The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-18 00:00:00

ing to Sad such liberal sentiments in a Paper,
which is known to publish only such articles as,
are in accordance with 'the views of the French

Government.

[MORNING POST.]
French Papers to the 16th instant, and the
Etoile of Wednesday, .'reached us last night by
Express. These Journals- are unusually barren.
The Quotidienne is almost indignant at the man-
ner in which the presentation of the Colom-
bian Minister Mr. Hurtado to our Sovereign
has been announced. It cannot bear that it
should be deemed a complete recognition of
the independence of that Republic, and still
less that it should be described as the pre-
cursor of the recognition of all the other
States of the New World. That " great na-
tional measure, as it is arrogantly called,"
says that Paper, 44 might very possibly be
regarded by the European Powers as an ambi-
tious speculation of the British Cabinet." And
what if it were so regarded by the European
Powers! Would any or all of them venture to.
attack an independence which we had recog-
nized ? Our acts are certainly not binding or
compulsory upon them, but to abstain for a
period, and that not a very long one, from fol-
lowing our example, is all that they caw do, or will
do. Writers who have no exchequers to fill,
no armies to pay, no public peace, or national
interests to guard, may bluster as they please
in their closet, and indite, and even publish, very
violent and ridiculous things : but Kings and
Governments know better how to conduct them-
selves. They must not sacrifice the happiness
and prosperity of their subjects, to the gratifica-
tion of an egotistical party, or the support of an
untenable theory. Rulers of nations, as they
call themselves, they are ruled by something
stronger than their own will or their own wishes—
by interests and by events, and the circle in
which we move is one whose influence will pro-
gressively increase till it draws and carries them
away in its sweep.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The panic at the Stock Exchange continues
unabated. Consols, which on Wednesday left off
at 85k, opened yesterday at 85, with every ap-
pearance of a further decline, but as it was
whispered an express had arrived from Paris,
with a higher quotation of the French Funds, a
re-action immediately took place ; Consols ad-
vanced to 85H. The alarm in the Foreign
Market yesterday was frightful. It was re-
ported that an extensive House, connected with
South America, had stopped payment. There
was also, to heighten the alarm, a run, as it is
termed, on an eminent Banking-house. The de-
mands were met with the greatest promptitude,
and it soon subsided. Colombian Bonds, which
early in the day were sold at 60, closed at from
63 to 64. Mexican Scrip was so low as 18f dis-
count, but closed at 17. In Peruvian, Chaim',
and other South American, there were no trans-
actions reported ; they fluctuated with the others.
At one time the agitation and alarm of the Mar-
ket were so great that no extensive sale could be
made of the South American stocks. Austrian
Bonds were at 92; Russian 88; Greek 22; Spanish
15. Shares are quoted nominally at the late prices,
but no sales to any extent could be effected.—
The report of 44 a House connected with South
America," being of so vague a description, the
most frightful fears were for the moment enter-
tained. It might be this firm, or that a great
Loan Contractor's house were even named, but
this was met by the most decided measures ;
any person having even the name of the house
to any security whatever would, it was an-
nounced, be immediately paid off, by application
to the counting-house ; and it was added, to a
party inquiring, that they were at liberty to stick
up this notice on the Exchange.

[TILE TIMES.]

The Lord Chancellor, in the case of " Glass

ington v. Thwaites," took occasion to complain
of what his Lordship considered a change in the
practice of newspapers in publishing the proceed-
ings of Courts of Justice and equity in undecided
cases. 46 When his Lordship first entered 'West-
" minster-hall, there was not a lawyer who
" walked that floor who would say, that the pro.
" ceedings in any kind of trial might be printed
" before the case was brought to a conclusion."
At that time, however, it may be observed, trials
were very rarely carried on from day to day, and
newspapers were less prompt in their conveyance
of information to the public ; so that the propriety
or impropriety of publishing legal proceedings in
trunsitu could rarely become the subject of discus-
sion. The utility of publishing current transactions
is now,we believe, acknowledged by all practical
men ; both as preventing crime and assisting in
the discovery of criminals : and in a dry law case
where no passions are liable to be inflamed, but
little mischief can result even from a mistake in
any report, which will eventually be corrected by
the judicial decision. We recollect his Lordship
to have expressed a wish that the case of Mr.
Byshe Shelly's children should be thoroughly
known, in order that the public might understand
the law on the subject of the custody of children :
but the case respecting which this wish was ex-
pressed does not exist ; for, having been heard
in private, no account of it was ever published.
As to the observations of one of the Counsel that
reports are useless, because, as he expresses it, a
whole newspaper could not contain as much mat-
ter as one barrister utters in a cause, we must re-
mind him that such an argument,if worth one far-
thing, would be equally destructive of the value
of all the Term Reports, which are so regularly
quoted as authorities in every Court. These
official reports never contain more than the
substance of what is spoken. Mr. Agar
should also consider, that though a Judge
may think it necessary to hear (though probably
without attending to it) all that falls from the
lips of an advocate, whether relevant or irrele-
vant, the Public are content with the pith and
marrow, which, in numerous instances of speakers
that we might mention, may be compressed;
without crowding, into a remarkably small
compass.

[MORNING HERALD.]
There can be no reason upon earth, that be-
cause the area of Covent-garden market is al.

lowed to be apptopriafed to purposes quite fo-
reign to its institution, therefore the sellers of
potatoes and cabbages, who are thus kept out of
\it, should be permitted to occupy the street with
impunity. Such a permission, were it legal or
technically defensible, which it is not, would
only aggravate the matter, and tend to perpe-
tuate the evil ; for as long as the owners of the
market, or the lessees of the tolls, find that
they can thus double them, and virtually
increase the extent of the market, there is
little chance of their endeavouring to bring it
back to the objects from which it ought never
to have been diverted. But when they disco-
ver, as it is to be hoped they now will, that this
occupation of the public highway will no longer
be permitted, and that if they wish to secure the
continuance of the market at all, it must be
brought back to its original and only lawful
purpose, they will soon set about the ejection of
the hardware, iron, bird-cage, and poultry
sellers, and restore to Pomona her whole and
'sole dominion over this her ancient celebrated
demesne. But were this done, which we dare
say it soon will be, we see no chance of the area
being even then found large enough to meet
the growing wants of the metropolis ; and
we would therefore strongly repeat on re-
conimendation, that 'a new site be found for
a fruit, vegetable, and flower market, without
loss of time. We know of no spot better adapted
for the purpose than the space at the bottom of
Oxford-street, extending north and south from
Meux's brewhouse to St. Giles's Church, and
east by west from Oxford-street to Bedford
Chapel. No spot would be more accessible to
market gardeners, or more convenient to the in-
habitants of the north and north-western parts of
the metropolis. There is nothing that the whole
of the metropolis stands more in need of than a
series of spacious well-regulated markets. Inde-
pendent of their utility and convenience, in fur-
nishing at the first hand, and therefore at mode-
rate rates, the first articles of general necessity,
the formation of them as open spaces, under
proper regulations, would add greatly to the
salubrity of the town. What, for instance,
could be more desirable in that point of
view, than the sweeping away of such a den
of filth and iniquity as is now formed by the
spot we have suggested as a new vegetable mar-
ket 2 And we trust, that as soon as the new
London bridge makes the passage up the river
safe, that we shall see the monopoly of Billings-
gate destroyed, and a fish market upon a more
commodious scale formed at Ifungerford. There
are those who think, and perhaps very justly,
that the formation of a greater number of mode-
rate-sized markets, in different parts of the town,
would be of more general utility and convenience
than one or two upon so large a scale as
that which we suggest. If objects of uti-
lity were not quite foreign and beneath
the notice of Committees of Taste, we should
suggest that the formation of public mar-
kets ought to engage a decided part of the atten-
tion of those to whom public improvements in
the metropolis are confided ; and the suggestors
of new streets would do well to diverge a little
from the mere outside finery of rows of houses,
to consider how the inhabitants are to be fed ;
and not content themselves in their plans with
seeing how they may look upon paper, but how
they are best calculated to conduce, not only to
the splendour of the metropolis, but to the
health, the comfort, and general convenience of
the inhabitants.

[NEW TIMES.]
A correspondent has communicated to us a
short abstract of the Loans raised in this country
for South America, amounting to above twenty-
one millions and a half sterling. What an im-
mense impulse this last advance of capital must
have given to our new trans-Atlantic friends may
be easily conceived. Assuredly, if South America
be destined to play that important part on the po-
litical stage which circumstances seem to predict,
she ought never to forget that to the capital of
British merchants, and to the wisdom of a
British Minister, she owes her fortunate
entrance on this bright career. Every where
it has been the great object of our policy
to raise mankind to a higher pitch of ci-
vilization, and to aid their advances in rational
freedom, without countenancing those wild and
chimerical reforms which lead only to anarchy
and confusion. Thus, even in India, where the
ignorant calumniators of Great Britain represent
her sway as tyrannical, we have done more to
elevate the native character than had been
effected for centuries. There are now in a course
of education, under our auspices, in Bengal,
about 12,000 boys, and a tenth of that number of
girls. A most able paper has been lately writ-
ten in India by Mr. Elphinstone, on the most;
humane and liberal principles, recommending
the education of the Natives for Revenue
and Judicial Offices. The intelligent author
looks forward to the association of the Na-
tives in civil offices, with a view to both their
intellectual and moral improvement ; and to
forming by their means, a counterpoise to the
Half-Castes, or future European Colonists, whose
superior acquirements would otherwise give them
the monopoly of office. Thus it is, that with a
far-sighted prudence, we endeavour to promote
the gradual advancement of these nations which
are united with us as Allies, or look up to us for
protection.

A plan is said to be in agitation for forming a
more commodious access to the Theatres, as well
as from the West end of the town to the city,
by a continuance of Coventry-street through
Sidney and Cranbourn alleys.
Last week, in North Leith, at the funeral of a
young man who died very suddenly, a quantity
of wheat straw was got, and, after the coffin was
lowered, the grave was filled up with alternate
layers of earth and straw, the whole being firmly
pressed down. This precaution, it would ap-
pear, was not uselessly adopted, for some days
after the grave was discovered to have been
partly dug up, and a boat-hook laying beside
it ; hut the wretches finding the straw give so
much resistance to the spade, had relinquished
the undertaking.