The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-13 00:00:00

THE A RuHIMEDEi, PAT,ENT
SCRE N PROPELLER SHIP.

lln The Sun of Tuesday an account ap-
peared of this vessel having made the voyage from
Plymouth to Oporto in 70 hours ; and yesterda3
morning intelligence was received of her return from
Oporto to Plymouth in 88 hours—total out and
bottle 167 hours, the most part of which was per-
formed against strong head winds and a heavy sea.
This is unquestionably the most successful voyage
ever made by a steam-vessel, the effizient working

power of which hots been ascertained not to exceed
65 horses, and we imagine there can no longer be
any question as to the superiority of Patent Screw
Propellers as compared with paddle-wheels.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM Tilt MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
It ill becomes Lord Hadenngtofi, the weakest and
most anilc representative of majesty that ever held the
sword in Ireland, to rebuke the present Lord Lieute-
nant as an encourager of agitation. Surely his cheek
must have forgotten to blush, since it was fanned by
the Orange flag waved in triumph over him by an officer
of the Dublin Corporation, arid his memory most hate
acquired a happy unconsciousness of the caresses tic-
still lavished upon that body, whose chosen " ruffian"
(we quote a classical authority) had been thus put for-
ward to flout and insult the people of Ireland, or he
never would have stepped out of the shade where his
merits now repose, to taunt any man for having given
countenance to political agitation. We are at the same
time ready to admit, that if Lord Ebrington's conduct had
no better vindication than such as might be imparted
by the sanction of Lord Haddington's example, hr
might be very culpable. But he stands on much higher
ground, and needs not to appeal to so dubious a prece-
dent for his defence. It is altogether untrue that he
countenances the "patrons of agitation in Ireland." Ni
word or action of his or of any person connected with
his government, will admit of such a construction.
That some degree of political irritation prevails it
Ireland, and that Mr. O'Connell is endeavour
ing to make it available as a means of spreading his
monomania about Repeal, is certain. Nor is it doubt-
ful who have been the real exciters of the state of popu-
lar feeling which may be favourable to such a purpose.
Look at the hostile bearing of the Tory party towards
Ireland ; consider the calumnies they pour out, inccs
santly and through a hundred different mouths, against
the character of the people and all that is dearest and
most sacred to their judgment and affections. The
wilful blindness to their virtues ; the fiendish an
exulting exaggeration of their faults ; the rancorous
abuse o their religion ; the mean attempt, reiterated
session after session, to rob their spiritual teachers of
the miserable pittance allowed for their education ; the
atrocious conspiracy to swindle the whole people out o•
their due and rightful power of sending representative:
to the Imperial Parliament : these are provocations
enough to unsettle men's minds, and drive them to will
speculations for redress.
(From the Times.)
The memorials just published of the most important
of which an analysis was furnished in our City article
on Monday, addressed to her Majesty's Government
by British merchants interested in the trade witl
China, and presented to both Hou,es of Parliament by
command of her Majesty, contain matter worthy of grave
consideration. Sonic of them, particularly the Blaster
memorial, and that to which special reference has
already been made, proceeding, from the London, East
India, and China Association, are written with temper
and moderation, and with a just discrimination on mos.
points between opposing principles and interests. But
they are all essentially and necessarily ex parte, present.
ing only the British side of the question as opposed to the
Chinese, and even the former only in its mercantile
aspect, certainly one of the most interesting aspects ir,
which it can be regarded, without adequately noticing
it either as a question of public morality or of interns.
tional policy. We cannot consent to take this one-
sided view of the case. No sound principle is in real
conflict with any other sound principle ; and, however
difficult it may be to steer among the contending ele-
ments of public opinion, the whole case must b fully
put before the people of England. On the commercial
aspect of the question there can be but one opinion.
British commerce, the property and persons of British
merchants, must be protected by negotiation, if pos
sible—by force, if necessary. On the other hand, ar,
illegal trade forced upon a foreign people cannot be
countenanced and supported by a Government that
respects itself and desires to enjoy the respect of the
world. Let not this distinction be forgotten or over.
looked.

(From the Morning Advertiser.) I
Well, another Session is past away, and the Tories
are still excluded from office I. How is this, Sir Robert
Peel ? You opened the Session by declaring that the
sixth week of it would see you in office—more than six
months of it has passed, and you are farther from place
than.ever! How is this to be accounted for ? Let 11)
see. The Tories have not lost place for want of trying
for it, that is certain ! Neither, we fear, have thei,
efforts been frustrated by the resolute conduct of till
Government, or the earnest support afforded them 1.)
the Liberal representatives of the people. The
Tories have tried every mode of attack, and
have put in practice every species of man-
muvre. Their friends have uniformly mustered well ;
while the Liberals, on the contrary, have been
culpably negligent in the performance of their duty.
Yet, with all these disadvantages, the Government have
been victorious throughout the struggle, and by the ex-
cellence of their Parliamentary policy, have seated them-
selves more firmly in office than ever. Whenever the
reins of Government shall drop from the Liberal hands
that now grasp them in spite of every misadventure,
the blame of that calamity will light, not alone on tht
heads of the Tory faction, who will profit by it, but on
the heads of many of the Reformers, who must deplore
it. Whatever the defects of the existing Government
may be, the present age Las witnessed no such approach
to what all Reformers agree_ in recognizing as the true
principles of liberal and enlightened policy—safe and
progressive improvement. Ten years ago, no man
living could have_hoped to witness such an Adminis-
tration.

(From the Morning Post.)
The Ministerialists cannot suppress their manifesto•
Lions of joy that the Session is over, and that Leta'
Melbourne and his colleagues are, still in place. Ic
this circumstance alone they find, and exultingly cc
knowledge, a sufficient, compensation for all the dis
graces of the Session. This is what might naturalll
have been expected of a party who have long made i
evident that with them the sordid and ignoble love o
place far outweighs every consideration of patriotism,
duty, and honour. The party in place, but not in
power, has been unable to carry through Parliament
during the Session a single measure without submit
ting to such alterations as their political opponent:
thought fit to dictate. But what is it to them that
Parliament has received their measures with contempt.
indifference, or aversion ? Are they not still in place ':
And at what higher object have they ever aimed ':
In every Session of Parliament but the last zinc(
Mr. O'Connell and the tail hoisted them into place thi
present Ministers of the Crown have had a majority
though a small one, in the House of Commons, upot
which they could in some degree depend ; and in thi:
circumstance they affected to discover an apology foi
retaining place in defiance of the distrust and aversioi
of an overwhelming majority of the Upper House o
Parliament. But it is recently only, and in the utter
desperation of their affairs, that the present Ministers
of the Crown have avowed the determination to cling
to place, independently of the confidence or respect of
either House of Parliament. Progressive degradation,
increasing contempt for the principles and spirit of the
constitution of their country, an ap,,ctite for the emolu
meats of office, gradually becoming more sordid, intense,
and exclusive, have been displayed by Ministers with
an ostentation as audacious as it is unprincipled,
(From the Morning Herald.)
The state of the crops throughout England is, at
this moment, an object of the deepest interest. Ac-
counts differ widely as to the probable results of the
harvest—some calculators anticipating superabundant
crops, others proclaiming that th
lle fields, however rich
w
they may appear to be, i yield us les; than an
average supply. The corn jobbers are, o course,
busy. They talk loudly about blight anti mildew ;
and occupy themselves incessantly in arranging ficti-
tious sales of wheat, in order to raise the averages,
and liberate all the bonded wheat without payment of
more than a shilling duty. In proof r industry
be stated, that in the recent re-
itnurtnhsisfrroem9;lesitsrkit-ltlay e, fifteen thousand quarters of wheat
were " set down" as having been sold at 80s. a quarter
—the price secured by the farmer for his very best
wheat being notoriously not higher than 725. The
truth is, that amongst the manifold hardships to which
the English corn-grower is subjected, not the least
vexatious is the mode in which the averages are taken.
The returns arc supplied by corn-jobbers, not by core•
growers—are supplied by men who have a perpetna
interest in exaggerating the apparent price of Britisl
wheat, and who—by means of a system of fictitious
sales—have it in their power, to a great extent, to
exhibit, at critical periods, the results that best suit.
their interests. The sonic parcel of wheat is, not
unfrequently, sold a doz:n times in one day, without
ever changing hands. The price of bread gets, conse-
quently, higher and higher—while the duty on foreign
wheat lessens in the same proportion. The magical
average of seventy-three shinings is at length attained.
The speculator in foreign corn realizes immense sums
—while the consumer o bread is cheated in the price
of his loaf, and the English farmer is robbed of his
honest profits. The returns of corn sold, and of the
prices at which it is sold, ought, undoubtedly, to be suy-
plied by the farmers who grow the wheat, and not by
jobbers, whose interests are, invariably, opposed to tlic
interests both of the English consumer and of the Eng-
lish prviwer of 490