The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-10 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCF,

[ FROM L LOY D'S.]
DEAL, JAN. 9.—lt has continued blowing strongtiern dee
stward all this day.--The American brig Palafcre from her anchor and cable, and proCeeded to Dover this morn-
ing. The Admiral Cockburn drove a little last night,. but halt
brought up again with a second anchor.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 9.—Wind E. N. E., blowing very
hard.—Arrived the Fanny, Davories, from &Elden,: and the
Aid, Grey, from Sunderland. Sailed the Arabella,Didenerk,
far Lisbon ; Speedwell, Ilapnington, fur Cork ; and Concord,
Ranson, fer Sunderland.
FALdtO T fr, JAN. 8.--. Win- N., fresh gaiiea t►trd dears--
Sailed the Perseverance, Thomas, for Tampico. • h;

The Intrepid, Metcalf,' from Alexandria to Lirettiatil, was
driven on shore near the Skerries, and it was feared would p
to pieces.
The Hector, Eldridge, fl•om Antigua to Loadgla; arrived stt
Bermuda with damage, and was expected to sill 'tip& about
the 13th December. The above vessel sailed from Antigua oa
the 111th October, and being so considerably out of time, that
70 per cent, was done on her at Lloyd's on Saturday lait
The Marian, Harvey, and Letitia, fvoin Quebec;
Sampson, --, and Fame, ----, bound to. Drogheda,
and Elizabeth, Edwards, bound to Dundalk, were driven oa
share at Dublin on Friday.
The Rover, Aiken, from Ipswich to Liverpool ; and 'Susan,
nab, Lewis, front London to iJundalk, were driven en shore at
Carlingfordthe 4th inst.
The Perseverance, Clarson, from Newport to Glasgow,
foundered near Dunmore the 6th inst.; crew saved,

CORONERS' INVESTS.

DREADFUL CATASTROPHE.
Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, Mr. CARTER, thts
. Coroner for Kent, and a most respectable Jury, assembled at
the sign of the Eagle and Lamb, Eltham, to inquire into the
circumstances which led to the melancholy death of Mr. Ed,
Topham, who was accidentally shot by his uncle. -
Mr. Samuel Ni7hitaker deposed, that he bad known the de,
ceased for several years ; he was brouht up by his uncle, Mr.
Stephen Topham, of this town. On Tuesday last witness wit a
on a visit at the above gentleman's • house the deceased was
there. On the following (lay, witness, the deceased, and his
uncle, went into a paddock at a small distance from the house,
with their guns, for the purpose of shooting pigeons.'which
were to be let out of a cage. After some preliminary, shooting
commenced, and several of the birds were shot. The deceased
was in the act of opening the cage, when a pigeon escaped,
and the uncle discharging his piece before the deceased was
out of danger, lodged the contents in his head ; the deceased
instantly cried out, " Oh, my dear uncle, you have killed
me." Witness ran towards' the deceased, and prevented him
from falling on the ground. The unfortunate uncle appeared
horror struck at what he had done, and ran, in a state of dia.,
traction, towards the house, to alarm his domestics ; in the mean
time witness shpported the deceased, who was perfectly insen,
sible till the arrival of one of Mr, Topham's , servants, when
they carried the deceased into the house. Surgical assistance
arrived in a short time, and every thing was done for the de,
ceased, but of no avail, as he expired m about two hours and
a half after the calamity occurred. Witness is thoroughly
convinced that it was purely accidental.
CORONER—To your knowledge, were the deceased and his
uncle always on good terms ?
Witness—Certainly; they were remarkably partial td each
other.
Juror—At what distance was the deceased from his. uncle
when the piece was discharged ?
Witness—About 16 paces.
A servant of Mr. Topham, sen. was called, but his evidence
only went to confirm that of the last witness as to his master and
the deceased being on good terms.
The Jury, after conulting about ten minutes, brought ip a
verdict of Death, with a Deocland of 11. on the
piece.
The deceased was the son of the late Colonel Tophar4 and a
promising young man of 19 years of age.

AWFUL SUDDEN DEATH.
Yesterday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, an Inquisition was. taken
at the Bird and Cage public-house, Stanitiird-hill, before J.
17wwlx, Esq., the Coroner, and a respectable Jury, on
view or the hotly of Mrs. Jane Elsworth, -a lady .of property,
lodging in that neighbourhood. The following was the evi-
dence adduced for the consideration of the Jury :
Mrs. Lucy Barker examined— On last Thursday the di.
ceased, who had lodged at toy house for the last 7 year*, Warn
out to spend the evring at the house and with the family of
Mr. Jones, a gentleman resillin; in the neighbourhood.--
She returned home about one o'clock in the morning, and
shortly afterwards retired to bed. She appeared at the, time
in good health and spirits. On the following morning,
.not
coming down at her usual hour, I went up to her room and
called her several times, bat not receiving an answer, I went to
her bedside and placed my hand on her face which was quits
cold ; I instantly alarmed the servants, and acquainted her
friends of the circumstance. A medical gentleman was sent
for, and it was discovered that she must have been dead for
some time. The bed-clothes were quite undisturbed when
first saw the deceased, so that I think she must have died-with.,
out a struggle. She was about fifty years of age, and lived oil
her private fOrtune.
Mr. 'turner, a surgeon, residing in Clanton, stated that ht
saw the deceased on Friday morning, and it was his 01)41104
that she died of an apoplectic fit during the night.
The Jury, after a few moment's consultatinn, returned a
verdict that the deceased—" Died by.the visitation of liod."

THE lIALNABY ESTATE.---Lady Dorothy Mil.
bank was the favourite of Mary Queen of Seols,
but got into disgrace on the affair of the murder
of David Rizzi°, in which her husband weaLsou..
cerned. She soon afterwards tied, and
Sold
ginger-bread own' the bridge of Berwick-upon-
Tweed ; by which, and the additional bounty of
her customers, she actually saved 8001., with
which she purchased the Halitaby estate, in this ;
county, now in the Milbank family awl with
the proceeds of the rent (for she lived very spa.
ringly, dying at the age of 830 site purchased
the estates in Durham and Nothumberluod, the
rental of which, a few years ngo, was 1'1,9004
per annum.—(Leeds Intelligeneerj
It ORRERY Pit ETENTED.--011 Friday evening, •between five and six o'clock, a daring att,:mpt
was nettle to rob the premises of Messrs.. Amory
and Cothill, silk-manufacturers, Prineess,itrStets
Spitalfields, but was defeated by the vigilance atsd
activity of two constables of that parish, named
Barrs and Almond. The officers, it seems,
had received an intimation that some suspicious.
looking persons had been observed lurking
about the premises. They itmeediately repaired
to the spot in different routes, and meeting near
Messrs. Amory and Cuthill's house, took two
young men into custody whom they found Inrking
about the outside. An alarm being tints given, a
man oho had entered the premises, opened a. *in,
done, and jumped out, but was instantly secured
by one of the officers, who on searching a banalle
he had hrought out With hint, found several bob-
bins of silk, %titbt had been taken from the weigh.
ing room. The officers also found on the prisoners
at their lodgings, in Wentworth-street, White.
chapel, a dark lantern and phosphorus box, a
variety of picklock-keys, files, chissels, a vice,
&c. Amongst the housebreaking instruments thus
found, was one of a novel and very ingenious
construction, a compound of the lever anti tltw
screw, so Cortiiiiited as to exert a high detree
of power on any object to a hich it might bo',ao-
aPd few doors would be found to retail its
A
application. The various parts are so couatruvesi
as to pack in a small compass, antl-to'be 'oc•itifitsd
with perfect ease in the pocket, The robbers,
on entering Messrs. Amory and COthilyst:pie.
mises, had taken the precaution 'of 'clositif the
window shutters after them, 'it is supposed
that had they not ber'lltleitucbrtie it Was their
intention to remain cOncesied Instil 'the dead n(
night) and plunder Shit ereinists At their lipliArt„

TUE LOINIDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
lairacts from the Morning Papers, Jan. 10,186.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
Yesterday the rumour was revived, we believe
for the twentieth time, of the abdication of Con.
atantine, in favour of his brother Nicholas, with
the additiou, however, that the latter had been
actually proclaimed at St. Petersburg. It had
the almost immediate effect of advancing Russian
Stock about 2} per cent., and we wish to point
the reader's attention to this fact, as he may find
snit a clue to the report. Russian Stock, which
. bad been, rather languid before, required this
excitement to rouse it from the lethargy in which
it had been thrown by the death of A'exander.
-However, Constantine was not so magnanimous
in this instance as he had been represented, when
the first rumour of Ms abdication was set afloat;
for he retained Poland, which was to be raised
aigain into en independent kingdom, whilst the
Russian sceptre was to pass into the hands of
Nicholas. This part of the rumour was most
clumsily contrived, as it took away all credit
from the whole : for, however convenient this

arrangement might appear to the two brothers,
it would have an impression upon every one else
ill Russia that both were unworthy to reign;
and indeed the Russian Nobility would be more

worthless than the vilest slaves of the worst
. Eastern despotism, if they did not resist an
arrEtugementl that would tear from the Em-
pire its most valuable appendage, besides
undoing all that had been done for its gran-
deur in the course of the last fifty years.—
if Constantine has abdicated the Russian
sceptre, we fearlessly affirm, that the abdica-
tion of the Polish Crown accompanies it. In
tale mean time, there• is not a word either in the
German or French Papers, which arrived yester-

day, to countenance the report of his abdica-
tion ; while they mention several facts, which
uountenance a different supposition. For example,
.it is stated, in advises from Berlin of the 4.20 th
ult., that a notice was issued there on that day
to all the Russians residing in that capital, to
appear on the Ist instant at the hotel of the Rus-
sian Minister, to take the oath of fidelity to the
Emper6r Constantine I. At Leipzig a similar
order was published by the Russian Consul ; and
is It probable that these two Functionaries would
have gone to all those formalities, if they had
ant suspicion that the title of the new Sovereign
would be so soon set aside ? They had ample
opportunity to receive information from St.
Petersburgh as well as from Warsaw, sufficient
to enable them to guide their conduct ; and if
they were left in uncertainty, this circumstance
would be more marvellous than any thing that
has been yet said in reference to a subject which,
an the whole, is a perfect marvel. There is
something still unexplained with respect to this
Russian succession ; but what it is, constitutes
the mystery. Constantine's stay at Warsaw is

avidetitly the cause of all these conflicting
rumours ; and it certainly seems to justify a sus-
pinion, that his accession is coupled with condi,
Lions, which the other Members of the Imperial
Family, and perhaps the chief Officers of the
Court, insist upon, but to which he refuses to ac-
cede, as trenching upon his sovereign rights. If
there be any troth in this surmise, of which we
entertain great doubts, the marriage of Constan-
. tine must be the bone of contention.

[NSW TIMES.]
rt was to be expected that the very persons
Whose clamour first excited the late lamentable
panic would be the first to turn round and re-
preach the Government with having produced,
its coniequences. " A ttempts," says one of them,
" are making to prove that alt is right with re-
' Ord to the revenue." Oh, no. ft has not been,
and will not be, contended by any friend of Go-
vernment that it was" right" to spread a ground-
less panic throughout the country, or that confi.
deuce between man and man could bb shaken
without producing effects most injurious to the
public welfare, and consequently to the na-
tional revenue. The greater evil produced, the
more odious most those appear who, for their
own vile anti selfish purposes, cast fire-
brands at the edifice of public credit. They did
much' mischief.; Much also was done by the
unhappy spirit of combination which some months
ego seized on the workmen in several manufac-
turing districts; and other causes of evil might
no doubt be easily specified. What we say is,
that, notwithstanding all these tremendous draw-
backs, still so admirably does our financial sys.
tem operate, and so abundant are the resources of
Country, that the Revenue of the Year, has
more than answered' the expectations held out by
the Chancellor of the Exchequer.---The ignora'nt
writer's' who assail Government persist in their
stupid misrepresentations. 44 We have proved,"
say, they, 44 froth the official documents, that the
defiCienity on the year was not far short of two
instead of 240,0001." Proved forsooth
YOU. have asserted it, and Cited facts which
prove the contrary. What can possibly be meant
by denciettcy ? Has this writer the impudence
to say that the taxes of 1825 have produced two
millions less than the taxes of 1824 ? Does he
.not know
.that in 1825 there were very large re-
peals, of taxation, and yet the taxes of that' year
approached within 230,0004 of the preceediog
year ?- Does he not know that in the three first
,quarters the taxes of 1825 exceeded these
of 1824 by near a million ?. And iv be not con-
scious that the fourth quarter would have
been far more productive than it was had
it not been for the panic created and foil-
tered by a wicked conspiracy against public cre-
dit ?—A new alarm is attempted to be raised
about the amount of Exchequer Bills afloat. The
simple answer Is----Exchequer Bills are at a pre.
minm. No article that is at a premium can be
' more in quantity than the demand : and ignorant
.as the 'writer in question is, he must surely know
AO there is a great and constant demand for
Exchequer Bills, and it would be a most serious
Inconvenience to the public If this
were all
securi•
ties eie till withdrawn from the market.—After
all, the produce of 1825 exceeds that Of 1824 in

very many articles. 'rake for instance Soap,
Candles, and Beer, all necessaries or comforts of
the labouring classes.
Soap. Candles. Titer.
1828 . 1,110,179 423,571 9,153,375
1824 . . 1,097,770 392,920 3,011,895

Increase . 12,409 30,642 141,480
Again in some cases where there is apparently a
considerable deficiency, that deficiency is not
real. Such is the case with the duties on tea and
Malt ; the apparent deficiency on the former be-
ing (for the year) 445,345., and on the latter
226,9521. But the fact is, that, in the course of
that period, the allowance for the stock on hand
of wine was charged principally upon these ar-
ticles, and amounted, in the case of Malt, to up-
wards of 350,000/., whilst the payments from
the Tea Duty, for the same purpose, were little
short of 500,0001.—1 t is, therefore, clear that
the Revenue, under these heads, so far from hav-
ing been less productive in the year 1825, exhi-
bits, in point of fact, an increase upon Malt, of
120,0001., and, upon Tea, of 70,0001., over the
produce of the preceding year; which has clearly
arisen from an increased consumption of those
important articles. We must repeat that every
branch of Revenue, except the Excise, presents
an increase on the year, viz. :
Customs - - .£4,954,515
Stamps - - 244,137
Post Office - 73,000
Taxes 68,008
Miscellaneouslo,oo2
Making altogether an increase of 5,349,722/. to
be set against the increase of the Excise (owing
to causes already detailed) of 5,588,6621., the
difference between which sums, viz. 238,940/. is
the whole decrease on the year, and yet a Mis-
leading Journal impudently endeavours to per-,
suede the public that it is Two Millions !

[TILE TIMES.]
The Gibraltav- letters received yesterday,
which are dated the 19th ult., communicate
events, out of which, if Spain,possessed either
political character or power, some serious dis-
cussions might arise. It appears that, in conse-
quence of the opposition made by the Spanish
Authorities at A lgesiras, to the sending assistance
across the lines by the English to vessels driven
on shore during the late gales, it became neces-
sary on the part of the latter to employ an armed
force to enable them to carry their humane pur-
pose into effect. Gen. Don, the Governor, and
Sir John Phillimore,Commander of his Majesty's
ship Thetis, simultaneously ordered a force to
proceed by land, and the crew of the Thetis to
proceed in bonts by sea, to give assistance in
preserving the lives and property of individuals.
Some accounts say, that the first detachment
which reached the spot, being few in num-
ber, were fired upon by the Spaniards,
but who gave up the point on the arrival of
the larger force, to which it would have been
useless to offer any resistance. The Spanish au-
thorities held a very blustering tone on the occa-
sion, affirming that the British had no right to
pass the lines, and sent off dispatches fur Madrid,
with intelligence of the outrage they conceived
had been inflicted on them, Their promised
plunder from the wrecked vessels was thus snatched
from them. When the letters came away, a
strong British force, under the command of a
field officer, remained at the outposts for the pro-
tection of those engaged in giving succour to the
wrecked vessels.

The news from the North is of a complicated
and contradictory nature. One account, which
appeared in. The Time: yesterday, and was taken
from the Hamburg!) journals, gives us the prods-
!nation which the Emperor Constantine meant to
issue, on his arrival at St. Petersburgh and ac-
cession to the throne : another revives, or
attempts to revive, here, the expiring rumour ;
that the said Constantine is content that his
ancient renunciation of the Crown should "stand
good," and has allowed his younger brother
Nicholas to pass him in the course of greatness,
and be crowned Emperor in his stead. We
doubt the accuracy of both these reports, but
that of the latter most. It, is, perhaps, nothing
inure than the old rumour, sent, out from hence a
week or two ego, and now returning, after hay-
ing made a short tour on the Continent. It ap-
pears also that the story did not leave Hamburgh
with the mail, but was sent after it by express.
This circumstance is suspicious.—(lGid.)

[MORNING CHUG N ra.v.]
We yesterday received, by the regular post,
Madrid Gazettes of 24th and 27th ult., hut they
contain no particular news, The fact of the Em-
peror Alexander's death was known in the Spa.
nish capital on the 27th, but the effect was only
felt in the diplomatic,circles. The rage for min-
ing seems at length to have reached Spain. In
the Gazette of the 24th there is a long and ela-
borate account of the experiments already per-
formed in several mines situated in Andalusia,
particularly at Guadalcanal, worked by a Madrid
Company, and in the mines of Constantina and
Camilla, worked on account of Englishmen. The
Mines of Cantellana have also been brought into
notice, and, from the manner in which both letters
and public prints speak of these operations, it would
seem that the Spaniards are proud of still possess-
ing, within themselves, the means of supplying their
losses in America. Miners,in all countries, are san-
guine, like men who risk their money in a lottery ;
but, in the great concerns now carrying on in
search of subterranean riches, it is curious to see
that neither South Americans nor Spaniards run
the risk of the stakes ; Englishmen only have the
courage to perform this part of the bargain.—
Two Members of the Economical Society of
Cadiz had reached Madrid, and on their preset).
teflon to the King, delivered to him a Treatise,
just published, on the cultivation of the Prickly
Pear and growth of Cochineal, which at present
are much in vogue in Catalonia and Andalusia.—
They laid before, the King several caskets of
cochineal, which the society had been able to
acclimate and propagate.

[MORNING POST,]
We received, last night, by Express, French
Papers to the Bth inst., and the Eloile of Sunday.
With the exception of a small paragraph, which

is in itself a mystery, they do not contain the
least information respecting the events now
taking place between Warsaw and St. Peters-
burgh. The solitary paragraph to which we al-
lude only says, that the Senator Apatchinin had
been sent. to Constantine, in the Polish capital,
with the result of the deliberations of the Coun-
cil. Now on what subject had the Russian
Council of State been called upon to give an opi-
nion ? What was its nature ? Did it assume the
power of issuing a final determination as if it
were a sovereign Body ? Did Constantine wait
for this determination before he quitted Warsaw,
and was that the cause of his delay ? If
there should be any truth in the statement
of the Eloile, it becomes almost certain that
conditions have been imposed, or are being
imposed upon the new Emperor, and that limits
will be set to his authority. Not that a Consti-
tution has been preparing to disarm for ever Im-
perial despotism ; but the Nobles, the Senate,
and the present Ministers, may avail themselves
of his position to exact a pledge that he will not
alter the principles or the policy pursued by his
Brother and the Holy Alliance. This pledge
Constantine will no doubt give, if required, but
how long he will keep it when in possession of
the Sovereign power, or what [macs Can be
adopted to bind him before hand to a strict per.
formance of his engagements, are perhaps the
considerations which actuate the members of the
Imperial Family and the leading bodies of the
State at St. Petersburgh, and which involve the
settlement of the Russian Crown in such delay
and mystery.

[BRITISH PRESS.I
The silk manufacturing districts, we lament to
find, are suffering under the pressure of increas-
ing distress, to which there seems no prospect of
alleviation. if this is the natural and necessary
operation of the system of open trade, so far as
it applies to this valuable class of manufacturers,
their situation is peculiarly unfortunate. What
equivalent of advantage it will bring to the gene.
ral commerce of the country remains to be seen.
We are certainly not very sanguine on this head.
When we call to mind that the duty upon raw
silk yields an annual revenue of eight hundred
thousand pounds, and that the working up of
this raw material gives employment to as much
labour as receives for its earnings not less, on an
average estimate, than nine millions annually, we
cannot help feeling anxious for the preservation
of a manufacture, the loss of which will leave so
appalling a vacuum. With the fullest reliance
on the principles upon which Ministers have re.
solved 01l the removal of the prohibition, and with
the firmest confidence in the rectitude of their
views, we still cannot divest ourselves of serious
apprehension. We read in the distress which
this law has produced already a lesson of caution
against perseverance. We have not of late been
sailing in smooth water. 'We are in a ~tate that
should lead those who have the guidance of
public affairs rather to court safety than to
countenance experiment. Convinced, as we are,
that the law for the admission of foreign
wrought silks would not have been enacted
but from a conviction, Nchich, if well ground.
ed, would authorise it: yet looking to the fearful
stagnation of the British silk trade, and to the
hundreds of weavers that week after week are
thrown out of bread—and seeing no quarter from
which any remedy is likely to be brought to all
this muss of suffering, we cannot Overcome the
impression that this measure will ultimately
prove fatal to those interests it was intended to
promote.