The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-20 00:00:00

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INSPECTION OF THE LYNN AND ELY AND LYNN AND
DEREHAM.—On Thursday last General Pasley, the Go-
vernment Inspector, proceeded by the Eastern Counties
to Ely, for the purpose of inspecting the Lynn and
Ely, and Lynn and Dereham, which are now completed,
and it is expected will be opened for public traffic in
the course of a few days. On the arrival of General
Pasley at Ely, he was met by Mr. Henry Lacey, the
chairman of the board of directors of the Lynn and Ely
line ; Mr. J. S. Valentine, the engineer ; and Mr. J. C.
Williams, of the firm of Williams, Partridge, and Wil-
liams, solicitors to the company. The party, after a
slight delay, then proceeded to Denvir, where one of the
company's new engines, and a train consisting of seve-
ral first-class carriages, were in waiting to convey
them on the tour of inspection. A numerous party,
consisting chiefly of gentlemen connected with the
mercantile interests of Lynn, and landowners along the
line, were invited to meet the General, and accompany
him upon the survey. The party included Sir W. B.
Folkes, Bart., the Mayor of Lynn, Mr. Francis Cress-
well, Mr. F. Rix, Mr. William Everard, Mr. J. B.
Whiting, Mr. William Seppings, Mr. F. Ingle, Mr. Liw-
rc
nce Self, and many other gentlemen. Every thing
being in readiness for the start, Mr. Platt, the superin-
tendent of locomotives, took charge of the engine as
driver, and Mr. Carrington, the station master, acted in
the capacity of guard. The train proceeded but slowly,
as the General repeate:lly descended in the course of
the journey, and minutely examined various por-
tions of the works, paying particular attention
to the culverts, 'bridges, crossings, &c. On arriving
at the Lynn station, which the party did in perfect
safety, they proceeded up the Dereham line as far as
Narborough, and carefully inspected the works. Although
the circumstance of General Pasley's visit was not pub-
licly known, the rumour that the trains were to run that
day attracted a large number of persons to the various
stations, to witness the novel sight of a locomotive, with
its attendant carriages, steaming away through a quiet
country, whose echoes had never before been awakened
by any similar sounds. After the surveys had been
completed, the company returned to Lynn, and partook
of the directors' hospitality at the Globe Hotel, where a
sumptuous entertainment was provided. In the course
of the evening General Pasley expressed himself much
gratified at the manner in which the various works along
the lines were executed, and with the excellent arrange-
ments made to facilitate the survey. On the following
day General Pasley inspected the Harbour Branch, the
termini, storehouses, and other buildings connected with
the railways, with which he expressed himself satisfied.
Some of the engines have arrived, and others are ex
petted in the course of the week.

" NOTE to the First Article.
" This article was wholly written and printed early in Au-
gust last, which is here mentioned to account for its not taking
notice of the subsequent proceedings of Parliament respecting
its subject."
There's impudence for you! We don't know what
stuff the readers of the Edinburgh are made of, but we
know very well how our own readers would take snch an
announcement. Let them just imagine their finding a
"leader," or a letter from our Spanish correspondent, or
a " City article," most perplexingly out of date, and by
the time they had mystified themselves hind part before,
having the luck to light upon a P.S. or an N.B. in an ob-
scure corner, informing that the said article was written
two months since, a circumstance which it was necessary
to mention, because the article could not be expected to
notice any of the numerous critical events which
had happened in that period ! They would
merely conclude the editor must be off his head,
and expect to see, in the next number, the
melancholy intelligence that he had thrown himself from
Blackfriars•brldge. We don't know what makes the
Edinburgh or its readers an exception to general rules,
but it is very clear that as equal amount of sanity on the
one part, and surprise on the other, is not there ex-
pected. May we be permitted to ask how far their in-
difference to novelty extends ? Do they wear hair
powder and shorts ? Do they reject the fresh resources
of Newgate and Leadenhall markets for salt pork that
has gone twice round the world? When Covent-garden
renews its luscious display, do they still go on sickening
on fermented preserves ? But, besides this extraordi-

SUBTERRANEAN TELEGRAPH
THROUGH THE METROPOLIS.
During the last few weeks considerable interest has
been excited in the scientific world, and the several rail-
way companies whose lines run into the metropolis, by
the announcement that the Electric Telegraph Company
intend forthwith to establish a central telegraph station
at the Company's depot in the Strand, by means of which
communication will be obtained from one point to all
parts of the country. In the Company's Act of Incor-
poration the thirty-fifth clause empowers them to lay
down and under any street any pipes or tubes not being
of larger size than three inches bore, for conveying or
conducting the wires of the electric telegraph. In pur-
suance of those powers, they intend to extend the wires
from the several railway stations in London, in the way
described by their Act of Parliament, under the streets
of the metropolis.
The extension of the telegraph on the South-Western
Railway will be first commenced. Mr. Hatcher,
,the
Company's engineer, attended a meeting of the Lambeth
vestry on Friday evening, for the purpose of explaining
the route it will take through the streets of the district.
After leaving the terminus at Nine Elms, it will pass
through Kennington-lane and road, Oakley-street,
Waterloo-road, over the bridge, and thence to the
station in the Strand. The plan proposed to carry
out this extraordinary project is as follows:—In the
first place, the wires will undergo a process of coating,
so as to preserve them; they then will be fixed in metal
tubing, which will be laid under ground about 18
inches from the surface. Every quarter of a mile proving
posts, which in size, and appearance will be similar to
the present street posts, will be erected, thereby insuring
the proper connexion of the wires. The principal mem-
bers of the Lambeth vestry have arranged to inspect the
route from the South-Western Railway this day with the
Company's officers, and to determine on the position of
the posts. On the sites being fixed, the telegraph will
forthwith be laid down. In the course of three months
it is anticipated that it will be completed. A much
longer period, however, will transpire ere the wires on
the other lines are extended.
Lately the Government, we are informed, have directed
the Company's officers to report the practicability of
extending the " main" telegraph to the principal Govern-
ment depots. The result has not as yet been ascertained.
The 50th clause of the Company's Act sets forth, " That
at all times, and whenever, in the opinion of one of her
Majesty's principal Secretaries of State for the time
being, such an emergency as aforesaid shall have arisen,
it shall be lawful for such Secretary of State, by warrant
under his hand, to cause possession to be taken of all
telegraphs and apparatus at the various stations of the
Company, for one week from the date of such warrant,
for the purpose of preventing any communications being
made, or signals given, and also by further successive
warrants to cause possession of them to be retained from
week to week, so long as their detention might be deemed
expedient, the Company receiving reasonable remunera-
tion for such loss."

miry " note," the author of the article himself, writing
at his leisure, in August, with the whole quarter before
himself, with Parliament still going on sitting, and Acts
passing at the rate of twenty a day, and thus with every
opportunity and every inducement to keep up with the
progress of affairs, after all, willfully and deliberately,
of malice prepense, makes no attempt whatever to
meet, we do not say this year's distress, but the
average state of Ireland for the whole of this cen-
tury. His article is a stale and unprofitable one,
not only for October, 1846, but for August, 1846, and,
in fact, for the day of the creation itself, and for this
world altogether. After saying that the great Act of
Elizabeth will not do, and out-door relief and compul-
sory in-door relief will not do, and the labour-rate will
not do, and charities will not do, and mendicancy will
not do, and forbidding mendicancy will not do ; and,
finally, that nothing which man ever thought of will do,
he suddenly remembers that his readers, whatever their
gullibility, will at least, by the merest animal instinct,
revolt from a universal negative. So he proposes at last
—what does the reader imagine? It is the one palmary
expedient of the Edinburgh for the most desperate ma-
lady the social state of man ever exhibited ; so it ought
to be something at any rate plausible. It is simply this,
—that all the charitable foundations, and all the funds
subscribed for charitable purposes, shall be forthwith
handed over bodily to the Poor-law Commissioners, to
be dealt with in strict conformity with their system.
After we have stated this, our readers will ask a little
breathing time. So there, for the present, we stop.
CHRONICLE.—Of all the objections now urged
against openinc, the ports for the free admission of grain,
a fear that such a step would be prejudicial to the re-
venue is—according to all recent experience—the most
groundless. If that experience has taught us one lesson
more distinctly than another, it is—that the net income
0

the State is not to be calculated by the rates of duty
mposed on commodities—that taxes which, however in-
directly, interfere with commercial prosperity, are in-
variably reductions from, in place of additions to, the
entire receipts of the Exchequer. But this general obser-
vation may be said to refer to two distinct classes of unpro-
fitable and wasteful imposts. The first, to the case where
the duties imposed are so excessive as to interfere mate-
rially with the consumption of the particular commodity
itself, so that the diminished quantity consumed at a
high duty does not yield so much as the increased quan-
tity which would be consumed at a lower duty and
a cheaper price; and the second is the case where duties
are so injudiciously imposed that they directly interfere
with commercial prosperity, and are the means of de-
stroying much more revenue indirectly than they them-
selves yield directly. Of the first class of unprofitable
taxes now referred to we have recently had many
striking examples. It is but a week ago—when in
commenting upon the revenue returns for the last quar-
ter—we showed that, notwithstanding the great reduc-
tions which have taken place in the duties upon many
important articles during the last two years, amounting
to no less than 2,818,0001., the actual loss to
the State, even in the first year, very little
exceeded 500,0001. ; and if we would seek for
examples of individual articles which furnish
striking illustrations of this principle, we have only
to turn to any of those which have been subjected
to this experiment. We have seen within a few
years the duty on coffee reduced to one-third, and
the net revenue more than doubled—we have seen the
duty on cocoa reduced to rather less than one-sixth, and
the net revenue fully sustained. We have seen, within
the last eighteen months, the duty upon sugar reduced
from 245. to 145., and the consumption in the first year
rise from 207,000 tons to 245,000 tons. We have seen
the reduction of the timber duties increase the consump-
tion from 739,696 loads in the first eight months of
1844, to 1,142,633 loads in the same period of the pre-
sent year. In short, we have seen in almost every case
where duties have been reduced, before long, the net
revenue increased. The second class of duties to which
we have referred as unwise and unprofitable, does not
depend so much upon their being excessive, as upon their
being imposed at all ; and the benefit to the Exchequer
does not, therefore, depend upon the increased consumption
which a repeal of such duties never fails to afford, but
upon the influence which such a relief exerts over other
branches of revenue. In this category we class all kinds
of raw materials or manufactures—on the abundance
and cheapness of which depends, to so great a degree,
the general prosperity of the great consuming classes ;
and we may as certainly class the first articles of neces-
sity, the price of which determines what fund will be dis-
posable, not only for the consumption of all those articles
which afford the largest income to the State, but also of
our manufactured goods, which afford the means of sub-
sistence to so large a portion of the community. When
the cotton and the wool duties were relinquished, reve-
nue to the extent of nearly 800,0001. was apparently
sacrificed—gone completely and for ever. No matter
how much the consumption increased, the revenue
could not be compensated from that source. But is
there any one so short-sighted as to fancy that thereby
the net income of the Exchequer has been lessened ? If
the reduced cost of cotton and wool gave to those great
branches of industry a greater prosperity, it is the
plainest conclusion in fiscal science that the revenue
would be benefited thereby. The additional demand,
for foreign markets as well as for home consumption, for
such goods, only because they were cheaper, could not
fail to promote such an extended use of all those articles
upon which the revenue mainly relies, as to secure a
quick and certain compensation to the Exchequer. The
building of new mills, the distribution of more wages,
the reduction of public burthens, the increased profits
and the rapid accumulation of capital, seeking new chan-
nels of investment, promoting in its turn a new demand
for labour, all tend to swell so much the consumption of
everything that yields revenue to the State, that the first
reduction ultimately ends in a great positive gain.
HERALD.—There exists an evil influence in Ire-
land fatal to the carrying out of the simplest, and, else-
where, most practicable undertakings. No man can
escape it. Beneath it, logic becomes grotesque—the
natural relation of things is broken up, is lost sight of,
and disappears. The English Channel is not the only
strip of water that separates our island from a strange
people. The differences that exist between ourselves and
the races inhabiting the land on the other side of St.
George's, are as violent as any marking the independent
origin of the denizens of Dover and Boulogne. If the
Frenchman speaks a foreign language, the inhabitant of
the Emeral Isle acts upon thoughts and feelings equally
strange and unaccountable. If it seem impossible to col-
lect a meaning from the quick gesticulations and quicker
their
hands of a people who speak as much with
hands as their tongues, it is equally difficult to find
congruity in the conduct of individuals
neverw who
uponoae rulet now
from impulse, by and by from rashness,
and principle, generally acknowledged and received. We
do conscientiously believe, that if the patients of the
Hanwell Lunatic Asylum had been called upon by the
Government to undertake any matter whatever of public
duty, they would have conducted themselves far more
rationally than many of the gentlemen who have been
requested to perform that certainly patriotic, but very
easy duty, of spending money not their own, on objects
in which they have an interest, exclusive and peculiar.
" The extraordinary presentment sessions" for the barony
of West Muskerry, " held on Tuesday last in the Court-
house of Macroom," was, in truth, an extraordinary
presentment, in more senses than one. The proceedings,
we are told, were conducted in a manner that renders it
altogether impossible to furnish a faithful report of
them. No discussion arose in which at least ten
speakers did not immediately and simultaneously take
part, whilst at the same time the great body of spectators
in the Court were shouting with all their voice and strength.
None but Irishmen should do Irish work. To take an
Englishman from his ORM country to perform it, is at

An arrangement has been announced as having
taken place between the Shropshire Union and the
North-Western Company tto the following effect:—
The former line is to be leased to the latter company,
and the shareholders are to be guaranteed a dividend
equal to one-half of that paid by the North-Western
Company; but in the event of the profits of the Shrop-
shire Union being greater than the half of the North-
Western, the shareholders are to receive such longer
rate of profit up to six per cent., beyond
which the profits are to be divided; so that
in no case can the shareholders of the Shropshire
Union receive less than a dividend equal
to one-half of that paid by the North-Western, while if it
makes more they will receive it for their own account
up to six per cent. Another and important condition is,
the shareholders are to participate, in the same pro-
portion as those of the North-Western, in the shares of all
newly created stock for the future. Moreover, while
the works are in progress the shareholders are to receive
at the rate of four per cent. for their calls. These terms
are considered very favourable. The Board of Directors
for the line is to consist, one-half of the present direc-
tors, and one-half of the directors of the North-Western.

RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.--A satisfactory ar-
rangement has been entered into between the London
and Birmingham and Shropshire Union Companies.
The London and North-Western guarantee, as a
minimum dividend to the Shropshire Union share-
holders, one-half the amount of dividend paid on
their own stock, or five per cent., and a full par-
ticipation in the future creation of stock by the
North-Western, proportionate to their respective
capitals. In the event of the Shropshire Union line pay-
ing 10 per cent., a division of profits is to take place
after 6 per cent. is paid to the Shropshire Union pro-
prietors. Any calculation as to the value of Shropshire
Union shares must be based on the price of New Bir-
mingham Fifths, which become entitled to participate
in the dividends of Birmingham Stock in 1852. These
shares are at a premium of 14. The relative premium,
therefore, on a Shropshire Union share would be 5i ;
4 per cent. is paid on all calls.
REFUSAL OF INTERMENT AT BARKING, EssEx.—
On Sunday last an extraordinary degree of excitement
was occasioned in the above place, in consequence of the
Rev. Denton, curate of Barking, refusing to inter the
body of the late Mrs. Rushton. Due information had
been given that the funeral would be at the church at
three o'clock, but when the procession arrived at the
churchyard gates (which are usually kept open on Sun-
days) they were found closed, and, after stopping some
time in the road, the mourners were obliged to retrace
their steps. The deceased had been visited during her
illness by one of the Plymouth Brethren, which circum-
stance, among others, it is supposed, gave offence to the
vicar and curate. The body of Mrs. Rushton remains
still uninterred.

We understand that Colonel Sir James Dennis,
K.C.8., now of the Buffs, is likely to succeed to the ap-
pointmont of Inspecting Field-Officer of the Bristol
Recruiting District, in succession to the late Lord John
Somerset.

TRAGICAL EFFECT 01' THE POTATO DISEASE.—Last
week, the son of a deceased cottager, from Derbyshire,
came to Yr. Godfrey, surgeon, Mansfield, and spoke as
follows:—" I say, zur, my feeather deed last neet, and
I'm come for t'stifficat to berry him wi' ; and my moother
said, I was to tell ye that she wanted him hoppened, to
see whot there is at tinside on him ; for she's sure hese
deed oft same complaint as what 'taters and tunneps has
got. So you mun bring yore knife, and come and hoppeh
him."—Monnwieeishire Merlin.
SINGULARLY FATAL EFFECTS OF FRlGHT.—Yes-
terday Mr. Mills held an inquest at the Cheshire Cheese,
Phillip's buildings, Somers-town, on the body of Eliza-
beth Stubbs, aged two years. It appeared that on Fri-
day week last deceased was in a confectioner's shop,
making some little purchase, when a boy appeared at
the window wearing a hideous mask. The child saw
it, and was struck with terror. Having been taken home,
her fright seemed to augment, for she kept continually
exclaiming, " The bogie ! the bogie !" A few days
afterwards she was seized with severe bowel complaint,
for which two doctors treated her, each of them sus-
pecting that the fright was the cause of the malady.
Every evening, as darkness approached, her fears were
more excited, and she continued repeating the above ex-
clamation. On Thursday last she appeared much worse,
and in the evening died in a convulsive fit. Verdict,
" That deceased died from the effects of fright."
SPRUCE BEER.—A vessel arrived at the port of
Hull, from Dantzic, had on board, in addition to a largo
cargo of wood goods, 1,000 kegs of spruce beer, or, as it
is generally called, Dantzic spruce. This article is much,
esteemed for medical purposes, on account of its strength-
ening qualities, and as an excellent stomachic; but it is
not a beverage of very general consumption, excepting in
cases of necessity and by persons of weakly constitution.
So large an importation of it as the one under notice has
not come under observation for a considerable time past,
and the mention of it will be of interest.
DEATH FROM EXPLOSION OF CAMPHINE.—A Mrs.
Knox, wife of the Rev. a Knox, pastor of a Baptist
Church, in Cornish, was attempting, in the dusk of the
evening, to trim a camphine lamp while it was burning,
when it exploded violently, set fire to her clothes, and
burnt her so dreadfully that she died, after lingering 19
days. In attempting to trim the lamp the atmospheric
air must have entered, and mixing with the vapour of
the camphine formed an explosive compound, which
would be immediately ignited by the lighted wick,
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TIMES.—The year 1846 will long be re : would seem positively cruel to elevate an man not born
membo red
1 in Ireland to the highest dignities which Ireland has to
as the year in which nothing would keep. Potatoes will
not keep ; butchers' meat becomes tainted in twenty-four offer. Without raising the character of the people he
hours ; milk turns sour as soon as it is looked at ; a : falls himself to the general level. Let him be as strong
,
seriously aggravated mortality indicates a want of pre- as Hercules in intellect, it is ten to one that he proves
servative power in the life both of man and beast; West- himself feebler than a child in bringing it to bear upon
minster bridge partakes of the general decay ; Kings' the land of his adoption. Nobody is safe who breathes
promises and Parliamentary pledges are equally going Irish air and treads Irish soil. The disease is endemic,
to the dogs ; parties have melted like snow in summer ; and affects all, high an 3 low, rich and poor. Worse than
interests have rotted • Ministries have dissolved ; laws the plague of Egypt, it does not come and go, but it is
have repealed themselves ; a law only two years old fell constant and abiding, as well as vernacular. We blame
to pieces this spring ; another Act, passed on iti ruins, no man for being affected with the evil. We do not re-
is already waiting its quietus; a third measure for proach the Celt for a physical and mental weakness,
Ireland has been unavoidably amplified, not to say super- shared with the Saxon equally with himself as soon
seded, by Government;—lastly, (we know it to our cost), as he sets foot in Ireland. Protestant and Re.
articles will not keep. By the second day a news- manist are alike mad when the fit is on. Moral
paper article becomes fit for nothing but a grocer's force is as rabid as physical, and the
shop, or a volume of posthumous remains, edited by Archbishop of Dublin quite as eccentric as
a very near relative. Having suffered ourselves by this Father O'Driseoll. A form of prayer prepared by the
class of casualty, we have become rather keen and also Archbishop of Canterbury, and agreed upon by her
rather merciless to the disasters of our neighbours. A Majesty in Council, humiily imploring Almighty
quarterly review, pl
, howQver, has no claim whatever to our to tivtrt from Ireland the impending calamity of fa God
mine,
pity. It can be written and printed in a fortnight; and is for warded to Dr. Whately, that it may be read in his
there is n) reason why it should ever be more than a diocese as well as in every other in the kingdom : and
fortnight past time. But here is our old friend the his Grace, instead of obeying her Majesty's Council, st
Edinburgh opening with an article which might just as I once preaches a sermon, political and religious, denying
well have been written by the decree of his imperious the constitutional right of the Council to issue their
Majesty King Nebuchadnezzar, as for the month and I command, and proving the visitation a direct judgment
year impressed on the Edinburgh's azure physiognomy, from God, which it would be blasphemy to interfere
The substance of the article is evidently as old as the with. Was Sir Robert Peel wrong when he pronounced
Edinburgh itself, though done up afresh, with a few Ireland to be the great difficulty of the Ministers ; or,
modern dates and names. Think of a paper professing would he not have been nearer the mark had he said
political and spiritual, is entrusted ? When Shakspeare
to be a " Proposal for extending the Irish Poor-law," Irishmen, and those to whom the care of Irish matters,
which does not make the remotest allusion to that fear-
ful crisis in the fortunes of Ireland which engages the spoke of " the anthropophagi, and men whose heads do
attention, the curiosity, and the sympathy
of the whole grow beneath their shoulders," he must surely have had
civilised world! At the foot of the last page, just after
unhappy
Ireland in his sagacious and far-seeing eye.
S. ADVERTISER.—Our readers will have an
logy: seen
a railway article, there comes the following curt ape- ADERTI
advertisement in this journal a few days ago, announcing
that an address is to be delivered on Monday next, by
Mr. Charle Cochre-

Arles ~ochrane, in the Princess's Assembly
Rooms, Castle-street, Oxford-street. The object of the
address will be, to endeavour to create such a manifesta-
tion of public sympathy and anxiety for the sufferings
of the poorer classes throughout the country, as may
lead to the immediate removal, by Government, of all
duties on every kind of food essential to human wants.
Mr. Cochrane is an earnest and enlightened pkilanthro-
pist, and has already been instrumental in doing great
good to the lower classes of the community. His bene-
volence is not of a visionary kind: it is as practical in its
character as it is pure and praiseworthy in its aims. He
was the founder, and has hitherto, we believe, been the
main supporter of the "Poor Man's Guardian Society," an
Institution whose claims to the countenance of the
charitable and humane, have, on repeated occasions,
been enforced in the columns of this journal. He will
confine himself to the remaining taxes on human food.
On this subject we have freely and frequently expressed
our opinions. Every day's post from Ireland brings us
accounts of new instances of the peasantry in that
country dying from want of food. And yet Lord John
Russell restricts the supply, and keeps up the price of
corn, by persisting in the maintenance of the existing
duties. A whole nation are enduring the horrors of
famine ; and instant death, from the sheer lack of sus-
tenance, stares myriads in the face. Perish the harsh,
heartless theories, be they what they may, which inter-
pose between a people and their necessary food ! Lord
John Russell, in refusing to open the ports, is not only
guilty of cruelty, but of the very quintessence of inhu-
manity. Nor is this all. A still graver charge lies at his
door. He is, more or less, morally responsible for the
death of every miserable creature who perishes of want.
More than this ; if we comprehend the genius of our
Constitution, he is also constitutionally responsible. It
is idle to talk to us of an understanding among all parties
that the Corn Bill of last session was to be a final set-
tlement of the question. Away with all such "under-
standings," at a crisis like the present ! Let conven-
tionalisms, no matter what may be their nature, be flung
to the winds, when they would put a veto on the supply►
of food to a nation perishing of want. It is the first
and paramount duty of Government to prevent any of
her Majesty's subjects dying of hunger. All other con-
siderations must give way to that. And the Minister
who allows a single human being within these realms to
perish for want of food, while any practicable effort
remains unmade to provide the means of sustenance, is
much more deserving of impeachment than many a
Minister who has had to stand, before now, before the
legislative bar.

THE GREAT BRITAIN.
(From the Northern Whig of Saturday.)
"TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN WHIG.
" Dundrum, Oct. 16, 1846.
" Sir,—From the handsome and open-handed manner
in which you have espoused my proffered voluntary as-
sistance towards the relief of the Great Britain, I feel
bound to comply with your request, in expressing my
opinions relative to her present position. There can be
no doubt in the minds of any scientific men but that she
may be saved, and that without trusting to the trea-
cherous spring tides. Every person who has visited
her has expressed his doubts as to her ultimate fate; and
the general opinion appearing to prevail is, that she may
be given up as a total loss. From the first moment I
was made acquainted with the exact position of the Great
Britain, I stated that she could be got off, since which
my opinion has not been altered one iota; and the more
I see the more I am convinced that if it is the general
wish of the parties concerned in her fate, she may be
again afloat.

V'° My plan of proceeding with respect to this ship is
founded on purely scientific principles. We well know
that we have a large body to contend with, the dead
weight of which is upwards of 1,500 tons. To move this
ponderous mass by any other means than those of many
adjuncts is quite impossible. No power of traction could
be applied to any one point, and even if applied to dif-
ferent points would be as useless and futile as were the
attempts at the last spring tides. The ship's position is
as favourable as it can well be for any proceedings that
may be taken towards her rescue. The means applied to
her Majesty's steam-frigate Gorgon are, from their re-
sults, sufficient of themselves to recommend them; and
upon the same principles would I proceed in the case of
this ship. She has from seven to nine feet water along-
side at high water, quite sufficient to float her. Upon
the whole I do not consider her position so precarious as
is generally supposed. She is well secured by the bead
and stern; but as to how she may weather the ensuing
six months' gales and seas, I should be sorry to venture
an opinion.

" ihave been actuated to offer my services upon this
occasion merely from the fact of having the advantage
of practical and successful experience in similar cases,
and from which I form my opinions with respect to the
Cleat Britain. Many nautical and scientific gentlemen
have consulted with me, to whom I have explained my
plans; and I am happy to state they are all of one opi-
nion as to my success, if employed.
" Many and various rumours have got abroad, and are
daily gaining ground, not only in this neighbourhood,
but all over the country, and questions, some of
no slight difficulty to answer, are constantly being
put as to the ultimate intentions with respect to this
ship.
" I intend remaining in this neighbourhood for a few
days longer, in order to give the directors due time to
reply to my offers relative to the Great Britain, and
must conclude by quoting the old adage of Where
there's a will there's a way.
" Your most obedient servant,
" THOMAS S. S. GABRIEL, R.N."

LORD ROSSE'S MONSTER TELESCOPE.--A paragraph
has gone the round of the papers stating that an attempt
was made by some fanatics, a few days ago, to "injure
the speculum of Lord Rosse's monster telescope in the
Armagh Observatory." There is not the 'lightest
foundation for the report ; we publish the paragraph to
show up the fabricator of such a story capable of manu-
facturing monster falsehoods, and decking them out in a
somewhat plausible style. The whole fabrication is an
ingenious, but at the same time a flimsy hoax—Armagh
Sporting Chronicle.
CAPTAIN HosßElc.—Yesterday morning Captain
Hosken, R.N., the commander of the Great Britain, ar-
rived here, via Belfast, from Dundrum Bay. He will
remain, during his stay in Liverpool, at the Adelphi
Hotel. Yesterday he was waited upon by several nauti•
cal gentlemen, and to-day he will have an interview with
the agents of the vessel, Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.
We believe that, after a brief stay here, he purposes
going :to Bristol, to communicate personally with his
directors.—Liverpool Albion.

THE LATE FIRE IN SOUTHWARK.—Last night, at
eight o'clock, Mr. J. Payne, the Deputy Coroner, held
an inquest at Guy's Hospital, respecting the death of
John Cantell, aged 21 years, who died from the effects of
injuries received at the late explosion upon the premises
of Mr. Johri Sharp, printer, of Kent-street, Southwark..
It will be recollected that the deceased was an appren-
tice, and on the night of Friday, the 9th instant, the de-
ceased and two females were engaged in making squibs
for sale for the sth of November, when a portion of the
combustibles ignited by accident, whereby the deceased
and the females were most frightfully burnt. Ellen
_
in • ' Another daughter now lies
Sharp, aged 18, was killed on the night
w hinenquheestdtioend;frbomut
the deceased lingered until Saturday,
the effects of the ums.
aDfteeratwhly,chA, the ethjeuryaarmea-
in the above hospital, in a very dangerous state. The
time they expressed their unanimous disapprobation
ear
verremarkedverdict
of
Accidentalt hee as e ;
atCu;ranrinendst the practice of allowing children to make fire-
works, more especially in such a crowded neighbourhood.
TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT. --- Yesterday evening,
the ninth anniversary of the Walworth and Camber-
well Total Abstinence Society was celebrated by a publics
meeting, in the school-room, Queenhead-row, IsTewing•
ton. The meeting was most numerously and respectably
attended. The Rev. W. W. Robinson, M.A., presided.
The report stated that 400 persons had joined the so-
ciety, and that amongst these were several of the most
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dthrautuksOaroa,Oso;o per-
that
no less than 60m,
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manufacture
were:torhc
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lcse,spentosaoonfaodnfhntubhurnoaaslathl
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catingtwo were
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had been destroyed, and thousands were on the verge of
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which the meeting separated.
IMMENSE TRAINS.—Two luggage trains passed by
the Rugby station on Saturday last, on the London and
North-Western Railway, one of which consisted of 96
carriages, containing nearly 400 tons of goods, impelled
by one of Stephenson's six-wheel engines, and two
others; the other train consisted of 84 carriages, and
contained 384 tons of merchandise, &c., drawn likewise
by three engines. The length of the rst train was up-
wards of a quarter of a mile.
Miss Martineau is about to proceed, in company
with some friends, to Egypt, where she proposes SO spend
the winter,—Liverpool