The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-16 00:00:00

deny to the Noble and Learned Lord the possession
of great talents. ' - few Will be so unjust as to refuse him
the praisp of a kind and patriotic disposition ; -but it
would be the extreme of rashness and injustice too, to as-
cribe to him the smallest imaginable amount ofpolitical
wisdom. Lord Brougham's active life has been em-
ployed, in solving the. problem, how many blunders;
and how much mischief also may be produced by the
exercise of great powers, though directed by a generous
and honest heart, if not governed by modesty and
common sense. We need but name the early doc-
trines. of the ,Edinburgh Review—the Malthusian
philosophy of which his Lordship was the first patron
and promulgator—the new political economy Which has
resulted in so much misery and loss—the premature
abolition -of the income-tax in 1816, from which
our finances hue never yet recovered—lthe political
d,)Litrine •of the7Coble Lord in 1819, • now matured
into Chartism—the - attempt at exciting
.an insur-
rection. in favour of Queen Caroline, an attempt
boastfully avowed—the New Poor-taw; these make
Lord BroUgham's trophy—let any .one say - what
share wisdom had in rearing it. The,New Poor-law
crowns the edifice; and, :as we may see, the the principle
of --the -New -Poor-law is preserved in - the resolutions
before us. Let us, however, look to some of these
resolutions. :. We begin with - the first anti most
im-
portant : ." • .:. . .
" I. That a direc-:, tax upon income ought never to be
resorted to, Illl'el3 in some• great emergency of public
affairs when an extraordinary expenditure may become
unavoidable f)r a time, or in some pressure upon the
finances of the country which can be sustained by no
other means."

- So far this
,is a simple dogma : no attempt is mf2de
to prove the proposition that a direct tax upon income
ought never to be resorted to, except in some extraor-
dinary emergency; but granting, the proposition
proved, which, except for argument sake, w:?, should
be very unwilling to do,.we meet Lord Broughain by
telling him that a case.of extraordinary emergency
has arrived. Is it not a case of extraordinary
emergency, when the revenue of the British empire
has failed to meet its ekpendi'mre—when the ordinary
sources of revenue have been found • incapable of in-
crease—when the attempt to effect a social revolution

for financial purposes has been gravely resorted to by
the Ministers of the Crown, as their sole refuge.from
bankruptcy—is not this a caSe:Of emergency ? We
concede to Lord Brougham that the emergency is not.
the effect of national. poverty ; Heaven forbid that it

were. We know that-Great Britain was never so ric
as at this moment.

SHIPWRECK

ThnJasper„of St. Andrews, Greig, bound from
Leith to Liverpool, with
_gunpowder, herrings, &c.,
drove from' her anchors in Leith Roads, ' during a
heavy gale from.the IV.S.W. on Friday afternoon,
and was run ashore at half-past six P.M., a short dis-
tance east from Cockenzie Harbour. It being then
nearly low water, she took the ground about
150 yards from the rocks. To save the vessel
was impossible ; the only consideration was . how
to rescue the crew from almost inevitable
destruction. At first even the stout-hearted
fishermen considered any attempt to board the ship en-
tirely out of the question. In a short time, however,
Alexander Ross offered the use of his boat (on being
assured that any damage done to it would be made
good) ; and he, John Thomson, and eight other men, gal-
lantly volunteered to endeavour to save the people on
board. The boat was soon atthe water's edge ; but here
the risk and danger commenced. For above an hour
and a half the united strength of between 40 and 50
men could not launch the boat through the surf;
at last she was got afloat, 'amidst the cheers of a
large multitude, and in a few minutes was along-
side of the Jasper. The crew, consisting of Captain
Greig, Thomas Lamb, mate, George Wemyss,
and Robert Stenton, seamen, leaped into the boat;
also the Captain's wife and son ; their youngest
child, about thirteen months old, was thrown from
the deck into the arias of a fisherman, and the
anxious mother was not aware of its preservation
until she reached the, shore. All were landed safely.
A dog left on board was drowned. When the tide
flowed, the vessel drifted upon the rocks, and
went to pieces during the night. At daylight on
3aturday morning, the beach on both sides of
Portseton was strewed with the wreck and cargo.
A. great many barrels of gunpowder have been
saved, and placed above high water mark, like-
wise some barrels of herrings ; a few of the latter
were plundered. A cask of wine, on reaching the
shore, was stove la, and the contents carried off in
cans, &c. Some loose powder was exploded by the
recklessness of a fisherman smoking his pipe near
it. A great part of the, rigging, sails, and spars have
been saved, Before leaving Leith Roads the Jasper
had a signal of distress flying, but no assistance came.
—Edinburgh Evening Courant
DISTRESSING ACCIDEN T.—FOUR LIVES LOST.—

We feel deep regret at having this week to record
an accident which has been attended with loss of
life to . the steward and three_ of the seamen
belonging to her Majesty's revenue cutter, Mer-
maid, Captain Rymer, R.N., Commander. The
vessel lay at the North Queensferry, and on Tues-
day last, about noon, a six-oared boat, with the
same number of men, besides the steward, was sent
ashore to bring coals aboard. The boat was On its
return to the vessel, and at only. a_Aort distance'
from the shot., . • when it shippe4::o'. sea, and im-
mediately filled and Is.;erit down.- ThiCe. or:the men

were saved by means of boats from the shore,
and were conveyed on board in a very exhausted
state. The remaining four were unfortunately
drowned. Their names were— Abraham Mar-
shall, 'the steward, a person, we understand, much
esteemed by his commander, as well as by all who
knew him, a native of,Berwick, and married, but
without a family, aged 32. The other three were
young men about the age of 19 or 20, and did not
belong to Berwick. They were named respectively,
Thomas Hinckley, Casson, and Alfred Stokes.
—Berwick Warder.

DREADFUL HURRICANE AT
SOUTHEND.
On Wednesday night, between eight and nine o'clock,
Southend was visited by a most tremendous storm of
wind and rain, the severity of which has not been
equalled fur many years, and its effectS have been
Most melancholy, and disastrous. The wind blew a
perfect hurricane from the south-east, and the rain fell
in torrents. • Windows were blown in, and slates, tiles,
were hurled in all. direetions. Many persons were
afraid to retire to rest, and others who had done so
were greatly alarmed, as the house's literally shook
(such was the force of the wind), and they were per-
ceptibly rocked in their beds. About half-past twelve
o'clock the tempest began to subside, and day-break
presented to the view the wreck of no fewer than six
boats which had been driven from their anchors, all of
which had sustained serious damage, and many were
completely destroyed, being by the violence of the wind
•drixen against the wharfs and piles of the pier, until
they.were not only complete wrecks, but had the appear-
ance of being chopped up for tire-wood ; such destruc-
tion among the boats here was never before witnessed,
and the most distressing circumstance is, they were
mostly the property of poor hard-working men, who
have no other means of sub6istence. •
The 'Rhoda, of Newcastle, was •driven from her an-
chors on .Shoebury Beach, but got without much
damage. The Ocean Child and Wave, from hence, being
on the look out on Thursday morning, perceived a large
ship on-shore on the Maplin SaUds ; they went to her
assistance, when she proved to be the St. Lawrence,
bound to Malta,•with -Government stores. She had lost
all herL anchors, and sprung a leak, having then two feet
of water in her hold, which afterwards considerably in-
creased. She was taken into Whitstable, and being p2r•
Bally repaired, the next day proceeded to London, with
the crews of the boats, who were compelled incessantly
to Work at the pumps. We believe she arrived in safety: