The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-26 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE, DEc.2R.

The arrivals of last week were moderate, and this morning
there is no great addition. There have been few sales of
Wheat made to-day ; superfine samples are unaltered in price,
other sorts are rather lower. Malting Barley sells better than
this day se'nnight, but 'other sorts are excessively dull. Very
little doing in Beans and Pease, but prices are unaltered.
There is but little doing in the Oat trade to-day, and prices
scarcely so good as this day sennixht.
ArtittvALs LAST WEEK.—English Wheat, 5,001 ; Bar-
ley, 5,933 ; Malt, 6,09E1; Oats, 8,850 ; Beans, 1,836 ;
Pease, 1,314 ; Irish Wheat, —; Oats, 12,455 • Foreign Oats,
1,375; Barley, 10,220 quarters ; Flour, 11,721 sacks.
Wheat, Red (old) s4s 66s Beans, Small (new) ....42s 451
White (old) ...56s 72s . (old) ....46s 48s
Red (1825) 46s 53s
Fiae 54s Mis ,
. Superfine ....60s 63s Harrow (new)...44s 45s
White (1825)...50s 54s I (old) ...46s 48s
Fine s6s 67s Brank , 34s 40s
Superfine ....63s 66s Oats, Feed 2ss 27s
Rye (new) • 36s 40s Fine 27s 29s
Barley , 25s 30s Poland 27s 28s
Fine (new) 36s 385
Superfine - 19s 44s Potatoe 2Bs 30s
Malt s6s 64s Fine' 30s 31s
—Fine 65s 70s Scotch 32s 34s
Peas Grey (new) 43s 45% Flour (per sack).. sss 60s
Maple (iiew)....4Bs 488 Seconds 5Us 545
—White (new)....40s 45s North Country 48s 50s
—.--.. Boilers 50s 56s Bran 12s 13s

GENERAVAVERAGE PRICE OF GRAIN, PROM THE RETURNS
RECEIVED IN TILE WEEK ENDING DEC. 17.
IVheat, 635. 4d. ; Barley, 415. 4d. ; Oats, 265. sd. ; Rye,
463. ; Beans, 455. 6d.; Peas, 495. sd.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, rOmPuted
Dec, 21, 182.5, is 375. 3id. per cwt, 1

SMITHFIELD MARKET, DEC. 26.
The following is an accurate Report of the numbers And
prices at Smithheld Market this morning

...
CATTLE AT MARKET
Beasts 1,164' Sheep
Calves
To sink the Offal, per stone of Bib.
Beef 4s 8d to as 2d 1 Veal
Mutton 4s 101 to 6s 4d f Pork ls Od to 6s Od
Lamb Os Od to Os Od.
HAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD.
Has £3 10 to £4 15 [Clover £4 4s to Xa las
Straw £1 14s to £1 18s.

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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning Papers Dec. 23. 182.5.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The Lords of the soil have been this last week
making their annual exhibition for the. benefit of
the Tallow-chandlers ; for certainly at least one
half the meat, especially the mutton, which they
have been displaying in the butcher's shops, can
• be fit only for candle making, and when), un-
adapted to human food. Why this merry-
making, feasting season of Christmas should be
that when every man's dinner is to be spoiled by
this exuberance of fat, we know not ; on the
contrary, we think the dog-days would he better
adapted to it, when the natural heat of the
atmosphere might dissolve sonic part of the
greasy load between the slaughter-house and
the larder. We have, year after year, exposed
and .ridiculed this nauseating exhibition, in
which the fruits of the earth seem thrown away
with a prodigality little creditable to the taste and
judgment of those. who live upon the bounties of
nature. That agriculturalists should, by experi-
ments, acquire the necessary knowledge of the
aptitude-of different kinds of sheep, .pigs, and
oxen to fatten, no one can for a moment doubt
the propriety of ; but that, having attained that
knowledge, they should year after year abuse it,
and sicken the inhabitants of the metropolis with
their greasy exploits, _is as absurd as if a man,
who., by the way of experiment, had learned to
walk upon Lis head, should for ever after dis.
card the use of his feet. To show what kind
of food, and with what quantity of it, an ani..
mal may be brought to perfection, is one thing ;
but having ascertained that, to go beyond it,
squander the food, and nauseat the stomach,
are points in which we can discover neither
merit nor meaning. We should have no objec-
tion, however, to leave it to the test, which we
think should be satisfactory to all parties ; which
is this, that the Smithfield Club, and the members
of the other Agricultural Societies who patronize
these things, would tell us, how they would like
themselves to be doomed to eat the enormous
weight of tallow which they now force upon the
palled appetite of John Bull.

[THE TIMES.]
The landed men are actually beginning their
machinations for a continuance of the monopoly
in bread. There has already been a county
meeting in Lincolnshire, to petition Parliament
against any importation of corn from other coun-
tries, and against any relaxation of the corn laws.
This is impudent enough, to say the least of it ;
but let us see how it stands with humanity and
common sense. The leading speakers at this
meeting, with one able exception, insist that no
im-
port duly would be an adequate protection to the
English farmer, who pays such heavy rents and
taxes. Now this is saying only that the land-
lords object to any limit whatever being affixed to
the price of corn, and therefore to their own de-
mands of rent. On the other hand we affirm,
that it is the solid interest of the occupying far-
mer to receive but a moderate rent ; and there-
fore, that he the farmer ought to long for a re.
taxation of the corn laws. With regard to those
taxes which fall exclusively upon the land, ii
they are such as cannot be got rid of by any le-
gislative ingenuity, we suppose they must be met
by moderate protecting duties, But what is now
the condition of the United Kingdom ? Mr. Ibis.
kisson has opened largely the old prohibitory sys-
tem of our trade. He has exposed the manufac-
turers of England to such a competition with
foreign manufacturers as they never before ap-
prehended. Do, then, the country gentlemen
persuade themselves that the manufacturing irate,
rest can be preserved from ruin, with a free trade

pressing them on one side, and a corn monopoly,
with excessive wages, its necessary consequence,
on the other ? If the manufacturers of England
be liable to foreign competition in their goods,
with what face can the corn-growers insist upon
their right to have a more partial measure dealt
out to them ? It is as clear as daylight, that if
an open commerce in all other articles be allowed

it cannot be refused in corn only ; nor if refused
would the denial of it signify one farthin,
since the manufacturing population would.
perish from inability to pay the present
price of corn ; and, in spite of all the non.
importation laws in the world, the market price
of wheat would infallibly come down. Either,
then, Messrs. Iluskisson and Robinson must re-
trace their steps, and re-enact the restrictions on
trade which were so recently and with so much
eclat abolished, or the monopoly in agricultural
produce will cease to have the practical eff.ct of
keeping up rents and prices. There is another
circumstance which would render this stupid
system of corn monopoly no longer maintainable
here, or at least no longer productive of benefit
to the farmer. The country hank-paper system
must be abolished for ever. The country
banks must be cut off from the privilege of
issuing notes at their own discretion, and to
what extent they please ; or all legitimate credit
will he at an end, and all property stripped
of its hest protection. It is monstrous to re.
fleet upon the sort of persons who, in numerous
cases, have established themselves as • country.
' bankers, the hold they have obtained over the
country population, the use which in various in,
stances they have made of it, and the dreadful
ruin which their multiplied failures have sprt;ad
among the classes who confided in them. Up.
wards of 60 of these establishments have been
broken up, as the papers inform us, within
these last three weeks ; and how many more
must follow no Mall can safely conjecture,
People talk much of pity for the unfortunate
bankers. In some cases we know that
honest and prudent men may be involved by
the misfortunes of others, and such we can un.
feigned]' commiserate ; but
we should like to
hear some compassion expressed for the thou-
sands of poor credulous and unoffending persons,
who, with their families, are consigned to utter
destruction by the failure of any extensive hank.
llow many poor tradesmen's bills are left unpaid
by the extinction of deposits which had been left
for the discharge of them ! Hoc many smalj

farmers thrown upon the parish by the swal-
lowing up of the sums laid by for their rent.
day ! What numbers of small annuitants, of
industrious shopkeepers, all whose savings
had been locked up in the neighbouring
a bank P"lhis system must be swept away.
Gold coin and Bank of England paper should
become throughout the kingdom what they are
in London and in Lancashire--the two great cen-
tres of commence—the only media of circulation
between man and man. None in that case can
be bankers who are not men of property : kite-
flying—or carpetting a whole county with pri-
vate paper, representing, not property, but effron-
tery and credulity, must then disappear from
among us ; there will be a stop to fictitious credit,
there will be a sensible fall of those prices which
have been bolstered up by fictitious credit, and
against which fall the landlords are striving to
make head by petition in favour of the old un-
principled corn laws. They will find the enter-
prise, happily for the rest of the community and
for themselves, (though they have not sense
enough to be aware of it), far beyond their power.

IMO ILNI 'IG- POST.]
We cannot but express our gratificatio❑ at the
genuine constitutional spirit which at present per-
vades the loyal inhabitants of Protestant England.
This feeling is confined to no particular class of
the community—it is apparent in the circles of
the noble and exalted, as well as in the humblest
ranks of the peasantry. One illustrious Lord,
a few days since, offered 20,0001. towards
the return of Anti-Catholic Representatives,
and similar offers have been made by several
private individuals, in different districts.—
These instances of liberality must make inde-
lible impressions on the public mind, and invigo-
rate every heart that heats high for Protestant
principles and the British Constitution. But an
equally vivifying spirit has been recently manifest-
ed
at several respectable and popular assemblies.
We allude particularly to the numerous meetings
holden in the great and extensive County of
York. The individuals who there' attended
were men of character, of property, and' of elec-
tioneering influence. They expressed their
sentiments in fearless and unequivocal lan-
guage. Resolutions were adopted by them,
declaratory of their determination to sup-
port no Candidates at the next Election but
those who will uphold the present salutary laws,
in behalf of our inestimable Establishment in
Church and State. We may consider, those
meetings as precursory of general assemblies for
similar purposes in every county of England.
For the chord has been struck in the most popu-
lous and influential districts,, and it is natural
that the vibrating notes of other places should
afford a corresponding and concordant response.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.I

We have received the Paris Papers of Friday.
One of them mentions, on the authority of letters
from Berlin, dated the 15th inst., that the Prus-
sian Court, as soon as it shall have received offi-
cial news of the death of the late Emperor of
Russia, will send Prince ‘Villiam of Prussia, one
of the King's sons, to St. Petersburg'', to congra-
tulate the Emperor Constantine on his accession.
From the selection of so important a Personage,
Some notion may be conceived of the anxious
wish of the Prussian Government to conciliate
the new Emperor ; but should it fail in this
object, which is by no means improbable,
we could apprise it of a very simple method,
by which it could dispence with his favour,
and even set Lis resentment at defiance. Let the
King of Prussia, even at this late hour, redeem
thea pledy he gave ten years ago to his subjects,
ae will have nothing to apprehend from
14..assia, or any other foreign Power; but, as long
as he continues to inspire his subjects with just
,!..cause of discontent, he has plainly no other
resource but to play a feeble, subordinate, and
:..even dependent part in the general interests
-of the world. We find, by an article from a
erman Paper, that a t.ensation fully as pro-
found was experienced at Vienna as at Berlin,
in consequence of the Emperor Alexander's
• 4leath, which was, no doubt, heightened by the
spirit of the Hungarian Diet. Should Austria
persevere in her war against human knowledge
and liberty, site will soon have more work on her
hands, both at home and abroad, than she proba-
bly anticipates; but as her troubles will be of
:her own seeking, few will pity her, whatever
may be their extent, duration, or ultimate effects.
-She has, according to all appearance, taken her
`Jitand as the uncompromising enemy of the social
rights of mankind ; and whatever has, therefore,
a tendency to weaken her power, and paralyze
.her influence,-would be an acquisition to the peo-
ple, though a serious cause of regret to the sup-
porters of what is called the European system.