The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-31 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON MARKETS.
(From the London New Price Current of yest‘rday.)

COFFEE.-There was little variation in the Coffee.
Market last week; some Batavia sold at 325., ordinary St.
Domingo at 325., good ordinary Havannah at 335. In
British Plantation descriptions there was no alteration ;
parcels suitable for the home trade went off freely at full
prices. This day by public sales 178 bales Mocha, and
120 bags East India; ordinary Batavia sold 31s. 6d. ; the
Mocha chiefly taken in, good sold 104 s. a 105 s.
Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-The distillers of
England, Scotland, and Ireland, have agreed in soliciting
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a body, to place British
spirits on the same footing as formerly with Rum ; they
were joined, according to report, by the landed interest,
but the application, it is stated, is as yet unsuccessful.
The purchases of Rum are quite inconsiderable ; the
Market is rather dull. Brandy is rather higher; several
sales of second marks reported at 2s. Bd. and 2s. 7d., very
ord. 2s. 6d. Geneva is without alteration.
WooL.—There is little alteration in Wool. The
accounts from the country respecting the manufactures
are very favourable.
Corrox.—The accounts from Liverpool and from the
manufacturing districts continue very favourable; the re-
quest for Cotton is still extensive, and a further advance of
-d. to 4d, is now asked. The purchases for the week
ending last night inclusive consist of 250 Bengal, Sad. a
; 2,800 Surat, 4d. a sd. ; 70 Bowed, 6d. ; 30
Madras, 41d.
TEA.—The demand for Boheas increases, the large chests
are now at lid. per lb. premium; the delivery of all de-
scriptions since the sale has been very great.
INDIGO.—The interest respecting the quantity of Indigo
at the India House, 20th proximo, continues very great,
and some of the eminent importers still keep the trade and
the dealers in suspense. There is under 1,800 chests de-
clared, and as the buyers expect 5,000 to 6,000, they are
not only anxious to inspect and report the qualities, but to
convey information on these points to their correspondents,
both in this country and on the Continent, and for which
there is now too little time ; the suspense is very injurious
to the trade. The Company's Indigo, about 800 chests,
has been inspected, and chiefly consists of the middling de-
scriptions. The Madras Indigo 216 chests went off last
week, about last sale's prices ; about half sold. The
Caraccas sold rather lower. At a late hour to-day we
understand 1,930 chests more are applied for; they will
be declared forthwith.

SUGARS.-The deliveries of British Plantation Sugars
last week from the West India Docks were not above
2,780 casks, leaving a stock of 14,854 hhds. and 1,200
trcs. The transactions in the Sugar Market this morning
are limited, the trade waiting the result of some extensive
public sales of Mauritius, which description of Sugars
continue to be pressed on the market. The delivery of
Mauritius last week from the West India Docks was about
4,000 bags, and the stock there now exceeds 41,000 bags.
The current quotations of brown Jamaica, St. Vincent's,
and St. Kitt's, good quality, are from 51s. to 54e. ; fine
qualities 66a. to 68s. ; and good 63r. to 655. per cwt. In
other Sugars the quotations this morning are unvaried.
The commercial letters from St. Petersburgh to-day are
to the 13th inst. The Exchange on London was at 10
17-32 ; and; Tallow from 91 to 92 rubles—a few hun-
dred casks had been bought at these prices. The Tallow
Market here is rather more firm, the price being 345. 3d.
per cwt. The delivery last week was very small, viz.,
only 890 casks, leaving a stock yesterday of 24,650
casks. Hemp is at 441. 10s, and Flax at 351. 10s. per
ton. Bristles are still heavy.
OILS.—In general Oils are advancing. Linseed Oil
has advanced 1/. per tun, and is in demand—the quotation
is 221. Greenland is at 301. 10s., being 10s. higher per
tun—is scarce, and in request. Sperm is 641. flat. Cod
Oil is from 301. 10s. to 311. per tun, being U. higher.._...
Pale Seal is quoted 31/. 10s., Yellow at 301. per tun.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK.

Wheat.
----- ---..
Per Quarter. a. to s. S. to 8. 8. to S. s. to s.
Boston —,....... — 66 28 21 34
Gainsboreugh ...... 66 32 23 33
Grantham. . . 60 70 25 36 18 24 30 33
Grimsby "A 70 21 32 20 25 28 33
Horncastle . 45 52 25 32 15 20 30 48
Lincoln
Spilaby . 50 64 26 30 18 22 :30 34
Stamford 54 70 24 36 20 23 31 43
York 4B 66 20 30 18 27 32 44

ST. DOMINGO.--A Work on this remark-
able portion of the Wept Indies, under the title of " Notes
on Haiti" is announced for immediate publication. It is
written by CHARLES MACKENZIE, Esq., late his Majesty's
Consul General to that Republic, and now his Majesty's
Commissioner of Arbitration in the Havanna!). This
gentleman was required, it seems, to report on tha state
of society and the actual condition of the new Republic in
all its relations. His statements have since been laid before
Parliament. From the means which he possessed, officially,
of acquiring the most correct information, his work may
be expected to prove of the highest value.

MILITARY POLITENESS.—Our piquet-post,
at the bridge, became a regular lounge for the winter, to
all manner of folks. I used to be much amused at seeing
our naval officers come up from Lisbon riding on mules,
with huge ships' spy-glasses, like six-pounders, strapped
across the hacks of their saddles. Their first question in-
variably was, " 'Who is that fellow there ?" (pointing to
the enemy's sentry, close to us;) and, on being told that
he was a Frenchman, " Then why the devil don't you
shoot him ?" Repeated acts of civility passed between the
French and us during this tacit suspension of hostilities.
The greyhounds of an officer followed a hare, on one occa-
sion, into their lines, and they very politely returned them.
I was one night on piquet, at the end of the bridge, when
a ball eaine from the French sentry and struck the burning
billet of wood round which we were sitting ; and they sent
in a flag of truce, next morning, to apologize for the acci-
dent, and to say that it had been done by a stupid fellow of
a sentry, who imagined that people were advancing upon
him. We admitted the apology, though we knew well
enough that it had been done by a malicious rather than a
stupid fellow, from the situation we occupied. General
JUNOT, one day reconnoitering, was severely wounded by
a Sentry ; and Lord WELLINGTON, knowing that they were
at that time destitute of every thing in the shape of com-
fort, sent to request his acceptance of any thing that
Lisbon afforded that could be of any service to him ; but
the French General was too much of a politician to admit
the want of any thing..—Kincaid's Adventures in the
Peninsula.

We have heard that allusion will he made in Par-
liament to certain military•promotions which have
taken place within no distant period. There is little
doubt that officers of high rank, long experience,
and distinguished services, have on many occasions
expressed a very indignant feeling at the manner in
which vacant regiments have been disposed of. The
Colonelcy of a regiment is, in fact, the ne plus ultra
of military reward for General Officers who have
survived the dangers of the field, and grown old in
their honourable profession. The few exceptions
are of officers who have the fortune to be placed in
active office under Government, and who enjoy its
fixed emoluments together with tl►eir sinecure as
Colonel of some particular corps. It ought, there-
fore, to be a rule the most inviolable, to nominate as
Colonels only those men who have earned the prize
by conspicuous merit,—who would carry with them
the suffrages of the whole army, and be held up to
the eyes of all young soldiers as examples of what
might be attained to by every one of them, through
the single and pure channel of devotion to the ho-
nour of their country. The vicious application of
military patronage is among the most odious branches
of corruption. It not merely filches away the ve-
teran's bread, but it blights and scathes his crown
of laurels, and visits with unfeeling scorn the mani-
fold sacrifices of his personal ease, his time, his
health, and blood. We can conceive no iniquity
more mortifying to a gallant and successful soldier,
than the sudden transfer, to some Court minion, of
that distinction which for little less than half a cen-
tury he had himself been panting to enjoy, as the
final remuneration of a life of toil and peril. What
must have been, for instance, the disgust of many
brave and noble-minded gentlemen who had borne,
under the eyes of the Duke of Wellington, the brunt
of those glorious but deathly campaigns, which
ended (unworthily we acknowledge) in the restora-
tion of Ferdinand to the throne of his Bourbon an-
cestors, when they saw individuals who had never
breathed the scorched air of a field of battle, nor so
much as heard, throughout their whole existence, the
fire of a shotted gun, Gazetted,in cold mockery of the
British army, to the finest regiments in the ser-
vice ? Yet this has happened, and not many months
ago. A correspondent, signing " writes
briefly upon these matters, but pithily. He refers to
some pretty smart cases of promotion in the Beau-
fort family ; which is indeed a "snug-borough "
family; and as such, considered, about Whitehall
and Downi►►g-street, to be a race of heroes. We
really cannot help asking, with our corrrespondeut,
what right has Lord Charles Somerset ! of all the
men who ever wore red coats, to such a testimonial
of military or other service to his Sovereign ? Why,
it is the same personage who was for so many years
Governor of the Cape of Good Hope !! ! So, his
son has been given the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the
Ist or Royal Dragoons. We say nothing of Lord
Edward, his brother, having been made full Colonel
of the Ist .Dragoons or Royals, for Lord Edward
has seen service, and is a distinguished soldier; but
here be three Beauforts provided for out of the
public purse, while 300 veterans are thrust by, to
make way for these battle-axe Guardsmen of each
succeeding Minister. It is perfectly true that the
Duke of Wellington is not now at the Horse Guards,
and, we have some reason for suspecting, does not
meddle with the patronage of that office. But Lord
Fitzroy Somerset is there, and he is a brother of the
" Beauforts." What, again, we humbly ask, ever
gave a regiment of dragoons to such a man as Lord
George Beresford ?--a person who never saw a
day's service beyond the purlieus of the King's
household, of which his Lordship has the luck to
have been comptroller for many years past. Such
promotions as we have just alluded to are distasteful
to the public, and to the army ruinous, being calcu-
lated to fill all officers of real merit with despair.
We know what a clatter will be raised about " pre-
rogative," and all that, when Parliament comes to
overhaul these discreditable proceedings; but as the
nation pays the army, so ought the guardians of the
national purse to watch that the army do not sink
in value below the level of those enormous sums
which arc drawn from the people to support it
Our correspondent " Miles" challenges the indepen,
dence of this journal. We have answered his chap
lenge—is he now content ?—Times.

Although Ministers have carried their point, by a
strong muster of their adherents, in retaining the
office of Lieut.-General of the Ordnance, they have
not succeeded'in making the country believe such an
office is at all necessary to the public service. It
was considered useless, and its abolition recom-
mended by the Finance Committee, with which re-
commendation, however, Government did not think

it expedient to comply. It is quite certain that
either this office or that of Master-General of the
Ordnance may be dispensed with, inasmuch as one
person can perform the duties of both. Sir James
Graham, who moved for the reduction of the office
of Lieutenant-General, very appositely quoted the
evidence of the Duke of Wellington before the Fi-
nance Committee, to prove that it went in effect to
show the appointment was unnecessary, although
the opinion of his Grace was that it should be re-
tained. The question put to the Noble Duke (said
Sir J. Graham) was, " Did he consider the office of
Lieut.-General of the Ordnance as essential to the
well-being of the service ?" The answer was, " Yes,
I do." As far as this went, it was altogether
against his (Sir J. Graham's) argument; but then
let the Duke's reasons be heard. He went on to
say, " His reason for saying so was that the Lieut.-
General of the Ordnance had very important duties
to perform. He did not, however, mean to say that
the Muster-General could not peiforni them. During
his own time the Lieutenant-General had been ab-
sent, and during the period of that absence he per-
farmed the duties." If we recollect rightly, Lord
Bacon advises Judges not to be forward in giving
reasons for their decisions ; and certainly, if the
Noble Duke had confined himself to the simple as-
sertion that the appointment of Lieutenant• General
of the Ordnance was essential to the well-being of
the service, his statement would have carried more
authority with it than the reasons with which he ac-
companied it can allow it to possess. He asserts
positively, indeed, that the office in question is ne-
cessary, but, when he comes to tell us why, we
find it is because there are certain duties attached to
it which the Master-General can perform—not only
can, but did perform, we believe, during the twelve
or fourteen months that Sir W. Clinton, then hold-
ing that situation, was on foreign service with the
troops in Portugal ; and even Sir Henry Har-
dingo, in his evidence, stated that " while this was
the case, and while he had been at the board, lie did
not know of any positive inconvenience having
resulted from the Lieutenant-General's absence."
This was pretty strong testimony to show the use-
lessness of his presence! With respect to the con-
stitutiono rg aiisat
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Sir James Graham—" The Duke, in his evidence,
the Surveyor-General, the
the principal Storekeeper,
ob.tyfi. csedary isonlfigo should al‘itttle‘tvi atds avtue rtyh ernl3l toearri da .1
had concluded
the as er- eneral the
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Ordnance,as
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the Clerk of the Deliveries, and the Treasurer.
At the time the Noble Duke gave his evidence the
Lieutenant-General was in Portugal; the Surveyor-
General was a navy officer, also absent on service;

the Clerk of the Deliveries was die Hon. and
Gallant Officer opposite (Sir H. Hardinge); and
Mr. Phipps was the Clerk of the Ordnance. The
consequence was that Sir Henry Hardinge was the
~rely military officer present. But the Noble
Duke removed any necessity far this by selecting a
Lieutenant-General, a military officer, and removing
Mr. Singleton ; and now, instead of having
three civilians and one military officer, directly the
reverse was the case. When, then, the Board as-
sembled at present in full force, with the Master--
General and his Secretry, there were six military
men out of eight—two full Generals, two Lieutenant-
Generals, two Colonels, and only two civilians."
This would appear more like a Court-martial than a
Civil Board, whose business lay chiefly in the pur-
chaqe of timber, and pipe-clay, and jackets ! Well
might civilians be " pushed from their stools" to
make room for men who wear swords, when the
Hon. Baronet who represents Westminster, and
who once took the whole of the discontented popu-
lation of England under his patriot `e wings, declared
in his place in the House of Commoos that the Army
was the best school for" Statesmen.'' To be sure
:his was only a plagiarism upon Dean Swift, who,
n his poem of " Hamilton's Bawn," gave a rnili-
.ary education the preference to all others,;' but it
hvas suspected the Dean was only indulging the
sarcastic vein, and that he was only giving a 1100
playful chastisement to the ignorance and conceit
which was sometimes covered, but not concealed, by
the trappings and gay decorations of the soldiership
of his eye. We wish to see military men of
merit promoted, as well as men in other profes-
sions, whose elevation may be useful to the public
and creditable to the Crown ; but we wish to see
them promoted to situations for which their previous
habits have adapted them, and where ihey may ex-
cite no civil jealousy. We have described the con-
stitution of the Board of Ordnanee ; now let us see
what a part it forms of the constitution of Parlia-
ment—how it is identified with that modern legis-
lative machinery which Mr. Canning declared, though
opposed to the original principle of free representa-
tion, " worked well in practice." Out of eight
Members of the Board, the Hon. Baronet who made
the motion showed that one hat in the Upper House,
and seven were Members in the House of Com-
mons. " Talk to me no more," said he, if truly re-
tedheee deaf adder,
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ported, ted
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Aes tioeis aboteriirces
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eleen
whose ear listeth not to the voice of the charmer in
any speech coming from any quarter of the House
save the Treasury, and blind followers of the
Captain of their host, let him lead where he may."
Upon this occasion certainly Sir James Graham
gave the Ministers an opportunity of making some
atonement to the country for their opposition to
Sir R. Heron's motion the other night—he gave
them an opportunity to make good some small por-
tion of the promises of retrenchment of which they
have been so lavish and so neglectful, and he also
gave them an opportunity of showing something
like a sympathy for the distresses of the people.
But to their old system of extravagant expenditure
and profuse patronage they seem resolved to adhere
with a " desperate fidelity." The Hon. Baronet
emphatically said—and his words ought to be re-
membered—" Men will no longer look to declara-
tions of economy made by the Ministers of the
Crown—to high-sounding resolutions recorded on
the Journals of the House—and pledges forgotten
as soon as made. They ask themselves how the
Government acted when the superannuation of the
sons of the Cabinet Ministers was concerned ? how
they acted when the abolition of the offices of Lieu-
tenant-General of the Ordnance and Treasurer of
the Navy afforded them the opportunity of dimi-
nishing the expenditure ? These are questions they
are entitled to ask; and I assure the House of my
deep conviction that these are the genuine feelings
of the people, and I call on the House by their vote
to join me in teaching Ministers to think a little less
of their patronage, and a little more of the wishes
and expectations of the people." But, as the event
showed, he appealed to the House in vain !
Morning Herald.

In the Lunatic Asylum at St. Petersburgh,
the general cause of madness among men is found to be
drunkenness—and among the women disappointment in
love.

It is about three years since we pleaded in
support of a 'doctrine then little in vogue, that a large
part of the Irish population, very imperfectly acquainted
with English, should be addressed, both from the pulpit
and the press, in their native language. This opinion
is now gaining converts in high places; for the Arch-,
bishop of TUAM has just announced, that he will not re-
ceive any person into Holy Orders for the province of
Connaught after January, 1732, who is not able to preach
to the people in Irish. We imbibed oar notions on this
subject from a useful little tract pulslished by our towns-
man, the Rev. CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON, of which, we
believe, he is now preparing a second edition..—Scotsman.

INEQUALITY OF TAXATIOY.--A striking
example has just occurred of the frauds generated by the
exemptio❑ of Ireland from taxes which are levied in
Britain. Six bales of white calicoes about to be shipped
for Ireland, were seized at Liverpool a few days ago,
which were reported to the Custom-house as printed cali-
coes, and as such, if they had not been detected, the ship-
per would have got a drawback of 3FI. per yard upon
them, amounting in the whole to fire hundred pounds.
The probability is, that after passing to Ireland, they
would have been printed there, and secretly landed some-
where again in England, without paying the duty, and
thus would have been the means of robbing the revenue to
the amount of 7d. per yard.—Scotsman.

The foolish story which appeared in this and
other papers la't week, respecting a man at Chesham
having confessed that he was instrumental in the murders
of the MARRS and Wituattsows, had its origin in the most
trifling circumstance imaginable; and, like the man
vomiting " three black crows," was so unlike itself by
the time it had received a few additionr, from certain
scribes, that its parent could scarcely recognise a single
feature of his own offspring. The facts are as follow :
A simple fellow was examined by Mr. ifansuatr., a so-
licitor of Chesham, and also vestry-clerk of the parish,
respecting his settlement; the man, in the course of his
examination said he had once lived in a house near the
Mauna and WlLLiamsouls. There was, however, some
hesitation in his manner in replying to questions on this
subject, and Mr. MansuaLt consequently wrote to Sir
RICHARD BIRNIE to ascertain if his statement were cor-
rect, and also the situation of the house in which he had
lived, with respect to its contiguity to the dwellings of
the murdered families. The man never said anything
that could be construed into a confession, and there was
no reason, except his own hesitation in answering the
questions that were put to him for the slightest suspicion
that he was concerned in the murders.—Rucks Gazette.

EXTRAORDINARY ! T !—The town of Pen-
' ranee and its neighbourhood have, daring the past few
days, been in a state of wonder and surprise in conse-
quence of a series of extraordinary and strange occurrences
which have taken place in the house of Mr. Maxima, a re-
spectable inhabitant in the parish of Ludgvan. From the
information that we have been able to collect, it appears
that on Friday morning last several articles of furniture
and wearing apparel were discovered in a state of ignition
without any 'visible cause, no fire having been placed
against them. The feathers in a bed-tick were burnt,
whilst the latter remained uninjured; a mauls coat that
was hanging
was burning
soaks
i is
places, and not-
withstanding
being removed from the liquid element, the fire again pro-
ceeded in its destructive work ; the several articles of fur-
niture appeared to possess the powers of vitality—pokers
ging up
it was
and tongs walked about the rooms, the kettle jumped from
the fire into the middle of the floor, and sundry articles,
in making their preregrinations, were broken. But the
most extraordinary of these extraordinary movements of
the inanimate articles in the house were those of a beer
barrel, which walked up and down stairs, following the
inmates in and out of the house; and although it was
sunk to the bottom of a pit in the yard, it shortly after-
wards recovered the power of motion, and actually stalked,
on end, into the house: it first entered the kitchen, from
whence it proceeded, in all gravity, to the parlour ! We
have not space to relate all the strange proceedings which,
it is said, have taken place in Mr. Hosliso's house : the
above is but a very meagre report, but we shall probably
be able in our next to give a more ample detail, and, no
doubt, a solution of the cause of these things, which have
excited no inconsiderable degree of astonithinent..—lat.
mouth Packet.