The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-16 00:00:00

LLOYD'S OHIPPIN G.

LONDON, MARCH 14.—Wind this day at noon S.
RAMSGATE, MARCH 11 —Arrd. Eglantine, Newcastle, for
Rouen, with loss of sails, bulwarks, stanchions, cargo shifted,
&c. ; Evenwood, Seaham, Constantinople, with loss of sails,
bulwarks, and cargo shifted; Naiad, London for Malta, with
loss of bowsprit and figure-head, having been in contact with a
barque; Ashea, London for Rio. The Henritte, from Amster-
dam, for Leghorn, has put in here leaky, and with loss of sails,
and must discharge to repair. The Cwsar, from Ostend to
Newport, got off the main, near Deal, and is rather leaky.
DEAL, MARCH 12.—Wind S.W.-13. W.N. W. 6,3 A P.M.
W. light.—Arrd. Fillungo, Leonard, China; York, Legg,
and Jane Gifford, Mason, Calcutta ; Georgetown, Demerara ;
Wm. Bayley, Begg, Berbiee; Mermaid, Ledgwick, Calcutta ;
Arab and Paragon, Westward; Vistula, Northward. Put
back, Trin dad, for Havannali, with loss of masts, sails,
&c. and her bowsprit sprung. Arrived from the River,
Wilmot, for Sydney ; Jean, Cape ; Crusader, Charleston , To.
bago, New Zealand ; Pink China; Mary Catherine, Madras;
Sarah Maria Ann, Algoa Bay ; Lotus, Barbadoes ; Lord John
Russell, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Tapley and Caroline,
westward. Sld. Amelia Mulholland, Abel Gower, John Hul-
lett, Lady Sarah Bayly, and several others. Put back, Shannon,
for Bermuda.

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 12.—Wind N.W. —l3. Wind, N.W.
very fresh.—Arrd. Hindley, Mauritius ; Plymouth, Fuller,
Mobile ; Josephine, Mattison, Charleston ; Pilgrim, Rawlins,
Calcutta ; Lady Harvey, La Guayra ; Queen and Court-
ney, New Orleans ; Alabama, St. Joseph's ; Elizabeth
Grammer, Charleston ; Ocean, Thomas, Sierra Leone ;
with loss of sails. John M. Vicar, Calcutta Heroine, Valpa-
raiso ; Rosalie, Rio ; Emily, Pernambuco ; Henry, Winch,
La Guayra ; J. G. Coster, New Orleans; Monongahela,
Philadelphia.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAncri 12.—Arrd. Montrose (steamer),
Wilson, Gibraltar—left 3d inst., Cadiz 4th, Lisbon 7th,
Oporto Bth, Vigo 9th. SR Tagus (steamer), Evans, Gibraltar.
LoNnorr, MARCH 15.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.
DEAL, MARCH 14.—Wind S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Lowry,
Valparasio. Arrivedfrom the River, Steadfast, for the Cape;
Euphenia, Tobago; Columbine, Neves; James, Bermuda.
Put back, the Lady Sarah, Bayley, for Jamaica. Arrived the
Mary Mitcheson, Westward.
RAMSGATE, MARCH 14.—Arrd. Sir Walter Scott, Shields,
Bermuda, with boat stove, and other damage, having been in
contact.

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 14.—Wind S.—Arrd. Alecto, Ash-
ford, Jamaica—sailed 10th ult. Ski. Callao, Lima ; Rimac,
Valparaiso ; Star, Monte Video; Rosendale, Bahia ; Zenobia,
.Cape ; Retrieve and Queen of the Isle, Jamaica ; Rochell,
Havannah ; Durango, Demerara ; Richard, St. Thomas ;
Agnes, Nassau; British King, Edward Perkins ; J. E. Howell,
Pennsylvania ; Mattakeeset, Genesse, J. G. Coster, and Isa-
bella, New Orleans ; Nicholas Biddle, Eli Whitney, Virginia,
and European, New York; Portsmouth, Mobile; Eliza War-
wick, Boston; Manchester and Dash, Newfoundland; Pallas,
St. Andrew's, New Brunswick ; Clyde, St. John's, New
Brunswick ; John Brooks, La Guayra.
Ore THE WIGHT, MARCH 14 —Emeny, Osthaus, Port-
au-Prince; Paragon, Coleman, Calcutta; Hendricke, Ad-
miral, Batavia, for Rotterdam.
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TORBAY, MARCH 14.—Sailed Carrs, and Mary Rowe,
Demerara; Acasta, Madras; Workington, Rio ; Bernard.
Sierra Leone ; with the rest of the outward bound.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 13—Wind W. to S.W. fresh breezes.
—Arrd. Tagus steamer, Southampton, for Vigo. Sld. Mem-
non steamer, China. Put back Spencer, for Demerara.
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BRISTOL, MARCH 14.—The 'Sloop Vigo, Williams, was
wrecked on the Nass Sands, 11th inst., crew drowned.
GLOUCESTER, MARCH 14.—The Heroine, bound to St
Michael's, got off last evening, without damage, and proceeded.
CARDIFF MARCH 12. —Sailed Bute, Marquis New York.
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PORT TALBOT, MARCH 13. —The Grace, Stevens, from
Swansea, in running into the harbour last night got ashore, and
has become a total wreck ; crew and part of cargo saved. The
Mary, Painter, and
.Treselliek, Andrews, in entering this port
last night, got ashore ; cargo (cop r) dischareing.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 14.—Wind S. S.W. to S.—Arrd.
Great Liverpool (steamer), Alexandria, left 24th ult., Malta
2d. inst., Gibraltar 7th.
COWES, MARCH 14.—Superior, Havre, for Charleston;
Emanuel, Tierbaff, Buenos Ayres.
OFF DUNGENESS, MARCH 14.—Prima, Shields for Jersey,
with loss of bulwarks, &c.

INCENDLIRISM.-011 Tuesday evening, about half-
past eight o'clock, a fire broke out in a barn in the occupation
of Joseph Yearby, of Patton (the same person that had a barn
burnt down en the evening of Tuesday, January IS), which
consumed the barn, a cart-shed and pigsty, and a large quan-
tity of potatoes, carrots, and onions. Two small cottages, the
property of W. Astell, Esq., M.P., of Everton, were also
burnt down ; they were inhabited by two poor families, named
Cooper and Brittain, having six small children.—Bedford
Mercury.

EXTRAORDINARY HIGH TIDE.—On Saturday after-
noon the river Thames rose to an unusual height, overflowing
its banks, and doing considerable damage at many places, both
above and below London bridge. According to the tide-tables
it was high-water at twenty-six minutes past two o'clock in the
afternoon, at which time the depth of water at the outer lock
of the entrance of St. Katharine's Dock was 29 feet 3 inches.
In the Tower garrison there was no thoroughfare for pede.-
' trians, the depth of water at the " Traitors' gate" being nearly
one foot. The late heavy gales is the reason assigned for this
unusually high tide.
TRADE IN ASHTON AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD.--
Things are here in a very bad state. Nearly all the spinner s
and manufacturers have announced their intention to make a
reduction of wages, amounting to 10 per cent. on twist, and
per cent. on weft ; the reduction to commence from next
Friday. One mill is to be wholly stopped in a fortnight or
three weeks. On Tuesday evening, a meeting of factory ope-
ratives was held in the Charlestown Meeting-house, to consi-
der the propriety of making a stand against the proposed re-
duction. Some of the masters, who, at the late Anti-Corn-
law meeting at Ashton, avowed themselves converts to Chart-
ism, and who are among,t those who find themselves compelled
to propose this reduction of wages, were abused in no mea-
sured terms by the operatives. We have not heard what was
the determination ultimately adopted by the hands, in reference
to the proposed reduction.—Manchester Guardian.
TAXES ON BREAD IN PRUSSIA.—The following
information has been received from Dantaic respecting the
octroi (a municipal tax, somewhat in the nature of a police
rate or borough rate) :—" A small loaf of wheat bread, weigh-
ing three ounces, bought at the baker's shop, cost half a silver
groschen, which is equal to 3 1.5 d. per lb. English weight and
money. A loaf of rye bread of the finest quality, such as is
used even among the higher classes, weighing 1 lb. 10i oz.
cost 1 silver groschen, which is equal to 1 1-10 d. per lb.
English weight and money. These are the prices, a little more
or less, in 118 towns in Prussia, containing 1,728,376 inha•
bitants, who have to pay the excise and octroi of 3s. per cwt.
for wheat, and Bd. per cwt. for rye. The remaining twelve
millions of inhabitants are exempt from this excise, and eat
their bread so much cheaper. The rye consumed by the sol-
diers, and by the people, is of a much coarser sort, and con-
siderably cheaper than that of the first quality above men-
tioned. The klassen stener or poll-tax paid by the 12.000,000
who do not live in the cities, subject to the above excise,
amounts on an average to Is. Bd. per head. It is levied under
rates which vary from Is. 6d. (the lowest) to 211. 12s. (the
highest); the lowest rate is levied from the lower orders per
head, with the exception of those under 16 and above 60 • and
the higher rates are levied from families."—Mr. James leek's
Report.

The Central Prison at Beaulieu, near Caen, part of
which was not long age destroyed by fire (an act attributed to
wilful malevolence), has again been subjected to a similar at-
tempt. A convict, who had still seven years of close confine-
ment to undergo, forced the door of his cell, a few nights since,
and setting fire to his handkerchief threw it on a bed in an ad-
joining room. Fortunately it was discovered in time, and ex-
tinguished. The prisoner has been put in irons.

On Friday last, a hay-rick, near Leigh, the pro-
perty of Lord Francis Egerton, was discovered to be on fire,
but the lames were extinguished before material damage was
done. It is suspected to be the work of an incendiary.--Liver
pool Mail.

A CHILD CHOKED BY A PIECE OF MEAT.—Mr.
Baker, on Saturday, held an inquest at the Blockmakers"
Arms, Ashley's-crescent, City-road, on the body of Caroline
Neele, aged one year and ten months. It appeared that the
deceased, who WAS the illegitimate child of Mr. Phillips, to-
bacconist, of Bath-street, City-road, was on Thursday last
sitting at dinner with its mother. It got too large a piece of
meat into its mouth and throat; it became black in the face,
and before a surgeon could arrive it expired, and the meat
was subsequently found in deceased's throat. Verdict—" That
deceased died from accidental choking."
CASE 01' INSANITY.—On Tuesday evening, the Ist
inst., Edward Winter, aged 32, formerly a soldier, put an end '
to his existence by hanging himself in an up-stair room of his
own hour, in Sanvv. gate. It was the anniversary of his wed-
ding, and he had been drinking a good dea' of beer, playing at
cards, &c. In the course of the evening he asked his wife to
take poison with him, which she declined ; and some time after-
wards she found him hanging as described. He was subject to
fits, and had been discharged from the army as unfit for service.
Verdict, " Temporary Insanity."—Leicester Journal.
The navigation of the Rhone by steamers, between
Lyons and Avignon has been resumed, after 52 days' interrup
tiort, on account of the lowness of the water. -

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TnE OLD 13ATu BANK.—We understand that a
first dividend of se. in the pound will be shortly declared on the
estate of Messrs. Hobhouse and Co.—Bristol Miaror.

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THE NIGER EXPEDITION.—Letters have been re-
ceived by the Wesleyan Missionary Society, announcing the
safe arrival at Kumisi, the capital of Ashantee, of Prince Wil-
liam Quantamissah, and Prince John Ausah, the sons of the
reigning Monarch of that country. These two interesting
youths, who had for some time been in this country for im-
provement in their education, left for their return in the late
ill-fated Niger expedition. They left Cape Coast Castle on
7th November last, and were accompanied by Mr. Freeman
and Mr. Higgins, two newly-appointed missionaries to that
country.
There are moments in which we live years—
moments, which steal the roses from the cheek of health, and
plough deep furrows in the brow of youth. •-i

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF MONDAY.

GLOBE.—While we think the financial scheme of the
Government open to such objections as we have
stated elsewhere, and may put forward more fully on
future occasions, we cannot subscribe to some of the
.trictures of the Times (while it professes, on the
whole, concurrence with the policy of the measure)
and of the Chronicle. The latter compares it to Mr.
Addington's Property Tax, and says, " Those who ex-
perienced the Property tax can testify at once to the
justice, as well as the universality, of this feeling
(against it.] " The tax was odious, because it was
direct. Direct taxes are always those which the sub-
ject pays most unwillingly, because the whole amount
is taken from him by the tax-gatherer at once, and with-
out disguise; and the people of England entertain this
objection to direct taxation more strongly than those of
any other country, because they have been the least accus-
tomed to it." The Chronicle, however, had stated that the
people contributed, without munizurinina, not much less than
15,000,000/. a year under this tax. This is admitting
too much in its favour, in extraordinary public emer-
gencies, to allow of summarily condemning it, on ac-
count of the odiousness of direct taxation. Its sanc-
tion, or condemnation, most depend on the neces-
sity of the case ; and such, on the Chronicle's showing,
was the public feeling, while it was necessary. There
can be no doubt of the ordinary feeling against direct
taxation ; the question is, in a case of emergency,
whether the force of that feeling, or the care for public
credit, and for the public service, has the predominance.
Whenever there is a clear case of necessity, the public
have shown themselves willing to submit to a much
larger amount of direct taxation than is now called for,
and one of much more unmitigated incidence on men of
small means. We repeat what we said on Saturday, that
our final judgment of the Government plan must depend,
not on its general principle of direct taxation, but on the
manner in which that mode of taxation is applied in the
present instance. There may be good reasons for con-
demning an income tax, to which a property tax would
not be liable. -

STANDARD.—No taxes—we may generalise the
proposition—no payments are in the abstract objects of
love, but men reconcile themselves to rent and rates as ne-
cessary evils, and habit will reconcile them as easily to
an income tax. The tax has been heretofore unpopular,
chiefly because it was unusual ; and not without reason,
for a payment for which men have made no pro-
vision in arranging their affairs and adjusting their
style of living, must be more oe less oppressive
beyond the actual amount paid. Usage and reason will,
however, at length reconcile all men who are not entirely
selfish to that form of taxation which, if not perfectly
just, is the most just that the mind can conceive, and
which is absolutely the most economical and efficient.
We have already avowed that we value Sir Peel's pro-
position chiefly as the auspicious opening of a rational
and just system of finance. We find that we have
not allowed ourselves room to take up Lord John
Russell's objection to the parallel of 1797-1198 with 1842.
But putting out of the question the mutiny at the Nore,
which could not affect the financial question in one way
or the other, as it cost nothing to suppress it, we con-
tend that the British empire demands far larger
provisions for its defence now than it required at
the epochs referred to. Look to 1798, when you had
all the military division of Europe, that is, Prussia,
Austria, and Russia, if not actually leagued with
you, anxiously wishing for your safety and success—
France, your only enemy, betrayed into bankruptcy
and torn by anarchy. True, enough was not done in
1797, 1798, to make advantage of these circum-
stances, and, therefore, a worse state of affairs fol-
lowed. Compare this state of affairs with the pre-
sent. Look to France, firm and consolidated—look to
the feelings and policy of Russia—look to the United
States—look to your wars in Asia—and to the state not
less to be regarded than a state of actual rebellion in
which the Whig-Radicals left Ireland—look to these
things. and then say that our present condition does not
require as ample preparation and as " wary walking" as
1797 or 1798.

FROM THE RYENIMGI PAPERS OP YRSTIRDAY.

GLOBE.—Lord Brougham's "Resolutions" touch
all the points in Sir Robert Peel's plan of finance
which demand discussion, before the country can
justly be called on to acquiesce in it. We have not
hesitated to express our opinion that the principle of
direct taxation is not what is objectionable in that
plan, under existing circumstances. What is objec-
tionable is, that the principle is not carried out with
fairness. "Itis my duty," said the Prime Minister,
"to make an earnest appeal to the possessors of pro-
perty." It was his duty. It is a duty which, we think, has
been too long postponed. Parties have been amusing
themselves (to borrow a simile from Hume's Essay's)
with a match of cudgel-playing in a china-shop--with
a struggle for power amidst failing finances. The de-
mands of the public service have been yearly in-
creasing, while no corresponding increase has been
obtained in ' the means of meeting them. The
late Government proposed to relieve our finance
by removing restrictions on our commerce ; and
we have no doubt that the end would have
been attained with the aid of time. But a great
part of our difficulties, though largely owing
to anti-commercial laws, did not admit of immediate
removal by the relaxation of those laws. The short
supplies of the first necessaries, which the impro-
vidence of monopoly brought on us, could not be
converted to immediate abundance by any change
in the Corn-laws. We hold, therefore, that, con-
currently with the liberal measures of the late Go-
vernment, a direct, and not a speculative, provision
should have been made for the deficit. Half the
duty of financiers was omitted in omitting to pro-
vide for the present. The late Budget cannot
be seriously affirmed to have made such provision.
Financiers omit the other half of their duty in dis-
regarding the future ; and that is what appears to us
the failure of the present administration. We hold
that the imposition of new burdens ought to have been
accompanied by the concession of boons which have not
been conceded to commerce and industry. We hold that
in the imposition of those burdens there should have
been exercised a discrimination which has not been ex-
ercised between the various sources of income; and that
their comparative value and permanence should have
formed the measure of imposition. It is indeed idle
to attempt to estimate the comparative interest of
richer and poorer citizens in the preservation of public
credit, and the payment of public services. But it is
no more than justice to take into calculation the com-
parative value of their possessions—of those perma-
nent or precarious resources which you make the
subject of taxation.

STANDARD.—Lord Brougham has given notice
of nine resolutions, condemnatory of Sir Robert Peel's
financial plan. These resolutions will be found in
our Parliamentary report. None will be so rash as to
deny to the Noble and Learned Lord the possession
of great talents ; few will be so unjust as to refuse him
the praise of a kind and patriotic disposition ; but it
would be the extreme of rashness and injustice too, to as-
cribe to him the smallest imaginable amount ofpolitical
wisdom. Lord Brougham's active life has been em-
ployed in solving the problem, how many blunders,
and how much mischief also may be produced by the
exercise of great powers, though directed by a generous
and honest heart, if not governed by modesty and
common sense. We need but name the early doc-
trines of the Edinburgh Review—the Malthusian
philosophy of which his Lordship was the first patron
and promulgator—the new political economy which has
resulted in so much misery and loss—the premature
abolition of the income-tax in 1816, from which
our finances have never yet recovered—the political
doctrine of the Noble Lord in 1819, now matured
into Chartism—the attempt at exciting an insur-
rection in favour of Queen Caroline, an attempt
boastfully avowed—the Neth Poor-law; these make
Lord Brougham's trophy—let any one say what
share wisdom had in rearing it. The New Poor-law
crowns the edifice, and, as we may see, the principle
of the New Poor-law is preserved in the resolutions
before us. Let us, however, look to some of these
resolutions. We begin with the first and most im-
portant :

" 1. That a direct tax upon income ought never to be
resorted to, unless in some great emergency of tlublic
affairs, when an extraordinary expenditure may become
unavoidable for a time, or in some pressure upon the
finances of the country which can be sustained by no
ether means."

So far this is a simple dogma : no attempt is made
to prove the proposition that a direct tax upon income
ought never to be resorted to, except in some extraor-
dinary emergency; but granting the proposition
proved, which, except for argument sake, we should
be very unwilling to do, we meet Lord Brougham by
telling him that a case of extraordinary emergency
has arrived. Is it not a case of extraordinary
emergency, when the revenue of the British empire
has failed to meet its expenditure—when the ordinary
sources of revenue have been found incapable of in-
crease—when the attempt to effect a social revolution
for financial purposes has been gravely resorted to by
the Ministers of the Crown, as their sole refuge from
bankruptcy—is not this a case:of emergency ?We
concede to Lord Brougham that the emergency is not
the effect of national poverty ; Heaven forbid that it
were. We know that Great Britain was never so rich
as at this moment.

ARSON AT CARLISLE.-CONFES-

SION OF ONE OF THE PRISONERS.
(From the Second Edition of the Carlisle Journal.)
On 'aturday morning about two o'clock the Angel lnn,
English-street, in this town, war discovered to be on fire, but,
by the prompt arrival of the engines, the flames were subdued
in about an hour. On examination of the premims, however,
by Mr. Graham, superintendent of police, ample proof appeared
that they ha l been wilfully set fire to, and he immediately took
into custody Mrs. Christopherson, the landlady, her ser-
vant, and daughter. At eleven o'clock on the same day they
were examined before the Magistrates, when Mary Blaylock
the servant,confessed to having prepared peat, wood, shavings,
and other materials by her mistress's order, to burn the house,
for the purp,se of recovering the insurance upon the premises,
which was 501. upon her stock, and 350/. on her furniture,
under a promise to convey her to America to her husband.
Mrs. Christopherson recriminated by laying the blame of the
proposal to the girl. The prisoners were then removed and
ordered to be kept in separate confinement.

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The Hon. and Loyal Society of Ancient Britons
have determined on celebrating the auspicious event of the
birth of their Hereditary Prince, by a dress ball, at Willis's
Rooms (Almack's), at the latter end of this month, and:a
very full and brilliant assembly is confidently anticipated, Par-
ticularly as the young and gay baronet, Sir Watkyn W. Wynn,
has undertaken to be the patron.