The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-23 00:00:00

GERMANY

SHIP LAUNCH AT ST. PETER'S.
A beautiful first-class vessel, intended for the Indian
passenger trade, was launched on Thursday last from
the building yard of Messrs. T. and W. Smith, at St.
Peter's quay, near this town. The day was most pro-
pitious, and a vast crowd assembled to witness the in-
teresting proceedings. Although not so large as some of
her predecessors, yet for beauty of model and warlike
bu
appearance, she surpasses them all; she is frigate-
ilt, being bored for 32 guns, with her timber and
fastenings all adapted for warlike service, should it be
required to change her peaceful occupation. Her di-
mensions are—Extreme length, 197 feet 4 inches ; gun
deck, 171 feet ; breadth, 38 feet 4 inches. The Hot-
spur, for such is the memo this excellent and splendid
vessel now bears, forms the thirteenth in the list
of the splendid vessels built by, and under the
ownership of the same firm, in the order under-men-
tioned :—Kestrel, 450 tons; Ostrich, 500 tons ; Pekin,
600 tons ; Colombo, 700 tons ; Duke of Argyle, 800
tons; Plantagenet, 850 tons; Bucephalus, 1,050 tons;
Ellenborongh, 1,100 tons; Gioriana, 1,000 tons; Tudor,
1,150 tons; Marlooroug'n, 1,400 tons; Blenheim, 1,500
tons; Hotspur, 1,142 tons. The two first of these, with
other small but well-known Indiainen, which have
cee,,,ed to be the pr)perty of Messrs. Smith, were built
at North Shields. The remainder, of which the Hotspur
was the last, were built at St. Peter's. The keel of
the Hotspur was laid down in July, 1848, immediately
after the launch u the Blenheim, and care has been
tak..n that in the seasoning of the timber, the run of
her lines, and her interior fittings should entitle her to
the claim of being one of the best specimens of naval ar-
chitecture that has:been constructed in the dockyards of
the Tyne. Before the vessel left the stocks the public were
afforded an opportunity of inspecting her, and hundreds
availed themselves of the privilege so kindly and con-
side-ately gran.ed by the Messrs. Smith. About half-
pfiet four o'clock, the tide being then at its highest, the
shipwrights began to drive the wedges, so as to ease the
blocks, which were then speedily removed. The last
remaining support having been knocked away, the
noble vessel rested for a moment on its slippery way
to undergo the christening ceremony, which was
admirably performed by the lady of Captain Joseph
Toynbee, the commander, breaking the brandy bottle
across the bows, and then she glided away majes-
tically into the aqueous element, amidst the firing
of cannon, and the cheers of an immense concourse of
spectators. A platform was erected in the dockyard for
a select company of ladies and gentlemen, who after the
ceremony partook of refreshments provided for the oc-
casion; and throughout the afternoon, which was re-
markably fine, Messrs. Hawks and Crawshay's band
pLyed a number of popular airs. It is intended to rig
the Hotspur with all possible dispatch, so that she may
in Jaly next depart from Gravesend ou her first voyage
to Indis.—Newcastle 'Journal.

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TRANSPORTATION TO VAN DIEMEN'S
L A AIL
The following is a copy of a petition to Parliament on
this subject:—
The humble petition of the undersigned merchants, trad-
ing with the British coleny of Van Dit•anen's Laud,
and others coenected with the said colony,
Respectfully sheweth—
That the colon) of Van Diemen's Land having, in the
year 1840, been made the sole receptacle of convicts
sentenced to transportation, a most fearful state of things
was engendered in the said colony, to the great dismay
of the colonists, and the scandal of the nation at large;
and that it wee accerdinaly determined, during the ad-
ministration of the late fS.'ir Robert Peel, to establish a
new aatlemcnt in Northern Australia for the reception
of effsnders.
_ That the administration which followed Sir Robert
Peel's resolved to arrest the formation of the settlement
of Neth eauatralia, and to suspend the transportation of
convicts to' Van Diemen's Land for two years; and
afterwards, apparently on profound reflection, they de-
termined eabolish transportation altogether to V
Die,en's Land, and tothaeddopt. a syste:nof secondary
n
punishment, of whiec,hfrenderi.stiinnguishing features were
the punishreeet of
penitentiaries in this
wide country, and their subsequent
dispersion through
various colonies of the ems
ire.
That her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
the Colonies accordingly
advisedthoLi,.
nt-
Governor of Van Diem( n's Lard, on the sth of Fetebrnuaay,
184.7, that it was not intended to revive transportatiron, t, that colony at the expiration of the two years for
which it had been decided that, it should be discontinued;
and that the Lieutenant•Gorernor announced this in-
struction to the Legislative Council of the colony in the
following words :
" I take the earliest opportunity of bringing before
you the decision of her ftlejesta '3 Government, that
transportation to Van Diemen's Land shall not be re-
sumed at the expiration of the two years for which it
has already been decided that it is to be discontinued.
lier Majesty's Government, in coming to this determi-
nation, have acted in accordance with the expressed
hes of a large proportion of the free inhabitants of
the colony."
And. fures tt,
. erraore that the said Lieutenant-Governor,
"
tar 20. h of AugUst, 1847, in a dispatch to the Secre-
the ry ,
revi
6.. State, warned her Majesty's Government against
in these
v:lnrodtstransportation to the colony in any form,
" -trans A
bs her Majesty's Government have decided that
has porteenation
i
r!'
to cease, and as that decision
put.)l
Ido not lelY made known in the colon
that it would be possiblye,
COnSide
or desirable, to
in my dispatch, cailr out the suggestions contained
bey se fullyportion of the eonicaa',.2it 83. The feelings of a large
position which has enlisted iu the op-
how raisedt to the convicts ystem
here, that any attempt
up,o,nrevive the system, in any
form, would be looked
noby them as a breach of
faith, and would cause, I have
tility which would be very emblotit, feelings of hos- i
amassing to the Govern-
ment."
That, in the year 1848, her aaaj„tv,
4 Government,
continue
notwithstanding its promises,resalyed to
have' and
'transportation of convicts to Van Diemen's
Land • the
that the great body of transported offendere
sent to the said colony ever since.
That, between the year 1840 and the present tim
petitioners have heard and believe that no less thaen,
.30,000 convicts have been sent to Van Diemen's Lam;
p
that upwards of 12,000 free people have, inconsequence,
been driven forth from the colony, to seek homes and
employment eleewhere; and that, by the census of the
00100 y, taken in 1848, it would appear that three-fourths
of the adult population were, or had been, convicts—a
Proportion which, it is believed, has since increased.
~
e, this revival - That the colonists are in a state of the utmost discon-
xeta
al' trans p
, -• ortation, in the face of the
Pledges Of herher
Nbliajesty's Government,‘. as solemnly an-
noneeed ay
and clergy, the ajesty's representative. That. bishop.
members of the ministers of various denominations,
rents, and thanaislature, magistrates, merchants, p
guar
children, and I
the respectable free or. behalf' of their ,
stations, have over People generally, of all ranks and )
over, le various petitions to her i Majesty the queen, anda
cr your Honourable moettiLeards Spiritual and Temporal,
credible wrongs done to the, prayed relief against the in-
portation of criminals to vaTnbic,37 the continued trans-
ijien's Land, and that ,
the pledges of her Majesty',
overnment should at I
lenevh be honourably fulfilled.
1,1)3t, finally', the women of the colon h
dresstd her most gracious Majesty the (Yileaeve lately ad-
to her eympstbies bas a mother as Well iis .1),
sovereign appealing
the
of a great etniei; e.
That, neverehelese, her Majesty's GOYbrnMeUt still
persist in sending large numbers of convicts, to Cho '
said
celony.
That, unhappily, a feeling of hostility to the free colo-
Lists seems to be arising in the minds of some
of the
cenvict classes iu the said colony; who, falsely, no doubt,
Govern;
went, certain statements of her Majesty's
aroverns
went, appear to regard the colony as theirs, and the
free colonists as intruders.
That, with the discontent of the colonists on the one
hand at what, in the language of their governor, they
moat inevitably regard as a breach of faith, and the
4waiik,sp9ratlon of the convict clasasa on the other, your
petitt4uera entertain the most serious epprellenii°l23 that '

There was a dangerous flood at Vienna on the 13th,
which destroyed all the bridges but one.
Eight hundred copies of the supplement to the
Allgemeine Zeitung have been seized by the police in
Munich, and confiscated. The authorities acted on
instructions sent from Stuttgard by telegraph, and
were waiting for the packages, of whose contents
they were quite aware before they arrived. It is
stated that the zeal of the police has on this occasion,
for the first time, been rebuked by a high personage,
without whose knowledge the seizure was made, and
who was thereby deprived of his usual morning paper.
The cause of the confiscation is not given.
In Wiesbaden the police are also busy, but as re-
formers of the bad manners that have been introduced
since the revolution. A custom has grown up of
wearing the hat in the pit of the theatre in the pauses
between the acts, especially by the visitors from
mayence, who are losing much of their German
formality in trifl4s. On two occasions the offenders
have been officially called to order, and warned of the
breach of decorum.
The Treasury of Baden has brought a formal ac-
tion against the widow of Bii'lning, one of the leaders
of the insurrection, executed in 1849, to recoverinz a
sum of several millions of gulden,with
of one million, as the amount of the damagae sustained by the Treasury of the Duchy during the revolt.
That the widow can pay any part of it is out of the
question.
The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung has the follow-
ing paragraph, probably one of the last that will ap-
pear, on the Dresden Conferences :
" After their formal close they will be forgotten as a
total failure, and the re-organization of Germany will
immediately be discussed at Warsaw by the Monarchs
in person, and the Presidents of their respective Ca-
binets. All the agitation, labour, and exchange of notes
has only led to the recognition of the old Constitution
and the old Diet as the basis and body of the political
system. The reforms, improvements, and innovations
lie still veiled in the deepest obscurity of the future, and
will first become visible in the second half of the present
month. Perhaps conditions may be made in 'Warsaw
that may favour one State at the cost of another; now
is the right moment for Prussia to beware, lest under
the appearance of an increase of power over the small
States it is not itself placed in the rank of secondary
powers."

SERVIA.
A misunderstanding is said to have arisen between
the Porte and the Servian
Government. The Porte
asserts that the insurrection in Turkish Croatia has
been aided and abetted by Servia.

DEATH OF AN INDIAN CHIEF.
Da-o-ne ho-ga-weh, a Chief of the S?necas, died at
Tonawanda, in this state, on Friday of last week. This
chief was generally known among the whites by the
name of John Blacksmith. He was a most determined and
fearless defender of the rights of his brethren against the
encroachments of the " pale faces," and his name may
be found to several important treaties at Wash-
ington. He was always a zealous opponent of the land
speculators, and frequently came in contact with them
in eourts of justice, and we believe on one or two occa-
sions actually forced some of them to leave the Indian
territory. Ho was strictly temperate in his habits,
and was regarded by the Six Nations as their greatest
chief since tho death of Red Jacket. According to
the customs of the red men, a runner was dispatched
to the Six Nations, consisting of the Oneidas, Onon-
dagas, Tuscaroras, Mohawks, Cayugas, and Senecas,
with intelligence of the death of their great chief. The
runner to the Onondaga nation passed through this city
on Monday last, and on approaching the Council-house
of the Onondagas raised the cry of lament,
which was understood by the tribe, who hap-
pened to be assembled in the Council-house at
the time. A messenger was dispatched to meet the
runner, who was still some distance from the
Council-house. ()n meeting the runner, the Onondaga
(who understood, from the peculiar cry, that he was the
bearer of bad news) addressed a faw words to him in
the Indian dialect, of which the following is said to be
a eirrect translation:—" Let it come forth, that our
minds may also drop down." The sad noses was
then communicated to the Onondaga, and the two
preueded to the Council-house, where a large number
of the natives were assembled, and all the particulars
of the sad intelligence communicated to them
by the runner. A string of black beads (the token of
the death of a great chief), which is always carried by
the bearer of the mournful news, was then passed from
hand to hand round the council, and other tokens of
mourning were exhibited. The occasion was of great
interest, as the chief whose death they were called on to
lament was universally beloved and esteemed by the Six
Nations over whom he exercised authority. We
learn that his place will bo filled next fall, when the
Onondagas are entitled to officiate at the ceremony of
crowning the new chief. We learn, also, that on Mon-
day next a chief of the Onondagas will be crowned at
their Council-house in the place of one who died in
March last.—Onondaya Standard.

CITY SEIVER:S COMMISSION.
On Tuesday a Court was held, Deputy Peacock in
the chair.
In answer to an inquiry from one of the Commis-
sioners, it was stated by the surveyor, Mr. Haywood,
that he (the surveyor) did not consider that the wood
pavement in Bartholomew-lane and Lothbury was at all
dangerous. The report of the inspector for the district
was then read, on which
Mr. MORTIMER, the inspector, stated that the wood
pavement in Bartholomew-lane and Lothbury had been
altered, repaved, and made gool, and that by that day it
had been finished by the patentee, Mr. Carey, of Great
Guildford-street, Southwark. The work, it was stated,
had been completed within fourteen days from its com-
mencement. The former blocks have been laid within
tea years ago by the patentee.
Several personal applications were then heard.
APPOINTMENT OF AN ASSISTANT CLERK TO THE COM.
SIONERS.
In answer to a reference made by the court to the
General Purposes Committee a short time since, it wces
reported by the chiet clerk that six persona had been se-
lected as fit to perform the duties. The following are
their names:—Mr. William Jolly, of Mr. Temple's office,
Guildhall; Mr. Josiah Crook, son of the contractor for
the sewers; Mr. H. Blake, son of one of the commis-
sioners of sewers; Mr. Pearson, nephew of the city so-
licitor; Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Richmond.
On the motion of Deputy HARRISON, Mr. Crook's son
was declared to be ineligible, he being the son of a con-
tractor to the Commissioners.
Exception was also taken to Mr. Blake's son and to
Mr. Pearson, the former being the clerk to a member
of the Court, and the latter being the nephew of the
City Solicitor. Both these propositions were, however,
overruled, and the names allowed to be retained.
Mr. 11. L. TAYLOR then moved a resolution, of which
due notice had been given, to the effect that the election
of an Assistant-Clerk be postponed until inquiries had
been made into the necessity for such a step being taken,
and whether the Assistant-Clerk was likely again to be
fit to perform his duties. If he did so, he (Mr. Taylor)
thought such an appointment unnecessary.
After a long discussion, the CHAIRMAN said there was
no doubt that the Assistant-Clerk was convalescent, and
that they had better agree to adjourn the appointment
of an Assistant.—Agreed to.—Adjourned.

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BRITISH LADIES' FEMALE EMIGRANT
SOCIEI I;
On Wednesday the second annual meeting of this so-
ciety was held at the Hanover-square Rooms; the Earl
of Harrowby in the chair.
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that
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The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said
s icnogl o neifile sti, land
ldp 0 s Constitutef n t tuhreo pa-
em-
pires. It was true that some abuses had occurred
upon the passage outwards ; but the object of this
society was to protect the female passengers from insult-
ing danger. This was done by the selection of religious
and moral matrons, who were generally appointed by the
Government, and by providing the female emigrants
with suitable employment on the voyage. The society
required support and sympathy, the more particularly at
present, when emigration was greatly upon the increase.
It appeared, from the report, that the society had from
its commencement proposed to itself four objects:—
" 1. To establish homes for the reception of the female
emigrants, where they may be instructed and prepared,
prior to their leaving their netive country. 2. To pro-
vide visitation at the ports, where the emigrants are
formed into industrial classes, and supplied with means
for their instruction and employment during the voyage,
through the agency of the visiting committees. 3. To
secure the appointment of judicious and efficient matrons
for the superintendence of the young women on the
voyage, through the agency of the matrons' committee.
4. To form corresponding societies in the colonies for
the protection and assistance of the female immigrants
on their arrival.
" Daring the past year twelve matrons have been ac-
cepted by her Majesty's Colonial Land and Emigration
Commissioners, and five by the Committee of the Female
Emigration Fund, on the recommendation of the matrons'
committee. From many of these letters have been re-
ceived, and others may be now daily expected. The com-
mittee are anxious to have a supply of matrons in readiness,
that they may have leisure to prepare for their duties
before they sail. Such matrons as are approved by the
committee, while waiting their appointment, meet the
secretary weekly, to go through a course of religious
reading, such as they will find useful with the female
emigrants, and also to arrange the needlework which
will be committed to their charge during the voyage.
" The following briefly shows the state of the finances
for the present year:—From April, 1850, to April,
1831--Total receipts by annual subscriptions, 308/. 4s.
2d.; donations, 360/. 14s. 6d.; collections, 621. 55.; ba-
lance remaining from last year, 405/. 19s. 4d. Total,
A 1,1371. 3s. Expenditure,2 8111. 12s. 6d. Balance in band,
pril, 1851, 5/. 10 ;. 10:1."
The report was adopted, and after the passing of reso-
lutions in favour of continued support being extended
to the society, the meeting separated.