The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-15 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH, Aran. 13.—1 t is now certain that neat month
Sir David Milne, G.C.8., Admiral of the White, will succe:d.
Sir Graham Moore, Bart.. G.C.B.' G. C. M. G., as the Corn-.
mander- in-Chief at this port. Sir Graham is a brother of Ow
immortal hero of Corunna. He will leave this command uni-
versally respected arid beloved, as well for the proper discharge;
of his official public duties as fur his and Lady Moore's numer-.
ous private charities. His successor is an old and much dis-
tinguished officer in her Majesty's navy. At Edinburgh, near
which city the Gallant Admiral resides, a number of the most
respectable inhabitants invited him to a public dinner, where
they expiessed their respect for him and their gratification at
his appt.intment.
The Caledonia, 120, flag-ship, will:be paid off on the Porte
Admiral striking his flag, and will be re-commissioned for tb'e..
flag of Sir David Milne.
The Scylla, 16, Commander R. Sharpe, will be towed out
of harbour into the Sound to-day.
The Agincourt, 72, Captain H. W. Bruce, is ordered to to
hastened in her fitting, her services being urgently required.
Two flat-bottomed boats, now in this establishment, are or•
dered to be supplied to this ship for service at China. They
being of large dimensions, and the construction of their bottom s.
enabling them to be taken into very mallow water, it is though .‘
they will be found of infinite value.
The Malabar, 72, Captain Sir G. R. Sartorius, Knt.,i
dered to this port from the Mediterranean. She was at Gib-
raltar on the 31st ult , where she was relieved by the Formida-
ble, 84, Captain Sir C. Sulivan, Bart. On her arrival her,.
she will turn part of her crew over to the America, not they
Agincourt. as that ship has her full complement), and then it is
said she will be fitted as a troop-ship. The Malabar has beer.
absent from this port only four months.
The Wizard, 19, Lieutenant Commander J. B. Somervillo,.
arrived here this morning from the West Indies.
The Alban, steam-vessel, Master Commander J. King,
arrived here on Sunday from Liverpool. She towed tho
/Etna, receiving ship, Commander J. Wilson, out of Livei..
pool, into the Channel, on her leaving that port, the i'Etru,
services being no longer required there. The /Etna came n.
this morning.
The convict-ship Susan arrived here this morning from*
Deptford. She has On board 150 convicts, which number she
shipped at Sheerness. She will take on board 180 mere from,
the establishment at this post and sail for Van Diemen's Land.
The Netley tender, May ;nester, arrived on Sunday from
Cork, with supernumeraries.
The Goodwill lighter, Grundy master, sailed to-day with.;
stores for Sheerness and Chatham.
In the Sound—The Wizard, the /Etna, and the Spy.
At the Island—The Rover.
In Hamolize in commission—The Caledonia,•the San Josrf.
the Agincourt, the Scylla, the Philomel, the Resistance, tlw•
Crocodile; the Kite and Alban steam-vessels; the Sylph and
the Netley tenders; the Tortoise and the Devon lighters.
In Duck—The Canopus, 80, fitting for commission, new
dock; the I3ellona, 72, fitting for a receiving ship, head dock;
the Implacable, fitting for service, stern dock ; the Wolf,
sloop, fitting for commission, south dock.
Building—The Albion, 90, on slip No. 1, to be finished by
August—the party working in this ship commenced their la-
bours this morning Their hours are from five in the mornin:'
to seven in the evening ; the Exmouth, 90, slip No. 2; th
Aboukir, 90, slip No. 3 ; the Flora, 46, slip No. 4.

SUICIDE OF ARELIEVING OFFICER.—The little towi
of Shoreham, Sussex, was thrown into a state of consideraV
excitement yesterday (Thursday) morning by the report tha
Puttock, the relievtng Officer of the Stcyning Union, had shy,
himself. The report proved to be true. Puttock resided nea
Henfield, and was in the habit of attending the meetini
of the Board of Guardians at Shoreham on Wednesday:.
He drove to Shoreham on Wednesday afternoon; but, it, •
stead of going to the meeting himself, he sent a boy wit ,
his bag. Ire put his horse and cart up at the BridE,
ti
er
Inn, which is occupied by Mr. Mechen, where he too
some refreshment. Between live and six o'cl
on came t
ock he wei
out, and shortly after he was gone some p
inquire for him. He was not to be found,. About seve
o'clock in the evening a little girl went to the water-clos
at the back of Mechen's house, and finding the door fastene,
she came away. Another person ~ent to the place about
quarter before eleven, and the tloor was still fastened. Th
landlord was apprised of the circumstance, and he immediatel
took means to force the doer oiler, when he discovered the
dad
that
pistolwoitthhpa in each Land. It was evi
dent i stos off; the first one had merely
e body
h ofe had fired
, both
scarred his cheek, and the bullet was found in the wall; bti;
the second one:had taken a fatal effect, having goad through,
the skull. The bullet was extracted by Mr. Bore, surgeon, o't
Shoreham, from between the skull and the scalp. He ha
been relieving officer to the union ever since the passing of the
New Poor-law Bill, but what induced him to put an end ti'
his existence wo have not heard. _ _ .

•
YORK CATIIEDRAL.-011 Thursday last, the grea• ,
tenor bell was raised to its position in the S.W. tower of out
Cathedral. Its weight is 2 tons, 13 cwt., 3 qrs. We under
stand that in about a fortnight we may expect to hear its sone
rous tone—publishing to our citizens the hour as they pis
When it was raised from the ground, the master of the worl,.
Mr. Dent, struck a blow at it, and the sound was found to
extremely sweet.—York Courant.
The Journal de Caen says that the gossips of ti
town of Pontorson have been lately in a state of agitation, i s
consequence of a strong and heavy chest,
.bound with it u
clasps, and shut with padlocks, being found in a house latel
purchased by aM. T.—. The new propretor, in inakin
some changes in his acquisition, came accidentally on the tre.,
sure-trove—for so the gossips of the town declare it to be
But the contents of the chest are unknown, except to the owner,
who keeps the secret to himself.
We find the following in a letter from Nuremberg.,
given by the Jouriuy (1e Fraucfort :—" The King has order
that some distinguishing mark shall be put upon the how 0.,
which was occupied by Palm, the bookseller, who was shot 13,,t
order of Napoleon, for having preferred death in the cause of th. 4
honour and liberties of Germany to an infamous denunciation.

,~P•IRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
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GLOBE.—Ministers have got the* income tax
majority—much good may it do them. Our readers
will remember (we may at least be allowed to put.
them in mind) that, on the f est introduction of the
Peel Budget, we admitted the Opposition were, in II
great measure, disabled from resisting the pro-
ject effectually by the defectiveness of thel
Whig Budget in providing for the immediate finan-
cial exigency. The practical demands of the day are
what are first. looked to by the English public—and
the late Ministers expiated their short comings of those.
demands by the failure "of effective support from tlae
most active and influential classes. The present TN,
nisters, as it appears to us, have risked discredit 'With
those classes by the opposite course of exaggFr.ating
the demands of the present crisis, and throw] n the
burthen of making them good too heavily Oil
the, middle
and mercantile classes. The Whig fault was a, fault of
weakness ; the Tory fault is a fault of dam-strength.
If the late Mhiatry are to he blamed, it is for not
having thrown 'the reins of Government sooner to
those who now hold them : but to their last acts, it
-oust be remei nhered, we owe the first acts of the
present, so far, as those are of Liberal tendency.
What the pi:esent Government have exclusively
to themselves is the responsibility of the income tax.
We are much mistaken if this responsibility will
prove a light :matter. Is it supposed that, in its pre-
t shape,
m. ch a tax can be permanent ? The inten-
tion is discbii med on the part of its authors. We are
not to have a , permanent income tax. So they tell us ;
and whateve: they may mean, the public will hold
them to thei r word. But, on the strength of their
income tax, they are actually preparing to part
gratuitously with 1,200,000/. of revenue from a pro-
ductive and unobnoxious impost l They are doing
this in thee face of an annual deficit, only filled un
by an incce ne tax ! We desire to know how, as
matter of principle, their conduct differs in this re-
spect from t bat of their predecessors, whom they charge
so vehemently with relinquishing 1,500,0001. from
the Post-ofi ice? Is it the 300,0001. that makes the
difference between prudence and imprudence ? It
will be replied that our finances may, be expected to
have improry ed five years hence. The same plea
may be urg d for the probable increase of the post-
age, and other revenues. All that is clear at
present is, that Ministers, with the warning example
before ther a--for as such they choose to parade it—of
their Whit ; predecessors, with the ruinous effects of
their cond tact, as they choose to assert, staring us in
the face, it a itate that example in the very first steps of
their cow se, abandon a tax, the abandonment of
which was not even asked for by the public, and do
this at a moment when the accumulated dangers of
deficiency have forced them, as they say, on an im-
post so odious that they dare not proclaim it' perma-
nent—so odious, we add, that the public will take
good care that they shall not make it so !
STAND. ARD.—The adjourned debate upon the
income tax -terminated last night in the adoption of
the measure by a decisive majority—a majority of
one hundred and six, in a House of 51.5 Members.
The numbers were—for bringing up the Report, 308;
against it, 2:02. It is thus that the representatives of
the people Eh! England proclaim to Europe, and to the
world, their determination to maintain the honour and
interests of their country, at whatever sacrifice may
be necessary. We have 'lately heard much of the
confession of weakness involved in resorting to an
income tax. We are willing to trust to the
judgment, of the world for the decision, whe-
ther to. go on year after year, nursing defi-
cieneks after deficiencies into cumbrous debts, or
getting rid of deficiency and debt by a bold, ener-
getic, and generous sacrifice, is the greater proof
of f,veakness. The most intelligent of the, foreign
jor.rnals has already given its decision on the matter.
"lhe late news from India," says the .journal des
Debats, " was received in England with a profound
feeling of pain ; but likewise with remarkable dig-
nity. *1 41 * The eminently practical and positive
spirit of the English has postponed all other conside-
rations to a future period. They are occupied in esti-
mating the real injury sustained, in taking measures to
repair it, and acting with all the energy the gravity
of circumstances requires." This is a true picture of
what is nowpassing in this country, and a very faith-
ful indication of the character and temper of the
British nation ; our great poet has described them
with inimitable precision and force :

" Beware
Of entrance into a quarrel, but being in
Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee."

This is the nationalTharacter, and to a nation or to
an individual such a character is the highest claim of
respect and good-will, the safest guarantee. against
wrong or insult. It is not by the amount of the resources
of the wealthiest people in the world that the safety
of danger of provoking a quarrel with that people
is to he measured, Init by the greater oiless prompti-
tti&- with which they will use those means their pos-
session of Which can be doubtful tu•nO one. In this
' light we cannot but regard. the Ministerial victory Of
last light as of the highest political importance—as the:
cheap and bloodleSs equivalent
.of, many military
triumphs.
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ELECTION COMMITTEES.
Ipswich.
(Continued froth our Afternoon Edition.)
The question basing been objected to, the Committee de-
eided, af'er considerable: discussion, that the witness might be
asked, whether there was a report in the borough that bribery
had been practised by both parties.
The witness stated that there had been a report to that effect.
James Adams was next examined—Witness stated that he
hard Mr. Wason say. in a speech which he had made at the
Bell Tavern, that. there was a report that he would not
come down to Ipswich again, and that he had got no money ;
" but," said Mr. Wason, Rigby Wason has come again, and
has money; and neither 1.0001. 2,000/. or 3,000!. expense will stop
him." Mr. Wason used to visit thehouses at which his friends
were in the habit of a,seunbling. Witness had seen Mr. Wason
and Mr. Rennie together at the warehouse, near the market-
place.

- The ero‘s-examination of the witness was commenced, but
had not concluded at the rio!ng of the Committee.

LONG FORD. I=l DAY.
The Committee met yesterday at eleven o'clock, and pro-
ceeded to the examination of the qualification of John Dogherty.
Henry Johnson was called and examined as to a qualifica-
tion, and deposed that, it was of the value of 11. 6s. 6d. per
acre, per annum, a value which would not amount to a quali-
fication.

An argument on the iWerpretation of the worth " clear
yearly value," ensued, which continued till four o'clock, when
the Committee adjourned; Mr. Robinson resumes his argu-
ments to-morrow.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals—Her Majesty's ship Wizard, Somerville, from the
Cape of Good Hope, at Plymouth, sailed Feb. Ist, St. Helena,
13th ; Barbara, from Mauritius, off Crookhaven, sailed Dec. 13.
Arrivals at St. lielena—Ons Genonen, Feb. 10, from Ba-
tavia to Amsterdam; Russell, 11th, fvom Manilla, and
sailed 12th to Boston ; Batavia, Pronk, I 1 th, from Batavia,
and sailed 13th to Rotterdam ;;Gezins, Abdoll Aerdt Van Nes,
Bodeman, and Stad Schiedam de Boer, 11th, all from Ba-
tavia, and sailed 12th to Amsterdam; Fortarshire, M'Carthy,
from China and Singapore, sailed 13th to London ; Mary,
Severance, from whaling to New Bedford ; Otterspool, Little,
12th, from Calcutta to Cork ; Seymour, Davies, 12th, from
Calcutta, and sailed 12th to London ; Minstrel; Burton, 13th,
from Manilla to London ; Unioa barque, 13th, passed for —.
Departures from St. Helena—City of London, Martin, Feb.
10th, to London; Olga, 11th, to Hamburgh; Mary, Robertson,
to Cork; Countess of Dunmore, Snowden, to Amsterdam ;
Pondicherry, to Bordeaux ; Sarah, Heidrick, and Trusty, Els-
don, 12th, to London. _ •

Admiralty, April 12, 1842.
Slll,—l am commanded by my Lords' commissioners of the
Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Com-
mittee for managing the affairs of Lloyds, that her Majesty's
sloop, Scylla, and the Alban, steam-vessel, have been ordered
to the Chops of the Channel, to assist any merchant ship de-
tained thereby the easterly winds.
I am, Sir, &c. &c.,

. .
(Signed) JOHN BARROW.
To William Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyds.

CHINA AND INDIA.

The view the Treasury authorities have taken re-
specting the " Odium Scrip" given by Captain El-
hot, as indemnification for the drug delivered for
destruction by the British merchants, at Canton,
when the first rupture occurred there, in refusing
the allocation of any portion of the ransom money
for the liquidation of it, is naturally regarded by
them as ominous of a total rejection of their claims,
ttnd therefore the last letters from India mention the
subject with some degree of concern to their con-
nexions here : seeing that the appeal which was
made for the appropriation of the " sycee silver"
to this purpose was not entertained, but that it was
specifically held to he a droit of the Crown, the
holders of the scrip despair of Parliament ever
making good their loss from the public exchequer,
inasmuch as it is stated, that although no doubt the
primary demand of Sir 11. Pottinger, when the
Emperor is brought to reason, will be the reim-
bursement of the expenses of the war, these will have
swelled to so large an amount, that any consideration
which might be entertained for the 2,000,0001., the
estimated value of the drug
destroyed, will be fore-
borne, should it in-any
measure be su o-ed to im-
pede the other and
i larger settlement. finder these
circumstances, it ssaid, not, however, with the idea
e
of weakening the rights of parti whoever hold the Go-
vernment responsible for such claims, but rather as a
mitigation of their loss, should the Treasury'it i
autho-
rities still exclude them fram relief,
consolation to learn that the loss, thatsustainedsb somethe
delivering of the 20,000 chests of opium toy the
Chinese has been, if not altogether, in a great mea-
sure,
made up by the gains which the merchants have
made in their subsequent opium transactions. The
destruction of so large a quantity of the drug did not
fail to give it an enhanced v i alue n the market, and
thus contributed to reimburse those who had been
sufferers.
The report of the Agricultural Society of India
had made its appearance just prior to the despatch of
the journals received by the last overland mail, but
Unaccompanied by the papers which are read at the
usual meetings, and which illustrate the progress
Made in the various experiments of cultivation. It,