The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-30 00:00:00

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COURT OF KING'S BENCH.

Mr. Justice JAMES PARKE sat a short time this morn-
ing, for the purpose of taking justifications of bail, and
boning motions of course. His Lordship rose before
eleven o'clock. It being the anniversary of the Martyrdom
of King Charles, no other business was transacted in
Westminster Hal.

CLOSE OF HOLIDAYS.—Now that the sea-
son of annual festivity is about to terminate, and the re-
spective Boarding Schools be reinstated by the busy throng
of youthful aspirants, the personal attractions of whom be-
come naturally an abject with friends and relatives of great
solicitude, ROWLAND'S Kalydor, for preserving the Skin,
and improving the Complexion, and Macassar Oil, for
accelerating the Growth and beautifying the Hair, are
generally considered indispensable in the requisite accompa-
niments of the decorative repository. The august patronage
conceded by all the Sovereigns of Europe to the creative
and renovating Specifics, and confirmation, by experience,
of their infallible efficacy, have characterised them with
pi,rfection, and given them a celebrity unparalleled. Let
rrchasers, however, guard 1, gainq deleterious imitations,
each Genuine Bottle has the Signature, in fled Ink,
"A. RewLasn and Son, No. 20, Hatton-garden," and
,re to be bad of respectable venders only.

;ant.

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1830.

A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-
office this afternoon. The Council was attended
by all the Ministers in town.

Dutch and German Papers have been received
is morning, but their contents are unirnpor-

The Hamburg Reporter and other Papers of

the 22(1 instant have been received. The follow-
ing substance of Ole decree for making Venice
a free port is the only thing worth extracting,
together with the Borsen-hallo

UNICE, JAN. 6.
The decree for the freedom of our port, which we have
so long and so anxiously expected, was at length published
here on the 24th ult. It ordains, that the exemption from
customs of the whole city, and several of the neighbouring
islands, shall commence on the Ist February next, that all
articles may be imported and exported free of duty, with
the exception of a few, which are to pay what is called the
consumption duty, among which are oil, stock-fish, &c.
Respecting this latter regulation, our Chamber of Commerce
has already made proposals to the Government to change
the consumption duty, the levying of which renders the
examination of the ships necessary, into an annual excise,
to be paid by the merchants, as has already been done at
Trieste. The favourable situation of Venice, and the ge-
neral peace, encourage a hope that trade will become flou-
rishing. Two ships have already arrived at Liverpool,
and four others are expected. A great quantity of goods,
destined for our port, is now at Trieste. A commercial
era commenced at the new year. We understand that
the city is to pay to the Imperial Treasury, as an inelam-
nity for the suppressed duties, a gross suns of 1,300,000
florins per annum. Several German houses, which have
factories at Genoa, Palermo, &C., intend to give them up,
and have a principal establishment here.
HAMBURG, JAN. 22.

BORSEN-HALLIC, FOUR o'CLocr.—Our Corn Market
still extremely dull, owing to the continued interruptions

of our navigation
Of Wheat, a few parcels, received by land carriage,
have been sold for the consumption of the place, at the
prices marked below. At an auction of Upland Wheat,
held a few days ago, none of our biddings came up to the
in ices del-lorded by the holders, so that no sale took place.
Rye, Barley, and oats, are all of heavy sale, although the
supplies are trifling.
Weight. Rix dollars.
Dantzic Wheat —to to
Pomeranian 124 to 129 lO3 to 106
Anhalt, white llB to 124 115 to 123
red 122 to 128 112 to 116
Danish 120 to 129 76 to 85
Dantzic Rye llB to 122 62 to 66
Upland 116 to 123 62 to 66
Magdeburgh Barley 'lB to 101 46 to 52
A 'mit N to 104...... 48 to 53
Mecklenburgli Oats 66 to 57 4O to 43
Pomeranian Malt to
Our stock market has of late been remarkably brisk.
The approaching liquidation bas
.had an unfavourable
effect. Extensive engagements have been catered into for
the 23d inst., on which day the primes and stellagen must
be declared. Lower prices from Berlin and Vienna have
influenced our market to-day ; towards the close, however,
things looked more favourably. Discount, 2 per cent.
nut of January.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent.
Anglo-Russian Loan 166%
Hamburg-Russian Loan 104%
Polish Bonds l2l
Austrian Bank Shares 1288
Austrian Metalliques IRS
New Austrian 4 per Cents.
Anglo Neapolitan
Falconete

We have received the following from our
Paris Correspondent :
" PARIS, JAN. 26.

cc The canal from St. Etienne, to which I al-
luded in some of my former letters, like many
other undertakings of a similar nature in this
country, is likely to meet with a variety of ob-
stacles to its further progress. The inhabitants
and the municipal authorities of the town of
ltive-de-Gier oppose its prolongation to the
Loire for a variety of reasons ; such as that the
manufactures and machinery established on the
Gier, which, during the great heats of summer,
have already suffered greatly from drought, would
be totally deprived of water, and compelled to
suspend their labours during several months of
the year ; the probable extinction of several
species of industry, such as those of the dyer,
the tanner, the cornaniller, &c. &c. most of
which the proprietors would be obliged to aban-
don, from the want of a sufficient supply of
water ; and the dtu,ger alleged to be imminent,
if not inevitable, to which the extensive coal
mines of the neighbourhood would be exposed
by inundation. I repeat these objections, which,
it appears, are to be attended with success in

peding the progfess of a work of great public
utility, indispensible, in fact, to the adequate
supply of the capital with this necessary article
of fuel, unless the more promising speculation
of the great maritime canal from Rouen should
in a few years bring a regular fleet of Newcastle
colliers to the French capital, for the purpose
of showing the inaptitude which is so remarkable
in the French character for any great social un-
dertaking which requires the reconciliation of
adverse interests, and the union of men of all
classes in its accomplishment. In England,
such objections would readily be answered before
a committee of the House of Commons, a spe-
cies of tribunal which of late years has been
greatly calumniated, but which, under the salu-
tary controul of the House itself, I hold to be
an admirable piece of legislative mechanism ;
and I think they would be successfully answered
thus. A compensation reservoir of moderate
dimensions would more than indemnify the river
machinery for any loss of water by the canal, by
equalizing their supplies throughout the year;
such trades as use only without consuming the
water, and do not require the advantage of a
waterfall, could be as well supplied from the canal
as from the river, by which neither party would
suffer inconvenience ; and as to the danger of
inundation, it is obviously quite chimerical, as in
England we have not merely canals over mines
of all descriptions, but mines under rivers, and
under the sea itself, where life and property have
been sunk for ages, without even the apprehen-
sion of danger. It will, in fact, be long indeed
before the mercurial inhabitants of France can
enter into successful competition with the per-
severing and determined industry of Englishmen.
A gentleman of my acquaintance, a native of
France, who has long been engaged both prac-
tically and scientifically in useful undertakings of
great extent and importance, has found it for his
own interest, and I believe has been actuated by
the desire of promoting the interests of his
country, to pay periodical visits to various parts
of the three kingdoms, but particularly to Lan-
cashire and Lanarkshire, to Cornwall and the
principality, for the purpose of learning whatever
was new or important in the details of our great
staple manufactures, our mining operations, and
our public works. With very few exceptions,
my friend speaks with enthusiasm of the readi-
ness and liberality with which he was everywhere
received, and even caressed by those who were
at the same time conferring on him the most sub-
stantial obligations. But what is more to my
present purpose, and what he speaks of with
even more delight than all the practical informa-
tion he derived from his extensive journies, was
the uniform steadiness and assiduity of the work
men, in strictly applying themselves to their
appointed task throughout the ten hours of
labour comprised in a day's work ; and from an
intimate knowledge of what a man may thus ac-
complish, he affirms, and I fully believe his asser-
tion, that labour, that is real and efficient labour, is
at this moment incomparably cheaper in England
than in France. He has applied to this subject
the sure test of close and personal observation,
and as national prejudices were all against the
conclusion at which he has arrived, his evidence
is so much the more worthy of credit and at-
tention. He has counted the bricks which were
laid by an English bricklayer in a given time ;
he has measured the work of masons, sawyers,
and carpenters, and artizans of all descriptions;
and, on comparing the results, he has thus ob-
tained with his or n previous experience, he de-
liberately asserts that he would rather give an
English or a Scotch mechanic ss. a day—for
Ireland, he admits, is a nation apart—than 20d.
to one of his own countrymen. The reason he
assians for it is, that unless you condemn a
Frenchman to work in absolute solitude, you
cannot hinder him by any human consideration
from engaging in conversation with his com-
rades, and constantly losing those precious mo-
ments which he perpetually forgets are not his
own property but those of his employer."

The uncertainty that still seems to hang over
Prince LEoroLD's acceptance of the kingdom
that has for some time past been assigned to him
by the public, would seem to intimate that there
is some other obstacle to the measure, beyond
the Prince's own hesitation. Whether the re-
sult will depend on the contents of despatches,
said to be expected from St. Petersburgh, we are
not able to pronounce with any degree of confi
dence ; but it seems more than probable that the
relative situation of the new King of GREECE to
Count CAPO D'ISTRIA is at present the chief
point unsettled. That Russia is desirous of
stipulating for the permanent continuance of that
Minister in the Greek Council can scarcely be
doubtful ; and, if such continuance has been
made the condition of Russia's waiving the pro-
hibition contained in the fourth clause of the
Protocol, signed at London on the 22d March
last, it is clear that Prince LEOPOLD must either
comply with it, or abandon the idea of having
his brows encircled with a crown. The words of
the Protocol arc—" the Government is to ap-
" proach as nearly as possible to a monarchical
" form, and to be hereditary in the family of a
" Christian Prince, to be chosen for the first
" time by the three Powers, in concert with the
" PORTE. He is not to be a member of the
"families reigning in the States which are
" parties to the Treaty of July 6." This con-
tract cannot, of course, be set aside, but by con-
sent of the three contracting parties.

LIMERICK ELECTION.—There was great
confusion at the dose of the proceedings on Tuesday, and
it was impossible, we believe, accurately to ascertain the
state of the pull. The Papers give 21 to DAwsON and 12
to O'GRADY, hut we have letters which give 23 to
O'GRADY and only 19 to DAIVEON.-Dublin Morning
Register.
MELomsTs' CLUB.—Yesterday the Mem-
bers of this delightful club dined together for the first time
this season. The repast was sumptuous, the company
select and numerous, and the evening spent in the greatest
harmony. Several admirable songs were sung by profes-
sional gentleman in attendance.
A woodman in the vicinity of Stuttgard,
whilst felling wood in a forest, had the misfortune to have
his arm caught in a cleft, whilst splitting a tree. He
found nimself out of the reach of all assistance, and being
unable to disestangle himself, whilst he was exposed to
twelve degrees of cold, he formed the horrid resolution of
hewing off his own arm with his axe, and by this means
saved his life. —Journal du Commerce.

No Arab born in either of the sacred cities
of Mecca or Medina will act as a menial servaLt, unless
curnpellel by actual want of food.

THE FUNDS.-(TII1S DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Extract of a letter front Liverpool, dated Jan. 28,
posted at the North and South American Coffee-house :---
Arrived the John Woodall, Captain Ramsey, from Mau-
ritius, sailed the 20th Oct. He had conversation with
the Master of the Saint Leonard, from the Swan River,
who did not communicate to him any thing like the re-
ports which hive recently aNieverl in the newspapers, re-
specting the failure of that settlement. There were about
40 sail of vessels at the Mauritius, and all likely to obtain
cargoes. Freights to Europe were varying from 41. 10s.
to 41.