The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-11 00:00:00

sailors. Now, we beg our readers to mark the
nature of this request. Government were
to plant a garrison of three or Jour hundred
Men in that distant spot, to build a fort for
their protection, mid to subject the country to a
tax of some thirty or forty thousand pounds a
year for their maintenance, and other matters
necessarily connected with their settlement, in
order to shoot the savages when they were sb
very unadvised as to knock a ruffian on the head,
for ttiantaniy °lib-aging them. And all this
was to lie done, merely because a few British
' merchants had vessels in the neighbourhood, one
in twenty of which might spring a mast, which
it was inconvenient to go to Sydney to get re-
paired, in consequence of is hieh losses and
crones the public might pay a shilling a butt
dearer for sperm oil, than they otherwise would
have done. Turning from these petty matters to
the question of the Shipping interest in a general
and national point of view, we congratulate that
great and important body, with whose prosperity
the. glory of the empire has been so long
and so intimately united, and from which its
very ekistence cannot be divided, on the pros-
pect of a revision and consolidation of the Mari-
time Laws. It is impossible, with the present
united Ministry, and with the experience of the
last three or four years, in which the value of
the alterations in our Navigation Laws have been
pretty fairly tried, that many improvements will
not suggest themselves during the investigations
to which such a revision must lead. We com-
mend the resolution of the Meeting to form a
Society on a broader basis than that
,which was
yesterday dissolved. They cannot too much
strengthen themselves nor their cause. They
may rely, we believe, so far as their complaints
are well founded, on redress of their grievances,
and the more readily, that they are a body with
which the mass of the community sympathize as
sincerely as we believe their rulers do.—New

SECOND EDITION.
SUN OFFICE, Sercn o' Clock.

THE LONDON GAzErrE

OF THIS EVENING.

Whitehall, April 9.
The King has been pleased to present the Rev. Angus
MacGillivray to the church at Strathy, in the parish of
Farr, in the presbytery of Tongue and shire of Sutherland
The King has also been pleased to present the Rev.
Davjd Stewart to the church at Kinocbpelvie, in the pa-
rish of Torosay, i❑ the presbytery of Mull and shire of
Argyll.
The King has also been pleased to present the Rev.-
Alexander Ferguson to the church at Tobermory (in the
in the island of Mull), in the parishes of Kilninian and
Kilmore, in the presbytery of Mull and shire of Argyll.
The King has also heed pleased to present the Rev.
Robert Williamson to the church at Croich, in the parish
of Kincardine, in the presbytery of Tasn and shire of Ross.
The King has also been pleased to presene the Rev.
Neil 111‘Lean to the church of Ardali or Ardellum (in the
island of Ilya), in the parWles of Kilninian and Kilmoref
in the presbytery of Mull and shire of Argyll.
The King has also been pleased to present the Rev.
John Robertson Glass to the church at Inch, in the parish
of Kingussie, in the presbytery of Ahernethey and shire of
Moray.

Crown•Oftice, April 11.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS TRY:SENT

PARLIAMENT.
COUNT' or ANCLESEY.—Henry Paget, Rsq. com-
monly called the Earl of Uxbridge.
SHIRE or DumratEs,—Vice-Admital Sir William
Johnstone Plore, G.C.B.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County
of Nottingham. •
Granville Venables Vernon, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieute-
nant. Dated March 17, 1828.
John Emmerton Wescomb, Esq., to be ditto. March 17.
Frederick Robinson, Esq. to be ditto. March 17.
Philip Palmer, Esq. to be ditto. March 17.
Commission in the Ist Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia,
signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Surrey.
William Byron, Geat. to be Ensign, vice Shelton, re-
signed. March 29.