The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-26 00:00:00

( From the Columbian, Nov. 3.)

It is reported that President MosnpE,,in.his I‘lessage to
Congress at. the opening of the ensuing &lion, will recom-
mend the establishment of a new department of the Govern-
ment, with the title of " Department for Home Affitirs.7 It
is mentioned that Congress probably will, adopt the measure,
and, to prevent an increase of expencc, abolish the office of
Secretary of the Navy, making the President of the Navy
Board one of the Cabinet. . .

We observe in the Gazette of Carthage:la of the 25th ult. a
dispatch to the Secretary of State of Colombia, directing the
restoration, on the application of the Minister of the United
Stater, of the extra duties charged on the American schooner
Hibernia. There is alur a decree of the 3d August, regulating
the cases in which private houses may be forcibly entered by.
the Public Authorities, which gives but a sorry notion of the
idea of civil litatrty entertained by the Colombian Congress.
The French squadron, which passed the, hurricane season
in the Chesapeake, has sailed for Martinico. .

THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.—TiIe Seditious
Meetings' Act was passed on the 24th December,
18l : its duration is limited to five years from
that period, and until the end of the then next
Session of Parliament ; so that it will expire, in
all probability, in June or July next ; and as it
appears by the 36th section of it, TO EXTEND To
IRELAND, it cannot fail to excite astonishment
and disgust that " the Catholic Association"
should have been allowed by the ATTORNEY-
GENERAL of Ireland to have gone to such sedi-
tious lengths, and to levy money from the King's
subjects in that country, to the enormous extent
of 25,0001., if we are to believe the reports of
the Advocates of Irish Popery, as given in the
llrish Papers ! How His Majesty's Government
can reconcile it to themselves, and to their duty
to the Protestant, Community, that a statute so
penal, and so repugnant to British feelings,
should be strictly enforced in Tills part of the
United Kingdom, and other statutes passed to
put down in Ireland ALL Protestant Meetings
whatever ; and yet to allow the Papists of Ire-
land not only to violate the Law, but to insult
the most eminent and pious Clergy of the Irish
Church Establishment, and to excite the great
mass of the Popish peasantry to acts of the most
atrocious and violent aggression against their
neighbours of other religious persuasions, and to-
tally to disregard the Law and the obedience
they owe their Sovereign! The real objects
of " the Catholic Association" CANNOT bra
UNKNOWN to thus LORD LIEUTENANT, Of to
Mr. PLUNKET ; indeed, for many months, its
Members have not hesitated, publicly, to declare,
that they will not be satisfied with Catholic
Emancipation, in the sense in which the Protest-
ants consider it,—and that nothing, but the most
unqualified acknowledgment of the power and the
re-establishment of the Poe's!' lliv.astacily in
Ireland, will content them ! Others say, they
must go further—and that the lands of their an-
cestors must be restored to them ; whilst some of
the Papists, even those who claim to exercise
" the Paitoral Office," have recently ventur-
ed, unblushingly, to declare, that they will
never be satisfied until THE SOVEREIGN HEAD
of THEIR Church is a Papist !! We shall forbear
to pursue this subject further at present, and if
at any time, it is necessary to substantiate the
declaration we have alluded to, we can call in to
our aid the testimony of persons of high respecta-
bility and character to confirm it.

It is said in continental letters that the King
of WIRTEMDURG has issued an edict, reducing
the interest of the National Debt of Wirtemburg
from sto 41 per cent. This measure had pre:
viously received the consent of the Wirtemburg
Chambers during their last Sittings.
The town of Constance, in Switzerland, has
suffered considerably from a fire on the 10th and
11th instant. Several buildings have been burnt
down, and at one time the flames were so fierce,
as to threaten the whole town.
The Duke of YORK visited his MAJESTY yes-
terday, at Carlton Palace,