The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-17 00:00:00

No. 14.648

PRICE sd.

TITHE COMMISSION

AI3STRACI' OF THE- PROC':::EDINGS OF THE TITHE

COMMISSION UP TO JULY :1, 18:19.

14.
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Voluntary Proceed.ngs,

Agr:enielits

C,l:,puilsor y
Proceedint s

Apportion-
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Total ' t 4,78 4; 11l 1 3;2.)S . I,IS i 5:7 , .351 _,2;1
lkduet last Month t,7:.1i 4,:355 3,114 ; I,rll 453 : 33' 179

total in July

46 133 . 1811 123 59 1

ATLANTIC STEAMER.

4

HOMEWARD•BOUND LOG OF THE STEAM-
SHIP BRITISH QUEEN.
August I.—The British Queen hauled out of dock.
in New York, at two o'clock p.m., and fired her guns
as the signal of departure. A vest concourse of spec-
tators lined the wharfs, quays, battery, and forts, for two
or three miles in extent. The weather beautiful in
the extreme, and the view of the battery from the ship
was grand and cheering. The vast assemblage of spec-
tators, formed in the arch of a circle, filling the fore-
ground—the rich foliage of the trees which adorn the
batery rising in infinite majesty behind—and the
joyous city, with its towering spires and splendid domes
in the distance, formed one of the most enchanting and
picturesque scenes which the eye has witnessed, or the
imagination conceived.
The guns of the forts proclaimed our departure, and
the voices of 100,000 spectators threw their acclama-
tions upon the gentle breeze.
The steam-boats Arrow, Passair, Neptune, and se-
veral others, with their three decks crowded with all
the beauty and elegance of New York, cheered the
Queen as she moved slowly and majestically down the
Narrows, and added splendour to the beauty which de-
corated the whole line of coast.
At four o'clock she passed the lighthouses of Sandy
Hook, and gave a parting cheer to our kind friends who
accompanied us thus far, about 22 miles, in their fairy
steamers ; and so we stood out to sea.
Aug. 2.—Wind E. fine cool breeze. 12 rev., run-
ning off handsomely. Ten o'clock a.m. Wind S. E.
Set fore, trysail, and jib. Lat. 40 13, long. 70 10.
Dist. 178 miles. Afternoon calm. All sail handed.
121 rev.

Aug. 3.—Fine morning. Wind E. calm. Ligh'
floating clouds. No sail set. Pi rev. Lat. 40 48,
long. 65 35. Distance 207 miles. Afternoon. Wind
hauling to the northward and freshening. Set sail
9 o'clock. 13 rev., running cff in elegant style. Ship
quiet and steady as Time.
Aug. 4.—Beautiful morning. Wind N. sweet,
wholesome breeze. Set sail. Pi to 121 rev., run-
ning off 10 to 101 knots by log. Lat. 41 6, long.
60 35. Dist. 230 miles. Six o'clock p.m. Wind N.
steady. Fore and aft sails, fore and foretop sails set.
Still 124 rev.
Aug. s.—Fine morning. Wind N.E. Topsails
banded, moderate sea. Ship getting lighter and more
lively. All sail in. 13 rev. Lat. 41 17, long. 55 39.
Dist. 230 miles. Nine o'clock, p.m. Wind E.S.E.
Set jib, fore, and aft sails. Smooth sea, 14 rev., run-
ning off cheerly.
Aug. 6.—Rain. No sail set. Sea moderately smooth.
Wind E. Ship quiet. Lat. 41 58. long. 58. Dist.
220 miles. 8 o'clock p.m. Wind E. by N. Rain all
day. Queen dancing merrily over the seas. 10 o'clock.
Wind veers to the N. Set fore and aft sails. 14 rev.
Aug. 7.—Fine morning. 'Wind N.N.W., fresh
breeze and cold. Fore and aft sails, foresail, foretop,
and foretop-gallant sails set. 14 to 141 rev. The
Queen leaping over the billows with infinite grace, let.
43 21, long. 46 38. Distance 224 miles. 7 o'clock,
exchanged numbers with the Monongahela, Liverpool
to Philadelphia ; wind N., heavy sea running. Shi,;,
pitches kindly ; not the slightest strain.
Aug. B.—Charming morning. Wind E., dead a-head ;
long heavy rolling swell from the east. 'Nine o'clock
a.m., spoke the Kensington, 27 days from Liverpool,
bound to New York, full of steerage passengers ; sailed
from Liverpool before we left Portsmouth ; no sail set ;
running 12 knots by log, 'rev. 13 a 14, lat. 44 6, long.
40 47. Dis. 250 mica. Ships rolls gently with the sea ;
too large to give my sudden jerks like a sailing ship in a
heavy sea i'aesides, the constant tendency of the paddles
is to maintain an even keel, which gives great stability
and quietness to the ship ; going a-head with all ima-
ginable dignity.
Aug. 9.—Fine morning. Wind south-easterly, sea
smooth. Spoke the Lady Kitinaird ; her Ladyship is
only 38 days from Dundee, bound to New York, 14
rev. lat. 44 47, long. 36 14, dis. 202 miles. Fore and
aft sails, fore-stay and jib set : no topsails. The engines,
are an incomparable mass of-machinery ; work with great
ease and exactitude ; they may seem to the eye of cne
not experienced in steam navigation to be unnecessarily
massive and ponderous ; but it is no trilling affair for the
engines to carry against storms and tempests, against
head-winds and seas, for 15 successive days and nights,
2,700 tons upon their backs : a more efficient, power-
ful, and substantial pair of engines never floated upon
the vasty deep.
Aug. 10.—Mild and cheerful morning. Wind SE ,
moving onward with a steady quiet pace, 14i to 15 rev.
let. 45 57, long. 30 .53. Distance 237 miles. Gentle
breezes ; the Queen dancing over the waves light-footed
as a fox.
Aug. 11.—Wind S. cloudy. Hazy weather. Fresh
breeze. Sail set, 141 rev. ; running off with noiseless
rapidity ; lat. 47 15, long. 25 25. Dis. 238 miles—
Afternoon—Wind freshening, 16 rev. Engines working
expansively ; steam cut off at half stroke. 10 o'clock.
Full 16 rev., running of at a tremendous rate ; ship so
easy and quiet that one sitting in the saloon would
scarcely perceive that she was under way. Not a drop
of water shipped during the passage, no smell of the
engines, no smoke of the farnaces upon deck. The
height of the chimney carries all off far aloft.
The Queen dressed in her fore and aft, trysails, fore,
foretop, and foretopgallant sails, with her forestaysails
and jib, careers over the mighty waters in all the pleni-
tude of majesty.
Aug. 12.—Light clouds, fine rain early in the morn-
ing, gentle breeze from the S, and S. by W., smooth sea,
16 rev. let. 48 32, long 19 15. Distance 262 miles.
Afternoon, 16 rev. 11 knots, by log, going off with a
steadiness inconceivable by any one not on board the
ship.

Aug. 15.—The Queen, as she approaches her do-
minions, quickens her step, always solicitous to let her
subjects know that she is still mistress of the seas.
Cloudy morning, small rain, fresh breeze from S., set
sail, 16 rev. Lat 49 30, long. 12 35. Distance 265
miles. Afternoon, wind increasing, 16 rev. took in
foretopgallant sail, foretop sail reefed ; engines working
expansively, steam cut, off at g stroke from iths ex-
pansion, and yet plenty of working steam.
Aug. 14.—Wind S., stiff breeze, light tortoise-shell
clouds, 15 to 16 rev. sail set. Lat 49 34, long. 5 36.
Distance 277 miles. One o'clock. Falmouth pilot
boat No. 4, alongside, Two o'clock, the Lizard and
its lighthouses in full view. Four o'clock, took the
Cowes pilot. Twelve days and 19 hours from pilot to
pilot ; 13} days to Portsmouth.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
GREAT WESTERN vsnsys BRITISH QUEEN.
Sir—l beg to hand you a statement of the comparative speed
(as per Log) of the steamers Great Western and British Queen,
which you may consider of sufficient interest to insert in your
columns.

Great British Gain of Gain of
Western. Queen. G. W. 11. Q
August 1 ... say s 90 ....,.say 84
0
3
4
5
6
7
253
9
10
11
12
13
14th.— 277

Distance run by } D0c,57 7 by 3104 1,5).1
Great Western... . B. Q. 3

2957

1 day

124 miles gained by
Great Western.
6 allowed for half-
hour start.

Miles— 147

Total gain of Great Western ......••• 118 miles.
Thus the total gain by the Great Western on the British Queen,
in eleven days, i. e. from 9.d to 13th inst., was 118 miles, or 10
miles per diem. This was a fair trial of speed, as both vessels had
to encounter alike difficulties, and both had the benefit of some
fair winds

I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN UNINTERESTED OBSERVER.
The Great Western started half an hour before the British Queen

PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 15.7-THE ARRIVAL OF THE
BRITISH QUEEN.—Th? British Queen arrived at Spit-
head at nine o'clock this morning. She made but a
short stay of one hour ; in fact, she had no sooner an•
chored,
than the signal gun was fired with Blue Peter-
flag hoisted, to denote that she was again under way.
The British Queen brings home 112 passengers, and
has proved a most desirable vessel. Her voyage to
Portland from Sandy Hook was 13 days and 17 hours,
making 13 days and 22 hours to Spithead ; and during
her outward and homeward-hound voyages steaming all
the way, until the last four days, when the sails assisted.
During her passage out, being near the banks of New-
foundland, they fell in with the English merchant ship
Bethel, belonging to 13ideford, which vessel was aban-
doned, having on board a cargo of iron. Captain Ro-

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THE COAL COMBINATION.

At the latter end of last month, a letter appeared in
saute of the Morning Papers, from Mr. Betts, of Ncw
castle, addressed to the Lord Mayor, together with
Mr. C. Wilson's reply, at the do-ire of his Lordship,
relative to the coal monopoly. On the 314 of the
same month, the following letter appeared from Mr.
Partridge, of Dudley, in Statrordshirr, addre,sed to the
Editor cf The Sun :
" STAFFORDSHIRE COALS.
SlR—Seeing a correspondence in your Parr of
ve,t, rday, between Mr. Pl,tts, of Newc,stle-urn
Tyne, and the Lord Mayer, ou the Cod C rmbirt Lion
in the North, and noticing the price of the bezt cools
in Staffordshire to be (according to his LN-dship's
statement), Gs. per ton on board, I shall feel obliged to
Mr. C. Lee Wilson, or any other gentleman, to inform
me at what mine or mines the best coals of that district
were to be had at 65., at Bs., or even at 9s. per ton on
board, and from what authority he states the canal
dues on tonnage to be only ss. I,d. per ton, the whole
distance from those mines to London? If he can
clearly and satisfactorily show those statements to be
correct, L for one, ant very much decei%ed, but shall
not feel the less gratified to fiad them true.

Should the insertion of this letter in your paper in-
duce a reply, the public will know how to set a proper
value on his Lordship's motives which have been so emi-
nently useful. •

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Dudley. JOHN PARTRID3E.
On Wednesday last, in consequence of the publica-
tion of this letter, a Deputation of four gentlemen from
the North Staffordshire Coal Company waited upon
the Lord Mayor, to state that they were in a situation
to show that they could supply the best Staffordshire
coals at less than 95., Bs., or Gs. per ton, for they would
be able to sell them for 3s. 6d. per ton at the pit's
mouth, and they were making arrangements which
would enable them very shortly to put them on board at
that price, so that they could deliver them at the houses
of the consumers in London. Of the quality they
would say nothing—Staffordshire coals were well known,
and would long before now have been greatly used by
the London public, were it not for the obstacles thrown
in the way by Acts of Parliament and heavy canal dues,.
The former had, however, been repealed—and the
latter, by the extraordinary exertions of the Lord Mayor,
had been reduced above 50 per cent. All the deputation
asked was to be allowed to send a top of coals to the
Mansion House for trial, and if hi., Lordship did not
find them to ba as good as tiny inland coals he bad
used, they would not of bourse presume to solicit his
support.

The Loan MAYolt said that although the season was
rather inconvenicnt for an experiment he would willingly
make it, after 44 bUt he would be glad to receive further
information on the subject, first as to the price at the
pit's mouth, and secondly as to the haulage, for, if Lord
Londonderry's statement of wear and tear and expenses
attendant upon raising coals to the pit's mouth were to
be relied upon, the present statement would appear most
erroneous and inaccurate indeed.

The Deputation declared that they meant what tbty
stated, and were fully prepared to prove the fact., and
would at once supply his Lordship with the nay.nes of
the collieries from whence the coals came ; that after
an outlay of 10,0001. upon a tram-road to the canal,
they would undertake to put the coals on board at
3s. 6d. per ton ; that pith regard to the haulage they
were constructing new boats, in which they should bring
thirty tons at the charge at which twenty tons were now
brought in the present boats, 0-,us producing a reduc-
tion of the cost of haulage of one third, and that agents
were already appointed for. the Leicester, Derby, Not-
tingham, and other inland coals, a fact that made the
provision of additional craft necessary for the inland
coal-owners, who could never be sufficiently grateful to
the Chief Mag;Arate of London for what he had done
in bringing 0-,eir coals into public favour. They assured
his Lords Lip that the bugbear of " dust and white ashes"
had hitherto been a great stay upon them, notwitli-
standing many of the gentry of the inland counties had
burnt the inland coals all their lives, and none else, and
the furniture of their residences was uninjured amidst all
the extensive consumption.
The Loan MAYOR—I suppose your only fear is that
the Northern coal owners will not continue their com-
bination as long as you would. wish, to enable you to sell
under their present combination prices?
The Deputation replied that it would make no differ-
ence to them whatever, whether the combination were
broken up or continued ; they could always sell all their
coals at twenty-two shillings and sixpence, and when it
was considered that the average importation horn New-
castle was fifty thousand tons a week, all the inland coals
that could be brought would only tend to keel. the
Northern coal owners in order, and prevent extravagantly
high prices. Capital, they added, was ready to be ad-
vanced now to any extent to increase the supply of in-
land coals.
Yesterday morning the Deputation again waited on
the Lord Mayor, in whose parlour were burning, at the
time, some of the Staffordshire coals. Of the quality of the
coal there could not be a doubt. Newcastle could not
have produced a more persuasive experiment. There
were several gentlemen present who at once agreed in
the opinion expressed by the Lord Mayor.
The Deputation stated that Sir Felix Booth had tried
a sample of these coals against the Welsh coal, in his
extensive premises, and considered that they were as
durable. The heat the Staffcrdshire coals threw out,
was, by the acknowledgments of cooks and others, who
always had opportunities of judging, stronger than ,
that produced by the generality of coals. They had
two sorts, which came from the mines near Chandle,
in Staffordshire. The Delphonse mine produced one
sort, which was a stronger coal than that in the parlour
grate. The Dilborne mine produced the coal then
burning, and Mr. Partridge might apply for coal at the
latter place, and should be most gladly supplied with
them at 6s. 6d. per ton, of exactly the same quality.
The LORD MAYOR inquired how lie could be sure
that the coals then burning before them were Stafford-
shire coals.
Mr. Butcher, the son of the bead clerk of the coal
market, said that be stood at the pit's mouth at the Dil-
borne mine, and saw the coals raised and loaded into
the barge, in order that no mistake might exist on the
subject. He would undertake to say that there were
some millions of tons of these coals, that they lay only
fifty-six c ands from the surface, and the contact price
for raising them was only 2s. 6d. per ton—a statement
very different from that which came from the authority
'of Lord Londonderry ; that all that came to the surface
came to market; that the coals were raised in lumps of
about 300 cwt., and that there was no slack or waste.
A coal merchant, who was known to the Lord
Mayor, was present during the interview, and he ad-
mitted that the coals of which the sample was burn-
ing must meet an immediate market in London.
The Deputation declared that the public should meet
with no disappointment, and said that they should feel
great pleasure in being patronized by a Chief Magis-
trate who had rendered such services to the population
all over the country.
The Loan MAYOR said that he patronised all the
coal merchants who supplied the public with good coals
at 20s. per ton, and that it would be quite time enough
for them to ask for his patronage when they bad more
coal than they could sell. He felt satisfied that every
person who burned such coal as they saw in the grate
supplied by them wAougldoocdonethienaupe
coal
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the
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other customers.
required. He saw, to his great delight, that the public
were determined to support him in his great object, of
destroying the combination which had so long existed.
The most affluent ranks of society were now engaged
in the very charitable work of destruction, and the poor
would, instead of paying at the rate of 405., or, as was
sometimes the case, 50s. a ton for coals, obtain the
material for a good fire, in the winter, at little more
than half of the former price.
The Deputation said there existed no doubt of the
fact, and that his Lordship's anticipations, when he com-
menced his operations against the monopoly, were not
an atom too sanguine.
The Loan MAYOR mentioned to the Deputation that
he had been informed on the preceding day by an inland
coal owner, that a coal-merchant who professed to sell
no coal but the best Newcastle coals, had been for
sometime past buying inland coals, tried to beat him
down a shilling a ton, in order to substitute his coal
for the former. The same coal-owner, upon whose ve-
racity he could place the greatest reliance, informed him
that there was about town a very bad sort of Newcastle
coal, which was frequently supplied to old customers
when they ordered home the Lord Mayor's coals. His
Lordship finally assured the Deputation that they and
all the coal merchants who would supply the public
with such coal as he was burning, should have his pa-
tronage and warmest recommendation.

COMMITTAL or A FEMALE ON A CHARGE
Or ROBBERY AND INCENDIARISM.—Harriet Harter, a de-
cently dressed young woman, about twenty-years of age,
was committed for trial on a charge of this nature from the
county Public Office on Tuesday. On her way to prison
she confessed to the policeman that she was guilty of the
robbery, and had thrown the bundle she had with her,
when first seen by Mr. Price, which contained the stolen
property, into a pool which she indicated. The water was
drawn off, and the story found to be a fabrication ;1 the
bundle, containing the pr►ncipal part of the effects stolen
having been afterwards found elsewhere. The prisoner
offered not a word in her defence, and was fully committed
for trial at the next Assizes, on the double charge of rob-
bery and arson.— Worcesteshirre Chronicle.
THE CHARTISTS INIRELAND.—TIICCIIIIISIS
have been received in DulAin with but little favour. Tbe
Precursors put then► to the rout on Tuesday night. Mr.
Murphy denounced them as plunderers, humbuggers,
incendiaries, and murderers. " I implore you," said he,
4, to scout these men from the room—( Groans on groans)
—scout them."