The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-25 00:00:00

MERCANTI LE SHIPPING,

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH S.E.---Arrived the
Little Sally, Gibson, from Smyrna. Sailed the Iris, Butekr,
for London, and the Thetis, Rubarth, for St. Übes. Remain
the John, Popplewell, and Hope, Flint, both Tor India. "

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 23.—Wind E.—Arrived the Hebe,
Foreman, from Teneriffe in 29 days; Neptune, Vanuel, from
Guadaloupe, in N days; Harriet, Stymie, from Messina, in 59
days ; Cessnock, M` Arthur, from Cape Hayden, in 50 days ;
and the Alonza, Perkins, from Bordeaux. Off the Port the
Redman, Scabright, from Jamaica, and Thomas, —.--,
from Messina.

FALMOUTH, MARCH 23.—Wind E.—Arrived the Ocean,
Struthers, from Bahia, in 49 days ; Harriet, Kindley, from
London for South America.

LIVERPOOL, MAACII 23.—Wind E.—Arrived the Alexan -
der, Newlands, from Jamaica, sailed from kingstone the Bth of
February ; on the 10th, off the east end, spoke the ship Planter
from London ; at the same time exchanged signals with the ship
Louisa from London. Also arrived the Mary, Fairclough, from
Demerara, sailed Bth of February ; the Huskinson was to sail
in three days. Off the Port the Bahia packet, Mitchell, from
Paraiba ; Eliza Ann, Baird, from Savannah ; and the Gem,
---, from New York.
DXAL.—No letters received.

Arrived off Dover the Eliza, ----, from Philadelphia.

In the month of March, 1824, a vessel, called the Rose, sailed
for the Cape of Good Hope. From that time there has been
no intelligence of this vessel. By one of the south Sea whalers,
arrived off the coast of Cornwall, several hundred letters that
were sent out by the Rose, have been returned to the ship letter
office.

PIRATICAL ATTACK.
[From the Liverpool Courier, March 23.]
We are indebted to Capt. ROLSTON, of the Hellespont,whic`i
arrived yesterday, after a remarkably quick passage, from
Smyrna, for the following account of a desperate rencounter be-
tween the boats of his Majesty's frigates Cambrian and Serirg-
apatam and a piratical vessel, in the Guiph of Vola :
" I transmit a statement of the attack made by some Greek
pirates on the boats of his Majesty's frigates Cambrian and
Seringapatam, on the 30th Jan., in the Guiph of Vola, accord-
ing to a description given by an Officer of the Hellespont.
" Having struck on a rock off the island of Skaltrope (in
Negropont), we anchored in the Gulph of Vola. The next day
we saw a Greek brig boarded by two Scamparuras at the dis-
tance of two or three miles. A boat was ordered away'to
speak to the brig, and was informed by her crew that these
boats had been pirates, who, as soon as they perceived our ships
at anchor, made off. The boat then returned, and orders
were given to both ships to man the boats; eight in number,
and go in search of them. After having rowed 15 or Hi miles
up a gulph, the Seringapatam's cutter descried one (the
largest of them) and gave chase ; came up, and were in the act
of laying in their oars, when the pirate fired into the boat, and
killed two men on the spot, and wounded one officer and four
men. She then dropped a-stern, waiting until the other
boats came up. They then boarded her, and having put all
to the sword, except one man, she was taken, so desperate were
they before they would surrender. The Cambrian's boat
then attacked the other boat, and carried her, -with the
loss of two men killed and six wounded, one among the latter
of which is an officer. Out of 70 men, which was the force of
the pirates, only seven were made prisoners, they rather pre-
ferring to die than to surrender. Six of them were wounded,
and the other, who had jumped overboard during the scuffle,
was taken out of the water, having been swimming for ten
minutes, and so desperate were these fellows, that this one
even snapped his pistols at the marines, although surrounded
by an armed force. It appears that this gang had followed this
trade for some time, and made the haunt of a small island near
Negropont.'
" The Cambrian intended sailing on the lfith of February
for Malta, to heave down, and takes the prisoners • with her.
One of , the wounded seamen died at Smyrna, and two more
were in a precarious state."

THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHAN9E,.MARmx 25.

The arrivals of all sorts of Grain this week are inconsiderable.
The Wheat trade is dull to-day, as there is no disposition in
our millers to make purchases, and prices may be considered
rather lower than Monday. In Barley there is very little. doing.
Beans and Pease are unaltered from Monday. Oats find sale
with readiness at rather better terms than last quoted, as the
quantity decreases.
Anu IVAL s.—English Wheat, 3,3so—Barley, 4,loo—Oats,
2,3oo—lrish Oats, 860 quarters—Flour, 4,650 sacks.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, MARCH 25.
The following is an accurate Report of the. numbers ana
prices at Smithfield Market this morning :

CATTLE AT MARKET

Beasts 487 1 Sheep
Calves

To sink the Offal; per stone of BTh.
Beef 4s 4d to 53 Od I Veal 6s Od to 7s 0:1
Mutton .. 5s 4d to 6s Od I Pork ss 2d to Cs 2d
Lamb Os Od to Os Od.

NAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD.
lay £3 Os to £4 lOs j Clover £4 Os to 1:5 lOs

Straw £2 Os to £2 Bs.

MISS FooTE.—The last night of Miss FOOTE'S
acting will certainly be next Saturday.; as the
marriage will take place immediately.—(Morn-
ing Paper.)
Sic transit gloria mundi.—All things change,
and the Lottery is now doomed to experience
the common lot of mortal creations. Its death is
decreed—its days are numbered. Seize then itx
dying benefactions, and try for the Four Prizes
of Twenty Thousand Pounds, and Thirty other
Capitals, &c. amounting to Two Hundred Thou-
sand Pounds, all in One Day, the 12th of April•

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

lib-actsfrom the Morning P tpers,March '25,182,5.

rBRITIS/I mess.]
Mr. Hume, conformably to his threat, in-
flitted upon a portion of the House of Commons
a repetition of the discussion of the Indian
question, which was debated on Wednesday in
Leadenhall-street. The result, which is all we
tan notice now, was, that his motion was nega-
Awed by a majority or 58 against 13.

We have not space to-day to make many ob-
servations on the Meeting in Covent-Garden yes-
terday, held for the purpose of petitioning Par-
liament to repeal the whole of the Assessed
Taxes. It is certainly by a sweeping licence
of speech that these assemblages in the open
air are said to consist of the inhabitant house-
holders of the district within which they are
held. But we are saved all trouble of serious
dissertation on the nature of these assemblies
by the absurd character of the proceedings
cf that of yesterday. A string of Resolu-
tions was passed according to the plan of
itte Committee. Hunt, who, in virtue of
his blacking-shops, styles himself an inhabitant
of Westminster, with just as much truth as the
-Meeting generally could be described as being of
that class of persons, then stepped forward, and
moved an additional Resolution against any grant
to the Roman Catholic Priests of Ireland " as a
bribe to induce them tamely and basely to sub-
mit to the treasonable disfranchisement of half a
million of his countrymen." The multitude were
so pleased at the return of their favourite mounte-
bank to his post, that they not only voted their
two representatives, and all the other friends of
the Catholic Claims " traitors," but on his sug-
gestion they with the utmost scorn rejected the
petition which they had been specially called to-
gether to approve. What Sir F. Burdett must
have felt afterwards when addressing the motley
and insensate crowd, we may partly guess by the
asperity of his language. We hope that his self re-
spect will prevent him in future from the degrada-
tion which he was conscious he underwent yester-
day. Sir Francis was indignant at what he called the
" base and unworthy trick" played upon the Meet-
ing. Now , in common justice we must defend Hunt
from this attack. However uncourteous his
course of proceeding might be, if he considered
himself as belonging to the Committee of Manage-
ment, he had an undoubted right to bring for-
ward his additional resolution without previously
consulting any body. The indignation of Sir
F. Burdett should rather be pointed against those
-who, if Hunt had not exposed the true character
of the assemblage by drawing too largely upon its
love of folly or mischief, whichever it was that
happened to predominate, would have passed of
its petition and resolutions as speaking the genuine
sense of the inhabitants of the metropolis. This,
it is now clear, Sir Francis himself must admit it,
would indeed have been a " base and unworthy
trick.”—(Mid.)

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The appointment of Lord Amherst to India
has been always unpopular with the country. No
one could see any valid reason for naming to so
important a post, an individual, whose previous
conduct afforded no earnest that in critical con-
junctures, he would act with the necessary ability.
In fact, the public were almost prepared for dis-
aster from the first. Mr. Hume, in moving last
night for some papers connected with the govern-
ment of the Marquis of Hastings, took occasion
to enter into the unfortunate business in India,
which has excited so general an apprehen,ion,
and carried grief into so many families. He ex-
pressed himself in a very delicate and guarded
manner with respect to the whole transac.:.
lions, though he did not hesitate to specify
several instances of signal want of judgment. One
point adverted to by Mr. Hume, it would seem
almost impossible to get over satisfactorily :
" He called upon any Honourable Member at all
acquainted- with the affairs of India, to say, whe-
ther it, bad not been the uniform policy of all
Governors of India to avoid as much as possible
engaging the troops in active operations during
the rainy season. He did not speak theoreti-
cally upon this point—he had been more than
once encamped with the army in the rainy sea-
sons, and it would perhaps surprise the House
to hear,, that out of a body of 10,000 men, not
more than fifteen hundred were capable of act-
ing with effect." As to the mutiny—the cause
of it, and the manner in which it has been
suppressed, it may be very true that we are
not yet in possession of sufficient materials for
forming a correct judgment on the subject. But
it forms rather a strong presumption against the
Governor,. that all those who have access to the
best infnrmation respecting India, share the views
of Mr. Hume, and either give expression to them
in the House or remain silent.—As an example
of the latter, we may notice what Mr. Hume said
respecting Mr. Grant—" He was sorry, he said,
to hear that his lion. Friend Mr. Grant had not
expressed in. that House, the opinion which he
had delivered elsewhere on the total want of confi-
dence itiLordAmherst'sgovernment,which pervad-
ed, not only the Bengal community, but every de-
partment of India." Sir C. Forbes, too, expressed
himself very strongly on the subject. This is
one of the cases in which Ministers may be ex-
pected to express themselves warmly. In fact,
Lord Amherst is less to blame than they are.
It was their duty to appoint a man to the Go-
vernment of India, possessed of other qualities
than merely an amiable -character. No wonder,
then, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer
should say, "- compliments to his private cha-
racter were worth nothing." They are worth
nothing in the way of vindication of Ministers for
making an unsuitable selection.

['rim TIMES.]
It is asserted that the recognition of the inde-
pendence of Brazil by the mother country is
Nettled. This may be the fact ; for in putting
forth a general principle, we do not say that there
s►re no exceptions. The public, however, should
take care to receive with doubt all articles of

news, however confidently asserted, by which'
foreign bonds or loans are liable to be affected.
The price which the Brazilian State is said to
have consented to pay for the diplomatic recog-
nition of that of which it already had the actual
possession, is a million and a half, now in the
hands of the contractors for the loan originally
intended for Brazil.

An alarming rumour was afloat yesterday
morning, of an overland dispatch from India
having brought intelligence of a revolt of several
regiments of Se pays, and of their having gone
over to the Burmese army. Absurd as this re-
port is, on account of the infusion of the latter
ingredient, it was for a long time believed, and
influenced the Consol market to a considerable
extent. Though the least inquiry sufficed to
spew that no dispatches had arrived, few took the
pains to inquire, and the depression continued,
till the close of the market. Besides this report
relative to India, there was another scarcely less
alarming : it was said, that unpleasant accounts
had been received from Russia, importing that a
serious disagreement had occurred between our
Ambassador, Mr. Stratford Canning, and the Rus-
sian Minister, Count Nesselrode, on the subject
of the affairs of Greece. It was added, that Mr.
S. Canning had demanded his audience of leave.
A rupture with Russia on the affairs of Greece,
so soon after the English Ministry have rewarded
Lord Strangford with a peerage for his adjust-
ment of a main branch of that important question,
is, to say the least, improbable. If any misun-
derstanding has arisen, it is more likely to have
arisen from personal causes, as regards the two
negotiators, than any disposition of the Russian
Government to break with the English Cabinet.
—(lbid.)

• [MORNING HERALD.]
The exactions made from the public for inspect-
ing the works of art, or objects of curiosity and
veneration in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's,
have been denounced in Parliament without asingle
voice in their justification. It may be presumed,
therefore, that some reform will take place.—
The truth is, that the general system of this coun-
try is churlish and sordid, and exposes the national '
character to taunting and obloquy from foreign-
ers. It countenances the imputation of a mo-
-1 ney-getting spirit which is so common against
the English. The jealous grudging temper in
which difficulties are thrown in the way of ad-
mission to see whatever is interesting or curious
wrong the English character, as it forms a humi-
liating contrast to the usage in the capitals of the
Continent. Even in Paris, the most promiscuous
resort of all the world, not only the national ex-
-1 hibitions, but those of private persons are freely
open, and there never, that we have heard
of, has been reason to regret this liberality.
The Louvre, when it contained the monumen-
tal glories of Greece and Rome, and the spoils
of modern Italy—the gardens of the Luxembourg
and Tuileries—the Museum of Fiench monu-
ments—all the churches---those were and are
open to the whole world without injury or danger.
But it will be said that in England the public
could not be indiscriminately admitted with safety
—in fact, that a disposition to N't anton and brutal
mischief is too prevalent. But the rarity of ob-
jects of this kind freely exposed, and the churlish
spirit in which the " profane vulgar" are excluded
is the cause. The very populace, by being gra-
dually confided in, would acquire a sentiment of
regard for what they were freely admitted to be-
hold—or rather a sentiment of self-respect, which
would be the best security. The popular mind
i would educate itself into this civilised feeling.

`NEW TIMES.]

No Bill which has been brought into Parlia- I
meat for many years has excited so much alarm
in the commercial world as the Equitable Loan
Bill. Individuals of the most opposite political
sentiments have cordially joined in expressing
their common apprehension of its evil conse-
quences. Although we have very often and
very freely expressed our disapprobation of
Mr. Alderman Waithman's political opinions,
we are ready to offer our commendation of
the zeal with which he has defended the in-
terests of the trading part of the commu-
nity in the present instance; and we must not
omit to notice that the opposition to the Bill was
unanimous in the Court of Common Council.—
It has been very erroneously supposed, that the
Bill was directed solely against the Pawnbrok-
ers. The fact is, that it goes to create a mono-
poly equally destructive of trade in all its
branches. We fully exculpate its projectors
from all dishonourable motives. We believe the
scheme to have originated in benevolence ; but
it is the business of the Legislature to look
not to motives, but to consequences. If the in-
stitution of a vast association, with a capital of
several millions, be likely to overwhelm retail
trade, it is contrary to the plainest maxims of
political economy to give it any peculiar legis-
lative sanction.