The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-07 00:00:00

MISS FANNY WALKER,
In announcing to her Friends, Commercial Gentlemen, and the
Public in general that she has succeeded to the business of the above
Hotel, embraces the opportunity of tendering her best thanks for the
favours bestowed on her late Parents for the past twenty years, and
hopes by strict attention and Aoderate Charges, to secure an in-
creased share of their kind patronage.

GOOD COMMERCIAL ROOMS, LARGE STOCK ROOMS, AND

rmv.sTic SITTING ROOMS FOR FAMILIES.

OTTOMAN CLUB, 14, Regent-street, 31st
December, 1855.—At the General Meeting of the Members
held this day, an explanation was given by the Proprietor of the
position and future prospects of the Club, which was considered
satisfactory. Certain alterations In the Rules of the Club ►ere then
proposed, and the Meeting was adjourned till the 31st of January
next, at 3 o'clock p.m., for the purpose of confirming them, if
approved.

By order of the Committee.
C. A. CUR WOOD, lien. Sec.

LOAN.—The NEW RIVER COMPANY are
prepared to receive TENDERS for SUMS of MONEY (raised
tinder the provisions and requirements of their Acts of 1852 and
1854) on Bonds of not less than 5001., for three, five, or seven years,
at 4y4 per cent. interest, payable half-yearly.
Further information may be obtained, If required, of the under-
signed, at the New River Office, New River Head, Clerkenwell, be-
tween the hours of Ten arid Four, to whom Tenders are to be addressed
for the Directors.

By order.
New River Office, Nov. 30. 1855.

FRED. INGLIS, Clerk.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Her Majesty's ship Neptune, 120, Captain Hutton,
was put out of commission at Portsmouth oa Saturday ;
her crew were not paid off, but wer... paid warm and
granted six weeks' leave.
The crew of the Arrogant, 47, Captain Lyster, were
also paid wages on Saturday, and granted leave. The
men wbo belonged to the port of Plymouth or its neigh-
bourhood had a passage given to them in her Majesty's
steam-frigate Sampson, 6, Captain Hand.
The steam-frigate Dragon, 6, Captain Stewart, went
into Portsmouth harbour on Saturday, to commence her
refit for the Baltic. _

The steam machinery brought by the Rhadamanthus
for the ships fitting out at Portsmouth is now being
landed in the steam basin, the factory on the brink of
which and all its adjuncts are in full and extra working
to meet the demands upon it in the equipment of the
fleet.

The Perseverance, naval steam-transport, Commander
Craig, embarked on Portsmouth on Saturday detach.
ments of the 19th, 23,1, 31st, 38th, 44th, and 46th Regi-
ments, and the Ist and 2d Battalions of the Rifle Bri-
gade, with whom she left yesterday for the Crimea.
The Norman, steam-transport, No. 155, Capt. Vallint,
arrived at Spithead on Saturday afternoon from the East.
Her dates are—Malta, Dec. 19 ; Gibraltar, 24. On en-
tering the Gut she fell in with her Majesty's ship London,
her Majesty's ship Promethus towing her through on her
way to England. The Norman spoke, off the Island of
Goza, on Dec. 19, the brig Blonde, of Belfast, from
Alexandria for Falmouth, 24 days out. She brought
no passengers or invalids.
Orders have been received at Portsmouth that, on the
arrival of the Rodney, 92-gun sailing-ship, at that port
from the Mediterranean, she is to be converted with all
despatch into a shot and shell depot-ship for the Baltic
fleet. Her crew will be paid down and granted leave ;
her spars are to be reduced, with the exception of the
lower masts and lower yards, which will remain the
same ; the rest of her spars will be those of a second
class frigate ; the complement of her crew will be reduced
from 850 to 650. The London, sister ship, is also to
undergo a similar conversion, for the same service, on
her arrival at Devonport.

The Polyphemus, steam•sloop, Commander Warren,
left Spithead yesterday for the Baltic. Another vessel
is ordered also to the same waters, in consequence of re-
ports having been made that the ice is loose enough to
admit of partial navigation, so as to admit of trading by
the enemy.
The crew of the Albion, 90, Captain the Hon. J. R.
Drummond, were paid wagea at Plymouth on Saturday,
and granted six weeks' leave of absence. In the after-
noon the paddle-wheel steam-vessel Avon, 3, left with a
portion of them for Portsmouth.
The crew of the screw steam-sloop Cruiser, 17, Com-
mander the Hon. G. H. Douglas, will be paid wages at
Plymouth this day, and granted three weeks' leave of
absence.

Notice was posted outside the Devonport dockyard on
Saturday for the entry of 100 additional ship wrights.
The hired paddle-wheel steam-transport Cambria, No.
101, Mr. A. Brownless master, from the Crimea, ar-
rived in Plymouth Sound yesterday morning. Her dates
are :—Eupatoria, Dec. Bth ; Balaklava, 10th ; Constan-
tinople, 21st ; Malta, 26th ; and Gibraltar, Jan. Ist.
Passengers :—Lord Napier, Lady Napier, four children,
governess, and nurse ; Mrs. Col. Morris, and servant ;
Sister Anne, lady nurse ' • Mrs. Grainger, Government
nurse ; Capt. Brett and servant, 15th Hussars ; Lieut.-
Adjutant North, 3d Light Dragoons, with 16 officers'
horses in charge of eight grooms. Dec. 28, at noon, lat.
37.18 N., long. 5'55 E., exchanged signals with the screw
steamer Alma, and on Jan. 2, lat. 36.22 N., long. 8.10
W., passed her Majesty's paddle-wheel sloop Vesuvius,
Commander E. G. sore, steering north-east.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steam-
ship Canada, transport No. 213, Capt. Parfitt, arrived
at Southampton on Saturday afternoon from the Etude()
and Mediterranean, with the following invalids :—From
Constantinople —Majors Rickman and Carden, 77th
Foot ; Capt. Campbell, Royal Horse Artillery ; Surgeon
Moorhead, 7th Foot ; Assistant-Surgeon Fair, Staff ;
Mr. Brook, Chief Officer, and 14 seamen of the Brilliant.
From Gibraltar—Sergeant Luke, R.A. ; Mr. Batty,
Northampton Militia ; Mrs. A. Smith and one child.
The Candia left Constantinople Dec. 19th, Malta 23d,
and Gibraltar 31st.

Her Majesty's eteam-vessel Driver, Captain Gardner,
arrived on Saturday morning at Woolwich from Sheer-
ness, and will be taken into basin to be refitted for sea
service. According to the customary regulations, prior
to being overhauled, the chief engineer of the dockyard
accompanied the vessel on a trial of her machinery down
the saver. The Pearl steam-sloop is being provided with
her sea stock.
The schooner Teazer has arrived at Woolwich from
Portsmouth, and commenced discharging her cargo of
condemned stores from the camp, among which are
3,168 military cloaks and overcoat,,.
A short time back some breech-loading rifles, manu-
factured at Liege, and captured at Balaklava, were re-
e3ived at Woolwich. They are unwieldy-looking instru-
ments of warfare, the length of the barrel being 5 feet.
The alvantage, however, which this species of rifle pos-
sesses is not unimportant—namely, the rapidity with
which it is loaded and fired. By reason of the weight
and length, a tripod stand is used in firing and adjisting
is not greater than the ordi-
nary Minie rifle.
the
T he officer commanding
the corps of Royal Sappers
and Miners at Woolwich has received instructions to
prepare for the transfer of head-quarters from Woolwich
to Chatham. The removal will take place on Thursday
next. Some promotions, consequent on the augmenta-
giseaptpakoientments were made on Saturday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Wm. Lamburd, to the Esk ;
amongankofAwd
jhui
tcahnti-sGtehneeraadl".
tioTn,hewiflol
illoikweiwn
vancernent of Col. Yorke topltahcee;
Lieut. Charles F. Lodder, to the Victory ; Lieut. Charles
F. Hill, to the Magicienne.
The undermentioned Mates were promoted on Satur-
day to the rank of Lieutenant :—Wm. J. Walker, E. J.
Panter Downes, R. A. J. Stothert, Arthur R. Blane,
Wm. M. Wright, Thos. L. Pearson, Geo. Rivington,
Granville T. Nicolas, Nowell Salmon, James Grant, B.
J. Cooper, Horatio Packe, Arthur A. Smith, Henry C.
Lees, Arthur 11. Gilmore, James Patton, Robert W. D.
Abercromby, Alfred A. Hanson, Stratford Tuke, Francis
M`Norrnan, Henry W. Brent, Neale D. T. Lillingston,
J. G. G. AV:Hardy, Reginald T. Clark, Richard R.
Armstrong.
The following warrant was received yesterday at the
Garrison, Chatham :
" Victoria R.,—Whereas we have judged it expedient
to cancel oar Royal warrant of the 12th day of Oct., 1855,
and to revise that part of our Royal warrants of the 6th
day of Oct. and 3d day of Nov., 1854, which regulate
the half-pay of Regimental Quartermasters; our will and
pleasure is, that Quartermasters who shall have served
for an aggregate period of 30 years, of which at least le
years shall have been as Quartermaster, shall have a claim
to retire,with the honorary rank of Captain, upon the half-
pay of 10s. a day, provided such retirement shall be
recommended to us by our Secretary of State for the
War Department.
" It is our further will arid pleasure that this our
Royal warrant shall have a retrospective operation, so as
to confer the honorary rank and increased half-pay upon
all Quartermasters who, after the completion of the
aforesaid periods of service, have retired since the de-
claration of the present war with Russia.
" Given at our Court, at St. James's, this 17th day of
December, 1855, in the 19th year of our reign.
By her Majesty's command.
" PANMURE."

Upon an inspection being made of the new quarters
at St. Mary's, Brompten, for the offices of the invalid
depot, they were found to be so damp (being made of
lath and plaster) as to be unfit for present use.

VERY DEAR RAILWAY TRAVELLING. -W. Corbet
Caidicott, of Milton, near Shipton, was charged before
ing-Norton with travelling from
nhiPPatrain on the Oxford, Worcester,
theaOnx m
and Wolverhampton agolitsvoterraAhtaesmscooptf C
in
Railway without having taken a
ticket. From the evidence it appeared that the defen-
dant rode from Oxford to Handborough in a second-
class carriage, and then got into a third-class, rode to
Ascot, where be alighted and told the station-master
that he had come from Charlbury only, which was a
distance of n miles, whereas be had travelled 17k.
Upon this representation he paid nd. as his fare. He
was convicted of the offence, and fined 21., including
coats.—Banbury Guardian.
The Jowrnal de Constantinople says that the long-
vexed question of the unity of command has been solved
by an agreement that in the coming campaign Marshal
Pelissier is to command both the French and English
armies, and Admiral Lyons the French and English
fleets.

GLASGOW, Fridays—This afternoon the freedom of the
city of Glasgow was presented to the Earl of Elgin and
Kincardine in testimony of the great public services
which his lordship had conferred on the country in his
capacity of Governor-General of Canada. The presen-
tation took place in the City-hall, in the presence of
2,500 ladies and gentlemen, comprising the elite,of Glas-
gow and its neighbourhood. The Earl of Elgin, who
was received with enthusiastic demonstrations of applause,
was accompanied to the platform by the Lord Provost,
magistrates, members of council, Mr. Hestia, M.P. Sir
James Anderson, M.P., Sir John Maxwell, of Polloc,
&c., &c.
The burgess-ticket for Lord Elgin was contained in a
large and richlyecbased gold box.
The LORD PaovosT, in presenting the box and bur-
gess-ticket to Lord Elgin, entered into a review of the
colonial policy adopted by the noble lord, which he
warmly eulogised. He said that its success was com-
plete is Jamaica, and proceeded to describe Lord Elgin's
administration in Canada as productive of most impor-
tant and beneficial results. The Lord Provost, referring
to the war with Russia, said—We are not seeking to in-
terfere with the internal affairs, or the natural powers of
any State ; but we are in arms to declare that the over-
weening ambition of Russia must cease to weigh as an
influence on other countries, to check the advancement
of popular rights there, and to paralyse their energies
in commerce. I confess I asa beginning to be doubtful
if the period of settlement has yet arrived ; but of one
thing I am very sure, that the enlightened and recent
Governor of the Canadas will be found one of the men
who will not counsel the laying down of our arms, unless
the treaty of peace will justify.the war—unless securit'a
for the future shall become part ani parcel of the pubh
law of Europe. (Applause.)
The burgess-ticket, having been read by Mr. Turner,
one of the town-clerks, was placed in the box and handed
to the noble Earl by the Lord Provost. The box, an
exceedingly massive one, was prepared by Mr. Muir-
head, Buchacan-street. It is about eight inches long,
six inches broad, and two and a half-inches in depth, of
solid silver, richly gilt with gold, and beautifully chased
all over in bold relief. Outside the lid there is a finely-
executed medallion or the arms of the city.
Lord ELGIN, on rising to reply, was greeted with loud
and prolonged applause. He said,—My Lord Provost,
ladies, and gentlemen,—l most unaffectedly regret my
inability to express, in language which is at all adequate,
my sense of the distinguished honour which you have
done me in admitting me to the freedom of the city of
Glasgow, and my appreciation of the handsome and
flattering, and, I must add, very graceful terms in which
such a satisfactory communication bas been made to me
by the Lord Provost. (Cheers.) As a Scotchman, I
cannot be insensible to the value of the good opinion of
the inhabitants and the municipal authorities of a great
commercial metropolis of the country ; and knowing,
as I do, from long experience how much Canada and how
much all the other colonies owe to the enterprise of Glas-
gow, I cannot but feel that it is a proud distinction—
the proudest distinction, perhaps, which I could possibly
aspire to find, that the efforts of an individual who had
laboured for many years—God knows how assiduously
—to promote the interests, develope the resources, and
place in a firm and rational position the system of go-
verument in that important dependency on a great em-
pire, had been deemed worthy of recognition here.
(Loud cheers.) On this very day, nine years ago, I
parted from my family—and in somewhat trying circum-
stances, perhaps—l parted from my family, in order to
embark at Liverpool, to undertake the government of
British America. It would have been a great relief if,
on that occasion, I could have discovered at the close
of a vista of nine years the incidents of this day. I had
taken my departure from Jamaica a few months before,
during the heat of summer, leaving the thermometer
some hundreds in the shade, and Heaven known what in
the sun—(a laugh)—and on reaching my new destination
I found the thermometer some 20 below zero. What
new sensations I then felt, after some years broiling in
the tropics ! On the morning after my arrival, when
preparing to enter the city, a gentleman arrived at
the house in a sleigh, and told me that there had been
such a storm during the night it was more than probable
we should be unable to force through the snow into the
town. I always look on this as a happy incident in my
career, affording me, as it did, so admirable an opportu-
nity of testing what is the effect of extreme degrees of
temperature on the human constitution. (Laughter.) I
was reminded yesterday, on visiting that magnificent
vessel, the Persia, built for the Cunard line, that I had
had, on the occasion referred to, the somewhat unen-
viable distinction of making the longest voyage I ever
made across the Atlantic in a Cunard vessel. Here, for
the first time, I felt the influence of the tutelary genius of
Glasgow. I had the fortune to be in a Cly.le-built vessel,
so that, although we encountered the most tremendous
gales, we arrived at Halifax, with mountains of ice in the
forepart of the vessel, and Mr. •Burns told the it is re-
corded we carried 100 tons of ice into Halifax on our
prow. Notwithstanding all this, so smooth and steady
was the action, so well founded our vessel in every par-
ticular, I do not believe a single individual ever felt one
moment of anxiety or alarm. These little physical ob-
stacles were trifling, indeed, when compared with the
moral and political difficulties which I had to encounter
on assuming the government of British North America.
At the time when I was appointed to the office of gover-
nor, the union between the Canadas—the political con-
stitution given to Canada at the time of the union—had
been in existence somewhat less than eight years. During
these eight years no less than four eminent British
statesmen had successively held the office of Governor-
General of the Canadas, and on the day when I sailed
from Liverpool the grave had already closed in upon
them all. Foremost in that list was a statesman of large
views and strong popular sympathy, whose name is
known throughout the length and breadth of British
North America, and who, at that critical period in the
history of this country, derived strength, and persevered
in what I believe to be the path of duty, from the
countenance and support of the inhabitants of Glasgow.
(Cheers.) I had made the acquaintance of the Cana-
dian Minister, a worthy gentleman, holding—if I
may compare small things with great—an office in Ca-
nada similar to that of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
in this country. Where do you think I found him ? I
found him walking up and down the streets of London,
with 60,000 debentures in his pocket, which he could
not get any one to take from him for love or money.
He had gone to the capitalists, and when he could not
succeed with them ho applied to that old loving lady—
mother-country--and said, " Pray, for the sake of the
love you bear to your poor paling, not very well behaved
Canada, pray indorse these little bills." I believe he had
more success in his love address than in his other addresses
to the pocket, and the consequence was, so low was our
credit, and so reduced were we for want of money, that
we were obliged to issue a quantity of five-dollar deben-
tures, which we forced on wretched office-holders, and
obliged them to take these, which they could not ex-
change without a discount of somewhere from 10 to 20
per cent. If I could have foreseen at that time that the
day was coming when, in the presence of the inhabitants
of this enlightened commercial community, I should
have been able to point to the same discredited Canada
securities as having a higher premium in the market than
any other American security whatever, and to point to
the proceedings of Parliament, showing Canada to be
regarded in its constitution as a model dependency— if I
could have foreseen the day when I could have pointed
to these facts, I should have borne a lighter heart in
my bosom when I went shivering through the snow to
take up that viceregal sceptre which had proved so heavy
in the hands of our ablest men. But, ladies and gentle-
men, I pass from what is purely personal in this compli-
ment to matters of higher moment, and I trust I may be
permitted to infer, from the notice you are thus pleased
to take of humble services rendered in distant colonies,
that the affairs and interests of these remote dependen-
cies are beginning to engage, to a greater extent than
heretofore, the attention of the people of this country. It
is, gentlemen, a most interesting fact that, while our des-
potic foe is compelled to double the forces stationed on the
remote frontiers of his vast empire, as a protection,both
against aggression from without and disorder from with-
in, our constitutional monarch, strong in the affection of
her subjects, is enabled to withdraw from her outlying
territories those garrisons retained in time of peace. I
know well there are people in this country, perhaps not
so many now as many years ago—but I know there are
persons in the country who hold the opinion that the
colonies are a useless encumbrance ; and I so far agree
with these persons, that it is possible so to govern these
colonies as to render them an intolerable burden ; but I
believe it possible, by the adoption of a wiser policy—
by freely and frankly conceding to our fellow-subjects
in the colonies those rights and privileges we so dearly
prize—by treating their feelings with respect, and their
wishes with consideration, so to attach them to the
mother-country as to render them a source of strength.
Well, I have only to say that during the whole of my
public life I have been engaged in various spheres of
duty in the humble endeavour to solve this problem and
to work out this result. I present myself to the inhabi-
tants of Glasgow as a practical man. I do not even
presume, according to the fashion of the time, to put
myself in the professor's chair. I do not ask you to re-
ceive from me one single rule, or principle, or maxim,
upon colonial Government which I have not myself
tested, and of which I have not verified the result by
experience. Now, gentlemen, speaking in that capacity,
and of what I found from my own experience, I make
bold to say that a most important, material change has
taken place of late years in the principle on which the
colonial. Government is conducted. It is a change, not
so much in the form of our continental constitution, but
in the spirit. I speak more particularly of Canada, not
only because I know more of it than of the other colo-
nies, and have been myself responsible for the changes
that have taken place, but also because it is the
effect of changes that have taken place in that colony
that have wrought an improvement in the system
in other colonies. In our relations with the colo-
nies we, have substituted for a policy of distrust
and reserve a policy of confidence. Now, we may
with great propriety and advantage inquire what
the results of this system have been, and
whether they are such as to justify us in endeavouring to
perpetuate and extend it. Now, I would ask, in the first
place, what have the effects of thin system been on the