The Sun.
London, England, 1825-06-03 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, JUNE 3.
There are moderate supplies of all sorts of Grain this week.
Prime Wheat is scarce, and rather exceeds last quotations ; in
other sorts there is very little trade. Barley remains unaltered.
Beans and I'ease are very scarce, and looking upwards. Oats
_9f.good quality sell freely at Monday's prices, but stale samples
go off heavily.
ARRIVALS.—EngIish Wheat, 4,loo—Barley, 350—Oatc,
9,950 quarters—Flour, 5,459 sacks.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, MAY 8.•
The following in an accurate Report of the numbers and
prices at Smithfield Market this morning:—

CATTLE AT MARKET.
Beasts - 480 I Sheep - . 9,•289
Calves
To sink the Offal, per stone of Bft.
Beef 4s ed to 5s 4d I Veal Os Od-to B 19d
Alatton ' 4s 81 to sst Od I Pork ss 4d to es 4d
Lamb 6s Od to 6s 10d.

HAY AND STRAW, PER. LOAD.
lay £3 4to£7 6 I Clover ...... 15s to P 5 10s
Straw 11 16s to £:2

JAMAlCA.—Extract of a letter from a gentle-
man of great respectability and experience, who went out two
years ago to his property in Jamaica, dated April 5' Our
Our
Bishop has at last arrived, and has met with a very cordial
reception; I can safely say, that all the white inhabitants of
'the colony arc both ready and willing to go hand in• hand
with him ; they areas anxious to promote religious and moral
instruction amongst the slaves, under the established church,
as he can be. We therefore hope matters will oo on
favourably : at the same time, I fear the negroes will have
immediate freedom more at heart than religious or moral in-
struction ; we are daily giving them greater indulgence, e;leti
proprietor appears to be doing all in his power to make his
people comfortable and happy; laws may be made after, but
improvement will proceed faster under the inclination; of the
owners. With me and others, no work is required on
we allow the negroes sufficient time to cultivate provisions
on the week days : we have, therefore, great difficulty in' keep-
ing them from travelling abroad on Sunday. 'lf we had
churches within our reach, it would require time and perseverance
to induce them to attend. At some future period that will be
accomplished. Those who are well acquaintedwith ibe island runsl
see the condition of the negroes is improving rapidly, and as fast
as can be done with safety to the colony : the whip and other
practices will vanish of course; its use, hitherto, has been
from necessity, not inclination. We hope at no diatiat pe-
riod we may be able to convince the people of England that.
we do not deserve the character they have lately given' us : if
Mr. Wilberforce could be brought here to look on with his own
eyes, he would see that on most estates the indulgence and
comforts granted to the slaves would satisfy him. until they
are better prepared for further. I wish he could only,'see the
situation of the slaves compared with the labourers of a Palish in
England with their poor. Freedom would be very desirable
when they are fit to receive it, but that must be a long-time
hence : a change of great magnitude must take place before
the will be capable of providing for themselves. Whenthat pe-
riod arrives the cultivation of sugar will cease, and the West In-
dian colonies will be abandoned by the white inhabitants. I have
not heard of any improper conduct amongst the black popula-
tion since the affair of Pembroke and that neighbourhood ; I
therefore hope we shall get on smoothly for some time."—
( Times.)
KEAN performed the part- of Sir' Giles Over-
reach at the Dublin Theatre on Monday last. Hemet with
considerable opposition at the commencement of the'petform
ante ; but the tumult gradually subsided, and in the end he was
much applauded, and called forth when the curtain fell. In
his' address to the audience he complimented Irish generosity.
The pit was full, but the boxes were -thinly attended.
A MONSTER, who took his trial a few: weeks
since, for the murder of his father, underwent the dread laser -
tence of the law on the 17th ult. at Amiens. The merit was
a young man, not twenty-five years of age. He was sealed in
a cart, his back turned to the horses, his hair cut off, his
feet bare, and his neck and shoulders also free frOrn cloth-
ing, with the exception of a black thick veil that Oyer-
cd him to the waist, as a man unworthy to: behold
the light of Heaven--he was supported by two. petsons.
When he had mounted the scaffold., his right hand, which till
that moment had been tied behind his back, was lo.oseriefl ; it
was placed on a block, and the executioner, striking, at the
wrist with an axe, missed his aim, and only separate 4 tiro or
three fingers. The wretched culprit screamed with--paii and
terror; a second blow was struck, and the haw' .thatlllo de.
prived a father of life fell mutilated among the erotict. The
piercing cries of the parricide were terrifie; they,didOfriease
till the ponderous knife, falling upon his neck, -left aotbsiiit but
a headless trunk.

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TUE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extractsfrom the Morning Papers, June 3, 1825.

[.nrE TIMES.]
THE DECCAN A11.,311%
The cruel case of the ['idiom Army, debarred
by some means or other for more than seven years
of the Deccan prize-money, so nobly earned, and
amounting to no less, by calculations now before
us, than 5,000,0001. sterling, has been frequently
alluded to in this journal'. We do not know
that any subject ever occasioned us deeper pain,
or, so far as India is concerned, more serious
alarm for the interests of the military service. A
pamphlet has just appeared, under the title of
Observations on the Services and Claims of the
Jirmy of the Deccan, the perusal of which has,
we confess, very far from diminished our uneasi-
ness, but has, by reason of certain circumstances
which it discloses, added to that sentiment no
small portion of wonder, mingled with disgust.
The war out of which the claims of this
brave army grew terminated in the overthrow
of Ilolkar, and of the Rajah of Nagpore, and
in the entire conquest and appropriation of the
territories of the Peishwah who had reigned at
PoonaL From the dominions of this Prince
alone is said to have been added to the Com-
pany's treasury a net revenue of nearly 700,0001.
sterling per annum. Large booty was won by
our troops, who neglected to secure it, but march-
ed from one victory to another, and left the spoil
to be seized by the civil officers of the East India
Company for its benefit. The Crown became a
nominal competitor with the Company ; but it
was for the sake of the army, the party to be
substantially benetitted. The real question,
therefore, was between the Army who had
fought, and the Company, whose agents had fol.;
lowed, and seized the fruits of their valour.
The Crown, in March 1523, appointed the
Duke of- Wellington and Mr. Arbuthnot, of
the Treasury, trustees, nominally for the So-
vereign, but in fact on behalf of the Army,
to " ascertain and collect the booty ; and to
" furnish a scheme for the distribution of it," on
a principle previously recognized, viz. that the
captors were entitled to every thing, and the
Company to nothing, in the shape of prize-mo-
ney. The Company, however, began by refusing:
to send in accounts of the spoil in their possession,
when required by the trustees to do so, in Sep-
tember, 1823. It became, from that and other
causes, essentially necessary that the Commander
in Chief of the Deccan Army, and the prize-agents-
whom he and it had appointed, should supply
whatever information they were possessed of to his
Grace and Mr. Arbuthnot, who of course were
quite ignorant on the subject, relative to the na-
ture, the amount, and supposed repositories of the
property sought to be recovered... Heavy com-
plaints,however,are made of the sharp and.unloolt7
ed-for conduct observed by the trustees towards the
agents for the army, with whom, as appears from
the book above referred to, they early declined
the free communication solicited at their hands,
by those whose interests it was understood that
they had been appointed by his Majesty to watch
over. The General of the Indian Army and the
prize-agents equally complain of having been kept
in profound ignorance of the points into which
the trustees carried their examination, of the
channels through which it was prosecuted, and
of the adverse claims and pretensions put forward'
by the Company, and of the materials which the
trustees possessed for resisting such of them as-
might be unreasonable.. The question,linwever,
is not yet at rest : the Company are, on one hand,.
said to be striving to wrest from their own de-
fenders the reward of their exemplary courage ;
the Trustees, on the other, are not accusedof any
great zeal or.affection for their own clients ;. and
the miserable men who toiled and bled, and
wasted health and spirit under a burning sun, are!
now enduring whatever aggravation of wretched.;
ness can be inflicted on them by ungrateful
masters and ungracious protectors. Mr. Arbuth-
not, however, has not been altogether idle. We
read, within a few pages of the end of this
pamphlet, that Mr. or Master Charles Ar-
buthnot, son of the above Right Honourable
Trustee, has been associated with a Mr. Archi-
bald Campbell, in the business of agency to the
Trust, thereby entitling, themselves to some of the
good things to be got out of this extensive and
complex concern, but with what advantage to it,
over its previous arrangements, does not appear
The Duke of Wellington used, in better dayS,
to hold up his hands against jobbers. What spell
is over him now ? The •pamphlet is well worth
attention.

[moaNtso
The proceedings on the Duke of Cumberland's
Additional Annuity Bill last night were curious,
and similar to what took place two or three years
ago on Mr. Lamhton's Reform motion, which was
disposed of by nine o'clock-in the evening, while
Mr. Lambton was dining with Mr. M. A. Taylor.
A debate on the second reading of the Duke's Ad-
ditional' Annuity Bill was fully expected ; and in
that expectation. many Member. paired off to go
home to their dinners, &c. agreeing, to return by
ten o'clock, thinking that they should then be in
time for the division. About nine o'clock, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer Moved the second
reading of the Bill. Nobody rose- to oppose it ;
all talking on the subject appeared to be at an
end ; whereupon a division was forthwith called
for. The gallery was ordered to be cleared for a
diviSion ; and the doors of the House, according
to the usual custom when a division is about to
tale place, were rocked by the Sergeant at Arms.
There is a 44 division bell," as it is termed,
which is rung as a notification to those Members
who may be in the neighbourhood of the
House; but as the Serjeant at Arms forgot to
rail out 44 clear the gallery," which gives warning
fOr the ringing of the division bell, the said bell
was not rung. Thus the doors were locked,
and excluded many 'Mernbers. Six Members,
hoWtiver.„ got into the lobby, leading directly to
the. flame, namely, Sir G. Shiffner,. Mr. W.• WU-
IiRmS, Mr. Astell, Mr.Cust, Mr. Freemantle,
Gordon, but as the door or the house
vas locked by the Sergeant, they. could not get
iu to take part in the division. They complained

of this exclusion through the grating of the door,'
to the Sergeant, who thence conveyed the com-
plaint to the Speaker. Mr. W. Williams, in par-
ticular, was very earnest to gain admission. He
was told he must withdraw. He said he would
not withdraw, he would remain there, even
if taken-into custody by the House for it.—
Eventually they were let in. Then the fact was
communicated to the House, and some debate
took place on the subject, but the particulars we
know not, as strangers were still excluded ;
'however, the six Members were brought out of
the llouse, by the Sergeant at Arms, previously
to any division taking place, left in the Speaker's
Secretary's Room, leading from the lobby, and
there kept excluded till the division was over.
The Home then divided :—the numbers were,
159 for the Bill, and 48 against it; majority in fa-
vour of the Bill eleven. On the outside of the
lobby, there were between 20 and 30 Members
locked out. They had run from the Coffee-
house, hoping to get in before the locking of the
doors for the division, but they were too late.
Had the division bell rung, as it ought to have
done, and would have done, if the Sergeant
at Arms had given the usual signal to the Mes-
sengers in the Lobby, that the Gallery was to be
cleared, those twenty or thirty Members would
have been in the House at the division. Many
of these were Opposition Members ; and it was
said' that a considerable majority of them would
have voted agaiiist the Bill. In such case, the
proposition would have had a still narrower
escape than that of the very modest majority of
eleven. Indeed', the opinion was given by those
a little conversant in numbers, that in such case
the Bill would have been thrown out.