The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-05 00:00:00

" Palace 10th January, 1852.
Highness,—As the elections for the Parliament
of 1852 are now fast approaching, I think that I shall
best consult your Highness's ishes by rendering
public the fact that so long ago as the 4th of April
last I received from you the foWowing letter:—
44 4My Lord,--The "Preesoernftu'st2asteth Aortihle lonianlBsl.
Islands is indeed most lamentable. It was not the
will of heaven that the reforms effected in the consti-
tutionwouid
bshavoeulednabbelogdrtabnoted
peopleb tsoucvheogeirvaecluatblea i
stiepsaaas
proper spirit, and to make a wise use of them. Intro-
duced too suadnadedeauntolhybe,aaand at the most inopportune time,
ith,be.eyresauwitakwe might have been anticipated.
most extravaganteasl expectations,
oonfotrbeh presentave executive
in-
flamed minds by nature too
to the nation, by which they inflammable,instead offered
thanks, proofs of the most weirye conceded, of
plunged these islands into
flagrant ingratitude, and
a state of the greatest con-
fusion and disorder. Your Excellency's well-known
abilities and paternal care were unable to provide a
morearen etdhyse
afoooreevils,stahfeasel.y remonstrances
he g
systemopo odtwa intentionsof his country, and
consequently renders unavailing my
labours as Presi-
dent of the Senate. This state of
things, my Lord,
afflicts me profoundly; it injures more and more my
health, which, from the influence of the climate, has
not been good during my residence in Corfu, and
makes me sigh fof my native land, where I hope to
find that peace of which my saddened mind has need.
If I may be permitted to exprees a wish, at a mo-
ment in which lam about to return
to private life,
it can be no other than that my successor may be a
person of tried moderation, and of unequivocal fidelity
to the Government, so that the disorders which already
afflict too heavily these islands, may at all events,
not go further. I cannot close this declaration of my
former resignation of the high post with which your
Excellency was pleased to honour me, without re-
peating the assurance of my sincere gratitude towards
yourself, my Lord, and of my unbounded devotion to
the great protecting Sovereign.
" • I have the honour to be, with the greatest re•
ipect, your Excellency's most humble and devoted
servant,
(Signed) " ' DEMETIt
IO N q
ALAMON.
" ' His Excellency Sir Henry G. Ward, G.C.M.G ,
Lord High Commissioner.'
" This communication was wholly unexpected by
me, for up to that time, no misunderstanding had
occurred between us, and having had many proofs
both of the firmness of your Highness's character,
and of your aptitude for public business, I sincerely
desired to retain your aid in the difficult task which
had been committed to me. Your Highness was not
convinced by my remonstrances, but you agreed to
suspend your intentiop of retiring until the close
cf the present Parliament, in order to spare me
the necessity of nominating a Successor, for
a , few weeks or months, whose selection
might not be in harmony with the results of the
new elections. The time is now come when your
Highness's wishes 'may be carried into effect, without
detriment to the public service, and I have this day
communicated them officially to her Majesty's Secre•
tary of State for the Colonies, recommending that
her Majesty should abandon the intention which she
might otherwise have entertained, of contemplating
your re-appointment as president of these States, as
has been the practice hitherto when a dissolution of
Parliament has occurred iu the middle of a quin-
claeanium. I cannot terminate my public connexion
with your Highness without expressing my regret at
the loss of your co-operation, although the necessity
that exists for maintaining a perfect understanding
between the head of the lonian Government and her
Majesty's representative prevents me, at present, from
hoping for its continuance. Your Highness has
expressed the causes and the nature of the
differences that exist between us, in one
passage of the letter now before me, in which
you state that ' the present system takes from every
man, however well intentioned, the power of contri-
buting in any way to the good of his country, and
consequently renders inoperative my own efforts as
President of the Senate. I believe, on the con-
trary, that there never was a time when it was in
the power of every well-intentioned lonian so ef-
fectually to promote the good of his country, or when
a wise and conciliatory policy, on the part of those in
authority, would have produced an effect so univer-
sally beneficial. It is possible that I may be wrong
in this impression, or that my
by the blindness of those local and personal passions,
of which Zante presents, at this moment so unhappy
au example. But I will not ' voluntarily come to this
conclusion, or resign my different
hopes of a very
result, from the appeal which
name of the protecting Sovereign to the good sense
and good feeling of the lonia lonian people.
"I have the honour to be, with great respect, your
y
Highness's most obedient humble .
(Signed) " servant, H. G. Wean, Lord l High Commissioner.'
•'
" His Highness Sir Dem
G.C.M..G. P • Count Salomon,
etrio ,
, resident of the Senate.a

ENGLISH AND ERZ,: ACH SQUABBLE
ABOUT A WRECK
CHANNEL. lIV THE BRITISH
The following statement has been formally made at
Ramsgate, respecting the wreck of an English merchant-
man, in the Channel, being
wrested from the possession
of English fishermen, by the crews of two French fishing
smacks, and carried off' eject armis to a French port.
A steam-cruiser, stationed in the Downs, would have a
wholesome effect in checking the increasing aggressions
of the French fisheFmen:---
~ Appeared personally Eliezer Johnson, of Ramsgate,
in the Isle of Thanet, n th.
i - '''' county or Kent, master o;
the smack Elizabeth, of 13rixham, 29 tons per register;
and William Johnson and William Hutchins, of Rams-
gate,
mariners, also belongg
to thesaid smack,
iug
and made oath that whilst proceeding in the smack
from 13risha Ptm to
—aulsgate on the 30th day
of Jannary instant, at 8.30 4,,m , being then about
from Beaehy Read.,
20 miles S.W.
hard from S.S.W. with a heavy see, our smack under
the wind blowing
close reefed sailF, we fell in with a wreck, but were unable
to board it until 0.30 P.m. ' when the weather having mo-
derated, the said Wm. Johnson and Win. Hutchings for
themselves say, we got on board and found the said wreck
to be the schooner Triumph, 0, ,
Brigham, with both her
masts and bowsprit carried ftw,3,,
the wreck lying on
deck and alongside; she had
and a PParently been in collision
was abandoned by her crew. The hatches were
a
not displaced, as she did not
appear to have any water
in. auto e commenced clearing away
the wreck; then got
a rop our smack and proceeded to tow towards Dun-
genes,. We had been in possession about three hours
and a alf, and in tow of our smack about a quarter of
an houhr, when the rope bY which we were towing
broke. Before we could get another rope fast to our
smack, a French fishing smack, called the Auguste Vic-
toria, H. 0., No. 143, came alongside the schooner, and
three men jumped on board, one having an axe, another
a hatchet, and ather an z
sion, flourishing their weaponsa d
ine. They took posses-
our faces. They would
not allow us to get the rope
augpairail.o our smack; but
another French smack coenieg
kr-L•O., 36), a rope
was passed to her from the schooner. Thyeo forced
by their threats to leave the vessel. e said they
we were overpowered,
should take her to France.. As
our smack's crew, consisting of
we
four men and
--.37
one boy, including ourselves, Nee were obliged to
submit and return on board our vessel.
About 4.30
P.M. the said schooner Triumph was about nine miles
south-east from Beachy Head, in tow of the French
smacks, proceeding towards the French
coast. We
shortly after fell in with a Dover smack, called
her returned
the ulnare with
towards three men
the won board, and with
reck, but the
Frenchmen on board stood with
axes upn
thelifted,
and would not allow us to come 011 board
smack that was towing. They stood, one with a heavy
stone ready to heave into our small boat if. we went
alongside, and another man with a handspike. As we
could do nothing against superior force so armed we were
could do nothing against superior force s armed we were
com
,1-4ratigate. The
compelled to bear up and proceed tits2i.lP
7
wind at this time came round to
a moderate
breeze; at one o'clock this morning it got back to
W.S.W.
" And the said Eliezer Johnson lastly saith, that since
my arrival at Ramsgate I have been _informed the said
,t
schooner Triumph had a cargoor.l
of bale
the
mashnaolegoods on board,er; his
also part owner.
and was bound to Mogadiis
is
name is William Sprig.

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THE FORGERIES 1N -Y ORKSIHRE.
Farther discoveries of forged notes of thec!)Dn
branch of the Yorkshire Banking Company
be made in towns which it was anticipated had escaped
the depredations of the swindlers. Marshall and Ellis,
two of the men already under committal to York As-
sizes for uttering forged notes of this bank at Leeds,
have undergone a further examination at Leeds Court-
u
house, charged with uttering a number of to
t
town
at Pontefract. Several tradesmen from t
attended at Leeds on Thursday last, and picked Marshall
and Ellis out of some dozen or twenty prisoners in the
dock. It was then proved that Ellis had put off three
forged notes on Christmas eve in Pontefract, and
thence took train to Leeds, where he uttered five
or six others the same night, and got back again
to Sheffield by the last train, exhibiting no trifling
amount of activity, as well as considerable
:act. ThomasPontefract,
Dyson, assistant to Mr. Scales, draper,
sold Ellis a pair of gloves, and took a forged 5/, note in