The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-14 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PoRTSMOUTN, JAN. 12.—We hare no foreign are
rival of ships to mention this week; a strong easterly
wind which prevailed in the early part having been
succeeded by a calm and fog.
Letters from Malta to the 14th December state,
that the time of the departure thence of the Asia
and Albion, for England, depended upon the com-
plete refitment of the Asia, which, from want of
stores, might be delayed until the end of that month.
The ships lying there were—Asia, Albion, Nirarspite,
Isis, Glasgow, Dartmouth, Talbot, Philomel, Wolf,
Alacrity, Musquito, Brisk, Rose, Gannet, and the
Hind and Racer cutters, with four Russian ships of
the line, two frigates, and a corvette of that nation,
and parts of the French and Dutch squadrons.
Yesterday, the Coldstream, which arrived on
Wednesday, from Madras and St. Helena, proceeded
for the River.

The destination of the Challenger frigate, Capt.
Fitz-Clarence, it is understood, is altered; she will
take the new Ambassador, the Right Hon. Sir Wm.
A'Court, G.C.8., to St. Petersburgh. The Briton
frigate, Capt. Hon. Wm. Gordon, it is said, will
escort Prince Miguel, in the Portuguese frigate
Pearla, to Lisbon.

The ship Mary Ann, with the Lord Bishop of
Calcutta, and other passengers, on board, left the
Cape of Good hope, on Oct. 25, for Calcutta; she
arrived there, after experiencing heavy weather, but
without loss, on the 14th previous. The pas-
sengers were all well. His Majesty's ships Owen
Glendower and Helicon were lying at the Cape.
The Tribune frigate, at Chotham, as well as the
Blonde, at this port, are ordered to be commission-
ed, one to relieve the Doris, in South America,•tite
other, the Aurora, in the West Indies.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. Io.—Arrived the Portuguese
ships of war Pearla and Tigo, from Torbay, to await
the orders of Prince Miguel. His Royal Highness
is expected at Salaam on Sunday, previous to his
leaving this country. Sailed on Sunday the Onyx,
for Sierra Leone; Ann and Amelia transport, for
Malta ; Stentor transport, for Ceylon ; Vigilant, on
a cruise ; Bittern, with seamen for Portsmouth, but
put back by strong S.E. winds. The Infernal bomb,
Captain Gilbert, is coming here from the River, for
the Mediterranean. Remain—Britannia, Ocean,
Windsor Castle, Genoa, Erebus, Linnet, Reynard,
Nightingale, Bramble, Tyrian, Antelope, and Hope
transport. At the Island—Leveret, Royalist. In
the Sound—Briton, Undaunted, Britomart, Bittern,
Pearls and Tigo (Portuguese), and seven sail of
horse-fitted transports, waiting for orders.

ENTHRONEMENT OF THE BISHOP OF

WINCHESTER.

WMCIIESTER, JAN. 10.—The ceremonial of en-
throning Dr. Sumner, the new Bishop of this dio-
cese, took place to-day in our Cathedral, being the
first instance of a Protestant Bishop having been en-
throned in this city. The novelty of the circum-
stance attracted a vast concourse of persons, at least
10,000 in number, to witness the ceremony, the
good order of which was effectually preserved by a
special body of police.
Soon after nine o'clock, the weather being very
favourable, every avenue leading to the cathedral be-
gan to be crowded by all ranks of persons. The
usual service commenced at ten, the stalls, seats,
galleries, and every accessible part of the vast edi-
fice being thronged with people. At the conclusion
of the first lesson, the Clergymen on duty, and their
Officers, left the choir, and proceeded to the chap-
ter-room, where his Lordship awaited their arrival,
i❑ order to be escorted to take possession of the
Mother Church of St. Lawrence.

This ceremony having been performed by his
Lordship's tolling the bell at St. Lawrence, the pro-
cession was joined by the Mayor, Recorder, and
Aldermen of the city, attended by their mace-bear-
ers, and other officers, all in their robes of office,
and returned in the same order to the cathedral, the
choristers singing a hymn on passing up the centre
aisle. Immediately on entering the choir, the Bi-
shop advanced to the altar-table, where he knelt for
a short time, and then returned towards his throne,
to which, having first taken the usual oaths before
the whole congregation, his Lordship was handed
by the Chancellor and senior Prebendary, who stood
on either side of his Lordship's seat. The new and
elegant throne, which is but just completed, and has
been ornamented by rich drapery of purple velvet,
trimmed with gold, was thus occupied by the suc-
cessor of him for whom, but two short months ago,
it wore the sable dress of mourning,—occupied, too,
by one who, less than ten years since, was a humble
curate at an obscure village within his present
diocese ; but now, passing threugh successive
preferments of less magnificence, has succeeded
to the second Bishopric in the kingdom.—
rile enthronement being completed, the service of
the day proceeded, being rendered more than usually
impressive by a selection of grand and appropriate
music. The most beautiful performances were
bCea 1 a Deunt in C. Kent's Anthem " Blessed
thou, Lord God of Israel," and a grand
h's
Hallelujah Chorus from the .111miah. The blessing
at the conclusion of the service was pronounced by
the Bishop himself in an audible and impressive
i congregation dispersed.
manner, immediately after which his Lordship
retired, and the mmense
The Bishop's lady sat with some other ladies in a
new and handsome pew near the throne during the
whole service. After the ceremony, his Lordship
received several of the clergy of his diocese, who
were in attendance for that purpose. In the after.
noon his Lordship dined with the Mayor of the city,
and a large but select party, at St. John's house,
while his tenantry were liberally regaled at one of
the principal inns.

There is much varied information put forward
with tact and felicity in the present number of the
Quarterly. The first article, entitled " New South
Wales," is a lively digest of Mr. Cunningham's late
publication on that subject, and gives an impartial
account of the commerce, manners, Aborigines, emi-
grants, and convicts of Australasia. Sidney Town,
however, is the chief object of analysis, the inhabi-
tants of which the Reviewer humourously describes
as being divided into two factions; the ille-
gitinzatcs, or 'voluntary emigrants, and the legi-
timates, or convicts who have fallen under the
lash of the law. Thislast faction is subdivided into two
minor sects, each of whom are as " tenacious of
the assumed place they hold in society, as was the
case in the early stages of some of our North Ame-
rican colonies, where the descendants of the mounted
highwayman would, hare disdained to sit down at
the same table with those of the footpad, who, on
his part, would have treated with scorn the progeny
of the common pickpocket." This reminds us of
the Ordinary in Jonathan Wilde, whose nice sense
of dignity (sympathising duly with the burglar) li
would not allow him to be seen in company with
the operative in petty larceny. Sidney Town, by
all accounts, is the very Paradise of pickpockets.
Its manufactures are hourly increasing, its climate is
uniformly salubrious, and its inhabitants so far ad-
vanced in civilization, a; already to boast of their
crier. cons, and their actions for breach of promise
of marriage. In illustration of its improving com-
merce we quote the following remarks :
In Sydney they manufacture hats, beavered with the far
of the flying squirrel, which are said to look well and to
wear well, except that they become soft, and lose their shape
in moist weather. Here also are carried on for sale, soap-
making, tin-ware, workings in brass and iron, saddlery,
harness and whip making, boat, shoe, and straw-hat
making : all kinds of common.petory-ware, large jars and
tubs for salting meat in, wine and water coolers, and spruce-
beer bottles, are manufactured in sufficient abundance for
the wants of the whole colony, and sold sheap. Carts,
drays, ploughs, harrows, and other instruments of husbandry,
are made of good and strong materials, and are sold at Eng-
lish prices ; the colonial coasting vessels and boats are built
of gum-timber, which is stated to he as durable, and every.
way as fit for ship-building, as Indian teak. The progres-
sive improvement and civilization of the colony may further
be inferred from the state of society in Sydney, where
private carriages are kept, and few individuals, if any, who
pretend to what, in the slang tongue is called respectability,
are without their gip or riding-horses. Every town has
its post-office, and a regular system of post-horses is esta-
blished for the conveyance of letters. A four•horse stage
coach runs twice a-day, and a caravan once, between Sydney
and Paramatta, and another coach thrice a week to Liver-
pool, while a third proceeds from Paramatta to Windsor
three times a-week also—no mean proofs of the general
wealth and prosperity which this infant colony has attained.
Nor while comfort and convenience are thus studied, is the
improvement of the mind by any means neglected.
Speaking incidentally of the Sidney convicts, the
Reviewer describes a curious infatuation still preva-
lent among them, that by proceeding northward of
the island, they will not fail to reach China. Num-
bers, he observes, have fled from time to time in
this direction, and among others an Irishman " who
set out on this expedition, and after three weeks
hard toiling, was cheered with the distant crowing
of a cock. A garden, with a snug cottage, gave a
new fillip to his joy, and the more so because of its
close resemblance to those.he had left in New South
Wales; but on seeing an European, in whom he
discovered the features of Colonel Johnstone, he
was in ecstasy, and hallooed out, " Arrah long life
to you, Colonel ; And what has brought your
honour to China all the way ?" The fact was, that
the Irishman, in keeping straight forward, had made
some unfortunate " right about face," and thus
travelled back to within a few miles of the spot
from which he had started. Many are still per-
suaded that the Blue Mountains are those of Con-
naught, and when they take a freak of making their
way to Ireland, they always go southerly, because
Green Erin being colder than New South Wales,
and the cold winds blowing from the south, the
laud of their fathers must needs lie in that direction."
" The Life and Writings of Lucian " is a smart
and spirited Review, and imparts much novel infor-
mation respecting the wittiest and keenest of Greek
satirists. In his admiration, however, of his subject,
the Reviewer remarks that the old INlilesian legends
will mostly find their prototype in Lucian. This is
pretty much after the fashion of Sir William Jones,
who with equal enthusiasm and more plausibility
derives the heathen mythology unreservedly from
the East. With the exception of this fanciful
theory, the article throughout is judicious. We
could indeed have spared the illiberal sneer at Gib-
bon, who, however culpable in his religious notions,
is assuredly correct as an historian—but then the
Reviewer would have lost a point.
" Heber's Indian Journals" sets forth with added
lustre the amiable, enterprising, and enlightened
character of their author—of whom the Reviewer
speaks in terms of unqualified, but merited, praise.
After a variety of interesting descriptions, ex-
tracted from the :Bishop's Journals, he comments,
briefly and cautiously, on the subject of the East India
Company's present monopoly, which he indirectly
condemns. On the subject of the Suttee he is
equally cautious, but his deductions are unfivour•
able to its condemnation.

Lord Cornwallis, he observes, Lord Teignmouth, Lord
Wellesley, Lord Minto, Lord Hastings, Lord Amherst, Mr.
Edmonstone, Mr. Colebrooke, Sir Thomas Munro, and
Mr. Elphinstone, are all averse to authoritative interference ;
and every successive government, at Calcutta, at Madras,
and at Bombay, by which the question has been entertained,
has been compelled, after the most anxious investigation,
to declare its conviction that all measures of a peremptory
or coercive character would be productive of injurious con-
sequences,

A curious illustration of the ill-effects of persecu-
tion, and of the bigoted obstinacy thereby engen-
dered in the minds of the persecuted, is shown in
the fact that in Poonah, the metropolis of a Hinds°
nation, only four suttees or burning of widows took
place during seventeen months; while in the pro.
vince of Calcutta, by far the most tractable and
ciyi-
lized throughout India, the enormous number of 408
occurred in one year alone. The Reviewer adds that
so far from decreasing, the suttees are annually aug-
menting, more particularly in those places where
attempts have been made to suppress them.
This single fact speaks volumes; though c very
lover of his kind must ardently desire to see
so barbarous a ritual abolished. Coinciding with
a remark made by the I3ishop, the Reviewer
proceeds to observe, that at no very dis-
tant lapse of time a separation must take place
between India and the mother country, and several
independent states be thus introduced into the so-
cial system of the civilised world. He then :everts
to the question of the " Suttee," and concludes with
some temperate remarks on the dangers tobe appre-
hended from its too sudden abolition,

" Amendments; of the Criminal Law" Sires a
very fair account of the Statutes as they existed be-
fore the late alterations—it describes their clumsy
and, in some respects, laughable complexity—their
vagueness of terms—their prolix diction—their ut-

ter want of applicability; and then analyses, in an
able but somewhat overcharged style—the nature of
Mr. Peel's amendments. That this gentleman de-
deserves great praise for such spirited improvements
there cannot be—nor has there ever been—the
slightest question—but that he alone is the grand
originator--passing by the names of Romilly and
Mackintosh,—is not precisely the fact. lie has, not-

The remaining articles on " The Reformation in
Italy"—" The Literary .Annuals"—and " De
Roos's Travels in the United States," we must dis-
miss with the remark that they will each repay perusal.
The last especially, for the " Quarterly Review," is
more than usually liberal. It speaks of the Americans
in a spirit of the most perfect candour, and strives to
prove that their present policy is decidedly to che-
rish peace and unanimity with the rest of the world.
War, says the Reviewer, would go far to ruin them.
We wish the Quarterly would be equally plain-
spoken upon another momentous question : on the
politics of the day, however, it is close and cunning
—not a word escapes it on the subject, unless, in-
deed, when in speaking of Hallam's History, it
writes itself down, vaguely and unsatisfactorily, a
Tory journal. Surely something more than this, in
the present posture of affairs, has a right to be looked
for from the leading Review of Europe.