The Sun.
London, England, 1822-03-11 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE, ;LARCH 11.

Owing to the late boisterous weather, we had no arriyalq
from the northern coast this morning, and but a short supply
of Wheat from Essex and Kent by land carriage sampLis ;
but a large quantity remained over trom,last week, which
met heavy sale, and only prime
_picked samples obtained
last Monday's prices : all other sorts were offered full 2s.
per quarter Lower, without being able to effect sales at that
abatement. Fine Barley supported Friday's prices, whic::
were 3s. per quarter higher than on this day se'nnight,
in. con-
sequence of the duty on the stocks of Malt ,on hand being
allowed. The Oat trade was rather heavy at the'prices' of
this day se'nnight. Beans are fail Is. per quarter cheaper:
In Pease and other articles there was no alteration.

. AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN IN ENGLAND AND WALES.
Wheat, 468..1 ; Barley, 19s. 2d. ; Oats, los. 61; 115 e,
235. sd. Beans, 225. Bd.; Peas, 235. 4d. •
The Average Price of rown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the Returns made in the Week ending the tah .ay of
Marck, 1822, is 335. lid. per cwt. •
•

. SMITHFIELD 3IARKET, llenen n. •
Inthe market this morning there was an excellent.supply of
all descriptions of Cattle, which obtained 'last week's pp s,;
but the prime meat did not meet with ready sale, owing. to itte
price asked being too high.—The price of Hay remains- the
same.
Beef 2s 8d to 3s 10d Veal
Mutton 2s 8d to 3s 10d l Pork 2s 4d to 4s 2d

COMMERCIAL REPORT,
FROM THE 4TH TO THE 91H OF MARCH, 1622.

The sales in Cotton have been extensive, amounting to up-
wards of 3000 bales, princit.ally in Bengali, at from 5i t0:64,
and Surats 6fr, to 71, which are partially at an h advance.—
In the Liverpool market, from 14,000 to 15,000 will no doubt
have changed hands; but such is the disposition of zhe im_
porters to realize, that no improvement in value has resulted.
—Plantation Sugars have been in good request, and prices
are full is. per cwt. higher.—The Coffee market has been
dull, and a depreciation of 2s. to 3s. per cwt. has taken place.
—Fully 2,500 puncheons of Row have been sold; Leeward
Proofs, Is. sd. to Is. 6d. ; Jamaicas, 1.6 over Proofs, Is. Bd. to
Is. 9d.; lase-expectation of the restrictions being withdrawn
between our West India possessions and the United States,
daily gain ground, and consequently will be in favour of pro-
duce:- Tallows have yielded to a decline of is. per cwt. upon
foreign, (Yellow Candle 535.) and 4s. per cwt. upon town.
melted, 48s. per cwt. being the Nett price. Much interest is
excited as to the augmented import-duty; the general opin-
ion is, that 'it will be about 17s. per cwt. snaking the full
amount eos, per cwt.; present duty is 35. 2d. per cwt.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM TIIE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,

March 11, 1822.

[MORNING POST.]
French Papers to the Sth inst. have come to
hand. The disturbances in Paris, instead of being
suppressed, are rather on the increase. They
are no longer confined to the lower classes, or to
the attack on the Missionaries; the Students of
the Schools of Legislation and Medicine have
taken part in them, and, as they are not unani-
mous in their opinions, the very difference which
exists among them tends to increase the disorder,
and to give it the appearance of a civil broil.—
The Law and Medical Students are very nume-
rous, and as they generally belong to respectable
families, are well educated, and follow profes-
sions held in high repute, their influence is so
great that even their offences, when proved,
are treated with an unusual degree of mildness
by the Public Authorities. On the sth instant
when the lectures began in the School of Legis-
lation, some of the Professors were hissed. The
loyal students immediately rushed upon the dis-
turbers, and after a short conflict expelled them
from the lecture-rooms. But the latter having
received a reinforcement, armed with canes and
bludgeons, formed again on the place of Saint
Genevieve, and stormed the School of Legisla-
tion. All the Professors, with the Dean at their
head, endeavoured to restore order, but in vain.
The combatants divided themselves into two
bodies, each collecting its partisans by the re-
spective cries of " The Royalists here—long
live the King !" and " Here the Constitu-
tionalists—long live the Charter, and nothing
but the Charter !" Cries of a very seditious na-
ture are also mentioned, but the precise words
are not given. A new conflict was on the eve of
taking place, when the Gendarmerie arrived, and
drove both parties back into the courts of the
School. This seems to have produced a mo-
mentary union amongst them. They all called
out against the employment of the military, and
were preparing for a sortie, when some of the
Professors addressed the troops, and induced
them to retire. The students then rushed out
again, and the tumult recommenced, but was at
last pacified at half-past four o'clock by the exer-
tions of the Professors, or rather by a comparison
of numbers, which led the " Constitutionalists"
to withdraw, with cries of " We are not in suffi-
cient force for you to-day, but shall meet you
on Thursday next, at Mr. Portel's Lecture." In
order to be able to keep their word, they caused
placards to be posted up within the walls of the
School of Medicine, inviting the Medical Stu-
dents to join them ; but as an order of Govern-
ment had suspended all the lectures, and closed
the School of Legislation for the presentr it was
hoped that the threatened affray would not take
place. Two law, and two medical students,have
also been excluded for six months from the Uni-
versity of Paris. Meanwhile crowds continued
to collect round the churches occupied by the
Missionaries, but no fresh outrage had been corn.
mitted.

[THE TIMES.]
The report on the French budget, presented
by M. Cornet D'lncourt on the 26th ult., is con-
tained in the Supplement to the 3loniteur of
Wednesday, February 27, brought by the last
mail, and is, both as a subject of reflection for
Frenchmen, and of anxious comparison for neigh-
bouring nations, well worthy of particular notice.
The reporter begins by a brief summary of the
improvements introduced from year to year into
the administration of the finances since the esta-
blishment of legitimacy in France, and of the
advantages thence derived in point of order,
publicity, and economy. He then proceeds
to describe and account for the abuses which
are still to be reformed. Before he enters
on the detail of the several branches of ex-
penditure, M. Cornet D'lncourt makes two
or three general remarks, which may be
deemed applicable to every country where there
exists, in form or substance, a national right of
deliberating on the annual budget. Ist. It will
be impossible ever to limit the taxes, or to grant
the sums requisite for necessary expences, if we
do not, sooner or later, contrive to diminish those
expences which are useless. 2d. All parties are
agreed upon this principle—Committees, Re-
porters, Orators, all: but, when we come to
apply it, where is there a single piece of extrava-
gance which is not eitherjusti tied orexcused ? (One
might fancy that this worthy Frenchman had lived
half his life inSuffolk.) 3d. No salaries ought ever to
be granted to offices which are ofa nature to be filled
gratuitously ; bearing well in mind this salutary
truth, that " no state was ever rich enough to
pay all her debts in money." We do not ex-
actly know what description of French offices
the reporter here alludes to ; but of this we are
sure, that the high offices of mere parade
about the Court of England might well be
stripped of the daily pay, at once prodigal and
humiliating, attached -to them. These places
give great personal consequence and precedence.
They confer extensive patronage—they admit
the possessors to the privilege of seeing, and
hearing, and making their constant court to the
Sovereign. Why, indeed, were honours instituted,
but that avarice is a more expensive public ser-
vant than arrogance, vanity, or pride ?

[NEW TIMES.]
The account of the state of France which was
given in The Morning Chronicle of Saturday was
most whimsically contradictory and absurd. It
began in awful Italics—"le Insurrection in
France is not suppressed"—but the alarm which
this news created was soon dispelled by the can-
did confession " we have no details to lay before
our readers."—Lest, however, this avowal should
be thought too consolatory, the wary Journalist
mentioned a report that " General Berton was
marching upon Nantes with the certainty of
obtaining possession of that city." But then
again, the worthy Editor's candour came
in the way, with " We know not the au-
thority on which the report rests."—But the
climax► of fine writing and profound political
reasoning was reserved for the concluding stroke.

" On Thursday evening dispatches from France
were delivered to Lord Londonderry while at
dinner at Bellamy's. His Lordship, who had
not swallowed a couple of mouthfuls, had no
sooner made himself acquainted with their con-
tents, than he rose from table in apparent agi-
tation, and—proceeded to his (Ake ! !—lt is un-
necessary for us to offer any comment on this
circumstance."—lt must be owned that this
is an improvement on the celebrated shake
of Lord Burleigh's head in The Critic.—
The Noble Marquis indeed says as little as
his illustrious predecessor, and does not much
more ; but then the accurate observation of the
number of mouthfuls he had eaten, and the dis-
criminating remark on the state of his nerves (a
state, by the bye, not very common with his
Lordship), give the ingenious Editor a decided
superiority over his great original. What a pity,
that in spite of all these ominous circumstances,
the French rentes should so provokingly continue
to rise ! Strange, that Lord Londonderry's agi-
tation should have inspired the French Stock-
jobbers with additional confidence ; and that
General Berton's 'March upon Nantes should
have had the effect of strengthening public cre-
dit at Paris.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Some of
.our contemporaries have expressed
notions respecting the internal state of France that
would be sufficiently alarming if there were any
grounds to warrant such opinions. We never be-
lieved that the Bourbon family were popular in
France sirrce the first day of the Revolution,neither
do we think that they are held in higher estimation
at this moment by the majority of the people than
at any time since their second restoration. The
same majority, however, will not suffer their coun-
try idly to be plunged into a new civil war, from
which no obvious advantage can be derived ;
and it is not the silly enterprise of Colonel Ber-
ton, or of any other Colonel, against a proyin-
cial town of no importance, that could induce
them to forego their prudent resolution of pre-
serving tranquillity. The army on active service
is well paid, clothed, and disciplined, and in Paris,
at Brest, and every other point, the troops have
proved themselves as faithful as they are brave.
There is no magic in the name of Berton, or
of any other living person, sufficient to divert
them from their duty ; and while they are faith-
ful, a few hundred ill-armed and tumultuous
peasants, who were actually dispersed by twenty-
five pupils of the cavalry school at Saumur, can
effect but little in preparing the way of a new
revolution. The nocturnal preachings of the
Missionaries in Paris may be distasteful to the
people, religious dissentious may he occasionally
felt in some of the departments, an angry spirit
may sometimes manifest itself and breathe a feeling
disrespectful or hostile to the Government, and
these partial indications of uneasiness may be fur-
ther excited by the appointment of an Ultra-Roy-
alist Ministry; but we do not believe that there
is an intelligent man in France or England who
can seriously apprehend from such circumstances
a danger to the throne of the present King of
France, or that a project is contemplated either
of changing the reigning dynasty or of altering
the monarchical character of the Constitution.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Our readers will see from the letter from our
Paris Correspondent, how various the reports
there were with respect to General Berton. The
Paris Papers of Wednesday and Thursday throw
no further light on the affair. The Journal de
Paris notices a report that he had succeeded in
embarking. What will generally be considered,
however, as most decisive, that the insurrection
has not succeeded, is the circumstance that the
funds have experienced a slight rise. We have
heard attempts to account for this in another
way ; but we cannot persuade ourselves that the
existence of an insurrectionary force, capable of
making a stand against the Government (and, in
the present state of France, the capability of
making such a stand is equivalent to a change),
would not affect the public funds.—One thing
is, however, certain, namely, that the French
Government has been at infinite pains to suppress
or garble all accounts connected with this affair.
The following article from The Constitutionnel
of Wednesday affords one among many illustra-
tions of it :—" The Echo of the IVest (Rennes)
of the 2d of March, repeats the first account
published by L'Etoile. It merely remarks, that
L'Eloile, from error, no doubt, says, that
,Saumur shut its gates against the assemblage
which was marching against it. Saumur is
an open town, and without gates, and the
M'oniteur, which gives the same details as
L'Etoile, retrenched this circumstance 'from its
narration. The Echo of the IVest concludes its
article in the following manner The news of
the events of Saumur appears to have been an-
nounced to our Authorities by a Messenger who
arrived on Wednesday. Immediately after his ar-
rival other messengers were dispatched on all the
roads, with the exception of that of Nantes—
Yesterday, several bodies of Gens-d'armerie fol-
lowing during the day the same directions. The
departure this day of a part of the Legion, and
of several brigades of Gens-d'armerie, was spoken
of. This departure did not take place, and we
do not learn that it was really in agitation.
There prevails at Rennes, since these news, a
certain uneasiness to which tl►e arrival of to-
morrow's courier will probably put an end.'"

[MORNING lIERAI.D.I
The French Papers place it beyond a doubt
that political animosities have recently been re-
vived with increased malignity in Paris. The
disorders which broke out in the law-school,
amongst the assembled students, are worth no-
tice ; ndt so much for their importance intrinsi-
cally, as from the evidence they supply of the
antipathy which prevails, not only among those
who were actors or sufferers in the Revolution,
hut among the companions on both sides in the
rising generation. There are various and con-
tradictory versions of the origin and progress of
the disturbance. Each imputes the aggression
to the other, and each claims the victory. It is
only necessary to observe, that from cries of
" Live the King, live the Charter," they came
to a pitched battle, and were separated by an

armed force. As to the rallying words of the
respective parties, both are perfectly loyal—but
they are mere pretexts. Those who shout for
the King, mean the Bourbons, without the Re-
volution. Those who shout for the Charter,
mean the Revolution, without the Bourbons. An
able and dextrous administration might prevent
these two extreme adverse parties from actually
taking the field and fighting it out—and the pre-
sent mixed constitutional order might thus be
ultimately consolidated and sustained in and by
the national confidence. But under the present
Ministers the tendency is rather to extremities ;
and it is probable, that to avert such a crisis, the
sound and enlightened experience of the King
(should his infirmities and his age allow the con-
tinuance of the benefit of his Government to
France), will dismiss them from the helm after
they shall have left no doubt of their inaptitude,
from their principles and pretensions, to admini-
ster the affairs of France. The very disturbance
abovementioned would never have occurred un-
der a Ministry of enlightened, impartial, and in-
dependent men.