The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-02 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

CANTERBURY, SEPT. 30.—Our Hop Market is fully sup-
plied. Pockets of the very best quality, of the East Kent and
Canterbury growths, find a ready sale. Bags are not in re.
quest; inferior Hops are a heavy sale, although offered at very
low prices. It is expected the market will be fully attended on
Wednesday next.—Prices, Pockets, 555. to 808. very fine 84s.
Bags, 50s. to 70s. rery fine 725. to 765. per cwt.
.BoaorGii, SEPT. 30.—Our Market for new Hops is steady
in demand, and good Bags and Pockets maintain their cur-
rency :—Kent Pockets, 50s. to 635. to 90s. per cwt.—Sussex
Pockets, 4Us. to 48s. to 565. per cwt.—Kent Bags, 455. to 84s.—
Sussex Bags, 40s. to 50s.
MAIDSTONE, SEPT. 30.—The Hop-pickinm is nearly finish_
ed, and we suppose, by the middle of this week,' the whole of
the grounds in this neighbourhood will be entirely cleared.—
The crops in most places have been very abundant, generally
exceeding the quantity calculated. The samples vary very
much in quality, and it is the prevailing opinion that good
Hops will fetch higher prices than now quoted. The sale at
our market on Thursday was somewhat dull, but prices were
looking up. A few lots of bags fetched 665. and 70s. Cran-
brook Fair yesterday was well attended both by planters and
merchants. A great many samples of Hops were produced,
but the prices being so ruinously low, there was but little
business done.—The chief prices were from 48s. to 525., a few
lots fetched 545. to 565.

CORONER'SINQUEST.-FATAL EFFECTS OF IN•
T OXIC AT I ON.—Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, an inquisition was
held at the Union Tavern,' in John-street, Oxford-street. before
Thomas Stirling, Esq., on view of the body. of Mr. 'Thomas
Craig, aged 38 whose death we announced in our paper of yes-
terday.—Mr. Jacob Craig, on being sworn,.deposed that the de-
ceased was his brother. • On Sunday, between ten and eleven
o'clock, the deceased was on the landing place, and appeared to
be going into the bed room ; he was intoxicated, and wanted to
go out, but Mrs. Craig desired he might be kept in doors. Wit-
ness watched in the passage to prevent his going out, and the
porter of the house watched in the drawing-room. While witness
was watching in the passage between the first mid second floor,
he saw the deceased get out of the sitting-room window on the
second floor; witness thought he was in Mrs. Craig's bed-room ;.
witness instantly called to the porter, who ran into the street to
see after the deceased, as witness was too much agitated to go
himself, but observed two men leading the deceased into the
passage; he walked very lame, and appeared to be nearly insen-
sible. Mr. Striven, a surgeon, was immediately called in, who
rendered him every possible assistance, with other medical
'gentlemen, but the deceased died the same evening. He at-
tempted to drop from the window, and not throw himself out
carelessly.—Mr. H. Striven examined—Knew the deceased
before the accident took place; has no doubt his intellects
' were injured by excesses ; he found the deceased on a bed,
with his hip disloeated, and the bone broken in the socket ;
he had a slight bruise on the knee. From the state of
his constitution, and the injury he received from the fall,
he must have ruptured some of the blood-vessels of the
head, which occasioned his death.—The porter's evidence
merely proved that the deceased said he had drank but
one glass of.shrub that moming, nor ha 4 he been out of the
house more than two minutes ; the deceased was intoxicated on
Saturday night, and hot sober on Sunday moniineb.—The Jury
then viewed the body ; and on 'their return, the Coroner said
they had heard the evidence, and seen the bOdy, also the win-
dow he got out of, and they could not think he intended to kill
himself.—The Jury returned their verdict—" That the deceased
met his death by a fall, in attempting to get out of a second
floor window, while in a state of intoxication."

The Galway Advertiser of Saturday states,
tat fever has dlubled within the last few days. If some specific,
remedy is not immediately applied to check its progress, the con-
sequences will be dreadful, as it has assumed a most malig-
nant aspect. We are very sorry to observe, that three of the
physiciars have contracted the disease, and are now labouring
ander its baneful influence. One poor man, who lately had
six children, took the fever—his children were left neglect-
ed; and when lie was restored, or rather became convalescent,
and left the hospital, he found five of his children dead, and the
other quite in a sickly state—his heart was broke—his strength,
or mind, or body, was incapable to hold up against such a blow,
and he laid himself down, saying he had no wish to live
longer—and before our readers peruse this, we venture to
state he will be no more ! The fever hospital cannot accommo-
date cr relieve the hundreds that are diseased.

The Circuit Court of Justiciary commenced its
proceedings at Ayr on Friday week, and finished the business
before the Court the following day. It was comparatively un-
important; and the Right .Hon. the' Lord Justice' CLERIC,
who presided, on dismissing the Jury, took special notice of the
fact. " The lower classes, his Lordship said, " seemed to be
again returning to thir former sober, virtuous, and religious
habits. In the late English Circuits, the cases had been
fewer, and; in general, less atrocious than on any former cir-
cuit; and in Scotland; particularly'the southern district, the
decrease of crime was considerable. His Lordship] rusted
this happy• state would long continle ; but, should the re.
verse be the case, he relied with confidence on the exertions
of the .Sheriffs in bringing the offenders to justice. His
Lordship congratulated the county on the great acquisi.
tion they had attained in the Hall where they now sat, and
in the gaol and offic6s connected with it. The uncommon
liberality of assessment to which the county submitted for this
laudable purpose, during times of the greatest distress, reflected
immortal honour on it, and on the gentlemen who succeeded in
bringing forward so g eat and important a measure in such
times, and ought to endear to all parties the Noblemen and
Gentlemen who had so acted, and by whose spirited conduct
most excAlert a commodation was 'um affordel for jury, wit.
nesses, and the public."—(Edinburgh Courant, Sept. 28.)

THE I.ONDON-30p1INALS.

lexTrotcTs FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,
October 2, 1822.

[MORNING. HERALD.]
The FOreign• Papers state that the first topic
considered by the Congress of Verona will be
the situation of .the Greeks.- This would‘ be in
the bighest degree desirable. We fear there is
but too much reason to suppose them reduced to
the lastror nearly the last, extremity. Not that
we consider-the gross-exaggerations of the Turk-
iSh successes as a whit more entitled to credit
than the accounts sent forth- in favour 'of the
Greeks;.. but there are two facts admitted lat-
terly by the Greeks themselves, which- should
decide one's judgment on' the question. in the
first place, it is admitted that the Vass of Titer-
mopylx- was forced,: though occupied by the
Greeks ;—and next, that yhe Turks invaded and
recovered a footing—to what extent is doubtful
—in the Morea.. it is true the Greeks say that
the Moraites Arise en musse„ and attacked the
Turks. so. vigorously, as to drive them back
to Corinth, with the loss of their artillery. Now
Corinth stands- on the heck of land, which joins
the peninsula to the main land. Of the Greek
fleet-there is no account that can 'be. relied on.
That of the Turks was.left, by the last accounts,
off Patras. It is possible that an encounter be-
tween the two fleets—for the Greek fleet has
suffered no defeat or attack—may somewhat re-
store the balance ; and this hope is thrown out
in a letter, purporting to be written by a Greek,
which.has appeared in the Courier Francais, a
Paris pa-per devoted to. the Greek cause.'
In
this letter, however, and- in 'other letters in the
Foreign Journals, written with an avowed par-
tiality towards the Greeks,- there is a despond-
ing tone—a fruitless
.effort to give a faVourable
turn to the actual state of the campaign—and a
reluctant avowal of disasters, which we' fear
leave the Greeks no hope but in the Chris-
tian. powers met in Congress. -Without the
strongest interference, the re-action will be
terrible. Indeed it is difficult to conceive
an arrangement, which will effectually guarantee
them from Mahomedan hatred and revenge. It
were idle to examine the reasonableness or value
of the. various arrimgements by anticipations'
which have, since the broaching of the question,
been put forth in the public Journals. We will
only observe that the Diplomatic Representative
of this country seems to us not only the most
competent, but even the most interested, to pro-
cnre them every security, compatible with
,the
sovereignty of the Porte ; for the latter is, it
may be preSurned, a topic; not to be called into.
question at preSent. It
.would be gratifying, even
as a matter of national honour and feeling, that
after the- English nation,, as identified 'with its
Government, has been so eagerly and disingenu-
ously calumniated with reference to this matter,
by some of the Philhellenic 'partisans, particu-
larly in France, it should appear in the end, that
the Greeks were protected solely, or at least
chiefly, under the shield of English power and
influence.

[NEW TIMES.]
Let it be remembered, that the Government of
Spain is not a legally; established and recognised
Government, but One set Up in defiance 'of the
will of the nation, in opposition to the principles
of Government generally received throughout
Europe, and particularly in contradiction to the
Principles of the British' Constitution. The
people of England have' been deceived into an
idea, that the Government set up by the mu-
tineers of IS2O was a free 111onarchy, like our
own ; and, above all, that it was the unanimous
wish of the Spanish nation. These are gross de-
lusions, Unhappy Spain is torn to pieces with
civil war. The revenue of the country is almost
annihilated. The Confiscations of the Madrid
faction will not be submitted to by the provinces;
and the loans, on which the former rely for the
support of their anarchical system, must fail
-thern, when British capitalists once perceive the
arts of which they have been made the dupes.

[IIIIITI3II. PRESS.]
The Piedinuntese Gatette of the 19th of Sep-
tember contains an article„ under the head of
Naples,. the 7th, which states, that the affairs of
Greece go on badly, and 'that there is no account
of the,Greek fleet. A. letter from Corfu, of a
very-vague and uncertain character, is 'the only
anthOrity for this =statement. A fire broke out
in Constantinople on the 29th of July, by which
2000 houses 4nd' shops were destroyed. .

• .
The Paris Papers of Saturday last contain an
article from Vienna, which states, that in conse-
quence. of dispatCheOkeived.from ConStantino-
ple, the affairs of'-Greece were considered to he
so urgent' thht. the SoVereigns were going to dis-
cu,sS- :them iminediateely in the Austrian capitali
without waiting for the opening of the Congress
at Verona, and that Lord Strangford was corning
frorz Turkey to be, present at the conferences.
These Papers contain no news from Spain, nor
any further account of the' military operations of
the Turks and Greeks.—ObidU •

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Mr. Canning is no favourite of ours. We like
him" less than many of his political_ coadjutors,
perhaps because his personal talents point him
out as the Champion of principles which we
abhor: fie is the Defender of the corrupt Faith,
the Head of the Rotten Borough Church, and the
Prime. Minister of that cherished Gospel, which
teaches that the influence of the Crown. has
diminiShe-d; and ought to be increased ; but
we would give even "the Devil his due."
Canning has sonic- character. Ile has a will
of his own, and likes to have his own way. lle
ean think for himself, and act upon his own
judgniett. Ire. can -disdain to be the pliant
instrument, whilst he glories in being the
chief advocate, of corruption. Like Bonaparte,
lie enforces the doctrine of paSsive obedience,
and-enjoy above every thing the' exercise of his
own free His political creed is tainaus and
&testable,' but" it' requireS fiercer opposition
from those who'seek their countri's good, be.

Ouse he is a manly politician.' He does not 1
link an awkward question, but glories in his
own shame. He takes the straight road to ruin
because he has a fancy for the path, and will not
turn into the bye and secret ways for any body.
His individual' conduct is, therefore, often objec-
tionable in spite of his pernicious doctrines. He
is downright in the expression of his miserable
'opinions, and pursues his rash resolves with in-
veterate obstinacy ; but he is downright and
obstinate.

[THE TIMES.]
• We have recently bad before us a report from
the Parliamentary Committee on the Poor Laws,
presented and printed at too late a period of the
last Session,- to admit of any legislative measures
being founded on it,- even had it been so framed
as to prescribe to the House a salutary course of
legislation upon one of the most important subjects
within the whole range of our domestic policy.—
The Report contains an array of figures, only
less formidable than- that of the moral and poli-
tical reasonings applidable to the same poor law
system, which the Report might have con-
'Wined, but does not. The Committee appear
to have contemplated, as their almost ex-
clusive duty, the suggestion of some " new pro-
" visions for keeping and passing the accounts of
" monies expended on the poor." There is no
attempt made by the authors of. the report to
,compare the principles on which. the system was
originally founded with those through the admix-
ture of w hich, if it has not suffered a positive
degeneracy, it has at least undergone a very sen-
sible change. They do not hint at the political
or social mischiefs arising from the necessafy
operation of the 'poor laws as they now exist ;
-and of course are equally silent with regard to
the causes and political remedies of those_mis-
chiefs. Some abuses which have crept into the
financial administration of the poor laws consti-
tute the whole subject of this report, which;
nevertheless, within its limited sphere, is a,
valuable public document.

[MORNING. POST.];
A liamburgh Mail brought us last night all' ar-
ticle from 'St. Petersburgh, dated the 28th of
August, -which evidently bears an official cha-
racter. Though not signed by the' Emperor
Alexander, it is, in fact, a kind of address issued
to his people, to explain the cause of his ab-
.sence, and to remove any apprehensiOns which
might arise from the length of time to Which it
may extend. In this document the Russians are
assured that nothing but the most important yea-
'sons could induce their Sovereign to withdraw
himself from the personal superintendence of their
welfare; ThOSe reasons,loWever, are not clearly
stated, and the attention is diverted from their na-
ture by a magnificent eulogy 'on the moderation,
sell-command, and disinterestedness, displayed by
the Autocrat, in " counting the drops of blood"
which would have flowed, if he had revenged
the provocations which he had received from
Turkey, and-in yielding to the persuasions of the
Christian Princes, and abstaining from a war
which could not have failed to increase his
power. It would have been well if his impe-
rial Majesty had also " counted the drops of
blood" which . his original demonstrations in
favour of the Greeks, and his subsequent deser-
tion of their cause, haVe caused to • be shed.H
Had he not, on the first breaking out of the
.Moldavian insurrection, recalled his Ambassador
from Constantinople, assembled his armies'. and
marched them to the banks of, the Pruth, the
hope of independence would pot have darted,

_ .
.;e t flash of Heaven's lightning, throughatit all
Ale. regions of Greece, and the insurrection
would have been confined to the provinces in
Which it had • sprung. But when his actions,
stronger far than the most flattering promises,
had encouraged the Greeks- to expect his sup-
portwhen the glittering arms of three hundred
thousand allies shone full in their view, and
trusting. in the- integrity of the. Monarch and
the enthusiasm of his people, they had raised 'in
all. their States the war cry of their .ancestors and
the standard of ancient freedom, to abandon
them in, their struggles to the vengeance of- a
merciless foe, and then "to boast of spelt an act
'as a-proof of a tender regard for humanity—as
mode of preventing the effusion -of -blood, is a
contradiction to sense, honesty and justice, which
could only find its way in the head and heart
and writings 'of the Statesmen of a half civilized.
people. Neither are we- disposed to give much;
credit -to his Russian Majesty, for his great:
condescensiOn in bestowing a Constitution on
his good kingdom of: Poland : for we- have not
forgotten that, up to this very moment, he
suspends the action of that Constitution, for no
other reason than becanse the Poles had presurn-:
ed think it was not a mere name, and availing
themselves of the privileges-with which it invested
them, had begun to reduce its theory to practice.
Of the sincerity of his wish to unite in measures
of repression against those who deny the infalli-
bility of the Holy Alliance, we entertain no
doubt: but whatever those measures may be, it
is evident that they are not expected to be adopt-
ed and. enforced . without much time and diffi-
culty, as-his loving subjects. are fairly warned
that his absence may _prove of long duration.

Dr. CHALMERS left town on Monday last.
During his short stay he preached four Sermons.
which were attended by overflowing Congre.
ga tions.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Friday last (20th ult.)
a young man, son of Connack, of the Fore Inn, Caith-
ness, was preparing to shoot a dog, when the trigger of
his gun came in contact with something, and the shot went off.
The scene of horror which, followed cannot be described,
for the ball passed through a yonnger brother's head, who
fell dead in an instant at his feet. , The-gief into which his in,
consolable parents 'and friends are plunged, is rendered doubly
distressing by the present state of the elder brother, who awakes
only for a moment to a consciousness of the dreadful fact, from
a state of frenzy into which he immediately relapses.—
(Inverness Courier.)
Yesterday morning . 129- prisoners, of both
sexes, who were tried at the 'late Sessions, and
sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, a,
some to be publicly, and others.privately whipped,
were removed from Newgate to the Ilouse of
Correction, which, previous to this removal,. was
SO overstocked with prisoners that it was in-
, tended to remove upwards of 100 to Clerkenwell
Prison.