The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-09 00:00:00

MANCHESTER, JAN. 8.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire, 84—Blackburn and Preston, 17—Dub-
lin and Drogheda, 77%—Dudley, Iron Bridge, and Sheffield,
2%—Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 2, s—Fleetwood,
Preston, and West Riding, 37s.—Goole, Doncaster, Shef-
field, &c., 925. —Great Grimsby and Dock Extension, 5%—
Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 58s. 3d.—Leicester and
Birmingham, 27s.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 476—
Liverpool, Warrington, Manchester, and Stockport, 325.
London and Windsor, 10s.—Manchester, Buxton, and Mat-
lock, 4/. 7s.—Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters, 111/2
—Manchester and Leeds, Extension, 6/. 7s. 2d.—Manches-
ter and Southampton, 3%—Manchester, Wigan and South-
port, 57s.—Northumberland and Lancashire, 13%—North
Eastern, 24—North Western, 72s.—Oxford, Whitney, and
Cheltenham, 265. Preston and Wyre Extension, I%
SuhreroaptsLhuirxeeUmboniourn,g, 495.8. 6d.—Tean and Dove Valley, 134
Trent Valley, Midland, and Grand Junction, 545. 6d.—
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STOCK EXCIIANOE. L
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t(Lie-B.London and Croydon,
Quarter Shares,
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East Lancashire, No. 1, 171,6—Ditto,
11—Great Grimsby and Sheffield,
30s. p. Huddersfield and Manchester, 1034—Leeds
Bradford. 56—Leeds and Dewsbury, 19—Leeds and Thirsk,
1 l 3„i—Newcastle and Berwick, 201/2—Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton, 1538—London and York, 43/4 —Direct
Northern, 21/8—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, s—West
Riding Union, 7%—Buckinghamshire (late Rugby), 225.
6d. p.—Chelmsford and Bury, par—Clitheroe Junction, 34
—East and West Yorkshire, ss. p.—Grand Union, p.—
Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 15s p.—Leeds, Wakefield,
and Midland, 15s. p.—Leicester and Bedford, 235. p.—Lei-
cester, Tamworth, Coventry, &c. 15s. p.—Manchester,' Bux-
ton, Matlock, and Midland, 2p.—Manchester and Bir-
mingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, par—Northum-
berland and Lancashire Junction, 10s. dis.—North Western,
3143—Nottingham and Boston, 14s. p.—Nottingham, Ere-
wash, and Ambergate, 17s. 6d. p.—Oxford, Whitney. and
Cheltenham, 2s. 6d. is.—Shropshire Union, 6s. p.—South
Midlands, 3/. 12s. p.—Wakefield and Bradford, 6s. dis.
HULL, JAN. 8. _

12s. 6d.-Great North of Scotland, 3/. 75.-Great North and
South Wales, Ils. 6d.-Inverness and EL:in, 11. 155.-Lanark
and Galloway, 2/.--Lanark and Lothians, 2!. 18s.-Larne
and Ballynieha, 21. 25.-London and liounslovk, 2L-London
ant Manchester (Hem.), 21. 55.-L.;ndou and 'Manchester
(Bastrick), 4/. 105..---London and Windsor, 11.-Lownon and
Irk, 41. 55.-Midland and Eastern Counties, 2/. 7s. 6d.-
Morayshire, IL -Newcastle and Berwick, 141.-Newry and
Londonderry, 1/. 17s. -North British, 25/. 10s.-Ditto, Halves,
71.-Ditto, Extension to Carlisle, 3/. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, Ex•
tension to Dalkeikh, 6/. 10s.-North Wales Mineral, New,
51. 10s.-Perth and Grieff Direct, 1/. 18s.- Perth ar:d Inver-
ness, U. 165.-Scottish Central, r.61.-Ditto, New, 91.•--Scot-
tish Central and Caledonian Junction, 1/. 14s. 6d-Scot-
tish Midland, U.-Scottish North Western, 1/. 175.-Scot-
tish South Midland, 1/. 18s. 6d.-Scottish Southern, 2/. ss.
-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 11. 2s.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry,
and Chester, Si. 5c.-South Midland, 51. 155.-Stirling and
Dunfermline, 21. 10s.-Stirling and Midland, 31. 25.-Strath-
ern Junction, 21. 11s.-Surrey Grand Junction, H. 2s. 6d.
-Tean and Dove Valley, IL 155.-Tyne Valley, 1/. 18s -
Wishaw and Coltness, 50/.
GLASGOW, JAN. 7. _ _

STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 6-Air-
drie and Bathgate, 515.-Ayr and Dumfries Junction. 50s.-
British and Irish Union, 705.-Caledonian, New, 82s. 6d.-
Caledonian Extension, 665. 6d.-Caledonian and Ap.shire
Junction, 40s. 6d.-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire June-
-575.-East Indian Railway, 305.-Edinburgh, Glasgow,
and Dumbarton, 215.-Edinburgh and Northern, 905.-
Ditto, Newport, 265.-Forth and Clyde Junction, 48s. 6d.-
Glasgow General Terminus, 121, -Glasgo x and Belfast
Union, 515.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, New, 27-
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 755.-Glasgow, Air-
drie, and Monkland Junction, 575. 6d.-Glasgow and Dun-
dee Junction, 405.-Great North and South Wales, 10s. 6d.
-Great Indian Peninsular, 14-Inverness and Elgin. 30-
Lanark and Lothians, 555.-Lesmahagow, 64s.-Paisley,
Barrhead, and Hurlet, 614-Scottish Central, 16!. 108. 6c1.-
Ditto, New, 91/2-Scottish Southern, 385.-Scottish North
Western, 375. 6d,-Scottish South Midland Junction, 405.-
Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 355.-South Mid-
land, 5/ 18s.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 525.-Strathern
Junction, 50s.- Wishaw and Coltness., 52%.

ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY.
NICKEL'S COMPRESSED AIR RAILWAY.

A private view of the operation of this impoitant in
vention was last evening afforded to the representatives
of the press, and a number of scientific gentlemen (Bri-
tish and foreign), who were unanimous in their satis-
faction with the result of the experiments. It would,
however, be rash to express a decided opinion upon so
limited an observation as one evening could allow. We
may, however, say that the following statement of the
inventor seemed to be fully borne out :
In this system, instead of abstracting the air from
any portion of the apparatus, and allowing the pressure
of the atmosphere to operate against a vacuum, it is
condensed in receivers (capable of resisting considerable
pressure) until its force is increased to 35 lbs., or there-
abouts, upon the square inch. The construction of the
apparatus is extremely simple,—the necessity for the
ordinary tube, piston, and valve, being entirely ob-
viated. The medium of the moive power is an appa-
ratus of iron of the external form of that seen in the
model railway, having grooves along the sides which are
formed with extreme accuracy—a section of this appa-
ratus will show a curve on either side, which curves are
segment of a circle of like diameter. Along the sides
of the grooved iron beam, pieces of cloth, prepared with
gutta percha,' are laid, and bolted securely down. At
the top and bottom edges, this cloth is not tightly
strained across the grooves, but is partially loose, so
that it may be adapted to the curve or hollow. The ar-
rangement here is such that the condensed air may be
blown in between the cloth and the iron groove, so as to
inflate strongly the cloth, and cause it to project at the
sides of the beam, which is as it were thus converted into
a flexible or elastic tube.

" Fixed to the carriage and descending so as to work
with exactness en either side of the beam, are two thick
wooden wheels, or friction rollers, the peripheries of
which are turned so as to exactly correspond with
curves in the sides of the iron beam. These rollers are
tightened, laterally, by means of a cross bar and nuts,
until they bind tightly against the cloths with grooves;
when the condensed air is admitted behind the carriage,
it rushes towards these wheels and inflates the tubes in
its progress, the condensed air, endeavouring to find a
vent, presses forcibly against the wooden wheels and has
a tendency to pass between them and the inner surface
of the groove; this tendency is counteracted by their
binding tightly upon the curves, and they present a
barrier to the passage of the air antil its pressure over-
comes the resistance they offered; when this occurs, the
wheels with their carriage yield to the power, and, with
the train, are propelled along the line. It is not intended
in practice that the whole column of condensed air shall
be set in motion, but, that the centre beam shall be
hollow, and serve as a receptacle or store for conden-
sation, so that the air shall be let out in puffs as it were
(within the cloths) at intervals, in the length of tubing,
by means of a system of valves which may or may, not
be opened at the will of the engineer, during the passing
of the train." _ _ .

The gentlemen present expressed their thanks to
M. Claudet, Mr. Keats, and other gentlemen of the in-
stitution for their courtesy and attention.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

SHEERNESS, JAN. 7.—The Scout, 16, at Chatham, has
been commissioned at the Admiralty by Commander
William Loring (1841), who will hoist the pennant on
board in a few days. She is to have a complement of
140 officers and men.

The new 26-gun ship, ordered to be built here, and
whose timbers are now being converted, is to be named
the Diamond. The following are the dimensions or-
dered : ft. in.

Length between the perpendiculars l3l 0
Lt ngth of keel for tonnage lO7 0
Breadth, extreme 4O 6
Breadth fur tonnage 4O 0
Breadth moulded
Depth in hold
Burden in tons, 910.

LITERATURE.

The Sampson steam-frigate, Captain Thomas Hender-
son, progresses rapidly with her fittings for sea, and is
expected to leave the fitting basin in the course of next
week. She has got her yards across, and is now taking
her guns on board, which are of the following classifica-
tion, viz., two 68 pounders, 112 cwt. each ; four eight-
inch guns, 65 cwt. each, on pivots ; and two 24-pounder
carronades, with two 12-pounders for her beats.

The Horatio, 44, is being rapidly brought forward as a
blockship; the hands recently employed on the Fury
are now at work on her, and are stripping her top sides,
filling up the old ports,l6 in number on a side, and form-
ing eleven new ones of a side. She will be armed with
twenty 42-pounders, and three 56-pounders, and will be
fitted with engines of 300 horse power. The following
vessels are also fitting as blockships, or more properly
" steam guard ships." At Chatham, Eurotas, 44 ; at
Blackwall, La Hogue, 72, and Blenheim, 72 ; at Ports •
mouth, Edinburgh, 72 ; at Cowes, Ajax, 72 ; and at
Plymouth, the Forth an St ahorse frigates.
In Dock—Dido, 20; Electra, 18; Horatio, 44; Ferret,
10; and Tartarus steamer.
In Harbour—Trafalgar, 120 ; Ocean, 80 ; and
Raven, 3.
In the Basin—Brilliant, 20, ready for commission ;
Havannah, 20 ; Fury, steam frigate, and Snake, 16,
preparing for commission ; Wildfire, steamer, refitting,
and Sampson, steam-frigate, and Viper 6, fitting for sea.
Commander Charles Walcott (1834), and Lieutenant
James Stewart (1828), are two of the officers included
in the annual promotions from the Coast Guard. Com-
mander Charles Walcott is inspecting commander at
Anderton, Devon, and Lieutenant Stewart commands
the Ranger, revenue cruiser, in which vessel, within the
last twelve months, he has made several captures. Com-
mander Walcott has heen promoted to the rank of
post-captain, and Lieutenant Stewart to the rank of
commander. _ _

MURRAY'S HOME and COLONIAL LIBRARY.
Aos. A X V., XXV 111 , XXIX.
Borrow's Gipsies in is I. and 11.
The Fall of Le Asurts.
Welcome in its present, or in any shape, is Mr.
George Borrow's account of the " Gipsies in Spain :"
it carries with it such a freshness, such an animation,
and such an air of truthfulness and nature, as to
arrest our attention and engage our sympathies.
Hence it is, that although it now appears before us
simply as a reprint, we turn to it again with all the
undiminished appetite of novelty, ready to wander
once more in its wanderings, to conjecture once more
with its conjectures, to laugh with its laughter, to
meditate with its meditations. By its own unassisted
merits this publication has acquired no inconsiderable
popularity, and the secret of its success is merely
attributable to two facts—first, the extreme novelty
of the undertaking; and, secondly, that whatever is
narrated flows from the minute and personal ob-
servations of one intimately conversant with his sub-
ject. Not only are we introduced to the moral
economy and social peculiarities of the Gitanos on
the peninsula, but in the preliminary chapter par-
ticular sections are allotted to the Zigani of Russia,
the me tribe in Hungary, the Roumouni of Wal-
lachia, and the Gipsies who infest all quarters of the
British dominions—all of these people coming under
the generic denomination of Rommany, a name
which they apply to themselves and their language.
In the very outset Mr. Borrow confesses to more
than a partiality for this strange and errant race, and
his adventures place these assurances beyond a doubt,
while they stamp the author as a kind of civilised
Bamfylde Moore Carew. Still, besides the fascina-
tion of this singular affection, which breathes the
spirit of old story-books, and reminds us forcibly of
the introduction to Bulwer's " Disowned," we
possess a guarantee in this very circumstance to the
accuracy and copiousness of the writer's information.
And as every one must place reliance upon the de-
scriptions and assertions of Mr. Catlin with respect to
the Red Indians of North America, in consequence of
his long sojournment and association with them, so
must every credence be awarded to the delineations
given by Mr. Borrow of the various Gipsy hordes in
Spain. It were useless to particularise the plan and
features of a work already so familiar to the English
reader; nevertheless, we may possibly be allowed,-
without any accusation of detail, to make a cursory
reference to the fragments of Zincali poetry ap-
pended to the Second Part. These fragments have a
peculiar interest, seeing that they body forth the
rugged, but fiery, characteristics of a very ancient
people ; and though they raise no pretensions to
rythmecal elegance, they have a nerve and energy of
a remarkable kind. " The Pestilence," for example,
though brief almost to meagreness, contains many
fine thoughts and forcible expressions. The opening,
"I'm resolved now to tell,
In the speech of gipsy-land,
All the horror that befel
In this city huge and grand,"
breaks in upon the imagination with a sternness of
import most appropriate to the theme; arid when
it remarks how God, "in the midst of summertide,
his right hand on high did rear," the picture, though
miniature in size, has a gloom akin to that of Mar-
tin; and this is admirably summed up in the con-
clusion—

WooLwicir, JAN. B.—The Grampus, 50 guns, Cap-
tain Henry B} am Martin, C. 8., is now ready for sea,
and will be towed down to Greenhithe to-morrow to have
her compasses adjusted by Captain Johnson, and will
then proceed to Portsmouth to be paid wages in advance
previous to sailing for the South American station. As
the period approaches for the departure of this splendid
frigate, the number of naval officers who visit her is con-
sicrerab!e. Amongst those on board to-day were
S tocphfoirntal,, andhir hired
nctship,
Ad-
miral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, G.C.B. and
G.C.M.G., Governor of Greenwich Hospital, Cap-
tain
The
ograulazda,ndcosnospisrtg of f
Watkins.
left her moorings op-
posite the Royal Arsenal yesterday, with 200 convicts
tlhse u6bsatlhteßrne, i Jlnse ser-
geant, andge a
nat2o
convict
Corp
rp
The latter are to join the forces in New Zealand.
ROYAL ARSENAL.—Considerable activity still prevails
in the various departments of this great naval and mili-
tary depot for warlike stores. In the carriage depart-
ment gun carriages are in progress of construction for
the Centaur frigate, brought round to the river,during the
present week to be fitted with her engines, and for the
Fury steam sloop recently launched at Sheerness ; and
preparations are also making to arm all the vessels in
her Majesty's navy, from the largest down to the very
smallest, in commission, that they may all be in readi-
ness at a moment's notice, in ease any emergency should
arise to require their services for war purposes.

" All a sickly aspect wear:
Say what heart such sights could brook—
Wail and woe whei e'er you look—
W ail and woe and ghastly care."
Altogether, " Borrow's Gipsies in Spain" bears about
it such a newness of tone and material, that it forms
an acceptable addition to literature, and Mr. Murray
could not well have selected a better book for reprint
in his serial. An accurate translation of the "Fall
of the Jesuits," by Count Alexis de Saint-Preist—(a
happy name, by the way, for such a volume)—forms
the twenty-fifth part of the " Home and Colonial
Library." Time after time have the nations of
Europe been startled by a formal suppression of that
wonderful body of wonderful men, the disciples of
Ignatius Loyola, and time after time have they risen
uninjured from the opposition of popes and princes,
to extend the influence of their wily and astute prin.
ciples, and assert their claims to power and perpetua-
tion. The epoch of this temporary downfal, which
is chosen in the present narrative, is perhaps the most
important in their history, namely, in the latter part
of the last century. A period more eventful in every
respect, and one of more historical importance, could
not have been selected, and the narrator specifies each
occurrence which led to the great catastrophe of the
Jesuits with precision and clearness, even to the mo-
ment when Pius VII. issued his bul:, Solicitudo om-
nium ecclesiarum, in the August of 1814, reinstating
the society in all their former privileges, and re-
establishing them throughout the length and breadth
of Christendom. As a description of the most re-
markable juncture in the status of the most remark-
able association on the face of the earth, this book is
both valuable and interesting.

STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-London and Brighton,
6914-Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, New, 10s. 6d.-
-North British, Carlisle, VA-Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush, IX-Axhohne, 31. Os. 6d.-Cambridga and Lin-
coln, New, 2 /4-Derby and Gainsborough, IN-Goole, Don-
caster, Sheffield, &c., 2/. 16s. 6d.-Great North and South
Wales and Worcester, lls.-Huddersfield, Halifax, and
Bradford Union, 5-Hull and Barnsley Junction, 438.-
Leicester and Birmingham, 255.-Leicester and Tamworth,
158.-London aad York, 43A-Tean and Dove Valley, 11,4-
Wakefield and Bradford,2 14-West Riding Union, 71. 13s. 9d.
-Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 21. Bs. 9d.
EDINBURGH, JAN. 6.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 51.- Aber-
deen, Banff, and Elgin, 2/.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 2/. Bs.
-Arbroath and Forfar, 251.-Ditto, Half Shares, 15/.-
Armagh and Portrush, li. 15a.-Ayr and Dumfries, 21 7s. 6d.
-Ayr and Galloway, 21-Banffshire, 11. 17s. 6d.-Belfast
and County Down, 31-British and Irish Union, 3/. 10s.-
Caledonian, ex new, 144 100.-Ditto, New, ,41.
Extension, 31- 98-- Caledonian and Dumbarton, Si.
-Caledonian and Northern Direct, 2/. 155.-Cambridge and
Lincoln, 31. 165.-Carnwarth and West Linton, 1/. 135.-
Chelmsford and Bur 1/. 12s. 6d.--Clydesdale Junction, 22/.
10s.-Cornwall and Devon Central, 2/. 2s. 6d.-Deeside Rail-
way, 51.-Direct Northern, 21. ls.-Dublin and Enniskillen,
4/. 7s. 6d.-Dundee and Arbroath, 35/. 10X.-Ditto, New,
17/. 10s.-Dundee and Forfar Junction, 2/. 12s. 6d.-Dun-
dee and Perth, ex new, 71. 55.-East Coast of Scotland, :21.
135.-East of Fife, 21.-Fast Lothian Central, 2/. 10s.-
Edinburgh and Bathgate, Si. 2s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Glas-
gow, ex new, 771.-Ditto, Half Shares, 191.-Ditto, Quarters,
W
191.-Ditto, ditto, New 141. 'OW.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and
Dumbarton, 18s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric,
1/. 14s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric Direct, 1/.
155.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 21/. 10s.-Ditto, Pre-
ference, 181. 10s.-Edinburgh and Northern. 4/. 5s -Ditto,
Newport, 1/. 55.-Ditto, Lochgelly, 11. 13s. 6d
.-Edinburgh
and Peebles, 21.-Edinburgh and Perth, W.-Edinburgh,
Portobello, and Musselburgh, 11. 10s.-Forth and Clyde
Junction, 2/. 95.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 74L-Ditto, New
Stock, 181.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 16/. 15s.-Glasgow and
Belfast Union, 2/. 125.-Glasgow, Dunifries, and Carlisle, 2/.
10s.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 2/. 45.-Glasgow and
Garnkirk, 451.-Glasgow and Greenock, 18/.
New Stock, W.-Ditto, Preference, 11. 17s. 6d.- Glasgow
Harbour Grand Junction, 21. 10s.-Glasgow Harbour Mi-
neral, 2/. 78. 6d.---Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan,
3/. l2s. 6d.-Glasgow, Strathaven, and Lesmahagow, 31.75.
-Granton Junction, 21. 2s. 6d.-Great County Down, 21.

BUTCHERS' CHARITABLE INSTITUTION.—The se-
venteenth annual general meeting of the members of the
above institution was held last evening at the London
Tavern, J. Sharpe, Esq., treasurer, in the chair. The reports
relative to the general and building fund were read and
unanimously adopted, which showed that three men and
two women had been added to the list, making a total of
one bundled and fifteen. The ladies' bazaar and fancy fair
bad not been profitable at the almshouses at Walharn-green,
but last 3 ear, at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, on the Bth
and 9th of June, was attended by 12,715 persons, and yielded
2161 The ball at Willis's Rooms had yielded 611. 17a. 1001.
had bees bequeathed by W. Featherstone, Esq., a late trustee,
deceased. Instructions had been given to build a second
lodge and four additional almshouses, at the expense of
1,100/. The receipts of the general fund, including the pre-
vious balance of 5841. 175., with subscriptions, donations, &c.,
were 2,1121. 14s. 4d., and after deducting the payment of
pensions and necessary expenses, left a balance of 449/. 13s. 4d. ;
500/. had been invested, making the capital stock, Three per
Cent. Consols, 9,431/. 16s. 10d. The receipts and balance of
building fund amounted to 864 i. Os. sd, and after paying
300/. on account of present buildings, &c., lett a balance of
544/. 14s. 7d. The usual courtesies were awarded to the
chairman and the meeting broke up.

MAGA ZINES.—(CONTINUED.)
JEI?ROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE,
We have but one chapter of the "History of St.
Giles and St. James" in this number, in which is
described the robbery of Tangle's room by Totn
Blast and Jingo, while the worthy attorney is snoring
from the fumes of the rector's port wine. The thieves
get clear off with the booty—that heavy box of gold
brought down for the purpose of purchasing the suf-
frages of the free and independent electors of Liquor-
ish ; and Tangle, on being awakened by Folder at a
somewhat later hour on the following morning,
discovers his loss and alarms the house.
Let all those who fancy themselves possessed of
genius, because their friends tell them so, and who
imagine that they have but to write, and print, and
publish, to secure to themselves fame and fortune, let
all aspirants after literary eminence study the paper
entitled "Men of Letters and their Abettors." It may
save them many a pang. We are glad to see William
Howitt among the contributors to this magazine. He
this month commences a series of sketches of English
scenes and characters, and judging from the opening
one they will be in every way worthy of him and of the
magazine. The admirable series of papers, entitled
the " Englishman in Prussia," is here concluded,
and "Juniper Hedgehog," communicates, in his own
quaint style, his opinions on the sayings and doings of
the month. In the following recommendation to the
"First Lord of the Admiralty" we cordially concur:—
" You've several new frigates at the present moment
on the stocks. They must all, when they're launched,
be christened. Well, why not call one of the best and
trimmest of the lot, Sidney Bernard? You can't think
that she'd sail the slower, or answer her helm le-ss
readily, for bearing such a name ? You can't think that
the jack tars aboard of her, nay that the sailors of the
whole fleet, would think the worse of the craft, because
called after the sailor's friend—the noble, courageous
man who died in the sailor's service. Well, my Lord,
what do you say ? Do you think the proposal a bold
one—do you fear that the nobs of the navy would look
glum at it ? Let us talk the matter over.
" In the first place, my Lord, run your eye down the
Admiralty List. Well, saving your presence, wouldn't
you think that sometimes Satan, in a waggish humour,
named her Majesty's ships, and not Christian men ?
Here we have Griffins, and Rattlesnakes, and Vipers,
and Furies, and Harpies, and all sorts of terrible and
filthy things, all complimented and honoured by the
Lords of the Admiralty, as if they were their own dearest
pets, and they wanted to show the world how much they
thought of 'ern. Now, for once, let their Lordships show
they can have another sort of favourite. At the present
moment they may intend to call one of their new frigates
the Flea, or the Spider, or the Cockroach, or the Pole-
cat, or the Water rat. Let them pause awhile ; let
them think again, and, renouncing the foolish notion,
determine to name her the Sidney Bernard. It is a
name that must glorify her timbers ; and who knows—
even her Gracious Majesty, delighted with their Lord.
ships' choice—might, herself, ,:ondescend to christen her.
'Twould be a pretty compliment from a British Queen to
Britannia I

SY RO-EG Y PTIAN SOCIETY•—At the ordinary meet-
ing on Tuesday evening, S. Holt Yates took leave of the
members, preparatory to a new expedition to Palestine. His
exertions will prol.ably throw great light upon• the geo-
gra; by of the district, as hitherto, in their surveys, travellers
have not been permitted by Turkish prejudice,.to employ
proper instruments. Dlore liberality has, however. lately
taken place, and European travellers can make their surveys
with safety.
THE LATE BOILER EXPLOSION• -- ANOTHER
DEATH.—About eight o'clock on Sunday morning another
death, making the total number fifteen, was added to the list
of victims by the late calamitous explosion at the mill of
Messrs. Rothwell and Kitts. The deceased was a little girl,
named Ann Hardman, aged eight years, who was crossing
the factory yard, and had got to the door of the house where
she lived, when the explosion took place.—Manchester
Guardian.

" Consider, my Lord, what a very nice thing it would
be to have a Sidney Bernard afloat! How pleasantly
the fleet would look upon her ! How, at certain times,
in every sea of the world, she would carry with her the
recollection of the gallent surgeon—how she would help
to keep up the spirits of the young and struggling, who,
wherever her pennant was seen, would see the: gratitude
of England to humble, !)ut heroic men I It is worth
while, depend upon it, my Lord, to keep up this spirit ;
so have nothing to do with the Flea--cast aside the
Cockroach—renounce the Polecat, and stick to nothing
but the Sidney Bernard."
Sidney Bernard, was one of the noblest-minded of
Britain's sons—his bravery was of a higher order far
than that mere physical courage which confronts
death " amidst the tumult of the strife" upon the
battle-field,
" For fame is there, to say who bleeds,
And honour's eye on daring deeds ;"
but he grappled with death in the pest-ship—,he led
the forlorn hope against the plague—he fell gloriously,
and a grateful nation has a sacred duty to perform to
his
mother,memory. no sisters, as hneolebfrtotnhoers, wife,behinnd him ? heo children, no
have he has left them as a legacy to his country, and
let us provide for them, not as his merits deserve, for
that is impossible but as a great nation should provide
for its adopted children. Name a trigate after him—
it is well ; provide for those whom he has left to our
care—it is well too ; but there is a duty
which we owe to ourselves, and we shall
be dishonoured if we do not consecrate to
his memory a niche in our national temple.
A monument, a national monument, must be erected,
not to his honour—for nothing that vte can do can
add to the vast meed of honour which he hath fur
himself acquired—but to our gratitude; and let the
genius of our artists, and the " cunning workman-
ship" of our artificers, exhaust themselves in the de-
signing and the erecting of that monument, still
must they fail in doing justice to the noble subject
which they have in hand. But, above all, let not
that monument, like too many of our national
monuments, be disgraced by the miserable, mean,
pitiful, niggardly, insulting inscription " Erected at

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the public expense." Shame on the purse-proud
parvenu who first invented the phrase ! Shame on
those who have so long tolerated it ! Let it be at
once erased from every national monument ; and
would, for the honour of our common nature, that it
could be as easily erased from our memories.