The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-22 00:00:00

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The Fourth Edition, published in time for post,
contained :
The conclusion of the day's proceedings before the
different Railway Committees of the House of

Commons.
Her Majesty's Reception of the Deputation from the
Dublin Corporation.
The Parliamentary Intelligence of the Evening, being
a full report of the Debates in the House of
Commons up to a Quarter before Seven o'clock.

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OR,
THE RUSSIAN PEASANT GIRL.
BY THE AUTHOR OF " REVELATIONS OF RUSSIA."
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foe the future. But Sir GEORGE COCKBURN, in his sub-
s( quent speech, when attempting to excuse the one ab-
surdity of the " sliding scale" of manning, adopted by
his predecessors, fell into some of the most startling in-
consistencies we ever heard of. So good an (act r must
have had a bad case, indeed, when it ran him into such
absurd and illogical conclusions as those which we find
attributed to him. He denied that he had ever said he
could man the navy well, at the present moment, with
good seamen without difficulty ; what he had said was,
that it was impossible to get a number of " able seamen
at the moment they were required." Why, that was
precisely the part which Sir CHARLES NAPIER, Captains
BERKELEY. PECHELL, and Roue, have at different pe-
riods of the present and the last session so strenuously
asserted in proof of the defective management of the
Board whereof Sir GEORGE is the first effective Lord.
The question however is, why Sir GEORGE COCKBURN
and the other Lords have never devised, matured, and pro-
pounded, on their own responsibility, in Parliament, a
plan whereby the loss of these valuable men's essential
services, when needed by the exigencies of the country,
may be hereafter obviated? Why have they never
proposed to Parliament to make some permanent
provision, in the nature of half-pay, or pen-
sions, for able seamen, the condition of their title
thereto being that they shall not enter into Eny foreign
service, and be always liable to be again entered for
duty under certain limitations as to classes and rotations
of liability; and, above all, let them preserve these pen-
sions, not only as a retaining fee, but as an honorary
distinction, together with the wages of any other em-
ployment in the merchant or other British service into
which they may enter. The miserable spirit of inter•
ference which has prompted the Government to act on
the principle of denying to these publi ; servants any
portion whilst they are earning any
emoluments
from private services, is one of the
of thed publicriv derived
money
most vexatious and arbitrary among the many causes
which disgust our sailors with the treatment they must
now look forward to after once entering the navy. If
the helf-pay or pensions, we propoe, be duly deserved,
what have the Government to do with the question of
how much more the recipients may legitimately gain in
other quarters? In the very nature of things the result
of this inquisitorial process can only be, that because an
able seaman or petty officer is found to be getting pri-
vately two-thirds of the amount of his allowance in the
ply, you cut him off directly from the entire of that
allowance, and leave him to starve on the two-thirds of
the sum which he draws from some other connexion.
On both sides of the House the propable objections of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer appeared to be anticipated
as likely to prove fatal impediments to all or any
great meaiures of improvement. But the first con-
sideratien is, what the exigencies of the public ser-
vice demand ? And when we look at the hundreds of
thousands of pounds annually wasted by the Board of
Admiralty on naval cobbling, breaking up, cutting down,
lengthening, reducing, deepening, widening ships of war
that ought never to have been built, if they require such
organic changes in their construction, we must not be
told that the funds requisite for a just and even generous
provision of the nature we advocate cannot be found.
Our gallant seamen will have reason, indeed, bitterly to
complain if they are to be turned upon with diet an-
nouncement, when —as we learn from a Hampshire
paper of last week—the new roe al steam yacht, the
Victoria and Albert, the building of which, but two
or three years ago, cost we know not how much, and
its gilding and decorations we are afraid to say how
much more, is again in dock, undergoing a huge
course of repairs and alterations, in addition to those
which have already cost the country 33,0001.
Sir GEORGE CcCKBURN "concurs in the propriety of
sending all ships to sea fully manned," and yet he allows
that the Albion is limited to 690 men, though, he adds,
she ought to have at least 750 men. In the same spirit
of inconsistency, Captain Vous, after Sir GEORGE, ar-
gued that because when NELSON was in the Agamemnon)
she was 100 short of her complement, and that when
the great action of Trafalgar was fought several of our
line-of-battle ships were very short of their complements,
therefore it is very well that we should continue to sail
our sea-going men of war, now-a-days, under- manned.
If our brave fellows—that is— have really done their
duty despite the odds against them of deficient manning)
to which they ought never to have been subjected ; con-
tinue to hamper them with the same disadvantages, and
multiply, by habitually renewing, them. What logic is
this ? Because your mismanagement rendered them
liable to be defeated, and their intrepidity trampled over
by the very superior forces of their enemy, continue
your mismanagement, increase their deficiency of hands,
and enhance that enemy's superiority of manning t But
Sir GEORGE COCKBURN, on the contrary, affirms that
" ships without their proper complements of men cannot
be sent oat to meet an enemy."
" The Admiralty were now anxious to try certain ships
hieb had been built upon different plans, in order to ascer-
tain their respective qualities; and by the aid of seamen who
had been employed as labourers in the dockyards, and of ad-
ditional marines, they would make an effort to render the
crews of those vessels strong enough to manceuvre them in
the Channel so as to test their sailing qualities. The Admiral
who would have the command of those ships would know
to what extent they were manned, and lie would not
expect their various manceuvres to be pertbrmed in so ef-
ficient a manner as if they had their full complement of
men."
Why, then, the result of the trials to be made by this
squadron of experiment must necessarily be—good for
nothing. But we must defer this important sutject
in, owing to want of space.

Madrid journals of the 13th have been received, The
business before the Cortes was drafting rapidly towards
a close. Indeed it had been all disposed of in the
Chamber of Deputies, and the Senate on the 13th was
merely occupied in registering the money Bills sent up
to it by the Deputies. The Castellano states that Wed-
nesday, the 14th, would be the last day on which the
Ccrtes would transact business previous to the proroga•
tion. The same journal says it is probable that Prussia,
Austria, and Russia, would follow the example of the
the Court of Rome, and acknowledge Queen IsABELLA.
The Intendant of the Royal Household had left Madrid
for Barcelona, to make preparations for the QUEEN'S
journey, and a body of troops had also marched in the
same dirt ction.
The Three per Cents. were done at 341 for cash, and
35 at 60 days; the Five_ per Cents. at 25, at 60 days;
the Coupons, at 28 at 52 days; the Vales, at 11 at 59
days; and the Debt without Interest, at 8i at 60 days.

The French Chamber of Deputies resumed on Mon-
day the discussion on the gre :t northern line of rail-
way. An amendment was proposed by M. DELBAQUE for
a branch line between Fampoux and Hazebruck, which was
supported by M. BERRYER and M. BILLAULT; the latter
Member urging as a reason that it would place Calais
and Dunkirk in direct communication with Paris, and
would be of the first importance in the event of a war
with England. The amendment was opposed by the
Minister of Public Works, who recommended the Cham-
ber to postpone the question till next session. The
amendment, however, was adopted by a large majority.
M. GARNIER PAGES then put some questions to the
Government relative to a proposition said to have been
made by M. GANNERON, the banker, fur constructing
certain lines of railway. It had been stated publicly,
and generally believed, that M. GANNERON had offered
to lend the Government a sum of 700,000,0001.
(28,000,0001.), at 3/ per cent., to construct the lines
from Paris to Avignon by Lyons, from Paris to Stras-
burg, and from Paris to the Belgian frontier. He
highly approved of the proposition, because it Would
enable the Government to keep these lines in their own
hands, and was therefore anxious to know whether such
a proposition had been entertained. The Minister had
not replied at the hour of p)st. The Chamber of Peers
had appointed Count Ross to draw by the
report on the Bill for the conversion of
the Five per Cent. Stock. The Journal des
Debuts publishes a long letter on this Bill,
written by M. C. DUNOYEB, described as one of the
ablest political economists of the day. The writer is
stron-l-
-6 y opposed to the Bill, but it is of the less impor-
tance at present as it is well known the Ministry will
not press it this session, and the Peers are decidedly
hostile to it. According to a letter from Switzerland, in
the Constitutiounel, the Catholic cantons are preparing
to carry into execution the decree for the introduction of
the Jesuits. The Catholic conference at Lucerne had
addressed a note to the Governments of Soleure and
Tessino, inviting them to make common cause for the
re-establishment of the convents.
The public funds improved considerably on the Paris
Bourse on Monday, especially in the Five per Cents.
The Three per Cents. closed at 86f. 35c. ; the New
Loan, at 86f. 65c. ; the Five per Cents. at 121 f. 90e. ;
Orleans Railroad shares, 1,252 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,1201. ;
Havre, 900 f.
; Avignon, 1,075 f. ; Basle, 2761. 25c. ;
Spanish Actives, 40i ; Spanish Three per Cents., 42/ ;
Spanish Passives, 8.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :
Orleans and Bordeaux, 2201. premium ; Boulogne, 150 f.
ditto ; Troyes and Monterau,7sC ;
Paris and Lyons (Laftitte),
22f. 50c. ; ditto (Caton) 2fr 50c. ; ditto (Ganneron 12f. 50c. ;
Northern line ( Laffitte), We' ; ditto (Rosamel), 131.
25c. ; Tours and Nantes ( Mackenzie), 1 if. 25c. ; ditto ( Drouil-
lard), par ; ditto (O'Neill), 15f. ; ditto (Jacques I.efevre),
par ; Lyons and Avignon (I.ecointe), 251. ; ditto (Talabot),
35f. ; ditto (Compagnie INleridionale), 12f 50c. ; Bordeaux
and Toulouse (Mackenzie), sf. ;ditto- and Cette (Espeleta),
18f. 25c. ; Creil and St. Quentin, If. 50c.
LYONS, MAY 17.—Avignon and Marseilles, 1,055 f, fur
cash ; Paris and Orleans, 1,222 f, end of May ; Paris
and Rouen, 1.0961.., for cash ; Orleans and Vierzon, 818 f,
end of May ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 7201., ditto; Montereau,
573 f., ditto.

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PUBLIC PARKS —We learn that the Committee for
the formation of public parks and play-grounds have purchased
Endham Hall estate, at Harpurhey, the residence of Mr. Jonathan
Andrews, for a sum of 7,2501. A few weeks av they purchased
the Lark.hill estate, in Salford, from Mr. William Garnett, for
7,0001. ; and we believe these two properties will be laid out as
parks, and ready fir occupation in the course of a few months.—
Manchester Courier.

THE SUS', LONDON, T}Ir'RSDAY MORNING, MAY 22, IMS.

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