The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-27 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

Fai.mouTH, JULY 15.—Wind E. to S. light airs.—Ar,
rived his Majesty's brig Lyra, from Lisbon, with a mail
Swiftsure, Tilly, from Vera Cruz, - last front. New York, in 24
days, and brings a Mexican Minister and Suite passengers ;
Brothers, Eyner, from Oporto, sailed the Bth inst.; and Four
Friends, Roberts, from London. Sailed the Fanny, Broken.
shire, for London.
PonTsstotprit, JUL* 26.—Wind S.E.--Arrived his Ma.
jesty's ships Calliope and Camelion, from a cruize. • Sailed tho
Resolution cutter, on a cruize.
DEAL, YITLY 26.—Wind N.E.—Passed through for the
River, the Kangaroo, Dunnell, front Leghorn. Sailed the
Prince, Braithwaite, fir Quebec; and Elizabeth; Laybournt:,
for Gibraltar.

LIVEUPOOL, JULY 25.--Wind N.N.W.—Arrived the
Cybelle, Hicklers, from Quebec ; Ann, Harvey, from New-
foundland.

Arrived ofF.Dover, the Clarissa, Mansfield, from Havannak.
Arrived off Scilly, the Julius, Jackson, from St. Kitts,
sailed the 9th of June. •

BAD ACCOUNT OF THE GitEfNLAND FISHERY.—The
following is an Extract of a Letter from Altona, dated. 224
July, 1825:
" The accounts from Greenland are bad. On the 21st in.
stant, the Stadt Altona, a fine new ship, returned here; she
left the ice on the 9th, having been severely damaged in en-
deavouring to penetrate through the ice: She brings only 800
seals, and reports, that at the latter end of June, 25 Englialr
ships, and all the Foreign ships, had only 15 fish amongst
them. The seal fishery is also bad ; only one ship'had a thou-
sand seals. The reason given of the back fishing is the cond..
nuation of the strong N.B. winds, which had occasioned tha
strong ice to come down, which could not be penetrated.".

CORN EXCHANGE, JULY 27.
There are only moderate arrivals of Grain this week, and a*
bat little appears now to be wanted, there is a general dulness
in the trade for nearly ev..-y article ; Wheat remains nominally
at Monday's prices ; Barley is excessively dull in sale ; Beans
and Peas fully maintain their quotations. There is scarcely
any trade for Oats to-day, and prices are reported much the
same as last market-day.
A II RI VAL S.—English Wheat, 2,Boo—Barley, I.,K4O—Oats,
6,3oo—lrish Oats, 570 quarters—Flour, 2,760 seeks.

WONDERFUL RECOVERIEC-Monday week a •
party from Aylesbury proceeded on their ap.

final visit to,Velvet Lawn, and, as usual, took
with them all necessary good cheer. From the

heat of the weather, they wished to have their'
beverage coos, and with this view sank into,the

well of the Lawn Cottage, in a bucket, the Stone
bottle, which contained the wine they carriecfwith •
them. In lowering the bucket, however, it so felt
Out that the stone bottle fell in. A yoUng gen-
tleman belonging to another party, on a sinailai• ►
excursion, volunteered his services for the- re.:
eovery of the bottle. A stick being passed through.
the. bucket chain, the youth took his .seat`
upon it, and • was safely lowered into the •
well. The bottle was found unbroken, and
was secured in the adventurer's Italia.—

While, however, the party were in the act of

winding the young gentleman up, the good
woman of the cottage, by her officious assistance,
contrived to get one of her fingers caught in the
chain, and screaming out, as women are.
sometimes wont, frightened the man at the
windlass, so as to cause him to lose his hold,
and let the gentleman aguin go. to the bot-
tom, the-depth of five•and-twenty feet. The-
consternation of the parties rophil the well was
extreme ; especially among the female relatives
of the young man, two of whom, his sisters, felt
into hysterics. Happily, however, he was soon
heard to be alive, and a drag being procured, it •
was let down within his reach, and he was loon
rescued from his perilous situation, and arrived'
at the top, holding the drug by one hand, and
the bottle by the other.

- AWFUL INSTANCE -OF SUDDEN DMATEL—An '
elderly lady, named AMELIA SPAITri,. residing'ini'!
Mary.lebone,lane, on Monday night laiit bed,•
in her usual-state of
,Ilealth, and notilhiiiklog
appearance at .breakfaat..yesterdefirforriiiik, oil :
-gOing to her. apartment. she -was MOW quite dead ti
in her hed., She Nits 'particularly hearty the chit ;
prior to her dissolution.

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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Eztractsfroni the Mornrng Papers, July 27,1 525.

[N ENV TI M ES.]

it cannot have escaped notice, in the Report
which we yesterday published of the Meeting of
the Shipwrights, that their Secretary, Mr. Gast,
commenced the proceedings of the evening with
stating, that though they had expended in the
last quarter upwards of 2,6001. they had still in
hand 340/. Yet these are the poor distressed
operatives, wig) are forced to combine to compel
their,. unfeeling masters to give them a trifling
compensation for their labour ! They are starv-

ing, it appears, upon their present prices, and
cannot afford to throw away above a thousand
pounds a, month. Poor fellows ! Again—look to
Yorkshire! The Bradford Combers and Weavers,
it seems, very humbly requested a reasonable
compensation for theirlabour, which modest peti-
tion theiremployers refused tocomply with. What
then ? Why, their neighbours at Huddersfield

forthwith sent them over three hundred pounds,
and promised, if necessary, to send them THREE
THOUSAND ! We• have said, and we repeat, we
wish the working classes to be well paid ; we
wish to see them comfortable, respectable, and
able, with economy and prudence, to lay up

something against sickness or old age; but we
really cannot feel, that so long as they have
thousands to lavish upon such objects as those above
noticed, they have any very strong claims on
public commiseration. Let it be observed, that
this new system of contributions among the diffe-
rent classes of workmen, to enable each other to
bold out against their employers, is a measure of
wilich_thp consequences are not easily to be calcu-
lated. The tailors compel their masters to pay
them high wages, out cr which a sum is taken

to enable the Shoemakers to play the same game
with their employers. The Weavers help the
Carpenters, and the Carpenters the Potters, and
so on through the whole round of the trades.
Is this legal by the Common Law of the land ?
We know it is not prohibited by the last statute ;
but neither is it permitted. We would therefore
throw it out, for the consideration of the work-
men themselves, how far they may be altogether
safe in such an application of their funds.

[TIIE TIMES.]

Soon elaborate and.curious statement, have

been printed, of the amount of the precious metals
. exported from this country between the Ist of

January, 1824, and the Ist of April, 1825 ; like-
wise of the quantity exported during the months
of last April, May and June. The total of these
exports, as entered at the .Custom-house, has
been in—
Gold
Silver

.1.:11,550,000
3,223,379

nearly twelve millions sterling, as it appears,
'within the 'space of 18 months. An evening
paper calculates, but we profess not to decide
with what degree of accuracy, the addition
which ought to be made to. the above sum from
the specie , exported without being entered at
the Custom-house. This is taken at about
6,200,0001., bringing the whole export of gold
and silver to nearly seventeen millions ster-
ling, or not much short of a million sterling
per month. Alarming inferences are drawn
from the above data, or, perhaps, we might use
the word irritating rather than alarming ; but
whichsoever character they may deserve, we do
not subscribe to their justice. If gold be in
such hot request for mercantile purposes in fo-
reign countries, that commercial men find it
more advantageous to remit in gold than in paper
for payment of goods, we ask any candid rea-
ttooer whether it is conceivable that any man who
bas Bank-notes will not instantly go to the Bank
and insist on having gold for them ? It is a con-
tradiction in terms, as long as Banknotes are
payable_ in specie on demand, to assert that the
Bank can overflow the conntry with paper;
for every man who finds paper a less valuable
commodity than gold, may throw hack the paper
Into the Bank which issued it, and bring spe.
tie into,circulation in its .place. If, under such
circumstances, there be an undue proportion of
paper floating, the public must be parties to it,
even.more than the Bank of England, whO have
no protection against the payment of their notes—
not even its the obstinate and foolish pertinacity
with; which they affect to veil their transactions
front the eves of their own Stockholders. What,
then, is the cause of the increased export of geld
and, silver,. if it cannot be 'charged upon the
Bank ? I t appears to us there are two reasons—
first,. .that, other countries, becoming daily more
abundant in the produce of human industry, re-
quirea more abundant circulating medium to re-
present• it. • But• although manufacturing in-
dustry may be young • throughnnt the rest
of the world, credit, and paper circula-
tion,. its otTspring, are somewhat younger still.
No -.where but in England is mercantile or hank-
paporrectsived.ns-a-matter of cowse in lien of
money. The example of'England in-thediffesion
of credit, sg in the -activity- of• labour, will,
.no
doubt, in, followed' hy-afid-by ; but' the first
wants of circulation must be every were supplied
by,rpecies, until convenience can he reconciled
with. ;security, and mensi. promises frequently
taken as the true representatives of their Wealth.
ThecOntinenCof Europe, it is well'understood,
has-, not yet -arrived- at' such-an -epoch In the
growth of: commerce. Besides' this, it teems to
us that there is a second cause for the rapid ex por-
tation,of specie. Our imports of 'raw material
froM,abroad -have, we' since the relax-
ation of•the old commercial system'of duties, ob-
tained a temporary excess over-the re-expoetatidn
of the,some materials in the form of Briti'sh ma-
nufacture:: iWtrger. nothing in this to alarm 'any
body—it is the natural course of things. In the
mean time, the payments not made in goods are
made.-to-the-foveignor in gold; and next year it
Is pot•taVe the order of our, ceinmercial inter-
courge.will be>reversed ; the 'expnris 'of tnatinfat•
jure- wiltexcied3the imports of raw prodnte;cthe'
gohi wilt.flowback agairt,intd Engtend; tind-I;ti.
shallaaethe.balanve rettifterL 'Bat hi the:kkio+
cal pplormas of affair.l44t4tolds)aaiirfsie' of iiiecie

as of water, that we may be sure of its Aieg or
subsiding to its proper level. When gold flies
from us, it is a proof that our neighbours pay a
higher price for it than we do; and when they
can no longer outbid us, the export stops of it-
self. Laws upon such a subject are mischievous
nonsense. We shall reap some benefit from
the diminished amount of gold in a ge-
neral fall of prices ; and the return of
specie, on the ,other hand, will he a signal
for raising them. Although, however, we are
not alarmed by the exportation of gold and silver
to a better market than exists for those metals
here, we are sensible of deep distress and annoy-
ance from another cause connected with the cur-
rency—one which aggravates every inconvenience
—endangers every good we enjoy—disturbs the
most simple calculations—exposes to disappoint-
ment the fairest hopes—and constitutes a real
national grievance, against which every voice
will exclaim hereafter, as every intelligent mind
has long execrated or deplored it : we mean the
law imposed upon us by the country gentlemen
for making their own property uncertain in its
fruits ; food, labour, and manufactures, dear, as
compared with those of foreign countries ; and
the tenure of our commerce and maritime ascend-
ancy, the sport alike of avarice and of fortune.