The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-27 00:00:00

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NAVAL INTEL TAGEYCE.

(From the Brighton Gazette.)
Po a rs3tr ,ur Nov. 25.—Royal salutes were fired from
"the ships of war and garris.m on Monday, in honour of the
iiappy-zr,coueeement of her Majesty. The Royal Standard
floated. over the ships (which were otherwise decorated
with a profus inn of fl.f.gs) and public establishments, and
merry • ale from the bells enlivened the day. There was
a 1)% s, 11",rnination in the evening.
' s is current that our Port Admiral, Sir Edward
Codringte G. C. 13., is to have the vacant lucrative post
of Gover nor of Greenwich Hospital. Admiral Sir Philip
Durharr is also spciyai of, though with less certainty.
The Formidable; 4 ; Alfred, 50 ; and Cornwall, 50, are
haste ming in the river for commission.
Tslae troop-ship Sapphire, Mr. Cole, master, has left this
h'Arboar for Cork, to convey detachments of the 42d regi-
',cent to the Mediterranean, from which quarter the Apollo
'troopship, is daily expected to arrive.
The steam-vessel Avon, commanded by Lieut. Prit-
chard, sailed on Saturday for Chatham, with volunteers
for the Monarch, 84. The Avon is in future to be sta-
tioned at Plymouth, instead of Falmouth.
Although the political horizon is more pacific, there is
r,.3 diminution of the activity which has prevailed for some
time in the equipment of ships at the several ports. Ves-
sels are running to and from various quarters with volun-
teers for general service ! and in all the Government de-
partmcnts the same bustle is apparent.
The Salamander steam frigate, Commander Henry, will
leave this port for Gibraliar and Malta about the 28th
instant.

The
Wngeance, 84, will be taken out of dock in the
early part of neat week for commission. Her stores,
&c., ere being got ready without delay.
The Britannia, 120, and Howe, 120, passed down
Channel on Friday, with a fine wind from E.N.E., for
Gibraltar tuad Malt. Both ships are crowded with men
and warlike storm

Letters from the Rattlesnake troopship, Mr. Brodie,
Master, from Singapore, of the 31st August, state that at
that date her return to England appeared very remote,
her services being acquired in the transfer of troops to
various -,Dints. The crew had suffered partially from dy-
snotery, but no fatal case had occurred.
Tne SpiiEre, steam-vessel, and Serpent, 16, Comman-
der G Ifo, are daily expected from the \Vett Indian Sta-
tion, to ho paid off.
'nle.3:-Arnel`Binz.-,r, Lieutenant Steane, is hourly looked
from Woo; wich, on her way to the \I, est India station.
A r of war.
In 1-larhorl,-,—Qu.tan, Vi.,itory, Indus, Excellent, Royal
George Yd2L:t, Soiarnander, Echo, and 113 g-ship's
tenders.

THE CLERGY AND THE CORN-

LAWS.

(From the Renfratushire Reformer.)
We are informed through the medium of the Scottish
Guy-than, that Thursday first has been fixed on as a
day of thanksgiving throughout the bounds of the Synod
of Glasgow and Ayr, for the late abundant harvest.
How the thanksgist, is to be conducted, whether by
sermoat in the evening, or by the cessation from la-
bour, and by sermons during the day, we are Oct in-
formed. Nor indeed do we care ; because we are cer-
tain it oil" be but little attended to in this quarter. " If
the established clergy were very sincere in the affair, or
if they really wanted the religious community to join
them its such matters, they would consult the Dissen-
ters, and take them along with them. This, however,
would, it appears be too much condescension, and how-
ever impotent their proclamation may be, or however
partially their fast-day may be held, they would rather
ressume the appebrance of having the right to dictate to
the whole country.
Also, if the clergy were sincere in their thanksgiving
to Providence for the abundance of the harvest, they
would not unite as they have done in restricting the
people over whom they preside to the produce of our
harvest at home, but would join them in claiming a
porticipatian in the bounties of Providence, whether
poured out on the plains of Poland, on the shores of the
I.i: eels Sea, or amidst the boundless !crests of America.
The clergy of the Church of Scotland have publicly pe-
titioned for the maintenance of the Corn-laws, arid last
yoer Mr. Brewster narrowly escaped the -censure of
his brethren of the Paisley Presbytery, when absent
in London as a delegate for their repeal. After
th!s, end after the manifest evils that appeAr around
them, from the exiafence of the stervatioa laws,
ereh what sinc,!rity can the people look on their
prefessioes of thanksgiving for abundant harvests,
vilien tbey mutely permit the continuance o: laws which
'eut out the produce of other harvests from the poor,
rt the time our own harvests ere a failure, just as it
Uod were-a iespret-er of persons, or as if be did rot as
d,sf,rve arlora,tion for the abundance poured out
tn fi,ids of other climes, us on the fields of Eng-
Lett!. Ireland, or Scotland. TWs connivance of the
terry at the evils inflicted by the Core-lawi, their
I.',Quiteg to shut out foreign corn front the poor one
thrty, ;11'4.1 thanking Providence for an abundant hervest
the urxt, cannot povaly he !or the advantages derived
pnor, think, is apt to lead to the statipi-
i•t, n. that their p tbiic thati!,.sgiving i* confined to the
I ti s vvisiL!la the lamtiords aitpne derive from an nhun-
tieat hot v4_,:vt., ankh ctty- to th ability thereby afforded
tic farmers,- to pay up-their rent?.

AWFUL- tkIi!PWRECK AAD LOSN

OF LIFE

Truro, Novemher 25, 1840.
On Fa'tiday last, during the serete gale, a brig stip-
[Tv. to Le .101:t 300 or 400 iami hurthen, and nearly new,
..een Oortrtsila and At. Agnes in a st,,tei-f distrei.s,
cons*quenee of the ezrea4 sea that was ritrin'Tg, it
for any body 'o co out ti.i'r,•nder
son and eight o'clock she g.,:t on the
so, ks at Peeran Porth, ',hero sho lay till about liaJ past
1 N• tVe, wa.t to pieces, and ail on boa d
Torre arc eiff.sciit.repoits Lfilst respecting her osme, sod
thi., nature of ter cargo, but nothing certain is known. It
i, ht•lic%el that her cargo Was copper ore, and that she saa3
tsar Sou' America. Tne stern of the vesycl wds wm.l‘ed
i4'" a (...re.i•eneerts at Perran, and by some it is said that
ter name is " I'he Gime:Nil," from Stockport, sliiie rth,rs
Tay it is " General Sikes;" but the truth is, the parts of
vcssel- are So hnried in the sands that ticaectly anything-
be known of her at present. That people on the elfin
heard t':ie cr. w, and eairied en some conversation with
The— doting . the evening, but could not render them ti e
frighten assistance. The cri of despair when the yeas :l
ws terrifir.% The Cre77 is supposed to have corl-
mitell of at least a dozen p:'rsons, none of whom have vet
Lao wl•boJ rn shore. The vzssel Seas coppe:ed and
pe; fastened.

4.:11••••

'rue SurrnAGE.--Mr. Hums is busily pre-
y;a: ioc a measure for the amendment of tier representative
eve`sm; soil is ni tu-ely e,nsidering the various
efeteh ft.v,, beers prese,ted to him for the purpose. We
Ida;',; m:)re to say licrnfter on this vitally momentous
Tie; in !he mearitime we cannot Lot admire the energy
nuti M. Flume d'gplays in exerting himself, when
s, many NI tiro Trvost Ice of our Parlmaientary
ant, 9 1:011y, and not very eo:,s:siently, retired into
the back ground.— Cheltenham Examiner.
Thu I:ew " Letters iiittstra.tive
.of the R ign W.tliatit 111 " ctlited by G. P. R. J.,-nrs,
, end ri-ow first I,tit:iial;ed from the originals, will an.
These letter.; consist of the correspond-
ence of the then Secretary of Star, James Vernon, Esq.,
wi,h the Duke of Shrewsbury, when, abroad ; and detail
a familiar manner, somewhat after the fashion of Horace
e,.lehratrd epistles, all the, important and isle-
tosting, evcnts which took place in this country at that
periyd, with a liberai infasion of Court gossip, forming
valuable hiworie.ll illustrations of a reign, of which our
kilo', ledge his hitherto been very limited.
FrGirc Henry Cowpee, El., of Tewen Waters,
to Me.srs. S. and B. Solomons, 3r), Albemarle-stree,, Piece-
dil,lv, and 76, King William-stree,, Bank of England.—
Gentlemen, having been deaf for many years, I was
'educed from recommendation to try your . Invisible Voice
Co:Ow:turn, and I have great pleasure in telling you that
t!tsy enabie me is hear persons in company and at a place of
worship most distinctly ; and in consequence of the great ad-.
vao!age iahtcit I have derived, I have recommended many
Tersons to you, and I am happy to state that their report is
similar to mine, most favourable. The Spectacles and Hand-
glass which you have sent me are very excellent, and suit my
stilt precisely, and surpass anything of the kind I have ever
tried ; the transranney of which is so brilliant, that although
J have passed my Stith year, the 22d of May last, yet they en-
" to read, &c., by candle- light with the greatest ease
sn.l comfort to myself.—Oentlemen, I return you iviy best
thanks, and remain your most obedient servant,
HENRI
COW ra 8.-22 d of June, 1839."—In consequence of Mr. Henry
Cowper reeetving apylications from all quarter; to know
%The-
*h• r the above letter is authentic or net, he has addressed a
fetter to the Ettanervrd," which was inserted in that paper on
the 6:h of April last, stating that it was so, and that in eonse-
q.„Dee of hisot exbe ttreme age and increa Y
sing infirmit he requested
Le rnight nroubled with any further inquiries.—The
e uiri —The
Messrs. Suktimons have no connection with
persons of the
sm.s tome their valuable inventions are solely confined
to their Establishments, 39, Albemarle-street, (opposite the
York Lletel), and 76, King William-street, Bank. -
'I YDIJA ULIC BELT, OR WATER ELEVATOR,
—lt would scpear that this invention has been submitted
to that ordeal to which all discoveries are more or less sub..
jected, and that a very flattering verdict has been passed
upon its merits lw the first scietittificmßernarnoafhthit day,
amongst whom may be named Messrs. Brun 1'
inasmuch
Donkiu, &c. The discovery is highly important, •
as while it is likely to supersede the common pump, it is
capable of excelling it to an astonishing extent, both in
economy of construction and the power of raising water ;
and the latter from depths hitherto supposed to require
the most complicated machinery. The invention has 'seen
d
patented by Mr. Hail, and is now to be seen displaying its
ts
simple yet surprising capabilities, in the Portman-market.
It is likewise used very extensively for the purposes of
drainage in various fens throughout the country, and is
eminently adapted, from its efficiency in raising water from
great depths, to mines, coal pits, &c. It not being within
tile province of a daily journal to enter fully into the details
of any inventian, however important, it may be as well to
make reference to the Polytechnic Journal of the present month, *here
be felled :very interesting and minute account may
AN Tux!' above discovery.
COMPANY.---WC learn that
this New PtitiAL
Zealand ewnp aV 'has ridded to its former exten-
sive pOsies•sions the
milesp lying in latitude 14 de of the Chatham Islands, a
pc:free.s south, and about 300
m to the eastward of
700,0Nooteholson. The extent of
territory acquired exceed's
sists of three islands; viz, asquaro acres, and con-
auernesthsaman Island (60),000
acres); Pitt's Island (100,00 t;
youth-east (15,000 acres. )-_Comes),
Gazette.
Colonel islet
in
the
M.P., has purchased some ex-
colonel Verner,
tensive tracts of land in Australia, and
is now fitting out
m ag •
a great masts
for emigrating y families on his estates in Tyrone and Ar-
to that distant colony,