The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-26 00:00:00

MERCAN'I'ILI SHIPPING.

PORTSMOUTH, SEP T. 25.—Wind W.—Arrived his Ma-
jesty's ship Pheaton from North America (the Chesapeak).
FALMOuTu, SEPT. 24.-IVind S.W.—Arrived die Plover
Packet from the_ Brazils, sailed from Rio Janeiro the 28th of
.July, Bahia the 6th of August, and Pernambuco the 11th
ditto ; Duke of M arlborough Packet from Lisbon, sailed the
18th inst. Off the Port the .St. Domingo, Evans, from St.
Domingo, sailed. the 15th of August. Sailed the Stanmer
• Packet for Lisbon, and the Oat. Harvey, for Newfoundland.
_ .

LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 24.—Wind W.—:Arrived yesterday the
Chelsey, Stanwood, from New Orleans ; Tinker, Japp, Charle-
ston ; Fame, Jackson, Richebucto ; also, to.day, the Marmion,
Huddlestone, from Charleston ; John Fraughton, Raveley,
New Orleans; Donald, Johnson, and Margaret, Barton, Mira-
michi ; Mary Cumming, Steele, Richebucto ; and Majestic,
Norney, from Quebec.
.DEAL, SEPT. 25.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Nassau,
Tremeyne, from Sierra Leone; Riseborough, Cassie, George,
Forster, and Duckinfield, —, from Jamaica; Dido, Kruhl,
Havannah ; and the Ann, Bartholomew, from Memel. Came
down from the River and remain the Eliza, Faith, for India ;
Aurora, Hallett, fbr Halifax; Lovely Maria, Smith, for Sierra
Leone ; Ellen, Anthony, for Carthagena ; Ware, Hane, St.
John's, N.B. ; and Olinden, Bell. for Bahia. The whole of
the outward-bound which sailed on Friday have put back. The
City of Edinburgh, Wiseman, from Calcutta, has just arrived.

Above fifty sail of vessels from the Baltic arrived in the
River yesterday and Saturday.
The Asia, Steed, was to sail the 27th March from Sydney
for Calcutta and England.

LONDON MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, SEpT. 26.

Last week the wind was contrary, and in consequence there-
of, there was a short arriv:tl of all descriptions of Corn. This
morning the quantity of -Wheat fresh in from Essex, Kent,
and Suffolk, is moderate ; there is a good supply of Barley
and Pease, not many cleans, and several vessels fresh up
with Oats front the North. The samples of New Wheat
are in better condition than of late; and such as are quite
dry, met buyers readily at Is. per quarter advance on the
terms of this day se'nnight; but the trade afterwards became
dull, and has not maintained the prices made at the early part of
the morning. Barley is plentiful, anti Is. to 2s. per qr. cheaper.
Beans remain as last quoted._ Boiling Peas are more plentiful than
of late, and rather lower. Grey Peas maintain last quotation.
Oats, of fine quality, meet buyers with tolerable freedom, at
the terms of this day se'nnight, but other sorts are very dull.
In the Flour Trade there is no alteration.

ARRIVALS LAST VVEEN.—English Wheat, 3,163 ; Bar-
ley, 2,776; Malt, 2,137; Oats, 6,014; Beans, 939;
Pease, 876 ; Irish Wheat, —; Oats, 150 ; Foreign Oats,
2,010 quarters ; Flour, 3,836 sacks.
Wheat, Red (old) sBs 70s Beans, Small (new) ....44s 48s
White (old) ..:58s 75s ---- (old) ....47s 53s
Red (1825) 34s tiih -- Tick (new) 40s 42s
--- Fine 62s 65s — (old) 42s 41s
Superfine ....68s 70s --- Harrow (new).:.44s
White (11125)...53s 62s ---- (old) ...45s 473
---- Fine 64s 68s Drank 344 40s

._.. .
Superfine ....72s 76s Oats, Feed 23s 253
Rye 'l2s 3lis Fine 96s 283
Barley 34s 40s Poland 25s 27s
Fine (new) 40s 42s --___Fine "7s 29s
Superfine ........ 44s 47s Potatoe 97s 23s
Malt Vs 6-4 s ____.—Fine tis 30s
—Fine 663 72s
,Scoteh 31s 33s
Peas Grey. (new) 44s 46s Flour (per sack).. sss 608
Maple (new) .. 48s 50s Seconds s2s 58s
White (new)....46s 54s North Country...a—s .ro 54s
Boilers stis 61is Bran ........................ I2s 13s

GENERAL. AVERAGE PRICE OF GRAIN,FROM THE RETURNS
RECEIVED IN THE WEEK ENDING SEPT. 17.
Wheat, 655. 10d. ; Barley, 41s. 10d. ; Oats, 265. 3d.; Rye,
425. 9d. ; Beans, 455. 9d. ; Peas, 48s. Id.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
Sept. 21, 1825, is 425. Old. per cwt.

SMITHFIELD I‘IARKET, SEPT• 26.
The following is an accurate Report of the numbers and
prices at Smithfield Market this morning:—

cA:l"llr..7t AT AlAltKiT

Beasts 2,911 I Sheep "'2,740

Calves -
140
To sink the Offal, per stone of 811).
Beef 4s flu to 5s 2d 1 Veal
Mutton 4s 10c1 to 5s 4d 1 Pork ......... bs 4d to 6s 4d
Lamb 5s Od to 5s Bd.
HAY AND STRAW, PER Loan.
Hay
.straw X 1 16s to 1:2 4s.

TIE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAIIX
Exti (lag from the 31orinng Papers, 5ept.26,185.

j sus; -marls.]
The expectation of a speedy dissolution of
the Parliament has subsided with more rapidity
than it sprung up. The circumstances attending
this change are such as our readers might have
anticipated from the remarks. inverted in The
Times of Wednesday last. Briefly, Mr. Canning,
as we then intimated, could not have acquiesced
in a dissolution of Parliament in the preSent state
of public feeling on the Catholic question, without
seeming to betray the cause which he had advo-
cated in the House of COmmons ; and accordingly
it appears to have been through Mr. Canning's
means that the dissolution has been suspended ;
or, if the Right Hon. Gentleman were sincere in
his support of the measure, he must have been a
mere cipher in a Cabinet which adopted a course
apparently detrimental to his policy ; for we are
at no pains to deny that the great body of the
nation, if taken by the mass, and not by the
mind, are fearful of confiding power to the Ca-
tholics (and that acknowledgment, by the way,
may serve as an answer to those who accuse us of
studying popular feeling, and adapting our own
views to it—of following, rather than striving to
direct, the public opinion) ; and a Parliament
chosen in the present temper of the nation=the
im-Popery cry being all but ready to burst forth
must have been deeply imbued with the general
sentiment on that subject. How Mr. Canning
has effected his object in the Cabinet--how he
has escaped the suspicion of being either impo-
tent or treacherous—is not so clear. We should
not suppose the Lord Chancellor would suffer
him to impose his views with respect to
the dissolution upon the Ministry ; it is,
perhaps, therefore, more probable that the
present course has been adopted .on his ap-
peal, and in consideration of the delicate
situation in which he good. The enemies of
emancipation would, however, see pretty clearly
that ultimately they should lose but little by the
mcession which indeed might be a motive for
making it : for the dissolution must take place
next year ; and the Catholic question will come
before Parliament in the interval. The friends
of the measure, therefore, will stand before their
constituents next autumn, in the same situation
in which they stand at present, if they shall be
found to have pursued the same course. We
predict, that there will not be so great a majority
in favour of the measure as appeared on the last
divisions; and if our prediction be verified by
the event, the dissolution might as well have
taken place. With respect to the late expecta-
tion of the dissolution, it has had the effect of
bringing the elected body nearer to the electors
than would otherwise have happened : and this
contiguity is highly useful, no doubt ; but would
have been more so, if the public mind had been
in what we conceive a right train upon the ques-
tion which we are considering. Canvassing has
begun every where, end cannot be suffered to
slacken much during the intervening period be-
tween the present time and the unavoid. ble dis-
solution : pretenders will drop off, and closer re-
lations will be cemented between the future
members and their constituents. We shall have
a season of affability, professions, and courtesy !
But, ye Messieurs the candidates, be cautious of
the engagements into which ye enter : a hasty
promise is not so soon forgotten by him to whom
it is made, as by him who makes it.

[eurnsit rums.]
The report of an intended dissolution of Par-
liament had become so very prevalent, and had
oven been confirmed in so many places by pre-
paratory canvassing, that the information on Sa-
turday that Parliament would not .be dissolved,
was received with a sensation of surprise. Ru,
mour was, of course, busy in assigning the rea-
sons for this decision ; among the most influen-
tial was said to be the determination of Mr. Can-
ning to resign if a dissolution was resolved upon.
We do not hazard much in classing this hearsay
with the other idle conjectures which were abroad
Mr. Canning is not a man to make up his mind on
this question—or on any other—without being
able to produce- his reasons for it. Ile is the last
man that would consent to owe his weight in the
Cabinet to the threat of withdrawing from its
counsels. lle would find no difficulty in Show-
ing that he consulted the best interests of the
country in dissenting from those members of the
Cabinet who might think a dissolution expedient ;
and the acqniescence of the majority in the views
on which he grounded his dissent would not
fail to be received as the result of sound
policy and reasoned conviction. One inference
—and a most important one—may be drawn from
the circumstance ofParliament not being dissolved.
It gives the nation an assurance, that Ministers
feel quite confident that the peace of Europe will
not be disturbed, and that nothing is likely to
occur either as to our security from abroad, or our
prosperity at home, that will at all endanger their
popularity in the interval between this and the
next Session, at the end of which Parliament
expires of course. Viewed, however, as a mea-
sure of policy, there are many considerations
which we can imagine might govern the judgment
of Mr. Canning, and of the majority of the Cabi-
net that concurred with him. The following,
among others, would present themselves, we
think, as of material weight. Several of those
Members who supported the Catholic Bill, after
witnessing the subsequent conduct of the Ca.
tholic leaders in reviving, by a concerted eva-
sion of the law, the Association which Par-
liament, from its dangerous tendency, had put
down ; and observing, further, the hostile spi-
rit with which they began—in despite of the Le-
gislature and in defiance of it—to re-organise the
Catholic force in Ireland, and to count openly
upon their numerical strength, have—it may be—
considerably changed their sentiments as to the
policy of admitting them to political power. The
same causes have operated strongly on the minds
of the people out of doors, who, combining them
with the reviving bigotry and intolerance of the
Catholics on the Continent, and on the portent-
ous alliance of the Catholic Sovereigns with the
priesthood, apprehend great danger from any in-

crease of political influence being given to the
Catholics of Ireland, and would consequently not
be disposed to favour any candidate who advocat-
ed their claims. It would hardly, therefore, be
deemed fair to send such Members to meet their
constituents at a time when this unfriendly im-
pression prevails, and when their having voted
for Catholic emancipation would be likely to
insure success to any opponent that should
start upon the adverse interest. A Parliament
elected under the present apprehension of danger
to the Protestant Establishment, which—whetlier
well or ill-founded—is believed to prevail very
generally throughout the country, would infinitely-
aggravate that animosity which, Heaven knows,
there is no need to embitter. To proceed to an
election for the known, if not avowed purpose of
profiting by this temper of the public mind, would
be considered by the Catholics as a call to battle.
Whereas the respite will give an interval for
healing measures—there will be a time for the
feelings of Christian charity and social benevo-
lence to come round. Ireland will find it her ie.
terest to abstain from any course of conduct dint
may thin the number of her Protestant friends.—
The better dispositions and feelings both of Pro-
testant and Catholic will have time to ripen—the
field of controversy will have lain fallow for nine
months, and the advantage gained will be
infinite. They reasoned well that refused to
plough it up at this moment. If an increase
to the Anti-catholic Party would hare been
gained in England, the opposites lines would alga
be in motion in Ireland, the numbers gained on
their side would probably have been equivalent.
The conflict at the first muster of their forces iu
Parliament would have been more doubtful, and,
on that account, more desperate. The forty-
shilling freeholders—let an election come when
it may—will show what may be done under a
system which destroys all the natural influence
of property, by splitting it for election pur-
poses, while it puts the moral independence of
the Representative under the controul of a
starving peasantry, to whom the direction of
the Priests—now, more than ever, active in
politics—invariably gives the law. Other rea-
sons occur to us beside those we have thus
briefly adverted to, as concurring to make it in-
expedient that this juncture should have been
chosen for a dissolution of i'arliament. Rut we
need not pursue the subject further. When, at
the close of the next Session, the Members go
down to their constituents, the deliberative exer-
cise of their elective franchise must be taken—
with reference to the Catholic Question—as de-
cisive of the national sentiment, on which ever
side it leant, and thus decided, we hope the
question of emancipation will be thereafter set
at rest.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGEH.]
It is infinitely amusing to witness the shifts
and shufilings of the King of Spain, to enable
him to evade the recognition of the loans raised
at the period of the constitutional system. Ills
subterfuges are the more amusing on account of
their utter inutility ; for their tendency to aggra-
vate his pecuniary difficulty, is notorious to all
but himself; and his wants at last will reduce
him to a situation, where he will be compelled to
do all the justice in his power to his creditors.—
He will soon have only this alternative, or that
of becoming again a constitutional Ruler ; and
whoever has studied his charc,!ter, does not re-_
quire to be told how he would act in this di.
lemma. As to the argumewt that he is not•
answerable for any acts at that time,' in'
consequence of the alleged state of restraint
in which he was held—it is thit:very
max of impudent sophistry, for, waving his
solemn and repeated assurances at that period, it•
would, if once allowed, subject all public en-
gagements to the mere caprice of any weal. or
vicious monarch. Besides, every constitutional
government implies restraint on the will of the
Prince; and, if it depended on his pleasure, there
never would be such a government ; or, if it hap-
petted by chance to exist, its existence would be
as frail as the houses of sand that children build
on the sea-shore. This argument, therefore, is
as disingenuous as any other part of Ferdi-
nand's proceeding; and its effect is to frustrate
every attempt on his part to raise a new
loan. The attempt, which has just failed,
and which, it is confidently reported had
the concurrence of the leading Continental
Governments, skews what he has to expect in
money matters ; for there was no want of good-
will in the party that has backed out, only that
it saw at once the impracticability of thst plan.
The Loan Contractors of the Holy Alliance
would not have demurred, if they thought
that there was the faintest probability of
carrying it in the English market. Fer-
dinand's honour in money transactions, how-
ever, is now fully appreciated in this coun-
try; and, for the credit of our monied men,
we trust that the use he would make of a
loan is not indifferent to theta. After reimburs-
ing the French Government for the expellee it
incurred in its most iniquitous invasion of Spaiu,
the Spanish Monarch, in all probability, would
have applied the remainder of the proposed suln
of ten millions sterling (one report states twenty
millions) in trying to establish the solidity of his
title in Mexico, where he pretends he has mime.,
rous partizans, and in thus thwarting the English
Government in one of the most important'
branches of foreign policy.

[HORNING CHRONICLE.]
The latest accounts from Iflo de Janeiro we
find are of the 20th July. Sir Charles Stuart
arrived from Lisbon, in the Wellesley, on the
17th, and he had been preceded by General
Brant, who had arrived direct from England.—
The packet was to have sailed on the 19th ; but
she was detained for the purpose of bringing
over Sir Charles's dispatches. Some very singular
speculations were afloat respecting the negocia.
tions pending, and many enlightened persons
were of opinion that the overtures, brought from
Portugal would not be received, in consequence
of the terms being supposed rather more hutni.
liating to the Brazilians than they were disposed
to accede to. The chief difficulty, no doubt,
is the manner in which the succession to the.
Throne of Portugal is to be settled at the death

of the father, as there appears to be a general de-
termination to exclude the second son, the In-
fante Don Miguel. The Emperor of Austria, it
seems, takes an active part in the present nego-
ciations, to promote the interests of his daughter.
The subsidy to be paid by Brazil to the mother
country, as a compensation for the act of acknow-
ledgement, is one of the easiest of the conditions,
as it is understood to he ready, and waiting for
appropriation in London.

[NEW TistEs.]
The news of the appeal of the Greeks to our
protection has reached Constantinople, and the
Divan, it appears, is in deliberation. What the
result of the consultations of this august body
will be is beyond our conjecture, but, in all pro-
bability,. it will be something absurd ; nor is it
very easy to give an opinion on the conduct
which will be pursued on the occasion by our
own Government ; but we hope it will not merit
the- same character as that which may apply to
the counsels of the Turki-h functionaries. We
are quite sure that it will be such as is most
consistent kith humanity and real Christian
feelings, though, perhaps, not exactly in accord.
ance with the views of those who make a loud
profession of both, while they care nothing
about the former, and do not conceal their little
regard _ for the latter, except when they can be
made a cover for designs at variance with their
spirit. It appears tolerably certain, that if we
attempt to do any tl►ing for the protection of the
Greeks, the Liberals all over the Continent will
at once set it down as an effort on our part to
obtain power by the acquisition of territory or
influence from Greece. Many indications exist
already, by which it is evident that the friends
of freedom in Europe, and the United States of
America, wish the cause of Greece well, only as
far as its success may hurt the interests, or at least
affront the leading principles of England. We
hope, therefore, that in our transactions connected
withG reek affairs,we shall hold these persons in the
most complete contempt, and act in such a manner
as will most accord with our own interests, and the
honourable views which have always guided our
conduct with respect to this war, perfectly re-
gardless of the jealousy of European Philhel-
lenes, or the petty-fogging interference of North
American volunteers in a cause for which they
care nothing, any further than it may, in some,
manner, defined or undefined, injure us. Spain
is distracted as usual. In our French news is
detailed a couversation with the Count d'Espagna,
which looks rather apocryphal. There appears
to be a lamentable scarcity of common sense
among all parties in that country.