The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-09 00:00:00

PORT OF LONDON.

Captain Fisher, R.N., principal Harbour Master
to the Port of London, yesterday reported to the Lord
Mayor that he had removed the wreck of the Vesper
collier barque, sunk off Gravesend, with the exception
of a few planks, which are in no respect an obstruc-
tionto the navigation. _ _

The plan Captain Fisher adopted for the perform-
ance of this service has been by exploding charges of
gunpowder in and under the wreck, creeping, sling-
ing, and raising the dispersed timber separated by the
explosion, 1,300 pounds of gunpowder having been
used in accomplishing the removal. As the wreck
lay close to the shore, he was prevented from using
larger charges, and thus more delay took place than
would otherwise have occurred.

The cylinders were, in conformity with the direc-
tions of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,
made at Chatham Dockyard, under the orders of Mr.
Fulcheon, master builder of that establishment. The
cylinders were fitted, charged, and fired by Captain
isher and the people attached to the harbour ser-
vice, and from the practice they have had upon this oc-
casion, there will arise no difficulty in future in remov-
ing wrecks in theßiver Thames, the navigation of which
it is now more than ever necessary to secure from
impediments in consequence of the enormous increase
of shipping. The charges of powder were fired with
Mr. Smoe's galvanic battery, supplied by Mr. Palmer,
of Newgate-street, by order of the Navigation Com-
mittee. Captain Fisher expressed himself much in-
debted to Mr. C. James, the Harbour Master at
Gravesend, and Mr. William Downes, the diver, for
their assistance. No accident occurred during the
performance of the service. The London Harbour
Master also reported that the wreck of the Apollo
has been surveyed, and found clear of land and sand,
and her decks are entire. A rope had been made fast
to her main shaft as a guide for weighing her at any
future time. The Apollo lies sunk in a great many
fathoms' water. A bank has formed about 120 feet
above the vessel, rising 22 feet above the bed of the
river, which in all proability will increase if the
wreck is allowed to remain where it is. Several
anchors and chains are foul of her, but as the season
is so far advanced, it is not likely that any active
measure will be adopted until next spring.

DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDU-
CATION.

(From a pamphlet entitled " Strictures on Church
Commercial Schools, addressed to Parents and
Guardians of the rising Generation : being the First
Lesson for the Practical Preceptors of the Diocesan
Board of Education.")
Much has been said, and more written, on the
subject of education. Scheme after scheme has been
suggested, and partially acted upon, and, doubtlessly,
each was very well in its way: it might have its
merits and its demerits, but until of late it never
entered into the imagination of man, that the clergy,
invading the privileges, and openly violating the
rights of the laity, would form themselves into a
Board of Diocesan Education, with but one aim and
end in view—to take the monopoly of all school
profits into their own hands, and effect the total ruin
of a large and most respectable body of persons, by
whom, from generation to generation, the minds, the
morals, and the intellectual faculties of men, have
been formed; who have upheld by their teaching, and
their example, the Church and the constitution, and
I may add, taught even the clergy themselves all
they know.
Injustice, nay, ingratitude, is apparent on the very
surface of the scheme; and I would ask by what
right, human or divine, the priesthood arrogate
to
themselves the power of monopolizing education .
It is contrary to the true spirit of the British Con-
stitution ; and, what is worse, they come
_feorw they
under something very like false pretences, w
set themselves up as Diocesan. Commercial School-
masters. In this they boldly profess to_
teachth at
which their education and pursuits render them in-
capable of teaching. We have heard of fox-hunt-
ing parsons, of 'quack-medicine parsons, f
ns, a_or somepicture-•
dealing parson, for which he was silenced
years by a Bishop of London' but we never before
heard of a commercial body of Bishops, Priests, and
Deacons ! With the Lord Primate of England at the
head of his clerical-commercial fraternity, the mass
of the multitude, who content themselves with merely
looking at the outline of the plan as put forth by this
Board of Scholastic Control, may be deluded, for a
time, into a belief of its utility ; but, if they were to
look a little behind the scenes, they would find it is
but the dawning of a system of domination, which is
intended, in the end, to enslave the rising 'genera-
tion and by the influence which a well. organised
fraternity possesses, render them mere puppets that
they can pull to and fre by a string. I look upon
this institution in the light of a domestic inquisition,
and many evils are to be ,anticipated from this
clerical interference with the system of general edu-
cation. The system is founded on a wrong basis,
and the Diocesan Board of Education already begin to
feel their sandy foundation becoming a little unsafe,
or why should they have an idea of making it a re-
gular Government job ? I would ask my Lord of
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inspector of schools, to be paid out of the hard earn-
ing Of the people, a salary of five hundred pounds,
each per annum, WAS not suggested to his speculative
brain by the failure of another bright scheme that
emanated from the same source, viz., the refusal of the
majority of the Metropolitan Incumbents to subscribe
two guineas each annually, to "."441 to the income
of some of his pet inspectors ? Unfortunately
for this brain-teaching monopoly fraternity, I
happen to be a little in their secrets, and know their
unfitness to carry out their schemes. Under all cir-
cumstances I would ask my Lord of London, who is
himself the son of a schoolmaster, why he should be
one of the first and strongest persecutors of the mem-
bers of his father's profession ? I will even go further,
and inquire of his Grace of Canterbury, who was also
the schoolmaster to the Abercorn family, by whom his
first living was purchased and presented, and whose
interest procured him his first and second mitre, whe-
ther his conscience does not smite him when he con-
siders that by patronizing this monopoly, he is vir-
tually depriving thousands of the most useful and re-
spectable members of a learned and honourable pro-
fession, of the means of obtaining an existence ?

DAN TZ IC, AUG 25.—The news of the bankruptcy of
the house of Borker, in London, has caused a great con-
sternation here. This bankruptcy has given occasion to
the present state of things, since the 12,000 lasts of
wheat which belonged to that house must be brought to
market to satisfy the creditors that the decline of every
shilling per last caused a loss of 35,000 dollars to that
English house. The failure is for 400,000/. sterling.--
Dutch paeer.
THE HAGUE, SEPT. 6.—His Majesty will leave.the
Hague on Friday next, to meet the King of Prussia at
Cologne.
CHUNIE'S KEEPER.—Richard Cartmel (or Carter,
as he was generally called), once the keeper of Chunie,
the celebrated colossal elephant that. was some years
since destroyed at Exeter 'Change, died a few days ago
at his residence, near the Surrey Zoological Gardens.
Carmel had been for many iears head-keeper to Mr.
Cross, the proprietor of Exeter Change, and subsequently
of the Surrey Gardens, and was well known to all lovers
of zoology and ornithology, as well as to many of the
nobility, for whom he was HI the habit of purchasing
animals and birds.
RESPONSIBILITY OF AUTHORS IN RUSSIA.—Winit
the Russians think of authors may be collected from ano.
then plate, in which part of hell is represented. In the
fore-a-round are suspended two kettles ; in one of them is
a robber, in the other a bad writer. Under the kettle of
the latter the devil is busily engaged in makink a roast-
ing fire, whereas under the bandit there is nothing but a.
heap of dry wood, and be seems to be enjoying a comfort-
able warmth. The author, who has lifted up the lid of
his kettle a little, casting an envious glance at the robber,
complains to the devil that he torments him niore than
so a vile a criminal ; but the devil fetches him a thump
on the head, and says, " Thou wert worse than he, for his
sins and misdeeds died with him, but thine continue to
live for ages."—Kohl's Russia and the Russians.
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 6.—lntelligence has reached
here that the Captain and all the crew of the Marquis of
Queensberry, a merchant vessel belonging to the firm of
Pollock and Gilmore in Glasgow, relied of the fatal sick-
ness prevailing at Havannah. The Spanish authorities at
Havannah took temporary charge of the Marquis of
Queensberry.
The Dowager Marchioness of Conyngham has
joined the congregation which assemble at Portland
Chapel in Southampton, under the ministration of the
Rev. Mr. Pulsford, a very able and exemplary Baptist
preacher.
The Postmaster-General has decided on returning
to the old method of paying the guards on mail coaches
10s. 6d. per week, and allowing them to take fees from
passengers. The guards on railways are still to be paid
salaries without fees; but such salaries are to be on a
reduced scale. The cause of the contemplated alteration
in the mode of paying the mail-coach guards is, the con-
tinued discoveries that they receive fees. Six of them are
now sun; for taking tees, but Lord Lowther has re-
solved not to dismiss them, because he declares it im-
possible to prevent persons who are paid only 70/. or 801.
a year from taking gratuities from passengers, when, os
in most cases, it has beppened the gratuities have been
voluntarily offered.
MELANCHOLY DEATH OP A CLERGYMAN 'AND HIS
WIFE.—The Rev. S. R. Ctirver, hipumbent of Stanning-
ton, was throwneut of his carriage on Monday, near that
lace, and killed on the spot. Mrs. Carver, a lady of
fortune, to whom the deceased was only united in De-
cember last, was also thrown out, and so severely hurt
that she expired on Friday afternoon. The unfortunate
couple had just set out for a drive in their one-horse
chaise from Stannington to Sheffield, when the horse
started off at full gallop towards Mal-bridge, a very
dangerous construction, narrow and crooked, almost in
the form of the letter S., and with large projecting cop-
ings. One of these stones caught the wheel, throwing
the carriage over upon the deceased. The bridge has
previously been the scene of two fatal accidents, and will
probably now be taken down and rebuilt.—LiverpOollimes.
The fraud discovered to have been committed a
day or two ago by a clerk in the Money-order depart-
ment in the General Post-office, by forging money-
orders and advices as if drawn on Camberwell Post-
office, at Sittingbourne, has suggested a very simple
plan which would effectually. prevent all frauds of the
same kind. The plan is for the Postmaster-General to
issue orders to his deputies to pay no order, nor enter
any advice, unless each bear the stamp of the office. at
which the order is drawn. At present any clerk could
forge orders and advices on a neighbouring office for
100/. or 2001., and get them cashed without exciting the
least suspicion.
ACCIDENTAL DEATH.—Yesterday morning, be-
tween the hours of four and five o'clock, two young men
were discovered by the watchman of the Ballyhooly-
road attempting to rob the garden of Mr. Junes
The watchman endeavoured to secure the offenders, who
immediately fled in the direction of Clifton-terrace,
which overhangs a rock of some 50 or 60 feet in ha;glit,
being aware of the
One of the young men, probably not
unprotected nature of the precipice, missed his footing,
and was dashed with such violence to the bottom that,
when discovered in a short time afterwards, he was en-
tirely dead. This is the second death, and the third ac-
cident, which has made this rock notorious.—Corh E.r.•
andner.

THE
GLOVE TRADE.—As an instance of the state
of depression of this branch of manufacture, which for-
merly supplied so-large a portion of employment to the
male and female population of our city, and to the wives
and daughters of agricultural labourers in the county,
we may state that a manufacturer recently sold ,470
dozens of gloves at 6d. a dozen, the mere cutting of
which did not cost less than Bd. a dozen.—Worcater
Chronicle.

PRICE or BREAD.—A correspondent at Exeter
writes to us, under the date of Sept. 2, as follows
" Noticing in the Bath Chronicle of yesterday your re-
marks on the subject of the price of bread, I trouble you
with a letter to inform you; that in this city the Ch. loaf
(full weight) is from sd. to 63d ; and none higher than
that. There cannot be better bread." We suppose that
what may be done in Exeter mayialso be done in Bath.
—Both Chronicle.

THE ROUTE BT BRIGHTON AND HAVRE.—We ob-
serve by the published report of the half-yearly meet-
ing of the South Western Railway Company that
great alarm is felt at Southampton on account of the
steam-packet communication recently opened between
Brighton. and Havre. A letter was read by the
Chairman from Mr. Lock, the engineer, then at
Paris, in which he says—" Great efforts are making
at home and here,- to` divert the English traffic
from the
..South Western Railway, and I feel quite
sure that 'unless great exertions are made to en-
sure a better class of steamers between Southampton
and Havre, that we shall lose a great deal of the traffic
now passing on our line. The Brighton and Havre boat
recently , took over sixty passengers, who would
otherwise have taken the route by Southampton. No-
thine., I believe, can stop this interference but improving
the class of s' earners between the two ports, and offering
better accommodation. I never felt so strongly as Ido
running L
now that unless you make a corresponding ext thatertion
to secure this traffic, you will lose it." _
there is some foundation for this alarm,
eve learn that one
l
of the -Southampton steamers, recently
Havre, has been taken off since the Lord Melville
was put upon the Brighton and Havre statioL,. The map
to which we alluded last week, showing the graft supe •
riority of this route over all others in point of tiliwnee,
was, we understand, issued by Mr. Dean, one of .he
most valuable officers of the London and Brightoti
Railway Company, by whom it was, in fact, prepared
for publication, and not by the General Steam Navi-
gation Company- It will be seen, on reference to this
map, that white the routes by Southampton and Dover,
as well as that by the river Thames, are all exceedingly
circuitous, the entire distance from London through
Brighton to Havre, and again from Brighton through,
Dieppe to Paris, is a perfectly straight line. These
are advantages which must ultimately give to the route
b, Brighton a preference over all its rivals.—Brighten.
Oazette.

The funeral of Dr. Ireland, Dean of Westminster,
took place yesterday within the Abbey immediately
after the morning service. A number of the dignified
clergy were present.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town
yesterday from Ryde, Isle of Wight..
Whilst the Anti-Corn-law League vigorously and
successively pursues free-trade, it deserves the support
of every Liberal. For the first time in this country, it
presents an organised and able resistance to the land-
lord-combination in Parliament. It seeks only to place
the corn-grower and the manufacturer on the same
fair ground of competition for the general good. Agri-
culture is just as much a trade as any other ; governed
by the same laws, followed for the same objects. Gain
is the stimulus to both, and free trade is more gainful
than any monopoly which landowners can frame for
themselves.---Examiner.
BUTCHER'S MEAT AND VEN mow ~--Beef and mutton
are always in season ; but the best, meats during Ibis
month of the year are veal and lamb. It s9inetiirms
happens that a larger quantity of meat is purchased than
can be consumed ere it becomes tainted, which takes place
very rapidly at this season of the year. Its preservation
from taint, during many days, mar be secured without
imparting to the meat any perceptike flavour, by the fol-
lowing means :—To two parts of the common pyroligneous
acid, which is the vinegar distilled from wood in its first
or impure state, add one part of water. With a com-
mon paint brush, quite new, give the meat a coating of
this mixture, taking care to cover evert, part of the
exposed surface, even' where there is a bole. It may
then be hung up in the cool larder, where it will remain
period
free from
fly taint
ililvflor a week .cr ten days, during which
in this w
main sweet during a fortuiglit.—Magazins of Donle4:-"c
ay. in thlishlatetehstit.parlt‘,7.eofs4.l%4t meatsum pmreeacr,r'r7e,
fiGagnty. •