The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-18 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD MARKET, JAN. 18.

The supply of Cattl4 at Market this morning 'was the same
as on fonner Fridays,. and good meat obtained. last .market:.
day's prices, but the inferior descriptions sold very heavy. • The
price of Hay remains as per our last.
To*sink the offs: per stone of 81b.
Beef
Mutton .., 2s. Bd. to 3s.lQd. , Pork

TtiE LONDON JOUH,NALS

VAILY EXTI: ACTS FROM THE :MORNING PAPERS;

January IS,
.1822.

[THE TIMES,]
There is a current rumour in the diplomatic
circles relative to the situation of affairs between
Turkey and Russia, which, while it rather
strengthens the hopes of peace conveyed by the
last communications from Constantinople, may also
be said, if correct, to modify eur former view of
the subject. It spews at the same time the
anxiety that exists for an amicable adjustment of
the differences. It is asserted very confidently,
that since the departure of the courier from Con-
stantinople for Petersburgh, with the Turkish
answer to the Russian Ultimatum, messengers
have been despatched (from Vienna) to the ca-
pital of Russia and to Constantinople, with a
prbposition, in the name of England and Austria,
of another expedient for bringing about a pacifi-
cation, should the point claimed' by Turkey
of the simultaneous withdrawing of the Russian
forces from the Pruth, when the Porte shall re-,
call its troops from Walachia and Moldavia,:
-not be acceded to. But the proposition now
made- to, Russia and Turkey has in view not
merely what relates to the occupation of
Walachia and Moldavia, but some mode of
securing an effectual guarantee for the Greeks.
As the protracted negociations may be supposed
to have produced between Turkey and Russia a
degree of irritation which is , one bar to the set-
tlement of their differences, it is now to be re-
quired of both Powers, that they consent to the
appointment of Plenipotentiaries, into whose
hands the whole question shall be transferred,
and whose decision shall be final. Neither of
the negociating parties, if this reference isronce
submitted to, will have any plea for disturbing
the peace.of Europe. It is the only method,
also, by which they can withdraw from, the affair
without loss of dignity, and it will have the con-
Vequence of 'removing from the Emperor Alex-
ander himself, any share in the odium that would
be created among his subjects, with whom a Turk-
ish war is popular, by his consenting to a peace.
We understand that the most recent communi-
cations from St. Petersburgh, convey stronger
assurances than ever of the personal disposition
and wish of the Emperor to preserve peace. At
the same time, the popularity of the war"among
his subjects is not concealed ; and it is further
admitted, that in the RUssian Cabinet, one Mi-
nister at least, possessing great influence, enter-
tains similar sentiments.

[NEW TIMES.]
Little or nothing ,is doing on the Stock Ex-
change, and the prices remain nearly as' they
Were, having opened yesterday at 7781 and
closed at 77+. The day before, they dropped
a quarter percent.; for which the only reason
that.we could discover was, a vague rumour of
disastrous news from Constantinople. We are
inclined to believe that.no such news has been
received. from any authentic source ; and, on the
contrary, that the latest advices from that quar-
ter are of a satisfactory character. It is even
said, and we have some reason to believe the
statement not to be wholly unfounded, that the
last remaining matters in dispute between Rus-
sia and the Porte have been put. in a train of ad-
justment by Commissioners named on each side.
Be this as it may, the report of Wednesday was
entirely discredited yesterday. The Stocks,
however, did not regain the fraction which they
bad lost the day before ; a circumstance only to
be accounted for from the general backwardness
of the speculators to operate while events hang
so equally poised in the scale of probability.

MORNING POST.]
Viscount Sidmouth yesterday resigned the
seals. of office to his Sovereign, and, retired from
a situation which he has filled for many years
with honour to himself, and utility to his country.
The period through which it has been his Lord-
ships task to preside at the head of the Mime
Department, has been one of unparalleled im-
portance and difficulty. It has unfolded a suc-
cession of dangers, which though constantly
changing their nature, equally menaced the peace,
morals, and institutions of the land. Distress,
.dissatisfaction, sedition, and insurrections have
been the enemies with which his Lordship has
had successively to contend, and which the firm-
ness of his character and the temperate use of his au-
' thority have successively defeated and put down.
On all occasions he was found at his pat, vigilant
to aoticipate, and strong to repel danger; but de-
termined not to exert a greater degree of power,

or to apply a more severe infliction, than the
peril of the hour, or the criminality of the
offenders, required. Prevention, not punish-
went, was his aim. He would, protect the
public safety—he would maintain inviolate
the Constitution and the Throne, and . for
that purpose he would put forth that strength
without which all Government is but a mockery
anda fable. But the moment its existence had
-been felt, he would check its exercise. Mercy
almost overtook justice, and always followed it ;
and the guilty themselves were compelled to ad-
mit that they had deserved the chastisement
which they did not receive. To his intrepidity
and to his moderation we owe the preservation
of all those blessings which the villainy of de-
signing men sought to destroy, and which the
ignorance of the deluded joined in attacking.
He retires from his long and harassing toils with
the consciousness of motives in all his mea-
sures, of which the most factious have never
dared to question the purity, even_ when they
tried most basely to blacken and misrepresent
his acts. He retires with the gratitude of his
country and the approbation of his Sovereign ;
and in the enjoyment of that domestic peace
which he has secured_for us all, he will no doubt
receive such an addition' to his honours, as will
carry down to future generations a proof that in
our times rewards lid not linger behind desert,
but lighted on it ES it' grew, and were propor-
tioned to its greatness. In these remarks we
have only taken a view of his Lordship's con-
duct since he was at the head of the Horde De-

partment. If we look at his career when be as-
sumed the Government by command of our late
venerable Sovereign, we shall find it equally dis-
tinguished by honesty, patriotism, and wisdom.

[MORNING HERALD.]
ItAs but common justice to the Irish Govern-
metit to observe, that its proceedings, in the un-
happy disorders, have been marked by great
.Humanity. Upon louking to the cases of the
wretched victims who have suffered, there does
not appear one for whom, in the actual state of
the country, and viewing the evidence, an appeal
to the mercy of the' Crown could be reasonably
made. The- discretion and clemency of the Go-
vernment has been more wisely exercised in keep-
ing back those whose cases were not flagrant,
and who may become fit objects of mercy, when
the peace of the country shall have been restored.
There are, however, two of those capitally con-
victed to whom clemency has been extended
in consideration of their youth ; and, in refe-
rence to their cases, there is an observation of
the Judge which deserves particular notice.—
" Let no man," says he,." presume to say, for
the purpose of acquiring a paltry popularity, that
it was owing to his individual interference that
such clemency was extended—no, it was the
spontaneous act of the Government itself," &c.—
It is one of the vices of the political adrninistra-

tion of Ireland that the mass of the people know:
nothing of the Government, scarcely of the law,
and look only to some few subordinate county or
district potentates as the depositories of ail,
power—the supreme arbiters of law and justice.
These little feudal dominators, on the other hand,
carry on a traffic quite unknown in England
palming upon the Government their influence
upon the people—upon the people their weight and

. . .
influence with the Government—and turning
both to very profitable account. It is to be
hoped the terror of the examples made, and the
statement of the intentions of the Executive Au-
thority to enforce the law firmly, though tem-
pered with mercy, will complete the restoration
of tranquillity. Unless, however, the Irish Ad-
ministration can devise some means of alleviating
the present and preventing, in some measure, a
future crisis of similar want and misery among

the labouring peasantry, it will have stopped
short, very short; in its duty to Ireland and to
the Empire.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Let us advert to Lord John Russell's com-
plaint against the Political Economists :--
"There is a party amongst us (he says) distin-
" guished in what is called the science of Politi-
" cal Economy, who wish to substitute the Corn
"of Poland and Russia for our own. Their

principle is, that you ought always to buy

" where you can buy cheaPast. They ,repeat
44 with emphasis, that the nation pays a tax of
" 20,000,0001. yearly to the growers of Corn.
" They count as nothing the value to the coun-
" try of a hardy race of farmers and labourers.
" They care not for the difference between an
44 agricultural and mabufacturing population, in
" all that concerns morals, order, national
44 strength, and national tranquillity. Wealth is
44 the only object of their speculation ; nor do they
" much consider the two or three millions of peo-
" ple who may be reduced to utter beggary in
" the course of their operations Politi-
" cal economy is now the fashion ; and the

" farmers of England are likely; if they do not
CC keep a good look out, to be the victims."—We
wonder that a man of his Lordship's usual good
sense should have allowed himself to speak in
this manner.--The object of political economy is
to procure the greatest sum of comfort to the
greatest nuniber of individuals ; and his Lord-
ship has only to shew that any principle advo-
cated by political economists has not such a ten-
dency, and he will gain his point with them.—
We confess, however, we do not see what his
Lordship would be at in his declamations respect-
ing the agricultural population ! It may be, that
men engaged in agricuiture are more virtuous
than men engaged in manufactures. All that we
can say is, that the population of several of the
purely agricultural counties is very inferior to that
of the mann factu ring counties. The labouringclaises
of Bedfordshire, for instance, are greatly inferior
in sense and spirit,and most valuable qualities, to
the labouring classes of the great Manufacturing
Counties of York and Lancaster.—But is it

meant that matters should not be left perfectly
free—that the cultivation of the land should not
be conducted on the ordinary principles of trade
=but that every thing should be sacrificed to
the maintenance of the greatest number of hardy
cultivators ? Some visionary writers on the Con-
tinent have started objections of the same nature
to political economy ; but they have pushed the
principle to its legitimate consequences. They
have proposed a division of a county on the
agrarian system, with a cultivation exclusively by
means of the spade. By this means au agricul-
tural population would soon become very large ;
but as each cultivator would be enabled to pro-
duce little beyond his own subsistence, a splen-
did aristocracy would be altogether out of the
question.

[BRITISH PRESS.]

The atcounts from Ireland are not satisfactory.
Those which arrived yesterday offer a distressing
assurance that the solemn and benevolent injunc-
tion of the King to forget the distinctions of
party, and to unite all his Irish subjects in one
common link of kindly affection, is already for-
gotten by those tos whom it was especially ad-
dressed ; or, to speak more correctly, it is re-
membered and despised. It is perhaps generally
known that the Corporation of Dublin has
been peculiarly distinguished in Ireland by
the extravagance of its zeal against Roman
Catholics, and that it boasts the anxious
care with which persons of that religious
denomination have been excluded from its com-
munity. The most eminent Guild is that of the
Merchants, but, like Many of the Guilds in the
City of London, the Guild of Merchants in Dub-.
lin contains .many Nohleinen and Gentlemen in
no respect connected with trade. With this
respectable society it was therefore resolved
by those who were desirous of fulfilling the
spirit of his Majesty's request, to commence

the work of conciliation, and accordingly a
meeting was convened for the purpose of pro-
posing some Roman Catholic merchants, of high
distinction in their pursuits, and -of estimable
character, as Members of the Guild. The result I
was as unexpected as' it vas to be lamented.
The candidates were rejected, and the event
was signalised by the victorious party as a
hew triumph to Protestant ascendancy. What
these gentlemen gained by the insulting refusal to
enrol a few of their most distinguished fellow-
citizens among their numbers, that merited the
huzza of triumph which accompanied the an-
nouncement of their , victory, 'twere difficult to
imagine ; and what they could have lost by
an honourable and frank concession,' we might
defy themselves to explain. The miserable, the
shameful prejudices by which they were really
actuated in excluding these Roman Catholic
Gentlemen from their society, avowedly on ac-
count of their religious faith, are but thinly veil-
ed by the—arguments we must call them, which
were adduced. The old, phrase, " this is not
the time," was here brought forward with ridi-
culous importance.

AN INDIAN MARRIAGE AND FETE.

FUTTEII-G unn.—T he following is an Extract
of a Letter, dated May 28% 1821 : —The extreme heat of the
season, and the usual confinement behind the tatties, have not
obstructed the society of this place from enjoying a scene of
great conviviality and unusual splendour.
Mirza Mendee Alice Khan, the favourite servant of the late
Vizier Saadut Alice Khan, and well known for the great success
and skill with which he conducted, during some years, the admi-
nistration of several provinces of the reserved dominions, some
months ago took up his residence at Futteh-Guth. •
The circumstances which are supposed to have occasioned
this.chane ,in the situation of Mirza 'Mendee Alice, excited a
considerable degree of .interest in his behalf, and alive to the
generosities of hospitality, the European inhabitants paid him
every attention which was practicable.
These attentions Mirza Mendee Alice was anxious to ac-
knowledge, and he took the opportunity of A `II4ARRIAGE of a
relation, to mark his sense by inviting the whole society to two
'en! ertainments at a house purchased from Major Fagan, of
which • Mirzalllendee had a few days before obtained pos-
session.

On the 22d instant, the day fixed for the Sanchuck or cere-
mony of interchanging presents, or rather love,pledges, between
the bridegroom and the bride, a large party met at dinner, the
style of which sliewed the endeavour and wish of the host that
no expence should be spared either in the quantity or quality
of the wines and viands. After dinner, jugglers, dancing girls
and mimics, &c. &c. afforded entertainment, but no one more
than the walker on stilts, whO, raised full seven feet from the
ground, seemed to realize the seven league boots which the first
lessims of childhood in Europe relate.
On the 24th instant, the ceremony of the Barat, or the
bridegroom demanding the bride from the parents, took
place.. On this. day the principal entertainment was given.
—Gentlemen from distant stations had come to Futteh-
Gurh;--some desirous of becoming acquainted with hlirza
Mendee,
.and many of proving that old acquaintance shOuld.
not be forgot. The heat of the day was unusually severe, but
still a party of near sixty. assembled, including the chief portion
of the beauty and fashion of the station. After an excellent
dinner, with wines of the best quality, cooled by ice, the Ladies
. ,
attemptea to dance. The attempt was successful, but the heat,
too oppreSsive, soon obliged the dancers to desist. The house is
admirably adapted to such a fete, and illuminations on an 'ex-
tensive scale—being large with great extent of land round it,
but more particularly from its situation on the high hank of
the river Ganges. The sands afforded fine space for one of the
most brilliant displays of fire-works ever seen. The Indian
fire, the illuminated houses, and the variety of wheels, were
admired ; but the discharge of numerous sky-rockets simulta-
neously as from a battery, produced an effect of the most im-
posing kind. The crowd of natives who had collected on the
sands was not the least remarkable object of the scene; the
ground seemed one living mass for miles, and it is supposed that
more than one hundred thousand spectators were assembled
between the house and the water of the Ganges. On returning
to the house, the host presented each Lady with a very hand-
some present of a string of pearls and some shawls, and then
led to supper. Conviviality and glee early chewed itself in
the evening, for every one satisfied of Mirza Mendee's wish to
please, came determined to prove that with successful. The
healths of the ladies, of the boat, and the Queen, inspired mirth
and feeling ; and after the ladies left the table the sons of Bac-
chus did justice to the occasion—for the host, who had retired
at the same time as the ladies, with a view of paying in another
spot proper attention to the native gentlemen who had attended
the ceremonies, summoned long after sun-rise his European
friends from the festive board to join in a return procession.
Every, one present was struck with, the peculiar elegance of
3lirza Mendee's. Manners—although the scene must have
been in a great measure new to him, he never appeared lost
either in his address to the ladies, or to gentlemen—strangers
to him ;—ready. at reply, he seemed equally with ourselves to
understand the humorous remarks, and was capable of apt re-
tort. In fact, these who recollected the elegant deportment and
polished manners of the late Saadut Allee Khan recognized
great resemblance to' him in our host—and as we seldom see
native gentlemen reaching a degree of perfection of manners
which probably but few noblemen in Europe possess, the 'mind
inquired, but found no satisfactory reply to the question—
" Why has this able and devoted servant of the father of the
King of Outle, quitted the Court of his Sovereign ?"—(INDIA
GAZETTE.)