The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15-, 1866.

N°. 22,984.

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my testimony to this fact—first, because it is op-
posed to a stupid, unfeeling libel ; secondly, because
my doing so may afford some slight encouragement
to the persons who are unjustly depreciated ; and
lastly, and most of all, because it is the truth.
,Cheers.) Now, ladies and gentlemen, it is time
we should what we professionally call " ring down"
on these remarks. If you, such members of the
general public as are here, will only think the great
theatrical curtain has really fallen and been taken
up again for the night on that dull, dark vault
which many cf us know so well; if you will only
think of the theatre or other place of entertainment
as empty ; if you will only think of the " float," or
other gas fittings, as extinguished ; if you will only
think of the people who have beguiled you of an
evening's scare, whose little vanities and almost
childish foibles are engendered in their competing
face to face with you for your favour—surely it
may be said their feelings are partly of your
making, wWe their virtues are all their own. If
you will only do this, and follow them out of that
sham placeinto the real world, where it rains real
rain, snows real snow, and blows real wind ; where
people sustain themselves by real money, which is
much harder to get, much harder to make, and very
much harder to give away than the pieces of tobacco
pipe in property bags—(laughter)—if you will only
do this, and do it in a really kind, considerate spirit,
this society, then certain of the result of the night's
proceedings, can ask no more. I beg to propose to
you to drink " Prosperity to the Dramatic, Eques-
trian, and Musical Sick Fund Association. (Cheers.)
The toast was drunk with three times three.
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the next toast, said
—Gentlemen, as I addressed myself to the ladies
last time, so I address you this time, and I give you
the delightful assurance that it is positively my last
appearance but one on the present occasion. A
certain Mr. Pepys, who was Secretary to the Admi-
ralty in the days of Charles 11., who kept a diary
well in shorthand, which he supposed no one could
read, and which consequently remains to this day
the most honest diary known to print—Mr. Pepys
had two special and very strong likings, the ladies
and the theatres. But Mr. Pepys, whenever he
committed any slight act or remissness or any little
peccadillo which was utterly and wholly untheatri-
cal, used to comfort his conscience by recording a
vow that he would abstain from the theatres for a
certain time. In the first part of Mr. Pepys' cha-
racter I have no doubt we fully agree with him ; in
the second I have no doubt we do not. I learn this
experience of Mr. Pepys from remembrance of a
passage in"lais diary that. I was reading the other
night, from which it appears that he was not only
curious in plays, but curious in sermons ; and
that one night when he happened to be walking
past St. Dustan's Church, he turned, went in, and
heard what he calls " a very edifying discourse,"
during the delivery of which discourse he notes in
his diary "I stood by a pretty young maid, whom
I did attempt:to take by the hand." (Laughter.)
But he adds, " She would not, and I did perceive
that she had pins in her pocket with which to prick
me if I should touch her again—(laughter)—and
was glad that Ispied her desig a." Afterwards,about
the close of the same edifying discourse Mr. Pepys
found himself near another pretty, fair young maid,
who would seem upon the whole to have had no pins,
and to have been more impressible. Now, the moral of
this story which I wish to suggest to you is, that we
have been this evening in St. James's much more
timid than Mr. Pepys was in St. Dunstan's, and
that we have conducted ourselves very much better.
(Laughter.) As a slight recompense to us for our
highly meritorious conduct, and as a little relief to
our charged hearts, I beg to propose that we devote
this bumper to invoking a blessing on the ladies.
-<4cll--....) - •
to hear a lady speak for her own sex. (Cheers.
Who so cornnetent to do this as Mr. Stirling ? (Re-
newed cheering). Surely one who has so gracefully
and captivatingly, with such an exquisite mixture of
art, and fancy, and fidelity represented her own sex
in innumerable charities, under an infinite variety of
phases, cannot fail to represent them well in her own
character, especially when it is, amidst her many
triumphs, the most agreeable of all. (Cheers.) I beg
to propose to you " The Ladies," and I will couple
with that toast the name of Mrs. Stirling. (Cheers.)
The toast was drunk enthusiastically.
Mrs. STIRLING, who on rising to acknowledge the
toast was most warmly received, spoke as follows :
Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen,—You have
thought fit to couple my name with the ladies. Now,
for that act I retort by charging you with high trea-
son to St. Valentine and his day. You are the last
man to deserve pardon for the offence, for you have
shown, by your witty and eloquent allusions, that
you had the day and its duties fully in your mind.
It is treason, I say, to St. Valentine and his day to
couple anything with the ladies but the gentlemen.
And talking of St. Valentine—in these days of ar-
chaeology, ecclesiology, and all the other ologies—.
isn't it a great reproach to our learned men that they
have not been able to discover why St. Valentine
should be selected as patron of the sweethearting
and billet-douxing which goes on to-day through the
post. I'll be bound the ladies would not have been
so long in finding the reason. Indeed, I believe the
first lady who ever tried to find it did find it, and
as Peg Woffington might say, "Sure, that's myself."
I'll tell it you. But mind, I give you all notice—
the reporters in particular—that the discovery, like
our ghosts and our sensation effects, is copyright
and patent. No ; if it was patent, anybody might
have found it out, only they havn't. Well,
this is my discovery. I made it by the help of the
old lives of the saints, called the " Golden Legend."
It told me, first, that St. Valentine was a saint and
martyr of the time of Claudius. Now, there seemed
something to the point even in that. Most young
ladies are disposed to make saints of their sweet-
hearts, and vice versci; and if valentines lead to the
Temple of Hymen, as SQ many of them do, not a
few wives are quite ready to make martyrs of their
husbands, and vice versa. But that didn't satisfy
me. Reading further, I found that St. Valentine's
great miracle was opening a blind young girl's eyes,
and then I felt I had it. Love is blind, they say.
I say, au contraire young ladies are blind to the
merits of the gentlemen till love opens their eyes for
them, and Cupid works quite as great miracles in
that way as ever St. Valentine did ; and that, I take
it, is the reason why St. Valentine is Cupid's father
confessor, and his day the love-letter day of the
calendar. As this is the first public dinner at which
the ladies have been invited to sit down with the
gentleman, what day can be more appropriate for
its celebration than St. Valentine's ? I hope every
gentlemen present has come prepared not only with
his subription, but with his Valentine, to slip into
the hand of the fair lady at his side. If any of you
have come unprepared with the necessary documents,
instead of a billet doux slip a billet de banque into
her hand, to be added to her subscription. I defy
you to find a better way of paying your addresses ;
for what better love letters than s. d., when they
go on an errand of mercy like subscriptions to this
charity? But to-day, as we have been reminded, is
Ash Wednesday as well as St. Valentine's Day.
We actors and actresses should be the last persons
to be startled by the coincidence. Ilow many of
our days, in the earlier stages of our career at least,
are like this consecrated at once to love making in
play and in public, and to fasting in sorry earnest
at home! Our object to-day is not feasting, but
charity. If there be feeding, let it not be ours only,
but that of the hungry mouths your benevolence
will help to fill. There used to be Lenten oratorios.
Let our Lenten oratorio be the chorus of grateful
prayers that your kindness will call forth—the
songs of thankfulness from the sick and the suffer-
ing—the widow and the orphan—from those who,
but for you, might be abandoned—those whom,
but for your timely aid, might sink into the sad
ranks of the forlorn and the despairing. And now,
sir, in the name of the ladies, what am I to say to

Benjamin Sheals, an able seaman, on board the
London at the time she went down, was further
examined as to the course of the ship from the
Tuesday to the Thursday when the catastrophe oc-
curred, and said that while he was on deck, both on
Tuesday and Wednesday, she was always up to the
wind, and never before the wind. On Tuesday
night or early on Wednesday morning she was
brought round to the port tack, having been pre-
viously on the starboard tack. He repeated that on
Thursday morning he saw the skylight on the star-
board side of the ship broken all to pieces.
Mr. T. Wilson, a retired shipbroker, who was
examined on Tuesday, gave additional evidence yes-
terday, and said that if the ship, as had been stated
in evidence, was drawing 20ft. 3in. amidshi when
Ify t-817 •Le c ear she was much

too heavily laden. It wasy an important fact, too,
that she had no stormsails on beard. Such a ship
ought to have carried stormsails independent of any
other sails. In his opinion the main cause of the ship
foundering was her being overladen. The ship could
not rise to the sea, and consequently the sea came
over her. Looking at the section of the ship pro-
duced, he thought her load-line was too high up by
18inr beam.
Six was too long and too deep for her bea.
Six times the width was quite enough for the length
of a vessel. He was aware that a different system
had prevailed within the last 10 years, so that the
London was by no means an exception, but rather
the rule, since that period. lle was opposed to this
new system of building ships, and Was surprised the
Messrs. Wigram should have so entirely adopted it.
Wm. Daniels, the quartermaster of the London,
was further examined as to the tack of theship, and
said that, having been put on the port tack, she 1
about half-pastlo onThursday morning was put on
the starboard tack again, andremained on that tack
till she went down. That was the only time she was
p
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leeward. The
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wind at the time was N.N.E. on the pert tack .
Mr. R. Galloway, engineer surveyor to the Board
of Trade, said it did not appear to him the engineers
on board the London adopted the usual coursewhen
water came into the engine-room ; they ought to
have changed the suction valves of the centrifugal
pump.
Mr. Traill—But the fires were out.
Mr. Galloway said he could not understand how
the fires could be put out by one sea.
Mr. Trtall—But there was a succession of seas.

The witness then qualifiedhis statement by saying
that the suction valves ought to have been changed
if it were practicable to get at them. The water in the
engine-room ought to have been run into the bilge,
and the engineers ought to have been prepared for
such an emergency. Mr. Galloway then expressed
a general concurrence in the views taken by Mr.
Barber, who was examined on a former day.
The Rev. Rion G. Benson, of Hope Rowdier
Rectory, Shropshire, said he had a brother, 23 years
of age, who had gone on board the ill-fated vessel,
and was lost. Witness accompanied him to Ply-
mouth to see him off. The ship was within the
breakwater, and it struck him that she was very,
very low in the water, especially for a ship that had
been advertised for conveying passengers. Instead
of having to walk up the ladder to get on board,
they had to walk upon the ladder lying in a reverse
direction, and almost at a level with the deck of the
ship. She appeared to be very heavily laden, and
after he had parted from his brother he wrote home
to his father stating to him the fact of the ship being
so very low in the water.
Mr. O'Dowd having ell'
lained that he had not
been able to bring forward Captain Price, of the
Courier, said it was the wish of the friends of Capt.
Martin that some testimony should be given as to
the character he bore and the qualifications he pos-
sessed as a commander of a ship.
Lyrouth, North Devon,
Capt. Robert Roe, of
then came forward and said that he was now a
county magistrate, but had formerly been engaged
in the merchant service, and from
had served with Capt. Martin in some of Messrs.
Wigram's ships, Capt. Martin being his junior,
either as fourth, third, or second officer; and while
they were together he was always very attentive to
his duty, Ad also an exceedingly good sailor and
officer. lie was a skilful and careful man, and a
very proper man to take charge of a ship.
Mr. O'Dowd said that, in announcing to the
Court that he had no further evidence to offer, he
should say a very few words indeed. With respect
to the ship's structure and seaworthiness, her en-
gines and efficient working, her rigging, masts, &c.,
her cargo, and her having satisfied every require-
ment of the Passengers' Acts, he believed he had
produced the best possible evidence, and such as he
thought would be considered quite satisfactory.
But he was bound to say, with respect to the evi-
dence of the crew, it was by no means that which
could have been expected and desired. That, how-
ever, was clearly no fault of his ; he had had a very
limited sphere from which to select his witnesses, ,