The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1859.

THE GREAT EASTERN FOR AMERICA.
The Great Eastern is appointed to leave Portland, near
Weymouth, for PORTLAND, U.S., on or about the 15th Sep-
tember. First-class Passengers only will be taken. Passage-
money (including stewards' fee and provisions, but without
wines or liquors, which can be obtained on board), £lB or
£25, according to cabin.
Return Tickets granted on liberal terms.—For passage or
other information, apply to the Great Ship Company (Li-
mited), 11, King William-street, London, E.C.

THE GREAT EASTERN.—The TRIAL TRIP
of this Steamship is expected to take place about the
Bth proximo, from Portland, near Weymouth, and will pro-
bably be extended over two days. A limited number of First-
class passengers will be taken by special arrangement.—For
further particulars apply at the offices of the Great Ship
Company (Limited), 11, King William-street, London, E.C.

l'IlE NAVY.

Yesterday morning the annual inspection oi
the Royal Victoria Victualling-yard and Dock.
yard at Deptford took place by the Lords of the
Admiralty, consisting of the Duke of Somerset, Sir
R. S. Dundas, Captain Eden, Rear-Admiral Lord
C. Paget (secretary), Mr C. Richards, controller of
the victualling department, and Col. Green, direc-
tor of works.

The screw corvette Wasp, 13, haring completed
her repairs at Chatham dockyard, was floated out
of No. 1 dock at spring tide, and is ordered to be
attached to the steam reserve fleet in the Medway.
The Tartar, 46, one of the old class of frigates for
many years used as a rs?ceiving hulk to the guard-
ships of ordinary at Chatham, was yesterday hauled
into the first dock for the purpose of being broken
up.

The Benbow, 74, -is in dock at Chatham under.
going the necessary alterations to fit her as a coal
depot for the steam reserve at Sheerness.

The paddlewheel sloop Hydra, 6, Com. Hamilton,
which left Ascension July 19, and Sierra Leone
July 26, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday. Up
to the date of her departure the deaths by yellow
fever among the crew of the Trident, at Ascension,
amounted to 43 officers and men, including the
paymaster, master's assistant, two warrant officers,
and five engineers; the remainder were recovering;
and no more deaths expected. The Tortoise, Mo-
hawk, Trident, and Conflict were at Ascension.
Admiral Sir J. Grey, in the Boscawen, sailed from
the island on July 18 for the Cape of Good Hope.
The Surprise was up the river Gambia. The Falcon
and Sharpshooter, the only ships at Sieria Leone,
were appointed to leavo July 27, in consequence of
the prevalence of fever and smallpox in the town.
The crews of the Falcon and Sharpshooter were
healthy. Corn. R. W. Courtenay, of the Conflict, 8,
has been promoted to the command of the Archer,
13, in consequence of the death of Capt. J. Sander-
son. The Hydra brings passengers Mr. H. Phipps,
Mr. Coddington, mate, and nine invalids. She was
commissioned June 4, 1857, and was ordered home
in consequence of the sickness of her crew, 100 of
whom were at one time suffering from fever; she
spoke the barque Emerald Isle 30 leagues south of
the Lizard.

The Poictiers, troopship, for Ceylon with troops,
put back to Portsmouth yesterday, making 18 inches
water per hour. She had been struck by a heavy
sea off Ushant.

The screw steam corvette Cossack, 20, Capt. R.
Moorman, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday
morning. Off the coast, between Portsmouth and
Portland, on Tuesday morning at 4 o'clock, she
passed a ltussian two-decker going up channel.
The Cossack is bound to Vancouver's Island, with
the gunboats Grappler and Forward, which were
in the Sound waiting her arrival.
The paddlewheel steam-vessel Pigmy, 3, William
Johnston master, from Portsmouth, arrived on Sun-
day at Plymouth with supernumeraries for different
ships.
It is reported at Plymouth that the Lords of the
Admiralty will make an early inspection of the
various naval establishments in that port.
The transport Liveipool, of Liverpool, is hourly
expected at Plymouth with troops from the East
Indies, and orders have been sent to Plymouth for
her to land them there should she be spoken off the
port. Sh© has on board one troop of Lancers, whose
head-quarters are at Exeter, and two companies of
the 10th Regiment, recently quartered at Devon-
port.

Her Majesty's royal yacht Victoria and Albert,
Capt. Hon. James Denman, arrived in Portsmouth
harbour yesterday from Cowes, in company with
the Fairy, screw steamer, Commander the Prince of
Leiningen, and Fire Queen, steam tender, Master-
Commander Paul, to replenish coal, &c.
The Emerald, 51, screw frigate, Capt. A. Cum-
ming, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from
Cowes Roads, on her return from escorting the
Queen to the Channel Islands.

The Imperieuse, 51, screw, Capt. R. B. Maguire,
had her crew paid advance of wages at Spithead
yesterday. ,
The Pearl, 21, screw, Capt. W. Edmonstone, was
yesterday taken out of No. 1 dock at Portsmouth,
placed alongside the Sheer jetty, and commenced
masting by the crew of the Dauntless.
The Vulcan, screw troopship, Commander Strode,
was swung yesterday in Portsmouth harbour for
the adjustment of her compasses.
The Colossus, 80, screw, is being fitted in the
steam•basin at Portsmouth with a furnace for the
filling of hollow shot with molten metal, &c.

The Mersey, 40, screw, Capt. Caldwell, C. 13,, will
shortly make a trial of her altered screw, at the mea-
sured mile in Stokes-bay; the leading corner of each
blade of the screw having been cut off, in conse-
quence of the results obtained from the late experi-
mental trials of the Doris, as affecting the ship's
vibration.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut John A. F. Luttrell tu the
Mars; Lieut. Guy 0. Twiss to the Neptune; Basil
E. Cochrane, midshipman, to the Edgar ; J. E.
Scudamore, Master, to the Pearl; John T. C. Webb,
Master, to the Dauntless ; John D. Switzer, Master
additional, to the Minotaur; John Bishop, Assistant
Surgeon, confirmed to the Centurion : and P. W.
Rouse, Clerk, to the Pearl. _

ACCIDENTS ON RAILWAYS.

During the half-year ended June 30, 1859, 9
persons were killed and 11 injured on all the rail-
roads of the United Kingdom open for traffic by
accidents the causes of which were beyond their
own control, while 51 were killed and 22 injured
from want of caution or misconduct. There , were
killed 4 engine-drivers, 8 firemen, 10 guards, &c.,
7 porters, no policemen, 4 gate and signal men, 2
switchers, 7 platelayers, and 7 labourers. These
figures refer exclusively to servants of companies
or contractors, the grand total being 60 killed and
33 injured. The total number of collisions and
other accidents to trains in England, Wales, Scot-
land, and Ireland in the half-year ended 30th of
June, amounted to 27 (25 to passenger and two to
goods trains), and by these accidents nine persons
were killed and 159 injured. "No passengers appear
to have been killed, but 149 were injured. Twelve
of the accidents were due to collisions, seven to
trains getting off the rails, four to fracture of axles,
wheels, or machinery, one to running too fast into
a station, and two to trains catching fire. Against
this last most frightful contingency there appears
to be but little security. Together with this return
there have been presented to the Board of Trade
reports of engineers on certain accidents which oc-
curred in the months of February, April, and May,
1859 (Part III.) A collision on the Great Northern
Railway at Sleaford, on the 13th of April, was due
to the improper or irregular removal of some
.waggons by a man not in the employ of the
company. A fireman was killed in the Brighton
and South Coast line on the 11th of May by coming
into contact with the post of a gate at a level cross-
ing near the city of Chichester. The posts were to
be shifted in consequence.. An accident on the
North-Western line, on the 26th of February, when
the engine went off the rails on the outside of an S
curve about 3-4ths of a mile radius, and about one-
fourth of a mile beyond the foot of the incline about
a mile from Leamington, was due to deterioration
of the strength of the machinery.
"This lamentable accident," says Captain Ross,
R.E., " affords another instance of the small de-
pendence that can be placed on the resistance of
trenails outside a curve to a bursting pressure,
when any casualty interferes with the regular ac•
tion of an engine, and I would urge that no time
should be lost in remedying this defect on all the
curves of the line. In other respects the line seems
to me in good order."
The engine, No. 8, was one of Sharp's 22-ton
engines. It was received in 1847, and its mileage
is returned as having been 238,000 miles to the date
of the accident.
Two accidents from fire also occurred on the same
(North-Western) line on the 11th and 21st of April.
Both were doubtless caused by sparks from the
engine, and the iproper precaution is to abandon
the practice of carrying luggage on the roofs of
carriages, instead of in covered vans.. The burn-
ing of coal in engines, moreover, has increased
the liability of the luggage to be ignited, and
endanger wooden viaducts and bridges not ade-
quately protected. The North-Western Rail-
way Company have had too much experi-
ence of these facts already to need any fresh
warning from the Board of Trade, a large number
of accidents having occurred which were never re-
ported. A boy was killed at a level crossing of
the Midland (Nottingham and Mansfield) Railway
on the sth of May, and the erection of a bridge has
been recommended by the board. The Monkland
Railways were found 'to be in a very unfit condi-
tion for the conveyance of passengers over the
Ballochney. inclines in June last. The traffic on
those lines has been discontinued. A collision on
the Waterford and Limerick line, near Bansha,
on the Gth of April, was due to " a reckless system
of working." The misconduct of the directors is
thus severely stigmatised by the Board of Trade :
" My Lords," writes Captain Galion, " direct me
to state that it appears from this report that the
directors, apparently with the object of effecting
the petty economy of not having a separate wire
and proper instruments, servants, and regulations
for the telegraphic train service, have adopted a
mode of working the single line which appears to
place responsibility upon no one, and to be so
fraught with danger that it is providential that
some serious accident has not happened long ago
upon the line. My Lords-trust that the warning
which the directors have received will induce them
to alter at once so reckless a system of working,
for should any other accident occur under it the
responsibility of having occasioned it will rest upon
the directors."

THE ENTRY OF THE ARMY. INTO

PARIS.

(From the Times.)
One of the noteworthy peculiarities of the
triumphal entry of the army of Italy into Paris is
the great economy of fine phrases throughout the
whole affair. If it were possible that the same
ceremonial had happened in London, we should
have had an amount of speechifying that would
have fallen heavier and damper than the showers
of Sunday last upon the spirits both of actors and
spectators. At each possible point—at the railway
terminus, at the first flowery arch, at the line of
frontier of every parish, and at the great centre
where the army was to pass in procession and yield
up its trophies to its Imperial leader, we should
have had little knots of prosy personages. Mayors
and select vestrymen, and supervisors of pavements,
bursting with loyal and congratulatory addresses;
and we should have had appropriate replies a dozen
times repeated in an assiduously varied phraseo-
lomy• In France they have come to manage these
things better. So far as the accounts have yet
reached us, the great pageant passed in grand dumb
show except for the general shouting. It was a
purely military spectacle, and the action was all
pantomimic. When the Emperor wished to express
his approbation of a particular Division he took off
his cocked hat, and the desired expression was
made ; when the wounded vivandiere was carried
past he nodded a kindly nod, and the spectators
understood that her pension was granted; when he
desired to attract the sympathies of the crowd to
the Imperial family he took his little son upon his
saddle and kissed him, and the gaily-apparelled oc-
cupants of the amphitheatre understood, and were,
for the moment, at least propitiated. We have not
seen even an Order of the Day telling us how
many centuries looked down upon that column
which was destined for Charlemagne, and, after
a long interval, is surmounted again by the First
Napoleon. This was all right and appropriate, even
although perhaps not in accordance with historic
precedent. Eloquence is the art of persuasion,—
but what need had the master of that potent army
to persuade ? We seek to persuade our equals or
our superiors ; but what superior or what equal has
Napoleon 111. in France ? They who surround an
absolute monarch seek only to know his commands
that they may obey them ; his sympathy, that they
may rejoice ; his approbation, that they may count
the coming reward; his displeasure, that they may
bow or fly. A gesture is sufficient for this purpose,
and a diffuse piece of rhetoric can only weaken the
prestige of power. Moreover, if he should desire
to explain, or should wish to create an impression
more expanded than can be fixed by the mere noti-
fication of the Imperial will, is not M. Granier de
Cassagnac at hand to perorate through all the press
of Paris, and to write Imperial speeches by which
no one is committed, although every one may be
puzzled ?
The single exception to the restraint put upon
the eloquence of all France is of the most moderate
and brief character. In the evening, when the
triumph had gsne off so well—nothing happening
to mar the glories of the day except a little cold
water from the contumacious heavens—the Empe-
ror entertained the Chiefs of his Army at an Impe-
rial banquet. Hospitality here required a short
address, and it was delivered in phrases which oc-
cupy scarce twenty lines in the faithful 21!oniteur.
It is the model of an Imperial speech. It is not an
harangue or an oration, but naked thought sculp-
tured in language. There is just enough of senti-
ment, just enough of modesty, just enough of ap-
proval. He expresses a natural reluctance to dis-
solve the elements of that strength which has made
itself so notably felt, but he frankly accepts the
necessity, and that he may promptly reassure Europe
he dismisses the chiefs that surround him to the
peaceful occupations of civil life. He reminds them
of what they have accomplished together, and mo-
destly attributes the success which he, an untried
General, has achieved, to the confidence and obedi-
ence rendered to him by his elders in arms. He
hopes that the words written upon the medal which
commemorates the campaign of Italy will often re-
call the memory of their comrade and commander—
and this is all. This was all that preceded the toast
of" The Army of Italy." Whether any means were
used to mollify the disappointment which some of
the Colonels may have felt at such sensible and ju-
dicious phrases we do not know, and ought not,
perhaps, to care. The fact remains, that this little
speech is a model of good taste, and so far as it re-
fers to things past, of truth, modestly told. Un-
doubtedly the Emperor, a civilian—for by civil arts