The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-10 00:00:00

,racts

ST. TITZRSBURGII, TEL O.

For some days past the presents to the Emperor and
Empress, brought by the Turkish Ambassadors, have been
exhibited in the Spanish Gallery in the Hermitage.
By an Imperial order of the day of the 15th instant,
Col. Ponomarew is appointed Military Governor of Erivan.
Very strange and exaggerated reports have lately been
spread here, according to which a great number of persons
have lost their lives by being poisoned with arsenic. The
fact is, that of forty-four persons who were seized with
illness, from having need flour in which, through negli-
gence or otherwise, arsenic was mixed, two only have
died, -the others having been saved by the ♦igilance of the
police, and are now recovered. The flour was perch:teed
in a shop in the Moskwa quarter of the city, and the suf-
ferers did not know what was the cause of their illness till
the police got information of the affair, and the most effec-
tual measures were immediately adopted. The affair is
now wider investigation.

FROM TII2 ♦ISTULA, TEL IQ.

Several discharges and changes have lately been made
in the Polish army, but chiefly among officers in the lower
ranks, from the Captain downwards. Though the grounds
fee these proceedings are not accurately known, it is con-
jectured that they have be-n induced by the invntigations
which have ben long going on—which have not indeed
led to the important results that were expected, but have
yet brought to light various suspicious circumstances.
COFINHAGIN, FEB. 27.

The inhabitants of this city are still in great concern on
account of the indisposition of the Princess Caroline ; for
though, according to the bulletins, the burns are healing,
her Royal Highness continues to suffer some pain : want
of sleep also retards the progress of the cure.
According to the reports received by the Board of Health,
it appears that in IS2B the number of persons vaccinated
in Denmark was 24,876. During the 27 years that have
elapsed since the introduction of vaccination into Denmark,
the number of persons that have undergone the operation
has amounted to 670,887.
A destructive fire at Frederickstait, in Norway, has
reduced nearly the half of the town to ashes.
HANOVER, MARCH 2.

Onr fears of inundation have not been ill-founded. This
morning the water is some feet deep in several of the streets,
and it runs off so slowly that we cannot hope to be soon
free from it. Several neighl,ouring villages are wholly
under water, and the inhabitants have been obliged to take
refuge .in the garrets. In many houses in the city the
water is some feet deep, so that the damage must be con-
siderable. We hope that the water from the Hartz
mountains will not yet come down, as that would greatly
increase the evil. We receive from various quarters me-
lancholy accounts of the damage done by the inundations.
HAMBURG, at/awn 4.

The hopes we entertained a few days ago that the
rapid thaw would soon open the navigation of the Elbe
have been disappointed, as the frost has returned.
VIENNA, 26.—Metaliques, 103 7-16 ; Four
per Cent. ditto, 974 ; Bank Shares, 1327, 1323.
HAMBURG, MARCH 5.

BORSEN-HALLE, HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK.-Grain
of ahnost every description is at present of ready sale, on
account -of the prolonged interruption to our navigation,
and the consequent shortness of supply. The following are
the price., most of which will be found higher than those
of last week : . _

Weight. Rix dollars,
I)antzic Wheat to
Pomeranian
Anhalt, white llB to 124 118 to 124
----- red 122 to 128 114 to 120

Vanish 120 to 1'24 BO to .65
Dantsie Rye llB to IV 62 to 06
Upland IltS to 123 64 to 07
Danish —to SB to 0
._. _

agdeburgli Barley 9B to 104 52 to 58
Anhalt 9d to 104...... 54 to 00

DaniAh —to 40 to 43

114ecklenburgh Oats CA to 57 4O to 43
Danish
Pomeranian Malt —to 52 to 54
Pease, yellow, Upland —to 70 to 85
Holstein Rapeseed —to 155 to 160
Funds in general are in demand, particularly Russian,
Neapolitan, and New Prussian Four per Cents.
End of March,

Anglo-Danish Loan E per Cent 7B‘
Anglo-Russian Loan 109%
Hamburg-Russian Loan lO5
Polish Bonds 1245

New Prussian 4 per Cents. (MO) so"V,
Austrian Bank Shares. INN
Austrian Metalliques lO4
New Austrian 4 per Cents.
Angle Neapolitan
Faltonets

It will be perceived that the House of Com-
mons have again postponed the consideration of
the state of the poor, as urged upon them by
Mr. WILMOT HORTON, in a speech which
most forcibly points out the necessity of doing
something to check the growth of paupeism
amongst us. It is really extraordinary that the
landed interest should be so indiferent to the
weight of a tax of seven or eight millions a year
for the support of the poor, and that tax annually
increasing; and that all interests should not

view with alarm a state of society in which the
paupers bear the proportion of one to s'x on the
whole population. Mr. PORTMAN classes the
population into two divisions; the one to the
North of the Thames, where the majority of the
people are poor, and the other to the South of
it, where they are absolutely all paupers. The
corroborating testimonies of other Members, and
in fact of every observing person, leave no doubt
of the deplorable condition in which the mass of
the British people at present exist.
The Report of the Emigration Committee
presents an abundance of evidence in answer
to the popular objections to a system of
colonization ; and it would appear from the
answers of the witnesses then examined, that
Home Colonization would be a more expensive
and less effective remedy than emigration. There
is certainly a difference of opinion upon this
point, and the poor Colonies of Holland have
been frequently cited as worthy of our imitation,
but if further information is wanted it ought to
be obtained, and that one of the two plans be
adopted which shall appear on furtlicr enquiry
to be the most expedient. The country is,
beyond ail doubt, over peopled in proportion to
its means of subsistence ; and whether the de-
ficiency of those means arises from a vicious
system of legislation, which has for years, and
still in a great measure does check the progress
of our industry, by preventing its taking the most
productive and most natural courses, and by pro-
hibiting, of preventing the importation of corn
on the principle falsely called protective—or
from whatever other cause it springs,—a
remedy must speedily be applied to the
disease, ;or the frame of society will not be able
to withstand itsravages. Mr.WILMOT HORTON
referred to Switzerland as an instance of a coun-
try where emigration has become necessary,
though it neither has corn laws, nor any of the
other faults of legislation, which are especially
charged with being productive of pauperism. It
should be remembered, however, that the na-
tural poverty of the country is of itself an ob-
stacle to the progress of both agriculture and
trade in Switzerland, and it is therefore, per-
haps, hardly fair to say that our laws are not
faulty because a similar effect is produced in ano-
ther country by a different cause. Be this,
however, as it may, we hope and trust Mr.
WiLmor HORTON will persevere, and will
bring in a Bill to the effect intimated by him.
If Sir GEORGE MURRAY'S opinions are to be
taken to express those of tile Government, co-
lonial emigration will meet with decided appro-
bation in that quarter.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWEL YE 0' CL OCZ

Hobart Town Papers have been received at the North
and South American Coffee-house, but not of a later date
than the last arrival. They stated, as a proof of the in-
creased value of land, that 800/. , or 21. per acre, have
been offered for a paddock of 400 acres, at the Cross
Marsh, by three or four different settlers, and equal prices
for other spots of good lind without buildings.
The arrival of two ships, one with male and the other
with female prisoners, may he daily expected. We
understand that the number of applications for male and
female servants is unusually great. We trust that the
Lieutenant-Governor will make known the great want of
hands in the Col3ny to Sir George Murray, in order that
eight ships with male, and four with female prisoners, at
least, may be sent annually.
The female factory in Sydney contains no less than 531
women and 46 children. We cannot avoid raising our
voice against this mode of imprisoning so many women in
colonies where the female sex are so scarce, and where
their services are so valuable and in such request.

The Sydney Gazette cries ont strongly against usury,
and it prays for an Act to protect the entire of the pro-
perty of the Colony.
LrvicarooL, MARCH S.—The demand for pine timber
is by no means so great as might have been expected, and
we may consider the market to be in a dull state. The
trade, who are tolerably well supplied, appear to be anxious
to sell. Former prices ceuld not be realised. Scarcely
any thing has been done in indigo since the public sales.
The imports of Irish grain have been lighter than previoney.
The demand for wheat has been on a limited cc de.
A Leeward mail has arrived by the Barracouta—
sailed from Barbadoes the 25th of January, and from St
Thomas's the 10th of February.
Barbadoes Papers have been received by the above
conveyance, but are void of interest.
Letters have been received from Vera Cruz, bat of an
old date.

VIZ romps.
There still appears to he a pause in the speculations in
the Funds, and the Consol Market is in a dull state, with
little or nothing doing. Consols, which left off yesterday
at 92 to it for the Account, opened at 92k, at which
price they arc at present, and for Money 91i to 92.
The near approach of the Budget, and the contents
being as yet a profound secret, deters the speculators from
operating.
In the Foreign Market Greek Bonds have considerably
fsllen, from 49 to 43, as Prince Leopold, it is supposed,
will not acknowledge the old Greek debts.

INGLISk

Bank Stock,
India Stock,
S pm. Cent. Gins. 91i 2
Dn. for Account, 92 i
Ditto Redneed,

I UNDS.
8* per Cent.
New 4 per Cent., 1011,
4 per Cent. IS2
Bowle. 77 78
Exasequer Dille. 76 71
TWO o'cLocir.

The private letters received by the Leeward Island Mail
bring a complete confirmation of the separation of Ve-
nezuela from the Republic of Columbia; ail was traiquil,
and subscriptiOns were going forward for the support of
Venezuela.
Acsounts from Gibraltar of the 18th February state
thtt his Majesty's Government have sent to the Autho-
rities there for information on the cause of the rapid de-
cline of the commerce of that island. The English brig
Rose had arrived there from Terceira. The island was
well supplied, and the inhabitants were in great spirits ;
they expected two thousand troops from the Brazils, under
the orders of Colonel Shsoval.
Accounts from Brunswick state, that 5,000 troops were
going to march into the Duke of Brunswick's territory,
and would remain in possession until he made an apology
for his past conduct to the King of England.
Since the early part of the morning Consols have be-
come heavy, and receded from 94 to 92, but at present
may be quoted 92 to i, and for Money 91i ; this chief
speeulstion during the morning has been in Greek Bonds,
which have gone clown since yesterday about 6 per cent.,
caused by a certain paragraph in an Evening Paper,
which does not gain credit by the well-informed.
Two loans have been contracted by the Greeks,
from which they have procured arms, and ammu-
nition, with other articles, and by which means they
have gained their liberty and independence from the
Turks; therefore, it is not supposed, that they will be so
ungraceful as not to pay so just a debt.
The Express has brought the French Fuads—Five per
Cents. 106 ex. div.
Greek has just been dune at 44i, after being down to 43
THREE 0' CL 0 CI.
Consols for Amount., 92
FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES.
Consols 94
Danish7s
Do. for Ac. 91
Greek,lB2s
45
Brazilian Bonds 69$ Mexican, 182 b 27
Buenos Ayres Peruvian
Chiller] Do. Russian
Columbian, 1824, 194 Spanish 13i