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London, England, 1858-07-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LO ND ON, TUESDAY

culated to occasion prolonged (ffscussion, have
been brought forward at a later period of the
session and eventually carried ; and there is cer-
tainly no reason why the Government of India
Bill should not receive the indulgence which their
Lirdships have invariably been willing to accord
to other measures.

It was yesterday our painful duty to announce
a temporary failure in laying down the Atlantic
Submarine Telegraph. That it is only temporary,
we are convinced, but it may be necessary to
remind those prophets of evil, who rejoice in the
calamity, that no truly great enterprise was ever
accomplished without casualti*. Every precau-
tion that could be suggested had been taken.
Nothing that could conduce to success had been
omitted. Still that there has been a failure, and
that delay and expense will be occasioned thereby,
is undoubted. But that cannot lead to the aban-
donment of the glorious undertaking. The BRUCE
had been twelve times defeated before his crown-
ing achievement at Bannockburn. He had been a
fugitive with a price set on his head, but he knew
the value of perseverance, and eventually tri-
umphed. Such unflinching perseverance, such
indefatigable energy, is indispensable in any great
undertaking, and the Directors are bound to di--
play it if they desire to receive and merit the con-
fidence of their constituents.

Bat they must profit by the salutary, although
painful, lessen. They must look to the causes of
failure, and see whether they cannot be removed.
The separation of the cable into different vessels
greatly enhanced the difficulty and risk of the
undertaking. Even two ships, such as the Niagara
and Agamemnon, wore scarcely adequate to the
gigantic task. They had not stowage room either
for their proportion of the cable, or for the neces-
sary coals.
Au admirable suggestion has been made by the
Times, which we gladly insert in our columnF.
It suggests that the Leviathan, which could carry
the whole cable from land to land, with an ample
supply of coals, and any number of scientific per-
sons, should be resorted to. We insert the ipsissima
verba of the leading journal. They are as follow:
"The Leviathan is as yet only a shell. Except-
ing that it has not even its engines on board, it is
exactly in that state to which, at great difficulty
and cost, the Agamemnon and Niagara have been
reduced for this service. In the Leviathan any
length of cable that could possibly be required
could be held and stowed in the manner most con-
venient for paying out. The pitch of that huge
vessel will be quite inconsiderable in the roughest
seas, and the strain on the cable will therefore
be uniform. Sufficient length may be taken on
board for the most lavish use of the cable, even
to twice the distance from one shore to the
other. It is plain we must not be stingy of
material, if we are to succeed. The ingenious
writers who enlighten the public on the wonders
of the deep, tell us that currents carry the
cable miles out of the ship's course before
it touches the bottom ; that, ever so freely payed
out, the cable probably hangs in festoons from ono
submarine mountain top to another ; and that,
even if the cable is so fortunate as to escape the
sharp edge of a precipice, mere suspension between
two distant points may stretch it beyond its
strength. If this be so, the more cable we have,
within reason, the better. No ship afloat but the
Leviathan could carry an ample supply for the
whole distance. It alone could carry coals suffi-
cient for paying out the whole cable at the rate of
five, four, or three miles an hour, if necessary,
and could afford, even in the midst of the process,
to make any delays that might be thought ad-
visable."

No addition is required to these conclusive
arguments. The Leviathan can do the work, and
the Leviathan is fortunately idle at this moment,
so that her services may be readily made avail-
able. It will be an admirable opportunity for
testing her capabilities. There is no elaborate
fitting up that should be taken away before the
commencement of the work. Everything is in
the proper state for the double experiment.
We need not expatiate on the extraordinary
advantages to trade and commere from the oppor-
tunities of obtaining early, we might say
instantaneous, information respecting the state
of the transatlantic markets. On this point,
the following observations of the Times will
meet general approval. It says :—" If one
man could send an instantaneous mes-
sage across the Atlantic, he would speedily make
his fortune at the expense of all the rest of the
trade. If forty men divided the monopoly, those
forty Neould divide the profits of the trade. Early
intelligence is not enough. The earliest oppor-
tunity of sending messages and orders is not
less necessary. Through the aid of our own
columns every merchant in London might
know the state of prices all over the United
States, and, indeed, al over the whole,American
continent, every day, or every hour of the day ;
but that knowledge would be unavailing if the
merchant had not also the means of sending to his
correspondents orders founded upon it. Hun-
dreds at both ends would be pressing not only to
receive messages, but to send them ; and 110
doubt the great bulk, perhaps 99-hundredths, of
the messages transmitted would be of this private
and uninteresting character. One cable would not
do it. The Leviathan might be constantly
employed at the weak, till cables enough had
been laid down for the demands of commerce."
Should this be correct, and we see not how it
can be controverted, there is room for many
companies, and the Leviathan may pay handsome
dividends, although not in the way anticipated by
its projectors.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Government emi-
grant ship Golconda, 1,124 tons, Capt. Dodson, sailed
from Liverpool on Friday, the 2d inst., for Sydney, New
South Wales, in charge of Surgeon-Superintendent John
Carlton Bury, with 22 married couples, 149 single men,
134 single women, 21 boys between the ages of 1 andl2,
24 girls between the same ages. 5 female infants, and 1
male, making a total of 373 souls, equal to 3401 statute
adults.

DUTIES IN THE CoLONIES.—A return of the duties
payable under colonial acts on goods imported into and
exported from the British colonies was published
yeßter-
d.,y (in continuation of Parliamentary paper No. 285, of
session 1856). It fills 62 pages.
The authorities of Monte Video hava ordered the
working of the gas works from which the city is lighted
to be discontinued, believing that the introduction apt;
is in some way connected with the existence of yellow
I,
fever.

LADY BIILWEIt LYTTON. --We understand, anon good
authority, that the friends of Lady Bulwer Lytton, who
has recently been placed in a lunatic asylum tear Lon-
don, are about to take steps to establish her sanity by an
appeal to the legal tribunals of the country.—mornmy
Post. _

_
EXTRA MAIL TO INDIA.—The following notice wai
limed from the General Post-office, yesterday, viz :
" A mail for the Mediterranean, Egypt, the Mauritius,
and India, will be made up in the General Post-office on
the morning of the 10th inst., to be conveyed from South-
ampton in the Sultan steamer.
AMERICAN LETTERS.—The steam-ship Kangaroo will
sail from Liverpf of for New York on Wednesday with
mails. Letters will be received at the Liverpool Post-
offize on that day till 1.45 p.m., and with late fees till
2 p m.

The Avon, which left Southampton on the 9th ult.
with the outward *Brazil mail, arrived at St. Vincent,
Cape de Verde, on the morning of the 20th ult., tv •
days before her time ; and. the Tamar, which left Rio de
Janeiro on the Bth ult., with the homeward Brazil wail,
arrived at St. Vincent on the 214 ult., three days before
her time. The Avon was coaling when the Tamar ar-
rived, and it has never happened before that the out7,a-d
and homeward Brazil etearners met at St. Vincent, The
Tamar was placid in quarantine, and o'lliged to wait till
the Avon had coaled. The Royal Mail Company are
about to make arranzernente to enable both steamers to
coal at one time at S-. Vincent.

INTENDED VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO
CHB.RBO VEG.

A Paris letter, in the Journal du Havre, says
" The Emperor, it is said, has written from Plom-
bieres to Queen Victoria to invite her Majesty to
attend the fetes at Cherbourg ; and it is affirmed
that the Queen has replied by telegraph that h. r
Majesty accepts the invitation, and will be at Chei-
bourg on the 7th of August, accompanied by Pi ince
Albert and the Earl of Malmesbury, Minister of
Foreign Affairs. This news, of which we can gua-
rantee the bona fide character, proves that the un
derstanding between France and England, if it
were ever shaken, is at present as intimate as
ever."

coußr CIRCULAR.

DEPARTURE OF THE QUEEN FOR ALDER

SHO r.

The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by the
Princ?sses Alice and Helena, left Buckingham Palace,
at half-pact four o'clock yesterday afternoon, for the
Camp at Aldershot. The Royal suite consisted of Lady
Churchill. Hon. Emily Cathcart, Lord Colville, Captain
the lion. D. De Rog, and the Master of the Household.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were conducted
to their carriage by the Marquis of Fzeter, Earl ails.-
war', he Duke of Beaufort, the Marq is of Absrcorn,
Viscount Newport, and Lord Begot.
A detachment of Life Guards formed tke escort from
Buckingbatn Prlace to the private station at Vauxhall
of the South-Western Railway.
H, r Majesty travelled by a epecial train to the Farn-
borough station.
The Earl of Derby had an audience of the Queen at
Buckingbam Palace yesterday.
Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and the Princesses
Louisa and Beatrice, attended by Lady Caroline Bar-
rington, the Hon. Beatrice Byng, Colonel the Hon. Sir
Charles Phipps, and Lieut. Colonel F. Cavendish, left
Buckingham Palace, at three o'clock yesterday after-
noon, for Osborne, Isle of Wight.
The Prince of Wales has returned to the White Lodge,
in Richmond Park, attended by Major Lindsay and Mr.
Gibbs.

Her Roya! Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty the Queen and his Majesty the King of the
Belgians, yesterday morning, and took leave of the
King, the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, and the Count
of Flanders.

HPr Royal Highness the Duchess of gent visited the
Duchess of Cambridge yesterday.

Prince Edward or Saxe Weimar visited her Royal
Highneqs the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Clarence
House, St. James's.
Colonel Claremont bad an interview with the Earl of
Darby yesterday at his official residence in Dawning-
street.

The Mayor of Birmingham, Sir J. Ratcliff; Mr. Stand-
bridge, the town clerk ; Mr. Corder, the clerk to the
Board of Guardians; Mr. Alderman Manton, and Mr.
Prime, transacted business at the Home-office yester-
day. The deputation was introduced by Mr. Bright,
M.P., and Mr. Scholefield, M.P.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes-
terday. An appeal from the Admiralty Court, "The
Helen Heilyers," part heard, was concluded. An appeal
from the Admiralty Court, "The Evangelismcs," was
commenced.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of Ctnada and Heligoland.
Dispatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday
to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope and St.
Helena.

THE QUEEN AND THE INDIAN ARMY.

Sir Colin Campbell has promulgated the following
general order to the army in the field, dated Camp,
Bareilly, 10th May, 1858 :
The Commander in• Chief bas received the most gra-
cious commands of her Majesty the Queen to communi-
cate to the army the expression of the deep interest felt
by the Queen in the exertions of the troops, and the
successful progress of the campaign.
Sir Colin Campbell has delayed giving executio❑ to
the Royal commands until he was able to announce to
the army that the last stronghold of rebellion had fallen
before the persevering attempts of, the troops of her
Majesty and the Hon. East India Company.
It is impossible for the Commander-in-Chief to express
adequately his sense of the high honour done to him in
having been chosen by the Queen to convey her Ma-
jesty's most gracious acknowledgments to the army, in
the ranks of which he has passed his life.

The Commander-ia•Chief ventures to quote the very
words of the Queen :
" That so many gallant, and brave, and distinguished
men, beginning with ono whose name will ever be remem•
bered with pride, with Brigadier-General Havelock, should
have died and fallen, is a great grief to the Queen.
"To all European as well as native troops who have
fought so nobly and so gallantly, and amongst whom the
Queen is rejoiced to see the 93d, the Queen wishes Sir
Colin to convey the expression of her great admiration and
gratitude."

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Duchess of Cambridge yesterday.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar
visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yester-
day, at Clarence House, St. James's.
The Duchess of Marlborough was confined on Sunday
of a son. We are happy to learn her grace and infant
are progressing favourably.
The Duke at Rutland leaves town to-day for South-
ampton, to embark on board his yacht for a cruise in
the Channel.
The Earl and Countess of Portarlington have arrived
at Claridge'e Hotel, from the Continent. The noble
earl and countes', during an absence of 11 months, have.
made the tour of Italy, France, Switzerland, and Ger-
many.
We have authority to state that Lady Sondes' ball,
which was fixed for the 12th instant, is unavoidably
postponed.
Lord and Lady Bolton have been placed in mourning
by the demise of their fourth son, the Hon. Frederick
Orde-Powlett, who died on Saturday last at Worksop:

The Hon. Randolph John Want, member of the Legis-
lative Council for Australia, has returned to the Bruns-
wick Hotel, St. James's.
Sir Thomas and Lady Cochrane bad a dinner party
yesterday at their house in Belgrave-square.
Mrs. and Miss Starkie, and Mr. John S'arkie, have
left the Clarendon for Huntroyde Hall, near Burnley,
Lancashire.

DPATEI OF EARL GOWER.—We are sorry to learn that

the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford have sue
tained a (Jeep domestic affliction by the unexpected de-
mise of their eldest son, the you:hful Earl Grower. On
Saturday the young earl, in charge of the usual attend-
ante, left Staflord-house for Lilleshall, the rnarqui:s'e seat
in Shropshire, and appeared to be in the enjoyment of
excellent health. Oa Sunday be was attacked by illness,
and according to a telegram received yesterday after-
noon from Ltlleshalc expired yesterday morning. The
earl was born in 1850, and his premature death has
plunged the members of the noble house of Sutherland
into the deepest grief.
DEATrt 01' VISCOUNTESS FALKLAND. —We regret to
learn that Viscountess Falk.and died on Friday night
la- t after a short illness. Her ladyship was the youngest
of the five daughters of the late King William IV. by
Mrs. Jordan. aril was born Nov. 5, 1803. She married,
Dec. 27. 1830, Viscount Falkland, by whom her lady-
ship had issue an only son, Captain the Hon. Lucius
William Cary, born Nov. 24, 1831. Lady Falkland was
possessed of considerable literary talent, and her last
a ork Chow-cbow," has been only a few months before
the public. The Earl and Countess of Munster, Viscount
and Viscountess Campden, Lord Frederick and Lady
Augusta Gordon liallyburton, General and Lady Mary
Fox, Lord and Lady De Lisle and Dudley, and other
families of distinction, are placed in mourning by the
lamented event.

DEATH OF SIR THOS. WM. BLOMEFIELD BART.—We
have to record the demise of the above respected baronet,
who died at Brighton on Wednesday last. Sir Thomas
was born March 4, 1791, and married Nov. 11, 1819,
Salome, daughter of M r. Samuel Kekewich, of Peamore,
Devon. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of
his father, Gen. Sir Thos. Blomefield, who received the
dignity for his ser +ices as commander of the Artillery at
Copenhagen in 1807, in August, 1824. The deceased is
succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, the Rev. Thomas
Eardley Wilmot, horn in 1820, and married first in 1844
to Mies Maitland, third daughter of the late General
Sir Peregrine Maitland, the niece of the Duke of Rich-
mond ; and, secondly, in 1853, to the eldest daughter of
the Rev. J. D'Arcy J. Preston.
MEMORIAL TO SIR E. B. LYTTON.—Yesterday a de-
putation from the Aborigines Protection Society had an
interview with the Earl of Carnarvon, the Under-Secre-
tary for the Colonies, at Downing-street. The deputation
consisted of Messrs. R. N. Fowler, L. A. Chymerovzow,
Edmund Fry, G. L. Neighbour, F. W. Chesson, and the
Rev. H. Richard. The secretary read the memorial.
The views of the deputation were urged by various
speakers. Lord Carnarvon said that all the subjects to
which the memorial had alluded were now under the
serious consideration of Sir E. B. Lytton ; but he should
not fail to direct his special attention to those parts of
the memorial which related to West Africa and the
Cape, With regard to the latter colony, he was happy
to say that the intelligence received by the last mail was
somewhat re-assuring, and gave reason to hope that the
hostilities between the Orange Free State and Moshosh
would die out much sooner than had previously been
anticipated.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S BANKRUPTCY BlLL.—This bill
covers 158 pages of paper, and contains 461 clauses.
The following are the principal alterations proposed :-
1. The distinction between traders and non-traders is
to be done away with. 2. The county court judges are
to have the powers of commissioners in bankruptcy, but
their duties are not defined. 3. The messengers and
brokers are to be done away
with, and their duties per.
formed by the official assignees and ushers. 4. The
official assignee is to be paid by eel try- for all such duties
as be performs in that capacity, but be may be appointed
creditors' assignee if the creditors be so minded. 5 The
creditors are to appoint an assignee of their o wn, and fix
his remuneration, and they are also to appoint three in
spectors to overlook and advise him. 6. The distinction
in classification of certificates is abolished, but the corn-
wist.ioner is still to retain the power to deprive a debtor
of a certificate, to suwend it,
or to annex conditions to
it. 7. Estates may still be wound up under deeds of
arrangement ; but this mode seems only applicable
where all the creditors rfikle in Great Britain: 8.
Bankrupts, for certain offences, are liable to imprison- •
ment, and the commissioner has the powers of a magis- I
trate to enable him to commit them for trial.