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

MERCANTIIJE SIIIPPING.

DEAL, MAY 4.—Wind S.—Arrived and sailed for the
River' the Thomas, Bell, from St. Vincent's, in 40 days.--
Sailed the New York Packet, Barclay, for Jamaica; Albion,
Hodgson, for Miramield ; Bombay, , for Bontbay,
and Lady Flora, for Bengal; the Lowther Castle
remains.

PORTSMOUTH, 4.—Wind S.S.R.—Arrived the Wm-
derer, Moffatt, from Sicily. Passed by the- Dido,. Lee, from
Rio Janeiro, ten weeks passage; also the Buckinghamshire,
for China, and the Bombay, for Bombay.. Arrived his Ma-
jesty's ship Blossom, from Woolwich ; and Viper cutter, frrm
a cruize. Sailed his Majesty's ship Martin, for the Cape of
Good Hope; and Repulse cutter, on a cruize.
FALMOUTH, MAY 3.—Wind S.W.--Arrived the Lord
Hobart Packet, from Buenos Ayres, sailed the 9th March, and
from Monte Video the 11th ditto; the Camden- Packet had
sailed on the Ist March, from Monte Video for England. Ar-
rived the Fortitude, Dupin, from Lisbon, in ifi days.
LivEnPoor., MAY 3.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived the Mary,
Watson, .from Paraiba ; Leonidas, Ward, and Jubilee, from
New Orleans, sailed the 17th March ; Crisis, Martin, front
Maranham ; and the Mary, , from Denia.

Arrived off Dover, the Jupiter, Mandela, from St. Domingo.
The Merningfield, , from Bahia, wns totally lost
on the Island of Flores (River Plate) aodut the 20;.h February ;
cargo saved in a damaged state.
The Orient, Stewart, from Liverpool, arrived at_ Buenes
Ayres the sth March, after being on shore in the river Plate.
The Caroline, Sieverts, from London to Pillau, and the Jane,
James, from London to Riga, were stranded near Helsings-
fors the 16th ult.

His Majesty's ship Blond, Captain Lord Byron, arrived at
Valparaiso the 4th February.
His Majesty's ships Cambridge, Fly, and Tartar, were at
Lima the 18th December. The Tartar sailed for Panama the
22d December ; and the Fly sailed for Valparaiso, Rio, and
England on the 23d December.

It is expected that the Formidable, 84 guns, will be launched
on the 19th inst.—( Maidstone Gazette.)

COMBINATION AMONG THE SHOEMAKERS.

Guir,Dthim. —Yesterday William ,iblett, a
journeyman shoemaker, was brought up on a-warrant before
Mr. Alderman Cox. charged with assaulting Wm. Riley,
one of the same fraternity, on his way to his employer's
house.—From the evidence adduced, it appeared that • there
was a " general strike," as it is termed, last week amongst
the journeymen shoemakers, to obtain
.an advance in
the price of their labour, and Riley was met with a bag full of
work at his back on Saturday evening, in Fore-street, by a num-
ber of the turn-outs. Riley was known not to belong to the so-
ciety, and was therefore an object' of some dislike, preViously
to his being thus found at his ordinary employment, while
all
.the rest of trade were earning lioihing.• Opprobrious
language was used in his hearing, but, he. heeded it not.
At length the prisoner asked him where he was going ?
He replied to his employer's, Mr. King, Aldersgate-street.
" I'll be hanged if you shall," cried the prisoner—" What
have you got in your bag ?" Riley told him it contained some
boot legs; on hearing which, the prisoner endeavoured to
Pull the bag away from him, and lie was compelled from the
pressure of the crowd and the boldness of the turn-outs to
seek refuge in the shop of Mr. Case, a cheesemonger.in
Fore-street, where he remained three quarters of an hour, the
mob increasing all the time, and from thence he was eventually
escorted by Barnes, a constable, to his master's door. As he was
entering the door, some fellow madea blow at Riley, and threaten-
ed to " do for him ," and the officer immediately seized the assailant
and conveyed him to the Compter ; but the officer giving no ex-
press charge with him, and promising to return immediately,
which he failed in doing, the turnkeys, after detaining the man
an hour, discharged him, pursuant to the directions of the Oo-
vernor f the gaol, never to render him liable to an action for
falSe imprisonment by locking up a party against whom a direct
charge is not made. Mr. Case, and a porter at an oil-warehouse,
gave evidence of the very alarming conduct of the prisoner's
associates, up to the moment of the man being lodged in
the Compter.—The prisoner admitted having stopped and
questioned Riley in the manner stated, and thought his
former intimacy with him, and the very great injury he was
doing his brother labourers by continuing to work at the
old prices, justified his going thus far, To
.all the menaces
and violence used after Riley went into Mr. Case's, he was a
stranger, as he went away at that period.--Mr. Alderman Cox
said, though the punishment the Court might inflict for the
assault would probably be more severe, he thought it would
be better, under the circumstances, to make an example of the
defendant under the Combination Act, for endeavouring to in-
timidate a workman in Mr. King's employ, and with the aid of
the Lord Mayor (the statute requiring the case to be heard be-
foie two Magistrates) the prisoner was sentenced to the Tread
.Mill for one month.

1 II E LONDON JOURNALS.

• DAILY • .
Exthretr from the Morning Papers, May 5, 1825.

- [NEW TIMES.]
It,has been announced by the agent to Lloyds,
that two ships have arrived at Milford with foul
bills of health, from a place infected with the
plague. We feel it our duty to call this fact.
stronglyto the notice of the public; that no pos,
sibility may.arise of spreading that awful scourge.
throughout- the country, for want of attention to
the salutary provisions of the Quarantine Laws.
some persons have asserted, with extreme auda,
city or extreme ignorance, that the plague has
been proved not 'to be contagious ! The proof is'
almost wholly the other way ; the opinions of
almost all the distinguished members of the- me-
dical profession are-the other way ; the plictice of
nations for centuries past has been the.other way,.
and against this vast weight of evidence, the vague
declamation of one or two extravagant writers
it, in our opinion, too trivial to deserve notice ;
especially when the health and safety of millions
is at stake. We admit that the Quarantine Laws
may -he modified in detail,• but we are strongly
of opinion that they will he found to be sound
in principle. We admit that the time of per-
forming Quarantine may be safely . shortened ;
but we do- think it would be most rash -and -on,
justifiable, in the present state of medical science,
to break down a barrier on which the security.
Of the ilthole. country may depend. We cannot
take leave of this subject without once more. -ex-
pressing' our surprise that no Member of either
House of Parliament has yet moved for the Re,
pert of the College of Physicians, who ottani,
mou.sly declared the plague to be, in their opinion,
a contagious disorder.

[THE T111E3.1
It had escaped our observation, that mention
-was made on Tuesday -night in the ilou-e- of
Commons, of the dirty and` impotent malice of
withholding a silk gown from :tilt. Brod:111am:
A• Petition vas Olen presented by Mr. Denman,
from the Corporation of -Nottingham,• in favour
of Catholic Emancipation, in which, among other
things, it was stated as' an act of injustice, that
iitJO'Connell could not receive a silk gown at
the Irish bar; but this, Mr. Denman is repre-
sented to have stated as not; a• single instance :
the petitioners " might have 'seen another in-
" stance in the lion. Member for WinchelSen,
" who was excluded from the rank of a silk
" gown from political motives." It is, no doubt.
" patuful to see political enmity, or personal
rancour, thus brought in to commit ravages on
established usage and professional order. There
is a vast difference, however, between the cases
of Mr. O'Connell and Mr.; Brougham.: Mr.
O'Connell is excluded from the dignity of -a-silk
gown, in consequence of the actual law of- the
land, which has affixed such a disadvantage to
the religion which has obtained possession of his
mind. Whatever may he the pr6entpolicy of
that la*,: its origi-a Was pure, and, we may add.
religious. It is something the very reverse of
religion, miserably inflaming the mind of another
man, that excludes Mr. Brougham from the sup-
posed honour of a silk gown, and that in viola-
tion of a practice almost equal to law. And who
suffers bY this injustice ? Not he against whom it
is levelled, as the daily records of his court,and the
columns of every public Journal, evince ; butharm-
less,unofl'endin^,professional roen,and their clients,
NT-hose most important-interests are at stake. It
isirrewerently and falsely insinuated in an Even-
ing Paper of yesterday, that a more illustrious
person than he on whom the petty malignity is
generally-charged, is the author of Mr. Brougham's
exclusion ;. for it is said, that 44 the Queen, the
Queen Regnant," had she lived through the atro-
cious attack upon her life and honour—that her
Majesty, in that case, would not have exalted the
Counsel opposed to her to, -professional dignities.
We can assert with confidence that her noble and
forgiving nature was far above noticing, in subse-
quent life, the conduct of the persons employed
to plead. against her; oor, indeed., could their
success upon the impartial public mind have in-
spired a sentiment of revenge :,9-4! are, therefore,
only the more inclined to repeat the terms, 44 ir-
reverent and falae" as applied to an insinuation
which_ would now, for the first time, impute the
unmanly conduct which we are ,tepiobating.t to
one in a corresponding situation of dignity with
that of her late Majesty.

[NIORNINCI POST.]
We are lad to perceive that the portentous.
effects of Mr. Ilurne's Combination Act have
elicited the general reprobation-of all Parties for
that dangerous bot premeditated experiment of
our Radical Lawgivers. The mighty :rasp of
intellect which the lion. Member for Montrose
applied in the'concoction of this law was beauti-
fully exemplified in his defence of the " opera-
tives" on Tuesday. " What," said Mr. Hume,
".would' the landed interest think of an enact.
merit to prevent them from obtaining if they could
555. instead of 455. a quarter (or their Corn
and forthwith he proceeded to maintain that
under the present Combination La Nv the working,
classes have only exercised a similar right to
Oat enjoyed by
,the Agri cull urkts. This sort
°fa:win/within& ad Agricolas, which was intended,
no doubt, to be very captivating and popular Just
now, is as glaringly absurd as wany of the ITP"•
Gentleman's most felicitous attempts at ratioci-
nation. If our great landed proprietors way-laid
and maimed, in endeavouring to murder, every
farmer who chose not to follow their example,
we should then certainly discern a resemblance
another complexion betwen t}gem and 31r.
operative proteges ; and the likeness would be
strengthened if the landed proprietors besides used
violence and intimidation to make the public con,
some not only whatever qualities and proportions.
of. bread' and meat they thought proper to dictate,
but cooked and eaten exactly in the manner and
at ..the times it might please the humour of the
agficultpiists prescrilte. In our on:in-inn,
deed, the argument may be turned and pointed
against the existing Combination Law with coin-
itieie success. If it be expedient to review end

alter the Corn Laws, because under their pro-
visions an undue advantage is afforded to the
British Grower and Proprietor, producing or
menacing injury, to the rest of the community,
and ultimately to themselves, is it not still' more
expedient to alter the Combination Act,'under
whose, provisions not only great. detriment has
been sustained by all the most respectable and va-
luable interests in the. State, but this detriment
effected by means of atrocious outrage ? A truce,
however, to this part of the subject. As was, well
observed on Tuesday evening, one of the most
crying evils of the existing law is, that it allows
the majority of the " operatives" to tyrannize
over the minority, and also over their masters, to
the ruin of trade and manufactures, and of na-
tional prosperity. One portion .of the working
classes needs protection, and ought to obtain, it,
against the other, and while every fair and or-
derly mode of adjusting wages according to cir-
cumstances should be permitted, the interests of
*the whole should be kept by law as nearly as
possible in equilibrium. We sincerly hope some
measure adequate to the exigency will emanate
from the Committee at an early day, so as to ex-
purgate our Statute Book of the alloy of Mr.
Hume's political principles.

LBilmsit PRESS.]
The attention of the Paris Paper 4 of Monday
is divided between the new financial laws and
the :ceremonies of the approach•itta COronation.
The Monileur contains a Royal Ordonnance, re-
gulating the manner in which the holders of the
five per cents. are to effect the conversion of their
stock according to the provisions of -the law just
passed. , On the 6th of this month the proprie-
tors of the tive_per eents. will be allowed to
ez-
change their Acriptiotis. against "the new Itentes
of 3 or 4I per cent. Another Ordonnance, is also
.issued ,for a now coinage of gold and silver, to the
amount of four millions of francs. The new coin
is to bear the -head of the King, with the•legend
round it, "CharlesX:Roi de France," and the date.
Thenews from France continues to be as distressing
as ever. The decree of Ferdinand, which we pub-

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lished yesterday, was, provoked, it appears, by
reports that the Allies had interfered to advise
hirneto a more reasonable and modeiate course.
Ile is resolved, however, to persevere to the end,
if he can, in his present wild and wicked career.
Ins poverty alone troubles him ; his people's
misery would pass disregarded. According to
his notions it is their duty to suffer, if it be
his pleasure that wretchedness should be their
lot. But suffer himself he will not : and all
hii veneration for the church (lops not prevent
him from listening to a proposition made in his
own Council for the sale of a seventh part of
the lauds of the clergy, according to a Bull by
the late Pope, granted to his father, Charles
IV. The proposition was not adopted ; but
neither does it seem to have been, absolutely

rejected : there was no prohibition to have it
mentioned again. Whether Ferdinand has any
lurking design of attacking the property of the
clergy, or whether he intends only to frighten ;
them into a more weighty and more fre- I
(pent
,donation of sums for his support, we
cannot guess. His Court has for some time
been Maintained by gifts from the clergy, on the
plan of-the obsolete tax which in this country
was called a benevolence. The priests are frantic
with joy at the departure of the French, and
perhaps they may be willing to go further than
ever in support of a Sovereign who is so entirely
their own. The Oreeks are proceeding against
-their enemies with vigour. Ibrahim .Pasha is said
to be blockaded at Modon, and the organiza-
tion of the population of the Morea is carried on
with the greatest activity.—The Etoile at last
admits reluctantly that all hope of subduing
the late colonies of Spain on the Continent of
America is utterly vain. A letter from Pernam-
buco has satisfied the Editor of that Paper that
the " battle of Ayacucho was fought on the 9th
December." He adds—" The Viceroy La
Serna was wounded and made prisoner ; and
when General Canterac took the command of

the remnant of the Royal army, all he could do
was,to save, by capitulation, the honour of the
Spanish army."—There were some fluctuations in
the French Funds on Monday, hut they closed
at an advauced price. The -rate of exchange is
the same.