The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1858.

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People who are not Respect-
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Shirley.
India in a Mess. By the Au-
thor of 'lndia in Mourning.•
George Peacock. Dean of Eiy.
—ln Memoriam.
N. de Montalembert and the
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Our New Treaty with Japan.
Snake-Birds.
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.
ON the TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the
URETHRA in all their varieties and cdrnplications ;
with the Reasons why they so often appear Incurable, and
thus afford a pretext for the recourse to dangerous operations,
like that of Perimeal Section, or External Incision. With
cases in illustration, amongst which will be found many show-
ing that this operation does not afford Permanent Relief, and
that its asserted freedom from danger has too often proved to
be a fatal delusion:

By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E.,
And formerly. Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the
Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. '

London: H. BaiMere, 219, Rer,ent-street.

WANTED to RENT, LEASE, or PUR-
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self generally usefttl.--Address, with all particulars, to C. F.
Watson, Egg., Castle House, Clifford, near Hay, Hereford-
shire.

rro BOOT AND SHOEMAKERS.-
-A- The sudden death of Mr. RICHARD DAVIS, of the
Wilberforce House, St.. John's-street, Hull, Wholesale Boot
and Shoemaker, renders it necessary for his STOCK, and the
excellent and profitable BUSINESS carried on by him, to be
forthwith DISPOSED OF.—Particulars relating to the Busi-
ness, which, until it can be disposed of, will be carried on by
able assistants, may be known on application to the Execu-
trix, Mrs. Sarah Davis, mi the Premises; or to Edward S.
Wilson, solicitor, Hull.

MRS. SARAH SOUTHERN having just taken
MOTH'S HOTEL, New-street, Covent-garden, begs
to inform her friends and the public that she has refurnished
and re-arranged the same for their better aeconamodation
and comfort.

This Hotel makes up beds for gentlemen, and is centrally
situated, and surrounded by all the principal Theatres and
places of amusement.
Soups, Chops, and Steaks, ready at all hours.
Dinners provided agTeeable to order.
It is the intention of Mrs. Sarah Southern to provide every-
thing of the best quality.

GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH,
USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY,
AND PRONOUNCED BY HER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be
THE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED.
Sold by all Chandlers, Grocers, &c.,

EPPS'S CO COA.—EPPS, homoeopathic chymist,
London.—This excellent preparation originally pro-
duced for the use specially of homoeopathic patients having
been adopted by the general public, can now be had of the
principal grocers.--Each packet is labelled James Epps,
homoeopathic chymist, London.

CONTRACT FOR COALS FOR CHINA.
Department of the Storekeeper General of the
Navy, Somerset-place, 23d Nov., 1858.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY, the 7th
December next, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready to treat
with such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for sup-
plying and delivering into store at Hong Kong and at
Shanghae, as may be directed,
8,000 TONS OF SOUTH WALES COALS,
Fit for her Majesty's steam-vessels.
The conditions of the contract, and a form of the Tender
may be seen at the said office. No tender will be received
after Two o'clock on the day of Treaty, nor will any be no-
ticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly
authorised in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary, of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Ten-
der for Coals," and must also be delivered at Somerset-
place, accompanied by a letter, signed by two responsible per-
sons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering,
in the sum of .£4,000, for the due performance of the con-
tract.

AN ACT OF GRATITUDE.-5,000 Copies of
a Medical Book for Gratuitous Circulation.—GxoncE
THOMAS, Esq., having been effectually cured of nervous de-
bility, loss of memory, and dimness of sight, resulting from
the early errors of youth, by following the instructions given
in a Medical Work by a Physician, he considers it his duty, in
gratitude to the author, and for the benefit of nervous suf-
ferers, to publish the means used. lie will therefore send
free, to any address, in a sealed envelope, on receipt of a
directed envelope. enclosing two stamps, to prepay postage,
a copy of the medical work, containing every information re-
quired. Address, G. Thomas, Esq., Craven House, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne.

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other oilmen and merchants, London ; and generally by the
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N.B.—To guard agnst imitations, see that the names of
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TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED.
CHARLES WATSON, M.D., Fellow. and Honorary
Vice-President of the Imperial African Insißtfireieuidte. of France,
~°Afand late
Peru,
Residente
to on receiptpe 'ofnesidx-
Corres. Membn of the Medical Socieytiime2ss7ue,
National Academy of Sciences, Paris, Am
rPehrdys.sicqiiaianrteo, tpoenßdeodnf,oredonlltiinspueer
stamps, " TIIE GUIDE TO SELF-CURE"
4, Those about entering the Marriage State 'should perus
Dr. Watson's invaluable little work, as the advice he Fives on
health and disease reflects much credit upon him as a sound
medical philosopher."—Critic.
" The true Guide to those who desire speedy and private
cure."—University Magazine.
"The 'NEW AMERICAN DISCOVERY' demonstrates
the absurdity of the English mode of treating such corn.
plaints, will prove a blessing to thealicted, who may safely
and easily regain pristine health by adopting the means pre-
sented."—Etening Sun.
" Diplomas," and the' " London
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SALES OF LAND.—We understand that the Earl
of Kintore has just purchased the compact small estate of
Balbithan, in the parish of Keith-hall, from Mr. Abernethy
Gordon. 'The purchase price is £28,500. The property of
Wester Fintray has also been sold to the same nobleman by
the Skene Trust—purchase price, £35,000. Both the pro-
perties march with the Kintore lands, and make, therefore,
a valuable addition to his lordship's already fine estates in
Aberdeenshire. The fine lying estate of Woodside, three
miles north of Aberdeen, was recently sold to Dr. Will, of
the Royal Aberdeenshire Militia. The lands of Kingseat,
also in this county, the property of Mr. James Morrison, of
Balhagardy, have been purchased by Sir Thomas Blaikic.
—Aberdeen Kerald.

THE NA Vl'.

By the death of Vice-Admiral of the White,
Edmund Lord' Lyons, G.C.8., &c., the following
promotions will take place on the flag list :
Vice-Admiral of the Blue, Sir James Hanway
Plumridge, K.C.B.f to be Vice-Admiral of the
White.

Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir Henry Ducie Chads,
K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
Rear-Admiral of the White Sir Thos. Hastings,
C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue Robert Smart., K.H.,
to be Rear-Admiral of the White.
Captain Nicholas Cory (1840) to be Rear-Admiral
on the Reserved Tialf-pa-v List.
Capt. John Sheppard (1840) to be Rear-Admiral
of the Blue.

By these promotions the command on the Irish
station and the superintendence of Woolwich Dock-
yard, together with a good-service pension, fall to
the patronage of the Admiralty.
The Sappho, 12, sloop, Commander Fairfax
Moresby, was reported in our columns of Wednes-
day to have been last by her striking.on a rock of
an uninhabitedislaad some distance from Sydney.
The information was derived from letters received
by persons at Chatham, among whom is Mrs.
Gimpson, the wife of 'the coxswain on board the
Sappho, who received intelligence from a friend
of hers at Portsmouth, who had received a
letter from the merchant ship which was outward
bound, and which took the crew on board from the
island, where they were under canvas. The wife
of a warrant cer, who is on board one of the
ships in ordiu ween Chathani and Sheerness
t
has also a letter,. ;which the name of the island on
which the ship foundered is given. Another letter
gohit
was received by a person living in the Brook, at
Chatham, which has been received since the former
letters, by the wife of a marine from her husband,
in which he says that she may expert his arrival
about Christmas, or a little after, as they are on
board the Firefly, steamship, having been put on
board by the merchantman.—Mornmg Herald.
The Childers, 12, Commander W. Swinburn, is
ordered, on being paid off .at Chatham, to be dis-
mantled and placed in ordinary at that port. She
has been prevented arriving at Chatham by the
strong easterly winds. • •
• The Aid, Grandy master, has commenced shipping
War stores at Chatham for Portsmouth Dockyard. .
The steam vessel Avon, Second-Master John
Palmer, sailed from Plymouth on Wednesday
morning for Ireland, with- men belonging to the
fleet, volunteers, &c. She has • also two masters'-
assistants for experience in Channel navigation.
The screw steam 4toreship „Supply, 2, Master-
COinmander William; H....Balliston, has received
orders at Plymouth to proceed to Woolwich'to i
discharge. • • •
.• .........
• • 1
The Danish screw' steam: 'transport Occident,
frein Antwerp,: is diseii4rgiug salt provisions in the
Royal William ViAualling-yard, Plymouth,
The hired transport Northfleet, Captain Freeman,
with 650 tons of tea and silk.from Hongkong, July
22, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday afternoon.
She has 120 naval and military invalids, under the
command of Mr. Fittock, Royal Navy, and Capt.
Stuart, Royal Engineers, and in medical charge of
S. R. Picken, Royal Navy. Amongher passengers
are Captains H. J. Tribe and H. Ward, Royal
Marines, and slr. Day,Royal Navy. The military
invalids belong chiefly, to the Artillery and 59th
Regiment. Fourteen deaths have occurred, includ-
ing Mr. Hill, master, Royal Navy, on the 10th of
August. The Northfleet touched at St. Helena on
the 9th of October, and after passing the Azores
experienced strong easterly gales. A large fleet
of homeward-bound ships, some evidently in great
distress, were on the edge of soundings about a
week since. On the I:ith inst., in lat. 48 deg. 30
min. N., long. 12 deg. 20 min. W., fell in with
the brig Rebe, of Southampton, Captain Strat-
ton, from Alexandria, with lintels, gum, cotton-
seed, and wheat, which was struck by a heavy sea
on the sth inst., and then had three or four feet of
water in her hold. The Northfleet rescued the crew,
nine in all, and two days after passed a French
schooner belonging to Dunkirk, stripping the
abandoned brigantine Albion, of Plymouth. The
invalids by the Northfleet are to be landed today
(Friday).

TEE ARMY.

The Committee of the Hon. Council of India will
assemble at the East India House to-day for the
purpose of taking up the required amount of ton-
nage for the conveyance of 440 men and the usual
number of officers to Calcutta, 173 men to Bombay,
127 men to Kurrachee, and 83 men to Ma-
dras. The vessels taken up are to be ready to
embark the reinforcements at Gravesend between
the 7th and 11th of December.
In the obituary of The Sun of Tuesday last was
recorded the death of Lieut.-Colonel John Lewes
Philipps, commanding her Majesty's 89th Regi-
ment at Deesa, Bombay Presidency. Lieutenant-
Colonel Philipps entered the service, as ensign in
the 32d Regt., under Colonel (afterwards Briga-
dier) Markham, in Ju1y,1842 ; became lieutenant in
December, 1845, and soon after exchangedikto the
89th Regiment, in which corps he became, captain
in March, 1849. He served with his regiment in
the Crimea, for which he received the- medal and
clasps ; on his' return he held the appointment of
Instructor of Musketry at Limerick until he ob-
tained his majority in September, 1856. In Nov.,
1857, he rejoined his regiment, just arrived at
Bombay from the Cape, and succeeded to the lieu-
tenant-colonelcy in May last. His health, un-
happily, succumbing to the fatal influence of the
late intensely hot season, Colonel Philipps was
ordered to England as the only chance of saving his
life, but his vigorous frame was too much exhausted
to bear the journey down the country, and he ex-
pired at sea the day after embarking at Cambay, on
the way to Bombay, October 12, aged 36 years.
The second battalion of the 15th Foot, consisting
of Lieut.-Colonel J. H. Wingfield, Captains F. E.
Lock, W. H. Eliot, J. W. 5. Moffatt, H. Mackenzie,
R. Clancy, C. Crawley, and R. T. P. Cuthbert ;
Lieutenants H. P. S. Orde, F. R. Fishbourne, W.
C. Colquhoun, W. A. Gibson, W. S. Jemmett, and
C. E. Layard ; Ensigns F. H. Garnett, J. J. F.
Grant, J. J. Grier, A. A. Fuller, and W. L. Martin,
Paymaster R. S. Rouse, Adjutant J. Macdonald
(Lieutenant), Quartermaster A. R. Mitchell, Sur-
geon Foaker, and Assistant-Surgeon Chalk, 32
sergeants, 20 drummers, 488 rank and file, 48
soldiers' wives, and 52 children, arrived at Ports-
mouth yesterday afternoon, and embarked forth-
with on board. her Majesty's steam troopship
Urgent, Commander M'Donald, for Malta, leaving
about. 150 at Aldershott, to go out when tonnage
shall be provided for them. The wives, children,
and servants of Captain Eliot, Paymaster Rouse,
Surgeon Foaker, Adjutant Macdonald, Quarter-
master Mitchell, and Bandmaster Allen also
accompanied their husbands in the ship. The
troops were all comfortably embarked and berthed
under the'' superintendence of Lieutenant-Co-
lonel Conon'', Assistant Quartermaster-General of
the South-West District. The ship will drop out
to Spithead this morning, and leave either to-day
or to-morrow early for Malta.
The Northern JVhig, of Belfast, mentions the
death of Lieut. James E. Perrin, sth Fusileers,
which occurred on the 11th ult. at Lucknow, the
fina 1 resting-place also of his kinsman, the late
gallant Maier Perrin, of the 90th Regiment of
Light Infantry, son of the venerable and respected
Judge Perrin. He was eldest son of the Rev. Mark
Perrin, rector of Athenry, county Galway, and
nephew of Judge Perrin. The deceased was for-
merly, a student in the Belfast Queen's College,
wher6 he distinguished himself as well for his un-
remitting attention to his studies as for his abilities,
which obtained for him the respect and esteem of
the heads and professors of the college. Subse-
quently he was gazetted to an ensigncy in the
88th, or Connaught Rangers, with the depot of
which he did duty in this garrison for a short time
prior to his joining the service companies of that
corps, going with them to India at the commence-
ment of the mutiny in the Bengal Presidency, and
passing unscathed through the dangerous cam-
paigning of our forces at Lucknow, &c.,. during
the hottest part of the war. Only last month he
was promoted to a lieutenancy in the sth Fusileers.

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THE TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF
111; DR MONTALEMBERT.

(From the Times)
The sentence on M. de Montalembert will as-
tonish the English public ; it will more than sur-
prise—it will excite the deepest and strongest feel-
ings. We will venture to say that. those feelings
will penetrate every class in this country. It
quite true that we have nothing whatever to do
with the internal affairs of France. Her adminis-
tration of justice is her own concern entirely. We
do not meddle, and we do not profess to meddle;
with it. More than this ;we do not want to ex-
tract out of any home act of the French Govern-
ment, whatever it may be, a single hostile reflection
to our international relations. 'We know how to
draw the distinction between France as a civil
Power and France as a foreign Power, between the
French Government and the French alliance. If
the Emperor behaves well to us, that is g.ll we have
to do with him. But we have a right to feel where
we have no right to meddle. This is just one of
those events which excite feeling ; it is made, as it
were, for the purpose ; no act in a play could be
more suitable ; the most skilful dramatist could not
have hit on an act to excite deeper disgust in Eng-
lishmen—one more thoroughly opposed to every
notion we in this country have of justice, equity,
and fair play.
This is, as we have said before, a struggle for
liberty—that is to say, a struggle for action. The
, question is, who shall have and enjoy the treasury
of French action ? Shall the Emperor have it all
to himself, or are. M. de Montalembert and the
' classes which he• represents to be admitted to a
share,of it ? The world- has now ad,vadeed4 aufti-
ciently long way in its career to give room for a
review of the mode in which the activities of the
human race have grown, developed, and attained
shape, and maturity. There are histories of law,
histories of painting, histories of sculpture, his-
tories of medicine, histories of geography and astro-
nomy,—histories, in short, of every department
of art and physical science ; there are general
histories of literature, of philosophy ; there might
also be what we might call a history of " action."
It might be shown how rude and simple the early
idea of action in the human race was confined to
migrations, marauding, hunting beasts, and fight-
ing each other.. That was the coarse and rude
external form in which the sacred soul of action
dwelt in those primitive times; that was the
sheepskin coat which action wore, or rather the
Nemxan lion's hide, the shaggy wolfskin, the
boar's bristles, in which it went about. We ad-
vance a little onward, and we find " action" in
something like a civil and a legal shape, sitting in
the chair of justice, and hearing causes at the gate.
Then there is federal action, when different States
unite together, and different State interests bring
out the combining and scheminty, powers of the
rising human politician ; there is the action of
conquest, when one State or potentate brings
many under his rule, and works them into a sys-
tem of administration. We advance a little fur-
ther, and we have " action" in the shape of the
Legislative Assembly, the Greek Council, the
Roman Senate, the Saxon Wittenagemot ; human
thought and speech begin to come out now that
they have a regular open field to work in. We
take another step, and we see action diffused in a
certain way over the whole nation by means of the
great principle of representation. This is a great
advance ; and, finally, we have gradually and
slowly developed a regular field of Parliamentary
" action,"—that magnificent open arena where the
whole political thought of the nation comes into
formal play, and where all the opinions and par-
ties of a nation marshal themselves in order, try
each other's strength, attack and expose each other
manfully, study the best offence and defence, and
bring out their brains, passions, knowledge, tact,
skill, experience, rhetoric, and anything they have,
in the sight of the whole nation, looking on, sym-
pathising, and applauding. This is the latest, the
most mature, and most highly developed form of
action, the very last discovery, the present climax
and crowning point of its growth ; this is the
science of action—that which has perfected it,
expande 1 it, systematised it, brought everybody
into a share of it, and intensified instead of
weakened it by the number of its partakers,—
brought it out of holes and corners into the bright-
ness of the open day, introduced it to the world,
and given it rules, shape—system, and finish. This
is " action," if you please—something deserving -the
name. A nation that has tasted action of this kind
does not easily lose the recollection of it.
This is what M. de Montalembert says, then, and
for saying this he is thrown into prison for six
months. France has not had, it is true, the same
full and free Parliamentary system of " action"
that we in this country have had ; but it has had
a Parliamentary system, it has had representation,
it has had the free expression of opinion in the
Chambers and in the press, it has enjoyed liberty,
it has enjoyed action. All this is now taken from
it. A despotic Government now tells the educated,
thinking classes, of France—"Do not think of act-
ing ; I will act for you." But that is just what
they do not want. They clutch eagerly, passion-
ately, desperately at the golden prize of " action,"
which you withhold from them ; that is a greater
treasure to them than any treasure in the universe
—better than any Hesperian fruit that was ever
guarded by the eyes of dragons—better than all
lotus-eating, than soft dreams and gilded couches,
banquets and music, fashion, retinue, state, pomp.
or office. Give them but access to that prize, and
they will thank you, and run the gauntlet of any
guarding lions, dragons, or griffins; but they can-
not thank you for depriving, or, as you call it, re-
lieving, them of it. They see no reason why a whole
nation should be paralysed in order to make a mor-
bid focus of activity for one central brain. They
protest against a monopoly of action, and against a
deprivation and corruption of it by that very
monopoly. They want to see political action
brightened and ennobled by participation, by the
open arena, by coming out into the world and into
the light of day, instead of being shut up in dark
corners and damp, noisome cells, confined to
heads round a table and to dark-lantern conclaves.
They do not want to see political action in the
shape of a subterranean conspiracy, but of an honest
open-air representative legislation of some kind or
other and freedom of speech. Nor are they at all
exacting in the form which their demands would
assume ; something much less than our own very
free system would probably satisfy that educated
class which is represented by M. de Montalembert.
It is difficult, of course, to calculate what the
effect of this sentence on M. de Montalembert will
be, but we know *hat effect it will not have. It
will not have the effect of suppressing the passion
for liberty of which he has been the brilliant
mouthpiece. It is simply impossible that a nation
which, like France, has enjoyed for a considerable
period something like .constitutional liberty, free-
dom of thought and speech, can forget it. Her
educated class have been brought up with certain
tastes and cravings of political nature satisfied, and
they cannot possibly submit resignedly to the de-
privation of all that has satisfied them. So long as
they have minds they cannot bear the total sup-
pression of them ; the irritation is too great for
human nature. They must and will speak out ; if
they are •slaves, they must have the satisfaction of
saying that they are so. They simply cannot exist
with every faculty suppressed and their mouths
shut up. This monstrous violation of human nature
cries aloud ; they know and feel that it does, and
that gives them, and will give them, the determina-
tion to express themselves. You may fine them or
imprison them, or deport them to Cayenne, but they
are men, they are men who have had an education
in liberty, and their self-respect is too strong for
acquiescence in simple bondage. They will defy
you simply because you cannot really and in fact
punish them. Their present condition is the very
worst punishment they can have ; von can hardly
add to it. You have put M. de 14ontalembert in
gaol; but all France is a gaol to him; he enters his
cell with a light heart, with unbent will, with re-
newed courage, fortified by the sympathy of every
free man in Europe ; he laughs at you, he con-
temns you, he pities you ; he knows that such an
act as this is and must be a curse to the perpe-
trator—that it• must bring its own retribution, and
that a deep one ; he knows that liberty among
those who have the intelligence and education for
it is an ordinance of Providence, and must sooner
or later triumph over the feeble will of man.

(From the Daily News.)
Tt whom do we owe the discovery that a dwarf
mounted on the shoulders of a giant sees further
than men of ordinary stature ? Self-evident as it
appears, this remarkable truism is destined, like
many other commonplaces, to look uncommonly
like a paradox when it is embodied in the form of
an illustration, and transferred from fact to meta-
phor. At all events the present Emperor of the
French sees no further than his uncle did, upon
whose shoulders he has mounted to the giddy
height of absoluik
.power. The first Napoleon,
from the height of hie genius and his glory,lookcd
into the future of yrance and of the world ; and