The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-27 00:00:00

affect all the South American Bonds more or less,'
and hence arises that interest amongst the specu-
lators in this species of property. But little
business was transacted on Saturday, and Mexi-
can Bonds did not vary above per cent.; the
price being at the close 57*, Colombian Scrip 9
discount. Brazilian Scrip was at one per cent.
discount.

[MORNING HERALD.]
Whatever may be the spirit and dispositions of
the Catholic Clergy in France, it is evident that
religious toleration has, even recently, made
great progress. The fact, appears to be, that the
Clergy have the good sense to discover that the
nation will not be ridden by them. The author
or publisher of an irreligious—or rather Anti-
Catholic book, before the Revolution, would
have been rewarded with the Bastile in this
world—and eternal damnation in the next—
unless he managed to interest a mistress
or a courtier in his favour. Since the Re-
storation, the Clergy attempt to revive the
weakest method of repression—clerical de.
nunciation ;—and the Archbishop and Clergy
of Paris chose Voltaire and Rousseau for
the object of their pious vengeance. The
denunciation, however, 'only stimulated the
sale, and the Clergy revealed their own weak-
ness. Seeing their error, they have now entered
the field of discussion fairly ; an Associa-
tion called " the Catholic Society of good
books," has been formed to distribute " good
books" gratis, and at discretion. It is likely the
books will be chosen with the best view of their
own interests by the Clergy, and the Bible ap-
pears not to be of the number. But still the
opposition is perfectly legitimate and fair—and
will promote its objects much more effectually
than if they excommunicated or prosecuted.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Mr. Canning has not yet returned home, but
he is hourly expected. His late visit to Ireland
gave rise, in the fertile imaginations of the na-
tives of that part of the United Kingdom, to all
sorts of speculations; and as the Right lion.
Secretary could not be dragged. per force to make
a public exhibition of himself do please any party,
his firmness has, we believe, disappointed and
dissatisfied the busy and factious on all sides.--
The Irish politicians seem quite unable to
comprehend the fact that a Minister of Stnte
can have any other than a political object
in every movement of his life. Every shake
of his head must, according to their notion
of a Statesman, be portentous. Like Lord
13urleigh, he must be turning over some scheme
on which the safety of the empire depends.
They absolutely scout the idea that a Cabinet
Minister can cross the Channel to spend a week
or two with an 01(1 friend, unless at least he car-
ries with hint an offer of the Premiership, or is
secretly engaged in ascertaining the strength of
the contending parties, who between them destroy
the repose of the country, and thwart the progress
of the conciliatory measures of the King's Go-
vernment. It is a dogma with all true Irish poli-
ticians, that a public man can have no private
feelings. Mr. Canning, however, has withstood all
the temptations of public honours which each party
was ready to heap upon him, if he would have
condescended to accept them. lie would not
survey them on the ground on which the intend-
ed cg Senate-house" of the Catholic Association
is to be erected ; and, as the Orange papers care-
fully noted, he actually had the audacity to
laugh at the paraphernalia of the Grand Orange
Convention, now sitting in due form and so-
lemnity, to devise measures for putting down
their antagonist Association. The Catholics will
never forgive Mr. Canning for having gone to the
Kildare-street Institution, and for having been
attended on every occasion by his friends Messrs.
North and Doherty ; while, on the other hand,
the zealous Protestants are shocked that he should
have received the card of the Most Rev. Dr. Mu-
rray, the titular Archbishop of Dublin, and that be
should have associated himself, at the Viceregal
Lodge, with Mr. S. Rice and Mr. Hutchinson.
Sir Harcourt Lees, in the name of the Orange-
men of Ireland, has given the Right Honourable
Gentleman notice, that he has it in contempla-
tion, under certain circumstances, of having him
hissed out of Ireland, on his next visit, if after
this warning lie should ever again have the te-
merity to go there, and of dismissing him from
office, unless he immediately renounce his pre-
dilection for purgatory. We expect by every
post to receive Mr. O'Conell's denunciatiation
of the Foreign Secretary, for not having paid
his respects to " any of the Catholic Institu-
tions of Dublin." Our correspondent, who has the
hest opportunity for knowing the fact, advertises
us that the feeling exists, if it have not been al-
ready thundered forth to the utter discomfiture
of its devoted object. Let future Ministers then
grow wise by the awful fate of Mr. Canning.--
The editor of The Times, who must know much
better than the Right Honourable Gentleman
himself what he meant by going to Ireland, fore-
warned him that it was the duty of " an honest
Statesman to let the world see clearly what he is
doing." What right truly has a Minister to make
a visit of pleasure, without publishing in the Ga-
zelle a full and particular statement of his induce-
ments to the journey ? Above all, it is not to be
endured, that a Statesman should go even to a
watering-place, unless he previously disclaim all
political designs in his trip. If he will travel in
mystery, let him be prepared to hear every pa-
triotic journalist insinuate that he cannot be an
" honest" man.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.] •
In yesterday's ./0/171 Dull, The Chronicle is said
not to have known the family title of Lord
Charles Somerset, when 44 it began to vent its
abuse upon his Lordship," and to have discovered
on Thursday last that Major Cartwright was
" the brother of that great mechanic who invent-
ed the power-loom—that great mechanic's name
happening to be A rkwright." With regard to the
first heavy charge which has been deemed of con-
sPquence enough to merit repetition, it happens
that there are few families of which we know so
many particulars as of that of Somersetour atten-
tion having been early called to it by Mr. Gourlay's