The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-20 00:00:00

[THE TIMES.?

We received last night the French papers of
Sunday, which supply few articles of intelligence.
The ilioniteur contains an official report of the
state of the revenue of France for the first nine
months of ibis year, similar to our quarterly ac-
counts. The produce for the first Three-quarters
of 1824 amounted 'to 766,773,000 francs (or.
30,670,9201.), and that for the same period in.
1825 to 779,101,000 francs. There has been an
increase of .more than half a million sterling in
the Cour3e of nine montlis,a truth that might have
beet; rendered more consoling by an equality or
a diminution in the expenditure. This is, how-
ever, so far frOM being the case, that in the course
of the last nine months the public debt of France
has been increased by the large sum of forty mil-
lions sterling voted to the emigrants. An order
of the King of Prussia, directed to the authorities
of his Rhenish provinces, prohibits the Roman
"Catholic priests from exacting, previous to the
celebration of marriage between parents of diffe.'
rent 'sects, a: promise that the offspring should
be brought up in the Roman Catholic system. It
would appear that the .bigotry of many of the
priests- had led them to require this uulaWful en-
gagement.
It was partly in order to get at the real truth,
that we published on Tuesday a very suspicious-
'looking paragraph, taken from another paper,
respecting the Baron Bergami. \V have since
learned' from undoubted authority, that this per-
son was'at Pesaro et month since, and it was" un-
derstood he wets going shortly to Rome with his
wife and' daughter to place the latter in a convent
for her education,—(/bid.)

`MORNING CHRONICLE.]
4e'cordirig to recent ad vices received at Rio de
Janeiro, from Upper Peru, it would seem that
verrstron4 effort was made to excite unfavour-
able. impressions in the mind =of General Bolivar,
when on his road to Cuzco, respecting the Bri-
tish, and also to point out to him the destructive
effects of opening the Ports of Peru to foreign
trade ;' but more particularly that from England.
In Puarcarcolla and Quiquisana,a few leagues from
Cuzco, a number of Peruvians •had assembled for
the-:express purpose of:Meeting the Liberator, in
order to lay before him a report on the ruined state
bf the c'otton'end woollen manufactures of Upper
Terri. Corroborative saternents of the number of
families formerly supported by this species of
industry were presented to him, from which it
appeared that upwards of 10,000 looms were
standing still, a misfortune attributed entirely to
the competition of the British. That our political
enemies, as well as those of the independence of
South America, will ever he ready to lay at our
door a large portion of the misfortunes which ine-
vitably 'must attend so great an enterprise as the
emancipation of a wholeCoutinent in which British
subjects have taken so decided a part, might natu-
rally be expected,but we must take care that this se-1
cret enmity does not extend among the South Ame-
ricans, for this is a key which the old Spaniards
'and their friends, no doubt, will touch, well dis-
posed as they are to act the pait of the dog in the
mange?. The answer Bolivar 'is said to have
given to the Peruvian manufacturers, we do not
venture to state, as there may be some partiality
in the report before us ; yet, we trust, We shall
never see Bolivar among the declared enemies of
this country.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
The Installation Address of—the Consultative
Junta to the King of Spain, which will be found
in a subsequent column, is a curious olio of crawl-
ing servility and patriotic rant, mixed up with
apparent honesty and earnestness of purpose.
But ic we remove the scum of courtly adulation,
we shall find that the rest is not. so unsavoury ay
one might expect, who considered the unfavour-
able circumstances under which it had been got
up. The difficulties of the Monarchy ; the de-
gradation of Spain in the scale of nations ; the
ruin of public credit; the inequality of taxa-
tion—all these evils, and many more, are can-
didlY admitted ; and the, necessity of remedial
measures is urged with a degree of warmth, which
inclines us to augur some good from the labours
,this 4nta. Its very appointment is a slight
concession to sound principles, and"spews that
Ferdinand, with all his arbitrary notions, is
obliged to admit that the mere machinery of
despotism, with its rude tools, is unequal to the
necessities of his Government and the wants of his
People. He has, it may be said, appointed a Stand.
log Committee of Reform, with no ample powers,
it is true,-to enforce its suggestions, but with full
liberty of pointing out the remedies, which it may
consider as most suitable in the diseased state of
his kingdom. If it does no other good, it will
enble the Ministers to carry, many. objects, which
they would not venture to propose, much less. to
I accomplish, upon their own responsibility ; and,
if they are really anxious, as has been stated, to

remove the rubbish, which at present obstructs 1
the work of improvement, it is clear they may re-
ceive great aid from the Consultative Junta. As
the latter appears to be one of the lofty emana-
tions of the Spanish Monarch himself, he will
doubtless cherish the offspring off his own brain,
and as it shows all filial respect and deference for
the august author of its being, it is probable that
it will be allowed, at least for some time, to per-
form its htimble, though eminently useful func-
tions. Its chief importance, however, in our
mind, is the admission it contains, that the despot
is not infallible, and that his will alone is not
a sufficent beacon to guide the vessel of
the State through the dangers by which it
is beset on every side. Ferdinand thus acknow-
ledges one of the greatest vices of arbitrary power,
we mean its incapacity to heal the wounds it in-
flicts, or to help itself out of any of the dan-
gerous dilemmas occasioned by its own excesses.
Ile has absolutely surrendered a part of his
power—the Deliberative branch of it ; and
though he has retained to himself the right of
taking it back at pleasure, he will be cautious,
with all his arbitrary propensities, how he uses it,
when he sees the daggers of the Apostolic Junta
uplifted on one side, and the gulph of insolvency
yawning before him on the other. Should he get
rid therefore of the Consultative Junta, it would
only be for the purpose probably of making a
much greater departure from the system of pure
despotism, and a far closer approximation to a
limited Government:

tyfORNING lIERALD.I
It is not generally known, we believe, that
the Trustee of the Kensington Road have con-
trived, by the removal of the turnpike-gate from
Hyde Park-corner to Knightsbridge, to exempt
themselves from the repair of that part of the
road lying between the new and old stations of
the gates. This seems to be most unreasonable
and unjust. In what part of the kingdom is
there another instance of the kind, or what pre-
tence can there be for saying that because a toll-
bar is not placed at the exact commencement
of a road, therefore all the, part of the road be-
fore arriving at the gate shall be thrown upon the
parish ? Either, the gates should he done away
with altogether, or the tolls applied in repairing
the whole of the road as heretofore. Yet this is
done, while the public are openly plundered and
insulted by the audacious vagabonds whom the
lessees of the tolls place at the different stations,
under the eye of those very trustees and treasurers,
who cling with such loving pertinacity to the col-
lection of these odious imposts. Nothing can be
more injudicious than the selection of the spot
to which these gates are removed ; and that
they cannot long continue there, notwithstand-
ing their permanent appearance, we confidently
believe. Indeed, their solidity, as we are in.
formed, does not arise so much from any expec-
tation that they will be icing retained, as that the
jobs of an expiring system may be made the most
of while they last. -To be sure, it would have
been more decent, perhaps, to have waited the
developement and fate of Lord Lowther's plan,
before any thing beyond a temporary turnpike-
house had been erected. The evils, the injustice,
and inconvenience of this system are becoming
every day more apparent, awhile those who are
struggling for its continuance, instead of do-
ing all in their power to lessen the odium
attached to it, seem rather bent upon in-
creasing it. —We have published one or
two letters from Bayswater, stating that a
person cannot go half a mile on that road in a
hackney coach, without having as much as the
coach fare to pay in turnpikes ; and at the
Stone's End in the Borough, it seems that a
hackney coach pays on a Sunday is. 3d., in
both which instances it would appear that the
amount of the tolls is exactly in an inverse
ration to the accommodation afforded, or to
the injury done to the road by the vehicle thus
taxed. The charge on hackney coaches, both
on this Bayswater and Knightsbridge roads, seems
particularly unjust, because" gentlemen's car-
riages, going the same distance, only on the other
side of the wall within the Park, pay nothing ;I
and that one kind of carriages should be able to
go to Kensington and pay nothing, while a hack-
ney coach going to Sloane-street pays a heavy
toll, seems absurd and unreasonable. But these,
and a multitude of similar instances which might
be adduced, only tend to one point, viz, to prove
the injustice of there being any toll bars at all,
in any of the streets of the metropolis, which
many places that a few years ago were not so, are
noiv become. It seems to us quite as reasonable
that there should be toll-gates in Holborn,
in Cheapside, or in the Strand, as in the New
Road, in Oid-street, Shoreditch, Pimlico, er
Knightsbridge. In short, the whole system re-
quires revision ; and as the case of most abuses,
those who prosper by it, or whose love of power
and consequence is
gratified by it, instead of re-
forming it by degrees themselves, and thus taking
off the edge of public censure, seem determined
to adhere to (hem in all their pruriency, till it
falls to pieces at once, or is carried away by the
exterminating sweep of general odium and dis-
gust.

The following CenSU5 of the population of a
town in the State of New York, principally on ac-
count of the uncommon minuteness of detail into
which it goes, renders it a statistical curiosity
Census for the town of Sherborne for 1825
—1,239 males, 1,265 females, total 2,504. 213
subject to military duty, 472 voters at elections;
297 married females under the age of 45, 286
unmarried between the ages of 16 and 45, 545
do. under 16, 17 marriages in the year past, 0
male births, 30 female do., 23 male deaths, 13
female do., 40 persons of colour that are no.t
taxed, 4 do. that are taxed, 2 do. that are qua-
lified to vote at elections, 1 foreigner, 11 paupers,
5 idiots, 1 lunatic, 15,643 acres of i►nproved
land, 3,139 neat cattle; 736 horses, 10,906 sheep,
4,011 hogs, 5,441 yards of fulled cloth,. manufac-
tared the: year past, 8,702 yards of flannel do.;
15,304 yards of linen, cotton, and other thin
cloths ; 6 grist-mills, 10 saw-mills, 6 fulling-
mills, 6 carding machines; 2 woollen factories, '2
distilleries, 4 asheries."