The Sun.
London, England, 1825-06-23 00:00:00

PA RIAAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mercurii, 9.2`" rlic Junii, 1525.
n. SPE A Elt reported the Royal Assent —to Exchequer Bills
(1:10,500,000) Bill ; Duke of Cumberland's Annuity Bill ;
Duchess of Kent's Annuity Bill ; Columbia Postage Bill ;
Conveyance of Newspapers to the Colonies Bill; Excise Mea-
sures Regulation Biii ; Juries Bill; Trial of Peers (Scot-
land) Bill ; Oaths on Naturalization Bill ; Transports in the
Colonies Bill ; Pirates Head Money Bill; Warehoused Corn
Bill; Annual Certificates Bill ; Articles of Clerkship Bill;
Settlement of the Poor Bill ; Deceased Officers Effects Bill ;
Lunacy Traverse Bill ; Stealing in Mines Bill; Canada Corn
Bill ; Canada Tenures Bill ; Cotton Mills Regulation Bill ;
Aliment of Prisoners (Scotland) Bill; Leasing-making (Scot-
land) Bill; Small Debts (Scotland) Bill; Special Juries
(Ireland) Bill; County Treasurers (Ireland) Bill; Exche-
quer Court (Ireland) Bill ; Limatie Asylums (Ireland) Bill ;
Sealing of Writs (Ireland) Bill; Liskeard and Looe Canal
Bill; Baybridge, Stour and Sandwich Harbour, and Atlan-
tic Steam Navigation Bills ; Ancholme Drainage Bill ;
- Stratford & Moreton, and Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railways
Bills ; Littlehampton Harbour Bill ; Oldham Waterworks
and Gas Bill ; Limerick Waterworks Bill ; Leith Reservoir
Bill ; Henley-upon-Thathes Pc or Rates Bill ; St. Andrew's
(Holborn) Poor Bill ; St. Botolph ( Bishopsgate) Tithes Bill;
Godahning, Dundee, Cirencester, Brighton, and London-
derry Improvement Bills; Devizes Paving and Gas Light
Bill ; Canterbury and Ramsgate, and Doncaster and Thorne
.Roads Bills; Felhrigg (Norfolk), and Nether Whitacre
(Warwick) Inclosures Bills; Arigna Iron & Coal, and Hiber-
nian Mining Companies Bills ; Earl of Radnor's, Lauder's,
Palk's, Caldcleugh's, Davidson's, Earl of Harcourt's, Mar-
quis of Queensberry's, and Clare Hall (Cambridge) Estates
Bills; St. Martin (Birmingham) Rectory Bill; Wiseman's,
and Peter's Divorce Bills ; and Brandt's, and Van Wart's
Naturalization Bills.

MEssAGE from the Loans—That they have agreed to—
Assimilation of the Currency Bill; and Illauritius Trade Bill,
without amendment ; and to Canada Company Bill ; Wain_
fleet Drainage Bill ; and Kilpatrick (Scotland) load Bill,
with amendments.

ESTATES—Bethlem Hospital—Bill read a second time, and
committed. Sclater's—Bill read a third time, and passed.
Banks' (Sagg's)—Bill read a first time.

NAvlGaTioti:::—Lough Neagh Irelani
ingross( d.
INcLosunE—Northall (Middlesex)

WARE RWORKS—PaiSIey
PI ER—SitinlOUth

EAST INDIA JUDGES
WRITS OF ERROR

NAVIGATION LAWS
CUSTOMS REGULATION

Bills read a third time,
and passed.

CUSTOINIS MANAGEMENT

PAltTxEnstur SOCIETIES (Scot-
land)
EDINBURGH BONDS
PLATE DUTIES TRANSFER
DIVORCE—Moores

ROLLS Cot!u'r DECREES—BiII read a first time, to be read
a second time on Friday next, and to be printed.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY.
Mr, Powell Buxton—Motion on the Papers relating to Mr

Shrewsbury, the late Missionary at Barbadoes,
2. Mr. Martin (of Galway)—Select Committee, to inquire whe-
ther the practice of Bear-baiting, and other cruel sports,
has a mischievous effect on the morals of the people.
3. Mr. Littleton—To move Resolutions, founded on Report
front Select Committee on Private Business.
4. Mr. Huskisson—To move a Clause on Third reading of Re-
gistry of Ships Bill, allowing Ships that are prevented by
combination of workmen from being repaired in British
Ports to proCeed to any Foreign State for that purpose.
5. Mr. Charles Grant—Education (Scotland).
6. Mr. Hume—Account of Half-pay of the Army 1822, 1823,
and 1324 :—Also, List of Promotions in the Army for the
same period.
ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY.
1. Indictments Removal Bill—Committee.
2. Combination of Workmen Bill—Second reading.
3. Smuggling Prevention Bill-LThird reading.
4. Surplus of Grants Bill—Report.
5. Customs Bounties Bill—Third reading.
6. Passage Vessels Regulation Bill—Third reading.
7. Horses Slaughtering Bill—Third reading.
8. Law of Merchants Bill—Second reading.
9. Colonies Trade Bill—Further consideration of Report.
10. Customs Consolidation Bill—Committee.
11. Goods Warehousing Bili—Third reading.
12. Isle of Man Trade Bill—Third reading.
13. Registry of Ships Bill—Third reading.
14. Newspapers Bill—Third reading.
15. House of Commons Taxation of Costs Bill—Third reading.
16. Foundlings (Ireland) Bill—Third reading.
17. Wide Streets (Dublin) Bill—Third reading.
18. Linen Trade (Ireland) Bill—Furthei- consideration of Re.
port.
19. Pilots and Floating Light Bill—Committee.
20. Spring Guns Bill—Committee.
21. Gardens Protection Bill—Committee.

SUDDEN DEATH OF CAPTAIN J. WEBSTER OF
THE FIRST DRAGOON GUABOs.—It is our painful
task to announce the sudden dissolution of this
old and meritorious Officer, which took place at
his residence at Fulham, where the regiment only
arrived from Carlisle a few days since. Captain
WEBSTER had been nearly 50 years in the regi-
ment, and was beloved by his Colonel and his
brother Officers. His death was quite unex-
pected. On Tuesday he ate a hearty dinner,
and seemed extremely cheerful, and at night re-
tired to bed in apparent good health ; next
mornig, however, he arose in bed, and desired
his valet to procure for him his shaving tackle,
and the next minute he laid his head on the pil-
low, and that instant he ceased to live. Intelli-
gence of tire unexpected event was COMMUIIi-1
Ca ted to Colonel Teasdale and to his Royal High-1
ness the Duke of York, with whom the Captain
had frequently distinguished himself in the field,
and was a great favourite of the Duke's. His
Royal Highness, on hearing the intelligence, was
much affected. The body has been interred in
Fulham church-yard, and was followed to the
grave by the Colonel, Officers, and the whole of
the regiment, eight Serjeants bearing the pall,
and the Band playing the Dead March in Saul.
It is supposed the Captain was, at the time of
his death, possessed of considerable property.

BLUE BEARD'S CASTLE..—.IIP ruins of the
Chateau de la Verriere, in the Department of the Loire, are,
according to the tradition of the neighbourhood, those of the
castle of the celebrated Blue Beard, the hero of the well-known
nursery tale. This formidable personage, who it appears is not
altogether a mere creation of the fancy, was Giles de Retz, who
lived in the reign of Charles Vll., and was vassal of John
Duke of Bretagne. Ile was tried at Nantz, on suspicion et
having destroyed a number of children, who had been seen to
enter the castle, and was never heard of afterwards. The
bodies of several were found, he having caused them to be put
to death to make use of their blood in writing charms and
forming incantations to raise infernal spirits, by whose means
he believed, according to the superstitions of the times, that
buried treasures would be revealed to him. On his trial he
confessed the most horrible acts of atrocity, and was sentenced
to be burnt alive, but the Duke caused him to be strangled be-
fore he was tied to the stake. The execution took
place on the
25th of
December, 1440.

Bald( Stock 2321 233
3 per ('eut. Red 9&P i i
3 per Cent. Cons.
3 4 per Cent. ni3
ditto Red. 934
4 per Cent., New
Bank Long Anu.
Ditto Bonds
Ld)-13i1l reported, to be I India Stock

South Sea Stock -

t'iticus OF FOREIGN FL
Austrian lids, 5 per et. 93a 9
Brazilian Ms
1825
Buenos Ayres lids
Chilian, lids, 6 per ct.
Colombian Bds,6 per ct. 851
Do. do. 1824
Danish, 5 per cent.
Do. Scrip
Greek Bds
Do. Scrip, 1825...98 ti 101 dis.
exican lids
Do. Scrip 1825 ... 2 t dis.
Neapolitan, 5 per cent

FO 1:1 N 111 114 S.

Lisbon
lianaburgh -
France

THE BRITISH and FOREIGN TIMBER
and WOOD AS CIATION.
Capital £1,000,000 Sterling-, in Shares of £5O each.
ISANKEtts.—Sir Peter Pole, Bart. Thornton, Tree, Dowtit
and Scott ; and Messrs. Rogers, Towgood, and Co.
SOLICITOHA.—Nit'SSI'S. Dawes and Chatfield.

The Directors will nt:llie a distribution of the Shares on
the 24th of June instant, after which day no further Appli-
cations can he received. All Communicativis are to be ad-
dressed to the Directors, at Messrs. Dawes and Chatfield's.
9, Angel- couri,Throgutorton-st ret t, London.

.* For VERITAS, on the I.l7EszEnN SHIP UANAL7 see OUS
Fourth Page.

PRICE OF STOCKS Tots o s Y AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Old Annuities
New Ditto
Ex. Bills 10001. lid. 33 35,
Ditto 500/.lld 33 35
Ditto Small ... I Ad. 33 35'
Ditto Commercial.. •
Bank for Act.
India for Acct.
Cons. for Opening 91i 1-

NOR, AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Neapolitan Scrip
Peruvian Bonds .......
Do. Scrip
Portuguese Bonds
Prussian, 5 per ct.
Ditto New lOl4l
Russian, New, 5 per ct. •••
Spanish 1821' 5 per cent.23:il
1823
French per c 5 Rentes. t • •••
Exchange
3 per cent.
Exchange

PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Per. Share'
A nglo-Mexican Mining Company 11°
- 14
4
Arigna Iron and Coal Mining Company
Bolivar Mining Company • .
, ..
Chilian Mining Company . lo.
_'.ls,
Cobalt and Copper Mining Company
Famatina Mining Company . .
London United Mining Company
Manganese Mining Company
Pasco Peruvian Mining Company... 18
Potosi La Paz and Peruvian Mining Association
i
British Iron Company
9i
British Rock and Patent Sdlt Company
Bognor and Aldwick Company
Canada Company
Equitable Loan Bank Company
General Steam Navigation Company
Great Westminster Dairy Company
Honduras Company
Mediterranean Steam Company ..,
~
National Stone. Way Company

Sy*".•
2/ .1-.1
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THE SUN.

SOLEIIf QUIS DICERE FALSUAI .4UDE_IT

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 189-5'

The Paris Papers of Monday and the _VA
of Tuesday have arrived. A report of the state
of the kingdom of Poland, 'presented to the
Diet, contained in the illoniteur of Mondai,f
complains of the depression in the prices °f
agricultural produce. " With us," says the
Minister, " as well as in nearly all the rest- °I
" Europe, the efforts of the landed proprietors
cc have remained without result and without
" compensation. This basis of our social edifice
" experiences every year a frightful depreciatio"'
A private letter from Madrid, dated the. 9th just',
states that the Ministers had determined on rats'
lug a forced loan, and that the Council, after
throwing obstacles in Cie way of it for a time, 118
at last consented to the execution of the project'
The Diplomatic Conferences of Milan, which
the Journal du Commerce endeavours to represe",
as aiming at the establishment of a quadruPle(
alliance against the power and interests °

Great Britain, by confirming the Protector'
ship exercised at present by Austria over
Germany and Italy, has no other object?
for
it appears, than to make arrangement
the gradual evacuation of the Kingdom of
Naples by the Austlitn troops. According to
the Constitutionnel and the Debats, this confer'
ence is a Congress, at which the affairs of America
and Greece are to be discussed. Accounts frog

Spain describe the lamentable state of that op-
pressed and misgoverned country. The Emperor
of AUSTRIA left Genoa on the Bth instant.
FRENCH Fustns.—Pmus, JUNE 20.—Five per Cents.
opened at 102. 50. ; closed at 102. 65. ; three per Cents., 75. 70. ;
Bank Stock, 2,200.; Rente de Naples (Certif. Falconnet), 89.
5. ; Rente d'Espagne, 18.-; Royal. Spanish Loan, 58. Exchange
on London, one month, 25. ; three months, 24. 85.—( Court
Authentique. )

The Austrian Observer of the 10th and 11th
June, received this day, gives letters from Trieste,
dated 6th June, containing news from Corfu to
the c2Stli May. The authenticity of the accounts
we gave yesterday, relative to the successes of
the Turks, appear doubtful. The Seraskier
ItEDSCIIID PAcuA had collected fresh reinforce-
ments in Arta, and had again advanced against
Anatolico and Missolonghi. The Greeks are in
his rear divided into small bands, and endeavour
to capture his provisions and ammunition, while
the garrison of Missolonghi daily makes sallies
and engages the enemy. The Missolonghi Jour-
nals contain nothing of importance relative to
the late events.

The capitulation of Navarina is confirmed, but
according to authenticated reports spread by the
Greeks, the garrison had indeed capitulated on
honourable terms, but had been relieved by the
Greeks; and the Turks suffered on this occasion
considerable loss both by sea and land. The
contradictions between the present statements
and those previously received must soon be
cleared up.
_Letters of a recent date from Zante confirm
the taking Navarina by the Turks, and report
that Patras is also likely to fall into their hands.
It is added that ti►e Algerine squadron has joined
that of the Egyptian.
Among the extracts given from the Greek
Journals, by the Austrian Observer, are the
following:—

"The Hydra Gazette gives no later accounts from Western
Greece, because the distance is so great ; but what it communi-
cates is not favourable to the Greeks. In No. 103, April 25, it
has the flowing from Napoli, of the 22d April :—We learn
by credible persons who left Missolonghi a week ago, that
the Albanians, who marched from the neighbourhood of Arta,
and found no force able to contend with them, have penetrated
into several parts of Mount Valtos, into Xeromero, and Can-
dila Their cavalry had advanced as far as Vrachori, but had
retired. Our corps there were not sufficiently strengthened,
but we have no doubt that in a short time Western Greece will
thew the enemy that in the face of their country their valour is

The Hydra Gazette (No. 110) of the 2(1 May,
Contains the following extract from the Greek
Chronicle of April 5 :-

Missor.owum, APRIL s.—We receive to-day the unex-
Petted news, that the enemy's forces lately assembled at Arta,
under the Seraskier Redschid Pacha, have crossed the moon-
of Macrynoros, and have encamped in Uretha. The inba-
U4lttici Mount Valtos have been ordered by the Government to
:4111rn that important position, expected A. lsko, whom the
°;etnent had appointed to command them, and were obliged
:'lBPfrie before they encountered the enemy. But as soon as
t ab"elnentioned Commander arrived he assembled troops,
4/1d We hope he will do his duty to his country, and shew
himself worthy of the confidence of the Government."
VIXtorA, Ju NE 10.—The prices of public securities remain
nearly the same as they have been for some time past.
Metalliques, 95 g.—Bank Stock, 1201 4.

The Reportof the Committee upon Combinations
has been printed, and pretends to give the rea.
Sons on which the new Bill is founded. With
such relations as the Committee seemed to have
had before them, we feel in no small degree asto-
nished that they should recommend a Bill so
confined in its operation, and withal so extremely
4it%cult to execute. It would occupy too much
ll'ace to go through even a part of the instances
the Report adverts to, where these combinations
114"fe existed, in order to justify the foregoing
tenaark. But we will be contented with one
4iogle instance out of the many the Report
affords, and rest the argument upon that.—
sPeaking of the " Shipwrights' Provident
ti "ion," in which almost all the Shipwrights on
the. Thames are enrolled, the Report says,
lt" appears to exercise a power wholly incom-
Patihle with the legitimate authority of the ship-
builder overhis own property and establishment:,
iask, with this opinion, how the Corn-
atee could be satisfied with recommending a
~caw' which under no possible circumstances
hi effect a dissolution of a society exercising
thorny so pernicious, and enabling a single
orkman to set himself up in opposition to his
,masters : with
1311} effect. The sole object of the
to
t: to prevent intimidation being resorted to,
11113e1 unwilling workmen to join an Associa.
.10
to and the Committee has been weak enough
to thin that this Bill would be sufficient
at lin the ranks of the Associations, and thus
aa..
Cu" tile
power they at present enjoy. But
"
nltstis be very obvious that the very many
-ect of
fis annoyance exist, by which the same
actors may be produced without making the
()%,
et* t)bilny•
--'I°US to the law. Sending a man to
it)g'to Y is a common expression, and by resort.
tittle :fhich alone, and saying nothing of a mul-
4ther plans) the transactions of every day

life afford, the workmen would be enabled to keep
up their associations in their present strength, and
bid defiance to the law and the moral influence
of their masters. Nor is this all ; for not only is
the Bill so weak and inefficient in its first and
most avowed object, but the second part of it, by
allowing combinations to exist for the regulation
of wages, and settling the hours of work, gives
great facilities for extending their pernicious in-
fluence, and consolidating a power, the wise and
discretionary use of which places the masters
entirely under the controul of their workmen.
It is not to be supposed that the Committees of
the different Associations, in framing rules and
making regulations, will be particularly anxi-.
ous to keep themselves within the law, and
so long as secret articles may be resorted to,
it will be found absolutely impossible to restrain
them. There is yet another point in which this
Bill is defective, that it indirectly legalises the
existing Associations, and deprives the workmen
of the means of withdrawing from unions they
have been compelled to enter, by threats and
intimidations. The contracts they have respec-
tively entered into are enforceable at law against
them, so that they cannot withdraw even if the
evil existed. Thus, therefore, (giving the greatest
possible effect to the Bill in preventing intimida-
tion, and thereby restraining the growth of these
unions), we must go on under th►e present system
until time shall have carried off the greater part
of the existing operative classes, and supplied the
omission by a new generation free from the bonds
of Combination Committees. And what reason-
able expectation is there of this coming to pass ?
A secret article, regulating the apprentices to be
taken, and making it imperative upon those who
take them to enrol them Members of the Union
before they enter on their apprenticeships, will
foil all expectations of such an event, and render
the Statute a perfect dead letter.

A Paper, under the title 46 Remarks on the
proposed Bill relative to the Combinations of Work.
men, 4c." is in circulation, and deprecates the
measure as inefficient and powerless. It strongly
recommends the plan urged in this paper, when
the Combinations Acere first introduced to the
notice of Parliament this Session, of placing such
Societies under the controul of the Quarter Ses-
sions in the same manner as Benefit Societies
and Savings Banks now are.

We have had occasion once before-to advert to
the measures now in progress for the establish-
ment of a free trade. We then endeavoured to
shew that these measures had been adopted with a
view only of increasing the value of the com-
merce of the British Islands, whilst the great
national principle of Naval Ascendancy had been
completely abandoned and sacrificed to a doc-
trine, which however correct, when viewed ab-
stractedly, and by itself, becomes one bearing in
its train nothing less than the totally extinguish.
ment of the Marine Supremacy of the United
Kingdom, when considered in reference to
the political strength of the Empire. In con-
firmation of what we then said, we beg
leave to refer to the speech of • Mr. Ro-
BEItTSON in the House last night, and re-
quest attention to the facts he has their stat-
ed. If the possession of unbounded com-
merce, and its concomitant wealth were in them-
selves sufficient to guarantee our existence as an
independent nation, unquestionably the policy is
correct ; but if such were its effect, we might
reasonably wonder at the pertinacity evinced by
all Statesmen, in past times, to preserve the lead-
ing principles of the old Navigation Acts of
CHARLES the Second, whilst however they per-
mitted their rigour to be relaxed in some less im-
portant points. But not only is thenavigation system
to be abandoned, the very doctrines Of the Ship
Registry Act, it appears, are to he qualified to
meet Mr. HUSKISSON'S ideas of liberal policy, and
British ships are to be allowed to proceed to fo-
reign ports, to be repaired, and yet retain their
English character and its advantages. We cannot
too strongly protest against a measure of this
nature, which no circumstances can justify, and
which, if it had been mentioned in Parliament a
few years ago would have been scouted from the
House with the indignation it deserves. No
combinations can exist that would justify a de-
parture from the great principles of that most
salutary act the Ship Registry Act, and
the country ought not to permit itself to
be deluded into acquiescence in the prin-
ciple on which it is required. The in-
conveniences proposed to by remedied by
this plan, are those produced by Combinations
amongst the workmen. But notwithstanding, it
may be admitted, that at this moment the
pressure of business on the hands of the
Ship-builders is occasioned by these Associa-
tions, yet, they can be but of short dura-
tion, and never were sufficient to form a

foundation for such a proposition. We trust
the Earl of LIVERPOOL, recollecting his noble
ancestor, from whose intelligence the Ship Re-
gistry Act was derived, will be at his post and
stand between the country and this prostration
of principles, so sound and so wise as those which
originally produced it.

[Extract of a Letter from the Agents to Lloyd's at Mexico,
dated 30th March.]

" The Bransty and the Jupiter, two English brigs, have
been chartered by this Government for the transport of some
troops to Campeachy, and in consequence an embargo has been
laid on all vessels in the port of Alvarado. His Majesty's ship
Tartar, at San Blas, has been ordered round to Acapulco, to
take on board G. A. Thomson, Esq., his • Britannic Majesty's
Commissioner for Guatimala."