The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-07 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, .11Ancu 7.
The arrivals of most of Grain last week were middling,
and this morning the fresh supplies of Wheat, Barley, Beans,
and Pease, from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, are small. There
are some vessels fresh up from northern ports, with Wheat
and Oats. Prime samples of Wheat found a ready
sale at 2s. per quarter advance on the terms of this
day se'nnight, and other kinds are rather improved in
value ; Barley of superior quality is ls. per qr. higher, but
other kinds are still very dull ; Beans that are dry sell
freely, but damp samples are heavy at hardly such good
prices as last quoted ; Pease of both kinds are without
alteration; Oats of dry quality meet a good sale at Is. per
quarter advance on last quotation, but stained samples are no
dearer. The Flour trade continues to experience more life
than of late.

AnittvAr.s LAST WEEW.—English Wheat, 4,004 ; Bar-
ley,. 3,111 ; Malt, 3,501 ; Oats, 9,233 ; Beans, 852 ;
Pease, 666 ; Irish Wheat, 155 ; Oats, 7,000 ; Foreign Oats,
3,825 quarters ; Flour, 4,736 sacks.
Wheat, Red (old) s2s 65s Beans, Small (new) ....42s 45s
White (old) ~.56s 76s --- (old) ....48s 528
Red (1824) 50s 56s
37s
'Mae 60s 63s (old) 40s 44s
Superfine ....68s 72s Harrow (new)...39s 41s
White (1824)...52s 56s (old) ...44s 48s
Fine sBs 64s Brank 34s 40s
-- Superfine ....74s 78s Oats, Feed 908 22s
1.5 s 40s Fine 23s 25s
--.. 30s 35s . Poland 22s 24s
Fine 38s 40s —Fine 25s 27s
—Superfine 43s 46s Potatoe 95s 28s
sfis 61s —__. Fine 27s 30s
—Fine 66s 70s Scotch 31s 32s
Peas Grey 37s 39s Hour (per sack) 60s 65s
Maple 4os 415 Seconds s2s 58s
—White .... ....... 42s 46s North Country 52s 54s
Boilers 50s 54s Bran Bs Os

GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF GRAIN,EROM THE RETURNS
RECEIVED IN THE WEEK ENDING FEB. 26.
Wheat, 60s. od. ; Barley, 40s. 6d. ; Oats, 235. 3d. ; Rye,
40s. 9d. ; Beans, Ms. Bd. ; Peas, 40s. 4d.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
March 2, 1825, is 375. 7f.ld. per cwt.

a MARKET,Reporto:NfitAhltecnnu7m. ber,s and
The follSoM FI
wi isan LaD accurate
prices at Smithfield Market this morning
E
CATTLE AT MARKET

Beasts - _ ---
2,317 I Sheep 14,580
Calves
To sink the Offal, per stone of 81h.
Beef 4s Be, to 5s 4d I Veal ......... 6s 2d to 7s 4d
Motto- 5s Od to 6s Od I Pork ......... 56 6d to 6s Gd
Lamb Os Od to Os Od.
HAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD.
Hay £3 Os to £4 15s I Clover ...... £4 Os to £5 15s
Straw ....... £2 2s to £2 12s.

Sir M. W. RIDLEY, Bart.,find CUTIIBIJItT
EL-
LisoN, Esq., Member of Parliament fix. Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, have each made a donation of 2M. to " the Port of New-
castle Association, for the preservation ()fide from shipwreck."

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY'
Extraets from the Morning Papers, March 7, 1 525.

[THE TIMES.]

It appears by letters received on Saturday
from Dover, that the French Government has
ordered that all letters and papers carried by
express from Paris to London, or from London
to Paris, shall be opened by an officer appointed
for that purpose, who is instructed to have copies
taken of them, and forwarded to the Minister of
the Interior at Paris. This order has already
been acted upon both at Calais and Bougloe,ne
in the case of mercantile expresses, and the con-
sequence has been, owing to the unavoidable loss
of time required in its execution, that of render-
ing the expresses wholly useless to the merchants
who sent them. No exception whatever has
been made with respect to the parties affected lry
this order; those merchants who, on all former
occasions, have been treated with peculiar respect.
and forbearance by the French Government, hav-
ing in this instance beet► equally subjected to
scrutiny. It is said that some packets have beet►
opened which were written in cipher or in some
unintelligible language, and that these were
allowed in the first instance to pass, but an inti-
mation was conveyed to the parties to whom they
were addressed, that none such would in future
be sent on to their destination. Various expla-
nations are on foot to account for so extraordinary
and unusual a proceeding on the part of the
French Government, but none, of course; on
which full reliance can be placed. Their jea-
lousy is by some supposed to have taken thse
alarm at the astonishing number of expresses sent
from England on account of the rise in cola-

nial produce, and of the reduction in the duty °a
French wine announced by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer. Not being able to understand
the extraordinary degree of commercial activity
displayed by the merchants of London, the
French Government is believed to have formed

the suspicion that some deep intrigue of a poli-
tical nature with respect to Spain was actually
carrying on. Another interpretation is, that many
facts have been stated of late its the private let-
ters conveyed by the expresses, both in relation to
the Royal Family, and the general measures of tlse
Government, which have afterwards appeared in
the English papers,and given great cause of scandal
in that shape to the good citizensof Paris ; and that
great anxiety is felt by the French Ministers to
put a stop to a species of public information
which may render the censorship on the French
press wholly a useless stretch of arbitrary power.
We are inclined to think the latter the more
probable explanation of the two. The incon-
venience to merchants and others from this pro-
ceeding is very great. The delay which neces-
tarily takes place does, in fact, render all the
expence useless which they have incurred for
increased expedition. France, by means of its spy-
system, its secret agency, or avowed interference,
may now be regarded as hermetically sealed
against all confidential or political communica-
tion between its citizens and foreigners. The
stage-coaches which leave or enter the capital,
are not allowed to carry a hill of lading without
submitting it to inspection. The passengers
in the mail have their luggage unlocked and
examined—letters sent by post are opened and
copied ; and now, even the dispatches of com-
mercial couriers, for whose departure a permit
has previously been obtained, are not allowed to
reach their destination without stoppage and sera-
tiny. The Police Argus of a suspicious Govern-
ment has its eyes and its hands every-where, ex-
pecting to detect sedition in a stock-list, conspi-
racy in a bill of exchange, and treason against
the Bourbons in an advice of the sale or purchase
of coffee, cotton-wool, or nutmegs. A Govern-
ment which acts in this manner, must either be
very weak or very arbitrary—very weak to feel
such continued alarms ; or very arbitrary, to im-
pose such restraints upon its subjects n ithou-t
feeling them.

[MORNING II ERALD.]
Although the Parliament has assembled so
short a time, not more than fifteen days, ex-
cluding those days on which " no Houses " were
made, an unusually large proportion of the
" Public Business," as the Estimates and money
affairs are termed, has been brought forward by
the Government. The Navy, Army, and Ord-
nance Estimates have been agreed to ; and the
appendages of those Estimates, the votes for Civil
Contingencies, Army Extraordinaries, Comtbis-
sariat, &c., are to he moved this evening.
The " Budget," in reality, is nut, and there
are already Bills before the House to carry
into effect the proposed reductions of duties
and taxes. The Assessed Taxes Bill, indeed,
after to-night, has only to pass through another:
stage, when it will he forwarded to the Lords.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer will this day
propose the Annual Duties : so that, although
cotinhieng"fMromm:et,lYw'uneirnoldtlieijrthstee'many nights have been occupied with debates re-
garding the Catholic Association and the state of
Ireland, the Ministers, by the end of this. week,
disabilities,T he
Bilk Government
D relieve
00 W
Resolutions,ffi Offices,
preparings
the Mutiny Bill excepted, may have contrived
to get nearly all the Public, or rather all. the
Money Business, before the House of Commons.,
According to present conversation on the subject,.
there will be an Adjournment on the 30th in
i o(Sisbd:ersl
(es, Session
o,oe.nifi
BeJeutiolet.---he,
start to April the 11th, for the Easter Reces,. If
there be only a continuance of that active attpil-;
tion for forwarding the Public Business which.
measures displayed,
11 ashas
a are hithertocalled bteheen
Trea-
sury, and founded on the Estimates, will
And when
any
been got
Bills have
through the Parliament, it has been the prac-
ticenot .
Prorogation on
hyenvastthede;ilon'oefy attention after Easter.
of modern times to delay the -
account
caolfeualnaytedothaebrouptubtli:
present Houses, and at the
it is '
husines. It is at
short, closing at latest
the Roman Catholics from
House, after the carrying of Sir F.
Burdett's expected, will be
ed in the course of the week ; but a dill:
present
orderMr.Plunkett,
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fdr.croketbhry,atB
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catty is stated to have arisen respecting a State
Provision for the Roman Catholic Clergy. Sir F.
Burdett, as did Mr. Croker, hinted in the debate
at the policy of making such a provision ; but the
goVstion is, whether such proposition shall make
dart of this Bill, or whether it shall be the sub-
ject of a separete measure. In other respects the
Bill will he nearly n copy of that introduced by
Mr. Plunkett in l 8 1.2, and which was mainly
founded on the measure previously prepared by
Mr. Grattan. The second reading of Sir F.
Burdett's Bill is avowedly not to take place till
after the Easter recess ; and it, is understood to
be Mr. Peel's intention then to try one debate
ear the Bill :—Should that fail, he proposes to
abandon all further opposition to the Bill, and
to leave it to its fate in the Lords.

of three millions, was like putting a stable into a horse—
instead of a horse into a stable. These logical peccadillos
were forcibly exposed by the Chancellor of he Exchequer,
and turned into practical ridicule by Mr. Hume, who, early
on the very even•ng that Mr. Maherly last week submitted
his Resolutions, gave notice of a motion to abolish the
Sinking Fund, for some day this week. To the latter cir-
cumstance is owing the preceding observations on the dis-
cussion of Thursday. We are glad that Parliament should
have another opportunity of fairly canvassing the expediency
and utility of maintaining a Sinking Fund. To the existence
of that Font], and to that only, is now referable any demand
advanced either in or out of Parliament for a further reduc-
tion of taxation. All the estimates for the year have, we may
say, been already agreed to ; and even those for the Army,
which, on account of the augmentation, it was supposed would
be strongly resisted, have, from the perfectly unanswerable
and satisfactory statement of Lord Palmerston, been ac-
quiesced, in without a single objection. Of those estimates
then, and of the interest of the Public Debt, does the whole
expenditure of the country consist--except the Sinking Fund.
It is hence downright folly to talk of remitting more
taxes, unless on the assumption that the Sinking Fund is
to be relinquished, or at least invaded. Let this question,
therefore, be decided at once, or rather once again ; let Par-
liament deliberately and dispassionately give judgement in the
F case of the Sinking Fund v. a Reduction of Taxes—and the
Country will abide the verdict. Much time, much uncertainty
will thus be saved—for if it be determined to retain the whole
of that Surplus Fund, all idea of further remission of duties at
present must be thenceforth abandoned—and if it be found ex-
pedient to retain but part of it, or to retain none of it, then
the question is narrowed, namely, to the sources of Revenue
which it may be most advisable to give up, in order to effect
the object, whether partial or total, of the Legislature. We,
therefore, have no hesitation in saying, that Mr. Hume's is a
most important motion—much more important, in short, than
he is qualified to do justice to. At the same time it is one to
which we would have nothing applied, but the plain sense—
the pure reason of the House of Commons. Declamation is
foreign—mathematical precision is germane to such a subject ;
but in a financial point of view, nothing can be more worthy
of the fullest, the freest, the fairest discussion. The first point
to settle is, the actual amount of revenue now appropriated to
this Fund. The next is, whether that amount is serviceable
as means of directly liquidating the capital of the National
Debt, or in assisting to reduce the interest of the National
by maintaining the price of the public stocks equably in the
Market—or thirdly, as a mere surplus in the hands of Govern-
ment, to supply contingent wants without the necessity of re-
sorting to new taxes and new loans ? The next question to
determine is, whether in any or all of these ways the nation
would be more benefitted by continuing the Sinking Fund or
Surplus, than-by remitting its amount, as might most seem fit,
in direct or indirect taxes ? We shall take occasion before Mr.
Hume's Motion comes on to elucidate some of these con-
siderations.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
'One of those arbitrary and indecent violations
of private rights, in which the Continental Go-
vernments do not hesitate toihdulge when their
pleasure or their interests are concerned, was
committed last week at Boulogne and Calais, by
order of the French Govenment. On Wednes-
day, the commercial letters travelling by private
expresses from this country to their respective
destinations] were stopped, opened, and read.—
Some of them were detained for nearly four
Mors, in order that all the dispatches might be
carefully examined. In one bag there were
forty letters, all of which underwent perusal.—
It was then made known, that in future the same
practice would be continued regularly. As an ex-
case for this scandalous breach of confidence, it is
pretended that theFrenchGovernment is suspicious
that dangerous communications of a political nature
-were transmitted by these conveyances. Power
will never be at a loss for apologies to cover its
abuses; but surely, considering all the circum-
stances of Europe at this moment, there never
was one so utterly groundless as this. What
should we think of an English Minister, who,
because he might fancy that the whole of the
private correspondence in the kingdom did not
abound with praises of his administration, should
give directions suddenly to have all the letters in
the Post-ollice broken open and read ? Yet a
measure of this violent and tyrannical character
is carried into execution in France almost like
one of the laws of paramount importance to the
State.

[NEW TIMES.]
The Monopoly of Port %Vine, alluded to in the
louse of Commons the other evening, is a sub-
ject which cannot but be particularly interesting
to the public, at a moment when our own Govern-
ment is so liberally reducing the duties on that
article. In another part of our Paper will be
found a letter, throwing much light on the mono.
poly, which which is exercised under the sanction
of the Portuguese Government, by a Company at
Oporto. The vineyards of Portugal produce enough
fine Port Wine, one year with another, to supply
thrice the consumption of England, and their pre-
sent productiveness might be increased at least a
fourth ; so that, were it not for the monopoly
of the Oporto Company, the English Market
might be supplied with Wines in greater abund-
ance than at present, of a finer quality, and at
least 101. per pipe cheaper. But it is the avowed
object of the Company to enhance the prices
on the English consumer by causing every year
a fictitious scarcity. We trust that the Portu-
guese Government will learn from the example
of our own, that. in matters of commerce, Libe-
rality is the best policy. It is most absurd,
that Portugal should suffer her staple commo-
dity 4o remain in such a state of thraldom, and
should sacrifice the interests of her best cus-
tomers to the personal gain of a few monopolists.
We are very desirous that the British Public
should enjoy the comfort of a bottle of port in
as high a perfection, arid at as moderate a rate
as possible ; but while the monopoly in question
exists, it must present an insuperable obstacle
against their so doing.

[MORNING cituomict.r.:l
It is currently reported that a Noble Earl at
the head of his Majesty's Government, who has
hitherto opposed the Question of Catholic Eman-
cipation, in the House of Lords, now sees the
wisdom and policy of conceding to that great
body of the people their just claims ; and that,
when the Bill comes before theiPPper House of
Parliament, he will give it his support.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
A Brazil mail arrived last night, bringing Rio
Papers to Jan. 8 ; and, if their contents form a good criterion of
the state of that empire, no country upon earth can be more free
from matter of an extraordinary or agitating character. The
papers contain absolutely nothing beyond the substance of an
imperial decree for the suppression of crimes, which, it is
said, has reached such a height, particularly those of rob-
bery and murder, as to render necessary police regula-
tions of a very rigorous character, anti which are in conse-
quence to be tried, as soon as the proper means are organ-
ized for the purpose. However, they are only an imita-
tion of the armed patrole system, which has been long esta-
blished in almost every part of Europe ; with this difference,
however, that there is much less occasion for them than in the
countries from which they have been borrowed. There is, fur-
ther, an account of the acquittal of Lieut. Pascoe Grenfell, of
the Brazilian naval service, on some charges instituted against
him for alleged misconduct whilst on duty at Para. Of these
charges the Court Martial has acquitted him in the most
honourable manner. We have now supplied the whole of the
intelligence brought by this mail ; and it is no uninteresting
phenomenon, that a country, which has but just emerged, we
might say, from a semi-barbarous state, and, what is perhaps
worse, her dependence on a remote and jealous Power, should,
by the mere force of her new Institutions, acquire in so
short a space of time such an appearance of political consist-
ency as is manifest in her present situation. Yet this is one
of the States which, according to the insolent dicta of the Holy
Alliance are unfit to govern themselves : but they have refuted
the charge in the most triumphant way imaginable, by the
constrast between their condition and that of the parties who
have ventured to prefer it. If superior prosperity, as well as
a better system of rule, form a title to precedence, it is the
Governments of the New World who should controul the
Members of the Holy Alliance, instead of being dictated to
by that Body, whose stupid prejudices are only surpassed by
the blind infatuation and head-long violence of its proceedings.

What little speculation was entered into on Saturday was
on rather higher terms than on Friday, owing to several Ex-
presses from Paris, with letters of Thursday last, which state,
that the French Funds on that day had experienced an advance
of nearly I per cent. It would appear by the report of those
private Messengers, who come by way of Boulogne, that they
were stopped by the Police at that Port, who inspected all
their letters and papers, under the expectation that they con-
tained some correspondence respecting the Greeks, of an of-
fensive nature to the French Government. What this corre-
spondence contains, at which the French Government could
possibly take umbrage, we cannot understand; but a report
to this effect was extremely current in the City. It was likewise
said, that the negociations between Mr. Stratford Canning at St.
Pstersburgh, and the Russian Government, with respect to thel
recognition of the independence of Greece, had taken a very '
unfavourable turn. Consols for Account, which in the morning
had risen to 94, fell to 93i, and for Money to OA. Credit was
not generally attached .to this story, or .the funds would have
closed consideralaly lower. Any rumour, bearing the least sem-
blance of probability, creates alarm among the holders of stock
It the present high quotations ; and it is not at all unlikely that
the funds will, for the present, remain rather heavy. The con-
tinuation in Consols to the Account, which terminates on the
Plith April, has advanced from kto per cent., which indicates
Usat the public opinion is, in favour of an improvement, and that
the decline has been occasioned very much by the demand for
ruoney.—(

BIRTHS.
On the 2d inst., at Neasdon-house, the lady of the Hon. W
Fraser, of a son.
On the 19th ult., at Marseilles, the lady of Alexander Turn
bull, Esq., his Majesty's Consul at that place, of a son.

MARRIED.
On Saturday last, at Limehouse church, John Steele Dale,
to Susanali Mary, eldest daughter of the late Rev. George
Williams.
On Saturday. at St. Michael's John Letts, jun., of Cornhill,
to Charlotte, eldest daughter of Mr. John Wilson Davis, of
Deptford, Kent.
On Saturday last, at Windsor, Mr. T. Jones, of Kenning-
ton, to Miss Davies, of the former place.

----....---
DIED.
[MORNING POST.] At Eltham, on the sth inst., after a long and painful illness,
- • • s.' f a happier specimen olllltlyirrideatuSgthritnegreort,Etidiewawrdifeof John Henry Latham, Esq., and
We have seldom heard Broderip, E • 11•0 aged 32.
sq•, i • •,
of preposterousness than the manner in which Mr. Maberly On Saturday last, the sth inst., in the 64th year of his age,
brought forward-his late Resolutions for repealing the whole of Mr. Charles Bell, of Brunswick-street, for many years printer
the Assessed Taxes. The Hon. Member had laid no ground of the Times newspaper.
whatever for such a measure. Parliament had previpusly ap- On Tuesday, the Ist inst., at Southampton, Mrs. Baird,
pieved of the mode in which the Chancellor of the E;,... daughter of the late Thomas Dickson, Esq., of Burstow-park,
chequer proposed to remit a million and a half of duties, al- in
.the comity of Surrey, and grand-daughter of the late Sir
though the Right. Hon. Gentleman, to meet that remis4ion, William Baird, Bart., of Saughton-hall, Mid Lothian, in Scot-
could positively calculate on a surplus only of about 450,000/. land, a Captain in the Royal Navy.
Eliza Jekyll, wife of the
after the several items of National Expenditure and five mil- On the sth inst., at Camberwell,
Irons' of Sinking Fund 'were defrayed out of the National .Rev. George Henry Stork, of Thames-Ditton and Camberwell
late
,
~,die.. How, then, were the loss of three and a half addi_ and formerly rector of Stow, in Essex,
and daughter of the
--••••03,Vaillions:to be made good ? Mr. Maberly attempted to Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmers.
sunr,ount, or rather to remove the difficulty most ingeniously ; On the 29th of September l'ist at Madras, Mrs. Bowser, wife
he:6T*. tiertieeeded to show there were but three millions of 'of Lieut.-General Thomas BOwser, commanding in Mysore.
SlTtintrwaily and.dien that he would sweep them away to On the 28th ult , Jane, wife of Mr. Champney, of Dalby-
Ill'e I.l,ltnlitrAte re lof three and half millions of direct terrace, City-road, 'aged 4th
tai‘es•• -'' 'tta; a sorte: Of douhlebluand r Demanding the , On the 25th of June last, on board of the Hon. Company's
abolition,or-actis.mest ..,
the means by which the c,41._ Taxes, before he even mentioned 'ship General Harris,
bullTurnbull, E •
deficienc miht be balanced, was in at Bencoolen, Mr. William Percy Turn-
, midshipman, son of William sq
common parlance, Putting the cart before the horse .' • and then On the 2d inst., at Hampstead, Miss Mary Ann Scriven, in
emPelliug three "4 a half millions to fit into the place the 83d year of her age..