The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-08 00:00:00

'I HE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning l'apers,MarchB,l 525.

[MORNING POST.]
In the House of Peers last night the Bill for
suppressing Unlawful Societies in Ireland was
?tad a third time, and passed without a division.
43-ut a few Peers, Lords Ellenborough,Calthorpe,
Darnley and Grosvenor spoke against the mea-
sure, and even they admitted, some that they
wished the Catholic Association should cease to
exist, and some that its language and proceedings
had been temperate and improper. This day
the Bill will probably receive the Royal Assent,
and the law being complete in all its parts, the
Catholics will have to prove the loyalty of which
they so strenuously boast, by their peaceable
submission to its enactments. It NVill now be
seen how far they respect the laws, or whether
they think themselves strong enough to defy
them. In the previous part of the evening the Duke
of Wellington proposed that the operation of the
Bill to abolish the use of Spring Guns for the
preservation of Game be made general, and that
they should not be employed in gardens or in
any place whatever. Time was desired, however,
to consider the question', and the Chairman re-
ported progress and obtained leave to sit again_
oo Monday next. In the Commons the second
reading of the Bill for altering the Game Laws
was carried by a majority of 82 to 26. The
House then prepared to receive the Report of
thi Committee of Supply on the Army Estimates,
when Mr. Home, with his usual narrowness of
views, contended that there existed no reason for
increasing our Alilitary Establishment; and, with
his usual correctness, stated, that if this augmenta-
lion had not taken place, the whole of the Window
Tax, and three millions of other taxes, might have''
been remitted to the people. On the first point
he was answered by his own Friend ; for even
Sir Robert Wilson defended the proposed in-
crease, declaring " that this country ought to
mahltain an imposing attitude, and he was sure
the people of England would think even less of
the repeal of taxes, than that the Government
should pursue that line of policy calculated to en-
sure the independence of the world." Cn the
other point, Lord Palmerston proved, that
the accurate Calculator had magnified the
`26.,000 English Yeomanry into 43,000 ; and
that instead of three millions of taxes being ren-
dered reducible by abstaining from augmenting
the Army, the whole of the expenditure for the
lurid forces only amounted to ‘24,000/. above
there millions. These statements, though they
did not disconcert the Hon. Member who is ac.
customed to such corrections, produced a just ef-
fect upon the House, and Nlr. Hume's amendment,
tending to declare that it was not necessary to
keep up the force agreed to in the Committee,
was rejected without division. The Report was
then received, and all the Resolutions agreed to.

[BRITISH PRESS:3
The Bill for suppressing unlawful societies in
Ireland was read a third time last night in the
House of Lords, and passed. The formal assent
of the Crown now only remains to be given to
this Bill to render it obligatory as''part of the
law of the land. We have the fullest confidence
in the good sense of the Catholics as to their tran-
qnil and perfect submission to the judgment of Par-
liament ; more especially at this moment when the
justice and expediency of conceding their claims
have been solemnly admitted by one branch of
the Legislature. No great measure of justice has
ultimately failed of success in the British Parlia-
ment. The Catholic question has gained by every
discussion, and it was perhaps only necessary to
its triumph that it should he delivered from the
mischievous advocacy of the intemperate men
who were making it a mere stalking-horse for
purposes purely selfish. We understand that
several eminent mercantile and commercial men
have waited on the Noble Earl at the head of his
Majesty's Government, and urged strongly the
propriety of settling the question by the conces-
sion of the claims of the Catholics. These Gentle-
men .represented that the passing of the Bill to be
founded on the late Resolutions of the House of
Commons, was, in their opinion,"necessary to the
safe investment of British capital in Ireland,
and that they only waited for it to embark
largely in undertakings favourably to the pros-
perity and welfare of that country. We haVe
also heard that a similar representation has been
made by several of the firmest awl most constant
friends of the Administration. It is said that
these statements have produced a deep impres-
sion upon • the Noble Earl, and we have reason
to believe that the Bill will be supported, by some
very distinguished Peers who have formerly con-
sidered it their duty to oppose the question. If
the Bill should pass, it is intended to accompany
it with others, granting a provision to the Catho-
lic Clergy, and limiting the elective franchise in
Ireland to the possession of a yearly income of at
least ten pounds. These measures are both ob-
viously necessary we think, even should the Ca-
tholic Claims fail of present success, but more
particularly are we convinced of "the propriety of
disfranchising the forty-shilling freeholders.

that there are few merchants in that place who
possess capital who do not largely participate in
the traffic, to which their cupidity is strongly
attracted by the immense profits resulting from
it. Indeed, to such perfection is the system car-
ried, that insurances on the venture can readily
he effected at from 40 to 50 per cent., while the
profits in general average 300 or 400 per cent.,—
that is, return three or four times the amount of
capital so employed ; the whole voyage, includ-
ing the bringing back a cargo to Europe, seldom
occupying more than six months. Advices have
been received within these few days from Cuba,
of the arrival there of a vessel named the
Orphee, with more than five hundred slaves
on board, which vessel was fitted out for the
voyage by the merchants of Nantes. It is said
also, that some merchants in Antwerp are
sharers in the profit and the disgrace of the un-
dertaking. The mode in which the vigilance of our
cruizers is eluded may be collected from the reports
from the African station. They hold communi-
cation with the shore by means of signals, which
inform them when the slaves are ready for ship-
ment, and when English ships have removed to
another part of the coast. The sailors are se-
cured in their fidelity to their unprincipled em-
ployers by high pay and large bribes. We
much fear, that while the inducements of
such large profits exist, all attempts on the
..part of the different Governments to put an
end to the Slave-Trade will be frustrated ;
but some assistance will at least be given in
pointing out who the parties are who carry it on ;
and this service it is the duty of the press to render.

[MORNING CHRONICLE-]
We were glad to hear the practice of setting
Spring Guns, against which we have so often
raised our voice, generally reprobated last night,
in the House of Lords. Lord Liverpool laid
down distinctly the principle which ought to
guide us in matters of this kind : cc No man had
any right to put another in danger of his life
under any circumstances, when he had not the
right to shoot him. Such a principle was prepos-
terous, and he could not agree to it." We were
pleased to perceive at the same time the adoption
of a more rational language in speaking of the
state of our law, the barbarousness and defec-
tiveness of which in many respects have long
been a subject of lamentation to intelligent na-
tives, and a subject of ridicule to foreigners.—
The practice of setting spring-guns in gardens,
said Lord Liverpool, " arose from the absurd
state of our law in some points. if a man, for
instance, took away fruit which had been pre-
viously gathered, the law regarded him as a
thief; if, however, he brake into a garden and
gathered fruit from a tree, he believed he was
correct in saying that the law looked on this only
as a trespass."—Even the Lord Chancellor had
his joke at the wisdom of our ancestors—" There'
was something. requisite (he said) to make
the law what it was sometimes described to be,
the perfection of human reason !" We believe
there is !! To know the evil is half the cure.—
So long as the determination to cling to every ab-
surdity and prejudice, merely because they were
old, existed, the prospect of redress was gloomy
indeed. But now this infatuation seems to give
way very fast. This ought to be an encourage-
ment to us to persevere in enforcing good princi-
ples. Though they are opposed one year and
another, yet they ultimately gain the ascendancy.
We willingly bestow our meed of praise on Mi-
nisters, for the disposition they now manifest, to
give effect to good principles. We hope that
Lord Liverpool, who has it so much in his power
to improve the state of the Law, will use that
power in obtaining for the people of this country
the judicial improvements, of which they are so
much in want. lie is evidently sensible that it
is high time the work of reformation were com-
menced.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
We have received the Paris Papers of Satur-
day, with the Etoile of Sunday's date ; but they
are destitute of news. The Rentes continue to
rise, without materially affecting the English
market, which plainly shews that they are in-
fluenced less by external than internal causes.—
It is now generally expected that the Project
for their conversion will be carried into a law ;
which is the immediate cause of their advance.—
This expected triumph, combined with the
success which has attended the other proceed-
ings of the Minister this Session, has raised
the confidence of the jabbers, with whom
Villele is a great favourite. From his pre-
ponderating influence in the two Chambers,
they speculate on the stability of his. power ;
and, as he has, in addition to his financial repu-
tation, acquired a character for circumspection, if
not for justice, in his foreign policy, it is not sur-
prising if the Rentes advance as his measures suc-
ceed. If he were to fall, a Ministry, possessing
less scruples and infinitely less caution, would
follow ; and what is now problematical in
the foreign relations of that country would
assume a character of absolute certainty.—
Villele has sometimes the courage to assert
his own independence, and that of the Govern-
ment, in opposition to the views of the Holy
Alliance, particularly .of Russia, which is the
reason that the latter have not wholly triumphed
in the French Court. His probable successors,
on the contrary, would anticipate the wishes of
that formidable league ; and, therefore, every
triumph that Villele gains, serves to defer at
least the period when French policy and prin-
ciples are to assimilate wholly to the European
system, as it is called.