The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER I, 1844.

We are well pleased to acknowledge that the daily
accounts we have received from the outports, and the
dockyards of Woolwich and Deptford, during the
last fortnight, demonstrate a most laudable degree of
activity and vigilance on the part of the Lords of the
Admiralty. Their Lordships' recent tour of inspec-
tion, we are bound to admit, seems likely to be
attended with very beneficial results, by securing the
most prompt and permanent attention, on the part of
the subordinate executive authorities of this depart-
ment of the public service, to the efficiency of ships'
armaments, the extension of the List of Men-of-war
in Commission, and the organisation of better arrange-
ments for their manning. The complements of the
experimental brigs, we see, have been most rapidly
aid satisfactorily completed, and a serious error in
the scheme originally issued, in reference to them,
quickly (I,L;covered, and fairly rectified--by reducing
the dispropori!onate number of boys allotted, in the
first instance, to onch complement, arid substituting,
for every such reduction of boys, five able seamen.
All this 1s extremely well, so far as it goes. But
here is not enough of tar " to pay the whole hull."
The organisation which has proved so effective for
manning some eight or ten small war craft, of the force
we have elsewhere described in detail, should be care-
fully revised, and settled on bases capable of adopting
themselves to much larger and more pressing exigen-
cies. The same machinery, with certain requisite
modifications, may be rendered effective for the imme-
diate registration, at least, of volunteer hands, whose
priority of entry on the books of her Majesty's ships
of war, when called for under any future emergency,
,might be determined by the priority of their appear-
,soce, now, before a duly constituted board, and the
da 1 of their certificates of examination, competency,

and approval. It is impossible, in our judgment, to
overrate the value of such a proof, tendered by the
Government to those who are to man our fleets, that it is
in earnest. Many a brave fellow, and in all respects able
seaman, has retired in disgust, for ever, from a ser-
vice to which he has been from his youth strongly
attached, by the superadded discouragement of no
certain prospect of future employment in it follow-
ing on his being paid off and discharged from present
active duty. Let the registration plan announced
by Sir JAMES GRAHAM during his connexion with
the Admiralty Board be maintained as the principle
of a new scheme of register for her MAJESTY'S
Navy,—to be enlarged and improved with a careful
view to the very serious hazards we have had, during
the last two or three years, to encounter, in
the absence of a practical adhesion to such
a scheme—and to the aspect of passing events
in the seas of the New World as well as of the Old—
and to the very possible, if not probable, contingencies
of the times that are fast coming upon us. Let this
course be taken on the vital question of manning our
navy, and we will venture to predict that we shall be
spared those offensive demonstrations of petulance and
annoyance by other Powers, which now, at feverish
and intermitting intervals, impose upon us, in a season
of peace, the onerous and invidious duty of making
imperfect preparations for war. Such a course
would, at any rate, have this moral effect
—that it would avoid the unseemly and
undignified evidence of hurry and confusion
succeeding to inertness which recent events, we much
fear, must have afforded to the " world without.'
The conduct of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Government in
reference to the British navy has been, until arrested
by the solicitude occasioned by the movements of
France against Morocco, an enormous blunder—a
most inexcusable dereliction of public duty. One of
our Correspondents, a naval officer, has well observed,
in a short, but pithy, pamphlet, which we noticed not
long ago, "that the formidable expansions of the
naval strength of France have been uniformly coin-
cident with the contractions of our own, ever
since the Premier last entered office." It is
not too much to say, that in proportion as the flag
of England has been treated with an open disrespect,
or a more than suspicious neglect, in various parts
of the world, which had hitherto never been at-
tempted with impunity, the exhibition of our force
in the same locality, or the stations nearest adjacent
to them, has been scandalously disproportionate to
that of the offending flag there, and has incurred
imminent risks of signalising the native indomitable
courage and devotion of our gallant seamen and
their admirable officers only in useless struggles
against overwhelming material and numerical supe-
riority which, had they taken place, must have termi-
nated, in all human probability, in the discomfiture and
destruction of our countrymen. The days have been
in which a British Minister, who had allowed a
French fleet of seventeen men of war to be for weeks
together cruizing about the Mediterranean with only
one English man-of-war to watch them (for what
could she do more ?)—would have been impeached for
incapacity►, or something worse. No fear of that kind
can enter any man's head who is cognisant of the
plausible and flexible dexterity of Sir ROBERT. But
if we have weathered these threatening and once im-
minent perils for a time,—if, happily for the peace
of civilisation and the interests of the whole
human race, the two greatest and mightiest
nations of the globe are not at this moment
involved in a war of wholesale extermination,
for the most worthless of objects or the most insuffi-
cient of pretexts ; —we owe nothing to the sagacity
or the foresight, the prudence or the discretion, of a
Minister who founds his claim upon the confidence
of his countrymen on precisely these very qualifica-
tions. Sir ROBERT PEEL had formed a resolution—
and doubtless it was in itself a most salutary one—to
bring the public expenditure within the public in-
come. To accomplish this ob:ect, he re-imposed
upon the country one of the most odious and op-
pressive of imposts, against which it had, under all
former Administrations that levied it, indignantly re-
monstrated. By the aid of this impost he realised a sur-
plus revenue ; and it has been his intense anxiety to
maintain this surplus, at whatever present cost, at the
sacrifice of whatsoever future advantages, which has,
we must presume, suggested to him the reduction of
our magnificent navy to an effective force of that
almost contemptible amount at which it stood just
before the rising of Parliament for the recess. Well,
as we set out with saying, we heartily rejoice that
much has been done in the intervening period,
on the part of the Admiralty authorities, to repair this
suicidal folly. But we also repeat that very much
more remains yet to be done, before the exigencies of
the present and of coming times can be duly pre-
pared for.

In advocating such further additions to our naval
force, and administrative improvements of the nature
we have ventured to suggest, we are aware that we
expose ourselves to the imputation of advocating a
large increase of the national expenditure. Prima
facie this would appear a reasonable charge. It is
not so, in reality, and on a fair consideration of the
facts. It is one thing to maintain, in times of peace,
excessive and threatening armaments, at a vast ex-
pense to ourselves, and to the jealousy and disquietude
of foreign States. It is another, to maintain
those armaments on a scale of bare efficiency
—but adapted to the purposes of any ex-
pansion which exigencies—probable or even un-
foreseen—may render not only expedient in them-
selves, but indispensable to that attitude of prepara-
tion on which alone we shall be justified in meeting
any powerful enemy. The difference between the
two scales of expenditure will be insignificant indeed
compared with the enormous outlay, to say nothing
of the inconceivable perils, which must be entailed by
any further neglect of all needful and timely measures
of a precautionary policy._

The speech delivered by Lord NVHAUNCLIF. FE last

week at Leeds at a meeting of the friends and sup-
porters of the Society for Promoting the Increase of

Church Accommodation, &c. —on which we have
already commented in The Sun—is one that deserves
more than a single cursory notice, for, in the first
place, it is avowedly official in its character, and,
secondly, it contains some exceedingly liberal and
pertinent observations on one of the most important
matters that can possibly come upder the attention of
the Legislature. Moreover, it is a decided move in
the direction of toleration—a frank and manly ac-

knowledgment that, on the great question of national

education, the claims of the Dissenters have a
right to be consulted quite as much as those
of the sticklers for orthodoxy ; and that
to consider the interests of the Church ex-
elusively, is to take but a purblind view of the case,
such as no Government which presumes to call itself
enlightened, is warranted in doing. " Prythee, think
there are people out of Britain !" says one of SHAM-

. -
i'EARE'S characters, in rQply to the bigoted nationality

of an individual with whom he is holding familiar con-
verse ; and Lord WHARDICLIFFE calmly and cour-
teously rebukes the dogmatic prejudices of the high-
church party in the same enlarged spirit, remind-
Ing them that the population of the kingdom is
•not solely made up of the orthodox; but that a
vast mass of the community consists of Dis-
nenters from the Establishment, whose conscien-
tious scruples, and feelings, and interests have every
,ossible claim on the attentive and favourable conside-
-7 •ation of Government. Language like this, which
but twenty years ago no Cabinet Minister would
_have dreamed of using, is a sign of the times of the

• most auspicious character, and-though it will doubt-
': less give great offence to the more intolerant members
c f the Church, who entertain the same hatred of Dia-
s nit that Commodore TRUZINION entertained of an
a Aorney, yet it will be received by all liberal-minded
ldividuals with the most unfeigned delight and ap-
)robation. We have said that Lord WneuxcLlFFE's
peech contains some exceedingly satisfactory,
observations on one of the most important sub-
jects of the day. The subject to which we
allude, is the profession of the schoolmaster,
# on which his Lordship thus expresses himself :—" No-
t hing is more deplorable than the state of education,
s peaking generally, of the schoolmasters who affect
Ico teach the people. No system of instruction can
be of much value until we have masters who shall be
able to combine the improvement of the moral and
religious knowledge of their pupils as well as of their

manners, with the general education they may im-
part. No pains that can be taken are too much
I in this matter. I wish I could say that the busi-
I .ss of a schoolmaster could be truly called a pro-
; scion. I wish that the middle and lower classes

could see in the situation of the schoolmaster a situa-
tion to which they might hope to arrive, and which
would not only afford them a decent livelihood, but
raise them in the scale of society to a station which
the important trust reposed in their hands seems to
require. This must be done by degrees, and yet
perhaps there is no object more important." The
vocation of schoolmaster—for, as yet, speaking of it
generally, it can scarcely be called a profession—is
one that has been too long undervalued. It has
been regarded, in fact, as no better than a trade, and
has been a fertile theme of laughter and ridicule
for wits, satirists, dramatists, and writers of fiction,
for Heaven knows how many years ! The dominic
in Scotland and the pedagogue in England, who for-
gets how often these characters have been ridiculed
on the stage and in the novel—how many grotesque
peculiarities have been attributed to them, calculated
to lower them in their own esteem as much as in that
of others ! Now why should this be ? Surely the vocation
of the schoolmaster is at least as honourable—at least as
much entitled to public respect as that of the soldier
or the sailor ? Yet, while we look up with a feeling
almost akin to reverence, on the profession of arms,
we despise the less showy calling of the schoolmaster,
and allow him no definite station in society, unless
he happen also to be a member of the Church
of England. Yet it is this unregarded cha-
racter who moulds, or should mould, the tastes,
the feelings, the moral—religious—and literary opi-
nions of the rising generation, and to whose silent,
unobtrusive influence the community is indebted for
some of the choicest blessings it enjoys ! To raise
the character of the schoolmaster—to give him equal
rank with the clergyman, the lawyer, the physician,
the soldier, and the sailor—is an imperative duty on
Government, and one that it cannot long neglect
with impunity. Lord WHARNCLIFFE, we are glad
to see, is paving the way for such a reform in our
educational system—a reform to which even the most
haughty and bigoted high Churchman would find it
difficult to offer any rational or valid objection.

Madrid journals of the 23d ult. have been received,
but they bring no intelligence of public interest. Mr.
BuLwER, after having installed the Spanish Consul
at Tangiers, had arrived at Cadiz, and was daily ex-
pected at Madrid.
The Herald() states that, on the 16th Admiral Sir
E. OWEN had given, in celebration of the restoration
of peace between France and Morocco, a grand ban-
quet on board the Albion, to which all the officers of
the foreign ships of war were invited.
The Three per Cents. were done at 27 13-16 for
cash, and 28i at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 21
at 60 days ; the Floating Debt at 66 at 60 days ; and
the Coupons at 26i for cash.

On Sunday his Majesty LOUIS PHILIPPE reviewed
the regiments quartered in Paris and the neighbour-
hood, in the court of the Tuileries. The KING
mounted his horse at one o'clock, and distributed a
number of decorations to certain officers and soldiers
of each regiment, when the flags captured at Isly
were presented to his MAJESTY, and afterwards car-
ried along the whole line. The trophies were then
conveyed by a division of the Guards to the Hotel
des Invalides and delivered to the Governor and Staff,
to be exposed to public view in the church. The fol-
lowing is a programme of the proceedings. It will
be seen that the review was entirely confined to the
troops of the line :—ln conformity with the orders
of the General commanding the first division the
troops will assemble en grande tenue at mid-day—the
infantry in the court of the Tuileries, the cavalry
and the artillery in the quays. After the review,
the standard bearers, with their guards, and with
the officers and under-officers, proposed for the deco-
ration of the Legion of Honour, will assemble in the
court of the Tuileries. After the KING shall have
given the decorations, the Moorish colours will be car-
ried between the lines of the infantry and cavalry, tha
drums will beat and the trumpets sound the march.
When the troops shall have defiled, they will advance
in the following order S to the Hospital of the Inva-
lides :—The infantry, preceded by a detachment of
the Municipal Guard. In the centre of the column,
between the 17th and 23d regiments of infantry, a
column of picked men will be placed, consisting of
fifteen companies of men chosen from the grenadiers
and voltigeurs of each regiment. In the middle of
that column will he placed the colours and trophies
taken from the Moors. Colonel RIPPERT, of the 23d
regiment of the line, will be the commander of the
chosen column. The artillery will follow the infan-
try; the cavalry after the artillery. The infantry
and cavalry will be stationed on the quays. The
under officers appointed to carry the colours and
trophies will be furnished by the following regi-
ments :—The Municipal Guard, 2 ; the Veterans, 4;
9th Cuirassiers, 1 ; sth Dragoons, 1 ; 3d Hussars,
8 ; Bth Lancers, 1; 2d Light Infantry, 1 ; sth Light
Infantry, 1 ; 17th Light Infantry, 3 ; 28th Infantry
of the Line, 2; 24th Infantry, 2 ; 40th ditto, 1 ; 47th
ditto, 2 ; Artillery, 1; 10th Light Infantry, 2 ; 50th
Infantry, I.—Total, 28 under officers. Those 28
under officers, en grande tenue, and armed with their
swords only, will go, at mid-day precisely, to the
Hall of the King's Aides-de-Camp, at the Tuileries,
where the colours and trophies will be delivered to
them. After the cerement' of depositing the trophies
the troops will return to their barracks." The
Kisco was well received, and appeared in good
health. The National cannot let the occasion
pass without an attack on the French Govern-
ment, taking care of course to include England in its
vituperations. That journal of Sunday contains the
following bitter remarks on the proceedings :—A
grand parade is to take place on the quays, on the
occasion of the grand victories obtained over Mo-
rocco, and of the glorious peace just concluded. The
KING will review the troops of the garrison, and the
flags captured from the Moors will be solemnly con-
veyed to the Invalides, including, no doubt, the
famous parasol, for which the magnimity of the Juste
Milieu has refused to accept a ransom. The Minis-
terial papers make no mention of the parasol, nor do
they either say anything of MULEY'S tent, which is
to be placed upon the grand basin of the Tuileries,
yesterday drained for the purpose. The flee, as is
seen, will be magnificent, and will remind one to
perfection of the times when the Generals of
France brought to the Government the flags of
Arcola and Austerlitz. Provided the rain that
falls this evening in torrents permit it, the review
will be a fine one. The National Guard will
only be wanting to it, probably because the glorious
conquests achieved in Morocco are not considered
to have sufficiently rekindled its enthusiasm. And
yet such is what an almost official print announces
this evening in mighty pompous words. Here is a
sample of them The Moorish flags will pass
between the lines of infantry and cavalry ; the drums
will beat and the trumpets sound the march.' Who
on reading such things would not fancy that one
of those victories is to be celebrated whereby a nation
sees its moral power increased tenfold ? No, all that
is to be celebrated is a battle in which we have had
thirty-seven killed and seventy-eight wounded, and
after which 11Iarshal BUGEAUD advanced a league in
order to retire as quick as possible. We have also
to celebrate a naval victory, which had, indeed, given
us the island of Mogadore, but the evacuation of
that island immediately followed. Lastly, we are
about to celebrate a peace, which concludes nothing,
which makes us pay the expenses of the war, which
permits ABD-EL-KADER to continue to molest us,
and which has evidently been impOsed upon us by
England. How can they then imagine that the
Moorish rags exhibited to the Parisians will be potent
enough to conceal the barrenness of such victories,
and the opprobrium of such a peace ? They have
been quite right not to invite the Parisian National
Guard to this extempore fete, and keep up towards
it the system of suspicion in which it has for several
years past been kept. The National Guard would
probably have seized the opportunity of calling the
Ministry to account for the ignoble PRITCHARD affair,
and the no less shameful conduct they have held in
Morocco. The public will no doubt be, as usual,
kept at a great distance whilst the KING reviews the
troops. Since ovations are wanted, they must con-
fine themselves to the closed-gate fetes, celebrated
between a squadron of cavalry and a battalion of
infantry, until the day when the Ministers shall con-
duct the ICING to England, to enjoy there the unani-
mous explosion of gratitude which they cannot fail to
kindle wherever they move."
The Sleek is still more personal in its attacks on
the KING, and proposes that M. GulzoT should
draw up some such speech as the following to be
delivered by Louis PYILIPPE on the occasion :
" I am pleased with the army, it hat done its duty ;

but lam still more pleased with diplomacy. The army
has given me a glory, which it has paid for with its
blood ; but what is glory ? A little smoke, and what is
still worse, a means of displeasing Sir Robert Peel.
Diplomacy has procured me peace, a peace that will give
umbrage to no Cabinet : a result which I always desired.
May God grant me the maintenance of peace ! Soldiers!
I allow you to fall upon the Arabs, and exercise your
courage against the people of Morocco, who should invade
our territory, provided, however, the English do not take
offence at it. You had a right to conquer at Isly and
seize on Mogadore, it being my determination not to
avail myself of your victory, nor to retain your conquest.
Marshal Bugeaud may plan your battles, provided Mr.
Bulwer regulates the condition of peace. Do not conse-
quently suffer yourself to become intoxicated by the
smell of gunpowder ; or imagine that we are serious
when you hear the report of cannon. We maintain an
army of 340,000 men, because we want patrols to keep
order in France, and because the sight of uniforms and
the spectacle of military manoeuvres are princely sports.
We are playing a game of soldiers, but we entertain no
idea of making use of them. Sleep quietly in your gar-
rison towns; we shall never want you for any great war;
we hare promised it to all those coalesced kings who are
still trembling at the recollection of Marengo, Jena, and
Austerlitz. There is no advantage in making war, even
when a nation has attained the object for which it has
fought, because ultimately the losses are always greater
than the gains. I hold war to be a malediction.'
The preparations for the KING'S journey to Eng-
land were carried on with great activity.
The Elau steamer had arrived at Havre from
Cherbourg, where it was to take on board the cases
containing chrystal and Sevres china which the King
of the FRENCH is to present to Queen VICTORIA.
The squadron was in readiness, and after a trial trip
to Dieppe, with Admiral LA SUM on board, had
returned to Cherbourg.
Letters from Cadiz of the 18th state that the
Prince DR JOINVILLE was still in the harbour on that
day, and was not expected to leave for Toulon before
the 23d. The vessels sent to bring away the garrison
of the island of Mogadore had not yet returned to
Cadiz, with the exception of the Pluton steamer,
which reached on the 17th with a company of grena-
diers of the 3d Regiment of Marines, which had
formed part of the garrison.
We find the following in the Toulonnais of the 24th

"A few days before the conclusion of the treaty of
Tangiers, we were in a full state of war. The steam
corvette Veloce arrived suddenly at Tangiers, where the
Prince of Joinville and a large part of the squadron were
drawn up, and announced that the Moors were repairing
the fortifications of Mogadore, and were hastilylarming a
battery which might do great damage to thesrnall vessels
left to protect the garrison on the island. Some cannon
shot had already been fired. Orders had at once been
given for the Triton and the Belle Poule to dismantle the
Moorish battery, and they were ordered to send some
troops on shore to spike the guns ; but peace having
been signed, the Pluton was seat off in all haste for Mo-
gadore, and carried orders for the Triton and Belle Poule
to do nothing against the fortifications of Mogadore, and
for the garrison to evacuate the island forthwith."
At TORTONI'S on Sunday the Three per Cents. were
quoted at 82f. ic.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK RE

GISTRATION.-(THIS DAY.)
The revision of the list of voters for the opulent and
extensive borough of Southwark was commenced this
morning at the Town-hall, by S. C. C. Fish, Esq., the
barrister appointed for that purpose.
On the Revising Barrister taking his seat, the over-
seers of the various parishes delivered in lists of persons
entitled to vote in their respective districts.
The revision of the lists was then proceeded with.
Several persons who had claimed had theirs disallowed, as
they did not appear to substantiate them.
The REVISING BARRISTER said that persons who had
claimed to have their names placed on the register must
appear before him, to make out their qualifications, other-
wise they would be disallowed.
Mr. Sydney Smith, who appeared on behalf of the
free-trade interest, said the Revising Barrister was em-
powered to call upon the overseers, in the absence of
claimants, to prove from documents in their possession
that they (the claimants) were properly qualified to vote
for Members of Parliament. _ .

The REVISING BARRISTER said if persons who claimed
did not attend to make out their qualifications, he did not
think he should be justified in calling upon the overseers
to do so, as their duties were sugiciently onerous, and
they ought not to be put to additiDnal trouble by the
negligence of claimants.
John Coventry claimed in respect of a portion of a
house, situated at No. 6, Waterloo-place, in which he
had resided for 19 years, and for which he paid a weekly
rent of Bs.

Mr. Sydney Smith, who supported the claim, made an
observation concerning the duty of the overseers, in re-
spect to proving the sums for which persons wore rated.
The REVISING-BARRISTER (with warmth)--.What are
you, Sir—in what capacity do you appear here ?
Mr. Sydney Smith said he attended as an agent to
support certain claims.
After some further discussion the claim was allowed.
The claim of a person named Peter Taylor was dis-
allowed, because the rates had not been paid.
The landlord of the house had been in the habit of
paying the rates, but in this instance he had not paid
them within the time required by the Act of Parliament.
In the revision of the list of voters for St. George the
Martyr, the name of Nathaniel Nichols, of Bethlehem
Hospital. was objected to by a Mr. Matthews, as net
being duly qualified. His name, and the names of the
Rev. James Garrett, the chaplain of the institution, and
John Thomas, who holds a situation in it, were struck
out.
The revision then terminated. There were very few
claims and objections, and none of them involved any
point of interest.

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