The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-28 00:00:00

WOOLWICH-MONDAY.

The Lightning steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander
George Snell, left Woolwich yesterday afternoon for
Hamburgh, with the Earl of Wilton, Lord Charles
Wellesley, Sir William Young, and several members
attached to the British Court on board, having full
powers to invest the King of Saxony with the Most
Noble Order of the Garter, the object of their mission
to the Continent.
The Royal George yacht, Captain Lord Adolphus
Fitzclarence, left her moorings opposite the dockyard,
Woolwich, this afternoon, and was towed down the
river by the African steam-vessel. The Royal yacht
will resume her station at Portsmouth during the
winter, no order having been issued to change the
station to Woolwich, as has been stated in one of the
weekly papers.
The Sinbad sailed on Saturday for Portsmouth.
There is not one word of truth in the statement in
the United Service Gazette of Saturday, that " Courts-
martial have been ordered on Captain Washington, of
the Shearwater, and Commander Hamond (not Capt.
Hamilton) of the Salamander ;" • and there is scarcely
a probability that such will be the case in either in-
stance. Indeed it is certain there will not even be arr
inquiry in the case of Commander A. S. Hamond, of
the Salamander; and should an inquiry, which is the
utmost that can be made in the case of the Shear-
water, take place, Captain Washington will be able to
show that no blame can be attached to him or those
under his command. The explanations already given,
there is every reason to believe, have proved satisfac-
tory to the highest naval authorities.

DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF
WELLESLEY.
Immediately on the announcement of this melan-
choly fact, an express was sent off to the Duke of
Wellington, who was on a visit to her Majesty at,
Windsor Castle. The Noble Duke immediately re-
paired to Apsley House, and after staying a few
minutes proceeded direct to convey the melancholy
intelligence to his brother, the Earl of Maryborough, •
who is at Walmer Castle. A messenger was sent to
Ireland, de-
Sir R. Peel on Monday morning, informing him of the
occurrence.
AltarheYitrru father hail
With the Marquis all those titles whichanwdre
there
Ba-
rony
ug h , con-
ferredi on himself become extinct, but the Earldom of
111orneinfgmtmei,rntliiiejgAte'rins,coiunnwleof
peeragel N 'el l esl eoyf,
nest brother,honour Lord
which
be-
cause stead t
these
i s
enjoyed. Lord Maryborough, now Earl
of Morn-
' ' gton is in his 79th year. Re assumed
in ,
Pole on inheriting the estates of his the name of-
Pole, of 13allvfin. His Lordship's co4sib, William
lion. William Pole Tylney Long Wellesley, eldest son, the
as is well known, the daughter .0 married,
James Tylney Long, Bait and heiress of Sir
and Mr. Wellesley married, '
; this lady died in l 8')5„
ter of Col. Paterson, and r in 1828, the third daugh-
'Air. Long \Vellesk will now
of Edward Bligh, Esq.
title of Viscount Wellesley,Ynow enjoy the courtesy
Mary-
borough, whichever he or that of Lord
ay choose.
The number of familiesln
event is, of course put into mourning by this
Lord Mary boro e,h considerable, including those of
the Duke of Wellington, Lord
CowleCowley, the Hon. ' .
y,
of andßev. Gerald V. Wellesey, the
Westmoreland, the Marquis of Tweeddale, the
Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Cadogan, Sir Chas.
Bagot, Lord I'
, itzroy Somerset, Lord Robert Grosve-
nor, the Earl of Winchilsea, &c.
By the death of the Marquis, a stall in the Order of
the Garter falls to the patronage of Ministers, and the
office of Custos Rotulorum of the county of
Meath
also becomes vacant. The Marquis was a knightl
of
the Turkish Order of the Crescent, and of
the Persian
Order of the Lion and Sun.
The Marquis enjoyed a pension of 2,6931.,fie_
membrancer of the Exchequer in Ireland. as

TILE WILL OF TILE LATE MR. LONGMAN —The
will of the late T. N. Longman, Esq., of the firm of
Rees, Orme, and Co., the well-known booksellers of
Paternoster-ro‘N, has just been proved, by the execu-
tors, in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of
Canterbury, in Doctors' Commons. The personal
property of the deceagM has been sworn under the
value of 200,000/., which is principally left to his
widow and family.
The Royal mews at Windsor, for which a Parlia-
mentary grant was obtained, will be ready
reception of her Majesty's stud at the . end oft e
present week, when the horses will be immediately
conveyed to their new quarters. for theh

ENORMOUS FRAUDS UPON THE SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
REVENUE. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
When it is remembered how well the country re-
GLOBE.—One of the strongest characteristics
of the public life of the late Marquis of Wellesley
inunerates the chief officers of those departments of
the State to whom it delegated the collection of duties,
towas the spirit in which he viewed, from the out-
and
more especially those appertaining the receipt set, the nature and objects of the French war.
of imports upon foreign and colonial produce and
Distinguished from the Whigs by his unqualified
manufactures, the public are entitled to have as their
declarations of the national necessity for engaging
servants the most intelligent and most attentive, in that contest, he was quite as much
dis-
without prejudice to any one, the most honest indivi-
tinuished from the Tories afterwards in
g
duals. It will be for the public to express an opinion,
his - views of its conduct, and of the di-
if when we shall have brought before its notice the
plomacy
i requisite for maintaining our coin-
many hixities—the frauds—the instances of favouritism mercialnterests at its termination. In fact,
—the attempt to screen really guilty parties, and the the herd of the Tory party (represented by
immolation of their dupes, the functions of the Com-
Perceval and Liverpool Ministries) who have
missioners of her Majesty's Customs at the head de- been in the
for the habit of claiming all that has honour-
partment, have, or have not, been fully and satis-
ed the nationlast
fifty
years, should be-
factorily administered. The enormous frauds now gin, if they could, by erasirbes the stigmata left on
in daily progress of investigation are not, in the their measures and policy by every great man
aggregate, confined to tens of thousands, but to who supported the principles of our last great
. hundreds of thousands of pounds. Indeed, it is said national contest. The Marquis Wellesley, after
in some quarters that the revenue has suffered desisting from the impossible task of invigorating
a
to the extent of nearly a million sterling. From as Foreign Secretary the policy of the then Tory
Government, and leading them strenuously to
the series of notices it may be necessary to
devote to this important subject, names of parties support the immortal efforts of his brother in
High in commercial circles must, if deemed requisite,
the Peninsula—justly depicted the system adopt-
ed by the Ministers of that day as " timid with-
have connived at these frauds with the landing waiters out prudence, and narrow without economy—
are in our possession, with all the facts and line of profuse without the fruits of expenditure, and
" -
examination in support of participation, a slow without the benefits of caution. In 1815,.
s given in he condemned in unqualified terms the disregard
evidence before the Court of Inquiry nowsitting upen to our•commercial interests that prevailed in the
this subject. But independently of the non-per- treaties for establishing peace in Europe. He op-
formance of their duties by the officials of the Custom- posed with equal vionur the measures for re-
house, in protecting, by due diligence and ample striding the public liberties, which so soon fol-
control, the revenues of the kingdom, there is an- lowed the sins of omission and commission against
other consideration, arising out of the log con- the national commerce. It may be truly said of Lord
tinued practice of fraud which involves the interest Wellesley, that had his councils prevailed, either
and prosperity of the really honest merchant__ a_ in war or peace, we should not have had the for-
trader. it must be clearly apparent that
line,
five tiler conducted with enormous expenditure for
traders are carrying on business in the same _ four
petty results nor the latter concluded with magnifi-
of them paying their duties honestly and openly on
cent abandonment of those very interests for which
tbreign goods imported, while the fifth,by
a COD-
alone all Europe imagined we had engaged from the
nivance with any officer of Customs, getshis placed.
outset in the struggle. We confess our historical
in his warehouse without the outlay
the
the duty, allegiance to our party is very doubtful, if the
or by paying infinitely less through. medium of views of the Foxite Whigs on the late war are to
false entries (hereafter to be fully illustrated), that the be upheld as its permanent creed. It is most
former cannot compete with the latter; and though certain that the part of England in that war was
they struggle ever so hard to maintain their position, neither aggressive nor voluntary ; and to main-
thoughmay. make sacrifices to effect sales in
they taro that we could have kept out of it is to main-
order to keep their customers together for a time, Lain that, as a member of the European family,
still, in the long run, wholesale losses must be en- and a member whose policy has always been
tailed upon them by the ruinous and fruitless eom-
to support the weaker, with whom we might
petition induced. Public morality, then, indepe-n- be allied, . against the stronger, we could
dently of other interests connected with the due col- have stood by while the rights of every feebler
]ection of the resources of the kingdom, demands that neighbour were set -at nought by the French
the unfair system now under review should be probed nation in the frenzy which her first Revolution
to the core and exposed. There are, it is rumoured, bad produced. If we could have maintained this
reasons why the result of the investigation now going impassive attitude till we were directly attacked,
on, and the evidence taken, should be hushed up, that we might perhaps have maintained peace with
the parties delinquent may not be publicly named. France, till her delirious rage against all old-
That an Exchequer process might be issued—that established Governments had declared itself in
thousands of pounds should be paid .by the parties im- the shape of direct outrage against our own.
plicated—and that they be left to re-commence their After all, the French declaration of war came
operations hereafter with renewed vigour—the fine first; but we do not insist on that ;we believe
imposed being uniformly less than the profits illegally war was a necessity from the views already
made, and again render of no avail the exertions of avowed and acted on by the revolutionary
the honest man to follow his trade. If such be the French Government towards all unrevolutionised
course intended, it is the duty of the Press to state nations.
mill the facts that have already transpired, through STANDARD.—A great light has been ex-
private sources, relative to the recently discovered, tinguished. Full of years and honours, and with
mind previously successfully executed frauds upon the. a mind whose energies were unimpaired to the
7 evenue. last, the Marquis of Wellesley died yesterday
It is pretty well known, that, as respects the frauds morning, at the advanced age of eighty-two years.
now the subject of investigation, many of the landing The statesmanship of time Marquis was. of that
waiters have been implicated in them. The duties of rare description which combines caution and
the landing waiters are but little known to parties un- wisdom of conception with vigour and protnp-
connected with trade, commerce, and water-side busi- titude of execution. Familiar as he had
mess. It is, therefore, proposed to illustrate the facts shown himself to be with questions of home
:ad circumstances hereafter to be laid before the pub- policy, however, it was as director of the
re, by giving a description of their duties, their emo- destinies of India that his genius and
liiments, &c. The principal business of these fune- sagacity were first appreciated as they des
i ionaries is personally to attend the landing of goods served; although, until the recent publica-
: t the docks or legal quays. For this purpose he is i tion of his Lordship's dispatches, we doubt
furnished with a landing-book, denominated under its ! whether their extent and value had been fully
3 espective class, " red" or " blue," the issue of which understood by the. country at large—the wis-
is from the Registrar's office, and which contains dom, energy, and success of his policy as Go-
copies of entries previously passed by importers for vernor-General of India, at the most difficult
snerehandise about to be warehoused, or at once deli- period of its history, having thrown the admi-
ss red. These entries are of three classes :—lst. The nistrations of all its other Governors-General
I.arehousing entry for goods intended to remain in wholly into shade. By the sagacity that pro-
-1 ond. 2d. The prime entry, which stipulates for the duced such important results, Lord Mel-
immediate delivery of the goods, the duty having been bourne might have benefited had he chosen
paid. 3d. The sight entry, the object of which is to so to do ; but so far from consulting, the
ssisist the merchant in cases where goods arrive con- Noble Marquis's opinion, and availing him.
signed to him without previous advice, when he is per- self of his experience, his Lordship persisted
sii:tted to have the packages landed, upon declaring in the disastrous Affghan war, in the teeth of his
that their contents are unknown. It may be here. most solemn and urgent remonstrances. Lord
necessary, with the view to carry the case out in all Melbourne had the unasked testimony of the
its bearings, just to observe on the opportunity these two greatest men of his age, men peculiarly qua-
t,:o latter descriptions of entry afford to these offs- lified to arrive at a correct judgment on the sub-
4.,_rs, if they are not persons of strict and unim- ject—the Marquis of Wellesley and the Duke of
1, achable integrity, to deceive and falsify the returns, Wellington—as to the • folly and danger of his
-I,vhich, as employes of the Customs, they are ap- insane campaign in Affghanistan; but he set both
pointed to make, of the weight of and duty on mer- equally at defiance, and by so doing involved
chandise landed at their respective stations, the inter- our forces there in disasters more fatal than
f'rence of the landing surveyor (their superior) being have ever befallen the British arms in that
ooiy required in the settlement of tare, or in the ap- country. It is rumoured, we know . not on
p. oval or otherwise of the value put upon goods at the what authority, that one of the latest acts
sal valorem rate. I of the Marquis of Wellesley's life was
!laving succinctly stated the duty of a landing to write a letter to Lord Ellenborough, approv-
vsiter, it is necessary to add that the body is divided irrg of' his order fbr the evacuation of Affban istan.
i ito six classes, with proportionate salaries. The first The treatment of the Marquis of Wellesley by
4 .ass- numbers 20 persons, with 4001. per annum each ; the Whigs is a remarkable instance of • the man-
tss second class 20 persons, with 3501. per annum ner in which they contrived to detach from time
rich; the third class 20 persons, with 3001. per an- to time from their party the few men of talent
tiam each; the fourth class 30 'persons, with 2501. per and honesty who had been induced to give them
s :num each; the fifth class 30 persons, with 2001. their support. Not so their opponents, who so
per annum each; and the sixth class 30 persons, with fully appreciated the talents and worth of the
360/. per annum each. As in the course of the inves- Marquis of Wellesley, that although he was
to,-ation into these frauds it has appeared that more at the period of their former accession to office,
than one of the landing waiters implicated have also the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland of Lord .Mel-
:filled the office of searcher, - the duty appertaining to bourne's Government, they requested him
that department must also be illustrated. The to continue to hold that post, the duties of
•archer, to use the technicality, " makes shipped" the which he had so honestly and • temperately
I, skages destined for shipment at his station. It is a administered. He, however, - declined the
1. -t of his duty personally to examine such packages, proposal, and gave his undivided sup-
/1,-,ting their correspondence with the original descrip- port to Lord Melbourne. How he was rewarded,
t..Ju in the official papers, and should' any suspicion-. the insult to him implied by - the appointment
se•ise of any exchange or fraud connected with the of Lord Normanby to the Lord Lieutenantship
s lilment, they have the power of seizure, and of of Ireland will sufficiently explain. The fact
1.-inging the matter before the Board for inquiry and was, and Lord Melbourne knew, it, that lie was
i ivestigation• too honest for their purposes. They wanted a
The separate duties of these - officers being, as is "servant of all work,', and his Lordship was not
tasted, clearly defined, the mode in which the irre- the -sort of person to accept of such a post. Nay,
g .!lir and falsified entries have been concocted, in- no sooner did he become fully satisfied of the
vo:ving such loss to the revenue, will no doubt be views and motives of Lord Melbourne's Govern-
s) ‘,l.erstood in the cases of fraud hereafter to be brought inent, than he wholly withdrew from it his sup-
te cite notice of the public. port; and since time accession to office of -Sir.-Ro-
The first illustration we ofter to the notice of the bent Peel, has given his general approbation to
politic is in respect to the importation of silk, already his* Government. We believe that the feel-
-1• I under the notice of the Board of Inquiry, but the ings of-spite with which time Marquis was latterly
c rges of participation in- fraud alleged against the -regarded by Lord Melbourne's Government,
several parties are so numerous, that it would be diffi- originated in his unasked, earnest, and elaborate
e: tto define them in distinct order in the present protest against its pet measure—the Affghan war
n- lee. It is,
-- however, sufficient to say that the ones
al- ve alluded to will clearly prove to the Ibli- hr 31 0 N

- . public low
and successfully they have been carried on for
a said to extend over a series of eight or nine
y,. srs.
The mode which is alleged' to` have been adopted in
tl. wholesale smuggling of ' silks was for the parties
eolnected to send to the legal quays a oase of toys,
b,..ts, or any other French import of low value; marked
a: i numbered, say A within a diamond, No. 1, for
sli:pment coastwise' which, however, instead of forth-
-I—;ch being put on board, it was understood should be
a ,wed to remain on the quay. When the French
pc,-•kkS arrived, a " sight entry" was taken out for
ca,os- marked, and numbered precisely the same as
tl se prepared as before stated, the contents being de-
eL..-ed to be " unknovvh." The packages were then
la-ided at the same quay for examination by the land-
Ir ;'officer. Immediately this was the case, the former
p::.;kage was recalled by an order to re-deliver, when
• eases by the French ael-tets which really con-
taitted.ailk, were subsiitutped to the parties applying,
ail 1 the packages of boots, &c., examined and returned
fo?•duty, in lieu of the cases of silk ; the ships' mani-
fe-: merely describing
the
case brought over as mer-
_'he investigation into ntt no check upon the fraud.
C Istoms' departments haveese irregularities in the
beii:l7ready occupied many
'The results, we believe ,y
fully bear out
tie correctness of our introduc'tory remarks, and in
o next report, facts and n
stated in corroboration. ames may possibly be

CITY NEWS
EY MARKET and
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF. YESTERDAY.
POST.- —There has been but little passing in the
City to-day to keep up the excitement of the last
week, caused by the calamitous fire at Liverpool, and
the difficulties experienced in the corn trade- It is at-
tempted to attach undue importance to the loss sus-
tained by the cotton consumed at Liverpool. The
quantity is variously estimated, but there is no good
reason to believe that it reaches beyond three or four
weeks' consumption for manufacturing purposes, nor
have the prices current in the market for 'this species
of produce been in any way disturbed. The sales
have continued steady, but there has been no advance
in the quotations. The most that can be said of the
staple, with reference to the fire, being merely that it
remains firm at its former value. With regard to the
failure of Messrs. King and Melvil nothing further has
transpired, except that the show of assets made by the
firm being abundant there is a probability of some
assistance being extended to it by a powerful money
house in Lombard-street.

The last accounts from Hamburgh give the . sum
total of subscriptions towards repairing the losses oc-
casioned by the late fire at 4,100,000 mares Banco
(about seven million francs).
INGENIOUS ROGUES.—In the Sheriff's Court, Red
Lion-square, on Thursday, during an action for the
recovery 'of 31. 10s. for the value of a coat, Mr.
Fraser, the defendant's counsel, in the course of his
address to the Jury, said, that a short time since he
was engaged in prosecuting a man for surreptitiously
obtaining possession of a coat, which had been left in
charge of a publican under the following circum-
stances :—A person came into his client's house and
having had something to drink, begged of the land-
lord to have the goodness to mind his coat, as the day
was warm. This was very often done, and accordingly
he took charge of it. In about an hour after a man
came in and asked for the coat, which On his describ-
ing was given up to him. Shortly after the right
own
er came, and on hearing that his coat was gone,
not only threatened, but actually brought, an action
against the landlord. Fortunately, however, the thief
was found, and
on the trial it was actually proved that
the prisoner
collusion. and the man who left the coat were in
Scot-
land is usually charac°tTLANii.
TILE CLANS OF Sc - ,
plumed and plaided array, by the appearance of a
—.A. royal visit to
described as " an invasionra' which has been not inaptly
thb Celts."
altogether forty-five clans, ofinto which the hardy
hneasariteodnsr,acies,whichThere
and
sends its representatives on
distributed.b They are as follow :
single
-c
—Buchanan, Cameron, Cam
houn,_Cumming, Drummond,p V, Chisholm, Colqu-
son, Forbes, Frazer, Gordon,Grahrquharson, Fergu-
Lamont, M'Allister, M'Donald,
maZo, Grant, Gunn,
gal, M‘Farlane, M‘Gregor M'lntosh, Airell,
M'Ken-
zie,M‘Dou-
M'lver, M‘Lachlan, 'AULeod, ‘piliay,
M‘Neill, M‘Pherson, M'Quarrie, ApiTaaen, M'Nab,
Menzies, Murray, Ogilvie, Oliphant, Robertson, Munro,
Ross, Sinclair, Stewart, and Sutherland. ae Rose,
has a distinguishing badge, such as myrtle, oak,h
.clan
birch
&c., and the chief of each clan wears two eagl i
feathers in his bonnet, in addition to the bade, - e

S
IJANQUET TO WILLIAM llARMANnoemltlcAeWinernOtßD.n,
E„:1., M.P.—lt will be seen, from an an
ou., first page, that the Complete Suffragists in this cityl
pr. ,pose to entertain Mr. William Sharman Crawford at
a public banquet on Thursday next. The occasion is
al ..) intended to do honour to the other Members of Par-
lent who voted with him on the presentation of the
pf•tition for Complete Suffrage. Mr. Joseph Sturge, Mr.
G ~rge Thompson, Mr. Vincent, and other leading men
0-. he party, are to be present ; and it is probable that
aLendance will be numerous. We have
all along disapproved of tha adoption of the
si:, points of the Charter as the basis of the
C'".Plete Suffrage movement. It was, we think,
a - act of weakness on the part of those
attended the Birmingham Conference on
1:1-i..11f of the middle classes ; and there cannot be a doubt
ti c simple suffrage-extension would have formed a
- der ground of union, and commanded more general
sc well as more zealous support. Nevertheless, we are
w..: ng to give Mr. Sturge and his friends credit for the
zesty of their intentions ; and we are even of opinion
tha. good may result from their efforts to heal the breach
ui,4appily existing between the middle and operative
ca.. At all events, it is proper that the opinions of so
ialuential a body should be freely expressed ; and we
tar glad that the proposed demonstration is in honour of
r.atn whom we believe to be a sincere and straight-
for card Reformer.—Scotsman.
ExpOBT OF MANUFACTURED GOODS TO TILE
Ty „TED STATES.—The packet ship Independence,
cat; in Nye, which sailed yesterday for New York,
a. -red out more goods than any of the packet ships
for some true--yet her freight did not exceed
_ 1701.!
i t h
passage money, however, Captaiii Nye would
11 Ire nearly 1,0001.
a large sum, as times go.—
ea
Liverpool Albion.