The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-09 00:00:00

sSMITHFJELD MARKET, DEC. 9.

The market this morning was exceedingly full :of Oxen,
amongst which we observed some of good quality, which ob.
tained last Monday's prices, but those of the inferior descrip_
tions are rather lower in price ; in Sheep there was also a good
supply, but not equal to former Monday's market, and tins
price of the above article is rather higher for those of good
quality.—Good Old Hay maintains its price as per last quoted.
(To sink the Offal, per stone of Olt.)
Beef 2s 4d to 3s 4d Veal4s Od to 5s 4d
Mutton 2s Od to 3s,_ 4d_l_Pork _ 2s 6d to ,4s Oct

Lamb 'Os Oa to Os Od.
CATTLE AT MARKET.

Beasts 3,540 I Sheep and Lambs 16,000
Calves lBO Pigs , 3OO
‘ HAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD.
Hay £3 Os to £4 Os I Clover £3 lOs o£4 les
Straw £1 8s to £1 16s.

ESTABLISHMENT OP THE TREAD MILL IN SCOT.
lanp.—The first judicial sentence in Scotland condemning
criminals to the Tread-mill was pronounced yesterday
(Monday, the 2d inst.), in the High Court of Justiciary.—
(Edinburgh Star.)

THE' LONDON JOURNALS.

LITRACTS FROM TIIE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,

December 9, 1822.

[MORNING POST.",

The French Papers to- the 7th.inatant have as-
sumed a pacific complexion. Nothing is said,.it
is true, respecting the intentions of the Govern-
ment; but the former organ .of Ministers, the
Journal des Debuts, which had been struck dumb
ever since it had ventured-ta offend the Ultras
by expressing what it thought, and something of
-what it knew, relatively, to the qilestion 'at issue
between Spain and F-rancer has suddenly re-
covered the use of speech, and has employed it
in advocating the cause -of peace, though in a
manner which still displays much timidity and
caution. For instead of taking up the question
on its own grounds,:it has conveyed its advocacy
in the shape of an answer to the observa-
tions of one' of. our Evening contemporaries,
who lately contended that the language held by
the Spanish Deputy, Bertrand de Lys, when pro.
posing his motion• for demanding a categorical
explanation from 'France, authorized an armed
interference on her part. On the statement of
our Cotemporary, " that he would not be
,sur-
prised to learn that the French army was ad-.
lancing to the Ebro,". the Journal des Debuts
observes, " We are surprised to see a Paper
generally so- well informed as the. Courier, cre-
diting, so easily the mere rumours of the Paris
Exchange. Happily for the repose of Europe,
authentic indications prove that negociations are
still carried on, the success of which- is not im-
possible."

[BRITISH PRESSJ
The French Ultra Journals are vaunting the
result of the elections, as if the people were
really the electors. The notorious fact is-r that
the people are entirely excluded from the repre-
sentation in France, and the Ultra Journalists
know it as well as they know the Bourbons to
be ideots, and their system of government de-
testable ; but the words " election" and "
re-
presentation"are excellent pretences for impudent
declamation. We have no objection.to see such
declamations : they make the people sensible of
the exclusion and impatient of the insolence.—
Nina is stated to have entered Puycerda on the
29th of last month. The Army of the Faith ap-
pear to think no place secure on the Spanish side
of the frontiers. They throw down their arms,
and slink calmly under the protection- of Louis,
as Ferdinand, their worthy Sovereign ,• formerly
did under, the protection. of Napoleon.

[THE TIMES.]
By the Dublin Papers it appears that the
election for the County of, Sligo was likely to
terminate irr favour of Colonel King, who has
stood upon the popular and Catholic interest,
and is said to be a member of the Kingston fa-
mily. 'F here is no provincial intelligence of any
kind worth reporting, except it be that Mr.
Owen prosecutes his tour through the Southern
Counties, and is treated every where with the
respect and attention to which his active benevo-
lence has so well entitled him. A correspon-
dent has evidently made a wide mistake upon
the subject on which he writes. If he will look
again at the. tables of Irish Counties, and of the
Magistrates superseded in them, he will find that
there is no correspondence whatever between thel
deaths recorded in 1820 and the dismissals by the
Lord Lieutenant, as recently announced, not even
in 4 single county ; nor has any one asserted,
that all of the existing Magistracy have been
or ought to be, deprived of their commissions.
Such a .measure would: not satisfy the ends of re-
form, inasmuch as there would, in that case, be
Ile discrimination exercised—no salutary censure
-visited on the absent inefficient, or unworthy
Magistrates;—and no justice rendered to those
who had usefully discharged their trust. Itj
would be needless to remind any one except
". D. 8.,' that there can be no identity between
a list of dismissals by Lord Wellesley, and a
64 state of the Magistracy of Ireland," made a
twelvemonth or two before .he came into office.
Does the writer mean to say, or does he wish to
have it believed, that there have been no Magis-
trates superseded ? No doubt there are many
who do entertain that wish.

[NEW TIMES.I
If the Cortes be a really independent and pa-
triotic body, acting only with a view to the good
of the nation) they will have it in their power to
preserve the peace of Europe from further dis-
turbance, But if, as we rather fear, the majority
of them are mere factious adherents of the blood-
thirsty demagogues who have plundered and de-
solated Spain, war on the part of France seems
inevitable. Even in this latter, which, we own,
appears to us the more probable event, nothing
has transpired to alter our opinion that a firm and
honourable neutrality is the wisest policy for
England to pursue. A Sunday Paper (the Eng-
lishman) states its confident belief, " that France
is not strong enough to make war; and that if
she assumes courage to make it, it will not be
permitted by. England." It so happens that we
agree with that Journal in thinking that the
peace of England will not be disturbed ; but it.
is material for us to state that the grounds on
which we come .to the same conclusion are dif-
ferent ;- for otherwise,. if the premises of our
cotemporary, should be shewn to be entirely false
in fact, it might be inferred that the conclusion,
in which we agree with him, is also unfounded.

[MORNING HERALD.]
We-have but little te,say upon the great ques-
tion -which now, agitates,the public mind of Eu-
rope—that of peaceor war, for this reason—that
but-little intelli.ence has arrived since-our last,
and even. that Inubtful. The -fact has-been al-
ready. Anentioned.of! a sort of Ultimatum having
been rorwarded- from- Paris to Madrid, containing
certain propositions, the acceptance of which is
offered to the Spanish Government,- or rather to
the Spani4h nation, as represented, in, the two
Estates; 'existing under. , the Constitution, as
the condition of being left at peace. A.
version of these propositions has reached this

country from Paris: But they are wholly unau.
'thenticated, and their arrogance of tone, even in
the present temper of the French Government,
is evidence of - their spuriousness ;—not that we
regard either insolence or moderation of demand
a matter of much importance or indifference in the
relation between the two nations. It is the prin-
ciple of the inviolability of their, internal Go-
vernment and Institutions from all foreign inter-
ference that the Spaniards maintain ; and it is
upon the maintenance of that principle, in all its
integrity, ' that their freedom at home and inde-
pendence abroad depend. It is to be presumed,
therefore, that the slightest pretension of foreign
dictation would be rejected with the same deter-
minate firmness as the most violent. If these
pretended propositions are at all worth looking
at, it is only as they afford a key to the projects
of the party in France from which they emanate.
In one respect only they may be useful—as
negativing the assertion that the party in Spain
and France, hostile to the existing order, merely
seek a modification of the Spanish Constitution.
These propositions would get rid of it root and
hranch. __........_.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
What the precise object and design of the su-
p,erseding the Magistracy in Ireland is, we cannot
yet say ; it does not, however, seem to be directed
exclusively against parties unworthy to bear the
commission, since several individuals of the
highest rank and station have been deprived.—
We are willing to hope for the best; and can
assure the Noble Chief Governor of Ireland,
that we have the strongest inclination to inter-
pret every thing he does in the manner which most
redounds to his credit. When the proper season
arrives, the humble meed of our applause shall
not be withheld from him ; to say more would
now be premature. But we must take leave to
intimate our apprehensions, that should the selec-
tion of the names. to fill the new commission de-
volve to that functionary in whose province such
selection wilt most naturally reside, the whole
measure will be rendered futile and abortive,
and it end (as how many such have through the
same mischievous agency ?) in the utter delusion
and disappointment of the public mind. Nothing
can, we imagine, be plainer to common sense,
than that those under the immediate superintend-
ence and management of whom abuses have arisen
in a department of the public service, can never be
expected to rectify them with real good will. If the
reader have in recollection the statement we made
in our Number of the 30th ult., he will know that
Lord Manners has presided over the Irish Magis-
tracy for the last 15 years.. Can it be said, that if
during that period, a proper anxiety for the respect-
ability and good behaviour of the Magistrates had
been felt, the present sweeping act of depri-
vation would have been needful ? It is vain
for Lord Wellesley to expect his Chancellor's
co-operation. The very act of which he has
been just now the immediate instrument, in-
volves a censure upon him ; it implies that he has
been guilty of a dereliction of duty, and can by
no plain man be understood in any other light..

BRIGIITON, DEC. 6.—The weather yesterday
was damp, but fine at intervals, until the evening.
At seven o'clock a squall came on, from W.S.W.,
and which raged until half-past nine, during
which the rain descended in one incessant torrent,
and the roar and fury of the wind is not to be
described. Considerable alarm was excited by
it in many parts of the town ; several houses
were nearly unroofed', and one, not quite finished,
five stories high, in Russell-square, was levelled
with, the ground. The chain pier works sustained
further injury, but not to the extent which had
been anticipated. It is really curious, that some
of the heavy brick-work at the latter place, from
the late violence of the tide, has been so
reduced in substance, that a stranger would
suppose that it had been exposed to such visita-
tions for, at least, half a century. The solid
bricks appear to have been partially dissolved,by
the foaming water of the ocean. Curiosity has
taken many persona to that quarter to witness
what we have mentioned to-day. Towards half-
past nine o'clock the squall moderated, and soon
after ten it had entirely subsided : a fine star-
light night followed; and, to-day, the weather,
though much cooler than yesterday, has been
bright and favourable for the season. Fortu-
nately, there were no shipping in this part of
the Channel last night, or we might have had
many wrecks at this time to have particularized.

The Fourth Report of the Society for the Im-
provement of Prison Discipline has been published.
It commences with a refutation of the objections
tna4e to the efforts of the Society. It is main-
tained that the system recommended by the So-
ciety is not less calculated to render imprison-
ment efficient as a punishment, than beneficial as
a means of reclaiming the vicious and criminal.
A. general view of the state of the prisons
throughout the kingdom follows, which is,
on the whole, extremely gratifying, but it
proves that while much improvement has been
effected, there yet remains much room for
exertion. A general view is next given of the
'state of prisons on the Continent. 64 The pro-
gress of the cause," says the Report, 44 which it
is the aim of this Institution to promote, has of
late been strikingly visible ; " and if " the re-
view be extended to foreign countries, the pro-
spect is indeed bright and animating." This
Report is altogother valuable and interesting.

A Frenchman has arrived in London, with
200,000 francs at his disposal; to purchase hunt-
ing dogs for the Prince of CONDE.
FORGED FIVE POUND NOTES.—A person is
now, going about the town passing these notes.—
Where he sees apartments to let, he applies, re-
presenting himself, is just arrived from the East
Indies ; he proposes making a week's deposit, his
friends residing in the country he cannot conve-
niently give a reference. He produces a 5/. notes
regyesting the change, •whieh, if he succeeds in
obtaining, he of course is seen no'more. We
have seen one of his 5/. notes, which is dated
August. 20, 1821. He is about five feet.two
inches high, swarthy complexion, apparently
under 20, dressed in a blue jacket; with trowsers.'
—(i I'arning Paper.)

BIRTHS.

At Newcastle, on the 25th ult., in Saville-row, the Lady of
Anthony Compton, Esq., of Carham Hall, near Coldstream, of
a daughter.

At Edinburgh, on the 4th instant, the Lady of Wm. Ogilvie,
Esq., younger of Chesters, of a son.
At Shandwick Place, Edinburgh, on the 26th tilt., the Lady
Thomas of Mackenzie, Esq., of a son.