The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-14 00:00:00

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]

We never witnessed, in the whole range of our
experience, any thing equal to the panic that
prevailed in the city yesterday. The countenance
of every one immediately connected with the
commercial world, displayed unequivocal signs
of anxiety ; and whatever may be the cause of
the existing distress, the fact itself is as painful
as it is incontrovertible. The question now
is, how is, this alarm to be checked, and con-
fidence substituted in its place ? In this, it
is clear that Government and the bank must
take the lead ; and it is also clear that
their measures must bear an exact affinity
to the suddenness, as well as the alarming ex-
tent, of the evil. We throw out this suggestion
in the fullest confidence that it will be immedi-
ately acted upon ; and that this week will not be
suffered to elapse without some efficient step
being taken by Ministers to relieve commercial
credit from its present extraordinary depression.
It would be absurd to plead principles, or to ap-
peal to fixed rules as an excuse for apathy, when
a temporary departure from them might afford
immediate relief. Therefore, the Directors of
the Bank should, at this moment, make it a
point to depart from their usual caution ; and
if this were not sufficient, Government ought to
hasten to the relief of the commercial world.'
The whole question of the present embarrassment
lies in a nut-shell—the difficulty of discounting
the best paper; and, consequently, the remedy
may be stated in three words—" increase the fa-
cilities." In the mean time, the commercial world
itself ought to make efforts to resist an alarm,
which, for the most part, is artificial ; and we are
only surprised,that the first Houses,seeing the ruin
that has overtaken some, whose respectability
was never before liable to the breath of suspi-
cion, have not come forward with some measure,
or declaration, to stem a torrent, which has a 1-
ready sapped the foundations of commercial cre-
dit. The evil has been heightened, as usual, by
exaggeration ; but, to the honour of the Public
Press generally, it must be said that it stands ac-
quitted of this charge. In the mean time, it is
our firm hope that the alarm has reached its ut-
most height, and that effectual measures are now
in agitation to put a stop to it wholly, and as
promptly as possible.
[MORNING POST.]
We received last night, by Express, French
Papers to the nth instant, and the Eloilc of Mon-
day. The Subscription for a monument to Gen.
Foy and a provision for his children proceeds
rapidly and spontaneously in every part of
France. The sums received in Paris on Satur-

turday last amounted to 415,731 francs. As this
is the produce of little more than a week, there
is no doubt tliat the ultimate total will exceed
a million of francs. The Etoile affirms that two
French frigates are to be sent to punish the
Government of Tripoli for the capture of four
vessels belonging to the subjects of the Pope, the
restitution of which had been demanded in vain
by his Holiness. It is doubtful whether so small
a force would produce much impression on the
Bey, who, if we are to judge by the assistance
which he sent last year to the Captain Pacha,
possesses a navy of considerable strength. The
health of the Pope, which had for some months
caused the Catholic Powers of the Continent
to consider what successor it would suit their
individual interests to promote to the Chair
of St. Peter, is said to be slowly but regularly
improving, and his complete recovery is an-
ticipated by next spring. Ile is said to have
been actively engaged during his illness with
the affairs of the Church and the administration
of the State. No other result of this activity
has yet publicly appeared, however, save his
measures for compelling the Jews throughout
his dominions to live in particular quarters,
measures which are said to have induced the
richest and most respectable individuals of that
nation to remove their persons and fortunes to
other lands. The Constitutionnel says, that
after staying a week at Frankfort, Sir Hud-
son Lowe had proceeded on his way to Con-
stantinople. In the night of the 6th to the
7th instant, and in the course of the follow-
ing day, the Loire rose suddenly and overflowed
iti banks, carrying away all the merchandize
which lay on tl►e quays at all the ports from
Roanne down to a considerable extent. The loss
was immense, and it was feared that the bridges
of Nevers and of La Charite would be destroyed.

FRIENDS OF POOR ORPHAN CATHOLIC CHU.-
DREN.—The Anniversary Festival of this excellent Institution
was on Monday held at the Freemason's Tavern. At about half
past five o'clock the Rev. THOMAS WELD took the chair, sup_
ported by the Right Rev. Dr. Brainstone. the Rev. Dr. Collins,
Mr. Butler, and various other gentlemen connected with the
Catholic Church. After the cloth was removed, the usual
patriotic toasts were drank, and the Secretary's Report was
read, which exhibited a most flattering account of the Society.
It stated that their object was to clothe, educate, and wholly
provide for the Orphan Children of poor Catholics, and that
during the last year several liberal donations had been received
to forward the objects of the Society, and that it was their inten-
tion to raise a school in the neighbourhood of Chelsea, for the
purpose of educating the female part of the children, sad pre-
venting them mixing with the day scholars, which would con-
siderably increase their eapences, and render the most strenuous
exertions of the friends of the Society necessary. After the report
had been read the Rev. Mr. '4ll'Donnel delivered a speech replete
with eloquence, advocating the objects of the Society, and calling
upon every individual who had the interest of the Society at
heart, to use their best endeavours to support the Institution.—
In the course of his speech the Rev. Gentleman stated that the
Society had now under its protection upwards of twenty orphan
children, male and female, who had been left destitute, and who
could, hut for the timely aid which had been held out to them,
have fallen into those vicious courses which too commonly await
the shelterless orphan. The Rev. Dr. Bramstone, and other
Gentlemen, made eloquent speeches, and a liberal collection was
made.

HORRIBLE MURDERS.—An extraordinary de•
gree of alarm and indignation has been excited this week by
the announcement of a most atrocious murder in the town of
Hilshorough, where the Marquis of Downshire resides ; and
which, with the entire neighbourhood, has always been re-
markable for the exemplary and moral conduct of its inhabi-
tants. The following are the only particulars yet known of
this dreadful transaction :—On the night of Monday, the sth
instant, Miss Ann Stott, of Hilsborough, a mild, amiable,
and benevolent lady, was, with her servant maid, inhumanly
murdered by some assassins, in her own dwelling. It ap-
pears that the doors of her house had not been opened on
Tuesday, a circumstance which induced her neighbours to
suppose she had gone to a meeting at Lurgan, of the Society
of Friends, of which she was a member. How•ever,lon IVed-
nesday (the market-day) her doors and gate still remained
closed, and her cows, which were in the back-yard, began to
low so incessantly, probably through want of food, &c., that
the inhabitants became alarmed, and a boy was sent over the
wall to examine the premises. By him a bloody cap was found
lying in the yard, outside of the kitchen-door. Application
was then promptly made to Hugh Moore, Esq., of Eglantine-
house, an active Magistrate, who was sitting in Hillsborough
Court-house at the time. This gentleman came instantly to
the place, with some of the police, and caused one of the win-
dows to be forced up with a crow-bar, by which means a con-
stable gained admission. In the kitchen a shocking spectacle
presented itself—the murdered bodies of Miss Stott and her
servant. The maid lay near the kitchen-door, and some of her
blood was sprinkled on the threshold. Her head and arms
were so bruised and disfigured, that when an inquest was held
on the bodies, it was almost impossible even to conjecture with
what kind of instrument the murderers had perpetrated the
crime. Miss Stott's skull was beaten in at the back of the
head, apparently by some square, obtuse, and ponderous im-
plement of destruction. The assassins haring thus succeeded
in the work of death, broke open a money till in the shop, and
then endeavoured to force open some drawers in a room, up stairs,
but it appears they did not succeed. Every other part of
the house was left by them in good order, clean, neat, and
perfectly undisturbed. They withdrew, we apprehend, by
the rear of the house, unperceived. On Thursday, an inquest
was held on the bodies of this deeply-lamented lady and her
maid, when a most minute investigation into the whole cir-
cumstances connected with this melancholy and alarming
event took place. The inquiry set on foot is most strict, and
the Marquis of Downshire has been remarkably active in en-
deavouring to trace this dark, bloody, and, as yet, inexpli-
cable transaction, to its origin. Hugh Moore and W. E.
Reilly, Esqrs., the resident magistrates, have also been inde-
fatigable in their exertions. The people of Hilsborough have
most zealously co-operated with him on the occasion. In ex-
amining the premises, there were found visible marks of foot-
steps from the house to a pond at the foot of Miss Stott's
garden. This the people quickly emptied with pails and
other vessels, in hopes of finding the instrument of murder,
and by its means gaming some clue to guide them to the as.
sassin—but in vain. The verdict of the inquest was—" Wil-
ful murder by some person or persons unknown."—(Belfast
Chronicle.)

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