The _Journal of Commerce_ denounced the _Sun_ as an inciter of the riots, and suggested that the grand jury should direct its attention toward Mr. Day. The _Sun_ not only refused to recede from its stand, but suggested that the foreman of the grand jury, the famous Philip Hone, had himself incited a riot--the riot against the Abolitionists, July 11, 1834--which had a less worthy purpose than the _Sun’s_ stand on the matter of flour prices. The _Sun_ was virtuously indignant, even more than it had been a short time before, when the Transcript charged the _Sun’s_ circulation man, Mr. Young, with biting two of the _Transcript’s_ carriers! The beginning of regular transatlantic steamship service did not find in the _Sun_ a completely joyous welcome--thanks, perhaps, to the temperament of Lieutenant Hosken, R.N. He was an officer of the Great Western, a side-wheeler of no less than thirteen hundred and forty tons, with paddles twenty-eight feet in diameter. This new ship, built at Bristol, and a marvel of its time, reached New York, April 23, 1838, after a passage of only sixteen days! The Sirius, another new vessel, got in a few hours ahead of the Great Western, after a voyage of eighteen days. The _Sun_ said of this double event: Of the conduct of the officers in command of the Great Western, we regret that we are compelled by reports to place it in no very favorable contrast with the gentlemanly demeanor of the officers of the Sirius. Every attention has been paid her, citizens have turned out to welcome her arrival, she was saluted by the battery on Ellis’s Island, _et cetera, et cetera_, and thousands of other demonstrations of courtesy were made, which proved only throwing pearls before swine. A news boat was ordered to keep off or be run down, and the hails of that boat and others were answered through a speaking-trumpet in a manner which would have done toward the savage of Nootka Sound, but is not exactly the style in which to meet the courtesies of members of a community upon which the line of packets depends in a large part for success. One would have thought that all the impudence of Europe was put on board a vessel built of large tonnage expressly for its embarkation. By the time our corporation officers have run the suspender-buttons off their breeches in chase of Lieutenant Hosken, R. N., they will discover that they have been fools for their pains. Reverse this account entirely, and it will apply to the Sirius--testimony which we are happy to make. So the _Sun_ was not obsequiously grateful for the arrival of a ship whose speed enabled it to announce on April 24 that Queen Victoria had issued, on the 6th, the proclamation of the details of her coronation at Westminster on June 26, and that O’Connell was taking steps to remove the civil disabilities from the Jews.