The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-29 00:00:00

THE SONG OF STEAM.

The following beautiful and powerful stanzas, by C. W
Cutter, are copied from an American paper, called the. Loc-
king Valley Register :
Harness me down with your iron bands,
Be sure of your curb and rein ;
For I scorn the power of your puny hands
As the tempest scorns a chain.
How I laughed, as I lay concealed frum sight
For many a countless hour,
At the childish boast of human might,
And the pride of humah power.
When I saw an army upon the land,
A navy upon the seas,
Creeping along, a snail-like band,
Or waiting the wayward breeze;
When I marked the peasant faintly reel
With the toil which he daily bore,
As he feebly turned at the tardy wheel,
Or tugged at the weary oar.
When I measured the panting courser's speed,
The flight of the carrier dove,
As they bore the law a king decreed,
Or the lines of impatient love ;
I could not but think how the world would feel,
As these were outstripped afar,
When I should be bound to the rushing keel,
Or chained to the flying car.
Ha! ha! ha! they found me at last,
They invited me fl.rth at length,
And I rushed to my throne with thunder blast,
And laughed in my iron strength.
Oh then ye saw a wondrous change
On the earth and ocean wide,
Where now my fiery armies range,
Nor wait for wind or tide.
Hurrah ! hurrah! the waters o'er,
The mountains steep decline,
Time—space—have yielded to my pow. A—
. world! the world is mine!
The rivers the sun bath earliest blest,
Or those where his beams decline ;
The giant streams of the queenly West,
Or the orient floods divine.
The ocean pales where'er I sweep,
To hear my strength rejoice,
And the monsters of the briny deep
Cower, trembling at my voice.
I carry the wealth and the lord of earth,
The thoughts of the god-like mind ;
The wind lags after my flying forth,
The lightning is left behind.
In the darksome depths of the fathomless mine
My tiresome ann doth play,
Where the rocks never saw the sun decline,
Or the dawn of the glorious day.
I bring earth's glittering jewels up
• From the hidden cave below,
And I make the fountain's granite cup
With a crystal gush overflow.
I blow the bellows, I forge the steel
In all the shops of trade;
I hammer the ore and turn the wheel
Where my arms of strength are made;
I manage the furnace, the mill, the mint,
I carry, I spin, I weave ;
And all my doings I put into print,
On every Saturday eve.
I've no muscle to weary, no breast to decay,
No bones to be " laid on the shelf,"
And soon I intend you may " go and play,"
While I manage the world by myself.
But harness me down with your iron bands,
Be sure of your curb and rein,
For I scorn the strength of your puny hands
As the tempest scorns a chain.

OPENING OF LINCOLN'S-INN lIALL BY HER MA-
JESTY.—On Thursday next Lincoln's-inn will be closed by order of
the benchers to all persons, except to such as have professional busi-
ness to transact within the inn.
FORTIFYING LIER MAJESTY'S DOCK-YARD AT WOOL-
WICII.—The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have at length
determined that Woolwich Dock-yard, the first naval and most
ancient port in Europe, shall be immediately placed in a state of
fortification. A large number of guns will be mounted facing the
river, and it is stated to be their lordships' intention to erect en the
Essex side of the Thames a similar battery of guns.
The Rev. John Peel, brother of Sir Robert Peel,
Bart., Canon of Canterbury, it is understood has accepted the
Deanery of Canterbury, vacant by the relinquishment of the Bishop
of Oxford, Dr. Begot, now Bishop of Bath and Wells.
Sir Robert Peel will "raise the first sod" of the
Trent Valley Railway on his own estate during the present week.
The Newcastle Journal states that Mr. George Hudson, M.P., has
been honoured with an invitation to spend a few days with Sir Robert
at Drayton Manor.
Mr. L. J. Papineau arrived in Montreal on the
evening of the 9th October.
~;,,We regret to learn that Sir George Murray has
been suffering lately from very delicate health.
THE CHURCH.—OXFORD, OCT. 25.—The Rey.
C. 11. Collyns, M.A., Student of Christ Church, and late Curate of
St. Mary Magdalen Church, in this city, has resigned his Student-
ship, and entered the Roman Catholic Church at Prior Park, Bath.
The Rev. F. Oakeley, M.A., has resigned the Senior Fellowship of
Balliol College, in consequence of the late decision of the Cotat of
Arches, which precludes hint from performing its duties. Mr.
Oakeley has, onsimilar grounds, resigned his stall 14 Lichfield Cathe-
dral.
THE FAST DAY IN GLAsgow.—Thursday was the
Sacramental Fast-day here, and it was observed mach in the usual
way that it has been of late years. The weather s‘ 'as dry, and nu-
merous parties went abroad in steamboats and by railway, and all
other sorts of conveyances. The churches were tA ell attended, not-
withstanding, by the serious and thinking portion 4,f the community.
We observed many more people employed at their daily labour than
used to be long ago, and even the servants of the Clyde Trust were
engaged as on ordinary days, in deepening and embanking the river.
Glasgow Constitutional.

ACCIDENT ON THE EDINBURGH AND DALKEITH
RAILWAY.—About ten o'clock on Thursday evening, an accident of a
serious description occurred on the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway.
It appears that a carriage from Dalhousie Mains came into contact
with one from Dalkeith, at a point near Sheriff-hall, where the lines
meet, and so violent was the collision that both carriages were upset
upon the rails. The greatest alarm prevailed fur several minutes,
and fears were entertained that the consequences were even more
serious than they subsequently tu, ned out to be. The driver of the
carriage from Dalkeith, whose name is Duncan M'Donald, bad both
his legs broken; and Mr. Scott, the manager of the railway, who was
in one of the carriages, received a severe wound on the lid of the knee.
With the exception of some slight contusions in oae or two instances,
the rest of the passengers escaped unhurt. We understand that the
driver of the carriage from Dalkeith was more than once called on to
pull up; but he either did not hear, or could net atop in sufficient time
An investigation has been ordered by the anthcrit!as.—Scotsman.
A JoKE SPOILED.—An unfortunate misprint in
the report of the proceedings at the Manchester Athenaeum soiree
has completely spoiled an excellent joke of Sam Lover's. He is re-
presented as saying that he was.nearly in the same predicament as
Mr. Dickens (who was unable to attend en account of the delicate
state of his wife's health), as he had been detained at Beddicomt.e.
Now Mr. Lover had been making a profess;aaal tour in Devonshire,
and what he said was, that he had been detained at Babbicombe.
The five-pound notes of the Dudley and West
Bromwich Bank have the words .‘ Five Pounds" ainied upon each
of them no fewer than one thousand nine hundred and five times, and
the whole is clear and distinct, and may be read with the naked eye.
FIRE AT CHELSEA.—On Monday morning, between
one and two o'clock, the premises of Mr. Groves, grocer, oil-
man, and chessemongei, of Keppel-street, Chelsea, were dis
covered to be on fire. The family were asleep in their beds
when alarmed, and they with some difficulty effected their
escape in their night-dresses. A mounted express was dis-
patched to the engine station, and by the great exertions of
the firemen they succeeded in extinguishing the flames, but
not until the entire stock was destroyed, and extensive
damage done to the furniture and premisi.s. In what man-
ner the fire originated is unknown.

THE " TIMES" and the RAILWAY

SYSTEM.

(From the Sentinel,. October 25.) 7.

We may well question the purity of that public virtue
which aids and abets the very enterprise it unceasingly con-
demns, and are justified in doubting that consistency which
daii—takes sums of money to a large amount fur circulating
what it pronounces delusive and fraudulent, Such, however,
is the conduct of the Times, which publishes double supple-
ments of railway advertisements, and t hen declares to the world
that its columns are the medium by which swindlers may plun-
der the unwary. It certainly does not express itself in, these
very terms, but the spirit and tendency of its writings justly
bear this unstrained interpretation ; fur, if nine-tenths of the
schemes which the Times advertises are designedly con-
cocted to extract the deposits, without any intention, on the
part of the projectors, to go before Parliament, on what
moral principle can the Times justify itself in giving pub-
licity to such schemes? Why does it not virtuously refuse
the advertisements? Will its numerous readers be deterred
from speculating, when they hear that the Times is receiv-
ing, perhaps, a thousand pounds a day from the funds of
organised cheats? Would not the impression on the public
be far Stronger, were the Times to drop its supplements, and
avow its resolution no longer to circulate advertisements of
a dishonest character? This is the test by which we would
try the mercantile morality of the Leading Journal.
The Times asks, " Can any one deliberately expect that
the thirty millions will be really forthcoming? Is it pos-
sible that the hundreds of thousands of shareholders can really
pay ten per cent. on each of the many millions of shares now
in the market ?" These questions are not fairly put. It is
assumed that three hundred millions of capital are about to
be invested simultaneously in railways, and we are asked,
whence the ten per cent. on that sum, or thirty millions, are
to be found ? The assumption is erroneous, and the reason-
ing built upon it falls to the ground. In the first place, the
competing lines will coalesce after a trial of strength ; secondly,
many lines will be abandoned; thirdly, some years must
elapse before the schemes which will ultimately succeed, can,
by possibility, receive the sanction of Parliament. Therefore
instead of three hundred millions, one-third of that sum will
be sufficient for all the lines, and many years will elapse be-
&re the state of the works will require its advance. This
capital will not be invested simultaneously, but gradually,
and at intervals, so that, in whatever view we consider the
subject, there appears to be net the slightest cause for panic
or apprehension.
The general argument of the Times proceeds on the pi in-
ciple, that no public work is to be undertaken in any country
unless it has heaped up in some cellar or store a certain gnat:-
tity of gold and silver. The intelligence of the people is not
to contrive, the physical strength is not to execute, any un-
dertaking, unless the precious metals are within their reach.
Their presence alone is to give activity to the brain and the
musch s. Nay, more, however necessary any new works may
be, even the reclaiming of waste land for the supply of defi-
cient food, they must not be commenced unless a certain de-
posit cf some ounces of gold or silver is lodged in the hands
of a public functionary. It amounts to this, that none but
rich people or rich nations are to make any progress in civili-
sation. The absurdity of this argument will be obvious, if
we merely consider, that man did emerge from barbarism and
arrive at a very improved social state long before geld er
silver mines were discovered. Now, had the law, as it exists
in England, always existed among all nations, it is very
clear that man never could have emerged from barbarism ;
this reasening is fundamental, and at one blow destroys all
the quackery of the bullionists.
If it were contended, that the supply of iron being
railways, into whose construction it enters, must also be
limited, we should admit the force of the argument, since it
is physically impossible for man to increase the quantity t f
iron. He can only extract what is deposited in the bowels m f
the earth. But the case of money is widely different. Money
is purely conventional: it may be multiplied indefinitely.
Just as population increases and industrial operations arc
expanded, so may money be expanded. Money is the servant
of labour, not its master. It is the instrument or tool IN ith
which labour works, and the visible, tangible, convertible
produce of labour becomes the substance and reality of
which money is the sign or symbol. Hence it follows, that
the only real limitation to money is the limitation to pro-
duction, for wherever there is property, there the holder of
such property ought to be entitled to create its representative
in money. Under such a system civilisation would proceed
rapidly and safely, since nothing more would be required
in a state than industry, heads to contrive and hands to
execute.

The Birmingham Railway, for instance, is a visible and
tangible
.property. It is as much so as a gold mine, and its
revenue is as certain as the revenue of the Customs or Excise.
On what principle, then, can it be contended, that the pro-
prietors of the Birmingham Railway ought not to be per-
mitted to circulate representatives of their property in the
shape of money, say Birmingham Railway notes? Is there
any tradesman in London who would refuse to take such
notes, were they in circulation? Now let us suppese that
this Birmingham Company desired to extend their line, and
that the estimated cost of such extension were computed at
half a million. Why should they not have the power of
issuing notes to that amount, and thus, on the security of the
exiting line, create the extension line? Would the con-
tractors refuse such notes, or the labourers, or the tradesmen
who supply the labourers? These notes would be money in
the sense in which we undentand that word.

Now let us look at the monetary system under which we
live. We have made the commodity gold a privileged
metal ; we have fixed its price by Act of Parliament, and
made it the standard measure of all other commodities. It
is the master, not the servant, cf British industry. Heaped
up in the Bank cellars, it lies there in sheer 'uselessness ;
other metals are constantly performing some industrial func-
tion, but this aristocratic metal reposes in true lordly
idleness. Merchants, with feverish anxiety, look at the
Bank weekly returns, to ascertain how many ounces are
added to or substracted from the heaps; and when it is moved
away to the Continent, the intelligence of the wise and the
labour of the industrious are absolutely prostrated.
Yet our brains are not disordered nor our sinews unstrung ;
our productive power, our capability to direct the plough or
the loom, are just in the same condition; but the wisdom
Parliament has said, " People of Britain, unless gold abounds
in the Bank ceEars, you shall not eat your bread in the sweat
of your brow; we will aggravate the primeval curse, and
sentence you to beggary and want, unless the graven images
of the precious metals are brought back to their subterranean
temple in Threadneedle- street."
W hen, then, we are told by the Times, that we have net
MONEY enough to execute the projected railways, we ask—
What does the Times mean by money? If, by the term, it
understands bits of bullion in the shape of sovereigns,
we agree that we have no sufficiency of that
metal ; but, we deny that bits of bullion are
MONEY ; they are commodities, not money ; and then
the question arises, Are public works in the immediate execu-
tion of which millions of operatives are employed, and whose
completion adds, through reproduction, to the permanent
weal h of the empire, to be suspended or abandoned, because
one particular metal may be wanting? Is that to be the
condition on which alone industry and intelligence are to be
PERMITTED to exercise their active and self-sustaining use-.
fulness? 'We admire the Times for its noble denunciation of
the poor-law ; but when it upholds a monetary system,
which is the true parent of union workhouses, and now at-
tempts, through panic-mongering, to throw the labouring
classes out of employment, we blush for the ignorance or dis-
honesty of the Leading Journal.
We will proceed a step further. The social destiny of man
is progression through labour. The more that labour is em-
ployed under the direction of science, which itself is only
skilled labour, the greater will that progression be. In as
enlightened country labour can only be checked by the crime,
of war or the folly of legislation. The brain is ever ready
to contrive and the hand to execute, and accumulations
of property are the exponents of their combined work-
ing. Since the desires of man are insatiable, there is no
natural limit to consumption ; and hence, under natural
views, by which we mean the constitution of humanity,
there never can be over-production. But, he who consumes,
must produce an equivalent, and that he will do under the
stimulus of the desire of consumption. Nothing more, then,
is wanted than a proper distributive agent, by which produc-
tions may be interchanged. That agent is money. If you
limit it, you limit both consumption and production, and you
do limit it, when you enact that gold, at a fixed price, shall
be the sole distributive agent. When the gold quits the
country, the country is then in the state of a street, along
which the thoroughfare is impeded, by repairing the
sewers. In both cases, distribution ceases. Adam Smith
has compared money to a road. We widen and multi-
ply our roads as trade and population increase; but,
most inconsistently, we narrow and diminish our
money. Our accumulated property, visible and tangible,
swells from year to year, yet we will not allow that
property to augment the number of its symbols or re-
presentatives. Thus we make every description of property,
subservient to that particular property called gold, and there-
fore the holders of the gold are the masters, the absolute and
despotic masters, of all the skilled and unskilled labour in the
country. More than that; if the gold is exported, the fo-
reigner does in effect become the temporary master of British
property, for large quantities of that property must be given
to the foreigner to get back the metal. Our conclusion
that if railway proprietors are wise, they will unite together
for a repeal of the money laws, and insist on issuing their own
notes on the guarantee of their respective lines.

THE LATE STORM.
(From the John o' Groat Journal of the I ith instant.)
The wind on Wednesday week blew from an easterly
direction, and raised in our bay a swell greater than any of
our oldest citizens ever remember. To look from any direc-
tion, the sea presented a scene of wildness and terrific fury,
which no pai can adequately pourtray. The mountain
billows, as they dashed against the shore, drove every.
thing before them, and covered the 'ground to an incre-
dible distance with spray, so much so, that a number
of corn fields are entirely destroyed, and at several sta-
tions along the coast, boats which were supposed to have
been drawn up far beyond the reach of the sea are
much injured. During the continuance of this fear-
ful gale, a great number of vessels passed our shores, some of
them bearing signals of distress, and it is much feared that
many a sad and heartrending tale of woe will have to be told
as the result of the storm. So far as we have learned, no
great injury has been done in or to the harbours or creeks
along: our coasts. At Pultneytown harbour, it was once
feared some disasters might occur amongst the shipping lying
there, as the sea was snaking a clean breach over the South
Quay, and even the inner harbour, hitherto considered secure,
was in a state of considerable commotion with the swell.
Providentially, however, no injury was done, save the break-
ing of a few ropes, every precaution being taken by all con-
cerned to prevent the occurrence of any catastrophe.
" Dnring the gale, a Russian brig, name unknown, since
put into £onghope, had the mate and one of the seamen
washed overboard. The cook had three of his ribs broken,
and others of the crew were more or less injured. At the
same time, stancheons and rails were carried away, and the
cabin skylight broken. A vessel from North America was
also driven ashore at Longhope, but it is expected she may
be got off without much damage. It is much to be dreaded
that, when the whole news of the gale shall have been added
together, it will present a catalogue of loss, both by sea and
land, of the most deplorable character. In the interior of the
countr, the storm raged with unabated violence, and a
good deal of injury has been done to the crops. Such was the
tremendous surf along the coast, that, between Pulteney-
town and Scarlet, several dead ling and skate were Could
lying in the fields.:at a considerable distance from the' high-
water mark. On Sabbath, the gale moderated, and we
were favoured with a lovely but most delusive day; for, on
Monday, the stonn egain broke out with great violence, and
the sea raged with extreme fury. On Tuesday, the weather
became once more traeuil, and we would lain hope that we
will now be visited with more genial and agreeable times, for
at least a few weeks, until the precious fruits of the earth
shall have been wholly taken in in safety.
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The Right lion. George Dawson and Captain 11.
P. Dawson have left Sir Robert reel's, Drayton Manor, for Cast!.
Dawson, Inland. Mrs. Dawson is visiting her brother, Mr. Lawrence
Paz!, at Kemp-town, Brighton.

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THE CORN-LAWS AND FREE
TRADE.

TIMES.—It is now two years since, in the recognition of great
exertions, of vigorous perseverance, and unanimous combination,
we denominated the Anti-Corn-law League, a " great fact." It
was a title which that body had merited alike by its organisation
and by its fortune—a title which neither the silliness of some
members, nor the scurrility of others, could impair—a title which
it will retain long after the circumstances which attended its With
shall have ceased to influence the popular mind, and the objects to
the attainment of which it was devoted shall have been fully rea-
lised. We then wrote with its twofold success fresh in our
memory—two elections triumphantly carried against the strongest
influence of its adversaries, and beyond even the most sanguine
wishes of its friends. We now write at a moment when its in-
fluence on the hustings is much diminished, when elections are
carried against its candidates, when its public gatherings have lost
their gloss of novelty, and its pet speakers their tone of petulant
arrogance. Yet never was there so fair a prospect that the object
of its existence would be accomplished. There is an eastern fable
which, like many of its kindred, under an allegory veils a recognised
truth. A certain monster, hideous in aspect and terrible in
strength, is in vain attacked by various assailants. Each is in
succession worsted, and retires with the most ignominious signs of
defeat and humiliation; for it is the privilege of the vanquisher
to stamp upon his human victims his own feral attributes and
fearful mien. At last, after many a conquest so achieved and
signalised, one of the vanquished again enters the lists ; the spell
is forthwith broken ; the work of disenchantment is done;
tho deformsd transformed are again both re• transformed into
their pristine conditions, the one into that of a good
genius, the other into that of a human being. Analogous to this
has been the fate of the League and its opponents. They have
battled fiercely and long against one another. If victory has not
always been on the one side, neither hope nor good temper has
been invariably on the other. Even when victorious on the hust-
ings, or in the registration, the opponents of the League have car-
ried away with them some marks of the monster with whom they
were contending-come of its Irritation, and more of its anxiety
They have never seemed perfectly satisfied with success; and de-
feat has always cowed them beyond reason and beyond hope. But
now their tactics are changing. They snatch weapons from the
armoury of their foe ; they unfurl the hostile banner and march
to hostile symphonies. The disenchantment of the conflict has
commenced ; the object of the League is attained ; it is doing its
work by the agency of men who once struggled against it. It is
fulfilling its mission by men who are from without ; it prospers by
an unacknowledged alliance, and smooths its ruffled plumes at the
appearance of unasked, but not unwelcome, so-operation. Hence-
forth the League may cease to exist; it may be dis-
solved into its constituent elements; it may lay aside
Its professional acrimony and vituperation. The great
fact is hastening to become a fait accompli. It may expire bodily,
because its spirit has already been transfused into its antagonists.
The signs of the times are not to be mistaken. The indications of
the public mind are clear and intelligible. The shrill small notes
of Captain Rous have deepened into the louder tones of Lord
Ashley and Mr. Escott. The question of the corn-laws is settled
by anticipation. " Their dc,om is fixed." So say men who en-
tered Parliament not to fix that doom, but to avert it—not to
hasten the termination of those laws, but to retard it. Others will
surely follow, and the beginning of the end will arrive. When a
Conservative Member--within the pale of Chandos influence—
says there is no " fighting with the bellies of the people," it is dif-
ficult to conceive that a Minister so amenable to the influence of
popular feeling as the Premier—so blandly conceding when it is
strong, SO prudishly and circumspectly resisting when it is weak—
should persist in a chivalrous devotion to the lubricity of his
favourire scale. To be consistent he too should lubricate. His
political loves have never been inconveniently long, nor tiresomely
constant. He has wooed all and deceived all, from Daphnis to
Chloe—t; em the Protestants 'to the squires—from Sir Harcourt
Lees to lean rattle. He is bound by no hopes of his party,
fore they have ceased to trust in him. He holds their allegiance
by a stronger tenure—that of necessity. The abandonment of
Canning is tieing fully avenged on his deserters. Strange that the
leaaler of that political perfidy should be the only gainer by the
retribution ! But the Nemesis of statesmen, though she may de-
lay, fails not in her awards. Has the Premier no fears? A great
opportunity is at hand—a twofold opportunity, that of redundance
added to that of scarcity. The staple produce of Ireland is
blighted; the *beaten food of England is stinted. By the average
it is made o appear that corn is cheap. But the greater quantity
of c ro now on sale is very bad ; the best corn is very dear.
There is not any far of scarcity or high prices. Men are busily
engaged on other natters. The gambling fever is still on the na-
tion. :Speculation is still active and trade thriving. Labour has
employment and remuneration. What a season for a great
change

" Tibi rident a3quora eceli,
Fortunate puer ! tibi flores dcedala tellus
Neetit, et aspirat Chi suaviter Amphitrite."

How welcome, at such a season, would be a measure for soothing
a general irritation—a measure which, while it unfettered com-
merce from unnatural restrictions, at the same time liberated the
producers of food from the odium of enjoying an unprofitable mo-
nopoly, and its consumers from the vexation of paying an unneces-
sary impost ! How convenient a plea might be found in the wants
of Ireland and the prosperity of Eng:and for a change which would
relieve the former and not injure the latter ! The people of Eng-
land think differently on the corn-laws to what they did three
years ago. The agricultural mind is more at ease as to the danger
of their repeal. Small landowners even are less afraid than they
were. Large landowners are indifferent, or favourable, to their
repeal. Lord Ashley says their doom is fixed. Mr. Enott says
it ougbt to be, Prosperity in Lancashire is avowed to be pros.
perity in Dorsetshire. Will not Sir R. Peel act on such hints
as these ? On his decision in this *atter will rest the little
that remains of his pretensions to political adroitness. His fame
as a statesman and his character as the leader of a great party
are tacitly resigned ; but to have abandoned all their opinions in
turn—to have opposed Catholic Emancipation, and after.
wards endowed Maynooth—yet to have adhered to so condemned
an absurdity as the sliding scale—to have adhered to it in de-
fiance both of friends and foes, of warnings and threats, will offer
a difficulty insuperable to the rhetoric of a partisan or the par-
tiality of a biographer. But it can only be a question of time.
now or a few years hence—quietly or tumultuously, with the dig-
nity of a statesman conferring a benefit, or of a placeman yielding
to a cry. All is fair now. The corn-laws might be settled and the
League dissolved to.morrow ; but let the subject remain unsettled
—let another bad harvest come in the train of its predecessor—let
the horrors of unsuccessful speculation be added to the horrors
of dearth—let men awake from the fitful feverish dream of
making money without work, and buying credit without money—
let them awake and find, in addition to their own beggary, any ob-
stacle however slight or however exaggerated (for they will ex-
aggerate them) to the free expansion of the national energies and
extension of the national commerce—it requires but little know-
ledge of human nature and events to predict the clamour which
must arise, and the consequences which must ensue. It will de-
mand a bolder front than the Premier's to meet the clamour—a
blander tone than his to soothe it.

VISIT OF PRINCE SEYD HILAT TO
WOOL WICK.

Highness Seyd Inlet arrived at Woolwich on Monday at tiro
o'clock, attended by his sword-bearer and two other officers in Per-
sian array, and a Turkish officer as interpreter. The Prince was
elegantly dressed in the Persian costume, and on alighting from a
carriage and four was received by Lieutenant-General Lord Bloom-
field, G.C.B. and G.C.H., Commandant of the Garrison, Major-
General James Webber Smith, Director-General of Artillery, Colonel
Cockburn, Director if the Laboratory Department, Colonel Lacy,
Director of the Carriage Department, and Lieutenant-Colonel Dun-
des, C. 8., Director of the Foundry Department of the Royal Arsenal,
with Major Armstrong, acting Brigade-Major, Captain anti Adjutant
Maclean, and Lieutenant Dickson, of the Royal Artillery.
The Prince was then conducted by Lieutenant-Colonel Duudas to
the boring department, and witnessed brass guns undergoing the
operation of boring and turning otttside on the same turning machine.
In another branch of the establishment the finished brass guns were
having the initials of her Majesty, the initials of the Master-General,
am! the name of the founder, and the year in which they were cast,
engraved upon them, and the whole of the process and other works
le progress were explained to his Highness.
The Prince was then conducted by Colonel Lacy to the carriage
department, where some handsome and very useful machinery,
woreed by steam, has been pat into operation, for making screws
and leering and turning the iron work of the department. His High-
ness in the grime place witnessed the making of lance poles ten feet
long, and appeared pleased to witness square and rough pieces of
timber inserted in the box of the turning lathe, and on being pulled
through, in one minute emerge at the other side, a perfect lance
pole, as smooth as it,could be possible to make It. In another branch
of this department, his highness witnessed Brarnah's powered plan-
ing machine in operation, reducing the massive timbers of ship and
garrison carriages to the required thiekness, anti perfectly finishing
them at one process. Colonel Lacy showed the Prince one of the
handsome 6-pounder brass guns cast expressly at the Royal Arsenal
for the purpose of being presented by her Majesty to the Prince's
father, the Imaurn of Muscat. In the sante place as the gun, a
hateleome gun carriage and limber were shown. The carriage is
aemirably suited for the short gun it will mount, and the wheels do
nor Wand higher than about three feet, the whole being adapted to
suit the small horses of the country cf the Imams.
On leaving the carriage department, Colonel Cockburn conducted
his Wellness to the Laboratory. Ihe materials of NI hide gunpowder
er made were shown to the Prince, in all their various stages, both
befere and after manipulation ; and also various-sized rockets and
engines of destruction, kept In the south room. The making of
niusizet-balls by compression, and the old plan, by which they used
to be cast In moulds, was shown to his Royal Highness, and then the
Inakieg and finishing of percussion caps, with which he appeared
greatly delighted.
His Highness and suite, with the oaken present, proceeded at
three o'clock to the residence of Lord Bloomflekl, and partook of an
elegant dejeuner, anti at a quarter to four o'clock proceeded to the
cot;imon, where the three troops of the Royal Horse Artillery had
previously rtesembled, under the commend of Colonel Dyneley,
The rapidity of the firing, the celerity of the movements of the
trumps, and the correctness of the evolutions, appeared to gratify the
Prince.
his Highness, at the conclusion, through the interpreter, expressed
Ids approbation of all lie had witnessed; and at a quarter before.five
o'clock entered his carriage to return to London.

NEW CHANCERY ORDERS.—The new Chancery
orders, 128 ia number, which were issued by the Lord Chancellor on
the Bth of May last, take effect from this day. The extension of
railway cciumunication has, amongst many other benefits, at length
ethictei'.. Chancery practice, and removed the delays ar sing from the
diflerence in the times al:owed in procedure in town and country
causes. fly the IGth of the present orders, the distinction in the
perio is allowed for process in t wn and country causes is wholly
abolish,-d. The orders are known to have been prepared with great
cure, and after much deliberation. They will remove many of the
grounds of complaint made by suitors of the delay and expense in
Chancery proceedings. Many of them relate to the technicalities In-
ei,ient to equity pleadings, which will hereby be much simplified and
facilitated.—Herald.

THE REV. JAMES FORMBY AND THE GRAVES
END AND itOCUNSTEE RAILWAY COMPANY.—No progress has yet
been made towards an adjustment of the 'differences between the
above parties. Early en Friday morning the remaining sycamore
trees on the line of the intended road were cut down, by whom is
not known ; and on Saturday the Rev. Gentlemen employed twelve
men, some in throwing the earth from the side of his wall, by which,
it seems, he claims a three-feetfootpath, and others in digging a saw-
pit on the disputed ground, for the purpose, as he alleges, of cutting
up the fitlicn trees. It having been reported that a number of the
railway men, plate-layers, and others, would he brought down from
Gravesend or Ingham in opposition to these proceedings, Mr. Hay-
w.ad, en the part of Mr. Formby, applied to the magistrates for the
whole of the police force to preserve the peace, and an affidavit
itavit.g been made by James Wyatt, Mr. Formby's foreman, that he
apprehended a breach of the peace, the whole of the police force were
taken to the spot. accompanied by the Mayor and Captain Baker,
mid attended by Mr. Prall, the clerk to the magistrates, armed with
the Riot Act, in the expectation that its reading might le called for.
Mr. Formby's men were desired to leave their work, and the
threatened descent front Gravesend or Higham not having taken
place, the magistrates, after waiting some time, returned from the
place, leaving the police there for the consesVlon of the peace,
which at present remains undisturbed.

OPPOSITION TO THE PARRINGDON-STREET TER..
'MINI.— On Monday, in consequence of it having become known to the
inhabitant householders in Farringdon-street and the locality (whose
houses wiil have to be removed for the line to be formed by the
Direct London and Manchester Railway, and for the terminus to be
constructed In Farringdon-market, and between that spot and Harp-
That tile Committee to which a plan had been referred by a
court or Ci Coon, 11 would report in its favour, a petition in
• opposition old:One:1 immeretis signatures, to be presented to the Court
at its Lext meeting, when the subject of the adoption of the proposal
oY tl,c eon:pally to ptirchme the market will be taken into con-

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s;,',;':.tints by that lady. The petitioners set forth that a great
‘a:Tidee of propert,' would be the consequence of the removal of
such a large number of houses as will lie required for the cons-
Prem:aes, bile the most serious injury would be inflicted on
trafteßlT,Nl who wou'd be compelled to leave; and they suggest the
Vroptiet v of allowing the site of Smithfield-market to be substituted,
hich they allege contains a sufficient area for the termini and
warehensts that would be required by the various companies who
have appllvd for stations In larringdon-street. They also state in
the.r withal that there are numerous streets leading into Smith-
field which could be made available for traffic at a small expense,
and that in snaking the alteration necessary fir the termini in Far-
01100n-street, an immense outlay of money will be necessary. Some
of the Common Councilmen of the ward have been applied:to:upon the
subject,
and they have promised to take the subject into their con-
ider ation.

Within the last fortnight several Government offi-
,:'als have been examining the state of they
„ramparts and other de-
f. 'lees of Berwick. It is known that Government
oTtihave iu contem•
p'fitiittrani3ScktiSiVe,plart for the improvement
r ~,,,,,rourtf,lll tlilew of hostilities breaking with the
ge means of de-
grasping aggressions of iiitt*tSra&A 16-congetLuence of the
..o i att4 ick.hit'ringemArtt* our territorial rights on the North
• gdratncCilltflielit-' =II 1.4 401 improbable, therefore, that at no' di
il.tiircArliflcatioilly,rofillen.vick may ba put Into a state sof
Zr''' . WA , 411 tte*brilgt)4yd with cannon, and sufficient force of
ft lOtf,,Cliti thebarra4l3 to repel temporarily the attack of an
mil iwy 0
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