The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-27 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD MARKET, Dec. 27,

The market was very short this morning in all descriptions
of Cattle; although the prices of various kinds of meat have
cnsiderably lowered this morning, .there were but few pur-
chasers.—The Hay-market remains in price as per our last
quotations.

(To sink the Offal, per stone of nib.)
Beef .->s lid to 3s Od Veal
Mutton 2s •Odto 2s 10c: I Pork

Hay

Lamb Os 6
HAY AND SYRA'

a to Os Od.
AV, PER LOAD.

£3 Os to 13 Oq I
, Straw £1

Clove- .. £3 lOs to £4 5s
8s to XI 16s.

SMUGGLING.— L' arty yesteitthy morning George
Simmonds and Ninian Sinclair, officers of Exci ;e,
accompanied by a party of the 77th regiment,
proceeded from Glasgow to Engleshain and Kil-
bridge muirs in search of private distillation, and
succeeded in destroying three distilleries of large
sizes, consisting of two stills with heads and
worms, 900 gallons of wash, six bushels of malt,
seven gallons of low wines, two coolers, two
mash-tung; fifteen fermenting tuns, twenty small
casks, and all the utensils corresponding thereto,
and seized eight gallons of whisky and made one
distiller prisoner. The patience and perseverance
of the military during the night was highly praise-
.% orthy, as the whole party traversed the maks
from 2 o'clock a. m. to 2 o'clock p. tn. in many
places knee deep in water.—(Glasgow Courier,
Dec. 24.)

ALARMING INUNDATION.--Yesterday morning,
about ten o'clock, the resident in a house in
Mortimer-street, Cavindish-square, were seriously
alarmed in a singular manner. The house had
recently undergone repair, and the family were
absent in the country, leaving a man and his wife
named Butler in the care of the premises. These
persons retired to rest late at night, and they hhd
not been long in bed, before they were alarmed
by a most strange noise over heads, and pre-
sently water began rapidly dropping through the
ceiling, &c. upon them. The man instantly arose,
and on opening the door perceived torrents of
water rushing in every direction towards him.
Not knowing what to make of this extraordinary
alarm, and supposing the house was on fire and
the engines in full play, he rushed into the room,
and snatching his wife in his arms, ran down
stairs, but found no fire. Ile opened the street
door and called the watchman, who, with several
other persons, entered the house, and found all
the up stairs rooms full of water, and on ex-
amination they found it proceeded from a cistern
at the top of the house which was left unlocked ;
water consequently rushed out, and with great
violence forced itself through the roof into the
rooms, and from thence to the stairs. Part of
the furniture was destroyed, but no further in-
jury took place.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—Yester-
day •morning, John Bolt, aged 21. groom to
W. A. If. ARUNDEL, Esq. of Castle Park, near
Oakhampton, was committed to the Devon
County Gaol, for attempting to murder Jane
Jusland, a nursery maid in the same family. On
Sunday afternoon last, she left the house to go
to church, and Bolt, who had for some time been
endeovouring, though unsuccessfully, to gain her
affections, followed her through the fields for the
purpose of making a further declaration of his
passion. On approaching the church they found
they were ton late, and returned home—
Shortly after, Bolt desired the housemaid to
send Jusland to him in his bed-room, where s'le
went, accompanied by the butler, being afraid to
go alone. The latter, soon after, at the request
of Bolt, retired, and bad left but a short time,
before he was alarmed by the cries of the girl ;
he returned immediately to the room, and,at the
moment of entering, saw the groom tire a pistol
at her, which, it appears, he had taken from
under the bed clothes, and, shocking to relate,
her right eye was blown out of her head, and
part of the charge lodged in the right side of her
neck. Three of her fingers were also so dread-
fully shattered as to render amputation neces-
sary. Every possible attention has been paid to
the unfortunate sufferer, who, we hear, still con-
tinues in a most dangerous state.—(Excter
Post; Dec. 24..)

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

VETRACTS FROM THE rfrAiLy MORNING PAPERS,
December 27, 1822.

[MO RNI N G POST.
We received last night, by xpress, French
Papers to the 25th inst. The question of war has
ceased to form their chief subject of discussion,
and the stormy interest which it excited for a few
weeks seems gradually to subside, although the
Funds have continued to decline Were not this
the fact, it might be thought that the late triumph
of M. tie Villele, and the wise part of the
Ministry over the Ultra, had completely restored
public confidence ; but as it is, the symptoms of
growing indifference which begin to manifest them-
selves may perhaps be the result of that inconstant
disposition with which the French, like the
Athenians of old, have been frequently charged.
The time which has elapsed since the French
Government- informed the Cortes of- the discre-
tionary power with Which it had teen invested by
the majority of the Congress, and of the con-
ditions on which the exercise of that power de-
pended, has been more than su-fficient to allow
them to return an answer,- and to enable that
answer to arrive. That one was sent and has
been receivefl, little doubt can be entertained,
though the fact has not been publicly mentioned,
and the nature of the reply remains secret. It
is evident, however, that the Cortes have lately
adopted several measures calculated to conciliate
Foreign Powers, and to remove some of the,
grounds on which the Ultras themselves founded
their arguments for the necessity of an armed
interference in the concerns of the Peninsula..

[BR I TISII PR ISS.]

Bayonne Papers up to the 20th represent the
fugitives of the Faith As being utterly forlorn
and hopeless, while the constittrtionl cause is
every where triumphant. The effect produced
by the assurance of peace is vividly stated, but
by no means more vividly than might have been
expected. It appears that the belief of a Com-
mercial Treaty between Spain and this Country
is generally credited. Merino,. according to
These papers, is the true ferocious: wealth and a
facility of plunder seem to direct his executions.

New TIMES
The French R'entes had faller, at Paris on
Tuesday evening to 87f. 30c. for Account. We
can attribuee this depression to nothing but a
mere stock-jobbing speculation. Certainly no
political reason for it has occurred. It is
hardly necessary to argue that the prospect of a
permanent peace is that which should make
funded property every where rise, and the
prospect of a long war should make it fall.—
Now, assuredly the present state of affairs in-
clines rather to the former than to the latter
alternative. The French Government has not,
and we are inclined to think, will not, soon with-
draw its Ambassador from Madrid ; and on the
other hand, the furious Jacobins seem rather to
be losing ground in that capital; whence two ar
three of their Leaders have already been exiled.