The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-20 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Toursmourn, JAN. 19.—The following ships are in
preparation at this port for commissioning :—Sama-
rang, 26, Tyne, 26, Orestes, 18, Ringdove, 10, and Sa-
tellite, 18, at Plymouth ; Canopus, 84, America, 50, and
Wolf, 18, also the Scylla, 16, and cutter Bramble.
The Powerful, 84, is ordered for commission, it is ru-
moured by Captain Locker ; and the Ganges, 84, on
arrival, will be paid off for the like purpose.
Rear-.&dmiral the Hon. Jocelyn Percy, C. 8., (ap-
pointed successor •to Sir Edward King) will hoist his
flag in the Winchester, 50, which ship is to be paid off
at Chatham, and re-commissioned by Captain Eden, to
relieve the Southampton, 50.
Those two powerful frigates, Warspite, 50, and 'Vin-
dictive, 50, have left Spithead for the Downs, to await
the arrival of the Formidable, 84, from Chatham, when
they will proceed to Ostend, to escort the King of Prussia
to Woolwich.
The brig Rapid, 10, Lieutenant Earle, is under orders
to proceed to the Cape and African station, and will take
out despatches for the Madagascar, 46, senior officer's
ship, and disposable boys. Commander Barker ap-
pointed to the Lily, 18, vice Allen, promoted, will also
go out in the Rapid, among other supernumeraries.
The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant Thomas, fitting as a ten-
der brig to the Queen's yacht, Royal George, will pro-
ceed, when ready, to the Irish ports for volunteer seamen.
Letters from the Fair Rosamond schooner, of the 3d
November, report her in Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, with
the Sappho, 15. Both vessels had been suffering in a
mitigated degree from fever, but there were no fatal
cases. The former was about to sail for Antigua, and
the latter for Jamaica and England, to be paid off. The
Island was very unhealthy, some severe cases having oc-
curred in the 47th regiment, chiefly among the officers.
Tho Wasp, 18, Commander the Hon. H. Murray, was
at Malta on the 22d December, daily expecting to be or-
dered home. She has been nearly five years in commis-
sion, and has changed all her officers.
The Atholl troop ship, Mr. Bellamy, master, last from
Cork, has been spoken with, all well, bound to Barba-
does and Jamaica.
The corvette Dido, lion. Captain Keppel, was detained
in the Sound, awaiting Admiralty orders, on the 15th
instant, reported destination the Mediterranean.
The Termagant brigantine, Lieut. Seagrim, is ordered
home from the West Coast of Africa, and may shortly
be looked for ; also the Vestal, 26, from the West Indies.
The Curacoa, 24, Captain Jones, was at Callao on the
27th of July, preparing to sail for San Blas, afterwards
to go to the Falkland Islands, and thence to the So-
ciety Islands. She is expected to be in England in
October, 1842. _

At Spithead.—Queen, 110.
In Harbour.— SL Vincent, Victory, Powerful, Excel-
lent, Royal George yacht, Carysfort, Rapid, and Nautilus.
—Brighton Gazette.

MEETINd at WOLVERHAMPTON.
A meeting was hold at Wolverhampton on Tues
k.
-
day last, to consider the advisability of raising subscrip-
tions for the relief of the distressed poor at this incle-
ment season of the year. A motion was made that a
subscription be entered into, the amount to be expended
in selling bread to the necessitous at the rate of id. per
sixpenny loaf, the number of loaves thus sold to each
person to be regulated by the number of his or her fa-
mily ; and individuals receiving bread from the Poor-law
Union to be further relieved by being allowed to purchase
potatoes at a greatly reduced rate. The resolution hav-
ing been moved, Mr. Joseph Walker, the Chairman of
the Wolverhampton Anti-Corn-law Association, moved
an amendment, attributing the existing distress to the
Corn-laws, and urging that a memorial should be pre-
sented to the Privy Council to allow the total amount of
subscriptions to be expended in corn imported duty free.
The amendment was seconded by Mr. Kettle, and car-
ried by an overwhelming majority. The operatives said
they wanted justice, not bread, whereupon the defeated
Tories slunk off ashamed of their pretended charity.
The Chartists and the Anti-Corn-law party then came
to an agreement, we are informed, and are resolved to
labour together in order to obtain justice for the people,
and rescue them for the pauperism to which the Tories
would consign them.
At the conclusion Mr. GEORGE WYNN moved the fol-
lowing resolution, which was carried unanimously :
" That in order that this meeting may not be guilty
of neglecting to pursue any measure calculated to assist
the design for which it is assembled—i. e. to improve the
condition of the hungry and unemployed—it is desirable
that it should adopt the following petition to the House
of Commons ; and that the Chairman be authorised to
sign the same in behalf of the meeting:—
" To the Honourable the Commons of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland ii Parliament as-
sembled.
" The humble Petition of the InhabititOs of the
Township. of Wolverhampton, in the Couzity of
Stafford, in public meeting assembled,
" Sheweth,—
" That your petitioners have met together (in com-
pliance with the order of the Constables of the township),
on this 18th day of January, 1842, for the purpose of
considering the necessity of entering into subscriptions
towards alleviating the distress .of the poor during the
present inelepero season.
" That your petitioners, having been assembled toge-
the;r• RM.a ifild2Min* purpose last year, as well as in other
previous years,.cannot tri thin instance approach the con-
sideration of the starving condition of a large multitude
of their fellow-townsmen, without feeling that their pe-
cuniary contributions are insufficient to afford perma-
nent relief, and inadequate to supply the immediate and
pressing wants of the poor to the necessary extent ; and
also, that it is a great hardship to your petitioners, and
to those for whose aid they are assembled, that the
latter should be reduced to the necessity of requiring
support by alms, and the former compelled to maintain
them by alms. •
" Your petitioners feel deeply sensible that such a
state of things is calculated to operate most banefully
upon the community, by destroying among the recipi-
ents of these alms that honest spirit of pride which ani-
mates men living by their own industry, and by depriving
those who are yet able to maintain themselves by their
labour, of the prospect of appropriating the fruits
thereof to their own personal necessities.
" Your petitioners, therefore, earnestly desire that
your Honourable House should adopt some measure cal-
culated to remove the evil from which the impoverished
condition of their fellow-countrymen arises, and to re-
store the commercial prosperity of this kingdom to that'
pitch which shall enable every man to live according
to the decree of Almighty Providence—by the sweat
of his brow.
" This object your petitioners, who have well
be
onl and at-
tentively considered the subject, believe can y
-atly i poses a grievous tax upon the
accompfislitd by the immediate and total repeal of the
law which unj, limits the demand
for the produce of the people s industry.
people's bread, anti unfairly . •
an utterly abolish
ore, humbly pray that your
and ttblke such other steps
"Your petitioners, thete...o
Honourable House will immen.:.tte'Y
the law called the Corn-law,
as may be necessary to establish a po:fect system of
unfettered trade.
"And your petitioners will ever pray, &c.
Signed (by order of the meeting),
if , Chairman."

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THE BEER TRADE.—On Tuesday evening a
meeting of the Licensed Victuallers, resident in mid near
the Broadway, Weatminster, was held at the Barley-mow,
floiseferry-.road, Mr. Bishopp in the chair. The object
pf the meeting was that of procuring an uniformity in
the price of beer ; and after a long discussion the meet-
ing sidjallrned until that night fortnight, in order that
the sense of the whole of the publicans in the neighbour-
-1100 might be taken as to the policy of the step.