The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

-ERGIC .THY; EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Whether accidentally, or by design,
we take not upon ourselves to determine ; but certain
it is that the proceedings against O'Connell and his
co-defendants have been brought to a dead lock. On
Saturday, shortly before the rising of the Court, the
Attorney-General, in person, applied that the
motion for a new trial, which stood for Monday
(to-day), should be postponed ! From the state-
ment of the Attorney-General, it would seem, that
the prosecutors have not taken a single step toward
answering the affidavits on which the counsel
for the defendants moved for a new trial. The report
of what took place on Saturday sufficiently explains
the new dilemma in which the Crown lawyers find
themselves involved. The effect of this new impedi-
ment will be to throw the case over the term.
Should the motion for a new trial be refused
by the Court, the writ of error cannot reach
the House of Lords during the present session.
The party which goaded tl:e Government into the ill-
starred prosecution, and whose journals indecently
anticipated the verdict, and actually assigned the
measure of punishment which the defendants would
receive at the hands of the Court, were loud in their
complaints whenever an objection was taken to any
part of the certainly very questionable pro-
ceedings of the Crown lawyers, that justice
was (lc_ l eyed by unnecessary impediments.
The Irish Tories thus showed their thirst
for the conviction, and for a vindictively severe
punishment, as the result of that conviction. Easter
Term was anticipated with impatience. It would
then be known what course would be taken, and when
that course would be entered upon. That was to be the
termination of all doubt. Certainty would then be sub-
stituted for conjecture. These rabid prophets would
then see their predictions confirmed by the event.
The ordinary proceedings were adopted on the part of
the defendants. On receiving a four days* rule,
giving them notice that the Attorney-General, on
the part of the Crown, would move the Court for
judgment, a motion for a new trial, founded on
affidavits, was made on their behalf. The Court
fixed this day for the argument. One class
of the affidavits filed in support of the motion had
reference to the mysterious loss of a consider-
able number of names from the jury lists. These
affidavits, as the Attorney- General saw, were of a
nature which demanded a specific answer: " He con-
ceived it to be his duty"—so he stated to the Court—
" to cause the clerks of the peace to be served with a
notice, setting forth the charges in these affidavits of
the traversers, in order to ascertain wheth‘r they would
swear affidavits in reply." The clerks of the peace,
it would appear, from the Attorney-General's state-
ment, had taken no official notice of his notice. What
private intimations, explanations, or directions have
been *conveyed on the one hand, whicli, if known,
would account for the expressive silence of these func-
tionaries, or whether that which appears pregnant
with suspicion of design be only the result of one of '
those accidents, or " mistakes," which have sig-
nalised the proceedings agMnst O'Connell from
their commencement, perhaps time, the great ex-
pounder of mysteries, may explain. All we at pre-
sent know is, that the order of the Court has been
discharged generally, and that the notice stands
ou the lists without any day being named for
its renewal. This new delay, caused by the prosecu-
tors, will tend to strengthen the generally-believed
report, that the Government has not the intention of
pressing for judgment against the parties. Modera-
tion may, and will be, condemned by the intempe •
rate; but it will be approved by men of all parties
who desire to see the mass of the Irish people conci-
liated and emancipated from the delusions of repeal.
Rbuotb werhti Peel e
wasl admitted)revived
Next to abstinence on the part of the Government
from interference with an agitation which (as Sir
wasby
y t
11e new "burningfuel
supplied itselfut "
by—
the prosecutions to its
flickering
flame—we could

wish to see a decided disposition on the part of Mi-
nisters to proceed no further in the course on which
they ought never to have entered. The Government
has gamed nothing, but has lost much, in character
and moral influence by the prosecution. Every step
onward in the ill-advised course will be fraught
with danger. It is possible that this new hitch
in the proceedings is the result of accident. At all
events, it must cause considerable delay. By arrest-
ing the progress of the law it will afford to the Go-
vernment an opportunity of more di-passionately re-
viewing the whole proceedings: If that review in-
duce a prudent disposition to abandon the idea of
pressing for judgment, a plausible excuse is supplied.
Time, in such a state of things, is of great importance.
This is obtained by the accidental or designed impe-
diment to the argument on the new trial motion,
which was to have been entered upon to-day; but is
now postponed, sine die.
STAN DARD.—From what passed in the Irish_
Court of Queen.'s Bench on Saturday, it is certain
that the Attorney-General will have the fraud of the
abstracted names of the jurors' list searched to the bot-
tom. In consequence of the traversers and their
solicitors having sworn to their belief that the abstrac-
tion of the names was not accidental, the high-spirited
Attorney-General instantly called upon the Clerk
of the Peace and the other functionaries who
had access to the lists to answer these affi-
davits before twelve
"Tho'clack on Saturday. At
three o'clock on Satiarday,owever, they bad
neither a,nswererthe affidavits nor intimated any
purpose of doing so ; and there the matter rests. The
Attorney-General, unfortunately, has no power over
the Clerk of the Peace and the other persons concerned.
They are the servants of the repeal corporation, or
of the well-known Mr. Frederick Shaw, the person
to whom chiefly the repeal corporation owes its
existence. Magrath, the person responsible
for the lists, is, we presume, wholly in Mr. Shaw's
hands ; for we remember that in the late debate, in
which this question of the lists was raised, Mr. Shaw
declared, with some affectation of scorn, that he had
not dismissed and would not dismiss Magrath. Of
course he will not dismiss Magrath, even though that
person still decline to purge himself of the fraud imputed
to him in the affidavits of the traversers and their attor-
neys. This most extraordinary conduct of public
officers calls for another delay, and this, no doubt, is
one of the motives of the recusants. While
we are upon this subject, let us follow up
a hint of the Morning. Herald, by a suggestion
that we think might go far to baffle the
dilatory scheme of the traversers. They say
that they will split their motion, in fact into
eight motions, each traverser employing his own
counsel. Now it is observed by our Contemporary,
that the punishment, sooner or later, or at all,
of six of the conspirators is of little moment,
and we so far agree with the Herald. The
cases of Messrs. Barrett, Duffy, Steele, Ray,
John O'Connell, and Doctor, Gray, may very
well stand over for as many terms as shall be found
convenient. But the case of Mr. Daniel O'Connell
and Mr. Tierney must be disposed of at once. Why
not then, as the traversers
choose to split their mo-
tion, take them separately in fact : first deal with Mr.
Daniel O'Connell, then with Mr. Tierney, both
promptly, and afterwards take the rest at leisure.

PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDI-

TUBE.
An account of the net public income of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the year ended the
sth day of April, 1844, after abating the expenditure
thereout defrayed by the several revenue departments, and
of the actual issues or payments within the same period ;
exclusive of the sums applied to the redemption of funded
or paying off unfunded debt, and of the advances and re-
payments for works, &c.
INCOME OR REVENUE.
Applicable to the
ORDINARY REVENUE AND RECEIPTS. Consolidated Fund.
Customs £18,426,632 7 3

Ditto, applicable to other public works 3,000,000 0 0
Excise 12,962,011 1 7

. .
Stamps
Taxes (Land and Assessed) 4,192,473 4 8
Property-tax
Post-office
Crown lands

One shilling and sixpence, and four shil-
lings in the pound on pensions and
salaries 5,216 19 3
Small branches of the hereditary revenues
of the Crown

Surplus fees of regulated public offices ... 50,424 4 5

£51,811,000 11 2

OTHER RECEIPTS.
Money received from China, under
Treaty of August, 1842
Impreste and other Monies 123,209 13 1
Money received from the East India
Company
Unclaimed Dividends (more than
paid)

£52,835,124 17 9

. EXPENDITURE.
FUNDED DEBT.
Interest and Management of the Per-
manent Debt
Terminable Annuities 3,883,969 14 9
Total charge of the Funded Debt, ex-
clusive of 8,865/. 14s. Gd., the interest -
on Donations and Bequests
£28,536,442 0 1
UNFUNDED DEBT.
- Interest on Exchequer-bills
Civil List
Annuities and Pensions for Civil,
Naval, Military, and Judicial Ser-
vices, &c., charged by various Acts
of Parliament on the Consolidated
Fund 573,400 11 9
Salaries and Allowances 240,597 2 0
Diplomatic Salaries and Pensions 179,018 16 2
Courts of Justice
Miscellaneous Charges on the Consoli-
dated Fund - 243,872 12 9
Army Navy 6,118,656 0 0
6,286,056 14 2
Ordnance
Miscellaneous, chargeable on the An-
nual Grants of Parliament 2812294 10 5
! ,
Opium Compensation 1,249,395 17 7
China Expedition 821,020 0 0
Insurrection in Canada

£50,739,697 8 2
Excess of Income over Expenditure...... 2,095,427 9 7

£52,835,124 17 9

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 21.—The Flying Fish, new 12-gun
brig, built at Pembroke by the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir W.
Symonds, under the command (pro tem.) of Mr. Brown' As-
sistant Master Attendant of this Dockyard, arrived from Mil
ford on Friday night, and .was towed into harbour yester-
day, to be stripped, remasted and brought forward for com-
mission with the Darius and Osprey, with all dispatch.
The Nautilus, 10, Lieut.-Commander Tringham, arrived
from Brighton on Thursday, and sailed from Spithead for the
same destination yesterday morning.
The Devonshire line-of-battle ship of 72 guns, built in
1812, is ordered to be reduced to a first class frigate.
The Thames convict-ship has arrived at Spithead from
Chatham. She will embark about 300 convicts for Bermuda,
where she will be stationed as a depot. She takes out dis-
patches also for Sir C. Adam.
The Centurion, 80 gun ship, is ordered to be launched at
Pembroke, in the early part of next month.
The Pearl, 18, Commander Stopford, was at Rio de Janeiro
on the 28th of February, whence she was to sail for England
immediately the Daphne arrived to relieve her, which vessel
was then on her passage from Santos for that purpose. The
Pearl has been nearly four years on the station, and almost
The Curauce, 26,
2th of January,
oemmander Purvis,
constantly employed in the River de la Plate. The Frolic,
-The Racer, 16, Captain Reid, 16, Commander Willis, left Rio on the 17th of February, with
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lieved the Pearl in the river Plate.
The Rattlesnake troop-ship, with part of the 55th regi-
ment
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Good Hope,
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o fromf February,
The Pataloon, 10-gu!i brig, Lieutenant Commander La-
pidge which vessel arrived at Portsmouth on Wednesday,
trom 'Devonport, was towed into harbour on Friday, by the
steam-tug, and will be paid off the latter end of this week.
She has been two-and-a-half years on the African coast, but
has not been fortunate in taking prizes.
Orders have been sent to Sir Charles Adam, the Com•
mander-in-Chief in the West Indies, to break up the Ante-
lope, the present convict-ship in Bermuda, on• the arrival of
the Thames. -• •
The Collingwood, 80, was brought into dock at Ports-
mouth, on Monday, to have her bottom cleaned, apd to be
coppered higher up, for sea service. She is taking on board
one of Porter's anchors, of 85 cwt., as a spare anchor, which
is convenient for stowing on board, as the flukes can be sepa-
rated from the shank. These excellent anchors are coming
into general use in the Royal Navy, as well as the mercantile
marine. They are never refused by the Admiralty to a cap-
tain of a man of war on application for one as a spare anchor.
It is said the Collingwood is to have one suit of sails (by way
of experiment or test) dipped into Sir W. Burnet's solution
for preserving canvas from decay.
The Rodney, 90, was to have come out of dock at Ports-
mouth on Saturday; but being under the process of painting
she will now be kept is till this day fortnight. She is being
fitted with crutches for lur spare and sheet anchors, invented
by Mr. Browne, which we have before described.
The joiners of Portsmouth are making the necessary alte-
rations in the cabins of the Prometheus steamer, in consequence
of her being in future to carry a commander's establishment.
A party of men from the Victory are overhauling and refit-.
ting her rigging.
The Osprey brig has taken on board twenty tons, and the
Daring fifty tons of iron ballast, we suppose at the request of
their constructors, who will, however, no doubt, ballast them
as they may think proper when fitted out. The Flying Fish
is daily, expected at Portsmouth. It is said these experi-
• mental brigs will be all counuironed together when ready.

Ships building at this port.—ln frame, Royal Frederick,
110; Princess Royal, 90. The frame timbers of the Prince
of Wales, 110; Leander, 50; Shannon, 50; and Centaur,
steam-frigate, are merely cut out and seasoning, 16 slip
being vacant. The new slips for building large ships are in
rapid course of construction.
In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Pantaloon,
Echo, and Fearless steamers.
In Dock—Victoria and Albert, Collingwood, Rodney,
Prince Regent, Scourge, and Lily.
At Spithead—Thames convict-ship.
DEVONPORT, APRIL 19.--The America, 50, Captain the
Hon. J. Gordon, Will be ready for sea in the early part of May.
The Petrel packet, 6, Lieutenant-Commander T. Crozier,
sailed on Sunday last for Falmouth to take out the next innil
for Brazils.

The Vernon, 50, Captain Walpole, passed this port on her
way to Cork, with Marines, on Monday, whom having
landed, she will return to Sheerness and be paid off.

The following ships are building at this port:—Exmouth,
90; Aboukir, 90; Amethyst, 36; Creole, 36; Niobe, 34.
The Sanspariel, 80, and Thetis, 36, have merely their frames
cut out ; and the frame of the St. Jean d'Acre is in course of
cutting.
In Harbour—America, San Josef, and Confiance.
In the Sound—Caledonia and Linnet.

SHEERNESS, APRIL 19.—The Bonetta brigantine, Com-
mander Brock, will sail from Chatham in a few days, touch-
ing at Gibraltar. Her sails, also those of the Sparrow ketch,
Lieutenant Commander Otter, now fitting, will be dipped in
Sir W. Burnet's solution.

The Cygnet, 10, was undocked this day, and will be com-
missioned to-morrow by Commander Henry Layton.
The Black Eagle, Admiralty yacht, put into this port on
Monday with the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir W. Symonds,
who inspected the ships under refit, after which he departed
tbr Woolwich.

Captain Fisher, Superintendent of this yard, is conva-
lescent, and left on Tuesday to join 'the commission for the
inspection of the coast, for choosing eligible and convenient
sites for constructing harbours of refuge.
In Harbour—Caniperdown, Ocean, African, and Raven.
In Basin—Chichester, Vulture, Ganges, Crocodile.
In Dock—Boscawen, Amazon, bolus, and Cygnet.

Courts-martial will .be held on board the St: Vincent in
the ensuing week on Mr. Smith, mate of the Pantaloon, to
investigate certain charges preferred against him for conduct
calculated to bring his commander into contempt; and on
Lieutenant Lapidge, on certain charges preferred by Captain
Foote, of the Madagascar, for negligent conduct whilst in
command of the Pantaloon when on the African station.
In consequence of the intended sojourn of her Majesty at
Osborn House, Parkhurst barracks will be a permanent sta-
tion for a battalion of Foot Guards, instead of Winchester,
the depot battalion being removed to the latter place. It is
also intended to erect barracks for cavalry at Parkhurst.

PROMOTIONS,

Lieutenants—Arthur Kyner (1841), to be Commander;
Thomas 'Burdwood (1807), to the list of Retired Commanders.
Mates—A. F. Webster (1840), of the Cornwallis; and M.
0. C. Read (1843), of the St. Vincent; to the rank of
Lieutenants,

Captain R. Maunsell, C. 8., late of the Rodney, to be
Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital, vice Locker, retired,
from ill-health.

APPOINTMENTS.

Commander—Henry Layton, to the Cygnet.
Lieutenant—Lord Frederick Ker, from the Thunderbolt
(additional) to the Winchester.
Mates—M. Jones, to the Caledonia; C. H. Young, to the
Agincourt; J. Simpson, to the Camperdown.
Gunner—W. Anthony, to the America, from the Excellent,
vice Olphant.
Assistant-Surgeons—G. J. Willes, to the St. Vincent, for
duty at Haslar Hospital.
Midshipmen—A. Cheetham and R. H. Warner, to the
Excellent.

Clerks—W. W. Sadler, to the Pantaloon, vice Chapman,
deceased ; Joseph Lewis, to the San Josef, vice Sadler.

THE EXPEL DIENTAL GUN BRIGS.

CHATHAM, APRIL 20.—This day the Mutine and Espiegle,
12-gun brigs, which are to form an experimental squadron
with the Daring, Osprey, Kingfisher, and Flying Fish, ships
of the same class, in the month of June next, for the pur-
pose of testing theirrelative capabilities at sea, were launched
at this dockyard in the presence of a considerable number of
the resident gentry and inhabitants of the town and neigh-
bourhood. Among the number of professional men present
were—Captain William Henry Sheriff; Mr. John Fincham,
master shipwright of this dockyard, who launched both
vessels ; Captain G. G. Burton, with many other naval gen-
tlemen. Messrs. Chatfield and Creuze, two of the constructors
of the Espiegle, were also present, with Mr. John Wilson
Patten, M.P. ; Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Stevens, R.M. ;
Captain Brown, R.M. ; -Mr. Gage, Master-Attendant of Sheer-
ness Dockyard; Major Smith, Barrack-master, and other
officers of the garrison, with their ladies. The first part of
the launch was the ceremony of christening the Mutine,
which was performed with great eclat by Mrs. Charles
Baldock, a daughter of Mr. Fincham. The Espiegle was
christened by Miss Wilson Patten, daughter of the Member
for North Lancashire. Both vessels went off the stocks in
gallant style—the Mutine at two o'clock P.M.' and the
Espiegle at a quarter past two o'clock. The dockyard band,
which was' in attendance playing several national airs,
during the preparatory arrangements, struck up " God
save the Queen," amidst the loyal and enthusiastic cheer-
ing of the spectators. The Mutine and Espiegle have
each been built upon the lines of their respective con-
structors ; that of the Mutine by Mr. Fincham, and
the Espiegle by Messrs. Read, Chatfield, and Creuze, who
were formerly students at the . College of Naval Archi-
tecture at Portsmouth. The Mutine was laid down on the
30th of October, 1843, and the Espiegle on the 7th of Fe-
bruary last, consequently it has been built in the incredibly
short space of ten weeks and two days. Each of these ves
sels is to have a complement of 130 men, including officers
and marines, with the following armament :—ten 32-
pounders, six feet, 25 cwt., and two 18-pounders, six feet,
20 cwt. Both vessels have elliptic sterns, and are alike, ex-
cepting that the Mutine has four ports, and the Espiegle
only two, which will give greater facility to the working of
the guns. Both vessels are considered by scientific men very
haddsome. The only peculiar difference in their form ap-
pears to be, that the Espiegle carries her breadth far more
towards the surface of the water than the Mutine, while,
though both ships have a hollow floor, it is to a much greater
degree observable in the Espiegle than in the Mutine. The
bows of the Mutine are fuller than those of the Espiegle ; in-
deed, altogether, the shape of this latter ship is so peculiar,
that those who saw her in the dock would not believe the
sharp, rising floored vessel they had before them, was the
apparently bulky body which they had just seen launched
off the stocks. Both vessels are, however, spoken very highly
of, and must excite considerable interest among nautical
men at the time of trial. Owing to the Mutine being in a
much more complete state than the Espiegle, their relative
draughts of water cannot be correctly compared at present.
An opportunity will be afforded between the two ships when
they are completed and floated out of dock. It is rumoured
that the two brigs Osprey and Daring, recently launched at
Portsmouth, are to have an increase of canvass in their four
courses. This will certainly be unfair, unless the constructors
of the two brigs now launched are allowed the option of the
same advantage.
The following are the actual dimensions of both ships t
ESPIEGLE. Feet. Inches.

Length between perpendiculars lO4 '94
—of keel for tonnage B3 711
Breadth extreme 3l 94
for tonnage 3l 64
Moulded
Depth in hold
Burden, in tons, 442 57-94
MUTINE.
Length between perpendiculars
—of keel for tonnage
Breadth extreme 3l 11
for tonnage
Moulded
Depth in hold
,-- -

burden, in tons, 428 36-94
The Mutine was immediately taken alongside the &beer
hulk, when her masts were put in, and both vessels were put
into the dock the same tide to be fitted for sea. It must be
observed, that in consequence of the greater progress the
Mutine had made towards completion, she had the advan-
tage of being more nearly to her correct seat in the water;
and it must be stated that she was far more highly painted
than the Espiegle ; both ships are, however, very sightly
vessels.