The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-10 00:00:00

MER.CANTILE SHIPPING•

) DEAL, AUG. 9.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived and remain, the
Schofield, --, from the westward; William and. Ann,
Goodall, from Petersburgh ; Ann, Cortes, from Memel; Arab,
Baker, from Petersburgh. Arrived from the River and re.
main, the Ant, Watson, for Buenos Ayres; Britannia, Siee.
man, for Odessa; London, Smith, fOr Quebec ; Asia, Ward,
for ditto • Lively, Baxter, for Bordeaux; Henry Cerf, Coyne.
for Quebec; Lang, Lusk, for New South Wales; Prince of
Waterloo, Deary, for Trieste ; Reliance, Harrison, for Oporto ;
Thetis, Green, for Quebec; Amphitrite, Brightman, from
Yarmouth, for Leghorn. Put back and remain, the Medway
convict ship for New South AVales ; and Fanny, Kemp, for
the South Seas. Sailed the Elizabeth, Perryman, for f ire-
michi ; the rest of the outward-bound remain..
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Cora,
Le Grand, from Tarragona, and is under quaraqtine. Passed
by the Funshal, M`Pherson, from Madeira. Sailed his Ma-
jesty's ship Romney, for Quebec.
FALMOUTH, AUG. 8.--Wind W.--Arrived the Star.mer
packet from Lisbon, sailed the 31st July. Sailed the Sand-
wich packet for Lisbon ; Kingfisher, ditto, for America ; and
Redpole, ditto, for the Mediterranean.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. B.—Wind W.N.W.-L—Arrived the
Martha, Haw, from Barbadoes; Seneca, Lively, from New
York; Pelorus, Goodwin, and Hiram, Gorley, from Messina;
Sylph, Turpin, from Sicily ; Decatur, Carsdop, from Charle-
ston ; Marquess Wellington, , from Mararharu ;.
Felicity, ---- front. the Mediterranean ; and the Solo4t,
Jay, from New Orleans.

Arrived off Dover, the Aretanus, Dill, from New York.

SHIP WRECKS.

KINGSTON (JAMAICA), JUNE 11.—We have learnt with
considerable regret, that the ship Oceab, Furlong, of Brist4l,
which went out of the Old Harbour on Monday last, fully
laden, went on Morris's Reef. where she was lying when the
Rambler left 'Old Harbour. The schooner West Indian and
sloop Adventure, with several boats from the shipping, were
alongside of her, to endeavour to save the cargo. It is ti x
ascertained that she has 14 feet water in her hold, and that
only about 80 or 90 casks of her upper tier of cargo cart be
saved ; and even that depends on the state of the weather,
which has been very boisterous for some time past.
Aux CAPES, JUNE 6.—The fine brig Clarement, Gan_
den, from London, bound to Port-31orant, in ballast, struck
on La Folle (Fool's Rock), at one a. m. on the 28th of April,
and became a total wreck. A small part of the vessel's mate-
rials was saved by the captain and crew, and brought hither on
the 29th, as they were obliged to abandon the vessel, in conse-
quence of the natives threatened longer by the wreck.—The
smack Sons of Commerce, Gibbs, sailed from Jacinel on the
15th ult., bound to London, with a cargo of coffee in hags,
and at two a.m. on the 17th ult. struck on La Folle, and the
following day became a complete wreck. Every assistance was
rendered her from this place, and about 470 bags of coffee, and
the greater part of the vessel's materials were saved from the
wreck, all of which were brought hither and sold for account
of those concerned.

GIGANTIC ORGANIC REMAINS.

(From an American Paper.)

We lately mentioned that the bones of a non-
descript animal of an' immense size, arid .larger
than any bones that have hitherto been noticed
by naturalists, had been discovered about 20
miles from New Orleans, in the alluvial ground
formed by the Mississippi river, and the lakes,
and but a short distance from the sea. It now
appears that these gigantic remains had been
disinterred by a Mr. W. Schofield, of New Or-
leans, who spent about a year in this arduous
undertaking. • A fragment of a cranium is stated
to measure 22 feet in length; in its broadest part
4 feet high, and perhaps 9 inches thick, and it is
said to weigh 12001 b. The largest extremity of this
bone is thought evidently to answer to the }lonian,
scapula ; it tapers off to a point, and retains a
flatness to the termination. From these facts it
is inferred that this bone constituted a fin, or fen-
der. One of its edges, from alternate exposures to
the tide and atmosphere, has become sponey or
porous, but generally it is in a perfect state of ossi-
fication. A large groove or canal presents itself in
the superior portion of this bone, upon the sides
.of which considerable quantities of ambergris
may be collected, which appears to have suffered
little or no decomposition or change 'by age. it
burns with a beautiful bright flame, and emits an
odoriferous smell while burning; it is of a greasy
consistence, similar to adipocere. It is evident
that there was a corresponding fin, or fender.-r--
The animal, therefore, must have been 50 feet in
breadth from one extremity of a fig, to the other,
allowing for wear and tear, as well as a dispro-
portionate width of the back to the length of the
fins. There are several of the dorsal vertebrae,
and one of the lumbar, arid a bone answering to
the cocygis in our anatomy. The vertebra are
sound, and corresponding in size to the largest
bone ; the protuberances of the vertebra,are three
feet in extent ; they lead to the supposition that
the animal had considerable protuberances on the
back.; the body of each vertebrae is at least 20
inches diameter, and as many in length, the tube or
• calibre for containing the spinal marrow is 6 hichea
in diameter ; some of the arterial and nervous
indentations, or courses, are very visible. There
is a bone similar to our as calris, one foot in
length, and eight inches in diameter. • The New'
Orleans people are much puzzled, as well they
may be, to ascertain the class of animals to
which 'these extraordinary bones belong. From
the circumstance of ambergris having beers
found on the interior surface of the largest
bone, it is supposed they are of marine origin ;
and the Editor of the New Orleans Gazette, who
examined • them, says, that this examination has
'convinced him of the truth of the. extraordinary
relations given by Kircher, of the Kniken and
Norway sea-snake, ; and, judging from the Bp-
perirance of the - portion qf, the cranium which
he had seen, he conchides, that if this.mOn-
ster was of the balance species, its length
could not he less than 250 , feet. It is stated,
that from the place. whence these remains were
disinterred, a large carriivorous tooth was found,
and had been carried away. It is ail stated,
that in the year 1799, many remains of anti-di-
luvian creation were taken up near the same
place, and shipped to Europe. Mr. Schofield
feels the most perfect conviction that he could iet
a slight expense collect many more.. He field
been hithertb prevented by the high state of die
water from obtaining the whole; but there Was
reason to hope that the skeleton might be c4lll-
- disinterred.

1 RE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
fiont (lie Morning Papers. Aug.lo; 1825.

LMORNING HERALD.]
There is no more effectual way of disguising
the truth than by raising a plausible fiction in its
stead. This is as often done unconsciously as by
►lesign. In the case of Ireland we have, at this
moment, a striking instance of both. The Ca-
tholic lawyers, who, it is clear, want only silk
gowns and professional fees ar:d honours, wish
to persuade the people that emancipation, as t:tey
call it, is the true panacea for all their griev-
ances ; while a great body of the aristocracy
avow the same thing. Now the lawyers, we be-
reve, know very well, that Catholic Emancipa-
tion would act but as a drop in the ocean, in be-
nefiting Ireland ; while the Noblemen in ques-
tion►, whase eyes are hoodwinked to the real
cause, seriously adopt this fictitious one. It is
high time that those latter persons should be
undeceived ; because, if we mistake not, they
are attributing the evils of Ireland to a wrong,
cause, while they are themselves, in a great de-
gree, the real and true one. The great source
of misfortune to Ireland—the cause of the
poverty, the wretchedness, the ignorance and in-
subordination of so large a part of her population,
is the absence of the landed proprietors from
their estates, and their withdrawing from the
country the rent and produce of those estates.
Facts are on this, as on all other occasions, of
most importance : and without any wish to pry
unnecessarily into men's private concerns, we
should like to see an accurate list of the Noble-
Melt and others having estates of 1,0001. a year
and upwards in Ireland, who never spend one
farthing of it in that country. We have at this
moment a partial list of the kind before us; but
it is too circumscribed to justify its publica-
tion. The estates of the Nobility, the City of
London, and others so situated, are immense ; and
we are quite sure that we do not overrate the
rental thus withdrawn at 200,0001. per ann. The
most obvious way of viewing the importance of this
to the community, is to follow the reverse through
-few of its details and channels. Now if 200,0001.
were spent in Ireland, instead of being sent .out
of it, it would in all probability be returned by
the various shopkeepers, &c., four times in the
year, making an actual return in trade to such
shopkeepers of nearly a million of money, and
if these shopkeepers obtained a profit of 15 per
cent on this 1,000,000/. a year, there would be
a return of profits in trade of 150,0001. a year
or nearly the amount of the original sum ex-
pended ; and allowing 301. for the annual main-
tenance of each individual, there would be a
population of 5,000 people provided for out
of the profits resulting from keeping at home
200,000/. a year of capital, instead of its being
sent out of the country to be spent in England,
France, &c. But this is a very confined view of the
matter, and traces this capital only through its
first stages of application. Instead of 200,000/. a
year absentee remittance causing a loss- of
trade to Ireland of one million a year, it more
probably would be found, if pursued through all
its ramifications, to cause a loss of two or three
millions a year of return in trade ; and thus, in
fact, to obstruct and defeat the very first channels
of public and individual wealth. In this view of
the subject we say nothing of moral causes ; of
the advantages resulting to the community front
a resident gentry, wholly unconnected. with
money—advantages much too numerous to be
even alluded to now. But taking the matter, as
INe. have here considered it, merely as on of dry
calcalation, we would ask what can Catholic
Emancipation be in comparison to it ? Nor can
we avoid remarking how provokingly absurd it
is to hear high-minded honourable absentees
talking of Catholic Emancipation as the measure
which would relieve Ireland, wi►ile they hold in
their own hands and in their own pockets at once
tl►e cause of the evil and the only means of its
CRTC.

[MORNING POST.]
A Supplement to the Gazette i, to appear this
day, with his Majesty's Order in Council for re-
gulating, the performance of Quarantine. T,he
strict execution of what remains of the Quaran-
tine Laws is indeed become absolutely necessary
on account of the fury with which the Plague
rages at Alexandria. The free admission of ves-
sels and cottons from that place would now
create the most wide alarm throughout this coun-
try; whose severe regulations have saved it for
the last hundred and sixty years from such awful
visitations. The general apprehension that those
regulations have been imprudently modified, will
be confirmed or removed by the tenour of this
Order in Council. It will dispel the obscurity
and doubts in which the late changes made in
these laws are still enveloped, and will inform
the. public of the real nature and extent of the
precautionary measures which it is still possible
to take. Why we find that they are still efficient,
and that in our eagerness to encourage the Cotton
Plantations of the Pacha of Egypt we have made
no sacrifice calculated to endanger our safety,

[TII 1: TIMES.]
Yesterday we received Mexican papers to the
3d of June. Whatever difficulties may stand in
the way of the ratification of the treaty concluded
between this country and the new Republic, no
explanation of the points in dispute can be col-
lected from the journals before us. It is true
that much 'discussion had arisen in the Mexican
Ctingress when the treaty was submitted to the
consideration of the Chambers, on a motion for
adding an additional article, containing a formal
recognition of the independence of Mexico. The
r,-suit is no-where officially stated, and is not
mentioned in the proceedings of the Congress,
the reports of which are very imperfectly given.
It is prObable that the decision took place in
a secret sitting, and from the allusions occasion-
ally made to the treaty in the Aquila, of which
we have later dates than of El Sol, it appears
That the proposition was rejected, as has already
beet, slated. The President, in, his speech on
the closing of the Session, observes that the treaty
hid. been adopted by the Congress, and says
nothing of any additional article. A letter from

a senator, addressed to the editor of ale Aguila,
dated the 11th of May, thus states how the ques-
tion then stood in the body to which he belongs:
—" It is certain that objections were made in
" the Chamber of Deputies, and are now repro-
" duced in the Senate, censuring the absence of
" an article for the express recognition 'of our
" independence by Great Britain, as the pre-
" cise basis of the commerce stipulated in the
cc

treaty. It is also certain that thirteen senators
• signed a motion for the insertion of such an
" article." This motion had been referred to a
Committee ; but the writer of the article says
" there is no fear that the Committee and the
" Senate would so far forget their duty as to
" adopt so absurd a proposition." This ses-
sion of the Congres terminated on the 21st of
May, and an account of the President's speech
has already reached us through the New York
Papers ; but we shall here quote the passage
which relates to this treaty :—" England, the
" must powerful State of Europe relative to us,
" has recognized the independence of Anahu
" ca, and that nation, which, though thou—
" sands of leagues from our coasts, may yet be
44 said to inhabit the American continents, and
" even to border on us, has, on this basis, conclud-
ed treaties of friendship, navigation, and corn-
" merce, Avhich were submitted to the consider-
" ation of the Chambers, and which have • now
" received their approbation." The President
of the Chamber of Deputies, in his reply, also
alludes to the treaty. in recapitulating the la-
bours of the Legislattre, he last of all just men-
tions " the deliberations worthy of the zealous
" representatives of this new nation, and the
44 earnest debates on the approbation of the treaty
" of commerce and friendship with the King of
" Great Britain." To these extracts we may
add one more from the leading article of the
Agrala of the 21st :
" The treaty with England is brought to a conclusion on the
part of the Mexican Republic. The Senate has at length g:-ten
its sanction, convinced of the justice- and propriety of such a
Convention, which can have no other character than that which
is impressed on it by public authority, or by two sovereign na-
tions agreeing on a measure of reciprocal utility. Advan-
tageous treaties,' says Voltaire, are produced by victories,' and
we may with truth say, that the great victory which we have
obtained over our oppressors has produced this treaty, whereby
the Republic is exhibited in the high station of a self-govern-
power."
The Aguila of the 2d of June contains an ac-
count of the presentation of Mr. Ward, the Bri-
tish Charge d'Affaires, to the President, but does
not give his speech. The President, in his reply,
reiterates the fact of Great Britain having recog-
nised MeXico as a free and independent State.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
It is quite amusing to witness the awkward
efforts which the friends of M. de Villele are
making to cover his retreat, after having been so
shamefully beaten in his scheme for converting
the Rentes. Some of them have even had the
effrontery to say, in the teeth, too, of overwhelm-
ing proofs to the contrary, that he has actually
succeeded. Such a triumph was never before
achieved in finance ; and if its honours do not
crush the victor, we are egregiously mistaken.—
The question was, the conversion of 150 millions
of Rentes, and only 30 millions are converted,
leaving an enormous defect, of 120 millions, or
four-fifths of the whole. We want no other proof
of the profound distrust with which his project
has been received in France, where the public
feeling must ultimately decide its success or mis-
carriage. If any other proof of its impracticabi-
lity were wanting, we would refer to the decision
of the Bank of France, the Directors of which
have unanimously rejected a proposal to convert
its funded property into the newly created Stock.
When a Body .so subject to ministerial influence
declares against a ministerial measure of the very
firA importance, it is not only an unerring sign
of a failure, but also an infallible indication of
the approaching fall of the Minister. However,
the latter, we are told by his bungling supporters,
is still to do wonders by means of the Sinking
Fund ; though the whole of it, if it were to be
►rnmediately appropriated to this purpose, would
not effect a conversion of a tenth part of the old
Stock into the new. But who has given the Minister
a right to divert this fund from its legitimate object,
in order to apply it, in the teeth of public feel-
ing, to the promotion of his own personal views?
His next and last resourse is the 42 Stock ; but
the" Renters now know their advantages too
well to accept the compromise; and we risk no-
tl►ing in predicting, that this part of the scheme
will be as complete a failure as the other.

[BRITISH PRESS.

We have recently received several communi-
cations on the subject of the secret movements of
the Catholic Association, with remarks on the
danger arising therefrom to the tranquillity of
Ireland. The writers appear to us to entertain
much more alarm than the occasion justifies.—
They mistake, as it appears to us, the state of
faction for the state of the country, and to draw
inferences from the one which are not at all appli-
cable to the other. Mr. Shell's language at these
public meetings is no doubt intemperate, and full
of ecitement ; the comment we made upon,
this at the time will serve to shew that his
extreme indiscretion—to give it no harsher
epithet—has not escaped us; but in our opi-
nion it is the Catholics themselves who have
most reason to complain ; a body of men who ask
for an increase of power ought, above all things,
to avoid making a parade of the mischievous pur-
poses to which they can employ that which they
already possess. An Irish orator, with an excur-
sive and warm imagination, like Mr. O'Connell,
or brimful of fancy and metaphor, like Mr. Sheil,
must always make an unfit leader in any great
cause in which his party—whether in politics or
religion—have great ends to accomplish and great
interests at stake. The Catholics are beginning
to arrange themselves under adverse banners; the
cause of this is obvious, the more reflective and
temperate cannot go equal lengths with the incon-
siderate and over-heated. They know the devoted-
ness of the lower order of Catholics to their priests;
and are aware of all the horrid excesses to, which
they may be carried, should their ignorant zeal be
misguided to purposes of revenge by their Father
Confessors. The Irish peasantry—whom sloth and
poverty have corrupted into wvetchedness— what

is emancipation to them ? The talented and opu-
lent few have no doubt much to gain, but if
they could command the multitude to their pur-
poses, and march them at their will, it is not
through such means they could gain it. They will
no doubt say it is not through such means they
would attempt it. We believe not. But when men
become enthusiasts in any cause, though their
good intention may be trusted, their discretion
cannot. They carry away others, and are carried
away themselves infinitely farther than they had
intended. Every step of censurable imprudence
leads them farther astray, and they are at length
obliged to follow that multitude which they are
no longer able to guide. It is not long since
that the language and proceedings of Mr. O'Con-
nell alid his party were full of conciliation and
sound policy. We hope they will decide on re.
turning to this course ; it is decidedly the most
prudent, and will give their more enlightened
friends a much better assurance of their wisdom
than is to be found in their revival of their asso-
ciations.