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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARts, Amur. 14.—Yv,terday nine indivi duals were sentenced by the Correctional Police to imprisonment or fines, for being concerned in the ditturbances with reference to the preaching -4.4.. the Missionaries. Ilt ENCII FUNDS. April 13, The per Cents. MARE)[ 28.---Couriers have arrived this morning at Belgrade from Constantinople. The news from this last city are of 20th March. Every thing .was in it le greatest fermentation, .1,41:1 an insurrection of the Janissaries had ex cited still greater consternation among the inha '4:it:tilts. The Sul :n, in consequence of the preparations for war which are continued with „the greatest activity, bad also ordered a press of . sailors, which was already carried into execution with great rigour, and without respect to per 'sons. Some Ortas of the Janissaries, who had been ordered for the sea service, have positively refused ; these threats and vociferations soon excited the fury of the other Ortas, and they proceeded to act with violence towards their officers. The new Aga of the Janissaries, lately ~ a ppointed by the Sultan, was the first victim of _their rage. His predecessor, who . was discharged on account of the disorders which took place on the arrival of the head of Ali Pacha, was imme diately re-instated in that important post. The Janissaries, after having murdered their chief,' iiispersed about the streets of Constantinople,' and gave loose, without restraint, to their hatred of the Christians. All they met in the streets, of whatever nation, were massacred. Constantinople is now as light at night as in 'the day time, on account of the fires of the ~ - ttevouacs, which fill the city and the environs. great city resembles a vast camp, and the hopes of making war on the accursed Ghaurs (the Russians), and of enriching themselves by • pillage, excites in all the Musselmen extraordi nary joy and enthusiasm. Their religious zeal, which has, been rather less vehement for some years past, has now resumed all its impetuosity, and the people are more fanatical than ever. The accounts from Epirus and Albania are favourable to the Greeks. Choarschid Pacha is so occupied with the Sii;ots and Albanians, that tie has not yet been able to think of executing , --the order of the Sultan, or of proceeding with . his, army to the Morea. All the men able to - bear arms in the Pachalik of Joannina have re ceived them, and endeavour by every means to preiTnt the carrying away of the treasures of Ali Pacha. _ _ ,On.the frontiers of Bosnia, the Turks have had -, - ieie - nt quarrels with the Chiefs of the Bosniac • - :ribesi and in the partial actions which have taken place, the latter have always had the ad vantage. In Servia, on the contrary, all is yet tranquil. Prince Milosch conducts himself with great prudence, but it may be foreseen that this calm will not last long. When hostilities break • out between . the Russians and the Turks, there is little doubt that the Servians, who have been so long oppressed, will again take up arms, and endeavour - to take advantage of this opportu nity, finally to. throw off the Ottoman yoke. Accounts from Odessa of 6th March say, that whatever has the remotest connexion with the Greeks, or wilt the struggle which is about to commence, excites the liveliest interest in the public. A company.of amateurs has lately per formed the tragedy of Philocieles, translated into •thodern Greek._ The theatre could not contain , • the crowd that pressed for admission. Madame catalani, the younger, who had acted with gene, ral satisfaction the part of Ajanira, has since been daily engaged in private houses to sing pa triotic Greek hymns and Russian national airs. The subject of all. these musical songs is the .fall or the Ottoman Empire. Letters from Vienna of the 3d of April say, A 1 1 the accounts and all the private letters con . tique to indicate war. The most strange catas trophes threaten Turkey ; a kind of civil war has broken out in Bosnia; Servia is in fermenta tion, and the t inhabitants wait only for a favour 'able moment to throw off the yoke of the Mus selmans. In Albania and Epirus, the contest has recommenced with great fury ; and, lastly, .the news from Constantinople is of the most alarming nature." The slight rise in our funds has not been sup ported. The Actions of the Bank are again at Gel ; and the Metalliques at 74 5-lOths. VIENNA, APIIIT, 2.—We expect about the 18th or 20th of April, the return of the courier who was dispatched on the 19th of March with the Note of the Reis 'Effendi, which our Court re fused to receive. The friends of peace flatter them selves that he will bring back the news of a change in the dispositions of the Porte. The courier dis patched by M. de Tatischeff. to St. Petersburgh will return to Vienna about the same time. Pito ra RUSSIA, MARCH 12.—0 n the Nth January (0.5.), there appeared at St. Petersburgh an Ukase of very great im portance,-and of which there are few instances in the annals of the Russian Administration of Justice. It passes judgment on a great number of Civil Officers, who carried on their mal-prat. tiles in Siberia during the time the Privy Counsellor Pestel was Governor of that immense country. When, in 1818, M. de Spe_ r.wki was appointed his successor, he received at the same time orders to make a report on all the existing abuses. This - its done, and the Emperor referred the report to the examina tion of a Commission, of which Count Kotschubei was Presi (lent, and in which the two Ministers, Count Guriew and F. Gotitzer, General Count Araktschejew, and Privy Counsellors SPetenAd and Campenhausen had a seat and vote. The result of this invtigation, confirmed by the Emperor, is, that 678 civil officers in Siberia have been removed, punished, or repri manded. Without going into the catalogue of their ttansgres- sions, which is indeed printed and published, but not gene- rally circulated, we observe that the chief charges were— ' 1. Exaction and. monopoly in supplying the Siberian Govern wents with grain : 2. Peculation in the making cf rodes, and il,l calculating the contributions of the country ; 3. Embezzle 7 ment in levying the tribute of the subject tribes ; 4. Embez .7.lenztenit to the detriment of the Colonies, &c.-&c. ; and that, in consequence of the Emperor's confirmation, the late G . overnor .Df Siberia, Pestei, is discharged from the se:vice, " because he had remained twelve years abs'ent from the scene of his official. ; duties, and, by this long absence, left ample room for these evil practices ;" that the Governor of Irkutzk, N. Tutkin, is given over to justice; and the Governor of Tomsk, M. Illischewsky, to be dismissed from, his office, and referred, with his defence to the Senate. In the Ukase there follow the other 675 of ficers, with their names. The attentive observer of the Rus sian administration of justice will find this Ukase, extending to so large a number of individuals, with the just severity which raises a barrier against all intercession and other ordi nary preservatives, to be a very rare, and for that reason the more beneficial phenomenon. At the same time with this Ukase appeared an Imperial Decree respecting the new division of Siberia. Late letters from Trieste say, that the pre tended naval victory of the Greeks is by no means confirmed, and therefore the whole is perhaps a fiction of the friends et the Greeks in the lonian Islands. SPAIN. MADRID, APRIL I.—(Private Letter.)—Yes terday, in an Extraordinary Session of the Cortes, the impeachment of the late Minister of War:, General Sanchez Salvador, was decided on. This looks like real responsibility,—and the case is one of aggravated injustice. lie had marked out an eminent and excellent patriot for his victim, Colonel Serrano, whom he had brought before the Tribunals with no other evidence than an anonymous letter, sent by the said Minister him self to the presiding Judge. Serrano, however, and his pretended accomplices, were absolved. The interest taken in this question is very eager, as Serrano is one of our pu'rest and most enthu siastic Liberals. Our Ministry pursues its career with deter mined step and evil augury. They have again added to their streugth by a number of new ap pointments, and the list just published of Politi cal Chiefs and Military Commandants is made up of names noted only for their attachment to this corrupt faction. Among them is llezeta, the bosom friecd of our Prime Minister, who is made Political Chief of Granada, and this shortly after having attacked with a stiletio a printer, who refused to give up the name of the author of some anonymous paper in which he was attacked. A number of the Ex-Deputies are in the list, consisting of those who supported the Liberti cide Laws, with which they closed their la bours, and which they gave us as an inheritance. To-day Riego's Presidency has ceased. No thing can be more admirable, nothing can be more prudent and dignified, than his conduct in the Chair. There has been a severe struggle for the second Presidency and Secretaryships. The Ministerialists have won the former. Hay etansVal des is appointed. The Opposition the latter, having installed D. Angel Saavadra. Thus, in fact, all our grand questions are decided—and the two par ties seem so exactly balanced, that every thing is determined by ttvo or three Members, whose principles are doubtful, and who are wafted t ; bout by the impulse or the intrigue of the m~~me..t. We have still unpleasant news from Pamplona. The liberal garrison is shut up in the fortress, and constantly insulted by the Servile:, who speak out of the certain aid they are to receive from the French Cordon. If our Government had any sense or energy, they would answer the plots of French Ultras by sending Mina, or Lo pez Banos, among the Pyrenneau provinces, and turn these execrable weavonl of conspiracy upon themselves ; but we have no hopes of this. We have news from Costa Firma of the middle of January. General Cruz Mourgeon, who had arrived at Panama with an expedition of 3,000 men against the Insurgents, having been invited to join the Columbian Republic, replied, that he came from Spain to assist the cause of liberty, and not to destroy or injure it. Bolivar has named him Captain-General of Quito. We wait anxiously for the decision as to Cadiz being declared a free port. The Ministers will oppose it. They had the Gadalanos, who are too stubborn to bEnd the neck to any sort of op pression; and too active to be lulled by any false and vain promises. CITY BUSINESS.-Yesterday a Court of Alder men was held at Guildhall, for the general dis patch of public business.—Several persons were sworn, and others allowed, and some discharged from the office of brokers.—NEWMAN KNOWLYS, Esq. Recorder, was unanimously elected Steward of the Borough of Southwark, in the room of Sir John Silvester, Bart. late Recorder, deceased.— A poor girl of St. Margaret, Westminster, was admitted into the School of Emanuel Hospital. —A Court of Common Council will be held this day, to consider the steps necessary to be taken in consequence of the appointment of NEWMAN KNowL - vs, Esq. Common Serjeant, to the office of Recorder. CITY OF LONDON NATIONAL Scmoor.s.—On Sunday last the Anniversary Sermon in behalf of this excellent In stitutiOn was preached at St. Andrew's, Holborn, by the Lord Bishop of LONDON, before his Royal Highness the Duke of York, the Patron ; the Right Hon. Lord Kenyon ; John Whitmore, Esq. the President; Mr. Alderman Bridges, who was the only Alderman that attended ; Fred. Webb, Esq. and others of the Vice-Presidents, the Stewards, and Committee.— In this spacious and beautiful Church a most respectable and crowded congregation was assembled ; among whom the orderly demeanour of the hundreds of poor children who at tended, their strict attention to their religious duties, and the admirable manner in which they bore their part in the . service of the day, were the theme of universal praise ; and we are happy to learn that the success of the Right Rev. Preacher's forcible appeal was evinced by one of the largest collections which has ever accrued to the funds of the Institution. On the Duke of York's quitting the church, he was received by the multitudes who thronged the whole surrounding space with every testimony of respect and affection ; and it was only by the remonstrances of the Treasurer and other gentlemen con nected with the institution, and by their representations of the sacredness of the day, addressed to those immediately in the line through which his Royal Highness passed to his carriage, that they were persuaded to refrain from loudly cheering him. It is equally gratifying to the feelings of Englishmen to see the people actuated by such a spirit, and to behold the second member of the Illustrious House of Brunswick upholding the Constitution in Church and in State, by his patronage of such an institution as we have here brought to the notice of our readers. PIDDING & CO. No. I,Cornhill, apprize the Public that NEXT TUESDAY, 23d April, (St. George's Day) will be the Last Day of Drawing the present Lottery, and the conclusion of the Contract : 22 Capitals remain, including 2 of £20,000, and these must All be decided on' that day. The First-drawn Prize will have one £20,000, and the Third drawn Prize above £2OO is to have the other 1:20,000, so that it is very probable it may be £21,000 ; and the Public can hardly have forgot that tne very last Price of £20,000, as well as the last Prize of ,e21,01)0, of which the Public got every Share, were absolutely sold at PIDDING'S Lucky Cerner, No. 1, Cernhill. FOR THE SUN. A LANDED PROPRIETOR to the FUNDED, MO NIED, and MANUFACTURING INTERESTS of the COUNTRY. ", • • We, Gentlemen, are now at your feet, w hilst you revel not only in perfect security, as you suppose, receive your dividends, and the in terest of your mortgage monies, and of every other security which you hold of ours in a me tallic currency., - which you advanced us in a de preciated prAper one ; whilst, besides, you are enabled to, purchase with the same money, with out this additional great advantage, twice the quan.dty of provisions at market, and every ar ticle of comfort and luxury, so that your in comes are considerably more than doubled, and you become at once substantially more than twice as rich as you ever were before, or have any just right to be, whilst we, poor miserable wretches, are impoverished precisely in the same ratio that you are enriched, compelled to pay greatly more than ever we received, with the pro duce of our lands at market diminished greatly be low the prices at which we can afford to cultivate our lands and sell them, pressed to the very earth by taxes, tithes, poor-rates, the payment of la bourers, and all necessarily attached to the land, together with the interest of mortgages to you,. exacted in a very different currency from that in which you advanced your capitals. In a word, by a single stroke of the pen, the single vote of a Committee of our worthy representatives in Parliament, you have your incomes more than doubled, whilst we have our's diminished, not only in the same but a much greater ratio. With you, in the number of the blessed, are all the officers under Government, every pensioner of the State, every individual that enjoys a fixed income independently of land. In the midst of all these enjoyments you pay nothing compara tively to the State; no tithes', no poor-rates, no outgoings of any kind are attached to your fa voured fortunes; you pay, indeed, the taxes at tached to your individual existence, that is, you pay for the house you inhabit, and such personal enjoyments as - you think proper to indulge in, but nothing further ; you have it wholly at your option to live in a garret, and pay little or no thing, without contributing a single guinea to the demands of the State. With you it wholly rests, to live and pay, or not to pay, as may best' suit you, inscribed, as you stand, in the Bank or Government books, or possessing our paper se curities, in your hands. Now, do you conceive, that with all your wealth, and all your power, every landed proprietor in the k►ngdom, fnnd►ng himself totally and irretrievably ruined by that unfortunate vote of a Parliamentary Committee, will step beyond the letter of his bond for your exclusive satisfaction ? Will he not naturally say, you advarWed us money on a certain► specific security, and whilst in our power received greatly move of us than you were fairly and honestly entitled to; and were we not taxed up to the very teeth, to discharge your interest ? With those taxes (T speak now to the public creditors) your security stands or falls, for we are not under the predicament of parties who give their per sonal security by bonds for the regular discharge of their mortgages. We entered into no such bonds, and upon the securities alone, which we gave, and you accepted, must you, however un willingly, abide; although, you gentlemen, nomi nally at least, possessing all the monied wealth of the country, more than can be met by all the metallic currencies of the united world ; yet, opulent as you are, and numerous both in your persons and connexions, dispersed as they are through every class of society; yet what are you to the landed interest of this great country in the aggregate ? Do not the proprietors, the tenantry, and all the cultivating population attached to and dependent on them, overmatch you as well in num bers of at least 5 or 6 or 7 to one, as in the more substantial source and foundation of wealth, the soil of a productive land. Whilst you enjoy your paper credit, and have nothing to produce but your names and capitals entered in the Bank of England books, we stand possessed of the fun dum and solurn of a great country, and in the matter of physical force could wipe off our debt, and annihilate you in a moment. God forbid that any such thing should ever be in contempla tion 1 whilst we can pay our taxes and satisfy your demands, we will certainly do it. But can you for a moment suppose that so many millions of individuals will silently acquiesce in absolute ruin ? whilst your means and your enjoyments are doubled by their distress ? Is it reasonable they should do so ? Is it probable they will ? This is the first time in our financial history that the landed has ever been placed in direct oppo sition to the funded and monied interest ; nor is it consistent - with ordinary prudence that you should be desirous of a contest either in the cabinet or the field. For Heaven's sake then, Gentlemen, join with us in deprecating so dread ful a crisis as that which is likely, and indeed must ensue, should the present system be persist ed in. Unite with us hand and heart in suppli cating for the repeal of that deleterious Act by , which this unequal distributio❑ of property has been brought about, and in restoring things to their former level ; let us enjoy our lands and ob tain reasonable prices for their produce,whilst you receive your dividends undiminished and un touched in the same currency in which you ad vanced your capitals, and cor:senting only to pay those prices for our commodities at market at which we can afford to sell them. The power of re-establishing things upon their proper and na tural basis is in the hands of Ministers, with whom you have the greatest influence ; let them once see that the landed and monied interests of this great community are united on that single point, and in the approval of those easy and early remedies that have been repeatedly, but with all becoming humility, suggested by the writer of this address in other papers to the public through the channel of the Sus paper, and that point is at once gained, and things restored to that level from which they should never, or at least prema turely, have been disturbed. J. S. COMMON SERJEANT. TO THE EDITOR. SIR-It has been remarked with perfect truth, that the elec tion of a Common Serjeant had been made, by the supporters of Mr. DENMAN", a political question, and that that Gentleman had been brought forward for no %%her reason than the very marked character of his politics. It is clear to all the world, that this is the only reason. It is not doubted by any creature living, that had Mr. Denman's po litical principles been of another cast, he would never once have been thought of for a Common Serjeant of London. A few individuals, however, of the Court, have not courage sufficient to avow this. They plead his " eminent talents," his high professional character ; as if Mr. Bolland, besides much greater fitness on the peculiar points, could not fearlessly meet him on this ground also. As a lawyer, in what is it that he is considered inferior to Mr. Denman—in what would Mr. D.'s opinion he preferred to his ? It is not for me to say that Mr. Denman is deficient in talents, or legal knowledge ; but a cir cumstance has occurred, which certainly makes me hesitate to rank him, in point of general information, so high as many of my brethren seem disposed to do. I have received, Sir, a print ed circular note, which I send you inclosed, and which is couched in the following terms : " Sin—l should have abstained from again addressing the Gentlemen of the Common Council, if Mr. Bolland's letter did not contain a promise to pay his personal respects to them, with a view to solicit their votes for the office of Common Serjeant. " My own forbearance to pursue a course announced by my competitor might possibly be constrned into a want of due re spect to yourselves. It proceeds, however, from the contrary sentiment, and my intention is well known to my friends to have been unalterably adopted from the first. In executing the most important of all the trusts reposed in you, I should think it as disrespectful to suppose that you could be biassed by the personal solicitation of the candidate, as I deem such so. licitation inconsistent with the judicial character to which he aspires. " I make no remark on the great Corporation interests which are involved in this contest. That consideration is for you alone. But knowing the imputations that are circulating against us, I cannot refrain from repeating my strong and solemn assurance of perfect impartiality in the judgment seat, if your kindness should place me in it. Nothing could be so repugnant to my principles, or so revolting to .my feelings, as to mix any politi cal object with the discharge of the sacred duties that belong to the administration of justice : and unless I WERE prepared to give that pledge, and determined to redeem it, I would never have presumed to appear as a candidate for one of the highest judicial offices in the country. " With a grateful sense of the powerful and unsolicited exer tions that have been made in my favour, I beg to subsCribe myself, Sir, your faithful and obedient Servant, " Lincoln s Inn, April 10, 1822. THOMAS DEN MAN." Now, Sir, I am far from saying that this may not be a weak invention of the enemy, to persuade the Common Council that Mr. DEN MAN, whatever sort of speaker he may be, can neither write sense nor Grammar ; but I publish it that the Learned Gentleman may disavow it, and may, if he please, adopt a more effectual mode of influencing votes in his favour. Whether he avow or disavow it, I am equally free, I presume, to criticise it as a literary production ; and I do this the more readily because the Old Times, under, whose auspices, I take it, Mr. Denman is brought forward, loses no opportunity of pouncing upon the slightest grammatical inaccuracy that may happen to occur in a loyal Address of the Court of Aldermen, or Merchants of London, though neither of those Bodies is understood to be professionally bound to so much correctness of expression as the candidate for a high judicial situation. The first thing that must strike every one in perusing this motley composition is the doubt whether it be meant to be ad dressed to one or more individuals. It begins " Sir," and five lines lower down it speaks of " yourselves." Now, it is true, I am a married man, and " yourselves" may perhaps mean me and my wife ; though what she has to do with the business I really cannot discover. A like obscurity hangs about the person or party from whom the letter is supposed to proceed. It is signed " Thomas Den man ;" and yet it speaks of " the imputations that are circu lating. against us." Now, I certainly am not aware of partici pating in any imputations that may circulate against Mr. Denman. I never called the King, Nero; nor did I ever tell the Queen to " Go and sin no more." The writer sets out thus—" I should have abstained from again addressing the Gentlemen of the Common Council, if Mr. Bolland's letter did not contain a p:omise," &c. If the writer had consulted Dilworth's spelling-book, he would have learnt, that after " I should have abstained," he ought to have written " if Mr. Bolland's letter had not contained." With similar confusion of tenses, he says, " unless I were prepared, I would never- have presumed." Here again old Master Dilworth would have told him it should be " unless I were prepared I should not presume," or unless I had been pre pared, I should not have presumed. Look at the following sentence" Nothing could be so re pugnant to my principles, or so revolting to my feelings, as to mix any political object with the discharge of the sacred duties that belong to the administration of justice : and unless I could give that pledge"—What pledge ? No pledge had been mentioned 'before : and if we are to apply the word pledge gran:planet:lly as a relative to any antecedent, it must mean a pledge to mix political objects with the discharge of judicial duties. It is needless to wade through the whole of this letter.— Within the compass of its twenty lines are comprehended spe cimens of almost every species of inelegant construction and false Grammar. I can only say, that having lately turned over some papers relative to parish elections, 1 have not found from any one candidate for the situation of parish clerk, beadle, or sexton, an address which would not shine by comparison with this (supposed) production of a would-be Common Ser jeant of the City of London. I am, Sir, your humble Servant, A COMMON COUNCILMAN. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The Consols for the May account opened this morning at 78i a and during the greatest part of the day there was a great gloom amongst the speculators, occasioned by several extensive sales made by some eminent Brokers. These operations produced some depression, and prices were at one time 78 ; i a 4. Towards the close of the market, however, there was a rapid improve ment, and the last price was the same as the opening one. For this change several reasons were adduced. Some reports said that Ministers had received dispatches from Lard STRAI , TOPOIM, stating that the Porte had yielded tohis Lordship's remonstrances of the 9th March, and that all difficulties in the way of peace had consequently been removed. This rumour, however, is en titled to little credit. These dispatches are stated to have been dated on the 16th of March, at Constantinople. A letter cer tainly has been received from Vienna, dated the 4th April, the writer of which expresses his helef that the negociations were going on favourably. At Vienna and Constantinople, however, as little was publicly known as at London or Paris. Gentlemen who know the Turkish character do not think that Mahometans are likely to alter their first decisions, unless some powerful argument, such as necessity,be applied to them. Turkish pride is not to be subdued by Christian humility.— It was lately mentioned in the Morning Chronicle, and it may he now repeated, that there is at present at Deptfoid a very fine Turkish frigate, of 40 guns, which has just been fitted out in one of his 111ajesty's docks. She has been there cop pered to the wales, been newly rigged, and completely over hauled. Some Gentlemen ask at whose expence this is done ? and others think it rather inconsistent with the declared neu trality towards the Greeks, whom, if England be unable to as sist, she ought not at all events to injure. Farther accounts of a disagreeable nature have again this morning been received from Suffolk. Numerous failures amongst the - Farmers are an nounced, and their distress is increased by the nightly burning and destruction of their property. One day last week, the mail coach in passing down the County observed seventeen fires.— Letters - from Scotland bring theinformation that a consider able Banking establishment has suspended its payments in that country.—The West India market continues much depressed. Some sales of Rum have been effected at Id. a 2d. per gallon decline. In Coffbe not', - Aing is doing—buyers waiting for a public sale to-morrow of 20,000 bags, by the East IndiaCorn pany. Fine Sugar is as dear, but brown is Is. a 2s. lower._ oncy is rather more plentiful. In the price of Silver there is no alteration, and the Foreign Exchanges are nearly the same as on the last post day.—(Morning Chronicle.) REFLECTIONS CAUSED BY THE REPORTS OF THE AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE. ( Prom the Maidstone Journal.) If there were any doubt in the minds of men of sense and honesty, on reading the first Report of the Agricultural Com mittee, that our Corn Laws are grafted on a false an:i ruinous principle, surely by the second Report those doubts must be re moved. Their affinity is strong, Inasmuch as both are incon sistent and contradictory, defending the existing system,. yet ac knowledging it to be bad, and, in spirit and meaning, advising a change to a system founded on restrictive duties. Principles, right in themselves, must be right at all times ; and, whether in private life or in government, (all being fal lible) they are the most wise and honest who, finding them selves in error, shall retrograde the soonest. It is most surprising that Government should take no steps to ascertain the produce of our own soil, and to compare it with the demand,—the very foundation by which to judge whether importation is at all required, and, if so, to what extent ; for, if we grow our supply, (which is the received opinion) it must incontestibly be admitted, that foreign corn, introduced under what laws or shape soever, must be injustice to the English farmer, as preventing our own growth from finding its regular and fair price in our own markets, and increasing the evil by adding the surplus to the succeeding harvest. The population is known by the late census. It is simple and easy to ascertain the number of acres sown with wheat and every other grain, and also with potatoes. Let this be done the latter end of summer, when an abundant or deficient harvest might be appreciated. Three quarters of wheat per acre is generally supposed (taking all soils) to be the average growth, and that each individual (infant and adult) consumes about one quarter annually, or what is equal to it. The quantity of other grain and pulse consumed instead of wheat, would probably be ample allowance for seeding the next crop. If these data may not be supposed correct, doubtless the Board of Agriculture could amend them so as to effect with sufficient accuracy the main purpose intended. As matters now stand, the mass of foreign corn in out poi's no one any good, (at least ought not)but is a great cause of our grievance. It prevents that wholesome spirit of specu lation of British Capital in British Corn, which heretofore never failed to carry the redundancy of present markets to the deli- , ciency of future, and thereby kept that steady course whereby all parties could see their way and make rational calculations. It is astonishing to think that there should at this time be nearly 900,000 quarters of foreign grain •and flour under the King's lock. It is a perishable commodity, and surely, front the great length of time that much of it has been warehoused, it must suffer greatly in quality, and where is the prospect to the holders of its being, brought fairly to market ? Their only hope must be a great deficiency in our home supply, and the necessity of that supply coming to market, so as to enable a powerful combination at the latter end of the year to mono polize and raise the market to the import price. What can we contemplate more destructive to the honest and patient exer tions of the English farmer ! It is also material to consider how far indemnity should be given to the owners of bonded corn, even in case the corn laws should be altered. I cannot see any strong claim they have : their speculations have been voluntary, and the chances of gain, under existing circumstances, are greatly against them- It is in fact a dilemma occasioned by the adoption of a bad system. I am not one who think that high prices can be expected, or who wish them, but I firmly believe that so long as the present system exists, the depression in the price of corn below its fair level, is, and will be, more than can be alleviated by all that the Ministers can effect in reduction of taxes, and the landlord by reduction of rents. It is terrible to contemplate that in future time a dearth might happen when a large portion of our land is thrown out of cultivation, and we might look in vain to other parts of Eu rope for supply, they, perhaps, being affected by the same vi sitation of Providence. It is the true policy of all States to en courage as much as possible the raising of its own supplies- All I have now to observe is, that I have written this free from all base and sinister motives ; if I am wrong, it is only an error of judgment, and I trust I shall have done no • harm. Most earnestly do I hope that Government will adopt such wise and salutary decisions as will ameliorate and ward off die evils so generally felt and feared. We are all links of a chain in which the union of interests' should be preserved. MAIDSTONE. *** For SYDNEY, Letter IV., see the Fourth Page, PRICE OF STOCKS . • THIS DAY AT ONE. O'CLOCK. Bank Stock ,.. U a..l 2411 242 Imp. 3 per Cents , i 4 3 per Cent. Red. 77 India Stock 3 per Cent. Cons.: 7Bni India Bonds 625. 64g• 33 per Cent. f Old ( ..,4h 1 3 Ohl :_nnuities 77t 4 per Cent. ( New Excheq. Bills 5 6 4 pr• 5 per Cent. Navy Ann. lO2ka Cons. for Account 78i ./: Bank Long Ann. 19a 11_161hs HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE lid: MORROW- Morning, 0 minutes after 10. 1 Evening, 24 minutes after 10• THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 182-2. The Paris Papers of Sunday, which arrived this morning, contain intelligence from Constan tinople via Semlin to the 20th of March, of a very warlike character, and leaving little hope of peace. Besides the concentration of the Turkish armies, the march of reinforcements to their forces on the Danube, and the other prepa rations for war, mentioned in our articles of Fo- reign Intelligence yesterday, it is added that the SULTAN had ordered a general press of sailors, which was carried into execution with such rigour and disrespect of persons, that con siderable resistance was offered on the part of some Ortas of Janissaries, who had been or dered for the sea service, and the new Aga of the Janissaries fell an early victim. After the murder of their new Chief, the Janissaries reinstated their old Aga, and massacred all the Christians of whatever nation they met in the streets. Constantinople is represented to be as light at night as in the day-time, on account of the fires of the Bivouacs, and to resemble a vast camp while the hopes of making war on the accursed Ghauars (the Russians) and of enrich ing themselves by pillage, excite i■ all the Mus sulmans extraordinary joy and enthusiasm, ac companied with a degree of fanaticism and im petuosity which admits of no controul. We cannot see on what grounds the hopes of peace are founded. Since the rejection of the Ultimatum the SULTAN has been unremitting ill his preparations for war, and reinforcements have been sent to all those armies which are im mediately opposed to the Russians. The deter mination of the SULTAN not to accede to the terms proposed by Russia has, we conceive, been fixed since February last, and the negociations since that time between the Reis-Effendi and the Ambassadors of the Mediating Powers have only been carried on for the sake of delay, the