The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-17 00:00:00

MALTA.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, DEC. S.—DISTRIBUTION OF
THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET.-The Queen, 110,
bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir E. W. C. R.
Owen, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean;
the Ceylon receiving ship, bearing the flag of Rear-
Admiral Sir John Louis, Superintendent of Malta
Dock-yard ; the Impregnable, 104 ; Monarch, 84 ;
Vanguard, 80; Prometheus and Alecto steam-packets
are lying in Valetta Harbour, Malta. The Rodney,
92 ; Savage, 10 ; Lizard steam-tender, and Owen
Glendower, convict ship, at Gibraltar, from whence
the Formidable, 84, is on her way to Malta ; the In-
constant, 36, and Cyclops steam frigate, are at Bar-
celona ; the Polyphemus steam packet at Marseilles ;
the Belvidera, 38, at Genoa; the Snake, 16, at Syra-
cuse ; L'Aigle, 24, 'and Geyser war steamer, at
Corfu ; the Locust steam tender on her way to Eng-
land ; the Howe, 120, bearing the flag of Rear-Ad-
miral Sir F. Mason, second in command, and the
Scout, 18, at the Piraeus of Athens ; the Beacon and
Magpie, surveying vessels, at Suda, in Candia ; the
Medea war steamer, at Alexandria; the Indus, 78,
Stromboli,
Magicienne, 24, at Smyrna. The Stroboll,
war steamer, at Constantinople. The Vernon, 50,
Hecate, Devastation, and Vesuvius, war steamers, at
Beyrout.
MovemENTs, &c.—Since the 27th of November the
Cyclops steam-frigate took her departure for Mar-
seilles, the 27th, with the overland mail for England,
brought from Alexandria on the same day by the
Oriental contract steam-ship, which proceeded on her
voyage to Gibraltar and England on the 28th ; but as
the Cyclops, after delivering the mail is to proceed to
Barcelona in consequence of the political disturbances
thereat, the Polyphemus, which arrived from Gibraltar
on the '2Bth ult., was despatched Lo Marseilles on the
Ist inst., to await the London overland mail of the
sth, which she will convey to Malta, where she will
arrive about the 13th to meet the Great Liverpool,
due from England on the 12th. The Inconstant sailed
for Barcelona on the 27th. The Circas,lan yacht, Capt.
Lyon, and the Dream yacht, C. Bentinck, Esq., the
former having on board the Marquis of Blandford,
and the latter Viscount Cantalupe, sailed for Naples,
touching at Syracuse, on the 28th ult., in company
with the Snake, to try rate of sailing, all three were
lying at Syracuse on the Ist inst.; the Sardinian war
steamer Tripoli arrived from Genoa on the 28th ult.,
and proceeded on her voyage to Alexandria on the Ist
inst. ; the Dutch frigates Rhin and Jason arrived
from the Texel and Portsmouth on the 3d, and pro-
ceed shortly to the Piraeus of Athens and Smyrna.
The Howe entered the Pincus under sail, to the no
small astonishment of the natives, on the 23d ult.,
and has taken up a snug berth for the winter—any
thing but a comfortable one for the officers, as Sir F.
Mason has signified his intention of not relaxing in
the least the orders of the Commander-in-Chief
as regards leave. On the 19th ult. the Howe and Scout
dressed ship and fired a salute, in honour of the
success of the British arms in Affghanistan and
China, to the no small mortification of Admit-o_la
Susse, in the Santi Petri, which sailed for myrna
on the 28th. The Inflexible, another French ship of
the line, was to leave the Piraeus for *Toulon on the
3d instant, leaving a corvette, ar:, a Russian vessel
of the same class at the Pirmuß,. The Stromboli left
her anchorage off Consta Pfinople on the 18th for
Smyrna, where she ar:ived on the 19th, and after
filling up provisions Prom the Indus, took her depar-
ture again for tier station. The Vernon and other
British ships of war at Beyrout have taken the pre-
caution of moving into St. George's Bay for the winter
season. Early in the new year Sir John Louis will
be relieved in his charge of Superintendent of Malta
dock-yard, which it is currently rumoured is reserved
for Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, than whom, con-
sidering the improbability of more active service
offering, a fitter officer could not be selected, as some
of the dock-yard officials are notorious for assuming
airs unbecoming their station ! The Prometheus and
Alecto will both be some time under repair, and their
damages are becoming so frequent that they will no
doubt be sent to England in the spring. •
The Indus, Devastation, Magpie, and Beacon, are
shortly looked for at Malta, as also the Hecate, which
latter will probably be relieved by the Geyser, on the
Syrian coast. Preparations are making to receive
the new Bishop of Gibraltar, hourly looked for in the
Formidable, with all suitable honours. The yards of
the ships in the port will be manned, and a salute
fired on his landing. The Locust, having on board
the counterpart of the Chinese treaty, in charge of
Major Malcolm, will have made good way to Eng-
land, having had, judging by appearances here, fine
weather. Captain Henry and the officers of the Queen
(flag ship), have issued cards of invitation for a ball
on a very magnificent scale, to be given on board on
the 14th inst. Officers of all ranks in the navy, the
military, and civilians, are extremely sorry to hear
that in consequence of the Admiralty having sent
back Captain Rich (who took home the Calcutta),
and who is daily looked for, • Captain Henry, acting
in the Queen, will have to resign his command, and
return to that of Commander of the Devastation, and
whose present Acting Commander Robinson will have
to return to his duties as flag-lieutenant to the Cora-
mander.in-Chief.
'Mourn ETNA.—Letters from Catania of the 30th
nit., describe the volcano to be in full eruption, emit-
ting enormous masses of lava, and showing every
prospect of a flow of liquid lava, to the destruction of
all around.

THE REVOLT AT BARCELONA.
The following letter addresged to the Chronicle,throws
some further light on this diabolical transaction :
" General Van Helen, whom I have the honour to
know well, is not only a brave officer, but a humane
man ; and you may rely upon it, did, in concert with
the Regent, every thing in his power to avoid the ne-
cessity of throwing shells into Barcelona.
" But, as I have already observed, it is high time to
speak out. The French:Telegraphic-Dispatch-Me.n-
dacity-Establishment has at length become so moto-
rious—so atrociously notorious—and has so evidonily
formed a most active part of the machinery of the late
Barcelonese exhibition, that the matter must be tho-
roughly sifted and exposed ; and the directors of that
nefarious and pernicious establishment held up to the
execration of Europe ; for the peace of Europe ii,
compromised by their unjustifiable proceedings.
" Excuse me for saying that the responsibly
rector of this French-Telegraphie-Dispatch..Men-
dacity-Establishment is Louis Philippe, King of the
French ; who, in return for the unexamr
~ed gene-
rosity displayed towards him by every Tfritish Ad-
ministration, and by the British people,,, has, for the
last two or three years, been exciting animosity
amongst the French people towards' the British Go-
vernment and population. It is rw ost deplorable to
add that he is but too well seconded by the press, and
by the inhabitants of every part of France.
' Let England, then, be on th, 3 alert ; and, be it
understood (for such is undo*, .;dly the case), that

the Anglophobia with which the French nation suf-
fered itself to be—not unwillingly—inoculated during
the Administration of M. Thiers, was the work of the
King of the French; and that M. Thiers, although it
was the fashion in England to throw all the blame
upon him, was neither more nor less than the instru-
ment of Louis Philippe, who, it is well known is, and
always has been, his own Minister. Had the King
not—l will not say sanctioned, but—ordered this
anti-English agitation to be got up, M. Thiers, as his
Minister, would not have dared to do so. M. Thiers
was then, and is at this moment, neither more nor less
than the implement of his master; to be used as
Minister or Oppositionist at the will of that master.
"In like manner every thing proves that the
French Consul at Barcelona was the principal insti-
gator and fosterer of the late most atrocious rebellion
in that city ; and we may be assured that he would
not have presumed thus to act without instructions
from his Government—that is, Louis Philippe.
" General Count Castellane sent a succession of
false and malignant telegraphic dispatches from Per-
pignan to Paris relative to that rebellion :—he also, no
doubt, acted by order from the same master.
" The Presse, the known organ of Louis Philippe
and Queen Christina, heaped calumny upon calumny
against the Regent f Spain, and abuse upon abuse
of England, likewise by order, founded upon these
fabrications of the Perpignan-branch-telegraphic-dis-
patch-mendacity establishment—and, shame to say,
these calumnies and thivabuse found ready echoes In
every portion of the Parisian press, and in the breasts
of the majority of Frenchmen, who have been, by
order of Louis Philippe, and by his agents, wrought
up into an almost frantic state of hatred towards
England.
" I said that in February last, when the storm that
had been brewing on the French frontier was stilled
by the voice of the British Government and people,
that Louis Philippe was not then prepared to defy
England ; it would appear that he thinks he is so
now. The French King, Government, and people
are against England, and all adopt the most dishonest,
the most spiteful way of showing their deadly ani-
mosity.
" What are we to augur from all this ? I say, with
sorrow, that England is bound to prepare for a war
with France; for the rancour, falsehood, and cunning
of the King of the French, and of the French them-
selves, are rapidly producing a state of things that
cannot be endured.

" It is not to be tolerated that the agents of France
I should foment rebellion in a neighbouring country,
with whose Government she, as well as England, is in
alliance ; that her Consul should abet, comfort, and
protect the insurgents, and persuade, by false assur-
ances, the Queen of Spain's troops to surrender to the
rebels. Neither is it to be borne that the well-known
organs of the King of the French should be con-
tinually appealing to the worst passions of the French
people, to raise a war-whoop against England, to
whose generous countenance, support, and forbettr-
ancce, both are so much indebted.

" Again, I say, let England be prepared to buckle
on her armour ; should it not be needed, so much the
better : but, above all things, let us be ready, for the
enemy is at our gates; and as our cause is a just one,
and we have given no provocation, so shall we—should
strife be unavoidable—triumph as in the olden time.
" London, Dec. 16, 1842." " A."

FUNERAL OF LORD HILL.
(From the Shrewsbury News of this day.)
The funeral of the late deceased hero took place
yesterday, at three o'clock.
The remains of the late gallant hero were interred
in a vault in the chapel at Hadnal, a village iu the
parish of Middle, within a mile of Hardwicke, and
five miles from Shrewsbury, on the road leading to
llawkstone, Whitchurch, and Chester. The chapel is
a plain stone edifice, which has recently undergone
considerable repairs, principally at the expense of his
Lordship, why built a new tower, which added much
to the pictuTesque effect of this venerable building.
While this was erecting, a circumstance occurred,
connected with the death of an old servant, which
induced his Lordship to cause a vault to be con-
structed under the tower, in which his own remains
might be deposited, and yesterday they were laid in it.
Few of the shops in Shrewsbury were opened at all
on Friday, a memorial to that effect having been
signed by the principal mercers and drapers, who
agreed, as a token of respect to his late Lordship, to
close their shops the whole of the day. At 10 o'clock
the bells of the nine churches in the town commenced
tolling at intervals, and although the morning was
gloomy, with continued drizzling rain, hundreds of
persons, of both sexes, started at an early hour, on
foot, on the road to Hadnal, and were followed
throughout the morning by horsemen and vehicles of
every description, and the whole of the shops being
closed by eleven, the town at that time appeared en-
tirely deserted by its population.
To add to the affliction of Sir Rowland (now Lord
and the whole of the Members of the family—
the Dowager Mrs. Hill, the mother of his Lordship,
expired this morning, after a severe illness. The
death of the amiable lady, although long; expected,
came with such violence upon the family at the last
moment, that the arrangements which had been pre-
viously made for the procession of the funeral of his
Lordship were altogether laid aside. The shock was.
so sudden, and the grief of the family so great, that
several of its members were unable to attend, and will
at once account for their absence. The poliniant grief of
Sir Rowland Hill (we retain that tithe to avoid con-
fusion) was excessive since the dest‘.l of his uncle, and
this further visitation quite Unmanned him, and
heightened the anguish 1:le had previously en-
dured to an almost Insupportable degree. The
deceased lady, whose, sudden death added so me-
lancholy an interee.;t to the solemn pageant, partook in
a large-degree
which Of the warm-heartedness and good na-
turelorm such distinguished addenda to the
interitrace of all the Hills, and which extort from
Putfical opponents, like ourselves, a tribute of admi-
ration not less complimentary, we hope, than the
praises of friends. She was also gifted with rare
mental endowments—an acute perception or charac-
ter, a vigorous understanding, and a prompt and de-
cisive judgment, as readily formed and as soon acted.
upon in her sphere, as that of the deceased hero him-
self in his. But the best possible encomium that can
be pronounced upon her is, the intensity of the grief
with which her sorrowing relatives mourn her death,
even in the midst of sorrow for a deprivation in which
the whole nation regards itself as a sufferer.
The entire route from Shrewsbury to Hadnal was
crowded with pedestrians, equestrians, gentry, and
tradesmen, who were anxious to witness the last
melancholy obsequies of the hero who was so univer-
sally beloved. Although the rain continued without
intermission, the village of Hadnal was thronged with
spectators from Shrewsbury, Whitchurch, Drayton,
\Vern, Shawbury, Prees, Hodnet, and the villages and
hamlets in the neighbourhood.
Among the gentlemen and members of the family
who attended the melancholy ceremony were:—Sir
Rowland Hill, Sir Robert Hill, Colonel Egerton,
Capt. A. Hill, Percy Hill, Esq., Rev. F. Hill, Arthur
Hill, Esq., Rev. E. Neville, Mrs. Hill, Sir A. V.
Corbet, Lord Berwick, A. W. Corbet, Esq., Hon.
Thomas Kenyon, Sir J. R. Kynaston, Colonel Wing-
field, Hon. E. R. B. Fielding., W. Tayleur, Esq., J.
W. Dodd, Esq., Thomas narries, Esq., Robert
• Burton, Esq., Rev. J. Rocke, Major Bayley, W. W.
Howe, Esq. On the coffin was the following inscrip-
tion—" Rowland Viscount Hill, G.C.8., G.C.H.
Died December 10, 1842. Aged 70 years."