The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-18 00:00:00

TRISTAN D'ACUNHA.

We find in a Port Philip paper a very interesting account
of a late visit to this solitary spot. The following par
tieulara were furnished by Captain Salmon, of the brig
Reward, of London. He sighted the island on the 18th of
September, 1845, in latitude 37 deg. 5 min. South, and
longitude 12 deg. 3 min. West. Its snow-capped top was
visible above the clouds, being 8,326 feet above the level of
the sea, and the summit covered with snow throughout the
year. The wind being favourable and the weather fine, and
knowing there were inhabitants on the island, Captain
Salmon steered directly for it. On his nearer approach he
was surprised to get in view large white buildings and corn-
fields, all laid nut in neat order and inclosed ; next to see a

large green plain with cattle grazing, and flocks of sheep in
different inclosures, with patches of green on the sides of
the hill, which he was afterwards told were gardens filled
with various sorts of vegetables, that grow in abundance.
Wheat answers well ; about sixty acres are in a good
state of cultivation, and if they had ships calling for sup-
plies they could grow more. On getting close in with
the island, with the English ensign at the main royal mast
head, the inhabitants were seen moving in all directions
towards the shore ; a whale-boat was dragged towards the
surf ; a person in a dirk dress was put in the stern •, her
crew stood ready, and she was launched through the surf by
the parties on shore. On reaching the ship, the person sitting
in the stern came on deck, and Captain Salmon asking if
Governor Glass was living? he replied that he was the
person. Glass is now in his seventy-second year. and was
one of those sent to the island by the British Government at
the time of Napoleon's imprisonment at St. Helena. He had
been thirty years on the island. He stated the population
to amount to ninety souls; he himself had fifteen children
living. Out of the whole population, sixty. six are females.
These are much in want of clothing, and their agricultural
implements are in a sad state. They depend for their sup
plies principally on the American whalers, with whom they
barter their produce for such necessaries as the ships can
spare. The females are the worst off, as they have to make
their dresses from Op cotton shirts, few vessels having any
cotton or sheeting not made up. The boys wear sheepskins
and the men coarse canvas. Captain Salmon, being in want
of potatoes, Glass-was ready to supply him with any quan-
tity. Ho returned to the shore and came off again in an
hour and a half with the quantity ordered, taking coffee,
tea, and rice in exchange. lie had about 2,0001b5. of wool
for disposal. being two years' clip of his flock of sheep, num-
bering 400. He complained that he was entirely neglected
by the British Government; only two of her Majesty's ships
had called there for the last twenty years. Sir George Gipps
landed on the island on his passage out to New South Wales,
in 1838, and had promised to lay his case before the home
authorities. Mr. Boyd also touched at it in the Wanderer;
but being a little out of the usual track to the east, butl asew
British ships have ever visited Tristan d'Acunha; n
seals and whales are now disappearing from the
locality,
the calls of the American whalers are getting less frequent,
so that Governor Glass is somewhat anxious
his supplies of clothing and othertoread, and they
ries. The children are all taught exotica n n eqcess aboutna-
their instructor, and he
attend religious worship. Glass
told Mr. Salmon that a blessirigisiwas ooffenretdheatseavbebrzhm-deaa3l:
and prayers at night in every f 3
apsa
rga et
yg
he acted as minister, but he comamtplaaiiel(tlsthaatteliceomw
too old and feeble. The presen
death there would be no body to instruct
ignorant, and on his
spiritual
eritualA missionary would be gladly received.
and govern them.
Captain Salmon conEclottilea.sndhmisaynabreraatrivoeuswedittlie
that-
public attention in England taheh
and bodily necessities of our fellow-subjects in the solitary
island of Tristan d'Acunha.

EXPRESS Rionra.--The nnst extraordinary feat in
the way of express riding, in modern times, was accomplished by a
boy aged fifteen years, Fred. Tyler, who brought the news of the
battles of the sth and 9th inst. from Montgomery to Mobile. The
distance, 190 miles, was accomplished in thirteen hours, and during
the entsire night be caught and saddled his horses, none of Watch
were in readiness, as he was not loolte,l for by those ,haying the
horses in charge. He was re/y=l,7;a by 4 04tritwavp, plane cl 70
443304FerOrtia4A4rt *

THE MARRIAGE OF THE QUEEN

OF SPAIN.

(From the Constitutionnet)
The opinions expressed by M. Thiers and M.-Gui
during a recent debate on the affairs of Spain, and metre
particularly on the alliances proposed for Queea Labelle,
have excited great attention at Madrid. They have led
to some very curious communications, the sources of
which we cannot make known, but the authenticity of
which we can guarantee. The explanations confirm all
that was said by M. Thiers on the subject of the young
Queen's marriage, with the exception of one point. It
was not from Queen Maria Christina that originated the
idea of the candidateship of Count Trapani, which is now
declared to be impossible—it is France that must bear
the responsibility of this brilliant idea. The share
taken by the French Government in the entangled
politics in which unhappy Spain is involved is much
greater than M. Thiers represented it to be in the
Chamber. This question of marriage, so important
to Spain, and to her relations with France and with
Europe, has long been agitated between the Govern-
ments. With more or less wisdom, consistency or propri-
ety, five candida`es fie. the Queen's hand have been though t
of—the Duke de Montpensier, of the Royal house of
France ; the Count de Montemolin, son of Don Carlos ;-
a German Prince of the house of Coburg ; the Neapo-
litan Prince, Ceunt de Trapani ; and one of the sons of
the Princess Carlotta, Mario Christino's sister, have
been successively di'cussed upen, and preferred or ex-
cluded in the councils of the different European Gov rn•
ments. The predilections of the Queen Mother have
Been from the first in favour of the Duke de Montpensier.
This alliance would certainly have been popular in Spain;
hut our Government has uniformly declined it. For
this refus..l there was a serious motive. In such a nation
as Spain great caution Inuit be taken not to make any
foreign influence prominent. The marriage of the Dnke
de Montpensier to Queen Isabella would have been atten-
ded with this inconvenience, and have rendered it dis-
tateful to Spain. This motive of refusal, founded on the
suspicious character of the people of Spain, was a grave
one, but at the same time was not that which decided
the resolution' of our Government. It is, in fact, well
known that it has always wished to act in Spain witheut
having the appearance of acting. The marriage of the
Duke de Montpensier to Queen Isabella might, soon,r
or later, give cause for an open intervention in the affairs
of Spain, of which intervention our Cabinet has a
horror. This candidate put aside, it would hate wil-
lingly promoted the pretensions of the Count de
Mooternolin. It' it had been possible to bring the par-
ties together, and efface all the traees of the civil war
by the inerriage of the son of Don Carlos to the
daughter of Queen Christina, thus confounding all
rival pretensions, nothing could he more reasonable
than such a lonian. But, far from producing this
desirable conciliation, the choice of the son of Don
Carlos would, on the contrary, revive in Spain till those
feelings of hatred which are but half extinguished. The
Proe,ressists, and nearly all the Moderudos, would find
in this alliance a counter-revolutien, and events would
soon justify their fears. The Carlists would gather
round the consort of their Queen. and conceive a hope
of restoring through him all of Old Spain that the re-
volution has destroyed. The strife between the restora-
tion and the revolution would he re-commenced. The
Fuerme the clergy, and absolutism wout4 make war
upon a social state as yet but insufficiently c;ibsolidatsd,
upon the national property acquired so lately, and
upon the constitutional system scarcely yet com-
menced. Thus the Count de Mentemolin, whose mar-
riage would be desirable if it were likely to accom-
plish the fusion of' dynastic pretensions, cannot pos-
sibly be the successful candidate. As to a prince of
the House of Coburg, our Government has interposed
its veto. This is certainly not because the house
of Coburg is German, and because there is a dread
of re=establishing that antique European Power
which was founded by Charles V., and which cost
France 'so many wars and efforts to overthrow. Such
a danger could not recur unless an archduke should be
the successful candidate ; for the House of Coburg has
no serious power in Germany. But this house has
become altogether English, and on this account cannot
.be admitted to a hold in Spain without exciting great ap-
prehension. The French Cabinet, knowing that this
would be thus judged of by the public, has not shown
any favour to this project of alliance. Besides, the
Houses of Orleans and Coburg, although united by more
than one marriage, are nut completely atnalgatnated.
After having set aside the Duke de Monponeier,
because he might give rise to the question of inter-
vention—the Count de Montemolin, because he is ab-
solutely rejected by Spain, even by the Muderados
—a Prince of the House of Coburg. because he
sloes not inspire much sympathy in France, there
remained but one reasonably political course to take,
that of turning towards cne of the sons of Dun Francisco
de Paula. nephew of Maria Christina. These are
neither too much nor too little BourbottiNts—they art,
ipaniards. Liberals, and Princes. To them there is only
one obstacle. Imprudent ac,scomtuit-ed by the mother
,ttve weakened the recollection of the ser-ice rendered
hy her to her sister, Marta Christina. They hare b,-en
made di-plf acing to our Government by their mother
caving placed them in the Progressi,t party. This, in-
,tead of reconciling the nephews to the aunt, has caused
their rejection. The family of the lota ta, already irri-
aced, became more and more violent, arid suffered its-l'
o he led to take inconsiderate stepa—t he division b-care
,rivenomed, and an alliance with this branch was rendered
ts impossible as all the others. Our Government,
owever, brought forward the Count de Trapani, in
. pite of the objections raised by the Queen Mother, as
ve know, to tkis project. but to which age afterwards
7'eeigtied herself. As long ago as 1843 our Government
entered upon this subject with the Cabinets of Vienna
,net Berlin. At a later day, at the moment when M.
nezaga was about to quit Paris to become Minister in
sipein, conferences, at which the King of the Belgians
was present. were held in Paris, at which the name of
the Count de Trapani was mentioned, as Nell as that. of
Count d'Aquila, who was not at that time married to a
Brazilian Princess. But it was particularly at the reriod
when M. Donoso Cartes carnet° Paris to recal the Queen
\lother that the Neapolitan Prince was directly named as a

tandidate. DT. Donos.O Cortes did not leave unit' alter hay

ing been much edified on the merits of the Count de Tra-
pani, put forth at the various conferences, and carried
with him a portrait of the Count, destined for Gonzales
Bravo, then Minister. Neither has it been forgotten
that an Ambassador was sent to Spain by the Court of
Naples, by the advice of France, to endeavour to bring
a`►out a reconciliation between the two Courts, and thus
prepare the way for, the marriage. At conferences at
the Chateau d'Eu, between the King of the French.
Queen Victoria, M. Guiz.,t, and Lord Aberdeen, the
merits of the several 'candidates were diSeussed, and an
alliance between Queen Isabella and a Neapolitan Prince

decided upon as ilia most eligible. Nothing, however,
could be less politic—more impracticable. The endea-
vours of the Prince de Carini and M. Bres-
son to promote the fulfilment of this project,
have only rendered the antipathy of Spain more
deep and strong. The same feelings which in-
duced France to accept the Orleans dynasty. al-
though Bourbon, produces the effect in Spain of making
the monarchy popular, at hough the House of Bourbon

is not so, but the Neapolitan branch is still less so. It
was, in fact, difficult for Spain to forget the manner in
which the Court of Naples acted in tha Spanish revolu-
tion, refusing to acknowledge it. This repulsion was
common to all parties in Spain, Moderados as well as
Progressists. The Moderados were unwilling to add to
all the other grounds of its unpopularity-, true or false,
that of assenting to such a marriage, and therefore were
almost unanimous in rejecting it. The power to act upon
the impressionable mind of Narvaez, and to make him de•
cide in favour of the Count de Trapani. Thy n it was that
the Moderados, impressed with the fear that the Narvaez
Ministry might come to an unfavourabe resolution,
made those Manifestions which, in the winter, em-
broiled Narvaez with his colleagues, and brought about
the dissolution of the Moderate) Ministry. In fine, the
acceptance of the Count de Trapani has been unani-
mously pronounced impossible, and in faCt he is given
up by all parties. Such is the series of faults which
have brought Spain to the position in which she stands,
and from which no one can tell how she can relieve her-
self ; for almost all the marriages which have been suc-
cessively proposed have failed almost irrecoverably. The
Cabinet of the Tuileries is afraid to persist in proposing
for the royal hand the Duke da Montpensier ' • the
choice of the Count de Montemolin would raise all Spain
in arms ; the Count de Trapani is acknowledged to 'be
absolutely in ligible, and our Government will not ad-
mit of a Coburg. The causes of clissetkion which sepa-
rated the Queen-Mother from the sons of the Infanta
Carlotta have been aggravated. Maria Christina
anxious to have her daughter married, in order that she
herself may be at liberty to leave Spain, says to our
cabinet, give the Duke de Montpensier to my daughter
•:or a husband, or serer me to marry her to a Prince of
Coburg. It is evident that our cabinet, after having
~ommitted the fault of not wing its influnice in bringing
about a marriage between Isabella and one f the
nenhews of the Queen Mother. has deprived it,.'lf of the
only chance it had of escaping the alt-rnative of a Prince
of Cobura, that is to say, an English alliance, or of the
Duke de Montpensier, which woull be a com!..romi,ing
marriage. D not these facts, which are of undouhrti
of
'authenticity, render evident to all eyes the wane
c„
judgment and foresight in the policy of our G.,vernmen

(FirimOtt
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Tylu.esd CE,,;.)
round
MAIDSTONE.—With the exception of the college g
filthy condition, the lower 1
and part of
deawith vermin of various sorts.
one adj,,ining, our hop-Wardens einmiattimegosat
di-gusting odour and
,co.veretill
very
The " college ground' clear of vermin in the
by no meager, as
weakly. It is, however,
day.
t h 1 elrn2so ,
ov
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nh
epe
reporton
oi eutdth eaolfnagdsrdtoati
weeknvhte
h bwi
an
ase
centr©, which part.evsteehereynitssyearsar
1826. There were then about
b' eing cilled
a2m therei:n3 r:.rinalo.ryteda. fresh,:e isrrifl,einyd
'nlant as now—say 46,718.)
FARLE,„m—We have a decided decrease of fly, and the
bine hai a better count,nance. Notwithstanding, there is a
large quantity of lice, particularly at the outside, when, at
the same time, the middle grounds are almost clean.
&max.—The hops in this and neighbouring parishes
continue growing vigorously, and branching out well, not-
withstanding the fly and lice remaining very numerous, the
hot weather appearing not to diminish them. The " nigger"
has within these few days come to their rescue. Mid-
summer is near at hand, when the sap will be checked for a
few days, thereby giving some hopes of getting rid of the
vermin before the midsummer shoots or branches make their
appearance, in which case a good crop may yet be got. It,
on the other hand, the fly should continue and attack the
Midsummer branches, it will prove fatal to a crop.
MEREwomt.—lmproving, blue growing fast, and vermin
dying away, /he fly golding and nigger making havoc with
the lice.

PLAN-TOL, WILOTHAM, SHIPBOURNE —The hop plant in
Vis neighbourhood still continues to thrive luxuriantly, not-
withstanding the increase of vernin. The fly Bolding and
nis.ger have increased greatly, and _their increase has much
allayed the alarm caused by the increase of the fly; upon
the whole there is certainly not so much vermin az there
we: at the kogiuleg of the *oh.

LENITAM.—In consequence of the favourable weather
during the last week, the hops have grown rapidly—the
vermin have considerably decreased, but there is still much
room for improvement on this account.
TUNBRIDGE.—The hops about here are looking, if P°B*
Bible, worse than last week. There is less fly, but the lice
have multiplied by thousands. The bine still continues to
gtpw, though in many places completely covered with honey"
dew, and the vermin reach the top immediately. Some
persons think there is still hope, if a change should take
place within a week; bat many are of opinion that the it-
mense quantity of vermin will so reduce the strength of the
bine that it will not be able to recover.
SEVENOAKS NEIGHBOURHOOD.-01.1r Holmesdale
corresp3ndents " say tfit3 hops below the hill are much worse
than they were. There Ng been an immense amount of
honey dew and fly produced durir the last few days, and the
bine is absolutely covered with these destructive little
animals; still it is perfectly astonis:ling to notice, despite
these attacks, the healthy tone the bine ir.taintains. Upon the
" Ridge" it is the same, and we must cartii!illy assure you
that we cannot account for the continuance .of these "griev-
ances." Despite our augury last week, and the very hot
sunshiny days we have had, we noun think nothing but t 4
thunder storm can do good. Will any of your tOJented car-
respond,nts tell the people the why it does do good?
CANTERBIJAY.—In consequence of the hot weather during
the past week the hops have grown considerably, but what
with the increase of fly and honey dew they have somewbAt
declined in quality, which occasions the estimated duty to
be set lower. On Sunday there were partial falls of rain in
the county, accompanied with a little thunder. The duty
is laid as something below 100,0001. General accounts state
that the fly and lice have increased. Some grounds have
much honey dew, and appear to be going off with a blight
all of which lead some growers to despair altogether _et
realising a crop The bine is still growing fast.
rattc,h
Fatormuu.—Accounts from this district are pretty
the same as elsewhere. Since NU there never was so reue"
vermin as this year. Nothing,lit is thought, can prevea
total black blight.