The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-16 00:00:00

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Her Majesty's steam-vessel Stomboli, Sep. 28, 1841.
Sir—l consider it my duty to represent the conduct of
Mr. Hunt (midshipman), on the occasion of the 26th of
September, whilst storming the town of Sidon, as no-
thing could surpass the zeal, activity, cool determination
and courage, which he displayed, and the unfailing suc-
cess his conduct had over the men in cheering them on.
He was entrusted with the colours, and ran a race with
the Austrian officer, who should be first to display their
national flags on the walls of the castle—an honourable
rivalry between allies. I ben- leave to add, that -31 r. Hunt
was successful. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most
obedient, humble servant.
JOHN. RUSSELL, Lieutenant.
To Commander Williams,
her Majesty's steam-vessel, Stromboli.

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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYDS.
LONDON, Am. 14.—Wind this day at noon S.W.
DEAL, AUG. 13.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Supe-
rior, Bell, Batavia. From the river, Lana Rookh, Syd-
ney; Jane, Erskine, Pernambuco; Enterprise, Quebec.
Sailed Great Britain, Montreal; John, Risk, Demerara;
Janet, Willis, Jamaica.
'Dovint, Aro. 12.—Off port Ophelia, White, Quebec.
Antwerp for Rio janeiro.
TT •iGS AUG.. 13.—John, Rio Janeiro for
OFF
S.W. to S.S.W.—
tTETann,I'AUG. 13.—Wind
Quebec, from London for New York.
3:;trroN, AUG. 13.—Arrived Oriental, Falmouth.
S.S.W.—
Arrived the
AUG. 13.—Arrived the Saladin, Dunn, Ha-
vannah, with chain plates and bulwarks carried away,
having been in contact with a vessel.
PLYMOUTH, AUG. 13.—Arrived the Ida, from London
for Jamaica.
FALMOUTH, AUG. 12.—Wind N.W. to W.S.W.—Ar-
rived the Antelope, from Marseilles.
BBISTOL, AUG. 13.—Arrived the William Harrington,
from Miramichi. Sailed the Psyche, Launceston; St.
George, Calcutta; Mineiva, Mauritius; Lotus, Quebec.
PADSTOW, AUG. 12.—Sailed John and Mary, Bathurst.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Mary Ann, Cook, off
Green Island ; Henry Bliss, from New York, off Cape
Chat, by the Ophelia, White, arrived off Dover. Jam
White, Marseilles, to Cork, 17th ult., off Cape Nao, by
the Antelope, arrived at Falmouth. Nouvelle Joffe,
Cadiz, to Manilla, 3d ult., lat 9 N. lon. 16 W., off Cadiz.,
by the Jeune Nelly, arrived at Havre. Marie, Bor-
deaux, to Tampico, within soundings of Campeachy, by
the Jenny, arrived at Bordeaux. Jonge Willem, Rio
Grande, to the Channel, 21st June, lat. 3 S. lon. 25 W. ;
Natalie, Bordeaux to Monte Video, 27th ult. 8, by the
Vertrouwen, arrived at Helvoet. Suffolk, of Ipswich,
13th ult., between St. I"laul's and Cape North, by the
Em. B. Heard, arrived offf,Cape Clear ; Brig Bonner,
lat. 30 N. lon. 57, by the --, arrived in the Downs.
Hibernia, Liverpool, to Now York, 30th ult., lat. 45, lon.
38, by the Camilla, arrived in the Downs. Industry,
Sligo, to Quebec, 7th, lat. 55, lon. 15, by the Rop.l
Bride, arrived in the Clyde.
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GOVERNMENT PROVISION CONTRACT.—
The Lords of the Admiralty have announced the Go-
vernment provision contract for the ensuing year, to con-
sist of 15,000 tierces of beef, and 16,000 tierce,soroaoorfttipc.::‘:eekrse,.
for which quantity tenders will be received on the 23d of
next month. The extent of the provision contract last
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Limerick Chronicle.

1,71 ON THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
CFIROII llCLE.—Without entering on the question
what prop srtion the Dissenters bear to the members of
the Churt hof England, we object to the late election
being ta.l en as a test either of the strength of Re-
formers ct all creeds, or of the strength of the professors
of any pal ticular creeds. " While the larger proportion
of the Brit ish empire," says the Times, " have shown
themselve; ; so favourable to Church establishments as
to hare • elected a House of Commons resolved to
maintain them. On their ancient foundations, the en-
tire age cgate of violent Dissenting voluntaries, all
of whop vo'xd for Whig Candidates, have been ut-
terly un al bb,, even with the ill-judged co-operation
of multi Wales of Church Liberals, to secure the con-
tinuance of a congenial Whig Cabinet. The elec-
tions,. th erefore, have clearly demonstrated the nu-
merical teeleness of your noisy political Dissenters." It
would be eeery whit as correct to say that the elections
which r rco ided the • -Reform Bill and took place imnie-
(timely aft r it, were a proof of the numerical weakness
.Thu :eh of England, as the clergy ue that Church
were, with very few exeepLion.e, strenuous opponents of
:the acorn t I3il.h:allot party distinctions were broken
down. at ;b e late election. It is notorious that the land-
owoers a ; a body (there were many distinguished excep-
tions no cloef,t) were bitterly opposed to any change in
the Corn -larva ; that the county electors are exclusively
in the he ode of the landowner; ; and that the towns; in
agricultu teal dietricts, were overawed by the tenants and
other ret Liners of the landowners. The election turned,
not upon the attachment to particular political prin-
ciples, tt on the question whether a fixed duty on
corn sho alit be substituted for the present sliding- scale.
In the tounties there are numerous Dissenters and
Liberals who were as much coerced as the old Irish
forty-shi fling freeholders used to be before the Eman-
cipation Bill. But we pass to the towns in agricultural
distriats, said take one as a specimen—Reading. In
Reading,, in ordinary times, the Reformers constitute a
majorit y. Why Tories were returned at the last elec-
tion is pointed out in a letter in this clay's Chronicle,
head( d "..-lea.ding, Intimidation." The " owners and oe-
cupiters of land" in the neighbourhood issued a Mani-
festo, acid] essed " to the electors of Reading, especially
those en g aged in trade," to which the names of 160
landownt a s and farmers were attached, and which was
diligently• circulated as a placard. Adverting to the
Minister al proposition for the admission of foreign corn
at a fixer I deity, they say :
"We : ire far from desiring to interfere with the dpi-
nione of. an y man, but as a dissolution of Parliament is
about to. -is ke place on this question, and • this question
aloae; w e I tave no-hesitation in urging you 'to lay aside
all othor co esiderations, and to support those candidates
tmly who declare themselves favourable to the Mainte-
mance o the present protective system. In ordinary
times, we -.should not have adopted this course ; but when
sac see our•. property, our station in society, and the welfare
icy' all de; u ndent on us at stake, we are sure you will ad-
mit that eve are amply justified. Although we might
urge your own identity of interests with ours, as per-
sona with whom we expend incomes, amounting in the
aggregate to :natty thousands per annum, we prefer ap-
pealing to you, as neighbours and friends, and to ask,
as a person :a. favour, that you will support those candidates
at the efisu election who will maintain that cause in which
we are all r. cost deeply engaged."
It appe irs by an analysis subjoined to this document,
that the s ffect of this appeal was the neutralizing 107
avowed F teformers, and the inducing 80 professing Re-
formers ' :o record their votes in favour of the Tory can-
didates. Tinder any other circumstances the Reform
candida'zs would have- had a great majority. Reading
may be taken as a fair sample of all boroughs similarly
ciretur.sts. need. The Dissenters were not one whit more
deterrained than other electors ; and it is a notorious
fact in mr.nyplaccs the use of Dissenting meeting-houses
was positively refused for meetings of the adherents of
the anti-n tonopolist candidates.
HERA LD.—ln theafternoon of yesterday it was con-
fidently a: serted in the City by generally well informed
and most respectable merchants, that five ships of war
had been ordered to proceed immediately to the coast of
the Unit id States, and that they were there to be joiped
by ten (Abe: vessels of her Majesty's navy from foreign
stations., The object of the alleged mission of this arrna-
anent lo the American shores, it was added, was to re•
•ceive Mr. Fox, should the refusal of the renewed demand
for the release, which it is said he is instructed to make,
of Mr. MiLeod, compel the British representative to
withdraw from Washington, and afterwards to adopt
such hostile proceedings as may be deemed indispensable
for the vindication of the honour of the British Crown,
which hes been so wilfully and wantonly attacked by
the American people and Government in the person
of its subiect—Alexander M'Leod. It is our duty as
jourpalists to record the intelligence of the day, and, in
pursuance of that obligation we have stated the rumour
which we have reason to believe proceeded from no in-
terested, esxcited, or prejudiced source. In thus giving
to it publicity, however probable we may think it, we
add no -voucher for its absolute truth. It cannot, how-
evef, be denied that the state of our relations with the
United. States are most unsatisfactory, and that the con-
tinuance of peace between England and the Republic is
an event on which no certain dependence can be
placed. The 73ritish Representative has formally de-
manded the resase of Mr. M'Leod, on grounds which
the Ai nerican Secretary of State has admitted to be suf-
ficient., and that British subject is now only incar-
cerate d because the Supreme Government of the United
States is deficient in power to enforce his release from
a sv.oordinate State. 'With this deficiency of power Eng-
lard has nothing to do; she can take no more cognizance
of the State of New York than she can of the meanest
citizen of the republic ; to the Supreme Government
alone she looks for compliance with her demand, and de.
lay in that compliance from inadequacy of power tau,
tamount to a refusal. The quiescence of Mr. Fox, sub-
sequent to the demand, is sufficiently objectionable ; but
submission to further appeals to American Courts of
Law would be intolerable. Great Britain has amply
shown the United States that she seeks no rupture; it
now remains for her to declare that she will not pur-
chase amity by dishonour. It is idle, it is wicked, to
conceal the fact, that unless Mr. M'Leod be immediately
released, the honour of this country is deeply tarnished;
the ties that bind her North American colonies to her are
loosened, and another precedent has been established for
the destrucdon of national rights.

ADVERTISER.—The Times is better than our fears
upon the question of Church extension. Knowing, as
we do, the almost unlimited drafts which the Tories have,
from time to time, made upon the public Treasury, to
augment the revenues of the clergy, we were justified in
anticipating that the claims which the Times made upon
the proximate Conservative Government, on behalf of
the Church, would be followed, as a matter of course, by
.some impudent proposition for an addition to those Par-
liamentary grants of money, by which the insatiable ava-
rice of the clergy has been already and so frequently illus-
trated. But the Times has at length been made to under-
stand something of .the spirit and temper of the age,
and to perceive what has long been obvious to all the
rest of the world, namely, that any augmentation of the
Church revenues, by an appropriation of the public mo-
ney, unless it be upon special grounds, and under parti-
cular circumstances, involves a principle which may be
turned to a very fearful account against the Church
itself. The Times admits the miserable inadequacy of
Church accommodation, and of the means of religious
instruction by the agency of the Church's ministers ;
bet it will not consent to any application to Parliament
for t: grant of public money to supply the deficiency,
until after all the internal resources of the Church
itself have been put into requisition and exhausted.
Tide is something gained to the popular cause ;
and if the Conservatives are as discreet as they seem
to be under the victory they have just achieved for their
party, they will in this matter adopt the course of policy
which the Times has so judiciously and ably pointed out.
As the Times rests the propriety of augmenting the re-
venues of the Church by an allocation of the public
mone:z upon the ascertained inadequacy of her own inter-
nal resources to meet the
i demands, made upon her ser-
vices, it becomes of some importance to ascertain the real
extent f of those resources, as they are available for the
And thisinquiry becomes the
enjoyment of the clergy.
more desirable and necessary, inasmuch as the clerical
body has in this matter managed to impose most egregi.
ously upon the publicthrough the instrumentality of the
Ecclesiastical Commission,
which was created in 1831.
POST.—Upon the supposition, of the statesmen who
have with them the Parliamentary majority, being called
to the helm of Administration, we have spoken of the
difficulties with which they will have to contend, owing
to the neglect end mismanagement of
tpublic affairs for
some years past by the present Mirlis ry. Let us now
look at Conservative prospects in a different aspect, and
consider what advanteges they will have over the Whig
-
Radical condeetors of affitirs. Among these,- the ttr
and greatest is, in the charae;.4w of Vie force which_ the
Conservative leaders will direct. Wlytterer Whig_
Radical advocates may 'say as fe one eeto, or any given
number of votes, being of the same importance whether
they he of one class or atwaher—whether they be
Mr. O'Connell's nominees •or the representatives- of
independent Tiritish yeomen—they Anew very well
that much. depends upon the character of any Par-
liamentary party as well as upon its number. We
consider—and even our opponents must in this agree
with us, whatever they may pretend—that the high cha-
racter of the Conservative majority is of far more lat.
Tortance than its numerical amount. Abusive weeds are
easily uttered, and the Whig-Radicals nay,, and,will,
iietleige their malignant nature and their impotent spite
iin imputing all sorts of bad motives to the Conservative
-majority. But all this railing will not get rid of the fact
that the great bulk. of the Conservative Parliamentat,,,,
force is composed of men of independent fortowe tetil ihnreaehalde character. Men who have a recv 4eektge per-
zone i interest in the prosperity of the coontry—men to
-whom no temporary advantage could be a sufficient com-
pere:a:jou for consenting to measuros which they believed
likely to lower the national eke:actor, the national secu-
rity, or the national prosperity of Great Britain. Nor is
it at, all likely that any amount of abuse and vituperation
:should materially shake the natural public inference
fro:a this fact, that in troubled and perilous times it iN far safer to be under the guidance of a majority emn-
posed of such men, than under that of such a disreput-
able band—such a conflata improlmrum martus-33 formed
the bulk of the Whig-Radical majority since the be-
ginning of 1835. If present Ministers had been
capable of shame, which they neither were nor are, it
might hare made them almost sink into the earth to look
around and contemplate the kind of people to whom
they were on all great trials of strength indebted for
their disgraceful success. 'we suppose we may, 'without
any suspicion of want of due generosity, as well as with
personal safety, speak our mind of a defunct Parliament.
We, therefore, do 9ot hesitate to say, that there..were
among those who Constantly sat upon the Ministerial
bench i<, under the guidance of Lord John Russell, many
persons with whom en intimate. private acquaintance
would havomen very discreditable men in whose con-
seie
nee. whoseMerest, there was no security
against the co whose pt
and treasonable exercise of ;heir le-