The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-16 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

CAN TERBURI, Nov. 14.—Very little business was done at
our market on Saturday, some growths were offered at reduced
prices, but no reduction would tempt the usual buyers to make
a bid.
MAIDSTONE, Nov. 12.—The Hop tude continues in the
same dull state as last week, and we cannot quote prices, there
being so littlealone in the market.
EAST RETFOILD, Nov. 7.—Our annual fair for Hops was.
held on Saturday. A very scanty supply of Hops were offered.
The prices asked for North Clays of this year from 211. to 231.
per cwt. Rents from 161. to 19/. par cwt. Last year's produce
from 15/. to 201.; Rents from 12/. to 161. Very little business
was transacted.

CAUTION TO CHEESE-EATERS.—The writer of
this short article on Monday night treated him-
self with a cut of the blue mould, as it is termed,
and was nearly strangled by a crooked pin get-
ting into his throat, which he fortunately extract•
ed without surgical aid. The pin was completely
crusted with verdigris, and of course the delirious
blue mould was formed of the same materiel.

FATAL JEALOUSY.—Two young farmers met
at the Queen's Head, Holly port, three miles from
Henley, on Sunday, to pay their respects over
their ale to a young widowed lady, of whom they
were both avowed admirers, when a quarrel
arising, Phillips challenged his rival, Jennings, to
fight, and the next morning they met by appoint.
ment, and fought a hard battle, which endid it
the death of Phillips, from a fall in the 4(Mh
round,

E LONDON, JOUILNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, N0v.16, 1825.

[BRITISH PR ESS.I
Lest night we received the Paris Papers of
Sunday, including the Mode dated the following
day. The last number of the Mercure du 19
Siccle reveals a singular transaction,, in which M.
Sosthene de la Rochefoucault figures, as usual,
very ridiculously. It appears that this sage per-
sonage, afraid of the animadversions which his
administration of the household was justly cal-
culated to draw down upon him, paid the Editor
of the lifercure a sum of 1,500 francs, on the ex-
press condition, as stated in the receipt, that
" the said Journal should not, during twelve
months, attack either the administration of the
Ring's household or the person of M. Sostheue
de la Rochefoucault." The Editor immediately
transmitted the money to the treasurer of the
Creek subscription, and in his next Paper pub-
lished the two receipts, declaring, at the same
time, that he would keep his engagement, and
apologizing to his readers for the loss of the
few jokes, good or bad, that he might have
made at the expence of M. de la Rochefoucault,
in consideration of the use to which he had ap-
plied the cash. We know not how far to blame
the editor of the Mercure for his conduct in this
transaction. Undoubtedly he has violated the
implied pledge of secrecy under which all bar-1
gains of this kind 'are concluded ; but in expos-
ing so clearly the gross system of corruption pur-
sued towards the public press, he has rendered
an important service to his country. Among the
contributors to the Mereure are many of the most
eminent men of letters now existing in France.
What must be the course taken with respect to
works and writers of inferior character, when
such advances as these are made, with the view
of bribing the Illercure to silence ? A fresh in-
stance of the illiberality and intolerance of the
French Government in regard to religious subjects,
has been given in the prosecution of some female
Quakers, who were found on Sunday the 30th of
Jan. last assembled at ahouse in St. Etienne, for the
purpose of reading and expounding the New Tes-
tament. The Commissary of Police broke in upon
their meeting, seized their books and papers, and
interrogated them as to the object of their society.
They stated that they met in order to instruct
themselves in religious knowledge according to
the Gospel, which was their only guide, .that
their society owed its origin to the visit of two
foreigners, an American and an Englishwoman,
and thates the number of its members was fifteen.
A prosecution was instituted against them by
virtue of the 290th article of the penal code,
which forbids any regular assembly for any reli-
gious, political, or other object, except with the
consent of the Government, and under such cou-
ditions as the agents of public authority may
think fit to impose upon it. The judgment of
the Court of Correctional Police was, that the
meetings of these female Quakers %vas not only a
manifest violation of the law, but also a subject
of disorder and scandal for society at large, The
accused parties were severally sentenced to a fine
of 50 francs and the costs of the prosecution.--
What must we think of the spirit and sentiments
of a Government which is, or affects to he,
alarmed at the meetings of a few old women in
the garb of Quakers ?

[MORNING POST.]

French Papers to the ,14th instant, and the
Etoile of Monday, reached us. last night by Ex-
press. They contain intelligence from Corfu to
the 19th ult., which states that Colocotroni, at
the head of 14,000 men, had overtaken and de-
feated Ibrahim Pacha at Marathonissi, and pur-
sued him to Mistra, where the Egyptian Chief
had taken refuge with a small number of soldiers,
and remained closely blockaded. It also ap-
pears that befOre the last grand attack on the
lst Sept., and the destruction of the Turkish
works which ensued, Redschid Pacha had endea-
voured to open negociations with the.garrison of
Missolonghi, but had failed in- the attempt, the
Greeks answering that arms alone must decide the
contest. The late fire at Smyrna is now said to
derive its origin from -a popular commotion, and
to have been attended by a dreadful massacre.
It is doubtful, however, from the date of this ac-
count, whether it bean altered version of the ori-
ginal statement, or whether it allude to a new
event. On the 12th of October, the enterprising
Greek General Karaiskaki is said to have attack-
ed Caravassara, the chief Depot of the Seraskier's
ammunition and provisions. The main object,
however, was defeated by the death of a young
Greek, who like the Decii of ancient Rome, had
devoted himself to certain destruction for his
country, but was killed before he could reach the
powder magazine of the which he had
engaged to fire. It is reported that Admi-
ral Miaulis finding that the Turkish and
'Egyptian fleets had taken troops on board, and
were preparing to set sail from Alexandria, had
sunk vessels filled with stones, at the entrance of
that port, and thus created a bar, which it was
impossible for ships of war to pass. Should, as
we sincerely hope it may, this report be realized,
the effect will be fully tantamount to that of a
victory, if not greater ; for even after a defeat a
portion of the enemy's fleet might have found its
way to the Morea and lauded reinforcements to
relieve 'lbrahim, whilst the shutting up and de-
tention of the whole naval force of the Porte and
its Vassal within the harbour of Alexandria, will
leave him altogether to his own resources, which
are greatly diminished, and which a few weeks
or a month or two-Intiger-Would entirely exhaust.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
The alarm, which we noticed yesterday, still
prevails amongst the holders of funded property,
and as it has spread to the French market, where
appearances are equally gloomy, it is clear, in
our opinion, that the rapid fall of the English
Funds is not the effect of lucal causes alone, such
as an increased demand for capital in trade, or
the late speculative mania ; but that it has
also its rise in a prevailing sense of political
dangers, real or imaginary. 13oth the Paris

Papers and private letters from that capital,
abound also in rumours and speculations utterly i
inconsistent with those professions of amity and
good-will which it has been so long the fashion
of European Governments to interchange, and
in which, we believe, there was more sincerity
than formerly belonged to similar declarations.—
Whatever may be the opinion of the principal
jobbers in the English market as to the cause of
its present depressed state, it is certain that a
strong persuasion prevails among the leading spe-
culators on the Bourse, in Paris, that the fall of
the ltentes is not the effect of unfounded panic,
but of a marked collision of views between
this country and several States of the Conti-
nent respecting the late Colonial possession of
Spain. Plausible as this opinion may he in
one sense, we mean the jealousy occasioned
by the manly conduct of England, yet by not
attaching due weight to British influence,
it is entitled to much less consideration than it
would appear at a hasty view to merit. Even
were it true that our policy has given great um-
brage, it would not necessarily follow that an
open rupture must ensue, as this would plainly
aggravate the supposed evil, by urging our Go-
vernment to pursue a more determined line of
conduct generally. Besides the risks of such a
conflict would pass for -something in so grave a
decision ; and where is the Power amongst them
all that would venture to brave them, or flatter

itself for a single instant, that the result would
serve to lower the pride, weaken the considera-
tion, or detract from the power, of this country ?

[MORNING HERALD.]
The Jesuits in France appear to have adopted
a different system of tactics and field of opera-
tions since the accession of the present Sovereign.
The late King was something of an esprit fort,
and never personally in favour with them. Dur-
ing his reign they employed themselves chiefly in
the provinces—practising upon the credulity,
ignorance, ambition, or avarice of those among
whom they went. The success of the mission-
aries, however, did not answer their expecta-
tions—and-excited against them a degree of odium
which was not counterbalanced by the conver-
sions they made. Now they have obviously
gained a footing in the King's closet—and
if they do not appoint the Cabinet Miuisters,
clearly direct the exercise of the inferior
patronage. The assassination of the Duke of
Berri enabled them to shut the Liberals and the
Revolutionists out of the Tuileries. Another in-
termediate party, however, still remained. These
were the persons called Doctrinaires, who, having
some reputation in literature, great pretensions to
wisdom-and virtue, affecting to keep clear of the
two leading or extreme parties, and continuing to
obtain more than their proportion of pensions and
allowances out of the public purse, as members of
the Council of State, or in some branch of the
public service ; more particularly professorships
in the system of public instruction. The Jesuits
have ever hated them, even more than they do
the decided Liberals. But it is only now that
they have at last succeeded in completely re-
dacing them to silence. M. Royer Collard, a
leading man of this party, and a public
lecturer, has been recommended to keep
his oracles to himself. For the party itself, its
total subjugation will excite little interest, even
in France. But as a proof of the increasing in-
fluence of the tramontane interest, or those who
labour to extend the power of the Pope within
the church and kingdom of France, it is more
important. Charles X. whatever may be his
virtues, is the very person over whose mind
Priests could obtain absolute dominion. The sin-
cerity of his devotion passes unquestioned. But
it is of that kind which, according to Madame
Boland, makes a man but a poor figure of a King.
" Louis XVI." said she, " avail peur du purga.
Loire et de l'excommunication—it etoit impossible de
n'etre, point avec cela, un pauvre Roi." The
present King is much more of a devotee, and of
a more manageable character in the hands of a
Confessor, than the ill. fated Prince of whom this
opinion was given.