The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-05 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 4.—Rear-Admiral Sir T. Hardy,
and all the experimental ships, have dropped down to St.
Helens, with the exception of the Sapphire, who will join
them on Thursday morning, after the damage she sustained
in the late gales during her cruise has been repaired; the
came in with three feet water in the hold, and one of her
pumps disabled.
Our correspondent of March 24, has led us into an
error respecting the ballast said to have been taken in by
the Challenger and Columbine ; the former took in forty
tons more, but the latter has taken in none since she came
out of harbour.

A society has been formed in the United States, under
the name of " The American Society for the Promotion of
Temperance." Seven thousand dollars have been distri-
buted in Boston, for tke object, which is specially to per-
suade the sober part of the community to continue sober,
by avoiding entirely the use of intoxicating liquors.—
Drunkards, we presume, are deemed irreclaimable.—Ame-
rican Paper.
Increased anxiety is beginning to be felt for the arrival
of his Majesty's ship Tweed from Vera Cruz. A vessel
which sailed with her has arrived at Hamburgh, from
thence, and the Underwriters at Lloyd's are asking higher
premiums on her.

MANCHESTER, APRIL 2.—The reported
sales of Cotton for the last week have exceeded, in the
number of bags, the quantity calculated to be required by
the spinners for the consumption of a week; and although
the prices have not altered very materially, yet they have
rather bad a tendency to decline. The yarn trade has
been decidedly heavy and a shade lower, and the stocks
begin to accumulate. This circumstance, at this season of
the year, must, of necessity, create very unpleasant feel-
ings amongst the spinners, who reasonably expected to
have been better employed. That there are orders in the
market is true, but they are offered at prices so low, that
few will accept them, unless compelled by necessity.
Goods are, in a measure, in a similar situation to yarns,
as respects both the price and demand : particular sorts are
at a shade lower, and, when offered at a reduced price,
purchasers are found for tolerable quantities. Two or
three failures have taken place, but, fortunately, not for
sums of much importance; they, however, add to the de-
apondency which the unprofitable state of the Cotton
trade had previously created. Till there are fewer goods
made, things must remain as they are. We make more
goods than the people want or cam.. Filly for ; and, as the
United States people, as well as thrrople at Rouen, and
other parts of the ontinent, are doing the same thing--
you must expect to hear from hence the cry of bad times.
If the producers of grain could apply machinery, as we do
to the production of Cotton goods, you would shortly have
the quartern loaf at a penny or two-pence, and then Sir
Thomas Lethbridge would, indeed, be forced to go with-
out a coat. The National Debt, and taxation, and tithes,
and poor-rates, have nothing whatever to do with our
situation, which has been entirely brought about by the
excessive quantity of goods made.
LA PERousE.—lt would appear from the
following extract of a letter, dated Port Louis (Isle of
France), Dec. 19, that some intelligence has
at length been
obtained of the fate of this unfortunate navigator :—" We
have advice' here of the celebrated navigator Monsieur La
Perouse's sword having been found by the commander of a
ship who touched at one of the Molucca Isles. The in-
habitants say that she was driven on shore in a tempest ;
and, in consequence of some misunderstanding, they fired
a broadside on shore, and in return they all were mur-
dered, at least the greater part of them. It appears his
name is very distinct on the sword."
The journeymen ship carpenters of this port,
a class of tradesmen who have long exercised a species of
dictation towards their employers, and
who prescribe the
terms upon which they will sell their labours (the right to
do which we do not dispute, so long as neither violence
held on
nor intimidation is employed to enforce their resolutions),
ago. At this meeting it was
held a meeting a few days
unanimously resolved, that, in future, the master shall take
wria, communicated to the
one apprentice only to every gang of six men whom they
minaasyteerms,plwoh.o, TathisaFriday last, unani-
mously resolved to resist the dictation of the journeymen,
and to close their yards. The resolution was carried into
effect on Saturday, on which day all the :ship-building
yards in the port were closed. Several of the merchants
resolutionmeeting
and shipowners have, we understand, declared their deter-
mination to support the masters in resisting what they
deem a very unreasonable demand on the part of the jour-
neymen. Since the preceding remarks were written, we
have received a statement from the master shipwrights,
which is inserted among the advertisements....—Liverpool
Albion of Monday.