The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-15 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING AUGUST

THE QUEEN'S PROGRESS.

ARRIVAL IN THE CLYDE:
MONDAY NIGHT.--But for the warm hearted re•
ception which the inhabitants gave her Majesty, it
might have been said that the Black North afforded
the royal squadron but a cheerless welcome. The
gale which blew all Saturday night continued with
unabated vehemence on Sunday, blowing up sheets of
spray in the secure anchorage wherein the vessels
rode, and whistling through the rigging till the shrill
noise drowned even its own fury. The shore on
both sides, all shrouded in mist, looked (through such
gleams of light as afforded one an opportunity of
discerning it) gloomy and menacing; overhead was
one dark canopy of driving clouds, beneath and
around a cheerless land and an angry roadstead,
tossed into a thousand foaming waves. A few daring
yachts and small boats which ran down towards the
fleet at times careened over to the water's edge, and
soon sought shelter under the lee of the land, and
thus for many a long hour the steamers rode in soli-
tary association, head to wind, tugging away at their
cables as if wearied of their stay and anxious for a
speedy departure. At noon the Queen and Royal
Family had prayers on board the royal yacht, which
all hands were piped to attend. Soon afterwards the
signal for dinner, or some other meridian meal, which
was answered by every vessel with praiseworthy
alacrity and promptness, gave a pleasing interruption
to the rather tedious occupation of time on board the
squadron, limited as it had been for the most part to
plashing along 'a damp deck, looking through a glass
at nothing in particular, making ingenious comments
on the state of the weather, or superintending the
healthful exercise of the men in restowing jibs and
foresails.
At a quarter past one o'clock the Vivid was or-
dered up to Belfast to land a royal messenger, and
rushed up to the quay with her usual velocity amid
the applauding shouts of numerous persons there as-
sembled, who imagined the little boat had carried up
the Queen and Royal Family on a sudden excursion
to church. At half-past two o'clock she returned,
and on approaching the roadstead where the royal
squadron had lain BO securely ou her departure for
the town, they were nowhere to be seen. They had,
in fact, stood down the Lough to sea, though the
weather had not at all moderated. The Vivid pro-
ceeded in search of them with eager speed, and pass-
ing the Copelands soon ran out into the open sea from
under the shelter of the land. And now the force
of the wind was felt in its fury. It was not for
nothing it had been blowing forty-eight hours from
the south. As the Vivid ran out to meet the long
roll it pitched up on her quarter in a seething mass
of foam, or slipping away from beneath, let down
her hull into the yawning trough ot waters, gulping
as though it would swallow her at once. In ad-
vance, and nearly hull down, were the several ves-
sels of the squadron, far separated, according to
their rates of speed and power of endurance, tilting
up their sterns, rolling to leeward, and thumping
their bows through the waves. The further from
land the higher rose the sea, and the louder roared
the wind. The Mull of Galloway was in all its
glory. The south wind coming up the Channel, tore
up the downward tide into rugged hills of water,
topped with crisping troth, and dashed them against
the quivering vessels, which quashed through and
into them with a hissing noise, making a thousand
rainbows of the spray. Thus up and down those
green hill sides the squadron sped on its way, the
lazy vessels going fast astern—poor Lucifer, with all
such sail as be could carry set, lagging hopelessly in
the rear; Trident next, bowling along more stea-
dily ; and then, in various order, the Sphinx, Black
Eagle, Stromboli, Vivid, Fairy, and Victoria and
Albert. The little tender made excellent progress,
though at times even the trucks of her masts were
invisible in the hollow of the" sea. Towards four
o'clock it was evident the squadron did not intend to
make for the mouth of the Clyde, for their course was
too much to the southward ; and about five o'clock
they were visible passing the Corsil light, at the en-
trance of Lough Ryan, into which they ran, and
where they anchored, off Cairn, at twenty minutes after
five o'clock. They lay in silence and gloom all sight
—not a soul visible on shore or along the high hills
which surround it. A little boat put off from the
Royal yacht soon after her arrival to a small landing
place on the south side of the Lough, and it was said
the Prince was one of her passengers, but of this fact
we lay all the onus upon rumour solely, merely ven-
turing to affirm that the boat put off and after a short
stay, during which several gentlemen landed and
walked along the beach, returned to the vessel. At
midnight all the vessels settled down into gloom and
profound darkness; the lights were extinguished in
the yacht, and no sound was heard over the dreary
waste but the roaring of the wind, still rude and
strong as ever, the scream of the gannet as he flew to
his rocky nest, or the bells which marked the slow
course of time on board the vessels.

CO URT CIRCULAR.

With the dawn up rose the wavering blasts of steam
from every vessel of the fleet, and at four o'clock the
Vivid, active, but not quite so joyous as the earliest
of larks, weighed anchor and stood away through a
thick morning and chopping sea for the Frith of
Clyde, the Black Eagle having preceded her by
about half an hour. Soon after four, all the fleet was
under weigh on the same course. The weather was
wretched to a degree,—haze and fog, and rain and
wind, and sea— all " dirty," as seamen would say,
and all very disagreeable, as any land-going individual
could not hesitate to affirm. Ailra Craig, rising from
the middle of the angry waters, looked too dreary to
queevgerntothe most
glorious
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sceneryat inveterate
of the
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btheepsireocltiutarys and and. The
Clyde further on, obscured with all sorts of atmos-
pheric devices indicative of rain and storm, lost all
its charms—for, indeed, they were invisible, the top
of every hill being capped with cloud in one dank
fogbank.
The Isles of Arran and Bute, looming like Alps
through the mist, were passed with a heavy run of
sea. rt little revenue cutter here stood off from under
the lee of the land, and put Captain Robinson on board
the yacht to act as pilot. At 8 o'clock the Vivid stood
up to Greenock, and having made a short stay opposite
the Custom house, returned just in time to catch the
Victoria and Albert and the Fairy steaming up the
magnificent estuary of Loch Long. But, alas 1 its
magnificence was for the most part wrapped in a driz-
zling mantle ofrain, and could only be taken for granted.
Occasionally a whiffof wind force(' up the curling vapour
and disclosed a sheet of water compressed at times into
narrow straits between towering mountains, whose tops
were lost in the clouds, or expanding into bold bays
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veloped the whole scene into a Scotch mist beyond
the power even of Macintosh to resist. At some sud-
den tern a giant mountain—with a thousand white
rivulets furrowing its sides—a few scattered sheep
holding on, as it were, to the scant herbage—a
shepherd's lone sheeling, barely distinguishable from
the surrounding heather, and an old stray sportsman
toiling after some wild pack of grouse up the cliffs
—stood revealed for one moment in all its grandeur,
to be lost in an instant. Soon after eleven, the
Royal yacht, the tender, and the Vivid, turned
back, the two former proceeding up Loch Goyl,
whence it was understood that her Majesty and
suite would, if the weather proved less unfavourable,
start across the isthmus to Loch Lomond; the latter
returning to Greenock, and passing in her course se-
veral steamers, in one of which the storm-tossed
Provost of Glasgow was said to be, intent on paying
his respects to his Sovereign. The rest of the Royal
squadron anchored for the night below Greenock,
and to-morrow her Majesty will leave her retreat
among the mountains, and make her public entry
into the good city of Glasgow.
Colonel Gordon went up to town to arrange
preliminaries for the procession early in the morning.

(BY ELECT IC TELEGRAPH.)
TUESDAY NIGHT.
Her Majesty left Loch Gair, a few miles below
Grt enock, in the Fairy, with the Vivid in her train,
at 8 15 this morning, and arrived at Glasgow shortly
before twelve o'clock, having been received in her
passage up the Clyde with the warmest demonstrations
of hearty and delighted loyalty.
The Lord Provost, having presented an address
from the Corporation, received on board the honour
of knighthood.
_ _ _

The deputations from the Lord-Lieutenant, De-
puty-Lieutenant, and magistrates of the county ;
from the Presbytery of Glasgow, of the Established
Church, and from the Free Kirk of Scotland, were
severally introduced, and presented addresses to her
Majesty, who immediately afterwards, in company
with Prince Albert and the Royal children, proceeded
to visit the Cathedral and the College, receiving on
her progress through the vast and orderly assemblage
the most enthusiastic plaudits.
Shortly after two o'clock the Royal party arrived
at the terminus of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail-
way, where they partook of refreshment, and then
started for Balmoral by special train via Perth,
where it is expected her Majesty will stay for the
night.

(From the Court Circular.)
OFF 13ELFASI, Ana. 12.
Yesterday afternoon her Majesty proceeded up the
Lough, in the Fairy yacht, to Belfast.
Her Majesty and the Prince received addresses on
board the Fairy, from the Corporation of Belfast, the
Bishop and clergy of the diocese, the Roman Catholic
Bishop and clergy, the Harbour Commissioners, the
Presbytery, the county of Antrim, Queen's College,
the Chamber of Commerce, the town of Carrick-
fergus, and the Royal Botanical and Horticultural
Society.
Her Majesty was pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood on Mr. Johnson, the Mayor of Belfast.
Her Majesty-and the Prince proceeded in the car-
riage of the Marv/la of LoudouderrY time) the

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city of Belfast, paying a visit to the Royal Society
for the Promotion and Improvement of the Growth of
Flax in Ireland, and to Queen's College.
Her Majesty was attended by the Right Hon. Sir
George Grey, Bart., the Earl of Fortf scue, the Vis-
countess Jocelyn, the Hon. Miss Dawson, Colonel
the Hon. A. Gordon, Sir James Clark, and Mr.
Anson.

Her Majesty is detained in the Lough of Belfas
by the severity of the weather.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
left her residence at Kew yesterday afternoon for
Portsmouth.

15,

1849.

His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke of Leuch-
tenberg, attended by Mr. De Berg, honoured the
establi:lment of Messrs. Hunt and Roskell with a
visit yesterday.
Lord John Russell arrived in town yesterday from
Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, and in the even-
ing dined with Baron de Brunnow, the Rusian Mi-
nister, at his Excellency's residence, Ashburnham
House, to have the honour of meeting his Imperial
Highness the Grand Duke of Leuchtenberg.
The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) re-
turned to town yesterday from Dublin.
Lord Campbell, Lady Stratheden, and family, left
Stratheden House yesterday, for Hartrigge, Box-
burghshire, N. B.
Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial-
office, from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope,
and also from the Governor of Gibraltar.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS
FRoSt TILE 310ENING PAPERS OF Tills DAT.
TIMES the si.e, ehes delivered at the aggregate
meeting of the Metropolitan Parliamentary and Finan-
cial lieform Association are specimens of the extent to
which a :stead cause may suffer in bad hands. There was
a groundwork of truth and reason in most of the pro-
posals advocated, but the arguments were so weakened
by exaggeration, and the sincerity of the whole trans-
action was so damaged by reservations on one side and
compromises on the other, that the common object of the
assembly, if indeed it had one, could be in no degree for-
warded by the manifestions. The meeting was an-
nounced as demonstrating. the alliance of the middle and
" working " classes of society, hitherto disunited, in the
pursuit of certain legislative measures upon the terms of
which they were at length agreed; but the most cursory
attention to the doctrines advanced and to the sentiments
with which they were successively received will convince
any one that no unity of purpose or principle really
existed, and that it would be difficult to compose a party
of more incongruous or explosive elements than those
which were drawn into momentary affinity for the expe-
riment of Monday evening. The five points of the new
league, as modified, in a conference of Reformers, from
the original catechism of the Chartists, were duly enunci-
ated by Mr. G. Thompson. Theycomprise neither univer-
sal suffrage, nor annual Parliaments, nor payment of
members; ut so far were these or kindred points from
being really surrendered by their peculiar advocates,
that the latter party openly avowed their resolution, in
the face of the meeting, of enforcing their adoption, and
of employing the present agitation for the furtherance
of those very objects against which a large section of the
agitators had deliberately pronounced. The modified
propositions contain nothing which, in principle, is very
remarkable. Two of them—the duration of Parliaments
and the manner of voting—turn upon questions which
have received perhaps as disinterested a discussion as
ever fell to the lot of a political problem. A third—
that for the extension of the franchise, is already ad
mitted as more than debatable by a majority of thinking
politicians. But doctrines reasonable in themselves are
liteamboloe
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tbheeirreanddveoreodatooslyeacotdionaarboleinbraitihibelyfoelxlypoosredvioto-
suspicion when exaggeration and untruth are employed
in recommending them. With respect to the franchise,
it must be clear to every reasoning person that the com-
promise now suggested by the directors of the associa-
tion could not endure for a single twelvemonth, and it
will be further evident to all who are versed in the history
of such experiments that the ultimate results would
probably differ widely from those anticipated. But let
the reader just observe the contradictions which have
been induced by the tendency to exaggerate on the pre-
sent occasion. Six•sevenths, or sixteen-seventeenths, of
the British people, according to the different calculations
adopted by the speakers, were represented as tyranni-
cally excluded from all political rights, as condemned to
hopeless di gradation, and as " lett to writhe in compul-
sory submission to aggravated abuses." These were the
statements from the i littoral. In the more deliberate
report, however, of " the Council" upon the same sub•
jest, we find it announced that by means of a little
contrivance " the 40s. franchise is brio', ht within the
reach of every industrious man placed above the
struggle fer the merest necessarit a of life;" so
that by the operation of the very Constitution so
laudly decried, the highest electoral privilege is
already accessible to the lowest class who can, with
any semblance of reason, be held to deserve it. We
say nothing now respecting the organization de-
vised for effecting this promiscuous enfranchisement, but
the truth has been unwittingly told in the confession.
The propriety of still further facilitating the access to
political power is a question toe interesting to be dis-
cussed at the conclusion of a paragraph; but what we
now state without fear of contradiction is, that as things
stand at this present moment, the acquisition of a vote is
a task as easy and as sure—misfortune apart—to any in-
dustrious and prudent working man as his daily main-
tenance, and is, moreover, a privilege which he may as-
sure himself will be a great deal more speedily and satis-
factorily realized by his own individual thrift than by
any impulse he can lend to a circuitous and uncertain
agitation. The question of financial reform was yet
more inconsiderately argued by the speak« rs who ap-
peared to represent the preduminent opinions of the
assembly. That there is both ample room and abund-
ant necessity for retrenchment, that measures for such
purpose are thwarted by some parties and reluctantly
received by others; and that the dry formality of a
Ministerial veto is rather too cooly opposed to the
arguments of one class and the true interests of all, are
facts out of which less enthusiastic orators might have
built up an impregnable case. We spend a vast deal too
much money, both knowingly and .needlessly—know-
ingly, because we are repeatedly told of the fact in
statements which cannot be confuted, and needlessly,
because all that the country requires can still be done
without stint or detriment after the reform has been ef-
fected. The system of taxation, too, is unjust, though it
is not the " working" class (if handicraftsmen alone are
to monopolize that honourable title) upon whom the in-
justice mainly presses. The operation of the income-
tax—that enormous and ill•distributed impost—is almost
exclusively prejudicial to the middle classes of society ;
nor do we mean to say that our burdens are generally
adjusted with all the convenience of which the load is
susceptible. But when such points as these, instead of
being plainly and soundly urged, are either wholly
overlooked or altogether misstated, and when the en-
tire delinquencies of the Exchequer are thrown on
"the Bishops, Lord Brougham, and the illegitimate chil-
dren of Charles II.," the argument becomes ridiculous,
and all the strength of the case is lost. If people are
enlisted in a cause upon the persuasion that it takes
54 000.00 a a year " to govern this country;" that the
Queen "can be served as cheaply as the President of the
United States;" that the House of Commons is com-
posed of "military uffic, rs, pensioners, and sons of the
nobility," and that "by developing the resources of the
country a working man ought to receive 30s. or 40s. a
day for his work instead of hs. or 65.," they must,
sooner or later, discover themselves egregiously befooled,
and, according to the period when their enlightenment
comes, will either desert or destroy the guides they have
been induced to follow. how long dues Mr. Cobden
really think he could keep company, on " the great ques-
tion of labour," with Mr. 11,-argus O'Connor? How tong
does either of them think a sober-minded audience can
be led by such eassrtions as were made on Mends? ?
If it has been conceiv, d that it was only through
such pandering to the credulity of a multitu!e that
a sufficiently imposing force could be mustered on the
side of retrenchment, there never was a more egregious
error. A moment's reflection must convince every man
in his senses that no effi ctual opposition could ever be
maintained, in the pros, nt freedom of opinion, to any
sound or pract,cable scheme of financial reform. Even
it placemen were as numerous and voracious as it
pleased some of the speakers to describe them, they and
their partisans must necessarily term an almost itnper-
c} ptible minority. There is no member of any political
party who is not interested in saving his money from the
tax-gatherer. Nor are we by any means so powerless
in this respect as we are sometimes said to be. Let any
reader recall the attempt to increase the income-tax by
two per cent., and remind himself of the peremptory ex
pression then given to the popular will. There is ample
work to be done in the field proposed, and no great lack
of arms to do it; but, if the task is to be so caricatured
and burlesqued as it was on Monday evening, the timid
will become alarmed and the prudent disheartened, and a
good cause will be thrown overboard for the want of in-
formation and foresight.
POST.—The first " aggregate" meeting of the " Me-
tropolitan, Parliamentary, and Financial Reform Asso-
ciation," which was held in Drury-lane Theatre on
Monday night, was not graced by the presence of Mr.
Cobden. With the simplicity of his own "unadorned
eloquence" that gentleman had informed the committee
that " absence from town would prevent his being pre-
sent" on this great occasion. His letter of apology—
which, with corresponding " simplicity," was read to the
assembly—is dated from Eastbourne, Sussex, and on the
7th of August. In these days of rapid and easy transit
it would have been as reasonable for a gentleman re-
siding in Eaton-square to excuse himself on the groundr
of probable absence from the neighbourhoodofDury-
ol Drury-
lane. e .
mornT h e
thana
sentence,e ,i.nadbeseedo,oceo”uldofbejlifnrt.
Cobden
ended t
to record
Amore intelligible,
given h
would
the
in
eifnot
a" more prevent hs being
satisfactory, present."re a s however,
suc-
ceeding lines of the note—" You have many years of
good work before you, and it will not, therefore, be
amiss to keep an army of reserve for another campaign.
In the mean time, you are doing battle heroically, and I
remain, your obedient servant." That is, when, as in
the case of the corn•laws, some good-natured and deter-
mined enthusiast, like Mr. Charles Villiers, shall have
borne the burden and the heat of the day—when some
Minister of easy virtue shall, like Sir Robert Peel,
be ready to surrender the fortress with the defence
of which he is charged—when nothing shall remain
but to enter and take- possession of the citadel and
the spoil—l shall be ready to head the army of re-
serve, and witness the inscription of my name on the
banner of triumph. Until then I "remain" your obe-
dient servant, Mr. Cobden thus avoids the awkwardness
of some reminiscences of silence during the last session
of Parliament, and at the same time reserves to himself
the full honours of a zealous "parliamentary and
financial reformer." His colleagues—good easy merit.—
not only admit his explanation, but applaud his course.
Yet, whatever admiration the gentlemeu who were pre-
sent might profess by their cheers for Mr. Cobden and
hie conduct, they showed little disposition to follow his
example. If of his valour discretion formed the better
part, in theirs it had no share at all. He maintains a
numerical army of reserve—they advanced the whole of
their argumentative feebleness at once. Their proposi-
tions, it is true, asserted no more than the necessit;y.
diminished
an extended franchise as the means of secui big a
expenditure, but their reasoning and their
stopped nothing short of revolution. 'lbis was Uhl
ur-
turaite, for the references to France were met by "cries
of Rome, and followed by groans and hisses." The "Hun-
gurian patriot," whose
speech was promised by Lord
he business, and re-
solved to keep
Dudley Stuart, thought betterof t 1
zeal for Erg ish reform, as his
presence thee© showedhis he had kept his patriotism for Hungary, dserve ot silence and inaction.
in the prodebt re_
He :rem "remained," like Mr. Cobden, their " obedient ser-
vant," until e fitter occasion should present itself. We
have referred to the " little fact" of this '° first aggro'
gate meeting," not on account of any intrinsic impor-
tance which can give it a claim to public notice, but
because it shows how little sympathy any sectiou of
the people of England possess for such radical changes
in our Constitution as would assimilate our state to
the ultra democratic institutions which have annihilated
liberty elsewhere. The speakers at Drury-lane, who
had prevailed upon themselves to believe, or at least to
assert, that they were the friends of " popular right,"
of " liberty," and of " advancement," appealed to the
movements on the Continent as examples of what might
be achieved by the people. The appeal was unlucky.
What Englishman would exchange his liberties for those
enjoyed by a citizen of France, of Spain, or of Greece,
or for any t4at could be achieved by the most