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

reign goods.

AMSTERDAM, APRIL 19.
•
To-day two ships of war were launched from his Majesty's
Dock-yards, viz. the Kortenaar of 80 guns and a corvette. •

EXCHANGES.
HAMBURGII, APRIL 15.—London, 35.3. ; 2 Us., 3.5. sa.
PETERSBURG'', APRIL I.—London, JO. 5-32.; Paris, Mi.
LEIPSIG, APRIL 11.—London, three months, 6. 13,4.
BERLIN, APRIL 12.—London, three months, 6. 22i.
AmsTERDAxt, APRIL 19.—London, 39. 4. ; two months,
39.2.

Mr. LYTTLETON, after some discussion last
night, brought into the House of Commons a Bill
for disfranchising the 40s. Freeholders in Ire-
land. This measure is, we presume, a conse-
quent upon the success of Thursday night last
en the Catholic Question. Let us compare
these measures together. The operation of Mr.
LYTTLETON'S Bill will be to deprive a very large
body of the Irish Roman CatholiCs of the right
of voting ; the operation 'of Sir FRANCIS BUR-
titres Bill will be to give to a very small por-
'lien of the same body the right of sitting in Par-
liament, and of holding certain high offices of
1"-ast ; thus then it follows, that the supporters
411. the latter Bill, if they have any consistency
tqsincerity at all, are bound to resist the former.
We have all along said the Bill for the Emancipa-
tion of the Catholics was in effect nothing more
than conferring certain privileges on the leaders of
that party, without in any degree contemplating
the benefit of the Catholics at large, who, it
Must be obvious, will be only just where they
are whether the Bill passes or not. But if
these privileges are to be attained at the ex-
l'ence of the rights of another less influential
Part of the same body, the Catholic Emancipa-
tion Bill is a positive practical injustices—Much
°l)Posed as we have been to the Catholic Claims,
Still we think, if the measure is to be carried, it
°tight to be so altogether; do not let us confer new
' Privileges on one portion of the Catholic Body,
and then as if afraid of what had been done, en-
deavour to neutralise the expected mischief, by
taking away the vested and unalienable rights of
"other and larger portion of the same body.
Su
ell a measure can be dictated by only a timid,
c°lnpromising, and selfish policy, as detrimental
t 0 the first principles of good government, as it is
niest and impolitic. Mlle Catholic subjects of his

Majesty are entitled to these privileges, they ought
to have them; but this disfranchising Bill can only
create the very same disturbances that are to be
put down, and the cause of them removed, by the
passing of the Catholic Relief Bill. Indeed, Mr.
LYTTLETON'S measure will be felt in the cabins of
the poorer Irish, whilst Sir F. BURDETT'S measure
will be scarcely heard of there, and cannot be
productive of any advantage to their inhabitants.
It is not very difficult then to see which of these
two Bills will Operate most strongly on the minds
of the people.
Independently of these considerations aris-
ing out of the period at which the measure
is introduced, and the connection it appears to
have, and in fact has, with the Catholic Re-
lief Bill, there are many others that should
be well weighed, before a plan trenching
so closely upon one of the most valuable pri-
vileges of the people is adopted. We do not,
however, mean to enter on this point now. It is
sufficient in our eyes, that its introduction at this
time is unseasonable, and that alone forms an in-
superable objection to it ; because new laws
should not only be good, but in order to be ef-
ficacious must be well timed also.

THE PLAGUE IN EGYPT.
[From the Agent to Lloyd's at Milford, April 21.]

" Arrived at the quarantine station at this port, the Cadmus,
Snowden, and Latona, Campion, from Alexandria for Liver-
pool, with suspected bills of health, in consequence of two cases
of plague having occurred at Alexadria on the 27th February."