The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-29 00:00:00

But whilst contemplating, with unfeigned delight,
in common with all friends of Ireland, the incalcu-
lable industrial benefits which are likely to speedily
supersede long ages of deplorable mismanagement
and degradation, we cannot concede to Galway the
undisputed merit of being the fittest station which
Gould be selected on the western coast. May we not
evoke the wrath of any scion of Connemara,
of fire-eating celebrity or prowess, in assigning to
" the city of the tribes " a secondary position ! But
there is a harbour which might, to our conviction, be
still more eligibly constituted the principal portal to the
" highway of nations." Valencia harbour is the safest
and most accessible port on the whole line of coast.
On its admirable capabilities authorities the most
competent have pronounced in terms of unqualified
commendation. One of the greatest of modern geo-
grapbers has remarked, that " if an arc of the globe
be described from Dublin to New York, it will pass
over Valencia," thus geometrically proving it the
shortest possible line. It is in fact 62 miles nearer to
Halifax than Galway, the distances being respectively
2,400 and 2,462 miles; and what is more, 140 miles
windward of the latter port, besides being, above all,
utterly exempt from the dangers of coast naviga-
tion. In America the preference has been long given
to Valencia, as a point of departure for their conti-
nent. Some of our most scientific men at
home have unhesitatingly expressed themselves
in its behalf, and all naval authorities who have been
consulted have given it a decided preference over any
competing port, as having perfect shelter, full depth
of water, and secure anchorage. All these paramount
claims to consideration seem, however, to have been
overlooked. No assistance has been proffered by
Government to the completion of the railway to this
naturally favoured spot. From the Southern and
Western Rail way a branch is now open to Killarney,
diverging at Mallow, and from Killarney to Valencia
is but a distance of forty miles. The present summer
will send thousands of tourists to the matchless lakes
of Kerry, and we trust that some few at least among
them may be induced to visit and judge by personal
inspection of the neglected resources of the neighbour-
ing harbour. We have before now advocated earnestly
the paramount exigency of duly appreciating the value
of geographical position and mercantile opportunities,
which must strike the mind of the attentive inquirer
in this instance. Were Valencia placed in
direct railway communication with the capital,
being the nearest station to America, and one of the
noblest ports in the United Kingdom, it would gene-
rate an endless and gigantic traffic. Furthermore,
what to our amazement appears to be of little moment
in Ministerial eyes, it might be easily rendered a
naval station of unequalled advantages. It would re-
quire but a trifling outlay to render it perfectly im-
pregnable against external or internal attack.
Nothing can exceed its facilities for docks and public
works, and any number of the largest ships could
moor in perfect safety in its waters. The sagacious
CROMWELL made it a station for frigates and troops,
justly considering it the most unassailable and con-
venient point of defence on the western coast; and
the late Duke of Yortx was strongly in favour of its
being made the point of embarkation for the troops.
for foreign and colonial service. In this important
respect it is much superior to the Core of Cork,
and much logs of time, expense, and dan-
ger would necessarily be avoided in time of
war. In short, in either point of view, whether as a
position for an American packet station, considering
the quickness, safety, and economy of transit, or as a
naval and military depot, Valencia stands unrivalled,
But it is difficult to impress such considerations on
the minds of those possessed of influence or authority.
It appears to us that on matters of the extremest im-
portance to the Green Isle, Irish Members are liable
to labour under the visitation of a stolid taciturnity,
as was thoroughly exemplified last session when the
fiscal grant to the Dublin and Galway Railway was
trumpeted in the House of Commons, and not a syl-
lable was vouchsafed in advocacy of assistance from
the Treasury to a national undertaking of at least
equal import, the Waterford and Limerick line.
The Munster Members were on that occasion mar-
vellously mute and modest. It is, perhaps, hardly
reasonable to expect that Ministers will go out of
their plodding track in order to foster the
most favourable opportunities, and secure the most
obvious advantages fur the nation at large—not for
themselves—especially when the scene lies on the
other side of St. GEORGE'S Channel, unless they
be induced to do so by a pressure from without.
Chancellors of the Exchequer are by no means made
of penetrable stuff. They are e officio misers and
flinty-hearted functionaries ; and, much as we revere
Sir CHARLES WOOD, we cannot conscientiously ex-
empt him from the comprehensive category, nor even
gainsay that he is the very GUZMAN of the Cancel-
larian band. Should not the national "bosom's lord
sit lightly on his throne," seeing that " bricks,"
through his beneficence, are duty free ? Sir
CHARLES has there achieved a herculean feat which
taxed to the utmost bis stupendous powers, and has
earned for himself a monumental honour, which we
trust will be tendered by a grateful people, in like
material and durability to that catholic offering re
corded in academic song—
" High piled by British besoms strenuou,,
A monumentum (ere p'rennius.'"

It is, however, cheering to find that private enter-
prise is at length endeavouring to secure advantages
which have been blindly and too long neglected—.
tbat people are at last found to take the trouble of
picking up what has been all along lying under their
noses. Now that the notable discovery is made that
Galway is rather a nearer port than Liverpool to
Halifax, we may with some degree of confidence look
forward to the progression of a principle which must
prove so substantially conducive to the benefit of not
merely one Nationality of her AlAJam's empire,
and, considering that the first position has been effec-
tively attained, we may not altogether despair of living
to behold the day when the Imperial Arsenal and
Packet Station of the Western Coast will be—the
fittest locality on the Irish sea-board for the purposes
of Imperial muniment and harbourage, and for ex-
peditious and profitable intercommunication with our
Columbian kinsmen.

THE GOVERNMENT INTERMENTS BlLL.—Yesterday
evening a public meeting of the ratepayers of the parish of
St. Saviour's, Southwark, was held in the vestry-room, to
take into consideration the compensation clauses of the
Government Interments Bill. Mr. Bailey, the warden of
the great account, was called to the chair. He explained
that the parish of St. Saviour's was placed in a very peculiar
position, and one likely to be much interfered with by the
proposed measure. No rector's fees for interments paid in
that parish were receivable by the chaplains, who were only
entitled to the surplice fees. The rector's fees were received
by the wardens, and applied to the ordinary parochial pur-
poses. If the measure introduced by Government were car-
ried without some clause in referenoe to St. Saviour's, the
clergy of that parish would receive compensation for that
which they had never lost, and be remunerated for work
which they were not called upon to perform. Mr. Mansfield
moved, and Mr. Clark seconded, the following resolution :
"That a deputation be appointed to wait upon the Right
Hon. Sir G. Grey, her Majesty's Secretary of State, to repre-
sent to him that the fees payable for interments in the
churchyard of this parish are receivable by the warden of the
parish; and to urge upon him the propriety of securing to
the parishioners adequate compensation in respect of the same
in the event of the Interments Bill passing into a law ; and
that the wardens solicit the borough Members to support
' them in their application." This resolution was unanimously
agreed to, and after the transaction of some ordinary business,
the meeting thanked the chairman and separated.
DEATH or DR. WARDEN.--In our obituary of to-
day we regret to record the death of Dr. Adam Warden,
aurist in ordinary to her Majesty. Dr. Warden
was the inventor of an elegant instrument called the " pris-
matic auriscope," in which, by mean of total reflection, light
passages of the ear, and con-
versely rtshe thrown
hne intoimage the intricate
objects
concealed within it are reflected
to the eye of the operator. He also suggested the applica-
tion of the same means to the investigation of disease inother
passages and cavities, with the addition of a lenticular form
to one side of.the prism, for the magnification of smaller
objects. We believe that Dr. Warden's investigations
tended to elucidate the causes of ear complaints, and their
connexion with general disease; and it is deeply to be re-
gretted that his career of uAetulness has been so suddenly
arrested.—Edingburgh Advertiser.
MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, MAY 28.—The
market to-day has been, on the whole, rather better than we
have lately experienced. Spinners are getting a somewhat
better price for yarns ; still they complain of the slowness of
sale, even at prices which are barely remunerative, and in
most cases decidedly unprofitable. The finer numbers have
gone off to-day rather bikl r s y-50's to 90's having been in
demand, at a very slight advance. The goods market is still
quiet, but hopes are entertained of "a good time coming"
shortly.
AMERICAN PINE Arrx.rs.—A vessel just arrived
from New York has brought several boxes o ipine apples; of
American produce,