The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-06 00:00:00

TILE. NA V

The .naval austinction , brig Ferret, 8, Commorttler
Fisher, left, Plymouth on Tuesday evening:for COrr k.
The p4oll,lqVct 661-i:team sloop GlactiatO4:-0, Corn '
wander•Hickley, lett Plymouth 9,nl,l'edfiesday for -
Le:West Indies.
The Vatidhi'hekl i..team sleoP, Fir'ebrand, ,G, was
laced in Keyhain Basin on Wedn,esday fo refit'.
The steant,,tng Prb:Tero„T. Cheshire, master.
-
was dockedinKeYharn on WednesdAy.
The steam `tender Avon, 3, second master J. H.
Lawrence,- returned --to Plymouth cn Wednesday
. _
frorn Cherbourg.
' The sailing ship Calcutta, 84,. Captain W. King
Hall, recently returned fr'om (hin'a, Was appointed
to be placed viongside the sheer;hulk in
.Hamoazo
yesterday for the purpose of taking out ' her masts :
and !bownpiiit.q Afet brow will not he paid Of,-until.
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Friday next, the 12th inst. -;.,
1; Lo Icli.l
Her Majesty's ship -,Scsotit.,7ll:l2e7e._w corvette,
has 'left—Great( Yarnlouth(RoadY,Hithero she 'Misr
been lying -for the ',reception of Imftval volunteers,
and has arrive(' in,' the 1..V1 fad,' ~''with a si4iiii*.-,;::
object. 1.4",1kin:•,1'
' The Cumberland; :70; flakship . rto,(Rear-Admiral
Sir Stephen Luslyington,'KM:B.,'Captain Henry•txs
7). Rogers;''C:ll., l'i•Om the South:East Coast,'OVt
America,. anchored ;abreast ,of .the ,Girdler Buoy,
Sheerness, at high water, yesterday morning's tide. to
She got 'under weigh on the .afternoon's flood and'
made. her number, after which sheianghoredat.the
Cire.4t Nore, where she will this day be ins*ted
by the COrn ra an der-in-Chief Viceadmiral Edward
Harvey,,after_whicil she; will g.iluto _harbour to be
paid Offuall. standing; .the officers and crew of the
Cressy, late guardship of the steam reserve, are
tinder Admiralty Orders to be turned over to her on
her being yaid off.
TheLocust,"paddlewheel steamvessel, Lieutenant-
Commander John B. Eield, left Sheerness on Thurs-
day, with the supOptitnergnes from Portsmouth
who tran4p4tgd 'the'CollingivOod from Portsinbuth,
.
and with volunteers for ships fitting at 'Devon-
port. ___...._ ... .___.. .._ .. .
port.

The new screw- steam corvette guus,
left Sheerness on WedneSday' on a trial-drip t)f- her
niachinerY: .
Her Majesty's ship Mars has been put ourbf-the-
bnsin at Sheerness to harbour moorings fully rigged,
but is sadly in.\vant of able seamen; having only to
this time entered 11 on her books.
The Hood is in the fitting basin, Sheerness, re-
ceiving her machinery.
The Queen; 90 guns, is fitting for the first-class
steam reserve.
The Mowing Ships r,ie in the harbonr at Sheer--
ness:—Queen Charlotte, Airs, Trafalgar, and Cos-
sack. In the first-class steam reserve, Majestic;
Polly rigged mid Tainted; Snake, and Renard.
These three ships 'are call ready for -their crews.
Tie Forte, 51 guns,-at- Shretness; has been brought
fl'om her harbour moor.inga tc:,) be fitted,S9F the fii,A7-
class steam reserve.
We are informed.' that the
ri.ved.. at ,Chatham on' T.Vednesdly, rivas7fPaid off-
Oder the command of Lieut. H. M. Bingham,,nd
not of ComMander J. R. Rudd, who relinquiSlied.'
the corninPnd of I,.er ' at Hongkong-in-December
list. , At that (ti.'..4e Lieutenant, Binghatujwas ap-
pointed to the command of qic Belleisle by Admiral
Sir Michael Seymour; and she was paid off' under
Lieut. Bingham'Ellanspites as Commander.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—The ReV.. John 13. Hardbord,
Chaplain, to the Donegal ; Daniel J;MaY, SeCcnd•
Master, to the Donegal ; and John M.. Forster,
Paymaster, confirmed to the Madagascar. .

before the country, altogether acquitted from any '
blame whatever—although he does not intend to
resist the petition against his return at the last
general election, and although (notwithstanding
that petition) he does, at the same time, propose,
very soon after the close of the present session of
Parliament, to vacate his seat by the constitutional
loophole, afforded to any and every member, through
the acceptance of the Escheatorship of Munster, or
of the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, of
the Manor of East Hendred, or of the Manor of
Hempholme ! Than the explanation given to the
House of Commons yesterday, by Dr. MICHELL,
of his whole conduct in the transaction, nothing
could well have been more frank, more manly, or,
all things considered, more entirely satisfactory.
It is due to the hon. and learned gentleman the
member for Sheffield, however, in the first instance,
to remark that he had given full notice to Dr.
MICHELL of his intention to make the statement so
materially affecting that gentleman's reputation.
An inadvertence alone prevented the member
for Bodmin from being present in the house when
Mr. ROEBUCK arraigned his (Dr. MICHELL'S)
conduct and character in the matter of that
rumoured collusive agreement.

Yesterday, however, in obedience to the order of
the House of Commons, to the effect that he should
be there in his place at 6 o'clock in the evening, Dr.
MICHELL, after apologising to the hon. and learned
member for Sheffield for his accidental and wholly
unintentional non-compliance with the request that
he should be present at the previous sitting, ex-
plained, as clearly as words could possibly explain
anything, the real facts of the case as affected him-
self, the petition against his return, and his in-
tended retirement from the representation of Bod-
min by the acceptance of the Stewardship of the Chil-
tern Hundreds. Those simple, honest facts, as the
phrase is, lie in a nutshell. " If there is any fault,"
said Dr. MICHELL manfully enough in the House
of Commons last evening—" If there is any fault
it is in the rules of this house, wherein it
is so costly that no man of small means
is ever able to sit in this house, provided any per-
son chooses to bring a petition against him,
whether it be right or wrong." Adding, "My
means are sufficient to keep me as a gentleman ;
but if I have to take people 300 miles from their
homes I may have to spend some £2,000, £3,000,
or even £6,000. Under such circumstances, if I
obliged all my friends to come up—believing there
is not the least charge against me through them,
and knowing there is not through myself—l should
place myself in inextricable difficulties during the
whole future period of my life. If I had an estate
of thousands a-year I would have fought this peti-
tion; and I now say that if the House will bear
me out in the expense I will fight it still; but I
am not going to ruin myself and those who are
dependent on me for the honour of a seat in
this House. I appreciate that honour as much
as any man, but I do not appreciate it to the
ruin of myself and others ; and it is on that
ground, and that alone, that I do not defend this
petition." The cordial cheers which greeted every
sentence of this manly and most honourable expla-
nation, indicated clearly enough the feelings of the
assembled representatives. Mingled with these
hearty cheers, moreover, there was much good-
humoured laughter, as when Dr. MICHELL offered
to resist the petition if the House would itself but
bear him out in the expense, and still more, when
he remarked in regard to that petition—" In the
first place, when this petition was presented, I
thought they were in joke, for all petitions are
almost alike"—observing, in pursuance of the same
theme, " Petitions are got up something like
what the old law used to be—they charge you
with everything, and make sure to catch you on
something." Whereat the House was in " roars of
laughter." Furthermore, in explicit recapitulation
of the motives which had really actuated himself
from first to last in this transaction, Dr. MICHELL
said yesterday—" I thought the better plan—not
knowing I was fighting against the rules of the
House—was to allow the petitioners to withdraw
the petition, and so exonerate me from all the charges
that had been made in it. Under that idea I said
did not wish any longer to sit in the House, and that
I should at any time be ready, with the sanction of
the house, to do anything that was right and pro-
per. These were the principles on which I
acted. Under those circumstances I leave the case
in the hands of the house, and I have no doubt the
House will feel as I have felt, that it would not be

THE SUN.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1859.

Well, it would seem, if we may believe the
Manama , that we are to have peace in right good
earnest. We shall be truly glad to find it prove
so. But to make assurance doubly sure we cannot
sufficiently express our thanks to the Government
for their unceasing determination to strengthen
our defences both by land and water. We are not
only to have an army of reserve but a navy also.
This is as it should have been long long ago. It
was in vain that we pointed out the suicidal prac-
tice of not only dismantling our ships on their re-
turn to port, with their rigging well seasoned, and
their whole equipage very little the worse for wear
and tear; but the greatest folly of all was in the
discharge of the men. The insanity, for we cannot
call it policy or economy, of discharging the very
heart and soul of our national safety is beyond or-
dinary comprehension. But so it was, and dearly
bought has been our experience of its utter folly.
No wonder that our naval estimates have been
swollen to such magnitude with very little to show
for it. It is said that the life of a ship averages
about twelve years ; but this is absurd. We
know many, very many ships, which have lasted
twenty, nay, even thirty years, and are still
British hearts of oak, fit to do duty on salt water,
and able to give a good account of an " ugly cus-
tomer" in double quick time. But all that sort of
economy was against the " system" of dockyard
jobbery, and the nation had to pay dearly for in-
competency, sheer extravagance, and shameful
waste. Nobody was right but the Jack in office ;
and the poor Jack, cast adrift after having perfected
his knowledge as a gallant seaman, was sent to the
right about to bestow his well-trained abilities on
a foreign country! If ever there was madness in
the mismanagement of our best defenders this caps
it all.

Such has been the disgust created in the minds of
seamen at this sort of conduct that many thousands
have left the Navy from sheer aversion to a country
which could tolerate such ungrateful conduct. And
to talk of patriotism to a man who is left to starve,
or to wait till State necessity finds it imperative to
seek his services, is only adding insult to injury.
For what reliance can be placed on the faith of
those who only condescend to be civil when they
want your services ? People in power may talk of
one's duty to his country; but what avails patriot-
ism to a starving man ? His first duty is to him-
self; it is the law of nature, and the cherished sense
of embittered wrong only tends to make more sour
instead of sweetening the moody anguish of his
forlorn hopes. Aristocratic pride and official pre-
sumption, added to unquenchable selfishness, have
lost England the good hearty services of many ex•
cellent men.

right in any man to go to a ruinous expense in
order to defend a seat in this house, however much
he might prize such a distinction." And so the
matter would have ended yesterday with the cor-
dial cheering which greeted Dr. MICHELL when
he had completed his explanation, but that as soon
as he had withdrawn from the House afterwards
there still remained before the House—awaiting its
decision—Mr. ROEBUCK'S resolution. After a little
difficulty in finding another teller to abet the hon.
and learned member for Sheffield in carrying the
question, put by him, to a division—that division,
upon being taken, showed a clear majority of 184
against the motion in a House of 244—the ayes
being no more than 30, and the noes as many as
214. The complete exoneration of the hon. mem-
ber for Bodmin being signalised by the " loud
cheers" which greeted that announcement.

" My country's blind ; corruption veils her eyes,
Or paints her heroes in a strange disguise.
Her tars are brave, intrepid, and so forth,
Bit mourn the bar opposed to friendless worth."

One point has, we think, not been sufficiently
urged upon the workmen who have struck in the
building trades—we mean the power of public dis-
cussion to redress just complaints. The history of
the present quarrel is now pretty well known, and
its object is clear—that object is, that the workmen
should have more daily leisure, but that the leisure
should cost them nothing, In one aspect of the
case this is obviously a demand for higher wages.
The workman will receive more per hour. But its
primary object is stated to be more time with their
families and wives, more time for rest, more time
for self-improvement, and, if we were to complete
the account, we fear we must add in many cases—
more time to tipple. An indirect advantage also
is, that numbers of persons now unemployed would
find work. Obviously, indeed, the masters must
employ one-tenth more men, or about six thousand
more skilled artizans. The scheme therefore in-
volves a great increase of wages on the whole. The
220 masters who have united must pay, and the
labourers, as a body, receive, it is said, £338,000
more per annum. This is a serious sum on both
sides. So far as those who strike make it an ob-
ject, they ask the money for others and only the
time for themselves. Indeed, it is the time on
which they lay stress.

This it is that rankles in the heart of many a
gallant sailor, and will continue so until a better
system be adopted in our naval administration.
And now we really think that the eyes of the coun-
try are opened to the long continued system of
abuse which has been practiced with such disre
Bard to the welfare of the service.

While we wish to be just to the present advisers
of the Crown—let us also be just to the Emperor
NAPOLEON It is to him that we owe this sudden con-
version in our rulers to the absolute necessity of put-
ting the country in order, for fear of invasion and
the loss of our dearly cherished prestige of being
Lords Paramount on the wide waters that guard our
native isle. The forlorn state of our navy in the
face of such extravagant outlay was only arrested
the other day by the fearless intrepidity of Sir
JOHN PAKINGTON-a mere e3vilian—but a true-
hearted Briton, who boldly took the bull by the
horns, and set about the restoration of the navy in
worthy of a NEL:)ON. And he
a spirit of chivalry
his successors 1..,•re now having set the example,
com-
pelled to follow out his patriotic exertions. The
only marvel is that things should have been
allowed to have drifted so utterly—so ruinously
to leeward. Of course, no one is to blame
when once the murder is out; but if it were a
matter of praise instead of one of censure, we should
have had a hundred claimants for the laurel ! This
comes. of Whig hypocrisy and Tory make-shift, for
ravenouk; aristocratic pride and graspinggreediness
aro at the bottom of it all. Again we thank LOUIS
NA POLEON for having shown us our weak point and
so haviz tg touched up our metal, that we shall be in
better c tondition hereafter to give him a warmer
reeeptict a.

Now, if this be their real object, is there one
which could be more appropriately
Closing-ppropriately sought through
the press ? The
Earlyßy public me Association has
done wonders by this simple agency,etlngs properly re-
.to
one so open
to both sides.
ported, and by argumentative communications
thecause
good
support
t
the daily and weekly press, almost an
may, by a little perseverance, commandy
of the public. We will not now attempt
.rae
decide
the question whether ten hours be too long a time
for a day's work in the building trade ; but we are
sure of one thing, that if it be so, this may be easily
proved, and once proved, it is just one of those sub-
jects on which general opinion would be all power-

The h onourable gentleman, the member for Bod-
min—.Di MICHELL—has vindicated his character
triumph; antly. He stands before Ole House, and

ful. 't he public which wants the work done would
know t hat they ought to pay a tenth more for it,
and the master builders would be able to charge it ;
since, though there might be a superabundance of
labour, that labour must still be made use of under
the conditions which public opinion sanctions.
Economical principles are indeed almost omnipo-
tent ; still even they must be modified by the notion
which exists in any place of what a day's labour
should be..

It appears to us that the building trades have,
most unwisely, like the Austrians with Sardinia,
precipitated the war in a manner which injures
them in public opinion. They had not, like that
Power, exhausted diplomacy, and yet they make
themselves judges in the matter by invading the
territory of the masters, or by doing what looks
like it. They attack one firm by a combination,
and provoke an immediate combination on the part
of the masters. In all probability, after ruinous
losses on both sides, we shall have a Solferino and
a Villafranca between the men and their masters.
The beginners in the quarrel may gain something ;
but the nine hours for ten they will certainly not
gain ; they may also gain nothing but starvation
and pawnbrokers' tickets, and return to find them-
selves yet more beaten by still better machinery—
for almost all strikes have improved machinery and
superseded labour. On the other hand, the mas-
ters may concede something—in wages, or in a
Saturday half-holiday—but not more than they
would have good-temperedly conceded to pro-
longed, intelligent, and fair discussion. But, in
the latter case, both parties would have been in the
meantime gaining—the workman his wages, the
master his profit on them. We fear, however, it
is now too late. Passion is enlisted ; victory is
sought. And as the ,node in which the demands
are made exhibit about the worst possible general-
ship, we can but apprehend dreadful suffering for
the vanquished operatives, and no trifling losses
for victorious masters.

Mr. DILLWYN was quite right in withdrawing
the Endowed Schools Bill on Thursday. Mr. LOWE
made, indeed, a specious defence of the committee's
bill, entirely opposite in character as it was to Mr.
DILLWYN'S Bill ; but, without entering into the
technicalities of the case, we will state the prin-
cipal effect of each.

Mr. DILLWYN'S Bill takes the case of Endowed
Schools in which the founders have laid down no
creeds, and no sectarian distinctions whatever,
though Icy may have mentioned religion in general
terms. In these cases the courts of law have ruled
that " religion" means religion in the precise form
of the Thirty-nine Articles, the Church Catechism,
and the Prayer-book ; and that, on the purely
technical ground that this is the only religion known
to the Courts of Law. Mr. DILLWYN contends that
this is a narrow and unreasonable construction of
liberal and unsectarian documents, and his bill pro-
vides that where the deeds are of this character, for
the future, the courts shall be prohibited from such
sectarian interpretations, and that in the matter of
trusteeship and instruction the school shall be open
to all denominations.

Mr. LOWE'S bill, as we must now term it, seems
a little liberal to Dissenters, but in practice is just
the reverse. It proposes substantially to abide by the
old misconstruction, or narrow-minded construction
of the word " religion." For, it provides that the prac-
tice of the last twenty-five years shall decide whether
the schools shall be rigidly Church of England
schools or liberal schools. The only concession is
a " conscience clause," by which the children of
Dissenters may, on the written request of the
parents, be exempted from learning the Church
catechism and attending Church services. But the
unfairness towards Dissenters is this. The schools,
in the case of liberal founders, have already, by the
unjust technicalities of the judges, got into the
hands of one sect exclusively ; and that, in the vast
majority of such cases, for much more than twenty-
five years. It was endeavoured by the DILLwvN
Bill to reverse this injustice, not violently, but by
leaving things to their natural course—declaring
that such schools are, so far as religion is concerned,
perfectly open schools. Mr. LowE's Bill proposes,
on the contrary, to stereotype the present unjust
exclusiveness to all future generations.
It is all the worse in this case, because no one is
wronged by giving equal claims on an educational
charity to all. The children of Churchmen within
the reach of such a grammar school, have no
natural claim on its benefits beyond other children;
they have none by the hypothesis, on the ground
of the founder's intention; they have none but
what rests on an abuse of his liberality ; on a pre-
scription which ought never to have been tolerated
—a prescription which arose when Dissenters were
fewer and persecuted, and the dominant Church
grasped at everything. Mr. DILLWYN has, there-
fore, done rightly in refusing the bill of the ex-
member for Kidderminster, and member for
Caine, and Lord LANSDOWNE. Let the overreach-
ing temper of the narrowminded Churchmen be
shown up, session after session, if they will per-
sist in refusing bills like that of the member for
Swansea.

they have all ceased. Canvassing was urgent and
harassing to quiet and dependent electors—it has
given way under the Ballot to public declarations
of opinion, through the press, the placard, and the
platform ; and public catechising " open and above
board," is, we are told, the only and the very useful
ordeal which candidates have to pass. Indeed,
things are managed, in this respect, much as they
are in our own West Riding of Yorkshire. In
Australia, so far from persons promising and be•
lying their promises, the fact is, that it would ruin
the prospects of any candidate if it were known
that he canvassed and extorted promises. The
natural working of the Ballot is to make canvas-
sing discreditable, and to cause the electors gene-
rally to resent such an interference with the
liberty given them by the law of secret voting.

INDIA, CHINA, & AUSTRALIA

MAILS.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.
The Ripon, Captain Christian, has arrived with
the India, China, and Australian mails.

She left Alexandria July 22d ; Malta, 26th ;
Gibraltar, 31st; and brings 170 passengers, 10
packages specie (value not stated), seven cases valu-
ables, 1,453 bales silk, and general cargo.
She passed the Indus at 9.30 a.m. yesterday.

Her Majesty's ships Hibernia, Orior, Cadmus,
and Lapwing, at Malta ; Liffey, Quail, and Vulture,
at Gibraltar.

The Portuguese schooner Dos Amigos, at Gib-
raltar on the 28th, landed there the master and
crew, seven in number, of the Oldenburg brigan-
tine Bertha, which had sprung a leak, and foun-
dered on the 25th, 15 miles off Adra. She was
bound to Falmouth, laden with rye.
Gibraltar exchange on London, 502- ; Paris, 5.29 ;
Marseilles, 5.30 ; Genoa, 5.31.

THE GREAT EASTERN STEAM-SHIP.

This colossal and magnificent vessel will, we
understand, be delivered up to the company by the
contractors, in an entirely complete condition, on
Thursday week, the 18th inst. The fittings up are
of the most splendid description. It is said that
the furniture of the saloon alone has cost upwards
of .£5,000. It is, we are informed, the intention of
the directors to proceed to sea forthwith with the
Great Eastern by way of testing her sailing powers;
but instead of crossing the Atlantic, as was at one
time contemplated, it is now intended to go only
about half-way towards the American side of the
water; it being believed that that distance will, in
every respect, adequately test the qualities of the
noble vessel.—Morning Advertiser.

His Excellency the Prince Ottojano and suite
have left Maurig-y's Hotel for Naples.

Lord and Lady Clermont have left Claridge's
Hotel for a tour on the Continent.

Lord and Lady Calthorpe and the Hon. Misses
Calthorpe, and Major the Hon. J. G. Calthorpe, will leave
town in a few days foi a tour on the Continent.

army."

COUNTY COURTS.—The Lord Chancellor has ap-
pointed Allen Maclean Skinner, Esq., Q.C., to be judge of
the county courts of Staffordshie held at Oldbury, Walsall,
and Wolvurhampton in the place of Mr. Sergeant Clarke,
decet.sed.

THE VICTORIA BELL.—The Howe bell for the
clock-tower of the Town-hall, Leeds, the casting of which
was entrusted to the firm of Jolla Warner and Sons,
Crescent Foundry, London, is the finest model and speci
men, in point of design, casting, and quality of tone, ever
accomplished in England. The dimensions are as follows
—Diameter at mouth, 6ft. 2 in. ; height, sft. ; thickness of
sound bow, Gin. ; weight without clapper, 4 tons 1 cwt.
Oqr. lib. ; note, B. The bell is named after her Majesty,
" Victoria," cast on the waist. Above the name is a profile
of the Queen, with the back hair slightly drooping. Round
the skirt above the sound bow is the following inscription :
" This bell, weighing 4 tons 1 cwt. Oqr. 11b., was cast by
John Warner and Sons, of London, for the Town-hall,
Leeds, in the year of our Lord 1859. Cuthbert Brodrick,
architect." The bell will be suspended for the inspection
of those who are interested in church and clock bells during
next week, from ten till four, on presenting their card.
In the Huddersfield Committee this morning the
counsel for the petitioners withdrew from the scrutiny.
The committee adjourned till Monday, to consider decision.
Mr. Leatham will be declared duly elected. The Beverley,
Hull, and Preston committees are still examining wit-
nesses.
Mr. SPURGEON AT NORWICH.—The Rev. C. H.
Spurgeon preached two sermons at Norwich on Wednesday
in aid of his new "Tabernacle fund." The rev. gentle-
man addressed about 2,500 persons in the afternoontin St.
Andrew's-hall, and an immense concourse--5,000 or 6,000
—in Chapel-field in the evening. The collection made
among the 2,500 assembled in St. Andrew's-hall realized
about £2B, and the rev. gentleman expressed to his evening
audience his disappointment at so inadequate a result. The
response was, however, still smaller, only £23 being raised.
This is not the first time Mr. Spurgeon has complained
that those who go to " hear" him do not respond liberally
to his fervid appeals.
THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—The Chatham,' of
539 tons, Captain Joseph Ginder, belonging to Messrs. •
Somes, sailed from Southampton on Thursday for Algoa '
Bay with 239 emigrants selected by the Hon. 'William Field,
the commissioner appointed by the Cape Colony to conduct '
their emigration. Of the number embarked there were 116
English, 84 Scotch, and 39 Irish ; 41 married couples, with
69 children, 63 single men, and 25 single women. They
were under the care of Surgeon-Superintendent James
Robert Tunmer ; religious instructor, Griffith Jones.
THE Loss OF THE ARoo.--An official inquiry,
directed by the Board of Trade, into the circumstances
under which the screw steamer Argo, chartered by the
Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company, was
wrecked on the coast of Newfoundland on the 28th of last
June, was commenced at the Custom-house, Dublin, on
Thursday, before Frank Thorpe Porter, Esq., J.P., with
Captain Harris, R.N., as nautical assessor. Mr. O'Dowd
appeared on the part of the Board of Trade. Dr. Towns-
end, with Mr. J. M. Cantwell, appeared for the Trans-
atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company. The
proceedings were adjourned.
THE LATE WRECK ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.
—IIAvRE, Aug. 3.—The French barque which was lost on
the Goodwin Sands on the night of the 31st July, was the
De Rudder, of Granville, Captain Roger, from Buenctil
Ayres to Antwerp, with tallow, hides, wool, bones, &c. The
master and mate were drowned ; the remainder of the crew
were saved by the Eolus (Swedish vessel), bound to Malaga,
which transferred them to a pilot boat, by which they were
landed at Calais.

41 per Cents. 97
Do. end month 97
3 per Cents. 69 75
Do. end month 69 95
Bank Shares 2850
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account

Was it an oversight or was it " a great fact,"
that the Times of Tuesday last gave "unmutilated
and entire," the letter of its Melbourne corre-
spondent. That gentleman is a warm friend of
the Ballot, which has been adopted with such
satisfaction to all parties under his own observa-
tion there. Yet, strange to say, never before have
we noticed a sentence from him favourable to
secret voting! We have had quotations against it
from a contemptible paper hundreds of miles off,
but no quotations in its favour from the ablest
Melbourne papers, and none from the pen from
which we most of all expected it.

THE CONDEMNED CONVICT AT WEST BROM-
wten. - No intimation of a reprieve for William Worsey,
condemned to death for the murder of his wife, has yet
been received at Stafford. His execution will take place
on Saturday next at eight in the morning, should no inti
mation to the contrary be received from the Home •office.
ACCIDENT ON CHATHAM LINES.—On Thursday
morning a soldier belonging to the 84th, named M'Ginn,
was discovered lying in the trench, near the sallyport, ap-
parently dead. He was removed to the garrison hospital
and medically inspected, when it was found that his back
and three of his ribs were broken, and he was otherwise so
seriously injured that he is not expected to live. He must
have fallen into the trench the previous evening, when on
his way across Chitham lines to the huts at Brompton.
The poor fellow has a wife and one child ; he has been 13
years in the service.
TIIE PRINCE OF WALES ON LOCIILOMOND.—On
Monday last the Prince of Wales joined the steamer Prince
of Wales at Inversuaid, and sailed down this far-famed
loch accompanied by Professor D. Sym Playfair and Col.
Bruce. His Royal Highness and the gentlemen with him
took luncheon in the steamer, and proceeded by rail front
Balloch Pier at four p.m. to Edinburgh..—Glasgow _Even-
ing Hail. .

On Tuesday, however, we read, in reference to
the addition of an immense number of names to the
register under the new Act, not less than 152,000
in that small colony " It will be curious to observe
in what manner the immense body of electors under
the screen as well as the protection of the ballot will
work at the coming election. As to the Ballot, I
think it has worked well here. It has greatly
diminished the expense of elections ; and has made
them as peaceful and orderly as if no election were
going on." We shall await indeed with some
interest the result of the first elections in Australia,
not by the Ballot merely, but by Universal Suffrage
also, for the franchise is now so extended as nearly
to include all adult males. Indeed, the numbers
prove this. The population, exclusive of Chinese,
is 464,000. Of these 204,622 are males of
all ages. And more than half of these males,
152,000 names, are already on the register. A
wonderful proportion of adults ; explained, of
course, by the nature of the immigration.
If the result, be ever so successful we may
expect all the old commonplaces about the dif-
ference between a colony and the mother country,
and the Ballot not being applicable here, though
it may succeed there—the fact being that many
of the differences are in favour of the mother
country. The elections there were in all respects
what ours were till the Ballot was introduced.
The publiehouse-keepers especially were a great
power—they have now lost their influence. Street
rows were common, and all the usual kinds
of disturbing and intimidating appliances—

'RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF AUSTRIAN MAIL PACKET
SEitvicE FROM TRIESTE.—The following notice has been
issued by command of the Postmaster-General :—" Infor-
mation having been received that the Austrian postal ser-
vice by sea, between Trieste and Greece, the lonian. Islands
Turkey and Egypt, is re-established, letters, &c., for the
countries mentioned, may in future be forwarded by the
route of Triu.te, if addressed Trieste,' or Belgium.'
Letters, &c., for Alex4.ndretta, Latakia, Mersina, Tripoli,
in Syria, and Janina, in Albania. cannot, for the present, be
forwarded via Trieste."

HARBOUR IMPROVEMENTS IN NEW ZEALAND.
Letters from Nelson, New Zealand, mention that a con-
siderable sum of money was likely to be voted by the Pro-
vincial Council for Harbour Improvements, and for the
erection cf a new lighthouse.

The ;Jill empowering the President of the India,
Council to raise a new loan was printed yesterday, and dif-
fers from previous bills by allowing more latitude as to the
form of security to be issued. Hitherto only bonds or de-
bentures have been specified, but it is now provided that
the loan may be in the shape of stock or annuities to be
transferrahle free of charge at the Bank of England. It is
al ways difficult to form an anticipation as to the probable
preferences of the public in matters of this description; hut
there is a strong impression among practical persons that
the creation of a 5 per cent. Stock, to be managed at the
Bank of England in the same manner as the ordinary
funds, would find more general favour than any other ar-
rangement. The amount of the current debentures, none
being less than £5OO, has been a great impediment to their
circulation. _

BEAUTY.—" Would to Heaven," said Schiller,
" it were possible to banish the notion, and even the very
word Beauty from use." If he had read a hundredth part
of the profound inconsequentionalisms which philosophers,
from Plato dawn to Hegel and Sir William Hamilton, have
written concerning Beauty, or a thousandth part of the
shallow platitudes uttered by those who are not philosophers,
it is not to be wondered at that Schiller should have
groaned in spirit at the bare word. For our own part we,
after reading the last new book on the subject, feel as
though • we, too, coul I be content that the word were
banished, so that for our solace the thing itself were left,--
Literary Gazette.

THEUSITN;wLONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1859,

FRANCE.

RAILWAYS.

LATEST NEWS.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Neuter's office :--

TURIN, AUG 5 (Evening.)
The Ministry has resolved upon recalling the
Piedmontese Governor la Parma. •

FLORENCE, AUG, 6.
Colonel Cipriania has left for Bologna.

PARIS, AUG. 6.

M. de Banneville ha.s been appointed second
French Plenipotentiary at: the Conference of Zurich.

TRIESTE, AUG. 6.

CONSTANTINOPLE. July 30.—The Sultan arrived
at Salowitz on the 26th inst. An Albanian Prince
has arrived here on a politi cal mission.
ATHENS, July 30.—The' French Ambassador, M.
Thouvenel, arrived here the day before yesterday
on his journey to Constantinople.

The Patrie of yesterday wening says :—" Accord-
ing to a letter from Fiorelrce it is supposed that
Gariteldi would take the command of the Tuscan

Thy same journal further :tales :—" The Emperor
Napoleon will visit the cam•.p at Chalons, and will
stay there till Tuesday next!'

BERNE, AUG. 5.

The French Ambassador (Marquis de Turgot)
here has made known to th e Federal Council the
Emperor's satisfaction to see Switzerland selected
for the conferences of the three Powers.

TURIN, AUG. 5.
M. de Desambrois, representative of Piedmont,
has arrived at Zurich.

A denial has been given to the news published by
the correspondent of the Nord respecting a pre-
tended interview between the Emperor of Austria
and the King of Sardinia, which was said to have
taken place at Villafranca.

The official journal of Lombardy denies the reports
published by certain papers as to the object of the
mission of Count Reiset, and states that the French
diplomatic agent has received such instructions
from his Government as are favourable to the
wishes and interests of Italy.

The disturbances at Crema have not been of any
political character.

In the Duchy of Modena a great concourse of
political electors have inscribed their votes.

ST. PETERSBURG, AUG. 5.

Baron Haber, manager of the Bank of Darm-
stadt, M. Hanseman, director of the Discount
Bank at Berlin, and Baron Mulkens have received
the concession for establishing at St. Petersburg a
general society for banking and trading (societe
generale de banque et de commerce.) The capital
of the company is to be 200,000,000 f. in 400,000
shares of 500 f. each. The statutes of the company
have been confirmed by the Emperor.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

M. de Reiset was to leave Turin to-day for
Parma. The rumour that his mission had been
modified is not confirmed.

The Patrie says that, according to letters from
Toulon, the sailors of the fleet who have served the
regulated time are at this moment being sent back
to their homes.

PARIS BOURSE, Aug. s.—There has been but a
limited amount of business doing, but there is a
great degree of steadiness in the market. Threes,
after having been done at 69f. 55c., and 69f. 60c.,
are now at 69f. 80c. Mobilier varied from 840 f. to
847 f. 50c. Austrian and Lombard 567 f. 50e. to
570 f. ; Orleans, 1,365 f. to 1,375 f. ; Lyons, 872 f. 50c,-
to 880 E ; Northern, 935 f. to 937 f. 50c. ; Southern,
515 f. to 520 f. The following were the quota-
tions :

Credit Fonder.... 655

Belgian 4
Piedmonteso (5)
Roman B7
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 4l 38

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern