The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-04 00:00:00

PREROGATIVE COURT, MTG. 3.

This being the first caveat day of the term, some common
form business was proceeded with in the usual way. Nothing
of any public interest occurred, and a Surrogate presided for
Sir J. Nicholl.

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

FALMOUTH, Auo. 2.—Wind variable and light airs.—Ar-
rived the Kingfisher packet, from Jamaica: sailed the Itith of
June, and from Crooked Island the 26th ditto ; Summer packet
from Lisbon : sailed the 111th of July ; Marquis of Salisbury
packet, from the Mediterranean : sailed from Corfu the 13th
of June, Malta the 23d, Gibraltar the I lth of July, and Cadiz
the 15th ditto. Sailed the Plover packet for Buenos Ayres.
PotiTsittotrrit, Atm. 3.—Wm d S.E.—Arrived his Ma-
jesty's ship Asia, from Bombay ; Loyal Briton transport, from
the Mediterranean ; Baltic Merchant, ditto, front Ireland ; and
Cato, ditto, from Quebec. Sailed his Majesty's ship Diamond,
for South America; and his illaj-sty's ship Driver, for
Chatham.
PLYmouTsr, A Ito. 2.—Wind W.—Arrived the Henry's,
thinsell, nun Pictou, in 30 days.
Anu. S.E. by E.—Arrived the Pretties,
Nicholson, from the Metlerranean for Hull ; Posthumus,
and Redman, Verriman, from Jamaica ; anti Mary, Wilson,
from Charleston. Came down from the River and;ailed the
Johanna Anna Alida, for Bilboa ; alto and remain the
Recovery, Fotherby, for Quebec.
14tvE111'001.1 A uo. 2.—Wind N,.N.W.—Arrived the Hig.
genson, Hall, from Barbadoes, sailed 26th June; Chilton,
Latona, Redpath, and Bellona, —, from Alira-
tuichi, sailed lat July ; Maria Sophia, Hogstrom, from Per.
nau ;. Lady Cremorne, Hutton, from Richehucto, sailed Ist
July ; Star, Becket, ram Quebec, sailed 20th June ; and the
Benlomond, Rattray, from St. John's, N.B.
DovEn, Aun.ll.—Passed by the Hope, &auk, from St.
Kitt's. The Posthumus sailed from Jamaica 10th June, in
company with the Henry Davidson, Barclay, and fell in with
two pirates off St. Domingo, anti were chased by them for four
hours; parted with the Henry Davidson in lat. 44. long. 27.

The Brothers, Bellamy, from London to Sunderland, was
run down on Monday night, near Mundsley ; crew saved in
their boats.

EXPLOSION IN A STEAM-PACKET OW TIM MEUSE
We are greatly concerned to state, that a fatal accident hap-
hened in the Mersey on Sunday afternoon, which has proved
ighly disastrous in its consequences. Just after three o'clock
in the afternoon, when the Earl of Bridgewater steam-
packet, which plies between Liverpool and Ellesmere Port,
was leaving the pier-head for its destination up the river,
and but a few minutes after the steam was put on, the boiler
suddenly burst with a tremendous explosion, dashed the
boiling, element around, forced up part of the deck, and
otherwise greatly injured the vessel. We have not had the
opportunity of conversing with any person who was on board
at the time of the accident, and are therefore at present unable
to make our readers acquainted with the immediate or remote
cause of the disaster. It is with grief, however, we learn, that
8 persons on board were most seriously scalded and otherwise
injured, two of whom, report says, have since died in conse-
quence. By the time of our next publication we shall of course
be able to communicate all the melancholy particulaVb—(69l""
to Courant, Av. 3.
A SHIP ON FIRE IN THE DEE.—
Saturday morning the brig Dykes, lying off Flint,where
hail discharged a cargo of timber, for 111essmilliixwenas 'of thin
seen in
city, was discovered to be on a blaze,
which
to Park-
terrific grandeur from Ilagilt, and across the channel,
masts and
Park-
gate. We are informed, that the cabin, • sleeksa that considerable
rigging are completely oneonetil, 71 of the vessel. Of the
damage has been sustained by the SA nothing more, than
cause of the disaster, we shall at present y
About two o'closk opt
ghted in the after part
that it originated in a candle being left
of the ship.--mid,)

doing in the
CORN EXCHANGE; A uo. 3.
The quantities of all descriptions of Grain at market to-day
are not considerable, but more than sufficient for the present
demand. Wheat of primo quality sells freely, but all tither
sorts are very dull. Barley is heavy In sale, but unaltered in
price. Beans and Pease continue to find very few In
• lyers.
Oats remain at Monday's prices with very little

lIIIIVALS-ElloBh Wheat, 3,3(.!0; Barley, 1011; oats,
3,4)0 ; Irish Oats, 1,200 quarters ; lour, 2,700 sacks.

An English Protestant Chapel was to be open-
ed on Sunday, at the llotel Marbteuf, Champs
Elysee, paris•
letter fro►ri Frankfort says__" That an ex-
traordinary act of suicide was committed at No-
nich on the sth ult. Mr. ANTHONY Wlass, the
architect employed in building the New Court
Theatre, threw himself from a high scaffolding
that surrounded the building (at the stage end))
and was killed upon the spot."

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from Mc Morning Papers, Aug.- 4.

DOM Tato.]
Our private letters from Paris-state, that not
the slightest expectation prevaiktd of any change
in the Ministry. It was understood that M.de
Vlllele possessed the favour both of the King
anti Monsieur, and there is no party sufficiently
strong to resist so powerful an influence. It was
itt his financial arrangements only that he was
vulnerable, and this danger he had surmounted.
The Budget is expected to pass the Chamber of
Peers without serious opposition, and the Session
will probably close in about a week.

[BRITISH PREss.]
The good work of ruining our West Indian
Colonies seems to prosper. By letters from De-
merara. we learn, that there has been n regular
strike among the slaves, and that they are coining
in to inquire of the Governor, whether or not
they are obliged to work for their masters any
longer ; and the inhabitants of Trinidad, after
remonstrating in vain against the order which is
to make them the subject of a philanthropic ex-
periment, and finding that the Governor of the
island had no option or discretionary power on
the subject, have set themselves down calmly to
wait till the ruin, which they see is inevitable,
shall overtake them. /Egon has told a' story of
certain boys, who tried how frogs would bear a
pelting on the head with stones, and who Nvere
very much astonished at the audacity of one of
the unfortunate amphibii in reminding them,that
though to boys this might be very good fun, yet
it WBS death to the unlucky frogs. The inhabi-
tants of Trinidad have stated the same thing to
the. Legislature. of..this country, but • whether
it will .meet with the same sympathy as the
remonstrance of their prototypes time alone
can shew. the mean time we would
remind these ex pt of what Burke said
of some others of their class thirty years ago
4 6 Such wen feel no more for the happiness of a
whole generation of the !Inman race, than they
would for the fate of a frog under an air-pump."
We have determined that, so far at least ns our
poor influence may goi we shall not allow snch
palpahie spoliation to go on, without the public
of Great Britain being made aware of it. In
the mean time it may be as well to remind the
zealous in the cause, that legislating for Colonies
who had no representatives in Parliament, lost
us the United States of America ; and though
the West Indies hove not the same power of resist-
ence within themselves as these had, yet, if me
drive them to extremities, as they themselves
have already hinted, they may find friends able
and willing to help them to shake us off.

[NIORNING CIIIIONICI.E.I

The Into horrible proceeding in Wexford was
Fill Oded to by Mr. O'Connell at a !Ate Meeting
in Dublin, of which an account will be found in
another column.

" If (Kays Mr. O'('onnell) there was a PreaiSattached to the!
interests of Ireland and of the Cads:dies, the igsorant follies of
that muddy Al etbridla ( Mr. lltitterwOrthl respecting, this coup.
try., would not be permitted to livelonger thin Was necessary to
thew them deserving of utter extinction. They saw how inetli-
dela, what was called the Liberal Press,* wax upon. the Use
}runt:onside occurrence in Wexford', although they witnessed
the handle made by their enemies of that unhappy bOsiness.—
'Their enentiss pretended surpxlse at the people permitting the
Priest to proceed as he had done ; but do they not know with
what sentiments the people. see their Clergyman approach their
dwelling ? That it is always fur purposes of humanity and
henevolenee—thst when contagion and disease confine them to
their bed of straw, the clergyman is the adininistrator of cons°.
lotion and relief. With these. feelings towards their Priest,
snd not knowing that he was mad, and that under no other cir-
comstances would he injure thorn, did they permit him to pro-
ceed. This is the simple solution of an affair tortured to the
most malignant porpises; and .yet. scarcely had they a pen
raked to explain the circumstance or confound the nudigners
of the Catholic Priesthood." . _ _

Tidal; a fair and manly line of vindication of
the affair which Mr. O'Conuell'haa taken. The
people suffer,d the Priest to proceed to murder
the child, and all but murder a grown female,.
tinder the pretence of casting devils out of them,
because they did not know he was mad, and
because it was impossible for thrill to tell from
any thing in the transaction th;it it ,Wei not a
genuine miracle. Once .admit that miracles moy
4a wrought, and are, daily wrought in support a,
a Church, and you.,necessarily open a dour to
such horrid tramobetinoi es the one its titif,6oll.
Casting out deVila is a miracle of const,,,,t
currence in rho Catholic Church, from the origin
of Christianity to the present day, and with-
out the people had known before-hand that
the Priest was mad, it would have been a
denial of the respect which in the Catholic':
Chrirchls ,tine ter Priests, , had they refused to
believe his declaration that he was working a
mirucle.—Otlier advocates of the Catholics haVe
attributed the transaction to the ignorance of the
peasantry in the county of Wexford. Mr.O'Con.
nell, however, has disdained this disingenuous
course, and fairly grappled with tile difficulty.—
In all case' of miracles credit must be given to
the operator: till the work,is_performed, for.it
not till all is Over that it can be known whether
there has or Inns 'riot ;Inert 'one; Mr. O'Connell
knew,
therefore, that the people, if they were
not aware that. the Priest was mud, were bound
to interrupt him in the
a 9 gOod..CathOliC9 ulna
progress of the miracle which be had announced.
Here, however,as- we already stated, the law comes
into Operation. .:,11:bc. Jaw.,probibits one
from depriving another of except is "e-
-dience to its Oktli sentenc Christianity it is
e.
true, is part. and parcel of the law, but that ver-
slot) of Christianity Which.ollows of the working
he
of miracles ire the present day, is rejected by t
greatest ounther Or Protestants (not by all—for
ire this, Fry On etll other pointait there is the
ii"test ftiv"lsity of. opinion Omoug' them), and
ent)- ("Y 64, some oneof the Protestant versions
which is' identified, with the'law. Before the' re'..
formatian, it wehlit- tire heen a I • ice point
whether oleo's ltvtr could have been tititen'w ;Lb
impunity by persons scurry . in obedknee to a
Priest saotylVlog to them that In was, in:t,n,
doing, workioapetrrirert.ir. TiO: have procetiled
to punish in 'such a' cage, ittilti have beeo:te
strike a .severe blow fat the esisting,religion,- be-
cause it would have introduced alirreciplo-olex
amination at variance with the 'difference -whitti

the Church exacts in favour of all clothed with
her authority.

[MORNING PO3T.
We received last night, by Express, French
Papers to the Qd inst. and the Blanc of Monday.
They ere all extremely barren. Some partkl
elections were on the eve of taking place, al-
though the last was a general one, and the dura-
tion of the new Chamber had become Septennial.
This was occasioned by the election of the same
Members for several places, or Departments, and
their selection of one, which left the representa-
tion of the others vacant, and rendered it neces-
sary that it should he filled up. As this chiefly
occuried where Liberal Candidates were con-
cerned, it may serve to augment their number
in the Chamber ; for the Electors will natu-
rally appoint Representatives possessing the
same opinions as those which they had ori-
ginally chosen, and as they were strong enough
to enforce their first choice, they will no
doubt be able to do as much with the second ;
they have, besides, the good wishes of the Ultras
in their favour, and will perhaps meet with their
support. For should the Ultras see that it is not
in their power to procure the return of an indivi-
dual of their own body, they will prefer a Libe-
ral to a Minister ialist. Rumours of a fresh dis-
solution of the Chamber were in existence, but
had not yet gained sufficient credit to produce
much effect on the public mind or the public
funds.

[MORNING HERALD.]
It was stated, a few days since, in an Evening
Paper, that the Lord Chancellor, on being ap-
plied to to hear a case of Habeas Corpus, took
occasion to complain of the hardship of his hav-
ing to attend to such matters, " while there were,
at the same time, twelve Judges in England who
were empowered by Act of Parliament to dispose
of these cases in the long vacation, 'and nine of
them almost idle and neemplOyed In that long
space." It is added, that the Counsel who
made the motion replied, '' that prisoners had
a right to choose the Judges before whom
they wished to be brought up, and that he
would still advise every client of his to 'pre.
ler his Lordship to every other Judge Oil the
Bench, so great was his Lordship's careandanxie-
ty in the disposal of motions for Ilabeith
Corpus--
and, indeed, of all others." That, this kind of
Ilumene y was actually used, we are reluctantly
compelled to believe ; but we do hope that the
Lord Chancellor bad better taste than to accept
such a kind of compliment at the expence of the
other Judges of the land, upon whom his pre-
vioos remarks, if accurately reported, appear to
have been somewhat severe, if not a little un-
founded. We are fully aware that the labours
of the Lord Chancellor admit of no addition, and
instead of joining in any complaint of dilatori-
ness in him, we rather wonder how he can get
through the mass of business that he does. At
the same time we do not admit that any of 114 udges
can be said to be idle or unemployed for any
long period, if at all. We should rather he in-
clined-to say, that, iu common with the Lord
Chancellor,,they,have most of them scarcely rea-
sonable:Aline liferelatation crinn-their` laborious'
ertiploYll, 'The. Lord Cheiicellor, too, should re,
member, that if he works harder than the Mile
Puisne Judges, he receives both in honourS,
tronnge, end salary, a much greater dispropor-
tion of reward. But let us examine a little this
new idea of nine idle, unemployed Judges; re-
markiug, by the way, that we believe the three
Puistie Judges of the King's Bench have more to
do than the Chief Baron of the Exchequer : we
will confine ourselves, as his Lordship is stated to
hive done,to the long 'vacation. Instead of etijoy-
ing the long vacation in idleness, the Judges are•
engaged during nearly one-half of it in the ar-
duous and painful duties of the Cireuits—duties,.
we w ill venture to say, for the time, much more
anxious and laborious than any which deVolve
even upon the Lord Chancellor, great as his la.:
hours confessedly are. Most of the Circuits do
not end till the second week in September, b'
which time the Lord Chancellor hug generally
escaped from his Court to enjoy,
,for a short
time, Iris favourite amusement of shooting.. Even
after their return from the Circuits, the SPS.
sions at the Old Bailey immediately occupy three
of them. Ohe Judge of tacit Contrt is also
obliged to remain in town to attend to Churn-
her business in Sergeant's Init. And 'of late
years the Sittings of the Court of King's Bench
have been resumed by time middle of October. If
this is being idle and unemployed, we know not
what labour is. The truth, however, is, that a
very generul, and, We believe., correct impression.
prevails, that the labours of the Judges -ore- so
great, and their remutteration.so inadequate, that
it is with difficulty that competent persons- can
be found to accept the eppointments ; nod Co.
vernment have already expressed an ietention, of
applying a remedy in the next Session of Parlia-
ment. It was only that a contrary and mis-
taken notion utight not be taken up upon such
high authority, that we have been induced to no.
tice the subject.