The Sun.
London, England, 1823-04-25 00:00:00

the Upper House, under the sears of Jacobinism
to extend their duration to seven years. We
hope yet also to see the right of suffrage extend-
ed to all householders and payers of taxes. This
would include the whole middle portion of the
community—the mast honest and independent
in every state ; men► too intelligent to be de-
ceived, and too independent, in general, to barter
or prostitute their suffrages. The present state
of the representation in England is a mon-
strous anomaly. That House notoriously does not
represent the people,nor will corrupt or interested
majorities persuade the nation at large to the
contrary. This is one, of those questions which,
from the force of feeling without doors, must yet
succeed. No set of men, however powerful, can
sit and hold their places in perpetuity, against
the great mass of the People. The majority on
the question is diminishing every year. Lord
John Russell's good sense and temperance have
been of the most important service to it ; and
though it may be put aside fora while by in-
terested majorities, we have no doubt that this
great Constitutionnal Question must, and will
' yet prevail. It is alike essential to the welfare
of the country, and to the happiness, prosperity/
and fair protection of the people.

[THE T wrEs.]
An Evening Paper, which is understood to be
in the pay of the Ultra and more stupid part of
the British Ministry, has presented to public no-
tice a proof of the disunion of Ministers, by a direct
attack.upon Mr. Canning. it abuses him for the
" liberal" (printing that word in italics)—for
the liberal sentiments which he, 66 unrestrained
by the responsibilities of office," professed on
presenting the Papers relating to the Ve-
ronese Negociations to the House of Commons.—
It contrasts his speech, injuriously for the
speaker, with the more guarded explanations
of Lord Liverpool, on the same occasion
and finally—for though that is the first charge
in the 'anticlimax, it is the consummation of
his official indiscretions—it charges Wm with
insulting the French Government, adding this
notable and very sensible apophthegm on the sub-
ject—" That nations, like individuals, will
" sooner forgive injuries than insults. There is
" a sense of magnanimity in the one ; but in the
cc other, only a galling consciousness of unre.
" sented indignities, which is a rankling wound
46 that never heals."' Rochefoucault, La Gruyere,
and even the author of the Book of Proverbs,
must sink into obscurity before the writer of such
a morceau as this!

[MORNING lIERALO.I
The Bill now pending in Parliament for con-
solidating the several register, laws, contemplates
an alteration in the mode of ascertaining the
tonnage of ships. It has hitherto been the
practice to consider the length and breadth only
of the vessel, as the basis for calculation, with-
out reference to the depth ; thus the register
tonnage had little relation to the actual capacity
of the vessel. To remedy this, the length from
the after part of the ste►n to, the fore part of the
stern post is to be taken on deck. The length
is then to be divided into four equal parts,
and the depth take►i at the three points of
division, from the under surface of the deck to
the upper surface of the ceiling near the kel-
son. The middle depth is to be divided, anti the
breadth takeU at the half depth. The other two
depths are to be divided into four parts, and the
breadth to be also taken at the two quarters of
each. The five breadths thus ascertained are to
be added together, and multiplied by the half
sum of the two depths-, at the quarter lengths,
and that by the length, and the product to be
divided by 560 for tonnage. One of the sections
of the Bill provides for the mortgaging of vessels
without the ownership being affected by the
transfer required by the existing and contem-
plated laws.