The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, -LO ON, MONDAY MORNING-, MAX

TUDEX.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Hampshire Tilt-graph.) ,
The Firefly steamer, Lieut. Winniett, arrived from
the West Indies Tucalay, and sailed for Woolwich
on Thursday, to be paid off.
The .Malabar, 72, Captain Sir G. Sartorius, was to
sail from Plymouth yesterday for the Brazils, having
taken on hoard fifty first class boys for distribution
among the ships on that station.
The Wasp, 16, Commander tbeHon. IL Murray, was
paid off on Thursday, at Sheerness, and, it is said, is to
be re-commissioned for China.
The Brandywine, American frigate, and Feeble, Ame-
rican corvette, were at Gibraltar on the 2d inst.
The Resistance troop-ship will proceed to-morrow to
Quebec, with the second battalion of the 23d Regiment
(fusileers), which marched from Chichester yesterday,
and immediately embarked. The Rhadamanthus will
return with the 56th Regiment.
The Styx proceeded frOm Woolwich yesterday to
Devonport, and the Monkey to Sheerness.
The ship, Lord Lowther, arrived on Wednesday from
the River, to take on board provisions and stores for the
China expedition.
The Lightning, steamer, arrived yesterday from Sheer-
ness, with seamen, and returned to-day to Woolwich.
The Volcano, steamer, proceeded to-day to Plymouth,
Greenock and Liverpool.
The ship, Abercrombie, will embark the St. Helena
regiment, and proceed with them in a few days, touching
at Cork for detachments for. the Cape of Good Hope.
The Albatress, 16, was to-day commissioned at this
port, by Commander Reginald yorke. -
The Clyde, West India steam packet, came into Har-
bour on Tuursday to be docked in the Queen's yard, hav-
ing been ashore. She was taken out of clock again yes-
terday, and returned to Southampton.
The Danish frigate Thetis, with an Admiral's flag
and a corvette, will call here in a few days, bound for the
West Indies.
In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Royal
George, Winchester, Satellite, Echo (steamer), and Ad-
venture naval transport.)
At Spithead—Resistance, Comus, Adelaide (transport),
and Lurd Lowther (freight-ship.)
The seaman and marines of the Cleopatra, on being
paid off, voluntarily subscribed 4/. 1 Is. 2d., for the benefit
of the Dreadnought, hospital-ship. It was a spontaneous
act, and therefore the more to their praise as no agent
for the charity solicited their subscriptions.
Benjamin Chimmo, Esq., Secretary to Vice-Admiral
Sir W. Parker, 1i.C.8., and Richard M. Whichel, Esq.
Purser of H. M. S. Blenheim, are appointed Prize Agents
fur the naval captures made in China.
The Commander-in-Chief; Admiral Sir Edward Cod-
rington, struck his flag on Thursday evening, and left on
ten days' leave of absence. The command ad interim,
devolves on the Honourable Rear-Admiral Bouverie.
PROMOTIONS AND' APPOINTMENTS.
PROMOTlONS.—Lieutenants C. W. lie Courcy Ross
(late Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Ross), and
Lieut. A. C. T. Dickson (late Flag-Lieutenant to Vice-
Admiral Warren), to the rank of Commander.
Mate Charles F. Hillyer (1837), of the President,
and Dennys Lane, of the Cornwallis, to the rank of
Lieutenant.
APPOINTMENTS.—Commander Reginald Yorke, to the
Albatross.
Lieutenants J. • A. Macdonald, to command the Cha-
rybdis ; W. P. Green (1806), to the Victory, for service
in the Ordinary ; E. J. Voules, to the Albatross ; H. J.
Lacon, from the Cornwallis, to be First of the Blonde •
T. G. Drake, from Cruiser to the Cornwallis ; M. T.
Molesworth and G. Caswell, to the Cleopatra ; P. F.
Shortland, to the Avon.
Masters—John Belam, to the Albatross ; W. Archer,
to the Talbot.
Second Master—F. Macdonald, to the Rhaclamanthus.
Master's Assistant—B. B. Stuart, to the Geyser.
Surgeon—R. S. C. Scott, to the Talbot.
Assistant Surgeons--W. Hannant, to the Resistance ;
R. Tilson, to Haslar Hospital ; 1)r. A. Armstrong, to
the St. Vincent, (appointment to Resistance cancelled) ;
John Simpton, to the Blonde • H Richardson, to the
Alligator ; J. P. Henry, to the Blenheim ; H. G. Wil-
mott, to the Modeste ; S. S. Stanley, from the Blonde
to the Algerine.
Purser—J. G. Braid, to the Satellite, vice Lord (ap-
pointment cancelled) ; W. B. V. Turner, to assist in the
office of the Accountant-General at Somerset House.
Mates—W. Preedy, in Calcutta, to the Excellent
W. D. -Lester, to the Resistance ; It. C. Tattnall, to the
St. Vincent ; W. D. Lyster, to the Geyser.
Clerk-in-Charge—T. C. J. Dryden, to the Avon.
COAST GUARD-Lint. W. Southey, to Winchilsea
Station.
Mr. George Brand and Mr. W. E. Shaw, have passed
at the Naval College, as Naitil Instructors and School-
masters.
Mr. F. Bonnycastle Gritton, has passed for a Com-
mission in the Marine. Corps.,
Mr. Archibald Fletcher, Mate of the Winchester, has
passed in Navigation for Lieutenant.
PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY, MAY 12.—The Agincourt,
72, Captain Bruce, sailed on Monday for the East Indies.
The Malabar, 72, having made good her defects, in the
Sound, will proceed to-morrow for the coast of Brazil.
She will take ont fifty first-class boys for distribution
among the vessels on that station. The Crocodile went
out of harbour on Monday. The Netley, tender, sailed
on Monday, for Greenock, to bring back the party that
navigated the Tunderbolt steamer from Portsmouth to
that port. The Buzzal d arrived on Monday from the
coast of Africa. The Swale lighter sailed on Monday
with stores, for the packets at Falmouth. The Magnet
packet was paid off on Monday. The Plymouth buoy-
boat arrived from Portsmouth on Wednesday.
In the Sound—Malabar, Crocodile, and Buzzard.
In Harbour—Caledonia, San Josef; and Philomel ;
Sylph, tender ; Tortoise and Camel, lighters.

No. I.—PELARGONIUMS—LARGE COLLECTION—Large
Silver, Mr. Birch ; Silver Knightian, Mr. Bromley ;
Silver Banksian, Mr. Slow; N. Gold Banksian, Mr.
Catleugh ; N. Large Silver, Mr. Gaimes.
PELARGONIUMS—SMALL COLLECTION.—N. Silver
Gilt, Mr. Catleugh and Mr. Gaimes.
CHINESE ROSES. —N. Large Silver, Mr. Same.
HERBACEOUS CALCEOLARIAS.— Large Silver, Mr.
M'Conach; N. Large Silver, Mr. Catleugh.
SHRUBBY CALCEOLARIAS.—Large Silver, Mr. M'Co
nach; N. Large Silver, Mr. Catleugh; V. Silver Bank-
sian, Mr. Gaimes. - •
SEEDLING FLORISTS' FLOWERS.—SiIver Banksians,
Messrs. Standish, Green, Giiimes, Rev. R. Garth, and
Whinier.
No. IL—STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS, IN COL-
LECTIONS OF FROM FIFTY TO SIXTY PLANTS.—GoId
Knightian, Mr. Good; Gold Banksian, Mr. Hunt; Large
Silver, Mr. Redding.
STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS, IN COLLECTIONS OF
FROM FIFTEEN TO TWENTY PLAN TS.—G old Bank sian, Mr.
.Green; Large Silver, Messrs. Good, Smith, and Barnes;
N. Gold Banksian, Mr. Pawley; N. Large Silver, Messre.
Jackson and Catleugh.
STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS, IN COLLECTIONS
OF SIX DISTINCT SPECIES.—Large- Silver, Mr. Bunn;
Silver Knightian, Mr. Kyle; N. Large Silver, Mr. Fraser.
STOVE AND GREENHOUSE CLIMBERS.—GoId Bank-
Sian, Mr. Goode ; Large Silver, Mr. Clarke.
No. 11L—FRUIT, MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS OF.
—Gold Knightian, Mr. Davis ; Gold Banksian, Mr.
Henderson ; Large .SilVer, Mr, Paxton ; Silver Bank-
sians, Messrs. Tilbery and Clarke.
GRAPES.—SiIver Gilt, Mr. Dodds ; Large Silver,
Mr. Judd ; Silver Knightians, Messrs. London, Wort-
ley, and Henderson ; M. G. Large Silver, Mr. Wilmot ;
M. G. Silver Knightian, Mr. Chapman.
PINE APPLES.—Large Silver, Mr. Toy ; Silver Bank-
sian, Mr. J. Dodds ; M. G. Silver Gilt, Mr. Mann.
PEACHES OR NECTARINES, IN DISHES OF SIX SPECI-
MENS.—SiIver Knightian, Mr. Henderson.
No. IV.—GREENHOUSE AZALEAS.—GoId Banksian,
Mr. Green ; Large Silver, Mr. Falconer ; Silver
Knightian. Mr. Barnes ; N. Gold Banksian. Mr. Smith ;
N. Large Silver, Mr. Jackson.
CAPE HEATHS—TWENTY SPECIES. _G old Knightian,
Mr. Barnes ; N. Silver Gilt, Mr. Jackson.
C APE HEATHS—SIX SPECIES.—GoId Banksian, Mr.
Ti. May ; Large' Silver, Mr. Green ; Silver Knightian,
Story, Esq. ; N. Silver Knightian, Mr. Fawley.
TALL CACTUS FLOWER.—Lare Silver, Mr. Barnes.
No. V.—Six SPECIES OF EXOTIC OECHIDACEIE.—
Gold Banksian, Mr. Hunt.; Large Silver, Mr. Barnes ;
Silver Knightian, Mr. Paxton.
EXOTIC ORCIIIDACE2E (SINGLE SPECIMENS.)—Large
Silver, Mr. Barker ; Silver Knightians, Messrs. Wray
and Paxton ; Silver Banksian, J. Jarrett, Esq.
SINGLE SPECIMENS OF ORNAMENTAL PLANTS.—Large
Silver, Messrs. Jack Son, May, Falconer, and Paxton ;
Silver Knightians, Messrs. Green, Bruce, G. Clark, and
Green ; Silver a.nksians, Messrs. Bruce, Fraser, and
Green.
MISCELLANEOUS FLOWERS. Silver Knightians,
Donald and Willmer.

SIR ROBERT PEEL ON THE COST
. OF THE PROVISION MONOPOLIES.
Among all the speeches against the Corn-laws, which
have been delivered in Parliament during the, present
session, we question if there has been one which con-
tained more conclusive arguments in favour of the total
abolition of the food monopoly, than are to be found in
the speech of Sir Robert Peel, on Tuesday evening last.
He contends that We ought to take prompt steps to
secure ourselves " against the extravagant prices of
meat in this country, caused by partial supply and by dis-
orders among cattle, which diminish our means of sup-
ply ;" to which we add, that it is still more incumbent
upon Government to take effectual measures to secure
the people of Great Britain against the extravagant
prices of wlieat in this country, caused by partial supply
and by unfavourable seasons. The Right Honourable
Baronet quoted the contract prices of fresh beef at
Greenwich Hospital, and also the Navy Contracts
for the last seven years, for the purpose of showing
how much dearer butchers' meat is now than it was
a few years ago ; and certainly he made out an
excellent case, as the table, which he read, testifies.
The advance of prices was from forty to fifty per cent.
in the short space of seven years. Little wonder, then,
though the meat required for Greenwich Hospital
should, as Sir Robert Peel stated, have cost 4,420/. more
in 1841 than it did in 1885, or that the total amount of
the household expenses of the establishment should have
been 12,000/. more in the former year than they were in
the latter.

Ncw, if we extend these calculations—furnished by
the Premier himself—to the consumption of animal food
throughout the kingdom, we at once perceive what a
monstrous sum the country must have been paying to
the landlords in consequence of the beef monopoly. In
1E35, the cost of the total quantity of butcher's meat
consumed in London was estimated at 4,000,000/. per
annum. Assuming this to be correct, we may safely
conclude that the annual cost of the butcher's meat con-
sumed in Great Britain at that time could not be less than
32,000,0001.; so that, if we reckon prices in 1841 to be 25
per cent. above what they were in 1835, which is much
below Sir IL Peel's estimate, it will be found that the addi-
tional sum which the nation is now paying, for that ar-
ticle of food alone, amounts to 8,000,000/. a-year.
Surely those philanthropists in the House of Commons,
who complain so much against manufacturers, who force
their workmen to buy food from them at a higher price
than they could purchase it elsewhere, will rejoice to see
that the power of the landowners to force the people of
this country to buy food at their shop is in a fair way of
being destroyed. Of course, we regret, as all friends of
free trade must do, that the measures proposed by Go-
vernment fall so far short of what a truly great Minister,
with the power which Sir Robert Peel possesses, would
have sought to accomplish. But when Ministers come
before Parliament, with statements exhibiting the cost of
any monopoly, even if they should not venture to propose
its " total and immediate abolition," we may rest assured
that the days of that monopoly are •numbered, and that
all the efforts of the most dexterous statesman will be
insufficient to save it from speedy destruction.—Man-
chester Guardian.

On Saturday between two and three o'clock police-
constable Wyatt, 123 N division, found the dead body
of a female, apparently about 4, years of age, in the
New River, near Colebrook-row, Islington. She is hand-
somely-dressed, and her linen is marked E. A. She
lies under Islington Church to be owned.
DR. DALTON'S STATUE.—The pedestal upon which
Sir Francis Chantrey's fine marble statue of Dr. Dalton is to be
permanently placed, arrived here from London on Thursday
last ; and in a few days it will probably be substituted for the
temporary one en which, in the entrance hall of the Royal In.
stitutivn, the statue has hitherto reposed. The pedestal, which
has been in the National Ga'lery, weighs upwards of two tons.
—Manchester Guardian.

We are happy to hear it reported, and credited by
those who have the honour and happiness of knowing her
Grace, that the Duchess of Sutherland intends giving a masque,
in which the splendid pageant of Thursday night will once more
figure in all its fairy enchantment. If, as we hope, her Grace
should fulfil her hospitable intention, the scenic effect will not,
we are sure, lose any of its attractions. We can also state, on
good authority, that it is ti e intention of his Grace the Duke of
Buccleuch to give a Fancy Dress Ball on a scale of extraordinary
magnificence.—Court Journal..

Lion of John Day's favourites iii the several Derby's, i HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY,
Venison, Grey Momus, the Melody colt,, each of The first exhibition of the Horticultural Society took
these being third in the race, and seeing daily the place at Chiswick on Saturday ;' and a fine day, a beau-
enormous sums of money that pour into the mArket, I tiful display of flowers, and a brilliant attendance of
think we are bound to believe that the Stockbridge fashionable company, combined to render the meeting a
nag is no Cobham ! no Sleight-of-Hand ! As to his most attractive one. The Queen, on this occasion, made
winning the Derby, I give my opinion on Monday I her first visit to the Gardens at Chiswick. Her Ma-
week and not before, but that he is a good horse I
jeesrtys,u
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o,elo o'clock,
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firmly believe. Attila has riot been in such demand, forah considerable period. The. Queen walked round the
possible lie should retain his place, various tents in which the horticultural specimens are-
while Scott has three other horses in the betting, and exhibited, and frequently expressed her wonder and de-
backed. These expressions are distinct and widely light at the rare and beautiful productions of nature
different. Canadian was not mentioned on ThUrs- which stood before her. . Her Majesty was received by
day, and Auckland was not backed for more than a his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, the President of the
rouleau (501.). There is annually some country 1 Society, Sir C. Lewan, and others of the distinguished
horse hacked at the last moment, and I fancy Cheeps members. The Duchess of Sutherland and two of her
will this year obtain the prize awarded to the horse daughters visited the Gaidens at the same time as her
that starts without entering any man's book until one • Majesty, and the Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied
fortnight before the race. by the Duchess of Sutherland and their suite, after-
May 14. wards honoured the Duke of Devonshire with their pre-
sence to luncheon at his beautiful villa at Chiswick,
which almost adjoins the Horticultural grounds. Of the
display of fruit and flowers we can only speak in terms of
the highest admiration. The soft and delicate Azalea, in
its varied forms of snowy whiteness and brilliant colours,
was there, attracting all eyes by the beauty of its flower
and the wondrous size to which it had been raised ; and
the collection of-the multiform and eccentric Calceolaria
w;:s very rich, as indeed was e4ry flower shown—pelar-
goniums, heaths, roses—down to the humble heartsease.
The company amounted during the course of the after-
noon to several thousands, and rarely have we witnessed
an assembly more brilliant, an exhibition more beautiful,
or a scene :more exciting. The following is the list of
the prizes, and the names of the successful candidates:—
AWARD OF THE JUDGES.

civilisation of Ireland by fully 50 years, his splendid , have any wish to compel the United States by force
estates, the produce of which he spent in the service to adapt their measures to its provisions, or to
of the State, have passed from .his family into other adopt it stipulations. They have too much confi-
hands. Contrast the means of Mr. Anderson with deuce in their sense of justice to fear any such re-
the great revenues of the Irish aristocracy, and say stilt, and they will see with pleasure the prompt
what would not Ireland now be if she had had a few disavowal made by yourself, Sir, in the name of
such men in every province.- The history of no other i your country at the tribune of the Chamber of De-
country furnishes a like example of so much public t puties, of any intentions of this nature. But were
good having been done to an entire kingdom, by a it otherwise, and, mere it possible, they might be dc-
private individual, at his own expense, as Mr. der- ceived 'in this confident elpectation, that would
son accomplished for Ireland. not alter in one tittle their course of action. Their
duty would be the same, and the same would be
their determination to fulfil it. They would prepare
themselves, with apprehension indeed, but without
dismay—with regret, but with firmness, for one of
those desperate 'struggles which have sometimes oc-
curred in the history of the world, but where a
just cause and the favour of Providence has given
strength to comparative weakness, and enabled it to
break down the pride of power.
" But I have already said the United States do not
f-ar that any such united attempt will he made
upon t heir independence. What, however, they
may reasonably fear, and what they do fear
is, that in the execution of this treaty measures will
),e taken which they must resist. Ilow far the
acts of one of the parties, putting its construction
upon its own duties, and upon the obligations of its
co-contractors, may involve these in any unlocked for
consequences, either by the adoption of similar mea-
sures or by their rejection, I do not presume to judge.
Certain it is, however, that if the fact and the princi-
ple advanced by Lord Aberdeen are correct--that
these treaties for the abolition of the slave trade
cannot be• executed without forcibly boarding Ame-
rican ships at sea in time of peace, and that the ob-
ligations created by them confer not
,onl v the right
thus to violate the American flag, but make this
measure a duty—then it. is also a duty of France to
pursue the same course. 'Should she put this con-
struction upon her obligations, it is obvious the
United States must do to her as they will do to Eng-
land, if she persist in this attack upon their indepen-
dence. Should she not, it does not become me to inves-
tigate the nature of her position with respect to one
of her associates, whose opinion concerning their re-
lative duties would be so'widely different from their
own. But I may express the hope that the Govern-
ment of his Majesty, before ratifying this treaty, will
examine maturely the pretensions asserted by one of
the parties, and see how these can be reconciled, not
only with the honour and interest of the United States,
but with the received principles of the great maritime
cede of nations, I may make this appeal with the more
confidence from the relations subsisting between
France and the United States, from a community of
interest in the liberty of\the seas, from a community
of opinion respecting the principles which guard it,
and from a community in danger, should it ever be
menaced by the ambition of any maritime power.
" It appaars to me, Sit', that in asking the attention
of his Majesty's Government to the subject of the
quintuple treaty, with a view to its reconsideration, I
am requesting nothing on the part of the United
States inconsistent with the duties of France to other
Powers, If, during the course of discussions upon
this treaty, preparatory to the arrangement of its pro-
visions, England had asserted to the other parties the
pretension she now asserts to the United States, as
a necessary consequence of its obligations, I cannot
be wrong in presuming, that France would not have
signed it without guarding against this impending
difficulty. The views of England are now disclosed
to you, but fortunately before its ratificatioe ; and
this change of circumstances may well justify the
French Government in interposing such a remedy as
it may think is demanded by the greater interests in-
volved in this question.
"As to the treaties of 1831 and 1833, between
France and Great Britain, for the suppression of the
slave trade, I do not consider it my duty to advert to
their stipulations. Their obligations upon the con-
tracting parties, whatever these may he, are now
complete : and it is for my Government alone to de-
termine what measures the United States ought to take
to avert the consequences with which they are threat-
ened by the construction which one of the parties has
given to these instruments.
"I have the honour to transmit herewith a copy of
the message of the President of the United States to
Congress, in December last, and of the annual docu-
ments which accompanied it. Among the latter will
be found the correspondence between the British Se-
cretaries of State and Mr. Stevenson upon the subject
herein referred to. From these von will learn the
respective views of the American and British Go-
vernments.
"It is proper for me to add, that this communica-
tion has been made without any instructions from the
United States. I have considered this case as one in
which an American representative to a foreign power
should act without awaiting the orders of his Govern-
ment. I have presumed, in the views I have sub-
mitted to vou, that 1 express the feelings of the
American Government and people. If in this I have
deceived myself, the responsibility will be mine. As
soon as I can receive despatches from the United
States, in answer to my communications, I shall be
enabled to declare to you either that my conduct has
been approvedeby the President, or that my mission is
terminated.
" I avail myself of this occasion to renew to your
Excellency the assurances of my very high and dis-
tinguished consideration. " L. CASS.
" His ExcellencyM. Guizot, Minister
for Foreign Affairs."

THE AFFAIR iN PARA DISE-
TERRACE, LAMBETH.
For eight days past the residence of a respectable
family in the above locality had been harassed by the
most vexatious and alarming annoyance, by large
crowds of people assembling in the street, and-threat-
ening and insulting the inmates of the house, to which
they have been- subjected .by an Inspector of Police.
This person appeared on the :evening of the 611
about nine o'clock, and, without. any intimation, at-
tempted to break into the hOnse, by smashing in the
window of the lower apartment, &e., and when applied
to by the lady of the house, from the upper window
(her husband being at the time at the theatre), by
what authority he acted, and what he wanted ?
His answer was, " My'name is Pearce, an inspector
of police.; I want to get into the • house ; if you re-
fuse I'll break open . the door." Such threats
caused the greatest alarm. to the whole family, and
they claimed the protection of a policeman (No:
177 L), and gave Pearce in charge, but the police •
man refused to act. The husband being sent for, he,
accompanied by a solicitor, arrived about eleven
o'clock at night, and again requested the Inspector,to
produce his warrant, or declare by what Judge or Ma-
gistrate it was signed. Every information was refused,
and the solicitor finding remonstrances and.: offers
of - arrangement ineffectual, left the place, warn-
ing\ the Inspector, that if he dared to " break
open the door," he and his employers, Would ,
do so at their peril. He, however, sur-
rounded the houSe with Scotch spies and policemen,
and the whole family were, and have been ever since,
annoyed and insulted in the grossest manner; the
door and windows attempted to be broken open IT
stones and other-. missiles thrown at them, and all this
by hired emissaries.from Scotland, who mix with the
mob, and excite them by representations, and endea-
vour thus to gain their objects. This outrage on the
liberties of a British subject, and upon the above
family and their residence, has been occasioned by the
following circumstances •
The late Lord Cardross (eldest son of the Earl of
Buchan) died in January, 1837, leaving a deed of
tutorage, and appointing Lady Cardross, his father,
Mr. William Home, W.S. and agent to the Duke. of
Buccleucli, and Mr. Gibson, of Edinburgh, tutors and
curators ; and particularly appointing Lady Car-
dross, the mother, a sine qua non, or principal, tutor
to her children, consisting of -a son (the infant Lord
Cardross) and two daughters.
Ever since his son's death, the father (Lord Buchan)
has not only refused to' contribute anything for the
maintenance and education of his grandchildren,
but has endeavoured to break the entails; but lately,
finding this impossible (by a decision of the House
of Lords), he has made an application to the Court of
Se3sion in Scotland, craving the custody of his grand-
children from their mother, who, upon hearing this,
and being alarmed for the safety of her infants, came
to her father in London. Lord Buchan then ob-
tained a warrant in Scotland to seize the persons of
the three children, and convey them from their mo-
ther; this warrant, having obtained the signature of
Mr. Trail, of Union Hall, is that acted upon by In-
spector Pearce in the above manner.
Mr. Daniel Wakefield, the Queen's Counsel, to
whom a statement of these facts has been made, has
given as his opinion, that it is not in the power of any
Judge or Magistrate to , back a 'Scotch warrant, ex-
cept in a criminal case. It is to be hoped, if these
facts be, as we are afraid they • are, !correct, that this
system of annOvance will be put an end to. Nothing
can be more absurd than the prejudices in the mind
of the crowd on this subject, as the treatment of
the infant children has been always of the kindest de-
scription, and the proprietor of the besieged house
subjected d
critteedtoapapbruosleayvhen their
caonnddhuicst,woinfethielavce bontereiy, merited

CONTAGION AND QUARANTINE.
(From the Medical Gazette.)
We marvel much at the tone and temper with
which this controversy has been too generally con-
ducted. A certain class of pathologists have imbibed
a sort of instinctive horror at the notion of contagion.
They have considered it as beneath the dignity of a
scientific man to acknowledge such an influence.
They have reasoned asif there were some confession
of intellectual superiority attached to the holding of
such an opinion, and an emancipation from vulgar
prejudices in the avowal of anti-contagious notions.
Such men would, we sincerely believe, experience a
sense of shame in acknowledging the doctrine of in:
fectious agency. That such feelings as these do exist
widely throughout the world, more, perhaps, on the
Continent than here, we are well convinced, and it is
hard to account for such a circumstance. There
seems nothing, per se, very revolting to common
sense in the notion that the secretions of the body, in
certain disorders, throw off emanations which, re-
ceived into the lungs, and impregnating the blood of
another person, should produce in him a like disease.
Yet the great aim and object of certain parties has
been to disavow such a principle, wherever, by any
ingenuity, it was possible to adopt some other expla-
nation,—never to admit such a doctrine except as a
last resort in aetiological difficulty, and then to throw
all possiblediscredit upon it.
The doctrine of a contagious and infectious quality
is conceded to small-pox and measles, by almost all
pathologists, a large proportion of whom are ready
to extend the same attributes to scarlet-fever and
hooping-CoUgli: Very many diaw their line of de-
marcation here, and, like Falstaff with his ragged re-
giment, refuse to march a step further with the con-
tagionists. A certain number, however, are content
to include typhus fever, puerperal peritonitis, and the
Egyptian plague, in the category of contagious mala-
dies. From this point the non-contents have it pretty
much their own way. The doctrine of a contagious
quality inherent in the morbid secretions of cholera, of
yellow fever,of erysipelas, and of influenza, makes some
of them perfectly frantic, while the suggestion that
perhaps the secretions may be similarly endowed in
eases of phthisis pulmonalis, croup, or dysentery, is
met with a look of ineffable contempt, mixed with pity.
It has always appeared to us that the doctrine of
contagion and infection has been viewed by medical
writers in too isolated a manner; that to arrive at cor-
rect conclusions on the subject, capable of any wide
application in nature, we should commence with the
simplest form of diseased secretion capable of corn.
mumcation from one individual to another of the same
species, and trace the doctrine up to the more aggra-
vated forms of disease.
Entertaining these general impressions on the sub-
ject of contagion and infection, as applicable. to va-
rious acute diseases where the secretions of the body
are palpably affected, it cannot be a matter of sur-
prise that we are strenuous supporters of the conta-
gious nature of the Turkish plague. If ever a disease
existed calculated, a priori, to throw off contagious
emanations, this is it. It is a peracute form of fever
of most malignant character, rapidly affecting the
nervous and circulatini, systems, and curiously alter-
ing the coagulable and other qualities of the blood.
One argument of the anti- contagionist party is, that
plague is not found to spread on the European Con-
tinent, though commercial intercourse with Egypt
augments annually. Historical facts, however,_ are
opposed to this statement. Plague spread at Mar-
seilles in 1720, at Moscow in 1770, at Malta in 1813,
in the lonian Islands in 1818.
While we thus acknowledge our firm belief
in the contagious qualities of the secretions that
form in persons labouring under Turkish
plague, and our equally strong conviction
that the clothes, and bedding, and bed-furniture,
of plague patients, may sometimes harbour such dis-
eased secretions, and renew the disorder after a certain
interval, either in the same or in a distant locality,
we are perfectly ready' to admit that the Quarantine
laws, as now administered in the Mediterranean, are
framed upon very mistaken views of the laws of
pestilential contagion. The shortness of the incuba-
tive stage is not considered. The almost total impas-
sibility that merchandise could be packed by persons
in a condition calculated to throw off contagious
emanations, seems utterly neglected. The practical
inference deducible from the fact that the crew of a
merchant ship remains free from disease for a period
exceeding ten days, appears an element in the calcula-
tions of Quarantine law-givers wholly and most iul
accountably left out of consideration,