The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-28 00:00:00

► SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
CIIRONiCLE.—The great vestions connected with
the working of free-trade are eminently questions of
fact. The whole of the argument resolves itself into one
leeonie formula, viz.—What is tae result? Is it true,. or
is it not true, arithmetically, that we have more to do—
that cotton is in greater demand—that mills are in mot e
rapid motion—workmen hotter employed —ships in
greater request—than they were before the late exten-
sive and momentous legislative changes? These are the
perpetual interrogatories of a man anxious to judge for
himself, and to judge truly. There is only one (plea-
cation to this test of figures—but a qualification so ob-
vious, that to omit or overlook it would indicate a total
incompetence to pursue the simplest train of refFction,
or to discriminate the moat obvious differences. In the
first place, there can be no fair comparison where the
conditions are manifestly unequal. Nobody believes that
there can be any even competition between a man in lull
health and spirits, and one who has just broken his leg
• or lost his fortune. Nor would any one dream of' accusing
' of failure a man who is unable to move with as much
celerity under a load of three hundred weight, as under
a load of one. It is not only within the province of
Euclid that things which are equal to the same are equal
to each other. The law is universe!, and no where is it
more palpably applicable than in the region of commer-
cial statistics. There, ac least, the similarity cf the
• things and seasons compared is always the primitive
element of any rational comparison. If you choose, you
may make yourself at once miserable and ridiculous by
insisting upon the melancholy differences between a bad
year and a good one—between a time when wheat is 903.
a quarter and a time when it is only 40 e—hetween a
year of war and a year of peace—between a season of
insurrection and a period of prosperous loyalty; but, for
all fair comparative purposes, the result will be about as
valuable as a parallel between a prize fighter and Tom
'rhumb—between Niagara and the fountains in Trafal-
gar-square—or between Mont Blanc and Holborn-hill.
Plain, reasonable, and distinct as these canons of
criticism must appear to all rational people, they are
certainly beyond the comprehension of the Country
Party. Those most eccentric persons who endure
the daily task of defending the figments of Protec-
tionism have the advantage, or the misfortune, of
being remarkably singular in this respect. With
them a difference is a difference—and there's an end:
Certain figures are unlike certain other figures—atilt the
case is settled. The whole of the problem is contained
in two parallel columns, arid they fancy that they can
read the solution in the totals—at least when these totals
suit their own views—a Coincidence, by the way, which
occurs so seldom as to amount to a luxury. Now, at all
events, free-traders aspire to something better than this.
The imposition which we reject is too gross to circuiete
for an instant beyond the atmosphere of the nursery.
And it so happens that at this moment we can very ap-
positely illustrate, by the same arithmetical method, the
success of our free-era le legislation—while the proofs by
which that success is rendered obvious are entirely un
teinted by those clumsy devices and those tricks of ma-
nagement in which the statistical sterility of the country
Party condemns them to seek a precarious and transi-
tory refuge. Returns have just been published, showing
in detail the quantities and values of several descriptions
of manufactured articles exported to the various countries
of the world, during the half-yearly periods respectively
ending on the 30th June, 1848, and the 30th June, 1849.
These returns, although not formally official, are com-
piled under such auspices, and are issued under such
authority, that they may be safely accepted as accurate
statements of the facts which they profess to contain.
It is not the less, however, a reflection on the statis-
tical department of the Government, that information so
full of interest and importance cannot be collected under
its supervision and issued with the certificate of its im-
primatur. Now, with reference to these returns, the
facts are very striking. If we could permit ourselves to
adopt the horn-book practice of our opponents, and to
rest contented with a comparison of the strongest facts
in the strongest places—proclaiming incessantly that
we had achieved a triumph wherever we found a seem-
ing agreement with our own views—nothing could ex-
cised the facility of our task. We should have simply to
compare the figures of 1848 with those of 1849
leasing the adherents of Mr. Disraeli to exhibit their
amazement. 43ut that would be a deceptive victory, to
which neither our taste inclines, nor our cause
compels us to resort. For the purpose in ques-
tion, the two years have little in common ;
and it would be as futile to employ the com-
mercial statistics of these two years as fair exponents of
the free-trade argument, as it would he to deduce the
average beat of our summers from the recorded tempera-
tures of June and January. • We shell proceed, there-
fore, upon a more fearless plan, and work upon a surer
foundation. We shall take the year 1846—that propi-
tious year, when, if we are to believe the rhetoric of the
Country Party, the land flawed, or rather overflowed,
with milk anti honey—when farmers sold their c )rn at
603.•—manufacturers enjoy. d protection—wages were
regulated by the price of food—and the leaders of the
Protectionists had not begun to feel the pressure of their
mortgages. Everything, we are assured, is to be dated
from 1846. That was the year before the flood—the
last point of solid land above the whirlpool. Then what
are the facts as regards this model year? We shall first
of all select three descriptions of manufactured articles
which are among the most important of our textile fabrics,
and in all of which the Protectionists allege that we are
daily succumbing before that lugubrious and universal
nightmare which they call the " untaxed foreigner."
The articles we speak of are plain calicoes, printed
calicoes, and woollen and worsted stuffs. Now, as re-
gards these three commodities, the exports of the first
six months of 1849 have been in the following propor-
tions more than those of the corresponding periods of
1846 and 1843—speaking in the only accurate language
of per centuges:—

and which Sir Robert Inglis loves to recite in his own
oily wey over poor Mr. Roebuck—it begins " Quis
talenit Gracchos ?" and M. Emile de Girardin, in
his character of a peace-prophet, will not permit
us to forget its force and application to modern times.
We see in sortie of the reports of the last meeting
that M. Cequerel opened its proceedings by producing a
little book containing a scheme for universal peace, that
had been ehtc ictect by the Quaker Penn some hundred
and sixty years aeo. The scheme was as good a scheme
as any of these devisers of airy nothings could have de-
sired. Hottest Penn, with his shovel-hat, had imagined
something to the full as satisfactory as the famous
arbitration idea" which is the leading characteristic of
the pi event peace theory. Now, in spite of all the inge-
nuity that had been luvishA by poor Penn on his great
plan for regenerating mankind, what has been the his-
tory of Europe since his day? Is it an) thing else than
a record of wars—of Louis XIV. and Marlborough's
wars—of Chatham's wars—of Frederick the Great's
wars—of Napoleon's wars—and of we know not what
wars beside ? What influence has a little collateral
preaching from a set of harmless enthusiasts ex-
erted upon the pseaione, the prejudices, arid the
follies of mankind ? Au Europ-an war is be-
coming every day more and more impossible, not
through any peace preaching, but because by the
natural development of society, a nation now-o'-dues
would refuse to enter upon an armed con(est to carry
out the mere views of its rulers. In tact, as we pointed
out last week when writing upon this subject, interna-
tional wars—that is, the ware of nation against nation—
are not the evil of the time. We are somewhat more
modest of prophecy than Mr. Cobden, or we should say,
looking at what has taken place in Europe since the
Febra try days in Paris, and that the continental nations
have passed through the fiery ordeal without a general
war, that such an event appears now to be very remote
indeed. Our friends of tile Peace Congress,' however,
are firing their blank cartridges away at a delusive
mark as merrily as a squad of raw recruits on practice
days. If they would turn their attention' to composing
internal differences and social anomalies, each man in
his own country, they would be much more usefully and
profitably employed. The strange inconsistency of
choosing Paris as the place of session for the Congress
appears to have struck at least one of the speakers. We
spoke just now of the production of Penn's little book
by M. Coquerel, and of the effsct it would must probably
have produced on any one not blinded by prejudice, en..
thusiasm, or interest. But there was something before
the eyes or every member of this precious peace meeting
which should have been more convincing than even the
practical exposition of a scheme such as their own, with
its results. There was a monument before them more
striking than the record of a Quaker's harmless folly;
there was Paris itself, with its arches, its quays, and its
bridges. The C egress was held in a vest city, every
brick and stone or which gave a practical denial to every
one of their assertions. It you enter Paris by that mag-
nificent arch dedicated to the recollection of Napoleon
and his triumphs, or pass along the quays and bridges
which bear the names of the great battles in which
Frenchmen have triumphed; or enter the public galleries
and look upon walls covered from the ceiling to the floor
with painted representations of battle and
slaughter—you will find the attention of the
population, past and present, to have been busy
with little else than the pomp, pride, and
circumstance of the battle-field. Every little gamin you
meet or see at hie play is in some way or other prepar-
ing himself- for burning cartridges at a future day.
There is certainly a kind of propriety in holding a see-
sion of a Peace Congress at such a place, just us there
would be just now in giving lectures upon the Asiatic
cholera in Walworth or Bethnal green; or as there
would have been two years back in delivering a series of
discourses upon probity he the neighbourhood of Capel-
court. One word in conclusion. It is somewhat unfor-
tunate for Mr. Cobden that where foreign nations are
concerned he never ventures upon a striking prediction
without some event happening instantly afterwards to
cover him with confusion. We all remember the time
when Mr. Cobden, who had gone out from amongst us,
like the dove, to report upon the condition of the
troubled waters, came back, after a careful inves-
tigation, with a sprig of green in his mouth. No
sooner, however, had he arrived than the windows of
Heaven were opened in every-direction, and the flood
begun in right earnest. That was the time when Mr.
Cobden returned from his continental journey, to tell us
that we were to have tranquillity in Europe for the next
century. The prophecy was uttered in January, 1848,
or thereabouts. We have now a pendant to that little
prediction. Some three or four weeks ago Mr. Cobden,
at a public meeting, crumpled up a sheet of paper in his
hand, signifying thereby that he was prepared to serve
the Emperor of Russia in the same way on the smallest
provocation, and that the Emperor in question had no
greater force of resistance than the sheet of Bath post
so crumpled up. Well, telex, look at Hungary, and
think of this second instance of Mr. Cobden's political
sagacity and foresight! Mr. Cobden will do well to re.
member a very homely proverb, and confine himself to
those topics with which he is practically acquainted, and
in discussing which he has earned the high reputation he
has lately seemed anxious to destroy.

More than 1848.
Per cent.
40

More than 1846.
Per cent.

Printed .calicoes 34
Plain calicoes
Stuffi

23

These facts certainly indicate none of those symptoms of
supers..d, d industry of which u e have been compelled
to hear so many prognostications from all sorts of pro-
phets. Nor must it be supposed that the above-namt d
branches of trade are, in any sense, insignificant. The
exports of plain calicoes are about 800 millions of yarns
per annum—those of printed calicoes, about 500 millions
of yards—and the value of the stuffs exported is not
less than three millions of pounds sterling. But this is
not all. The facts we have given refer to the
total export of these articles during the periods
specified. An examination of the details of
that export places us in possession of re-ults
equally striking and equally satisfactory. If we collect
together the exports to the eight foreign countries upon
which we depend most largely for the consumption of
our cotton fabrics, and if we compare t'ae
figures indicating the respnctive amount of these
exports in 1846 and in 1849, w e shall arrive
at some moat instructive facts. From the
Ist of January to the 30th of June, 1846, for example,
we exported to Holland, Russia, Pomp!, Gibraltar,
'Wafts, the United States, Brazil, and the Levant,
96 600,000 yards of plain calico —and, in the eorrevond-
ing six months of 1849, no less than 125.700,000 yards.
To the same countries, in 1846, we export, d of printed
calico, 52.300,000 yards, and in 1849 as many as
89,300 000 yards. And again, reducing these quantities
to a p,r centage comparison, we haye the following
figurea. The exports of 1849 have been more than those
of 1846, in

Plain calicoes by 3O per cent.
Printed by , 71 "
But not only are we prepared -to analyze the total
exports of these articles into groups of countries—
we are equally ready to decompose these groups
into separate states. We should like it to be gene-
rally known, that, so far are the Manchester people
from being ruined by free trade, they have sold to
the Levant alone, during the first six months
of the present year, 21,200,000 yards of plain calico, and
16,400,000 yards of printed calico, more than during the
same period of 1846—that to the United States the sale
of plain calico has increased 17 per cent., while the sale
of printed calico has increased 'ourfold—and that in the
Mediterranean markets of Gibraltar and Malta our trade
in these cotton fabrics has been doubled. We have said
little, thus far, of 1848, nor have we said anything of
those countries which, during that year and the present,
have been devastated by foreign or domestic war. These
facts we reserve. But so far as we have gone we can
scarcely be accused of timidity, or of having selected the
topics and the time least favourable to those whose mis••
chievous hallucinations we would expose. Let it be
borne in mind that 1849 has been, up to the present
p !tied, a year of only partial revival—that the field open
to our enterprise and industry is still encumbered with
the huge and disorderly fragments of an epoch of almost
universal anarchye-and that we have not hesitated to
challenge comparison between even the incipient pros-
perity of a free-trade year and the perfect and mature
prosperity of a season which came as the climax of a
long series. Let these circumstances be remembered,
tied we can have no feeling but one of the utmost willing-
ness to leave. the facts to make their own way, and the
argument to tell its o;vn story.
TIMES.—If we return to the subject of the Peace
Congress, whose meeting at Paris has just terminated,
it is not that we are inclined to modify our opinion as to
the utter absurdity of its proceedings from a more inti-
mate acquaintance with the sentiments of the speakers.
The French press, we perceive—at least the more influ •
ential and authoritative representative of public opinion
in that country—has taken precisely the same view of
the case as we have done in London. Their utmost eu-
logy has been to damn the Congress with the faintest
praise that ever slipped from the pens of public writers.
Not one single Frenchman of any weight in political
affairs, with the single exception of M. Emile de Girar-
din, has by his presence countenanced the gathering. As
for MM. Coverel and Victor Hugo, it is the sacred pro-
fession of the first of these gentlemen to preach "Pepe°
on earth, and goodwill towards men,"—and we have not
a word to say against his appearance in public on such
an occasion; but with Victor Hugo, the poet and the
novelist, it is a ditf-rent affair. How long ago is it since
that gentleman favoured the world with a political dis-
sertation at the end of a work bearing for title Le Rhin
in which all the nations of E'irope were offered up in a
holocaust on the altar of Bellona, so that France should
be reinstated in what the author was pleased to describe
as her natural limits. We are csrtainly gratified at
finding M. Victor liege g ing nad rather on
the subject of peace than of war, Out we sadly fear for
the stability of his impressions. Breerss from the sweet i
south, impregnated with faint odours of the tubero-e,
the jessamine, and the Orange-bloom to•day—to mor-
row a gala that would do honour to the Bay of Biscay
or the Cape of Good Hope—such are the conditions of
the poetic temperament. We look upon M. Victor
H
peace speech at his last work—and a very feeble
onuegiot'ais—and there is an end of the matter. As fer M.
Emile de Girardin, he is a very clever man • his worst
enemy will not deny him that attribute; aid the Peace
Notoriety suits his purpose just now. There is a famous

old passage, dear to of Roman midi; poetry,

dent. On Saturday an inquest was held on vrecv)
the remains before Major Herring, the Mayor 01
Saltash, when a verdict of " Accidentally drowned
was returned. The interment of the body is to tske
place in the family vault at Antony this day. It isii
remarkable circumstance that Lieutenant Boys P`
the Impregnable, had only on the previous day bee°
speaking to the deceased and young Brownrigg abet
learning to swim, and had given Mr. Brownrigg 09e
lesion in the art, and the deceased had consulted bil
father about learning to swim. As Mr. Brownrigg
had got so much confidence by his single lesson as r
swim a few strokes, it may be presumed that this
some measure contibuted to his escaping the fate 0
hii young friend.
SUNDAY, AUG. 26.—1 n honour of the birthdayofl
the Prince Consort, Prince Albert, the Bort
Standard was hoisted at an early hour at all the tlavill
and military stations, at the Royal Western Yoc,h",
Club, and at ether public establishments, and 0,"
naval and merchant ships in port were profusel
decorated with fligs. At one o'clock royal salute
were fired from the citadel at Plymouth, the platforo
at Mount Wi'e, and the battery at Mount Edgecutribe,;
and were promptly responded to by her Majesty'
flag-ship Impregnable, 104, Captain Sir Tnotlo,
Maitland, in Hamoaze, and by the steam blockse
La Hogue, Captain Ni'Dougall, in Barn pool.
Wind—N.W., light breeze and fine weather.
WooLwrcw, AUG. 27.—The African steam vessel
was taken out of the inner basin to-day, being II°gf
again nearly ready for service.
The Vivid steam-vessel, Captain Smithett, -h.g!
returned to Dover, and resumed her duties as a 10
packet on that station. This vessel, when attending
the Queen as one of the royal squadron, perforint,
her work remarkably well, and proved the fastest
well as the most serviceable vessel in the Wl3°i;
squadron.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS. or
The following is the official statement of the quantities
corn, &c., received in the port of London from the port,l9
Essex, from the 20th Aug., 1849, to the 25th Aug.,
both inclusive:—

• .
- el)
74 g
X 11 0 pci 0.1

Colchester 1 t 96
Harwich 384
Leigh .
Mahlon

- 37

~....1 6011 75'

48

0
100
731

•
CHELMSFORD, AUG. 24.—We had a large supply of f b
wheat in good condition at our market this Gay, and Int,,
of it was sold at about the prices of last week. Last Ye'the
crop is now almost unsaleable at any price, and .0
u,
samples are generally rejected. All else without varian.,o
Wheat, white, old 44s to 503; new 46; to 525; red, lier
40; to 423 ; new, 40s to 46s ; barley, —s to —s ; ehe,le's4l
—s to —s; grinding 22s to 28s; oats 17s to 235; to
to 565; chevalier 54s to 58s; peas, partridge, new 295,1,;
3ls ; old, 30s to 32; ; white, new, 28s to 301 ; old, 29s to 3295
dun, new, 27s to 30s ; beans, tick, new 28; to 31s ; old,
to 31s; harrow ticks, new 28s to 31s; old 30s to 323;
zagan, new 24; to 26s ; old 26s to 28s per qr.
42.
COLCHESTER, Atm 25.—Wheat, white 463 to 525; red
ddle
to 46s ; barley 30s to 00s; beans, mazagan 26; to 28s; 01
and small 28s to 30s ; peas 26s to 30s per qr.
"'ADDINGTON, AUG. 24.—The following are the prices Of
grain at our market to-day :
Wheat. Barley. Oats. 932°0'
First 54s Od 28s Od 22; 03 343 0,1
Second ... 463 93 26s 8d kW 7d 323 od
Third ... 403 63 24; 03 17s Od 313 la
Total quantity of Wheat in market 296 qrs., 281 s°l4
Do. Barley do. 51 qrs., 45 sold
Do. Oats do. 234 qrs., 231 %la
Do. Beans do. 45 qrs., 39 ',,ss
KIRKALDY, Aua. 25.—The following are the von.
up to this date:—
Wheat. Batley. Oats. Beans. relisiod
First ... 50s Od 28s 03 22s 03 —s Od I-4 od
Second 473 6d 24s Od 21s 641 —s Od I
Third 423 Od 233 Od 193 Od —s Od
Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs. imp.. 23; to 2930 d. (a
GLASGOW, AuG. 23.—Provisions—Cheese, 40s to 41s Od
per cwt • retail, sid to 6(1 per lb. Skim milk, 18s to 20s
cwt. Country fresh butter, 93 to 10d per lb ; Irish pois
dered, in lumps, 9d to 10d; country powdered, wholesale, rid
to Bd. Country eggs, 9d per dozen; carried hen ditto, 530
per hundred, or 7d per dozen. Hens, 2s Od per pair; _
2s Od.
311
KELSO, AUG. 24.—Wheat, old, 00s to 00s ; ditto, pea,O t°
to 4 s d ; barley, new, 17s to 20s Od ; ditto old, Os
or
Os ; potato oats, Os to Os Od ; ditto new, 13s to lss Od ; COI
mon oats, 12s to 14s Od ; ditto new, Os Od to Os Od ; peas,
to 253 Od; beans, 24s to 25s per boll of six imperial bushelitte
STIRLING, A uG. 24.—Wheat, foreign, 22s to 26s Od;
home, Os Od to Os Od; ditto ditto new, 22s Od to 00;; barlekA;
b.. 11 of 6 bushels, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 17, od to 1966-d;
oats, common, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 121 Od to 15°,,,511
ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, Os Od L;oto
distillers, 35s to 38; ; ditto brewers, 37s Od to 39s ; aft
per boll, Os 6d to Os Od ; ditto new, 15s Od to 17s 6d; Poesois
14s 6d to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 34s to 35s ; ditto O. od;ditto, 24s Od to 25s 6d ; oatmeal, per load, Os od to vs„A;
ditto new 26s Od to 28s ; ditto per peck of 71bs, Ezid to OS lid.;
fresh butter, per lb. 8d to 10d; eggs per dozen, 6d to
hay per ton, 45s to 50s.
PERTH, Auc. 23.—Wheat, 40s Od to 48s Od ; barley
to 25s Od; oats, 17s to 20s; peas and beans, 25s od to 2c''
per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 261 to 28s. is ay''
FALKIRK, AUG. 23. —The supply of grain in t-h boll •
market was 230 bolls; wheat at 22s 6d to 23s 6d Per Oll
barley, 00s Od to Os Od ; oats, 14s 3d to 163 6d; beans, 110
to 00s Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load.
HAWICK, AUG. 23.—Wbeat, new, 37s Od to 43s od;ditto
old, 00s to oos ; barley, new, 18; to 21s 6d ; potato 0301
13s Od to 15s Od ; common oats, 11; to 14sOd ; peas, 233 .A
to 2.5 s Od ; beans, 23s Od to 233 Od per boll of six imperial
bushels. •

NAVAL IN TLLLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—Salutes from the flag-
ships and the platform at five o'clock this evening
announced the arrival at Gosport of the Lords of the
Admiralty to make their annual inspection of this
important station. The movements of the Board of
Admiralty having become so hackneyed a subject of
detail, especially on periodical visits to the dockyards,
and as all dockyards are much alike in their equip-
ment, and consequently afford no diversity for
description in chronicling the perambulations of
visitors, whether official or less consequential, we
shall not inflict upon the reader the task of wading
through the monotonous chapter of arrival, embark-
ing, saluting, steering, landing, reception, inspection
of stores and houses, re-emberkings, re landings, and
such like uninteresting minutiae connected with the
duties of this puissant body, but leave them to per-
form their tedious labours unintruded upon. Should
their vieit, however, be productive of any benefit to,
the port or to the service, or should any vessels be
commissioned, new works ordered, or occurrence of
interest take place consequent upon their Lordships'
presence, the public shall have the benefit of it; but
we think it high time that the chronicling of mere
cursory inspections and " dining out " of official
bodies should give place to the more sensible chroni-
cling of business.
The Pallas, Russian frigate, did not sail last night
for Madeira, as she appeared to have done by getting
under way and firing salutes of 21 and 17 guns, but
after working round Spitliead, and displaying consi-
derable seamarbhip in her movements, she dropped
anchor again to know the reason why her parting
compliment of 21 guns to the garrison was not re-
turned. Captain Purcell, of the Superb, communi-
cated immediately with the Commander-in-Chief, and
we believe the circumstance was through him com-
municated to the Lieutenant-Governor, as the salute
was eventually fired by the Platform battery, a few
minutes before eight .o'clock, by moonlight. We are
informed that a poor Marine sentinel is charged with
the offence of not "reporting" the Russian's fire ; but
at this moment (six P.m.) we have not time to inquire
whether the report be correct or not. It seems,
however, both too absurd and too tyrannical for truth.
A salute from the garrison at so unusual an hour
caused no little consternation at the port, no one but
the officials knowing the cause. At six this.morning
the Pallas sailed for Madeira.
The Elfin, royal dispatch yacht, Master. Com-
mander Balliston, having had her bottom scrubbed
and the needed steam-pipes fitted, was taken out of
duck today, ready for service.
The Encounter screw corvette was taken into dock
this morning, to have her bottom inspected, prior to
commission by a Commander.
Wind—West; light breezes and fine weather.
PLYMOUTH, AUG. 25.—0 n Tuesday next, on board
her Majesty's ship impregnable, 104, Captain Sir T.
Maitland, in Hamoaze, a court-martial is to be held
for the purpose of trying Commander Pitman for
alleged acts of cruelty, oppression, and tyranny,
towards the officers and crew of her Majesty's sloop
Childers, 16, when recently in command of that ship
on the African station.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO THE HON. T. E. PAGET
GRAVES.—ANOTHER ACCOUNT.—On Friday after-
noon the second master of her Majesty's ship Impreg-
nable, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, C. 8., the flag-
ship at Devonport, and Mr. Croke and Mr. De Mon-
tezuma, midshipmen, and Mr. Brownrigg and the
Hon. Thomas Edward Paget Graves, naval cadets,
were in a small shore boat, cruising about the
Haneoaze, when, passing between the Impregnable
and the Mount Edgecumbe shore, a proposal was made
by Mr. Croke to change seats with the second master,
and Mr. Graves, who had been steering, proposed
that some one should change with him, so that he might
pull awhile. All the parties stood up in the boat to
make these changes, and immediately the boat upset,
and they were all precipitated into the water. The
second master and Mr. de Montezuma, on rising to
the surface, caught hold of the boat, which was lying
keel up, and held on until they were taken off by a
boat from her Majesty's brig Crane, on board of
which the accident had been observed. Mr. Croke
took charge of Mr. Brownrigg, and with him swans
towards the shore, and after having proceeded some
distance, was taken on board a boat by Mr. Banks,
ship-builder, of Cremill, who, on seeing the accident,
had at once called the assistance of some of his work-
people, and put off in a boat in the hope of relieving
the young gentlemen from their perilous position.
Having Mr. Croke and his charge on board, M DIED V•
r. Oa the 21st seat, at Old Brompton, aged 62, the 1`.„'".410,
Banks asked if all were safe, and found that Morgan, many years curate of St. Martin's-in-the-Fie
one was missing ; and this turned out to be the i and late of Camden-villas, Camden-town.
gap&
Honourable Mr. Graves. After rowing round the On the 20th inst., aged 39, Helen, the wife of E. R.
place where the boat had upset, a young man, named cock, Esq.
Robert Bruce, in the employ of Mr. Banks, be. B OwnctlierNth in(sit., at Pentonville, aged 44, Mr. Birdsall' °I
flaying he saw the deceased some distance down in On the 22d-Yinsrt ,at Margate, Anna, the wife of C. Cradocig'
the water, gallantly dived, but found the object he had , Esq., of Burton-crescent, Tavistock-place, aged 58. of
noticed to be a handkerchief; which he brought up. On the 2.3 d inst., aged 95. Arthur Palmer, sen., Dscl"
Drags were obtained, and after about one hour Park-row, Bristol.
of the lite
and a half's labour the body of the unfortunate Harriett uh er
On the 23d inst., at Putney„da g t
young gentleman was recovered, quite dead. The Oct
Charles Shepherd, Esq, of Bedford-row.
the 23d inst., at Cheltenham, the Rev. Ralph Leo.
deceased was the eldest son and heir of Lotd Graves; Bens'-n, formerly rector of Easthope, Shropshire, aged
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he was a naval cwiet belonging to the Southampton, At Dacre-terrace, Lee, Kent, on the 24th inst., Ann, Be
Admiral Reynolds flag. ship, but was serving on daughter of the late Mr. J. Clark.
board the Impregnable, and was about thirteen years London: Printed and Published by MURDO
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of age. The body was subsequently removed to the , No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, NO.:
family residence on the banks of the Tamar, and Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tht colow
Tuesday, August 28, 1849. about two miles and hitlf from the scene of the acci- I