The Sun.
London, England, 1824-04-14 00:00:00

Ad iv;ItCANTILE SIIIPPLNG.

DEAL, AFnit 13.—Wind W.—Arrived the Sophia, tittor,,
from Bengal; Iluddart, , from Honduras; Joseph,
Bream, from Alexandria ; and Younghusband, Brown, from
St. Lucia. Came down from the River and remain, the Den-
mark Hill, Foreman, for Van Dieman's Land ; Traveller,
Anderson, fur Leghorn; and Lady .Juliana, Smith, fur
Quebec. The Bredalbane, Burgon, from Jamaica, off
Dover. _ _

—The Catl and •
SuleTeistsT str3ain°slipToriti; have come
tneni.n—tolllt'airnltlulTi. Sailed the Eliza -
beth , Taylor, for Hull. The Loyal Briton transport ment out
of harbour, and is waiting at Spithead a fair wind for Leland.
Pt.TMOUTH, A rate. 12.—\% intl W.—Arrived the Matilda,
Cuming, front Bahia in 50 days, for Hamburgb—spoke tine
Hannah, of North Shields, front Liverpool,
,on the 21st Feb.,
out 40 days ; and the Ann, of Chepstow, front the Downs, out
35 days, both off Bahia.
FAL3muTir, APRIL I2.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Ma--
quit of Salisbory packet, from Rio Janeiro, sailed 17th Feb.-,
passengers, Lady and Miss Cochrane. wiled the Eclipse
packet, for Halifax and New York; and Kingfisher packet,
for Jamaica. _

LlvEnrOnt., Arnlr. 12.—.1rrived the Canada, Regent,
from New York ; Uxbridge, Butcher, from Palermo;
Lancashire Witch, from Lisbon. _

COWES, APRIL 13.—Arrived the Portsey, Worthington,
.from Calcutta, for orders.
GhavEsExn, APutr. I3.—Arrived the Hon. Company's
si:ips Inglis, Charles Urant, and Farquharson, from China.

The Joseph, Brown, arrived in the Downs from Alexandria,
sailed bit February, and left loading there the Osprty, Brtrwn,
for London ; and the Baltic, Miller, for Liverpool.

CORN EXCHANGE, Apnit. 14.
There was scarcely any business transacting in our marl et
this morning, there being but few buyers, end those few by nu
means disposed to purchase. Friday being close holiday, there-
fore we cannot state any alterations, but must quote the prie,.!
of all Grain nominally as on Monday.

HASTINGS, APRIL 12.—The residents at this beautiful •
place are still numerous and respectable, and we are daily
receiving additions to the number. From the mildness of the,
air, and the charming variety of the scenery, it forms an ad_
'hirable residence for the winter and spring months, and ev
object, at this season, is daily becomh:g more attractive. 'Thy
improvements in the old, and the erection of new buildings,
are great and extensive.--Among the latest arrivals, are the
lowing :—The Duchess of Marlborough, Lord and Lady Fitz.. ,
gerald,•Lady Byron, Sir E. and Lady Colebrooke' Lady roll .
stone, Sir E. Lawley, Lady Graham Rev. Dr. Rudge,'Rev.
Messrs. Stevens, Prettyman,.Bell ; Graham,
Bennett, Ricardo,
; Misses Stanhope, Miller, &e.
. •.
BOXING.—T he Fancy were yesterday mach
disappointed by the appearance on the ground at Sheppertoa
Range of a number Of Bow-street officers, who had direction's
to prevent the intended fights so anxiously looked for. An in-
tention • to adjourn to another county was manifested, but it
was intimated that this being Passion-week, no fight whatever
would be•perniitted, and the parties returned to town knult-''
ins the daily innovations making on their liberties 2 &x,

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
xtructs from the Aloeithek Ptgiera, April 14.

DI OR NIN a 'POST.]
Nhe business of Parliament, last night, was not
410iinueti importance. In the Lords, Earl Bathurst
)jsoved the second reading of the Newfoundland
Judicature Bill,•and explained the Objects of the
iettISUIY. They are 'these': it is proposed to
ioW-tabliSli a Supreme Court, consisting of a 'Chief'
Justice and two Assista►►t Judges, who must all
be Barristers. This• Court i-s to try 'civil and cri-
minal 'eases, and to discharge the ditties of the
did Vice Admiralty - Court, which is to be
abolished, as well as the Surrogate Courts. The
Island is to be divided into three Dist, lets, having
Circuit Courts, each 'of which is to be attended
111'one of -the Judges. Trial by Jury is to be
motored, and Courts of Sessions are to be estab-
}ished in different parts of the island. The other
provisions of the meascire -relate to Insolvents and
tO €he Solemnization 'of Marriages, and the whole
gave complete satisfaction to the House. The
Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to
be committed till after the Holidays.—ln the
Commons, the Bill for allowing tl►e erection of a
bridge over the Thames at Hammersmith was read
second tirre,after meeting with considerable op-
position. Dr. Phillimore then obtained leave to
bring in a Bill to place Roman Catholics in. En-
gland upon the same footing as Quakers, Jens,
wild Romeo Catholics in Ireland, with respect to
marriages. The House afterwards went into a
Committee on the Warehousing Act, when Mr.
iHuskission explained the outlines of his plan for
allowing bonded corn to be turned into flour for
e*portation. Any person who possesses foreign
*heat in bond is to be at liberty, upon giving
proper security, to take out any quantity of wheat
n d convert it into flour. The American barrel,
46i-ruining 196 pounds of flour, is obtained from
five bushels of gond wheat. But as this corn is
now deteriorated by long keeping, and as the
holders have suffered great loss by having their
Capital so locked up, they are not to be compelled
to produce more than one barrel of flour for every
six bushels of wheat taken out. This proposal
Occasioned some conversation, but leave to bring
La the Bill was ultimately given.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We perceive from the Dublin Papers received
yesterday, that Mr. Pluukett's Burial Bill has
not produced the effect which its patrons antici-
pated from it. It appears to be obnoxious to
loth Catholics and Presbyterians. The Dublin
Evening Part says—
" We have received several letters from the country, all
Wreathing the same sentiment—all decisively opposed to the
rfleasure. We are in' truth very much afraid, and we feel sin-
cieie pain in expressing that apprehension drat this Bill Will
ptoduce more irritation than even the old state of the law."
At a Meeting of the Catholic Association, on Sit-
turday, the Secretary was ordered to write to
Mr. Brougham, stating that strong dissatisfaction
existed with -regard to the 13111, and that a peti-
tion should he dis Patched as early as posSible.
Tile Belfast Northern Whig, a Journal in the
Dissenting interest, condemns the "Bill in the
most unqualified terms:—
: 4; The power to permit (says this Journal) to Men of plain
understandings, evidently implies a power to refuSe. . . . .
"What most he done when the Minister of the Established
amirch (not an uncommon occurrence) happens to be non-
resident ? What most happen when the permission may be
withheld ? Death has taken place—the relations have assent-
liled—the funeral procession is about to proceed—the Minister,
seder the provision of the Act, refuses: may the Dissenting
serial Service be performed ? If it may, there was no -necessity
fur the Act—if not, hoW must the feelings of friends and rela-
tives be tortured ?"
At the Meeting of the Catholic Association, there
was read a letter from the Right Rev. Dr. Doyle,
Catholic Bishop of Kildare, vindicating the
Catholic Prie:athOod from the charge lately
brought against them by Mr. North in the
house of Commons. It is one of those compo-
sitions which will survive the Occasion which
gave birth to it. It will be no easy matter,
we suspect, to find the equal of this Dignitary in
the Establishment. We enter not into the ques-
tion at issue between him and Mr. North ; but
this we may stiy, that he has stated enough to
thew that others were at all events far more cul-
liable than the Catholic Clergy. Dr. Doyle, in
the beatitiful apology for the introduction of im-
piroper books into the hedge.sehools of Ireland,
ke those event fat times, " when Courts of Eq-Uity
were dens Of thieves, and the laws of the coun-
try armed the father righinst the ton, anti the son
against the 'father; when there was a church
without a-religion, and some remnant of a reli-
gion, bUt without 'a church," hr.s severely reta-
lfate'd on Dr. Magee for his famous antithesis.—
lts truth, 'the less Dr. Magee provokes contro-
veil wittt Bishop Doyle, the better will it he for
Ns' reputation. Yet this powerful writer lately
wrote in support of the llohenloe Miracles.

[TRU
-We spoke yesterday on the multitude of pro-
jeets- afoot ; and the day itself on which our re.
/*arks appeared, only gave birth to two. We
would •wish the public to observe, that we are
far from 'recommending that capital should lie
dormant, Or that the -possessors of it should
sleepily exist upon its mere legal returns. Ntihat
We wish f:lr is, the employment of it in useful
speculations,--in schemes of manly enterprize.—
Sante impropriety in the conduct of the promoters
of-new projects ought, at the present moment, to
attract attention. The public will find, by in-
specting' the lists, that There are the same Di -
sectors to various projects of so similar a nature,
that no single scheme can thrive but by the de-.
dine, and • in proportion to • the decline, ' of the
ether. Surely, on the commencement of a new.
pEojeet, the Directors should advertise, as is
often the ease with 11 vaishopte epers,that they have
"'no .concern with the people in the next hifiuse ;"
o(herwite the dealers with them may be betrayed
and deceived, to a degree of Which they have no
idea. Wit' the tOv6Ygd of this is the' case at pre-
Out; it 'Seeming to- be 'a retommetidation to the
manager irf a 'tieiv concerti-, that he is already
deeply imptiat(4l. in half a dozen others. Con=
.poaed With the ,above is another practice, most
dishonest and distronourabie. A proj•ect is fret bu
foot, with an air of secrecy ; it is whispered

about, talked about ; people apply for shares,'
but in vain ; at last the scheme is made public,—
then, however, the shares are at a premium of
'five, fifteen, or even eighteen per cent. Pur-
'chases are made with avidity, the original specu-
lators sell out, and realize property—shares fall
to a discount, and the dupes suffer. We denounce
-these practices as most disgracernl to the parties
concerned. They are more wicked than those
of the wicked Lottery, of which we rejoiced to
anticipate the suppression. We advis'e the public
to beware of the many-headed Directors. They
can be true to no party.

[BRITISii PRTSI.3
The French Papers 'of Sunday and Monday
reached our office laSt night. They contain no-
thing of any importance. The extracts made by
the Etoile from the Madrid Gazette, exaggerat-
ing the temporary successes• of the Royalists in
Peru, display the feelings of that Journal and its
employers on the independence of South Ame-
rica. The Etoile, however, need not exult : any
passing advantages Olaneta or Canterac may
have gained for the moment in that province will
soon close, if they are .not already at an end.—
As to the defeat of the illustrious Bolivar by
Canterac, stated by the Madrid Gazette, on the
mock authority of letters from Buenos Ayres, we
do not attach the smallest credit to it. We shall
probably soon have a very different history.
Bolivar has taken his measures too well 'to fear
any results of this sort. Peru, like all America
beside, will soon be utterly lost to Spain ; the
passing- efforts of a few desperate partisans can-
not redeem her authority in that province. The
Etoile, under the head of Trieste to the 29th of
March, states that letters from Corfu of the 18th
give the important intelligence, but adds that it
wants confirmation, of the surrender of Arta by a
particular convention to the Greek General Boz-
zaris, and that the Albanians had joined the
Greeks, who immediately advanced on Joannina,
which was expected to fall into their hands. The
possession of this city and Arta would make
them masters of Epirus.

[NEW TIMM)

A Petition frot7l the London Missionary So-
ciety relative to the case of Mr. Smith of De-
merara, was last night presented to the House of
Commons by Sir James Mackintosh. The Peti-
tioners proceed on two grounds: they desire, that
as Mr. Smith died in confinement at Demerara,
without having had means to appeal from the sen-
tence passed on him by the Court Martial, they
may he permitted to vindicate his character, by
proof of his entire moral and legal innocence. Their
second ground is still more important. They de-
mand inquiry into the transactions at Demerara,
in order to insure protection and safety to other
Christian Missionaries there and elsewhere.—
, The question thus agitated is not a political one
in any sense of the word ; for the London Mis-
sionary Society is totally utconnected with any
Society for improving the temporal condition of
men in any respect : neither is it a sectarian
question : for the Members Of the Society be-
long partly to the Established Churches of
England and Scotland, and partly to different
bodies of Protestant Dissenters. Their sole
view is, in their own words, " to spread the
Iknowledge of Christ among Heathen and other
unenlightened nations." The Church Mission-
?try Society and various others pursue the
same pious task, and are ne doubt animated by
one and the same spirit of Charity. We, for
our part, hold the Spreading of civilization and
relkian unnong our foreign dependencies to be a
National Duty. What was the original title under
which any of the West Indian or American Set-
tlements were acquired by Europeans ? A pro-
fessed intention, in the words of the Pensylvania
Charter of 1681, " to reduce the savage natives'
by gentle and just manners to the love of civil
society and Christian Religion." This, which
was the very condition of our dominion over
those territories has hitherto been lamentably
neglected ; for it is confessed that, out of a po-
pulation of between 7 and 800,000 slaves in our
Colonies, there are not 100,000 who have
any distinct knowledge of the Christian Reli-
gion ; and there never has been a sufficient num-
ber of the Established Clergy to instruct half or
a third part of the slaves. Those pious indivi-
duals therefore who labour to supply so fatal a
defect, are entitled to peculiar encouragerneut
from Parliament and from the Public; and more
especially ought they to be protected against all
injustice on the part of the Colonists, to whose
neglect of a solemn duty the necessity for the
intervention of :Missionaries is plainly owing.—
On the particular hardship of Mr. Smith's case
we have already remarked ; we regard him as a
victim to most unjustifiable prejudices, and to the
exercise of a power clearly Illegal. Ills case has
hitherto come before his Majesty's Government
only ex-parte : we anticipate, when it is fully
/Ind fairly discussed, that entire justice will be
done to his memory.

[MORNING HERALD.]
We have read with attention the Resolutions
entered into at a recent Meeting of Pawnbrokers,
in opposition to Sir Wm. Congreve's Prospectus
of his new Loan Society, as well as a somewhat
humorous placard with which they have thought
proper to illustrate the walls of the metropolis.—
We think that they, in common with all bodies
or individuals whose interests are endangered,
are well justified hi coming forward in their own
defence; but they should remember that the
same • principle of self-interest, which they
so. ingeniously, and, • we dare say, truly
expose, as
.actuating the proprietors of the
new institution, is one and the same with
that which prompts their own opposition to
it. Macao nomine, de to fabula narratur.
—We cannot, however, allow these persons to
walk so quietly over the course,. and to assume,
with overweening confidence, a degree of merit,.
which, if we mistake not, they are, of all persons
in the 'community, the leaSt 'entitled to. They
tell, us, for instance, in one of their Resolutions,
"'tht the law under which they are now'regu=
laved has been frond perfeCtly effectual to.
every desired purpose." Now, so • far. Ls this
from being the fact, that the very reverse

'much more resemble! It. And such must
ever be the case, when persons representing
'particular interests are allowed to legislate for
themselves. It is notorious that the last Act
for regulating Pawnbrokers was framed by
themselves. Of course good care was taken of
their own interests, while those of the people
whose wants or whose misfortunes bring them
within their grasp, were comparatively but little
attended to. The consequence has naturally
been, that they are proverbially the most unpo-
pular of any class of the community ; so much
so, that we will venture to predict that were
the present measure to succeed and ruin the
whole trade, the circumstance would scarcely
excite any sympathy. We are far from saying
that such a feeling would be just, or that Pawn
brokers are not a highly useful and important
class of the community ; we only assert the fact,
that such is the public feeling towards them, and
which is not confined to the persons whose deal-
ings are principally with them, but is widely
diffused through all classes of society. The
facility with which stolen property of every
description is disposed of to them is a great
and crying evil; and we will take upon our-
selves to say, that were they put upon their
trial, they would not, either individually or
collectively, chuse the twelve Judges for their
Jury. Not a Session passes at the Old Bailey
when the opinion of those sages of the law is not
unequivocally expressed upon the subject; and
on a trial only the other day for an extensive
robbery of plate and jewels by servants, two
of the most respectable of the whole body
were distinctly told by the Judge that they
had had a narrow escape in not having been
prosecuted as receivers. So much for " the
law having been found effectual for every de-
sired purpose." Still we do not exactly see the
practicability or the policy of this new associa-
tion. We agree with the Pawnbrokers in opinion
that these joint stock companies are suspicious ;
that no individuals in any trade can be expected
td compete with them ; and that unless con-
trolled by a positive law, they are just
as likely to fall into abuse and disrepute as
the present trade has done. They set out, for
instance, with a plausible show of lessening
the rate of interest ; but what security is there that
they may not hereafter raise it to any amount
they please, when they have secured their mono-
poly and crushed all competition ? Whatever the
motives of the projectors may be, we do not give
the great body of shareholders any more credit
for humanity than any others of the many spe-
culators the present abundance of capital has
generated ; and if the project, therefore, goes
on, we trust that it will he found essential
that it should be governed by strict rules and
regulations established by law ; and that con-
sidering that it will principally affect the inte-
rests of those who are least able to protect them-
selves—we mean the poor and the unfortunate,
Government will think it its duty to throw over
them its shield, to protect them from the cupidity
for mismanagement of which they may Otherwise
become unwarily the victims.