The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

NATAL IN TELLIGENCE.
(From the Devonport Independent.)
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 11.—Her Majesty's ship Pique, 36,
Capt. Forbes; had fifty boys, from the Caledonia, put on
board her on Monday last, for distribution among the
different ships on the West India station. She sailed on
_Thursday! for Bermuda, but returned again yesterday,
(Friday) in consequence of contrary winds.
Her Majesty's troop-ship Belleisle, 24, Capt. King-
esme, went into the Sound on Sunday last. The crew
was paid advance of wages on Tuesday, and the 9801
Regiment embarked on board her on Wednesday, from
the Alban, steamer, for conveyance to China.
Her Majesty's sloop Fly, 18, Captain, F. P. Black-
wood, was masted on Wednesday last, and again warped
alongside the Jetty, where she will fit for sea.
H. M. steamer Alban, Master-Com. J. King, arrived
on Sunday from Woolwich. She-brought-round a com-
pany of Artillery, to proceed to China in the Belleisle.
The 98th Regiment embarked on board the Alban, from
the Victualling Yard on Wednesday, and after putting
them on board the Belleisle, she returned into the har-
bour on Thursday.
The Devon, lighter, sailed on Thursday, with stores
for Pembroke.

Her Majesty's troop-ships Apollo and Sapphire, ar-
rived here yesterday (Friday), from Portsmouth.
Her Majesty's ship Volage, 26, Oapt. Sir W. Dickson,
Bart., and the Serpent, 16, Com. Neville, may be hourly
expected at this port, from Chatham, to be paid wages
and receive their final orders ; it is expected that the
destination of the former will be China.

Lieut. Doyle, of this Division of Royal Marines, em-
barked on board the Aigle to join the Inconstant, vice
Lieut. Philips, deceased ; Lieut. M`Carthy is promoted
to the rank of First Lieutenant, vice Philips.
Her Majesty's ship President, 50, Captain Broughton,
may be expected home with Rear-Admiral Ross, C. 8., in
the early part of January next from the Brazils.
Ships in Harbour—Caledonia, 120, Capt. H. Eden ;
San J.osef, 110, Captain F. W. Burgoyne ; Isis, 44,
Captain Sir John Marshall ; Minden, 24 (hospital ship),
Captain M. Quin ; Fly, 18, Captain Francis P. Black-
wood ; Bramble, 10, (tender to Fly) ; Ferret, 10, Com.
Josiah Oake ; Volcano, steamer, Lieut. C. Featherstone ;
Alban, steamer, Master-Corn. J. King.
In the Sound—Malabar, 72, Captain Sir George R.
Sartorius, Knt. ; Madagascar, 44, Capt. John Foote ;
Pique, 36, Capt. Forbes ; North Star, 26, Captain Sir
J. E. Home, Bart. ; Aigle, 24, Capt. Right Hon. Lord
C. E. Paget ; Belleisle, 24 (troop. ship), Capt. J. King-
come ; Harlequin, 16, Corn. the Hon. G. F. Hastings ;
Apollo and Sapphire, troop-ships ; and Somersetshire,
convict-ship.
We have been favoured with a letter from an officer
of her Majesty's brigantine Bonetta, 3 Lieut. J. Austen.
dated Sierra Leone, October the 10th. The writer
had arrived there in charge of the Portuguese slaver
Acorieno Oriental, which had been captured by the Bo-
netta after looking out fur her nearly two months. She
had a full cargo of goods on board, and everything re-
quisite for taking in slaves ; 300 had been registered for
her off the Galinas, and were to have been taken on
board on the 30th September, but it was prevented by
the Bonetta falling in with her. In consequence of the
vessel being condemned at the Admiralty Court at Sierra
Leone, it is expected that the proceeds of the cargo goes
to the Crown, and only the tonnage paid to the captors.
They were anxiously looking out for another slaver, of
which they had information, and in great hopes of fall-
ing in with her shortly. The Wanderer, 16, Com. the
Hon. J. Denman, had arrived at Sierra Leone, and was
to sail on the 11 th October, taking the prize- master and
crew down to the Bonetta, cruising off Cape Mount.
1.
The Persian had .en very lucky, and sent into Sierra
Leone several prizes. The crews of these vessels were
healthy.

CHAMBERS' INFORMATION FOR

THE PEOPLE." ,
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
It is bad enough in all conscience that there should
be a large and important section of the press of this
country avowedly in the interest of the land-owning,
monopolizing, famine-mongering aristocracy, as opposed
to the interests of the country generally, and, to no in-
considerable extent, against the very existence of that
class of its inhabitants whose skill and industry produce
all that ministers to human comfort and enjoyment. But
it is still worse to find that portion of the press which
has been called into existence and is sustained by the
funds of the productive classes, ministering to the un-
righteous objects and upholding the much-abused power
of the greedy and grinding oligarchy.
It creates no astonishment when the Times or the
Standard is found setting at nought all the evidences
which press themselves. upon men's minds of the de-
teriorated and deplorable condition of the workilig.
classes, and expatiating upon the advantages of corn
laws and other long-fostered monopolies, created for the
benefit of the few at the heavy cost of the many; but it
does excite astonishment when publications like Cham-
bers's Information for the People, " a comprehensive
poor man's cyclopxdia " for diffusing useful know..
ledge"—supported by the people, as it is avowedly forthe
people is found lending its great influence, and veosti-
tuting its almost immeasurable power, in like manner,
in aid of the hard-hearted and life-destroying landlords.
This is not the • first time that the Messrs. Cham-
bers have become amenable to this grave charge ; and
we hold it to be our duty—whatever may be our sense
of obligation fur the benefits they have conferred upon
the reading poor, and that sense of obligation is by
no means slight—to expose the false statements and
reasonings by which they ever and anon attempt to
play into the enemy's hands, whenever they may happen
to fall under our notice. The forty-sixth number of the
" Information for the People," is a treatise upon " Popu-
' lation, Poor-laws, and,Life Assurance;" and in the sec-
tion treating of population we find the following remarks:
" Where we see the inhabitants of an old country ra-
pidly increasing, we must come to one of two conclusions,
either that that country is in a flourishing state, so that
there is a kind of bounty put upon children, or that it is
in a state of such wretchedness that the intercourse of
the sexes is the only attainable enjoyment. With re-
gard to Ireland, we presume, there can be no doubt of
its liability to pass into the latter category. But the
rapid increase of the 'English people in the last
forty years, will probably be the subject of a doubt.
To determine this question, it might be inquired
if the increase of the agricultural products and of the
manufacturing industry of the country has been in an
equal ratio, and if labouring men, skilled and unskilled,
can now obtain for their wages as large a share of the
comforti)of life as formerly. Notwithstanding popular
declamations to the contrary, we suspect this to be the
case ; and, consequently, believe the increase of popu-
lation in England to be, upon the whole, of a healthy
description.'
And is it really a matter of doubt, whether, in Eng-
land, " the increase of the agricultural products and of
the manufacturing industry of the country has been in
an equal ratio ; and whether labouring men, skilled and
unskilled, can now obtain for their wages as large a
share of the comforts of life as formerly ?" We think
not, but we take the fact to be just the reverse of that
stated by the Messrs. Chambers. We need not look far
for the proofs of our proposition.

AN TI-CORN -LA W CONFERENCE.
EDINBURGH, DEC. 7, 1841.—At a preliminary meet-
ing of ministers and members of DissentingonuiCssthepurasrcrthasesnodf,
residing in this city and neighbourhood, held in
on Tuesday, the 11th,
Broughton-place Session-house this day, to consider the
.9 , to express
pmreomprbieertys
of
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Dcailinngtinagpcubbluicrebmeesetifnrgbmof
immoral tendency of
-laws, and to
trade
for their
their opinion
itoonbeofhetlhdeininEjudsintibeuerganh,d,
,
Andrew
and Wednesday, the 12th of January, 184
in
am Peddie, Rev. William Bruce,
Messrs. Dr. Ritchie,
the Corn and Provision
total repeal, and an entirely free
corn—
Present, Rev. John MiGilchrist, Rev.
MarshalllVillWilliam
; Rev. Peter
Rev. Francis Muir, Rev.
Dunlop,John
John Wigham, jun.,
tertius,Adam BAlraccilici,balDdunTchanom
RDearv.idislornil,lialm?ev.
,John Gray, Commissary Wemyss, Joh M'Laren, Councillor Gray,
n
Conruie,ckshank, John
Ritchie, James
S. Grieve, George Johnstone, William Miller, Williamn son, B.
, James Duncan,
m aRr
sobbyl
,t
Francis Glass,
M`Lare John
HWoigwhisaomn:
Peter, J. Pairrn
Durham, William Stark
Thomas Lindsay, Rich-
ardson, R.
Q. Dalrymple, Robert Kerr, Robert Davidson, Charles
anOVilliam May, Adie, W. Smith,
Andrew
_5, D. Bernard, D. Watson, J. Frier, W.
T.,- Henderson, blatefurd, George Thomson, James Hogg ,
H. Cochrane, W. Dickie Robb, James Cassie,
Alex. M`Lennan, A. Learmonth, Robert Crawford,
M‘Leod, Thomas Russell, &c.:—
_ On the motion of Mr. JOHN Wzcmcw, junior, the
lieverend JOHN AVGILCHRIST WAS called to the chair.
The meeting having been opened with prayer by the
Reverend Dr. Ritchie, proceeded to consider the subject
for which they had been called together. After much
deliberation, it was unanimoubly resolved, " That a pub-
lic meeting of the kind contemplated, if well attended
by the friends of the cause from a distance, was highly
desirable, and calculated to do much good ; but that, be-
fore coming to a final decision on the subject, circulars
with queries, should be sent to ministers residing at a
distance, in order to ascertain their opinions as to the
proprie • ty of holding the meeting, and to know whether
they could be present at it ; and, if the answers should
be generally favourable on these points, that the meeting
should then be fixed to take place at Edinburgh on Tues_
day the 11th, and Wednesday the 12th January, 1842.,,
The meeting hereafter proceeded to consider to whom,
and on what conditions, the invitation to the plibiie
meeting should be issued (on the assumption that the
answers will be favourable), and in what manner its i?rdo-
ceedings should be regulated ; and, after much cons
ration, resolutions were agreed to, and ordered tol be -
transmitted to every dissenting minister in Scotland

CHANCERY.—Mr. George Franks, of Bliv.k•
friars-road, has lately obtained an injunction in '
Dublin
against Joseph Page, for selling n medicine under the
name of " Franks' Specific. Solution of. Copaiba.,, in
proprietor is
ought to be
purchasing patent medicines the public
htahvaet
some beengen
cautious in observing that the name of the
erall
generally
covers the cork of the bottle.
engraved on the Government wrapper
REMEMBER THE POOR.--We
a little surprised and affected. to learn from
bene-
volent individuals who make it their business to visit the
abodes of wretchedness, _ _

" Where hopeless anguish pours its groan,
And lonely want retires to die,"
that there is an appalling amount of distress at present
in Truro ; and should the winter prove as severe as it
threatens to be, the sufferings of a large number of th•
poor will be extremely great. There are, indeed, seve-
ral benevolent institutions in active operation in the
town, but they are chiefly eonfined`to the supplying of
clothing, while coals anct "wholesome food are equally
needed. We trust some mean's' will be devised for sup-
plying the poor with these essential articles during the
winter months, in order that the distress of our suffering
fellow-creatures may be mitigated, if not entirely pre-
vented.— West Briton.