The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-29 00:00:00

other hand, the purchasers of the cargo had provided
themselves with oil and soap, which they were to
give in exchange, and will now suffer considerable
loss. The caprice of the English Captain is very
injurious to many persons, as it has been proclaimed
that the only object of this blockade was to hinder
the importation of articles that might contribute to
prolong the war, but by no means to impede trade,
which has so cruelly suffered by the circumstances
of the times; it is very strange that an officer should
concern himself so little about fulfilling the intentions
of his Government."

ViawNe, Ocr. 17.—Metalliques, 941} ; Batik Share
1,078 i.

The malignant perversity of a certain portion
of the London Press may be gathered from the
following, which we copy from the Times of
this morning :
" We quote the following paragraph from an even-
ing paper as an instance of the prodigious impudence
of a certain portion of the low press of London.
Similar examples of conscious misrepresentation
might be culled from the same journal every after-
noon, if our contempt for their authors would allow
us to notice them :

" It is scarcely necessary to add, that the expressions
attributed to Lord Strangford, wlten at Madeira, by the
Times of this morning, are vile fabrications."

" Now, would it be believed, unless the means of
conviction were immediately at hand, that ' the ex-
pressions attributed to Lord Strangford when at
Madeira,' are attributed to him, not by the Times,
but by the Lisbon Gazette (quoted by all the morn-
ing papers), and that the Times declared them a
Miguelite fabrication ? The following is the strer.z
language which we used on the occasion in our
leading article on the Lisbon news :

" As insolent as be is weak,—as bold in his impunity as
he is destitute of the means of resisting chastisement,—
the puny tyrant imprisons our countrymen, breaks our
treaties, and insults our flag. Yet, with an effrontery un-
paralleled, he orders it to be published in his Gazette, that
an English Ambassador, the envoy of a nation thus in-
sulted, has, at Madeira, bestowed praises upon his Go-
vernment, and promised his interference to secure his
usurped throne. Whatever opinion we have thought it
our duty to express of Lord Strangford, we must say that
this report of his praising Don Miguel must be a calumny."
" We are quite aware that this and similar fabri-
cations, in which our motives arc daily traduced and
our words perverted, have no other object than to
provoke us to a controversy, by which their author
might hope to gain some notoriety by having even his
calumnies exposed, but we shall not gratify him by
even naming his journal. If the proprietor of that
journal knowingly permits persons to conduct it on
principles so opposite to those which guide the re-
spectable portion of the daily press, we are satisfied
that the hirelings themselves are proof against expo-
sure from any other quarter."

The Times says,. " quoted by all the Morn-
ing Papers"—now, we think our highly respect-
able contemporary might have heaped more burn-
ing coals upon the head of the self-convicted
Standard, had it added, that the identical words
in question were inserted in the columns of the
Standard from the Lisbon Gazette, at the very
time it was abusing the Times ! ! But there
is a saying, that people of a certain character
should,
have long memories. Thepoor Standard
is not only stupidly forgetful, but tvilfidly blind.
And this is the organ of the Ultra Tories !
Like master like man !

By reference to another part of this day's
Paper, our readers will see that our exertions to
furnish the country, and particularly Ireland,
with an account of the Kent Meeting, have
been decidedly successful. Much carping has
been set up by the less respectable portion
of the London Press at the impossibility
of giving such a long report in such a short
time, and this objection applies more particularly
to Mr.:SHEIL's speech. Such exertions may
be impossible for those who will not make
the attempt, or having made it, are not suf-
ficiently masters of all the difficulties attendant
upon such enterprise. But that is not the
case with us. We have repeatedly accomplished
things equally arduous, and have no ,doubt of
being able to achieve still greater feats when the
proper time presents itself. Nor do we arrogate
exclusive merit to ourselves for so doing, being
well satisfied that what one man can do, another
can. But that such celerity in obtaining news may
be considered impossible by some people, is surely
no reason why it should be so with others—far
less with those who have done it. The fact is,
that the transmission of intelligence by express is
comparatively new—the manner is difficult to
all, but insurmountable to those who will
not attempt it. Great as has been our success
hitherto, we hope to he more successful as
our plans become more matured. Nor can 1
the length of the report he dny serious ob-
stacle to its speedy transmission, provided ample
arrangements are made.
In the Kent Meeting we have introduced a
new feature, which, were one system of short-hand
practised, might become generally and wonder-
fully useful. We had sufficient reporters on the
ground, and ample relays of horses on the road.
Our first express came to London in two hours
and a quarter—our second in two hours and forty
Minutes—and our third express left the ground
at half-past five, missed the road beyond Maid-
stone, went eight miles out of the road towards
Teynhem in the dark, but arrived in London
in two hours and 35 minutes, having come
.forty-five tyfit
the
e miles in that period with the conchi-
meetina.
n of

We are happy to find that proposals have been
set afloat for a Public Dinner to Mr. SHELL.
The " Irish Orator"—as a dull Morning Jour-
nal contemptuously styles him—has richly earned
this token of respect ; if only fvr the steadiness,
the perseverance, and the courage with which,
under peculiarly trying circumstances, he deli-•
vered his sentiments the late Penenden Heath
Meeting. But in addition to this claim on