The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-04 00:00:00

NAVAL iNT'LLIGENCS.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 2.—The Britant:ia, 120, Capt.
Drake (with the flag of Sir J. Ommanney), and the
Howe, 120, Capt. S.r W. 0. Pell, arrived at Malta, on
the 16th Dee.

The Soudan steam vessel, Commander Bird Allen,
one of the vessels intended to form part of the Niger
expedition, arrived here today from Liverpool, on her
way to Deptford, where the whole squadron are to as-
semble. The Albert steamer will follow in a week, and
the Wilherforee steamer in three weeks. The Soudan

left Liverpool on Saturday, and arrived from Plymouth
in 21 hours : her engine is of 35-horse power.
The Viper, 6, Lieut. Burslern, arrived to-day from tha
Coast of Africa, last from Plymouth. She has brought
on freight 4,000 ounces of gold dust, which was landed
this evening.
The Avon steam-vessel, Lieut. Pritchard, arrived on

Wednesday from Sheerness, with 150 wen.
The Ptue steam-frigate, is ready for sea, and is
only waiting for her Commander, %s ho has not yet ar-
rived, to pt oeee.dto the Mediterranean. The Hon. Cam.
matlder Murray takes a passage in the Phoenix to join
the Wesp.
The Cuckoo, ;team :r, sailed on Tuesday for Wey•
mouth ; and the Emerald cutter, the same day, for
Plymouth, with men.

The Noma, transport, arrived on Thursday from
Woolwich, with a Company of the Royal Artillery on
board, for Malta, whither she proceeded to-day.
Tl:e Athol', troop-ship, was paid wugt•s to-clay, and
sailed for Cork, Corfu, Barbadoes, and Quebec. She
takes part of the 4'?d Regiment to Corfu the 59th to
Barbadoes, 70th to Quebtoc ; and returns with the 73d
to Portsmouth. _

In comparing the list of ships in commission at the
present period, with the list of those in active service
last January, we find the strength of the nary at sea
is increased by three three-deckers, two eighty-fours,
three fifties, five sloops of war, and seven first-class
steamers, forming an addition to our defence of 794
guns and 6,300 men ; the whole of which arc in ad-
dition to any estimate proposed by Parliament, and is
an expense which the pressure of the trues has com-
pelled the Government to incur, and under a full re-
fiance on the emergency of the case, justifying them
in asking for the necessary supplies. The number of
seamen, marines, and boys now in employ exceeds 43,000.
In Harbour Queen, Victory, Indus, Excellent,
Royal George, Tweed, Phcenix, Apollo, Rapid, and
Avon, Soudan, and Echo steamers.

At Spithead—Viper..
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMBNT3.
Paomonoss.—Lieutenants—Alexander Murray, Of
the Princess Charlotte, and Robert Duncan, of the
Powerful, to the rank of Commander.
Surgeon—Stephen Jennings Swayne, to be Deputy-
Inspector of Hospitals.
aCndhartloes
tmoi s
st
ionie dr ant, d of
Nov.
LieutenantsB4o
Mates—Hon. George D. Keane, son of Lord Keane,
LtendCaorntert,hocoltiiist-t.
for seniority immediately after F. H. Stanfell.
Clerks—Cornelius Dcaly, \V. G. Tomlinson, R. 'l'.
Crispin, John Brit:I:wood, \Vm. Stanway, John Hark-
shavv, W. 11. Dutton, R. L. Sutherland, Edwin A.
Smith, and Iler.ry li. Chitmno, to the rank of Purser.
APPOlNTMENTS.—Commanders—Granville Loch, to
Vesuvius steamer ; John Richardson (b) to Phceoix
steamer ; lion. Anthony Murray, to Wasp ; Alexander
Murray, to Hydra steamer ; Charles 13:rkett, to Belle-
rophon ; W. H. Hall, to Benbow ; W. Clark, to
E iluburgh ; Douglass Curry, to Hastings ; Walter
Tay, to Po erful ; Henry li. Blngliam, to Princess
Charlotte ; GowLr Lowe, to Revenee.
Lieutenants—Thomas Heard and Francis Polwhele,
to Powerful ; Elwin \V. Sanders, to Bellerophon ;
Charles D. O'Brien and F. 11. Stanfeil, to Benbow ;
G. E. Patey, to Carysfort ; Henry Stewart, to Castor ;
Samuel F. Short and G. J. R. Snow, to Cyclops ;
John Biaclunorc, to Edinburgh ; R. D. Stupart, to
Gorgon ; John A. Shears, to Hastings ; Ross M. Hotel
to Hazard ; Marcus Knox, to Flaanix ; Henry \Verret:,
to Pique ; A. Farquhar, Robert denier, A thur CUM.'
ndng, Richard Hoops, John Allen, John M. D. Smith,
Richard D. White, George Johnson, Thomas C. 0.
D. Wnipple, Lialsey P. Burrell, and G. 11. G. Sun-
derland, to Princess Charlotte ; George Wycle, to
Revenge; W. C. Ch imberlain, to Stromboli ; M. H.
Rodney ah:l W. H. Gsnnys, to Talbot ; Richard Wil-
liams, CO Thurilerer ; J on,s M. Boxer, to Vesuvius ;
0. Pritie, to Wasp ; E•iward H. Kenney, to
Excellent ; W. G. B. Esteourt, to command L'zartl
steamer ; W F. L. Toilemache, to Pelican ; \V. S.
Blagent, to command Pinto steamer ; Edward N. Trou-
bridge, to Seuthampton ; lion. G. D. Keane, to Ex-
cellent ; 11. J. Sullivan, to the Powerful.
Master—Robert B. Graham, to Hazard.
Second Master—W. Diaper, to Atholl troop-ship ;
\V. C. Pettigrew, to Pluto ; George Ilieks, to Night-
Chaplains—Rev. W. Guise Tucker, to Revenge ;
George Bellamy, to Endymion.
Assistant-Surgeons Alexander Stewart, to the
Portsmouth Deck-yard ; Charles D. A. Newmark. to
Plymouth Dockyard ; J. Peters, to Pluto ; T. K.
Beatty, to Queen ; John Andrews, to Ringer ; W.R.
Dalton (1838), to Lizard ; O'Neil Ferguson, to Night-
ingale ; James Harvey, to Raw.
Clerks in Charge—John Haddock, to Pluto ; W. D.
Bateman, to Lizard, vice Millingham, appointment can-
celled ; J. W. Cole, to Nightingale.
Acting Assist.-Surgeons—Dr. Thomsen and D. P.
Whipple, to Hasler Hospital.
Mates—Breoke Young, to Phceeix ; G. S. Bays
(late of Buzzard) to Vernon; William G. Willie (1837)
to Albert steamer, vice Francis Martin (1837) to
Ferret ; H. W. Baugh, to Impregnable ; Henry. Lloyd,
to the Hecate.
COAST GUARD.---LlCUtellallt—ll. B. Bowden (1815)
to be Chief Officer.
Mates—Wm, Henry Walters (1831), and Charles
F. Collett (1834 to be Chief Officer.
ROYAL MARlNES,—Lieutenants Alexander and J.
E. Lawrence have been this week appointed to the
Royal Marine Artillery, in consequence of the certifi-
cates of their high attainments in mathematical and
other studies, awarded them by the Professor at the
Royal Naval College.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 31.—The Inconstant sailed on
Sunday to relieve the ships in the Channel.—La Sau-
meneze, French brig of six guns, sailed for Cherbourg
on Thursday. The Alban steamer arrived with vo-
lunteers from Cork on Sunday, and sailed for Dart-
mouth on Tuesday, to embark a detachment of troops
for Sheerness. The Lightning stemaer arrived on
Tuesday with volunteers from the river. The Tortoise
lighter sai'ed on Tuesday, with stores for Falmouth.
The Emerald tender arrived on Wednesday from Ports-
mouth. The Viper, 3, Lieutenant Burshon, arrived on
Wednesday front the coast of Affea. Her Majesty's
brig Ferret is now lying at Talbot, in Ireland, waiting
for men ; she is ordered up the Channel immediately to
relieve the homeward bound ships with provision; and
water.—Remaining in Hamoaze.—Caledonia, San
Josef, Endymion, Raven, Sylph, Netley, and Carron,
Comet and Lightning steamers, and Emerald tender.
—ln the Sound—lmpregnable, Belleisle, arid Viper.
AN EIIEUTE IN THE DOCK-YARD.—An excite-
ment has prevailed for the last three evenings, on the
workmen quitting the yard, on the subject of searching
their persons. We are authorised to say, they have no
objection to this search, but to the manner in which it
has been attempted to be done. Heretofore a man has
been beckoned out of the crowd, and he has walked into
a covered way, where, screened by a partition;' he has'
been examined, and the matter, irksome as it must be
to an honest mind, has been forgotten immediately ;
but (se Thursday a policeman rudely stopped a young
man not yet out of his time, and wanted to search him
in the open air, thus subjecting him to the scrutiny of
scores of spectators. The young man attempted to go
to the covered way as usual, and the policeman col-
lared him ; a scuffle ensued, and the youngster was
shouldered by his fellow workmen out of the yard with-
out being searched ; he was of course taken the follow-
ing morning before the Admiral Superintendent and
reprimanded, and an impression went abroad, see
be-
lieve without foundation, that the young man was to
be subject to a nightly search till further orders ; con-
sequently last night he was surrounded
by some d
out without
hun-
dreds of the men, and walke e possibi-
lity of his being stoPetd, and we understand the
same thing was done this eventog, though the Ad-
miral was at the gate, supported by the whole of the
police and the military guard. The result is, that the
Admiral will, on Monday, see a deputation of some six
or eight of the men, to hear what complaint they
have to make, and to give such redress as the case
requires.

(From the Hampshire Independent.)
PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY .2.—The S:damander steam-
frigate, Captain Henry, arrived at Sheerness on Wed-
nesday, alter an unsuccessful search for the Fairy. She
left North Bergen on Saturdiiy last ; the Shetlands on
Monday ; and I,,ith on Friday. She is hourly ex-
pected at this port to relit, previous to proceeding to
the Mediterranean.
The Apollo, Mr. W. White, is ordered to complete
her outfit with all possible dispatch, and proceed hence
to Cork, to crablrk the 97th Regiment, under Com-
mud of Colonel J. Campbell, for the Mediterranean.

A MODEST SECRETARY OF STATF.—I have
the honour of out Grace's letter of the 4th, and ant sorry
your Grace should give into the mistake of other people, to
think me capable of being Secretary of State. Icm so
thoroughly convinced of the contrary, that I can't look
upon myself to be in any such post, and therefore you will
please to allow me not to alter anything in my manner of
writing to you, for I only value myself upon being your
Graces servant; the little reputation 1 had in that is
alland I must now lose it again
by ot.m,,,i)roper staion. But I shall
pa
removed t o o
u support,t
not be so ill a prophet as'l ant a Secretary, for your
beingi was Ca
Grace will please to remember that I foretold this advance-
ment, if it ever betel me, would be my ruin. I have do:.e
what I could to keep it off, and have pers(.scred in it to the
last.—James's Court and Times of William 111.
Silver coin and bullion shipped at Dover from
Dec. 13 to 31, were 699;600 ounces of siivar, and 1,485
ounces of gold.

MORNING EDI rtoN:

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SFiltIT of the PCM,IC JOURNALS

(FROM THE DAILY varEtes OF SATURDAY.)
(From the Mording Ghronzele.%)
We cannot remain indifferent spectators of the election-
eerintr proceedings in the borough of Walsall, nor avoid
entering our protclt. agai:lt. the ex.reme course pursued
by the Manchester Anti.Cornelaw Leagues. We have
uniformly opposed the Corn-laws, as injurious to the inter-
ests of all the other classes of the community, and ulti-
mately to the landowners themselves ; and we, therefore,
hailed wi.li the utmost satisfaction t:es orgat.ization of the
Aoti-Cerra-law League at M inchester, to combat with
effect the monopoly of the Lords of the soil. We have
always been of toe opinion of Sir Rebert Peel, that the
prosperity of our agriculture is depensient on the pros-
pe.ity of our manufactures, earl we have uniformly con-
teed. d thet it is the height of absurdity to seek to benefit
agriculture by means which parel)se the rnanufaciuring in-
dustry of the country. It was time that a Legislature in
which the landholders have a decided preponderance, and
which has taken such narrow views of the interests of the
natien should be made to feel, by the well-directed effsrts
or the industrious classes, how intent they were on the
abation of the monopoly. Aedit is but justice to the Anti.
Corn-law League to admit, that hitherto their ffoi is }me
been admirably calculated to promote the great object of
the Association. The idea of rousing the indifference of
the class a beyond the reach of the usual channels of die-
cussisn, by the appointment of itiaerant lecturers, was
r. ost pc:tuba:ly judicious, and the extent of the good
effected may be inferred from the rage with which this
course r. 4 proceeding has inflamed the monopolists. But
the pree.ee&ngs of the Lesgue at the Walsall election are
not calculated to further the great obj ct they have
view—the destruction of the corn monopoly, but, on the
c'nitrary, by injuring the Liberal cause. tend necessarily to
del at that object. To oppso the monopoly is desirable,
but it is not desirable to conduct the opposition in
.such a
manner vs to give increased strength to the pare sans of
monopoly. It the opponents of the Corn-law monopoly
were sullijuntly strong to be able to return only Represeu-
tatiyes pledged to the repeal of the Corn.laA s, it would be
treason to the cause not to esect such a pledge. But what
we complain of is the iejudicious attempt to extort such a
Vedge where this strength is not possessed. In the present
state of the representation of this country, it is the height
of übeir&ty to demand that all other popular questions
should by sacrificed to the one obj ct of the Anti-Corn-
law League. This is repeating the mischievous blunder
of the Chartists. The Mancheste r manufacturers pro-
testkal against the bigotry of the Chartists in 1.'339 and
last year, when they broke into their public meetings
throughout the kingdom, and insisted on an " amend-
ment," which substituted the " five points " of the Char-
t r for resolutions against the Corn I ,ws. The Anti.
corn law Leeguers protest egainst the Irish advocates of
" Repeal of the Uniea," wlos, by pursuing their " one
idea," excluded the Manchester agitation. How, then,
chn the League justify their own bigotry in hunting
out of Walsall a Liberal candidate, Mr. Spencer
Lyttelton. when they have not the power with
the constituency to return a Corn-law Repealer ?
By this bigoted and indefensible ostracism the
Manchester gentlemen not only secure the certain
return of a Tory, but they defeat their own end, by
giving a triumph to a Corn-law monopolist. Mr. Spencer
Lyttelton by local family connexion, and the cordial union
an his favour of all classes of Walsall Liberals had a fair
chance of defeating the Conservative candidate, M.
Gladstone. His canvass was proceeding favourably, when
a Manchester deputation put the extreme test to him on the
Corn-law question. Mr. Lyttelton may have his own
modiinsd opinions on the subject, which we unclerstsnd are
decid,sily against the monopoly, and in fev ob• of a mode-
rate fixed duty ; but Walsall is not exclusively a town
constituency. The Reform Bill, as is well known, in the
boundaries which it assigned to the different boroughs,
opened a door to a forei,n wleeir is gradually
destro)hig their independence. The r are/ houndaries of
most of the boroughs are filled with a description of voters
of the lowest and most dependent description, and Walsall.
like so many others, possesses such a rural boundary, well
known as the "foreign." Mr. Lyttelton may have had
much conflicting opinion to contend with in the canvass
of such a mixed constituency. The huntsmen of the Man-
chester League, rotwithatanding, run him to ground,
and Mr. Lyttelton resigns— issigning, as a principal rea-
:son, that he "had to encounter the avowed hostility of
the agents from the Anti-Corn-law League deputed to.
oppose him." The Anti- Co-n law Circular of Thursday,
the official gazette of the League, published at Manches-
ter, in the folio sing extract of a promiaent leading atticle,
thus boasts of its achievements
" LATEST FROM WALSALL.

" We announced in our last that on receiving the news
of a vacancy in the representation of Walsall, the Council
Of the Leegue appointed a deputation froin Wolverhamp-
ton to proceed to that borough, to confer with the Anti-
Corn-Law Association there as to the measures to be
adopted in order to secure the return of a candidate
pledged to the abolition of the food monopoly. Subse-
quently, a deputation proceeded from Manchester ; and
on Tuesday night Messrs. Walker, Wynne, Kettle, Raw-
son, Prentice, and Aeland, as representatives of the Anti-
Corn-Law League, met and addressed the electors at a
public mewing.
" On their arrival they found two candidates in the field,
Captain Lyttelton, who had put forth an address, claiming
the support of the Liberal electors, as the nephew of Earl
Siaencer, hut omitting all allusion to the Corn-laws, and
Mr. Gladstone, the brother of the Hon. Member for
Newark, in the Conservative interest. Application was
imm -littely made to Captain Lyttelton for an explanation
of his views upon the Corn-laws ; in reply to which, after
taking a day to consider, he expressed himself willing to
vote for inquiry, but would pledge himself to nothing be-
yond it. A letter was also addressed to Mr. Gladstone,
echo refused to declare any opinion on the subject. It
VitlF then determined that a third candidate should be
proposed, favourable to the abolition of the bread tax.
The greatest enthusiasm existed amongst the great body
of electors, who received the deputation with heartfelt
cordiality, evincing a deep-rooted conviction of the ini-
quity of the bread-tax. The names of two gentlemen
were mentioned at the time of our latest advises, Mr.
Scott, the President of the Stourbridge Anti-Corn-law
Association, and Mr. Fester, son of the late Member,
buth of whom are known to be favourable to the prin-
ciple of total repeal. Subsequently Captain Lyttelton
toemaliy withdrew himself, and the coritest will, therefore,
be between a consistent advocate of free trade and the
champion of dear bread and monopoly."
Now all this ill-ecnsidered and thoughtless procedure
reneLred the success of Mr. Lyttelton dificult, if not ho.
possible ; but how is ill it serve the one question—the re-
peal of the Cern-laws ? The irruption gentlemen from
Manchester were unprepared math a substitute for Mr.
,Lyttelton. We understand that yesterday a meeting of
ela-tors was to be convened to consider of an expedient
selection. In the meanwhile Mr. Gladstone, the Tery
candidate, " who refused to declare any opinion on the
subject" of the Corn laws is left alone in the ti,ld, with
all tho advantages of a ten days' possession and canvass.
We cannot underatand how the " gentlemen of one
idea" are to benefit by this suicidal policy. We repeat
that if, by ousting Mr. Lyttelton, they could carry a
Ll'eeral Member for Walsall, and a total Repealer, they
hat A tight to play the game. But in a critical period
of tiers common cause, when ev:,y teat is of extreme
importance to both the great ponies in the State, we are
at a loss to understandthe grounds fur adopting a policy
which makes almost certain the return, not only of a 'l'ory
but of an advocate of the existing Corn-laws. If this
euieidal policy is to be pursued in future vacancies, and at
di,solution of the present Parliemenn it require.; not the
spirit of divination to predict that ti! Liberal iii erest will
be overthrown, By this additional s'rength the Corn-
Jaws. if they do not survive the nineteenth century, may,
,111 all events, live long enough to ruin the industry
of tun country, and thereby reader tile monopoly a
suatter of indifference. We trust that cur over-
x,alous friends of the " League" will benefit by
their experience, and that their zeal will be some-
what morn under the direction of nisclona. They are
not benefiting, but injuring the e iuse they wish
so serve. The friends GI Liberal opinions—the op-
ponents; of monopoly--will naturally shrink from as-
aoeiatieg with narrow-minded bigots who have nut the
fens:: to see that exclusive tests ought only to be enforced
wiasu times and circumstances aro favourable. But let us
hope the League will see the errors of their ways. Our
sash is not to give pain, but to prevent future mistvkes.
The League must, we should think, on cell etion, becom •
ar,eible tnat though, perhaps, there is no one question on
which enlightened and independent men are so invariably
agreed, as the necessity for repealing the sum monopoly ;
let that the means at their commend do not justify the
;nuking the repeal a sine qua non at all times and places,
The attempt to monopolise public opiaion in favour of
one question only, to the exclusion of every other, it' per-
sisted in, must be injurious even to that question ; while it
inevitahly leads to the sacrifices of all other subjects of pub-
lic interest and national importance.
(From the limes.)
We have received several letters, written with great
ability and knowledge of the subjeet, on the disputed
.ques-
tion between Spain and Portugal of the navigation o the
Douro, but it appears to us that in all of them the consi-
deration has been mainly overlooked that it is now too late
to exavaine what advantages may arise to Spain or detri-
ment to Portugal from carrying the Treaty between those
two countries into effect, 'All the arguments which have
been submitted to us' OR both sides dwell principally on
these two tepies, forgetting that they are applicable only
•
to a state of things anteaior to the execution or any treaty
whatever. Such a treaty
was actually concluded more
than live years ago, but stopped in its progress by doubts'
respecting the manner in which some of its provisions
svere to be carried out. We infer blame to neither party
from this delay, which is sufficiently explained by
. the poli-
tical agitations in which both nations have yartic Lp i at .d, so
114 to render it rather a surprising thing thatl an interna-
tional arrangement of a delicate nature like this,
sacceesarily a number of hostile private interests into
collision, could have proceeded so far towards com-
pletion. To return, however, to the question. The dig.
pz,:e relative to the mode of carrying out certain provisions
tthe treaty led to the .eppointment of a 'nixed commission,
cioposed of Spani irds and Portuguese, to adjust it. After
anoiderable delay and the preparation of cne report,
whieh svas seat back to them for emendation, a final re-
port was ;agreed upon and presented to the Portuguese
Cortes, by whom, as it is understood, it would have been
disposed of in one way or other, but for the dissolution of
that body, which took place in the latter part of the last
snolit.b. On this there is a question at issue between the
two countries, essentially one of form only, whether the
power toconfirm this report belonged to the Government
or to the Portuguese Legislature. On the aide of Spain
.it is affirmed that the ratification was the affair solely of the
'Portuguese Government; but it is contended, and we
chink satisfactorily established, on the part of Portugal,
that under the new constitution this could be legally per.
formed by the Cortes alone,
which the proroga-
tion of that body prevented their doing, and it is
further shown, that the prorogation was no capri-
miens act of , the Government. glace the great length
c 4: Ile Session had caused so great a falling-off in the
xi-...r,ndatee: of the members, that it had become diaienit to
L .
yre tea uisite to t • I•tiiiiitet business. Further
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