The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-05 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

Dr.AT., MATICH 4.—Wind N.—Rama through from th•
River the Sophia, Rae, for Tampico ; -and Hopewell, _Smith,
for Jamaica. Sailed his Majesty's ship Hyperion in tow of
Steam vessel, with the Honourable Company's ship Herefoid-
shire ; St. Mary, Mint, London; British Tar, Briton, and th.
rest of the outward.bound.

PORTSMOUTH, 111 mica 4.--Wind N.—The Madras.
Faver, for Madras, went out of harbour this morning, and wilt
sail to-morrow for her destination. Sailed the Egginton trans-
port for the Mediterranean ; and Enterprise, Hague, for dittli.
PLYMOUTH, M.Aacu 3.—Wind W.—Arrived the Wan-
derer, NTraygoose, from Sierra Leone, in 40 days ; Providence,
Walker, from Prince Edward's Island. Off the Port the James
Dunlop, from Sierra Leone; left there the Prince Regent,
Thomas, 'Woodbridge, Ocean, Patton, Gilbert Harrison, Saptlo,
Fairfield, Harriet, Burleigh, Nancy, Rolla, Maria, apct
Northumbrian.

FALMOUTH, MARCH 3.—Wind W. to W.N.W.—Arrived
the Active, Mathews, for St. Michael's, to stop a leak. Sailed
his Majesty's ship Thetis on a cruize; and the Frolic packet fer
Plymouth.

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 3.—Wind W.—Arrived the Mar-
quis of Queensbury, Milroy, from St. Andrew's, N. 8., saik4
the 24th ult. ; Richard Sands, Beard, from St. John's, N. 8..

The Lord Ilungerford, arrived off Portsmouth, brings letters
from Madras of the 12th of October, Calcutta the 16th of Sept.,'
and the Mauritius the 20th of November.

WEYMOUTH, MARCH 4.—Passed by this morning dos
Lord Hungerford East Indiaman, Captain Farquarsoti, front
Calcutta, Mr. Barnett, the Purser, landed, and proceeded with
dispatches to the East India House from the Crown Hotel.
Also the following passengers :—Colonel Lushington, C. 41. ;
Major Jollie ; Lieut. O'Halloran, his AlRjesty'l 33th Regi-
ment ; Lieut. Harding, his Majesty's 89th Regiment; Lieut.
Douglas, Bengal Native Infantry; Lieut. Francis; Lieut.
Brydge ; Mons. Delchygowan ; Mr. Read ; Mr. and Mrs.
Palmer ; Mrs. Conroy, and four children ; Mrs. Smith, and
four children ; Mrs. Strachan ; Miss Murray : left Calcutta t'he
22d of September, Madras the 13th of October, Isle of Prancv
the 21st of November, St. Helena the 7th of January.

COAL 31ARICET, MARCII 4.
Ships at Market. Ships sold
15 Newcastle -10 i
2i Sunderland -7, 2t

Price.
30s Gd to 36# Cc/
34s 2d to 40s 3.1

alp Of
SUICIDE IN PARIS.--A tailor of the nn .
n
Cauvetz, a native of Antwerp, who had been
ar residing I
gaming.,
Paris since last March, having lost his property ?t
table, last week, on his return home at 3 o'clock
in the after-
noon, retired in a deliberate manner to his chamber,
to sharpen
and hay.
ing rung a bell, desired the servant to
bringiAs stroph
being complied
his razors, as they were out of order. His vi
t of destruction, he
d threw the razor into
cut his throat in three different places,
sa_ng,
i taking it up and
with, and after coolly preparing the instroomen
the street; the persons who were Ptals,e alarm,
observing it covered with blood, gave
ie
1 wretched man, discovered
and the neigh-
bours proceeding to the room of
morning a fire broke
FIRE.-Early yesterday
and flock-merchan
him lying on the floor weltering
Ir• 3lallanger, rag .
t
out in the warehouse of 3 :,„. . ,_
w Intecnapel, which destroyed tlie''
int blood, and deprived of life.'
in Great Garden-street, w
/ ke ise the premises and stock of Mr.
building and stock;
Schooling, ironmonger. It also damaged the premises and
stock of Mr. Coe
i /worthy, druggist. The building WAS for,'
i_ces,
and belongs to AIL Core.
merly a sugar-b'

Tim LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extraetsfrom the Morning Papers,Alarch 5,1525.

[THE TIMES.]
Aiotives of all kinds have heen applied to Fer-
dinand of Spain to induce him to recognize the
Cortes' Bonds. His hopes have boen excited,
and his fears awakened ; yet still he remains
obstinate. Among the arguments calculated to
alarm him is said to have been the following :
The holders of the bonds have been represented
its likely to make war upon him by means of his
sown refugee subjects. Funds are to be supplied
to these injured men in order to enable them not
ooly to effect a return to their native country,
but also to revive the patriotic cause, and raise
levies in its support. With a mind constituted
like Ferdinand's, this notion might work on his
fears, were it not counteracted by his hatred of
every thing that is just and honourable. We
have reason to believe that such propositions. as
those alluded to have acCually been made to some
of the distinguished Spanish officers now • in this
gauntry. ; but that, from a belief that the state
of the Peninsula is not sufficiently promising at
present, or from some other cause, they haVe not
yet been entertained. This hesitation is a pru-
dent one ; for, as pity was never an inmate in
the bosom of Ferdinand, there is no doubt that
the refugees would suffer, if found and appre-
hended in the country, whatever 'pretext they
might give out for their return.

•
[mmtNING ciiitoNicLE-]
Our read,"-rS will see that the Bill relative to
Spring Grins %vas read a second lime last night.
After the convincing arguments urged by Lord
uffield, opposition to the Bill. would, we think,
hate been very unbecoming ; and accordingly
there was none.
" In nineteen out of twenty of the cases (said his Lordship)
in which injury was inflicted by spring guns, the persons in-
iured were not poachers. Their Lordships might perhaps ask,
why he did not quote these cases, and the, reason was this :
In one of the most recent and most striking cases of this kind,
he knew that the mentioning of it would inflict a serious injury
on the individual concerned. In another strong and recent case,
he had been requested by an Hon. Baronet, a Member of the
other House, in the name of the family to whom the accident
had happened, not to mention it. Out of respect to this family,
and out of respect to the feelings of another person, he forbore
to cite those two cases."

By way of illustrating the position that a per-
son might be tempted by a variety of motives to
enter into a cover with game and spring guns, his
Lordship staled, that
A friend of his was lately riding on a snowy, stormy night,
Trherr his hat blew off. He was fortunate enough to catch it,
bat he observed, that had he not caught it, it would have blown
into a cover, and he must either have ridden in. the snow bare-
headed, or Ilve run the risk of his life in getting his hat."
The last defence of this practice We should have
expected is humanitg. • gat So, it seems,
.hu-
manity, dome humanity', led to the use of spring
guns as well fo the guillotine. 4C Gentlemen
(said his Lordship) uphOld them because they
prevented gt:eater enormities." That is to say, the
l'-'hurnane. Gentlemen, Who' fOr the sake of a par-
tridge egg would break up-n family who would
throw our peasantry by thousands every year
into gaol, begin to find out that the manufacture
of felons to---'hick this system necessarily led,
has been carried on of fa!e on rather too extensive
a scale ;. that besides the inconvenience of heavy
COunty rates, it is not the most pleasant thing in
the world to be surrounded by human beings,
who, beincr already degraded,, are insensible to
shame—these humane Gentlemen, we say, are
ticilling to compromise matters; they will sub-
stitute shooting for imprisoning, regretting at the
same time, that no means can be "devised for corn-
miarlicating to a spring gun the power of discri-
It:mating between the innocent and the guilty,
and that the lives of nineteen•of the former must
`be sacrificed for one of the latter._ Still we 'are
Rat prepared to go the length of one person
alluded to by -Lord :Sufeld,:" high in his Ma-
jesty's Government, who- had
.declared that he
liras disgusted with the very name of humanity."
As fashion is every thing in this country, though
• the fashion of humanity may have led a number
' of impertinent- people to display their humanity
by interfering with the affairs of their neighbours
(ill-natured people will contrive to make what-
ever.happenS to be fashionable at the time, hu-
manity, religion, or what not, a, vent for the acii.
riatretl• of their dispositions), yet if the fashion
should set in for inhumanity, matters would be
much worse. Upon the whole, therefore, we
• think, if there, is one Cabinet' Minister who is
disgusted .with.tho very name of hurnanity (after
a very slight acquaintance, we fear), it would
have been fully as well, if he had kept the senti-
ment to•himself,-77 The example of a Cabinet
lvli-
Tasty Is very seductive, and it is not the fault of
the people of this country to do things by halves.

rmo P.NING POST;]
In moving the Army Estimates last night,
Lord- Palriterstnti proposed an increase to the
`Land Forces of 8,000
.men, rank and file, and
2,000 Officers, with 'an additional charge of
229,0001. Thi4 increase,,he explained, was to
be made by adding two companies to each ex-
isting regiment, which now consisted only of
eight. They would then be composed of ten
trignpanieii, Six of which would be_for service,
_and would consist of 516 men each, whilst the
other•four, of only 1.40 men each, would be re-
serve and depot companies, which would remain
at horne.when the -others went abroad, and would
supply a constant fund for the relief of the cola.
nl garrisons. .This not only: the cheapest
a
mode of increasing the army, hut also th'e most
beneficial,' as' it, would afford great-facilities-for
in time of war, whilst it
further augmentntion
offered important advantages in time. of peace.—
Officers abroad were often affected by the cli-
'mate, and obliited to return home in consequence
01111 health. Such leave of absence was neces-
sarily short, and the result- was that the
.
Officers' must either return to a climate
disagreedwith th( 11-4 or must go upon
hilf,pay. By the proposed change Officers
might come home, and their places be sup_
pttrci by others from the depot • Company..__
same With the men who were now frequently
invalided from:abroad, although quite fit for some.
sort of
duty at`hoine. With respect to the'caqse7
of the proposed •
augmentation, the Noble Lord

declared it to be " purely external and colonial."
Ile did not find " any necessity for .such an in-
crease in the present state of Great Britain. The
loyalty and attachment of the people were beyond
all question. With respect to Ireland, the actual
state of things was not less fortunate. A gloom
had indeed for some time hung over that country,
but rays of brighter omen were beginning to dis-
perse the gloom. He believed that the= vote of
the House a few nights since would carry a
cheering hope into Ireland and promote its
tranquillity more effectually than thousands
of soldiers. The general appearance of the im-
proved condition of Ireland, afforded the most
consoling anticipations. The augmentation he
was about to move had not the slightest reference
therefore •t.o Ireland." After giving this gra-
tifying assurance, the Noble Lord showed that
from the number and importance of our Colo-
nies in all parts of the world, the Army, as it
stood at present and had been for some years
past, did not supply an adequate force to send
out reinforcements to their garrisons, without
resorting to the fatal measure of stripping those
of nearer Colonies. He demonstrated the jus-
tice and humanity of not condemning our brave
troops and officers to perpetual banishment, in
some petty and remote place, after they had
so gloriously served their country. He did not
wish to be understood as having had in view
the slightest reference to any possible breach
of our foreign relations, Great Britain had, by
military success and commercial enterprise, risen
to a high eminence in the scale of nations. Her
influence was not exerted, nor meant to be ex-
erted, for sordid gain nor self-aggrandizement.—
But it was necessary to have in every part of the
British dominions a force adequate to their pro-
tection. He then moved that 86,893 men, ex-
elusive of the Regiments for service in India, and
the Royal Veteran Battalions, be granted for the
ensuing year. This motion was agreed to una-
nimously, although in assenting to it Col. Davies
and Mr. Ilobliouse, but particularly the latter, ex-
pressed their regret that the cause of the increase
46 had no reference to Foreign Powers," that is
to say, that we should not be threatened with
Continental hostility, which ought, eve should
think, to be matter for congratulation rather than
for regret. Sir Robert Wilson gave, his testimony
to the necessity of strengthening Gibraltar, and
approved of the course proposed in general. The
several annual resolutions were then voted with-
out opposition ; as well as those for the Ordnance,
which were moved by Sir Henry liardinge. In
a pro prin a Committee on the Assessed Taxes
Repeal Bill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
expressed his intention of relieving the internal
lights in houses from the operation of the Win-
dow Tax—a concession which cannot fail to
prove highly useful and agreeable. In the Lords
the Unlawful Societies' Bill went through a Com-
mittee sub silentio, and the third reading was
fixed for Monday next. The Spring Guns Mw-
lition Bill was also read a second time.