The Sun.
London, England, 1825-06-17 00:00:00

mER,CANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, JUNE 16.—Wind MR—Arrived and remain, -the
Lord Cranstoun, Urquhart, from Jamaica, and the liyndrnan.
Sarjeant, from Demerara. Passed through from the River, the
Nereide transport, for Quebec, and Borodino ditto, for Port.
mouth ; Elizabeth, Walker, for Grenada ; Rebecca, Stoniness,
for Tobago ; Floyd, Perkins, for Virginia ; and EggerdPn
Castle, Penman., for Quebec.
PonTsstouTrr, JUNE E.S.E.—Sailed his Ma. •
jesty's ship Diamond, for Lisbon and South America ; and
Caliope, on a cruize.. Went out of harbour, the Diadem and
Princess Royal transports, for Corfu.
PLYiktov•rit, .Iv Ili.—Wind E.—Off the Port, his Ma-
jesty's ship Carnation, from the West Indies; and the Planter,
, from Demerara.
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FALMOUTH, JUNE 15.—Wind E.—Off the Pert, the
Hope, Harris, from the South Seas.. Arrived the Iluntcliff,
Danby, from London, for Vera Cruz.

THE MARKETS.

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CORN EXCHANGE, JUNE 17.
. The arrivals of all sorts of Grain this week are tolerably good..
The weather being very fine occasions the Wheat tradi to cen-',
tinue dull, and prices remain much the same as on Monday-, „
Barley for grinding sells freely at rather higher terms. • Bean; ~
and Pease find sale slowly at last quotations. Oats Meer a' -
very dull sale, and the prices are Is. per quarter lower than last
Monday. The Flour trade is not so lively as of late.
ARRIVALS.—EngIish Wheat, 3,7oo—Barley, 240.L....pat's;'
14,000—Irish Oats, 3,000 quarters—Flour, 8,900 sacks.- • •

SMITHFIELD MARKET, JUKE 17. , A i.zi /
The following is an accurate Report ,),f the numbers lid"
prices at Smithfield Market this morning:— :
CATTLE AT MARKET
Beasts • 459'1 Sheep
Calves • • 360 Pigs
_ _ _ _ _

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9,633'
`• 1210

To sink the Offal, per stone of Bth.
Beef 4s 4d to 5s 2d I Veal 6B Od to Cs. (kt
Mutton 4s •4dto 4s 10d I Pork Od to gs 0(1
Lamb Gs Od to 68 6d.
HAY. AND STRAW, PER LOAD: • •
El:ty
Straw el 16s. to 1:2 Bs.. .
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MR. MATTHEWS 'AT HOME.-7-3111S
and facetious Performer concludet.L his elit'er-
taitiment, consisting of his Memorazzaiun. Po f;k„:
last night, at the English Opera lique•
was not quite equal to some :et" his former eit
tertuinments'of the same kind, yet' It abounded.
withsuch strokes of humour, whimsical, charac-
ters, ludicrous incidents, and pleasant •aneCtiotes,
''as rendered It highly diverthig, and qf, course,
very attractive. It was • indeed a iir.4o ,01, ex,
traordinary powers- in 'an individual, bv
imitation.; singing, rapid change of character, and •
other means of merriment, 'could afford t-njoytnent
to so large a 'part of the public as visited him
in 'succession; and •many for' a repetition of the ..'
entertainment.. ,Ory the conoitfsion, last nigh t,711V.,4
signified that, aftei• his second Entertaintrient,
almost despaired of materials for a third, but thai.
,public encouragement had stimulated him 't.O per-
severing diligenge, and that he trusted, by similar
efforts, to meet Vs generous patrons, 'the Public,'
next Spring, with novelties which, under 'their '•
favour, might prove not' less successful.- He then
respectfully bowed; and retired With the 'warmest
applause of a very, numerotis,audience: •
ROBBERY OF THE PRINCE COBURG'S CAR-
RIAGE.—On Wednesday evening, as his Royal Highness the
Prince of SAxE cOBURG was proceeding to London from his
seat at Claremont, in his travelling carriage, some thieves con-
trived to detach a portmanteau froM the back of the carriage, '.
with which they got off unobserved, ndtwithstanding two foot.:
men were sitting in the dickey immediately above. • The Job- •
bery was not discovered till they reached town. The portman-
teau contained a miscellaneous assortment of his Royal High-
ness's apparel of considerable,value. It is supposed that the •
robbery was effected while thelirriage was passing over Wim-
bledon Common by some of the gipsies encamped there. No
trace has as yet been obtained of the property.

TliK LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY_
ek.sfraststfrona the Moriung.l)opers,June 17,1826-

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LTIIE T 1 XLS.]
If the tenour of the letters received yesterday
trona Madrid, which are- dated the 2d instant,
Could be assumed as prophetic, a crisis- in Spain
cannot be far distant. Never was the adminis-
tration of the affairs of atiy civilized !kingdom in
a state:of more " admired disorder.l? NO pay in
gal depa,rtment, civitor military no duty to the
conarounity performed ;andlthe whole, therefore,
in a state of- bitter discontent or exasperation,'—
Thi,s i gNltrrtlthe. interior of the kingdom,
and. in .the towns atone the coast;' but it more
patricularly exists in,, the _province of Valencia.
N.9.tlling, but the, presence. of the French. troops
prevents - perhaps' a state -of universal chaos.=--
Amongilie recent freaks of. the " belovetr.Mo-
usrch may be mentioned, if the letters are to be
errodited,; the cancelling 'licences granted for' the
importation of cotton. goods, probably after the
parties had entered. into extensive • purchases for
the supply of the Spanish market. We confess
we feel little pity for those who place confidence,
even for pnrposes regarding his self-interest, in
his
.Royal word. Yet it. is. said that there are
persons in Madrid, of respectable character too,
who are making new offers of English money to
Ferdinand. Their labour, however, Is useless,:
let contracts upon contracts be concluded, the
day is long past when his bonds could find cur-
rency, under whatever spectes introduced, on the
Royal Exchange of London. •

[THE PUBLIC -LEDGER.)
A mail arrived yesterday from Buenos Ayres,
bringing papers and letters to the 9th of April.
The intelligence by the latter is on the whole
gratifying ; and it speaks in animated terms of-
the impulse imparted to trade in consequence of
the recognition of the independence of that
country by England. That this act should con-
solidate the public tranquillity, and improve the
national feeling, was to be expected ; and we
have great pleasure. in stating that the private
accounts confirm these expectations. Such a
state of• things necessarily favours commercial
enterprise ;- and the merchants were actively
employed in taking advantage of these favour
able circumstances. One letter says, that the
accounts from England had inspired them with
a spirit of speculation ; and gratifying as this
intelligence unquestionably is, it offers only a
faint idea of what is in reserve. Should our
commercial relations with the Old World sustain
any check, we should find in the markets of the
New, a full compensation for any loss we might
sustain in consequence. As this supposition,how-
ever, is any thing but probable, and as our Euro-
pean trade, on the contrary, is likely to increase,
in consequence of the judicious arrangements
recently adopted, we may safely affirm that
our present commercial prosperity is insignifi-
cant, compared to what is in store. From some
unexplained cause Chili has been for some time
the theatre of great distractions ; though the evil,
wellope, is one -of those which time will correct.
The want of an efficient government, we should
suppose, is the chief cause ; and the factious, en-
countering no check, have thrown every thing
into confusion. One of the factions which
struggled for the ascendancy having succumbed, it
is probable that tranquillity will be restored.
However the danger could not be very imminent,
since a proposal made by Congress to suspend
the constitution, was rejected by the executive
branch of the government. The account is very
obscure, and, we are disposed to think, contains
much exaggeration. •

I MORNING' HERA
The Recorder's report of the prjsoners -capi-
tally.convicted in the two last sessions of the Old
Bai-ley bears. revolting evidence against the laws
of tire -country, or the manners of the people.—
No-less than thirty-seven persons have been sen-
teneecito.death in that short period—and of these
eighteen under twenty years of age ! This list
is not even so overcharged with blood as many
that have preceded it. But considering that
Bank forgeries have vanished with the small
notes, that the country is in a state of unexam--
pled peace, industry, and prosperity—that there
are. ad idlers throWn upon the community, from
want of employments or. from the disbanding and
dismal:Ming of regiments and ships—considering
these circumstances, the -number is horrible.—
It is quite impossible to say any thing new
on this subject. No question has been inves-
tigated with more force of reason and authori-
ty,and with a, success so utterly disproportioned.
But it isbnnecessary to say any thing. The fact
that so many human, .creatures should. be con-
demned to die, in so short a period, by a single
Court, irresistibly fixes the stigma of barbarity
upon• the community, or upon the laws. , The
former Must be savagely depraved, or the latter
inhumanly cruel. But it will be said that of
these 37 only seven are to undergo the sentence
of death.— Very true. But this seeming mercy
is in fact an aggravation. If the law. were less
severe, or more strictly enforced, that number
even would not, in all probability, incur the
penalty of death. That the uncertainty of en-
forcement—or, in other words, the increase of the
chances of escape, promotes crime, has. been too
frequently shown, and is indeed too obviously
true to. be insisted on. The same. absurdity,
expressed by a different .phrase, is somewhat
mo,r. e.imposing, . and has more influence. Crime,
it is-said,. is prevented by holding up severe Pe'
'tattles in terroiem., This has been: urged with
much. gravity and effect by wise and learned
Members of the,llouse of Commons, and listened
to as a Matter of deep sense and sagacious dis-
covery. Only let it be supposed for a moment
thatzny Member proposed •to originate a severe
lawy with a view -.to frighten,- but trot -to be. eve,
cured:. Why the very countrygentletnen wOUld.
cry .:out against him, .A.ttd• yet the absurdity-
of enacting a. ,new law merely in terroreth"
not More certain and pernicious than continuing
an old one with that. view. -One of the com-
monest axioms of legislation is, that law Should
be a defined,'certain, and known rule of con-

duct in the community. People should know to
a dear certainty-two Things—whet is reqUired of
them, anti what the penelty-Of their transgression.
The first-is uncertain enough-,-but the second is
a:it absolute lottery, in the msent usage of
respite, commutation, and remission. If this
principle were correct, it would be better to
stitute Judges for laivs—tO leaVe 'the Judges a
discrytiOnary power—or to let the law only pro-
hibit-the act, .and let the Judges apportion the
penalty. As it is, they exercise (shared with
the adviseri of the'Ciown), an. awful discretion,
without the due' responsibility. It is strange
that they %vill not therriselves shrink from the
discretion of choosing seven victims to sutler
death,' but "of thirty-seven whom the law has
placVd all in the'-Same predicament.

EBRITISH PRESS.]
On the Report of the Committee appointed to
inquire' into the consequences of the repeal of the
Combination Laws, leave was last night given to
,bring in a Bill to repeal the Act of last Session,
and substitute such other provisions as may be
deemed'expedient to remove the existing evils.
It was again explicitly stated, that no intention
exists of re-enacting the severe and oppressive
Statutes repealed 'by the Act now in force ; but
We think that no observer of what has passed
during the last 12 months in the manufacturing
districts, can dispute the propriety of applying
,some effectual remedy to the mischiefs that have
resulted from the rash and sweeping abolition of all
the laws relating to the connection between mas-
ters and workmen. The loss and injury which
in many cases have lately resulted from combin-
ations, have threatened serious consequences to
the prosperity of our foreign commerce. The
proper object of Legislation as to this sub-
ject, viz:, the perfect freedom of each in.-
dividual workman, has been defeated, and a
monstrous power established by self-appoint-
ed or irregularly-elected Committees, over the
whole body of journeymen in several trades ;
and on this model exertions are actively making
to bring the other trades into a similar state of
subjection. The rules promulgated and demands
set up by these Committees, have been too often
of that unreasonable and extravagant character,
which might naturally be supposed likely to pro-
ceed from such individuals exercising such an
authority. This system must be suppressed.—
The welfare of the workmen themselves calls im-
peratively for its suppression. None are really
more deeply interested than they, in disenthral-
ling themselves from a power, which evil-dis-
posed or ignorant men have assumed over them,
to the prejudice of their just rights, and the ge-
neral diminution of their means of employment.