The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-18 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—Your columns ha ving frequently been a channel,
for matters regarding the Nary, do me the favour, there.
fore, with your usual liber alitv, of bringing to the notice
of those interested in the improvement of ship building,
the following remarks, mude a few days since, in notic-
ing rather a novel sight, a large vessel building in a
" Floating Dock," at Go ;port ; on going on board of
which I was informed she was 110 feet long and 31 feet
broad ; and really a more perfect model, and improve-
ment on the old 18 gun-b rigs, her tonnage being 450,
one could not be otherwise than delighted to see. She
has a fine bow, carrying at't a wholesome round bottom,
without fear between decks of knocking one's head
against the beams, her height being more than seven
feet ; she is pierced for c.?,0 guns, and is just what our
men of war brigs ought i.o be, most of the French men
of war brigs having the Lame length, and mounting 20
guns, four of which are al ways long 18-pounders.
It was satisfactory to not ice that when so much public
spirit is shown by a privat a individual, in expending so
large a sum as this magnifi cent vessel must cost, that the
Lords of the Admiralty 'were pleased to closely inspect
her when on their tour of inspection at this port last
week; and judging from experience, that although our
16-gun brigs are supposed to be equal to the French,
men of war brigs of 20 g tins, that we shall " reform,"
and build immediately .s.C.r or ten brigs of the above
dimensions.

I have no personal act luaintance with the owner of
the Charlotte, more than meeting him one day in the
summer at the Portsmou •.h Naval Club; if I had, I
should most certainly recc tnmend him to step the spar
ho intends for the main bo om as a mizzen mast.

I am, ;ir, yours faithfully,
Gosport, Sept. 10. CAPTAIN, R. N.

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THE LATE CA:MBRIDGE ELE
T lON.
Last week we explaink l the nature and extent of the
shameful bribery which wa: I resorted to by Mr. Manners
Sutton's friends, and we st .ated the legal results which
is all probability must f allow. Notices, signed by
Messr*. R. Foster, Searle , Beales, and Gunning, sen.,
of Mr. Manners Sutton's ineligibility on the. score of
bribery, were published for the information of the
voters previously to the polling, and served at the
houses of some hundreds of Mr. Sutton's voters. The ob-
ject of such notice was as follows :—lf an election be
set aside on the ground of bribery by a Parliamentary
Committee, and there is tit proof of the parties, at the
time of the election, havin g had notice of the ineligi-
bility on account of bribery , of a candidate, such elec-
tion is null and void ; any a new one must take place.
If there is proof, on the c ontrary, that certain of h 6
voters had notice, their vnt es are lost ; and if the taking
away of these gave a major; .ty to the other candidate, he
is declared the sitting Men :ber, without proceeding to a
new election.
With respect to the intir tidation which was resorted
to on his behalf, by certain r If the University authorities,
and which we alluded to in a general manner last week,
we have a few observations +,O offer. And, in the first
place, as honour should beg iven where it is due, and as
the crime where it has been committed should be laid
only
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far as we could learn, with tt le servants and tradesmen.
The gardener of one of the se Colleges was kept back
from voting for Mr. Gibson I )y the Fellows of St. John's,
who, not satisfied with tram pling on the
consciences
of
their own underlings, must needs carry their tyranny
into quarters where they C. gild exercise it indirectly.
The mode they adopted w as this : the gardener's wife
was a bed•maker in their ov rn college. They threatened
her with the loss of her situ, ttion if she did not prevail on
her husband to vote for Mr„ Manners Sutton, or at least
to refrain from voting for lel ir. Gibson. This nefarious
plan succeeded, and ever! bed-maker in St. John's,
whose husband or son had a vote, and worked in any of
the other colleges, or was an t independent tradesman in
the town, was subjected to the disgraceful ordeal.—
Cambridge Independent Pre, .r.

EXHAUSTION OF ,OAL. -- Dr. Buckland,
speaking of the consumption of coal, said, the day would
come when we shall have use I all our coal. He described
that not less than a million , of tons were wasted every
year at Newcastle by the slack, or very small coal, thrown
away. He impressed it st rongly upon the meeting to
adopt the following method )f converting the small coal
into a useable form:—With every ton of slack mix from
twenty to forty gallons of w iter, 401bs. of coal. tar, 201bs.
of lime powder, 2 cwt. of di 'icd river mud, then form this
compost into bricks.

CHARTISM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

- - - - -
SlR,—Will you permit me to ask you, or your Cor-
respondent who signs himself " A Chartist," what is
meant by the continued expressions of hostility and de-
fiance said to be indulged in by the middle and working
classes towards each other. I can understand no other
than an identity of interests to exist between them,
either patriotically or selfishly ; they arc the people, and
good government is a thing to be desired by them all.
Does your Correspondent (whom I believe to be no
Chartist, or he but imperfectly understands his creed)
really think that a measure, supported frankly and
honestly by the middle classes, for the repeal of the
Corn-laws, will meet with no response—nay, even op-
position—by the working men ? Ido not believe that
they are so wedded to the infatuation or knavery of
some notoriously prominent individuals, as to follow
that course ; certain I am, that the majority of the
Chartists of London will not do so.

Nevertheless, it is the firm conviction of the majority
of us, that justice can be attained for the working men
of this country only by the means of Universal Suffrage.
" Chartism," as the Spectator truly observes, " is but in
its infancy." Crossed by some, and petted by others, it
makes strange gestures, and gives indications of some
wilfulness ; these again bring down restraints and chas-
tisements, little calculated to lead aright. But, Sir, the
daily, weekly, and monthly consumption of periodical
literature will purge Chartism of its crudities ; and ere
long, from that which seems now but the funeral pyre
of liberty, a light will burst forth that shall brighten
the earth, and give hopes to far-off sufferers.
What is Chartism but a feature of the character of the
times—the stretching and expansion of the public mind,
stirred from the lowest depths and springing upwards'?
The first expreision of the mind touched by the magic
of an intelligence that teaches man to respect himself ;
to feel that he has a destiny superior to the beasts of
the field ; to know, and demand his right to assert this
in the face of the community of which he forms so ne-
cessary- a p'rt. Ali this and much more do the Chartists
know ; and those, who by tyrannical and oppressive
means attempt to keep them down, are not only bad in-
terpreters of public feeling but the greatest enemies to
good order and human progression. I have mixed much
with my class, the working-classes, And know their senti-
ments, and must own Myself frequently terrified when
reflecting on the feelings engendered by the cruel and
oppressive treatment they receive from the hands of an
unreflecting Government, backed, I am sorry to say,
by some whose sympathy, as well as their interest,
should cause them to act otherwise.
I am, Sir, your's respectfully,
A REAL CHARTIST.

Sept 17.

THE [OMAN ISLANDS.

(From the Harlequin (Malta paper), Aug. 31.)
The last letters from Corfu intimate that Sir Howard
Douglas is pursuing the same policy as he did last
year, in putting every obstacle in the way of peti-
tions to the English Government for a reform in the
Constitution of the lonian Islands. His mode of dealing
with that from Corfu has already been described. In
the present year the lonian Legislative Assembly were
employed in framing a petition to the Queen, when they
were interrupted by a prorogation, for which some other
pretext was assigned, but the construction universally
put upon the act was his desire to prevent this petition
from being carried into effect. The islanders were not
discouraged, nevertheless, and a third petition, to which
it is said that near 2,000 signatures had been attached,
was prepared in Cephalonia. Among these were the
names of all the principal families of the island. If the
inclination of these people in favour of the desired re-
form was entitled .to any weight, there could re-
main no doubt which way it tended. Why it should
be thought good policy still to hold over them so
absolute and despotic a sway, altogether un-En-
glish and unconstitutional, is one of those mysteries,
if he will condescend to attend to it at all, only to be
solved by the head of the Foreign-office. No news-
paper is allowed to be published, it seems, in the lonian
Islands which either reports the proceedings of the Legi-
slature, or comments upon the administration of Sir
Howard Douglas. Even the newspapers which arri‘e
from England are not allowed to be distributed until
they have been examined by the officer appointed for
that purpose.
The Hazard sloop of war arrived from Bisika Bay
on the 22d inst., whence she sailed on the 14th, leaving
at that anchorage the British squadron, consisting of
10 line of battle ships (the Ganges, Powerful, and
Implacable having arrived), 2 frigates, 3 sloops, and 2
steamers ; and the French squaron, consisting of 5
liners—the Jena (flag-ship), the Genereux, Jupiter,
Trident, and Triton ; the Amazon 60-gun frigate,
Comet brig, the Papin steam frigate, and another
steamer of war. The Confiance had joined the squad-
ron from Constantinople on the 9th inst., and on the
12th the Dido, from Alexandria (preceded by the Tyne
from the same port,) and a French steamer of war
direct from Toulon, with despatches for the French
Admiral. Perfect tranquillity reigned both at Alexan-
dria and Constantinople ; but at the latter capital, if a
man but incautiously open his mouth for the purpose of
mentioning the name of Mehemet Ali, his bead is
taken off before he can shut it again.