The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-28 00:00:00

LONDON MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, DF,c. 23.
The arrivals of Grain in general are moderate, but quite suf-
ficient to keep the market dull with the present limited demand.
Wheat finds no trade at Monday's terms. Malting Harley
alone meets demand, other sorts are excessively dull. In other
sorts of Corn there is no variation deserving notice.

A natvaLs—English Wheat, 2,370; liitrley, 3,620; Oats,
6,100 ; Irish Barley, ; Oats, —. ; Foreign Wheat, —;
Barley, 13,380; Oats, 1,350 qrs. English Flour, 5,200 sacks.

FATAL ACCIDENT IN FENCHURCH-STREET.—
Yesterday evening, about half-past five o'clock,
as an infirm and rather decent looking man, sup-
posed to he between sixty and seventy years of
age, was carrying a vessel of water from.the
pump close to the Magpie and Puncl-bowl public
house, a man' driving a single horse cart crossing .
from Mark-lane-to Billiter-st•reet, came in contact
with the unfortunate . man and precipitated him,
under the wheels, which passing over his body
and head, fractured his ribs and scull dreadfully..
The driver of the cart pulleJ up as soon as pos-
sible,and assisted the parish beadleov iso just came
up,to carry the poor sufferer into the Magpie and
Punch-bowl; but seeing the dreadful state .iis
whirls he was, he Ho doubt took alarm, and.
leaving the house got into his cart and drove
Of aloug Billiter-street. As those persons on
the spot neglected •to take the number of the.
cart, or in whose employ he wa., we cannot say
as yet who he is. Mr. Egar, surgeon to the
parish, was called in, and he instantly pronounced
him to be dead. A shell was procured, in which-
the body was deposited and borne into the church
porch of St. Catherine's, Coleman, where it awaits
the inquest, and lies, a sad spectacle, to be claim-
ed by its afflicted friends.
BURGLA a ms.—On Monday night a burzlary
was committed in the • dwelling-house of. E. A.
HOTFAY, Esq. No. 17,.Smith-street, Chelsea. It
appeared- the family were all out, and .durjUg
their temporary absence the robbers. obtained a.d-
mission from the street door by picklock keys,
and ransacked the entire of the apartments of
every valuable article, consisting of silver tanle,
dessert, and tea-spoons, a gravy ditto, sugar-
tongs, and various articles of jewellery. The. rot.-
flans also. carried off a dozen silk handkerchiefs,
all marked with Mr. Hotfay's initials, and a purse
containing about 31. in gold and silver, &c. &c.--r-
Another burglary was also committed in the house
of Mr. LANE, Cole Cottage, at Fulham, where
the depredators succeeded in robhing the pre-
mises of gold and silver, besides other property,
to the amount of near 701., and escaped.
Munnun.—The body of .a man who had been
some days missing has beets found in the neigh-
bourhood of Kilcolgan, with marks of violence
about it.- Ile was a tithe-proctor to the Rev.
Mr. Burke, of Kilcolgan, and is supposed to
•I have been mwdered while in the execution of
• hCiosrodnuetry: informed policeman,fkorrriedurr whothe camecircsn circumstance,
foranrce,a
but
we- have not been able to learn the.Terdict,---
(Galway Advertiser.)

I'DE LONDON JOURNALS•

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning Papers, Dec. 8, 1825.

[vu TIMES.]
Among the effects to he looked for as ine-
vitably resulting from the tone and measures of
the Irish Catholics, since the last Session of Par-
liaments is that of estranging their friends and
exasperating their opponents. There is the fur-
siser consequence, also, which, not for their sakes,
but for that of the nation and its enduring inte-
Nests,. we are disposed to contemplate with re-
gret—we mean the justification afforded to the
Anti-Catholics in their use of violent language,
*heir resort to irritating recollections, and their
boasts of the triumph which they anticipate to
their cause from the gross misconduct of the
Popish -chiefs and demagogues. A meeting which
took place at Londonderry on the 7th of this
month, has recalled to our minds the above re-
flections, which, in truth, we are happy to forget,
whenever a lull in the troubled waters of Irish
faction enables us for a moment to escape from
them. The meeting of the Derry men was to
commemorate an achievment, bold at the time,
successful, and useful,—namely, the shutting the
gates of that remote and otherwise obscure garri-
son, against the Papist partisans of James ll.
Such commemorations were for many years of
great importance in Ireland, because they kept
alive, together with the Protestant spirit, that of
the revolution of 1688, and an attachment to the
House of Brunswick, which took the Crown
under the pledges imposed by the revolution, in
preference to the House of Stuart, and a succes-
sion by right divine, supporting itself on arbi-
trary power, and forcing upon the nation
an intolerant religion, in contempt of rea-
son and conscience. So long as the House
of Stuart existed in any degree of influence
over the minds of men, or of activity to take
advantage of favourable circumstances, it was fair
and wise to keep down its retainers by all the
means that public meetings, and memorials of
old, and honourable actions, could administer to
the Protestant spirit, which was, in fact, for more
than 70 years identified with the love of Consti-
tutional liberty. Of late, with the extinction of
the Pretender and his representatives, the reason
for all these animating and invigorating expe-
dients has disappeared. It has therefore been
the general desire of ell men who wished to tran-
quillize and consolidate the Irish nation, that,
retaining the principles which had descended
from more doubtful and anxious times, the watch-
words and signals of party should be relin-
quished, and that the ancient enemies of the re-
volution and of the establishment in Church and
State, should rather be invited by conciliatory
measures to rally under them, than deterred by
demonstrations of Protestant force and energy to
exert against this bulwark of our political exist-
ence a power of which the original object had
vanished from the face of the earth. We repeat,
that if it was sound policy to hold the Papists at
defiance when they had a Chief to look up to
from whom they could not be detached, it also
became us to extend to them the olive-branch
when his death had released their honour or affec-
tion from the duties which he had required from
them ; and this altered course of proceeding was
in rapid progress from the year 1779 to almost
the present hour. The spirit which held to-
gether those friends of Protestant ascendancy
who were bona fide what they declared them-
selves,' and not mere plunderers fattening on
the monopoly of power, while the language
of freedom and the revolution was in their
mouths—the public spirit of such men was fast
ceasing to show itself under the aspect which it
bore in the earlier periods of the eighteenth cen.
wry. Except among the very lowest of the
Orangemen, tools of a few among the upper
orders, those warlike demonstrations which once
had been the test of loyalty to the house of
Hanover, had lost their charm with their use,
and even the 'prentice-boy-festivities of London.
derry were sinking into tameness. Now, what
we have to reproach the Catholic orators of the
prevent day with is, that they have revived the
hostile temper of their enemies—they have clad
it with freshness—they have raised it from de-
bility into active and formidable power. Mr.
Dawson, Member for the county of Derry, met
his countrymen at their assembly of the 7th in-
OWL He did it to give eclat to the restoration
of his, till now, delining party. The speech of
the Hon. Gentleman gave a detail of the hor-
rible persecutions and injuries inflicted by the
last Parliament of James I I. in Ireland—the ex-
ciusion of all Protestants from employment great
and. small—the restraint upon their liberties—
the-'confiscation of their properties—the pro.
scription of their persons—the repeal of the
Act of Settlement, and various other ex-
ploits. Why, then, did Mr. Dawson ven-
ture upon such irrational details ? His own
seise must have told him that they were altoge-
thet irrelevant—that no James had risen from
the tomb—that no Popish Parliament could- exist
within the kingdom—that the Papists were ut-
terly contemptible.when compared in point of
force with the Protestants of the empire. Why,
then; did Mr. Dawson resort to such topics ?
From a motive not unpardonable in a party man
•---in a lover of ascendancy and its collaterals—
because the time was meet for such apostrophes ;
because Mr. Dawson knew the truth of what he
advanced in another passage of his discourse—
that the English mind has undergone upon this
question an awful, and, in our judgment, we may
add, ,a melancholy revulsion. He spoke to willing
ears, and his apefech will be conned over in this
Country'hy willing readers. No wonder that the
Honourable Gentleman displayed fire enough
On the occasion, when he was served with fuel
from the stores of his enemies. We can, indeed,
tear 'testimony, from our own observation, to the
fact, that "little or no chance exists for the Ca-
tholic question, if ,now tendered to the accept-
since of Parliament. The Catholics have worked
with too much industry against their own cause.
So far as feeling goes, the great bulk of the Pro-
testant world is, we fear, adverse to them. It
is weak indeed, and lamentable, to decide a

question of everlasting import by the capricious
temper of the day : •but if the Catholic advocates
are neither statesmen nor philosophers, they
ought not to be surprised that their Protestant
neighbours have drawn from history some prtju-
dices, mingled with salutary lessons.