The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-15 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The continued drought has made it necessary, with a view
of saving as much as possible -the water of the aqueduct fur
the wants of the inhabitants, to send away the ships of war to
water in Sicily.
The Implacable and Deacon left for Syracuse for this pur-
pose on the 20th ult., and would have been followed by the
Ganges and other N. es:cls, as their stocks had run out, had not
some rain since faPen.
The Inconstant, Captain Pring, arrived on the 23d ult.,
bringing 296 disposable seamen to fill up vacancies in the Me-
diterraneantleer.
The Athol troop-ship arrived from Corfu, on the 18th in-
stant, with detachments for the West Indies, with which she
sailed on the 27th, but owing to contrary gales of wind she
bore up yesterday.
The French steam-packet from the Levant, which arrived
on the 25th ult., brought Mr. Parsons, mate of the Vesuvius,
which vessel wasfallen in with same day ninety miles to the
eastward of Malta, under sail from Beyreut, having expended
her coals. This officer is bearer of eespatches for Sir -Robert
Stopford, and brings Ilevrise an Indian mail via the Persian
Gulf, despatched from Thmbay on the 3d December. The Ve-
suvius did not get in until the 28th ult., when she was takers
in tow by the Gent Liverpool, coating in from Alexandria,
whence she sailed the 23d nit., bringing the mail despatched
from B .mbay, theist u't , by the Berenice.
The Prometheus conveyed to Marseilles the overland mail,
and left this morning.
The Great Liverpool leaves this eve ring, and conveys the
following pa,sengess:—Mr. and Mrs. Larking, British Con-
sul at Alexandria, on sick leave, and child; Major Douglas,
Captain -Gray, Dr. Spence, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson, Mrs.
Woodhouse, Mrs. Waddington and two children. Dr. Stephen-
son, Alessrs. Hergog, Megre, Rary, Konasis, Nisbet, Smith,
Frith, and three children ; tittle, Sackett, Aspinall, Cotton,
Taylor, -P.,ttula, Grays Velle, Evans, Gordon, and Lieutenant
Jerningham, R. N., Capt. Hathorn, RN., and four servan's.
The ships in port arc the Princess Charlotte, Ceylon, Edin-
burgh, Ganges, Thunderer, Bellerophon, Carysfert, Dido, In-
constant, Wasp, Magp'e; Gorgon, Hydra, Vesuviug, Alecto,
Locust, Medea, Con ante, Acheron, and Phoenix all which
arc fitting for sea. A report is current that. one division will
proceed to Naples, and another to the coast of Syria, where it
is more than probable that the Syrians may turn upon the Ot-
tomans with the arms so bountifully supplied them of late.
It is rumoured that Admiral Sir Robert. Stopford talks (-4
breaking up his establishment at, Malta s(.on after the 20th
inst., as before that period he expects to be relieved from his
command.
The Edinburgh has just received orders to bend sails ; her
destination is said to be Alexandria.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle )
We are unwilling to enter into any controversy with a writer
in the Examiner, who contends that in the controversy re-
specting Mr. 11PLeod we have no right to complain either of
the supreme Government or of the local authorities. We are
as strongly impressed as he can be with the calamitous re-
sults, both to this country and America, of which war cannot
fail to be productive ; but we entertain a confident hope that
war will he avoided. We differ, however, with the writer as
to*his assumption that the Americans are in the right and w•
are in the wrong. The
•statement which he adopts from Sir .
F. Head does not, for instance, bear out his remark,
" that the attack (of the Caroline) prima facie was un-
lawful. It was a midnight attack on American citizens
in an American boat moored to the American shore. It was
not an attach in the. progress of hostilities ; for it
appears that not a shot had before been fired by
Mr. Alaenab or his militiamen or volunteers." This,
we apprehend, is sacrificing the spirit to the words.
The force on Navy Island had cannonaded the British village
of Chippewa. That the cannonade was ineffectual did not
make it the less an attack. If a man aims a blow with a stick
at the head of another, belt the blow does not reach the bead,
the man struck at would not the less consider himself attacked.
Knowing that a constant communication was kept up between
Fort Schlosser and the island, Mr. .111‘Nab might ica=onably
anticipate a more effectual cannonade front the sympathisers
obtaining possession of cannon of more extensive range, in
which case the village of Chippewa would have been destroyed.
The attack was made when armed men took possession of
Navy Island and fired on Chippewa. The Caroline was hired
by the ruffians to convey cannon and men from Fort Schlosser
to the island, and in following the Caroline to Fort Schlosser
and taking possession of her the Canadian militia were resisting
hestieties, and not commencing them. The case which the
writer in the Examiner afterwards supposes to prove that the
American authorities are in the right, is not in point—
" The American authorities," he says, " have done precisely
what we should have, and, indeed, must have done, under si-
milar circumstances. It a mixed band of French refugees and
English ruffians were to take part in a French civil war, to
land on the French coast and annoy the neighbouring country;
if they derived recruits and supplies from our shore, and, be-
fore our Government could prevent their doing so, a steamer
should run from Dover to France, and carry them arms arid
men, and return at night and moor in Dover Ilarlittr:--if, av
say, under these circumstances, a band of French vo'unteers
should at midnight enter Dover Harbour, attack the steamer,
loose her from the pier, and endeavour to kill the crew and
skuttle the vessel, should we or should we not, on the alarm
being given in the town, interfere to stop such proceedings ?"
To make the parallel complete, the writer should have al-
lowed this mixed bind of French refugees and English ruf-
fians to obtain possession of Dover Castle, and leisurely, clay
after day, use the ,stelmer in conveying cannon and other
stores and men fronesie to the French coast. In such a ease
the English Goverethent, being unable to vindicate its
authority, could not justly blame the French Govern-
ment if, in self defence, it proceeded to attack and scuttle
the steamer in Dover harbour. The question seems to us to
be too serious to be left to the cognizance of a local court in
the State-of New. York. It is possible that the plea suggested
by the writer in the Examiner might be allowed, and that,
even if convicted, M'Leod might not be executed; but even
as a matter of prudence we question the propriety of the course re-
commended. Wa are persuaded, on the contrary, that the course
on which Government has entered is much more likely to be
attended with pacific results. If IlPNab and his party were
in the wrong, and it could be established that the Americans
on grounds of international law are entitled to redress, the
Government ought not to lose a moment in giving satisfaction.
But we fear an abandonment by the British Government of in-
dividuals, whether regulars or militia, who in their mode of
defending the British territory kept within the strict line of
their duty, would be little likely to purchase a continuance of
peace, while it would entail dishonour on those who should
consent to such a proceeding.
(From the Morniv Post.)
The long article of The Sun, which professes to comment
upon the observations on home and foreign trade, which we
otfered to our readers on Thursday last, seems to us to go very
wide of the mark. It is from no diiiespect to oar Contem-
perary, or disregard of the subject., that we do not reply to the
article in question, but because we think that we have already
seited, with sufficient fuln• as and distinctness, our views upon
the points to which the article relates. Let us repeat, how.
ever, that our great object is to maintain (so far as it may ho
possible) such a system of protection and resti'iction as will
afford opportunities of remunerative industry to all classes of
the people, whether agricultural or manufacturing. We aro
very jealous of any change calculated to diminish the amount
of our home agriculture, because, if that were wholly or in
part abandoned, we have no conception how the people now
employed in it would find remunerative. employment.
(From the Tunes.)
The fresh perplexity into which the affairs of the East have
been thrown is not cured by the answer of Lord Palmerston
to the questions of Lord Francis Egerton acid l•:it Robert Peel
as to the authenticity and the tenour of the hatti-scbcriff, by
which the nominal hereditary Government of Egypt has been
restored to Mehemet Ali. The House of Commons listened
to that answer on Friday night not only with impatience, but
with contemptuous indignation. There is but one voice in all
parties (unless we are to except the Ministers of the Crown
and the r morning organ of Downing-street) to reprobate a
course which looks like double-dealing on the part of Eng-
land. There is but one feeling amongst political men united
by nothing but a common sense of justice and honesty—
namely, that the only proper disavowal of so discieditabic
a proceeding is the instant recall of the author of
this mischief. That individual masks himself, we ara
told, behind a diplomatic pretence : but we defy the
Ministers, collectively and individually, to declare to Parlia-
ment that Lord Ponsonhy did use due diligence to prevent the
publication of this hatti-scheriff, or that lie did not use undue
and unauthorised diligence to promote it. The Foreignsso
Se-
cretary is advise& that this stinted and suspicious re,,ande 'to
of the Pacha to the Pachalic 'Thiel' he governs, and
bet
master's favour, is an act of the Sultanich
the• e
Sultan has
it is certainly the very first atop which
thought proper to take on his
Eoa%vvin:t
with regard to the Paella ell drive
ciof —The moment for acting
note of July, nsdi ne pc oe ndt
ne
t
that the Four Powers had no
cognizance Are we, then, to infers _2eriir?
proprio
vigore ii6s39eitherras
That not a whisper of ad-
vicecognizance of this heti- el
nosit-nyeet come or long since past.
allowed to reach the Divan since the Turkish
has been
force without the keowledge or
to put "his
"'li
of-those by whose interference lie has re-
flect returned to a
aTcutrsk;i,s!inport ? And that the Sultan is left
against the consenttver
Ministers
tlip.olwer over Syria and Egypt he may now
iositions are ridiculous. • The Wrte may
indiscreet the odium of measures too dishonest,'
toes
but it is to our that the world looks for
to be avowed by Christ'
ebsicireoaeasev
fsertm:yr:te.;:dd;ery
ev
dh,tt
hoe: e
the fair and just exercise of the power they have helped the
Sultan to resume. The Allies ought to have known the pro-
visions of this grant ; they ought to have Itipulated,
ditions which had been backed by Bhriatdish that con-.
men-of-war
should be as exactly observed as if they
doubtedly the intention of the Four Powers to
British officers. Lord Palmerston states, that been
made
bi
met Ali the bona fide hereditary possession ofgrEangitytepirasMinew2r;
direct line. If that was their intention, who has prevented it
from being carried into execution? Are their forces so,etnt4
temptible, or their diplomacy so unskilful, that they cannot ob.
lain from the Porte the ratilicat' of owntheirt promises, the
fulfilment of their own desiresimuThe who urged the
Porte to the "act" which it is now alike inconvenient either
to avow or to disavow, was the same who urged the Porte to
guag,
pronounce the decheance of the Pacha—contrary to the intene
tions of the Four Powers : the same who denounced, in the
most violent tan e the terms of the Napier convention—
contrary to the intentions of the Four Powers : the same who
advanced the time of the blockade of Alexandia—contrary
to the intention of the Four Powers : the same who,
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the fatal campaign of that yean—contrary to the desires
pc. That agent
urged the dying Sultan to risk his last army in
of every. prudent statesman in
Ecwouerrr. lo'f. .8.
lt .It thesethe
avertall•ed fur
chhav having
precipitateiled
was and is the British Ambassador at
disastrous and ill-judged measures
iSnuhltiasnd,'u'
tLyoorfd
uPsoinngsoiEtbryitiosuente
recalled
were,
his we firmly
.believe,. all or most of
excesses. If they
them the consequenci s ofs
direct in‘tigation or indirect
tuoe influence
fit'
read loa Lord Ponsonby ought to be disavowed, recalled,
---- having presumed to frustrate the intentions
and disgraced, for _
,e the Queen's Allies, for having thwarted the instructions of
the Queen's Ministers, and for having allowed the promises of
the Queen's officers to be broken. Is the peace of the world
to be placed in ji opardy because Lord Ponsonby is a
well. connected Nobleman ? Is the influence of England to
make the Porte more vindictive anti unjust thiU2 tat been the
wont even cf Ts rkißh Princes ?