The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

In the Country.
G. M. Smith, Ironbridge, Shropshire, bookseller, April
17, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—W. Laycock,
Liverpool, iron merchant, April 16, at eleven, at the
Court, Liverpool—J. Blain, Liverpool, stationer, April
16, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool.
PAYMENTS OF DIVIDENDS.

IL R. Holloway, Ryde, Isle of Wight, bookseller and
stationer, ss. on Tuesdays, between eleven and two, at
the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basing-
ball-street.

J. Donovan, Oxford-street, fishmonger, 3d., on Tues-
days, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Pen-
nell, Guildhall-chambers, Basingball-street.
J. R. West, Mill-wall, Poplar, block and mast maker,
Is. Bd., on Tuesdays, between eleven and two, at the
office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-
street.

W. Haslam, Hertford, chemist and druggist, 55., on
Tuesdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Pennell, Guildhall chambers, Basinghall•atreet.
R. Knight, Lewes, butcher, 45., on Tuesdays, between
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-
chambers, Basinghall-street.
L. Samuel, Bury-street, St. Mary• axe, silversmith, Is.
Id., on Tuesdays, between eleven and two, at the office
of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street.
R. Green, Brighton, ironmonger. Id., on Tuesdays,
between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell,
Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall• street.
C. Watt, Southampton-buildings, Pentonville, baker,
April 16, at eleven—A. Glass, Queen's-road, Bayswater,
April 12, at twelve.
CERTIFICATES GRANTED.

J. Harbidge, Islip, Oxfordshire, miller, certificate of
the third class—G. A. Clare, Mount-street, Grosvenor-
square, house decorator, certificate of the second class—
J. Breton, King Edward-road, Hackney, insurance
broker, certificate of the second class—T. Neale,
Reigate and Dorking, banker, certificate of the
third class—J. Jowett, sen., J. Jowett, jun., and
J. Jowett, Preston, stonemasons, certificates of the
second class—T. Newell, Rhoeddu, Montgomeryshire,
horse-dealer, certificate of the second class, at the expi-
ration of 21 days from March 20—J. Amos, Coventry,
trimming manufacturer, certificate of the second class,
but suspended the issuing thereof for 12 months from
Nov. 7—R. Gibson, York, ironmonger, certificate of the
second class, within 21 days from March 20.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

W. Hastings and R. Pagan, Rochdale, cotton spinners,
—R. Pagan, A. Stewart, J. T. Pagan, and J. Geddes.
Rochdale, woollen manufacturers.—E. Cattermoul and J.
0. Cattermoul, Norwich, builders.—J. B. Davis and A.A.
Tumour, Liverpool, merchants.—J. W. Coward, J. R.
I)arsie, W.Myrtle, and C. L.Coward, Anderton, Cheshire,
salt manufacturers—W. Hitchcock and J. Flower,
Barron's-place, Waterloo-road, saw mill proprietors—
W. M'Dowall and G. Topham, Little Queen-street, Lin-
coln's Inn-fields, printers—W. Jackson and C. Sampson,
Orchard-street, Portman-square, decorators—T. Crighton
and R. Watt, Manchester, millwrights—W. S. Searell
and T. Searell, Buckfastleigb, Devonshire, millers—
J. Hardwick and W. Fawcett, Leeds, cloth finishers
—R. Hicks and H. Feather, Plymouth, tailors—
J. Dodds and W. Henry, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
builders—J. C. Leach, J. Leach, and P. Ormrod, War-
rington, Lancashire, and Runcorn, Cheshire, hosiers and
drapers—E. S. Haycock and B. Giles, Birmingham, ma-
thematical instrument manufacturers—J. Drabble and J.
Sanderson, Sheffield, saw munufactureis—R. Hassell
and R. Tarrant, Bedford-place, Commercial-road, slop-
sellers—G. C. Arbuthnot, P. Ewart, E. Lyon, A. G.
Latham, and R. Brown, Liverpool and Bombay, mer-
chants (so far as regards the said E. Lyon).
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
John Price, Builth, Brecknockshire, blacksmith.

Enoch Evans, Brecknock, tinman.
John Jones, Llanybyther, Carmarthenshire, printer.
David Llewellyn, Pontypridd, Glamorganshire, ear.

penter.
Thomas Brederick, Swansea, draper.
Thomas Lance Phillips, Merthyr Tydfil, surgeon.
John Loader, Manchester, eating-house keeper.
Robert Brown, Manchester, commercial traveller.

William Coble, East Dereham, Norfolk, beerhouse keeper.
Joseph Mari:leet, Mainfleet, All Saints, Lincolnshire,
machine maker.
Jeremiah Porter, Chorley, Lancashire, licensed vic-
tualler.
William Lane, Upton-upon-Severn, sadler.
James Glanville, Powick, Worcestershire.
Thomas Smith, Cheltenham, painter.
Thomas Nelson, Liverpool, mariner.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
_ _ _

A Taylor, Edinburgh, upholsterer, to meet within
Dowell's Rooms, Edinburgh, March 29 and April 22, at
twelve.

SHIP NEWS.

BATAVIA, JAN. 26.—Herd Van Nes, from Passa-
rouany for Holland, has put back to Sourabaya with a
considerable part of her cargo thrown overboard, 1,000
bags of coffee, 300 boxes of sugar, and 50 slabs of tin,
having been on shore on the reef off Dinfges Island, at
the entrance of Bali Straits.

PORT PHILIP, ()CT. 18.—Accounts from Launceston
of the sth inst. state that the Thomas and Joseph Crisp
had been on shore in Whirlpool Reach for about ten
minutes, but was got off as the tide rose without injury.
FREDERICKSHAVEN, Mulct' 17.—The Emanuel, from
Bremen for Copenhagen, which got aground on the
Thistholm on the 14th inst., was assisted off and arrived
here to-day. As she is tight, she will proceed without
repairing.
HARWICH, MARCH 22.—The wind blew very heavy
from the S.W. all laTt night, and several vessels at
anchor in the harbour drifted from their moorings.
GOTTENRIIRGH, MARCH IG.—Border Queen, steamer,
of Leith, from Aarhuu3 for Leith, struck at the Wingo
Beacon during a fog on the 14th, and it is feared will be
lost; part of materials and cargo saved.
NORDEN, MARCH 19.—A hawser, 75 fathoms long and
six inches thick, and two ends of running rigging have
come on shore near Box kuw, supposed to belong to a brig
wrecked on the Branwers Plata.

HALIFAX' NOVA SCOTIA, MARCH 13.—A vessel, be-
longing to Nova Scotia, is reported to have been lost
at Mtequelon ; crew missing. The Primrose, from Phila-
delphia for this port, went on shore at Barrington on
the Bth inst.

GALLE, Fns. 16.—China, from Calcutta, put in here
Jan. 24, to stop a leak in her bows; has had to discharge
cargo, to lighten for repairs, but is now expected to pro-
ceed in a few days.
NEW YORK, MARCH B.—A large quantity of spars
and barrels, and part of a rudder adrift, was seen Jan. 29,
lat 47, long. 21. A vessel, bottom upward, spars and
rigging alongside, was passed, Feb. 16, in lat. 37, long.
60, by the Constellation, arrived here.
HULL, MARCH 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Brilliant,
Gallipoli; Prince steamer, Kampen; Julius, Copen-
hagen; Claudit e, Jansen, Nykioming ; Maria, Rose,
Gothenburg.
GRIMSBY, MARCH 24.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Wan-
deringman, Gothenburg; Azel and Walborg, Melanc-
thorn and Schien.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 24.—Wind W.N.W.—SId. her
Majesty's steamer Cumberland, North American station;
Ncrihumberland, New York.

SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 24,—Wind S.—Arrd. 25.,
West India 'Buil.

GRAVESEND, MARCH 24.—Wind W., light, cloudy.
Arrived—Rachnel, from Bombay; Anna 'O., and
Soho, from Antwerp; Emerald, from Boulogne; War-
rior, from Jamaica; Ocean, from Guernsey; Tiger, from
Hamburgh; Adelaide, from Lisbon; Borneo, from Cey-
lon; Richard Cobden, from St. John's, New Brunswick;
Clas, from Galatz; Merlin and Susan, from St. Michael's;
Richard Mount, from Monte Video.
Sailed—Seabird, for Port Adelaide; Diamond, for
Dantzic; Agnes, for Jamaica.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

Drone, from Newcastle for Philadelphia, March 9, in
lat. 40 N., long. 30 W.
Louisa barque, from Antwerp for Valparaiso, Jan. 4, in
lat. 39 S., long. 44 W.
Mount Stewart Elphinstone, from London for Adelaide,
Jan. 20, six days' sail.
Gratitude, from the Clyde for Moulmein, Dec. 20, in
long. 88 E.
Saghalien, from Manilla for Queenstown, Fob. 22, in
lat. 7 N., long. 28 W.
Emma Graham brig, running to the southward and
westward, Feb. 24, lat. 12 N., long. 26 W.
Vesta, from Dublin for New York, Feb. 26, in let. 51 N.,
long. 9 W.
Liverpool, from Liverpool for Coquimbo, in let. 1 N.,
long. 21 W., out 43 days.
Elise, from Tampico for Bremen, Jan. 31, in lat. 5 N.,
long. 10 W.
Lady Hilda, from London, in lat. 20 N., long. 40 W.
Clansman arque of Glasgow. in let. 22 N., long. 41 W.
Augusta, from the Clyde for Calcutta, in lat. 2 N., long.

21 W.
Sisters, from Moulmein for London, in lat. 3 W., long.
21 W.
A ship, supposed to be the Clifton, from Manila for
Cork, the same day.
Wanderer barque, from Liverpool for Savannah, Feb.
28, in lat. 26 N., long. 36 W.
Lenhouse barque, from Calcutta for Liverpool, March
11, in lat. 52 N., long. 23 W.
William of Hayle, March 8, east of Gibraltar.
Pegasus schooner, bound south, March 17, in long. 8 W.
Oriental, American ship, from London for China, Feb.
14, in lat. 3 N.. long. 22 W.
Prince Regent, out 35 days, Feb. 20, in lat. 9 N,, long.
31 W.
Lay Landys, from Ceylon, Jan. 23, in lat. 45 S., long.
26 E.
Admiral Kenshuger, from Batavia, Feb. 31, in lat. 35 S.,
long. 20E.
Symmetry, from Ceylon for London, Feb. 1, in lat. 32
S., long. 15 E.
James Shephard, from the Mauritius for London, Jan.
30, in lat. 35 S., long. 36 E.
Europe, French ship, for Cayenne, Jan. 27, in Ist. 44 N.,
long. 13 W.
Mexican, from Bordeaux for Guadaloupe, Feb. 3, in lat.
45 N., long. 11 W.
Perseverant, French ship, for Marseilles, Jan. 8, in lat.
30 —, long. 11 E.
Mary Ann Peters, from Bristol for New York, March
5, in lat. 41, h-mg. 29.
Caroline Mary Clark, American ship, fur New York, in

lat. 45, long. 17.
Bruy, of Annan, March 11, in lat. 32 N., long. 14 W.
Lusanne, from Singapore for the Mauritius, Dec. 22, off

Java Head.
Annie, from Adelaide for the Mauritius, Jan. 7, in lat.

22 S., long. 68 E.
charlotte, from Liverpool for Bombay, Jan. 8, in lat. 23

S., long. 67 E.
Ottawa, of
_Glasgow, from London for the Mauritius,

Feb. 1, in lat. 33. S., long. 15 E.
Norjina ( ?), of Dundee, from Cadiz for Calcutta, Jan,

22, in lat. 17 S , long. 32.
RoBgo, of and for Cork from Rio Grande, Feb. 3, in la'
1 f 3., log. 31.

THE PAPER DUTY.

In these days of division, it is gratifying to find that
there are still some common objects of interest for
which politicians are ready to work in concert, and
not only ready, but zealous in their endeavours to
promote what they can agree in advocating. The
one of the excise duty on paper is fortunately one of
these topics, and if combination of influences be of any
avail to move the stony heart of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, we should feel disposed to regard the confident
expectations entertained upon the subject as not wholly
destitute of foundation.

Five-and-twenty Members of the House of Commons,
nearly all of them representing Irish constituencies,
waited upon Sir Charles Wood, on Saturday last, for
the purpose of urging upon him the claims of the paper
manufacturer to be relieved from the oppressive tax
and still more oppressive system of fiscal espionage
under which it labours. The paper trade, as was stated
by the gentlemen composing the deputation, is one
of the few branches of skilled industry that has main-
tained its position in Ireland, affording a consider-
able amount of employment both directly and indi-
rectly to the population of several of the towns in
the eastern portion of the island. There can be no
doubt that the removal of the present system of disabi-
lities to enterprise and improvement would tend materi-
ally to the further development of this sp-cies of manu-
facture, in a country which still imports more than two-
thirds of what is required for its home comsumption.
Not a few facilities naturally present themselves for
this. lathe neighbourhood of most of the towns which
are at present the seats of the manufacture in the sister
kingdom, an abundant supply of water-power exists,
useable fot the simple machinery which the trade re-
quires. Is in the case of the linen factories
in Ulster, it would be easy to adapt the
mechanism so as to render the motive power of
steam and water alternately available, thus ensuring
constancy cf work and economy in expenditure. There
are few of the bleaching mills in the north of Ireland
that do not possess a water-wheel as well as a steam-
engine; and as the price of coal is usually cheapest
when ;the *apply of water from the mountain is most
liable
.to tail, the skill of the machinist pro-

tects the manufacturer from being interrupted in his la-
bours or amerced in wasteful outlay for an indispensable
element in his undertaking. In some of the paper mills
now working in Ireland, the same alternative system has
been broughtinto successful operation. But all expan-
sion of the trade is stopped by the vexatious surveillance
of the excise snd the intolerable imposition of an exces-
sive tax.
Another lecture in the case not without interest and

importance is the sort of natural connexion between the
growth and manufacture of flax on the one band and
the paper nada on the other. Not merely is
this true as regards the finer descriptions of fa-
brics, but eve' in the coarsest kinds the same ob •
nervation applies. For the making of the more deli-
cate description of paper, linen rags, as is generally
known, are mo* useful, and it is a curious circumstance
connected with this part of the subject, that, owing to
the limited consumption of fine linens in the country
where they are made, it is found necessary to import
largely into Rebind this peculiar species of rags. But
this is not all. It has been found by modern experi-
ments that in the improved method of dressing and pre-
paring flax, the vast amount of refuse which formerly
was thrown awry is capable of being turned to direct
account as the raw material of the coarser kinds of

wrapping-paper; and as this, from its great weight and
bulk in proportion to its value when ready for sale is
precisely the species of goods into the cost of which the
price of the raw material most largely enters, whatever
contributes to stimulate either the cultivation of the
crop or the devebpasent of the manufacture, must needs
produce reciprocal benefits. The tow and woody fibre
which the improved process of flax-steeping collects and
heaps together is one spot, is, under ordinary circum-
stances, of but little, and often of no marketable value
whatever. In tie neighbourhood of a paper mill it
would readily bring from 151. to 20L a ton.
Here, then, is a case for consideration by every reflect-
ing man placed in a position of political judgment, but
pre-eminently one for a Chancellor of the Exchequer
to ponder and revolve. Here are the means of produc-
tion ready to hand—the disposition to employ them—
practical familiarity with their use—and an almost una-
nimous expression of desire on the part of those who
however closely or remotely sympathise in the matter—
that shackles should be removed that hinder the
growth of so unalloyed a good. The Scotch and
English manufacturers are thoroughly at one with
each other and with their Irish fellow-workers in
paper-making. The voice of industry in the three
kingdoms is in this affair the same. There is
no jealousy, no discord, no local or petty
interests warring with the general aim. A more popular
measure of fiscal reform Government could not devise
than the relinquishment of the excise on paper. The
amount which it yields is unquestionably considerable ;
but, be it remembered, that its remission would not
merely add, as in other cases, to increased expenditure
on tax paying luxuries and necessaries, but to the im-
mediate and extensive augmentation of the general stock
of wealth, by the additional creation out of valueless
materials of saleable goods.— Daily News.

THE BOASTED UNITY OF THE ROMISH •
CHURCH.
In the bosom of that Church which called and still
calls herself indivisible, which claimed and still claims
her oneness as her proof of catholicity, there were, and
are schisms as numerous and as alienating as can be
found in the past or present history of any society
calling itself Christian. Let her own historian
enumerate some of them:—Benedict sth anti-Popp
to Lto the Bth ; Boniface the 7th, Benedict
the 6th,"and John the 14th, all opposed; John the 17th
against Gregory the sth; Sylvester the 3d in con-
flict with Benedict the Bth ; Honerius the 2d contradict-
ing Alexander 2d. These are but a few of the occa-
sions on which she has uttered uncertain and discrepant
sounds up to the time of the tale before us. Time and
space would fail us did we more than mention similar
instances in after ages, when Gregory the Bth and
Gelasius the 2d. Celestinus the 2d and Honorius 2d,
Anacletus 2d and Innocent 2d, Victor the 4th and Alex-
ander the 3d. Nicholas sth and John the 21st, Clement
the 7th and Urban the 6th, each anathematized the other,
—each disannulled his rival's laws and judgments,—
each invested with apostolical succesion his own followers,
and pronounced all other orders to be invalid. And
seeing that of none of these irregularities bath the Ro-
man Church ever purged herself,—seeing that her returns
to unity have been forms of compromise between con-
testing parties, not the triumph of an ancient truth—
where is her boasted oneness? What Roman Catholic
can prove to his own conviction that the decisions which
guide his faith are not the voices of usurpers? What
one can confidently ba assure,] that the oil of consecra-
tion which fell upon the head of his soul's priest did not
drop from the wrath-vial of sbmc spurious Pontiff?"—
Hildebrand and the Emperor.

The Clothworkers' Company of London, of which
the Lord Mayor is a member, has offered to give 15 acres of
building land, near the town of Coleraine, as a site for the
erection of the proposed "Magee College," and also a dona-
tion of 3,0001 in aid of the fund for building and endowment.
STRANGE CASE.--A few days ago a horse belong-
ing to Mr. William Ridsdale, farmer, of Rowley, near We-
therby, suddenly became ill and died. After death a living
snake, eighteen inches long, was taken trom the animal's
stomach.—Leeds listelligencer.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, March 25.