The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-31 00:00:00

LONDON,

on Wednesday last required him, indeed, to play the
exact notes set down for him. It was a painful task,
but ha must submit. He gave, eccordingly; " for
that time only," the whole pike as it was composed,
without omitting a semieone in the production. It
was a sad failure. Universal astonishment and dis-
approbation were expressed with a most disagreeable
emphasis. But the artist was nothing disheartened.
He set to work with his own variations, and so
changed both the theme and the expression that the
authors themselves would never have recognised
their own work. To leave the figure of speech,
our contemporary, not satisfied with the reasons
which the Cabinet had assigned for their own coup
itat (and, south to say, his dissatisfaction was
not without sense and judgment), proceeded, in his
zeal, to coin new ones of his own, which might have
been somewhat plausible had they not been flatly
contradicted by well known and simultaneous facts,
and, above all, by the authorised statement itself, in
defence of which he affected to adduce them. Almost
the entire press repudiated his invention as irrelevant.
The " history" was discussed as it was given, and his
interpolations and additions were pointed out by our-
selves and others, only as being untrue, and so, as
having nothing to do with the qua-stion. It was quite
unnecessary to enter into any controversy upon the
subject, or subjects, of the numerous, and varied, and
incongruous allegations with which we have been
favoured from day to day, as each furnishing
the reason why her Majesty's Ministers deemed
it prudent to " endanger the foreign inte-
rests of the nation at a time so unusually
critical." Those allegations were not only not
hinted at in the official, explanation, but they were
directly in contradiction to every word of it. If Lord
Palmerston was " sacrificed " (yes, " sacrifice" is the
word), as the announcement of Wednesday told us,
to please the " elder statesmen of Europe," who, it
seems, had signified that they regarded Lord Pal-
merston with " a degree of distrust and hostility,"
because he would not be their " ally " and their
" friend," surely that same "sacrifice" would not be
made, because the noble Viscount did not " suspend
diplomatic relations" with the Government of a

neighbouring country, which had not offended us.
Oae reason might have been as absurd, though not
so un-English as the other. But when both are given
out, the one on official, the other avowedly on news-
paper authority, we may be excused if we
believe that assigned by the Ministers for
their own conduct as being the true one.
Now, this is all that we have done. We have not

at all troubled ourselves or our readers with the lucu

brations of our contemporary on their own merits.
We have been at pains simply to disembarrass the

great question under- public consideration of their en

cumbrance. We have held up, and we shall continue
to hold up, to the indignant reprobation of all loyal
men, the monstrous fact, plainly stated in the offi-
cially authorised announcement of Wednesday last,
that foreign Ministers—" the elder statemen of Eu-

rope," had been permitted to dictate to the Crown
of England the " sacrifice" of its ablest responsible
adviser. Upon this point we join issue—not with
a newspaper, but with the Government, who must
answer to Parliament and to the public for having be-
smirched the honour of their country with so
foul a stain. We are not surprised that our con-
temporary is ashamed of his case, and throws up his
brief. It is nothing wonderful that he would like
to " tell the history in his own way," or to abandon
the task of telling it altogether. But the public is
interested in having the truth kept before them ; and
for our own part, we shall not be deterred from pre-
serving it intact, notwithstanding the efforts of the
most accomplished " story-teller" going. But there
is something of the sublime in the bold and daring
made of " story- telling" which our morning contem-
porary so happily describes as " his own way." He
pursues his thundering career over prostrate consis-
tency, logic, and fact, in a style which mingles
something of amusement, and even of admiration,
with our regret for the havoc he spreads around
him. He cares nothing for the destruction of his
own case, or that of his client—if he can but make
noish enough to sustain his reputation as a thunderer,
it matters nothing to him if his " f ffect" of the day
be produced by a " thundering " fact or a
" thundering" fiction. The public know " his way,"
and he does little harm by all the marvellous
" histories" which he exemplifies it by telling. But
this species of excellence cannot be successfully imi-
tated. Our evening contemporary, the Globe, should
by all means eschew it. instead of admiration, his
laborious efforts produce laughter only, and, in this
case, contempt to boot. He too, forsooth, would
smite with his tiny curse the lofty name of which Sir
Robert Peel, in the last words he addressed to Parlia-
ment, said our " country was proud." But a few
days age, and none so forward as this same Globe to
applaud, with what force he might, the statesman and
the policy he now decries ; so much, in his judg-
ment, is the difference between out and in. He
may shift his opinion and welcome. He may set his
little sail to catch what :breeze he will,—but for his
own sake alone—he can injure no one else—he should
have avoided the rock on which he last night reduced
his poor craft to an unseemly and unpitied wreck.
And the Globe has discovered that the " course
which England has to steer, neither identifying her-
self with the policy of compression" (what, in
heaven's name, is that ?) " nor the politics of despair,
is quite difficult enough, without being rendered im•
possible by being mixed up with personal tempers,
and one-sided views of a many-sided situation." He
thinks, too, that it is "in the highest degree perilous
to engage this country in any course of policy incon-
sistent with the national sentiment." But, he re-
gards "as a despicable and detestable artifice all one-
sided appeals ; and of such appeals he foresees plenty
till Parliament open, in the style of this morning's
Post." Now, whose is "the personal temper," and
whose "the one-sided views," that before the retire-
ment of Lord Palmerston, endangered the course of
England through the troubled seas over which, with
Globular taste, she is represented as sailing ? And
whose-soever they were, how does the " sacrifice" of
that statesman get rid of them ? The Globe cannot
answer this without wriing tin indelible characters
his own still deepening disgrace. He may rely upon
it that until and after " Parliament meets" we shall
continue to keep fixed before the public mind ithe
real questions on which its great decision
shall from time to time be demanded, and
the principle involved in the unexampled pro-
ceedings which have led to Lord Palmer-
ston's retirement will, by the national sentiment of
which he speaks, be stamped with the enduring in-
famy of which lie seems willing to earn his share.
For the extract from the Breslau Gazette, on which
the Globe exhausts his curious little stock of philo-
logy—does he really believe that the journal named
is published in English? and if not, is he
so ignorant as not to perceive that the phrase
on which he comments is a fair reading of
the original meaning ? But that the " words were
" written in Vienna, on the 23d inst."—the authentic
correspondence of Havas will satisfy him—and, this
fact established, the case is completed. For how was
Lord Palmerston's " sacrifice" so surely known in
the Austrian capital on the 234, when it was pub-
lished in London only on the 24th, and had actually,
taken place on the 22d instant. The perfect accor-
danceno w
eenetn rtahpehaccaunry
and the
the
article Ministerial
un
in the Times, even could its official character be
doubted. All about " Grey conspiracies" and special
domestic " intrigues" are mere inventions of the
anbceetmestthaeblpisahraesg
Globe. We repeat once more, that we have made
charges against no one in this business. We have
taken the case as the Ministry itself has stated it. It
needs no addition to recommend it to the scorn and
indignation of every true hearted Englishman, be his
politics what they may.

IRISH SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.
The success attendant on the establishment of the
submarine telegraph between England and France, has
induced the projection, by parties in connexion with the
Electric Telegraph Company, whose wires were lately
extended to the port of Holyhead, of a similar chord of
communication between England and Ireland. The
parties propose to carry it out by sinking in the first
instance a four-wire cable, the manufacture of which
has been commenced, on a somewhat similar, though
said to be improved, principle to that already down be-
tween Dover and Calais. Two of these wires are to be
for the exclusive use of Government, and two for com-
mercial and general purposes. The distance between
Molyhead and Kingstown, at which latter pleoe the
wires will connect with those on the Great Southern and
Western Railway at Dublin, Cork, and Galway, will
require upwards of sixty miles of cable, or three times
the extent of that between Dover and Calais. By this
means, when eff-cted, the communication between Eng-
land and Ireland will, like that between London and
Paris, be almost instantaneous, the communication across
the channel now occupying several hours by the fastest
strainers, which, with their mails, in rcugh weather
are oftentimes detained. The proposed establishment of
steam-packets between Galway and New York will
greatly facilitate the transmission of American news by
this agency, as compared with the route by Liverpool.
There is very little doubt but that when the wires are
laid down Englishmen and Irishmen will be able to hold
constant communication across the channel, by the pay-
ment of ls. or 6d. per message.

WEST WHEAL JEWEL MINING Ar3SOCIATION.—
A special general meeting of the shareholders of this com-
pany was held yesterday, at their offices, Old Broad-street,
at which the resolution of the Bth December, for the dissolu-
tion of the company, was confirmed; and it was also re-
solved that the directors do forthwith proceed to sell and
convert the property of the company into money; and that
such sum as shall not be required to meet the existing con-
tingencies be divided amongst the shareholders rateably, ac-
cording to the number of their shares.

DEATH 'OF SIR EDWARD DOLMAN SCOTT, BART.
—This lion. Baronet expired on Saturday last, at Great
Barr Hal Staffordshire, in his sSth year. He was the son
of the first baronet, by the daughter and heiress of Edward
Whitby, Esq., and married in 1815 the daughter of the late
Sir Hugh Bateman, Bart. Sir Edward is succeeded in the
baronetage by his eldest 8011, Sir Francis Edward Scott, born
in 1824.

WEDNESDAY EVENING,

TILE BELPER IVILTEMEIt

APPREFIENSIO OF tHE CULPRIT.

BFLPER, TUFSDAY MORNlNG.—lumiediately after
oue report left Belper last evening, the murderer,
Turner, wee captured near to his own house. The
following are the particulars :—A young man named
George Jackson, who lives in Belper-lane, about a
quarter of a mile from Turner's house, met the latter
as he was coming in the direction of Wirksworth,
about half-past seven in the evening. He felt confi-
dent it was Turner, and he walked briskly up to him.
Upon seeing bim do so, Turner got on the shady side
of the road, so; as to be out of the reflection of the
moon, which was shining very bright at the time.
Jackson wished Turner "good night," as he sus-
pected he was the man. Turner made no reply, but
went on as fast as he could, and on arriving at the end
of the lane, he jumped over a high wall, and ran across
the fields. Jackson then hastened to a public-house
near at hand, called " The Owl Inn," which is kept
by a man named \Vinson, and told the inmates that
he had seen Turner. Jackson then hastened on to
Belper, and Celled et the lock-up; but Superintendent
Wregg was not at home. He then went on to the town
office, where he arrived about five minutes past eight.
From there ho went to Mr. Sims, Tiger-inn, Belper,whet ehe found the Belper constables. He told them
what he had seen, end the pursuit was planned.
Wragg and S. Taylor, two of them, went up Bel-
per-lane towards Turner's house. When they arrived
near to Turner's house in Line-end they met a young
man named Watson, who told them that Turner had
taken refuge in his mother's house close by, and they
were afraid of harbouring him. The two constables went
into the house together, and on seeing them Turner
retreated up stairs, and made an attempt on his life by
cutting his throat with a common table knife, but the
wound was a very slight one, a ccnstable having
struck him a blow on the arm before he had time to
do himself much injury. He was immediately se-
cured, and Mr. Fyn], magistrates' clerk, just then
coming up in a light cart, he was put into it and con-
veyed to Belper lock-up, where be arrived at ten
o'clock, an immense mob being there to witness his
arrival. The populace yelled and shouted until he
had reached the interior of the building. Two of
the Belper constables remained with him about two
hours, and a third one stopped with him all night.
He was very talkative. Our reporter learnt that
since the murder was committed, Turner has said he
is not sorry for what he did, only he thinks it will be
such a shock and disgrace to his wife and adopted
child for him to be publicly executed. He would not
have done it if Mrs. Barnes had not given him the dis-
charge from collecting the rents, on Saturday last.
On being conveyed to the lock- up on Monday night,
he met a man who has succeeded him as collector of
rents, and he is stated to have said to him, "If I had
met you, I should have murdered you. I am an
honester man than you, though a murderer." We un-
derstand he expressed himself pleased that he did not
kill Mr. Bannister. He was very tired when cap-
tured, and had evidently walked a number of miles ;
he was perfectly calm and collected after his arrest.

DECEMBER 31, 1851.

TRIAL TRIP of the CLARENCE STEAMER.
(From the Liverpool Standard ci yesterday.)
Yesterday we had the pleasure of witnesing the
trial trip of a new steamer of 380 tons burden, the
Clarence, built by by Ir. Laird, for the Clarence
River Company of Australia, of which Mr. Lambert
—a gentleman extensively connected with the General
Se.rew Steam-ship Company—is the agent in this
town, which is intended to ply in the coasting trade,
with passengers and produce, wool, &c., between the
Clarence River and Sydney. For this trade the
great requirements were a light draught of water,
strength, and currying powers—speed not being so
much regarded. Yet Mr. Laird has not only supplied
the former in his model, but has furnished at the
same time a vessel which, as tested yesterday, com-
bines very great speed with her other indispensable
qualities. The Clarence is an iron ship, fttrongly
built, with a good breadth of beam, as may be in-
ferred from what we have already said as to carrying
capabilities being a leading desideratum. She has a
poop deck, and very neat cabin arrangements, both
fore and ofr, capable of accommodating about forty
passengers, and leaving ample room for stowage of
cargo. Her precise dimensions are as follow :--
Length ••• ••• 150 feet.
Beam ••• ••• 23 feet.
Tonnage... 380 tons old measurement.

She is calculated to curry about 250 tons of measure,
ment goods ; and, with her coals, engine, and cargo,
to draw from 7 to 71 feet. Her coals, which
we have stated at 90 tons in her engine-room, it is
estimated will carry her 2,000 miles. Her require-
ments however in her regular trade, when she reaches
her destination in Australia, will only be for about
800 miles, thus leaving an ample allowance for bad
weather, and the inferior quality of coal which she
will have to use. In making this estimate of her
consumption of coal which, as experienced yesterday,
is only about nine cwt. an hour, which will appear a
small consumption to those who are acquainted with
steam navigation, it is proper to inform our readers
that the Clarence yesterday consumed a description of
coal from the Coed Talon Mine, in North Wales,
which is only beginning to be introduced to this lo-
cality.

This coal is supplied from the Coed Talon and
Leesewood collieries, near Mold, North Wales, which
extend over 1,200 acres, and were opened about 30
years ago. They form part of the Flintshire coal-
field, the main seam of which is nine feet thick, and
surrounded by 50 other beds of coal and form of iron-
stone. The Coed Talon coal, from its flaky texture,
speedily disintegrates into flat masses, burning with
little intumescence, and scarcely any tendency to ag-
glatination. This property allows a free passage to
the air, favours rapid combustion, and causes the
exhibition of an exceedingly brilliant light. Its
prompt and rapid action adapts it in a remarkable
manner for the consumption of steam-vessels, while
its great size and strength render it peculiarly suit-
able for bearing transportation, and resisting the
effects of a warm moist temperature. It tells to great
advantage in tubular boilers, keeping the tubes very
clean and free from soot. Besides being on the list of
coals taken by the British Admiralty for the use of the
Government steamers, it is included in the Hon. East
India Company's contracts, and used extensively by
the American steamers running between New York
and Chagres, by the Austrian Lloyds', the Brazilian,
and the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Companies, all of whom speak highly of its qualities
for steam purposes. The collieries are about 30 miles
from Birkenhead, the port of shipment, and the coal is
delivered in railway waggons direct from the pit's
mouth, thus avoiding all breakage and loss of weight
from change of carriage.
On a previous trial trip of this steamer, of five
hours' sailing, with the same coal, not a particle of
clinker was found to adhere to the bars, and, on this
occasion, they were observed to be perfectly clean.
The engines have been put hi by Messrs. Fawcett
and Preston, of this town, and do high credit to those
well-known makers. In fact, they have on this oc-
casion surpassed all their previous efforts, and pro-
duced a model, which, we trust, will attract to Liver-
pool once more a trade which, a while ago, we thought
with others was deserting us. They are side lever
engines with tubular boilers. The cylinders are 42
inches in diameter. The stroke is 4 feet 6; and new,
and, of course, stiff as the machinery is, they attained
during the trip yesterday a speed of 25 storkes per
minute, which, it is expected, will reach 28 strokes, as
the vessel had steam to spare during the whole of the
time, and worked most of it with the furnace doors
only half closed. Her wheel is 19 feet in diameter ;
and she carries 90 tons of coal in the engine-room.
The nominal power of the two engines is 120 horse ;
and, with water in the boilers, their weight does not
exceed 15 cwt. per horse power. This is attributable
to the mode of fixing, which can only be adopted
in iron built vessels. The working parts are of
wrought iron ; they are bedded upon the
iron kelsall of the ship, and the frames
built in upon the iron beams of the ship, thus saving
all necessity of stays, and at the same time, from
the rigidity of the beams to which they are atts,ched,
producing less vibration than we ever experienchd in
any other steamer. In appearance below the engines
resemble more the skeleton movements of a watch, as
compared with one of the old cumbrous construction,
than anything else we can liken them to. The
vacuum of the condenser is from 27i to 28 inches.
The Clarence started on her trial trip from her
moorings in the Sloyne about 10.30, and proceeded
down the river, part of the time at half-speed, to the
Rock Lighthouse, which we passed at 56 minutes
past 10. From this point her time was as follows :
h. in.
Crosby Lightship ll 21
Formby Lightship
Bell Buoy ll 56
makings distance a nine knots and two-thirds in an
hour, with an adverse tide of a knot and a half part of
the trip, equal to a performance of 124- to 13 miles an
hour. From the Bell-buoy she steamed to the north•
west lightship, three and three-quarter knots in
20 minutes. The course was gone back again in
about the same time • and again to the lightship in a
little under 20 minutes, making the mean speed upon
the three trips of 13 miles per hour. It must be taken
into consideration that the vessel, whilst achieving so
gratifying a result to both her owners, her builders,
and the constructors of her engines, was not at all in
the state in which she is intended to sail when ar-
rived at her destined location, being at present
heavily sparred for the voyage out, the greater part
of which she will have to make under sail.
One of the most gratifying characteristics of the
Clarence we observed during this trial trip. Although,
as we have already observed, built with an eye to
strength, light draft of water, and carrying powers,
her lines below are beautiful, and particularly so in
the bows. These have a fine hollowing ; and hence
she makes no headwater, throwing it off her, in fact,
from her cutwater, and again from the lower part
of her bows, so that her wheels strike solid water,
instead of, as in some steamers, the top of a wave
of her own making. This feature was especially
remarked upon by her future Commander, Captain
Wiseman, as an evidence that not an atom of her
power was liable to be thrown away. As a proof of all
her capabilities being made to tell in moving through
the water, she leaves behind her, instead of a wake
like some vessels, scarcely a ripple.
This fine vessel is advertised to sail shortly for
Sydney, under the command of Captain Wiseman,
who has euperintended her fitting out, and will, we
have no doubt, handle to the satisfaction of his
owners, and of whatever passengers may accompany
him, a vessel of which he has every reason to be proud.

OPINION OF THE FRENCH GOVERN-
MENT ON LORD PALMERSTON.
The lithograped correspondence of Haves, which is
a more than semi-official correspondence, as it is sent
to every Prefect in France by the Minister of the In-
terior, in lieu of daily dispatch, and which is sent to
a most every French newspaper throughout the length
aid breadth of the country, and to most foreign Go
vernments and newspapers, contain the following ay-
preciation of the conduct of Lord Palmerston towards
the French Government. It says—
" The Ministerial revolutions which are accom
plished on the other side of the Channel escape our
complete appreciation, as we are not competent to de-
termine the system or the man best suited to the hu-
mours or the interests of our neighbours. It is for
the Queen, the Parliament, the press, and the people
of the three kingdoms to discuss and to decide on
questions which may affect the composition of Ca-
binets. Such questions are purely English, of which
we, Frenchmen, should speak with great reserve,
under pain of falling into gross errors, such as those
of the Times, when it takes upon itself to judge of the
acts and the policy of our Government.
4‘ We will not, then, mix ourselves up in the dis-
pute that has arisen amongst the London journals
respecting the retirement from office of Lord Pal-
merston. But as that Minister held the portfolio cf
foreign affairs we have no scruple in offering the tet-
timony of France concerning the relations of our Go-
vernment with the chief of the Foreign-office.
" What we can affirm on.this point is, that the Go-
vernment of the President of the Republic has neva
had reason to complain of Lord Palmerston;
him.merston; on the
contrary, often it has had canse to praise
" The affair of Greece,whichwason the
marvellous
of
setting Europe on fire, was settled with a
as much to the loya condescension of
Lfacoe
duelmerston as to the firmness of our Govern-
mylla
On all occasions, we must say, the English
Minnrilditi. stter has acted towards the Government of France
in the most noble and straightforward manner, and of
the violent and quarrelsome character which some
Governments wrongly or rightly attribute to him, no
trace can be found during the last three years in his
relations with France.
"Endowed with superior intelligence, amounting
almost to second-sight, Lord Palmerston had foreseen
the great events which have snatched France from the
abyss of anarchy, and he received with lively and un-

disguised sympathy the rct of the 21of December•
This testimony, nndered by one .of,,,,the-thoste-en-
lightenrrd s'atestnen of Eerope to the-wisdom- of ihoe-
re,..olution'a of the Peince Presidkeit,: does honourjfie, our eye 7, to the English Mini Oct:, and
regret which his retirement causes Use - • `..e
adds„ to Ike -r
" We do not attribute to Lord G;anig,e ihija itiena;
less amicable with regard to France: Ltird.Dranville.
has lived for a long time at Peris.7;kyßtgllfe,mretieA. • a French lady. He is fond of our couriti-y, 'ailinhe
speech which he made here on the occasion of the
Exhibition Ples proves a lively desire to draw closer
the bonds which have united the two peoples. The
new Minister, then, will be for France a sincere and
true friend, such as Lord Palmerston was. But we
were not willing at the time of Lord Palmerston's
quitting the political scene to follow the ill example
of some of our journals, and refuse to him our marked
sympathy. This testimony will not fail Lord Gran-
ville, if one of those political crises, so frequent
amongst our neighbours, Should deprive him of the
portfolio which his Sovereign has just confided to him."

BANIEIOF FRANCE.

The following is a return of the situation of the Bank
France on Dec. 25: