The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-06 00:00:00

EMORNING CHRONICLE.]

We are assured by a gentleman of the highest
respectability, connected with the Silk Trade,
that a more respectable Meeting of the Silk Ma-
nufacturers than that of Monday last, was sel-
dom, if ever, seen, and that the trade might be
considered as most fairly represented on that oc-
casion. We are assured, by the same individual
(and few have had more opportunities of ascer-
taining the fact), that as regards the sale of
manufactured silk goods, trade was never
more stagnant than it has been for the last
three months, taken generally. He assures
us also (of course, we can know nothing
ourselves of the circumstance), that enormons
quantities of contraband silk goods have been
imported into the country, if not by the sanction,
at least under the connivance of the Customs.
With respect to the establishment of Silk Mills,
referred to by us as in the course of erection,

he observes, it will remain to be seen whether
they can be furnished with silk for the employ-
ment of hands when finished.—There has been a
diminished importation of silk. So much with
regard to matter of fact. With respect to the
arguments of the Silk Manufacturers, that is
another question.—We have not leisure, however,
to enter on it now.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
At the date of the last advises from Lima,
Callao still held out ; but as it was computed,
that the stock of provisions, which it had at the
beginning of the siege, must be nearly exhausted,
and as a new supply had not been introduced in
consequence of the strictness of the blockade,
confident hopes were entertained that it would
be compelled to open its gates in a few weeks
more. This fortress, which is all but impreg-
nable, offers very little chance of being re-
duced but by famine ; and therefore the
length of the siege casts no reflection upon
the courage, vigilance, and skill of the troops
that have so long invested it. The news from
Upper Peru through this channel is not so late,
by several weeks, as what we already possessed
through other sources, which will account for its
discrepancy with the latter, and explain the ap-
parent mystery, in which the latter involve the
name of that wretched adventurer Olaneta.—
The news from Buenos Ayres, as we said
before, owes much to the ingenuity of the
Correspondent of an American Paper ; but it
is interesting, as it shows the feelings enter-
tained by persons on the spot, as to the result
of the misunderstanding between that State and
the Imperial Government of Brazil. The Ame-
rican writer anticipates, with unerring confidence,
another revolution in the Brazils, as a consequence
of this dispute ; and, in the same tone, he speaks
of the Emperor, as the mere tool of the Holy Al-
liance ; who, despairing of replacing the New
States by violent means under the protection of
their former paternal rulers, have incited Don
Pedro to provoke the present misunderstanding, in
the hope that some event may grow out of it fa-
vourable to their designs. In this expectation, if
they really cherish it, they will be woefully dis-
appointed ; but the charge is far too loose, in its
present form, to merit serious attention.

[MORNING HERALD.]

On the subject of gaming, history and expe-
rience confirm each other, the one showing us
that it ,has ever been the vice of savage life, the
latter, that in proportion as it gains ground in
civilized countries, it throws man back into his
savage state. No one who has visited either a
hazard table or the Stock Exchange (in order to
profit by the turn of the market) can doubt the
truth of this remark; those who have not done so,
and would, as a matter of curiosity, see human na-
ture in one of its lowest and most degraded states,
have only to visit one or both of those places and 1
there behold their rival enormities. Of their
effects, too, similar instances are for ever present-
ing themselves. If Newgate is not so thickly
peopled from the Stock Exchange as from the
gaming-house, it. is because many of the crimes
and vices of the one are tried in a Court of its own
instead of being handed over to the Magistrate.
During the last year, however, the trade of stock-
jobbing
gambling has been as pregnant with
actual criminals as the other. One instance of
the extreme severity of the law, is fresh in
every one's recollection. Another was fur-
nished at the last Old Bailey Sessions, while
the records of the City Hell are for ever
handing up its victims to public scorn or pity.—
The effect of the one upon the general morality
of the age must be quite as striking, if not more
so, to every observer, as that of the latter ; and
when we talk of Fishmonger's Hall, and its sub-
sidiary scenes of infamy, we must not forget that
the same channels furnish us every day with the
proceedings of the other den of iniquity,
which in its progress and extent is still more
blasting and contagious.. Men who would
blush to be seen or heard of at the hazard
table, do not hesitate to boast of their feats
in Caper-court ; and the man who would shrink
with abhorrence from a hell of one kind, spends
the greater part of his time, and perhaps .brings
his family to beggary and ruin, in one which is
in fact ten times more infamous than the other.—
In not a few instances, however, the same
imps hold their orgies in both ; some of the
most notorious of the Western hells being fre-
quented in the evening by those who have
spent their mornings in the other. So contagi-
ous and unceasing is this vice, so opposed is it to
any thing like virtue or domestic enjoyment,
those who embark in it have generally no taste
for any thing else, but are wholly absorbed in a
pursuit which undermines and subdues every
virtuous honourable feeling. This vice is the
more mischievous because it appears to be one
which the law can seldom reach, but in its
effects. It is true that we are about to
put down Lotteries. We talk too of laws
against gaming houses ; but they are lifeless
and inefficient ; and so they well may be, while
.the other more gigantic Hydra _ remains un-
controulled. It surely would be an anomaly in
vigour in St. Jame?A'7 while the culprits of St.
legislation that we should see the law in full
Bartholomew the Less continue to plunder with un-
blushing effrontery• And all this is done by the
cc most thinking" people, as we call ourselves, and
while we are boasting
of our religious and moral
establishments. How inconsistent is this ! how
can we profess to educate our children in the sublime
truths of Christianity, and boast, as we do, of our
religious and moral qualities as a nation, while
we are, as in the instance before us, offering them
up daily as victims to the Mammon to which we
allude ? Is it not absurd and impious hypocrisy
to see the same public subscribing to Bible So-
cieties, Schools, Missions, &c. for converting
heathens, who are themselves undermining reli-
gion and morals at home ?

The leviathan turtle in the IVitisetim at New
York measures seven feet and a half at length. and 13 feet in
circumference. It was caught by a New York pilot-boat• about
30 miles off Sandy Hook, and weighed, when killed, 800 lb.,
although it was thought that it lost about 2001 b. of blood in the
conflict,