The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-03 00:00:00

GREAT NAVAL PREPARATIONS.

Yesterday, in consequence of the issue of her Majesty's
proclamation to encourage the entry of seamen and lands-
men for service in the Royal Navy, and which
.was posted
during the'clay at the Admiralty, Horse Guards, the Man-
sion-house, Royal Exchange, and Doeks,.an immense num-
ber of men and lads assembled at the Royal Naval Rendez-
vous, Tower-hikto join the service; and during the entire
day both entrances to the rendezvous were besieged by an
eager throng anxious to take the bounty andenterthe service.
Capt. Greet, of H.l%L's receiving ship Crocodile, moored off
the Tower, and the officers under his command, inspected
and paSsed 'several hundred first-class men and boys, includ-
ing numerous first-class seamen gunners, the latter in addition
to the bounty being entered to receive additional pay of from
Id, to Ad. .per day. So great was the crowd of men and
ladi that it was found necessary to obtain the services of
several of the H division of police to keep the thoroughfare
open and reserve, order. The applications were equally
numerous on boatd the guardship Fisgard, moored off
Woolwich,—and jt is calculated that the men required,
10,000, will he raised in a very short period. •
On Situiday a Jarge van, drawn by four horses, with a
band of musicians, was engaged for sewn. days, by order
of the Lords of the Admiralty, to arouse the martial ardour
of the tars willing to serve the Queen and accept the liberal
bminty: This novel cavalcade, preceded. by outriders on
horseback, the rpof of the van covered with volunteers,
with the tition Jack hoisted above them, and the in-
terior of fhe van filled with, warrant officers front the
Crocodile receiving-ship off the Tower, made a. successful
cruise on itturday. Yesterday, the van, again. drawn by
four greys, with a band of music and outriders, paraded
the principal streets in Wapping, St. Gncrge-in-the-East,
Shadwell, Atateliff, Stepney, Limehousc, and . Blackmail,
picking up
,volunteers in all directions. After leaving
them at Ward's,
.and. the Tower-hill rendezvous, the van,
with the band playing merrily, and the. tars en the .roof
cheering lordly at lniervals, proceeded over London-bridge,
Southwark, Westminster-bridge, and Parliaments-street, to
the Adraira)ty, returning through Westminster and the
City to the, east. At every place where. the van stopped
the band struck up the national air of t‘.ltule.Britannia,"
followed by. " Hearts of Oak," the " Red, White, and
Blue," and other popular airs.
" Mr. Ward, the warrant officers, and:others frequently ad-
dressed the Teeple, urging seamen to join, the Royal Navy
and accept, the bounty, and calling upon others to bestir
thomselves.and induce volunteers.to serve:the" Queen and
Old England. ..

The appeal to the country
,has, in several in-
stances, been responded to somewhat surprisingly.
Several new members have replaced in a remark-
able manner the old representatiVes, hitherto deemed
strong in the confidence, some of • them
even in the affections, of . their constituents.
Several of the rejected at the last general
'election have again been returned to Par.
liament. Foremost among these, the eminent
political economist, now wandering through the
United States, and whose voyage across the Atlan-
tic we-regarded upon the instant as judiciously
well-timed, enabling the hon. gentleman to get out
of the way conveniently so as to allow of his name
being put forward during his absence in the event
of a dissolution. There is scarcely an individual, we
shosld imagine, who will now regret • that Mr.
COBDEN has been elected by Rochdale as its repre-
sentative. His return to the scene of his former
triumphs may be regarded with almost unalloyed
complacency, now that his past errors have been
expiated to the full by his 12te protracted and
ignominious banishment from the Legislative
Chamber at Westminster. Bury has repented,
moreover, in the instance of the Right Hon. red-
tapist—Sir ROBERT'S second son, FREDERICK,
now once more that changeful borourgh's
representative. Mr. LAYARD still continues
to be inexorably denied admittance again
into the House of Commons the City
of York confirming the rejection formerly resolved
upon by the borough of Aylesbury. By the bril-
liant success of his chivalrous and daring appeal to
the independent electors of Southampton, Mr.
DIGBY SEYMOUR has more than compensated him-
self for the withdrawn confidence of his former
supporters down at Sunderland. Although an
entire stranger tothe great Hampshire constituency
the hon. and learned gentleman has by an eloquent
avowal of the most liberal and enlightened
views, contrived to win golden Opinions, indeed,
from that influential constituency—insomuch that,
at the close of the poll, he was not only at the head
of it, bat so unmistakeably first and foremost in 'the
race, that he was very nearly 150 ahead of the old,
tried, and favourite representative of the borough,
Mr. BRODIE WiLLcoN, the eminent shipowner,
but actually upwards of 300 ahead of Mr.-MATTLIIAS
WEGLTELIN, the governor of the Bank of England.
Besides the former members, who have thus
been restored to the House of Commons, after
a temporary banishment from it—there are various
new men who have taken the place of other M.P.'s
now in their turn summarily rejected. As, for ex-
ample, where the electors of Carlisle have chosen
Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S nephew as that right hon.
baronet's colleague in the representation of the
constituency ; and as in the instance again of the
border borough of Berwick, where the electors
have cordially and unhesitatingly welcomed as one of
their two newrepresentatives Mr.RALrli ERLE, the
private secretary of the. Chancellor of her MAJESTY'S
Exchequer. Very noticeable, indeed, among the
number of those who have failed to retain any scat
at all in the new Parliament arc three or four
High-
tynooe_sumsthctf!...
staunch Reformers, whose absence from the House
we slialf probably have only too much cause for
regretting. Already we have, in these columns, ex-
pressed our sincere sorrow at, those untoward
~circ-
umstances which •
have led to the withdrawal,
froni .the list of the 'national representa-
THE TT Majesty and. his Royal
dyes, of the name of an earnest and in= THE
Consort and the Princess Alice and the
telligent recruit in the cause of the Ballot
for Buckingham Palace, accompanied by the
s of the royal family leave. :Windsor Castle
like Sir ARTHUR ELTON, now replaced as the
second Liberal M.P. for Bath (thanks to the pique
pmr.ocss the. Court. Her Majesty intends, liccording to
arrangements, to remain in town until the, 19th or
and petulance of that peevish and perverse eimsti- e, •
Atk. instant, when tho Qtmeri and PririCe Consort and the
tuency) by Mr. WAY, an arrant, uncompromisinis rdyal family leave for Osborne for a .weck or 'ten days:
Conservative ! And still more earnestly have vie h
Her R
Pruss. oyal Hi ness the Princess Fredelie. William of
lamented the disappearance from the catalogue. Dr lust, Ona las :evxispietcttoedhetor
illustriousarri ve at Osborn..
fl:On the "21st or 22d
our.vcteran. reformers .in the _House, of agi fted 4veri probable' that' the royal ?a st
andfro minßfaenr Berlin. I nso.n It
champion of Reform such as General kernro.syaitlyliglinue likewk,e visit Osborne. ,
lately but now no longer M.P. for Brad- will take l7avae 111nes`.:, the Duke •of Saxe Coburg
ot tr!' Queen and His Rpyal Highness the
ford—a name ever to be honoured as that Prinee-Cor• • •
;sort :to-day, and depart from Windsor Castle, on
of the witty author of so many logical, son- his reitrizo
to Germany. • • • •
tentions, and' convincing catechisms. Added to d. :T,-
Dlike and Duchess of Manchester, who have,
these ex-members must now be mentioned in the
anig the past week, entertained his Reyal Highness the
.Cambridge, the Earl Cowper, Lord and Lady
same category, we grieve to think, that hon',.,g, Ossulston, Colonel the Hon. James Mardonaht, and a select
Liberal, late M.P. for Bodmin, Mr. IA VES LD, Kimbolton Castle, come to town to-morrow, in
whose last prominent appearance in the H
nd
order, that. the Iyuchess, as Mistress of the Roes, maybe in
of atteanee at Court.
Commons redounds so much to his horAour as a - The Earl and Countess of Winehelsea are enter-
thoroughly inde'peildent politician—AT:nen, amidst taming a select party of friends at rastwelf Park, near
the timidity, the shuffling, and
hesitation
of
Ashford, Kent.
many reputed Reformers heni. I Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left Picea-
, .
sn'full y appended to dilly yesterday for Brockett Hall, Herts. The noble
Lord JOHN'S vague resol
d io•ns, pledging the viscount
.and viscountess intend to come to town for her
Liberal party to Nothing „ a supplementary- amend-
Majesty's Drawing-room at St. James'.s Palace on Satur-
went, frankly proclaiming the ud ,• • •
isabildy, or rather day next. • •
The Right Bon: Sir J. Pakington, Bart., M.P ,
the necessity, of tl-Aeßallot.
Looking to the contest 4 arrived i 4 his official residence at the Adinhalty last even-
nearer. home, we have seen Sir SAMUEL PETOin g,attending his election D •h roi C
just rout
A •
exactly 3,9 ,4 •
too many at Finsbury for The Right 'Hon.- Edward Lucas has arrived at
poor 'Air.
will the Brun'swick,'Jerrayn• street, from castle 'Shane, county
COX, WAIO now have ample leisure for the more Monaglian•
accurate study of the history of England. As for Her •
• oyal• Highness the Duchess of Saxe-
Sir WILLIAM CARDEN. the wealthy London Alder- Coburg yesterday honoured the establishment of Mr. C. F.
man, late Lord Mayor, and still conceived to be all- Hancock; the pill-tent jeweller of Ifruton-street, with a
lag ]
potentivisit.—Mora
n press influence, Mr. MONK has eclipsed his Lord Stanley has
glory by nearly 200 vates as the successful candidate ante at King's' Lynn for his re-electiOri.
for the representation of the city of Gloucester. Lord .Lavensworth- and family have arrived at
Yet more noticeable in its way i$ the failure, after Percy's-cross, Walham-green, for the-season.We regret to announce the death Of the Hon.
so many; years of reiterated triumph down at Mrs. Leland Noel, which took place at Exton, Rutland, on
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, of the gallant Meaday last. She was the daughter.of Mr. J. S. Foljambe,
of Osborton-hall, Notts, and married, in 1824, the Hon. and
Col. FREESTEN, hitherto deemed to occupy, unoffi:
Rev. Leland Noel brother of the Earl.of Gainsborcaigh.
cially, the position, and to enjoy in consequence Mai ETON 'BAY.—It has been decided-to erect into
the accruing prestige, of Esquire in attendance aoevtn'ThY etnhte district of Moreton Bay, now a portion of the
upon Lord PALMERSTON. As for another gallant flistrict into a separcu 'vatSeocuotihonlyVialalessixeTnhfoerftohnneiaatsibtnsioxfyethariss
retainer Of that adventurous and chivalrous knight in urge-fitly-
delay. A
pressed
n acceding
tinhabitants iti.n
t. the
the Parliamentary lists--one of the most skilled and was occasioned by the necessity of an arrangement for °tip!
brilliant fencers in the ranks of the Liberals in the tQa.. y'onainp%
telourbTliscatleefbatetaViieytNaTta,stSe3cidney ret
?.'pl:)rati°oirli
tournays of the Legislature, Mr. BERNAL Os- r nowiop eem effnect w
of illcnool
ednoyu btitaus leda
cr
etaot
ead grlet
which
rapid
tvicae-
BORNE—he has recently succumbed merely to the i name of Queensland. The governor selected to preside
fortunes n
es of war, after a heroic and desperate fl over the new colony is Sir Ferguson Bowen, R.C.M.S., at
do I git present Chief Secretary to the Lord Iligh Commissioner of
Dover, yielding only to the sheer force of w
the lonian Islands, a pelt he hasheld for seme time to the
at
adverse
• approbation of his superiors. Sir George Bowen was for-: e*
ircumstances. The unmistakeable victory a merly a fellow of Brasenose, and a first-class man, and has
obtained considerable distinction
.literary as well as in
won at Dover by the two veteran Derbyit 1.
e can( 1- t official circles. His appointment is likely to be popular in
dates is attributed Australia. Sir Benjamin Pine, now Governor of the Gold
to the local influence exercised V•
country, has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of St.
at that seaport by her MAJEY ST
sGovernment. Of- Christopher's. It will be seen frem the foregoing that Sir
course, Mr.. OSBORNE 'profited-Edward Lytton has adhered to the principle of promotion in
by nothing, at all of the service as the best means of securing to our colonial
the same kind when he • was returned upon the ok 'Vire -the rad:§t efficient servants that can be obtained.
TL e name of the capital of Dritish Columbia is to be N6w
it Nce, i
eeca,,sion of the lastgen- eral. election,
when Sr

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At two e!clock the van drove up to the Star-and Garter,.
in Arbour-street, Stepney. A halt was made, the Queen's
proelaruatien was.read amidst deafening. cheers the band
struck up ".9od Save the Queen," and after a stay of about
20 minutes the band struck up the favourite air of " The
Girl I left hehind.me," and the van- drove away and pro-
ceeded along the Cernmercial.road, Shadwell High-street,
Rateliff-highway, and Tower-hill. Numerous .volunteers,
both seamen and, landsmen, offered themselves, and were
approved. yesterday, and were forwarded to the Crocodile
receiving. ship off the rower, where snug. berths and good
treatment were provided them.
Many....were rejected. by the doctors, and.it is af.noC use for
any butzeen and jads in a sound state of health to attempt
to enter! the,Royal.Navy. The bounties offered by the'
to
conspicuously painted in blue and red let-
tett on-white cloth on each side of the navy van;-which was
at some•perieds of the day most inconveniently overcrowded.
The police,have received orders to giie every facility for the
paSsageof the van, horses, and colours, through the streets
during 'the present week.. _
. Yesterday orders were issued by file Admiralty for all
the men_belpnging.to the Coast GuEird fit.for sdrvice,-to-be.
hetl ready to proceed to sea, and the necessary number
of Regd. ;41arines to be told off. for the first division of
the 'steam. reserve, all. the ships composing. which are
having their sea, fire-hearths put in ; and, pursuant
to Admiralty orders, :additional numbers of shipwrights,
rimers,-caulkers,. and artisans, were taken on at all the
Royal dockyards, to bring them forward .with
ingluding the Exmouth; 90, screw, Captain J. Stop-
foril ; Asia% 84, screw, .Captaia Robinson the Ames Watt,
91, Captain. E. C,odd ;.the Imperieuse, 51, screw, • Mel-
)
pornene, 50, screw,; Termagant, 25,
,screw; Firebrand, 6,
paddler'Cap.tain Edward Bruce;- Gorgon' 6, paddle ;
paddle;diltor, 6, and numerous despatch and gunboats.
The Revenge, 91, screw, . just launched .at Pembroke, is
ordered round to Aheerness to be.fitted with all expedition.
The Hood, 91 guns, to Le launched di Chatham to-morrow
(Wednesday), is also to be brought forward ir3r.nediately,
And the lleynarcl, 6, 'despatch 'gunboat.. The Ajax, 60,
'screw, has.received orders to be held ready to sail at an
hones notiee from. Dublin Bay,' and several gunboats are
ordered to.proceed to the Channel Islands, and. yesterday
orders were, issued.for her Majesty's troop-ship =Urgent 'to
beheld_re4dY to convey Captain Garbetes company of the
Royal Artillery to Jersey.ln additien to the preparations maWng for the augmen-
tation of the Channel fleet, the divisi a.i of which, under the
command pf Sir Cr. Fremantle, has Sailed. from 43erehavero,
Bantry Bay, with pealed orders, .supposed destinaton 'the
Adriatic, the greatest activity pre' sails in all der;,-tments,Of
the Admiralty, and the steame is Britannia, Sidney 11141,
anti Peninsula llave been dripatched to Gibraltar with
large quantities of shot, shell., and ananmilition. • 'The Ad-
miralty haye alvt just def 4,,ached several vessels, lade:,
with heavy guns,.to Malta. which tire tote mounted-on the
fortifications of that islar
.j.
The accounts receiver', Yesterday by the Admiralty of the
reception of her
pops her Nakstr a proclamation at the Northern
acid Wester
-.sere most encouraging. First-class
seamen freely volur.tee-:ed for the service, and in a few days
an efficiently mar,ued fleet of steam-ships of war, commen-
surate wer and dignity of' England, will be
,
tBlaattein.w_ti
hthe.
13thr4:n
Channel..