The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-27 00:00:00

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tani DV/ --M01111137." 35 min. after 5 !Evening 54 rain after 5
To-Ntoasow—Morning 14 min. after 6 Evening 57 min alter 6

THE WEATLIEB.—Sus °Firma, Mauca 27.
THERMOMICTER, I 9 THE SHAM
41—highest since noon Te3tarday.
28 —lowest this morning and daring the night.
40—thie day, at noon.

Benomann, 2913.
Wnen W.S.W.—light breeze and dull weather,

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

state of the Wind and Weather at each of the fallowing
Plaec* ...t Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
ate arranged in order of latitude.
Pr:mourn—wind N.B. gentle breeze—overcast.
..,Bl3"Tv--Virind-N. E 'gentle breeze—particallY siliallic;,..-
Wind N.8..9 fresh breeze—partially cloudy.
cloudy.
SourstaarProri—Wind'N.B., strong breeze--overcast.
FtladczeroN Z—V bad N.E., gentle breeze—partially
TrizrnYtTri"—Wind N. strong breeze—cloudless. cloudy.
GREEN NS, ICII—Wind.N., ,-rentie breeze —partially cloudy.
STsOOD—Ww4 N.., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
owni-Dox—W!riid,.., Mao hreeze—paitially cloudy.
LEIGHTON—NS Ill!! 1., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Cc mmussmit—N 111 N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
N.: strong breeze—partially cloudy.
Yi.inforiff—Wind
wiangq—Wind N•• strong breeze—
—.......--..---......,_

THE LONDON-BRIDGP C
"°CIC--The Southwark
Pitying Board have determinedt to erect a lofty and elegant
quadrangular clock-tower ,? Contain the large clock manu-
factured by Mr. George W. Bennett, of Blackheath, for the
Crystal Palace. The T9wer, which will be constructed of
east iron and glass, and in gen,orat form not very dissimilar
to the market-crosses to be seen
_a. AVinchestcr and else-
T-h. spire of 20 feet, making a
where, will stand about 3'2 feet
,h..lgh, will be surmounted by
an e!egant octagonal open_T
total height of 52 feet, and will be placed nearly in the middle
of the road on the. Southwark s.do of London-bridge; so
that the dial 3, which will be of glass, and abantaix feet in
diameter, will be distinctly visible, both,. by night and day;
Li
Over London-bridge, and as far as ien-street in the
Borough, as well as down Tcolc-y4trect and the approach to
the railway terminus • and, as they will be Illuminated,
cannot fail to be of infinite service to the vast multitudes of
persons constantly traversing tlio.te thoroughfares.—Kentish
4fercto7.

LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1832.

Captain PENNY has at length spoken out boldly
and explicitly in reference to the long-continued
misrepresentation of his conduct by the Admiralty.
His letter addressed to ourselves, and dated Aber-
deen, the 24th instant, wiil be found elsewhere in our
impression of this evening. It is absolutely impos-
sible, after all that recently occurred, to accuse the
writer of bragging in anything he may say as to his
own personal achievements. He has preserved silence
during an interval so very considerable, and when he
has been subjected, moreover, to a perpetual series
of provocations, e that he can never be charged
with unnecessarily thrusting his services upen the
attention of the public, speaking out, as he does, only
when his accusers have exceeded altogether the
limits of human endurance. It will be observed on
turning to his communication that Captain PENNY
has been incited to break the influences of the re-
serve which he has hitherto patiently and perti-
naciously maintained lin consequence of the very
extraordinary remarks made the other night in the
House of Commons by Admiral BERKELEY and by
Mr. PARKER, the Secretary to the late Lords COMMIS..
sinners. Those who, like ourselves, have scrupulously
watched every circumstance in these proceedings from
the earliest moment of the commencement will not re-
quire to be reminded that immediately on his return
to England, Captain PENNY-90 far from wishing to
drag the matter prematurely under;popular considera-
tion, so far from desiring 'to give a merely one-sided
statement in the absence of another, so far, in fact,
from being in readiness to boast anything he himself
had individually accomplished—held his peace until
the arrival of Captain AUSTIN from the Arctic seas,
and even then allowed the latter to publish his ver-
sion of the matter first, by causing a • piecemeal
correspondence to appear in the columns of the daily
newspapers. Subsequently the official inquiry began
at the Admiralty, and the principals in the transac-
tion were severally examined and cross-examined at
considerable length before the Select Committee.
Throughout the whole of this time Captain PENNY,
it will be remembered, remained dumb, when
other men, under similar circumstances, would have
become actually clamorous. It was only when the
overbearing manner betrayed towards himself by
Captain AUSTIN during their association together in
the expedition of relief had been rendered absolutely
intolerable by the haughty and, one might even de-
signate it without exaggeration, the insolent behaviour
of those with whom Captain PENNY was unfortu-
nately compelled to come in contact during the conti-
nuance of the official investigation, that his taciturnity
was at last interrupted. It was only when the unfair
publication of a garbled correspondence in the
newspapers had been reduced to insignificance
by the shamelessly distorted report issued in the form
ef a Parliamentary blue book, and purporting to give
i candid record of the proceedings before the Select
Committee, that the man who was thus seriously
aggrieved consented to raise his voice for an instant
for the purpose of putting forth in a pamphlet his
plain-spoken and straightforward statement. Since
then Captain PENNY has been subjected, one
might almost say from day to day, to the
most worrying and irritating provocation, in
the shape of gratutitous personalities, coloured
in every instance by the most odious and the most
despicable professional impertinence. Insomuch has
this been the case that total strangers to Captain
PENNY, like ourselves and Sir ROBERT INGLIS, felt
themselves impelled to protest against conduct so
peculiarly derogatory to the dignity of officers
bearing her MAJESTY'S commission. For ourselves
we have commented again and again in terms ex-
pressive of the strongest indignation .upon the whole
of these really melancholy displays of jealousy,
of petulance, and unfairness toward Captain
PENNY—our observations ranging through a series of
articles, extending from the present moment back to
the very outset of the investigation. As recently as
the 13th instant the matter so very frequently dis-
cussed before in these columns was formally brought
under the consideration of the House of Commons by
the Hon. Gentleman the Representative of Youghal
3nl the Hon. Baronet the Member for the Univer-
sity of Oxford—whose remarks upon the subject
elicited from Mr. PARKER and from Admiral
BERKELEY the allusions which have at length pro-
voked the subject of all these annoyances to termi-
nate his protracted silence with the out-spoken letter,
published by us elsewhere in this evening's im-
pression.
It will be perceived that the enumeration of
his services by Captain PENNY could scarcely be
more graceful, because it could not, most certainly,
be more sententious in its character. lie
reminds the public briefly that ha it was
who put an end to all the doubts and
anxieties raised by the story of the Esquitnaux
—that he it was who suggested Navy Inlet as a suit-
dile place for landing the provisions of the " North
Star"—that he it was who " had the good fortune"
to find the tent of Sir JOHN FRANKLIN for watching
any movement in the ice in Wellington Channel,
a spot manifestly his winter quarters in 1A45-1846
that he it was who suggested proceeding further on
in the route now clearly marked out as that taken by
the Lei :sing expedition. He calls, moreover, to the
remembrance of the public the facts that
he (Captain PENNY) was the one who, at the head
of a travelling party, went over 2,470 miles, dis-
covered of new coast (partly island) 655 miles,
together nith 25 miles of open water, launched a boat
over 120 of hummochy ice, contended for 33 days
against strong tides and adverse winds, and at
length in lat. 76 deg. 27 min., long. 96 deg. 30 min.,
discovered an open sea of not less than 80 miles of
water. Those who have merely a confused notion of the
extent and nature of the Arctic discoveries of Captain
PENNY may find them clearly and admirably indicated
in the exquisite model recently added to the
Geographical Museum constructing in Leicester-
Square, under the superintendence of the
Honourable Member for Bodmin. The glory
r those discoveries cannot fortunately be
taken from Captain PENNY by all the professional
jealousy in the world, any more than the credit of the
Inoesser,
denied by which they were accomplished can be
brave seamen
dieeaxmpeen whotion. acted under his
orders duringthe
lthe recent

est Mes
A brief but very.. important
conversation—we can
scarcely call it a discussion—took place last night in
the Howe of Lords in reference to the Act fur
present year;
in the recollection of our Ire a deirrre:
l tahtnhedra.et f
otrhleet
will be
statute expires during the,
no legislation should take place
the sale of encumbered •
previous to the disso-
intion, the Court itself must be dissolved,
except for
the purpose of distributing the funds already in its
hands. The entire machinery that has already
worked so well, would , thus be destroyed, and ,it
would be far more difficult to reconstruct, or even to
appoint an efficient substitute, than it would be to
maintain, or in some respects to c g , ban e the consti-
tution of an existing tribunal•
not be matters con-
We do not say that there may
fleeted with the present law that requiro revision and
s exa-
amendment. But the principle which offer .
ert -estr of
ordinary facilities for the disposal of the prop .
-
embarrassed owners, and confers an unquestionable
title on purchasers without loss of time or unnecessary
expense, is exceedingly valuable, and it would a
be
the
of
great advantage to the propriproprietorsrs of land i
'
United Kingdom if it could be extended to
every description of real estate, and to Great
Britain as well as Ireland. Some consideration
will be necessary, however, before these amendments
can be introduced.; and as it would be utterly im-
possible to devote the time essential for the purpose
daring the present session, the most judicious ar-
rangement is that suggested by the Government,
viz., that the law should be renewed for another year,
and that in the interim the attention of the authorities
should be directed to the subject, with the view either
of perpetuating the existing enactments, or of trans-
ferring its powers to the Court of Chancery, taking