The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-02 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TIiURSDAY. - The Queen and Prince
Albert walked this morning in the pleasure. grounds of
the Castle.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Alice was taken an
airing to• day.
The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister arrived at
the Castle, from town, in a carriage-and-four, at one
o'clock, this afternoon. His Excellency had an audience
of his Roy al Highness Prince Albert, and, after lunching
at the Castle, took his departure on his return to town.
The Hon. Miss Hamilton and the Hon. Miss Stanley
have arrived at the Castle, and have succeeded the Hon.
Misses Paget and Liddell, as the Maids of Honour in
Waiting on her Majesty.
The Hon. Colonel Grey has relieved Colonel Buckley
in the duties of Equerry in Waiting on the Queen, and
Major General Wemyss has relieved Colonel Bouverie
in the duties of Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert. •
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took a
drive in an open carriage this afternoon from her resi-
dence Frogmore Lodge.
In the afternoon the Queen and Prince Albert took
an airing in an open carriage. Her Majesty and his
Royal Highness returned to the Castle at half-past six.
The band of the Scots Fusilier sGuards attended dur-
indinner at the Castle yesterday.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended and
performed the remainder of the evening.

The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Keats,
left town yesterday morning for Brighton, and returned
to Cambridge House in the evening.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes-
terday morning, at ten o'clock, at the Council-office.
The Lords present were the Lord President of the
Council, Sir Edward Hyde East, Sir Edward Ryan, Dr.
Lushington, Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, and Mr.
Pemberton Leigh. The case of " Shumsoonissa Khanuni
v. Raj. Jan. Khanum," from Bengal, was partly heard.

HER MAJESTYS THEATRE.
An overflowing house assembled last night to greet Cerito
on the occasion of her benefit. She is one of the chief
favourites of the public, and none are more entitled to their.
favour. From her first appearance at her Majesty's Theatre,
she carried away the votes of all its frequenters—and remark-
able as were her first pas on our Italian stage, every year
she has appeared since that time she has presented in her
to i m
maintainp improvements—and, ve
the e
highest n ts— an dp
position—novelty striking
twtihonat—nisovsetltilyl.
Hernwre
dancing is characterised by youthful buoyancy, modest and
unaffected grace. Marvellous as are her feats they betray
edsseancintnigal
no effort—each step appears unpremeditated and the offspring
of the inspiration of the moment—and s•o devoid of sameness
that they are unforeseen. Dancing generally addresses itself to
the senses, and not to the understanding, and the value of such
dancers as Cerito is, that they throw into the shade all less coin.
mendable attempts in the art. Their influence is like that of
the unrivalled romances of Walter Scott, which at once ba-
nished from circulation the grosser novels that previously
usurped public favour. The entertainments of the night,
besides all the favourite pas of Cerito and of Fanny Elssler,
included the whole of the Barbiere, and the last scena of
Lucia. In the Barbiere, Fornisari was much indisposed, but
did not betray it, either in his acting or singing ; Grisi, who
appeared as youthful in person as in her voice ; Mario, in one
of his most triumphant inspirations ; and Lablache, at each
moment convulsing the public with laughter, excited a con-
stant enthusiasm of applause. Then followed Persiani, pour-
ing forth a flood of musical embellishments. As to Mortara,
it seems as if Fra .Poco were written for him ; his dying scene
is quite appalling, and fearfully true to nature. Although
not a subscription night, several persons of distinction were
present, including their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Grand Duke and Duchess of
Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, accompanied by Lady Augusta So-
merset ; the Duchess of Somerset, the Marqiuses of London-
derry and Clanricarde, the Earls of Pembroke and Westmore-
land, Count Anthony Esterhazy, Lords Laird, Templetoun,
and Ranelagh ; Lady S. Stewart, &c.

The benefit taken by Risley and his tw- o song on
Monday large, at the Porte St. Martin, was tremendous.
Bouquets and plaudits were showered upon the two children
to a fearful extent. One of the chief features of the evening
was Elesler's bolero of last season, danced by Silvain and
Mademoiselle Camille deliciously. It created a perfect furor
among the Parisians assembled to see, as they supposed, the
115 t of the profemor, who, 1,
-91TOYer) remained until Saturday..

RULES FOR THE REGULATION
OF STEAM-VESSELS.
Draft Rules suggested to the Court of Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of London, for the regulation
of steam-vessels, pursuant to the provisions of the
Watermen's Act, 7 and 8 Geo. IV. cap. 75.
2. That from and after the allowance of these bye-
laws, the Court of Master, Wardens, and Assistants
of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the
river Thames, upon the application of the owner or
owners of any steam or sailing passage-boat or vessel
which shall be worked or navigated upon the said
River Thames within the limits specified in the said
Act of Parliament, shall grant a license to such owner
or owners to use and work for hire any such boat or
vessel (for carrying passengers) upon the said river
within the limits aforesaid; in which license shall be
expressed the number of persons or passengers such
boat or vessel shall be permitted to take and carry,
according to the admeasurement thereof as herein-
after is provided; and such licence shall contain a
number for such boat or vessel, which shall be regis-
tered in a book or books to be kept for that purpose,
by the clerk of the said company ; and the owner or
owners of such boat or vessel shall cause such name
of every such steam-boat or vessel to be painted and
kept legible on the outside of each paddle-box, or if
there shall not be any paddle•box, then upon the
quarter or some other conspicuous part of the outside
of such steam-boat or vessel, in plain legible letters, 1
twelve inches long at the least, and broad in propor-
tion, so as to be seen plainly in the day-
time by persons passing on the said river;
and shall also cause the registered number of every
such boat or vessel, and the number of passengers
licensed to be carried therein, to be painted and kept
legible upon the inside of each paddle-box of every
such steam-boat or vessel, or if there shall not be any
paddle-box, then upon some conspicuous part of such
steam-boat or vessel, and upon the companion or some
other conspicuous part of such sailing boat or vessel,
in plain letters and figures, two inches long at the
least, and broad in proportion, so as to be seen plainly
by persons upon deck. And if any such steam or
sailing-boat or vessel, whose voyage shall commence
and terminate within the limits aforesaid, shall be
used or worked (for hire or gain) within the limits
aforesaid without such license for the same having
been first obtained as aforesaid, or without such name
so painted and kept legible on the outside of such
heat or vessel as aforesaid, or without such registered
number, and the numberipf passengers licensed to be
.
carried in such boat or vessel respectively so painted
and kept legible on the inside of such boat or vessel
as aforesaid, the master or other persons having the
command or management of such boat or vessel shall
forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not
exceeding five pounds.
3. That no steam-boat or sailing passage-boat or
vessel navigated upon the said river, whose voyage
shall commence and terminate within the limits afore-
said, shall be licensed to carry more than one person
or passenger for every four square feet of the deck of
such steam or sailing passage-boat or vessel, to be mea-
sured within the gunwales, deducting from the gross
admeasurement one-tenth part thereof for the com-
panions, skylights, steam-chests, &c., upon the said
deck (children under the age of twelve months not to
be included). And if any such boat or vessel whose
voyage shall commence and terminate within the
limits aforesaid, shall be navigated upon the said
river within the limits aforesaid, carrying any greater
number of persons or passengers than shall be ex-
pressed in the license granted by the said Company of
Master,Wardens, and Assistants as aforesaid, the master
or other person having the command or management
of every such boat or vessel shall forfeit and pay for
every person or passenger exceeding such number any
sum not exceeding forty shillings.
4. That if any person shall act as master or
in command or management of any steam-boat
or sailing passage-boat vessel, whose voyage
shall commence and terminate within the limits
aforesaid, until approved and licensed so to
do by the Court of Masters, Wardens, and Assistants
of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen cf the
river Thames, every person so offending shall for
every such offence forfeit end pay any sum not ex-
ceeding five pounds ' • and that if at any time it shall
appear to the said Court of Master, 'Wardens, and '
Assistants, that the loss of human life or any damage
or injury to the person or property of any person or
persons on the said river within the limits aforesaid
was or had been occasioned by reason of the negli-
gence, unskilfulness, or misbehaviour of any peraon so
approved and licensed as aforesaid, the said Court of
Master, Wardens, and Assistants shall and may from
time to time suspend or annul and make void the license
granted to such person as aforesaid; and if any such
person shall act as master or in the command or
management of any such steam-boat or sailing pas-
sage-boat or vessel within the limits aforesaid, during
the time his said license shall be so suspended or an-
nulled and made void, or if any such person shall
neglect or refuse to produce (and deliver up to be
cancelled) to the said Court of Master, Wardens, and
Assistants, any license which may have been so
granted to him as aforesaid, when required so to do
by writing, signed by the clerk of the said Company,
and left with such person, or at his last known or
most usual place of abode, then and in every such
case he shall forfeit and pay for every such offence
any sum not exceeding five pounds.
5. That the master or other person having the
command or management of any steam-boat or ves-
sel navigated upon the said River Thames, within the
'limits . aforesaid, shall whilst navigating the same
within the limits aforesaid keep as from any sand
or ballast craft whilst getting sand or ballast, and
from any lighter-boat, wherry, and other vessel' as
the depth of water and other circumstances will per-
mit, and shall when passing such sand or ballast
craft, lighter-boat, wherry, or other-vessel, so reduce
or regulate the speed of such steam-boat or vessel
as to prevent as far as possible the swell occasioned
by such steam-boat or vessel from being forced into
upon or over such sand or ballast craft, lighter-boat,
wherry, or other vessel,.under the penalty of forfeit-
ing and paying for every such offence any sum riot
exceeding five pounds.
' 6. That the master or other person having the
command or management of any steam-boat or
vessel, when navigated on the said river within the
limits aforesaid, shall whilst navigating the same
within the limits aforesaid, remain,. continue, and be
on one of the paddle-boxes or the bridge of such
steam-boat or vessel, and shall not permit or suffer
any other person, except the crew of such steam-boat
or vessel, to be and remain on such paddle-box or
bridge of such steam-boat or vessel, and shall cause
and procure a proper look-out to be kept from the
bow of the said steam-boat or vessel, under the
penalty of forfeiting and paying for every such offence
any sum not exceeding five pounds.
7. That all steam-boats or vessels navigated on the
said- River Thames within the limits aforesaid, in a
westernly direction, shall from and immediately after
. dusk in the evening and until daylight in the morn-
ing, have two strong red lights, eight feet apart, sus-
',ended on-a yard or spar fastened to the foremast, or
if there shall be no foremast then such red lights shall
be fastened to the funnel, twenty feet at least above
the deck, or to the top of the funnel, and another
strong red light fastened under the bowsprit ; and all
_steam-boats or vessels navigated within the limits
aforesaid, in an easternly direction, shall have two
strong blue lights, eight feet apart, suspended in like
manner on a yard or spar fastened to the foremast, or
to the funnel as aforesaid if there shall be no fore-
mast, at the same height above the deck as aforesaid,
arid 'oriestrong blue light fastened under the bowsprit
as aforesaid; and in case the weather shall be so foggy
as to 'vent such lights being seen, or in case of
thick' ''dating- the day-time and such steam-boats
or v ' ' ' shall 'not be under weigh, the same shall
remain-- t anchor, or if such steam-boats or vessels
shalbe under weigh then the same shall bring up
until the weather clears; and in case such steam-boats
or vessels shall not have such lights as hereinbefore
directed, or shall be navigated during a fog as is
hereinbefore prohibited, the master or other person
having the command thereof shall, for every such
offence, forfeit and pay ariy sum not exceeding five
pounds.:
8. That no master or other person having the com-
mand or management of any steam-boat or vessel
navigated Upon the said river within the limits afore-
said shall take on board or put out any passenger or
other person whilst the engine of such steam-boat or
vessel is in motion, nor shall cause such engine to be
again put in motion until the boat or wherry bring-
ing or taking away such passenger or other person
to or from such steam-boat or vessel shall be suffi-
ciently clear of such steam-boat or vessel, under the
penalty of forfeiting and paying for every such of-
fence any sum not exceeding five pounds.
9. That no master or other person having the com-
mand or management of any steam-boat, or vessel
navigated on the said river within the limits aforesaid,
shall allow such steam-boat or vessel to be placed
alongside any ship or vessel whilst towing the same
on the said river between London-bridge and Green-
wich Hospital, under the penalty of forfeiting and
paying for every such offence any sum not exceeding
five pounds.
10. That no steam-boat or vessel of more than two
hundred tons burthen, registered tonnage, shall
be navigated upon the said river westward of Green-
wich Hospital at a greater speed than at the rate of
six miles in an hour with the tide, nor more than
four miles in an hour against the tide ; and that no
steam-boat or vessel of less than two hundred tons
burthen, registered tonnage, shall be navigated upon
the said river westward of Greenwich Hospital at a
greater speed than at the rate of eight miles in an
hour with the tide nor more than six miles in an
hour against the tide (such distances respectively to
be computed and ascertained by the marks of admea-
easement set up on the shore of the said river by the
authority of the Corporation of the City of London);
and if the infester or other person having the com-
mand or management of any such vessel shall navi-

gate the same, or permit the same to be navigated,
within the limits specified in this bye-law, at any
greater rate or speed than as aforesaid, he shall for-
feit and pay for every such offence any sum not ex-
ceeding five pounds.
It is intended to take the above rules into conside-
ration on Saturday next.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
',ROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Captain Warner's wonderful invention was
introduced to the notice of the House of Commons last
evening by Lord Ingestre. A more complete exposure
of the affair can scarcely be imagined. Not the vestige
of a well-supported claim to novelty of discovery, or to
an improved mode of applying an agency already known,
was left to Captain Warner ; who, in nautical language,
was " blown out of the water." This was effected by
Sir R. Peel's straightforward, matter-of-fact explana-
tion ; followed up, as it was, by the narrative of Sir
Howard Douglas, who described the proceedings of Sir
Byam Martin and himself, to whom Sir Robert Peel had
referred the application of Captain Warner. An oppor-
tunity to exhibit the extraordinary discovery he had
made had been of ; and the way in which Captain
Warner had acted in the transaction was explained. The
Hon. W. Cowper, private secretary to Lord Melbourne,
when Captain Warner pressed the purchase of
his discovery on the Administration of which his
Lordship was the head, also supplied valuable testi-
mony as to the real merits of the discovery. Sir C.
Napier ably exposed the absurdity of Captain Warner's
claims to any new discovery in science ; or to any
valuable novelty of application of a power previously
known. With the bluntness of phrase and breadth of
humour peculiar to the profession, the Gallant Commo-
dore ridiculed the whole affair off Brighton, as wonder-
ful only in the eyes of persons either wholly or partially
ignorant of what is generally known to nautical men.
The greatest wonder of the performance, in Sir C.
Napier's opinion, is, that any professional man could
have been deceived into the belief that there was any-
thing extraordinary in the transaction. Captain War-
ner's pretended invention of a new explosive power—
the possession of which would enable the nation that
exclusively possessed it to defy the world in arms—has
been extensively used for the purpose of attack upon
Lord Melbourne's Government, and also of reproach to
the present Ministry. Both Lord Melbourne and Sir R.
Peel, it was last night shown, adopted the course which
they were bound to adopt under the circumstances. They
referred Capt. Warner's discovery to the scientific de-
partments of the Government; directed that a commission
should issue, formed of the most eminent officers, by whose
skill the efficiency of the discovery should be tested ; and
upon their report determined to act. Instead of having
treated Captain Warner, or his invention, with neglect, it
clearly appears that both the late and the present Govern-
ment acted with fairness, and even with liberality
towards both : they provided him with the means,
and afforded him opportunities of demonstrating the al-
leged powers of his invention. The only thing
they would not do—but this was the very thing
CAptain Warner showed ho was most anxious
should be done was this : they would not pur-
chase without proof. Captain Warner had been
most prodigal of professions—most prolific in assu-
rances. He had performed extraordinary feats, by means
of his powerful agent, at various times and in divers
places—of which, however, there were no persons alive
who could verify his statements ; and no records of
his doings in the public offices'; where, if the feats had
been achieved, they might be expected to be found !
Captain Warner, among other representations of
what his discovery had effected, stated to the Commis-
sioners that he had sunk two French privateers with his
invisible shell toward the end of the war. No record,
however, no trace could be found of this extraordinary
transaction. With his "long range," he said, he had
destroyed rocks in the islands off Vigo Bay, at six miles
distance. In the absence of oral or documentary
evidence of these extraordinary performances, the Com-
missioners asked for ocular proof. They, possibly, thought
that Captain Warner had, in his descriptions of the
powers of his "long range," practised largely with the
long bow ; and they wished to see as well as hear. This,
however, was declined. As Mr. W. Cowper remarked,
in the course of his statement of what took place be-
tween the late Government and Captain Warner, rela-
tive to his invention—" Captain Warner was more
desirous of corresponding with the moneyed than with
the scientific departments of the Government—more
anxious to have his discoveries bought than tested."
The Prussian Government has, it seems, been equally
unjust to Captain Warner. The scientific and patriotic
discoverer of this destruction-spreading agent—with
a far greater affection for pelf than for country—has,
it seems, been huckstering with a foreign State for
the purchase of his secret. If the Government of
Prussia would have entered into a blind bargain, and
paid the required sum without knowing whether it had
got anything in the shape of value for its money,
there would have been an end of Captain Warner's
applications to the Government of England to possess
themselves of the wonderful invention. We might have
read the sin of our incredulity by the glare of the fires
kindled by means of this destructive agent in our liar-
hours and arsenals—if, indeed, our " tight little island"
had not been blown out of the ocean, and England
been numbered among the nations which now exist
only in the pages of history. Sir G. Cockburn's ac-
count of the way in which he has reason to believe the
explosion off Brighton was effected, agrees, in all the
material points, with the suggestion we ventured to
offer as to the process by which it was accomplished.
Lord Ingestre seems to have been pretty consider-
ably laughed at in professional circles for his gratuitous
attestations in.behalf of a very questionable experiment,
the validity of which he ought rather to have suspected,
than affirmed. Incapable of deception in any form,
Lord Ingestre, like many of his profession, is the more
likely to be deceived. Had Lord Ingestre seen what the
officer referred to by Sir G. Cockburn " distinctly saw,"
he would not have signed the certificate which bore his
name, and induced the public to confide in the extra-
ordinary accounts of the magical, if not miraculous, per-
formance off Brighton. The correspondence moved for
by Lord Ingestre is to be produced ; and we trust,
printed. To a new and enlarged edition of " Popular
Delusions" it would contribute an interesting chapter.
STANDARD.—Lord Ingestre last night moved, in
the House of Commons, for the production of the cor-
respondence between the present and late Govern-
ments and Captain Warner, upon the subject of
the extraordinary destructive instrument, the invention
of which is asserted by the captain. Lord Ingestre gave
a full history of the progress of the alleged discovery, and
of Captain Warner's endeavours to have it adopted by the
Government ; and Sir Robert Peel, who freely granted
the correspondence, seconding the Noble Lord's motion,
gave a supplementary history of the efforts of the two
Governments to come to what might be considered rea-
sonable terms with Captain Warner. Sir Howard
Douglas, Sir Charles Napier, and several other members
spoke, and the debate upon the matter occupied nearly
the whole of the night's sitting. Sir Charles Napier
gave a graphic and highly amusing account of his own
share in the attempt to burn the French flotilla at Bou-
lOgne by explosive globes, and offered an irresistibly
comical proposition, to blow up the Noble Move's. if
only he would oblige him by sitting down upon an
explosive mixture. We are not sorry that this de-
bate has taken place, because we think that it
will set the public mind at ease upon a subject
that has caused some anxiety since the late
exhibition at Brighton. We live in an age
apparently of great mechanical discovery, certainly of
great discovery in chemical science, and we see daily
the development of so many wonders either by the ap-
plication of capital to well-known though neglected con-
trivances, as in case of gas-light, steam navigation, rail-
roads, &c., or by the use of really novel inventions,
as the employment of galvanic electricity for va-
rious purposes, that things cease to be thought
improbable because they are astonishing. Nay, we
are not quite sure that credulity does not incline
in the opposite direction, and cause to be most easily
believed whatever is most opposed to experience. If
we do not go so far as to say credimus gala inzpossibile,
we almost acknowledge that we most readily give credit
to what seems impossible. Under these circumstances
it is well that the minds of men, somewhat dismayed by
the notion of that tremendous power which Captain
Warner claims to possess, should have the means of
judging of the whole mattes upon considerations distinct
from the physical possibility or probability of the exist-
ence of such a power at the command of any one. Let
us glance at the debate in this light, and in this light
only, conceding, for argument sake, the possibility that
there may be such things as the "invisible shell" and" the
long range," the powers which Capt. Warner claims to
have invented. We ourselves prefer to consider the
subject in this light, because we are bound to confess
that some years ago we were believers, to some, 11
though not to the whole extent, in the importance
of Captain Warner's alleged discoveries, and have I
since changed our opinion altogether, upon the
external evidence, and not from a consideration
of the physical difficulties. In short, we are now
satisfied, from Captain Warner's proceedings, that
whether the things he speaks of be or be
not possible to be accomplished, he has not accom-
plished them. The captain's whole story, as detailed
in last night's debate, is a mass of improbabilities—not
of physical improbabilities, we have nothing to do with
them, but of moral imprObablities and of gross incon-
sistencies. Captain Warner says that he has been
twenty -seven years in possession of the secret of the
"invisible shell," and twelve years in possession of the
secret of the " long range" (a power by which fleets, forts,
cities, nay mountains, can be destroyed at six miles'
distance). There is some inaccuracy in the statement
of the age of the invention of " the shell," because
Captain Warner says that by the use of it he de-
stroyed two French privateers in the late war—one
at :St. Melo, the other at St. Vallery—whereas all
wait with France was happily at an end twenty-nine
years ago, and the naval war was at an end thirty
years ago. This inaccuracy may be a mere slip of
memory ; but there are graver objections to the story
of these two privateers. Captain Warner says, that
when he destroyed them he was serving under his father
in the ship Nautilus, one of his Majesty's smallest ves-
sels, at the time in the humble service of landing spies
on the French coast ; but there is no record of the
destruction of the privateers at the Admiralty
or of the spies in the Foreign-office. No head money
was claimed, though the destruction of two privateers
would have brought a good round sum to Captain War-
ner's father, and it is said that, contrary to the peremp-
tory rule of the service, the Nautilus kept no log. In
the absence of all this, the naturalevidence of the destruc-
tion of the privateers, it might be expected that some of
the crew of the Nautilus, who cannot be all dead, would
be produced, but there is no suggestion that any
living man except Captain Warner himself knows
anything of the fate of these two unlucky vessels ;
nay, we have not even a reference to a newspaper
paragraph. Nor is this all. Captain Warner, in his
correspondence with the Government, rates the expense