The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-14 00:00:00

"Should, cOnscquently, the Confederation take
measures towards France on conjectural data,
and aga;iist which it has obtained more than one
guarantee, it would have falsified the object of its
institution, and disowned the spirit of treaties
upon which its existence rests.
" We confidently entertain the hope that the
wisdom of the Federal Governments will set aside
determinations which would turn to their prejudice,
and would not contribute to strengthen their own
position.

" If, which God forbid, it should happen other-
wise, we shall at all events have fulfilled a duty of
frank and sincere friendship. Whatever may be
the issue of the present complications, the Emperor,
our august master, perfectly free in his action, will
only be inspired by the interests of his country and
the dignity ot. his Crown in the determinations
which his Majesty will be called upon to take.
" GORTSCHAKOFF.
" St. Petersburg, 15th (27th) May, 1859."

THE GREAT EASTERN.

The Great Ship Company have taken advantage
of the Whitsun holidays to throw open their
Leviathan vessel to the public, in order that the
latter, their shareholders included, may see the
progress that has been made in the internal fittings
Knee last she was entitled to be reckoned amongst
the " sights " of London. The giant ship still
stretches " many a rood" along Deptford-creek,
shutting off with her huge broadside a sheet of
smooth water, that might serve for a Leviathan
dock, and is daily surrounded by her flotilla of small
boats incessantly employed in fetching curious
visitors backwards and forwards between her and
'-the shore. On the last occasion xvhen she was open
to the public, an arrangement was made by which
the Greenwich boats landed passengers on the hulk
alongside, but this time it appeared as if no such
precaution had been taken, or else that the direct
Greenwich traffic was too stupendous to be interfered
with, for the checktukers at London-bridge resolutely
refused to book passengers for the ship, but were
obliging enough to offer to take them to Greenwich
and back for double fare, with an extra charge for
the probability of stopping at the " dummy." Besides,
the crowd of holiday seekers bound for the park was
•so large, and it must be added, so uproarious, that
to get even on board the steamboat was a herculean
task, involving a considerable derangement of toi-
lette, with the contingency of a pugilistic encounter
too, in getting on board, and the possibility of the
boat being swamped through over-loading during
the voyage down the river. A chance, however,
remained for those who were acquainted with the
neighbourhood, by crossing London-bridge and
taking the rail to Deptford ; but here, again, con-
siderable vigilance was requisite, as the heavily
laden Greenwich train stopped but for a moment at
the neglected Deptford, and the hasty announce-
ment of the name of the station, given in the most
difficult dialect of the railway language, went very
little way in enlightening the traveller as to his
actual whereabouts. At Deptford Pier there were
scullers enough in waiting, whose fare was three-
pence each person, but who would not refuse half-a-
crown, if the visitor should happen to be under the
impression that the waterman had been appointed
to receive the admission fee for the ship. All confu-
sion on this score might be saved by a line added to
the company's advertisement, and we commend the
subject to the attention of the management. The
train is the best route, and as the scullers pass
backwards and forwards in perfectly smooth water,
and as the staircase by which her Majesty ascended
on her visit is on the shore side of the ship, the most
timid may adopt it without the slightest uneasiness.
The short passage from the train down to the water
is certainly rather too odoriferous to be pleasant, but
then, to a person who had started from home with
the prospect of a voyage on " the silver Thames,"
even this will not be looked upon as much of a
horror. When, at last, safely landed on the lofty
deck, one soon sees that busy hands have recently
been at work in producing order out of chaos, and,
carrying out the innumerable details which were
necessary to make the Great Eastern a perfect ship
The deck, which on our previous visit presented but
a rude succession of huge- iron girders over which
people stumbled at every step, is now completely
planked from end to end, and a glance along its im-
mense expanse gives the first and best idea of the
size of the ship. The different skylights are all also
in their places, and give a look of finish where all was
before incompleteness and confusion. Three masts
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have been sei up, and two funnels, which also go
far to " furnish" the deck, and the completed bul-
warks all round take away the sense of dizziness
and insecurity with which people used formerly to
approach the side of the ship. One can now look
over the side, judge of the vast height of the vessel
out of the water, make comparisons between her
and anything else that floats upon the Thames, and
then enjoy the prospect of the country, both Kent
and Essex, now clad in the brightest green of mid-
summer. The lower decks have been planked, and
great progress has been made in prrtitioning them
off into thin permanent compartments. The grand
saloon is in a very forward state, and would be a
noble apartment, more like a drawing room in a
princely mansion on shore, than the cabin of a ship,
were it not for the two immense funnels, which
run up the centre, and inconveniently interrupt
the longitudinal sweep of the apartment. On each
side elegant cabins are being fitted up, and the same
may be said of the other saloons, of which there
are, wz; believe, six in the ship. One of the cabins
has been finished in order that the visitor may
judge of what the rest are intended to be, and a
very pleasant notion it gives of what a voyage
across the Atlantic will be in such a noble ship as
the Great Eastern. This completed department is
what is called a family cabin, containing bed room,
sitting room, and dressing room, all of them lofty
and well ventilatzd, and possessing a much greater
number of conveniences than could be found in a
similar s_uit on shore. The other cabins are also in
an exceedingly forward state, and as an immense
number of men are kept incessantly at work, there
is every prospect of the ship being ready for her
trial trip on the appointed 4th of August. There
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and iron ladders for the scientific, or inveterately
curious who cannot believe they have " done" the
ship until they have explored the gloomy mys-
teries of the vast engine-room. Here those who
have read "Vathek" will be forcibly reminded
of the Hall of Eblis, and those who have not
will wonder at the ponderous beams and shafts
and cylinders, will be struck with the bright
polish of the steel work, and think-of the time when
all this vast mass of mechanism shall be in motion,
ploughing up the ocean with a giant's strength,
and carrying the Great Eastern along as if she were
a feather at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Let
us hope that she may go on prosperously to com-
pletion, and thus justify the scientific but daring
scheme upon which she has been constructed. If
she should realise the hopes of her projectors, and
the designs of her architects, she will fill a brighter
page in England's history than any of her most
famous victories by land or water, for she will
inaugurate a revolution in ocean transit, which will
bring the farthest ends of the earth together, and
make travelling on the ocean as pleasant and little
fatiguing as it now is on the best ordered of our
great railroads. We were happy
amongst the recent visitors was Mr. Brunel,
be pleasant news to thewhose
restoration to health will to learn that
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Gardner, while in the magazine the night prior to the fire ;
that the master and his officers did all that could be de-
sired; that very few of the crew rendered much assist-
ance ; that the greater part of the crew behaved in a most
disreputable and unseamanlike manner; that Mr. Narra-
cott's, the chief officer, giving the key of the magazine to
the steward amounted to a dereliction of duty." On the
finding
of the Court being read, Charles Gardner, the
steward, was taken into custody on application from Capt.
Morris to the Court, on a charge of manslaughter.
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