The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-24 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, Fni. 23.—The Stromboli steam•sloop,
Commander Lord A. W. Beauclerk, arrived today, i❑
six days from Lisbon, with dispatches from the British
Minister for the Admiralty, which were forwarded by
the half-past two o'clock train this afternoon, to town,
by the South-Western Railway. She left Lisbon on the
17th. The squadron was still lying in the Tagus, but
under sailing orders. Fever was abating. The Strom-
boli has come into harbour and commenced replenishing
fuel prior to dropping out to Spithead, and awaiting there
further orders. She brought home Commander Dixon,
promoted from the Queen, Mr. Moore and Mr. Evans,
clerks of the St. Vincent, and Mr. Ayres, midshipman
of the Canopus, to join the Havannah.
The Flying Fish, 12, acting Commander Powell (First-
Lieutenant of the Styx) also arrived this morning from
the west coast of Africa station. The Actreon having
so recently brought news from the coast, and of the
Flying Fish having sailed from Ascension for England,
leaves the latter but little news to impart. She has
brought home Commander re_die Hart Dyke, formerly
Commander of this vessel, who was superseded in her
command by Admiralty order for his alleged conduct in
the affair of Count Bomfim and other Portuguese refugees.
She has also brought hemo the surgeon (Mr. Robert
Bernard) and purser (Mr. Joseph E. Autey) of the
Contest, and other invalids. Commodore Sir Charles
Hotbam, K.C.8., and the French Admiral, were at
Sierra Leone on the 26th of January. The French brig
of war Abeille was wrecked off Quits on the 25th of
December. The squadron was (generally) distributed
as we detailed on the arrival of the Actmon. The Flying
Fish has not lost one man through fever since she has
been on the coast, neither has she sent one case of fever
to the hospital. Although a very fast sailer she has
made only three captures. She is ordered into this
harbour to be paid off:
The Illustrious ordinary guard-ship, Captain R. A.
Yates, was masted yesterday, and has since been hauled
alongside the Blake receiving htilk, They are jury
masts.

The Sinbad lighter sailed this morning with stores for
the river. _ _ _

Wind W.N.W., strong gales and cloudy.
WooLwickt, FEB. 22.—The Fisgard, flag-ship of Com-
modore Sir Gordon Bremer, K.C.B. and K.C.11., is in
an advanced state, and will be taken out of the basin on

the 28th instant.
The Driver steam-vessel is in the basin under the
shears, and had her three masts put in yesterday, and
her gun-carriages put on board to-day. In addition to
the armament formerly mentioned, the Driver, Sphynx,
Rifleman, and l'hceuix, will each be supplied with a
light 6-pounder gun-carriage of the same description as
used by the Field-Artillery, with timber-carriages com-
plete. The Driver had her steam up to-day to try her
engines in the basin.
The Investigator, one of the vessels of Captain Sir
James Clarke lioss's expedition, arrived in the river from
Greenock on Saturday, and was taken into Messrs.
Green's dock yesterday to be fitted for sea. She is to
be commanded by Captain Bird.
The Salamander steam-vessel was towed by the
African from Sheerness to Woolwich; having been
thoroughly refitted in a most efficient manner at the
former port, she now looks remarkably well. She has
been fitted with Mr. Barr's davits for her paddle-box boats,
and was taken into the basin at Woolwich this afternoon
to have her machinery completed and to be made ready

for sea.
The Rattler steam-vessel was also taken into the
basin to be proceeded with. The other vessels in the
basin are the Janus, Phconix, Rifleman, and Pluto
steam•vessels.
In the Inner Basin—Spiteful, Hecht, Prometheus,
Dee, Myrtle, and Dover steam-vessels.
In the East Dock—Caradoc, Holyhead Mail Steam-
packet.
In West Dock—Niger steam-vessel, fitting with screw
propeller.
Captain &althea, commander of the Garland, Dover
mail steam-packet, has been appointed to command the
Vivid steam-vessel, recently launched at Chatham, and
at present fitting with engines at Messrs. Penn's for the
Dover station. The Vivid will be ready for trial down
the river in about a fortnight.
APPOINTMENTS.

ADMIRALTY, FEII. 23.—Henry Johnson, Lieutenant,
Star; Oliver J. Jones, and G. F. S. Winthrop, Lieu-
tenauts; Charles Gahan, master; Thomas Kerigan,
paymaster and pursor ; G. R. Douglas, boatswain; John
Smith, carpenter, Ganges.

AUSTRALIAN WrIEAT.—The vessel Ilarpley, arrived
in the docks from Launceston, Van Diemeu's Land, has
brought 2,599 bags of wheat, the produce of that distant
colony. The grain imported from this south-eastern
district of the globe comprises several descriptions or
qualities of wheat, and it is considered that they arc par-
ticularly applicable for sowing in this country, for which
purpose they are imported, and are inconsiderable re-
quest. It is usual on this account to import the wheat
in packages rather than in bulk, which would, in a great
measure, have the effect of deteriorating the utility and
value of their supply.

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STATE OF TRADE.
MANCHESTER, FEB. 22.—The dullness in the Liver..
pool cotton market has rendered buyers very unwilling
to operate in goods or yarns, beyond the extent of their
immediate wants ; and this cause, combined with the
excessive wetness of the weather, which:always :c.0.",
aggravates the condition of a drooping Market,
caused a very limited business on the exchange to-
day ; more particularly in yarn, which was sold, in
some cases, at a trifling concession from the rates of
last week. In goods, there has been rather more
firmness, particularly in the lighter kinds of shirtings,
and some:other fabrics suitable for the Indian markets,
in which, prior to the receipt of the Indian letters this
morning, a fair business was done at the full prices of
last Tuesday. For other descriptions of manufactured
goods there has been very littlo demand, but prices,
upon the whole, were tolerably well maintained. We
understand that the private accounts received by the
mail from India are not considered favourable. There
are several additional failures at Calcutta, amongst
them, two native merchants of some standing. Owing
to these calamities, and the virtual suspension of
the Union Bank, there was a very general feeling of
distrust among all classes; and very little business
had been done. We do not hear of any material
diminution of the hours of labour during the last few
days, for which the state of the cotton market may, in
some degree, account. The weekly return of the state
of the factories, &c., shows, indeed, a rather consider-
able diminution of those fully employed; but that is the
effect of changes which we mentioned last week. As
almost every article is now produced at a loss, and, in
many cases, a very serious loss, to the spinner and ma-
nufacturer, the present rate of production cannot be long
maintained without a change in the market here or at
Liverpool. The official return, prepared under the di-
rection of Captain Willis, for the present week, includes
an addition of four brass foundries, employing 154 hands!
there is also a further addition of sixteen hands from
other causes. The comparison of this return
with that for last week gives the following results:—
Four cotton mills have gone from full to short time.
There are 1,075 fewer operatives, in the cotton factories,
working full time; 943 of whom are now working short
time, and the remainder have been thrown out of em-
ployment altogether. Of the total works included in the
table, there are two more working full time, with a full
complement of hands; three fewer working full time,
with a portion only of the hands ; eight more are work-
ing short time, and three fewer are stopped altogether.
There are 1,608 fewer operatives working full time ;
1,558 more working short time ; and 220 more wholly
out of employment. Altogether, the return is of 3
decidedly unfavourable character.
ROCHDALE, FEB. 21.—There is no improvement in
the flannel market to report this week. There has
been but a thin attendance of buyers, and no eager
desire, in those who have been present, to purchase.
Wool has been rather firmer, but the business done has
been light.
HALIFAX, FEB. 19.—The continued dulness in the
piece trade compels us to repeat the same monotonous
tale of a slender attendance of merchants in the Piece

Hall, and a very limited amount of business done, what
is done being at prices far from remunerating. As to
yarn, our report of last week may be repeated for this.
The only change is that the belief that the demand
must improve some time or other comes nearest
realisation as each week passes away, which induces
a greater unwillingness on the part of spinners to
make any further sacrifice in price. With regard to
long wool, the same dragging trade continues, with *
disposition on the part of the holders to sell out before
the searching winds of the next month set in. Some
sorts of short wool are rather harder to buy, in conse-
quence of the Government contracts before mentioned.
and the smallness of the quantity now produced.
HUDDERSFIELD, FEB. 22.—About the same amount
of business has been transacted in the Cloth Hall as last
week, and what has been done is at a slight improve-
ment in price. Complaints aro heavy in the warehouses,
and we cannot report at present any favourable change
in the general state of the district.
LEEDS, FEB. 22.—We have not had to-day so good a
market as last Saturday, when a very fair amount of
business, chiefly for the home trade, was transacted.
For export very little is doing as yet.—Manchester
Guardian.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY NAVIGATORS.—Three
navigators, Michael M'Nicholas and his brother and
James Byrns, were brought up on Monday at the
Dewsbury Police-court, charged with a most murderous
assault ou a man named John Feely, who was attacked
in a savage manner with a knife by one of the ruffians.
The prisoners were remanded for a fortnight. The
Manchester Courier says :—" No motive at present is
apparent for the commission of the deed; but, knowing
something of the state of feeling in the neighbourhood,
we have little doubt that it is one result of the hatred
engendered by the murder of Mr. Wraith and his family,
within a quarter of a mile of whose house this foul deed
has been accomplished. The people of the district are
in the habit of applying the terms Patrick Reid,'
soldering-iron,' and such like remembrancers of that
bloody work, to Irish labourers and navigators; and it
is nut improbable that, in the madness of desire for
revenge, the party fell upon this unfortunate man, mis-
takir, him fur some obnoxious individual."
_ -

JOSEPH ADY ONCE MORE..--This redoubtable limb
of the law was yesterday prosecuted at the Whitechapel
County Court, by Mr. Jay, coal merchant, Pimlico, for
having received 205., under the pretence of tolling him
kiinec.lllllg to his advantage. Poor Joseph was unable
to attend, but sent his " man of business," who stated the
extreme distress to which his client was now reduced,
but offered no defence. The Magistrate sentenced the
man of figures and letters to pay the amount by instal-
ments of 4s. a month. Who is to be the ultimate
sufferer?

METROPOLITAN DEBTORS' PRISONS.—The metro-,
politan prisons for debt present a different appearance to
what they did some time back. There are now nearly
220 persons in Whitecross street Prison, and upwards of
200 in the Queen's Prison. The only other prison in the
metropolis for debt is llorseniouger-lane Gaol. In
Whitecross-street Prison there are but few commit-
ments from the new County Courts, and not many in the
Queen's Prison, including the commitments from the
Palace Court under the Small. Debts Act. It is a very
common thing for persons to be heard under the new
Insolvency Act, and on having their cases adjourned,
without protection, to be taken in execution and conveyed
to prison. It would seem from the number of cases
filed under the old system of insolvency that the new
system has decreased in the estimation of debtors ; they
find that they are required to exert themselves for their
creditors.

FROG RESS OF WESTMINSTER PALACE COMPARED
WITH THAT OF OTHER GREAT EDIFICES.—Poor Fine
Arts! Poor Barry! Or rather let us confine our excla-
mation to fine arts, since the badgering to which the
latter is periodically exposed has served, up to this time,
only to elicit eloquent tributes to his integrity and ability
from men in power, who had otherwise, perhaps, been
silent. This "unnecessary delay" cry is a monstrous
absurdity; it has been demonstrated to be such again
and again, and would scarcely be listened to any where
out of the Rouse of Commons where art is little thought
of and less understood. Compare the progress which
has beau made with that of any of the cathedrals of the
middle ages at home and abroad, painsfully built up
during centuries; ask how long it took to complete St.
Peter's or the Vatican; how many architects and how
many years passed away before this was achieved; and
look to St. Paul's, raised by one man in about thirty
years, an often•quoted contrast with the last example;
and it must be at once admitted by those who know the
extent and elaborate nature of the works at Westminster,
that much more has been done there within the time than
could reasonably have been anticipated .—Buildcr.
STATE OF TRADE IN MANCHESTER.--Depression,
almost amounting to stagnation, continues, and from the
downward tendeecy of the market this week there is
reason to fear that renewed activity is far distant. The
home trade is suffering severely from the distressed
state into which all ranks of the community are thrown,
and most other branches of the staple manufacture of the
town and district are equally flat. Short-time generally
is contemplated, so that bad as things are at present, it
is not unlikely that they will become still much worse
in a very short period. In the out districts, where
limited employment is' almost universally adopted, the
working claws are deeply distressed. The weekly
official return, showing the state of employment of
the whole of the operatives within the borough of
Manchester, exhibits a serious increase to the number
of hands heretofore out of work. Last week there were
33,096 hands working full time; but in the present week
there are only 31,688. The number last week working
short time was 3,659; and in the present week, 5,217.
A strong feeling is entertained in the town and neigh-
bourhood against Lord John Russell's proposed addition
to the income-tax, and no doubt that feeling will be
strongly and generally expressed forthwith. The pecu-
liar position in which the district is placed renders the
people keenly alive to all Government measures, espe-
cially those affecting their interests. Only one opinion
is expressed on this subject, and that is unqualified con-
demnation of the measure, and determination to oppose
it by every constitutional means. Public meetings are
already spoken of.
THE ROYAL ORTIIOPCEDIC HosiTrAL.--Yesterday
the tenth annual meeting of the governors and subscri-
bers to the above charity was holden in the board-room
of the institution, No. 6, Bloomsbury-square. Quarles
Harris in the chair. The report read by Mr .
the secretary, stated that daring the past year 148 in-
patients had been admitted, and 1,213 out-patients placed
on the books. The total number of patients admitted
since the establishment was founded have been 6,658.
The receipts were 2,318/. 14s. 5d., and the expenditure
was 2,1721. 7s. 24., leaving a balance of 141/. 7s. 3d.
During the past year the number of patients had greatly
exceeded the previous years.
FRANKLIN'S GIFT TO AMERICAN MECHANICS...
Dr. Franklin left a sum of money to the town of Boston,
to be loaned to young married mechanics at a low inte-
rest. In December last it had accumulated to the sum
of 40,465 dollars: also 1,000 dollars, the interest en which
is invested in silver medals, and distributed, at the annual
examination of the schools, among the most deserving
boys in the writing and grammar departments.—Builder.
DENTAL STATISTICS.—A correspondent of the
Manchester C,lourier gives the following as the result of a
dentist's labours in the way of tooth-drawing during the
year 1847:—January, 10,1; February, 101 ; March, 103;
April, 121; May, 130; June, 114; July, 98; August,
174; September, 120; October, 175; November, 173;
December, 102; making in the aggregate, 1,479.
CovENT• GARDEN OPERA HOUSE.—A consider-
bl© improvement is being made in the Italian Opera
Hous,e, Covent-garden, for the accommodation of the
public in the ensuing season. The second amphitheatre
and gallery, formerly separate stories, are being thrown
into one general incline, and, by an extension backwards
beyond the present external wall, will be wade capable of
containing 600 persons.—. Builder,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
SOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb. 22.
IMPEACHMENT OF LORD PALMERSTON.
(Continued from our'Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Mr. CHISHOLM ANSTEY then referred at great
length to voluminous and various correspondence,
on the strength of which he contended that Mr.
Urquhart had been most unfairly dismissed by Lord
Palmerston, to suit his own ambitious views.
He charged him in express and direct terms with
making false and contradictory statements to the
House in regard to the treaty of Adrianople, with
garbling the truth, deceiving his country, endeavour-
ing to hand over Turkey to Russia, and as being
guilty of conduct in all these respects which rendered
him unfit to fill the high post he now occupied.
The Noble Lord had refused to lay before the House
certain returns moved for by that Honourable
Member, because he knew that they would be in-
strumental in bringing to condign punishment
the Noble Lord who had thus betrayed his country.
He charged the Noble Lord with having be-
trayed the Circassians to a foreign power, with having
deceived the House with false statements upon this
subject, and with having practised the same
deception upon his colleagues and his Sovereign.
All the statements which he had made he undertook
to prove in any Committee, whether select or secret.
An action had been brought by Mr. Urquhart for a
libel published in the organ of the Noble Lord (Lord
Palmerston), the Morninr, Chronicle, and it was
admitted by the counsel against the plaintiff,
the present Lord Campbell, that the libel was written
by Lord Ponsonby. The rule was made absolute,
but further procedirrgs were dropped upon pay-
ment of the costs of the action. Mr. Fon-
blanque was another example of the disgraceful
connexion of the Noble Lord with the public press
of this country. The results of this policy did not
fail to show itself. In the year 1839 another
war was raging between Mehemet Ali and his
Sovereign. The Sultan applied for protection to
this country against Mehemet Ali, who was
urged on by the Russians. The Sultan offered to
place the Dardanelles in the possession of a British
and French fleet, and the only answer of the Noble
Lord to that application was :a severe censure
upon the Secretary of the then legation
(Mr. Urquhart) for having sent such a proposition,
and, in a dispatch to the Tuileries, he proposed that
the English and French possession of the Dardanelles
should not take place until after the Russians had with-
drawn from Constantinople. The Noble Lord appeared
to have resigned himself with great facility to the
occupation of Constantinople by the Russians. The
French Government stated in reply, that either with
or without England they were determined to prevent
the Russian occupation of Constantinople. In the
year 1840, the Noble Lord told the House that
the French Government had refused to act with
England. That statement was false; the French
Government had never refused to act with England
in preventing the Russian force from entering the
Bosphorus. All the plans submitted to France for
the prevention of the Russian occupation were
transmitted to the Court of St. Peters-
burgh. When the discovery of this perfidy
was, announced in the French Chamber, it was met
with a burst of execration, and he (Mr. Anstey) was
surprised that the matter ended there, and that the
French Government had not refused to hold any
further intercourse with so perfidious a person as the
Noble Lord. When the treaty of
,1840 was called
for in this house, the Noble Lord said that he
could not produce it, as it was not yet
ratified; but he did not tell qv House that, contrary
to all international law, a claße was introducei into
the treaty, to the effect that fulfilment should precede
ratification. Since the Noble Lord had come into
office this last time he had endeavoured to carry out
his objects. The annexation of Cracow was in-
timately connected with the question of the
Spanish marriages. The question was left a
perfectly easy one for him by his predecessor,
the Earl of Aberdeen, who had stipulated that he
would not bring forward an English candidate for
the hand of the Queen of Spain, if the French
Government did not bring forward on their side any
person. Upon the accession of the Noble Lord to
office, he was asked if he would abide by that
agreement ; a whole month was allowed to elapse
before any answer was returned, and in the
meantime efforts were being made at Madrid
to bring forward a candidate from the Coburg family.
The French Government, knowing full well the
former duplicity of the Noble Lord, hastened their own
measures, and finally brought about the marriage of
the Queen of ippi ain in the manner which was already
well known the House and to the country.
He was at a loss now to know how to proceed with
his details, the cases of treachery he was anxious to
bring against the Noble Lord were so numerous.
The Noble Lord and his Government entered into
a treaty with Persia to protect her against
Prussia and Russia ; but a very little time
elapsed after its ratification before the Noble
Lord evinced a disposition to depart from the
terms of the treaty in favour of Russia. A treaty
was entered into with Russia to deprive the rightful
Prince of the throne of Persia, and a lengthened cor-
respondence took place between the Noble Lord and
the British Ambassador at the Court of Teheran
upon the subject, which the Noble Lord had taken
good care should never find its way to the table of
that House. Sir John M'Neil, the British Ambas-
sador, time after time sent home for instructions, but
the Noble Lord never condescended to send any
out till hostilities were opened by the Persian
troops against an English expedition, which
the Noble Lord had sent to the assistance of Russia.
What had been the consequence of this do-nothing
policy ? Why, for the sake of aiding the Russian
Court, which had never evinced a very friendly dispo-
sition towards this country, the Noble Lord had sacri-
ficed the friendship of Persia. With respect to America,
through the direct agency of the Foreign-office
America had been induced to open hostilities with
Mexico and Texas, and English interests had been
sacrificed to the usurpations of America. The
Noble Lord, moreover, broke up the boundary
question, and jeopardized British interests in
regard to that matter, and he now called
upon the Noble Lord to afford the House and
the country some reason or explanation of this
gross violation of his duty as a Minister of the
Crown. He would say nothing more upon the
subject of the treaty of Washington, except
to remark that here also they had an in
stance of the Noble Lord's disposition to disregard
his duty when he had an opportunity of doing so.
With regard to the slave trade he had but little to
say; Parliament in its wisdom had determined to
make an effort to suppress that abominable traffic,
but the manner in which the Noble Lord had
carried out the wishes of Parliament was
anything but satisfactory to him, and he should be
glad if the Noble Lord would state faithfully and
truly to the House the instructions he had
given upon this subject, and at the same time
put the House in possession of the exact state
of his negotiations with the Government
of Brazil upon the subject of the slave trade.—
(Hear.) The Right Hon. Baronet the Member for
Tamworth had stated that the treason of a Minister
must be decided upon a different principle to that
which regulated such decisions in the case of
private individuals ; but he for one did not
agree with that opinion. The responsibility of
a Minister of the Crown ought to be decided
in the same way as the responsibility of a private
individual, and he called upon the House to
adjudge the Noble Lord upon the charges he
had felt it to be his duty to bring against
him in the same spirit. Thanking the House for
the attention they had afforded him, he begged to
move the resolution of which he had given notice.
Mr. URQUHART seconded the motion.
Mr. SHELL said Dungarvan was so near
Youghal that he could not help being acquainted
with the views that the Hon. Member who had so
long occupied their attention, to-day addressed to the
constituency of the latter place ; and the Hon. Mem-
ber must forgive him for expressing his surprise that
the Honourable, Member, after proving himself on the
hustings at the last election to be the most true
Irishman of them all, should
so soon have dis-
missed the country
of his adoption for the trammels
of foreign politics. The Icon Member fos. Youghal
had had handed over Ireland to the tender mercies
lion. Member for Stafford, while the Hor)iNloembteer
fur Stafford, who had circumvented the entire world to
make himself familiar with the subject he had given
up, had handed over to the Honourable Member for
Youghal this tremendous motion upon foreign
politics. Now he could not help thinking that it was
most unfair in the Honourable Member for Youghal, in
sacrificing the Irish people and the Irish Parlia-
ment, to enable the Honourable Member for
Stafford to make a terrific onslaught, under an
amhdli, upon the character and reputation of the
Noble Lord the Foreign Secretary. Coming from
the Honourable Member for Youghal, the attack
had lost its point, for the Honourable Member for
Stafford, it was well known, had long been trying,
through the agency of pamphlets and lecturers, to
damage the character of his Noble Friend, the Foreign
Secretary in the eyes of the English people, and
it would have been more in accoriance with the old
English principle of fair play had the Hon. Member
for Stafford himself made the lengthened statement
they had just heard against the Noble Lord now that
he had an opportunity of meeting the Noble Lord face
to face, rather than have taken advantage of the am-
bush the Hon. Member for Youghal had afforded him.
He had come down
to
fend the the House, he admitted, to de-
great actions of his Noble Friend---actions
-which would bear a prominent
don place in history—
to contend that he had
that for his country
which an English Minister should stlouald do, and that
in all his actions he had
acted
ready to show that his hand had naeve/ soiled the
man
he was
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