The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-24 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, SEPT. 23.—Wind S. by W.—Arrived the Thomas,
Bell, from St. Vincents; Fame, Newburn ; Humility, Dobson,
and Britannia, Alder, from Memel. Passed through from the
River the Protector, Dickenson, for New York ; and Waterloo
Packet, Saxton, for Cork ; 4 p. m. the whole of • the outward-
bound are under weigh, with a light breeze from S. by W.
POILTSMOU TII, SEPT. 23.—Wind E.S.E.--Arrived the
Sovereign transport, Wells, from Halifax. Sailed the Nauti-
lus, Tripe, for the Cape of Good Hope. His Majesty's ship
Albion, for Lisbon, went out of Imbour, and remains at Spit-
head ; his Majesty's ship Scout came in to be paid oft:
FAL MOU T n, SEPT. 22.—Wind W.—No a -rivals or mailings.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 22.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Emu-
lous, Humble, from St. Vincents; Eclipse, Iluxtable, -frOtu
Jamaica ; Purgon, Thomson, Savannah ; Lancashire Wildb,
Neale, from Lisbon, in six days.

The Hon. Company's ship Thomas Grenville, from London,
with troops for Calcutta, was all well on the 2d of July;, in
lat. 4. 30. 5. long. 21. 30. W.
Arrived off Dover the Prince Coburg, Whitmore, from
Tobago.
The Robert, Crowe, from Bangor to Newcastle, struck near
Tuscar the 18th instant, and was abandoned.

[From the Agent to Lloyd's at Genoa, dated 14th September.]
" The Commerce of Genoa, of 60 guns, and the Nereid brig
of war, with four transports, having on hoard the Consuls for
the sundry ports in the Levant, sailed from hence the llth;inst.
They will probably call off Tripoli to settle the difference exist-
ing with that Bashaw."

GIBRALTAR, AUG. 29.—A brig and a schooner
were yesterday cruising in sight of Estopoua ;
they took a Spanish bombard two leagues east of
that roadstead, and chased a guarda costo close
in shore at Marbella.

EXTRAORDINARY METEOR.—From a private
letter of recent date, from Guelderland, its
Holland :—" The rains we had in August have
contributed much to the improvement of the
crops in general ; especially after the great
and intolerable heat of which I gave you,au
account in one of my former letters. In -the
latter end of August, a singular aerial pheno-
menon, took place at eleven o'clock in the even-
ing, viz. a very considerable blue light was seen,
which gave a most extraordinary appearance to
all surrounding objects, so much so, that, not-
withstanding it was a full moon, and fine clear
weather, it so frightened the servants, who
were standing in the garden behind our house,
that one of them came running into our room, in
the greatest state of alarm, to mention the cir-
cumstance. The same appearance was noticed
at the very moment through the whole country,
which proves that the substance or combustible
fluid which emitted it must have been at a great
elevation,"

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning Papers, Sept. 24, 18'25.

[MORNING POST.]
PARLIAMENT.—We rejoice to have it in our
power to put an end to the general anxiety I
created by the expectation of an immediate Dis-'
solution .of Parliament. The subject was amply
canvassed in the late Cabinet Council, and, we
are authorised to state, it has been finally deter-
mined that there shall he No Dissolution of Par-
liament this year. There never was a time, cer-
tainly, at which an Administration could have
more confidently appealed to the gratitude and
sense of a nation than at present ; but as there is
no fear of an interruption of the peace, prospe-
rity, and general contentment which we enjoy,
there is also no reason for hastening an appeal,
which, whenever it is made, will find the people
fully as sensible of the advantages and blessings
of onr enlightened system- of policy, as they can
possibly be now.

Mr. Martin, whose complaint against one of
our contemporaries for the re-publication of a
libel inciting to his assassination, had engrossed
much attention during the last three or four days,
obtained yesterday all that he wanted, the indi-
vidual in question being held to bail, himself in
8001. and two snreties in 4001. each. In the
course of the proceedings the Counsel for the de-
fendant indulged in a latitude of language which
he took for wit, but which more nearly resembled
insult. This was borne for a considerable time
with great good humour by the benevolent
Member, although his favourite measure, one
which does honour to his name and to the country
in general, was loaded with abuse. At last,
however, an epithet escaped him, which induced
the Bench to deprive him of the privilege of a
reply. The burst of indignation, however natu-
ral, was the more to be regretted, as the attacks
to which be had till then patiently submitted,
were really of a nature which required an answer;
and had the Hon. Gentleman only trusted to his
wit, there is no doubt that it would have inflicted
condign punishment on his assailant.—(lbid.)

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The English Funds varied but little yesterday
morring.—Consols for Account opened at 881-1,
and closed at 88-11. Exchequer Bills were
higher, 4 and 5 premium. In the Foreign Market
there was great alarm, particularly among the
holders of Spanish Bonds and South American
Securities. Old Spanish Bonds opened at 19, fell
to 17, and were, at the close, 18 to 188. The
rumours of a Loan to Spain, exclusive of these
Bonds, continued to be currently reported ; but,
as far as we have yet been able to trace them,
without any foundation. Colombian Bonds were
75? to 76 ; Mexican Scrip, 10 dis.; in Greek, as
in the Stocks of Continental Europe, there %vs,
little variation. The prices of Shares were en-
tirely nominal.
41.* The leading article in this Paper to-day consists merely
of comments on Mr. Martin, of no interest to the Public, parti-
cularly as we have given an account of yesterday's proceedings
at Bow-street, which concluded the business there, sad referred
it to another tribunal.

[NEW TIM Es.]
Notwithstanding the very confident expecta-
tiou,.which has been entertained in various guar-
terss of an immediate dissolution of Parliament,
we can assert with confidence that there will be
no dissolution this year.

We have received the Bogota Paper, El Con.
stifigional, of the 14th July. It is rather singu-
lar that the proceedings of the Colombian Con:
gress should not be brought up to a later date in
this Paper than the 18th of February. What
would our Readers say, if instead of laying be-
fore them, as we often do, a long debate within
live or six hours after its close, we were to wait
four or five months ? These things only show
how much in its infancy Representative Go.
♦ernment is among the South Americans. As
to the Constitutionnel, it is certainly by no
means an ill-conducted Paper, though its ap•
pearance is somewhat curious—the three first
pages being wholly Spanish, and the fourth
page partly Spanish and partly English. The
most important intelligence in this Paper is
that received from Peru to the Ist of 'May,
which we fiud copied into the Jamaica Papers
just received. Bolivar had set off for Upper
Peru, and General Rodit still held out in the
fortress of Callao. The Peruvian Government
had appointed a Minister Plenipotentiary to Eng-
land. This is proceeding a little rapidly. We
have only sent to Peru a Consul, a commercial
rather than a political officer. It is probable that
agents of a higher diplomacy will ere long be
appointed to that destination ; but in the mean.
time the new Republic, naturally enough, grasps
at-a closer union with a Power so preponderant
as tbat of England. It appears that the town of
Chuquisca has declared for the independent
cause, and that part of the forces of Olaneta
have also come over to the Independents,

[BRITISII PIt.ESS.I
. We lay before our readers to-t-i 4, from several
,sources, a great deal of additional intelligence
~from South America. Our advices from Bogota
..are dated the 20th July, and from Lima the Ist
Nay. The Deputies were arriving to the general
Congress of the new American States at Panama..
Three Representatives from Peru had arrived ;
their names are not mentioned. Mr. Alaman has
been deputed from Mexico, and Molina
.from
-Guatemala. During the absence of the C,,torn-
..biAmDeputi,?.s, Mr. Ravenga. wall,fill
.:the .office of Minister of Fina;!ce ; and nespito
-.will hold- the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. The
proceedings of this Congress are Ole objects of
-anxious attention. It is
.probable that the dis.'
pule between Brazil and Bucnos Ayres will be
discussed there, and some general resolution
adopted on behalf. of the allied Republics. The
.:-Colombian papers contain some dispatches from
Gen. Sucre, which have ceased to be of importance
since we had information of Olaneta's defeat
from Buenos Ayres. The correspondence .be-
tween the Papal Court and the Colombian Envoy
will be,perused with considerable interest. The

Spanish Government is evidently in high favour
at Rome ; at least as compared with the new Re-
public,
on which the Pope seems to have looked
with indifference, if not with hostility, until the
course of events made it necessary to adopt a
more favourable policy towards the Colombians.
Their Envoy had actually received orders to de-
part from the Papal States ; but as things have
happened, the Cardinal Secretary of State de-
clares the order to have been a forgery, and that
both the Pope and he himself were equally sur-
prised to hear that such an order had been is-
sued ! The Colombians believe, or pretend to
believe, that this order was forged by the
Spanish Embassy. We have no doubt it
was perfectly genuine, but circumstances have
since rendered it expedient to disavow the
act. We are glad, however, to observe, that
the Colombians have not forgotten the " Pastoral
Letters of his Holiness, exciting the people of
America to the violation of their oaths, and to
anarchy." The Decree of the Dictator of Para-
guay, for the suppression of all convents and
houses of religious orders, is a document, indica-
tive of the prompt and decisive character of its
author. With all his prejudices against foreign
intercourse, Francis does not appear ignorant of
the art of promoting the welfare of his people,
or apprehensive of carrying into execution any
measure he judges conducive to that end.

[TUE TIMES.]
We have much pleasure in expressing, on an-
thentic information, our belief that all hopes of
raising money here on the part of Spain, however
favourable the terms, without an acknowledgment
of the Constitutional debt, have been quite ex-
tinguished. So recently as the visit of several
eminent capitalists to this city, a proposition was
made to them by the Spanish Government for
administering to the necessities of Ferdinand
by a loan, giving them carts blanche as to
terms, except that notice was to be taken of
the bonds of the Cortes. There was no act of
submission, DO degradation even in providing
the security for the repayment of this debt,
which Ferdinand would not have acquiesced
in, could this difficulty only have been sur-
, mounted. Cellectors might have been appoint-
ed for his whole revenue, such as it is, under
the immediate coatroul of the contractors, and

the wealth of the clergy, had they insisted on
it, might have been made in a great degree re-
sponsible for the money advanced. The gentle-
men alluded to, however, remained firm. Their
stake in the securities of other Governments was

too large to allow them to sanction by any act of
theirs, and from any motives of ulterior benefit,
a breach of public faith. They therefore trans-
mitted to the Minister of his Catholic Majesty a
declaration, signed by every member of the firm,
that underany circumstances, and whatever induce-
ments were held out, they would never advance
money to Spain, unless a recognition of the bonds of
the Cortes formed one of the conditions of the
contract. It was thought right, once for all, and
in this direct and peremptory manner, to pledge
every partner to refuse both now and hereafter to
become a party to an act of injustice, and to se-
cure themselves from the insult of any more such
propositions from the most degraded creature that
ever bore the name of King in Europe.