The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-20 00:00:00

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA.

MONDAY, AUG. 17..—During the night and early part of
the day the rain fell in torrents, the wind blowing a gale
from the S.W. ; the yachts started at 11 A.m., the Rein-
deer, of 107 tons, John Moore, Esq., taking the lead,
followed by the Dream, 104 tons, George Bcntinck, Esq.,
and Antelope, 94 tons, Viscount Powcrscourt. There
was a heavy sea, particularly at the Nab, on rounding
which an unfortunate accident occurred on board the Rein-
deer. They had hauled the mainsheet aft to go about, but
in easing it off the racking slipped, the sheets dragging
two of the men over the bulwarks; the boat nom the light
vessel was immediately put off, and succeeded in saving
one of the men, but in the heavy sea could not reach or
did not see the other; the Reindeer and the Dream con-
tinued on their course; but Lord Powerscourt seeing a
whip hoisted on board the light vessel, in which but one
man remained, and their boat with three men from it drift-
ing, let his feelings of humanity overcome his anxiety to
obtain the Queen's Cup, gave up the race, and stood for
the boat, before reaching which a man was observed in the
water, and the Captaas succeeded in catching hi xi with a
; but the poor fellow had been
boathook by boyvetrhbeoatrrdow(lerso
minutes), though he was quite
warm, held up one arm, and even opened one of his eyes ;
all the exertions made by his Lordship and the crew were
unavailing. Short has left a wife and eight children to
lament his untimely fate. His Lordship having taken the
boat in tow proceeded for Portsmouth for medical assist-
ance for the two men.
The race was won by the Reindeer, but Mr. Moore
would not accept the Cup, presenting it very handsomely
to Lord Powcrscourt. Mr. Moore gave poor Short's widow
51., settled 201. per annum on her for her life, and also
gave 1001. for the children. A handsome subscription is
making by the members of the Royal Yacht Squadron.
In the evening we bad one of the grandest displays of
fireworks ever seen in this part of the country—Jones has
this year very far exceeded all his former efforts.
18th.--About 150 fashionables attended the Royal
Yacht Squadron ball. The weather being very wet it was
anything but a pleasant evening.
19th.—At eleven this morning the Ariel schooner, 118
tons, Almon Hill, Esq., Harriet schooner, 102 tons, John
Beardmore, Esq., and the Flower of Yarrow schooner,
141 tons, Viscount Exmouth, started for the Royal Yacht
Squadron Cup, of 100 guineas value. The course was
the same as for her Majesty's Cup, from a vessel off Cowes
Castle, round the Nab light vessel, back past Cowes,
round a vessel moored off Yarmouth, and back to Cowes.
The morning was wet, but the vessels had a fine breeze
from W. S.W., and on their return to Cowes, from the
Nab, the Ariel had the advantage, but the Flower of
Yarrow was much too near to be pleasant—the Ariel
people seemed tired of her company, but unable to leave
her behind. The Harriet kept at a more respectful dis-
tance. The match excited great interest, and the New
Parade was crowded as the vessels were returning.
Seven P.M.—The Ariel is victorious.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
( From the Morning Chronicle.)
Our Tory contemporaries are fiercely at odds about the
duty of the Protestants of Ireland under the new Muni-
cipal law passed at the close of the late session. The
Standard emphatically exhorts them to have nothing to do
with the new corporations, but to. ".organise themselves as
er
policy has made them for ever. It recommends
them o k
that st
distinctte keep
up tarty which
oldcorporations
this finishing
toryas voluntary as-
sociations, faithfully preserving their exclusive spirit,
and making them monuments of " the little faith to
be placed in office-seeking statesmen and politicians;"
meaning thereby the parliamentary leaders and publc
guides of their own party.
.This admonition of the
Protestant and Tory Standard is severely rebuked by the
Tory and Protestant Post, and met by a counter-exhorta-
tion to the Irish Protestants to get into the new corpora-
tions as fast as they can, and as numerously as they can,
and, if possible, to acquire an " ascendancy" in them.
" The duty,".says our morning Contemporary, "of every
subject of the realm, be he Protestant or Papist, is not
merely to obey the laws, but to co-operate to the utmost
of his power in promoting the objects which the law has in
view. The Irishman, of whatever religion, who refuses to
acknowledge this duty" (as every Irish Protestant must
who takes counsel of the Standard) " or neglects to act
up to it, is in heart and disposition an 0' Connellite,
a Repealer, a rebel, and a traitor." Truly, these ortho-
dox authorities give very amiable descriptions of each
other. Downright treason, with the morning oracle, is
the whole duty of an Irishman, according to the ethics of
evening inspiration. The puzzled Orangeman who hap-
pens to have honesty enough left to desire to do his duty
by his party, whatever becomes of his country, will seek
in vain for safety in his path, and must advance unknowing
whether it leads him to glory or to the gallows. Tory
union and Tory principle have been loudly vaunted. Look
at them in the exhibition just presented. The principle
i open to the utmost extremes of opposite
constructon.
ofis sphuobwlincbdyuttyheirown conflicting organs, to leave the path

(From the Times.)
Nothing can be more natural, or in fact more expedient,
than that the two great parties which divide the Legisla-
ture and the country shouldoccasionally employ themselves,
during the customary annual cessations from actual strife,
in reviewing the chief points in their recent struggles, and
in observing with care and attention their advancing or
retrogressive circumstances. The Ministerial journals
have recently more than once professed to take such a re•
trospect, and
have assumed, at least, the appearance of
great exultation at its results. According to their view,
the Ministry had successfully maintained its ground, and
had derived, it was alleged, increased strength from
wastheof,istr sedulouslyy
}'ear w
had, during
held
eld for somelast Session,
five
years beendriven from
obliged the ground
to t
it ha
ke
a d
past,andliad been
up a new, a lower, and afar less secure position. Yet this
was the main result, the leading characteristic of the year's
proceedings. We lately showed, by actual computation,
that in the ten great party divisions of the late Session, the
Ministry could only bring forward 2,472 votes, or 947 in
each on an average; while the; Opposition obtained 2,517,
or above 251 on an average. Thus it was made clear, that,
for all practical purposes, the Ministerial majority was
gone, and had vanished away. The leading Ministerial
Journal coolly copies our statement, and, without
denying a particle of its truth, quietly asks, " What
of that ; what are the Tories the better, if the fact be
so ?" This, we say, is assuming a much lower posi-
tion than the Whigs have ever before been contented
with. In 1835, having taken three divisions on the ap-
propriation clause, and finding the House decide against
him, Sir Robert Peel at once resigned the helm. Lord
John Russell, in noticing the Right Hon. Baronet's com-
munication to the House of Commons, said—"l shall only
give my opinion, that " he has acted entirely In the spirit
of the Constitution." About a twelvemonth or more after
this, Lord Melbourne, in reply to some assailant in the
•d " We shall continue to hold our
Upper House, said
offices so long as we have the support of a ma-
jority of the House of Commons, and no longer."
In 1839 this majority became only a nominal one,
the Jamaica Bill was carried by only 280 votes against
275. The Globe newspaper of that evening remarked—
,, That Ministers will immediately tender their resigna-
tion to her Majesty, we cannot doubt." Lords Melbourne
and John Russell did so tender their resignations ; and
assigned in Parliament this as a chief reason that so bare
a majority showed that they had so far lost the confidence
of the House, as to be no longer capable of a
on the Government to with advantage carry-
ing
the
country. The Ministerial scribe instantly applauded their
resolve ; exulting that t, Government would not submit"
for an instant to stand in a false position."
Such was
the language uniformly held by the Whigs, in Parlia-
ment and out of it, up to the present Session. Now how-
ever, all this is at once abandoned. . They Can now so far
forget their pride and their,, professions as to " submit to
stand in a false position; they can attempt to carry on the
Government without thesupport of a majority of the House
of Commons ; and, having praised Sir R. Peel for having
" acted entirely in the spirit of the Constitution," they can
now deliberately prefer, for themselves, the exactly oppo-
site course I All this, we say, amounts to a great change
in the Whig policy and the Whig practice.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
To the speech of Mr. Sharman Crawford at the first
meeting of the Ulster Association, as a! practical straight-
forward exposition of the mod e in which the Reformers
of England, Ireland, and.. Scotland, may be united in a
mighty and irresistible combination for their common good,
we address our readers' most especial attention. In this
exposition there is a
perfect ceincidenee of sentiment with
the opinions we have long and earnestly endeavoured to
impress upon the minds of the Liberal party in Ireland. In
intelligence here. at least, if not in
the present state of
Ireland, common sense. r?ct integrity of purpose are
far mere desirable in political. leaders than extraordi-
nary genius, if marred by equivocal. eccentricities or an in-
genuity so acute that the public mind, incapable of appre-
ciating its intention, becomes doubtful of its purpose, and
loses that confiding sympathy of action so conducive to the
success of great popular movements, It is to a cause of
this kind that all the agitaiion in Ireland for the last seven
years has produced nothing better than the perpetuation of
tithes, in the shape of rent. charge-_a Corporation Act,
which Mr. O'Connell. designates as the grossest injury and
insult that could be inflicte.d on hi country, and a 13111
in petto for the next Session, which, under the fraudu-
lent pretence of amending the registrations, aims at
the disfranchisement of the whole country. These are
the results of experiments, called experiments to obtain
,t justice for Ireland," but which were i . n. reality made for
the avowed purpose of pro!ing
loan ustice could not be
obtained fur Ireland. It is uttey. worthy of a people
to waste their energies in such objectless exertion. The
very word experiment implies the possibility of a failure_
and in national efforts, as in others, to anticipate failure is
the most certain way of insuring its occurrence. A good
general will never say to his troop, " Come and try if you

can take that town," but he will say, " Come and take it ;"
and the very confidence of the command, is one of the best
guarantees of victory.
(From the Morning Post )

It is impossible to resist the evidence which the Minis-
terial Journals supply, with unceasing assiduity and in rich
profusion, that the official patrons of those Journals are
among the most inveterate and rancorous enemies of the
laws and the religion of their country. The Morning
Chronicle of yesterday, after a repetition of the mawkish
nonsense about the well-paid martyr, Mr. Thorogood, in
the utterance of which the Ministerialist party, in its
highest, its lowest, and its middle ranks—from Lord Nor-
manby to Mr. Baines, and from Mr. Baines to the Morn-
ing Chronicle—have taken so much delight, proceeds in-
sultingly to ask why the dignitaries and clergy of the
Church of England, and especially why the Archdeacon of
St. Alban's, and the Very Reverend Sir Herbert Oakeley,
Dean of the district, and Rector of the parish of Bockiug,
do not submit to the law ? The tone in which this ques-
tion is urged is no less characteristic of the temper and prin.
ciples of the present Administration and its followers than
the nature of the question itself. The Archdeacon is
accused of having promulgated an inflammatory visitation
charge ; and the Ministerial sense of propriety and devo-
tion to the Church are farther illustrated by applying
to the Reverend Rector of Bocking the courteous
and respectful appellation of an " ecclesiastical cats-
paw." And what has afforded the occasion for these Mi-
nisterial urbanities, these official marks of respect to the
religion and laws of the country? The Archdeacon of
St. Alban's has published a charge in which he insists
that the inhabitants of a parish are legally bound to
keep the parish church in repair, and that this duty
may be enforced by the Ecclesiastical Courts at the in.
stance of the proper ecclesiastical guardians of the dis-
trict. Blackstone, in his Commentaries on the Laws of
England, says precisely the same thing. What is the
sense, then, of denouncing the charge of an archdeacon as
inflammatory for merely repeating an opinion of a writer
on the law—one of the chastest, the most correct, and
certainly one of the least inflammatory of all English au-
thors ?

SECOND EDITION•

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)

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Jan. 1860
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South Eastern and Dover

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Globe.)
The dissensions on vital questions among the Tories
in Parliament, and the abuse and contumely poured on
the Tory leaders by the principal journals of the party,
had long shown but too plainly that there was " some-
thing rotten in the state of Denmark." It had be-
come a mere supererogatory undertaking for the Liberal
journals to expose the fallacies and inconsistences
of the Opposition in Parliament. The task was taken
out of their hands. The schisms were too nume-
rous and too wide to be concealed from the public eye.
The smouldering enmity which the ultra-Tories had
long cherished against Sir Robert Peel and the more
reasonable and moderate of those who recognised him
as their chief, could no longer be restrained. Their
organs ceased, in a great degree, from their attacks on
the Members and measures of the Government, to
wreak their malignity on their own chiefs. They col-
lected and concentrated the venom of their nature, to
give energy and effect to their attacks on the conduct
and motives of the very men whom they formerly
lauded as the only statesmen whose counsels could pre-
serve the Constitution, and save the country from ruin !
That the Liberals should derive fresh confidence
from this state of things in the enemy's camp was only
natural : that these proofs of weakness—the reproaches,
upbraidings, and objurations, the doleful predictions
of approaching ruin to the party, through the " apos-
tacy and treachery" of those to whom its interests
had been committed—should be held up as de-
monstrative of the utter absence of that union, with-
out which an Opposition may be powerful to annoy
and obstruct a Government, but must be utterly in-
competent to conduct the affairs of the country—was
a duty at once imperative and pleasing. We confess
we have applied ourselves, con amore, to the subject.
It is, therefore, with no small satisfaction that we find
the Times at length entering the field. In an article
of enormous length, but loose in reasoning, and far
from exhilarating in its conclusions, the " Leading
JourmJournal" attempts to prove that though things are not
so satisfactory as they might be, yet they might be
worse.

(From the Standard.)
We rejoice exceedingly at the recent reception which
his Majesty Louis! Philippe appears to have met with,
both at Calais and Boulogne. Had France but allowed
herself the benefit of his sound sense and estimable qua-

lities of heart, there would have been no ground for the
ill-will which has been so designedly, and we may say,
wickedly created between her and England ; nor would
his Majesty's friendly disposition to this country
have ever become matter of the slightest question.
It will be seen by the letter of our Boulogne cor-
respondent, in another column, that the remark made in
English by his Majesty Louis Philippe to Mr. Coates,
of theatrical celebrity, in reply to the demonstration of
that gentleman's respect for his Majesty, that whilst he
lived peace should be maintained, verifies our impression
that we are indebted for the whole of the present ex-
citement to the manoeuvres of M. Thiers. It is said
that his Majesty, with the good taste and good feeling
which have hitherto distinguished him, exclaimed in a
very loud voice, " Eternal prosperity to England and to
Prance ; eternal peace between them ; and I promise
you that WHILE I LIVE YOU SHALL HAVE PEACE !"
What will M. Thiers and his Parisian Badauds say to
this ?

(From the Courier.)
The Chronicle, in a repetition of the silly stuff about
Thorogood and Church-rates, with which it occa-
sionally shows its contempt for the understanding
of its readers, displays as profound a knowledge
of ecclesiastical history as of ecclesiastical power.
The following is this sage's last exhibition of his
profundity :—" The churchwardens (he says) cannot
make a valid rate in defiance of the votes of a ma-
jority of the rate-payers in vestry assembled. That
is the law. The parish is said to be legally chargeable
with the repairs of the church. The responsibility, it
may be replied, is merely one of the impositions of
priestcraft, the history of which can be distinctly traced.
tip to a period within what lawyers call ' the memory
of man,' the sustentation of the fabric of the church
was a burden upon the tithes. The priests shuffled it
upon the parish, by the sordid perversion of their spi-
ritual influence." Sir William Blackstone says that
these officers can make the rate, and that the Spiritual
Courts can enforce the payment. Older writers, con-
densing cases in point, lay down in substance that the
Spiritual Court may compel the parishioners to repair
their church, and excommunicate them until it be re-
paired. If it can thus deprive the whole body of the
parishioners of the powers which they, or any of them,
might otherwise exercise as subjects of the realm, it can
compel refractory individuals to obedience to the law ;
but, as the censure of excommunication carries with it
such a tremendous penalty as outlawry, it is not resorted
to, but the milder process of distraint is adopted. As
to the Chronicle's history of Church-rates, there pro-
bably was never so great a want of acquaintance with a
subject contained in so small a space.