The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-03 00:00:00

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(earful prejudices, to some inglorious suocnssor to ate
)owsr in Franco the crown of glorious sympathy
arty to'Abd-el-Kadcr, with which you might LOW
your fair, and, I still believe, faultless brow.
co,.ciusion, mon Prince, I do not add (by w.iy of
.ftce to a soul like yours, who knows no fear) iha
determination I have arrived at if this, my last appsal,
produces neither result nor positive data of hopes of sue-
cess, I shall immediately give to the public and to the
world the correspondence and letters, copies of whioh
are in my possession, of the Duc d'Aumale and General,
Lamoriciere, as I have pledged myself to do in my pito°
in the House of Lords. _ _

" I would not wish to bear hardly on the Dec d'Au-
male, who may require pity and commisseration for
princely weakness, and who may have been in the
hands of others; but for General Lamorielikee, who
evinced to the world (brave soldier as all declare him to
be) neither generosity nor good faith, in not securing to
himself (when ha was Minister of War) the deliverahee
of the man whom he had deceived and betrayed in the
capitulation with the Emir, I think and feel uo public
exposition of the transaction can become too notorious.
Waiting with great anxiety, mon Prince, your answer
to this last appeal, I have the honour to be, ever your
aiucere friend,

" VANE LONDONDERRY.
To the President of the French Republic, &c. Sm."
(Copy.)
" Elyt6a Nationale, le 13 Sept., 1851.
Mon cher Lord Londonderry,—J'ai inn votre lett re
u 25 Aout. Vans me rappelcz les infortunes de
AP-el-Nader, ce qui je trouve bien nature]; mais voile
me demand&-z si le pouvoir a change mon (Gen! Veal
devez asstz mo connaitre pour savoir que les honneun
mes yeux ne sont qu'un furdeau, impuissant a eblouir
j,a Porteit roOttomans
uv‘
mon esprit ou paralyser lea nobles dispositions demon
tune; lora done que je ne finis pas tout le bien que je
di ;ire, c'est ouP je ne pour pas.
" Mes int‘ntions n'ont pas chang
Ichange vis vis
po u r lt eres
obiers
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ties grands.°"
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" Lo Ministrede la Guerr,-..• a e'e' voir Abd-el-Kadar,
it y a pen de jours. Il I'a trouv6 ties resigli; lui a fait
comprendre qu'il fallait attendre encore, et it a tube
d'adoucir sa position par tons moyens possiblea.
" Vous voyez, mon cher Lord, qua je vans parle aveo
franchise; je sais corabien votre ccear eat noble, vow;
comprendrcz ma position et les devoirs qu'elle ra'impobe.
" Recevea l'assurance demon intime et haute °Wilms
et d'amitie.

" LOUIS NAPOLEON."

TEE CUSTOM-HOUSE AT DOTER.

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TO THE EDITOR 01' THE TIMES.
Sir,---Those of you readers who are in the habit
Railwaythis Cmomoprnainnyg taken possession of by
of crossing the Channel via Dover, will be glad to
hear that the new rooms provided by the South-
Eastern
r;s will be conveyed direct to
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the railway station, and a saving both of time aed
tthhee baggageluggaofficerswgluggage
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expense effected.
The public should know that this accommodation
has been afforded by the railway authorities with the
sanction of the Board of Customs, and that Dover
has done all in her power to prevent it.
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The reputation which Dover has earned for herself
travellers is not particularly high. Placed
with respect to the Continent in a position superior
to all other ports, she has thought of herself only,
and her cupidity would long ago have driven the
traveller from using her port, if the almost universal
dislike to a long voyage had not operated so strong in
her favour.
Nature has done much for her—she herself little
enough; and it has always been her principle to op-
pose all improvements tending to save the time and
money of travellers.
I need only refer to the numerous complaints
which used to appear in your columns to prove the
correctnesse of these assertions.
The extortions of her boatmen, the long bills of
the hotel. keepers, the charges for porterage, the con-
duct of the touters, the inconvenience and delay of
her Custom-house, have all from time to time been
complained of in the Times, and it was her position
alone which saved her from being avoided, rather
than chosen by the traveller.
She had the game, however, all to herself, and her
port was used simply because there was no other.
But things are changed now—Folkestone runs her
hard • London beats her in point of economy; Rams-
gate, Newhaven, &c., compete with her.
She should keep her eyes open, and look to herself ;
she should move with the times, and "go ahead."
On the contrary, she is blind to her own interests—
fondly remembers the old days of sailing packets and
slow coaches, and would gladly retrograde some fifty
years, if she had the power to do so.
But, Sir, improvements have taken place, and are
taking place, in epite of her, and her port will very
shortly be as eligible for the traveller in all other re-
spects as it always must be in point of situation.
Thanks mainly to the publicity always given in
your columns to well-founded complaints, the extor-
tions of her boatment have been put a stop to; but
their services are seldom required, as passengers can
now walk on board frOm the Admiralty-pier at low
water. Her hotels are less expensive, the touters
more respectable, or kept in better order by the police.
Spacious and convenient premises at the railway
station have taken the place of the small and incon-
venient baggage-rooms at the Custom-house, and 300
packages of baggage are examined and cleared in
the time that would have been taken for 200 only a.
year or two ago. •
More than this : the officers of Customs are always
in attendance, and are ready to pass baggage imme-
diately on its arrival at any hour of the day or night.
It is also reported that the Treasury are about to
allow the examination of baggage to be made at the
railway terminus in London, by which arrangements
many a traveller will save the train—a matter of
importance to most people, but highly so to those
mercantile men who are desirous of proceeding direct
to Liverpool or Southampton to catch the packets
sailing from those places.
Small thanks are due to Dover for these improve-
ments. Many of them have been effected sorely
against her will. Her short-sighted policy has al-
ways been, and still is, to detain travellers as long in
her town as possible, in order to get as much of their
cash as she can, and she opposes any measure likely to
have o
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sury, and, if report speaks the truth, by the influ-
enceo
known better.
What ! permit the examination'of baggage at night!
Neither suppers nor beds will be wanted. Examine
the baggage at the railway station. The shops of
Dover will be sacrificed. As one of the moving men
in this borough said to me a short time ago, on my
observing that by making Dover the most expeditious
and economical route the number of passengers pass-
ing through would be doubled, "We would just as
soon not have them at all as let them slip through
our fingers in this way."
But they will not all " slip through" without be..
nefitting Dover. All are not travelling against time.
Many arrive fatigued and sea-sick, and will be glad
to stay a night or longer if the hotel-keepers are
known to be moderate in their charges. Many will
remain for days rather than cross when the sea is
rough.
I feel convinced, Sir, that the true policy of Dover
is to exert herself and make her port in every respect
the most
forost
eligible
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tif pc
travellere ae d
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prosperitykingdom,
anthat if she does so her interests will not suffer in any
way, con
:ti
tinue we shall find that the intercourse between
Europe and this country will increase in a geometri-
cal rather than an arithmetical ratio.
There are, however, still
some improvements
wanting.
The licensed porters are slow in their work and
high in their charges; the rates should be reduced,
and some of the men should be superannuated, and re•
placed by a more active set.
More convenient ladders should be provided, and
more light for dark nights. The cross wall leading
to the pier should be removed, and the old dry dock
thrown into the harbour, so that the packets may
land their passengers as near asposaible to the rail war
terminus.
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this town of liberal and enlightened
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MANY YEARS.
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ASSYRIAN DISCOVERIES.—We are glad to be if
that the Lords of the Treasury have at length consented to
advance to Colonel Rawlinson the sum of 1,5001., to enabla
him to continue his explorations and exhumations in As-.
syria. We may doubt if this step would have been even
thus tardily taken, but that the value of the discoveries has
been so recently exemplified by Colonel Rawlinson, in Ma..
tion to the history of Hezekiak and Sennacherib. The gri.
t
too, is small, compared with the sums and means devoted
a similar purpose in the same country by the French Got% iv.
went; it is only very recently that a new expedition of se•
verat ships, with abundant appliances, set sail from ore of
the French ports. Colonel Rawlinson is to proceed in MK
diately to Bagdad, where he is the resident of the East Inuits
Company, and from thence he will go to any quarter where
his directions may be needed, and where the best promise.,
of future discoveries may be held out. He will also keep
open the works already commenced, but he io to net ertirely
independently of Air. Lityarcl.-, Chronicle.