The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-13 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

The Duke of Wellington has named Ranter, • by Comus, to
start for the Gold'CuP at Winchester Races. Lord Palmerston
his colt by Rubens, and Sir Charles Ogle and Sir T. F. Heath=
cote have named Sir Topaz and Trance.
Captain Hunter's winnings last week, on Epsom Downs, are
including the stakes,. to amount to X 13,000. About two
years an, this Gentleman purchased his • horse Gustavus at
Hampton Court for 25 guineas, for which he was offered 3000
before he started for the Derby.
_ _ _

Beverley Races have been well attended, and the company
'pas hral great reason to be satisfied with the sport, which was
very good. The race for the 11,111 Cup vim admirably contest-
ed, aildeis won in four heats by Little England.

FOR 'hi '.,§iitsi:'

ROMAN CATHOLICS.-(LETTER
In the excellent and oonstitutional speech of
Lord,Chancellor Ecnolc upon Mr. PONSONBY'S
late Bill, it is'•obSer*ed••ill.4t 4C Ha must have
been .a verrinattentiVe observer of what =passes
in Parliament, who has . not' remarked, that a
small band or knot of itidividtials, acting togethei
upon system, coastantly":acting together; and
watching for opportunities and moments favour-
able to their views and projects, may atchieve
great and important changes."
• Such a band, united by strOnger ties- than any
other, acting together,. and constantly acting to-
gether, 'upon a system the most Subtle that Was
ever devised, and watching with peculiar acute-
ness for favourable opportunities and moments,
Would be the band of Roman. Catholics in each
House of. Parliament, if once admitted to be Le-
gislators. A band, if its -own activity *ere at
anytime deficient, constantly stimulated and re-;
animated by the spirit of their private confessors
and spiritual guides. Can we then doubt that
their atchievements would, in time, bear ample
witness to their skill and unanimity ?
It cannot reasonably be • doubtedi • that the
effect of a similar band, acting secretly together,
has, in fact, for many years, most powerfully in:
titiented the proceedings of the several House of
.Commons on this very question of conceding
Power to•Rothan Catholics. The whole body of
dissenters in that House, we may be positively
certain, sees, and always has seen, its own contin,
gent interest in that concession. Has seen, as
ttre Same 'great Lawyer asserts, that if such a Bill
were to -pass, " the Test and •Corporation Acts
must also be repealed." Who indeed can be so
blind as not -tO see . it ? .Therefore have their
strength and influence been uniformly directed to
this point; the effect of which is clearly seen in
the majorities obtained in that House. Majorities
which, though hot solely originating from that
cause, would not probably have been gained
without the aid of that united band.
Nor let.us be blind to the danger arising from
Such co-operation, in different ways, even while
the Roman Catholics remain excluded from Par.,
liament. Even the Jesuits, that dangerous body
of men, whom all the Sovereigns of Europe have
dreaded, aid excluded from their dominions, are
settled collectively in Protestant Britain. They
have a College established in Lancashire: STON
HURST, where they are settled, is indeed a re-
mote place on the borders of Yorkshire. Yet
their influence is already felt as far as Preston,
where, we are told, " they actually exert an
ascendancy over a considerable number .of the
Clergy and Magistracy in the neighbourhood,
and boast arnotig their patrons and. allies names
of considerable influence and respectability,"*
insomuch, that " the booksellers of Preston are
afraid to expose to sale any books against
Popery, -F though there is a bookseller in the
town whose windows and shop are covered with
Anti-Protestant publications."

Such, Sir, is the activity on :one side, and
the supineness on the other ; and such they will
always be, under every change of circumstances,
from the Very nature of the two persuasions. At
this day, also, there is more 'reason than ever to
dread the influence of Itomish zeal upon the
minds of the common people. At the time of
the Reformation, the errors and, superstitions of
the itoinish faith and practiee had been fully
exposed, perhaps . even exaggerated. The ty-
ranny of the Papal See had been felt, and its
exactions were detested. These.. things have
gradually been forgotten, and nothing now is
given to observation but the most attractive parts
of the system : the splendour of its services, the
assiduity, the apparent or the real piety of its
ministers; the promises of pardon for past skis,
and every other inducement, that they know
better how to offer than our common people to
resist. Popery, when it was truly known among
us, was hated, perhaps even more than enough ;
it is now not known sufficiently to he feared, as
it assuredly deserves.

* See THE SUN. of April 28 last.

CATHOLICLTS.
1- Ibid.

HOP INTELLIGENCI4I
SOUTHWARK, JUNE IL—We have a. Oettand, for good
Hops, but having nothing but inferior samples on sale,generally
speaking; our sales are in a narrow compasAll.

PRICES. •
Kent Pockets 50s. to Ess.- and 701.
Dia° Zags 355. to 635. and 795: • •
Sussex Pockets 40s. to 635. and 68s.
Ditto Bags 40s. to 50sVand 543.
MAIDSTONE, JUNE 11.—The Hops at the beginning of the
last week had improved considerably, owing in -a great measure
to the warm and favourable state of the weather;' but the last
few cold days and nights have quite altered their appearance
again, and they are now, looking as yellow and unhealthy as
ever. The general opinion at present is, that there will be but
a short crop.

Laity irtary tsurtenwood, the wife of
th> notorious Bill Soames, was indictedfor robbing a Gentleman
of his watch in the Strand. She was convicted, and 'sentenced
to transportation for life.

• The disease which has attacked Prince dsc.ta.
of SWEDEN is langour, so severe, that his death
is apprehended. It is to be attributed to the
climate of Sweden, which has hitherto prevented
the QuEEN,OscAn's mother, from residing in the
kingdom.

At the Coronation, several Peers will be ad-
vanced to higher titles, and several Irish Peers
will receive British Peerages. Sir W. W. W YNN,
Sir JAAIES gAUMAREZ, and Mr. Wyin FORRESTER
are confidently mentioned foi new Peerages.
Places in private houses in the neighboUrhood
of Palace-yard, commanding a view cif the line
of the procession of the Coronation, are now
sought after with extraordinary avidity.. Various
prices are demanded from ten to forty guineas
per seat. These seats will be generally on scaf-
folding erected in front of the houses, the safety
arid gufficiency of which will be inspected by the
Board of Works. The proprietor, of one house
in Great George-street expects to clear 70001.
The landlord, in most
.cases, is entitled to divide

the profits equally with the teuant.
The gallant and spirited conduct of Lieutenant
DAVID PEAT, in the recent defeat of. a sthug-
gling,transaction in EastNCare 'nea'r Folk -
stone., in which one of, his Men was 'killed,' and
himself, together with two others, severelyeew'onad:
ed, has pet with the approbation of Ws.s:upe' rio'c
Officers, and he has since been ,piroffiteTto
rank of Commander.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS,
June 13.

NEW TI M ES.]
It he seen by the correspondence in
another part of our paper, that Mr. Canning has
felt. himself under the necessity of calling on Sir
Francis Burdett for an explanation of certain
expressions used by the latter in his letter to the
persons:assembled at the Reform dinner on the
4th of April. Sir Francis was at that time in the
King's Bench prison, undergoing the sentence
passed on him for another letter. Mr. Canning,
therefore, to avoid- the risk of any particulars
transpiring, before it would be possible for Sir
r rancis to meet him, had such meeting proved
necessary, delayed his demand of explanation
till' the Baronet's imprisonment was . terminated;
but on the 7th instant, Mr. Canning--wrote the
letter of that date which will -be found in our
paper. Its purport was to require a disavowal
of the imputation which the offensive words -ap-
reared to convey, namely, that Mr. Canning, in
upholding the present system of representation,
was actuated by the corrupt and dishonourable
motive of a. personal pecuniary interest. Sir
Francis I.lu.rdett, in reply, fully disclaimed hav-
ing had any intention whatever to-make allusion
to Mr. Canning's personal character. This dis-
avotval of course put an end.-to Mr. Canning's
ground of complaint. At the same .time, we
must say that Sir Francis Burdett, and some
other Gentlemen -of similar political sentiments,
are.too apt, when-speaking of their political ad-
versaries, to indulge in a latitude of expression
which their 'hearers cannot but regard as having
an allusion to personal character.

It is admitted that numberless Associations do
exi,t for the prosecution of offences..,Now the
!awls precisely the same with regard to them
and. to the. Constitutional Association. You can-
not put down the
.one without putting down the
other also. , You,cannot stop the Gentlemen in
81;idge-street from prosecuting Mrs. Mary Ann
Carille and Mr. Pil),zbows, unless you are prepar-
ed to stop the Gentlemen and Farmers in every
county in England from prosecuting thieves and
burglars. Aye, but these associations are local,
and there is no such thing as local prejudice !
Admirable reasoning', but-still it will not do.—
The Lord Mayor belongs to a Society for prose-
cuting swindlers generally, without any local re-
Mr. Brougham belongs to a Society
which prosecutes slave, traders generally, without
auy local, restriction. The very admirable Society
for -the Suppression of Vice, which has produced
suL'h inestimable benefit to the morals of the rising
generation, prosecutes certain offences without
any local_ restriction.. In short, the argument
comes to this—that a new law must be made to
put down the Constitutional Association, and it
must be made out of a special and peculiar-ten-
derness for disloyalty and sedition !—(lbid.)

[TUE TIMES.]
A. correspondence, the subject of which 'will
.be best understood from the perusal of the letters
.themselves of which it consists, has taken place
between Mr. Canning and Sir Francis Burdett :
f: Sher explanation being needless, we shall con-
fine ourselves to some remarks as upon that
which our readers already perfectly understand.
It is a shrewd sign that the public cause is not a
very good or defensible one which its advocates
cre f:0 prompt to convert into a private quarrel;
and we regret that extreme irritability of nerves
which stimulates political men to expose their
•persons when they ought only to expound their
arguments. There werefimes when Mr. Canning
could not have had a sensibility so painful, or
the consciousness of his own weakness would
have prevented him from at least endeavouring to
hurt the feelings of others to the degree which
has been imputed to him- in the columns of
weekly and daily publications. It is melancholy
therefore that Men should possess - less control
over their passions as they, grow older.. The
greater part of the Right lion. Gentleman's first
letter is employed in of the causes
of his not attempting to fight Sir Francis Burdett
sooner. TlTt,which requires explanation most,
is why he wished to fight hiM at all. Sir Fran-
cis's,reply is calm and dignified..

[BRITISH PRESS.]
We know no vote of public money that has
given more general satisfaction than that in favour
of his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence.—
The original vote and the arrears stand on the
same foundation, and cannot be severed without
involving the House in the most direct incon-
.• n Mr.
arrears betrays a spirit of opposition and not
of economy. No man can plead economy as
a motive for punishing his Royal Highness, be-
Cause he was not too ready to take the public
money, in -a case too where the delay has been
attended with an actual loss to his Royal High-
ti.ss of the interest upon a sum of 6,000/. a year
for three years, and consequently-a gain to the
public to that amount.

[-MORNING IlliONlcr..E.]
Though we are friendly to the main principle
of•Mr.Scarlett's Bill, we have never been insen-
sible to the objettionable nature of some of its
piovisions, The idea of fixing a maximum ..of
rates has always appeared to us particularly in-
defensible. This part of the Bill would soon be
rendered a dead letter by the exceptions neces-
sary to prevent its being the means of 'producin,g
the greatest injustite.— But the great .object of
the Bill, namely, the confining parish relief ulti-
mately to'the aged and infirm, has cur warmest
support: We-do not see how it is possible for
the labouring classes to-emancipate themselves.
frotn their" present: thraldrom, without the aid of
such a change in the law. None, therefore, are
luore interested in the change than the poor
themselves., It maybe very true that they have
a right to the 'parish relief Which they at "pre-
sent receiVe—that they have a mortgage on the
land to that -extent..----that the 'Church has not
a better
,right to tithe than they have to such

relief;—but if ►t can be shewn that this right
is one which -is attended with no benefit, but,
on the contrary, great injury to themselves
and the community in general, it can never
be deemed a bar to a more improved system.—
It was well observed, however, by Mr. Hob-
house, that to enable this measure to produce be-
neficial results, other reforms are necessary ; and
these reforms ought to go hand in hand' with any
material alteration in our legislation on the sub-
ject of the Poor Laws. We advocate, as we have
stated, the Bill of Mr. Scarlett, chiefly on the
ground of the advantages of which it would-ulti-
mately be productive to the labourers them-
selves. But to derive these advantages from
the change, the labourers must be altogether
free ; and it is notorious that masters have at pre-
sent a great advantage over them from the Com-
bination Laws. Labour ought to be left as free as
any other commodity ; and in an age when every
one appeals to the principles of political economy,
it is not easy to see on what grounds LaWs which
are at variance with every one of these principles
can be defended. They are, besides, a disgrace
to our Legislation from their partiality, subject-
ing, as they do, the master to a trifling pecuniary
penalty, and the workman to a severe punishment,
for the same act.—lt is of the very essence of
Mr. Scarlett's system, that a free scope should be
given" to emigration ; and, therefore, all the laws
against the emigration of artizans ought to be re-
pealed as a matter of course. To retain a man
by force in a country where he can neither find
employment nor subsistence, would be the
height of tyranny.—The laws respecting va-
grancy, too, must necessarily undergo a revi-
sion ; because
,a man forced to leave his home
in quest of employment, who is unsuccessful in
the object of his search, and is forced to ask for
assistance, ought not to be treated as a.criminal.
A more extensive alteration of our system than
probably entered into the contemplation of Mr.
Scarlett, when he first brought in his Bill, is
therefore called for to justify a change in the
Poor Laws. It is impossible, however, to sup-
pose that all these alterations can be discussed in
the short period which remains of this Session.
But the public attention has been called to the
subject ; and from the consideration which it
cannot fail to receive before Parliament meets
again, both the Legislature and the country in
general will be more fully iu possession of all its
bearings.