The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-23 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, MAncll 21—Wind E.N.E.—Passed through frctn
the River the Barbadoes, Lee, for St. John's, N. B.; Punt,
Wing, for Malta ; perseverance Ashton, for Oporto ;
P. M. the Mellish, Cole from India, has just arrived off the
South .Foreland. The Soho Steam vessel is preparing to pro-
ceed towards her, and take her in tow.
• Yowl' SNOUT H, MARCH 22.—Wind E.—Arrived the Hope,
Hind, from the Downs,for Madras ; his Majesty's ship Dia-
mond, from Plymouth. Sailed the Sir William Bensly for
Quebec.

FALMOUTH, MAR cn 21.—Wind E.—Arrived the Cyrus,
Manchester, from London, for Buenos Ayres. Sailed the Cam.
bria, Cook, for Vera Cruz ; Frolic Packet for Buenos Ayres ;
Eclipse, Clark, for Valparaiso ; Hussy, and Trial,
Jenkins, for London.
LIVERPOOL, MAncu 21.—Wind N. N. E.—Arrived the
Prince Kutusote Woodhouse, from Jamaica, sailed 29th Ja.
nuary ; Ophelia, Bliss, from Charleston, sailed 18th February,
in company with the Henry Took, Navy, Marion, and Triton.
The Mersey; from Demerara, was off Holyhead the 20th inst.
Off the port the Eliza Ann, Baird, from Savannah.

The John Little, Marland, from Liverpool for Nova Scotia,
was totally lost the 17th instant in Dundrum Bay, and only
two of the crew out of 15 saved.

The Catherine, Towling, from Workington to Dundalk, was
driven on shore the 18th instant in Dundruni Bay, but expected
to be got off.

CORN EXCHANGE,' MARCH 23,

The supplies of all sorts of Corn this week are short. There
is scarely any fine Wheat at market to-day, and such readily
obtains Monday's terms, in other song there is not much trade.
Barley remain,. unaltered from Monday. Beans and Pease
have no variation. There has been a great clearance of Oats
within these two market days, and the prices of this article
appear improving. In Flour no alteration.
Aunt VAL s. —English Wheat, 1,550 Barley, 3,200 Oats,
600—Irish Oats, 060—Flour, 2,500 sacks.

MISS FOOTE performed last night at Covent.
Garden, after being married, by report, in the
morning to Mr.II"AyNE. She is said to be en-
gaged for a few nights at the Glasgow Theatre—
probably to perform in the Honeyrnoon.—(horn.
ing Chronicle.)
The Theatre at Washington does not appear
to be much encouraged, although the performers are generally
respectable. Romeo and Juliet was announced for Wednes-
day evening last, but owing to the audience not being nume-
rous enough, the house was closed for the night. This is the
second instance of the' kind which has lately occurred at this
Theatre. The Circus was open every evening, and well at-
tended.—(American Paper.)
Sir WALTF.tt SCOTT has declined the honour
of being Rector of St. Andrew's University, on the score of his
increasing years and aversion to business. In adopting this r:-
solution, we think Sir Walter has scarcely done justice to the
generous feeling which prompted 'the young men to make him
the object of their choice in a matter involving the assertion of
their rights. Acceptance surely would not have had the ap-
pearance of creatir,T or encouraging insubordination, when the
votes of the students were sanctioned by Dr. Chalmers and Dr.
Jackson. If the office be merely an honorary distinction, to
which no actual duties are attached, is it not infinitely more
proper that it should be bestowed on literary men of distinguish-
ed talents, than on common-place lecturers ? Is it not, in fact,
an office which ought to be expressly reserved for such men ?
' ( Scotsman.)

Mr. Ilt.rmE has written a letter to the Lord
Provost of Glasgow. announcing the re-appointment of the Se-
lect Committee of the House of Commons to inquire into the
laws relating to the export of machinery, and requesting to
know what witnesses wish to attend the Committee to viva evi-
dence, and the particular branch of machinery they wish to he
excepted.
INDIAN LONGEVITY.—,%'itiIiII these last eight
years (says The Canada Spectator) there have died in the vil-
lage of Coganawaga, ten Indians, each of them past an hun-
dred years of age. Some days ago, the curate buried a woman
aged 166. There is sow living a squaw. who has her descen-
dants to the fifth generation ; in other words, the child has now
living her mother, grandmother, grandmother'r mother, and
grandmother's grandmother.

Exrr.osio-N OF GAS.—On Monday evening,
about six o'clock, an explosion of gas took place in the shop of
Mr. Harrison, a tailor in -Worship-street, Shore-ditch. There is
no gas laid on in Mr. Harrison's house, but owing to sonic defect
in the pipes which pass underneath the footpath immediately in
front of the shop, for the supply of the street lamps. the gas
had escaped, and forced its way I;.2neath and through the floor-
ing of the shop. On Mr. H.'s entering with a lighted candle, he
gas inflamed and exploded, not with one burs, but rather, as he
described it, with a succession of explosions, somewhat in the
manner of ;lieu-de-joie. The boards of the flooring were forced
upwards by the violence of the shocks, but the shutters no:
being closed, the gas found vent through the windows, every
pane in which was destroyed, and the fragments carried to flat:
opposite side of the street. No further damage was sustained.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO JAMES OTTAWAY, ESQ.,
ONE OF THE CORONERS FOIL THE COUNTY.—It is
with deep regret that we announce the death of
• the above respected Gentleman, who was found
about twelve o'clock, on Saturday night, lifeless,
in the Turnpike-road, in the parish of Marden,
I between Stile-bridge and Staplehurst, with his
chaise and horse standing by the body. Mr. Ot-
taway had been to Rochester on professional bu-
siness, on Saturday, and passed through Stile-
bridge Turnpike-gate, between ten and eleven
at night, on his return home. From the appear-
ance of the gig, one of the shafts of which was
broken, it is supposed that the horse must have
swerved from the road, and the carriage
coming in contact with some impeditnent, the
unfortunate Gentleman was thrown . out by
the shock. A violent contusion was found
on the back part of the head, and the . Sur-
geon, Mr. Berry, of Marden, who first examined
the body, gave it as his opinion, that a violent
concussion of the brain took place, and that
death was instantaneous.—Yesterday an Inquest
was held on view of the body, by J. N. Dud-
low, .Esq., Coroner, and a respectable Jury of
the parishioners of Marden ; when after the ex-
amination of the Surgeon, and the person who
first discovered the deceased, a verdict was taken.
of " Accidental Death," and a deodand of ss.
levied on the carriage. Mr. Ottaway was a man
of most amiable disposition and gentlemanly ha-
bits, eminent in his profession as a lawyer, and
universally esteemed. He has left a widow am!
four children.—(Maidstone Journal, March 22.)

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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

faii•actsponi the Morning Papers,March23,lB2s.

[BRITISJI. PRESS.I
•
Me. Huskisson's speech on Monday evening
way;,deservedly rank him among the first politi-
cal economists of the age. There is no Member
-more clear-sighted as to all that concerns the true
interests of the commercial world. lie stands on
ground sufficiently firm to justify him in discard-
ing, as he has done with unprecedented courage,
eke.. selfish and sorry •doctrines of the Old School.
it IS- gratifying thus to remark the practical re-
soft;of the enlightened. labours of Ricardo,,Mills,
iKulloch, and others,. in rooting out the mis-
taken.notions which had so long an 3, so fatally
misled the politicians and legislators of the
" ()Men time." The Parliament of England
will hereafter spew to, the great commercial States
of Europe what. are the only true means by
which nations can enrich themselves in their deal-
ings with each other. Commerce, sitisp;y consi-
tiered, is nothing more than the exchange of one
want for another want, and ozone article of luxury
fqr another. In all commerce between nations,
as in all commerce between man and man, the
more each possesses the means of supplying the
uecessities, or ministering to the- comforts of the
other, the greater will be the advantage derived
to all from their mutual intercourse. The instant
that intercourse is conducted upon the principles
of monopoly and exclusion, from that moment
their respective interests are broken in upon, and
the whole becomes by degrees a system of per-
fidious avd unprofitable rivalry. So long as this
system presail it is utterly hopeless to consoli-
date their reciprocal interests ; trade, so con.
ducted, never can be any other than a struggle
which country shall take the most profitable ad-
advantage of the other ; and, as always happens
in such a conflict, both sides in the end are losers.
The sovereignty ofa INI other Country over her Col-
onies has been exercised,time out of mind ,in the most
selfish and oppressive spirit of despotism. The
colonists were looked upon as little better than
hewers of wood and drawers of water to the
Parent State. Great Britain can claim no ex-

emption from this bitter reproach upon her pa-
rental character. Mr. Iluskisson drew an ani-
mated and admirable picture of the mode in
which she exercised her supremacy over Ireland,
when up to the year 1780 she treated her as a
Colonial dependency. The rigorous commercial
restraints which she, in those days, imposed upon
the Sister Kingdom, were such that the very
mention of them called forth a murmuring chorus
of " hear, hear'." from every part of the House.
It is difficult to conceive, under the enlighten-

ed Government of our time, how restrictions
so galling and sa glaringly unjust were ever
patiently borne. But the progress of increasing
wisdom in all that concerns the affairs of trade
and commerce, is conspicuous in the enlarged
views which govern the policy of Ministers, and
in the manliness with which all those narrow
totions are exploded which formerly were the
regular and received rules of legislation. The

enlightened colonial system, so ably advocated
by Mr. 11ushisson, cannot fail to be succeeded
by results the most important to the mercantile
interests of Great Eritain, both at home and
abroad. Without compromising those interests
in the slightest degree, all the profit to be derived
from our foreign possessions will be incalculably
increased, at the same time that they are placed on
the sound and secure basis of mutual justice. It
has been a question of frequent discussion, NI: healer
colonial possessions add any thing to the real
power and effective strength of a nation. For

any practical purpose, this discussion must al-
ways be useless. It involves points which never
Call be settled by argument, and over which
abstract reasoning can have little or no influence.
Of this, however, we may be certain, that what-
ever wealth we may waste, or whatever blood
we may shed to preserve our colonies, their
gratitude will never go a step beyond their in-
terest. We may watch over their weakness—
we may nurse them into strength—but if, when
reared to maturity, and in a condition to stand
up in their own defence, we treat them on
the footing of dependants upon whose labour
acrd industry we are to be fed and fatten, we
may rest assured that their struggle for independ-
ence will never he far distant. If, taking any

eolony, we overstock tier markets with our goods,
,leave her 0%%n upon her kinds, by prohloit-

i►►g her trade, with other countries, what pledge
cap we have for her fidelity, or how can we hope
,te keep her.iwsulijection, when she shall be able
to break off her alliance, and become a free
State ? The liberal views taken by the Member
for Liverpool are those which every British mer-
chant must ,rejoice to hear maintained in a British
Parliament ;. carried into effect they will open

fresh charnels: of consumption in all quarters of
the globe, by extending to all our colonies those
equitable rights, which, in their re-action, will be
.the soul of our commercial prosperity and the
source of our permanent greatness.