The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-30 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

The journey of bii Majesty the King to Weimer, to invite
his daughter, her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand
Duchess of Saxe Weimer, is fixed for Monday or Tuesday
next. Count Von Bylandt will accompany his Majesty. ft
is affirmed that his Majesty will also pay a visit to St.
Petersburgh. _

RorrEap.tx, MAY 22.—The New Rotterdam Courront has
the following article among its commercial news :—" Lubeck,
May 18.—We have received news to-day from St. Peters-
burgh, that a great number of vessels laden with wheat and
rye had caught fire, and that in consequence, 180,000 chat-
wefts were destroyed. Statements of this description are
generally exaggerated, so that we may hope that this is the
case now, since otherwise the destruction of so large a quan-
tity may have serious consequences." (The above intelli-
gence we confirm by letters from Riga of the 15th of May.)
AMSTERDAM, AfAY 23.—A correspondent sends us the fol-
lowing important information :—" An account has been re-
ceived by express from Brussels, at Bois-le-Duc, that the
ultimatum of the Netherlands respecting the import and ex-
port duties had been accepted by the Belgian Government,
and the reprisals, which are so injurious to trade, will there-
fore shortly cease en both sides."
AMSTERDAM, MAY 25.—His Royal Highness the Heredi-
tary Prince arrived here this forenoon by the ordinary train
on the Rhenish Railway, on his way to the Hague. We have
received by the overland mail Java journals to the Ist of
April.

ROTTERDAM, MAT 24.--Letters direct from St. Peters-
burgh, of the 23d April (sth May), which have been com-
municated to us, confirm the account from Lubeck of the
destruction of a large quantity of wheat and flour by fire.
These letters state that the misfortune took place at Shiloca,
a village on the Oka, near Monschank, and that the quan-
tity destroyed amounted to 200,000 chetwerts.
AusTEßnax, MAT 25.—We have no further information
respecting the acceptance of the Netherlands ultimatum by
Belgium, but we believe that the news given by our corres-
pondent is, at least, very near the truth. The Belgian
papers received to-day say nearly the same. The Precurseur.
of Antwerp says that the definitive treaty will be signed in a
few dav•-,, if it is not so already, and that the stipulations are
such that both parties have reason to be satisfied with
them. _ - -

VIENNA.—The celebrated place of pilgrimage, Maria Pe,
trowitscb, in Stiria, was destroyrd by fire. The beautiful
church, founded in 850 by Luipram, Archbishop of Salzburg,
was saved, by the exertions of the inhabitants of the neigh.
bouring towns, from destruction.

MILITARY HONOURS.
(From the Times.)
The army of the Sutlej is by this time inCormed of the
spirit in -...-11;ch its services have been acknowledged by a
grateful ‘!ation ; and the troops are now displayine• to a
vanquished country or bringica home to their own shores
the honours and decorations which have been the due reward
of their conduct and courage. Our own tribute of admira-
tion to this army has been neither scantily measured nor
tardily paid. In the absence of infbrmation, we augured
nothing but success from the known character of the soldiers
and their chiefs; and when the first shapeless rumours were
tortured by our contemporaries into tidings of that disaster
and defeat which their ill-omened forebodings had predicted,
we combated, by argument and inference, the credit
and currency which ill news can always too readily
command. It is not in any invidious or ungracious
spirit that we now advert to the subject. Our remarks, we
are quite certain, will but embody the sentiments of nine-
tenths of our readers, and give expression to thoughts and
feelings which half the nation must have involuntarily ex-
perienced. It is in itself no slight consequence
nsseeuteenrcoeofththe reeortmdu:
obdu-
racy which has refused to the Pen
pense of a riband that at the recurrenceandresuultisd bofee the
successive victory—of every event which should
ofof Britishtheirown
soldiersu n
hseheodueld
i should
be forced into a
signal of universal jreeooy—
servces, and a vast portion of the public into an unseason-
llaecbt?odny
able sympathy with their unmerited neglect. It would be
begging the question at issue if we were to endeavour to
collect from precedents what particular achievements were
entitled to decorations and what were not. It seems both
reasonable and necessary to conclude that the intrinsic
merits of the troops should have the foremost place in con-
ferring a claim to such rewards; and instances are not want-
ing, either in our own history or that of the French, where
honours have awaited even the unfavourable issue of a
struggle in which success, though not commanded, has been
deserved. The intensity and duration of the conflict, the
character of the enemy, the nature of the quarrel, the mag-
nitude of the stake at issue, the critical exigencies of the
period, are all considerations which may be fairly added to
those of the personal prowess of individuals or detachments.
A less equitable criterion, perhaps, is taken from the advan-
tage attending the event, a hen the gratitude of the
nation is measured by the benefits acquired, and
not by the efforts which acquired them. But, whatever
conceivable standard be assumed, we hold it as beyond
all question or denial that the veterans of the Pe-
ninsula are incomparably better entitled to a comme-
morative decoration than any soldiers whom the last
four generations of Englishmen have seen. From the day
when Marlborough was superseded on the Scheldt to the day
when Sir Arthur Wellesley landed at Mondego-bay—a dis-
tance of a century—England fought no great war. If by
such title is implied a desperate struggle between two
mighty nations, systematically conducted with all the art of
strategy and all the force of discipline through a series of
complicated campaigns up to a triumphant issue or an
equitable compromise, modern England has known but two
such—the war of Marlborough in the Low Countries, and
the war of Wellington in the Peninsula. The title cannot
he bestowed on our faithful adherence to Maria Theresa, on
our escape at Dettingen, or our efforts at Fontenov ; nor on
our honourable diversions in favour of Frederic 11., on the
subsidies we advanced, or the commander we lent him at
Minden ; nor on our grapple with Montcalm in the savage
wilds of America, or our captures of Quebec or Montreal;—
no, nor on our conquest of Hindostan. The bravery, and
perseverance, and success of the nation may be abundantly
illustrated from such transactions, but there is no prominent
chapter in English history for the great Prussian war, or
the great Austrian war, or the great American war. None
of these contests called a body of British soldiery into being
which stepped forth at a stride, and at once took place above
every other. Such a feat was never performed but twice.
In 1696 we were sneered at by Louis and Villeroi, and in
1796 by Napoleon and Carnot. Ships we might certainly
manage, but as to land-fighting the English were a cipher.
Marlborough and Wellington arose, and in 1713 and 1813 our
troops had fought their way through the armies of the first
military power in Europe to the very frontiers of its terri-
tory. In the coalition against the giant usurper England's
blow was given in the Peninsula. The records of that war
are the records of our share in the delivery of Europe; and
it is for no less a service than this that a token of acknow-
ledgment has been now asked and refused. It is not for a
battle or a siege that the reward is required, for the passage
of a stream or the capture of a convoy. It is for seven suc-
cessive campaigns, the least of which would supply a battle
equal to any that has ever been blazoned on a medal; the
poorest of which would show a siege such as Vauban
never dreamt of; and the shortest of which, besides its
prominent and deathless glories, witnessed such unrecorded
instances of bravery and sufferings as the Gazettes of years
could never comprise. A comparison between this great
war and any other of the achievements usually re-
ferred to is impossible to be drawn. It can supply a parallel
to any one of them without suffering by the omission. Take
any serge or battle, or advance or retreat, or attack or sur-
prise—take any exploit which has either claimed or carried
off a decoration or reward, and you may match it. step by
step, from any campaign of the Peninsula war. Nothing ap-
proaches it but the campaigns of Marlborough. In these—
in their bloody battles, in their desperate storming; in the
successive overthrows of the bravest French marshals, and
the defeats of the choicest French tropes, in the gloomy com-
mencement and the triumphant close—there is a very re-
markable similitude. But such resemblance or rivalry
exists nowhere else; these two contests stand alone. Nejt
in rank are unquestionably the battles of India; but the
subjugation of Hindostan is not a fair subject for comparison.
It was a mighty contest, but not a great war. Even if
the campaigns of Clive and Coote could be connected with
those of Lake and Wellesley—even if the work had been
achieved in seven years, by a single army, and that
an English one—it could hardly be called so. There
was no well-matched and worthy foe for the British soldier
—scarcely for the British-drilled Sepoy. Few of the early
victories would be memorable, but for their momentous re-
sults and the strange disparity of the force by which they
were won. No partiality can represent Dhoondiali or Holkar
as a Soult or Massena. The mighty enemy was not in the
inhabitants, but in the country. This region and this cli-
mate our troops subdued; and we should be the last to dis-
parage the merit of the conquest. Nothing could have a
greater effect in elevating and ennobling the soldier's cha-
racter than some of the incidents of this Asiatic warfare.
The Indian soldier was an European in a country where
that birthright gave him precedence above millions. The
Indian officer directed districts and gave law to princes at
an age when other ensigns had hardly learnt their
facings. If, personally, the foe was often unworthy of
his bayonet, yet this fugitive and wily adversary was in-
trenched behind the most formidable bulwarks of nature.
There was the night march and the ceaseless chase,
through steaming forests and scorching sands, over the deep
ravine and the deadly jungle. Before a road could be
trodden it had to be made. Fullarton's movement against
Seringapatam, when we first shook our swords at Tippoo in
1783—Lake's unrivalled cavalry march upon Furruckabad—
and Smith's famous chase of Meer Khan, when our harassed
dragoons in one month rode over 700 miles of the roughest
country in the world—are exploits without a parallel in their
way. Even the hot and eager rush of Crauford's division to
get in time for the bloody glories of Talavera cannot match
them. We shall not be accused, we are sure, of any incline-
nation to depreciate the Indian army, or any remissness in
advocating its claims; but in postponing them to those of
the Peninsular veterans we are doing it neither injury nor
discredit. We are not for robbing one army to reward an-
other. Lord Hardinge and his troops have well won their
decorations. A riband at the breast is no exorbitant re•
compense for f ,ur savage battles, even though the Seikh re-
doubts and the Sutlej were not like the bloody ford
of the lJrumea or the fiery breach of Badajoz.
But could nothing be done for the best service
of all ? Could no unappropriated combination of
colours be found—no square inch of riband spared—
no dangling bit of metal devised—to intimate that
the bearer had fought his way through a girdling chain of
forts and armies from Cadiz to St. Sebastian; that he bad
seen the backs of Massena, and Soult, and Suchet. and Junot,
and Marmout, and Victor; that he had hunted King Joseph
and his half million Frenchmen from Spain, and carried the old
regimental colours over the borders of France—compensating
the while his want of supplies by his sagacity and courage,
and learning his way as he went along? For it was in the
Peninsula that these men were formed. The host which
" could go anywhere and do anything" was not carrid into
Spain, but was made there. The history of the British army
is almost identical with the history of this war. It was here
that the different regiments earned that individuality of re-
nown and character which gives to their otherwise meaning-
less numbers an historical life and a local habitation. Some
few corps had already made steps towards this position—
the 12th and 56th at Gibraltar—the 76th and 78th
in Central India—the 39th as far back as Plessey.
But it is in the records of these wars alone that the
regiments, and bngades, and divisions assume so memorable
a familiarity of aspect; it is from the Peninsula almost ex-
clusively that their titles are traced, and their nobility de-
rived. The war which gave a history to the army, an im-
mortality to the regiments, and a character to the soldier, is
not permitted to give a riband to the survivors. And why?
Is it because others would ask if these were listened to?
Does a repudiation of one debt carry with it a quittance
from all others? Is a denial of every obligation the most
reputable mode of avoiding the discharge of any? Wbuld
an act of honourable honesty be so very dangerous a prece.
dent? But the argument is not less unsound than unseemly.
It is extravagant to assert that there are any claims which
even approach these in magnitude. Where are they to be
found ? The campaigners of Egypt and America may have
a claim as against the soldiers of Amoy and Gwalior, but
none against the men of the Peninsula. If a medal were
asked for Barossa, or a badge for Fuentes d'Onor, a
stand might then perhaps be made for Aboukir and
Bladensburg. But if. Fuentes d'Onor and Barossa had
never been trodden by Englishmen, there would still
be the great Peninsular war. It is useless to appeal to the
usages of the War-office in the days when these exploits
for. ClieUmseribing
were achieved. Such customs might have been a warrant
withholding therm now. If
elusive perquisite of corn
of Paris, there would be less g".°
the rewards at the time, but are none for
reaso
unfair to change the entire system oi'hl:'
to existing interests. It was unjust honourserveelrnwsei,nce the peace
medals had continued the ex-
_ But it was
place without regard
successors upon an unequal footing. Of the two couvraneras andh
denial of all decorations till the undecorated race of veterans
had passed away would have been the more consisteat, and
the less ungracious. To have left all alike without a recom-
pense would, at the worst, have been but adhering to a cold
and unthankful precedent. To depart from that precedent
on a less imperative occasion_to give to the con-
querors of the Seikhs what is still withheld from the
conquerors of the French—and to range these con-
trasted warriors in the same ranks—is an act of galling in-
justice. Has the claim been too long deferred ? But even
if a plea which is deemed disreputable in a court of bank-
ruptce be admitted in a court of honour, in this case it can
be overthrown. The claim cannot be statute-run, for it has
t
repeatedly been urged in the interval. Nor is there any
judgment or enactmen which fixes the limitation of a na-
tion's of thirty years. Statues for deeds
erected daily. It is barely a twelve-
tion's liability to a pen
of as old a date are erec
month since her Majesty accorded. .
on their appointments
to a regiment of the line
two and thirty years
commemorative of their gallantry
be to turn our the privilege of bearing an inscription
beak. A more becoming. course would
by the less
be adjudicated .
that a cau,e so great eeeld only
the claims
cul-
pable remiezuess to the advantage of the sufferers; to assume
biassed decisions of after years ; to acknowledge
3s more immovably established from the sevenfold searching
length the reward
4.14-iii long abeyance, and to proportion at
4 04ierts and the tr,tatment they have hitherto experienced
and tineilianner of its bestowal to the magnitude of the 1

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON OF 1845,

(accompanied
ploanngi
e-,lioobkyed reportsfo rrefprounrt
iof Rear-Ad•nra
PORTSMOUTH,I
the captains of the respective ships), upon he perferina ices of
the various ships under his command, comprising the rape-
mental squadron et 1845, has at length been printed and
published. The surprise and discomfiture of the detractors
of the Surveyor of the Navy must necessarily be great on
perusing this report, inasmuch as it establishes the complete
success of his ships.
Placing that faith in the document before us which as a
Parliamentary return it isentitled to, we find Admiral Parker's
report agrees with all the succeeding ones in awarding the
palm to the Surveyor's ships. Knowing as we do the anti-
pathy Rear-Admiral Parker was supposed to entertain for the
productions of Sir William Symonds, we are not surprised at
the report being unaccompanied by any " opinion" from the
gallant Commander-in-Chief; but we regret the circum-
stance, as it compels us to take the report merely as we find
it; consequently we can only give the result of the trials of
sailing or speed without reference to the other essential qua-
lities of a ship as an efficient man-of-war; but as all the
trials were copiously reported in the very figures
used in the return, and some nine months before the returns
appeared, we shall only now touch upon that part of the do •
current before us having reference to the trials which took
place under the superintendence of Rear-Admiral Parker, the
report of which has been hitherto withheld. In a word, then,
the Queen is declared to have been the best of the three-
deckers, and the Albion and Canopus the best of the two-
deckers, in the sixteen trials which took place under Rear-
Admiral Parker's command.
We subjoin a selection from the reports of the respective
captains of the ships upon their qualifications:—
The Trafalgar, 120, Captain Martin.—" She carries her
lower deck ports longer open than any other ship in the
squadron, except the Rodney, and her rolling and pitching
being less than theirs, her capability of effectively using all
her batteries is proportionally increased. Being extremely
weatherly, having great power of using her lower deck
gild, being very easy, and consequently having little wear
and tear, good stowage, and ample room on her decks, are
the Trafalgar's good points. I believe her defects would be
corrected in a very great degree if her masts were placed
further aft."
The St. Vincent, 120, Captain Rowley.—" The St. Vin-
cent is decidedly a leeward ship in comparison with the rest
of the squadron. She rolls deep, but easily, and does not
jerk dr strain anything. I should say she rolled during the
late trial quite equal to the Albion and Canopus. In very
light air before the wind, the St. Vincent would run away
from the whole squadron—except the Queen. My opinion
of the Trafalgar is, that she is a very weatherly
ship, and particularly in bad weather, but the other ships all
' fore-reached her. The Queen always appeared to me to be
a remarkably fine man-of-war on all points. In all mode-
rate weather, whether on a wind, going free, or before the
wind, she has no competitor, the Albion being the next
ship to her. With the Queen, Albion, Rodney, and
Canopus, the St. Vincent had no chance. In strong breezes
and a heavy head sea the Queen also proved herself a very
fine ship, standing up remarkably well under a heavy press
of sail, and appearing to pitch easily. The Queen is cer-
tainly much stiffer under a press of sail than the Trafalgar
or a.!y of the squadron, the Albion excepted. The Albion's
superiority over the other two-decked ships, and particu-
larly the Rodney, a ship of her own class, consists chiefly in
her being much stiffer under a heavy press of sail. In strong
breezes on a wind, I did not perceive much difference be-
tween them, except on one occasion, when the sea was
right ahead, the Rodney beat the whole squadron and ap-
peared much easier than the Albion. In moderate weather
and smooth water the Albion is the fastest ship, and off the
wind will always beat the Rodney. Before the wind and in
a heavy swell the Rodney would fight her lower-deck guns
better, and with more safety, than the Albion. The Van-
guard was certainly very much improved from what she was
during the preceding cruize, and, considering how very light
she was, surprisingly stiff under a press of canvass. could
not perceive much difference between her and Canopus on a
wind, but off the wind Canopus was certainly the fastest ship
although she appeared much more crank under a press of
canvass than the other ships, heeling more with two reefs in
her topsails than the Queen and Vanguard with one. She
is not so weatherly as either the Albion or Rodney, but fore-
reaches considerably. Under easy sail I should say she was
steadier than auy of the other two-decked ships. I have
only to add that I have come to this conclusion upon the
relative merits of the several ships after the most careful and
attentive watching during the late cruise."
The Queen, 110, Captain Sir B. Walker.--." I consider the
Queen to be a most magnificent man-of-war, in every respect
superior to the St. Vincent or Trafalgar, or any ship I ever
served in ; she is fast, and had on the whole a decided ad-
vantage in sailing over every other ship of the squadron.
She is very stiff; very weatherly, rolls and pitches very easily
and without straining ; she steers and works remarkably
well ; her spacious decks are well adapted for working the
guns, as well as for the comfort and health of the officers
and crew. She can stow under hatches seven months' pro-
visions of all species for her war complement, and would, if
the hold was properly stowed, carry at least 550 tuns of
water, and, in my humble opinion, she is the finest ship in
the world."
The Albion 90, Captain Lockyer.—" I beg leave to state
that the Albion's behaviour during the late trial cruise
proved herself to be a good seaboat during the heavy gales;
when under a close-reefed maintopsail, foretopsail, and
rnaintrysail, her motion was remarkably easy in the heavy
sea that was then running, and I am fully persuaded no
ship could behave better. In comparison with other ships
which were all near us at times, I consider her behaviour
equally as good as any of them. and they all appeared to roll
equally as deep, though I think she rolls rather quicker
than the St. Vincent, Queen, Trafalgar, or Rodney ; this
perhaps is owing to the want of ballast. Her pitching
motion is remarkably easy, and apparently less than other
ships. With respect to the other ships of the squadron, I
consider the Queen to be by far superior of her class, on all
points, either in fine or bad weather. The Trafalgar is
rather a more weatherly ship in had weather; but no sailer,
either on or off the wind. The Canopus is equally as quick
in her motion as the Albion in a sea-way ; she is also crank,
as is the Rodney, which is a great advantage the Albion
possesses over every ship in the squadron."
The Canopus, 84, Captain Moresby—" In keeping station
in order of sailing under easy or moderate sail, the Canopus
had much the superiority. In reference to the whole ,qua-
dron combined, the St. Vincent, in blowing weather or in
strong breezes, showed a great leeward propensity ; the
Queen, as compared with the last cruise, fell into a dot& ful
comparison with Rodney, Albion, and anopus. The Tra-
falgar maintained her extraordinary weatherly qualifies,
with want of speed. The Albion, I thought, did not do as
well as the first cruise. The stability of the Queer, Albion,
and "Vanguard, as compared with the St. Vincent, Canopus,
Rodney, and Trafalgar, was very apparent. In chasing by
the wind in such weather as we encountered during the late
cruise, my opinion is that an admiral, having his flag on
board the Queen, would have found Rodney his leading ship,
anopus next, then Albion, Vanguard, and St. Vincent,
ct-ar hanging to windward, and picked up on crossing
I tie ta"
Rodney, 92, Captain Collier.—" In the trials by the
wind during the last cruise, all of which were in good
breezes, always with a. considerable swell, and sometimes
against a head sea, the Rodney had the advantage of the
whole squadron on the 3d, with the Queen, Albion, Trafalgar,
and Vanguard, against a head sea ; the Rodney weathered
considerably on the Queen and Vanguard, and also on Albion
and Trafalgar, but not so much. On the 6th a gale from the
north-west came on about sunset, and under a close-reefed
maintopsail, fore-staysail, and maintrysail, the Rodney in
twelve hours weathered fifteen or sixteen miles on St. Vin-
cent and Vanguard, and considerably on all the rest of the
squadron, but less than any on the Trafalgar. The Canopus,
from her place in the line, has generally been nearest us.
I consider her, under the weather spoken, the next best
ship to the Rodney; the Trafalgar, although weatherly, is
not so much so as the Rodney, and slower. I consider the
Queen tfe fastest ship both by and off the wind in fine
weather."
The Vanguard, 80, Captain Willes.—" Queen, perfect in
all points. Albion, the same, except she appeals to
have a quick rolling motion in a moderate swell, and to
roll deep in heavy weather and before the wind. Rodney,
a fine bold man-of-war ; carries her ports well, even
with a liege quantity of provisions and water on board.
Sails well, is generally weatherly, Ft nds well up to her
canvass, and is remarkable for her easy motion in a head sea,
but is slow in stays. The Canopus,fint when it does not over-
blow, is apparently not so stiff under canvass as other ships
of the squadron ; does not stay well in a heavy sea, but still
a fine man-of-war. Trafalgar, stiff and weatherly, but by no
means fast; requires a strong wind to make her keep com-
pany well with the other ships, and appears to pitch much.
The St. Vincent sails well in light winds and smooth water,
is leewardly and crank when it blows hard, but apparently
very easy. The Vanguard, a noble man-of-war, carrying, her
lower deck guns a good height out of the water; stows well,
considering her magazine occupies the principal part of the
main hold; is best calculated for heavy weight, and which is
required lower down. I consider her superior and faster than
any ship in the experimental squadron. She sails better the
last cruise than the first in consequence of raking the main
and mizen-masts much aft, and borrowing weights from their
proper places to counteract the loss of ballast from the lower
part of the hold. I feel confident that, if properly stowed
and ballasted, in sailing and working she would be equal, if
not superior, to any ship of the squadron."
The Superb, 80, Captain Corry.—" In the trials which
have taken place off the wind,' the Superb, on each occs-
sion, beat all the squadron," &c.
The Bat, victualling-buoy, and Rocket, steamer, were un-
docked to-day, and the Cambrian, 36, docked for repairs.
The pendant was hoisted to-day on board the Eurydice,
26, Captain G. Elliot, arrived here on Monday.
Rear-Admiral Superintendent 11. Parker, C. 8., went on
Admiralty leave yesterday for three weeks. His flag was
struck on board the Victory at sunset. The dockyard duties
will be carried on during his absence by Mr. W. Purdo, the
Master-Attendant, and those of the Ordinary by Captain J.
Pascoe, of the Victory.
The Echo, steam-tug, embarked to-day on board the
Florentine, freight-ship, at Cowes, four officers and 184 men
belonging to the 14th, 23d, 71st, and 81st Regiments, from
Parkhurst-barracks, Isle of Wight, for Quebec.
The Cornwall, freight-ship, to embark detachments of the
yesterday.
The 45th Regiment for the Cape of Good Hope, and of the 12th
Regiment for the Mauritius, arrived at Spithead to• day.
The Camel, lighter, with, stores from Plymouth, arrived
re, IC°7thnitmfalnidaerrehllonTtignioems.ery, sailed from
Rio for Bahia on t
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_RRIVAL OF THE ORIENTA.L.—SPToNn MAY 28.—Arrived at the Motherbank at
fine last eveni g the
Oriental, Captain Joy, with the Indian mail. Her dates are
—Malta, May 14 ; and Gibraltar, May 20; with about 170
passengers. She passed on the 22d, off Lisbon, four ships of
war, supposed to be the Russian squadron. On the 24th she
passed the packet-ship Madrid, running for Corunna. The
Oriental would have arrived here on Monday last, but for a
head x • , which has been dead against her for the last
dvarnyds. Her mails have just been landed at the South-
ampton Dock, and will be in London to-morrow morning.
The Madrid is expected herelv WINDSOR
night.
metPllia?cEly%lfter the race for they
pigeon, belonging to Mr. Oxley, t hWi 3 afternoon,tNE Sp YR. ---
carrieriM
,n. ewrtrophrietor of the Windsor Ex.
preu was tossed on Epsom How ,Alv.tn, enaines of tho three first
0 1 less than thirty minutes
horses attached in the usual way.thlnesrObYß:
rtilisonithlevbinir4oraltiglEit
across the country. pe4sotennts very nearly thirty miles, straight
PLYMOUTH, MAY 26.—Her I.krajest ,'s f '
(liisl Tnvele
50, captain Sir Thomas Herbert, which left Po3rtsm
x ey's pigeon-house. The
rigate Raleigh,
on Sunday, hove in s.ght ot' the citadel with a blue"ni at
ene peake'cic'e
ensign at the k
between Sour aod five o'clock alb, morning. At that hour 1
descried over the Renule rocks to the east of the harbour, allssiaei Was
with light wind from the northwanl. At six o'clock, when reaching
to the eastward, she hoisted her signals at the main royalmast-h
• Pow flag and a blue and yellow flag over the ead'
nnlon-jack,
namely, a 3 e •
in royal. At a quarter to save
her ma n these signals
and 1014'00le hat M the tP grclp . omit Wise. She then shook
i clod by were acknow e
fore, main and miR 1. her topsail,' n, 4011 tacked tia the a reef out 0 i d d bt a light Contrary w n au e b tide. At intlfrita•tt
westward, agains
about three miles to the south of the western
nine o'clock she was
when she was boarded by Mr. Walker, the
end of the breakwater,
n saluted the flag of Port-Admiral Sir John
harbAr-rnasta. the the j b
tha Caledonia, 120, Captain Manly H.
West:Wifteh Was ans Were
closeby
in towards the breakwater, the lia-
Dixon. Ilaytt,tg been laid
~,, .owri roietted into the Sound, where
16;4 Xlltged Cavisand naY, k!"" shortened' fn good stylie, and she way
and - /t.,.. hey p!kr Ai ire:A Igt ty a call
~, o'clOck. The !!,,,0.,. ,ev±Rs!P carry
...*Pnt, LtatA 'fli 4alitt er,ii,it'i4 040)1 Nopor44o. §f•w4
--, . : water, S., - . .
f--

her guns high ouL ~
Ikle frigate gives great sausfacUon.

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The professor of chemistry to this excellent establish-
ment is at present deliv, ring, daily, one of the most in-
teresting and instruct ve lectures we have had the good
fortune to hear tor some time. He has taken for his
theme the process of diving, and the modes of perform-
ing such sub-marine operations as are required for re-
moving sunken w,t eks. One would have imagined that
such a subject had been long exhausted, and that nothing
remained but a dry rehearsal of this history of diving-
bells—but we were agreeably surprised. In fact, Dr.
Ryan has, almost beyond any othar man, the
talent of seizing upon some apparently trivial and
common place circumstance, and making that the
basis of sound philosophical instruction. Our limits will,
of course, forbid anything like a lengthened notice of the
Doctor's very excellent lecture ; we shall, therefore,
merely state that he divided the subject into two de-
partments, considering first the physical difficulties at-
tendant upon diving, arid, secondly, the means suggested
by the ingenuity of man for the purpose of overcoming
such difficulties. Under the first head Dr. Ryan gave a
roost clear and concise view of the theory of respiration,
which he aptly termed the most important act of our
existence. He remarked that respiration was so impor-
tant, that in Holy Writ, life and death are syno-
nymous terms. Witness the expression, " And
God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life."
In Latin the connexion between life and death is shown
in the words spiro and spiriks, while in Greek this first
and last act of man's life is expressed by a word com-
posed of alpha and omega, the first and last letters of the
alphabet. The Professor then proceeded to explain the
action of the oxygen of the air in converting venous
into artet ial blood, and also pointed out that the venous
blood could not circulate through the arterial system
without becoming a most deadly poison. He described
asphyxia resulting from suffocation, and demonstrated
that the cause of that condition was the preven-
tion of the pas‘age of oxygen into the lungs,
in order that the blood might be arterialised.
Dr. Ryan then proceeded to show that man
was formed merely for breathing a gaseous atmos-
phere, and that, although water contained air, yet man
could not separate it for respiratory purposes, as fishes
do. After speaking of the trained divers of the pearl
fishery, the Professor proceeded to describe the philo-
sophy of a diving-bell—pointing out those principles
of science which are involved in its construction and
use. He then gave a description of the diving dress,
which he happily designated a locomotive; diving-bell.
Here, also, the lecturer gave some interesting
scientific details, proving that unless the head
and chest of the man were protected by
the protruding helmet, the weight of the
water would prevent him using the muscles of re-
spiration ; for, as the doctor stated, if the chest exposed
half a square foot of surface, at a depth of 15 feet the
weight on the chest would be 4501 b. We ought to men-
tion that the lecture was illustrated by Hunke's newly-
invented diving apparatus and pumps. There was also
shown, for the first time publicly, a diving signal, in-
vented by the same gentleman, and approved by General
Pasley. Altogether, it has seldom been our lot to hear
a more pleasing or a more instructive lecture.

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL
ENGINEERS.
At the meeting, held May 26, Sir J. Rennie (President)
took the chair. The paper read was " A memoir on the Re •
sistances to Railway Trains at different velocities." By W.
Harding, Assoc. C.L. It commenced by describing several
series of experiments which had been made by different per-
sons with a view to determining the resistance at various ve-
locities ; some new experiments made by the writer on
broad gauge and atmospheric lines being given in detail.
Great difference of opinion on the amount of resistance pre-
vailed in 1837, when a committee of the British Association
examined the subject and reported upon it. Notwithstand-
ing this, it was found, in 1845, that the estimates taken by
some engineers of the resistances per ton at high velocities
exceeded those acknowledged by other engineers by as much
as 300 per cent. It appeared that the same low estimate of
resistance was advanced by the advocates of the broad
gauge before the Gauge 'Commissioners. It became,
therefore, a matter of great inlerest, both in a theoretical
and practical point of view, to determine which of
these two estimates (differing thus widely) was
correct ; and the inquiry was stated to have
been facilitated by the application of two novel and
direct modes of measuring resistances recently afforded
to engineers by the atmospheric railway apparatus, and the
application of Morius' dynamometer, to determine the trac-
tive force required in propelling railway trains, as used by
Mr. Scott Russell in his experiments. In arranging the vast
number of results afforded by experiments, the author pro-
ceeded on the following principle :—He collected together all
the results of experiments which exhibited uniform velocities
maintained on a calm day, and on a line free from sharp
curves; these results he calculated and projected in diagrams,
and he s':owed that between these results their subsisted the
most satisfactory agreement and consistency. He argued
that the fact of the agreement of so many experiments made
by different persons with different objects on different lines
of railway during the last seven years, the resistance being
measured in no less than four different ways, leads almost
irresistably to the conclusion that the increase of res stance
with the velocity was such as these various experiments in-
dicated. The result was that the resistance per ton to a
passenger train of, say 30 tons, at a speed of sixty miles per
hour, would be upwards of 50Ibs. per ton, instead of 18119 s.
per ton, or nearly three times as much as bad been estimated
by some engineers. The author in pointing to the re-
sults of these experiments, stated that he desired not
to express any opinion in the papers on the advantages of
the atmospheric system, or upon the other practical points
referred to ; and then proceeded to apply to the experimental
facts a formula expressing the law suggested by Mr. Scott
Russell, which appeared to afford results closely agreeing
with the experiments. The paper concluded with some re-
marks on the application of the experimental results ex-
hibited, which demonstrated the great increase of resistance
with the velocity (it being with a light train four times as
much as 60 miles an hour as at 10), to the calculation of the
power of the locomotive engines, to the propelling power
which, he contended, must be provided in the atmospheric
system beyond that which had been calculated upon as
necessary to the questions of gauge and of gradient on all
these points the law which at present appeared to be esta-
blished had, he stated, the most direct and important
bearing ; and the doctrir es and modes of calculation till
recently in use, as regarded propulsion on railways, would
he believed, require great modification. The paper was
illustrated by several tables and diagrams. A gas-
burner of a novel and ingenious construction was
exhibited. The principal feature of novelty was the
introduction of a stream of air to the centre of the flame by
means of a hollow button in the middle of the burner. The
air passing up through the hollow stem of the button was
heated and passed out by two series of fine holes around the
periphery, and impinging it with more force with the flame
of the gds curved it outwards in the shape of a tulip, while
the oxygen of the air mingling with the carburettic hydrogen
gas produced a very perfect combustion. The flame was
tshteeadt
theatre
white down the top of the burner, and it was very
Yaastrieva3 of amply
ly demonstrated by the excellent light in
institution, where these burners have
been used for some time. It was stated that in comparing
the consumption of these burners with that of the concentric
ring burner. and trying the power of the two lights with
the Photometer, the new burner gave a better light with a
saving of rather better than one-third of the gas consumed.
gl.)e wasn surn, near Norwich," by G. P.
" A, Description of the Iron
It was, we believe, called the " universal burner," and was
introduced by Mr. DI =Veil. The paper announced far June
Bidder,
9thdi
dn
M.
d. ngienexs tto.vcme
.reret t.si
e V
n

GERMAN OPINION OF ENGLISH
GREATNESS.
The following remarks from the leading article of a
Berlin journal of the 7th instant, show the view taken
by disinterested and remote parties, of the present posi-
tion of the British empire :
Another great state has just fallen before the power
of the British arms ! One of the bravest and most in-
telligent races of the Asiatic family—knit together in
the religious unity of a pure Monotheism, strong in
themselves, and fortified by the jealousy of Europear
powers into a bulwark of war—have, within a few
weeks after commencing their unexpected attack, in-
toxicated as they were with dreams of victory, seen all
their hopes destroyed. The finest, most numerous, and
best disciplined army ever raised in that part of the
world since the downfall of the empire of the Mah-
rattas—equipped with all the arts and implements of
war—has been reached behind its intrenchments by the
bayonets of a force one-third or one-fourth their num-
ber. Four battles, and great blood-shed on both sides,
prove the obstinacy of the resistance, and are, at the
same time, a sure inference that the victory is complete,
and the defeat a decisive one. An European conqueror
now places his foot, for the first time, in the country of
the " Five Rivers," and the armies of the rnerchaets of
the East India House touch a boundary of the feats
of Alexander of Macedon. Modern Carthage would
appear almost to sink under the weight of her own suc-
cesses ; under the measureless extent of her dominion.
After having maintained Canada, subdued Syria and
Egypt, humbled China, reduced Affghanistan to peace,
she now presents on the shores of the great ocean, to
the menacing democracy of the United States, her
sword, half drawn, ready for the defence of further ac-
quisitions ; and she thus combines, in the 3rear 1846,
the newest and oldest names of rivers—Columbia and
Indus—upon the same page of history. While intent
upon peopling an entire division of the globe—while en-
gaged in war and treaty with the chieftains of New
Zealand—at home meeting the dangers of despair end
the miseries of famine by measure involving a thorough
change in all the relations of commerce—thus recalling
to the memory of nations a system of free trade—(in
modern times utterly forgotten)—she achieves deeds,
which, under other circumstances, would have cost any
nation, aye, even the English, every effort, and the con-
centration of its whole force. Whatever the vanity of
other communities may say to the contrary, the first and
foremost power in the world at the present time is the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
But what is still more important, we may firmly as-
sert that this power has not even yet reached the sum-
mit of its greatest. The unlimited develupentent of an
integral British spirit, and of the consciousness of per-
sonal freedom, gives to the English people a respect for
the rights of the vanquished (so indispensable to perma-
nent conquests) ; and also that elasticity which makes
each individual a representative of his country at large.
Germans not unfrequently scoff at their own nationality.
Frenchmen overrate theirs; hut Britsins, while they
le lye undisturbed what ought not to fall, bring about
with irresistible firmness and perseverance such changes
as are acknowledge to be necessary. And thus it is that
they master the world. Do they owe this to their
national character ? That character is Saxon. Do they
owe it to their institutions ? Those institutions are of
ancient Saxon origin. But it is owing no less to a prin-
ciple--more and more deeply rooted, under the protec-
tion of the liberty of individuals and of the press : a
principle of manly lawfulness for and against the vxer-
else of power. A nation that cheri-hes this principle is
destined to great deeds,

ENTER'
GRAND MENT AT GLOUCESTER HcousE.—
ast evening, at Gloucestet House. to their Royal Hi
iller Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester gave X superb banquet
and Duchess of Cambridge, his Serene Hii.hness Prince Edward o
Saxe Weimar, and a distill ui hcircle 'f
the nobilitr. The DT andiDuchess iii( Cp.utbrtil g 1 ed ocwori
ge
d louse sip
1113
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before 'eight o' lock,' etteflederrAtfn st. 41111-lifildiriaX:
preylousg
Serene Higlines4 prlncp 'Ed d Mt. E• welmar 100
Tg44o %AMU; '9144 rer of s e 411 eerve4 At eight °'49"
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NG, MAY 301 1846

COMMERCIAL POLICY OF THE

EMPIRE.

A copy of the speech of the Governor-General to the
Legislative Assembly of Canada ; and correspondence
relative to certain presumed changes in the commercial
policy of the' empire, were on Saturday issued by order
of the House of Commons, on motion of Lord George
Bentinek and Sir George Clerk. The following is an
extract therefrom, and is the most recent document con-
tained in the return, being a dispatch from the Right
Hon. W. E. Gladstone to Governor the Earl Cathcart
dated May 18, 1846.

"My Lord,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of
your Lordship's dispatch. No. 40, of the 2.Bth of April,
transmitting to me a petition to her Majesty from certain
merchants and others, citizens of Qiebec, praying that
her Majesty will not sanction the contemplated modi-
fication iu the tariff on wood goods.
" I have laid this petition before her Majesty, who has
been pleased to receive it graciously, but it has not been
in my power to advise her Majesty to assent to its prayer
for the reasons which I shall proceed to state.
" Her Majesty has invited the Parliament to adopt the
proposal to which the petition refers.
" The House of Commons will enter to-night on the
consideration of the Customs' Duties Bill, in which this
proposal is included, at the advanced stage when the Bill
is reported to the House from the Committee of the
whole House immediately before the engrossment and
third reading. At such a stage it would I believe,
be most unusual for the House of Commons
to reverse the decision which it has given
on the occasions afforded by the various earlier
stages of the Bill, and by the preliminary committee,
which is required, with respect to all questions of trade,
and in which they ordinarily undergo the most searching
examination. Thus, her Majesty having recommended
to Parliament a particular course, has had no reason, in
the reception which Parliament has given to the recom-
mendation, to adopt any alteration of it.
" But I must not be understood as implying that
this is the principal difficulty which obstructs a
compliance with the prayer of the petitioners ; there
are others, including some of a higher order :—First,
her Majesty's Government do not doubt the very
high respectability of the petitioners, and would
be disposed, on general grounds, to attach great weight
to their opinions ; but her Majesty's Government
have found themselves obliged, on a great variety of occa-
sions, to adopt and to adhere to proposals unacceptable
to many of the parties immediately affected by them.
notwithstanding their belief in the high integrity of
those parties, and their perfect freedom from any con-
sciousness of an interest that could warp the judgment;
and her Majesty's Government cannot but observe on
the present occasion, that they do not find any reason to
suppose, from the evidence before them, that the opinion
of the petitioners with respect to the impending change
in the timber duties, is shared by the people of Canada
at large, or by their representatives, who, on the con-
trary, appear to have evinced their intention to abandon
reliance upon the artificial advantages which protective
laws may confer, and to place it upon the natural and
permanent guarantees afforded by the resources of the
province and the energy of its inhabitants.
" Her Majesty's Government must seriously doubt
whether, if the allegations of the petition were made
good in their whole extent, with respect to the disadvan-
tages entailed upon Canada by her distance from this
country, by the dangers of the St. Lawrence, the suspen-
sion of its navigation during a portion of the year, and
by the inferior quality- of Canadian timber, that circum-
stance would have the effi ct of producing the conviction
in this country that the measure now under discussion
should be either qualified or abandoned, inasmuch as it
would certainly show that the present system could only
he continued at a very heavy cost to the nation.
" But her Majesty's Government do not share the
belief of the petitioners in the existence and in the force
of these disadvantages. They cannot forget the pre-
dictions, the confident, and, without doubt, sincere pre-
dictions of ruin which attended the progress of the
measure of 1842, nor can they fail to contrast with those
predictions the great subsequent extension, and the ap-
parently flourishing condition of the trade at the present
moment.

With respect, indeed, to the disadvantages of dis-
tance, which undoubtedly affects the competition of Ca-
nadian with that of the Baltic, her Majesty's Govern-
ment have not failed to make what they deem to be a
sufficient provision, all things considered, for the charge
which it entails, by proposing to retain a protective dury
of 15s. per load on foreign wood ; and inasmuch as they
can by no means admit that it is the proper office of
commercial laws to attempt in general to secure to places
which are remote all the advantages of proximity, they
trust the petitioners will recognise in the plan as it
actually stands, a proof of their great anxiety to give
every just consideration to the claims of the parties
engaged in the trade, and to those of the colony, so far
as its interests may be conceived to be affected by the
question.

" Her Majesty's Government look forward to an
active competition, under the law as it is proposed that it
should stand, and a competition by no means unfavour-
able to the timber and deals of Canada. Nor is it coup
petition alone which her Majesty's Government an-
ticipate ; on the contrary, they conceive, as I have
already had occasion to state to your Lordship, that to no
inconsiderable extent the consumption of Baltic timber
is actually auxilliary to the demand for that of Canada,
and, therefore, that to this extent a measure which
cheapens the first, is likely to cause positive improve-
ment in the market for the last.
" For these reasons, which I need not pursue into
further detail, and for others to which I have thought it
unnecessary on this occasion to refer, her Majesty's
Government have been unable to advise her Majesty to
assent to the prayer of the petition transmitted, to me
by your Lordship,
" I have, &c.,
(Signed)

" W. E. GLADSTONE."

ETHNOLOGICAL- SOCIETY.—The monthly meeting for
May took place on Wednesday, at the rooms of the society in Sack-
ville-street, Piccadilly. The object of the society is to inquire int<
the distinguishing characteristics, physical and moral, of the varieties
of mankind which inhabit, or have inhabited the earth, and to ascer-
tain the causes of such characteristics. The secretary, Dr. King,
read a paper on the nature of the inhabitants of Batacalda, Ceylon
a race of Moors inhabiting a tract of land on the eastern shores of
Lake Batacola, and some villages near the southern end of it;
also a paper communicated by Dr. Tochudi, entitled, " Have the
ancient Peruvians embalmed the dead, or not ?" in which, althougl.
put in the shape of a question, the author conteiLls, and makes out
strong case, that the bodies have been preserved by the natu
ral drying of the soil. The secretary said, the question having
arisen, and there being some Peruvian mummies in this country
it would doubtlessly soon be set at rest by examination.
Major-General Briggs read a paper on the Native Races of India, is
continuation of one which he had before produced. The purport ofit
was to prove that there are at present existing in India many million•
of a primmval race, who inhabited India long before the incursion of
the Brahminical race, who came in from the north, and were not
originally the inhabitants of that country. In the first place he com-
menced by confuting the generally-received opinion that the Siniscrit
was the aboriginal language, and showed, on the contrary, that it
was introduced by the Brahmins as a learned language, and that HIV.
spoken now by scattered tribes, or castes, which he would, on a Rawe
occasion, prove to be the primaeval race. Major Briggs introduced
the two young Brahmins, who have recently come to this country
to be instructed in medicine, and who have distinguished themselvef
by their advancement at King's College. They took part in the dis-
cussion, and defended the Hindoos from the charge of pirating their
knowledge of astronomy from other nations, which was incidentally
suggested in a discussion which our space will not allow us to give at
length. The address elicited great applau;e. The anniversary meet-
lug takes place on this day.
SOCIETY OF ARTS.—A meeting was held on Wed
nesday in John-street, Adilphl, A:derman IL Hughes in the chair,
when the recommendations of the committees of agriculture and
chemistry, fine arts. mechanics and mechanical arts, manufactures,
and colonies and trade, were submitted to the members. A correct
list of the successful competitors could not be obtained, as many of the•
articles were only authenticated by an Initial or a motto. On the
table were a number of beautiful designs for binding covers of Ilibles
The prize specimen was a perfect gem of artistic elegance. So mar.
of the works of art excited the admiration of the members, that
it was determined to refer the subject back to the committee for fur-
ther consideration, in order that complimentary testimonials may be
awarded to the meritorious artists who submitted their works
for competition. There were a number of specimens of milk.
ewers, water jugs, &c., and a tea service of uniform colours.
which gave great satisfaction. The design of the milk ewer
was most graceful, and Is believed to be modelled from
an antique vase preserved in the Vatican. On the subject
of the manufacture of articles of the same form, but different
size, an interesting explanation was given by the secretary. Nt
matter how many sizes of any given article are required, the largest
alone is modelled, which, on being exposed to the action of the fire.
sinks in the proportion of one-sixth of its bulk, and becomes the moult:
on which a second Is formed. The produce of this is again dimi.
nished in a similar degree in the course of the process, and by their
means a series of any extent can be obtained without any additions
call on the labour of the designer. Two models of quart jugs wit!
covers received general approval. One of them with a vine stalk
handle and vine foliage, &c., as its ornaments, was particulariypleas-
ing. Ihe successful patterns will go forth to the public with the
stamp of the approbation of the Society, and are sure to obtain great
popularity. The time of the meeting was so fully occupied by those
details that no paper wag read to the Society,
FATAL AFFRAY WITH POACHERS. _.On Tuesday
night last a gardener in the employ of Major C. F. Wlnterton, o.
Fenwick Lodge, Surrey, was awoke by the barking of a dog kept or
the premises, and thinking that thieves were about he let the dog
loose. The animal Immediately crossed an adjoining paddock
towards an extensive fish-pond. The man followed, and on arriving
at the pond perceived several men In the act of dragging the water
with a net. The dog, a powerful animal of the mastiff breed, at
tacked the poachers, and got one of the men down. The gardener
ran back to the house for assistance, and shortly returned to the
pond, accompanied by two of Major Winterton's sons and several of
the men servants, when they discovered the dog lying dead, and the
poachers removing the net. The party from the lodge immediately
made a rush at the poachers, who, leaving two of their number to se-
cure the net, closed with the attacking party, and a desperate
struggle ensued. The poachers wielded short bludgeons, anti
two or three of the servants carried fire-arms, which, at the com-
mencement of the fray, they threatened to use, but were restrained
by Mr. Robert Winterton, who called out to his party not to fire.
However, one of the servants having been thrown down and nearly
throttled by one of the gang, fired a pistol at his oppenent, the bat
taking effect In the groin of the poacher. At last the entire body of
poachers decamped, leaving their nets behind. In the pursuit that
followed a groom, named Robert Staines, overtook and grappled
with one of the poachers, near the end of the fish-pond. In the
struggle the two men fell into the pond locked in each other's grasp,
the water being upwards of twenty feet deep at the spot. After a
short interval the poacher rose to the surface, succeeded in reaching
the bank, and escaped. The incident being observed by another of
the servants, an alarm was raised, and the pursuing party having
returned from an unsuccessfill chase, means were taken to recover
the body of the groom, which after a time was dragged up, but life
of course was extinct. None of the poachers were recognised as
belonging to the neighbourhood. The wounded poacher remains in
a very precarious state.

FALL FROM A MAST.—Wednesday morning a distress-
ing accident occurred to a lad, named John Eastman, aged 14 years,
which it is feared will terminate fatally. He was engaged in making
some repairs on the mast-head of a vessel lying off Mill Dock, Dock-
head, when he missed his footing, and fell to the deck with fearful
violence. He was picked up by the first mate, who discovered that
he had received a severe wound on the head, and other serious in-
juries. lie was conveyed ashore In a boat, and carried to the nearest
surgeon's, who, atter affording the necessary aid, ordered his removal
to Guy's Hospital, when it was ascertained that he had received con-
.

. . .
cussion of the brain. Ile lies in a Very hopeless condition,.- ---
LEGAL HUMOUR.-1)UBLIN, MAY 23.—A report is
current at the bar that Sir Edward Sugden will shortly retire from
his present office, and leave Ireland. Whatever post he is destined to
fill elsewhere, his loss in this country can scarcely be repaired ; for a
more upright, fearless, able, or painstaking judge never held the
Great Seal in any part of the United Kingdom. A new distribution
of silk gowns is spoken of in the hall, Mr. Stmly, of the north-west
circuit, and Messrs. Itolleston. Wall, and Christian, of the Leinster
c!rcuit, are the persons for whom the honour is said to be intended,
ACCoUCIIEMENT OF IlElt MAJESTY.—The chief rahb
of the members of the Jewish perauaslon in great Britain, the Rev
Pr! Adler, onWedn,s ,PY.
e issued a form of thanksgiving for the saf
delivery of her Maje-ty and birth of a Princess, to be offered In all
yriagoguei thioughout the United Kingdom,th e.o.np;:esatsabnhadar:tdihisrt.tilape:::::
.xfaltd,i.tifourn
day of Sivan, a.g.,s6o6—(Saturday, May 30.)"
of 4,-,), former ne:caaion.latien
Epso* ItAcEs.—We believi. that
run for this season exceed those
to the slim of Zoe;. given lay the leoiee of the Grand
three-
ling (the clerk of the course), John Ivatt IsriscOe, Esq.,
&c., beiag
East Surrey, the lord of Epsom manor, has appropriated
fourths of the rents of the booths,
500/., to be run for at the various races (hiring thln amount nearly
ind wlliqi hat btu Ilia usiya pi•Acticer or iza e Premit meson'
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