The Sun. — 1855-02-16 (London, England)

OFF QUEENSTOWN. - Blanche, from Savannah, for Liverpool. CADIZ, Feb. t.—The Icarus, of Liverpool, from Cardiff to Gibraltar, was driven on shore at Conel during a severe gale at S.S.W., on the night of the 4th inst. ; master and and three men saved; the master's wife and five men drowned. The gale continues, with a tremendous sea running, and it is feared both vessel and cargo will be totally lost.  The late amateur performance at the St. Jitlll."l3'l3 Theatre, in aid of the Crimean Army Fund, has had- a very successful result in every way, thanks to the energetic exertions of Messrs. Arcedeckne and Markwell, who acted admirably—not only upo* the stage, but in their capacities as honorary secretaries, with such effect that the sum of 671. 18s. 4d. has been handesE over to the committee of the fund. MANAGEMENT OF THE WAlL—lmmense and costly stores have been provided and sent out from this country, but, somehow or other, they either reach their destination too late, or do not reach it all. It is notorious that a great number of beds having to be forwarded to the hospital at Scutari, a number of packages, unclaimed by any one, were found kicking about on the pier at Southampton, which, when examined, were discovered to contain the legs of those beds which bad been shipped off some weeks before in a vessel from the Thames. Now where such incidents are the rule, not the exception, there must be something very rotten in the system which produces them.' Let us know what the cause of this rottenness is. Is it that men have been placed in high office who do not know how to select proper agents or to keep them to work when appointed! Is it that the choice of agents by men in high office is hampered, and patronage directed into improper channels by dishonest influences? Are Ministers in the habit of appoint. ing incompetent agents on the recommendation of members of Parliament who vote for them? and are members of agen Parliament norder in thet o bribe h electors?abit of rerecommendingthoyg n u ninecrompetent s 0 s the dependents and parasites of noble or influential fanailieS, placed in snug berths under Government without inquiry as to their capacity to discharge their duties ? The trial of the Mannings has not been forgotten. It appeared on that trial that the murdered man--a silly and vicious fellow—had been made an officer in the Customs because he professed himself a convert from the Romish Church ; and that his murderer had nearly gotten a similar appointment, because he married the ex-waiting woman of a duchess. We have all heard bow dockyard appointments have been jobbed in return fur votes at elections. Have private patronage of unworthy ob. jests, and political jobbery, been allowed equal weight in higher appointments connected with the management of the army ? These, and questions like these, the country is determined to have deliberately asked and explicitly answered ; and for this purpose it will insist upon the bona fide appointment of the committee which was moved for by Mr. Roebuck and granted by the House of Commons. Let Ministers endeavour to quash the committee and burke the inquiry at their peril. Let rr:,nll)ers of the Frotm3 •?f Commons. Who I)n.ye vqed for 1;'0, "t•irit tic,;ll ' t • Lit,A L goud Kul lu bawl.. p.rd. 00111 ry iii bleat court of appeal in this ease--is in no wood to be trifled 7ith.-7.0c0i/y Nom