The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-12 00:00:00

WOOLWICH-WEDNESDAY.

ROYAL ARSENAL—The greatest activity prevails in this
extensive establishment, and sixteen workmen have been
added to the laboratory department. The Queen ordnance
sloop is loading to-day at the east wharf with a large quan-
tity of military stores, for the purpose of being conveyed to
Portsmouth, where they will be put on board one of the
line. of-battle ships for conve3ance to Syria. Amongst the
implements of war there is a complete light field battery of
eight-inch howitzers, with gun carriages and ammunition
boxes complete ; several camp carts, for conveying shot and
shells, and others for ammunition, to the troops, only used
when a protracted warfare is anticipated. There is a smith's
forge accompanying this battery, with all its appendages and
tools for working in the field. It is mounted on a carriage
similar to those used for the guns, and can be rendered
available for service at a moment's notice, when it would
not be possible to obtain assistance for repairs by any other
means. A powerful sling car, mounted on four wheels,
the largest being ten feet in diameter, has also been made
to accompany this shipment of stores. It is generally used
for removing large guns or howitzers from one place to
another when permanent stations are occupied, or from
one portion of a battery to another when the guns have
no wheel-carriages attached to them. Those entrusted
with the despatch of these stores arc using every
exertion to get them forwarded with the least pos-
sible delay, and it is expected they will be all
shipped so that the vessel may be able to sail at high
water to-morrow, and from the urgency of the case, it
is probable the Queen will be towed down the River by one
of her Majesty's steam-vessels. In addition to this large
cargo the Queen will convey fifteen of the 32. pounder
guns intended for the Indus, recently commissioned by
Sir James Stirling. Seventy-two of the 32-pounder guns
intended for the Caledonia arc now ready, and will be
shipped by the first opportunity for service or. board that
vessel.

The Duke of Somerset ordnance sloop arrived at Wool-
wich yesterday, from Portsmouth, with old stores, and will
be loaded again immediately with articles for conveyance
to the former place.
The guns of the Rhadamanthus have been examined and
found perfect, and, having been newly varnished, arc ready
for service in the same vessel.

IRELAND.— THE CHANCELLORSHIP.--It iS
not a little remarkable that the Court of Chancery was re-
presented upon the first day of the present Term, by a
Roman Catholic Master of the Rolls, and a Presbyterian
Master in Chancery. Upon the same day the Head of the
Court called his eldest son to the Bar. We believe that
each of these circumstances is unprecedented in our annals
of legal events. This incident presents, in' a very promi-
nent point of view, the very absurd anomaly in our laws,
by which a Roman Catholic is called upon, in the absence
of the Lord Chancellor, to perform the duties of that of-
fice, and is yet prohibited from attaining the dignity. He
is legally qualified to perform the duties, but is held un-
fitted to hold the rank I Can anything more strongly pre-
sent the blind bigotry of those who, in I $29, insisted upon
reiaining that insulting remnantof a barbarous penal code ?
or more forcibly illustrate the good sense and clear-sight-
edness of the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel,
who introduced and passed the Emancipation Bill through
the House of Commons without the addition of that de-
' grading and irritating mark of political inferiority ?
, Dublin Evening Post.