Star.
London, England, 1830-04-05 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Major-General Pilkington, it Isunderstood, will be appointed Col.
Commandant of a corps of Royal Engineers, vice General Gothci
Mann, deceased.

Despatches were sent off yesterday morning from the Horse Guards
for Major-General Lord Burghersh, G.C.H. at Florence.
The second Division of the 62d Regiment of Foot is arrived :u
Bristol, from Cork, on route to Chatham.
LIMERICK, MARCH 31.
Captain Tempest's company of the 60th Rifles marched into her,:
quarters on Monday, at the New Barracks, from Ennistimon,
ing been replaced by Captain Mitchell's company of the 56t'.
ftegiment.
The first division of the 62d, under Lieut.-Colonel Reid, lando.
on Monday at Bristol, and yesterday wete to proceed to Bath 0:.
route to Chatham.

The Carbineers embark at Liverpool for Ireland, on the 12:11
Apr iL
Government mean to place marines and sailors 'onithe same toot.
ing in regard to pensions.
Of the Deccan Prize-money, 230,000 L was distributed to the ac-
tual captors, in 1826, excepting 8,0001. paid into Chelsea llospit.a
Subsequently. 448,000 L was paid to the late Marquis of Hastinp
and the Grand Army, whose claim to share was admitted, exceptity.
20,0001. on this occasion also, to Chelsea Hospital. The emir,.
amount of the Deccan Prise-money was 800,0001 and the balance in
the Treasury will be distributed in three months more.
'l:Captain Wright, 39th Regiment, was tried at New South Wales.
fast October, for the murder of a runaway convict, and honorably
acquitted.

SPIRIT OF THE SUNDAY PRESS.

Collected, combined, arranged, compared, dissected, amended,
And circJIated."—ANASTASIUII.

THE SHIPPING INTEREST.

I In Friday night Mr. SYKES brought the case of the Shipping In-
terest before the House of Commons—of that first of all British W-
m.:sus in importance, and first also, we believe, in sufering—
(though, when all the branches of our industry are in ruin, it is hard
to speak positively on that point.) Mr. Rost xsow produced a paper
showing a decrease in the British empire in building, of two hundred
and seventy-nine vessels, and forty-three thousand one hundred and
forty tons, in 1820; of five hundred and thirty-four vessels, and
seventy-eight thousand three hundred and thirty-six tons, in
1829; and of six hundred and forty-four vessels, ninety-six
thousand four hundred and seven tons, in 1830 ; as compared
with the year 1827—nearly one half the whole tonnage. There
is also a decrease in the registered tonnage of the British em-
pire. (by the official statements about to be printed) of six hun-
dred and forty-two vessels, eleven hundred and ninety-one
tons, in the last year. Mr. SYZES showed that the value of
ships had depreciated a hundred per cent. and that the depre-
ciation was going on. It was proved, that docks were abandoning—
thousands of people thrown out of employment—that freights did
not ineet the expenses--and that foreigners were competing with us
successfully in the different markets of the world. No one spoke on
die Ministerial side, except that dull creature, !Unities; and all
that he said was, that he did not wish to enter into the subject, con.
tenting himself with combating a few details. Ministers, according
to HERRIES, are considering the case of the shipping interest.
As, however, they will :not abandon the free trade and mock
reciprocity system--and, as Goux.nuan tells us, they cannot dimi-
nish taxation any further—we do not think it likely that any advan-

rage to the country will arise from their considerations.—The Age.
—[The view here taken .by " the great captain of the Age," of
this vitally important question, is precisely that which, as our
readers will recollect, formed the basis of our observations on Sa-
turday. In the " disposition" which Ministers have hitherto
evinced, they may "continue" to the end of their official exist-
ence—which we trust may be short—without afibrling the least ad-
vantage or relief to the country.—En. STAR.]
PAHL E NT.—When we are sagely admonished of the success
of two or three good measures in Parliament, we ask, where are they
recorded that are lost ? The worst despotisms have had their acts
of grace, and it is by the balance of good or evil that the character
of powers must be judged, and the exceptions cannot avoid the
condemnation. Our ancestors, after a long struggle, found a
way of disposing of a race of kings. The contest is not
now with the royal power, and the Svuaays of our age
are the stewards wbo abuse the trust of the people's estate.
The quality of this action which passes under the mildly
familiar description of jobbing, has never been accurately
distinguished, and as its escape of the just classification results
entirely from the mode, it may not be amiss in this place to clear
up its true character. Jobbing and robbing have less than the
ii;eral difference. To job, is to do that by voice and the agency
at others, which vulgar craftsmen in the streets do by hand. In
the handicraft consists the meanness of the thief. It is low
to use the fingers. The catechism desires us to keep our
ringers from picking and stealing, but it says nothing of the voice,
2nd a vote is a mere sound. It is vulgar to use one's fingers
in any operation which can be performed by an additional machi-
nery. People who are well-bred, neither take meat with their fingers,
nor steal with their lingers. An act of parliament is a silver fork.
A book which we invariably refer to in point of any inquiry in pos.
Mies, gives a complete explanation of this question—it is no other
than Fielding's History of Jonathan Wild, which wonderfully solves
every problem in the conduct of the State, though in truth it treats
not of legislators but of thieves. Those who desire to understand
the political morality of our country, should turn the treatise with a
daily and a nightly hand.—Ezantiner.
Tux CH uncia.—ltie have in our clerical department noticed the
elevation of Mr. WELD, of Dorsetshire, to the dignity of a Car.
dinal—a striking proof of the progress of the Roman Catholic rent.
gion in this country, and a most encouraging temptation to the
rising generation to embrace its doctrines. Indeed we see nothing
before us but the rapid advances of the scarlet lady. The Post
makes a Protestant Brwo's subject a Cardinal, and the Protestant
Bishop of LteurreLD and COVENTRY tells a Papist that the pro.
lessors of his religion are SURE of SALVATION. This—we re-
peat once more—a Popist priest has publicly stated the Bishop of
LICHFIELD to have said before witnesses; and the Bishop of
LICLIFIRLD haS not yet thought proper to deny it—RUT HI MUST.
Just as we were going to press, we received the following:—
We have authority to state that the account of the circumstances
accompanying the conversion of the Hon. and Rev. G. SPENCER
to the Church of Rome, (as published first in the Wexford and then
in the London newspapers) contains a gross misrepresentation of the
sentiments and language of the Bishop of LITCHFIELD and CO..
ENTRY ; and that no words implying an acknowledgment of as-
surance of salvation in the Church of Rome, were ever uttered by
h,m.--Jolist Bull.

[What esn the conductors of such a paper as the notorious Bun,
mean by tal..ing of "ova clerical deparintenl?" The impudence
. i such an allusion—the worse than mockery of such an attempt to
ding to that connection from the contamination of which every re-
,nectahle member of the Established Church shrinks with loathing,
—esti only be equalled by the triekerp—the barefaced and palpable
trickery—of impugning the conduct of the Bishop of Lichfield and
Coventry, in the same page of the paper in which the refutation of
that charge is published.—ED. Evart.]
Tile QUARTER'S REVENUE.—We intended to lay before our
waders a detailed account of the returns of the present quarter's re.
venue up to yehttnlay evening; but as these returns are not in a
sufficiently forward state to enable us to do so with accuracy, we
'hall only offer a general statement, upon which however, re.
oceans may be placed. We are happy, in the first place, to
observe that the quarter's revenue is likely to turn out better
than was expected, and that the Customs will show an increase,
as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year. It
is not yet known whether the Excise will shew an increase
or not ; but as there have been lately symptoms of national im-
provement, it is not probable that there will be a decrease of any
extent. The returns from the ether branches are not yet in so for-
ward a state es to enable us to form an idea as to the probable re.
cult; but the prospect of an improvement of the two most important
branches is sufficient to justify us in taking a cheering view of the
subject. For our own credit sake, however, it is proper to observe,
that between this time and the closing of the returns for the quarter,
there may be some change. On the authenticity of what we state,
9 the result of the calculations founded upon the returns read up to
elate hour last night, our readers may rely with confldence—The
Neal:Knee. [An admirable specimen of Editorial quackery.
ED. STAR.]
WOODS AND FORESTS...—A great sensation has been created
throughout the country by Mr. HARVEY'S motion on the subject
of Crown Lands. The flagrant abuses which he describes are not
only such as from recent circumstances we should be particularly
sell Pleased to see corrected, but the kind of relief which they seem
calculated to afford, is exactly that which all the most enlightened
statesmen of the day consider most desirable in the present state of
the cf)untrY. The accumulation of property in masses, and the
absorption of those small capitals which used to form what might
be called the small change of the community, is the evil
to be redressed; and therefore, it has been said the burdens which
presi so much on the industrious classes ought to be abated, and
transferred, if it were possible, to the affluent. Here a way is
suggested which, without committing any act at variation with old
caltitutional practice, offers in aid of the public revenue large
savings, to be effected by withholding from those who are inor-
dinately rich, sums which ought never to have been received by
them or by their ancestors. The Honourable Gentleman truly re-
marked, that resumptious of improvident grants had formerly been
common. The reigns of Ifssuise Myrtle, HEriy 1., and

those of succeeding monarchs down to a remit period, give proofs of
that. If property belonging to the State of the value auditions be
given away for a few thousands, ought not restitution to be mad*
to the right owners ? On this subject we shall have more to say
hereafter.—Sunday Times.
[" A great sensation" nu been " created throughout the coun.
try :" and if we mistake not, a still greater sensation will yet be
created :—but what is that to the privileged few who enjoy their
places, and pensions, and sinecures, whilst the unfortunate peasantry,
the labourer, and manufacturer are perishing for want ? What can
so sensible a journalist as the Swiday Times mean by even hinting
at a transfer of the public burthens from the industrious classes to
the affluent ? Monstrous assurance I Aye, but to this complexion
it must come at last.—En. STAIR.]