The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-09 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Saturday
next, the 13th instant, at Osborne House, Isle of Wight.
The Council is appointed at one o'clock in the after-
noon.

Sir James Graham left town yesterday morning to
pay a visit to Lord Stanley, at Walton. The Right Hon.
Baronet returned to town in the afternoon.
Dispatches from the Governor of Malta, and also from
the Governor of Gibraltar, were received yesterday at
the Colonial-office.

" Mesmerism" has of late attracted somuch of the
public attention, that we do not feel surprised at its having
been selected as a fit subject for the novel reader, and in the
hands of so experienced a writer of fiction as the author of
" Brambletye House," as may readily be imagined, it is treated
with all the effect that could be given to it. " Love and
Mesmerism," for such is the interesting title of this new work,
is pronounced in literary circles not only the best of Horace
Smith's numerous productions, but one of the most striking
and original romances that have been put forth for some time.
DEPLORABLE AND FATAL ACCIDENT FROM A
POLICE VAN.—An interesting male child, under two years
old, named Crate, belonging to a confectioner, &c., in Great
Peter-street, Westminster, was, at about eleven o'clock this
morning, crossing this thoroughfare, not far from its parent's
house, at a moment when the police van from Tothill-fields
Bridewell, was passing, which knocked the child down, and ran
over its neck and face. It was immediately conveyed, in a
most excruciating state of suffering—its eyes gushing out, and
hanging from their sockets, and its brains frightfully protruding,
to the Westminster Hospital, where every attempt to save its
life proved unavailing.
BuxonToN, SEPT. B.—Lady Elizabeth Lowther
left here on Saturday by the General Steam Navigation Company's
packet Menai, for Dieppe. Great preparaticns arc making at Eu
for the rceeption of her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria,
expected on Tuesday. The whole of the performers front the
Opera Comique are to arrive on Monday, to give a series of per-
formances at the Chateau ; they muster one hundred, including the
orchestra.

WOOLWICH, SEPT. 8 —The Lightning steam-ves-
sel, Mr. Petley, Master-Commander, arrived at three o'clock, P.M.,
from Antwerp, with two of the royal carriages used by her Ma.
jesty's suite on the Continent, and they were immediately landed
at the West Wbarf, adjoining the baB in, to be forwarded to Buck-
ingham Palace.

IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN CATTLE.—A rather
novel feature in our local trade is presented in the importation of
foreign cattle to this port, a cargo of oxen having arrived at Cove
yesterday per the Isabeßa from Corunna. They will be landed and
for sale to-day on Messrs. Seymour's Whar£ We understand they
are in good condition, but certainly after the payment of all ex-
penses, and 1/. per head import duty under the new tariff; they are
not likely to be a very remunerative speculation for the importer,
particularly when offered for sat immediately after a long sea
voyage.—Cork Southern Reporter>

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TBE EX PERIMENTAL SQUADRON
Notwithstanding the boasted assertion to the contrary of
the apologists-for the surveyor's ships, no official dispatches
have been received by the Admiralty informing their Lord-
ships of the details of the trial sailings. The ex parte state-
ments puffing the surveyor's ships have emanated from the
Navy Office, and, theretbre, not the slightest reliance can be
placed on them. To every impartial person in the slightest
degree acquainted with naval matters, it is apparent that
whatever advantage was gained by the surveyor's ships
Queen and Albion was, under the circumstances already pub-
lished, obtained by reason of their immense spread of canvas
and lighter armaments, the Queen having 2,500 square feet
of canvas more than the St. Vincent and the Trafalgar, and
the Albion having 3,800 square feet more than each of those
two ships, and 2,700 more than the other two-deckers, the
Queen also having a less armament and ammunition than the
Trafalgar and St. Vincent, and a less complement of men,
and the Albion having a less armament and ammunition
than the Rodney.
The Naval and Military Gazette quotes our accounts of the
trials; and remarks_ •
" The result of the late trials of the ships of the experi-
mental squadron has, we deem, been very unsatisfactory,
inasmuch as that the ships have scarcely ever had wind
enough to make their rates of sailing exceed seven knots off
the wind, and five knots by the wind, thus showing that they
have not had any bad weather to contend against. Our best
hope is that in their next cruise the Gallant Admiral will
keep in from 49 to 52 degrees of N. latitude, and from 12 to 20
to 25 west longitude, when we undertake to say he will be
more likely to find the sort of winds and weathers that are
required to test the merits of the squadron under his orders,
not only in sailing, but in all those more essential qualities
which, as men-of-war, they will be needed to possess when
forming part of our fleets in a future war; we mean by the
frequent exercise in every necessary duty, and in all kinds of
weather."
A correspondent of that journal, the only respectable pro-
fessional London weekly paper, also says :
" Altogether, I consider the reports with regard to their
rate of sailing as meagre and pitiful in the extreme. Why,
the old San Josef, while carrying the flag off Toulon in her
day, used to lash through the water under the three top-
sails, with the main yard square and helm half a turn alee,
nearly as fast as these crack ships go under all sail, with as
much wind as splits the maintopsail of one and causes another
to miss stays. What chance would this flying squadron
have with such ships as the old Sans Pareil, Donegal, Ville
de Paris, or even the old Venerable, Vanguard, Kent, or
Goliath ? Why, if the old Victory was fitted out, she would
run round the whole of them. Can any of your corre-•
spondents inform me why such ships as the Galatea and
Crescent, two noted fast-sailing frigates, were selected, the
ene for a coal depot and the other for a receptacle for negroes,
when either of these ships would have astonished the frigates
of the present day, and would have spared the experi-
mental squadron their courses, and have outsailed them msith
ease ?"
That well known fast-sailing man-of-war, the Donegal,
74, captured from the French, was broken up at Portsmouth
by the Navy Office, in defiance of a protest from men well
calculated to judge of her value. She was considered to be
worth 25,000/. ; but she was broken up at an expense of
1,5001. The Galatea and Crescent, like many other good
old ships, were got rid of because their well-known and
acknowledged superior qualities were obnoxious to the Navy
Office.

The Hampshire Telegraph, to the reports of the fleet which
appeared last week, adds the following confirmation of
them :
" We extract the following from a letter from the sqa-
dron :—The Queen beats the St. Vincent one mile per hour
ahead, and one mile in ten to windward. The St. Vincent
beats the Vanguard half a mile per hour ahead, and one mile
per hour to windward, and the Superb in about the same pro-
portion. The Albion does little as an improved ship, but sails
better than last cruise ; she rolls awfully. It is anticipated
that the surveyor will not now disown the Queen. The
Vanguard and Superb are disgraceful."
Another letter says, "The Queen beats all on every point
of sailing, Canopus, Albion, Rodney, St. Vincent, Trafalgar,
Vanguard, and Superb ; the two latter very bad on all
points, and very leewardly. The weather generally fine.
Accidents to spars immaterial. Casualties in the crew, ten
in the squadron during the cruise. The Admiral has
been confined with the gout the last 14 days : he is now able
to leave his bed."
In calculating the advantages of each vessel on the whole,
they are entitled to be placed thus :
Queen. St. Vincent.
Albion. I Trafalgar.
Rodney. Superb.
Canopus. I Vanguard.
The Vanguard's position is worthy of especial attention.
This was the "crack ship" of the Mediterranean. The Rodney
was said to be nothing to her; but now that she and her
sister ship, the Superb, are stored as line-of-battle ships
ought to be, they are beaten on all points by the Rodney and
Canopus, two-deck ships, both of heavier armament, and by
the St. Vincent and Trafalgar, three deckers. It is now to
be decided how the surveyor's ships will behave in compa-
rison with the others with a light draught of water. The
Admiral is to take them with him to sea for six weeks, with
two months' provisions only to give the Queen and sister-
hood an opportunity of rolling away their spars, and giving
their crews an autumnal bathe.
Since the foregoing account of the experimental squadron
was in the press, we have been favoured with a statement of
the relative merits of the ships, arranged in such a way as to
show not only the order of superiority, but also the exact
relation, numerically stated, which one ship bears to another.
These results have been obtained in a general deduction from
the several trials, by an officer on whose judgment and cor-
rectness we can implicitly rely, and they may be taken as
most fairly representing the true state of the case. The
number placed against each ship shows in what degree it is
superior or inferior to any other.

On a Wind.

on- the Wind.

Queen 56 Queen ...... 31
Albion 46 Rodney 26
Rodney
Canopus 35 Canopus ... 19
Trafalgar
St. Vincent 2O Superb
Superb
Vanguard .. 9 Trafalgar ... 7

General Result of all
Points of Sailing.

Ciagen ... 87
Albion 7O
Rodney
Canopus ...... 54
St. Vincent
Trafalgar........, 35
Suberb 25
Vanguard

Even supposing the Queen, after the botching she has un-
dergone (the last to . the tune of 4,0001.), does better than
before, is it not clear proof that the surveyor is obliged to
throw overboard some of his crude notions in order to arrive
at this modicum of success, thereby acknowledging the
former deficiency and failure of a ship which was pronounced
to be " a perfect man of war?" And how can the Albion,
and much less the Vanguard and Superb, help the " intui-
tive" cause, by their performances, taking the accounts given
to be correct?—the former having been so often beaten by
invariably
loco Rodney and Canopus, and the latter ships
ino,

With retard to the Rodney and the Albion, there can be
no question which is the superior man-of-war. The Rodney
lost one trial by an accident, and in point of qualities,
motherly or otherwise, she cannot be considered inferior to
the Albion ; consequently, her superior height of ports, with
as much stowage, gives her the r uperiority in a vital parti-
cular. But let these two ships get into a heavy swell, and
see which will be able to fight her guns best?
The Trafalgar, by comparison with the Queen, does not
turn out to be the crack ship she was reported to be, her in-
clination being only one half degree more. Give the con-
structor of this ship the same latitude as allowed to the sur-
veyor; let vim expend half thesum of 4,0001. on her, and stow
her without the interference of the surveyor or his partisans,
and we doubt not the Queen will have little to boast of in any
wind.

That old Chip, the Canopus, that held so good a position,
is 230 tons less than the ,4 crack ship," the Vanguard, and
her sister ship the Superb. She stowed the same number of
days' provisi ns as the other ships, whilst the Vanguard and
Superb each took 28 days less. Even according to the name-
less return she has only 42 tuns of water less than the Van-
guard, and we happen to know for a fact that the Canopus
had 64 tuns of water more than the Vanguard, and a heavier
weight of single-shotted broadside.— Ifera'd.

WESTMINSTER REGISTRATION.—Mr. Moylnn, the
barrister, has been appointed to revise the list of voters for the
city of Westminster, but the precise days of holding his Courts
have not at present been determined upon. The following is a
general statement of the claims and objections:—Objections—By
Conservatives, 101. householders, 237; scot and lot, 8. By Re-
formers, 101. householders,
139 ; scot and lot, 36. Claims_By
Conservatives, 101. householders, 35 ;
scot and lot, 2. By Res
formers, 101. householders, 165; scot and lot, 2.
EAST SURREY" REGISTRATION.—Mr. S. C. C• Fish,
the barrister appointed to revise the list of voters for the eastern
division of the county of Surrey, has appointed Monday next for
the commencement of the revision, at Reigate.
FIRE AT ANDOVER.—On Sunday night last a fire
broke out at Andover, in the new street leading to Newbury,
which in spite of all the exertions of the inhabitants continued to
burn all night, and totally destroyed six houses. So rapid was the
progress of the fire, that sonic of the families escaped in their
night clothes, and were glad to save their lives, having no oppor-
tunity to save anything else. The poor sufferers appeared in a
miserable plight, as many as twenty of them having neither cloth-
ing, limes, nor furniture, and no money wherewith to purchase
any. Not one of them was insured.
BURY.—IIORRINGER FAIR, SEPT. 4.—There has
not been so small a supply here for several past years, but from the
attendance of buyers being also rather scarce, coupled with the in.
ferior condition of the stock generally, business proceeded but
slowly, and at prices somewhat lower than those obtained at the
late Ipswich lamb fair; prices of lambs varying from 18s. to
225. Gd. ; a few choice things, in extra condition, realising 255. to
265.; whilst shearling ewes obtained from 28s. to 345. 6d., and
dock crones, of which there was rather an unusual quantity,
averaged about 19s. 6d. each.—lpswich Express.
THE FIRST JESUITIC ESTABLISHMENT IN TIIE
PRESENT CENTURY.—Very soon after the last war of liberation,
and the establishing of the Holy Alliance, Jesuitism was intro-
duced into Austria ; but so great was the caution resorted to for
not offending their public apprehensions, that this name was changed
into that of Redernpfionists, meaning the order of the Redeemer.
They obtained from Government the oldest church in Vienna (that
of the Holy Steps) and have continued their sly, yet unrelaxed
labours up to the present time. It is from that spot that they have
crept, like venomous parasites, over Germany, France, and Switzer.
land, creating everywhere unspeakable confusion, and lately de-
luging the countries thus contaminated with the blood of innocent
citizens.— German paper.
CARRIAGES FOR LADIES.—The Grand Junction
have very judiciously determined that after the 15th of this month
a compartment of a first-class carriage will be reserved for ladies
travelling alone. We feel confident other Companies will not be
tardy in following so good an example.—Railway Chronicle.
THE NAVIES.—On Monday afternoon about 200
of the workmen on the railway marched in procession into the
town preceded by a practitioner on the bagpipe and a banner
equally unattractive. The" demonstration," seemed a failure, for,
after passing the townhall, the procession broke up and its mem-
bers burrowed into the public-houses. We were told that the exhibi-
tion proceeded from a strike for an increase of wages, and that it had
been originated by the peaceable community presently located near
cockburnspath, who having taken into their heads to have the
wages raised from 14s. and ISs. to 203. per week, separated into
two parties, one marching south, the other north, and forcing all
upon the line of works to join them. They ceased from work
during Tuesday, on Wednesday morning, a large party
of them appeared at the port for the hiring of shearers
and behaved in a very rude and disorderly manner ; insisting that
the wages should be 3s. per day They so interfered between
master and servant as entirely to stop al business, some of the
former they used very rudely, while they compelled those engaged
to return into the town.
The consequence was that a day was lost
for reaping. The farmers waited upon the magistrates in the
course of the day and preferred a complaint, and
were promised
that means should be taken to check the annoyance if an attempt
was made to repeat it. The next morning they did not make their
appearance at the port, and the hiring of shearers proceeded unin-
terruptedly. A number of navies returned to their work on Wed-
nesday, and a greater number on Thursday, the remainder during
these days were to be seen in a besotted state, loitering about the
haunts of their inebriety. —Ber wick Advertiser.
PUBLIC 110 USES•—It is most material that magis-
trates should be particular in not granting or renewing alehouse
licences to drunken publican,'