The Sun. — 1825-08-23 (London, England)

THE SUNDERLAND SEAMEN.-These misguided men, we are happy to state, have at length returned to their duty. They had within these few days made several Overtures to the ship-owners to accommodate the existing differences, but without effect, and on Wednesday last they prudently resolved to return to their employment at the former rate of wages. In consequence of this gratifying resolution, the ships in the harbour were soon manned, and several have since proceeded to sea. After the submission of the sailors, the ship-owners humanely agreed amongst themselves, to take a man extra in each ship during the time the wages continue at 41. a voyage, in order to provide employment for the hundreds who have by their " stick," as they termed it, deprived their families of the means of procuring bread. This is praiseworthy, and will, we hope, meet its reward through the future good conduct of the men.—. To the firmness of the ship-owners, -the prompt measures adopted by Government and the condemnation of the unlawful proceedings of the sailors by the Public Press of the country, may be attributed the dissolution of one of the most daring and tyrannical combinations that ever disgraced this or any other kingdom.—(Durham Advertiser, Aug. 19) The following is an extract from a letter received by the Magistrates of Sunderland from Mr. Hobhouse, the Under Secretary of State for the Home DepartMent, dated Whitehall, Aug. 10:-" Gentlemen—l am directed by Mr. Secretary Peel to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the sth, 6th, and 7th' insant, and to acquaint you that he has received from me a statement of the conversation which I had on Monday with Mr. Davison and the two ship-owners alluded to in your first letter, respecting the riotous and unlawful acts committed at and near Sunderland on Wednesday last, when you deemed it necessary, for restoration of the peace, to call in the aid of the military, and four lives were unfortunately lost.—Although Mr. Peel has heard with deep regret that your measures for the maintenance of good order were not effectual until the • military had been compelled to tire, yet, after the fullest consideration of the information submitted to him, and of the proceedings on the Coroners' Inquests, it appears to him that Mr. Davison was fully justified by the consideration of his own personal safety, and of that of the peace-officers and troops who accompanied. him, in resisting as he did the violence offered to them, and that under the trying circumstances under which Mr. Davison was placed, he acted with coolness and resolution, and with as much forbearanCe as was consistent with the security of himself and of those who were acting under his elders."  We learn from the frontier of the eastern Pyrenees, that, about four o'clock on the afternoon of the 2d instant, the curate of Notre. Dame del Mont, near Besalu, his servant, and the clerk of the parish, were all found dead at the house belonging to the curacy. The bodies were discovered secreted in the cellar. Nine or ten stabs were found to have been inflicted on the curate, either with a knife or dagger ; and the body of his servant presented equal marks' of violence on the neck-and breast. The parish clerk appeared to have been murdered in his own apartment with a bludgeon. The perpetrators of these crimes. (which must have been committed on the night of the 3st or early in the morning of the 2d instant) plundered the clergyman's house, and alio pillaged part of the contents In the church that was contiguous to it.---(Courier Francais.)