The Sun. — London, England, 1830-05-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC ,JOURNALS. A petition presented last night by Mr. Huskisson from the merchants of Liverpool engaged in the trade with Mexico, praying for the protection of the interests of the petitioners, and suggesting an in terference with the Spanish Government to prevent it engaging in expeditions from Cuba against its quondam Colonies, led to some interesting discu's sion. There seems to be little doubt that Spain is unable to reduce Mexico, and the other possessions in North and South America, which formerly be longed to her, to subjection to her. It becomes a delicate question how long an obstinate Power shall he allowed to persist in an impotent warfare, the consequences of which are deeply injurious to it , • neighbours. Spain is tillable to reconquer Mexico, but she can foment parties in that country and pre vent the return of order. Under such circumstances it is a hardship on the subjects of Great Britain fled their commercial relations with Mexico and other part; of North and South America, should be rendered insecure by a war without any object. But the Government of this country has not confined itself to neutrality. There is good evidence that we have interfered to prevent the South American Governments invading the only possessions in the West Indies, from whence Spain can invade the American Continent. We have thus departed from the strict line of neutrality-seand given to Mexico taxed Colombia valid grotttois for complaint against its. Even if we hail not interfered in the contest between Spain and her quondam Colonies, we might have been warranted in endeavouring to put an end to a warfare without object, detrimental to all who trade with South America. But having chosen to interfere, the Governments of America have a well founded claim on us to prevent them suffering from the consequences of our interference. It is, no doubt, peculiarly incumbent on a powerful country like this to set an example to the world of a scrupulous re gard to the recognised principles of international law ; and we are far from advecating the principle that a mere regard to interest ought to govern our conduct in such a question as the present. But then it does not follow, that beertuse our interest and that of Mexico and the South American States happens to be the same, we ought on that account to sacrifice these interests, by giving a foolish advantage to Spain. We are fur, however, from wishing that the Govern ment of this country should act In the manner re commended by Sir Robert Wilson. "If (said the Gallant Officer) that Government (the Spanish Government) were resolved to put an end to a war of destruction, if the interests of Great Britain de manded it, the British Government ought now to say, as Lord Bolingbrok.: said• to the French Mi nister on a former oterasion, respecting the Govern ment of Spain. The French Minister said, that it was for the interest of France that Spain and France should be under the government of one family ; but it is not, said Bolingbroke, the interest of Britain to allow that to continue. In 1672, also, when the Treaty of Madrid took place—when Venice was carrying on war against the Netherlands and objected to making peace—the King of France declared that the interest of Europe required that peace should be procured for the Netherlands; and he said the States must make peace, or that be would make war against those who refused. This was the sort of - language and conduct that ought now to be held by the Government of Great Britain to wards Spain, if it were disposed to act to wards it in the most friendly manner."—We con fess we do not think that because a nation is powerful it ought to assume a dictatorship over all other nations; and, moreover, we question the pru dence of exciting the jealousy of the world by such an assumption. But it is not necessary to take such a questionable course. In the case of the hostilities between the Turks and Greeks, after allowing a reasonable time to the belligerents to decide their quarrel by force, the Powers of Europe at length interposed, and declared that a regard to the inte rests of their own subjects called on them to pre vent the further continuance of hostilities. With out assuming any such dictatorship as Louis the Four teenth assumed, we may assuredly call on the other great Powers to join in an endeavour to promote peace between Spain arid her quondam Colonies; and should we fail to obtain their concurrence, we may act in such a way as a regard to the interests of our own subjects may prescribe. Still we would avoid whatever is calculated to give offence to other Powers. It does not follow that because a nation is powerful it ought to act always in such a manner us to leave no option to other Powers but unqua lified obedience to our mandates, or war. Mr. Hus kisson, adverting to what had been said by Mr. Peel and the %her speakers, observed, that taking all circumstances into consideration, " he would say again, that but for the interposition of England, Cuba would have been conquered at that time by an expedition from Colombia and Mexico. He could not, indeed, avoid praising the forbearance they had displayed on that occasion, in abandoning one of the grandest conquests which any country could have made, and one of the tidiest prizes which any could desire to seize. The Government of this country did not then incur any obligation to Mexico, that it would not permit the Government of Cuba to invade Mexico in their turn; but it became in some degree its duty to take care that Mexico did not suffer for its assent to their wishes." When a Government chooses to depart from the line of pru dence, as our Government has done, one false step leads only to another. Spain may say, " I did not ask you to prevent the invasion of Cuba and Porto Rico, and if you have been impertinent enough to interfere in what did not concern you, is that a rea son why I should waive my right to re-conquer my colonies if I can ?" The best ground for interfer ence is, the right of third parties to demand, after a reasonable time, that hostilities, so detrimental to them, should terminate, when they can no longer be carried on with any hope of advantage to the belligerents.—Morning Chronicle. Last night in the discussion on the London and Birmingham Canal—a very ugly business, of which we have already given our readers some account — Mr. Alderman Waithman observed that "the Broker for the Bill was connected with Moses Levi, who had been transported about twelve years ago. He would not call this the most atrocious case of the sort, for he had known a hundred as bad, and had his motion been successful, he could have im plicated in similar transactions some scores of Mem bers of Parliament, who could not afterwards have kept their seats." What a character of the Ho nourable House !—the purely Christian House, into which no Jew : or Mahometan ought ever to enter ! What must be the effect of disseminating through the country, that so large a proportion of the Mem bers of the honourable House are fit companions for Moses Levi, a convicted felon ! Are we to wonder that crimes against property should be on the in crease ?—Morning Chronicle. We are not singular in attaching deep interest and importance to a subject which was touched upon two or three days ago in this Journal—viz., the pre sent condition of the navy and its prospects, if, un happily, it should soon be brought into conflict with that of other maritime Powers. Many communica tions from professional men have reached us since the appearance of those quotations from a recent pamphlet by an old " Flag Officer," which were appended to our own remarks upon the jnefEeient methods in vogue for administering the navy of Great Britain, and which we know haN produced in high quarters a sensation th4t, however painful, can hardly fail to be salutary. No shadow of reason can be offered, no sort of excuse has even been attempted, for multiplying with such. zealous pertinacity, and at so-enormous an expense, a class of frigates and of sloops, which were proved in the last wee to be a miserable undermatch for the vessels which they had been, called upon to en counter. To build 18-pounder frigates of 46 guns, as antagonists to French 'and North Americans carrying 60 guns, and 32-pounders on the main deck, is on the face of it such a flinty-bearted con tempt for the public money, for the lives of British sailors, and for the national honour, that we do cordially hope, after the notice thus bestowed upon it, the abuse will no longer be continued. There is another and most serious branch of naval ad ministration which has been treated at great length by the discerning author of the pamphlet, and seems to deserve as well the laborious investigation which it has cost him, as the unflinching severity of his remonstrances and censures. This division of the subject embraces the defective state of the science of naval architecture, repressed as :ire all voluntary efforts to promote it by extra-04i eial means, and retarded as its advances have beer .hrough the monopoly in the construction of ships, enjoyed by men in office and authority under the Navy Board. The same section comprises also the absence of opportunities for gaining instruction in the management of squadrons by periodical assem blages of men-of-war for naval manmuvres, or in gunnery through the medium of schools ashore, and the very lax and negligent manner in which the latter want has been supplied at sea by practice and discipline at the great guns. After alluding to the vessels which had been built on ex periment by Captains Hayes ) Symonds, and Profes sor Inman,—the inconsiderate or perver'e restric tions platted upon them in the construction of their ships, whereby their qualities were of necessity in jured,—and the insufficient means afforded for as certaining by fair comparison the relative properties of those ships towards others built by the official servants of the Government,—the author proceeds as follows :—[We must add, before we insert the subjoined passages, that more than one or two dis tinguished officers have of late anticipated a more severe and discreditable chastisement to the British navy, in any future conflict with those of France and America, than it experienced from the latter Power in the war of 1812, if there be not an imme diate, decisive, and effectual adoption of measures for rendering the bulk of our seamen adepts in the use of their guns at sea. The passages from Sir Howard Douglas are worthy of deep attention.] " From this important subject I pass to the measures which have been adopted to preserve the discipline, effi ciency, and activity of our ships in commission, and to counteract the inevitable efftcts of a long and profound iteace on all warlike establishments. Between 1784 and 1793 we had three considerable naval armaments, and there was consequently but little time for either officers or men to forget what they had previously learned; but I remember that it was during this period the constant practice to assemble our guard-ships at Spithead as early in the spring as possible, and to exercise them during the summer months in those various evolutions which would naturally suggest themselves to the mind of an experienced officer. Has this good old system been followed up? I fear that the reply will be, that (luring the last 14 years (with one solitary exception in 1817) no squadron has ever assembled for exercise,—that Spithead and Plymouth Sound are generally to be sees without even senior officers' ships to enforce regularity, as well as to stimulate by good example to activity and emulation, and that our ships of war, when fitted out for foreign service, proceed to their respective stations without any previous inspection or re view, and almost always singly, incumbered with pas sengers, and overloaded with provisions and stores, re sembling too often a merchant•ship with a full cargo making all haste to its pest of discharge, rather than a British man-of-war in perfect trim and equipment, and carefully preserving, during peace, that complete state of order and preparation which can alone secure superiority in war. It is quite unnecessary for me to enlarge on the ill-effects which this deviation from our former system must necessarily produce. An entire new set of officers are gradually replacing those whose long experience in war might, perhaps, have rendered further instruction less ue c•essary ; and if the rising generation are educated in a system of negligence and inactivity, what will be the result at the commencement of a new war, when our utmost exertions will be required to secure our superiority over rivals who have certainly lost no opportunity of improving and perfecting their naval establishments, and whose minds are fully alive to the errors to which they attribute their former reverses ? " A regiment, when ordered on foreign service, is al ways reviewed previous to embarkation, and its state of discipline and appearance confidentially reported on. Such a practice introduced into the navy would have the best effects, both by encouraging emulation and exertion, and preventing that fatal system of hurrying ships to sea in an imperfect state of equipment. " Another most important point to which too little at tention has le en paid since the peace of 1815, is our ar tillery practice. There can he no doubt that our reverses during the American war are to be attributed, not only to the great superiority of the ships we engaged, but to the imperfect manner in which our officers and men had been trained to the use of their guns. It will, perhaps, hardly be credited hereafter, that there was at that time no re gular system of exercise established by authority in the British navy, but that each ship had its own particular plan and method, varying, of course, according to the ex perience and degree of information possessed by the captain, as well as to the degree of importance Which he attached to the subject. I need not detail the fatal negligence which too often prevailed, and which became only known in its full extent by its unfortunate results. At the con clusion of the peace, however, the officers of the navy were , unanimous and urgent for the immediate adoption of a better system, and various suggestions were offered to the Admiralty as to the best method of proceeding. Assum ing, as appeared most probable, that our ships would be almost entirely in port, some recommended an exercising ground at each naval arsenal, in which the crews of the guard-ships, tee., might he regularly trained ; others pre ferred a ship fitted for this purpose; but all concurred in the necessity of establishing some uniform practice. In 1817, Sir H. Douglas, an officer who combines an here ditary interest in the welfare of that service which owes so much to his father, with all that science and experience in war can afford, hid before the Board of Admiralty a most valuable work, containing a series of suggestions on this subject, which, if they had been properly attended to and ' acted upon, must have placed our system of artillery ex ercise on a very different footing from that on which it at present stands. It does not, however, appear that between 1517, when he fir-t offered his manuscript work to the Board of Admiralty, and 1819, when be requested their permission to publish i', any attention was paid to the va luable suggestions with which it abounds, beyond issuing, by authority, a sort of uniform manual exercise for the great guns; and until 1827, when his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence became Lord High Admiral of England, I was not able to observe that any effectual steps were taken to introduce or enforce such a regular system of artillery practice, especially amongst our ships on the borne stations, as might enable us to keep pace with the improvements rapidly introducing amongst our maritime rivals. " During his Royal Highness's short administration, much was undoubtedly accomplished by his own frequent personal inspections of the ships in commission, and the attention he paid to every thing which respected their artillery ; but he was unfortunately too short a time in office to establish any material or permanent improvements in this part of our system ; and I cannot therefore do better than give my readers in this place, and as nearly as pos sible in Sir H. Douglas's own words, a sketch of the plan which he, twelve years ago, suggested to the Admiralty, which, at the moment, appears to have been received with entire approbation, but which since that time has not (as far as I can learn) been thought worthy of further consi deration :-- "' When the navies of Europe, opposed to us in the late war, had been swept from the face of the ocean by the gallant achievements of the British marine, a period of triumphant undisputed dominion ensued, during which our seamen were not in general sufficiently practised in the exercise of those weapons by which that dominion had been gained, but, in the pride and ease of conquest, were suffered, in many instances, to lose much of that p!ofi cienev in warlike practice which had been acquired in a long series of arduous service. No one seemed to doubt that the decided superiority which we had displayed in every action- with a marine generally esteemed expert in gunnery, was owing to a degree of permanent perfection ie our own system, which, animated by the well-known gal lantry of our officers and seamen, would always ensure us victory over the vessels of any other State, even in con flicts with superior force. Relying with too great confi dence on this persuasion, we were led to despise expected foes whom we only rated on a level with those we had uniformly beaten, and to engage rashly in very unequal contests with the ships of a power whose practice we have since found is not of that character which should render us satisfied with the condition, or indifferent about the improvement of our own. " 'Reviewing carefully our naval actions with Euro pean enemies during the whole of the last war, and com paring them with the battles which were fought in that which immediately preceded, there appears abundant proof that the navies of Europe had very much dete riorated in the practice of gunnery. In the war which terminated in 1783, the damage which our ships sus tained, even in combats with nearly equal forse, was in general much greater than in the actions of the late French war. It appears, indeed, that even in the later periods of Napo on's reign, when he had certainly eifectd consi derable improvements in his marine, the state of practical gunnery was still so wretched, that we have seen ships. fully officered, superbly equ;pped, and strongly manned, playing batteries of 20 or 30 heavy guns against our ves sels, crowded with men, without more effect than might easily bare been produced by one or two well-directed pieces ; and we have seen some cases in which heavy fri gates have used powerful batteries against Our vessels for a considerable time without producing any effect at all., " ' The danger of resting satisfied with superiority over a system so wretched as this, has been made sufficiently evident. It consisted more in relative than is absolute excellence. - We became too confident by being feebly op posed; then slack in warlike exercise, by not being op posed at all ; and lastly, in many cases inexpert for wait even of drill practice; and herein consisted the great dis advantage under which, without suspecting it, we entered. with too great confidence, on war with a marine much more expert than that of any of our European enemies. " ' The materiel of our navy is in the finest possible condition, our ships arc greatly improved in every feature of strength and warlike quality. Our ordnance is tl e best in the world ; every species of store and equipment is perfect. We possess excellent seamen, trained by thy , operations of our commercial navy. Our officers, many of them educated at public expence, are good navigators, excellent astronomers, and are full of energy, activity, and courage; but these elements and qualities are not sufficient to constitute a good ship of war, unless the knowledge of warlike science and practice be added; and that in a manner to become immediately operative at the commence ment of a rupture. The practice of a long war, and the talents of many distinguished officers, had formed some expert crews of gunners ; but these benefits were partial, and we shall undoubtedly lose, in peace, all or much of that proficiency, unless we take special care ; and shall have again to struggle through years of difficulty, only to attain what we may not only secure from decay, but most certainly further improve, and even render permanent,'" We reserve to another opportunity the detailed system of instrucAon recommended by Sir Howard Douglas for the improvement of British seamen in the use of artillery as a science.—Times. Mr. Huskisson, in presenting the Liverpool pe tition on the subject of our relations with Spain and Mexico, in the course of last night-, urged with great force the propriety of preventing Spain from making further attacks from the side of Cuba, on the now liberated Republic of Mexico. There was a fur ther subject, and one of extreme importance, dis cussed by Mr. Huskisson in the course of his speech —we mean the general prevalence of an opinion that the United States covet a fine province of Mexico, called Texas, and are disposed to have re course to violence, if necessary, for the purpose of getting it into their hands. The province of Texas extends southwards from the United States along the coast of Mexico, and as such, the seizure of it by the former Power could not be a matter of per fect indifference to Great Britain. The possession of the Floridas by the United States has long since given rational cause of uneasiness to England, from regard to the safety of our West India islands; and we agree with Mr. Huskisson, that when the Government of Washington intimated its repug nance to seeing Cuba transferred from the feeble Ferdinand to the vigorous grasp of George IV., the United States should have been informed, that if Cuba were to continue permanently Spanish, so Texas, and in general the whole shore along the Gulf, should enure to the Mexican republic. The references made by the Right Hon. Gentleman to communications, official as well as private, from the late Mr. Jefferson, descriptive of the eager and deep-rooted longings of the American statesmen for slices of Mexico, and, above all things, for the island of Cuba, will not, we are sure, be lost upon the memory of his Majesty's Government in its future transactions with the Spanish Cabinet, with that of Mexico, and of the United States. With Spain we have a defensive alliance, ready made and consolidated by the most obvious interest, to prevent Cuba from falling a prey to the syste matic aggrandisement of the United States. With Mexico, again, we are equally identified in resistance to the attempts of the same States upon Texas. With the United States themselves we have no relation but that of commercial intercourse so lung as they will suffer ir, and of forbearance on other points so long as our patience may not be too se verely provoked. We are bound to say that Sir R. Peel completely succeeded in justifying Ministers from the charge of insincerity or inconsistency as regarded their duties towards the members of the western hemisphere.—Times. Our readers will recollect that we ventured more than once, towards the close of last year, to suggest that Parliament should meet as early as November, on the ground that it would otherwise be impossible to get through the business of the Session. It re quired no peculiar sagacity to foresee that many im portant questions must arise out of the state of the country, in both its domestic and foreign relations, which would supply the material of protracted de bate; besides which, there was a great arrear of business from last Session, almost all matters of practical importance having been postponed in con sequence of the length of time consumed by the dis cussion of the Roman Catholic claims. MS Ma jesty's Ministers, however, disdained to depart from precedent-by advising Parliament to be convened at an earlier day than the 4th of February. It is true that precedent has been but recently established, yet they seem to adhere to the practice more perti naciously than if it were " part and parcel" of the ancient Constitution of the realm, upon which, indeed, they did not fear to " break in" with a sudden and violent spirit of innovation. In essentials they are " liberal" and ambitious of change, while their free-policy is still trammelled by the bigotry of forms. Yet, the other night, when Mr. Hume made some observa tions on the necessity of Parliament meeting at an earlier period of the Session, or proceeding to busi ness each day at earlier hours, Sir Robert Peel half admitted the 'former proposition, and perfectly ac quiesced in the latter. It is our opinion that both propositions were correct, and that the commence ment of the Session and of the public business each day ought to be earlier. We are now fast approach ing the period when Parliament is usually prorogued, and yet how little has really been done, and how much remains to do ! A great portion of the busi ness must again be thrown over to the next Session, and among the rest, we apprehend, those magnifi cent plans cf legal reform which were ostentatiously promised to the people in the Spetch from the Throne. Thus, on account of the bigotted deference which Ministers pay to the 4th of February, the country is to endure all the evils avowedly con nected with the administration of justice for another year, besides many other grievances which a Government that really possessed the wisdom to which ours pretend, anti studied the public good more than their own private interests and personal convenience, would have delivered the public from before now, whatever it might have cost them in time and exertion. In fact, the arrears of business in Parliament accumulate like the national debt, so that at last it will be impossible to clear them off. A Correspondent inquires what has become of the measures relating to the new stamp duties ? and wishes to know whether the Chancellor of the Ex chequer will be content with having moved his resolutions of 100 folio pages, and whether, after all the anxiety and a g i tat i on occas i one d b y t h e new propositions, he intend s to postpone the business till another Session ? He also asks chat would become of some Ministers if the doctrine of " ex pedients.," and the practice of " postponements" were to go out of vogue? There is one subject, however, respecting which, as nature is said to abhor a vacuum, so do Ministers abhor postponement—we mean the supplies. The old and constitutional practice of our ancestors, whose wisdom has been so much sneered at by the mawkish patriots and infidel philoso phers of modern times, was to refuse voting the supplies until they obtained a redress of grievances. If that were the practice now-a-days—if we had Representatives in Parliament who acted, not upon the courtesy of modern arrangements, but upon the examples of stubborn integrity by which the better eras of our history have been distinguished-- they would soon put the practice of postponements Alt of faihion. Ministers would be as prompt to satisfy the reasonable demands of the people as 'hey are now backward to listen to their complaints. They would hasten to redress grievances, that the piincipal object of convening Parliament, the voting if the supplies, might bor facilitated. Measures to reform the administration of justice, and to remove other causes of public dissatisfaction, would not be merely spoken of in a speech from the Throne, or flourished about in the fruitless verbiage of a Minis tel's eloquence; they would be carried into effect with us little delay as possible, that the obstacles might be removed which stood in the way of the replenishing of the coffers of the Crown.—Morning Herald. PREVENTIVE SERVICE. It appears, from an account of the expences incurred for the Preventive Service on the coast, signed by Mr. George 11. Dawson, and ordered to be printed on the 13th of May : The Kent and Sussex Coast Blockade has cost, for the year 1 1818... 62,547 1821...102,616 1824...109,215 1827...166,019 1819... 82,133 1822... 93,094 1825-16.8,344 181'18-152,556 182t1... 90,803 18:'.3... 78,143 1826...165,656 1829...140,958 That the Coast-guard for England, Scotland, and Ire land, has cost, in I 1816... 04,716 1820...120,883 1824-.304,684 18‘.?7...267,764 1817 .. 58,286 1821-186,182 1825...1,817 1828...263,361 1818... 77,552 1822-2119,843 1826...272,950 1829...260,287 1819...115,943 1823...334,312 That the Revenue cruisers 1816...264,952 1820...217,476 1817.-250,178 1821...207,364 1818...218,284 1822...194,'229 1819...201,733 1823...185,306 have cost, in 1824...152,416 11827...136,509 189.5-133,977 188...136,908 1826...155,322 18:29...130,90 That the Land-guard (riding officers) have cost, in 1816... 31,434 1820... ,446 1824... 15,026 1827... 11,501 1417... 33,746 1821... 27,505 1825... 20,226 1828... 10,857 1818... 31,064 1822... f.. 4,557 1826... 12,169 18±1... 11,242 1819... 34,451 1823... 18,578 That the total expense wt 1816...331,152 1820-457,69 1817-312,210 1821-593,667 1818-392,747 1822 _581,723 1819-434,262 18'23-616,339 1824-581,341 1827...581,888 1825...604,364 1828...563,682 1826...606,097 1829...543,483 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Pr-vatounr, MAY 20.—The supernumeraries of his Majesty's ship Ocean, 80, were paid off on Friday, and on Saturday the ship was paid off into ordinary, when Commodore Campbell struck his broad pendant at sunset. The Commodore was entertained to a farewell dinner on Thursday, by the officers at their mess, when many loyal and appropriate toasts were drank, amongst which was " the health of their gallant Captain," with three times three, and all separated with the highest sentiments of re spect and esteem. The Confiance steam-vessel, Lieut. Richardson, arrived on Friday from Portsmouth, with a supply of chrono meters. We understand that the Confiance has been fitted with some experimental apparatus, the result of which is not yet fully ascertained.- We hear that she is likely to take out one of the distant mails. Admiral Sir Manley Dixon visited the Brazilian frigate Izabel, Captain Grenfell, lying in the Sound, on Friday, and was received in the customary manner. His Majesty's ship Galatea, 42, Captain Charles Napier, C. 8., arrived here from Portsmouth on Wednesday, with the dock-yard riggers, and the other men lent to assist the St. Vincent to that port. The Leveret brig, Lieutenant Worth, and the Antelope cutter, Lieutenant William John, sailed on the same day, the former, we understand, for Ireland, and the latter ves sel for the Downs. In Hamoaze—Caledonia, Kent, Blanche, Clio, Conflict, Royalist, Goldfinch, Carron, and Contiance steam-vessels. In Barnpool—Undaunted. At the Island—Vigilant, Bramble. In the Sound—Galatea, Isabel Brazilian. The Brazilian frigate Isabel, Captain Grenfell, will sail this day for Rio de Janeiro, calling off Madeira for a family of distinction. APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS,-Lieut.. Thomas Spark is appointed to command H. M. cutter Sylvia. Lieut. C. M. Moncriere Wright is appointed to the Sus sex Blockade. Mr. D. C. Cutnby, late of H. M. S. Forte, is promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. The Rev. J. K. Goldney is appointed Chaplain of H. M. S. Blonde. The following 'Midshipmen passed for Lieutenants at the Royal Navy College last week :—The Hon. Dudley An derson Worsely Pelham, Vachon Baker, Scylla; Maori' Wilkins, James Sedgwick Wetenball, Win. Campbell, Geo. Henry Blair, Ocean ; Francis Scott, Asia; David Charles Cumby, acting Lieutentant from Warspite ; John Vyner Williams, Cadmus; Win. Backhouse Moneypenny, Pelican; Geo. Gage Heathcote, Benj. Leslie Maxwell Adams, Prince Regent. DREADFUL ACCIDENT. (From a New York - Paper of April 26.) EXPLOSION OF THE STEAM-BOAT CHIEF JUS- TICE MARSHALL. OPTICE or THE ORANGE TELEGRAPH, NEWBURGH, THURSDAY, TEN at NIGHT. " TO TUE EDITOR. OF THE EVENING POST. " I hasten to inform you of a dreadful disaster on board the steam-boat Chief Justice Marshall, which occurred this evening about half-past seven o'clock. Just after she hid received on hoard her passengers from this place, and left the wharf, while about ten yards off, going down, her boil: r exploded with a loud noise, immediately followed by the cries of the wounded and dying. Numerous boots put off directly from our docks, the steam-boat was brought to the wharf, and every attention administered to the suf ferers. Twelve ere seriously scalded, and few of those can survive. About thirty in all were snore or less vic tims of the accident. The engineer cannot recover. Names and particulars further I cannot give during the present confusion, except to say that the persons most seriously hurt are chiefly those belonging to the steam boat. No carelessness is imputed to any person. In butte, yours, &e. " C. U. CUSHMAN." EXTRACT OF A LETTER. FROM lIER CAPTAIN, DATED LAST EVENING AT EIGHT O'CLOCK. " I have the unpleasant ditty to perform to say that shortly after leaving the dock for New York, at thii place, about Seven o'clock, the whole front of our boiler blew out with a most tremendous explosion. Ten persons are badly scalded, three or four so much so that their lives are despaired of. The cause at present we know not, but can say the steam was very low, and the boiler well sup plied with water at the time; the gauge cocks were tried while landing and the steam blowing off. All is confusion." Among the recent valuable additions to the Bristol Institution, are the manuscript of CHATTERTON'S Will in verse, and his Deed of Apprenticeship, presented by J. M. PAGET, Esq., of Newberry-house, near Frome; also new specimens of cotton from Demerara, presented by Was. HILHOUSE, Esq., an,d a Welsh and Latin Grammar, printed in 1593, presented by Dr. liowELL.—BathChron. Three husbands have been murdered in Kerry during the list three years at the instance of their wives, whose conjugal infidelity led to the atrocious crime. On Thursday last two men named SHEA, JAMES SuLtivniq, and BRIDGET BRENNAN, were committed to Tralee gaol for the murder of the latter's husband. —Limerick Chron. A fellow, who must have had teeth as strong as a sledge hammer, actually eat the greater part of an earthenware quart, in tke presence of several respectable farmers at the Lamb Inn, at Warminster, a few days since. The farmers, fearing that be might sustain some injury, enticed him out of the house, when he had about two. thirds performed his task. —Bath Chronicle. PEACE-MAKING GANDER.--A professional gentleman of this town stated in our hearing, the other day, the followin4 rather remarkable fact. Some years ago, while ridin g past Clarencefield, on a clear moonlight night, his attention was directed to Mr. BunNlE's straw yard, in which two bullocks (not of the peaceful Gallo way breed, but pugnacious natives of the western High lands) were engaged in settlinz some deadly feud. Such was the ire and prowess of the brutes, that their foreheads were convert,d into a sort of battering-rams ; and every time they receded a little way, and again met, the crash was nearly as loud as the report. of Mr. RANKINE'S great guns, when tt.ey open their brazen throats on the Cor belly Hill. The fierceness of the combat induced the traveller to pull up his steed ; and his surprise was changed to absolute wonderment, when he observed a gander leave his roost, wave his heavy pinions in the air, and they. dash right between the horns of the belligerents, which he succeeded in separating in the twinkling of an eye. A movement so singular and unexpect,ed, cowed the comba tants most effectually; in an instant they retreated in different directions, and so long as our informant remained on the spot, evinced sin disposition to renew hostilities. The gander, on the other hand, seemed quite proud of the exploit he had performed ; and resumed " with stately steps and slow" his place among the bonny lady geese, who one and all proved by their kindly cackling, how much they admired his dexterity as a titter in an arena which, in their innocent eyes, had all the attractions of a second " Ashby de la Zeuche."--Dumfries Courier. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Yesterday a young man, named Joseph Priestly, was re-examined, charged with breaking open and stealing in the chambers of Mr. J. D. Moore, the special p!eader, in Inner Temple-lane, and committed. BOW-STREET. Yesterday a gentleman residing at Sutton, in Surrey, waited upon Sir R. ButNxE, and stated that, in conse quence of the number of burglaries which were committed nightly in that part of the country, the inhabitants of Sutton were anxious that some protection should he afforded to them. At present they had only two watch men, who were tot illy inadequate to check the depredations of the thieves, who, there was every reason to believe, were experienced hands from London. The object of the pre sent application was to request that some experienced offi cers of Bow• street should be sent down for the purpose of bringing the depredators to justice. Sir R. BIRNIE observed, that in consequence of the late alterations in the police, the Magistrates had no longer a disposable force at their command, the number of officers still retained being limited to a few, who were alwa)s em ployed upon special duty.—The gentleman then withdrew. LAMBETILSTREET. A man, named John Carney, was charged with robbing his employers, Messrs. Truman, Hanbury, rd Co , the brewers, of 151.—11 e was remanded. HATTON.GARDEN. Yesterday a gentleman, accompanied by his son, a fine boy about seven years of age, that had been bitten by a dog, waited on the sitting Magistrate, (Mr. Serjeant SELLON), and stated to him the circumstances of the painful and alarming occurrence. He said, that on the previous evening his son's arm was lacerated by the bite of a dog that had been wandering, and apparently without an owner, about the streets ; and after having inflicted the injury, although every effort was made to secure and de stroy him on the spot, he got away and was lost in the pursuit. The gentleman was not aware, in fact be had no cause to believe, that the dog was in a rabid state; but lest that should be the case, ard in order to counter act and prevent as efficaciously as possible the dreadful effects which too often follow from such injuries, he in stantly procured the assistance of a surgeon, and had the injured part completely excised, and that, he hoped, to such an extent as was sufficient to allay all apprehensions about the future. Ws object at present in stating these circumstances was the preservation of the public from the exposure to accidents of this nature during a season so productive of madness in the canine specks; and he there fore trusted that the Magistrate would issue orders to the police to destroy every dog they might find wandering through the streets without an owner. Mr. Serjeant SELLON told the gentleman that be had no power to issue such an order, and he regretted that he had not, for the sake of the public, as no doubt the danger was imminent and greatly to be dreaded from those animals suffered to range abroad without any restraint. He should be most happy to comply with the gentleman's desire, but was sorry that he was not legally empowered to do vo. The gentleman bowed to the magistrate, and withdrew. UNION-HALL. Yesterday a respectable female was brought before Mr. Hosltt, charged with stealing tteo paint-brushes, the pro perty of a Mr. Dobson, of Doddington-square, Kennington • The prisoner excited great compassion, owing to the misery and wretchedness depicted in her countenance on being placed in such a degraded station. A foreman in the employ of Mr. Dobson stated, that he is at present employed in repairing some houses in Dod dington-square, belonging to his master; that in the course of that morning the prisoner called at one of the houses where he happened to be at work, and requested to look at the premises, remarking at the same time that she had some intention of leaving the house which she then occupied. The foreman accordingly permitted the pri soner to view the premises, which she went over unat tended ; but when he went into the kitchen, where she had previously been, he immediately missed a paint brush ,off the dresser. From the respectable address and ap pearance altogethet of the prisoner, the foreman could scarcely imagine that she would be guilty of an act of theft, but on finding that another brush was a'so missing, and that no other individual was on the premises, he then concluded that she must have taken them. The prisoner at this time had left the house, and was walking off at a quick pace, when she was Unwed by the foreman, who asked her if she had any brushes in her possession ; she manifested some agitation at the question, and after a slight hesitation admitted that she had, and at once produced the two brushes from under her shawl. The foreman gave her into custody on the charge of stealing the brushes. Mr. HONE asked the prisoner what she had to say in answer to the charge ? She immediately burst into tears, and was for some time incapable of uttering a word. At length she said that she did not mean to deny that she had acted with folly in taking the brushes, but declared most soletnnly that, after having made her servant whitewash one of the kitchens, it was her full intention to have taken them back again. She could scarcely tell the reason of her having taken that which did not belong to her, a thing which she had never done in her life before, and trusted that the fore man would not press the charge, which would destroy her for ever. The foreman, in a hoarse tone of voiee, said, " Master has lost so many things out of the empty houses, that I thinks as how she ought to be made an example, your wor ts; p. _ HONE.—The unfortunate woman is full of con trition and misery for what she has done in a moment of frailty. She is not an old or hardened offender, and I therefore think the punishment she has already undergone, being placed at the bar as a felon, is quite sufficient. The foreman hoped that she would, at all events, be remanded. The tears and grief exhibited by the unfortunate woman seemed to have no effect On the foreman, who was p•o:nf aptinst every feeling of the kind; he again pressed for her being remanded. _ Mr. Aortic said, that from the want of feeling displayed by the foreman in urging the charge against the accused, he was afraid that he was actuated by a far different feeling from that which he (the foreman) was anxious to make people believe, and that his object was to obtain some compensation from the accused, knowing that she moved in a respectable sphere of life. "if that," said the Ma gistrate, "is your object, I shall take especial care that you don't get one farthing of her money." The foreman said that he wanted to consult with his employer before he consented to the prisoner's discharge. The Magistrate directed the foreman to see his em ployer on the subject, and if he pressed the charge, then there was no other alternative but her committal for trial. If, however, said the Magistrate, you or your employer are not here by three o'clock, I shall discharge the ac cused. The foreman left the office, and neither he nor his mas ter having attended, the prisoner was discharged. Three men, named Shedrach Pigdon, Charles Os born, and James Dixon, were charged with stealing six sacks of oat., the property of Mr. Potter, a corn-mer chant; and James Neal, a corn-defiler, in Church -street, Blackfriars, was charged as the receiver, knowing them to have been stolen.—The prisoners were fully committed On Monday the 3d instant a female of the gipsey tribe was safely delivered of a child in Kelham-lane, about a mile from Newark. Dr. Dorms, of Newark, humanely attended her. The infant was immersed in the ditch close by ; whether such is a general custom among the tribe or not we cannot determine. The mother stated it to he her tenth child, and expressed herself happy in her bivouac; although comfortable accommodation was offered her iu the village, she expressed no desire to he removed from her tent. Both mother and child are doing well. The detachment marched on Tuesday morning. Many enquiries were made by the friends of humanity respecting the mother's welfare, and a pipe of tobacco was generously offered by the gipsies to all who chose to blow a cloud on the occasion. —Stamford News: A STORK SHOT IN THE TRENT.—That rare bird the stork (Arden Ciconia, LIN.) was shot, eight miles up the Trent, on the 6th of this month. The length of this specimen, from the point of its bill to the end of the tail, is three feet six inches; and its breadth, from tip to tip, is six fret four inches. The bill is of a fine red colour, and its length front the tip to the corners of the mouth is seven inches; the legs and bare part of the thighs are also of the same colour ; the former below the knees measure ten inches, and the latter five. The plumage is of a dull white, except the quills, greater coverts, and some of the scapulars, which are black ; the eyes are dirk and full, the orbits bare of feathers, and •of a dusky reddish hue; the feathers near the breast, like those of the heron, are long and pendulous. The stork is now seldom seen in Britain : WALLts, in his history of Northumberland, mentions one which was killed near Chollerford-bridge, in the year 1766 ; its skin was nailed up against the wall of the inn at that place, and drew crowds of people from the adjacent parts to view it. The •rbove specimen is now in possession of Mr. R. Dorm, l i bird and animal pre server, of Castle.street, in this town, who intends it to ornament his own museum.--Hun Packet. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—May 19. Our market of to-day was rather scantily supplied, soh not very numerous!y attended either by London or collo: try buyers ; each kind of meat met:with a very 400 0 sale, at the followin3 prices per stone of Sib. to sink the offals Beef ----3.5.0 d. to 4s. Od 4s. 4d. to 3s. 64 ; Mutton 3 0 4 4 I Pork Lamb ss. Bd. to Os. Bd. '1 he foregoing quotations are, best Beef 2d., and best I . and each kind of Veal 4d. per stone higher; middling and rior Mutton rd., and best Pork 2d. per stone lower than on tb.., day se'rinight ; in prices of prime M u tt on , middling and infern Beef, Lamb, and Pork, n o a lt era ti on —Beasts, 9.2; Sheep 3 74 Lambs, 2,962; Calves, 50 ; Pi gs , 108.—B u t a :ma ll pro p o rtion , ' the supply left the market unsold. Ii AI I.SIIAM MARK ET.—May 19. Beef---- 3s. ed. to -Is. ed. 3s. 6d. to 4s. Mutton-- I 3 8 4 6 Pork .. . 0 0 0 0 , lamb ---4 s. ed. to ss. &I. Supply of Beasts, Sheep, and Lambs, limited, of Calves grea t " trade with Lamb brisk, with other meat very dull. ARU NDEI. MARKET.—May 18. 3s. Ott. to 3s. Bti. sd. to 45. 14 ' Mutton 3 6 44 I 0 0 0 ° Lamb ss. Od. to 6s. Od A moderately good supply, and a dull trade. CHICHESTER M ARK ET.—May 19. Reef-- Vs. 101. to 11A. Sii. I 3s. 44. to 4s. 441 ; Mutton 3 2 4 2 0 0 0 . _ Land) ls. 8(1. to ss. 10d. Couples (Ewes with th , it Lamb) 30s. to 425. each ; Store She,' and Beasts, as also Mich Cows, in increased demand, at eo n what improved prices. Supply good, an d tr a d e w ith f a t st4' dull. RUMFORD MARKET.—May 19. s. d. to A.d. a . d. a.; 6 g ee , . tton 2lO 4 0 Pork 3 0 4 41. Bd. to 53. 10d. Suckling CalveS from It% to 30s. ; Quarter old Pigwl2s.to 16s. W I). A good supply, and a very dull trade. CJONTRY CORN MARKETS DUBIN° THE lif^"lt‘ NN heat. ! Barley. Oats. is e auF. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. a. s. to s. 8. t° Blandford 59 29 93 '—„„ ith iS Trigg 70 29 23 le Chard . 56 '7O 32 38 24 30 42 Huntingdon . 158 6'9 29 32 20 .25 27 Lone 5utt0n...,......1 56 66 18 24 36 Loutli 543 72 29 34 20 28 34 Vr,,, Newark 67 79 31 as 24 30 35 0 ", Nottingham (15 74 34 42 25 31 32 t Pc-terboroliel7— 56 70 37 40 18 25 27 r. Plymouth ..w,,,...,..1'2 70 26 33 21 26 33 r, Pontefract 61 32 22 Sleaford .- . 57 66 26 35 17 26 37 2 Uppingliam 61 71 34 39 22 29 31 Wisbech 56 68 21 28 34 r", MA R KEE —May 18. ly of Grain to this day's marlg 4 risk. There was little alterr, f Bliley, which may be quote' Idler articles were so!d at a M. LEEDS CORN We had a middling supp' and the trade was rather In tion in the prices, except n Is. her quarter lower. 0 fling advance. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 453. to 723. -- York. :Ind Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suliblk -- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 6311). Oats, I'otatoe --bleating, Foreign 11V. to 12d....English 11d. to 13d. pets Shelling Vs. to 355. per los% Rapeseed, English, 271. to 291 Foreign, —I. to —l. per IA!, LIVERPOOL CORN EX CHA NG E.—May IS. At this day's market Wheat again experienced a (Jr, cline of Id. to 2d., and Oats an adv ance o f Id. p er boll", a Flour was held for an improvement of Is. per sack, O f Oatmeal was 61 per 2401 b. d: , arer. In the value other articles there was little alteration. 'Nu caT, English, White, per 70Ib. Red --- Scotch, Welch, and Manx 9999 5.,1d.. t , . o : ) 1 990 0 S . 0 :: Irish, White —.-- Red 8 3 9 3 Foreign 8 9 10 '3 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 7 3 9 Irish Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quar t er, 56 0 33 Scotch and Irish, per 6011)s. Feeding 4 8 4 BEANS, English, per Imperial quart e r 3B 0 44 0 I rish, &c. Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 44 0 a —Foreign FLOUR, English, per 280Ib. 49 0 51 0 -- Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 2B 0 32 0 INDIAN Coax, per 4401 h. Itvr, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter ImronT or GRAIN for the Week ending May 17. .1 Wheat. Oats. Barley Flour. Oatmer Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. I 1 Foreign, Bea llnsh, &c. Scks.l Load& 30,012 2,836 2,74 4 22,497 984 1 9,196 On Tuesday morning last, E. RAMPTON► the Worling postman, Was found hanging on a tree Trangier Park. We have heard of no cause that can b e assigned for this act.-.-Southampton and Isle of Wig l4 Mercury. CHEAP PowLs !—Some time since a gentle. man Ue'onging to this city visited Newry. While taking a forenoon walk he observed a farmer, feeding two yeti fine fowls, and two rather superior ducks, and enquired if he would sell them, and at what price. " Troth Id I will," replied the Hibernian, " and may be your honou r will give me four tenpennies." " 0 yes," said our towns' man," "if you carry them home, to my house at Edit' burgh, in Scotland." PAT'S countenance instant)! brightened up, and he exclaimed, " Och, homey, het?, your tenpennies ; and by japers you'll have the hens slo, the ducks for nothing, and I'll carry them home too, your honour will o:.ly carry me there."—Scotsman. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—OII MonCISY last, while some persons were walking on the banks of the stream which runs from C.:annul-nil:8 into the Water 01 Leith, they discovered a human arm in the water, a nd cia bring taken out, it had every appearance of having bee° t,rn from the socket. On dragging near the spot, th e head of a female was also brought up, but we have not heard if the other parts of the body have been discovered. On inquiry in the neighbourhood, it was ascertained that gentleman's servant at Stockbridge had been amusing for, three months, and the s p ec t a t o r s i mme di a t e ly conc luded that the above were fragment., of the unfortunat e woman; hut how she met her death will not now be easily awl' tamed. —Scotsman. SUITING THE ACTION TO THE WORD Ala IDE WORD TO TOE ACTION.—The venerable and highly' respectable Dr. K----, of A----., last Sunday forenoon' in the middle of an eloquent discourse, observed in th e midst of the congregation a wight who, notwitlistaudid the attractive oratory of the doctor, had fallen into th e arms of Sornnus ; for a short time the eye of the (loa f , was indign an tly fi xe d on t h e s l eeper , an d w i t h hi s markeu, expression in silen c e h e s t oo d, i n h o p e some ki n d h a nd near by would stir bim from his nap. No one, however' performed the kindly office, when he deliberately lifted 0 pocket bible from the side of the pulpit and threw it at the unfortunate doser, exeaiming " Rise, thou sleeper; there is no sleeping in hell." This, as few will d o ubt, had the desired uff,ct. lie started up confused and con founded, and the doctor with the greatest composure pre seeded with his sermon.—Elgin and Forres Journal. BIRTHS. At Fairfield Lodge, Taunton, the lady of Lien► Edo". Jennings. R.N., of a son. On the 19th inst. at Greenwich, Mrs. Pitts, of a daughter. On the 16th inst. in Henrietta -street, Brunswirk-squaret Mrs. J. Tyas, of a daught.T. On the 19th inst. Mrs. S. White, of Lamb's Conduit• street, of a daughter, still-born. • On the 17th inst. at Park-place, North Brixton, the lady of S. Cohen, jun. Esq., of a daughter. On the 13th inst. at Waltham Abbey, 'the lady of G. Lovell, Esq., ordutnce storekeeper,- of a daughter, 'her 10th child. MARRIED. On the 10th inst. at Paris, at the British Ambassadors Chapel, by the Right Rev. Bishop Luseoinbe, Sarah La de Ann, the youngest (laughter 02 the late Owen Holmes, Esq., of London and Hackney, to 31. Theodore Hardouiot of Nantes. On the 20th inst. at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, E. J• Jones, Esq , of Poudstone, Heref.rdshire, to Augusta Eleanor, third daughter of John Biddulph, Esq. of Led' bury, in the same county. On the 20th inst. at St. Andrew's, Holborn, Mr. M 13erry, of Chancery-1 me, to Ehabeth Ann, detest daugh ter of T. Anderson, Esq., of Southampten-buildings. On the 19th inst. at Chelteuhatn, the Rev. C. Ran• dolph, Vicar of Lyme Regis, to Mary Ann, daughfee of G. S. Foyle, E,-q. DIED. On the 4 20th inst. Caroline, the eldest daughter of 'Mr , Hardwick, New Bond -street. Lately, at Abbeville, in France, the. Abbe Berti)► LL.D., aged 82, 25 years ►esident at Oxford. On tae 17th inst. at Worthing, the lion. W. 1-1. Irby' only brother of the late Lord Boston. 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