The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-23 00:00:00

CIIOIIIII3.

Ah ! thus then shall Pity .-othplain,
Here a Minstrel is fated to lie,
He, who charm'd e'en Despair with his strain,
Sought the shade of the tomb with a sigh.

Alit.

Lo ! the Heroes in battle that shone
Of Glory, who courted the rays,
Deem'd the laurels of Fame but half won

'Till the Minstrel had sounded their praise:
And to ! the soft empire of Love ;
What a triumpli it owes to the Art,
That rivals the voice of the dove,
When it tells a fond tale of the heart.
CHonus.—Ah ! thus then shall, &c:

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TAN-13E1k INIATcti.--,-CaptairT Smith undertook to Perrot:in
twelve miles in one hour, yesterday, on the Twyford road. The
wheel-horse broke into a gallop in the first quarter of a mile,
and the turn was made with much dexteriq. The horses af-
terwards kept steady at their paces, and the ground was
complished in three minutes within the given time. Betting.
was 6 to 4 on time.

GREAT TROTTING MATCII.—The money is all staked for
the great Trotting Match, for 1000 guineas a side, to take place
on the 18th of February, and one of so much interest has not
been known in the sporting world for years: The match was
made by Mr. Fielder offering that his black, hog-maned horse,
carrying II stone, would take a stone, and trot three miles for
1001) guineas against any horse that could be produced in Eng-
land. The match was accepted by Mr. Dyson, who is to pick
England and carry 12 stone. It is not known what Mr. D.
will bring forward, but it is rumoured that a bay horse, t!..e
property of a Gentleman well known in the sporting world, is
likely to be the one. He is supposed to be the fastest that has
ever appeared, but he gives so much weight that the current
betting is 6t04 on Mr. Fielder. Mr. F.'s black horse is an
American, which draws forth our national jealousy,, and makes
this match one of great interest. It is expected that the winner
wlll do the ground in nine minutes.

A COURT Of ALDERMEN was held yesterday
at Guildhall, for the purpose of hearing the peti-
tion of several inhabitants of the Ward Of Lang-
bourn, against the return -of Mr. WILTsul RE as
a Common Councilman. Decision adjourned till
Tuesday next. Petitions, froth the Coal-meters'
men, in respect of their wages being continued as
heretofore, and from sundry Fellowship Porters,
praying to be employed in the delivery of coal-
ships in preference to non-freemen, were pr -
sented, and referred, to the Committee for Gene-
ral Purposes.
A letter received yesterday. from Spain, an.
nounces the death of the celebrated RIEGo, the
champion of Spanish liberty. It is ascribed to
poison, and the Priests are charged as the au:h3rs
of this foul deed. The hopes which they con-
ceived from it had, however, the letter state 5,
been disappointed, and it had had a quite con-
trary effect. As soon as the melancholy event
became generally known, the whole of Catalonia
declared itself free.

FRENCH CLERGY.—It appears -by the Alma=
neck qf the French Clergy for 1822, that the.
number of Priests employed in -France amounts
to 35,286, of whom 14,878 are more than sixty
years old ; 4,154 have been ordained in the
course of.the year, 1,435 of whom have been ad-
mitted to Priest's orders. In the same space of
time 1,447 have died. The number bringing up
to the Church in the various parishes, colleges,
and seminaries of that country is 25,437.
We are informed by a Gentleman extensively
connected with our West India Colonies, that the
accounts from them, by the last packet, are
extremely unsatisfactory, in a commercial point
of view.—" The price of rum here," he ob-
serves, " does not pay half the cost of the
cask, and several Planters have ceased to manu-
facture it ; the same as' to molasses. Sugar, too,
is so low as to bring the estates in the Leeward
Islands in debt. Formerly the ruin and molasses
paid all the expences in the Island, and the nett
profit on the sugar was the income of the Plan-
ter—now the sugar netts about 12/. per hhd.;
on an estate of IRO hhds. about 1,2001. ;
which, all the Island expences, the supplies fi•om
home, the support of negroes, the public bur-
dens, all to be deducted ; so that the u hole
is absorbed even where the Planter is not in
debt to the Merchant ; when he is, ruin is the
consequence. Formerly, within three years, the
sugar averaged from 9.5/. to 301. per lihd„ or
30001., and no island charges, for they were'paid
,by the rum and molasses: the stores, about 1504
Were the only. deduction ; so that a man with
3000/. a year, three or four years ago, without
having been guilty of any imprudence, becomes
at once a beggar. In short, the expences absorb
all profit."—(Morning Paper.)
IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE.----Several of the prin-
cipal manufacturers in this town, last Week ad-
vanced the price of weaving 3d. and 6d. per
cut or piece ;,and we, feel pleasure in stating,
that the trade is, at present, in an improving
condition, and that all hands are in full em
ploy. We trust, the present revival is only a
prelude of that desirable period, when the sun of
prosperity shall again shine upon our land, and
• when all murmuring and wretchedness will hap-
pily be banished from our streets.—( Blackburn
_ _

The trade of Dundee never was so brisk
as it has been these last twelve months. All
the weavers, indeed all the labouring classes,
are fully employed. Four or five spinning-mills
have been built within these few months, and
as many more contracted tor. The quantity of
flax and hemp imported last year exceeds that
of any former year by about 1:500 tons, the
quantity of the former (flax) being nearly 7500
tons, which is a larger quantity than has been im-
ported into any other place in Britain. This
extra quantity is not more than sufficient for the
demand of our manufactures, which are eagerly
bought up as soon as the webs are out of the
looms. Indeed, if there were double the num-
ber of looms going, the produce of them would
be no more than sufficient to supply the demand.
—(D.lndec Courier.)