The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-19 00:00:00

DE VON PORT.

Nov. B.—The Wilberforce, steam-vessel, another
a the Niger expedition squadron, arrived at this port
3terday from the coast of Africa.
The P:dventure, transport, Roskilly, master, arrived
the morning from Portsmouth with, stores.
There are no ships or vessels of war in the Sound.
nuE.—Last nig::t, about eight o'clock, a fire broke
ma in a cork manufactory belonging to Mr. Turner,
in Storehouse-lane. The engine from the Royal
Alarine barracks and a party of Marines, and other
enfzines, were quickly on the spot, and very soon ex-
tinguished the flames. All the woodwork of the build-
ing was destroyed, but no very serious loss has been
sustained.

AVTI;Ert FlrtE.--This morning, about five o'clock,
Hour's pipe manufactory, back of Mount-street, De-
vonport, near the Dockyard wall, was discovered to
be on fire. On its being seen from the guard-ship,
signal guns were fired, and immediately after Sir
David Milne, the Port-Admiral, Sis Satnucl Pym,
the Admiral-Superintendent of the Dockyard, and
C'apt. Milne of the guard-ship, were at the premises.
) e fire was confined to the manufactory, and even-
tually reduced- The building is, however, destroyed.
This is, fortunately, the first opportunity that has
presented itself for the carrying out of the arrange-
menta which had been made by the gallant Port
17)r communicating the outbreak of fire to
Ith4, authorities, and fur the speedy and effectual ex-
thietion of it. The comparatively small amount of
damage sustained, and. the immediate suppression of
of the fire, proves the value and importance of the
arrangements and attention to them.
UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT BY FlItE-A.RAlS.—Yes-
terdaymornin,P, a young man, a grocer, named Kemp,
accidentally shot a superannuated serjeant of Marines,
'near the powder magazine, at Keyhan Point. It
.appears that Kemp promiscuously fell in with a party
with whom he was acquainted who were shooting rats
near the water-side, and when in taking a loaded gun
from one• of his friends it went off, and the contents
entered the body of the. poor sergeant, who was in his
garden close to the :Tot.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENT C. PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—While the "Landed Interest" appear
to be taking heart, and inculcating improvement in
agricultural processes as a surer stay than failing mo-
nopoly, a Cassandra-warning is uttered by the Mark-
lane Express, which observes, in its last number, " It
has been remarked as c:idence of the spirit of the
Bsitish farmers, that, unintimidated by the changes
resently made, they hare sown: a larger breadth of wheat
thin year than usual. This may be well in those districts
where, in consequence of the wet state of land, much
rerneined unsown, or did not grow in the autumn of
lsst year. But ihnse persons who hail a largely increased
lreadth of Lud sown with wheat throughout the country
a.; ominous c.f. good, are unacguanted with its bearings
NAm agriculhtre. This observation touches a sore
pi,,sse. in our present egricultural economy. It has
eeen streck re; as amusing to hear exclusive partisans,
of the lariect interest inveighing against the s
ti pecula-
ve spirit in manzifacturers, which leads them to in-
vcst whatcyer r_,Ants they have reelised in new mills
an.. extent:ed machinery. Maradircturer3 must not
neck to expand that Lranch of production in Which
t .ey are alone and alone can employ the
c -It is 6..e-r-pn;ditwic2t, forsooth, in them to
ease the quantity of carceee or woollens—
tit !ir customers, and their. might-be customers, are
so much over-provided with clothing! It would he
essy to demonstrate that- the whole amount of goods
manufactured, -in the busiest years has been in-
adequate rather than excessive, relatively to the real
7: a !.'s oft'onstuners. The/Peace-deemed ofconsumers is
another thing. That is dependent, as regards the
home market, on the aicissitudes of a most veal:able
climate, affecting the supply and the prices of the first
eecessaries of life, and, as regards. foreign markets,
oe commercial vicissitudes, pjrtly proceeding from the
same cause, and partly. from the periodical smashes
inevitable When. commerce is based on credit, instead
of ;estiess on the only sure foundation of substantial
.0
excllange of commodities. The demands of our me:l-
ean customers yearly outstripped their means of making
returns—a_ large section of those returns having been
kept out wilfully by ourselves. American commerce,
therefore, was to a great extent based on credit—that
is to say, to a great extent, had no solid basis at all.
The American' smashes, . consequent on the defi-
ciency of bases of commercial transactions commen-
surate with the reciprocal wants of the two nations—
ti' wed by a Succession of seasons which narrowed
the means of the great .bulk of home-customers to
consume manufactures—produced those phenomena
IvLich landed philosophy accounts for by the phrase.
fpw-prcduction. It is odd they have no conception
this phrase can ever be applicable to themselves.
Landed producer-a meet, encourage each other to
tinder-drainage," expatiate upon steam-ploughs, and
extol Mr. Smith of Deanston—exult in-the circum-
stance that a greater breadth is lad under tillage than
sans ever known, and al the whl , they have no con-
ception that any of those reproaches about the abuse
te. machinery, excessive application.- of capital, over-
Foneation, &c., can ever he retorted on themselves.
STANDARD.—Lord Cottenham has addressed to
the, Times a letter disclaiming for himself the re-
commendation of one of the gentlemen lately ap-
rointed Banks apt Commissioners, mad denying ge-
verally that he interfered in the late appointments.
This letter might safely be left without comment,
for it cannot matter much whether-Lord Cottenham
(lid or did not recommend a Commissioner. His
Lordship's recommendations and appointments and
other extrajudical acts, have not been such as to give
Weight to his. authority. His letter hhs, how-
ev r, been made. the text of a long article, in
nhich a Morning Contemporary repeats all
the
uncandia and ungenerous imputations and
sneers of which the new Commissioners have
been the objects with the Opposition Press.
Our Contemporaries have a great advantage
in agitating the affair of the new appointments, for,
beside the. support of thel,-
with reasonable certainty upon rv, ttkey can count
P the sy.Ttpathy of a
fair share of the Conservative Members of the Bar.
The duty before Lord Lyndhnret was to select ten
gentlemen qualified to fill the newly-erected offices.
Now, if he were to collect the suffrages of the gentle-
imen of the bar .in the selection, there can be little
doubt that he would have about as many candidates as
electors—less, perhaps, by about 50 or 100
whO 'would not accept of one of the offices. There
are few wearing gowns, in fact, .who would
not be competent for the humble though la-
borious duties assigned to the Commissioners; there