The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-08 00:00:00

THE BRITISH NAVY.

In
Portsmouth Dock-yard places are erecting for the
purpose of building and completing, in every department,
steam-vessels for his Majesty's service. There, are ahu
several fine ships on the stocks, particularly the Neptune,
which will be the largest vessel that was ever built, Mr.
Blake, the Assistant Master Builder, to whom the country
is indebted far many important improvements in ship-
building, is now completing the Vindictive with a square
bow, which will render her capable of carrying twelve
instead of four guns on her bow, consequently more for-
midable when chasing an enemy. When an old Gallant
Admiral saw it he exclaimed " Aye, this is as it should
be; I don't care whether my ship has a round or a square
stern, or whether she has ten or twenty guns on it ; give
me guns at the bow, that 1 may pepper the foe as he flies'
from me." Mr. Blake has also invented a mode of drop-
ping the heaviest anchor instantaneously, which must be
most desirable when ships come suddenly into cl►se Mien.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

In our Paper of yesterday we gave it as our

own opinion, and as that of persons the best .
foimed on those points, that the Emperor of Russia
would revoke the order, if !inch order had been given,
for ►he recall of his Ambassador, and the departure
or the Russian subjects from Paris, as soon as he
was made acquainted with the actual state of affairs
end the establishment of a constitutional monarchy
in France. We today are enabled to speak more
distinctly on this subject. True it is that the
Emperor of Russia on his first alarm and indefinite:
information respecting the French revolution, did,

the bigotted part of the population on the restora-
tion ,of, the:Bourbon&:, The priests then instigated
to the slaughter of Protestants at Nismes, as they
now do to the destruction of printing-presses in
Paris—in both cases a war of barbarism against
knowledge and civilization. However, such mani-
festations. of the hostile spirit of a feeble and hulas
tooted party as occur at Nismes cause little uneasi-
ness to the Government, which can safely rely on
the general indignation of the country and the acti-
vity of the local unthoritics for their suppressitn. At
Meta and some other places, where troops are sta-
tioned, some regiments have mutinied against officers
known to be devoted to the expelled dynasty. At
first sight it excites surprise that any officers of this
description should be allowed to retain commands in
which their influence might be dangerous; but it
seems the Government considers it impossible to
supersede them without violating the regulations of
the military service. Perhaps, too, the convic-
tion that the present spirit of the soldiers
removed any immediate apprehension of risk
from the disaffection of their commanders
may have had considerable weight in pro-
ducing this forbearance. Similar moderation is ob-
served towards the refractory priests, who are en-
deavouring to organize a Carlist party in France.
iViluny of these pious preachers of discord refuse
to allow the Domine Eamon free regent to be snug in
their churches. Of this the Government takes no
notice, and to do otherwise would he unjust, as
there is now no national religion in France. But
the people are not so indifferent, and sometimes get
the proscribed part of the service chanted in spite of
the priest. The Monileur of Sunday states that
the list of appointments to Embassies which has
appeared iu the paperS is not correct. A passage
which we have extracted from the Constitutionnel
gives strong indications of an approaching insnrrec-
rection in Spain. The National says that the re-
ports in the Brussels papers, of the. Prince of
Orange's entrance into that city, give a very' incor-
rect idea of his reception, anti appends some notes
to the account, published by the Courrier des Pays
lies, which we inserted in our paper of Monday
last. The National asserts, that the emotion the
Prince is said to have evinced was that of fear !

" At the sight of the barricades he turned pale as
death!" It must be allowed, however, that the
circumstances were such as to agitate the strongest
nerves, and that the Prince never seems to have
lost his presence of mind. If he was afraid, his
fear was not of that abject kind which disqualifies
from action. As to the cries of " Viva le Prince!"
the commentator says, There were indeed some
such cries, but they were drowned by hisses, and
very offensive language was addressed to the Prince,
relative to the robbery of the Princess's jewels."—
Times.

As great doubts have lately been excited with
respect to the intentions of Russia, we may state
that we have reason to believe that one of its lead-
ing Statesmen has expressed himself hostile to Russia
interfering against France. We have been informed,

on what we consider good authority, that Count
Nesse!rode, the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs,