The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-05 00:00:00

THE JEWS.

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE HEBREW PER-
SUASION IN JAMAICA.
Brethren,—lt is clearly manifest that the march of
liberality is making wondrous strides among the civilized
nations of the earth, and in Great Britain particularly,
where prejudice appears to be fast declining towards
the people of our nation; and at the present crisis,
when the feeling and' sympathies of Europe have been
excited towards the Jews, in consequence of the cruel-
ties and atrocities perpetrated upon some of our brethren
in Syria and Rhodes, it would be judicious to avail
ourselves of that feeling, and simultaneous applications
from those of our nation residing in this island, as well
as in the mother country, should be made to the Impe-
rial Parliament, for the removal of all the disabilities
to which the Jews are subjected in Great Britain, and
her Majesty's colonies in general.
The Local Legislature of this island have, to their
immortal honour, conceded every immunity to our peo-
ple, and for which our eternal gratitude is due, and af-
fording a bright example of liberality worthy of imitation
sympathy evinced by the inhabitants of all creeds
for our persecuted brethren in the East, affords us rea-
sonable hopes that they will join us in an application to
her Majesty's Government for the total repeal of the
several cruel disabilities to which our nation is subjected
in Great Britain and the other colonies.
The enlightened, noble, and liberal sentiments which
pervade the Councils of her Majesty's present advisers,
bold out to us a fair prospect of relief, if now applied
for. Let us come forward at once, and thereby stimu-
, late our foreign brethren to join us heart and hand in
advocating the rights of the Hebrew nation, and obtain-
ing for them the same privileges and immunities which
every other class of her Britannic Majesty's subjects,
including her lately emancipated slaves, now enjoy. The
eyes of the world are at this moment centred in the
East, and it is to be hoped that the day is not distant
when Jerusalem, the ancient heritage of our race, and
the tomb of the great Christian Prophet, shall be res-
cued from the Infidel, when Jew and Christian may
pay their adorations to the Deity, according to their
respective forms of worship, in harmony and good fel-
lowship, unapprehensive of the attaghan or bowstrin; of
the Moslem. I trust that this appeal to my brethren
will be responded to with alacrity, and that the object I
have in view may be accomplished ; that those who suc-
ceed us may look back upon our exertions with grati-
tude, when they are admitted to a participation in the
full. and entire rights to which her Majesty's other sub-
jects are entitled.
I am, with respect, your devoted servant,
M. H. SAMUELS.
Kingston, Nov. 5, 1840.—Jamaica paper.

THE NAVY.

There cannot be a Letter refutation to calumny than
to meet it with facts, " which are stubborn things."
For a long time past it has been a practice indulged in
(there is no accounting for taste) to make it appear that
our Navy was neglected, our Dock-yards barren of sup-
plies, seamen scarce, and disinclined to enter the Navy ;
and all this was circulated in order to establish that our
rulers, and more particularly the Board of Admiralty,
were unmindful of the true interests of the nation and
its Navy. It is truly unfortunate for the naval croakers'
arguments, that the recent opportunities afforded to the
British fleet in the Mediterranean, and the recent com-
missioning, equipping, and manning several ships of the
line and others, should so pointedly belie so many oft-
repeated assertions that the British Navy was morally
defunct ; the operations of the fleet on the coast of Syria
have proved that naval officers are competent to their
duty ; that the ships and their crews were never in a
state fitter to acquit themselves to the satisfaction of
their country ; and the speedy manning within the lust
few months of several line•of-battle-ships, and some of
smaller clases, by a voluntary system, no bounty given,
establish that the Navy has not fallen into that state of
odium and disgust which some unpatriotic scribblers and
pamphleteers have for near three years been endea-
vouring to establish. The steady and undeviating as-
siduity of the various branches of the naval adminis-
tration, has produced such a systematic organization,
which works so quietly, regularly, and unremittingly,
without any fuss or bombast, that it is not to be won-
dered the uninformed should be misled, and induced to
suppose we were in static quo. The proof that your
dockyards are not deficient i❑ the materiel, is to be
found in the expedition with which every new-commis-
sioned ship was supplied with all her equipment.
The devotedness of the Naval Administration to the
best interests of the country, may be observed by their
very recently ordering to be brought forward for imme-
diate commission, a 50 gun frigate, the Vindictive, at
Portsmouth, with a bow of an entirely new construc-
tion, which affords the facility of not only firing twice as
many guns forward as the old plan, bat likewise yields
the advantage of being able to fire some of the guns
from one bow across to a ship on the other bow, thus
obviously affording a decided advantage to the chasing
ship, previously unknown. The commissioning this ship,
and testing her with one of her class of the present con-
struction, will (if successful) enable ships of war of all
classes to bring twice the battery to bear right a-head
that they formerly possessed. Among naval men this
is highly prized ; and we hear from all quarters that
this important naval architectural improvement reflects
great credit upon its projector, Mr. Blake, the master
shipwright of Portsmouth Dockyard. Upon the naval de-
partment it reflects honour, from the wise and judicious
selection made in fostering men of talent, and their
readiness to afford trial to everything that can tend to
strengthen Britain's best bulwarks, her " wooden walk."
Naval and Military Gazette.

On Thursday last, a joint vestry was held of the
United Parishes of St. Antholin, Watling-street, and St.
Julen the Baptist, to elect a Sunday afternoon Lecturer in
the place of Dr. Wilson resigned, when the Rev. Chas.
Coliby Roberts, B. A., one of the Masters of St. Paul's
School, was chosen. The numbers at the close of the
poll being :
For the Rev. Charles Coleby Roberts... 50
For the Rev. H. Valiance.-- ........... 6
Majority for the Rev. Mr. Roberts ... —44
THE TROPICS.--InSects are the curse of tro-
pical climates. The bete rouge lays the foundation of a
tremendous ulcer. In a moment you are covered e ith
tick,. Chigoes bury themselves in your flesh and hatch a
large colony of young chigoes in a few hours. They will
not live together but every chigoe sets up a separate ulcer,
and has his own private portion of pus. Flies get entry
into your mouth, into your eyes, into your nose; you cat
flies, drink flies, and breathe flies. Lizards, cockroaches,
and snakes, get into the bed; ants cat up the books;
scorpions sting you on the foot. Everything bites, stings,
or bruises; every second of your existence you arc
wounded by some piece of anneal life that nobody has
ever seen before, except Swammerdam and Meriam. An
insect with eleven legs is swimming in your tea-cup, a non-
descript with nine wines is struggling in the small beer, or
a caterpillar with several dozen eyes in his belly is hastening
over the bread and butter 1
THE DISTRESS IN SPITALFrELDS.—A few
weeks ago some of the journeymen Spitalfields silkweavers,
being desirous that the silk trade should obtain the pa-
tronage of her Majesty and the nobility, resolved to exe-
cute a piece of workmanship from the Jacquard loom, in
order to show that British skill was equal, if net superior,
to that of French weavers, and a design was invented, and
a pattern of a portion of it produced, which attracted great
admiration. Since then, in consequence of a communi-
cation to the Queen through Lurd Normanby, her Majesty
has condescended to state that she will patronise a fancy
dress ball, the dresses of which arc to be the produce of
British manufacture. Several patterns of silks have been
laid before her Majesty for her approval. A meeting of
some of the manufacturers, at which several journeymen
weavers were present, was held on Saturday, at the house
cf the Rev. H. Taylor, Incumbent of All Saints, Mile-end,
to make arrangements to receive the patterns made choice
of by her Majesty.
I'HE SPI TA LVIELDS WEAVERS.—Monday
forenoon considerable excitement prevailed in Bethnal-
green and Spitalfields in consequence of a procession of
near 500 Spitalfields weavers, whose object was found to
be to wait upon four of the largest silk manufacturers in
Spitalfields who had determined to reduce the wages of
the journeymen silkwcavers who are employed in the
velvet-weaving department from 3s. a yard to 2s 9d. a
yard. The manufacturers who have come to this deter-
mination are Messrs Stone and Kemp, Spital-square ;
Mr. Tarrant, Stewart-street ; Mr. Gibson, Spital-square ;
and Mr. Graham, Spital-square, and who employ above
800 men. The various shops connected with those respec-
tive manufacturers, after hiving several meetings, resolved
to eppoint delegates, two from each shop, to wait upon
their employers. On Monday they assembled for that
purpose at the Pitt's Head, Pitt-street, Bethnal-green,
about nine o'ciock, and from thence proceeded along the
Bethnal-green-road to Spital-square and Stewart-street.
Tl,e delegates, after seeing the manufacturers, returned
with the body of the weavers to the houses where each shop
has its shop meetings, when they were informed that an
arrangement had been come to, end that the masters would
first have a meeting before they gave a definite answer.
The weavers preserved the greatest order, and after hav-
ing received information of the interview returned to
their homes.
PETER PRIGGINS—EDITED BY THEODORE
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novel entitled " Peter Priggins, the College Scout,"
edited by Theodore Hooke, Esq., in 3 vols., post Bvo.,
with numerous illustrations by Phiz, is published this day,
by Mr. Colbutn, of Great Marlborough-street, and may
now be had at all the Libraries. Mr. Colburn has also
just published the following new works of fiction.-1. Mr.
Roby's Popular Traditions of England, 3 vols., with nume-
rous engravings on wood. 2. The Naval Surgeon, by
the Author of Cavendish, 3 vols. 3. Sir Thomas Dick
Lauder's Legendary Tales of the Highlands, 3 vols., with
numerous illustrations by Phiz. 4. Love and War ; or
the Romance of Military Life, by Capt. Quillinan, 3 vols.
5. Oliver Cromwell, edited by Horace Smith, Esq., 3
vols. 6. The History of a Flirt, second edition, 3 vols.
7. The secretary of Macchiavelli, or the Siege of Flo-
rence, by Daniel Macarthy, Esq., 3 vols. 8. The Cash-
mere Shawl, by Capt. White, 3 vols. 9- Sandron Hall,
or the Days of Queen Anne, by the Hon. Grantley
Berkeley, 3 vols. 10. The Banker Lord, 3 vols. 11.
The Widow Married, a sequel to Widow Barnaby, by
Mrs. Trollope, 3 yids, with 21 illustrations, by R. W.
Buss, R. A. 12. The Chelsea Pensioners, by the author
of The Subaltern, complete for Os., with portrait of the
author, &c., forming the New Volume of Colburn's Stand-
ard Novelists.