The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-31 00:00:00

PLYMOUTH.

(FROM OUR OVVN CORRESPONDENT.)
PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 28.—1 t has been
currently reported here during the past week, that arrangements
are now in progress by the mad-coach contractors on the line of
road from London to this place (Plymouth), which, when com-
pleted, will enable the London mail to arrive here two hours sooner
than it does at present. Now, the mail leaving London at eight
one evening, arrives here the following one at seven o'clock; but it
will then arrive at five, thus performing the journey of 218 miles in
twenty-one hours. We understand the principal object in view, in
making the new arrangement, is to forward the Falmouth mail by
way of Plymouth, instead of the north of Devon, as at present.
The many recent arrangements which have been made in the con-
veyance of the mails, reflect great credit on the Post-office Depart-
ment. Only a week or two since, Torquay has been made a post-
town, and its inhabitants are consequently relieved from a tax of a
penny-post from Newton Abbott.
During the past week immense shoals of mackerel have been
taken is the channel of this port and brought in here, and exposed
to sale at the low price of ninepence per dozen—they are generally
remarkably fine.
Plymouth Sound presents to-day rather an unusual sight, up-
ward's of ICO sail of vessels being at anchor there waiting a change
of wind to enable them to proceed to the eastward; the wind has
been to-day and yesterday blowing very strong from N.E.
The Rattlesnake, 28, Captain Hobson, sailed yesterday morning
'for the East Indies.

The Rolla, 10, Lieutenant and Commander Glass, also sailed yes-
terday for the coast of Africa. •
Also the Industry, Harrison, for New York ; and Relief, Treva-
tham, for St. John's, New Brunswick.

The Moira, Johnson, which arrived on Monday last from North
America, bound for London, is still here.

The liauritius, from the Isle of France, out 73 days, arrived here
last evening, laden with sugar, for London.
In Hamoaze—the San Josef, Dublin, Viper, and Diligence naval
transport.

In the Sound—the Romney.

SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

(FROM LLOYD'S.)
DEAL, MARCH 30.—Wind S. S.W., light and variable.—
Arrived from the river and sailed, the Cecrops, Finlayson, for
Quebec; and Onyx, Nicholson, for Bermuda.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 30.—Wind E.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 27, 28, and 29.—Wind E.—Arrived the
Miranda, Rapper, from Mauritius. Sailed his Majesty's ship Rattle-
snake, for the East Indies ; and his Majesty's ship Rolla, for the
Coast of Africa.

FALMOUTH, MARCH 29.—Wind E. to E. S.E., strong and
squally.—Arrived the Firefly steam-packet, from the Mediterranean;
left Malta 12th inst., Gibraltar 21st, and Cadiz 22d.
POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—His Majesty's ship Viper, for the Lis-
bon mail of this day, the 31st inst. Letters in time to-morrow
evening, the Ist April. His Majesty's steamer Tartarus, for the
Cadiz and Mediterranean mail of the Ist April. His Majesty's
brig Nightingale, for the Jamaica and Leeward Island mail of the
Ist April; and Stanmer, for the American mail of the Ist April.
NEWPORT, MARCH 28.—Arrived the Glenora, —, and
Preston, —, from Memel.
LIVERPOOL, MA RC if 30.—Arrived off port, the Abeona,
from New Orleans. Sailed the Linton, Taylor, for Bombay.
Pootr, MARCH 30.—The Jean, Christie, of Dundee, in pro-
ceeding to sea, yesterday, struck upon the bar, and put back so much
damaged that the whole of the cargo must be discharged.
PENZANCE, MARCH 29.—The Mayflower, Hendy, from Liver-
pool to this port and Exeter, in running for the pier on the 27th
instant, grounded outside, but was hauled in with the tide, dis-
charged her cargo, and proceeded this morning.
SCILLY, MARCH 28.—The Nautilus, Tate, from Sierra Leone
to London, arrived this day leaky,
.and must take extra hands. The
Mediterranean, Mowbray, from Liverpool to Havre, must discharge
—the cargo supposed to be damaged.
ELSINORE, MARCH 24.—Th• Rhine, Thompson, from Hull to
Danzig, arrived here this morning, having been assisted off the Island
of Lessoe, but having sustained no apparent damage, has proceeded.
Two-thirds of the cargo of the Scotia, from Memel to London, has
been discharged in a dry state.

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 1835.

If, either from the want of information, or the want
of sense, there existed a doubt in any man's mind as to
the propriety of appropriating the surplus income of
the Irish Church to purposes generally beneficial to
the people of Ireland, we think that doubt must be re-
moved by the debate which took place last night in
the House of Commons. Though the discussion may
be prolonged in courtesy to those Hon. Members who
wish to deliver their sentiments on a question of so much
interest, and though much eloquence may be expected
from some of those who have yet to address the
House, we apprehend that little will, and we are sure
that nothing need, be added to the irresistible case made
out by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Mr. WARD, and Lord
HowicK, while Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S declamatory
appeal has left little for those who follow him on that

side to urge.
The Noble Lord commenced his unadorned,
but unanswerable speech, by alluding to the
motion for a Repeal of the Union, brought
forward by Mr. O'CONNELL last Session, which
was met by an Address to the Crown, stating
the determination of the House to maintain the Union
inviolate, to remove all just causes of complaint, and
to promote all well-considered measures of improve-
ment. The answer of the Crown was an echo of the
Address. The Crown and the House, were, therefore,
pledged to redress the grievances of Ireland, and either
this pledge must be redeemed, or the Union must be
dissolved. The Noble Lord then drew a melancholy,
but too true, picture of the moral state of Ireland,
which was the natural consequence of the barbarous
treatment which she had experienced, and remarked
that, by a singular coincidence, the most glorious
periods in the history of England had been marked
by an aggravation of the oppression of Ireland, in-
stancing the reigns of EDWARD 1., ELIZABETH, and
WILLIAM 111., and calling particular attention to the
important circumstance, that, at the time of the Re-
formation, the religion of the clergy only was changed
—that of the people remaining unaltered. In later
times, when increasing light and liberality would no
longer tolerate the severities practised towards the

The whole of the French Journals of Sunday have been
received. The committee on the project of law for the
indemnification of America, made its report on Saturday,
in the Chamber of Deputies, recommending the payment
of the 25,000,000 francs to the United States. The re-
port is very long, and has the amended project of law ap-
pended to it. The last article is the most importar.t, and
runs thus :

" The payments on account of the 25,000,000 francs shall only
be made in case the Government of the United States shall not
have done any thing to injure the dignity and the interests of
France."

The project of law will be introduced into the Chamber
with as little delay as possible, as it is necessary that it be
disposed of before the commencement of the trials. The
prevailing opinion is, that it will be adopted by a consider-
able majority.

A Bill has been brought in for regulating the carriage of
passengers in merchant vessels to the British Colonies in
North America, of which we have given an abstract else -
where. The total loss of many such vessels filled with poor
emigrants, and the heart-rending accounts of the privations
and sufferings endured by the passengers in others, had ren-
dered such a Bill imperatively necessary ; and we hope that
its provisions, when united to the assistance and protection
afforded to the poor emigrant by the Government agents
appointed at some of the principal ports last year, will put
an end to the infamous system of fraud and deception which
has long been practised upon simple and ignorant passen-
gers by the organised gangs of swindlers, who, under
the name of agents, infest the outports, and divide the
the plunder with unprincipled ship-owners, brokers,
and masters. In consequence of the great in-
crease of emigration, it has, however, become necessary
that Government agents should be appointed at those of
the second-rate ports in all three parts of the kingdom from
which the tide of emigration is now flowing with so much
rapidity to Canada and the United States. In order, also,
to afford complete protection to the British emigrant, the
provisions of this Bill should have extended to vessels pro-
ceeding to the United States. The penalties incurred by
the breach of its enactments might have been enforced on
the return of the vessel to Great Britain ; or some arrange-
ment might, we have no doubt, have been made with the
United States to enforce the penalties there, inasmuch as
that country is so deeply interested in affording every
facility and encouragement to European emigrants.

Mr. Chalmers voted for the second reading of Mr.
Poulter's Sabbath Observance Bill.—His name is omitted in
the list of the Majority.
COMPLETE EDITION OF CONVPIZR.—We are re-
quested to state that the First and Second Volumes of the
Rev: Mr. Grimshawe's Conipke Edition of Cowper are now
ready, with the Engravings, and may be had of the publishers,
Messrs. Saunders and Otley, Conduit-street; or of the Book-
sellers in town and country. The embellishments are a View
of Berkhamstead (the birth-place of Cowper), the House in
which Cowper was born, Cowper's House at Weston, and a
View of Olney, as seen from the spot described by Cowper in
his poems. They are beautifully engraved by the Findens, in
the style of Byron, Crabbe, &c. from drawings made expressly
for the work by Harding.
THE RULING PASSION.—A story is told of a
merchant staying at an inn, whom the boots by mistake called
at an unusually early hour. " Sir," said boots, " the day is
breaking." " Let it break," growled the sleepy traveller, "it
owes me nothing."
The vessel hired to carry the mail from Lerwick to
Peterhead sailed on the 29th of January, and did not return
till the 27th of February, having been thirty days on the trip.
—Scotch Paper.
Good veal has been selling in Lymington market at
from 3d. to 4d. per lb., and mutton at from 4-14.• to sd. per
lb.—Salisbury Herald.