The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-03 00:00:00

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]

The French Papers confirm the report of the
retrenchments contemplated by the new King of
Bavaria, and which it appears are to be extended
to every department of the State. The military
department, however, as the most expensive, is
to undergo the greatest reductions; and the army,
which the late King had kept up to the amount
of 40,000 men, is to be pared down to the lowest
scale that is consistent with the military obliga-
tions imposed upon Bavaria, as a member of the
Germanic Confederacy. She is obliged, in her
relations to the rest of the League, to furnish a
quota of 15 or 16,000 men, in the event of
hostilities, and to this contingent the King
means to reduce his army. Upon a former occa-
sion we expressed our apprehensons of the effects
of this policy, how it would lower the conside-
ration, and circumscribe the influence of Bavaria
amongst her co-estates, besides compromising
the independence of the secondary members of
the league. We forgot, however, at the time,
that a large army, with an impoverished treasury,
produces more weakness than strength ; and that
a happy, loyal, and thriving people, are a far
better protection to the throne of a constitu-
tional King, than a body of mercenary troops,
however numerous. Besides, a small force, well
appointed, and well paid, and animated by the
spirit of loyalty and contentment pervading the
rest of the nation, would be more efficient in case
of need than an overgrown army, incomplete in
the most .essential requisites from the very cir-
cumstance of its excessive magnitude as compared
to the resources of the State.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The public, we have no doubt, will have wit-
nessed with much satisfaction the result of a trial
which took place in the Court of Common Pleas
on Thursday, in which the printer and publisher
of a work which has obtained an infamous noto-
riety are the parties ; and though it may be in

some degree regretted that the least guilty of tl►e
parties should be the greatest sufferer upon
the occasion, yet the result, as well as the
principle, so well laid down by the Chief
Justice, are calculated to be of infinite use in
suppressing the most audacious system of plunder,
as well as the most degrading use of the Press,
that have ever been witnessed. We certainly
have wondered at the impunity with which the
work in question has been suffered to proceed.—
We do not say that it may not have done some
good by the wholesome warning it holds out,
especially to persons in high life, against the
folly and wickedness which it exhibits ; but to
see a person, and that too of the female sex,
making this open profit of her own shame, and
and that no other persons could be found base
enough to become the pander to this kind of literary
prostitution, is an indelible disgrace to the Press,
whose real freedom, so justly dear to the country,
such instances go far to undermine. That the
Press, in castigating vice, may now and then—
almost unavoidably perhaps, exceed the bounds of
prudence, cannot be denied, and will not be too
harshly condemned. But when such statements as
those we allude to are made,not with a view to fur-
ther the cause of truth or virtue, but to perpetuate
and adorn infamy, to pamper a vile appetite for
slander, and that by administering to the wants
of needy profligate demireps, and of bankrupt
booksellers, still more profligate, the practice
calls for the severest reprehension of the Press,
whose cause it dishonours, and of the law, whose
justice and purity are violated by an appeal from
quarters so tainted and impure as these.

EMORNING CHRONICLE.)
We received at a late hour last night French
Papers in due course. From an article in the
Constitutionne/ it appears that the Court of Austria
has lately attempted to procure the suppression
of a publication, entitled the " Genealogical Ca-
lendar of the Court of Gotha for 1825•" The
Minister of Austria complained to the Government
of Saxe Gotha of an article in this work, on the
Bauern Kreig (war of the peasants iu 15250 as
liable, in the present excited state of the public,
to lead to bad consequences. In pursuance of
this complaint the Government ordered the work
to be seized, and a prosecution to be insti-
tuted against the Editor. According to the
custom of many parts of Germany, it referred
the business to the faculty of Jurisprudence at
Gottingen, which decided that there was no rea-
son to prosecute the editor or suppress the work.
On this opinion the Government had acted, and
allowed the work to be continued, to the disap-
pointment of the Austrian Goverri'ment.

As we anticipated, the Funds are now rising
with even greater rapidity than they fell. Consols for Account
left off on Thursday night at 83i 84, and yesterday morning re-
mained in a feverish 'state at the same quotation, the jobbers
and brokers Waiiiiiewfth great anxiety fortthe expresses froth
Paris, with the quotation of the French Funds, anticipating a
great fall, in consequence of the decline in Consols here on
Monday last ; when it was ascertained that they came higher, a
scene of the greatest bustle and confusion took place ; Consols
for Account advanced to 84j, and 85, and have been since fluc-
tuating from 84i to‘Bs. The Exchequer Bills advertised were
at par 2 dis.; the others 7to 10 die. The price of Bank Stock,
which was on Thursday 214, was yesterday 218, and every other
description of English Securities also materially higher. In the
Foreign Market there was great agitation, arising from the
eagerness to buy, particularly in the South American Stocks.—
Colombian, from 63g advanced to 66i ; Mexican 6 per Cents.
from 65 to 68i ; Guatemala Scrip was 10 to 11 dis.; Brasil
In Prussian Bonds bargains were reported at 94i ; Danish 60.
Shares still remain neglected.—(lbid.)

The following Placard has lately made its ap-
pearance on the exterior of a travelling Exhibition
in the neighbourhood of Islington. "To he seen
here a correct representation of the awful death of
Admiral Abercrombie, The destruction of the
Armada in Spain by fire,and a View of the Giant's
Causeway in North America." To counterba-
lance this piece of ignorance, we add the follow-
ing fact which took place at the last Bartlemy
Fair :—A showman, in rather an awkward predi-
cament for a showman having nothing to spew,
had a picture painted of some nondescript mon-
ster,and exhibited out side his caravan, surmount-
ed with the words," To be seen alive." He placed
his caravan in the middle of a long line of exhibi-
tioners, and at the head of one of the streets
that lead into Smithfield so as to admit of no
access except by going some distance round, and
stemming the torrent of human bodies pressing to
the scene of action. Placed in this commanding
situation, his companion within, covered with an
appropriate quantity of darkness, and himself
and his picture without which excited universal
curiosity,he invited with stentorian lungs the Ladies
and Gentlemen to vat/c in and see the greatest
yonder in the vorld. Multitudes ascended the
steps, and deposited their pennies in the hands of
the showman who admitted them to the caravan
where his companion handed them out on the
other side with the words, " keep moving Ladies
and Gentlemen if you please, keep moving," and
the constant accession of visitors enforced these
commands in a manner which admitted of no
denial. They descended into the street on the
other side of the cart, and were thus prevented
from complaining, if so inclined. But they all
went away satisfied they had seen something, but
they could not tell what. The spoils of the
day amounted to 301. or thereabouts.

PERLET, certainly the most popular comic
actor in France, has returned to Paris from Mar-
seilles. This original comedian first distinguished
himself by a sort of burlesque imitation of the
popular Scotch song, " Auld lang sync," at the
Theatre Gymnase. Should ANDREWS succeed in
his endeavour to establish a French Theatre, at
the Argyle Rooms, during the winter, Perlet
will be engaged as the Manager.

We regret to find intelligence has been receiv-
ed, that a package of models and curiosities, col-
lected by WILLIAM RAE WILSON, Esq. of Kel-
vin Bank, it) the course of his travels in Russia,
some of which were of great value, 'and shipped
at Petersburgh, and intended as a present to our
Museum, have unfortunately been lost in a vessel
that foundered during the late tremendous ga!es.
—(Glasgow Chronicle.)