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

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, Jr NE 22.—Wind W.S.W.—Passed through for th•
River, the Mangles, Cogill, from New South Wales; and
Stockton, Galbraith, from Honduras; also, the Reward,
Terry, from London, for Quebec.
PORTSMOUTH., JUNE 22..—Wind W.S.W.--Sailed the
Ocean transport, Dean, for Halifax ; and the Gilbert !lender-
son, Grant, fcr Quebec.
Fat.ivzouTir, JU XE 21.—Wind N.—Sailed the Princess
Elizabeth, Kemp, for Smyrna ; and the Hope, Nichols, for
London.

141vEnrooL, JUNE 21.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the
Superior, Tyler, from New York, sailed the 17th of May. Ott'
the Port, the John, Brewer, from New Orleans.

The Mahlon of London, Ilaliburton, from Grangemouth,
laden with whiskey, is lost on the Shipwash Sand ; crew saved,
and arrived at Harwich.

The following vessels were left on the coast of Japan and
Timor, in September 1824, by the Hope, Harris, arrived in the
River from the South Seas, viz.:—Supply, Thomson, with 700
barrels of oil; Indian, Gibson, 600; Greenwich, Thomson,
1400 ; Wildman, Barry, 600 ; Harleston, Gulliver, 900 ;
Cretan, Gulliver, 700; Coquet, Stayers, 900; Ann Elitshett4,
Cashn, 600; Saracen, Dum, 900; Mary, Davy, 2000; and
Ann, Greig, 1400.

Arrived 4 Dover, the Cherry, Sikes, from Sicily.

CALCUTTA POLICE INTELLIGENCE, MAY 26.
—A native boy of about ten years of age, appeared this
morning, at this office, with a long chain fastened close
round his neck, by an immense padlock. lie stated that
he was an orphan, and was placed under the care of Mrs. Pres-
ton, but his master, Mr. P., for the slightest offence, always
beat him most dreadfully, either with a whip or a rattan, the
marks of which were still evident on his back. About a month
ago he put a rope round his neck, and after swinging him
round, dashed him down with great violence, in conse-
quence of which his collar-bone was fractured. Mrs. P.
sent him to the Native Hospital, where he was cured,
and yesterday he came to the police, but could not see any
of the Magistrates. On his return to his master's house,
Mr. P. made the chain fast round his neck, and again
served him in a similar way, and afterwards stamped upon
him. An immediate summons was issued, and when Mr.
P. appeared, the Worthy Magistrate most severely repri-
manded him. He stated that the boy was in the habit of
stealing, and on that account he punished him. He was
told that he ought to have brought him to the Police and
not have taken the law in his own hands. Mr. Paton then
told him that if he had only heard of such a report he
should not have believed it, but now he had ocular de-
monstration. After consulting with • Mr. Blaquiere, he was
sentenced to pay a fine of 100 rupees to the King, and-to deposit
the sum of 144 rupees, for the boy's support for three years,
when he would be old enough to work for his livelihood.

PRESENTS TO HIS MAJESTY.--MPSSTS. DENHAM
and CLAPPERTON, the enterprising and intelligent travellers,
who recently returned from their interesting expedition, brought
four beautiful Ostriches and other curious specimens of natural
history. The Ostriches were yesterday, by his Majesty's com-
mand, removed from the Tower to the Royal bodge in Wind-
sor Great Park, under the care and superintendence of At:.
CROSS, of the National Menagerie, Exeter Change.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT BY GUNPOWDER:I •011
Thursday last, a poor man of the name of Bernard Donnelly,
in the employment of the Earl of Gosford, whilst engaged in
blasting some rocks in one of his Lordship's quarries, had
the misfortune to have one of his hands blown off, and the other
most dreadfully shattered by an explosion of the gunpowder
used on such occasions; his eyes also and face have been se-
riously injured. It appears that the needle, or metal instrument
used in such cases, had broken in the hole whilst endeavouring
to withdraw it ; and that Donnelly and his fellow workmen
were striving to punch it out, with another tool, and that
they poured a considerable quantity (which they deemed suf-
ficient) of water in the hole, to prevent the gunpowder in-
flaming. Notwithstanding all this, a spark occurred,, and
the gunpowder exploded, injuring the others, and wounding
this poor man as has been mentioned. He has been removed
to the Armagh Infirmary, where his arms have since been am-
putated, leaving him now a most melancholy and helpless ob-
ject all his future life.--(Dub/in Morning Register. )

On the 10th ult., as two girls were walking on
the road leading from Penenden Heath to Maidstone, each.
with a young child in her arms, they were overtaken by a per-
son with a pony and chaise, who inquired whither they
were going ; being anewered, to Maidstone, he invited
them to ride, which invitation they accepted. They had scarcely
seated themselves, when the pony became restive, and. con.
tinued to back the vehicle till its progress was obstructed by
a hedge, when the little animal reared and fell backwards over
the hedge. Providentially no material injury was sustained,
though the girls and children were in great danger, One of
the girls exclaimed, " Oh ! •we shall all be killed, and I hare
not said my prayers."

The Dundee Courier says—" In a wretched
hovel at the west end of Dundee, which among
others is visited by the police for the purpose of
recognizing its inmates, there are at present
crowded together in one small apartment,
including a garret little larger than a pigsty, 2!
lodgers, men, women, and children. They consist
principally of Irish people, and present an as-
semblage of character, and accumulation of
wretchedness, rarely to be seen in that part of
the country."

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
EXteactlfroin the Murnusg Papers, Jane 23, Ins.

EBR ITI 511 P11E511.1
Mr: Hume last night gave a notable specimen
of the care with which he discharges his senato-
rial duties. He offered a petition for presenta-
tion, containing a series of injurious statements
relative to a banking-house at Bristol. After a
conversation of some length on the facts of the
case, Sir John Wrottesley thought fit to ask Mr.
Hume whether lw had made any inquiries as to
the truth of the allegations of the petitioner, or
whether lie knew any thing about him ? The an-
• swer was, that he had not had time to make any in.
quiry whatever! Mr. Hume considered it as his
duty to send forth the allegations,through the pub-
lic press, to every corner of the kingdom, on the
authority of a person of whom he confessed he
Anew nothing. It was suggested that,uuder these
circumstances, the petition ought to be with-
drawn ; and Mr. Hume, yielding to a feeling he
could not resist, acceded to .he suggestion. Per-
haps if those questions were oftener asked, the
time of Parliament might be husbanded, and the
circulation of many calumnies prevented. We
cannot understand how any honourable man can
reconcile it to his sense of justice to scatter
abroad libellous statements, which he receives
on ne better than anonymous authority. Mr.
Broughan►'s motion respecting Lord Charles So-
merset was postponed till next Session. The
Noble Lord will then have leave, of absence
from his Government, to enable him to meet
,she charges against him. This is the fair course.

[THE TIMES.]
The conversation which took place last night
in the House of Commons on the subject of a pe-
tition presented by Mr. Hume against a Bank in
Bristol, will serve to correct a very prevalent
etror, that country banks are not, if called on,
obliged to pay in gold, but may tender Bank of
England notes in payment of their own, when
brought in. The fact is, that country banks may
be called on at any time to pay the whole of their
issues in gold, and gold only. The paper of an-
other bank, even though that bank be the Bank
of England, is no legal tender in exchange for
their paper.—The discussion respecting Lord
Charles Somerset will. be found not uninte-
resting. His Lordship has received leave of
absence, that he may, if he chooses, rebut here
at home the charges which are preferred against
him. But iii the mean time, the Commis-
sioners now at the Cape are to proceed in
the investigation of his conduct. Mr. Can
Ding allowed the accusations against him to be
so various and frequent as to call for inquiry ;
but stated that he was not recalled—his return
was optional. Under these circumstances, and
it being clear that the charges could not he
investigated during the present Session, Mr.
Brougham has delayed opening them. The
speech of Lord Edward Somerset last night was
very proper on the occasion. It is now certain
that the notorious Oliver, the Government spy,
is at the Cape, and as Mr. Wilmot Horton, the
Under Secretary, allowed, 4' was not a little
" active in the affairs which had latterly troubled
44 that settlernent." There is something curious
in observing the manner in which vermin of
this kind are always ready to fasten upon a de-
cayed member ; they resemble the noxious fly
which infests us at this time of the year, cre-
ating the putridity on which it feeds.

; MORNING' ILE:111LD.

We are shocked to perceive that the inhuman
practice of setting Spring Guns should have so
massy advocates. The recklessness of human life
which such a circumstance exhibits, is alike dis-
creditable to the persons who avow it, and to
the age in which we live. The preservation of
life is the first feeling of our nature, the com-
mand of the Author of it, and the main object
of all laws; yet for the sake of a paltry amuse-
ment, we find English gentlemen—men " pro.
fessing themselves Christians," ready to place in
the way of the unwary these savage instruments
of death. To express the disgust we feel at
such iiihumanity would be impossible ; and we
earnestly hope that the character of Parliament
at least will be maintained and vindicated, by
opposing itself effectually to the cold-blooded
sophistry of selfishness, by which such princi-
plesand practices are endeavoured to be main-
tained.

[NEW TIMES.]
We rejoice that the second reading of the
Spring Guns 13111 was carried, and are only sur-
prised. that Gentlemen of acknowledged huma-
nity. could view so cruel a custom, as the use of
those engines, with any thing like approbation.
It should be considered, that the person who con-
tends for a right to set Spring Guns, where they
may, and often do, kill innocent men, does, in
fact, contend for the right of shooting innocent
men. Now this right of shooting innocent men
is said to he justified, because, the intention;
is to shoot poachers; and the shooting of poachers
by Spring Guns is said to be justified, because,
if they were not so shot, they might be shot
by gamekeepers-; and •the shooting of them by
gamekeepers is said to be justified, because the
poachers won't submit to be disarmed or seized
by the 'gamekeepers, and thereupon contests
arise',-, and the gamekeeper, finding.- his own life
in danger, kills his adversary. 1 t appears to US
that the main error consists iu the impression
that irt, is, lawful and just to take away the life
of a maw for shooting a pheasant. A poacher ,
attoots a pheasant, which he certainly has no
right. to do ; and he shoots it for the pur-
pose of carrying it away, and convertimrit to his
own .use or profit, which renders his offence the
greater; but if the Lord of ,the Manor himself
were present, and in revenge for the loss'
of his
bird were to shoot the poacher through the head,
this would be murder, and •the Lord of the
Manor would be hanged -Now, the crime does
not surely consist in the mode of firing the gun.
Whether it be Alone by the hand or by a spring,
appears to us to he very immaterial u, determin-
hie, the quality of the offence and therefore we
cannot help thinking, that to kill a poacher by a

spring gun is, really and essentially, murder too.
But if it be unjustifiable to lay a snare for the life
of a man who is breaking the laws, how much more
so is it to lay a snare which may take away the
life of a man wholly guiltless ! Spring guns are
often set in places to which strangers may have ac-
cess, without being aware that they are wandering
from a public path. Industrious mechanics car.
rying home their work ; ladies or children walk-
ing out for health or recreation ; nay, sometimes
the very individuals who have set the guns have
been wounded by them or killed. The last case
may, perhaps, be considered as the least lament-
able ; for if it were to happen three or four
times in quick succession, it would probably put
an effectual stop to the use of these engines. The
argument in defence of spring guns is, that less
blood is shed by them than in the contests between
Gamekeepers and Poachers. This does not meet
the whole objection. With those contests the
accidental traveller has nothing to do ; but he
may be killed by a spring gun. Is this the fair
or proper remedy for the evil of poaching ? Is
there not a more direct remedy, or at least pal-
liative for that evil ? We apprehend that poach-
ing has only become so prevalent an offence in
the country of late years, in consequence of the
formation of numerous and extensive preserves
for game. Game has been too much multiplied,
and brought together into spots which hold out
an irresistible temptation to poaching. If it were
more spread over the country, it would be bet-
ter for the genuine Sportsman, hut worse for
the Poacher.

[MORNING POST.]
The decrease of business in the House of
Commons announces that the close of its labours
is now fast approaching. Among the little done
yesterday which deserves attention, is the notice
given by Mr. Huskisson that he will propose
this evening the addition of a clause to the Ships
Registry Bill to empower his Majesty, in cases
of combination amongst workmen, to issue Orders
in Council to enable ships to go for repairs to
foreign ports. This is a matter of great import-
ance to the shipping interest, and must put an
end to all attempts at improper combinations.
The Right Hon. Gentleman was understood to
state that the same regulation would he extended
to combinations in other trades. The introduc-
tion of this principle will be more effectual as a
remedy than all the Statutes which have been or
may be passed for the repression of the evil com-
plained of.—Mr. Brougham afterwards withdrew
his motion for an inquiry into the conduct of
Lord Charles Somerset at the Cape, on being in-
formed by Mr. Secretary Canning that an inves-
tigation had already been set on foot by the
Commissioners sent to that Colony, and that leave
of absence had been forwarded to the Noble
Lord, under the supposition that he would wish
to meet the various charges made against him
in this country in person. The Report of the
Committee on the Newspaper Duties 13111 was
brought up and agreed to, after an unsuccessful
effort by Mr. Hume to extend the reduction of
duty granted to Supplements, to the papers and
advertisements themselves.--In the Lords, the
Bill for regulating the taking of interest in India
was read a second time, and the question relative
to the real meaning of the clause contained in
the present Act, was referred to the Judges, who
have not yet returned their answer.

[Till: PUBLIC LEDGER.?
The intelligence in the Paris Papers, which
arrived last night, is rather interesting. 'Tie news
from Madrid, in The Journal des Debuts of
Monday, has a particular claim to attention, at
a time when it is proposed to bring out a new
Spanish Loan. Two of the Ministers (Foreign
Affairs and Marine) are stated to have presented
a Report to the King, praying for the dismissal
of the Minister of Marine Aymeric, and of
Carvajal, Captain-General of Madrid, on ac-
count of the " incompatibility of their conduct
with the general reconciliation which was de-
sirable at the time." If this statement of their
motives be correct, it shews them to be well-
meaning men, though not very adroit Courtiers,
nor clever Politicians ; for, to play at present
the Reformer at the Spanish Court, is worse than
Quixotism. The two Ministers, instead of turn-
ing out their Colleague, have seen, it is said, the
necessity of retiring themselves ; and conse-
quently the present system, with its long train of
financial, commercial, and other evils, is to be
retained. Though Fe-rdinand is involved in nearly
overwhelming pecuni4ry difficulties, still he does
not condescend to make the slightest concession,
with the- view of relieving himself. If, in his pre-
sent situation, he will enter into no compromise, it
would be the height of absurdity to expect that he
would be found more complying, when he has
succeeded in negociating a Loan. But the pay-
ment of the interest of the new Loan, and perse-
verance in his t)rannical system, • are wholly in-
compatible with one another ; and we therefore
think the intelligence in the Journal des Debals well
worshy of serious consideration at this time. If it
be ti ue, too, that the Constitution promised by the
King, on the defeat of the Queen's party,is to be
published immediately in Portugal, the situation
of the Spanish Government will become much
men, critical than it is actually. Tyranny can-
not long exist in one part of the Peninsula,
whilst Constitutional Rule prevails in the other;
and, to prevent political infection, Ferdinand
must adopt the most irritating precautions, which
will increase the discontents and poverty of his
ki6gdom. Under this circumstances, to lend
money to the Spanish Monarch would be down•
right infatuation.

(MORNING CHRONICLE.]
.IVir. Broughain last night put a question to
Mr. Canning respecting the arrest of General
Devereux by Austria. It seems the only ground
for this proceeding is the part which had been
taken by this individual in the warfare of South
America. Mr. Canning had heard of the arrest,
but " as lid proof of the case had been produced
at home, the Government had not thought it pro.
per to take any steps upon the occasion." This is
certainly a singular occurrence. l'erhaps the Holy
Alliance mean, by having recourse,' to measures of
this kind, to place this country under the [eces-

sity of either tamely pocketing the affront, or
taking the initiative according to modern diplo-
matic phraseology, in decided steps. As the in-
tention is no doubt to affront us, if we are not to
be moved by what befals to people who have
been in South America, other arrests will
probably follow. Mr. Canning, when he notices
the matter, will, we suppose, receive a po-
lite hint, that the sooner he and his country-
men move only in their own orbit the
better. The Lord Chancellor, who is al-
ways eloquent when the subject is what we have
gained by the war of the French Revolution,
will, at the next Pitt Dinner, add the insults
offered to English subjects to the other trophies.

A curious point was mooted last night in the
House of Commons respecting Country Banks.
Mr. Hume presented a Petition from a Mr.
Frederick Jones, of Bristol, complaining of
his having presented a certain number of its notes
to a Country Bank with a view to obtain gold in
return, without success, and that he had been in-
formed by his attorney, that his only remedy was
an action at law, which could not be brought to
a conclusion in less than nine months.—lt was
admitted that the Banker was bound to pay all
his notes instanter in the current coin of the
realm ; but a remedy by action is as good as no
remedy at all.—lf a Banker will interfere with
the circulation, the public ought to be se-
cured against an evil like, the one in ques-
tion, by
.the.attaching a heavy penalty to every
instance of refusal. In a case where a Country
Banker's credit would be hurt by a refusal to
meet his obligations, he will naturally be on his
guard ; but we doubt whether a Banker's credit
would be hurt in his neighbourhood by a refusal
to pay in gold, if he tendered what is deemed
an equivalent to the country. At the same time
an individual, going abroad, may be put to very
serious inconvenience by the delay in converting
the Bank of England notes received by him for
Ithe private Banker's notes, into the current coin
of the realm.—(lbid.)

WESTERN SHIP CANAL.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sin—No less than twenty-six Petitions from
Merchants, Iron-Masters, Naval Officers, Landowners, and Pi-
lots, from Ireland, 'Wales, the Isle of Wight, and various places
in Devon, Somerset, and Dorset, were this night presented to the

House of Lords, by the Duke of Beaufort, Lord Rolle, and the
3larquisof Lanadown, and 1 believe Lord Shaftesbury, in favour
of the Ship Canal Bill. It was read a second time on the motion
of the Lord Dudley and "%Yard. One of the greatest Capitalists
in Europe has also, to-day, signed the Contract Deed. The force
of "An Opponent" and his employers seems now to have been
spent, and the subscribers are coming back to that sound and
judicious view of the merits of this undertaking which they
took before they listened to the artful misrepresentation: of
those who lied an interest in deceiving them, and who now
stand self-convicted of numerous gross misrepresentations and
falsehoods. The price at which a few Shares are sold, and
consequently quoted, is unquestionably the effect of trick, which
is apparent when any considerable number of Shares is wanted.

Indeed, there is nothing too mean for the ldversaries of this
great national undertaking to stoop to, that may be likely to
have the effect of intimidating the Subscribers, and preventing
their signing the Contract List, upon an apprehended deficiency,
in which all the hopes of" the deceiver" now rest. Ido venture
once more, therefore, to call upon the subscribers, to defeat the
base and cowardly conspiracy which has been formed, for the
purpose of preventing one of the noblest and most promising un-
dertakings that was ever conceived in this or any other country.
A writer in a countty paper, after detailing the difficulties
which retarded for ten whole years the execution of the Trent
and Mersey Navigation, makes the following observations : " In
the case of the Western Ship Canal, it may be observed, that its
friends have many grounds for confidence which the enlightened
advocates of the Trent and Mersey Canal could not have."—
Canals were then in great measure untried; the manufactures of
the country had not arrived to that pitch of eminence which they
have since ; the nation itself had not established those connec-

tions and that credit in foreign countries which now afford such
ample security for the extension of commerce and manufactures;
the Government of that time had not adopted those liberal
and principles which unfetter and excite so
we rfuy enlightenedh
e national energies; the distance to be saved by
powerfully
llt
the Canal was nothing like so great ; the prevalence of par-
ticular winds, which prevent vessels from trading to the Me-
tropolis from places full •of Minerals, especially a particular
kind of coal admirably adapted for steam engines, was no part
of their caSe ; an immense population inadequately employed,
and ready, therefore, to engage on favourable terms in the la-
bour of executing such a work, and in carrying on the trade to
which such an excitement and such facilities as the Canal will
present, must give rise; a whole town engaged, of necessity, in
illicit traffic, and by their very occupation trained for pilots,
navigators, and fishermen, eager to leave their presentoccupation
for others more honourable and less dangerous, and, upon the
whole, more profitable (which regular occupations undoubtedly
are) ; an immense capital ready to be applied to the extension of
manufactures and commerce; some of the finest land in the king-
dom : in the event of a war, the protection of our cruisers and
trade from privateers ; and, more than all these considerations,
the preservation of human life, which must be the result of de-
priving the West lily of its dangers, and rendering the difficult
voyage round the Land's End unnecessary ;—all these are consi-
derations which belong exclusively to the present undertaking,
and which give itan importance and a claim upon public confi-
dence which could not be possessed and advanced by the projec-
tors of the Trent and Mersey. But without any of these weighty
claims, the great men of that day persevered year after year,
until at length the Navigation was completed, and the Duke's
Canal, and the Trent and Mersey, led the way to those other
internal Navigations, to which the North of England owes
its present extraordinary degree of population, industry,
wealth, and public spirit. Nor had the Capitalists, who had
confidence in what were then deemed by some wild and vision-
ary schemes, and such as could never pay thesubacribers a single
shilling, any cause to repent the part they took in them.* They
labeured, and their children are reaping the fruits. Let any man
go into the North of England now, who has heard of its state
sixty or seventy years ago—let him go to Liverpool, the second
town of the most rising empire in the world—to Manchester,
Leeds, and other towns ; let him inquire as to the comparative
value of the lands, witness the amazing increase of public build-
ings, compare the bustle and spirit, and cheerful, because well
rewarded, industry of the people there, with their condition in
the %Vest ; let him visit the hospitable mansions of the great
manufacturers, go to the public libraries and places of resort
for their merchants, and hear of their liberality and public spi-
rit ; let him reflect on the influence of all this upon the agricul-
ture and trade and credit of his country, and consider what that
country is, and how her prosperity affects that of every part of
the habitable globe—and then, if he can, let him lightly esteem
the exertions and the energies of those men of former times,
whose noble perseverance overcame every obstacle, and secured,
in spite of calumny and prejudice and selfishness, the final
execution of those great works, which have led the way to all
these vast and delightful improvements. If he cannot lightly
esteem the men of those days, be will not fail to emulate their
noble exertions, and to encourage works calculated to increase
the wealth and honour of his country.
London, June 22, 1825. ,VERITAS.
• The Trent and Mersey Shares, originally 1001. each, are
now worth 2,0001.,
and the Ayr and Calder Navigation up-
wards of 2040001.