The Sun.
London, England, 1825-02-01 00:00:00

ILE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the .11;;;;A:r. Papers, Feb. 1, 1825.

[THE TIMES.]
The flagrant case of the Deccan prize-money
has excited much attention, and we hope will
rouse a great deal more, until justice shall be
finally administered to the sufferers, or secured to
them beyond the power of rapacity kind chicanery
to unsettle it. It would appear that there are,
two tlasses of booty—that which has been fully
recognized as the lawful property of the troops
who captured it, and that which is still a subject
of contention. Why is not the former, at least,
forthcoming'? Why should any but the acknow-
ledged dwners derive any advantage from that?
If the plan be to reserve all, until all can be li-
berated from controversy, and paid over in mass
to the brave men who have earned it, then better
declare at once that no part of the most sacred
debt shall be discharged until doomsday ; for until
doomsday,according to the known laws and usages
of office, not one farthing will be released from
the purgatory where it is now impounded. The
Company indeed, or some one for them, assures
us, that the fault does not refit there, but with
the Treasury !—(if so, Lord help the poor claim-
ants)—which has made a grasp at " the whole
"booty captured in the wars referred to, on be-
" half of his Majesty." If so, we say again,
good bye to the booty. But the Lords of the
Treasury have a ppointed Trustees, viz., the Duke
of Wellington and Mr. Arbuthnot, to manage
this affair—to act in usurp jus hahentis ; that is
too often, in usum possidentis—and make a distri-
bution when it shall please them so to do. In
the mean time, the British officer and discharged
soldier languishes in poverty or prison, the native
troops of the India Company are disgusted, and
estranged from those who reward their services
with cold indifference ; and a crisis is maturing,
in the course of which justice, it seems not alto-
gether improbable, may be fully though fearfully
vindicated.

NEW TIMES.]
If we are to believe the accounts in the French
Papers, the Greek Chiefs, in their dissensions
with each other, assume respectively the designa-
tion of th? Russian and English parties. If such
a distinction has been really assumed, it must lie
quite arbitrary ; far as it is quite certain that the
English Government has cautiously abstained
from influencing any movements in Greece, so we
are persuaded the Emperor of Russia is too
sensible of his duties as a neutral Power to hale
authorised any reliance on his protection. One
of the charges brought against the English
party by their antagonists is ludicrous enough
—it is, that they borrowed money in Eng-
hrld when they might have got it at a cheaper
rate from their own countrymen. Hear this,
ye speculators in Greek Scrip ! The stock
which you were selling a few weeks ago at two
or three-and-twenty per cent. discount, you are
accused of having lent on usurious terms ! Co-
tocotroni, who is complimented with the rank of
Chief of the Russian Party, appears from all the
accounts we have ever seen of him to be quite
incompetent to any political speculation. He
was originally a leader of banditti, and seems
sever to have laid aside his old disposition.—
Plunder and not patriotism is. his object ; he is
said to have accumulated immense treasures ; and
his real quarrel with the Central Government is,
because they will not allow him to participate
in the proceeds of the loan raised in England.

[MORNING CIII:ONICLE-]
It was a close holiday at the Bank and at both
ECchanges yesterday, but considerable business
was transacted upon the Royal Exchange. Con-
sols for the Account were done, in the early part
of the •morning, at 93P1, although no person
pretends to be in possession of information by
which the depression caw be accounted for. At
the close of the day they were at 9314. In the
itiffereat European Securities there were few
transactions, as attention is again turned to those
of South America. Colombian Bonds ruse to 91,
and Me.xican Bonds were at 81. The chief busi-
ness was in thil Alining Shares, which have all
risen, hut without. any intmediate cause being as-
signed. • •Some of these Shares rose.to 7 or 8 per
sent.---:che: new Brazil Loan was at a premium
of 34 pet cent., and it is generally expected to
go higher. The Bonds of the Greek Loan were
firm ac.,the list quoted prices, although a new
Greek• Loan is spoken of. Attempts have already
been nilde, it is said, to negociate one in Paris,
bat 01(2..terms offered were not so good as those
-which can be obtained in this country. The firm-
ness of the prices is attributed to letters from
Corfu,. in which it is stated that the Greek Go-
vernmetit has received from its secret agents at
Alexandria, positive information that the Vice-
roy of Egypt has resoled to maintain a strict
neutrality in the event of his being called and re-
quired by the Sultan •to undertake a fifth cam-
yaign against the Greeks.

rinti rfsll PRESS.]
Mr. Plunkett has been defeated again. Every
appeal he has made to the juries of Dublin,
whether against. Orangemen or Catholic, has
been rejected. If he sends a bill of indictment
before the Grand Juries, it is ignored ; if he
brings the case at once into Court, for trial by
information, the Petit.Jury refuses to convict the
defendant. This prosecution was against the
Dublin Star, for a of ry gross libel on the Lord
Lieutenant. The trial tasted three days. No
effort was left untried to ensure success, yet the
result was, that the Jury was discharged by con-
sent without a verdict ! The Dublin Star is the
organ of the Orange party ; and it was fully
that the columns of that
proved, on the trial,
paper had teemed regularly, for some time
past, with the most scandalous attacks on the
character of Lord Wellesley. Still, we think,
it is much to be doubted whether it would
uot have been wiser, considering the present
temper of the public mind in Ireland, to have
passed the low scurrility of such a paper over with
contempt. All the slander the Dublin Star could
have published in a century could not have sal-