The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-04 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH THURSDAY.—This morning, at 10
o'clock, the. Earl of Auckland, First Lord of the Admi-
ralty, resumed his levee at the Royal Naval College, and
gave audiences to the following officers :
Rear Admirals—Charles Carter and Sir W. A. Mon•
tagu, C. 8., K.C.H.

Commodore—Douglas.
Captains—Jones, Liardet, Westley, Sweney, Richard-
son, and Sir W. Dickson, Bart.
Commanders—Twiss, Ward, Cannon, Steane, J. Low-
rey, Westbrook, Farquhar.
Lieutenants Compton, Billingsley, Courbauld,
M'Clure, Jenner, and M'Donnell.

Paymasters and Pursers—floimeister, Acheson, and
M‘Dermott.

ROYAL MARINES.

Major—Moore, R.M.A. (Barrack-master).
The Noble First Lord concluded his levee a few mi-
nutes past twelve, and, after going through one or two
departments of the college, proceeded to inspect the
children of the Seamen and Marines' Orphan School, or
Portsea, who were drawn up in front of the college on
the right, facing the entrance to the mansion of their
distinguished and gallant President, Admiral Sir Charles
Ogle. Dr. Morgan, one of the directors, and Mr. Charles
Young, the honorary secretary, explained to their Lord-
ships the nature of the charity. After minutely in-
specting the children (sixty boys and thirty-five girls),
the First Lord expressed his warm satisfaction at their
clean and healthy and apparently happy condition, and
said he hoped to have the pleasure of seeing them at
their other institution (the ground for which was granted
by the late Board of Admiralty). After complimenting
the directors and the hon. secretary for their highly bene-
ficial and praiseworthy labours, their Lordships pro-
ceeded to make a general inspection of the various de-
partraents of the dockyard, commencing with the rope-
house, thence proceeding to the superintendent's office,
on board the Amphitrite razee corvette, to the works of
the new steam-basin, returning by the millwright's shop,
and embarking soon after four o'clock, at, the King's-
stairs, to inspect the Britannia, 120 ; Powerful, 84 ;
Vengeance, 84 ; and other advanced ships.
While the First Lord held his levee, Rear-Admiral
Dundas and Captain Berkeley, accornpanted by Rear-
Admiral the Earl of Cadogan, and Commander Hew-
lett, of the Excellent, went out in the Bee steam-tender
to Spithead, to inspect the Hound (new iron 10 gun
brig). They returned to harbour at noon, when the
whole Board went round the Dockyard.
Their Lordships dine this evening at their hotel (the
George), where they entertain Admiral Sir Chas. Ogle,
the Commander-in-Chief; Major-General the Hon. Sir
Hercules Pakenham, Lieutenant• Governor of the gar-
rison ; Captain-Superintendent Carter, of Hasler, &c. ;
Colonel Jones, commandant of this division of Royal
Marines ; Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, superintendent
of the dockyard ; Mr. Richard Haig, R N., Seoretary to
the Commander in-Chief ; Captain Pasco, of the Vic-
tory, and the other captains of the ships in commission
at this port, and a few private friends. Covers are laid
for twenty-four.
The Gladiator steam-frigate, Captain Robb, is now
ready for sea. She bent sails this day.
The Sylvia tender sailed this evening for Jersey-.

Prince Castelcicala, the Neapolitan Minister, trans-
acted business at the Foreign-office yesterday.
CITY OF LONDON GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY.—
The Secretary of this Institution, Mr. H. F. Richardson, has
been honoured with a communication from his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, consenting to preside at the
next Anniversary Festival of this valuable charity. The
Illustrious Prince presided in 1840 for the institution.
Amongst numerous donations lately received by the society,
may be named the Marquis of Breadalbane, 50/. ; Thomas
Dickinson, Esq., 52/. 10s. ; the Worshipful Companies of
Goldsmith's and Draper's, each 501. ; Joseph Baxendale, Esq.,
in addition to 80 guineas; Mrs. H. F. Richardson, 10/. 10s..
Luke J. Hansard, Esq., 601., in addition to 10L; Mr. and
Mrs. Braithwaite, 21/. ; Mr. Uzielli, 211., &c., &c. It is
quite anticipated that after the next festival, the payments to
the pensioners will be at their maximum amount, as resolved
on in 1818, the date of the society's foundation.
CHINESE BRICKS.—Some time since the arrival of
a cargo of bricks from China was announced. We now
find that a parcel of bricks which had been imported into
the port of Liverpool by a vessel called the Annia, from
Shanghae, which were originally reported by the master
of the vessel as being for exportation, are to be landed.
The parcel comprises the large number of 15,000, and
bears good our former remark with respect to the im-
portation of bricks from China for actual use in this
country for the general purposes to which they are ap-
plied. The importations which now take place from
foreign and frequently distant parts of the world are so
varied and remarkable as continually to call for especial
notice.

[ADVERTISEMENTI-A LIVER AND STOMACH
COMPLAINT.--WONDERFUL EFFICACY OF HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—
The son of Mr. Thompson, national schoolmaster, Stokesley,
had been in a most precarious way for upwards of three
years, and at last became so consumptive as to be appa-
rently in a dying state. Three ilstulous sores formed in his
chest, so that the stomach usually rejected both food and me-
dicine. Mr. Robert Calvert, chemist, Stokesley, bears testimony
that by the use of llolloway's Pills, the youth is now nearly cured
of his ailments, his appetite and digestion being good, besides re-
gaining strength and flesh; yet, be it remembered, this sufferer was
nearly at death's door. Is not this truly extraordinary? These
Pills are sold by all druggists, And at the Proprietor's Establialumut,
244, Strand, London•

THE PRESS.
We yesterday had the pleasure of recording a satisfac-
tory answer, expiessed in the most significant language!
to the complaints so often and so wantonly made again'''.
the public gratitude and discernment. After a lapse of
five years—when it is often thought lawful to forget an
obligation, and still oftener found prudent to qualify
praise—a company of British merchants, comprisini,
the Elite of the metropolis, met to acknowledge, wit"
their own lips, and with suitable splendour of hospitality,
their sense of one act of Public duty on the part
.oci,
this journal. We might safely challenge the
most extensive and diligent search
to so remarkable an honour. Celehrations of this kin"
have usually been restricted to the statesman and the
soldier who have governed, or saved, or extended the
empire. There is a brilliancy about such actions which
cannot fail to provoke the genial spirit of public hosr
tality: so from the days of Homer downwards the hero
has always looked forward to the assembled chiefs, the
foe a parallel
loaded board and the flowing bowl, the libation and the
pledge, as his prospective consolation amid unfinished
toils. We may be justly proud of the extension 0f
this honour to the achievements of the press. But we
would rather dwell on it as the proof of a discrimination
and gratitude which always exist, and are constantlys
ready to show themselves, for which, however, it he.
been our peculiar good fortune to supply an extraordi-
nary occasion. If the press does not always find its set-
de'
vices acknowledged as it may happen to think they the
serve—if it is left to struggle under difficulties, and
still more depressing burden of contempt or indiffereeche
—it by no means follows that the cause lies wholly
the public. Should any still be tempted to think so, we
beg them to reflect on the testimonials of which Wed es;
day brought the splendid and agreeable sequel. ;110
our own part, we have never done that injustice to _
people of England. We have never supposed it
wholly absorbed in the pursuit of private advantage, 9,,
insensible to the real worth and genuine motives of ime
lie-spirited undertakings, and so ready "
to accept the
boon and forget the giver. We have dealt with es
a candid, discerning, and, above all, a gener:°-•
public. Accordingly we have freely bestowed upon "tin
devotion which it is not for us to describe. and whieb,bie
things considered, we must say has met with a n° n
and adequate requital. That so powerful an ore_
as the press, one so comparatively modern in its 11.1'_
tory, which appeals with such equal force to every
telligent mind, and is, therefore, so suspiciously 61110
with democratical influences, should not meet Viitli,;
the encouragements lavished upon other not more rh";
triotic and honourable professions, is an accident Of tPi
age, which time may amend, and which for the Preset
it is beneath the spirit of a great and good nasin:.
lament. After so sterling a testimony, and so uncla`",,
tionable a proof of success, we may be permitted to 5%
in a few words how public estimation, as opposed long
transient popularity, is to be obtained. A very crt
experience has tested the prescription. First, it is
~td
obtained by a one-sided devotion to any plausible seu—lit
of opinion, or by a servile obedience to an ascend%
party or dominant class. It is not obtained by lielP.ta
to raise and colour the successive visions of a superdetlio
philanthropy. It is not obtained by following in
errant path of restless innovation, by ever profferlu'i
a ready tribute to popular names, or by lavishing °°.•
praise on any who may be disposed to an inter
of the worthless commodity. Still less is it secured
flattering the chimerical expectations of a deglitobit
and idle cupidity. All these ways are simple and straig.,,
enough to one sort of result. They have lured the tht
into;sand and one adventurers of the press to an ignoal
downfal, which it is easy to charge on the public iltrry
titude or dulness. A suspicion of short cuts is the c',ol
first instinct of prudence in those who have to iD"'
and advise, not for this summer, or this Parliament,for
this ephemeral race of speculators or statesmen, bll, of
long terms of years scarcely scanned by the naelrolrfair
the old, and therefore with difficulty realised in the re-
ticipations of the young. But a positive answer las,
quired to the question. We say, then, that a scrups"; of
laborious, and painful truthfulness is the great seer facts
successful journalism. To investigate, to hunt cut :N.
from their hiding-places, to gather and select the In;Is
rials of knowledge, is the first business of a news,Pn,'vvet
It should ever remember its name. Whatever von eft,may have attached to our opinions, and hosreYe bas
perience may have confirmed their soundness, 14 br
been our invariable rule to put facts first, and then so
ferences. In judgment we might err, but for
long as we faithfully supplied the ineantailf
a sounder decision, we could not very ser'—hos
mislead. Respect for the public sagacity •
taught us to believe that we had d°llenle
great deal when we had given it the true data of eiunne
tion. We say it emphatically—no one who is riot,r;3o
sonally acquainted with the difficulties of the task tse
form any idea of the rumours we have to reiec",,ls.:
contradictions we have to unravel, the Toe
teries we have to uncover, the machinations we the
to detect, in the employment of daily catering t° des
intelligence of the empire. It is not what the readily
sees—it is what he does not see, and what ever,ln.
buries in oblivion—the tedious and difficult sub:llll'rib the
previous to the brief judgment—in which consists(' by
real labour of our profession. The spirit generate are
this exercise has followed us throughout, and, lola
encouraged to conclude, is evident in the columns ijoW
journal. The same zeal which once urged us to f 0 asst
out the ramifications of a deep-laid conspiracy 05;5 te
the bankers of Europe has ever led us to invesiln
every possible danger to the prosperity, confidence'refer
security of the nation ; and has also taught us to Pole
those political principles and social maxims whhil tori
stood the test of a long experience, and to Whidi
has given an undeniable verification.— Times.

RAILWAY SHARE MAR
MANCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 3. ,;„balTh„ar
STocE EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Net",l,oo, .1;0,
Boston, % dis.—Birminghaai and Dudley, 21A p.—Blacroloo,
wan, and Bolton, lAldis.—Boston, Stamford, and Birm'n' cuts'
c. dis.—Churnet and Blythe, 3-16 dis.—Direct Nortbertao.
East Lancashire (late Blackburn and Preston), 9)4 P.--"G acid,
99
Dumfries, % dis.—Grand Union, 14s. 6d. dis.—lludders
fax, and Bradford, 2% p.—Huddersfield and Mancilesterand
and Canal, 2% p.—Ditto Extension, % p.—Lancashire -,n113E"
Yorkshire, % dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, 3% dis.--Leicester jTiot,lo.o3!
ford, 10s. dis.—Leicester, Birmingham, and Trent Valle/roe9n—s.
3-16 dis.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4% P• and
Preston, Manchester, and Southport, % dis.—Manchester.Nom
Extensions, 2% p.—Manchester and SouthamptonA .tt %
Eastern, 1% dis.—North Western, p.—Oldharn iStneter, (PS(I
Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., % dis. —Sheffield and Manches
ter, an,
ters, No. 3, 3-16 p.—Shropshire Union, dis—South-Etso,
Dover, Consolidated, No. 3, 5 p.—Trent Valley MidW2
p.—West Riding Union, 2 15-16 p.
LEEDS, SEPTEMBER 3. or .ficl.
STOCK EXCHANGE. ---The sales are—Eastern Coun..'"Leeds
tension, 365. p. —Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 2% 'to—
Bradford, 43 p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 3% C. 1
hi sit 3 s •
1% p.—Ditto, Extensions, 4s. dis.—Leeds and T.--r:tension,,'
Ditto, New, 2/. 18s. 6d. ds.—Manchester and Lee .100, 10,94
15s. 6d. p.—Newcastle and Darlington Junction Ex then', 13,s'em
—North British, Carlisle Branch, 625. p.—Direct dii •—•Le
A
dis.—Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, 2',,-;00, eld
Wakefield, and Midland, Ils. dis. —Leicester and 13e„"" And 1"-- er.
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4/. 6s. p, —3lalt°"fgeld. Roth
Junction, 16s. s. p.—North Western, ss. 6d. p.—Stie 6d. Fo.----rx
ham, and Goole, 13s. dis. —Shrewsbury and Biriniognxls/. SS.
Shropshire Union, 2s. 6d. dis.—West Riding 1/1,01, and 31i"`
and Carlisle, 435. dis.—Manchester, Buxton, Tola“°'
275. p.

HULL, SEPTEMBER 3.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are— Blackburn, _
Tatnworth, 3;1
Bolton, 11—East Lincolnshire, 13s.—Leicester andorth
Virestern,T;
Gd.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4/. 6s. P•-- I;4"ading Union, co.
9d. p.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 27,
and Richmond, '4
Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 105.. Staines
—Boston Stamford, and Birmingham, 11,* 3.
.nitto•
SHEFFIELD, SEXTV"-- 2214---vo,"
Eastern Counties,
STOCK EXCIZANGE.—The sales are— herhara, "It°,
York Extension, 1 ..i p.—Midland, Sheffield, and Ro%
~...._,w _
Grimsby and Sheffield, 2%,' dis.--Ditto, Extension, 14 . d!eis ~slet,
II dd rstield and ManebeSl r "oter
Quarter Shares, 7s. 6d. dis.— u e
DO' sir
Goole mid .
_..)1
,t
sion, 10p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, :31.6 P.—
mon s.
tt atidiand 12s. 6d. did• sa-
10s.'(;d. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, a .
~ ,,,
e and Lincoln Union and Canal, IJs. bd. dis._shetlle.'
Ifteisetelrnsliire, 7s. dis.—Ditto, Extension, 14s. dis.
NEWCASTLE-UPoN -T IIN .E, SEPTEMBER 3. ,ss.df°'
STOCS EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian Extension, ',oral'
—Eastern Counties, York Extensions, 174—Edinburgh and 7' K,
ern, Newport, 3s. p..—Grcat South and West Ireland• 5,4 10
North British,llalves, (Carlisle),
Liverpeol, Ormskirk, and Preston, 41. 3s. 9d. —.Newe's,7ll P;,;
Damien, _..n.d.
Carlisle, 105 Newcastle aid Berwick (North PS.hields). ,''3^i lo'
Gd. p. 3'A P.—North S'tatfordshire, - '

YORK, SEPTEMBER 3. Wel
STOCK EXCIIANOE.—The sales are Grand Union
and Lynn), 13s —Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 2—Leiction 10,
worth, &c., 1/. 19s. 6d.—London and York, 2/. 3s---31 41, 91;x
Driffield Junction, 3—Nortli British, Carlisle Extensioni,....Sor
North Staffordshire, 6 ewcastle and Darlington, ICen ii i-31
and Nort , Midland (East and West Biding. Extension),
Chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 3%.

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THE NELSON LETTERS.—In the concluoi.bhp, tru,,
of that invaluable work, " The Nelson DisPe,te:; to of
Letters," there are details for the first time g'c: 01.4
public that every one who reads must consider writy49
mystery as of interest. In the last codicil of his wlti' 'ated„-g)
on the eve of the great battle in which he tail°, rvi,,,%110
glorious career, the hero acknowledges a child (stl,7; ere%
who had previously been regarded by his friend the fkk.'terbi:
his protegee. Proof having been adduced as t° cover -to
the most intense curiosity has been excited to _aloe
other parent, but in consequence of the precautions lireee.
prevent disclosure, her name has hitherto been 8110 of it itene;
trable mystery, the only persons who were awer-p otet'a
deavouring to repel all inquiry, by stating that t"-,,tion.he
of Nelson's child was to() high in rank to be le-rota:-
Who this exalted personage was must be gather°, gter° f
curious documents which the editor of the .Nelson Re, ()%
brought to light. It is altogether the most singularlooo%
personal history ever published, and not the least astutbe
part of it is the inference that must be drawn fronitatirel th
that if the head of one parent was crowned with rootlet•
temples of the other were circled by a much

BIRTHS.
On the 30th ult., at Worthing, the lady of James
Esq., of a daughter. ht
On the Ist inst., at Woodville, Isle of Man, the 1 uteto.,.
J. Martin, Esq., late Captain Rifle Brigade, of twin dsaigi., e'
On the 3d inst., at Charing-cross, Mrs:Charles Pot—
a daughter. of
On the 3d inst., at Kentish-town, Mrs. S. Sandys,
On the 3d inst., the lady of J. I. Glennie, Eiq., of ar.ceelle'
On the 3d inst., the lady of J. B. Hamilton, Esq.,
of
road, Regent's-park, of a daughter.
On the 3d inst., the lady of William Longman,
Hyde-park-square, of a son

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MARRIED.
On the 21st ult., at St. Pete r's, Eaton-square, W. 3fers late
FMr.aDn.c,issuArgbeboontt,,tEosNgli,B runswickyss Abbott,oungest daughter of the
.-square. 4tio
On the 29th ult., at Marylebone Church, Isaac o°'
Loose, Esq., to Miss Smith. ,TATior
On the Ist inst., at Cheltenham, the Rev. R. ..-,--,,,,r (:,
Whiteway, M.A., to Sarah Elizabeth, only da'agul"
Lieutenant-Colonel Spedding, late 4th Light DraGooneiscloo
On the 2d inst., at West Hackney, Richar d NO,hter
Morris, Esq., of the Strand, to Martha Maria, only (13e''''
of Mr. John Henry Clarke, of De Beauvoir-squalz:___/
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DIED Dub lin, de-
On the 25th ult , suddenly, Mr. George Man
servedly regretted. of liff.
On the 30th u
Jonathan Crowther, of Moseley, Worcestershire. _mar
On the 30th e/
ult.,lt. Aliceat
s t Helen,
okesi galbey
,iin
youngestYor daukshireg:ter
relict of the late John Haviside, Esq. aged 90• v q.
On the Ist inst., at Tonbridge-placc, J. Harvvcrid, -.Jose 0, F.
On the 2d inst., Frederick Thomas Elwin, on
..„re,
Browne, Esq., surgeon, of William-street, Lowndes.:VrTit, to
On the 3d inst., at Selrneston Vicarage, Sussoc,l"
wife of the Rev. Henry Latham, M.A.

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