The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-15 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTII,JAN.I4.—Lieutenant Di:lien, ( 18 15)
formerly of the Lion revenue-cru.ser, and Astiatant-
Surgeon Stevens, are appointed to the Reindeer,
fitting at this port for the packet service.
His Majesty's steam-vessel Meteor, Lieut. Sim-
mons, sailed for Falmouth on Thursday afternoon,
for the purpose of taking out a mail to Lisbon on
Friday, arid returned again on Saturday, two pack-
ets haying arrived.
The Royalist brig, Lieut. Nash, tender to the St.
Vincent, returned from a cruise on Tuesday morn-
ing. The Royalist saw his Majesty's ship Pearl,
20, Commander Blake, on Friday last, and the
Leveret brig, Lieut. Worth, on Wednesday, cruising
to the Westward.

The Royalist brig, tender to the St. Vincent,
Lieut. Nash, sailed again on Wednesday afternoon,
to cruise, we hear, for the relief of the homeward
bound trade.
In Hamoaze—St. Vincent, Kent, Druid, Ariadne,
Vigilant, Starling, Reindeer packet, and Meteor,
steam-vessel.

His Majesty's ship Sapphire arrived at Guayaquil
from Lima 28th July. The Victor, from Cam-
peachy arrived at Jamaica 13th Oct.; Firefly, from
Bermuda, 15th ; Kangaroo, from Curs:pa and Ma-
racaibo, 19th; Pickle, from Nassau, N.P., 10th
Nov.; and Shannon, from Bermuda, 14th ditto. TI e
Ranger sailed from Jamaica for St. Jago de Cuba,
12th Nov. The Adventure sailed from Bombay for
Chiloe, 11th August.
The Bustler, Leader, of this port, arrived at
Bristol from Denia, 7th inst. The John Craig,
Younger, from this port, arrived at the Cape of
Good Hope Oct. 9, and sailed for Ceylon 26th ditto.
The William and Mary, Mills, of and from this port,
arrived at Lisbon 22d Dec. The Experiment,
Yabsley, arrived at Seville from Malaga, Nov. 25.
The Kerswell, Armstrong, of this port, was in Table
Bay, Cape of Good Hope, Nov. 11. The Sophia,
Cuthbertson, from this port, arrived at St. Michaels,
Dec. 18; Eliza, Edwards, and Cygnet, Russell,
19th ditto. The Henry, Wescott,:of this port, arrived
at Bristol, from St. Michael's, Jan. 10.
His Majesty's revenue cutter Nimble, Lieut. R.
White, seized last week off Exmouth, (in conjunc-
tion with the Exmouth party, under Mr. Stocker,)
smuggling boat with four men, and 51 tubs of
spirits; which were conveyed to Lyme Custom
House. The same night the Nimble fell in with the
vessel which is supposed to have brought the goods
over; she proved to be the New Eagle, of Wey-
mouth, which is detained and sent into Exmouth.

The Erasmus, of London, a smuggling cutter of
about 50 tons, was taken a few days since, within
six miles of Poor-head, with 300 half bales of to-
bacco by the Speedy, tender to his Majesty's ship
Semiramis (flag ship at Cove). The crew, four in
in number, were all taken. It does not appear that
she had landed any part of her cargo.

Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE had two brothers
and two sisters; his elder brother, the Rev. Minima,
LAWRENCE, was Chaplain of Haslar Hospital, and has
been dead some years. His brother WILLIAM was a
Major in the Army, and has also been dead some years.
His elder sister, Luct; married in March, 1800, to Mr.
MEREDITH, solicitor, of Birmingham. She died in
February, 1813, leaving one daughter, married to Mr.
JoHx ASTON, of St. Paul's-square, in Birmingham. His
youngest sister, ANNE, married the Rev. Dr. BLOXADt, of
RUGBY, who have six sons and three daughters living.
BALL AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR.—
Last night the: Ball in aid of the funds of the Licensed
Victuallers' Asylum, in the Kent-road, took place at the
Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand. Dancing com-
menced about eight o'clock with a quadrille, led off by
Miss MANDY and Mr. Wass, who acted as Master of the
Ceremonies on the occasion. At one period in the course
of the evening there could not have been fewer than from
140 to 150 couples present, the greater portion of whom
tripped it on the " light fantastic toe," to the music of a
well selected band. We could mention a number of young
friends who danced in a superlative style, but where all
was excellent it would be unfair to name the parties.
Owing to the judicious management of the stewards,
much comfort was derived ; the suppl► of refreshments
was also at once plentiful and of easy access. Dancing
was kept up with, we had almost said, undiminished glee
till a late hour this morning, when the company sepa-
rated, greatly delighted with the amusements of the
evening, from which the consciousness of having contri-
buted to the funds •f one of the noblest institutions of
which our country can bout, in no way detracted. The
ball was on a scale of great splendour ; but we doubt
not that the Asylum will reap a considerable hatvest.
Morning Advertiser.

There was shot at Eccles, in Dumfries-shire,
on the 31st ult. a woodcock of the extraordinary weight
of 14 oz. 6 drs.—Edinburgh Advertiser.

Persons who pay attention to every thing have
remarked that all those years which end with nine bars
been distingniehed by excessive cold, from 1709 to 1929.

SPIRIT OF 'AM PUBLIC JOURNALS.

In calling attealon for a single moment to
the action of "Watts v. Lawson," decided in
the Court of King's Bench yesterday, we beg to
premise that we have no desire to appeal from
the tribunal which tried it to any other,—that
we make no motion for a re-hearing at the bar
of the public, whatever we may do elsewhere,
—and that we should reckon it an indication of
bad taste to obtrude our own private concerns
on the world, in a case where, like the present, it

would be a libel on the public judgment to sup-
pose that our conduct required any extrajudicial
defence. We refused to insert the long excul-
patory statement of the plaintiff, because we be-
lieved the correctness of the report which it pre-
tended to contradict, and because it was more
abusive of the Magistrate than of our reporter.
We resolved to justify, and would have called
witnesses of Our own to prove every tittle of our ;
accounts had not our able Counsel been satisfied
that the evidence of the plaintiff's witnesses was
auffielent for our jurisdiction ; and we only beg
thz.. reader to confront the disposition of Mr.
Emerson with the contents of the alleged libel,
to be convinced that the learned gentleman was
right, and see by what technicalities of law a
verdict conformable to substantial facts may be
refused. But our object at present is not
to dwell on these points, nor, indeed, to
touch on any thing that can be understood
by a perusal of the trial. We are desirous
only of explaining a fact which the Learned
Judge seemed to misapprehend, and which, as
it was stated by him, must have produced a
wrong impression on the Jury. When the
plaintiff, with two friends, called at the office of
the Times with the long letter which was read
at the trial, we mentioned, that so far as it pre-
tended to correct the report of what took place
at the police-office, we would insert it with
pleasure ; but that its remarks upon the magis-
trate who presided, and its defence of the parties
implicated, had nothing to do with the correct-
ness of the report, and could not therefore be
admitted. We added that we could not be re-
frosible for the truth or falsehood of evidence
given in a court of justice or before a police
magistrate,—that we did not try causes, but only
reported trials ; and that if parties in litigation
were allowed to give what new evidence they
chose, or different versions of the evidence al-
ready sworn, our paper would be filled with con-
flicting statements quite extraneous to the pro-
ceedings which we undertake faithfully to de-
scribe. The plaintiff was, therefore, requested to
strike out of his letter those passages which did
not impugn the report, on an engagement that,
so modified, it would meet with a ready inser-
tion. Choosing, however, to insist upon the in-
sertion of the whole production, he was told that
with such surplusage it could only appear as
an advertisement. We were most willing on all
occasions to repair our own wrong, if ever we
had committed any by an erroneous report, but
we could not aflbrd space for a defence against
the wrongs of others. The observation of the
Learned Judge, therefore, about the possible
mode of acquiring wealth among newspapers by
first inserting libels, and then demanding money
for their correction, sprung out of a misrepre-
sentation by the plaintiff's witnesses, or a mis-
representation of their testimony. If such be
the practice of any print, it is not ours. The
world, in all cases, sees what is paid for in this
journal. Every paragraph for which money is-
received, is known to be paid for, either by the
ordinary part of the paper in which it appears,
or by the word " advertisement" prefixed, which
subjects us to the stamp duty. Pledging our-
selves for the truth of this statement, %le con-
fidently ask was there ever an instance observed
in which an advertisement (that is, a paragraph,
which had been paid for) has appeared in our
columns to correct a mistake made by ourselves?
If we were to explain every law report, according
to the subsequent representations of the parties
concerned, one column of report would require
ten of explanation.— Times.
Every now and then we are treated with a
lecture on the evils of education and the diffusion
of knowledge by some of the Solomons of the
Magistracy. At the Surrey Sessions on Tues-
day last, Sir Thomas Turton said, " he could
not agree with his Honourable Friend Mr.
Briscoe, in thinking that the increase of crime
was to be wholly attributed to the distress of the
people. Population had greatly increased, wealth
bad increased, and perhaps, in some degree, the
increase of crime was to be attributed to what
was called the march of intellect.—( A laugh.)
Many persons were educated for a station which
they had no opportunity of filling, and they
shrunk from entering upon those pursuits which
alone they had the means of entering upon." Sir
P. Lau rie,on the same day, at the Mansion-house,
had a fling at education. All this is exceedingly
silly—we are almost tempted to say insane. We
wonder the worthy Magistrate did not throw out
the suggestion that as education ,like gin-drinking,
is so very prejudicial to the morals of the people, it
should be equally placed under the controul of Li-
censing Justices. The education of the people,
be it a good or an evil, is a consequence of in-
creasing civilization that can no more be averted
than any of its other consequences. The in-
vention of Printing produced the Reformation—
the Reformation placed the Scriptures in the
hands of the people, and made reading and
writing general. If reading and writing be ge-
neral, they confer no particular distinction, any
more than shoes or hats in a country where all
wear shoes and hats. To be without the know-
ledge of reading would indeed be a painful dis-
tinction, where nearly all can read and write. To
hear Sir Thomas Turton, one would suppose
that no individuals could be found ready to fill
the humble stations in society. The contrary of
this is unfortunately the fact. The complaint is,
that work is not be obtained, that labour is
inadequately rewarded— and this complaint
is more general among those who are
at the bottom of the scale, than among those
who execute skilled labour. The labourer is
worse off than the mechanic ; and of the mecha-
nics, the trades which are soonest acquired ex-
hibit the greatest distress, as the weavers for
instance, where men, labouring for sixteen hours
a day, earn at the end of a week three shillings or
three shillings and sixpence. At all times the
partiality of parents leads them to presume too
favourably of the capacity of their children, and
the anticipations are often not realised. Those
who have been educated to what is called a gen-
teel profession, are of course unfitted for common
labour. .But these miscalculations have always
taken place, and will always take place, and have
nothing to do with the question of general edu-
cation. We are ready, however, to admit that
education, though it must always refine a people
more or less, is not calculated in a country
like this to open to them a knowledge of un-
mixed good. It is impossible for a man of any
discernment to have access to the ordinary
sources of knowledge, without perceiving that,

as far as this world is concerned, at all events,
from the highest to the lowest, mankind are
somewhat like the monkeys in Exeter 'Change
at meal-time, described.by a witty contemporary
—each busied in invading his neighbour. Some
of the very Magistrates, for instance, to whom
Sir Thomas Turton read his lecture on the con-
nection between immorality and education, have
been charged by their brethren with participating
in rank jobs, with granting or withholding
licenses as it suited brewers, distillers, &c. In
the immediate neighbourhood of the very place
where the Magistrates were assembled, money has
been wrung from the poor, to erect churches
which were not required, for the sake of incomes
for the sons of Magistrates who could not other-
wise be disposed of. These lessons he that runs
may read ; and can it be wondered at that in a
country like this, where the people are daily and
hourly familiarized with accounts of successful
fraud and hypocrisy, of glaring and gross corrup-
tion, the lessons should occasionally make an
impression on them ? This evil, however, will
in time work its own cure. A certain portion
of credulity is necessary to the success of knaves.
When a knowledge of the arts of deception be-
comes general, it will be of little use to practise
them. By a sort of common understanding men
will say, like the Jew, " I see it's no use sheat-
ing you, so I vi// be honest." The misfortune
of the present day is, that many men think that
they can obtain credit for high morality by pre-
tences which are easily seen through. Hence
the excessive cant and hypocrisy which prevail
among us.—Morning Chronicle.

The landed interests, to use a vulgar but
well-understood expression, are rapidly " going
to the wall." Abatements of rent—which are
only the compositions with their landlords of an
insolvent tenantry—prevail all over the kingdom ;
pauperism spreads among the working classes
its demoralising influence, and threatens to
reduce the great mass of the population to
the lowest condition of misery and debase-
ment. The " leading Journal," in alluding
to this state of things some time ago, ex-
pressed a wish to see the instances of abate-
ment of rent more numerous ; that wish is likely
to be realized to satiety. Our contemporary is
anxious to see the rents reduced to the state in
which they were before the war. We have no
objection to this, provided the principle be car-
ried into general operation. Let the debt be
reduced to what it was before the war—let the
taxes be reduced to what they were before the
war—and there will be something like equity in
the proceeding. There is another point which
we would press upon the notice of our contem-
porary when insisting upon patriotic abatement
of the rents. Let the Ministers' salaries and
those of all the great public functionaries be re-
duced in propottion to the change which Mr.
Peel's Currency Bill made in the value of money,
and the equity of the principle of reduction
will be still more apparent. The taxes and
salaries of Government are nominally about
the same as they were in the war-time, but
in reality much greater, because the contrac-
tion of the currency has enhanced the value
of money, and that in a ratio equivalent
to the adding some thousands a year to the
salary of every member of his Majesty's Govern-
ment. The apostate Whigs would like to share
in these sort of things, and therefore they do not
cry out for an abatement of the Ministers' sa-
laries—nor for the reduction of the taxes,
although, when there was no prospect of power
within their view, they were loud, and even in-
temperate, in support of the principle of re-
trenchment and economy. But the landed pro-
prietors of England will have to thank them-
selves for their own ruin if they allow the
Ministry to go on as they have been for a long
time doing without determined constitutional
resistance and energetic remonstrance. They must
rally round what yet remains of their property,
and demand a change of measures with uncom-
promising firmness, or most surely the wish of
the Times will be accomplished by the destruc-
tion of their hereditary establishments.—Morning
Herald.

Some of our contemporaries appear to exhi-
bit a most praiseworthy anxiety respecting the
future destiny of the Duke of Wellington and
his colleagues. No day is permitted to pass
without the publication of some rumour respect-
ing the ministerial movements ; and of course
the credit of these rumours is firmly established
by the fact that they are given upon the respect-
able authority of the messengers and idle
loiterers about the Government offices. In spite,
however, of this most respectable authority, we
are inclined to think that the reports of resigna-
tion will be materially lowered in public esti-
mation, when it is considered that the news-
mongers have been actively employed in
this sort of work ever since July last.—
A tale when often told becomes stale, and
a rumour oft repeated carries with it at
last an appearance of absurdity. We ima-
gine that our very amiable contemporaries
give publicity rather to what they wish to
happen, than to what they know to be a fact.—
That they earnestly desire to witness the dissolu-
tion of the present Administration, we readily
believe ; but we are quite sure that there is no
foundation, and that our contemporaries are
well aware that there is no foundation, for the
rumours which they daily circulate for the
amusement of their readers. The only altera-
tion contemplated in the arrangement of the
Cabinet is the temporary retirement of Mr.
Vesey Fitzgerald ; and we believe that even
that alteration is not altogether certain. It
would be quite as well, we think, if our contem-
poraries were to examine into the accuracy of
the several reports which reach them, before they
consented to give them publicity.—Morn. Post.
We have much pleasure in contradicting the
rumours busily circulated within the last few
days, and evidently with the intention of mis-
leading the public mind in relation to the health
of the highest personage in the realm. We are
authorised to state that the King has rarely for
many yearsbeen in better health or spirits than lie
is at the present moment. Notwithstanding the
inclemency of the weather, his Majesty is able to
encounter the keen air of the terrace of Windsor
Castle, and employs himself within doors in pass-
ing from apartment to apartment, inspecting,
and superintending the improvements in pro-
gress, visiting his library, and enjoying the so-
ciety of his private friends. The Earl of Aber-
deen had an audience of his Majesty on Tues-
day, in reference to certain propositions which it
is said the Noble Earl was desired to submit to
the King by his Grace the Duke of Wellington.
The peculiar circumstances under which this in-
terview took place have excited some specula-
tion. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cum.
ber land paid a visit yesterday to his Majesty at
Windsor Castle. His Royal Highness was ho-
noured with an interview of more than three hours'
duration, and, after partaking of refreshments with

his Sovereign, returned to Kew in the evening.
Mr. Herries, we understa►►d, has for some

time been named as the successor at the Board
of Dade of Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald—whose re-
tirement from office we noticed so long ago. The
Duke of Wellington, it is said, in order to pro-
pitiate certain parties, has induced Mr. Peel and
Mr. Goulburn to retire. Mr. Dawson, it is
likewise stated, will be removed. It is the un-
expected removal of this gentleman, we are in-
formed, which has led to those severe and per-
sonal attacks upon the King which have ap-
peared in the Times newspaper within the last
few days.—Morning Journal.