The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-06 00:00:00

51:',13 VEY OF THE PACIFIC COAST.
(From the Alta Californian of Oat. 1.)
We had the pleasure yesterday of an examination
on bard of the .cliooner Ewing, of the United States
coast survey, Lieutenant William P. M'Artbur com-
manding, of the mans and charts which are the result
of his long and arduous labours along our coast. The
charts are on a large scale, admirably suited to the
wants of the large marine, constantly increasing,
already engaged along the Pacific shore. They em-
brace the whole coast from the mouth of the Columbia
River to the Bay of Monterey, and are executed in a
manner as creditable to the artistic skill and accuracy
of Mr. William B. M'Murtrie, draughtsman, as the
very successful and satisfactory results of the survey
are to the perseverance, energy, and ability of the
commander of the expedition.
From Cape Disappointment to Point Pines the
Ewing tractd each headland and indentation, every
rock and islet, determining the exact latitude and -
longitude of every point of the coast, roadstead, and
inft.ctior, and fixing their position upon the chart
with so much care- and accuracy that with such
guides on board the presence of a I. ilot could scarcely
be desirab!e on the parr of any seaman who may be
navigating along the coast. The debouchement of
each river emptying into this sea is scrupulously ac-
curate, and not a dangerous rock, or shoal, or reef
has escaped the inspection of this thorough survey.
The chart is accompanied with perspective views
of the principal headlands, &c., along the coast, which
will prove of invaluable service to seamen when in
doubt otherwise, from nny cause, as to their own
exact position ; as, for instance, a perspective view of
Cape Mendocine and the country at Trinidad. In
proof of the accuracy with which this whole survey
has been conducted, it may not be amiss to mention
that Lieutenant M'Arthur, after taking his departure
at a point in this bay, determined by Lieutenant
Wilkes, and threading the entire coast, noting its in-
lets and outlets, sounding its waters and locating to-
pographically correct every point that can be of any
interest to commerce, found, upon completing all his
calculations in the bay 6f San Francisco, that there
was scarely any discrepancy between the previously-
determined position his vessel occupied and that indi-
cated by his reckoning.
The chart shows the nature of the whole coast,
where it is sandy, where rock-bound, and otherwise,
the series of hills, or mountains, as they overlook the
shore, and the appearance of the country as to its
forests and timber. The charts of Lieutenant Wilkes,
of the United States. Exploring Expedition, made
some dozen years ago, have long been known as inac-
curate, to a great degree, as to this coast.
In fact, the survey now made is the only one since
the discovery of the country, upon which the mariner
could trust the safety of his vessel or life. Many of
the points, rocks, &c., as laid down on previous charts
are more than 20 miles out of their true position.
Islands are laid down which do not exist, while
others that have a local habitation and a name are not
mentioned at all.
Thus the immense benefits which will accrue to
the entire commercial- and mercantile interests en-
gaged on our coasts may easily be undersood. The
trade, already heavy, now carried on between this port
and the various points above us is constantly increas-
ing, and there is great reason to believe that those
rivers, now merely known by name, will ere long be
known to the world as the highways to rich and
populous marts, flourishing under the combined influ-
ence of agriculture, trade, and mining. The Umpqua,
the Kiameth, and others, are already attracting much
attention, while the Columbia, so long looked upon with
distrust, and since the loss of the frigate Peacock on its
bar considered by many unnavigable, is now known to
have a perfectly safe and easy entrance through its
south channel. This has been thoroughly surveyed
by Lieutenant M'Arthur and the corps under his com-
mand. Eighteen feet at mean tide can be carried
over the shallowest part; and, assisted by the chart
and directions which will accompany the report, a
stranger may take his ship to Astoria without the aid
of a pilot.
The mouth of the Columbia, as is proved by the
surveys of Wilkes and M'Arthur, is gradually chang-
ing. Where is now the south channel, which was so
shallow when the exploring expedition made its survey
that the sea rolled into continuous breakers entirely
across it ? On the other hand, the then best entrance,
that surveyed and recommended by Lieutenant
Wilkes, if we mistake not, is filling up, and is so
much altered from its then condition that it cannot
be navigated by his directions.

TOLERATION orNO TOLERATION

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
shall feel obliged by your inserting in your
paper, the following extract from the Edinburgh
Reriew for April last, page 525-7 ; and I would
beg to ask the ministers of the Christian religion if
they are willing to let the truth of it rest for sup-
port on such a statute as the following one ? and I
would also inquire of those persons who profess to be
the advocates of civil and religious liberty, if there
can be any such thing, so long as such a statute re-
mains on our books am, Sir, yours, &e.
Dec. 5, 1850. W. H.

" 9th and 10th of William 111., cap. 32.—Whoever,
having been educated a Christian. shall by writing,
printing, teaching, or advised opt eking. deny any one
of the persons in the Holy Trinity to be God, or assert
that there are mere Gods than one, or deny the Christian
religion to be true, or the Holy Scriptures of the Old
end New Testament to be of Divine authority, shall, for
the first offence, be incapable of bolding any office, or
place of trust, civil, or military; and, for the second, be
imprisoned for three years, and be incapable of suing in
any court of law or equity, or of accepting any gift or
legacy.
" The punishment for denying the doctrine of the
Trinity was repealed in our own times, but the remainder
of the statute is in full force at this day."
The reviewers sum up their observations on the
subject in the following words :
It a balance be struck between the infidelity that is
prevented, and the infidelity that is occasioned, by the
absence of free discussion, we have no doubt that the
latter would greatly predominate."

FOREIGN FUNDS.
ELAMBURGH FUNDS, Thic,2,

Bills. Money.

.
Hanoverian New Loan,s per Cent. •• • •
Ditto, 334 per Cent. .. •....... •• • •
Bank Share 5......
Prussian 5 per Cent. ......... .. •• • •
Anglo-Russian Loan ..........• • ••
Russian Certificates, 5 per Cent.l.• •• .. 96 95
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. •• ••
Ditto Stieglitz, 4 per Cent. ———• • •• 23%
Hamburgh, 3% per Cent. • • .......... 86% 863
Lubeck Loan (1850) .... • ..... ..... 97
Belgian Loan, 236 per Cent............
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent —— 72% 72%
Ditto, in 1001. Shares ............ 72% 72%
Ditto,s per cent. ...... —
Anglo-Swedish Loan ................
Ditto, Transport Loan ............
Ditto, Hyp., 4 per Cents .... ......
Norwegian 4 per Cents. .. ... 99%
Spanish New 5 per Cent.............. 11 log
Ditto. 3 per Cents. .... ........ 30% 30%
Ditto, 1846...................... -.—
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 236 per Cent • •
Dutch Actual Debt, 23% per Cent .•• • •
Ditto 3 per Cent. •••••••• • • • • • • • •
National Bank Shares .. • ........... —•
American, 6 per Cent. • • —•• .• .. • • • • 103% 111331
RAILWAYS.

Ditto, Priority Shares ... .....
Berlin and Hamburg •••••••••• ••• • .• 83% 13
Ditto, Priority Shares .........
Ditto, second emission
--
Magdeberg•Wittenburg ..............
Ditto, 5 per Cents. ................
Cologne and Minden • ....... ......• 99 98%
Ditto, Priority Shares ...... ••• • ..
Ditto, 5 per Cents •......... • •
Frederick-William, Northern ...... • • 32
Ifecklen berg .......• .. • ..... • ..... 26 26
Ditto, Priority Shares, 4% per Cent.
Altona and Kiel
Gluckstadt .............. • • ...... ••
Rendsburg • • ••• • • •
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTSIDL.M, DEC. 3.
Active Debt, 2% per Cent•. ••••.. •• • 54% 55
Ditto, 3 per Cent ..... 65 65%
Ditto, 4 per Cent... •• • .
Amort Syndic, 3% per Cent •• • •
East India Loan, 4 per Cent • • 84% 84%
Frankfort, 3 per Cents. 53% 53%
Russian 5 per Cents., Hope & Co. .... 104
Ditto, ditto, Steiglitz ......... ..... 84%
Spanish New 5 per Cents. •••• • • . ..... 12 3-16 12 5-16
Ditto, 3 per Cents. .
Austrian 5 per Cents., Metallics ...... 68 69%
Ditto 2% per Cent. .......• • • .... 36% 37
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent .. 110 111
Ezchangeon London, at sight .... • • 11 67
Two m0nth5............... 11 60
On Hamburgh, at sight .... 35 43
Two m0nth5............... 35 12
On Paris, at sight.. 56 0
55 62

EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT AND CURE.—We find
the following account of an extraordinary cure in the Union
Medicate :—" Phineas Gage, aged 25, employed in the con-
struction of a railway, was engaged in ch arging a hole made
in a rock with powder, in order to blast it, when, supposing
that the powder had become mixed with sand, he stirred it
up with a long iron rod. An explosion instantly took place,
and the bar was driven completely through the head of the
man and fell at a short distance from him, covered with blood
and a part of his brain. The iron, rod weighed about 61b.,
and was 34 inches in length, and about an inch thick. It
entered the left angle of the lower jaw, and came out at the
top of the bead behind the bone of the forehead. The
wounded man was knocked down by the blow, but imme-
diately rose again, spoke to the persons round him, got up
into a cart, in which he kept standing while it was being
drivistn for more than a mile to an inn, where he alighted and
ascended a long staircase, and went to bed in the possession
of his mental faculties. A surgeon arrived in half an hour
after the accident. lhe upper part of the head was exten-
siT-ely fractured, and the wound at the aide of the jaw was
large enough to admit the finger. The small pieces of the
skull were removed, the larger bones adjusted, and the
wounds dressed. We shall not enter into the details of this
interesting case, but merely say that the patient promptly
recovered with the loss only of the sight of the left eye."
1•1' Ely PIER AT RYDE.—The deputation that
waited upon Sir Richard Simeon, with the plans and tea-
r tates of the proposed new pier from the eastward of the
town, on Wednesday last, were welcomed most cordially,
and treated sumptuously; the worthy baronet assured them
that he would do all in his power to aid them in their Bpi.
rited purpose, and freely offered them, without rent or
other charge, the land or shore which they might require for
the erection of the pier and baths. Some idea of the libera-
lity of this gift may be given, when we state that upwards
of 401. a year as ground rent is paid to the Lind and Player
families for the site of the present pies—Pertsmoutis
Guardian.