The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-19 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Courier of last evening has an amusing leading
article in reply to the Times' attack on Lord Normanby,
speaking of whom our Contemporary says—" There is
scarcely a Liberal in the land, perhaps, who does not
hail the arrival of Lord Normanby in England to take
his seat in the Cabinet as Minister for the Colonies, as a
happy omen for the cause of truth and justice, whieh he
has a'ready aided so much in another official character.
The Globe contains a long article on the subject of
Mexico, and a second, far more interesting,*ran the Slave
Trade question, is the course of which the Globe ob-
serves :—" To enable the public to form something
like an estimate of the extent to which the Slave
traffic is carried on by the protection afforded to it by.
the Portuguese flag, we need only refer to a port of
Spain (Trinidad) paper of a recent date, which shows
that the number of negro slaVes imported it-..t;! the
Brazils during the last month, under the Portuguese
flag, amounts to thirty-six thousand."
The Standard, in an article on the question of the
Corn-laws, remarks of this impost with more than usual
hardihood, " the Corn-laws constitute no anomaly ; on
the other hand, they are necessary to obviate a very
great anomaly. The production of Corn is, in the
strictest sense, a manufacture ; all other manufactures,
whether for the home or foreign market, are guarded by
protecting duties ; why then not protect the manuf,:c-
turer of Corn ?"

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

(LLOYD'S.)

CUSTOM-HOUSE, FEB. 18.

VESSELS ENTERED IN WARDS. —Pheenix, Lefort, from
Havre ; Attwood, Major, Rotterdam; Harlequin, Strannack,
Boulogne ; Maas, Blake, Rotterdam ; Ramona, Middle-
ton, Calais ; Flora, Manning, Harlingen ; Modeste
Eugene, Beauville, St. Mazaire ; Doux gzeurs, Lefranc,
St. Gilles; St. Joseph, Gauronne, Nantes; Gladiator,
Britten, New York ; Stag, Prideaux, Figueira ; Nepean,
Tamsett, Guernsey ; L' Amiral, Plevelle, Ostend; Bal-
thasar, Ruben, Copenhagen ; Ann, Fouzell, Jersey ; Pas.
call, Bellard, St. Valery ; Beehive, Fauvel, Jersey ; Jonge
Hendrick, Plukkes, Harlingen ; Albin', Woodman, Jer-
sey ; Victoria, Kendrick, Grand Canary; Mary, Wheel.
wright, St: Domingo ; Minerva, Wadsworth, Charleston ;
Navarino, Dale, Jersey ; Amwell, Hesse, Mauritius ;
Vesta, Orfeur, Odessa ; Lotus, Hammond, Odessa ;
Favourite, Brooks, Gibraltar; Conservative, M'Lachlan,
Port-au-Prince; Soho, Whitcombe, Antwerp ; Mary
Ann, Snooks, Jersey.
ENTERED OUTWARDS.--.Mina, Leisk, for Valparaiso ; Ro-
bert, Steriker, St. Kitts ; Letitia, Swartridge, Messina;
Fortuna, to alta.

CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—Columbine, Saint-
hill, Jamaica; Hoogbly, Boyley, South Australia; Rhoda,
Lane, Antigua.
CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST.—Lusitania, Gibbons,
Oporto ; Mary, Jackson, Antwerp ; Harmonic, Naatze,
Elsineur ; Melchior, Guedon, Dunkirk.

SHEERNESS, FEB. 16.—The Speranza, Hare, from
Constantinople to London, struck on the Cant Edge be-
low the Nore this morning, knocked off her rudder, and
has been towed up to Stangate Creek.
HASTINGS, JAN. 15 —A.boat, 16 feet long, marked on
the outside " Canopus, Jersey," and on the inside " Phillip
Bree," has been picked up and brought here.
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN, FEB. 14.—The Lord Stanley,
Davies, from Liverpool to Sierra Leone, has been brought
into this harbour with rudder and sternpost damaged.
HOLYHEAD, FEB. 16 —Throughout last night and this
morning it has blown hard from W. S. W. to W.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 16.—The Felix Destino, Perre iro,
from Terceira to this port, was totally wrecked near Sou h
port yesterday morning—crew drowned.

MARYPORT, FEB. 16.—The Hope, Middleton, from
Dublin, in coming into the harbour, ran against the New
South Jetty, stove in her bows, and sunk.

MISTLEY; FEB. 15.--The Brothers,, Gull, sailed from
Swansea the 10th November, for Malta, and has not since
been heard of.

ANTWERP; FEB. 16. —The Sans Repos, Gland: r,
which arrived in the Scheldt the 15th inst., from London,
has cut her cable and run for Ramekens. The Stag
( American barque), slipped her cable at Flushing, and
has proceeded for Terneusen. The Gustav Adolph,
Ahrends, from hence to Hull, got on shore in the Scheldt,
but came off apparently, without damage. The Twee
Gebroders, Westelling, from London, is reported to have
gone on shore on the Clout Bank, but expected off at
high water.

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VALENCIA, JAN. 28. —The Senegalais, Chauvet, from
Marseilles to Maranham, was stranded the 24th instant,
near Denis, and-is gone to pieces.
ZANTE, JAN. 26.—The Isabella, Volum, bound to
Cephalonia, in leaving this harbour the 20th inst., missed
stays, and went on the rocks, but was got off and pro-
ceeded. The Tantivy, which sailed for Plymouth the 24th
inst., put back to-day with pumps choked, and is dis-
charging.
SMYRNA, JAN. 29.—For the last two or three days we
have had stormy and thick weather from the southward.
ANTIGUA, JAN. I.—The Duke of York, from An-
tigua to Barbadoes, with troops, was wrecked at St.
Rouv, Guadeloupe, on the 26th ult—no lives lost.
GRAVESEND, FEB. 17.—Arrived the Highflyer, from St.
Michael's ; Hope, Rotterdam ; Amwcll, Manikins ; Vesta,
Odessa; Lotus, Odessa; Favourite, Cadiz ; Flora,
Harlingen ; Maria, Rotterdam ; Giraffe, Rotterdam ;
Modeste, Eugene, St. Nazarre ; Deux Sceurs, St. Gilles;
Beehive, Jersey ; Ann, Jersey ; Navarino, Jersey ; Con-
servative, Port-au-Prince; Mary, Gonaives Gladiator,
New York; Minerva, Charleston • Victoria, Canaries;
Vernon, Madeira; Breadalbane, Faro; Minx, Malaga;
Arethusa, Gottenburg ; Attwood, Rotterdam ; Felicity,
Bordeaux ; Pascal, St. Valery ; Edward, Cherbourg ;
Venus, Guernsey; Mary Anii, Jersey; Albion, Jersey.
Sailed the Crosby, for Hamburgh ; Ganges, South Aus-
tralia; Underwood, St. Kitt's ; Mary Lyon, Trieste ;
Tom and Jessie, Leghorn ; Thetis, Bombiy ; Lyons,
Jamaica ; Margareta, Gibraltar ; Prince Saxe Coburg,
Rotterdam ; Union, Ostend.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Marinella, from Ma-
tanzas to Malaga, 2nd inst., lat. 25., long. 27, by the
Bayonnais, arrived at Portsmouth ; Virginian, lat. 51.,
lung. 14., by the Britannia, arrive at Kingstown ; Ha-
dee, Clyde, to St. Vincent's, 22d ult., lat. 21., long.
41. ; Emma, from Madras, 12th inst., lat. 47., long. 11., by
the Ocean Queen, arrived at Cowes, Evergreen, Liverpool
to St. John's, New Brunswick, 14th inst., lat 51., long. 14.,
by the John Porter, Crouder, arrived at Liverpool ; the
Mary Appleby, from Liverpool to Bahia, 3d inst., lat. 39.,
long. 15., by the Ville d'Orleans, arrived at Havre; the
Dalmatia, bound Northward, Bth inst., long. 17. by the
Evelins Delamat e, arrived at Havre; the Maria Theresa,
Laguayra to Havre,•l2th ult., off the Bahamas, by the
Austerlitz, Hammond, arrived at Havre ; the Rhone,
Havre to New York, 6th inst., lat. 50. long. 8.

The Eliza, Colson, from Newcastle to Sunderland, has
put in here leaky.
The True Briton from Yarmouth to Sumdcrland, has
put in here with bows stove, and loss of bowsprit, anchor,
and cable.

The Swallow, of Shields (coal laden) was totally de-
stroyed by fire the 15th instant, off Purfleet.
The Royal William, Ager, sailed from London the 3d
ult., for Newcastle, and has not since been heard of.
Two or three British vessels are reported to be lost, and
several others of the same flag, to be in a perilous situation,
at the entrance of the Dardanelles, by the Stamboul
(steamer) arrived here from Constantinople.
The William, from Sydney, N. S. W., is wrecked on a
reef, near Hardys Island, Torres Straits ; crew saved by
the Trusty, Jameson, arrived at Lombock, Oct. 1. and to
sail on the 16th, for China. The Prince Royal sailed
from Newcastle, previous to the 7th ult., for Messina, and
has not since been heard of.