The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-16 00:00:00

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1833.

It will he seen by our report of the pro-
ceedings in the House of Commons, that a
large portion of the Navy Estimates was last
night gone through, without any very strenuous
opposition—none that led to a division. This
affords a great contrast to the discussions of
former times, when the avowed intention of the
Government to persist in its career of patronage
and favoritism justly excited the indignation and
raised the most determined opposition of the
friends of economy, which went one night, if
we recollect rightly, to the extent of dividing
the House forty-five times. Mr. HUME sheaved
himself still watchful at his post, but, like the
rest of the House, gave Sir JAMES GRA-
HAM full credit for the extent of his re-
ductions. It was, as a morning cotemporary
truly observes, a novel thing to hear a First
Lord of the Admiralty challenge investigation
into the promotions he had made in the navy.
The announcement made by Sir JAMES GRA-
HAM, that no fresh convicts- should be placed in
the dock-yards, to the exclusion of honest work-
men, must prove highly satisfactory. It was,
indeed, farcical to give men lighter employment
and better food, as a punishment, than men
could get by their free labour. And, if we rightly
recollect, there is in the evidence collected by the
Poor Law Commissioners, a passage, in which
it is stated that the convicts have held up their
provision to the soldiers guarding them, and
taunted them with the fact of its being better
than theirs. It was high time to put a stop to
this open encouragement to crime. We only
hope that as these gentlemen are now to be sent
to Australia, and the worst of them, according to
Mr. STANLEY, to be treated in a way which
will make transportation the most dreadful
punishment conceivable, that of death, that
a somewhat stricter prison discipline will be
established, so that a prison may be less de-
sirable than the poor man's cottage, instead
of affording both better lodging and better food,
as it now does. It is clear, that if some general
arrangement be not come to, between the several
departments, with respect to the treatment of
prisoners and convicts, by which the severity of
punishment shall be proportioned to the nature
of the crime, the objects so long aimed at by
the humane part of the public, who have wished
to mitigate the severity of our criminal code,
will be completely defeated.

Accounts have this morning been received
from Oporto. They do not, however, com-
municate any new facts of mater ial interest. The
weather having continued unfavourable, very
few supplies had been landed, and the prices of
the provisions on land had risen conside-
rably. The Constitutionalists had increased
the strength of their fortifications, and become
masters of a greater extent of country than they
had possessed for some time past. The
Miguelites on the other hand, however, were
not inactive. At the date of these accounts
they were erecting a. new battery in Villa
Nova, from whence they will be enabled
to batter down the barracks of the Torre tra
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able to give several days since. Major
SADLER, we regret to add, died of his wounds
on the 3d inst. The boat of the Nautilus had