The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-21 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH. FEB. 18.—The Erebus and Terror, survey-
ing ships, Capt. Ross, left Sydney about the 12th of Sept., to
continue his search in the Southern high latitudes; the ships
will call at New Zealand and Chatham Island.
SYDNEY, SEPT. 12.—The United Kingdom, a vessel of up-
wards of 1,200 tons had] arrived from England, having left the
25th of May, bringing 482 emigrants. The China had also
arrived the same day with 270 emigrants. A cargo of Chilian
wheat was shipped at the low price of 2s. per bushel. Cattle
were extremely low, 50s. per head. An excellent milch cow
and her calf had been sold for 41. Land nearl town was still
selling at unprecedented rates; some lately disposed of by
auction at Parametta, sold at the rate of 10,0001. per acre.
Arrived this morning from the Downs, the Formidable, 84
guns, Captain Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart., and the Alfred, 50
Commodore, J. B. Purvis.

The Malabar, 72, went from Gibraltar to Cadiz on the 2d
instant. The Vernon, 50, returned to Gibraltar on the 30th
ultimo.
The Rapid, 10, put into Fdlmouth on Saturday last, on ac-
count of strong westerly gales, and sailed again on Monday for
the coast of Africa.
The Wolverine, 10, Commander Johnson, will sail on Tues-
day next for the East Indies and China, taking out despatches
for the Commander-in-Chief, and some supernumeraries for
the squadron.

The Curysfort, 28, Captain Lord George Paulet, was taken
out of the basin on Tuesday last.
The Kite steamer, has been commissioned at Woolwich, by
Lieut. T. L. Gooch.
The Ganges, 84, and Benbow, 72, arc ordered from the
Mediterranean to England, to be paid off.
The Warspite, 52, Captain Lord Johd Hay, passed through
Spithead on Tuesday, from Yarmouth Roads (with Lord Ash-
burton on board), on her way to New York. Whilst lying in
Yarmouth Roads she lost an anchor and chain cable, and was
supplied with others on the following day by the Avon steamer
which preceeded to Yarmouth for that purpose.
The Volcano steam-vessel, at Woolwich, will be ready for
sea on 'Monday.
The Emerald returned on Monday from Plymouth; the
Cracker sailed the same day for Jersey ; the former sailed again
to-day with supernumeraries, for Sheerness.
The Echo, steamer, has been employed this week in bring-
ing. the wreck of the Vindictive's mizen-mast from Selsea.
She brought the rigging and the light spars on Thursday, and
the mast, top, and top-mast, this morning. Part of the main
and false keels have been brought to the dock-yard this week,
by a fishing vessel, which bad dragged them up.
The Speedy, cutter, and Lightning, steamer, arrived to-day
froM Plymouth, with men ; the latter afterwards proceeded to
the eastward.

The Caledonia, Halifax and Boston steam packet, returned
yesterday to Liverpool damaged; she had made 1,00 miles of
her passage, but it was deemed advisable to run back before
the wind. The Acadia sails to-day with her mail, and an ad-
ditional mail in charge of Lieut. Ambrose.
The Driver steam frigate is to proceed to China ; she is at
Woolwich fitting an apparatus for consuming smoke, which
will occupy a few days, arid will then touch at this port. In
other respects she is ready to start.
The African steamer has been newly fitted with a powerful
machinery, and is to be sent to this port as a tirboat.
The Vindictive, 50, Captain J. T. Nicholas, is fast fitting
in the Basin. She has got her guns and water on board, and
the topmast rigging is now being set up. She will soon be
ready to proceed to sea. Her crew has been again increased in
number to. day.

The Pilot, with 700,000 dollars, arrived at Jamaica for
Vera Cruz, January 4. The Comus, 16, sailed the same day
for Carthagena. The Illustrious, 72, and Spartan, 26, had
reached Bermuda for England.
It is understood that two additional 50 gun frigates are imme-
diately to he put in commission.
The Hon. Captain Byng is appointed Commodore on the
Jamaica station, with his pennant in the Nlagnificent.
Upwards of 250 stout young seamen and boys have been
raised at Glasgow and Greenock, for the general service of the
Navy, during the last five months.—This rendezvous is now
discontinued.

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY, FEB. 17.—The Delight packet, 6,
Liet. W. Lory, was paid off last Saturday. The Implacable,
74, Captain H. W. Bruce, was taken into dock on Sa-
turday, and is found to be in a defective state, and as it
will take a much longer time to get her ready for the ser-
vices she was intended for, it is reported the Agincourt, 72,
will be commissioned to supply her place.—The Lightning
steamer, Lieut. Pearce, arrived from Woolwich, on Monday,
with a detachment of Marines, which have been transferred to
the Minden, for service in China; the Avon, Steamer, Lieut.
C. Jenkins, arrived with volunteers from Liverpool; and
the Speedy, cutter, Lieutenant G. Beaufoy, from Ports-
mouth, with supernumeraries. The General Palmer, transport,
Lieut. Sanderson, arrived from the River, with stores to be
shipped on board the Minden, for China. It is expected the
Resistance, 42, (troop-ship,) will shortly be commissioned ; she
has been masted, and the artificers are working extra hours to
get her ready.

- Iu liarboUr—Caledonia, San Josef, Implacable, Minden, Fly,
Scylla, Bramble, Speedy, Avon, Lightning, and General
Palmer transport.
APPOINTMENTS. —Lieutenants—F. P. Egerton, to the Im-
pla •able ; Arthur Mellersh, to the Minden ; A. J. Grfeme, to
the Queen, vice Boyle, promoted ; David Elliott (in Queen), to
the Ringdove ; T. L. Gooch, to command the Kite; F. A.
Campbell, to Cornwallis, and to take passage in the Driver.
Master—Richard Hodges (1812) to the Vindictive.
Second Master—Robert Fuller, to the Kite.

Surgeon—J. W. Reid, to the Implacable.
Purser—Samuel Wadland, to the Implacable.
Chaplains—Rev. W. S. Parish, to the Implacable ; Rev.
John Edwards, to the Vernon.

Assistant Surgeons—Robert Anderson, and R. M. Isabell,
to the Implacable ; C. G. Campbell, to the Scylla; J. W.
Mustard, to the Minden; J. Brown, to the St. Vincent ; G.
Sizey, to the Ringdove.
Mates—Chas. Bromley and James Simpson, to the Driver.
Midshipman—Edward Nicholls, to Lightning, vice Collier,
promoted. _ _

Secretary—W. Dyer, Esq, to be Secretary to Rear-Admiral
the Hon. J. Percy.
Clerks in Charge—G. A. Stewart, to the Kite ; Charles
Saunders, to the Fearless, vice Robertson.

Clerk—Mr. F. H. Spry (late Powerful), to be additional
Clerk in Implacable.

Volunteers Ist Class—Henry Hawkes, to the Ringdove.
COAST GUARD.—Commander Thomas Holloway Holman
(1841), to be Inspecting Commander; Lieutenant John
Brown (1829), to be Chief Officer ; Lieut. A. Carroll, from
Greenore to blillisle, vice C. J. Postle, resigned, and ap-
pointed afloat.

Commanders Hay and Bingham, recently promoted in the
China squadron, are arrived in England, overland from India;
Captains Eyres and Anson are now returning by the same route.
The Modeste was left in charge of Commander Watson ; Co-
lumbine, Commander Tindal ; • and Pylades, Commander
Moor.head.
Lieut. John Cheere has been directed to take charge of the
regulating eitablishment at Bristol for raising Seamen for the
Navy.

WOOLWICH-FRIDAY.
THE ROYAL ARTILLERY.

Garrison Order, Feb. 4, 1842.
It is the Commandant's very gratifying duty to announce to
the garrison the King of Prussia's satisfaction, not only with
its appearance, but with every branch of the establishment that
came ander his notice.

The Commandant is anxious to convey his best thanks to the
officers and men employed in the several duties of the day.
THE ROYAL NAVY.

The Kite steam-vessel was commissioned on Saturday last,
and the fallowing officers have been appointed to her :-,,Lieut.
T. J. Gooch, Mr. Robert Fowler, Second Master ; and Mr.
G. A. Stewart, Clerk in Charge.
. The Fearless and Comet steam-vessels were on Monday
towed by the African to Deptford, for the purpose of being
docked, as the caisson of the new dock here has not yet been
completed.
The Driver steam-vessel, Commander Samuel Harmer, is
fitting with Mr. Dagleish's smoke-consuming apparatus, and
when completed, which she is expected to be in the course of
next week, will leave for foreign service. Mr. Charles Brom.
ley and Mr. James Simpson have been appointed Mates to
serve in her ; and as Lieutenant Frederick A. Campbell pro-
ceeds in the Driver to join the Cornwallis, 74, at present serv-
ing in China, the destination of the former fine steam-vessel
maybe surmised with some degree of certainty.
The African steam-vessel has been fitted with powerful
engines, and now forms a superior tug-boat. It is said she
will, when fully completed, be sent round to Portsmouth for
service on that station, the want of a vessel of her description
being much required to tow large ships whoa their services are
ordered at short notice.

A few days ago, some robbers got into the Chateau
of Mme. de Bagneris, at Vidou, near Tarbes, which was under
the ctrtrge at the time of a servant-girl. The thieves seized,
blinded, and bound her on a bed, covering her with the clothes,
but doing her no injury. They left her thus, and went to •earch
the house for valuables. While they were thus engaged, the girl
contrived to loosen her bonds, and make her escape to the Mayor,
who hastened to the chateau with a sufficient force. The invaders,
however, had decamped vi ith no small booty. The police, two or
three days afterwards, arrested a Spaniard at Tarbes, on whom
they found a pistol, a powder-flask, and some other articles belong-
ing to the Chateau de Vidou, and it is supposed that this will lead
to the arrest of the other parties.

AND HE DIED.—It is reported of one, thit,
hearing the fifth chapter of Genesis read, so long lives, and yet the
burden still, they died—Seth lived nine hundred and twelve years,
and he died ; Enos lived nine hundred and fire years, and
, he died; Methuselah, nine hundred and slaty nine years, and
he died—he took an deeply the thought of death and eternity,
that It changed his whole frame, and turned him from a volup-
tuous, to a most strict and pious course of life. How small a word
will do much, when God sets it into the heart! But surely this
one thing would make the soul calm and sober in the pursuit of
present things if it were truly computed and considered. How
soon shall youth and health, mid carnal delights, be at an end!
The Clermont papers state that much bad will
exists on the part, of the lower classes in that town towards the
soldieri of the garrison,- and especially of the 16th regiment of the
lino. Acts of violence have been committed against them ; but the
autho a ies bays taken measures to preserve order.
Tit FORCE OF 1-lAurr.-,.—01d Charles, as he is
familiarly called, had driven a coach from Teignmouth to Exeter
for sevent&n years, and never had a holiday. He began to fancy
that 'he wanted something of the kind, and the request was so
reasonable that he had only to ask and have it instantly granted,
another driver, on a particular day, but a few weeks since, being
directed to perform the journey for him. In the morning, however,
Charles arose as usual, and nothing would do but he must go and
have a look at the coach and horses These underwent the accus-
tomed examination, and when the coachman pro tem. mounted the
box, Charles, apparently unconscious what he was about, mounted
also, and deliberately took his seat by the side of his deputy.— Wes/
England Conservative Journal.
" Since the departure of the King of Prussia for
England," says a Berlin correspondent of the Wurtzburg Gazette,

" the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh seems to be drawing nearer than
Wore to the Court of France, while it becomes more and more
cold towards that of Prussia. Some surprise has been felt at seeing
the Prussian papers publish articles against Russia, and in favour of
Poland ; manifestations which have not been impeded by the police.
—The Kawigaberg Gazette has gone so far as to say that it is ne.
cessary to maintain a spirit of nationality in the Polish provinces,
instead of annihilating it, as the Rursian Government is doing."
A Berlin letter says—" The railroad between this
city and Stettin is going on with great rapidity, the works being
continued by night as well as by day, lighted by lanterns and
torches. The first section, reaching to Neustadt.Eberswalde, will
be Completed in June next ; and the second portion, running on to
Aniersmunde, by October. .The whole line will be finished in
March, 1543."
-The. Gazette de -Liege states that there are not less
than twelie divorce suits at this moment before the Civil Tribunal
of that place, and that most of the parties belong lo the educated
and wealthy classes of society.
A barbarous murder was committed, on•,the Ist
inst., in the district of Olmiccia (Corsica), by an uncle on the per-
son of. his nephew, against whom he entertained a grudge on ac-
count of a disputed inheritance. He -Isla in wait for his victim,
and shot him in bioad daylight with a double-barrelled gun, cans.
ing his instantaneous death. The murderer then made his escape
to the forest, and has not yet been apprehended.
The Furet of Havre published its last number with
a column in blank in consequence of the refloat of •its printer to
insert a political article., ...„
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COPYRIGHT OF DESIGNS.
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vestigation of the Petition of the Calico Printers, for the
extension of Copyright, was last year frustrated by the
dissolution of Parliament and its abridged proceedings.
The facts of the grievance of the calico printers may be
substantially divided into two heads, viz.: firstly, the
patterns of the calico-printers are plundered, after a
great outlay of capital, just at the time they ought to re-
munerate the proprietor ; and, secondly, that they are
got up by the pirates in a cheaper and deteriorated form,
to the injury of national taste and the detriment of the
public purchaser.
A free trade opposition has been united against this
claim, on the same principle as against the better pro-
tected and more extended copyright of books, just pro-
posed by Mr. Godson, and is liable to the same ob-
jections. Among the cogent arguments, adduced by
numerous respectable witnesses, in favour of extended
protection to calico printers, it was stated, that we are
greatly inferior to French artists in design, in con-
sequence of our comparative deficiency, and that our
foreign trade is proportionately restricted. Mr. Ten-
nent's measure contemplates, we believe, nine months'
protection, in conformity with the view expressed by
Sir Robert Peel last year in Committee.
The opponents of protection examined before the Com-
mittee, among whom were several who had largely
profited, on their own admission, by this kind of in-
vasion of property, and justified, on the plea of being
within the law, and, therefore, as not a breach of the
law, rested their chief repugnance to the extension of
protection to copyright on the very ground of monopoly.
This is natural to all plunderers, including plunderers of
author's copyrights, to protest against monopoly, in
other words, against all exclusive property. France
furnishes a sufficient answer to the charge that pro-
tection creates monopoly. We have the proof that it
breeds emulation, and promotes competition, by which
eventually cost is decreased, and consumption encouraged.
In no other country is the same protection afforded, and
nowhere else do those arts flourish, or are they culti-
vated to an equal extent. Nowhere else are their pro-
fessors equally respected and respectable, and, therefore;
nowhere else is ambition stimulated to excellence as
means of elevation in the social scale. There is an
absurd, prejudice that the artistical designers of France
have .niore taste than the English. This is a fallacy.
Give pattern copyright protection, as in France; give
the English artist pattern-drawers similar encourage-
ment, and they need not be afraid of French competition.
—British Queen.

REAT ANTI-MINISTERIAL
MEETING.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT
LEICESTER, THURSDAY EVENING, ]'EB. 17, 1842.
This afternoon a must numerous and spirited meeting of
the inhabitants has been held in the Market-place, to repudiate
the Ministerial measure on the Corn-laws. The meeting was
called by the Mayor, on the requisition of several hundreds of
the most respectable manufacturers and shopkeepers of the
town. It was fixed for one o'clock, and shortly after that hour
there could not be less than 4,000 persons present. Amongst
them were Chartists, Tories, and Whigs, but the utmost una-
nimity reigned throughout. One feeling seemed alone to ac-
tuate thorn. Sympathy for the distresses of the people, and
detestation of the news iding scale.
The Mayor, T. STOKES, Esq., opened the proceedings by
stating, that he had convened them together at the request of
many of his fellow-townsmen, and upon one of the most vital
questions that can belong to a manufacturing community. To
interpose obstacles to the freedom of commerce, and especially
in the commodity of corn, was acting in direct hostility to the
social and political rights of man, and the benign intentions
of Heaven. On such a subject he could only expect one
opinion in the vast meeting before him. At all events, he
should claim a calm and impartial hearing for any gentlemen
who might choose to address the meeting, whatever his opinions
might be. Those who would oppose freedom of discussion
would, if they had the power, carry their principles to the in-
vasion of the dearest and most sacred privileges of man.
THOMAS PAGET, Esq , a great landed proprietor, was called
upon to move the first resolution—" That this meeting views
with indignation and disappointment the Ministerial measure
for the continuance of the Corn 'laws; and denounces it as an
insult to tho patient, starving, and unemployed population
of these realms." Mr. Paget took a rapid survey of the
state of the repeal question up to the present moment,
For twenty-seven years had they been petitioning against
these unjust laws. Amongst the people the cause of
repeal had made considerable progress, though he re-
gretted to say, that with respect to her Majesty's present Mi-
nisters, very little light had penetra'ed their understandings.
Still, certain steps of advance had been gained, and important
ones too; and as the people had now got in the wedge, he
hoped they would not fail to drive it harder and deeper, until
their legitimate demands were conceded. The steps he alluded
to were that even a Tory Government admits that the Corn-
law needs mitigation ; that the Queen, from the Throne, re-
commended an alteration ; and that the privations of the
people, which had been contemptuously styled doleful ditties in
Parliament and on the hustings, were now admitted by the
same parties to be awful and deplorable facts. Sir Robert
Peel asked for a period of five months in which to devise a re-
medy for the misery of the people, and he had spent it in taxing
his ingenuity to the utmost to invent a scheme to delude the
people, and secure the support of the aristocracy.
Alderman HARRIS then came forward to second the resolu-
tion, which was put to the meeting, and carried unanimously.
When the cheering had subsided,
Dr. NOBLE, of Dinet's-hall, was called upon by the Mayor to
move the second resolution—" That the Corn-laws are instrumen-
tal in spreading destitution, ruin, and misery among all the com-
mercial classes of the country; and that this meeting pledges itself
never to relax its exertions until these unjust and iniquitous
laws are abolished." He called upon the meeting to act upon
the latter part of the resolution, and never cease agitating until
they were expunged from the statute-book.
J. PARKER, a working man, in a good speech, seconded the
resolution, which was unanimously adopted.
JOHN Mons, Esq., moved the next resolution—" That a
petition be presented to Parliament, praying that Sir R. Peel's
Bill be not passed into a law."
The petition, founded on these resolutions, was then read.
Mr. NVINKS seconded the motion, and in doing so he urged
upon the meeting the consideration that the power of removing
these laws was in their own hands, and that it only wanted to
be systematically and unitedly wielded to become triumphant.
Rotten boroughs, rotten corporations, and black slavery had
been destroyed and entombed by the popular voice, and so may
the death-dispensing and depopulating Corn-laws.
The petition was submitted by the Mayer to the meeting.
and carried by acclamation.
Mr. COOPER, one of the Chartist leaders, now mounted the
platform, and moved on behalf of that party the following reso-
lution :—" That this meeting is of opinion that the Corn-
laws, and all other monopolies which oppress the people, are
the result of class legislation, and hereby affirms its full con.
viction that the People's Charter is the grand remedy for all
such abuses, and ought' to be made the law of the land." Mr.
Cooper declared his wish for conciliation and union, and had
therefore refrained from opposing the previous resolutions, and
enforced the necessity of the Charter, on the ground of the
futility of expecting any redress from the present' House of
Commons.

Mr. BAIRSTOW, a Chartistleader frem Birmingham, seconded
the resolution in a speech of great power and eloquence.
This resolution was carried by an immense majority, there
being only two or three hands held up against it.
After a vote of thanks and three cheers to the Mayor, moved
by Mr. WINKS, and seconded by Mr. COOPER, the Chartist,
the meeting separated.