The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1861.

IHE NAVY.

The President, 51, will be undocked at Chatham
at spring tide to-day, and removed to the West
India Docks to be used as a training ship for the
Naval Reserve. The hired shipwrights and mecha-
nics who were employed in fitting the President
have been discharged from the dockyard, with the
exception of a few of the best mechanics, who are ro-
tained to be employed on the Defence, iron steamer,
at Chatham. The dock vacated by the President
will be occupied by the screw steamer Rattlesnake,
which is being fitted for the steam reserve at
Chatham.
Extraordinary exertions are being used at Chat-
ham to complete the Royal Oak, the first of the
iron-plated 51-gun screw steamers building at that
dockyard, and from the progress already made only
a very few months will elapse before she is afloat.
Yesterday the whole of the caulkers belonging to
the establishment were placed on her, in addition
to whom she has about 200 shipwrights at work
about her. The massive beams for the bearers of
the boilers were successfully got on board yester-
day, and already the greater number of beams for
the main and lower decks have also been fixed. A
very great improvement in the construction of the
stern portion of the ship has been introduced by
the Controller of the Navy in the abolition of the
aperture between the stern and rudder-post,
for elevating the screw. Instead of the open-
ing hitherto found on board screw steamers
the Royal Oak will be furnished with a
smaller circular well aperture, which will
only admit of the screw being raised as high as
the main deck. This alteration will add con-
siderably to the strength of the after portion of
the frigate, and at the same time will admit of the
abolition of the " yoke" to the rudder-post and the
substitution of the straight tiller, this, of itself,
being no slight improvement. It is intended to
cover the Royal Oak with armour plates from stem
to stern, making her superior in this respect to the
Defence, 18, and the other iron-plated steamers,
which have only their broadsides plated. This
decision on the part of the Admiralty will admit of
the Ehot-proof bulkheads in the fore and after por-
tion of the existing iron steamers being dispensed
with in the Royal Oak and other ships of her class.
The iron plates on the broadsides of the frigate will
be of an uniform thickness of 4,1 inches, tapering to
3 inches fore and aft. The armour-plates will be
carried to 4 feet below the water-line, to prevent
any chance of a shot striking her in that direction,
and will be laid on 12-inch teak planking.
Recent advices from China announce the death
of Commander John Murray Cooke, commanding
Her Majesty's screw troopship Simoom, on board
his vessel at Woosung on the 4th of August. The
body of the deceased officer was conveyed to Shang-
hai and buried in the English cemetery there on
the 6th of August. The officers of both services at
Shanghai at the time attended the funeral as a last
mark of respect to one who in life was a thorough
English seaman. Commander Cooke commanded
the Simoom on the 18th of December, 1856, since
which time she has been incessantly employed in
the transport of troops, invalids, and stores in India
and China. _ _ _ _ _ _

Yesterday being the anniversary of the birth of
his Royal Highness the Duke of Oporto, the Portu-
guese corvette Bartolemeo Dias, flagship of the
Duke, in dock at Portsmouth, hoisted the Por-
tuguese standard at each masthead in honour
of the day. At noon a Royal salute was fired
from her Majesty's ship Victory, and from the gar-
rison batteries. The Chevalier Van Den Bergh,
Portuguese Consul at the port, paid a congratula-
tory visit to the captain and officers on board the
corvette. On Wednesday evening the officers of
the corvette were entertained at the Consulate.
The Bartolemeo Dias will be undocked to-day, her
Majesty's ship Hero, 90, Captain Ryder, taking her
place.

The paddlewheel steam-sloop Geyser, 6, Com-
mander Jackson, from Greenock, Liverpool, and
Falmouth, with condemned stores from the Majes-
tic, 80, and supernumeraries, arrived in Plymouth
Sound on Wednesday evening. The stores were
sent into Hamoaze yesterday morning by the
steam-tug Confiance, which also conveyed the
supernumeraries to the flag-ship Impregnable, and
returned with others to the Geyser, which left Ply-
mouth in the afternoon.

Sails are bent on board the screw steamship Cen-
turion, 80, Capt. Rogers, C. 8., at Plymouth, and
every effort is being made to prepare her for foreign
service.

Rear-Admiral Superintendent Sir Thomas S.
Pasley, struck his flag on Wednesday on board the
guardship of sailing ordinary Wellington, 72, in
Hamoaze, for 14 days' absence.
Yesterday the Warrior and the Revenge (the

latter leading) steamed out of Portland harbour at
1 p.m. It is reported that they are going to cruise
for about a fortnight on the coast of Ireland, having
Bearhaven under their lee as a harbour of refuge.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Commander Loftus C. H. Robin-
son, to the Ajax, additional for service in the Coast-
guard; Commander S. S. Skipwith to the Blen-
heim, for service in th© Coastguard ; Commander
William (S. Burr to the Phaeton ; Commander
Edwin J. Pollard to the Simoom ; Lieut. A.W. W.
Onslow, Lieut. C. A. F. Paget, and Lieut. Henry
S. Kerr to the Phaeton ; Lieut. Charles Hill to the

Orpheus, additional for disposal on the Australian
station; Lieut. William Jekyll to the Orpheus;
George Gilpin, master, to the Phaeton ; I. Richards,
master additional to the Indus for the Petrel ;
Arthur G. C. Tait, sub-lieut., to the Revenge ; C. T.
Chute, sub-lieutenant to the Donegal ; Thomas 11.
and A. L. Clarkson, sub-lieutenants to the Phaeton ;
the Rev. James H. Lang, chaplain to the Wellesley
the Rev. D. J. Boutflower, chaplain and naval in-
structor to the Arrogant ; S. Stephens, chief engi-
neer to the Orpheus ; J. 11. Adams, engineer to the
Orpheus ; G. M. Dooley, acting engineer to the Asia
for the Jasper ; Thomas Ball, first-class assistant-
engineer to the Indus, for charge of the machinery
of the Delight; J. H. Vickery, first-class assist.-en-
gineer to the Orpheus ; Andrew 'Watt, first-class
assist—engineer to the Cumberland, for the Griper;
Thomas F. P. Shelley, second-class assist.- engineer,
confirmed in the Neptune ; W. Adamson, second-
class assist.-engineer to the Orpheus ; E. J. Miller,
acting second-class assist.-engineer to the Orpheus;
James Warren, acting second-class assist.-engineer
to the Indus, for hospital treatment; John J. Tozer,
master's assist. to the Orpheus; W. F. Alexander, pay-
master to the Phaeton ; Beresford Scott, paymaster
to the Queen ; John H. T. Alston, assist.-paymaster,
to the Phaeton ; J. R. A. Wood Tayler, clerk, to
the Aboukir ; James E. Stanton, clerk, to the
Phaeton ; and James Bowles, assist.-clerk, to the
:Phaeton.

College, will comprise the following portions of
military history, &c., viz. : —Campaigns of the
Duke of Wellington in 1812, 1813, and 1814 ; cam
paigns of the Emperor Napoleon in 1812, 1813, and
1814; the military topography of Spain, Portugal,
France, Germany, and Russia. In studying the
above campaigns candidates are recommended to
avail themselves of every information that can be
obtained of the objects, as well as of the details of
the operations from published orders, letters, and
despatches, in addition to the ordinary histories
The following notification has been issued in re-
ference to the Commissariat Corps

" The next examination of cfficers of the army who are
candidates for the Commissariat will take place at Chelsea
on the 14th of December next.

" All officers whose applications to be transferred to the
Commissariat have already been approved will attend on that
occasion, and any other officers who may desire to bo exit-
mined will forward their applications at once for considera-
tion, as prescribed by General Order No. 754, dated June
15, 1860. " By command,
"JAMES YORKE SCARLETT, Acljt.-Gen."

Advices received at the headquarters of the Royal
Engineer establishment, Chatham, from St. Helena,
state that the 32d company of Royal Engineers,
under the command of Capt. D. A. Frazer, is em.
ployed in the repair of the existing fortifications,
as well as in the erection of additional de-
fences for the better protection of that island. A
portion of the Royal Engineers are also engaged in
the erection of a range of huts for the married non-
commissioned officers and men. The 32d company
will be stationed at St. Helena for several years,
during the whole of which titite the sappers and
miners will be employed-on the fortifiVons.
The 34th (Capt. Gordon's) coMAY of Royal
Engineers, which has been placed under orders to
embark for Bermuda to relieve the 26th company,
has been completed to its full strength of 100 men
of all ranks from the depot companies at head-
quarters. The detachments selected from the depot
companies at Brompton Barracks to join the 7th
company, at Halifax, will also embark with the
34th company. The 7th company is greatly. in
want of masons, bricklayers, and carpenters, to
assist in carrying out the Government works in pro-
gress in Nova Scotia, and the men who proceed from
have been selected
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Vetch, will leave Chatham and embark at Ports-
mouth next week.

Yesterday Major-Gen. H. Eyre, commanding the
Chatham district, inspected the sth, 17th, and 34th
companies of Royal Engineers, together with the
reinforcements for the 7th company at Halifax.
The companies, eacli numbering about 100 men of
all ranks, were paraded in marching order on the
general parade ground at Brompton Barracks to
await the arrival of Major-Gen. Eyre, who was ac-
companied by Col. H. D. Harness, C. 8., Director
of the Royal Engineer establishment, Lieut.-Col.
Gorgon, and Major Congreve. After making an in-
dividual inspection of each company, Major-Gen.
Eyre examined the kits, clothing, and accoutrements
of the men. The 17th company arrived at Brompton
a few days since from Malta, after an absence of 11
years; and the sth company from Woolwich, where
it has been doing duty nearly six years.
Yesterday a further discharge of 60 non-com-
missioned officers and men of various regiments
took place from the invalid establisheut, St. Mary's
Barracks, Chatham, the whole of that number hav-
ing been found unfit for further service.

THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY AND SI.R
J. .P.AKI.NGTON 47 WORCESTER.'

WORCESTER, THURSDAY.

The annual dinner of the Worcester Conservative
Association was held hero last night Between 600
and 700 persons dined together at the Shirehall,
under the presidency of Sir E. A. H. Lechmere,
Bart. Among the guests at the principal table
were the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, Viscount
Elmley, M.P.; Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington, Bart.,
M.P.; Hon.,F. Lygon, M.P., Sir H. Lambert, &c.
After the customary loyal toasts, " The House of
Lords" having been proposed by Captain Candler,
The Earl of SHREWSBURY and TALBOT respon-
ded. The House of Lords, he said, was an institu-
tion highly valued, and if he might be allowed to
say so, deservedly esteemed by the nation. It had
often been said by noisy Democrats and clamorous
Republicans that the House of Lords was of no use.
True, they were not at liberty to tax the people,
but they were in their places to protect their rights
and to preserve the institutions of the country, and
he would remind them that the Barons of England
were the first to grant liberties to the people. Him-
self boasting of no powers of oratory, he thought
the House of Lords might safely challenge the
House of Commons for talent in debate. They had
their Lyndhurst, their Derby, their Ellenborough,
and many other persons as orators ; and he thought
he might assert that these had in no way forfeited
its acquired reputation, either for talent or integ-
rity. (Hear, hear.) Their privileges had not been
given to them for their own personal benefit, bit
for the sake of maintaining those institutions which
their forefathers had handed down to them. Refer-
ence had been made by previous speakers to the un-
happy contention that was going on on the other
side of the Atlantic. (Hear, hear.) In America,
they saw Democracy on its trial; and they saw
how it had failed. (Hear, hear.) He was afraid
the result would show that the separation
of the two great sections of that country
was inevitable, and those who lived long enough
would, in his opinion, see an aristocracy established
in America; he would not say an aristocracy of
dukes and earls, but an aristocracy of some sort or
h was the necessity of having a
middleter so
democracy and despotism.
ostagterea betweent
(Hear, hear.) With regard to the present Govern-
ment, he said they had kept themselves in power
by advocating one set of principles and practising
another. Lord Palmerston had been connected
with every party that had been in office in his
time, and he likened him to a successful political
Blondin—(laughter)—who, from his political tight-
rope, looked down from the grandest heights, only
caring to keep himself where he was.
T. G. CURTLER, Esq., proposed " The House of
Commons," coupling with the toast the name of Sir
John Pekin gton.
The Right Hon. Sir J. S. PAKINGTON replied in
an able speech, observing that he was not sure that
there was not an actual majority of Conservatives
in the house at the present time, and this was the
great difficulty of the present moment. They had
many men in the House of Commons who were so
bound by party ties and party connections that
they had not the moral courage to give expression
to their Conservative principles, by which in reality
they were influenced. (Hear, hear.) They (the
Conservative party) had been asked—Why did they
complain of the present state of affairs. Had they
not a Conservative statesman for Prime Minister ?
In his (Sir J. Pakington's) opinion this was a very
damaging thing to trust to. Lord Palmerston, they

knew, had been long connected with Tory Govern-
ments and was the possessor of Tory principles, and
he believed he had not forgotten the lessons which,
during that period, he had imbibed, or the principles
which during that period he professed ; but he would
not now trust to Lord Palmerston's Conservative
opinions, and for this excellent and simple reason,
that Lord Palmerston could not trust to his own
Conservative opinions. (Hear, hear.) If they would
look to the history of the last two sessions of Par-
liament they would find ample confirmation of this
opinion. He would ask them to carry their memo-
ries back no further than the year 1860, and to the
Reform Bill, to which Lord Palmerston was a re-
luctant party, very likely, but still he was a party
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I the damaging state of loiitical parties in, England

at this moment he would refer to the notorious

manner in which, rather than face the shame of
breaking up a coalition recently formed, statesmen
were compelled to give their approval to measures

in public which it was no secret that they in pri-

vate entirely disapproved of. (Hear, and cheers.)
And what had they seen in the session of Parlia-

ment recently closed ? They had seen a very
similar proceeding enacted. They had again seen
the finances of England ruinously and recklessly
dealt with, and he was sorry to say that they had
seen a statesman of high private character coming
down to the House of Commons week after week,
speaking against measures which his more demo-

cratic friends and allies had introduced, and then
walking into the lobby and voting for the very.pro-
positions which he had condemned. (Hear, hear,
and cheers.) This was a very dangerous state of
things when men of' Conservative feelings were so
_ _

bound and fettered by party connection With men of
different opinions from themselves that they were

no longer able to maintain that high character for
honesty, consistency, public principle which ought

,o be the leading characteristic of the British states

man. (Loud cheers.) He (Sir John Pakington)

wanted to see this state of things put an end to.
(Hear, hear.) It was unwholesome, unsafe, and he

wished to see a restoration of that honest line of

principle from which they would be able to know
when they saw on which side a gentleman ranked

himself, what were really the feelings and
principles by which he guided his political

action. Alluding next to the war in America,
the hon. baronet asked what were they fight-
ing for There was one great principle which
they might have had in antagonism. The North

might have said, " You Southern people are the
owners of slaves, and we do battle with you to put
an end to slavery." (Cheers.) But they had not
said so ; they could not say so, for though the
Northerners did not hold slaves they had sanc-
tioned slavery; and they were not waging this
horrible war in order to put an end to the evils of
slavery. (Hear.) His belief was that, from Presi-
dent Lincoln downwards, there was not a man in

America would venture to tell them that he really

thought it possible that by the force of circum-
stances the North could hope to compel the South
to again join them in constituting the United

States. It was altogether hopeless, and it was

shocking to see a war waged with so little cause,
for it was his sincere belief that the real instigation
for this terrible war was the shame they felt that
the world should witness the disruption of. that

great experiment. (Hear, hear.) He earnestly
asked—and he was sure every man present there
that day would join in the wish—that that 'war
might be speedily put an end to. (Hear, hear:) He
could not refrain from expressing a wish that the
great Powers of Europe,would remonstrate against
its continuance. He thought the Emperor of Russia
had afforded a good example to Europe by 'the
course which he had taken. They all knew that
America w,as very sensitive to European opinion,
and he (Sir J. Pakington) could not help thinking
that if the Powers of Europe were, without at-
tempting actual interference, to offer their remon-
strances to America, they might have a beneficial
effect. (Hear hear.) He must confess that he was
disappointed at the language held by Earl Russell
on this subject at the recent meeting at Newcastle.
He did not blame the policy which the Govern-
ment had adopted with regard to America. He
thought they were right in adopting the principle
of neutrality, but he did 'wish that Earl Russell had
availed himself of the opportunity, at Newcastle,
of expressing himself in somewhat warmer and
more decided language as to the views of England
with regard to this war. He had heard it said that
they ought not to judge of American institutions by
the fact of this civil war—that civil war might occur
in any country, and that this was not to be consi-
dered as any result of democratic principle. But his
answer to this was, that the institutions of America
had broken down before that war had begun. Let
them ask any intelligent American citizen what
were his views on the subject. Had democracy
succeeded ? Had extreme democracy contributed
to promote the happiness of mankind P What had
been the work of American institutions ? Had the
administration of justice been pure P Had the
Government been free from corruption Was
liberty of person secure for the minority ? Ask in-
telligent American citizens, and they would tell
them that which was within his (Sir John's)

knowledge, and which they had told again and

again to Englishmen in America and at home.
" Take warning from this country" they had said :
" beware of what you are doing in England. Beware

how you copy that democracy which unhappily we
have adopted." (Cheers.) Did not these facts speak
to them in terms which they as intelligent citi-
zens of a great State were not at liberty to disre-
gard ? Did it not say to them in words as plain
as the handwriting on the wall— " Happy Eng-
land; cherish the institutions you have; support
your monarchy ; guard your pure religion ; main-
tain your liberties." These were what he held to
be the true principles of Conservatism. These were

the prineiples which he believed they all enter-
tained. These were the principles on which they
wished to act. Not insensible to the necessity of
progress ; not insensible to the necessity of improve-
ment, but determined to guard those blessings
which they enjoyed under the constitution under
which they lived. (Cheers.) Those were the prin-
ciples of that Conservative party with which,
throughout his public life, he had acted.
The Earl of SHREWSBURY and TALBOT, in pro-
posing " Prosperity to the Worcester Conserva-

tive Association," said there had been for some
years there he might say four political parties
in the State Whigs, Radicals, Conservatives,
and lastly Peelites, a section of traitorous Conser-
vatives which had now almost become absorbed
by the others, and which, since the death of Lord
Herbert and Sir James Graham,might be said almost
to have become extinct. He regretted that when
the question of free trade was settled, the Peelite
section had not returned to the Conservative ranks.
On the contrary, however, they had for the most
part allied themselves to a party that was diame-
trically opposed in principles to those which they
had themselves all their lives professed. His
lordship, in conclusion, urged the Conservatives of
the country to combined efforts.
Sir E. A. U. LECHMERE, Bart., responded to the
toast, and spoke hopefully of the prospects of the
Conservative party in Worcester.
The CHAIRMAN afterwards gave the health of the
proposed Conservative candidate for Worcester,
Mr. R. W. Johnson, who he said was in every re-
spect a fit and proper person to represent that
city in Parliament. (Cheers.)
Mr. SouNsort,in reply, stated that he had received
a requisition signed by 800 electors of Worcester,
and that he accepted the invitation to come forward
as a candidate to represent that city on Conser-
vative principles. (Loud cheers.) He had gone
through the register of electors, and had found
that in addition to the 800 who had signed the
requisition, there were 600 more on the register
who had not signed it, but who had always sup-
ported a Conservative candidate. (Cheers.) As to
his political principles he might strictly say that
on all the subjects on which Sir S. Pakington had
spoken so eloquently, his opinions were identical
with those of the right hon. baronet. (Cheers.)
He called on the Conservatives of Worcester not
to relax in their efforts.
Some few local toasts followed.

:THE QUEEN'S WESTMINSTER RIFLE VOLUN-
TEERS.—The 11th (Covent-garden) Company will assemble
on Tuesday, the sth of November next, at Wormwood
Scrubbs, to compete for the following prizes, viz. : Five
handsome and valuable cups, a London Armoury rifle, a
double-barrelled sporting gun, &c., being the gifts of Capt
Carseaden, the Misses Finch, and several ladies and gentle-
won residing in the parish.