The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-04 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

111AnoATE, Nov. 3, FIVE P.M.—lt has blown hard all day
from the Westward.—The Columbus, with two steam-vessels
in attendance, remain at their anchorage.
DEAL, Nov. :I.—Wind W.S.W.—Passed through for Lon.
don the Hope, 111`Farlane, from Oporto. Put back and remain
the Duchess of York, Oxley; Nassau, Tremayne; Cambridge,
Mason ; and 'Wellesley, Ferriman, outward bound. About
100 sail of outware-bound are at anchor under Dungeness.
Arrived from London and remain the Regalia, Forster ; Hive,
Slader ; Maitland, Ellsworthy ; Retrench, Ansell ; Little
Sally, Gibson ; Sandwich, King ; Margaret, Wilson ; Cleopa-
tra, Eadin ; George Hibberts, Drysdale ; and the Acasta,---.
PonTsnotrrif, Nov. 3.—Wind W.S.W.—His Majesty's
ship Argus has come into harbour to be paid off. Arrived the
George the Fourth, Hamlin, from the Downs for Cape Coast
Castle ; Madras, Croshie, from ditto for Madras. Sailed the
Loyal Briton, for the Eastward.
PLYsiouTit, Nov. 2.—Wind W.—Arrived the Princess of
Wales, Lethaby, from St. John's, N. B.; Liberty, Evans,
from Prince Edward's Island, in 43 days ' • Merton, Drum-
mond, from Bristol, for Naples ; Ann, Ash, from London, for
St. Andrew's; Glayhyra, Morton, from :Btu), for Antigtsa.
Off the port, the Bristol, —, from Quebec for London.
FAL stouTit, Nov. 2.—Wind W. to NAV.—Arrived the
• Cato transport from London for Sierra Leone.
LrvEurooL, Nov. 2.—Wind \V.—Arrived the Mary, Lee,
from Buenos Ayres; Agnes, Stripling, Pernambuco: sailed
the 21st of September. The Imporial troops entered on the
10th ; South Carolina, Easterby, and Waterloo, Bell, front
Charlstone ; Robert I‘•\%'illiant, Wilcockson, Virginia; flaw.
son, Robinson, and Constitution, Graham, from Miramichi ;
Atlantic, Graham, Richebucto ; Henry Col. Wilson, Cape
Breton ; John and Robert, Evans, and British Tar, Colbeck,
from Quebec ; and Pheasant, Darras, from Nova Scotia.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India
House, when the following ships were thus stationed, viz. :
Thomas Grenville, Captain %V aliant Manning, and Marquis
of 'Wellington, Captain J. Blanshard, for Bengal direct ; Prin.
cam Charlotte of Wales, Captain C. Biden ; Warren Hastings,
Captain G. Mason ; and Minerva, Captain G. Probyn, for
Madras and Bengal.
The East India Company's outward-bound ship Thames
was all well in lat. 20. 44. S. long. 32. 51.. W., the date not
mentioned. The Thames spoke the Princess Amelia (also out-
ward-bound) in lat. 7. S.S. S. long. 27. 311. W., on the 6th 'of
June, all well.

LONDON ADJOURNED
is D A SESSY.)NS, GUILDHALL.
(ThIO

BEFORE THE RECORDER AND ALDERMEN.

MOST OUTItAGI E 0 U s A SSA U LT.—Christopher
Felton was put to the bar on two indictments,
for violently assaulting anti wounding four watch-
men belonging to the ward of Cripplegate.With.
out, on the 10th of October last, while in the
execution of their duty. ft appeared from the
evidence of Hills, a watchman, whose beat is in
Grub-street, about one o'clock on the morning iu
question he desired two men and a woman, who
were in Sun-court, to go about their busi-
ness, when they refused, and instantly com-
menced a most violent attack upon him.—
He sprang his rattle, other watchmen speedily
arrived, and a general conflict ensued. A ntu
of men ran down the court armed with sticks,
and beat the watchmen most unmercifully; two
of them were so dreadfully bruised about the
head and face, as to confine them from their daily
labour several days. All the witnesses identified
the prisoner as being the man who repeatedly
struck them with a long stick. The prisoner de.
tiled striking the watchmen at all. The 3 ury,
with-
out hesitation, found him Guilty on both indict-
ments, and the Court sentenced him to six months
imprisonment in the House of Correction for each
offence, and to be kept to hard labour.
John Foy and Ann his wife, who were also in
the same indictment, not appearing, their recog.
nizances were ordered to be estreated.

Hoot", munnEß.:—A few days ago an Inquest
was held on the body of J. Ryan, of llallyvorneen. After the
examination of five witnesses, a verdict of " Wilful Murder"
was returned against the following persons :—P. Citsack, E.
Hall, J. Sheahan, P. Oleuane, Eleanor Ryan, wife to the de.
ceased, and Mary Cramer, the servant maid, all of whom Mr.
Balmer, with a party of his police, lodged in the county gaol
that night. So horrible a murder as this has not disgraced this
country for many years. After literally beating his brains out
with a hatchet, and cutting him on several parts of the body
with the same deadly weapon, they laid hint upon an immense
fire, and, we shudder to relate it, actually roasted him. After
which they buried the mangled body in a bog-hole, carrying it
sewed in a bag about a quarter of a mile front the house. it is
but justice to Mr. Balmer to mention, that it is owing to bill
exertions that this mysterious murder has been detected. no
has succeeded in establishing a chain of evidence which Will
certainly bring conviction home to the guilty—abscrick
Observer.)

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

PA 1 IX
Extracts from the Morning Pvers, Nov

[THE TIM ES.]
One of those productions called tariffs has
Jett been presented by his Belgic Majesty to the
tower Chamber of the States-General, for their
approbation ; and veritably, if they do .approve
of it, we shall be apt to think them not much
ferior iu wisdom and patriotism to the King him-
self. This tariff—after a touch upon vinegar,
which, it appears, is too precious a beverage to be
parted with, and is therefore to pay a duty on
exportation—goes on to treat about grain in all
its branches. Our readers know pretty well by
this time what sort of a thing a landed interest is.
in England, the landed gentlemen have been
long contriving to save their own rents at the ex-
pence of our stomach, and so completely have
they gained their point, that while the price of
bread has been kept up, the rents have uni-
versally fallen t The gentlemen of the Nether-
lands having a laudable desire to follow this very
edifying example, have besieged their Go-
vernment with murmurs and remonstrances
upon the mischief of suffering the Dutch
and Flemish nations to eat any bread of
foreign growth. The Government, in obe-
dience, as usual,to the "Country Gentlmen," puts
forth a project for a new tax on corn, by one
clause of which it is provided, that all grain im-
ported shall pay an increased duty ; and by
another, that the Flemish farmer himself shell
be discouraged from growing the very article
thus protected, by a tax on the export of grain,
little short of that upon its importation! The
wisdom of our profound and enlightened ances-
tors was conspicuous in the severity of their im-
posts upon the conveyance of such articles out of
the kingdom as they were anxious to keep
among themselves. Their prudence has been
devoutly imitated by their descendants of the
last and present generation, who laid a tax
on foreign wool imported, and another on
native wool exported, that they might balance
eccounts between the farmer and manufacturer
by injuring both alike. So here we see reflected,
in this Dutch looking-glass, the bright image of
our own policy, remote and recent, with regard
to the taxation of wool. The people on one hand
are told that they shall have no breed at all but
such as their native soil affords them ; and the
producers of bread are excluded from the foreign
market, 'that they may be deterred, by this happy
expedient, from growing a single grain too much
for domestic purposes, and therefore from giving
the victims of their monopoly the chance of
even a momentary fall in prices. One might
almost fancy that some of our large English
landholders had got the ear of the Dutch Fi-
nance Minister, and whispered into it how
kindly he would act by placing such an obstacle
before the Dutch agriculturists in their road to
the British market. Why, of such Core-law•
leatherheadedness we can bring no more,signal
proof, than that even Lord Bexley was not guilty
of it I Even Lord Bexley had sense enough to
propose that the export of corn, at least, should
be free to the English merchant. if the object
of the Flemish Cabinet be—by pretending to
give way on the one side to the landholder, arid
on the other to the trader—to raise, in reality, a
revenue upon both, it presents the question under
another aspect. The Government, in that case,
plays its own thrifty game. While the bear and
lion are contending for the carcass, reynard slips
behind them, and makes a hearty meal of it.