The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-08 00:00:00

MR. BRICUIT'S PEACE PRINCIPLES.

The new screw steamship Hero, 91 guns, at
Sheerness, Proceeded on Saturday on a final trial of
her machinery, preparatory to the Admiralty
authorities receiving it from the contractors,
MeSsrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field. Captain. E. P.
Halsted, of the Cressy, guardship of steam reserve ;
Mr. G. Flatland, Engineer of the Dockyard; and
Mr. J. H. Langley, Inspector of -Machinery for the
Steam Squadron of Reserve, superintended on the
part of- the Admiralty, Mr. T. Field and Mr. H.
Warrener, _of the firm of Maudslay, Sons, and Field,
with their staff, conducted the machinery depart-
ment. The ship left at 8.30 a.m., and proceeded
down the Swin to the measured mile beacons. She
continued her trials until 2 p.m., and returned
into : harbour at 3.30 p.m. Her mean speed
was 11.75 knots per hour, her mean number of re-
volutions was 65 per minute, her vacuum 26, her
steam pressure 191 b. per square inch. Her draught
of water forward was 16 feet 3 inches, and after 21
feet: The temperature in the engine room and stoke
hole was, in consequence of the funnels fitted under
the•directions of Mr. G. Blaxiand, reduced. consi-
derably, the stoke hole being only 65 deg., and the
engine room only 58 deg. on the average, although
20 fires were being kept constantly fed by the body
of stokers. The Admiralty authorities expressed
themselves in the highest terms in regard to her
machinery, which worked admirably and without
a fault.
The new screw steam frigate Forte, 51 guns, is
ordered to be received at Sheerness to-day from
Woolwich. Her engineS are by Messrs. Maudslay
and Co.
The Locust steamvessel, Lieut.-Commander J. B.
Field, embarked at Sheerness Ordnance-wharf
Cap•tain Wolf's company: of Artillery, Lieuts. Ellis
and 133 g, ruiners and artillerymen, with eight
women and. 10 children, on Saturday last, and pro-
ceeded with them to Woolwich, for the steamship
Melbourne, bound for Barbadoes. There was also a
detitchment ibr Jamaica, from Sheerness, left in the
Locust.
The Virago, 6, paddle sloop, arrived at Spithead
yesterday, &ma Havre, where she had been to land
the funeral car, of Napoleon I.
The Hannibal, 91,, screw depot ship of the steam
reserve, Captain G. T. Gordon, was taken out of
Portsmouth harbour on Saturday to exercise her
engines, after which she returned to her moorings.
On the water leaving the dock in which the Ur-
gent, 6, iron' steam troopship, is docked at Ports-
mouth, an examination of her bottom exhibited no
signs of any damage having been done by her
grounding off Chichester on Monday. She has con-
sequently been ordered to again prepare for the em-
barkation of troops in about ten days.
The Meteor, 14 gun steam battery, 150-horse
power, was taken up on Saturday from Portsmouth
dockyard, and moored in Porchester Lake in the line
of fire from her Majesty's ship Excellent, one of
whose gunboat tenders will commence firing at her
forthwith, to test the difference of the effects pro-
duCed by solid shot upon an iron battery lined with
wood and one built of iron entirely, as the Erebus.
A new description of screw propeller, the inven-
tion of Mr. Phillips, C.E., is ordered to be tried at
Portsmouth on Wednesday in the Bullfinch gun-
bpat. The blades arc curved inwards, which the
patentee imagines will do away with the " broken
water." Should it do so there will be great power
gained. and less slip.
The Vulcan, iron steam troopship, in No. 9 dock
at Portsmouth, is ordered to be fitted with new
engines of 400-horse power by Maudslay.
The Mersey, 40, experimental heavy class of
frigate, is being brought forward for service with
all despatch.
Tjie Royal Sovereign, 131, new screw three-
decker, and the Algiers, 91, screw two-decker, at
Portsmouth, are having their engines disconnected.
A letter, received- from the Shannon, 50, dated
River Hooghly, Sept. 19, states she left Calcutta
on Sept. 15 for Hong Kong; and on reaching the
Saridheads met the China mail, bringing orders
froM Rear-Admiral Sir M. Seymour for the frigate
to return to England. She returned to Diamond
Harbour, and was at the above date taking on board
invalids, and was to sail for Spithead on Sept. 21,
toughing at Trincomalee and the Cape of Good
Hope.
The paddlewheel steam frigate Centaur, 6, Capt.
Clifford, from Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on
Saturday. She will be paid off and. placed in the
third class steam reserve.
The gunboat Forward, from Bermuda, Scilly, and
Falmouth, arrived at Plymouth. She will be put
out of commission and. placed in the third class
steam reserve.
The Royal mail steamship Athens sailed from
Plymouth on Saturday for the Cape of Good Hope.
The screw steamship Royal Albert, 121, Captain
E. B. Rice, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral
Sir C. Fremantle, K.C.B. ; the Renown, 91,
Captain A. Forbes ; the Orion, 90, • Captain
D'Eyncourt; the Brunswick, 80, Captain E. Om-
mannev ; and the gun-boat Skipjack,-tender to the
Admiral, left Plymouth Sound under canvass on
Saturday morning for Bantry Bay.
The following appointments were made on
Saturday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Tweeddale to
be agent of mails ; Charles R. P. Forbes and.
Samuel Winnecott, masters additional to the Ex-
mouth; Mr. Archdeacon to be naval instructor of
the Brunswick, Tice Needham, superseded ; Mr.
Rae to be inspector of lunatics, Haslar Hospital,
vice. Stuart, deceased.

THE .2101 Y.

1 The Duke of Cambridge, as General Command-
in g-in-Chicf, Major-General Lord Rokeby, attached
to the Foot Guards, and a full staff, were present
at an inspection of the Ist battalion of the Cold-
stream Guards on Saturday morning in Hyde-park,
when the battalion went through a new drill of
field evolutions,-contemplated to be introduced into
the army, and which they have been engaged in
practising during the last six weeks.
Last week draughts of the 42d, 71st, 72d, and
93d -Highlanders left the quarters of their respec-
tive tdepots in Scotland to join their regiments in
India, embarking at Gravesend.
The following reinforcements embarked at
Gravesend, on Saturday, on board the East India
ship-Bombay, 1,400 tons, for service in the Bombay
Presidency :—Ensign C. H. Atkinson, and 11 men
of the 61st Regiment, and 43 men of the 91th Re-
giment, from Chatham; 1 subaltern and 3l men of
the '7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards, 61
men-of the Bth Hussars, Captain C. Steel and 32
men•of the 17th Lancers, and Ensign A. S. Gilbert.
and 13 men of the 70th Regiment, from Canter-
bury; Ensign W. S. Brown and 12 men of the Ist
battalion 4th (King's Own), from Walmer ; 2 men
of the 33d (Duke'of Wellington's) Reoiment, from
Fermoy ; 16 men of the 71st Highland Light In-
fantry, from Stirling ; 10 men of the 72d High-
landers, from Aberdeen ; and 57 gunners of the
Royal Artillery, from Woolwich. The Bombay is
also ordered to proceed to Cork to embark the fol-
lowing troops for India :—Major H. It. C. Godley
and 12 men of the 28th Regiment, Ensign R. A.
Cox and 42 men of the 57th Regiment; 27 men of
the 89th Regiment, and 34 men of the 97th Regi-
ment, from the East India depots at Fermoy ; 10
men of the 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment,
from Buttevant ; and 72 men of the 91st Regiment,
from Pembroke.
Orders were on Saturday received by Colonel
B. Sandham, commanding the Royal Engineers at
Chatham,
directing the 31st company of Royal
Sappers and Aliners, under the command of Capt.
Amelius B. Evers,
this day to the to proceed from head-quarters
Sedley's) urrah Camp. The 3d (Major C.
H.
orders companyto-procetoGibraltar,
Royal Engineers, under
are expected to em-
bark-in a few days.
A detachment of the 41st Foot consisting of 3
offieevs and 50 men, from Jersey, are ordered to em-
bark 'at Portsmouth this da) u board the steam-
transport Melbourne, to join the regiment in
Jamaica.
On Thursday and Friday
3 officers and 154 men,
drawn from various re giments,leftAsmthaelltetaamrtpy at
f
Colchester for service in India.
invalid soldiers has been forwarded from
to the military hospital at Great Yarmouth.
c camp
In. accordance with the sentence of a district
court-martial, which recently assembled at Chat-
ham Garrison for the trial of Sergeant GAL Hale,
pay-sergeant of the 4th grand division of the
Chatham division of Royal Marines, on a charge of
making, away with the sum of £42 whioh had been
intrusted to him for the payment of the men,. and
himself from
_barra_cks without
also for absenting to the rank
• leave; the prisoner has been reduced
b t .consideratio
u in n
and pay of a private. The Court also adjudged him
to be Imprisoned for 42 days,
of thtistate of hishealth, 40 days of the imprison-
ment were remitted. The whole of the sum made_
away with by the prlsoner made good.

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Lord Panmure, while connected with the late
Government, presented to the citizens of York two
of the gur.s which had been captured on the fall of
Sebastopol. These guns were inaugurated on Fri-
day afternoon last, and they were carried in pro-
cession through the principal streets of -the city,
prior to their being deposited in their final resting-
place, which is within a few hundred yards of the
Castle. The military would have joined the pro-
cession had not a countermanding order been re- 1
ceived from the Duke of Cambridge, who gave as
his reason for making the order that if the soldiers
were allowed to take part in the procession, it
might be looked upon as an unfriendly act towards
a now friendly Power. This order had also the
effect of preventing the officers belonging to the
Bth Hussars from attending the grand banquet in
the Guildhall in the evening, at which there were
present among the guests—the Earl of Carlisle, the
Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of York, the Hon.
and Rev. S. W. Lawley, the Hon. W. E. Dun-
combe, and the city members, Mr. Westhead and
Colonel Smyth. The Lord Mayor presided.
After several toasts bad been drunk,
The LORD MAYOR proposed the " Health of the
Earl of Carlisle," which was received with enthu-
siastic cheering.
The Earl of CARLISLE rose, and after the cheer-
ing had subsided, he said,—My Lord Mayor and
Gentlemen,—I return you my very best thanks
for the manner in which, after my health has
been so obligingly proposed, it has been re-
ceived by yourselves. (Applause.) I feel I am
greatly indebted to the Lord Mayor and corpora-
tion of this ancient city for having given me the
opportunity of being present on an occasion so truly
interesting. (Cheers.) You have thiS day, my lord,
with your fellow-citizens, planted in a conspicuous
position, within this venerable town, some of those
cannon which formerly frowned—aye, and spoke,
too, in most destructive accents from the walls of
Sebastopol. (Cheers.) If they were merely to serve
as the memorials of national strife and continued
ill-will—(hear)—l could scarcely have congratu-
lated you upon the grant you had obtained.
(Cheers.) We only know the Russians as those
whom we found brave and skilful foes, and whom
we are now glad to look upon as friends. Nay,
more, we trace with anxious interest and sympathy
the course of the young Emperor—(hear, hear)—
who did not begin, but who ended the war with us
---(cheers)—and who seems now intent on develop-
ing the pacific resources of his mighty empire, and
striking off the yoke and fetters of the serf. (Cheers.)
I wish we may have reason to say quite as much of
all our allies in the late war. (Cheers.) But those
guns, however, may be justly considered as the mo-
nnment of deeds nobly done by all classes of our
fellow-subjects—of the brightest achievement and
no less heroic endurance of the officers and soldiers
of the United Kingdom—of the just renown of that
army which seemed to come out of its sharp and
fiery ordeal with more freshness, and
.glow, and
vigour even than marked them at its opening.
(Cheers.) No doubt the pluck was at all times the
same ; but, in point of health, of equipment, and of
general efficiency, they kept advancing with every
strain of the conflict, and the greater the wear and
tear grew the toughness of their fibre, and the
brightness of their polish. (Much cheering.) Most
suitably,then, will th ese old Russian guns,transferred
from their past theatre of strife and bloodshed, be-
come the spot where you, my lord, this day have
placed them, close to the circuit of these ancient
walls whose mounds formed the encampment of old
Roman Emperors, which witnessed many an embat-
tled array of feudal England, andlooked down on the
widest plain of a peaceful land, and where, I trust,
their ministry of death and destruction being now
accomplished, they will have found their undisturbed
and final resting place. (Cheers.) My lord and gen-
tlemen, our military friends have not been able to
join us on this occasion from a feeling, if not an ex-
cesss, of delicacy, which we must respect, although
we must' still regret. But they will know that,
whether present or absent, all our hearts bound to
our brave defenders—(cheers)—to whom we owe it
that we can meet together in splendid civic halls
and quaff the peaceful and friendly goblet. (Cheers.)
And, as an expression of our feelings towards the
military service generally, and an especial recogni-
tion of the memories of this heroic anniversary,
henceforth only to' be happily associated with the
glories of an united patriotism, I beg to give to you
—" The brave men who perilled their lives in the
Crimea in defence of the liberty of nations."
Captain 'MARSHALL, of the 2d Life Guards, re-
turned thanks.
The LORD MAYOR then proposed " Our City
Members, with the honours to which they are en-
titled." (Three times three cheers.)
Mr. J. P. B. WESTHEAD, M.P., rose amid loud
cheering. He said—My Lord Mayor and gentle-
men, I assure you I feel extremely grateful for the
honour which you have been pleased to do to your
city members, and although it does not become me
to appropriate to myself an undue share of that
honour, yet, if you will allow me to speak, simply
on my own behalf, I cannot but deem it a source of
high gratification to myself that, after going
through two eventful sessions and endeavouring to
perform my duty as your representative, I am on
the present occasion greeted with so much kindness.
(Applause.). I have felt it my duty to appear among
you to-day in answer to the invitation of the cor-
poration, and I cannot but confess, notwithstanding
the strange views which at this day, and in certain
influential quarters, are expressed on the subject of
peace, that there arc times when war seems a positive
, duty. And for my own part, in regard to all that re-
lates to the cause of the Crimean war, I consider that
there was an unavoidable necessity for our country-
men to place themselves in battle array, and to step
forward in defence of the liberty of nations.
(Cheers.) I have therefore felt pleasure in coming
to-day to assist in the ceremony which has been in-
augurated, and I trust the city of York, which has
manifested its enthusiasm and its sympathy with
our brave army and navy, will continue to give its
support to its representatives in every effort fairly
to maintain the honour of the country and to sup-
port a force adequate to the exigencies of the times.
(Cheers.) For my part, and in my observation of men,
I have not found that the men who were the most
courageous, and on great occasions the most deter-
mined to support their rights, have been the most
meddlesome and the most quarrelsome. On the
other hand, I have generally found that the men
who have been conscious of their power have been
indisposed to littleness and meanness—(applause)—
and I trust that our country, whieh ought to hold
its own on all occasions, and ought to be able to
look the world in the face and to.main.tain its rights
—(clicers)—will never, from any paltry considera-
tions of economy, descend from that high position.
(Applause.) I should be sorry for one moment to
appear to attack on this occasion any person who
may differ from me in regard to this question of
war and peace, but I think that that talented man,
Mr. Bright, the other day at Birmingham, admitted
quite as much as it is necessary for me or any other
Englishman to contend for- upon this question. I
took an extract from the speech of Mr. Bright,
which, with your permission, I will now read. He
said—
" I have not, as you have observed, pleaded that this
country should remain without adequate and scientific
means of defence. I acknowledge it to be the duty of your
statesmen, at all times, with all possible moderation' but
with all possible efficiency, to take steps which shall pre-
serve order within and on the confines of your kingdom."
Well, I shall be content with that, and there
will be no diffefence between myself and Mr.
Bright on that subject, except on the question of
degree. (Hear.) I assure you I cannot but
feel a sympathy for those brave men who went
forth and perilled their lives in the Crimea, main-
taining, as they did most gallantly, the honour and
fame of our country. An orator, to whom I alluded,
said that-he supposed many of those brave men
who fell were forgotten by all but their mothers.
Not so. (Hear, and cheers.) It is, indeed, but natu-
ral that mothers should weep over their sons,
though they cannot but feel the glory that attaches
to their name, falling as they did in the cause of
their country. Only yesterday I came down in the
railway train with a lady, of whom I have no per-
sonal knowledge, but in the course of conversation,
as she was travelling to this part of the country, I
referred to the fact that I was coming o this
t and
and on this occasion. In speaking of the Crimea and
of some occurrences there, she • said, " I have never
dared to read those accounts, for I lost a darling
son in one of those actions before Sebastopol." A
little further inquiry led me to the name of the
lady, but of course I pressed my
.questions no
further. To-day I had
an opportunity of speak-
ing to my son
the night-I re een:ed:my wound with him and four
'
(Major Westhead) of that officer
so
whose mother •
lamented him, and he said, " On
others of
his
attack, regimentanasoonaft I shook hands before the
wound," e r he entered the Quarries he
received a fatal
(continued Mr. Westhead Happily for myself
)
wounded, has survived, and he son, who got severely
had the pleasure of meetinr, he regrets he has not
, much honour to those who° foughtyou egg
have done so
on that occasion. (Cheers.) lut in the Crimea
3u
forgotten those heroes,and their names,.o
whichhave not
understand are recorded in connexion with the
I
Ceremony of the day, are placed on the stoney
the pedestal on the site which you have selected for
these monuments of British fame ; and I quite par_
ticipate in the view of the noble lord, who has so
discoursed to you that I seem but a dia.:
eloquently
cord on this occasi
his strain. (Cheers.)
evidence of your zeal in
on after the full harmony of
and navy, and I trust that 1
end
I thank you for all the
connexion with our army
'n m humble capa-
avouring not
city I shall have your oupport in en e