The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-08 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S PROGRESS.

Her Majesty arrived in Edinburgh from Balmoral
yesterday (Tuesday) evening, at eight o'clock.
When the royal train was within about thirteen
miles of Edinburgh one of the pipes of the boiler of
the engine burst, which detained the train about an
hour.

The accident was not such as to create the slightest
alarm to her Majesty.
A fresh engine was sent from Edinburgh to bring
the train in.

Her Majesty was most enthusiastically received
by the inhabitants of Edinburgh in her progress to
Holyrood Palace, from which she will start for the
south this ( Wednesday) morning, at half-past 8 o'clock

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.--It is announced that
this theatre will close on Saturday with the Exhibition. The
four last performances are to be Fidelio (this evening), Bar-
Liere (to-morrow), Sonnambuia (Friday), and Norma (Sa-
turday), Mademoiselle Cruvelli supporting the principal
character in each. Mr. Lumley is making active prepara-
tions for his winter campaign at the Bouffes, in Paris. He
will open on the 14th of next month with Lucrezia Borgia,
on which occasion Madame Barbieri Nini will make her debut
before a French public. Madame Barbieri Nini has arrived
in Paris. Mademoiselle Cruvelli leaves Loudon for Paris on
Monday morning, so that the theatre must positively close
on Saturday.

THE ORNITHORWYNEUS.—Among the wonders in
the Crystal Palace, there is a very fine specimen of that
rare and remarkable animal the ornithorbyneus, or duck-
billed platypus. the creature is a native of Australia,
amphibious, and is regarded by naturalists as the connecting
link between the furred and the feathered tribes • it has the
body of the quadruped with the head or beak Of the duck!
It is, notwithstanding this marvellous incongruity, a very
pr€tty looking animal. When first brought to this country
it was looked upon as a cheat, made up to impose on the
learned in zoology. Dr. Shaw doubted the evidence of his
own eyes, till a .scientific dissection put the question of its
reality beyond a doubt. It is exhibited by Mr. G. Ellis, of
Fore-street.

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The sale of Milton House and the extensive domain
appertaining to the property, four miles only from Bedford,
is announced in our columns to take place positively on
Thursday, October 16. It is rarely an estate is in the
market offering so many attractions both for residence
and investment, and no doubt much competition will be
excited.
EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE ELECTION.—The
election of a Member for the East Riding of Yorkshire, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Broadley, took
place yesterday, when the Hon. Captain ,buncombe was re•
turned without opposition.

WIEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER B, 1851.

Bread—Pilot is scarce, but crackers are plentiful and
inactive. We quote the former at 18s. and the latter ut
206. per barrel.
Mackerel—Nothing over 245. can be got for 1)...5t No. 3.
Herrings are worth 14s. to 18s., according to qulitity.
The late parcels were of inferior quality.
Luinb.i.r—White pine is in improved icquiry. A cargo
to arrive is held for 85g., daliverabhi at an cu!port; but
there are several lois on hand, the remainder of previous
importations, which are being retailed at SW. to 100 s.,
according to quality. Good cedar shingles are worth
225. per 1,000.

Beet—American" Family" is taken at 465. to 48s. per•
half-barrel.

Tongues—We quote pig's at 505., and ox at 48s. per
half-barrel, and proportionately for parts. A lot of
Irish ox tongues has been placed at 12s. Fr k g of six
tongues.

Brandy may be readily obiained at 53. to ss. 6d. per
gallon, short 'nice. The stock is very heavy.
Geneva changes hands at 6s. 6d. per ease, in bond. The
market is very considerably overstocked.
Corn—We quote American at 7s. 6J. p,r ta,-; of two
bushels. There is not any Co!umbian at maik,r.
Ram is inactive at 3s. to 31. ad. per gallor, proof, for
home consumption, or Is. 3d. for exportLvion.
Su' ,Yar--Wo magi) our quotations at 14s. to 17s. rec.
10illb. for kto goad miadling. Fair tAir,r6 ate verj
bt3kiree.

Logaood is in small inquiry at 363. to 38 t. per ton.
Coffec-32i. per 1001 h. would be rt aiily pail for good
ordinary, but; there is not any en offer.
Pimento—The new crop is being taken off. but only
small parcels have as yet found their vay to market.
There are buyers at 3d. to 341. per lb.
Ginger—No recent operations have tra'spircd.
Gold—Columbian doubloons are worth 2 to 21 per
cent., and American gold 1 per cent. premium.
Malt—Bottled is wanted. It may be quoted at 7s. 9J.
per dozen. Bulk is plentiful and dull at 753. per hogs-
head.

Salt—Liverpool stoved is inactive. About 400 sacks
have changed hands at 43.
Tobacco—The stock of all descriptions i 3 heavy.
Leaf has been sold at 60s. per 100 lb , and Cavendish at
10d. per lb.

P..—The schooner Ocean Queen, from Halifax, came
in after the foregoing was in type. Her cargo consists
of about 10 hhds., 100 tierces, and 200 boxes codfish, a
few barrels mackerel and herrings, and 30 barrels sal-
mon. The last named may be considered a full supply
for at least five or six weeks.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
Colonial Bank ... 90 days, per cent. prem.
if
... 60 days, 1 per cent. prem.
Si 30 days, lf per cent. prem.
Jamaica Bank ... 90 days, per cent. prem.
... 60 days, 1 per cent. prem.
4,
... 30 days, 1I per cent. prem.
Merchants' Bills ... 90 days, par.
ON NEW YORK.
Merchants' Bills, 60 days, 1 per cent. prem.

THE JUDGE OF THE LIVERPOOL COUNTY
COURT AND MR. WHITTY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—As a friend to Wee and impartial inquiry,
you will probably deem the remarks of this letter not
the less deserving of insertion in your columns, though
opposed to the present current of public opinion.
That the steps taken by Mr. Ramshay have been
of an extreme character, and that his language and
conduct have been injudicious, can scarcely be dis-
puted. But the questions still remain—ls Mr.
Whitty deserving of all the public sympathy that he
has received ? Is it conducive to the high character
for gentlemanlike conduct of the leading members of
the English press, to make common cause with him,
and to hold him up as a blameless martyr ? This
question may best be answered by the solution of
another, viz., Are respectable English journals (whe-
ther in London or elsewhere) in the habit of doing
what he did when he caused the name of Mr. Ram-
shay to be placarded on the walls of the town of
Liverpool, within a short distance of his court ?
In vindication of Mr. Whitty it has been said, this
placard was perfectly innocent merely announced
that his paper contained " Mr. Ramabay's opinion of
the people of Liverpool ;" and that opinion, it is
further urged, might have been quite complimentary.
Further, it has been suggested that in all this the
Liverpool journalist did no more towards Mr. Ram-
shay than the Times or the Examiner have done
towards Justice Talfourd or Baron Martin, viz., com-
ment freely on his decisions.

Now, with all due deference to those who adopt
such views, I may be allowed to observe that, in my
humble judgment, nothing but the excitement of the
present time time can account for the reception by
sensible and intelligent writers of sophistries so pal-
pable as these views involve. What manner of
analogy is there between a comment on the opinions
of judges confined to the columns of a public journal
and placarding their names in the public streets, in an
invidious and insulting manner, within a stone's throw
from the tribunal where they have to decide between
man and man ?To say that this hand-bill in ques-
tion might have implied that the judge had compli-
mented the people of the town is a very indifferent
defence—considering that the reverse was in truth the
fact, and considering also the mutual irritation and
hostile feelings that had long existed.
The true and fair parallel would occur were the
Times, the Examiner, or The Sun to send forth a
host of bill. stickers to cover the walls of Sergeant's
Inn, the Temple, and Parliament-street, in term time,
with placards announcing the intended publication
"in their next journal of Mr. Justice Talfourd's or
Mr. Baron Martin's opinion on criminal law, or of
Mr. Baron Platt's opinion on high sheriffs, &c."
I quite concur in all that has appeared from the
press, to the effect that Mr. Ramshay would have
acted more judiciously had he borne his late success
with dignified silence and forbearance, acid treated in-
sults of this kind with passive contempt. But is the
conduct of those who take advantage of his irritability
(whether constitutional or from ill-health) to be passed
over without the censure it merits ? Nay, more, are
they to be made objects of public sympathy and
applause ?

-No one can feel more deeply than the writer of this
letter the importance of maintaining the freedom and
influence of the public press; but the conductors of the
press will best advance this great object by strict im-
partiality—by employing reproof, and not sympathy,
towards a member of the body of journalists who has
pursued a questionable course of conduct.
I have no intimacy or communication with Mr.
Ramshay, and I think it unfortunate that the state of
feeling towards him should be what it is, and Mr.
Whitty I believe to be, personally, a respectable man.
The foregoing remarks have been suggested to me
solely by a view of the facts formed at a distance,
and on their merits.—l am Sir, &c.,
Oct. 4, 1851.

JURISC.ONSULTUS.

THE CHEAP LOAF.
TO THE EDTOR OF TEE SUN.
SIR,—I am one of those stupid persons who cannot
comprehend how producers of food and other neces-
saries of life, more especially the producers of bread,
are benefited by "a cheap loaf." By a cheap loaf I
mean a 41b. wheaten loaf, which exchanges for, or is
purchased by 2} grains of gold, expressed in our cur-
rency fivepence.
We are instructed by political economists that the
value of a commodity depends upon the labour be-
stowed upon it to prepare it for the use of the pur-
chaser; to labour we are directed to look for a
measure of value. This admitted; and if we admit,
also, the loaf is become fifty per cent, cheaper by
recent legislation, it follows from the precept of the
economists that the producer of loaves should pro-
duce three loaves with the same amount of labour
with which he heretofore produced two.
Now it is my misfortune to hnow that such is not
the fact. In my rural walks I have conversed with
many practical farmers and hard-working labourers,
and I am convinced from the iatormation so obtained
that the loaf to them is no cheaper than it was, in re-
lation to the professed measure of value of the
economists.

I am too old to be won by, or amused even, by
frothy speeches ; I am pleased only by words, whether
they be uttered by Peer or plebeian, that express
truths. Knowing as I do, that the husbandman doe
labour as hard as ever to prcduce a loaf, I am de-
sirous to learn whether there is any new system cf
handicraft discovered by which the loaf can be pro-
duced by fifty per cent. less labour than it was some
ten years since.

Taking a common sense view of the matter, I am
not, however, without hope that the day of retribu-
tion for the hard-toiling producers is at hand—retri-
bution which will induce so complete a reformation
of our icornmercial policy, and adjustment of our
,monetary system, that they, at any rate, will be justly
requited.

The economists tell us labour is the measure of
value ; their precept is at variance with their practice
for our monetary system is, in defiance of their asser-
tion, based not upon labour, but upon gold. When,
and I most fervently hope the day is not distant, we
shall have imports of gold reckoned by the hundred
weight instead of by the ounce,`; the industrious sec-
tions of the community will be released from the
clutches of those who are now by law permitted to
exact three measures of the products of their toil in-
stead of two only to which the legalised extortioner
is entitled. The bullionists will not merely be better
informed, but will be compelled to honest conduct.
They will not, in all probability, be over delighted
with the celebrated definition of a pound When they
find that the pound of 5 dwts. 3grs. weight of gold
will exchange only for a bushel, possibly a gallon, of
wheat instead of a sack; the bullionists will. then be
ready enough to accede to a just compromise ; but
until then we must apparently endure, as we best can,
the strife and distraction now- unhappily pervading
our social system.

Your
obtdiont and obliged servant,
Oct. 7, 1851. J.

GLUT OF SILVER AT THE EXlllBlTloN.—Yesterday
it was found necess,ify to have two cabs to convey to
Threadneedle-street the accumulation of the previous day,
and the weight of specie amounted to no less than lb cwt.

latter. We might say the same of sovereigns, and
'tile where has been the difference between the elder
Bourbon, the Orleans ditto, and the lesser Bonaparte?
Are they not all one and the same, except, perhaps,
that some one prince may have had' a little more fa-
tuity, and another somewhat more cunning ? But all
run the same career, to reach the same end—viz., the
unpopularity and universal contempt under which
king and dynasty sink, to rise no more. Is it not
clear as the noon-day that Louis Napoleon is going
the way of all French princes, and by precisely the
same road which they all took ? And we see the c on.
sequence. At this moment the political class, acme
who have influence and hope for place—these people
are in the fiercest agitation and commotion, some scan
for the Bonapartist, some dozen for the Orleanist,..nd
as muny for the Legitimatist. But look away from
some hundreds of these professional politicians to the
country at large, and there will he found a val..
versal indtff;:rence and contempt for every one of
the candidateF, not one of whom either inspires hope
or commands respect. Yet all hope to be elecLad
•
nay, to convert the elective chair into an letedit try
throne. They btnithng a pEdestrl of hatred and
contempt ; they ore ars.:xion,, to get up co In this pe-
destel, and they hope to support teeouselves en MICII a
basis. Verily, kingship is the most unproraiing of
o__owe_ the most fatuitutte
pprocessions,l : men.
But what is the cause of princes being such puppets,
and of liberel statesmen proving the contrary of what
they themselves promised and nll their friends tx-
peottd The reason lies in the terrible and vast cen-
tralization of French government, in the number,
power, hierarchy and traditioual spirit of that bureau-
erotic, which, wherever it reaches firm eatablishtuent„
soon absorbs everything else, prince, ministers, States-
men, and even public opinion itself. This immense ma-
chine is the only mode lay which a minister can govern.
Yet all he can do is to set it in motion, and be satisfied
with what it produces; for regulate or stop its move-
ments he cannot. A home minister may be shocked
by those freaks of power which his subordinates cotne
mit, such as the breaking in upon convivial meetings
in the provinces, threatening deputies with arrest for
opening their mouths, or issuing an ukase that libel
rals shall not be supplied at any hotel with dinner.
The prosecution and condemnation of young Hugo
for denouncing the punishment of death as cruel,
whilst such men as Thiers and Changarnier talk and
do treason aloud every hour in the day, may shock
the sense and good feeling of a minister of justice.
But what can he do ? The home minister can no
more restrain his me rmidons of police and prefecture
than the justice minister can check his procureurs
and subetituts. And it is the same in foreign policy.
A. French agent at Athens or Alexandria will get
into rivalry, and quarrel with his English colleague
for some trifle or another, and the Minister at
home can do nothing but sanction and abet. In fact,
it is a bureaucratie that governs France, that has
governed, and will govern it, under Louis Napoleon,
under Louie-Philippe, aye, and under Cavaignao
himself, all-republican as he is, but infeodated as he
is to the party of order. The French bureaucratie is
of course monarchic, which is very ungrateful of it,
for it enjoys greater power, and exercises greater
tyranny at present than it did in the days of any
monarch. But then it fears that the golden reign
may not last. An official aristocracy cannot well
stand based on universal suffrage, and yet universal
suffrage has rendered the French bureaucratie more
powerful and numerous in the republican Assembly
than ever it was before. But, as they say, this is not
solid ; and they would sacrifice the freedom and the

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS OF TIIIS DAY.
TIMES —The lamentable exhibition made last
week by Mr. Ramshay, Judge of the County Court
of Liverpool, imperativ ly calls for itoiriediate action
on the part of Lord Carlisle, es well for the sake of
the unfortunate gentleman himself as of the public.
We are not now about to reason with Mr. Ramshay
as to the extent of his power, or as to the peculiar
merits of the case which he dragged before his court.
Such a mode of dealing with the matter would prove
us to have misconceived the mischief with which the
Chancellor of the Duchy has to deal. The removal—
the immediate removal—of the learned person is of
absolute necessity, not because he has mistaken the
law, but because, from the peculiar state of his mind—
from the condition of morbid excitement in which he
now is—he appears utterly incapable of fulfilling the
duties of a judge. Unfortunately the late proceedings
which have occurred with respect to himself seem to
have taken so forcible a hold of his imagination as to
have entirely overturned his judgment. The ides
that ha has been made the subject of a conspiracy,
and that ha is in duty bound to undert.lle the sneci
of
mission of &fending the administrzti•,:a or -justice
from the machinations of interested opponents,
has reached with him that degree of in-
ter,sity which constitutes monomania, and hit-
whole conduct is affected by this prepossession.
His mental state is no longer that which is cern-
mealy described by the terms " bad temper," her
does the word " anger " accuramy
depict it. One
notion has taken possession of his brain ; an unfortu-
nete train of events operating upon a mind already
lowered by illness has exaggerated this notion into a
portentous magnitude ; all other considerations seem
to him utterly worthless and insignificant when com-
pared with this monster of his imagination ; and he
proceeded to deal with the every-day circumstances
of life as if they were really exponents of the things
which existed only in his own distorted conceptions.
Don Quixote and the windmill is an exact foresha-
dowing of what occurred the other day at Liverpool.
A County Court Judge ought certainly to be deemed
a very respectable person ; his functions are impor-
tant, and the qualifications for his office are
such as ought to belong to a man of a learned
profession and a gentleman, but there is nothing to
mark such a man out for persecution. There is
nothing in the duties of his office or his relative
position in society to make it the interest of any
powerful class to select him as the victim of a
conspiracy. Mr. Ramshay unhappily thought
otherwise. He went to Liverpool fully persuaded
that his predecessor had been destroyed by persecu-
tion, and he was resolved not like him to succumb or
yield to any such attacks. He had conjured up for
himself a band of moral assassins, whose every object
was to destroy an unright judge; and he fancied that
wonderful courage and ever-watchful vigilance were
required to resist their baneful machinations. His
manners were from the first not those of a man of the
world, but were abrupt, rude, and coarse. He was
easily excited to anger, and being so excited, he ex-
pressed himself in the first and least polished phrases
which the vernacular afforded. This peculiarity laid
him open to attack—in fact, invited it; and any one
who knew aught of the habits of Englishifien could
quickly have foretold that Mr. Ramshay would soon
lay himself open to imputation and assault. If a man
hesitated, he called him a fool ; if he gave an unin-
telligible answer, he asserted, without further inquiry,
that he was drunk. If Mr. Ramshay wished to state
that the Court entertained grave suspicions of
a particular person's honesty, he at once
stated that he was " a rogue," "a rascal ;"
and thus he went on from day to day
exciting himself as well as those he thus abused, till
at length the storm which every man of common
foresight must have known would come burst over
the angry judge, who was in consequence cited to
appear before his superiors. To what took place be-
fore the tribunal, if tribunal it can be called, before
which Mr. Ramshay appeared, we need not now re-
fer • enough was disclosed to show that Mr. Ramshay
ought never to have been appointed. There was
not, however, sufficient elicited to justify dismissal.
The position of Lord Carlisle was a difficult one, but
that difficulty was brought upon him by his own too
easy disposition, combined with a failing that belongs
to his party as well as himself, he and they being
always anxious to support-and forward all those who
are related to their families, or connected with them
as clients and retainers. While the mischievous
effects of such a feeling are found resulting only
from appointments to inferior positions in the public
service, people shut their eyes, or indulge in a
little useless grumbling, their displeasure for the most
part evaporating in the expression. They treat the
proceedings as a foolish weakness, being unwilling to
look upon it as a serious evil. But when the same
spirit of family patronage affects the selection of men
for high judicial office—when such extraordinary
vagaries are practised as those of which we have
lately been wondering beholders, then the public in-
dignation is fairly roused, and punishment—we use
the word advisedly.—must fall, not on the unhappy
person chosen, but upon his erring patron. Tte
person really to blame in this matter is, not Mr.
Ramshay, but Lord Carlisle. Lord Carlisle was bound
to be particularly careful in this case. A great expe-
riment was being tried in our judicial system. The
success of the new arrangements necessarily depended
upon the fitness of the judges appointed to administer
justice in the newly-framed County Courts, and a
failure in any one instance would be likely to excite
doubts, and check our advance in our lately adopted
career of legal reform. We know, indeed, that the
Administration of which Lord Carlisle forms a part
are not, and have not even affected to be, law re-
formers. But we suppose that, with some exceptions,
they are not opposed to improvement in our judicial
system, and we cannot suspect any one of them of a
desire to throw discredit upon the new plan by means
of an incompetent judge, and among the last of those
to whom we should attribute such an unworthy mo-
tive is the Noble Lord himself. His intentions, we
have no boubt, were pure, but he certainly was care-
less; he thought little of the importance of the se-
lection he was bound by his office to make, and under
the influence of this want of consideration, and a
wish to forward the son of an old client of his family,
he risked, with his eyes open, the mischief that was sure
to follow an injudicious appointment. By inquiry, if
inquiry had been needed, Lord Carlisle might have
ascertained the habits and the character of the
learned gentleman, and he would have at once dis-
covered therefrom that however estimable in other re-
spects Mr. Ramshay might be, ho was totally unfit
for the office of a judge. This want of precaution on
the part of Lord Carlisle, and his unfortunate selec-
tion, resulting from the mixed motives we have de-
scribed, deserve, and doubtless will receive, severe re-
prehension. Still, even from this most painful occur-
rence we may derive a salutary lesson. We are by
it driven to ask, why is the duty of appionting a judge
left to the discretion of the Chancellor of the Duchy
of Lancaster ? The office is one now purely poli-
tical; it is held by persons of importance to an Ad-
ministration merely, and is not conferred with any
reference to legal knowledge or peculiar ability. Lord
Carlisle is an important person in the Whig party,
endowed with many amiable qualities, but he knows
nothing of law, and must judge of legal attainments
and of a man's aptitude for the performance of judicial
duties upon hearsay, and by the opinions of others.
We have thus one man responsible, and possessing
the power of appointment, and we have another
really deciding and selecting, who, though the actu-
ally efficient person in the proceeding, is unknown
and irresponsible. Such a system ought to be altered.
One person, and one alone, ought to have the appoint-
ment of the judges of the county courts, and that
person should be the Lord Chancellor. He is, or
ought to be, a lawyer; be has passed his life in the prac-
tice of his profession ; he must, in some degree, be
acquainted with the characters and capacities of most
men practising at the bar; and he is thus from his
position able to make the right choice, and responsible
if he make an improper one. We hope, then, that
hereafter this mischievous anomaly with respect to
this important subject—this idle and foolish privilege
now belonging to the Chancellor of the Duchy o f
Lancaster—will be immediately done away with, and
that the power and duty of selection throughout the
kingdom will at ouce be imposed on the Lord Chan-
cellor, who we also hope will not, like Lord Carlisle
in the case of Mr. Ramshay, be induced by favour or
personal feelings to forego public for private ends, or
allow prejudice and partial affections to usurp the
place of duty and of reason.
DAILY I EWS,---To those who have watched the
course of public affairs in France, there is nothing so
surprising, and so mortifying to behold, as the simi-
larity, almost the sameness, indeed, of all Administra-
tions in that country. Whether the monarch reigns
by what is called legitimatist right, whether he seeks
to enforce that right with zeal, or render it palateable
by conciliation—whether the occupier of the throne
be a king elected by the choice of politicians and the
sanction of the people, or whether in fine the Govern-
ment be a republic based on universal suffrage, and
proclaiming universal rights—it all comes to the same
point; the Administration is found proceeding
ti.nnof
the
self-same path. Fear of the people, persecution
the press, the grossest infraction of individual liberty
and of every law guaranteeing it, proscription
to place
rights and practice of association, endeavour of the
the mind of the French youth i
in the keeping of the
Jesuits, and the mind of French manlioodtuhne Attor-
ney-General dread of the gaoler, the police officer, and
—these are the characteristics of every
Administration that France has seen during half a
century. No matter how liberal the statesmen who
take office—no matter how absolutist, the principle
of administration becomes the same. You may
execrate Polignac and Peyronnet, you may rejoice
at the accession to power of men so liberal and
so honest as Barrot and Faucher, yet you find the
former eager to bolster up the Pope's despotism by
the bayonets of French soldiers, and you find a severe
persecution of the press mark the Government of the

greatness of France to-morrow to any king of any
race, or of any principle, that would secure them
this monopoly. It is the same thing in Prussia, ex-
cept that the Prussian bureaucratic will not tolerate
even constitutionalism, which it considers hostile
to it; whereas French officials would at
least have the form of representative go.
vernment, although with so little of either
the reality or the advantages, that but for the
appearance of the thing they might invoke absolutism
at once. The struggle in France and in Prussia is
now much the same. It lies between the bureau-
cracies and the people, the former supported by the
army, of which the officers form a class and hierarchy
of placemen, with interests similar to the civilian
servants of the state. The people of both countries
have the satisfaction of seeing that they pay largely to
support these classes for tyrannising over them. An
aristocracy weighs over both countries, not an aristo-
cracy of either birth, wealth, or talent, but an aris-
tocracy of placemen. It is the system of centraliz
tion which supports them. And it is for the people to
devise how they can get rid of these incubi, and go.
vern themselves constitutionally and monarchically if
they will, but without an official multitude to prey
upon them and tyrannise over them. This is far more
important than to decide whether a Legitimatist, a
quasi-Legithnatist, or a Republican chief shall be the
head man—the great chef de bureau of the bureau-
cracy.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
The broad pendant of Cotnrnodore Seymour was
struck at sunset on Monday evening, on board the S.
George, 180, in Elornoozv; and the commodore pro-
ceeded on nix day s' leaved absence, in order to brit 3,
down his family. The duty of the dockyard will Kt
performed by Mr.Milis, master attendant, and that of
the ordinary by Captain Joseph Niae, CompaLion of
the Bith.
A superannuation board sat at Devonpor,t rri
MJuday, at the Commodore Superintendent's-offico,
in the dockyard, Devonport, consisting of Commodore
M. Seymour, Captain Nies, of the' St. George; the
master-attendant, Mr. Mills ; Mr. Turner, acting.
master shipwright; and Mr. Folds, surgeon, what
the whole of the men on the list returned from the
Admiralty were inspected, with a few others who are
considered worn out, and the opinion of the board was
to be transmitted to the Admiralty.
Dauntless, 33, screw-frigate, Captain Halsted, and
Sutlej, remained at St. Helen's, and were not likely
to get away yesterday, as it blew a gale with foul
weather from the westward.

Elfin royal yacht-tender, Master Commander Hol-
ston, returned to Portsmouth from Osborne yes-
terday morning.
PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—This morning all the
officers of this dockyard were personally presented
to the new Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir 'Thomas
Briggs, G.C.M.G., by Rear-Admiral Superintendent
Prescott, C. 8., at the Admiralty-house. Each officer
received a most cordial and courteous recognition from
the Port Admiral.
The Odin steam-frigate, Commander Sir William
Wiseman, will come into harbour to-morrow, to re-
sume
,her former position, in the ordinary.
The Avon steam-vessel, Master-Commander Veitich,
came into harbour this morning from the eastward,
on her return to Plymouth.
The Furious, new steam-frigate, was taken into the
Angle Dock to-day to be coppered.
The Rodney, 92, Captain Charles Graham, C.B •
is entering hands but slowly, men not being so plen-
tiful here as was supposed, and none being accepted
for this ship but fine ablebodied men.
WOOLWICH, OCT. 6.—The Resolute, Captain Ho-
ratio T. Austin, C. 8., the Assistance, Captain Eras-
mus Ommanney, and the Intrepid, Lieutenant-
Commander John B. Cater, all arrived at Woolwich,
between twelve and one o'clock to-day, and the two
sailing vessels were brought up at moorings opposite
the dockyard, while Mr. Atherton, chief-engineer;
went on board the Intrepid screw steam-vessel, and
went down the river a short distance in her, to be able
to report the state of her engines. The whole of the
vessels employed under Captain Austin in the Arctic
dExpedextition are to be paid off at this port on Thurs-
y n.
Captain Ommanney has brought home the first
relic that was found by him of the traces of Sir John
Franklin's party at Cape Riley. It appears in the
form of a rake such as is used by persons employed
in collecting seaweed. The handle is about twelve
feet long, and the gathering part about two feet six
inches long, on which six teeth have been fixed, about
five inches in length, formed of narrow hoop iron
curved inwards. Captain Ommanney has also
brought home a young man, about nineteen years
of age, of the Esquimaus tribe,
habit the country beyond Cape York, andwBh4:96.3,rri:te;
the place where the North Star wintered in
kind of
Essquirnaux youth is clothed inhitshaeb. same
gb t
;_
r.mith a
face
e-
tume as the other sailors, and PPe
good tempered and stout for
of an Asiatic cast, nearly like 08.4 of a Chinese, but
The .r.squimaux is very
very flat and more round.
Ommanney, and has been
Captain
York, the gallant officer who
namedmnchattached
Erasmus
yCoar
brought him to this country, and the name of the
cape where be came from. The charts brought home
by the respective vessels are now nearly completed,
and afford evidence of the exertions of the officers in
the execution of their arduous duties, and will add
many hundreds of miles of hitherto unexplored lands
to future maps of the Arctic regions, and many parts
only put down in haste by former naviNttors leave
been corrected by Captain Ommanney. iathtkst and
Cornwallis, both described as islands by former navi-
geors, have been found connected together, and to
the mainland, by Captain Austin's expedition.
The efficers and crews of the whole of the vessels
have returned in tolerable health, end only one man
has died since the expedition left Woolwich in June,
1850.

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PROPERTY IN GREAT 8R1TA1N,....1:110 Committee
of tue !louse of Commons, in their report on the law of part-
nership, which has, with the evidence, just been printed,
state that, in round numbers, in thirty-three years since
the peace, whilst lands in Great ➢ritain give increased
1818 only 8,500,0001. in annual value, or a little more than
5 per cent., messuages (being chiefly houses and manufac-
tories and warehouses in and near towns, and inhabited by
persons depending greatly on trade and commerce) have
augmented above 26,000,000/. in annual value, or about 30
per cent. in the same period. The value of railways, gas
works, and other property chiefly held in shares as per-
sonal property, bad increased about twelvefold in the same
period.