The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-14 00:00:00

THE GREAT EASTERN.

The Great Eastern has performed her voyage to
Holyhead in a manner which we are informed is
considered highly satisfactory, and even to swims
the expectations of the most sanguine of her pro-
jectors. We say we are informed, because, owing,
as it appears to us, to certain little items of mis-
management, which might easily have been avoided,
we are not presented with any clear or precise solu-
tion of the great experiment, but only with data
from which hypothetical results may be drawn.
It would be more satisfactory to us, and we suspect
to the public at large, who make' no profession to
any technical engineering knowledge, to know what
the Great Ship can do by what she has achieved,
rather than by inferences drawn from her perform;
ance under drawbacks and difficulties. The Great
Eastern has gone from Portland to Holyhead with-
out giving the public any accurate means of know-
ing what, is the Speed she can attain by the'aid of
her screw and her paddles, what speed she can
attain by her sails alone going before the
wind, and what speed she can attain by
the united aid of wind, screw, and pad-
dles, with her square sails set; There may be,
however, reasons with which we are not acquainted
which interfered with the completeness of the
trial, and tantalising as the result is, we must ac-
cept it for what it is worth until we can obtain
fuller and more particular information. The
Great Eastern started from Portland on Saturday
afternoon, and steamed, at little more than. half-
speed,
to the Start Light, achieving nearly 13
knots an hour, This result, eminently satisfactory
as it is, is not to be treated as a maximum, for here
we must begin with' the system of allowances and
deductions. The centre of gravity was below the
centre of motion. The vessel was in bad trim, for
she ought to have been eighteen inches more down
by the stern to enable the screw to exert its full
power—a defect which one would think might,
without mach difficulty, have been avoided. Under
'such circumstances 'this performance must be re-
garded as of great promise. From the Start to the
Eddystone Lighthouse, a distance of 25 knots, or
nearly 29 miles, the full force of the vessel was to
be tried, and the distance was accomplished in an
hour and three-quarters, at the rate of about six-
teen miles and a half an hour. This is a remark-
able result. The vessel under easy steam, running
at little more than half speed, accomplishes nearly
fifteen miles an hour, and when pushed to her full
speed goes only sixteen miles and a half. But here
again an allowance has to be made which entirely
vitiates the calculation, for the escape valve got
jammed, and the fires had to be seduced and the
speed taken off in order to release it, so that all we
can conclude from the experiment is, that the vessel
can go something
.more than sixteen and a half
miles an hour, though how much more we have at
present no data for estimating. The vessel
was afterwards tried with a strong breeze from
the north-east, but which being a side wind did
not permit of setting the square sails. The
result was a speed of fifteen knots an hour,
one knot and a half an hour of which was
due to the setting of the sails. The vessel was
also tried with the screw alone, which pro-
pelled her at the rate of nine knots an hour;
and with the paddles alone, which propelled her at
the rate of from seven and a-half to eight knots an
hour; so that.it would appear that the sum of the
velocity severally yielded by the screw and the
paddle very nearly equals the velocity arising frost
their joint action. Should this law be found to
hold good on further experiment, a method would
seem to have been discovered of greatly accelerating
the speed of steamers by the adoption of two sepa-
rate and independent means of propulsion.
-While chronicling the results established by this
trial we must not forget to mention that, vast as
the Great Eastern is, she is not exempt from the
influence of the waves. Even in the Channel she
showed considerable liveliness, and when exposed
with her beam on to the full swell of the Atlantic
she rolled in a manner evidently unexpected, and
gave fair promise of what she might be expected to
do with a heavy swell on her beam. The result of
the trial is considered highly satisfactory, and con-
fidence is expressed that the vessel will be able to
average ordinarily eighteen miles an hour, and in
fair weather upwards of twenty miles. Thus, with-
out disaster, and to the complete satisfaction of those
most interested in her success, the Great Eastern
has emerged from the British Channel, and, putting
away childish things, has for a brief space con-
fronted the heavy roll of the Atlantic.
We make no apology to our readers for the de-
tails which we have brought before them, for on
these details and their significance depend, in a
great measure, the political relations of this country
for the moment, and ultimately the destinies of the
whole human race. Without feeling disappoint-
ment, we must confess to an impression that the
results, so far as at present known to us, do not ap-
pear to establish the wisdom of this enterprise, or
show that we have in the Great Ship the model of
futuYe naval architecture. There seems, indeed, to
be a great similarity between the Great Eastern
and the Great Western Railway. Both were bold
innovations, both extorted admiration, but we ven-
ture to think that neither will find many imitators.
The Great Western Railway attained great speed,
but there seems no reason why a speed nearly, if not
quite, as great may not be attained by railways on
a smaller scale and of less expensive construc-
tion. Possibly the same may be found to be the
case with the Great Eastern. She is more than
four times the tonnage of the Persia, but the diffe-
rence of speed has not as yet been proved to be
very considerable. Unless the Great Eastern pre-
sents a more decided superiority to smaller vessels
than she at present seems.to do, she will hardly be
taken for a model. Her speed, we believe, is not,
on the most sanguine estimate, greater than that
which has already been obtained by several com-
mercial vessels, and certainly nothing like that at-
tained by her Majesty's yacht, the difference being
chiefly in the power to carry fuel enough to obtain
that speed during a long voyage. This is, no doubt,
of great importance, but may it not be obtained at
an easier rate than is paid for it in the case of the
Great Eastern? The advantages which the Great
ship presents must be paid for at a very high price.
The ship cost an immense sum of money in build-
ing, and cannot be worked except at a great ex-
pense, burning as she does at least two hundred and
seventy tons of coal a-day, and carrying an enor-
mous crew. There are very few harbours that she
can enter, and an unsuccessful voyage would visit
the proprietors with an enormous loss. The ques-
tion will arise among practical men whether almost
all the advantages of the Great Eastern may not be
obtained by vessels of a smaller size, especially as
we do not seem likely to secure that which has been
hitherto insisted on—the absence of motion and sea-
sickness. May it not turn out, after all, that this
wonderful and brilliant experiment is destined to
prove the wisdom of the more gradual and cautious
course of improvement which has in a period of
twenty years given us vessels like the Persia and
the Arabia in the place of the Sirius and the Great
Western ? Whether destined to be the future mo-
del of shipbuilders or no, we wish the Great
Eastern the fullest success. It is impossible to re-
gard without the highest admiration the talent
which conceived so vast a scheme, and the untiring
perseverance which has brought it to completion.
We confess, however, that it will be a great satis-
factibn to us to learn that the machinery which
propels that splendid hull has worked without a
breakdown at full speed on her first voyage. We
are informed, and we hope it is true, that there is
every wish on the part of the directors to conform
to the requisitions made by the Board of Trade, and
we therefore trust that whenever the Great Eastern
shall leave these shores she will be able to offer her
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THE CHANNEL ISLANDS TELEGRAM:T/11S
telegraph is now going on in perfect working order, the re-
pairs of the cable between Jersey and Guernsey, which had
become damaged, having been completed on Monday morn-
inn. As soon as the line was found to be out of order Mr.
Preece, the company's engineer, set to work to discover the
cause, and two and a half miles of the cable were picked up.
The great flaw was discovered about throe-quarters of a
mile out, in the thick shore end of the original cable,
caused by abrasion on the rocks. A quarter of a mile fur-
ther on two " kinks" *ere found, which must have oc-
curred during the laying down of the cable. In conse-
quence of these the outer wire got bent of its place, so as
to expose the gutta percha covering to friction, which
sooner or later must have resulted in the stoppage of com-
munication. One mile and a half of the cable was carefully
examined and repaired, and with a mile of new and
stronger cable relaid, in conjunction with the heavy shore
~nd laid down last spring. The new portion is the same
as that recently submerged in the Red Sea, and is stronger
than the original Jersey cable. Six hundred yards of new
extra thick cable have been added to the original, extend-
ing it more than a mile into the sea. Tho course now taken
is considerably to the eastward of the former position, and
is now on sandy ground, avoiding the rocks between Pie-
mont and Paternosters.

Admiralty orders have been "received at Chatham
directing the launch of the line-of-battle- screw
steamer Irresistible,. 80; to.tirke place oritt-hc.27411
inst., and zioTon-The 29th, its originally ordered:
- The Severn, 61, now in the dock at Chatham
being converted into a'screw steamer, 3a ordered,
when completed, to' be taken into the basin at
Sheerness, in order that she may be fitted with her
machinery, which is to be of 600-horse power
(nominal). ; ,
cThe Renard, 4, steam gun-vessel, Commander J.
G. Goodenough, _ arrived at Spithead yAterday
morning from Sheerness.
The Amphion, 36, screw, Capt. Thomas Cochrane,
sailed from Spithead yesterday for the westward.
. The Avon, paddle steamer, arrived at Portsmouth
yesterday fronf Devonport. , .
The Arrogant, '47, screw, Capt.,W. Edmonstone,
has been placed in No. 7 dock at Portsmouth,
having sprung a small leak in the vicinity of her
stcrnpost. - - - - -
The Royal Sovereign, 131, seie*, Steamed oat of
Portsmouth harbour yeSterdiy to test machinery,
in charge of Mr. Murdoch, inspector ;of machinery
afloat. Everything worked in the satisfac-

tory manner. At „ the conclusion Of the trial the
Royal Sovereign returned to her harbour moor-
ings.

:The Mars, 80, screw, Capt. Strange, was again
under way for a short time yesterday at .pithead
under her canvas. She requires, some slight re-
pairs to her machinery, which, if. carried out at
once, will detain her at Spithead for several days.
The paddlewheel steam-vessel Locust, 3, Lieut.
J. B. Field, from Queenstown, arrived at Plymouth
on Wednesday with supernumeraries for the Royal
Adelaide.
The screw steam corvette Clio, 21,• Captain
Miller, at Plymouth; is 20 petty ()facers short of
her complement. She will' not leave for a week, in
consequence of the appearance of smallpox among
her crew;! who are placed in quarantine.
The gunboat Bouncer, Lieutenant A. R. Owen,
was taken out of dock at Xeyham, Plymouth, on
Wednesday.
His Netherlands, .Majesty's corvette, Admiral
Koopman, left Plymouth under steam on Wednes-
day for the East'lndies. While 'preparing for sea
one of the men had a narrow escape. The bunt of
the main top-gallant .sail. gave way, and he was
suddenly flung off from the main topgallant sail
yard. Providentially he• fell across the braces,
about 12 feet below, and grasping them with his
hands firmly was saved from being dashed on the
deck.

An engine-fitter named Lunn, engaged on the
St. George, 91, in Hamoaze, Plymouth, unfortit-
nately lost his life on Tuesday last. While along-
side he fell overboard, and having several chisels
about his person, he did not rise again.
The screw steamship Trafalgar, 91, Captain Fan-
shawe, hove in sight off Plymouth on Wednesday
morning at 5. When near the Sound she salutea
the flag of the Port-Admiral, which was acknow-
ledged by the Impregnable. She was ultimately
ordered into port.
The presentation of, the testimonial to the Right
Hon. J. Wilson, lath M.P. for Devonport, from the
workmen and artisans employed in Chatham Dock-
yard, as an acknowledgment of the efforts made by
the right hon. gentleman to procure for the persons
employed at the Royal docks arils the benefits of the
Civil Service Superannuation Bill, took place yes-
terday, the testimonial being presented by a depu-
. tation of the workmen selected for that purpose.
The testimonial consists of a massive silver ink-
stand, of elaborate workmanship,. and bears the
following inscription:-,-
" Presented to the Right Hon. James Wilson by 550
workmen of her Majesty's Dockyard, Chatham, as a mark
of their deep gratitude and esteem for his great and success-
ful exertions to ameliorate their condition when aged and
infirm by causingthem to be placed within the provisions of
the Civil Service Superannuation Bill.—October, 1859."
It is also the intention of the workmen in Chat-
ham Dockyard to present a testimonial to Major-
General Sir F. Smith, M.P. for Chatham, and to
Mr. P. W. Martin and. Mr._ Sergeant Kinglake, the
members for Rochester, for the exertions they used
to procure the extension of the provisions of the
bill to dockyard workmen.
The two mortar-vessels Nos. 31 and 48, which
on their recent survey at Chatham were found to
have sustained severe injuries from the ravages of
the destructive marine worm, were yesterday
hauled up on No. 7 slip, where they will remain
during the whole of the winter, in order that the
frosts may destroy the insect. It is intended to send,
out a large number of the mortar-vessels now lying
at Chatham to China during the approaching
spring.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—T. Barnes, acting naval instruc-
tor, to the Britannia ; Henry E. Kitchen, assistant-
paymaster, in charge, to the Weber; and Charles
K. Harvey, assistant-paymaster, to the Hastings.

BENSON'S WATCHES.
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ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING, DINO R A H. Messrs. Santley, H.
Corri, St. Albyn, and W. Harrison. Misses Pilling, Thirl-
wall, and Miss Louisa Fyne.
Conductor, Alfred Mellon.

DIVERTISSEMENT. Mdlles. Lequine, Pasquale, Pier-
r•n, and Mons. Vandris.

Commence at 8 o'clock.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Miss Amy Sedgwick.
After which, a new Farce, entitled THE RIFLE, AND
HOW TO USE IT. Messrs. Buckstone. Compton, Rogers,
Mrs. B. White, Slr.. Wilkins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam.
And HALLOWE'EN.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
LOVE'S TELEGRAPH.
To be followed by a dramatic tableau in Watteau colours.
by J. R. Planche. Esq.. entitled LOVE AND FORTUNE.
To conclude with THE TWO POLTS.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
sole proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Open for the Winter Season.
THIS EVENING will be performed ICI ON PARLE
FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, and Miss
Kelly.
After which, THE WILLOW COPSE. Luke,
Mr. Ben.
Webster ; Hulks, Mr. David Fisher ; Augus, Mr. J. L.
Toole ; Staggers, Mr. Paul Bedford.
Followed by LOVE AND HUNGER. Mr. David Fisher,
Mr. Paul Bedford, C. Selby. C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss
Laidlaw.
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor ter bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING, THE WIDOW'S WEDDING.
After which the successful Ballet Farce, by John Oxen-
ord, Esq., entitled MAGIC TOYS, support:d by Miss Lydia
Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and a numerous Corps de
Ballet.
To conclude with the New and Original Burlesque,. by L.
Buckingham, Esq., of VIRGINIUS ; or the Trials of a Fond
Papa, in which Messrs. C. Young, Barrett, A. Denial, Francis;
Mesdames Frank Matthews, Clara St. Casse, Eliza Arden,
C. Ranoe, Lydia Thompson, and a numerous Corps de Ballet
will appear.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 8d ; Pit, is. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform-
ance commences at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborongh
THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN
EGGS.
After which THE GREAT RUSSIAN BEAR ; or, An-
pther Retreat from Moscow.
And CAUGHT BY THE EARS.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.
Commence at 7 o'clock

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of
MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con-
verts), the extraorlinary Violin Performances of the cele-
brated Infant DELEPIERRE FAMILY, and the usual
focal Concert.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. 17. Critahfield, and E. W. Mackney.
Sereral interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery-. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of them etropolis.
Will shortly be produced, a Grand Selection from Meyer-
beer's new opera of DINORAH.

THE WEATHER.---SIIN OFFICE, Oaroima 14.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
60—highest since noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
63—this day at noon.

BAuommrzn-29.68.
WIND, Northerly and Westerly; light, with dull wet,
ther.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 57m.—Afternoon, 3h. 13m.
To-Moßnow-Morning, 3h. 29m.—Afternoon, 3h. 46m.

The intelligence received by this time from the
mouth of the Peiho, both at London and at Wash-
ington, can hardly fail to allay whatever irritation
may naturally have been excited in the United
States and the United Kingdom by the very dif-
ferent news coming to England and America im-
mediately prior to this from the north-eastern
shores of the Pacific. Nothing, we all know but
too well in this country, nothing could possibly
have been more calculated to endanger the peace
between Great Britain and the United States,
than the insolent predatory incursion made by Ge-
neral HARNEY'S filibusters upon the disputed soil
of the little island of San Juan. The occupation of
that island was in direct and flagrant violation of
one of the first articles in the law of nations. It
was nothing less than an insult of the most unpro-
voked character, offered by the Commander-in-
Chief of the American forces in that locality, to the
British Crown, actually then claiming over that
very island of San Juan the inalienable rights of
Sovereignty. It was a matter of notoriety indeed
in both hemispheres that the rival claims of Eng-
land and the United States. to the possession of San
Juan, remained at that moment, had remained un-
happily for months past, a problem committed for
solution, if possible, and that, moreover, at
as early a date as might be in any way
practicable to joint commissioners duly ap-
pointed by the respective Governments. Sud-
denly tidings were brought to us that while the
Commission was yet in deliberation upon that Gor-
dian Knot the lawless sword of General HARNEY
had been abruptly drawn from the scabbard, and
that it had been endeavoured, by a foul blow from
that pitiful little buccaneering brand, to sever the
knot in twain, after the fashion set according to
PLUTARCH, by a certain King of Macedonia. The
particulars brought by the last mail or two from
Victoria, in Vancouver, have only tended to en-
hance the inignation felt in England at this unjus-
tifiable attempt at spoliation,and direct infraction of a
mutual and perfectly amicable arrangement. Gradu-
ally; bit by bit, we got to know the worst of it. We
learnt that the sixty-six men first landed upon the
Island of San Juan from American war-vessels,
had been rapidly increased to the number of five
hundred. We heard that fortifications were being
constructed. We read of batteries raised, of guns
mounted, of ammunition and stores accumulated—
ef an admirable site for a city having been coolly
marked out—of the whole surface of the island
having
been yet more coolly given over to a nume-
rous and mushroom squatter population. Not one
ingredient was wanting to embitter the cup prof-
fered to us--a cup brimmed up with insults and
provocative of indignation.
Happily—in the midst of all this—while Go-
vernor DOUGLAS was there, with admirable skill,
tempering an inflexible regard for the dignity of
the British Crown, and for the inviolability of
British interests, with a moderation beyond all
praise, and a temperate bearing entitled to our
fullest admiration—there came news from the
Peiho vividly reminding us of those bonds of
fraternal sympathy and affection knitting to-
gether the population of the States and that
of the old immemorial fatherland. The Ann,
rican flag-officer in command of the United
States' squadron off the mouth of the Peiho
acted towards our wounded fellow-countrymen
there in that scene of our recent disaster, and in
be-
the very midst of the late calamitous slaughter
fore the Taku fortifications, in a manner calculated
to seep out of mind the recollection of a dozen
HARNEYS, acted in truth as became a loyal ally et
chivalrous magnanimity. The treatment of our

wounded officers, and our sailors and marines on
board the United States ship the Toey-wan, on
the night after the sanguinary repulse of our ten
gunboats off the Taku forts, will not speedily be
lost to the recollection of Englishmen.
An additional and a very acceptable light,
however, has now been thrown upon these
incidents by means of an official commu-
nication, which will be found in another column
of our impression of this evening. The docu-
ment referred to is no other than the despatch
written off the Peiho River on the 4th of July
by Admiral JOSIAH TATTNALL, flag officer of the
United States squadron in the Chinese waters, the
despatch formally addressed by him to the Secre-
tary of the American Navy at Washington. From
this deeply interesting narrative of the late trans-
actions on the coast of China, we learn that the
feeling of cordiality—a cordiality throughout fra-
ternally spontaneous in its character— has been
reciprocal out there to the fullest extent
between the Americans and Britishers. What
is yet more, it now turns out, from the American
flag officer's own showing, that the Britishers in
point of fact took the initiative in its manifestation
at the mouth of the Peiho!

Authorised so to do, or at any rate encouraged so
to do by the coincident opinion of the American Am-
bassador Mr. WARD, the flag officer of the United
States squadron decided, he tells the Secretary of the
Navy, at Washington, "to enter the river we had
known as the Peiho in the steamer Toey-
wan as far as the barricades, as though igno-
norant of access having been refused the
English and French." This, we must premise,
was prior to the disastrous conflict under the walls
of the fortifications. "If the forts," wrote the
American naval commander, " should fire across our
bows to bring us to, we would anchor and commu-
nicate; if into us, having no guns, we would retire
and act accordingly." The manner in which this
plan was attempted to be carried out will be
found minutely described in the despatch, elsewhere
given in extenso. Sufficient for us if we come at
once to the incident it gave rise to, and which we
are here anxious to particularise. "We had ap-
proached," writes Admiral TATTNELL, to within
three hundred yards of the first barrier, at which
point, should we not be fired on, I had proposed
anchoring, when we grounded, and failed in all
our efforts to back off. The tide was falling fast, and
our situation was critical, not only from the facility
with which the batteries might demolish us,
but, as we were on the edge of a steep
bank, from the probability of the steamer
falling over and filling." The position was ob-
viously critical. When, continues the American
Commander, " I at this moment received from
Admiral JAMES HOPE an attention and kindness
which must place me under lasting obligations to
him. Although he had reason to think that she
would be fired upon by the forts, he sent a gunboat
to my aid, with the message that, had he known of
my intention to pass up, he would have furnished me

a pilot, and that he expected to gee me fired on

The gunboat failed in her efforts to extricate me,
and there being, as I have said, a probability of the
Toey-wan falling over and filling, the admiral de-
spatched a second gunboat to me, placing her en-
tirely at my disposition, with the handsome and
generous offer that I should hoist on board of her
the American ensign and my own personal flag.
I declined the offer, with a just appreciation, how-
ever, of the personal kindness to myself and the
delicate compliment to our service. The Toey-
wan was more fortunate than I expected, and a
favourable wind having sprung up, we got her
off at high water." This incident was certainly
worthy of commemoration. Remembering it—we
cannot wonder when we read further on in the
despatch, after the result of the treacherous Chi-
nese ambuscade has been recounted, we cannot
wonder, we say, to read there, in the simple words
of the American naval commander —" I held a
consultation with Mr. Ward, and he agreed with

me perfectly that, under all the circumstances of
our position with the English, and the aid the ad-
miral had tendered me the day before, than to tow
the boats to his relief." And, yet later,—when the
fighting is all over—" After anchoring I thought of
the admiral and his chivalrous kindness to me the
day before, which, from an unwillingness to in-
trude upon him when he was preparing for action,
I had in no way yet acknowledged." Whereupon
the American flag-officer accompanied by his flag-
lieutenant pays the old English admiral a visit, as
ho lies there severely wounded on the quarter-deck
of the Cormorant. It is immediately upon having
mentioned this complimentary visit that the Ame-
rican pays this noble and deserved tribute to the
gallantry of Admiral HOPE—" The Cormorant
after this was sunk, and the admiral shifted his flag
to a fourth vessel, the Coromandel (a thing I believe,
unprecedented), thus evincing an indomitable va-
lour under very disheartening and almost hopeless

circumstances." Well might Sir JOHN PAKINGTON
who " had the honour of appointing Admiral
HOPE to the command in the Chinese Seas,"—
" selecting him solely because he was well known as
a man of ability, and an officer of great experience
and skill"—observe—(as the right hon. baronet
did observe yesterday down at Worcester)
that " It was unnecessary for him to add that
he (Admiral HOPE) was a man of the most
undaunted bravery ! " And cordially will every
Englishman echo back the heartfelt wish expressed
by the ex-First Lord of the Admiralty, that there
upon those Chinese coasts that gallant old tar may

speedily have an opportunity of proving to the
world that ho is in truth, " what every man in the
British Navy knows him to be—a distinguished
ornament to the service"—brave amongst the
brave—driven back, it is true, the other day, but
not conquered !

We have now had seventeen days of the weary
examinations of candidates, agents, sub-agents, and
bribed voters at Gloucester, and only about a week
less of it at Wakefield, and what does the country
really think of it all ? We may as well ask now ;
for how much longer the costly work is to go on
it would puzzle even a Chancery la Ayer to predict,
or even to conjecture. Inquiry into the election of
1857 will plainly follow that into the election of
1859 ; and if commissioners do not weary of what
we may presume is well paid work—indeed, for
justice' sake it ought to be so—or if the Gloucester
public does not tire of furnishing evidence, the"e
seems no reason why the inquiry should not run
back to the date of the Reform Bill at least ; or
even for the five centuries and a half during which
the old city has had the privilege of sending re•
presentatives to the Great Assembly of the nation.
Wakefield is but a mushroom borough, and we will
leave it for the present, as it comes under another
category. It owes all its electoral merits and de-
merits to its birth—being begotten•bv the Reform
Bill of a West Riding town constituency, and it
may be worth while to inquire how much of its
original sin, which seems to have been great in-
deed in amount, it owes to either parent.
The old Episcopal city, then, and its electoral
doings shall have a glance first. And one thing is
plain enough on the face of the evidence, that the
old city is like so many other bodies, it has two
leading parties, and a third which holds the scales.

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THE SUN.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1859.