The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-25 00:00:00

NEWSPAPER STAMPS.

FROM THE RETURN Tel AN onnr,r. or THE HOUSE OF COM-
MONS, DATED FEB. 3, 153.9
(We have loom only for the returns relating to the Lon.
don Daily Morning and Evening Papers.)
Quarter ending June, 1838 101,000
Courier ..=-. .... Sept. 94 000
Dec. 98,000
June 234,000
G.'of)e ...... Sept, 216,000
- Dec. 216,008
June 523 000
Morning Chronicle
- - Dec. 491,000
June 239,000
Morning Post — Sept. 221,000
Dec. 199,000
June 340,000
Morning Herald
Dec. 455 000
June 390,000
Morning Ado•rtisir _ Sept. 390.000
Dec. 390,000
June (15,000
Standard
- Dec. 255,000
June 402,000
The Sun j Sept. 443,000
Dec. 276,000
June
The Times -
Sept. —
98700,,000000
_ _ Dec. 920,000

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, FFB. 21—Wind N.N. W. moderate.-24, W.
fine.—Came down from the River and sailed, the Hooghly,
Bailey, for South Australia ; Chieftain, —, Cape of Good
Hope ; Glasgow, Thompson, ditto ; Marshal, Benett,
Hunter, South Seas ; St. James, Sebor, New York ;
Juno, Lind, St. Übes ; Baily, —, Malta ; Ida, —, Liver-
pool; Columbus, Sainthill, Jamaica; Richmond Hill,
Young, Rotterdam. Ditto, and remain—Henry Turner,
Bisset, Jamaica ; Royal Sovereign, —, St. Helena. Ar-
rived and remain—Courier, James, from the Cape of Good
Hope; Mediator, Champion, New York. FEB. 24.
Arrived and proceeded for the River, Emma, Skel.on, from
Ceylon ; Rose, Baillie, Demerara; Shamrock, Richards,
Bridgewater. Came down from the river and sailed, Vi-
belia, Terry, for Hobart Town ; North Star, —, Phila-
chl,,hia; Andrew M'Kean, —, Bahia; Regatta, Water-
son, Belfast. Ditto, and remain, Juno, Forrest, Jamaica.
PORTSNIOUTII, FEB. 23. —Wind W. S. W. to W. N. W.
squally. 24.—Wind N. W. to W.—Arrived the Indus,
Juling, from Sunderland, leaky. Off port the Sophia,
Kettels, from Batavia ; Childe Haroide, Willis, from
Ihmbay, sailed 6th October, Cape of Good Hope 24th
December, St. Helena, Bth ult. ; Henry Simpson, Wat-
kins, from New York. Sailed the Ocean Queen, Carner,
for Amsterdam; Balticum, Johnson, Flamburg,h.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 23.—Wind, N. W.—Arrived the
Beeswing, Chancellor, from London ; John Denniston,
Barker, ditto, with loss of bowsprit ; Galway packet,
Galway; Friendship, Portsmouth.
FAL,MOCITII, FEB. 22.—Wind W. S. W. Fresh gales
and squally. Feb. 23.—Wind W. S. W. to W. N. W.---
Arrived the Celt, Clarke, from Jacmel; Prunier, Keith,
London ; Joseph Fenton, Cork, ditto ; Adder, Wills,
Portsmouth. Off port the Empress, from Sicily ; Plant,
Hull, London.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 23 and 24.—Wind N. W.—Arrived
the Mozart, Welsh ; Mars, Raper ; and Byron, Pearson,
from New Orleans ; Powhattan, M• Curran, Natchez ; Vir-
ginia, Hussey, Mobile ; St. Clair, New York ; Silas,
Richards, Mobile ; Monongahela, Philadelphia; Caroline,
Jones, St. Michael's; Mischief, Jones, Lisbon; George 4,
Legg-at, Charente; Hugo, Bender, Stettin; Magdalene,
Dorubber, Revel_ Sailed the William, Goddard, Potter,
for Mobile. Put back the Queen Victoria, Mobile, with
loss of main-yard.
RAMSGATE, FEB. 24 —Arrived the Johan Frederick,
Hederick, from Berim for Brazil, with stern and cutwater
damaged, and jib-boom carried away, having been in con-
tact with the Danish Brig, Delos, the latter immediately
sunk—crew saved.

COVVEs, FEB. 24.—Sailed Ocean Queen, Amsterdam.
DOVER, FEB. 24.—Arrived off port, the Johr.nnes,
Gagge, from Rio Janeiro.
HASTINGS, FE:;. 24.—Arrived off port, the Trident;
Smit, from St Thomas's.
SALCOMBE, Fan. 22.—Arrived the Myrtle, from Dublin.

METROPOLITAN POLITIC AL

SUMMARY.

In allusion to Thursday night's debate on Mr. Giron's
motion respecting the taxes on internal communication, the
Times says, " it requires only the continuance of the
present taxes for a few months to insure the total abolition
of post-horses and coaches upon every road, competing
even remotely with any rail-Vlay. The principal inns must
then be closed, and the public will be left to such mercy
and accommodation as the Railway Companies can afford
them." The Times has another spirited and elaborate
article on the subject of the Navy.
The Morning Post, speaking of the debate in the House
of Lords on Friday night, on the subject of the Navy,
says. " the debate was, in our humble judgment, ex-
tremely to the credit of that house. It was, upon the
whole, a dispassionate discussion, of which the most pro-
minent characteristics were earnestness and honesty." As
if this, however, were too frank and liberal an ad•.nission
fot a Tory journal to make, our Contemporary instantly
proceeds to neutralize its effect, by objecting in no very
measured terms, to the speech of Lord iVlinto, which, he
tells us, was "an harangue pitched in a ♦ery low key of
mere party disputation." And yet the speech thus sneer-
ingly talked of, aas one which gave satisfaction even to
, the opponents of the Noble Lord. So much fur the fair
dealing of a high Tory journal I
The Morning Herald has a lengthy and elaborate lead.
ing article upon that very novel and undebated question,
the Cern-laws ; alluding to which our Contemporary ha-
zards the following sombre and ominous assertions, in
which nothing is so remarkable as the presence of a jaun.
diced and apprehensive imagination :—" The mill-owners
have begun to close their factories. They have hitherto
tried in vain to induce the manufacturing operatives to
join in the clamour against the Corn• laws. The manu-
facturing operatives have understood their interests
better. They have refused to agitate. The factory-
owners have therefore determined on closing their
factories, and on throwing out of employment large masses
of men. By this movement, they hope to goad the suf-
fering operatives into a course of Anti Corn•law agita-
tion, and so frighten Parliament into a surrender of the
Corn-laws." The Herald has another leading article, in
which, with a fine eye to the dismal, he conjures up all
sorts of horrid anticipations respecting the progress of po-
pery in England.
The Morning Chronicle, in an article on the Corn-
laws, observes—" Evidence of the mischievous influence
of these laws, in undermining our manufactures, continues
to accumulate. In Berlin, it is said, factories are spring-
ing up like mushrooms, under the protection given by our
Corn-laws." This obiervation is as just as it is pointed.
In another article on the subject of the Navy our Con-
temporary has the following pithy, aphoristic remark :
" Toryism is never in earnest when it preaches economy."
In an article on the Navy the Morning Advertiser says :
—" England should be prepared on all points to meet
aggression from any quarter; and above all thinrrs, she
should have at her command a numerous and efficient
Naval force, manned by trained and able seamen, which
can only be effected by raising the pay of the British
sailor."