The Sun.
London, England, 1825-05-03 00:00:00

MERC'ANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, MAY S.W.•---Passed through for the
River, the Regent Packet, Collins, from St. Michael's. Remain
the Honourable Company's ship Buckinghamshire for China.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 2.—Wind S.—Arrived the Maria,
Hill, from Zante ; and George Canning, Perriot, from Galipali.
FALMOUTH, MAY S.--Arrived the Duke of
Kent Packet from Lisbon, sailed the 24th ult. Sailed the
Matilda, .Miller, for Oporto.
LIVERPOOL, MAY I.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived the Spartan,
Young, from Jamaica ; Three Sons, Olive, Maranhain ; Castor,
Simpson, Princes Island (Africa), sailed the 28th January in
company with the Lady Combermere ; Hannah, Grahana, from
Charistone, sailed the 3d ult. in company with the Florida, and
Frederick, for this port ; and the South Caroline,., for the Clyde.;
the Perfect, Mary Catherine, and Doris, were to sail next day.;
Two Brothers, Gibbons, from Smyrna; and Churchill, Hors-
well, from Galipoli.

Arrived off Holyhead the Silas, Richard, from New York ;
and the Catherine, Adams, from Savannah, bound to LiverpooL
Arrived off Margate the Eggerdou Castle, from Jamaica,
sailed the 13th March.

ST. PATRICK'S FEMALE ORPHAN SOCIETY.

Yesterday the Anniversary Meeting of this
charitable Institution was held at the Freemasons"favern, on
which occasion his Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX took
the Chair, and was supported, by several Noblemen and Gentle-
men of distinction. There was a very full attendance of ladies
in the gallery and the side slips.
After the customary toasts had been drank with due devo-
tion, the ROYAL CHAIRMAN, after returning thanks for the
honour that had been done him in drinking his health (which
had just be -n drank. with immense applause) said, that he re-
ceived much satisfaction front perceiving that the numbers that
att2nded en that occasion were much greater than on any former
instance; from
.which circumstance he drew an iniwnce,
t a the, e were more supporters than ever of the poorer classes
of the Irish. He had always been . taught to believe
that education was power; and he was persuaded,. that the
oftener such a discussion took place, the more easily and rea-
dily any objection would be. got rid of. It might be urged,
that the schools were very limited, and therefore little calm-
lated to do good; to such an objection his answer was,' that
since the: Catholic religion was suffering heavily and bitterly
under the penalties of penal statutes, it was doing a good and
charitable office to afford education to only one child. He (lid
not intend to enter then into the great question;. he should
have an opportunity to do that elsewhere, and he should, per-
haps, feel it to be his duty in that other place, to express him-
self more warmly on that subject.--(Loud applause.)—But thus
much he would now say, that as he had the honour to belong to
the House of Brunswick, which had been introduced into this
county on the principle of toleration, and as history, front
which he drew his data, afforded no instance in. which Catho-
lics as Catholics, were not. the zealous supporters of liberty awl
independence, he had no doubt that if Catholics were admitted
to their full privileges as subjects of Great Britain, they would
be found good and fast friends of the constitution, of the laws,
and of royal ty. —( Applause.) •
' On " the health of the Duke of Norfolk" being drank, his
Grace returned thanks.
The Duke of Su ssEx then proposed, " Success to .thAAa-
rity which they were met to celebrate," which was drank with
three times three.

Immediately after this the children entered the room, headed
by the Stewards, and presented a very healthy appearance. His Royal Highness presented several medals to the most me-
ritorious of the children, and'endeavoured to impresslbem
.the necessity of continuing to pursue the same moral and lb-
duStrious course by which they had 'alrec.dy distinguished
themselves.

Mr. O'CONNELL, in saying a few words in favour of the need not assure the Meeting that he was an unpaid
advocate: he stood before them as Counsel for those Children,
because his heart told him that it was a good cause, and that
his best reward was in his own heart; his judment told him
that but for their protecting hands,, the bOys that surrounded
him might be prowling about the streets -of London, and •be..
come an anxiety and burden to ,their parents; as to the girls,
they might otherwise sink into infamy beyond description,
and beyond relief; as it now was, they received eduCationl—
the most valuable of all blessings, and were daily giving
proofs of the advantages they derived from it; the charity
bestowed a double blessing—on those that gave and those
that received ; it ups:l that false school of Political Eco-
nomy, by which it was urged, that by giving education, you
opened the gates to misery and want. Could he be persuaded
by such a dogma ? No : he shut his ears to it, and he beiought
all present, to shew their sense of the doctrine, by continuing
their bounties to those poOr children.—(Applause.)—If, they
wanted example for their benevolence, had they not a royal
example in the Prince of a family that he trusted wbulti
continue to reign in England till it was lost in the liateis
of eternity ;—(Applause)—a Prince of whom,. even..in 'his
presence, he might be permitted to say, that he had
brought all the force of eloquence to the excellent cause of
charity. Next to that example, he would appeal to British
generosity.—(Applause.)—Wherever there was want and-mi-
sery, an appeal to that generosity was never' in vain, and
Ireland had peculiarly felt the advantages of ' such 'an
peal. After that, there was . but one more class to whom
he would appeal ; he would appeal to the lri sh who then
heard him, In ancient history it had been said, that
the Irish fought for the cause of their country : he knew
not whether that was "" fable, for alas ! the present his-
tory of Ireland was of a more painful complexion ; but
still, could there-be any thing more consolatory to the (Tying
Irishman, than the knowledge that he left behind him children
that would be taken care of by his benevolent countrymen ? He
besought them to remember, that in acting up to the objects of
the Charity, they were relieving the dying sufferings of the fa_
ther—the pangs of the mother who was wailing over the Mister-
tune of her offspring.—(Applause.)—He had heard all;the elo-
quence and talent of England ; the fire of Fox, or Canning, or
Brougham ; but he had never met with any thing there, or any
where else, that went so home to the heart as the lifting up of
the innocent hands that surrounded him, and that were looking
to the three sources to which he hid appealed for educatien
the greatest of all blessings.—(Applause.)
The children then quitted the room ; and after some other
toasts had been drank with applause, his Royal Highness re-
tired, amid the cheers of all persons.

SUDDEN DEATII.-Yesterday as Mrs. Eliza-
beth Astel,-an elderly woman residing in East Smithfield, was
proceeding along Palace-yard on a visit to one of her children
at nurse in Orchard-street, Westminster, she was snddenly
seized with a violent fit of coughing, and untbrtunately burst-
ing a blood-vessel of the lungs caused her death in about two
hours after. An Inquest was held on the body last evening,
when the Jury returned their verdict--" Died by the visitation
of God."

•
Amongst a litter of kittens, brought forth in the
house of Mr. Warrington, dyer, Byrom-street, Liverpool, one
of them had two mouths, two noses, the hinder parts of swo
bodies, two tails, and seven feet.
There is a man in Paris who is very Successful
in curing all disorders'of dogs, which
. he does by taking them
home, and locking them into an airy moth where •he gives
them some water, a little bread, •and a dry bone. to. pick.; be.
sides which, by way of exercise, he makes them skip about
two or three times a day under the gentle application of a
horsewhip. A physician of no mean celebrity recommends
a similar regimen for the gout.

THE LONDON JOUILNALS.

- . DAtiel-
Extracts from the Morning Papers, May 3, 1825.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The Catholic Question is one of the most hack-
tatyed of the present day. For five and twenty
years it kas been a leading subject of discussion
in Parliament, and since the Whigs of 1806 com-
mitted shipwreck upon it, the country has viewed
it as a
_matter of great party importance. At the
present day the Cabinet is nearly divided re-
specting it, and to carry the equipoise farther
'than it was ever known before, the Sovereign is
favourable, and his Royal Brother and heir pre-
sumptive is most adverse, to the cause. Here,
then, is a question favoured by. Pitt and Fox,
Castlereagh and Canning, Wellesley and Wynn,
and opposed by Sidmouth and Colchester, Eldon
and Goulburn, Peel and Dawson. Yet is the
carrying of such a question free from danger—
that is, from possible danger? Ireland returns
one hundred Members to the }loose of COM-
mons. Of this Ireland six-sevenths is Roman
Catholic. It is natural, it is right to sup-
pose, that the six parts will obtain an en-
tire ascendancy over the seventh, and return
one hundred Roman Catholic Members. No
matter how far they may now appear from _this
ascendancy, it is indisputable that it is the ten-
dency of the mass of the population to prevail
over an insulated party, if no barrier interrupt
or restrain the natural level. It is then quite
plain that, ultimately, the 6-7ths—the Roman
,Catholics, will return all the Members for Ire-
land—that is one hundred Members of our House
of Commons. Suppose that done—suppose them
all Roman Catholic, surely they will entertain a
fellow-feeling upon the subject of religion; surely
they will combine and agree among themselves
upon all public questions. If they do so, they con-
troul the proceedings of the Lower House of
Parliament. Mr. Wilberforce, with about thirty
adherents, was able, by transferring his, party to
this or that side, to awe the Treasury, and com-
mand respect from the Opposition. If an O'Con-
nell had 100 Members at his command, he could,
in fact,effect, comparatively, whatever he pleased.
He would be more powerful than the first Lord
of the Treasury, and controul every movement
of Government. Such a knot of men, constantly
attending, standing firmly by one another, would
become in effect the House of Commons. They
could not pass laws, because the Lords would
not be influenced by them ; but they could
obstruct Ministers, and compel there to adapt
their measures to their wishes. This would
be exercising an authority over the Ca-
binet ; and it is well known that the Cabinet
coutrouls both Houses of Parliament, or must
cease to be the Cabinet. The question seems
much more complicated and difficult than at first
view it would appear. It is easy to get over all
embarrassment by saying that Roman Catholic
Senators care nothing for their peculiar dogmas,
but if they do not, why all this struggle to make
those very dogmas passable in the Senate ? These
are mere hints. Hereafter it may be right to
enter more largely into the different views which
the question presents.

E TIM ES.I
It is stated in the Bombay Papers last received
that the booty captured in Kittor amounted to I'2
Lacs of rupees, about 150,0001. sterling. Is the
basis laid here, we may ask, for the same species
of glaring injustice as that practised towards the
captors in the well-known Deccan case? There
is no oppression at which the heart sickens so
much as that which takes place generally under
our system of prize-money distribution, but par-
ticularly that which relates to the apportioning
of booty captured in India, wherein every petty
excuse for delay seems to be unfeelingly resorted
to. Why not authorize the Governments of
fodia, in all cases of undisputed prize, to make
an immediate distribution on the spot, instead of
deferring it for years, as is the case at present,
until many of the brave claimants, by the course
of nature, are mingled with the dust ?

Last night Mr. Huskisson brought forward his
motion for the issue of the bonded wheat. We
regret to say, that he proposed a duty of 10s. per
quarter on its liberation. This is.like opPressingi
au acquitted prisoner with heavy gaol-fees, when
in truth he ought to hive been remunerated for
4-hp severity and duration of his unmerited impri-
sonment. This grain has already cost the owners
about 86s. per quarter, to whiCh the duty of lOs.
rust be added, making the whole cost 06s. per
quarter. It must likewise be observed, that the
influx of even this quantity (300,000 qrs.) into
the market, would delay the desirable crisis at
which foreign grain might be admitted, if the
managers of the averages were ever diSposed to
let that crisis arrive.—(Mid.)

HORNING CHRONICLE.]
The amusement which the allusion of Mr.'('.
Courtenay to the `Thirty-nine Articles. occasioned
in the House on Friday night was very edifying.
The Honourable Member said, he
iw;01114 almost
venture to say, that a very great majority, of thole
he',was now addressing never bad read the articles
of their. religion, and this was received with ahearty
Ta'ngh, Which, we suri'pose, was direCted
against
his simplicity in making any exceptions from his
However, when they found that he .did
tint' think a tit the'ivOrse of.thetn ,for giving the
Thirty-nine Articles the go-by, and even went so
far -as to say, " that the greater part of Ahem
related to things. notut all necessary for any one
to believe,' or evento entertain," and that it was
pu means requiied,'pr of the slightest use
_tol
form an opinion about therm one way or the other.`l
The laugh soon settled into, applause, and he was
Piudli Cheered. By the bye; a bitsk controversy
has been carried on between the Bishop of Ches-
ter' and Mr, Charles Butler on . this subject,
arising put of an assertion of the • latter in his
Book- of the Roman Cathol.FC Chttrch..The
pillets of these two Gentler en to lie founik
iti;t lsOmber of tile,. Pamphleteer just
poblished;'- Butler does not, it seems, relish;
the-tate with which Church of England_lien sub-',
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