The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-09 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—(This Day.)

The following appointments have been made at the
admiralty this afternoon :

CAPTAINS.
W.. J. Williams, to the Centurion.
A. C. Key, to the Sanspareil.
H envy Chads, to the Amphion.
Shterard Osborn, to the Medusa.
F. A. B. Spratt, to the Medina.
A. L. Mansell, to the Tartarus.

LIEUTENANTS.
H: 33. Beresford, to the Peacock.
W.. A. J. Heath to the Shamrock.

PAYMASTERS.
Thomas W. Wells to the Sappho.
George P. Richards, to the Sansparcil.

ASSISTANT PAYMASTER.
Henary Tucker (in charge), to the Porcupine.

SECOND MASTER.
George A. F. Day, to the Victory.

CLERKS.
George J. Gaston (acting) to the Trusty.
Jahn E Kerr /asEisant) to the Esk.

SPAIN.;

The Madrid journals of the 3d have arrived. A
royal ordonnanco grants the exequatur to Count
Ratte,-Menton, as French Consul-General in Ha-
vannAh. The Cortes have already voted 127 laws.
The Grand Central Company of France had notified
that it completely accepts the conditions laid down
by the Government and the Committee of the Cor-
tes for the execution of the railway from Madrid
to Saragossa. The laying down of the rails on the
railway between Albacete and Almansa had been
' commenced. In the Cortes, on the 3d, the budget
of the presidency of the Council of Ministers was
brought forward, and it was announced that Mar-
shal Espartero, President of the Council, had de-
clared to the committee that, owing to the nume-
rous burdens on the Treasury, he would not ac-
cept the sum which it was proposed to allow him
for expenses for receptions. The budget was, how-
ever, voted with a grant for that purpose.

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'BESS.

Those who dreatle( I a press, which they found
to be particularly iui mical to their own narrow-
minded and imper fee t views, have clone their ut-
most this year to s apviivoit it by another. "Let
the people be inst rucli ed," cried these reformers,
whose only real gri eva ace was that the people knew
already too much. A SPOI, theyhave set up what they
call their "cheap" p rt 'ss, meaning a low-priced one.
Its only possible pre,te. nsion to cheapness is in its dis-
honesty. What it seal s is eloubless very good, seeing
that it walks into fla e market and takes what it
pleases. But theft is so hurried a process that it is
apt to spoil the artic in the very act of robbery,
and curiously certa di 1 to misapply it ; and it is
most amusing to fin.d tb e despisers of stale news,
who cried out agains t 9 paper a day old, quite re-
' .iemployecl in transferring the
conciled to the delay
news of yesterday to.
"cheap" paper of to-day,
ho
provided the " cheap', journal has the date of to-
day on its title-page. The cheap papers, however,
must discover some hit herto untried means to exist.
Read only what comes out in tko shape of authen-
tic fact. Read the at count of an :lotion brought
against one journal hi an editor engaged at a most
miserable salary, and , obliged to appeal for damages
on a breach of contr zet even to get some recom-
pense in lieu of wliai ;he was promised. Read the
account of the auc lion to which one of these
valuable properties ras brought, where there was
one bidding of 1001., which the prize was knocked
down to a ci-devent r Tarter on the paper itself,
who, poor fellow, con.] d not find the 10/. deposit to
handsel his bargain. :No great loss—for the weak-
ling died next day. W e are not jeering at poverty,
it is our right to ask ca f our reformers whether this
is the enginery with wi iich they intend to supplant
the established and trusted organs of public
opinion ? Whore ar a the unheard of instructors
that were to teach us anknown political lore ? Alas,
unheard of still, and as with the "coming men" so
with the coming mater, that is not forthcoming.
Institutions that nobl y answer their purpose (and
the British press has be len one of them) are embedded
in deeper foundatioi as than sciolism can guess at.
Their walls are cemented., not shaken by time; they
are built to resist sto rw.. Habit, in which there is
no reproach, confirms: -the trust in them and the
liking for them more and more; they aro part and
parcel of the daily lifo- —needs, not merely blame-
less but instinctive, f:cre its happiest and worthiest
purpose. Men leay,s their native country, and re-
joice over scarcely say renewal of its memories so
much as the old-acc.ustomed newspaper, champion
as well as teacher of what they most regarded.
I And while such a journal remains true to itself and

its most honourable office, the advocates of mere
change for change sake, or rather for thbir own
sake, might ris well suggest new parents and fami-
lies to the mass of mankind as any substitute for
the public friendship, existing between long-tried
journalism, and its aocustomed associates.— Weekly
Dispatch.