The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-14 00:00:00

HUNTING AI?POINTMEN TS. It
The Cheltenham staghounds meet on Friday, at a
course—at eleven.
Mr. G. L. Coharn's hounds on Friday, at Specot Gate—at
Mr. Archer's hounds on Thursday, at Morecombe Corn
at half -past ten.
The Somerset subscription hounds on Friday, at Fairfield—
at half-past ten.
The United Pack (Shropshire) on Thursday, at Hopesay—
at eight.
Mr. Tudway's hounds on Wednesday, at Chilcompton ;
Friday, at Hardington Pillars.
Mr. Wall's harriers on Thursday, at Erupton ; Saturday, at
Womaston—at half-past.ttn.
The M. H. on Friday, at Winfrith.
Earl of Harewood's hounds on Wednesday, at Wike ; Frid
at Sticklinghall—at half-past ten.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The impudence of the Times and other Tory paperse
in the case of Admiral Fleming's appointment is quit
insufferable. The Gallant Admiral ;etas a post cap
tain in :1--94, and from that period to the present da
he has served his country zealously and efficiently i
ever yquart er of the globe. No _man doubts that, if w
were to be involved in a war, a better man for the cent
mend of one of our fleets could not be found than Ad
miral Fleming. But it so happens that he has neve
commanded in a general engagement ! Was that hi
fault ? Does any man doubt that, if it had been hi
fortune to command in a general engagement, he wool
have done his duty? The test of having commanole,'
in a general engagement is not necessary to est:able e.l
the character of an officer in the navy. When an ota
cer has his ship in a perfect state of discipline, and is in
other respects a thorough seaman, who supposes that
he would not do his duty in a general engagement ? It
is a matter of good fortune to obtain the opportunity of
being in a general engagement ; but when the opportu-
nity is obtained, it never happens in our service that an
fficer, with a crew in an efficient state of discipline,
fails to fight his ship. The time will soon come,
when there will not be a single efficient officer
itt our navy who has commanded in a general
engagement. It is preposterous to make what is
a mere accident a ground of disqualification for
the rewards due to long and assiduous services.
The complaint against the Tories during the war
was, that they introduced into the navy, and placed in
situations of trust, men utterly unfit to serve their
country effectively. The complaint was not that the
navy was filled with men who could distinguish them-
selves by commanding in general engagements if they
had an opportunity, but that poor worthless creatures
were introduced into the service for the mere purpose
of obtaining a title to support at the public expense.
One would suppose, from the abuse heaped on Ad-
miral Fleming, that he is not a thorouh-bred seamen,
but a mere naval sinecurist—that he had no experience
of the hardships of service ; that he had not obtained
his rank fairly, and acquitted himself honourably in
the various responsible situations in which he has been
placed :
" Her Majesty's advisers," says the Times, " tell the
navy " there is no contract in existence which entities
officers to honour or emolument in proportion to their
warlike services. You entered the navy, it is true, in re.
fiance on some such pledge from the State ; but we, the
Whig Ministers, have repealed and superseded them.
Your professional services are no longer tim,,e which we,
the Queen's Ministers, recognise as titles to her Majesty's
favour. We take upon ourselves to violate the Que.:Ws
express engagement—your confidence in which was your
motive to enter her marine. We announce to you, that it
is nut henceforth by bravery or seamanship—by the 1. ad,
the needle, the quadrant, the cannon, or the cutlass—you
are to gain your epaulettes, your decorations, or your cum
mands ; it is not by your courage as ,ffieers, but by your
dexterity as partisans—not by your prowess amidst the din
of battle, but through 7 our screams and bellowings amide
the strife of faction—net at the cannon's mouth, but at the '
polling booth, that you are to win the spurs of knighthood
and the spoils of victory."
What is the meaning of this tirade ? When our navy
swept all its enemies 'from the ocean, and rendered ge-
neral engagements ioapossible, is this very efficiency to
be made the ground of reproach of this branch of the
service in all time lo come ? How many brave and
meritorious officers were deprived, by the early victories
of our navy, of all opportunities of meeting an enemy in
a general engagement ? What boots it that these brave
men execute with zeal and fidelity every command of
their Sovereign, acid make good their title to every fresh
promotion by the effici.tmey of their services in interior
commands ? There has been no opportunity for com-
manding in a genera/ engagement ; and a life of hardship,
of professional skill,eall that they have done to bring and
keep their crews in high discipline, is to go for nothing.
Lord Cochrane was :no sailor, for he had never command-
ed in a general engagement. What trifling! As if every
officer in the navy eid not know, from the efficiency of'
the crew of the Shannon, that whatever Captain Brook
should meet an A.mt.rican enemy he would be success-
ful. The action with the Chesapeake afforded no sur-
prise to our sailors,. who knew that whenever the oppor-
tunity occurred, it; would be turned to account. If
Admiral Fleming 'had merely been a ministerial p Irti-
zan, there might have been some justice in reproaching
the. Government with his appointment. But he is a
brave and gallant officer,. who merits every reward
that his country can. 'bestow. He has not, it is true,
commanded in a gereral engagement ; but there is not
an officer in the navy who will refuse to do him the
justice to believe, a tat had it been his fate to be in C'4111.•
wand in such an er igagement, he would have acquitted
himself honourably A life of hardship passed in the
service of the country is not to be deprived of its fair
reward on any such ground as that on which the Tory
Journals have chos en to attack Admiral Fleming.
(Front the Morning Herald.)
It cannot excise our surprise that the line of conduct
which Mr. Frederick Shaw, the Recorder of Dublin,
has pursued in Parliament with regard to the _lrish
Municipal question, should have excited hitter and in-
dignant feelings in tire_ corporation. He has been and
still is the great cleampion of that conapromisin, and
truckling policy wif,ch, if it ever take effect, will bring
Ireland nearer thaen ever to a " Belgic revolution."
Is Mr. Shaw so wren satisfied with the manner in which
the Roman Cath plies have redeemed the pledges and
fulfilled the pro mises which they gave previously to
the passing of t: he healing measure of 1829, that he
thinks they oug sit to he rewarded for their honest,
loyal, and. tranqufllizing use of the political eower which
that measure conferred upon them by further conces-
:ions of power? Does he think that Ribandiste and
all its frightful organization of crime and outrage, will
be abashed and. put down by the Protestant Municipal
Corporations of Ireland being converted, according to
O'Connell's d- wire, into " norm 11 schools of political
agitation ?" tan we forget that O'Connell himself, in
a moment of manual candour, admitted in Parliament
that Ireland, es. en under the " tranquillizing" Nor-
manby s adininise,ration, was volcanic—that is, that the
smouldering fire:4 of rebellion was everywhere beneath
the surface of a simulated quiet, ready to burst forth in
desolating eruie .ion whenever the leaders of the great
conspiracy they ght the time for action arrived ? Does
Mr. Shaw belie ye that Ireland will become less volcanic
when the crinsi nal hopes of the conspirators against the
Protestant Teti pion and British connection shall hat e
been embold et led by the surrender of the municipal
strongholds if Protestantism to the malignant and inve-
terate enemi es of the Anglo-Saxon race and Govern-
ment ? Thta friends of' Mr. Shaw, we observe, charge
ernptoirearntiao rne..l Now,own
those who h Ave .-eprobated the political conduct of the
Learned C:entlem'an with creating dissension in the
cislicythawt
hilcsielarnhisesl
Go
compromisingt policy
created 0131 dissens ion. Such members of the Con-
poratien tas Mr. t tx-Sheriff Jones, or Mr.
Sheriff Ma llet have nt it changed their opinions or dis-
avowed tb.eir former principles. It is the Recorder
who has eihanged his mon, gad though we do not ap-
prove of some of the strong expressions which were
applied to. him at Sheriff Falkner's dinner the other
day, we cannot hut make: great allowance for the ex-
cited feel togs of men who thought the corporatiorebe-
trayed by• those who were bound by every obligation
of princil sle, previous profession), and gratitude, to be its
firm, faithful, and unshaken defenders. Mr. Shaw
owes his. advancement in public life to the Protestant
corporation of Dublin. Never would he have. been
member fo r the Irish university if the corporation of
Dublin had not els vated him from the junior ranks of
the bar 'to the high judicial office of its Recorder.
Suppose :Mr. Law., the learned and able Recorder of
the London corporation, had lent himself to the late
Government attern pt to invade and usurp the ancient
privileges and franaehises of the great municipal body
that chose him to be its highest judicial officer, who
Would wooder at his conduct pro‘oking suspicions of
treachery. and elpress ions of indignation in civic assem-
blies ? But Mr. Law is incapable of taking such a
course. His conduct has been the very opposite of that.
He has : itood by the corporation in its peril, as became
one who had derived Is great trust and honourable dis-
tinction from its po were He, too, represents a Univer-
sity, bi et he did no so cischarge his Parliamentary func-
tions : to make the vote of the legislator subversive of
the inteessts of the corporation. The Government
were: defeated in, their base attack upon the ancient
risents and privileges of the London corporation. NVe
Lope the m aster of the Government—the tyrant dema-
gogue—will eventually be defeated in his efforts to de-
stroy the an, dent Protestant corporation of Dublin, and
erect in its place a Popish " normal school of political
agitation," a Ithough Mr. Shaw and some other Irish
" Conwrvari, ,es" ehould continue to promote his object
by their coml roinioing tactics.
(F tram eb e Morning Advertiser.)
What will 1; edl ane .;n the next Session ? This is the
question with 'i'hi eh pu bile opinion will soon become
occupied. \\Ant ' will be 'lone with the Ballot ? Whet
with the fern-tan ? Wi.th the Irish Corporations?
What %en Minitt :ors prop,Nse ? What will the Lords
do ? These aie questions which must speedily tote,
faemselves on •blic attention with resistless urgency.
It would, the refs ire, be well to prepare for their solu-
tion ; a clue to A 'IIICII must be sought neither in the
Legislature nor in the Cabinet, but in the extent of th
popular Oft art, with( ut which all these queries might be
answered in one a od the same expressive word—
" Nothin g." In the present state of the Legislature