The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDA Y 1 EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1850.

The announcement of. Lord STANLEY, that he
should this evening " move for leave to bring in a
bill to enable the Secretary of State for India to
raise money in the United Kingdom for the benefit
of the9overnment of India," has excited the wrath
of the Times. It would, according to the Leviathan,
be a gross infraction of the laws of Free Trade io
prevent any Continental Government, or petty
South American State, from flinging their bonds
on the market, and obtaining gold at a fixed price,
which, when transmitted, might be rendered
applicable to very injurious purposes. The only
question raised with respect to the Austrian Loan
abortion was whether it would prove a paying in-
vestment, and the lowering state of the political
atmosphere. The dark clouds threatening a speedy
storm, prevented the specious bait from being even
nibbled at. There was not, however, the slightest
hint that the advance might occasion a sanguinary
loss might be said to
European war. Profit or
items on either side of the balance-
be the only
sheet. The same may be said of every otber
application, with one broad and glaring exception.
Let the assistance be required for even the sister
Empire—the direct Government whereof has so
recently been assumed by, and in the name of,
Queen VICTORIA. Let it be for the most magnifi-
cent and improving of our colonies—that very
colony which supplies so large a quantity of gold
—the sole idol of the hard calculators—and there
is an immediate outcry, "Our Money Market will
be disturbed ! " The precious metals will be taken
from our shores. Indeed, " the effect is already
becoming seriously palpable."

Surely it has not as yet materially raised the
rate of discount in the market. The Bank direc-
tors have not deemed it prudent to retrace the
step they took with such palpable reluctance. The
minimum rate is still but 21 per cent., and it
is said that approved paper is convertible on still
cheaper terms. The last return showed that
the Bank reserve had ihcreased by £525,050
within the week, amounting in the whole
to £12,625,065, while the bullion in both
departments was augmented by £166,983, now
-
standing at the grand total of
L 19,461,000. Under
such circumstances we may meet the reasonable,
just, and well-secured requirements of f
our own
children, those in whose welfare and prosperity
we are peculiarly concerned, and who will return
magnificent fruits for every shilling advanced to
assist them for the purpose of developing their
material resources, without so greatly injuring our-

selves as to elicit a strenuous protest from the re-
presentatives of any body of capitalists, however
,‘ hard calculating" they might be.
Is not the security of India as good as that of
Austria ? Would not bullion be required to satisfy
the demands of one as well as of the other ? Why,
therefore, should not India receive the preference,
which, ceeteris paribus, should be bestowed
on an integral portion of the dominions of
Queen VICTORIA ? We know that the money
will be applied to good purpose in the former case.
That returns will be annually forwarded in the
shape of salaries, pensions, and interest on the
investments made in India by retired officers. The
case, too, is altogether exceptional. A fearful
mutiny broke out amongst those who, for a
series of years, had partaken of our salt,
received our pay, and been fed and clothed
at our expense—miscreants who turned the
arms with which they were supplied; and the
discipline in which they had been instructed
against those to whom they were bound by every
tie not merely of duty but of gratitude. That was
followed by a wide-spread rebellion. It was
vainly supposed that the time had arrived when
the British might be driven from India. We
need not refer to the demoniacal cruelties per-
petrated on helpless women and innocent children.
They will not soon or easily be forgotten, but will
ever remain a dark passage in Indian History.
That mutiny has, however, been suppressed—the
rebellion trampled under foot. The British arms
have everywhere been successful against what
might be imagined overwhelming odds, and un-
equivocal proof has been given of the stuff of which
both officers and soldiers were made. There could not
then be a more legitimate application for a loan, and
we earnestly hope and trust that it may be cordially
responded to by the British community.

How far is Australia inferior to Chili ? Its
bonds were introduced without a murmur, al-
though the returns could scarcely be deemed as
safe as those from the auriferous regions. It
is not gold that Australia requires, that
would be sending " coals to Newcastle." No,
the amount would be taken in manufactures
and other goods which might readily be disposed
of without the slightest detriment to the monetary
affairs of the mother country, and yet any assistance
to India or Australia are objected to on prin-
ciple (!! I) While, so far as respects Australia or
Chili, the only question is the sufficiency. This is
the political morality of the hard calculators of
whom the Times may be regarded as the exponent
and mouthpiece.

The present state of European affairs urges us to
probe to the core our own. A good housewife
cleans her garner, sweeps out the rubbish, and puts
in perfect order the whole machinery of her esta-
blishment—she carefully examines her locks, bolts,
and bars, and having made all secure, sits down
and lives at ease. She alone is answerable to her
husband for all within her jurisdiction.
To defend and preserve our national interests,
and command respect abroad, we vote large annual
supplies for maintaining our army and navy. This
annual drain on our pecuniary resources is not un-
attended without equivalent results. The subject
of reconstructing our navy is now under considera-
tion, and as this expensive requirement will
probably cost the nation more than £10,390,000
(the amount of last year's estimates), it behoves us
to scrutinise the acts of those to whom we entrust
•ur money—to check all improvident expenditure,
and bring to the notice of the committee any expe-
dients which, in lessening the drain on the public
purse, will not decrease the efficiency of either
service.

We believe that the present First Lord of the
Admiralty, Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, is most anxious
to conscientiously perform the duties of his office,
but he is often misled by the professional members
of the Admiralty Board, who naturally enough
have the interests of their profession at heart, con-
sequently do not see those of the nation in the same
unbiassed manner, as the First Lord. We believe
it is generally understood that the Admiralty and
War Department invariably act in perfect
unison when their joint services aro required
for the defence of the national cause. " There
is no rule without an exception," if speaks
right a small volume, with which we have just been
favoured.
We have not had sufficient time to examine this
interesting brochure throughout, but we will give
a short insight into its contents.
It is entitled " Macintosh's System of National
Defences ; or, New Strategies in Warfare" also his
official correspondence with the British Govern-
ment, disclosing the true cause of the continuation
of the late war—from the clashing of the naval
and military departments : its method, its causes,
and consequent expenses.
We must premise that the book is addressed to
" The Honourable the Members of the House of
Commons," that the subject is " Our National De-
fences," " Our Enormous Naval Estimates," " the
an-united power of action (during war) of our
War and Admiralty Departments," consequent re-
sults, and practical remedy, together with an effi-
cient and inexpensive new agent of warfare. Mr.
MACINTOSH remarks that " our national defences
are, in reality, our ships of war ; to retain our in-
sulated security from aggressive attack, or landing
of an enemy on our shores, we must maintain our
maritime supremacy at any cost. I believe (which
I hope to hereafter fully demonstrate), that our
naval estimates can be very materially reduced,
and, by such reduction, our navy rendered ranch
more powerful, our country more secure against
foreign aggression, and the whole world much
more peaceful. Consequently, the union and civi-
lisation of all nations would be placed on a surer
and much more permanent footing." _
He proposes to effect this purpose by establish-
ing an "Incendiary Naval Steam Brigade, which,
by attaching portions to each of our fleets, as an
auxiliary power of attack' would, he believes, be
the only means:of securing our naval supremacy."
Tofhis ,
iron, m
Isntceeandeiry, ars Steam Brigade to be composed
furnished with suitable compart-
ments or tanks ; the latter to be filled with prepared
coal-tar naphtha."

" When sea-face batteries are to be attacked,
I would start one of the small steamers, under the
controlorks. ofv twoen or
men, towards the enemy's
w
nearlyvvithin range of their guns,
lh three
light a time floe in connection
they with gunpow.
der, and abandon the vessel, leaving her to proceed
towards the batteries. The explosion dis-
perses the combustible liquid on the surface of
the water, causing its immediate ignition, and
suPcating smoke or vapour,
producing dense, black,
which, driven by the wind against the sea-faces,
enters the embrasures, and either suffocates or
drives away the enemy's gunners leaving the
forts in our quiet possession."
" By another mode of application, the Admiral
commanding the fleet could (choosing wind and
weather) discharge a sufficient quantity of this
fluid upon the surface of the water, or by other
modes hereinafter explained, allowing it to
be propelled by the tide Or wind up to the
Sea
faces of an enemy's land batteries, and
then cause its ignition by the projection of a shell

or rocket containing naphtha and potassium ; by
the great affinity of the latter for oxygen, the
floating liquid (which cannot mix with the water)
will be immediately inflamed, producing a dense,
black, suffocating fog or vapour, which envelopes the
fort or battery, rushing into the casemates or em-
brasures, and, driving away the gunners, would
enable the attacking vessels to approach (under
cover of the black, suffocating smoke) the enemy's
works, take up positions necessary for pouring in
their broadsides, and destroy the forts, unmolested
by any hostile fire.

Retaining the supremacy of the seas, and having
no great strongholds, such as Sebastopol, Cronstadt,
and Cherbourg, we have no occasion to fear that
our coasts would be attacked by an enemy's fleet.
The avowed object of the sea-face defences
above-named is to enable their fleets (in time of
war) to be secure from any attacks of a British
squadron.

" The efficiency of those sett defences was suffi-
ciently demonstrated during the late war with
Russia, when, it will be remembered, the allied
fleets attempted the destruction of the sea-face
batteries of Sebastopol, and withdrew, all but
ignominiously beaten, and never to make a second
attack.

" This is convincing proof of the inadequate power
of our navy in ATTACKING such strongholds; it
is not, therefore, by increasing the number of our
steamships that foreign States can feel our supre-
macy on the seas ; but by holding in hand an
efficient Incendiary Steam Naval Brigade,' which
would enable us, during war, to effectually destroy
all their ships and colossal fortifications."
We have no necessity of harbouring our Fleets
from fear of an enemy's, as was the case of both the
Russian fleets in the Baltic and Black Sea during
the last war, when the latter took refuge under the
guns of Sebastopol and Cronstadt ; the enormous
value of such sea-face fortifications, and the total
weakness of our Navy, when acting against such
strongholds, is patent to all. The consequence will
be, that all Continental States will strengthen and
increase their sea-face batteries, so as to have
secure harbours of refuge for their ships of war.
Is our colossal navy, when ATTACKING sea-face
defences, to continue the non-killing system of
throwing away hundreds of tons of small pieces of
iron at long range (which are more noisy than
dangerous), when we have an efficacious and inex-
pensive method by which the Admiral commanding
a Fleet could render any sea-face fortifications
harmless, thereby enabling the attacking vessels to
approach the enemy's works and take up positions
necessary for pouring in their broadsides unmolested
by any hostile fire ?
Scientific explosive compounds are now becoming
so numerous and dangerous that it behoves us not
to reconstruct our navy on the established method
of huge steam or screw line-of-battle ships, but, in
adopting into our service these new agents of war-
fare, to so reconstruct our ships that these projectiles
may be effectively applied to repel the foe with the
greatest destructive properties, but with the
least possible injury to ourselves. It is not
difficult to comprehend that the larger the
ship is the larger is the target. In our " Military
Intelligence" of the llth'_instant, we gave an inte-
resting account of some experiments successfully
tried at Chatham with an incendiary shell, invented
and called by Captain NORTON, " The Liquid-fire
Rifle Shell," with which " he can, with the same
description of shell, but of larger size, set fire to
any line-of-battle ship in the Navy." In our num-
ber of last Saturday appeared a letter from Mr.
JOHN MACINTOSH, claiming Captain NORTON'S
invention as his own, having already obtained a
patent, and quoting its number (1774). If a single shell
can burn any of our line-of-battle ships, and projected
at a five mile range, from a small but fleet steamer
armed with Armstrong's rifled-cannons, without the
possibility of extinguishing the combustible liquid
contained in the shell, with any amount of water.
thrown over it, we must seriously consider the
expediency of continuing to build those colossal
and expensive targets for the amusement of our
enemies. The building of " a line-of-battle ship"
costs the country about £lOO,OOO, without either
armament, stores, or men—and if a screw, without
her machinery.

(To be continued.)

On Wednesday next the House of Commons will
be called upon to re-affirm a principle which they
have again and again maintained, although
thwarted each time by the obstinacy of peers tem-
poral and spiritual. The bill for legalising mar-
riage with the sister of a deceased wife will be
then accepted once more, as previously, and doubt-
less by a large majority. Last Tuesday it was
read a first time by 155 to 85—a majority of 70.
Lord BURY, very properly, declined to weary the
House with arguments which it had so often
heard, and Mr. BERESFORD HOPE did not suc-
ceed in irritating any one to reply to his innocu-
ous tirade. This Hope of Tractarians had,
indeed, no other arguments than—First, the
rejection of the bill again last year by the Lords—
an argument available for a series of years against
all the liberal legislation of the country, but whose
worth was tested only last year for the fiftieth
time, within the recollection of many of us, on the
Jews' Bill. Second,Wasting the time of the House,
of which Mr. BERESFORD HOPE alone was guilty.
Third, That the community did not care about it
—an argument nullified by the great number of
signatures obtained to petitions relating to a sub-
ject which practically concerns so few indivi-
duals. There are, so far as it is known,
abut 100,000 persons affected by the present
intolerant law ; yet 836,559 persons have
petitioned for its repeal ! while considerably
less than one-tenth of that number only, despite
all the zeal of the Tractarians, have petitioned
against Lord BURY'S Bill. And besides, every-
body knows that society is pervaded by one
general desire for the immediate amendment
of this indefensible law. Fourth, That the Bill
" would upset the social condition of the country,"
and was only designed to "save from the penalties
of the law a few persons who had not restrained
their passions." The truth is, that ascetic restraints
on marriage much more upset the social condition
of the country, since persons will not submit to
them, and, indeed, ought not. As to the scullions
half of this last argument, it savours so much
of the prurience of the Tractarian confessional, that
we do not wish to follow the polluted fancies which
it indicates.

In regard to saving persons from the penalties
of the law, we may ask, Have they not as good a
title to be saved from them as the persons (with
their offspring) who contracted such marriages
prior to the Act of 1835 ? Why should the Master
of her MAJESTY'S Horse have a legitimate claim to
his paternal inheritance, and the child of Mr.
BROOK, in the recently decided case, not ? The
kind of marriage from which each sprang was
identical, and each marriage was equally recognised
by society and by morality. The Bill is of course
designed to do justice to the offspring of these most
virtuous and commendable marriages. It is de-
signed also for a further object—to prevent
the social inconveniences which must always
result, as in this case, from legislating

against virtue and nature. As the mat-
ter now stands, it is simply—Popish canons
and Anglican High - Churchism versus the
Scriptures, and the convictions and sentiments
of all unprejudiced men. Men will not submit
practically to such legislation. The Society of
Friends, whose religious principles would not allow
them to be married in church, and whose marriages
were, therefore, void, ultimately compelled the
Legislature to acknowledge their marriages.
They recorded their marriages before unexception-
able witnesses. They duly kept their registers, and
the State soon found that it had no other alternative
but to recognise them. We believe it is cer-
tain that should the Lords persist in maintain-
ing the innovation of that pragmatical Churchman,
Bishop BLOMFIELD, on the originally sensible pro-
posal of Lord LYNDHURST in 1835, some such
means will be adopted to save the feelings of per-
sons who refuse to be bound in such a matter by
canons they repudiate. The law, they justly hold,
has no moral right to impose those canons on others
any more than to impose the Athanasian Creed or
the Thirty-nine Articles.

The House of Commons, however, we are sure,
will do its duty on Wednesday. The division list,
which our readers have seen, plainly shows that
the intelligence and liberalism of the House is
almost all on one side. The reasons for legisla-
tion are now urgent. Those who are wronged
by the Act of 1835 demand immediate re-
dress, and nearly eight hundred and fifty
thousand persons ask it for them. The prevention of
false declarations, and of something as bad or worse,
ought to be attended to at once ; for we know as a
fact that estimable persons do and will continue
to declare that there is "no lawful impedi-
ment" to their marriage under the circumstances.
Two Premiers, Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Lord
PALMERSTON, have already voted for the bill.
Lord DERBY himself has declared that it
it must depend on the wish of the country ; and
that, we submit, has been shown by the repeated
majorities of the People's House. If •ver
any question of liberal policy was ripe for
settlement this is. The whole course of legislation
is now opposed to making one man's religious con-
victions the law for those who hold oppo-
site views. No one can be compelled to
contract a marriage which he thinks sin-
ful ; but can it be tolerated at the present
day that he should enforce his notions of what is
sinful on others ? A large number of persons think
horse-races, theatres, and even promiscuous dancing,
unscriptural and sinful. They might as reasonably
claim to prohibit these things as Mr. HOPE and
the Bishop of EXETER to prohibit the marriages in
question. Let them and theirs be content to ab-
stain for themselves.

We have authority to announce that it is her
Majesty's intention to hold Levees at St. James's
Palace, on Wednesday the 23d inst., and on Wed-
nesday the 2d of March next.

It is also her Majesty's intention to hold a Draw-
ing Room, and another Levee before Easter.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were :—The Earl
of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor,
the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr. Se-
cretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir E. Bulwer
Lytton, General Peel, Lord. Stanley, Sir John Pakington,
the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and John Manners.
RETURN OF THE COURT TO BUCKINGHAM PA-
LACE.—On Saturday orders were received at Buckingham
Palace to prepare for her Majesty's reception. According
to present arrangements, the Queen, Prince Consort, and
the royal children will arrive at Buckingham Palace, from
Windsor Castle, this afternoon, travelling to the metro-
polis by the Great Western Railway. The royal college,
on leaving the railway, will pass through Hyde-park, and
down Constitution-hill, escorted by a squadron of Light
Cavalry, reaching the Palace shortly before three o'clock,
Her Majesty is expected to visit the Royal Italian Opera-
house, Covent-garden, to witness the performance of the
English Opera company, and several of the other theatres,
during the week. The court will leave the metropolis,
about the 22d instant, for a short sojourn at Osborne, Isle
of Wight.
THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA.—At
a special meeting of the mayor and corporation of Windsor,
held at the Town Hall on Tuesday last, when most of the
members were in attendance, an address of congratulation
to her Majesty on the accouchement of her Royal Highness
the Princess Frederick William of Prussia, and Princess.
Royal of England, was agreed to. The mayor of the
borough (J. Jones, Esq.) has now received a communica-
tion, intimating that her Majesty will be graciously pleased
to receive the address through the Howe Secretary. Ad-
dresses of congratulation to her Majesty on the same
auspicious event were last week adopted by the town coun-
cils of Bristol and Newcastle.

The Earl of Derby gives an official and Parlia-
mentary dinner next Wednesday, at his residence in St.
James's-square. Modern statesmen of all parties seem to
agree in one thing, and that is in the abolition of cabinet
dinners.—Court Journal.

The announcement of the levees to be held by
her Majesty before Easter are expected to appear in the
next Gazette. The first notification may only contain two,
but it is understood there will be three nevertheless.—Court
dirurnal.

Mr. Murphy, the new Mexican minister, who
presented his credentials to her Majesty some weeks back,
has been in active communication with the Foreign-office
since the Queen delivered the speech from the throne on the
opening of Parliament.— Court Journal.

The Continenal journals state that the negotia-
tions for a commercial treaty between Russia and Austria
have been hitherto unsuccessful. It is reported that while
Austria is willing to make every concession Russia refuses
to lower the duty on some of the most important articles.
The North China Herald states that a news-
paper published at Shanghai in Chinese by the missionaries
has attained a circulation of 700. The people buy it week
by week, paying cash, and each purchaser reads it aloud.
The Chinese, it appears, are much interested in local news,
particularly police reports.

During the week the newspaper press has lo'st a
zealous agent—Mr. Charles Mitchell, the proprietor of the
" IsTpwspaper Press Directory." He established the busi-
ness in Red Lion-court, and brought it to prosperity by his
perseverance. So highly were his services appreciated, that
a valuable service of plate was presented to him by the pro-
vincial newspaper proprietors, in 1851.

According to the Calcutta Englishman the Com-
mander-in-Chiefs intended return to England is to lay his
title and fortune at the feet of a fair lady, encouraged, pro-
bably, in undertaking his new campaign by the example of
his brother in arms, the Duke of Malakoff.

A letter from Vienna, dated Monday, says :
ti To the great surprise of the public the conductors of our
journals have received orders from the government to sub-
mit to the Minister of Finance all articles treating of finan-
cial questions, and to publish none which are not approved
of."

A despatch from Belgrade, dated the 11th inst.,
has been received at Vienna, announcing that Prince
Milosch has proclaimed himself hereditary prince. M.
Kagazinovich has been named provisionally Minister of
Foreign Affairs, and M. Joannovich, Minister of the
Interior.

MAILS TO NORTH AMERICA.—The Cunard Mail
steamer Canada sailed from Liverpool on Saturday for
Boston and Halifax with the mails and 60 passengers,
among whom is Mr. Cobden, who is visiting the United
States on private business. The Cunard Company's screw
steamer Jura sailed for New York direct in the afternoon
with a full cargo and a ship's mail. The next mails for
North America will be taken out on Wednesday by the
screw steamer City of Baltimore, and on Saturday by the
Europa, both sailing for New York.

THE OUTWARD BOMBAY MAILS, SOUTHAMPTON,
Feb. 12.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw
steamship Behar, Captain J. S. Field, sailed hence to-day
for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria with the Bombay
mails, £242,888: in specie, and a large cargo. She takes
out 28 first and 10 second class passengers, among whom
are Captain R. Glyn, Sir Ivor Guest, Lieutenants F. J.
Foster and Nisbitt, Staff Assistant-Surgeon Rattray, for
Gibraltar ; Lieutenant T. W. Hewitt, for Malta; Captain
Green, Surgeons Annesley and Murphy for Bombay, &c.
GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Government
emigrnt ship Melbourne, 1,170 tons, Captain William
Brodie, which sailed from Liverpool on the 4th of Septem-
ber, in charge:of Surgeon-Superintendent Charles Kitching,
with 73 married couples, 89 single women, 75 single men,
36 boys between the ages of 1 and 12, 27 girls between the
same ages, 3 male infants and 12 female, making a total of
388 souls, equal to 3414 statute adults, arrived at Adelaide,
South Australia, on the 6th of December.
THE NEW BILL ON DEBTOR AND CREDITOR..—
On Saturday the new bill of the Lord Chancellor, on the
law of Debtor and Creditor, was printed. It contains 280
clauses, framed in_ a very concise manner. A long dis-
cussion Is expfcted on the second reading.

LATEST NEWS.

The following telegram has been received at

Mr. Reuter's office :--.

MADRID, SUNDAY, FEB. 13.
The English screw steamer Ignes de Castro has
been lost on the coast of Portugal.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY.

BOURSE, Feb. 12.—The market was rather heavy
at the opening, but afterwards rallied. Threes have
been done at from 67f. 85c. to 68f. sc. ; Mobilier,
765 f. to 772 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 548 f. 75c. to 551 f.
25c. ; Orleans, 1,310 f. to 1,315 f. ; Lyons, 827 f. 50c.
to 832 f. 50c. ; Southern, 510 f. to 512 f. 50c. ; North-
ern, 925 f. to :927f. 50c. The following are the
last quotations :

4f per Cents. .... 97 , Credit Fonder 615
Do. end month .. 96 75 Belgian 4f —
3 per Cents. 6B 30 Piedmonteso (5)
Do. end month.... 68 115 Roman B9
Bank Shares. 2900 Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 771 25 Spanish Threes •
Do. Account 777 50 Home Debt 4O

GREENWICH ELECTION.

THE NOMINATION.-THIS DAY.

The nomination of the respective candidates for
the representation of the borough of Greenwich—
viz., Mr. Alderman. Salomons and Mr. Angerstein
—took place this day, at the hustings erected in
front of St. Aiphage Church, Greenwich.
The free and independent electors assembled in
front of the booth for some time before the proceed-
ings commenced, and until the hour appointed for
the nomination arrived, a scene of great confusion
and excitement prevailed.
The arrival of Mr. Alderman Salomons, attended
by his proposer, seconder, and committee, was
treated with vociferous cheers, while the same com-
pliment was paid to Mr. Angerstein.
Shortly after eleven o'clock Mr. F. Chapman, the
returning officer, came forward, and having an-
nounced the purpose for which the electors were
assembled, begged of them to give each gentleman
a fair and attentive hearing.
PRIOR PURVIS, Esq., then came forward and
proposed Mr. Alderman Salomons as a fit and
proper person to represent Greenwich in Parlia-
ment. (Cheers.)
HENRY LOWMAN TAYLOR, Esq., said he had
great pleasure in seconding the nomination. The
hon. gentleman, in the course of a very animated
speech, urged the electors to return the Alderman
by a triumphant majority. (Loud cheers.)

Mr. BENJAMIN COOKE proposed William Anger-
stein, Esq. (Cheers and confusion.) He said he
was certain the electors if they returned Mr. An-
gerstein would add to the House of Commons a
gentleman devoted to the interests of Greenwich,
and a staunch reformer. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. JOLLY, of Deptford, seconded the nomina-
tion of Mr. Angerstein.
Alderman SALOMONS, who was reeeived with
loud applause, then proceeded to recapitulate his .
political principles as an advocate of a large exten-
sion of the suffrage, the vote by ballot, a more equal
apportionment of members to electors, and other
measures of reform. He could appeal with full con-
fidence to his antecedents—as a magistrate of the
county of Kent for twenty-two years—and to his
connection with the Corporation of London since
1835. He had received the thanks of a large body
of the merchants and other citizens for his conduct
during the period that he occupied the civic chair,
and as he was largely interested in trade and com-
merce he felt a laudable wish to enter the House
of Commons as the representative of the borough
of Greenwich, situated as it was on the banks of
the Thames, and populated with those whose in-
terests were bound up with commercial and trading
prosperity. He believed that during the present
session of Parliament a bill would be introduced
to amend the existing law on this subject, and
they might rely on him, if they returned him
as their representative, to see that in any such
amendment the interests of the inhabitants of
Greenwich was not lost sight of. (Cheers.) After
referring to the justice of rating the Government
establishments in the borough, Alderman Salomons
advocated the policy of keeping up a large and
efficient navy—which was a power of which Eng-
land had ever been justly proud. He would not
interfere without urgent cause with the affairs of
other nations, but would have this country at all
times prepared for any emergency. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. ANGERSTEIN then came forward to address
the electors, but was received with such confusion
that it was nearly impossible to hear a word that fell
from him. He said he was a thorough reformer,
and would do his best to further the interests of the
borough.
The RETURNING OFFICER called for a show of
hands, and declared the majority to be in favour of
Alderman Salomons.
A poll was demanded by Mr. Angerstein, and it
was ordered to commence at eight o'clock to-morrow
morning, and finally,close at four.
The respective candidates then proceeded to their
differeit committee rooms, attended by their sup-
porters.

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1859.