The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-24 00:00:00

[ti I'll%lES.]

As we anticipated, yesterday was a Peace day
on the Stock Exchange, and the funds, in conse-
quence, looked a little upwards. Consols fo!

Account left off at 808, and even that desperate
article Spanish Scrip was quoted (though, we
believe, little was sold) at only 10 per cent.
discount. The Paris Papers and letters, how-
ever, afford no particular ground for any
variation in public opinion, on the great ques-
tion of Peace and War. M. De Villele, the
French Prime Minister, has, in a very marked
and public manner, disclaimed the late pacific
articles in the Journal des Dl•bals ; but
upon this point little stress we think is to be
laid. It neither belongs to his high station to
encourage expectations of a war, which possibly
may not take place, nor to discourage the Spanish
Royalists by any apparent timidity on the part
of France in supporting her true interests.

[MORNING POST.]

The Moniteur maintains its usual silence,
and the Journal des INbals continues its semi-
official declarations in favour of peace. Besides
the very explicit article which we gave yester-
day in its integrity, this Journal contains another
positive contradiction of the fabrications which
lately appeared in the Ultra Papers, and formed
the subject of those Expresses which produced a
sudden depression in our money market last week.
It treats them with the derision and contempt
which thyy merited, and adds besides some just
and hnpo-rtant considerations respecting the pro-
bable conduct of Portugal and the facilities which
that country would afford the Constitutionalists
to rally and carry on a perpetual war, in the
supposition that the French armies occupied
Madrid, and absolute despotism had been re-
stored.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTII•G-ROO3l, DEC. 23.-STATE OF THE ODDS.

RIDDLESIVORTII.
Five to two agst Emily colt.
BY.
12 to 1 agst Fantina c.
18 to 1 agst bro. to Carbonaro
20 to 1 agst Sir W..Milner'sc

7 to I agst Emily c.
8 to I agst c. out of Folly
1 to 1 agst Webb
I to 1 agst Talisman

DFI

7 to l agst f. out of Zaida
9 to 1 agst Sister to Sailor
CLARET

9 to 1 agst Oliviera f.
9 to 1 agst sister to Sultan.
STAKES.
sto 2 agst Moses I 9to 2 agst Posthuma
7to 2 agst Swap I 6to 1 agst Wanton.
DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
I 18 to 1 agst Mandane
20 to I agstMr.Annstronesc.

.0 to 1 agst Sherwood
1 to 1 agst Miss Fanny

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.
MEETINGS OF HOUNDS IN, THE PRESENT WEEK.
His Majesty's Stag-hounds, on Friday, at Bedfont.
The Duke of Grafton's Hounds, on Thursday, at Bradden ;
and on Saturday, at Nash Common.
The Northumberland Fox-Hounds, on Thursday, at flag-
don ; and on Saturday, at Meldon Village.
The East Sussex Fox-Hounds, on Thursday, at Piddinghoe;
and on Saturday, at Danny.
The York and Ainsty Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Sessay
Wood.

Sir M. M. Sykes's Fox-hounds, on Thursday, at Flaxton
and on Saturday, at the Castle Howard Inn.
The Earl of Harewood's Fox-hounds, on Thursday, al
Kidder Lane ; and on Saturday, at Sickling Hall.
The Roxby and Cleveland Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Skel.
ton Park.

The Sinnington Fox-hounds, on Thursday, at Lockton
and on Saturday, Helmsley.
The York City Harriers, on Thursday, near Rufforth.
The Boroughbridge Harriers, on Friday, at Grafton.

PEVEST raiiism.—On Wednesday, the 11th inst., William
M'Mullan, a youth under 16 years of age, undertook, at Rich-
mond, Yorkshire, to walk 40 miles in 8 successive hours on the
Back Flags; ground only 1-Bth of a mile in length :he
started at 8 o'clock in the morning, and, with ease, finished his
task 20 minutes before 4in the afternoon. The last 3 miles he
walked barefoot. After which, B. M'Mullan took up 100 pegs
with his mouth in 32 minutes, never touching them with his
hands, each peg being 1 yard apart, and put them into a basket ;
the distance being nearly 6 miles. On Tuesday last, the above
Wm. APMullan undertook, at Darlington; to walk 30 miles in
6 hours, which he performed within time, before a numerous
assemblage, who subscribed liberally to this youth.
GREAT FEAT.-LA man named Townsend, on Monday last,
for the sake of what he could get of the lookers-on, walked the
space of twenty-one miles backward, in five hours and a half !
from the middle of Devizes Green to the bridge on the London
road.—(Hamphire Telegraph, Dec. 29.)
Edward Pearce, Keeper of Iron's Hill Walk, in the New
Forest, killed on Tuesday a woodcock weighing 14 ounces and
a half.—(lbid.)