The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-22 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICA.

LATEST FROM CARTHAGE NA.
(By way of Bermuda.)
The following are particulars of the capture and de-
struction of the Carthagenian fleet by the British man-
or-war brig Charybdis
(From the Royal Gazette Feb. 15.)
IMPORTANT FROM C A RTHAGENA.—Her Majesty's
brig Pilot, Commander Ramsay, arrived here on Fri-
day last from Jamaica and Barbadoes. She brought
some highly interestini, news from Carthagena—no
less than the capture and destruction of the Cartha-
genian fleet by her Majesty's brig Charybdis, Lieut. M.
De Courcy, Commander. We cannot find that the
Pilot has brought a single newspaper giving the par-
ticulars of the action ; we therefore are compelled to
resort to oral information, though we have no doubt of
its correctness. The particulars, as far as we can ascer-
tain, are. that a Colonel Gregg and some other British
subjects, either for some real or imaginary offence,
were incarcerated by the Carthagenian Government.
The Colonel having applied to the British Consul
resident there for protection, that functionary inter-
ested himself on his behalf, but his intercession proving
unsuccessful, he communicated the particulars to Lieu-
tenant De Courcy, of her Majesty's brig Charybdis, then
in the neighbourhood. Lieutenant De Courcy dis-
patched an officer with a letter to the Commodore of the
squadron at anchor in the port, demanding the release
of Col. - Gregg and the other British subjects. This
letter, because it was not written in Spanish, was
treated with contempt, and the bearer with much
hauteur. On the officer's return to the Charybdis,
and reporting these circumstances to his Com-
mander, Lieutenant De Courcy immediately entered
the port; and when proceeding to an anchorage
he was fired into by the Commodore's vessel, a cor-
vette, and the forestay of the Charybdis shot away.
Lieutenant De Courcy then took up a position, and,
however desperate such a proceeding may have ap-
peared on his part, in so small a vessel against so ap-
parently overwhelming a force, he did not overrate the
bravery of his little band, for after a short fight the
corvette surrendered, the Commodore and 25 of his
men having been killed. A brig and three schooners,
that came to the assistance of the corvette, were at-
tacked in turn by the Charybdis. In five minutes
after the Charybdis brought her guns to bear on the
brig she was sunk, and the schooners soon after sur-
rendered.

The Charybdis carries but three guns, one long one
amidships, and two carronades, and her full complement
of officers and men is but 55.

Whatever offence the Carthagenian Government
had received from Colonel Gregg (who, it appears, was
shot immediately after Lieutenant De Courcy's appli-
cation for his release was made) and the other British
subjects whom they had imprisoned, and however in-
formal the Consul's proceedings may prove to hare
been, nothing could justify the contempt offered to
Lieutenant De Courcy's application by the Commodore,
who, poor man, paid dearly for his temerity. We arc
told that Lieutenant De Courcy intends to remain at
Carthagena, with his prizes, till he hears from the Ad-
miral on the subject of their capture, &c.
We trust that Lieut. De Courcy will meet that reward
to which his bravery, in this instance, so well entitles him.
The cause of the fight above alluded to was, that the
brig Jane and Sarah, whilst lying at Sapote, in com-
pany with the sloop Little William, was, on the 6th
ultimo, boarded by Gen. Carmona's squadron, both ves-
sels plundered to a large amount of goods and specie,
crew imprisoned, and Col. Gregg and three other pas-
sengers of the Jane and Sarah shot.

(From the Charleston Mercury.)
FROM ILAVANNAH.

By the United States mail-brig Hayne, Captain
Morris, arrived yesterday, we received a file of Havan-
nab papers to the 15th inclusive.

TROUBLES IN CUBA.

Captain Morris informs us that when he left Havan-
nab. on the 15th inst., there was " considerable excite-
ment" there, owing to a difference of opinion, or some
other difference, between the Governor-General and
the British steam-packet. The latter was going off
without passing her mails through the Post-office,
according to the laws of the place. She was stopped,
and the Governor-General said or swore, that if she
moved out, he would sink her as she passed the Moro.
The matter was still unadjusted when the llayne left ;
the British steamer was lying very quiet, and nobody
knew how it would end. Rumour said the Governor-
General had sent the captain of the steamer word, that
unless he complied with the laws he would imprison
him forthwith. There are the seeds of trouble in this,
and we may as well keep an eye on the progress of Bri-
tish " enterprise" in Cuba. It is quite as interesting as
their doings in China just now.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC; JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—Sir Robert Peel has a motive not only for
everything he does, but for everything he leaves undone;
and we can now clearly • perceive the object with which
he concealed, as long as he possibly could, the measures
he intended to propose when he should become posses-
sed of the Government. Had he cleelarud before the
election the course he designed to pursue, so general
.would have been the indignation excited by his grand
financial scheme, that the country would never
have returned to the House of Commons a majority to
carry his project ; and if, after the elections had termi•
nated, he had made known, on the meeting of Parlia-
ment, the nature of his views, there would have been
time for the nation to reflect upon them during the re-
cess, and the people's representatives would have found,
by communication with their constituents, that the
feeling of the public is powerfully opposed to the plans
of the Minister., Robert Peel has, however, got his
majority, and thinking ho can do as he likes with his own,
he counts confidently upon dragging it after him through
the mire of unpopularity in which all who have a hand
in the imposition of the income tax (in the shape which
the Tory Minister seems resolved it shall bear) must
be inevitably immersed, when the evil consequences,
which are now only partially foreseen, shall come to be
fully and bitterly experienced. The Premier is like
the proprietor of the goose that laid golden eggs ; for,
allowing him* to be master of the majority—which
stands in this instance for the goose—and admitting
that this majority might give him many golden eggs in
the shape of frequent votes in his favour, he is reck-
lessly destroying the goose, in order to get all the gold
at once, for the doom of the present Parliament is sealed
from the day that it gives Sir Robert Peel his income
tax. We would recommend the Tory Members to rouse
themselves from the blind and stupid subserviency into
which they seem to have allowed themselves to fall : if
they had been regularly mesmerised, or subjected to any
other species of humbug. they could not be more com-
pletely at the will of the quack, than they are at the beck
and call of the present Minister.
STANDARD.—We cannot think ourselves uncha-
ritable in assuming that all the complaints. against the
proposed income tax which we hear are either purely
factious, or the promptiegs of the subtle spirit which has
established its shrine in the complainant's breeches
pockets—too often the vestibule of the heart. These
complaints touch, first, the consideration of personal
honour—men ought not to be subjected to an inquisi-
tion. Secondly, the question of justice—the tax upon
property and income is unequal. Thirdly, the question
of national honour. Nobody complains of the invasion
of the breeches pocket; all would freely pay twice or
three times as much if it could be paid without the
humiliatien of an inquisition, upon terms of perfect
equality, and consistently with national dignity.
We shall, therefore, we are sure, render an acceptable
service if we can relieve these patriots from the
scruples by which they are deterred from serving
their country to the extent of their generous de-
sires. First, then, comes the question of personal
honour. When was honour before identified with mys-
tery ? We have been accustomed to think that
honour loves the open plain, and prefers to walk
in daylight. But is the law of England so
tender, as it is pretended, of the honour that
would skulk in darkness and obscurity ? By no
means. Every man may be compelled to give evi-
dence of the most secret transactions of his life,
when produced as a witness in a court of justice,
and to render this account, not before commissioners
sworn to secresy, but before the whole world. Again,
by filing a bill in Chancery against a man, often upon no
just grounds, you may compel him to make an equally
minute and equally public exposure of his most private
affairs. Neither the law of England then, nor the practice
of England, respects the dark lantern and cloak of such
spurious honour even in individual cases ; butitis ob-
vious that a general demand for explanation—even
were it public, instead of being guarded with elaborate
delicacy—can be neither so invidious nor insulting as an
individual demand—what all suffer no man suffers in
such cases. But it is insinuated that interest as well as
honour is affected by the inquiry into a man's in-
come. This is disproved by experience. No man
was ever made a bankrupt by the operation
of the old income tax. No man ever pre-
tended that he was. The fact is, that the greatest
possible benefit would result to trade, and to
credit, and to the interests of every honest
trader, from the utmost publicity being given to the
affairs of every man in the kingdom. Secondly, the tax
is said to be unequal, because the same amount, three
per cent., is demanded from incomes and other life an-
nuities as from realised property, landed or funded pro-
perty. We have already in part met this objection, by
showing that realised property has been already sub-
mitted to taxes in the process of its accumulation ;
but we may go further as regards landed property ;
it is already subjected to a tax, much greater in
amount than the income tax, from which commercial
and professional incomes, and the interest of funded
property is wholly free ; the land pays the land tax,
the poor rates, and a host of other rates, from
which mere income is wholly exempt. If it is
said the Corn-laws have compensated this ine-
quality hitherto, let it not be forgotten that
the Corn-laws are about to be relaxed for the
benefit of all classes, but the aericultural class, and
the case of fundholders does not indeed stand upon the
same footing, but they have L power which we fear
must help them in the place of justice. Thirdly, there is
the national honour, forsooth !—yes, the national honour
is endangered ! by an arrangement for supporting the
public service by equal instead of supporting it by un-
equal taxation ; and to complete the impudent
absurdity of the pretext ; the complaint of injury to the
national honour is raised by those who have asserted the
national honour by six successive years of declar ed in-
solvency by six years of furtive and unauthorised loans.
Who have pursued this shuffling case concurrently with
gross neglect of the proprietors of the means by which a
nation is to be defended—precious guardians of national
honour in peace and in war.

COURIER.—The nation must keep a sharp look out,
or it will get neither fiscal reform nor revenue from pro.
perty. Bit by bit the financial scheme of Sir Robert
is nibbled at here, and a piece pecked at there, so
that unless the framer tent his own fabric

• well, there will not be a rag left out of
r which to make a bank note, or dust out the cob-
; webs from an empty Treasury. lgnis fatuus like,
the splendid creations cf Ministerial wikdoin, which on
their first appearance were hailed on all sides, Whig,
Tory, and Radical, with rapturous and resounding plau-
dits as the twin stars of England's salvation, are now
Glanced about in will-o'-wisp fashion through Conserva-
tive highways and byeways, through Whig and Radical
bog and morass, until at last it may b feared the
fitful corruscations, by ever 'diminishing distance ren-
dered more dimly faint, will disappear altogether,
swamped in some: Whig-Radical quagmire, or engulphed
in the slough of despund. Excepting ourselves of the
Courier, our contemporary of the Post is alone among
the faithful Conservative few of the press who stand by
their colours, true to the pilot lashed to the helm of the
gallant ship which the Whigs left desperately floundering
on a lee shore.

AMERICAN NEWS

EIGHTDAYS LATER from AMERICA
LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.
By the arrival of the Garrick, Captain Skiddy, at
this port, from New York, whence she sailed on the Ist
inst., we have received papers to that date. The Gar-
rick has made a good voyage for the season, and had
ten passengers.
The news brought by these papers is not important.
The greatest anxiety prevailed at Boston and New York
for the safety of the Caledonia, whose non-arrival had
excited great fears amongst the community, as the more
iecent arrivals from Europe, namely, the North Ame-
rce, Hibernia, and Roscius, all reported the prevalence
of very tempestuous weather. New York has also been
visited by one of the West India line of steamers, the
Clyde, proceeding on her way from the south to Halifax.
She would take the mails to the latter place, and then
return ; and it was stated in some of the papers that
the Unicorn, which is one of the Cunard line, plying
between Pictou and Halifax, would take the mails to
England if the Caledonia did not arrive in time ; if this
is the case, she may be expected hourly.
We give the following extracts from the papers :
Some anxiety is felt for the safety of the steamer Caledonia.
The vessels that have arrived have experienced such severe
weather, and met with so much damage, that it would be re-
markable if she should make a passage at this season without
injury. Several of our finest packets have been out upwards
of fifty days from Europe. it change of wind will, no doubt,
bring alleet of inward-bound vessels to our shere.
A Bill is reported in the Virginia House of Delegates, fixing
resumption for the Ist of January next, unless the banks of
Mars land and Pennsylvania shall resume earlier.
SIR CMtItLES BACOT AND THE CArtarias.—lt appears
by recent accouirs from the Canadas, that the new Gover-
nor-General, Sir Charles I3agot, has already won golden
opinions from all parties, and that there is every reason to
believe that his Government will be permitted to be carried
on without meeting those obstacles which were so annnvinr
to his predecessors, and so ruinous to the best intersts of
the inhabitants. The Canadian papers are filled with ad..
dresses to his Excellency, and promises of support: whilst he
has, by the prudence of his answers, left no room for either
party to believe that they have triumphed over the other—
although he has not concealed his determination to check any
attempt at oppos,tion to bia measures. In the meantime he
has announced it to be his intention to commence a number of
public improvements as early as the season will permit, which,
in addition to the permanent benefitthey will confer on the pro -
vii.ces, will furnish the means of giving immediate employment
to the immense number of emigrants who are expected to
arrive as soon as the navigation of the St. Lawrence opens.
We also observe, that the entire military establishment, in-
cluding the cavalry and infantry of the line, with the local
militia of every dese.-ilition, are to be maintained on their pre.
sent estealishment ; consequently, when so great an expenditure
of public money be taken into consideration, combined with
the estimated amount of the proposed improvements, it is but
reasonable to infer that the Canadian farmers will have the
benefit of an excellent market for the produce of theirtindustry.
TEXAS.
By the steam-ship New York, at New Orleans, the Picayune
has Galveston papers to the Ist instant. From these we glean
that Commodore Moore of the Texian service has not been

treacherously seized and made a prisoner in Yucatan, as was
confidently reported, though his Lieutenant, alarmed at his
prolonged absence at Merida, had seized the Mexican Com-
missioners, and detained them as hostages for his safety. He
soon after received a letter from Commodore Moore, instructing
him to release them, and saying that he would be back in a day
or two. Among the Commissioners were Generals Lemas and
Anima, hitherto esteemed the most honest of Mexican Fede-
ralists. The complete reunion of Yucatan and Mexico is con-
firmed.

The Texian prisoners under Colonel Cook have been heard
from at Fresmilo and Zacateca., an their way to Mexico. At
the former 400 dol., at the latter 1,000 dol. were subscribed
for them, and much clothing contributed. They appear to be
well treated, aecordir g to the orders of the Government.
The war fever is getting up in Texas. A great war meet-
ing was held at Iloustoo on the 28th ult., and a war paper,
7'he Alarm-Bell of the West has been started at San Antonio.
Frtoss FLORIDA.—The United States steamer Newbern,
Capt. McNulty, arrived yesterday from Florida. We received
no lei ters, but learn from Capt. MeN. that Companies " A"
and " IV of the Sill Infantry, under the command of Capt.
Owinn, on their march front Tampa to Palatka, were fired on
while in the Wahoo Swamp, on the morning of the 13th inst.
One sergeant was killed. and one private dangerously wounded
On the 16th inst. three Indians tried to cut off an Express
Rider in the Cabbage Hammock, between Forts Wheelock nil
Russell. They were, however, unsuccessful. Companies
" A" and " E" of the Bth Infantry, arrived at Palatka on the
16th inst.— Savannah Republican, Feb. 19.
NEW ORLEANS, FEB. 12.--MUTINY ON BOARD THE
TEXIAN SCHOONER OE WAR SAN ANTDNlA.—Between nine
and ten o'clock last evening a mutiny broke out on board of the
above-named vessel, lying off Slaughterhouse Point, below
this city, which resulted in the murder of Lieut. Fuller, and
the severely wounding of Midshipmen Odom and Allen. From
what we can learn, the sailors had been drinking, and took it
into their heads to go ashore, but were prevented from so doing
by Lieut. Fuller, who was on duty. They then used very in-
sulting language to him, when he ordered up a file of marines
to arrest them. The marines sided with the sailors, and dis-
charged their pieces at the officers on deck—five balls taking
effect on Fuller. The mutineers then took to the boats, and
part of them landed on this side of the river. Up to 12 o'clock
they Lad not been arrested. —Creslent City.

COMMERCIAL NEWS.
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, FEB. 26.
RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
.5,000 Dols. Illinois Bonds sixes, 1870 .... s 3 19i
7,000 Ditto Indiana Bonds .. 2O
1,000 Ditto New York Sixes, 1862.... B2i
3,000 Ditto New York Five-and-a-Half, 1861.... b 3 77
50 Shares Delaware and Hudson opg 88k
27 Ditto Union Bank
450 Ditto Long Island Railroad. cash 544
109 Ditto Harlem Railroad b 3 48
SALES AT THE SECOND BOARD
1,000 Dols. Indiana Bonds 2oi
100 Shares Long Island Railroad
1,000 Dols. Illinois Bonds, Sixes, 1870 ... lg
2,000 Ditto Indiana Bonds l9i
PHILADELPHIA SALES OF STOCK, FEB. 26.
22 Shares Mechanics' Bank . . lOl-
4 Dols. States Fives, 1864
1,000 Ditto States Fives, 1860
SALES OF STOCKS AT AUCTION, Era. 26.
17,000 Illinois State this. Sixes, payablein 1865, at 18 pr et.
MARKETS, FEB. 26.
Ashes—A few brls Pots sold at 65 cwts.
Flour—The market is a little stiffer to-day, and holders will
not sell under 6,25.
Grain—Nothing doing in any description.
Cotton—Market very quiet to-day with very trifling sales.