The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-04 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Jr;:,-0 looking over your Paper of May 31, I found a
paragraph which stated that a trial had been made before some
of the Loids of the Admiralty, &c., of a new mode of propel-
ling steam ships by what the patentee calls the " Patent Pro-
peller," and that is by an Archimedes screw. Now Ido not
want to make myself notorious by requesting you to oblige me
by inserting this in your Paper, further than it might lead me
to a correspondence with the said patentee, whom I could in-
form that I tried the said principle of screws some 19 or 20
years ago, upon a diminutive scale, in a pond or ditch, and
have yet some left in a corner, the relics of thorn. I never
doubted the practicability of those screws, particularly for
canals. But some may say, why then did you not come for-
ward and have them tried before the present patentee ? To
which I would reply, poverty, in the first place, for I am as
poor as Job, and have the same number of children, viz., seven
sons and three daughters, that he had ; and secondly, want of
spirit and perseverance (perhaps) even if some would have
engaged ; but thirdly, I find in general, unless there be a
prospect almost ensured of making a profit, not one in a
hundrt d would embark in speculations of that sort. _

I believe this is the first time that I have troubled an Editer
with any remarks of this kind, but I had some communications
with respect to the Gas Engine at the time it came out, which
also I had tried before Brown's ; and many years ago I sent a
sketch of a plan to a friend in Ireland, and proposed to ire
quicksilver between the cylinders: and as regards the puff
which went the round of the Papers a few months ago re-
specting a new kind of steam engine, said to be an America❑
invention, and now making by a Mr. Rutliven, of Edinburgh,
viz., a sort of centrifugal by high pressure, and of which I
positively made at least half a score models—some of which
made 1,000 revolutions in a minute—in 1817 or 1818; and
yet from the causes above stated, and others, I have never had
an opportunity of making anything of them to advantage ; nor
should I have written this, but for your pertinent remarks which
accompanied the above, and which I will venture to say (with-
out a particle of flattery, which I hate) are always in unison
with my own, did so tickle my fancy as to set pen to paper, as
I certainly should like to know who the patentees arc ; fur, as
you observe, steam is yet untramelled by taxation.
I remain yours, most respectfully,
Bradford, June 2. WILLIAM CLAYTON.

CORONATION FESTIVITIES IN

THE COUNTRY.

Meetings have been herd in various provincial towns during the past
week, for the purpose of considering the best means of celebrating this
event; and we are gratified to find that, in nearly every instance, the
absurd practice of expending money in illuminations is condemned and
discarded. At the Cambridge meeting it was stated that the cost of an
illumination would purchase a good dinner fiz all the poor people in the
town. It was accordingly resolved that there should be no illumination
—that on the day of the Coronation there should be a public dinner at
the town-halt; on the following day a ball ; and on the following Mon-
day, the poor should be entertained " in the way the Committee should
think most conducive to their happiness and comfort."
At Manchester the event will be celebrated by a procession, a ball and
fireworks at Ardwick.green and Salford. At Weymouth the day is to be
marked by a brilliant procession, and a public dinner at the Guildhall;
the latter building and the statue of George I only w ill be Elumi-
nated. At Southampton there is to be a regatta, which is expected to be
highly attractive, and a display of fireworks. At Exeter there will :ae
a public banquet, and subscriptions ate raising to feast the poor. The
Exeter Temperance Society has issued a loyal address, propcsing a
dinner, or tea, on the " total abstinence principles." At Wm cester, it
is calculated that 8,000 persons, nearly a third of the population of the
town, will be regaled in the space before the Guildhall, under the market
house, and in the Green-market. The spirited little town of Bewdley
has raise.l 1001. for the purpose of regaling the poor. Little Daventry
also, collected in one day upwards of 1301. for a similar purpose. At
Taunton there is to be a public procession, and a dinner to the poor, but
no illumination. At Frome there will be a public dinner, and a sub-
scription is raising to distribute provisions to the poor at their own houses.
At Chard, besides other festivities, the yeomanry cavalry are to assemb'e,
and march thence to Itminster, firing salutes in each town. It has been
suggested that a feast should be provided fur the inmates of the union work
houses. One important fact we gather from the statements in our country
contemporaries with reference to the approaching celebration. Thanks
to that most beneficent measure the Municipal Reform Bill—which,
according to Lord John Russell and his friends, was to banish local
feuds altogether—party spirit is so strong between the Corporators and
the anti-Corporators, that in a great many towns the two opposing par-
ties cannot coalesce for a day, even to do honours to their Queen ; and,
therefore, each will distinguish the event in its own way. The exist-
ence of the feeling thus indicated, as a consequence o f the English
Municipal Reform Bill, affords, by the way, a happy augury of the
results to be anticipated from a similar measure for Ireland, although
modified by Sir R. Peel's checks and " securities.”—Morning Herald.

THE SUN, LONPON, MONDA Y. JET L. E 4,

r:F.Lo 1 AN I. UNDS—Baussims, JuNfr. 2.
Actual Debt, 'l. per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent
Loan of Thirty Millions 9314
Loan of City, 1832, -I per Cent 97
Society of Commerce, 4 ,N; per Cent l6O
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent I II
National Socicty .
—llrussels Papers, Jane 2.
A USTIZ IA N FUNDS.—Vivois, MAY 25.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Foeir per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
—Allgenteine &dung, May 30.

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The venerable Earl of Leicester 13, we are happy to
sta
te, recovering from his recent imlispositioa but was unat4 tp !Dem,
sent at the Duke of Sussex's elltrlitlnlerit to her Majet ty, at KV/ISIngT
to Pala((.,
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It is no longer a question of amount, or a question of mere
inability to pay ; the Catholics of Ireland have justly taken
it up as a que3tion of conscience as well as a questioa of
pecuniary extortion, and we are quite coniiient that no
theory will ever again induce them to submit quietly to the
continuance of a Church richly endowed for a small minority,
and paid for by the annual produce of the majority, who are
of an adverse faith. To settle the tithe question on any
condition but one that shall be acceptable to the Catholics
of Ireland, will he impossible, and therefore we are indif-
ferent to the temporary compromises of parties in Parlia-
ment. Certainly we agree with the Spectator, and there-
fore shall be glad to see the question shelved or disposed of
in any way, "that with the Irish questions an enormous
quantity of humbug and hypocrisy will be withdrawn from
present service." At the same time it is our opinion that
an attention to simple, plain, humble truth is so foreign to
the habits of the generality of politicians when they con-
tend for party objects, that hardly any other questions can
arise in which the amiable qualities mentioned by the
Spectator will not be again immediately called into requi-
tition. It is not likely that the Members of Parliament
will suffer them to rust._

WESTMEATH.

MAIDSTONE.

By the arrival of the packet-ship Roscoe at Li verpool
we have received New York papers to the 9th ult.—only
one day later than received by the Great Western steam-
ship. The rate of exchange remained at the price last
quoted, and the prices of other stock were equally
stationary. We are happy to learn by adviees from Toronto
that the pii7oners under sentence of death in Upper Canada
had been respited. that her MAJESTY'S further Weasure
might be ascertained respecting them. We have, thc•re-
fore, good reason to hope that no more blood will
be shed in that Province. Doctor MORRISON, whose trial
for high treason lasted sixteen hours, was acquitted, to the
great joy of the people of Toronto, by whom lie was very
highly esteemed. In the course of the trial, the Counsel
for the prosecution and the defence were very near agree-
ing in opinion that Sir FRANCIS BOND HEAD deserved to
be brought to trial quite as well as the prisoner—the ex-
Lieutenant-Governor having acknowledged that he was
aware of the conspiracy long before it broke out, and yet
encouraged instead of repressing it.

The Duke of 'WELLINGTON, to the delight of all
liberal thinking men, had the courage to throw off the
Orangemen of his party, and join with Reformers in passing
the Catholic Emancipation Bill. By such conduct he
created a breach between the more moderate and the
extreme of the Tories which has never been healed. Of
him and Sir ROBERT PEEL, the RODENS and PIIILPOTTS
ever since entertained the strongest suspicions ; and these
suspicions have not been at all weakened by the events
of the present Session. The Duke has on every
ocelsion shown a laudable disposition to support the
' moderate measures of the MELBOURNE Cabinet in op-
poAtion to the mat pro.kts of his allies, and at length Ahas
taken a turn against them as decided as that which settled
the Catholic question. Only those who know the rancour
of religious and political bigotry, and the b'tterness of
that di4appointment cau-el by want of courage in sup-
po:ed friends, can inter into the feelings of the men
who would drive O'CoNNELL• and every Catholic out of
Parliament, and treat the Irish as aliens and slaves,
and who yet are compelled a second time to acquiesce in a
great act of justice towards their oppressed countrymen.
The Duke, in fact, sees, after having tried them for ten
years, that they are a stubborn, selfish, unmanageable sect—
that they can do nothing of themselves, and that it is best
to leave them to their own prejudices—giving them at the
same time an excuse for supporting him, by avowing his
determination to oppose the appropriation of any funds
of the Church to moral and religious education. We regret
for the sake of both countries, as well as on account of the
shade which it casts over his bright name, that the Duke
of WELLINGTON should allow himself to be hampered in
any way by the prejudices of this party, and that lie has
not, entirely regardless of them, taken that open, straight-
forward line of policy which his clear and manly judg-
ment points out. He knows well that a portion of
the Church property would be much better employed
in educating the low Irish, than in maintaining
_a
few extra Protestant Clergymen in parishes where there
are no Protestants, and where their very presence
acts as a discouragement to Protestantism ; and yet
he reserves for the present this point, which will continue
to be a bone of contention and a cause of alienation be-
tween the two countries. He may rest satisfied that the great-
est anomaly in the history of the world—a Church without
people—cannot long continue, and that while it continues he
must expect the opposition of a majority of the House of Com-
mons, and the declared hostility of nearly the whole of the Irish
nation. A House of Commons decidedly Protestant has
declared, in the most solemn manner, in favour of the
principle of appropriation ; and till that principle is carried
into effect, Ireland will continue to be a thorn in the side o
every Administration. What a glory, even for the Duke of
NiVl-I.INGTON, to set this question at rest for ever

Advices from Madrid to the 27th ult. bring various rig
parts of the disaffection which begins to prevail among the
CarEsts in the Ba;que Provinces ; but it will be tams
enough to notice them at any length when we find the
Christinos prepared to profit by them, especially as we
gave the substance of these rumours in a few lines in our
columns of Saturday. The loan question is not yet dis-
posed of ; and it was supposed that the offer of 20,000,000
of teals by the house of RoTtiscuttn, for continuing their
Almaden contract for only two years longer, would
give a new turn to the affairs of the Peninsula.
On the night of the 20th the Carlist chief BALNIA-
CEDA surprised a dilision of 800 men under Colonel
MOYOLS, or MALLoLs, at Ontoria del Pinar, making the
Colonel himself, 20 officers, and 400 men prisoners, be-
sides the loss of 80 horses and several Christinos killed
in the conflict. The Christinos were tinted through the
town, and their officers asleep when the attack was
made upon them by the more watchful Carlists. To
counterbalance this misfortune tie Carlist Chiefs, FOR.
CADEL and OREJITA, had been beaten with their re-
specti% e divisions only a few days previously.
The Carlist Chief;, ZARIATLGUI and ELIO, are reported
to have been condemned to death on the 26th by the
Carlist Council of War sitting at Arbaluza. It was
thought that their execution would lead to a general revolt
against Don CARLOS in Navarre.

Brussels and German Papers, the former of the 2d inst.
have reached us to-day. It was announced on Change in
Brussels on the Ist inst., that the Government bad received
dispatches from General Tanon, Commandant of the Pro-
vince of Luxemburg, that the troops of the fortress oceu-
p!ed the villages near the Rayon. They ordered the Bel-
gian flag to be taken down, and the Burgomaster resist-
ing was made prisoner and carried to the fortress. This
news created a violent commotion in Brussels. The streets
were filled with people shouting " down with the Twenty-
four Articles," and the peace of the city was only preserved
by the presence of a good number of troops. Such demon-
strations must be exceedingly distressing to LEOPOLD, if it
be really true that France and England have consented to
ratify the concessions made by Holland. The Belgians had
better be quiet, seeing the armies that France and Prussia
have assembled on their frontiers.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday
have been received. The details of the Budget continued
under discussion in the Chamber of Deputies. Various
items were adopted, among which we notice a grant of
200,000 francs for the celebration of the fetes of July.
The Mayor, municipality, and fifty officers of the Na-
tional Guard have resigned their functions, in consequence
of permission being given to the Clergy to traverse the city
at the head of religious processions. For this they deserve
the highest honour at the hands of their fellow-citizens.
Religious processions are but the farces of Catholicism,
and their tendency is always to enslave, not to purify and
exalt the mind of the people.
A letter from Oran of the 20th of May, complains of
frequent violations of the Treaty of Tafna on the part of
the Arabs.
The Gazette de France speaks in raptures of measures
about to be taken in Spain for checking the further pro-
grees of the British and Foreign Bible Society in that
country. The contest is a common one—it is bigotry op-
posed to bigotry.
FRENCII FUNDS. - PARTS JUNE 2.
rive
per Ceuta.. lll9f. 60C. 65c. s'e. .;oe.
Four per Cents., 102 f.
throe per Cents., elf. 40c. 45c. 35c.
Bank Actions, 2.720 f.
ttente de Naples, 101 f. 10c.
Roman Five per Cents., 101V/6.
Spanish-Actives. 2214,!,4.
Belgian Loan, 10.2.,;,%.
Belgian Bank, 1,430 f.
rhytian Loan, 41:4144
LATEST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 1041 f. 75v,
Three per Cents., Slf. 50e.
Bank Actions, 2,72,1 f.
Romans, 101%.
Belgian Loan, 102%.
Belgian Bank, 1,430 f.
Portuguese Three par Cents., 25(4.
Spanish Actives, 24%.
Ilassives
!lariat] Loan, 4151:

ELECT) ON COMMITTEES.
THIS DAY.

The Committee are still occupied with James Anderson's rote, the
evidence and discussion upon which still drags its " slow length along,"
with scarcely a proipect of coming to a conclusion.

Tie' Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock.
Mr. Alexander Randall examined by Mr. AUSTIN—I am principal
clark in Messrs. Corrall and Mercer's bank, at Maidstone. I have been
a good deal concerned in elections. I have always been active on the
side cf the Tory party. I concerned myself in favour cf Mr. D'lsraeli
and Mr. Lewis, We had no Committee then. We left off Committees
ten or twelve years ago. We have a large club called the Constitutional
Club, which meet at the Corn Exchange. Several of the Members of
the club busied themselves at Mr. D'lsi aeli's election. Meetings took
place there at that election. I was one who managed that election. Mr.
Day was an active man. Mr. Mercer was another. Mr. Henry Sim-
mons, Mr. Hart, and Mr. Walter Hill, were.also active. I heard of Mr.
Lewis's death on the Thursday morning, and there was a meeting at
Mr. Pott's office. Mr. Brenchley, Mr. John Hollingworth, Mr. Hills,
Mr. Charles Lemmons, and Mr; Franklyn were there. It was resolved
that another candidate should be found. That was about a quarter
before twelve. Myself, Mr. Hart, and Mr. John Hollingworth were de-
puted to proceed to London. We came to the Carlton Club—
(Laughter)—in Pall-mall, and enquired for Mr. D'lsraeli. Ile
was not there, and we then came to the House of Commons
and found him. We then returned to the Carlton, and were
introduced to Mr. Fector, and the business was concluded. We
(the deputation) returned to Maidstone, and drove to the Bell. Ido not
know how Mr. Fector went down. The next morning I saw Mr. Fector
in the street. About three days afterwards I saw him at the Bell. I
believe he slept at the Bell except on the first night. I did not ca::vass.
We had no Committee-room.—(A laugh.) We had a room at the Corn
Exchange, and the election was partly managed. We had no Chairman.
—(Laughter.) We had books of recorded promises in which I wrote,
as, well as Mr. Hart and several others. On the day ot the election we
used Mr. Barlow's office. I can't say it was not used for that purpose
before. I went to Barlow's room a little after eight o'clock in the morn-
ing. Mr. Norton, clerk to Mr. Hart, was there, together with several
other persons. We were there to chick the votes. I had arranged
with Mr. Hart to be there at that time. Mr. l'otts, Mr. Pike, Mr.
Franklyn, Mr. Henry Simmons, and Mr. Wicklarn were there. They
came about twelve or one o'clock. I went to Mr. Fector, at the Bell,
immediately after the other party declined polling any longer. Two or
three people came for :him to know the state of the poll. They were
Dover gentlemen. Mr. Hart did a great deal for Mr. Fector, but I
can't say that that he acted as the legal agent Mr. Hart is Sect etary to
the Constitutional Club. I went to the Bell three times a ith Mr. Hart
and Mr. Day to see Mr. Fector. I don't know who paid for the hust-
ings, or any of the general expenses of the election. No funds passed
through my hands, nor to the Bank to my knowledge. I had no ma-
nagement of any money. Mr. Hart, I believe, paid for the
small expenses. In the interview with Mr. Fector at the
Carlton we told him there was a good Conservative heeling, and
that if he slid not find that to be the case, we would pay the expense of
his canvass. We have not paid any expenses. We did not eater into
the question of expenses at all. I did not know the amount of expenses
at the previous election.

Mr. TuEssinua objected to the examination being conducted in this
manner, as Mr. Fc,:tor could not be affected by anything which took
place at the previous election.
After a lengthened argument the room was cleared.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, JUNE 2.—Wind, W.S. W., fine. JUNE 3.—Wind, SS. W.,
fine—Arrived and proceeded for the River, the Thames, Barclay, from
Demerara; Hebc, Robinson, from Bordeaux; General Kydd, Foord,
from China; Edinburgh, Marshall, from ditto; Lady Flora, from
Madras; Barretto, Jun., Saunders, from ditto; Robert Small, Fiddler,
from Calcutta; Nomo, Westlake, from Sierra Leone; PosthumOns,
Reminglan, from Demerara. Came down from the River and sailed,
the Sir Edward Paget, Campbell, for Bombay ; Dash, Killich, for
Nassau, N.H. ; Richard Brown, Dunlop, for Demerara; Tonager,
Deane, for Grenada ; Victor, Hadnett, for St. Vincent; James Ray,
Graigson, for Jamaica ; Coromandel, Neals, for Sydney ; George Horne,
Distant, for the South Seas ; Mariner, Clarkson, for Quebec ; War-
blington, Benson, for G:braitar; Pilot, Moore, for Quebec ; Urania,
Refight, for Genoa; Perasro, fox Trieste; Adelaide, Guthrie, for Calcutta;
Julia, for the West Indies; Ospert, for. Demerara. The Aurora, Cox,
from Bombay, got on shore on the Break Sands in turning down through
the Gulls, and was assisted off by the Deal Boatmen about five p.m.
Sailed the Catherine, Evans, for Madras and Calcutta; Chieftain, fur
St. Vincent.

PORTSMOUTIr, JUNE 2.—Wind, W.S. W. 3.—Wind S. W. to S.S.E.,
fine.— Arrived off port, Westbrook, Morgans, from Jamaica. Sailed,
Toronto, Gerswold, for New York ; and Pegasus, for Jamaica.

PLYMOUTH, JUNE o.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Surrey, from
Sierra Leone; and Prima Donna, from Tarragona. Off port, the
Johan, Christoff, and Berthir, Schmidt, from Bahia; Janet, Phillippine,
and Paparvan, Abbe, from New York; Anna, Wi.hy, from St. Übe's.
Sailed the Jane, Rawlings, for Demerara; and her Majesty's ship
Comet, for the coast of Spain.

FALMOUTH, JUNE I.—Wind W. S. W. 2 —Wind W.S.W., mode_
rate.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Cumming, from Lisbon.
MARGATE, JUNE 3.—Arrived off port, the Edinburgh, Marshall, from
Canton; Robert, Small, from Calcutta; Lady Flora, Ford, from Madras;
and Ilecla, from Jamaica.

DARTMOUTH, JUE 2. Arrived off port the Julius and Elward, from
Baltimore. Off the Wight the Argyle, Sauper, from Canton.
BRISTOL, JUNE 3.—Arrived the Falmouth packet, from Lisbon; and
St. George, Wildatns, from Calcutta.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 2.—Wind variable. JUNE 3.—Ditto —Arrived the
Leonora, Williams, from Demerara ; Roscoe, Delano, from New York ;
Hope, Pearce, from 'Mobile; Ranger, Morgan, from Charleston ;
Branches, M'Kenzie, from St. John's, New Brunswick; Coxton, from
Odessa; Carlotte, from I.isbon ; Bylah, Burton, from Char, nte; and
Jupiter, from Dantzic.

The Livia, Gadberson, from Gottenburg, pat into Cowes with loss of
bowsprit and cutwater, having been in contact with an American ship,
bound to Monte Video and Buenos Ayres.
The John, White, from Memel, put into Washwmth with damage,
having grounded in entering Otemouth harbour.

The Frederick, Harman, from Bkiorreburg, was assisted into liar.
with leaky, and must discharge, having been on shore.

The Matilda, Cumming, from Table Bay to Algoa Bay, on entering
the latter on the 2d April, struck on a rock and sunk.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The New York packet ship, Roscoe, ha; arrived at Liverpool, bring.
ing Papers one day later than those last received by the Great Western
steamer, to the 9th of May, the accounts being only a day in advance.
We do not find the papers of any importance, with the exception that
the affairs of Canada are in a tranquil state, and that no more executions
arc to take place.. The Exchange comes on England, 6 7 per cent. ;
United States Bank, 116.
The Charleston Courier of the 3d May, states that accounts r, celved
by the ship Lafayette, that previous to leaving Savannah, it was
reported that intekigence had been received in that city, that Newmana..
ville, Florida, had be:n taken by the Indians.

We have received Canton Papers to the 31st of January—from which
we subjoin the following Commercial remarks :

" Cotton.—No transactions of any description have occurred during
the week—the Market of late has been very inactive. Opium.—Patna
has been sold at 530 dollars and Malwa at 420 dollars per chest ; but
for Benares there is not the least demand. The trade general'y'is very
dull, being still confined to deliveries on the coast and to adventures on
the river. Deliveries from Linton to the 22d inst. :—Patna, 3.22 ;
Benares, 96 ; Malwa, 515—total, 933 chests. The dealers on the coast
are reported to have received much annoyance frlm the local Mandarins.
Dollars (Republican )—Hrlders are de.nanding I to 11 per Cent., pre-
mium Raw Silk Nankin. We do not hear of any late purchases or alte-
ration in prices. Silver difficut to be procured. Tea—no operation
worth notice; considerable activity took place in shipments from the
anxiety of purchasers to remove their property from the insecure cus-
tody the Chinese Exchange. Quotations on Lcndon have been made
at 4s. 3d. per dollars, and Bi:Is are very scarce. The public offices hav-
ing been closed on the 23d inst., there has been since a cessation to
general business. The Hoppo's office will hot re-open till the 2d
proximo. So qt:iet a new year has never been known, whether in re.
ference to the limited extend of transactions, or the more sobered line
of the Chinese rejoicings, on the occasion of the new year.