The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-12 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

PonTsmouTri, OCT. 11.—Wind S.—Passed by the large
four-masted ship Baron of Renfrew, from Quebec.
DEAL, OcT. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the
River, the Duchess of York transport, with troops from Cork ;
William, Spence, from Quebec ; and the Bencoolen,
from Liverpool; and the Spoke transport from the northward.
Arrived from the River and remain, with the rest of the out-
ward-bound, the Elizabeth, Liddell ; end the Hannah, Webber,
for St.. John's, N. B.; Alonzo, Perkins, for Bordeaux ; and
the Mary Ann, Mozely, for Cape Haytien.
FALMOUTH, OCT. 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Laurel.
Harry, from London for the Mediterranean. Sailed the Lord
Melville Packet, for Jamaica; and the Camden, ditto, for
Halifax and New York.

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LIVERPOOL, OCT. 10.--Wind W.—Arrived the Orient,
Stewart, from Buenos Ayres; Hibernia, Cox, and Henry
Kneeland, Weeks, from Charleston ; Apollo, Stevens, Para ;
Sally, Gliddon, New Orleans; Earl Lonsdale, Groome, Que-
bec; Edgar, Gibson, Antigua; and the Mersey, Fairclough,
from Demerara.

CowEs, OCT. IL—Wind S.W.—Sailed the Cape Packet,
Kellie, for Van Diemen's Land ; Hudson, Champlin, for New
York ; and his Majesty's ship Thetis, for Naples.
FOUR P.R.—The above ships are returning to our Roads.

Off Dover the Stranger, Richie, from Miramichi, reports
having on the 27th ult., in lat. 48. 16. long. 33., passed a brig
waterlogged, having black mast heads, foremast and bowsprit
painted lead colour, with a billet head.
Arrived off Tuscar the Hector, -, from Demerara.
Arrived at Cork the Ocean, Scate, from Honduras.
Arrived in the River the Margaret, Smith, from Honduras.

LONDON MARKETS, &c.

• CORN EXCHANGE, OCT. 12.
There are very few fresh arrivals of any description of Grain
since Monday. Prime Wheat would sell readily at Illondav's
terms if any were at market, in other qualities there is nothing
doing. Barley, Beans, and Pease have no variation from the
terms of last market day. There are few samples of Oats shewn
to-day, and they fully maintain the terms last quoted.
A RRlVAlS—English Wheat, 1,600; Barley, 950; Oats,
5,100 ; Irish Oats, 3,300 ; Foreign Barley, 1,100 quarters ;
Flour, 950 sacks.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.
CANTERBURY' OCT. 10.—Our last Saturday's Hop-market
proved nearly a blank. Several dealers attended, and there was
a fair show of samples, but no sales were made that we can
quote as market price; the holders would not listen to any
thing less than 251., and the merchants stood as firmly to 201.
or guineas.

MAIDSTONE, OCT. B.—We have very little doing in the
Hop Trade, for the picking being now over, and a very &Tat
fall ofFascertained every where, the planters are looking up for
higlier prices, which the buyers do not at present seem inclined
to give, in consequence, so few sales have been made, that we
cannot quote any thing about them.
BoaouGU, OCT. 10.—Although the sales of the new growth
of hops are dull, there is not sufficient pressure on the market
to produce a decline.
Kent Pockets £llO. Os. to £22. 10s. per cwt.
Sussex Pockets £lB. Os. to £l9. 10s. per cwt.
Yearling Hops' are steady without variation in price.
Old Duty laid at £24,000.

FRENCH MACHINERY.— A recent invention
promises new success to French industry. A silk loom, com-
posed of five stages, has just been constructed at Lyons.
Its mechanism is exceedingly simple, and enables. one man
to weave five pieces at the same time. Commissioners from
the Lyons Academy have examined this loom in the pre-
sence of M. Jacquart, the inventor of the one at present
in use in our manufactories, and whose superiority is proved by
the eagerness with which the English manufactures intro-
duced it into their own manufactories. That skilful me-
chanic thinks the new loom highly ingenious, and generously
pointed out the improvement of which it was susceptible.__
The inventor's name is Lebrun. The Academy inter ds to
award him a gold medal on its approaching public sitting. • It •
is'needless to remark that the use of this loom will give a re-
turn of 400 per cent. above the present price of hand labour.—
(Paris Paper.)
Tl.e church plate belonging to the parish of
Garsdon, near Malmesbury, and which consists of a silver
(gallon) flagon, two silver (quart) chalices, and a silver
salver, was for • many years kept in a box deposited ii a
lumber closet in an old mansion. There was an idle tale to din
the village, that a ghost had formerly laid in the box. This
story was, perhaps, as useful as a double lock, since a
superstitious dread of disturbing the ghost effectually de-
terred many from indulding their curiosity by • scrutinizing
the contents of the box. Having understood, from an old man,
that many years back it was reported there was some commu-
nion-plate at the great house, one clergyman took an oppor-
tunity to make inquiry about it. To the utter surprise of the
people of the house, on opening the lid of the box (for the
first time, perhaps, for upwards of a century), instead of
seeing a ghost jump out, this valuable serviceof tarnished plate
presented itself; and it was immediately taken to the vicarage-
house.—( Country Paper.)
Many persons in India never .see money for
years together, the business of receiving their
monthly incomes, and of paying their household
expellees, devolving upon their clerks or de.
pendants. Indeed, the trouble of studying do-
mestic ways and means, were it necessary, would
be insupportable. Life there is too fragile and
unenergetic to be disturbed by disquieting calcu-
lations and provident anxieties about the future.
To the fatigue of living it would not do to add
that of contriving how to live.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—About four o'clock yester-
day afternoon, one of the labourers attending on
the men employed in stuccoing the front of the ex•
tensive premises of Mr. Blades, glass-manufacturer,.
on Ludgate-hill, while in the act of descending a
ladder from the second door, fell on the pavement
and fractured his skull in a most dreadful man•
ner. lie was immediately placed on a shut-
ter, and conveyed to Saint Bartholomew's Hos.
pital ; but so great was tile haemorrhage, that
he died on the way. The catastrophe was
completely the effect of an accident, as no
fault could be attributed •to the erection of the
scaffolding. Had the unfortunate man fallen in..
side, in all probability his life would have been
saved, as tarpaulings had been laid down to pre.
vent any accident to the passengers. It is a fact
worthy of notice, that a number of individuals
were passing at the time, who fortunately es. ,
caped receiving any lupus

TEIE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning I'vers,Oet. 12, 1825.

[MORNING POST.]
THE REVENUE.—We are enabled to lay before
the Public this day all the official Statements re-
specting the Revenue for the present Quarter,
and for the whole financial year, of which we
gave a brief sketch on Saturday last. The view
then taken was founded on calculations still in
progress ; but the gratifying nature of the gene-
ral result has surpassed even the expectations
which had been formed. It will be found, by
a reference to the net produce of the Revenue
in the years ending on the 10th of October,
1824 and 1825, that the latter exceeds by no
less a sum than 1,863,6951. the receipts of
the former. The net Revenue in 1824 was
47,900,0921.; in 1825, it is 49,763,7871.: and
what 'renders this immense increase the more
important, is, that it has arisen notwithstanding
the reductions (in some cases amounting almost
to abolition) which have taken place in the
Duties on Silk, Wines, Wool, Spirits, Coals,
Law Stamps, and the repeal of Assessed Taxes
to the amount of several millions. -The augmen-
tation in the corresponding Quarters is 137,5941.
in favour of that which has just now closed. It
is formed in the following manner. In the Cus-
toms there is an encrease of 2,038,1831.; in the
Stamps, one of 63,8391.; and in the Post
Office, a small one of 4,0001. ; making alto-
gether 2,106,0221. But as the augmentation
in the Customs is in some measure occasioned
by the transfer of many Excise Duties to that
branch of the Revenue, there is a proportion-
ate decrease in the Excise, which reduces the
balance of increase upon the whole Quarter to
what we have mentioned; or 137,5941. That our
public income should continue to grow without
interruption the more duties are lowered and
taxes abolished, is at once a most gratifying
pledge of our prosperity, and the most convincing
proof which can he offered of the wisdom and
efficacy of that system, by which the great com-
mercial interests of our country are not only
supported, but promoted to an extent hitherto
unexampled in the history of nations.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
A decline took place yesterday in the- Funds,
owing, we believe, to a report that the Russian
Army, under Count Wittgenstein, had crossed
the Pruth. This is the twentieth time, at least,
within these two years, that the same rumour has
been circulated, and always with an effect simi-
lar to that which was produced yesterdaY. This
marked credulity is certainly not very consistent
with the cool calculating spirit by 'which, it is
foolishly imagined, Stock-jobbing is regulated.
With all their pretensions, the adepts of that
art are the most gullible set of men that we
know of, and the most ignorant at the same
time of the real character of the circum-
stances by which they are in the habit of regu-
latiog their gambling transactions. The season
alone is sufficient to upset this rumour, for who
ever heard of a large army entering upon a cam-
paign at the approach of winter, in such a climate
as that of Moldavia, and with such roads as those
of that province! It is true Charles XII. attacked
Copenhagen in the midst of winter, but the cir-
cumstances were widely different, and the Em-
peror Alexander has very little resemblance to a
Alonarch, who may be said to belong more to
romance than to history. Besides, the powerful
attitude of the other Great Monarchies of Europe
exposes the absurdity of this rumour in the most
glaring manner, as they would all unite in oppo-
sition to Russia; were she to be guilty of an un-
provoked aggression on the Turkish Empire.—
The Porte has not given that Power of late
even the shadow of a pretext for a quarrel ;
and the Russian Government is too prudent,
and knows too well the value of appearances, to
be guilty of a wanton act of aggression. At the
same time the Emperor Alexander is much too
magnanimous—and we use this term in sober
earnest—to be guilty of the violence and perfidy
with which he is charged in this report : but, if
he was the most selfish of men, yet he would see
that this was not the fit time to gratify his crav-
ing ambition. Austria, whose jealousy on this
subject reaches almost to the extravagant,
was never so well prepared, as she is per-
haps at this moment,' to oppose any designs
he might harbour against Turkey. In conse-
qtience of.the tranquiltity prevailing in Italy,
she could employ her whole army for this pur-
pose; but, to shew the opinion she entertains
herself of this pretended danger, it is scarcely two
weeks since, she declared, by the mouth of her
Sovereign, that the prospect of a continuance of
general tranquillity was never more certain than
it is at the present moment. All the movements
of the Austrian Cabihet are in unison too with
this declaration ; and, for some time past, there
has-not been the slightest appearance in that Ern.
pireindicitive of alarm. The same obserVation
applies to Prussia, where' the troops lie quietly
in their respective cantonMents ; and it is UMW.;
CPSSary to say, that there is no appearance of min
Wary bustle in France. But, if there was-any
trdtb in this rumour, the armies of these Powers
would have been on the alert before now ; and
,otir Coluruns, as well as those of our contempora-
ries, would have been filled with accounts of
warlike preparation. Every thing is as quiet,
nod 'apparently as settled, in Europe, as if
there was "not a breath, except what isSues from
Change-Alley, to agitate the surface of its political
waters. - The attitude of our own Government
clearly' indicates any thing but an apprehension
or hostilities ; and. if Russia were only to hold
up her 'little finger in the' way of menace against
,the Porte, we should soon hear the note of pre
paration in 'every port of the kingdom. Few will
venture to say that the resources of this country
incapacitate her at' this time from mixing with
due effect in the concerns of the world ; and to
such 'we would simply Look at the flob-
rishitig 'state of the revenue, -which we present
thii'dajr."- We are ilcoost-astittmed'to have taken-
up this subject so graireln-foi, beiides the rea-
sons we have pet &eat 'we have in the .good

sense of the Russian Government the most com-
plete exposure of this ridiculous rumour.

[THE TIMES.]
We refer our readers to what,- in 'the present
circumstances of the world, may be regarded as
an important document—the declaration of the
Provincial Congress of Mexico respecting the
interference of the Head of the Church in the
civil affairs of foreign states. This paper, though
moderate in its language, is firm in its purpose, and
traces with a vigorous hand the limits between
civil authority and ecclesiastical usurpation. It
strips his 'Holiness of that dangerous prerogative
by which his predecessors pretended to free sub-
jects from their allegiance, and by which he
himself now offers to patch up a claim of alle-
giance for Ferdinand. In the declaration of the
Mexican Congress, he is so far from being con-
sidered as the Deus in terris, that any'attention
to his commands in civil or political matters is
declared rebellion against the state, for which no
alliance to the Tiara can obtain pardon. Nay,
he is even beaten with his own theological
weapons ;for if .the Court of Rome adopt the
maxim of someiultra Catholics,—Papa et Chris-
tus faciunt unum consistorium—the Mexican Go.
vernment replies, that the latter member of the
consistory never claimed temporal obedience, and
never interfered with secular authority. One
view of the document must be extremely sa-
tisfactory to all the friends of Catholic emanci-
pation. The Mexicans are so bigoted Catholics,
that they do not permit the exercise of any other
religion within their territory. They, however,
renounce the pretensions of the Court of Rome,
which are always presented as a bug-bear to
frighten English Protestants into an acquaintance
in the present exclusion of the Irish Catholics
from civil privileges. The Pope surely cannot be
more formidable in Ireland, whetT there is no
disputed Government, than in America, where
the claims of a foreign sovereign are not only
supported by the Pope, bat admitted by the Holy
Alliance.