The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-04 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

It will be seen by the Court Circular that the honour
of knighthood has been conferred by her Majesty on
Paymaster and Purser James Meek, on his retirement
from the office of Comptroller of the Victualling and
Transport Service of the Navy. It would be only just
and equitable to the naval commissariat service it the
paymasters received a share of those honours and deco-
rations which have been bestowed on other classes of the
united service.
Lieutenant C. C. Day has arrived in England, inva-
lided from the Persian, 12, in the West Indies.
Second Engineers—George Saunders has been ap-
pointed to the Plumper, 12, screw-sloop, in the West
Indies, ordered to Rio; Charles Williams, gunners, has
been appointed to the Vulcan, screw-troop-ship; and
George Lamb, to the Arrogant, screw-frigate, Ports-
mouth.

Amphitrite, 20, Captain Charles Frederick, arrived
off Plymouth about noon on Sunday, on her way to Val-
paraiso.
Aid lighter, Smallman master, arrived at Devonport on
Sunday, with stores from Portsmouth.
Atholl store-ship, Lieutenant-Commander Pearse,
arrived yesterday at Portsmouth, en route to Plymouth.
Birkenhead steam store-ship is being hastened as much
as possible; as many men as can find room to work are
placed on her, and the Portsmouth yard-riggers are also
fitting her rigging.
The Blenheim, 60, screw-ship, Captain Henderson,
C. 8., was paid off all standing at Portsmouth yesterday.
Excepting the first lieutenant and paymaster, all the
other officers are re-appointed. The second lieutenant,
Mr. W. G. J. Cunningham, becomes first lieutenant, and
Mr. Basden (1804) is to be the paymaster.
Comet steam-vessel, Commander Otter, arrived at
Queenstown on Saturday from the Hebrides.
Indefatigable, 50, Captain Smart, K.H., was towed
out of Devonport Harbour on Saturday by the Avon
and Styx steam-vessels. Her old crew have been paid
wages, and the newly-raised hands advanced by Com-
modore Lord John Hay, and she proceeds to Lisbon
imuediately.
Dilligence, transport, Mitchell, master, sailed from
Devonport, on Friday, with stoves for Woolwich.
Royal yacht Victoria and Albert has been taken into
dock at Portsmouth.

The Victory has resumed her station off Common
TErd. The old ship is so rotten that the caulkers are
afraid of driving their irons through her sides.
Virago, with Mr. Henderson and party, sailed yester-
day for Falmouth, to bring up the Astrea.
PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The windbound ships all
got away yesterday, except the convict ship Lady Ken-
itlway. The wind to-day has come round again to the
westward, with cloudy weather.
A large American vessel put into Portsmouth harbour
to-day, having suffered from stress of weather, being
leaky, and having lost some of her sails. She has gone
alongside the Dryad hulk, and will have to discharge
her cargo.
WOOLWICH, FEB. 3.—The 'Tecate, 6, steam-sloop,
Commander George S. Hand, has arrived at South
Shields, where she will remain while the present strike
of seamen continues in that quarter. It is said there
tire now upwards of 7,000 men who have joined the dis-
affected.

The Cornwall hired convict ship, surgeen-superin-
tenthnt David Geddes, M.D., Royal Navy, M. Maun•
drell, master, arrived opposite the Royal Arsenal on Sa-
turday to t..ke on board convicts for Van Diemen's
Land, and will call at Gibraltar to take a number of con-
victs to the same destination.

IRELAND.

DR. 'WISEMAN AND THE SLIGO ROILLNISTS.

DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING.—" His Eminence " the
Cardinal has forwarded the following reply to Bishop
Browne, of Elphin, in answer to the address adopted at
the meeting of the county of Sligo, held on the 13th of
the last month:—

" My dear Lord and Brother in Christ,—The most
gratifying address which your Lordship has forwarded
to me from the aggregate meeting of the city and county
of Sligo, deserves, indeed, my warmest gratitude, and
I request your Lordship to express on my behalf this
fooling to all who have signed or voted for it.
" Though attempts are being made to divide the inte-
rests of Irish and English Catholics in the present efforts
to excite animosity against the latter, I am sure they
will prove unsuccessful. The bond between us is one of
faith and charity, and even should a policy be adopted
by our rulers which shall serve to separate our respec-
tive worldly interests, the very attempt will only serve to
strengthen our religious union. Whatever impugns the
'rights of Catholics in England to carry out their reli-
gion according to its principles, or attacks the exercise
of the Sovereign Pontiff's spiritual jurisdiction, assails
either the members or the head of a common and
living body.
" But, further, it must be obvious, that if any conces-
sion be withdrawn from us, or any restriction be imposed
upon what till now has been deemed lawful, this will
weaken every pledge and every assurance which the
Irish Catholics have eeived for their religious liberty
or other ecclesiastical advantages. These considerations
give us every confidence
,that our brethren in Ireland
will esteem this a common cause, and will not fail to
show that a holier and stronger principle than any poli-
tical alliance holds all the Catholics in the empire in
closest union.
" I now particularly beg your Lordship to recommend
this sacred cause to the prayers of your religious com-
munities and of your faithful flock, for it is in the power
of God to protect his Church that we must mainly rely
in the coming contest, far more than on the wisdom of
our counsels, or even the support of our many friends.
" I must not conclude without repeating my sincere
thanks to your Lordship, to your excellent clergy, and
to the gentlemen who have signed the address, among
whom such as (like Mr. Vernon, the Mayor) have not
the same motive of religious communion, deserve an
especial acknowledgment from me for their generous and
disinterested support of what is the cause of liberty as
well as of religion.
"If your Lordship will allow me the privilege of join-
ing my blessing to your own, I shall feel that, in re-
questing you to convey it thus strengthened to my good
triends in Sligo, lam making the most sincere, though
but a very inadequate, return for their kind and warm-
hearted sympathies.
" Recommending myself to your Lordship's good
prayers, &e., I am, my dear Lord, your Lordship's
brother in Christ,

" N. Card. WISEMAN."

It is rumoured that Mr. Roebuck will move the
omission in the Address of all paragraphs relating to the
Papal aggression. In the Lords there will be an amendment
extending and applying the intention of the Royal Speech
to Ireland. This, it is thought, will be carried.--Morning
paper.

TUB LONDON FARMERS' CLUB.—Yesterday even-
ing the usual monthly meeting of the club took place at the
club-rooms, Blackfriars, when the question " how far taxa-
tion enters into the cost of agricultural produce" was fully
discussed. Among the speakers were Mr. Thomas (the
chairman), Mr. Cheetham, the introducer of the subject, Mr.
Baker, of Writtle, Mr. Bell, Mr. W. Bennett, Mr. Wood,
Mr. W. F. Hobbs, Mr. Mechi, and Mr. Williams. After
a lengthened discussion the following resolution was, on the
motion of Mr. Hobbs, carried by a large majority :—" That
although this club will not undertake to define the exact
amount of taxation which enters into the cost of agricultural
produce in the United Kingdom, yet they are of opinion that
those taxes which peculiarly affect those productions are
now become intolerable, with the great depreciation in the
price of corn and cattle, and therefore require immediate
removal."

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WHAT A STEAMER DOES WHEN IT HAS NO COAL" '
The steam-frigate Queen, which made such
taosicoalentdyrruasil
from Aden with the last mail, having run o
obliged, we (Bombay Times) are told, both the gun
spars, lower deck, and many other articlesr ,
h steans up! The
ner's and boatswain's stores, to keel). eed as mail packets,
to
of
her launch,
nuisance of having such vessels em i
Picli, now become into-
where expedition is the chief concern,
lerable, and must by some mt_uptseL other
on be p
its way frut a stop to.
days om
The idea of the mail bein i
shedg M
the distance from London
Aden, after having acc°mo nbearable, and ought to be at
to that port in twenty, . body by the community in gene-
once protested againstinisa
interest in particular.
ral, and the mercantile
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INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.—A Parlia-
mentaryshows that the income of the
COUNTY
return,
~.„. d and Wales amounted, in 1848, to
just issued,
counties 7d.; ; and in 1849, to 1,541,857/. 8.! 6d. The
-penditure
in the same.
two years amounted, in 1848, to
1,406,i281•
ot
- 03. 111,4 d. , and in 1849, to 1,36?,004/. 2s. 314,d.
The reports of the state of business in the pro-
vinces during the past week show a declining tendency at
Manchester, although the home demand has been well main-
tained; but in the woollen distri-ts there has been continued
activity and firmness. In the Irish linen trade there has
been no reaction from the recent improvement, and the orders
from America are large.
A deputation of the attorneys, solicitors, and
proctors of England and Wales, consisting of M. D. S. Beckett,
Mr. W. Woodroofe, Mr. William Vizard, jun., Mr. R. Beach-
croft, and Mr. J. M. Clabon, had an interview yesterday with
t'd-t Lord Chancellor, to request his Lordship to present to
the House of Lords a petition signed by upwards of 6,000
attorneys, solicitors, and proctors, against the Papal ag-
gression.
The Fruiterers' Company yesterday presented the
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor with twelve baskets of appl.el,
according to annual custom. The members are to dine month
his Lordship, wlut will also entertain his ward, this day.