The Sun. — London, England, 1830-06-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. 'We revert to the subject of Greece, the interest attached to which cannot subside until the hour shall arrive,—now, we trust, not distant,—at which the actual assumption of the Government, by a Prince enjoying the esteem of the Allied Powers. and free from all stain upon his qualifications for sovereignty, may set at rest the solicitudes of civi lized Europe about the fate of a celebrated people But, at the outset, we protest against the folly of being so far influenced by the parading despatches of Count (or King) Capo d'lstrias, as to imagine that the " Greek people" have amy common feeling with that crew whom the said Capo d'lstrias, ha , got together, under the name of a " Greek Senate." These men are neither more nor less than the mere creatures of the President, receiving his directions how to act and speak, and ready to do both or either, as he wills, provided he pays them, but on no less peremptory condition. The picture he drew re cently of the state of Greece, and the lesson he strove to inculcate through it on the mind of Leo pold, were exactly copied, and well enforced, by this pretended Senate, in their formal proceedings. The joint labour is not worth a straw. Greece has been desolated by the ravages of war,—the habitations burned,—the country laid evaste,—the people exposed to the most cruel sufferings; but the soil is there, and the Greeks still exist, with hands to till, and build and renovate; the want of money will make small sums go far in stimulating personal industry. An honest and rational Government is the first great want of all, with energy to act, and means for putting down faction. Give Greece that—curb the tyrannical and unprincipled Primates who, with Capo d'lstrias, are detested no less than dreaded by the people, and utterly unworthy of honourable confidence—tell M. Capo d'lstrias that the season for intrigue is past, that there are no hopes to be founded on it—and Greece may be pacified within a fortnight. In the mean time, though we laugh at the second-hand pathos of the Senate, the send mentality cut out and dried for them by their mas ter, there are grounds of complaint, which, in the nature of a protest, it appears to us but equitable to record for the sake of Greece, although the pre sent policy of the Allied Powers may be to repu diate the measure we have advised, alleging it to be inconvenient or " impracticable." The northern frontier is not what, in our humble opinion, it should be, although, as we have said, immediate circumstances may throw difficulties in the way of adjusting it. It will be said, and has been, that Greece, as now defined, is " gua ranteed." We admit that the' argument has some force, but the soundest guarantee is possession of the keys of one's own dominion. Th e best defence of Greece in her revived state would be her natural fortresses, and in them her native arms. Parchment guarantees, in the lapse of years, are now and then forgotten. But we shall see Greece after all a great and noble country. Some people talk of her scanty territory, and her ruined people ; and ask, can she ever be independent ? The Greeks are a hardy, active, intelligent, and en terprising people—they are in a Erie climate, and on a fertile soil; they are essentially a maritime race, — their habitations almost every where washed by the Mediterranean waters. Give them a just and strong Government, and they will in a short time, navigate their ships with more activity and skill—as they now can on cheaper terms—than any of the neigh bouring nations. They will, therefore, be the carriers of the South of Europe, as the Dutch were formerly in the North. But as to territory—scanty territory I .—there, too, the scoffers at Greece and her fortunes are mistaken. Denmark is a smaller country than Greece. The Venetian provinces, for centuries so flourishing, are more confined than Greece is ith her reduced territory. The seven United Provinces, including Dutch Brabant,—a State which once gave laws to the commercial world,—are con tained within an area, of which the extreme length is, in round numbers, about 160 miles, and the breadth about 120; while Greece, from the north ernmost point of Eacca to the southernmost of the Peloponnesus, measures 190 miles, and from the easternmost of Eubcea to the mouth of the Aspro potamos about 180; and these are her 'educed di mensions, presenting an area of more than three to two if measured in square miles, as compared with Holland; while Greece, with all her bays and inlets, and consequent irregularities of figure, is less inter sected than are the United Provinces by the sea, and is in all respects more favoured by Providence with the capabilities of rapid improvement. The whole Archipelago, moreover, with its numerous, populous, and fertile islands, is excluded from the above cal culations. Such are a few of the more tangible and unchangeable attributes of a country which ig norant men affect to despise as unworthy the pro tection or solicitude of Europe. But Greece at this moment possesses for the eyes of statesmen, and in those of the British Government, we doubt not, above all, a value distinct from that which has been her's for ages. It would now be a triumph to the grand intriguer on the spot, who has pulled the wires of his puppet Leopold, and a consequent dis grace and mortification to Great Britain, if Greece were to be flung back into the arms of Cape d'ls tries, on a confession recorded that the Powers of Europe were unable to rescue her from his selfish grasp. The representations made by that prac tised incendiary of the discord and misery which prevail throughout Greece, were manifestly framed for a deliberate, though disguised object,—the intimidation of Leopold ; and they have se far succeeded. But they will not succeed beyond the hour—they will not deceive the Allied Govern ments—nor frighten away other Princes of more nerve and penetration from identifying themselves with Greece. The Allies know that all the scenes of patriotic phrenzy got up by Capo d'lstrias and the party-coloured mixture of servile dependents whom he calls his senators, w ould vanish like a dream at the first landing on ;he Greek shores of a Sovereign supported by the great Powers of Eu rope,—by troops, and money, and a vigorous and manly resolution. This is well-known, and is dili gently acted on by the Allies. We have heard of measures already adopted, and of gratifying pro spects opened, but for the present enough has been said. The Governments of England, of France, and of Russia, are united in fulfilling the high duty which they have undertaken on behalf of this fine people and this illustrious region ; nor will they relax their upright co-operation until they have raised both to the rank from which a brutal tyranny and a deplorable destiny had degraded them.—! nes. We copied from a Sunday Paper a report of a meeting of Irish Members, and other gentlemen connected with Ireland, which was held a few days ago at the Thatched -house Tavern; Sir John New port in the chair. It appears that our report (so borrowed) was incorrect in some important par ticulars. How Mr. O'Connell came to be repre sented as the most active and conspicuous person at such a meeting, we do not pretend to know ; but the fast is stated to us en good authority, that the whole of the resolutions which bore upon the busi ness of the meeting, and were adopted in prosecu tion of its purposes, had Messrs. Spring Rice and Charles Brownlow for their respective mover and seconder. Mr. O'Connell, after the resolutions had passed, came forward with a motion that all the Irish Members present should join in an opposition to the Duke of Wellington's Government, until his Grace should agree to relinquish his scheme of adding to the taxes o f I re l an d. This motion was a t once rejected, and most reasonably, as one which tended to throw an air of faction over the proceed ings, by generalizing an opposition designed and justified on the expediency of -resisting specific meae sures of taxation. lhe meeting took care expressly to disavow all spirit of hostility towards the King's Government ; but asserted at the same time a strong belief that the proposed taxes would serve to diminish the revenue 'instead of rendering it more Iredtu3ive. The resolutions were signed by 83 names of Ilish Members, and of Noble proprietors of Irish estates, resident in this country, among whom were Lords Milton, Ebrington, and Clifton. —Times. We are glad to see so 'stout a champion of the the Church of England as Dr. Southey, tilting at the Bishop of London. In an article in the Quarterly Review, entitled " Polynesian Re searches," evidently from the pen of that gentle man, we have an interesting account of the labours of the Missionaries in the South Sea Islands, the natives of which have been converted to Christianity The Christianity, however, would seem to be not only defective in not being cast in a mould suffi ciently favourable to Kingly power (of which more hereafter), but tainted with the disease with which the Puritans infected this country, and from which even Bishops are not always exempt. We can see from the remarks of Doctor Southey, that if he in habited a noble mansion on the banks of the Thames, he would not, like the Bishop of London, occupy himself with counting the number of well-dressed sabbath-breakers in boats, pasting through the arches of Putney-bridge, in order to hold them up to public execration. " To throw the spear, and to aim at a mark with the sling (lie says), used to be among the sports of these islanders ; the adults do not appear to have thought of following these or any other games, since Christianity has been introduced among them With the exception of one or two, they have all been discontinued, especially among the adults, and the number of those followed by the children is greatly diminished. This, says Mr. Ellis, is on no account matter of regret. When we consider the debasing tendency of so many, and the inutility of others, we shall rather rejoice that much of the time of the adult is passed in more rafonal and beneficial pursuits. Few, if any of these are so sedentary in their habits as to need these amusements as a means of exercise ; and they are not accustomed to apply so closely to any of these avocations, as to require them merely for re laxation.' We have here no room for showing that this opinion of the Missionaries, as far as influences general manners, must be prejudicial anywhere, and especially so among a people so circumstanced as these recent converts. . . . Can it be doubted that to the great mass of mankind, all such adjuncts of religion as are harmless must be healthful. It seems,' says .Michaelis, 'to have been one of the great objects of the Mosaic polity, that every individual, without exception, should occasionally taste the pleasures of life.' The religious festivals of the Jaws, therefore, were festivals in the true sense of the word—insomuch as to have given occasion to Plutarch's preposterous notion, that their religion was but another form of the worship of Bacchus ! There is as little reason that Christianity should wear the sour and sullen aspect of Puritanism as that it should he corrupted by the mummery and license of Popery. A whole people can never be made so wholly intellectual as not to need innocent amusements, which are as wholesome for the mind as fresh air and exer cise for the body. . . . As the Missionaries desire that the great good which they have done should be ren dered permanent, it behoves them to provide that the whole population of these islands be trained for defensive war ; to give religion a cheerful and attractive aspect, by uniting joyous ceremonies with Christian observances ; to strengthen the Government instead of weakening it; and to procure for their Church the best human security that can he ob tained, by connecting it with the State." Dr. Southey cannot conceive how the manifes tation of joy, or the indulgence in exercises and amusements which conduce to the well-being of the body, should be a rank abomination. So far we agree with him. But Dr. Southey has pointed out another danger from the peculiar views of the Mis sionaries, which must be remedied in time. It hap pens unfortunately that the men who introduce a new religion into any country are seldom possessed of the qualities required in an established religion ; and, on the other hand, that the men fittest for up holding an established religion are seldom possessed of the qualifications for establishing one. That mere perception of the utirty of religion for political pur poses, which is essential to the Minister of an Esta blished Religion, is unfortunately allied with so much prudence arid worldly wisdom, that the pos sessor has little taste for missions among savages. I lence the nations are compelled to receive the bene fits of Christianity, not from a pure source, like the Church of England, but from Sectarians, who have very imperfect notions of the advantage de rivable from an union between Church and State. How this is to be remedied, except by a vote of Pam liament for an Episcopal Establishment for Poly nesia, we cannot see. We have given Bishops to the West Indian Islan&, we have given Bishops to the East, and why not Bishops to the South Sea Islands? What a noble opportunity for cementing the union between Church and State has been lost! " When Pomare (says Dr. Southey) became the first convert, and brought about a religious revolution, which extend,d through all these islands, it was not more required by good policy than it would have been consistent with the spirit and letter of the New Testament, that the Mis sionaries should hare brought the sanction of the new .re ligion to support his authority, and have enforced, as among the first and most momentous of civil obligations, the religious duty of obedience to the Sovereign. This they must hare neglected to do; otherwise we should not be told, that since the people are free from the restraints which idolatry imposed, many of them refuse almost all lawful obedience, and evince a disinclination to render the King the supplies which are due to him by old established custom, and which are necessary for his support. The Crown lands are not sufficient to maintain his establish ment, and the deficiency was made up by requisitions from the people—the Kings being like those in Hesiod's days, dottivorous ; but they gave away also as fast as they re ceived, and were far far from being profusely supplied. . No material interference with th e di rec t affairs of Government took place till ' the mission and the nation experienced the heaviest bereavement that had occurred since the introduction of Christianity.' This was Pomare's death at the close of 1821. He bad long been afflicted with elephantiasis, a disorder very prevalent there : but dropsy was the immediate cause of his disso lution. This remarkable man was exceedingly jealous of any interference with his prerogatives and interests; be was also (says Mr. Ellis), as might have been expected from the circumstance of his having been the High Priest of the nation under the system of false religion, and having been identified with all the religious observances of the people, too fond of regulating matters purely connected with Christianity.'" This side-wind attack on the Monarch, to whom we owe the union of Church and State, was not to be tolerated, and, accordingly, Dr. Southey sharply rebukes the Missionary— " But there are many' matters relating to religion which are intimately and necessarily connected with Civil Govern ment, and which Pomare was the proper person to regu late. The book before us observes, that in many respects the institutions of these islanders ' indicate great attention to the principles of government, an acquaintance with the means of controulling the conduct of man, and an ad vancement in the organization of their civil polity,' alto gether remarkable under their circumstances. The people themselves said, that ' had their chiefs been idolaters or wicked rulers it would have been improper for them to have interfered in any matters connected with Christianity. But now they were truly pious—it accorded with their ideas of propriety, that in the Christian Church they should, as Christian Chiefs, be pre-eminent.' r lie Mis sionaries replied to these sensible representations in a man ner Inure consistent with their sectarian principles than with sound policy. But with a preparation in the habits and dispositions of the people, and with a Prince so se dulous, so able, and so well disposed as Pomare, a Bishop Heber would have established a national Church upon a foundation that no storms could shake." No Bishop, no King ! is a maxim applicable to the Islands of the South Sea, as well as the islands of the North. The taint of Radicalism has been introduced with Christianity in niece places than the South Seas - - • " When the Infant Pomare 111. was recognised by the nation, as successor to Potnare in the Government of Ta hiti and Moorea, the Tahitean Code was revised and en larged ; and a law was then introduced by these means, which, beyond all doubt would not have been enacted, probably not even proposed or hinted at, if the father had been living.' Well may they call it a most important law, for it gave to the nation, for the first time, what might be termed a Representative Government, and rendered the Tabitean a limited instead of an absolute Monarchy! Two Representatives from every district were to meet an nually, enact new laws, and revise and amend the rzist ing ones. No regulation was to be regarded as a law without the King's sanction. The Parliament was to be triennial, and might, if it seemed good, increase the num ber of Deputies from each district to three or four, This is proceeding with a quick step in the march of intellect. Whether the Missionaries would have done wisely at any time in introducing so great a change into the Govern ment of these islands we very much doubt. . . . A Council of Elders would have beer► a better guard against the abuse of Sovereign power ; the old Cortes, in which the initiative rests with the Government, and the Representatives hays the power of rejecting what they dis approve, world hare been a safer form to follow than that of the British Parliament." Besides, as Dr. Southey knows, the British Par liament, without rotten boroughs, is impracticable. Many other things have been done which a Bishop would never have sanctioned. For instance, the widow of the great Pomare was brought to trial for ordering her attendant to cut down a bread fruit tree belonging to a poor man. " Now (observes Dr. Southey) in this case the law might have been enforced with equal effect, the purposes of justice answered quite as well, and those of sound po licy much better, if the Queen's attendant bad been cited, instead of the Queen herself. Bishop Heber would not have acted thus in the spirit of John Knox." Kings can do no wrong; but Dr. Southey may recollect that the exception does not apply to Queens. However, a Bishop would certainly have avoided such a scandal to the powers that be. As we have already observed, the learned Clergy of our establishment have but little taste for the work of conversion. But the soil is here prepared for an establishment; and we trust Mr. Goulburn will take courage to propo , e a vote for Bishops and dignified Clergy in Polynesia. The Missionaries may be termed the Squatters of Christianity. Establish ments ought to press close upon their heels, that the world may not be corrupted by dangerous examples of religion without a Church, and Govern ments not in close union with the Clergy.—Morn= ing Chronicle. We have already adverted to the statement of Sir Wchard Church relative to the proposed fron tier of the new State of Greece, and, with the ex ception of a strong personal bias against Count Capo ' d'lstrias, who may or may riot have given cause for ir, the report of the Gallant General is as fair as it is an aisle statement of the real situation of Greece in regard to the boundary question. Every unpre judiced mind must allow that his conclusions, if correct—which there seems no good reason to doubt —form an unanswerable defence of Prince Leopold's final rejection of the proffered sovereignty, while they render more striking what Lord Holland de scribes as the somewhat " ludicrous" position in which this part of our foreign policy has placed the Administration. We are curious to see how Lord Aberdeen will extricate himself from the personal dilemma in which this part of the question involves him. It is rarely the good fortune of a foreign Mi nister of this influential but isolated part of the world to possess local knowledge of the countries with whose policy and whose destinies he has to deal ; and on questions, therefore, of boundaries especially, he must rely upon the accuracy or in accuracy of geographers, or Commissioners who are sent out to ascertain, by actual inspection or survey, the real state of things. But, in the case of Lord Aberdeen, we have a Foreign Minister who has, if we mistake not, himself visited Greece, and spent much time on its romantic and classical shores ; and who, therefore, unless he went there merely as a member of the Society of Antiquaries, must have obtained a degree of local knowledge, which both Prince Leopold and the country would have a right to suppose would be brought into play, on this occasion, in a manner which would inspire and justify public confidence. But hear I what General Church says on this subject :—" To I trace a line of frontier upon a map is extremely easy. I remember once to have done so through these provinces, but which I had not then visited in person. Subsequent experience, in contending with the Turks for this very country, made me acknow ledge the absurdity of having placed faith in a map, of which the best are not without errors, and some often place mountains where there are not even hills, and plains and rivers where there are moun tains; and it so happens that the line of frontier talked of is full of such errors." We cannot help thinking, then, that if this is to be made—as there seems, from Lord Aberdeen's tone in the House of Lords, a dispostion to make it— a personal question between Prince Leopold and the Ministry, it behoves the latter, but especially Lord Aberdeen, as the Foreign Mi nister, and a Foreign Minister who had visited Greece, to show that the sovereignty of that coun try was offered to Prince Leopold upon such terms, and in such a state, as could have insured its inde pendence and integrity. But what says General Church of Greece, as offered to Prince Leopold ? " Unhappy Greece !" says he, " if thus left in this unprotected state, she may be considered as a beau tiful victim ready for the sacrifice; nor can her Sove reign reign over her honourably and happily for Greece, if he is obliged to cede her fairest provinces, her bravest defenders, and her only natural and de fensible frontiers ;—provinces which are to Greece like the counties of Kent and Sussex to England." On the whole, we should say, if General Church be right, Prince Leopold is free from blame; and it be hoves Lord Aberdeen to disprove the statements of the General before he again assumes a tone of con demnation when speaking of the decision of the Prince, who had the manly spirit and good sense to refuse the diadem of a nation whose freedom he was not placed in a situation to protect.—Morning Herald. A rumour has been current for several days that the Whigs are marshalling themselves, or endeavour ing to do so, into a regular opposition to the Duke of Wellington's Administration. We are slow to give credit to this rumour, although it is promul gated through the established organs of \Vhiggery, and although it is perfectly consistent with the recent Parliamentary conduct of the most dis tinguished and influential of the Whig leaders. Let it not be supposed, however, that we doubt the correctness of the report from any notion that the Whigs are incapable of such conduct as it ascribes to them, if they could believe it their interest as a party to pursue it. Our incredulity rests upon no such visionary grounds. It rests upon the improbability of the Whigs—often as they have mistaken, and widely, as in various instances they have deviated from the course in which they might have escaped the contempt and con demnation of the country—falling into an error so egregious as the report supposes and requires. To believe this report we must suppose the Whigs enamoured of baseness for its own sake, ambitious of public scorn and aversion, determined as a poli tical party to commit a cool and premeditated felo de se. The common sense of the country would in stantaneously decide that an opposition formed in the present circumstances of the Royal Family, against a Ministry which the party constituting that opposition have hitherto supported, and without any visible change in the constitution or principles of the Ministry, was founded altogether in the hope of fomenting and profiting by schisms and divisions in the Royal Family itself; and the plain and inevitable fate of such a party, although it were ten times as strong in influence and character as the Whigs now arc, would be to sink into everlasting insignificance, under the load of public contempt and in dignation. The Whigs, desperate and unprincipled as they have often shown themselves, will not yet dare to present themselves to the people of England, in the act of strewing with thorns the willow of their Sovereign, labouring under the anguish of dangerous, perhaps mortal disease—they will not dare to present themselves to the people of Eng land in the act of spreading snares for the other branches of the Royal House, and holding out lures and temptations to domestic treason—th e y will not dare to encounter the ignominious reproach of watching with the keen scent of vultures the sick bed of their Monarch—they will not dare to show that eagerness of ambition which holds all human sympathies and all social or domestic ties in deri sion. The Whigs will not, we believe, do these th ngs, simply because it must be evident even to them that they would thereby entail upon them selves the everlasting disgust and abhorrence of the nation, and forfeit even the esteem and confidence of those whom it had been their base and servile object to allure and cajole. Perhaps until our day there never was a party in England to whom so bit ter a reproach could by possibility have been ap plied, as that which is intimated by the report we have been attempting to discredit. Yet we find some of our contemporaries, who pretend to retain the name, after having long abandoned all the principles, of English Tories, asserting that all those Tories who dissented from the measure of last Session for the relief of the Roman Catholics, are bound, if the opportunity should be afforded them, to ally themselves to this imaginary and incredible baseness. The Standard of last night, arguing upon the supposition that the report to which we have alluded is correct, says that the public grati tude is due to them (the Whigs) even for a late and factious opposition to the Duke of Wellington's Ad ministration, and that every honest and consistent Tory will at once ally himself to a W'hig, or to any other opposition formed against that Administration, until it be overthrown. This is the language of a Journal calling itself a Protestant Tory Journal, and to which we do no more than justice when we de scribe it as at the head of its class. Its doctrine, however, is a mixture of Popery and Whiggery. It is the Popish doctrine, that the end sanctifies the means ; it inculcates the Whig practice of doing without scruple whatever is, or appears to be, most conducive to any immediate political pur pose. Ott the merits of the Catholic ques tion, we have no dispute with our contemporary; but much greater:evils than the decision of that ques tion, erroneously decided, as we think it was, would arise if such principles as he strives to instil should take root among the people of England. The public gratitude, according to him, would be due to every assassin, the previous conduct of whose victim could be impeached ; the height of political virtue would be to aid the propagation and progression of politi cal vice. A single error or crime ought in reason to be, and must be of necessity, the destruction of society. A political party, once defeated, is utterly absolved from all obligations to their country, their King, the laws ; and such of them as are " honest and consistent" will thenceforward consider it their pride and duty to set loyalty, morality, decency, honour, and religion, at resolute defiance. These are plain corollaries from the prepositions of our con temporary, which we therefore advise him with all speed to retract.—Morning Post. An Evening Paper, in alluding to the pitiful con troversy about Prince Leopold's acceptance, and subsequent resignation, of the Greek throne, ob serves, that " surely Great Britain, France, and Russia, are quite as able to protect Greece against the Turks, as any river's course or mountain range between Constantinople and the Adriatic ;" and the public, we think, will agree with the writer that such is the fact. The guarantee is undoubted, and the Greek frontier more secure under the guardianship of the three Powers against any attack from Turkey, than if the Himalaya range was removed from its present situation, and set down as the northern barrier of Gieece against the Porte. But although this is a good answer to the vapouring and silly letter of Prince Leopold, it is no answer to the people of Acarnania, who, making every allow ance for the difficulties attendant on the nego ciations with the Porte, appear to have been but sadly used. The new State may be safe; but they are sacrificed, and it would be making a somewhat too large allowance for Grecian virtue, to suppose that the Acarnanians would be content to lose their freedom and connection with tke new State, in or der that it might be independent of the Porte. We wish, in fact, that the boundary had been otherwise settled ; but it is, at the same time, only bare jus tice to his Majesty's Ministers to state, that they had a very difficult part to play, and that, in all pro bability, they could not well have acted otherwise, without compromising the interests of the country. The Greek State itself has, at all events, reason to be satisfied; for, without the aid of England it ' never could have ranked as an independent State; and had not the creature of Russia been President, it would, in all probability, have been satisfied.— Morning Advertiser. Cu ESTSll.—Wheat, per 751 b. 10s. Od. to 10s. 6d. a Batley, 38 qrts 4s. (d. to ss. 3d. ; Oats, 401 b. 3s. 6d. to 3s. 9d. NANTIVICH.—Wheat, per 751 b. 10s. 9d. to I Is. 3d. ; Barley, 38 qrts. ss. Od. to 6s. Od. ; Oats, 501 b. 4s. Od. to 4s. 4d. GLASGOW wARKrrB. (Flom the Glavote Herald of Monday.) For RAW SUGARS there has been a good demand this week; the sales atnount to 760 hlids. and tees. ; moist Brown, Detneraras, Trinidad, and Tortolaw, sold at 465. a 46.. 6d., dry Browns 475. a 50s. 6d., moist Brown An tiguas at 455. 6d., good Browns 495. a 50s. 6(1., Middling 52.. a 555., good Middling 565. a 585., Fine 655., low Brown Jamaica. at 475., good dry Browns 505., and Middling 555. a 555. 6d. 190 puncheons old Trinidad Mei...tans were sold at 18s. from the warehouse, and 40 puncheons new Deme rara. at 19e. from the quay. REFINED Straeas are in steady demand; Brown Loav 78s. a 81s., Middling 82s. a 855., Good 86s. a 895., Fine 90.. a 955., and Double 96,. a 100 s. Crushed is selling very freely; Middling 60s. a 63.., good Mid dling 635. 6d. a 655., Good 665. a 685., Fine 69.. a 705., and vsry Fise 71s. a 751. ; Candy 10d. a 10id. British Molasses 16s. 3d. a 16.. 6d. MARKET IN IELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London Net° Price Current of yesterday.) SUGAR.-The Market was cleared of good Sugars last week, and towards the close little of any kind was offer ing ; the estimated sales were 2,500 Idols and trs. ; the prices without the slightest alteration. The show rooms were closed this forenoon on account of the holiday. The stock of West India Sugar is now 10,982 hhde. and trs., being 7,115 less than last year. The stock of Mauritius is much reduced, on account of the recent great deli veries ; the stock is now 117,726 bags, being 54,133 more than last year. The deliveries of West India Sugar are large fur the stock ; it is last week 2,616 hlids. and trs., being 461 less than in 1829. The delivery of Mau ritius is 15,312 bags, being 11,301 more than the com parative week of 1829. In Refined there was little va riation, except in low Lumps, which were sold at a small reduction, notwithstanding the small supplies at market. There were more parcels of fine Loaves offered for the double Refined bounty; the purchases for ttie home trade were inconsiderable, yet notwithstanding their apparent dullness, there were few goods offering for sale, and the stocks continue very light. Molasses were in more de mand, and rather higher. In the Refined Market there is no business reported this day. EAST INDIA SUGAR.-The total quantity of Mauritius Sugar at the public sales last week was about 22,000 bags ; the whole was disposed of, but as the great pro portion was low brown, the prices were 6d. to Is. lower, brown 421. a 455., soft yellow 465. a 475. ; all the better descriptions sold with briskness ut very full prices. FOREIGN SUGARS. —The only purchases last week were a few parcels of good white Havannala, 40s. a 425., and small parcels of white Pernams at former prices. COFFEE.—At the public sales last week 602 bags good ord. Brazil were offered, bot there appeared no buyers at the established Market prices ; the whole was taken in at ; of 390 hags St. Domingo only a few lots sold, good ordinary 325. There have been few parcels of Bri tish Plantation Coffee brought forward, on account of the late arrival of the supplies ; the small quantity of Jamaica offered last week went off with some briskness at full Market prices, except the fine, which sold at a reduction of about 2s. per cwt. This day at public sale 160 bales Mocha Coffee sold 665. a 80s., rather higher than the prices of last week. BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—The Rum Market continues inactive, on account of the buyers holding off till the expected large supplies take place, also owing to the uncertainty as to duty : the only sale is a parcel of proofs, and a shade over at Is. 9d. Several sales of old Brandy are reported, but the request is not so brisk as during the last week. Geneva is still neglected. HEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOW—The Tallow Market is a shade higher, and firm at the improvement. In Flax or Hemp there is no material alteration. IRISH PaovasloNs.—Beef is dull, but without altera tion. Pork is rather lower, Bacon heavy, on account of the large supplies. Irish Butters still scarce; the latest sales of Dutch were at the inserted currency. Tierce India Beef, 42 pieces, Bibs. each, 61. ; ditto Mess Beef, 38 pieces, Slbs. each, 4/. lbs. ; ditto India Pork, 53 pieces. 61bs. each, Si. 12s. 6d. ; Barrel Mess Pork, 50 pieces, 41bs. each, 2/. 17s. 6d. ; ditto Bacon Pork, 21. 4s. a 21. 12s. 6d. HOPS.—The Hop Market has become dull, on account of the late rains, but the accounts respecting the fly are still unfavourable. The duty has been laid at 120,000/. but there are few that will back that estimate. It is at present stated to be too high. This afternoon some busi ness is reported in the duty at 95,0001. TEA.—The prompt day last week was rather heavy, but there was no material alteration in prices, The news of yesterday, that the Select Committee at Canton had prohibited all intercourse between the Chinese and English s ubjects, and that all the Company's ships had been ordered off to Manilla, created a great 'imitation. COMMENCEMENT OF THE INDIA !JADE OF TEA THIS DAT. This Day's Prices. Last Sale's Prices. Boheas in guar. chests... Is. 7!id. a Is. Bd. ls. 64d. a Is. 6}4d. half chests Is. a is. Pd. Is. 7d. a Is, 7Ad. large chests... Is. 13 1 Ad. a Is. 7 Is. 5 , Ad. a Is. 5Nd. Boheas are selling I:kd. per lb. dearer thar last sale; there are nearly none in the buyers' hands, as the lite clearances from the warehouses have been most extensive. FRUM—There are several sales of Fruit reported, but there is no alteration in the currency. RICE.—At public sale last week 2,319 bags Bengal sold at I Is. 6d., an ordinary parcel. Srlczs.--Pimentq sells steadily, but without alteration KILKENNY.—Butter 6th. to 688. per cwt. ; Wheat 28s. to 31s. per barrel; Flour 18s. to 365. per bag; Oats N. to I Is. pa bar rel; Barley 10s. to 12s. ; Beef 4d. to 5%4. per lb. ; Mutton 3d. CO 4d. ; Potatoes scl. per stone; Coals ls. 2d. per cwt.; Bacon, Pigs 245. to Xs. per cwt. in price ; 120 cheats Cassia Lignea 61a. This day 569 chests Cassia Lignes, a part sold rather lower, 575. a 60s. TOBACCO.—The only sales of Tobacco are Small parcels; to the trade too inconsiderable for enumeration. This afternoon about 70 Ithds. fair Kentucky are reported, sold at 3d. a Std. SALTerrax.—By public sale this forenoon 530 bags Saltpetre, mid. quality, 375. nil. a 385., we believe taken in. Corrox.—The Cotton Maiket is dull, and the former prices cannot be obtained, on account of the fall at Liver pool. The purchases for the week, ending last night in clusive, consist of 130 Bowed, 60. a bid. ; 100 Surat, at 41-d. a Sid. ; 10 Bourbon, at 7kd. lismco.—There are several large parcels of Indigo taken off the market privately for investment; the market con tinues to look firm. Otts.—Linseed Oil is higher; Rape also on the ad ranee. Sperm Oil is firm at the late impro►ement. ALINING INTELLIGENCL-Sales at Itedruth last week. Quantity of Copper Ore sold, 4,406 tons ; average pro duce Sid. Quantity of fine Copper, 358 tons. Amount of sale 24,5501. 14s. Average Standard 1021. Ss. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I Beans. Per Quarter. er. to s. s. to 8. s. to s. I s. to s. Boston — 66 28 25 38 Gainsborough 34 26 —36, Grantham 65 71 '27 30 20 26 38 43 Grimsby . 53 65 20 30 18 24 28 34 Horncastle 54 62 25 33 15 20 30 48 Lincoln 64 68 26 37 '2.5 27 34 37 Spilsby Stamford 6O 73 38 36 22 26 41 42 York— 4B 72 24 40 18 28 32 44 NORWICH, May 29. We had a short supply of Wheat to-day, for which last week's prices were fully supported, and in some in stances Is. per quarter more was obtained. We have but little of other kinds of Grain at market, and our prices remain the same. The price of Flour is unaltered, with a steady weekly demand. Wheat (per qr.) ... 565. 6134. 725. I Beans (per qr.) 32i. 38s. Barley Oats :Ms 30s. 31s. Flour, fine (per sack) 50s. 525. CANTERBU RI, May '29. We had a good supply of Wheat and other Grain tLis day, but so little business was transacted that our prices remain nominally the same. . Ms. to 77s 535. to 70s. '.7' , 3. to 345. 20s. to SCs. 2's. to 345. 325. to as,. Wheat, white - red Barley, Malting Oats Beans Pease EXETER MA! Beef (score) 9s. Ott. 101. Od. Mutton (lb.) ...... 0 s—o 6 Veal and Lamb 0 4 —0 6 Pork 0 41-0 6 Geese (each) 5 0 —8 0 Ducks (coup'e) 4 o—s 6 Fowls " 9 4 6 KEl'S.—May 2.8. Wheat (bushel) 9s.od. 9s 3d. Barley 4 0 4 6 Oats 3 6,-3 9 Beans 5 A —.5 6 Butter (lb) 0 8 —0 9 Eggs (18) 0 o—l 0 Potatoes (peck) O, o—l 1 40 tierces Ordinary Demerara COFFEE sold at 50s. -- - - - - - -- Nothing done in diNoza or PimaNro. 40 puncheons New Jamaica Rum, of prime quality, sold at 21. Bd., and .I 0 hitch. at 2.. 10d. for 16 0. P. No sales made in Leeward.; nominal price, 19d. • 20d. for Proofs. In DTEWOODS there hes been nothing done. ASHES are selling in small parcels; Pots at 865., and Pearls at 395. a 391. 6d. Y. Candle TALLOW is retailing at 365. 6d. a 375. 6d. Fish OILS are scarce; Whale is selling at 271. 101., and Cod at 261. per tun, old measure. Our Corrox market this week has been in an inactive state, the sales may reach to 8 or 900 bales. The sales during the month amount to 6,161 bales as under; 58 Sea Islands, 12d. to 15d. ; 63 Stained do., Bd. to 9id. ; 7 Bowed do., 9d. ; 1852 Boweds, 6fl. to lid. ; 2,112 Orleans, 6p. to Bd. ; 53 Pernams, Sid. ; 86 31aranhangs, 7d. to Bd. ; 456 Egyptians, Bd. to 9d. ; 67 Demerarat, Sd. to 9id. ; 10 Surinam, 84d. ; 6 Porto Rico, lOid. ; 549 Cumana (Seroons) bid. to 7d. ; 30 Barbadoes, 7id.; 40 West Indians, 7d. to 7id. ; 762 Surats, 41d. to sid. IRISH MA DUBLIN MARKET NC RKETS. )TE.—FRIDAY, May Froin To M. P. 33 0 n 0 35 11 14 0 0 0 13 0 15 9 14 N 13 0 16 6 15 03y 7 0 24 0 0 I 12 6 18 0 14 104 313 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 80 Beze , l7 stone 259 Barley _ 18 stone 1,329 Oats l2 stone 10,906 Cwt. Flour . 0 stone' 1332 Oatmeal Sold to liakerd only. 9,378 Cwt. Flour Average price of Wheat am Firsts, Receipts of Flour, 9,1531 seco nd Sales of Do. 10,906 Thirds, I 17 0 I 24 0 I 20 2 ,d Flour 51s. 8.1. per sack. from 225. Od. to 24g. Od. Is, from 14s. Od. to 21s. Od from 7s. Od. to 13s Od. PRICE OF Quartern Loaf 9d. I I,liA D. calf Quartern Wheat, Barley. Oats. Flour, per cwt. per barrel per barrel per barrel '2O stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. Ist. 2,1. s. d. a s. d. s. d. as. d. s. d. a s.d.is. d. as. d. s. 11. a s. d. Cork 30 0-31 613 4-15 016 0-17 o'lB 0-21 1 7 0-18 U Limerick i 24 0-28 0 11 6-14 61 89— 94 18 0-21 0 0 0-13 0 Waterford'3o 0-35 0 13 0-15 0 13 IL-15 0 18 o—'24 0 10 0-15 0 Clonmel —.139 0-33 6 11 6-14 6 10 8-12 0 '2O 0-25 0 12 0-16 0 Carlow —.126 0-30 0 12 0-19 0 10 0-13 0 20 6-21 0 0 0— 0 0 Beef, Mutton, Pork, Butter. Per lb. per lb. per cwt. Ist. W. :Id. 4th. sth. ---- Id. a d. d. a d. s. d. a s. d. s. d. s. d. g. d. s. d. s. 6. Cork *4f —6 4 —6 16 0 —l9 0900 86 0820 76 066 0 Limerick— 31 —5 41-5 32 0 —35 (08 092 086 080 0 74 0 Waterford 4 —6131-51320-25619809608507307 010 Clonmel —2l —4 3 —5 32 0-35 0192 —o—o 0 0 Carlow— 4 —51 6 0 0 00— 0 0178 0740f40 54 0 0 CALCUTTA MARKETS. (From the Cukutta Weekly Price Current, Jan. 30.) COUNTRY Paonucx.—Opium. Prices nominal. No sales reported during the week. Cotton—Without in quiry. Indigo—Demand rather improving, but without alteration in prices. The Hon. Company have not yet completed their purchases. The imports to the 26th inst. exceed 130,061 factory 11 - launch, and the probability is that the crop may yet reach 137,000 to 140,000 maunds, as at one time calculated on. Saltpetre—Market falling, and the demand is very limited. Sugar—Prices daily de clining. Silk continues very dull. Cotton in very limited request, except for home consumption. Lac Dye without inquiry. Shell Lac in moderate request. EASTERN PRODUCE —Pepper-_A very large stock in the market, and demand ♦ery slack. EUROPI PRODLICE.-Cotton Piece Goods—Chintz of good patterns, suitable for the Gulf trade, in request at saving rates. Lappett and Jaconett Muslim in moderate inquiry, at low prices. Metals—Speltre, demand im mend improving. Copper in little or no demand, and the market on the decline. Lead in considerable request. Iron (English) very dull, with a large stock pressing on the market. Coral—A considerable improvement in prices has taken place in this article within the past week. Bottles—Prices looking up. Beer in wood (Hodgson's and Allsopp's) scarce. FKEIGH r TO LONDON.-31. to N. 10s. for dead weight, and 6/. to 61. 10s. per ton for light goods. COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. IMPORTED. Same pc-, This riod last year. year. EX PORTED. Previous ly this year. Bap. &c 13,610 7,203 45 11,505. ~ 39,957. Bags, &c. Bags, Sce.li Bags, &c. Liverpool 351,e43 347,70'2 1 312 London 9,828 4' ),7114 330 Glasgow 25,451 14,805 Total exported in 1830 Same period 19'29 A BLIND SET OUT.—On Thursday evening the mail from Liverpool, arrived in this town, drawn by three blind horses, and a fourth blind of one eye ; and driven by a coachman who could only bout of one ogle to superintend the movements of this extraordinary team. Bolton Chro✓+icle. LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, MA .lir 28. THE RoKEBY PEERAGE. The claimant in this case is Matthew Montaguei son of Morris Robinson, who resided some years ago. in Chancery-lane. The case on behalf of the claimant hiving closed. The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that if the documents produced were such as they were repre sented to be, they were sufficient to establish the claim; but before the Committee could decide on it, it would be necessary for them to inspect these dc cuments. He therefore moved that the further con sideration of it be adjourned until Wednesday, which was accordingly agreed to. PREROGATIVE COURT, JUNE 1. HEADINGTON V. HOLLOWAY. This was a question as to the validity of an alle g ed codicil of Mrs. Elizabeth Headington, of Crispin street, Spitalfields, who died in March, 1829; and it contained a bequest of a policy of insurance for 5,000/. on her life, effected with the Sun tire-office , to the Rev. Henry Holloway, the son of her de ceased husband, and by whom the instrument was propounded. Its admission to probate was opposed by two of the executors under the will of the de ceased (the other executor being Mr. Holloway). dated in September, 1828, on the ground that there was not sufficient evidence of its being the act of the testatrix, that the circumstances attending its pro duction were suspicious, and that it was at variance with the arrangements made in the will for the be nefit of the residuary legatees, who were the two sisters of the Rev. Mr. Holloway. Sir JOHN NICIIOLLS did not think it necessary to hear the argument through, and pronounced for the codicil. As to the costs, it was the general rule, that in such a case as this the costs should not fall upon the propounder, yet considering the circum stances of this case, he should direct Mr. Holloway to pay his own costs. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JUNE I. WEDLAKE V. HURLY AND OTHERS. This was an action for money had and received for the use of the plaintiff. The plaintiff is a coal-merchant residing in Mon• mouth ; the defendants are merchants residing le Great Winchester-street, in the city of London• Thomas Goold, a merchant residing in Cork, trans. acted business with both parties, and in 1829 gave a promissory note to the plaintiff for 1031. ss. 6d., payable at the house of the defendants on the 4th of January last, on which day Goold sent a Bank of Ireland bill to the defendants, payable in 20 days after, endorsed by him in these words : -•••" Pay to the order of MeEsrs. Charles Hurly and Co., under a provision for my note to Thomas Wedlake, p a yable at their office." The defendants received the amount of this bill at the Bank of England on the 25th of January, and the plaintiff applied subsequently for the amount of the promissory note payable at their house; but the defendants refused to pay it, though they acknowledged having received the Bank of Ire land bill for that purpose. These facts having been established by evidence, Mr. Serjeant JONES, for the defendants, submitted that the plaintiff should be nonsuited. He submitted, that when a remittance was made to any person, it should be applied according to the directions of the remitter, and if there were no directions, the person to whom it was remitted might dispose of it as he pleased; but the directions of the remitter gave no right to the party to whom the sum remitted was made payable, to bring an action at law. aonsuited. -n. BOARD OF EXCISE COURT. 7 . s' John Fryer, a grocer, residing at 104, High-eireet, Shadwell, appeared to answer an information for having unlawfully in his possession 781bs.of tea with• out the regular permit. Excise officers deposed to finding on the de• fendant's premises, on the 30th of April last, 78Ibs. of tea in a chest, on which was cut in the number 4,210, and the initial I, purporting that it was from the ship Inglis, and for which the defendant had ao permit. The witnesses consequently seized it. The defendant was quite innocent of any inten tion to defraud the Revenue. The tea had been sent by Messrs. Nicholson without a perznit.--' Defendant at the time remonstrated against receiv ing it without, when the porter said the permit was lost, but he would petition the Excise Board and that one should be sent. A day or two afterwards defendant received a permit in a bluak sheet of paper, sent by the two-penny post. The permit was here produced with the chest of tea, but they did not correspond with each other; the permit of Mr. Fryer being for another chest of tea, by a different ship. Mr. Nicholson here earnestly begged to explain the matter, and very honourably exonerated the de fendant (Fryer) from any blame. He, too, was quite innocent of tke transaction, which had been conducted by his clerk, who had admitted the fact, without his (Mr. Nicholson's) knowledge. The Court would, however, find that no fraud was in tended; for two permits had been taken out; but from one being lost, his clerk had committed an irregularity. The COMMISSIONERS (Messrs. Parish, Plunkett, and Harrison) said it was clear an offence had been committed which required their serious attentions The Court condemned the tea as forfeited, and di reeted Mr. Mayo to inquire into the mutter, and re port to the Board. A ehalybeate spring has been discovered at Cullinagh Lodge, Newcastle West, county Limerick, which promises to be of much importance.— Tipperary Free Press. BIRTHS. On the Ist inst. in Cavendish-square, the Viscountte# Barrington, of a daughter. On the Ist inst. the lady of E. 11. Blunt, Esq. of Ea+• ham, Hants, of a daughter. On the 26th ult. in Merrion-square, Dublin, the lady of Sir Gerald G. Aylmer, Bart. of Donadea Castle, Kil dare, of a son and heir. On the 29th ult. the lady of C. Deacon, Esq. of Wey mouth-street, Portland-place, of a daughter. On the 30th ult. at Tunbridge Wells, the lady of Cu). J. Nicol, of a son. On the 30th ult. the wife of H. Buckley, Esq:, of the Lawn, South Lambeth, of u daughter. MARRIED. On the Ist inst. at St. Mary's, Bryanstone-square, Capt. C. Bulkeley, of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards, to Louisa, daughter of C. L. Stephens, Esq. On the lst inet. at St. Mark's, Kennington, Edward, non of Robert ruckle, Esq., of Camberwell, to Elizabeth Sarah, daughter of the late Joseph Smith, Esq. of Lee lodge, Kent. On the Ist inst. at St. Marylehone, John Synge, Esq M.D., of Bernard-street, Russell-square, to Anna Maria Sophia, the youngest daughter of Major Henry Max well, of Straquhaue, Dumfries-shire, and Salt-Savannah, Jamaica. On the Ist inst. at Islington, John, youngest son of the late Admiral Stone, to Lucy, second daughter of Major Morris, of Brockham. DIED. On th• 25d ult. at Greenhill House, near Edinburgh, Sir John Hay, of Smithfield and Haystown, Bart. On the Ist inst. in Great Cumberland -street, after a few hours' illness, the Right Hon. Lord Waterpark. Lately, at Dulwich-common, Margaret M'Calmont, in fant daughter of W. Inglis, Esq. On the 31st ult. at Olive-terrace, Camberwell New road, T. Grayson, Esq. late of the 62d Regt. On the Ist inst. Mr. W. J. Winbo!t, of St. Paul's cliiirch-yard, second surviving son of Mr. Winbolt, in hie 27th year. On the 31st alt. Susannah, tl:e wife of Mr. E. Joyce, of Water-lane. - On the 21st ult. at Milburn, the Bev. T. Burns, Mi. nister of Renfrew, Scotand. On the 30th ult. in Jermyn-street, Joanna Maria, the daughter of the late C. R. Wren, Esq., of Wroxhall. Abb e y, Warwickshire. PEINTED AND PUBLISITED BY. MURDO YOUNG, AT max SUN OFFICE, Ile, STRAND, LOND/N• 7 / LAST 131 Co Alembi in Jan Punish Etti - iel VIII. of the Cato. Mark ( sianFe, —XII 1%/arria Prir. C 4,101, " Tie NEI t.ll-,tl ENGI Thig d .~ SLAT The produi may r ing large f The BIOSI !ler t )n-sti in Tui KEY, Esq., The Ai I A 3v RIEN plete t th e 111 NAval This t N' Etnim ARCI No. I. the P few d, TITO of 01, th e A Post ! of thi CLA: Schßc 11F.L1 R.& 2 vole LON The the IT ♦ales SII A RE " Th, price BF HOF Th 8,0. 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