The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-08 00:00:00

MARINE INSURANCE.

Yesterday a meeting of the Subscribers to
I,Loyn's was held at the coffee-room' to receive the Report of
the Committee appointed to watch the progress of the 11larine
Insurance Bill through both Houses of Parliament.
At 12 o'clock, BENJAMIN SIIAW, Esq., the Chairman, at.
tended by several members of the Committee, entered the
701111.

The CHAIRMAN then stated the purpose for which they bad
met ; and moved that the Report should be read, lie said that
he should not occupy their tune by saying any thing en the
subject, as he should propose that the Report, which wa4 very
long, should be printed anti distributed among the members,
and that a future day should be fixed for taking it into coma-
deration.

Mr. BENNETT, the Secretary, then rest( the Report, which
was very voluminous, and Occupied nearly three quarters of an
hour in the reading. it detailed most minutely the steps taken
by the Committee to oppose the 3larine Insurance Bill in every
one of its stages through Parliament, and the result of every
one of those steps: It noticed in terms of grateful' eulogy, the
assistance rendered to the subscribers at Lloyd's by various
Members of both Houses, who had opposed the Bill, or who
had endeavoured to get it modified in various ways; and it
concluded by explaining the" views of the Committee as to the
way in which it would affect the Underwriters at Lloyd's.
On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, it was agreed unanimous-
lr_that the Repoli should be printed and circulated, and that it
should be taken into further consideration on Wednesday, the
2lst instant.

TirE NEW Bruno ACT.--Amongst the other
provisions of the Act passed during the last Session for amend-
mg the Act of the &34 of George 111. relative to fixing the
assize of bred, it is provided, that "y reason of the great
decrease which has taken place in the price oldie several articles
used-in the making and hakiag of bread since the passing of the
Act in question, it is become expedient that the bakers and
makers of bread for sale should receive a less allowance for their
charges and profits than is given by that Act. Be it therefore en.
acted, that from and after the Ist day of July inst., the Mayor,
Aldermen,and Magistrates in cities and towns corporate,and any
two or more Justicea in towns where there is no Mayor, or in
counties generally, or in their respectivejurisdictions, shall set an
assize of bread, in execution of the provisions of the said recited
,Act. The allowance to the. baker to be when the assize is set
from the average price of wheat, 18a. 1044. per quarter, and
when 'set froth the average price of flour, the allowance to be
I Is. lid. per sack, being in each case a decrease of one.half the
assize, or one farthing in a quartern loaf, of the allowance given
to bakers by the Act of the 53d (leo. III." This Act does not
extend to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, but is in
all respects to be considered as a public Act.

I PRISONERS BEFORE TitiAL.--Our reat4rs may
remember that previous to the late Session of Parliament, the
question of setting prisoners to work before trial was brought
before the Court of. King's Bench, by Mr. Martin Stapylton,
and that Mr. Peel, at the beginning of the Session, under.
took to set the matter at rest by a special enactment.=-This
has been at lenth dune by an Act of Parliament (c. 06. of
the last hessian?, which received the Royal Assent on the
21st June; by te sixteenth section of which, after reciting
slonllrk committed
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therein
trial,iwith
that by the 4th George Fourth, c. 84., it was made n
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fied ; it is enacted and declared. that such consent ,Of
every such prisoner shall be freely given, and shall not
be extorted or obtained by any deprivation, or threat of
deprivation of any prison or other allowance ; and that no pri-
soner before conviction shall, under any pretence, be em-
ployed on the tread-wheel, either with or without his con-
sent. The 17th section of the Act is as follows :—" Whereee
it has been doubted whether prisoners committed for trial,
who are unable to maintain themselves otherwise than by be.
ing employed in some kind of work or labour in the pnsen,
are entitled to receive any prison allowance of food with-
out being required so to employ themselves;
enacted and declared, that such prisoners shall be allowed
such fond as may be sufficient for the support of_ health,
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be it hereby
Justices of such prison,
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sonera from the keeper of arty prisi,u,.: consequence of 'y-
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their own consent,
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the food so allowed, and without any in
ance by reason of such payments.
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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Paporr, July 8.

[NORM NO rose.]
It is a misfortune attending the present ac-
counts of the Revenue, that the progressive pros-
tserity of the country tennot be perceived in its
101 l extent, without a research and labour in cal-
culation bi hi( h few are willing to bestow. This
arises from the complication, as regards the com-
parative produce of one year or one quarter with
another, occasioned by the repeal of different
taxes or duties at different times since 1821. For
the most part, indeed, the prima facie result of
these comparisons shews either a defalcation of
income, or at most a trifling increase, and the
greater number of people are willing to' forget
the several remissions of duties to which this
state of affairs is owing, while they affect disap-
pointment that the receipts, for example, of the
year ending the sth inst. do not vastly exceed those
of the year ending the sth of July,lB2l or 1822.
Now the true criterion is this,that with diminished
sources of revenue, our income has at least been
stationary and not retrogressive. Had the taxes
remained the same, the public would pro-
bably have been content to find that the
Treasury experienced no deficiency ; but, as is cos-
tomary in all human concerns, the more we get
the more we would have, and because the Reve-
nue has not augmented as much as the means
whence it is derived have been surrendered., the re
are some who complain of the slow pace of the
national welfare. For our part, we will only ask
such persons, if it were stated four years buck
that besides retaining a clear Sinking Fund of
five millions annually, we could also remit seven
or eight millions of duties, and uphold the Mili-
tary and Naval Forces of the country, together
with all its civil establishments, in a state of effec-
tiveness becoming the rank of this Empire among
the great Powers of the world, who cook! have
withht Id a smile from the supposition ? And
yet these things have actually been more than
accomplished ! In short, the only correct way of
judging of the prosperity now enjoyed is, by
stating the amount of taxation relinquished with-
in the last four years, and she wing that, notwith-
standing all our wants have been supplied, and
all our greatness not only maintained but ac-
knowledged by Foreign Governments. This is
the utmost that could have been desired ; but
besides we have a Revenue increasing daily, and
every ground for anticipating a further reduction
of the public burdens in each successive year.
Let the returns of the last quarter's revenue be
estimated on these principles, and they defy
cavil ; nay, they demonstrate that England is
now flourishing beyond all former precedent.

[BRITISH PRISS.]
We understand that it has -been determined
by his Majesty's. Government to accede to the
request of the king of Portugal, for military aid
during the disbandment of the licentious army,
by which the tranquillity of Portugal has been
so often disturbed. Several transports have been
actually engaged for the conveyance of the troops,
and the expectation that others will berequired
has caused an advance of the rates of register.—
It appears that this course will be taken with the
entire approbation of the Allied Governments
on the Continent. We shall, the'refore, run no risk
of embroiling ourselves in any qUarrel in conse.
(pence of this measure, which our interestsinot less
than the exigencies of our ancient Ally, require.
The condition of his Most Faithful Matjesty for
many mosths has been most perilous. The intrigues
of the Queen, and the ungovernable violence
of Don Miguel, each prompted by a party
who aim at rendering Portugal what that country
was a century ago, have left the King no alter.
native but that of calling upon the British Go.
vqinment for their assistance, while he can reor-
ganise..the political system of his kingdom.' We
have already remarked the wide difference
between this interference on our part, and the
invasions of Spain and Naples by the Allies.
Irvery case of this kind • must be decided by
its own peculiar merits. If John VI. were
resisting the demands of his people for such
ameliorations of the Government of Portugal
as the state el public opinion and the CirCIAM*
stances of the country called for, we should most
unhesitatingly condemn any interference ; or if,
contrary to the general sense and feeling of
the age, be Was endeavouring to force changes
which were repugnant to the common welfare
of civilised Europe, we should equally feel dis-
inclined to favour his designs. But the conduct
of the Portuguese Monarch, throughout the po-
14tical revolutions which have agitated his king.
dorm, has manifested It sincere: disposition to
consult the interests and follow-the wishes of the
great body, of his most intelligent subjects. If
he. is thwarted in this benevolent purpose by an
abandoned soldiery, who, on every alteration of
their fickle humours, will snatch the sceptre
from his hands, and menace his personal safety
by the assassination of his private friends (the ,
MarqUiS de Loulle, for example,)—if, surrounded
by a new set of Pretoria!) bands, he finds neither
his throne nor his life secure, and is driven to
ask for that assistance from without which his
people cannot, however willing, give him from
within, what opinion would he form of our
friendship, if, under pretence that our conduct
would be liable to misconstruction, we should re-
fuse to grant him the aid he solicits ? But sup.
Posing every generous sentiment extinct on the
part of the,British Government, would not oh.
vines motives of policy induce US to accede to
the requeiti.The app.cations of his most Faith-
fel Majesty have been repeated, e,
iucreasing
let
urgency, and the last intimating that if we de-
(;lined tea omiply,witil them another Power would
readily furnish the assistance required. It would
be useless to attempt to disguise the fact, that
this other Power is France. She is already
iu military occupation of Spain. Shall she
have the whale Peninsula' Shall I,ishon fail
)niinisess k
otirlits tuotcurtaiooyo
into her possessiou,?,beceuse we will not enable
the King of to ko
wrath ono day' dictates to.
and the next a despotism ? If wee bid raf„,,A
aid ourselves, could we him, ollit,c4.d•to the

Kingl obtaining it elsewhere ? The only course
that remained for us was to consent, and in that
act to spew the world that in moments of distress
and danger we were not disposed to shelter our-
selves under a selfish policy, and shrink from the
hazard of succouring an ally who was constant
and unfailing through all the vicissitudes of the
war. Let us in a more enlarged view, as well-
wishers to the human race, consider for what pur-
poses this aid is to be given. The King of Portugal
is now controlled and embarrassed by a military
force which overawes his authority. This force has
instituted and subverted a Constitutional Govern-
men t,and at rresentappears to direct its views with-
out any veil to the absolute possession of all the
powers of government. The people have dared
to take no part in the mutinous proceedings of
this body. All is in subjection to it, excepting
only in so far as it is influenced by the appre-
hension it feels for the general judgment of the
European Cabinets, the firmness of whose repre-
sentatives alone very lately rescued she King
from its treasonable hands. If no foreign go-
vernment were to interfere, the Portuguese army
would soon degenerate into a military faction, re-
sembling the Turkish Jauissaries. Every attempt
on the part of either the King or people would
be ineffectual to withdraw from their yoke. The
state of Portugal cannot settle into peace ; nor
can the institutions suitable to the wants of the
people be established, until this hydra be de-
stroyed. The blessings of future generations of
the Portuguese, more happy, we trust, than
their ancestors, will follow the politic and hu-
mane decision of his Majesty's Ministers.

[THE Tram j
Mr. Canning made a shrewd enough guess at
the nature and properties of the Irish Catholic
'' Association," when he hinted his opinion that
it might be safely left to itself, since, for bring-
ing it to that state out of which it ought never to
have arisen,* its own members were means more
convenient than any that the machinery of an act
of Parliament could have provided. The Right
Honourable Gentleman knew very well what mis-
chief a set of coxcombs are apt to inflict upon any
party to which they profess to attach themselves.
The vain turbulence of the Milesian Magnates has
accordingly taken its full effect, just at the
moment when the close of the rival Parliament
at Westminster had left the O'Connels, O'Gor-
mans, and the rest of them, little more to be
afraid of. But instead of cantering quietly over
the course, these wiseacres began crossing and
jostling with each other. Some flippancy of
OPConnei's compelled the Secretary, their most
efficient officer, to write them a " dignified"
letter, and to resign. Then there were sundry
vile debts to he paid which had been incurred
for the sake of the Catholics and which one or
two rigmarole fellows pretended were entitled to
an appropriation out of the " rent," or poll-tax,
hourly gathering in from every hovel in Munster.
'But O'Connel did not relish this 46 working for
a dead horse," as the proverb goes : he would have
no"
editor of a newspaper' or some such insignifi-
cant personage, printed a letter of the Conn.
seller's own inciting, and dated several years
before, attesting the fairues, of the very debts
which were now sneered nt as so many fahrica.
tions. This was rather sharp upon the
.orator,
who, in revenge, declared his contempt for the
public press, and threatened to withdraw 114
patronage from it; at the same- time confessing
that his character was left in such a dirty state,
as to make its purgation resemble pretty closely
a similar miracle performed of old upon the Au.
Bean Stable. Be that as it may, the Chiefs of
the Popish Democracry are all by the ears; and
long may they continue so, for it is the only
chance which .the cause of our respectable Ca-
tholic fellow-subjects has of prospering befwe
the end of the present generation.