The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-16 00:00:00

SPORTiNG.

ROYAL HUNT.—His Majesty's Stag Hounds met on Mon-
day at Two Mile Brook, near Maidenhead, where a fine Deer
was uncarted for the day's diversion at 1l o'clock, which,
after a short but severe run, was taken at Wootaurn, near
Beaconsfield ; the field, although fashionably attended, was
not so numerous as we have sometimes witnessed.

ITALIAN OPERA.—The Barbiere Seviglia,
and the new ballet of La Coquette Sountise, were
repeated last night at the Haymarket Theatre,
before a fashionable, but not a crowded audi-
tory. GARCIA and DE BEaNts, as before, ex-
erted thetnselveg with great effect. A printed
paper apologized for Madame VESTIIIS in the
Countess, on account of a severe cold. A sister
of the Lady who has recently announced her
acquaintance with " the general camp, the
pioneers, and all," appeared in one of the pri-
vate boxes, and, the rumour having circulated,
she attracted no little attention. The dances
were admirably performed, but, as usual, were
too long.

PgRENOLOGY.—Dr. SPUIMIEIM last night
gave an introductionary Lecture, preparatory to
a series on thiS visionary system, having changed
its former title of CitAPHOLOGY. It seems im-
possible
.to suppose that any person of common
sense will seriously attend to the elucidation of
doCtrines of which it is impossible to examine the
foundation in Ow living subject,. or that the Pro-
fessor himself should be absorbed in such delu-
sion. Argument and Wit have been employed
to refute it, and if there are still believers, they
must be incapable of comprehending the one, or
have any notion of the other. We thought that
the impracticable absurdity was at an end, but it
seems to be supposed that Ingenuity can always
reap a harVest of folly in Old England. But
'his, not even specious nonsense, will in time
upon the credulity of mankind.
follow
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PITT.—The following anecdote which was
related by M r. J ustice GAItROW, on Monday last,
at the Staffordshire Assizes, on an indictment, the
KfNG versus AmenLET,. Proprietor of The Pot-
ter!) Gazette, for a libel on Messrs. IttD6WAY,
displays such a proof of the •acuteness and sa-
gacity of our late illustrious Statesman, during
the short period when he was at the Bar, as af-
fords a fair presumption, that if he had pursued
the Law he would have attained the highest
ho-
nours of the Profession. The point was the
ap-
plication of an inuendo, which occurred, as the
Learned Judge stated, very long before he was
called to. the Bar :

" A person was tried for libelling the late. Marquis of SaliS-
bury ; on that occasion the late Lord Erskine led the case for
the defendant, and he well recollected that the jtinior Counsel
for the defendant was a person of whose talents as a Statesman
he could not speak too highly—he meant the late Mr. Pitt. In
the libel the Noble Marquis was not mentioned by name, but
was denominated " the tallest and proudest Peer in the
realm ;" a' witness was called, who proved that, in his
qpinion, the Marquis of Salisbury was the person ,
theant ; upon which Mr. Pitt got up and said to the witness,
I know the Marquis is a tall man (which was the fact)
but do you think him the proudest Peer in the realm ? To this
the witness answered—" I have the good fortune to know the
Marquis of Salisbury very well, and am therefore aware that he
is not at all a proud Nobleman ; but among those who do not
know him as I do, he is so considered." After this answer the
great Statesman he alluded to sat down, and neither of the
Counsel thought it prudent to ask the witnesses any more ques-
tions.on that point, the question being, not whether the descrip-
tion was a true one, but whether it was such a one as shewed
who was the person meant."

• We underitand Mr. GRA IMES PHILLIPS, the
Barrister, was taken dangerously ill at Worcester
(on the Oxford Circuit), but we are happy to
hear he is so far recovered that it is expected he
Will meet the Judges at Shrewsbury•tQ.marrow.'

INDIA.

lFrom Last Night's Gazette.l

INDIA BOARD; MARCH 12,, 1826.

A dispatch has been receisd at the East India House, from
the Governor-General in Council at Fort William in Bengal,
with inclosures, of which the following are extracts

Extract from a Letter from the Governor. General in Council to
.the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East
India Company, dated Fort William, August 12, 1324. •
" We will not trespass the time of your Honourable Com-
mittee with any detailed statement of the.contents of Brigadier- •
General Campbell's dispatches* of the 16th June and I lth .TUly,
reporting the partiCulars of the brilliant affairs in which our-
troops have been engaged, but request leave to refer you to the
dispatches themselves. .
Your Honourable Company will not fail to remark with
the highest satisfaction the gallant behaviour of the native
troops, who on several occasions have emulated the exarqles ••
of intrepidity and valour- set them by the Europeans., We
have signified to Brigadiers-Generals Sir Archibald CaniPbel.l.
and Macßean our highest approbation of all their proceedings;'
and have requested them to convey to the several officers, whose.
services have been particularly adverted to, our thanks and ac-
knowledgments for their gallant exertions. In the affair of the
10th June, against the 'fortified- camp and stockades, at Kemarr-
dine, the flight of the enemy alone prevented the complete,suc-
cess of Sir A. Campbell's judicious and well-concerted measures
for striking a most impressive blow, by the destruction which
must have inevitably ensued, of ;the whole or the main part of
their force, had they ventured to abide .the assault; but still
a great point was gained by that and the preVious attacks en
the several fortified positions of the Burmese, it being evident,
from their subsequent abandonment of all the stockades in the
neighbourhood of our army, that the enemy was now convinced
those strong holds were no security against the British bayonet
or the force of our artillery. The result of the operations on
the Bth ult. was peculiarly decisive and brilliant ; on that day
ten stockades were carried at the point of the bayonet, 38 pieces
of artillery, 40 swords, and 300 muskets captured, and upwards
of 800 of the enemy's best troops, including some Chiefs, left
dead upon the grounl•
" From the dispatches referred to, your Hon. Committee
• will also learn; that on. the ISt of July an attempt was made by
the enemy, under positive orders from the Court of Ava, to
make a general attack upon our line, and drive us at once out
of the country; and that this mighty attack was repulsed .by
three weak companies of. sepoys and- two pieces of artillery.
From some prisoners who were taken on that occasion, Briga-
dier-General Sir Archibald' Campbell learnt that the enemy's
fbrce.on this.occasion consisted of 12,030 men.
• "On our north-eastern frontier few events of any conse-
quence have occurred since the date of our last address. In
Assam the Officer commanding has fallen back. and conce...-
I trated his force at Gowahatti. The detachment on the frontier
I of Sylhet has taken up its quarters at Buddapore and the
neighbourhood, after an unsuccessffil attempt to shell the
enemy out of their fortified position on the hill of Tiloayn. The
particulars of this affair are contained in letters, copies of which
are numbers in the packet."
'[Here follow- dispatches from Lieut.-Colonel Nicol and
I.ieut.-Colonel Innes, giving an account of their operations en
the Sylhet and Cachar frontier against the Burmese. These
dispatches are entirely unimportant; and, as the substance of
the transactions to which they allude appeared in our Paper
some months since, it is of course unncessary to repeat them.]
• See THE SUN of 20th November, 1824, and 24th of Feb.

THE LONDON JOUItNALS.

DAILY
Extratisfrom the Morning Papers,Marchl6,lB2s.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We thought that if there was any-one thing of
which there could be no doubt, it was the mis-
government of the Cape of Good Hope and the
abuses in Canada. With respect to the former,
we believe there is not to be found in this island
a. single individual who has either seen the Cape
or has received any information respecting it,
who is not ready to arraign the system of Go-;
yernment in that Colony—Mr. Flume, year after
year, has endeavoured to draw attention to this
snbject:; the English Press has teemed with
abuses 'of the most aggravated description, and
‘‘,litlisters have at length yielded a little to pub-
lic opinion. Mr. Hume has merited the thanks
of.the country ; the thanks of every roan whose
fortune is involved in the fate of the Co-
lonies. And yet to hear the language of Mr.
Gordon, an Opposition Member, one would ima-
gine that Mr. Hume, in arraigning the Co-
lopial System, had entailed unspeakable mis-
chief on the country. Towards the authors
of the system of the abuse it seems the ut-
most courtesy is due ; but towards Mr. Hume
very little. Mr. V. Fitzgerald shewed that the
HOnourable Gentleman CM r. Hume) was not it's-
tified in stating that abuses in the Colonial De-
partment had existed down to the present mo-
ment. For such a mistake no mercy ought to be
shown; but abundance for all who have to do
-xsith the abuses. But the country understand
this matter, and what to think of Mr. Gordon's
affirmation, " that it is no longer the practice, as
formerly, to convert the Colonies into the means
of providing for relations, or for other persons,
(4 whom the people at home wished to get rid."
This is a new era with a vengeance!

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Spring Guns Bill went through a Com-
mitte of the House of Lords hat night, and wa,
ordered to be reported to-day. On the motion
of the Earl of Liverpool an Amendment was in-
troduced, prohibiting the use of spring guns and
ste-el traps in all gardens and orchards.—[n the
House of Commons some discussion arose on the
subject of the projected Thames Quay. There
was a rather singular diversity of opinion among
the Members ; Mr. Calcraft, Mr. Hobliouse,Mr.
Croker, and Mr. 'secretary Peel, formed a pha-
lanx in opposition to the introduction of the Bill ;
and Colonel Trench, Lord Palmerston, Sir R.
Wilson, and Mr. Baring, were ranged on the
other side in its favour. On a division, a ma-
jority of 85 against 45 decided that the plan
should at least have the benefit of further con-
sideration.

`NEW TIMES]
Last niht, in the 'House of Commons, Colonel
Trench brought up the Report of the 'l'harnes
Quay, and moved for leave to bring in a Bill
founded on the opinion expressed in the Report ;
upon which a discussion of some length ensued.
Mr. Croker strongly opposed the measure, and
stated some interesting facts respecting the depth
of water in the River; that the fall at present at
London Bridge might be calculated at five feet, but
that it could not yet be ascertained what effect
would be produced when the Bridge now building
should be finished, and the old London Bridge
removed, and therefore he recommended the
postponement of the undertaking. Mr. Peel, and
other Weathers, took the same view of the ques-
tion, and opposed the Bill, which was ,•armly
supported on the other hand by Lord Palmer
stun, Mr. Baring, and others ; when, on a
divi-
Sion, there appeared in favour of the measure,
85 ; against it, 43—majority in its favour, 40.—
Thus granting leave to introduce the Bill.

[MORNING rosy:]
We really do commiserate most sincerely the
mass of the poor, confiding, deluded Irish Ito-
man Catholics.—How many years, and by how
Many temporal and eternal hopes and fears have
their Leaders conjured them, never to consent on
any terms, or for any consideration, that a single
one of the Popish Clergy should ever receive a
farthing of stipend from the British Legislature
Grave persons in this country have frequently at-
tempted to ridicule the cry of " the Church in
danger," when measures have been proposed in
Parliament to emancipate the Catholics ; but that
cry never rose above a murmur, compz red
with the tempests of wrath and indignation
with which the very mention of bestowing
a portion of the public bounty on the Irish
Priesthood has always hitherto been re-
colvpd by the whole strength of the Romish
faction in Ireland. But this is the age of miracles,
and " his very Serene and Reverend Highness of
.11ohenlohe " really seems to have performed
wonders within the last little month upon " the
Deputation " of Catholic Leaders. Either through
f4is instrumentality, or the force of " Grand
Dinners from Mr. Cobbett and others, together
with a slight and novel intermixture among ra-
tional society in London, verily this entire troop

of rent-eaters have been marvellously wrought
upon of late. Does Mr. O'Connell now see any
peril to his religion from the payment of the
Popish Priests out of the British Treasury ? Quite
otherwise. Ile approves of such a proceeding, and
in doings° echoes the very sentiments we have so
often stated as to the beggarly mode in which the
Romish Clergy of Ireland at present obtain their
emoluments. 'Fine proposed stipend,says will

merely enable our superlative (we forget the par-
ticular epithet) Priesthood to extend their cha-
rities, instead of being themselves, as they now
are, almost dependent on Charity. If this lesson
do not teach the Irish, they ought not to he

taught. The opinion, however, as recorded, is
- wotth its weight in gold, and we congratulate
ourselves exceedingly on -having such an autho-

rity as the great leader of the Catholics come
roUrid at last to support our side of the question
tiOhtst himself and the defunct Association. May

w*.itot from these premises flatter ourselves

that a little 'nlbre reflection wilk likewise con"-
•-rvilice 'Mr. O'Connell Vint Maynooth College
would be much better (balling, on. such a, subject

is natural) in England than where it stands at
present. In short, after he joins us in think-
ing that the Romish Clergy ought to receive
their salaries out of the Exchequer, we must
despair of nothing—for when once reason and
loyalty find entrance into a man's head or habits,
there is no saying where the tide may stop. But
upon the subject of paying the Popish Clergy,
we must be permitted to observe, that we hope
the good offices of the Legislature regarding that
Body will not end there. The establishment of
Nunneries, Convents, Monasteries, and other
Ecclesiastical fortresses, is now going on with
rapid strides in Ireland, and the bequests
made for those purposes by superstitious old
women► (there is no distinction of gender appli-
cable), who in their last moments are at the
mercy of a set of wily Priests, threaten to
place, eme long, a vast amount of property at the
disposal of that Holy Caste. Can any points be
more worthy of Parliamentary attention ? Private
mad-houses is this country are under the surveil-
lance of public inspectors, and the affinity be-
tween those receptacles and convents is so close,
as to warrant something of a like security for the
rights of individuals. We suppose, however, we
must trust to time for regulations of this salutary
tendency—they are nevertheless indispensable,
and should not be lost sight of.