The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-28 00:00:00

ri)T - P'r • Viscount Falkland joined the Royal circle at dinner on Sa turday at the New Palace. i Her Majesty's private band was in attendance at th e Palace the eveni ng. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty on Sa turday. Colonel Wemyss has succeeded Lord Alfred Paget as the Equerry in Waiting- on her Majesty. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Au fillt4 of Cambridge attended Divine Service yesterday morn ill Grosvenor Chapel. Baroness Ahlefeldt, Miss Kerr, and 'Pt. Stephens were in waiting on their Royal Highnesses. The Duchess of Cambridge had an evening party on Fri -7;.Y, at Cambridge House. The company included her Royal V o h _n , e.ss the Duchess of Gloucester,. .attended by Lady D e %In a Bathurst, Countess Sebastian', the Lady of the French Ambassador; Baron Bulow the Prussian Minister ; LidPollon, the Sardinian Minister ; Countess of Euston, i "IY Louisa Fitzroy, Viscount and Viscountess Falkland, e n • Miss Wellesley, Baron de Bourqueney, M. Kisseleff, Raton Werther, Baron Bentinck, Count Thum, Count de °ban Chabot and Mr. Mellish. i'lr• Chadwick and Dr. Kay had an interview with Lord J. at the Home-office, on Saturday. t ,",, ar iles Gillespie, Esq., arrived at the Colonial-office on Sa turday, with despatches from Sir John Colborne, Governor of ,e Canadas. Despatches from Sir George Arthur, Lieut.- 'overnor of Upper Canada, were also received on Saturday, t he tt h Colonial-office. "shid Pacha, the Turkish Ambassador, transacted busi ness „" Saturday, at the Foreign-office. f ne Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on Saturday, Hastings.ol D espatches from Sir John Harvey, Lieut.-Governor of New runsiviek, were received yesterday, at the Colonial-office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. ilaroness de Tessier, at the Sackvill e Hotel, Sackville 4strer, from W oo dgate Patk, Epsom; Mr. and M rs . -Mark e and family, at ditto, from the Crescent, Bath ; Mr. and S rs * Nash, at ditto, from ParisAlaryb9rough, in eau tilla_row, from a visit to the Duke and Duchess , of tortt at Badminton, near Cirencester ; Count D Orsay, in t ellsi Dgton Gore, from a tour of visits ; Lord Lynedoch, in C. a ttnn-street, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of 4 1 ,eester, at Holltham Hall, Norfolk; Baron Mayers Roths silid, at the Green Park Hotel. Piccadilly, from Brighton ; VT J ohn Rao Reid, M.P., in Pall-mall, from Ewell Grove; i B enunt an d Viscountess Dillon, at the Clarendon Hotel, end-street, from Brighton ; Lord and Lady Delawarr, in t T PPer Grosvenor-street, from Buckhurst ; Miss Hankey, in ) ot li k Per Gl oucester - p l ace , from Brighton; Mr. and Mrs. Bul- L and family, in Bryanston - square , fro m Faulttbourn Hall, E Captain and Mrs. Beaufort, in Gloucester-place, from 134 e worth Town, Ireland ; the Ladies Emily and Mary L o 7 e leY. at Berkeley House, Spring-gardens, from Cranford Hounslow • Sir Bellingham and Lady Graham, from J i i,„ l g ut on ; Captain ' Hastings, R. N , in Charles-street, St. li n —es 'st from Portsmouth ; Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt, at Bur iltftnn House, from St. Leonard's, near Windsor; Mdlle. hSrre' in South-street, from a t our in Scotland; Lord M arcus 1 :. 11 Belgrave-square, from a visa to the Marquis m and VA' of of Downshire, at Eastharnpstead Park ; the ar- Cur' Douro, at Apsley House, from a visit to . Lady Anne Smith, at Hampton Court Palace; Prince and Prin tl3o-1` CaPua in Belgrave- square , from Salt Hill, Berks ; Right Hon.' Sir Arthur and Lady Augusta Paget, in ph e ' e lie nor-street, Sir Felix and Miss Booth, in Portland fkrail; fr 9ra Brighton; the Earl and Countess of Munster and ,Earro'r Belgrave-street, from ditto, fur the season; the rm. .urrey from his seat at Little Hampton : Lady Marv- R e "gh, frorn 'the Grove, Watford ; Sir John and Lady P on ri „ nie ', in Whitehall-place, from Brighton ; the Hon. J. B. 11 1 . —° "_,Y , in Cavendish -square, from Garry Hill, Kilkenny; r e c ri ali Mrs. Mackworth Praed and family, at their new Ill s ,i) erie .e , in Chester-square, from Hastings ; Mr. Ward, In Cleveland-court, St. James's; Earl of eh u Bucking shire, i n. S pan i s h-place, from his seat, Hamp den House, Bucks; Sir George Baker, Bart. , in Jerm y n-street, from nrsetshire. DEPARTURES. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd, from the Sackville Hotel, Sackville ii!reef, Cambridge; Mr. Loftus, from ditto, for Leamington; Baron :and Baroness Dimsdale, and the Hon. Miss Dimsdale, Fro m M ivart's Hotel , Brook - street , f o r Stonelands, Devon ; the tan of Errol, for Brighton; Lady Anne Beckett, from Strat ford-place, on a visit to Earl Lonsdale, at Cottesmore, Rut land ; Lord A. Fitzclarence and Capt. Fremantle, R. N., for Woe dstock ; Lady Selsey, from Chester street, on a visiting tour in Sussex; Horton Knatchbull, Esq., from the t,lar e ndon Hotel, for his sea t, Provender, Kent; Count ~13tthyany. for Brighton ; Count Von Zichv, from the Cla -I,ndon Hole], for the Con tinent ; the Mar q uis and Mar -o,r Bristol, for Kemp Town, Brighton; Mr. Zritton an d' the Dowager Lady Lake , fo r the continent ; 4„ i r t ,' and Mrs. Errington, from Hill - s treet, on a visit to Sir and Lady Maria Stanley, at Alderley Park, near ‘4 4 f4)rd ; Hon. Alexander Macdonald, for Brighton ; Mr. 05t . ,7%. Drummond, for Paris ; his Excellency Baron Stis i s 2 from Mivart's Hotel, Brook-street, for Midhurst, 13 4 1 , on a visit to Mr. and Lady Caroline Malse ; Gen. el, fro m ditto, for the Hnue. CHANGES. h eti Ravensworth, at Ravens worth Castle, Northumber derra,d, from a visit to Marquis and Marchio ness of London -5- Wynyard Park. near Stockton-on-Tees, Durham ; th e i' u nt - Maidstone, M. P. , H averholme Priory, on a visit to wind Countess of Winchilsea, from Melton Mowbray ; the Earl 'of Eglintoun, at Brighton, from Paris ; Sir Francis L e ° l ° , 444 Goodriche, Bart., M.P., and Lady Goodriche, at wa rd, Spa, from their seat, Studley Castle; Lord t i n ar d, at lois seat in Wales, from a tour ; Mr. C. W. Cod ki,4l°ll, 11/1". P., and Lady Georgiana Codrington, at . Bad tp-gt", .on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of at -a ufort, from Dodington Castle ; the Bishop of Carlisle, 0 Leamington Spa, from his palace, at Carlisle ; Lord Haddo, a,tour in France, from Brighton ; the Earl of Shelburne, at tiyan. l House, Sussex, from the scat of H. Fox Talbot, Laycock Abbey, Wilts ; the Marquis of Huntley, at i cLulburgh, from Aboyne Castle, N. B. ; Mr. and Lady Mary from mby, at the British Embassy, Frankforton the Maine, ; a rt' Br ussels ; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ellice, jun., on a visit `,.°, Miss Balfour, at her seat, Balburnie, Fifeshire, from Howick '' ' , llll , tin: seat of Earl Grey; Lord and Lady Cork and Lady F arnham, at Bath, from Marston Hall, Somerset; Lord c arnham, at Newtown Barry, from Dublin; Lord and Lady ? °%ve:•scourt and family , at Nice , from a tour in Piedmont ; the Doke of Devonshire and suite From Rome, for Naples ; e Ho,i. Miss Mitford, in B runswick-s q uare, Brighton, from t he seat of her brother, Lord Redesdale, Batsford Park, Mor t3ll-in-tlie—Marsh ; Mr. and Mr s. Fitzro y , at Paris, from a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Wentworth Beaumont, from Avignon, on a tour in the south of France; the Duke of Newcastle, and t he Ladies _Pelham Clinton, at Clumber Park, Notts, from a I,7it to Sir Robert and Lady Pee l, at their scat, Drayton Manor, S ta ffordshire ; Mr. and Lady Louisa Tighe, at Dub ", from their seat, in the south of Ireland ; Lady Bateman, a'• Bath., from Cheltenham ; the Marchioness of Queensberry and Laity Douglas, at Brighton , from Warwickshire; Sir B. "I'Malton, in Hants, from Dublin ; Lord and Lady Kin- Oaird, ,at Nottingham, from their seat, Rossie Priory, Perth *lire ; the Earl and Countess of Fingal, at Brighton, from a tour of visits ; the Earl of Hardwieke, at Wimpole Hall, his s eat, iu C a mbridgeshire , from a visit to t h e Mar q uis and Mar chioness of Exeter, at Burghley House, their seat, near Stamford. The Marquis an d Marchioness of Downshire and la clY Charlotte Hill have returned to Easthampstead Park, b rerks from a * visit of sever al da y s to Sir C. Hulse, Bart., and ' a dY Hulce, at Breamore Ilouse, near Salisbury, Wilts. Lord Lyndhurst arrived at his mansion in George street Hanover-square, on Saturday evening, from Baden liader, w here his Lordship has been chiefly sojourning since the prorogation of parliament. Lady Lyndhurst and her in fant daughter did not accompany The Noble and Learned Ba ron, the weather being so severe at Baden as to render a Journey thence to London unpropitious. Lord Stanley left town by the railroad on Friday, on visit to his uncle, the Rev. Mr. Thornby, at Warrington, Lac,cashire, whence his L ord s hi p was expected then to pay a a to h ot ; N'isix to the Earl of Derby , at Knowsley, and Janles's.square, to-morrow. The Earl and Countess of Leitrim and family are Passing th e w inter at Rome. Intelligence of the death of Vise utl n t Clements, M. P., has been for to that city. Lady Kinnaird, en route to town from at Priory, Perthshire, with his Lordship, was obliged to put up at Notti.wharn o n T ue sday, on which parent,her Ladyship was delivered of a daughter, who, with r are progress ing fanur ebly. It is reported Westminster -hall that, in the event Bar o n golland resign in g his seat on the Bench, Mr. Mauls will be his st.,ccessor. The Que and suite, on th e occasion of her visit in State to Dr,ary-lane Theatre to-morrow evening, will oc cupy the spacious proscenium stage-box on the Queen's side of th e house. Her Majesty will be attended by the Master of The Horse (Lord Albemarle), the Lord Steward (Duke of Ar g -A), the Lord Chamberlain ( Marquis Conyngharn) Comptroller of the Household ( Right Hon. G. Byng), Sec. The box will be fitted up in the same gorgeous style as on her Majesty's visit the theatre in Nuvember, 1837. At half-past 10 a.m., on Friday, every box and seat in the dress circle had been taken. The Right Hon. Frankland Lewis, one be suc of the e P oor-law Commissioners , h as resi g ned ;he will ceed by his son, Mr. G. Cornwall Lewis, a gentleman well versed iu the subject of Poor-laws, It was reported in Shrewsbury, on Wednesday ern ening last, that the Lady of Sir Edward Smith, Bart., of Ac ton Burnell, was severely burnt. Mr. Quintin Dick commenced his dinner parties on Friday in Curzon-street. . The Bishop of Marseilles has issued an order, that no masses with music shall in future be performed in any of the churches within his diocese, besides the Cathedral, ex cept or" the festivals of the Saints, who are the patrons of the respecti‘le churches. The Duchess of Gloucester had an evening party On Saturday at Gloucester House. The Duke and Duchess, and the PrlueeFs Augusta of Cambridge were present. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Prin cess Augusta of Cambridge visited and inspected the General Yost Office on Saturday. Their Royal Highnesses we tarin e attended by Miss Kerr, Baro ness Ahlefeldt, and Cap Stephens. - KT.NGS LYNN. A meeting was held at the vestry of St. Margaret's Church, on Friday, the 25th instant, pursuant to notice, given by the Churchwardens, " To audit the last year's accounts, to make a rate for the ensuing year, or for other purposes." The hour named in the notice (eleven o'clock) being past Mr. JAMES TOWELL, one of the Churchwardens, was, on the mo tion of Mr. JOHN KEED, celled to the Chair, who requested the Clerk to read the notice upon which the meeting was assembled. The accounts were then produced, showing an expenditure of 341/. 13s. 9d., leaving 701. still due to various tradesmen, and 601. due on a previous vote to the Chapelwardens. The receipts of the year were, from sundry sources, 54/. 17s. Bd., and the amount collected of the last rate 324/. 1 ls. Bd. (the total of arrears upon this collection being 105/. 19s. 7d.) An estimate was then laid before the meeting upon this state li iwent, by which it appeared necessary to raise 4201. by a rate of 7d. in the pound, to meet all the expenses up to Easter next ; it was elicited that this calculation was made upon the presumption that the rate now about to be laid could be col lected more closely than the last, which the Chairman was by no means inclined to think probable, without proceedings against many conscientious Dissenters by distress warrants, which he could never for his part bring his mind to; he should rather prefer a mode, which he thought had been agreed upon by himself and his colleague, of meeting the difficulty, viz , by a rate of 9d. in the pound, upon the calcu lation of the sum last collected, which would certainly fall a trifle heavier upon the members of the Establishment, but which would scarcely be felt by them, and if taken up in what he believed to find amongst them, a truly Church spirit, would in the end tend to the production of those feelings of mutual good understanding which were so desirable in every Christian community. Mr. LIONEL SELF, Jun., was fully disposed to regard, to the utmost, the interests of the Dissenters, but he thought the interests of the Church should likewise be supported ; and so long as the law remained unaltered he saw no reason to depart from the usual method of laying the rate. The CHAIRMAN then said he was waiting to put any pro position to the meeting that might be made upon the subject. The Chairman being afraid to make any motion, and sometime aving elapsed, he declared that the meeting was ended. The meeting voted an unanimous expression of thanks to the Chairman arsd separated. --------- - - TAXES LEVIED ON THE LABOUR ING CLASSES. To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, The Humble Petition of Wm. Blaxland, of Birmingham, Ilumbleth sheweth, that your petitioner has to pay in indirect taxation from the combined effects of the Tithe, Corn, Custom, and Excise Taxes. The sum of five shillings, threepence, and one-eighth part of a penny, each week that he consumes pro v.v.ions of the weekly value of seven shillings, sevenpence, and one half-penny. Such provisions, consisting of 2 oz. of tea. 2 oz. of coffee. 8 oz. of sugar. 31b. 8 oz. of meat. 71b. of flour. 7 pints of ale. do. of brandy. I oz. of tobacco. The cost of all which, if freed from all tithe, corn, custom, and excise tax, would not exceed: two shillings, fourpence, and three- eighths of a penny, whilst at present the cost to your petitioner is seven shillings, sevenpence, and one half penny ; being a weekly tax of five shillings, threepenctkand one-eighth of a penny, upon your petitioner, and every other rnm and woman in the empire who consume the above quan tities and provisions. Your petitioner prays that your Honourable House may in its wisdom investigate this statement, your petitioner, assuring your Honourable House, that though the effect of such indirect taxation may have been too minute and insignificant to attract the wisdom of your flonol rabic House, it is felt as an in tolerable burden, even by the. ignorant peasantry of Kent, as well as by your petitioner. June 28th, 1 83 8. WILLIAM BLAXLAND. THE MAILS. CARLISLE POST OFFICE.-The following are a list of the alterations in the arrivals and departures of several of the mails at this office, which commenced on Monday last ; the 21st instant: — The London day mail, by railway to Preston, with the second Manchester and Liverpool mails, arrives at 6h. 40m. ; and is despatched for Edinburgh and Glasgow at 7h. lOrn. in the Morning. The Whitehaven Mail Cart, by way of Wigton, with let ters from Allenby, Maryport, and Workington, is despatched at 711. 46m. in the Morning, and arrives in Carlisle at 3h. 30m. in the Afternoon. The above is London time, which is about twelve minutes in advance of the Carlisle clocks. We understand that another alteration is about to take place, in the arrival of the first-mentioned Mail, in conse quence of the great inconvenience and delay occasioned by the arrival of the Scotch Mails, at the same time. —Carlisle Journal. THE MAlL—Tuesday last the London morning mail, and the Liverpool mail, arrived here at six o'clock evening, being an acceleration on the former of two hours. The London mail goes off at a quarter to eight, so that there arc nearly two hours allowed to answer letters by the morning mail. Paisley Advertiser. NORTH UNION RAILWAY. —W e understand an alteration in the times of the departures of the trains has been decided on, and that the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company have agreed to several modifications in favour of the North Union Railway. One important one is, that one Second Class Carriage shall be permitted to go with each Train to Liverpool and Manchester, at half-past eight in the morning, and half past four in the evening. This will prevent the necessity of the Second Class Train going at seven o'clock in the morning, of which very few persons have availed them selves. A First Class Train will, it is understood, leave about eleven o'clock, and a Second Class, as at present, about half past two. We also understand that a new graduation of the charge for small parcels has lately been adopted, assimilating closely to that of the Liverpool and Manchester Company, which, although less than before in some instances, will be more in others ; but, perhaps on the whole, will be more equitable and give more satisfaction. An alteration has also, since Sunday last, been made in the time of one of the Lon don mails, which now leaves Parkside at eight o'clock every night, instead of nine as heretofore, and the time allowed by the Postmaster General being an hour and twenty-four minutes for that distance, the mail now arrives in Preston about half-past nine o'clock. —Preston Observer. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DA CORN EXCHANGE. The past week's arrivals of all descriptions of grain were considerable, and there was also a large return of Flour, with a very dull trade for every article, and indications of lower prices. This morning the full supply of Wheat has been moderate, and of Spring Corn good. The mealing trade has of late been so extremely ;wavy that the millers were very small buyers to-day, and, in the absence of any country demand, sales were so extremely difficult, ab s en c e of Wheat has declined ss. to 6s. per quarter, and Foreign 4s. to ss. since last Monday. Barley is also very dull, and 2s. per quarter lower than Monday se'nnight. Beans met a slow sale at Is. to 2.5. per quarter decline. Pease are languid and Is. per quarter lower. The Oat Trade partakes of the general dulness, and prices are reduced Is. to 2s. per quarter from the terms of this day se'nnight. The bakers having a good stock of Flour, and the wharfs being full, scarcely any sales can be effected, and the top price is dlclined ss. per sack, with a still greater reduction for ship parcels. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old) -s. -s. Beans, Small (new) 43s 41s - White (01d)......... -a• - 4 . (old) 46s. 48s. -Red l 838) 62s. 75c. -- Tick (new) 365 38.. Fine tAis. 68s. .-- Superfine 68s. 70s. - Harrow (new) 405.425. ----White (1838) 665. 68s. ------- (old) 4:35. 453 ..------- Fine ^Os. 725. Brank -a-s. -.-- Superfine 745. 765. Oats, Feed s. s. ---Foreign free 'Els SOs. ---- New 245. 28s. Rye. 4 0 s 45s - Poland ..._. B 8 . B ar l e y '6a. 445. ----New 255.305. --- G r i n ding 365. 40s. - Potat oe 285.30a5. . -- Malting 40s. 445. ------- v.w 2.83.3 Malt s.'s €ss. - Scotch 3's.3 ' - Fine New this. 68s. - Irish 245....... 24 ,, .9.8s lack) .60,65 E f 1 Pease, Grey, New 3 s. Ms. —... Maple New 3s. 40s. White 425. 445. - Boilers.. 44s. 46s Flour Town (per s, , :.;econds 565.58 e. North Country 52.561 Bran lOs 11q. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK. NN , heat. Barley. WIT, English Irih - - 11,418 - For s eizii - - 902 brls. SMITHFIELD. No variation in the price of Beef can be quoted. Good Mutton ad. vanced 2d. per stone. Veal was unaltered ; and Pork was in good demand, and advanced 6d. to Bd. per stone. Beasts, 2,841 ; Sheep, 23,720 ; Calves, 85 ; Pigs, 365. There was nothing of importance doing in the Tallow, Seed, or Co! lonial markets to.day. NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. 27. We had a moderate supply of Wheat at this day's market, and no fresh arrivals from Norfolk and Suffolk, which caused more firmness in the trade, and last Saturday's rates were supported for all descriptions of quality. The supplies of Barley being still kept from the South by adverse winds, prices remained without change. Both English and Foreign Rye must be noted Ss. per quarter cheaper, owing, in a great measure, to the number of samples pressing on the market. Oats, though in large supply, were cleared off at our last quotations. Beans ruled exceedingly dull; and where sales were forced, a decline of 25.. per quarter had to be submitted to. Pease also were the turn lower For Flour the demand is very limited, at a decline of ls. per sack. New. Om. Wheat, Northumberland 6le. S te. 7Bs. 64 , .1 Norfolk and 775. Sts 7Bs. 84s. Berwick and Scotch 7le. 763 —s. s, --.—. Foreign —s —a. —l. Ry 46s. 50a —s. s —$ —a —s. e r : G m rref ra i : g l i n t i n i :g n :N a S n o u r d fl f Norfolk Feeding u islk 4 6. 5.49 s . . . -a . --s. Pt.s. 405...... --s. :s' 64s 69a —s. Malt, Norfolk an d Suffolk Beans, Small .................................. —s s . —s 4sb. 4Rs. o. Tick ................................... Pease, Mi y te . ........................................................................ 4 5 . 1 4 51 : _831: Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ...... .25 Feed ............ 2ss 25s 263. 2Ss. Foreign ......... ......................... —s. --s Flour (per sack) .......... ..................... 515. 601.." —s. —4 . - The Marquis of Breadalbane gave a second dinner on Saturday last to Sir John Hobhouse and a select party. His Royal Highness the Duke of Lucca, attended by Baron Lowenberg, went by the railroad to Windsor, on Friday, for the purpose of seeing over the Castle. His. Royal Highness was met at Slough by one of her Majesty's car riages, which conveyed his Royal Highness to that Royal Residence. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1839. IRELAND Moitemeerrs OF TILE BENCH ANDBAIL—In reference to some para graphs which we find in the Papers of this morning we may state that one thing only is tolerably certain, namely—that Judge Moore retires. With regard to a paragraph in the Mail, that a son of the Learned Judge is to be appointed to the benefice lately held by Doctor Tensor), we can state the assertion is absolutely false. The arrange:Twists conse quent upon this vacancy are not as yet finally concluded. We should observe, however, that it is as false that Richard Moore is to be Solicitor-General, as it is calumnious to assert that he is, or ever was, a Tory. With regard to the business of the Crown solicitors, concerning which sucn a pother is made, we imagine that sonic arrangement is contemplated—whether it will be eventually accomplished, we cannot undertake to affirm.—Dublin Evening Post of Saturday. Terrible as have been the devastations of the recent hurricane in all parts of Ireland, in no place were its effects felt with such dreadful and ruinous con.tquences as in the town of Loughrea; for, there the ravages of the tempest were united with a conflagration which reduced to ashes nearly one hundred houses, and left thousands of human beings without food, shelter, or raiment. And this, too, amongst a population already steeped to the lips in poverty, and with little or no remunerative employment in the district. Appeals to the public for charity are in progress. MANGE MISTING IN LIMERICK.—There was a meeting of members of the Orange Association in this district at the Northumberland Build ings to-day—to which several Protestants were admitted. The object of those present was stated to involve two considerations, viz', to guard the Protestants of the South against the dangers to which they are ex posed, and to promote the general advancement of Protestantism. There were about 2511 persons in the room. Daoeneee DINNER.—On Thursday evening the men of Drogheda entertained Mr. O'Connell at a public dinner. Sir Wm. Somerville, Bart., M.P , was in the Chair. PATRaoRDINART CONDUCT OF O'CONNELL—At the Precursors' Society, on Friday, Mr. O'Connell lauded the Freeman, and gave notice of emotion for the next day of a meeting that " all the advertisements of the Society should be withdrawn from the Register." Mr. Staunton, the proprietor of the Register has published a letter on the subject, for which we regret that we cannot find room. His crime, or rather that of his representative, appears to have consisted in not adhering closely to " a note of preparation," prescribed by an attachi of the " Liberator's." " Mr. Staunton," says the Pilot" has truly statedthat this extraordinary ebullition (Mr. O'Connell's against the Press) arose from a supposed nets:is gc nee en the part of the "Liberal"journals (as we call these unfortunate ve hicles of which we a re yet permitted to be the owners in this country) wifh reference to the banquet. I have endeavoured since Tuesday to ascertain the nature of the imputed transgression; arid I fend that a paragraph penned by one of the gentlemen now most in communication with Mr. O'Connell, and which, I am told, underwent his own perusal, was omitted in the Morning Register. I was no party to this " neglect," the duty of attending to the paragraph having devolved in my ob. sence - upon my representative. The paragraph appeared in the Pilot; and, as it was already before the public, my colleague wrote one in his own words (a gratuitous and volunteer trouble on his part)." The proprietor of the Register concludes his defensive communication in the following terms : "So much for the incident of Tuesday evening, and its cause. Now for the conduct of the Press thereupon : " The reporters resolved to suppress the proceedings, in vindication of what they regarded their personal independence, and in resentment of an affront not, unfortunately, for the first time put upon the laborious and invaluable clam to which they belong. In this way it happened that there was no publication of Tuesday evening's proceedings in Wed nesday's Mornirui Register. I say the reporters were wrong in principle—they themselves declared at the Precursor meeting of Wed nesday that they yielded to mere feelings of indignation which they could not controul. It was at that meeting announced that re porting was to be resumed permanently and unconditionally ; and I really flattered myself that an unfortunate occurrence which I think Mr. O'Connell has far less reason than any of us to wish to keep in the public recollection, had passed away not to be fsought of more. Mr. O'Connell, however, " put down the Press" in London, and he " put down the Press" here before—and he wished it to be felt and re. membered that he " put down the Press" again; all which feats against the Press I KNOW to have been achievements again M st the i Conne nteres ll t swas of Ireland here and elsewhere. Having t his feeling, r. O' not satisfied with the concessions of Wednesday ; and on yesterday I was informed by the Editor of the Freeman's Journal, that persons were communicating with Mrs. Lavelle, of whom the Freeman's Journal is the property, and that they operated so upon her fears for that property (Mr. O'Connell having, in effect, threatened confiscation on the day preceding), that she insisted upon the publication of a report. Both establishments were embarked in the same bottom before—here was a course proposed by one contrary to that which either ought, under the circumstances, be called upon to pursue ; but this was avow edly the effect of fear operating upon the mind of a woman and a widow, whose property was openly stated on the day mentioned to have been entirely at stake. I did not publish on yesterday, though very properly made acquainted with all the facts as to the Freeman. One reason was, that a gentleman connected with :see was in Drogheda on the public service, and my respect for the feelings of all upright and well-intentioned men would not allow me to do anything in his absence which he regarded as affecting his personal honour. He is now in town. He and the other gentlemen connected with me say that they will for one day do any thing I require in this matter, but that, if I publish, they will, on the next, retire from the Morning Register — feeling that there is now no substantial object to be gained for the pub lic, as the principle required is conceded—is not even disputed—and is in actual operation never to be departed from again—and feeling that the only end in view Is to give to what Mr. O'Connell considers his new triumph an eclat, certainly illustrative of his great, and, I think, in creasing power over the people of this country, but humiliating to the last degree to what he regards the fallen foe. I said to them, and I now announce to the public, that under such circumstances as these de tailed, I would not put an aff,ont upon them, or force them to an extre. mit y, to secure to myself the advantage of the Precursor advertisements, or to preserve the very existence of this Journal." 'TIE PRESS, THE POLICE, AND Mu. O'CONNELL—It appears that on Thursday several gentlemen connected with the Press attended at the police-otlice in Henry-street, in order to hear the charge of a policeman against Mr. R. N. Fynn, harrister.at-law, for an assault committed upon him by the said Mr. Fyiin while he was in the discharge of his duty, endeavouring to protect the reporters of the public press from being beaten at Mr. O'Connell's dinner upon Tuesday evening. The subjoined report suggests the question, who instructed the Com missioners of Police It— " When the summons cases were about being heard, the first one called was police constable 170 C against Robert N. Fynn, Esq., barris ter.at.law, for an assault on him while in the execution of his duty at the Circus, Lower Abbey-street, on Tuesday night last. " The complainant was called, but did not answer. " Mr. Duffy—We cannot pass this over. A policeman comes for ward to prefer a charge of violent and unjustifiable assault against a gentleman, and he does not come forward to substantiate it. In my opi nion we ought to represent the case to the Commissioners. He should not be continued in the Force. " Dr. Kelly—l am inclined to agree in your opinion; for it may give rise to the concocting of cases against individuals, if the police be permitted to withdraw charges brought forward by them. " Shortly afterwards 170 C entered, and Mr. Duffy asked him if he had not complained to him yesterday of a gross assault committed on him by Mr. Fynn, a barrister, on Tuesday night, at the O'Connell dinner, and asked for a summons against him ? " Policeman —I did, your worship. " Mr. Duffy—Why were you absent when the case was called on ? " Policeman—The Commissioners desired me to withdraw the charge, your worship. "Mr. Duffy—How did they communicate with you ? Policeman—The inspector desired me to go to them, your worship. " Mr. Duffy—And they desired you to withdraw the charge ? " Policeman—Yes, your worship. " Mr. Duffy—l cannot too strongly deprecate the employment of the police on such occasions. If a breach of the peace were apprehended, then the police might be stationed in the neighbourhood to act as re quired; but the infusio n of a body of police into an assemblagewhete they are subject to such violent treatment as this man received, is a course with which I cannot agree." In the North, all that O'Connellite malignity can do has been at. tempted against that portion of the Liberal Press which will not yield the most slavish submission to the dictation of the mighty " Precursor," but to find such a man as Mr. Staunton in the excommunicated list is absolutely astonishing. We are unwilling to hint the only explanation of this phenomenon which could at all account for the facts to which we have been referring, but which will naturally occur to all who have ever read the works of Drs. Burrowes and Combo on a certain medical subject. —Belfast News Letter. MISS PARDOE.--A new work by the author of " The City of the Sultan," the principal scenes of which are laid, we believe, in the same attractive locality which that pro duction has made so familiar to English readers, will appear la a few days. It is entitled " The Romance o tinted Harem." As the " Arabian Nig hts ' Entertainments," pres through the medium of fiction, the most instructive information on Eastern Society in the olden time ; by similar means, Miss Pardoe, we suppose, intends to illustrate the distinguishing characteristics of Oriental nations in our own day. Perhaps no other living writer is so well qualified for the task. Few excel her in brilliancy and originality of imagination, and hcr experiences of the most minute details of Turkish domestic and public life have been gathered, not from the vague and erring descriptions of other travellers, but from actual resi dence and intimacy with the people themselves. We may, therefore, expect that her forthcoming work will be of that delightful description which, blending the actual with the ideal, gives to fiction the semblance of truth, and tints plain matter of fact with the dazzling hues of romance. A circumstance is at this moment occupying the attention of military circles, which we deem of vast import ance as regards the discipline and independence of her Ma jesty's army. The facts in circulation are shortly these : Captain Smith (brother to the Princess of Capua) had made arrangements for exchanging into the 11th Dragoons, com manded by the Earl of Cardigan, better known as the Lord Brudenel of the celebrated Court-martial against Captain Wathen. The Earl of Cardigan had given his assent to the entrance of Captain Smith into his regiment, having, how ever, previously ascertained from that officer that be was unmarried. Pending the arrangements for the exchange, Captain Smith had been affianced to a lady, whose name we would not introduce if it were not hallowed by the memory of her father, the late Lord Tenterden. Lord Cardigan now opposes the entrance of Captain Smith into his regiment, and his pretext is, that he will not accept of married men. He is himself a married man, and what madness possesses him to oppose the introduction of an officer with an honourable and virtuous wife into his regiment? Really the Earl of Car. digan should seek better counsel.— Observer. FAIR AVERAGE PRICE.—He had heard it said, and by gentlemen who had reflected on the subject, that if we had great fluctuation!, there was in these fluctuations a fair average price. A fair average price I He wondered what this phrase meant, when applied to the provisions of the people. He should like to know how any gentleman who was accustomed to eat a good dinner every day would like to be kept one week without food, and to be supplied the next with twice as much as he wanted) Would he feel satisfied at being told that he had got a fair average quantity of provisions for each day in the two weeks? He thought that the gentle man would not be satisfied —that he would find such an ave raging system to be neither salutary to his constitution, nor pleasant to his stomach.—. Mr. Huslasson's Speech, 1825. MEETING AT LICHFIELD.—In conformity with a requisition addressed to the Lord Bishop of Lichfield, and signed by a great number of the nobility, clergy, gentry, and others of the diocese, favourable to the extension and improve ment of education in connexion with the Established Church, his Lordship convened a public meeting, which, was held in the Guildhall, Lichfield, on Thursday last. THE LAST CAB CONUNDRUM. —Why are the hackney-coach drivers, cabmen, &c., now much better off' than ever ?—Bccause they have always got a plate of Wailes before thew CAPTAIN CP,AUFURD AND THE RUSSIAN NAVY. TO SIR JOHN BARROW, BART. SIR,—In a Supplement to your " Life of Lord Anson," which I saw only yesterday in the Morning Chronicle, and which may be taken as strictly official, and of authority, as coming from one who has for so long, and, as I understand, so ably assisted in the administration of the affairs of the Admi ralty, I meet with some passages reflecting in the most unwar rantable manner upon a particular friend of mine, who, being himself out of England at present, commanding a brig of war upon the North American station, his brother and brother-in law serving in Canada (in the Guards), and his gallant uncle, Sir Andrew Barnard, in attendance upon her Majesty the Queen Dowager at Malta, I take it upon me to prove how un justifiable are your comments upon his pamphlet, and the re fleetions you have cast upon him for publishing it in 1837. In the first place, not knowing the man, you assume that " he was so enraptured at the reception he had met with, so astonished at the number, force, and equipment of the fleet, that he could not resist the temptation of publishing a pam phlet with ' Remarks,' as he prints in large capitals on its first page." I have a copy—the second edition of the pamphlet! before me ; and these words to which you refer—" remarks," are in small and modest characters, as it happens ; but, to pass on to more important comments upon your observations. That he was graciously received by the Emperor of Russia is a circumstance alike honourable to him, and to the profes sion to which •he belongs, and has doubtless been so regarded by all of the profession who have right feelings upon the subject. Then you are pleased to assume that Captain Craufurd did not " draw the attention of the department under which he holds his commission, to the remarks and observations he had to communicate I" which is of itself a most unwarrantable and injurious assumption upon your part. Then, as to "the temptation" you talk of to publish ! I cannot suppose that your own feelings in regard to publication, used to it as you are, prompted you to the surmise and as sumption of what his were ! But here I must distinctly say, that, to my own knowledge, he had no intention of publishing the notes he made at Petersburg, until urged to do so by his friends some time after his return, and their object, I may say, in so urging hint was, that there was a certain curiosity—not to say a cer tain uneasiness !in the public mind—even in 1837—in regard to the navy of Russia, which rendered, or would render, any communications of an eye-witness respecting it acceptable to the world—the world of Britain I —particularly when known to come from a young officer, enthusiastically attached to his pro fession, who, during the time be was unemployed (that but a short time) was assiduously perfecting himself in it, and ac • quiring a knowledge of it at home and abroad—an officer, ad mitted by all who know him to be as intelligent as those of his profession, who are acquainted with him admit that he is, as tar as his years have given him experience, deserving of credit. Now, in affording those communications, which he has made in a very unpretending manner, as it appears to me, and I believe is admitted by most people, you complain, Sir, in very coarse and unseemingly terms, " that he was fouling his own nest," by stating facts which should be known, and which, as I am preparing to prove, you have not succeeded in contro verting; and you then go on to impeach his evidence ! But how do you do it ? Not by setting aside the facts which he brings forward, together with the comparative view he offers of the Russian Navy as he saw it in 1836, in the Baltic, and in such portion of it (as he saw when on board the Asia with Sir Edward Codrington, in 1828 and 1829), under Admiral Heyden—acting in concert with the British Admiral at the battle of Navarino, at, before, and after the battle—but, after much further vituperation and affected compassion for his ig norance, which you sneer an—by laying before us a "table I" which actually confirms these facts of his; the most important of which is, that the Russians have at this moment (in corn mission)forty sail of the line in three seas; while we have but twenty, including our three guard-ships, in all the seas—chan nels and ocean too. And further, by admitting " that Russia has two large fleets, fully manned, and, as you are told, provisioned for four months," England comparatively none in commission _confirming the charge (if any be made in his pamphlet) of leaving the safety of the nation, or its interests, dependent upon the will of one man—" War or peace being," as you say, "in that nation ( Russia) the prero,gative of one man." " When Commander Craufurd," you say, " talks of the pro gress made in the Russian Navy, he is ignorant of the fact that a Russian fleet in the Baltic has been a sort of hobby since the days of Peter the Great, who had no less than twenty or thirty s ail of the line—small, it is true, in comparison with the prescn This ignorance, which you ascribe to Captain Craufurd in this matter, is again, Sir, an assumption on your part, and a most unwarrantable one. I am aware, and probably he knows, that many people think (and, perhaps, with some degree of reason) that the fleet in the Baltic is an idle gew-gaw, an Emperor's toy. But still the toy may become no plaything, and until you, Sir, or soin'l other civil or uncivil officer can prove that these " or 30 " were equal to the "27 ships" which Captain Cran ford gives it as his opinion, from minute observation, were superior to Adm'ral Heyden's squadron, the elite of the Rus sian navy in 1829 (the Mediterranean squadron being always the elite of their naval force, I believe), I shall be of opinion, and that opinion I dare say will be general, if not universal, that Captain Craufurd did well in calling attention to the great improvement—the increased efficiency of the Russian navy since 1829 !—did well in making known to the public, the nation (the only effectual or useful method of calling at tention to facts o—the evidence which he was so competent to give—evidence obtained under every circumstance of advan tage for seeing and judging, and at a favourable moment too for judging, since, although it was in a summer month, the weather was anything but fine. You yourself admit that Russia has forty sail of the line in different seas, of which the squadron in the Mediterranean is an integral part, and probably that part which, from its ob servance and emulation of the navies of other countries there, and its adoption of all improvements that pass beneath its no tice, and the circumstance of the climate favouring its constant cruising the whole of the year, has improved up to this time (1839) to a greater degree—in a greater ratio—than the fleet of twenty-seven sail of the line of which Captain Craufurd speaks, and which only at a certain season of the year is able to move about—at that time, be it recollected, within little more than a week's sail of our coasts. You may say look at the ships in ordinary in our ports 1 But you know, Sir, and must admit the difficulty there is in finding men in a moment, even if you could make them, the ships, ready for sea in any reasonable time. Then as to the superior manning of our fleet of which ycu speak Not pretending to know more than most landsmen, I shall not say much about it. The British navy, in respect to materiel, I dare say has not deteriorated since the war. We have " hearts of oak and ribs of oak" for our vessels yet. Thank God I that is my belief; but I must say, from all I have heard, that all that could be done to render officers indifferent to the smartness of their ships, and the men disgusted (I mean particularly those on board the heavy frigates, which are so undermanned), has been done ; and in proof of this I shall beg your attention, Sir, to an anecdote which I chanced to hear upon a trip I made some ten months ago to Portsmouth. A certain captain, now in command of one of the finest frigates in the service, just before he was appointed to her, happened to meet two first-rate seamen who had served with him previously, afloat. He mentioned to them his expecta tion of a ship ; upon which they both eagerly expressed their desire to accompany him. Some short time after he was ap pointed to a ship, a 46-gun frigate He again met the same men, and reminded them of their promise. Quoth they, " We should be very glad to go with your honour, as we said afore, but we don't like sarving aboard of a seventy-four in disguiser That is, as you well know, Sir, they did not like serving in a vessel with spars as heavy, or very nearly as heavy, as those of a seventy-four ! but with a very much shor ter complement of men than these last carr y , and quiteinade quate or unequal, unless the men are overworked (which dis gusts them 1) to handle the vessel properly. I went on board this fine frigate at Spithead, and, to the best of my recollection, there were fifteen first class boys, and twenty smaller boys, aboard of her, with only numerically a frigate's complement altogether. I. It may be very well—the training up these boys to the naval service of the country!—but ti, - ,xious as you are, Sir, to prove the present efficiency of the. navy, you cannot pretend to say that a ship so manned as this —a ship from which as much or more, perhaps, would be expected than any other of her class in the service, were she to meet an enemy, can be expected to do as much, and be worked as well, as one that is effectively manned. , And this reminds me mine, who, when some o ne observed that it was t rue w e had but one guard-ship at Sheerness, ,and that but very indifferently manned at the mouth of, and for the protection of the tharnes ! —but then, if an enemy a pp eared at the N ore — we could take up the buoys that ser ve to mark the channel— " Don't t ell me of the boys (buoys)" said my"friend, p unn i ng upon t h e wor d, " I like to depend up on men. Sir, I am fully disposed to give as much credit to, and to place as much confidence in, official statements and returns as they deserve, and p articularly such as ema nate fro m an old and m eritorious servant of the countr y s uch as you ; but, in a case like the present, wh ere he has allowed his anger to g et the b judgment , ent; to the inj ury o f a f r i end o f m i ne , I con sidero avail my se lf o f a ll the m i sta k es an d misrepresentations sheiisf he makes in attempti ng t o corre ct the igno rance presumption (as . he calls it) of a most deserving o myself and the result is the following summary. The facts stated by Ca p tain C r aufurd are confirmed by your ef officer; tt c e eh r .r., t e; v and own table (No. 1.), both as regards our own and the Russian navy tin commission), by your admission, thitt " Russia has two large fleets constantly manned ;" and, as you add, " You were told, kept provisioned for four months," we having (com paratively) none in commission ; and because " war or peace is actually in that nation (Russia) the prerogative of one man," gainst any nation he who can wage it at a moment's noti ce a m y object has been to show that my friend, Captain likes. Crlanuffinured, in giving his honest opinion, has not committed him self, as you allege, rather than to give any opinion upon the attitude of repose in which England (my country) stands, which may be alike consistent with her strength and best inte rests—although an attentive perusal of your " Supplement," might lead one to ose p sup you doubted . I am your obedi e nt it servant, J. J. W. ANGERSTEIN, Captain of the Grenadier Guards, and Lieut.-Colonel. Tuesday, Jan. 22, 1839. THE LATE MR. COBBETT, M.P.—Miss Rey nolds. in her third lecture at the Mechanics' Institute this evening, has undertaken subjects of great difficulty. From the quick perception and immense capabilities of her mind, we doubt not of the utility and success of her elucidations. sul's house 1 Surely, Sir, the Hon. Secretary must have been dreaming when he talks of England having the superiority of the seas, and is so angry with Captain Craufurd for honestly avowing the contrary. How can it be that England has any superiority, when the English at Vera Cruz observed such a French force and only one British packet present ? Perhaps the Hon. Secretary in his cooler moments will explain this paradox. Sir J, Barrow is also very angry at the soi- disant Flag Officer's' not making known to her Majesty's Government any information he might be possessed of, and for exposing what he calls the nakedness of the land, earnestly and repeatedly in viting friendly Powers to invade us.' Is it possible that Sir J. Barrow, with all his voluminous documents and returns of diforent kinds, can suppose that other nations have not the same advantages, and do not know exactly the unprepared state of this country ? But has the Secretary forgotten the letters written to Lords Melbourne and Palmerston, &c., some months ago (and afterwards published) by Captain Na pier, in which, without mincing the matter,' that officer laid open the state of the dockyards and all their deficiencies, our unprotected state, and the necessity for increasing the navy, and that we should not be unobservant of the proceedings of Russia. In his letter to Lord Palmerston, September 12, 1638, he remarks—' It appears to me that Russia is the power that ought to excite the jealousy of this country.' We know she has a fleet of 12 sail of the line in the Black Sea, and t early 30 in the Baltic, with four montlis'provisions on board, and is it right that we should have only three 74's weakly manned in this country, and three 3-deckers not manned at all ? It was never before known in the history of England during a pro found peace, that a foreign Power kept a fleet of nearly 30 sail of the line ready for sea within a few days sail of our shores without our having a fleet to protect us.' I assure your Lordship that our present defenceless state is talked of in many circles, and I wish to bring it under your considera tion.' In another letter that gallant officer says—' lam sick of hearing that we have no cause to be afraid of Russia ; sup pose France had a fleet of 30 sail of the line at Cherbourg ready for sea should we be comfortable ? The Baltic is only a week's sail from our shores, and we are called alarmists be c.:use we complain of our defenceless state.' Again, speaking of our Mediterranean squadron, be says— ' They could not arrive in England in sufficient time to prevent London from being pillaged.' There is great cause for alarm, and no part of the east coast of England or Scotland is safe in the event of a sudden collision with Russia.' Would any experienced naval officer venture to engage this Russian fleet with men hastily got to gether, most of whom had never seen a ship of war, who had never seen a gun, or handled a cartridge, a sponge, or a ram mer in their lives ; with only half his complement of marines, or perhaps with none, for they would probably be wanted to join the army ?' What would Sir J. Barrow have more than this ? " Now, Sir, it is useless to go through the whole of the self-sufficient Secretary's abusive publication, with its lengthy detail, its aspersions, virulence, and calumny, in which he has not disproved any one material fact brought forward by those e brim he contemns. It is truly to be regretted that Sir John Barrow could bring himself to frame so scurrilous a produc tion, and to show such contempt for naval officers of rank, cha racter, and long experience, whose opinions surely might be considered to have at least as much weight in the scale of public opinion as those of a civilian. " I am, Sir, your very humble servant. " A FLAG OFFICER OF HER MAJESTY'S FLEET. London, Jan. 24, 1839." ROME. JAN. 14. The funeral of Prince Lieven took place on the 12th. The bcdy had been removed on the preceding night to the Pro testant chapel in the Cafferello Palace. In front of the richly decorated castrum dolores lay the insignia of the forty three orders which the European Sovereigns had conferred on the illustrious deceased, as a testimony of their sense of his services. Dr. Abeken, Chaplain to the Russian Legation, cl,livered the funeral oration, after which the funeral proces sion repaired to the Protestant burying-ground, near the Pyramid of Cestues. The Imperial Prince of Russia, with his suite, and the diplomatic body, followed on foot, and de tachments of dragoons and infantry attended the hearse. On reaching the burying-ground the Russian officers now at Rome took the coffin from the hearse and bore it to the grave. After a short prayer by Dr. Abeken, the coffin was lowered, and the battalion of Grenadiers fired a triple salute. It was a deeply affecting moment when, after t:,e first shovelful of earth had been thrown on the coffin, the young Grand Duke, with marks of the greatest emotion, embraced the afflicted son of the deceased. On the afternoon of the same day, died the veteran artist Joseph Anthony Kock. He had a fit of apoplexy on the 31st December, and was given up by the physicians. He was born at Elbing Alp, in the Tyrol, in 1768, and came in 1794 to Rome, where he resided till his death. He was one of the most eminent of the Ger— nem artists. He was buried yesterday in the cemtery of St. Petro, and the funeral was attended by 100 German artists. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(T HIS DAY.) DEAL, JAN. 26.—Wind E.N.E., heavy squalls, with rain.—Sailed during last night the whole of the outward bound. Remain, the Ad. m'ral Moorson, Wood, for Demerara; St. Croix, Burly, Honduras. 27.—Fresh breezes from East.—Came down from the River and pro• ceeded the Enterprise, Algoa Bay. PonTsmouTit, JAN. 26.—Wind N.N.E. to E., fresh breezes and Equal's. 27.—Wind E.N.E. to do. do.—Arrived the Velvet, Vostizza; Albion, Huggins, St. John's; Gratitude, Davies -- ; Comet, Swansea; Ilden, Carnarvon ; Roseberry, Wren, Taganrog ; Greenwood, Seaham ; Union, Parey, , llonduras ; Nima, Rio Janeiro; Deva, Sprout, Monte Video; Sumatra, Odessa. Sailed the Agenoria, Dunn, Mar seilles ; Flora, Jamaica ; Freedom Cott, Liverpool ; Fairy Queen, do.; Emma, Mitchell, Swansea; Regent, Southampton. Put back the Triton, Daffill, for Newcastle, leaky. FALMOUTH, JAN. 25.—Wind W.N.W. to N., strong breezes and squally. 26th.—N.E. to E.N.E. ditto, ditto.—Arrived the Rundar (packet), from Halifax. Sailed, Earl Stanhope, Launceston ; Chilian, Valparaiso ; Salem, Williams, Belfast. LivEireooL, JAN. 26.—Arrived the Andromache, Jacks, front Val paraiso; Judith, White, Valparaiso and Rio Janeiro ; Harmora, Tri nidad ; Jose Victoriane, Ilavannali ; George IV., Phillipps, St. Ali chael's ; Thomas Crisp, Bloom, Odessa; Zante, Cephalonia; Ger trude, White, Lisbon ; Aurora, St. Übe's ; Victoria, Havre ; Bri. tannia, Hide, Sligo ; Catherine, ditto ; Swift, Mitchel, ditto. Sailed, Marriot, Newton, Marseilles ; St. Lawrence, Boston ; Emerald, Ha vanna', ; L'Amanda, Berbiee; Amity, Virginia; Cordelia, Lisbon. 27th.—Sailed the Joseph, Ostend ; Clyde, New Orleans. The whole cf the cargo of the Anne Paley, which stranded near Blackpool, has been saved, with trifling damage. RAMSGATE, JAN. 26.—Sailed, the Mary Anne, Tuck, for Cadiz. Doves, JAN. 27.—Arrived oft port the St. Juan, from New York, sailed the sth instant. CL% DE, JAN. 26.—Salled the Salus, Ritchie, for Demerara; Calypso, Melville, Trinidad; Rochester, Gibraltar; Casket, Auld, Barbadoes ; llighlander, Hepburn, St. Kitt's ; Miranda, Murdoch, Trinidad; Olinda, Scott, Newfoundland; and Camilla, Aldridge, Malta. GLOUCESTER, JAN. 26.—Arrived the Duke of Montrose, Lewis, from Nantes; and Jenne Charles, ditto. DsitTsiouTw, JAN. :26.—Arrived the Deacon, from London, with foremast sprung ; and Water Witch, Valencia. Arrived off port the Emmanuel, from Messina. SALCOMBE, JAN. :16.—Arrived the William, Churchwood, Smyrna. GUERNSEY, JAN. 23.—Arrived the Pilot, from Dantzic; Rapid, St. Mchael's ; Mary Ann, Dantzic; and Maria Sophia, Gottenburg. Sailed the Minerva, Scott, for St. Michael's; and Henry, ditto. JERSEY, JAN. 2.l.—Sailed the Lorch, for Rio Janeiro; Dispatch, Per. narnbuco; and Roll; Gibraltar. KINGROAD, JAN. 25.—Sailed the Voader, for St. Übe's; and Van. shapen, Cadiz. STANGATE, JAN. 27.—Arrived the Hellespont, from Kertch. BRISTOL, JAN. 26.—Arrived the Josephine, from Nantes ; Eugerre, Marans. Sailed the Princess Charlotte, Howell, Antigua ; Eliza, Ray, Cadiz. Mirroßn, JAN. 26 —Arrived the Eagle, Thorny, Rochfort ; Stour, Jefferies, Harwich, with loss of jib-boom ; Ardent, Mackie, London ; Triton, Connell, ditto; Ann and Elizabeth, Ross, ditto. COWES, JAN. 27.—Arriveri the Leda, from Antwerp. Sailed the Hopewell, Cousens, for Cork and Jamaica ; Ratrieson, Malaga; . Alex ander, Self, Demerara; David Clark, Clyde. PENZANCE, JAN. 26.—Arrived the Freeman, from Bordeaux. Sailed. the Fortuna, for Sozades ; Edgar, Matthes, Bordeaux. Off port, Flora, Hunt, at. Domingo. PIA - mourn, JAN. 27.—Arrived the Itarrison, Warren,from St. Übe's Funchal, Marionople ; Countess Liverpool, Mansfield, Messina. Sailed Mellish, Jones, Sydney; Polana, Marseilles. The Speedy, Stewart from St. Helena, o❑ proceeding to sea last night, ran on the rocks a Mount Ballen Point, and remained several hours ; she has been got off' and brought into Suffolk Poole for examination. BEYMER, JAN. 10.—The Acorn, Macdonald, of Aberdeen, is totally lost near this port. GREENOCK, JAN. 26.—The wreck of the Tarbot Castle has been gat off, and taken into Glasgow. EMDEN, JAN. 10.—The Patience, Arrowtmith, of London, was fa/test n with, capsized, and abandoned, on the 16th inst., off Borcum. The following letter, from " A Flag Officer of her Majesty's Fleet," whose pamphlet on the state of the Navy has created so much sensation, will be found to deserve attentive perusal : " SIR JOHN BARROW, BART., AND THE NAVY. " TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. " Stn,--I have noticed in your columns the elaborate and abusive statements appended to Sir J. Barrow's " Life of Lord Anson," just published. Sir J. Barrow, the Second Se cretary to the Admiralty, arrogates to himself the right of charging naval officers, who have long been grieved at seeirg her Majesty's navy in its present reduced state, in comparison with the navies of other powers, and who have frequently ex pressed themselves upon the subject, as guilty of • gratuitous falsehood.' He designates Captain Craufurd's sensible re marks upon the Russian Baltic fleet ' the silly opinions of a youthful Commander,' and intersperses his observations with coarse abuse, the certain evidence of a bad cause. If Captain Craufurd wilfully published false statements, he was unworthy of being employed in her Majesty's service. How comes it, then, that the Admiralty gave this ' silly and youthful' officer so good a command? The gallant Captain Napier is very judiciously not noticed by the Hon. Secretary, although no officer has written oftener or in stronger terms upon the ne glected state of the navy. The opinions of the soi-disant ' Flag Officer,' of Captain Napier, Captain Craufurd, and others, which are held in such perfect contempt by the Secre tary, are those of nearly all the officers of every grade in her Majesty's navy ! Let Sir J. Barrow call for their sentiments on this important subject; let these be laid before Parliament, and the country will then be able to form a correct judgment upon this vital question. The Hon. Baronet comes forward with the old official boast of the number of ships of the line in commission (being 21) as greater than we ever had before in in time of peace, and speaks of our having had 12 ships of the line and 20 frigates in 1792, of which 11 of the former were on home service, this being, no doubt, a sufficient force at that time, when foreign nations made no superior naval demonstra tion. Are circumstances in any respect similar ? Sir J. Bar row admits that the Russians have 40 line-of. battle ships and numerous frigates in commission, and he needs not to be told , 'the Great Western steamer is to sail on Monday again, that of this force 27 of the line and 19 frigates, Sce., have been for some time concentrated in the Baltic in a per. next on her first trip for the year, to New York. 100 ?essen ce inefficient gers have already paid their fares, which is nearly as many as fact warlike state, while we have had only the three flag-ships stationed in all the ports of England, the other ships can be accommodated, in consequence of some of her berths being fully employed on foreign stations. When has France having been removed for the purpose of making cargo-room. ever been known to have such superior squadrons to the Eng- —Bristol Mercury of Saturday last. lish as is the case at the present time, both in the Rio Plata HANOVEIt, JAN. 20.—The Hanover Gazette of end the Gulf of Mexico, where blockades have so long been the 18th contains the Royal rescript addressed to the magis kept up, to the injury of our merchants? Can Sir J. Barrow, trates of the city of Osnaburg, which sharply reprimands their during the 30 years he has been at the Admiralty, produce an conduct in applying to foreign tribunals for their opinion on instance of the kind? But where and what are our 21 sail of the question, whether a magisterial authority In the kingdom, the line? Eight or nine in the Mediterranean, which Sir after the Ist of this month, "in case an assembly of the States Robert Stopford will not think one too many; all upon the should not have been convoked according to the Constitution peace establishment of men, which, however the Hon. Secre- which we, by our patent of September 22, 1833, declared to tary in his snug office may prefer, officers who are responsible be abolished, and have voted the taxes, would be authorized to their country for th e conduct o f their ships cannot be satis- and bound to give their assistance prescribed by the laws on fled with, while they see foreign ships fully manned for war. the taxation , in levying the dire ct as well as the indirect The two flag-ships (74's) at the Cape nod in India are not taxes." The rescript e nds with t he: fo llowin g words :—. We equal to ordinary frigates, unless- th e i r l o wer deck guns are hereby not only signify to :;sau our just displeasure at such sent out and their crews increased. The Hercules is in the wicked (frerelhaft) cr s laj t u c t and such presump tion, but ex same state, going backwards and forwards with troops to Ca- pressly reserve t'.', ourselves the faculty to take in duo time !lade, as is the Inc ons t an t frigate, and when this service is such measure., as the circumstances may call for." performed it will require some time to get these ships in good BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JAN. 25.—There order again. The Powesfu/, only lately commissioned, the are so few Suffars on show in our offices that the merchants three flag-chips, the Britannia, Howe, and Adelaide, are not sre firm in their demands for prices that neither grocers nor in a condition for sea - ; they must be docked, probably new refiners can pay. The consequence is an almost total suspen coppered, and properly manned. The Tower-hill men will sion of business. The London market is rather on the de never answer to form a ship's company upon ; they may do to cline, and there, as at Liverpool, Sugars are below us. The be sent out to fill up the Mediterranean ships to the war com- readiness with which importers bring new arrivals on sale, ex plement, and the voyage would teach them something, but to hibits an anxiety to realise rates that cannot be expected to be get good seamen, bounty and more encouragement must be obtained when the supply is better.—Mercu r y g i ven . However Sir John may prefer badly-manned ships, in TH. CORN-LAWS.—We hear from a source upon which be will never he called on to serve, he may rest assured which we can place great reliance, that Sir Robert Peel will that naval officers differ widely from him in opinion. Let the support a modification, but not a repeal, of the Corn-laws, in accurate Secretary , take off these five line-of-battle ships (call his place in the House of Commons , on the opening of Par them frigates, if he pleases), and out of the 21 in commission liament.—Ten Towns M e ss enger . 16 effective ships will remain. If Sir John Barrow turns his CORN LAWS.—The Sheffield Iris has a woodcut eye to South America he will see large American and French Fe pd resenting an Englishman in fetters, sitting on an island, sq uadrons, the latter in full possession of the Rio Plata , order holding a diminutive sixpenny loaf in his bee, witha French ing our merchant vessels away ; observe the Gulf of Mexico -27 French vessels of war (as reported), nothing hut one Eng- man grinning at him with one at the same price and double the weight,. and a lish packet present at the bombardment of San Juan d'Ullea to protect English merchants and their property, the Fe - enc j i Ad. Russian with another four times the size_ Beneath is the motto— ' England., the envy and admiration of mire's laughing at being requested t 9 the world 1" sea- t l ' English Con- ~.. -.• The Sterling, Humber, from London, bound to Newcastle, arrived at Emden with loss of anchor and chain. IN ANSWER ROWS STATEME TO SIR JOHN BAR NTS ON THE NAVY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—As it is in great measure due to your aid, in exposing the idleness and incapacity connected with the present state of our Fleet, you will perhaps do me the kindness to insert a few words in answer to the subaltern Secretary to the Admiralty's account, just published, of the efficient state of our Navy and Dock-yards. The great body of naval officers as practical men, have the very worst opinion of the way (as a system) in which our affairs are conducted, bath on shore and afloat; but as one of that body, lat once candidly admit that the second Secretary's expose (wrung from the Board) is much more satisfactory as to the state of our yards and stores than I before believed. It would be very easy to answer Sir John's abuse, and affected contempt of all those naval men who have lately directed the public eye towards our ill-used service, and his hints at quarter-deck capital punish ment for daring to expose the partiality and weakness, and blindness of the Admiralty. His reproaches to the " Flag Officer," and sneers at his courage and conduct, are in very bad taste, as coining from a man who is, in fact, but the head clerk of a civil office, and nothing more—a man, whose only business has been his desk ; certainly not the fighting for his country. He, at least, though an F. R. S., and a tolerably clever man, must be a very indifferent judge of men's fighting capacities afloat, or any other capa city ! as seen through the thick and most unsympathis ing walls of his hermaphrodite establishment ; ut I am perfectly aware of the presumption and assumed importance of this second Secretary—partly allowed by his superiors—he may be said very often to have charge of the Deck while they are napping. Often, indeed, there has been no other standing authority, between the removal of one ignorant Chief Secre tary, M. P., and civil First Lord, and the instalment of others just as incapable, and know-nothing. Indeed, though it does not so openly appear, yet for the last 30 years the Navy may be supposed to have been partly ruled and regulated by Sir John Barrow's " CAMAIIILLA" utility; or rather I should say inutility—it has so helped to perpetuate a state of things, that would otherwise have been long since found in tolerable. Not that Sir John is idle or incapable, but he has grown old under a very loose and vi cious system—much such as it was under Sir Charles Wager, who sent Anson to sea in the shameful manner he did ; and which, of course, Sir. John very philosophically records. He can blame (or be should) other Boards before his time ; but is very properly and officially blind to its present unaltered state. This is nothing new. It is, indeed, the history of all officers. Even in wise and vigorous institutions abuses will spring up ; not likely to be corrected by those concerned in them! nor even admitted; if mere words, or flat denials, or able special pleading, or petty individual and official threats could arrest an inconvenient alteration—however called for by glarieg defects, or the well-being of the nation at large. lc would be worth while to ask them in a body, Lords, Secretaries, Clerks, and all, to man the Guardo at the Nore, as devoted subjects of her Majesty ! and by way of a taste of their own vigorous efficiency, and the excellent working of their system ! it would be too cruel to ask these same men to go to sea in one of their own small craft, a 2S or a 10 gun sloop! These supercilious personages, I repeat, know nothing of the practical part—or just enough to do much mischief All the good—what good there is—is wrung from the knowledge, the zeal, the honest sweat and toil, and sleepless anxiety of our seamen afloat ! In the persons of Captains Marryat, Napier, Craufurd, and the " Flag offi cer," the whole Navy is treated with affected contempt, for it is most certain, 99 out of 100 of our Naval officers, and who have served through last war, all think alihe on the subject of the very disgusting mismanagement of the Navy. If it is true that we have plenty of ships, and that some of our yards are pretty well stored, as Sir John says—it very little alters the great question of our general rule. In the single article of spars, Sir John is triumphant, and which of us but is glad of it—most heartily glad. The American red pitch pine is equal to the Baltic, and that single unlucky spar (" not to be found !") serves to keep poor Sir John from sinking. Everybody knows that nobody is infallible. Fault is to be found honestly, not factiously ; not with particular men, perhaps, but with a bad system. Naval men alone can, or should attempt to rule the Navy. The very clerks should have served afloat, and then we might hope to have some sympathy—an harmonious sympathy between the Admiralty and the Fleet. Now there is none whatever; nor, indeed, ever was. It is one long history over and over, as I have said, since Anson's day (and before), of haughty ignorance, shameless partiality, and too, too often, blundering imbecility. The proofs lie in Sir John's own lives," however "glossed" over, in the private letters of our naval heroes ; and in the present state of our Navy, its officers, and men, Sir John's figures arc good for nothing, and he knows it ! Five at least of his 20 of the line, are a mere deception—the way the whole Navy is manned is another deception. It comes with an ill grace from this civilian to talk of smaller ships (and weaker handed) being good enough for battle against super i o r force every way ! Who but a fool, and worse than a fool, would gratuitously try his hand at it ! Is Sir John such a driveller, that he must be told that Naval men, however brave, however cool and fertile in recources, expect to havefair play ; and not be sacrificed perchance at the shrine of his fatuity—es in our short war with the United States ! Is this the time o'day to sneer at - Naval officers, wishing and expecting to be put on a par with the ships they are to engage Whether the fashion is big or little ; whether M. Paixhan's guns take or not—we must be at least on a par—philosophising about it, a la F. R. S. is very poor philosophy f The great complaint, in a word, of the Navy, is that its Rulers are not practical men—not even Sir John Barrow, though heaven knows, it is time; after thirty years fixture to one stool; but Sir John grows old, and talks of the good enough and glory, and the French fondness for long shots of 40 years wro. The Admiralty should not only do better, but faith, taebetter now-a-days. It is not an swering, much lass redressing existing intolerable ills, to rec tify one or two mistakes. if all our hulls and stores were " all right," are our sailors all right ? our officers all right? arc they treated with an even-handed impartiality? Sir John Barrow will say—" Yes, all is excellent well, in good sooth ;" but unfortunately Sir John has taken the official twaddle from his desk to prove that he is no authority ; that he either knows nothing, or is wholly incapable cf judging beyond his own goose quill—the respectable advocate (if need be I) of once more trying at the eleventh hour to many fleet by press-gangs. Alas for the authority of such men—" Its ont rien appris, rtes oublitl!." A NAVAL OFFICER. THE NAVY. 5