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STOWE.
(From the Times.)
During the past week the British public has been ad-
mitted to a spectacle of a painfully interesting and
gravely historical import. One of the most splendid
ebodee of our almost regal aristocracy has thrown open
its portals to an endless succession of visitors, who from
morning to night have flowed in an uninterrupted
stream from room to room, and floor to floor—not io
enjoy the hospitality of the lord, or to; cw.gratulate him
on his countless treasures of art, but to see an ancient
family ruined, their palace marked for destruction, and
its contents scattered to the four winds of Heaven. We
are only saying what is notorious, and what, therefore,
it is neither a novelty nor a cruelty to repeat, that the
Most Noble and Puissant. Prince, his Grace the Duke of
Buckingham and Chandos, is at this moment an
absolutely ruined and destitute man. Our ad
vertising columns have introduced to the public the
long list of estates, properties, and interests which
are no longer his, and will not revert to his
htirs. The last crash of this mighty ruin is that
which now sounds. Stowe is no more. This morn-
ing the tumultuous invasion of sight-seers will once
again be endured, and to-morrow the auctioneer will
begin his work. Under the lofty arch which crowns the
long avenue from Buckingham, and opens the first view
of the magnificent Palladian façade, has lately passed .a
daily cavalcade which, except in its utter absence of
style, might remind one of the road to Epsom
on the Derby day. One might imagine a great country
picnic hail suddenly gathered at Stowe. Even stalls
svera there. From the branch of a noble beech hung
a huge pair of scales on which venison was weighed. In
the distance were fallen trees, timber waggons, and ex-
tempore sawpits. The enormous edifice was a human
hive. Every window showed the crowd within passing
to and fro. But once admitted—once standing under
the Pantheon-like vault of the central saloon, and glanc-
ing right and left at the endless vistai'of gorgeous apart-
ments, then one indeed realized the sacrilege was going
on. In the state dining-room were set out 60,000 az
of gold and silver plate; one was involuntarily reminded
of the weight, for the scales were at work there also,
and men were weighing and noting down lot after lot.
On a table twenty yards long and on a dozen sideboards
stood forests of vases, candelabra, epergnes, groups,
goblets, tankards, and every other form and variety of
plate, from the elaborate designs of Italian artists to the
simple elegance of the old English school, and the pre-
tentious richness of the last generation. Among fifty
other pieces of historic value, the gifts of Royal per-
sonages and distinguished men, stood a vase, formed
from snuffboxes presented by the cities and corpora-
tions in Ireland in 1779, the mace of the old corporation
of Buckingham, purchased by the Buckingham Con-
servatives and presented to the Duke as an everlasting
possession ; and the Chandos Testimonial, for which the
gentry and yeomanry of the county lately subscribed, we
believe 1,5001. . . "Put thy house in order,
for thou shalt surely die." Csesar died with grace. The
obsequies of Stowe have been marshalled with befitting
pomp. On what treasures of art will the sun set this
day never to rise again'on a similar array within those
walls ! The quantity is beyond conception, and if the
taste is not always the most refined, it is because the
vastness of the accumulation and the accidents of
its history forbade a more fastidious rule. The
Duke of Buckingham is the representative, not of' one,
but of many families. It is a mighty wreck of ages
ihat has been accumulated in this place, swollen indeed,
and somewhat overwhelmed by recent additions, but still
full of historical, national, and poetical associations.
The galleries of family portraits and collections of family
memorials seem to connect all the great men and all the
great achievements of modern Europe with the names of
Chandos, Temple, Cobham, Nugent, and Grenville. It
is not our purpose to speak of that which money has
collected, and may collect again. Such things are only
scattered for a fresh reunion elsewhere, under new and
more favourable auspices. But the heirlooms of
many great families, the records of many great events,
and the memorials of many great persons, all sponta-
neously collected into ono great whole, constitute a sin-
gular and most significant fact, the obliteration of which
we can only compare to the overthrow of a nation or
a throne. And everything is to be sold. The fatal
ticket is everywhere seen. The portrait of Charles
Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, the first founder of
the family, by Holbeiu, is now lot 51, in the
21st day's sale. That every other ancestor should
go to the hammer, whether by Van Dyk, or Lely, or
Kneller, or Gainsborough, or Reynolds, follows of
course. But there is ono item of which no preparation
can remove the shock. The Chandos family is descended
from Frances Brandon, eldest daughter of the above
Charles Brandon, by Mary, daughter of Henry VII.,
and Queen Dowager of France. Some time since cer-
tain savages or dilettanti at Bury exhumed that Mary
Brandon from her grave and took from her head a lock
of silken hair, which thus constitutes a visible link be-
tween the present Duke of Buckingham and the throne
of these realms, to which he has a reversionary claim.
That lock of silken hair, in its glass case, is now to be
sold to the highest bidder. What can we say more to
show the extent of the devastation ? It is a most de-
plorable, and we must now add a most disgraceful event.
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this
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truth
people
shall benor spok en
prince. . These
columnsWehave
recently had to pronounce the judgment of public opinion,
and to call for the vengeance of the laws upon the rash
men who have perverted the first gushes of youthful
genius and the rude instincts of popular freedom to an
impious rebellion. We have been forced to do so, and
we have done so not without a pang. Should we deal
fairly if we spared the destroyer of his house, the
man whose reckless course has thrown to the ground
a pillar of the state, and struck a heavy blow at the
whole order to which he unfortunately belongs ? For
an event of peace we have known nothing more serious
and lamentable. In the midst of fertile lands and an
iudustrious people, in the heart of a country where it is
thought virtuous to work, to save, and to thrive, a man
of the highest rank, and of a property not unequal to
his title, has flung all away by extravagance and folly,
and reduced his honours to the tinsel of a pauper and
the baubles of a fool. Were it only weakness, that
might ask our contempt. But there is more than weak-
ness here. It is notorious that the Duke, by the use of
a passionate and overpowering persuasion, has induced
his amiable son, now in his 25th year, to cut off the en-
tail of all the property in which his Grace
was interested. This is not the place to discuss the
general question of entail,
.or to inquire whether
pTuhbaltiembaeyneofirtmsay maynot nothe;
hsportt it is beyond our presentng from a private ruin.
hereditarytiloughts rAulepra,r, conservator of a noble house,
and the
the act of a public man, an
is what we are now called upon to review. The Duke
or Buckingham has persuaded his son to sign away his
birthright., and to divide it among creditors who had no
sort of claim upon the son's reversion, whatever they
might have upon upon the father's interest. There are
doubtless circumstances in which it is reasonable that
the son should cut off an entail. In the present case
there was neither reason nor excuse. A ducal house is
overthrown to atone for one man's wilful folly, and to
give expensive tradesmen and extortionate money-
lenders better security than they contemplated when
first they sold their goods and lent their money..

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TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORIi ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Wednesday the 9th, the House went into
Committee on Supply. Weighty debate on naval
questions of various kinds. Knowing that nothing is
so interesting to the burghers of an inland town, I
will take-liberty to descant on some of the points;
premising that, in- my time, I hive had opportunities
of practical acquaintance with the details, sufficient
to relieve me from the charge of impertinent inter-
ference.

Much was said on both sides, on the expenses and
other accidents, of steam as applied to war. It is
ilot difficult to perceive, that if ever naval war
recurs, steam-vessels will he the cavalry of
the sea. Of which one of the results will
that if ever you hear of a hostile fleet of twenty sail
of the line again, a proportion of them bearing some
analogy to the proportion of cavalry in an army
(which is a fourth of the infantry, or a fifth of the
whole) will be what may be called steam line-of-
battle ships. It is not impossible that there will be
a time when all fighting ships will steam ; but so much
will be'eertain. A ship of this kind is not intended
to possess great velocity; hut it will move through
the water at the rate of five or, six miles an hour in a
calm, which all accustomed figlat-liaval battles by
their firesides must see to be a great instrument of
power. An experimental ship has been fitted out,
called the Blenheim ; and is said to answer
well. But it is what is called cut down from
a 74; which means that it is one of the old 74-
gun ships (probably one that was found small and
111-calculated to carry the heavy guns which seventy-
fours are now expected to carry) with its highest deck
and tier of guns or part of them removed, so as to make
it carry at last only something above fifty. This you
will see is an operation like cutting down boots into
shoes ; but it may do once in a way for an experi-
ment. But your naval amateurs will all have heard,
that a 50-gun ship lies under the character of being
too weak for what is called the line-of-battle; that is
to say, it is impolitic to put a ship with only 50 guns,
into a place where it is almost certain to be encountered
by a ship with half as many more. Hence the Blen•
heim may do very well for what was professed to be
the intention,—defending a landing-place or harbour;
but for the line-of-battle, vessels will be wanted which
shall not be inferior in guns to at least an ordinary
74. I understand a vessel of this kind, carrying 80 guns
(for the line-of- battle ships of all nations, two-deckers,
are running into more than 74 guns at present) is in
preparation, to be called the James Watt; a name, I
was told, of Lord Broughsni's choosing. And ves-
sels of this kind it will be, which will constitute
what may be called the heavy cavalry of the sea.
To these may be added a certain portion (say
half the last) of steam-frigates with the greatest
attainable velocity, and carrying guns of great calibre
for close action ; of which an example may be taken
in the Sidon, built under the direction of Sir Charles
Napier. Any man may see, that two or three
vessels of this kind in a great naval action, would
form -an awful reserve, and the fleet which had not
them would lie under a great inferiority to one that
had. Besides these, there will clearly be wanted a
set' of what may be called sea Riflemen ; and I feel the
more interest, because they are exactly what our
evidence on the Slave Trade Committee tells us would
be wanted to clear the Coast of Africa of Slavers.
One heavy gun, long 24 or 32 pounder, is declared
to be sufficient; being what the Americans used to
patronize in their schooner privateers under the ro-
mantic title of "long Tom." Since sailing is of in-
ferior importance to a steam-vessel, except as the
means of economising coals when not in a hurry, my
old recollections prompt me to think a favourable
form would be what the sailors call "ketch" rig,
which consists of one mast placed further aft than or •
dinary, and leaning forward, thereby leaving increased
room on deck before the mast; being what was ap-
plied to the ancient bomb-ketches, though bomb-
vessels now carry their mortars between their masts,
and fire them to their side an not to their head.
With a little contrivance of shifting shrouds, and
other things a sailor would easily make out, it seems
practicable to give thee-rim what a sailor would call
"a clear eye " all round the horizon, whatevez way
the vessel was steaming; or if more masts were
wanted, they might be small and made to
clear away. Fifty men would be required on
the coast of Africa, on account of sending away in
captured vessels ; but there seems no reason why
thirty should not do on other stations. The
vessel itself would be the size of the smaller class of
sea-going steamers, or such as go to Boulogne.
Those of us who date from the time of Nelson's
fleets, remember the outcry there used to be for more
frigates ; the use of the frigate being only to carry or
procure information with despatch and
moderate
security from capture, all of which would be as well
effected with one gun and steam, as with the old ship
of 32. Besides which, I have a notion from what 1
see on the Thames, that a steamer of this kind acting
as a tug, would tow a line-of-battle ship at the rate
of two miles an hour in a calm ; so that the tendency
will clearly be, for every heavy ship to have in one
way or other a steam-vessel which on emergency
cane take it in tow. And when this is not
wanted, it
is clear this " long Tom" class must make a formid-
able addition to the sea-cavalry reserve.
I want to know what is the rough cost of steam-
vessels, large and small, compared with sailing
vessels of the same tonnage. In the army we know
that an infantry-man costs about 301. a year,
and a
dragoon with his horse 701., and we want a rough esti-
mate of the same kind for the sea. There
is a popular
belief that sailing vessels, the larger ones, cost 1,0001.
a gun, with all their stores on board. I have heard
that the cost of steam-vessels, compared I suppose with
sailing vessels of equal tonnage, is one-half more
than the sailers, but I do not know how far it is pre-
cise. In all military and naval establishments, the
final expense for eating and maintenance runs up to
vastly more than the expense of what is only, paid for
once ; and a steam-vessel eats an enormous
quantity
—of coals. When we come to distant operations,
the victualling of a steam-fleet with coals will be a
most serious item. Rut the upshot will be this ;
nations will always have a limited amount of money
to make duclsa and drakes of in war,
and the ten-
dency will be, to expend this amount in what
will produce the greatest quantity of force. Hence
that a thing is intrinsically expensive, is in one sense
no reason why it will not be clone ; all that follows is,
that less will be done of something else. And this
sort of calculations it is, that those whose business it
is must think of; and we that are to pay for all, are
stupid if we do not try to have an insight into the
bearings of the subject where we can. -
exhibited'ccason
If you find matters of this kind agreeably relieve
your mind from questions .of merinos and of Poor-
rates, I shall be glad to continue them upon
Whatever happens, do not say I do not keep an ey9
upon the naval interests of Bradford. ,
On Thursday some amusing scenes were
lon occasion of the Corrupt Practices at Elections
Bill.enthe
thteh Governmentata schedulec o m forproposedrni
tea puhtatding Bodmin
d Boltonto into inquiry; the
stated the
basisof
l n being, eig
existence of bribery or 'treating. A
member with
sae
n
great naivete complained, that the Government which
he had supported, should have put his borough
into the schedule. The Government with surpassing
simplicity consented to withdraw the boroughs.
Whereupon the Tories triumphed, and
will triumph
to the end of time, in the assertion that the Govern-
ment withdrew the boroughs because the Members
voted on their side. The Member for Bolton (Dr.
Bowring) steadily resisted the withdrawal of his
borough. For which he was run down as an un-
natural representative ; and it is astonishing how the
sentiment was cheered, that when corruption has laid
eggs in a borough, the duty of the Member is to sit
upon the neat.
On Friday the Committee of Supply was further
proceeded with, under the usual circumstances of ob-
jection and defence.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
PERRONET THompsoN..
Blackheath, London, Aug. 14, 1848.

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A HEARTLESS HoAx.--Some days ago some
heartless wretch caused the insertion of the following
advertisement in one of the morning journals, viz.:_
" Clerk wanted.—Wanted, a well-conducted person who
can write a good plain hand, whose habits are Punctual.
As salary will be liberal, attention and strict punctuality
will be required. Hours from ten to four.—Apoy p(
r..
sonally between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock, on
Friday next, the 11th instant, at —street, Bromp-
ton." Some days having elapsed between the appear-
ance of the advertisement and that upon which the per-
sonal application was to have been made, and the situa-
tion described being one calculated to suit a vast number
of young men, now unfortunately out of employment,
five hundred, at least, and many of them. from
South-
ampton, Birmingham, and even more distant places,
went to Brompton on Friday last, between the hour;
mentioned. It is to be hoped that the mischievous block-
head who perpetrated the hoax may be discovered, and
punished as he deserves.
STEAM to ODESSA.—Arrangements have been en
tered into, by which a line of steam-vessels, under the
Russian flag, running between London and Odessa, will
call at Davenport to take coal and passengers,—Devon-
port Journal.