The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-01 00:00:00

SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE OREEN-

WIC.H RAILWAY.

An accident resulting in serious injury to several per-
sons occurred on Tuesday evening on the Greenwich
branch of the North Kent Railway, arising from some
defect in the nelf• acting points, just outside the Green-
wich station,

The 8.35 p.m. train from London on Thursday night
ran as usnal into the Greenwich down platform, and
started on the return journey for London at 9.5 p.m.
In the ordinary course this train should have crossed on
to the up line by the self-acting points, but owing to
some 4;emporary defect in these points the train', instead
of crossing on
to the up line, continued its course up
tb.e down line, and on arriving within 150 yards of the
Deptford station, came into violent collision with the
8 50 p.m. down train from London, then running from
Deptford into Greenwich. Happily neither of the
trains were at full speed or the consequences must
have been awful. The force of the concussion wag
so great that several carriages were shattered, and
almost all the passengers severely shaken or other-
wise hurt. The drivers and stokers of both engines are
more or less severely injured, and several passengers
have received fractures and contusions of a serious dm-
racter. The driver of the up train, William Watson,
was not seriously injured, having escaped with severe
, contusions on the sight arm, and some flesh wounds
about the face. His stoker, a man named Castles, was
so terrified at the moment f
the collision that he jumped
clear over the parapet, a depth of 25 feet, into the street
below, sustaining bad injuries on the pelvis, and being
otherwise so much hurt as to necessitate his immediate
removal to the hospital. James Ward, driver of the
down train, was terribly maimed, having sustained a
compound fracture of the lower jaw and a severe scalp
wound, in addition to which his nose is split. John
Barker, his stoker, is suffering from concussion of the
brain and contusions on the head. Both these men are
also in St. Thomas's Hospital. It has been stated that
almost all the passengers in both trains suffered from the
shock.
Intelligence was despatched to St. Thomas's Hospital
requesting that every preparation might be made to re
ctive a number of patients, and when the sufferers
arrived, Mr. Snow, senior surgeon, with the medical
(Iliners, was in waiting to attend upon them. A num-
ber of persons who were only slightly shaken and bruised
received such restorative attention as their :cases (de-
manded and departed ; while those suffering from more
serious casualties were conveyed at once to the accident
ward, where the following, in addition to the railway
employes above noted, still remain :
compound fracture of the left leg.
Mr. Robert Summers, lighterman, of Cottage-row,
Bermondsey, severe wound on skull over the right orbit,
and compound fracture of the nasal and frontal bones.
Henry Snell, of 15, Britannia-street. Gray's-inn-road,
contusion of the back of neck.
Thomas Button, deck labourer, of 22, New-street,
mo,op—gate, contusion of chest.
Mr. Buyekinek is au American citizen, and was On
the point of sailing from England by the Persia. He is
progressing favourably, and being a young mau, will, it
is hoped, soon be able to undergo removal.
Mr. Summer's case is more doubtful, his age approach-
ing 60.
Neither of the other cases in the hospital are supposed
to be serious, excepting perhaps those of the
engine driver, and Castles, the stoker.
In addition to those removed to the hospital, casualties
occurrei to Mrs. Edwards Roberts, of Blackheath ;
Mrs. Elizabeth Price, of Bridge-street, Greenwich ; and
Mr. William Lloyd, of Greenwich, All
_these were
removed to their own homes,

SCINDE.
The following report has been issued by the directors
of the Seinde Railway Company, in anticipation of the
meeting appointed to be held on the 4th November :
" The first half-yearly general meeting has been convened
in conformity with the act of incorporation of the company.
" The directors have the satisfaction to report that since
their last meeting with the proprietors such an addition
has been made to the staff of the resident engineer as to
enable him to complete the survey of the country through
which the line is to pass, and that they have -recently re-
ceived, through their agent in India, the resident engineer's
report, accompanied by plans and sections in reference to
various surveys prosecuted at the requisition of the Bom-
bay Government.
"The directors await the decision of the authorities as
to the selection of the exact route the line should take from
Kurrachee to Hydrabad, to enable them to proceed with
the construction of the railway.
" In their first report the directors announced that they
had contracted for 30 miles of permanent way material,
the shipment of which is nearly completed. Contracts
have also been entered into upon favourable terms for the
material for a further 30 miles of railway.
"The importance of having improied means of commu-
nication along the valley of the Indus is every day, becom-
ing snore apparent. Sir Justin Sheil, late British ambas-
sador in Persia, has recently advocated the great political
advantages to be derived from a railway running the
whole length of the left bank of the Indus.'
" For commercial and social as well as state purposes
the improvement of the transit along this ancient line of
communication has become a necessity.
• " Holding as we do the Indus from Cashmere to the sea,
we have a power which, if well understood and wisely
improved, puts us in possession of the key to the whole
commerce of Central Asia, which cannot be pursued witter
out adding to the proapefity and productiveness of our
new territories* (Scinde and the Punjaub).
"The resources of modern science judiciously applied to
this line of communication would be of inestimable benefit
to our own provinces, and the enterprising European mer-
chants now resident at Kurrachee would soon afford a
medium for extensive shipments from the Punjaub and
provinces to the north-west of Delhi, and the distribution
of our manufactures to the remotest valleys of Affghanistan
as far as Herat, and in Balkh, Mira.. and Bokhara.
" The local authorities, especially Mr. Bartle Frere, the
commissioner in Scinde, and Sir John Lawrence, the chief
commissioner of the Punjaub, concur in the necessity of
affording to the provinces drained by the Indus and its tri-
butaries a free access to their port of shipment. The latter
of these distinguished gentlemen, in a recent despatch to
the Government of India, makes the following forcible re-
mark"! :
" • Indeed these two essentials, viz., the railroad and the
steamers, may be said with truth to be the crying wants of
the Punjaub in the department of public works. These pro-
vided, the commerce and produce of these territories will be
turned to their due course, viz., the Indus and its feeders,
and to their natural outlet, viz., the port of Kurrachee.
" For the railroad the face of Doab offers an unusual
equality of surface, while it possesses few or none of the
requisite resources for metalling a road. For the rivers, it
were preferable, instead of improving the navigable stream,
to concentrate all efforts on the provision of powerful
steamers of the smallest possible draught. The chief com-
missioner, while deprecating any general extension of the
public works department of the Punjaub for the present,
would yet beg most earnestly to press these cardinal objects
on the attention of the Government. He believes that, if
carried out, they would effect more for the development of
the resources of these territories than any other work, or
number of works, that could be devised.'
" A railway from Mooltan to Lahore and Umritssr would
not only afford an outlet to the impeded traffic of the Pun-
jaub and neighbouring territories, bat would of necessity
greatly enhance the importance and value of the line from
Kurrachee to Hydrabad. Scinde and the Panjaub (in-
cluding the state under control) cover an area of 130,000
square miles, with a population of nearly 25,000,00. The
flower of the European and native army occupies these
provinces, and numbers 70,000 men, more than 15,C33 of
whom are Europeans.
" This board having received official information that the
views long entertained by them, as to the best mode of in-
troducing improved means of transit along the line of the
Indus had been approved by the local authorities, they
addressed to the Court of Directors of the Hon. East India
Company the following letter
&hide Railway Company, Gresham House, Old
Broad-street, March 14, 1856.
" Sir,---The directors haying received a communication
under date the 26th Jan., from their agent in India, sub-
mitting for the sanction of this board, in compliance with
the suggestion of the Government of Bombay, a proposal
that surveys should be made by the Scinde Railway Com-
pany (enclosure 2), with a view to the extension of theline
of railway towards Lahore, and enclosing correspondence
with the Government authorities relating thereto, as noted
in the margin, copies and extracts of the same being an-
nexed for the information of the honourable court,
" 2. lam requested on behalf of this company to state
their readiness to undertake the nece-sary surveys of the
line from Mooltan to Lahore and Umritser, under the
direction of the Government consulting engineer, should
it be the pleasure of the Court to have them proceed-
ed with, and that all the expenses occasioned by the
surveys should be placed to a separate account, and be ap-
propriated hereafter according to the arrangement that
may be ultimately entered into.
" 3. Should. the Hon. Court concur in the views ex-
pressed by the commissioner in Scinde (enclosure 1), the
chief commissioner of the Punjaub (enclosure 7), and the
Government of Bombay (enclosure 2). as to the great im-
portance of the extension of, improved means of transit
along the Valley of the Indus, this board is of opinion that,
instead of making a through communication by means of a
railway between Kurrachee and Lakore, as appears to be
recommended by the agent and resident engineer of the
company, in their letters (enclosures 3 and 4), that the pre-
sent is a favourable opportunity for introducing the econo-
mical and easily established system of communication com-
bining steam transit by land with steam transit by water,
so long advocated by their chairman.
" 4. For instance, the lower portion of the line from
Kurrachee Hydrabad, by the railway already sanc-
tioned, which will avoid the dangers and delays of the
Delta, from Hydrabad to Mooltan by steamers of improved
construction, resuming the railway from Mooltan to La-
hore and Irmritier.

" A reference to the letters (enclosures 6 and 7), from
the commissioner in Scinde and the chief commissioner of
the Punjaub, will show that these views are approved of
by the local authorities.—l have the honour to be, &c.,
"
(Signed) " W. P. ANDREW, Chairman.'
Sir James C. Melvill, K.C.B. &c.'
"The directors have the satisfaction to report that the
East India Company have authorised the survey of the
country between Mooltan, Lahore, and Ulnritser, by this
company, in conformity with which a so:perintending engi-
neer of ability and experience, with a carefully-selected
staff of six enginc3rs, left Engle; for India on 4th Sept.
graication in
The directors
a ro
havepp rot,
fal of het if
conduct of statin J
Mr. .their Ne-
vcoiT'l‘deliahland entire
Warren, the ag:-.4t and representative of the company
in India."

A HERO IN HUMBLE Lin,

(From the Glasgow Times.)

Heroism is not confined to the army and navy. It is to
be met with in every rank and condition of life. The phy-
sician who risks his existence in tending the victims of a
soldier who shares a charge or who leads a f
deadly epidemic is as brave, and possibly moreosrolo,
rthnabpnothee
the ewbi
with
ha t
me na pb
iaftehs s.
tations of courage and of endurance under trial which are
coormdimnaerrycew_awlkesmoef
estocoicectays
oEfven tradein andthe lonitialtl
worthy of the highest honour and are really entitled to the
years ago, when the writer of this was a boy, there lived in
appellation of heroism. But to our tale. About 25 or 30
the eastern part of the city of Glasgow a young man named
James Lambert. He was a cottowspinner by trade,but what
rendered him remarkable then, and what calls for our spe-
cial notice at present, was his excellence as a swimmer and
diver. Among the thousands who frequented the Spring-
boat`rds, the " Dominie's Hole," or the Peat Bog on the
Clyde, " when summer days were fine," there was none
who could rival Jamie Lambert. In the water ho was as
mach athome as a duck. Over the surface he glided with
a facility which was really astonishing, while he could
fathom the deepest pool or cross the river under water from
side to side with ease. Again and again we have seen him
go down and remain so long under the surface that we really
held our breath in fear lest he should never emerge ; bat
far away the indomitable Lambert was sure to make his
appearance. With us boys he was naturally a great fa-
vourite. In youth we love the daring and the heroic, and
on Lambert, the peerless swimmer, we looked with mingled
awe and admiration. Not was it only for his superiority in
swimming and diving that James Lambert claimed our re-
spect ; many a life he saved from the Clyde. Whenever
the cry was got np that some one was drowning, there was
Lambert ready to plunge in to the rescue. Many a sore
struggle has he had with death in the channel of our native
river when the grip of the dying was upon him, yet ?seldom
did he fail in his efforts. Often and often have we seen him
go down to grope in the deep brown waters for the corpses
of those who had perished, and manya cold and pallid body
has he brought to the surface. One day a poor old woman,
while washing onthe Green, had occasion to go to the Clyde
for water, and while dipping her stoup lost her balance and ,
was precipitated into the river. For a short time she floated,
but at length she went down. At this moment Lambert ,
appeared on the spot. He was shown about the place where
the old woman had sunk, and, without a moment's hesita-
tion, plunged in clothes and all, and at once succeeded in
bringing her ashore. The poor old creature was quite insen-
sible, but after a short time she was restored to conscious-
ness. On coming again, as it were, into existence, she ex-
claimed. " Whare's the man that saved my life; let mo see
the man that took me oot." Lambert who was standing at
hand, said,
" Here I am, auld wife, and I am glad to see
you coming round." The poor old creature was profuse in
her exclamations of gratitude, and called down any amount
of blessings upon her preserver. At length she cried—" Ob,
man, I'm a puir auld body; I've naething in the warld,
amaist, but my washin' boyne, but I'll sell it before t'e'll
gang unrewarded." Lambert, who was then a working
cotton spinner, declined, of course to deprive the old woman
of her " boyne," and, slipping a small sum into her hand,
told her to purchase a little comfort for her exhausted
body. We give this simply as an instance of our hero's
actions. To enumerate all his doings in that way, how-
ever, would occupy too much of our space and of the
wentout under
a
drowning
f ereader's patience. Suffice it to say, that spring, summer,
withll ow
-
, rota autumn James Lambert was ever ready to lend his sex-.
vices to those who were perishing ; and we know tha't on
moreo
ropere
ttihedauroounbedotcciassbioondy, ho
toev ednr a,,
creature. The great event of his life, however, occurred on
the evening of the 14th of December, 1831. On that even-
ing, about half-past 7 o'clock, the ferry-boat which then
conveyed the mill-workers of Messrs. Sommerville and Co.
from the south to the north side of the river, opposite the
Humane Society-house, Glasgow-green, was ovor-crowded.
No fewer than 20 persons, mostly women, were crammed
into the boat, when another person stepped on the gun-
wale. The consequence was that the boat was overturned,
audits unfortunate occupants were plunged screaming into
the cold and turbid water. Larqbert fortunately happened
Win ih the tout at Oat time. At 0110 he dragged two or

hree of the women ashore. Agais he plunged in and
rescued another couple of the poor girls, and landed them
in safety ; and still again and again ha plunged into the icy
water on his mission of mercy, until at length he was fairly
exhausted and fell almost fainting on the bank. Only
three of the girls—namely, Jean ant Martha Hart (two
sisters), and Anne Whitelaw, were downed. Twenty-five
individuals were submerged on thatdreary winter night,
and, principally owing to the efforts & Lambert, only three
were lost. Said we not truly that he was a hero—ay, one
of the noblest stamp ? and surely wel, is he entitled to the
respect and gratitude of his fillow-citzens.
Some 25 years have elapsed sine( that night, and the
memory of its hero has—unless, `pirhaps, in some few
minds—passed away. James Lambert, however, is still
alive. His residence is in Main-street, Bridgeton, Glasgow.
In the course of the intervening periol he has been unfor-
tunately deprived of his sight, and wiat a misfortune that
is to a poor working man any one may conceive. He is, of
course, unable to do anything for his own support, or that
of his wife and children. He is, indeed, in a great mea-
sure dependent on their efforts for i scanty livelihood.
Under these circumstances, we realb think that James
Lambert has a decided claim upon tie generosity of his
fellow-men. He is now waxing old and we think it will be
a disgrace to his country if such a Lan be permitted to go
down the hill amid the evils of extreme poverty and want.
There is no lack of charity among us, so deficiency in the
appreciation of genuine heroism, and we feel persuaded
that his case only requires to be known to bring forth a
handsome recognition of his past service&
1
In conclusion, we may mention a little anecdote of Mr.
Lambert, which tends to show that the
ancient spirit is
not dead in the swimmer of other days, During one day
last summer, as is his wont, he was tiling a walk round,
the green under the guidance of a little daughter. When
he was passing the "Dominie's Hole" a'cry was raised that
.
a boy was drowning. Lambert heard the cry, and, blind as
he was, he became excited, eomMettd-?"vll4fkil,
clothes,_and..te-the -nonsfernatica ot" tle gui e, was
iiiepaiing to leap into the water with the intention of help-
ing the drowning boy. "Tell me where he is," he ex-
claimed, " tell me where he is, and I'll do my best."
The screams of the little girl attracted the attention of the
passers-by, and by main force they restrained him from
the rash purpose which he contemplated. The boy was
drowned ; but if it had pleased Providence to spare the
sight of James Lambert it would assuredly have been other-
wise. Let us give honour, then, to whom honour is due,
and extend a helping hand to the poor man in his darkness,
who, if he had been blessed with sight, would have cheer-
fully assisted any one of us if the waters had been gather-
ing o'er our heads. We have recently been giving honour
to those who have dared a bloody death on the field of
war ; let us not forget those who have shown equal bravery
on a less conspicuous but not less honourable field.

THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE ON
MECIANIOS' INSTITUTIONS.

The Duke of Newcastle attended a soiree of the Ret.

ford Working Man's Institution on Monday evening,
and, in the course of an address to the persons present,
said he need not say with what pleasure he had hailed
the formation of the Retford Working Men's Associa-
tion, but he might be forgiven if he reflected that only one
short week ago he sat in that very room by the side of his
friend Mr. Granville Vernon, for the purpose of per-
forming their duties to their sovereign and their country,
in the trial of prisoners, and in passing sentence upon
those who had departed from the paths of virtue and
violated the laws of their country. It was for them to
consider, therefore, what had induced the commision of
these crimes, and what might prevent their recurrence ' •
and he could not help thinking that societies like the one
hewas now addressing were, to say the least of it, advanc-
ing a step in the right direction, by diverting the atten-
tion
of the labouring classes into healthier and purer chan-
nels. He therefore felt it unnecessary on the present
occasion to dilate upon the advantages derivable from
societies of this nature, and he was consequently at a loss
for suitable topics to speak upon. Thirty years ago a
general opinion prevailed, and it was believed that socie
ties of a kindred nature to the present one would lower
the tone of the people, would be detrimental to the gene-
ral interests of the country, and would tend to sap the
minds of the labouring classes from the principles of re-
ligion, and expose them to the designs of men who would
lead them from the duty which they owed to their king
and their country. He did not participate in these old-
fashioned notions he thought by being well carried out
they would make risen more peaceful and contented.
Eminent men had considered that they would contribute
to the spread of deism and irreligion, but he thought
they would have a contrary effect. With the labourer in
his vocation mental exercise was but little developed, and
instead of reading be indulged in opposite pursuits. Bat
this and similar societies had a different tendency ; the
knowledge they would attain there would eradicate such
propensities, and must ultimately raise their nioral cha-
racter to a far higher standing. In some instances me-
chanics' institutions had been regarded with jealousy,
and the promoters of them had been disappointed in
their results. It struck him that one defect in them
was that they were deficient of elementary education.
When -children left school at the age of 10 or 11 years a
large gap in their education intervened, and when they
arrived at adolescence they generally bad lost the advan-
tages of reading and writing which they had obtained in
their early life, which was a great evil, and existed to a
very great extent.'They must excuse him in saying that
their town did not stand in the position in which it ought
with regard to education. Five years ago it was resolved
to erect a new national school and to improve the infant
school, but hitherto nothing had been done in eitter case,
and he was afraid, therefore, they were now beginning
at the wrong end. If they did nut sow the seed properly
and attend properly to the raw taaterial they might ex-
pect seed of an opposite description had been deposited
in the minds of the juvenile part of the population.
Another cause of the failure in the establishment of me-
chanics' institutions was the attempt to introduce into
them too much of the arts and sciences—too great efforts
were made to defend the outward shield, and but little'
attention paid to matters of more general utility. He
(the Duke) thought that Shakspere and other works of
a similar kind might be studied, but his advice was to
study historical works—he did not mean the elaborate
works of Hume and Smollett, but the current events of
every-day life, which would be better understood and
more advantageous. The institution to be properly
managed must be worked by working men themselves ;
it might be fostered and partially supported by the gen-
try of the town and neighbourhood, but the working wan
was his own best judge in a general* was' and did not
like to be kept in leading strings. He did not like to be
trammelled by the rigid rules of coercion, but liked to
act and think for himself. He agreed, therefore, with
the constitution of this association, which allowed one-
half of its committee to be constituted of working men,
and it would be their own fault if its obiects were
not properly and successfully carried out. In aoc,ent
times our ancestors boasted largely of eleemosynary gifts,
and at several of the large houses in the country the way-
farer had presented to him a glass of good beer and a loaf
of hie a I, but in course of time it was found oat that every
one that passed that way stayed and partook. The re•
medy for this was sought and found in weakening the
beer and lessening the loaf, so tbat afterwards very few
stopped there. Now, by this simile he did not wish
them either to weaken the beer or lessen the loaf of
education, but to keep their institution what it ought to
be—a good and useful institution for the working classes.
Great stress had been laid on the giving of lectures,
which were well enough in their way, but were liable to
abuse. It was a great mistake to attempt to put in the
seed of knowledge before the mind was plogghed to re-
ceive it. By lectures ideas might be instilled into the
mind not altogether of a desirable nature, whereas by
the study of books the working man would seek out the
proper objects of his choice, and must profit thereby.
Of lectures, however, there were two classes—one, that
of the itinerant lecturers, of whom he could speak with
little respect, as they were going up and down the
country merely to serve their own ends by what is called
"cramming" their audiences with what was neither
good in itself aor could be profitable to those who might
hear them ; of the second class, however, he should
speak with the greatest respect, and that was of those
gentlemen who came forward to give lectures to these
societies, at the earnest request of their respective mem-
bers, not as finished or as masterpieces of science, but as
p ehl
be
e dh
had
do
previously
s alll
y
stated ; and he must came to what be must consider
a partial system of elementary instruction. During the
present year he had been requested to give lectures in
su various
places, but had
invitations
on
the inevitable conclusion that, after all, books are the
most efficient instructors and the best adapted for
the promotion of useful knowledge
tdhe been
groundsouenodms
the one he was now addressing, and of all others of a
kindred nature. We were now
living in an age of cheap
books and of good books, and it was in the power of any
person, on the payment of a few pence per year, to
secure to himself the advantages which such cheap and
good literature afforded. In towns like Retford, how-
ever, the same facilities were not afforded in this respect
as in such places as Manchester, where their libraries
extended to several thousands of volumes. Still he was
happy to bear that the Working Men's Association at
Retford had a lending library, which he hoped would
soon extend itself, so that its various members might
have an opportunity of not only reading for and to
themselves, but extend the same privilege to the various
members of their family. The noble duke then referred
to the saying of Napoleon Bonaparte, that much of the
future conduct of a man depended greatly upon his
mother ; if this were true, and there could be no doubt
of it, those lending libraries must be of the greatest
i
utility, for in affording netruction and good advice to a
mother it was imparting it to a whole family. His
Grace then concluded by remarking that he had thought
it necessary to dilate at some length upon the benefits to
good hush ands could not
, and good
be derived from reading useful works, which
fall to male men good
Christians ; it tended to civilise and Christianise all of
those around the domestic hearth, and would not tend to
sap, but to encourage religious knowledge, without
which all our other knowledge was but as dross. Time
was when men were exaltieg their ancestors, but the
time had now arrived when every man ought to exalt
himself ; and he hoped the members of the association
he was addressing would prosecute the good work they
had so worthily begun, and thereby slake their thirst at
the true fountain of knowledge. (Loud and continued
cheering.)

The sailing vessels Sultana and Culloden left Liverpool
yesterday for. Portsmouth, whence they are to take de-
tachmontA of the German liogion to Alga By.

A. letter from Bombay, dated Oct. 3, gives the follow-
ing authentic information relative to the preparation of
the naval part of the expedition intended for Persia :
" We are very busy, and our days fully occupied in
fitting out an expedition for the Persian Gulf. nis a
formidable armament, and will include (followers and
all), 11,000 men and 1,209. horses (exclusive of seamen
and marines), 30 transports, 15 steamers of war, four of
them carrying ten 68-pounders and four from 2 to 4
ditto ; two sloops ot 18 a2-pounders ; two schooners of
2 guns each, 25 cwt. 32-pounders ; 10 heavy gunboats,
carrying two 7i inch howitzers each. It is not settled
who is to command this powerful fleet, but there is no
doubt that the Government here will wish Rear-Admiral
Sir H. Leeke to take it ; and right well it will be for
the result, we all think, if he does. A more energetic
man or gallant officer never was shelved by the
Home Admiralty. What a farce is the fact that,
while Sir Henry has been most actively and indefati-
gably engaged for some years as Commander-in-Chief of
the whole Indian navy, and at work with unflagging
zeal day and night, when necessary, in the discharge of
him duties, he stands on the list of the Royal Navy as an
admiral unfit to be actively employed in that service !
Our dockyard and 'harbour show an amount of efficiency
and activity none at home ever surpassed."
Her Majesty's 'ship Shannon, 51, Captain W. Peel,
C. 8., was swung for the adjustment of her compasses in
Portsmouth barbotir yesterday.
The Lady Valiant, Typhoon, and Coeur de Lion, trans-
ports, left Portsmouth yesterday for Deptford to dis-
charge stores.
Or
Her Majesty's shipLMeiibHp.Llll3,,.
itewet-C.B irshipping her provisions ancritores.
The Prince of Wales, Capt. Nolan, from New Zealand,
landed yesterday at Portsmouth, for the use of the Go-
vernment, two spars of Sauri pine of the most extraor-
dinary proportions ever brought to this country—viz.,
100 feet in length and 341 inches diameter, without a
knot ! They will most likely become masts for the
Queen's state yacht.
The sailing transpoit Rajahetan, Capt. Atkinson, ar-
rived at Spithead yesterday from Constantinople, with
part of the Renkioi Hospital ironwork, &c., and stores
from the same establishment ; also as passengers—Major
Chads, ot the 64th Regiment, and Mrs. Clads ; Staff-
Surgeon Carolan, Assist.-Surgeon Brunton, 19 men of
the Army Works Corps, 23 men of the Land Transport'.
Corps, 2 men of the 28th Regiment, and 1 sergeant-
major of the 64th Regiment. She landed the above men
and officers at Portsmouth yesterday, and then proceeded
to Woolwich to unload the stores.

The paying off of the crew of the screw steamship St.
Jean d'Acre, 101, Capt. George St. V. King, has been
postponed to the 6th inst., by which time all her stores
will be discharged. It is now determined to place her
with the steam reserve. The Mozander, 44, Capt. Bail-
lie, will be paid off on the same day.
The screw steam gunvessel, Surprise, 4, from Ports-
mouth, arrived at Plymouth on Thursday, and went up
Hamoaze to be paid off.
The frigate Flora, 49, in Hamoaze, is ordered to be
brought forward for commission. She was towed from
her moorings to the Devonport Dockyard on Tuesday.
The frigate Eagle, 50, having had her copper examined
and repaired, was taken out of dock at Devonport on
Tuesday, and is now making preparations to be put in
commission.

The Foudroyant, 78, was warped from her moorings
in Hamoaze on Thursday to the Devonport dockyard,
and was yesterday placed in the basin dock.
The screw steamship Cornwallis, 60, was placed in
Keyham basin, Plymouth, on Thursday, to have defects
made good.
The screw steam-corvette Satellite, 21, was warped to
the sheer hulk in Hamoaze on Thursday to receive a fan.
His Prussian Majesty's steam-corvette Dantzic left
Plymouth on Thursday morning.
The screw steamship Jura takes on board men of vari-
ous regiments, their wives and children, at Liverpool to-
day, and will sail for Cork, where others will embark,
and she will proceed to Gibraltar, Malta, and Corfu.
Among the cabin passengers are Uol. Denny (71st) and
wife, Major Trevor (14th) and wife, Capt. Gore (3d),
Rev. D. Preston, assistant-chaplain, Dr: Stockwell, Staff
Surgeon Dr. Leach (71st), Dr. Teller, and Dr. Todd.
On the °evasion of paying off her Majesty's sloop
Daring, 12, Corn. G. J. Napier, at Chatham, Colour-
Sergeant E. Harris, who was in charge of the Royal
Marines Serving on board, was presented by the crew with
a handsome silver lever watch in consideration of the
high character he bore while serving on board that
vessel during a period of more than four years. He was
also presented by the Royal Marines with a silver
snuff-box, both testimonials bearing a suitable inscription.
Colour-sergeant Harris has been 25 years in the service,
and is decorated with the Syria medal. He also wears a
Turkish honour.

General Sir John Burgoyne, G.C.8., Inspector-Gene.
ral of Fortifications, during his recent tour of inspection
at Chatham Garrison visited the casemate barracks,
which are occupied by the convalescent invalids, who
remain there until discharged, the object of his visit
being to ascertain the desirableness of carrying out
some extensive improvements which are intended to be
made in order to render those barracks more comfort-
able for the troops quartered in them. This has been
found to be absolutely necessary for the health and
comfort of the troops, and although several improve-
ments have been made in airing, lighting, and ventilat-
ing these barracks, yet there still remains much to be
done before they can be pronounced comfortable quar-
ters for the soldier.

The pensioners, having gone through the usual prelimi-
nary drills and exercises at Woolwich, were yesterday
morning reviewed by Colonel Alexander Murray Tulloch,
military superintendent. The collective numbers forming
the Woolwich and Deptford division consist of 506 hale,
able-bodied men—namely, Woolwich 416 and Deptford
90, all of whom, with but one exception, were in attend-
ance. At ten o'clock they marched to the riding-house,
and were shortly afterwards joined by Colonel Tulloch,
Col. Forbes, and officer, and Major Warde, field-adju-
tant. The men were drawn up in lines, which the colonel
inspected with the minutest attention, questioning each
individually, and inquiring if he had any complaint to
prefer. At 12 o'clock the men, preceded by the drams
and fifes of the corps, were marched back to the parade-
ground, the rain having partially ceased, where they
formed into double rank, and were put through a
series of platoon exercises. The officers of the Royal
Artillery were present in considerable numbers,
together with a goodly array of civilian; many of
whom expressed their admiration of the precision
with which the men went through the ma-
noeuvres. Having been supplied with 10 rounds of
blank cartridge, they filed past and proceeded to the
Common. Arrived on the review grcund, the Colonel
took his station at the Flagstaff, when the whole body
marched past in slow and quick time, formed line, and
retired in columns of subdivisions from both flanks, in
rear of the centre ; again formed line upon the two
centre subdivisions and. commenced file firing from left
to right, advanced in double column of subdivisions and
repeated the firing. They afterwards formed into square,
when they were addressed by the Colonel, who informed
them that he wa3 sorry the weather did not permit him
to carry out the inspection which he had intended, and
which would have given him much satisfaction. He
should, however, in justice to them remark that in his
circuit through the kingdom he had nowhere been gra-
tified with the thorough discipline in any corps of Pen-
sioners equal to that of the Woolwich and Deptford divi-
sion. He was informed, too, that during the course of
drills only one man had been absent in default. This was
an example which he should be very happy to find fol-
lo wed by the other divisions. The men thereupon raised
their caps, and gave one simultaneous cheer, which was
twice repeated, with cries of " Long life to the brave
Col. Tulloch." They were then marched back to the
parade-ground, whence they retired to their homes. The
men residing in Woolwich are all exclusively employed
in the departments of the Royal Arsenal. •
Her Majesty's steamer Dee arrived at Woolwich yes-
terday morning from Scotland, and is to enter the outer
basin of the dockyard to load with steam machinery for
the western yards.
The following appointments wore made yesterday at
the Admiralty .

Lieut. G. V. Phillips, to the Edinburgh ; Lieut. John
Reid, to the Coastguard service ; and Lieut. R, Deane,
to the Majestic.

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(From the Morning Post,)
The recent Indian mail announced that, although
preparations are continued on a large scale for an
expedition to the Persian Gulf, it is the general im-
pression—not merely among the public at large,
but in the best informed official circles—that the
Shah will yield at once to the demonstration that is
being organised, and that not a single transport will
thus be required to leave the harbour of Bombay.
We regret that nothing decisive has yet occurred,
as far as we are aware, on the European side to con-
firm so pleasing an anticipation. Ferroukh Khan,
the Shah's Ambassador —upon whose mission a cer-
tain stress has been laid in diplomatic circles, as
affording the probable means of a pacific solution
of the difficulty—has arrived in Constantinople ;
but up to the present time, as we learn by advices
from the Turkish capital, his deputation has been
wholly inoperative. The British Minister, indeed,
finding the Persian to be unprepared to concede on
the part of his Government the first indispensable
point—namely, the unconditional withdrawal of
the Shah's forces from Herat—has, it is said, very
properly refused to enter on any negotiations what-
ever, or even to admit the astonished Envoy to an
audience. It remains to be Yen whether the En-
voy, frustrated in this first attempt to gain time
by negotiation, will still persevere in carrying his
protest to the foot of the Emperor at Paris, or whe-
ther, disabused at Constantinople of the hope.
Frenclr inteiference in his favour, he- win itttfrer'
employ his influence in persuading the Shah to sub-
mit at once to the English demands. It would be
flattering, no doubt, to the pride of the French
nation to be referred to as an arbiter in the quar-
rel between England and Persia ; and, in so far
as may regard the questions of politic it law or
diplomatic etiquette involved in the present mis-
understanding, we can see no objection to the
employment of the mediatory offices of our
ally ; but the question of Herat is one which ad-
mits of no compromise and requires no arbitra-
tion. It concerns England, and England only. It
is, moreover, of such importance to India that the
• British Government is determined to settle it, and
to keep the settlement of it in its owl hands ; and
we thus earnestly trust that, amid the jealousies
and intrigues which now distract Constantinople,
M. Thouvenel may not be tempted to hold out to
Ferroukh Khan any hopes of French support in
discussing the Perso-Affghan relations, as those
hopes would infallibly prove delusive, and would
have no other end than to precipitate the evils of
war, which they would seem destined to avert.
It has been stated that M. Bouree, the French
Minister to the Court of Persia, who quitted Tehe-
ran on Ist Sept., on leave of absence to Europe,
has been directed to return to his post, for the
express purpose of counselling the Shah to yield to
our demands, and thus to save his territory from
invasion ; and, if this be true, we may still enter-
tain a reasonable hope of a pacific settlement. At
any rate, it is upon the cordial understanding of
the French and English Governments, in regard
to the Persian question, that the best chance of
peace depends ; for we cannot doubt that the di-
plomatic efforts of Russia will be exerted against
us, not merely because it is to her advantage that
Herat should become a Persian dependency, where
she would be authorised by existing treaties to esta-
blish a consul and his staff, but also because it
must be equally to her advantage that the British
invasion of the south of Persia should be carried
out, and the country should thus be weakened, if
not dismembered.
In the meantime the fate of Herat itself still
trembles in the balance. In June last, Esau Khan,
the Governor of the town, estimated the provisions
which he held in store at six months' supply ; but
authentic accounts, we understand, have been re-
cently received, hich state that all the ordinary
provisions were exhausted by the beginning of Sep-
tember, and that from that date the garrison had
been compelled to subsist upon horse-flesh, of
which, moreover, there was but a very limited
supply procurable.
The Persian general, it thus seems, imitating the
example of Mouravieff at Kars, had converted the
siege into a blockade, and was quietly awaiting the
day when decimated by famine, and desparing of
relief, the helpless Affghan garrison would, at any
rate, be driven to capitulate, if not forced to sur-
render at discretion.

Certain portions of the press both of England
and India, convinced of the urgent necessity of
saving Herat from capture, and doubtful of the
efficacy of demonstration, or even of invasion in the
south of Persia, have complained' of the lukewarm-
ness of the Indian authorities in not sending forth
Dost Mahomed Khan at once to the rescue ; but
such writers can know but little of the real state
of Affghan politics. So far from being able to ad-
vance on Herat, Dost Mahomed Khan has in
reality great difficulty in maintaining his position
at Candahar. He has to contend in the first place
with the great mass of the Parsee population, who
are to a man favourable to Persia, and who around
Candahar are equal to the Affghans in numbers,
while they surpass them in, wealth, industry, and
intelligence. In the second place, he is fiercely
opposed by the partisans of Kohendil Khan's family
which he has supplanted—these partisans compris-
ing the whole strength of the Candahar Baruckzyes
and most of the influential men throughout the
province. And, in the third place, his British alli-
ance has rendered him unpopular among the Doora-
nees in general, and aid which he might receive
from India, either in arms, money, or possibly
in officers, would be viewed by these powerful
nobles with the u'atost distrust. The Dooranees,
no doubt as a body, are intensely hostile to Persia,
but they could hardly be induced to march four
hundred miles, from Candahar to Herat, to attack
the force of the Shah—not, it must be borne in
mind, for any additional object, inasmuch as Herat
having never come under the dominion of any
member of the family of Paindeh Khan, has no
community of feeling with Candahar and Cabul
—but merely at the bidding of a Power whom they
detest even more than they detest the Persians, and
in furtherance of a policy which they would neither
appreciate nor even understand. The assistance
which we are about to furnish to Dost Mahomed
Khan, according to the Indian papers, may be of
use in enabling him to consolidate his power at
Candahar ; but if we expect that he is to save
Herat, or to retake it from the Persians, or even
to protect its independence after we have oompellei
the Shah to withdraw his forces, we are leaning on
a broken reed.

It is highly probable that Herat has fallen ore
this ; it is almost certain that it must fall before
the anniversary of the fall of Kars ; but it is equally
certain, unless the peace of Europe should be dis-
turbed, that the measures which we are now taking
in the Persian Gulf will compel the Shah's forces
again to evacuate the place (after committing pro-
bably the most frightful cruelties ou the Affghan
garrison). The means to be adopted for insuring
the future independence of the principality is a far
more obscure, though not a less important, matter
for consideration. It is a matter which will have to
be regulated rather through Teheran than through
Candahar and Cabul, owing to the implacable
jealousy of the Affghans, and which will tax to the
utmost the diplomatic ability of our Representative
at the Court of the Shah.

( From the Times.)
Ancient mythology is full of the ignoble terrors
with which the race of Titans inspired the Olym-
pian deities. These deities themselves were but
an upstart race, who had usurped the thrones of
elder and more genuine godheads, so it was not
without the lessons of experience, as-well as some
prickings of conscience, that they saw demigods,
the offspring of their own frailties, rising from
earth to heaven. These monstrous beings grew
some of them a cubic a-day, and' exhibited a cor-
responding precocity of genius and ambition. As-
sailing the higher powers by piolence and by fraud,
they inflicted injuries on the dignity of Olympus
from which it cannot be said even yet to have re-
covered. So their Majesties determined to abate
the nuisance before it should got the mastery over
them. Accordingly, besides the exhibition of a
systematic jealousy, some of these formidable
beings they destroyed with lightning, others they
chained to snowy crags, or buried under burning
' volcanoes ; some they sent below at once, others
they condemned to a succession of labours requir-
ing more than human strength and ingenuity.
.The history is by no means to their credit, but it
is instructive, for the circumstances have been con-
tinually repeated, and the same parts acted over
again in every age. There is at this moment before
our eyes an example which might compare with
the story of any earth-born Titan of old. We live
in a metropolis which for the rapidity of its growth,
for its huge dimensions, for its energy and its en-
terprise, certainly has no match among the crea-
tures of time. Its increase baffles calculation.
The map bought last year is now obsolete, and
one that still looks new is an antiquarian curiosity.
The inhabitants already outnumber several king-
doms, yet they are still more remarkable for their.,
wealth and enterprise. Our annual increase is
population of 4 gnat city, What is to be done

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