The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-18 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING, &c.

DEAL, APRIL 17.—Wind N.E. and thick tog.—Just come
down and sailed the London, Gabber, for Quebec.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 16.—Wind s.W.—Sailed the Nymph,
Radcliffe, and Fanny, Serle, for. the eastward, both under
quarantine. The Caroline, Campbell, from Jam, ca for Lon.
don ; Lady Popham, Jenkins, do. ; .ul"Duncan;
from Hull to Madeira, and several others.

FAtifOXITH, APRIL 16.—Wind, light airs and variable.-.

Arrived the Dutch ship Do Koophandel, Janson, from Batavia
for Amsterdam, short of provisions. The Lady Arabella
packet, froth Lisbon, in 16 days ; and Pomona, Graves, from
ditto, in 21 days.

The Ann, Shellon, from Malta to England, run on shore
near Tunis, and has been abandoned by the master ; care
landed.

The Bergetlm, Herhold, of and from Dram, in attempting
to enter Kirkcaldy the 10th inst., got aground, and was owls
wrecked;.-part of her cargo, sails, &c. saved. •

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India
house, when the following. Commanders took leave of the Cou
previous tq their departure for their respective destination%
viz. :—Capt. Richard Clifford, Lady Melville ; Captain Jolt
Small Henry Fraser, Marquis of Bundy; Captain Robert
Wright Norfor, Regent ;. and Capt. Thomas Williams, Prin.,
cess Amelia, China direct. The undermentioned Captains were
sworn into the command of their respective ships, viz,:—Cape.
Brook Ray, Marchioness of Ely; and. Capt. William Adam-
son, Winchilsea, consigned to Bengal direct.

The sloop Nelly of Leith, Captain Spence, arrived at Leith,
from Riga, on the 13th inst. with a cargo of hemp and tallow,
being the first vessel from that port. She sailed in company
with two English vessels, bound to London, both of which she
left at the Sound on the 9th inst. The ice broke up about the
15th of March, by which vessels got up to the bridge. The
Nelly has only been 37 days from Leith, 20 of which she remain-
ed at Riga, making her passages out and home in,the short
space of 17 days, during the severest of the gales which wehave
lately experienced. lt is, we believe, unprecedented in naval`
history for a. vessel to arrive in this country from, Riga, pp earty
in April.—( Edinburgh. Courant, .Ipri/ 15.) ,

We learn from Manchester that business is at
present very brisk there. A great deal oflie4
machinery -has lately been set in motion. The'
manufaetdres of Glasgow also continue in a flou-
rishing state. The woollen manufactures of the-
fine valley of Stroud, in Gloucestershire, ate equal-
ly, busy, and hard pressed to produce their broadt
cloths, blue, black, and scarlet, from Us. to 355. a'
yard for Chin, II indostan, Mexico, Peru, Ch ili, and
other places : these are no longer taken to Lon.;
don by slow weekly waggons, but by daily fly ling vans. We are, however, sorry to learn that
the iron' trade in Monmouth is very bad ; and'
that tumults were apprehended, on the part of •
the workmen, arising from the low rate of wages:
—(Leeds intelligencer.)

We are sorry to learn that the practice of de-
stroying farming stock by wilful fire-raising,_
which prevails in some parts of •England, is said.:
to have manifested itself in the neighbouring •
county of Haddington. The better educatiOn'
of the Scottish peasantry, we would fondly, hope,
would secure us against outrages of this descrip-
tion.—,-(Edinburgh Courant, April 15.) ~
Yesterday an Inquest was held at-the Shaltespeaie TaverPx:
Eaton-street, Pimlico, before Mr.
,Hioos, Coroner,. on . the
body of William Dufoy, a child foui years old, who mop,
found drowned in PimliCo Wharf. The _leather of the 4e.,.L
ceased is a respectable man residing in 4),:e Horseferry-n4.
On Monday night the child was missing,'; search was made
for him in all directions, and 'at 'last the- body was fouNd
among the barges in the wharf. It isaupposed the child 7.
to play- with other boys, and fell into tke.:water—VerdietT,
Accitkntally drowned.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM TIIE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,
April 18, 18'22.

[NEW TIMES.]
We, understand' that a Meeting is about to be'
called of 'the Merchants, Ship-owners, &c. of
LOndon, for the' purpose of presenting a repre-
sentation to Government on the expediency of
permitting the ships belonging to the Republics
of Columbia, Buenos Ayres, Chili, &c. to be ad-
mitted into our ports (when coming direct from
their respective countries, and laden with the
produce thereof,) in the same manner as the ships
°title United States and Brazil. The altered
situation of these countries, in consequence of
their being no longer colonies of Spain, seems to
remder some such regulation advisable, and the
mercantile interest feel a degree of anxiety lest
the withholding it should produce, on the other
side; regulations unfavourable to the admission
of our shipping into their ports on. the same terms
with those of nations which may grant to these
Republics. that reciprocity. Indeed it appears by
the Tariff of Import Duties recently published
by the Congress of Columbia, that the duties
are to be Five per Cent. less on goods im-
ported in their own ships than in those of
other States, excepting in the case of nations
with which they may enter into treaties of
commerce,• the obvious purpose of which is
to intimate that they will only treat on the
footing of reciprocity. The question assumes a
higher interest in consequence of recent occur-
rences in the United- States. They are taking
measures there to admit the ships of the Repub-
lics, the necessary effect of which will be to
-place imports into. ColUmbia in the -ships of the
United States on a more favourable footing by
-Five. per Cent. than in British ships. •It is more-
over in strict accordance with the principle of the
'Navigation Act; that ships be received in our
ports coming from the country whose flag they
bear, andladen with its produce ; and there can
be no reason fur not applying this principle to
the cases of countries where the advantages of
reciprocity must be in favour of Britiskshipping,
in the proportion of at least twenty to one.

[TILE TIMES.]
Lord Londonderry, it appears, has postponed
from Monday next, to Friday, the 26th, his mo-
tion for further considering the report of the
Agricultural Committee. This is no bad sign.
It is clear th'at the Ministers are just as far from
meditating any effectual cure for the -agricultural
distresses as the Committee were from venturing
to advise one. The report renounces, in so many
words, all notion of investigating the cause or
nature of the evil ; and consistently, at least,
(though bow wisely is another question), disclaims
the hope of removing it in any sensible degree. The
Prime Minister, on the other hand, professes to
hp.ve hit upon the cause, and, If w,e understood
rightly his ambiguous colleague, the Noble Mar-
quis, who figures in the House of Commons, the
remedy proposed is one by which, if it has any
effect at all, the thing complained of must be
aggravated. A redundancy of grain is Lord Li-
verpool's grievance; but that redundancy has
been altogether natural. Lord Londonderry,
therefore, unless we have been fortunate enough
to mistake him, would lock up in the Govern-
ment magazines whatever grain he could get pos-
sesion of as mortgagee, to bring about a momenta-
ry rise of price, to cheat the farmer into yet more
extensive tillage, and thus to alleviate, by an ar-
tificial redundancy next year, the sufferings of
which a natural one has this year been produc-
tive. if such be the forthcoming medicament of
the Noble Marquis, is it not with justice that we
consider even a four days' reprieve in the applica-
tion of it a matter of some rejoicing ? and how
much more so if the delay were, attributable to
serious doubts in the minds of Ministers, whe-
ther, in the present case, to do nothing be not
better than to do ill ! To keep a worn-out garment
from falling to pieces under the operation of patch-
ing it, may, require the hand of a delicate and skil-
ful workman; so our corn-law system is in a stage
of life at which, if the King's Ministers do not
mean wholly to get rid of it, they would show
their discretion by leaving it to the course of
nature.

' [MORNING HERALD.]
The Session of Parliament is now materially
advanced, without, we think, a corresponding
progress in the public business. One of the most
pressing subjects is the state of Ireland. Yet
whether it be that the horrible condition of that
part of the United Kingdom has palled by fami-
liar repetition, so as to lose all power of excite-
ment, or that things are to go on in the old train
from despair of any better, it, is apparent that
the remedial measures promised to 'lreland
will at least be free from any fault of pre-
cipitation. Yet the present is the proper
moment, if any thing is intended in the way
of amelioration. The combination which has
produced such horrid acts is said to be broken.
—But the state of misery, actual or immi-
nent, is so dreadful, that, if not mitigated
or averted, it must reproduce the same
system of outrage, under the impulses of
famine and desperation. Two objects of the
utmost importance may be gained at this
moment, by affording some relief or preventative
of starvation. The relapse of a desperate and
self-deluding peasantry into a career of blood-
shed and plunder would be prevented, and an in-
calculable conciliatory influence would be exer-
cised upon a race of men which is said to be
far from insensible of- kindness, if the Govern-
ment manifested a disposition to feed their hun-
ger as well ^s to scourge their offences. Even
the ties of nature could hardly remain unbroken,
where the father never appeared but with the
voice of reprobation and the instruments of punish.
ment—much less in the relation between the sub.
jects and the Government, where the paterna
name has no foundation but a sort of politica
courtesy.

[I4OItMINQ CHRONXCLE.]
The Licensing. System came again under dis-
cussion in the House of Commons last night, and
it is gratifying to hear the change of language on

this subject. The connecting Licenses with par. •
Ocular houses, instead, of making them personal,
has necessarily led to the grievous monopoly
which enables the brewer to sell any thibg for
beer to the public, at his own price. The Li-
censing Law is the same in both parts of the
Island, as -the Poor Laws are the same ; but
both have been administered on a different prin-
ciple. In the North the License has always
been personal ; in the South it has not, and we
are now feeling the effects of the difference.—
It is very true that much property has been
sunk in Public-houses, on the faith of the
continuance of the monopoly ; but though
this may be an argument for giving some
compensation to the holders, it cannot be an
argument for the continuance of the evil. Surely
when the question regards the health and con-
venience of the people, a monopoly will never
be allowed to stand in the way. One thing,
however, deserves attention. Should the license
be made personal, care must be taken to secure
the publican from caprice. In fact nothing but
clear and undoubted misconduct should deprive
him of his license. The trade ought to be left
perfectly free, like every other. It is so, in fact,
in Scotland, every decent man that asks for a
license receiving one, and no inconvenience being
felt from the circumstance. Indeed nothing can
be, more absurd than the arguments by which
the regulation of the number of public-houses
is supported. If the people be disposed to tip-
ple, surely the limitation of the number of public
houses will not prevent them. It is the number of
drinkers, and not the number of public-houses,
which it is desirable to reduce, and we do not
see how the number of houses can augment the
number of drinkers. If there are more public-
houses in a place than the trade will support, the
owners will be the sufferers, and the number
will soon suit itself to the demand. A man must
have some capital or credit before he set up a
public-house, and he may be safely left to judge
for himself whether he has made choice of the
best situation. When will the Legislature of
I England cease to think that they can mend shoes
better than co-liters ?

PRESS.]

The House of Commons met yesterday, in
pursuance of the terms of its adjournment. The
proceedings of the evening offered some matters
of no inconsiderable interest. A Petition was
presented by Mr. Peel from the Synod of Glas-
gow, praying the House of Commons to refuse its
sanction to the measure announced by Mr. Can-
ning for the repeal of the Act of Charles 11. re-
lative to Roman Catholic Peers. The Petition
complained of Mr. Canning's measure, on -the
supposition of its being an attempt, by way of a.
sidewind, to carry the main question of Catholic
eligibility ; and Mr. Peel pledged himself dis-
tinctly that he would take the sense of the
House of Commons on Mr. Canning's first mo-
tion. This announcement excited some de-
gree of surprise 'in the House, for in cases where
the, mode of proceeding is to move, in the
first instance, for leave to bring in a Bill, with-
out referring- the matter to a Committee of the
whole House, the courtesy of Parliament suffers
the Bill to be introduced, and requires that the
sense of the House should be taken on the second
reading of the Bill, when the principle of the
measure is supposed to come with most propriety
under discussion.
.It was also a matter of sur-
prise that the, Petitioners,' who cannot from their
situation in life plead ignorance in excuse of
their presumption, should have ventured to iin=
pute to any Member of Parliament improper mo-
tives, or any motives distinct from those which
he had avowed, in submitting a measure to the
wisdom of the Legislature., It mattered not that
this reproach may have been couched in guarded
terms, such as fear or prudence 'might dictate—
the offence was _completed by the rise of any
langUage which was capable of conveying the
imputation.

[MORNING POST.
It is no more than a fortnight since all our co
,temporaries represented war between Russia and
Turkey as inevitable and immediate. Their con-
viction arose from the hostile nature of the Note
delivered by the Divan, after the surrender and
death of Ali Paella, to be transmitted to M.
Tatischeff, the Russian Minister sent to Vienna
to receive such communications as the mediating
Powers thought proper to communicate to him.—
At that period we alone stated that peace was
still likely to be preserved, fron't the renewed
efforts of Lord Strangford and the Austrian In-
ternuncio at Constantinople ; and we have now
to state that the last dispatches from that
city confirm our statement in all its particu-
lars, and 'our expectations to a great extent.—
On the 10th of March, the British and Austrian
Ministers in the Turkish capital presented ano-
ther Note to the Divan, in which they' remon-
strated against its resolution not to send negotia-
tors to' treat of peace, and pressed in the strongest
manner the removal of the Ottoman troops from
'allachia and Moldavia, as a measure which,
without compromising the_ dignity or endangering
the security of the'Porte, would be considered the
most satisfactory proof of its sincere wish to re-
main at peace. They offered besides the gua-
rantee of the mediating Powers that no advantage
should be taken of the evacuation of Wallachia
and Moldavia, by the Russian forces on the Pruth.
This note was accompanied by another from
the French Ambassador, M. de la Tour Mau-
bourg,who earnestly advised the Turkish Govern-
ment not to rekindle the flames of war in Europe,
and expose it again to that desolation from
which it had yet scarcely recovered. The British
and Austrian Note had not only been received,
but the Divan had consented to take it into con-
sideration, a concession which was the more
iw-
portant, as it implied that the Russian Ultimatum,
instead of being finally rejected, as the Ottoman
Note of the 9.Bth of February had announced,
was once more regarded by the Porte as matter
for discussion. Couriers were instantly dis
patched to the Austrian Government with thi
intelligence, and the impression on the minds o
the Ministers of the mediating States seemed to
be, that a fresh opportunity having been afforded
for negotiation, it was still probable that war
might be prevented.