The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1840.

REFORM OF ABUSES, AND FAR-
CICAL CHARACTER OF THE MILITARY
AND NAVAL COMMISSION,

Parliament is about to close its labours without any
remedy being provided for the manifold grievances laid
before this Commission, which makes it a matter of re-
gret that any such investigation had ever been instituted,
since it has proved so unproductive of those results so
loudly called for by the meritorious classes of those
branches of the public service—since it is only
" Keeping the word of promise to the ear,
And breaking it to the hope."
What other fate, however, could have been expected,
when an inquiry on such a subject was placed in such
hands as those composing this Commission ?—when the
the most valuable information and detailed statements
of systematic abuse, which is well known to have been
laid before it, were altogether omitted in their Report ?
It might as well have been expected that the bench of
Bishops would have reported in favour of Church re-
form, as the Duke of Wellington in favour of naval and
military, when placed in the two-fold capacity of judge
and foreman of a jury nominated by himself, to pro-
nounce a verdict upon the expediency of continuing a
system which forms one of the most prolific sources for
the maintenance of the younger branches of the Tory
aristocracy, and without which they could not maintain
their influence or existence as a party—a system which
works as well for that party as the system of represen-
tation upon which his Grace pronounced such eulo-
giums previous to the passing of the Reform Act, which
he designated " the most perfect Mat could by human
Ingenuity be devised;" and which we are now induced
to believe is about to be restored to its pristine beauty
by the very men who were most active in the advocacy
of its reform, whether by the effect of Tory tactics, the
ambition of public men, the frailty of human nature, or
a combination of all, we cannot say ; we may, however,
easily fancy that
Charge, Graham, charge I—on, Stanley, on
Would be the last words of Wellington
The field selected by those champions of freedom for
the commencement of this holy war, appears to be Ireland
—where, when, or how it will terminate, we leave to
the dark band of destiny to record in the pages of our
future history, and revert to the more immediate object
of this article, by observing, that any resolution of the
House of Commons, even instituted as it now is, or
any Commission from the Sovereign, having for its ob-
ject an effectual reform in any of the military, naval, or
sacerdotal branches of the State, upon which the scions
of our aristocratic tree look for food, and enjoyment in
luxury and idleness, would be looked upon by the Duke
of Wellington and Archbishop of Canterbury as farcical
as those county meetings in favour of Parliamentary
Reform which were so designated, by one of their Graces
at the period before-mentioned. So long as abuses are
only to be reformed by those who profit by them, so
long will the grievances of those who suffer remain un-
redressed. But when this figurative animal which we
see gorging its unruly appetite, and preying upon the
very vitals of the State, ceases to be a quadruped, when
it ceases to maintain its -overgrown body on those four
props which now support it," The Army, Navy, Church,
and Corn-laws," then, but not till then, can any thing
like permanent peace or tranquillity be expected in this
country. For such laws and institutions, at a period of
such profound poace, are totally at variance with the
acknowledged principles of a free government.
Those w ho profit by such abuses allege tlut they should
be gradually reformed, by the progressive wisdom of an
enlightened nation. To these specious arguments the true
friends of the people reply, that if these abuses are
not crushed while the spirit of freedom is in existence,
they will be the means of crushing that very spirit, of,
in the effort to do so, expose the country to a convulsion,
which ever well-wisher of his country should endeavour
to avert. ihe slender reforms we have had are sup-
posed to have sufficiently unused and lulled the people,
and that when popular enthusiasm once subsides, all
objects of effectual reform will be instantly lost, as we
cannot expect from languor what enthusiasm bad not
obtained. When all necessary reforms are not effected
at such a moment, they are invariably evaded of defeated
in the tranquillity which succeeds. The meritorious
officers in the navy and army, and all the industrious
and intelligent classes throughout every other depart-
ment of the State, have little to expect under such cir-
cumstances, unless Ministers are inspired with: a lit-
tle more courage, and assume that attitude which the
late lamented Lord Durham so frequently recom-
mended, and which. it is truly to be lamented he had
not heart and strength of constitution himself to under-
take. His was the language addressed by Talleyrand,
when Bishop of Autun, to the French people, when
their interests were trifled with by a weak and pusilla-
nimous £lovernment :--
" Ignore t'on que c'est attaquant en ran versant tous
les abus a la foss, qu'en peut esperer de s'en voir de-
livre sans retour ?—que les reformes lentos et partielles
ont toujours fiai par ne ripn refhtmer enfin que les
abus que Pon conserve devient l'appui et bientot le
restaurateur de tout ceux qu'on eroioit astir detruits."
Which for the itiforthation of our less aristocratic
readers, whom we are ambitious of cultivating, we shall
give them in more intelligable language 5
" Can one be ignorant of the fact that, it is only by
attacking and- removing- every abuse at once, that we
can hope to see ourselves finally relieved from them—
that slow and partial measures Of reform have always
ended in nothing ? In fact, that the abuses which re-
main, become the prop and even the Melina of ulti-
mately restoring all those which were supposed to have
been destroyed."
The French nation took this advice; and all the
abuses under which they laboiied Ceased to exist.
Although we may ditapprove of the means, we cannot
but rejoice at the end; and hope that such diSaSters may
be averted from this country by a tithelY attention to
this subject; all it thtild be recollected that continuing
abuses amounts to a consecration of them ; and that in
the present advanced and progressing state of arts and
sciences, no one will venture to say that the science of
government cannfat.be iMproVed upon, did a better sys-
tem eitablished. That the stationary system can be no
longer tolerated—that the improvement of the social
order, the remedying of acts of injustice, vrhether civil
or military,—the removal of all tecbgnited abuses, is
the most stibliihe and difficult of all arts ; and that the
alleviation of the miseries which result from the abuses
which have crept into Our o.isting institutions, can be
no lohger overlooked with impunity. In fact, that the
art Of government cannot alone remain stationary amid
the rapid progress now makipg towards perfection in
every other liberal art and science ; and that unless a
timely reform of those abuses emanates from within the
walls of Parliament, it will come with a thgeance from
without.

MEMORANDA FOR THE Mown-r.—Saturday
being the Ist of August, afinnal licenses were to be taken out
by hawkers and pedlars. The 20th is the last day for leaving
notices with overseers of objections to county electors. The
2.5 th is the last day of serving objections on electors in counties
or their tenants, and for service on overseers of objections to
borough electors : also the last day to claim as borough elec-
tors. The 29th overseers of parishes and townships are to
send lists of electors and lists of objections to the high constable
of their hundreds; and the 31st of this month (August) all
taxes and rates payable on March the first, must be paid on or
before this day by persons claiming to be enrolled as burgesses
under the new Municipal Corporation Act.
EASTERN QUESTION.—It will be seen by our
summary of French news, and by some extracts in detail from
the French Papers, that a great hubbub is getting up in Paris
on the subject of the treaty for the settlement of the Turko-
Egyptian quarrel. We confess we do not attach much import-
ance to this violent explosion of parties evidently unacquainted
with the real circumstances of the case. The point is, what
better mode could the French Government suggest for the set-
tlement of that question ; and what reasonable ground have
the French Ministers of complaint that they were not
asked to be parties to a treaty which, though it was
known that they approved the principle of it, va-
rious circumstances made it inconvenient for them
to sanction by personal adhesion ? The treaty is, no
doubt a hazardous experiment ; but if France main-
tains her good faith, and does not oppose a project. the principle
of which she has more than once admitted to be politically just,
the hazard becomes nothing. We cannot bring ourselves to
suppose that M. Thiers and his colleagues can recommend war
to support the tyrannical and rebellious Pacha of Egypt. On
the contrary, we anticipate a firm resolve for the maintenance
of that alliance which has so long subsisted between England
and France, especially when it is evident to every man of com-
mon sense that this treaty can bring no advantage to England
beyond that which will accrue to every other great Power by
the conclusion of that war between the Sultan and his subject
which has so long disturbed and disquieted the east of Europe.
—Times.

DREADFUL SUICIDE AT GOODWOOD.—A
melancholy occurrence cast a gloom over Goodwood on Friday.
Death had already deadened enjoyment at the Duke's, her
Grace having lost her uncle, but on the morning of Friday it
was found that one of the servants of the establishment had de-
stroyed himself. The particulars are briefly these :—Thomas
Dearman had lived with his Grace of Richmond four or five
years ; was employed as butcher, and went in that capacity last
year into Scotland, with his Grace. He was a widower, with
two children, a boy aged twelve, and a girl of six. He was
about to be married to a young woman of excellent character
who is employed in the still-room of Goodwood House. A
little before six o'clock on Friday morning Dearman went
to the apartment of Mr. Rusbridge (the Duke's Steward)
for orders, but Mr. Rusbridge had not risen. Dearman
returned from thence, and desired his son to go into the lar-
der, and wait for him. The poor child did so, but a consider-
able time elapsing, and finding that his parent did not return,
heproceeded to the boiling hoase to seek him, and was horror-
sti uck to perceive 'aim lying on his back with his head nearly
severed from his body ; an open razor clotted with blood was in
his left hand. From the position in which he lay, and the na-
ture of the wound, it is conjectured that he must have lain
down to inflict it. He had recently taken a house, and was
furnishing it previous to his marriage, which was to have taken
place in a fortnight. He was between thirty an forty years
of age, and very generally respected. Amid the rumours cur-
rent on the subject are allegations of his jealousy, and that he
lost a comparatively large sum upon Charles the Twelfth for
the Cup.
AGE OF GALLANTRY.—SALE OF A WIFE
BY HER HusBAND.—At Longtown, on Monday last, at one
o'clock, a man well known in this locality, who had lost all
relish for the sweets of wedlock, brought his wife into the Mar-
ket in a halter, and offered her for sale to the highest bidder.
IHineo.ps,ubt
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The
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was ultimately knocked down to her own mother for the mere
cost price of the halter—a shilling, without auctioneer's fees,
&c..—unless a good thrashing and two handsome black eyes,
which the fellow received before leaving the place, from a ye.
teran old lady, aided and assisted by an enterprising youth, may ,
be reckonedassuch—
these, and buffetings and hootings, he had
heaped upon him at a good round rate.—Northern Likrator.

THE ARCHIMEDES STEAMER.

() rom the Brighton Gazette.)
On Thursday last this vessel, which is propelled by
an Adaptation of the screw somewhat similar to that in-
vented for the purpose of raising water by the great
philosopher of ancient Greece, whose name she bears,
arrived off Brighton, whence she proceeded the next
day to Shoreham harbour. Her visit to Brighton was
occasioned by her being chartered by Mr. Harris, (who
has for some time resided in West house, Portland
place,) to convey him and his family to Oporto. A
considerable number of persons were admitted on
board the vessel on Friday and Saturday; and we now
present our readers, from ocular inspection, with a brief
description of the vessel and of the new propeller which
has been so ingeniously substituted for the comparatively
cumbrous invention of paddle-wheels.
The Arehimedes is a three-masted schooner, with
raking masts, of the burden of 240 tons, and drawing
ten feet and a half water; and with the exception of
the chimney, there is perhaps nothing in the appear-
ance of the ship to indicate that she is anything
more than a sailing vessel. Her dimensions are—Length
over all, 125 feet; between perpendicular, 107 feet;
extreme breadth, 26f feet ; depth of hold, 13 feet.
Her propeller is the invention of Mr. F. P. Smith
(who has been on board the Archimedes during her
voyage), and it is put in motion by one of Rennie's
engines, of eighty-horse power. At low water as the
vessel lay in harbour, an aperture about six feet square
was observed in the dead-wood in front of the rudder,
and immediately above the keel. Through the centre
of this aperture runs an iron shaft 30 feet long, which,
passing through a stuffing-box used Mr the pthipose of
preventing the admission of water into the hold of the
vessel, aad under the floor of the cabin, is connected
with the machinery. Around the shaft in the above
aperture, and consequently open to the sea, is placed
the screw, by the revolution of which in the water
the vessel is propelled in an opposite direction, the
screwanting
ains a p
fact,
ade from
during beinghe
dlw
h entirelyele
r revolution,
0 in
tunderinn,
nstwater,ead
of in a small portion only of the revolution, as is the
case in the common paddles. The propeller originally
consisted of one complete turn of a spiral ; but, in order
t
to economize the space, this has given way to a two-
threaded screw, having two half turns placed opposite to
each other. The diameter of the screw is five feet nine
inches, and the length four feet two inches. With the
engines working at their full power, the propeller
would make 180 revolutions in a minute ; but we are
informed that the greatest number she has yet made is
132, the engines having never made more than 60-horse
power. The experiments already made with the Ar-
chimedes have been subject to the disadvantages which,
in almost every case, attend the adaptation to practical
purposes of a new invention. Her speed, however,
may be now fairly estimated at nine knots an hour with
sail alone,* and Of knots an hour with steam alone. She
has made the passage from Dover to Calais in one hour
and 41 minutes, and from Calais to Dover in one hour
and 35 minutes. In a strong wind and a heavy sea, the
power of carrying sail and the possession of a propeller
continually immersed are always effective, and must
give a decided superiority to vessels fitted with the
screw, since on such occasions the common steamer
often buries one of her paddle-wheels so deeply as to be
injurious to her speed, while the other is working in the
air. We are informed that in a casual trial off the North
Foreland with one of her Majesty's steamers, when it
was blowing a strong gale with considerable sea running,
the steamer labouring heavily was found to have no
chance with the iffthinzedes, which made her voyage
with comparative ease and comfort.
Trials have been made of the Archimedes by officers
of rank and experience in the navy, some of them prac-
tically acquainted with the management of steam ves-
sels, including Vicc‘Admiral Sir Robert Otway, Lieut.
John Allan Wright (of her Majesty's cutter Speedy),
the Hon. Admiral Fleming, Captain Evans, Commander
Berridge, and Lieutenarit Commander W. Crispin, (ot
her Majesty's steamer Vulcan), who all report most
favourably of the Merits of the invention.

Among the principal advantages Which the new pro-
peller affords are these :—that in rivers and harbours
the Archimedes can be put about in twice her own
length ; she can be stopped as quickly as any other
steamer, and goes equally fast abed(' or astern, though
not built to contend with river boats, either by her
draught of water or by the forth of her bcittom (she
having been constructed for a sailing and Sea-going
craft) ; she has been found, with engines not fully effect-
ive, to be eqeal in speed to any of them ; boats going
alongside inettr no More risk than in boarding a sailing
vessel ; the swell; so dangerous to small craft in rivers,
and so injurious to the banks, is not caused by the Ar-
chimedes ; her wake is distinguished by no more ripple
than that of any vessel under sail ; she can thread her
way through obstacles, between iiihieh the projection of
paddle-boxes prevents an ordinary steamer from ven-
turing, and she can enter locks and canals from which
the other would be excluded ; she can lie close along-
side other vessels or quays for the discharge of her
cargo, or the embarkation or landing of passengers, with-
out being prevented by those cumbrobs appendages,
lint it it as a powerful aultiliary to sett-giling vessels,
by enabling them to make head against adverse winds
and currents, and in calms, that the screw propeller
grounds its chief claims to attention. The power being
seated where it cannot be injured will enable the seaman
to give his ship way, even if dismasted, or unable from
the fury of the wind to show any canvass—will allow her
head to be kept to the wind, and by the rapidity with
which the vessel answers the helm, at the very instant
of putting the sdretv in motion, will facilitate various
operations, which will be obvious to the seaman. By a
simple contrivance the propeller may be connected with
the machinery, or discennected from it, in the short
space of two minutes ; and the screw is not found to
offer any sensible resistance to the progress of the vessel
when going by tho aid of sails alone,
Another most important advantage is that the vessel
would admit of guns being placed On the broadside,
which in the common steamers is prevented by the large
space occupied by the paddle-boxes ; and the propeller
being placed out of reach of an enemy's shot, would
enable the vessel to be used in naval warfare, which
with the paddle-boxes could not be the case, owing to
the facility with which the present vessels could be dis-
abled.

The Archimedes left the harbour with her passengers
on Monday afternoon, for Oporto.
* The uttbost speed of her Majesty's swiftest Post-office
packets on the Dover station is ten knots an hour, under
the most favourable circumstances of smooth water, and
using sail and stettit.

MILITARY PUNISHMENTS.—On Thursday
morning the military in St. George's Barracks, St. James's-
park, were called out on parade to witness the revolting sight
of the punishment of two privates of the Ist battalion of Scotch
Ftisilier Guards, Who had been sentenced to receive 290 lashes
each for insubordination. It will be remembered that a short
time since one of the sentries was charged with being drunk on
duty, and on the supposition that he was so, the officer ordered
him to the guard-house, where he expired, and it was after-
wards proved that the unfortunate man had died from exhaus-
tion alone. It appears that two or three days after the melan-
choly occurrence alluded to, one of the privates of the above
corps returned intoxicated to the barralts, and the sergeant
or. duty ordered another private, named Sutliffe, to convey him
to the guard room : thishe refused to do,and commenced violently
abusing the sergeant. The drunken man joined in the abuse, and
refused to go to the guard-room,and it became necessary to turn out
the guard, stile, placed them both in confinement, and they
were tried by a general Cout t-martial. After the usual pre-
liminaries yesterday, Sutliffe was tied to the halberts, and the
degrading and disgusting punishment was commenced. The
shrieks and groans of the wretched man as he underwent the
torture are described to be appalling, and were but partially
drowned by the drums. The sentence being carried into full
effect the poor fellow was taken to the Military Hospital. The
other culprit, who was the main cause of this sou:-harrowing
exhibition (but whose name the reporter could not obtain),
then stepped up with great hardihood and indifference, and
having thrown up his cap twirling in the air, undressed him-
self while the sentence was being read. He received the pu-
nishment with scarcely a moan. On being taken down, an
overcoat being about to be put over his bleeding and mangled
back, he refused it, and walked to the hospital.
LOW TEMPERATURE OF JULY.—At the latter
part of the month of April the thermometer ranged in the sun
between 96 and 114 degrees of Fahrenheit ; and since the
first day of the present month, although the sun is at a much
greater altitude, the range has been between 69 and 87.
NIGER EXPEDITION.—The first steam-boat for
this expedition was launched from North Birkenhead, on Sa-
turday week, and appears, from her model and general ap-
pearance, admirably adapted for the purpose for which she has
been built. In a few weeks she is expected to be ready for
sea. The two other steamers for the same expedition are also
in a forward state.—Liverpool Albion.
FESTIVITY AT IIULGRAVE CASTLE.--
Thursday last, the 23d of July, the day on which Lord Mul-
grave came of age, a dinner was provided for the tenantry and
tradesmen, and their families, who have have been employed
under the Noble Marquis and the Marchioness of Normanby.
Thomas Watson, Esq., of Whitby, presided as Chairman. In
the evening there were tea and supper for all who wished to
partake, and as much wine and punch as could he drank, and
yet, with all the abundance, we must say we never before wit-
nessed so much decorum and so little drunkenness on such an
occasion. In the evening there was a ball, which was every-
thing to the younger branches of families, and thus ended a
day long to be remembered by all who had the honour of being
present.—York Courant.
In Moscow, the young ladies who are candidates
for matrimony range themselves along the side-walks in lines,
decked out in fine dresses and jewels,
ptcy a y and the beaus pass along
IMPRISONMENT Or NINE YEA RS. --On
and make a sort of military review-
DISCIIARGE OF A BANKRUPT AFTER AN
Thursday last in the
Court of Bankru ounce *man'
named Francis Squeers,
who had been imprisoned in 1831, for not affording satisfactory
answers to questions put to him regarding the disposal of 950/.
was discharged. He yesterday again declared that his account
of the 950 i. was correct, protesting altogether against the vali-
dity of the commission issued out against him.
ILLNESS OF THE KING OF THE FRENCH....—
" I regret exceedingly to state dia.; a rumour is prevalent
,in
the best circles, that the King is suffering under an affection of
the heart, which inspires
uneasiness in the minds of his friends.
As there is no external symptom of this malady, the public ge-
nerally, who see nothing in his appearance to indicate disease,
imagine that he is quite well. We know; however, that affec-
tions of the heart frequently exist without external symptoms.
A man may live with such a malady to a very old are ; but on
the other hand, he may go off quite suddenly. God grant that
the rumour to which I have alluded, may be utterly unfolnded, ,
for never has Fran.se had a better, I may say, so good a I
never could society exhibit it, so elevated a position a better
man. I shall rejoice to see the rumour con.radicted from au-
thority, although I have felt it right to notice it. "_Evening
Paper.

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iance ti it &Ferelgnlool.ol. IU. pd 14%
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50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marble lOO/. eh. 5/. pd 5%
4,000 11. per sh. Atlas 5Ol, sh. 51. pd 1136
1,200101. N. Birmingham I' ire.. ‘,50/, sh. 554 pd 107)4
20,000 4/. per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 501. pd 40
2,000 el. pet cent. British Commercial 5O/, sh. 5/. pd 5%
5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical Sc Medi,rl Life, ICO/.5h.2/10s NI 4
4,000 V lOs County
20,003 ss. Pftilltwili.ii.• tau. ... 50/, sh. Si. pd 5%
200 fluviegtl Economic Liie.,,,,,,.., 1000/,sh. 2501. pd 400
2,271 .22s.per cent. European Li' • "0/. sit 011 pd 22
soma 23, Ditto, New 20!. sh. 11./. tits 1%
~000,000/. 6/.pet Ct Cildl, Stock 121
20,000 51! O.Liar iiii ...,,., ........ ... 100/. sh. 271/ pd 39
'O,OOO s. 9a• Hope • ....u. 501. sh. 5/. pd 5%
2,400 51.75: 04. Imperial Fite • ‘,400/. sh. 50/. pd 135
7,500 9s. /rnperia) Lit. :.. • • 100/. ill. 10!. pd 10l
13,459 5/. percent. Indemnity Matine ,- • - •100/ sh 51 pd 2Q%
2,020 31 103 Kent Fire - sot.tio/.9h.allpd 92
3/. Ditto Life -:!-.0.-14 65
10,000 16s. Law Life lOOl. sh. 10/. pZ PO
5,000 10s. London, Fire 25/, sh. 121. 10s. pd 16"-<
3,900 10s. London, Ship "51. sin 12/. 10s. pd 1939
,000,0001. ... .. ... Minerva 1,11.,. ..100/. sh.
;00,000/ u... National Loan Fund 2/. ss. pd 3
30,000 5/. per cent. Palladium Lite 5O/. sh. 2/. pd 2/ 7s
50,000 4/. per cent. Protector Fr ' 00/. sh. 2/. pd 19s Orl
10,0.0 4 per cent. Protestant liissenters ~..10/. sh. Si. pd 534
2,500 1/. Provident Lice ..,,
.10,000 ss. Rock Life 2O/. ah. 1/, pd
,19,220/ 51. per coat. Royal Exchange Stock 205
0,000 5 per cent University Life inn/. sh. 5/. pd 514
50,000 4 per cent. United K:lngdern Life 100/. sh. 51. pd 74