The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-01 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, Nov. 30.—Wind N.W.—The wind was nearly due
north this morning with a strong breeze, it has since backed to
N.W.; several homeward bound vessels have arrived, but no
signals made. The Coriolanus and Jupiter remain, the latter
has lost an anchor and cable ; the rest of the outward bound
have sailed with the following from the River, viz. :—Argo,
Taylor, for Sierra Leone ; Nesbit, Quelch, Jamaica ; Renewal,
Cromartie, Barbadoes ; Zepher transport, for Portsmouth ;
Miranda, Dempster, Grenada ; Amy, -Bloomfield, Leghorn ;
Aurora, Mitchell, Gibraltar; and the Brazil Packet Scarlett,
for the Brazils.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 30.—Wind N. by E.—Arrived his
Majesty's ship Superb from Lisbon ; his Majesty's ship Spar,
tiate from Rio Janeiro, last from Lisbon. Sailed his Majesty's
ship Rainbow, Honourable Captain Rous, with Gen. Bourke,
&c. for the Cape of Goodk Hope ; his Majesty's ship Dispatch,
for the coast of Africa ; Sesostris, Drake, for New South Wales ;
Eairfield, Fawcett, for New York ; Charlotte, Williams, for
Lisbon ; Surry transport, for Deptford ; Ganges, Baulby,
India, and the whole of the outward bound except four sail at
the Motherbank, among which is the Albion, Proctor, for New
South \Vales, and the Justina, for Grenada. The Castle Forbes,
for India, remains in the harbour.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 29.—Wind W.—Arrived the Active,
Hall, from Oporto; Jane, Dodd, from Prince Edward's Island
in 25 days—blowing a gale.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 29.—Wind W.S.W., strong gales and
squally.—Arrived the Duke of Kent packet, from Lisbon in
10 days; and Radiant, Phillips, from St. Jago de Cuba.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 29.--Wind S.—Arrived the Clyde,
31`Pherson, from Demerara; Congress, Asbridge, and Han-
nah, Newby, from Miramichi; Betsey, —, from Quebec ;
and Fanny, Gould, from Palermo.

Arrived in the Downs the Juno, Pritchard, from Jamaica.
The Lively, Hughes, from Newport to Liverpool, way
wrecked near 13ardsey Island the 27th ult.
The Elizabeth, Gales, was driven on shore at Prince Ed.
ward's island in October, and was to be sold on the 9th ult.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India
House, when Capt. Wm. Hunter was sworn into the command
of the ship Sir David Scott, consigned to Bengal and China.

The East India Company has contributed to
support mercantile credit in the present emer-
gency. The Directors having been applied to
to discount bills to a large amount drawn on
them from China, which had several months to
run, liberally consented to do so at the rate of
four per cent.

AGE OF IMPROVEMENT.-About ten days ago
the inhabitants in the neighbourhood of the new• Pin and
Needle Manufactory, in the London-road, were in daily expec-
tation of being crushed by the fall of a very high chimney bt.
longing to the building. The chimney had been set in a
direction eastward, but by altering the ground ajoining the
foundation on the westward, the weight of the brickwork
(already set) restored it to a perpendicular position, to the great
satisfaction of the surrounding inhabitants. This is not the
first instance of the kind, the same experiment having sue.
ceeded about twelve months ago at Maudsleyta Manufactory
in the Westminster-road.

THE G LOU GESTE It -ST It EET S VS' I NDLERS.—Mary..
la-Bonne Office was yesterday again crowded to excess, to hear
the final examination of Ireland and Mrs. Gravett. At one
o'clock the prisoners were placed at the bar. Mr. Ireland was
much improved in appearance, and bowed politely to the
Bench. A number of witnesses were then called, who clearly
proved the active participation of both prisoners, particularly
from Mr. Daniel, of Oxford-street; Mr. Harding, of Regent-
street; and Mr. Conolly, of Blandford-street ; and, in the two
first cases, the goods were, immediately after being delivered
in Gloucester-place, pawned. The goods were ordered in the
name of Ireland, but he repeatedly denied to the witnesses that
that was his name. He cross-examined the witnesses, as did
Mr. Price, but elicited nothing. Considerable legal discussion
then arose between Mr. Goring, the Solicitor for the prosecu-
tion ; Mr. Price, for the defendants ; and the Magistrates, as to
the nature of the offence. But it was cut short, at last, by Mr.
Rawlinson's committal of Ireland to Newgate for felony, a.:.d
ordering Mrs. Gravett to give 48 hours notice of bail, for enttr-.
ing into a conspiracy to defraud. The prisoners were amazed
at the decision, imagining their offence could only be reached
by a civil process.

AN UNNATURAT.,MOTIIEit.—On Thursday Pven-
ing last, about six o'clock, a fine healthy female child, ap-
parently about three months old, was left in the garden at the
back of a house in Pembroke-place. The child was enclosel
in a basket, covered with an old ragged blanket, upon which
were the marks "E. R. 3." The little innocent, as soon as it
was discovered, was taken into the house, where it was nursed
and fed. Information of the circumstance was sent to Mr.
Hardman, the governor of the workhouse, who immediately
sent a person for the baby ; it was conveyed to the workhouse,
and every care taken of it. On the next morning bills were is-
sued, offering a reward of 10/. for such information as might
lead to the apprehension of the person who abandoned the in-
fant. In the course of Saturday an individual, who had read
the handbill on the walls, gave the necessary information ; and
in the evening the unnatural mother of the child was taken intu
custody, at her residence in Leed-street, and conveyed to Bride-
well.—(Liverpool Albion.)

HAuNTEn nousEs.—Two excellent ,hops and
houses, in the Corn-market at Wakefield, have
been for a considerable time standing empty,
owing to a terrific rumour of their being haunted !
HORSE-STEALlNG.—Notwithstanding the re-
cent fate of Probed and others, that crime is not
yet on the decrease, as accounts daily arrive of
robberies from different parts of the country. Every
exertion is making by Mr. Hall, the chief con
stable of Union-Hall, to trace the property and
secure the offenders, some of whom are in cus-
tody.

FlRE.—About two o'clock this morning, a lira„
broke out in a small shop, at the back of Webb's
County Terrace, which in a short time was to-
tally consumed. The inmates escaped by a back
door with the greatest difficulty, and so rapid
was the conflagration, that of the whole of the
property not a single article was saved. The
poor family is in the greatest distress, as it is not
likely they could be insured. Grassmith,John's,
and Jefferson, from Union-Hall, were active in
preserving the peace and rendering every assist,
once to the uifortuuate fugitives,

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

iatracts front the Morning Papers, Dec-. 1, i 825

[MORNING HERALD.I

The French Rentes have fallen to about 94.
This confirms the opinion we lately hazarded as
to there having been a similar gambling for time
bargains going on in Paris as there has been in
London. The next Stocks in which we shall
hear of a fall will be those of Vienna, Berlin, St.
Pctersburgh, Copenhagen, and Naples, for in
all these cities we should suppose that gambling
has been going on, more or less. These cities are
part of the links of the great gambling annuity
system. Should the French Funds not recover,
but remain at 94, will it not have the effect of
further bringing down the price of our Consols?
Can Consols remain at 83 or 84, or at the
rate of 34 per cent. interest; and the French be
94, which yield an interest of about 5 ? Are
British Consols worth more interest per an-
num by 1+ per cent. than French Rentes ?
:But, considering that the market price for money
is fully 5 per cent. interest, is it likely that our
Consols will remain long at even their present
reduced price ? The public must calculate on a
further fall yet ; indeed, 83 or 84 is a high
price for an article that amounts to so much as
800,600,000/., or as much as the value of all the
land in -the kingdom. We saw land tumble from
the extravagant pitch it had been got up to by
land-gamblers ; why, therefore, should not the
funds experience the same reverse? If solid
land, because it had been got to an extravagant
price by speculators, fell in price as rapidly
as it rose, why not names in books fall in
value.? Why should names in books
,remain at
too high a rate ? But while all this is going on,
what -must he thought of the original holders
of five and four per cent. Stock, who were
bamboozled into the taking a less interest for
their money ? At that time we recollect re-
commending them not to be humbugged, for we
said the thing would be sure to have a turn like
all other things.—The live per cents amounted to
1.50 millions, and the four per cents to SO millions
—say 230 millions together. We told the five
and four per cent. holders, that if they were firm
in their determination to be paid off, the Govern-
ment could not pay them off. We advised both
the five and the four per cent, holders not to be
frightened. with the idea of being paid off, but to
set Mr. Vansittart and Mr. Robinson at defiance,
and say—" well, pay us off." If the holders had
so dared the Ministers, the bubble which has
only just now cracked, would have cracked then,
and the holders of either Stock would not now
have been looking at the three and a half per
cerkts, which are ten per cent. or thereabouts,
under par price.

• [THE TIMES.]
The French Papers, in favouring us with Spa-
r►ish news, confine themselves to a detail of the
Royal Ferdivand's movements between the Es-
curial arid the capital. Time, perhaps, will show
that these are not the movements of most general
interest which are now making throughout the
degraded and oppressed Peninsula. It is in the
nature of things-, that when there exists no press
but that of a despotic Government, the world
should for a certain season see only what that
organ is suffered to exhiNt. Nevertheless, a
nation of living men still inhabits the Spa-
nish territory. The youth of that nation have
not been brought up in the political creed
of Ferdinand and his Monks. The bulk of
the Spaniards, who were receiving their educa-
tion under the free Government of the Cortes,
and fixing in their minds the love of liberty, are
just now ripening into active manhood. We may
assure ourselves, that if nothing yet appears be-
yond what the Gazettes of the priesthood publish,
it is not because nothing is in preparation. Our
only fear is, that what must one day be fully
executed may be attempted too soon, and thus
its final accomplishment be again retarded,
through inadequacy of means, or indiscretion of
Councils. The Court have not given their deci-
sion in the case of the Constitutionnet ; indeed,
the trial has been postponed for eight days, to
hear the reply of the Crown lawyer. The Etoila
had erroneously stated tine proceedings to he
finished.