The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-17 00:00:00

DAGENHAM (THAMES) DOCK.

" Should Cromwell have a statue ?" That, we remember,
was a question much debated when the effigies of all our
English monarchs, some of whom were nothing more than
kings, and were even something less than men, had to be
catalogued for the proposed muster of marble representa-
tives of the national sovereignty, in the palace or old West-
minster, their proper seat and home. It was then held,
conformably to the legal fiction of an unbroken continuity
of succession to the apostolic prerogatives of royalty, that
the very substantial reign of the Lord Protector, which
produced some of the most valuable reforms in our statute-
book, and in our judicial administration, should be omitted
for the sake of a ceremonious or pedantic scruple, and his-
torically ignored Yet it night have been expected that
the Fine Arts Commission, though more courtly than par-
liamentary in" their spirit, would at least have made room
for a mighty English statesman, for a member of that
House of Commons which maintained our liberties against
the despotism of an oppressive wearer of the crown, along
with Selden and Hampden, whose images stand guard at
the door of St. Stephen's-hall—along with Somers, Chat-
ham, Burke, and Charles Fox, whose political existence
would not have been possible with counsels and resolu-
tions of the Long Parliament in the century before.
The dilettantism which feebly directed our miserable
attempt to ornament the dwelling-house of British
legislation with artistic shows of the chief events and
chief personages in the annals of our growing glory
did not exactly see it; and Cromwell the patriot soldier,
Cromwell the citizen dictator, has no statue anywhere
in the country which he served—which, perhaps, he
saved. Will the people of Italy raise no statue to their
Garibaldi, when future, ages shall have ripened the fruit of
his planting in their soil which he has helped to clear ? Only
by conceiving such an instance of neglect hereafter in refe-
rence to a hero and public benefactor whose virtues are to
us now thus present and familiar can we realise the awk-
ward and invidious dereliction of which we must appear to
remain guilty, until some conspicuous monument of the
most commanding genius who ruled English policy in the
most critical moment of our history is somewhere reared.
Somewhere—be it at Westminster, or in the City, or at
Huntingdon, or on Naseby field—where a simple obelisk
is erected to tell how " the good hand of God towards us,"
on the 14th of June, 1645, destroyed the last chance of
tyranny in our brave and busy land.
There is no statue of Cromwell, nor any worthy picture
of him (except a doubtful one of Vandyke's, in the British
Museum) open to the grateful view of the people in our
places of public resort. The selfish and perfidious king,
who was prevented by Cromwell's decisive energy from
crushing with a force of Irish and foreign soldiery the
whole Lords and Commons of this realm, sits placidly
mounted upon his steed at Charing-cross, while the last of
the Royal Georges is riding at the opposite corner of the
square ; but as true a monarch, and a truer man than
either of them, has no place in town or country to stand
afoot. By the liberality of a Manchester gentleman, Mr. T.
B. Potter, of Builehill, the Peel Park Museum at Salford is
now, we believe, to be enriched with a fair bust of Cromwell,
the original cast of which, having just seen it in Mr. Noble's
studio, Bruton-street, we are glad to be able to approve. It
is morlded of the size of life. There is the expression of
life in its countenance,and what we seldom get from sculp-
ture, a glance of life in the eyes. It may occur to some
visitors when they first look at the robust features of this
face, that, massive and strong as they are, they do yet wear
a certain aspect of frank, jolly grace and manly tenderness,
which comports not with the vulgar conbeption of a turbu-
lent and sturdy " barbarian," as Oliver Cromwell has been
termed in the euphonious style of Mr. David Hume. But
recollecting the juster impressions of his character which
Mr. Carlyle and recent biographers (Mr. Langton. Sanford,
the last and one of the best) have aided us to form that ob-
jection vanishes, which might perhaps unconsciously arise
from some lingering shade cast upon him in our imagina-
tion by the Epicurean Tory's aimless epithets of slanders.
For Cromwell was a very full and whole natured man—
one of a genial, hearty, affectionate disposition ; he was not
the hard fanatic, or the coarse, brutal stormer, that his
enemies would have taught posterity to believe. He was
warm in all the loves of domestic and social life, as a son,
husband, and father, as a familiar comrade or intimate
friend. Deliberative, or stern, or vehement, or boisterous
and frolicsome by turns, there was a fascination in his cor-
dial manner which few who met him could withstand. In
the " Memorials" of Bulstrode Whitelocke, and in the tes-
timony of others who shared the great Protector's hours of
relaxation in the temperate cheerfulness of his household,
we have positive evidence of the real good-nature and kindly
affability of the man, Not like a rude boor or brewer's son,
but like a gentleman of birth and breeding, as good as the
foppish Cavaliers, he delighted in the encouragement and
enjoyment of literary conversation, with Milton or Andrew
Marvell by his side ; he loved to hear fine music, to inspect
and to reward ingenious artists ; he bought for us the car-
toons of Raphael, and he patronised one of the best of all
miniature painters, Samuel Cooper, who has given us the
true portrait of Cromwell on which a sculptor of our day
has relied as the foundation of his design for this bust.
The readers of that collection of Cromwell's " Letters and
Speeches" which David Hume pronounced by anticipation
would form, if ever they should come to be printed, " or
of the most nonsensical books that ever existed," wi.
doubtless remember the engraving which Mr. Carlyle has
chosen to prefix to the first voluMe ; it is a likeness of
Cromwell bare-headed, in armour, taken from one of
Cooper's miniatures; but there is another by the same
artist, belonging to Earl de Grey and Ripon, which is to be
preferred. This one gives him also with loose flowing
hair, but clad in plain doublet and bands, with features
perfectly resembling the former, but with an easier,
more relenting, and amiable expression, as though in
tranquil converse with his private friends. It is that of
which Mr. Noble has mostly availed himself, assisted by the

NORFOLK AND EASTERN UNION.
The directors of these companies think it proper and
necessary to lay before their shareholders the following list
of railways affecting the associated companies which are
proposed to be submitted to Parliament in the ensuing
session :—New lines directly promoted by the Eastern
Counties Railway Company-1, cross line from Sudbury
to Clare, Haverhill, and Greet Shelford, 314 miles ; 2,
extension from Sudbury line to Lavenham and Bury. St.
Edmunds, 16 miles ; 3, Branch to Wisbeach Harbour, 11
miles—total, 491 miles, with a proposed capital of
£600,000. New lines indirectly promoted by the Eastern
Counties Company—viz., cross line from Bishop's Stortford
to Dunmow and Braintree,lB miles, capital £120,090; under-
ground line from Eastern Counties to Finsbury-circus,
mile, capital, £600,000 ; East Anglian Extension from Lynn
to Hunstanton, 14-i miles, capital, £60,000 ; branch from
Audley-end to Saffron Walden, 1/ miles, together 36 miles,
making with the preceding 85 miles, and the capital
£1,405,000. The lines promoted by new companies are
the " Direct Bury," from Fenchurch-street station to
Bury St. Edmunds, and branches, 631 miles, capital
£600,000; the Mid •Eas tern and Great Northern Junctien
(Bury St. Edmunds to Thetford, Swaffham, Lynn, and
Sutton-bridge), 40 miles, capital £375,000 ; line from
Great Northern at Hornsey to Eastern Counties at Totten-
ham, 21 miles, capital £120,600 ; Tendring Hundred Exten-
sion, Brightlingsea, 5 miles, capital £25,000, making 1121
miles and £1,120,000. The new lines promoted by existing
companies are the Coln° Valley Extension (Haverhill to
Cambridge), 171 miles; ditto (Chapple to Colchester), 71
miles; and ditto (branch to join Clare and Sudbury), 44
miles; together 29/ miles, and £220,000 capital.
The report states that the shareholders are aware that for
a series of years past it has not been the policy of the Eastern
Counties Railway Company (by which the active manage-
ment of the associated system has been assumed) to promote
or encourage any new lines within the district over which
the system extends. The effect of this policy is best
estimated by regarding its consequences. For a long
period loud and reiterated complaints have been made by
residents and by the public of want of railway facilities
within the district. The traffic of the associated lines has
shown no elasticity ; it has not increased in proportion to
the increase of other great lines of railway, or even in pro-
portion to the increased population or commerce of the dis-
trict itself. Parliament has by no means on all occasions
confirmed the policy in which the Eastern Counties has
persisted. In several instances Parliament has sanctioned
new lines promoted by independent parties, despite all the
opposition the Eastern Counties Company could offer. By
such concessions Parliament has practically compelled the
Eastern Counties to provide railway accommodation for
important . districts by conceding lines to other
companies with whom the Eastern Counties has
been driven to make terms. Despite such warn-
ings, the Eastern Counties has, during the last ten years,
only in one instance taken the initiative in constructing a
new line. The North London having proposed an in-
vasion of the territory by a new line of railway from Hack-
ney into the rapidly increasing suburbs of Walthamatow and
Woodford, the Eastern Counties, knowing that this would be
the commencement of a more extended aggression, was com-
pelled, for self-protection, to propose-and construct the line
from Stratford to Loughton, in Essex, passing through the
district which the North London desired to accommodate.
This Loughton line is rapidly developing a most important
traffic. In the session of 1859, the London and North-
Western Railway Company, in conjunction with local land-
owners, promoted a line of railway from Bedford to Cam-
bridge, with a view ostensibly to serve the district and bring
Oxford and Cambridge into direct communicationby a north-
western route. It is observable that the Eastern Counties
formerly obtained Parliamentary powers for the occupation
of this country by a line from Cambridge, but allowed such
powers to expire. In 1859 they opposed the London and
North-Western attempt to get the Country ; and, the
Great Northern also opposing, the North-Western failed.
But last year, in the session of 1860, the Bedford and Cam •
bridge line was renewed, and, the Great Northern not op-
posing, an act for the construction of the line was conceded
by the Parliament. A new entrance was thus obtained, by
a great and powerful company, into the town of Cambridge.
In the same session of 1859 Mr. Baxter, acting for a body
of gentlemen locally interested in the district, promoted a
short line of railway from Halstead to Haverhill, in the
very centre of the triangle. This line, apparently unim-
portant in itself, as running through a thinly populated
country, and uniting only two small towns, obtained an
adventitious importance by reason of the position assumed
towards its promoters by the Eastern Counties, who would
not consent to work the Halstead line, and this little rail-
way, 51 miles in length, was ultimately obliged to hire en-
gines and carriages in order to work its traffic on to the line
of its opponent. The company thus treated declared its
intention of obtaining retribution. The Celtic Valley and
Halstead line pointed from Colchester towards Cambridge,
and its promoters, exasperated by the Eastern Counties,
openly avowed their intention of getting a direct through
route from the one place to the other. The act obtained by
Mr. Baxter to extend their line from Halstead to Haverhill
was the first step towards attaining this object. The re-
maining steps will be found in Parliamentary notices given
by Mr. Baxter for the ensuing session, for lines which will
carry the " Colney Valley and Halstead" from Haverhill
to join the North-Western line at Cambridge, on the one
side, and for a new line to carry it by an independent and
direct route from Chapple into a new, independent, and
more convenient high-level station at Colchester, on the
other. It is scarcely needful to point out to shareholders
that these lines (if carried out, as may be supposed, under
London find North-Western and Great Northern auspices)
would effect an encroachment in the very centre of the
triangle, and would carry, between two of the best towns
of the system, Colchester and Cambridge, a direct line of
railway, which must divert from the company's other lines
of road the traffic passing north-west and south-east over
the associated system. The invasion is so obvious, its
danger so imminent, and its ultimate effect so apparent
that the Eastern Counties' management, aroused at length
from its apathy, has found itself obliged to propose, in
self• defence, a new line from Sudbury, by way of Clare
and Haverhill, to join its Cambridge line at Great
Shelford. This projected line runs nearly parallel with
what is best known as " Baxter's line," but it does not
afford that which " Baxter's line" proposes as the great
feature of that scheme, a direct communication between
Colchester and Cambridge. The directors of the Norfolk
and Eastern Union companies think it right that their
shareholders should be apprised that, in proposing this and
other lines of railway for the next session of Parliament,
the Eastern Counties' management has acted on its own
sole responsibility, and, except in a solitary instance, with-
out consulting the joint committee of the associated com-
panies or their respective boards. The directors state that
they have always been ready and willing to concur in any
projects that might bo proposed to them for the protection
of the district or the development of the traffic. But while
proposing to employ the capital, and while pledging the
dividends of their co-partners, the Eastern Counties have
not thought it needful even to ask the opinion of those co-
partners as to the policy to be pursued under circumstances
which affect alike all the companies of the associated sys-
tem. The report then, at considerable length, adverts to
the other proposed invasions of the associated companies'
district, showing that the " Block lines" proposed by the
Eastern Counties Company will neither accommodate the
district nor prevent the making of competing lines to meet
the local requirements.

WEST MIDLAND AND MONMOUTHSHIRE.'
It appears that negotiations are pending between the
directors of the above companies for leasing the Monmouth-
shire undertaking to the West Midland Railway. The
Newport dock is to be Firchas3d by the Monmouth-
shire Company, and handed over at cost price to
thet
West Midland Company on the completion of the po-
posed arrangement. The terms have not yet be9n
arranged, but it is understood that the rent is tb be equiva-
lent to yielding 6f per cent. on the ordinary capital of the
Monmouthshire, and the managing committee of the
latter are to be allowed £1,500 a year for expenses. It is

It is proposed to construct an additional dock on the
north bank of the Thames, at Dagenham Reach, in. Essex
and Kent, at an estimated cost of about £lOO,OOO. .

SPOBTIISTG INTELLIGENCE.

The following appeared in our Third Edition of yesterday
evening :
WEIGHTS FOR THE CHESTER CUP, PUBLISHED
THIS DAY, JANUARY 16, 1861, AT 11 A.M.
st lb st lb
Joskin Oil GO 9 2 Bushman .. .• 6 8
Defender .. .. 9 0 Doefoot .. 6 8
Thormanby 810 Sparrow Hawk .. 6 8
Sweetsauce .. 8 7 Chere Amie .. 6 8
Rover.. .. 8 7 Overton .. .. 6 8
Dnlcibella 6 Mimic.. .. 6 8
Master Bagot 8 5 Damascus .. .. 6 7
Newcastle .. .. 8 4 Russley .. 6 7
Horror .. .. 8 2 Starlight .. 6 7
High Treason .. 8 2 Reindeer 6 7
Lovett 8 2 Birmingham .. 6 7
Giovieux 8 2 Professor Dick .. 6 7
Black Prince.. .. 8 2 Silver Hair .. 6 7
Crater.. S 2 Killigrew .. 6 6
Wallace 8 2 South Australian .. 6 6
Mistake .. 8 0 King of Kent .. 6 6
Rattlebone .. 8 0 Rajah Brooke .. 6 6
Schism 8 0 Isabella .. ..6 6
Skilful • • 8 0 Precise .. .. 6 5
Adam Bede .. .. 8 0 Henham Lass .. 6 5
Rupee .. 712 Jealousy .. .. 6 4
Wild Rose .. 712 Satinstone .. 6 4
Starke • • • • 710 Dreadnought • • 6 4
Butterfly .. 710 Danae .. 6 4
Bumble Bee .. .. 710 Lady Ripon .. 6 4
Special License .. 710 Voltella .. 6 4
Northern Light .. 710 Priestess Colt .. 6 4
Weatherbound .. 710 Stanton .. 6 4
The Rap .. 7 10 Yorkminster .. 6 4
Apollyon .. 7 10 Industrious .. 6 4
Bevis .. 7 10 Elcho .. 6 2
Faultless .. .. 710 Belleisle .. 6 2
Emblem .. .. 7 8 Intimidation filly 6 2
Dl ons. Phillipe 7 . 8 Croagh Patrick 6 2
Light 7 8 Paul Clifford 6 2
Physician .. 7 8 Sweet Hawthorn 6 2
Volatile .. .. 7 8 Ivanhoff 6 2
Umpire .. 7 8 'Herne .. 6 2
Scent .. 7 8 Edmund Kean .. 6 0
Stockade .. 7 8 North Lancashire 6 0
Ben Webster 7 8 T. P. Cooke 6 0
First Lord .. 7 8 Horace .. 6 0
Satellite 7 7 Irish Emigrant .. 6 0
Wildman .. .. 7 7 Rara Avis 6 0
Simple Simon 7 7 Bridegroom .. .. 6 0
Tame Deer .. 7 6 Jacintha 6 0
Morrimac 7 6 Pagoda 6 0
King of Diamonds .. 7 4 Sister to St. Albans.. 6 0
Donner and Blitz 7 4 Black Diamond .. 6. 0
Fitzavon 7 4 Princess Royal .. 6 0
Gridiron .. .. 7 4 Giraffe 6 0
Surprise .. 7 4 Cromwell .. .. 512
Rosamond .. 7 4 Juno .. 512
Oliver 7 2 Pounce . • .. 512
Eskdale 7 2 Duchess .. .. 512
Upperhand 7 2 Bette 6 12
Predictor .. 7 2 Bandsman .. 512
Petra .. 7 0 Balham .. 510
Springwell 7 0 Morella 5 10
Coroner 7 0 The Rock 5 10
Pitman .. 7 0 !Canary 510
P- lakr 5 10

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.. 5 10
.. 5 10
.. 5 9
.. 5 9

Forager .. 7 0 _.'ancake
El Hakim .. .. 7 0 Somersault ..
Man-at-Arms _ 7 0 Vancouver ..
Parmesan .. 7 0 Cashio
Yellow Rose .. 7 0 Bravo..
Optimist .. 7 0 Snapdragon .. .. 5 9
Mountain Nut 7 0 Acco 5 9
Waterford 7 0 East Sheen .. 5 7
The Brewer .. 6 12 Robinson Crusoe .. 5 7
Syringe .. 612 Babette .. 5 7
Feodorowna .. 612 Lady Evelyn.. .. 5 7
Guilder .. 612 Spanish Fly .. 5 7
Desmond .. .. 612 Calpe .. 5 7
General Hess .. 6 12 Waterwitch .. 5 7
Folkestone .. 6 12 Pebble 5 7
Millionnaire .. 6 12 Arabia .. 5 7
The Alderman 6 12 Blue Stone .. 5 7
Slingsby • .. 6 12 Shepherdess .. 5 7
Sailor 6 12 Lady Chesterfield .. 5 7
Wm. the Conqueror 612 Sawcutter .. 5 7
Maid of Chesterfield.. 6 10 La Rena .. 5 7
Byeways .. 6 10 Weatherwitch .. 5 7
Seclusion .. 6 10 Selina filly 5 7
Mowbray .. 610 Monastery .. :. 6 7
Conscript .. 6 10 Bally Edmond .. 5 7
Chance Shot 6 10 Meyerbeer 5 7
Stockton .. .. 610 Sycophant .. .. 5 7
The Monk 6 10 Wombat .. 5 7
The Lawyer .. 6 9 Rapture .. 5 7
Malpas 6 8 Venison 5 7
East Stanley 6 8 Flirtation .. .. 5 7
Lord Lincoln, Mr. Farrance, Mr. Buchanan, and Mr. S.
Lyons did not name.
If the highest weight accepting is under Bst 121 b, it will
be raised to that,sad the others in proportion.
Forfeits to be declared on or before the last Tuesday in
January, at 3 p.m:

From the above weights it will be seen that Mr. Topham
has formed a just estimate of the equivocal performances
of Joskin and Mistake (late Earl of Essex) at the latter end
of the season. Newcastle, Wallace, Schism, Rattlebone,
and Wild Rose, from among the heavy weights, have no
reason to complain; and the same may be said of
Eskdale, Gridiron, Forager, Man-at-Arms, and Chere
Arnie, in the middle weights ; while Herne, Van-
couver, Edmund Kean, Snapdragon, Horace, Flir-
tation and Sycophant will be a good selection from
amongst the lightweights. lam afraid the backers of
The Lawyer and King of Kent will find some difficulty in
getting out of their investments. A better handicap has
not appeared for some considerable time, and it reflects the
greatest credit on the care bestowed in judging the merits
of each animal by Mr. Topham. I heartily wish him a
large acceptance.

A FRESH MAN

THE MAILS.

MAILS DUI:.

Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius kvia South-
ampton) .. Jan. 18,

Do. (via Marseilles) Feb. 12.
Brazil and Cape Verde .. ~ Feb. 4.
Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. .. Jan. —.
Cuba and Mexico .. • . .. Jan. 28
Canada, &c. (via I,'derry) Jan. 16.
Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. Feb. 1.
China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Jan. 18.
Do (via Marseilles) Jan. 26.
Gibraltar (via Southampton) . .. Jan. 18.
India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Jan. 18.
Do. (via Marseilles) Jan.' 26.
India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. Jan. 25.
Do. (via Marseilles) .. Jan. 19.
Lisbon .. Jan. 21.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. Jan. 18.
Do. (via Marseilles) Jan. 19.
Vigo, and Oporto .. Jan. 21.
United States, California, &c. .• • Jan. 16.
Western Coast of Atrica, Madeira, Teneriffe • • Feb. 10.
-West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &c. Overdue.

The report. of the Scottish Australian Investment
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profits for the 6th months at £10,260, and recommends a
dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, less income
tax.
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