The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-04 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, JAN. 3.--Wind W.S.W. fine weather.--Arrived
from the River and remain with the rest of the outwtrd-bound,
the Luna, Knox, for the Cape of Good Hope ; and the Atlantic,
Lawson, from Shields, for Jamaica. A large brig passed
through from the westward with " Archibald" on her flag.—
Arrived the Kingstone, Luckie, from Demerara.
PonTsMOUTI-I, J A :N. 3.—Wind W.S.W.—No arrivals or
sailings. The outward-bound remain all well.
CowEs, JAN. 3.—Arrived the Portia, Cross, from New
York, in 211 days, for Antwerp.
FaLmouru, JAN. 2.—Wind W.S.W. to W.N.W.—Ar-
rived the Hayti, Watson, from Aux Cays (St. Domingo), in
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42 days, for orders. Sailed the Lord Hobart packet for Buenos
Ayres; Lady Mary Pelham, ditto, for the Leward Islands;
and the Lord Melville, ditto, for the Brazils. The brig Aurora,
of Aberdeen, bound for Cork, would sail from St. Domingo in
about a week after toe Hayti left.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 2.—wind W. .W. strong gale.—A r-
rived the John,
Vernon, Bursley, from Virginia, sailed the Bth ult. in company
with the Gulnare for this Port; the Herald sailed on the 6th.

The Prince Royal, of London, Clawd, from Smyrna to Lon.
don, was driven on shore at Ballytique on Friday morning
last, and has since gone to pieces ; the cargo, it is feared, will
be totally lost ; crew saved.
The Hero, Crawford, front Londonderry to Liverpool, was
driven on shore near Stranraer the 213th ult., and it was feared
would be totally lost.
Arrived off Dartmouth the Meridian, Coaker, from Oporto
in 7 days.
The ?Jelly and Margaret, from Troon to Greenock, fout•.-
dered offArdrossan the 29th ult., and the crew drowned.

A letter from the Harbour Master, &c. at Richebucto, re.
ceived at Lloyd's, and dated Dec. 1, mentions, that all vessels
making for that port should steer for two buoys placed outside
the bar, and keep the two beacons (placed on the south beach
at the entrance of the harbour) in a line, which will bring
them safely over the bar. It appears that three vessels have
lately been lost there by not paying attention to the above-di-
rections, and entering the port without a pilot. •

Yesterday the dispatches for Bombay and China, by the ship
Vansittart, were closed at the East India Douse, and delivered
to the Purser of that ship.

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THE MURDER AT BEXHILL.

In The Sun of yesterday we gave an extract
from a Brighton Paper respecting a young man, a shepherd,
belonging to Messrs. lirook, farmers, at Bexhill, who had been
found dead in a pond. It was also stated that the young
man's throat had been cut, but such, we believe, is not the case.
The lad, whose name was Sawyer, and who was not more than
eighteen years of age, not returning home at his accustomed
time on Wednesday evening, diligent search was made for
him, and on Thursday morning his lifeless body was found in a
muddy pond, half choaked with reeds, and not more than three
feet deep. A little dog belonging to the deceased had re.
mained near the spot all night, as if willing to guard him in
death, from whom in life, he had received kindness, and shewn
approved fidelity. The moment the body was found every
means were taken to apprehend the murderers, and suspicion
falling on a man named George Daw, who was in company
with the deceased youth, near Cooden, anti was afterwards seen
walking alone, a quarter of a mile from the above spot he was
taken into custody. Daw 's brother was also apprehended, he
having been a short time before in the deceased's company.
It also appeared that George Daw had pawned or offered for
sale the deceased's watch, which, with a few halfpence, was the
only property the deceased had about him. A chain, which was
formerly attached to the deceased's watch, and identified as his
property, was also found in the possession of George Day
when he was apprehended. Some suspicion having been excit-
ed against the brothers of the deceased, in consequence of very
extraordinary language they had made use of with respect to
their unfortunate brother, they also were apprehended, and
sent to Horsham gaol, to answer any charge of so serious a
nature as that of being accessory to their brother's death.
On Friday afternoon, a Coroner's Inquest was held on
the deceased's body at Bexhill. It is presumed that when the
attack was first made on him the murderder gave him a very
severe blow on the side of the neck ; the Medical Gentlemen
who opened his head found a quantity of extravasited blood,
produced from the effects of the blow, and they were also of
opinion that instant death did not follow such blow, but that
the deceased's existence was terminated by suffocation in the
muddy pond where he was found. The evidence was not of
sufficient ►trength to charge either the deceased's brothers or
the Daws with the murder, and the Jury, after a long consul-
tation, returned a verdict of—" Wilful Murder against some
person or persons unknown."

The GRAND DUKE OF TUSCANY has been stay.
ing at Pisa during the summer. Most of the in-
valids from England, who resort to Italy for the
restoration of their health, avail themselves of
the mild climates of Pisa during a portion of
the year.
Good Friday, this year, will fall on the Ist of
April ; Easter Sunday is of course the third of April. This is'
the first year after Bissextile, so that February bath only 213
days. It will be the sixth year of the reign of his present
Majesty. Whit-Sunday will be May 22d; and Christmas-day
will be on a Sunday. _ _ _

MiltAcui.nus EsCAPE.—On Saturday. last as a
man was riding a horse belonging to Mr. TANNEit, Steward
to the Earl of ESSEX, in Cashiobury Park, Watford, the
rider felt the horse's hind legs giving way, and instantly
jumped off, when the horse disappeared from his view ! On
giving the alarm to some work people, they found the animal
had fallen into a chalk pit, or rather well, to the depth of
about thirty feet, where he appeared apparently resting on his
hind legs, and his fore legs confined to the sides. Some of the
people were immediately set to work under the judicious ad.
vice of Mr. FELLOWS, the foreman, and three strong fir trees
were securely placed over the well in a triangular form, with a
pulley and rope attached. A man named Thomas Wilson
then descended and fixed the rope round the horse's body, and
tied the fore feet, and by these means the animal was released
from his temporary imprisonment, having apparently suffered
little injury.
Oh Sunday last, during the hours of Divine Service,
two Methodist Preachers (Americans, we understand), at-
tempted to preach in Carysfort Avenue, when they were
attacked by a ferocious mob, who commenced pelting
them with stones, and one of the unfortunate men being
severely wounded, obliged then, to fly for their lives,
Half an hour after, two of the vagabonds concerned in this
disgraceful outrage sallied out of a porter-house in the
Rock (where more whiskey is sold on Sunday than all
the week), perfectly naked, and boxed in the street for half an
hour, to the amusement of the rest of the ruffians.—(Dublin
Star.)
About a month since Mr. Cornelius Clark,
farmer, of Barnby, sent a young cow down to a pasture near
Whitby, for grass. The cow was soon after missing, and he
concluded she was stolen, and published bills,' offering
reward for her recovery. Last week there were some heavy
rains, which caused the ditches to fill with water. Bag-
dale Beck empties itself into a large conduit quite under
the turnpike, and into the low side of the field where the lost
cow was feeding ; and one morning last week, the water forced
the cow out from under the conduit, where she had been lying
dead some time. It is conjectured that the other cattle in the
field, finding the cow a stranger amongst them, had chased her,
and made her take refuge in the above place, where she had
not room to turn herself, and therefore had remained until she
died.

The Severn has again considerably overflowed
its banks ; such a succession of floods is very
remarkable, the fall of rain during the last three
months greatly exceeds the usual average.

A short time since a servant woman, Who wish-
ed to get married, applied to the Roman Catholic
Bishop residing not a hundred miles from Newry,
humbly soliciting his Reverence 64 to do the use-
ful." A guinea was his fee ; and without this
the ceremony could not be performed. The con-
sequence of which was, that the poor woman had
actually to pawn her clothes in order to satisfy
the rapacity of her Father Confessor, whose re-
gular charge was five shillings only !—( Irish

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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

1-:_aracts from the Morning Pvers,J(4ll. 4, 1825

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Mr. Canning communicated to all the Foreign
Ministers, in the afternoon of Saturday last; at
the Foreign Office, that the Cabinet of his Bri-
tannic Majesty had come to the resolution of ac-
knowledging the independence of Mexico and
Colombia, and that Commissioners would be sent
to those States, charged with full powers to con-
clude treaties of commerce between them and
Ois country, founded on that recognition. The
recognition of Buenos Ayres, which has long pos-
sessed a settled Government, may soon be ex-
nected. We understand that some further in-
formation respecting its extent and external rela-
!ions, is wished for before recognizing this State.
No report from Chili has yet been received. We
understand also that Colonel Campbell and Mr.
-Ward were an hour with Mr. Canning on Sunday,
at Gloucester Lodge, when they received
their final instructions from that Gentleman,
previous to their leaving town on Wednes-
day next, to embark in the Egeria, at Ply-
mouth, for Colombia and Mexico, where they are
to reside permanently, the former Commission being
dissolved. These gentlemen are charged with
full powers to negociate and conclude a Treaty
of Commerce with the States in question. Mr.
-Ward, who lately married a daughter of Sir John
S‘‘inburne, is accompanied by his lady, and Mr.
Ball, formerly attached to the Embassy in Spain,
goes with Mr. Ward to Mexico.--We congratu-
late the country on a measure fraught with such
important consequences, and we give credit to
Ministers, for their yielding once more to the
wishes of the people, enforced by the minority
of their own body, to whose enlightened views,
on many subjects, we have been indebted
on several occasions of late. We shall al-
ways be ready to acknowledge what appears to
us meritorious in the conduct of the Admini-
stration. Indeed, we take no credit to ourselves,
for liberality in so doing, for we have long been!
persuaded that the factious snarling at all which
proceeds from one set of men, and praising all
that proceeds from another, is only calculated to
deprive opinion of its proper weight, as the boy
who was perpetually calling out wolf, was disre-
garded when the wolf actually appeared. We
only wish that the ignorant selfishness of the
Aristocracy of England would allow the more
liberal and enlightened portion of the Ministry
to give effect to their intentions with respect to
the more important improvements in our policy.

[MORNING POST.]
The Catholic Association has finally deter-
mined that its first public act as a Body, shall
be an attack on the Liberty of the Press.—
Adopting all the forms of a regular Parliament,
it had appointed a Committee to consider whether
it would be proper to prosecute a London Paper
for an alleged libel on Maynooth College. The
Committee has of course reported in the sense
of the Association, and the ball, after having been
thus returned to each other, is to be hurled with
the united strength of both at the offending Pub-
lication. In order, however, that the Jour-
nalist may be impartially tried, the venue is
to be laid in any county in Ireland, where
the Jury would probably he %%holly composed
of Catholics; and he is to be called across the
Channel to meet this array of fairness against
him. But will he come, is the question ? Mr.
O'Connell seems to imagine that (under an old
Irish Act) he can be forced away from his natural
Judges, and brought to obtain justice in the midst
of enemies. Will the laws of this country sanc-
tion such an exposure to almost certain danger?
'We think not : and it require more than the
eloquence of the new Catholic Ally, (converted
Cobbett) to convince us that so barefaced an at-
tempt to defeat justice can be legally allowed.
Mr.O'Connell's own trial was to take place yester-
day, and had excited the more interest and curi-
osity, as he intended to plead his own cause.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
It was stated yesterday with great confidence
by those who ought to be well informed on the
subject, that an official communication was made
on Friday last to the Foreign Ministers at the
British Court, informing them that his Majesty
had resolved to conclude commercial treaties with
the new Governments of Mexico and Colombia.—
This resolution will of course lead immediately
to the recognition of the independence of these
States. The policy explicitly declared by the
British Government, with respect to SOuth Ame-
rica, has left it perfectly free to pursue its own
interests, without any reference to the feelings
or prejudices of Spain, or the other European
Powers. We knew, by the Parliamentary state-
ments of his Majesty's Ministers last Session, that
this question was considered by the Cabinet as
one purely British, and there can be no doubt that
during the interval nothing has occurred to change
their views of the subject. The sole reason for
deferring the recognition was the want of accurate
information as to the ability of the new American
Governments to maintain the rank they had as.
sumed. That information has been, we believe,
most satisfactorily obtained by means of the Com-
missions sent out specially for that purpose last
year. It seems to us, therefore, highly probable
that the report of yesterday may prove well
founded. The two states of Mexico and Colom-
bia appear to be as securely established as any
indefoendant Power in the world. The Govern-
ments of both are in the tranquil exercise of their
functions; and it may, without the !east exaggera-
tion, be affirmed, that either of them is more
capable of subduing the mother country, than
she is, unassisted, to reduce them again under
her authority. The question has for some time
been substantially decided. All that remained,
then, on our part with regard to Spain, was that
diplomatic courtesy which we owed to an unfor-
tunate ally ;. and with regard to the new States,
that politic. caution which should give our coun-
sels weight' in•th es of surrounding Potentates,
and save us from the inextricable absurdities into
which rashness might have plunged us. Let us

hope that the time has at length come, when, in
the judgment of his Majesty's Government, com-
mercial relations may safely and properly be
formed with the new States. From this quarter
we may calculate upon a progressive and an inde-
finite increase of our trade. What have we offered
to us ? A vast continent to be gradually peopled
by freemen, able to supply themselves in abund_
ance with the products of our manufactures. The
external prospects of our country are, we thank
Heaven, in every respect as cheering as we could
wish. The wise policy of the Cabinet has car-
ried us with peace and honour through the per-
plexed mazes in which it was the hope of the
Holy Alliance to have entangled us. His Ma-
jesty's Ministers have avoided Scylla without
splitting upon Charybdis. They have prudently
forborne from mixing themselves in the strug-
gles between the revolutionary spirit, which, on
the one hand, would overthrow all institutions,
and the monarchical principle, which, on the
other hand, would consecrate all the abuses of
power. Our renovated strength and increasing
prosperity are the best evidences of the soundness
of their judgment. We are now enabled, at our
own unfettered discretion, to choose for ourselves,
when we will acknowledge the political existence
of the New States which supplicate our recog-
nition. One of the French journalists, when
lamenting the degrading subserviency of his Court
to the Holy Alliance, pointed in admiration to
the dexterous manner in which the English Go-
vernment had, as he represented it, withdrawn
from the league of Sovereigns without firing a
shot, or even exchanging an angry word. In
fact, however, England never formed part of the
Holy Alliance. She belonged to the general
confederation of European Powers for defensive
and conservative purposes ; but the moment
it was projected to convert the Alliance
into a superintending authority to controul
the internal affairs of every people, and compel
them to conform their political institutions to the
Russian and Austrian models of perfection, Eng-
land refused to become a party to the new com-
pact, and protested against the principle on which
it was founded. We have thus been left free to
consult our own benefit, while the other great
Powers are involved in the endless intricacies of
their tortuous policy. Let us feel grateful to
Providence, in the first place, for our insular po-
sition ; next, for that excellently-balanced Con-
stitution which has fully demonstrated that—
Orders and degrees jar not with liberty, but well consist ;
and finally, for the sound neutrality which the
King's Government has adopted, and which in-
sures us the complete enjoyment of all the advan
tages of our singularly happy situation.

[NEW TIMES.
It is asserted with more than usual confidence
by the Houses connected with South America, that
on Saturday, Mr. Canning read to the Foreign
Ministers a Circular Letter intended to be ad-
dressed to all the European Powers of the deter-
mination of his Majesty's Government to recog-
nise the Independence of Buenos Ayres, Mexico,
and Colombia as Free States, but that with regard
to the other South American Provinces, informa-
tion had not been received sufficient to enable
Government to come to a determination. A
Commercial Treaty with each of the above States
is said to be on the eve of being concluded by
this country.
The British Funds yesterday afternoon expe-
rienced a slight decline, in consequence of do-
mestic rumours of an unfavourable tendency ;
among which were, the requisition for additional
military aid for Ireland, and the forwarding
troops to India, on account of the resistance
offered by the Burmese. Consols opened at 956,
and declined to 05231- for the Account. The
speculation in Foreign Securities and the Shares

in the new Companies continues unabated;
and the prices of both, as will he perceived by
our lists, have experienced considerable fluctua-
tions, and they have ohta: d even higher prices
than on Saturday. The shares in the Conti-
nental Gas Company were in demand at 2 per
cent. premium ; and when compared with the
other speculations, a considerable improvement
is considered as likely to follow. The Speech of
the President of the United States is hourly ex-
pected in town.—(ibib.)

[THE TIMES.]

There needed not much additional proof of
wisdom or consistency in the Catholic Associa-
tion beyond those which have already been
afforded by that grave and worshipful assembly.
Mr. O'Connell, and his brethren of a sub-com-
mittee, who had received a special charge upon
the subject, have brought in a report recommend-
ing seriously that a London Evening Paper shall
be prosecuted for libelling the Royal Catholic
College of Maynooth ; and quantum suificit of
the rent, it appears, is to be set apart for
that purpose. Now we are not shocked at
such a determination of the Catholic leaders,
nor indeed surprised at it ; it would, on
the contrary, move us to ridicule if it did
not affect us with something like regret. The
Catholic Association is an ephemeral creature,
whose interests have nothing definite about them,
and whose merits or demerits are likely soon to
be forgotten ; but it is not so with the commu-
nity from which the Association springs—the
great body of our Catholic fellow-suhjects—pos
sessing a fixed root in the land, and real, solid,'
and permanent relations with the State itself,
and with every individual, no matter what may
be his creed or character, who lives under it. The
advantage of incorporating the Catholics of the em-
pire with the rest of their countrymen has long been
manifest to us ; the impossibility of bringing
about a change so important, by Constitutional
means, in defiance of England, the chief seat of
national feeling and opinion, must have surely
been no less obvious : the policy, therefore, of
the Catholics from the outset, was clearly to con-
ciliate the taste and affections of their fellow-
subjects here. Passing by all former mistakes of
these gentry, we shall therefore satisfy ourselves
with remarking, that a more inconsistent, odious,
or despicable measure, could not have been
adopted by the Catholics, with a view to its in-
fluence on the mind of Englishmen, than this pro-
secutiou of the Public Press by one collec-

tive body, for the ostensible vindication of an-
• other. The Catholics have professed to make
their appeal to public opinion, and to rely on
that alone. Is this a proof of their sincerity ?
If they are desirous of nothing more than that the
college of Maynooth should be set right with the
English nation, what ought to be their course ?
An evening paper published a series of direct at-
tacks upon the conduct of the Catholics generally
—their leaders, their priests, and their college.
Without transgressing the bounds of complaisance,
we may affirm, that the hostile spirit observ-
able in a polemical writing, just takes away a
proportionate amount from the credit which might
be otherwise due to any statements of facts con-
tained in it. If there was, then, apparent in the
letters or articles alluded to, a settled view of
the present state of Irish politics the reverse of
favourable to the hopes and pretensions of the
Catholics, no impartial man who read them could
feel otherwise than disposed to doubt the accu-
racy of such charges as were brought against that
body for the sake of impeding their cause. The
antidote to the poison was in the Press itself : it
was administered with activity, and in profusion,
and the effects of it were all that would have
been wise or liberal in the Catholics to look for
—a disbelief of the charge, and an exculpation of
the party. But they demand a prosecution—not
acquittal, but revenge. Is it possible to wish
that such an attempt should prosper? They make
a parade of suffering the truth to be given in evi-
dence. This is a silly ostentation ; for the
Judge who allows it in a criminal case
' will not discharge his duty. They take advan-
tage of a law which enables the party prosecuting
to bring his indictment where he likes—
in a county, for instance, where hardly such a
thing as a Protestant Jury could be formed. Would
such a prosecution, if a verdict of guilty were
delivered, be thought a justification of the Col-
lege half so satisfactory as the press itself has
already furnished against the charges of the
Evening Paper ? The famous " Constitutional
Association " here, was execrated by the whole
kingdom, for usurping the powers of the Attor-
ney-General, and striving to put down discus-
sion : why should a knot of Catholics be tole-
rated in an attempt, for which another junto
(personally less respectable, we admit) were al-
most banished from society ? Mr. O'Connell
must give op this stupid enterprise, or he must
talk of free discussion no more.