The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-12 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.
TO 'MN EDITOR OF 711 E SUIV.

hare read with much pleasure your excel-
lent article on the proceedings in Parliament respect-
ing WeArninster Bridge, and heartily join with you
in thinking that the public are much indebted to Sir
Robert Inglis for having defeated so silly a plan as
that produced, although it received the sanction of
our sapient Chancellor of the Exchequer, who seems
resolved to prove, beyond the possibility of -any
future doubt, the truth of the ad3ge, with how little
wisdom the affAirs of a great country can be admi-
nistered.

His brick-dust budget—his penny-in-the-pound
contribution for paying off the National Debt—his
insincere or ignorant proposals respecting the stamp
duties, promising to reduce taxation, but really in-
creasing it—his savings banks projtct—in short,
ovary proposal he ever made on an important subject,
since he has b:'.en Coancellor of the Exchequer, for
he made a most excellent S cretarv, shows that he is
utterly. incap.lle of grappling a ith any ' subject be-
ond the mere routine of office. It is to be hoped
that the majority of 138 against 15 will teach him
a little modesty in pronouncing his opinion upon
ul.jects of which he knows nothing.
On the subject of the Westminster Bridge, will
you permit me, to draw the wtention of the public to
a proposal I made some years since, in a letter ad-
dressed to Mr. Phillips, the Secretary to the Metro-
politan Improvement Commissioners.
Having most carefully examined the ground, I en
tertain no doubt that if the plan were properly carried
out, it would pay every shilling of the expense and
contribute something handsome towards the erection
of a new bridge; and I would submit to every dis-
interested person, that my opinion as to the expense of
improvements is entitled to consideration, from the
fact that the result has proved how correct it was
when placed in direct opposition to that of the archi-
tects and surveyors of the Woods and Forests, on the
subject of the expense of my plan fur the improve-
ment of Westminster.

In my letter to the Commissioners I suggested
that a naw street should be built upon the south side
of Richmond•terrace, and of similar character, lead-
ing to the proposed new bridge, and upon the other
side of the river, to form a new street from the bridge
to a central point in Westminster-road, from whence
several roads diverge.
The property which would be destroyed is of very
trifling value, except the river frontage necessary for
the bridge and the houses in Parliament-street; the
double frontage in the street from Parliament street
to the bridge would be very valuable.
No injury would be done to the owners of pro-
perty upon the north side of the river, because both
sides of Bridge-street ought to be destroyed. I pro-
posed that the south side should be swept away, the
north side pulled down, and the future buildings set
back to a suitable distances erected in a st 3 le corre-
sponding to the new building, and used for Govern-
ment offices, approached on Palace-yard side by a
flight of steps, for then it would be easy to level the
ground opposite Westminster Hill, which would very
much improve the appearance of that building and of
Westminster Palace.

On the south side of the bridge there is no doubt
that property would be injured, but this injury would
be much lessened by the formation of a street con-
necting the approach to the new bridge with that of
the old one. In this, as in all really useful street im-
provements, the principle of economy is to make the
improvement extensive.

While upon the subject of improvement, permit
me to draw your attention to the marble "arch, for a
paragraph has gone the round of the papers, stating
that "a great design of Lord Lincoln's, extending the
Mall to Charing- cross, is to be entirely sacrificed."
Now, some ten or twelve years since, I proposed to
one of the Committees of the House of Commons on
Metropolitan Improvements (and the Committee
thought so well of the plan that they printed it in
their report) to sweep away all the buildings between
the Mall and Cnaring-cross, and to build a crescent
facing the Strand, with a royal entrance to the Mall,
in the centre of which should be placed the marble
arch.

But at that period removing the marble arch from
the front door of the Palace was considered akin to
pulling down the altar and the throne, and the pro-
posal was unheeded. Now the arch is considered by
every person as an incumbrance, and its removal is
become necessary. May this be the fate of other
absurdities, greater, if possible, than the original
erection of the arch in such a situation, and still
more opposed to the spirit of the age.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
RIGBY W ASON.
Corwar, July 8, 1850.

TESTIMONIAL TO VISCOUNT
PALMERSTON.
_ TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

S/R,—lf there is one thing more than another that
makes your paper exceedingly valuable to a British
public, it is the bold, consistent, and unflinching ad-
vocacy of popular freedom which has ever been the
characteristic of your spirited journ 1. Therefore, Sir,
I feel confident that if I can tarow out a suggestion
that will be the means of doing honour to so dist'n-
euished a statesman as my Laird Palmerston, it will
find a place in your widely circulated column,.
Sir, on Saturday last you gave publicity to a letter
from a gtntleman in Bloomsbury in reference to this
subject, and as that gentlsmen omitted t 3 state what
the amount of the subscription should be, and the
node of collecting it, permit me to undertake this
tarle. First, I propose that the subscriptions be uniform
in amount, and that it be of such a sum as all classes
of her Majesty's subj 'cts can cheerfully subscribe; and
then I propose that the charge be sixpence, as this is
a sum that mechanics, tradesmen, merchants, and peers
can contribute, and would be the means of giving an
opportunity to a noble and generous people of con
feting the groundless assertion of Lord Stanley, that
the policy of Lord Palmerston is adverse to the people
of England. The next quetion of importance is as to
the mode of collecting the sum. What I propose is,
that a central committee be formed in London, csnsist-
ing of the following noblemen and gentlemen, with
power to add to their number:—
J. A. Roebuck, Esq. Sir James Duke
Lord Dudley Stuart Alderman Hunaphery
R. Osborne, Esq. John Abel Smith, Etq.
A. J. Cockburn, Eig, Lord James Stuart
Sir Benjamin Hall Baron Rothschild
Lord Alfred Paget George Thompson, E q.
William E wart, Esq.
and subscription-books be deposited in the temporary
office; for distribution to bankers, tradesmen, and licensed
victuallers, who may make application for them in
London end different parts of the United Kingdom.
And, Sir, mark my words, that amongst the ♦,ry first
to make application for subscription-booka will be the
tradesmen of Wakefield, in Yorkshire, Manchester,
Southwark, and Montrose. I further propose that every
subscriber record in the subscription book his name and
township, for the purpose of having all the subscribers
printed and presented with the piece of plate; for, as
there will b ample means to meet this expense, my
object is to do good as much as honour by giving em-
ployment to a number of that important branch of trade,
the compositors and printers cf London.
I further propose that a highly influential and well-
known friend of popular freedom be selected to receive
the different collections obtained by tradesmen, to for-
ward the same to the central committee in London, and
at the time of presenting the piece of plate to Viscount
Palmerston the said gentleman be deputed to represent
the subszibers of the town in which he shall reside,
and by so doing it would form one of the most interest-
ing and noble events that, has ever occurred in this or
any other country.
The next proposition I have to make is that the piece
of plate should consist of a silver candelabrum, designed
in the following manner:—The base work to be a repre-
sentation of Great Britain, with the waves dashing
against her shores ; around the outside edge the
following words inscribed:—
" When Britain first, at Heaven's command,
Arose from out the azure main,
This was the charter of the land,
And guardian angels sang the strain—
Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves,
13ritains never shall be slaves I"
On the top and centre of the island is an oak, the boughs
forming the branches for the candlesticks. At the base
of the oak is the figure of a negro kneeling, with his
hands clasped and uplifted, his looks directed towards
heaven, with expressions of thankfulness to Almighty
God for his safe deliverance from accursed slavery
through the noble and untiring exertions of Lord Pal-
merston. The emblem of this design is as follows:
The island represents the country his Lordship is called
on to govern; the first verse of " Rule Britannia" repre-
sents that he has never truck'el to foreign despots, but
maintained the dignity and freedom of his country
unsullied; the oak represents the firm and unflinching
character of the Noble Lord; the liberated negro repre-
sents the strenuous exertions the Noble Lord has made
on behalf of the oppressed and degraded African. And
I have no hesitation in saying that if this design is
carried out it will prove worthy of this distinguished
diplomatist. And upon the day of presentation what a
noble spectacle would it present to the world by his
Lordship's saloons being lined on each side by those
Members who voted in approbation of his Lordship's
policy, and in the centre, headed by Mr. Roebuck, those
choice and noble spirits gathered . from the different
cities, town,, and districts of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, to commemorate a glorious
triumph over a foul and deep-laid conspiracy of foreign
despots. The malice and chicanery of home-bred ene-
mies, and the flagrant apostacy of unsuspected friends,
for the purpose cf crushing one of the most noble, ge-
nerous, eloquent, and petriotic statesmen that ever lived
in the tide of times.—l am, Sir, &c.
London, July 9, 1850.

INVENTOR.

RUTLAND ASSIZES.—Up, to last night there was
not a single prisoner for trial, and it was not known at Oak-
ham that there would be any business at Nisi Prius ; the
probability is, therefore, that it will be a maiden assize, as
was the case last summer, when Justice Coleridge was pre-
sented with a pair of white gloves. It is expected the
Judge will reach Oakham to-morrow morning by the 8.35
A.M. train from Peterborough, and shortly after proceed to
Church, escorted-by the sheriff (the Icon. William Middle-
ton Noel). The Castle has been whitewashed and thoroughly
cleansed.--Lincoln Mercury.

AN ENGLISHMAN.
Leamington, July 8, 1850.
[We give insertion to the above, as it comes from
an old and valued correspondent, but we must not be
und 1 stood as agreeing with him in all the opinions
he propounds because we insert hi 3 letter.—ED. Sun.]

HIS LATE ROYAL HIGHNESS
THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.

We are indebted to the courtesy of Messrs. Taprell,
Holland, and Sons, of Great Marylebone-street, un-
der whose immediate superintendence the details of
the royal funeral will be carried out, for the follow-
ing :—The mortal remains of his late Royal High-
ness were yesterday, at noon, hermetically soldered
down by the new process, in the leaden coffin which
encases an inner coffin made of the best Spanish ma-
hogany, highly polished, and lined throughout with
white satin. The outer or state coffin is a most
splendid specimen of workmanship ; it is manufac-
tured likewise of mahogany, highly polished inside
and out, and covered with the richest crimson Genoa
velvet, thickly studded with silver (gilt) nails, the
ornaments, which are profuse and of the same mate-
rial, are most elaborately chased, as also the massive
tundlee. The inscription, which will be in Latin,
has not yet been decided on, nor has it been ascer-
tained whether the remains will lie in state or not.
The last resting-place of all that is mortal of the il-
lustrious dead is not yet known with accuracy. It
is probable that those details will be made public this
evening. The whole management of the solemnities
will be under the control of Mr. Banting, of St.
James's-street, and that of the details under the firm
above-mentioned.

Yesterday evening workmen were sent down from
Messrs. Taprell and HuHands, to Windsor, Hampton
Court, ana Kew, for the purpose of covering, the
ornaments, &c., in the Chapels Royal at those
palaces ; the material used is the best superfine black
cloth. The Royal Chapel at Whitehall is to be simi-
larly covered this day.

THE MALT-TAX and PROTECTION. f NAVAL IN TELIfiXs
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. d
APPOINT MLN ;4le:Tia.,,,t. 4,k4
SIR,—As a practical man, and of some observatior, I
rd
Captains—Wallace Houstot _ a
allow me to address the public through the columns of J. Williams (1841) to stut,
~, ft#'-' a I
your paper.
I College, Portsmouth. .'" 7, 1-ei;Li;
My father was a very comidarahle farmer through I Commander—George S. ...-zi ' , 8404. - t
a long life, and I was with him many years- I have, , the Royal Naval Colleete. a 46' eslt*.-,cs ,"/1 a'
too, been a manufacturer thirty-five years. In re- 1 Lieutenants —Lumley 'A oti* James
ference to the motion in the House of Commons on ,D. Curtis (1849), end Ed ov4" as; , ‘' .43% to
the sth of July, for the repeal of the whole duty on I study at the Woolwich steam:facioU OD.vies
malt, it may be a fair question b ask, who are the ' f 1844), to the Cygnet, 8, fitting at oriarelt on the
parties intended to benefit.? Now, we naturally ex- i (;oast of Africa.
pect the public good is the especial care of the House I Surgeon—C. N. Wilkinson (1849), to the Niger,
of Commons. But, the re peel of the malt-t.x may, 18,
protection to the Africa.
at Portsmouth, for the coast of
I conceive, be rather a matter of Afristet
landed interest. I admit that the reduction of this brats:—G. L. B. Hamilton and F. S. arlison, to
duty ought to be the means of at once lowering the , the Excflient, gunnery ship; Philip Homen to the
price of beer to the public, and thereby increase : Victory, fLg-ship, Portsmouth.
the consumption and demand for harloy, sa as ; A ;
,-.Ss.st,int-Surizeoli —J. M. Duffas (acting 1849)
to raise the price, anti thus bPnefit: the fArnvr, to the Niger screw sloop, at PortAmoutb.
The repeal of the nialt-tax bas been long ; B,,cond Afa,„er.— George Read (1842) of t' e
ataitated, and at the present time agrieulture ' Hoe e. to the the-a.. flag-ship, at Sheer nes,.
needs a helping hand, but the means -- the true Midshipmen—TN:l:ring Baker, o th- Clgnet ;J.
means--oleffecing this mus: b,4 through a different G. .F. Dyer, to the Niger; ll. P. Knevitt, to the
channel. Tile malt-tax is important i.-1 the Govern- Lpn,,,i,r, 50, Lisbon,
merit scale, and if Ministers cm da without it I could . Mas-ers Assistents--11. B Dowling, to the Niger;
name a far more direct benefit to the public, viz., the 11:. C. Jones, to the evp;net ; G. Rorie, to the I:n-
-duty on %N itido w s , and incur-:gees a., air's'. fire, &C. . pregnable flag ship., at Devonport.
Let us look soberly at the relief of the melt-tax, and ; Naval Cadete—U. E. Mareyr, to the FiTard fl,g -
review the parties who will be hen' fit,d thereby. • shire at Woolwich.
Mr. Bass, the great brewer ( f Bleton- ,n-Trent, has : Boatswain—G. D. Maxwell, to the Scout.
delivered his judgment in the House on this impel-- 1 The following officers attended the levee of Sir F.
tent motion. Mr. Bass is a business man, and his Bering at the Admiralty on Tuesday last :—Vice-
opinion ought to be regarded ; he sympathises with : Admiral Sir Francis Mason, K.O 8., Vice-Admiral
the grower of barley, and feels for the consumer of ; Sir L. Curtis, Bart., C.B , Captain the Earl of Hard-
beer, and the lower classes ; but I take it that the re- .
; wicke, Captain Sir Thomas Thompson, Captain C.
mission of the malt- tax would neither benefit one or IFreemande, Captain H. Edgell, Captain T. 11. Mason,
the other, but most certainly be pocketed ty the : Captain A. Tozer, Commander H. Phelps, Cottunan-
licensed victualler and retailer of beer. May I ask : der %V. S. Lockyer, Lieut. H. J. Blomfield, Lieut.
how the public are taxed by these dealers at the pre- i M. H. Rodney, Lieut. W. Wood, Lieut. T. H.
sent time? What is the price of good ale and porter Butler, Lieut. P. Rainier, Rev. Mr. F. Haman, Pay-
generally throughout the country ? And are the : master and Purser S. Winter.
consumers fairly dealt with ? I believe that a very ' Captain Washington is at Devonport on the subject
excellent quality of ale and porter may be produced of harbour improvement. On Tuesday he met, by
at is. per gallon, and where do you go to find either appointment, Mr. E istlake, Queen's solicitor, and
retailed for less than double that sum ? Commander Walker, late Queen's harbour master, at
Who will not confess that Government made an I Commodore Lord John Hay's office, in the dockyard.
awful mistake many years ago, with the view of Crocodile, old frigate, was taken into dock at Dept
benefiting the poor, by granting a licence to many i ford, yesterday, to be fitted for a receiviog-ship at the
persons to brew and open a beer-shop, expecting a ! Tower, to take the place of the Perseus.
good wholesome beer at a cheap rate to be dealt ote- Edinburgh, 60, screw steam-guard-ship, has been
And what is the result the measure ? It has not taken into dock at Portsmouth, to be immediately
only proved itself a failure, but created nurseries of fitted in every way similar to the Ajax.
crime.
Elfin royal yacht-tender, Master Commander Bal-
The repeal of the duty upon leather is yet warm liston, went out from Portsmouth on Wednesday to
upon my mind. Was not this thought a great public I try her engines ; she was taken on the graving slip
service by Ministers when it took place ? But did it F yesterday to have her copper cleaned.
prove so? No. The price ef leather was much I Express, 6, packet- b-ig Lieutenant-Commander
higher for a time, and the tanner benefited, but Lowry, having been paid wages, sailed from Devon
afcerwards,although the tanning business became in all : port on Tuesday for Falmouth.
respects amazingly depressed, and leather at an fx- . Fairy, Master-Commander Welsh, royal yacht
tremely reduced price (say fifty per cent.), still who- screw-tender, has had her n o sidings regilded, and is
ever is measured for new boots and shoes has to pay now ready for service, at Portsmouth; it is expected
the same—the old price. Who is benefited in this she will he required to convey the court to Osborne,
matter? The shoemakers. about the 18th instant.
With respectful submission, I beg to add a few ob- Inflexible steam-sloop, lying in Woolwich basin,
servations on the subject of " protection"—protection is now ready for commission.
of landed property. Now, Sir, to me this outcry Niger screw steam-sloop, to be commanded by
always appears very wrong and surprising. I have Commander Heath, has been taken out of the old
good reason for saying, whenever a farmer loses his basin, alongside the Victorious hulk, at Portsmouth,
occupation he will meet a fearful difficulty in finding and it is expected her pendant will be hoisted to-day.
another. Who dare give up his farm ? Still I have Retribution steam-frigate has been put out of the
a word of advice under this head. I had a lesson basin at Woolwich, and will be ready to leave for
(once upon a time) on this subject from a man cf Greenhithe and Portsmouth so soon as the Polyphe-
God, the rector of my native village. He took the mus arrives.
tithes, and his father the rents, of the several farms in Wizard, old brig, has been commissioned at De-
our occupation. I well remember that both rents vonpert by Lieut. Barnard, of the Ajax, 60, screw-
and tithes had to submit in those days to a laud ship, for the apprentices tender at Queerstown, and
veluer, who went over the farms time after time to will be fitted arid navigated to her station by a crew
put on a little more. I also well remember that from the ordinary depot ship.
afterwards, when the farms came to he sold, the rec- Vengeance's marines were expected to arrive at
tor of the parish at the time of sale (by auction) Portsmouth from Chatham last evening by railway.
kindly made an offer to the purchasers to lease the Captain Sir H. M. Blackwood, and nearly all the
tithes for his life; but mark—it was at a still higher officers have joined the Vengeance.
rate of rental! Knowing, as I did, that only a year PoRTSMoUTH, Tutiasnee.—A Russian Finland
or two before a rack value was put upon the tithes, ship, laden with hemp for the dockyard, in coming
I took the liberty to call upon the rector for an ex- into harbour yesterday at ebb tide grounded on the
planation, when he gave as a reason " that land and Spit, and remained till the tide flowed. She then came
tithes had long been increasing in value, and must off without damage, and anchored at Spithead ; she
always continue to increase, so that, as he never in- was towed into harbour to-day.
tended to alter his tithes again, he thought it right to PLYMOUTH, JULY 10.--The Thetis was on Mon-
make the additim then." Such was the clergyman's , day, the Ist, towed up harbour by the Confiance
reason, which I thought a bad one, and the time to steamer ; Tuesday and Wednesday, got out guns and
which I allude, more than forty years ago, when stores; Thursday and Friday, returned shells and
England was at war with France. Now, Sir, this tanks, and struck lower yards and topmasts : and on
reverend divine was a learned mathematician, but Saturday she was paid off, and part of her crew con-
why his wisdom carried his calculations ahead in this veyed to Portsmouth by the Fearless steam. vessel ;
way I never learnt; but by setting this truth before on Sunday she was re-commissioned by Cap'ain
you, Sir, and the public at large, it is evidenced how August L. Kuper ; mind on Monday she received
time has proved the fallacy and erroneous impressions seamen gunners from Portsmouth, by the Sprightly
so selfishly and deeply wrought upon his mind. steam-vessel, which returned same day
No iv, Sir, I never hear of agricultural distress ; but The Sealark sailed on Friday for the. coast of Africa.
the true remedy runs in my mind, namely, that the The Express packet sailed yesterday for Falmouth.
land agent should be applied as in years gene by, The sloop Arachne was on Tuesday warped from
and the landlord's rent and parson's tithes valued ac- her moorings to the sheer hulk ; her masts will be
cording to the times, fairly and truly, so that the taken out and stored to-day.
landlord and tenant in farming interest go hand in Messrs. W. B. Curving and John Mare have sur-
hand, as indeed the welfare of every kind of property ,eJ _,
ed the merchant s!earn-vessel Queen, which blew
and interests at large ought to rise and fall together. up this morning in fiamonze. It is, stated that the
I am, Sir, &c.,
accident 0' -ed thi -,eh the incareee.---

-cutei—ccurred through the incompetence of a lad
in charge of the engine -room. The iron work of the
machinery and boiler was in good condition. The
Queen is five years old ; the boiler was made about
thirteen months since, and the et-sit 1 and machinery
survtled five weeks since. When Mitchell, the
engineer, w: r• blown off the paddle-box, his face came
some force against the mast of a smack lying
alongside ; he still survives.
WonLwicit, JULY 11 —The Geyser steam-sloop,
Commander Francis T. Brown, arrived at Woolwich
yesterday from the Cspe of Good Hope, to be paid off
here. Commodore Henry Eden went on board shortly
after her arrival, and the crew were mustered, and
went through their exercises in a satisfactory manner
in his presence. Professor Airey, from the Observa-
tory at Greenwich, vt ent on board to-day to superin-
tend the landing of one of Bradley's compasses,
which was sent to the Cape 22 years ago from Green-
wich Observatory, and has now been returned to this
country.
Captain -Varlo, three subalterns, four sergeantFT
four corporals, three drummers, and IC2 privates of
the Royal Marines of the 'Woolwich division left
head•gnarters here this morning, and pro;teeded by
the North Kent Rlilway to London, en route to
Portsmouth, to embark in the Vengeance, commis-
sioned at that port.

FURTHER EXPELUMENFS ON THE 'EF-
FECT OF SHOT ON IRON VESSELS OF

\VAR.

PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—The new butt which
we described in yesterday's paper, as an exact copy
—as to both wood and iron—of a section of the side
of the main or gun-deck of the iron steam.frigate
Sirnoom, was practised at to-day under the superin-
tendence of Captain Chads, from the fixed battery
near the Excellent. The commander-in-chief, Ad-
miral the Hon. Sir Bliden Cspel, Rear-Admiral-Su-
perintendent Henry Prescott, and a number of cap-
tains in their several barges, with mat•y other officers,
were present, and after every shot that struck visited
the butt to inspect their several effects ; 32-pound solid
shot with a few 8 and 10-inch hollow shot, were
tired, the distance being, as at the former trial, 500
yards. From the report of this day's trial,
we suppose that all parties will now be
thoroughly con vinced that an iron vessel
cannot in any way compete in action with a wood-built
vessel. There was no diminution in the deadly anti
terrific effect from the fractured shot and splinters of
iron that flew in all directions on the shot striking.
The wood fillings-in did, we believe, occasionally
stop some of the sheet-iron splinters ; but the shot en-
tered and broke, and the iron ribs flew as in the
former trials, and the latter ripped off the wood-plank
lining, when struck by a shot, in large pieces. Aa
we stated yesterday, the ribs run perpendicular at
intervals of way fifteen inches. They are fastened
to the iron plates by a three-inch lap, and project
inwards six inches; the interstices were filled in
with oak six inches thick ; and over these pieces and
at right angles with the ribs, was a wood lining
of three-inch planking, oak and fir. A large shot
could hardly enter without striking a rib, and
to-day one of these ribs drove off a whole sheet of
planking; indeed, at the conclusion of the practice
nearly all the woodwork had been driven off the iron.
No doubt these splinters and pieces ,of wood would
have made direful havoc to a ship's comp,sny on board.
The iron shelf-piece section (a broad picce of iron
running round the ship to support the 07,9 ck), was
struck and knocked to pieces. This is not ,novered
with wood, but in iron steamers oak might be svhsti-
tuted for iron, and would perhaps be better fir the'
purpose than iron. One shot to-day, entered
waterway, where, besides the iron work, the timbres'
is solid oak, about fifteen inches thick. The shot'
went clean through and was fractured to pieces. The
hollow shot were most destructive, breaking is pieces,
exactly like shells. Altogether it may be cn ld
tr
at all events, are not adapted for war purposes.—
conclusive that iron vessels, built as the Stmooin is,
Herald.

• R JYAL NORTHERN YACIIT CLUH.—The Ingatta of
LRoyal
oNnorltilieurrasdla73a,ctaitn.dClurbridiasyfixed the come9o.lfh at
of
August. A number of valuable prizes are offered for sailing
matches, open to yachts belonging to members of all Royal
yacht clubs, as welt as several for ships' long boats, jolly
boats, gigs, skiffs, punts. tae.. The value of the prize will no
doubt-inituce many vetkels from a distance to enter the lists
with those of this neighbourhood, and there is a certainty of
the approaching regatta being the most successfulaanaduaexti;
citing ever held on this coast.. On the close of the
sports on Thursday, the members of the club and their
friends dine together, in the Tontine Hotel, Greenock, and
on Friday, a ball 'ill be given in the Assembly ltooms,
which, from the arrangements already making, wilt, we
understand, be numerously add gaily attended.— North
British Mail.

Lord Graugh passed through South Molton on
his way to Instow, where he intends sojourning- for a short
time.