The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The letter of Lord John :Russell to the
Bishop of Durham, which we publish elsewhere, de-
serves the deepest attention. It is a clear and uncom-
promising statement of principles and opinions which
are entertained with wonderful unanimity by all the
wise and moderate in this country. Sweeping aside
with manly vigour the false and sophistical analogies
in which the subject has been sought to be en-
tangled, Lord John Russell points at once to the real
merits of the question—the assumption: of authority
over her Majesty's subjects and supremacy over her
dominions. But treating these empty bravadoes of a
petty foreign Prince with comparative contempt, he
proceeds to point to the fountain and origin of the
evil—the apostasy of a large number of the English
clergy, who have prepared the way by secret treason
for this open attack upon our Church and Crown.
These sentiments, as terse and vigorous as they are
wise and true, would command respect from whatever
quarter they came, but their importance is infi-
nitely enhanced when we consider that they are
the deliberate opinions of a statesman, the tried
friend of toleration, who has now, alas! no equal in
knowledge of our Constitution and experience of its
working, and whose mind is deeply imbued with the
spirit of that ancient limited monarchy which has
descended to us alone of all the nations of Europe
pure and unimpaired. Still more important is this
letter as a solemn pledge given by the head of our
Executive Government to the nation, that the two
enormous grievances which it points out shall not re-
main waredreased. If the law be comprehensive
enough to reach the offenders, it will be put in
force; if not, Lord John Russell still expresses a
persuasion, in which all will join, that we are strong
enough to repel all outward attacks. Nor can we
believe that Lord John Russell has thus publicly
and emphatically called attention to the apostasy of
many clergymen of our own Church, who are
acting within her precincts the part of Roman
Catholic Propagandists, and of whose abandon-
ment of their insidious courses he expresses no
hope, merely for the purpose of holding up those
persons to obloquy and disgrace, however well
merited. We trust we see in these expressions signs
of a purpose, not yet perhaps fully matured, but ra-
pidly growing towards completion—the purpose of
cleansing our Church from the discredit cast upon her
quite as much by the treachery as by the schism of
her members—the purpose of rendering our univer-
sities something better than schools of Popery and
mysticiim—the purpose of restoring to us our Church
such as the Reformation gave it to us, the child of
light and reason, unclouded by superstition, node-
graded by priestcrafr, clear and comprehensive in her
doctrines, built upon truth, and abhorring falsehood.
If Lord John Russell does really entertain such in-
tentions, we are convinced he may count with confi-
dence on the support of the English people, who are
above all things lovers of truth, and who, though per-
fectly willing to tolerate any difference of opinion
from their own, will not tolerate the domineering
spirit which seeks for supremacy because it has been
allowed equality, nor the sordid treachery which
hides its insidious advances under the mask of a hollow
conformity.
DAILY WS.—The resignation of the Prus-
sian Minister, Radowitz, in consequence of his col-
leagues and his Court refusing to support him in
summoning the country to arms and resisting the
conditions imposed on Germany by the Czar Nicholas,
is as honourable to that statesman as it is disgraceful
and annihilating to the Prussian monarchy. The
terms dictated by the Czar, however veiled, amount
to no less than the sacrifice by Prussia, of all the
principles for which she contended, and of all the
allies which her previous hardihood encouraged. But
for Prussian support, Schleswig and Holstein would
never have gone the length they have done. But for
the countenance, the attitude, the constitutional
words of the Prussian Sovereign, the people at Hesse-
Cassel would not have ventured resistance in behalf
of their rights, nor its officers resigned as one man.
The total desertion of them by Prussia, as well
as of the principles of representative Govern-
ment in Germany, to which so many Princes adhered,
will, if definitively consented ,to, be one of the most
treacherous, the most infamous and felonious acts ever
committed by a Government. From such disgrace
General Radowitz has at least washed his hands, by a
prompt resignation, one of the first genuinely consti-
tutional acts of a public man in Prussia. Had he,
with equal truth and boldness, observed constitutional
principles in his acceptance of office and his manage-
ment of affairs, he would have avoided the difficulties
into which he tell. First of all, his acceptance of office
in the midst of a cabinet not true either to him or to
the German question, was a fault. Secondly, his in-
trusting the mission to Warsaw to Count Brandenburg,
a connexion of royal houses, and the weakest of cour-
tiers, was an unpardonable error. Count Brandenburg
was in fact tricked and cajoled at Warsaw,where under
pretence of ceding the letter of the Prussian demands, the
whole spirit of the arrangement went against Prus-
sian and German interests. Thus, it is said (though
nothing is as yet certain) that the temporary arrange .
ment at Warsaw to which Count Brandenburg con•
sented was, that for the present Prussia should keep
peace and regulate matters in the states of the Union,
Austria having equal sway in the states that acknow-
ledged the Diet. Now, the Princes of Holstein and
Hesse, the two countries where constitutional dis-
putes exist, have certainly sent envoys to the Diet,
whilst the states and populations are for the Union.
By admitting that the mere voice of the Prince de-
cided, and that constitutions were nothing, Count
Brandenburg gave up every question at issue.
And his doing so gave it once to the Bavarians the
pretext and apparently the right to invade Hesse, as
it gave Hanover at Austrian bidding, the right and
the pretext to invade Holstein to-morrow. Against
such concessions as these, as well as against the
assenting to a compromise on the German question,
which must finally render Austria mistress of Ger-
many, the spirit of Radowitz rose indignant, as did
that of the Crown Prince of Prussia ; nay, it is said,
the spirit of the King himself. The latter, however,
has, we regret to say, laid the sword of the great
Frederick at the feet of the Czar. Napoleon ravished
that weapon from Potsdam after the battle of Jena ;
but he left millions of Prussian hearts burning to re-
cover it, and but waiting the opportunity to do so.
Whilst now Count Brandenburg carries the military
honour and the political independence of the King off
to Warsaw, and consigns it to the Czar, without one
Prussian heaving a sigh for the dishonoured dynasty,
or making one vow for its restoration. After all,
what is it to the dweller on the Oder, the Elbe, or
the Rhine, that the House of Hohenzollern should
descend from its kingly, or what is synonymous, its
heroic rank, for they were kings of Prussia solely
by their heroism ? The race that fills the wide plains
which extend south of the Baltic may cease to be
Prussian to-morrow, for the name, in fact, exists
more in the dynasty than in the nation. If denied
honourable and independent existence as Prussians,
they can, at least, survive as Germans, and, as such,
are as indestructible as the sands which are fertilised
by their industry, and which have been ennobled by
their blood. The Czar will not have them Germans.
He insists on a new empire, more than half made up
of Croats and Serbs, and Gallicians and Illyrians,
the German and the free elements overgrown and
overwhelmed by the Sclavonian and the servile. And
to consent to this, to force down the neck of that dy-
nasty, which represented the old Teutonic franchise
and stock, need we say that the house of Hohens
zolletn would brand itself with a stigma that not even
centuries of heroism could efface ? As to the Teutonic
nor, they would not want avengers; they would
soon find leaders. For years they have sought just
leaders with all trust and humility in the Princes that
Providence and fortune had set over them. Most of
these have failed, have been worse than wanting, for
they have been traitors to the German cause. Are
the Germans to be blamed, if their first war cry of
the next uprising be the terrific one of war to
Princes ? Let us, however, not decide or vaticinate
too rashly. We speak as yet upon presumption,
strong indeed, deep fraught with fear and with de-
spair. For it is not a light or grateful thing, to
abandon all hope of a country's .retrieval from
its natural chiefs and protectors. Germany
might have been saved by its princes and its states-
men. We have always said so, whilst the democrats
with passion denied that it could be so. But if eyents

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers
present were. Lord John Russell, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto,
Sir deorge Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring,
Sir John Hobhouse, the Earl of Carlisle, the Right
Hon. H. Labouchere, the Marquis of Clanricarde,
and the Right Hon. Fox Maule.
The Council sat two hours and a half.

The Marquis of Lansdowne came to town yester-
day morning to attend the Council, from his seat,
Bowood Park, Wilts. _ _

The Earl of Minto arrived in town on Tuesday
night, from Minto Castle, Roxburghshire.
Lord Seymour returned to town yesterday, from
visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
Mr. J. Lewis Ricardo, M.P., had an interview with
Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home•office.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
ADMIRALTY VISIT TO PORTSMOUTH.

Rear-Admiral Deans Dundas, C. 8., M.P., Captain
Houston Stewart, C.B.,and Captain Sir B. W. Walker,
K.C.8., the surveyor f the navy, paid a short official
visit to Portsmouth yesterday morning. They arrived
on Tuesday evening, and dined with the Rear-Admiral
superintendent. After breakfast yesterday morning the
board transacted business at the Admiral's office, and
then proceeded to the Retribution steam-frigate, Captain
Warden, now in dock receiving additional false keel.
They were accompanied by the Commander-in-Chief and
Admiral Prescott, C. 8., Mr. Fincham, the master ship-
wright, and other officers of the yard. They then visited
and minutely inspected the Hogue, 60, screw steam-
guardship, Capt. Macdougal, and, accompanied by him,
went down below to her engine-room, and also over the
other parts of this fine ship. They also, attended by
Mr. Hay, chemical assistant, went under her bottom to
inspect her sheathing, which, as we stated, appears
to be in very excellent preservation, though, as lit has
not been on long,; no good judgment can be formed of
its durability. Her dockyards repairs will be completed
on the 9th instant, but when she will be out of the hands
of the engineers seems uncertain, as there is much more
to be done than was anticipated. The members of the
Admiralty, the port and superintendent admirals, Mr.
Fincham, Mr. Murray, and a number of captains and
other officers, on leaving the Hogue, repaired to the
office of the chemical department to see and inspect a
newly-invented motive machine. This engine, or ma-
chine, has been constructed by Mr. Hay, and will be ap-
plied as an auxiliary power for propelling line-of-battle
ships and frigates, and it is intended to entirely super-
sede the use of steam and fire, whereby ships will dis-
pense with coal-bunkers and boilers, which, occupying
so much space, often render a man-of-war's armament
incomplete, and take away the principal stowage for
water and provisions. The machine as yet is in an in-
complete state, but on the application of the moving
power, sufficient satisfaction was afforded to all present;
and the Board were so gratified that directions were
given that Mr. Hay might have a perfect machine made
and practically tested on board the Bee, steamer, when-
ever he is prepared to carry out his invention. The
engine model was on a tolerably large scale, and the
power, though very ;active, and unlimited in strength,
seemed well under control.

The Board, after lunching with Admiral Prescott, left
Portsmouth for London, and arrived at the Admiralty
last night.
THE FRENCH FLEET.—The French fleet got under.
weigh in Torbay on Monday, at half-past four P.M., and
proceeded to the westward, :wind W.N.W., strong and
dirty; and at 4.30 P.m. on Tuesday the fleet were in
sight off Plymouth, working down Channel.
Mr. William Stewart, resident engineer at Holyhead,
is appointed to Devonport Dockyard, vice Mr. William
Neil, superannuated. Mr. Stewart is to retain the same
salsry he now holds, being 3001. per annum.
Bloodhound, iron steamer, has been take❑ down to the
jetty at Portsmouth to fit for a temporary tug-boat in
lieu of the Echo. undergoing repair.
Geyser, steam-sloop. Commander Tatham, has arrived
at Devonport from Woolwich, and will sail for Brazils
after the arrival of the London post on the 9th.
Greenock, iron screw-frigate, at Devonport, is to be
tried again. Mr. Hughes, from the Admiralty, is there
to witness the trial.

Rosamond, steam-sloop, was put out of the basin,
yesterday, at Woolwich, and will proceed to I)evonport.
Rattlesnake, surveying-vessel, Captain Cockburn, will
be paid off at Chatham on the 9th instead of the Bth.
Tortoise, lighter, on shore in Carnarvon Bay, was hove
off into deep water on Sunday evening.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Fantome, 12, has
bean brought down from the ordinary and taken into
the basin to be masted. She will be commissioned in a
few days, to carry the December mail to the coast of
Africa. _ _ _

An order was received this morning by Mr. Alexander
Beattie, the Ottoman Vice-Consul at this port, informing
him of official permission having been granted for the
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morrowPLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—Her Majesty's steam-
vessel Geyser arrived on Monday from Woolwich, and
went up harbour to coal. _ _ .

The Penguin packet came in yesterday from Falmouth
;o refit.

The crew of ;her Majesty's ship Bellerophon will be
pad off to-day, and her Marines will be taken by the
Virago steam-vessel to Portsmouth. She will be re-
commissioned to-morrow by Lord George Paulet.
Her Majesty's brig Mariner was unrnasted yesterday;
her crew will be paid off to-day at the pay-office in the
dock-yard.
The crew of the frigate Cambrian will be paid off on
Saturday.
The frigate Caliope and brigs Pandora and Brito-
mart are ordered to be commissioned forthwith.
The Wasp, screw propeller, steamed in through the
Sound between eight and nine o'clock this morning, from
Portsmouth.
WOOLWICH, Nov. 6.—The Banshee steam-vessel,
Master-Commander William Smithett, went down the
river yesterday to try her speed at the measured mile in
Sea-reach, when only using the two aft out of her four
boilers. Mr. Humphrys, Chief Engineer at Woolwich
Dockyard, went down in her, and the result was very
satisfactory, as sho made an average aped of twelve
knots, or 13.827 statute miles per hour in te❑ runs over
the measured mile, five up and five down. Three of the
runs were made in a very short space of time, but the
others were against showing her true speed, as she had
to diverge out of the straight line owing to the number
of vessels in the river. The Banshee was taken into the
basin to-day to be made ready as a packet steam-vessel
fur the Mediterranean station.
The Buzzard steam-sloop was taken out of the basin
to-day, and will leave for Devonport on Friday or Satur-
day next, in charge of Lieutenant Robertson, with a
party of seamen.
The Pluto steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Jol-
liffe, was taken into the basin to-day, preparatory to
being paid off on Friday next.

IRELAND.
ENCUMBEZED ESTATES.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNlNO.—Yesterday the
purchased
offsaeeer and
housed t, bf
and
roestates of Mr. Robert Dillon Browne, the late
for the l‘mtdihrpee. sperty, situate in Dublin, part of
Member for Mayo, were offered for sale by the Com-
missioners, in Henrietta-street. The estates, which
are situated in the
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Higgins,
Mayo, were
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for pu put up
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seven lots, but only one was sold—viz., Glencorrib
Lodgee
deemed quite
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the estate of the Messrs. Dickenson, was sold at
prices satisfactory to the purchasers. Several small
properties in Sligo and Limerick were knocked down
at low prices, while for some others the biddings were
considered so far below the present market value
that the sales were postponed.

THE DUBLIN GAZETTE.
Mr. Thorn, the compiler of the celebrated Irish Di-
rectory, has received the contract for printing and
publishing the Dublin Gazette, a journal heretofore
conducted by the Messrs. Grierson, of this city. A
considerable saving will be effected for the public by
the transfer.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant has been
pleased to approve of the Lord Dunsany being ap-
pointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Meath,
in the room of Gustavus Lambert, Esq., deceased.

MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A WATELOO VETERAN.
—On Tuesday afternoon an inquest was taken by Mr. li. M.
Wakley, at the t rittannia, Camera-street, King's-road,
Chelsea, on the body of John Randall, aged eighty-four, a
Peninsular and Waterloo veteran. For some years past the
deceased has lived under his son's roof, in Camera- street,
Chelsea, on a pension of is. per diem, and for the last four
months he bad been suffering from un attack of paralysis,
which confined him to his room. On Sunday evening an
alarm was given that the room was on fire ; and, on his
son entering the place, he found the unfortunate deceased
lying on the floor close to the fender. The flames were
extinguished as quickly as possible, but not before the
deceased was frightfully burnt. He died early the following
morning. It was conjectured that, in his attempt to stir the
fire, the chair on which he was leaning upset, and be fell
I against the bars of the grate. Verdict—," Accidental Death.

Great fears are entertained for the safety of the
Ant schooner, Underwood master, of this port, from
Newport, Wales, with coals for Southampton. She
sailed from thence on the 22d ult., and has not since
been heard of.