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

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Lome

r 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.B , 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'Cluro, Jenner, and M'Donnell.
Paymasters and Pursers—Eloffmeister, Acheson, and
M'Dermott.

ROYAL MARINES.
Major—Moore, R.M.A. (Barraek-tnaster).
The Noble First Lord concluded his levee a few m

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, of
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 Charlr s
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-
partments 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, accompanted 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 raltenham, Lieutenant-Governor of the gar-
rison ; Captain-Superintendent Carter, of Hasler, &c. ;
Colonel Jones, commandant of this, division of Royal
garines ; 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 Or 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, 501.; Thomas
Dickinson Esq., 62/. 10s.1 the Worshipful Companies of
Goldsmithls and Draper's, each 50/. ; Joseph Baxendale, Esq.,
in addition to 80 guineas ; Mrs, H. F. Richardson, 10/. 10s. ;
Luke J. Hansard, Esq., 601., in addition to 101. ; Mr. and
Mrs. Braithwaite, 214 ; Mr. Uzielli, 214, &c., lac. 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 BEICIIB.—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 Annie, from
Shanghae, which were originally reported by the master
of the vessel as being for exportation, are to be landed.
The parcel cemeses the large number of 15,000, and
bears good our forme; tettarit with respect to the im-
portation of bricks from China id t!etual Use in this
country for the general purposes to which they are tip-
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.

[ ADVE RTIS EMENT.I -A LIVER AND STOMACH
COMPLAINT.--WONDERFUL EFFICACY OF HOLLOWAY'S PrLLS.-
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 fistulous ores 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 Holloway'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 druggiatal And at the Proprietor'* Etpablialnent,
2441 Mama Lynam.

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RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS"
MANCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 3.
tingban'
STocir EXCRANQE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Not n, pa
Boston, % dis.—Birnaffighan and Dudley, 2k p.—Blackbur,,,, 118
wan, and Bolton, 4 1 dis.—Boston, Stamford, and Birming"rrdisl
c. dis.—Chnrnet and Blythe, 3-16 dis.—Direct Northern, 300, As
East Lancashire (late Black'rn:and Preston), 9%
Dumfries, % dis.—Grand Union, 14s. 6d. dis.—Huddersfield'.loll):
fax, and Bradford, 2% p.—Huddersfield and Manchester lris:ort
and Canal, 2% p.—Ditto Extension, % p.—Lancashire pad"
Yorkshire, % dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, 3% di9.--Leicester
ford, 10s. dis.—Leicester, Birmingham, and Trent Valley4feirpo°,4l'
3-111 dis.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4%
Preston, Manchester, and Southport, dis.—Mancliester an romp
Extensions, 2% p.—Manchester and SouthamptonA °'
Eastern, 1% dis.—North Western, k p.—Oldham Districts' Qu a
#.
Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., % dis.— Sheffield and Manchester'
ters, No. 3, 3-16 p.—Shropshire Union, dis—South-Easte
Dover, Consolidated, No. 3, 5 p.—Trent Valley Midlands, -
p—West Riding Union, 2 15-16 p.
LEEDS, SEPTEMBER 3. ric
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern COunties,,-,,,0ds
tension, 365. p. —Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 2% dls.—J''',.ancio'
and
Bradford, 43 p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 3% c. p.—Ditto,
Ditto,
pions,'
New, 2/. 18s. 6d. dis.—Manchester and Leeds Eld'evs- lei
•
15s. 6d. p.—Newcastle and Darlington Junction Extensiolo, iss. 9cl'
—North British, Carlisle Branch, 625. p.—Direct Northern, Dee."
dis.—Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, 235. dis'
Wakefield, and Midland, I is. die. —Leicester and Bedford, „,
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 41. 6s. p.—Malton and gotiler
Junction, I6s. s. p.—North Western, ss. 6d. p.—Sheffield,
ham, and Goole, 13s. dis. —Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 70• Solt,
Shropshire Union, 29. 6d. dis.—West Riding Union, 51.
and Carlisle, 435. dis.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and
275. p.

HULL, SEPTEMBER 3. aßa
Bolton, 11—East Lincolnshire, 135.—Leicester and
STOCK Excaerroz.—The sales are—Blackburn ParWl, 37i
'4,Anawor. 40'
6d.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 41. 6s. p.—NorthlY.,„e„l,,eo,
9d. p.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 2%—West ItidDlg u-
Armagh, Coleraine, and Portmsh, 10s.—Staines and Kiel tinOn'"
—Boston. Stamford, and Birmingham, I IS.
SHEFFIELD, SEPTEMBER 3.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are Eastern Counties, 2Wii
York Extension, DX p.—Midland, Sheffield, and Rotherha
Grimsby and Sheffield, 2% dis.—Ditto, Extension, 145. dis: :,terr
Quarter Shares, 7s. 6d. dis.—H ti udderseld and Manchester -P":01.,
sion 10s. p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 3% p.—Goole and Don
_c001:
10s. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 12s. 6d. ( tis.-
chaster and Lincoln Union and Canal, 19s. 6d. diS.—Sin

Lincolnshire, 7s. dis.—Ditto, Extension, 14s. dis.
cl/6'
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NEWCASTLE-UPON-TY.NE, SEPTEMBER 3,
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian Extension, . Not
—Eastern Counties, York Extensions, I%—Edinburgh and: J.' pAr
ern, i Newport, . 38. p.—areat South and West Ireland, 5,i ' gv:,..
cllvtherspizol,loos7nNskemirkea,
-Newcastle
ed
and Berwick
144. 3S.
(North 9 d.PS. 11-1 eNI de sw) ,e atj
'•i . Pfr". .
North British,Halves, (Carlisle),.
6d. p. 3% P —North Staffordshire, 2

Os'
YORK, SEPTEMBER 3. #OO ~gy
STOCK Excnexnz.—The sales are —Grand Union (So'
and Lynn), 135.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 2—Leicester' n .
worth, &c., 1/. 19s. 6d.—London and York,
2/. 35.—Malt°1 —0 90.'r1;
Driffield Junction, 3—North British, Carlisle Extension, 4 •
North Staffordshire, 6 \ ewcastle and Darlington, New, 11 ffi....afaa
and Norte Midland (East and West Riding Extension), 13')•
cheater, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 3%. _

THE NELSON LETTERS.--11 the coneludinbLOltinj
of that invaluable work, " The Nelson Dispa.":„--totbg
Letters," there are details for the first time gisnoll
public that every one who reads must consider as .writt%
mystery as of interest. In the last codicil of his t d 1j1)
on the eve of the great battle in which he toi
glorious career, the hero acknowledges a child (still 01'0.4 et,
who had previously been regarded by his friend 5111" folio
his protegee. Proof having been adduced as to
,tovern to
the most intense curiosity has been excited to 4 Ptglie.. e.
other parent, but in consequence of the precautic Avg ope Per
prevent disclosure, her name has hitherto be ,en on of 0.
trable mystery, the only persons who were vivisge othed.
deavouring to repel all inquiry, by stating the tt rotiollos
of Nelson's child was too high in rank to Tbe 5 tyooloo
Who this exalted personage was must be gad tern of
curious documents which the editor of the Nela n pea
brought to light. It is'altogether the most shim `Ltolawilet
personal history ever published, and not the least the, °,1,-
part of it is the inference that must be drawn frt 1-attrei
roast.
temples if the head of one parent was crowned with
temples of the other were circled by a much richer

BIRTHS. ns rrav-
On the 30th ult., at Worthing, the lady of Jain es
of
Esq., of a daughter. t tia lady
°
On the Ist inst., at Woodville, Isle of Man, l-020telli
J. Martin, Esq., late Captain Rifle Brigade, of twin!, j-p-raterr °
On the 3d inst., at Charing-cross, Mrs. Charles . ' -
a daughter. of a #l.
,
On the 3d inst., at Kentish-town, Mrs. S. Sand* son. „
On the 3d inst., the lady of J. I. Glennie, Esq., of a tlello-
On the 3d i nst., the lady of J. B. Hamilton, Esq.' 4 . f
road, Regents-park, of a daughter.
On the 3d inst., the lady of William Longn tap,
___,,----'
Hyde-park-square, of a son. ...-- .....-

MARRIED.
On the 21st ult., at St. Peter's, Eaton-square,
M.D., surgeon, to Miss Abbott, youngest daughter of
Francis Abbott, Esq., Brunswick-square.
On the 29th ult., at Marylebone Church, Isaacs Oorati°
Loose, Esq., to Miss Smith. slo3sll
On the Ist inst., at Cheltenham, the Rev. R. 1-2 to of
Whiteway, M.A., to Sarah Elizabeth, only daugh
Lieutenant-Colonel Spedding, late 4th Light Dragoons 'woo
On the 2d inst., at West Hackney, Richard W' ';titer
Morris, Esq., of the Strand, to Martha Maria, only dark
of Mr. John Henry Clark

DIED
On the 25th tilt, suddenly, Mr. George May, Dabl" itu
servcdly regretted.
On the 30th ult., Alice Helen, youngest daughter 01)Sr.
Jonathan Crowther, of Moseley, Worcestershire. atet'
On the 30th ult., at Stokesl ney, in Yorkshire, It—
relict of the late John Ilaviside, Esq. aged 90. F.
On the Ist inst., at Tonbridge-place, J. Harwood, E: lit.
On the 2d inst., Frederick Thomas Elwin,
dsoof of • re.
the
Browne, Esq., surgeon, of William-street, Lowness 3.5
On the 3d inst., at Selmeston Vicarage, Saesex' Ma
wife of the Rev. Henry Latham, M.A.

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Saber 4, 1646.

THE PRESS.
We yesterday had the pleasure of recording a saddle?'
tory answer, expressed iu the most significant langn?ge
to the complaints so often and so wantonly made agalU,
the public gratitude and discernment. After a lapse
,five years—when it is often thought lawful to forget .!ti
obligation, and still oftener found prudent to enenl
praise—a company of British merchants, compris:l
the elite of the metropolis, met to acknowledge, 1:11,
their own lips, and with suitable splendour of hospitahtPt.
their sense of one act of public duty on the eartth%
this journal. We • might safely challenge
parallel
most extensive and diligent search for a
to so remarkable an honour. Celebrations of this kind. _
have usually been restricted to the statesman and the
soldier who have goverhed, or saved, or extended. ,11_,,
empire. There is a brilliancy about such actions erns;
cannot fail to provoke the genial spirit of pilhlie "foe
tality : so from. the days of Homer downwards the L.,,
has always looked forward to the assembled chiefs', nr,.
loaded board and the flowing bowl, the libation and.t:i
pledge, as his prospective consolation amid unflnienf
toils. We may be justly proud of the extensionivue
this honour to the achievements of the press. But ale
would rather dwell on it as the proof of a discriminetl"
and gratitude which always exist, and are constetslf
ready to show themselves, for which, however, it I'2l,
been our peculiar good fortune to supply an extranT
nary occasion. If the press does not always find its 7.e,,
vices acknowledged as it' may happen to think they ,to
serve—if it is left to struggle under difficulties, ana_oe,
still more depressing burden of contempt or indifferei:,
—it by no means follows that the cause lies wholly WI;
the public. Should any still be tempted to think eedi'les.,
beg them to reflect on the testimonials of which We yoe
day brought the splendid and agreeable sequel., ,ha;
our own part, we have never done that injustice to —so
people of England. We have never supposed it
so
wholly absorbed in the pursuit of private advantage'ob,
insensible to the real worth and genuine motives of Pais
lie-spirited undertakings, and so ready to accept 0
boon and forget the giver. We have dealt with vas
a candid, discerning, and, above all, a gene
it a ‘'
public. Accordingly we have freely bestowed upon all
devotion which it is, not for us to describe. and win'' 00
things considered, we must say has met with a n'„a
and adequate requital. That so powerful an ("ri;ja-
as the press, one so comparatively modern in its itv
tory, which appeals with such equal force to evelLhed
telligent mind, and is, therefore, so suspiciously with all
'
with democratical influences, should not Ineei.. it wolri File;
the encouragements lavished upon other not
triotic and honourable professions, is an accident 0,-- t
age, which time may amend, and which for the Pregei;
it is beneath the spirit of a great and good plena.
lament. After so sterling a testimony, and so UUCP' it
tionable a proof of success, we may be permitted to ealts
in a few words how public estimation, as opposed ion,
transient popularity, is to be obtained. A very. 01 ,
experience has tested the prescription. First, it 15401 i
obtained by a one-sided devotion to any plausible eeLo
of opinion, or by a servile obedience to an ascend -
party or dominant class. It is not obtained by he 11%1 ,
to raise and colcur the successive visions of a superfieslho
philanthropy. It is not obtained by following Lll
errant path of restless innovation, by ever protta.4„f7f
a ready tribute to popular names, or by lavishing ° 0
praise on any who may be disposed to an interchena
of the worthless commodity. Still less is it secured
1,1,r I
flattering the chimerical expectations of a deselPhd,
and idle cupidity. All these ways are simple and stralgu..
enough -to one sort of result. They have lured the sli
sand and one adventurers of the press to an ignomin v,,°o
s,
downfal, which it is easy to charge on the public finger,/
titude or dulness. A suspicion of short cuts is the l
rin
first instinct of prudence in those who have to info or i
and advise, not fur this summer, or this Parliatao;',,r
this ephemeral race of speculators or statesmen, htl';'.ot i
long terms of years scarcely scanned by, the memnrie',„,
the old, and therefore with difficulty realised in the 9" !
ticipations of the young. But a positive answer
..ii9„rs;
quired to the question. We say, then, that a scrtillul'tgaf
laborious, and painful truthfulness is the great secret
successful journalism. To investigate, to hunt cut 'at-0.
from their hiding-places, to gather and select the nos r,
rials of knowledge, is the first business of a news,Psco
It should ever remember its name. Whatever vele: es-
may have attached to our opinions, and howev,e' has
perience may have confirmed their soundness, 1/,,10.
been our invariable rule to put facts first, and the' 0
ferences. In judgment we might err, but for
long as we faithfully supplied the means 5,11
a sounder decision, we could not very serilog
mislead. Respect for the public sagacity a
taught us to believe that we had don
great deal when we had given it the true data of ea— r
Lion. We say it emphatically—no one who is not low
sonally acquainted with the difficulties of the wk. the
form any idea of the rumours we have to reject, yr
contradictions we have to unravel, the toe
teries we have to uncover, the machinations we the
to detect, in the employment of daily catering tede
intelligence of the empire. It is not what the rebdo4
sees—it is what he does not see, and what every
tj,
buries in oblivion—the tedious and difficult/summing see
previous to the brief judgment—in which consists baf
real labour of our profession. The spirit generated ore
this exercise has followed us -throughout, and, we lila
encouraged to conclude, is evident in the columns of..t ,
journal. The same zeal which once urged us to foll7st
out the ramifications of a deep-laid conspiracy 41111,w
the bankers of Europe has ever led us to investw"e a
. and
every possible danger to the prosperity, confideneo or
security of the nation ; and has also taught us to P,re„
stoodthosege
politicaltho
test
of
a
principles l
ong expaneidresnoociea,l
and malitzommwessh:ClbicPill;;;;;
has given an undeniable verification.—Tr