The Sun.
London, England, 1822-06-05 00:00:00

of the barracks, threatened to fire upo,n and put
every person. to death. 'this- measure had the
desired effect. At the time the above ship left,

every thing remained quiet.

[From the Paper of the• 10th May.]—Captain
GlRANDEr.,arrived 'at New York from HaVannah,
states that a‘ fleet of about twelve sail had lately
arrived from Vera Cruz, having on board the
Spanish troops, amounting to about 4,000 men,
bound to Old Spain.

Mr. POLETtCA,. the Russian Ambassador, has
.taken his passage at New, York on board the
ship Culombia, ' expected to' sail shortly for Li-

verpool.

CONGRESS.—Our National Legislature wasted
so much time of the first part of the session, that
both Houses are now under the necessity of sitting
both night and day. The Senate met on Mon-
day and Tuesday at 10-o'clock in the morning,
and continued in session, with a recess of two
hours, till. 10 at night. Wednesday; the day of
adjournment, the Members of the Represen-
tative were to assemble at 6 o'clock in the morning.
BALTIMORE, MAY 7. A c counts from Monte
Video, Buenos Ayres, now fully confirm the pre-
.
vious reports of an extensive failure of the crops,
and that flour had advanced in price. This cir-
cumstance will be the means of opening a good
market.

FROM ITAvANNAll.—Xaptain MuNicA, from
Havannah, informs, that a Spanish frigate and a
sloop of war arrived at Havannah from Vera
Cruz, with five millions of dollars on board--
Fort St. Juan de Ulla was in possession of the

Royalists. '
The, Ancient Commercial Statutes' Repeal
Bill, by which the
.well-tried principle of our
Navigation and Commercial Laws is abandoned,
was last night read a third time in the House of
Commons, and passed ! We mourn over this
fatal measure, as over the funeral knell of Eng-
land's naval and commercial greatneis. Many
of the Members protested against the dangerous
tendency of the new Navigation Bill, but without
effect. Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGg justly re-
marked, that though it had become fashionable
to attribute the prosperity of the country to
other causes than, the principles and operation of
our maritime and commercial laws, and to think
that the public welfare had proceeded not only in-
dependently of, but " in spite of those laws," yet
that it was from the system that one branch
of the Legislature has now injudiciously aban-
doned, that the wealth and power of Great Bri-
tain have in fact sprung. There is now no chance
of successful resistance to this most pernicious
measure, but in the House of LOrds ; and from
the known opinion of his Majesty's Government'
in its favour, and the unavoidable 'influence
which the decision of the Commons on a question
of this kind must exercise over the minds of their
Lordships, we confess that we look•for its intro-
duction into their House with feelings of dismay
and anticipate that the Bill will be passed with
little or no opposition.

, Sir JAMES MACINTOSH last night renewed his
parliamentary labours for the amelioration of the
Criminal code, and moved a Resolution, pledg-
ing the (louse' to the consideration-, of means for
increasing the efficacy of the. Criminal Laws, by
mitigating their severity. He entered into a com-
prehensive review of the subject, and contended
that the uncertainty of capital punishment fol-
lowing capital convictions was prejudicial to
the interests of justice: On this topic, he
re-urged all his former arguments, and called
on Parliament to interpose and revise this inju-
rious part of the Judicial System of the country.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the previous
question ; but the Resolution proposed by Sir
JAMES MACINTOSH, in an altered state, was car.'
ried by a majority of 16.- The House is there-
,
fore pledged to enter upon the investigation early
in the next Session.

In a debate which ensued last night on the
presentation of an agricultural petition, Sir
THOMAS LETHBRIDGE warmly reproached Minis-
ters with the adoption of principles (in political
economy we presume) which would ruin the coun-
try. He made an open declaration of his secession
from that support which he had hitherto afforded
them, and alleged that the Agriculturists could not
and " would not" submit to the ruin which is op-
pressing them.' Lord LONDONDERRY charac-
terized this language as having,an inflammatory
tendency. With every respect for the motives
of, the Hon. Baronet who addressed it to the

House, we must express our concurrence in the
sentiment expressed by Lord LONDONDERRY.
There can be little doubt of the dangerous ten-,
dency of all assertions or insinuations that any
one class of the, people will not submit to that
situation, however unfortunate, in 'which the
circumstances of the country shall 'have necessa-
rily placed them,