The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-22 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1856.

SIR CHARLES N.APIER AND SIR JAMES
GRAHAM.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Castle Eden convict-ship sailed last evening from
Portsmouth for the eastward, and also the Avon steam-
vessel, Secord Master Veitch, for the westwar(l. The
Clifton, No. 106 transport, aalled.'last evening for the
eastward. The Mayflower, 2, gun-boat, Lied). Temple,
arrived yesterday from the eastward. The Goldfinch,
2, gun-boat, Lieut. Boxer, arrived yesterday morning at
Portsmouth, from the eastward. The Arnelie, No.. 203
transport, came into harbour yesterday morning to dis-
charge stores. The Pearl, 21, :Captain Sotheby, went
out of harbour yesterday, and anchored at Spithead.
The Wanderer, 4, screw despatch-vessel, Commander
J. P. Luce, baying received the whole of her st,n.ers on
board, left Chathafn on Wednesday for Sheerness, to
await her sailing orders. This vessel is supplied with
two large Lancaster guns, and she is also provided with
a large quantity of cases of Lancaster shells. Her crew
hare been paid in advance.
The Mohawk, Commander F. A. Close, fitting at
Chatham for a despatch steamer, having been completed
and made ready for sea, a telegraphic despatch arrived at
Chatham lath on Thursday evening for her departure
for Sheerness on the following day. She has a comple-
ment of 90 men.

An order has been received at Chatham dockyard
directing that the men employed on the establishment
are to discontinue working overtime, with the excep-
tion of those employed ou the ./Etna floating battery.

21114 T BLESSED BABY-LINEN.

(From Punch.)
MRS. SMITH TO MRS. JONES.

"PARIK, March 14.—My deny Mrs. Jones, take my word
for it, babies will be all 'the fain for a -month, at least
amongst what Smith calls. ,:ont.lll...etyaStles.• ,fl cath be
othlirwise ; thr tie "show of the baby-lines--the sweet
Empress's things for the okild make babies,
as one may say, quite catching.
" Well, I've just come from Mademoiselle Felicie's' in
the Vivienne. A ticket was brought to Smith by the
Count (Smith tolls me I mustn't trust names -to
the post), who always beats Smith at billiards out of
more than Smith likes to own, in the handsomest way,
for two for the baby-linen ; which, as Smith
always grumbled at the expense, I wouldn't, for that
reason, take with me. So, myself and young Mrs, Viewer
—who wished more than I can mention, but which you'll
quite understand, to see the patterns—we both of tts went
to Mdlle. Felie's, where we had to form what is called here
a queue, but which, in English, may be called a termina
tion —there was such a crowd to see the blessed children's
things ; for the Emperor, who is the greatest man iu
Europe—and this would be enough to prove it if nothing
else did—the Emperor has had two sets of things made np,
one for a darling Prince, and arse for a sweet Princess, so
that he mightn't be taken by surprise, if Providence was
ever so bountiful. A feeling that does him honour as a
husband, and immortal glory as' a crowned head, as I said
to young Mr. Flower, who I'm sorry to say is whakis called
a liberal, which means anything but manly genefosity to
the wife of his affections and the dear children that may
at some time bless him.

" After wo had followed the movements of the queue—
whieh twisted in and out like any snake ; but all, like the
French, in the best politeness, and with no pushing what-
ever—it came to our turn to enter the rooms, several offi-
cers—Colonels or Generals at least, I'm sure of it—in the
handsomest manner attending us. Oh, my dear Mrs. Jones,
it is something to be borne a prince in France ! I thought
Mrs. Flower would have fainted—the things-were quite too
much for her. And even for myself, I must Bay, I felt as
if it would have been a pleasure to weep ever Belittle, the
scene was so moving. 41ideed, everybody was affected ;
and I'm proud to say itoefrown countrywomen—aad there
was a swarm of 'ern—showed as much interest in-the things
as if they'd been made up upon their own account—and,
who, with any heart, can wonder?
"As I told you, there's two sets, for boy end girl—the
boy's trimmed with redomml the girl's with blue, which,
on the white, quite makes up the line of the beautiful song
for which Mr. Henry Russell has been made a full colonel
of the legion of honour, with permission is the decline of
his life to sell out for the advantage of his family ; a fa-
vour, as I am told, never before heard of in France, and
by no means likely to he heard of again.
" Well, my dear, if I was to try to tell you what we
saw, you'd take me for one of the Arabian Nights ! There
was one partic'lar sat, frock, under things, and all besides,
you might have drawn through the Empresee wedding-
ring. And then the heap of articles ! Why, allowing
the babies—for I'm speaking, as one may say, both for
the red and the blue—allowing 'em not to grow a bit,
and there was more than a full change a-ddy, with-
out one going to the wash, for a twelvemonth ! Take
and turn all the Foundling Hospital into new-born
babies, anti there is clothes enough—if it isn't improper to
name such a thing in the same, breath with foundlings—
clothes enough to shift 'em every day for three months,
boys and girls into the bargain.
"Bat what struck me aid Mrs. Flower with astonish-
ment was the quantity and the fineness of the lace. The
Empress, as I said to Mrs. F., \rho quite agreed m ith
the Empress must be a happy woman ! And then the
work ! Well, I don't like to think small of my own coun-
try—specially in needlowork anti cebroidely ; but the
work does take away one's breath. The worst of it was,
oar queue was made to move so fast through the rooms,
that we couldn't examine even with the asked eye any-
thing like-what wo wished—and -for touching a single
jhread, yen. tnight rat-wen havearieci, as Mrs. Flower said, to
your hand upon a white cloud in Heaven. However,
you may take my word for it, there never ----
veek fera Lacia embroidered 1-oE3eta aud-violets, inet
a bit too much' to say, you !inst.,- riarri hive smelt 'ctn.-
Besides this, I'm• told—not that we saw it—that out of
compliment to the English alliance, the Emperor has had
the British lion woven as a pattern in some of the things,
which is, you will allow, very handsome.
"I've always stood up for the Emperor ; because what I
always admire in men—l'm tot speaking of Smith, under-
stand—what I admire is, determination, will, my dear ;
power! Now all this baby-linen convinces me that Louis
Napoleon is the best man for France ; knowing, as it's
plain he does, how much can be clone with muslin.
"There was a report that the Conference—as they're
called—were all coming over to Mdlle. Felicie's to look at
the baby-linen ; but that an electric telegraph from St.
Petersburg to Count Orloff, for state reasons, and on pain
of the knout, which must be dreadful, forbid him.
"If I can, I'll bring you. home, from Mdlle. Felicie her-
self, a pattern of ens of the Princess's blue bonnets ; and
also.a pattern of a Talmo, which, I'm told, is called after
a French tragedy-player, just as you might name a muff
after an English one ; and stn, dear Mrs. Jones,
" Yours, sincerely,
- " SUSAN SMITH.

"ES. We're to have a hundred guns wh n the Prince
is born. You know what Smith ! There's no rousing
him to any pitch of admiration. For three nights I could
have vowed I heard the beginning of the gnus, and woke
him accordingly ; but of course he wouldn't hear anything
of the sort, and I couldn't make him. The Popo is coming
to christen the Prince, which, I hear upon good authority,
will be christened Napoleon Pius."

A WHITE SLAVE FOR SALE.

(Front Dr. Parson's " Inside View of Slavery.")

Mr. C., a dry goods merchant, of Boston, was with me
at the little city of M., where he went to visit a partner in
trade. He had not been in a slave state before, and was
bitterly oppo,ed to emancipation. Two merchants, slave-
holders, had been in our company on the way to that city.
Whenever slavery was talked of, Mr. C. uniformly con-
curred with them. The next morning after we arrived we
saw a handbill in the bar-room, in which forty-four female
slaves were advertised for sale. Stepping out into the
street, we found those girls sitting on the sidewalks. At
the farther end of the row was a very beautiful girl, appa-
rently perfectly white, and neatly dressed. The moment
Mr. 0. looked at her, he exclaimed, " What do you bink
that white girl is sitting there with those negroes for ?"
" I presume she is a slave, sir," said I.
"That can't be," replied Mr. C; "just look at her ;
why, I never saw a prettier girl in iny life."
Now, Mr. C. had heard that likely quadroons are held
as slaves and sold in the maaket, but ho had never believed
that a young lady, so entirely American, so elegant in form
and feature, so intellectual in appearance, with pure blue
eyes, and the perfect rod and white Caucasian complexion,
was in the same degraded condition as the African girl ;
and his fine sensibilities were greatly shocked at the idea
that a white girl, so beautiful, was deemed to such dis-
grace. His heart was steeled against sympathy with the
blacks, but, it was unshielded on the side towards the
white race, to which his mother, wife, and daughter be-
longed. Hence he was unprepared to believe it, when I
said to him, "She is a slave, sir !"
These was the precise number, including her, advertised
in the bill. Still incredulous, Mr. C. stepped up to the
drover, and asked " Is that white girl a slave, sir ?"
" That's not a white girl ; she is a nigger, air," replied
the drover.
__ _ .

hie lips with suppressed indignation, paused,
and then ejaculated, " Is it possible !"
" Does she belong to you ?" said he to the drover.
" Yes sir," replied the drover.
" What do you ask for her ?" inquired Mr. C.
" I was offered 1,800 dollars for her last night ; I want
2,000 dollars for her."
" What do you ask for that one ?" said Mr. C., pointing
to a light quadroon sitting next to the white girl.
" I will take 1,200 dollars for her."
" Well, hory much for the black ones, here, at this end
of tho row ?"

" I will take 800 dollars a piece," replied the dealer.
" Why, can that white girl—"

" Thai isn't a white girl; that's a nigger, sir, I tell you,"
interrupted the drover, contemptuously. At the same time
ho removed a woollen cap from her head, which exposed
the light brown hair, and added, "Yon see her hair is
waved."

That is regarded as evidence that African blood is min-
gled with the white. Mr. C. had now become excited, and
he exclaimed, " Well, then, can that white nigger do more
work than one of your black niggers, that you aak so much
for her':"

no," replied the drover; and, perceiving that Mr.
C. did not comprehend the superior value of female beauty
to physical ability in a slave, he added, " But you know
she is a high-priced fancy girl."
" By heavens 1" vociferated Mr. C., " 'tis toobad !" and,
turning to me with his clenched hands raised towards the
heavens, he added, " I will never say another word against
the abolitionists, so long as God lets me live !"

A correspondent of Galignani writes :--" Neuralgy,
which is now a very common complaint among ladies,
may be attributed to a part of the head being so unco-
vered, in consequence of the extreme smallness of the
bonnets, a fashion which is not at all suited to such a
cold and variable climate as that of France.",

Notre Dame will present an imposing Pinctacle on
Sunday next. The Emperor and the members of the
chief bodies of the state go in pomp to the cathedral to
"
hoar a To peum" celebration of the recut birth.
"

IRE NEW BISHOP OF CAULISLE O.N

EDU~IATION.

Yesterday evening the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Henry
Montague Villiers, the Bishop elect of Carlisle, preached
at Trinity Chuzcb, Marylebone, in aid of the funds of
the Metropolitan Training College at Highbury. After
dwelling upon the 13th verse of the 103 d Psalm, which
be chose for his text, he directed attention to tee ob-
jects of the college.
.Time was, he said, and that not
many years ago, when an idea was prevalent, even
amongst men well edncated themselves, that anybody
woald do for a schoolmaster. The notion was, that
if there was some old man or old woman in a village,
for whoth nothing else could be done to keep them off
the books of the parish, that old man or old woman
might be converted into a schoolmaster or schoolmis-
tress, Since that time men had taken a juster and a
higher view of the importance of education, and perhaps,
in the whole era of the world, there was never a time which
might be so appropriately described as the age of education
as that in which we wereeiow living. What Christian per-
son was there who did not rejoice at it ? There was also
a time when thoughtful persons objected to education,
fur they said it would, have a tendency to lead men
into infidelity, and induce them to'dispute the truth.
of God's holy Word. Again, he said, men bad taken a
juster and higher view of education. They now knew that
the more knowledge was brought to bear upon the
Scriptures for the purpose of testing their credibility,
the more they would shine, and the more certain would
it appear that they were from Goa and that they were
designed to show men the way to a glorious hereafter.
lie granted that there was a danger connected with
education, and it was against that danger that those
who had the management of the Highbury Training
College were most careful to gaard. It was possible ,
to
,put into et,,chitd's, baud a,okiarP weitPon•with which
it tnieht dditielf "etheracgritit, ;Very ; but a, child
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weapon ShOnld be watched, warned against

its danger, se i.instilteted in its use. ' And so with edue
'wain:l—unless it was 'watched and—properly gurded, it
might prove `highly dangerous not only to its possessor
'but ti all who were within the sphere -of his influence.
It was quite possible to have a teacher very different
from that Old superannuated man or woman to whom
he had alluded—it was possible to have it teacher who
had a great deal of knowledge, and better than that,
who had a heart full of love, and yet that teacher might,
be altogether inefficient and useless when placed in a
school. They might have all the appliancies of education
—good rooms, adequate funds, proper books, and perfect
apparatus; and yet witlfall these, if they had not get the
right man to teach, they would have a most imperfect, he
might almost say, a most useless school. Those whom
he addressed were probably aware that a great iluprove-
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induced to go through a considerable amount of extra
education,—they were, as it were, apprenticed to the '
master and the managers of the schools, who were bound
to give them an excellent education. They were then
examined at certain periods of the year, and according to
that examination, made by an independent inspector ap
pointed specially by the Cot-wait-tee of Council on Educa-
tion, they received a very important salary as a reward
of their work. Now it was thought that after they had
left the school in 'which they received instruction, acd
before they took cchoolB of their own, they should be
received into institutions where they might gain the tact
and the judgment to' impart t 3 others- the excellent in-
struction they had received. Knowledge was useless
when it was boxed up in their own heads, and therefore
it was absolutely necessary that young men designed for
the scholastic profession should be taught how to im-
part it to others. If, then, such institutions as that for
which he pleaded were suppoi ted, there would be secured
a race of well-educated and 'intelligent teachers, who
would net only benefit the schoole over which they were
placed, but would promote the real good of mankind
and the glory of God. Adverting to the Bible as the'
foundation of all sound education, Dr. Villiers re-
marked that it was frequently read where it ought not
to be read. Where teachers did not appreciate the sacred
volume, or where they knew little of anything else, they
made it a task book, making that 6istasteful to a child
which ought to become the c suifort of his after life. He
therefure recommended to his congregation this college,
which was not a piece of mere inactive machinery, but
an institution, the conductors of, which were ready to
sacrifice everything iu order to send forth men thoreughly
zealous for that great work which they believed to be
eestrvial to the welfare of the country at large. The ear-
nest appeal of the bishop elect, on- behalf of the college
was responded to by a liberal subscription in aid of its
funds.

RAILWAY AGOIDENTS IN 1855.

(gm, Captain, Dou.rylas Ganon's Official Report,)

From the returns which have been made to the de-
poirtment by railway companies, it would appear that in
.1856 24U perions have been killed, and 414 peranns have
beeiiifinjurad; on railwiye. Of this number, 28 killed
and 33/ injured here-pasongees ; 125 killed and 92
j strait- warsLasr I AL", ir.4 '447 ay:
employed under contraitors on me railways ; an 'ea'
persons have been killed and 21 injured who were
neither passengers nor servants of the railway corn-
on ,
wrlyN, 10 were ktiled- and 11 injured from catiil4- be-
yond their own control, and 13 were killed and 20 in-
jured from want of eauLion on their own part. Th 4 re-
maining 63 accidents are chiefly attributable to defective
arrangements, which may bealasFed as follow : Defects in
the construction of works or rolling litock. Insufficiency
of accommodation or of appliances for securing safety..
Insufficient btaff. Inadequacy in the syBtein of working.

Under the head of detects in the construction of the
works or rolling stock may be classed four accident:,
from trails leaving the rails, of which one occurred on
the Wimbledon and Croydon Railway, from the line
having been constructed without sufficient ballast ; one
on the L mdon and North-Western, at Preston Brook,
from the permanent way being too light for the traffic it
was required to carry ; the third on the North British,
attributed to a joint-key having fallen out, the permanent
way being also in a detective condition ; and the fourth
occurred on the South-Eastern, in the lligham tunnel,
owieg to the defective condition of the road in the tac-
tic!, partly arising from bad drainage. In all these cases
it is stated by the inspecting officer that the accident
probably would not have occurred had the joints of the
rails been fished. The use of self-acting points ha: occa-
sioned several acri lents during the past year. Accidents
from the fracture of couplings caused the death of one
passenger and injured six vassengen. Five accidents
occurred from boiler explosions in the year. The want
of siding aces has led to several accident .
The inadequacy of the signal arrangements has entered
into the causes of 15 accidents. The inefficient position
of the tail lights of trains has been the partial cause of
several accidents. The want of time-pieces has contri-
buted to cause six accidents. The want of a communi-
cation between the guard and enginc-drivir of a train
has contributed towards nine accidents. The want of
break power is alluded to in the case of five accidents.
From the reports on several accidents, it would appear
that many railway servants are overworked to a dange-
rous extent. The negligence of servants of railway com-
panies has contributed to 36 of the accidents which have
been reported upon. A careful examination of the seve-
ral accidents shows that those railways upon which
negligence is most apparent are those where the system
of management is most defective. A frequent element
of danger in excursion trains has been the practice of
running them without any time table ; that is to say,
the time at which they are started as fixed, but the
engine drivers are ordered to make the best of their way
to the end of their journey. The unpunctuality conse-
quent upon defective arrangements has caused accidents
in 14 cases.

Although it cannot be shown what has been the pro-
portion of accidents to the number of passengers =-
Toyed, yet it is certain that the number of passengers
conveyed in 1855 must have exceeded the number con-
veyed in 1854 ; and, therefore, since the number of pas -
sengere killed or injured from causes beyond their own
control is smaller for 1855 than it was for 1851, the pro-
portion will also be smaller.
This diminution must be taken only to a modified ex-
tent as an evidence of improved management by the
railway companies ; for it is worthy of remark that the
number of accidents to trains which have been considered
by your lordships of sufficient importance to be investi-
gated has increased ; that the analysis of the accidents
shows that the larger proportion have been due to causes
within the control of the management ; and that the
proportion
.of accidents due to this cause has not dimi-
nished as compared with former years.
The inquiries by officers of this department into rail-
way accidents commenced in 1840, and in the report for
that year it is stated that out of 35 accidents 21 were
attributable, amongst other causes, to defective arrange-
ments, 18 were attributable to misconduct of servants,
and 6 to mechanical causes.
The following is the proportion in which those causes
have been distributed for the last tbree years :
In 1853, 76 accidents to trains were reported upon ;
and it appeared that in only 5 of the 76 cases did purely
accidental circumstances alone cause the accidents ; and

in only 11 other cases were purely accidental circum-
stances combined with other causes to create the acci-
dents. In only 28 cases was the direct negligence of
inferior servants a contributing cause of the accidents,
and in some of these cases the negligence was traced
either to the men having been overworked, or to defects
in the state of discipline.
In 1854, out of 85 accidents which were reported upon,
in only 21 instances did purely accidental circumstances
enter into the causes of the accidents, and in only 16 out
of the 21 casts were the accidents attributable to acci-
dental,circumstances alone. The negligence of inferior
' servants entered into the causes of 36 of the accidents,
but in only three cases were the accidents due to that
cause alone. Three accidents were from causes entirely
beyond the control of the company. Hence only 22 out
of the 85 accidents could not have been guarded against.

The following is the present 114 of Marshals of France
(the recent promotions included), with the respective
dates of their creation—S. A. I. Prince Jerome Napo-
leon, 1850; Comte Reille, 1847; Valiant, 1851; Magoon,
1852 ; Comte de CsAtellane, 1852 • Comte Baraguay
1854; Pelissier, 1855 ; dointo Aandon, Can-
robert, aLA Baguet, 1866.