The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-14 00:00:00

meat. It was thus that the Liberal Ministry of
Lord MELBOURNE kept in adroitly for more than
six years—for exactly six years and 138 days—from
the 18th of April, 1835, until the 3d of September,
1841, when the heart of the nation grew sick at last
with hope deferred, and gladly installed Sir ROBERT
PEEL in power for more than four years at the head
of a Conservative Government. It was by a
precisely similar contrivance again that Lord
JOHN'S purely Whig Cabinet retained power
during very little less than six years altogether—for
exactly five years and 239 days—from the 26th of
June, 1846, until the 22d of February, 1852, when
sick again by reason of the same nauseating in 7
fluence of hope deferred, the country, with a sense
of absolute relief, handed over to Lord DERBY and
his Tory colleagues the cares of Administration.
Throughout those more than six years of Lord
MELBOURNE'S Liberal Government—throughout
those just a trifle less than six years of Lord JOHN'S
Whig Administration—we are always just one
session short of realizing our aspirations. Next
year ! That was always the excuse—the one mono-
tonous evasion. It was thus that under Lord MEL-
BOURNE the evil day was invariably put off--to thirty-
six—to thirty-seven—to thirty-eight—to thirty-nine
to forty—to forty-one ! Thus likewise, under Lord
JOHN, was the evil day, the day of actual reckoning
for Reform put off in easy sequence—to forty-seven
—to forty-eight—to forty-nine—to fifty—to fifty-
one ! Scarcely could the Tories remain " in" for
ten months, when the affection of the Whigs
for power, place, and patronage, led to the coalition
under the Earl of ABERDEEN. And during the
existence of that notorious and effete Coalition—
don't we remember well how, from session to ses-
sion, Reform was kept " dangling" before the nation
delusively ! Don't we remember afterwards, in
like manner, how the same " dangling" was per-
petuated as a positive system under the Ministry
of Lord PALMERSTON ? Five whole years were
again thus consumed—two under the Coalition,
three under LordPALmERsToN. And now, when we
have secured to us simultaneously the double boon
of a Coalition and a Coalition under the Premier-
ship of Viscount PALMERSTON—there is revived
for us the old, inevitable, inexorable dodge of
Reform in Perspective ! The cuckoo cry of the
Whigs may be again heard distinctly—evasively.
Next session ! Everything—reform above all things
—next session ! The British Lion—tickled again
into momentary animation by the Whig whip—
is going off anew once more at a canter after
the old, illusory bunch of carrots ! Ts ! is !
Hola ! En avant ! We are to have a feast of
reform after our long fasting—positively, abso-
lutely this time, in—the next session of Parlia-
ment !

WHEN THOU WERT NIGH.

[Fox Music.]
When thou wert nigh, I did not heed
What voices blamed—what lot befel ;
For where I found a charmless weed,
There always sprung a flower as well.
The shades of Life might come and go,
I thought not how—l cared not when—
The darkest cloud the world could show
Was ne'er without its rainbow then.

But now thou'rt gone, the morning ray
Seems dim and dull as evening's close—
I see the cypress on my way,
But cannot find the rich, red rose.
The cloud now comes with gloom alone,
The weed now springs with baneful power ;
With secret tears my heart must own
Thou wert the rainbow and the flower !
ELIZA COOK.

His Royal Higness the Duke of Cambridge will
review three battalions of the Grenadier Guards to-morrow
morning, at nine o'clock.
The Duchess of Sutherland has been confined 'to
her room for some days past from the effects of a severe
cold. Her grace was unable to attend, as Mistress of the
Robes, at the late investiture of the Order of the Bath.
The Countess of Derby will have an assembly
this evening at the family mansion in St. James's-square.

THE NAVY.—The supplementary estimate of her
Majesty's navy for the year 1859-60 has been published ty
order of Parliament. The estimate of the sum required to
provide for the payment of gratuities (equal to half the
respective amounts of bounty granted to volunteers into
the navy under the royal proclamation, dated April 30,
1859) to seamen now serving in her Majesty's ships, who
have at least five years to serve, or who engage to serve for
five years if required, amounts to the sum of £lOO,OOO.
ST. LUKE'S CHAPEL, CONSUMPTION HOSPITAL,
BROMPTON.-The Bishop of Kilmore is to preach a sermon
in commemoration of the consecration of this elegant little
chapel on Sunday morning next. As the chapel will be
thrown open to the public on this occasion, no doubt that
many persons will gladly take advantage of he opportunity
of king present.
Salmon was never known to be so abundant in
the Shannon as at the present season, and it is now selling
by hawkers at 6d. per pound, whilst large quantities are
sent off daily by rail and steamer to the London markets.
But for the export of this delicious fish it would be within
the reach of the poorest of our fellow-citizens, as it was in
former years.—Limerick Chronicle.
IRON BRIDGE OVER THE NILE.—The Kaffre
Azzyat malleable iron girder beam bridge across the river
Nile, on the Egyptian Railway near to Alexandria, was
opened to the public on the 25th of last month by the Pacha
of Egypt. The structure is nearly 1,400 feet long, has 11
openings, two of which are 104 feet each, and spanned by
the swing beam. The centre of the swing rests upon a
foundation pier, composed of six pillars of 10 feet diameter
each, and the remaining 11 foundation piers are of two
pillars, each 10 feet diameter. These 28 foundation pillars
were sunk by compressed air, on Mr. John Hughes's prin
ciple, to an average depth of nearly 60 feet below the bed
of the river, and to 8a feet below High Nile; the internal
pressure in the caissons while sinking ranging from 231bs.
up to 341bs. on the square inch, in accordance with the
depth in the ground and height of the Nile. The time oc-
cupied in sinking these 28 caissons was less than 12 months,
and the aggregate length of that portion of them sunk
below the bed of the river exceeded 1,500 feet. The
extreme width of the bridge is 42 feet, comprising a single
line of rails in the centre, and a camel track on each side.—
Builder.

MR. COBDEN AND HIS CONSTITITENTS.—On
Tuesday evening a meeting of the Rochdale Reform Com-
mittee, that has taken the active part in securing the return
of Mr. Cobden for Rochdale, was held at the Public Hall,
Baillie-street. The object of the meeting was principally
to consider in what manner Mr. Cobden should be asked to
meet his constituents. Some took one view and some
another, but at last it was agreed to appoint a sub-com-
mittee to consider the question, and report to the general
meeting of the committee. A meeting of this committee
was then held, but nothing decisive was agreed upon.
There are many who consider the Public Hall too small
for the purpose of receiving Mr. Cobden, as not only his
constituents but the country at large will take great int-rept
in the reasons he may assign for refusing to join the cabi-
net of Lord Palmerston.—Manchester Guardian.

THE SUPPOSED OUTRAGE IN SOUTH STAFFORD-
WL.B found on Monday afternoon that the body
of the poor female who was discovered drowned, under sin-
gular circumstances, at Gornal Wood on Sunday morning,
required almost immediate burial. A jury was therefore
re-summoned for Monday evening instead of Wednesday.
The jury accordingly assembled at the White Chimney
public-house, Gornal Wood. The jury, without hearing
any witnesses, after seeing that the body had evidently
been unfairly handled, by the appearance of bruises on the
arms, ordered a post »zortenz examination to be made by.
Dr. J. M. Ballenden, of Sedgeley. It was stated that no-
thing additional had transpired to strengthen the supposi-
tion of murder. The presentiment that she was not going
to live long, by her kissing her brother-in-law and others,
and saying she should "never see them more," leads to the
belief that she might have committed self-destruction.
Since our last despatch, it has been made known that a
person on the night in question heard a " bubbling " of tho
water about the time the unfortunate girl was seen walking
alone on the Hanley-road. The body was found within a
very few feet of the place where the sound was said to have
been heard, and the general belief now is that the poor girl
threw herself over the bridge adjoining the road. The in-
vestigation stands adjourned until Monday next.-IJfan-
chester Guardian.
NOVEL MODE OF CURRYING LEATHER.—Yester-
day morning about 1.50 gentlemen connected with the
leather trade assembled at the large establishment of Messrs
Smith, Patient, and Smith, Bermondsey, to witness an
exposition of the new method of currying leather just
patented by Mr. Gregg, an extensive currier, of Sheffield.
Amongst those present were members of the following
firms :—Messrs. Streatfield, Lawrence, and Mortimer,
Boutcher, ane Co., Brooksbank and Sons, Bevington
and Co., Nichols, Fisher, and Sons, Francis and Co.,
Hepburn and Sons, Hooper and Co., G. Mathews, Oast-
ler and Palmer, Page and Welsh, J. and T. Powell,
Shaw and Morris, Smith, Patient, and Co., F. Burdge,
G. Blow. John Poole, W. Sharpe, Mackintosh, J. Bar-
row. F. Gale, J. H. Smith and Co., Slee and Sons (Brad-
ford), Quelch and Co. (Oxford), Newton and Co. (North-
ampton), Samuel Ashby (Northampton), W. G. Gibson
(Godalming, and others. The chair was taken by Mr.
Wm. Stockil, of Bermondsey. The patentee having been
introduced to the meeting, gave a concise description of his
system, by which the old course of fourteen processes
has been reduced to seven, and the time required for com-
pletion from a fortnight to about two days. Mr. Gregg then
put on his working dress, and, with the aid of two of his men
proceeded to give a practical illustration every stage of his
principal feature of which his new method of,
"dry stuffing," or saturating with dubbing
whatoce siss,
calledthe
matter while the skin is dry, in
beautiful instead of
water. specimens
or other
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were then exhibited, the whole of which had been corn•
pieta in three days. The proceedings excited great inte-
rest, and terminated. with a unanimous vote of thanks to
Mr. Gregg, the juv§stor, and the chairman,