The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-21 00:00:00

long by 18 inches in diameter. The screw alley
is 9ft. wide by 7ft. high, and at the stern there is
the usual well, fitted with the hoisting apparatus
for raising the screw to the deck. The bearings
on which the screw works are lined with lignum
vitas, a very beautiful, economical, and simple ap-
plication, first discovered by Mr. Penn, and by
which the immense cost of repairs from the effect
of friction on the old brass bearings is reduced to a
nominal amount. Taken altogether, the machi-
nery required for propulsion will weigh 890 tons
—a great weight, certainly, though not so much
when one remembers the power exerted by it. The
consumption of coals required for full steaming will
be at the rate of about 125 tons per 24 hours.
Not au incident occurred to mark the short
voyage of Thursday night, if we except the attempt
of a very venturesome bark to cross the Warrior's
bows, and which, but that the latter stopped.and re-
versed her engine, would have resulted most disas-
trously for the small craft. Towards daylight on
Friday morning the weather grew very thick, with
little squalls of rain, so that a wide offing was
given to the land and a gun fired for a pilot, who,
as usual, came up from somewhere or other five
minutes after he was wanted. The Warrior then
stood in towards Spithead, and made a short turn
round the harbour to choose her berth, and saluted
the Admiral's flag with 15 guns. There was a
slight breeze blowing at the time, and the smoke
from this salute on the main deck was scarcely per-
ceptible, even to sight. At a little before 8 o'clock
the anchor was let go, and the Warrior thus accom-
plished her first voyage, of 220 miles (including all
her slow speed in the river, three-quarters speed at
sea, stoppages and delays in the offing), in rather
less than 20 hours, or at the average rate of 11
knots an hour. The arrival of this noble vessel
created much excitement at Portsmouth, and dur-
ing the morning hundreds of persons lined South-
sea beach, the Esplanade, and Victoria Piers and
the ramparts, to view the iron-clad frigate as she
lay alongside the Emerald frigate at Spithead. The
latter frigate; although one of our modern vessels,
appeared insignificant when contrasted with the
Warrior; indeed the difference between the two
ships of war almost as manifest in point of contra
as between the Emerald and the Winchester,
one of the old class of vessels lately lying
at Spithead, Yesterday the Warrior was sig-
nalled to come into dock at 1 o'clock without dis-
charging powder. She will remain in dry dock at
Portsmouth for the next fortnight at least, and
then, as we have said, start on a cruise for rough
weather. By the time she has undergone this last
test the French will have seven iron ships afloat, if
not nine. They are not vessels like the Warrior,
however ; in fact, little more than corvettes plated
with iron. We should be glad, nevertheless, to
have one or two more of our ironsides in commis-
sion, though the country may fairly be congratu-
lated on having the Warrior ready for sea, and not
less so on Capt. Cochrane being appointed to com-
mand her.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY.
The Lord-Lieutenant arrived at Hillsborough on
Wednesday evening, on a visit to the Marquis and
Marchioness of Downshire, accompanied by the
Messrs. Lascelles and Captain Cochrane, aide-de-
camp. The Marquis and his son were waiting at the
Lisburn station for the Viceregal party, who were
conveyed in his carriage to Hillsborough Castle.
The streets of Lisburn were full of people, who
cheered his Excellency as his carriage passed. In
front of the union workhouse the paupers were all
drawn up. The juveniles cheered loudly and
w aved their caps. As the party approached Hills-
borough "the joy bells of the church rang forth a
merry peal," At the entrance of the town an arch
spanned the street, on one side of which were the
words, " Welcome to the Lord-Lieutenant ;" on the
other, " Prosperity to Ireland ;" both formed of
dahlias of the most attractive colours. From the
windows of almost every house, says the Belfast
News Letter, flags and banners were displayed ; in
fact, the whole fronts seemed to be covered with
them. The streets were crowded with people, and
as the Lord-Lieutenant passed under the arch the
cheering was loud and general. There was a din-
ner party at the Castle in the evening, which, in
addition to the Viceregal visitors, included the Lord
Bishop of Down and Mrs. Knox, Lord and Lady
Dufferin, Lady Erne, Lady Louisa Crichton, Lady
Charlotte Chetwynd, and Miss Chetwynd.
Yesterday the Viceregal party drove into Lis-
burn, and inspected the bleachworks of the Messrs.
Richardson, where they partook of luncheon, and
next visited the' damask manufactory of Mesers.
Hilders and M'Canhon. There was a ball at Hills-
borough Castle last night.
While the thriving little towns of Lisburn and
Hillsborough are ringing with the joyous shouts
of the industrious and contented people, and the
words "Irish prosperity" are seen on floating ban-
ners and floral arches, all spontaneous expressions
of public feeling, a voice proceeds from the dull
and stationary little town of Tuam, crying that
Irish prosperity is a myth. Archbishop M'Hale has
addressed a letter to Lord Palmerston, written in
the doleful strain of an unheeded prophet clothed
in sackcloth. The evils of the Established Church,
says the Jeremiad, though often denounced, have
never been removed. The tenantry are constantly
harassed and driven out of their homes by the
unchecked cruelty of the landlords ; the faith of
Catholic children is assailed by bigots; the autho-
rity of the Catholic Church is jealousy excluded
from public institutions ; not even in Naples or in
Rome, though held up by British statesmen as the
worst Governments upon earth, is there a state of
things embracing anomalies of a more grievous and
persecuting character. The condition of the Irish
people, Dr. M'Hale avers, is far below what it was
at the close of the last century, for then they were
protected by the franchise from capricious and
unjust evictions. He says :
' "Yet, in the midst of such deplorable evils, in which
there is no legal security whatever for the existence of the
inhabitants, we are stunned with the hollow repetition of
the prosperity of Ireland.' Should we inquire, as we will
not fail to inquire, where the evidence of this prosperity is
to be found, it will be difficult to afford a satisfactory reply.
Ireland's prosperity may be wafted through the venal jour-
nals that are be ome so generally the indiscrim nate vehicles
of truth or falsehood. But those who attach its proper
meaning to the word, and are anxious that it givaild
be
realised, must feel the additional insult that is involved in
their continual repetition of Ireland's prosperity. If
writers
in-
stead of such ambiguous language, the prosperithtey
and speakers were, in precise words, to specify
of its cattle rather than of its people—which, no doubt, is
feeding
their real meaning—then would the parrot phrase of Ire-
land's present prosperity be intelligible. They would then
furnish clear ground for canvassint assumption that a
nation .s prosperou in prsportion ash ts people are dimi-
nished, its agriculture contracted, and its cattle multiplied.
Nor would the flippant and heartless propounders of such
consolatory theories fail to find themselves at issue with
every sound writer that ever discuved the principles on
which the wealth of nations reposes from the days of Au-
gustus, who identified the growing prosperity of the empire
with the increasing number of its people."
The 'Prentice Boys of Derry, 20 in number, were
summoned by order of the Government, for vio-
lating the Party Emblems Act while celebrating
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to justify the bench in receiving informations. The
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Scott, of this city, has issued a printed address to
the 'Prentice Boys, exhorting them to celebrate the
anniversary henceforth by holding a union prayer
meeting under Walker's pillar. lie is quite serious,
hut the 'Prentice Boys will probably treat the ad-
vice as a good joke.
The Rev. Mr. Fox, Roman Catholic Chaplain of
been appointed
superior of his order, appointed a "representative
the South Dublin Union, having
chaplain" to perform his duties in the workhouse.
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The Board of Guardians to the South Union have
agreed to permit the ladies who are members of the
Social Science Association to visit the paupers in
the workhouse,
The Dub/in
Evening Post has ascertained that
Mr.R. Guinness Hill is not related to Mr.:Benjamin
Lee Guinness, and states that Mr. Hill, who bears
the Christian name of Guinness, was a relation of
the late Mr. Darlev, head of the brewery firm of
Messrs. parley and Nicholson, at Stillorgan. For
some years after the death of Mr. Darley and the
cessation of the brewery establishment Mr. Hill
carried on a malting establishment there. Some
years since, as stated in the report of the proceed-
ings, Mr. Hill married, in Brussels, Miss Burdett,
a young lady of great personal attractions and large
fortune, the granddaughter of the late Sir Francis
Burdett, for many years member for Westminster,
and niece of Miss Burdett Cout's, who had taken a
great interest in her welfare. For solve time after
their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hill resided in Ste-
phen's-green-west, in this city, and Mr. Hill carried
on the business of a maltster, making sales occa-
sionally at the Corn Exchange.