The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT 02 THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It has been very unwarrantably assumed that the -
"hip NO VI eonve'ving- convicts to New South Wales, •
losa of winch. such distressing accounts have
been jaiblished, was. not in a fit co:dition for the r.o ,
aml on this assumption Ale, Times- and 21Joiwiag
lieratd have :lay after day been attzicaina- "
Humanity." it is roundly asserted that the vessci was
not sea-worthy, and that no pains were taken to 11S-;Tr-
lain her state before she sailed. Now it happens that
at the time the ?Veva was taken up, the lowest tender
was for another ship, which was rejected on examina-
tion as not being fit. The Neva was then examined
by a shipwright, and pronounced every way fit. She
had undergone a complete repair the year before, by
which she was made almost a new ship. In Lloyd':;
List she appear!: in the second description offirst-ciass
ships. This shows that the state of the ship
had been looked into, and that there was no
reason for thinking her unfit for the voyage ;
nor, indeed, does it appear, except from the as,
• 4.frtion of the Times, that she was unfit or weak.
Morniq,- Herald attacks the Admiralty for
not sending to succour the ships beset by ice in
Davis' Straits. We question whether Ministers would
be justified, and, at all events, they do not think they
would be justified in ordering men to go upon so dan-
gerous and so uncertain an expedition, when the win-
ter has, of course, added leagues to the ice which sur-.
rounded the vessels when they were left. The Admi-
ralty have, however, offered to aid any expedition that
can be sent out manned by volunteers. They have
dispatched Captain James _Ross to Hull, to make all
the inquiries he can on the suNect, and if the mer-
chants will find a ship, and any Greeoland sailors will
volunteer to man her, they have offered to fill her full
dprovision, to take her into their pay, and to send her
under Capt. James Ross, that all may be done that
can possibly be done for the purpose of relieving the
sufferers. It cannot, therefore, with truth lie said, that
the Admiralty have shown any want of humanity,
though they have shrunk from sending any but volun-
teers, and thereby exposing others to danger equal to
that in which the men whom it is wished to relieve are
unfortunately placed.--Morning Chronicle.
A new apology in favour of the late Warsaw speech
appears in the Augsburg Gazette of the Bth inst., in
the ill-disguised form of a letter from a political volun-
teer, who professes to write "from the Rhine." The
remarks of this writer are more in harmony with the
habitually moderate tone of the paper in which they
appear than those of the Frankfort Journal, in vindi-
cation of Russian policy, to which we have lately had
so much occasion to refer ; but, like the latter, they
are intended as a reply to the comments of the Eng-
lish and French papers relative to the speech of
Warsaw and the general policy of the Russian
Cabinet. We shall spare our readers an inflic-
tion of the sentimental effusion of the writer
" from the Rhine," which, in order the better to con-
ceal the source from whence it has evidently sprung,
affects not to deny that the power of Russia is
calculated to " excite jealousy and alarm." We are
told, however, in this article, that the municipal autho-
rities of Warsaw had not been commanded by the Em-
peror to appear before him, but had desired to see him.
Although this was never positively stated till now, it
was sufficiently implied by the very first sentence of
the Emperor's address. It appears that a supply of
printed copies of this address had been received in
Vienna and other parts of Germany, having been sent
from Warsaw for the avowed purpose of making the
speech known in its authentic form. This precaution
would not. have been thought of had-not the speech
travelled westward, and found its way into the Paris
and London journals. As it then became impossible
to deny that it had been spoken, a corrected copy was
sent to the Russian printing-office in Warsaw, and has
since been circulated, with an affected desire to pre-
clude the possibility of any misrepresentation of facts.
—Times.

A weekly Journal, dedicated to military affairs, in-
forms its readers that " the widows of several late!v
deceased officers have been refused the usual pension
by the War-office, on the ground that they already pos-
sess enough of private property for their support." This,
if it be the case—which, from the respectability of the
channel through which it reaches the public, we are •not
entitled to doubt—is a novel species of Whig economy,
alike unjust and illegal—unjust, inasmuch as it defeats,
without previous notice, the expectations both of tire
dead and the survivors, and illegal, as not having the
previous sanction of Parliament or the Crown. As an
abstract question, whether actual want shrine in future
the only claim upon the gratitude and bounty of the
country, is one upon which we have no wish to enter ;
but of this we are certain, that were it universally
applied, the Pension List, as well as many other retired
allowances on the Civil Service, would be thinned of a
vast number of names which now receive annuities
from the public, though blessed with ample fortunes.
:But, supposing the principle to be correct, which we are
by no means prepared to admit, what a strange per-
version of common sense and right feeling does it ex-
hibit, thus to see its operation commence with that
class who should evidently be the last and not the first
to experience its effects. Are the widows of men who
have fought and bled for their country to be the first
to be told that their claim on its gratitude and bounty
must depend, not upon the services of their husbands,
but upon a rigid investigation into any other means of
subsistence which they may happen to possess ? And
to what other branch of the public service has this
novel regulation been applied ? To Ministers of
State ? To Lord Chancellors ? To the heads, in '
short, of any departments? And if it was right, why
was not the sense of Parliament first taken upon the
subject, and its odium thus removed by fair and. pre-
vious investigation ? In common with the great bulk
of the community, we have ever been the rigid and
uncompromising advocates of all just and practicable
economy ; but we are not admirers of the charity which
begins at home, or of the economy which does not
reach its authors, or, in short, all classes of public
servants alike.—Morning Herald.

The Globe affects to be angry at our repeated as-
sertion that the liberal press of' England and France
is " goading the Poles to a fresh and hopeless effort
to throw off the oppressor." The Globe very consi-
derably reduces the weight of our accusation, from
which we certainly do not see the least reason to re-
cede. We havJ said often, and now repeat, that much
of the language habitually employed by the liberal po-
liticians and journaliEs, as they term themselves, of
England and France in r3lation to Russia and Poland,
is calculated to inspire the Poles with the hops that
they would rceeive foreign support, should Ciey ha•
.zard. a. new attempt to subvert the Government of
the Czar. We have said, and repeat, that those libe-
ral politicians and journalists, while labouring to in-
spire this hope, are as thoroughly convinced as
thev are of their own existence that if the Poles
!should be credulous enough to entertain, and act upon
it,.they would again find, as they have already found
at, utterly fallacious and deceitful. We have said, and
reoeat, that thus to spelt with the feelings and the fate
of aebrave nation is not liberality, but the highest con-
ceivable degree of baseness, dishonesty, and cruelty.
'Which of
.these propositions can the Globe dispute ?
:Its own columns afford daily proofs of time first. Will
at deny the second, and profess to its readers the hope
that any foreign-State will take up arms on behalf of
the -Poles in time event of their revolt ? Our third
propoeition, supposing the first two to be true, is, we
think, G.elf-evident.--Morning Post.

A most brutal and inhuman transaction was perpe-
treed at Whittlesea, on Monday last,- on the premises of
Mr. Read, by some person or persons unknown at present,
during his absence at Spalding fair; 36 sheep, 6 heifers,
and 3 horses, had their barn-strings cut so as to cause im-
mediate death to the sheep, boiters, and one of the horses ;
they bled most profusely ; it is supposed to have been-done
by a large knife.

Last Sunday week, through an error in not wun-
ing the clergyman (the Rev. William Maltby) who per-
formed serVkze in the church at Mansfield in the afternoon,
that a corpse had to be interred previously, the mourners
would have to wait at the church until the service was
over, had it not been for a dissenting minister, who, learn-
ink- the • occurrence, tendered himself, and performed the
church funeral rites. What ray such of ye, church clergy
ankfl9cli, who are so uncharitably bigoted against the dis-
-14e45v,,t0 thin ? To them let it be said, "Go thou and do
':—Nottinghain Review.