The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-12 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SIIIPPING.

PORTSMOUTH, :rum 11.--Wind \V.—Arrived his Ala.
jesty's ship Eclair, from the Downs ; and Royal George steam,
packet, from London for Cmunna, and proceeded for her dead
nation.

PLY)IOI7TB, JUNE 10.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Sally
Ann, Phillips, from London; Ant, Hesselwood, from Cadiz.
Sailed the' Pretty. Lass, Tully, for Stangate Creek; and Merl.
than, Cooker, for Figuara.
FAEszou Ju NE 10.-,-Wind W. to N.—Arrived the Mar-
quis of Salisbury packet, froM New Verk—sailed the 10th ult.,
and from Halifax the 22d ult. Sailed the Ann, Flemming, for
Prince Edward's Islands and Aurora, Crabtree, for London'.
DEAL, JUNE 11.--Wind E.—Arrived and sailed for the
River his Majesty's ship Sybille, from Jamaica and Havannah,
last from Portsmouth; Castle Forbes, from Van Blemert's
Land, the Cape, and St. Helena ; Sarah Ann, Chance, from
the South Seas; and Ann, Swainstone, from Tarragona.

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NATIONAL SOClETY.—Yesterday the.Gentqal
Committee of the National Society for the I,ldu-
cation of the Poor in the Principles of the hsta.
blished Church, held their Meeting in St. Martin's
Vestry Room. - Pre'sent—
' Archbisfiop Of Canterbury ' Bishop of Exeter
Archbishop of York Lord Kenyon
Bishop of London Archdeacon Pott
Bishop of St. Aviapli Archdeacon Watson
Anti other Members of the Committee. •

SPITAL/lELDS WEAV'ERS.—.IIIO great interest
excited by the third reading of the Silk-manufacture Bill (or
more properly speaking, the bill for the repeal of the Spite'.
fields regulations), brought down yesterday nearly the whole
'of the poor persons employed in the silk trade to the neigh.
bourhood of the House of Commons. Palace-yard was throng.]
ed with them in every part, as was every avenue of the House
from the outer door to the Members' lobby: Some had
paid half.a.crown for the luxury of a squeeie in the gallery
to hear the debate on the measure. Many Members, and
strangers who were mistaken for Members, were earnestly
solicited by various groups, us they passed in, to oppose
pie Bill. - At seven o'clock the crowd about the House was
immense. The interest excited among the crowd was intense,
when it was communicated to them that the House were divid.
ing on the third reading. As soon as the division was over, a
person who came front the House informed those nearest the
door that the bill was lost. This pleasing news spread instant-
ly amongst the crowd, and was received with loud shouts
and waving of hats. The exulation was, hoivever, but short-
lived. The real state of the ease was soon made known-
-that the 11111 was passed by a majority of 13. The disap.
ointinent seemed to be deeply felt by all, Inq we never saw so
large an assemblage bear a disappointment better. There was
not the slightest disposition to disorder of any kind. The
crowd separated into small groups, by whom the merits of the
Bill were again discussed; and after a little time the whole had
peaceably retired. •
• Motto Elt AT CLAPHAN.—Monias Scott, ono of
the,men examined on Tuesday at Union Hall, has made a con-
feasion of the murder, anti the circumstances connected with It,
in terms similar to those of the confession of StofFell, given in
our Paper of yesterday.--liexpell conflates, silent on the sub.
ject, and seems to care very little about the result. The offi..
cers are after Pritchard, and Hall has a clue which he believes
will not deceive him. Keppeli has declared that Pritchard will
never go urn the roof at the top of the gaol, as he has "slipped
his wind:" • . _ . . .

tTaoct Mrs u tint% —( Purther particalars.)—lt is this 1
day our painful duty to record one of the most cruel and bar,'
baiout murders which has ever occurred, even in this (which
was not unaptly termed) the age of horrors. The following
are the particulars, upon the accuracy of which our Readers
may depend Thursday night last, between ten and eleven
o'clock, Richard Crofts, Esq. father to. the Gentleman who has
been put in nomination for the office of Shetifrof this Cityt wits
sitting with his faintly in the parlour. of his house, which is ai.
tuated in Ballybeg Glynn, one mile from Buttevant, and not
more than twenty yards from the mail coach road leading from
Mallowi when a knocking was heard at the hall.door. Mr.
1 Croft himself unsuspectingly opened the door, and one of four
men who were standing before it, demanded 101. from hint
for the service of Captain Rock.. Mr. Crofts replied that he
had not so much money in the house, but that he had some
' change in his pocket, which lie would give them. Mr. R.
Crofts, jun. hearing the conversation from within, came to the
door, and said, " Father, for God's sake come in ;" upon which
one of the ruffians struck at young Mr. C. with a pike, which
must have entered his brow, but that it was most providentially
stopped by his button. They then closed the hall door, yoUng
Mr. Crofts remaining within ; and one of the miscreants hell
Crofts, senior, and ordered another, who had a musket in
his hand, to do his duty...-this hot-sable command was proMptly
complied with, for the ruffian instantly levelled his piece, and
shot this amiable and unofrending.Gentleman. The ball en-
tered the chest, and passed through the liver, Mr. Crofts
lingered in great corporeal agony .until about, one o'cloCk
yesterday, when he expired.--As the estimable character ofMr.
Crofts is 80 well known, and so generally appreciated, we shall
only add, that if ,benevolence, humanity, and generosity, were
W not the peculiar objects of hitehoy ferocity, this respectable
Gentleman would not have been thus prematurely removed
`from his deeply afflicted family and his sorrowing friends—
( From the Cork Advertiser, Jtinv