The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-24 00:00:00

ORDINATION.

At a general ordination, held in the Cathedral Church of
Lincoln, on Sunday morning, by the Lord Bishop of the diocese,
the following gentlemen were admitted into Holy Orders :
DEACONS.—Of Oxford.—Henry Neville, 8.A., Trinty
College; Edward Shepherd, 8.A., Exeter College.
Of Cambridge. —Richard Eaton Monins, 8.A., St. John's
College ; Stephen Lea Wilson, 8.A., St. Peter's College ;
Richard Baldock, B. A., St. John's College ; John Teague,
B. A. , Emmanuel College.
PRIESTS.—Of Oxforit—Rev. Richard Eddie, B. A., Bra-
sennose College; Rev. Nathaniel Morgan, 8.A., Brasennose
College; Rev. Robert Drummond Burrell Rawnsley, 8.A.,
Fellow of Magdalene College.
Of Cambridge.—Rev. Edward Balston, 8.A., Fellow of
King's College ; Rev. William Lawrence Elliott, M. A., Fellow
of King's College ; Rev. Henry Demon Jones, B. A., Pem-
broke College; Rey. Henry Stockdale, B. A., Catherine Hall.
Of Dublin.—Rev. John D. Hare, LL.B., Trinity College.

TIM KENT STEAMER.—Further accounts were
on Tuesday received in the City relative to the Kent steamer, the
property of the Commercial Steam Navigation Company, which Tan
ashore on the Hampshire coast, between Hurst Castle and Christ-
church Point during the heavy fog on the morning of Saturday
last, while on her passage from Torquay to Southampton. It ap-
pears that immediately after the crew had safely landed the passen.
gers, they set about saving the cargo, in which they were successfirl,
but the vessel was so firmly imbedded in the sand that it was im-
possible to more her, and in the course of Saturday night and
Sunday morning heavy seas broke over her, and she became a
total wreck. Early on Monday morning the brig Edinburgh
Castle, Goodridge master, arrived alongside of the wreck, having
on board a party of engineers and seamen from Lymington, for the
purpose of breaking her up to get at her engines and machinery,
which are stated to be nearly new ; but that cannot be effected in
the present boisterous state of the weather.

BALL FOR THE RELIEF OF THE SPITALFIEDS
WEAK E RS. —On Tut sday a grand dress and costume hall, in aid
of the distressed Spitalfields weavers, took place in Willis's
Rooms, King-street, St. James's. The destitute state of many
hundreds of the Spitalfields weavers rendered some effort on
the part of the general community necessary for present relief,
and the success which attended the recent ball in behalf of the
Poles suggested the probability that a similar entertainment
for the relief of our own perishing countrymen might be pro-
ductive of a similar result. Under this impression, a number
of the more opulent tradesmen at the West-end formed them-
selves into a Committee of Management. The Committee
comprised the names of Mr. Burn, of Sackville-street ; Mr.
Cobbett, of the same place; Mr. Firmin, Strand; Mr. Pores,
Piccadilly; Mr. Peat, Piccadilly ; Mr. Pearce, Long-aere ;
and upwards of a dozen other gentlemen, equally respectable,
and i
as warmly actuated n the praiseworthy cause. Had the
ball been under the most aristocratic patronage, we doubt if it
would have succeeded better—certainly the ball-room could not
have presented a more elegant-looking company. Some of the
dresses were magnificent in the extreme, and the coup d'ceil
must have been as cheering to the more active promoters of
the ball as it was gratifying to the mere seeker of enjoyment.
Between four and five hundred persons attended, and kept the
ball alive till art early hour yesterday morning.
It is prolr.7 le that, in consequence of the acceptance
of the Governor-Generalship of Jamaica by the Earl of Elgin
(late Lord Bruce), the question which was about to be raised as
to the right of a Scottish Peer to sit in the House of Commons
for an English borough will not in the present instance be
pressed to a deeisioa,— Tory fuer.

SLAVE TRADE.
On Tuesday, March Ist, will be published,
SOME ACCOUNT of the TRADE in SLAVES
from AFRICA, especially with reference to the Efforts
made by the British Government for its Extinction.
By JAMES BANDINEL, Esq., Foreign-office.
London : published by Messrs. Longman, Brown, and Co.,
for her Majesty's Stationery-office.

NEW NOVEL BY THE LATE MISS LANDON.
Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo.,
LADY ANNE GRANARD;
OR, KEEPING UP APPEARANCES.
By L. E. L.
Athoress of "Ethel Churchill," "The Improvisatriee' " &c.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13,• Great Marlborough-street.

HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of
AUSTRIA,
having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS-
TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though
they are NQ LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain-
ing LARGE FORTUNES,
HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at
LUBECK,
_

Ore now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS-
/Amu TIONS.
Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions
'say re!.eive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO-
BP.ECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to
HEINE BROTHERS.
The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of
£25,000 £6OO £llO £7O
5,000 400. 100 60
1,500 200 90 50
1,000 150 60 Sterling.
800 120

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 24,
Will be performed, arranged as a Drama, Handel's ACM AND
GALATEA.—Polypheme, Mr. IL Philips; Acis, Miss P. Horton;
Damon, Mr. Allen; t3alatea, Miss Romer.
After which, the New Comedy of THE PRISONER OF WAR.
To conclude with the New Farce, called THE WINDMILL.
Doors open at half-past Six, and the Performances begin at Seven.
/imes Ss., Second Price 2s. lid. ; Pit 35., Second Price as. ; Lower
Gallery is. td., Second Price Is.; Upptr Gallery Is., Second Price td.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.

THIS EVENING, FEB. 24,
Will be performed Bellini's Opera of NORMA. —Pollio, Mr. W.
Harrison; Oroveso, Mr. Leffler; Flavius, Mr. Clement White;
Norma Miss Adelaide Ramble; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda,
Miss drank

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 24,
Will be acted an entirely New Romantic Drama, by E. Fitzball,
Esq., with extraordinary effects, entitled OMBRA ; or, the SPIRIT
of the ROCKING STONE.
After which, TEDDY THE TlLER.—Teddy (with Songs), Mr.
Collins, the Vocalist and Irish Comedian.
To be followed by MRS. NORMA, with Bellinrs Music.—Mrs.
Norma, Signor Neville-i ; Adelgisa, Signor Walton-I; Polito, Sig-
nora Martin-i.
Added to which, JACK JUNK.—Jack Junk, Ms. Walton.
To conclude with G. Soane's successful Drama of RAItY RUINS;
or, the MOTHERS STATUE.

THE WEATHER..—NOON, FEBRUARY 23.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Thermometer... 41 Highest 47 Lowest 37
Barometer 29.05.—Wind S.—Freezing Point 22 Deg.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning 57 minutes after 0 1 Evening 2t minutes after I;

THE SUN, LONDON, THURMAN MOB,NEVG, FEBRUARY 24, 84.

landlords. It had no smack of statesmanship in it, and
he will have that the Parliament is not responsible for
the distress of the people. We must now conc!ude by
saying, that when he resumed his seat, a little before
one o'clock, there was, for a considerable time much
noise and confusion in the Ilouse, between the calls for
an adjournment, and for a division. Lord JOHN Rus-
SELL recommended that every gentleman should be
allowed an opportunity of expressing his opinions ; at
length Sir ROBERT PEEL acquiesed, and the motion of
Mr. JOHNSTONE for the Rouse to resume, and the de-
bate to be adjourned, was agreed to.

The annual official accounts of the trade and naviga-
tion of the empire have recently been published, and,
feeling much interested in the reputation of Sir R. PEEL,
we turned at once to the article " TEA" to ascertain to
shat extent the public distress had been caused by the
interruption of the trade with China, to which it has
been mor?than once partly ascribed by the great teacher
and head of the nation. To our satisfaction,
but not to our surprise, for we knew the
man, we found that the tea taken into home
consumption in the year 1841, 36,396,078 lbs.,
exceeded the consumption of 1840, 32,262,892 lbs., by
4,133,186 lbs. At the same time we must state, that
the quantity imported in 1840, 28,021,882 lbs., exceeded
the quantity imported in 1841, 17,242,106 lbs., by
10,779,776 lbs. This appeared some confirmation of Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S statement ; but it was stated in the
Times of Feb. 2, in its City article, which is generally
good authority for such matters, that the ships entered
inwards from places within the limits of the Company's
charter in 1840 were 592, tonnage 235,440, men 12,764,
while in 1841, the number of ships entered inwards was
788, tonnage 318,980, men 16,304 ; being, says our Con-
temporary, an increase in favour of the year just closed
of 196 ships, 83,540 tonnage, and 3,540 men. Of this in-
crease 23 ships were from China, 19 from Penang and
Singapore.

A similar increase took place in the ships cleared out-
wards for places within the Company's charter, which
was in 1841 above 1840, 74 ; tonnage, 49,040 ; men,
1,438 ; the number of ships in 1840 being 932, tonnage
359,567, men 19,954 ; and for 1841—ships 1,006, ton-
nage 408,607, and men 19,954. The increase, says the
Times, comprised: seventeen ships for China, seven for
Ceylon, and five for Singapore. So much for the inter-
ruption of our trade with China in the year 1841, which
Sir R. PEEL, in his zeal to uphold the Bread-tax, insisted
was one of the causes of the distress of the people. We
may add that the increase of the East India and China
trade during the last year with the port of London, is
more than the whole increase of that trade in the year,
showing that some other branches of trade must have
fallen tiff considerably.
Another part of these returns points out a more fea-
sible source of our distress than the falsely presumed
interruption of the China trade. The tonnage entered
inwards in 1840 was 4,105,207, and in 1841, 3,982,129,
showing a falling off of 123,078 tons. The 'tonnage
cleared outwards, however, was in 1840, 3,392,626, and
in 1841, 3,543,456. So that our imports were falling
oft; while our exports were increasing, or more was
going out of the country than was coming in. It
must not be said that this does not show actual values,
nor actual quantities ; we know that ; but, presuming
that the relations of value continued nearly the same in
1841, as in 1840, and the number 'of vessels which came
and' went away empty were, in both years,
about the same, the fact we have quoted is
valuable as an indication of the change whioh is
going on. According to the old commercial theory,
it would have been considered an advantage, as the ex-
cess of comforts, it would have been said, would have to
be paid fur in the precious metals; but we are better in-
formed, and know that it is the imports and not the ex-
ports which are the realisation of the merchant's venture,
and the means of enriching the nation.
Prosperity consists in continual increase, and when we
find the quantity of cotton taken into home consumption,
falling off from 531,197,8171b5. in 1840, to 440,297,1011b5.
in 1841, the quantity of timber imported diminishing,
the quantity of dye stuffs diminishing, no great increase
in our home trade, and a positive falling off of our
foreign trade ; we say that it is high time that the
nation placed its interests in the keeping of other hands
than those who insist on taxing its bread, and are not
ashamed to make false but plausible statements in de-
fence of their injustice.—Since this was written, we
have heard Sir ROBERT PEEL'S lame defence of his
statement about China, and Mr. HASTIE'S reply, and we
think the Right Hon. Baronet has not come off with
flying colour s.

dons, which exists in England, is solely owing to the
popular impression that it is not so rituch the SOVEREIGN,
as her Lieutenant, that governs Ireland, and that the
something in its social condition, which requires it to be
thus treated as a colony, sufficiently accounts for the
discontent and misery of the inhabitants. Besides, in
this age of steam, Dublin is but twelve hours distant
from Buckingham Palace, so that the voice of our gra-
cious SOVEREIGN can be heard sooner in the. Irish capi-
tal than in her good city of Edinburgh. Ireland
has been too long go; 'rued by deputy, and nothing
surprises us more than the little support which the pro-
position of that steady and consistent friend of Ireland,
Mr. HUME, received when he moved in Parliament the
abolition of the Vice-regal office. A temperate, but
firm Government ; impartiality in the administration of
the laws ; and the adoption of some extensive system
for the construction of railways, the clearing of waste
lands, and the improvement of the general husbandry of
Ireland, is all that is wanted to make it one of the best
and happiest countries of Europe. But the remedies, to
prove effectual, must be applied without delay. The
clever and impartial writer of the pamphlet before us
admits that two-thirds of the population of Ireland are
now Repealers. So long as Ireland remains in her pre-
sent state, their numbers must go on increasing. Here
is more work for Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Cabinet.

The Madrid Papers are of the 14th. The public
mind seemed very much agitated by the news from
Portugal.

Three per Cents. on the 14th, were done at 21 for
cash, and 22* for 60 days ; Five per Cents., 30 for cash,
and 30i to 311 at GO days.

The French Minister of Justice has yielded so far to
the repeated demands of the Opposition, as to bririg for-
ward a Bill for the Amelioration of the Criminal Code.
No measure could be more wanted. The mode of ad-
ministering justice in France is disgraceful to a free
country. It is not uncommon for persons arrested for
offences against the State, or at the instance of
officers of the Crown, to remain from four to
eight months in prison, the daily and nightly
associates of convicted felons, and then to be told
that there is no evi,dence of their guilt, and therefore
they may go about their business. Even if a Court ad-
judge them innocent, they have no remedy for a period
of incarceration, which may have utterly ruined them in
fame, in property, and in respect for personal character,
They enter their prisons innocent and honest men, and
they frequently leave it outcasts and vagabonds, without
the shadow of any legal redress for their cruel injuries.
Many offences, too, which are of a comparatively venial
character, are not bailable in France ; and this is
another evil which the Ministerial Bill promises par-
tially to remedy.
The French army in Africa is engaged in carrying on
nightly razzias, or marauding expeditions, against the
adherents of ABD-EL-KADER. Horses, mules, cows,
sheep, women, and children are the usual spoils of the
Gallic conquerors.

The Presse treats the account of the plot, formed in
France for revolutionizing Spain, as a comedy got up by
England. Let us try if we cannot make a farce of it. We
know that when put in rehearsal at the Tuileries it
was intended for one of the sternest tragedies acted upon
the bloody theatre of the Peninsula since 1812, But the
eclat given to it by the Press, and the announcement of
Sir ROBERT PEEL in the House of Commons of the "sym-
pathy felt for ESPARTERO by the English Government,
have doubtless put some of the intended actors out
of conceit with their parts. If Louis PHILIPPE de-
cline his share in the business, then we may indeed ex-
pect a farce instead of a tragedy ; and his MAJESTY
is too wary a politician to persevere in an infamous pro-
ceeding against a neighbouring State, after all Europe
has got an inkling of his designs. As he can no longer
aim a deadly blow against Spain in secret, he will hardly
be sO rash as to raise his arm.

Great stress is laid by the aristocracy and the country
gentlemen on the burdens pressing exclusively on the
land, and assuming that this is. a matter beyond all
doubt, they insist that a tax be levied on the people to
compensate them for contributing more than any other
class to the revenue. If this is a fact, it certainly can
be ascertained, and Sir ROBERT PEEL'S agents might
have been better employed in collecting evidence on
the subject, than in wandering over the Continent
to find out inhabitants more poor and wretched than
the English. This, however, would not suit his purpose.
These " exclusive burdens" are to be shaded in mystery,
and therefore magnified far above their real amoufit, as
an excuse for benefiting a particular class. When the
Member for Manchester asked him' to specify these
burdens, the only answer was, that opinidns were divided
on the subject ; and when pressed for his own
opinion, he could, or would give none, and excited
the laughter of those around him by attempting
to turn the Hon. Member into ridicule. He will find,
however, that the question cannot be thus evaded, and
that before the Committee has settled the new sliding
scale thee heavy burdens will be brought to light. Mr.
P. STEWART last night cleared up the matter a little,
and showed that the landlords, instead of being taxed
more than others, have an annual exemption to the amount
of nearly a million and a half sterling. The special
burdens
said, amount to 1,200,000/, while
e
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to
which personal property is liable,
amount
specialt on
2,lu:OrndOde,oollsOL The monopolists were silent'for a
good reason. The burden on land, in fact, is a
mere bugbear: Poor-rates are paid by all, and on no
class at present do they press more heavily than on the
inhabitants of towns where the people are starving for
the good of the landlords. Tithes never belonged to
them. They have been, since the days of the Levites,
the property of the Church. For hundreds of years
land has been devised, purchased, occupied by powerful
freebooters, like Scow of Buccleucb, or handed over to
favourites by spendthrift Sovereigns, on the express con-
dition that Mother Church was to havJ her full
share. We trust Mr. STEWART and Mr. COBDEN
will not suffer this question to rest till they have
proVed, beyond dispute, that of all classes the landed
gentry are the most lightly taxed ; and that in every
instance, except one, when they were frightened to death
by BONAPARTE, they have taken the most tender care
of their own pockets.

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Government of Spain by the Great Northern Powers,
will cast another damper upon the intrigues of the French
Court. Sir ROBERT PEEL stated that all the influ-
ence which the British Cabinet could command had
been employed to induce the Great Continental
Powers to recognize the Government of which Es.
PARTERO is the head, •and that England desired
nothing more ardently- than to see Spain independent of
all foreign interference. The King of the FRENCH will
be at no loss to understand this allusion of the Tory
Premier. His MAJESTY and Madame Muxoz will
learn from this that there is no party in this coun-
try favourable to the claims of CARLOS or CHRISTINA
to the sovereignty of Spain. Upon this question
the Tories have, very wisely and prudently, come round
to the opinions of the Whigs ; nor is there any fear
that even the Morning Post will longer put itself forward
as the champion of CARLOS, though for so many years
his devoted slave. 'There is no longer any mystery
about the disposition of the English Cabinet towards Es-
PARTERO'S Spanish Administration. Of Spain, as now go-
verned, Great Britain declares herself the faithful friend
and ally. Her influence at other Courts, her good.offices
at home, are officially declared to be at the disposal of
ESPAILTERO. Taking the deep interest which we do in
the triumph of constitutional liberty in Spain, we feel
grateful to the Premier for taking so debided a course
upon this question. That it will utterly confound the
machinations of the Paris conspirators, we have good
reason to regard as a moral certainty.

The agitation of the Repeal question by the LORD
MAYOR of Dublin has recently given birth to a number
of clever pamphlets on the social, commercial, and poli-
tical state of Ireland. Of these, one of the most sen-
sible and most practical is by a Fellow of the Dnblin
Law Institute, entitled " Ireland and Irish questions
considered ; " in which an extensive acquaintance is
shown with all the errors and mistakes of past Govern-
ments in the administration of that country. The writer
is opposed to the Repeal of the Union, which he proves,
instead of benefiting, would entail immense misery and
dependence upon Ireland ; and he contends that one of
the first duties of the British Government ought to be
.to make the Union more perfect than itis, by assimilating
as much as possible the Institutions of the two countries.
To effect this, he would abolish the office of
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, which imparts a
sort of colonial character to the Administra-
tion of the Irish Government. We do not think that
he could begin with a better step. The office of a Lieu-
tenant is exceedingly injurious to Ireland. Much of the
ignorance of Irish affairs, and indifference to Irish ques-

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