The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-05 00:00:00

[BRITISH PRESS.]

We do not think with Lord Londonderry that
the discussion in the House of Commons on Wed-
nesday evening upon the Report of the Agricul-
tural Committee was premature, but it is impos-
sible to deny tharmuch more was said on that
occasion than was wise or politic. We are
amazed at finding such men as Mr. Ellice and
Mr. Western echoing.the vulgar clamour against
the Cash Payments Bill, and seriously descant-
ing upon the expediency—nay the very neces-
sity, of repealing that protective and provi-
dential measure. Admitting for a moment—
but only for the sake of argument, that no share
of the existing distresses would 'now oppress the
country if that measure had not been enacted,
can it be concealed that this very result, pernicious
as it may be, is but the necessary consequence
of the change that has been effected, and that, ac-
cording to the same line of reasoning, similar
`effects must flow from such a change at whatever
perio'd it was to be accomplished ? Where then
would be the wisdom of retracing our steps, and
of once more submitting the' whole property of
.the empire to the capricious varieties of au in-
convertible paper currency, when our reason and
experience tell us. that w e shall only .put off the
evil to some other period, and, must again en-
counter all the sufferings which are necessarily
to flow from the act of restoring Our depreciated
currency ?

[MORNING HERALD.-}

The accounts relative to the 'Turks and Rus-
sians have presented such a perpetual variation
of aspect that they Can scarcely be fixed for a
moment. The French Papers of Monday would
prepare Europe for war. They have accounts
from Constantinople to the end. of February, and
from St. Petersburgh to the 6th of March, which
breathe hostilities. It appears from the in-
telligence received from the latter quarter
that the Russians are in a state of great suffer-
ing from the low price and flat demand- for
corn, joined with a scanty circulating me-
dium. Specie had almost wholly vanished, and
the paper circulation was greatly depreciated.
The ruble in paper was reduced to the value of a
franc, or ten-pence British. The Southern Pro-
vinces are, it is stated, " gorged with grain," and
the commerce of.the Black Sea wholly at a stand.
it would appear that the Russian finances are
not in. the most easy state. In order to provide
against the exigencies of the next year, it is in-
tended to impose a new and heavy duty upon im-
ported silks and cottons. The accounts from
Greece still talk of nothing but the great naval
victory, recently gained over the Turks, of which
it is said an .English frigate was spectatress.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
RECORDERSHIP OF LONDON.—Although the
election to this highly important office is in the
Court of Aldermen exclusively, yet there is no
fixed salary attached to it, and the Common

Council, at their discretion, vote a remuneration '
out. of the City funds. If any attempt should,
therefore, be made by £he Aldermen to force into
the • first judicial seat of the Criminal Courts of
London and Middlesex an individual, without
eminence in the profession, whose only recom-
mendation is an impliCit subserviency to Minis-
ters—the Common. Council have the remedy in
their own bands. They may resolve to pay such
a person no more than his services deserve. That
estimate will, doubtless, be formed upon so low
a scale, as to render the office undesirable 'to
such an individual,and an opportunity may thus be
acquired of restoring the dignity to the office
which it formerly possessed, when lawyers of
distinguished legal acquirements, enlarged hu-
manity, and sound constitutional principles filled
it, and when their claims to the appointment did
not originate in a pecuniary purchase, as at the
present- day. The . same observations apply to
the office of Common Serjeant. The Common
Council will do well to remember, that although
Sir Jblin Silvester was the only Recorder pro-
moted from the place of Common Serjeant dur-
ing a period of 140 years, yet the Aldermen are

likely . in future to follow that solitary prece-
dent ; and, therefore, they should elect no per.
son to the one office whom they do not believe
qualified in every particular for the proper dis-
charge of the functions of-the other.

[NEW TIMES.]
Consols yesterday lefts
o off at 79i for the ac-
count. This decline was wing, in a great mea-
sure, to a vague rumour of an express having
been received from Paris, bringing news that the
genies on Tuesday had sunk to 85. We have no
doubt this is an exaggeration. At the same
time it must be admitted, that the complexion
of the latest foreign news has not been-pacific.—
Advices tj ere yesterday received from Con-
stantinople to the sth March, via Vienna. They
state, that on the 28th ult. a great Council was
held at Constantinople, at which the Note sub-
mitted by the Ambassadors was taken into con-
sideration. After the Council broke up, a Note
was transmitted to the Ambassadors, which was
not so favourable to pea.ce as had been expected.
At the same time, it would not be right'to con-
sider it as decisive of the question of peace or
war. There had been a riot between two regi-
ments of Janissaries at Constantinople, in which
110 or 12 ivere killed.

The Spanish Papers present a lamentable pic-
ture- of the effects of a wild and aimless re-
volution. Together with other blessings of
modern liberty, the Spaniards have got a Con-
scription. The people, however, it seems,
are not sensible of the full value of this Most
liberal way of converting them into a nation
of heroes ; .but to induce them to submit
quietly to drawing lots for the service a Regiment
of Cavalry was, posted near the spot, why its
energetic admonitions easily taught the Spaniards
how free they are. AS a further proof of the
mild genius of revolution, it has bee❑ formally
proposed to pimish the exclamation, " Long live
the absolute King," with► no less a penalty than
Death ! Death for a single outcry ! What would
This have been called, when Ferdinand VII. was
an absolute King ?—(lbid.)

[THE TIME FN.]
The Cape Torn Gazette (Cape of Good Hope)
of the 12th of janUary announces, that " Mr.
" William Jones, is appointed to the .office of
" Surveyor of Government Buildings, in the
" room of Mr. 'Melville, resigned." 'Phis Wil-
liam Jones is no other than the noted Giver, the
Spy, whose services 'are here rewarded with a
place, nearly a sinecure, producing, as we are
informed, little short of five hundred pounds
per annum. This, too, is in addition to emolu-
ments arising from two other places, scarcely,
of inferior amount. Some persons may here
give vent to expressions of. astonishment, or
perhaps of indignation, thpt such a man as
Oliver should be thus lavishly rewarded : but the '
anger would be no more reasonable than the sur-,
prise. It is' because this man is Oliver, the spy,
that he rolls in affluence at the ex,pence of the ,
nation. Trades which are held disgraceful—
services which are in themselves more infamous
than othershave ever been paid more-extra-
vagantly than others. If not, our natural feel-
ings of contempt and disgust might soon be-
come extinct for want 'of objects to excite
them. We have heard of some old French
officer, who outrageously abused a certain opera-
dancer for receiving a salary of several thousand
Louis' a year, when he himself, after fifty
campaigns, was starving. " Does it go for no-
" thing, (the artist quietly replied,) that the dif-
" ference between our professions is such, as to
" admit of your calling me names with impunity ?"
How much higher, then, are the pecuniary claims
of such an artist as Mr. Oliver, if calculated by
the pre-eminence of his disgrace! Once tolerate
the use of spies, and it -follows of course. that
their pay must be inordinate ; for as no honest
man will undertake the office,' the rogues, who
have the market to themselves know the value
of their monopoly, and lay on in proportion.
But we would fain ask, must this horrible engine
be naturalized in the British constitution ? Must
we.submit to hear it stated by ,a British Minister,
that he cannot carry on the government with-
out the aid of men so infamous by the occupa-
tion which he assigns to them, that half the re-

venues of the Empire would not restore them
to an intercourse on equal terms with the meanest
of the King's subjects, except with spies like
themselves? Mr. Oliver, supported as he is by
the Government, contrives to maintain his foot-
ing in this ill-fated. Colony, though his pseu-
donyme has long ceased to conceal him from
the inhabitants, who are more anxious to be rid
of his society—thinking, perhaps, that there is
another English colony towards the South, in
which he has more legitimate claims to a settle-
ment. Hints are given, placards on the Walls in-
timate the public feeling freely; but the power of
the Government is such, that no one dares speak
openly ; Mr. Oliver, alias Jones, appears there-
fore with an unblushing forehead, and preserves
his acquisition by the same effiontery with which
he originally gained it.

EDINBURGH AND INIORPETII ROAD.

COPY of a REPORT and ESTIMATE of a proposed LINE
of ROAD from MORPETH,. by WOOLER, both in the
•County of NORTHUMBERLAND, to the City of EDIN-
BURGH ;—made under the Instructions of the Lords of, his
Majesty's Treasury, by THOMAS TELFORD, Civil En-
gineer.
Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, Ist April, 1822.
S. R. LUSHINGTON.