The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-06 00:00:00

VENING EDITION.

irel a Ministerial hanger-an, as one of the new class of
" Worship," created under favour of Ministerial legis-
lation, denounced the aristocracy as plundering the
nation, and pocketing the spoil, to the tune of forty
millions sterling a year, through the operation of the
Corn-laws. The ignorance and impudence of this illi
terate functionary were indeed justly rebuked on the in-
stant by a Mr. Elijah Dixon, an operative, we believe,
who remarked that he, for one, could not compre-
hend how plunder to that extent could be perpetrated,
seeing that the whole rental of the land did not ex-
ceed the sum, and that the land was let at an average
of rental ranging from ISs. to 20s. an acre. The
Aldermanic idiot by which this foolery was mouthed,
after dUe time for cogitation, did subsequently come
forward to acknowledge the correction so promptly ad-
ministered by one of a class unhonoured because less
plethoric of pocket than himself, but shamelessly pre-
tended his meaning to be that, by the Corn-laws enacted
by the aristocracy7forty, millions sterling per annum were
taken from the pockets of the people. Admitting for '
a moment only, the fact to be as undoubted as it is
false and stupid, where does the plunder go, since the
aristocracy are clear of the transfer to their own behoot?
The forty millions are not exported, and must therefore
remain in the country; who then are the gainers, for of
the whole, or of participation in the greater part, the
aristocracy stand absolved ? We apprehend, for our
part, that the distribution is equitably effected among
all classes, manufacturing and agricultural. The forty
millions are shared in the shape of wages for labour
and profits upon farming and manufacturing capital.
The proportion falling to the share of labour is un-
doubtedly the largest. as it ought to be ; that to farming
profits is not inconsiderable, but that to manufacturing
profits we hold to be more valuable still.
(From the Standard.)
The speech of Professor Butt, inserted in yester-
day's Standard, has, we are convinced, been care-
fully read and m perused for its own sake. Elo-
quence of the order to which that speech, and more
particularly the passages of it rebuking the
savage and unnatural attack of Mr. O'Connell
upon Lord Brougham, belong, is never offered for
notice in •vain. We indeed know of nothing finer
in modern eloquence than the latter half of the Pro- '
fesser's address, while the whole of it is admirable.,
It is not, however, as to a piece of splendid oratory
that we beg to recal attention to the Learned Professor's
speech. We wish to use it merely as the evidence
of an intelligent and well-informed witness upon the
probable danger of a rebellion in Ireland as cer-
tain to follow upon a change'of Ministers. Mr. Butt
rejects the hypothesis of such a danger existing with
contempt ; he tells what he knows, that the Protes-
tants of Ireland are well able, though unassisted, to
maintain the peace of their country ; and no one
can doubt the willingness of those brave and
loyal men ; and in telling what he knows, and
what his hearers enthusiastically acknowled;ed as
an indisputable truth, he told what is just as
well known to the disaffected in Ireland. These
persons are perfectly aware that were England
not to send a single soldier to their aid, the Pro-
testants and loyal Roman Catholics of Ireland con-
stitute a power quite adequate to crush tee first
movement of rebellion in that island ; and they have
more than one motive, therefore, for studiously refusing
opportunity for the exp-riment. Thei know that rebel-
lion is desperate—they know also that insurrection would
exhibit a new and a more unequivocal picture of the cha-
racter of their priesthood. Lastly—and as malice has
usually the most influence upon the minds of such
men, this is, perhaps, the most powerful motive of all—
they see that the first approach to a civil war would
demonstrate the power, the zeal, and the immoveable
fidelity of the class wham, at one time, they have heron
accustomed to sneer at as a miserable minority, at an-
other to brand as a formidable conspiracy of traitors.

I. shnrt. they are thoroughly ccnseious that the rebel-
lion which they threAten would exhibit both themselves
end their antagonists in the colours of truth, and there-
fore they will never venture that threat, except by the
public and express command of that Sovereign whom,
in their a11.2g-iancc, they place above the Queer of the
United Knigdom—" Our Holy Father the Pope 1"

LLOYD'S 16H1PPING-(THIS DAY.)

DrutL, JANT. 4.—Wind E. S. E. ; 5, N. W.—Sailed the
outward bound.

LarEftPC.OL, JAN. 4 —Wind S E. ; 5, E. S. E. —Ar-
rived the Roscoe, Ellis, from Maran. Sailed the Compe-
tent, Robinson, for Bombay; Traveller, Harvey, Brazil;
Lenora, Harrison, Demerara; Isabel, Shore, Antigua;
Archer, Mattbewson, and Alexander Young, Jamaica;
Unicorn, Mullins, Hanover ; Amisted, Fernandez, ditto ;
George Canning, B:aithwaite, La Guayra; Ann Ding-
wall, Archer, Si. Thoan-,s's ; Gerard, Gross, and Caledc-
nia, Huxtahl,, New Orleans; Wasdale, and Brothers,
Drysdale, llayti ; Ann Hall. Tucker, Mobile; Cutr.bv-
land, Power, Apalachicola ; Warrior, Jones, Charleston ;
Montezuma, Philadelphia ; Olive Branch, Sedgo.ick, Sa-
vannah ; Pearl, Fletcher, Norfolk, Virginia ; Henry Hood,
M' Ferran, Westchester , Ferris Spirolinio, Smith, Ind
Virginian, H iggins, New York ; Ruth, Rendall, Sierra
Leone ; St. Croix, Bradley, Honduras; Mary, Hamilton,
Demerara; Racer, Pridharn, Vera Cruz ; Asia, Hannah,
and Alexawier Edracnd, Strong, Sdvannah ; St. Law-
rence, Brown, and Timbleon, Wiosor, New Orleans;
Jane May, May, Ceara ; Sowell, Pratt, Boston; Leone,
Palermo ; 15zella, Newton, Syra.
Po ItT.SMOUTII, JAN. s.—slid N. N. E.—Arrived the
Arcturus, Kell, from Bilboa. Sailed the Samson,
Townsend, to New York; Angelique, Le Roux, Mar-
tinique; Caroline, Sweetman, Grenada.
COWES, JAN. a.—Arrived the Dolphin, from Manilla,
leaky, and with loss of sails, Bre. Sailed the James
\ltQueen, M'Cull, for St. Kitt's ; Orestes, Allenberg,
Rio Janeiro; Duke of Bronte, Haires, and Garland Grove,
Pingelly, Jamaica.
GUERNSEY, JAN. 3.—Sailed Charles, Jones, Terceira.
CLYDE, JAN. 3.—Sailed the Bucephalus, Small, for
Bombay ; Elizabeth, Hamlyn, Calcutta.
DUBLIN, JAN. 4.—Sailed the Garonne, fur Barbadoes.
Coax, .AN. :3.—Off port the Alice, from the Mauritius
—sailed 9th October, and St. Helena 19th November.
LEITII, JAN. 4. —Arrived the Diana, Miller, from
Quebec. Sailed the Langton, Heron, for Tobago.
SUNDERLAND, JAN. 4.—Arrived the Monarch, Quebec.
HULL. JAN. 4.—Wind N. W.—Arrived the Elizabeth,
Sims, from Miramichi.

SIIIELDS, JAN. 3.--The Mary Ann, of London, struck
upon the Herd Sand, yesterday, and has been assisted into
this harbour with loss of rudder.

BERWICK, JAN. 3.—The Britannia, Spence, from Rot-
terdau to Dundt,e, is on the rocks south of North Sun-
derland, with rudder unshipped, hull damaged, :Ind very
leaky—cargo expected to be saved without much damage.
DUBLIN, JAN. 3.—A vessel, name LLkIIOWII, is reported
to be un the Arklow Bank.

YARMOUTH, ISLE ON WIGHT, JAN. s.—The Symmetry,
Giles, from Swansea to Little Hampton, which was on
sliore_on Pcnington Spit, was got off )esterday, after dis-
charging part of her cargo, without darroge, and will
proceed.
AIII.FORD, JAN. 4.—A small vessel, bottom up, passed
St. David's Head on the 31st ult.

VESSELS SPOKEN WtTo..-LThe Hebe, Newcastle to
Oporto 2d inst., lat. 49, long 5, by the Arcturus, Hill,
arrived at Portsmouth ; Blucher, bound to St. Thomas ;
Tobago, bound to Antigua, 20th ult. ; and Marion, Clyde
to Grenada, 2tith, lat. 47, long. 17, by the Alice Amayl,
arrived off Corti; Rosendall, Liverpool to South Aus..
tralia, 30th u 1,., lat. 40., long 11, by the Resolution,
Carter, arrived in the River.

The Duke of Portland arrived in town, last
week, from Welbeck Priory, Nottinghamshire.
COVENT GARDEN THEATRE—Sheridan's
opera of The Duenna was revived on Saturday night at
Covent-garden with all that taste in scenery, dresses,
and appointments, which has given celebrity to the ma-
nagement of this theatre. The cast of characters was
remarkably good. Farren played Jerome capitally, and
both he and Keeley, as Isaac Mendoza, sang their
comic songs remarkably well. Harrison, who took the
part of Don Ferdinand, was encored in the old song of
File Thorn," which he introduced. It made no part
of the Opera, but he sang it most sweetly, and was en-
cored. Vestris's Don Carlos was a captivating perfot-
mance. Miss Itainforth, as Donna Clara, acquitted
herself well. Mrs. C. Jo2es was, as the 114enna, full of
humour, Miss Middleton, who made her debut as
Donna Louisa, did not make a hit. The opera is at-
tractive, and such a representation of it as we had on
Saturday an undoubted credit to the management. The
house was crowded.

THEATRICAL NOVELTY.--Mr. Fitz Robert,
the dramatic amateur, whose first appearance on a
public stage we lately announced was about to take
place, acted the part of Pierre, at Windsor, with great
success on Wednesday last.

Miss HELEN Paucfr.—We regret to learn
that this young actress has temporarily sunk under the
fatigue of her exertions, and has been compelled to with-
draw from the stage until recruited health may enable
her to renew them. All who take any interest in our
national drama are familiar with the unaffected and suc-
cessful efforts on which, on every opportunity, she has
made to pourtray those more elevated moods of the
passions and zffeetions which depth and simplicity of
feeling can alone conceive, and practised talent convey ;
and those who witnessed her performance of Desdemona
at the Hai market last week, especially, cannot but
hope that she may quickly be. restored to pttmuo her:
promising career.

TH E-A
ZO R E S.-There have been great disasters
in the Azores by hurricanes and high tides. dy an
official account from Pota Delgada, the capitrA of St.
Michael's, it appe,irs that that town, and the whole
south coast of the island, were visited by a tremendous
itmundation on the sth instant, which destroyed a great
number of houses, warehouses, &c., near the shore ;
damaged the Castle of St. Bray and other forts, the
custom-house, cattle market, &c. At Lagoa, Villa
Franca de Campo, Riberia, and other villages in the
same island, great damage was also experienced ; seve-
ral houses are said to have been also blown down, hot
only one case of loss of life has been reported. The
authorities were providing, as far as possible Fir t)Je
shelter, &c., of the parties whose property h',Ad been
destroyed. An account published in the Avorierio
journal says that a ship and some smaller
~fplif)El which
were in port were knocked to pieces, an:d ihe Pass of pro-
perty altogether amounted to severr,', hundre d °antes.