The Sun.
London, England, 1825-05-25 00:00:00

NEW MARKETS.

MAIDSTONE, MAY 24.--On Saturday afternoon, precisely
at five o'clock, the foundation stone of our New arkets was
laid by J. N. Hughes, Esq. Mayor, attended by a number of
friends, in presence of several hundreds of spectators. When
the stone was lowered into its place, three hearty cheers were
given, whilst the excellent hand 'from the Barrack (stationed
on the spot by permission of Lieut.-Colonel Sir John Browne),
played the national anthem. The ceremony being concluded,
the Mayor spoke as follows :
" Gentlemen—As a compliment to me as the Chief Magis-
trate, lam invited to lay this stone. If we were to jadge from
the absence of so many of the Market Committee, the new un-
dertaking looks unpropitious. Gentlemen-1 have laid the
foundation stone of the intended'Markets. May the new un-
dertaking tend to communicate riches, prosperity, and comfort
to the town and inhabitants of Maidstone and its neighbourhood.
God bless the King!"—(The worthy Gentleman was 'greeted
with repeated cheers.)
In a cavity of the stone were deposited various coins of the
present reign, and a copper tablet, bearing the following ia-
scriptiou, was affixed over the whole ;
This Foundation Stone
of the
NEW MARKETS
was laid by
JOIDT YLWIWITiaOyI, 11110TrItS, ESQ. 7
3 •
On Saturday, May 21st,
1825.
J. Whichcord, Atchitect.

FAVERSHAM STOCK MARKET.—The Stock Market at
Faversham commenced yesterday, under auspices more favour-
able than its most strenuous friends anticipated. , There were
about 1000 sheep, pronounced by competent judges to be of ;,11e
beat kind that could be produced ; nearly 250 head of re-
markably fine horned cattle, and a very ample supply of
horses, pigs, &c. Nearly the whole were sold, and the buyers
and sellers seemed extremely well satisfied. The accommoda-
tions for stock were very good, and at a moderate rate. The
ordinaries at the inns and public houses were excellent, at a
low price, and well attended, and the one at the Ship was vi-
sited by 120 persons, composed of the most respectable graziers
of the neighbourhood, and people of the place, and the others
in proportion. The attendance of farmers and graziers who
had not stock ready for the particular occasion, and of salesmen
and butchers, and the pledges given by them of supporting the
Market, while business could be carried on in the way it was
then done, are a sure and gratifying guarantee for the prospe-
rity of this new (and to the country at large) important under
taking.--(Kentish Gazette, May 24.)

On Monday night, about half-past 10 o'clock.
as Mr. Thompson, merchant, of No. 8, Lawrence Poixntney.-
lane, was riding along the- City-road to his country-Rouse, at
Highgate, his horse took fright at the fire-works which were
exhibiting at the time in the gardens of the Eagle Tavern. The
animal began rearing and plunging violently, and a lady of !le
name of Buckler, and her two daughters, happening to cross
the road at the same instant, Mrs. Buckler and one of the young
ladies were knocked down and considerably injured.- Theotiter
lady fortunately escaped unhurt. The ladies were immediately
taken to the Green-gate public-house, from whence they were
shortly afterwards reitioved to their residence, N0..74, Basing.
hall-street.
Peas were yesterday in rather general sale at
the green-grocers about the metropolis, at tb•
moderate price of five and .six shillings a peck.

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• • [TSB TT
...T.fre.rnseact subterfuges- by which the Spanish
Ministers,contrive-ta withhold payment of the
claim Lei Britielf-subjects-under the convention,
, have produced a general, outcry amongst •our
Usimmereiall men. Their remonstrances to the
Yerneign.. Office- are accordingly loud and fre-
,- ~quent-; an&fronatthe spirit in-which they-are re-
, -ceived' fay Mr. Canning, there are hopes of satis-
, %faction being atlength afforded. The letter of
• • Mr. Plenta, which-we publish—(see another co.
ittran. cif TUE Su s)-refers- to instructions provid-
ed for. Mr. Lambe, now on his journey to Madrid.
this-point we shall merely remark, that so
long:as oar Foreign Secretary employs negocia-
. merely, he of procuring either solid
-Andemnity•for.the merchant, or perhaps so much
. • as-common civility to himself ; those with whom
hix has to.deal are not alive to any worthier itn-
.-pulse than that of rude necessity. They will
:squabble, and. prevaricate, and shuffle, and pro-
: ,rnise, and break. their promise, to the last mo-
ment; but let our cruisers only-capture a 'bun-
.. dred or two of their-merchantmen by-Way of re-
- prisal, and there will-be an impression made on
the, nerves, as. well as morals,. of- King Fer-
• dirtand, the most immediate, salutary, and
Siirprisiog.• We are.not sure that Mr. Canning
is•unprepared for such a vigorous and becoming
• course. The Right Honourable Gentleman, we
have been, informed, feels like an English-
man the spfferings of his fellow-subjects, and will
not see:them trifled-with, or the Crown of Great
Britain insulted in their persons, with impunity
.to the author of the wrong. By the way, it is
• alleged that Ferdinand has less apology than he
could pleada few months since, for flying from
hicpecuniary obligations. He has, it seems, in
despair of raising money by loan, tried what can
be effected by plunder—that is to say, since no
man will lend him a single sous, lie seizes, and
sells to the highest bidder, the commercial re-
' sources ofbis people. The trade of Spain is now
• married on, for the most part, by licences grant-
ed• to individual merchants, who, for .stated
bribes to the King or his Confessor,•are permitted
to import, into the Spanish territory goods pro-
hibited by law. We understand that a .house
in London has recently bought the privilege of
importing into Spain two hundred tons of cot-
ton, Is. not this virtually an abandonment of
the principle which has hitherto prevented Bri-
tish. capitalists from advancing money to supply
the- wants-of Ferdinand, though in a different
shape, namely, that of loan, on account otitis no-
torious treachery to his sworn declarations ? Is
k less-a breach of that•sound and honest princi-
ple to advance money to a: swindler on one kind
of speculation than on another--on a rise of cot-
ton, than o-n• a rise of Spanish Stock
.? However,
the practice will not last' long, because it- cannot
be, extensively profitable. If. the trade thus
opened be a good. one for the merchant, the
smuggler will soon have more than an equal,share
of. it ; and. it bad, it will fall to pieces- of itself.
Licences were. tried -to the -utmost. by Buona-
.. paertat.„. and, were, little productive. of revenue.
'I ham SpaniA army, it is just possible, May shortly
.-:?read their master a more effectual lesson in fin-
ance than all the capitalists of Europe put to-
gether..

[NEW TINIE3.]

The approaching assemblage of great person-

acres at Milan cannot be looked to without some
feelings a cudasily. The Emperor and. Empress
of Austria have, been received with great demon-

strations. 91 joy ;, and the,- arrival of Prince Met-
ternich adds to the, general expectation, of the
trwt"some important measures will. be

•
taken for 'the benefit of their country. That
celebrated Statesman i•s. understood to oppose

very decidedly the influence, of the Clergy,
• whom he regards as possessing too great an ascend.'
- ancy in France, and wishes to see less predonii-
- rtant in Italy, while, on the other hand, he is.
willing toraise the Italian Landholders. to greater
pobitical i‘xtportance than they at present enjoy.
• 'Whatever measures. may be adopted for Lont.
banty, it will probably be attempted to introduce
- the same system into Naples, and with this
Y., view King Francis has been invited to
The, power of the Pope as a temporal Sovereign,
• Prince Metternich seems disposed rather to di.
it-inish' than to augment. Evert the Ecclesiastical
Authority-of • his, Holiness is kept within strict
bounds in the Austrian Empire, where the princi-
ple is firMly held, " that all. Ecclesiastical power,
with regard as well to its ends as its means, is
merely spiritual, and consequently, that the State,'
as such, is in uo degree dependent on the Church.",
On these points the opinions of Prince Met.
ternich seems favotirable to the hopes of the
most enlightened. Italians. Another circum-
stance which they still more eagerly desire, it
pit.), not be so easy for the Minister to deal with.
We allude to the great number of Germans
' who occupy official situations in' Italy, to -the
mortification, annoyance, and serious impoverish-
ment of • the natives. Still it is believed that
Prince Metternich wishes to lighten even this
evil, and, as a.step towards it, something in the
• nature of a provincial representation is ,believed
to be contemplated fur Lombardy. We have-
reason to believe that matters of this kind, relat-
ityg-exclusively to Lombardy, and other parts of
Italy, will occupy the principal attention of the
Emperor of Austria and his Minister during their
staT in Milan,- and that the rumours which have
been industriously circulated of' measures to be
taken for regulating the general affairs of Europe,
aid even of South America,aregross exaggerations.
•

,[MORNING POST.I
Some astute friends of Mr. Brougham's, in a
contemporary of yesterday, gravely assured the
public, that the Minority on the Learned Gen-
• tlenian's Resolution respecting the translation of
PUifile Jadges, would' have been greater, had
not like. Epsom Races seduced and kept away
several of his supporters. Did it not occur,
'however, :to the extremely sagacious author of
the pt`ragraph, that if the races prevented the at.
tetidauee of Memberibn•One side, thiy had a like

effect on the $ other side • and therefore, that al-
though the minority might have been greater, so
would the majority, and the ratio of " Ayes" to
" Noes" be the same as it was under the actual
circumstances. But perhaps he will rejoin, that
the Epsom Races. had no such effect upon the
supporters of Ministers as upon W.higs—the pat-
excellence popular Representatives.. If so we
shall be content—for what would the fact prove?
Nothing less than that While the Opposition sa-
crificed the public and their duty to' their plea-
sure or their profit, the Ministerialists did neither
—but attended, as behoved them, -in their
places, and gained a signal triumph over the
greatest of Whig leaders. But it. seems Mr.
Brougham is not satisfied with having been beaten
once—he wishes to be beaten again on the same
ground, and for that purpose means to enter the
field again on Friday next. This may be very
chivalrous, albeit it appeareth very imprudent—
for we are convinced, notwithstanding neither the
Epsom Races nor Greenwich Fair shall then
detain any of the Whigs from- their Par-
liamentary duty, the result will be equally fatal
to the object and the glory of the Honourable
and Learned Arch-enemy of legal promos
Lion. Upon the subject of " translation" on
the Bench—after the various grounds upon which
the inexpediency, the unconstitutionality, and
unfoundedness of the Resolution, on Friday last,
was demonstrated—we shall offer but one remark.
Would it not be madness in the Legislature to
bind the Executive, not to appoint the fittest, the
best qualified persons to he the Chiefs of the re-
spective Courts, whether those persons be at the
Bar, or already on the Bench ? Could any thing
be more monstrous or absurd, than to lay it down
as a positive rule, that whenever the situation of
Lord Chief Justice or Lord Chief Baron becomes
vacant,it must,right or wrong,be filled from the Bar,
altho' several Puisne Judges be then on the Bench
infinitely more eligible for the office than any man
off the Bench ? But;`• forsooth, the independence
of the Judges would be destroyed without the
adoption of this rule. We say, such a thing, in
the present enlightened state of public opinion,
is impossible, ,even if the Judges held their
seats at pleasure, and not a check of all those
now provided by the Law and the Constitu-
tion had existence. Mr. Brougham, indeed,
has not a shadow of a case to sustain his pro-
position, nor has he really attempted to make
out one. Has he adduced a single decision or
legal opinion of any dead or living Judge with-
in the
_last thirteen years—the period during
which the frequency of translations seems so
ominous in the Learned Gentleman's eyes—un-
sound in principle or partial in application ? In
short, he makes a noise about the. necessity of
preserving the independence of the Bench with-
out a solitary fact to show its. tendency towards
dependence. The numbers, however, on the late
division, must satisfy every one that the very at..
tempt to insinuate a charge of general subser-
viency against the Judges was met as it deserved,
with fiat denial and indignation.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
At the Westminster Dinner, Sir F. Burdett,
observed, " he had a great respect for many of
those perions who differed from him (on the sub-
ject which his lately agitated the country); he
could make great allowances for the prejudices of
early education, and'` for the mistaken errors of
those who still maintained an exclusive system ;
but he thought they were so prejudiced from
poring over books, and taking their ideas of the
present state of the world from the little they
could learn of its past state, refusing to make use
of their eyes, which were placed in the front of
the head to look forward, not backward, and
thus they were ignorant that the world had made
any progress." There are two descriptions of
opponents of the Catholic Claims-=lst, The
interested, who are determined not to see the
truth, and in the speech in question Sir Francis
left no doubt as to the persons who came under
this description,—secondly, the imperfectly in-
formed, whom he describes in the above passage,
and who are made available to their purposes by
the former. With respect to a great part of the
population of this country, it is impossible that
they can know any thing of Catholics, except
from books, for the bust of all reasons, namely,
that there are none in their neighbourhood.
Their knowledge is therefore derived from books,
and unfortunately from books which give them
the most erroneous views of the present re-
lations between the Catholics and Protestants
in Europe. The provincial papers exhibit,
many of them, abundant evidence of this
in articles and letters which betray the grossest
ignoranCe on the subject. In places where
there are Catholics, a different feeling generally
prevails. People see that Catholics are not the
monsters they are stated to be in the books of
controversy ; that they are not always calculating
the cost of the wood or coals necessary to burn a
heretic, or planning the introduction of inquisi-
tions. With regard to the people in remote
places, who judge of Catholics by old controver-
sial books, it will be a difficult matter to set them
right. The world is now sick of religious con-
troversy, and it is not very likely that men of ta-
lents and knowledge will take the matter out of
the hands of the Sciolists, to whom it is at present
abandoned. Nor is it necessary. If there were
a disposition in Government to do justice to the
catholics, supported as their claims are by the
well-informed classes in the country, the opinion
of the others would have very little influence.—
In a few days affairs would go on in the usual
train, and the alarmists would trouble themselves
as little about the Pope as men now trouble
themselves about Buonaparte, or any other
bugbear by which the world has been frightened
In past days. Much of the animosity against the
Catholics is attributable to some of the Govern-
ments of the Continent. The Catholic Reli-
gion is here blamed for those who avail ,theme
selves of it for improper purposes. 64 It was
only when religion. was united ''said Sir Francis,
" With power in the hands of the Priesthood,
that it was poisoned, and that Religion became
persecuting. It was the possession of power that
embittered and poisoned the whole.doctrmes of
any religionits union with the State, the mono-
poly of all power and emolument that made any

religion intolerant." So true is this, that the
Established Church of England has infinitely
more power to persecute than the Catho-
lic Church in several Catholic Countries,
The Spiritual Courts of this country still possess
powers of a very extensive nature, and when a
Clergyman wishes to persecute one of his parishi-
oners, he has ample means at ,his command. In
fact, in country parishes, the putting men into
the Spiritual Court is not unfrequently resorted
to, and the threat is' still more unfrequently held
out. In several Catholic Countries, the State
does not allow the Clergy to interfere in any,
other than a spiritual way with the people. In
England the Church may not only interfere in
a. hundred ways with the people (see Bishop
Gibson's Codex), but the effect given to its de-
crees by the Temporal Courts are tremendous.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
We regret to observe, by the advices received
yesterday from Ireland, that the exasperated dis-
content of the Catholics forbodes some probable
interruption of the public tranquillity. Private
letters represent that the state-of the country was
never more deeply or dangerously agitated.
Aggregate meetings, it is stated, will be held in
every town and village, and at these assemblies
the wrongs of the Irish people will be described
with all the force of inflammatory eloquence.
From these proceedings we can only augur mis-
chief. We readily acquit the Catholic leaders of all
design to foment or abet disturbance; we believe
they know too well-the inevitably disastrous results
it must produce with regard to the success of the
cause they advocate, but we have not the same
confidence in their judgment that we have in their
intention. They are stimulating to action a vast
body of physical force, which, when once excited,
they will be wholly unable to.guide or direct. It
will be a huge mass of power, blind with infu-
riated bigotry, and simply desirous of wreaking
its vengeance on the hated objects that may hap-
pen to fall within its reach. Already we-under-
stand that in some of the districts more peculiarly
Catholic it has been proposed to renounce all deal-
ings and communication with their Protestant
neighbours. This is certainly a pitch of extreme
violence which we could hardly have anticipated.
If such a resolution should be adopted to any
considerable extent, we may regard it as the im-
mediate forerunner of a religious struggle. We
trust, therefore, that these statements may be not
only much exaggerated, but absolutely untrue.
The well-informed portion of the Irish Catholics
must know, that any manifestation- of a hostile
spirit at this period would lead to the irretriev-
able ruin of their hopes, and the infliction of in-
calculable suffering upon their country. •

[MORNING HERALD.]
In the various Tax departments, the Ministers,
we understand, have given directions that the
payment of arrears shall be urged, in order that
by next quarter-day (namely, the sth July) the
tax account shall appear as favourable as pos-
sible, so as to allay, if they can, the alarm which
at present has seized the dabblers in the Funds.
The Ministers probably know not what to make
of the late rapid fall in the price of Stocks, and
they are afraid that, if the fall continue in the
same ratio it. has of late, their scheme for reducing
the interest of the 3 per cent. Consols will be ad-
journed for some years to come. It is said that some
of the City Quidnuncs have not only deceived them-
selves with regard to carrying up the price of the
3 per Cents beyond par, but that they have also
disappointed the Ministers. Luckily, however,
for the nation generally, the Ministers have seized
the proper moment for effecting a reduction in
the 4 per Cents ; but those who accepted the
91 per Cent. interest, in preference to being
paid off, are now probably upon the repent-
ing stool—the 3 per Cent. Stock being at
present under par. The 3 per Cents have now
fallen in the space of about eight months 8
per cent., which is at the rate of one per cent.
a month. In fact, the fall from the highest
point (which, we believe, was 972 or 98) has
been as rapid as the rise from the lowest point,
which was soon after the battle of Waterloo.—
We would ask the people at the Stock Exchange
whether as much borrowing for foreign funds and
for home schemes has not been going on since the
peace as during the war ; and as the tine for
the completing of the payment on both foreign
funds as well as home schemes has at length ar-
rived, whether the money wanted for two such
drains has not affected the stock market in a de-
gree that the stock brockers little contemplated ?
As to attributing the fall or the temporary rises
to this or that rumour, it is nonsense. The pro.
bable cause for the original and rapid rise in the
article in question, amounting to eight hundred'
millions, was because the mass of people believed
that the thing would rise. It did rise, and
got up, so long as the fever lasted, from
52 to 97, which was 90 per cent. rise ; but
then, to maintain that rise, it would have-required
an actual increase of 90 per cent. upon the, 800
millions, or 700 millions of increased wealth.
The question then would have been, Ilas there
been since the peace such an increase of wealth ?
The best reason to be given, probably, for the
fall is, that the public opinion has changed from
funds in favour of land, houses, corn, cotton, and
other real things, and in proportion as the real
things rise, the other, the unreal thing, will go
down. It is surprising what public opinion will
effect in the rise or the fall of any thing. If
five, ten, or twenty millions of people get into
their heads that such and such a thing will be
higher, they rush into the market, buy one over
the other, till at length they get the thing up out
of all reason. But at length the time must arrive
when it reaches its maximum. Then it begins to
fall, and, of course, public opinion changes and
wavers; then despondency seizes the public, and
the rush to sell is i►► general as great as the rush
previously was to purchase.—We have seen a re-
markable instance of this of late in corn, cattle,
cotton, silk, hides, and various other commodities.
Public opinion has, very recently, got up those
commodities from 50 to 100 per cent.; but
in not one of those articles is there a scarcity ;
but an apprehended scarcity, has, in general, the
"me effect in getting up the price as a real scar-
city,' at least for a certain length of time.. Before.

we conclude, we will ask those at the Stock Ex-
change whether the stock, both home and foreign,
is not now greater in amount than-at any time ;
and if the scheme liability be added—is not the
amount nearly double what it was at the battle
of Waterloo ? What got up the price of land so
extravagantly all through the war but public
opinion ? There was no scarcity of land—the
acres remained juste the same ; and yet how ra-
pidly it fell within two or three years after the
conclusion of the war

[Tut PUBLIC LEDGER.)
We cannot' help thinking that a very unne-
cessary alarm has been created on the subject of
the proposed alteration in the Quarantine Laws.
By the Bill before Parliament, the only altera-
tions proposed are,-Ist. To take off the Qua-
rantine Duty on Goods, and charge the expellee
of the different Quarantine Establishments to the
Consolidated Fund, as it is for the benefit of the
Public in general that such precautions are
taken.-2d. Vessels with clean bills from Tur-
key to air Cottons, &c., fourteen days on board
the Lazarettes--with suspected or foul bills,
twenty-one days, instead of twenty-one and forty
days. 3d. The Privy Council to have authority
to reduce or increase the lay-days according to
circumstances. Interested or ignorant persons
must have given a very different description of the
Bill to their friends at Genoa and Leghorn ; it
cannot be supposed for a moment, that the Privy
Council can be indifferent on such a momentous
subject as the preservation of the public health;
never was there a period when it was less likely
to be interrupted ; and the Boards of Health at
Genoa and Leghorn receiving intelligence by
post every 12 or 15 days, must surely think it
time enough to take precautionary measures,
when they have heard any disorder has broke out,
and manifested istself in England ; as ships are
always from 30 to 60 days on the passage, and
must have sailed at least three weeks before any
symptoms of disorder could have strewn themselves.
Most of our Readers are aware, that on the intelli-
gence first reaching Genoa and Leghorn, several
vessels, arriving from England,were put under qua-
rantine in these Ports; and we have now the satisfac-
tion of stating, that from the explanations given
here to the Sardinian Minister, as well as to the
person representing the Grand Duke of Tuscany
at our Court, respecting the alteration of the qua-
rantine la ws,there is a probability, or rather a cer-
tainty of these severe orders being rescinded. It
is ridiculous to suppose, that the French Govern-
ment will lend itself to the prejudices that have
been created on this subject. If vessels, coming
from England, were to be subjected to Quaran-
tine Regulations at Marseilles, there would he a
more evident necessity of adopting such precau-
tions at Calais and Boulogne, as the plague is us
likely to be imported at one place as another—
indeed more so, from the shortness of the voyage.

THE ARMY.

The Ist Regiment of Dragoons, which recently arrived in
[reland, from Scotland, is stationed at Dundalk.

The 14th Regiment of Light Dragoons, which embarked at
Bideford, for Ireland, is stationed at Cork.

A Det.;,chment belonging to the 96th Foot, marched yester-
day from Westminster for Winchester.
Yesterday morning, the whole of the Royal Horse Guards
(Blue) marched from their barracks in the Reg nt's Park, to
Wormwood Scrubs, under the command of Colonel Bill,
where they held a field-day. The regiment went through their
evolutions in a masterly manner, but -their charges were re-
marked as particularly fine. Nothing could exceed the rapidity
of the latter.