The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-29 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

LONDOIq, JULY 27.—Wind N.W., light breeze and fine.
DEAL, JULY 26.—Wind A.M. N.W. by W., light. P.M.
N.E. and N.W., do.—Arrd. Countess Minto, M'Millan, Cal-
cutta ; New Express, Herdeth, Ceylon ; Brinda, Haslop,
Mauritius; Jane, Lee, Coast of Africa; Ganges, Quebec, and
Centurion, Quebec. Sld. Eliza Bell, Bahia; Arethusa, Cape
Coast Castle ; Ravenswood, Ichaboe ; Belmont, St. Johns,
New Brunswick ; Tyree, Edmund, and Glasgow, Quebec.
OFF DOVER, JULY 26.—Swallow, Walker, Grenada; St.
Thomas, Porto Rico.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 26.—Wind S.W. to N.W.—Arrd. her
Majesty's ship Vindictive, Valparaiso, sailed May 1, Rio
June 11, Fay-al June 17, on freight 1,500,000 dollars. Off,
Susan King, Mauritius ; Brinleys, Knox, Algoa Bay.
COWES, JULY 26.—Arrd. Ze Broder, Cailstad, Batavia, and
sailed for Hamburgh ; Conservative, M'Lachlan, Ichaboe ;
Elise Louise, Bahia, and sailed for London; Heber, Kohler,
Bahia ; William Engs, Coe, Havannah ; Buenos Ayrean,
Carver, Matanzas; Clarina Andrews, Colby, New Orleans.
OFF THE WIGHT, JULY 23.—Nantes, Tobasco, for Havre.
OFF THE LIZARD, JULY 22.—Jacob Pennell, Mobile, for
Havre ; George, La Guayra, for Hamburgh.
OFF BEACHY HEAD, JULY 24.—Vesta, Rio, for Hamburgh;
Mandrigo, Bunting, Jamaica; Antoine, Mayer, Port au
Prince, for Hamburgh ; Magellan, Meyer, Havannah.
OFF THE START, JULY 24.—Dispatch, M'Donald, Gambia.
OFF PLYMOUTH, JULY 26.—Mary Rowe, Goble, Mauritius.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 25.—Wind /•..W., fresh breeze.—Arrd.
Orina, Smith, Singapore; Groglen, Ichaboe; P. H. Dean,
Rio Grande ; Unique, Buenos Ayres ; Tinamara, Ceara ; Hero,
Grant, Bonny ; Scotia, and Liverpool, New Orleans ; Alliance,
Charleston ; Isabella, New York ; Rory O'More, Montreal ;
Indian Chief, and Rockshire, Quebec. Sld. Jane and Bay-
field, Africa; P. I. Nevins, Baltimore. The Robert Napier
steamer. from Londonderry to this port, took fire on the 24th
inst., between Portrush and Ballycastle, and was run ashore
at the latter place, and burnt to the watei's edge, crew, pas-
sengers, machinery, and part of cargo saved.
HULL, JULY 25.—S1d. Diana and Adele, Ichaboe.
IcuanoE.—Acrd. Zenobia, George, Amy, Bombay, Expe-
rience, Favourite, Britannia, Marquis Wellesley, Chitmark,
Lavinia, Ellen, Ann Laing, Rebecca, Tulloch Castle, West
Indian, Mathesis, Dorcas, Louisa, Margaret, Flora, Pomona,
and Robert Kerr.

TAR St v, LoXbONI-maisDA* MOANING

LITERAT URE.

FACTS AND FICTIONS, 3 Vols.
Allen, London, 1844.
_

In these light and amusing 'volumes, which are the
production of Mrs. Postans, we have a series of prose
sketches illustrative of oriental character, scenery, and
manners. The authoress writes vividly, because she
writes from her own personal re•ollections of British
India ; and in one of her sketches, entitled " A Tale
of the Phansigars," gives an interesting account of a
young Indian girl and her attendants, in company
with a party of notorious Thugs, whom she had
encountered on the road, and accepted as an escort,
supposing that they were a travelling company of
native merchants. The denouement of this tale,
though somewhat abrupt, is brought about in a very
exciting manner. The " Emperor's Grave " is a
sketchy description of Longwood and the tomb of
Napoleon, at St. Helena; but these have been de-
scribed so often, and so circumstantially, that the
subject is quite an exhausted one, add will not admit
of repetition.

MONTE VIDEO AND4,BUENOS
AYRES. -
(From the Britannia and Monte Video Reporter.)
It is somewhat remarkable that the London Minis-
terial papers make no mention whatever of the affairs
of the River Plate, beyond the mere insertion of pa-
ragraphs of news as they are received from Monte
Video and Buenos Ayres. We are aware that on the
side of the Opposition, intervention would be objected
to on principles of consistency, and we insert the
following article from one of them as affording
an encouraging indication that we are not
altogether overlooked or forgotten. The si•
lence of the opposite party on the general
question may arise from a consciousness of the awk-
ward position in which Ministers have placed them-
selves by their vacillating policy, and the consequent
difficulty of doing justice to the subject without re-
flecting discredit on the Government. But in spite of
this studious reserve from all discussion, it may be
perceived, in the occasional slight allusion to our
affairs, that a profound abhorrence of the infamously
criminal system of Rosas is a prevalent feeling among
all who know anything of the war in the River Plate.
The accounts which have lately been published of
the state of affairs in Monte Video are at once dis-
tressing to humanity and disgraceful to our own
apathy. Monte Video has been exposed for about
twelve months, not so much to the more immediate
horrors incident to a protracted siege, as to the
more hopeless and withering process of a land
blockade, efficiently established, and rigorously main-
tained by a bigoted and remorseless solier. General
Rosas, commanding the troops of the Republic of
Buenos Ayres, invests Monte Video with an army
which cuts of all communication between the be-
leagured town and its commercial resources and con-
nexions. Monte Video contains not only a very con-
siderable number of English merchants and their
families, but Spanish and colonial mercantile esta-
blishments of extensive connexion and character. It
is believed, that through this body, in the aggregate,
outstanding credits on English account are due,
amounting to upwards of 50,0001. The passion of
Rosas having, for its peculiar object, the extirpation
of foreign commerce, he will not permit the cordon
which he has established under the walls of the ill-
fated city to be broken through on any pretence of
communicating with the native and colonial con-
-sumers, from whom these credits are due. The in-
evitable consequence, it would appear, must be, that
they can never be collected. The Montevidean
houses must perish under the continuance
of the cruel duresee in which the contend-
ing pretensions of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video
thus operate to keep all foreigners who are shut up
in the latter. They have especial reason to complain,
and do, accordingly, most vehemently complain, that
they have been made the instruments of aggravating
the losses which are likely to be sustained by the
strong assurances that were given to them by Mr.
Mandeville, our Minister, when visiting the shores
of the Plata, that the British Government would
certainly protect British rights and property in
those regions, in the event of the Buneos Ayrean
of Monte Video,
In consequence
recently
armamentobfy this
assurance—so
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correspondence,r.y
received in London, declares—" large sales of
merchandise were made on credit, and orders
transmitted to this country for further shipments."
When Rosas did cross into the territory, there was a
British force in those waters more than five times
sufficient to have effected his instant discomfiture and
retreat; but he was not interfered with, and has, ever
since, cooped up the unhappy residents at Monte
Video within the bare walls of their strong positi •n,
where the whole community experience the un-
satisfied cravings for the common necessaries
ef life. In the meantime the native and other
consul-iv-Ts in the interior of the country are
becoming, every day, less and less ' competent
to pay for their purchases, owing to the unre-
lenting destructi. m of all foreign property, carried
on by orders of Rosas throughout the territory sub-
ject to his vengeance. To such an extent does Rosas
indulge his stupid prepossessions against external
commerce of any kind, that he had very recently en-
forced the immediate return, without unloading, of
several vessels which had arrived with cargoes of pro-
duce from Corrientes at Buenos Ayres. These car-
goes were composed, in part, of returns of the native
dealers and consumers above alluded to, for the
British merchandise and manufactures supplied to them
by the importers of Monte Video. It seems, there-
fore, that no course more effective could have been
taken for sacrificing all chances of reimbursing the
shippers or owners of 500,0001. of British merchandise,
destined for that market alone.

COMPLETION OF STONE-BUILDINGS, LINCOLN'S
INN.—These magnificent chambers, built by Sir Robert
Taylor, and entirely faced with Portland stone, being at
present deficient of their southern wing, are forthwith
to be completed. To such persons as are not ac-
quainted with this well-known pile, we merely intimate,
that they are externally of the Corinthian order, and
are (some details excepted) by all persons, except
those who originate or follow the bad criticism of the
day, much to be commended : as seen from the ex-
treme length of Lincoln's Inn-fields (over the beautiful
terrace now cut up for the erection of the new Hall and
other buildings, and the wall of which is celebrated for
containing some workmanship from the very hand of
" Rare Ben Jonson"), the pearl-like effect of their
beautiful stone throws into shade every competing ob-
ject ; their simple, plain continuity, surmounted by
the richer, though still plain, entablature of the order,
shows how superior an effect plain, bleached, enduring
masonry has to frippery, falsely called architecture. A
little further on may also be seen the equisite Portland
stone masonry of the upper part of the great gable of
Lincoln's Inn Chapel ; which, contrasting with the
wretched clay-coloured stucco, with which nearly all the
remainder of that building was some years since 'evaded,
puts the right-minded in an almost fixed humour to for-
swear the use of all other materials.—Builder.
BIDEFORD.—About three months since three
chimney-sweeps sold sixty bushels of soot to a neigh-
bouring farmer for 255., each party being very well satis-
fied with the bargain. Some days after it was discovered
that the gentlemen of the black robe had adulterated the
soot with three sacks of very dry sawdust. The farmer,
however. is convinced that his crop of turnips is greatly
improved by the sawdust, as it materially contributed to
the passing the manure through the drill ; and as the
vegetation of the seed looks most propitious, the circum-
stance promises to prove a valuable trial of the virtues of
the chimney and saw-pit.—West Briton.
THE LUCIFER MATCH AND THE LUCIFER TONGUE.
—At the Chelmsford Assizes a boy of nine years old
has been found guilty of firing a barn. John Hardy,
aged eleven, was also convicted of firing a stack of
straw. At Huntingdon, Samuel Baxter, aged ten, was
sentenced to fifteen years' transportation for a like
crime. These offences are very dreadful—very. We
are shocked at the powers of mischief which the
lucifer match places in the hands of the reckless and
malignant. Terrible is it to contemplate blazing stacks
of hay. and straw, and wheat—most terrible to imagine
the savage satisfaction gleaming in the eyes of a starved,
and therefore sullen and revengeful peasantry. How-
ever, the evil-doers are caught, arraigned, and sen-
tenced; and little would it avail them if, in the dock,
they were to make the most contrite, yea, abject
apology for their wickedness. The crime, they might
declare, was accomplished in an idle, reckless, or
passionatepardon of f judgemo andent; and therefore they humbly begged
jury, and of the directors of the
offices insuring the destroyed property,—and so. having
apologised, the culprits might trust that nothing more
would be said of the ma•ter. Alas! such apology benefits
not the incendiary with the lucifer match; he is not
permitted
" explain," but is inevitably transported.
How differentel
fate of the incendiary with the lucifer
o
idly, Passionately, malignantly apply
tongue
ngu
he to
m thea y
his combustible to the character of any man ; he may
in the House of Commons—beneath that awful roof
where laws are made to restrain and punish the vindic-
tive and ferocious passions of men—he may there,
in his place and solemn function of statute-maker,
cast
.1 of most unenviable attention—he may
apologise for his inadvertence ; he may declare that he
ec o firee a aboutn
ob; him,—and when caught in the tact, when
become t
meant nothing ; that he is very sorry if he have used
his lucifer tongue to the inconvenience of any gentleman,
and therefore hopes that his accidental use of the brim-
stone will be looked over. Great is the privilege al-
lowed to the lucifer tongue,—but woe to the errings of
the lucifer match ! Is it not so, good Mr. Wodehouse ?
The lucifer tongue may " apologise," and the lucifer
match is transported.—Punch.
NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.—In Robertson's
History of America, speaking of the ancient agriculture
of the Peruvians, the author says, " They enriched the
soil by manuring it with the dung of sea-fowls, of which
they found an inexhaustible store in all the islands scat-
tered along their coasts." And in a note he adds, "The
Spaniards have adopted those customs of the ancient
Peruvians; they continue to use guano, or the dung of
sea.fowls, as mature. Ulloa gives a description of the
almost incredible quantity of it in the small islands near
the coast." We had thus the name and use of guano
told us by Robertson seventy years ago.—lnverness
," Courier.