The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-12 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph )
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 10.—The Stag, 46, Capt. T.
B. Sullivan, C. 8., 'arrived at Plymouth, on Thursday,
from Rio Janeiro. She brings no news.
The Southampton, 50,1 with Sir Edward King's flag,
was about to leave Monte Video for the Cape of Good
Hope, on the 21st of January. The Curacoa, 24, was
to go to Rio Janeiro, to join the Rose, 16, and the Clio,
would remain in the Plata. The Pearl, 20, was at
Bhai:. Tao Grecia, Wizard, and Fawn, were cruizing
on the coast, looking cut for slavers, the orders to cap-
ture which were very stringent.
Tile Cornwallis, 72, was commissioned at Plymouth on
Wednesday, for the flog of Rear-Admiral Sir W. Parker,
appointed Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies.
lhe Horatio transport, Lieut. Chapman, R.N.,
agent, arrived on Monday from Jamaica, whence she
sailed on the 3:1 ult., haviog en board seven officcrs,
158 privates, 27 women, and 59 children, or the Royal
Artihery, and sane iava!ids. The following we-e the
officers on board :—Captains G. linglia:n, J. A.
Caddy ; Lieutenants R. Harvey, A. H. Graham, E.
M. Sliakspeare, and C. Wilson ; Assistart-Surgeon
Howard, R.A. ; Lieut. R. V. Jenkins, R.N., of the
Sappho; Surgeon M. Thomson, et the Maga:flee:it ;
and Mr. Lawson, of the Ordnance D.Tartnn.tit. The

Horatio sailed for Woolwich, with Captain Bingham's
company, on Wednesday.
The A,ia, male convict-:hip, which arrived from the
River on Sunday, and embarked on Tuesday 140 con-
victs fat Van Diemen's LAtid, in addition to 1.20 re-
ceived on hoard at Woolwich. She will proceed about
Tuesday next on her destination. The prisoners are
under the medical charge of Dr. Stewart.

The Ripid brig arrived on Monday from Plymouth
and the western port!.

The St. Vincent, Madagascar, and Fair Rosamond,
were put out of the basin on Monday, and the Vindic-
tive and Warspite on Tuesday, in order that the basin
rniOit be run dry, to repair the works of the woodmills.
'Fur Mercury sailed to-day for Sheerness, with a
Li,u'enaht of the Indus on loard, to volunteer men
from the Asia for that ship. The Emerald ,alieri
yesterday for Devonport, with seamen gunners for the
CornwAis.

1 ITh..; Geyser, a first• class stelm frigate, of 1,550 tons,
was launched irom the dockyard at Pembroke, oil
Tuesday.

In Harbour—Queen, Victory, Excalent, Royal
George, Rt►pid, and Echo, steam tug.
At Spitbead—lndus,l Vernon, Pelican, and Nautilue.

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
PROMOTIONS —Second Master—Wm. Jeffery, to
the rank of Master, in death vacancy of Wm. Langdeo.
Assistant-Surgeons—R. R. B. Hoplcy, Matthewson
Corry, Patrick Brawn, and Henry Liddle, to the rank
of surgeon.

APPOINTMENTS,—Captain—Peter Richards, to the
Cornwallis.

Commander—Charles Richards, to Cornwallis.
Lieutenants—Charles Wise, James Stoddart, Grey
Skepwith, H. J. Lacon, and James Fitzjames (from the
Excellent), to the Cornwallis ; James Lowry, to the
Impregnable; Lindsay P. Burrell, to the Tyne, vice
Johnson ; J. E. F. Risk, from Princess Charlotte to the
Bellerophon, vice Saunderson, invalided ; Arthur Cum-
ming from Bellerophon to the Hydra, vice Malley,
sick ; A. G. Bulman, to the Fair Rosamond, p.'ount to
be commissioned at this port.
Masters.— Raines (Acting) to Cl•Tpatra, rice
Fowler ; William Jeffery to Pilot, 'vice Langden, de-
ceased ; George Wright (Actino to the Edinburgh,
horn Dido, vice Davies, invali',ed ; J. R. Aylen, from
the Wasp, to the Dido, vier.; Knight ; Roberts, from
Alecto, CO the Wasp, vier Aylec.
Purser—John Taps an, to the Cornwallis.
Assistant-Sargeor.s—D, W. C. Iliine.oek, to the Im-
pregnable ; J. Sirr.ipson, the Queen ; D. Charles Paget
Blake, from Pauslar Hospital, to Cornwallis ; J. S.
Burn (Acting) to the Queen.
Mates-- Smith and Harvey, to Gorgon;
Marrlatt, from Ganges to Edinburgh ; N. Van•
sittart ,from the Queen), to the Cornwallis ; Messrs.
Pyrie and Vpe, to the Polyphemus, steam-vessel.
Midshipmen—C. W. Elton to Cambridge ; Dew,
to Thunderer.
Vols. First Class—W. B. Masson and J. Miller, to
Inconstant.
Boatswain—Wm. Lang, to Cornwallis.
Carpenter—G. T. Add, icks, to Cornwallis.
ROYAL MARINES.— Lieut. J. K. Wilson (now serving
on boi!rd the Princess Charlotte), is appointed Adjutant
of Portsmouth Division, v.cu Dwyer, promoted ; Cap-
tain James Uniacke, and Lieutenants C. 0. liamley
and George Elliott, to the Cornwallis.
GREENWICH OUT-PENSION.—Those respected old
officers, Captain John Gourly, Commanders George
Hillier and Joseph Pe.tey, wit's Retired Commander
John Anderson, were, on the 16th ult., placed on the
Out-Pension of Greenwich. These compliments to
veteran worth will be hailed with satisfaction by the
whole Naval Service.

THE CORN-LAWS AND THE

SHIPPING INTERtST.

A great deal has been been said, and very justly
said, above the difficulty of British ships competing
with those of foreign nations, who are able to obtain
labour, timber, and provisions, at a rate so much be-
low what it is possib:c to do here. Now, if an altera-
tion in toe Corn-law did not produce any diminution in
the rate of wages, it undoubte,ily would in tire price
of provisions, and thus one important i:ein ;n a ship's
expenses would be materially reduced. There is no
doubt that with a trade in corn, es en partially free, we
would carry on a very considerable traffic in grain with
foreign countries, and the employment in that branch
of commerce of so large a number of vessels as would
certainly be required to be cog aged in it, could not fail
to advance the interest of all shipowners, whether
their own ships were actually Freighted with corn or
not. Twat a trade in corn could not be carried on
without a very considerable number of vessels, is suffi-
ciently obvious ; especially when we remember that, in
the six years preceding 1833, the average annual impor-
tations of about one million quarters of wheat, employed
upwards of 400,000 tons of shipping. Now, supposing
what is by no moans improbable, that by the repeal of
the Corn-law we could obtain a regular trade in corn to
the amount of one million quarters per annum beyond
the average importation for the last ten years, there
would immediately be called into requisition 400,000
tons of shipping more than those engaged in that trade
at present ; which, supposing each vessel to make, one
with another, between two and three voyages yearly,
would employ considerably more than the whole num-
ber of vessels which this port (the fourth in the king-
dom) possesses ; and that, not by cart ying on a trade,
ol i o
henrgd
which, for a few years (as between 1825 and 183:2)
might he in a very flourishing condition, while in the
fo wia
them ightnot
other
b ;
yoefarisrosnutchcoa,etboinogi as :> :txtiecoaiito corn-freight
, but a trade which, in all likelihood, would gradually and
steadily increase.
Let us now consider whether the present depressed
state of things in this port is not in great part owing to
the Corn-law. We know that the grain freights during
the recent high prices, gave a great spur to the shipping
interest, and that when grain freights were no longer to
be had, when the trade which had employed four ves-
sels was not merely diminished, but entirely gone, a
downward movement took place in the trade of this
port ; and down it will continue to move, if the Corn-
law be not repealed, until the sudden opening of the
ports again gives us an unnatural stimulus, which, how-
ever, beneficial in its immediate effects, is only too
surely the har6inger of a return of that severe depression
under which we are labouring at the present time.
But, Wither, another result of the late corn trade
i
was, an unhealthy, hot-bed, increase of ship-buildin
g:u by
the timber trade, which in its turn has beenfollowed
wbee far
severe depression ; so much so that I shall not
from the mark in saying, that for every cargo of Ame-
rican timber which is at present on order, tt.e;e were
fifty or sixty at this time last year.
To the Corn-law,
dented low state of trade in this town to be attributed.
the present almost unprece-
dented ,
then,_su nadnedritaoll
dt that 7 a.alioin. e , i s

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WESTMINSTER VERSUS MANCIIESTER,k
Manchester •• the poor have not the means of taking care
of their children, their whole time being taken up in
providing their families with food, and that of the
coarsest kind."—P. B. Smith, Esq., as r:p.irted in the
A CrnCircular,chilld7erbern a e +r
owed,
'2sli, 16,111—The con-
sequence owed,
and probably
actually encouraged, to steal, and tire amount of juve-
nile delinquency from this cause has •
nti-o i
Ntry much 7,1,aw that th e
in-
creased of late. phis is owing to the high ' price of pro-
visions and the low rate of wages. In Westminster,
however, " they manage these things" otherwise, if
not " better." There they burn the superabundant
children. It appears from the following extract from
Mr. Baddeley's annual report of " London Fires," in
the Mechanics' Magazine, that during the last year no
fewer than or,e hundred and three children have been
killed tII in this manner ; immediately, by fire-remotely,
by the Cern-taws :—" It appears that during the last
twelve mor.ths, no less than 103 children have been burnt
to death in that district ( Westminster), chiefly owing to
their parents leaving them alone in a room with a fire ira
it." They " are gent:laity the offspeing of the working
anti poorer classes of society, whose business takes them
from their homes, and many of whom are obliged to leave
their children without care or protection, white themselves
go into the st,eets to procure the means of subsistence."
In these two instances we have the Malthusian doctrine
illustrated, that vice and misery arise when population ap-
proaches the limits of the means of subsistence ? But win
limits the mewls of subsistence? Nature? No; man f
Man starves his fellow-creatures, and then vice and misery
arise among them—Anti-Corn-law Circular.
A DEEP NVELL.—The present object of ex-
citement in Paris is the Artesian well at the Abattoir of'
Grenelle,. which has bean successfully gompleted, by M.
Mulot and his son, after seven years' labour. The - people
flock in crowds to the spot, provided with tbttlo -s to taste
and bring away some of the water that iss• 4CS from such au
immense depth. The hole is four tithes
1,,,,i's Cathedral is high. It i, gtatod thatas deep as St.
when corn.
pleted, the water wilt rise to the
above the surface. height.. of thirty feet