The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

ship becoming very leaky I immediately ordered the
boats to be got out, as on her striking, the sea making
a fair breach over her, she fell on her beam-ends. The
ship's company hung to her by a warp until the
tide ebbed, when she got steady ; we then hauled
up, and returned on board, leaving two hands
in each boat to bale and keep them clear.
1 ordered a kedge anchor and warp to be put
into the long-boat, to be ready in case of need. When
we returned on board we could not render her any ser-
vice. We remained aboard until daylight, when seve-
ral smacks, to the number of eight, came and offered
their services, which were accepted. They then took
off the hatches and began to heave the coals out ; they
also set both pumps on. They worked until twelve at
noon, the weather then proving so boisterous that the
sea went completely over her. They gave it up, as they
found she was gaining on them. They, together with
the ship's company, then had no hopes of saving their
lives. We, however, attempted to leave her. In
order to do so, the ship's company, to the number
of twelve, were divided amongst the smacks' eight
boats. We were told by the smacksmen, that in
consequence of their boats being so small, and the
weather so bad, they could only take a few of
their most valuable things ; which was done, and put
into the boats, leaving out other things on board, in the
hope of the weather moderating enough to afford us
a chance of recovering them. But as soon as we
had placed our things in the boat, the other smacks-
men that were on board went down below, breaking
open the chests and lockers, and taking things out of
them, and leading their boats, with the exception of
Cqtain E. Eagle, master of the smack George and
Eliza, of Coichester, and Capt. Andrews, of the smack
Fair iraveller, of Colchester, who would take nothing
but what belonged to the men they had to take off,
and endeavoured to take as many of my things with
them as possible. They frequently reprimanded the
other men for taking and appropriating to their own
use the clothes of the shipwrecked sailors. My par-
ticular attention was drawn to several men in my own
cabin whom I detected breaking open my chest, which
contained things to the value of between 401. and 501.,
which they divided amongst themselves. I went down
into the cabin, and they left off until I went on deck
again. About 1 15 A. M., we left her, in cense-
quenca of the tide flowing over her, and the gale in-
creasing, with a terrific sea. We then proceeded into
Sheerness for shelter. We left that place at. about ten
P.M., and returned on the following morning to the
wreck, where we arrived at six A.M. There were several
smacks lying to by her. I then proceeded on board,
and found her stripped of everything except the lower
and topmast standing rigging. The crew of the Fair
Traveller was engaged in getting and taking an anchor
and chain, which we brought into Sheerness. I also
found the crew of the smack Henry and Elizabeth, of
Colchester, engaged in taking another anchor and chain ;
th,!y refused to bring them in with me, and I was in.
formed by them that there had been several boats on
board of her, who had stripped her, but as it was be-
fore daylight, they could not see the names of the boats.
We remained on board until ten, a.m., when, seeing no
prospect of getting her off, the water being over her,
and nothing further to be saved from her, we left for
Sheerness, where I arrived at two, r.m."

WARD OF FARAINGDoN WrniouT.--Yes-
terday the wardmote of Farringdon Without assembled,
pursuant to adjournment, at the New Court, Old Bailey, .
for the purpose of receiving the final decision of the Alder-
man, regarding the scrutiny demanded by Mr. Wells, one
of the unsuccessful candidates on the previous day, and
which is likely to lead to a long course of expensive litiga-
tion. There was a lengthened discussion, in the course
of which Sir James Duke said that be had made up his
mind to take the time allowed by law, in order that the
greatest possible facility might be given to any gentleman
who questioned the result of the poll, or the legality of
the proceedings. A Gentleman asked the Alderman how
long they would be without rerresentatives in the Com-
mon Council ? Sir James Duke said, to the best of his
judgment, the contest would be decided in about a month.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The power of commanding officers over those who
constitute the regiments placed under their control is
well nigh absolute ; while, in some instances at least
the manner in which they exercise their authority is
arbitrary and oppressive. Lord Cardigan has suc-
ceeded in illustrating the servile subjection in which
even " officers and gentlemen" may be placed,
if the Colonel, in the insolence of an overween-
ing conceit of his own importance, and relieved
from apprehensions of personal consequences by
the partial protection of the Horse Guards, forgets
that men are something more than mere machines,
and that subalterns have feelings which ought to be re-
spected, as well as duties which they arc bound to per-
form. The impunity with which the aristocratic com-
mander of the 11th Hussars has been allowed to in-
dulge his peculiar presensities, notwithstanding the
urgent applications of his victims for inquiry, and
the loud, general, and indignant demand of the pub-
lic for rigorous investigation, will have some
humble imitators of his mode of enforcing mi-
litary discipline and official respect. It is almost
impossible that an example, rendered conspicuous by
rank and sanctioned by tacit approbation at head-quar-
ters, should fail to influence kindred spirits, and raise
un rivals in the pursuit of that distinction which his
Lordship has obtained ; which, if it has not shed lustre
on his name, has effectually prevented his command of
the 15th Hussars from being consigned to oblivion..
Colonel Molyneux of the Bth Hussars, now sta-
tioned at Norwich, has taken a bolder flight. Not
content with the amount of power he possesses as the
commanding officer of a regiment, and the awe inspired
by his rank and authority in those subjected to his
command, he seeks an extension of submission, and ac-
tually demands that the " salute" which military law re-
quires, as an expression of homage, as the recognition of
the presence of superior rack from inferiors in the ser-
vice, should be given, as an act of imperative obligation,
by the police constables when on duty, as an act of ho-
' mage to his rank, and not as the mere spontaneous ex-
pression of personal respect ? The Norwich and Bury
Post of Wednesday has recorded, with a precision
worthy of the occasion, the insolent demand of this mi-
litary martinet—which he had the presumption to urge
upon the Magistrates when seated on the Bench in the
administration of justice !
(From the Courier.)
The French Papers of Tuesday have arrived, but
they again present hardly any feature of interest or
novelty. The Moniteur states officially that Lord
Palmerston had sent a letter to the Lords of the Ad-
miralty ratifying the Convention agreed to at Alexan-
dria. It also states that the other Powers had made
a similar communication. We find that, in spite of
all the confident reports about the abandonment of the
plan of fortifying Paris—or, as the French papers
have it, the cwbastillesnent—the interruption to the
works was caused solely by the cold, and that they
have since been partially resumed. It is gratifying to
us to see that the Journals are beginning to assume a
somewhat more sober tone. There is an evident and
striking diminution in the virulence and asperity of the
Theirs and Guizot controversy, so that it is to be
hoped the Journalists arc beginning to ace that all
their bitterness and all their anxious aspirations after
war and confusion have bccn utterly thrown away,
and that the only effect of the inflated tone which
has disgraced a portion of the French press, has been to
alarm the timid, who might otherwise have been induced
to give some sort of sanction to a well made out case for
war. Nothing is yet settled about a loan. Indeed it is
now said that nothing can be done in reference to it
until the supplies are voted, which will not be for
some months. The Chamber is principally occupied
with the factory question, which, although looked to
with much anxiety by the manufacturers, appears to
attract but little attention in the Legislature. We
do not think it would interest our readers were we
to give the speeches made on the subject at any
length, because the gist of all the arguments resolves
itecif into the question whether manufacturers
ought or ought not to be allowed to force the chil-
dren whom they employ to labour as long as they
please. The difficulties connected with the question arc
such that in England the Factory Bill has been post-
poned for two or three successive sessions, and it is
not to be wondered, therefore, if there should be
the same diversity of opinion in France. This point
is well put by the Courrier Francais, which says—
" No amelioration in these matters can come from the
Chamber, which wants experience—which dislikes these
economical questions, and abandons their solution to
those organs of private interest that are so numerous.
Intcre:As arc pleaded but not discussed. Thus oa
Monday the sitting opened late, yet there was scarcely
a house, not more than forty Deputies; not more than
150 in the very midst of the sitting ; and the whole 150
might have clubbed their wits without being able to con-
coct a good discourse on the subject before the Chamber
The chiefs of parties were all absent."
(From the Standard.)
The project for fortifying Paris, bequeathed by
M. Thiess to his successors in office, is likely to meet
with some serious opposition. The King and his
present Ministers have very prudently resigned the
matter into the hands of the Chamber, and, us if
desirous that the Tillers faction should have the task
of nursing their own offspring, have taken care that
M. Thiess, M. Odillon Barrot, and their friends,
should constitute a majority on the Commission ap-
pointed to make the legislative preparations for the
work. This exposes his Majesty and his Cabinet to
the charge of indifference, and even of reluctance to take
part in a proceeding which must lead to a cost of fusty or
fifty millions ales ling! without holding out the least
promiee of any equivalent good ; a charge which will pro-
bably be understood by wise men as involving a very high
compliment. At present the Commission is divided
as to the nature of the projected works ; one party
contending for a continuous line of wall or rampart
to encircle the city with bastions and small outworks
at convenient intervials. The other party insists upon
a circuit of strong detached forts, fourteen in num-
ber, surrounding the city. The advocates of the con-
tinuous line of wall or rampart argue that their plan
will not place the capital at the mercy of any Go
comment which may be disposed to abuse its power.
They who recommend the chain of detached
forts, on the other side, say that if a continuous line of
wall or rampart will be little formidable to the
liberties of the Parisians, it will be still less formidable
to the enterprise of an invader, while it must cost at
least four or five times as much as the system of defences
which they propose. The question is properly a
problem for military men ; but the least-informed in
military science cannot fail to see that the chain of
forts must be far more effectual, as far as mere defence is
is concerned, while there can be no doubt of its cost-
ing a great deal less than the rival scheme. An
enciente of less than twelve English miles would
hardly embrace Paris, and as the width of this belt
must be 600 or 700 yards of the most highly rented
land in France, the bare purchase of the soil would
probably amount to a greater sum than would be
necessary to cover the whole cost of the fourteen forts
which it is proposed to substitute, beside the great injury
to the trade of the French metropolis, a consideration
which has been already submitted to the Commission. The
case, too. may be easily conceived, when an enemy havin
pierced the barrier line—which any enemy strong enough
to reach Paris could easily effect—the enclosure of the
city within one wall might place it more absolutely in
his power. Still the apprehensions for the safety of
public liberty, of those who object to the chain of
isolated fortresses, are not altogether groundless. Paris
so invested would have little security for freedom, save
in the good disposition of the Sovereign ; and it is to
be feared that for a generation or two before us 1
must continue to be what it has hitherto been—the
virtual France.

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
The Rev. John Winpenny, curate of Rothwell, and son
of the Rev. R. C. Winpenny, vicar of Market Weighton,
to the perpetual curacy of Yarm, in the North Riding.
Patron, the Archbishop of York.
The Rev. J. R. Rushton, B. D., curate and lecturer of
Banbury, has been presented by the Lord Bishop of Ox-
ford to the perpetual curacy of Hooknorton, Oxen, vacant
by the decease of the Rev. G. Turner, vicar of Spclsbury.
The Rev. Francis Forster, Fellow of Catherine Hall,
Cambridge, has been presented by the Master and Fellows
of that Society to the Vicarage of Ridgcwell, Essex.
Tho Rev. Matthew Wilkinson, M. A., lately principal of
the Collegiate School, Huddersfield, was on the 11th inst.
elected to succeed the Rev. W. 11. Whitworth, M. A., in
the Head Mastership of the Proprietary School, Kensington.
The Rev. W. Gresley, M. A., has been appointed an
honorary canon in Lichfield Cathedral, under the late
Act of Parliament.

OBITUARY.
At Colurnbo, the Rev. Joseph Knight, church mission-
ary, of Nelhure, Ceylon.
At Clifton, near Penrith,:the Rev. John Robinson, D. D.,
rector of Clifton and Cliburo, one of her Majesty's Justices
of the Peace, and Deputy-Lieutenant for the county of
Westmoreland.
At Ipswich, aged 44, the Rev. NV. B. Frost, late of
Langharn.
On the 15th inst., the Rev. Daniel Davies, of Clod-
deston, near Basingstoke, iu his 76th year.

It is stated that, with the loss of her 'Majesty's
brig Fairy, the ten years' scientific labours of the late
Captain Hewett arc sacrificed, draught copies of his charts,
dravk iegs, and marine observations never having been se-
cured by the Lords of the Admiralty, although it is said
this service has cost the country 40,0001., and to the com-
pletion of which the trading marine were looking forward
with every hope of advantage.

CARLOW ELECTION.—A mistake, which is
likely to prove fatal to the election of Colonel Bruen, has
been made in the return sent to London. The Extermi-
nators are in a terrible panic. They know that if the battle
is to be fought again, the can have no chance of a suc-
cessful issue. More of this in our neat.—Dubliit Even-
ing Povi of last Tuesday,