The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-09 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrivals—Seringapatam, Hopkins, from Bengal, in the
Downs, sailed Dec. 22, Cape of Good Hope, Feb. 9 ;
Isabella Cooper, Salmon, from Bengal, at Liverpool,
sailed Dec. 13, St. Helena, Feb. 10 ; Midlothian, Harri-
son, from Bengal, at Cowes, sailed Nov. 27, St. Helena,
Feb. 7 ; Rosalind, Little, from Bengal, at Bristol, sailed
Nov. 25, St. Helena, Feb. 7 ; Royal Saxon, Atkins, from
Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed Nov. 21, St. Helena, Feb.
2 ; Highlander, Bottomley. from Bengal, at Liverpool,
sailed Nov. 27 ' • Bombay, Furley, from Bombay, in the
Downs, sailed Nov. 7 ; Colombo, Dec. 11, St. Helena,
Feb. 11 ; Helen Jane, M`Dowal, from Mauritius, at
Liverpool, sailed Jan. 10, St. Helena, Feb. 10 ; Plan
tagenct, Dowett, from Bengal, off Dartmouth, sailed
Dec. 20, Cape, Dcc. 7, S'. Helena, Feb. 17 ; John
Fleming, Rose, from Bengal, off D,rtmouth. sailed Dec.
3, Madras, Dec. 17, Cape, -Feb. 3, St. Helena, Feb.ls, Her-
culean, Grundall, from Bombay, at Liverpool, sailed Dcc.
20 ; St. Helena, Feb. 13 ; Pekoe, Gillics, from China, off
Portsmouth, sailed Nov. 12, St. Helena, Feb. 5 ; Arachne,
Thurtell, from Mauritius, at Liverpool, sailed Jan. 5, St.
Helena, Feb. 8; Hindoo, Van Zuilecorn, from Van Die-
men's Land, off Dover, sailed from Hobart Town, Nov. 25,
St. Helena, Feb. 9, Ascension, Feb. 17 ; Augustus, Cair,
from Mauritius, in the Downs, sailed Dec. 24, Cape, Jan.
19, St. Helena, Jan. 31 ; Pantaloon, Candler, from Mau-
ritius, in the Downs, sailed Jan. 11 ; Alexander Liddle,
Thompson, from the Cape of Good Hope, off Falmouth,
sailed from Table Bay, Jan. 13 ; Harriet, Kreeft, from the
Cape of Good Hope, oft' Hastings, sailed Jan. 10 ; Hey-
wood, Jones, from Bombay, at Liverpool, sailed Dez._
St. Helena, Feb. 3 ; Indian, Frost, from Bengal,verpool, sailed Oct. 25, St. Helena, Jan. 2 l
Columbus, Mueder, from Batavia, off Falahea r.:
sterdam, sailed from St. Helena, Feb. 9. •

NOTICE TO MARINE, RS.
WRECK IN THE ST. GEORGE S C}i 3 -
CORK, APRIL 5. —The wreck of the Havre, from New
Orleans to Liverpool, lies in a most dangerous position
for vessels passing up or down the channel. Steamers
and other vessels from the eastward should keep the light-
house, shut in by Poolhead, in order to pass safely in-
side of her, otherwise should keep well off. At low water
one of her topmasts is visible about three feet, and she
lies in 15 fathoms, five miles off the land.

doing.

QUARANTINE REGULATIONS IN DENMARK.
The following has been received at Lloyd's, dated--
Council Office, Whitehall, April, 7, 1840.
SIR,--I am directed by the Lords of the Council to
transmit to you an extract of a despatch received from
her Majesty's Consul at Elsinore, relating to Quarantine,
and to request that you will be pleased to lay the same
before the Chairman of the Committee of Lloyd's for the
information of the merchants trading to the Baltic.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
W. Dobson, Esq. C. GREVILLE.
Extract of a despatch from H M. Consul at Elsinore,
dated 16th March, 1840, with notice from the Board of
Quarantine, of 13th March, 1840.
" The following places in the Levant, viz., Alexandria,
Damietta, Constantinople, Smyrna, thelsland
and of Candie
-along with Tullis, Tripoiis, and Morocco; t
follow-
ing places in the United States, viz., New Orleans, Pen-
sacola, and Mobile, have been infected by
plague or other
wool and
contagious diseases, in consequence
which,of those places,
other enumerated articles, the
growth
arriving from England, will be Inadeset bt to the peb}'certificales
I,rmanee of quarantine, unless accompanied
from the proper officers, made out in the prescribed form."

The Duke of Cleveland, who is indisposed, is
now staying at his villa, West Humble, near Dorking,

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The House was again occupied last night with the un-
profitable discussion on Sir James Graham's motion. The
debate was adjourned, and it would not surprise us if it
were to last to the end of the week. In a few short sen-
tences delivered in explanation by Sir George Staun-
ton, after Mr. Thesiger had concluded his long
professional pleading, the merits of the question
were completely disposed of. " The grounds," he
said, "on which he opposed this -motion were, that
' he could see no connection between the rupture with China,
and any act of omission or commission on the part of her
Majesty's Government." Has any man the audacity—has
even the Right Hon. Baronet dared—to say that what has
taken place could possibly have been prevented? Sir
George added, "He did not object to the sanguinary
laws to be administered by Mr. Commissioner Lin gene-
rally, but he did object to such laws being acted upon
retrospectively against those who had come to China on
thefuith of the old law." This is the language of sound
common sense. The country will understand it. But
because Sir James Graham chooses to spin a long yarn
out of a multitude of particulars of which no one can see
the possible bearing on the question, the country, forsooth,
must be subjected to the infliction of a week's debate about
nothing, to the interruption of the business of the country.
( From the Times.)
In the legal disposal of the Clergy Reserves question
in Upper Canada there probably may not be much diffi-
culty. In the practical disposal of it, we never shut our
eyes to the fact, that great dissatisfaction might be continued
if it strictly and rigidly followed the interpretation of the
law. We first suggested' the propriety of the inquiry,
whether the Colonial Legislature of Canada could, of its
own authority, repeal an Act of the Imperial Parliament
—that of 1827 ? And the doubt which we raised by sug-
gesting the inquiry seems to be in a great degree solved,
as we expected, in the negative, by the acknowledgement
of Lord Melbourne, in reply to Lord Ripon—" You may
pass au Act rendering it (viz., that of the Colonial Legis-
lature) valid." So that a new act of the Imperial Legis-
lature is necessary to give an invalidating power to the
Colonial Act over a preceding law of the British Parlia-
ment.

( From the Morning Post.)
As to the probable difficulties and the protracted &po-
tion of the Chinese war, Sir George Staunton may, we
suppose, be regarded as an authority, since he has had
better opportunities than most men of acquiring the infor-
mation upon which any correct opinion in reference to these
questions must depend. But how those who think the war
unjust or impolitic should have interposed their protest be-
fore the war was carried into effect, it is difficult to ima
gins, since the expedition is to be on the coast of China
in May, and the earliest opportunity that the House
of Commons could take to commence the discus-
sion of the subject, unless, indeed, it had discussed it
without evidence of any kind in its possession, was the
7th of April. Si: George, indeed, when taunting those
who think the war unjust or impolitic, on account of the
absence of any expre.,ss reference to the expedition in
this resolution of censure against Ministers, is reported
to have said that a swift-sailing vessel might even now be
in time to prevent actual hostilities. How great an au-
thority Sir G. Staunton is upo.'i the subject o. the present
debate is shown by this assertion. It is one upon which
none but an authority of the first magnitude could have
ventured.

110.EY MARKET and CITY NEWS

(WEDNESDAY EVENING.)
TlMES.—Notwitlstanding the notice in last night's
Gazette that the expenditure for the year coding the
.sth instant. cxceeds the income by 1,500,0001., stocks
have rather improved, probably because people have
been 'so used to this state of things that they have
ceased to regard it. Some influence is also to be
ascribed to the easiness of money, arising from the pay-
ment of the dividends to-day, which has also had the
effect of raising the price of the unfunded securities.
Consols left off at 91 for money, 91 to * for this account,
and 94,- to for May. Exchequer Bills are quoted at
245. to 265. premium.

SUN.—Nothing of interest transpired in the shape
of news, in the City this afternoon.
The merchants begin already to look for the arrival
of the British Queen from New York, which has been
out now nine or ten days, supposing she left that port
at the time fixed upon originally.
Consols closed firmly this afternoon at 90 for
Money, and 91* for fine. Exchequer Bills supported
the advance to 265. premium, and the New Three-and-
a-Half per Cents. were firm at 99.1.
Although the state of affairs in the lately subjugated
provinces of Spain, is such as justly to excite
fears for the maintenance of tranquillity in
them, the hope that Espartero will early be enabled to
turn his attention to them, seems to allay any extraor-
dinary
Apprehension. Spanish Consols closed with ra-
ther less Krmness at 28i, both for Money and Account ;
Portuguese new Five per Cents. rose to 35i ; and
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. to 521. The Mail
from Holland arrived this hfternoon, *ith accounts of
Monday evenieg from the Amsterdam Bourse, which
notice the existence of a good demand for domestic
Stocks, and much steadiness in prices. The Two-and-
a-Haif per Cents. closed on Monday at 52 13-16ths
and the Five per Cents. at 99. The Exchange on
London was 11. 95. for three months' bills, and interest
on loans at 31 per colt.
The Railway Shares were firm, but without much

THE EGREMON TLEASES.

(From the ,Somerset County' Gazette.)
The trials past and to come, the vcst amount of pro-
perty at stake, the number of persons interested, and the
novelty of the proceeding itself, have comi;ined to occa-
sion an unusual degree of excitement in this county anl
in Devonshire, on the subject of the Egremont ;.eases.
With the law of the case we have nothing to do. But
the fact that some hundreds of persons who fairly fought
and paid for their lands, and who have since ex-
pended money upon them in improvements, and in
many cases mortgaged them, and all this in full reli- 1
ance upon the honour of a Peer, are having their titles
questioned by the successor of that Peer, is one which
not only justifies, but claims, some comment from us, in-
asmuch as it affects not those on 4 immediately concerned,
but all who may hereafter desire to purchase lands on lease.
The first question warmly debawd by the public, i
whether the present Earl is morally and in foro cons
seientice justified in availing himself of the defects in the
leases granted by his predecessor, for bis own personal
advantage.
The reply to this query will depend upot; this further
question—has the present Earl been damaged by such
defect in tie leases? Mr. Tripp, the excel:ll,3r of the
late Earl's steward, by whom the defective leases were
granted, in the very interesting correspondence pub-
lished by him in this paper last week, assures the' pub-
lie that not only has no damage accrued to the present
Earl from the leases, but that, on the contrary, they
acre thus made informally on purpose to benefit the
prevent Earl to the extent of 9,0007. a year, which
world have been anticipated by the late Earl, had he
strictly pursued the power. But whether this be so or
not. justice will say that the present Earl is bound to
show that ho has sustained a wrong—that he would
have been placed in a better position bad the power
been observed strictly. Coold he prove this, he would
certainly be justified, morally its well as legally, in re-
quiring compensation equivalent to the loss sustained
by him from an act to which he was not a party, done
for his wrong. But as it is, there appears to be to such
defence. It is not alleged that the leases were granted
for less than their value—that there was any collusion
jubertiwngeenththee
plorredseanntd
Earl
—that
iitiheoem, p,urpose of in-
was antici-
pated by it, or that the leases were maci/ for the
temporary advantage of the lessor to the injury pf the
estate. The objection appears to be purely technien—
advantage is taken of a legal flaw in the form to avow
what was in itself and in substance a fair and honest trans-
action between man and man, and, therefore, though the
law may sanction the proceeding, we cannot but arrive at
the conclusion that it is justified by the rules neither of re
ligion, nor of morals, ner of honour.
We hope we are understood. But lest any should mis-
take our meaning, we repeat the argument. There is
but one case in which, as it appears to our plain common
sense, the Noble Earl would be justified in avoiding the
leases of his predecessor, and that is if some substantial
injustice had been done to himself by the informality.
We have heard it argued in reply to the complaints
of the lessees, that they ought to have looked to the
title of the lessor before they accepted their leases ; and
so in strict law they should have done. But in practice
this would have been impossible, except at a cost
which would have ruined half of them. Probably the ab-
stract of title alone would have loaded a wheelbarrow, and
it is usual in such cases to rely, not only upon the word of
the steward, but upon the honour of British gentlemen,
that one would not give, nor another take advantage of, a
bad title.

Last night at Covent-Garden a young lady
named Bettoni made her first appearance on an English stage;
her debut was highly successful. Aldlle. Bettoni is a remark-
able fine woman, and dances with vigour and effect. She is
possessed of a handsome person, and is likely to prove a decided
t action to the theatre. If she be somewhat deficient in the
elegance of a Taglioni or a Fanny Elssler, she is not without
grace.
His Excellency Noori Effendi, the Turkish-Am-
bassador and suite visited yesterday the extensive flint-glass
manufactury and steam-cutting works of Mr. Apsley Pe]latt,
in Holland-street, Blackfriars, and took interest in viewing the
various processes of barometer tube-drawing, &c., and particu-
larly the new mode of covering white glass with blue; heals°
superintended the manufacture of several articles from his own
designs for table use.