The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-07 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD MARKET, Nov. 7.

The following is an accurate Report of the numbem and
prices at Smithfield Market this morning:—

CATTLE AT MARKET-
Beasts 3,231 I Sheep
Calves
To sink the Offal, per stone of Bt6.
Beef 4s ctoss Od 1 N," _
eal
Mutton 4s ma to 5s 2ti, 1 Pork ss Od to as Od
_

Lamb As Od to Os Od.
HAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD.

Hay
Straw 1:1 16s to £2 2s.

Ni.:w PARLIAMENTARY MEWS.—The inclosed
ground behind Great George-street, Westminster, will be oc-
cupied with an entirely new Mews, destined for the accommo-
dation of the Members of both Houses of Parliament during
the Session. Such a receptacle for their horses and carriages
has long been desired by the great body of our Representatives,
who hitherto have either been under the necessity of exposing
their horses and servants to the inclemencies of the weather,
night after night, or else of ordering their carriages home un-
certain of their return, while going to and fro, to a great dis-
tance, at unseasonable hours. The present Mews will also he
fronted with a durable stone, so as to constitute an ornament to
Westminster, where so many great improvements have latterly
been accomplished, and where still further are likely soon to be
effected.

NEw STREET.—A general meeting was held on
Saturday at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, to receive the re-
port of a committee appointed some time since tir the consi-
deration of the best means of opening a communication from
Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, to Pickett-place, in the
Strand. Sir JOHN Pain., Bart. was in the chair. The report
of the committee, it appears, is highly in favour of the under-
taking, which they consider likely to be both useful to the
public and beneficial to the subscribers. It is proposed that the
houses on each side of the street to be formed shall be divided
into chambers, after the manner of the Inns of Court, there be-
ing a very great demand for that species of accommodation, not
only for professional men, but for various other persons. The
expence of making the opening, which will be 133 yards in
length, and of erecting the houses, &c. is estimated at 210,0001.,
and the annual income to be derived from it at 12,0001. A va-
riety of resolutions were passed on the subject of the under-
taking itself, and on the mode of applying to Parliament for a
Bill to carry it into effect. Trustees were appointed, and the
meeting dispersed, after a vote of thanks to the Chairman.

FIRE AT MESSRS. HURST AND ROBINSON'S, BOOK-
SELLERS, PALL-MALL.—These magnificent and extensive
premises, which open both into Pall-mall and Waterloo-place,
were, on Saturday noon, about one o'clock, discovered to be
on fire. It appears to have originated from an immense stove
or apparatus erected on the basement of the building for the
purpose of preserving that part of the premises, which is used
as a warehouse for books from damp and of heating the
upper part of the house by flues, which communicated warm
air into the difTerent rooms. Such presumed precautions had
been taken against the chance of fire, and such was the con-
struction of the stove, that no fear of its safety had hitherto ex-
isted. However, much blame appears to be attached to the
person who erected it ; for the iron roof of it, not being suffi-
ciently guarded from the inflammable materiels of the build-
ing, becoming heated, gradually charred the rafters and beams
above it until they burst into ignition. The volumes of smoke
rising through the crevices of the floor and the apertures of the
flues immediately communicated the danger -.which was prompt
ly and fortunately arrested by the clerks and assistants of the
establishment, by tearing up the flooring and extinguishing the
fire with water. The room in which the fire occurred had only
a few days before been completed in the decoration, and was
hung with many valuable paintings, among which was a Guido,
estimated at 900 guineas. These, with .the entire stock of the
splendid work entitled .[fusee Frangrazs, recently purchased
in Paris by Messrs. Hurst and Robinson, which was also depo-
sited in this room, escaped all injury. Had the fire continued
unobserved ten minutes longer, the property of this room, worth
between 20 and 30,0001., must have been destroyed.

TILE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Nov. 7, 18'25.
[NEW TtmEs.]
'The Brazilian Treaty calls for more extended
observation than our limits permitted us to make,
when we laid before our readers that important
document. What we peculiarly rejoice in, as
Englishmen, is that a negociution, so prolific of
beneficial consequences, so candid, so liberal, so
magnanimous, has been carried on under English
auspices, and has received from English Coun-
sels its manly and upright characteristics. It re.
quires but little experience in the diplomatic
productions of the present day to be convinced
that the whole scheme of this treaty proceeds
from the advice of a Statesman to whom Eng-
land looks up with admiration. It bears the
stamp and impress of Mr. Canning's miud. It
goes straight forward to its end, and attains its
object in the simplest manner : we have not
hitherto seen any transaction purely continental
which could with justice be thus described.
King John IV. we believe to be a mild, paternal,
patriotic Sovereign. Yet as a Monarch he must
naturally have felt unwilling to divest himself of
an authority handed down to him from his ances-
tors, and probably his Portuguese Ministers were
still less inclined to give up a source of future
influence and profit. It requires therefore some
disinterested adviser, on whom the King of Por-
tugal could rely, without hesitation, for the most
friendly counsel, to be able to point out to that
Monarch the path of a wise and dignified policy.
Fortunately such an adviser was to be found in
England, the ancient and steady Ally of Portu-
gal, her Protector, her Liberator! Fortunately
too the foreign policy of England was in the
hands of a Minister who would not hesitate
to speak the truth, and the whole truth (though
doubtless with all the deference and respect
proper on such occasions), in regard to the com-
mon interest of the Monarch, and of both the
nations who had been subject to his sway.—
Brazil had been a Colony of Portugal ; but that
day was past. She had become an independent
nation, and she had become such by the act of
King John himself. She had encountered (as Portu-
gal had done) the attacks of a democratic faction,
and had been preserved from becoming a victim
to those attacks by the ability and energy of her
present Emperor. She was preserved, too, for
the House of Braganza. Nothing but a blind
and short-sighted policy could have put anew to
hazard the Brazilian Monarchy, for the vain hope
of rendering it once more a dependency of the
Court of Lisbon. If a war had ensued, it might
have ended in depriving King John and his Son of
their thrones : at all events it would have been a
war inauspicious, unnatural, inglorious. In the
name of the King of England, arguments such as
these, could not but command attention. A Mi-
nister like Mr. Canning, we may be assured
would direct their application with the utmost
skill : and Sir Charles Stuart evidently acted his
part with a delicacy and firmness which insured
its success. When we see invested with the
double character of Ambassador for the mediat-
ing Power, and for one of the High Contracting
Parties, we cannot but feel proud that it was an
English Ambassador that received so rare a mark
of confidence. Thus have two Sister Nations
been reunited in the bonds of friendship thus
has the Father been reconciled to a beloved and
well-deserving Son : thus have we preserved two
Allies, and entitled ourselves to the esteem and
gratitude of both. `lgnorant and factious writers
may call a Treaty, pregnant with such beneficial
consequences, " trash," " waste paper," " ab-
solute nothingness"—but future ages will look
upon it as one of the noblest triumphs of diplo-
macy—a most honourable exercise of the influ-
ence of Great Britain—and a splendid memorial
of the talents of Mr. Canning.

[TII E TI M ES.]
The boisterous state of the weather has pre.
vented the arrival of the Paris Papers of 'Thurs-
day and Friday, which were due last night.
Those of Tuesday are full of discussion concerti.
ing the causes of the late change in the Alinistry
of Spain, and the consequences to which it may
lead on the domestic affairs and foreign relations
of that kingdom. There can be no doubt that
such a revolution was not expected so soon
though it was evident that a crisis could not much
longer have been delayed. The late Minister,
M. Zia, was almost forced upon the King by
the influence of his Allies, by the intrigues
of his own friends, and by the miserable re-
sult of the measures of his predecessors. He
was conceived to be a man of ability and
knowledge, and had expressed himself with
more moderation on politics than could well have
been expected from a Minister of Ferdinand. His
moderation, however, was one of the cases of his
fall. As he refused to go all the lengths of the
fanatical party, he was therefore from the com-
mencement of his Ministry obnoxious to the
church and the leading courtiers ; and as, from
the very nature of his situation, he could not
obtain the support of public opinion in a country
where there was no public, he was obliged, in order
to maintain himself in place, to oppose intrigue
to intrigue—to manage Ferdinand by bribing his
camarilla—to make a compromise with wrong,
when he could not carry what he thought right—
and to render ineffectual the measure of one day,
by the promulgation of a modifying or counteract-
ing decree on the morrow. His almost total want of
personal influence, of family connexions, or of
party support, made it necessary for him to Con-
sult the caprices of those whose erroneous views
and mischievous passions he should have been
able to controul, and thus rendered,it impossible
for him to observe any consistent Hite of cbnduct
in attempting to restore public credit or to sup.
press dangerous disturbances. Hence, while on
the one hand, by his supposed constitutional ten-
dencies, he excited the revolt,and was obliged to
punish the treason of Bessieres, his vacillating mea-
sut4,s led equally to the unjust prosecution and
cruel murder of the Empecinado. Hence he was
under the necessity of thundering decrees against
masonic aprons, and sending troops to besiege
rebellious convents. Nay, in his impartial

zeal to give offence to every party and to retain
the friendship of none, it would appear that a
body of persons calling themselves " Defenders
of the Faith and of the King" being lately de-
tected at Grenada in possession of secret sym-
bols, were ordered by him to be tried and exe-
cuted as Freemasons. Sufficient evidence was
said to have been sent to Madrid to prove that
the place where they met was not a lodge, that the
badges which they wore were not masonic, and that
the objects which they had in view were more
serious than those generally discussed in the con-
claves of the craft ; but the order was peremp-
tory, and the " defenders of the faith" suffered
as masons. By being himself su pected of libe-
ralism, he could not venture upon putting down
the rebellion of fanatics, without at the same
time proving by sacrifices on the altar of
despotism, that he was ready to support the
faction whose furious excesses had alarmed the
fears, and endangered the throne of his master.
The Duke of Infantado, who succeeds M.
Zea, is of a very different character. lie will in
general be the ready instrument of the priest-
hood, and may thus longer oppose salutary re-
forms; but as the church can place reliance on
his zeal, they will more willingly listen to his
counsels. lie will, in fact, possess more power
to execute moderate measures, if so inclined, than
his predecessor: and if ever any portion of the
property of the church is to be mortgaged for
the relief of the nation, the proposition is more
likely to be heard with favour from him than from
any other Minister. It is needless, however, to
speculate on what may happen a week hence in
such a country and Court as that of Spain. The
Duke of Infantado is said to be disagreeable to
the French Cabinet. Let, then, M. de Villele
threaten to withdraw French bayonets, and what
would become of the Duke and the camariila!