The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-04 00:00:00

last -completed census of 1831 at 961,000 families
Now, suppose they were at the present time one million,
and that each earned 10s. a week, which was more than
the sum considered as sufficient for their support by the
Mike of Buckingham, that would amount to 26,000,0001.
a year : so that, in order to give protectton to farm
labourers, the nation was taxed fifty millions annually.
It would be infinitely better to build them each a cottage,
and pay each of them 103. -a week to the day of their
death, than to uphold the present system; for if they did
so, they would save by it 24,000,0001. annually.—(Cheers
and laughter.) The Learned Gentleman concluded an
able and lengthened address amidst great appluuse.
The resolution was put from the chair, and carried
nem. con.

A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman,
who briefly returned thanks, and the party broke up.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Devonpnrt Independent.)
PLYMOUTH, JAN. I.—lt is currently reported in the
naval circles that the uniform of the several classes is to
be forthwith changed, and that the white collar and cuff
are to be again substituted for the red.
Her Majesty's ship Isis 44, Captain Sir John Mar-
shall, Knight, has received a draft of fifty men from the
Caledonia, in aidition to seventy others put on board
her from the Alban, steamer, on Monday last. The
Isis is to proceed to the South American station, and she
is expected to sail very shortly.
Her Majesty's brigantine Spy 3, • Lieut. Potbury, was
paid advance of wages on Monday, and sailed the next
day for Bristol. Lieut. Potbury has notyet been super-
seded in the command of this vessel, although appointed
Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Samuel ?ym.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Megmra, arrived on Wed-
nesday, from the West Indies. She will sail for Ports-
mouth on Sunday, Vice-Admiral Warren taking a pas-
soage in her to that port, and then go on to Woolwich to
be paid off.
Her Majesty's steamer Alban, Master-Commander J.
King, sailed on Thursday for Deptford, with stores.
Her Majesty's ship Volage, 26, Captain Sir NV. Dick-
son, Bart., was paid advance of Wages yesterday (Friday).
Her Majesty's packet Sheldrake, 6, Lieut. A. H. Pas-
-singhaal, arrived here yesterday (Friday), from Fal-
mouth, and will come into harbour to-day, to be paid 'off.
Her Majesty's sloop Snake, 16, Commander the Hon.
W. Devereux, will call actllis port, from Portsmouth,- on
her way to the Mediterranean..
. Her Majesty's brigantine Forester, 3, lately paid off at
this port, from the Coast of Africa, is ordered to be sold
out of the service., . • -

Her Majesty's ship America, 50; at this port, is to be
fitted with Capt. Couch's Patent Safety Channels, orders
to that effect having been received from the Admiralty.
Her Majesty's brig Lapwing, 10, was warped along-
side the sheer-hulk on Wednesday, to have her masts
taken out.

Ships in Harbour—Caledonia, 120, Capt. H. Eden; San
Josef, 110, Captain F. W. Burgoyne ; Minden, 24, (hos.
pital ship), Captain M. Quin; Fly, 18i Captain Francis
P. Blackwood ; Bramble, 10, (tender to Fly) ;. Ferret,
10, Corn. Josiah Oake.
In the Sound—lsis, 44, Captain Sir John Marshall ;
Volage, 26, Captain Sir W. Dickson, Bart.; Serpent,,
.
16, Commander William Nevill ; 18, Capt. the
Hon. Henry ICeppel; Nightingale, 6, Lieut. Barnes
Sheldrake, 6, Lieut. A. R. I'assingham.
The Lieutenant's commission, given by the Admiralty
half-yearly to one of the mates, studying at the Royal
Naval College, was awarded this Christmas to Mr. James
Francis Ballard Wainwi ight.
The Admiralty have contracted with Messrs..Acra-
man, of Bristol, for building an iron steamer of 60 tons.
Her length is to be 90 feet ; breadth, 12 feet 8 inches ;
depth, 7 feet ; draft of water, 2 feet 8 inches. Her en-
gines are to be of 20-horse power.
ADDRESS TO VICE-ADMIRAL WARREN.

Plymouth-yard, December 29, 1841.
HONOURED SlR—The workmen of the dock-yard, in-
fluenced by a grateful remembrance of the many favours
they have experienced whilst they have enjoyed the pri-
vilege of your superintendence, avail themselves of the
opportunity presented by. the cessation of that official
relationship, to express the deep sense of their obliga-
tion, and respectfully to request you will be pleased to
accept their honest and hearty thanks for the solicitude
which you have always evinced to promote their interest.
They cannot but appreciate that urbanity of manner
which has encouraged the most diffident individual in the
establishment to surmount the difficulty which generally
attends the approach to persons of distinguished rank,
and that patient attention to their various applications
by which you have demonstrated that the most affable
condescension, and the maintenance of the strictest im-
partiality are not incompatible with the discharge of
high and important duties.
The auspicious circumstances which have caused the
termination of your official duties, forbid the expression
of regret which they would otherwise have felt at your
premature removal. But they .beg to assure you that
their sincere esteem will follow you into your dignified
retirement, and they trust that weer the blessing of
Divine Providence; you, and your weer
family, may
long enjoy the happiness that a retrospect of your emi-
nently valuable life is calculated to impart.
The Address was sigi:ed by the Committee, on behalf
of the workmen.
To Vice-Admiral Warren. •

THE DARING BURGLARY AT
WRAXALL.

(Further particulars, abridged from the Devizes Gazette.)
The thieves went from room to room throughout the
house, attended by Miss Awdry. Upon going into a room
.where two servauts were in bed together, their money
was demanded at the peril of their lives. The thieves
now requested Miss Awdry to show them where the
plate was kept. She accordingly.conducted them to the
butler's pantry. where she pointed out a chest of plate,
and informed them what was and was not silver as they
took the various articles from the chest ; the articles she
stated to be plated were put back again. After this,
they insisted upon Miss Awdry sitting with them at a
round table in the parlour. whilst they drank a bottle of
wine. They afterwards shook hands with her, observing
that they should not have troubled her, had they not been
driven to it, and then left.

Altogether this is one of the most cool and daring.
burglaries ever committed, and few indeed are the in-
stances of a young lady's showing so much nerve and
self-possession as Miss Awdry exhibited on the occasion.
Mr. Awdry is father to Sir John Awdry, who has re-
cently returned to England from Bombay.
The thieves effected an entrance by breaking one of
the windows, and then cutting a hole through the shut-
ters and undoing the fastening. Mr. Awdry, we under-
stand, keeps two or three men-servants, but none of them
sleep in the house.

Soon after the thieves had left, some of the servants
aroused Mr. Burgess, a neighbouring farmer, who imme-
diately gave, information of the robbery to Mr. Foley,
the superintendent of police at Tr.pwbridge. Mr. Foley
sent to Ililperton, Bradford, and 'Melksham, and gave
directions to the different police constables to proceed in
various routes, but being three hours or more behind
they were unable to get any clue to the thieves. Hopes,
however, are entertained that they will be apprehended.
Several persons are in custody for receiving a great part
of the stolen property.
(From the Bath Journal.)
On Saturday morning eleven prisoners concerned in
this robbery were brought up•for examination before T.
Clutterbuck, Esq., Chairman, and other Magistrates, at
the Lion Hotel. The examination was strictly private,
as all the prisoners had not been apprehended. The pri-
soners' names aro Nathaniel Burge and John Milsom,
charged as principals :—Georg3 Hunt, John Trine,
Thomas Wise, Jonas Penny, Samuel Stokes, and
Eliza Watson as accessories • and John Roberts, Se-
lina Roberts, his wife, and Mary Goff their ser-
vant, as receivers of the stolen property. Miss
Awdry gave her evidence at considerable length, which
showed Burge and Milsom to be most determined and
systematic thieves. They were the negotiators, with life
and death in their hands, while Miss Awdry gave them
money and whatever they esteemed valuable. All the
thieves were armed with bludgeons, some to enter the
different apartments. others to keep watch. After Miss
Awdry had been for some time giving her evidence,
about half-past two o'clock an ill-looking man, who lives
at Twerton, of the name of George Pearce, was brought
in on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery ; he
was taken into custody at his house, where some cloth
and other things were found .concealed. After the in-
vestigation had been proceeded with for about four
hours, the prisoners were all remanded till Monday for
further examination. Some of thorn are well known to
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The following Memorial, --numerously signed,
has been addressed to the Postmaster-General :
" TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD LOWTHER, HER MAJESTY'S
POSTMASTER•GENERAL.
6' London, Dec. 31, 1841.

. .
" My Lord—Having observed, from the official public
notice, that your Lordship intends to establish, in con-
nexion with the ' Royal Mail Steam-packet Company,'
a small branch steam-packet to proceed, twice in every
month, from Fayni to Madeira, the undersigned British
merchants trading to, and having mercantile establish-
mentsth e port i in,
of
tlie
Santa Canary
.I, ri,
Islands,
.respectfully solicit that
rify.,
may
be included in
that arrangement.'
240 miles. The extra time required, therefore, will only
be about one day, to, secure to the commerce of this
country the advantages of this regular and expeditious
communication.
" Cadiz or Gibraltar might be included in this round
by an extension of two or three days, thereby securing
the regular and frequent steam Communication of the
Azores, Madeira, and the Canaries with England, and
enhancing the benefits to the revenue, as well as to the
' Royal Mail Steam packet Company,' from the in-
creased conveyance of correspondence and of passen-
gers, specie, and cochineal.
" The population of the Canary Islands is about
220,000. It is the only province of Spain where British
cotton goods are admitted. The anchorage at Santa
Cruz is good and safe."
COMPETITION IN THE SLOP BUSINESS,---
SHIRTS MADE FOR THREE FARTHINGS A PIECE.—The
competition in the slop business is almost ruinous to a
numerous and industrious class of females at the east
end of the metropolis, who managed to support them.
selves decently by their needle. A few ears age, when
shirt- making was reduced to three shillings a dozen, it
was considered so low a price, that it was impossible to
make a bare existence at it. Yet, from that price it be-
came gradually reduced, and many of the large Jew slop-
sellers at present pay but oinepence a dozen, or three
farthings each shirt, for them. If three shillings waS 4
price at which them? Nor VAITIPP AR4I4 make 4 mere
414.011Pel NO* ratiA 4a tiw effeo,o the present allow-
aw 0 e ? 4 yet thousands are to DO found even glad to
get such work ; but it is only those who can get a num-
ber of girls, who have some other means of support to
work for them at shirt-makini, that can earn bread AUL