The Sun.
London, England, 1825-04-27 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, APRIL 26.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived and sailed for
the River, the Fortitude, Butcher, from Barbadoes ; Lang,
Lusk, from the Isle of France ; Resolution, Parker, from do.,
and Cornelia, Veer, from Batavia. Sailed the Hawke,
for Valparaiso ; Betty, Wells, for Fayal; also the Columbus,
with the whole of the outward..bound, got away about 10 a. m.
with a steady breeze from E.N.E., which has every appearance
of continuing.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 20.—Wind E.—Sailed the Numa
transport, for the Mediterranean ; and his Majesty's ship Cal-
liope, on a cruize.

FALMOUTH, APRIL 25—Wind S.—Arrived the Cygnet
packet, from the Mediterranean ; sailed from Corfu the 13th
March, Malta the 23d, Gibraltar the Bth inst., and Cadiz the
9th ditto. Sailed the Duke of York packet, for Buenos Ayres ;
Margaret, Bowman, for Lisbon ; Belus, Gibbs, for Charente ;
and Melantlw, Baynton, for Carthagena.

LIVERPOOL, Aram 25.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived the Jane,
Pae, from Nassau, N. P., sailed the 20th ult. ; Emily, God-
frey, from Virginia, sailed the 25th March ; William Tell,
Haldridge, from New Orleans. Arrived oft' the Port the Ben-
coolen, Kirkwood ; Princess Charlotte, Kean ; and Persever-
ance, Brown, from Calcutta.
CORK, APRIL 23.—Arrived the Lonash, —, from
London, to take convicts to New South Wales ; also the Reso-
lution, Albion, Amity, Brunswick, Regulus, and Star, from
London, to take on board Emigrants to Quebec.
DOVER, APRIL 26.—The outward-bound ships got under
weigh in the Downs this morning, and, with the Columbus in
company, passed this port to the westward about noon. There
is every appearance of the east wind continuing, and that the
Columbus may get clear of the Channel.—Sailed for Calai s
his Majesty's ship Fury, with the Countess of Essex, and
other passengers.

Arrived off Dover, the Argyle, Sprew ; and Flora,
from Surinam.
Yesterday the dispatches fot China, by the ship Warren
Hastings, Capt. Richard Hawes, were closed at the East India
House, and delivered to the Purser of that ship.

CORN EXCHANGE, Arum 27.

The arrivals of all sorts of Corn are moderate. In conse-
quence of the declaration of Ministers, that no alteration will
be made in the Corn Laws this season beyond the liberation of
the bonded Corn, and the admission of Canada Wheat, more
money is asked for nearly every article here; but our buyers
do not appear willing to comply with advanced prices, so that
there is not much business doing. Beans and Oats, however,
are certainly rather dearer.

A untvAr.s.—English Wheat, 2,150—.Barley, I,lso—Oats,
4,Boo—lrish Oats, 3,900 qrs.—Flour, 2,00 sacks.

AIVRDEIt IN MoNmouTursuißE.—On the 15th
instant, an Inquest was held at Llanvihangel-Crucorney, near
Abergavenny, on view of the body of Thomas Powell, whose
death was the consequence of a ferocious attack made upon him
the preceding day by R. Christopher. The parties were neigh?
bouring farmers; and it appeared in evidence, that the pip
of the latter were constant trespassers upon the clover of
the deceased. This occasioned frequent ineffectual remon.
stranees from Powell, who finally drove the pigs from his
field, and locked them up in his fold, preparatory to their be.
ing taken to the pond. Christopher, on hearing of their deten-
tion, instantly repaired to Powell's house, and, during a violent
altercation which ensued between them, struck the deceased so
conveyed to the house, and died the fol-
violent a blow on the back part of the head will' a stake,
le Jury returned a verdict of " Wilful
Tl
lowing mornw6.
her the
Christop , moment he heard of the death of
;Murder. • der "
that the
absconded, and has hitherto eluded discover
p0_0r.....m.a.n was
his victim, a • y.—
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(GioucestaJourn )

[MORNING POST.]
The Committee on the Ciiihnlig 'Relief Bill
was postponed last night by Sir Francis Burdett,
in order to make room for the debate on Mr.
Littleton's useful measure to abolish certain
forty-shilling freeholders in Ireland. The lion.
Gentleman, in moving the second reading of his
13111 on that subject, justly stated that he was the
more induced to choose the present time for
! urging it on the adoption of the Ilouse, because
I he thought that any measure which should assi-
milate the exercise of the elective franchise in
Ireland to the practice of England, which would
! tend to destroy the multiplication of fictitious
but yet efficient voters amongst the poor, and
for the most part Catholic population of Ireland,
was an an indispensable accompaniment of a mea-
sure for restoring their rights to the higher orders
of Catholics. He contended that it was not a
disfranchising Bill, and showed that, without
any interference on his part, the Act by which
the elective franchise was enjoyed by forty-
shilling freeholders in Ireland would expire in
• the course of right years from the present time.
As the measure now stood it was prospective
only. Ile then demonstrated the degrading
consequences of the present system, and assisted
by the evidence produced before the Committee
on the State of Ireland, triumphantly proved the
necessity and justice of putting an end to the in-
famous and injurious practices to which this sys-
tem gives birth. Although opposed by Mr. Les-
lie Foster, who did not think the Bill went far
enough, the business would have gone smoothly
on, had not Mr. Brougham, in one of his most
unfortunate moods, thrown,every thing.into con-
fusion by disorderly.attempts to vent his spleen
against an Illustrious Personage towards whom
of gratitude for the solemn
there is but one feeling
assurances with which he yas dispelled the fears
of this Protestant nation.:,, Called to order by his
own fellow-soldiers in. the:cause of Popery—
temperately exhorted by his opponents, nothing
could calm his boiling itnpethosity, till lost in
visions of future disturbances and slaughters, he
could behold nothing hut a. King rejecting " the
unanimous vote of the house and of the country,
though streaming with blond V And what was
the cause of these diseased imaginations and im-
plied denunciations ? The manly, frank, and
temperate declaration of a Prince, that in what-
ever situation he may be placed, he will maintain
inviolate the sanctity of the Coronation Oath and
the Constitution of his country 1, Had this gra-
tifying assurance been mingled with any feeling
of bitterness towards any class of opinions of
men, there might have been some excuse for
the misunderstanding or misrepresation of which
the Learned and lion. Gentleman has been
guilty. But even here he has not the 'shadow
of a doubt on which to build a justification._
With the same frankness with which he •I•en iie proclaim-
ed himself a staunch and unbending Protestant
the same Illustrious Personage declared_
but th
always will
lbe'a
is acc I am,
er.areticin;m any thing in tills
and
Wide distinction between granting toleration and
always have been,. and
granting you er. gilolursastotliel
firm friend to

•
[BRITISH PRESS.]
As we yesterday anticipated, it was deemed ne-
cessary last night to postpone the consideration of
two of the measures connected with the proposed
removal of the disabilities of the Roman Catholics.
The Committee on the Relief Bill is appointed
for Monday next. Mr. Secretary Peel gave no-
tice of his intention to take the sense of the House
again on the third reading of the Bill. The
light Hon. Gentleman will not offer any further
opposition until that stage of the Bill ; but he re-
serves to himself the right of making such sugges-
tions in the Committee, as he may think proper,
with the view of lessening the danger he appre-
hends from the repeal of the disqualifications to
which the Roman Catholics are now subject. Lord
F. L. Gower's motion respecting a provision for the
Roman Catholic Clergy is postponed till Friday.
After these and some other matters had been dis-
posed of, Mr. Littleton moved the second read-
ing of his Bill for regulating the Elective Fran-
chise in Ireland. The Hon. Member explained
that his measure is not, as some of his opponents
suppose, intended or calculated to disfranchise a
single individual. Its object is merely to regu-
late the exercise of the right of suffrage pro-
spectively. The character of the present system
of the Elective Franchise in the Irish counties
he justly stigmatised, as being " pregnant with
perjury and every vice," and tending only' to
debase the people and injure the property " of
the country. Mr. Littleton rested his arguments
in favour of the Bill chiefly on the evidence
given by Mr. Leslie Foster and Mr. Blake, be-
fore the Committee on the State of Ireland. No
better support could be had to any Act of Le-
gislation. The extracts made by the Honourable
Gentleman seem to us to be quite decisive of the
justice and necessity of the measure. An animated
debate, however, ensued. The opposition to the
Bill proceeded entirely on that confusion of terms
by which the burden of suffrage imposed upon
what are called the Freeholders in Ireland, is re-
presented as a beneficial right, prized by the
wretched individuals possessing it. Mr. Brougham
availed himself of the opportunity to declaim at
large on all the topics that presented themselves
to his vagrant imagination, seasoning his defence
of electioneering perjury by disorderly and per-
sonal attacks of unusual and repulsive grossness.
The House continued sitting till nearly three
o'clock this morning. On the division the Bill
was carried by a majority of 48 votes, the num-
bers being, for it 9,33, against it 185. The Bill
was ordered to be committed on Friday.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The few words uttered in the House of Peers
of Monday night, by his Royal Highness the
Duke of York, on the subject of the Catholic
Question, cannot fail to obtain universal atten-
tion. The sentiments of the Heir Presumptive
to the Throne, upon a question so intimately
connected with the introduction of our reigning
dynasty, and so eagerly canvased at the present
moment, will
be regarded with 110 common inte-
rest. The last Duke of York who stood in the
same relative position to the Throne,was the brother
of Charles 11. whose open temper and liberal
manners amused our most gracious Sovereign a
few minutes after his Royal Brether had appealed
to Heaven against the Roman Catholics. Fancy
may devise curious resemblances in the personal
circumstances of the two Dukes of York. James
Duke of York was in decided opposition to the
Commons of his time, for the Commons had twice
passed the Exclusion Bill. Frederick Duke of
York is in manifest opposition to the Commons

[THE TIMES.]
The intimation that Ministers mean to propose
no measures on the subject of the Corn Laws
during the present Session, creates no surprise,
though it gives some pain to the public. Indeed,
it does seem cruel to admit the foreign manufac-
turer by the present liberal system of commerce,
and to continue the exclusion of that which can
alone enable us to compete with him—foreign
corn. if he must bring us his articles cheap, let
him bring us also his means of producing them
cheap, and then we can tell him that we fear him
not. Nobody can conceive the mischief of the
present system. Even the people of this nation,
who feel it, such are their energies, hardly esti-
mate it justly ; for it will be observed, that by
opening an outlet to the foreign manufactures,
and keeping the corn there dammed up, we give
a bonus to the foreign manufacturer at the very
seat of his labours,—we create a redundancy,
and oblige him to live upon low wages;
whereas, did we take a part of his corn, the re-
mainder would be dearer to him, and our con-
flict would be more equal. AVe observe, and with
contempt too, that there are legislators who talk
of keeping the markets level by artificial means.
Such men little understand the subject on which
they speak. We recollect the late Duke of Bed-
ford—a name never to be mentioned without re-
spect—said, with a sigh, that the 44 melancholy
truth" was now ascertained beyond a doubt, that
England did not produce corn enough for the
sustenance of its inhabitants. Grain of every
kind was enormously dear at that time. Then
comes a period of plenty, and " the melancholy
truth" is ascertained, according to Lord Liver-
pool, with equal certainty, that England had
not inhabitants sufficient to eat the grain which
it produced. At present, we believe, we are
gone back to the first melancholy truth—about
there being too many modths for the grain. One
snap of the finger we would not give for all the
statements that all the wise men of Gotham cams
make upon this subject ; and yet they, good
sooth, will manage the whole affair which
they understand so little, and nicely poise
the balance between the home and foreign
grower ! Let them leave the markets open,
or hasten as fast as possible to that desirable
result, and nature will do the work for them,
much more precisely and effectually than they
can do it for themselves or us. This kind of
persons have never moved but to do mischief by
their meddling with the growth and sale of corn.
All that we can at present expect or strive for is,
a modification of the existing evil, by lowering
the importation price till next year, when the
whole subject is to be revised.

MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.--About 4 years
since a gentleman, named Tindal, of Weymouth, was found
dead, and robbed of his money and watch, on the turopike.road
leading from Charmouth to Axminster. It was generally be-
lieved that he had been murdered, and strong suspicion fell on
Loveridge, the person who first gave intelligence of his death,
from his offering for sale a gold chain and some seals. Accord..
ingly he was apprehended, and examined before W. Tucker,
Esq., of Coryton, but as no positive proof could be brought
against him, he was discharged. A short time since Love..
ridge died ; but on his death-bed he mentioned the Clergy...
span, the Rev. T. Tucker, of Up Lyme, that something lay
heavy on his mind, which he wished to impart to him before his
death, and if he would call again the next day, he would mention
it to him, but before the clergyman came he expired. About'
a fortnight since, as a person named Moore, who is living in
the cottage lately occupied by Loveride, was digging up the
root of a tree in his garden, he found a gold watch between the
and the root. On Saturday week he offered it for sale to Mr.
Pulman, clock and watch-maker, of Axminster, who, suspect-
ing it to be the watch which belonged to the late Mr. Tindal, '
detained it, and gave information to Mr. Slyfield, of that
town, who produced the maker's name and number, Which
answered to that of the watch. A summons was granted
for the appearance of Moore, by W. Tucker, Esq., and
he appeared before him, when it was satisfactorily proved by
Miss Tindal that it was her late father's watch, and it was ac.
cordingly restored to her. Moore's son-in-law proved that he
was with his father when the watch was found.—( Sherborne
411ercttry.)

Friday morning, during the performance of the
Farce of Dead Alive at the Alnwick..Theatre, the gallery gave
way, and gradually descended in a body, with the gods and
goddesses in it, most of whom were certasnly more dead than
alive from fright; a few trifling bruises were, however, all the
injuries which the fallen divinities sustained,: