The Sun. — London, England, 1832-03-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It would have been better for Greece, and better too for humanity, if that country had remained under the Turkish power, instead of being placed under the yoke of the more insidious and malignant barbarism of Russia. If the battle of Navarino were not fought to secure the independence of Greece, it was not only one of the most unjust, but one of the most senseless acts of massacre on the part of England and France that was ever committed in the world. By that battle those two Powers joined in the de struction of the naval strength of Turkey for no other apparent purpose, as far as is yet seen, than to increase that ascendancy which renders the ambi tious despotism of Russia formidable to the peace of both the Eastern and Western world. It is true that Turkey had assisted in her own conquest by cutting off the right arm of her military force—the Janissa ries ; but she could not have been so easily subju gated if England and France had not, contrary to their obvious interests, united with the Muscovite Government to annihilate her naval power. Thus the deep-laid treachery of Russia procured the de struction of the chief military and maritime strength of her ancient rival before she poured her savage hordes over the Balkan, to seize the prize for which she had contended for centuries, and which not her own prowess, so much as the weakness and folly of other States, delivered into her hands. If we had not thus assisted Russia in destroying Turkey she could not have so easily opened herself a way into the East, by breaking down the Persian barrier on that side, nor removed the check to her schemes of military aggrandisement in Europe, by heating down the Polish barrier on the other. In the mean time, mindful of the promotion of her interests in the South, and coveting the naval re sources of Greece and the maritime stations on the Meditterranean, she has, while keeping our Foreign Minister engaged in the foolery of the Belgic pro tocols, and in the solemn farce of settling the dis putes with Holland, which she never intended to have settled but according to her own arbitrary will and pleasure—she has, we say, while keeping our Foreign Minister engaged in those matters, been straining every ne, ve of wily policy and tyrannic force to get Greece completely under her own pos session and control. Had we not some time ago to call the attention of the British Parliament and the public to the monstrous circumstance of the Russian Admiral demanding the assistance of the English and French naval commanders in the Archipelago, to enable him to effectually blockade and finally reduce the island of Hydra, where a handful of brave men had raised the standard of re volt against the tyranny of Capo d'lstrias, and gal lantly struggled for the liberties of Greece ? Whether our ships had really given the Russian fleet any suc cour before the news reached England we know not; but, supposing even that they did not, yet it is dif ficult to excuse our Government for the criminal supineness which it displayed while the Russian myrmidon, Capo d'lstrias, was indefatigably engaged in the work of intrigue and civil slaughter—pre paring the chains for Greece that would bind her spirit down to worse than the debasement of Otto man bondage. The designs of Russia were inter rupted, though not put down, by the unforeseen event of the act of tyrannicide which immolated Capo d'lstrias on the altar of national revenge. But his brother was allowed to step into his seat. With all the inclination possible to serve the views of the Northern Autocrat, he has not the abilities, such as they were, of the deceased President. He is found incapable of coping with the growing spirit of Greek resistance. Hence Russia, which is not yet prepared to throw off the mask, and seize on Greece by open force, as she did on Poland, has contrived another scheme to assist her ambitious de signs. Hence has Prince Otho of Bavaria been proposed for the throne, because Russia thinks that will lull the jealousy of the other Powers : and the Prince being but a boy, she expects during his mi nority so to settle matters as to be able to establish her own influence on a firm foundation, and to dis miss the German substitute for a King when conve nient. Will England assist in this project after her experience of Russian good faith in her Belgic ne goci a t ons ?—eibreing Herald. A long discussion took place last night on the question for enfranchising Gateshead. An amend ment was moved by Col. Wood and seconded by Lord James Stuart, to substitute Merthyr Tydvil (now nrCred to Cardiff) for Gateshead. It may be true, as was stated by the supporters of the amendment, that Merthyr Tydvil is a more im portant place than Gateshead. It is, indeed, the chief seat of the iron manufacture of the kingdom, and the centre of a populous district, itself contain ing a population of 24,000. Perhaps it would have been better to have given a separate franchise to Merthyr Tydvil as well as Gateshead, for both are places of importance, though the former be the more important. But the Reform Bill is not a measure which can fairly be tried by the test of an uniform principle. Ministers have to steer their way as well as they can between the shoals in their course presented by existing interests of various kinds. Of course the Opposition will lay hold of all apparent inconsistencies, and make the most of them ; and pretended Reformers will, in like man ner, fasten on such inconsistencies, in order, by swelling the numbers of the Opposition in a divi sion, to encourage opposition to the Bill. The Americans have an excellent plan for proceeding under such circumstances. The leading individuals agree in a private meeting as to the leading points, and having agreed as to essentials, they then give the measure all possible support. In like manner the friends of Reform ought to have considered in the outset whether the Bill, taken as a whole, would be beneficial to the country, and having arrived at the conclusion that it would, they ought then to avoid, above all things, giving such opposition to details as may endanger the success of the whole. It may be easy to find objections to parts of the Bill—and the opponents of the Bill will naturally start objections; but these very objectionable parts may be among the means for ensuring the success of what is highly beneficial; and the friends of the Bill ought to view them with a liberal allowance, instead of swelling the ranks of the Opposition. As for Lord Sandon, he is evi dently a wolf in sheep's clothing, and no friend to Reform in his heart, and we expect to find him on all occasion s acting the part he has hitherto acted, eagerly availing himself of every opportunity of ob jecting to the parts of the Bill, that the divisions may appear to tell against Ministers. We have long given him up and only regret that the Lord Chan cellor should have taken him up at the expense of a better man. But why did Mr. Labouchere lend himself to this silly policy ? Mr. Labouchere nay be an independent Member, but he did not prove himself a wise Member by joining Sir Charles We th'rell, Sir Robert Peel, and Mr. Croker. A mail with good intentions should pause before he join in any act which gives satisfaction to the enemies of the people. They are now fighting a great Consti tutional battle, not discussing a Paving Act, or En closure Bill. In such a case let a Member remon strate with his own friends, but, above all things, let him avoid - enda nger i ng the good ' by a silly pre ference of details to large views. As far as results are concerned, it matters little whether Merthyr Tydvil or Gateshead be sep arate l y enfranchised ; but it matters a great deal that th e Bill s h ould be car ried. The majority in favour of Ministers was 214 to 167, giving 47. A warm scene occurred be tween Mr. Ewart and Mr. Croker. Strangers to Mr. Croker, when they read the following passage of his speech- , " I .Vould the lion. Gentle man take this lesson from him—to learn to scorn low insinuations, and mean and calumnious sarcasms" —might be apt to picture to themselves a bluff gentleman of the old English stamp, open and in genuous to excess, and erring only in excess of can dour and milkiness of disposition. It might astonish them to learn that this enemy to calumnious sarcasm never, perhaps, in his whole life, wrote or spoke a sentence of which the object was not to give pain to some human being. His sarcasm, we allow, is keen, but the gall predominates too much in it to t Pim" A "oat ittif o f • • - - - allow it to give unmingled pleasure to third parties. No man, wiho ever listened to any of his sarcasms, whatever he might think of their cleverness, would wish to be the author of them. It is an exhibit:on which calls to mind the throwing vitriol on the face of an opponent to destroy him.-31orn. Chronicle. On the sth of November last, Lord Goderich sent a circular despatch to the Governors of our different slave colonies, with the most peremptory orders to proclaim the Order in Council of the 2d of the same month. The West India Committee in London drew up remarks at the time on the despatch, a considerable portion of which we insert in our columns this day. It appears, from the fol lowing extract from a letter from Demerara of Ja nuary 12, that the Order will be resisted:— . DEMERARA, JAN. I`2•—The Order (in Council), it appears, is to be published in to-night's Gazette. It was not till the day before yesterday that a copy reached those most deeply interested in its operation, although printed remarks upon part of it by the Committee in London bad been received here some time ago. Having obtained a copy of that order, the Colonial Members of the Court of Policy yesterday waited upon the Governor to know what his intentions were regarding it; when they were informed that the orders for its publication were peremptory, no option being left to him ; and that he deeply regretted that it was so, being perfectly sensible of the evil tendency of the measure. Find ing this to be the case, the gentlemen presented a me morial, or rather a strong remonstrance or protest, against its being passed into a law, and, I am informed, assured the General that they would all, individually and collectively, oppose the Order heing carried into effect; in which they will no doubt be joined and supported by the whole community. The Colonial Members of the Com bined Court, which meets annually in February, for the purpose of granting the usual supplies for the year, are determined not to grant a shilling. Thus the matter at present stands. When anything further is gone into, I shall inform you." We shall in the Chronicle of to-vnorrow enter more at length into this subject. In the mean time we cannot help remarking that the Committee have shown, in the clearest manner, that the borough mongering system of this Government has pressed most heavily on them of late years. Behold the _ . fruits of Aristocracy !—of the necessity of providing for cadets of noble families, who cannot earn their livelihood by their industry or talents : .. " 6 In Trinidad the expenditure in 1894 was 37,587/. In 1827 54,015 In St. Lucia the expenditure in 1884 5,380 In 1830 10,7:0 In Demarara the expenditure in 18113 --. 42,857 In 1830 70,43" This increase has taken place, while the ability to pay has been greatly diminished. Grenada, with the same population as Trinidad, pays only 16,9401.; but then Grenada is a chartered colony, and the lo custs from this country were thus prevented from devouring it.—Morning Chronicle. We give this day the conclusion of the Observe. tions of the West Indian Committee on Lord Gode rich's Circular Dispatch of the sth NOvember last, transmitting the Older of the 2d November. From the tone of these observations, the effect to be pro duced by the Order in Council, and Circular Dis patch on the Slave Colonies of the Crown, may be easily anticipated. It will be seen that the Go vernment and the Colonies are at issue on almost every article of the Order in Council. On one point it strikes us that Lord Goderich—from the best of motives, no doubt—has laid down a rule in compatible with the law of the Colonies. Slaves are chattel. by the laws of the Colonies, and, as in the case of all other property, property is to be inferred from possession. Lord Goderich has, how ever, thrown the proof of property on the possessor. In this country, where all are free, any limitation of that freedom, through apprenticeship or otherwise, must be proved. But in a slave colony, slavery is the common condition, and by the law the possession of a man is placed on precisely the same feoting as the possession of a domestic animal. The colonists are, therefore, exceedingly indignant that a Minister of the Crown should, on his own responsibility, issue an edict subversive of the existing law of the Colonies in so essential a point. We fear that all attempts to improve the condition of the slaves in our Colonies will prove abortive. The slave owner will always be jealous of the infringement of what he calls his right, to make his property as available to him as possible. One paragraph in his Lord ship's circular has been the subject of much ani. madversion with the Weit Indians. " Whatever property exists (says his Lordship), or has ever ex isted, in the Colonies, is the direct fruit of the labour of the slaves. That their labour has never received its due compensation, is matter of absolute certainty. Slaves still bear, and have always borne, a high price in the Colonies. Why is it that any man finds it worth his while to purchase a labourer ? The answer plainly is, because his labour is worth more than the cost of the maintenance he is to receive. The price paid is a fair criterion of the amount of the wages which have been kept back, and of the loss sustained by the labourer. I cannot be a party to so gross an act of injustice as to refuse the slaves from the property created at their expense, what ever may be required for their adequate protection." It is impossible that the Colonists should ever sub scribe to a doctrine, which decrees the price of the slave a fund from which the condition of the slave may be improved. The consideration in purchasing slaves is, whether their labour will return the market rate of profit. Every deduction from this rate, on the ground of the whole of the return being with held from the labourer, will be viewed by the Colo nists as an infringement of property. We hold slavery in abomination, as being a state of things utterly irreconcileable with justice; but it is for this reason the Order in Council will fail. The planters are quite aware of the nature of their property, and foresee with sufficient clear ness, that the establishment of an efficient check on their treatment of their slaves will be at the ex pense of their value as property. Resistance, there fore, may be confidently calculated on. The fol lowing extract from the Circular will show how much more consideration is bestowed on the chil dren of the negroes than on the children of the poor in England :—" Children under the age of fourteen are required not to be worked more than six hours daily. The remonstrant& against this order state that children of ten years of age are ca pable of working as long at their employments as adults. I cannot venture to adopt an opinion, of which the practical effect would be, to subject chil dren of this tender age to the existing rule, which requires only eight hours of continuous repose out of the twenty-four. If, it is added, a child of ten years be allowed the food of an adult, it is incon sistent to give it more repose. Every father of a family—every keeper of a school—and every work house keeper—is, I believe, aware, that the appetite of children is mature before their strength, and that a boy will never attain manly vigour whose natural cravings:for food are not satisfied. For the great work of education, also, leisure would be certainly wanting if such exertions were exacted from the young." These observations are highly creditable to the feelings of Lord Goderich; but were he to apply them in the case of children in our factories, what an outcry would be raised ! The problem remains yet to be solved of reconciling property in human beings with the means of enabling these human beings to call their owners to account. Against all attempts to place such means within the reach of the slaves, the masters will be sure to set their faces. The moment you give a slave a tri bunal to which he can appeal, that moment he ceases to be a slave; and this the owner knows. However, be this as it may, the West Indians are at all events ju'tified in their complaints against the ''Ystein of adding enormously to their burdens by expenditure in the Colonies, and creating monopolies at their expense, while their profits are so much di minished.—Morning Chronicle. It would appear,from the French papers of Sunday, that the question of a French expedition to the Papal States, so mu c h di scussed of late, has been finally settled by the news of the arrival of a French ship of the line and two frigates, with troops on board, at Ancona, on the 21st ult. The number of men disembarked from these vessels on the 22d is stated to be 1,000,—a number which, though small, makes no difference in the application of the prin y !Mt ptT 'Mr,/ I Tlff A VnTIVP ciple of iriterventiOn on which they are sent, or in the political objects contemplated by their mission. The Austrian General, who bad already pacified that part of the Legations, and who consequently did not require any assistance from France for this purpose, published, nevertheless, on the 23d, an order of the day, in which he declares, that though he did not expect such allies,he had been apprised by his Government that if they did come, they came on the same principles as the Imperial troops, " princi ples the object of which was neither rebellion nor anarchy." " The Great Powers," he said, "had agreed upon this point ;" but they evidently had not agreed upon any other, or at least they had not instructed their agents respecting their plans; for General Grabowski is unable to say whether the facts on which his order was issued " were likely to be true or false." We have before so fully expressed ourselves (Ire the policy of a French intervention in Italy, and on the new principles- of interference which a French expedition to the Papal States would establish, that we need say nothing more, till we hear the explanation of the Perier Ministry, or ob tain an authoritative statement of facts from the French Government. According to present ap pearances we have no hesitation in saying, that, in the first place, no enterprise was ever more uncalled for; 2dly, that none was ever more likely to be either useless or injurious ; 3dly, that none ever manifested a greater departure from the under stood laws of national independence; and 4thly, that none was ever more likely to lead to that collision which all parties deprecate as the signal for a war, which all profess to deplore. Ist. We say that the French expedition was uncalled for, because the Austrians had entered the Papal territory, and had established order in the north of Italy, before the French expeditionary troops had embarked at Toulon. The French Government, though its able ambassador, Count St. Aulaire, had strongly censured the conduct of the Liberals of Bologna, Ferrara, and the other Legations, for resist ing the execution of the Papal ordinances of ameli oration, and had allowed that the Pope had just cause for sending his troops to establish his autho rity, and to restore order in his northern states. The Ambassadors of the other three great Powers had agreed in this declaration, and Austria, as the one most interested, from her vicinity, in maintain ing or restoring tranquility in the Legations, had yielded to the solicitations, or procured the consent, of his Holiness to pass the Po fur that object. Last year a proposition to this effect had nearly led to a war between Austria and France, but the very cir cumstance of the retirement of the Austrian troops on that occasion when the object was accomplished dis armed their present interference of a part of its ter rors. Last yeer the French Government talked loudly about pushing forward an army to Bologna, and only pushed forward an Ambassathr to Rome; this year, when its Ambassador was already at Rome, and its power acknowledged at the Vatican, it sends a few thousand men to the Adriatic, after the Papal Legate and the Papal troops had effected their ob ject under Austrian banners ! 2. In such circum stances, a French force must be either useless or in jurious. If the French Government agrees with the arrangements proposed from Rome, and sup ported by the united diplomacy of the four Powers, its tricolour may peacefully wave, like any other flag, at Ancona or Civita Vecchia; or its gallant officers may grace the balls or enjoy the antiquities of the Roman States. In this case, no harm is done, but no good can be expected. If, on the other hand, any difference arises between its Ambassador and the projected conferences at Rome, then the French troops must take one side, supporting the Italian Liberals, and the Austrian army an other, supporting the absolute party of the Va tican. Is the peace of Europe likely to be thus maintained by the discovery of a new arena of con test between absolute and constitutional Govern ments, whose forces are thus brought into hostile encampments, and whose opposing banners are dis played in the very presence of each other ? 3. Bat we have, moreover, said that no expedition ever manifested a greater departure from the general principles professed by any Government, than this does from the professed doctrines of the French Mi nistry. The Government which sprung from the barricades very properly proclaimed that it would permit no attack on Belgium by foreign Powers to restore the authority of the Orange family; because an attack on the Belgic provinces, by foreigners, for the purpose of a restoration, would be, in existing circumstances, an attack on France. The movement party, generalizing this doctrine of non-interference, and making their country the knight-errant of the abstract principle, preached a crusade against Aus tria and Russia for their interference in the affairs of Italy and Poland. The ready answer of the Go vernment was, that though France disapproved of all intervention, she was not always bound to ex pend the blood and treasure of her subjects to prevent it, when her own immediate in terests were not at stake. But it could never occur to the most decided enemy of non-inter ference, or to the greatest advocate for the contrary doctrine, that France, in present circumstances, could have any pretext for an Italian expedition. — She has not, as she had in the case of Belgium, or as Austria has now in the case of Italy, any imme diate or direct interest in the question of the Lega tions. She evidently has not been invited by the Court of Rome, as Austria has been, to assist in put ting down the Bolognese insurgents. If she, there fore, interferes, it must either be in hostility to Au stria, which she does not profess, or in breach of one of the most settled principles of international law, which she has sworn to maintain. 4. We need scarcely add, in the last place, that nothing is more likely to lead to that general war which all profess to deprecate, than the interference to which we have adverted. Here are two armies despatched from two different nations, arrived on the Italian soil, to keep the Pope's subjects in order. The one has been invited by his Holiness, and is supposed to be penetrated with the necessity of supporting the Papal supremacy. The other has been invited by nobody (unless the insurgents have their emissaries at Paris), and, if it supports any party not already in sufficient preponderance, must support the Bo lognese malcontents againstitheir Pontiff. The one has inscribed on its banners " Legitimacy and ab solute power !"—the other " Revolution and po pular sovereignty The cne represents old abuses, the other excessive innovations. Are such rivals mere likely to agree in the middle course of mode ration, or to find, in their difference of principles and the different factions by which they are surrounded, causes of collision and quarrel? We are afraid of the latter part of the alternative, more especially when we see some of the partisans of the propa gandist or movement party approving of the exped,- tion, and declaring that if France had sent a squa dron to the Baltic last summer, as she has done to the Adriatic this spring, Warsaw would not have faller.— nines. A pretended correspondence between Lords Wharncliffe and Harrowby, on the one side, and the Duke of Wellington on the other, is much dwelt upon in the Ministerial Journals, the subject of dis cussion being supposed to have been the policy or impolicy of allowing the Reform Bill to be consi dered in Committee in the House of Lords. The Duke of Wellington is represented as insisti ng upon the utter and uncompromising rejection of the mea sure on the second reading ; his opponents as advo cating the propriety ofLconsidering it in Committee, with the view of modifying and clipping it, and ex tracting as much as possible of its venom. That a momentary difference of opinion may have existed peen the leaders of the constitutional party we are not prepared to deny ; but that ther e h as no such variance as this al l eged correspondenc e would imply is quite certain. Now, at least, w e may assert confidently that they are fully agreed upon the course to be adopted--that man l y, straightforward, and unbending course which did them so much honour in the last Session. Any other system of opposition would indeed be not only weak and inconsistent, but illusory and fruitless. To permit the Bill to be read a second time would be to snbForibe to its principles. Those principles are —firstly, to deprive the Aristocracy, of that mode rate share of representation which they have hitherto possessed in the House of Commons ; and which allowed their voice to be heard, as the voice of one particular class of the community. For, as Lord Mahon well observed in one of the late discussions, " under the present Constitution all classes are re presented, though not all places; the new system would give representation to all places, but only to one class." The great leading principle of the Re form Bill is to exclude the Aristocracy, as a class, from all share of representation in that Assembly which is tilt inutely the supreme power in the State, since it possesses the exclusive right of granting or withholding the supplies. The second great prin ciple of the Reform Bill is to give an overwhelm ing moral influence to mere numbers; to con fer upon the lower class of householders, who are of necessity the most numerous class, an entire control over all the wealth, intelligence, and re spectability of the country. Such are the two essen tial principles of the Ministerial measure, to which the House of Lords, by passing the second reading, would record its adhesion ipso facto. But to dimi nish the number of boroughs in schedule A would be to impair the first of these principles ; to raise the elective qualification would destroy the second. It is obvious, therefore, that no Member of the House of Lords who votes for the second reading will be able, with any show of honesty or cons sistency, to attempt modifications in the most objec tionable features of the Bill. Suffer it to come be fore the Committee, and the aim of the revolu tionists is attained;—the most monstrous project that ever was devised by an incapable and reckless Mi nistry, for the purpose of maintaining themselves in office, will thenceforward be the law of the land.— It can be thwarted only by another exertion of that firmness and courage, arising from a consciousness of right, which has already once saved the country. Nor will that firmness be wanting. The Lords will do, as they have done, their duty.—Morning Post. If ever the people of England, always charitable even in the consideration of the sins of their enemies, were led to believe that the boroughcracy opposed to their rights and liberties would be induced by any conduct, however retiring on their part, to re turn from the error of their ways, and become con verts to principles which are wholly indisputable on any ground of reason or common sense—if ever they were led to imagine that by any process, but one, the Reform Bill could possibly find its way through the House of Peers— the abstract of the correspondence which has been published by a morning contemporary us that which took place between Earl Harrowby, the representative of the bit-by-bit Reformers, and the Duke of Wellington, who is the representative of all the anti-Reformers, must finally and for ever undeceive them. There is now no more faith to be placed in either as the friends of the people—there is no reliance to be had on the one—there is no hope of any good from the other. The Bills of Reform which they sent forth through the medium of well-paid agents must be set down as mere girls and snares to entrap the unwary, and their dubious speeches in the House of Lords as mere baits, whereby they might entice the people of England to believe that if they succeeded in throwing out the present Bill, and in ousting his Majesty's present Ministers, they would, if for no other sake but that of obtaining office, propose another almost equally effi cient. No such thing, however—neither of the par ties have the slightest idea of granting a reform in the representation of the people of England. 'Tis true they differ as to the mode of defeating the Reform Bill in the Lords—for while the one would do it by stratagem, the other would strangle it in limine— but there is no disunion between them as to the feat to be accomplished—no difference in their hostility to Reform. On this subject they are united heart and hand; and when the Bill comes to be read a second time in the Lords, it will be seen that their hostility is as inveterate as ever, and that nothing but the due exercise of the prerogative of the Crown, or the enforcement of their just rights by the people, by the means which Providence has placed at their disposal, will ever secure to them the restoration of their rights and liberties.—'Morn ing Advertiser. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.) PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 4.--WIND AND WEATHER DURING THE WEEK.—Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, N.E. moderate and hazy; Wednesday, N. to N.W. mo derate and hazy; Thursday and Friday, S. light breeze and hazy; Saturday, S.E. moderate and fine. His Majesty's gun-brig Recruit, 10, Lieut. Hodges, sailed on Monday to the Westward ow a short cruise, for the prevention of smuggling. His Majesty's steam-ve,sel Confiance, 2, Lieut. Belson, returned from the river on Wednesday, having conveyed to Deptford, some cradles, &c. from the Royal Hospital at Haslar. His Majesty's tender Emerald is cruising within the WiT,ht, for the purpose of enforcing the quarantine regulations. His Majesty's ship Pearl, 20, Corn. R. Gordon, sailed yesterday for the West India station, via Teneriffe, with despatches for the Right Hon. the Earl of Belmore, Go vernor of Jamaica, and for Vice-Admiral Sir E. G. Col- PoYs, Commander-in-Chief on that station. Her departure has been expedited owing to the late alarming insurrections among the slave population at Jamaica. The following persons will go out passengers in the Pearl, viz. : —The Rev. J. Malet, Chaplain, appointed to his Ma jesty's ship Blanche ; Lieut. A. Lavie, and Mr. H. Snow, Clerk, both to join his Majesty's ship Winchester ; Messrs. G. A. Hire, C. M. Noble, and J. C. Whipple, Midshipmen, the former to join his Majesty's ship Tweed, and the two latter hie Majesty's ship Ariadne ;--Bartlett, Esq. and Capt. G. W. C. Courtenay, R.N., appointed his Majesty's Consuls, the former at Teneriffe, and the latter at St. Domingo. His Majesty's steam-vessel, Firebrand, of 500 tons, Lieutenant S. Griffith, arrived at Falmouth on Wednesday last, and at Plymouth on the following day ; at the former place she received on board her new Commander, Lieut. Thomas Ballock, Lieutenant Griffith having joined his Majesty's packet brig Swallow. The Firebrand, after completing her fitment at Plymouth, will take out the next mail to Malta. His Aljesty's ship Ferret, 10, Commander E. Wode house, arrived at Plymouth on the 25th ult. from the Me diterranean, and went into Plymouth harbour on Thursday afternoon, to be paid off. _ _ His Majesty's ship Savage, Commander Right Hon. Lord Edward Russell, went out of Plyrneuth harbour on Tuesday last. His Majesty's ship Nimrod, 20, Commander Samuel Radford, will be paid off at Plymouth to-morrow, into the Ordinary at that port, and not for re-commissioning as be fore stated. The American packet ship, which called in here during the past week, was crowded with passengers. She was visited by several police officers from various parts of the country, in search of fugitives supposed to have been on board, among whom it was expected would be found George Tayler, who absconded from Messrs. Esdaile and Co. London, with three Bank of England notes, amounting to 9001. The search was, we believe, unsuccessful. Fifty men have been drafted from H.M.S. Victory, to perfect the complement of H.M.S Britannia. The Blonde, 46, it is reported, will shortly be commis sioned for the South American station. The Orestes transport, Lieut. Garrett, agent, arrived on Monday from the Mauritius, last from Plymouth, with detachments of the '72d, '7sth, and 82d Regiments. The latter under the command of Capt. Latham, proceeded in the depot vessel on Tuesday, to Albany barracks, Isle of Wight. The head-quarters of this regiment are hourly expected, in the Arab, from Plymouth. The Orestes sailed on Thursday for the Nore, with sundry detachments and Government stores fur Woolwich and Deptford. The Amphitrite, transport, Lieut. Cooley, agent, sailed on Thursday for Chatham, with Government stores. The Lady Harwood, convict ship, arrived yesterday, to rece ive 200 convicts from the York an d Leviathan, for N e w South Wales, under the superintendency of Dr. John Inches. _ The Neva, transport, Lieut. Adamson, agent, sailed f rom Rio de Janeiro ou the 26th of December, and may be daily expected at this port. The Cygnet, transport, Lieut. Lester, agent, arrived at Gibraltar on the 4th ult. from Cork, with sundry detach. ments for that garrison. The Stentor, transport, Lieut. Barber, agent, arrived at Gibraltar on the Sth ult. from Cork, with part of the 67th regiment on their way to Malta. The Prince Revnt, transport, Lieut. C. Bloated, agent, arrived at Gibraltar on the 14th ult. from Dublin, with the remaining part of the 67th regiment, on their way to Malta. In Harbour—Victory, Britannia, Royal George, and Confiance, steamer. At Spithead—none. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—COM. Drake is appointed to his llfajesty's ship Britannia, vice Wyvill, promoted.—Lieut. G. A. Henry is appointed to his Ma jesty's ship Warspite.—Com. Foley is appointed to his Majesty's ship Asia, vice Oliver.—Lieut. J. Burrough is appointed to his Majesty's ship Melville.—Mr. P. P. laskip is appointed to the command of the Ann, revenue cruizer, on the Lyme Station.— Mr. J. Lamb er t, l a t e As _ . sistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Wellesley, is ap pointed Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's brig Pigeon-- Mr. J. Atcheson, late Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Prince Regent, is appointed Supernumerary Assistant- Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Victory, to do duty at the Royal Hospital, at Haslar, vice Rogers.—Mr. G. Dix, Clerk of his Majesty's ship Britannia, is appointed to the Ceylon troop-ship, at Plymouth.—Mr. D. J. Simpson, late Clerk of his Majesty's ship Prince Regent, is ap pointed in the same capacity to his Majesty's ship Alfred. —Mr. A. Wilson, Mate, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Ariadne.—The Rev. T. Ferries, Chaplain of his Majesty's ship Victory, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Asia.—The Rev. G. Fisher is appointed Chaplain to his Majesty's ship Victory, vice Ferris.—Mr. Henderson, late Master of his Majesty's ship Prince Regent, is appointed to his majesty's ship Asia. ROYAL MARINES. —First Lieut. R. Steele, of the Royal Marine Artillery Companies of Royal Marines, is ap. pointed Adjutant of the Portsmouth Division, vice Brown, who retires from that office in consequence of his being the junior Adjutant, at the late consolidation and reduc tion of the corps; First Lieut. Cagiest], of the Portsmouth Division, is appointed to the Royal Marine Artillery Com panies, vice Steele ; Second Lieut. C. Barnes, of the Wool wich Division, is promoted to the rank of First Lieute nant, and appointed to the Plymouth Division, vice Lloyd, deceased. Captain G. W. C. Courtenay, R.N., late of his Majesty'. ship Mersey, is appointed his Britannic Majesty's Consul at the island of St. Domingo. By letters from his Majesty's ship Scylla, 18, Com mander Hon. George Grey, dated Feb. 2, at Malta, we learn that her ship's company were all well at that date. Letters of a recent date have been received from his Majesty's ship Asia, at Lisbon. They contain no news from that quarter of a later date than that which we have already received. She may, we believe, be expected in England about May, unless she should be detained by the approaching hostilities between Don Pedro and Dun Miguel. The Catherine Stewart Forbes, male convict-ship, sailed from the Downs on Wednesday last, with two hundred convicts, under the superintendency of Dr. Ste phens, for New South Wales. We understand that an intimation has been received at this port, stating that Dr. Stephens had reported that two severe cases of cholera morbus existed on board, and that orders had been given that she should, immediately on her arrival here, proceed to the Mother bank to perform strict quarantine. Instruc tions were also forwarded to the Commissioner of this Dock Yard to prepare forthwith the Greenwich, 50, in Ordinary at this port, to be stationed at the Motherbank as a hospital ship, in case of need. From the non-arrival of the Catherine Stewart Forbes at a late hour yesterday, and from the account of a pilot who reports that she was seen o❑ the afternoon of Friday going down channel, with a S. E. wind, with her studding-sails set, it is supposed she has passed by. The Emerald, tender to the Royal George yacht, was yesterday sent out to endeavour to fall in with her, but she could see nothing of her. Several accounts of this affair have been current during the last two days, but the foregoing is the simple fact. The inha bitants of these towns will not be much disappointed, we apprehend, at not receiving the promised visit. We understand that orders hare gone out to the Medi terranean to reduce the complements of the various ships in that squadron to the peace establishment. This will cause a reduction in the St. Vincent alone of about 150 men. In consequence of a recommendation from Colonel Sir Richard Willinn, K.C.8., Commandant of this division of Royal Marines, the Lords Commissioners of the Admi ralty have been pleased to grant a medal and gratuity to Serjeant-Major Richard Seymour, on his discharge, for his meritorious services and general good conduct during a period of twenty-five years. The medal was presented on the 24th ult. in the presence of the battalion, by Lieute nant-Colonel Hornby, with a very neat and appropriate speech. We trust this will have a good effect, and act as an incentive to others, to acquire so honourable a testimo nial of their services and good conduct. The Echo steamer is undergoing an important alteration at Plymouth, in her engines, by which her paddle-shafts will he raised 18 inches. If we wanted proof of the ne cessity of a Board of Naval Construction, we would quote this fact as such evidence. The defect, now about to be remedied at a great expence, could never have arisen but from a miscalculation of the water line. The fact is, the Echo sinks so much deeper than was contemplated, that her paddle-wheels were buried in the water, thus render ing it necessary to raise them in order to make them effec tive. Such a bungle would never have been made if pro per attention had been paid by a competent person to her construction. His Majesty's steamer Hermes, Lieut. A. Kennedy, will proceed to Leith in a few days from Plymouth, to bring round the Jupiter troop ship, which is to supply the place of the Ceylon. The crew of the Ceylon will be transferred to the Jupiter, and will tike their passage in the Haim. to join the latter at Leith. His Majesty's ship Harrier, 18, Commander S. L. H. Vassall, was under orders to be completed in Plymouth Dock-yard yesterday. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION- 110 USE. Mr. Booker, the overseer of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate street, stated to the Sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman WILSON, that the out-paupers in his parish were showing a most refractory spirit, and endeavouring to intimidate the overseers into a compliance with their demands. On Saturday last he was compelled to bring twenty-five young men before the Sitting Magistrate for refusing to accept the provision made by the parish, who had determined, from the numbers of young men who were receiving weekly sums of money from them, to compel them either to work or to go to the farm-house. After being admo nished and dismissed, they proceeded in a body to the workhouse, and demanded to be provided with a dinner. Food was sent them, after which they formed themselves into a club, elected a chairman, and agreed upon resolu tions, to the effect that they were to stick by one another. The vestry clerk, Mr. Briant, and the overseer, sent in and told them to disperse, but they all declared they would first smoke their pipes and have some beer. Upon attempting to remove one of the most refractory Mr. Briant was abused ; and Mr. Booker was knocked down in trying to prevent one of the paupers from assaulting him. They were compelled to send for the police, who in a short time effected their dispersion. Mr. Alderman WILSON, addressing one of the paupers, should take care to break up that conspiracy which evi dently existed amongst them ; and any cases which should be brought before him he would make an example of. Q UEEN- 8 QUARE. Yesterday Peter Morland, and _Ellen his wife, were brought up in custody from Fulham, and placed at the bar before Mr. GICEGORIS, charged with rubbery, and desperately assaulting police constable \Vhiddett, of the V division, No 76. Mr. GREGORIE inquired whether Whiddett was in at tendance ?—One of the constables here produced a sur geon's certificate, which stated that he was so ill from the injuries he had received that he was unable to attend. The unfortunate man, it appears, had three of his ribs broken by the villians, and is bruised in various parts of his body iu a most shocking manner. Mr. GB EGORIE ordered the prisoners to be remanded until Whiddett was pronounced able to attend at the office to give evidence. BOTV-STREET. chargecu s custody d wtoiththhiasvionffigcleiadbYinatphaerirtypto'sfsepssoiloiene7a Fquadnivtiistyi7i base money, together with implements for coining, plaster of Paris, metal, &c. The officers of the Mint having reason to believe that a great portion of the base money now circulating in the me tropolis issued from St. Giles's, employed two officers be longing to the F division of police, named Higgins and Tripp, to obtain information, and endeavour, if possible, to bring the offenders to justice. The officers mentioned accordingly disguised themselves, and Tripp, pretend ing that he had just come from the country, and wante4 to purchase some bad money, went to the female prisoner, who agreed to sell him six " bobs" (shillings) for a good shilling. They went to a public.house together, and from thence to a gateway in Vine-street, where the witness handed the prisoner a good shilling, which he had previ ously marked, and received in return the six counterfeit shillings. The prisoner advised bins to rub them with some white powder, and then rub them with the dirt of his shoe, before he " put them off." She then asked him if he did not want some more " bobs" and ‘, tanners" n c ?AO (sixp l enees), to take with, him to the country, adrisinghim at the same time never to have more than one bad one < about him, "or he might get six months of it." Wit- ness subsequently purchased other base money from the' prisoners, and subsequently the ether constable (Higgins) purchased five base half-crowns, and a quantity of shil ling* and sixpences, from the male prisoner, to whom he gave in return three good shillings, previously marked by inspector Preece. On Saturday night inspectors Rogers , and Preece went to the lodgings of the prisoners, accom panied by several constables, and found the male prisoner .1 , in the act of filing some base money. g g The whole of the conterfeit money, metal, &c. were pro-'- duced before the Magistrate ; and the prisoners, who de.' dined to say auy thing in their defence at present, were fully committed to Newgate, to take their trial at the next Old•BLiley Sessions. 'LAMBETH-STREET.' Information was yesterday given at this office of the fol. lowing outrage and robbery : On Thursday night last, at about half-past 9 o'clock, as Robert Sturgeon, an itinerant dealer in tea, residing in Cannon-street, Commercial-road, was returning to town along the Barking road, he was stopped about 200 yards beyond the Metal-bridge, on the Essex side, by three men, who instantly seized him, and, to prevent his giving any alarm, they placed a handkerchief over his month, and carried him some distance into the marshes on the left hand side of the road. They then tied his hands behind his back, pinioned his arms with a handkerchief, and fastened his feet with a leather strap, which they found in hie pocket, and robbed him of all the property which be possessed, which consisted of two silver watches and about 251. in silver. They also talked of stripping him of his clothes, but the approach of a waggon prevented their doing so, and put them to flight, leaving their unfortunate victim in the state above described lying in the marshes. By the working of the lower jaw he partially removed the handkerchief from over his mouth, and called out for as sistance, but it was not until between five and six o'clock on the next morning that he was released from his dreadful situation. A bricklayer named Shepherd, in passing along the road at about ten o'clock, on his way home to Plaistow, heard distinctly the cries of " come and release me, or I am a murdered man ;" but, having some property about him, and fearing that it was a lure to get him into the marshes for the purpose of robbing him, he took no notice, but hastened home. During the night, howe►er, he felt so unhappy and uneasy in his mind, that he could scarcely get any rest, and at five o'clock in the morning he got up, determined to go to the place from whence he heard the cries proceed. He did so, and on arriving there found Sturgeon tied up in the manner above described, and nearly dead with cold and fatigue. He at once re leased him, and assisted him to the bridge toll-house, where be was placed before a fire and proper restoratives administered to him, and he was afterwards enabled to get to town. The circumstance attending the robbery bearing some similarity to the late affair at Barnet, the officers were induced to put some questions to Mr. Furguson, the em ployer of Sturgeon, and he expressed his conviction that the statement was correct. Sturgeon, he said, was a steady honest servant, and could have no object whatever in lending himself to such an affair, as the property he lost was his own, and besides, he had not recovered the effects of the suffeting which he endure:l on the occasion. HATT ON- GARDEN. --- Yesterday an Irish labourer, named Callagan, was brought to this office, in the custody of a posse of the N division of police, charged with having committed a violent assault upon James 'Russell, a policeman of the same division. The derendant said nothing to the charge, and the Ma gistrates, Mr. LAINO and Mr. ROGERS, tined hint in the penalty of 51., and in default of payment to be imprisoned for two months in the House of Correction. UNION- HALL. Yesterday Thomas ihr:ey was brought before Mr. IlluaßAY, charged with working a still in an unentered place. Linstead, an officer of Excise, stated that from in formation he received that the defendant was carrying on a biiik trade in the sale of spirits above proof, he kept a wA:h upon him, and at length discovered his place of abode. It was situate in a low street called Broad-wall, near Mr. Hunt's blacking manufactory, and was well adapted for carrying on illicit distillation. In the house no persons were found except Hurley and his wife, and the back room was appropriated as a still room, with all the necessary apparatus. When the seizure was made, Hurley attempted to "holt" out of a window, hut the officer prevented his escape by seizing the skirts of his coat and dragging him back again. Hurley, in his defence, was quite ignorant the house he was living in was a distillery until the officer discovered the secret. Unfortunately, however, for the defendant, the landlord of the premises a.tended. and stated that he let them to the former about six weeks ago. Hurley could not deny the fact, and in default of paying a fine of 30/. he was committed for three months to Brixton. THAMES- OFFI CE. Several watermen, lightermen, fishermen, and dredger men, were charged with stealing coals from the craft on the wharfs along-shore. The offenders, many of whom have already suffered imprisonment for the same crime, generally pleaded distress, and the want of employment on the river. In numerous cases their statements appeared to be too true ; for, since the cholera has been declared to exist in the metropolis, the trade of the port of London has greatly decreased, and many handred individuals have been thrown out of work. With respect to the fishermen above bridge, there is no fish for them to catch, and they are compelled to have recourse to plunder, or the work house, to support themselves and families. Captain Rich bell and 31-sers. Ballantine and Broderip have declared they will bind eo more apprentices to them. The Magis trates convicted several in various penalties, and sentenced others to sundry terms of imprisonment and hard labour at the treadmill. The boats belonging to the prisoners were ordered to be burnt, in the most public manner, as close as possible to the places where the depredations were com mitted, as a warning to the river pirates. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S TEA SALE. The Quarterly sale of teas by the East India Coin pany, commenced this morning at the India House, and was fully attended. The total quantity to be offered dur ing the present sale is 8,300,0001b5., consisting of the fol lowing—viz., of Bohea 1,700,000 lbs. ; of Congou, Cam poi and Souchong, .5,100,0001h5. ; of Twankay and Hy son Skin, 1,200,0001b1., and of Hyson, 300,0001b5. The present declaration exceeds that of December last by 150,0001b5. ; but as the consumption of tea is on the in crease, the sale commenced with spirit this morning —the lowest Bohea selling most above the taxed price. The prices at which different sorts of tea are to be put up, are as follows, Bohea Is. 5d., Congou IS. 81d., ditto finer 2s. 01‘1., Catopoi 2s. 4d., Souchong and Pekoe 2s. 7d., Twankay 2s. lid., Hyson Skin 2s. 2d., Hyson 35., ditto finer, 3s, Id. per lb. The Boheas now on sale are going off briskly at from 2s. to 2s. Id. per lb. The lower quantities of teas are principally in demand—finer sorts are not expected to go off at high er prices than last sale. BIRTHS. a n oiuon qty o of Cork,county of f lady Sussex,of Cap_ On A the te rs. e tO -p n i a c: Wil to n-crescent, he : cent, the Lady M ary S au rin, of tai t i d t t --• a daughter. On the 3d inst, at lady of Richard Puckle, Req., of a son. trhoef 29th ult. at Keiwyen, Cornwall, the Rev, T. S. Carlyon, to Emily, hies daughter of C. Carlyon, M.O. t at Richmond, Francis MDonald Schnell, Esq., late Capt. Charles Vaughan Schnell, of the Hon. East sell , ice, to Clementina, third daughter of Na- India • Company a . L ev i e n, of Richmond-green, Es q . thaniel the sth inst. at All Souls, Marylebone, the Rev. Edmund O'? , ate 0 1 Trinity College, Cambridge, to Margaret, widow Waller, i James Seton, late of Brookheath, in the county of Hants. of Col. 2Pth‘ ult. at Boulogne•sur_bler, Wm. Osborne Briscoe, On the of Cloncurry, county Kilkenny, Esq., M.D., ' M.R.C.S.I. to Henrietta, youngest daughter of the late Arthur Birnie, Esq. of Waterford. On the lkt inst. at St. Alphage, Greenwich, Mr. Edw, Nainby, to MiBB Harriett Elizabeth Oldershaw, both of Islington. On the 3 d inst. at Wandsworth New Church, William, on of the late Michael Turner, Esq., of Putney, to Miss Emma Portal, of the former place. s i c t i e n :c))nnt o o f the the , , ~ DIED. On the 2d inst. at Brighton, Lady Anne Chad, the :beloved wife of sir Charles Chad, Baronet. On the 3d inst. at Stafford House, Turnharn-green, Mrs. Moore, relict of the late 'l'. J. Moore, Esq. On the 29th Jilt. at Hampstead, John Burgon, Esq., late of Clapham-road, in his 76th year. On the 4th 'inst. Catherine Rebecca, the infant daughter of Henry Moxori, Esq.' cf charlotte-street, B e df or d -square. On the 2tl inst. at Merefield Lodge, Essex, aged four years, Henry Hunter, eldest son of Thomas haling Welsh, Esq. On the sth inst. in Weymouth-street, after a long ,illness. Frances, the third daughter of George Dorrien, Esq. On the 4th inst. at Tottenham-green, in the dlst year of her age, Ann Hooper, widow of the late Benjamin Hooper, of Croy don, Surrey. At Gibraltar, suddenly, after a few hours' illness, Robert D. Still, Esq., age d 3 3 years. On the 33inst., after a short illness, Laura Elizab e th , daughterof Charles Deacon, Esq., of Weymouth-street, Portland-place, aged one year an d n i ne mo nths. On the sth inst. in Great Coram-street, William Briden, Esq., in his 61st year. Drowned, in September last, at Canton, in his 17th year, Henry Stable, Midshipman in the Hon. East India Company's Service, eldest son of D. H. Stable, Esq., of Hatton-garden. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNG, AT THE SVN OFFICE, 112, STR4NP, LONDON.