The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-21 00:00:00

LONDON MARKETS.

CORN EXCIIANGE, SEPT. 21.
The withd being contrary keeps the vessels back, so that there
is only a small arrival of all sorts of Grain this week. Prime
dry Wheat is wanted, and rather exceeds .Monday's terms,
other qualities sell heavily. Barley and 11Ialt are unaltered.
Beans and Pease are again rather dearer. Oats meet sale
slowly, but having few at market they obtain rather higher
terms than Monday.
ARRIVALS—EngIish Wheat, 2,300; Barley, 2,100; Oats,
2,200 ; Flour, 3,100 sacks.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.
CANTERBURY, SEPT. 19. Several of our principal grounds
are picked, and the produce comes short even of the very low
expectation of the growers. The average will not amount to
half a hundred weight on an acre. Nye have not heard of any
price being offered.
MAIDSTONE, SEPT. 17.-Our hop-picking is now genera!,
and so general are the complaints, for according to the grounds
already picked, the fall off is considerably more than could have
been calculated upon ; in many places not exceeding one-half
of what they were Laid at, however the quality is found to be
inuf.ll better than usual for such seasons. Duty NOW called at
28,0001., but hardly any one in favour of it.
Bonou Gil, SEPT. 19.—Our accounts from Kent and Sus..
sex fully confirm our former report, that the picking would fall
short, which it does in proportion from one-third to one-half.
The demand for good Old and Yearlings is general, and some
quantity was sold on Saturday at 10s. to 15s. advance; to-
day a further advance of 20s. is asked. Duty £24,000, but
no backers. The Kent and Sussex collections will not exceed
£12,000.

A meeting was held at Wincanton on Wednes-
day last, for the purpose of considering the plan
for a proposed Rail-road from Bridgwater to
Basingstoke, the estimated cost of which ig
1/75070001.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extraelt from the Morning Papers, Sept.2l, 826

tMORNING CHRONICLE.]
By our former observations on the ruinous war
waging by our Government in India, we must, in
a great measure, have prepared our readers for
the accounts lately received, and we fear yet more
disastrous intelligence is to be expected. It is an
old adage, but not a true one in the present in-
stance, that "no news is good news." Had any
thing favourable to our cause lately occurred, the
head of our Government in India would have
taken care to transmit it to England by several
routes ; overland we could have had it in little
more than two months ; but we think we may
predict, that with all the obstacles to the opera.
Lions of au army in such a country as Burma, no-
thing but disaster can arise from the attempt to
advance into this hitherto unexplored region ; this
\ye may be almost sure of, that a great part of
the country through which it was intended to
advance, would be completely inundated during
the month of April, and that the periodical
rains would set in in May. The last account
left one division of our invading army sticking
in the mud, and in a state of starvation. Sir A.
Campbell's small division had in nine days ad-
vanced fifty miles! It had, at the most moderate
calculation, four hundred and fifty more to march
to the capital, with several strong positions to
pass. I3rigadier-General Cotton had not kept
pace with him, although he had the assistance of
the tides ; how is he to get on higher up the
river without a tide, and against so rapid a
stream ? Will he attempt to tow his flotilla in a
hostile country, and in such a country, with the
whole population in arms ? We are also told by
the Calcutta Gazette, that the enemy were col-
lecting between Sir A. Campbell and Rangoon,
where his chief, indeed his only depot of ammu-
nition and provision, is placed ! It is much to
be wished that the terror of our former exploits,
when our gailantarmy was not required to perform
physical impossibilities, with the hostile demon-
strations of his tributary neighbours, may frighten
the "golden-footed Monarch" into suing for peace,
otherwise we may expect a similar finale to that
experienced by Buonaparte in Russia, and that
our gallant army will be sacrificed to satisfy the
senseless ambition of a twaddling individual, sent
to India to accumulate a fortune at the expellee
of the best interests of his country. As Parlia-
ment is not now sitting, we hope some indepen-
dent individual will, at the next Meeting of Pro-
prietors of East India Stock, seek for information
as to the probability of peace being concluded
with Burma, and also as to the massacre at Bar-
rackpoor. The proceedings of the Court of In-
quiry on this subject, we suppose, are now in
possession of the Directors. The death of Mr.
Adam. on his passage from India, is to be deplored,
for many reasons. He was a valuable public ser-
vant, brought up in the political school of a great
East India Statesman, and well qualified to give
an opinion on every subject connected with our
East India Empire. He was a Member of Coun-
cil in Bengal when this disastrous war was de-
termined on, but as he was absent from the seat
of Government at the time, lie was not consulted
on the subject. We trust, however, that he
}:as left some document behind him explain-
ing the view he took of an enterprise, which,
looking to other results, has already cost the
East India Company several millions.

MORNING HERALD.]
A strong sensation appears to have vebeen excited
by the new Act of Parliament, creating the rob-
bery of gardens a felony, which had been here-
tofore only a misdemeanor, punishable in a sum-
mary way before a Magistrate. This Act, if we
remember rightly, arose out of a sort of compro-
tnise in the last Session relative to the proposed
law for putting an end to the setting of spring
guns in gardens and other inclosed places. A
good deal may fairly be urged on both sides of
the question. On the one hand, there is, in the
abstract, no valid reason that we are aware of
Why property in gardens should not have the
same protection as that of any other descrip-
lion. The peas and cabbages, the melons, grapes,
and cucumbers of the market gardener, as well as
of the private individual, are just as valuable to
him in proportion as the sheep and oxen of the far-
mer, or the cloth and linen of the manufacturer.
But then it is said that robbing orchards has
always been considered a, childish offence, and
ougltLnet to be treated with too great severity.
We think that no. offence should be treated with
too much severity ; and would rather see our
criminal code curtailed than extended ; but still
we wish to see the laws equal, and are sur-
prised to see it held out as a reason why this
kied of robbery should be called by some
other name, and treated with more lenity,
because young noblemen and gentlemen are
apt to .commit it. Is it because seduction and
adultery are committed by noblemen and gentle-
men, that those are offences unknown to our cri-
minal law ? Or is it because hares and partridges
belong to those classes of the community, that
our gaols are to be crowded with poachers while
the rifler of the poor man's apple trees is to en-
joy comparative impunity ? Or is it reasonable,
we would ask, that while the law subjects a poor
hungry wretch who filches a loaf from a baker's
basket to be dealt with as a felon, that he who
steals cauliflowers and nectarines from no such
motive should be treated as something else ? But
though the law itself cannot well discriminate,
we dare say that individuals and our Courts of
Justice will, and we trust there is not much dan-
ger of this Act being wrested to purposes which
it was never destined to reach. Looking, how-
ever, at the quarter from which the opposition
which has given rise to these remarks proceeds.,
we cannot help adverting to the manifest incon-
sisteney which it conveys. Here we have the
same persons strenuous advocates for the sum-
mary powers of Magistrates, and against extend-
ing,.those of Juries, who have for a leilgth of time
been constantly arraigning the one and advocating
the other. We confess that we are among the
number 'of those who look with no small degree
of jealousy and alarm at the manner in which the

one has been of late years subverting the other.
And when we consider of what materials some
part of the Magistracy is composed, and how
completely they are, in every part of the country,
judges in their own cause, we are anxious to see
their powers contracted, and the wholesome pro-
vince of Juries restored, wherever it can be
done. We are astonished too to see the observa-
tions to which we are alluding accompanied by a
severe and uncalled-for attack upon the Chairman
of the Middlesex Sessions, who tried the first case
under this new Act of Parliament. We cannot
help thinking (in which all who know the per-
son in question will join) that a long life of pro-
fessional eminence and of unaffected kind-hearted-
ness ought to have restraihed any thing like aspe-
rity towards him upon the occasion. But passing
by its had taste, the injustice of such an attack is
equally apparent. Admitting, for the sake of
argument, that the law may be wrong or too
severe, what has the Judge to do with that ? He
does not make the law. And it is somewhat in-
consistent to see an Advocate applauded to the
skies for decrying the case which he is retained
to defend, while the Judge is blamed for execut-
ing that very law over which he neither has nor
ought to have any controul.

[NEW TIMES.]
Without at all entering into the general merits
of the question of the Greek submission, we may
safely say that the protest is rather impertinent.
The French Philhellenes have, by their own ac-
count subscribed to the Greek cause about four
thousand pounds, and sent to Greece exactly
sixty-eight officers (inclusive, we believe, of the
General) ; and the American aid has been
equally magnificent. Now, we confess no one can
have a less respectful opinion of the Greek Au-
thorities than we have ; but we must, neverthe-
less, think that the interference of a couple of
people like Messrs. Roche and Washington into
the affairs of the nation, or fragment of a nation,
which they, uninvited, came to assist with means
so excessively paltry, is insolent and ridi-
culous to the last degree. They must have a
poor opinion of the country for which they engage
if they think thata few thousand pounds, and a few
dozen men, give a claim to tho-e who contribute
them, to the regulation of its Government. In
justice, however, we must admit that our own
Philhellenes behaved just as absurdly when in
Greece. We have said already that we think
the acquisition of Greece, enviable as it appears
to be to our neighbours, a matter little to be de-
sired by us ; and we are pretty sure the answer
of our Government to this Greek Act will not
disprove our assertions. For the sake of huma-
nity we should wish a satisfactory conclusion to
the internal contest which now desolates Greece
with all the horrors that attend the civil wars of
barbarous people ; but further than that we can
have no very direct interest in the result of the
war. Our maratime superiority is secure in the
Levant, without any further acquisition.

[MORNING POST.]
We received last night by Express French
Papers to the 19th inst., and the Etoile of Mon-
day. All doubt respecting the appeal made by
Greece to this country is now at an end. On
the sth of August " an Hydriot Brig sailed for
London, having on board the son of Admiral
Miaulis and Botassi di Spezzia, Envoys, charged
to present to the British Government the Act by
which the Greeks voluntarily placed themselves
under the protection of Great Britain." Al-
though neither the Brig nor the Envoys are yet
arrived, an official copy of this important Act
has reached us through the medium of the French
Journals. In whatever manner the step may
be received by his Majesty's Miniiters, it is
one highly honourable to our country, for it is
an homage to the strict honour and integrity with
which she, alone amongst all nations, has con-
ducted herself and maintained her professed
neutrality since the commencement of the Greek
contest. This Act is that of the Clergy, the Re-
presentatives of the People, and the Civil, Mili-
tary, and Naval Chiefs of Greece. After con-
trasting our just and liberal policy with the con-
stant violations of neutrality committed by other
Powers, the infamous intrigues carried on by their
agents to sow dissentions amongst the Greeks,
and the appearance of their Officers at the head
of the Ottoman armies, it declares that "Greece
voluntarily entrusts. the sacred deposit of her
liberty, her national independence and her poli-
tical existence, to the absolute defence of Great
Britain." This Act, which we subjoin, is follow-
ed by an intemperate Protest against it from the
pen of General Roche and Mr. Washington,
who, though mere agents of Parisian and Ame-
rican Philhellenic Committees, take upon them-
selves to act as if they were authorised Envoys
from their respective Governments. We have
no room this day for their Protest, which is justly
condemned by several of the French Papers as an
intrusion which nothing could justify, but their
being invested with a diplomatic character. With
respect to the conduct expected from our country
on this important occasion, it is thus described
by anticipation :—" England will tell other Go-
vernments, join with me, if you think it proper,
to support the claims of justice and humanity,
and enable the Greek natio❑ to establish tran-
quilly the institutions which befit her. If you
will not do so, I shall do it myself, and I shall
have nothing to fear, as every generous soul in
Europe will approve of my conduct."

[Tut: TIMES.]
The West India. Papers received since our last
notice the departure of the Lord Bishop of Bar-
hadoes and the Leeward Island for this country,
but assign no reason whatever for his absence, nor
intimate how long it may continue. His Lordship
arrived in England on Sunday last. From the
terms of an address which was presented to him by
certain gentlemen of the island, and which we
published in our Paper of the 13th inst. we are
half inclined to suspect that the Bishop has not
met with the full measure of support, or of will.
ing acquiescence in his plans for the propagation
of religious knowledge among the slaves, which
he or the Government had anticipated. When
the gentlemen of Barbadoes assure his Lordship
of their readiness to promote religious instruction,

they qualify the promise by continuing it to the
furtherance of all " prudent" measures for that
purpose. There appears no reference, it is true,
to any actual disagreement between the parties,
but then much seems implied by the want of any
expressions indicative of concurrence or co-ope-
ration in the measures proposed and acted upon
by the Bishop. His Lordship, in explaining his
designs for the future, speaks only of such " plan-
" tations as may be thrown open to him ;" whence
we may pretty confidently assume that all the plan-
tations in Barbadoes and the contiguous islands
had not been so thrown open. We are afraid,
indeed, that notwithstanding the temper and
discretion with which the King's Ministers have
conducted themselves throughout the whole of
this dispute with the planters, an equal portion
of the same good qualities is not always to be
looked for from the latter. It seems as if any
change attempted upon the old system of slave
management, however gently administered, or
wisely calculated, .nust work its way through a
host of prepossessions, and perhaps through a
long series of years ; but, upon the whole, we
persuade ourselves, that as this germ of a church
establishment was almost the only expedient left
to Ministers, it will at last prove to be no less
effectual than it was beneficently and philanthro-
pically intended.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
We have received The Austrian Observer to
the 9th instant. Besides other intelligence, partly
favourable, and partly unfavourable, to the
Greeks, it contains an extract from the Oriental
Spectator of the 17th of August, confirming the
report of the Greek Government having resolved
to seek the protection of England. We were
anxious to see what the organ of the Austrian
Government would say on this most interesting
subject; but it has disappointed our curiosity ; and
without expressing either approval or disapproba-
tion,it merely states that ithas received several let-
ters from the seat of the Greek Government, an-
nouncing the same intelligence. It pledges itself,
however, to discuss the matter formally upon a fu-
ture occasion; and,in the mean time,we cannot help
imagining that the intelligence is not disagreeable
to the Patrons of that Journal. It is not the
independence of Greece which constitutes the
bugbear that has so long startled the Austrian
Court, but the democratic character of her institu-
tions; and, if it could but once see this obirction
removed) and a less obnoxious form of Govern-
ment substituted, it is our belief that it would not
excessively repine at the success of her struggle.
Should England accede to the wishes of the
Greeks, they would, in all probability, receive a
political organization, somewhat similar to that
of the inhabitants of the lonian Islands, which,
besides relieving the wise men of Vienna from
their apprehensions, would be better adapted to
the wants of the Greeks, and more rapidly deve-
lope the resources of their country, than their
present disjointed form of Government. The
least consideration with the Austrian Government,
in its view of the subject, would be the accession-
of power, which might thus devolve upon Eng-
land ; for of all the Continental Powers, there
is perhaps not one that views our national great-
ness with less envy or alarm. In this there is no
generosity—no chivalrous feeling but a sound
view of her own interests; for Austria knows,
that she can count upon the friendship of this
country in any of those great emergencies, in which
her interests should be identified with the general
security of Europe. As to the French Government,
it might dislike the transaction, but it could not
directly oppose it- with any good grace, seeing
the part it sets in the affairs of Spain; and, be-
sides, involved as it is in the maze of Spanish
politics, it would scarcely venture to entangle
itself in another dilemma. Russia alone might
treat the question in a serious point of view ; but
if her displeasure were the only objection, we do
not think that it ought to deter our Government
from acceding to the wishes of the G reek nation.

[BRITISH PRESS.
In the French Papers which arrived last
night we have a copy of the official act by
which the Greek Government solicited the aid
and assistance of Great Britain. The enemies
of Greek independence have called it an act of
submission, but no misrepresentation can be
grosser. The Greeks do not offer to become our
subjects. On the contrary, they ask us to de-
fend their " liberty, their national independence,
and their political existence." We have also the
protest of the French Gen. Roche and the Awe
rican Envoy, Mr. Washington. These gentlemen
seem a little to have forgotten the character they
were sent to maintain. It was their duty to have
rendered all the services in their power to the
Greek for the establishment of their indepen-
dence ; but, with regard to the internal adminis-
tration of the country, or its foreign relations,
they had clearly no right to interfere. They were
not official representatives of their nations. They
were simply agents of the friends of Greece,
specially dispatched to watch over, the application
of the means entrusted to them for the benefit of
the patriots. The terms in which these gentle.
men thought fit to arraign the act of the Greek
Government are harsh and offensive. In con-
clusion, they hold out a threat, that if Greece
persists in looking to England for aid, they
will 'withdraw theirs. We do not deny that
General 'Roche has been useful to the Greeks,
but if he and all his countrymen wilyeave
the Belligerents to fight out their own battles,
the Patriots will sustain no diminution of their
physical strength. It is notorious that for every
French volunteer ranged like General Roche, on
the side of the Greeks, there are ten officers
bearing commissions in his Most Christian Ma-
jesty's army, arrayed under the banners of the
Mahometans. There is no intelligence from Spain.

Some of the martello towers on the Sussex coast,
built in the year 1805, just twenty years ago,
by direction of the Duke of RICHMOND, are now
occupied in the Preventive Service. There
were ninety-one in number at their first erection
for the protection of the coast ; they were all of
brick, 12 feet deep in their foundation, and cir-
cular in form, to be served by great guns. The
Duke's estimate for the whole
amounted to
900,0001.