The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-14 00:00:00

VOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRglkfl PAPERS
(From the Messcujei fres Chambres df Monday.)
Pant!, JAN. 10.--M. de Polignac continues to
refuse to the Greeks' the entire payment of the
monthly subsidy of 360,000 fiancs, which the pre-
ceding Cabinet had granted them. Doubtless he
hopes that the want of money, and the impossibility
which exists at St. Petersburgh of supplying the
Greeks with any, will detach the latter from Russia,
and will make them incline more easily to the plans
of London, especially as respects the acknowledg•
'tient of Prince Leopold as King of Hellas. The
Greeks have no ordinary funds besides the produce
of their customs, and they have to maintain an Ad-
ministration, a Marine, an Army which amounts to
25,000 men, of which 13,000 are Palicari, and
12,000 regular troops. The last extraordinary
resource which they obtained, is the sum of 700,000
francs, wl:;ich was lent to them about two mouths
ago by one of the most zealous defenders of their
M. Eynard, of Geneva.
It is affirmed that the politicians of the United
States propose to divide the immense territory of
the Union into four independent republics, and that
this plan has numerous partisans.
Despatches have arrived from M. Mortemart, in
answer to tine instructions sent to him by a courier,
who set out from St. Petersburgh at the same time
as M. Matuscewitz. No part of their contents has
transpired, but it has seemed singular that the Rus-
sian Ambassador has not received at the same time
any news from his Court respecting the affairs of
Greece. However, the courier of M. Mortemart
departed some days after the arrival of M. Ma-
tuscewitz. This delay would lead us to believe
that the Russian Cabinet is more than undecided
respecting the proposal of France and England. if
that Cabinet was favourable to the pretensions of
Prince Leopold and the new boundaries of Greece,
i: would have been as speedy in its answer as M.
Mortemart in sending his despatches to his own
Cabinet.—Lc National.
(From the Moniteur.)
MADRID, DEC. 31.—(Private Correspondence.)
—lt seems that we are not likely to have the happi-
ness of possessing their Neapolitan Majesties much
longer in our capital. It is reported that they will
leave Madrid towards the end of January for Paris.
The temperature of this place is at present seven
degrees below Zero. As our august guests, as well
as the persons belonging to their suite, are accus-
tomed to a much milder climate, this cold occasions
them much inconvenience. Notwithstanding this
their Neapolitan Majesties have set off this morning
for the Escurial, and will visit all the Royal re-
sidences. Our Sovereign bears all their expences;
nevertheless the house of Rovara, of this city, has
already paid to his Majesty the King of both the
Sicilies from seven to eight millions of francs. The
house of Rovara has already received in payment a
AtIM of 150,000 ducats in Rentes, which will pro-
bably be negotiated at your place.
DEC. 2S.—The banking-house of Rothschild, it
is believed, will negotiate the 150,000 ducats of
Rentes which the banker Rovara received in pay-
ment for the several millions of francs he furnished to
the King of Naples since his arrival here.

STATE OF THE REVENUES OF THE SPANISH

GOVERNMENT.

Revenues of the Provinces 130,000,000
Import Duties 57,000,000
Customs 91,000,000
Tobacco 61,000,000
Salt
Stamps
Duty on Hay.., 1,000,000
Duty on Brandy and Liquors
Utemil. and Straw 20,000,000
Civil Fruits
Saltpetre, Su'phur, and Powder 3,000,000
Barrack Duty 900,000
Ten per Cent. on Foreign Goods
Fourth of Seizures of Smuggled Goods
Bulls de La Cruzada
Taxes of the Clergy
Tithe of one-ninth
Half a Year's Revenue of the Grandees, and
_. _

Titles of Castile
Pious Legacies
Four per Cent. en Salaries of Officeholders... 1,500,000
Retained from ditto
Subsidies from Commerce
Tiercias Reales (Royal Thirds)
Population of Grenada
Free Gift of Navarre 4,500,000
Free Gift of the Basque Provinces 3,000,000
Duty for lodging the Court at Madrid . 700,000
Substitutes for Military Service, &c., Medias
Anatas, and Algarafe Tithe . 2,500,000
Lotteries 9,000,000
Ecclesiastical Dues 1,500,000
Fines of Courts of Justice

Total 549,600,000

The above sum of 5 t 9,600,000 reales de vellon,
or copper reales, at 2-111. sterling each, make the
sum of 6,583,750/. sterling.

The expenditure of Spain amounting at most to
.500,000,000 reales de vellon, it is clear that the
expenditure is covered by the receipt, and that there
is even a surplus of 50,000,000 of reales.
_ _

In this revenue the endowment of the Sinking
Fund, from which the great part of the public debt
is drawn, is not comprised. Besides this, the re-
ceipts of Spain have for some time past experienced
a pretty considerable increase, so that the amount
for the year 1829 will greatly exceed the above
549,600,000 reales de vellon.
Spain possesses other considerable resources
which do not appear in her Budget. The will of
the Sovereign may, at any moment turn them to
advantage, and the realization of these resources
would enable Spain to provide a Sinking Fund for
her old and new legitimately contracted debts.—
The Universel.

The Marquis of Santa Cruz, Di Marcenaro, a
young well-informed man, who belongs to one of
the oldest and most noble families of Austria, has
married the widow of a hair-dresser, fifty years of
age, who is blind of one eye, snd was formerly a
dancer at our theatre, under the name of Vitoriana.

A report has been spread that the several Budgets
which are to be immediately published will contain
some considerable improvements in the receipts of
the Treasury, in consequence of which the consoli-
dated Vales, which were at 20,+, have suddenly
risen to 29 and 30.

The following is the number of students who
have frequented the principal Universities in Ger-
many and the Netherlands during the last six months,
viz.:—Bonn, 978 students ; Tulingin, 874.
Fnxisca FuNna.—Prams, JAN. 11.-Five per Cents.,
105 f. 60c. 65c. 60c. 50c. ; Three per Cents., 84f. 90c.
80c. 70c. 56e. ; Bank Stock, 1,890 f. 1,885 f. ; Rentes
de Naples, 92f. 75c. 80e. 65c. 60e. 70c.; Royal Spanish
Loan, 82} 82 81i; Rentes Perpetnelles d'Espagne, 62
61i a 4 i; flaytian Loan, 435 E Exchange on Lon-
don, one month, 425 f. 60c. ; three months, 26f. 45,.
Goan a Authentique.

The snow in several places along the Dover
road exceeds five feet in depth.

MEM.—On a female pauper being questioned
before the magistrates, on Tuesday, respecting an allega-
tion made by the parish officers, that herself or her son
kept a dog, replied, that the latter did keep one, hut why
she did not know, unless it was fur a memorandum.—
Liverpool Albion.
iinEcrinsr.—FooLisn FEAT.—A son of
Vulcan, for the trifling wager of one shilling, undertook,
on New Year's Day, to swim half a mile down the South-
esk, opposite Careston ; and, notwithstanding the severity
of the weather, and the large shoals of ice that were float-
ing around, be not only completed the task, but entered
the icy element a s^cond time, and came out apparently
touch refreshed I—Caledonian ,Mercury.

A number of wild swans appeared at the
mouth of Looe harbour on the 3d instant. One which
came within gun bliot, was fired at and wounded in the
wing, which prevented it from rising, and it was even-
tually captured alive. It weighed 141bs. and measured
7 feet from tip to tip of the wings. When brought on
shore it ate very heartily; a gentleman purchased the bird
for 1/. and has Bent it to a friend in Launceston,,Excter
Mired.

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1830.

THE ADMINISTRATION.

The following are the rumours of to-day.
We have not however been able to trace them to

any authentic source :

" That Mr. HERRIES is to succeed Mr.
VESEY FITZGERAL D as President of the Board
of Trade.

" That Mr. Secretary PEEL resigns office,
and is to be called to the House of Lords.
" That Mr. GOULBURN leaves the Ex-

chequer. No successor named."
We give the above merely as rumours. To-
morrow may produce a fresh batch of changes
and promotions.

The only despatches that have been received
at any of the Government Offices this morning
are those from Paris and Brussels.

Private letters from Lisbon state, that the
Minister of War Amd the chief engineer ex-
amined with respect to the defensive condition
of the maritime fortifications ; and the answer
was, " That all the batteries were in a state of
ruin—the repair of which would at least cost
two millions of crusados." The old QUEEN was
so imminently indisposed that she confessed and
took the sacrament. Her dissolution was daily
expected.

Accounts from Warsaw of the 28th Decem-
ber state that the Emperor of RUSSIA is re-
covering but slowly in his health. His Imperial
MAJEsTY's illness is supposed to have a
deeper root than merely the effects of the late
accident. The difficulty of pleasing all parties
by the termination of the Turkish war at a
moment when Constantinople was within his
grasp, weighs heavily on the EMPEROR'S spirits.
How far the result of the Turkish mission may
alter the state affairs remains to be seen.

At the Surrey Quarter Sessions on Tuesday
Mr. BRISCOE, with great credit to himself,
brought forward a motion, " That the Court do
convey, through the Members of the county, to
the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, the expression of its deep regret that his
Majesty's Government have not considered it
their peculiar duty to bring forward measures for
the amendment of the Game Laws, which are
universally admitted to be the parent of many
grievous crimes, and daily tend to demoralise the
people." In this exordium we cordially cone •
The state of the Game Laws is disgraceful to the
Administration of the country. We do not say
that the present Ministers are responsible for the
enactment of these laws, but we do say
that they will be morally responsible if
they suffer them to remain on the Statute
Book another Session. Mr. BRISCOE
observed, " that it was not his intention
to enter into any detail of the miseries inflicted
on the country by the Game Laws ; but, in pro-
posing the above motion, he did think
it necessary to observe that the Govern.
ment was much to blame in not making
the question a Cabinet measure, and by that
means insuring its being carried through Parlia-
ment. In the course of the last Session of Par-
ment, the Bill for the Amendment of the Game
Laws had passed without opposition through
the House of Commons, and had undergone the
ordeal of a second reading in the House of Lords.
In the Committee, however, it was lost. But
how ? By a majority of two. So that it was
quite clear that if the Ministry had taken the Bill
under their protection, it would have been carried?'
We arc of the same opinion. Let the ques-
don of the Gamc Laws be made a Cabinet
measure, and it will as surely be carried as the
question: of Catholic Emancipation, which all
the world—that is—all those on the Game Laws
side, thought impossible.
Mr. Baiscoe considered the present mo-
tion highly desirable for the Court to
adopt, as one which would induce Govern-
ment to give their support to the amend-
ment of a set of laws, which incarcerated
a man for an offence that was scarcely looked
upon.. as a crime, The County Members Were

of the same enlightened opinion, but so was not
Mr. HOLME SUNINER, and so was not Sir
THOMAS TURTON. Both these gentlemen,
indeed, professed to abhor the Game
Laws, but did not think it was their busi-
ness to remedy the evil, far less to advise Go-
vernment to do so, as it might embarrass the
Administration ! Considerate souls ! The bare
idea of giving advice shocks their delicacy ;
but the daily sacrifices of humanity to the
rigour of the Game Laws are beheld by
these worthies without the least emotion. Not
so, however,: Mr. HENRY DRUMMOND, who
seconded the motion, and very justly observed
that those who heard him " must be aware that
the labourer, with all the industry he could exert,
was not able to procure as much food as the
Magistrates were bound to allow to the felons
who were locked up for crimes.—(l-jear,:hear !)
—The lowest average of a man's support he
believed to be sixpence a day, but it was
notorious that few of the common agricultural
labourers were able to earn two-thirds of that
sum, and many of them not one-half. The felon,
on the contrary, was not only provided with ne,
cessary food, but had found for him lodging,
clothing, medical attendance, and warmth. As
long as this system endured, was it not madness
to say that they could prevent the crime of
poaching ? Add to which that the injustice of
the Game Laws was beyond all parallel ; for
while nothing was done to punish the rich
who bought the game, the whole weight of the
penalty fell upon the unfortunate creature
who, to support existence, procured that
which the wealthy were so eager to buy ; in
short, he dared not trust himself to speak out on
the subject, for it was a system not only of wick-
edness, but of cowardice as well, for it only
attacked those who were unrepresented, and had
no power to defend themselves."

What could be more convincing than this touch-
ing appeal ?—and yet the Bench were not
moved—at least the majority—for there were
but seven for: the motion, while eleven voted
against it. So much for the profession of huma-
nity, compared with the practice !
And yet the Game Laws must be altered, not-
withstanding the Surrey majority.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY. TWELVE 0' CL 0 CI.

LtvrarooL, JAN. 12.—Tha sales of Cotton yesterday,
owing to the statement in a Manchester Paper, were very
brisk, and full 4,000 bags were sold, at an advance of *d.
per lb. on all descriptions. To-day the sales amounted to
2,500 bats, at full prices.
The Britannia packet ship, from New York, is sup-
posed to be off Holyhead. She was to leave New York
on the lath ult.

The packet ship Camillus arrived at Greenock on Sa-
turday afternoon, in 26 days from New York. A consi-
derable number of tradesmen, who lately emigrated to
America, have returned passengers in her.