The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1861.

AT a GENERAL COURT of PROPRIETORS,
held at the BANK of ENGLAND, ou THURSDAY,
the 7th February, 1841
Resolved—That the thanks of this Court be given to the
Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Court of Directors of the
Bank of England, for their able management of the recent
negotiation with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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Ordered—That the said Resolution be advertised in all the
daily morning and evenin7, papers.
JAMES STEWART, Secretary.

BUCKLEYS' SERENADER S.-LAST
THREE PERFORMANCES.—St. James's Hall, Pic-
cadilly.—TO-NIGHT at 8 ; To-morrow (last day performance)
at 3, ~nd in the Evening, at 8, for the Benefit of R. BISHOP
BUCKLEY (General .11anager), bAng most positively the
final representation. Stalls, 3s. ; Area, 2s. ; Gallery, 18.,
which can be secured at the office, 28, Piccadilly.

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area, 2s. ; amphitheatre, ls. - A plan of the stalls may be
seen, and seats A ecured (without extra charge), at the Box-
office, from 10 till 4. Morning Performance, Saturday, Feb.
9.

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Rear-Admiral of the Blue R. S. Robinson has
been appointed by the Admiralty as successor to

Rear-Admiral Sir B. W. Walker, K.C.8., in his
cffice as Controller of the Navy.
The Immortalite, 51, screw, Capt. G. Hancock,
sailed from Spithead at 11 a.m. yesterday for Lis-
bon, going out by the Nab, under close-reefed top-
sails, fore and main courses, jib and spanker.
It is stated on good authority to be the intention
of the Admiralty to cut down several of the largest
and soundest line-of-battle ships, and convert them
into plated steam batteries for the defence of our
harbours and coasts, but more particularly with
reference to the defence of Spithead. If the angu-
lated system be adopted they may prove far more
efficient for their intended purpose than would
the proposed stone forts on the Noman and Dean
Shoals, which it has been proved by the evi-
dence taken before the National Defence Commis-
sion, would be totally unable to stop the passage
in or out of Spithead of an iron-sided ship, would
be some years in construction, and, when completed,
would chiefly serve to mark the Channel for the
passage of an enemy's fleet by day or by night.
The Narcissus, 51, screw, flagship of Rear-Admi-
ral Sir B. W. Walker, K.C,8., the newly-appointed
Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope,
will take her final departure for the Cape from
Spithead.
The Royal paddle yacht Victoria and Albert, on
the occasion of her conveying the Empress of Aus-
tria to Madeira from Antwerp, sustained consider-
able injury to her paddle floats during the exceed-
ingly violent weather she experienced through-
out the .itrip, particularly on the outward voyage.
Since she has been placed in dock at Portsmouth,
where her floats have been unshipped and examined,
it has become a question whether they could not
be made from some more durable material than that
which has been hitherto used—English oak. To
ascertain this satisfactorily a series of tests have
been tried at Portsmouth during the past few days,
and the result appears to be that it will be difficult
to supersede English oak with any other material
more durable for the purpose. Each float of the
yacht's paddle measures lift. 6in. in length by 4ft.
4in. in width, the wood being 4in. thick. One of
these floats—a spare one—was tested. The others
tested comprised two new ones of the same wood
—English oak, one of American oak, and one of
wrought-iron, the latter being plates rivetted to-
gether with a space between. The mode of testing
was by placing the float with its two ends resting
on balks of timber. Across the centre of the float,
transversely, ran a bar of iron four inches square,
from which was suspended the weights for trying
the float's resisting powers. The American oak
broke at 32 tons. The wood forming this float was
of the finest character and most even grain, and
without a ksiot in any part.. One of the new Eng-
lish oak floats broke at 28 tons, and the other at
124 tons. These floats were much weakened by
having iron plates on their surface, each containing
nine or ten bolt holes. The one that broke at 28
tons, had it been without this iron plate and its ac-
companying bolt holes, would doubtless have stood
as great a strain as the American oak. The Victoria
and Albert's spare float broke at 21 tons, and the
wrought-iron one broke at 19 tons. Had the last
mentioned one stood a favourable test the galvanic
action that must be constantly going on between a
vessel's wheel floats composed of iron and the cop-
per on her bottom would prove an insurmountable
bar to its adoption.
Tn accordance with orders received from the
Adiniralt y, the whole of the mechanics and artisans
at Chatham dockyard yesterday resumed the sys-
tem of day work, the arrangements for job and task
work, introduced a few years during the busy
period, having been abolished. The officers holding
acting appointments also resumed their former
positions.
The Lords of the Admiralty having decided on
extending the Royal Marine barracks at Chatham,
so as to afford accommodation for several hundred

additional officers and men the present barrack
buildings will be enlarged at a cost, including the
purchase land, of about £70,000, and a considerable
portion of which sum has already been voted in the
Navy Estimates presented to,the House of Commons
last Session.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Edward F. Young, acting 3d
class assistant-engineer, to the Cumberland, for
temporary charge of the Lee; C. A. Pritchard,
paymaster, to be secretary to Rear-Admiral Sir
Baldwin W. Walker, K.C.B. ; Charles H. Wells,
assistant paymaster of the Narcissus, to be secre-
tary's clerk; J. Robinson, assistant.paymaster, to
the Narcissus; Francis H. Chown, assistant-pay-
master, to be secretary's clerk, in the Princess
Royal; and Thomas Backhouse, assistant-pay-
master, additional, to the Princess Royal.

shall be admitted into the Southern Union unless
it is slaveholding, and if it should subsequently
abolish slavery it shall be excluded.—Laid on the
table. A resolution was also offered relative to a
direct Southern trade ; also that commissioners be
sent to the slaveholding States. Objection was
made to including Delaware. An ordinance was
offered abolishing Federal and establishing State
Courts ; also continuing in force Federal laws under
control of the State ; also declaring what shall
constitute treason ; also concerning citizenship.
An ordinance was adopted relative to the oaths of
lawyers. An ordinance was passed resuming State
authority over territory ceded to the United States.
The State sentries posted at Charleston had fired
into a boat from Fort Sumter. The Senate of South
Carolina had passed a tax bill, which provides for
an increased tax of 20 per cent. over the year 1859,
to meet the demand of 1,500,000 dols. necessary
for all South Carolina's purposes. Treasury notes
were issued for 700,000 dols. and bills receivable
of the State for 350,090 dols. for military contin-
gencies. The House of Representatives had ap-
pointed a committee to inquire what changes were
necessary in the banking system and currency in
South Carolina in consequence of the change in its
postal relations. The Catawba Indians had offered
their services to South Carolina as a military com-
pany, and Governor Pickens had accepted them.
Governor Pickens had replied to the Postmaster-
'General's letter;=inqqirisig-wilothet; Major Ander-
son and his command would be allowed free com-
munication with the postoffice at Charleston. He
states that an arrangement existed by which the
correspondence for Fort Sumter was regularly de-
livered, and access was given to supplies, which
was entirely satisfactory to Major Anderson; that
no espionage was exercised over the correspondence,
and that on only two occasions were his official
letters detained, and then without any violation of
their privacy; that Major Anderson had not 'had
free communication with the post-office because his
presence, or that of any part of his command, might
involve a collision, in the excited state of public
feeling in the city. He takes high ground for
maintaining the rights of South Carolina in her
independent attitude, but protests a very earnest
desire for peace. The fortification of the harbours
of Charleston was being vigorously proceeded with.
The agents of the Savannah line of steamers tele-
graphed on the 25th to New York from Savannah
as follows
The seirure of arms from the steamer Monticello
causes great excitement here. Can you get them
back ? We fear retaliation. It is rumoured that
Federal troops have been ordered to the armoury
to prevent an apprehended attack for the recovery
of the muskets recently seized."
The buoys in the harbour of Mobile had been
removed. From Florida we learn that at Pensacola
volunteers were engaged in mounting and ranging
cannons, carpenters were making scaling-ladders,
and the utmost bustle prevailed. The Wyandotte
was anchored west of Fort Pickens, under her
guns, and it was supposed she would assist Lieut.
Slimmer in defence. The pilots had been notified
that they might bring Government vessels into the
harbour if they bore a flag of truce. Fort M'Rae
was being occupied and the guns manned by the
allied forces of Florida, Alabama, and, Mississippi.
The surveying schooner Dana had been seized by
the authorities of St. Augustine, Florida, while
the commander was absent en an expedition in
connexion with his duties. The Governor of
Mississippi had caused batteries to be erected
near Vicksburg to command the passage of the
Mississippi river, and every boat from north of
Mason and Dixon's line was compelled to stop and
submit to an examination. The South Carolina
Convention was discussing the proposal to send
commissioners to the Montgomery Convention.
There was considerable opposition to it. In the
Louisiana Convention, assembled at Baton Rouge
on the, 224..the_Governor's_ essage _was __Ho_
remarks :-

" Our enemies will find that throughout Louisiana
we are one people—one in heart, one in mind, and
are not to be cajoled into an abandonment of our
rights, and not to be subdued. All hopes are at an
end that the dissensions between the North and
South can be healed. All the propositions of
moderate men have been contemptuously rejected,
and the cry of the North is for coercion. There is
no longer a doubt of the wisdom of the policy which
demands that the conflict shall come and be settled
now."

On the 24th the Committee of Fifteen reported
an ordinance on secession', also resolutions relative
to the navigation of the Mississippi. The resolu-
tion of thanks to the Governor for his prompt action
in the seizure of the forts of Louisiana created quite
a discussion, a member wishing to know what
authority the Governor had for such a high-handed
measure, and saying he was not prepared to censure
or thank him until the necessity of the step was
shown. The Governor's message was here received,
when a motion to read that portion relative to the
seizure of the forts elicited further warm discussion
and much confusion, when the resolution finally
passed-118 against 5. On the 25th, the Committee
of Fifteen reported an ordinance dissolving all con-
nexion with the United States, but all treaties, acts
of Congress, &e., not incompatible with the ordi-
nance of secession, aro to remain in force; also
recognising the right of ingress and egress to and
from the mouth of the Mississippi river by all
friendly States, and declaring the willingness of
Louisiana to enter into stipulations or guarantees
for the exercise of those rights. The Convention
would probably adjourn to New Orleans.
Vera Cruz advices to the 10th ult. report that
some of Miramon's principal officers, including his
Minister of Foreign Relations, had been captured
by Indians ; also, that Miramon himself had been
taken, but subsequently escaped, after killing three
Indians. President Juarez departed from Vera
Cruz on the sth for the capital to establish a Liberal
Government.

THE HUNTING SEASON IN WARWICKSHIRE.—
The Leamington Courier reports that the sports of the hunt-
ing season in Warwickshire, which had been interrupted
by the recent severe frost, have been resumed with an
eagerness and vigour which prove that the lovers of the
chase are fully resolved to make up for the time they had
lost. The several "meets" are, as heretofore, well at-
tended; and the sports for which the county enjoys an
enviable fame continue to realise the expectations of the
numerous visitors who delight in the exercise of horseman-
ship. _ _

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