The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-09 00:00:00

telicies Would ever adopt, so bad that to retain, where
t
„ had be.n in operation for even centuries, were
tiinl as an equipoise to other parts of an order of
tugs of which evil were the predominant character.
4,21-44 country, for instance we may endure a
1) r-law as a balance to the desolating ravages of a
,Corn-lawt ; a double evil, it may be urged, but of which
half is not to be got rid, without the whole. But
ine
Ireland-the imposition of a poor-law was unquali-
eT,lll, not only radically abominable, but inappli-
cable And injurious in all its • ramifications of conse-
Ce_,Ree• The swarming population of poor in Ire-
-1,11r" could not he thrown upon the next class for
(1%0; without bringing down that class to irreme-
diable pauperism. The sign, it was also the cause
0 national distress ; and, instead of suffering from
14 grand fundamental cause—an over-competition
far land where there is not so much land as demand
nu
it-_n, t so 'much soil as there are thousands of
ti"nlan fllation pressing upon it for more than it
to, Yield.-of subsistence—a poor-law must be added
,tric miseries of the country, which, incapable of
"eviating 'earlier oppressions, necessarily becomes an
:)IVression itself, the most wantonly cruel and the
t:_)st direfully calamitous. The Whigs take credit to,
„"Ilselves for appeasing the anguish oflrish grievan-
-78 through- a system less coercive; and the Tories
va▪
unt themselves upon the merits of their strong
oyernment ' in suppressing the clamour of com-
plaint ; but if either had applied themselves to correct
heis.' radical evils of her condition, would such facts
tlLs' in judgment against them both, as those to which
i"e whole south of Ireland is at this moment furnish-
:4 testimony? If in any part of the British domi-
iz°4B, it is and ,übtedly in Ireland, where the opera-
en, of enlightened principles of Government is wanted.
18 there where statesmanship should go abroad. It
not so much education of' the individuals of her sys-
tern that is required, as justice; and where not justice,
whisdomin the political contingencies which affect the
tl,'°le masses. There must be something wrong at
tl'e central base of her system, when such scenes are
acted upon her stage' as these dreadful Tipperary
rcurders."

MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
From the report of the City of London Association,
het,
on Wednesday at the London Coffee-house, it
December
that the Committee had distributed from
to March amongst the poor inhabitants of
the city 27,508 bushels of coals at a charge of 6d.
ter 841b5., and 385,1121b5. of potatoes, at a charge
31. per 141bs. The balance in hand was 307/.155. 6d.
y The Bank, it appears, is re-issuing at their full
vialne, many of the old sovereigns. A private indi-
rti ual was paid wholly in old gold coin last week,
aoy of the sovereigns being of George 111. ; upon
hog this sum into the saving's-bank of St. Cle-
wellt-s, a deduction of 2s. Bd., or lid. on each coin,
as taken for twenty out of the number.
LThe Committee of the Polish Ball dined together
o Saturday, at the London Tavern, in celebration
the success of their benevolent endeavours. The
he
',Proceeds exceed 5001.
he half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the
t4ent's Canal Company took place at the Dock-
th on Wednesday. It appeared from the report that
, balance of prost for the last half-year was stated
67,be
L 10,204/., and the amount of the reserve fund,
rioo
NAVAL, AND MILITARY.
The breakwater was towed on Tuesday to Dover,
lafterwards secured to its station by four anchors.
it e conduct of the crews of British ships at foreign
ti.'ds frequently brings down summary vengeance
oin .
thi the natives. The captain of the Wiley whale-
l) entertains no doubt that the fifteen men missing
tolLe been murdered in revenge for an insult offered
hi their chief. The fate of the missionary Williams
we be also traced to the condct of a ship's crew
'eh had previousl visited the iusland.
y AND SCIENTIFIC.
4 any Calcott, whose death took place at Kensing-
h krrarel-pits,had spent much of her life in travel.
,t4.,e was born in the same year as Lord Byron, 1788,
veil? before she was twenty-one years of age, was tra-
viaiLrtg in India, the wife of Captain Graham. She
tieri7d all the remarkable spots of the three Presi-
181e,,zes in 1809, and published an account of them in
4414. Some years afterwards she sailed for South
kderiea, having in the mean time resided in Italy,
Published two works on that country in 1820.
c OURT-7.II.SIIXONABLE.
The Marquis of Lansdowne returns to Bowood
to
Tilatic -day.
e Earl of Radnor has left Grosvenor-street for
COleshill-house, leis seat in Berkshire.
j444lie Lady Matilda Wvnyard (for many years a
110,Y of Queen Charlottes Court) has arrived at her
tkv7e in Upper Brook-street, from a visit to Earl De-
Trr, at Buckhurst.
f Lady Rodd and family have left Wimpole-street
(It Paris.
t-4.ir David Davies, physician to her Majesty the
Veen Dowager, has arrived in town from Canford.
117),ir Bethel Codrington returned to Park-lane on
eu'aesday, from Doddington Castle.
At 111ISCELLANEOUS.
ittlita_tbe usual Repeal meeting, held at Dublin on
'l'prQ7l, Mr. John O'Connell made a long speech,
of6e,,i-Ling any vote of thanks being given to the
Sserving in India and China.
stz,de Countess of Howth, whose death has been
ticardin The Sun, was sister to the Marquis of Clan-
tho,,,lier and Marchioness of Sligo, and a Roman Ca-
Ladyship was in her thirty-eighth year.

LLOYD'S. SHiPPINc •
.01,t -box, DEC. B.—Wind this day at noon, N. to
If light airs and thick fog.
ArtrittL, DEC. 7.—Wind W.N.W., moderate.—
F. from the River, Woolsington, for Antigua.
Iikh,"TSMOUTH, DEC. 7.—Wind N.N.E. to E.S.E.,
1.----Sld. John Renwick, Hobart Town.
Gt .„I.II.UOUTII, ISLE OF WIGHT, DEC. 7.-Sld. John
DElam, Pearson, Ceylon.
AuTuount, DEC. s.—Arrd. George 'Sutton,
Newfoundland. Sid. Hermosa Habenero,
Havannah ; Bernhard Hertog Saxe Van
tn'ar, Hazlewinkle, Batavia.
A,JVERPOOL, DEC. 7.—Wind S.W., moderate.—
?• Lord Althorp, Whiteside, Calcutta; Cleufrid,
ttZlton, New Calabar, sld. July 26 ; Thomas BBat-
OldLutch, Pernambuco ; Bombay packet, Bird,
land,
sld. Sept. 6; Ruth, Rendal, Honduras;
Viand, Barry, Susan Drew, Raulett, and Pharsalia,
toilw Orleans ; Harriet and Jessie, Connor, Charles-
NTorth America, Lowber, New York, ski. 19th
blj ' Liberty, Norton, ditto ; Pollock, Fraser,
ramiehi ; Elephanta, Ross, and Canada,
(11,-,8", Quebec. Sid. Ada ; Adra, May, Africa ;
11 w,. and Pursuit, New Orleans ; Jane
vtit,7er, and Virginia, Mobile ; Howard, Sa-
lk "an i Woodstock, Charleston. The Emerald,
4117: tins port, was riding off Madras, Oct. 24, with
bet masts cut away.
lIIIVIISTOL, DEC. 7.—Arrd. Dochfour, Wakeham,
taki Shy, of Waterford, Quebec ; Aspendus, Grills,
Hutchings, Newfoundland. Sld. Jer-
tri "'ass Dean, Africa ; Maria, Thomas, Demerara ;
t Hill, Jamaica; Marys, Smith, Nevis; Tiber,
to' v. . .
sa.
z_c
DEC. I.—Arrd. Sarah Richardson,
Quebec.
-,.lttowroN —Acrd off. Chusan, Laird, China.
lu •
s.—Arrd. Tenzer, Bay Clialeur. Id.
(-) riat_Rio Janeiro ; St. Aubin, Gibraltar.
for DOVER, DEC. 3.—Rapid, Fock, Rio Janeiro
Bcrottenburg•
SWANAGE, DEC. 6.—Neerlands Indie, Batavia.
I'llde'rox, DEC. 6.—The Henry, Peek,' bound to
tit,: ran ashore near Anderbay, but was expected
fe following tide, if the weather continued fine.
„ItitsTE, Nov. 28.—The X. L., Williamson, from
4-rit°o, got ashore near Grado, during a thick fog,
ttrik4. ere being a very high tide at the time, she
t'iet 'led, is now lying on a soft bottom, only four
taivo.ater, and is expected off after discharging her
Iriv„111413, Nov. 27.—The Paradise, Robinson, was
11/11;" ashore on the shallows opposite the Pignol
hart, in a hurricane from the southward, is leaky,
siderably damaged, and its is expected will
IT
.-11klend.
llose7i IRE. DEC. 3.—A large American vessel, sup-
-I,lle C,..° be the Rappahannock, was seen ashore on
auania Banks by the Russell, Glover, arrived at
Dori. Orleahs. Mem.—The Rappahannock left this
I\,.for New Orleans on Sept. 25.
tprd°l4)kir, Nov. 29.—The Anna, Evers, from Am-
hpr4hatn to Bremen, has put into.Dorumersyl, having
re 'g a leak off Norderney, and must discharge to
Pair,
11A1489 DEC. 6.—The French vessel wrecked at
thebe ven, with a cargo of apples, is supposed to be
Emmanuel, from Isigny to Barfleur.
IMPORTANT TO MARINERS.
eoune following is an extract from the log of the
itritess of Musgrave, at Sheerness, from Quebec :
li'eudoeb• 4.—Saw the edge of the Grand Bank of
offs lindlnd by the colour of the water. The water
in,lldings black, and on soundings a very beauti-
fat6l.nt green colour; hove to, and sounded 65
lat. "4'll, s fine whitish sand, with black specks, then in
tale`;'3o N., lon. 48.30 W., by lunar observation,
v.l'iated from Aug. 36."
.lkfritsSELS SPORED( WlTH.—Peruvian, Liverpool to
to to 2d inst., lon. 11 ; Alexander Grant, Liverpool
lirZ,rnbaY. Ist ult., lat. 15 N., lon. 27 W.; Ellen
Liverpool to New Orleans, 4th inst., lat. 51,
Y the Cleofrid, arrived at Liverpool. Her
EdwaeB ship Rapid, Oct. 22, let. 1 S., lon. 12 W.,
lat 2,:q Maria, Bordeaux to Guadaloupe, 11th ult.;
Live,._-; ion. 31, by the Bombay packet, arrived at
trair._ °I Cyrus, whaler, Aug. 4, in Macassar
Oct LI, with 300 barrels; Meldon, London to Brazils,
Live 30, lat. 7, lon. 25 ; Forester, of Hull, from
hilivePpl, 30th ult., lat. 35, lon. 11, by the Chusan,
harts °fr Brighton. Rover, whaler, with 2,000
tasi- B.;a by the Stangothland, arrived at Singapore.
:
aShn, from Newcastle, 7th ult., lat. 7 N., lon. 19,
isinne Netherlands Indie, arrived off Swanage.
.10n, 9rll:,°ilf, Liverpool to Africa, 29th ult., lat. 49'
°Y the Rapid, arrived off Dover.