The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-24 00:00:00

SAILINGS.

AUG. 20th, 11 A.Nl.—Xarifa schooner, Earl of Wilton,
for Mediterranean ; Galatea schooner, C. H. M. Talbot,
Esq., for Spain. Light breeze S. S.E.
YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Schooners (B)—Norna, Janette, Wanderer, Miranda,
Ariel, Dolphin, Harriet, Mischief.
eer(3B)—Pnantom, Nautilus, Ann, Vampire,
Alarm, Lord of the Isles, Elizabeth, Hobe, Emerald, Earl
St. Vincent, Petrel, Mary, Breeze, Reindeer, Harriet,
Phcebe, Albatross, Spider, Sapphire, Arrow, Will-o'the-
Wisp, Cynthia. Amulet, Therese, Heron, Amazon, Zebra,
Ganymedc, Giaour, Julia, Ruby, Matilda, Midge, Witch,
Edith, Aurora, Columbine, Kestrel yawl.
Lord Yarborough sails in his yacht, the Kestrel. for
Gibraltar, to-morrow morning; and Lord Durham, in the
Wanderer, for the Channel Islands.

LIFE AND TINIES OF HENRY GRATTAN, By
Ms SON.—These volumes should be in the hands of every
politician, who will not fail to find in them much that is
most singularly applicable to the present period. The
earlier portions of the work, embracing the period of Mr.
Grattan's residence in the Temple, and his first steps in
the world of politics, possess considerable interest, and his
letters to his friends, Mr. Day and Mr. Broome, and to
his relation Mr. Marlay, are themselves a valuable acquisi-
tion to biographical literature, and will be duly appre.
ciated by all possessors of taste, feeling, and enthusiasm.
To the politician, however, the volumes more especially
afford inexhaustible sources for the profoundest reflection.
The secret correspondence of the various Viceroys with
their employers in the Cabinet, now first published, ex-
poses an indifference and heartlessness to Irish interests,
a deliberate and organised system of oppression and de-
gradation of the Irish people, which we venture to say is
not to be approached in the policy of any nation in the
world towards the most conquered and detested enemy.
Indeed the letters from Lord Buckingham to Lord North,
dated September, October, and November, 1780, arc pro-
bably the most extraordinary specimen of unconstitutional
procedure, of reckless waste of public money, and of shame-
less and abandoned conduct in all parties concerned, that
were ever before exhibited to the world.

NEW VOYAGE ROUND TIIE WORLD.—Those
interested in geographical and nautical discoveries will be
glad to find that the Narrative of the Voyages of her Ma-
k sty's ships Adventure and Beagle, by Captains King and
Fitzroy, from 1826 to 1836, may now be had separate
from Mr. Darwin's volume of Geology and Natural His-
tory, thus bringing the price of this invaluable work more
within the means of those enterprising seafarers and others
more especially
interested in such subjects. The volumes
detail the various incidents and discoveries during the exa-
mination of the Southern Shores of South America, in-
cluding the Straits of Magellan, Terra del Fuego, and
Chiloe, by the Adventure, and the completion of them by
the Beagle, with her circumnavigation of the globe, for the
purpose of carrying round a chain of meridian distances,
all of which objects were most satisfactorily accomplished.
Among other important surveys were those of the intricate
shores of
Terra del Fuego, all of which are now as minutely laid
Magellan, and the various islands intersecting
down in Charts as any well-known coast or channel in
Europe. Of the aborigines of Patagonia, and Terra
Fuego, also, sufficient has been discovered by these voyages
to enable us to form the most accurate idea of their habits,
manners, character, superstitions, and capabilities. In
short, the volumes offer an inexhaustible fund of informa-
tion and entertainment, and are as interesting to the
general reader as they are useful to the mariner and man
of science.
THE CHARTISTS (IRELAND).—Chartism
finds but small favour amongst the Irish. The Pilot com-
mences an attack upon the Chartists, who, a few days ago,
went over to Dublin in the following terms :—" The
Chartists who were reacted hero by their vile leaders to
debauch and betray this country, have, It appears, found it
I necessary to earn the wages of prostitution, by seeming
toytill
continue the attempt to entrap the people, when they
must know—and if they do not, every one else who linowS
anything of the political intelligence of the Irish nation
must—that they are throwing away their time, and wasting
their employers' mployers' money."