The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT br TIIE pTIPLIC JOURNALS.

Yesterday terminated the Lotteries in this country,
may we say for ever? We know not. Such a re-
sult will depend upon the wants of Government, and
the morality of its Ministers. :However, we rejoice
at their suspension,—a suspension which we hope we
have in some degree assisted in effecting,--yet rejoice
with fiatr. Looking at the. Stock Exchange, at the
time bargains, and at all the iniquities practised there,
we have only to hope, that the place of the lotteries may
not be supplied by some more mischievous system of
knavery. Time was when all the robberies were com-
muted on the King's highway. The lighting, watellin
and general •improvement of our roads, have nearly
put an end to this practice s but housebreaking has
tbrtunately taken its place'! And yet the people of
England are not a garriblingTeople like the French, as
is evident from the tote of this last lottery. We have
heard that hardly half the tickets were ',old ; from which
it is evident, that the spirit of lottery-gambling was
extinct befbre the system and if that spirit had nut
been 'kept alive by incessant stimuli, it mould have
expired long ago.-.. Times..

fly a statement which. appeared in our Paper •of
:yesterday, it gives us pleasure to observe that the re-
venue bf Ireland is on the increase. Both the Cus-
toms and the Excise for the last quarter have increased
materially. We have often said that the revenue of
Ireland would progressively increase, being of opinion
that English manufacturers would find their way to,
and would settle in Ireland, the latter living the
cheaper 'country. And with Enelish manufacturing
establiahinents will also, in our opinion, be introduced
Proteatantiam, to the gradual superseding of Catholic-
Lan. Itt'fact, we think that English manufacturing
establishments will accomplish a, change that Bible dis-
tlibtitairs are attempting in vain. The. Scotch and the
linen manufacturers comparatively changed the North
of Ireland from Catholicism to Presbyterianisni : and
the cotton, silk, and woollen manpfactures, gradually
introducing froncEngland, will iiTtroduce Methodisin
and other sectarianism. The English changed, as it
were by alniraele, front higotted Catholicism to the
most fanatic Puritanism, 200 years • since. Why,
therefore, should not our Trish brethren take it into
heir heads`SoMe of these,days to ehange, as it were,
. by.a natracle. too ? We hope , our Government will
have the sagacity not to interfere in the party-work at
present, going on between the Orangemen and their op.
' pan etitS.-- Morning Herald.
The article which was published concerning the
Colotribian' dividends `has excited some angry remarkS
on the part of our contemporaries, some of whom
seem to connect this Journal with' M. Hurtado That
this journal is. influenced by the Colombian Minister,
or by any other individual whatever who is' not directly
engaged in the, management of it, we can safely and
boldly deny. We can deny, too, that 'the slightest
feeling of 'interest induced ns.to. give the factS con-
'cerning the money to be sent from CattinLgena winch
bad corm: to our knowledge. The facts which we
stated we ourselves ascertained to be true by the in-
spection of the documents and as ;they were facts
which could not excite any extraPrainary riae.in their:
Securities, and which were at the some tune calculated
to inspire that reasonable- hope which we have always
thought might be cnieitained concernhig the future
payment' of these dividends, we did 'not hesitate to
publish them in the most.authoritatiye shape that we
. could give to them. In confOrmity with what we had
already repeatedly stated, our article did not contain a
single assertion which 'could induce anyone to believe;
that there w,i: a sin le, dollar at. Carthagena. The
:•questions now -are7—Was the :information-Sent to IV4
Burtado by his Government sufficient- to make it, hirt
.-dutyto insure ? Wag it only a manoeuvre on his part
to obtain better terms for a new Loan ? or, was the
inswilia;eineant:lnerely as it security to some„Englisli
capitalists for the receipt of the produce of the
eustOm;lieniSes it Carthagena,,La Guayra; Guayaquil,;
&c. ? We extract the following from an Evening

Paper c---
of.ObifilAN DIVIDEIDS.---WP 'are able to state, npo
authority which our readers may rely upon, that there is
no money on its way from Colombia for the payment of
the di videnda. Thomas ; ;ley, E. M.D., arrived here
Nit week from that cottitti, Ile left Bogota on the 4th
July, taking 'hint ;•?11,t100 dollars. On the arrivali
however, of the money at Carthagena, an order came
down, from the Executive, to pay 40,000 dollars to the
droopy, and deldringtthe remaining 200,000 to be kept
until farther instructions. Mr. Foley left. Carthago* by
W-9" Pf the and reached Liverpool 'on Saturday
week past without bring'
ing a single dollar with him.
The troops in Ciarthagena Panama, Santa Martha' .Ikte.!
Ate. being all in arrears of pay, it is to be feared the
200,000 dollars tire by this time distributed amongst them..
lint even tat ti}. that they were actually shipped, whirs
we know they are not, what are two hundred thou sand
.dollars able to do against the dividends already protested ?
We shall eaudidly state, ,howeVeri for the tattisfactiort of
the publiq, that the gentleman. above .mentioned arrived'
,in London with full powers
,to raise a loan of, 4,000,001) of
'dollars, or, at all events, to get some private party to muse.
*the advance upon the security of the CURtOOI-11QUSc8, at'
.Carthagena, I,a otittyra,. unyaquil, &c.; and strange it
;Wilt tfoiihtless appear, that Mr. Foley's mission was.
,founded upon representations made by M. Rurtado to his'
GoVeroment. M. thirtado molar time husk wrote to the,
uteutive that 1w eould obtain a loan from two houseu
.here to that amount, bat in-his coinamnications declined
llying the mullet 91' the said houses.. tO say the
east of it, was ?,;trange conduct on the part of M. Hut-
tado, to supprias atoll information from Ids Government.
Mr. Foley, we; hire ascertained, is a gentleman of the
highest honour an ititegr,* Ile had interview yes-,
terday with one of the h fitting capitalists this City,-
When ile disguistol 'uniting, but honestly confessed, that
unless some pt.tti came forward told supported Colombia,
she must fine ntAbly sink. Ile did not heFutate to city, that
all that had bolt advanced by this conntry woidd be lost,
'should the British public ,reftete to, relieve the preset' -
„wants
of (..,,olombia. We need not, therefore, add, that I
the hiryhly re9Pect"ble Paaririrt:U4lgMerra.enFtnleWYll:acivtei, a e(.l upon do
dined tittering
,into any
that
gentleman returns back to Colombia without atty delay.
t already stated, is .ile ~
w
.Mr. Foley, as We. aniq, ehma,n,,
.and an honourable man ; sled, FlOW"erAlneetely
as ,we know he is, to serve eO-I°lnhial he "husitatinglY:
,
declare(' that he would never can st-' at
,tito7all};;-:,E1: oif
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own country ; and, its a proof of this
anskver to it question put to him ?'', tt'rewitt!Srtt,
state of the treasury), he replied, t tat th
about" 300,000 &Mai; in the mint at Bogota!!
hire ! ,
711
then, could M. iltirtado order instil:mice upon 11:.10101111
Of dolleaS ? 'Phan! is, however, OW circumstance
netuad NVith thi,) •WitiO, for the, present, we '0
hear to mention. In the mean time We would recommen.d
M. Ilurtado to give puldieity to his despatches, and, if
in
it
turns out that his Ooverronent has misled him, it will,
a great measure, remove' the suapicion which at present
hangs over Ids conduct. It will, htwever, be Of little ill'
-tisfaction to the Bondholders, as it is now proved that
Colombia' has not the narrate to meet her engagements.
the rime Mr. Foley arrives in Bogota, the Govern-
ment, wilt be due nearly 150,0001. aterling.—Britirii Press.