The Sun. — London, England, 1830-01-26 00:00:00

ta of th l only tW .ar eXt t f a cts hi t oning 0 1 and M t ,' had rea d iled and e of Ell reasone" this sub' Win if i g lust I 'e ;he Jaw , ► at th e [ld bail II Jury la after ieh y r bils mewl TIM .) eti the •ountf liii 00 r such night• art ick, TiUiam er for to en' of the ut lot , ay f" p i, of there, n t° ie I►'' lent► LOU' Vi"' COW f the WWI d the e the pow• iichl 4 )ined ieOtl fling do sitv o l n X 034 ex • 113 Y4l ll )ust- icing vitt ( ' upo tterop 6 tb d 11610 DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. 'mots OF STOCKS THI Bank Per Cent. Stoct /tad ir 3 2?B 18 % 19 ! It Cent. Conn. 9 -4( I,y 2 at Per Cent. 1 tto Refl. 100 93N trCont. Anti--.. 5.i InPAN Ito. 1626 .105%%N 0 14 L Ann. 1360...19 11-16% Ditto 30 years 1659...19 7-16 % India tte3o.yearo 1860-19 3-16 IA Ditto Bond s 74 '73 pm. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto / Ex. Bills, .£l,OOO 2d. 77 76 pm. Ditto lid. 77 76 pm. Ditto 50X , 2d. 77 76 pm. ........ 77 76 pm. Ditto Small 24. 77 '76 pm. Ditto lid. 77 76 pm. Bank for Acc0unt.......... India for Account Cons. for Feb '4l TIRICES OF FOAEIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONI O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — Neapolitan — Brazilian Bonds id% 1 Peruvian Bonds — kenos Ayres Bonds — Portuguese Bonds Chilian Bonds — 'Prussian, Old Colombian Bonds — Ditto, New — Ditto, 1824 24,0,4 Russian 109% 8% Danish ,Spanish, :821 11X34 creek Bonds .32% 314 , 1823. — Ditto, 1825 35 U, 4 , French Renter , sp. C. —l. —c. Cuatiinala —:— Exchange —f.,— . Mexican Bonds 22% '-- 3 per cent —l. —c. Ditto, 1825 i Exchange —f. —c. ---__ PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) .£lOO SS Bolanos Alining Co £3oo 460 I/ruffian Mining Company 5 7 3{'6 Brazilian Imp. rim. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2O 78 C olumbian Mining Co. (ism at 5/. pm.) £37% 9 United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) 13934 17 Ditto Subscription lO % G uardian Assurance Co lO 27% Protector Insurance Comp . CURRENT VALUE OF GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. MADRAS, BRIT P.:, 1829. Six per Cent. Bengal Remittable Loan. At the Rate of Subscription, viz. ZO Madras Rups. per 335 Sicca Rups .32 Premium. At the Rate prevailing among Merchants and Bro kers in buying and selling Public Securities, viz. 10 8 k Madras Rups. per 100 Sicca Rups. 3l Premium. Five per Cent. Bengal Unremittable Loan At the Rate of Public Subscription, viz. 35 0 Madras Rupp. per 335 Sicca Rims 1 Premium. At the R a t e prevailing among Merchants and Bro kers in buying and Selling Public Securities, viz 1061 Madras Rups. per 100 Sicca Rups. Bengal New Five per Cent. Loan, dated August 18, 1825. At the Rate of Subscription, viz. 1 061 Madras Rups. - per 100 Sicca Rups. JUL CALCUTTA, AUD. 19. 1820 SELL. Prem. 25 8 Remittable Loan. 6 per Cent 24 8 Prem. Lisa. 2 0 Old 5 per Cent Loan 2 8 Disct Disct. 0 10 New ditto ditto 0 0 Disct. 5,000 0 Bank of 'Bengal Share 4,800 0 BOMBAY, •UG. .—Exenaxott. On London a t six Months 29 ' sight, at 1 Si. Calcutta at 30 days 110 2 Bombay Rs. per 100 Sicca •Madras at 30 days 101 Ditto per 100 Madras Remittable Lnas l4O Ditto per 100 Sicca Old 5 per Cent 107 Ditto ditto New 5 per Cent. 112 Ditto ditto MAILS. Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. A 0 0 merica...." ...... 9 Bruil ..... 1 0 0 8 H:m 11a b n t d irg ... ...... 7 ............ 00 1 0 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 1 0 Carthagena. 0 0 Leeward Islands 1 Dublin 0 0 Lisbon... ........... —.. 0 0 Flanders 0 0 Mexico 1 1 France.. ...... ...„.—.. 0 0 Sweden 0 1 Waterford 0 Guemsey&Jeney.. 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning . 6 minutes allot. 4. 1 Evening...2l minutes after 4. • *um. LONDON. TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1830. Despatches were received at the Colonial Office this morning from the Governor of Bar badoes and the whole of the Leeward Islands. The LORD CHANCELLOR gives A grand Ca binet dinner to-morrow, at which the list of Gentlemen nominated to serve the office of Sheriff will be finally arranged, previous to their bein g pricked for by the KING in Council. Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD had a good night, and is rather better to-day. Mr. HERRIES transacted official business at the Office of the. Board of Trade this morning. T 1 ,...; following are extracts from German Pape rs of the 20th instant, received this ;norring TRIESTE, JAN. 13. Major Von Prokeseh, who served on board the Austrian squadron is the Archipelago, arrived in this city a few days ago. The grant conferring on Venice the privileges of a free port continues to ex cite much uneasiness among our merchants, and especially among the ship-owners, but their forms are probably exaggerated. The statutes issued by the Emperor, confirming the freedom of the port, have been published in Venice. The Greek merchantmen in our port have lately obtained permission to hoist their national flag. VIENNA JAN. 14. It is report e d t h at t h e Diet of the Hungarian States will.be again convoked next spring, as the time fixed for the purpose at the last Diet is ap proaching, and the preparatory labours of the Com mittees. at Olen are, for the most part, completed. Numerous . promotions have taken place in the Imperial Family. • The Vienna Gazette publishes the meteorological Pbservation4.in the Imperial Observatory at Vienna, in the year 1829. At the conclusion of the report is the following passage : If the year 1829 was considerably colder than many preceding ones, the two cold winters of 1783 and 1784 (unless January, 1830, should prove very severe), are not yet pa ralleled; especially the first, when the thermometer 1,4 Vienna toll to 3 degrees below zero, (according t 9 Vahreuheit's thermometer, 511 below freezing, ".: 1 91 below zero.) The winter of 1784 was not V i c old, but o f l onger continuance as on the Ist of zero ar c , but the rmometer f e ll at Vienna 19 degrees O , and on t h e 2d o f A pr il waggons h eav il y laden crossed the Danube on the ice. FRANKFORT, JAN. 16. fr o !) On th e accounts received by mercantile letters p • en s of the terms on which the French loan at Four per Cent, w as t a k en by t h e h ouse of laths thild, the pri ces on our E xc h ange h ave aga i n risen, ditto, 96; ' 4 'e per Cent. Nletalliques, 141 ; Four per Cent. Vienna Bank Shar e s, 1270. VIENNA, JAN. 15 .—Metalliquer,103i; Four per Cent. I t to , 94k; Bank Shares, 1,262; in the evening, 1,66 • The following communication we have re. 'elyq-d this rnornin & from our Paris Correspon (lent " PARIS, JAN. 24. !tA feverish state of suspense and alarm seems Present t o p ara ly ze tile exertions of the poli tleal agit a t ors i n t h e F renc h cap i ta l . S ome say th n a prorogation o f th e Ch am b ers w ill yet ta k e I tipyand the 2d of March, the day for which nuir stand Burnt - ported to assemble. This o r has : arisen from the assum e d cer t a i n ty, th at a Ministers will be def e at e d on t h e quest i on o f , the Address in answer to the Spe e ch f rom th e r hNne. An amendment will undoubtedly be 114 )ve I in the Chamber of Deputies, and, it is ' k id, will as undoubtedly be carried by a large ta "jority, in which a demand will be made in re 4l'actful and energetic language for the dismissal Ilia Majesty's Ministers. From the calcula- Zlia I have seen of Ole probable division on ' 1 , 5 amendment, th e hi g he s t num b er s t a t e d i n :'our of the Ministerial Address has been 150 ° tea in a house of 430 members, almost all of T hom will be present on the occasion. This 4t !!vtrient is very faintly denied by the wanncs! 'ads o f th e Mi n i stry , w h o content t h emse l ves filth exclaiming against the tactics of the Oppo vil'oll,. by "declaring . the proposed amendment a ()lent, encroachment on the Royal prerogative. They refer to the celebrated Address proposed by i\'lirabeau, and voted by acclamation in the Constituent Assembly of 1789, which they say cannot possibly be surpassed in regard either to energy or respect, although its obvious tendency and its undoubted result were the horrors of anarchy, regicide, and revolution. Those who believe that Prince Polignac will take the alarm before the arrival of the 2d of March, and will not venture to meet the Chambers in the present aspect of affairs, suggest the probability of ad journment being made to the month of October, when it is said that the Ministry will recur to a sort of argumentum ad nzisericordiam, and will plead the urgency of the case, and the ne cessities of the country as inducements for vot ing the budget. They may thus, it is supposed, succeed in shaking those timid and irresolute characters who are to be found in every great popular assembly ; and in the mean time, by the proper application of the influence arising from place, patronage, and power, it is supposed that a considerable number of the patriots of the cote gauche may be detached from the ranks of the Opposition. For my part I have no con fidence in this view of the matter. lam per suaded that the Chambers will assemble on the appointed day, and I have very little doubt that the Ministry will be left in a minority on the Ad dress. I put little faith in the bravadoes of the Gazette, in whose columns it is daily contended that the Ministry will retain theirplaces in defiance of the declared wishes of the Chamber. Such state ments are evidently put forth ad captandin, and ,t is not to be denied that there are men in France, mixing even in what ,is called good so ciety, who still retain a sort of supersitious reve rence for the ensigns of royalty, and, like the worshippers at Juggernaut, are ready to throw themselves and their chartered liberties under the chariot wheels of their idol. Such men would gladly see the retirement of what is called the hesitating party in the present Cabinet, viz. de Chabrol, de Courvoisier, and d'Hau:sez, in order to give place for more decided characters to match with the Premier, de Bourmont, and Guernon de Ranville. Those at present cited are Dudon, Cornet-Dincourt, Vitrolles, Berryer, and Ravez ; and it must be confessed that a Cabinet would thus be formed more decidedly homogeneous in its character than that which at present exists. "Perhaps there is nothing which more strongly evinces the state of fermentation and activity which has pervaded the public mind since the accession of .the present Ministry than the fact, that no less than four daily journals, of the first class, have already been started in Paris, with every prospect of a further increase in their num ber. lam one of those who are well convinced that the public press of a country affords a true and unfailing criterion of the tastes and senti ments of the people. These new journals I apprehend would not have made their appearance had there not been a real demand for them in the wants and feelings of the public at large, and judging from the principles they espouse, that demand must be on the side of liberty as opposed to that ofrestriction and prerogative. The Times, the Universal, and the National having been for some time in existence, are, no doubt, well known to you ; and the Globe, which was originally devoted to the interests of literature, in that school or department which is known in France. under the name of Romanticism; and of which the Viscount de Chateaubriand is the magnus Apollo, has latterly applied itself to politics, and is henceforth to be publshed daily as a miscellaneous, political, and literary journal, supporting, of course, as it has hitherto done, the great principles of public liberty. " Speaking of the Public Press, it it worthy of remark, that in this country a number of dis- tinguished Members of both Houses of the Legislature are regular contributors to the daily journals, while some of them take a more active and decided management as editors or con ductors ; and in place of feeling any reluctance to appear in this manner before the public, not a few of them are well satisfied IA ith the dis- tinction which they thus acquire, and do not hesitate to annex their signatures at full length to their daily lucubrations. This per haps arises from the decided inferiority of Frenchmen in general as public speakers, and the extreme inaptitude of the tribune as a school of oratory. There an unpremeditated sally or a spirited reply is never heard. Each member who proposes to speak on a given subject in scribes his name before-hand, to secure himself a hearing ; and when he ascends the reading desk, as the tribune may fairly be called, he comes prepared with a formal es , say, better calculated, in general, from the style in which it is delivered, to put his , audience to sleep than to stir them up to any sudden flood of mutiny. It follows that an ora tion from the tribune is reduced to the level of a written essay ; and when it is remembered that the reporters for the public press in this country are not very expert in catching the EVE 2. Irl'EFOEY7o:—the winged words of a rapid or practised speaker, it is not wonderful that the daily journals should be preferred as a direct and acknowledged medium of' public communication. Benjamin Constant, for instance, is indefa tigable in his contributions to his favourite jour nal, the Courrier Francais. It is now ten years since this distinguished publicist took his place in the Chamber of Deputies, where he in. stantly assumed the high ground which he still maintains. Remarkable as he was among the supporters of an Opposition which was then weak in numbers, but strong in talent, he dis tinguished himself by the obstinacy and per- severance with which he defended the principles he is known to support ; and as he was opposed by a party who thought themselves even more constitutional than himself, he has had the more merit in carrying them along with hi►n, since his devotion to the cause of liberality cannot now be brought into question. The only stain which has ever been thrown on his character is, that in the latter years of the reign of Napoleon he entertained a leaning towards the Imperial go-' vernment, but that stain he h•is since effaced 1. renewed exertions in the Constitutional cause." If the circumstances of the Agricultural In• terest be, in truth, such as to entitle it to claim with justice an alleviation of its bu: diens, it plain that such alleviation ought to take place in those impositions which press upon the land ii► an exclusive manner. The only King's Taxe, rof this description are the Malt Duty of 32 mil lions, and the Hop Duty of 400,0001. pet annum, which are levied upon the produce of the soil almost as soon as it is gathered ; after which follow the less direct duties on Beer and British Spirits, amounting, the former to above three, and latter to about four millions an nually. There is then the Land Tax of a mil lion a year, but beyond this, there arc, so far as we can perceive, no Government taxes which can at all be said to affect exclusively the landed interest. Taking these taxes altogether at twelve mil• lions, and adding to them five millions for the portion of the Poor Itates falling on the land (that on dwelling-houses, factories, &c. being about three), and five millions more for the Tithes, the agricultural burthens, using the ex pression in an extended sense, may be set down at about twenty-two millions a-year. According to CoLQufroutsr, the net annual profits of British agriculture are near 220 mil lions sterling, therefore the burthens are, to the clear profits, only in the ratio of one to ten, at the utmost. This shows how considerably the burthens of the land have been over-rated, and how small a proportion they bear to the protec tion derived from the Corn Bill—a protection which has been often admitted to be equivalent to between 60 and 70 per cent. No other branch of industry is favoured to an extent any thing like this. The agricultural, or any other interest, that is saddled with impositions disproportionate to those of the rest of the community, have a fair right to complain ; and there is no object in finance that the Government should seek to at tain more diligently, than the equal distribution among all classes of the national charges. But so long as any part of the system of protection is upheld, its value to the protected interest must be taken into account, or justice cannot possibly be done. If Great Britain were not afflicted with Corn Laws for the benefit of the landlords, those gentlemen's complaints would be put forth with a far better grace than at present, when the people are actually debarred from buying corn wherever it may be to be had cheapest, in order to enable rents to be kept up to a standard arti ficially and unreasonably high, in comparison with the general value of labour throughout the country. We are anxious for a reduction in the Malt and Beer Duties, because it is next to a certainty that consumption would be so much increased that the Revenue would not suffer, whilst the health, comfort, and morals of the lower classes would be preserved from the destruction which threatens them. It is moreover highly desirable that the Poor Laws should undergo a thorough revision, and that some attempt should be made, either by emigration, home colonies, or some thing else, to stop the progress of pauperism, which is exhausting the means of the industrious, at a rate to which it may, one day, be impossible to set bounds. We see also, the necessity of such an alteration taking place in the tithe system, as might preserve to us the benefits of an active and enlightened clergy, for the comfort and relief of distress in mind, body, and estate, and the maintenance of peace and good will among men, whilst it relieved the country of the expence of the idleness and profligacy which an authorized system of jobbing and corruption could hardly have failed to engender in the Church. But if such changes were to happen, and agriculture be thereby benefited beyond all other branches of industry, with what justice could it then call on the State to continue to protect it by Corn Laws ? The re ason w hy the opponents of free trade sometimes get a good handle to attack it, is the existence of those monopolies which pre vent its having fair play, among which the corn prohibition is the most mischievous and abomi nable. Abuses are so numerous and thriving among us, that they are constantly set up as jus tification and defences for each other; they form a succession of entrenchments behind which the devil takes refuge, and bids defiance to the reiterated attempts of honest men and good citizens, to drive him from the citadel. I)RURY-LANE THEATRE.----Mr.KEAN made his appearance here last night in MasseNcErt's Play of Riches. He went through the part, that of Lake, with h's usual energy. COVENT -GARDEN THEATRE.—MISS KEM ISLE repeated her character of Euphrasia last night. She was welcomed with enthusiasm, but the part is undeserving of her genius ; it is stiff—forced -unnatural. ADELPIII THEATRE.---4 new Burletta, in one act, entitled Supper Was Over, was brought out last night at this Theatre. It is a lively and bustling per formance. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A TIIURLES CORUESPONDENT.--." A report prevails here to-day that the celebrated litany, who was outlawed for the murder of 3lAna, was found 'dead, and his.body was privately in terred ; hut on his 'friends learning of a Magistrate that he might be interred publicly (as no man is recognised guilty till tried and so found by a Jury of country), he was forthwith disinterred, and amidst a large concourse of peop'e removed for internment to a church-yard. It is suppused that getting out of a wood in the neighbourhood of Longfield, he slipped off a ditch and falling on 'a Pistol he had slung by his side it went off and mort a lly woun d e d him. Thus perished a most daring spirit, who fur years set all thu authorities at defiance. —Since the above was put in type, we have received another letter corroboratidg in.every particular our cortesponlent's report.—Tippe rary Free Press. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JAN. `23.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived from London, the B.:).alind, Morris, for Demerara. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 25.—Arrived the Clio, ---, %rnryi Quebec, Sailed t!)e Champion, for Siena Leone. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 21.—Wind E. to N.E.—Ar rived the Onyx, Brown, from Gibraltar. Sailed the Tamar, Mills, for Demerara; Westmoreland, Patrick, fur New York ; Montrose, Richardson, for Deme rara; Dee, Cork, for Batavia; Pyramus, Elder, for Van Dieman's Land; and Amethyst, Thompson, for Bengal. FALM'oUTH, JAN. 24.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived !he Mary and Ann, Cliff, from Lisbon, sails split.— Sailed the Lord Melville packet, for the Leeward Islands; and Native, —, for St. Übes. COWES, JAN. 25.—Arrived the Maria, Palmer, from the Mauritius. PENZANCE, JAN., 24.--Arrived the Jane, Curia then, from Lisbon; Planter, Johnson, from New foundland; and Anna, M`Lachlan, from Jamaica, out eleven weeks. The Lord Nelson, Boyd, from Dublin to Irvine, struck on the Cannon Rock the 22d inst., and filled immediately ; only the mate saved. The Dope, Hodge, from Sierra Leone to London, was wally wrecked the 19th inst. at Scilly; part of the cargo saved ; also the master and four of the crew. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CLOCK From the American Papers to the 26th of December, received at the North and South American Coffee-house this morning :—There has been a very heavy gale in the vicinity of St. John's, New Brunswick on the 12th of December ; trees, fences, &c. were blown down, also two small pinnacles on the tower of St. John's church, con sisting of two stones weighing five hundred weight each. The gale was also severe at St. Andrew's. Accounts from Mexico stase that the affaits of that country were tranquil. The conducta, which was to leave tLe capital on the Bth Nov., was to bring an un usually large amount in specie, about two millions of dollars. By the brig Caraccas, in 13 days from St. Thomas's, accounts have been received from Colombia, that all was tranquil in the provinces of Venezuela and Maturin. The French Commander of St. Pierre has despatched a vessel to Halifax for a supply of 500 barrels of flour. Montreal Papers to the 17th December, and Quebec to the 13th December, have also been received at . the North nad South American Coffee-house. The i\lontreal Papers are void of interest. The Queb:c Papers state that the navigation of the river at that port was closed by ice, and that sufficient snow had fallen to make good winter reads. TIIE FUNDS. The Consol Market, which left off yesterday afternoon very heavy at 921 in the house, and were afterwards done at 92- opened this morning in a very sickly state at 92i- 1 for the account, since which they receded to 92/ tol and 92 for money, which is a fall since yesterday morning of I to / per cent. Consols are now 921 for the Account. The true cause of this retrograde movement is not as yet ascertained, it is said, that it is owing to some firiancial measures going to be adopted on the opening of Parlia ment ; also that Ministers have given up the plan of pay ing o ff the Four per Cents. The Foreign Market is also very heavy, and most of the prices are lower then yesterday. Accounts from Madrid of the Ist Jan., state, that ac cording to the Budget, there is a deficiency in the Re venue of 14,155,131 reals. They write from Lisbon, that the Count Bastos, Minis ter of State, and the favourite of the late Queen, on her dea:h repaired to the Palace of Don Miguel, to condole with him. Don Miguel ordered him immediately tore tire, and never more appear in his presence. ENGLISH FUNDS. Bank Stock, 218 19 31 per Cent. 994 India Stock, 2311 31 New '4 per Cent., 1011 1 S per Cent. Cons. 92 1 4 per Cent. 1826 10541 Do., for Account, 921 1 India Bonds, 73 74 Ditto Reduced, 921 Exchequer Bills. 76 77 TWO O'CLOCK. PANIC IN THE MONEY MARKET. For a long time , past the Consol Market has not been so agitated as it was this day, about twelve o'clock, when a genera panic took place. Consols, which were in the early part of the morning at 921, fell to 911 for the Ac count. The whole home was panic struck, and all sellers. Various reports were into circulation, such as two millions of Exchequer Bills going to be funded —the Clubs at the West end of the town having sold upwards of a million of Stock—unfavourable accounts of his Majesty's health—a dissolution of Parliament, &c. &c. ; but within a short period a re-action has taken place, and Consols at present may be quoted 921. With all this panic we understand the Hebrew party have been purchasing therefore it is presumed that time evil is not so great as ima gined. There appears to be a great abundance of stock on the market, with money in great plenty. Little attention t: paid to the Foreign Market, as all the bustle is in that of the British. Letters have been received from Vienna this morning, of the 13th of January, stating that from the Ilth of Jan. to the 13th, a great movement in the Funds took place there : the Five per Cents. fell from 105 to 1024 ; Bank shares receded from 1,301, exclusive of the dividend to 1,264; the Four per Cents. were 94. The above fall in the Funds is attributed to persons having overbought themselves. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for Account, 921. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. Consols 924 I. Danish 75 Do. for Ac. 92i Greek, 1825 36 Brazilian Bonds 71 Mexican, 1825 Buenos Ayres Peruvian Chaim Do. Russian Columbian, 1824, 241 Spanish 11 It THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY). HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses:.) ST. JAMES'S. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay 4 :2 4 to .£2 15 New Meadow Hay .. 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and I:ye-grass 11,y 4 0 5 0 Clover Hay 3 10 5 5 Oat Straw £1 15 to £2 0 1 Wheat Straw... 2 0 2 5 A good supply ; trade, owing perhaps to advanced pricei being demanded, very dull as,last quoted. SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowlald Meadow Hay £2 0 to £2 13 New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto. 3 3 3 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 10 Clover Hay (extra fine)....f 5 5 _Generally Oat Straw £1 12 to Il 113 I Wheat Straw 1 18 2 2 Surply limited, trade a little alive, cud prices stationary. TEARING NEWSPAPERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sut,—l have taken your Paper for a long time, and am quite satisfied with it; but I have lately been very strongly importuned to discontinue it, and substitute for it a cotemporary Evening Paper. I consulted the Gentlemen who frequent my parlour, and they were unanimously of opinion that " The Sun" was the best Evening Paper, and I consequently refused to change. Since my refusal, my copy of " The Sun" has been torn in the room every evening, so as to be scarcely legible ; and I am informed that the same has been the case in several other houses in my neighbourhood, If you notice this matter it may at once lead to the detection of the delinquent, and induce your rival's agents to adopt a more honourable opposition by emulating the excellence of your Paper. I am, Sir, your obedient Servant. JOHN KEMP. Crown and Woo!pack Tavern, St. John -street-road, Jan. 1830. *,* We are much obliged to our worthy Subscriber .for his friendly communication, which we willingly in sert, in the 11.1) 3 that publication may lead to the detection of the offenders. If our Cotemporary do no employ mere temperate agents, we suspect it will fail in it s desperate purpose of recruiting a .falling circubri tion, even by dishonest means. Perhaps these same vagabond agents are not aware tlyit if caught in their teariig" vocation, they are eligible to whiter quarters in the House of Coreection, or _Brixton Treadmill. We kindly theme out this hint for their especial belief:6 merely remarking to our unfortunate cotemporary that " the'latourer is worthy of his hire," a circumstance which seems to have hitherto eludd its best endeavours, but a knowledge of which, may be of some service in cor. reitiiiglhe natural tendency of its p c i o r i , s an O F consumptive eh SUN.*ts. E LAW INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY). COURT OF CHANCERY. ENORMOUS COSTS.—RUSSELL V. BEECHES'. Mr. RUSSELL, by previous permission, appeared this morning to ask for the indulgence or the Court in makire: an interlocutary order to suspend the payment of 5,300: and a fraction, reported by the Master to he due for the execution of a commission to examine witnesses in the Ne therlands and France. The Master had allowed each Commissioner five, and each Solicitor four guineas a-day, besides all expenses, and a very ample sum for contingent demands. Nine witnesses had been examined, 1541 folio• of deposition taken, and eleven days occupied in the pro ceeding, for which this enormous sum had been allowed by the Master. There were two Solicitors and five Com missioners engaged in the undertaking ; and one of the solicitors had been allowed to charge as having appeared in two characters, namely, that of solicitor for an executor, and that of solicitor for a claimant. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, Mr. PEPYS, Mr. BA RES R. and one or two more Learned Gentlemen, appeared Co op pose the application. The Souciroa-Gestruar. called for an affidavit of the facts. Mr. RUSSELL was not opening the petition of appeal against this monstrous allowance, but only sliming aprima fide case for the interposition of the Court until the peti tion could be heard. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was prepared to meet the pe tition, and insisted on its being goKe into. The Loan CHANCELLOR was of opinion tliit so much of the petition should be opened as would shew to him that the Court ought to interfere to stay the regular execution of the Master's report. Mr. Rossimn—My Lord, all that I have stated appears by the proceedings, and I think, on the authority of hun dreds of cases that have been decided in this Court, what I have stated is quite sufficient to induce your Lordship to say that this large sum of money shall not at present be paid out of the fund in Court. The SOLICITOR- GEN zr.AL— Produce the proceedings? Mr. RossaeL—We have not the proceedings; but you have them. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL.—Have you given us notice to produce them ? Mr. RUSSELL—No, we have not. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—Then you have no right to call upon us to produce them. The Loan CHANCELLOR—How can I know what the facts are unless you either produce the proceedings, or have affidavits to support what you have_stated ? Mr. Rossenn—Aly Lord, we have not the proceedings, but the Master's report chews the sum that has been allowed—an office-copy of which I have in my hand. The LORD CHANCELLOR—You might have had the proceedings, by having given notice to the other side to produce them. Mr. RussEnt —My client is not here; his clerk only is here, and he had no idea that the ca-e would have been required to have been gone into beyond the mere statement of the facts which I here made, which statement is borne out by the Master's certificate, by the depositions, and by all the proceedings. The Loan CHANCELLOR—These were costs occasioned by the execution of this commission—that is, the travelling from one place to another, and the examining of the wit nesses; the inquiry was at Louvain, at Antwerp, and at Paris. I don't mean to say the sum is not apparently very great and enormous ; but you cannot by a reference to the mere nunber of folios of deposition, say that it is too much. The Master, no doubt, nude a minute in quiry into the propriety of these charges ; I cannot sup pose that it was not a very active inqury ; and it is not because the sum appears to be very large, that I am to say it is wrong. Mr. RUSSELL--My Lord, I am not calling on your Lord ship so to art. The LORD CHANCELLOR—But unless yon give me some grounds for supposing that the report is wrong, I have not myself the means of knowing it is so, therefore I cannot say it is wrong because it is a large sum. I re member- a case in the Court of Common Pleas, where 1,0001. was charged for executing a commission, which occasioned a good deal of consternation, and where, I be lieve, it was ultimately cut down considerably. Mr. RussELL—lf your Lordship encourages this prac tice— The Loan CHANCELLOR—I beg your pardon, Mr. Russell, I am not encouraging any practice ; but when the Master has certified that a certain sum is due, I can not, without some evidence before me, interfere for the purpose of setting aside his decision and preventing the regular execution of it. That is encouraging nothing, and it is not a proper phrase to use with reference to the decision of the Master. Mr. RUSSELL—Jt was not with reference to the de cision of the Master, my Lord, I used it. The Loan CHANCELLOR—Yes, it must have been ; and I must assume that the Master had acted properly, unless I see evidence to the contrary. Mrt RusseLL—No, my Lord, it was with reference to the preposition of my Learned Friends on the other side, that all these proceedings should have appeared in affidavit at another enormous expense to the trustees. The LORD CHANCELLOR—Then that's not what they say. They say you ought to hove produced the proceedings, and that if the proceedings are in the hands of your opponents, you might have bad them by having given them notice to produce them. I have beard it over and over again said, that fur the pur pese of suspending the effect of a decree, or an order, you inuat,go into the whole of a case. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—That is the reason why I proposed that the petition should be heard. Mr. RUSSELL—And I have known times without num ber that, on its being merely suggested to the superior branch of the Cour, that an appeal has been filed against a decree below directing the payment of money, that the Lord Chancellor had stayed the execution of that order. The LORD Ctratecetema--Th a t has only been done where there has been a great point of law to be decided. Mr. RUSSELL , —WdI, I now leave the case in your Lord• ship's hands. This we must be glad of, ut any rat-, that by having come here now we have ascertained how the matter is to be met on the other side ; and since they are so urgent fur affidavits, I can assure them they shall have plenty of them, for it seems to us so extraordinary that this immense sum should hate been thus allowed, that we ai e determined to pursue it afterwards, should it now be paid oat. The Lorin CHANCELLOR—The Master being of Opinion that, under all the circumstances, this is not an unreason able sum to have been allowed, I cannot, without some evidence, feel justified in suspending the regular exe cution of the award. I admit that it appears to be a very large sum, hut it has already been examined, investigated into, and judgment has been pronounced upon it by a competent authority; therefore, you must rely on the remedy you have if you should hereafter set aside these proceedings. Application was made for the costs, which were granted, thereby dismissing the motion with costs. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S AND ROLLS COURT. Nuthing of a ny public importance took place at either o! these Omits up t time when our reporter left. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. CA MERIDG E ITT V. BEA LES. This is a cause relating to the right of tolls in the town of Cambridge. It has been twice tried, and a verdi.t ou both occasions found for th e dtfendant. _ _ Mr. TAUNTON now !limed for another trial on two grounds—lst. The misdirection of the Learned Judge (Tcnterden) in summing up to the Jury ; and. 2d. Ilia Lordship's refusal of certain evidence, which, the plsintiff contended, ought to have been received. The COUhT said,,the cause being one of importance, they wou!d look into several cases before they gave a decision. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. LA FITTE SLATTER. Mr. Serjeant Wirmg said that this ease was tried befuT6 the Lord Chief Justice, at Guildhall. It was an qetism a bill of exchange by the indorsee agaimit the drawer. There was a verdict for the plainti . cf with liberty reset ved to enter a nonsuit. The qucation turned upon. the neces sity of the service of a notice on the dellodaut of the bill being dishonoured. The bill was drawn by the defendant on a person of the name of Dobbs, and the indorsers e,ftoi• him were a Mr. Rose and a Mr. Magrath. Tina 4.l,..ArLed Serjeant here argued at greet length this; k'fie vson-service of the notice of the bill being dishonpi r vied could not be ex cused by the defendant's hav;aii 'own heard to sgy, previous to the bill becoming II;u3, hat be could not pay it, as was given in evidence at the trial. He contend e d th a t a not i ce, notwithstanding, shout I have been served upon the de fendant; in support of th's argument, the following au lo'njukLi.si7g'rsoulliadarsniee- A I tun, 4t It Maw I andEthatsl au thorities ele:l:irnytelep pagetge.2l viz,( 3 I r li tf e a ll i l i a. :l ;:vk Scutt, a 4 'I S 111-9 15 e w ell and Ahlt my, page Q ; rtu i n t a v, n .a d s 6 r: Q le . to slo.w ause. • applied 7 a ed n ,o C ru r an esL o •e n l ; l, ll, gage akt.e a tt m, W- ,01IN Nr. EFFCOTT, M.A., BAN rister- at - Law , ;lliildleTtinp' e , is anointed Chitl Justtt e of Sierra Leone and the Gait bia, with a satary f 1 & 500/. per annum, and ern9liAnenta ae Wueli SPIRIT OF THli PUBLIC JOURNALS. The death of the Right Hon. George Tier ney, M.P., was announced last night through the ordinary channel of an advertisement. Had ;this distinguished statesman's esreer been a s successful as his principles were fixed and une accommodating, couriers might have been in waiting to announce the fatal event, and the precise moment of its occurrence, to the So vereign in his palace, and reporters stationed to collect the details of his last illness. We can now do little more than announce the fact that Mr. Tierney is no more. We know not with certainty what was his age ; but he must be the last of nearly ten of that galaxy of talent which illuminated the House of Commons by its brilliancy, from the close of the American war and during the tempestuous season of the French Revolution. Fox, Burke, Sheridan, Windham, Pitt, are all gone before him. In ferior in brilliance, but almost equal in argu ment, to Fox,—less burdened with the trap pings of learning, and less perplexed with the refinements of metaphysics, than Burke .or Windham,—second in wit, but more abound ing in an,—less sonorous i l ) v o i s s i dm o o gt , ha th h anSleri Sheridan,—less and 1 Pitt,—Mr. Tierney was, ge nerally heard with attention equal to any Of these illustrious persons, in the debate ; and if he could not succeed in carrying the opinions he espoused, he seldom allowed his adversaries to boast of a personal triumph over him as their advocate. Mr. Tierney's speeches were more like collo quial good sense spoken in the parlour,• than lofty or studied eloquence tittered in the senate and he was therefore spared the pain of Many a broken metaphor and redundant clause, givea merely to round a sentence. He was sagacicus in an eminent degree. • His enemies have given the quality a less engaging epithet ; but whether it were sagacity or cunning, in him it was a t i o s but promotetoo ob vioushis t own personal interests. P er h a p s th ere m i g h t bep ure and tha t s useful quality nevere x f e o rt r ed it the less disposition abroad to excuse or pardon it to its possessor, because it was but too often successfully exercised in detecting and exposing the selfish motives of others.—Times. Among the several modes of " equitable ad justment proposed by country gentlemen as a cure for what they call the " public " distresses, but which in reality mean nothing more than their own " distresses" arising from their anticipation of a probable fall of rents, is one of old date, which Mr. Western and some very few other in dividuals describe rhetorically as a plan for " ren dering money more abundant." We hope that Mr. Western will not take amiss our applying well-known names to devices which are by no means novel. When the Honourable Gentleman exclaims that money is too scarce, andehen re commends that it should b e ren d e r e d " more abundant," h e only means in fact that it should be rendered of less value r —pat the material should be more vile,—that thFcifrrency,should be debased : he means that,_ or he employs words which have no meaning. The expedient of creating a different medium of currency from that of the precious metals, moreover, is not, with Mr. Western, an end in itself,—it is an in strument merely for a secondary end, that of making bread more scarce, which, again, is but an instrument of the great end of to make the soil that produces th e b rea d more costly—i. e., to raise Mr. Western's 'rents anti those of other country gentlemen... Now this is, in plain English, a most iniquitous project. It is, we do say, most iniquitous to lay this long train of machinations for promoting the selfish interest of any one order of men in the realin at the expense of all the remainder. The echeme is to operate by mea n s o f a l arge creation of promissory notes, issued by all who may. choose to utter them, and, we suppose, not convertible into money at the will of the holder, but only at the will of the utterer. We say we suppose so, because at present any man who pleases may issue Bank-notes on the condition of payi ng them in gold when called upon : so that if the " Western paper" be still convertible, we do not see what the Essex country gentlemen would gain by augmenting it to even such an amount. Then, taking for granted that England is once more to - be blessed by a currency consisting of promissory notes alone, let us see how, even in that case, the country gentleman would derive, a more substantial profit than he now does. from other men's labours. The Paper li.,sued by the country bankers would be js.st as great in quantity, and by consequenc e just as low in quality, as ever they, ot , any of them, might choose to make it, Two standards would immediately start into existence,— namely, one for our domestic transactions, and a second for those with foreigners. W e might increase our paper currency ad iyinitum, and the amount of interest, or of rent, in paper money, might be doubled, or trebled, or qua drupled. But what would the monied capitalist in the one case, or in the other the land e d gen tleman, be . the better? Would the squire be able to get one pennyweight of that species of: coin which foreign nations value, than be a t i sm . sent does for his f a rm s ? W ou ld hot the ex change rise against the counts,: so much, that Mr. Western could notconimand a single grail,: of gold or silver more than he did before the new abundance of his papersmoney was called forth ? Would a less proportion of the Hon. Gentleman's estate go to the purchase of the same number of hogsheads of claret, of liveries for his footmen, or of horses, carriages, books, or furniture, than before ? His taxes, to be sure, so long as the nominal amount of them was not raised, would sit lighter upon the landed gentle man than they had done; but the tact is, that the taxes must be increased, or what are deemed the necessary expenses of the Qovernment tould not be provided for by the same nominal 'Amount of inconvertible paper,, as of solid gold and silver coin. Then the raanufacturiwa pOpulatione— what wonid become of it ? ;-that s a l e sh ou ld we have fur our goods foreign markets, if their price were to rise, i n a currency which had, real value ; and if'. the currency had no intrinsic value, what ;:etrinsic benefit, let u s as k Aga i n, would S:a:crue from it to the Hon - . Gentleman ? In war time, with an inconvertible - paper, the squires and farmers got enormously rich, be cause our manufacturing and commercial interest, having a monopoly of threesfourths of all foreign markets, could force foreign purchasers to me demnify them for the exorbitant wages whim they themse!yes were obliged, by the high price of bread and meat, to pay their own Lneli s h journeymen. Would that, or could ie„ happen now ? With, competition bearding es in every quarter of the globe, a rise of (see...tenth 'or fit . - teenth in wage s w ou ld re d uee our manufactures to the h ome - mar k et ; and betwe en th e aggrava- Lion of p oor - ra t es , end time conse quen t f a lli ng of f" of volunt ar y consumption, d oes M r. W estern see no retribution (Yen ill the direct tendency of his ,( abundant 'none)," to produce stilt male abundant want ? The Scotch paper system has