The Sun.
London, England, 1825-04-23 00:00:00

DIED.

On the 20th inst., Captain Charles Campbell, R.N., the
youngest and only surviving brother of the late Lord Cawdor.
On the 10th inst., in the 16th year of her age, Sarah Isabella,
only daughter of ames Peirson, Esq., of Coleman-street, at
his house, Barnsbury-park, Islington.
On Thursday, the 21st inst., Julia, the third daughter of
S. N. Cowley, Esq., of Russell-square.
At Liverpool, on the 20th inst., Mr. George King, jun.,
aged 41.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Mortang Papers, April 23, 1825.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
From letters which we have received from va.
slow; quarters„ we know that the Dissenters i►►
general are very much hurt at its having been
supposed they are the advocates of intolerance.
Several Petitions were presented in both Houses
last night from Dissenting Congregations, in fa-
vour of the Catholic Claims ; and we have no
doubt more will be presented, in order to leave
no doubt on this point. Lord Holland, in pre-
senting 'one from a place in Dorsetshire, describ-
ed the Petitioners "as anxious to vindicate them-
selves from the aspersions which had gone abroad,
that the whole body of Dissenters were the ad-•
vocates of intolerance."—His Lordship added,
that " it was too much the custom to judge of
men's proceedings by some abstract doctrines
which they professed," and a truer observation than
this never was made. Men of all religions living to-
gether in the same community, reading the same
publications, and hearing every day the same
notions, must necessarily partake very much of
the same character. The principal distinctions
are those produced by rank, wealth, education,
and pursuits in life ; though these distinctions
become feebler and feebler every day from the
circumstance that almost all classes read the
same journals and newspapers. Compared with
all these circumstances, the particular creed
sinks almost to nothing. The character of
every age is thus far more distinctly marked
on the productions of that age, than the pecu-
liarities of sect, except during a short period
after the origin of any sect, when the tem-
porary enthusiasm which led to its formation
(and enthusiasm is always temporary) is in
operation. When the laws give to one class
of society an ascendancy over the rest, the
difference in character is created by law, and
not by religious principle. The Marquis Camden
took the opportunity of presenting a petition
against the Catholic Claims, to declare " that he
had given mature consideration to the subject,
and he was now convinced the measure of conces-
sion ought to be carried." From the frank and
honourable character of the Noble Marquess, it.
was to be expected that he would take the
earliest opportunity of stating any change of his
opinion on so important a subject. We trust that
those examples set by men of the highest estima-
tion in both Houses, will serve to embolden those
who share their sentiments, to give. expression to
them.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Bill for regulating the Elective Franchise
in I►'eland was brought in last night and read a
first time. The second reading will take place
on Monday evening, unless the Catholic Relief
Bill should interfere with that arrangement.—
Some difference of opinion, we regret to observe,
exists with respect to the disfranchisement of the
Irish Forty Shilling Freeholders, in quarters from
which no opposition to so salutary and desirable
a measure could have been expected. That the
present system of making Freeholders for elec-
tioneering purposes is fraught with evils of the
worst description, is an admitted fact. What ar-
gument is advanced to justify its continuance ?
Literally none ; but we are promised many here-
after. We must wait till they are brought for-
ward ; for at present we are utterly unable to
conceive how it can be maintained that a system
so ruinous to the morals and welfare of the coun-
try can for a single moment be vindicated.

[MORNING lIERALD.]
In reply to a question put by Sir R. Wilson to
Mr. Littleton, last night, in the House of Corn-
mons, the latter Gentleman said he wished to
bring in the Bill regarding the 40s. freeholders of
Ireland, without entering into discussion now ; to
have the Bill printed, by which means the whole
country might see his plan ; and to have the dis-
cussion on the second reading, on Friday next.
Ile would rather not go into any details, except
he were allowed to enter fully into them. Mr.
Brougham deemed this course the best, but
thought there was no occasion to delay the se-
cond reading beyond Monday or Tuesday ; and
in the course of his observations, he remarked
that the other part of the plan, the State provi-
sion for the Catholic Clergy, appeared to be far
more objectionable with many persdns. Mr. Cal-
craft said he was of a different opinion as to the
course that ought to be pursued regarding
the Disfranchising Bill, as some termed it.—
If its object really were to disfranchise the
forty shillings freeholders, he thought, on
the first blush of such a proposition, that
the House ought not to allow even a preli-
minary step to be taken without the whole case
being fully opened to the country. He added
that if the object were to disfranchise any free-
holders, most certainly he should resist the Bill ;
at all events, he thought it was due to the House,
on a question of so much importance, first to sub-
mit in detail the reasons which induced Mr.
Littleton to propose a measure that had been
called a Disfranchising Bill. Mr. Littleton sub-
sequently moved for leave to bring in the
Bill, but without entering into details in support
of the motion. There was a good deal of conver-
sation on the subject. The Bill was eventually
brought in, read a first time, and ordered to be read
a second time on Monday. Of the propriety of this
Bill we think there can be no question. To us it
appears extremely absurd that people possessing
freeholds to the amount of only forty shillings
a-year should have a right of voting. As to the
other Bill alluded to by Mr. Brougham—a pro-
vision for the Catholic Clergy, lie is quite right
in his, belief that the voice of the people is de-
cidedly against the measure ; for as a brother of
Mr. Peel very ably and sincerely observed the
other night, in his place in the House of Com-
mons, if provision be to be made for the Catholic
Priests,. what reason can be adduced why a pro-
vision should not also he made for the Methodists,
and the hundreds of other sects into which Pro-,
testanism is split ? This Gentleman made avery
able speech on that night. It was something in
his, father's (Sir Robert Peel) manner-. There
was much matter comprised iu a few well select-

ed words. It would be curious, after all, if,
while Messrs. Plunkett, Croker, and Burdett
procured from John Bull the desired boon, grant-
ing Emancipation to the Catholics, that at the
same time they should hood-v,ink John into the
payment of 250,0001. a year to the Catholic Cle-
rical Establishment. That would indeed be pay-
ing the Catholics for being so very condescend-
ing as to accept of our boon. But the idea
of such a measure is ridiculous ; if, however,
it be persisted in, we should hope that the
patriotic portion of the Civic Body would be-
stir themselves, as they did shortly since
in Act of Henry the Eighth. But if it should
not, then we hope it will never again counte-
nance the resistance of a widow to the claim
of the Reverend Mr. 'Wilson. The Chancellor
of the Exchequer requested Mr. Scarlett to post-
pone his motion regarding the uufitness of the
new Court of King's Bench ; and as this was the
first time that he had heard any thing on the sub-
ject, if Mr. Scarlett would forward to him the
objections to the new Court, he would forthwith
have them removed, if remedy were prac-
ticable. Mr. Scarlett, in postponing the sub-
ject to Monday se'nnight, replied that his objec-
tions were mainly on behalf of the public. The
Court was much too small. There was not room
enough for above half the Bar ; and for the
public there was no accommodation at all. He
had no other objections to make ; if the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer would have those defects
remedied, and he should have no further cause
of complaint.

[MORNING POST.]
In the House of Commons last night, Mr.
Littleton obtained leave to bring in the Bill of
which he had given notice, to regulate the pre-
sent state of the elective franchise in Ireland.
He said that he thought ten pounds would be
the most advisable amount to which the right of
voting from Leasehold tenures should be limited ;
that the regulation would be confined to the 40s.
freeholders of counties deriving under leases,
and that the whole arrangement would be condi-
tional on the passing of the Catholic Relief
Bill. He postponed further remarks on the
measures till its second stage. The Bill was
then introduced, read a first time, and fixed for
a second reading on Monday next. The House
having afterwards resolved itself into a Com-
mittee on the Spirits Duties Acts, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer explained the regulations
for the trade which he intended to propose.—
The qualifications for Distillers should be, that
they should be persons residing in houses paying
rates to the amount of 201. per annum. The
next was that they should live within a quarter
of a mile of a market town containing 500 inha-
bited houses. These regulations were not to
extend to distillers already licensed. As to the
size of the stills, he proposed it should be re-
duced from 3,000 gallons to 400 gallons—the
former size. The duty on gin was now 10s.
per gallon, at 79 above proof, he proposed to re-
duce the duty to five shillings per gallon at
proof. Next year a new standard of weights
and measures would be introduced, differing ma-
terially from that now existing, and the gallon
then to be in use, and called the imperial gallon,
being larger than that at present, the duty of
five shillings and tenpence would, on the impe-
rial gallon, he equal to 7s. The Right Hon.
Gentleman then moved a series of Resolutions,
which it would be his object to embody
subsequently into a 13111. The Chancellor
of the Exchequer also stated that with respect
to the effect of the Window Tax upon Schools,
where it acted as a tax on education, he had
been so struck with the idea on finding it ex-
pressed in a Petition, that " the first thing he
(lid was to put himself in communication with
the Tax Office, to see how far relief could be
granted." In the House of Peers, Lord Hol-
land introduced a Bill to prevent Attainders from
extending farther than the person, title, or pro-
perty of the offender himself, and to put an end
to corruption of blood. The Bill was read a first
time, and ordered to be printed.

NEW Times.]
The majority of twenty-seven for the second
reading of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill (which
majority we, some days ago, anticipated) may be
comidered, as a cotemporary justly observes, to
be decisive of the success of the Bill in its future
stages in the House of Commons. In the Lords,
the relative numbers will,,no doubt, be different:
yet, we apprehend, that the supporters of the
Bill in the Upper House will be more nu-
merous than on any former occasion. All
parties must look with admiration on the energy
displayed by Mr. Canning, in not only attending
the discussion of the Bill in a state of great bo-
dily suffering, but even delivering a splendid
oration, under the torturing effects of the gout.
The Right Hon. Secretary merits the warmer
commendation for this exertion in behalf of the
Roman Catholics, inasmuch as he declared, at an
earlier period of the Session, that he had not re-
ceived from them that justice which his long la-
bours in their cause so eminently deserved. A great
Statesman, however, will not act from the im-
pulse alone of gratification in the applauses which
may be given, or from that of mortification at
praise withheld ; but he will look simply to the
good of his country, and to that he will sacrifice
every minor consideration. Most of the speeches,
pamphlets, and petitions, that we have seen on
the subject of the Catholic claims have as-
sumed, that the question was one of mere
ascendancy on the part of the Catholics
and Protestants. A simple statement of the
population and wealth of the Catholic Body
is sufficient to quiet that alarm. The Ca-
tholics, probably, form five sevenths of the popu-
lation of Ireland, but they amount to less than
one-fourth of the population of the British Em-
pire. In property the disproportion is still
greater ; for if we say that the Catholics possess
one fortieth part of the national capital as their
share of the private property, we shall, probably,
exceed the truth. True it is that, of late years,
the spirit of proselytism has been actively at
work to extend the numbers of the Catholic Com-
munion, but to that activity we are happy to
believe that the Clergy of the Established Church
oppose an equal zeal i and we have no fear in

trusting to the result of a contest of reason, be-
tween the doctrines of the Church of Rome and
those of the Church of England.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
We have been favoured with the perusal of
letters of various dates, from different ports
of the Mediterranean, which were received
yesterday by an eminent house in the City—
from Zante to the 23d ult., from Corfu to
the 26th ; and from Otranto and Naples to the
6th inst. They concur, we regret to say, in re-
presenting the situation of the Greeks as perilous
in the extreme ; and if we did not know from
experience, how often they had triumphed over
circumstances of as great danger and difficulty,
we might feel great alarm at their situation. The
Turks are described as making extraordinary pre-
parations, with the view of commencing operations
at every point, with a force sufficient to bear down
all resistance ; and the Viceroy of Egypt, whose
jealousy, it was supposed, would render him
a lukewarm Ally of the Porte, is stated to have
taken up its quarrel with a cordiality, which is
the worst omen for the Greeks that has appeared
in the whole course of their struggle. The force
which Ibrahim Pasha has debarked at Coron and
Motion, is estimated as high as 15,000 men ; and
the fleet in which they were conveyed, has been
sent back to Candia for more troops. The in-
vaders immediately commenced operations by
burning a number of villages, and committing
other acts of wanton cruelty, so familiar to
the Turks in their mode of carrying on hostilities.
The course they had taken was towards Kala-
mata ; and we are sorry to say, that the hopes
entertained of the surrender of l'atrass, have been
grieviously disappointed—the blockade having
been broken through by a Captain Mahmoud,
whose name, though not familiar to many of our
Readers, has acquired much celebrity in this war,
on account of the daring and enterprising spirit
of the person who bears it ? Ile had only a ten
gun-brig under his command, when he resolved
on forcing a passage ; and this he is said to have
done so effectually, as to have convoyed a num-
ber of vessels, laden with provisions from Pre-
vesa, into the place. In Albania the Turks were
making immense preparations for carrying the war
into Western Greece; and, as if these dangers,
which threatened the Greeks, were not sufficient,
they had to contend with treachery in their own
ranks. Whilst the Egyptian Commander relied
upon his gold to gain partisans in the Morea, we
find with regret and surprize that the idea of cor-
rupting the Greek leaders is not so extravagant
as could be wished. It appears to be placed
beyond all doubt that Odysseus has gone over
to the Turks ; and it is even said in one of the
letters that Trelacony was the companion of his
base desertion. The letters abound in prognos-
tics of the complete success of the Turks this
year; but how often have such predictions been
uttered and falsified ! These accounts also speak
of the immense sums which the Viceroy of
Egypt has been raising for some time, to facilitate
the operations of his son in the Morea; and his
expedient consists in drawing bills on London for
the proceeds of his consignments of cotton.