The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The autumnal agricultural meet-
ings, now in course of being holden in the agri-
cultural districts, promise to be more • than
asually productive of matter deserving of public
regard. For this more than average crop of good
things suitable to the season, we are indebted to
the seed sown by Sir Robert Peel in the spring,
and especially to the introduction of the- new
and improved system comprised in his Corn-law
and Tariff; which, like most innovations, have
been strenuously resisted by many, and hive
jealousy by most, of the
been regarded with
lords and cultivators of the soil. We have on
inure than one occasion given a sample of the
produce supplied by the Waltham meeting, at
which the American Minister brought things
new and strange before the agriculturists of the
midland. counties. The Duke of Rutland, as
President of themeeting, in exhorting the fltrm
interests -
iog and grazing of the kingdom to post-
pone their judgment upon the effects of the
iovernment measures, evidently sought to con-
ciliate the irate agriculturists. The amiable
effort has, however, brought heavy reproaches
on his own head from the organs of the interests
whose " protection" the Premier has ventured to
hivade. The Essex Herald—through whose
columns the Essex farmers pour forth their sor-
rows, positive and prospective—refuses to find
consolation in the proffered cup presented by
the hands of the Duke of Rutland. His Grace
had assured the Waltham meeting—and through
that meeting the agricultural interests of the
country—that if the measures, the enactment of
which had occasioned so much apprehension in
their minds, should supply any real grounds of
alarm, those whose policy had inflicted the mis-
chief will set all right again by the employment
of sonic counteracting- measures. The Duke of
Rutland seems to consider the great State
Physician in the light of a mere empiric; who,
it' he has caused a derangement in the system
1w the employment of a pillunsuited to the
constitution, and unfit for allaying the
malady of the patient he undertook to cure, will
try another of the numerous drugs lie has in
his pharmaceutical budget, by the operation
of which he will endeavour to " set all to rights
again." The Government, says his Grace, will
make the most vigorous exertions in order that
things may be set to rights again." Of this the
flit-niers, and the fiirmers' friends, are by no means
sanguine. They rather fear" further changes," of
which those they have recently witnessed with
dismay are but precursive. " Even now," says the
Essex Herald, " with a prospect not very cheer-
ing before them, all the farmers desire is not to
be checked in their exertions by uncertainty, and
the threat of further chanties." The fears of the
Essex farmers are well founded. So sure as the
changes of the late session are now law, further
changes are inevitable. The principles launched,
and the doctrines propounded by Sir Robert Peel
in vindication of those changes, are instinct with
life and energy.
STANDARD.—It can no longer be denied
that England has its war faction as well as
France, and that the most prominent of the or-
gans of that faction in this country are as inde-
fatigable in the pursuit of their common object
as either the National or the Courrier Francais.
M. Thiers, at the most violent crisis of his
war fever, did not rave with greater vehe-
mence of the benefit to be derived from placing
France in collision with all the world,
than do his English imitators against what-
ever policy would seem to have a pacific or
concilatory object. Having done their best to
bring England into collision with two of the
greatest and most respected of her allies, France
and America—having wounded the amour propre
of France by a profitless discourtesy, and pro-
voked the angry feeling of America by needless
and impotent menaces—the British war faction
is, as may be supposed, the first to quarrel with
the policy by which the consequences of its own
rashness and folly have been averted. Having- be-
queathed to their successors a war in India, which
has been attended by disasters of the most appall-
ing descriptiou, and an invasion of China, in which
an enormous amount of life and treasure has
already beta squandered without any result
that can warrant such sacrifice, the organs
of the late Government denounce every manifes-
tation of a desire to terminate so useless and un-
profitable a state of warfare in language of the
most indignant deprecation; and with Out the
opportunity of making themselves acquainted
with the full extent of difficulty bequeathed to
them by their predecessors, stigmatise the pre-
sent Government for the very efforts it is making
to overcome it. Not content with a series of
articles deprecating the respective topics of Lord
Ashburton's treaty with America, the Morniny
Chronicle has fallen upon the correspondence
in which that treaty originated; attributing
to Lord Ashburton the most apathetic dis-
regard of the interests of his country,
because he found himself either unable to carry
all his original propositions, or was induced to
forego them for concessions which lie considered
of equal value. The aim of Lord Ashburton, as
exhibited in the correspondence which has been
so unfairly commented upon, was less the appa-
rent value of the object in dispute than the
establishment of a good boundary line between
the two countries, so as to prevent collision and
dispute, and au unobstructed communication of'
our colonies with each other. This object he ap-
pears to have achieved, and if he could have
accomplished all that he contemplated in the
letters which contained his propositions to
Mr. Webster, no negotiation would, in
point of fact, have been necessary. There
must be two sides to a discussion of
this description; and although it was perfectly
right for Lord Ashburton to make out as strong
a case as possible in support of his propositions,
it by no means follows that he should have ad-
hered to them if he found that anything like an
equivalent could be obtained by their partial
abandonment. To hold Lord Ashburton to the
precise requisitions made by him in the early
stage of his negotiations would be about as ab-
surd as to make a distinguished advocate, who
had secured tbr his client a verdict in a court of
law, with which he is fully' satisfied, and which
averts a hundred future disputes, responsible for
the claims he had felt it his duty to prefer in his
preliminary address to the jury.

ACCIDENT TO THE ISLE OF
THANET STEAMER.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
The Isle of Thanet steamer left Ramsgate on
Monday morning at ten o'clock for London Bridge,
with about 200 passengers, I being one among
the number. Upon reaching the pier at Mar-
gate, we took in above 100 more passengers.
We left the harbour at the same time as the
Royal Adelaide. The Duchess of Kent was
ahead of us off Margate. When off the Recul-
vers, we were, alarmed by the sudden escape of
the steam from a pipe near the chimney, ac-
companied with a tremendous noise, not un-
like that which occurs in blowing off the
steam, but much louder, and the stop-
page of the vessel. The Duchess of Kent, which
was still ahead, instantly turned round, came
alongside of us, and tendered assistance. The
Royal Adelaide came—on the other side; she,
however, not only offered no assistance, hut,
from some circumstance or another, ran against
our paddle-box. Several passengers on board
Our vessel shouted " Shame ! shame !" The
Captain of the Isle of Thanet having stated to
us that the escape of the steam was owing
to a ping having been forced out of one of
the cylinders, and that the accident would be
speedily rectified, we were satisfied ; and, after
a little delay, the steam was got up again, and we
proceeded on our voyage ; but just as we passed
the Isle of Sheppy, another and a loud explosion
of steam took place, which produced the utmost
consternation. The women and children screamed
.and the mate passengers insisted upon hailing
the Duchess of Kent, which was not
ar
our Captain at the same time vociferating, that
there was " no danger." The Duchess of Kent was
happily soon alongside. I with several others
jumped on board the latter vessel, and many
others wished to follow, but the Isle of Thanet.
got away by the command of the Captain. We
proceeded onward, leaving the Thanet behind,
but after the lapse of half an hour we found 11,n.
gaining upon us; she soon passed us, and was
quickly out of sight. Some of us shortly
afterwards retired into the saloon, from
whence we were summoned on deck to witness
the condition of the Thanet. There she
was, about two miles below Gravesend, with her
flag flying half-mast high as a signal of distress,
and her anchor down. Vire instantly went along-
side, and found that the " concentric wheel," con-
nected with the paddle-wheels, had broken, and
consequently the latter could no longer re-
volve. The scene here was indescribably
painful, from the intense anxiety of all to
get on board the Duchess of Kent. The
Captain of the Thanet offered Captain Jones, of
the Duchess of Kent, 20/. to take his passengers,
which the latter accepted. Havity, got all safe
on board, the Duchess of Kent again started for
town, and after landing a great many persons at
Black wall, we started for London Bridge, where
we safely arrived at ten minutes past eight
o'clock. It is but justice to say that Captain
Jones, of the Duchess of Kent, behaved ex-
ceedingly well throughout these distressing cir-
munstances.

LITERARY NEWS.
(From the Publisher's Circular.)
The beneficial operation of the New Copy-
right Act is already sensibly felt in this country,
and will continue to be more and more per-
,2eived ; for its provisions are so stringent, and its
penalties so severe, against piracy, that those
who have hitherto trafficked in it with impunity,
now pause and tremble. Circulating libraries in
all parts of the country are compelled to dis-
continue purchasing (even had they any longer
the opportunity) and lending out a single copy
of a foreign edition of an English work. The
mere having it in their possession, ticketed and
marked as a library book, exposes them to the
101. penalty. The immediate consequence is,
that the libraries are forced io purchase legiti-
mate copies of English works. But a remoter
and far more important consequence may be
perceived : this effect of the new law will tend to
the publication and circulation of works of more
solid merit than we have for some time been
accustomed to in libraries of this description.
But while this good effect is produced at home,
we trust it will extend to the Colonies, to which
the Act is expressly extended, and where it is
of the utmost importance that it should be vigo-
rously and faithfully carried out. At present,
they purchase almost exclusively these pirated
American and French copies of English books,
both tbr libraries and individuals. The publish-
ing and export houses at home have only to put
their foreign agents on the qui vice, and we shall
soon have to report the same beneficial effects in
our colonial possessions, which, with gratitude to
the Legislature, we now announce that we are
experiencing at home.
• "A Continuation of Rotteck's Universal His-
tory" has been published in German, by K. H.
Hermes, under the title of " Geschichte der
Letzten 25 Jahre" (History of the last Twenty-
five Years), in two volumes. It is written in a
truly liberal spirit, and a plain, unpretending
style; and receives a certain kind of unity from
its commencing with the formation of the Holy
Alliance, and then pursuing the events in the
light of the ideas which actuated the Sovereigns
who formed that celebrated alliance. Accord-
ing to the author's opinion, the spell with which
they had nearly succeeded in binding the conti-
nental nations was first broken by the late Mr.
Canning's celebrated toast at Harwich—" Li-
berty, civil and religious, all over the world!"
" Der Deutsche Oberrhein" (The German Up-
per Rhine during the Wars from the Peace of
Westphalia to the year 1801), by C. —de la
Roche; Stuttgard, 1842.—" Der freie Deutsche
Rhein" (The Free German Rhine), by H. B.
Oppenheim.—The first of these works recall the
recollection of Germany to the intrigues and
cruel devastations with which the French have
for centuries acted against her, in order to push
their frontiers to the Rhine, and to distract,
weaken, and enslave the German people. The
second gives a history of the rapacious legisla-
tion and fiscal institutions by which German
Princes and Nobles, and in more recent times
France, and still more Holland, have impeded
the navigation of that fine river, and crippled
German industry and commerce. National
unity, security of frontiers, and extension of
trade and manufactures, are the three leading
ideas which now actuate the German mind, and
seem to be more and more affecting German
literature. Even some time before they ob-
tained such a leading influence, the best intel-
lects of the nation began to turn from works of
imagination to researches in history; and now
that a practical end for these researches has been
found, the number of labourers in this depart-
ment has been increasing every year. The Ger-
mans are evidently descending from the region
of the clouds to our firm earth; and as they are
in earnest in all they do, we entertain no doubt
that within a very few years they will on this
practical stage astonish and affect the world even
more than they have done in the regions of ima-
gination and pure thought. It is for this reason
that we have so often invited the attention of our
readers to works of this character issuing from
the German press.
A small volume on the liberty of the press in
England, published at Berlin in 1841, has lately
fallen into our hands, which presents a clear and
concise account, not only of the Libel-law as it
it now exists, but also of its history, in this coun-
try. To ;us, who are no lawyers, it conveyed
much information; and we have no doubt it
would do so to others, and would therefore, in an
English dress, be welcome to many who know
nothing of this law byits " glorious uncertainty."

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

DOWNING-STREET, OCT. 4, 1842.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Gen. Sirßobert
Thomas Wilson, Rut., to be Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over the city and garrison of Gibraltar ;
and her Majesty has been further pleased to appoint the
said Sir Robert Thomas Wilson to be Vice-Admiral of
the same.

DOWNING-STREET, OCT. 4.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Major H.
Havelock, of her Majesty's 13th Regiment of Foot, to be
a Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of
the Bath.

Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint the
following Officers, in the service of the East India Com-
pany, to be Companions of the said Order :
Brevet Major J. Fraser, of the 11th Regiment of Bengal
Light Cavalry.
Rrevet Major A. Abbott, of the Bengal Artillery.
Brevet Major C. E. T. Oldfield, of the sth Regiment 'of
Bengal Light Cavalry.
Brevet Major G. Broadfoot, of the 34th Regiment of
Madras Native Infantry.
Brevet Major (local rank in Affghanistan) George Hall
M'Gregor, of the Bengal Artillery.
WAR-OFFICE, OCT. 4, 1842.
BREVET.—To be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army—
Major R. Pattison, of the 13th Regt. of Foot.
To be Majors in the Army—Capt. H. Havelock, of
the 13th Regt. of Foot ; Capt. A. P. S. Wilkinson, of
the 13th Regt. of Foot ; Capt. H. Wade, of the 13th
Regt. of Foot ; Capt J. H. Fenwick, of the 13th Regt.
of Foot.

To be Majors in the Army in the East Indies only—Capt.
A. Abbot, Bengal Artillery ; Captain C. E. T. Oldfield,
of the sth Regt. Bengal Light Cavalry ; Captain G.
Broadfoot, of the 34th Madras Native Infantry ; Capt.
T. Seaton, of the 35th Bengal Native Infantry ; Capt.
IL P. Burn, of the Ist Bengal Native Infantry ;
Capt. E. R. Mainwaring, of the 16th Bengal Native In-
fantry ; Capt. J. B. Backhouse, of the Bengal Artillery;
Capt. A. G. F. J. Younghusband, of the 35th Bengal
Native Infantry.
To be Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, with the rank of
Colonel in the Army in the East Indies only—Lieut.-
Col. T. Monteath, of the 35th Bengal Native Infantry.
To have the local rank of Major in Affghanistan—
'Lieut. G. H. .M‘Gregor, of the Bengal Artillery.
The above Commissions to bear date Oct. 4, 1842.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 22, 1842.
Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint James Hook,
Esq., in the room of Michael Linning Melville, Esq.,
promoted, to be her Majesty's Commissioner of Arbitra-
tion in the Mixed British and Foreign Courts Commis-
sion established at Sierra Leone, under the Treaties and
Conventions with Foreign Powers for the suppression of
the slave trade.

ADMIRALTY, OCT. 1842.
Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieut. John Frazer
to be Captain, vice Palliser, deceased • Second Lieut.
David Blyth to be First Lieut., vice Frazer, promoted,
September 29.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Glamorganshire.
Royal Glamorgan Light In ..;,ntry Battalion of Militia
—T. Bassett, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, Sept. 22..
WHITEHALL, OCT. 1.

In pursuaoce of an act passed in the third year of the
reizn of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, in-
tituled " An Act for regulating Schools of Anatomy,"
the Right Hon. Sir James Robert George Graham,
Bart., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for the Home Department, has appointed Rutherford
Alcock and John Bacot, Esqrs., to be Inspectors
of Anatomy in England and Wales ; and Andrew Wood,
Doctor in Medicine, to be Inspector of Anatomy in
Scotland.

The following places have been duly registered for
solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act 6th
aid 7th William IV., cap. 85 :
St. Marie's Catholic Church, Bury, Lancashire.
St. Mary's Chapel, Llanarth, Monmouthshire.
Caledonian Church, Ridley Villas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.