The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-09 00:00:00

tune, who partake of .the diversion of ;selling simply
as such, ' a taite which is congenial with the best in-
terests of this' country, and habits and ideas calculated
to make them spurn the less manly, and more riper
vating, pursuits of fashiOnable life. The effect which
this will have on the national character, amongst the
most favoured children of fortune, cannothfaillo be
considerable, and will be gradually evinced' in the more
generous, bold, and frank character of the next gene-'
ration of the gentlemen of England. From the mid-
dling and lower ranks, to which the taste for sailing
and the love of aquatic amusements has rapidly spread,
a constant supply of officers and men for our Fleet
will be produced, alike fitted by inclination and early
habit to the profession on which the security, the
wealth, and the glory of this country must ever chiefly
depend.
Inanother part of our Paper will be found a
listHof the present Yacht Club, which annually in-
creases in numbers and consequence ; 'but numerous
as this Club is, still it ranks amongst its members a
veryssmall proportion of those innumerable pleasure-,
vessels which this fashionable inclination has creat-
ed, and annually employs on every part of the coasts
of this kingdom.

It has been stated in"several of the Papers that
various plans have been suggested to Government for
giving employment to the unemployed workmen of
the Northern Districts, so as to render them inde-
pendent of eleemosynary aid, either from parochial
or private ftindsi but that Ministers are divided
to the propriety of sanctioning or undertaking any
public work in the present state of the Treasury. This
and allother reports of divisions in the Cabinet, are pro-
bably without the slightest foundation ; at all events,
the writers of these paragraphs can have no informs-
tion On the subject which can justify their making
assertions of this nature. It is not impossible that
some of his Majesty's. Ministers may entertain opi-
nions different from those of others, of the measures
proper to be pursued under the present very difficult
circumstances, but, sve can positively state that 110
differ:elide' of Opinion amounting to a " division" has,
or is likely, to take place amongst the Cabinet.
With regard to public works we regret to bear it
said that some which had been contemplated have been.
abandoned, while others in progress are to be sus-
pended, or carried on with less activity than had bees
before ordered, in consequence of the necessity of
lessening public expenditure. If such a decision has
been come to, we cannot help thinking it a very minim'
one. Money spent in materials and labour, on public
works within the country, can never be iurious--
: but,, on the contrary, will give activity and spirit to
trade in.general, which must be beneficial to the com-
munity at large. The discontinuance of works already
begun will still farther add to the embarrassments of
the country, by throwing out of employ a number of
persons 'who will not be able to find it elsewhere ; and
by materials ordered, being countermanded, the star
nation of many. branches of business will be Jew
dered more severe than it is already. We are
fill] y convinced that the wiser course would be
to determine to proceed with rapidity with all public
works in progress, or decided upon:as hereafter neces-
sary, by which means the present distress might be re.
lieved in the accomplishment 'of objects which, if
postponed, may ultimately cost the three tittles
as much, and not do one-third of the good whit
would 'result from the well timed expenditure
necessary sums in this period of distress among the
working classes.

The friends of the Church will rejoice to observe
by last night's Gazette, the elevation of Dr. COPPLE'
STON, Provost of Oriel College, to the Deanery of
Chester. The diStinguished reputation a Dr. C°F.
PLESTON, as a divine, a scholar, and a political
writer, could not fail to attract the notice of the .Paul
,
of LIVERPOOL, whose pure and impartial disposAl °I
the Church patronage of the Crown, forms one of the
most honourable features in the character of his adini-
nistration ; and his appropiiation of the Deaneri
c
Chester on the present occasion, adds another wield':
to his Lordship's well-deserved popularity in resPec
to Church affairs.

As we find that the paragraph which was in"
serted in the SUN, on the 26th July; stating
that Mr. TURNER, would not appear against Mr*
WAKEFIELD, has given rise to much conversation in
Lancaster and its vicinity, we think it right distincti,):l
to state, that the paragraph in question was insette
on'the authority of our agent, employed to furni'lll:
report of the trial, and that the information on sale,:
it was founded was not given to us, directly or in'w
rectly, by Mr. WAKEFIELD, Of any of his family'
If our agent has led us to make an incorrect 5
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ment, we must lament it but if he bas' hirnselfl
imposed upon, he has our authority to give uP
author, if he thinks proper so to do.