The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-24 00:00:00

country, by an earlier recognition of the South
American Governments. The subject is of such
vital importance to our merchants, that Mr. Hen-
derson, a gentleman who has written a good deal
on South America, and well acquainted with its
affairs, is preparing a document for circulation
'among the South Americans, which, after taking
a cursory review of the most eventful circum-
stances in their respective revolutions, will illus-
trate the inexpediency of their conceding any
`privilege
to other powers in prejudice of Eng-
I and.—(lbid.)

[THE Timm]
The North American Papers contain some
paragraphs expressive of high exultation and de-
light at the progress of the United States in
various articles of manufacture. This is a natural
source of pride ; and although accompanied by
a rather unmannerly spirit of boasting, as if every
step gained by the Republic in art or science
was a victory achieved over England and her in-
habitants, our conclusions are so opposite from
those of the newswriters wha throw down the
gauntlet for the United States, that we are as
ready to rejoice, and with a view to British in-
terests moreover, at their advances in industry
and peaceful prosperity, as they are ready
to do so from the consideration that their
national improvements can be gained no other-
wise than at the expense of Great Britain:
We believe if the accounts of import and
export be carefully examined, it will be found
that the years of greatest affluence in America are
the sanie in which the largest portion of her a 1..:
fluence seeks employment in the purchase of
English manufactures and commodities. We are
farther of opinion, that such a result belongs not
merely to the traffic between Great Britain an&
the United States, but that it is:e4ually insepa-
rable from the increase of general comfort and
prosperity in any and every of those nations who
carry on a reciprocal intercourse by commerce.—
The greater the sum of domestic produce in the
United States, whether it assume the form of
raw material or of manufacture, the more ex-
tensive will be their faculty of purchasing from
foreign countries those articles which are not
produced at home.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The slow but sure progress of well-grounded
opinions on the hardships and oppressions of the
tithe system is at length likely to attain a favour-
able result. Those with whom it is natural and
becoming that any preliminary-measures for its
amelioration • should originate—the gentry of
Ireland, are coming forward ; and in one instance
a public meeting has already been held in the
county of Waterford, at which resolutions were
passed expressive of the expediency of cor-
'reefing a system which, both_ in and out of
'Parliament, has been reprobated as a principal
cause' of that habitual' resistance to the power
of the laws which leads' to such tevolting scenes
of cruelty and bloodshed amongst the lower
classes of the people of Ireland. 'When this
-subject has been mentioned' in Parliament, some
of those who are the firm supporters of the
existing state of things, talked fearfully of in-
fringing the rights of the Church and unsettling
all established and undoubted titles to property.
Somerecent instances in this Metropolis prove
that the clergy are not hack-ward in enforcing
their claims to the utmost limit allowed by
law ; and is it to be supposed- that a tithe-proc-
tor—an underling--whose name, from the mouth,
of an Irish farmer or peasant, embodies their
worst conceptions of outraged.feeling and legal
extortion, will not harass and oppress where he
can do so with impunity ? The tithe question
has frequently engaged the attention of compre-
hensive and statesmanlike minds, but its great
difficulties and intricacy seem to have paralyzed
their exertions and it has hitherto been like
some inveterate disease,. whose hurtful progress
we daily experience, and of whose fatal ter-
mination we can have no doubt, but which'
overwhelms the sufferer with such despondency
that he is content to let it remain without remedy,
lest the effort for its cure should prove too vio-
lent for :his constitution. There is now, how-
ever, greater probability than ever that the Gor-
dian knot will be unravelled. If all the counties
in Ireland shall hold meetings, and 'give suitable
expression to the feelings which are prevalent
amongst them upon this subject, Parliament will
not, cannot, refuse to listen to their representa-
tions ; and like another leading question, inti-
mately connected with the tranquillity of
Ireland,- the consequence of discussion must
be,- if dot immediate relief, that the neces-
sity of some change in the present system of
-collecting tithes will be still more strongly sub-
stantiated. The Duke of Devonshire has set a
noble example, and if the Irish landlords' par-
ticipated 'more fully and generally in his' spirit
and sentiments, the two countries would be more
nearly assimilated 'in the features which should
distinguish their connexion.

, COMMODORE 04BRI EN.— This enterprising
youth;-'a cripple and an. orphan, and who exhibited his
nautical skill before his Majesty last year at Dunleary, came
;to Leith during his Majesty's visit to Scotland; bringing
.with him his little vessel, with which he intended to proceed to
llopetoun on the day his Majesty embarked on his return to
London, in order to pay his respects to the King, but unfor-
tunately his vessel was capsized between Leith Roads and
Newhaven, and he himself nearly drowned. By this misfor,
tune he lost his vessel, and all on board of her. Admiral Sir
J. Beresford, on being informed of the circumstance,.kindly'
ordered a new one to be built for him, and some gentlemen in
Leith have set on foot a subscription to enable him to fit out
his new yacht. We understand that as soon as the vessel is
fitted out, the Commodore intends to exhibit his naval tactics
at Leith.—( Edinburgh- Courant, Sept. ,19.)

• In the 3d section of the new Act, Geo. IV.,
chap. 24, it is enacted, " that in all cases where the offence of
-any person receiving or buying stolen goods or chattels, or any
.such stolen order, tally, bill, bond, warrant, debenture, or
note, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall be deemed
and construed to be felony ' • such offender shall and may be
tried and convicted of such felony, as well before as after the
trial of the principal felon, and whether the said principal
.felon shall have been apprehended or shall be amenable to
justice or not."
In the year 1774 a Bill' was introduced into
the 1-lbuse of Commons, for the better watching of the. Metr-
opolis ; in order to effect which object, one of the claUses went
to piopose that watchmen should be compelled to sleep by day.
Lord NuCIEIT, with admirable,humour,gpt up, and desired
that " he might be personally i included, n' the pipvisions of
the Bill, being frequently So tormented with the' gout as to be
,unable to sleep either by day or night,"