The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1811.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Malta Times of the 25th.)
MALTA, MARCH 20.—The P. and 0. Company's iron steam-
packet, Lotus, (John Moody, Commander), is worthy of a
particular notice. She is eonly thirty-four tons burd n, and
twenty-four horse power. She draws only two feet of water.
She was built by Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare, of London ;
the engines are by John Penn and Son, Greenwich. These
engineers and shipbuilders also built the celebrated iron stea-
mer, the fastest boat in the world, going at the rate of 13
miles an hour !—the Father of the Thames. The engines and
boilers of the Letus are of very superior construction, having
oscillating cylinders, well known and valued for the exceed-
ing small space which they occupy, as well as their lightness
simplicity and elegance. indeed, the whole construction of
this steamer is a miracle of art and mechanical skill. The
' Lotus is, perhaps, the smallest steamer in the world which
made so long a voyage at sea. She encountered the dreaded
Bay of Biscay, and got safely across ; from Gibraltar she was
I towed by the Oriental to Malta' she hares here shortly for
Candia, thence she will proceed to Alexandria and the Nile,
the place of her destination. On Tuekay noon the Lotus
cruised in the Great Harbour, and about its mouth, attracting
the attention, and commanding the admiration of every body.
She made eight knots an hour ; she went as smooth through
the water as a duck, or rather an arrow shot through the wa-
ter. Outside the harbour the Lotus was saluted by " the
monsters of the deep," a shoal of porpoises, who frohcked and
gamboled about her prow, reminding one of Venus sailing in
' her shelly car across the briny wave, with all the finny tribes
in gay and silvery attendance.
The Natives at Syracuse are interdicted from visiting the
British ships of war which go over there to water, without
applying at the Police-office for a permit. Very few, there-
fore, go on board, fearing that a mark may be set against their
name!

'I he Inconstant and Wasp sailed on the 16th inst. fer
Beyrout, the former calling at Syracuse for supply of
water. The Implacable will sail for Syracuse to-morrow
morning to water, having transferred the supply she brought
from thence to other ships in port. The Vanguard,
Revenge, Hastings, Hazard, and Weazle, were at Suda,
Candia, on the 14th instant. The Hecate is expected
shortly from Beyrout, with the remainder of the British force
employed in Syria. The Elizabeth, of Hull, was delivering
coals at Marmorice on the 10th inst., and the Maitland, of
Malta, was taking in ballast and would proceed to Alexandria.
The Apollo troop ship arrived at Corfu on the 28th ult. ftom
Cork, with the 97th Regiment, to relieve the 2nd Battalion
60th Rifles, which will proceed to Jamaica. The Apollo was
to leave Corfu for Malta, shortly, up to the 10th inst.
The Carysfort.—lt has been found necessary, after having
given her Majesty's ship Carysfort a new plain topmast, in lieu
of one shot through at Acre, to take out her bowsprit, in con-
sequence of having a shot eight inches into the wood, which
so weakened the spar that it was found to be very badly sprung.
This must have occurred in that heavy gale of wind off Alex-
andria, although the vessel herself, as we are told, behaved most
admirably well, and did not strain a top yarn. The Car} sfort
at Acre appears to have had several shot in her hull, part
of her standing, and a great part of her running rigging. and
sails cut up, and one of her boats shot through in two pieces.
But all the repairs aloft being completed the same night, we
had never before heard, and should not now have found out if
it had not beets for the bowsprit, having been induced to make
some inquiry respecting her.
The small vtssels, drawing less water, were enabled to get
nearer the batteries and consequently suffered most.
The Strombuli arrived yesterday from lleyrout the 12th and
Marmorice the 13th inst. Commander James J. Stopford and
Mr. Beale, late of the Zebra; Lieut.. V. inthrop and Shad-
well, an4Olessrs. Foley and Hoare, of the Castor, came passen-
gers in her. The Stromboli fell in with the Vanguard near
Cape Matapan on her way to Malta.
l'Lac z ON BOARD H.M.S. CASTOR. —The Mediterraneo
of the 17th inst. having stated that there is a man on board
H. NI. S. Castor about to fall a victim to the plague, we are
authorised to contradict this statement in the most absolute
manner. Our Correspondent adds—" the man has been quite
well for the last fortnight."
It is exceedingly injurious that such unfounded statements
should get abroad on so perilous a subject, but as far as our ex-
perience goes we are convinced that the public ace to blame,
for when an editor in Malta applies for information he is either
insulted, or very imperfect information is given to him. Ihe
public, therefore, most righteously deserve to be misinformed.
There have been no more cases, and all the convalescents are
nearly well.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

WHITEHALL, Aram 6, 1841.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, Hanger of the Great Park at Windsor.

WHITEHALL, ArR!L 7.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, appointing Admiral the Honourable Sir
Robert Stopford, G.C. 8., to be Master of her Majesty's Hos-
pital at Greenwich, in the county of Kent, in the room of Ad-
miral the Honourable Charles Elphinstone Fleming, deceased.

merchant, Sunderland—E. Jones, soap-manufacturer, Liver-
pool.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

W. Dean and J. Atkinson, cotton spinners, Ainsworth, Lan-
cashire—N. Denton and J. Ryan, hatters, Manchester—T.
Cooper and J. Summers, ironmongers, Coventry, Warwi k-
shire—J. Griffiths, M. Evans, and G. Jackson, millers, Wrex-
ham, Denbighsh•re—S. Riley and J. Entwistle, finishers, Pilk-
ington, Lancashire—J. M. and W. Wilkins, coal-merchants,
Guildford, Surrey—J. Norris and G. Johnson, stationers,
Upper Thames-street—H. Gander and G. Sayers, carriers,
White Hart Inn-yard, Southwark—G. H. Shipley and G.
Oliver, schoolmaster, Lincoln--J. Turner, F. O. Dick-
ins, W. H. Humphreys, and G. Rands, ship-Owners,
Jamaica-wharf, Upper Ground-street Surrey (as far as
regards G. Rands) —T. and W. Lloyd, china factors,
Leamington-priors—G. Edwards and R. Gwyther, shoemakers,
Br stol—J. Castle and J. Broadhead, jun., clothiers, Kirkburt on,
Yorkshire—N. and S. Staniford, glass-manufacturers, Ply-
mouth, Devonshire—J. Bi imson and J. French, coach-build-
ers, Suffolk-street, Mile-end-road—R. Parsons and T. Rolls,
mercers, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire—G. E. Noone and
D. W. 3evins, engineers, Church-street, Blackfriars-road—J.
Whyman and T. Emmerson, house painters, Derby—J. and J.
C. Jepson, aceoantants, Sheffield, Yorkshire—W. and J. Cluff,
haberdashers, Manchester.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the Returns made in the week ending April 6,
e4l, is 435. 9d. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Cas-
.oms paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into
Great Britain.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING rIPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Globe.)
It is nothing more than natural, and in the every-ilav
way of business, that the organs of the party who are
out of power should find all grapes sour tl-at are plucked
by the party who are in—and which the Tory vulpine
sagacity had imagined, or feigned, to be out of reach.
This is done, however, by the several morning malcon-
tents " with a difference." The Times is not stupid
enough, though the Herald is, to suppose it can suc-
cessfully dissemble the great advantages procured to
this country by the conceded arrangement of the
Chinese affair. Tne latter has discovered that there i 3
a very much larger island (Lan-to-oo), to which it
infers, we presume, that we should have accorded
a preference. No doubt, had such been the case
(and Hong-Kong is in ail conscience large enough,
besides its great advantages of anchorage, so absurdly
depreciated). we should have been told of the lel'y
of taking possession of a station embarrassing by its
evetit. Tne Times takes a more correct view of
the local advantage conceded to us :—" This arrange-
ment, if buna fide carried into effect, will certainly
be most beneficial to our mercantile interests. The si-
tuation of Hong-Kong is infinitely more convenient
for the purposes of trade than that of Macao ; a settle-
ment formed there will be capable of maintaining itselt
independeetly of the Chinese, and the recognition of a
territorial right in ,the British Crown, as well as the
terror of the British name, will give our countryn ea
advantages which were never po,,sessed by the Portu-
guese in China." It Leine, however, as we have said,
a.l in the way of business that holes should be picks.!,
or seem to be picked, somewhere in the announce
arrangements, the Times affects to find a flaw in the
silence upon the question of the opium trade, which
ie describes as having neon " the real cause of the
war." The cause of the war was the violent spolineion
and coercion of British subjects, and the insolent disre-
&card of the rights of the represeatatives of this country.
For reparation of these wrongs, and not for the opium
trade, or any other trade, we showed ourselves in arias
on the coast of China. It is true that the same con-
cessions which secure the future rights of our func-
tionaries will seen; e the advantages which will naturally
flow. from those rights to our commerce. And theter-
ritorial position which we have obtained as' further in.
demnity and security, will confer advantages of the
most important nature on our commercial interests.
(From the Courier.)
The Nnn-intrusionists in Scotland are preparing to
p'ay their last card. By diet of agitation they have
gathered around them a goodly number of slily old
women, and, as the Late Dr. Andrew Thomson, of
Edinburgh, happily expi eased it, "sillier old teen
and if they do net obt on from l'ariiament the recog,
nition of their " fundamental principle," as demanded
and the iacrifice of the Ministers of Strathbogie, as vic-
tims on the altar of the Church's independence, they,
along with their. congregations, are to secede ! and, being
the majority, to break up the Establishment ! Tioasplot
is developed in a "Letter to Dr. Cook and the Mo-
derate Brethren," who, in order to save the Kirk from
this terrible calan ity, arc very coolly called upon to
sacrifice all the principles that uphold the Refermat-on
itstlf ! In our paper of the Ist of March, we warned our
readers of this plot, which is now maturing. It is, no
doubt, thought " a good plot"—" sin excellent plot ;'
but we venture to say, that it will not succeed. Since
Dr. Forbes, of Aberdeen, published his " Con sideratiee
the points at issue in this Scotch-kirk-controversy ere
standing forth in broad relief; anti the contest is
receiving into the narrow fitli of civil or spiritual su-
premacy in this land of Protestant fight and litceity.
The issue of this coolest cannot be doubted ;
but independent of this we venture to say, that the
discoveries that will be made under the search-
ing ordeel of judicial decisions will astonish
" the weak capacities" of our Presb3terian
on " the north side of the Tweed" They hive
been indulging in a dream of spiritual independence,
from which, thanks to their own fully, they are about
to be aeakencd with a witness; and if at the Re-
formations in 1560 and 1638, and at the R :volu-
tion in 1638, it is found that this dream was ery
far from being realized, the chances in its fa-
vour are wonderftely diminished in 18-11. In the
meantime we venture to predict that, whither
patronage is to be sacrificed to Non-intrusion, or to
what extent the monster is to be muzzled, the Strath.
bogie ministers will never be sacrificed to the indepen-
dence of the Kirk ; and if this is the tenure on which
the dominant faction are to remain within the Est.ib-
lishment, the sooner they secede the bettor. It woull
indeed be a pity if the Church of Scotland should fall
with them ; but, " Fiat ruat replan."

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.
(Beiare Mr. Baron GURNEY.)
Hannah 14'0r: all, 23, was inoicttd for teloniomly caus-
ing to Mary Ann' Worrall, agod 17 months, bodily injury,
with intekt to commit murder. '

Thomas Colville deposed that he was acting landlord of
the Duke of York public-hOuse in Chelsea. On the 10th
February lat the prisoner canto to the house with a little
in her aims,'about 17 or 18 months old. After she
had Lout a little time in the home, she threw the e.,ild
on the ground, and some one picked it up, and put it i t)
blows
ena
onrm the h sg4inea' upon which she struck it sonic severed, and again threw it on the ground, sa)-
ing, " You little --, I would not mild having two years
for you?" She tl.en seized it by the throat, and the wit-
oess took the chill from her arms, and held the prisoner
until a polio-officer came and took her i..to custody.
The police-officer and another uitness were calltd, who
corrob3rated this testimony.

A surgeon, who was called in at the time of the off,nce,
was called to g:ve evidence on the trial, but not answering
.o his name, it proceeded without him.
Mr. C. PHILI leo, who appeared for the prisoner, said
that even with the evidence of the surgeon, the case would
only amount to one of assault ; and on that it would not
become him to offer any obbervation.
The JUDGE, iu summing up, sail that by a recent Act
J 1 Parliament, it was in the discretion of the Jury to find a
verdict, in such cases as the present, either for a felony,
,r if they did not think the evidence sufficient, a common
auault.

Tne Jury immediately returned a verdict of an assault,
Ind the prisoner was sentenced to twelve months' impr'-
ionment, and hard labour.,
Charles Gough, aged 33, was indicted for feloniously
sounding John Byrne, a City police constable, with in-
tent to do him some gresilus bodily halm.
The pa culars of the assault have already appeared in
The Sun.

The house-surgeon at Bartholemew's Hospital, said that
the prosecutor had been under his care ever since ti .c
Transaction, and that he had known wounds less severe to
have proved fatal in other instances.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS then Addressed the Jury on behalf of
:he prisoner.
The LEARNED Jceoa having summed up the evidenc:,,
.he Jury returned a verdict, for the common assault, and
he prisoner was sentenced to twelve months' imprison-
neat, with hard labour.

NEW COURT.
• (Before the RECORDER. )
Robert Parker and Thomas Parmee were indicted for
g 6201 tr. weight of sted, value 41. los., tie prr-
perty of Samuel Adams, their master ; and Henry Bur-
rnWß was indicted for receiving tie ramp, knowing it to
have been stolen.,
The two prisoners, Parker and Parmee, who had
pleaded Not Guilty, requested permission to retract that
plea, and pleaded Guilty.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against Parker
and Parmee, and acquitted Burrows.
The prosecutor recommended the two convicted prison..
era to the merciful consideration of the Court, and they
acre teverally sentenced to six months' imprisonment.

SUNDAY TRAVELLING--At the request of a
Committee, which, it seems, has been for some time formed
in this city fur promoting the better observance of the Sab-
bath, we publish the address which they have just issued
" to the Proprietors and Directors of Railways in Great
Britain." We have not time to remark upon it at present,
but we must say that their object of closing Railways on Sun.
days is, in our opinion, wholly
.impracticable, and if practice.
ble would be fraught with inconvenience to the public,
and be of incalculable irjury to the poor and middle ciassez.
If the Committee would apply to the Bust ops and other
sundapersonsysitiinhairilhthsteatliuoxnuy
stations who
private cgrriagt s, and with all are seen rolling to church on
the pomp which liveried menials to wait upon them can
give, and should succeed in putting an end to this species
of Sabbath desecration, they would at least have the ad.
want •ge of a good example to point to, when they called
upon others to give up the convenience of public convey-
ances on tl• e only day at their command.— Carlisle Journal.
PROLIFIC BIRTH.—Yesterday mottling a poor
Woman named Gibbon, whose husband is a journeyman
hatter, residing at No. 47, Lant•street, Borough, was
safely ee N erect of three children at a birth, two girls and
a boy. The infants are remaikably fine and healthy, and
with the mother itt o doing well.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Brighton Gazette )
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 7.—The Vernon, 50, Captain
Walpa!e, is w arty eornpleo as to her crew, aid is held
in r,a,liness to siil, if required. Rumour sends her to
the East Indies, or Mediterranean.

The departure of the Monarch, 84, Cant tin Cham-
bers, from Sheerness to Spithead, haR been delayed by
some necessary fittings. She is, however, daily expected
to arrive.

Two large wansteamers, to be named the Thunder-
bolt and Scourge, are ordered to be forthwith built at
this dockyard.
The steamer Avon has been paid off at Plymouth,
and recommissioned by her former commander, Lieut.
B. Pritchard, an officer of long standing and me-it.
The Surveyor of the Navy, Captain Sir W. Symon,l,:,
is expected on an official vi'it to this port, ac,otnp ed
by Captain Brandretb, R.E.
The new brig B rn, 16, is gettiag ready for com-
mission here, with the Fair Rosamond schooner, for the
coast of Africa.

The Bonetta brigantine, Lieut. Aust,n, fitting out
at Chatham, is to go to the coast of Africa.
The naval obituary for the last quarter reports the
deaths of three Admirals, four Captains, ten Comman-
ders, fourteen Lieutenants, four Masters, one Chaplain,
one Physician, seven Surgeons, three Surgeou'i Assis-
tants, and ten Putters. In the Itoyril Marine corp, are
two Colonels, one Captain, and one First Lieutenant.
The steam•ves,el Soudan, Commander Bird Alen,
has passed by for Plymouth, from Woolwich, where she
will await her two cansorts, and thence proceed on the
expedition to the Niger, under the command of Captain
Dundas Trotter.

At Spithead—lndus,B4 ; Vernon, 50 ; Pt-limn, 18 ;
and Nautilus, 10.

In Harbour—Queen, Victory, Excerent, Royal
George yacht, and steam-tug Echo.

FORTIFICATIONS OF PARES.

The Bulletin des Lois of Monday and the Monitcur
of Tuesday proalulgate the law for the fottifications of
Pat-is with the Royal assent. As it has not yet been
putlisbed in an entire form, we supply the text of this
historical document :

" LAW wHICIi ASSIGNS 140 MILLIONS OF FRANCS FOR

THE WORKS •F THE FORTIFICATIONS OF PARIS.

Louis Philippe, lii .g of the French, to ail greetinir,
"We have propose (the Chambers), we have or-
dained, and we ordain, as follows :
" Artic!e 1. A sum of one hundred and forty mill:ons
of francs (5,600 0000 is especially assigned for the
works of the fortifications of Pari.

" Art. 2. The,e works wi 1. comprise-1. An en
ciente continue embracing the two hanks of th,
)Ast.ioncl and terraced with tel metres alined scarp,
2. Exterior works casemat ed.

" Art. 3. The funds assigned for these works shall
hP employed simultaneously for fie execution of the
encientc and the externel works, and :;hided into va-
ri,ms budgets, in the proportion hereafter specified.
" Art. 4. The sum of 140 millions allowed 11 virtue
of article 1 of the present law comprises that of 13
millions, forming the amount of the credits tlrendy
ope,ted on the budget of 1840 at the Ministries of War
and Public Works try Royal Ordonnanees of last S p-
tember 10, and October 4 and 25.
" On the sum of 127 • mill,ons tem lining to be al-
lowed, the sum is assigned of—

" Tnief-five mil!ion; for the works to be executed in
1841 ;• To millions for the works to be exocuted in
1842. The portion of these credits which ally not be
used during the budget to which it is assigned will by!
carried over to the following budget.
" Art 5. These divers credits shall be provided for
by means of the ordinary and extraordinary services of
the budgets Sf 1840, 1841, and 1842.

" Art. 6. The expenses incurred by the Department
of Public Works, by virtue of the ordoncances of the
10th, 19th, and .29:.h September, and the 4th, 18:n,
and 19th of October, 1840, shall be liquidated by the
Minister of that department, and discharged out of the
credit of seven millions which has been opened, until it
attains that amount. The surplus, if there be any,
shall, after the iiqnidation, be discharged on the orion-
nances of the Minister of War, and out of the credits
opened by the present law.
" Art. 7. The city o. Paris cannot be el issed
amongst tie places of war of the kingdom but by virtue
of a special law.
" Art. 8. The first zone of military servitudes, as it
has been regulated by the law of the 17th of July, 1819,
shall be aloae applied to the enceinte continue and to
the exterior torts. This sole zone of 250 maret, shall
be measured from the main points of the bastion and
from the summit of their glacis.
" Art. 9. T►he present limits of the octroi of the
city of Paris cannot be Changed but by vi. tae of a
special law.
" Art. 19. An account shall be rendered every year
to the Chambers of the execution of the works ordered
by the preterit law.
" The •,resent law, having been discussed, deliberated
upon, and adDpted by the Chamber of Peers, and by
that of tile Deputies, and sanctioned by us this day,
will be executed is a law of the Sate.

" We command our courts and tribut.ak prcfcctF, ad.
ministrative bodies,. and all others, to keep and main-
tain tl.e3c presents, and that they cause them t,) be kept,
observed, and maintained ; and, in order t..) render them
more notorious for all, that they cause them to be pub-
lished and enregk?red everywhere that is required ;
and, in order that it may be a firm and stable act for
ever, we h affixtd our seal thereto.

" Done at the Palm° of the Tuileries on the 3d day
of the month of April, 1841.
" Lotus PHILIPPE."

" By tl:e King.
" The President of the Conned, Minister Secre-
tary of State of War, Marshal Duke of
Dalmatia.
" Seen and sealed with the Great Seal.
The Keeper of the Seals of France, Minister
Secretary of State for the Department of
Justice and Public Worship, N. Martin (du
Nord)."