"coax" the monster more conveniently to bis final rest-
ing place, a multitude of smaller ropes will be made use
of, each capstan being worked by 50 men. The most
difficult part of the operation will be when the tube
shall have just reached the resting place towers, where
it has to be deposited on projecting shelves, and when
the tide becomes stationary, before turning, for 15
minutes.
As the construction and launching of these great
tubes is one of the most extraordinary mechanical and
engineering exploits of the day, and as the non-scientific
portion of the public have no very definite ideas respect-
ing them, it may not be out of out of place, as the result
of a visit to the spot, to gives few leading particulars in
connexion with these novel and gigantic works of art.
The design of these tubular bridges bad its origin from
the peculiar difficulties to be encountered and overcome
in carrying the Chester and Holyhead Railway over that
great arm of the sea known as the Menai Straits, These,
when taken in relation to the erection of the ordinary
form of bridge, such as the suspension and the span,
were found to be almost insuperable, owing to the diffi-
culties of the site, the great extent of the stream, and
the height at which either would have to span the in-
tervening space, so as not to interfere with the vast na-
vigation—vessels of large size and in full sail continually
trading up and down—and at the same time to establish
adequate means of communication for the great mercan-
tile transport between London and Dublin, and which is
now delayed for upwards of an hoar on account of the
break that exists in the transit over the straits.
Originally it was intended permanently to appropriate
one side of Telford's celebrated suspension-bridge,
which, with its light and beautiful tracery, spans the
straits about a mile below the site of its more massive
successor; but it soon became evident that so light a
fabric would not answer for heavy trains ; that the line
could never be considered complete, or commensurate
with the requirements of the public, unless carried by a
rigid instead of a flexible structure over the stream, and
the idea, moreover, of using the suspension-bridge was
altogether abandoned on an intimation from the Commis-
sioners of Woods and Forests that they objected to the
use of the suspension-bridge at all. Mr. Stephenson then
proposed an arched bridge, about a mile to the south or
Carnarvon side of Telford's suspension. bridge, on a site
admirably adapted for the purpose, there being a huge
rock in the centre of the straits rising above high water
mark, with sufficient base for the most ponderous pier.
It was determined, by the aid of this natural foundation,
to throw over a large iron bridge of two cast iron arches,
each of 450 feet span, or exactly 210 feet longer than the
large arch of Southwark-bridge, familiar to every reader,
and which, though only 240 feet, is the largest rigid
span hitherto attempted. The height of both these
arches was to be 100 feet at the crown, and the total cost
would have been 250,0001. Ultimately this design was
also abandoned, the Admiralty insisting on a
height not merely of 100 feet at the crown of
the arch, but also close to the piers, con-
ceiving that the structure would otherwise interfere ins
juriously with the navigation. It was this that led to
the grand and untried design of the present rigid
wrought-iron tubular bridge, which Mr. Robert Ste-
phenson, after great thought and labour, assisted by Mr.
Fairbain, Mr. Hodgkinson, of the Royal Society; Mr.
Edwin Clark, the engineer of the works, gentlemen well
known for their maths matical and scientific attainments,
matured. The entire length of the stupendous structure
is 1,841 feet from end to end, consisting of four large
sections, the two side tubes being each of them 230 feet
long, and the two middle ones 460 feet each. When
originally proposed before the Committee of the Reuse
of Commons, the plan was received with general incre-
dulity. The word " tube," it may here be observed, is
not one of the best epithets that could be used to describe
the structure, seeing that the bridge, instead of being
round, is a perfect square. Though almost a misnomer,
the name arises from the circumstance of the experiments
that were to decide the form of the bridge having been
made with cylindrical, elliptical, and rectangular tubes;
but in reality the structure, as it now rests on the banks
of the Menai, the:site of its construction, is an immense
closed-in iron corridor, forming a horizontal iron gal-
lery or passage, within which the rails for the
trains are to be placed, and 450 feet in length. It is
hollow froth end to end, and would, if filled with shops,
and lighted by skylights, make a Burlington Arcade. A
structure of this kind, though on a rude and miniature
scale, appears to have existed for years on the Cambridge
line of the Eastern Counties Railway, and Mr. Stephen-
LETTING' OF METROPOLITAN ROADS.-011 Friday, SOD, the originator of it, amplifying upon this, designed
at noon, a meeting of the Commissioners of the Metro- the present tube. A long series of experiments, by en-
polis Turnpike Roads north of the Thames was held at gineers and mechanics fully conversant with such re-
the 'office of the Commissioners, Whitehall-place, at searches, were made and have been continued to the
which there were present the lessees of roads from all present time, directed to the ascertaining, divested of all
parts of the country, for the purpose of letting by auction, preconceived ideas, the strongest form for a sheet-iron
for the term of one year, from the Ist day of July next, tubular bridge, and the inquiry, in addition to the more
the tolls payable on account of the several turnpike roads immediate object it had in view, has been of immense
north of the metropolis. The tolls were offered about a public service in determining the strength of the mate-
month ago, when there were no bidders for them. The rials used in the formation of railways. These experi-
Commissioners were' the Earl of Londsdale (in the chair), merits have been extremely laborious and very costly.
Mr. L. Jones, Mr. Carpenter, Mr. Mildred, Mr. Tre- in the course of them the remarkable fact has been ells•
hearne, and )r. Day. The following were the roads closed, that the power of wrought iron to resist compress
put up, and we give the prices they fetched this and the sion is much less than its power to resist tension, or
previous year:—the Kensington, Brentford, and Isle- I exactly the reverse of that which holds with cast-iron;
worth roads, 15,4301., last year, 15,560/.; the Tyburn and the important fact has also been arrived at, that
and Uxbridge roads, 9,0401., last year, 9,00 e/.• the Har- eigidity and strength are best obtained by throwing the
row roads, 920/., last year, 940/4 the Kilburn and greatest thickness of material on the upper side. While
Edgeware roads, 3,580/., last year, 3,3001.; the City- sthe cylindrical tube, with a given weight, was ruptured by
road, 3,1601, last year, 3,4501.; the Stamford-hill, and leering asunder at the bottom, the elliptical showed weak.
the Green-lanes and Seven Sisters roads, 9,1201., last zi ess at the top. Both were consettuently discarded;
year, 9,580/.; the Hackney and Lea-bridge roads were aße the rectangular tube, which indicated strength of
put up at 5,3001., but they were not let, last year they a higher order and greater rapidity, was adapted. The
fetched 6,300/. This year the above roads realised results of very recent experiments on this species of
41,250/., and the previous year, 41,830/ ; while the structure, on a small scale over the Conway, are very
Commissioners have the Hackney and Lea bridge roads interesting, as confirming the accuracy of the original
in their possession. calculations. Measured by a cord line in the inside of
READING, GUILFORD, AND REIGATE RAILWAY.-- • she tube, formed by the axis of a powerful telescope
We understand that although the directors hoped to taxed to its side, the deflections have been, with a weight
open this important line en the 18th inst., " Waterloo of 52 tons, 0.48 inch; 112 tons, 0'98; 173 tons, 1.30;
day," they btrve been compelled to postpone it, and can- 235 tons, 1'47; and, on the removal of these loads, the
not state on what particular day the traffic will com- tube has recovered its rigidity iu 10,minutes. The tube
'nonce. On Thursday a slip of the embankment form- )is constructed to bear in addition to its own weight,
ing this line took place, opposite the county gaol, and 2,000 tons, a load ten times greater than it will ever bei
part of a newly-erected archway was carried to the ' *called upon to sustain. The deflection caused by trains
no person was in- 1 weight of 300 tons has pro uce
ground by tblyie
tphreesesiruereemosfteteheee:abretht. A little delay was :and locomotives passing at full speed is very slight. A
d d a deflection of three
jured.— Berkshire Chronicle.
THE ROYAL SOCIETY.—The President, the Earl eicaused b
wi di this huge mass of iron of 1,600 tonaffect ?,t
Rosse, held his last soirée for the season at Somerset chi, nges of temperature in the weather, whichia raises the centre
House, on Saturday last. Some interesting models of 3 a thermometer. A little sunshine
deflerction of an inch
ehes. A very remarkable phenomenon is connected
recent inventions and several scientific objects were, an inch, and produces a horizontalnd the nature of its
exhibited in the saloons. Amongst them were Alman'e ansi a half. Its great
patent electric light and a model of a new description of material, so sensitive to
temperature 0001 of its length, or
a harbour of refuge after a design of Mr. W. H. Smith, that it takes, causing it to expandt 15 degrees of
and several specimens of heine-grown flax, which I half an inch' for cacti increase o
assigned
A l
tAlter.
length, a
in the peculiar form
raine them,
causeem
if these
placed tubes(u
endto
Fahren-
attracted attention. The number of visitors was unpre- I heit, and contracting in tbesttmeratio,isthe
cedently large, and ammiget them were almost every- 1 cause of its being such a delicate thermometer.
body connected with scientific pursuits and literature ' nate sunshine and showers off
now in London, besides many noblemen and prefessi r eatpand and contract, and one ,
gentlemen. b • Paul Churchyard, would be 107 feet higher than

The Castor, 36, Capt. Christopher Wyvill. called here
yesterday afternoon, on her way from Chatham to Ply-
mouth, at which latter place she will be paid advance
wages prior to her departure to the Cape of Good Hope
station. She remained only three hours at Spithead,
having called to take on board such packages, parcels,
and passengers as were waiting
.for her ultimate desti-
nation. She was throughout in tow of the Sampson
steam frigate.
Wind N.N.W., light breezes and fine weather.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 15.—Her Majesty's brig Ranger
is ordered to be commissioned with a complement of
80 men.
Her Majesty's ship Queen, 110, is to be masted to-
morrow.
Her Majesty's frigate Spartan, 22, Capt. Symonds, is
to be paid off on Tuesday, the 19th inst.
The French Republican schooner Phoenix, Captain
Borins, sailed yesterday for Lisbon, with M. Barrot
(brother of M. Odilon Barret), his lady, family, and
suite. M. Barrot has been appointed Minister at the
Court of Portugal from the French Government. His
lady, who, we believe, is the daughter of Admiral
Manley, has been staying at Elliott's Royal Hotel, Ply-
mouth, with her sister (Lady Rumbold) and friend (the
Hon. Mrs. Barrington), After the Phceiix has landed
Phoenix Mon s .Monsieur B
is i
raornr ontu
isl
th,e withes•i liar e
sharpt urn tboo
wC haenr(bi ur g. The
bluff
r ou
n d
stern; she registers about 360 tons, draws 10 to 11 feet,
and her engines—constructed by private manufacturers
at Havre—are of 200 horse-power. With the exception
of two small brass cylindrical pieces forward, her only
armament consists of an iron 32-pounder placed mid-
ships, right aft. To give play for this weapon, the
ship's counter and taffrail hang somewhat over the hull;
and the rudder case seems to be well sunk iato the frame
of the v. ss€l. The round rudder head is of small eir-
cam ;he wheelerencr i
; t hes tillercarri
carried workswe l info
riwt underard.
sthbee
is p
mainrolliedcekd,
and
ino front
nf h e
e o
having p l a
barseed tri triangle-fashion
softgle-f iron,ashion
sheathed in copper and brass, running fore and aft, and
right and left, so as to counteract the attraction of the
iron frame of the ship. At the foremast head is an iso-
lated compass, by which the others are examined and
corrected at stated intervals. She is schooner rigged,
her masts being very wide apart, and is propelled by
paddle wheels, the floats of which are perforated. Ac-
cording to a convention concluded under General Ca-
vaignac's Administration, the Phoenix carries three
lights fey night—viz., green on the starboard paddle-
box, red to larboard, and white at the bow.
In consequence of the reported prevalence of cholera
at Yealm, a river distant eight miles to the eastward of
Plymouth, her Majesty's cutter Kite has been sent
from Hamoaze, and stationed at the entrance of that
river, to receive on board the men employed there in the
Preventive Service; and the Admiralty have dispatched
Mr, Stephen Bowden, assistant surgeon attached to the
Royal Naval Hospital, from that establishment to Yealm.
The parochial authorities have also engaged the tem-
porary services of a Plymouth surgeon. On the south
side of the estuary of the river Yealm is the village of
Noss, and on the north side is Newton Ferrers ; near the
bridge adjoining these villages is the hamlet of Bridgend.
These three places, which are conjointly called Yealm,
are nearly united, and altogether contain a population of
2,000 persons. During the last three weeks upwards of
twenty have died of alleged cholera at Noss; but until
the present week the other plaices were not affected
by the disease. The low houses of Noss have a
northern aspect—they are thickly populated and badly
drained; pigs abound, heaps of manure prevail, and when
the tide falls the stench of the mud is nauseous. Until
lately, however, the inhabitants were healthy; no death,
it is said, having occurred there for 20 months; but there
is a legend that some 160 years ago all the inhabitants
of Noss, with the exception of seven persons, were swept
off by pestilence.
" The five cases under treatment on board the packet-
ship American Eagle are proceeding more or less favour-
ably.—(Signed) Francis Fox."
Wind S.W.

WOOLWICH, JUNE 16.—Rear-Admiral Dundse, C. 8.,
Captain the Hon. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, C. 8., Lord
John Hay, C. 8., and Mr. Parker, Secretary to the Ad-
miralty, arrived at NV oolwich Dockyard shortly after
four o'clock P.M., on Friday, and went on board the
Grappler steam-vessel, Commander Lysaght, on her
return to Woolwich from the coast of Africa to be paid
off. Their Lordships remained about an hour and a half
on board, and witnessed the men go through their sword
and other exercises.

The Alecto steam-vessel, Commander Masingberd,
arrived at Woolwich to day to be paid off. Commodore
Henry Eden went on board and inspected the ship's
company. ,

the top of the cross! It is calculated that the wind, at
a velocity of 80 miles en hour, the rate of the hurricane,
;would only give)a,,total pressure of 128 tons distributed
over the whole side-of_these tuhe't.:

FRENCH INTERVENTION IN
ROME.
On Friday lsst there were presented to both Houses
of Parliament copies of a c,,rre:Tondence which has
passi.d between Visent PahnerLten, the Marquis of
Norinanhv, end the Prince Castriccula, !dative t the
affairs of Rornr.

The first in the series is an extract from a note of Vis-
count Palmerston to the Marquis of Normatiby, dated
the sth of January, 1549. It express's his Lordship's
desire that the P:pe, from the gnat iiithe lice r xerciscd
by him in his spiritual capacity, should occupy anind-
pendent position as a temporal prince, so as to avoid his
becoming the political instrument of any one European
power to the annoyance of this rest. lie qualifies this
wish, however, by the difficulty of snaking the Roman
States an exception to the general principle of non-inter-
ference between any foreign people and their Sovereign.
The Pope, he points out, differs in his position from
other Princes, as net being Pope by hereditary right,
but by the election of the College of Cardinals, a body'
which is national neither is its constitution nor its mem-
bership. The extract concludes with drawing two infe-
rences—first, that the Pope ought to give his subjects
the securities for good government; and second, that
armed intervention to assist him in maintaining a bad go-
vernment would be unjustifiable.
The second in the series is an extract of a note from
Viscount Palmerston to the Marquis of Normanby, dated
28th of January, 1849, and is as follows:
" No. 2.
" VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO THE MARQUIS OF
NORDIANBY.
" With regard to the proposal made by Austria to
France for a combined military action by Austria,
France, and Naples, for the purpose of re-establishing
the Pops in the Roman States, your Excellency will say
that her Majesty's Government concur with the Govern-
ment of France in viewing with much regret this an-
nouncement of the wishes and intentions of the Austrian
Government. Her Majesty's Government do not pre-
tend to pass judgment in respect to those differences
between the Pope and his suljects which led to the re-
tirement of the Pope to Gaeta; hit her Majesty's Go-
vernment would upon every account, and not only upon
abstract principle, but with reference to the general in-
terests of Europe, and from the value which tkey at-
tach to the maintenance of peace, sincerely deprecate
any attempt to settle the differences between the Pope
and his subjects by the military interference of foreign
Powers.
" It appears to her Majesty's Government, as at pre-
sent informed, that these differences are not of such a
nature, as to preclude the hope that they might be ac-
commodated by the diplomatic interposition of friendly
powers, and it is needless to observe how much better
such a mode of settlement would be than an authori;ti-
tive imposition of terms by the force of foreign arms,
" With respect to the attitude which Great Britain
would in any case assume in regard to these affairs, your
Excellency will say that the attitude of this country
would be that of observation, and that Great Britain
could take no part in such matters beyond expressing,
if it should appear to be necessary, the opinion which
her Majesty's Government might entertain thereupon:
These affairs, however important in their bearing
upon the general interests of Europe, do not imme-
diately affect any direct interests of Great Britain;
and whatever turn therefore these affairs may
take, her Majesty's Government do not foresee
that it is likely that the course of these
events would afford to the British Government any
just reason for departing from that passive and ob-
servant attitude which the position of Great Britain in
regard to these affairs seems naturally to point out."
The third note in the series is from the Prince Castel-
cicala to Viscount Palmerston, and is dated London, the
2d of February, 1849. It states the proposal of the
Spanish Government for a Congress of Catholic Powers
at Naples to regulate the questions at issue in the Roman
States, and it formally demands the participation of Eng-
land, Russia, and Prussia therein.
The fourth note in the correspondence is the reply of
Viscount Palmerston to Pi icce Castelcicala, and is dated

the 10th of February, 1849. It states that the British
Government had uot received any specific application on
the subject of the proposed Congress at Naples from the
Pope, and that until such an application had been made,
it was unable to say what steps it might think expedient
to take in the matter.
The filth in the correspondence is an extract of a letter
from. Viscount Palmerston to the Marquis of Normanby,
dated the 9th of March, 1849. It is as follows:

No. 5.
" VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO THE MARQUIS OF

NORMANDY.

3 Although Great Britain has not so direct an interes

as France iras in the ecclesiastical and political questions

which arise out of the present relations betv4en the
Pope and the people of the Roman States, the British
Government, nevertheless, cannot view those matters
with indifference. Great Britain is, indeed, a Pro-
testant State, but her Maj,,sty has many millions
of Catholic ,subjects ; and the British Government
must therefore be desirous, with a view to British in-
terests, that the Pope should be placed in such a tem-
poral position as to be able to act with entire independ-
ence in the exercise of his spiritual functions. Great
Britain is so far distant from Italy that the political
events of the Italian Peninsula cannot have the same
direct bearing up( n British interests which those events
must exert upon the interests of nearer States; but still
as those events must always have a powerful influence
upon matters involving questions of peace or war in
Europe, the British Government must necessarily watch
those events with much attention and anxiety.
The present condition of the relations between the
Pope and the people of his States has therefore been
looked at with deep solicitude by her Majesty's Govern-
ment. It would have been the earnest wish of her
Majesty's Government, both on general principles and
with reference to the particular circumstances of the
case, that the differences between the Pope and his sub-
jects should have been adjusted by negotiation, either
between the Pope and his subjects directly, or by means
of the interposition of friendly Powers. A direct nego-
tiation between the Pope and his subjects seems now to

have been rendered impossible by the course of events
at Rome, and by the tendency of those counsels which
there is reason to thick are suggested to the Pope by
the persons who surround him at Gaeta. But her Ma-
jesty's Government do not see even in the recent occur-
rences at Rome any reason for giving up the hope that the
diplomatic interposition of friendly Powers might still,
without any actual employment of military force, bring
about such settlement of differences as would enable the
Pope to return to Rome and to resume his temporal
authority; and her Majesty's Government, deprecating
as they do, on principle, the employment of a foreign
military force to settle internal dissensions in a state
except in extreme and peculiar cases, would greatly re-
joice if the Powers to whom the Pope has now appealed
for assistance to extricate himself from his difficulties,
were to try the effect of their moral influence at Rome,
before they resorted to any more active measures.
" It seems to her Majesty's Government that a strong
and unanimous manifestation of the opinion of those
Powers in support of order on the one band, and of con•
stitutional rights on the other, would bring to reason the
minority who cow exercise paramout authority at Rome,
and would give courage and confidence to the majority
who have been hitherto intimidated and overborne; and
if Great Britian bad been invited to be a party to these
negotiations, and if an invitation to that effect had been
accepted. such would have been the course %Inch her
Majesty's Government would have recommended that
the parties to the transaction should pursue.
Her Majesty's Government have learnt with much
pleasure that France has been included in the invitation
addressed by the Pope to some of the Catholic Powers,
requesting them to take an active interest in the present
condition of his affairs; and her Majesty's Government
hope that if there is to be a concert among any of the
Powers of Europe in regard to those affairs, the French
Government will not decline the invitation to be a party
thereto. There are many very obvious reasons why in
several points of view it would be desirable that, these
matters should cot be disposed of without the participa-
tion of France.

" Your Excellency says that the French Government
would have preferred that Sardinia should have been in-
vited to take part in these deliberations. ller
Majesty's
Government are entirely of the same opinion
" The participation of Sardinia would mitigate the
foreign character of the negotiation, and if a contingency
were to arise which should lead to the employment of
any military force within the Roman territory, Piedmon-
tese troops would, for many evidenf reasons, be better
suited for such purpose than the troops of Austria or of
any State not belonging to the Italian peninsula.
" The opinion, then, of her Majesty's Government
upon the points on which the Government of France
has wished to have it, is that it would be desirable that
Frace shoul be a art the pr oposed deliberations,
and that Sardinia
dinia should take part in them also ;
that it would be desirable that every endeavour should
be made to bring about a settlement between the Pope
and his subjects by negotiation and by moral influence
before resorting to the employment of force ; and that
one condition of the reinstatement of the Pope ought to
be that he should engage to maintain in their main and
essential provisions the constitutional and represen-
tative institutions which he granted to his subjects lust
year."
The sixth note in the correspondence is from theXar-
quis of Normanby to Viscount Palmerston, enclosing the
copy of a note received by him from the Apostolic Nun-
cio, which note enclosed one addressed by the Cardinal
Antonelli to the representatives of all friendly Powers,
requesting them to co-operate for the re-establishment
of the Papal authority at Rome. These enclosed notes
are both included in the correspondence, and explain at
length the grounds upon which the application to friendly
Powers was made.
The correspondence closes with the following neter—

"VISCOUNT' PALMERSTON TO THE MARQUIS OF NORMANDY.
"Foreign-oflice, .March 27, 1849.
"My Lord,—l have received your Excellency'. dis-
patch of the Bth instant, transmitting to me the copy of
a note which your Excellency had received from the
Apostolic Nuncio, inclosiug the copy of the note which
has been addressed by Cardinal Antonelli to the repro-