The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-16 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Feb. 16.—Wind and weather this day at
noon, light easterly breeze, and sharp frost. Dui ing the
night and this morning the Thermometer has registered 18
degrees of frost.
FALMOUTH, Fob. 15.—The Feronia (barque), of this
port, has received damage, and makes water.
GRIMSBY, Feb. 15.—Arrived—Harriet, from Shields,
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s; Jessie Ann, do., for Lowertoft, leaky.
DROGHEDA,
on the South Bull, and must dis-
charge part of cargo to be got off; crew saved.
OFF QUEENSTOWN. - Blanche, from Savannah, for
Liverpool.
CADIZ, Feb. t.—The Icarus, of Liverpool, from Cardiff
to Gibraltar, was driven on shore at Conel during a severe
gale at S.S.W., on the night of the 4th inst. ; master and
and three men saved; the master's wife and five men
drowned. The gale continues, with a tremendous sea
running, and it is feared both vessel and cargo will be
totally lost.

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