The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-31 00:00:00

DAILY

Exlractsfront the Morning. Papers, Jan. 31, 1825.
[MORNING POST.]
The concluding Session of the present Parlia-
ment, which opens on Thursday next, promises
to be one of comparatively little labour to the
house of Lords and Commons, but of great ho-
nour to his Majesty's Government. Except the
affairs of Ireland, it is probable few questions
will be agitated provocative of much discussion ;
for upon all topics beside, whether domestic or
foreign, of important interest, the views of Mi-
nisters are, at least in principle, exactly accord-
ant with the opinions and feelings of every part
of the Empire. With respect to the Sister
Island, we shall to-day reserve our further ob-
servations on it. In regard to this country, we
may state that the chief business of Parliament
will be, after the mere routine measures are dis-
posed of, to regulate the present exuberant
growth of general prosperity. Among these re-
gulations, either a total repeal of Mr. Hume's
Law in favour of combinations, or its neutraliza-
tion by some enactment preventing artizans and
mechanics from tyrannizing over their employers
and sporting with their property and welfare, is
indispensable. Another subject of the utmost
moment, which may be expected to occupy atten-
tion, is the rage for projects of all sorts which
now afflicts the public. Nothing appears to us
more necessary for the support of national credit
and the protection for individual industry than
the imposition of a legal restraint on the forma-
tion of bubble schemes, such as are daily blown
forth into the sunshine of the Money Market.—
The People at large seem to forget, that most of
those " grand," " general," and " united" spe-
culations have no real existence, and that the ob-
stacles to their ever changing front " airy no-
things" into substantial undertakings, are morally
or politically insurmountable. The other busi-
ness of the Session will, in a great measure, be
the advancement or consummation of those liberal
ameliotation in the laws relating to trade and
commerce which his Majesty's Ministers have al-
ready commenced. That the Cabinet is both
unanimous and ardent in perfecting our mercan-
tile system, the principles so often officially as-
serted sufficiently testify—while the benefits de-
rived from their past application ensure a conti-
nuance in the same wise path of policy. Indeed,
hether we refer to the conduct hitherto pursued
by Government, or indulge in anticipation of that
which is likely to be pursued hereafter, we find
room for nothing but general congratulation. It
has rarely fallen to the lot of any Monarch to
meet his people under more happy auspices than
our Gracious Sovereign will meet his dutiful and
attached subjects at the present period, or of any
people to possess a Monarch so truly entitled to
their entire allegiance, love, and gratitude, as
George I V.

[THE TIMES.]
We have solicited more than once a distinct
answer to an intelligible question; aud, whatever
may be thought of this inquiry by Ministers—
' whom, indeed, from our souls we commiserate as
the unwilling slaves of selfish masters,--what-
ever, we repeat, may be thought of the import-
ance of such a question by them, the Ministers,
or by the Beauforts, Rutlands, and Ilarrowbys,
whom they serve, it is one deep interest to Eng-
land and to the colonies—Have orders been dis-
patched, or not, to dismiss Lord Charles Somerset
from his office Y We have heard some curious
stories, touching the tenacity of this Governor,
(by courtesy called " my Lord"), attesting, like-
wise, the stubbornness with which other per-
sons insist that he shall remain a fixed in-
cumbrance on the public, rather than on his
own relations. The accounts are in charac-
ter, undoubtedly, but not the less disgust-
ing for that. Whatever may have occurred here,
the letters from the Cape to the 23d of Novem-
ber announce the arrival of the Regalia from
England, with Sir It. Plaskett, the new Colonial
Secretary. The Colonists were, of course, im-
portunate to learn the name of the new Governor
for whom they had been longing ; but, instead
of any satisfaction upon that point, they began
to fear that a certain great interest would prevail,
and that their deliverance would hang upon the
remote contingency of a reform in the " Commons
House of Parliament." Since the new Secretary
had made his appearance, his Lordship had
begun to swagger not a little. lie treated the
notion of a recall with sovereign ridicule, and,
employing the idiom of the only profession which
his Lordship had ever successfully followed (be-
fore that of Governor with 12,0001. per annum),'
he talked of " walking over the course." If
so, we are assured from many quarters, that most
of the respectable inhabitants will think of walk-
ing in another direction, and bringing themselves,
their shattered fortunes, and accumulated griev-
ances, to England. In the mean time, another
instance of " paternal" government had occurred
at the Cape. A Captain Carnell had been ac-
cused of harbouring the unfortunate Edwards
after his attempt to escape the sentence of trans-
portation. On this charge Mr. Cornell was pro-
secuted by the Fiscal, who obtained against him a
judgment of 12 months' banishment from the colony.
Cornell was ill enough advised to remove the cause
to the Court of Appeals, where the sole Judge
was Lord Charles Somerset ! This considerate
officer of justice had the humanity to annul the
sentence against which Mr. Carnell remonstrated,
and to grant him the mild commutation of a
five years' residence at Botany Bay ! Neverthe-
less, the unhappy colonists had long cherished
hopes, that redress might be obtained for them
through the Report of the Commissioners of In-
quiry. These hopes, however, had latterly
begun to fail. The Commissioner who stood
highest in credit, was suffering under indisposi-
tion. An ominous intimacy had taken place be-
tween the family of another Commissioner and
of Lord Charles; and the presentation of the
(inexplicably to some people, though
postponed, apparently sine die. The
not
iot
Report tu was
Government newspaper, or Somerset Gazette,
which had been established in illustration of the
liberty of the press for the colonists, received no
support, and was held in open derision. We

trust there will be a paragraph in the King's
Speech, dedicated to an especial celebration of
the prosperity and happiness enjoyed by all the
dependencies of England.

[NEW TIMES.)
We have received the Etoile of Saturday. It
contains an article in answer to the Quotidienne,
on the recognition of the South American Re-
publics by Great Britain, in which its opinions
already expressed are repeated without any addi-
tion worthy of notice. 114 an article from Oilessa
it is stated that the Greeks are divided into three
principal parties, Maurocordato having declared
for England, Varvaki for Russia, and Coloco-
troni for thesTurks. Under the date of Constan-
tinople, Jan. 15, it is mentioned that Colocotroui
had been defeated, and had sent a very humble
letter of submission to the Government. The
answer was not yet known. We give some ac-
counts from South America from ti►e Madrid Ga-
zette. It is unnecessary to remark how very sus-
picious this channel of communication is—espe-
cially after the specimens of veracity which it
has already given.

[BRITISH PRESS.]

We have given from the French Papers the
latest intelligence respecting the Greeks which
we believe to be authentic. The Eloile considers
it to be quite confirmed that the Egyptian fleet,
after its defeat off Candia, was again beaten at
Spino Longa, with the loss of several vessels more.
There is an idle story in the Etoile, representing
the Greeks to be divided into three factions—
Maurocordato for England, Varvaki for Russia,
and Colocotroni for the Turks ! According to
more credible accounts in the same paper, it ap-
pears that the Insurgent military chiefs have been
completely defeated, and that Colocotroni has
offered his submission. His allusion to his former
services, and the death of his two sons in the revolt,
is deeply affecting, and may, we hope, on certain
conditions for his future good conduct, atone for
his offences. The Austrians are endeavouring to
pick a quarrel with the Greeks, but after this
manifestation of the firmness and solidity of the
Greek Government, we may expect that its ene-
mies will treat it with some respect. The revolt
of Coloctroni, so easily and speedily subdued,
has proved that Greece has nothing to fear front
intestine discord, and as to the next campaign
of the Sultan, if there should be one, they
who, disorganised, divided, and without re-
sources, have frustrated four attempts to subdue
them, have nothing to dread from the fifth at-
tack of a declining Power, which they have so
often defeated in the fulness of its strength.—
On the 11th December M. Minziacky had a
conference with the Reis Effendi ; it was long
and very friendly. On the 15th he announced
to the Diplomatic Body at Constantinople that
he had entered on his functions, and he has paid
the customary visits.

By the Lisbon Papers we received yester-
day we observe that the King of Portugal mani-
fests a sensitiveness, with respect to the press,
which gives us but an unfavourable augury of
the political course he intends to follow towards
his people. His Most Faithful Majesty, by one
order, withdraws his patronage from a Periodical,
because its author had not followed the princi-
ples his Majesty approved. We can conceive
no degradation of the royal authority greater than
this paltry intermedding with these ephemeral
productions. Cromwell, when urged to suppress
some daring libels on his Government, snid
wisely, that he cared not for paper shot. It
would be well for other Rulers, we think, if they
could feel or would affect a similar contempt of
the pamphlets of the day. A Government has
the strongest interest to know what is the state
of public opinion as to its proceedings. How can
it arrive at this knowledge if no voice is to be ut-
tered but that of praise ? 'We hear nothing for+
ther regarding the Constitutional Charter which
John VI. promised to grant his subjects. lie
should he advised to strengthen his throne, by
supporting it with the affection of his people, in-
stead of issuing royal Decrees for the regulatieu
of the periodical press.—(/bid.)

[MORNING cnaolkucLE.]
We perused with much surprise the leading
article of The Times of Saturday last. It is
stated, " We have received assurances respecting
the India Company, that they have long been
mimicking their betters, and, like the Go-
vernment, been retaining in their own ,
hands, or more probably in those of their
clerks and understrappers, the prize money due
to number.; 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,"
—What does this mean ? In the first place, the
writer is assured that the East India Company
have been plundering the brave men who have
fought their battles, and crowned them with con-
quest;—Secondly, he hopes his correspondent
has told him a falsehood ; and then without
further data, he proceeds to argue upon it as
truth, and to lay charges of the most serious
nature, even to the charge of suicide, at the
door of the Directors ! We really think it would
better become the writer, to have made himself a
little acquainted with the few facts connected
with the Deccan Prize Question, before lie save
to the complainants of his disappointed half-pay
correspondents, the importance of a lesiding
article. The simple facts are these :_The East
India Company have no more to do with the
Deccan prize, than the Editor of The Times.
The whole of the property captured by the
Deccan army was by right, at the disposal 9f
the Crown. The Crown appointed its own
Trustees, and completely excluded, th
Com-
pany from any participation. the e
discussion
which occupied so much time before the Lords
of the Treasury, upon the respective claims
of Lord Hastings and Sir Thomas Hislop, was, we
supposed, freshin every one's recollection.
Since that period the question as to what property
should be considered Prize (for the prize.proper
was very inconsiderable), has occupied the
tion of the same authorities, and we understand
it was only in the course of last week that the
decision on this point was wade known to the

East India Company, who will doubtless be gra-
tified to find that these brave men whom they
are accused of plunderinz, are about to receive
the reward of their brilliant achievements.

ETIIL PUBLIC LEDGER.]
The United Provinces of Central America,
forming a part of the immense " kingdom" of
Mexico, and comprising Chinpa, Costa Rica,
Nicaragua, Honduras, Sat Salvador, Guatimala,
and Quesaltenango, have published a wise and
useful Decree for encouraging the influx of foreign
settlers, the best material of power and prosperity
in a free and half-peopled state. The geogra-
phical situation of these countries,a great portion
of which is washed by both the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans, offers facilities to trade,
and a consequent stimulas to industry and en-
terprize, which required only the prudent
measure now resorted . to by the Government
of the Republic to bring into immediate action.
As the Decree contains no less than 9.8 separate
Clauses, many of them embracing a considerable
-variety of details for the arrangement and regu-
lation of the rights of emigrants, our space will
not admit of inserting more than an abstract of
one or two among the principal provisions of the
law. It is open to every foreigner to exercise
any business he may think fit, mining included ;
to have his name enrolled by the local authori-
ties,-as a denizen of the Republic—after a given
period to become a citizen—to acquire and enjoy
in the mean time any uncnitivated lands—to
make an agreement with the Magistrates for form-
ing a township, which township must contain
within it fifteen married couples at least, with a
capacity of being increased by the accession of
others. The oath of allegiance must he taken
on the formation of the township, but not before.
Each married couple are to have in full property
a lot of land assigned to them, a square of 1000
rods each way. A foreigner, unmarried, joining
the township, may have the same quantity of land,
provided he marries within six years ; and in
case of his marrying one of the native aborigines,
or a woman of colour, a double portion of land.
Settlers wishing to join townships, may, if they
have become denizens within the first years of
its establishment, and if they were not included
in the original contract, have a double portion of
land. The land must be occupied within eight
years from the date of the grant, on pain of being
forfeited. Every settler may withdraw from the
country when he pleases, and dispose of his pro-
perty without hindrance or molestation. He may
transmit his landed property by will. To those
dying intestate, the heirs-at-law succeed. Each
new settlement is, for twenty years; free front all
imposts whatever. No monopolies permitted in
any new settlement. Exports and imports are to
be free for twenty years. Municipal charges are
not included in the above, no slaves to be ad-
mitted—the very act of introduction giving free-
dom to the slave. Such are the heads of this en-
lightened and salutary invitation to the civilized
world.

[MORNING LiEttALD:1
It is rumoured that it is in the contemplation
of the Government to take into its own manage-
ment the turnpike roads of the United Kingdom.
Nothing can be worse managed than the turnpike
roads of England are at present, and we should
think that the sum raised on them is tr.() great.—
The system also of turnpike-men, and bars put
across the roads, has introduced a very gallin.7,
species of despotism. Who.is not mortified when
he comes to a gate, where toll is to be demanded
of,him, and where, after waiting several minutes
before the keeper makes his appearance, he is
then to be asked for the toll in probably a pe-
remptory, and too often a sulky manner ? Who
does not execrate this tax on his patience
and time, especially in the dead of night,
-when these stop-road people may be asleep at-
their posts, or dozing ; or in cold or rainy wea-
ther, when the traveller has his gloves on, and
his thumb and fingers are so benumbed that he
can scarcely feel the reins or the whip, when he
is probably closely buttoned up in his great
coat, and obliged, at the call of a disagree-
able looking., or ill-behaved personage, to un-
button his coat, pull off his gloves, and to let
go his whip or his reins, in order to pull out and
pay his money for the privilege of passing ? Who,
when he is intent on business, or in haste
to be in time for a dinner, or a wedding party
or is going to see his friend, who may be dan-
gerously ill, but has in his heart been. vexed at
the impediment thrown in his way Who,
living in the outskirts. of London, and, from the
nature of his profession or business; obliged to
ride much in its environs, but is annoyed, go
which way he will, at the multiplicity of turn-
pikes, and, in too many instances, by the inso-
lence of the men appointed to receive the tolls—
and this exclusively of the extravagantly high sum
demanded ; who riding even for pleasure in
the neighbourhood of this city, but wishes
to see the present system abandoned ? In ge-
neral, the gates, and the appearance and manners
of those who are placed at them, detract from
the pleasure a man would have in his ride for
his amusement or his health. We should wish
to see this system made an end of, so that the
roads of England should be as free for a man to
pass as the roads of France are. We have none
of the odious French system of passports ;
why then should we retain the odious turn-
pike system ? Our merchants and tradesmen,
and those on pleasure, go from one end of the
kingdom to the other, free from the interruption
of the passport system ; why then should we not
be free with regard to turnpikes ? In commerce,
the freedom from the passport system is bene-
ficially seen in England, where a man engaged
in trade will undertake a journey of two or three
hundred miles—execute his business in the place
to which he may .proceed—and be back again in
Iess'time than a Parisian is compelled to waste
iin attending the police establishments, in order to
procure his passport. It is principally owing to
this Freedom of movement of traders that England
maintains such a superiority in a commercial re-
sPf4,.s•ifer France or any other part of the Con-
tinent. As it. is, our only impediment is the
lorfiit despotic system of turnpikes. We hope
that ja the at Session the subject will be taken

On Wednesday, the 26th instant, Matilda, the wife of Mr.
William Jupp, of Old Broad-street and Clapton, architect.
On Saturday, the 29th instant, at Kensington. Amelia, widow
of Captain John Warburton, 17th Madras Native Infantry,
and daughter of Christopher Brown, Esq.
On the 10th instant, aged 63, the Rev. Thomas Walker,
vicar of West lloathly, in the county of Sussex.
On the 28th instant, in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square,
Frances Phillips Parker, aged 14, second daughter of Mrs.
Parker.
Lately, at Edinburgh, Mr. Lindsay Carstairs, copper-plate
printer, universally respected and deeply lamented by his family
and friends,

COUNTRY MARKETS AND FAIRS

DURING TIIR LAST WEEK.

Wheat 55s a 85s Beans 86s a 46s
Barley .. 30s a 49s Pease •••• ...... —s a —s
Oats 18s a 28s ---- White —s a

Wheat 59s a 77s I Oats 21s a 30s
Barley 32s a 49s Beans 36s a 52$
Peas —s a —s.

NEWBURY.
Wheat 57s a 78s I Oats 21s a 30s
Barley 28s a 46s Beans 36s a 56s

IIIINGERFORD.

Wheat 503 a 75s Oats 2Is a 32s
Barley SOs a 42$ I Beans 45s a.5Gs

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.
ATLESBUI,Y.

Wheat .... 72s Od a 78s Od Beans 34s Od a 50s Od
Barley.... 34s Od a 40s Od Peas 40s 041 a 42s Od
Oats .24s Od a 23s Od Rye —s Od a —s Od
BUCKINGNAM.—(Per bushel.)
Wheat 7s Od a Ss 6d 1 Oats 2s 9d a 4s 6d

-- Old .. 8s 6d a 93 Od Beans 5s 6d a 6s 6d
Barley 5s Od a 5s 6d Peas 5s Cd a 6s 6d
Vetches Os Od a Os Od.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
CAMBRIDGE.—Acerage.
Wheat 69s 8t1 per qt. Oats . 20s 8d per tir
Rye —s Od Beans 87s 10(1
Barley 335 8d Peas . 38s 7d

WISBECII.—Average.
Wheat 6ss id per qr I Oats 21s Sd per qr
Barley 38s 9(1 I Beans —s 0(1
Rye —s I Peas ....... —s

Wheat, 7511) Os Od a Os Od Barley, 33cits Os Od a Os Od
---- New lOs 8(1 a 1Cs1Od New 7s 4d a 7s 6.1
Oats Zs 8d a 4s Od Rye Os Od a Os Od

Wheat, 75Ib lOs 3d a 1 Is Od Oats, 451lis . Os Od a Os Od
-- New t Os 6d a I ►s Od New 4s Od a 4s 4d
Barley, xicits 7s 3d a 8s Od Bye Os ffil a Os Od
MACCLESFIELD.—Fluur, per 2401b. 46s a 48s—Oatmeal
37s a 39s—Butter, 14d a 16(1 per lb.
SToctiroa r.—Oat total, per 2401b. 29s a 36s—Flour 42s a
47s—Butter, per lb. I6d a 18d.
CORNWALL. - -

TRU ao.—Wileat (average) 24s 6O—Barley, 13s Pd—Oats
9s 3d.
LAUNCEST0N.—Wheat F;4s 6d—Barley 37s 10d—Oats 18s 4d.
PENZANCE.—Wheat,21s Od a 24s Od—Barley, 13s a 14s Od
—Oats, 9s Od a 9s 6d—Beef and Mutton, 5d a 6d—Pork,
3411 a 4d.