The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-13 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY.
The Queen and Prince were prevented, by the in-
clemency of the weather, from taking their usual early
walk this morning, and the younger members of the
Royal Family wale kept at home fur the same reason.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by her Lady in Waiting, is expected at Osborne this
afcernoon, on a visit to her Majesty and his Royal
Highness.

There was no addition yesterday to the Royal dinner
party.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Fanny Howard and Colonel Sir George
Couper, left her residence, Frogmore, near Windsor, at
ten o'clock yesterday morning for Farnborough. Her
Royal Highness left the Farnborough station, attended
by Lady Fanny Howard, for Osborne, Isle of Wight.
The Oxford University Commission met yesterday at
the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
Downing-street. Present—the Bishop of Norwich, the
Dean of Carlille, the Master of Pembr( ke, the Rev. H.
G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., the Rev. Professor
Powell, the Rye. G. 11. S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P.
Stanley (S,-cretary).
The Earl of Harrowby had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Mr. J. Morris, aolicit?r to the parish of All Saints,
Poplar, had an interview with the Commissioners of
Railways yester lay, at the office of the Board of Trade.
The Earl of Minto gave a dinner to the Cabinet Mi-
nisters yesterday evening, at his residence in Eaton-
square.
The Transatlantic Packet station Commission met
yesterday at the B:mrcl of Trade, Present—Earl Gran-
ville (Chairman), Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., Sir James
Gordon, K.C.8., Sir John F. Burgoyne, K.C.8., and
Captain Stephenson Ellerby. Lord Hobart, Secretary
to the Commission, was in attendance.

appointed to take place on Friday, when she will be buried
late
of Sefton's funeral is
byTlhh6e Dofotwhaeglearte C:bilet'LsOrd, at the family vault,

U SHIPBUILDING.—
30 tons and 130 lorse
The screwr4P a
steamC E D E N.
shipT E D
Apr
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be
iPa a .11 T,Coa if
8e
power, now lying at the Bromielaw all ready for sea, was
laid down on the 12th of December, 1850, was launched on
the 3d of the following February, and was ready to start on
the 28th of the same month (Friday), making altogether
only ten weeks from the time the keel was laid till the com-
pletion of the whole contract. Such dispatch is, no doubt,
wonderful, and shows what management and the division of
labour can accomplish in these go-ahead times. The Ara-
bian is a particularly handsome vessel, her great length
• • her very fine lines, with a long
giving floor. Her length is
h 1
200 feet; breadth, 23 feet; dept . 7 feet; screw, 11 feet
diameter, driven by spur gear, with engines on the im-
proved beam principle. She is intended for the Liverpool
and Constantinople trade, to run in connexion with the Gre-
cian, recently fitted out by the same eminent builder, Mr.
Robert Napier. The Arabian is owned by the Glasgow and
Liverpool Shipping Company. and will be commanded by
Captain Ewing, late of the West India mail service.
Glasgow Citizen. The Arabian, arrived in the Mersey on
Friday, and after a run from Greenock of only 16 hours.—
' Liverpool Albion.
CAFE OF GOOD HOPE—Letters and papers have
been received direct from Port Elizabeth, Algoa Bay, which
confirm in all particulars the accounts previously arrived re-
garding the co.nmencernent of war on the frontier, and the
entry of hordes of Katirs into the colony, Although the
alarm of the colonists was very great, every available mea-
sure had been taken for their defence. The worst feature in
this intelligence is the confirmation of the report that four
thousand rounds of ammunition had fallen into the hands of
the Kafirs, and that several of the Cape Mounted Rifles had
mutinied. The Katirs are stated to bo well supplied with
arms and ammunition. The Eastern Province Telegraph
says, that during ' the last nine months no less than one hun-
dred thousand pounds weight of gun powder had passed
through Port Elizabeth, consigned to private
Parties in that
province, together with between two and three thousand
stand of arms. These
supplies had been received through
two sources, viz., coastwise and direct.
A
A.RCIIITECTS' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.'--The first
annual meeting of the friends of this charity was held yester-
day afternoon, at the Freemasons Tavern, Hr. Sidney Smirke
in the chair. The minutes having been read and confirmed,
the report of the committee was preslited. Although the
society, which had for its object the relief of decayed
members of the profession, had only been founded a few
months, it had received very considerable support, giving a
very favourable augury of its future success. , At the close
of lest year 170 gentlemen had become annual subscribers,
and 30 or 40 more had since joined. The amount received up
to the 31st December last was, altogether, 390/ , of which
3001. had been invested, and the remainder 1 to be applied to
the ordinary purposes of the society. Some large donations
had been received this year. The Royal Institute of British
Architects had kindly granted to the association the use of
their rooms for the meeting of the council, thus effecting a
considerable saving to the society, and adding greatly to the
convenience of some of its members. The council had drawn
up a complete code of by-laws, which would be submitted to
the meeting for their centirmatien. The report having been
agreed to, the by-laws were decided upon, and, after the elec-
tion of its officers, the meeting thanked the chairman and
separated.

LARGE IMPORTATION OF PEARL S a ELLs.--The
vessel Martha, which has just arrived in the docks from
Panama. has brought the extraordinary large number of
two miliionS and one hundred and four thousand pearl
shells, consigned to an eminent foreign house in Loudon,
and comprising the entire cargo. We belieTe Co large an
importation of this shell as on the prese:3 occasion to be
entirely unprecedented.

FATHER GAVAZZTS LECTURE.
Fa'h-r Gsyszzi, the great I eliee pre:teller, gave e
second lecture at Willis's Rooms yesterday, at half,past
two o'clock. The subject wee, The Celibacy of the
Clergy." Father Gavazzi is Letter known, generally
speaking than ho is in particular, and therefore a few
words on his antecedents will not perhaps be unaccept-
able to the reader. He was born in I3ologna, in the )ear
1809, and was regularly brought up to the service of the
Catholic Church, as member of the order of St. Barnabas.
Subsequent to his ordination he obtained the professor-
ship of rhetoric at Naples, and in due course became the
most popular preacher in Italy. In fact, from Como to
Calabria, and from Genoa to Ancona, his fame resounded
in every city. It is to his credit that et this period,
though still essentially a priest—anti we are told that
" the snake cannot slough his skie"—he was noted
among his compeers for the largeness of his religious
views and for the liberality of his secular politics.
When Gregory XVI. died, and Pio None ascended the
Papal throne, Gavazzi hailed, in common whli all his
countrymen, the advent of a new era for the oppressed
Italian people; and an eloquence almost unprece-
dented in point of force and of act gave utterance
to his aspirations for freedom. In fact, at this
period Gavazzi was the vox populi of the Roman states;
for the people spoke through his organ. His first rips
pearance, however, as a politician was on the occasion
of the Milanese insurrection of 1848, when he solemnly
pronounced a benediction of that event in the great
church Santa Maria dello Rotund°, at Rome—better
known as the " Pantheon." From thencefhrward, as
Mazzini was the head, so was Gavazzi recognised as the
voice of Italian freedom; and day after day he harangued
thousands of Romans in the ancient theatre of their
greatness, the arena of the Colosseum. Pio, unable to
stern the flood of liberty that then overflowed the land
like a life-giving river, treacherously yielded to the cur-
rent, the better to divert it; and consequently affected to
encourage the orator. His object was, however, to re-
move him from Rome, which he effected by appointing
him to the chaplainship general of the Papal levies,
known as "Crusaders," Lumbering some 15,000 cf the
beat blood of Italy. It boots not now to enter on the
subject of the treason of the Pope to the cause he pro-
fessed to espouse; but Father Gavazzi asserts that he
himself received positive instructions from l'ius IX. to
attack the Austrians near Vicenza—the Austrians who
are at present "the white-headed boys" of bis Holiness,
the "head of the Catholic world." From Vicenza Father
Gavazzi went to Venice, and, in conjunction with Denied
Manners, of noble and exalted memory, he lent hi:
beat efforts to the cause of Italian regeneration, It is
stated that, on the occasion of his preaching in the Grand
Piazza de San Marco, in that city, the whole population
! not only poured out to hear him, but one and all flung
their choicest treasures into the common fund for the re-
demption of their country. Can such a people ever
perish, ever become brute slaves like the Irish and the
Austrians? It is impossible. Gavazzi after this went as
a missionary in the sacred cause of freedom to Tuscany,
where ho was expelled by the faithless Grand Duke, no
doubt at the instance of the Pope; but subsequently when
General Zacchi, one of the late Count Rossi's familiars,
seized him, the timorous as well as treacherous Pontiff
yielded to the popular indignation once more, and released
the eloquent priest. Upon the declaration of the Roman
Republic, Mazzini and the Triumvirs re-appointed Father
Gavazzi as chaplain general of the Roman army, and in that
capacity be lent all bis powerful energies to the recon-
stitution of the hospitals, and the care of the wounded and
dying. Ho frequently accompanied the troops to the
field, and at the close of the sortie, in which Oudinot
and the French Pnvalini were defeated, he stood by the
side of the brave Garibaldi at the head of the column,
succouring the wounded and soothing the last moments
of the dying, though a hail of balls was whiteling-round
them. Ho also assisted at the defeat of the Neapolitan
brigands and lezzeroni, who the King of Naples had
created into a marauding army. His integrity, his piety,
and his bravery won for him even the good-will of the
French invaders of his country; and be succeeded
through these means in escaping the fate of his friend
and fellow-labourer in the " good cause," Father Ugo
Bassi, who was ruthlessly murdered by the Austrian
invaders at Bologna. From Italy he flsd to England,
and here he has lived iu all the anguish which the res
angusta dotal can inflict upon an exile.
Nessum maggior dolore,
Che ricordarse lo tempo feiice
Ne! miseria."
A few "friends, Romans, and fellow-countrymen," in-
dividually as straitened in circumstances as himself, col-
lectively straitened themselves still more to obtain the
means of publicity for his eloquent denunciations of
clerical and secular oppression in Italy; and once again
Father Gavazzi is the vox populi in England of Italian
nationality.
The lecture of yesterday was crowdel by persons of the
highest consideration in this country, as well as by the
elite of the Italian and German emigrants at present in
London. He denounced the celibacy of the clergy as a
political institution of the Church of Rome, having for
its object purely secular purposes, and he challenged the
" doctors," seraphic or secular, to justify that negation
from Scripture. The passages in Paul he held to be in-
terpolations, and he denied the institution of celibacy
even the merit of originality, inasmuch as it was
common to the Pagan priesthood of all forms of worship,
20 ages be ore the advent of Jesus Christ. He like-
wise showed that the " fathers of the Church" were
at issue with one another on the subject, and that
more than one " council " in the purer days of Christi-
anity had rejected it as a mockery, a delusion, and a
snare. After much to the same. purpose, which every
man of reading knows by heart, he concluded by con-
ttasting the gross licentiousness and profligacy of the
dignitaries of the Catholic Church, the Bembes, the
Sadolettis, the Bentivoglios, the Dubois, with the squea-
mishness of their sucessors in hypocrisy, ifnotin vice, who
since the return of Pius IX., and the subjugation of the
Eternal City, have covered the nakedness of tho statues
in all public places—their own private cabinets excepted
—so as to convert the cape d'opere of the greatest sculp-
tors into uncouth absurdities, lest it should shock the
susceptible morality of the French "camp followers."
Repeated applause greeted the orator daring the whole
of his impassioned and eloquent cppe il, and at the close
of the lecture he was literally honoured with a public
ovation.

SHAMAN'S FIOSPITAL.—The anniver3ary festival in
aid of the funds of this comprehensive and most valuable
charity took place yesterday at the London Tavern. The
chair was filled by the Earl cf Hardwicke, supported by the
Sheriffs, Sir James Law Lushington, and other influential
gentlemen. About 100 guests sat down to dinner, which
was served in the usual style of the London Tavern. Little
need be said in favour of an institution the merits of which
are so obvious as those of the Seamen's Hospital, and which
has now pursued its career of usefulness for 30 years. To
all who know anything of the port of London, the value of
a charity where cases of disease and sickness among the sai-
lors of all nations are promptly and efficitntly attended to
does not require to be pointed cut. Everybody who has
passed up or do. n the river must remember the old "read-
nought moored off Greenwich, her great hull appropriated to
the relief of those whose "home is on the deep" to whatever
ciuntry they may belong. From the report submitted to
he company last night, we learn that during the past year
nea,ly 4,00 J seamen have been relieved at the hospital.
During the evening subscriptions in aid of the funds were an-
nounced to the amount of between 80.1. and 9.0/. Mr. Higgs
officiated on the occasion as toastmaster.

GROSS NEGLIGENCE.—A child was burnt to death
on Saturday morning last, under the following circum-
stances : It seems that a woman named Catherine Morris,
of Duke-street, St. Clement's, wife of a fouudryinan, had left
her child of ten months old in a wicker chair, within a foot
of a blazing wood fire, whilst she went out to gossip with a
neighbour. On her return the chair was on fire, the clothes
of the infant were burnt off, and the little sufferer was re-
duced to a cinder. The woman just before she left actually
piled some long pieces of thin deal on to the fire, before
which there was no guard, and within twelve inches of
which was the infant seated in a wicker chair. No doubt
one of these blazing pieces of wood fell upon the child. Au
inquest was held the same day, when a verdict of " Acci-
dental death" was returned; but the jury expressed an
unanimous opinion that the mother had been guilty of gross
neglect in leaving the child in such a position.—lpswich
Express.

THE BATH STARVATION CASE.—The husband of
Harrier. Spring. wbo died trcm starvation at Bath, has
been anpn-her del and I, Cged in the ila'h Gaol, t await
his trim ar 11:, erutfrkg asr.,z-s. on he charge of wiltnl
murder. The pear ner, n hearing that an inquest was to
b. hell on his wife. abfc.mdei, and suczeaueet for some
hue i cvadag ho vigilance of t',e poi:c3. I ap ea-s
hat he went to Bristol, ued or s ma dii a ,odged with Mr.
Banco, a publcan, under the r acne ef Edware Woodman,
but was very reserved, ar.d ! ept himse f remarkably qu'e .
He that enlisted in .h. 30th Regiment of the line. and 01
Wednesday was sun off t Kent wi h o*h2r recruit; Mr.
Bence having subs. querdly seen a descrlpti n cf Sparing in
the Hue and Cry, suspected his lodger to be the min, and
immediately geve infor.riati n o the clt,.f of the lath
pollee. An officlr, ccompanied bo Mr. Ben^e, was dis-
patched in search of the prisoner, whom they found enjoy-
ing his dinner in Weimer Barracks, Kent, but on se • rig the
officer he becaml much frightene t and trembled violently.
He was at once b -ought back, and yesterday lodged in the
Bath Gaol, neuter the coroner's warrant.
TROOPS FOR THE CAPE OF GOOD ITCPE.—The
Singap'..re, Peninsular ani Oriental Company's steam r at
S .uttampton, bcloiging to the Mail Company, will take
cut to the Cap* 300 men, nam-ly, 1 0 from the dept
of the 4'rth regiment, now in the Is'e of Wight (who were
ready on Tuesday last to embark), and a detachmentof about
1.5 A men. vohnteers for the Cape service from the Ist Bat-
talion of the 91st Regiment now at Liverpool, tt e latter de-
tachment expected at Southampton. They are to embark
to-morrow, an l sail on S4arday. Mr. E. Chamberlain, the
chief clerk in the Port Admiral's-office at Portsmouth, is to
have the charge of victualling the roldiers on board the Sin-
gapore. The Vulcan screw steam-shi , Master-Commander
Penn, arrived at Queenstown on the 10th, to embark the 74th
for the Cape.

Ties MAIL DUE FROM THE CAPE.—We learn from
Plymouth that on the 11th the Clifton, Captain Bessly, last
from the Cape and St. Helena, had arrived there. The
Clifton had not put in at the Cap:, bat she brings intelli-
gence that the llovhorus, which has been daily expected in
England with the Cape mails, was hourly awaited at St.
Helena, whence she would take the regiai,:ut on stati9n to
Cape Town.

M-n think it no shame to give bandgotrin obsequ'es
to those dead, whom living they had sufre.ed to starve un-
noticed ; but the struggle of shrinking poverty passes urseon
in its corner; the pompous trap
pings of death are witnessed
by all the world. —Eliza Cook's Journal.
A daring attempt at bib way robbery wrs made
a short tome agi upon a person of the name (dr:l-own, a ser-
vant at Capenwray Hall, near Lancaster: ILe was pasting
Skerion Green about seven o'clock in the evening, when he
was acc3sted by a man, who, after walking by his side for a
few paces, suddenly tripped up his heels, brought Brown to
the ground, and then deminded his money. Brown, how-
ever, gathered himself up, and belaboured the fellow, who,
in turn was brought to the earth, and wa3 there left, while
Brown proceeded ou his way home.—Cumberland
,P, acquet•
NEW HoSPITAL FOR KING'S COLIA I.tGE.—w cor-
poration of King's College intend making application to Par-
liament in the present 89Fsion,
for a Bill to authorise the
purchase of the old burial-ground of :-,t. Clement Danes, in
Portugal-strt,et, Lincoln's-inn-fields, and to erect thereon a
new and enlarged Lospital: to accommodate an additional
number of patients.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. George Asser Whit; Webb, a mate of 1848,70.'0
of the Powelf1:!. 84, anfl the senior on the list, his re-

cently been promoted to the rank of lieutenaet.
The folio kie,g mares received their certificates at the
Royal Naval College, fur the rank of lieutenants, on
Tuesday :—Mr. Miller, late of the Howe, 120 ; Mr.
Robinson, late of the Bellerophon, 78 ; and Messrs.
Thompson and Alexander. Mr. Miller is the eighth
ogicer of her Majesty's ship Howe who has received
first-class certificates both for gunnery and seamanship.
Lieutenant J. Byng, sou of Admiral the Hon. H. 1).
Byng, has arrived in England, invalided, from the In-
flexlble, 6, ste:on-sloop, iu the «c at Indies.
THE CUMMZELAND, 70, FLAG SHIP OF SIR GEOrGE
SEYNuUR.—Lady Seymour end the two Alisse4 Seymour
and sorvants arrived at the George flo%l. Portsmouth,
on Tuesday; the gallant admiral also arrived .esierday
afternoon, shoot three o'clock. lie will not etuh4rk on
board the Cumberland till this morning, when his flag
will be hoisted, and, if the weather permits, will sail on
Friday morning. The Cumberl,:nd proceeds first to
Bermuda, whi,re the Wellesley, 72, Cytain Goldsmith,
with the flag of Vice-Admiral the Earl of Dundoneld,
G.G.8., has been ordered to wait her arrival. The
shipwrights completed the defects on board the Com- •
berland yesterday morcing, and the Sprightly (that
took out some stores for her) brought thew into harbour.
THE. SHELL PRACTICE AT PoRTSMOUTIL—The shell •
practice on board the Excellent, to test which sort are
be best, has closed, and the committee will make their
report. We understand that Captain Moorson's per-
cussion shells have proved the most correct in bursting,
and in all re►pects are better than the concussion shells
that have been recently tried. We supp,-)se the old
Topaz will now be sold or broken up; she is knocked
about a good deal.
Bonetta, 3, brigantine, Lieutenant Commander Wake,
left the Downs on Tuesday for Devenport to be paid ad-
vance previously to sailing for Brazils.
Banshee steam-packet, Lieutenant-Commander Ars-
ken, leive3 Devonpurt this day, after the arrival of the
mail, for Malta.

The Fairy royal yacht embarked her Royal Highnef
the Duchess of Kent this afternoon at the Clarence-
yard, for Osborne, to visit her Majesty. The Port-
Admiral and staff, and a guard of honour, received the
Duchess, whose standard was saluted by the Vengeance,
Cumberland, and the garrison battery.
The Penelope, 22, steam-frigate, Captain Lyster, wi.s
taken under the shears yesterday, and masted.
The American packet• ship Congress, and the India-
man Madagascar arrived at Spithead to-day, from the
Thames, to embark passengers and stock for their re-
spective destinations.
The Sprightly steam-vessel, Mr. George Allen, Mast( r-
Commanding, returned from Devonport yesterday.
THE FIRST LORD'S FIRST LEVEE FOR 1851.

WOOLWICH, MARCH 12.—The night Hon. Sir Franc:a
T. Baring, ifirt., held a levee yesterday, at the Admi-
ralty, at Whitehall, where he received the tollowirg
officers:—
Rear-Admiral David Price.

Captains—Henry Dandas (1825), Hon. George P.
Hotham (1820, Minns Diukinsou (1832), librah?rn
M. Hawkins (1835), Russell Eliott (1838), and Thomas
F. Birch (1850).

Commanders—Thomas Hope (1841), Thomas Clia-
hmer (1845), E. A. Inglefield (1845), Frederick A.
Campbell (1846), Henry E. Wingrove (1846), Gillmore
Harvey (1846), Charles Jenkin (1846), Alan H. Gard-
ner (1848), Charles Codrington Forsyth (1849), George
Hancock (1850), Stephen S. L. Crofton (1850), and
George Western (1851).
Lieutenants—William B. Noble (1814), John Sand?rs
(1815), Charles W. Hallett (1841), Justus B. Kooystra
(1841), Samuel H. Derrimao. (1842), John Seccombe
(1842), John D. Courcy A. Agnew (1843), and William
Codrington Forsyth (1845).
Surgeon Thomas Rubertson (A), (1794).
Paymaster and Pun:cr Joseph Mason (1808).
The Alecto steam-sloop, Commander George Llvie,
left Woulwich this morning ior Greenhithe, to have her
compasses adjusted by Captain Johnson, and Rill then
proceed to Plymouth, where she will take out the mils
fur the coast of Africa.

Tne Rhadamanthus steam troop-ship, Master Com-
mander Belam, on her arrival at the Cape of Good
Hope, will remain and relieve the Doe steam troop-ship
at that station.

ADMIRALTY HIRED TRANSPORTS. TROOP-
SHIPS, CONVICT. SHIPS, AND FREIGHT-
SHIPS, NEW REGULATIONS.

The fullovviiig now regulations for the survey, &0., of
ships tendered as transports for the conveyance of troops
or convicts, and for the freighe of stores, also regulations
with respect to the number of the crew required for Ihe
manning ships chartered by the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty, have been issued by the Board:—

A4miraliy, March 11, 1851.
1. The hold to be elcart d fore and aft, the keelson,
limber boards, breast books, and transoms to be cleared
and exposed to view, and a listing, from two to three
inches wide, to be cut between the breast hooks on both
sides.

2. A listing, from two to three inches wide, about
twenty feet in length, to be cut between the keelson and
the second futtock heads on both sides, when required by
the surveying officers.
3. A listing from two to three inches wide, about
two-thirds the length of the ship, to be cut on both
sides of the second futtoch heads; one-third on one
part, and one-third on the other.
4. A listing from two to three inches wide about
one-third the length of the ship, to be cut amidships,
under the clamps of the hold beams on both sides, and a
stage to be slung under the beams, fore and aft, in orier
that the state of the beams and knees may be carefully
inspected.

E. The 'tween decks to be perfectly clear, and a listing
from two to three incite, wide to be cut just above the
spirketting on both sides, in length about 20 feet for-
ward and 20 feet aft; and also amidships, if required by
the surveying officers.

6. TheSt.:to and condition of the decks, waterwa3s,
knees, outside planking, and copper on the bottom to be
carefully inspected in a dry dock, and the masts and rig-
ging to be carefully examined, for the purpose of ascei-
taining that they are in a good and so end condition.
7. In all cases the owners are to cause such bolts to
be driven out, and other works performed, as may be
considered necessary by the surveying officers to enable
them to form a satisfactory judgment of the state of the
ship.

8. All chips ordered for survey must hoist a union-
jack at the main, or where best seen, end keep it flying
until the ships have beeu surveyed, a neglect of this re-
gulation having caused much inconvenience to her Ma-
jesty's service. All ships must be ready to be surveyed
at the periods stated in the form of tender, to prevent
the surveying officers being taken unnecessarily from
other duties.

9. All ships accepted for the conveyance of troops or
convicts are to have such bulkheads put up and other
works performed, &c., as are usually required, and which
the surveying officers will point out, who are to report
their fitness and extent of accommodation for Govern-
ment purposes.