The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-21 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS CF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The retirement of Mr. Justice Patteson
from the judgment seat which he has so long adorned
is a great public loss. We rejoice, for the sake of
this learned and upright magistrate, that he abandons
the judicial bench with unimpaired faculties and—
but for one infirmity—in the full vigour of his bodily
powers. It is, however, et painful reflection that tor
many years to come he might have rendered gcod
service to the profession and to the public. The trade
of a judge,
like any other, must be slowly learnt if it
would be fully mastered. It is not the ecutest lawyer
nor the most eloquent advocate who makes the best
judge. There is no Royal need to the exercise of
the judicial faculty in the highest degree. A re-
markable union of sound common sense and intellectual
vigour educed by industry and chastened by experi-
ence is the best qualification for the judge. We make
no mention of honesty of purpose, for, happily, all
question of wilful corruption is merely traditional
among the presiding magistrates in Westminster-
ball. It is not often that all these qualities have
been united in one person to so remarkable a de-
gree as in the eminent man, who is shortly about to
vacate his seat upon the' bench. If not possessed of
that glowing imagination which lest warmth to the
flights of many of our forensic rhetoricians—if some-
what careless of extreme, subtlety and of mere fine-
spun deductions, the mind of Mr. Justice Patteson
has always shown itself evenly balanced—always
true to itself. The efforts of counsel to lead him
astray from the substantial point at issue have invari-
ably failed in their effect. A sophism, however inge-
niously stated, was to him merely irrelevant. So
clearly did he appear to see the real bearings of a case
that he could scarcely be brought to appreciate the
merits of a false view. There are not wanting
judges in Westminster-hall at the present moment
who rejoice to meet an advocate in the field of dia-
lectics, and to pierce him with his own rapier. Such
was not the practice with Mr. Justice Patteson. He
cook! or would do nothing more than meet the
ingenious sophisms of counsel with simple truth,
with one of those brief statements which appear so
obvious when once uttered, but which yet are
uttered so seldom. It would be in the highest degree
incorrect to attribute this high judicial facility, how-
ever instinctive it might appear, to the mere gift of
nature. It was natural, no doubt, in the learned
judge of whom we are speaking; but it had been
carefully cultivated by the industry of half a cen-
tury—some forty years of which had been spent in
the study and practice of, the law—and upwards of
twenty years upon the judicial bench. We are con-
fident the opinion of the profession will bear us out
when we say that there _never sat in Westminster-
hall a judge more soundly versed in the principles of
the common law than Mr. Justice Patteson. The
rules of practice, too, were 'as familiar to him as the
general spirit of English law, and in his hands were
applied in a reasonable manner to the progress of a
case. If we follow him into the Crown Courts we
find him still acting with‘lihe same moderation and
good sense—inflexibly jest, and yet leaning ever
to the side of mercy arid humanity where it was
possible without a dereliction of duty. We appeal
to the recollection of all tpractitioners whether in
chambers, on circuit, or ate Westminster-hall, if it be
not true that, with a good cause in hand, they would
have earnestly sought, and with a bad one they would
have studiously avoided, the judgment of Mr. Justice
Patteson. It would be übfair to omit all mention of
that genial good humour and constant amenity of dis-
position which rendered practice before him so easy
and agreeable to the feelings of a gentleman. This
unvarying sweetness of eemper in all probability
helped to maintain that peffect balance of mind which
was one of his most strikink characteristics, and pro-
cured for him universal goodwill. The consciousness
of a well-spent life and the Society and affection of his
friends must henceforth bathe chief consolation of his
retirement. For ourselveet we would add our humble
tribute of respect to the general voice, and express
our hope that it may please Providence to grant many
years of tranquillity and,enjoyment to so excellent a
man at the close of so honourable a career.
ADVEIITISER.—Wbat's in the wind ? There
is something. It is not for nothing that the Marquis
of Granby comes forward to stutter through a speech
on Protection, of an houi and half's duration. That
deed the Noble Lordperfermed at Waltham, in Leices-
tershire, on Friday last.: We do not envy those whose
destiny it was to listen to an hour and a half of the sort
of eloquence in which he deals. Hard, indeed, was
their fate. The very fact of the Noble Marquis being
announced to play the principal part on the occasion,
had the effect of causing what in histrionic phraseology,
would be called a thin hohse. It deterred many from
" being present on the occasion," who otherwise would
have given their countenance to the annual meeting of
the Waltham Agricultural Association. If those who
stayed away were legitimate subjects of congratula-
tion, those who were present were, by every acknow-
ledged rule of logic, objects of compassion. They
themselves felt that they were so. They appeared, the
reporter tells us, "moody and discontented." We
do not wonder at it. Tne matter' for marvel would
have been had it been otherwise. They had, on this
particular occasion, peculiar causes of depression In
addition to the dejection consequent on the lowness of
prices, they had the fear of the Marquis of Granby's
speech of one hour and a half before their eyes—a
fear which the event too-surely realised. That any
body of men, with such an infliction hanging
in ter-
rorem over their heads, Could have looked aught else
than " moody and discontented '' would have been a
moral impossibility. With such a prospect before
them, the most cheerful must have looked sad—the
most light-hearted must have felt depressed. The
fact of wheat being at 375.
Gd. per quarter could
not, for a moment, be compared, in •its depressing
effect, with the certainty of a long harangue from the
Noble Marquis being about to be inflicted on them.
And if the mere anticipation caused so much moodi-
ness and discontent, what must have been the feelings
of the Noble Lord's auditory when they came to en-
counter the reality ? If they looked so moody and
discontented before,
what must have been the ex-
pression of their countenances when the noble orator
was in the very midst of his address? Then,
indeed, there must have been seen such an assem-
blage of lugubrious countenances as were never
before grouped together under similar circum-
stances. But our business is with the Noble Mar-
quis, and not with his Waltham auditory. What,
we again ask, is in the wind ? The question, to our
apprehension, admits of an easy answer. We all
know that there has been more than a month a va-
cancy in the Protectionist leadership. Disraeli abdi-
cated his functions as the Protectionist champion, in
his Aylesbury speech. Lor4 Granby, there can be
no doubt, is aspiring at the vacancy thus created. It
is no secret, that he was ambitious of the honour,
when Lord George Bentinck was snatched away by
the hand of death from the Protectionist party. But
he had then a far too formidable rival in the person
of the Member for Bucks. The latter was chosen, by
general consent, the Protectionist chief, and now that
he has resigned the office a successor must be ap-
pointed. The Noble Marquis, in these circumstances,
is again in the field, and certainly with greater
chances of success, than on the former occasion.
Then he had Disraeli to compete with. Now he
has no man of greater calibre, or of higher preten-
sions, than Mr. George Frederick Young. This
is the origin of the Waltham oration of the
Nobleehvt ti Marquis. He aspires at the vacant leader.
p
the speech in question has in effect
a
candidature. We leave the matter to be
t
with such a leader, it is not for us to utter a word
ssiowledeadnbdhes inw een him and them. if they are satisfied
of dissent. The address of the Noble Marquis
Of course, we
makes no pretensions to reasoning. So far we have
rl'ae'npitelhyenhdinied. with predictions.
absence
.of arguments, Lord
thats
spee.c
hl
wasl
to arguments which
a pro-
phetic
Lord's previous efforts
have deterred him from re-
newinglt might have been supposed the e success
shall Glyn
hoereractenai
ebnun yosoaettdddubeoresafeel expected
controversysx. Icitatebdtehetaon prophecies. _
in the same way would
Those who talk in this way
the attempt:
speak without reflection. What was he to do? Any
which has attended the Noble
a storm. The Noble Marquis
port, say the sailors,
do something.
was so circumstanced, that he must
And as playing the prophet was the only resource
"t would be ungenerous to blame
open to him, I
him for what he has done. Argument was out of
the- question. To argue is not the vocation of the
Noble Marquis; but to was deal in predictionsquite
abilities, as it
within the sphere of his a.would
be within the sphere of any man who—just
could string a
score or two of sentences together. Had the Mar-
quis of Granby attempted to reason his audience
would at once have perceived his unfitness for the
task. They would, in their own minds, have replied
to his arguments as
fast as be used them, if, for cour-
tesy's sake, anything he advanced must have been
called by that name. But to speculate in prophecies
was a safe adventure. Be his predictions what they
might, there was not a man among his "moody and
discontented" auditory who could have got up and
not, one and all, be sooner
affirmed that they would _
or later fulfilled. The Noble Mull is, Marquis therefore,
entitled to credit for having displayed some tact in re-
sorting to prophecy, instead of attempting argument.
But why venture his predictions
through the medium
of foreigners, instead of boldly hazarding
them him-
self ? Lord Granby can hardly be said to have spoken
at all in his own person. He played the orator on
this occasion through means of others. He called in
the aid of M. Thiers. And when he could
serve his purpose no longer, he laid violent hands
on an obscure American, named Greasy—a
before heard of by one out of ten thousand of our
readers. But last, and worst of all, the Noble
Marquis was compelled to resort to one of the most
worthless and disreputable of all living authorities—
that of the New York Herald—in his anxiety to make

LESSONS IN FRENCH. On an entirely Novel
• and Simple Plan. John Cassell.
There is something very noble, and even affecting,
in the ardour with which some of the most gifted
men have aided the caue of education by their ele-
mentary writings. Of this we have had innumerable
instances afforded us by intellects of every imaginable
class and magnitude, from the coarse but vigorous
capacities of Cubbett to the vast and comprehensive
genius of the Emperor Napoleon. Among the la-
bouring ranks of the English community the grammar
of Cobbett has long since risen to the position of a
familiar favourite having at one period enjoyed a pe-
culiar and wide-spread popularity. Few, however,
are at all acquainted with that masterly composition
in wiaiah the great Napoleon sketched out the system
he desired to be adopted in the instruction of his son,
the King of Rome—a document which it would be
well for those who are at present unacquainted with
it to examine in the work in which it has been
authentically preserved, namely, in the admirable
memoirs of the veteran Count Montholon. Instances
like the above are assuredly sufficient to indicate on
the part of every elementary writer on works of
education no debasement whatever of his intellectual
faculties, but rather an elevation of them to one of the
most dignified offices of humanity, that of teacher. It
is consequently for these reasons that we are always
eager to welcome every production of the like kind
when we can, recognise in it qualities in any way
deserving our commendation. The little book before
us is among this number. It is, to our thinking, a work
of a very remarkable character. Founded upon a plan
which is correctly described upon the title•page as
"entirely novel and simple," it enables any one
previously altogether ignorant of the first rudiments
of the French language to become master of it with
astonishing rapidity and equally astonishing facility,
and this moreover without the aid of a teacher—au
aid in very other instance more or less indispensa-
ble. All this we may remark is accomplished in a
series of easy lessons, twenty-five in number, lessons
which already, through the" Working Man's Friend,"
appear to have led to very extraordinary results, as
affording a means of instruction. What has even now
been accomplished by the book under notice may
be here briefly recounted in the opening words of the
"Preface," words that one almost envies it man the
happiness of being able to write. They are as fo
lows :

" The original publication of these Lessons was an
event. They created es marked an effzet in educational
literature, as the' Letters of Junius' did in the political.
The Plan of the instructions was entirely new, both as
a whole and in the details of the execution. Two cha-
racteristics were found above all in the Lessons—first,

that French was acquired more rapidly and solidly by
their study than by any other course or process, how-
ever expensive, hitherto attempted; secondly, so far from
being dry or hard, they were entertaining and simple in
exact proportion to their utility. The student who was
surprised at his own progress, was not less surprised at
the pleasantness of his new labours. The utile and the
dulce were, for once, really and truly found together."
Further, it is remarked of the writer's mode of con-
veying his information to his hitherto uninstructed
readers" in . embodying his idea in the course of
these Lessons he adopted the most rigid Doricism of
style, rejecting every meretricious decoration, every-
thing that might even for a moment lure him from
"the main point, or distract the attention which he
concentrated on his design." The good effect of this
resolution seems to have been very speedily demon-
strated in _ the amazing success achieved by his
system. Proofs of its efficacy—proofs of the most
incontrovertible kind—were afforded by hundreds of
the bumbler members of the community—insomuch
that the writer of the Preface is justified in saying—
" We look on this AS one of the most striking and

suggestive facts of our time ; it is an event on which
to meditate—an event not void even of political re-

ference, and of a bearing on the state of Civilization.'

. -
As an example of the admirable manner in which in-
formation is conveyed to the mind through the me-
diuni of these lessons, being rendered comprehensible
to the most ordinary capacity, from the homely
way in which it is enforced, we give the
annexed lively and, humorous paragraph. It is
penned; as will be readily apprehended, with a view
to shop the imperative necessity of a careful atten-
tion to mood and tense. It runs thus :
"My dear Sir,—l written the letter which was
wrote by me last week, just after your friend was went,
and before your second message was came. The thing
von spoken of was so old that it was knew already. I
never been so vexed as I have was on this occasion; in-

deed I thrown away hope, for I was threw down in
spirit. I was lay prostrate by the event. I seen what
was never saw before. I fallen lower than I bad ever

Pell in my life.

My prospects are slew, and, he who slain

them. is one whom I have drew cut of poverty. But I
shall be took by you for a madman if I continue in this
strain, so I will finish with the subject. I have strove
in every way, I have did my best, I have bore many
inconveniences, and, now that I am took at a disadvan-
tage, I will have did with those that have so took

me," &c.
Common sense tells us that an illustration of this

kind must necessarily tend to impress a rule of

grammar upon the inemory more forcibly and in-
delibly than any other plan that could be suggested.
Such is the nature of the whole of this singular pro-
duction, a work which it affords us a feeling of
genuine satisfaction to be able to recommend very
earnestly to the poorer classes of our population.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, OCT. 20.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Park
and the Slopes this morning.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended
by the Rev. Mr. Birch, took a drive in the Parks, in
an open carriage.

The remainder of the Royal children took their
accustomed exercise.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
the Earl of. Morley, Major-General Sir Edward
Bowater, Colonel Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel F. H.
Seymour, went out shooting this forenoon.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and her
Royal Highness the Princess Royal, attended Divine
service yesterday morning, in the private chapel of
the Castle. _ _

There was no addition to the Royal dinner party
last evening.

A deputation, including Mr. Beckford, Mr.
M4G-regor, Mr. Raikes, and Mr. Westmoreland; had
an interview with Earl Grey, yesterday, at the Colt -
nial-office.
Captain Townsend, M.P., had an interview with
Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence
in Downing-street.
Mr. John King, delegate from the colony of Vic-
toria, had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey.
Inc Right Hon. M. G. Baines, first Commissioner
of the Poor-laws, had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.

THE MINISTRY—MR. COBDEN.
An evening paper, a few nights since, stated that
the office of Vice. President of the Board of Trade
had been tendered to Mr. Cobden by Lord John
Russell, on his assumption of office in 1846, and
rather severely criticised the Honourable Gentle-
man's vanity in not accepting it, when a much abler
man, Lord Granville, did not refuse it.
The facts are these :—When Lord John Russell
came into office in 1846, he offered the post of Vice-
President of the Board of Trade to the Honourable
Charles Villiers, who declined it. The office was ac-
cepted by Mr. Milner Gibson, M.P. for Manchester,
who subsequently resigned it. Earl Granville was
then appointed to the joint office of Paymaster
of the Forces and Vice-President of the Board of
Trade. As the former Lord Granville will take
his seat in the Cabinet. The latter office is, we
believe, destined for Mr. Wilson, M.P. for Westbury.
How little did the Noble Premier estimate the abili-

ties of Lord Granvile when, on his entry into office,
he appointed him Master of the Buckhounds ; in
other words, the Queen's head dog-keeper.
It may be added that the office of Master of the
Mint has ceased to be a Ministerial one, and very
properly so. It is now a permanent one in the person
of Sir J. Herschell.— There are now four offices,
usually Cabinet ones, at present occupied by persons
not of the Cabinet, viz., those of the Master-General
of the Ordnance, the Chief Secretary for Ireland,
Paymaster of the Forces, and Chief Commissioner of
Woods and Forests.—Correspondent of the _Morning
Advertiser.

SIR JAMES GRAHAM VERSUS DR. CANDLISH.—It
seems that the tribute of regard that was paid to Sir James
Graham the other day, by making him a burgess of Aber-
deen, has given mortal offence to Dr. Candlish, who is, it
appears on a crusade in the north at present. The Rev.
Doctor, at a meeting of the Scottish Reformation Society on
Monday last, took occasion to say, in the course of a long
speech on the Papal aggression, that he thought when the
Corporation of Aberdeen were giving the highest honour in
their power to bestow, to the man of all others who had set
himself up as the leading opponent of the measure demanded
by the voice of the country, at least some explanation or pry
test was required from the Protestants of Aberdeen, to show
that the Town Council did not, at least on that point, speak
the sentiments of the community. There might be other
grounds on which the freedom of the City could be conferred
on Sir James Graham, but it did strike a stranger as notice-
able, that such an honour should be paid to him (Sir
James Graham) just after finishing a session of laborious,
indefatigable, and persevering opposition to a measure which
all the Protestants of the country desired to see carried out.
Scotsnzan.

DAniria ROBBERT.—Yesterday information was
receivedp
rtelitaetn
etew
of
personai
nogf
tgle,
en t lieosnet mot ltyaa ppii)ievaartaenrcoeo
thnatdo,
wile professional business, succeethd in plundering
ttuhrialedrlAesrarcelisway public-house, Entield-chase, of 731. in gold and
silver, a valuable gold watch and chain, and other property.
The same men have committed similar robberies at other
homes. They both appear about thirty years of age, and are
attired in Mourning, one being wry thin and pale, the other
stout, nueli seamed with the small-p9x, with sandy hair and
whi6kera.

EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1851

out a case in favour even of prophetic Protection.
The marrow of his address consisted in extracts from
the speeches and writings of M. Tillers, Mr. Greasy,
and Mr. Gordon Bennett—one Frenchman and two
Americans. We should like to know why the Noble
Marquis, in his search for prophets of evil from the
adoption of a free-trade policy, should have gone so
far from home ? Why cross the channel in one case,
and the Atlantic in the other tuo cases ? He doubt-
less ILA Lis reasons, though he did not condescend to
inform his auditory what those reasons were. May
we be permitted to venture a conjecture ? We take
the secret of the matter to be this—that Protectionist
prophets, of home production, have hitherto proved
so singularly unfortunate in their predictions of dis-
aster to the country, from the repeal of the corn-laws,
that even the farmers have ceased to repose any faith
in them. There is, therefore, no alternative for Pro-
tectionist orators but to lug in the prophecies of those
foreigners who foretell the destruction of all the in-
terests of any country which can be insane enough to
abandon protective duties, and substitute for them a
free and unfettered system of commercial policy.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
Gross traffic receipts for passengers
and goods, week ending Oct. 18,
1851

... £16,487 17 9
...
... 14,470 8 9

••• ••• •••
Ditto, Oct. 19, 1850

Increase in 1851 ...
London Terminus, Oct. 20, 1851.

... X 2,017 9 0

KELLY.—It
DEATH OF LADY IiELLY.--It is with feelings of
regret we record the demise of Lady Kelly, the wife of Sir
the eminent barrister, and late her Majesty's
Kelly, the Her Ladyship died on the 19th inst., after
sFoitizicriotyorK.
much suffering. The deceased lady was the daughter and
heiress of Captain Mason, of Leith, Scotland. Sr,
Fitzroy her Ladyship leaves issue:but one child, a daughter,By
who is married to a Yorkshire gentleman.
THE LEVIATHAN IRON STEAMER OF THE PENIN-
SULAR AND ORIENTAL COMPANY. —The keel of the first of
these enormous vessels was laid a few days since in Messrs.
Mare and Co.'s building-yard at Blackwall, and is, perhaps,
the longest and heaviest bar of iron ever forged, being about
320 feet in length, and weighs upwards of 1 cwt. to the foot.
The massive iron framework is in a forward state, and will
soon be put up, when the outline of the vessel will
be shown.
She will be something over 3,000 tons builders'
measurlernent.
The engines will be direct acting, with four
oscillating
cylinders, each 851/t inches in diameter, with a stroke
will benine
feet, placed at an angle so that each pair of cylinders of i
attached to each paddle-wheel, the whole formingans4
Haggre-
gate of 1,200-horse power. tier guaranteed speed
is i
wouldknots steamequal ,to
froml
8 statute
Southamptoni niles pteor
Alexandria hour;
.h. i3c,ho
.7 rate
milessh e
—ine
sigihtesdtaiymsaatenddatt not
ooht lessour than i
hours.
o,°st when complete for
service 000/.

THE NEW " HALTING PLACE," FARRINGDON-
STREET.—Another " halting-place," or lodge for public con.
venience, companion to the one already in use at the Fleet-
street end of Farringdon-street, has been erected at the Hol-
born end of the latter street. Similar oracular inscriptions
are engraven on the new lodge to those observable on the
one which for some months past the London porters and
others have been accommodated with, much to their comfort
and convenience. The word " halt" is lettered in black on
the gas lamps surmounting the roof of the new lodge, while
alone the sides of the walls of the small building these sen-
tences are inscribed-1. " Rest, but do not loiter."
not leave your goods."
SPECIE.—LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, We find in our
New York advices the arrival at that port of 11. e mail-steamer
Ohio, with 1,435,711 dollars on freight. The steam-ship
Tennessee left Panama on the Ist ult.,-witl 1,70070u0 dollars
ih specie VIA her freight list.

any other part of their route. To those who go by NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
way of Prance to Cologne this route will be ROYAL MARINES.
1 shorter by nearly cne hundred miles than the one at Second Lieutenants Couch
and Bowker, of the
present pursued through Malines, while to those who Plymouth division, have received an intimation from
take Brussels in their way the detour by Namur does the Admiralty that they must either resign their
not exceed ten miles. But the increased beauty and commissions or submit to a court-martial. Some
attractiveness of the scenery makes the way seem pecuniary transactions are said to be the Cause of
I
scarce half so long. Before Brussels has been left their Lordships' displeasure.
behind ten miles, before the country begins to rise
turface, he flat
covered expanse is changed into a beauiful undulating 'ion of Royal Marines, was not brought to a close at
s with extensive plantation, until the rising of the court last evening.
arriving at .Naniur, when it at once assumes Lieut. Edmund John Piper (1812) died last week
the character of romantic and imposing. Namur at his residence in Herefordshire. He lost his leg in
i self is a town well worth visiting, both on account the Adriatic, when a midshipman of the Northumber-
of its historical reminiscences and its own local pe- land, in an attack of a convoy, and was in receipt of
culiarities. There is scarcely a town in Europe which a pension of 911. 55. per annum.
has so frequently changed its masters or undergone so APPOINTMENTS TO THE CRANE.—The following
many sieges, and though not presenting the noble and appointments have been made to the Crane, 6 :—Cow
magnificent appearance of Antwerp and Ghent, yet, mender M`Donnell, Lieut. Geo. A. W. Welch (1851),
.as a fortified town inferior scarcely to any in Europe Acting Master W. B. Brund (second master of
eptuivteedtostrthenegy,tb,ngitlimshurnstanalwwahyo-s, be interestin ancl 1844, and "acting master" of two or three ships),
attractive
fortunate]y, never Paymaster J. Mallard (1851), Clerk John Shepherd
saw such a spectacle in his own country Here com- (1850); Master's Assistant, Daniel May.
menses the most beautiful portion of the valley of the THE ENTRY OF BOYS IN THE NAVY.—The regula-
Meuse, which has been compared to the course of the Lions of the Admiralty for the entry of boys are well
Wye in our own country, running in the same
manner through overhanging rocks, around which known, and the consequence is, that there are always
cluster plantations of dark larches, and above above a score of candidates to one vacancy. But the
occasionally be seen peeping the ruins of an moalyd most cruel injury is too frequently inflicted upon the
tower, the remnant of the stronghold of some old parents of the poor boys by the ignorant statements
.
fi
robber-knight, who exercised his trade on the traffic of the casual contributors to thenewspapers.
Alr. Dinnen, inspector of machinery afloat,
with
still
side the greater part of the way, in many places the
of the Meuse. The river and the rail run side by
at Devonport, carrying out the experiments the
road being actually built into the river on a cause- engines of the Desperate screw-sloop. They
are said
to be progressing satisfactorily, and that a great say-
way carried over islands formerly existing in the in be ci- f • .g
fuel is likely to be the result.
river, but have thus become joined to the mainland. Lucifer . steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
One of the stations a short way from Namur is Jackson,
Andennes, the point at:which the Government propose at Devonport on Sunday afternoon. She went into
with supernumeraries from Cork, arrived
to throw a bridge over the valley in order to shorten harbour to coal, and proceeds to Woolwich to be
the route between Luxembourg and Brussels. When paid off.
Ranger, 8, Commander_ T. Miller, from the coast of
this is effected a considerable amount of additional
Africa, last from Portsmouth, arrived at Devonport
traffic will be thrown on the line, and Andennes being
then in the direct route to Namur and Liege from on Sunday morning, to be paid off.
The Ocean, hired freight ship, is loading stores at
the province of Luxembourg, will become a station of
the Royal 'William Victualling yard, Stonehouse, for
considerable importance. Proceeding on from
here we come to Huy, the centre of the the Cape of Good Hope,
line and the locomotive depot, where Mr., PORTSMOUTH DIONDAY.—The Birkenhead iron
Stooks, the able and inteligent enginineer, resides, steam-frigate, PORTSMOUTH,
Salmond, arrived
Here commences what may be called the most profit- at noon from the Cape of Good Hope, last from
able portion of the line, and the remainder of the mouth. She left at Simon's Bay, OH the 12th ult , ,thet-
way runs through the centre of the important and Castor, 36, Commodore Wyrill, the Hermes steam-
improving, and manufacturing district which has sloop, Commander Fishbourne ; and the Seringapa_
grown up on the outskirts of Liege. The surrounding tam store-ship, Master-Commander Russell.
country is now undermined for miles round with ex- , The Rhadamanthus steam troop-ship and the Dee
tensive mines of coal and iron, and on each side of steam-vessel had both gone up the Buffalo with
the line are numerous factories which supply levies.
Belgium, France, and a great part of the continent
with machinery and arms, besides a number of
collieries, most of which have their branch tram roads
from their establishments to the main line. Indeed
this district may be styled the South Staffordshire of
Belgium, and considering the short time that the
Namur and Liege Railway has been opened, it is
wonderful to remark how quickly the traffic has
diverted on the line from the Meuse, formerly the
great means of transport. We have no doubt that in
a little space longer the whole of the goods traffic—
which must be immense, far exceeding that of
any other part of the country—must necessarily
be carried on through the Namur and Liege Com-
pany. At Hemalle the line separates into two
branches, one crossing the Meuse by a fine bridge,
and running past Serraing, the extensive iron
manufactures of Mr. Cockerill, and enters the town of
Liege on the south side, while the other, keeping
the northern side of the valley, forms a
junction with the Government line from
Malines and the frontiers of Prussia, at
Liege. Throughout the whole route the line is
built in the most substantial manna, and it is a posi-
tive relief to change for an hour the jolting and
shaking of the ricketty, cheap-made Government line
for the steady, easy motion of the Namur and Liege.
The carriages are handsome and comfortable, the
second almost as good as our first in England. The
locomotives are of a substantial and durable character,
mostly made by Cockerill, at Serraing, and we no-
ticed that some of them bore English names. The one
which drew us was the " Lord Mayor Farncombe "
and we were glad to recognise his Lordship in such
beautiful scenery, so far from the smoke and din of the
City.
The Belgians are not the sharpest people in the
world, but the advantages offered to them by the
Namur and Liege line running through their great
and only manufacturing district—the only one, in
fact, which presents any signs of life or animation—
are so obvious that they cannot fail to appreciate
them. At present the great obstacle to the progress of
the company is the unfair and discouraging conduct
pursued towards them by the Government, which,
now that the line is opened, would gladly, take it into
its own hands, and therefore seems determined to dis-
gust the company by all those ungracious acts to
which petty Governments condescend. By one of the
conditions of concession the company is obliged to
carry the mails without remuneration—a circumstance
which they are not slow to take advantage of; but
when goods arrive at Liege for Namur, the Go-
vernment officials will transmit them along their own
line, round by Malines, Brussels, and Charleroi, a
detour of about 150 miles, in preference to sending
them along the direct Namur and Liege
line. Other instances might be cited of the
jealousy ef the Government in keeping the company
out of the direct traffic to Germany, but when the
proposed extension of the Great Northern of France
line from Charleroi is effected, which will make the
distance from Paris to Cologne, en route of Namur
and Liege, at least 100 miles less than it can be tra-
velled at present, they will no longer be able to pur-
sue this line of conduct, so disgraceful to themselves
and harassing to the officials of the company. The
company, however, have been fortunate in obtaining
an efficient staff of officials, who look zealously after
the interest of the concern, and evidently possess
more than the requisite ability and knowledge for
developing the resources of the locality through
which the line passes. The heads of the department
are Mr. C. F. Stooks, the engineer, and Capt. Hill,
the inspector, whose duties seem to be confined to
watching the progress of affairs on the spot, and re-
porting the result to the directors in Brussels and
London ; but the active portion of the service, which
is on a scale of considerable moderation, rests with
Messrs. Hill, Longden, and Stanforth, three gentle-
men who not only thoroughly understand the
business of traffic management, but are perfectly
familiar with the manners and customs, the
feelings and prejudices of the people who
use the railway. The two first are stationed at
Liege, the former in the central station in the town,
and the latter at the station adjoining the state line,
where the great bulk of the merchandise and minerals
come upon the line. Mr. Stanforth is the superin-
tendent of the company's affairs at Namur; like his
colleagues in Liege, he has a difficult post to fill in
softening down the petty jealousies and combating
with the paltry meddling policy of the state authori-
ties. Oa the whole, the working of the line may be
looked upon as excellent, presenting a strong con-
trast to the miserable mode of doing business upon
the Government railways, and if not equal, at least
very nearly approaching the routine systems observed
upon the best lines in England. The Mons and
Manage Railway, which belongs to the same company,
is a short colliery branch of some eight-and-twenty
miles in length. It is the most profitable bit of
railway in the kingdom, and is worked with great
success under the supervision of Mr. Bell, a gentle-
man who has long been resident in the neighbour-
hood, and is perhaps the best manager of mineral
traffic to be met with on the continent.

The Orestes, 14, Commander Hawkes, Pantaloon,
10, Commander Parker, and the Penguin, 6, Com-
mander Etheridge, were in the Mozambique Channel.
The Eolo, a prize brig, taken some time since by
the Orestes, has been fitted out as a tender to the
Castor.

The Cyclops steam-frigate, Master• Commander
Hoffmeister, arrived at the Cape from England, with
troops, a few days before the Birkenhead left, bat the
Sidon and Retribution had not arrived.

WooLwicn, OCT. 20.—The Tyne troop and store.
ship is to be towed from Deptford to Woolwich to.
morrow to have some fittings applied, and on Monday
next will embark Captain Domville's company, 10th
battalion of the Royal Artillery, for a passage to Bar-
badoes.

TE MPERAN CE DEMONSTRATION.
.A. crowded meeting was held in the large room at
Exeter-Hall last night, for the purpose of bearing
a lecture on temperance by Dr. F. R. Lees, F.S.A.,
of Edinburgh, Mr. lieyworth, M.P., occupying the
chair; and among the audience was a Mrs. Tracy, of
America, attired in the full costume of a "Bloomer."
The lecturer commenced by declaiming against
the assertion recently put forth, that the object of this
movement was other than temperance, that was to
say true moderation, in dietetics, the use of proper
articles on proper occasions, but total abstinence
from all articles which were not proper; and the
soundness of that doctrine was admitted as far back
as the days of Aristotle. The question of temperance
was not primarily a religious one, but a question of
nature and fact, to be settled by experience. The
dietetic doctrine of temperance and the intellectual
and moral improvement of the human race were
strictly in harmony. Of all the elements of human
food which nature produced the teetotallers
rejected nose. Did they reject the albumen
which formed the principal element of grain ? No ;
but they who drank wine and other intoxicating
liquids always used that element in its decomposed
state. So, too, with sugar. God made the sugar,
but man made the alcohol. And it was an important
fact that in manufacturing the articles of wine, beer,
cyder, and porter in Europe alone—including of
course the United Kingdom—more food was de-
stroyed annually than would support the entire popu-
lation of unhappy Ireland. The law of stimulants
and the law of food were opposed to each other.
Food satisfied, whilst stimulants but created:an appetite
for more. The drinking system as a whole was not
in accordance with the natural and divine law
of food, and therefore could not be in accord-
ance with the highest physical and social inte-
rests of mankind. The lecturer then proceeded at
considerable length to describe the properties of water,
and its advantages to man. Water assisted digestion.
Alcohol left the food undigested. Place a beefsteak
in alcohol, and it would remain a beefsteak for 20
years, but put it in water, and the result would be di-
gestion or decomposition. Man could get alcohol
only by first destroying the food produced
by nature. Go to Experience, and see 'what
was the rule of the Arctic voyagers who
last went forth in search of Sir John Franklin.
That rule was that the men on board the exploring
ships should act upon the principle of the teeto-
tallers, and they were not permitted to use intoxicat-
ing drinks. It was found that they could better re-
sist the intense cold of the Arctic regions without
alcoholic drinks than with them ; and Sir John
Richardson had borne his valuable testimony to the
fact that tea proved more refreshing than wine or
spirits, " which," said he, " we soon ceased to care
for, whilst the craving fur tea incressed."—(Cheers.)
As the body itself was solid, so of course it was neces-
sary that that which was to supply the waste in the
body should also be solid. But alcohol could not
nourish the body, because it was not a solid. It
lacked the nitrogen, the phosphorus, the sulphur, the
potassium, and the iron, to assimilate it to the elements
of toe body. There could not, therefore, be a more
absurd propositioa than to announce that it could
supply waste or give real strength to the body. The
lecturer then proceeded to treat the question in its
religious aspect, with the view of showirg that the
Holy Scriptures gave their divine sanction to the
principles of temperance, and concluded his very
lengthy, though able, discoure amidst loud and general
cheering.

ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.
(From tte Liverpool Mail.)
On Sunday morning last, as the clock struck the hour
of eight, a lady W 23 seen to emerge from her dwelling,
in iSreck-road, Evertors. Her :m ions look and hurried
step betokened, to the ca.nal observer, " that there WWI
something in the wind," though, at the time
" breath was stirring," save that of the gay pedestrian,
whose true love flushed her idolised cheek, " giving it a
presence of a &cleat
sweet and wholesome odour." Tne fate of happiness,
however, too often sealed in disguise, VVISii now to be
sealed, signed, and delivered in the
altaiacipaictyne!
tunzeuarccietrmuyeiln/ouatia.d'"
mice
gang
aft
few—a chosen band of true fidclity—
" Destined to secrecy, no doubt
" And the best laid
agley ." In another part of the town, more thickly
Populated, and precisely at the same hour, might
be aeon emerging from his private dwelling a
gentleman of fair proportion; " neat, trimly dressed,"
shorn of his daily weeds, " like stubble land
at harvest home," and moving onwards ,at a very rea-
sonable pace towards a " half-way," hoine, evidently a
place of meeting, whore a carriage was in attendance.
waiting for further orders. But, alas! the foulest
the
human passions—suspicion—had taken possessiondlaband
gentleman's quarters, and quietly and unobsehrvt_
e,!'.
he been pursued, as he wenaed his way through the
did his
high-
ways and byways of "short cuts."
then, obtaining
ap-
pointment, and a carriage in attendance, pursuer perceive him enter the supposed
;idlers to follow in the
possession of a cab, he gave strict
of the carriage door,
rear. In a few minutes the
e banging
driver,
grave indication that
and the short whistle
of
thstreet Nceosopolace of ap.
was passed with an on-
they were off. Street after
h they stopped at a fine old church,
in the rear, until at lenfgmommas,
shall be nameless. Here
the one-horse hackney cab still following
ww,haricdht,cfnodretnhcey:ake o
steadfastly, advanced to
they alighted, and
few
waiting a moments for rho master
the altar,
ceremonies. Nothing daunted, entered also the
of
rho
e •
not to forbid the bawls of matrimony (for she
pursuer ,
too was aheroine entering
of the fair sex), but merely to appease
the appetite of curiosity. But where was the bride-
groom, and where was the bride?
a They knelt at the altar, the organ had ceased,
And the hands of the Livers were joined by the priest."
It was now time for our heroine to beat a speedy re-
treat, having thus far remained unnoticed ; so also did
the married couple to their separate places of abode,
and the whole affair remains a complete secret for the
present. The only telling influence which occurs is that
of the pursuer singing the tune of the " Old Hundred"
in the gentleman's hearing, but which he does not seem
to comprehend.
" The wiles and guiles that woman works,
D ssembled in a gaudy show;
The tricks and toys that in them lurks,
The man that rears them will not know.,,

DARING HIGIIWAY ROBBEILY.—On Thursday
evening, at the early hour of eight o'clock, a servant of Mr.
Perry, of Catherine-place, Bristol, was sent by her master to
procure change of a 51. note, to u grocer's stop at the top of
Stokes'-croft; she had received the change, and was return-
ing house, when a person came behind her and, threw a rope
across her throat, he then pulled her ba k wards, and took
from her the five sovereigns and decampe The poor girl's s
throat bears ample proof of the violence u by the ruffian,
Ito
who took care to prevent her making any alum before he
had Gale W eficapel--RriiteWirror.