The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-08 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING IT N 7 OCTOBER 8, 1846.

No. 16,865.

BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMMISSIONERS.
LOANS OF MONEY.
The Birkenhead Dock Commissioners are ready to receive Loans
of Money for periods of Five or Seven Years, under the authority of
their Acts of Parliament, at the rate of Fite per Cent. per Annum.
The Interest will be paid Half-yearly, on the Ist January and Ist
July, ht London or elsewhere, as the parties lending may prefer.
Sealed Tenders, stating the Amount and Tenn of Years for which
the money is proposed to be lent, to be addressed to the Commis-
sioneir, endorsed " Tender for Loans." By order,
Birkenhead, Sept. 21, 1846. RICHARD HIND, Secretary.

OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
'.o.s A CHEMICAL LECTURE, by Dr. Ryan, daily, and en
the Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Also a
LECTURE OR the ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH daily.
MACINTOSH'S REVOLVING ENGINE, COLEMAN'S PATENT
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE, FARRELL'S ARCHISIEDIAN RAIL-
WAY, the ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY, all in action. HALLETTE'S
ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY VALVE. The OPAQUE MICROS-
COPE. The OXY-HYDROGEN MICROSCOPE. A beautiful Series
of DISSOLVING VIEWS. A Selection of MADRIGALS of the
Sixteenth Century will be performed by a Sax-Horn Band, under
Ika Direction of Dr. Wallis daily, and in the Evenings.
Admission, Is.; schools, Half-price.

SILVER FLAT HORIZONTAL WATCHES,
carefully finished, with engine-turned cases, jewelled in four
holes, going barrel to continue the action of the Watch while wind-
ing, are offered, price 3% guineas each. These elegant little
Watches will be found to perform very correctly, and a printed un-
dertaking is given, with fixed terms on which they will always
receive any attention required.

T. COY SAVORY and Co., Watehmakers. &c., 47, Coniliill,
(seven doors from Gracechurch-street), London.—N.B. Second-hand
Watches purchased In exchange.

BtiRGE SS'S NEW SAUCE, for general pur-
poses, having gained such great approbation, and the demand
or it continuing to increase, JOHN BURGESS and SON beg most
respectfully to offer thus their beat acknowledgments to the Public
for their liberal patronage of the same ; its utility and great conveni-
ence in all climates have recommended P, to the most distinguished
oreigs connections, who have all spoken highly in its recommenda-
tion. It is prepared by them only ; and for preventing disappoint..
went to families, all possible care has been resorted to, by each
bottle being sealed on the cork with their firm and address, as well
as each label having their signature, without which it cannot be
genuine.
JOIIN BURGESS and SON'S long-established and much-esteemed
ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES continues to be prepared by them after
the same manner that has given the greatest satisfaction for many
years.

LIBRARY EDITION.
Now ready, in 3 vols., small Bvo., cloth, price 7s. 6d.,
THE COUNT OF MONTE CHRIST°.
A Romance. By ALEXANDER DUMAS.
" The Count of Monte Christ° ' is amongst the best of Dumas'
works. In abundance and variety of incident it is marvellous. It
unites the wild fancy of the fairy or the Arabian tale with the ar-
tistic individuality of the modern romance. The verisimilitude of
the elaboration is as masterly as the fertility of invention is surprising,
and the descriptions of persons, of accessories, and scenery, are as
Vivid as pictures."—Spectator.
Belfast: Simms and 3,l'lntyre. London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Richard
Liverpool
Griffin an : George d
Coi. Phlip. Edinburgh : John Menzies, Glasgow :
Dublin : Cumming and Ferguson.

OBSERVE.—This Establishment will be closed on MONDAY
the 12th, and TUESDAY, the 13th instant, and re-open on WED-
NESDAY morning, October 14th, at seven o'clock.
THE ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.
In London, the yearly election of Mayor
Is counted a very important affair ;
Each man has his friends who support him right hearty,
And each has his foes, just according to party.
But party is out of the question with us ;
We havedon'thnoavtheinagwtiosidio(7tiistnhltwirieighcatntdhiadtatwese talhinos.
We ulo
To meddle with Carroll, or Hooper, or Wood.
In fact, this selection of subject is made
With a view just to hint at the Lord Mayor of Trade.
'Tis MOSES. in this sense, that's Mayor of the City ;
Let's sing him a " Car-r-01-1," let's sing him a ditty.
While Lord Mayors in general only appear
As " Majesties" during the space of a year,
The Lord Mayor of Trade, through the fame he has earn'd,
Is year after year to his office retuned.
When MOSES solicits the public support
His canvassing battle is easily fought,
For no competition can stand in the way,
But MOSES is certain of gaining the day.
Yes, MOSES, failed MOSES, elicits the votes
On account of his trewsers, his waistcoats, and coats ;
And ev'ry one shouts; " Lend your aid ! lend your aid!"
That MOSES may still be the Lord Mayor of Trade.
LIST OF PRICES.
READY MADE. £ 1. d.
Tweed Taglioni ....... ................from 0 '7 6
Chesterfield and Cedrington Taglionis ................ 0 18 6
Summer Coate in every description and. make, including
the registered Coat 1 2 0
Blouses in every material • • —from 0 2 3
Splendid pattern Summer Vests .................... 0 2 3
Cashmere and Persian ditto, in eadless variety ...... 0 4 6
Black and Fancy Satin, ditto ••• • • • e 8
Fancy Trousers .................. •••• • • • • •......... 0 4 G
Black, • • • • 0 9 6
Dress Coats ..... .............. .... •••••••••• • • • • .. 1 0 0
NADI TO 7[EAISIIIRE.
Coats, of every material adapted for the season, in any
variety of style and fashion, to order from 0 16 0
Quilting Vests, Is. Gd. each, or three for... ..... 0 19 0
Cashmere ditto, in every variety of pattern .. .. 0 8 6
Satin ditto, plain and. fancy ...... 0 14 6
Ditto, Cloth or Cashmere ditto .............. •• • • .... 0 8
Ditto, Black Single-milled ditto • 0 13 6
Spring Trousers, in every pattern. ........ •••• .. • ... 0 10 6
Single-milled and Albert Victoria ditto •..• • • 0 19 0
Best Black Dress ditto 1 6 0
Ditto, best manufactured .... •• .. •• •• •• •. 2 15 0
Frock Coats •• •• •• •• •• •• ....•• ...• •• ••.• • • ••. from 1 15 0
Ditto, best manufactured ........ .• ••••• • • • • • 3 3 0
Mourning, to any extent, at five minutes notice.
Any article purchased or made to measure, if not approved of,
will be immediately exchanged, or the money returned.
Observe—E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollen Drapers, Hai.
ers, Clothiers, Outfitters, and general Warehousemen, regret to be
bilged to guard the public against imposition, but, having learned
that the untradesmanlike falsehood of " being connected with
them," or it's the same concern, has been resorted to is many in-
stances, and for obvious reasons, they have no connexion with
any other house in or out of London.
And those who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should, to prevent
disappointment, call at or send to the Minories, and Aldgate, City,
London.
E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollen Drapers, Hatters, Hosiers,
and Outfit Alters, Nos. 154, 155, 156, 157, Minories, aid 83, 84, 85,
and 86, dgate, City, London.
A ldgate
NOTICZ.—The entrance to the Bespoke Department is at 84,
business transacted at this Establishment from sunset on
Friday evening till sunset on Saturday evening, when it is resumed
ta twelve o'clock

RAILWAY ;LABOURERS IN MID.LO TiT other
Ne
understand that the number of railway an
la-
bourers employed at present in this county is greater 3
6
than at any former period. On the Hawick branch of
the North British (two additional sectiotnhseorfe
are which,
24 ea-
tending in length about fourteen miles, have been com-
menced within the last few days),
labourers at work ; on the Dalkeith branch of the same
railway, 120 ; and on the Caledonian, 633. If to these
be added 290 men employed on the Edinburgh Water
Company's works at Bavelaw, it will make the gross
number of labourers employed in Mid-Lothian 3,509.
The different portions of railways at present in the
course of formation in the county presents an aggre-
gate of about 56 miles. It is satisfactory to know
that, beyond an occasional fight on pay nights, there has
been no serious breach of the peace for some time in the
district where the labourers are employed.—Edinburgh
Advertiser.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.--Yesterday a very respect-
ably-dressed female flung herself from the bridge near
the Magazine, Hyde-park, into the Serpentine. Two
men who were passing at the time raised a cry for as-
sistance, and the men at the Royal Humane Society-
house hastened in a boat to the spot. Not seeing the
woman they dropped their grappling irons, and suc-
ceeded in hauling her into the boat apparently lifeless.
They conveyed her to the Receiving-house, and after a
considerable lapse of time she was restored, and pro-
nounced to be out of danger.
A valuable prize has just been brought into Kings-
town harbour, Dublin, to reward the vigilance and
activity of the Coast Guard. It is the Leon, of Flush-
ing, a smuggler, having on board a cargo of tobacco
valued at 4,0001. She was taken off the Mountain Foot,
county Down, where she made two attempts to land her
cargo.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, OCT. 5.
Mr. O'Connell has issued his third letter, which was
read at Conciliation Hall this day.
" Darrynane Abbey, Cahirciveen,
2d October, 1846.
"My dear Ray,—l once again attempt to excite public
attention to the absolute necessity of forming in Dublin
a central body, board, or association, from amongst the
landed proprietors of Ireland, to take into considera-
tion the present state and future prospects of the people,
in order to suggest and carry out means of meeting the
horrible emergency in which the country is involved.
"I am fully convinced that the individual applica-
tions to Government, or to Parliament, will never b 2
sufficiently efficacious. Such applications may produce
a mitigation in particular localities ; but they can never
produce anything like a universal remedy for the giant
evils by which we are surrounded, or for the still more
terrific calamities which must ensue from the total des-
truction of this year's potato crop, unless full local
knowledge of every part of Ireland, and perfect acquain-
tance with the nature of Irish tenures of land, and with
the disposition and character of the Irish people, be com-
bined in some one body entitled to the full respect of
the Government, and to the entire confidence of the
Irish nation.
"To some, nay, to many, my plan still appears
visionary and impracticable, but already I can assert that
an impression has been made in an influential way ; and
there are already persons canvassing the topic, with a
view to work out some plan like mine ; there also are
persons engaged in this matter who, twelve months ago,
would laugh to scorn the idea of an Irish national com-
mittee of landed proprietors, nobility, and gentry, sitting
in Dublin, to aid the people and the Government in the
management of Irish distress.
" For my part, I shall not conclude with this letter my
urgency to have some such body as I allude to formed in
Dublin. I will bring the subject again and again to the
attention of the public ; the motto of my political life has
been perseverance,' and I will persevere upon this sub-
ject until the matter is distinctly understood by all classes
of Irishmen.

" The absolute necessity of a concentration of the Irish
landed proprietors appears to be quite obvious. Never
was the country involved in such a frightful calamity as
the present. Suppose that which is unhappily not quite
clear—namely, that the Irish people escape from the
total loss of this year's crop, and, with the aid of a pa-
ternal Government, are kept alive for the current year—
what is to be done for the next year ? and what for the
year after ?
._ _

"It is impossible to think that the calamity will end
with the current year. Suppose the crop next year shall
be untainted by blight—an event, alas I not probable—
where are the means of procuring seed for the potatoes,
or for cultivating any grain on a sufficiently extensive
scale to feed the Irish people ?
" All these questions raise problems to be solved ex-
clusively by a central body of Irish landholders meeting
in Dublin, and conferring with all parts of Ireland, as
well as with the Government of the day.
" From such a body all irritating and party politics
should be carefully excluded, and religious differences be
never heard of—the safety of the people of Ireland to
be their sole and exclusive object.
" How fortunate it is that I am able to make such a
proposal as this, in the present awful crisis—and to men
who have hitherto considered political associations as
tending to revolution and bloodshed. It is true that I
disclaimed the tendency, but that disclaimer was not
believed until the Young Irelanders, luckily, gave us the
opportunity of demonstrating that nothing could induce
the Repeal Association to seek for the alteration of any
law by forcible means, or by any other but peaceable
and moral means. We have given this guarantee in the
most unequivocal manner, and the association must take
the most perfect care not to allow our sincerity to be im-
peached or suspected.
" Our chance of political salvation for Ireland depends
upon the perfect faith with which we are understood to
hold out the olive branch of peace and moral means alone
to those who hitherto have been apprehensive of force
and ♦iolence.

" Blessed be Heaven, the folly of tho physical force
party has placed us, without any intention on their part,
in our present triumphant position.
"It may be asked why, under those circumstances, I
do not invite the landed proprietors to become members
of the Repeal Association ? The answer is obvious.
There are many amongst them, very many, who are as
yet non-Repealers, but whose assistance is as necessary
for the right management of the affairs in Ireland, in
these tremendous times, as if they had been actual Re-
peelers...

"Besides, there is the letter just published by Mr.
O'Neill Daunt, addressed to the landlords of Ireland.
It is a most admirable letter—a most powerful letter.
The association ought to circulate it throughout the
country. When will the under-growlers of the Young
Irelanders produce such a document in favour of Repeal?
No; they are more suitably employed in joining the
Mail, the Packet, and the Standard, in attacking the
Repeal Association. Be it so.
" To return to Mr. Daunt's letter; no dispassionate
landed proprietor can read it without conviction. it dis-
closes the causes of the destitution, which renders the
people of Ireland unable to extricate themselves from
the consequences of the failure of a single crop; it points
out also the sources of prosperity derivable from the
Irish people having the management of their own affairs.
" Bul, alas! the evils of famine and pestilence are
thickening upon us. I however, know the intentions of
the Government are excellent, and their exertions are
in general judicious. It is most desirable that the Lord
Lieutenant should have increased powers. There never
was a Chief Governor in this country better able to
work out these powers judiciously and usefully.
"In the meantime we should one and all, in our
humble sphere, labour to procure food for the people
and to preserve the peace of the country. But as food
becomes dear, wages must be higher. Everything must
be done to preserve the health and strength of the
people, and this, in truth, is so all absorbing a subject
as to banish all politics unconnected with the distress.
" But the Repeal is not to be lost sight of. The
edfri setcrtess af mt
oh
ne g u
tuhi oe n
Irih oas
hv e
pceaoupsleed, thewh ph erl me
aavne es n ct
yheomf
always (in language now familiar to, Parliament) on
the verge of starvation,' and renders it difficult to provide
for a sudden and casual emergency, such as the present
awful times exhibit.

"It is, therefore, our duty never to forget the sole
remedy for all our evils—the repeal of the union.
"Faithfully yours,
To M. Ray, Esq." "DANIEL O'CONNELL.
"
The amount of the week's rent was 126/.
MEETING OF WESTMEATH MAGISTRATES.
The meeting, convened on the requisition of the Mar-
quis of Westmeath, was held at Mullingar on Friday.
There was a large and influential muster of the nobility
and gentry, including Lords Westmeath, Kilmaine, and
Castlemaine, Sir Richard Levinge, Sir Percy Nugent,
Sir John Nugent, the Roman Catholic Bishop of the
diocese (Dr. Cantwell), &c. A long string of resolutions
were put and carried, the following being the most nota-
ble of the series:— _ _

" Proposed by Lord CASTLEMAINE ; seconded by the
Rev. Dr. CANTWELL-

" Resolved,—That the expenditure upon unproductive
and comparatively useless works, under the present Act,
formidably increases the future difficulties of our position,
and would eventually ruin the landowner by exhausting
his capital, and by expending, with the profusion of pro-
digality, enormous sums, borrowed in the vain hope in-
dulged in by many that repayment may never be re-
quired, and that it would also not only materially inter-
fere with the farmer in crippling his useful undertakings,
and in preventing the profitable expenditure of his means
in the adequate cultivation of the soil ; but, furthermore,
would likewise totally demoralise the habits of a patient,
sober, and hard-working population.
" Proposed by Lord KILMAINE : seconded by H. M.
TUITE, Esq., M.P.—
" Resolved—That whereas several plans for securing
for profitable undertakings the expenditure of the Labour
Fund, which in our several localities we have either
levied, or are about to levy by presentment, have from
time to time been laid before the Irish Government ; and
whereas no adequate steps, on the part of the Adminis-
tration, have been, apparently, taken to meet the gene-
rally expressed wishes of this country, it has become, in
our opinion, just and necessary that a meeting of the
Irish gentry be forthwith held in Dublin, to remonstrate
with Government upon its seeming inaction, and to lay
before it, in feeling terms, the awful condition to which
this country is now reduced, and the ruin which their
measures, if unreasonably persisted in, will undoubtedly
bring upon all classes of its inhabitants.
" Proposed by Mr. T. J. FETHERSTON H. ; seconded
by Mr. J. H. SHIEL

" Resolved,—lnasmuch as a considerable portion of
the property of Ireland is so situated that it is impos-
sible to obtain for it its adequate share of the burdens
which, under the present emergency, must heavily press
upon the ostensible proprietor, who stands responsible
for the whole, we are of opinion that all who receive
incomes derivable from land should bear their share of
the burden equally with those persons who are, in fact,
in such cases, but the agents to the creditors, and an-
nuitants on those properties.
" Proposed by the Hon. CHARLES IlArmcocK ; se-
conded by Mr. R. 11. KELLY :
" Resolved,—That absentees who have left to the
resident landlords the duty of meeting the crying dis-
tress of the present period, be called upon by the Relief
Committee of this county to supply, by pecuniary
grants liberally afforded, the loss which is sustained by
the want of their presence on their estates, and that the
absentee proprietors be applied to furnish such grants."
The Evening Mail estimates that the sum of 8,640,000/.
will be required to meet the present emergency. The
calculation is thus arrived at :
" By the Government returns, the quantity of land
under potatoes has been arrived at accurately, through
the police—they calculate the value only at from 121.
to 151. per acre, and it amounts to the enormous sum in
value of thirteen millions and a half. They calculate
that three millions and a half of this crop is available—
consequently the loss to the agriculturist is ten millions.
With this loss ascertained, they are called upon to tax
themselves to the same amount There are about 320
baronies in Ireland generally—the Government officers
calculate that it will require 3,000/. a month to employ
the poor in each barony at 10d. a day-24 working days
in the month—multiply this by nine, and the bill to be

paid is 8,640,0001. It is now discovered that the grand
panacea for our misfortunes, the universal drainage Act,
this million of money which was to be lent us, is totally
inoperative, for estates which are entailed can receive
no advance!"

quainting the magistrates and cesspayers of your county
with its contents, as you may think expedient. Copies
will, however, be immediately transmitted to the secre-
tary of the grand jury.--I have the honour, &c.
IL LA BOUCII ERE.
To the Lieutenant of the county of
" Dublin Castle, Oct. 5, 1846.

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to in-
form ,
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deration the various representations which have been
made to him of the operation of the Poor Employment
Act, and of the difficulty of finding, in the greater num-
ber of baronies, public works' upon which it would be
expedient or beneficial to expend money to the extent
requisite for affording employment to the people during
the existence of the present distress; and with a view of
obviating the bad effects of a great expenditure of money
in the execution of works comparatively unproductive,
he desires that the Commissioners of Public Works will
direct the officers acting under them, in the respective
counties, to consider and report upon such works of a
reproductive character and permanent utility as may be
presented in the manner hereinafter mentioned, at any
sessions held under the above Act. And his Excellency
will be prepared to sanction and approve of such of those
works as may be recommended by the Board, and so pre-
sented, in the same manner as if they had been strictly
public works,' and presented as such in the manner re-
quired by the Act.
" 1. The Presentment Sessions will estimate the sum
which it may be necessary to raise off the barony for the
purpose of affording employment.
" 2. They will also ascertain the proportion of such
assessment, which, according to the last poor-law valua-
tion, may be chargeable upon each electoral division of
an union, or portion of an electoral division (if the whole
shall not be included) in the barony; and they will ob-
tain for this purpose, from the clerk of each poor-law
union, a copy of such valuation.
" 3. They will present for such useful and profitable
works to be executed in each electoral division, to the
amount of its proportion of the assessment ascertained
as above.

" 4. In the case of drainage, however, and subsoiling,
so far as it shall be connected with drainage, an under-
taking shall be given in writing, and transmitted with
the presentment, by the person or persons whose lands
are proposed to be drained (being ' proprietor' in the
terms of the Act 5 and 6 Victoria, chap. 89), stating that
the money so to be expended shall be a charge exclu-
sively on the lands so to be improved, and be levied from
the same, according to an award to be made by the Com-
missioners as under the last•mentioned Act and its
amendments.

" His Excellency wishes it to be further understood
that, in case these regulations are not acted upon, and
the portions of the assessment which would be leviable
from each electoral division, are not presented to be ex-
pended on some work within such division, the pro-
ceedings at such sessions must be considered with strict
reference to the provisions of the 9th and 10th Victoria,
cap. 107.
"His Excellency considering also that many baronies
have already hold sessions under that Act, to which
baronies the opportunity of making applications in the
manner now prescribed has not been afforded, it is his
desire that all works already sanctioned in those baro•
nies, or applied for, and which it may become requisite
to sanction, in order to afford continued employment,
shall be proceeded with until other sessions may be con-
veniently held in such baronies.
" His Excellency. in taking upon himself the respon-
sibility, under the urgent circumstances of the case, of
inviting the magistrates and cess-payers to provide em-
ployment from the people by the execution of useful
and reproductive works, confidently trusts with their
assistance and the blessing of the Almighty on their
united exertions, that the calamity with which it has
pleased Providence to afflict Ireland may yet in its result
become conducive to the production of greater abund-
ance of human food from the soil, and to the future
permanent improvement of the country.—l have the
honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
" H. LABOUCHERE.
"Chairman of the Board of Public Works."
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ROBBERY OF A MAIL CAR.

ROSCREA, OCT. s.—The mail car from this town to
Clonmel, was stopped yesterday a few minutes after
leaving the post-office here, by two men—one armed
with a gun, the other with a pistol—who demanded the
mail-bags and money, which the driver was taking to
Mr. Bianconi, his employer, with which they decamped.
The public ought not to venture sending whole notes
post. This occurrence is only the beginning of what may
be expected to ba practised throughout the country
during the winter months, unless the mails be guarded.

THE GREAT BRITAIN.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.

The attempts made to rescue the Great Britain from
her unfortunate position have now entirely failed. Until
the springs of the ensuing winter no new efforts can,
with any probability of success, be made, and meanwhile
she must sustain the storms of winter.

The melancholy intelligence was received in Liver-
pool at an early hour this morning, by the arrival of the
steam-tug Dreadnought, Captain Gillespie, from Dun-
drum Bay, whence she sailed at two o'clock yesterday
afternoon. Our last account, it will be remembered,
stated that on Monday the state of the weather, and the
heavy seaway prevailing in the bay, had prevented the
approach of the two steam-tugs hence, and of the
powerful Belfast steamer Sea Nymph. We now learn
that during the whole of the ensuing night and through-
out yesterday the weather underwent no improvement,
and consequently all hopes were relinquished. The
steamers, therefore, left the bay, the Sea Nymph steam-
ing to Newry, whence she arrived at noon to-day ; the
Albert steam-tug to Warrenpoint to take in coal, pre-
paratory to starting for this port ; and the Dreadnought
to Liverpool. Both of these fine vessels have lost their
anchors and chains, and last night, off the Calf of Man,
the Dreadnought encountered a gale of wind and a ter-
rific sea. The weather now continues severe and
threatening. The sea in the bay is described as running
"mountains high."
The Great Britain must now therefore, winter in
Dundrum Bay, and such, according to the best infor-
mation we can obtain, is the intention of her commander.
She now occupies a most favourable position for this pur-
pose, having, during the gale of yesterday, been carried
so far up the beach, that in ordinary tides she will be
out of danger from the sea. At low water she will be
left, high and dry, and, happily, upon a hard sandy
beach, where there is little chance of her being imbedded.
Her bearing is now N.N.W. to S.S.E., and according to
the information of a competent judge she does not ap-
pear strained.
In the meantime every preparation will be made to
render the position of the ship secure. The erection of
a break-water for her protection is said to be con-
templated ; and measures will be taken to repair the
leak which has proved so disastrous to the fortunes of
tho ship.
A few facts may be added. An attempt was made
on Saturday night, it will be recollected, to get the
Great Britain off by the the two steam-tugs. Ac-
cording to the statements received yesterday, little
was accomplished beyond bringing the steamer's
stern round into a more favourable position. The
results were, however, of greater importance. The
steamer afterwards swung to the sea, and, had the
weather on Sunday been moderate, there is little doubt
that she would have been got off. The weather, how-
ever, proved most unfavourable, and ultimately the in-
creasing danger caused by the leak rendered it necessary
for the safety of the ship that the six anchors run out
astern into the sea should be let go. This was done, and
the ship consequently was forced higher upon the beach.
The following letters will be read with interest:—

TO MESSRS. GIBBS, BRIGHT, AND CO.

Great Britain steam-ship, Oct. 5.

Dear Sirs,—Mfletter of yesterday, add the weather
of last night, if you have had the same, will have pre-
pared you for what I have now to acquaint you with.
As the tide rose the sea increased, and about seven
o'clock we found the ship making much water. Worked
the pumps all night. The anchors again came home,
and on the flowing tide this morning, finding the
ship making at least two feet water per hour more
than the pumps threw, I thought it best to get some
sail, and force her as high as possible. Captain Claxton,
R.N., who came on board last evening, coincided
in opinion with me, and we did so, letting go all our
cables and halsers. The ship is now so high that I
think she will not take much more harm. Captain
Claxton leaves as soon as he can leave; at present the
surf is too high. I presume you will communicate our
situation to the underwriters of Liverpool and Glasgow.
I shall make the best of everything until I have further
directions from my directors and the underwriters. Until
then I shall, as I have done, keep the entire management
in my own hands.—l remain, dear Sirs, yours, trey,
JAMES, .110SKEN.
TO THOMAS COURT, ESQ.

Warrenpoint, Oct. 6.
Sir,—l returned from Tyrella this morninn, and regret
much to inform you that the Great Britain had ten feet
of water in her hold yesterday morning's tide, and is
now high up on the beach, with her stern about S.T.
We had severe weather on Sunday, and part of yester-
day. I fear now there will be little chance of getting
this fine vessel off the shore.—l em, Sir, respectfully,
your obedient servant,
LEONARD WATSON.

AN UNWELCOME VlSlTOR.—Yesterday, as
oxen were being driven along Now Tuthill 8r #., Irlle
i " es4.,
minster, one of them mounted the first-floor.
24 in that place. Mrs. Lawrence, Whr, stairs of No.
resides in that
part of the house, hearing such an '
"unusual noise on the
stairs, inquired who was there
made by the bullock thrust'- ,hiswhen the answer was
Mrs. Lawrence was dre' - .ig head is at the door.
being in splints, her , .cifully alarmed ; her right arm
v July means of escape appeared to re-
treat as quickly i possible under the bed. Her screams
brought assists-
I, . ace, and, after some trouble, the bullock
was safely
f.. Jacked down stairs and Mrs. Lawrence re-
leased
builoc,) em her unpleasant situation. Whether the
rr.: ,e had been over-driven, did not appear.
A.ne Hon. Dudley Ward, brother and heir pre.
Isur nptive to Lord Ward, has been elected master of the
I WAvestershire fox-hounds.

PRIC2 SD.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—In a few days the double marriage of the
Spanish sisters will probably be celebrated ; a Queen
will have received an unwelcome consort, and a Princess
been entrapped into a forbidden alliance. It is, perhaps,
calculated that a step irretrievable will cease to be dis-
cussed, that what cannot be cured will be viewed in the
usual light of such cases, and that a grand reversionary
property will have been secured at the cheap expense of
a little dishonour and a great deal of noise. The results,
however, of these breaches of national faith are neither
so superficial nor so ephemeral. Even if the present
effects be confined to the " passing jealousy and
humour" which the most temperate of our neighbours
anticipate, it would be very unsafe to conclude that such
a termination was final. Too many rules have been in-
fringed to leave the precedent so harmless and unim-
portant. If the current and uncontradicted rumours of
the friendly conference at Eu contain any truth, the
promise of a statesman at a most amicable and confiden-
tial interview has been unintelligibly evaded. Omitting
this unauthenticated 'assertion, it is undeniable that the
French Cabinet selected a discreditable season for pro-
secuting with abruptness and haste a measure of which
they well knew the doubtful legality, and of their in-
tentions concerning which they had left false impres-
sions on a friendly Power deeply interested in the event,
and possessed of a rightful claim to be consulted. At
the Court of a common ally they enveloped their pro-
ceedings in the secrecy and mystery characteristic
of an unlawful transaction ; to the last stage of
the negotiation they suppressed the negotiation of
an act demanding peculiar openness and honour ;
they left the British Ambassador uninformed of a step
.of which, by the first rules of diplomatic decency, he
should have been cognisant ; they dictated prevarica-
tion and dishonesty to the Court at which Maras re-
sident, and resorted to the most notorious violence to
secure the acceptance of their proposals. When at
length they allowed their dealings to struggle into offi-
cial light, they met the temperate remonstrances of the
English Minister first with equivocation and then with
discourtesy. Our last dispatches from Madrid stated
that the Spanish President had informed Mr. Bulwer
that he could not enter into any discussion
upon the subject of difference. The note .of
our Ambassador at Paris, though as decisive
as was consistent with existing relations, was left
unanswered. The whole policy of Versailles was that of
a Court perfectly conscious of its unjustifiable conduct ;
well aware that it would be exposed to remonstrance
and rebuke ; concealing its craft as long as possible ;
waiting with some anxiety fcr the catastrophe and its
consequences ; overjoyed to find them less serious than
conscience had taught them to dread ; shrinking from a
discuskon they felt it impossible to sustain ; desperately
hurrying on the project to its completion ; and trusting
to the lapse of time or the chances of the game for
making matters smooth again afterwards. Secrecy and
speed are proverbially necessary to violence or fraud,
but are seldom imperatively demanded in peaceable and
upright transactions. Deeds that love the dark are
not often fitted for the light. If the Montpensier al-
liance were as reasonable a project as the French re-
present it —as grateful to Spain as becoming to
France, and as desirable to Europe—how, or why
should England oppose it ? What impediment could
possibly arise either from proclaiming or postponing it ?
1 With what face or what arguments could England
forbid the bans ? The most gratuitous malice has
scarcely ventured to suggest that she was a rival
competitor. It was clear that she could urge nothing
for individual advantage. She could advocate nothing
but the independence of Spain and the tranquillity of
Europe, and the treaties that define the rights and the
limits of her intervention gave also a guarantee that it
could neither be officious or vexatious. What must be
the character of that transaction which, by the avowal
of its authors, could never have borne consideration or
delay, which could only have been effected by stealth
and completed by precipitancy, and which, it is con-
fessed, must have been dropped had an opportunity been
left for the notice of that Power, which could only base its
interference on the stipulations of solemn treaties or the
requirements of European peace? France has gained
an object; with what results it remains to be seen. The
nation chiefly insulted has still to speak, and will, per-
haps, speak when her voice is least expected. If, at the
moment when the Court of Madrid is congratulating
the Court of Versailles upon the lull of the storm and
the security of the haven, the Count de Montemolin
should call the Carlist party to arms, professing, unlike
the Bourbons, his readiness to forget and forgive; or if
a sudden democratic tempest should drive the intruders
over the Pyrenees or the Tagus, these would be events
only conformable to the precedents of Peninsular his-
tory. It was not until the Austrian party were quietly
quartered in Madrid and Toledo, and Charles had been
peaceably proclaimed in the capital as King of Spain and
the Indies, that the people of Philip gave a sign of spirit
or sensibility. Yet in twelve mouths Philip was a King
again, and the Spanish cause was gained at the moment
it appeared to be lost. Still less occasion is there for
congratulation or triumph in the policy practised to-
wards England. The success achieved by France could
at any time be achieved by any nation willing to pay
the same forfeit. She has calculated the offence she
might give an allied Power without provoking extremi-
ties. She has put out of her reckoning the damage done to
her credit—has set off against the risk of more substantial
damage the greatness and value of the spoil, and decided
on seizing it at all hazards and trusting to fate for the
results. It is generally in the power of any individual,
with a current character for honesty, to overreach
another in any one negotiation, but the least scrupulous
will sometimes estimate their reputation too highly to
barter it at a single bargain. King Louis Philippe has
extorted for the Duke de Montpensier a greater dotation
than ever was voted by a Parliament. France had better
have paid in coin than in character. Breaches of inter-
national confidence are acts quite as disgraceful, and pre-
cedents almost as dangerous, as breaches of international
law. It is not every outrage of either that will provoke
a war, but the least tends to injure the influence of that
conventional code which secures the peace of the world
In a time of peace, and in a friendly country, England
has seen the spirit of solemn contracts slighted, and her
temperate protests entirely disregarded. She may not,
as was probably calculated, conceive the occasion as
calling for the last appeal of nations, but the occurrence
will not therefore be overlooked or forgotten. There are
licenses of conduct in which both nations and individuals
may indulge without being actually or immediately shot
at, but the transgressor seldom' fails to pay a propor-•
tionate price for his freedom and his folly.
POST.—We are borne out by the fast,. In spite of all
speculative criticisms, the Wellington statue is no failure.
Very far from it. It reflects very great credit upon
the artist by whom it was designed, and—in spite of
sneerers—we go further, and say that it reflects credit
on the committee to whom its erection is due. The
likeness of the man is unquestionable. Those who
knew him best at the time he purchased, by his skill and
his valour, the great laurels that now he can boast of,
are willing to bear witness that Mr. Wyatt has given us
the features of the great Wellington of Torres Vedras,
of Vittoria, of the Nivelle, of Toulouse, and of Water-
loo ! Yes ; in " historic brass" we have before us the
likeness of that great warrior who never advanced but
to victory, and who never retreated but, like the leader
of the Ten Thousand of old, in his retreat to eclipse the
glory of his advance I It is a very painful thing to think
that silly jealousies, and trumpery party partialities, have
deprived a triumph of so much of its honours.
Wretched and miserable personal feelings were
suffered to interfere with what ought to have been a
national ovation, and it is with us a source of deep
regret that these feelings were prompted and stimulated
by a certain, portion of the London daily press. Lord
Bacon says that certain things are exempt from satire.
We should think that our contemporaries must have in-
deed been in lack of a subject when they selected that to
which we advert. Our London statues are scarcely so
unexceptionable as to allow us to talk grand, still less to
throw stones. The deficiency in artistic merits of Lon-
don, as a city, nobody ever ventured to question ; but,
despite it all, we dare pronounce the Wellington statue a
good statue and its site well chosen. There is a cant in
criticism as well as in politics. We hear, about " high
art" as we heard about " high " politics. But as the
latter got us into the ditch, we are not very trustful of
the former. We earnestly entreat of our readers to
eschew this cant. We are willing to abide by the un-
prejudiced, urbought, unsought opinions of those who
have viewed this statue since its elevation. Every one
that has seen it with unprejudiced eye seems to concur
with us in the belief that it is the noblest memorial ever
raised in honour of the greatest hero.
CHRONICLE.—A general assemblage of Irish landed
proprietors, at the present extraordinary juncture, is a
measure for which plausible reasons may be assigned in
abundance. The scheme, however, is scarcely more
than plausible. The promise which it holds forth, of
bringing to the relief of Ireland in this alarming emer-
gency the collective wisdom and knowledge of her edu-
cated and propertied classes, is in the highest degree
unlikely to ba made good. The meeting, if it should
have the luck to escape being turned to the purposes of
repeal, will simply reiterate the truths and the fallacies
which have already come to us from the resolutions of
county meetings, without attempting to apply to ther
i‘
evils which it may condemn any practical remedy. I •
O'Connell's gr,ane in reference to this project is obvious
enough. Li the presence of famine he does not forget
repeal, rAnd with many professions of moderation and
forbeat'ace, he strives most ingeniously to give
will
PrA)PorAd assemblage a repeal iarac er.
itvr. it a meeting, if not of repealers, at least
d precursors. Nay, ho is no longer contented with a
mere meeting, which was the first thought. His last
letter insists upon the "necessity of forming in Dublin
a central body board, or association, from amongst the
landed proprietors of Ireland," which, by the power of
local knowledge and popular confidence, may control
and direct the Government. The design has the merit
of simplicity. It is simply to make an Irish Parliament
off hand. This, however, is but the face which Mr.
O'Connell chooses to put upon. a movement of which it
is by no means clear that he will or can have the direc-
tion. We have no right to attribute such imbecility to
the gentry of Ireland as would be implied in the suppo-
sition that they could not assemble to consult for the
common safety, at a great national crisis, without be-
coming the puppets of Mr. O'Connell. But giving them
full credit for the capacity to take an independent
course, and assuming that if they should come together