The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-12 00:00:00

" So often on its hinge before,"

bespeaks the stillness of the sleep within, to flood the
eye with ungovernable tears by recalling the bloom, the
life, the love, the beauty, that so lately animated that
shrine of dust, and have now left it ripening fer decay.
True, it is potent to awaken thus the fierce tides of
mental anguish, to prostrate our moral courage, to over-
cone for the time being even cur physical p ,were; but
how sovereign is the antidote it at the same time affords!
huw specific the Latin of its spiritual consolation!
" ' Memory is my solace,' sigh the separated in life.
They who are the victims of an untoward fate; knit to-
gether by the bonds of affection, yet divided by an ocean
of adverse circumstances to think of the absent, to keep
them shrined in the sanctuary of the mind, to call back
the tones, the smiles, the words of endearment, the
winning gentleness, the frank pleasantries, the laugh,
the glance of sweet surprise, the warm fervent pressure
of the hand, are surely privileges too dearly prised to be
relinquished without reluctance by the t xiled from home:
we say home,btcause of the accepted creed that—

'Tis home whereer the heart is."
" Memory is that sunshine we tee beaming so oft in
the face of venerable age. Ile is thinking of his youth!'
we say, when the smile of happy abstraction, like a
breath of summer, melts into touching softness of ex-
pression the time-worn lineaments of the hoary dreamer.
He is back with his early childhood, when the world
seemed all so good and beautiful, and men just what
their Maker first designed them to be, only a little lower
than the angels;' back with his haply school-days, when
application and ability were first coined into the gold of
knowledge; back with the merry troop who went
bounding out to play ;' back with his dawning manhood,
which still is youth, when passion, kindled at the shrine
of beauty, offered up its first, its purest sacrifice, an
unsullied and devoted heart. He thinks, he ponders on
all this, and if a cloud of regret arise, it is but mo-
mentary, for though the nerveless arm, the failing eye,
over which the film of age is gathering fast, the silvered
locks, the faltering step, are all solemn evidences that
the winter of life has set in for him, memory is at hand
with her antidote; at hand with the balm of consolation.
She tells him that these are but incrustations wrought
by time on the surface, which eat not their way within;
the soul of man being impervious to all blighting in-
fluences•, its dower being that of perpitual youth.

Memosy is the guardian angei e4vew of the wicked.
How often does it step in between the intention and the
guilty deed, (toying the murderous hand, whispering
admonitions long forgotten, stirring the callous heart to
a sense of good, softening, subduing, winning it! Truly
may we repeat, it is their guardian angel, though it is
doubtless these who would chunour for its destruction,
who would exclaim,' Away with it—away with: it; it
is the bate, the curse of my life!' if t-laPre be really
any existing wheso graceless tuagaes could dare thus to
execrate aught sq Jeered, we cry, Fame
ere thou op,iidemn,' and opening for them afresh
the book of the creation, bid them behold boy when
God made man in the paradise of Eden, and endowed
him with' will, memory, and understanding,' Re saw
04 it wo goQte

A sturdy Welshman is on his way to town with a
glass tube full of earwigs, spiders, &c., to place it in the
ti,ltt.93 house in the park as the insect "Happy Family."

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COURT OF INQUIRY ON COIN 1e0.00,A11. .1-74.nsiAn4-11\. 0
—ln consequence of certain r pfesentaiintitim*'„in
the Admiralty by Mr. l‘ry mote 41?inley.1 he Mite'4 4
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retary to Commodore Plumridg.zovhed iyittuill.,4l
Indies, their Lprdships orderekhigeuit'44-4414119`3"y
composed of the Corumacder-in CPer calt.`Pi Mtn,
Admiral Sir W. H. Gage, G.C.11., Cap'. Sir Tti 1, s
Maitland, C. 8., of the flag-ship, anti Captain Hope
Johnstone, of the Albion, 90, to investigate the
charges against Commodore Plutnridge, before paying
off the Cambrian, 40. The committe3 commenced
their inquiry at the commodore superintendent's cffioe
;n the do. kyard at 10.30 A.M. on Saturda\ , and con-
tinued until 4 I'.M., when they adjourned until 10
o'clock yesterday morning. The persons fxemined
were Commander Morris, Lieut. Lloyd, Mr. T. C.
Pollen, the master ; Mr. Beal, the paymaster ; and
the ships joiner, all of the Cambrian; and the surgson,
Mr. C. R. Brien ; the naval instructor, Mr.
Speed ; and several of the seamen were to have
been examined yesterday. The inquiry was strictly
secret, and the witnesses were forbieden to make any -
thing pubiic. It is known, however, that Commodore
Plutaridge and Mr. Hanley were the closest friends
for about eighteen months, when, upon some dif-
ferences arising between them in the East Indies, the
Commodore discharged his secretary oi' the station,
and left him to find his way home. Upon these dif-
ferences the ex-secretary has brought charges against
the Commodore ; but it is likely that the result of
the court of inquiry will prevent a court-martial.
Commodore Lord John Hay, C. 8., returned from
leave on Saturday evening, and re-hcisted his flag on
board the St. George, 120, at nine A.M. on Sunday
morning, and has resumed his duties as superintendent
of the dockyard.
There is no truth in the report that Captain
Milne, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, will be
appointed to succeed Rear-Admiral Price as superin-
tendent of Sheerness Dockyard. It is more likely
that it will be offered to a senior captain nearer Sir
Charles Hotham's seniority than that of Captain
Milne.

Captain the Hon. Keith Stewart (1842), who his
come here from New Zealand in the It tttlesnuke, it is
generally stated, is to commission the Calliope, 26, at
Devonport, to relieve the Hhvannah, 19, Captain
Erskine, as senior officer of the New Zealand. division.
Captain Stewart is son-in-law of the Governor of New
Zealand, Sir Charles Fitzroy.
ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL, NEW CRC/M.—Miss Bur-
dett Coutts has presented the munificent sum of 1001,
the moiety of which she has appropriated to the pur-
chase of two debentures, qualifying her to nominate
pupils to the institution.

Commander A. P. E. Wilmot has not yet commis-
sioned the Britomart. Their Lordships dirt tions are
waited at Ilevonport before the delivery otf the com-
missions and appointments to the officers of the Brito-
mart. In consequence of her defective state she has
been docked.

Lieut. Gardiner, commanding the Oberon, steam-
vessel, in the Mediterranean, has at lengat been re-
lieved, it is said, at his own request, in the: command
of that vessel, by Lieut. R. B. Harvey, Yeutterly of
the Bellerophon.
Fisgard, commodore's flag-ship at Woolwich, will
be paid off and re-commissioned.

The Antelope, steam-packet, Lieutenant-Cont..
mander Smyth, went on shore at Fiume Point, in the
Dardanelles, on the night of the 15th ult., while in
the prosecution of her voyage from Samos for Con-
stantinople, but was got off through tht assistance of
()Le of the Austrian steamers, arid, we understand, has
not sustained any material damage.
Dragon, 6, steam-frigate, Captain Gifford, was to
have sailed Nov. 1 for Mahon, with the inailt brought
thither by the Medusa, but was detainee, by the heavy
westerly gale now blowing.
North Star, 26, is ordered from Slbeemess to be
laid up in ordinary at Chatham.
Spy, brigantine, Lieutenant-Commander G. Wes-
tern' is ordered to be paid off at Chatham.
Duck, lighter, Savage, master, left Der-onport on
Saturday with stores for Portsmouth and the River
yards.

CHATHAM DOCnYARD.—The Admiralty ha% a
granted the widow of the late Richard Grandy, master
of th. Fortitude, convict depot, a pension of 251. per
annum.

PIA MOUTH, Nov. 9.—Her Majesty's frigate Port-
land, flag of Rear-Admiral Moresby, sailed for Val-
paraiso on Friday with a light breeze from the west-
ward.

The crew of the stearn-vevel Geyser were paid
wages yesterday, and she sailed to-day with the mail
for Brazil.

Tne Seagull packet brig sailed this afternoon for
Falmouth to take the December mail to South Ame,
rica; she will be the last Government vessel employed
on this duty. _

The frigate Cambrian wag unmasted yesterday ;
her crew will be paid off on Tuesday.
The crew of her Majesty's ship Albion are to be
augmented to a full complement of 820 men.
The Wasp steam-vessel, which arrived on Wed-
nesday, had a long passage of 10 days from Wool-
wich, during which she experienced very heavy
weather. At one time it was feared that the masts
would roll out of her; she took shelter at Teign-
mouth on Tuesday night.
The steam-vessel Greenock left the harbour at
G A.M. on Thuisday, and having made a trial trip
round the Eddystone returned at 1 P.M.
The surveying-brig Pandora, having been repaired
and ordered for commission, was taken out of dock
to-day, and masted.

The Calliope and Britomart were placed in dock
to-day preparatory to being commissioned.
The Nautilus, apprentices' brig, came in from the
Sound yesterday, and is moored under the Obelisk at
Mount Edgecumbe for the winter.
The new dock and basin now in progress at the
Devonport Dockyard are ordered to be completed on
the plan of Mr. W. Edye, the master shipwright.
Mr. David Derry was this day elected mayor of
Plymouth, and Mr. M. Jeffry mayor of Devonport,
for the ensuing year.
This afternoon, about three o'clock—tide low--the
copper:bottomed schooner Enriquito, Captain Tono,
discharging at the Millbay pier, suddenly fell over on
her beam ends. She is from Ilavannah, with 773
cases of sugar for Messrs. Bryant, Brunel], and Co.
Thu last six cases, about a ton, were in the slings
half way up the hold, when, there being no mast-
head teakle fastened ashore, and no ballast abroad, she
parted her warps, stem and stern, and fell over. One
of her seamen, on the topgallant yard, was jerked to
the topsail yard, fell with his back on the main yard,
and then rebounded ou the pier ; his arm was broken,
and be received other injuries, and was conveyed im-
mediately to the Devon and. Cornwall Hospital. The
mate jumped overboard, the crew got on her side, and
the Custom-house officer (Axworthv) being to lee-
ward had a narrow escape, and has lost his couimis-
sion paper, books, &c. By the rebound of the slings
a labourer on the pier had his head cut open and
shoulder injured.
Nov. 10. —An ineffectual effort Wes :nada last
night to raise the schooner, by attaching the chains of
three cranes to her masts. Subsequently, under the
authority of Mr. T. W. Fox, juu., two lumps were
obtained from the dockyard, and being cradled be-
tween them, the Euriquito was towed by the Pt-at-Aix
steamer into shallow water. On the fall the tide
it is intended to pump her out and tighten her. She
belongs to the master and M. Maraus of Dania, and is
uninsured.

CHATHAM, Nov. ] I.—The Spy, 3-gun brigantine,
Lieutenant and Commander George Western, from
the coast of Africa, was this day towed up the Med-
way to this port from Sheerness by the Adder steam.
vessel. The Spy arrived at Sheerness yesterday, and
will be paid oft as soon as she has returned her stores
to this dockyard and dismantled.
The Royal standards were hoisted on Saturday last
at the several forts of this garrison, at the Dockyara
of the Ordnance, in celebration of the Prince of Wales'
birthday.

DUBLIN THEATRICALS.—MiSB Catherine Hayes
has been performing, with great eclat, a series of Italian
operas, comprising Lucrezia Borgia, Linda di Chamouni,
Norma, La Sonnambula, and Lucia. She has been supported
by Signor Bordas and Madame Macfarren, who has appeared
for the first time in Ireland, and has played with decided suc-
cess the characters of Orsini, Pierotto,,and Adalgisa, altering
the last into a contralto.

The unanimous judgment of Westminster•hall
places Lord Campbell among the most efficient judges who
have occupied the exalted position of Chief Justice of Eng-
land. His accurate and extensive knowledge of law—his fa-
miliarity with the practibe of his court—his intimate ac-
quaintance with the habits, manners, and customs of the
various classes of society appealing to the tribunal over
which he presides- his firmness, suavity, and well-regulated
temper—all combine to form a judge who commands the. re-
spect and wins the obedience and regard of all the profes-
sional men practising before him, and who also makes the
suitors feel that even-harded justice has been administered
to them by one thorouhly conversant with the science and
the practice of the law. - Times.

During the past week the weather has been bois-
terous and wet. Shortly after midnight, yesterday week, a
brisk gale set in from the westward, continued almost
through the entire week, and subsided only on Saturday. On
Monday a slight sprinkling of snow was also experienced,
but subsequently no other signs of winter were observable,
save cold, sharp breezes and cloudy skie3. Yesterday was
tolerably fine and clear.—Liverpool Albion.•
EXTENSIVE FIRE.—At a few minutes before two
o'clock this (Tuesday) morning, the neighbourhood of Great
Russell-street, Bermondsey, was thrown into great confusion,
through a fire breaking out in a range of premises belonging
to Mr. Harredine, a rag merchant, in Butler's-walk, Ber-
mondsey-street, which extended into Blue Anchor-place, the
whole being of great magnitude, and which was adjoined by
the premises belonging to Mr. Mart-all, a straw-mercharit,
the national schools, and several other erections used for
' private and manufacturing' purposes. Numerous engines of
tke London Brigade and West of England Company speedily
arrived, and plenty of water having been procured, the whole
force was brought to bear upon the contlagratieu. but it was
nearly three o'clock before the mastery over the tire could b*
obtained.

Pt. RNA MBUCO.--441VERPOOL, NOY. I.—By
arrival from PeAmakabuco we have advices from that port, to
the sth 14t, Exchange 28 to 2b.