The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-19 00:00:00

actnowledOng the independence of States which
are now completely out of her power. If she
once consented to this measure, it would, relieve
her of a weight which is oppressing all her
faculties, and then pei•haps M. 'Lea might shew
himself capable of doing some good for the country
of which he is Minister. At present the only
symptom of common sense in the management of
Spanish affairs is the disarming of the Royalist
Volunteers, which is going on, much to the discon-
tent of the Ecclesiastical party. Unless the law-
ful, authorities have power to exert themselves,
all attempts at good government are at an end ;
and these volunteers, who were banded to sup-
port the King, as long as Ow ideas of there
Ministers coincided with theirs, and to oppose
him when they differed from them, are but
equivocal allies. Some Spanish Officers have
written addresses of allegiance to the King, but
the real feeling of that party is better indicated
by the spirit of four Canons, who (according to
the Constitutionnel) harangued the populace of
Tortosa, and advised them, in the name of God,
to get rid of the Free-mason (Ferdinand ! !) and
to proclaim Charles V. There can be no quiet
in a country, when people think that such con-
duct as this is loyal. Defend us from our
friends'.

[TIIE TIMES.]
There is in the papers from New South Wales
-which have come to hand within these two days,
a great deal of not very intelligible dissertation
upon the seizure of a vessel called the Almorah
by his Majesty's ship Slaney. The Almorah had
been chartered—whether with the understood
connivance of certain official personages in the
colony or otherwise, we really cannot make out
—to proceed to Batavia for a mixed cargo, part
of which was to consist of tea, for importation into
Sydney. On her arrival at the latter port, the Al-
morah was boarded and made prize of by Captain
Mitchell, of the Slaney, on behalf of the East
India Company ; because Batavia, as it appears,
was within the limits of that monopolizing Com-
pany's charter, and ne British subjects are to be
permitted to supply themselves with a comfortable
breakfast from the Dutch, any more than from
the Chinese. How long, we wonder, is this exe-
crable tyranny to endure, or the English nation
beyond all others in the universe to sacrifice with
such improvident and egregious folly its simplest
domestic enjoyments, for the sake of bolstering
up a system of unseasonable cupidity, of waste-
ful impolicy, and of antiquated and odious in-
justice ? However, the ship was seized in the
name of those overgrown merchants trading
to the East ; and the Attorney-General, it
appears, advised a short process for regaining
possession of the ship and cargo. Here there
is some little conflict between the authorities. If

the capture was legal, what sort of an Attorney
General must he have been ‘sho would strive
to render it invalid ? The Attorney-General
too was of opinion, that there was no court or
tribunal at Sydney with jurisdiction to try the
case, which produced a desire on both sides (as
we understand it) that the ship should proceed
to Calcutta, there to be dealt with by a more en.'
larged, if not, where the Company are concerned,
a more impartial authority. Capitan Mitchell
and the Deputy Commissary-General were forced
to put in bail to a large amount to answer the re-
suit of the proceedings ; but what we cannot
well comprehend is, the air of partisanship with
which these newspapers appear to take up the
cause of monopoly against that of unrestricted
commerce. There is nothing else worth notice
alluded to, except some riotous conduct of a few
of the military towards the inhabitants of the
settlement.

[MORNING HERALD.]
It has been suggested that the Tread-mill in
the House of Correction in Coldbath-fields might
he usefully applied to the purpose of breaking
the granite for the new method of Road-making.
At any rate, it must seem extraordinary that 200
or 300 people should be every day employed in
producing a power which might be applied to
many useful purposes, but which has, ever since
its creation, been wasted in air. We have heard
that an offer was made by a new Company to hire
this power for the purpose of raising Spring Water,
but was declined ; and it would really seem,
from the supineness of those who have the direc-
tion of it, that the job having answered the views
of its projector, will not be brought into any
profitable use till some new job can be created
out of it. There are few things that the arts of
this country are so backward in as in quarrying,
hewing, and sawing stone. Travellers in Greece
tell us that quarries of Parian and other marble
exhibit a precision in the method used by the
ancients, to detach the blocks from the mass,
which, combined with their little know-
ledge of manchinery, is truly marvellous. And
we cannot help thinking that it casts a slur upon
the scientific, and especially the mechanical, at-
tainments of the age, that our superior know-
ledge of machinery has not been applied to di-
minish one of the hardest efforts of human la-
bour. The common stone saw seems the rudest
and least improved implement we know of ; and
the chippings and harnmerings going on at this
time in the streets, to the great annoyance and
danger of every one's eyes who passes, is equally
uncouth in its appearance. Surely the steam engine,
the pulley, the tread-wheel, and various other dis-
coveries,might be applied invarious ways to the con-
version of stone to, the purposes for which it is ap-
plied ; and when this article, and that of the
hardest kind is every day coming into more
general use, we would strongly recommend to
some of our many ingenious mechanics, the in-
vention of some .means to obviate the present
tedious and laborious modes, as well of extract-
ing it from the quarry, as of afterwards reducing
it to the different forms required.

•. LMORNING CURONICLE.]
We have received some extremely able com-
munications on the subject of Absenteeism, which
want of space compels us to postpone to to-mor.
row.—Mr. M'Culloch, in The Scotsman, has no-
ticed our first article on this subject, and taking
up the case which we instanced of Poland, he
says—
" In so far as the consumption of a landlord and his family