The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-19 00:00:00

[MORNING POST.]

We received "last night, by Express, French
Papers to the 17th. instant, with the Etoile of
Thursday. The. disbussion of the Indemnity
Law closed on Tuesday, as we had anticipated,
and tho project was adopted by a majority of 259
to 124. The votes were taken by ballot, and
when the numbers were announced, much asto-
nishment seemed to be produced- in the centre of
the Chamber (the station occupied by the
Ministers and their adherents) by the magni-
tude of the minority. The Quotidienne uses it
as an argument against the law, of which it
approves the principle but not the dispositions. It
reminds the Ministers that there are only sixteen
Liberals in the Chamber, and that there ought
consequently to have been only sixteen black
balls in the Urn. It then asks whence the other
.108 proceeded, and maintains that they do not
protest against the granting of an Indemnity to.
the Emigrants, but against the mode in- which
it is proposed to be done. - The last sitting
(we believe without exaggeration about the
thirtieth) in which- this law was passed, seen-is
to have been the most tumultuous of any 'daring
the course of the discu.sion. .Several amend-
ments were proposed, which had been rejected
by the Commission to w hick they had been re-
ferred, but two of which were now adopted by
the Chamber. On the other hand, one which
had been not only approved of, but support-
ed in a long Speech by M. de Villele, was
thrown out to his .evident surprise and displea-
sure. One of the amendments carried against
the sense of the Commission is one which de-
clares that no confirmatory transfer of- pro,-,
perty granted . Emigrants to those who are
in possession of their former estates, shall be
liable to a greater duty on being registered than
three francs. This article appears .at first sight
intended to--relieve the holders of national -pro-
perty from the payment of heavy duties; buot
was ably shown to the Chamber by-Messrs. Ben-
jamin Constant and General Foy, that its real
object was.to,declare- the legality of such trans-
actions. Between -declaring them legal and pro-
'claiming them necesittrY the distance was -not
considered itery great, and: General Foy, in an
energetic extemporaneous address to the Cham-.
ber, strongly inveighed against the amend-
ment, as once more throwing open the question
of property, which it Was intended to have closed
for ever by the grant Oar! Indemnity. " Should
it be tried," exclaimed the .Orator " to rend
from them by force the property which they le-
gally hold, let its owners recollect that they have
on their side the King and the Charter, and that
they are twenty to one." This recommendation
produced repeated charges of sedition against its
author, but the feeling of hostility towards him was
soon lost in the exultation of triumph when it was
found that the amendment had been carried. The
new law was presented to the King on the even-
ing of its passing by the Piesident and a Depu-
tation from the Chamber of Deputies. It was
expected that it would immediately be intro-
educed into the Chamber of Peers.

[MORNING HERALD.]
We are glad to see that the important town of
Manchester has taken up the question of the
Corn Laws; and cannot too much admire and
recommend to imitation the sound and temperate
views upon the subject, contained in the resolu-
tions from that place, which we published a
few days since. The whole community seem
now convinced of the absurdity of: the present
system of averages; and we hope tsa4 the present
Session of Parliameut will not elapse without a
death,-blow being given to a Code of Laws,
which reflect discredit upon the age,. without
producing advantage to any hut those who pros•
per by the frauds of, which' these laws are the
fruitful source. Tire only difficulty likely to
arise will he, we should think, in fixing the
amount of the tax to be paid on the importation
of Corn. This the agriculturalists will press to
be a high one, while the manufacturing in-
terests . will wish for .none at all. On this,
as •on most other occasions, the middle course
will be the wisest, and that, we hope, which
Parliament will adopt. Were we called upon
to name a price at which foreign wheat should
enter into competition with the taxed commodity
of the English farmer, we should name 60s. as
the fair one. And, to bring it to this, we know
no Other way than by taking the average Price of
foreign wheat—say for the last five years—and
then. fixing the tax at such an amount as would,
with the charges of freight, insurance, Sze.,
bring
the selling price to that amount. At any rate,
we trust the question will soon be set at rest, and
the system of fraudulent lotteryrunder the name
of averages, be done away.

[MORNING ennoNicLE.]
On the.9th
November, 16'20, two vessels from
Plymouth made the land of Cape Cod, in North
America.,
.in these two vessels were 101 passeri-
gers, English
Refugees in Holland, who, accord.

ing to Cotton Mather 4C could not with ten years
endeavour, bring their neighbours (the Dutch) par-
ticularly to any suitable observation of the Lord's
Day," and therefore abandoned the comforts of
Batavia for a dreary wilderness in the New World.
This small stock, which was reduced one-half
before the termination of winter, was the founda-
tion of the New England States, and, indeed,
of that great empire in North America that
premises to have such a powerful influence on the
destinies of the world.—This undertaking,
so unimportant to appearance at the time)
but productive of such important results, al-
most escaped the notice of contemporary
writers. An undertaking, which may, and in
all probability will, lead to results not touch less
important, is now in progress. We allude to the
sailing of the Scotch Colony to Buenos Ayres.
This colony has indeed a great advantage over
the New Englanders, for it will be settled in one
of the most fruitful regions of the globe, possessed
of a climate temperate, and highly favourable
to the European constitution. To Mr. Bar-
ber Beaumont chiefly belongs the merit of plan-
fling and, carrying into execution an enterprise
which seems destined to give a new character to
the most valuable of the Spanish possessions in
the New World.