The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-05 00:00:00

111ERCANTILE SLIPPING.

Dr.AL, JULY 4.---Wind S.W.—Arrived and remain the
Heroine, oAer, from the. Isle of France for Antwerp ; and
Warren Hastiogs, Mason, from Bengal fur London. I._!arne
down from the River and remain. the Lovely Maria, Smith, for
St. Domingo; and Kirsweil, Arinstrong, for the Cape of Good.
Hope.
HALF.pAgT Six.—The Warren Hastings is proceeding for
1 the River.
PonTsmouTu, Jury 4.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Nile,
Storey,
fromlYtOya I:eil'elgn byaaielt,th;olir
coyoawlet:si!oze(,),
sla'llicAnr
thletect,,
diva transport for Chatham. Ilis Majesty's ship Glasgow
came into harbour to be paid off.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 3.—Wind N.—Arrived the Amanthca,
Rowett, from Palermo in 63 days. •
FALMOUTH, JULY 3.—Wind N.—Arrived the Union,
from London. Sailed the Elwin, O'Ness, fir St. Uhes.
DOVER, JULY 4.—OW the port the Coldstream, from
Bengal.

LAMENTATILE ACCIDENT.—{ From the .114114 Ga.ret,
of yesterday.)—The Hibernia steam-racket came to her station
on Wednesday evening : on Thursday, a large party of tricedi
breakfasted, &c., On board: on Friday she sailed for Dublin,
when a most unfortunate accident hap paned, by her and the
St. Patrick running foul of each other, the partieutars of whiehi
may be seen below :
" Milford, July 1.
" On Saturday morning, between one mai two o'clock. put
Where with passengers, the Hibernia steam packet, horn Bristol,
bound to Dublin. It appears, that at half past ten the pre-
ceding night, when three miles off this harbour, she fell in
with the St. Patrick steam packet, on her passage trout Dublin
to Bristol. Both vessels are of the largest class, having engines
of 140 horse power each, and were going at the rate of
ten miles per hour, when, unfortunately, in attempting to
coma within hail, the St. Patrick's bow is stated to have rim
against the starboard quarter opposite the mainmast of the
Ilibernia, and carried away bulwarks, staunchions, shear.
plank, and top-timbers, nearly to the water's edge. The
contact was so tremendously sudden and unexpected that
Mr. Thomas R. Swap, a passenger, travelling for the firm
of Messrs. M. Deacon, Sons, and Ellis. of No. 3, Cateaton.
street, London, who was sitting on the Hibernia'a deck,
in a chair abreast the poop, had not time to get out of the
way, and was crushed to death between the cutwater of
the St. Patrick and the poor of the former ; a seaman
, was at the same time much injured in the neck by one of the
iron stays. A coroner's inquest wa4 held on the body of the
unfortunate young man, and delivered a verdict of Acculentri
death.' It appears he was a pious character, and a member of
the Wesleyan connexion : his mortal and mangled remains
were interred in Staynton church-yard on Sunday evening,
and were attended to the church (about two miles from hence)
by a great number of the most respectable inhabitants. It is
supposed the St. Patrick proceeded on her voyage."—The St.
Patrick arrived at Bristol on Sunday. In the shock, her head
and cutwater were carried away, and sonic other of her works
so much injured as to need going into dock to repair.

noun ID MITRDER.—(Front the Alilledgeville Theartiere,
grittily 204—Last evening we were simmioned to witness a
scene from which humanity with indignation recoils; a scene;
perhaps, without a parallel, since the first organization of
civil society. 'rho circumstances are as follows:---it ap.-
pears there had been a fishing-party during. the day, com-
posed, perhaps, of relations, of which party John 31. W 'Manic,
returntasdbe eNue.nstelttclrlleaevl withoutnilrieadfsesie: n:tileihsweietiiti:tteeewulne' committeddesisted,
iaae 1 appearedalnn gtbiolalnitltllpahi
knife lyeeeoi:lewyesib aieNavent,ticill'i:lClttirit,iiisoloeentri
stttroniwi.st:rmylnnti eyloaotiacilhnlntfnk:s illhtarilini-oleeetielt
itel: accompanied
whichillincr:tusbilectoeypltiryvu)llioanieroil appearedlpl
tbswioiwnhihesiftleada 'elltndloh:titbine
eatowehr oshtnite,oeitretr' iitie
observation,uctetwielh ln(fil lowering
farewell;
theirenisdri:neea:
lindibl pre.
sent
sibtibuhuiesset(pyisiwncitioivions ! When about to depart, he bade the sister of
at each successive stab. The negro gir preinting by his
position, seized himce°lnnPldlile with tit ellish. satisfaction,
Alm Williams time to escape, which she embraced with as mach
fifteen
designs,so tfahb stabbing netn l't.r
proceeded
iwsfbelueleyll'eitate dnrhtPnu".ne: r e)calid,bl suspecting
leetigilltwa ii nil gg his inquiries,
alacrity as her situation would admit of, and had fled 1 er-
haps hO yards, when this nionscer retook her, and dragging her
from ear to ear in a most horrid manner.. By this time the alarm
had reached the nearest neighbour, who hastened to the scene
of' misery. Ile had by this time exchanged his knife for a Muir,
an d h ilea tigi n the attitude of prayer near the body of 1 s murdered
wife, was,attenipting to dispatch himself; he bad completed
put of his design, but finding the task more arduous than that
of murdering. his wife, he only succeeded, iis is believed, in
making an incision in the windpipe, and it is thought will re-
vtdensettoethieixtnhulemv,ex..icothecnoutu.testatio, nthoott:fithlosyrdr,e(gnpiievoainntiegctalty,
her with incontinency, and by stab-
hint.; her. She immediately fled,' but in consequence of her
debility, occasioned by giving birth to an innocent then not
ten days old, he easily overtook her, and with a severe
blow brought her senseless to the ground. Commanding
the assistance of a nel,Pro girl who was close at hand, het
reconductesi her to the house, and placed her on this bed,
when animation was soon restored ; then, and with unex-
ampled ferocity he caught up the infant, anti with unrelent-
less they cast it violently into the yard ; returning to time
by the hair some distance, dispatched her by cutting her throat
cover, to answer before an earthly tribunal for this unnatural
deed. Four helpless children bewail the loss of their motho,

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning P(Ters, July 5.

[MORNING HERALD.)
Wednesday's Paris Papers reached us last
night by express. The Journal des Debris has
private intelligence to the 20th from Cadiz. It
is highly interesting. The Cortes held their first
meeting on the 18th. One hundred and ten De-
puties answered to their names, and proceeded
immediately to business. They received the fe-
licitations of the Municipality of Cadiz. /he
King and Royal Family were lodged in the Pa-
lace of the Customs. The Minister of War cut
his throat in a state of despondency, it is said,
after having burned his papers. The Cortes,
after declaring that the Regency had deserved
well of the country, called upon the Government
to point out the means of saving Spain, in the ac-
tual crisis of affairs. They then proceeded to
consider of regulations to preserve the public
health, and next declared it expedient to sus-
pend the ordinary forms of prosecution for trea-
SOIL The accounts by the same conveyance
bring news from Madrid to the 27th. Not only
the populace of Madrid, but the Royalist Regency,
seems animated by the most uncompromising
vindictive spirit. The moderate Constitution-
alists—even those who abandoned the Cortes,
and expressed their readiness to accede to modi-
fications of the Constitution, are denounced.
The Ex-Minister Martinez de la Rosa, who is
supposed to have been implicated in the attempt
at counter revolution on the the 7th of June,
arrived at Bayonne, from Madrid, with as much
peril to his life as Abisbal. Though protected
by the French, he thought it prudent to tly.
The Regency has imitated the worst ruling fac-
tions in the worst times of the French Revolu-
tion, by ofTering rewards to spies who shall de-
nounce suspected persons. The effect of this
must he to prevent the defection of Morillo and
the other moderate persons who still adhere
to the Cortes.,

[Tun rstEs.l
The Bill (or opening the ports of the• United
Kingdom to foreign shipping, ort 'a COtrespending
indulgence being shown to BritiAi:vessels in fo-
reign ports, has produced, as was nattrrato deep
sensation of alarm for their property in the minds
of our shipping interest. They argue that the
reciprocity contemplated by this measure is more
apparent than real, inasmuch as relative freight
alone (not relative value)` being the thing
affected ; and England being a country which
imports articles great in bulk, And small in tom.'
parative value, while she exports great value, but
inferior bulk, gives,by the increased admission of
foreign vessels, laden with foreign merchandise,
to her harbours, a more extensive bertelitthatt
she receives, by the increased facility atTorded to
British merchantmen of carrying British goods to
foreign harbours. It is likewise alleged that thei
shipowner of England, being stibject to tromy
duties laid on for the pretectiort!of•.other classes
of domestic property and induitry,—lrom which
foreigners in their several countries are exempt,
cannot even at present maintain his ground
against that competition to which the higher
scale of British taxation exposes him ; that the
shipping interest is already in a state of decline ;
and that should the present measure be com-
pleted, the whole of the imports into this country
will be conveyed by foreign vessels. All this,
and a great deal more, is affirmed in a pamphlet
recently published on the subject.- The state-
ment is, indeed exparle throughout but with a
cordial feeling. in favour of relaxed imposts and
of free trade as a general System, we confess that
no small degree of anxiety, and even, perhaps, a
little bigotry assails us, when we look at the
new application of principles, however fair and
prepossessing in appearance, to a branch of, our
national interest so sacred as the mercantile