The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-27 00:00:00

THE PANAMA ROUTE.

The Aliquis freight-ship. Captain Pain, embarked
at Portsmouth, on Saturday morning, the remain-
ing pereon of the 3d Battalion of the Rifle Brigade
for India, comprising Lieutenant-Colonel Macdon-
*dll, C.B. • Captains Lindsay Stephens, Deedes,
and Egerton • Lieutenants Whalley, Fortescue,
Cragg, and La.scelles ; Ensigns Broadbent and
Hook ; 22 sergeants, 3 drummers, 352 rank and
file, 24 women, and 17 children. Lieutenant-
Colonel Wright, Assistant-Quartermaster-General
of the south-west district, superintended the em-
barkation. The berths f.r the troops and women
are admirable, and the accommodaiou for the offi-
cers firet-class. His Royal Highness the Prince
Consort being the Colonel-in-Chief of the Rifle
Brigade, her Majesty notified to Major-General
Breton, the Commander-in-Chief of the south-
west district, on Friday night, her wish that the
ship might be detained in port, to enable the
Prince to inspect her and the battalion before leav-
ing, which of course was done ; and at a quarter
to 6 o'clock on Saturday evening the Fairy, with
her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and Prince
Alfred on board, entered Portsmouth harbour
under salutes from the garrison battery and flag-
ships. Her Majesty did not leave the yacht, which
remained in the harbour channel. The Prince
Consort and Prince Alfred landed from the Royal
barge at the Queen's stairs of the dockyard, where
the Port Admiral, Sir George Seymour, Colonel
Wright, and the dockyard guard on duty fur the
day, improvised for a guard of honour, under Cap-
tain Stuckley Buck, of the Royal Marine Artillery,
were •in waiting to receive them. Their Royal
Highnesses were conducted to the Aliquis along-
side the jetty, where General Breton met them
and escorted them on board, when Colonel Mac-
donnell was presented to the Princes, and, accom-
panied by the commanding officers before men-
tioned, paraded the Rifles under his command
for the Royal inspection. The Prince examined
the cabins for the officers, and the quarters
of the men, women, and children, and also
the new improved rifle wi-h which the battalion
is armed at the suggestion of his Royal High-
ness. After a minute inspection of the men and
ship the Prince warmlyshook handswith Col. Mac-
donnell and took leave, wishing him and his officers,
non-commissioned officers, and men a safe and pros-
perous voyage and fursher disteiction. On quitting,
the ship the Prince was greeted with ageneral burst
of cheers from the troops and ship's company, who
also vociferously cheered the Queen on firet disco-
vering her Majesty viewing them
.from the deck of
the Royal yacht, which at about 7 returned to Os-
borne. Prince Albert's standard was hoisted at
the dockyard during his visit. The Aliquis was
towel to Spithead at 11 o'clock yesterday morning
and her gallant freight were loudly cheered from
the shore as they passed out of harbour. S-e sailed
forthwith for Calcutta, wind and weather very fair.
On Thursday next the. 42d Highlanders, about
786 tnen, from Dever ; the 97th, about 829, flow
Aldershot ; and one wing of the 20th Foot, about
450. also from the camp, proceed to Portsmouth to
embarkfor India in the great clipper sailing ships
James Baines and Champion of the Seas, of 2,515
and 2,470 tens respectively, and the Whirl-
wind freight ship, appropriated as follows :
In the-Whirlwind as many officers and men of the
42,1 Foot (including one assistant-surgeon) as may
be required—ewith the detachment of the 19th Foot
—to fill that vessel. In the James Baines the re-
mainder of ine 42d Foot, with medical officers, and
'the vesel t ► be filled up with a portion of theo7th
Foot, including a med cil officer. In the Champion
of the Seas the remainder of the 97th Foot, with
medical officers, and the vessel in like menusr to
be tilled up with the wing of the 20th, including a
medical- officer.
The Deputy-Adjutant-General Col. W. F. Fors-
ter, K. H., arrived at Chatham Garrison on Satur-
day for the purpose of inspecting the troops at St.
Mary's Barracks who have recently returned to
this country from India, and claimed their free
discharge. Several hundred men belonging to the
cavalry:and infantry regiments serving in India have
arrived at Chatham in the past month, the whole
of whom have applied for their free discharge ac-
cording to the regulations of the service. Owing,
however, to the aspect of affairs in India, the au-
thorities at the war-office are anxious to retain the
troops in the service, and with this view the Deputy-
Adjutant-General on Saturday assembled the men
claiming their discharge, imforming them that the
Government was desirous of retaining them, and
thai.each non-commissioned officer and private who
would ev;thdraw. his application to be discharged
could remain in the service, and would be allowed
three month-2 furlough before he would be required
for duty. It is expected that a very few of the men
will recall their application for discharge. Among
those claiming to be discharged are some of the
finest troops lately in the Indian army.
The authorities at the Horse Guards intend raising
immediately 12 second battalions, for the purpose
of taking the place of those corps now at home who
are ordered to embark for India.
The Royal Artillery force proceeding to India is
to be stationed in three divisional districts,—
namely, Madras, the head-quarters, in command
of ad. Barker, C. B. ; Beinhay, in command of
Lieut.-Col. Phipotts ; and Calcutta, in command
of Lieut.-Col. Faddy.
On Saturday reinforcements for the 32d and 75th
Regiments, to the number of 240 men, under the
command of Brevet-Major W. C. Mollan, 75th
Regiment, left the Provisional Battalion, Chatham,
and embarked on beard the Ow avia for the purpose
of joining head-quarters in India. On the same day
detachments for the Bth, 16th, 32J, 35th (Royal
Sussex), and 60th Rifles, from Chatham, also em-
barked on board the Monarch at Gravesend for
Calcutta. The Fii st Divitsion of the 2d (the Queen's
Dragoon Guards, from Maidstone, also arrived at
Gravesend on Saturday, and embarked on board
the East India Company's ships Blenheim and
Monarch for India.
The Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade will leave Alder-
shot to-day for Edinburgh, and the 26th and 79th
Regiments for India via Portsmouth on Wednes-
day.
The 2d Battalion of the Rifle Brigade arrived at
Portsmouth on Sa urday evening from Winchester,
and embarked in the Irish steamer yesterday for
Dublin, to join the service companies.
The Caledonia transport has arrived in Kings-
town harb and the Ist Battali of the tat Fo-ot
embarked in her on Saturday morning. The troops
consist of 371 rank and file, and about 17 officers.
The Robert Lowe, screw transport, a:rived in
Kingstown harbour on Friday morning.
Nur Malta corresp rident's ,:deices reach to the
21st July. He states that the Scamander, screw
steamer, arrived from Alexandria with a general
cargo, having on board the Australian mails, des-
patched from Sydney on the 25th of May by the
Simla, which reached Suez on the 12th and Alex-
andria on the 14th of July, from which latter port
they were sent on by her Majesty's C rnsulin charge
of his son, Mr. Alfred Green, who continued his
voyage in the Scamander for Liverpool on the
same day, having only landed the portion of the
mail intended for the overlaid route. The Jura,
steamer, with the outward Australian mail from
Southampton, reached Malta at 1 p.m., on the
20th, and the Cambria, from Marseilles, with the
overland portion of the same mail at 8 p.m. The
Jura left for Alexandria at 6 a.m. on the 21st, and
the Cambria at noon on the same day for Marseil-
les with the overland mail brought by the Scam-
mender. Her Majesty's steam-sloop Desperate ar-
rived from Rhodes on the 26th. The Thessalia
screw steamer, with a general cargo, arrived from
Constantinople and Smyrna on the 18th, and left
for Liverpool on the same day.
The Vulcan, steam troop-frigate, Commander
John Seccombe, is being fitted out at Portsmouth
to carry troops to India.
The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain
the Hon. Joseph Denman, embarked H.R.H.
the Prince Consort and suite, yesterday noon, at
Osborne; and weighed at half-past 12, with his
standard at her main, for Antwerp.
The Windsor Castle, a new ship, one of Green's
fleet, embarked her passengers and stick at Ports-
mouth on Saturday, and sailed yesterday for Bom-
bay, calling on the Malabar coast.
The new screw corvette Pelorwt, 21, which was
commissioned at Devouport on the 18th instant,
IADVERT6Z •
masr.l—The great injury inflicted ou many in- by Captain F. B. P. Seymour for service in the
Talmo b East Indies, was docked on Monday, masted on
Y drugs increases the interest the public take in Da Burr* BevaclalstapeArsil,bica Food, which cures.without medicine
incilgestron-Thursday,_ and is nearly manned.
bilious, aud liver col), ai),. flatulency, constipation, nervous, ! The screw despatch b ,at Mohawk, 4, commis-
liiliE Ive
quotet aints, congh, asthma, consumption, and eioned at Devonport on Thursday by Mr. G. D.
euree by this deliciousafoef°d7 out of many thousand cases of • Perry, - master, for Comm ruder P. C. 0.
—itossrotm the Dowager Countess of m.EO
aetlestuart. Care 52,612, was placed in dude the same day, to
revor, County of Down, Ire-
land, Deeember 9, 1864.—The Dowagere _Countess of Castle- have her copper examined.
Stuart feels induced, in the interest The steam storeship Rhadamanthu4, Maker-
state that Du Barry's excellent ,tevalent","gr humanity,. to c
indigestion,
Food has )
portommander W. L. Browne, sailed from Devon-
cured her, after all medicines had failed, of
yneagrse,stion, great nervousness and irritability of many
and
yesterday for Woolwich.
This food deserves the confidence of all Sufferer; The screw steam despatch boat Viper, having
( may Le considered a real , blessing. Inquiries will cheerfully had defec's made good, was put out of dock -at
hiswered.—From the Venerable Archdeacon of Rose. 1,4;. Devenport on Monday ; and the trig Brit mart,
3 2,B36.—Three years' excessive nervousness, witikpains in my 8, was placed in dock on Tuesday to be examined
It telt and left arm, and general debility, which rentieredmy life and re aired. v ery miserable, has been radically removed by D u Barry's health-
reetretinefood.--Aeex. ST [TART ,
Archdeacon of Ross, Skibereen.
rr The mail s'elm-ship Candace, Commander
-
•Supported by tostefeenees from the celebrated pi.c,fumr, cf. aaawkesley, sailed from Plymouth on Friday for
Chemistry, Dr. Andrew Ure ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harvey• Madeira and the West Coast of Africa.
Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer; Dr. Ingram: The paddle-wheel steam-vessel Banshee (tender
Lord Stuart de Decies ; the Dowager Countess of castle- -to the flag-ship Fisg rd) Master Commander
Allan, left Woolwich -Yesterday morning uuder
atnart; Major-Gen. Thomas King, afid many other respectatle
special directions to proceed to Dover to attend on
Persons, whose health has been restored by it, after all other
means of cure had failed. Suitably packed with fall in-
the Royal steam yacht Victoria and Albert, in
stractiens, In canisters, Ilb, 2s. 9d. ; 21b, 4s. 6d. ; 51b,
conveying his Royal
is ; 121 b, 225, The 121 b canisters are sent carriage free, Highness the Prince Consort
on receipt sectst-Office order.--Barry Du Barry, & Co., to Belgium to ba present at the marriage of the
fearful Regent-, London. IMPORTANT CAUTION against the Archduke of Austria with the Princess Charlotte ofe
fearful dangers of spurious imitations :—The V cc-Chance!. •
for Sit' William Page Wood granted an Injunction en the Belgium.
The Agamemnon, blaster-Commander Cornelius
10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Ne4l, for imitating
'Du Bari7's Revalerita Atabica Food T. A. Noddall, arrived at Sheerneaaon Saturday,

(From the Sydney Morning Herald)
The treatment of the Panama qu, by the.
Melbourne Chamber of Commerce at its first meet
ing to consider it, does not certainly promise very
well for a hearty
bringing
co-operation,
but we do not des-
pair of seeing the question considered in a more sa-
tisfactory manner.
In about co-operation
Amongst colonies which, whilst in many respects
united by common interest, are still in some respects
• comparisons, though they may be odious,
are unavoidable. -We are prepared to bear
• good
deal about the respective merits of
Sydney and Melbourne, and their relative
claims to precedence and supremacy. But
we are not prepared to see the great question which
is proposed. for consideration, and which requires
from us.a prompt and practical answer, smothered
up by other considerations, of far less importance.
We are not prepared to believe that the immense
advantages which will accrue to Australia from
opening at one and the same time a regular and
swift communication both with America and Great
Britain, will have to be surrendered because the
citizens of Sydney and Melbourne cannot agree as
to the exact share of the advantage which they
should respectively gain, and for which they should
pay. However string the spirit of rivalry may be,
good sense, not to say self-interest, will assuredly
prove stronger.
The Melbourne Chamber of Commerce did not
discuss the real question at issue. That, owing to
the production of gold, the value- of the export
from the port of Melbourne has reached the value
of twelve millions sterling in a year, while the
value of the .New South Wales export does not
reach one-third of that amount, is a fact which is
not in dispute, and which no one denies, but which
does not touch the core of the matter under con-
sideration. The point to be determined in Mel-
boure is, whether it is worth the while of Victoria
as a colony to make a contribution from the public
funds in aid of the Panama service, and if so, what
wouldbe the equitable amount of such contribution.
There is nothing vague or uncertain about the
nature of the offer made by Mr. Wetton. It is as
clear and definite as such a proposal can be. There
is to be a trunk line to Sydney, with a branch line,
from New Zeal ind to Melbourne. A certain rate
of speed is guaranteed, a fortnightly mail with
England will be secured, and a fresh highway
opened up to commerce and immigration. It
is for the Melbourne people, knowing as they
do their own positiou and want, to consider
how :far such an enterprise willforward their
iutereste, and how far, therefore, it is worth
their while to contribute to establish it. Instead
of discussing this point, which is really the only
thing to be discussed, the Chamber of Commerce
appears to have diverged into a con-ideration of
- the poss.ble modification of the conditioni of the
proposal. Now these conditions
.are for the pre-
sent unalterable. They are not arbi-rary, but are
founded on facts. Sydney is the first port of
arrival, because of its geographical position, and it
is the terminus, because of its harbour accommoda-
tion. These are facts which cannot he ignoted, and
• which, must be taken-into consideration side by side
with: estimates of relative commerce. Ali the
speechifying- in the word would not alter them.
When all is•said, Sydney is still to the east of Me-
bourne, and the dt.y dock is at Waterview Bay,
and not at Williamstoven. In course of time a.
dock. may be con-tructed at Port Philip, which
will offer all necessary accommodation t the largest
class of steamere When that is the case, if the
relative productiveness of the gold fields remains
the same as it is now, the course of.'mail communi-
cation will he at liberty to follow that of c ,mmerce.
But at present the coneideration of harbour con-
veniences has a, constraining force which cannot be
resisted. lt is said, indeed, that in two years'
time a large paleut slip will be built at William-.
stown. But every one who is acquainted with the
management of large steamboats knows that the,
owners of vessels of two thousand tons burden,
would .never trust them on a patent slip, except as
a last resort, and certainly not if the convenience.
of a dry dock could be obtained within a short dis-
tance; That Port Jackson must inevitably be the
terminus of the Panama line for the present
is sufficiently proved by the fact that it is pro-
posed to make it so. The Directors of the Royal
Mail Coinkny know where the gold fields are as
well es the mettil'ers of the Melaourne Chamber
of Commerce do. And they have LO special
affection for Sydney over Melbourne, or any desire.
whatever to favour it. But they know the relative
ac2Ordmodation the two harbours afford, and they
know therefere that their vessels must refit at Port
Jack,son. Cceteris paribus, they Would just as soon
make one'port their terminus as the other. With
the emulous patriotism of. the Sydneyite, anxious
for the: supremacy of his native or adopted city,
they. have no sympathy or concern. They at
biass-K1 only by obvious facts, and by unbending
calCulations of pounds, shillings, and peric3. Does
.any man in his, senses suppose that the company
wonld. not gladly carry their steamers on to Mel-
bourne if they could conveniently do so ? The ves-
sels are to stop short at Sydney, not because it is
the oldest capital, nor because the Governor-Gene-
ral lives here, but simply because there is a splendid
harbour and a commodiousdoc.k, and every facility
for repairing vessels.
We are not without hopes that our neighbours
in Melbourne will come round gradually to see the
matter in this light, and that though everything
May not be as they would like it, they will be con-
tent to do the best with things as they are. If they
eannot get everything, they can get a great deal,
and certainly what they receive will be well worth
whet they expected to give.
Victoria has been the loudest to blame the con-
dua,cif South Australia in refusing to co-operate in
this existing mail service, because the main ocean
earner does not call at a South Australian port.
lt is to beloped that the censure of such conduct
irrnot the preliminary to its imitation. We notice
with regret that the Legislative Assembly of S )utb.
Australia, has, like the Council which preceded it,
rejected a bill to vote a contribution to the postal
subsidy. Hitherto the Adelaide mails have been put
on board the steamers only in Consequence of apro-
naise made by the Colonial Treasurer of that colony
to the 'Victorian Government that every exertion
shOuld be used to induce the recalcitrant legislature
to yield: To do the membersof he Cabi net inAdelaide
justice; they seem honestly to have fulfilled the pro-
niise of their colleague, and, short of making it a
Ministerial question, they did their best to pass the
bill. As, however, the South Australian Legisla-
ture has for the second time deliberately and posi-
tively refused to subscribe towards the subsidy of
the European and Australian Mail Company, it re-
mains for these colonies which do contribute to con-
sider what measures should be adopted to meet the
refusal cf co-operation. Tile Adelaide people t'lk
ae if they had nothing to do but to fetch their let-
ters froneeMelbourne, but it is obvious that if they
will not pay the fractional cost of their carriage be-
tween London and Melbourne, they cannot expect
to receive them. It appears that Mr. Rowland
Hill has written out to say that as the contract was
made without the express assent of South Austra-
lia, the old division of postal receipts will have to
be adhered to if that assent should be refused. And
upon the basis of this statement it is assumed that
the British Postmaster-General approves of the
Adelaide mail being landed at Melbourne, just the
same as if the colony contributed. But in the first
place, .Igr, Rowland Hill's. words will not bear the
construction put upon them, and if they would that
gentleman has no power to dictate on the question. ,
The Home Government is not the only party to the I
contract. The joint colonies' of New South Wales'
and 'Victoria, who have become equally responsible
for the Australian half of the subsidy, have a voice
in the matter, and are entitled to forbid any such
comfortable arrangement as that which the South
Australians hope to enjoy. A conference of dele-
gates from each colony is to meet in Melbourne on
the Ist of June to 'open the tenders for the inter-
colonial branch service. Whether South Austra-
lia will send a delegate to this conference may be
doubted, seeing that it has detached itself from co-
operation, but the 'delegates from the remaining
Colonies may consult t )gether as t ) what is best to
be done with the refractory renember of the confe-
deration.