The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-18 00:00:00

TO THE .EDITOR OF THE SCS
SlR,—Livii,g in a remote corner of tire empire, it was_
only this morning that I perused the debates in Parlianaoli!
on the Oregon question, which will be hailed it'
delight by every Briton who has tile honour of I°3
country at heart.
Tice present crisis between this country arid Airlerir
is certainly one of fearful importance, and it is to
hoped that the new President of the United? tates win
maturely consider the consequences that may sult fromr
his decision before be involves his own country a Iv:,
with the British
.empire, a war which may, shake t.
boasted institutions of his Government to their found"
tion, and plunge a great portion of the citizens of the
United States in utter ruin and desolation.
Mr. Polk, the new President of the United State',
seems giddy with his recent exaltation, and anxious.t°
signalise the limited period of his brief authority by
making the Blitish Government to crouch to anY
tha
he may please to impose on it, without dreaming of „
possibility of Britain being able to make any .iunpress.w:
upon the American U hien ; and, under this unpressMu
e'
he sets Britain and all other Governments at &fiat;
calling upon their subjects to revolutionise their °",,.
countries, and fraternise with the must virtuous slideft` y
lightened Government on the face of the earth, Wet
keeping in the back ground that their own Govern p
the
is bankrupt, both in credit and reputation, en f
damning fact of the horrid and inhuman elate°, 10. e
slavery which is upheld in their southern states, Where
human beings are made to breed like cattle, sod their
unhappy progeny ale seld like cattle, and sent to
11111 W countries in the far west, where their lives are Dot
worth more than from two to three years' purchto °
The virtuous citizens of the United States ialaY `hem fur
the idea that the wrath of tied will overtake th
this inhuman traffic, but such they may rely IW° ill
certainly be the case, and I will now unfold to them --be
easily it may be ac tale mi, and how Britain maYn
made the instrument of inflicting this vengeance !I,Apj g
them and their country—the British Empire pcsse'—ilie
mare means of aggression against America
rest of the world put together, and America being
other
vulnerable to attack from Britain than from nay et
nation. r the
Britain could at once land on the shores cLirty
southern or slave states of America from thirty t° '1)
thousand disciplined sepoys, led on by British °Wel
in a high state of discipline, and accustomed to eict° ;
not one of whom would de,,eit, and send along with tere
a complete train of artillery, with veteran gli°l-4s
than all
ore
With this force she could send from the West lcuriji
few thousand disciplined Africans, conaraandel",,si•
British officers, to make acquaintance with their ela'„"t;
and with this combined force she could land fronityle:ith
to thirty thousand British bayonets, accompanied ~-eoi•
arms, clothing, and accoutrements for 300,000 ern—
paced negroes. le of
Against this overwhelming force, I ask the Pc°,.P 60$
America what resistance they could make? Oh tl'entipg
proclamation from British head-quarters gra`lield
liberty to the slave, the unhappy African race :jet°
immediately desert their masters, and be forrceu‘,,-01cl
corps for their destruction, and the whole force
.Lerte
advance into the interior. like the simoom of the
destroyii.g all that opposed them. de i°
The sepoys only require that the promises made
them should be faiA Melly kept, and from their et',',oo.
inept to their officers, they will readily follow "seie
The writer of this has been with them on foreign note
vice oftener than once, and he thinks be sees thetahoes,
march three paces to the front, with their tuilitarYa!'
when volunteering to follow their officers. et
I tell the citizens of the slave states that their peewee
fancied security depends altogether upon the forbear;oo.
of the British Government, and that so long ssi,thher/
tinue to possess a slave population, they free
tinuelly exposed to destruction from their efforts °true.
themselves from their cruel yoke—that the
usl etiPers:ed,
ture of their constitution is built up with the Wittig, ta
blood of their hapless slaves, and that when the ~eir
the
retribution arrives, great and dreadful will be
geance they will take upon their inhuman masters'. pri.
With the powerful force I have mentioned, Gresyri is
tain could at once settle the question of elaiheeaclif
America, and oblige the repudiators of their own "their
who are lost to ad sense of honesty, to pay le tilos
bonds with interest to the last farthing, at the ea`-- tor
that they would bring our dispute about the Oregon
ritory to a speedy termination. n
A " SIPAHI SIB

RA IL WAYS. „2„.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUl".ivi ►Sit
SIR,—AII secrets are better out respcting
apd
to prevent the knowing ones fleecing the igiari:goo.
thinking many will be obliged for the following is
corset
allow don, you, perhaps, will allude to or allo per
in your paper :—The Leeds and Manchester srebestal
iating for the lease of the Huddersfield and Mane itiw
thus throwing overboard the Leeds and Dewsbull'
securing the succet,s of the West Riding Jinic,ti9lioS.
Yours, &c. W. THOU
York, April 10.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE Sllniceoce'
Sin,—ln reading the debate on the auction
°col
I was much surprised to find no Member tdcnoesr‘
the general interest of the revenue, and which
to me so very clear--which is that the dot
for cities or boroughs should be fifteen poullus'
others places seven p;:unds ten shillings. It iv°l.ll'-e ley
the greatest revenue, as I feel confident that not °lll,os
would be tak.'n out in the cities and boroughs' ,opse,
great tailing off in tie country places would be the ,;000
(lite; ce of one utiitorm charge; but reducing it hall iiptrt
insure a continuance f the same number in the c°-ts,
which is a great convcnience to the rural distrileapsr
may be observed that the agriculturists 10%,
titularly feel the benefit of the continuance of 1, reri
pra-er's separate license, as nine times out of tee Toeti
are called in for the valuation between farreel,.„dtli°
there is an exchange of tenants, they und,rsta.ool"
nature of it much better than au auctioneer. itoi,
Ripon, April 12. A FAR°

GLASS MANUFACTURE'
Concurrently with the abolition of the duties ottiod
recent improvements are likely to give an extra(); jeri
impulse to the manufacture of it, and to cause..ft
terial to be employed for the fabrication of a v.-an efria
articles it has hitherto never been applied to, inpeoai'l
of man), which require strength and solidity--:,,tuet of ciros
gravity of glass being very great (about half '41.21-3 f
iron)—consequently when used in thick messes 1 !Ice°
liable to acci:lental injury. To afford one leadenat)o.
its applicability to nolel purposes we may h l'ote
employ ment of glass of deep and brilliant golden A
frames to smell or moderate sized pictures
‘,lO $13.0
orname :ts in friezes or cornices, capitals of dtinc'-uteclat
pilasters, and a variety of decorations now eXI-4,5011,'°1;
gilding—one very obvious advantage over the '—foibilci
tioned mode being durability, owing to the the eOl
of fading or tarnishing. We do not say that Poyi
would be so precisely the same that the erieloloti 6
distinguish between ornaments cast in goal gull
glass, and those coated by a surface of SCOI/„1:
yet the beauty of the one mode might be fully so
that of the other, although with a different.' 0 0 .
then, new resources seem to be " opened lir'
Scotch say, to decorators. Ord,o
Looking to a more immediate and obvious Ptak.,"
architectural embellishment by means of the flea` eutwor
have been strink by the decidedly great improvenrle ty
has lately been introduced into the manufaetta
namental patterns in coloured glass for vvind°„"oo,,,,
Messrs. Powell, of Temple- street, Fleet-street'
for its superior economy no less than its intrinele,e-rdlei
is incontestably preferable to that produced au'''',oo,o
the usual process. Instead of being traced on °lls. lof
burnt-in of a darker or nearly opaque colour, naideoFtjeli
terns on diapered glass may now, in e°1351-110
Messrs. Powell's invention, be cast in the pas 4sl;
by a single operation—an improvement analog— tr."
of printing compared with manuscript. TII:er00:4d
thus produced in relief, or actually ernhos..,,act °li
side of the glass, whereby is not only gret.„'seCii
and uniformity of outline obtained, but 51" 4091
and singularly beautiful effect; for, owing to Lilt,
tion of the light, a sort of gem-like, flickering wt, Olio;
takes place, productive of richness, without til°_,Agi e;
gaudiness. Of course such glass is nionoCn"; 01°oft i
although each guard or pane is only of singa ,10°,
the different panes may be of different hues, V.:OOV
different shapes and sizes, so that any.e"ra.l,'"" 4
patterns and colours can be introduced into t'"" ,04
design of windows so executed. Besides ltilope 0 r
00
value for " painted windows," where the 016°10 i•ii4
is to be so filled in, this embossed coloured go,be
admirably adapted for window blinds (i°5,04 ,ed
while highly ornamental within, they could r, s;01:1,1/0
tually serve as a screen from without), that' " oorAlt
be a matte. of of surprise were blinds of the kill'. ocero O'f
come into vogue. Embossed glass is further secitee o'
of variety of colour, for we observed one sl:' niece,
Messrs. Powell's show .room, in which sraallerf 000/
different hues were inlaid into certain parts ° cujeddi
tern, so that it had the appearance of being °lye eV
gems; whereas large masses of the more inteinriop,loo
are apt to have a rather overpowering, too gifle fie;:heo
somewhat crude effect—one less pleasing le tAbfreel
themselves than for the coloured light sbe'
upon other objects. .0 the
This invention is about to be employed 1:
ion of the New Hall of Lincoln's Inn.

le° Of
and
TUB FAUGH-A-BALLAGH.—ThiS !levy , 0.1.0
iron steamer, built for the Drogheda Steara-paclceL' 004,14 froi
Messrs. Caird and Co., the eminent engineers ofeGrc'en batief
in our river on Wednesday, after a voyage Of le°,,elel „tie?
Drogheda. The Faugh.a.Ballagh is a beautiful P:e 4100 ff
architecture, and so constructed as to combine all t.",,, er/
swift :tiller with the capabilities which are essential,:t;
pr
cient steadiness In the heaviest seas. She 15
her length all over is 195 feet, length of keel, 190
beam 26 feet, and depth of hold 151 she if, It 7
beautiful pair of engines, each 150 horse power
malleable iron framings 0:1 a new and greatlYirar
by which greater strength is united with a
graceful appearance. The ornamental aPP'
are of an exceedingly chaste descriptir
very elaborately worked, displaying
gracefully intertwined with various
devices. The rich mahogany furni'
panelling, so tastefully relieved with
ornamented mirrors, and the lofty
give an air of grandeur to the ca'
tion of all who have beheld it.
been studied as well as elegar
been made for the most pert
did state-rooms, one of w
for ladies, and is most cor
is capacious and lofty,
ample accommodatior
here a large party
other gentlemen h
were entertained
the enterprishir
—Liverpool
SINGUI
lambs belr
ham had