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London, England, 1840-09-15 00:00:00

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THE LATE OCCURRENCES AT

MADRID.

the National Guard, and a pas ser by. The citizens re-
turned the fire with spirit, ee id.several soldiers of the
line were killed or wounded. Fourteen balls struck
General Alciama's horse. Th at officer fell under his
horse, and miraculously rose ag.ain without injury.
But the troops of the line, co vered by the turnings of
the narrow streets, in which the were crowded toge-
ther, heard the firing, and succeeded in disengaging
themselves. As soon as they lammed the cause of the
conflict they declared they would not take any part in
it. A company of chasseurs of the King's Regiment
went over to the ranks of the National Guard. The
whole regiment refused to follow General Aldama, who
withdrew ore foot. The soldiers went to their barracks.
Soon afterwards the King's Regiment joined the Na-
tional Guard with sounds of music and the hymn of
I Riego, and placed itself under the orders of the Munici-
pality.
Aldama, however, tcok refuge in the Retiro, taking
with him the foot chasseurs of the Regent, the artillery
of the guard of Madrid, and a certain number of the
cuirassiers of the guard ; all of these being privileged
corps. There he bravely hoisted his flag, hoping that
in making head against the storm in favour of the Mo-
derate party, the leaders of that party would come with
reinforcements and rally around him. In vain he waited ;
not a single mine presented himself ; End he might have
adsed, us the man in a well-known caricature of the days
of July at Paris, " would you be kind enough to tell
me where arc the Moderados?" And the answer given
might have been, "In their cellars.' It seems, besides,
that General Aldama could not avoid publicly expressing
this idea with all the energy of a soldier's indignation.
He cursed those men who formerly accused him of weak-
ness and timidity, and who, in the hour of danger, when
he braved it perhaps against his opinion, hid themselves
and were not to be found. He acknowledged some-
what of the latest upon what side were the men who
acted from conviction.
The civism of the King's regiment could not be mis-
understood by the other corps. Madrid offered a spec-
tacle imposing, but calm. There was not one cry of
re-action, and not one act of revenge sullied the events of
that great day. In the evening the seventh provisional
regiment of the line joined the National Guard.
General Aldama still occupied the Retiro, and the
strong barracks alongside of it. From that position he
commanded Madrid; and could have burnt it. Learning
that the National Guards of the environs had risen en
masse, and were marching upon the capital, he ab-
stained from a mulderous but useless defence, and at
day-break gave the order for departure. The regiment
of the Queen Regent put itself in motion ; but, instead
of obeying the commands of the General, directed
itself towards the Plaza Major, the central point of re-
union of the national forces, which they joined with cries
of " Long live the Constitution T." The mounted
Cuirassiers followed this example. The gendarmerie,
both foot and horse, the Carabineers of the Custom-
house, ail of them old soldiers, placed themselves under
the orders of the municipality. General Aldama
quitted Madrid by a by-gate of the town, followed by
the cannoneers of the guard, and a few horsemen obe-
dient to the ill-interpreted laws of discipline, and took
the road towards Arganda. Where did he go ? No-
body knows. But in a very short time after his depar-
ture the cannoneers and horsemen returned in straggling
parties.
The Ayuntamiento of Madrid showed itself equal :o
the exigencies of the mission which circumstances ren-
dered it necessary that it should fulfil. It named
General Rodi Commandant of the combined forces of
the National Guard and the Line, and General Lorenzo
as the second in command. General Lopez was ap-
pointed to command the garrison, Don Juan Lusana
was named to the office of Political Chief', aad Don
Ramon Galatrava to that of the Intendance.
The Ayuntamiento convoked the National Guards of
the province ; they arrived cn masse, as well as the di.
vision of the troops of the line cantoned in Old Castile,
and called to arms all the citizens of Madrid, between
the ages of 18 aad 40. At the present moment we
have an army of 30,000 men. We are fortifying
Madrid, and we are ready to bury ourselves under its
ruins rather than endure the triumph of that infamous
Camarilla, which degrades the throne, and sows disunion
among the citizens, in order that it may reign over the
nation under the shadow of royalty.
The provincial deputation, the senators, and the de-
puties to the Cortes from the province of Madrid, have
also joined the Municipality. A local Provisional Go-
vernment has been named, composed of Don Joachim
Maria Ferrer, President, and First Alcade, Don Pedro
Barroque, Dan Pio Laborde, Don Fernando Corradi, Don
Jose Portida, Don Pedro Sainz de Baranda, and Don Va-
lentin Llanos. This Government provides for everything,
and meets every exigency of the times. Couriers have
been sent to the Queen at Valencia to make known to
her the state of her capital, to General Espartero, and
to all the provinces, inviting them to second the move-
ment at Madrid, and to rescue the Queen from the
perfidious counsellors who compromise the Crown and
disturb the peace which Spaniards have conquered for
themselves at the price of so much blood.
We do not for a moment doubt that the whole king-
dom will follow the movement of Madrid, and that
Spain will answer once more in a most glorious manner
those unmeaning accusations, which deny us the right
and the faculty of being free and independent. We
will be so, in spite of all our enemies.
The day of the first of September will leave glorious
and indelible remembrances. It belongs not only to
Spain, but to modern civilisation. That party which
has been called revolutionary, Exalted°, and said to be
reduced to plot in clubs, has suffered during three years
the persecutions of its opponents, and for three months
a series of incredible insults. One day, one glorious
day, has just put an end to a re-action which threatened
to invade all, and on that day the people, the real
people, arose, and demanded with dignity and with
energetic resolution, the justice which they obtained at
the price of their blood, and forgave their enemies, all
the leaders of whom were in their hands. Not one cry
of vengeance was raised, not one act of persecution took
place. Madrid desired liberty, the people desired it
even for their tyrants. 'We do not know a brighter page
ban this in the history of the struggles of freedom.
The regiment of Luredo has joined us.

(From the Morninq Chronicle.)
.. • THE IsT OF SEPTEMBER.
Honour and glory to the capital of Spain 1. She
saved Liberty on that memorable day.
In the history of mankind, as in that of individuals,
there are always clays of supreme importance, in which,
placed between taioral life and death, nations and indi-
viduals no longer hesitate ; danger then becomes a
stimulant, and honour must be saved at all risks.
In 1808, all Spain arose to defend her independence ;
in 1833, the enlightened portion of the nation took up
arms to secure her freedom. The first of these struggles
lasted-six years, and the Spaniards reconquered their
country ; the second has lasted seven years, and the
Spaniards have expelled Don Carlos and gained a Con-
stitution., If after these two great proofs Europe should
still doubt that we are yet a strong nation, and capable
of great things, we will address ourselves to the true
friends of the freedom of the human race, and offer
them the day of the Ist of September as one of those
of which history will receive the details with joy, be-
cause results such as that day brought forth honour a
nation and cover it wash glory.
We will not recall to memory the events which pre-
ceded the departure of the Royal Family for Barce-
lona, nor those which took place on the journey, and
during their sojourn in the capital of Catalonia. Ail
these are well known, and history has already gained the
historte truth rotating to the dais of the 18th and '-)itd
of July. But what has not yet been told, and which
nevertheless must be told, in order that the glorious in-
surrection of which Madrid has just given an example,
may be properly understood, is this, that never, even
in the darkest days of absolute monarchy in Spain, was
the Crown of that country more grievously beset by the
devouring ambition of an ignoble Camarilla. Never in
any country was the respect which every nation owes to
itself more deeply wounded ; never was the common
sense of any country so defied as in Spain prior to the
events of the Ist of September. In Prussia, in Aus•
tree, even in Russia itself. such a spectacle would have
moved the people from their apathy, and constitutional
Spain endured for two months an anarchy without ex-
ample—eomplaining, requesting, entreating, and not re-
volting. Everything, nevertheless, has its term, even
the long-euffering patience of the Spaniards. The in-
surrection broke out. Let us see if ever there was an
ineuirection more holy, or one more nobly begun.
The Ministry of which Gonzalez was at the head
was the personification of a political idea. M. Gon-
' ialez being the eloquent opponent of the fatal law of
the Aeuntamientes, member of the Minority of the
Cartes, the legal suspension of that law, and its consti-
tutional revision by a new Cortes, should hive been the
logical, the absolute results of the dismissal of Perez de
Castro, end the succession of M. Gonzalez.
Things, however, were managed differently. M.
Gai.2l;eZ went to Barcelona, and the Crown desired
that he should place himself in a situation which he had
formerly combated, and that he should declare himself
the continuer of a policy he formerly disapproved.
Being a roan of steady principles and convictions, M.
Gonzelez resolutely refused this, and proclaimed in
all its latitude the constitutional dogma of a real
responsibility and complete freedom of action. M.
Gonzalez could not succeed in having these principles
adopted as the basis of his administration, and he re-
tired. His colleagues, honourable men, but giving way
to which their worthy chief could not share,
leopeel. to be able to save the doctrine they advocated by
the bEli; of some formal concessions. The non-accept-
ance of ice by M. Sancho, the resignation of M. Gon-
zaiez,kald that, almost immediately afterwards, of M.
eleteepli Ferraz, left vacant the offiees of Minister of the
interior, of Justice, and of Finance, as well as the Pre-
saieney of the Council. The last olive was given,
stet to sly imposed upon, General Valentine Ferrez,
Minister of War. M. Sitvela, an inhabitant of Coreuna,
y :;-s named Minister of Justice ; and M. Cabello, of
Saragossa, Minister of the Interior. These two belonged
to tav ranks of the opposition ; M. Cabello especially,
who bed rendered immense services to the army as the
relit cal cilia of a province, advocated opinions much
t
more advanc cd than his colleagues. M. Secedes, em-
pioyed in the superior department of the finances, was
ordered to accept, provisionally, the portfolio of that
department. M. Silvela, ill and at two hundred
_ leagues distance from Barcelona, could not reach that
city for some considerable time. M. Cabello arrived
before the departure of the Queen. True to his folmer
principles, he made the same stipulations as M. Got,-
zakez Tile Court was on the eve of its departure from
Barcelona. Her Majesty ordered M. Cabello to fol-
low her to Valencia, where everything was to be ar-
ranged. M. Cabello obeyed.
They arrived in the last-mentioned city, and nothing
was arranged. M. Cabello gave in his resignation. M.
()Ms, whom the love of the public welfare and the hope
of avoiding a catastrophe might for a moment have alic-
inated from M. Gonzalez, withdrew from the administra-
tion, and was followed is his turn by General Ferraz,
who resigned his portfollo as Minister of War and Pre-
sident of the Council.
Siece. the departure of the Queen, it may be said that
Spain had had no Government. The Ministry, split
into two factions, the one at Madrid. the other at Bar-
celona, formed no longer a unity but isolated individu-
acting without concert, and entirely at hap-
. hazard. After the fall of the Ministry of Perez de
Castro, Spain for a period of six weeks saw this unex-
ampled scandal prolonged. M. Sentillan, when be be-
. longed to the Ministry had only the department of
finances. He was dismissed by the Crown, and was
burdened at the same time with three portfolios— those
of tee finances, of the interior, and of justice. Finally,
M. Sentillan was replaced by an ad interim Minister,
M. Secedes, to whom in like manner were confided
these three important departments of the Ministry. At
Barcelona, clerks in the Foreign-office and the War-
office exercised the responsible power of Ministers of
State. _ _

It we P2cal to mind the events preceding this state
of things, the violent dissolution of the Cortes of 1839,
the new elections stained by fraud and violence, the re-
trograde spirit of the Cortes of 1840, the irritation and
ferment of the country, caused by re-actionary laws,
arid especially by the laa, of the Ayuntamientos, tex-
tual vio;ation 01 the Constitution, and then the cal;ision
of Ministers with the glorious pacificator of Spain, we
shad understand that the ministerial crisis, with its du-
ration and its deplorable phases, necessarily carried the
exasperation of the people to its height. Nothing but
a was wanting to kindle a general conflagration.
`Peop;o cxpccted it. The Camarilla undertook to make
rlt Ihiriit out.

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICA-

TION.

The resignation of General Ferraz restored full
liberty to the Camarilla. On the 29th of August
the decree for the formation of an incre-
dible 'Ministry. We will not repeat the names of
thole chosen to form part of it. At Madrid people
,were ,dmost • ignorant of them. We cannot speak
of their previous career ; nullity has no previous
career. It was with regret that we saw one name,
and one only, in that insane decree, that of the
brave General Aspiroz, who from his infancy had so
:valiantly fought for liberty. The choice of such Nli-
nisters was not only an insult to the nation, for a long
tinie the Camarilla had accustomed us to its stupid
audacity ; it was also a direct insult to the party that
.it pretended to serve : we say pretended—for one of
the ohiefs of the Moderados, in reading over the names
of those chosen for the Ministry, exclaimed, it ;s said,
They have ruined us !" Ruined them was not the
word. Do not let us believe it. But punished them
--ves.

The news of this act of folly arrived at Madrid on the
evening oP the 31st of August. Nobody believed it.
When the Official Gazette of the Ist of September had
`removed all doubts, hesitation was at an end, the gaunt-
let was thrown down ; it belonged to the first who saw
it io pick it up. Madrid felt herself worthy of the
challenge. and accepted it.
The Municipality has public sittings every week at a
fixed hour. The Ist of September was one of these days.
From an early hour in the morning the public uneasiness
bad shown itself by signs, forerunners of great resolu-
tions. It was decided on that the people should pro-
7:hoeerulito the Hotel de Ville, as soon as the Municipality
d open its customary sitting. Long before the ap-
po.nted hour the crowd filled the square and the j
cent streets. The National Guard instinctively took up
arc 7, and formcd themselves spontaneously at the ordi-
nary rallying points.
The Municipality assembled, and showed a desire. to
proceed to business ; but ;con from without
were taken up within, and the crowd.which tilled the
has of the Hotel de Ville demanded that the Munici-
polityfirst questions‘
should not proceed with administrative
when the country was in danger. The
Don Joachim Maria Ferrer, tranquillised the peopleAcldbe'
saying that more than any body else the magistrates ofy
the people watched over the public safety ; that they
were not ignorant of
the dangers with which liberty was
threatened, end that they would not fail in their duty at
that post of honour where they had been placed by the
choice of their fellow-citizens. He added that the lime
for action had arrived, and that the Municipality was
rea:ly.
lelnvadiately all the National Guard was ca led to The
session of the Reformed 2resbvterian Con-
arms, and nearly in the same moment 10,000 men in gregation, Gr k, under the ministry of' the Rev. An-
uniform, and with their captains at their head, took drew Gilmour, came some time ago to the unanunousre-
so'ution of using for sacramental purposes the liquid fruit
pos,vssion of all the miiitary points of the capital. Ge-
presented himself of the vine, or wine as it is found in the cluster (:ee Isaiah
Buerens, the political chief, had
tlt the of the Hotel de Ville, to oppose the mea- lxv. 8.) 'Dili resolution was carried into operation on the
sures of the Municipality. fie was taken prisoner by a
ooce.zlsion ofcelebrating the
uordinance of Lord's Supper
gniv;abubnarnthiri cewgied
eeks,aaats ion.
nidfawe'tenderstand thate the change has
captain of the National Guard.
The Captain-General Aldama, informed of the events
We mentionedsnith,
on lea st
of sat•heee kG thatove Government
n Lieut.- t .R-
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aoyn ecl
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which were agitatinw Madrid, assembled the troops of Fde
the garrison in the square of Justice.
uare of the Courts missioners,rerck
i had left 1. r an inspection of the eastern coast
hGemieuert,l.LOrenzo went to him, to impress upon bun lines of Scotland. We understand that Sir Frederick
'aid not witll impunity attack a whole population,. , will be met at Newcastle by his colleague, Professor Bar-
vitb had risen .in defonce of their threatened libert.es. ; low, and that they probably, on their return, examine
tA,,l,,daf,tr,.4,a,t,,tut,nhutp that his duty obliged bins to defend , the two competing lines between York and Cambridge.—
, ~• troopst'wht kit no longer existed. He gave Railway Times.
6b.ocnaldivance, and towards four o'clock BUCKINGHAM.—We are sorry to record the
in ai7-ecopon
to i:A.; square of the Fiet,eld
,by a narrow street l..ading dreadful immorality of the borough of Buckingham ;mtohset
of the ,-civanced sPritinel's'ofUet Ville.
r.rooopt:dehicshaanllsevvnter ne,,d, shameless detiar.lee of common deceney—the open
streets..
—inabiu,drg
2vews.
Lie eiri troops a discharge of rnuskyt
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RAILWAYS IN GERMANY.

The first section of the projected railway in the
Grand Duchy of Baden was opened between Mannheim
and Heidelberg, on the 2Sth ult. The distance,
about 18 English miles, was performed in 24 minutes,
and the trial proved in every respect satisfactory.
The Rhine has gained another bridge at Spires : an
acquisition of no small interest both in a military point
of view and with regard to its utility in facilitating the
communication with France, which in the course of next
year is to be established by post•coaches, running di-
rect from Carlsruhe to Paris, without going round by
Strasburg. The new bridge, which, like that at Mann-
heim, rests upon pontoons, was opened with great cere-
mony by the Bavarian and Baden authorities, on the
25th August. The fortification of Rastadt is seriously
spoken of, and will probably be hastened by the present
conjuncture of circumstances.
In addition to the recently opened railway line be-
tween Dresden and Magdeburg, by means of which the
route from Hamburgh to Dresden can now be performed
(with the help of the steamers) in three days, and that
from Dresden to Hamburgh in two days, a new line' is
talked of, which is to bring Magdeburg in direct com-
munication with the capital.
The railway between Augsburg and Mucich is to be
ripened on the Ist of October. With the Frankfort and
Wiesbaden line the states of the Gerraan Commerei tl
League have thu3 established, in the course of the pre-
sent leer, nearly two hundred miles of railroad commu-
nications. The lines between Aix la Chapelle and Co-
logne, which is to be continued to Maestricht on the
one side, and to Dusseldorf and Eiberfeld upon the
other, will come into play next year.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM TFIE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The Shuttleworth Coalition-Treaty, of which the
Times has arranged the preliminaries by way of a little
delassement from such sterner labours as blowing the
British navy into the air by methods known to the
Times, and which Monsieur Perolies will perhaps
make known to the world likewise when he finds it
convenient the Shuttleworth Coalition-Treaty has
shared the fate of the thousand mare's-nests, whose
hatching has been announced at the same monster-
prolific Eccaleobion. Dr. Shuttleworth is a Tory ;
ergo, 11Lnisters throw a sop to the Tories ; ergo, Minis-
ters and the Tories may be expected to coalesce. Such
vas the somewhat less than Oxford log;c of Printing
House-square. It might, perhaps, have been sufficient
to answer that one swallow does not make a summer,
nor one Bishop a coalition ; and that Tory alliance must
indeed be cheap, if it is to be had on the terms an-
nounced by its morning oracle. From the Times one
would at least have expected a becoming disdain of
paltry bribes. But our Oxford correspondent made
shorter work of its enthymeme. Dr. Shuttleworth
is not a Tory ; ergo, there is no sop to the Tories ;
ergo, there is nd coalition of Tories and Ministers.
In the mean time, a somewhat curious reception was
given by our Ultra-Tory Contemporaries to this Shut-
tleworth lying legend. There is a rivalry in pro-
digious birth? between Fleet-street and Bridge-street ;
and the S.'andard, having a family of its own to pro-
vide for, would not cradle the misbegotten brat of its
Morning Contemporary. Tales of coalition between
Whigs and Tories were, according to the Standard,
not less ridiculous than rumours of partnership
between broken-down traders and the Barings or
Rothschilds. They arc the sort of stories which parties
of doubtful solvency would be glad to have credited.
We must suppose then of the parties who invent such
stories, that their credit is low ; and we give the Stand-
ard the choice of concluding that its colleagues put such
stories about to do themselves good, or to do their oppo-
nents harm, in the public opinion. Either supposition is
equally flattering to that party, for whom their scribes
invent coalitions with their opponents in power.
There are several other remarkable views enounced by
the Standard, with regard to the impossibility of any Whig
and Tory coalition. One of these is, that, amongst the
great and manifold benefits of the Reform Bill (we
thank the Standard for that word, and we sup-
pose Lord Grey's head is now safe from impeach-
ments of treason) the greatest is that the Government
has been thrown open, and rescued from the red-tapists.
The Standard thinks it a benefit of the Reform Bill
that it is henceforth impossible for the " practical
statesman" (sic in orig.) of its party to hold the Go-
vernment. It believes it would be of no use for those
" practical statesmen " to coalesce with the Whigs, be-
cause they would draw no party after them ; it believes
they never can lead the Tories (thanks to the Reform
Bill), end all it asks of them is to retirefrom public life,
as they are rather noxious than otherwise to their own,
and can be of no service to any party.
(From the Courier.)
We have received from a private and well-informed
source a positive assurance that means will be found to
prevent a collision between France and the Great
Powers of Europe. We are not told in what these means
consist, but, the respectability of the party from whom
our information is derived authorises our receiving his
statement with a great deal of confidence. In fact it is
easy to gather from the tone assumed by the organs of the
French Cabinet, that we shall have a pacific denouement.
The Courier Francais says that no British force will be
landed in Eypt, the colleagues of Lord Palmerston hav-
ing set their laces against such a plan. On the other hand
The Constitutionnel declares, with a brustering air, that
France will interfere actively the momenta British force
lands in Eypt or Syria, and only then. The Consti-
tutionnel, we need hardly add, is the confidential organ
of M. Tillers. It follows that the French Cabinet will
fight in one case, which case, it knows, will not occur.
We again repeat, peace will be maintained, notwith-
standing the blundering of Lord Palmerston. If Eng-
land and France succeed in getting rid of the adminis-
trations with which they are both unfortunately saddled
—a very likely event, by the way—it may reconcile us
to the serious evils we have bud to endure since the'
beginning of this unparalleled crisis.
(From the Standard.)
It is believed in Paris that whatever may be the
ultimate intentions of the French—and that they are
warlike cannot be doubted, when we look at the im-
mense preparations they are now making on
every side—they will avoid war for the pre-
sent, in the expectation that the attempt on
Syria will fail, and that Ibrahim may be able without
assistance to repel the force that may be brought
against him. In this event the French will have no
pretext for interference. If the Four Powers allow
themselves to be thus baffled, France will enjoy a
bloodless triumph. If they resort to more violent
measures, she may plead increased provocation for her
interference. Oa the other hand, should Beyrout and
Acre be captured, the Syrians excited to a successful re-
volt., and Mehemet yield to the force of circumstances,
M. Thiers will in all probability hardly deem it wise to
interpose. We have already insisted on the necessity
of a coup de main which shall bring the matter to an im-
mediate issue one way or the other. The peddling
mode of warfare attempted by Commodore Napier,
which, if other than premature, can lead to no
beneficial result, has excited greater irritation than
the most energetic measures taken simultaneously
with Admiral Stopford at the expiration of the term fixed
by the convention, would have produced. But little
good will be effected in Syria without a strong European
force, since no real dependence can be placed on the
feeble and undiseiplineal hordes with which we should
have to co-operate ; and if, during the delay inseparable
from half measures, Ibrahim should provoke the
advance of Russian troops on Constantinople, it is
firmly believed that France, regardless of dispa-
rity of force, will rush to the Pecha's assistance.
Among the preparations recorded by the Paris journals
of Saturday, the proposed fortification of Paris
occupies a prominent place. The Temps affirms, con-
fidently, that a Royal ordonnance was signed on
Friday for opening a credit of 100 millions of francs
to the Minister of War, for the fortification of
Paris upon the plan of Gen. Haxo, and that the works
will be commenced immediately by 50,000 workmen.
The following is the plan of the proposed fortifications.
Tire capital is to be surrounded by a bastioned wall,
with fosse, countersearp, and glints, and it is to include
faubourgs exterieurs. This wall will be eleven leagues
around. There is to be a second line of fortifications a
league or a league and a half distant, with from sixteen
to eighteen forts on the heights. St. Denis and Cha-
renton are to be the place d'arnzes of the interior line of
fortifications. An order is also, it is said, about to ap-
pear in the Moniteur, for forming a camp under the
Tells of Paris, composed of 50,000 men.

The new system of telegraphic communication is in
course of organization, which, in commercial affairs
especially, promises very important results. Its author
is Mr. B. L. Watson, of Hull. Under this project es-
tablishments have already been !orrned, and others are
forming, which, being fixed on some point near to great
shipping stations, may anticipate by some hours,
perhaps, the notices of arrivals ; enable vessels, where
it is desired, not to enter the port, to pass on with new
orders, to obtain pilots, a supply of provisions when
wanted, assi.tance in case of distress, and other facili-
ties which will naturally occur to every man con-
nected with shipping, when he is told that this com-
munication may take place in fair weather, at a dis-
tance of fifteen or twenty miles from the shore. When
a sufficient number of these stations is formed at
proper intervals over the whole coast of England, for
a small annual subscription, by which the charge of
them is proposed to be defrayed, owners of vessels,
consignees, underwriters, and mercantile associations
will have daily reports sent up of the names of vessels
that pass, and the information they bring. They may
also transmit instructions to vessels which are expected
to pass any of the stations, even to a change of the des-
tination when necessary, or put it in their power to
carry to the port to which they are bound any change
which may have occurred in the value of articles of
commerce after leaving the port of departure.
All this, and much more, is to be accomplished by a
code of signals, said to be extremely simple, and of
which the commanders of all vessels which are to con•
nect themselves hereafter will have to acquire the
proper knowledge, and to provide themselves with a
set of fl cgs, by no means costly ones, which arc to be
employed in the communication. Such establishments
as those described have existed, it seems, for some
years past at Liverpool and at Hull, and it is proposed
that telegraphs shall now be erected on the following
principal points and headlands round the coast :
St. Abb's-head, Fiamborough, North Foreland, the en-
trances of the Bristol Channel and the Clyde, and on
the south coast of Ireland. The Trinity Company have
so far countenanced this undertaking as to grant per-
mission to erect telegraphs on the sites of their lands
occupied by the lighthouses at Fiamborough Head and
the North Foreland, where the proper stations have,
in fact, been commenced. The reduction of postage,
it is obvious, will prove an important element in the
completion of these arrangements, which could hardly
hove gone cn at ail under the heavy tax which the old
rates imposed, and they will thus add another to the ❑u-
merous benefits derived, in spite even of imperfect
management, from that measure. A small subscription
annually from each vessel which is to connect itself with
1 these arrangements, with the purchase of a set of flags,
make up the whole expense to be incurred ; and the
system is already in use to some extent, as it is said, but
more particlarly in the United States.—Times.