The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-14 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTISMOUTH, JAN. 12.—John Bates, Esq., Master,
RN., azd Secretary to the Royal Yacht Squadron, is in-
vited to give his professional aid in piloting the King of
Prussia. to England. He is an officer possessing a tho-
rough pr actical knowledge of the North Sea.
A Sele ct Committee of Naval Officers is now sitting in
London, of which Admiral Sir Byam Martin, G.C.8.,
is President, to determine on certain sn:gestions relative
to the pu rsors of the Navy. Extensive changes are said
to be in: 'contemplation by the Admiralty as to the emo-
luments. and designation of this class of officers. The
title of Commissary is likely to be%ubstituted, and a fixed
salary, instead of the present allowances.
Ord, ors have been received at Chatham to expedite the
Formi. fable, 84, and at Sheerness for the Alfred, 50, to
proceed to Spithead immediately. The former will join
the sqv tadron to proceed to Ostend for the King of Prus-
sia, acc:ompanied by the frigates Vindictive and War-
spite, a .nd the Firebrand steam-yacht. They are to be
ready Tpy the 15th instant.
The Winchester, 50, Captain Carter, and Racer, 16,
Commander Harvey, are on their way home from the
West Indies, to be paid off. The former will go to
Chathiai, and dm latter to Plymouth.
Tha ,steamer Rhadamanthus, Mr. Laen, master, is
daily 100 ked for from Woolwich, on her way to Gibraltar
with nay al and military stores, and a detachment of sap-
pers and miners for the garrison.
The l Cambrian, 36, Captain Chads, C. 8., with Loisd
Ellenbot rough, Governor-General of India, on board, ar-
rived ea, Teneriffe on the 22d November, according to
letters received in this neighbourhood.
The, Conway, 26, Captain Bethune, is in the harbour,
from China and the East Indies, having brought home
upwards of two millions and a half of dollars. Several
invalidef I officers and seamen came passengers, and the
ship wil 1 haul down the pendant on Friday.
The ...Lynx, 3, Lieutenant Burslem, is to go to the
West It Idia station from Lisbon, to follow the Heroine,
10, Lim itenant Stewart.

The. Volage, 26, Captain Sir W. Dickson, Bart., has
sailed far Barbadoes and Jamaica, with despatches for
Vice—Admiral Sir Charles Adam, Commander-in-Chief.
Thm .America, 50, similar to the Warspite, is ordered
to be. -prepared for commission at Plymouth, and the
Ear,-te, .50, at Chatham.
The Clueen, 110, Hag-ship of Sir Edward Owen, is at
Spitheac 1, daily adding to her complement ; but it is not
expect e, .1 that she will sail for the Mediterranean before
the earl y part of February.
The . Powerful, 84, i 5 to be docked forthwith for re-
eoramist ;lolling. Several of her crew have volunteered
for ship sin the river.
Ths.*Carysfort, 26, Captain Lord George Paulet, is in
the b as in, getting on with her equipment for foreign
servie c, •

Tho President, 50, Captain Broughton, according to
letters. of the 12th October, is expected to be in Eng-
land, with Rear-Admiral Ross, in the early part of
Marc h.. Rear-Admiral Thomas had not reached Valpa-
raiso at that date.
At Sp!lthead—Queen, 110 ; Warspite, 50.
In Ha rbonr—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Royal
George yacht, Vindictive, Carysfort, Conway, Rapid,
Nautilus, and Echo steamer.—Brighton Gazette.

. ,
We hear that, among other things which are in
conte%np lation at the Post-office, it is intended that all
letters p: repaid by money, not by stamps, shall be charged
double F postage. The object of this change is to diminish,
if not I entirety suppress, accounts between the Post-
masters and the General Post-office.—Brighten Gazette.
We hear that Mr. G. Finch will probably be the
new Le rd Lieutenant of Rntlandshire, which office is now
vacant; by the removal of the Alarquis of Exeter to
Nort'aa. mptonshire.—Brighten Gazette.
MU RDEROUS A/TRAT AT CROYDON.—
Th.e tav 711 of Croydon has been thrown into a state of
great ex citement in consequence of the life of one of the
engine-4 lrivers, in the employ of the London and Croydon
J Company, named Thomas Archer, having been
' nearly sacrificed to the passionate violence of another
driver.. mimed Robert Jobson, in the employ of the same
comp se The two-men were engaged on the engines
attaeb:o4 to the trains running from the slip at New
Cross to Croydon. Some disagreement took place about
their c ut vines, and a scuffle ensued, when Jobson getting
Archer to the bar of the engine, forced him back, and,
grasie ig a heavy hammer, struck him several blows on
the for eh ead, inflicting severe contusions, and the unfor-
tunate oat to was carried into a building, called the watch-
house, ad joining the terminus, in apparently a dying
condition . Jobson, on Tuesday night underwent an ex-
with:tat:fa i at the house of the County Magistrates.
Wm. dal bb, an assistant at the coal wharf of the termi-
nus at Cit oydon, and two other witnesses, gave evidence
corrobor Ative of the particulars as above stated. It was
stated Is 3 the surgeon that the condition of Archer
would r to t admit of any depositions being taken, as any
exeitsm at might prove fatal. He still lies in the place
to whio ix he was first taken, the surgeons having directed
that he . should not be removed. Upen being visited
yestere ety by Mr. Gregory, 1i 3 pector Collier, and two
other • per sons, he uttered t ) out six words, and then
faintec L Jobson was admitted to bail by the Magis-
trate, ttiti Iself in 1001, and two sureties in 50/. each.

ROYAL CHRISTENINGS.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
" What is this,
That rises like the issue of a king,.
And wears upon his baby-brow the round
And top of sovereignty ?"—Macbeth.
The approaching ceremony of the Christening
of the Infant Prince of Wales being the all-
engrossing topic of conversation, and as such
auspicious events do not frequently occur, it may
not be uninteresting to many of your numerous
readers, if I give a brief- detail of a Royal
Christening that took place in the northern part
of this island ; and, in many respects, as inter-
esting and important, as the forthcoming one. I
mean the Christening of the infant Prince
JaMes the Sixth, of the unfortunate Stuart race.
On the 19th June, 1569, in a small room on the
ground-floor, in the south-east corner of the
Castle of Edinburgh, the unhappy Mary, Queen
of Scots, was delivered of a Prince, in whose per-
son the crowns of both kingdoms were afterwards
happily united..
‘,‘ Uniting into one, both Crowns he claims,
And then, conjunctively, Great Britain names?'
The ceremony of christening the .young Prince
was performed with all possible splendour. To
meet- the extraordinary expenditure occasioned
by entertaining so many Ambassadors as were
assembled at the -Ceremony, the Queen levied an
assessment of twelve thousand pounds. It was
managed thus:--The Privy Council called a
meeting, both of the Lords Spiritual and Tempo-
ral, and of the representatives of the burghs, and
informed them that some of the greatest Princes
in Christendom, had requested permission . to
witness, through their Ambassadors, the baptism
of the Prince. It was therefore moved, and
unanimously carried, that their Majesties should
be allowed to levy a tax for " the honourable
expenses requisite."
Still Mary 'was placed in great difficulty on
the occasion, with regard to her own feelings and
the innovations of the Reformers, now esta-
blishsd as the National Church of Scotland.
This was natural enough, but it may perhap?..be
by sonic considered that she went a step beyond
the bounds of prudence, by inviting the Pope's
Nuncio to be present, as she must have been
aware that it would only excite the ire of a great
majority of her own subjects, and of the English
Ambassador, the Earl of Bedford, who had
been specially deputed by Elizabeth on the
occasion, how much soever it might have
pleased the Catholic Ambassador of France
and Savoy. Mary, however, perceived all
the evil consequences of the Nuncio's pre-
sence, in sufficient time to countermand the in-
vitation, and prevent his untoward arrival. The
baptismal ceremony was performed according to
the rites of the Romish Church, within her own
chapel, which neither the Earl of Bedford or any
Protestant Lords entered. De Brienne, the
French Ambassador Extraordinary, carried the
Prince between two rows of nobility and oentry,
to the chapel, where, at the door, the Archbi-
shop of St. Andrew's, assisted by the Bishops
•of Dunblane,i Dunkeld, and Ross, received the
infant. The Countess of Argyle. held the child
at the font, and the Archbishop baptised him
by the name of " Charles James, James
Charles, Prince and Steward of Scotland, Duke
of Rothsay, Earl of Carrick, Lord of the Isles,
and Baron of Renfrew," and these names and
titles were proclaimed .three times by heralds,
with sound of trumpet. It was the Queen's
pleasure that he should bear the name of
James (after his father), together with Charles,
after the King of France. Among the various
presents that were made on this occasion, the
Earl of Bedford brought from Elizabeth a pre-
sent of a magnificent font of pure gold, curiously
wrought, and valued at 3,000 crowns. In her in-
structions to Bedford, she desired him to say, jo-
cularly, that it had been made as soon as she
heard of the Prince's birth, and that it was large
enough then, but that, as he had now, she sup-
posed, outgrown it, it might be kept for the next
child. Along with the English Ambassador came
Robert Cary, (afterwards created by this very
Prince, Lord Falkland), and many of Elizabeth's
gallant cavaliers, on whom Mary made a most
favourable impression, as indeed she did on all
who were admitted to the honour of her society.
A succession of masques and banquets followed,
but in none did Darnley, her consort, take a part.
Subsequent events will inform the reader why lie
took no share in them.
Elizabeth was not wrong in supposing that
her font had grown too small for the infant
Prince. .He was a remarkably stout and healthy
child, and " made his gossips feel his weight in
their arms." Miry was very proud of her son,
and from his. earliest infancy the establishment
of his household was on the most princely scale.
The Lady Mar was his governess; Margaret Little,
the spouse of Alexander Gray, burgess of Edin-
burgh,
,was his " head-dresser," and for her
.good services there was granted to her and her
husband part of the lands of the King's-barns, in
Fife, during their lives: the chief nurse had
four or five women under her, " keeping,of the
Prince's clothes," &c.; five ladies of distinction
were appointed to the honourable office of
" rockers" of the Prince's cradle. At the same
early age the child had a master cook, a.fore-
man, and three other servants. He had three
" chalmer-chields," one " furnisher of coals,"
and one pastry-cook. Five musicians completed
the number of his household. Such was the
christening of James Stuart, afterwards King of
Great Britain.

CORN-LAW PROTESTANTISM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR—The author, of a keen and trenchant
" octavo of four pages," entitled A Letter to
Esq., by a Member of the
WilbrahamArti.eorrii
itEgerton,
lvL eagu
has forwarded to me as
pabulum for our correspondence, a Letter to the
same quarter in reply, which he 'informs me, I
imagine upon public notoriety or report, is the
production of a reverend orator of " over good
Protestant" celebrity.
As the reverend orator, about the period of
the late elections, was- pleased to pick me out
for less of marked civility than it would be my
desire to bestow on an individual of opposite
political opinions, there appears no powerful
reason ,why anything like a self-denying ordi-
nance should be passed on the present occasion.
And first, I feel taken with a fit of Protest-
antism, which forces tne to protest against a
writer's signing himself "An incessant, labo-
rious, and withal a happily contented OPERA-
TIVE, in my lawful calling," ifthe fact is, that he
is a vigorous ecclesiastic looking perhaps to
lawn sleeves. Without contesting whether this
was meant to deceive, it does deceive. Before
being introduced to the reality, I had met with
well-gleaning citizens, whose minds were racked
with the idea that a letter of dreadful import had
been written to Sir Wilbraham, which had caused
the dumb to speak in the person of an operative
torn by imperious patriotism from his loom.
And small in comparison would probably have
been the alarm, if the reverend person in ques-
tion had been known to be the trumpeter.
The objector the reply, so far as it is compressi-
ble, appears to, be to confound bad laws and no
laws, and make the first to pass under-the-terror
of the other. "Tom, and Dick, and Harry," are
lectured on the dreadful consequences of having
no laws at all; and then they are expected to go
home, and be heard praying for the preservation
of the squires and the eorri-laws. Harry is
touched also on the subject of his wife; in the
hope that in some way he will identify her with
a tax upon his bread. Law, we are assured, in-
volves Order; and the Infidel and the Anti-Corn-
law League desire Equality. From which it is
presented to the
Working Classes as a neces-
sary corollary, that the squires should have a
duty on foreign corn to keep it out, and not the
industrious classes have a bounty to bring it in.
The French Revolution is referred to, both by
the first letter-writer arid the second. By the
first, as holding out a lesson to those who per-
severingly oppress; and by the second, to those
whom any possible oppression shall drive into
resistance. Certain unknown horrors to the
wives and daughters of the French, over which
" history draws a veil in trembling agony," are
mainly relied on for the interest of the tragedy.
Is not the real fact, that the ultimate conse-
quences of the Revolution, through many suf-
ferings, have been to raise the French people in
the scale of comfort and happiness, to an extent
of which the less is said the better, in countries
where the power of the church and aristocracy
is yet unchecked?
If the Anti-Corn-law League have no "metal
more attractive," they could not do better than
publish both sides of the correspondence with
which the lord of Tattoli Park has, malgre lui,
been favoured.
Yours very sincerely,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheath, Jan. 13, 1842.

EXTENSIVE ROESERIE S OF WATCHES,
JEWELLERY, &C.—Wednesday information was received
at the various station-houses of the Metropolitan and
City Police, that on the night of Sunday last the pre-
mises of Mr. Thomas Wilson, silversmith, Hall-street,
Spalding, Lincolnshire, was broken open, and robbed of
thirty-six valuable silver watches, and three dozen of
gold wedding rings.
MR. JUSTICE BOSANQUET.—The Learned
Judge, as we stated yesterday, has sent in his resig-
nation ; but as the usual forms on such occasions have
not yet been gone through, no successor to his Lordship,
as one of the judges of the Common Pleas, has at pre-
sent been appointed.

:OYAL SURREY THEATRE.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE

AND MR. WILLIS JONES.

Upwards of 30,000 persons have witnessed the Pantomime at
this Theatre, pronounced the beat of the Season.
THIS EVENING, JAN. 14

Will be actedalsi;wlomestic Drama, entitled MADAME
LAFFARGE, from Memoirs written by Herself; supported
by the entire Company.
After which, a Nautical Burletta, entitled JACK JUNK
or, a SEAMAN'S FIRESIDE.—Jack Junk, with Two Songs
Mr. Walton. _

To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK
FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and charac-
teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint
Dresses, ingenious 'Tricks, magnificent Panorama by limn-
thug, &c. Hailequin, M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan-
taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr.
Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe.
Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebers,
Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this pepu-
lar Pantomime.