The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-02 00:00:00

GENERAL TERMINUS AND GLASGOW

HARBOUR.

The half-yearly meeting of this railway company
was held in Glasgow on Wednesday. Mr. W.
Buchanan, M.P., in the chair.
The report was held as read. It stated that the
revenue account exhibited a continued improve-
ment in the traffic, the gross receipts in the past
half-year being 6,3311., and in the corresponding
period of 1857 4,7521., showing an increase of
1,5791. As this increase was, however, counter-
balanced by the large amount of interest paid dur-
ing the half-year, the directors recommended that
the dividend payable for that period be again at
the rate of 2, per cent. per annum.
The report was adopted.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.

Miles
opened.
1857.

26
118
198%
94
6%

67%
93
489

183%
283
203►%
465
25%
90
286

161
647
183
289 k
60

173%
9%
28
567

301(
171
108 N

12
682

Receipts.
NAME OF RAILWAY.
1857. 1856.
BRITiou.
- -
Belfast and Ballymena .• .• • • •• •• .. 1,231 1,020
Belfast and County Down.. • • • • • • • •
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 2,432 2,456
Bolton, Blackburn, and West York
Bristol and Exeter • • ....
Caledonian. ........... •
Chester and H01yhead........... 4,782 4,773
Cork, Blackrock, and Passage • . .• 194 174
Cork and Bandon • • •• •• •• •• •• •• 24 4 233
Dublin and Belfastl unction ........ 1,077 1,423
Dublin and Drogheda...... 1,412 1,412 1,443
Dublin and Kingstown • • 1,364 999
Dundee and Arbroath ........ 557 545
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junctioi 947 945
Dundalk and Enni5ki11en............ 403 456
East Anglian.... • • • 907 96
East Lancashire • .............. 5,331, 5,809
Eastern Counties and Norfolk.... •• 1 23,710 22,693
Eastern Union. • .. •
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5,228 5,324
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee-- 2,907 3,026
Exeter and Creditors.. • . ..........
Farness Railway ... ..............
Glasgow, and South-Western........ 6,215 6,035
Great Northern•• •.. ...... • 21,906 20,103
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 6,366 6,240
Great Western •••••••••• • • • • • • .. • • 26,768 25,395
Irish South Eastern • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • - -
Lancaster and Carlisle ••• • • • ........ 5.696 5,472
Lancashire and Yorkshire.... ••• • •• 20,075 21,416
Leeds Northern ...• ••••••• • • • • • • • -
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... -
London and North Western ..• 55,415 59,306
London and Blackat all ••• • • • ........ 1,191 1 1,210
London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 11,903 10,530
London and South Western. • • 13,302 13,272
Londonderry and Enniskillen 701 611
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c.
Manchester, Shalield,and Lincolnshire 9,142 9,331
Manchester and South Junction...... 8,,3 738
Maryport and Carlisle • •
Midland .• ..... 29,352 28,703
Midland Great Western (Irish) 3,909 3,903
- -
Newcastle and Carlisle.. • •
North British • • .. • • 4,678 4,620
North Staffordshire .. • ... 6,151 6,970
North-Western ••..• • • • -
Scottish Central .• 2,730 • 2,655
Scottish Midland •• • • • • ........ -
Shrewsbury and Birmingham 1,527 1,614
Shrewsbury and hes ter .• 2,664 1 2,815
Shropshire Union .... •............. 782 1 8 9
South Devon .•• • • 2,274 1 2,571
South Eastern •• .. •....... 15,071 I 14,319
South Wales • •
- -
South York., Doncaster, and Goole ..
-
Ulster. • • 1,23- 9
1,358
Waterford and Limerick 912 1,106
West Cornwall ...... • ....... 65 t I 606
Whitehaven Junction ............... 329 424
York and Newcastle, and Berwick &
York and North Midland & Leeds.. - -
FOREIGN.
Dutch Rhenish •• 3,680 2,39 3
Lyons and Mediterranean .• ........
lionterean and Troyes
Namur and Liege ..
Northern of France •••• • • • • ........ 33,998 37,079
Orleans and Central
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Rouen.
Paris and Strasbur,gh • •
-.ouen and
%Vest and North-West of France -

TEE CAGLIARI ENGINEERS.

(From. the Daily News.)

Watt has been restored to this country. Park
has been liberated conditionally, and will Eoon, no
doubt, be liberated absolutely. When it is con-
sidered that during ten months of Palmerston and
Clarendon there men languished in prison with-
out a single effort being made for their liberation,
the speedy results that have followed the more
energetic intelven'ion of the present Ministry are
no übt calcal 'tea to create mixed feelings f
satisfaction and humiliation. As far as these two
unfortunate Englishmen are concerned, there is a
certain degree of satisfaction in reflecting that they
have at length been released from an intolerable
burden of unjust punishment and unineri ed suffer-
ing. As far as England is concerned, it is to the
last degree humiliating to know th et this libera-
tion has not been effected till one of the sufferers
has lost his reason and both their health ; that
it has not been effected rill the whole European
world has been astounded at our strange lone-
suffering ; and that it has at la-t been conceded
as an act of grace, not paid as a debt of justice.
It is of the last importance that the international
view of this question should not b 3 to=t sight of.
It would ill comport with the high bearing for
whica Euelaad in her dell:nes with foreign States
was once so honourably proverbial, it would be-
tray au entire forgetfulness of what is due to the
just demands of na-Fonal self respect, if the English
people or the Euglish Gomel went were fora moment
to treat the res orat.ou of Watt and the qualified
liberation of Park, as a sufficient atonement for the
indignity which, iu their persens, has been offered
to their country. Our case against the Govan -
ment of the Two Sicilies is, that these two English-
men were seized witlrout a shadow of right, and
' imprisoned for ten ni:2wlis in clear violation of
international lew. To suppose that such a case as
this is to be adequately answered by sending one
of the men home, after he has been driven mat by
ill-treatment, and liberating the other because his
heal,h is so far undermined that his lite would be
jeopardised by further imprisonment—is a pitiful
conceit unworthy even of Lord Clarendon. Even
as far as the sufferers themselves are concerned, it
is plain, on the very face of the matter, that their
claim for reparation is irresistible. Mere liberation,
) with shatter eel health, impaired intellect and ruined
prospects, from a cruel and unjust imprisonment,
an never be accepted by the released prisoners
themselves as an expiation of original wrong and
protracted. outrage. Some substantial compensa-
tion is the very least that ought to be demanded in
a case in which no compensation can be an equiva-
lent for the wrong.
But if this be so as between these prisoners and the
Neap Titan Government, how much more strongly
is it the case as betweeri the Crown of England and
the Crown of the Two Sicilies ? Wrong has been
committed; insult has been offered; repa:ation must
be demanded and obtained. From first to last the
imprisonment of these two men has been as wrongful
as it has been merciless. Is it a sufficient acknow-
ledgement of that pro racted wrong and that studied
contumely, simply to unbar the prison doors, which
ought 'reser to have been closed, to terminate a
confinement which ought never to have commenced,
and to release these two Englishmen, after their
ten mouths' captivity, without a single expression
of regret, a single promise of reparation, or the
faintest semblance of an apology ? We rather
fancy that the Tudor Queen and the Puritan Pro-
tec or would have known how to rekct and resent
such an insolent act of condescension as th s. Do
our readers remember the story of Cromwell, Car-
dinal Mazarin, and the Quaker t In the-e days of
diplomatic deference to despots it may really be as
well to recall it. The vessel and cargo of a Quaker
merchant (there being no war between Fr eiCe and
this country ) had been wrongfully seized by a French
cruiser. The Quaker complained to the Protector,
and the Protector represented the matter to Maza-
rin. Utz irin, after procrastinating as long as he
could, finally declined to interfere. Upon this
his Highness instantly caused seizure to be made
of three French vessels, then in English ports, had
their proceeds sold, paid the Quaker the full amount
of his claim, and then directed his Latin Secretary,
Mr. Milton, to inform the Cardinal th_a_rtee
ebb
balance was held at the disposal of the French
Treasury. This very " unamiable''. Pr_
_It:: 7t,
we are told, was attended by the bet?.ter;olo,,,ii..de
not only procured comper satin for /I.of'a
similar
wrong, but ;prevented other wrongs.
kind from kiting attempted in fun the present case
There is an especial reason
-f diplomacy should be
why the Cromwell style of
in dealing with Kin,
we done who are interes'eri
preferred to the
Ferdinand. it is not Cagliari seizure. Sardinia
in this question r with ourselves. of in it Sardinia
has a C 011201012 stake•on of the vessel, captain, and
claims the
precisay the same grounds restitution
crew, on
the liberation t unh.ids,a,s entitled us
0 the ungLueerS. Who
tO del'and
doubt that the policy of
the Neapolitan Court
in their heir tardy concession of complete or qual:fisd
liberation to the two Englishmen, has been die-
fed by a desire to deprive Sardinia of the sunpor-
of England, in Prosecuting the chi n in which. the
üb-Alpine Sta e is more immediately concerned?
But are We prepared to be the ready dupes of an
artifice so transparent Are we to take this

tardy concession, wrung- from
fear and- emit, not
justice, as a full satisfaction of our demands ? Are
we to waive all claim to apology and reparation,
and be very thankful that it has graciously
pleased bis Majesty of the Two Sicilies to forego,
out of his sovereign will and pleasure, the luxury
of continuing to inflict the mortal -pains--of
Neapolitan incarceration on two Englimhtnen
whom he never had a shade of right t ) detain
in durance for a moment ? If we allow our-
selves to assume such an attitude as this, to
evade a common prosecution with Sardinia, of
the claims of international justice, beciuse we
have been insulted by the parade of royal clemency
—then indeed we shall have been rather losers than
gainers in the world's estimation and our own self-
respect by the restoration of Watt and the release
of Park. But we will not anticipate such a con-
summation as this. It is fair to credit with some-
thing nobler and manlier than this a Ministry
who, in this matter of the Cagliari, if they have
not done much, have yet accomplished mire in one
month tt an my Lords Palmerston and. Clarendon
achieved in ten.

PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM'
SETIF wßealf.

Yesterday a meeting of the Royal National Life-boat
Institution was held at its house, John-street, A-delphi,
Captain Lambert Perrett in the chair: We alao observed
present Admiral Sir Thomas 11-rbert, ; Admiral
Bullock; Alex. Boetefear, E-q.; George Lyall, Ea
M.P.; Admiral M'llarrly; W. H. 'Radon, E.g.; Captain
W. H. Hall, R.N., C.R., F.R.S.; Captain Egerton,
RN.; and Captain Ward, R.N., Inspector of Life-boats
to the society. •
T. a Secretary (Mr. Lewis) having read the minutes
of the previous meeting.
A reward of 61. was voted to the crew of the Institu-
tion's tubular life-boat stationed at Rhyl, in considera-
tion of their laudable conduct in putting off in the life-
boat and rescuing, during a gale of wind, three fisher-
men from the sloop James Holmes of Douglas. The
fishermen bad boarded the sloop after she had been
abandoned by her crew. They had not, however,'heen
long there before they made signals of distress. The
chain had given way, and they were compelled to take to
the rigging. It was now blowing,a, terrific gale, and' the
vesiel was thrown on her beam-ends, and the poor crest.
tures were only rescued from an appalling death a few
minutes before the ,loop was in a thousand pieces.
A reward of 19/. ss. was also voted to. the ere w of tl a
Lowestoft boat, which is likewise in connection with
the National Life-boat Institution, for their praiseworthy
conduct in rescuing, during a hurricane, the crew of five
men from the sloop Orwell, of Arbroath, which was
wrecked o 3 the Newcome Sands on the 17th ult. Rome.•
diately on the return of the life-boat with the men of the
shipwrecked vessel, she again put off with her gallant
crew to the assistance of another vessel which was seen
on the sands, but which had fortunately been driven
over them, and therefore did not want the help of the
life-boat.
A reward of 14!. was likewise granted to the crew of
the same life-boat, for rescuing 12 men from the brig
Oswy, of Shoreham, which was during a heavy gale of
wind wrecked off the Gorton Sande.
Rewards amounting to 451. were also voted to the
crews of the life-boats of the institution stationed at
Harpley, Pakefield, and Lytham, and other life-boate,
for putting'off with a view of rendering assistance to
ships in distress...

A. reward of 3/. was voted to a boat's crew for rescuing
seven from a boat belonging to the brig Rose Macroon,
of Waterford, which during a gale of wind had sunk
eight or nine miles off Great Saltee Island. The poor
sailors, who had Wen for many hours driving in their
frail boat before the wind, were found to be quite ex-
hausted when rescued.
A reward of 61.103. wag also voted to the crew of the
Mundesley life-boat, for putting off with the view of ren-
dering assistance to the crew cf the schooner Jane, of
Ipswich ; but no sooner had the boat been launched than
the spar to which the poor sailors were clinging went
down. A few minutes previously the shrinks of the
poor sufferers were distinctly heard. The vessel was
quite unseaworthy. Had she been stronger built the
crew might easily have been rescued.

A reward of lb/. was likewise voted to a yawl's crow,
hr putting off with the view of rendering assistance to
the crew cf the brig Quicksilver, which bad been in
collision with another ye Rd, and was seen in a sinking
conditien off Winterton. When the yawl approached
her, however, it was found that no one was on board,
her crew, it was supposed, having been taken on beard
the vessel she had been in collision w+th.

Toe thanks of the Institution, inscribed on vellum,
were also presented to Mr. John Brook, of the Grange
far.r, Isle of Wight, in testimony of hrs highly merito-
riou, s,rvices ing, by wadirg into the surf, to
rescue 15 persons from the brig Tornercria, of Portugal,
which, during s gale of wind, was wrecked off Ather-
fidd. The other men who hal assisted in the crew had
received pecuniary grants from local subscriptions,
A raward of 51. was also voted to two boats' crew for
putting off and rescuing the crew of the barque Eclipse,
of Yarmouth, which, during a gale of wind, was wrecked
ff Shetland. A!so 3/. to three meu for pu tng off in a
boat and rescuing, at the risk of their lives, three persons
who had capiizid from their boat on the oast t.f Shet-
land during a gale of wind. A poor woman who was in
the boat perishe t on the occasion.

The Moelfra life-beat, on the Anglesey coast, which
belongs to the National Life-moat Institution, had res-
cued the flat Hannah and her crew from imminent dan-
ger on the 6th ult. The weather was at the time very
severe, blowing dead on shore, and the crew perfectly
helpless from cold and long exposure. Besides great gal-
lantry and labour, much skill was displayed in getting
the vessel off from her dangerous position. rhelefe-boat's
crew spoke very highly of the behaviour of the lie boat.
It wa-, r- ported that the society's life boat stationed at
Weimer, had recently put 4 ff to a ship that was eeen on
the Goodwan Sands. It was found however on approach-
ing the vessel that no one was o•, board. Thisisanother
lamentable Plustratien of the abirelute necessity for one
of her Majesty's small steamers being constantly kept,
with her fires banked up in the Downs, with one or two
life-boats attached to her. The steamer might also be
ready to tow life-boats out to the vicinity of the Good-
win. We have often urged the adoption of some such
p'an ; and the National Lift-boat Institution, seconded
by the large mercantile and other bodiesof the City have
m,merielieed the late Board of Admiralty on this impor-
tant and ❑vi.:nal subject ; but their appeal was not re-
garded. We trust, however, ti,a; the übj et, which ie
perfectly practicable, will again be revived, and that ie
gill receive more a:eention from the present Board than
the late one. Same hundreds of our fellow creatures
every year peri,h on these dangerous outlying sands he-
f rre any human aid can possibly reach them from the
shore, as in the case above recorded ; and it is full time
that serneti ing should be done to lessen this dreadful
wa,le of huma❑ life, and the incalculable misery result-
ing from it ameegst the widows and orphans of the
drowned.

The Portmadoe life-boat, whic'a belongs to the institu-
tion, as Paid to have rendered important services to the
steamer Plynl ynnon, which was recently in a dangerous
position off Portmadoo. The life-boat remained by Cu)
steamer a day and night, at the risk of being stove to
pieces. Ultimately, however, the steamer was got off
and proceeded o i her voyage. Agreeably to the strict
orders of the institution, its life-boats are never to en-
courage crews to leave unnecessary their ships, and thus
it not unfrequently happens that, through the ins'rumen•
taity of the li'e-boats, valuable ships and cargoes are
saved from destruc ion.

During the past month the society bad sent new life-
boats to Pilling, in /s+ rfolk; Ardmore, in Ireland ; and
to Dover, and two others are about to be sent to Hastings
and Brighton. It was also stated that the Messrs. For-
rest, the life-boat builders, were now building several
boats on the plan of wore now adopted by the institution
for several of our C donial Governments, and that two
boats had r,:c ttiv been despe'ehed by them to Aus-
tralia. The instituion furni.h, a working dlawings on
a large scale of its life-boats, for distribution in our
colonies and in foreign countries.
The benevolent donor of the eost of a life-boat to the
institution had requested that it might be named the
Havelock, As a means of rescue from danger, the name
appeared to be appropriate; and he was desirous that
the name of that Christian should be cherished on ,the
Scotch nowt, where the hf -boat is to be placed.
Upwards of 1,3001. was ordered to be paid for various
life-boats and transporting carriages.
Admiral Fitzroy having been elected a member of the
committee of management, the proceedings closed.

THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF Lonuorr.--Atasetziotbsi l
l
general meeting, held yesterday at the society;%bu
_,__.
in Hanover square, the Right Hon. Sir G. ppesoirce,vice
and
president, in the chair, Messrs. L. M.
artn.d°l4. parfait
A. C. Blackstone were elected frllows,
candidates
oLemsebreer.
J.
thus.
0. des Murs, of Paris, a correFponudifg.
p tr. .rd Hearts.
liv Rutter,
society ; and the Earl owfer::pnirtd:
llayn, J. N. Shoolbred, G. B
,t stated that the number
iiiere, and R. Drumgm'sarrh°dfen:vd,7:
11.?oad already amounted to
arable increase as compared
fair the fellowship.
f I st year. The donations during
eadddd a fine jedagaAutrargseeanantdiatotaher animals
2o f 4
pv9' s7i:
and
rnsd taoffpoterhordel
gxcellen.cy W. D. Christie, Her Ma-
ihe ethlrth presented:
_inn:3'i ttePhil :ni itsg: nbi:a! adt
,:c aalpnt utrhe ne Republic ; a
A.
from the coast of West Africa, resentedpd
ist a ne e
boyf
Tr °lt .
40,?. A. Swanzy, and some interesting marine animals
from Bombay, presented by Lady Cust.
WAR TO THE KNIFE BETWEEN THE ALLOPATH AND
110MCEOPATHIC DOCTORS.—To the Editor,—Sir—By the
Lancet of last Saturday it would appear that a cams
belli exists between the sons of Esculapius—an Allopath
has refused to meet a Homo, 'path ! Where and when is
all this to end ? What with gagging medical bills in
Parliament on the one hand, and doctors' diFpates on
the other, John Bull is kept in a most beautiful state of
suspense as regards the treatment of his body. How
different is the Hygeian system of James Morrison, in
which nothing but harmony exists, and which fully
ale lints to the meanest capacity for the arcane of health
and disease. So far as the practice of doctors is *rm.
cerned the great and immortal Harvey need never h Ire
lived, for they have derived no practical tenefit from his
discovery of the circulation of the blood. It was left to
James Morrison, the Hygeist, to follow up and perfect
the great discovery of Harvey, which is fully proved by
the " Morrisoniana." Let, therefore, doctors and Par-
liament do what they please, they cannot alter the great
iaws of nature ; but let them bear in mind that the Brit
1.1. )vi against the "medical liberty of the sutject"nlel
be the great blow against liberty of consciensot;-7fia
are sir, your obed'e it servants, the Micmur
... .
BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH,
It°29 1858.
Eim n-road, bonaon,
for the Society of Hygeisto.—Maros *