The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-28 00:00:00

APPOLXT3LENTS.

Midshipman--Patrick Johnson, to the Camperdewn.
Assistant-Surgeon—Datia Russell (1839), of the St. Vin
cent, to the Fearless "steam-vessel.
The Queen, 1,1(c Captain Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart., ar-
rived at Spithead on Tuesday from Lisbon, which place she
left on the 13th inst., consequently has had a long passage of
twelve days. When she left a French brig of 16 guns was
the only man-of-war of any nation in the Tagus. The Queen
has brought home a large quantity of the Xanthus marbles,
-which she will land here to be forwarded to the British Mu-
.seum. She was ordered to be ready yesterday morning for
Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker (in the absence of the Com-
mander-in-Chief) to inspect the ship's company firing at a
target, &c.. She will take out her lower deck guns, and go
into Portsmouth harbour probably to-morrow; and as soon
us her books can be got ready, which will take about a week
or ten days, she will be paid off, all standing, and bc..ready
for re-commissioning.
The Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, Admiral Sir
Charles Rowley, Bart., has sailed in his yacht, the Fanny, on
a cruise in,The Channel, visiting the islands of Jersey and
Guenasey, and the Scilly Islands, the extent of his command.
The Fanny hoists his jiag, which will be struck in the St.
Vincent during his absence.
The Bonettaisurveyiqg-ship, Commander Brock, sailed
from PortarnOuth, on Saturday morning for the Mediterranean.
The Wanderer, 16, Capt. Seymour, has been dismantled at
Portsmouth, and will be paid off this day.

LETTING GO THE SHEET ANCHOR.
A trial of the relative good qualities and best adaptation
for the service of two plans for the most speedy and best
method of letting go the sheet anchors of her Majesty's ships
took place in Portsmouth Harbour on Tuesday, Admiral Sir
Charles Rowley having been ordered to report thereon. Rear-
Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., Captains Eden, Rowley, Sey-
mour, &c., in commission, attended by a number of distin-
:guished half-pay officers—viz„ Vice-Admiral Fred. Warren,
Captain Sir R. Grant, &c., embarked at the King's-stairs to
witness it. One of the plans we have already noticed ;it was
invented by Mr. 'Brown, the assistant-master attendant at
this dockyard, and submitted last year to the Admiralty,
who approved it; and, in consequence, many ships have been
fitted with it. It consists of two strong iron cranks or
crutches fitted to the ship's side on swivels, one clipping the
shank of the anchor near-the crown, the other the shank
wear the stock ; when the stoppers are let go; these
*crutches bear the anchor out clear of the ship's side, so
-that the anchor can be let go at a moment's notice, even
with the gnus run out. `The other plan was by the Surveyor
of the Navy, and appears to be only an alteration from
Mr. Brown's. He has only one crank or crutch, that
nearest the flukes ; substituting for the other crutch
the lower part of the anchor-stock, the end resting on a
totrong wood work secured to the ship's side. The Surveyor
Thas placed his sheet anchor further aft, whereby he clears
the fore rigging, and stows his anchor more in board. This
might also be done with Mr. Brown's plan. The sheet
anchors of the Britannia and the Rodney, both fitted on Mr.
Brown's plan; were let go; and nothing could demonstrate
the admirable plan more completely than the way in which
they both went off from the ship's sides into the water. The
Collingwood'A anchor, fitted by the surveyor, was also let go
and answered very well. Both plans appeared excellent, but
to Mr. BroWn is due the credit of the invention, and we pre-
ifer his, as we think the anchor would be more easily got into
Its place and secured than by the surveyor's, as we think
there would be some difficulty in getting the end of the stock
in its place, in the chock, if there should be much Motion in
the vessel when stowing the anchor.
Tait WEST INDms.--The Imaum, 72, Commander Sharpe,
C. 8., was at Port Royal, on the 22d May, with the Griffin,
brigantine, Lieut.-Com. Jenkin, which vessel arrived from
Jamel, on the 19th ult. The Pickle, schooner, Lieut.-Com.
Bainbridge, was at Aux Cayes on the 16th ult. The Spartan
wits at Port-au-Prince on the 9th May. At Bermuda, on the
23d 'Ult., were the Inconstant, 36, Captain Freemantle, and
the Electra, 18, Commander Arthur Darley ; the latter was
to sail in a day or two for Cayenne.
CORONATION DAY.—On Friday next, the anniversary of
her Majesty's coronation, the men of the dockyard establish-
ments will have a whole instead of a half-holiday, agreeably
to the new dockyard instructions. Henceforth they are
:also to have the whole day on the anniversary of her Ma-
jesty's birth.

THE LATE DIVISION ON THE
SUGAR DUTIES BILL.
It is recorded in the life of Fighting Fitzgerald, that
once epon a time that very respectable bully was black-
balled when trying to become a member of some club of
the day. ' Most men would have been satisfied to have
been quiet-under so very marked and significant a hint of
'unpopularity. But not so with this famous, or rather in-.
Tamous, duellist. Forcing his way into the room where the
'members of the club were assembled, he severally' and
separately put to them the question, " Was it you that
blackballed me?" To which, as none of them had
a fancy for the instant death which Mr. F.'s pislol was
sure to administer, a negative was returned by one and all.
"O! I thought so," exclaimed the insolent and triumphant
" .1 knew it was all a mistake. I was sure that I was
elected by universal consent." And it is from this very
use of this man's life that Sir Robert Peel has studied
a leason. for his political guidance. Blackballed three
:several times by the House of Commons on the factory
nueition, he yet persevered in forcing them into confess-
ing that "it was all a mistake." And again, during the
last week, the same disgraceful game has been played with
similar success, and the House of Commons utterly de•
graded and brought into contempt in the eyes of the coun-
try and the world by being compelled by its political Fitz-
g ald to unvote one night what it had solemnly and de-
tiller-AS-Ty voted the night before. On the evening of
fry week, as our readers know, Mr. Miles carried his
;amendment on the sugar duties against the Ministers.
'What was to be done ? Onis Cabinet Council after
another was held. Shall we resign ? was the question
with some. Fitzgerald knew his'men better. With theFac-
nory Bill experience fresh upon his memory, he laughed
at the very thought. " What ! we resign because of
such a paltry affair as this ! We resign, forsooth.
?Co I they shall rescind." And he made them rescind.
lie 'compelled his ragged regiment of turncoats and
renegades to march down the hill, on Monday, which
they had climbed up with so much difficulty on
Friday. By :the working of that legerdemain which
Sir-Robert Petd knows how to manage so cleverly,
the' vote, which was about four shillings, more or
Jess, duty on sugar on Friday, was transmuted, on
:Monday, into one of confidence or no confidence in
ahe Ministers. The trick succeeded again, as it sue-
'ceecled before in the matter of the Factories Bill.
Some of the Friday independents were absentees on
_Monday. Others, who were absent on Friday, mus-
tered to give an unwilling support to their hard task-
masters on Monday. And a small party, more auda-
cious in their bronze, voted one way on Friday and
the other on Monday. Amongst this knot of apostates
was that poor, feeble, old man, Sir Howard Douglas,
the' impotent and incapable Member for Liverpool, who,
We take it, has, in this shameless tergiversation and
apoStacy, not only stultified himself and made him-
*elf a laughing-stock in all quarters, but committed
IPelitical suicid without and beyond even the benefit
esf clergy. The West India merchants will settle the
spatter with him. But the strangest feature in this
:vote of confidence in the Ministers is, that it was ac-
tually carried against the rest of the Liberal party by
the free trade leaders of the League, who, with the
posies of continuing or unseating the monopoly Ministry
in their hands, calmly and deliberately voted to renew
their tenure of power. Of this extraordinary hallucina-
'tiOn; ibis worse than treason and more than madness, we
4;411 speak, andspeak plainly too, in another article. Suffice
4t-ssstryhere, that, inameaspinion, never were the people
so basely deserted, it' not betrayed, before. But, for
the present, to keep to the subject immediately
iisittsre us, the debate of. Monday night was very in-
teresting and exciting. Sir Robert Peel came down
Coolly told his slaves that they must rescind
:Oieir Friday's vote, and they, as we have said before,
'..-Obeyed their master's orders, but evidently, from
their- tone and manner, with a very ill grace. At LONDON and CROYDON RAILWAY.
times, indeed, led on by Colonel Peel, they essayed A special meeting of this Company was held on Wednes-
a feeble cheer, but it would not do. It stuck in day, at the London-bridge Station, for the purpose of
their throats, as if it dared not face the light of day, considering the draft of a Bill to be applied for, during
or, !as Dickens' expresses it, when speaking of the the present session of Parliament, for amending the
gleesome lads welcoming squeers, such cheers ! Acts relating to the Company, and for authorising the
Sighs of extra strength with the chill on." It is Company to lay the necessary atmospheric apparatus
only' just, however, to say that Mr. Miles and others along the line ; and also to sanction an agreement made
of the Conservatives strongly objected to admitting ! by the Directors, to guarantee to the subscribers to the
that their blackballing Fitzgerald was "all a mistake." I London and Chatham and Chatham and Portsmouth
They persisted, indeed, in maintaining, even at the Junction Railways, interest at the rate of four per cent.
risk. of sending the Ministers back into private life, per annum upon the capital to be advanced by them,
that they had made no mistake at all, and were only i and from the time of its advance, upon condition that
overwhelmed at last by the unnatural combination of the profit of the line, after payment of such interest,
traitors from their own ranks and simpletons from ours, shall be equally divided bn
to whom we have before alluded. Mr. Miles was re- Mr. W. A. WILKINSON, between the two Companies.
to whom we have before alluded. Mr. Miles was re- Mr. W'. A. WILKINSON, Chair the two Companies.
man of the Board of
speetful to his quondam leader, but ho would not consent ! Directors presided.
to forego his independence at his fiat. It was the same On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by
with Mr. Cochrane. Lord Sandon was evidently puzzled; CROLI, a Director, the draft of the Bill was approved,
but; his wish to secure his seat for Liverpool at last there being only a single dissentient.
got the better of his anxiety to support the Ministers. A long discussion ensued relative to the guarantee to
But Mr... l)'lsraeli's was the speech of the jade- the promoters of the Chatham lines, which terminated
penitent portion of the Tories. Formidably able and in the confirmation of the course pursued by the
biti.erly sarcastic, he gave utterance to truths on this Directors.
uce4sies which seem to have been deeply felt by the Tory I Before the meeting separated, the CHAIRMAN men-
r,;eak: anti. to have been so unanswerable, that the tioned a striking instance of the advantage of a low rate
Chancelior of the Exchequer could only reply to them of railway fares. Since the fares on the line had been'
psrsunas abuse, followed up by the London Standard lowered to one-half of their former amount, the gross
of the next ctsy in a style which would disgrace Bil- ! receipts have been almost doubled.

Oh, Sir, cease not to expose this den of thieves. Let
the bright beams of the daily Sun shine continually on
that dark spot, till it be condemned by an universal cry
of disgust, and till those Achanites are banished from
their stewardship.—l am, &c.,
JOHN THOROUGIIGOOD, a Churchman.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
Wednesday a meeting of the Shareholders in this Com-
pany was held at the London Tavern, for the purpose of
considering the propriety of granting power to the Di-
rectors to appropriate the sum of 535,0001. to the con-
struction of a continued line of railway from licrtford,
by Hitchen and Biggleswade, to Bedford. Henry Bo-
sanquet, Esq., in the chair. After the report had been
read,

• The CHAIRMAN explained the objects of, and benefits
that would be likely to accrue from the proposed exten-
sion, and said that the profits of the trunk line would
be considerably increased by it. The Extenson Com-
mittee had calculated that the increase from this source
would be in all about 48,8881.
Mr. LEE said, upon consulting the map, he found the
proposed line would run parallel with the Birmingham
Railway for a considerable distance, It was proposed to
extend the line beyond Cambridge, but he very
much doubted the prudence of such a measure.
He thought by consenting to the expenditure
of so large a sum they would be doing an injustice
to a great many of the old Shareholders whose means
would not enable them to purchase any of the new
stock thus created. There was one other point to which
he wished to allude, and that was the privacy which was
observed in making the contracts fur work. He thought
the utmost publicity should be given to this matter, and
that advertisements should be inserted in the public
papers.
The CHAIRMAN denied that any injustice would
be done to the old Shareholders. With respect to the
contracts the strictest economy and impartiality had
been observed.

Mr. GUBDON hoped the Proprietors would be afforded
the fullest information at the present critical moment
when some Legislative enactments were pending with
respect to railway property. If the many advantages
possessed by the Company were properly managed the
line would become the principal means of traffic with the
north and east of England by connecting it with Lynn,
Yarmouth, and Ipswich.

In reply to a question from a Proprietor,
The SECRETARY said, that at the present moment the
Directors were not in a condition to state the
exact means by which the money would be raised, but
in a short time every information would be given.
In answer to another question,
The CHAIRMAN stated that the Directors bad entered
into such a contract as prevented them from stopping at
Cambridge, and they were consequently compelled to
proceed with the line beyond that town.
The SECRETARY stated that, the Directors were most
anxious to form a junction between a line of the Eastern
Union Railway, hut could not accede to the terms pro-
posed by that Company.
After some further discussion a motion was put and
carried, authorising the Directors to create additional
extension stock to the amount named, and the meeting
separated.