The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-30 00:00:00

NEWS FROM PORTUGAL.

SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 30.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Montrose, Captain
Samuel Lewis, arrived this morning at ten o'clock,
from the Peninsula, bringing all the mails.
Her dates of departure are as follow :—From
Gibraltar, July 21st; Cadiz, 22d; Lisbon, 24th;
Oporto, 26th; Vigo, 26th.
Specie on board, 8 packages ; 29 chests and 229
half-chests of lemons, and a few cases of sundries.
Sixteen passengers.

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Price.

LISBON, JULY 24.

The persecution of the Opposition press, which for
some time had began to relax, has now been renewed
vigorously. The Revolucao has again been suspended,
and the editor of the Patriota has been clapped into
prison without either judge or jury.
I regret to say that on Sunday last the Duke of
Palmella broke a blood-vessel on his lungs, and still
continues in a very dangerous state, though not given
over as yet by his medical attendants.
The French frigate Adour arrived here yesterday
from Cadiz. She is one of the vessels belonging to
the Prince de Joinville's squadron, which she left at
Cadiz.

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The Minister of Foreign Affairs has addressed an
official communication to his colleague of the Finance
Department, stating that he will be able to effect a
reduction of about thirteen contos in his branch of
the expenditure.

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A most decided case of Asiatic cholera took place
some days ago on board a Prussian vessel in this port.
The patient, however, is in a fair way of recovery.
The Royal Tar arrived yesterday, at four p.m., from
Southampton, with the mails, on her way to Cadiz
and Gibraltar.

Mr. J. A. Tozer, the British subject, still continues
in prison, without any form of trial.—Herald.

COURSE OF EXCH.I
Amsterdam CF. 12 44
Ditto, at sight l2 1i
Rotterdam 2U. 12 5
Antwerp 25 90:
Hamburgh M.B. 13121
Altona l3 13
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60
Ditto, 3 months 25 85
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 90
Frankfort on Maine l2l

Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin 7

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Rilbao 36
Barcelona 36

Seville —

kNGE.—(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 50
Genoa 25 85
Milan
Venice .....
Naples .......
Palermo, per oz llBl
Lisbon 54
Oporto 54
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres
NewYork,2ldys sight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons-- 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 10
Silver in tars 0 4 11

SPIRIT Gt the PUBLIC JOURNALS
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—Mr. Baron Alderson observed, in the
course of one of the late trials in Suffolk, when he
heard that the prisoner Lankester, who stood before
him at the bar charged with burning a stack of wheat,
had justified such an act, by saying, it would make corn
dearer and wages higher, "This is certainly a new
and very strange application of the doctrines of po-
litical economy." This remark of the Learned
Judges convinces us that he is not in the habit
of reading the doctrines of political economy put
forth by certain organs of landed " protection."
We do not know whetner those journals are fa-
vourites in the beer-shops of Suffolk, as well as on
the breakfast-tables of Mayfair. Indeed, we must in
candour say we are disposed to imagine they are not.
Otherwise we should be compelled, however reluc-
tantly, to trace a moral complicity between their pre-
cepts and Lankester's practices. There is no doc-
trine which the public instructors in question have
been more anxious to propagate than the doctrine
that farmers ought not to look to increased powers
of production for profit ; and indeed that the more
they produce, the worse it is likely to be for them-
selves. They have disdainfully scouted the notion that
the native agriculturists should feel them Selves bound to
create abundance, in consideration of such protection
as they enjoy. They opine that the farmers should by
no means give ear to Liebig ; that they should by
no means study to increase their products and thereby
lower prices ; that, in fact, the latter are exclusively
what they ought to consider their Palladium ; and that
a rate of prices satisfactory to themselves it is the whole
duty of the Legislature to secure them. How far be-
yond this doctrine are the deductions from it for which
Lankester was convicted ? The most consistent organs
of monopoly think abundance, entailing cheapness,
the great evil to be discouraged and deprecated.
So thinks Lankester ; so he expressed to his ad-
miring associates on the treadwheel. " While on the
treadwheel (says the Chronicle Suffolk correspondent),
Lankester made such disclosures to some new friends
whom he met there, as led to his being accused
of incendiarism. The superintendent of the treadwheel
was sitting, as they thought, fast asleep. But, if his
eyes were shut, his ears were open, and he heard the
jokes which were perpetrated at his expense, together
with the doctrines of political economy promulgated by
Lankester, as also an account of the practical applica-
tion of those doctrines. Lankester had not only
been able to trace much of the misery of the
present times to the introduction of machinery ;
he was convinced, and tried to convince others,
that cheap corn was the greatest of curses to
the English labourers. He knew of no means, he
said, of raising the wages of the labourers, but by rais-
ing the price of corn ; he knew of no way of raising the
price of corn but by making it scarce ; and he knew of
no way of making it scarce so readily as to burn the
stack-yards. He was therefore in favour of burning
stacks, though greatly opposed to those who set fire to
barns and houses ; and if the witnesses and jury are
right in what they have said and done, he, to carry out
his principles of encouragement to native industry,' and
thorough out-and-out ' protection to agriculture,'
set fire to at least one stack with his own hand."
It is not every one that, like Lankester, has the
noble daring to work out principles to their conse-
quences. The Times has suggested the New Poor-law
as the raison svffisante to the Suffolk incendiaries. This
is ingenious and plausible, and lesser minds than Lan-
kester's might be satisfied with the hint. But that com-
prehensive intellect was not to be limited in its range to
aught narrower than the scope of the whole theory of
apricultural protection.
To him bad Heaven with bounteous care assigned
Energetic nature, and a shaping mind.
The shape taken by Lankester's speculations was
not haranguing at county meetings, nor subscribing to
protection societies—but limiting agricultural " over-
production" by lucifer matches. The impulse of the
gentlemen of the Eastern counties (according to Mr.
Wodehouse), when they can't stand attacks on their
interest any longer,—is to charge somebody else with
incendiarism. Lankester's impulse, in the same
region, has at least greater directness and dash about
it. It is, namely, to commit incendiarism himself.
But a prophet has no honour in his own county. The
presentment of the grand jury described Lankester's act
of incendiarism as " malicious." They should have de-
scribed it as mistakenly protective ; and with that fel-
low-feeling which marks class-interests, they should
have recommended to mercy the practical enthusiast for
their own economical doctrines. At least some token of
sympathy, surely, 0 Suffolk squirearchy, might have
been afforded to the ill-fated translator of artificial-price
doctrine into fact—
Doom'd the long isles of Sydney Cove to see—
A martyr to his crime—but true to thee.
STANDARD.—The debate in the House of Com-
mons last night upon the Irish Charitable Bequests Bill
presents new proof, if new proof were wanted, of the im-
possibility of satisfying the demands of the Irish po-
litical Roman Catholics by any concession shot t of abso-
lute dominion. The purpose of the Bill is to facilitate
Roman Catholic endowments by certain changes in the
law of charitable devises ; and by the appointment of
a Commission, of whom five Commissioners are to be
Roman Catholics. Whether this change in the law is
such as Protestants ought to approve of is a question
open to debate; but that it ought to be gratefully
accepted by Roman Catholics, no rational man will
dispute ; nevertheless, Mr. O'Ferrall, Mr. Shell, Mr.
Wyse, Mr. Bellew, Mr. M. J. O'Connell, and Mr. Dillon
Browne made a great outcry, because, forsooth, the
titular bishops—whom Mr. Wyse indecently and ille-
gally called the prelates of " the Church of Ireland"
—had not been consulted, and because none of
these persons are to be ex officio Commissioners.
Now what has that to say to the law ? If the law is
otherwise a good law, what matter who was consulted in
forming it, or by whom, supposing them honest men,
it is to be administered ? The commission is to be
a tribunal for the determination of questions of title
to property. And are we to be told that tribunals
are to be constituted by popular or by party election ?
If this principle is once admitted, we can hardly
quarrel with Mr. O'Connell's arbitration courts.
Cases of Roman Catholic property of all kinds,
testamentary as well as other cases, come before the
Protestant judges of her Majesty's courts of equity and
of civil law. Yet it is not denied that justice is impar-
tially administered by these Protestant judges. What
possible objection, then, to a commission of charitable
bequests, if it were exclusively Protestant ; above
all, what objection to such a commission when
five of its members are to be Roman Catho-
lics ? But, says Mr. Sheil, we object to the
Commissioners, whether Protestant or Roman Ca-
tholic, being laymen. Here the cloven foot peeps out.
The Romanist Bishop's want to establish themselves
somewhere as a legalised tribunal, an authorised corpo-
ration, well knowing that if they obtain that footing
they will soon make good more ground. It is upon
this consideration they make a complaint of not
being consulted ; and upon this consideration
they demand to be placed, ex officio, in the admi-
nistration of the law. These persons forget, however,
that though the State recognises their orders from their
church (in which we think the State very wrong),
wherever they may happen to be found, the " security"
law of 1829 distinctly forbids them, under a penalty,
to claim a local jurisdiction, even in things
spiritual, anywhere within her Majesty's domi-
nions. The Legislature, in granting them local
jurisdiction in matters merely temporal, would therefore
act in direct violation of its own ordinances. It is
worthy of observation that none of the British Members
who usually support the Romanist party could find

front to vote with them last night, and even Mr. Joseph
Hume both spoke and voted against them. Considering
the Bill as one of mere temporal arrangement, and not
unjust in principle, we have no objection to offer to it,
and we certainly rejoice at the manner in which it has
been introduced.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 27, 1844.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Frederick
Peat, as Consul for the Free Hanseatic city of Hamburgh, at
Nassau, in the island of New Providence.
WAR-OFFICE, Jura 26.
6th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant C. H. Dowker, from
53d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice F. Bristow, who retires upon
half-pay of 34 Foot, July 26.
Bth Foot—Sergeant G. Corry, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Maher, appointed to 61st Foot, July 26.
14th Foot—C. C. Newman, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Boxer, appointed to the 80th Foot, July 26.
18th Foot—Ensign J. G. Wilkinson, from 49th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hutton, appointed to 61st
Foot, July 26.
26th Foot—Gentleman Cadet C. E. Preston, from Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Du-
perier, promoted in the 80th Foot, July 26.
49th Foot—Gentleman Cadet J. F. Cust, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Wilkin-
son, promoted in Isth Foot, July 26.
53d Foot—Major W. G. Gold to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
without purchase ; Brevet Major J. L. Black to be Major,
vice Gold ; Lieut. W. Follows to be Captain, vice Black,
July 26.
To be Lieutenants without purchase—Lieutenant J. Dow-
man, from the 40th Foot ; Lieutenant C. F. Wedderburne,
from the 7th Foot ; Lieutenant R. N. Clarke, from 94th Foot ;
Lieutenant T. Mowbray, from 3d West India Regiment ;
Lieutenant J. Morphett, from 57th Foot; Lieutenant W. F.
Waldegrave, from 3d Foot, vice Dowker, appointed to 6th
Foot ; Lieutenant M. H. Oldfield, from 89th Foot, vice Myt-
ton, who exchanges ; Ensign G. R. Hopkins, from 76th Foot ;
Ensign Sir C. W. C. Burton, Bart. ; Ensign J. Breton ;
Ensign G. N. Micklethwait ; Ensign the Hon. F. W. H.
Fane, July 26.
To be Ensigns, without purchase—Gentleman Cadet M.
M'Creagh, from Royal Military College, vice Sir C. Burton,
July 26 ; W. H. Grubbe, Gent., vice Breton July 27 ; H.
Buck, Gent., vice Micklethwait, July 28 ; J. M'Kenzie,
Gent., vice Fane, July 29.
To be Adjutant, with the rank of Ensign—Serjeant-Major
W. Dunning, vice Follows, promoted, July 26.
69th Foot—Brevet-Colonel the lion. H. Dundas, from half-
pay 83d Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice W. Trevelyao,
who exchanges ; Major C. L. Nesbitt to be Lieutenant-Colo-
nel, without purchase ; Brevet Major R. Rumley to be Major,
vice Nesbitt ; Lieut. W. Butler to be Captain, vice Rumley,
July 26.
To be First Lieutenants, without Purchase—Lieut. W. W.
Johnson, from 17th Foot ; Second Lieut. G. W. Bligh, vice
Butler ; Second Lieut. and Adjutant S. Kenney ; Second
Lieut. G. Rigaud ; Second Lieut. E. F. Campbell ; Second
Lieut. E. H. Rose; Second Lieut. P. B. Roe; Second
Lieut. W. P. Salmon ; Second Lieut. J. Fraser; Second
Lieut. G. Vavasour • Second Lieut. E. U. Cozen ; Second
Lieut. H. Saunders, July 26.
To be Second Lieutenants, without purchase.—Gentleman
Cadet G. A. Robinson, from the Royal Military College, vice
Bligh • Gentleman Cadet A. E. Johnson, from Royal Mili-
tary oollege, vice Rigaud ; Gentleman Cadet F. Dawson,
from Royal Military College, vice Campbell, July 26 ; H. R.
Farnden, Gentleman, vice Rose, July 27 ; Fredeeick
Arthur St. John, Gentleman, vice Roe, July 28 ;
L. C. Travers, Gent., vice Salmon, July 29; J. P. Battersby,
Gent., vice Fraser, July 30 ; J. L. E. Baynes, Gent., vice
Vavasour, July 31 ; B. Ward, Gent., vice Cozen, Aug. 1 ;
H. H. Vaughan, Gent., vice Saunders, Aug. 2.
61st Foot—Major A. M'Leod to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
without purchase ; Capt. W. Jones to be Major, vice M'Leod;
Lieut. C. C. Deacon to be Captain, vice Jones, 26.
To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Lieut. C. F. Mac-
kenzie, from Ist Foot ; Lieut. G. D. Hutton, from 18th Foot ;
Lieut. H. J. W. Egan, from 55th Regiment ; Lieut. G.
Webb, from 40th Foot ; Lieut. A. W. Gordon, from lst Foot ;
Ensign R. C. Dudgeon, from 75th Foot; Ensign E. T.
Wickham ; Ensign W. J. Hudson; Ensign C. R. Platt ; En-
sign H. E. H. Burnside, July 26.
To be Ensigns, without purchase.—Ensign C. L. Maher,
from Bth Foot, vice Wickham • Gentleman Cadet E. S.
Powys, from the Royal Military College, vice Hudson, July 26;
J. St. G. Leven, Gent., vice Platt, July 27 ; G. A. Bace,
Gent., vice Burnside, July 28.
75th Foot—Gentleman Cadet W. Meynell, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign'without purchase, vice Dudgeon,
promoted in 61st voot, July 26.
76th Foot—Gentleman Cadet B. Rising, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Hop-
kins, promoted in the 53d Foot, July 26.
77th Foot—Gentleman Cadet F. Kennedy, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Cone-
ton, promoted in 22d Foot, July 26.
80th Foot—Major T. Bunbury to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
without purchase ; Brevet Major J. W. Nunn to be Major,
vice Bunbury; Lieut. J. Lightbody to be Captain, vice Nunn,
July 26.
To be Lieutenants without purchase—Lieutenant J. Cum-
ming, from 4th Foot ; Lieut. E. Hardinge, from 39th Foot ;
Lieut. R. Crawley, from 3d Foot ; Lieut. T. R. Hickson,
from 55th Foot; Lieut. G. D. Pitt, from 57th Foot; Ensign
C. Duperier, from 26th Foot ; Ensign A. T. Welsh ; Ensign
E. A. Holdich; Ensign G. S. Young; Ensign W. Hunter,
July 26.
To be Ensigns, without purchase—Ensign B. H. Boxer,
from 14th Foot, vice Welsh ; Gentleman Cadet S. A. Ker-
shaw, from the Royal Military College, vice Holdich, July 26 ;
G. C. Robertson, Gent., vice Young, 27 ; J. L. Fraser,
Gent., vice Hunter, July 28.
89th Foot—Lieutenant J. F. Fitzgiffard Mytton, from 53d
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Oldfield, who exchanges, July 26.
MEMORANDUM.—The commission of Assistant-Commis-
sary-General Collin Miller has been cancelled, from March
19, 1844, he having been alloweli to receive a commutation, in
lieu of the half-pay of his rank.

WAR-OFFICE, JULY 30.

Ist Dragoon Guards—Captain T. Smales, from the 3d West
India Regiment, to be Paymaster, vice D. S. K. Maclaurin,
who retires on half-pay, July 30.
4th Dragoon Guards—Sergeant-Major T. Clarke to be Cor-
net, without purchase, July 30.
sth Dragoon Guards—Cornet C. Holder to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Barnett, who retires ; T. J. Bridge, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Holder, July 30.
12th Light Dragoons—Captain E. Pole to be Major, by
purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Barton, who retires;
Lieutenant S. A. Capel to be Captain, by purchase, vice Pole;
Cornet C. S. A. Thellusson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Capel ; Cornet R. E. Fullerton, from 16th Light Dragoons
(Riding-master), to be Cornet, without purchase, July 30;
J. A. Digby, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Thellus-
son, July 31 ; Cornet J. De M. M. Prior to be Adjutant, vice
Capel, promoted, July 30.
15th Light Dragoons—Cornet H. Lee, from 16th Light
Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jackson, who
retires, July 29.
16th Light Dragoons—R. E. Fullerton, Gent., to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Lee, promoted in the 15th Light Dragoons,
July 29.
2d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon W. Harvey, from 9th Foot,
to be Surgeon, vice Young, appointed to 28th Foot, July 30.
9th Foot—P. Mackay, 51. D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Harvey, promoted in the 2d Foot, July 30.
11th Foot—Brevet Lieut.-Col. J. Wilson, from half-pay
Unattached, to be Major, vice W. Chambre, who exchanges ;
Captain J. Fordyce, to be Major, by purchase, vice Wilson,
who retires; Lieut. W. Kenny, to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Fordyce ; Ensign F. D. Bewes, to be Lieutenant, by
purchase. vice Kenny, July 30.
28th Foot—Surgeon W. H. Young, from 2d Foot, to be
Surgeon, vice Campbell, who retires upon half-pay, July 30.
31st Foot—Gentleman Cadet A. C. Cure, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Gould,
promoted, July 30.
34th Foot—Major G. Ruxton, from half-pay Unattached, to
be Major, vice J. J. Best, who eachanges ; Captain R. W.
Byron, to be Major, by purchase, vice Ruxton, who retires ;
Lieut. E. P. A. Talbot to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Byron ; Ensign E. W. Sitwell to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Talbot ; H. T. Parker, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Sitwell, July 30.
45th Foot—Capt. E. Evans, from half-pay unattached, to be
Paymaster, vice Erskine' appointed to 21st Foot, July 30.
49th Foot—Lieut. H. Pearson to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Goslin, who retires ; Ensign L. Bellairs to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Pearson ; R. H. Page, Gent. to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Bellairs, July 30.
53d Foot—Capt. R. B. Brown, from 75th Foot to be Cap-
tain, vice Bathurst, who exchanges, July 30.
61st Foot—Captain D. Herbert, from 88th Foot, to be
Captain, vice De Butts, who exchanges, July 30.
623 Foot—Gentleman Cadet J. M. M. Hewett, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Sinclair, promoted, July 30,
63d Foot—Ensign J. Fairtlough to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Bannatyne. whose promotion, by purchase, has been
cancelled; J. Spier, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Fairtlough, promoted, July 30.
70th Foot—W. B. Doveton, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Best, appointed to the Rifle Brigade, July 30.
75th Foot—Captain T. H. Bathurst, from the 53d Foot, to
be Captain, vice Brown, who exchanges, July 30.
Blst Foot—Captain W. Chadwick, from half-pay 34th Foot,
to be Captain, Vice J. E. Orange, who exchanges; Lieut.
the Right Hon. R. A. G. Dalzell to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Chadwick, who retires; Ensign T. D. Perry to be
Lieutenant, by purchase vice Dalzell ; Gentleman Cadet T.
H. Fenwick, from the Royal :Military College, to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Perry, July 30.
84th Foot—Sergeant-Major J. M'Cann to be Ensign, with
out purchase, vice Hutchison, promoted, July 30.
88th Foot—Captain W. M. de Butts, from the 61st Foot,
to be Captain, vice Herbert, who exchanges, July 30.
95th Foot—J. W. Minchin, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Mosley, who retires, July 30.
Ist West India Regiment—H. Johnstone, Gent.,-to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Sullivan, promoted, July 30.
2d West India Regiment—J. S. Gordon, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Hunt, promoted, July 30.
3d West India Regiment—S. B. Hartigan, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Cox, promoted, July 30.
BRlVlT.—Captain Wm. Chadwick, of the 81st Foot, to be
Major in the Army, July 22, 1830.
MEMORANDUM.—The Christian names of Lieut. Elmsall,
of the Ist Dragoons, are William de Cardonnel, not William de
Cardonnel Greaves, as previously stated. The date of the
commission of Lieut. Henry Saint John Clements, in the 84th
Foot, has been altered to Ist October, 1842.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire.
First or Queen's Own Regiment of Oxfordshire Yeomanry
Cavalry—W. Evetts, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Webb, re-
signed, July 26.