The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY E VENING: SEPTEMBER 24, 1859.

THE QUEEN'S HOTEL, Queenstown.—Mr.
ROBERT WILSON respectfully apprises tourists and
families visiting this delightful watering...place, the air of
which is famed throughout Europe, that the splendid esta
blishment so well known as the " Queen's Hotel" has come
under his management. This hotel is one of the finest in the
United Kingdom; and besides being furnished Nsitn all the
luxuries and appliances of a First-class Hotel, it combines all
the advantages of a beautiful situation, commanding charm-
ing views, the best attendance, ample accommodation either
for families or single visitors, close contiguity to the steam-
boat pier, and the finest promenades of Queenstown, and a
scale of prices so moderate as to enable its visitors to enjoy
all the advantages of a first-class hotel on ibe same terms
they would have to pay in a minor one. From its open and
healthful situation the Queen's Hotel is also peculiarly suit-
able for invalids.

THE BRITISH. ASSOCIATION.

ABERDEEN, SEPT. 22

The meeting of the British Association for 1859
has been brought to a close. A meeting of the
General Committee was held in the new Music-hall
this afternoon, on which occasion Sir David
Brewster presided.
Professor WALKER, Secretary to the Association,
rend the resolutions passed by the General Com-
mittee this morning. The money voted for various
scientific purposes amounted to £930, being distri-
buted as follows—viz., for Kew Observatory, £500;
chymical science, £9O ; geology, £6O ; zoology and
botany, £100; physiology, £2O; and mechanical
science, £l6O.
Reports from the sections recommending papers
to be printed in the proceedings of the Association
were then read. It was recommended by Section G
that a committee should be appointed to continue
the inquiry into the performance of steam-vessels
and vessels under sail, with a view of comparing
the results of the two powers of wind and steam,
and to report to next meeting.
A committee was appointed to report to next
meeting on the scientific objects which may be
sought for by continuing the balloon ascents for-
merly undertaken to great altitudes.
The General Committee also resolved to express
the thanks of the British Association to his Royal

Highness the Prince Consort, as President, for the
interest he has manifested in the continuation of
magnetic observations, and that he be requested, in
concert with the President of the Royal Society,
to take such steps, as may appear most suitable to
carry out the recommendation of the two societies
in respect to these observations.
The Committee of Section A having represented

the probable importance of occasional telegraphic
communication between a few widely separated ports -
of Great Britain and Ireland, by which warning
may be given of storms, the General Committee
then recommended application to be made to the
Board of Trade for such an arrangement as may
further this object authoritatively.
On the recommendation of the Committee of
Section E, it was resolved to express to the Govern- '
ment its concurrence in the application made by
the Royal Geographical Society to the First Lord
of the Treasury to further a proposed expedition,
under Captain Speke, to ascertain if the White
Nile has its main source in the Great Nyanza Lake.
Section G recommended the re-appointment of
the committee on the patent laws.
Sir RODERICK MURCHISON then said it gave him
very mi.ch satisfaction to move that the thanks of
the Association be offered to the Lord Provost of
the city of Aberdeen, to Mr. Thomson, of Banchory,
to the two colleges, to the noblemen and gentlemen
of the county, and particularly to Marischal College,
for the admirable accommodation given fir the
meetings of the sections within its walls--Sir Rode-
rick said that the meeting had been characterised
by an addition to it of a rather novel kind to them
as men of science,—viz., a collection of antiquities,
and beautiful specimens of photography ; for the
latter they were chiefly indebted to Mr. J. F.
White. If he might mention particularly indivi•
duals to whom the meeting were indebted for the
archaeological exhibition, he would name Mr. C.
Dalrymple, Mr. James Hay Chalmers, and Mr. A.
F. Irvine, jun., of Drum. On behalf of the mem-
bers of the Association 11. s expressed their sense of
the hospitality shown by the inhabitants of Aber-
deen.
Admiral FITZROY briefly seconded the motion,
bearing testimony to the, hospitality extended to
them, and to the admirable arrangements matte by
the local secretaries (Professors Nicol and Fuller
and Mr. J. F. White), and the Lord Provost, which
tended not a little to the signal success which had
attended their proceedings.
The LORD PROVOST briefly acknowledged the
vote of thanks to the inhabitants of Aberdeen and
himself.
Sir A. L. HAY, on the part of the gentlemen of
the county, expressed their gratitude to the Asso-
ciation for the honour done by coming among them.
Professor PHILLIPS, in proposing a vote of
thanks to the local secretaries, stated that this was
the largest meeting of the Association that had
been held, and that the unexampled number of
2,400 persons were present on the occasion of the
inauguratory address of his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort. Notwithstanding the distant part
of Great Britain in which they were assembled, and
the distracted state of the Continent, there was an
increase in the number of their foreign visitors.
The number ef foreign friends present at the meet-
ing last year was 13, while this year there were so
Many as 20.
Professor WALKER seconded the motion, which
was unanimously agreed to, and
The meeting was then formally adjourned to
meet at Oxford next year.

FATAL ACCIDENT TO LIEUTENANT-

GENERAL MORSE.

In the obituary of The Sun of yesterday was an,
nounced the death of Lieutenant-General Morse, of
her Majesty's Indian forces ; but we lament to learn
that this event was the result of an accident which
occurred to the gallant gentleman on the evening
of Friday, the 16th inst. It is only a
_little time
since that the Lieutenant-General had taken up his
residence at Farley-hill-house, Swallowfield, in
Berkshire, and as his affable and courteous conduct
had already gained him the esteem of all with
whom he came in contact, the sad calamity of his
death has produced a great sensation in the neigh-
bourhood. On the afternoon of the day above-
named Lieutenant-General Morse drove in his dog-
cart to the town of Reading, being accompanied by
his butler. They remained there until about seven
o'clock in the evening, when they set off for Farley-
hill, the Lieutenant-General driving. The horse
went at the pace of about 12 miles an hour, but
nothing occurred until within a mile of Farley-hill-
house, at a part of the road where it was narrow,
and one side had been washed away by the rain.
It was very dark, and four persons coming from the
opposite direction in a phaeton, hearing a dogcart
going at a sharp pace, and fearful of an accident,
called out, but in an instant the wheel of the dog-
cart struck the phaeton, and the force of the colli-
sion was such that the Lieutenant-General and the
butler were thrown into a ditch, and the dog cart
and horse fell in the road. The party in the phaeton
found their horse very restive, and could not pull
up ; however, on riding by the George and Dragon
public-house they called out to the landlord that an
accident had happened a few yards distant. Several
persons, on hearing of this, walked along the road,
and found the statement to be too true. Lieut.-Gen.
Morse and the butler were picked:up in the ditch,
and both were unconscious ; the cart was turned
upside down and the horse on its back. A messenger
was sent to Farley-hill-house and a carriage ob-
tained, in which the Lieutenant-General was re-
moved to his home ; but the butler soon afterwards
recovered and managed to walk back to the inn. A
medical gentleman (Mr. Crisp, of Swallowfield),
was sent for, and he found the Lieutenant-General
labouring under the effects of a concussion or frac-
ture of the brain. Other medical gentlemen were
subsequently called in, and they were unremitting
in their attentions to the unfortunate gentleman.
From the moment of the fall the Lieutenant-Gene-
ral never recovered his consciousness, and on Tues-
day evening he breathed his last. As the case
terminated fatally, there was much anxiety to dis-
cover the person belonging to the carriage against
which the dog cart struck, and it was ascertained
that it was Mr. Mirsselwhite, an architect, of Basing-
stoke, who was with his wife and two female rela-
tives. He attended the inquest, which was held on
Thursday, before Mr. R. Clarke, the coroner of the
district, and said that he drew his phaeton as near
the ditch as he possibly could to avoid an accident,
as he heard a horse coming at a great pace; in a
minute or two his carriage was struck, but none of
his friends were thrown out. He was driving steadily
on his right side of the road, but it being dark,
General Morse could not see any object before him,
and got from his side of the road, and thus the col-
lision occurred. The butler, when examined, said
the General drove at the rate of 12 miles an hour.
The jury were satisfied that no blame attached to
Mr. Musselwhite, and returned a verdict of "Acci-
dental death."

211 E NAVY

The screw steam-transport Balaklava, Pellatt
master, belonging to the military store department
of Woolwich Arsenal, sailed yesterday morning,
laden with shot and shell,-2,100 boxes of small
arms' ammunition from the War Department,
Woolwich, and. 107 boxes of muskets from the
Tower, for Southampton, to be reshipped on board
the mail packet for Alexandria, thence to China.
The whole of the boxes are carefully packed in an
exterior covering of canvas, a precaution rendered
necessary in consequence of the distance overland.
The ammunition boxes contain 2,000,000 rounds of
ball cartridges. As a proof of the promptitude and
capabilities of the department,it may be stated that
the whole of the above-named stores were packed
and stowed away on shipboard within three days
after the delivery of the order. The departure of
the ship war, however, delayed by some slight de-
fect. in her machinery. A second order for the same
destination, to a much larger extent, is in course of
execution, to be despatched by sea.
The freight-ships Irene and Daphne were yester-
day chartered by the War Department for the ship-
ment of military stores from Woolwich Arsenal.
The Havock gunboat was commissioned yesterday
at Portsmouth by Lieut. Fairholme.
The Sphinx, 6, paddle, Commander Hay, fitting
out in the steam basin at Portsmouth, has already
entered upwards of 60 of her crew.
The Perseverance, screw transport, Commander
Power, undergoing repairS in No. 8 dock at Ports-
mouth, will be out of the hands of the steam factory
department on the 27th inst. In consequence of the
reports received of the working of Cunningham's
patent topsails on board this vessel, it is the inten-
tion of the Admiralty to have the whole of the troop
steamers fitted on that principle.
The Avon paddle steamer, sailed from Devonport,
for Portsmouth, yesterday with supernumerary
Marine Artillery for her Majesty's ships Encounter
and Centaur, fitting out at that port.
The 111"ander, old sailing frigate, recently fitted
out at Portsmouth for a storeship at Ascension, is
ordered to be Ailed up with stores for that port,
after which she will sail under convoy of her Ma-
jesty's frigate Arrogant, 47, screw, Captain W.
Edmonstone, about to leave for the coast of Africa,
as senior.ofFicer's ship. on the station.
The following appointments were made yesterday-
at the Admiralty :—Lieut: L. F. Jones to be fiag-
lieut. to Rear-Admiral L. T. Jones, second in com-
mand in China ; Lieut. G. W. Carter to the Mel-
pomene; Licut. the Hon. M. R. Winfield, to the
Nile; Licut. the lion. A. K. H. Legge to the Edgar;
Lieut. C. IL Wilkinson :o the Odin ; Lieut. W. H.
Hobson, additional, to the Victory ; Lieut. W. 11.
Royse to the Snake ; P. Briggs, midshipman, from
r
the Algiers to the Imperieuse ; J. N. Compton, inas-
ter's assistant, to the Arrogant ; W. M. Swage,
master's assistant, to the Impericuse; R. 11. Var-
ren, master's assistant, to the Agamemnon; l' . F.
Strong, master's assistant, to the Trafalgar ; W. B.
P. Thompson, master's assistant, to the Donegal ;
A. G. Master, master's assistant, to the Topaz ; and
W. D. Rust, master's assistant, to the Mars. Second-
Lieut. W. D. Welsh, R.M.A., to be First-Lieut.,
vice L. H: I. Inglis, killed in action at the recent
attack on the Taku Forts, at the entrance to the
Tien-tsin River; Second-Lieut. W. Stewart, It. M. A.,
to be First-Licut., vice H. Woolridgc, killed in the
same action. Both the above officers are reappointed
to the Artilery Companies of the Royal Marines.

AN AMERICAN GUNBOAT.

On the 24th of last June the steam gunboat
Seminole, one of the seven vessels last ordered by
Congress, was launched at the 'Pensacola navy-
yard. Her model was drawn by Naval Contractor
Porter, whose little daughter christened her. The
Seminole is a barque-rigged steamer of 800 tons
burden. She is (what the newspapers have lately
called " a novelty") built on the genuine gunboat
principle, which means that she can carry a very
heavy armament into shallow water, and combines
strength and room ness with swiftness and compara-
tively small proportions. One of her guns will weigh
no less than 25,0001 b., and is a most destructive
weapon. Besides this, two 32-pounders of 42 cwt.
each will be on board, making the Seminole, when
well manned by expert sailors and marines, a
powerful (although somewhat diminutive) anta-
gonist tow ship or fort. The machinery of the vessel
is of the first class. We examined it minutely at
the Morgan Iron-works on Thursdoy. It consists
of two splendid engines of the " horizontal back-
acting steeple" description, 750 horse power, with
cylinders 50 inches in diameter and 30 inches stroke.
The pistons are connected with cross heads by two
rods. There are a Purson's patent steam condenser
nearly finished, and two pumps, one for air and the
other for water, worked by projecting arms forged
on the lower piston rods, attached to the machinery.
The boilers, of which there will be two and an
auxiliary one, are Martin's patent, - measuring re-
spectively 21 feet 6 inches long (six furnaces) and
18 feet 1 inch long (five furnaces). The " auxiliary"
is smaller than these. Both boilers ore of the same
height—viz., 9 feet 8 inches, and the same depth, 9
feet 3 inches. The propeller will be of brass, a two-
bladed screw, 9 feet 6 inches in diameter, and 17
feet pitch. The total weight of the machinery will
be 301 tons, and the consumption of coal about 22
tons per day. She is expected to make 10 or 11
knots per hour under steam alone, and from 11 to 13
under steam and canvas. The Seminole ranks with
the Narragansett, and is smaller than the other five
steamers of her class in course of construction. The
great perfection of gunboats may be briefly classed
under three distinct heads :-1. They are small, can
carry heavy metal into shallow water, and can move
quickly, being steamers. 2. They are easily manned
and easily equipped for sea at very short notice, be-
sides being handy to execute with alacrity Govern-
mental business and squadron duty requiring a na-
tional vessel, but no display. 3. In line of battle
they are considered on a par with sailing frigates
—first, because they can effectively use at least
three heavy guns at all points of the com-
pass, while presenting' an exceedingly small
mail for the enemy's ordnance; second, they can
"choose the time and tide" for fighting, as circum-
stances may dictate ; thirdly, anticipating defeat,
they can make discretion the better part of valour
by
,an expeditious retreat. But here end their
commendable attributes. They cannot properly
accommodate a crew and carry provisions to sup-
port it, or coal to fire up with for any considerable
length of time, and the Niagara or Minnesota
would sink one of them every hour. In time of
war, as a modern naval battle would be conducted
principally by steam-vessels of large dimensions,
the only use a gunboat could be put to would be
either to act as a tender to larger craft or to cap-
ture merchantmen. Understanding this, and aim-
ing at superiority in decisive encounters, the French
are not hurriedly increasing their stock of gunboats.
The steamers Wyandotte and Mohawk, preparing
at the Brooklyn navy-yard for the home station,
are nearly ready to receive their crews. No orders
have been received relating to the outfit of the
Niagara and Susquehannah, or the other vessels
lying in ordinary at the navy-yard.—New York
Times.

GEORGE'S-IN-7'HE-EAST.

Mr Joseph Smith, a solicitor, of Arbour-square,
Stepney, applied to Mr. Yardley, at the Thames
Police-court yesterday, for summonses against
John Peterson, of No. 1, Lower Chapman-street,
St. George's-in-the-East, sugar baker, under the
following circumstances :
Mr. Smith said he applied on behalf of the Rev.
Bryan King, the rector of the extensive parish of
St. George, Middlesex, commonly called St.
George's-in-the-East, for two summonses against a
man named Peterson for unseemly conduct and dis-
turbing the congregation ors the afternoon of Sun-
day last in the parish church, and also with repeat-
ing 'offensive behavignr atsthe Mission Chapel
in Wellcloso-square, in the parish of St.-George,
on the same evening. Mr. Smith then called
the attention of the magistrate to two acts of
Parliament, the Ist of William and Mary, cap.
18, sec. 18, passed in the year of the glorious re-
volution, MSS; and the Ist of Queen Mary, sesion
2, cap. 3. passed in 1553. He would take the later
act of William and Mary first. It stated that any
person disquieting and disturbing a congregation,
or misusing any preacher or teacher, upon proof
thereof before any justice of the peace by any two
or more witnesses, shall find two sureties in the
sum of £5O each, to appear at the Sessions, and,
upon conviction, to pay a fine of £2O. The uct of
Queen Mary enacted that if any person by open
word, act, or deed, contemptuously molest, disturb,
or trouble, or by any unlawful means disquiet or
misuse any preacher or preachers in any of his or
their open sermon, preaching, or collation, or any
parson, vicar, priest, or curate, or any lawful priest
preparing, saying, doing, ringing, ministering, or
celebrating the mass, or other such Divine service,
or sacramentals, every such offender shall be appre-
hended immediately by any constable, churchwar-
den of the parish, or any other person or persons
there being present, and carried before any justice
of the peace, and if found guilty on proof of two
witnesses, or upon confession, to be imprisoned for
three months, and at the end of that period to find
sureties for his good behaviour..
Mr. Yardley—Surely, Mr. Smith, that act must
have been repealed ?
Mr. Smith—No, it is not, sir.
Mr. Yardley—Why, it alludes to the mass. You
don't call the services of the present day in our
churches and chapels, "or such other divine ser-
vice."
Mr. Smith—l really must submit to you, sir,
that any services of a sacramental character only
differ from the mass in form and not in substance ;
in addition to which I can inform your worship
there has been a conviction under this very act of
Queen Mary in Dorsetshire within 18 months of
the present time.
Mr. Yardley—What act do you prefer ?
Mr. Smith—As this is the first case, I would rather
take the more merciful course, and have a summons
under the act of William and Mary.
Mr. Yardley—l think you will do right then.
Mr. Smith then stated that the Rev. Bryan King,
the rector, not being present, he would call on Mr.
Wm. R. Motion, of 4, Back-road, St. George's, wine
merchant, who gave evidence of a serious distur-
bance in the parish church on Sunday afternoon
last. When the congregation met for the Tracta-
rian or Puseyite service, as it is termed, the defendant
Peterson got very near the vestry door, where seve-
ral gentlemen were placed in order to protect the
curate, the Rev. Mr. Maconochie, specially deputed
by the Bishop of London to perform the service.
Previously to the clergyman coming to the vestry
several disorderly persona, including Peterson,
were there, and they used threatening language as
to what they would do when he came out of the
vestry. When the rev. gentleman came out of the
vestry and entered the church he was hustled,
shoved, and Pushed about to such an extent as to
render it impossible for him with safety to attempt
divine service. The rev. gentleman was severely
maltreated, and was only saved from further violen
e
by the assistance of the police and his own friends.
The noise and confusion was dreadful.
Mr. Yardley was in hopes there was a termination
to the disturbances and dissensions in St. George's
Church, but he was sorry to say'his expectations
were disappointed.
The summons was then granted.
Mr. Smith then applied for a seeond summons
against Peterson for an offence, under the act of
William and Mary, in the Mission Chapel in Well-
close-square which the solicitor said was a licensed
place of worship. It may be necessary to state that
the Rev. Bryan King has opened two chapels in
the parish in which the ceremonies are conducted
in the same manner as they have been in the
church, and which has given so much offence to the
Protestant parishioners. Owing to the serious dis-
turbance in the parish church in the afternoon, and
the threats made use of by the people there
assembled, the Tractarian services of the rector
were dispensed with in the evening, and the church
was closed. The disappointed anti-Puseyites then
repairel to the Mission Chapel in Wellclose-square,
where the Rev. M. Maconochie, the curate, was to
officiate, and stopped the intended service there as
well.
Evidence was given by Mr. Motion that Peter-
son had conducted himself in a very disgraceful
manner in the Mission Chapel, created a disturb-
ance, and behaved rudely to a female member of the
congregation.
Mr. Yardley granted a second summons against
Peterson, and both will be heard on the same day.