The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-18 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, J. 17.—Wind N.W. to W.-Arrived and re-
main the Atlas, Clark, from Calcutta, sailed the 7th of July ;
Henry, Fenwick, from Alexandria; Caroline, Walter, Irons
Lisbon; Gratitude, Bowen, from Rio Grande; and Pomona,'
Bennett, from St. Michael's. The following vessels sailed its
the course of the day, viz. :—David Lyon, Berry ; Lyon,
Sleeman ; and Nelson, Dawson, for Jamaica; Camden, BB-
linghurst, for Antigua ; Darius, Clark, for Malta
Roxburgh, for Batavia; and Express, Hamilton, for Charente.
The Honourable Company's ship Hyth remains.
PonTSMOU TU., JAN. 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived from the
Downs the Julius Caesar, Stafford, for Jamaica and Carthagena.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 16.—Wind S.S.W. fresh gales.—Ar-
rived the Intrepid, —, from Africa, and the Fame, Gibbs,
from Valencia.

FaLstotmr, JAN. lG.—Wind S.S.W. blowing hard.—Put
back the Duke of Marlborough packet for Lisbon. Arri►ed
the Standley, Hall, fromGalipoli, sailed the3oth Of November ;
and the Louisa, Menuir, from London for St. Michael's.
LIVERPOOL, JAM. Pi.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Hannah,
Murphy, from Maranham, sailed the 6th milt. ; Mediterranean
Packet, Hogan, from Zante ; Amelia, Doyle, from Meslioa ;
Margaret, Williamson, from Alexandria (E); and Flora, Far-
rent, Buenos Ayres. Off the Port the Globe, Hamilton; from
Savannah.

DOVER, JAY. 17.-8 r. Bt.—Passed by the Lonach, West,
from Bombay, salted the 9th of September.

CaLcu•T'ra, JuLr s.—The Morning Star, Vardon, was
burnt off this place the 23d ult. The Medway, Wight, trmut
Chili and Port Jackson, goes into dock to-day, having been oil
shore in Bass's Straits.

Off Dartmouth the Prince Leopold, -, from Demerara ;
Hawke, Stanley, and Abeona, from Newfoundland.
The Patriot, Hossack, from St. Andrew's, N. 8., was totary
wrecked in the Pentland Frith the Bth instant, and eight of the
crew drowned.

The Eagle, Wardell, was nearly destroyed by fire at St.
John's, N.B. the 13th ult.

We observe that a Meeting has been held at
the George Inn, Axminster, of Land Owner,
and others, the object of which was to create
an opposition to the proposed Ship Canal-
across the isthmus of Somersetshire, to unite
the English and Bristol channels. We have
made inquiry respecting this Meeting, and
find that no previous notice was published
to convene it, and that it was attended by
from 14 to 16 persons, some of whom were
not land-owners. It seems to us quite clear,
from all which we have heard and seen respect-
ing the Canal, that the object of not previously
advertising the Meeting was fully answered
by confining it to the little junto we have al-
ready mentioned ; for we know enough of
the sense of the owners and occupiers of laud
generally to be convinced, that had publicity been
given to the Meeting, such a string of resolutions
would never have been carried. Indeed, we
should have been surprised had their tenor not
been► of the most opposite description. The
character of the Meeting at Axminster is suffi-
ciently evinced by the circumstance that all the
resolutions, which are in all respects decidedly
hostile to the canal, were carried unanimo ►sly,
which coul►l not have been the case had the -
Meeting been properly convened.

MEETING OF BRITISPI CATIIOLICL—A general
meeting of the English Catholics was held yesterday at the
Clown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand, for the purpose of
adopting such measures as should seem best for obtaining the
repeal of those laws which exclude them from the constitutional
privileges enjoyed by their Protestant fellow-subjects. A boat
one o'clock the chair was taken by the Hon. Hugh CliflZ rd..—
The meeting consisted of about 300 persons, amongst, w :.om
were Charles Butler, Esq. ; James Wheble, Esq. ; Edwa d
Blount, Esq. ; the Rev. Dr. Collins, the Rev. Messrs. Rolf ,
Horrabin, Dobson, O'Donnell of London, M'Donnell of rir-
mingham, Foley, Appleby, Delaney, Morris, and many other
persons of great respectability. Mr. Eneas Macdont el at-
tended as the representative of the Catholic Association of Ire-
land. Letters of apology for nan-attendance were read by the
Chairman from Lords Stafford, Stourton, and Clifford. A petition,
proposed by Mr. Quin, and seconded by Mr. Rosson. was una -
nimously adopted, and ordered to be prescnted to bosh Houses
of Parliament. It was then resolved unanimously, on the
motion of Dr. Colins, that Earl Grey be requested to piesent
the same to the House of Lords, and Lord Nugent to the
House of Commons. A motion was then made by Mr. Rode,
and seconded by Mr. Wheble, thanking Mr. O'Connell ano
the Catholic Association of Ireland for their great exertions in
the cause of emancipation ; assuring them of the cordial union
and co-operation of the Catholics of England, and expressing
the most unqualified satisfaction and approbation at tae eon-
duct hitherto pursued by that body. This motion was ta7ricd
with the most enthusiastic applause.

A New Club is aboat to start up, which for
rank and respectability will excel all others.
A new Company, for supplying the western
part of the Metropolis with genuine Milk, k
forming in the City, under the title of e
" Westminster Dairy Company."
Sir RICHARD BigNIE has become a Vice-Pre-
sident of the Choral Fund.

The appearance of Miss FOOTIE at Covent-
garden Theatre is deferred until the first week in
February.
Madame CATALANI7S first Concert took place
on Wednesday night last, at the Guildhall, in
Worcester: a very genteel company of about
500 persons (including many of the principal fa-
milies in the county) assembled on the occaEio .
A few evenings since two of the Blockade Cq n-
tinels, stationed at Black Rock, near Brighton,
observed a white galley towing two other
boats toward the shore. Upon this, the ern-
tinels kept a sharp watch upon their proceedings,
and as soon as the two boats touched the
shore, the Blockade-men waded into the sea,
up to their waists, to seize the crew, whom
they supposed to be smugglers. The Fair
Traders, however, observing it was not " all
right," jumped overboard and swam to the gal-
ley, which took them on board and immediately
rowed off to sea, leaving the two other boats and
their whole cargo, consisting of 70 casks of fo-
reign spirits, as a prize to the vigilant blockaders.
One of the captured boats is called the Prince of
Coburg, of Brighton ; the other the Plough, of
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TIIE LONDON JOURNALS•

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Prrrers, Jan. 18, 1825.

[THE 'rums.]
We do not know that it is worth the while to
notice the whinings of the Etoile on the subject
of our recognition of the independence of the
South American States. But it is truly astonish-
ing that men possessing any thing of mind should
be, or should pretend to be, affected by this
formal act of ours. What does it do for the
Smith Americans ? Does it produce the inde-
pisiodepce which it acknowledges ? Let Spain
recover her supremacy, if she can, over her late
vassals: she will not find us in battle-array
against her, if she fights with her own mere
strength. "Is it for England," says the Etoile,
" for that country which, of all the Powers of
" Eurpe, is possessed of the most immense co-
" lorries, and which cannot exist without them,
" to teach colonies that they want but a handful
" of factious men to separate them for ever from
4' the mother country ?" Sapient Eloile ! we
say. Why, certainly, a connexion of so feeble a
nature, that it wants nothing but " a handful of
4' factious men " to break it at any time, appears
to us to be no independence at all. \Vl.enever
the dependence of the British colonies upon the
Parent State may be set aside by a handful of
factious men, we say that it is at an end, and that
so far as relates to us the colonies are free. If
we cannot controul the handful of men, we have

no colonies.
The Catholics, as we formerly stated, have
looked at the intended prosecution of Mr.
O'Connell in a spirit which, on this side of the
water at least, few persons had seriously antici-
pated. Dr. Doyle, the polemical (and able)
_Bishop, speaks of the prosecution thus:—" I
think we have all reason to rejoice in an event,
which, while it proves the jealous and laudable
vigilance of his Majesty's law officers over the
observation of the laws, vindicates the Catholic
Association from any suspicion of disloyalty, and
sends them before the Legislature with confes-
sedly clean hands." The bad blood which had
first begun to circulate rapidly in consequence of
that 4 4 event," we may therefore take for
granted, from the positive testimony of the
Bishop, as well as from the negative assurance
of Mr. O'Connell's moderation and serenity, has
gradually cooled down and subsided. ,Hanley,
the soldier, accused of attempting to seduce sonic
individuals of the peasantry into a conspiracy
against the State, has been tried under the Insur-
rection Act before a full bench of Justices, and
unanimously acquitted.—(lbid.)

[NEW TIMES.I
It has long been understood amongst the best
informed political circles of Paris, that the
French Cabinet is determined to adhere as closely
as possible to the line of policy adopted by this
country, where circumstances will allow ; and as
further evidence of this fact, the private letters
received yesterday from Paris notice that a com-
munication was daily expected to be made from
the king to the Chambers, recommending the
appointment of Consular Agents, Sze. to those
South American States which have been simi-
larly noticed by the British Government.—The
French Funds closed on Saturday evening at 103.
Consols yesterday experienced an advance in
price, upon the intelligence from France proving
satisfactory. They opened at 95k,t, and closed
at 95 I for the Account. The accounts received
from Buenos Ayres, by way of North America,
being of a favourable complexion relative to
south American affairs in general, a further ad-
vance of about one per cent. took place in most
of the securities of those States. The shares of
a new Company, entitled the Anglo-Chilean
Mining Company, were brought out to the public,
and-obtained a premium of 17 per cent. In the
other shares there was some fluctuation, but they
liaally closed at higher prices than they were in
the morning.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The Paris Papers of Saturday, which we re•
ceived last night,' are devoid of interest. We oh
serve in them a paragraph which displays a spiry
very different from that which prevails in reli
gious matters 'in'this country :•-•-•64 The'Oratholic
Commune of Gallneukirchen (circle of linter-
muhl, in Austria), has obtained, from the Empe-
ror of Austria the permission of passing over to
the Protestant Church, after receiving a-legal in-
struction; it was incorporated in the parish of a
neighbouring village. The Commune is com-
posed of nearly four hundred souls." These simple
Germans seem to take it for granted,•that if the
people are of one •religion the clergy ought not to
be of another; and with the refinements- of this
Country, of a minister without .a flock, and a
flock without a minister, they seem to be unac-
quainted. The paragraph proves at the same
time, that the best friends of the church are
often the greatest enemies-of religion. In Aus-
tria, nothing is more common, according to Sar-
tori, than for Communes to go r over to the Pro-
testant belief.* The Protestant religion in Austria
has no particular immunities. In Ireland, on the
other hand, when. Protestanism has been pro-
tected to the teeth as it were, we find in all
-limps the Catholics making converts from it.
Archbishop L3oulter says in one of his 'Let-
'erg, " Instead of getting ground of the Papists we
rthist lose to them, as in fact we do in :many
places, the descendants of many of Cromwell's
officers and soldiers here being gone off to
Popery." This too was in 1727, when the Penal
Liws• were irr their full vigour.—ln fact the
kindness of the Legislature would have overlaid
Protestantism in Ireland, if there did not exist
in that country ''what. Dr. Magee termed a •Reli7
gion without a Church. Fortunately for Pro-
testantism, which.otherwise ifould-htive been ex-
Cuct, the PreShyt:erian4'orthe North were till
lately left-to themselves, and they form a nume-
rous, wealthy, and every way a respectable
body. The-PrOtottantsNif the ettablishment are
a caste ;. the Presbyterians constitute the people
of a large. portion of the country. We were not
aware, however, that they were so numerous

as they are stated to be, in a Paper con-
nected with that Body, The Belfast Northern
Whig of Thursday last. " According (it
is there said) to the census ordered by
Government in 1821, the population of Ulster
amounted to 1,998,494 ; it now exceeds 2,100,000.
Fully one half of these are of the Protestant faith,
seven-tenths of whom are Presbyterian. This
we can assert, without fear of contradiction, from
our close connection with the Presbyterian body,
which opens to us sources of information from
every Barony in the Province. In the counties
of Cavan, Monaghan, Tyrone, and Fermanagh,
the Roman Catholics will be found to have a ma-
jority ; in Donegan, a large one ; in Armagh and
Derry, nearly on a balance ; but, in Antrim and
Down, the Protestants have an overwhelming
preponderance."

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Paris Papers of Saturday contain but
little intelligence of moment, either foreign or
domestic. The proceedings of the Chambers,
the day before, were wholly uninteresting.—
Merely some reports of Committees had been
received. The Journals belonging to the Op-
position, especially the Royalist Opposition,
continue to attack M. de Villele for his inde-
cisive conduct with respect to South America.
He cares not, say they, whether King George the
Fourth makes treaties or not with Bolivar
and Vittoria, provided he can manage the
French Sinking Fund, and reduce the rentes.
" What does it signify," they exclaim, with bitter
irony, " if the English do get possession of the
mines of the new world ? our vines will still
grow, and M. de Villele will remain President
of the Council. These are blessings worth all the
treasures of the Americans." Charles X. visited
the Museum of the Louvre on Friday. He was
received with boundless enthusiasm. An Address
was read to his Majesty, in which he was sec.
cessively compared to Louis XI V., Henry I V.,
and Francis 1. In his reply, the King said the
protection of the arts would always be one of
the objects most dear to him. He then distri-
buted a great many declarations of the Legion of
Honour among the painters, sculptors, and engra-
vers, who were present. M.Carle Vernet and M.
Cardellior were created Knights of St. Michael ;
and in order to show that, like his ancestor,
Louis XI V. he wished to extend his patronage
beyond his kingdom, our countryman Sir Thomas
Lawrence was nominated a Knight of the Legion
of Honour. The Journal des Debuts concludes
its account of the proceedings in these words :
" Thus terminated a day ever memorable,
in consequence of the forms, as unusual as
charming, by which have been manifested
the favour and protection which the successor of
Francis I. and Louis XI V. grants to the fine
arts, in the brilliancy of rewards, and the ex-
traordinary abundance of the benefits, which the
King of France showers on the arti:;ts. What
other age, what other country, what other school,
can thus annually produce 188 artists, painters,
or sculptors, at once worthy and sure of receiv-
ing such eminent rewards and such useful encou-
ragement ?"

[THE PUBLIC LEDGEIL.]
Yesterday there were arrival, from various
parts of the New World :—From the United
States to the (-21st ult.; from Buenos Ayres to
the 7th of November, as well as from Jamaica :
in all of which favourable mention is made of
the Independent cause in Peru. By the way of
Jamaica we have advices from Panama to the
th of October, and from Truxillo to the 2a of
the same month ; in the latter of which it

is stated, that Bolivar continued to pursue the
enemy briskly ; but That the celerity of
his movements had been hitherto unavailing,
on account of the greater rapidity by which the
retreat of thenoya lists was characterized.ilowever
this retreat seems to have assumed, at last, all the
characteristics of a disorderly flight, being
marked by increasing disorganization and deser-
tion ; so that, in their eagerness to escape from
present peril, the Spaniards only sealed their
ultimate destruction. In their -rear, they had
an active, vigilant, and able adversary, who
was determined to listen to no other terms,
but those of absolute submission ; whilst
they had in their front an opponent, not less
implacable, in the person of that Bobadil of the
Ultra Cause, the renowned Olaneta. The
latter had already announced his fixed intention
of receiving them with bullets, should they escape
from the bayonet.; of the Columbians into his ter-
ritory ; and upon 'this dilemma of La Serna, Can-
t erac,Va ldez, and other ex-constitutional leaders,
there are ifotne very pertinent remarks in the
BuenosAiyresPapers. Instead of the price they ex-
pected for their a postacy, they see only digrace be-
fore them where they are ; and worse than that in
the event of their returning to Spain, where no

mercy awaits the unfmtunate, particularly if
they were ever tainted with liberalism. In the
mean. time ,large reinforcements were on their
march to join Bolivar and from the whole of
our intelligence, we think ourselves justified in
numbering Peru, at this moment, amongst the
States that have achieved their independence.

• [MORNING POST.]
Some persons seem disposed to make such a noise
about the verdict which has been lately given in
favour of the indiscriminate publicity of Police
Reports, that we deem it a duty not to let the
subject pass unnoticed. The first thing we
would ask is—are not Juries bound to take the
law from the. Bench ; or, as we may express it,

froth the'constitutional and authorized legal ex-
pounders of the State ? There are, we know,
'cases 'in which Jurors are considered Judges
of the law as well as the fact—but the
present one is not. 'of that class. It is cer-
tainiy a very different thing to pronounce whe-
ther a particular'writing be a libel, and whether
the preliminary' investigations before Magistrates
be by law public, and consequently whether the
publication of such ex.parte evidence, when it is
not sub,equently confirmed by the conviction of
the accused', be Within the ranged' legal redress
In a word,"-Mr. Fox's celebrated Act is a sort of
exception to the uniform practice of the Courts,
and the settled maxims of the Legislature.—

What is more common than motions for new
trials, and reversals of verdicts, on the ground
of misdirection with respect to the law on the
part of the Judge? Does not this, then, prove
that the general rule establishes—first, the
power and competency of the Bench to ex-
plain and pronounce the will of the Legislature
and the Tribunals ; and secondly, that Juries
are bound to take the law as it shall be so laid
down to them. Reverse the rule, and where
may an end be found to the confusion that must
succeed. But Saturday last, a young man was
tried at the Old Dailey, before Mr. Common-
Sergeant, for felony, and the verdict was al-
together governed by the decision of that
learned person on a point of law. He told the
Jury that if they believed the prisoner to have
acted from such and such motives, and with such
and such intentions, they had no alternative but
to find him guilty of felony. But even in that
instance a discretion lay with the Jury, which
in the Police had no place. The prisoner al-
luded to might have been acquitted, and the re-
sult would go in uo respect to belie the laws of
the country. The Jury might believe he acted
from motives, which, coupled with the terms
of the indictment, have rendered it impera-
tive on them to annul the charge. In the
case '' Duncan v. the Proprietors of a News-
paper," the Jurors had no such latitude
—they were on their oaths obliged to impli-
citly receive and obey the opinion of the Bench :
for, however trifling they might in their legiti-
mate province of Assessors estimate the damages,
that damages had been legally sustained it was
as much their duty to believe, as to hand their de-
cision to the proper Officer of the Court for the
purpose of being judicially recorded. If the law
be wrong, in Heaven's name let the Legislature
set it right; or if the law be right, but the
Judges be wrong, then the Legislature will ex-
plain itself, so that its organs shall faithfully pro
inulgate the sense intended. Bnt, really, if Ju-
rors undertake to perform the functions of King,
Lords and Commons, as well as those for which
they are irnpannelled, the sootier so awful a revo-
lution be Gazetted the better. It is truly la.
mentable, indeed, to see that the Whig and Ra-
dical Press would trample down the most sacred
nstitutions of the country, in their way to any
avourite object.

[MORNING HERALD.]
No leading article in this Paper to-day.

ROYAL NAVY.

POUTSMOUTII, J. 15.—0 n Wednesday the Niemen, 28,
Capt. Provo Wallis, sailed for the North American station ;
and the Esk, 20, Captain Purchas, for the Coast of Africa.—
Yesterday the Phaeton, 46, Captain Sturt, sailed for Chatham.
No ship of war at Spithead. In the Harbour—Victory, Bul-
wark, Wellesley, Ganges, Albion, Samarang, Brazen, Pan-

flora, Rose, and Caliops.
The Shipley transport, Lieut. J. W. Pritchard, agent, laden
with provisions for the South American squadron, is ill sail next
week for Rio Janeiro.
Commander 1. Fleming Chapman, of the Espeigle, is con-
firmed in the rank of Captain, and command of the Ariadne,
vice Commodore Moorsom, appointed to the Andromache; and
Lieutenant Luke Why, in the rank of Commander, and com-
mand of Espeigle. Captain Wm. llobson is appointed to the
Ferret, 10, at this port ; Mr. George Davis, to lie Purser of the
Maidstone ; Mr. George Moxon, to be Acting Purser of the
Esk ; Mr. W. Browne, to be Purser of the Doris.
The Lords of the Admiralty were pleased on the 10th instant
to promote the following Gentlemen to the rank of Lieutenants,
thgy having passed their examination for that rank,ten years:—
Mr. William Walker Oke, Romney ; William Cross Sim-
monds,Cambridge ; George Hamilton Smith, Ramifies ; Geo.
Lawrence Carrington, Bulwark ; Joseph William Browne,
Ramilies; William Squire, Semiramis; Charles Goldsmith,
Grehound revenew cutter ; James Trapps, Ramilies; Hum-
phrey Deston, Cambridge; James Howard Turner, Doris;
Henry Kitchen, Ramilies ; James Thompson, Industry
revenue cutter; George Hinkston, Doris ; Itobert Poole,
Brazen ; William Hewlett, Ramilies ; Mr. Rosenberg, late
Swinger.

We are alway4tiesirous of correcting any tie.;
glect, and which we feel, in common with our brother Jour-
nalists, we were guilty of in announcing the death of our former
much and deservedly respected Member, W. Chute, Esq., of
the "Vine," without those observations to which both his pub-
lic and. private character entitled him. As a representative of
one of the oldest families in the county, he was brought forward,
together with Sir W. Heathcote, in the year 1790, in opposi-
tion to the late Jervoise Clerk Jervoise, Esq., and Lord John
Russell (now the Duke of Bedford), for the representation of
the county in Parliament, when they were both returned by a
large majority, and Mr. Chute sat as a Member for the county
in every Parliament afterwards, until the death of his late Ma-
jesty in 1820, a period of thirty years (except in the short Par-
liament from Nov. 1806 to May 1807), with honour to himself,
and to the general satisfaction of his constituents. From
the beginning he adopted' the principles of Mr. Pitt, and
supported them throughout, from principle, and not
from interest, for ,he never asked for or received place
or pension, for himself or any of his family or connections ;
and though he generally voted with the Government, he al-
ways voted as his constituents wished he should on questions
that respected agriculture, commerce, or taxation, and might
truly be described, as an independent Member, having no
bias but his own honest opinions. In his communications
on public questions, he was frank, open, and
.sincere. As a
friend he was warm, benevolent, and generous, ' and in his
neighbourhood he supported the character of an old English
country gentleman, and afforded it amusement by keeping a
pack of fox-hounds, and was himself fond of the rational plea-
sure of the chase.—The writer of this was absent from the
County at the time of his death, but knowing him well and inti-
mately, he yields this just tribute to his memory.—( gampshire
TelegrapA.)

THE GREEKS.—We understand that the Greek
Deputies have received yo'official information re-
specting the' reported dissensions in the Morea ;
but from all private advices they are fully con.
vinced they have been much exaggerated, and
that they will soon be terminated. Colocotroni,
though an ambitious man, fond both of power
and money, a determined foe to the Turks,
and a firm partisan of the independence of Greece.
Like the rest of the Moreotes, he is bent on
emancipating Greece from the yoke of Turkey.
It is further believed that the Pacha of Egypt,
to whom it has been said to be the object of one
party to deliver up the country, has not a single
friend in Greece, and that the power both of the
I Turks and Egyptians at sea is entirely destroyed.
1 --( Times.)
JUNCTION OF THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC.—

On the 4th of November (says an American
Paper received last night), the President of
Mexico published, by order, a decree of the Sove-
reign Congress, which authorised him to receive
proposals for cutting open a communication be-
tween the two oceans by the isthmus of Tehuan-
tepec, and (or rendering navigable the rivers of
Alvarado, Panuco, Bravo del Norte, Santiago,
and Colorado. of the West. The enterprize of
thus uniting the Pacific and Atlantic is of the
greatest importance.