The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-04 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Regimental Surgeons of the Line, those of tto
Royal Artillery, and Veterinary Surgeons, after
certain period of service, receive the following
rates of pay, viz :
SURGEONS OF THE LINE AND ROYAL ARTILLERY.
After seven years service - - -14 s. id. per diem.
After twenty years ditto - - -18 s. 10d. ditto.
VETERINARY SURGEONS.
After three years service
After ten ditto
After twenty ditto

10s. per diem-
12s. ditto.
Us. ditto.

WAR RANT for subjecting the Pay of the Soldier in Regiments
of the Line on their Passage to and from India, in Ships em-
ployed by the East India Company, to the same Rate of
Stoppage as is made from the Pay of Soldiers on their Pas-_
sage to and from other Stations abroad.
ZIEORGE R.
Whereas it has been represented unto us, that, by means
of certain exceptions to the General Regulations of our ser-
vice,' the Pay of Non-commissioned Officers, Corporals,
Trumpeters, Drummers, and Privates of our Regiments of
the Line, whilst victualled by the East India Company dur-
ing the Passage to and from- India in ships employed by the
said Company, is subjected to a stoppage of 3jd. per diem
only for provisions, notwithstanding that a stoppage of 6d.
per diem is made from the Pay of soldiers of the same rank
whilst on board transports; and whereas upon full conside-
ration we are satisfied that there 'is no sufficient reason for
continuing this distinction. Our will and pleasure therefore
is, that the deduction to be made from the Pay of Non-com
missioned Officers, Corporals, Trumpeters, Drummers, and
Private Alen of our Regiments of Dragoon Guards, Dra-
goons, and Infantry of the Line, when on their passage to
and from the East Indies in Ships employed by the East In-
dia Company, and not finding their own provisions, shall be
the same as on the passage to and from other stations abroad,
vi'. sixpence per diem. We are further pleased to direct that
the present Regulation shall take effect from 25th March, 1822,
as to troops embarking for India, and from the 25th of the month
in which the Regulations shall have been received at the several
statsons in India, as to troops embarking from that country.
And for so doing, this shall he to all persons whom it cloth or
may concern a sufficient warrant, authority, and direction.
Given at our Court, at Carlton-Palace, this 2d day of Fe-
bruary, 1822, in the Third Year of our Reign.
By his Majesty's Command,
PALMERSTON.

Major D'ALTEN'S Royal Veteran CompanY,
lately fortified from the Invalids at Fort Pitt
Chatham by Sir ARCHIBALD CHRISTIE, com-
manding that garrison, will march in a few days
for the Isle of Man, where it is to be perma-
nently stationed.

MERCANTILE SHIPPING, &c.

DEAL, MAY 3.—Wind N.E.—Came down from the River
this afternoon and sailed the Larkins, Wilkinson, for Madeira
and
.Bengal, &c. ; Hope, Flint, Isle of France, &c. ; New
Harmony, Humphreys, Dublin ; Mediator, Wilson, West-
ward ; and Lord Castlereagh, Paz, Bordeaux.
o'CLocx.—Wind N.E.—The Hope is lying too.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 3.—Wind E.—Arrived his Majesty's
ship Phaeton from a cruize.
FALMOUTH, MAY 2.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived the Leon
Hex Ancona Dutch ship Speculation,_ Prilirze, from Amster-
dam, to take on board the cargo of the ship De Yryheid, con—
demned here ; and Alert, Chapman, from Gallipoly, in 40
days, for orders.

PirriANcE,LAY 2.—The ship Ogle Castle, Grosley , from
Bombay, landed passengers here yesterday, and still remains
off here this morning.
JERSEY, MARCH 30.—Put back the Neptune, Che Yalier„
wind-bound, with loss of bowsprit, sails, bulwarks, and main-
mast damaged, and part of her cargo damaged.
The Bacchus, Bonifont, put into Scilly the 20th ult., with
damage in her sails during the gale on the 21st and 22d ult. :
she is from Liverpool to Prince .Bdward's

The communication between Dover and the ports of France
not only continues undiminished, but is even on the increase.
Wednesday sailed his Majesty's steam packet Dasher, with
seven carriages and about 60 passengers, for Calais; and Sove-
reign steam-vessel, and about 20 passengers, for Boulogne • at
the same time his Majesty's steam-packet, Arrow, arrived from
Calais, with passengers. Yesterday morning the Arrow steam-
packet sailed for Calais. Arrived the Dasher steam-packet
from Calais, with two carriages and 70 passengers, and Sove-
reign steam-veshl, with one carriage and 20 passengers.—
(gentish Gazette.)

ARGYLL ROOMS.—AIr. llAlvEs's Annual Con-
cert took. place in these rooms last night, and, as
usual, was attended by a very numerous audience,
the due tribute to his professional and personal
merits. We regret that the unavoidable pressure
of other matter obliges us to give a very brief
notice of the general excellence of this harmobic
treat.--The vocal department was filled by Mrs•.
SALMON, MISS STEPHENS, Miss. GOODALL, and
Signora CAMPORESE,VAUGHAN,TERRAIL, HAWES.,
BELLAMY, W. ILN YYETT, and Signor BEGREZ.
The Orchestra wasamply supplied with instrumen-
tal performers of the first rate, led by F. CRAMER,
and the music was well selected. There were some

new compositions by Mr. IfAwEs, highly credit-,
able to his taste and science. Ilis new glee, har-
monizing the admired air of " Nid Noddin," for
four voices, was so well supported by Miss STE-
PHENS, W. KNYVETT, VAUGHAN, and J. B. SAUD,
that even our venerable Lord CHANCELLOR, With
all his avowed indifference to music, would pro-
bably have listened with pleasure, and, possibly,
have been tempted to join in an encore. But we
can only add that the concert was so judiciously
varied as to induce the audience to- remain to -a
late hour, when it concluded with God save the
King, most impressively given, and universally
applauded.

LONDON SOCIETY FCR PROMOTING CHRITIANITY
AMONG THE JEWS.—Yesterday the Annual Meeting of this
Society was held in the Egyptian Hall, at the Mansion-house,
which was crowded to excess by a respectable company of
Ladies and Gentlemen; the Right Honourable the LORD
MAYOR in the Chair, supported by the President, Sir T.
Baring, Bart. M.P. Lord Calthorpe, Lord Gambier, Sir Thos.
Bell, Mr. Wilberforce, &c. &c. Shortly after opening the
buiiness of the day, the Female Jewish Children sang a hymn
in a most impressive manner. The Report was read, and di-
dered to be printed; and thanks were voted to the Patrons,
the Bishops of Gloucester'and St. David's, to the President,
the Ladies' Cdmmittee, the Treasurer, and Secretaries. The
thanks of the Meeting Were also voted with acclamation to ihe
Lord Mayor. A liberal subscription was made at the doors.
ROYAL BRITISH INSTITUTION FOR THE EDUCATION
OF THE POOR.—Yesterday, at 2 o'clock, the Annual Meet-
ing of the Friends and Supporters of this excellent Institution
was held at the School-house, in North-street, City-road. Mr.
Alderman WOOD took the Chair, in the absence of the Duke
of Sussex, from indisposition.—,Mr. Wrz.xEs, the Secretary,
read the Report, froM which it appeared that since the year
1813, the Society had received' under its care 4433 boys, and
the number had been increased to 4808 ; of these 2501 were
taught td read and write ; and 2307 had been completed in the
rules of arithmetic. Within the last three years, 580 girls had
been admitted into the ichooLs; and taught needle-work, and.
the rudiments of education ; and 217 now remained in the
school. A handsome collection was made at the doors. The
male part of the company afterwards atijourned to the Londoa
Tavern, where a sumptuous dinner was provided,
Esq. M.P. in the Chair.
Mr.. CALCLLAFT and Mr. J. H. CALCRAFT were
prevented voting with Lord NORMANBY by
alarming illness in their family.—Sir JOHN -kir-
IMEY, Bart. was prevented voting with Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, 011 Reform, from illness.
Tavistock, House, the residence of the late
Mr. PERRY, was sold by Mr. GEORGE ROBINS,
on Tuesday last, for 4,200 guineas.
On Saturday last a child named Crookhorn, three or four
years of age, the son of a labourer at LittleCasterton„ near,
Stamford, was suffocated from swallowing a common horse-
bean, which unfortunately passed into the wind-pipe, and occa-
sioned almost instant death.

THE LONDON JOURNAL.;.

IICIRACTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,

May 4, 1822.

[MORNING POST.]
... It is with infinite satisfaction we refer our
Readers to two Advertisements (see our, first
yui,ge) relative to the measures -already humanely
adopted in this metropolis to supply the neces-
sary relief, to our famishing fellow-creatures in
Ireland. Never certainly was active benevolence
more urgently called for than in the present ex-
treme and heart-rending case, and truly rejoiced
are we to find that the call of suffering humanity
- has been thus promptly and extensively attended
to ; and under such auspices, besides, that means.
so laudably applied cannot fail proving adequate
to the desired virtuous end. It will be seen,
that a Society has already been established in
London " for the relief and employment of
the Irish Poor," under the management of the
Marquis Conyngliam, as IlonoraryDirector, and
nineteen other Noblemen and Gentlemen of the
highest character and consequdnce ; that Subscrip-
t-ions-are received at several eminent Banking
lloUses; and that that justly esteemed and truly
philanthropic Gentleman, Mr. Michell, of Queen-
square, acts as Secretary-to this most noble Asso-
ciation. It is delightful to fiud that in aid of
the same humane and God-like purpose, a gene-
ral meeting has been called by a number of
the most respectable Merchants and Bankers
in the City, to be held at the City of Lon-
don Tavern on Tuesday next, which will
TuDt fail to consummate the heavenly end.
We look with perfect- confidence in this try-
ing emergency to • the characteristic - bene-
volence of our countrymen, whose laudable inter-
ference will be rewarded by the prayers and bles-
sings of thousands,who, though the most wretched
in condition, are confessedly the most grateful
and susceptible of kindness of any people on the
face of GOD'S earth.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

The Agricultural Question did not come on
last night as was expected. Agricultural dis-
tress, however, forms the alpha and omega of
every night's proceedings ; and the first public
business of the evening was the presentation of a
Petition from the Eastern part of the County
of Sussex, by Mr. Curtois, who is reported
to have declared, that 46 as Ministers had 'de-
serted the interest of the Agriculturists5 the
Agriculturists had no alternative but to desert
Ministers." Is. not this a very curious-declara-
tion ? Desert Ministers ! Aye, but where will
they better themselves ? Who will go farther in
the way of exposing the country to ruin for- their
sake ? Bet we suppose this is a hint that they
mean to set up for themselves. Sir Thomas
Lethbridge, who seems from his Resolutions to
be very profound in matters of finance, and who
enjoys so eminently the confidence of the party,
-will probably be at the head of this rustic Admi-
nistration. Under such an Administration, Eng-
land cannot fail in a short time to be eminently
happy and prosperous ; and the beatific vision
-for the year 1900, which the worthy Abbe
Galiani enjoyed in 1771, will be converted into
sober reality in this, as it is on the point of being
in some other countries :--" The arts," says
the Abbe, 46 and the navy will be very much
neglected. There will be, very little commerce,
and it will be almost all by land, and between
neighbour and neighbour; •for every nation
having carried its agriculture• and its arts to
perfection, will suffice for itself;- and the laws
favourable to exportation, and contrary to im-
portation, will destroy all commerce ; for when
every one wishes to give, and na one wishes to re.
ceive, the consequence is, that no one can either
give or receive any thing." We trust the rustic
Administration will realize the suggestion of Bishop
Berkeley, arid surround the island with a high wall,
that the whole population may once more, as in
the good old times of Queen Boadicea, derive
their food, drink and raiment, exclusively from
the soil of Britain, and the animals which it
feeds. Under this system, that activity of mind
in the people which fills more than High Church-
men and Papists with alarm, will soon settle
down into gross and brutal stupidity. 0, the
blessings reserved for a Rustic Administration !

[BRITISH PRESS.]
A Message from the Crown was communicated
last night to the House of Commons, in which his
Majesty was graciously'pleased to acquaint the
House that he will give directions that the salary
of one of the Postmasters-General shall forthwith
'be discontinued. The present officers are, the
Marquis of Salisbury and the Earl of Chichester.
But his Majesty postpones the actual abolition
of the office until he shall have the opportunity
of considering what permanent arrangement may
be advisable* for conducting the business of that
department.—lf we could rightly catch the feel-
ings of the House of Commons upon this subject,
we should say that the House in voting the Ad-
dress to the Crown did not contemplate the neces-
sity or expediency of altering the existing arrange-
ment for conducting the affairs of the Post-office be-
yond the mere removal of one of the Postmasters-
G-erieral, and that the business should proceed ac-
cording to the present system, subject to the
controul of only one Master, instead of two. It
will be recollected that when the House of Com-
mons resolveil to strike off two of the Junior
Lords of the Admiralty, the Ministers augured
that the measure, instead of proving economical,
would, in effect, increase the public expenditure.
We cannot doubt the power of the Ministers to
verify their own prophecies in this particular, but
we cannot believe that, in a spirit of displeasure
at•.the success of the country party,. they would
ever stoop to the exercise of such a power.

urnE TIMES.]
The king's answer to the Address of the orn-
mons, desiring the reduction of one of the Post-
masters-General, will be found in to-day's jour-
nal. We regret to see that Ministers have made
his-Majesty appropriate in a slight degree, and
-very remotely, one of their own propositions—
namely, that the two Postmasters had something

to do, or that the services of one of them could ,
not: be conveniently dispensed with: whereas it
is notorious that one Postmaster lived ,for years
abroad. The Post-office was a mere sinecure.—
And in truth the other has little more business
with the office than to receive his salary. Sup-
posing public distress to go on, and farther re-
trenchments to become necessary, resisted as
thsse retrenchments will be by Ministers, we
should not be surprised at finding them attempt
to put into the mouth of his Majesty some such
veritable resolution as that respecting the value
of a one-pound note (spoken of elsewhere), and
which was tendered to, and accepted by, a now
extinct House of Commons. Happily, however,
his Majesty has not sixty pensioners in his bosom,
and therefore would probably reject the adop-
tion of such a proposal.
" His Majesty only postpones the abolition of , the office of
one of the Postmasters-General, until he shall have had the op-
portunity of considering
_what permanent arrangement may be
Advisable for the conduct of the business of that department."—
(King's reply. )

There certainly may be a new arrangement made
to take the public money ; but as for _a new ar-
rangement " for conducting the business of the
department," what new arrangement can be
wanting to despatch that business which Lord
Clancarty transacted, whilst at the Hague, at
Urussels, and at Vienna, and the other Post,
master can despatch without ever seeing Lom-
bard-street ?

[MORNING HERALD.]
The Chancellor of the Exchequer's new scheme
for converting the life annuities, consisting of the
dead charge of the half-pay and pensions, which
would probably cease in 20 or 25 years, into an-
nuities for the term of 45 years, to be paid by
contractors, has exciied-much interest. But why
not pay these annuities so -as to get rid of them,
by the course of nature, within the probable cal-
culation of 25 years ? , This would be as it
should be. Mr. Vansittart, however,, for some
reason, instead of paying the ring-tail of the late
war out of our pockets.at once, in the
.manner in
which it has been fairly_ parcelled out to the pre-
sent generation, wants to thrust it forward 'upon
posterity. Just as the previous generations have
left in perpetuity upon those who. corpe after
them, an interest on what is called the Funded
Debt, paying annually 30 millions, instead of
paying, as they ought, the expenses of their
.own -wars from year to year, and when the wars
ended having nothing to think of but " pew and
plenty." There is, further, the principal sad-
dled upon 'posterity of little short of eight hun-
dred millions;, and all this is because the people
in.those days wanted patriotism and honesty, to
pay the expences of their own wars. Why did
not the monied interest come forward, and say
that they would subscribe and wipe off the
debt, incurred by the war to which they had
given their support ?

[NEW TIMEs.j
We cannot by any means congratulate the
country on the result of Thursday'S debate.
Many Members, we have no doubt, acted on a
conscientious conviction that in reducing the
office of one of the Postcnasters General they
were going no further than was required by the
public necessities ; but as our impression-is ex-
tremely different, we shall state it, with the re-
spect due to those honourable persons, but still
'with firmness and independence. It was not
shown, nor do we believe it to be the fact,
that the office of Joint Postmaster General
was in the least of the nature of a sinecure ; its
abolition was not proved to be necessary, either
on administrative, financial, or political grounds.
Does any body entertain the preposterous and
inconsistent idea that high offices in the State, tit
only to be held by distinguished personages,
must necessarily be of such a nature as to occupy
the whole of their time and attention, chaining
them to the desk, like a galley slave to his bench,
and forbidding all attention to their slither public
functions, to their domestic concerns, or to the
space which they have to fill in the general ar-
rangements of society.?. It is true, you may hire
performers to sustain all the characters of the
community at a_ far cheaper rate than they are
now filled, from the King to the Scavenger.
But this is not the spirit of a Monarchy.
This is a Republic of the most base and
beggarly description ; and we much fear that
many late 'measures have had a direct ten-
dency to drive us toward such a state.--,
Let the landed and the monied aristocracy
open their eyes to this truth. There is no
more reason in the nature of things, nor in the
views and feelings of the mass of uninformed
people, that men should enjoy large fortunes for
doing. nothing, than for working ha'rd in the
public service. Society cannot
,stand a moment
if the merit of the possessor is to be in all cases
the title to the possession. •