The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-27 00:00:00

(From the Morning Herald.)

We have read a very angry, -intemperate, and, as it
appears to us, imprudent article in the Times, severely
animadverting on our advocacy of the National Society,
and affecting to ridicule us for adhering to principles which
but a year ago our contemporary himself warmly espoused
and inculcated. The Times may have felt weighty rea-
sons for changing its opinions respecting the Committee of
Council and the National Society ; but we remain fixed to
the sentiments which we have always entertained concern-
ing the respective merits of these education institutions.
We view the one as the legitimate representative of
Conservative principles, both in Church and State; the
other as the spawn of modern liberalism, as patronising
schemes of education which are fundamentally subversive of
the unron between the civil and ecclesiastical parts of the
English constitution. If " the writer is the Herald is an
imperishable blockhead," he has good reason to remember
when articles of the same tendency and the same calibre
were plentifully admitted in the columns of the Times.
When the Committee of Educatien was first appointed, it
was ailed with every weapon of argument and raillery by
cur distinguished contemporary. When the great meet-
ing was held at Willis's, the 'limes joined with us in laud-
ing to the skies that powerful concentration of the Na-
troaret -Society. The Times has since that period seen
ea use to change its opinions, and now advocates the Privy
Conseil Lispectors of the schools of the Church, and me-
nders the National S cicty with the loss of its charter if it
shell persevere in its opposition to the educational projects
of the present Ministry.
(From the Morning Po :t.)
It is a great degradation to the Government of this
country, and excessively inconvenient as repects the de-
spatch of public business, that there is no real or effectual
Government leader in either House of Parliament. To
call either Lord Melbourne or Lord John Russell a leader
is a misnomer. They do nut lead. They do not venture
upon a decisive course. They do not say " This is our
policy, which we have maturely determined upon, and
have resolved to carry into effect." They are afraid to
take any such plain direct course as this. Such is their
low position that to escape from difficulties seems to be the
kigheSt aim of their Ministerial endeavours. Instead of
going straightfoi ward to a determined point they are tor
over bending this way or that according to the pressure of
vernporary circumstances. The course of MO.:ten ge-
nerally, and especially of Lord John Russell, is a perpetual
wriggle. He does not dare to net firmly, or even
to express a distinct intelligible opinion upon
matters that come under discussion. It seems
as though his mind never concerned itself about
what was the true, honest, fair, and patriotic view to be
taken of any point in debate, but merely what was the
safest to express. He appears to be under a perpetual
fear of losing a vote here or a vote there ; and to accom-
modate his speech to all the various classes whom he has
. the slightest chance of_ pleasing, rather than to declare
what he himself believes or knows to be true, is, all but

manifestly, his object. This way of working may servo
to keep Ministers in office, but it has the effect at the same
time of bringing the Government into contempt. So con-
firrnz.d has this habit of trimming become, on the pert of
the person erronecusly called leader of the House of Com-
mons, that in small matters, as well as in more important,
we fiad him shrinking from a leading and decisive part.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
The Bill which is set down for hearing this evening in
the House of Commons, for diminishing the duty upon
British Plantation coffee by the amount of Id. per pound,
and of leaving the East India coffees at their old duty
without any abatemerkt, will, we hope, be calmly
and carefully considered by the Right Honourable the
President of the Board of Trade, before he lends to it
any further sanction. That its enactment is a boon to the
West India planter, no one can attempt to ders•._and
still less can it be averred, with justice, that the reduc-
tion of the duty will be of the slightest benefit to the
British community. If it could be shown to us that
the diminished duty would prove a diminution of the
price of Plantation coffee in this country, or the cause •
of an increase of the revenue, we should have something
in the shape of a reason for supporting it ; but it is plainly
admitted on all hands, in the first place, that the revenue
will suffer in consequence of the diminution of the duty—
in the second, that Plantation coffee will rise instead of
fall in the British market—and in the third, that the whole
diminished duty will go into the pockets of the owners of
British West Indian estates. Now if this last be the motive
which influences the attempted reduction in favour of West
Indian coffees, and the leaving of East Indian at their pre.,
sent high rate, it is a demand to which the British public
ought not to submit. Already have twenty millions come
out of the pockets of the people of Great Britain in com-
pensation of the West Indian interests ; and is it fair that
an additional tax should be laid on for the benefit of the
same body, for which no one, so far as we are aware, has
called by petition, or any other public proceeding ?

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

(SATURDAY EVENING.)
POST.—We do not perceive that the City writer of
the Morning Chronicle mends his case at all by returning,
in the feeble, self-exculpatory fashion he does to-day, to
the discussion of the sickening question of Spanish finances.
The very foundation of all his arguments has been cut
from under him even by the correspondents of his own
journal, and in vain does he labour in the unprofitable
effort to reconstruct it. The contemptible sophistries
the lame attempts of our Contemporary day after day to
set himself right with the public, have brought forth re-
plies from Mr. Wyllie, who seems to be most thoroughly
disgusted at the manner in which his plain straightforward
statements cf facts have been perverted. As to the
charge made against that gentleman of undervaluing
the revenues of Spain, and of submitting to the
Chairman of the Committee of Bondholders, of
which he is a member, ,‘ garbled extracts" from the
" Diary of the Cortes," it is remarked that for him to have
published the whole speeches in the debate of the law of
" titulos" would have been absurd ; but that as the num-
bers and dates of the paper are given, as well as the names
of the speakers, a very favourable position is afforded the
Chronicle for substantiating that charge. We suppose
Mr. Wyllie is shrewd enough to have understood the
meaning of our Contemporary, but how does the latter,
who accuses other people of " sneaking off," endeavour to
wriggle out of the difficulty? He says what amounts to
an admission, that if, indeed, he were really guilty of the
act of disingenuousness imputed to him, it was from the
absolute necessity of the case, so sorely was he galled and
distressed by the persevering opposition of the Morning
Post.

The Morning Chronicle knows very well that we have
misrepresented nothing—garbled nothing. We gave the
results come to by Mr. Wyllie, and a friend of Mr.
Thornton's, in which the difference was not material. The
extracts culled by us from the Diary were merely in illus-
tration of the lamentable condition of Spain and the evasive
shuffling conduct of the Government.

The Chronicle has lauded the clandestine operations of
Mendizabal under the memorable vote of confidence in
1836-7. A million and a half sterling was, as he must
needs acknowledge, obtained through the instrumentality
of agents here, and, by way of putting the integrity of the
CVonicle to the test, we have challenged him in the most
pointed manner to name those agents. He declines the
challenge. Not a word more will he hazard upon the
subject. What is the inference ? Can there be any
hesitation on his part in saying who have shared with M.
Mendizabal the responsibility of transactions he has pro-
nounced to be so perfectly blameless ? There is no
" sneaking off" here, of course. Never was a newspaper
driven to such miserable shifts before.

HER A LD.—The letter from Mr. Wyllie, transmitted
to this department, in answer to Mr. Henderson on the
litigated subject of the finances, loans, and resources of
Spain, may be left to tell its own tale for the present. It
may be worth while to resume the question one of these
days,if only for the sake of exposing the dishonest misrepre-
sentations and omissions of a Morning Ministerial paper,
that, somehow or other, which may be guessed at, has
ever been deeply interested in these matters, and always
in the sense of conspiracy with loan-jobbers against the
public.

CHRONICLE.—We are gratified to learn that the
Committee of Spanish bondholders are now beginning in
good earnest to bring the claims of the British bond-
holders fully before the Government of Spain, and that
they are acting in conjunction with the Paris Com-
mittee. A memorial has been addressed to the Govern-
ment of Spain; and the Committee, accompanied by other
bondholders, intend to seek the support of the British Go-
vernment by an early interview with Lord Palmerston.
The chief purpose of the memorial is to induce the Spa-
nish Government to send Commissioners, or to give powers
to the finance commission in London, to negotiate for a
setticment of the arrears of interest, the Committee being
determined that an adjustment of the coupons shall be the
first and necessary stepping-stone.
The posture of affairs in Spain may perhaps produce
some delay in the answer to this memorial, as a new Mi-
nistry must have many pressing affairs requiring their im-
mediate and pressing attention. A new Cortes, it is
thought, must follow a new Ministry, and we trust that it
will he composed of men the advocates of practical and
sound economy, who will pass such measures as may restore
the Spanish nation to that high station which, financially
and politically, under good government, we trust she is
destined yet to fill.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

( From the Hampshire Independent.)

PORTSMOUTH, JULY :is.—The Pantome brig, 16.
Captain Butterfield, arrived in Simon's Bay, Cape o
Good Hope, on the 2d of May, from England, Ba•
thurst, and Ascension.

The Curacoa, Captain J. Jones, arrived at Rio de
Janeiro, on the 28th of April, from Bahia; and the
Clio, hi, at Pernambuco on the 4th of June, from
Bahia, and returned the following day.
The Mandarin convict ship, Captain Muddle, which
sailed from this port in February last, with Frost,
Jones, and Williams, on board, arrived at Simon's
Bay, Cape of Good Hope, on the 4th of May. On
the 30th of April information was given that it was the
intention of the convicts to take possession of the ship,
and carry her to America, and John Black, one of the
convicts was to navigate her. One of the guards was
said to be in the plot.
The Hon. Mr. Abercrombie, with his family and
suite, arrived here on Wednesday evening, will take his
departure for Turin, in the Cambridge, 80, Captain
Barnard, on Saturday.
The Pcstonjee Bomangee transport, Lieut. Cranford,
R.N., agent, arrived here on Wednesday last,
bound to Sydney and China with stores and pro-
visions.

The Apollo troop-ship arrived on Monday last, from
Leith, and remains at Spithead for orders.
The Melville, 74, Blonde, 42, and Modeste, 16,
sailed from the Cape of Good Hope on the 28th of
April, all for China ; the latter to touch at the Mau-
ritius.

Her Majesty's steam frigate Cyclops sailed on the
2Sth of June from Constantinople for the Coast of
Syria, having on board Mr. Wood, Secretary of Le-
gation. The English squadron had also sailed for the
Syrian coast.
The Blenheim, 74, Capt. H. Senhouso, sailed from
the Cape of Good Hope on the 18th May, for China,
in company with the Nimrod.
The following men-of-war are on the stocks, at Chat-
ham dock-yard :—Calypso, 20 ; Active, 36 ; Cumber-
land, 70 ; Mars, 80 ; Goliah, 80 ; London, 92 ; and
the Polyphemus anu Ardent steamers, of 800 tons
each.
The Iris, a new 06 gun frigate, upon the principles
of Sir W. Symonds, was launched at Pembroke dock-
yard on Monday last.
.Sne measures in length 131 ft.;
extreme breadth, 40ft.,6in. ; depth in hold, 10ft. gin. ;
burthen, 911 tons. 1 reparations are making at the
dock-yard for laying nown the Lien, 80 gun ship.
Mr. Easto, master, .from Chatham, had arrived with
officers and seamen for the purpose of taking the Iris
to Chatham, where she would be docked and prepared
for immediate commission.
The London, of 92 guns on her two decks, will be
launched from Chatham Dock-Yard about the middle
of August. She is a sister ship of the Rodney, and
has been on the stocks for the last twelve years. She
is 205 ft. Gin. long on the gun deck, 54ft, Sin. extreme
breadth, tonnage 2,602. She was designed by the late
Sir Robert Seppings, and approaches very nearly in
form, to the Swedish models of the celebrated Chapman.
fhe Stromboli steam frigate was commissioned at
this port on Tuesday last, by*Captain Williams ; Lieut.
J. 0. Freeland, G. Grant, Master, and E. Roe, Purser,
are appointed to her. A trial was last week made of
her engines, but in consequence of some defects in her
wheel or manner of steering her, she got foul of the
Hibernia, and damaged both that ship and her own
cat-head and anchor•stock. She also got on board the
bow of Col. Greville's yacht the Anonyma, and finally
injured a schooner, near the entrance of the harbour.
The junior situation in the Storekeeper's Office,
vacant by the death of Mr. lielby, has been given tv

Lieutenant—John 0. Freeland, to Stromboli.
Surgeon—Thos. Nation, to Stromboli.
Assistant-Surgeons—William Houghton, to Strom-
boli ; Dr. R. Clarke, additional, to Britannia ; J. C.
Walsh, acting, to Impregnable.
Master and Pilot—George Grant, to Stromboli.
Second-Master—W. Lidstone, to Cuckoo.
Master's Assistant—J. D. Pasco, to Victory.
Purscr—Edw. Rowe, to Stromboli.
Mates—Chas. Sullivan, to Excellent ; G. C. Briggs,
to Vanguard'; W. C. Marshall, to Southampton.
Vol. Ist Class—F. Moresby, to Pique.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 25.—The Racehorse arrived
at Barbadoes, June 3d. The Griffin brig, left on the
sth for St. Vincent, and the Seringapatam, 46, Com-
modore Leith, the same day for Antigua.
The Magiciene, 23, Capt. Mitchell, arrived at Gib-
raltar on the Bth, with his Serene Highness Prince
Ernest of Saxe Coburg Gotha on board, who landed
under the customary salutes.
The Lyra packet, Lieut. Collier, arrived at
Fal-
mouth, on the 17th, from Mexico, having on freight
230,000 dollars. The Skylark, Lieut Ladd, sailed the
same day from Mexico, with 300,000 dollars on freight.
The Star packet, Lieut. Smith, arrived at Falmouth
on Saturday last, from the West Indies ; she left at Bar-
badoes, June Ist, her Majesty's ship Seringapatam, the
Mot, Griffon, and the steamers Firefly, Kite, Gleaner,
and Columbia. The Columbia was subsequently met
en June Sth, at Trinidad, with the mails, and the Kite
at Grenada on the 11th. The Tartarus steamer brought
up the Jamaica mails, June 21. Letters are received
by her from the Reindeer packet, which followed her to
the West Indies.

The new brig Albatross, to mount 18 guns, will be
ready for latmehing from this yard about the 10th of
August, She is a sister vessel to the Bittern.

SAurday the 15th of August, is appointed for the
launching of her Ithijesty's ship London, of 92 guns,
at Chatham. She will carry on her lower deck six 6S-
pounders, and 22 32-pounders ; the main deck four 68-
pounders, and 36 32-pounders ; on the upper-deck 26
32-pounders.

The Queen, 110, Tweed, 20, and Bittern, 16, at
this port, arc to be commissionei immediately.
• A paragraph has heen copied by the public prints
from the New South Wales papers, of the loss of the
Britoniart in Davis's S:raits ; we beg it to be under-
stood it is not the Britomart, 10 guns, Commander
Stanley, stationed in that quarter of the world, but
the Britomart, merchant-vessel, commanded by Captain
Glues, as the captain's chest with his clothes, and the
ship's register end bills to the amount of 1,8001., was
picked up at Preservation Island. It is presumed she
struck en Ninth Island, in Cape Portland, and went to
pieces in a few minutes.—Extracted from the Purl
Phillip Gazelle, of January 21. 1840.
In Harbour—Britannia, Victory, Vanguard, Et-
cellent, Royal George, Stromboli steam frigate, Pan-
taloon, Pestonjee Bornanjee transport.
At Si,it bead—Cambridge, Horatio transport, Lord
Hungerford East Indiaman.

NAVAL PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
APPOINTMENTS. - Commanders. The Hon. C.
G. J. 13. Elliot, to the Hazard, vice Wilkinson pro-
moted.

Masters—S. B. Conk, to command Firebrand, vice
Saunders, deceased.
Surgeon—Thomas Henry Nation; to the Stromboli.
Clerks— Conquer, (in-clearge), to the Alecto ;
Cole, (in-charge), to the Confiance.
Assistant-Surgeons William Houghton, to the
Stromboli ; J. C. Walsh, (acting) to the Impregnable.
Gunner—Charles Keys to the Stromboli.
Boatswal—E. R. Douglas, to the Stromboli.
Carpenter—Thomas Ladds, to the Stromboli.

CONVICTION OF ANOTHER OUT-

RAGE MANUFACTURER.

Justice is at length reaching the ruffian gam, of out-
rage manufacturers ; and we may hope to see the scribes
of the " State-of-the-Country" Journals—who arc, la a
moral sense, equally guilty as their wretched instru-
ments---also brought to condign punishment. The
foliowing case occurred at the Down Assizes on Sa-
turday :

John Lyons, for wilful and corrupt perjury in his in-
formations sworn before NVm. E. Reilly, Esq., at Hills-
borough, on the 24th June last, charging Dennis Kir-
vnn and others, with a conspiracy to murder Lord
Downshirc.

Wrn. E. Reilly, Esq., examined by Sir T. Staples—
Is a magistrate of this county ; knows u man called
Lyons ; prisoner is the man ; he came before witness on
Tuesday, June 23, about five o'clock ; he told witness he
had something of importance to communicate ; witness
sent him away and would not hear him at this time ; be
returned in about ten minutes with the Sergeant of Police,
who said that the prisoner bad something of importance
to communicate, and that he was from the King's
County. Witness asked him what his information
was ;he told witness to take a pen and ink. Witness
asked him several questions about ti e King's County,
to which he made very proper answers. He then told
witness that he had been sent a message on a Saturday ;
that when hr,, was going past a ditch, he heard a noise
as if from boys and girls playing. He listened elose:y,
and found that it was three men named Dennis Kirvan,
John Burns, and Dennis Kelly : he said that their con-
vcrsaton was to the effect, " that every Tory landlord
in Ireland should be shot, as Lord Norbury had been,
and that there was none of them worse than Lord
Downshire ;" upon which Burns observed that " be
would blow Lord Downshire's brains out himself." Kin-an
said, that he bad as good a pistol as ever was made, that
it never missed fire. Kirvan and Kelly agreed to pay Burns
51., upon which he promised to go and consume the
demesne, and " blow Lord Downsture.s brains out ;" the
prisoner added that he saw Kirvan and Kelly on the
❑ext day at Colgan's blidge, near Edenderry ; that they
were at chapel the same as himself, and that he left
home on the morning of the 22d ; be also told witness
the route he had travelled ; he was without shoes or
stockings, and appeared to be a smart young chap, and
witness thought he had waked the length he had told
him ; took his depositions down. The depositions
arc those produced, they are signed by witness and
prisoner.

After hearing further evidence the prisoner was found

It was of such materials as this story of the conspi-
racy to murder Lord Down hire that the budget of
Lord Roden was composed last year.—Dublin Evening
Post.

WATCHES FOUND IN THE RIVER.—On
Saturday evening about six o'clock as a poly man named Caro-
line, who gets his living by attending to waterrnen's boats on
the upper side of Waterloo-bridge, on the Lambeth shore, was
examining the large hole in the gravel near Goding's ate-
brewery, he was induced to pick up what appeared to him at
first sight to be the dial of a watch, but on an examination it
was found to be a watch complete in all its works, capped
and jewelled. Induced by this discovery to make further
search, he found at the same spot upwards of half-a-dozen other
watches. The tide was at this hour running up very strong,
and Caroline, who had the whole of the management of the
business to himself, ran up the steps to apprise same watermen
of his fortunate discovery, when several of them made
their way to the spot, but they were unable long to retain their
positions ; however, by great exertions, notwithstanding the tide
was running in very sharp at the time they succeeded in finding
a great many. The Police of the L and F divisions were ap-
prised of the fact. From the number of watches that were
taken from the premises of Mr. Westwood on the night of his
murdcr, with the description given, a strong suspicion is enter-
tained that they are part of the property. Most of them are
common watches, with the names of various makers, but none
with that of Westwood.

DISCOVERY OF A CASKET OF JEWELS.-OR
Friday evening, about nine o'clock, a police constable Beedie,.
N. 141 of the V division, while on duty, was pram:oily%
through Honey-lane, leading horn Little Chelsea to Kensing-
ton, his attention was attracted to a parcel wluch was secreted
behind a hedge, on the side of the footpath. On drawing it
out to ascertain what it was, he was surprised at discovering it
to be a rose-wood casket, the contents of which were weighty.
He immediately hastened with it to the station-house of the
division, in Millman's-row, Chelsea, and delivered it into the
hands of Nr. Shepherd, the Inspector on duty, Who had it
opened, when its contents were found to consist of a quantity of
valuable jewellery, viz., diamond, ruby, emerald, amethyst,
and pearl rings and brooches, also reyez:al costly necklaces, ne-
gligees, &c. &c. There is no doubt it is the produce of an ex-
tensive robbery, and that the thieves, while proceeding with
their plunder to some place of security, were alarmed, and se-
creted it to escape detection. But what is extraordinary is
that, although immediately after the discovery, information
ferwarded by route to all the divisions of police no person had
come forward to claim the property.

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT OFF SIiAD-
WELI;.—The funeral of the three unfortunate yoang men,
Henry Banks, James Godfrey AlTraw, and James Sulivan,
who lost their lives on Sunday, the 19th in it., returning from
Greenwich, took place at two o'clock on Sunday, at St Giles
in the Fields. They were all three buried in one grape, and,
chat is most remarkable, were all single men, and 21 years
of age, while their three companions, who were married and
had families, were most providentially saved. The funeral
was mcst respectfully conducted, and nearly 300 persons col-
,c trd witness this mournful scene.