The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-29 00:00:00

Til E LONDON JOUILNA LS.

DAILY
_Extrachfrom the Morning Papers7Jan.29, 1525.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
Our Foods left off rather better yesterday
than the day before ; and this slight re-action,
considering the cause, shews the extreme distrust
that prevails in tile market. The news of the
appointment of a Prussian Consul to Buenos
Ayres, so interesting at this particular juncture,
served only to make the balance vibrate, without
fixing it towards an improvement of prices;
though there was an arrival at the same time from
Paris, with the intelligence of a rise in that
market on Thursday last. Both these accounts
plainly favour the opinion, that the peace of Eu-
rope is not likely to be disturbed in consequence
of the political relations between this country and
tome of the New States of America. Prussia at
least has announced in this appointment her own
-views on the subject ; and Austria has preceded
}ter in this course, as may be seen from the inti•
macy and cordiality . of her relations with the
Brazils. Of these two Powers it may be affirmed
Isith confidence, that they will not vindicate the
obsolete rights of others, to the detriment of their
own interests, and at the risk of a war with Eng-
land. A stern necessity alone would induce the
Prussian Government to encounter the perils of
-warfare, after what it has already suffered from
hostilities, and of which the wounds are not yet
wholly closed. But, to think that. it would pro-
-yoke the same evils again, merely to gratify the
bloated pride of the Spanish Court, is really too
ridiculous a notion to stand in need of refutation.
'With respect to the Court of Vienna, it would
not, we firmly believe, break with this country,
were the latter to propose, as the condition of
their further friendship, the formal secession of
the former from the Holy Alliance. We also see,
to judge from the state of the Rentes, the pacific
light in which the French view the impression
made on their own Government by the conduct
of ours ; and yet our own funds remain heavy,
in spite of the tranquillizing signs we have just
mentioned. It is therefore pretty clear that the
dull state of the market has not arisen altogether in
the prospect of our foreign relations ; for it would
be difficult to discover a speck, much less a dark
cloud, to,threaten their harmony at this moment.
Lastly,as to Russia,upon whose s-entiments respect-
ing the quarrel between Spain and her former Co-
lonies so much stress is usually laid, we eats only
say, that if they were as Quixotic as they are re-
presented, she must, in this instance, do violence
to her feelings ; for, powerful as she is, she would
only provoke ridicule, by entering the lists singly
against this country. It is not our foreign rela-
tions that have occasioned the alarm that prevails
at present, we know of only one cause in which
it can have originated ; and, as this is probably
the real one, we should wish to press it on the
consideration of his Majesty's Government, before
they decide finaliy. The reported augmentation
of the army is so contrary to the hopes which the
country Lad been led to entertain on the subject
of the public expenditure, and it seems to betray
so unwarrantable a -distrust in the loyalty of the
country, that we are not surprised at the disgust
which it has so generally excited. It shews too
such a lurking predilection for strong measures,
that the sensation which . it has excited is per-
fee-tly natural ; and, with the wanton expence
and unconstitutional tendency of this proposal
staring every one in the face, it would be difficult
to induce the public to believe that there was any
sincerity in the professions of liberality which
they have lately heard. We are inclined to think
that the proposal has not the approbation of Mi-
nisters, at least of that part of them whose prin-
ciples have given so much public satisfaction ; and
if our surmise be correct, this would be a new
reason for not pressing forward this most unpo-
pular measure.

[THE TIMES.)
We have received assurances respecting the
India Company, that they have long been mi-
micking their betters ; and, like the Government,
been retaining in their own hand, or more pro-
bably in those of their clerks and understrappers,
the prize-money due to numbers of brave men
who have devoted their lives to secure, enrich,
and extend the dominions of that same Company.
We hope it is not true. It was on a late occasion
our painful task to echo the reproaches addressed
to us on behalf of thousands and tens of thou-
sands of suffering fellow-subjects, against cer-
tain offices in this country, which are in the
notorious habit of interposing every obstacle that
selfishness and chicanery can contrive, between
the distribution of prize-money and its acknow-
ledged owners. The evil has become intolerable,
and must be cured ; if not for the disgrace at-
tached by it upon the nation, at least for its de-
structive effects upon the hearts of our ill-used
seamen and soldiers, who feel themselves thus
basely wronged of their lawful and hard-earned
property, while the Govertment and nation, in
whose service it was dearly won, have been en-
joying, without any delay- or qualification, the
full benefit of their wounds and their victories.
The gross abuses of our Courts of Equity have
been declared by Parliament a fit subject for
public investigation. A Committee to investi-
gate has been appointed : we see on it, to be
sure, some names among the members, which could
have been selected for no human reason but to
persuade the nation that there was nothing
very serious in the grievance. Lord Eldon, for
instance, is at the head of the commission.—
Some Chancery lawyers, and officers of Chan-
cery, are likewise ordained to detect and re-
form the very practices in which they themselvss
have grown old and affluent. Such a commis-
sion may not be a proof that Parliament means
honestly to root out the corruptions of that one
large class of the national tribunals to which
the inquiry has been directed ; hut, beyond a
doubt, it does demonstrate the broad and glaring
magnitude of the fact, which those most in-
terested in concealing were wholly unable to
disguise, defend, or palliate. We wish to see a
commission—but a more effective commission—
.eatablished for an inquiry into our Prize Courts,
atiidloe the protection of our poor British sailors