The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-12 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE EXPERIMENTAL BRIGS—The pennants of the
Daring, 12, Commander Mutcon, and the Water itch,
10, Li. utetunt-Commander Wilson, at Portsmouth, were
hoist( d on Monday, and that of the Flying Fish, 12,
Commander Harris, on Tuesday morning. The Daring
and Wa,tcrwitch were taken out of the basin at Ports-
mouth on Tuesday morning, and are now lying at
anchor in Portsmouth harbour. Both these brigs are
fast getting their complement of hands.- The
Mutine, 12, Commander Crawford ; the Espiegle,
12, Conander Thompson; and the Cruizer, 16, Com-
mander Fanshawe, at Chatham, hoisted their pennants
on Tuesday afternoon, their respective commanders
having arrived at that port. They will go into dock to-
day and following days to have their coppers cleaned
previously to proceeding to sea. These at Chatham are
expected to leave that port the latter end of the week.
As we have before .tated, the 12-gun brigs are to have a
complement of 110 each.
INTERMENT OF CAPTAIN FISHER. The African,
steam-tug vessel, returned to Sheerness, from Ramsgate,
on Frielay. She landed the remains of Captain Fisher at
that port on Wednesday, whence they were conveyed to
Deal in a hearse, and interred on Thursday morning at

Weimer.
THE ADVANCED SHIPS.—The Pembroke, 72, was
taken out of the basin, at Portsmouth, on Tuesday
morning, and is now alongside the jetty. The Mo-
narch, 84, at Sheernes7, was taken out of dock on Tues.
day, cad the London, 92, was hauled into the basin to
be masted.
The Dwarf, steam-vessel, at Portsmouth, Lieutenant-
Com. Chamberlain, was taken out of the basin at the
same time as the Pembroke.
The Raven, cutter, Lieutenant-Coro. Stephen, left
Sheerness, for Portsmouth, on Saturday, with super-
numerics,
The Beagle, late surveying vessel, was hauled out.
of dock, at Sheerness, on Monday, having had her
bottom unstripped of copper, and covered with a mixture
of Jeffery's marine glue and coal tar.
The Speedwell, tender to the Blazer steam-vessel, has -
lately been in dock at Sheerness, and had -the marine.
glue, with which her bottom was lined, scraped off, the
composition not having been found to answer, from the
immense quantity of weed, &c , which was attached to
it. She was doubled and coffered.
The Fortitude, late .convict hulk, at Chatham; is
dered to be fitted as a coal depot at that port, Mad She
Defence, 72, for a hulk.
The Camel lighter, Faber master, left Devonport on
Tuesday morning, with a detachment of the 44th Regi-.
ment, to relieve that at Pendennis Castle.
The Tortoise, lighter, arrived at Devonport, from the
coast of Ireland, on Monday evening. The Rochester,
lighter, Grundy master, arrived at Chatham on Monday
with stores from Devonport.
There are in Sheerness Basin—Monarch, 84; AM.'
Z in, corvette; Crocodile, troop-ship; and Vulture, steam-
frigate. In Dock—Vernon, 50; and Herald, 26.
DOCKYARD SCHOOL AT SHEERNESS.—The school for
the apprentices was opened on the 19th ult. Mr. John
Drew is appointed schoolmaster, at a salary of 601. per
annum. Toe boys assemble in the school-room at half-
past four, wash and have tea, for which they are allowed
half an hour, then commence with writing, reading,
arithmetic, geography, geometry, drawing, &c., finish-
ing by seven P.M. The number attending is 110. .
SurEn/tieNnamoNs.=-Thomas Howard, third leading
man of the store-house, has been superannuated from
Chatham dockyard on a pension of 451. 10s. per annum;
and John Crowhurst, shipwright, from the same estab-
lishment, on a pension of 251. per annum. George H.
Davies, joiner, of Devonport Dockyard, has been super-
annuated on a pension of 241. per annum ; and Richard
Beast, hired joiner, has been established, vice Davies. •
FOREIGN MOVEMENTS.
Rear-Admiral Sir T. Cochrane, the Commander-in•
Chief in China, returned to Hong-Kong on the 2d of
June, from his visit of inspection to the northern ports,
and re-hoisted his flag on board the Agincourt, 72, Cap-
tain Bruce.
The fleet in that quarter was comparatively healthy,
and great care is taken to keep it so.
The Driver steam-sloop, Commander C. 0. Hayes,
with Sir 11. Pottinger and suite, sailed from Hong-Kong
on the 20th June, and arrived at Bombay on the 29th
July. The Driver had been at the Bogue, with the
Castor, 36, Captain Graham, and the Spiteful steam-
'sloop, Commander Maitland, with Mr. Davis and Sir IL
Pottinger, to visit the Chinese Imperial Commissioner.
The Vixen steam-sloop, Commander Giffard, left
Hong-Kong on the 28th May, the Serpent, 16, sloop, on
the 31st May, and the Cambrian, 36, Commodore Chads,
on the 16th June, for India. These three vessels are on
their way to England to be paid off. The Cambrian
touches at Whampoa, for specie. The Fox, 44, Com-
modore Sir H. M. Blackwood, Bart., will relieve the
Cambrian in India.
The Agincourt, 72, Capt. Bruce, with the flag of the
Commander-in-Chief ; the Minden, 20, hospital ship,
Capt. M. Quin; the Castor, 36, Capt. Graham; the Did%
20; the Pelican, 16; Wolverine, 16; the Wolf, 18; the
Spiteful, steam-sloop, and the Hon. Company's steam-
vessel Proserpine, were at Hong-Kong on the 20th June.
It was rumoured that the Castor would be stationed at
Chusan for protection of British interests and subjects in
the northern ports, and that the Dido, with the Spiteful
steam-sloop, is to proceed to Borneo to demand redress for
the late outrages and the liberation of European prisoners,
There are two other foreign squadrons in the Chinese
seas—American and French. The American squadron
in China, under command of Commodere Parker, con-
' sisting of the frigate Brandywine, sloop St. Louis, and
brig Perry ; they are all fine vessels, but not superior to
our own. At present they rendezvous at Macao. The
, French frigate Cleopatra, Commodore Ccceille, is in that
= harbour ; she is a frigate of the first class, and appears
in fine order. Her consort, the Alctnene, is at Shanghae.
,t The rest of the French squadron have not yet reached

China.
ASCENSION, JULY 13.—The Tortoise, guard and store
ship, for this island, Commander Fiulaison, has arrived
here, from St. Helena, with a large supply of water.

SIR WILLIAM FOLLITT.--It was with much plea-
sure we announced last week that intelligence received
from the Continent indicated a considerable improve-
ment in the health of this gentleman, whose estimation
by the public has made him as much respected as the
appreciation by his friends has made him beloved. The
frequent recurrence of illness at a period when his high
standing, so honestly earned, has apparently opened to
him a wide career of usefulness, has been a source of
much regret. The origin of hi; indisposition is of a
singular character, and has not, we believe, hitherto
been made known. While at school, in Devonshire, on
a fine autumnal day, when the evident approach of a
gloomier season makes us appreciate more highly the
genial sunshine of present enjoyment, three youths
sallied forth on a school-holiday for a long ramble in
the woods and copses which deck that most picturesque
of all the southern counties of England. A plentiful
Supply of blackberries, with which the hedge rows -
abounded, delighted the palates of the strollers ; and
present appetite having been allayed, if not satiated, the
hat of one of the party was devoteebto the accumulated
store, and their steps were turned homeward. An acci-
dental separation in the ramble left the one in charge of
the commissariat department to pursue his journey
alone ; and he, to beguile the way and lighten his load,
made serious inroads on the stock in reserve. The result
ww, that poor Follett, for he it was, fell under an attack
of illness so severe, that his removal from school became
necessary; and although careful nursing and the devoted -
attention of his relatives enabled him at length to resume
his studies at home, and subsequently to remove to col
lege, it was long before his health was re-established,
and his constitution never appears to have recovered
wholly from the unfortunate circumstance.—Berivick and
Kelso Warder.
CHATHAM, SEPT. 11.—The three experimental '
12-gun brigs, which were launched from this dockyard •
in the month .of April last, were put into commission
yesterday. The Mutine, by R. B. Crawford, Esq.,
commander ' • Cruizer, Edward G. Fanshawe,-Esq., com-
mander • and the Espeigle, by J. P. Thompson, Esq.,
commander. Each of the commanders this morning
hoisted their pendants, and issued public notice that they
are ready for entering petty officers and able seamen.
The Royal Marines, selected from the first division at
Chatham, embarked from the Dockyard-stairs this morn- •
ing at one o'clock. The strength for each ship consists
of one colour sergeant, one drummer, one corporal, and
seventeen privates. Not any officer embarks. The depot
of the 53d Regiment, which has recently sailed for India,
consisting of about 150 men, with upwards of 50 women
and children, arrived here from Manchester and joined
the Provisional Battalion. The depot having brought
with them a greater number of women than allowed 1),
the regulations of the service, caused 'the officer in
command to refuse the over-number of women accom-
modation in the barracks, and they were therefore turned
out. The women, with their families, being total
strangers to the place, knew not where to seek for shelter
for the night, and they had recourse to the Medway •
Union workhouse, where the whole of them were taken
in on Saturday night last. Troops for Ireland—There .
is no truth whatever in the report of two regiments
having been sent from this garrison on Saturday night,
by two steamers, for Ireland.
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAT.—At a late hour last night
an order was received from the office of the Lord Chain
berlain for the State apartments to be re-opened to the
public this day, at eleven o'clock; but in consequence of
the expected arrival of the Ring of the Frnch at the
Castle, upon a visit to her Majesty, they will necessarily
be closed on sotne days of the week for the extensive
preparations to be made for his Majesty's reception.
During the period they will remain open, the public will
not be admitted on Tuesdays or Fridays. The
effect of the guard-chamber, St. George's hall,
the grand ball-room, the throne-room, the
grand vestibule, and the Waterloo-gallery, is
considerably heightened by the carpets being left down,
~
and nearly the whole of the furniture being still in those,.
apartments, which were in use at the Christening:
of the infant prince. The two elevated sideboards
in St. George's-hall, at either end of the spacious:
apartment, upon which were displayed the magnificent -
tankards, cups, shields, &c., at the Royal banquet on
Friday evening, and also the banqueting table, still re
main. The portion of the State apartments which will,
be devoted to the exclusive use of his Majesty the Kind
of the French will be the Queen's closet, the Nines.
drawing-room, the King's closet, the council-chamber,
and the ante-throne-room. This is the only portion of
the State appartments which have at present been ar-
ranged to be appropriated for the use of the Frenchs;
Monarch. His Majesty will sleep in the apartment
known as the Queen's closet, in which is the superb
State bed of George the Fourth when Prince of Wales..
This room was also used as the dormitory of the King.
of Prussia during the visit of his Majesty to the Queen
at the period of the christening of the Prince of Wales.
The remains of the Ilon. and Very Rev. George -
Gore, Dean of Killala, son of the second Earl of Arran,,.
were interred in Swinford Church, Mayo. The late,
lion. and Rev. Gentleman was in his 70th year. .

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SPIRIT 0 the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—In another column will be found the
accounts which have reached us of the Repeal As-
sociation meeting on Monday. Like the procession
of Saturday, which conducted O'Connell from Rich-
mond Penitentiary to his home, the day closed with-
out any breach of public order. The immense mul-
titudes which the occasion brought together far sur-
passed any previous assembly in the metropolis of Ire-
land, in connection with repeal. We rather choose
to leave the accounts given of the scene, both
within and without the Hall—which are sub-
stantially the same from different sources—to
speak for themselves, than to comment upon
them. O'Connell once more at the head of the
repeal movement—at liberty—and at liberty under
circumstances which obviously imply a signal triumph
over the Government, which boasted of its victory
over him, and its successful mode of dealing with the
agitation of which he is not merely the leader, but the
life—this was in itself sufficient to render the meet-
ing of Monday a new era in the history of the Repeal
Association. Trace the progress of the movement—
fraught with folly and pregnant with mischief, as it
is, to the vital interests of Ireland—threatening peril,
as it does, to the sources whence the British em-
pire derives the means of supporting its honour, and
maintaining its interests—let its progress be traced
from the slumbering and almost expiring elements of
its constitution, through its various stages, from
strength to strength, since the accession of the pre-
sent Government to office ; and what is the infer-
ence which the best disposed towards the Go-
vernment must draw from the retrospection ? What
was repeal then ? What is repeal now ? Three
years since it was treated as a delusion, the emana-
tion of folly, or the concoction of fraud ; the ex-
istence of which was viewed with ridicule or scorn,
and the termination of which was confidently anti-
cipated. But whether it remained floating on the
surface, sustained by the credulity of the simple; or
whether it burst, as other bubbles have burst, for
lack of the principles which can alone give stability,
was alike unimportant in a public sense. Repeal is
now not merely a question of national interest; but
of national alarm. Without one whit more of truth
or reason in its claims, than it had when it was an
object of indifference or contempt to the great body
of the Irish nation, the innate hatred to a Tory Go-
vernment which pervades the mass of that nation,
and the impolicy of the measures which have been
adopted by the Government of Sir Robert Peel,
have imparted to the repeal movement a power and
an influence, derived from its increasing numbers, and
its immense wealth, that now enable it to assume a
position which places the peace of the country, if not
the integrity of the empire itself, at its command.
When Sir R. Peel's Government was installed in
office, repeal, like the infant Hercules, stood upright
upon its feet—in a few months it became a man in
might, glorying in its strength. Sir R. Peel sought to
confine its energies by casting over it the skilfully-
woven net of the law. It broke his bands asunder.
It now walks abroad, exhibiting in triumph the
mutilated monster indictment, with which he sought
to crush it, by confining its leaders in prison, and
holding them in recognisances of several thousands,
to refrain in future from the acts they had performed
and the words they had spoken in furtherance of its
objects. Every week now witnesses new accessions to
its ranks. Members of the highest families in the land
enrol their names on its muster-roll, and subscribe to
swell its revenues. And this will go on ; unless Sir
Robert Peel cease from the attempt to govern Ire-
land, for which he is obviously incompetent ; and
resign the task to those whose previous policy has
propitiated the people of Ireland; whose conciliatory
measures they would accept with readiness ; to
whose rule they would submit as founded in equity ;
acid whose administration they would hail as a com-
bination of justice, mercy, and truth. This would,
even now, stay the torrent which is hurrying on the
population of Ireland to a crisis that may shake the
empire with commotion, and may saturate the coun-
try with the blood of its sons.
STANDARD.—It would appear from the speech
of Mr. O'Connell in the Conciliation Hall en Mon-
day, that he is not satisfied with the triumphal proces-
sions and Te Deums which have commemorated his
release from prison, but that he contemplates ulte-
rior means of teaching posterity to remember the pe-
culiar indulgence of which he has been the object;
short, nothing less than the impeachments of the
jadges of the Court of Queen's Bench of Ireland,
ho tried him, and, of course, the Attorney-
General, who so ably and efficiently conducted the
prosecution ! Why, the felon, humanely reprieved
from death because the rope with which it is at-
tempted to hang him is broken by his struggles,
would have an equally fair title to pros, cute the judge,
counsel, and witnesses who had convicted him, and
quite as good a claim to consider the accident a spe-
dal interposition of the Virgin Mary. A part of the
recent idolatrous mummery enacted in the Church
of the Conception in Dublin, had for its ob-
ject to convince the Repealers of Ireland,
that had the plies been ever so strong, the
Virgin Mary would have caused them to snap
asunder like burnt flax ; for that having com-
menced the service of the " Novena," with the view
of obtaining from her a miracle in Mr. O'Connell's
behalf, her compliance followed so immediately on
the appeal that the news of the reversal of the judg-
ment arrived at the Richmond Penitentiary on the
very day on which this religious exercise was con-
cluded. It is therefore the height of absurdity to
blame the judges of the Court of Queen's Bench of
Ireland, or Mr. Smith, or eulogise the surpassing
learning and disinterestedness of the three law Lords
by whom the judgment was reversed; when we have
it on the authority of a dignitary of Mr. O'Connell's
church that they had nothing whatever to do with
the matter. If we are to believe Doctor Miley, it
i, perfectly clear that Lords Denman, Cottenham, and
Campbell, were the mere instruments of the miracu-
lous intervention which is declared to have been inter-
posed in his favour, and have no more claims upon
his gratitude than any other involuntary agent of
the dispensers of such marvels. We should have
th en glad to have accepted this theory ; for, to say
the truth, it is difficult to account for the decision of
the three law Lords, excepting on the belief that they
acted under some powerful hallucination which
deprived them of the exercise of their ordinary
faeulties. The infinite pains Mr. O'Connell took,
however, on Monday last, to convince his
audience that the release of himself and friends was
sl'ogether owing to the wisdom of this truly Spartan
minority, and that with two exception, all the other
judges are wiseacres, wholly unacquainted with the
le w of conspiracy, and equally unfit for the duties
they have been called upon to perform, would lead
ns to infer that he hardly recognises it himself. The
only three judges in the United Kingdom who are,
acs-ording to his account, entitled to respect, are
lord Cottenham, Lord Denman, and Lord Camp-
Fell. Of the first of these noble and learned persons,
he declares that " there never was so good a judge;"
of the second, that no dignitary of the Englis
bstich " has ever shown himself what Lord Denman
has ; and of the third, that, besides having " a
thoroughly Irish heart," and a "shrewd Scotch head
ti' guide it," he had informed him, on his visit to
Ireland, that he had become thoroughly Irish."
We will not ask what Lord Cottenham must feel
v. hen informed that he is the best judge that
"ever lived ; " neither are we disposed to inquire of
Lord Campbell at what rate he estimates the com-
pliment here paid to him and his colleagues, at the
expense of nine-tenths of the judicial learning
and virtue of England. But we very much doubt
if Lord Denman will not be disposed to apostrophise
himself with the inquiry, " What evil have I done
that this man should praise me." The object of
eulogies from such a quarter—eulogies associated
with the vituperation of colleagues whose learning
he cannot fail to appreciate, whose sincerity he
knows to be beyond all price, cannot be misunder-
stood. We mistake Lord Denman greatly indeed,
if he will not regard such praise as the last
thing which a good and great man ought to de-
The speech which has suggested these remarks
differs but little from the agitator's ordinary orations.
Asa sample of its impudence, we may notice that he
declares that
the reversal of the judgment was on the
merits 0 n not on ) and any technical ground O. t ) ;
end Is a proof that his late retirement has at least
taught him some
lrudence, we may instance the total
absence from his
address of all threats of more
monster tneetinge,
parliame heas even got a pis oiler for
College-green
destinedli We need not add
that it is one which is
will. He proposes thatto bring grist to the
300 deputies from Irish
repeaters shall meet in Dublin
on a certain
their qualification being the " handintogin o f
allowed
dny ;
WOL each. They are not to be
gather, are sim initiatel
anything, but, so far as we can
to act as the " draF-wheel of- the movemeift3"
The " value to be received" for their cash would be
their power of " stipulating terms with her Majesty's
blinisters," and they
.might even hope to control
"that cursed contumacious little English dog," the
Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and that " vinegar cruet
on two legs," the Attorney-General for Ireland.
What more can they desire for their 3001.? Mr.
O'Connell's opinion is against calling more monster
meetings ! Who will venture to say that the prose-
cution has not brought forth good fruit ? or that the
leisure afforded Mr. O'Connell in Richmond Peni-
tentiary has not tended to induce wholesome re-
fie -Along ?

ELECTION FOR CHAMBERLAIN.— At three o'clock
yvterday the numbers were:—Mr. Alderman Brown
2,201 ; Mr. Heppe!, 63. There has been a report cur-
rent during the last few days, amongst those who at-
tend Guildhall that some informality has taken place in
the proceedings of the election likely to render it of no
Await. It is said that the objection exists in the fact that
Mr. Sheriff Musgrove did not receive a notice to attend
gonTF
rs. the day of nomination as one of the returning
e