The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-03 00:00:00

THE EARL OF DURHAM.

(From the Devonport Independent of Saturday.)
On Tuesday evening, a grand farewell dinner was given
on board the Inconstant, by his Lordship to the officers, it
b:ing fully expected that he would be able to land in the
course of Wednesday. The violence of the storm, how-
ever, never abated, but continued the same throughout
that night and the whole of Thursday, the Noble Earl and
his family being thus kept. on shipboard for so many days
though in port, and actually in sight of the windows of the
suite of apartments prepared for their reception. During
the whole time the vessel was watched with much interest
by spectators from the shore, and indeed all the Sound
presented an unusual spectacle, from the great number of
merchant vessels who had run in for the shelter of the
breakwater, and the utility of this vast national work was
never more strong!), exhibited than during the whole of
this tremendous storm, the far greater number of them
riding it out in safety, though unfortunately some accidents,
attended with loss of lire, did occur.
On Friday morning the storm had ceased, and at'a quar-
ter after eleven the Noble Earl and hid family landed at
Government stairs. The party was composed of his Lord-
ship, the Countess, Lord Lambton, and the Ladies Lamb-
ton. They left the IncOnstant in the ship's cutter, and
were received on landing by Major-General Ellice, and
Captain White of the Royal Adelaide. ,A crowd of per-
sons had assembled on Mount Wise, and the Slope ; and
in his progress from the water's edge lie was repeatedly
cheered, which he courteously acknowledged. He was
dressed in a plain blue frock coat buttoned close, and ap-
peared in good health, though something of an air of fa-
tigue, we thought, appeared in his countenance. The-party
proceeded immediately into Government House.
Despatches arrived from London to Devonport on
Tuesday evening last, which it was necessary should be
immediately forwarded to Lord Durham. The pie king
then at its height, no waterman could be found to under-
take the passage, but a man named Weekes was applied
to, and he undertook to deliver them. He effected it by
crossing the harbour, and walking to Cawsand, from whence
bing to windward of the Inconstant, he was enabled to run
down toher before the wind, and the despatches were safely
pot on board at half-past eight in the evening. Had his Lord-
ship landed on Wednesday, he would have been saluted as
Governor-General, but the despatches that arrived from
London on Thursday, announced the acceptance of his re-
signation of the high office he held. He landed on Friday,
therefore, without this offic;al honour.

(From a Second Edition of the Devonport Tekrraph.)
TELEGRAPH-OFFICE, SATURDAY, FOUR, P.M.
PRESENTATION OF THE ADDRESS TO THE
EARL OF DURHAM.
The doors of the Town-hall were opened to the public
at half-past one this day. The interior had been tastefully
decorated with silk flags and banners, and presented a very
animated and interesting appearance, a large number of
ladies, members of the Corporation and their friends, and
distinguished strangers, who had visited the torn for the
purpose of attending the presentation, having been previ-
ously admitted by tickets. In a very short period the ca-
pacious hall was crowded in every part.
Among those on, or immediately round, the benches, we
observed—
The Countess of Durham, Lady Mary and Lady Emily
Lambton, Lally Elizabeth Bulled, Mrs. Edicts, Lady Bul-
ler, Miss Buller, Mrs. Rundle, Sir A. Buller, Sir W.
Molesworth, Bart., M.P., J. Rundle, Esq , M. P., T.
Duncombe, Esq.. M.P., G. Wakefield. Esq., J. C. Ellis,
Esq., Magistrates of the Borough, &c. &c.
A few minutes before two Lord Durham arrived in a
carriage at the western entrance of the Hall. He was met
at the door by the Mayor and Thomas Woolcombe, Esq.,
who conducted his Lordship to the Committee Room at
the end of the Hall, where the following gentlemen, who
composed the deputation, were presented :
Messrs. G. F. Somerville, W. Clark, NV. Greenwood,
D. Paramore, J. Oram, J. W. W. Ryder, J. T. Towson,
J. Burrowes, V. Narracott, J. Maniconn, E. Gould, H. L.
Richards, R. 0. Backwell, R. B. Oram, Bruce, J.
Adams, Wright, F. P. Wingate.
His Lordship, accompanied by the deputation and a
large body of gentlemen, then ascended the platform in the
Hall, where he was received by the most enthusiastic ac-
clamations.,
The Worshipful the Mayor then rose, amid loud accla-
mations, to present the Address ; and as soon as silence
was restored proceeded to say, My Lord—Before I pre.
sent to your Lordship the Address, which it is my plea-
surable duty on this occasion to do, I would beg to inform
your Lordship that the Address was adopted at a very
numerous and respectable meeting of the inhabitants of
the borough of Devonport and Stonehouse, which was
publicly convened for that purpose, and while we were in
the hourly expectation of your Lordship's arrival at this
port. I ought to add, that the Address was adopted with-
out a dissentient voice. With your Lordship's permission,
I will proceed to read the Address.
My Lord,—We beg leave to approach your Lordship, to
tender the expression of our high respect, and to welcome
your Lardship's return to your native land.
We contemplate that return with mingled feelings of
regret and satisfaction. We regret the termination of a
mission from which we, in common with the country at
large, anticipated the most beneficial results ; but we re-
joice that your Lordship's sphere of usefulness is transferred
to your immediate home.
We feel that, under the circumstances which have ren-
dered your Lordship's return to this country a matter of
painful but paramount. necessity, it would be unbecoming
and uncalleu for, were we to enter in detail on the conside-
ration of your Lordship's administration. It is enough for
us to say, we have regarded, with sincere respeet and ap
probation, your Lord-hip's endeavours to temper justice
with mercy ; and, while repressing rebellion, to plant the
seeds of true liberty in a country disorganised by a long
and disastrous series of events.
Whilst, however, we abstain from entering on subjects
which will in due season be discussed elsewhere, and which
it would be indelicate to thrust on your Lordship's notice
before you are more fully acquainted with all that has oc-
curred in your absence, our personal feelings towards
your Lordship, and our regard for justice, will not permit
us to conceal our impression, that party spirit has fac•
tiously and prematurely blighted in the bud the fair fruits
which the people of England had reason to anticipate from
a full development of your Lordship's power.
We desire to state, also, our full and earnest conviction
that your countrymen will feel that the greatest allowance
ought to have been made for your Lordship's difficult and
embarrassing position, and that (recognising, in the open
and manly expositions of your policy, the liberal and en-
lightened Statesman) they will unite with us in deeply
lamenting those events which have deprived your Lord-
ship of the power and opportunity of giving full effect to
your intentions.
We believe, my Lord, that the people will do more.
Looking to your Lordship for that firm and uncompromis-
ing support of Reform in the institutions of our country,
which its social condition imperiously demands, they will
hail with delight your Lordship's return among them ; con-
fidently relying that the cause with which your whole public
career is identified, will derive fresh life and vigour, from
your honest, able, and energetic exertions, in its behalf.
That your Lordship may be long spared to justify these
views, and to complete your title to your country's grati-
tude, is our earnest prayer.
(Signed) CORNELIUS TRIPE, Chairman.
After reading the Address,
Mr. TRIPE said, before I resume my seat, my Lord, I
must beg to express, on behalf of the meeting and myself,
our best thanks for the kindness and condescension shown
by your Lordship in meeting us to-day at this hall, in ac-
cordance with the wishes of the public.
The Earl of Dueilam then read the following answer :
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen—
I beg you to accept my warmest thanks for the expres-
sions of good will and esteem with which you have greeted
my return to England.
You will never have reason to repent the confidence that
you have placed in me, or the declaration which you have
this day made of your approbation of my government in
British North America. So far as it seemed to me impe-
ratively necessary, in order to allay the most alarming irri-
tation and excitement in the Canadas, and to lead men's
minds from the contemplation of present evils to the pros-
pect of future remedies, I have already explained the na-
ture and scope of the policy which I pursued as Governor-
General. Upon that subject I shall, when Parliament
meets, be prepared to make a representation of facts wholly
unknown here, and disclosures of which the Parliament
and people of this country have no conception, and I
shall then fearlessly demand from the assembled Legis-
lature that justice which neither they nor the people of
England ever will deny to a public servant, who has
faithfully and honestly discharged the duties assigned
to him. What relates to myself, however, is of no im-
portance, when compared with the interests of your
fellow-subjects--the inhabitants of British North America.
To the furtherance of those interests I have publicly and
solemnly declared that I would deveta myself with single-
ness of purpose, and independently of all party considera-
tions in this country. lam glad of au opportunity. at the

v,t y ilanneot of landing in England to ri peat teat. pLaige.
The necessity fir this course is well uoderst nod by the
people of British America, and before long will be also
comprehended by the p.-ogle of England, involving as it
do, s the very existence of British supremacy all over the
rld, and the efficient mainte•,ance or weak abandonment
of that policy which is expre,sed in the words " ships ,
co onies, and commerce." Referring to the coeelu-
sion of sour address, and to the principles which have
governed my political cointict at home, I eau, with truth,
assure you that they arc unchanged and unchangeable. Th-y
were formed on the maturest deliberation, and have
been strengthened by observation, as each succeeding event
demonstrated to my mind their soundness and policy. My
attention, therefore, to the cause of that reform of our in-
stitutions.to which you allude cannot he doubted. It has
been tested by the share I took in the preparation of that
Reform Bill, to which this important town owes its poli-
tical privileges, and it has been confirmed, I should ima-
gine, beyond all question, by my declarations to the people
of Scotland in 1834. I need not make any new professions
—I have nothing to add to, nothing to retract from, those
declarations, which, in my conscience, I believe to be the
expression of principles alike conducive to the honour and
dignity of the Throne—the security of Property—the
prosperity of Industry—the promotion of wise and liberal
Institutions, and the general happiness of the People.
His Lordship having concluded, retired amid the warmest
plaudits of the meeting.
The meeting then loudly called for
Sir Wm. MoLEswotyrn, and the Hon. Baronet stepping
in front of the platform, proposed three cheers for the Earl
of Durham. The call was responded to, and the cheers
heartily delivered ; but as the meeting appeared desirous of
hearing the Hon. Baronet, he said—Ladies and gentlemen,
I beg to return you my best thanks for the manner in which
you have received me to-day ; and to expre,s my grati-
fication al seeing so large and respectable a meeting as-
sembled to meet the Earl of Durham on his return from
our North American Colonies. On the tit cumstances
which had led to his Lordship's return, I shall not, for the
present, offer any opinion ; and all I intend at present to
say is, that from the information I hive received from the
Canadas, my opinion is, that all that is necessary for the
public to entirely approve of his Lordship's conduct there, is
that he should have an opportunity of laying the whole of
the circumstances connected ssith his Canadian mission be-
fore the public ; and when his Lordship's plans are laid
before Parliament, I feel assured that it wi;l be seen that
they were best fitted to secure that poition of her Majesty's
dominions. I will not trespass on your patience farther
than to state that it is, in my opinion, the duty of every
sincere Rtformer to unite in assisting Lord Durham to
carry out his views, which will, I believe, tend more to the
peace and prosperity of the Canadas than anything else.
The Hon. Baronet then retired, the meeting compliment-
ing him as the) had previously the Earl of Durham.
Cheers were given for the Queen, after which,
_ _

Mr. WooLco:%ißE said, G entlemen, I must call on you for
one cheer more, and if you do not give it, I will never again
recognize you as my fellow-townsmen. You must recollect
that the eyes of this country are Lot only upon you, but that
your fellow-men in America are anxiously waiting to see if
the people of England respond to the Addresses delivered
by the Earl of Durham before I a left that country ; and
the proceedings ofithis day, wafted across the Atlantic, will
carry gladness to their hearts. But more than your cheers
are wanting, for it has been basely and calumniously as-
serted, in connection with the Noble Earl's return to this
country, that he was wanting in moral courage. The Noble
Earl has already shown his sympathy for the people of
Canada ; and the time will soon arrive when his Lordship
will make a statement n high shall cover his calumniators
with confusion. I call then on you to j9in me in throe
elvers for the speedy s3ttlement of the present diastrous
state of affairs in Canada, and (here let your cheers be
hearty) for the brave Earl of Durham. Mr. W.'s appeal
was followed by a burst of feeling throughout the whole
meeting.

The-Mayor having left the Chair, Captain Foote was
called to the same, and a vote of thanks and three cheers
were given to the Mayor for his conduct in the chair.
Mr. TRIPE said, L :dies and Gentlemen, I feel obliged
to you for your thanks and the cheers with which you Lave
honoured me, and I beg to assure you that, in acting as I
have done, I feel that I have only done my duty, and that
I shall always be inclined to act in like manner, as long as
I continue in the situation which I have now the honour
to fill.

Cheers were then given for the Countess of Durham,
and Sir W. Molesworth, and the meeting :,yoke up.

LLOYD'S SIIIPPENG.-(THIS DAY•

DEAL, DEC. 2. —Wind S. W.--Arrived the Enterprise,
Prior, from Africa. Comedown from the river the Elephants,
Eccles, for the Cape of Gaod Hope ; Tobago, Smith, fir St.
Helena; Jane, Lockhart, Calford, Monumea; Matchless, Kin._;,
for C-pe Coast Castle ; Gsl Blas, Herbert, for the ri.er
Gambia ; Camerons, Mackie, for Grenada ; Harriet, Free-
man, for Demerara ; Brighttnan, for Jamaica ; Elizabeth,
Widsonter, for Grenada ; Tulloch Castle, Briggs, for Ja-
maica. Put back by adverse winds, the Lord Wellington,
Tate, for Sierra Leone. DEC. 2.—Wind W. S. W., squally.
—Arrived and proceeded for the river the Bussorah Marchant,
for the Levant ; Sarah, Lees, from Glasgow ; Haynes, Glory,
from Singapore; Morning Star, from Ceylon; Susanna, Young,
from Calcutta; Latona, from Quebec; Tracty, Trappe, from
Barbadoes ; Vulcan, Gilbtrt, from Newfoundland. Came down
from the river the Welliagton, Chadwick, for New York; Leo-
nora, Dalby, from Pernambuco; Coquette, Head, Bermuda.
CREEK, DEC. 2. Arrived the Lady Redesdale, from Ma-
zangan ; Heiress, Randall, from Mogadore ; Salome, War-
well, and Rosanna, De Gruchy, from Messina; Caesar,
Bunn, from Patras.

LIVERFooL, DEC. 2.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Highal, from
Canton ; Petrel, Turner, from Bombay ; Fame, Whitely, and
Emerald, Simmonds, from Monte Video ; Consul, James,
from Jamaica ; Ann and Jane, Cocks, from Berbice ; Andrew,
Thompson, from New York ; Mathew, Bell, from Fascde
Craig; Magnet, from Parma; Zeno, and Andrew, Leash,
from Quebec; Warr, Taggart, from Dalhousie; Carlton,
Murray, and Majestic, from Miramichi ; British, Jackson,
from Prince Edward's Island ; Messina, Balleize, from Co-
lumbia ; Baker, and Medwin, from Newfoundland ; Lewenia,
and Hope, Guthrie, from Alexandria; Bess, Martin, from
Denia ; Calista, from Honduras ; Lapwing, Osborne, from
Vassa ; Columbine, from Halifax; Hercules, Pontin, from
Shedrac; Sisters, from Newfoundland; Cowan, Kerr, from
Alexandria ; Romulus, Grayson, from Gibraltar ; Celerity,
Johns, from Seville ; Superior, Sherris, from Lisbon ; P. D.
Fegas, from St. Übe's The Vespasia, Cutronie, bound to
Naples, put back leaky.
FALMOUTH, DEC. I.—Wind S. S. W. to S. W., fresh breezes,
thick and dirty. —Arrived the Angerona, from Genraid, with loss
of bulwarks, sails, &c.; Arbre-a- Pain, Kier, from Hamburgh,
for Maranham, with loss of sails, bulwarks, &c.; London,
Kent, from London for Jamaica; James *Queen, M'Coll,
from do. for St. Kitt's ; Joven Mashilde, Ereguma, from do.
fur Canaries, with damage; Saucy Jack, from do., for Corfu,
with loss of bulwarks, sails, &c. ; Occidenter, Grasse,
from Stockholm for Rio Janeiro; and Batavia, with loss of
main-yard, sails, bulwarks, &c. The George the Fourth,
Leggatt, from:Charente to Liverpool, and the Danube, Mar-
shall, from Quebec to Sunderland, which put into this port
the 28th and 30th ult., are discharging. Sailed the Marga-
rttta, Cooper, for Rotterdam; Sirius (steamer), Mowle,
for Cork ; Castilian Maid, Scott, for Liverpool ; and about
50 sail for the Eastward. Arrived the Spinster, Maxton, from
Port-au-Prince; Danube, Marshall, from Quebec.
BRISTOL, DEC 2.—A bark (name unknown) from Quebec
to London, was driven into the channel yesterday through
stress of weather.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. I.—Wind W. S. W., hazy, with rain
and fresh breezes. 2. —Wind S. W. to W., squally, and
blows hard.—Her Majesty's ship Athol has come into harbour
from Spithead. The Lady Paget, Alder, from Liverpool to
Batavia, hove up 600 miles west of the Land's End, with loss
of sails, bulwarks, stanchions, and larboard quarter-boat.
Sailed the Mameluke, Taylor, for Poole ; Apollo, Melme,
for London ; Justina, Young, for ditto ; Excel, Peel, for
ditto ; Philadelphia, Morgan, for ditto ; Rose, Williams, for
ditto; Johanna, Chri3toff, for Altona.
SPITHEAD.—The Everthorpe, May, has been towed into
harbour from the Motherbank. The cargo of the Hamburgh
schooner Palermo packet, on shore at Hayley Sand, has been
landed, and it is expected she will be got off as soon as the
weather moderates.

RAMSGATE, DEC. 2.—Arrived the Emilie, Figucl, from
Pernambuco ; Jovial, Sampson, from Port-Au- Prince ;
Minerva, Soderstenn, from New Bedford,' leaky, and must
discharge—bound to Hamburg.
MARGATE.—Arrived off, the Matilda, Rosse, from Balti-
more; Duzles, Barker, from Miramichi ; and Sarah and
Jane, from Leghorn.
RAMSGATE, DEC. 2.—Arrived the Alexander Green, from
Rotterdam, for New York, with sails damaged ; Thornby,
Varril, Cardiff for Hull, leaky, and with loss of bulwarks.
GLOUCESTER, DEC. 2.—Arrived the Restitution, Moore,
from Quebec; Rainbow, Evans, from Bathurst.
PLvmount, Dec. 2.—lt blew a heavy gale from S. S. W.—
Arrived the Emulation, flicks, from Newfoundland, Clarisse,
from Nantes.

The Colburne, from London to Quebec, is wrecked at the
entrance of Bay Chaleur.
The David, Ilancock, from Labrador to Leghorn, was
stranded at Ira on the 2d ult.
The Julie, of Bruges, laden with bark, was totally wrecked
near Douglas, on 28th ult —crew drowned.
The Mary, Elliott, from Cork to Newhaven, is on shore
near Holyhead.
The John Taylor, Selby, from Liverpool to Africa, put into
Studwell Roads, leaky.
The Thistle, lying off the Salters, timber-laden, was totally
dismasted.
The Starr, Farren, from Denia to Liverpool, is on shore
near Holyhead ; cargo discharging.
The Ablin, Ball, from Malaga to Liverpool, is totally lost
at Whitehaven ; mate and two men drowned.
The Thomas Tucker, from Nassau to Liverpool, is totally
wrecked near Hull ; crew drowned.
The Adventure, from Seville to Liverpool, is totally dis-
masted, and put into Holyhead.
The Star, Ross, from Cuba to Swansea, is wrtelied near
Milford ; crew savod.