The Sun.
London, England, 1825-04-16 00:00:00

[MORNING POST.]

The number of Petitions against the Bill for
Catholic Emancipation increases in both Houses.
Their character also is changed. They are no
longer from the Clergyalone, but proceed from the
body of the people, which it had been a matter of
boast was totally indifferent to the admission of
the Catholics to political power. The sarcasms
of those who attempted to prevent the Clergy
from exercising a right deemed sacred when
eKvrted by other classes have therefore been of
some utility. If the people were indifferent to
the progress of unconditional concessions, they
have roused their feelings and cleared their sight.
They have shewn them what the Catholics might
be tempted to do when once in possession of
power in the State ; for if their Protestant Ad-
cates use that with which they are invested, to
siut out the Clergy of the Established Church
from the exercise of the must important of
their Constitutional rights, the Catholics them-
selves cannot be expected to do less. Nay, it
that they should
is natural do more, acid that
they should consider themselves in gratitude
bound to complete the work of their friends,
that is to say, the overthrow of an Establishment
powerfully shaken and partially laid in ruins to
make room for their admission. `t is not only
the practice, it is the duty of good soldiers who
have once got a footing- on the breach, to press
forward till the whole city be in their power
—and the Catholics are Tacticians who both
know what is, and how to execute, their duty.
—The business in the Commons last night was
of very little importance. The House hav-
ing resolved itself into a Committee of Sup-

ply, Mr. W. Horton obtained a vote of 30,0001.1
to encourage emigration from the South of Ire-
land to the Canadas. This he stated to be done
principally k the light of a great national ex-
periment, the object of which was 'to place the
emigrants in such a situation as to enable them to
maintain themselves by the exertion of their in-
dustry. Mr. Martin of Galway also obtained
leave to bring in a Bill fur allowing all persons
charged with capital crimes to be defended by
Counsel.

[TIIP. PUBLIC LEDGER.]
The rumours of an approaching Congress have
received a partial confirmation from an article in
the Haunburgh Papers, which reached us yester-
day.. In this article, which is given undm•r the
head St. Petersburgh, it is positively stated that
the Emperor of Russia will, in the course of the
present month, open the Polish Diet in person.—
As this journey to Warsaw is simultaneous with
that of the Emperor of Austria to Italy, we should
not be surprised to find that it was merely a blind
to conceal the project of a much longer excur-
sion. This is the year, too, when, according to
the principle of regular rotation, one of the tri-
ennial,meetings of the Holy AllianCe ought to
take place; and it is not to be presumed that
they will set the example in their own persons of
violating one of their own regulations. That
some suspicion of this kind strongly prevails on
the Continent, may be seen from the gloom that
hangs_ over the money market every where ;
and we•fear too that it will be confirmed, unless
our own. Government has influence enough to dis-
pel this incipient cause of alarm. Our hopes,
however, are any thing but sanguine, particu-
larly as. England has decided for herself on the
subject of South America, without consulting
the wishes of the Continenal Powers ; and it is

therefore highly probable that they will take
their own course in this instance, without mind-
ing her objections. Yet, if she thought it worth
her while to persist in her opposition, she could
alarm the Holy Alliance excessively, and perhaps
compel them to desist from their scheme.—
But Ministers have probably no intention of
occupying such lofty ground, particularly as
the consequences might be doubtful, and
the risk exceed the benefit they had in
contemplation. We do not know whether
the change which has again taken place, as
to the period of the Coronation of the French
King, has any connection with the project of a
Congress, although in fixing this ceremony for
the end of next month, it is clear that it cannot
interfere with the reported meeting of Sove-
reigns, which could not conveniently occur
before June, should it take place at all.--
From the same article, which speaks of its
being the determination of the Emperor Alex-
ander to open the Polish Diet in person, we
learn that Mr. Stratford Canning was on the
point of quitting St. Petersburgh, in consequence
of having completed the object of his mission,
which chiefly related, it is said, to the adjust-
ment of the differences respecting the North-
west coast of America. It lied been said more
than once, that his mission had no other object,
and we begin now to suspect that it em-
braced several, but that it has succeeded
only in one. If the interest of Greece
formed part of his instructions, the results
have not corresponded with the liberality
of the design ; and this probably is one of the
questions upon which the Members of the Holy
Alliance arrogate a right to decide. In the
mean time, a Noble Lord, whose name, however,
is not to be found in the list of our Peerage, is

announced in the Petersburgh article, as ap-

pointed to succeed Mr. Ward, as English Am-
bassador in Russia. By substituting Lord Strang-
ford for Lord Gisborne, we should make the
announcement more intelligible than it is at pre-
sent ; whilst the appointment of the former
Nobleman would offer a clue to the course which
Ministers intend to pursue with respect to Greece.