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

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Times of this morning, in a leading article on the
Navy, and on der: most effectual means of manning it, says,
" the tar has powers which belong to him alone. He is a
monopolist, and commands his price. The British mer-
chant and the foreign merchant sometimes pay that price;
the British Government attempts to secure the article at a
lower price, and fails—fails miserably. The real solution
of the pretended enigma—why cannot the British man of
war obtain hands enough tp navigate and fight her, as she
used to do?—is, that the British sailor has not the same
inducements as formerly, to prefer the Royal service to
other sea-faring occupations." Our Contemporary then
proceeds to comment in a favourable spirit on a naval
pamphlet lately published by Captain Berkeley.
Tire Morning Chronicle, in a brief digest of Lord
Brougham's Anti-Corn-law speech last night, observes,
that " his Lordship exposed very happily the inconsistency
of the advocates of the Corn-law, who, on its first intro-
duction at the close of the war, were quite indignant on
being told that they wanted to raise the price of corn—
they only wanted to make the price more steady." In a
second leading article on the Corn-laws, the Morning
Chronicle justly and pertinently asks, " Among the most
unreasonable of the pretences now in requisition against
the hearing, by the Legislature, of evidence on the Corn-
law grievance, is that of its being likely to prove an inter-
ruption to the course of public business. What business
has either House of Parliament that can compete with this
in importance ? The entire population of the country is
interested on the one side or the other. The price of the
people's food is surely a paramount subject of inquiry !
The safety of starvation is no very valuable security. The
size of the loaf touches us nearer than Normal Schools or
Irish Corporations." These few sententious observations
are neatly and forcibly put.
The Morning Advertiser, alluding briefly to the Marquis
of Normanby's departure from Ireland, remarks, " the ap-
pointment of a successor to this Nobleman, ought to be
a matter of great care with the Government. One more
justly popular, they cannot well find; but to appoint one
who would not do the same justice to the country, would be
an act of political suicide."
The principal leading article in the Morning Herald of
this day, refers to Lord Brougham's speech on the Corn-
laws, which was delivered last night in the house of Peers.
Our Contemporary pronounces his Lordship's speech to be
"a dull, prosy, inconclusive harangue," but, as he gives
rather a rapid summary of it, than boldly grapples with its
arguments, it is clear that they are far too strong fur his
weak digestion. In another article the Herald essays the
facetious on the subject of the Marquis of Normanby's de-
parture from Ireland, and remarking incidentally on Lord
Glenelg's resignation of office, says:—" By this manoeuvre
his Lordship's honourable colleagues have killed two birds
with one stone; they have provided a place in the Coun-
cils of the State, for O'Cennell's Irish Viceroy ; and they
have half appeased Lord Durham, by turning out the Mi-
nister through whom they administered a reprimand to
the ex- High Commissioner, for his silly and seditious pro-
clamation."

The Morning Post, contrary to its wont, is quite sta-
tistic on the question of the Corn-laws, and adopts as its
foundation argument the hardy assumption that the pre-
sent movement against this impost is " wholly artificial,
altogether unconnected with any genuine conviction, or
honest impulse of the public mind—anti. national, not in
a political sense merely, but-in a moral sense also, and
tending, it success were possible, directly to the ruin of
the country." Of a verity, cheap bread has the directest
possible tendency to ruin a country

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-THIS DAY

DEAL, FEB.B.—Wind W. moderate.—Came down from
the river and remain with the outward bound, the Ganges,
'Donald, for South Australia; 141olson, Paste'', Tobago ;
Tom and Jessie, Henderson, Leghorn; Underwood, Mof.
fatt, St. Kitt's ; Mary Lion, Davidson, Trieste ; Margaretta,
Preston, Gibraltar ; Joseph Fenton, —, Malta ; Lion,
Brown, Jamaica. Arrived, the Hero, Saab, China.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 18—Wind N N. E., fine.—Arrived
the Britannia, Wilson, from Hartlepool. Sailed, the Geor-
giana, Scott, for Berbice; Globe, Simmons, Charleston ;
African, 'free, Cape Coast Castle; Macassar, Strubon,
Batavia ; Chase, Austin, Bordeaux; Marlborough, Bridge,
Jamaica ; Dale Park, Snell, Madeira and Jamaica ; St.
George, —, St. Kitt's ; Perfect, Edwards, Gloucester;
Regent, Blaikie, Waterford; Felicity, —, London.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 17.—Arrived the City of London-
derry, (steamer,) Donnan, Gibraltar; Tagus, (steamer,)
London ; Hercules (steamer), Cork ; Limerick (steamer),
Dubli n.

FALMOUTH, FEB. 17.—Wind W. S.W. to N. W., fresh
breezes with bail and sleet.—Arrived the City of London-
donderry, (steamer), Donnan, from Gibraltar, sailed 7th
inst., Cadiz Bth, Lisbon 11th, Vigo 13th, with mails ;
Pomona, Penny, London. Sailed the Alert, (packet,)
Lieutenant Mornington, for Havannah and Mexico, with
mails ; R-indom, (packet,) Lieutenant Jones, West Indies,
with mails ; Jeune France, Martinique ; City of London.
Berry, (steamer,) Dorman, London; Sarah Ann, Dumik,
Cardiff and Constantinople.

LIVEkPOOL, FEB. 18.1—Wind N. E. moderate.—Arrived
the Margaret, (steamer,) from Cork. Sailed about sixty
vessels of the outward bound fleet.

COWES, FEB. 18. —Wind N.N. E.—Sailed the Jacob
Catg, Derks, for Batavia; Falcon, M'Beal, Liverpool;
Lucia Wigeter, J. J. Jorige, Liverpool ; Leda, New
York ; Malaga, Raymond, New Orleans ; African, Ceder,
Genoa.

RAMSGATE, FEB. 18.—Arrived the Minerva, Jones,
from London.

SournamproN, FEB. 17.—Arrived the Jeune Austen
Litz, Adderles, from Bordeaux; Sarah, Lelan, Cork.

LYMNGTON, FEB. 18.—Sailed the Elizabeth, ITLean,
for Mogadore.
TORBAY, FEB. 18.—Arrived the Venus, Coke, from
Teneriffe.

GLOUCESTER, FEB. 18.—Arrived the Jeune Charles,
Makin, from Marseilles.
SUNDERLAND, FEB. 16.—Arrived the Amanda, from
Fecamp ; Leopoldini, Havre ; Ebenezer, Miller, Calais.
Sailed the Gem, Marshal, for Lisbon.
HULL, FRB. 18.—Wind N. E.—Arrived the James,
Kronholm, from Lisbon ; Jonge Caroline, Smidt,
Antwerp.
MILFORD, FEB. 16.—Arrived the Hannah Booth, Best,
from Liverpool; Castlereagh, Dublin.
Coax, .FEB. 16.—Sailed the Theodosia Thompson,
James, for Ciguaforte; Jones, Newfoundland.
WATERFORD, FEB. 15.—Arrived the St. Patrick, Har.
rup, from St. John's.
HULL, FEB. 17.—The Sarah, of Grimsby, which was
stranded on the 7th inst. has been got off and brought into
the harbour.

BERWICK, FEB. 16.—The Union, of Pittenweem, and
Good Design, of Bo'ness, stranded on Holy Island, are
gone to pieces. The Kellie, of Dundee, which was
stranded at Newton, has been got off. The Tay, from
Newcastle to Aberdeen, has put in hero with damage and
leaky.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 18.—The Eugenia. Yalta, ran on
West Point Beach last night, but proceeded this day for
Dantzic, without apparent damage.

CORONER FOR MIDDLESEX.