The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER, '2, 1846.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND THE
DUKE or LEINSTER.
If Lord John Russell thought only of courting or
ket ping up popularity in Ireland he would never have
written the letter to the Duke of Leinster, published by
the Dublin Evening Post, and copied into this journal on
Saturday. That letter is a frank and honest, rather than
a political document, and yet excites the wildest appre-
hensions,and provokes the loudest outcries, is that which
relates to the supply of food. " Food within everybody's
reach, and at a moderate price," is the demand with
which the priests, demagogues, and people of Ireland
are thundering at the door of the Cabinet. Lord John
Russell answers that the demand cannot be complied with.
The embarrassment eith which we have to contend lies
in the fact that food is scarce, and therefore that some
must go with short allowance. Ireland, with a large
portion of her population living upon Government
wages, will be sure to obtain at least her usual
share of the common stock, but if, in addition.
she had food brought to her by the instrumen-
tality of Government, at a price lower than the
market price, it is quite certain that she would gain the
advantage by a grievous injustice to the rest of the em-
pire. In some parts of Ireland, however, and more par-
ticularly in the rural districts of the west and south,
there is, properly speaking, DO food market. The pea-
santry, receiving land in return for their labour, in lieu
of wages, have hitherto grown their own food, and no
class of dealers has arisen by whose agency they might,
at a time like the present, obtain food from a distance.
Imagine thousands of purchasers suddenly demanding
bread or meal in a village, %here a solitary huxter could
scarcely find a dozen customers before. An unex-
pectedly large monster train has been known to clear out
the bakers' shops even of Brighton, and to raise bread
for a few brief hours to a famine price. What, then,
must be the result in remote districts of Ireland, where
the ordinary machinery of supply is so slight and
inadequate, when there comes a demand sudden and
vast enough to try the resources even of a metro-
polis. In a country full of enterprise, like England,
the commencement of extensive public works calls at
once into existence a host of small dealers, by whom the
wants of the labourers are supplied. Every battalion of
railway navigators has its camp-followers. The same
thing takes place, and will still further take place, in the
more advanced prosperous districts of Ireland, and if in
any of those districts competition does not speedily
cause food to be supplied in sufficient quantities at a fair
market price, it is for the gentry, the clergy, and other
educated persons to take measures for correcting the
evil. What is needful for a single parish may without
great difficulty or sacrifice be done by its own inha-
bitants, while to provide thus for ten thousand parishes
would tar exceed the powers of any Government. But
for districts in which society is less advanced, and where,
as we have said, no food market can be said to have
existed hitherto, Lord John Russell and his col.
leagues think it necessary and safe " to create
a provision trade at fair mercantile prices," by
the establishment of Government depots. Of the
extent of this necessity we are not in a condition to
judge, but it is evident enough that the Governmenty
cannot, even upon the most urgent necessity, turn pro-
vision merchant without serious consequences. It cannot
carry on the trade in food upon a small scale, nor can
it precisely determine beforehand the limits within
which it will operate. Lord John Russell, however,
is fully sensible of the perilous nature of the experiment,
and will doubtless proceed with caution. Meanwhile,
his appeal to the landowners and others who have local
influence in Ireland, to do their part, ought to be effec-
tual.

"But that which is not possible by a government is
possible by individual and social exertions. Every one
who travels through Ireland observes the large stacks of
corn, which are the produce of the late harvest. There
is nothing to prevent the purchase of grain by proprie-
tors or by committees, and the disposal of these supplies
in shops furnished on purpose with flour at a fair price,
with a moderate profit. This has been done, lam as-
sured, in parts of the Highlands of Scotland, where the
failure of the potatoes has been as great and as severe a
calamity as it has been in Ireland.
" There is, no doubt, some inconveniences attending
even these modes'of interference with the market price
of food. But the good overbalances the evil. Local
committees, or agents of landowners, can ascertain the
pressure of distress, measure the wants of a district,
and prevent waste or misapplication. Besides, the
general effect is to bring men together and induce them
to exert their energy in a social effort directed to one
spot ; whereas the interference of the State deadens
private energy, prevents forethought—and, after super-
seding all other exertion, finds itself at last unequal to
the gigantic task it has undertaken."
As to the other question touched upon in the letter,
namely, the revolution which must take place in the
agricultural system of Ireland, it i 3 alarming to think of
the rapidity with which we are hurrying on to another
season without any clear conception of what we are do-
ing or ought to do. What is to be the substitute for
the potato? Carry the Irish people through the present
winter, by the expenditure of five or six millions of
money, and how are they to live next year? How are they
to get through next winter ? If public works withdraw
hundreds of thousands from the cultivation of the soil,
what kind of harvest shill we gather in next • autumn ?
These are questions which Lord John Russell cannot
altogether leave to be settled by the respectable persons
who compose the Agricultural Society of Ireland. Lord
John Russell may have reason to regret that the negli-
gences of a long series of Governments have thrown upon
him the tremendous responsibilities of guiding, so far as
a statesman can guide, a social revolution. But let him
not mistake his position. The whole industrial economy
of Ireland will have to be settled on a new basis, and no
preliminary investigations for which a Government pos-
sesses resources above those of private persons can be set
aside as beyond its province.—Chronicle.

Information was received yesterday that Admiral
Parker, with the whole of his squadron, had entered the
Tagus.
Ruff's "Guide to;the Turf," or Pocket Racing Compa-
nion for 1846, containing acalendar of the races in Great
Britain and Ireland during the past season, the Nomina-
tions for 1847, a full list of the Derby, Oaks, and St.
Leger Lots, &c. &c., will be published on the 14th inst.,
and not on the 4th, as erroneously announced in the
sporting papers of yesterday. Advertisements will be
received at 170, Strand, up to Thursday next.
On Saturday morning the second battalion of
Coldstream Guards were assembled in square at Port-
man-street barracks, to hear the finning of a Court
Martial read on private J. Loring, of No. 1 company,
who had been tried by a District Court Martial, for
making use of abusive language to the sergeant and cor-
porel on duty, when he was confined in the guard room
for being absent a short period, and brought to barracks
by patrols. He was found guilty, and sentenced to un-
dergo six months' imprisonment and hard labour.
The papers have told so many contradictory stories
as to the period of the Queen's visit to the Duke of Nor-
folk, at Arundel Castle, that we deem it right to state
that no such visit will take place until after the cele-
bration of the birthday of the Prince of Wales, which
will be kept at Windsor on the 9th inst.— Observer.
John Bright, Esq., M.P., is now seriously indis-
posed, arising, it is said, from an ulcerated throat. In
consequence the public meeting which was to have been
held in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on Wednesday
evening last, has been postponed, he having promised to
attend the meeting in question, which had been culled in
consequence of his having consented to become a candi-
date for the borough at the next election.—Leeds Mercury.
The late henry Stephen Fox, Esq., late Minister
from our Court to the United States, whose demise is
announced to have taken place at Washington, the
middle of last month, was collaterally related to the pre-
sent Lord Holland, being son of the late Honourable
General Fox. Mr. Fox was, we believe, in bis fifty-
fifth year, and unmarried.
ACCIDENTS ON THE RlVER.—Yesterday, on the
river oft Battersea, a boat, in which were four persons,
was capsized in consequence of the passing of one of the
Citizen steamboats. All were instantly immersed in the
water, and prompt assistance being rendered three were
saved, but the remaining one, a lad of about ten or
twelve years of age, was drowned. A short time after-
wards, off Chelsea, immediately opposite the Cadogan
Pier, a boat containing a party of five was accidentally
overturned. Immediate assistance having been dispatched
from the pier, fortunately no life was lost.
FATAL ACCIDENTS.—On Saturday Edward Harvey,
aged 72 years, who was in the employ of Messrs.
Cottam and Allen, ironfounders, of Cornwall-road, Lam-
beth, and whilst stepping from the roof to the scaffold,
he missed his footing, and fell to the basement, whereby
he sustained the most frightful injuries, from the effects
of which he died soon after his admission into Guy's
Hospital. Another accident took place on Saturday to
a man named John Dangerfield, aged 61 years, a pen-
sioner, residing in Mill-street, Bermondsey. He was on
the way' home from the City, where he had been to
receive 91., his pension, and while crossing the carriage-
way on the centre of London-bridge, he missed his foot-
ing and fell under a cart wheel, and before the driver
had time to stop the horse the off wheel passed over his
body. He was taken to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he
died in two hours, from severe internal injuries.
SUICIDE Er A BANK CLERK.—An inquest was
on Saturday taken by Mr. Mills, at the Old Queen's
Head, Lower-road, Islington, on the body of a gentleman
named Marshall, who, at the time of his death, was a
clerk in the Bank of England. Mr. Roper, of America-
square, Minories, a fellow-clerk of the deceased, gave
evidence, showing that the unfortunate man, from some
domestic differences, had become very unsettled in his
mind, but it was not for a moment supposed that he
would attempt to destroy himself. On Thursday he com-
plained of indisposition, and, by Mr. Roper's recom-
mendation, did not go to the Bank at the usual hour in
the morning. About four o'clock in the afternoon he
left that gentleman's abode, and the same evening
drowned himself in the New River. Verdict, "Found
drowned."
FOREIGN PRODUCE.—The latest importations into
the northern port of Hull of cattle and provisions from
the continental states have comprised the following:—
The Hamburgh, from Ilamburgh, brought 150 casks of
butter, 48 oxen and cows, 7 calves, and 44 pigs; the
Transit, from Hamburgh, 26 .casks of butter, 34 oxen
and cows, 13 pigs, &c.; the Queen of Scotland, from
Hamburgh, 107 casks of
,butter, 89 head of cattle, 3
horses, and 37 pigs; the Archimedes, f, one Harriburgh
also, 12 casks of butter, 14 head of horned cattle, 5
calves, and 18 pigs; the Rob Roy, from St. Petersburgh,
8 ankers and 60 kegs of cranberries, 3 packages and 27
bags of potatoes of Russian produce; the Ormsby Hail
and the Albion, from Ostend, respectively, with entire
cargoes of apples, amounting to about 200 tons in
weight, the produce of Belgium; -the Monarch, from
Antwerp, aming other articles, 8 calves of Belgian
produce; and the Leeds, from Hamburgh, 85 casks of
butter, 3 casks of hams, 3 casks of beet, 26 oxen and
sews, and 55 pigs, with other produce. These arrivals
took place at Hull in the space of one week, and are in-
teresting, as showing their extent in comparison with the
extensive tkr;iY§ls 9f Nob pr9ductieus hue.

COURT CIRCULAR.

' WINDSOR SUNDAY.—Yesterday her Majesty and his
Royal Highness Prince Albert took their usual early
morning walk, and again walked in the afternoon.
His Royal highness Prince Albert, attended by Col.
Seymour, enjoyed the sport of shooting yesterday
morning.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at-
tended by her Lady in Waiting (Lady Caroline Murray)
left the Castle yesterday.
The Lord Chancellor also took his departure from the
Castle yesterday.
The Duke of Norfolk remained to dinner at the Castle
on Friday, after the Privy Council held by her Majesty.
His Grace left the Castln yesterday morning.
This morning her Majesty and Prince Albert walked
on the Eastern Terrace and Slopes.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
the Princess Royal look their usual exercise this
morning.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Pri9ce Albert,
the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the do-
mestic household attended Divine service this morning
in the private chapel. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie
Com tenay officiated.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke and, Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburg Srrelitz, returned to their resi-
dence at Kew on Saturday, from honouring the Marquis
and Marchioness of Ailesbury with a visit, at their resi-
dence, Tottenham Park, Watt,.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester re-
turned to her residence at Richmond on Saturday, from
a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Lord John
Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto,
Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Hobhouse,
Lord Campbell, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Auck-
land, Viscount Morpeth, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay,
the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Right Hon. H. La-
bouchere.
The Council sat three hours and a half.
After the Council, the Marquis of Lansdowne left
town for his seat, Bowood-park, Wilts.
Sir Patrick Stuart had an interview with Earl Grey on
Saturday at the Colonial•oflice.
Dispatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governor of New South Wales,
South Australia, and Van Diemen's Land. Dispatches
were also sent offf on Saturday evening for the Governors
of the West India colonies.

.. -
At the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday, the
Prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Helmore, and the
Lessons by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The Sermon was
preached'by the Rev. Dr. Maddy. The Anthem was
" Blessed are those," (Greene). Mr. Cooper presided
at the organ. The Countess of Wilton, and Lords
Granville, De Manley, Norreys, and W. Graham, were
among the nobility present.

'TRIESTE v. MARsEILLES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Trieste, Oct. 20, 1846.

Sir,—l beg to inform you, for the benefit of your
readers, that the steamer Ariel, now in the Marseilles
route, in opposition to that via Trieste, belongs to the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company, and it is for
that Company to explain to her Majesty's Govern-
ment why they are running their steamer and convey-
ing dispatches from the French Consul at Alexandria,
to France (Paris), &c., &c., carrying no portion of her
Majesty's dispatches to either our Government or the
Honourable East India Company, although they receive
one hundred and sixty7five thousand pounds (165,0000
annually for the English Mail service. It is not within
the compass of my judgment to decide how they justify
themselves in so doing.
It appears to me that that Company would have done
better had they sported their Ariel on the Trieste line,
as it is the wish of all the world, except France, that
England should possess a duplicate overland route to
India, and independent to France altogether.
The Ardent will start this time (October) from Alex-
andria with my dispatches, via Alexandria, and orders
have been given that henceforth they leave Alexandria
with the mail steamer via Malta to Marseilles.
The Ariel was built under contract to steam, on
the average, fourteen miles an hour, failing which she
would be thrown on the builder's hands. She does
steam at this speed, while the Ardent can go only
eight miles an hour.
It is a duplicate overland route, independent of France,
that I seek for the benefit of the British merchant and
people of England connected with India, and the East
generally, and not a continuation of the present one-
handed, left-sided, route, that puts the French Govern-
ment in possession of Indian intelligence, which should
only first be heard of from London.
I shall toil on and fear nothing, as I am determined
to succeed, and succeed I shall, to the benefit of Eng-
land's best interest.

I beg you will publish this letter entire, as I wish to
let the public know -that with a boat f equal speed
as the Ariel, I am confident that all I have advocated
will be accomplished.
I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant,
THOMAS WAGHORN.

The Sacred Harmonic Society's Concerts will be
resumed on the 4th inst. (Wednesday next) at Exeter
Hall, when Sphor's oratorio The Last Judgment, a Te
Deum and Jubilate, by Prince Albert, and several other
compositions, will be performed. The society has,
during the past ten years, given no fewer than 157 con-
certs, to audiences amounting in the aggregate to up•
wards of 300,000 persons, and has disbursed amongst the
musical profession nearly 19,000/. The list of sub-
scribers already amount to nearly the number of last
season, which year greatly exceeded • that of any pre-
ceding one.
COSSEY.—On Sunday the inhabitants of Cossey were
afforded a theme of conversation and mysterious surmise,
by the circumstance of the body of a female child having
been discovered lying close to the bank of the river,
near Mr. Culley's mill. The water had, as usual, been
let down, and had left the child lying in the mud. Sus-
picion attached itself to a servant girl, named Pegg, (in
the employ of Mr. Culley), whose pregnancy had been
suspected, though her supposed confinement had been a
profound secret. On the following day, an inquest was
held on the body, before Mr. Pilgrim, coroner, at the
Black Swan. The jury having been sworn, Philip Dye,
of Norwich, letter carrier to Cossey, deposed that as he
was on his usual round from Drayton, and was passing
through the gate close to Cossey mill, he saw the child
lying on the opposite side of the river, with its right
arm across its breast. It was not then in the water, but
it appeared as if it had been in that situation. He then
called Mr. Culley's groom to look at the body, who, with
Mr. Culley, accompanied him to the place where the
child was lying. They found it tied to a small iron
grate, with its neck lying between the two prongs.
Mrs. Girdlestone, who used to go to Mr. Culley's to
• work, was sworn. She did not know whether Pegg had
been delivered of a child or not. Sometimes she had
suspicions of her pregnancy. Mr. William Francis,
surgeon, deposed that the linen of the bed whereon Eliza
Pegg slept, and sundry garments belonging to her, which
he had seen, led him to suspect that she had been re-
cently confined William Ockley, policeman, to whom
the prisoner was given in charge, said, that while he was
with ber in a bedroom, she said, wringing her hands,
"Oh dear, what will be done in this horrid affair ?
How could Ibe so silly ? I would not have done it for
the world had I known the consequences. I was alone
in my room when I was confined, It was some time
before I could take the child up, and when I did so, I
found it dead. No one in the house knew I was in the
family-way; I wish I had told some of them of it, and
they would have advised me better." She appeared much
agitated during the whole of the time. The nurse was
in the room with them. Elizabeth Eyreson, nurse, cor-
roborated the policeman's statement. The jury was then
adjourned till Thursday, to admit of an examination of
the body, in order to ascertain whether the child was
still-born, and to collect any further evidence that might
be adduced. At the adjourned inquest, the principal evi-
denee was that of Mr. Francis, who, from an examination
of the body, was clearly of opinion the child was born
alive, and must have lived three or four hours. A fur-
ther adjournment took place to Friday.—Norfolk News.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday even-
ing last a fatal accident occurred on the Midland line of
railway, between Nottingham and Derby. A young
man, about 25 years of age, of the name of Thomas
Mullen, servant to the Rev. Mr. Curzon, of Weston,
near Derby, left the station at the latter town -by train
at 40 minutes past 8, P.M., intending to go to Notting-
ham ; on arriving at Sawley, 7 miles on the line, he per-
ceived that he had got into the Leicester instead of the
Nottingham train, and without waiting till be got to the
next station, he opened the carriage-door and jumped
out while the train was in rapid motion. The result of
this rash act was, that he fell upon the line of rails and
his left leg was instantly run over by the carriages, and
it was so smashed, that on being conveyed to the General
Infirmary, at Nottingham, his leg was obliged to be
amputated immediately, and though every effort was
made to save his life, he died at half-past one o'clock on
Sunday morning. No blame is attached to any party but
the young man himself.

f lar GOLDENge s
size
eEaAnaciLEs.— splendid
very
plum beautifulage, w asgolden
shot
lately
eagle,w
iwith
ball, 70 yards distant, from a double gun, by Mr. Mac-
pherson, gamekeeper, on the shootings of Sir H. Meux,
Bart., at Dundriggan. The eagle measured three feet in
length, and the extended wings seven feet six inches.
The talons. when stretched to their extent, could take
in a gaasp larger than the space of a man's hand. This
bfrd is the fourth of his species we have seen from within
a circuit of thirty miles, and all taken this year. We
hear that the royal birds are gradually disappearing
from the rocky cliffs of which they have for centuries
been sole tenants. Numbers are carried off, both living
and dead, every season, to grace zoological gardens, or
take their places, the first, among collections of pre-
served birds. As red deer are now on the increase in
most forests, the golden eagle deserves some care from
deer-stalkers. His broad pinions, swifter than the wind,
as he rushes through the air, or his majestic form perched
on some tall cliff; would always be a fair mark for a rifle
shot—a more fitting end of his career than the ignoble
irons of the trapper. We know of one wide forest where
the noble owner holds the eagle free to roam unharmed,
and as his food cannot be missed where nothing is of
value but the antlered monarchs of the corries, this hint
will, we hope, restore to him the freedom of his ancient
haunts.—lnverness Courier.
THE GREAT WESTERN.—LIVERPOOL,SATURDAY.—
The noble Atlantic steamship Great Western, Captain
Mathews, sailed hence this afternoon for New York,
with a complement of 96 passengers, including Sir Allan
M‘Nab, of Canada. The departure of the Great Western
to dY, within the brief space of six days since her
a
arrival, presents a notable ir4stance of commercial
dispatch.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. I.—The Sappho, 16, Commander
Gambier, was paid off yesterday.
The Cyclops steam-frigate, Captain Lapidge, left Spit-
head this morning.al half-past eight for Portugal, taking
out Colonel Wylde (Equerry to Prince Albert) and his
two sons, upon an important mission ; also supernume-
raries for the squadron in the Mediterranean, and dis-
patches for Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, Bart., the
Commander-in-Chief. The Cyclops lay with her steam
up, and ready to start at a moment's notice, the whole of
yesterday.
The Mariner transport, Lieutenant W. Still, agent,
arrived this morning from Deptford, bound to Bermuda,
with convicts.

The Mercury tender, Second Master Scarlett, sailed
yesterday for Plymouth, with the Maiines of the Sappho,
belonging to that division.

The Manceuvrer lighter arrived this morning from
the eastern yards, with stores.

The Crocodile troop-ship, Commander Lowe, has been
surveyed and found unfit for service as a troop-ship, but
it is considered that she would yet make a good trans
port for other purposes. If she is paid off, we hope her
gallant commander, who has only had her for a few
months, will either be promoted, or have the command of
another and a better ship.
The Talbot, 26, Captain Sir T. Thompson, Bart., is
hourly expected from the Pacific, with freight.
WOOLWICH, OCT. 30. The Geyser steam-vessel was
commissioned at Woolwich to-day, by Commander
Francis T. Brown (1840).
The Amphion, 36-gun frigate, with screw-propeller,
has hoisted the pendant of Captain Williams, of the
Avenger; and the officers and crew of the latter vessel
will be transferred to the Amphion.
The Kite steam vessel was towed to Deptford yester-
day by the Charon steam-vessel, to be refitted for the
surveying service.

The Dwarf steam-vessel was taken into dock this
afternoon, to have some alterations made, the speed of
her recent trials being only between three and four knots
per hour on the first, and about five knots on the second
trip, with screw propellers.
The Philadelphia North American notices a valuable
nautical invention, which is attracting much attention.
It is an invention of R. C. Holmes, agent for the under-
writer of Captain May, and is pronounced by the first
seamen the greatest improvement ever accomplished in
the machinery of steering vessels. The greatest diffi-
culties under which the steering-gear of ships labour are
completely obviated by it. The making slack of the
vibration of the tiller and the change in the tiller-rope
are prevented. By the fixed position of the machinery,
the ropes always lead fair through the blocks and wind
regularly, avoiding all chafing of one part against the
face of the other. All danger of accident to the steers-
man, too, in strong currents, from the slacking of the
rope is rendered impossible. So taut and yet so simple
is the machinery, that instead of the constant watching
of the wheel heretofore required, and the freqnently
harassing labour of the helmsman, a child almost could
manage it in the heaviest sea; and in a gale of wind a
vessel would almost lay to itself. The principle is two
barrels, or drums, instead of one; as fast as the rope
accumulates upon the upper one, it is carried off by the
lower. The invention is a new feature in mechanics,
nothing like it having been discovered in the books at
the Patent- office.

THE GREAT BRITAIN,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—Your admirable and most just remarks on the
cause which led to the wreck of the Great Britain are
so convincing, so unanswerable, that not another word
is required to explain the case; but there is one part of
Captain Hosken's letter which I cannot understand.
He has stated that he took the light on St. John's
Point for one of the lights on the Calf of Man, and that
he stood on the N.W. by N. course from eight o'clock to
about half-past nine, when the ship was discovered to
be in shallow water, with the view of getting on " the
right bearing for rounding the Hen and Chicken Rocks,
lying off the Calf of Man." He then continues—" I
then hauled the ship up to north gradually, and to N.
E. ultimately, when I was surprised to find, on in-
quiring the time, that it was a quarter past, nine. I ran
dawn for a moment to look at my chart and back to the
helm, when I heard a loud hail from the forecastle, and
at the same moment I saw what appeared and proved to
be shoal water alongside; I instantly sung out, Hard
a• port; stop her.' This was done."
Now, Sir, it appears to me, that as the danger which
had been apprehended by Captain Hosken was the Hen
and Chicken Rock, and that when he altered the course
to north and N. f E. to round them he considered these
dangers were on his starboard bow, he would, I should
have supposed, order the helm to be put hard a-star-
board, instead of hard a-port, when the shoal water was
first diseovered, in order to put the ship's head from
those supposed rocks; and, had he done this, although
the shoal water proved to be on the coast of Ireland,
yet, had the helm been put hard a-starboad the instant
the breakers were seen, the probality, if not the cer-
tainty, is, that she would have wore round clear of the
shore.

Here it might be asked, what marks he took for al-
tering the course from N.W. by N. to N.? Did he see
a second light, or how did the St. John's light (as it
proved to be) bear when he hauled up to N,? It
could not, I imagine, have borne E.N.E. by compass,
which the Calf light should have borne before he altered
bis course to have rounded the Hen and Chicken Rocks,
which lie off the Calf of Man.

Captain Hosken observes, that at a quarter past 9 be
ran down to look at his chart.

The question has naturally been asked, how often did
he ccnsult his chart during the passage over? and did he
calculate the distance run upon it at any period before
9 o'clock?

If he had done this, he must have known that the

light seen at eight o'clock bearing-N.N.W. could not by
any possibility have been the light on the Calf of Man •,
and why he did mot refer to his chart and the log- board
half a dozen times at least during the preceding eight
hours, he alone can explain, more especially as the wea-
ther became so thick and hazy after five o'clock.
Although this magnificent ship lies imbedded in the
sand, it surely cannot be intended to-abandon her with-
out some further trials to get her off.
My sincere belief is that she can be got off without
much difficulty.
Why have not the largest sized empty casks been al-
ready tried to assist in floating her ? Why have not
some attempts been made to place
"ways " under her
bottom in different parts ? Six-inch oak plank might, I
think, be got under her bottom in different parts by
digging away the sand at low water. whereby she would
be the more easily moved by purchases. Certain it is,
that so splendid a ship ought not to be suffered to be
abandoned without every effort being first used to get
her again afloat ; and I
Yet hope to see her once more
crossing the Atlantic, proudly showing what England's
skill has produced.—l am, Sir, yours, &c.,
Oct. 28. TRIDENT.

The plan proposed by Mr. Mackintosh for floating the
Great Britain steam -ship,
is, it is said, to be tried. It
has been thus explained :—There is to be a ridge of
stones in a half circle, placed at a short distance fro
mthe stern of the vessel, and some hollow iron shells in
a like circle, charged with gunpowder, besides a few
smaller charges placed along the course to which the
ship is expected to be driven. Upon the semi-circular
train being fired by means of the usual galvanic appli-
ances, the water at the stern of the ship will be lifted
with such force as to loosen the sandy bed, and imme-
diately set her afloat, the continuance of the wave being
accomplished by the firing of the smaller charges, while
the tug steamers are towing in advance. It is calculated
that the water will be agitated to a given extent, not
more than equal to the force already withstood by the
Great Britain when at sea, and that a certain number of
casks deposited in the engine-room will give her suffi-
cient buoyancy. The grand point must necessarily be
to ensure such a precise arrangement of the explosive
materials as to prevent any untoward injury to the ship,
and at the same time to accomplish a simultaneous action
of the tug steamers, should the auspicious event come
off, and the noble ship be once more afloat. We have
seldom known any nautical occurrence excite morein-
terest here than this does, and certainly, none since the
trial of Warner's Long Range. It is hoped that the
Great Britain will not become strained
,or damaged in
any way not easily reparable.

Accounts have been received from Malta of the
death of R. J. Eaton, Esq., M.P., of Stetchworth Park,
Cambridgeshire. A vacancy has thus been occasioned in
the representation for the county. We hear that Mr.
Adeane, Mr. Townley; Mr. Childers, Lord George
Manners, Lord Cantalupe, and Lord Cosmo Russell
have been named as likely to solicit the suffrages of the
electors. The names of Sir Culling Smith and Captain
Peyton, son of Sir H. Peyton, have also been mentioned.
—From a Correspondent.

THE HERTFORDSHIRE YEOMANRY.—Her Majesty
on leaving Hatfield was escorted by the llerts Yeomanry
to Rickmansworth, where a party of the Uxbridge Yeo-
manry, under the command of Mr. Cox, relieved them,
they chang-
ing playing
ell
and escorted her Majesty to Uxbridge. At Uxbridge a
troop of the Uxbridge Yeomanry, under the command of
Captain de Burgh, formed a guard of honour, and re-
ceived
xvedahtieereaMl ajaenstthye,mthdeurie
bangdthoef
timethe regiment
ing the horses of the royal carriages, and upon her
Majesty proceeding a party of the corps had the honour
of forming the escort to Langley, where it was relieved
by the Ist Life Guards.
FATAL ACCIDENT YESTERDAY ON THE MAN-
CHESTER AND LEEDS RAILwAY.—An accident, by which
two men lost their lives on the above railway, took place
yesterday between the Brighouse and Elland stations.
letpeaepptehaeruspt.lrietet,weond unfortunatelyplat e-layersh
stepped
eardatrain
luggage.on the down
line out of its way. At that instant the express train,
which leaves Manchester at a quarter-past eight, came
down, and both of the men were.ng was very killed before they could
get out of the way. The morning
foggy, and
it is thought the men did not see the express train in
time, and that the noise of the luggage-train prevented
them hearing it.— Wakefield Journal, Oct. 30.
GRAND ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.
—The Lord Mayor gave a most splendid entertainment
on Friday, in the Egyptian hall of the Mansion-house, to
between 180 and 200 guests. The Lord Mayor and Lady
Mayoress will give a grand ball at the Mansion• house on
the sth instant. The grandest preparations are being
made for the occasion, and some of the first people in
town are invited.
A NIGHT ON A ROCK.—burin the stormy
weather last week, a clergyman at Scarborough set out
with the intention (,f walking to Filey by the sands and
rocks. Having got a considerable distance he
to re-
turn;efoundi
c eed. impracticablehu t th
Findinge tt
iodep
himself
rhoacde proceed d
flowed
surrounded
ur t heeor, , andhighhe could not suc-
ii y attempted
water, he took
up a position, where he remained during a bitter cold
and stormy night, and although thus exposed, returned
safe to his lodgings the next day at 'loons—Hull racket.

THE CYCLOPS FRIGATE AND THE
STEAM-SHIP POTTINGER ON SHORE.

SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY NIGHT.

I regret to communicate the above disasters during
the fog this morning off Cowes. As yet very imperfect
intelligence has reached me respecting the Cyclops. I
have, however, seen one of the passengers by the
Pottinger, who has very kindly furnished me with infor-
mation as to the grounding of that ship.
It appeared that she neared the Needles very early
this morning, but in consequence of a very thick fog
prevailing, and having no pilot on board, Captain
Cooper, her commander, deemed it expedient, as a
matter of safety, to stand off, and reduce the speed
of the vessel. The weather, however, ultimately
clearing up, the steam was again put on, and the
Needles were passed without accident—immediately
after which the weather again became hazy,
:o much so that it was impossible a pilot could descry
the vessel. The speed was consequently again reduced,
and the ship merely glided along, not progressing more
than two knots an hour. In this manner she neared
Cowes, or at least within three miles of that place, when
the vessel suddenly grounded. So slight was the shock
that only the commander, the chief engineer, and one or
two others, were aware of the circumstance. Orders
were immediately given to reverse the engines, and the
order was with the utmost alacrity attempted to be
obeyed, but without the slightest effect : there was some
defect in the machinery, and as it was impossible to get
the engines to work, the steam, as a precautionary mea-
sure, was blown off. It was now nine o'clock, just at the
turn of high water, and as there was not the least chance
of getting the vessel afloat, Lieutenant Brady, Admiralty
agent in charge of the mails, started in one of the ship's
boats to the Motherbank for assistance. There he found
the Pearl, a small steamer, with her steam already up,
at anchor, awaiting the Pottinger's arrival, to convey her
mails to Southampton. Lieutenant Brady took her to
the Pottinger, and got the whole of the passengers out,
with a portion of their luggage, and brought them, toge-
ther with the mails, to Southampton.
Soon after the tide had partially receded, the vessel
slightly heeled over, but not so much as to cause any
alarm. She rested on a mud bank, but Captain Cooper
took every precaution to prevent further mischief, by
causing her to be properly shored up.
Soon after the above mishap, the Cyclops, her Ma-
jesty's steam-frigate, got on shore about half a mile be-
low the Pottinger, on a bed of shingles. As far as I
can learn, her situation is somewhat critical. She heeled
over considerably after she struck ; but as the weather
is exceedingly fair, with scarcely a ripple to disturb the
water, it is to be hoped that both ships will be got off
without damage.
Immediately on the arrival of the Pearl at South-
ampton, with the passengers of the Pottinger, informa-
tion was at once dispatched to Captain Sparkes, the su-
perintendent of the Oriental and Peninsular Steam Com-
pany, as also to Mr. Lamb, the superintending engineer,
and those gentlemen at once started to the scene of the
disaster in a powerful steam tug to render assistance.
It was high water at half-past nine, and should
the vessels be in a favourable position, it is to be
hoped that both were got off without material damage.
Up to the present moment (half-paq twelve, A.m.,
Monday morning) they have not returned. I will keep
my parcel open until the departure of the mail train for
town, at a quarter past one, and should the tug have
returned by that time, I will add some additional infor-
mation.

This is the first trip of the Pottinger to Alexandria.
She is a new iron boat, and her engines were built by
Messrs. Miller and Ravenhill. It is a very remarkable
coincidence that Captain Cooper, her commander, who
is brother-in-law to Captain Lapidge, of the Cyclops,,
should have the misfortune to get on shore almost at the
same moment, and within so short a distance of each
other. The Cyclops left Spithead early in the morn-
ing, but I am not aware of her intend destination.
It is gratifying to be enabled to add, that the whole of
the passengers, without a single exception, are unani-
mous in absolving Captain Cooper from all blame. That
gentleman did all he could under the circumstances, and
it is the general opinion of all that had the ship's engines
properly worked at the moment she struck, the vessel
would have been got off at once.
I have also to report the fact that the Prussian Eagle,
a large steamer trading between Southampton and Cork,
got on shore yesterday morning, at half-past eight
o'clock, off St. Alban's Head. The first officer was im-
mediately dispatched for assistance in one of the ship's
boats, and after some little time had elapsed, it was
obtained, and the cargo having been shipped, the vessel
was got afloat, and ultimately arrived at Cowes in the
evening.
MONDAY MORNING, ONE O'CLOCK.—The steam-tug is
not yet returned from the island; I am not, therefore,
enabled to give you any additional particulars to the
foregoing.—Chronicle,

DARING BURGLARY BY A
FEMALE.

On Saturday Hester Elizabeth White, a young
female of remarkably prepossessing appearance and
fashionably dressed, about the middle stature, with dark
hair and eyes, 23 years of age, was examined at the
residence of George Baillie, Esq. (chairman of the
Brentford petty sessions), the Grove, Hanwell, Middle-
sex, on a charge of having buglariously entered the resi-
dence of Mr. Jones, a gentleman of property, Woodland
Cottages, in the village of Ealing, and stealing there-
from a writing-desk, containing four 101. Bank of Eng-
land notes, 101. in gold, 201. in old gold and silver coins,
two valuable rings, and other property. The burglary
was committed en the night of Tuesday, the 20th of
October, without the slightest clue existing as to the
thieves. Inquiries were immediately set on foot, and
the number of the notes sent to the different bankers in
the metropolis, by which means they were traced to
tradesmen in the neighbourhood of Regent-street, in
payment for muffs, boas, and other articles of dress. At
one shop it happened that the prisoner had given her
real name and address, and was consequently taken into
custody at No. 20, Crown-court, Pall-mall. Inspector
Laxton, upon being shown into the prisoner's room, found
her in bed, evidently very ill. Upon being made acquainted
with the object of his visit, she acknowledged the
commission of the offence. The desk was found under
her pillow, containing nearly all the stolen property,
except the bank-notes and sovereigns. She was then
removed to the station-hous6 at Ealing, rid the Great
Western Railway, and while there, although cautioned
upon the subject, she made the following statement:—
That one of Mr. Jones's female servants had been a
fellow-servant with her in a previous situation, and she
had, in consequence, been in the habit of visiting her at
Mr. Jones's ;;that a short time since she stayed on a visit
there for a week, and that on the 20th ult. she went
there to spend the day. At night she left about nine
o'clock, and was accompanied to the Ealing station of
the Great Western Railway by her friend and the ser-
vant at the next house, who remained with her until they
saw her take her departure by the last up train to Pad-
dington. Before, however, leaving Mr. Jones's house,
she had managed, unperceived by any person, to lift
the bar of the front kitchen window shutters, so
that it might be easily lifted up from the outside,
and she took with her and dropped on the lawn a
table knife, which was there found. On her arrival
at the Paddington terminus, so intent was she on the
plunder she intended, that although the rain was de-
scending in torrents she walked all the way back to
Ealing, and there waited until the family had retired to
rest, which was usually about half-past eleven o'clock.
When all was quiet, she sealed a wall six feet high,
which separated the grounds from a field, and throwing
the kitchen window up, she by means of the knife lifted
the bar up, opened the shutters, and entered through
the window, making her way up in the dark to the front
drawing-room, where the writing-desk was usually kept,
and having secured that she left the premises by the way
she had entered. She then started with her booty on
return to town, walking all the way, and about eight
o'clock the next morning she reached her residence in
Crown-court in a very exhausted state, completely
drenched with rain, her stays even being quite satu-
rated. She gave no reason why she was induced to
commit the offence, and refused to state her friends and
connexions, on the ground that she did not wish them
to know her unhappy situation. Being exceedingly ill
from the wetting she received in committing the robbery,
she was remanded to the infirmary of the Westminster
Bridewell for re-examination, when she is able to un-
dergo it, and the necessary witnesses are collected.