The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-10 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, MARCH 9.—Wind S.W.—No arrivals or tailings.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 9.—Wind S.W..—Sailed the
Victory, Finey, for London, under jury masts ; this vessel got
on shore here on the 23d of November last; also the Tyne
(late sloop of war), sold out of the service, for London.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Louisa,
of Jersey, from Gibraltar, in 25 days. Sailed the Intrepid,
Metcalf, for Alexandria.

FALMOUTH, MARCH B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Hero,
Dye, from Buenos Ayres and Pernambuco, sailed the 21st of
December, and from the latter place in 41 days, with loss of an
anchor, and short of provisions and water, for London ; Provi-
dence, Naye, from St. Michael's, in 12 days.
LivxßPO 01., Mancx B.—Wind S.W,—Arrived the Arctu-
nis, Cooper, from Smyrna.
Cowxs, Mancif 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Honourable
Company's ship Herefordshire, Hope, from the Downs, for
Madras and China; and the Jamima, Craig, from ditto for
Trinidad.

The Charles the Fourteenth, Jansen, from Gottenburgh to
Grangemouth, was driven on shore, near Dunbar, the 7th inst.,
and it was feared would be wrecked.

The Friends, Maw, from London to Gainshorough, was
driven on shore, near the Spurn Point, on the 7th inst., and
filled with water.

The Mellish, from Calcutta to London, was to sail
on the 16th of November; she may be daily expected.

DEATH oy LADY BELL.—Died at her house in
Dean-street, Soho, sincerely and most deservedly lamented,
Lady BELL, relict of Sir Thomas Bell, Knight. Her Lady-
ship was eminently distinguished for her abilities in painting;
copies of some of the most celebrated pictures taken at Carlton
House, and submitted to his Majesty, it' no others existed,
afford the strongest proof of her Ladyship's taste and talents,
and will hand down the name of Lady Bell as one of the most
eminent artists of the present day.

A letter from Newcastle-upon-Tyne says, the
greater part of the engine-builders and mill-wrights, employed
in the different manufactories in that town, struck for an ad. •
ranee of wages on Monday last. Their. demand is three shil-
lings per week more than what they have been usually paid.
This claim is made at this time under the pretence of a rise in
the price of provisions, but the more probable cause appears tl
be, that their labour is now in greater requisition than it has
been. The alteration in the law last year, as affecting masters
and servants, though well intended, seems to be taken advan.
tage of by workmen whenever they can frame the least excuse
for opposing their employers. This is a state of things that the
Legislature are bound to put a stop to.

The extreme briskness of trade last year at
Liverpool, is evidenced by an official account
just published. The excess of 1824 over 1823
is more than 4,500,0001. The export of cotton-
manufactures and yarn, are estimated at the vast
sum of thirty millions!
A late Paris Journal announces the sale of the
celebrated flock of sheep of Torres•Pauler, about
15,000 in number. It was conjectured there
would, in consequence, be a fall in the price of
Spanish wool.
A Berlin Paper state, that a seal was sh-ot in
the river Moldau, near to Dessau, on the 19th
ult., by Lieutenant Count VON SALMS, Deputy
Grand Forester. This inhabitant of the German

Ocean,. which had got so far out of its way, was
41 feet in length, and weighed 1741b5.
There are at present published in S'. Peter -
burgh (says a letter from that city, dated the 12th ult.)
periodical works, and in Moscow 7; of which four, namely,
the Northern Bee, the Journal of Interior Trade, the Bitti:).
graphical Sheet, and the Iforcow Telc:raph, commenced with
the year 1325.
Ten men were tried at Naples last month, for
'a horrid murder, committed in 1821. Two vverti
condemned to death, and the others to 30 years'
imprisonment. One of them condemned to death
confessed that, since the year 1818, he had corn.
mitted seventeen murders.

REFORMAP_ON AMONG TUE CATuoLto.—The
Members of the Anglican Church frequently re-
proach the Catholics with permitting revelry
and mirth on the Sabbath ; and it is probably
to show the superior sourness of Catholicism that
the Catholic Council of the Canton of Schwik •
has ordained that its subjects shall only dance
on the three last days of the Carnival, and on

the Feast of the Dedication. Whoever dances,
or makes others dance, except on these four
days, in the whole year, is to be fined two Louis.
It is also forbidden to go about the villages play.
ing the fiddle. There will not be a single vice
committed in the whole Canton after fiddling and
dancing are left off.—(French Paper.)
The Neva York Gazette of the 98t January
says—" Miss KELLY had a real benefit on Wed-
nesday evening, The receipts amounted to
seventeen hundred dollars."—The same Paper
says, " It is very generally rumoured that
JOSEPH BUEINAPARTE has bought an extensive site
mansion
O forf A his
pin Philadelphia, and that he is about to erect a
suitable
PftlENamiTlyl.C"
INDENTURES
ESHIP.--It was
finally decided by Mr. Norris, at the New Bailey, on Tues.
day last (after the case in which the point arose had been
several times postponed for further consideration), that
unless the paper on which an indenture of apprenticeship
is engrossed, to be intented, or notched at the edges, the insut-
ment will he void, if it begins in the usual way, This Inden-
ture," notwithstanding the provisions of the Act of the 54
Geo, 3; but if the instrument purported to be an agreement,
instead of an indenture, it would be valid.—Manchester Paper.
I NACTI VIT T.—POLYIII us relates, that when the
battle was begun which was to decid3 the fate of the Mace-
donian empire, Perseus basely withdrew to the city Pydna,
under pretence of sacrificing to Hercules—" a god (says
Plutarch) that is not wont to regard the offerings of coward,
or grant such requests as are anju• t; it not being reasonable
that he who never shoots should carry away the prize—
that he should triumph who sneaks from the battle—or he
who takes no pains should meet with success. To Emilius's
petition the god listened, for he prayed for victory with his
sword in his hand, and was fighting at the same time that he
implored the Divine assistance. There are some who have too
mean an opinion of their own abilities, and by fancying them-
selves to be useless, become so, and dare not attempt many
things in which they are capable of succeeding, and which they
ought to perform. This behaviour arirks more fromlindolence or
melancholy than from humility."
John Fisher, alias Smith, who was some time
ago apprehended by Shergold, the constatele, and taken before
the Magistrates at Union-hall, charged on suspicion of having
been implicated as one of the party who shot a gamekeeper in
the service of Mr. Stracey of Ruckheath, in the county of Nor-
folk, was a few days since sent down to Norwich, in the custody
of the officer who took him prisoner. On arriving at Norwich
jail. Fisher was immediately identified by one of the turnkeys
as the accomplice of the man who had already suffered the
penalty of the law for the offence. Fisher underwent an ex.
amination before one of the Magistrates, the result of which
was, that he was committed for trial at the Assizes.
An accident, which had nearly proved serious,
happened in the Old Chapel for French Protest-
ants, in Martin's-lane in the city, on Friday last.
A. country gentleman, accompanied by his son,
went into the chapel, in which the pulpit, seats,
seats, &c. were set up for auction, it being in-
tended to pull down the old building. Justas one
of the lots were put up, the stranger opened his
mouth to bid, but was prevented by the fall of a
large fiag.stone, upon which he stood, into the
vault, which had not been opened for many years.
The old gentleman's fall was about 15 or 16 feet
in depth, and amidst the dust and bones of the
departed. He fortunately sustained but little

LONDON JOURNALS•

DAILY
Extracts ft um the Morning I)(Ters,Marchlo,lB2s.

['Fur: TIMES.]
We refer our readers with great pleasure to
the discussion in the House of Commons on the
concrolidation and revision of the statute relative
to Juries. Oar Statute Book is full of bar-
barisms and contradictions,and our much-boasted
common law is, to use no severer language than
that of the present head of the law, far from
being " the perfection of reason." It is a dis-
grace to a country like England not to have
a clear intelligible digest of its laws ; and we
rejoice to see that Mir. Peel is anxious to
wipe away this shame. We agree with him that
the alteration must be gradual, for the immensity
of the heterog,en9oUs mass cannot be reduced
to system by one operation. Much, however,
might be done in no very long time, by a divi-
sion of the labour, assigning specific branches of
.civil and crirrinal law to be classified by specific
individuals. And as the common law is no
longer what the old lawyers used to call it " the
" lex non scripta," (for lawyers now refer to their
reports, as if they were of equal authority with
statutes), why may not statutes be framed
declaratory of all the leading principles, tech-
nical or moral, which are assumed and quot-
ed as the basis of the common law ? If

there are any principles which appear (as
lr.
Pcel seems to hint) too trifling for the
solemn sanction of a statute, it will argue little
wisdom and little courage to hesitate to abandon
them. The intanee selected by Mr. Peel is not,
perhaps, the one that we should have chosen ;
but we see no reason why it should not be open
to discussion and revision if necessary. From
the general amelioration let us hope the Court of
Chancery will not he e7,:clnded : the principles of
Equity, and the jurisdiction of the Courts of
Equity, require to be .defined with folly as much
precision as the principles and jurisdiction of the
Courts of Law.

[vrw TIMEs.I
In the House of Commons, last night, on the
sr'cond reading of the Peruvian Mining Company
Bill, Mr. Hobliouse declared his fixed determi-
lion to oppose the passing of this Bill to the ut-
most of his power, as he was convinced no pro-
fitable speculation could be grounded on the
Mine in the PaseoMountains. The Metropolitan
._Fish Company's Bill was read a second, time on
the motion of Lord J. Fitzroy, u hen Mr. Cal-
craft stated his objections to these trading Coin-
pnnies,as interfering with the honest gains of indi-
dual traders, and expressed his disapprobation of ,
one of the acts of this Company in appointing their
Manager, with a salary of (2,000/. per annum. One
,of- the most important and beneficial measures
that has in our day heeu presented to Parliament,
`Avas introduced last night by Air. Peel, for the
consolidation of time different Statutes respecting
Juries, so as to. reduce them into one clear and
intelligible Statute, which every man may read
and understand, instead of the multifarious and
inzonsistent enactments which at present govern
our practice. We refer our Readers to the de-
tails so ably and eloquently developed by the
„Right Honourable Secretary, and feel fully
persuaded that the Bill he has proposed will
produce the great and salutary results he has
In view ; and at the same time will, when
added to 'What he has already done in
the service of his country, cause his name to
descend to posterity with imperishable fame,
among the great benefactors of mankind. Indeed
those who have been hitherto time most violent
and bitter opponents of Ministers, are now forced
to speak only the language of panegyric and
aise, as was -exemplified last night in the eu-
logies pronounced by Mr. Ilobbouse and Mr.
u me.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The intelligence received yesterday from India
`announcing the mutiny of some native troops near
Calcutta, produced a deep and extensive sena-
tion, which was considerably increased by an
imperfect and exaggerated account posted at one
of the coffee-houses. According to the official
statement, which will be found in another co-
!limn, it a ppears that in consequence of the refusal
of the 47th native regiment then stationed at
Barrackpore to proceed to Chittagong, the King's
troops were compelled to reduce them to obe-
dience by military execution. Some artillery from
Dumdum took up a position in the rear of the mu-
tineers, and after two signal guns had been tired,
opened upon them with destructive effect. They
Instantly fled. Many drowne3 themselvesin the ri-
ver; about 50 others, we learn by private letters,
were killed, and nearly the same number put to
death by sentence of Courts 31artial. Two other
regiments of native infantry, the 26th and 62d,
also under recruiting orders, were present, and
behaved with the most perfect fidelity and stea-
diness. No great alarm seems to have been felt at
Calcutta, from which city Barrackpore is only l 4
miles distant. The Government paper fell only
one per cent. on the arrival of the news. The
sepoys appear to have disliked the service on
which they were going, but the dreadful though
necessary punishments inflicted upon the muti-
neers will, we have no doubt, prevent the recur
rence of a crime striking immediately at the
foundation of our Oriental empire. That the
feeling of disaffection or apprehension, or what-
ever it might be, was not general, we know by
the part taken in the suppression of the mutiny
by the other two regiments of Sepoys, who were
under the same orders. Tranquillity was re-.
stored and all disquietude entirely removed.—
intelligence had been received at Calcutta on the
Ist of November, that the Burmese forces in Ca-
char had evacuated the posts of Tilayn and Dood-
patlie, and retreated to Munnapore. •

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We know not how to express in language suffi-
ciently warm our gratitude to Mr. Peet, for the
important measure respecting Juries, Ichich he
submitted to the House last night for the first
time. The measure itself indicates a confidence
ire the Justice and discretion of the people which
we are sure is not misplaced ; and the speech

with which he introduced. it is one of the most
manly and candid ever delivered within the walls
of the House of Commons. We should be
ashamed of ourselves, if we had any hesitation in
rendering the Right Honourable Gentleman
the justice to which he is entitled. The Right
Honourable Gentleman justly observed, that " it
was impossible to contemplate the vast mass
of laws in our Statute Books, without feel-
ing that great ad vantage might be derived
from extending the principle. The criminal
code should be the first, for it was of the last hn-
portance that the subjects of this realm should
have a facility in knowing the laws which they
were bound to obey." He noticed the extent of
the laws regarding forgery, which filled one en,
tire volume, and suggested the expediency of a
Commission with a 'view to investigation and
consolidation of the lass, not merely re-
garding forgery, but other matters. It was
impossible, he said, that the Lord Chancellor,
the Attorney General, or any professional
men could devote sufficient time for such a mi-
nute investigation. We have long been sa-
tisfied that to render the Parliament adequate
to the wants of a great and civilized country, the
great business of legislation for which it. is ob-
viously unfit, ought to be devolved on a Commis-
sion of men of high acquirements, and as disinte-
'rested as possible, responsible of course to iteif.
In most civilized countries, a permanent commis-
sion of the first men in the State exists for such
a purpose. If in this country the Judges had
not assumed to themselves the business of legis-
lation (a great evil no doubt, for it gives to law
an ex post facto operation) matters would have
been infinitely worse in this country than they
are. But Judges and practising lawyers have al-
most always an interest in-rendering time law ad-
vantageous to themselves, and as expensive as
possible to the public. A man may sometime*
sacrifice his interest to higher feelings ; but the
trial is too much for human nature. \Ve have
not space at present for entering into the consi-
deration of this important subject with the details
which it merits. \Ve shall return to it.