The Sun.
London, England, 1825-05-11 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, MAY 10.—Wind N.W.—About 6 p. m. the whole of
the outward-bound, sailed with a light breeze from N.W. The
Marquis Camden, from China, and Marchioness of Ely, froth
Bengal, are now (5 p. m.) coming into.the Downs, and will ~
probably-anchor, the wind being light. Passed through the
Margaret Hall, Casby, from Sunderland, for Demerara ; .and
from the River the St. Vincents Planter, Paisley, for St. Vin-
cents ; and Alonzo, Perkins, for Bordeaux.—N. B. " The
mail coach arrived at Deaf this morning without the letter
bags ; 5 p. m., they are not yet arrived. • • • ~
PoRTSMOUTH, MAY 10.—Wind S.S.W. to N.W.--Sailed
the Royal George, Reynolds, for Madras ; Sir E. Paget, Gearr, ••
for ditto ; and the Britannia, Boucher, for Bombay. •
LIVERPOOL, MAY 9.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Mar.:
mion, Petrie, from Pernambuco, sailed the 3d of April; 514n-
cheater, Dumphy, from Philadelphia; Margaret, Lorriman,
from Charente ; and Frederick, Niemen, from Gottenburgh.
FALmou Tx, MAY 9.—Wind variable.--Sailed the Ri-
naldo packet, for Jamaica ; Stanmer packet, for Lisbon ; Royal
Sovereign, Sinclair, for the South Seas ; Royal Charlotte, —,
for Oporto; and Lively, Baxter, for Bordeaux.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT—(This Dar.)

TILE DUKE OF YORK'S LETTERS.

Mr. William. Pope, who was remanded on Friday last for
the purpose of having a number of letters, said to have been a
correspondence between the Duke of York and Mrs. Mary
Ann Clarke, was this day again remanded, no inspection hav-
ing been taken by Mr. PoLLocx, who declined doing so any
further than as an Amiens Curer, and Mr. Knight refusing
to give up possession of the papers. The order made was, that
the insolvent should not again come up until the papers were
placed in the hands of the Assignee of the Court.

CORN EXCHANGE, MAY 11.
The arrivals of all sorts of Corn are' only moderate. There
is rather more business doing in fine Wheat this morning, and
this article fully maintains Monday's quotations. In Barley,
Beans, and Pease, there is no alteration to-day. Oats find
buyers slowly at about the same prices as were quoted on Mon-
day. 'The } lour trade remains dull.
A nntvat.s.—English Wheat, 4,3oo—Barley, I,7oo—Oats,
4,Boo—lrish Oats, 850 qrs.—Flour, 2,500 sacks.

JUDGMENTS.--This day in the Court of King's
Bench William Pearson, for endeavouring, to
bribe an Excise Officer, stationed on the Sussex
coast to prevent smuggling, was sentenced to
Two Months' confinement in llorshatri Gaol.
His affidavit deposed to his having, lived with the
late Duke of • Norfolk, Lord William Howard„
&c.—J. Boughey, also fora similar offence, was
sentenced to pay a fi►►e 50/. to the King.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.—A Court of Aldermen
was held yesterday at Guildhall. The Court unanimously voted
thanks to the Bishop of Gloucester and the Rev. M. .51. Pres-
ton, for their excellent sermons preached at Christ's Church,
Newgate.street, on Easter Monday and Tuesday last. Also to
the Reverend Mr. Wrench, Chaplain to the Lord Mayor, for
his sermon at. St. Paul's, first Sunday after Easter Term.
The Inquests of the Ward of Coleman-street, and Cripplegate-
within' ' attended with presentments of ruinous houses. The
Court directed the City Solicitor to put the Act of Parliament
into execution, and to board up the premises from the public
streets of the city. Also, the Inquest of Aldgate, of sundry
non-freemen carrying on trade, which were referred to the
Chamberlain, who reported the state of the Orphans' Fund for
the last quarter; whereupon the Court directed him to take
measures for discharging thirteen thousand five hundred
pounds of the debt. The first Courts of Conservancy for
the ,counties of Essex and Kent were appointed to be held at
Stratford and Greenwich on the 17th, .and for Surrey and
Middlesex on the 23d. of June next. The dues fsr Billings-
gate market were appointed the same as last year.—The
first Court in June was appointed for the election of Rulers of
the Company of Waterman and Lightermen, and also cf.
Beadles of the Court of Requests.—Precepts to the several
Livery Companies for a Common Hall, on Midsummer-
Day, for the election of Sheriffs, Chamberlain and other
Officers, annually chosen on that day, were directed to be
issued, as were the usual orders for keeping the hustings clear
on election days.-111r. John Bleaden and Mr. 111. Gibbs were
admitted and sworn corn-meters in trust for the City for four
years.—A petition from the Greenwich watermen, complaining
of the present manner of navigating steam-vessels on the river,
was read, and referred to a Committee to investigate.

Bow-STREET (This Day.)—This morning the
neighbourhood of this Office was crowded, in consequence of
the apprehension of 30 individuals, men, women, and children.
It appears that Sir RICHARD BIRNIE and the other Magis- •
trate received information that the Queen's Head public-house .
in Long Acre, was open at all hours of the night, for the recep-
tion of all sorts of characters, who would frequently issue forth
at all hours of the night, intoxicated, and commit the most daring t
depredations. The Officers attended this morning at an early
hour, and apprehended the above prisoners drinking, and in the
utmost riot, some of whom were committed, while others were
discharged with admonition. The landlord was cautioned to
prevent such proceedings in future.
Yesterday morning, as 1 he 'F hies coach,whi;
runs from Richmond and Putney to the spread Eagle, Grace-
church-street, was proceeding at a rapia rate over ionAon
bridge, the off fore-wheel broke close to the axletree, by which ,
accident the coach, losing its equilibrium, overturned, at.d
came with a heavy crash to the ground, throwing the coachman.
and two outside passengers in various directions ; being also'
full of inside passengers, great fears were at first entertained
for their safety, as a loud shout, at the moment the coach over-'
turned, arose from the unfortunate inmates. Immediate aid was
given, and upon extricating the passengers, it was discovered
that not one had met with any injury ; one of the horses was
very much cut. Great praise is however due to Turnpenny, '
and the other officers who were on the spot, who, by their
judicious conduct, kept the place from being blocked up, and
who also caused the passengers and baggage to be conveyed to
the bridge-house.

We regret to mention the frequent accidents
by stage-coaches. One of the early Reading coaches was nearly
upset yesterday morning at Knightbridge, from the hind • ,
axletree giving way ; fortunately, a person observed the con- '
dition of the wheels, and the passengers all got down. A similar
case occurred last week to Thumwood's Reading coach, fifty •
yards after its starting. A gentleman is now lying ill at Eglaam,
and will be a cripple for life, from jumping down from another
Reading stage during the violence of a restive horse. Two other
Reading coaches were actually overturned in the course of the
winter.

A curious occurrence is mentioned in a French
paper of Sunday, as having lately happened at
an entertainment given by M. DE VILLELE. His
Excellency's hotel is lighted with gas ; and just as
the first course was finished, a stoppage of the
gas extinguished all the lights in the dining apart-
ment. The guests were astonished, and imagined
their powerful landlord was playing some trick -
upon them. Again the lights appeared, and the
company were preparing for the second course,
when a sudden darkness a second time overspread
the room. The servants were thrown into con.
fusion ; and though more lights were ordered,
the dinner terminated in a kind of comparative
obscurity. •

LOYDON JOURNALS.
DAILY
2.sehithfiain the Morauig Papers, May 1-1,1825.

[MORNING POST.]
Atter a discussion of considerable length, hut
of small interest, as the subject had been wholly
exhausted by previous debates, the third reading
•,
of the Catholic Relief Bill was carried last
nigt►t- in the Commons by a reduced majority of
21,* the numbers being e4B to 227. Although
rejection would have been better still, this was
Wet.. It shows that the measure was perishing
in the hands of its framers, instead of gaining
strerigth and credit as it proceeded. It diminishes
;l►e authority with which it will be conveyed to
the Upper house, and it will,enable the Lords
to iischarge their duty to flit, country and to
reject the Bill," without any feeling of regret or
apprehension at differing from what cannot now
be called the clear and decided sense of the po-
pular branch of the Leislature. Let them re-
collect that they now are the last barrier be-
tween a Protestant Constitution and Popery, and
that not, only the hopes, but the confident ex-
pectations of a great nation repose on their firm-
ness, their wisdom, and their patriotism.

[THE TIMES.]
The Catholic Relief Bill was last night read
a third time, and passed by a majority of 21;
the numbers for the Bill being 248, against it
227., By referring to the division on the second
reading, it will be seen that the House was thin-
ntr last night than on the 21st of April, and that
the majority is smaller, it having on that occa-
sion amounted to 27 ; so that with respect to the
whole number of Members present, the Catholic
Bill would appear to have lost six friends ; i. e.
the difference between 27 and 21. Accident or
illness may account for the non-attendance of
one or two supporters of the measure—as, for in-
stance., of Mr. Canning ; and we may gather
from preceding debates, that three or four other
stanch friends refrained from supporting it
by their votes last night, on account of the
intended appendage of Mr. Littleton's Bill.
We suppose that Mr. Lambton, Mr. M.
A. Taylor, and Mr. flume adopted this
coarse. Conscious motives are always entitled
to respect ; hut, except on the ground of con-
science, it would be difficult to find any thing
to, praise in this desertion of the great cause.
We, as we have before explained, dislike Dis-
franchisement. Bill, not so much because it might,
either now or hereafter, be mischievous to Ire-
land, as because it might form a standing and al-
most unanswerable precedent against that large
and respectable body of Members who may be
some day inclined to redeem their repeated
pledges of endeavouring to extend the right of
suffrage in England. For that Bill, therefor?,
those who think as we do should not vote ; but
they should not therefore, abstain from support-
lug another Bill, which they have all their Par-
liFtmentary lives proclaimed to be one of sovereign
virtue. Their refusal to vote leaves the ob-
noxious Bill just as likely to pass as ever ; while
it'endangers the success otthat great measure on
which, according to their repeated declarations,
depend the peace and happiness of Ireland, and
the security of the whole British empire,

[MORNING HERALD.]

On the presentation of some petitions to the
House of Lords against the Roman Catholic
Cla,ims, Lord Grosvenor again complained of the
manner in which many of these petitions had
been got up ; but the Lord Chancellor defended
the petitioners, and repeated that he believed the
people of this country never to have been more
decidedly against the required concession to the
Roman C. tholics than they were at. the present
moment. In the Commons, the motion for the
third reading of the Catholic Relief Bill was pre-
ceti.e.d by the. presentation of petitions for or
against concessions. Mr. Dogherty having present-
ed (for Mr. Canning-, who was absent on account
of continued indisposition) a petition from a
parish in Ireland, remarked that an immense
number of petitions had been presented from Ire-
land in favour of the Claims, while there were
oily seven or eight petitions against concession.
Mt, Butterworth said, that there would hare
been more petitions from Protestants against the
Claims, had there not been unfair intimidation
exercised ; and this statement he made on the
authority of letters from Ireland. Several Mem-
bers having called on the House not to regard the
authority of anonymous" letters ; Mr. Butter-
worth replied that they were not anonymous let-
ters-; he had many, and they were answers to
a ".Circular" w hich he had addressed to indi-
viduals in different parts of Ireland,. to as-
certain how the facts were. Then Mr. M. Fitz-
gerald observed, that whoever chose to " open a
shop" to receive the complaints of bigotry, no
doubt would have correspondents enough.—Mr.
Curwen afterwards, though Sir F. Burdett was
•in :the Ilouse, sitting close by Mr. C., moved
that the Roman Catholic Relief Bill be read a
third time, and spoke in its support. (Mr. Cur-
wen subsequently paired off with Alderman C.
Robt. Inglis opposed the Bill, con-
tending that the Roman Catholic Religion was
unghanged and unchangeable. After" various
speakers, Mr. Wetherell opposed the 13111, ridi-
culed the proposed " securities," because, he
saicf, they only deserve to be laughed at, and
moved, as an amendment, that the Bill be read a
tbfrd -.time this day six months.—Mr. Huskisson
foncs;wed, maiwaining that the question could not
be left in its pre.,ent state; and that in the event
uraf4,.if adjustment were deferred, such war
letulgifirld us with divided and distracted re-
sowmat,home. He also urged that with a ma-
lore,/ sd.the Commons in their favour, and with
trttpy4.7l:ds to vote for them, to suppose that the
Roman Catholics would abstain from prosecuting

their claims now, was almost as visionary as to
imagine that they were to be converted to the
Protestant faith. After an extended discussion,
the third reading was carried by the diminished
majority of 21 ;—the numbers were—ayes 248,
noes 227.

[mottNirra clittoNrlcLE.]
The debate on the third reading- of the Ca-
tholic Relief Bill was preceded by some smart
skirmishing, to which an observation of the Hon-
ourable Member for Dover (Nlr. Butterworth)
gave rise, and in which that Honourable Mem-
_ _

ber rather had the worst of it. The Knight of
Kerry could not have selected in the whole com-
pass of the English language more severe terms
than those by which he chose to characterise the
conduct of the Honourable Member above
alluded to. He spoke of the opening a shop
in this country for the reception of bigotry and
hypocrisy, and hoped the House would reject
those calumnious and malicious reports which ori-
ginated in the worst feelings,and were circulated for
the most despicable purposes. This castigation too
was, loudly cheered by the House. Mr. Horace
Twiss presented the question last night in a new
aspect. The argument by which he supported
the claims of the Catholics seemed to us as in.
genius as it was novel. The opposing party, he
said, regarded the exclusion from Parliament as
the strongest in principle for their argument ; so
that if the proposition could be made out that
even this exclusion from Parliament was not of
the essence of the Constitution, it would hardly
be pretended that there was any thing essential
in any of the minor franchises. Now, Catholics
were first excluded from Parliament in the reign
of Charles the Second, by the tests which, with
some slight modification, are at this day the bar to
their admission. The makers of the Statute of
Charles set forth that the laws against Popery bad
failed of their desired effects from Popish recusants
having access to Court, and liberty to sit and vote
in Parliament; and for the sake of ensuring the
46 desired effects," they were excluded from Par-
liament as well as the Court. But the laws
against Popery, which the Test Law was intro-
duced to invigorate, was neither more nor less
than the body of repealed pains and pen-Ades,
the last remains of which were swept away by the
31st Geo. 111., so that while the original
preamble to the restriction keeps its place in
the Statute Book, setting forth as its reason
this repealed code of laws, the hirth-right of
our Catholic fellow-subjects was kept from them
now on a false pretence. Such was the reason-
ing of Mr. H. Twiss, and it was very much and
very deservedly complimented by seveal distin-
guished speakers.

[BRITISH PRESS.]

I:3y the conditions of the forthcoming Spanish
Loan, we understand that the bond-holders will
be allowed two years to accept the terms that
will be offered to them. If, at the end of that
time, they should not all have acceded to these
terms, the contractors will pay the composition
for the amount outstanding into the Royal Trea-
sury, and on that payment they will be acquitted
of all responsibility on that account. We have
already stated that the Loan will be nominally for
24 millions, more than half of which, however, will
be absorbed by the Bonds of the Cortes, the repay-
ment of Guebliard's Loan,and the liquidation of the
British and French claims. The amount, therefore,
really to be brought into the market, will not he
so great as to render the operation very difficult.
It will be much facilitated should the bonds be
received, as there is good reason to believe they
will, at 35, in the subscription to the new Loan.
The new Bonds under no circumstances will be
taken higher than 32, the price at which they
were issued'". We beg to be understood to repeat
what we said yesterday with respect to the cor-
rectness of our information regarding this trans-
action. None of those who are really aware of
what is passing will deny our statements. ft is
known to whom we allude ; and we call upon
them, if they can, to point out any part of any
article we have written on this subject, which is
not perfectly accurate in every particular it re-'
lates.

The Roman Catholic Relief Bill was last night
read a third time in the House of Commons, and
passed. On the division the numbers were—
Ayes, 248; Noes, 2'27. The majority in favour
of the third reading was consequently but 21,
six less than on the second reading. The princi-
pal speakers against the Bill last night were, Sir
11. Inglis, the solicitor-General, and Mr. Se-
cretary Peel ; those in support of it were Mr.
Curwen, Mr. C. Grant, Mr. Huskisson, and Mr.
Brougham. The arguments on each side were
unavoidably such us have been a hundred
times repeated. The speeches which pro-
duced the greatest impression upon the House
were those of Mr. C. Grant, Mr. lluskisson,
and Mr. Peel. The Right Honourable Secre-
tary declared that his former objections to the
repeal of the disabilities of the Roman Catho-
lics were strengthened by the measures by which
it was accompanied, especially the provison for the
Irish priesthood. It remains, however, now for the
Upper House of Parliament to determine whether
this important Bill skall become part of the law of
the land. No question perhaps ever went before
the House of Lords under circumstances of such
deep and general interest. The public attention
was never fixed on the proceedings of that As-
sembly with more anxiety than it will be during
the discussions that will take place on this Bill.
(Ibid)

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
We have received New York Papers to
the 17th ult. It was known at Mexico on
the 4th of March, that the British Govern-
ment had recognized the independence of
that State ; and it is needless to say, that the
intelligence had produced the most lively joy.
In their gratitude for this boon, the Mexicans.
seem to have forgotten the delay, which, we al-
ways thought, had been unnecessarily interposed
between the agitation and adoption of this mea-
sure. But ohliviou of slight or wrong is a cha-
racteristic of -the people every, where ; and,
Machiavelian politicians may say what they
4ill, man may be.safely treated with kindness.
he: people are prone enough to forgive in

juries, but not to forget benefits ; and when-
ever they have acted the wild beast, it has
been the consequence of excessive goading ; but,
a Government, that uses a gentle rein, may lead
them as it. pleases. The Mexicans too have not
retained a particle of animosity in consequence
of their claims
to be admitted to the rank of
an independent nation having been so long
postponed ; on the contrary, they gave full
scope to their satisfaction upon being apprised of
the intention of the English Government. Though
the benefits of the recognition are clearly of a
reciprocal nature, they are so thankful for it that
they represent it as a clear gain to themselves,
and promise to render themselves worthy of it
by sedulously cultivating those arts by which
Englishmen have attained the first rank amongst
nations. Our love of liberty in particular,
they profess to emulate ; and, to make their
country the sanctuary of civil and religious
liberty, where man may adore God with per-
fect freedom, without the slightest detriment
to his political rights,—is to form, if credit
he due to their own assertions, the great end
of their future exertions as a nation. Let them
only adhere to this resolution, and the end will
fully crown their efforts. One province of the
union will not be alienated from the rest by
means of absurd, irritating, and unjust distinc-
tions ; and come what may, their union will
prove a tower of strength, from which they may
scoff at the open or secret designs of their enemies.