The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-01 00:00:00

111 ERCANTI LE SHIPPING.

DEAL, MAY 31.—Wind N.W.—PaAsed through from the
River the Dave, Wishart, for Smyrna; Lord Exmouth, Mills,
for Palermo ; Hindostan, Lamb ; and Cadi-ous, Snowden, for
Quebec; Salmon River, Wransmen, for Batavia; Maria Louisa,
Berry, for St. Übes ; and Hercule, Witteraught, for Ilavre.
PorrtsmouTri, VIAY 31.—Wind S.W.—No arrivals or
sailings.—TheVibelia transport, reported before for Plymouth,
is gone to Liverpool to take in troops.
PLYMOUTH, MAT 30.—Wind S.W.—FALMOUTII, MAY
30.—Wind S.W.—No arrivals or sailings.
_ _

Livt:nroor., MAY SU.—Arrived the Indefatigable, Smith,
from Pernambuco.

111N.FoltD, MAY 30.—Arrived the Shallett, Mason, from
Alexandria : sailed the sth of April, about which time ten
vessels sailed for England.

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR MAY, 1824.

A hot May is in general esteemed as unhealthy ;
the present one has been as cold as we have known for many
years ; in consequence, the Grass has not made much pro-
gress, and the sharp frosts have made great havock with the
early sown Potatoes. The greater part of the month being
dry, has been very favourable for the spring seed, and the
sowing is now completed, and what has made its appearance
looks extremely kind. The Wheats generally look well, and
a great return may be expected, should the harvest weather
prove fine. Potatoe planting is not yet finished ; a great
breadth has been prepared; the value of this crop in cleaning
land begins to be properly appreciated, and it has this advan-
tage, that the produce will always meet a good market.—A p-
pies and Pears show a very fine bloom ; the cold winds keep
them backward, but that is considered as a favourable omen for
a large crop. Cider and Perry are declining in price, from the
anticipation of en abundant year.—Hops cannot at present be
judged of, but generally the bine looks strong and healthy.—
Stores of all kinds, both Cattle and Pigs, carry a high price
31ilch Cows are dear and difficult to procure. The frost has
injured the Lucern considerably, but the Saintfoin stands the
cold remarkably well, and chews a most manifest superiority
over the Lucern.—The early sown Carrots and Parsnips look
very promising; large quantities of these valuable roots are
now cultivated ; their excellence as winter food for milch cows
and working horses is now generally acknowledged ; no farmer,
who wishes well to his cattle, should be without a few acres
of these valuable rooter.—The general aspect of Agriculture is
• most promising, and should propitious showers now shed their
genial moisture, the crops will be most abundant.
314 31, 1824.

MIDDLESEX SEiSIONS.-These Sessions com-
menced this day before FRANcis CoNsr, Esq.,
Chairman, and a full Bench of Magistrates. The
Calendar is remarkably heavy, being about 200
prisoners for trial, but none of them, we are
happy to state, are of a very serious nature.—
After the Grand and Petit Juries were sworn,
the Court proceeded to hear causes in the
traverse paper, for assaults, misdemeanours, &c.,
in which some are of a very aggravating descrip-
tion.

REMOVAL or CoxvrcTS.—Last night a caravan,
loaded with convicts, were removed from New-
gate on their route to Portsmouth, preparatory
to their transportable destination at New South
\Vales. A number of persons assembled to take
a last farewell of the prisoners, who, on leaving
the gaol, gave three cheers. They were escorted
by a party of the Light Horse.
ASSOCIATED RomAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN...—.
Yesterday the friends and subscribers to this laudable Insti-
tution, which has for its object the educating, clothing, and
apprenticing the children of poor Roman Catholic parents, and
providing an asylum for poor destitute orphans, held their AL-
niversary Festival at the Freemasons Tavern, Great .Queen-
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, where a company of about two
hundred partook of an elegant and sumptuous dinner. T 1 e
gallery fronting eie great hall was filled with ladies of dis-
tinction' among whom were the Countesses of Shrewsbury
and de Front, the Ladies Clifford, Petre, Stourton, &e. &c.
The Stewards very attentively waited on• the Ladies with
e;lL;ree
tight
g hDtr Poynter, er
13,
ra Catholicmst noßishopßishop
re-
freshments. At six o'clock, his Grace the Duke of Norfelk
took the Chair. Ile was supported on the right hand by Lord
of Ursula, tfrUhorers(ilitloatn,ld'e aonnd Right
District,Reverend
E. Blount, Bart. ; and on the left by Lord
Stourton, the Earl of Surrey, the Hon. 31r. Clifford, and
the Rev. DT. Archer.—The proceedings of the day were of
the most gratifying character, and a liberal subscription was
made. The Report of the Secretary and the appearance of the
children gave universal satisfaction.
Wu are authorized to announce positively,
that in the Grand Festival, to take place in
Cambridge on the '2d, 3d, and sth of July next,
there will be present Madame G‘TALANI, Ma-
dame PASTA, Miss STEenENs, Madame ROSSINI,
and several other singers of
eminence ; and also
that the celebrated RossiNl will himself preside
at the Piano in the evening, and will sing several
Duos with Madame CATALAN', which have been
received with such unbounded applause in Lou..
don. This Grand Festival, given for the benefit
'of ADDENBitOOSE'S Hospital, is patronized by
above 000 of the Nobility and Gentry connected
with the University and of the environs.
KINGSTON, MARCH 20.—We feel sorry in
tcjidenaki"tg mention of the following melancholy ac-
that has thrown the family of Mr. HEN-
Oi
Iris
into r tga
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et
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the Republic of Colombia, was proceedingr.i
GeneraliEbNy t h
litteo-
EON,
his
sboatt,hs,e,aanfi(tia promisingthect hyeo"u•talst,
sewizaes
family, on their arrival at rvalocemopmopxa, his
in
river Magdalena to Bogota, d
bnoi
induced
due:
nboe yf(
alli-
gator, and immediately disappeared. A .dog that
was swimming at the same time! met a similar
fate.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Jane 1.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
- The Gazelle de Madrid states, that Lopez
Banos, Minister at War under the Constitutional
system, had committed suicide, by swallowing
laudanum, in his exile at Gibraltar. Little re-
liance can be attached to the prejudiced state.
meats of this slavish organ of unmitigated ty-
ranny. Its trade at present is to slander and de-
nounce every individual connected with Revolu-
tion in that wretched country. The Moniteur of
Sunday, quoting from its ally, the Etoile, states,
that. the boy, Don Miguel, who, with his vile
mother, had caused so much alarm and agitation
in Lisbon, had unwillingly embarked in a frigate
for this country, and that the Queen was con-
fined in the Convent of Estrella. The Patriarch
who supported this wicked woman's plans wasba-
. lashed to.Busa co, and the Triumvirate having been
disposed of, Don John returned to his palace at
,Bemposta,on the 13th, and every thing was then
tranquil in Lisbon. The Allgemeine Zeitung,
received by us last night, has accounts from Con-
stantinople to the 25th of April. They state
that the Turkish fleet sailed for the Dardanelles
on the 23d, and that the Capitan Pacha had been
visited, previous to his sailing, by all the Minis-
ters. The fleet was said to be manned with a
levy of 3,000 Janissaries, and was accompanied
.some distance by the Sultan, who had given 100
purses, and many valuables, to the Capitan
Dacha's encouragement. Notwithstanding all
these preparations, the present campaign against
the, Christians will more than probably have the
same result as the last. The prayers and wishes
of all Europe attend the devoted Greeks : their
cause is a sacred one, and most popular all
through Europe.

[MORNING POST.]
In the House of Commons last night, Mr.
Brownlow presented a Petition, signed by thirty
respectable individuals, against the Catholic As-
sociation, which has already done so much mis-
chief i❑ Ireland. The Petitioners, after stating
their desire to maintain peace and good will
among their country►nen, declared that if peace
and good will did not now exist, it was owing to
the conduct of this Body, which had assumed the
powers of a distinct Government, and had gone
so far as to levy a tax on the Catholics of Ireland,
and to order a census to be taken of the whole
population of the Kingdom. The Hon. Gentle-
man contended, that one of the objects of that
Association was to check the liberty of speech,and
overawe the freedom of thought, by shewing every
Irish Member who should oppose its views to what
a host of dangers he must expose himself at his
return. He expressed his wonder that it had not
yet been visited by the law, and his hope that the
subject should be taken into deep consideration by
the House. It would appear from Mr. Plunkett's
reply, and indeed from the acknowledgments of
most Members, that the reason why this mischie-
vous Association has not yet felt the power of
the law is, that whilst it breaks its spirit, it cau-
tiously keeps within its letter. lie declared that
44 the Association was calculated highly to en-
danger the public peace, and what he valued as
highly—the Catholic cause. He considered that
it would endanger more the success of that great
object than all its open enemies." Mr. Se-
cretary Canning said that " it did more mischief
to the Catholic cause than to the country even,
and as a friend to the cause he sincerely deplored
it." And indeed there is no well-wisher to the
peace of Ireland who does not consider the pro-
ceedings of this Association as of the most
mischievous and dangerous tendency. The
Petition which it has sent to Parliament,
and in which he demands what is tantamount
to the abolition of Tythes, the disfranchisement
of Corporations, and the removal of every Orange-
man from the Magistracy, besides the small
boon of complete and unconditional emancipation,
was presented in the Commons by Mr. Brougham
acrd in the Lords by Earl Grey. Both, to their
credit, declared their strong dissent of the line
followed, and the opinions expressed by the Pe-
titioners, and lamented the change of language
which their Petition displayed in comparison
with former Catholic ones. That in the Com-
mons was received and ordered to be printed, but
that in the Lords was withdrawn, on account of
its having been written on disjointed skins. In
the Commons the Game Laws Amendment Bill
was lost on the question of taking the Report
intok consideration by a majority of 1W to 103.

[THE TIMES.]
Intelligence, it is said, has reached Govern-
ment through France, that Miguel, the Prince of
Portugal, is on board the Lively frigate, on his
voyage to this country.

Prince Polignac's visit to Paris has given rise
to a variety of conjectures, all assigning motives
cri high political importance to the journey ; but
we are assured on good authority, that his pre-
sence ii) that capital, in addition to the giving his
support to the new financial measure, has been
solely called for by affairs of a private nature.--
(

rYfoRNING
The Catholic Petitions were presented last
night, as was expected, in the House of Lords by
Earl Grey ; and in the House of Commons, by
Mr. Brougham and Mr. Plunkett. The preset,.
tation of the Petition against the Catholic Asso.
elation, by Mr. Brownlow, •gave rise to an im-
passioned discussion, which is to be renewed
to-night, on his moving that the Petition be re-
ferred to a Committee. It is really pitiful to
see so much importance attached to the various
outward appearances of the Irish disease.---
" There is no hope for internal peace in Ireland,"
said Mr. Brownlow, 44 so long as the Catholic
Association performed acts of positive Govern-
ment, and were authorised to hold their Sessions
is the City of Dublin..
But would the prospect
of internal peace be one whit more fair, if the
Catholic Association were put down to-morrow
The disease would display !tis6ll immediately in

some other eruption. The Memoirs of Captain
Rock have, we should think, pretty well proved
that the disease has raged without intermission,
for centuries, though under various names.

[NEW TIMES.]
The scarcity of money, which we have before
noticed, continues to be experienced in the City;
and this, added to other circumstances existing
within the Stock Exchange, has produced a de-
cline in the price of almost every description
of funded Securities. Yesterday Consols for the
Account opened at 95i, and closed at 941. The
late heavy payments upon new Foreign Loans,
the prompt payable on Friday last at the India
House, at a period of the year when a scarcity of
money is invariably felt until the payment of the
dividends, which in amount exceed other pay-
ments, have tended to reduce the premium upon
Exchequer Bills to between 18s. and 225. From
nearly the same causes, a more important and
sudden decline took place in Foreign Secu-
rities, but more particularly in those of South
America. Chilean Bonds opened at 76, and closed
at 721. Colombian Bonds at 84 declined to 80,
and closed at 81. The Scrip of the new Loan,
after being at 3f discount, closed at 24 discount.
Mexican Bonds from 61 to 581 ; and the Scrip
of the late Loan from el premium to one per
cent. discount, from which it afterwards recover-
ed, and closed at par. To account for these ex-
tensive variations it has been said that many
parties have purchased on speculation, under the
impression that a public recognition would be
made by this country of the independence of these
South American States. Yesterday being the
settling day in Foreign Securities, several parties
found their purchases had been made to too great
an extent, and the sales effected in consequence
have produced the above alterations. Another
difficulty which the holders of these Securities
experience is the difficulty of obtaining advances
from the Bankers upon this Stock, compared with
the facility with which it is obtained upon Bri-
tish Security. The depression yesterday in the
Funds was almost general ; sales in the French
Rentes were made at 102 50, and the Scrip 151
premium. The Greek Loan Bto 9 discount
Alliance Shares 141 15 premium.

[MORNING HERALD.]
Earl Grey presented last night the Catholic
Petition, on the contents of which his letter to
Mr. O'Connell has already been published. He
strenuously supported the prayer for what was
called Catholic Emancipation ; but pointedly
expressed his regret and disapprobation at other
parts of the Petition, particularly the- statement
respecting the Duke of York, as the head of the
opposition to their claims. They also prayed for
such a thorough reform of the church as would
leave their own clergy only chargeable upon
the Roman Catholics, and for the abolition of all
corporations in Ireland. The Noble Earl pro-
posed to have, the Petition read at length ; but
while the clerk was reading it, the Lord Chancellor
called attention to its being written on detached
pieces of parchment, which rendered it inadmis-
sible. Earl Grey withdrew it.—The Earl of Li-
verpool brought in a Bill to dispense with the
necessity of the Oaths of Supremacy, and other
oaths which Roman Catholics could not take, as a
qualification for revenue officers.—The Earl of
Lauderdale's propositions respecting Joint Stock
Companies were adopted with little remark. The
Marquis of Lansdown expressed much anxiety
that they might not operate against the invest-
ment of capital in Irish objects. The Earl of
Lauderdale contended, that as real and not sham
capital could alone be of value to Ireland, it could
not be injurious to the interests of that country
to require that subscribers of capital should ac-
tually advance that capital.—ln the House of
Commons, Mr. Brownlow's presenting a petition
against the Catholic Association in Dublin, excited
a discussion of more than ordinary animation and
interest. He denounced the Association, and
avowed himself an Orangeman. He expressed
great surprise that the Attorney-General for
Ireland had not prosecuted the Catholic Asso-
ciation. Mr. Plunkett replied with uncommon
energy. He would not say whether the Catholic
Associatiou was legal or illegal, but he had no
hesitation in saying, that the Orange Associa-
tion was illegal, and if the Honourable Mem-
ber would supply him _with the necessary in-
formation and documents, he would undertake to
prosecute that illegal Association. Mr. Canning
spoke of the novelty of the Honourable Mem-
ber's calling for the legal opinion of Ministers
on occasion of presenting a Petition. Mr. Peel
hoped that his Honourable Friend would not im-
pute it to insensibility to the importance of the
subject, or to disrespect towards him,if he declined
to say any thing on this occasion. Col. Trench
said the Catholic Association was a Parliament
under Protector O'Connel. Mr. Maurice Fitz-
gerald expressed much indignation at this
arraignment of the absent, and eulogized Mr.
O'Connell in very high terms, as a ma❑ of heart,
and feeling, and enthusiasm, in the Catholic
cause, though perhaps deficient in discretion.—
Colonel Trench explained, that he had left Co-
lege enthusiastic for the Catholics, but that he
was since converted. He tow regarded the
Catholics as instruments in the hands of able and
artful agitators. Ile had attended to his tenantry,
and challenged competition for them with any
tenantry in Ireland. If landlords would per-
sonally superintend the prosperity of their tenants,
the question of Catholic claims would neither
merit nor receive attention.

• POST CHAISES.-They are of French inven-
tion, and,
according to GRANGER, they were in-
troduced into England by Mr. AVM. Tor.r., son
of the well known writer upon Husbandry.

SEDAN CHAIRS were first introduced in
London in 1 n**A
when Sir SANDERS DUNCOMB
obtained the sole privilege to use, let, and hire
a number of such covered chairs, for fourteen
years. The first Sedan Chair used in England
was by the Duke of BUCKINGHAM, in the reign
of JAMES I. JOHNSON thinks their name derived
from the town of Sedan, in Champagne, where
he supposes they were originally made.