The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-28 00:00:00

BURGLARY:

UNION HALL.—Three men, named Cornby, Porter, and
C. Austin, were brought before L. B. ALLEN, Esq. charged
with having burglariously entered and robbed several house-4
on Christmas-day, in the neighbourhood of Walworth and
Camberwell; the letter prisoner had only been liberated a few
days preceding on a charge of attempting to steal bodies out of
Newington Church-yard: The case selected against the pri,
soners were as follow :

_Mr. R. Blane, of No. 3, Graham-street, Walworth, stated;
that on Christmas-day he went out to dine with a friend, when
he fastened his doors and windows securely, and returned home
about half-past six o'clock. On attempting to unlock the door,
he found it was fastened on the inside, and while he was.endea-
vouring to open it, he heard sor . men running down stairs ; he
ran to the back part of the house, and saw the prisoner Cornby
jump over the fence of his yard, and he was followed by Porter,
who attempted to hide himself in a ditch. Corner was pursued,
and never lost sight of till he was secured, and in his Hight he
dropped a parcel of trinkets, which were afterwards found to
have been stolen from the house, which, on examination, was
ascertained to have been completely ransacked—every drawer.
desk, and box therein being forced open. The linen and all
the smaller articles were scattered about the rooms in the
greatest disorder. The witness added, that as he was returning
home in the evening he saw Austin loitering about his door,
and after Cornby was secured he was also taken into custody.
A part of a bag of nuts had been stolen out of the house, and
when Austin was apprehended he was very busy cracking
nuts.

John Oakly, a watchman, who assisted in taking Cornby,
described the violence of his conduct -towords Mr. Blanc. A
parcel of jewellery, an iron crow, and matches, were picked up
close to where the fellow was secured.

Snow; the constable of Newington, stated, that between 12
and one on.the day in question he saw Austin and Cornby in
company ; they were both given ever }rito his custody in the
evening, and on going to Austin's house, he found Porter, who
was drying his stockings by the fire, and appeared r.s if he had
been in a ditch. Some articles, which were stolen from Mr.
Blane'slolise, were found in Austin's lodgings.
The same prisoners were charged with entering the house of
Mr. Bean on the same day, and stealing therefrom a quantity
of copper and oranges.
This charge was also proved to the satisfaction of the Mi%ris-
trate,who committed the three prisoners for trial.

We understand that the gun-makers of this
town are exceediN;ly busy in their preparations, under the ex-
pectation of hearing of something to their advantage from
abroad ; and, u we learn, some orders have actually beta re-
ceivecl —f Birmingham Chroitiele,)

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, DEC. 25.

On Monday night an extraordinary courier
from Madrid arrived at the hotel of M. Pozzo di
Borgo, the Russian Ambassador. Yesterday
evening his Excellency dispatched the same
courier to St. Petersburgh.

Yesterday evening the Duke-de Montmorency,
;Minister of Foreign Affairs, dispatched a courier
to Madrid. . .

Yesterday the King received, in private au-
dience, M. the Baron Portal, Minister of State,
Peer of France.

Yesterday his Excellency the Minister of Ma-
rine transacted business with the King, and
afterwards with his Royal highness the Duke of
Angouleme, Grand Admiral of France.
In- the afternoon his Excellency, the President
'of the Council of Ministers, transacted business
with the King.
It is affirmed that General Quesada had on
'Monday an interview of three quarters of an
hour with the Minister of Foreign Affairs.-
- (Constitutionnel.)
On Monday, an immediate change pf Ministry
was much talked of, and it was stated that all
those 'who do not appear decided for war were to
retire : but it is probable that this rumour ori-
ginated with some fanatic or stockjobber. We
cannot, however, conceive why, whilst it appears
.positive, from the most apparent indications, that
the President of the Council of Ministers is opposed
to the war-party, the latter should cause to be
sent into the departments gratis
•the Journals
which are for war. It appears to us somewhat ex-
traordinary, that the authority which has the
Journals under its jurisdiction should thus stand
so palpably in contradiction with the President
of Ministers, and every where circulate papers
opposed to his system. Such a state of things
does not, doubtless, imply a perfect union in the
Council, nor is it in accordance with that system
of unity which is constantly recommended.
It is therefore not surprising that the public are
in a state of great incertitude, and that it should be
believed that changes one way or the other will
take place. The public funds yesterday fell nearly
one per cent., and as persons naturally look for
causes to all effects, it was circulated that very
animated discussions had taken place in the Coun-
cil, on the subject of the affairs of Spain ; it was
even added, that one of the Members of the
Council, who, it is thought, is opposed to war,
withdrew before any determination was come to.
—(ldem.)
Advices from Bayonne, dated the 16th instant,
state—" The couriers from Spain begin to arrive
regularly. We had our letters on Saturday last
before nine o'clock, and it has been the same to-
day : this seems to indicate that. the partisans of
the Faith can no longer obstruct the intercourse.
O'l)onnel is expected this very day in our town.
The Regency is not yet established ; its mem-
bers are not all arrived."—(ldem.)
It is said that a deputation of the merchants of
Bordeaux was yesterday admitted to an inter-
view with the Minister of the Interior. It is
said that his Excellency assured the deputation
: -that the commercial interests should have timely
information of the resolutions which the Govern-
ment would deem it its duty to adopt in regard
to Spain..—(L'Etoile.)
Letters from Warsaw and \Vilna, of a recent
date, have been received in Frankfort : they
announce that great movements are about to be
made in the Russian armies of the south and
west. The corps d'armee which is in Bessarabia
will immediately be reinforced with four regi-
ments of infantry, and several pulks of Cossacks,
•and artillery in proportion.—(Journal des Debuts.)
The Pilote of yesterday has the following
paragraph :—" The Spanish Ambassador has in-
stituted a suit, in the name of his Catholic Ma-
jesty, against MM. Ouvrard and Rougemont, for
having concluded a loan with a chief of rebels
against the King of-Spain. This affair will come
on about the beginning of January, before the
;tribunal of Correctional Police. M. Manguin
will be counsel for the Duke de San Lorenzo,
Ambassador from Spain."
We know not whether M. Ouvrard had begun
to collect supplies of forage for the Army of the
• 'Faith, of which be is the treasurer ; and whether
Government, from respect for the neutrality still
existing between France and Spain, has thought
fit to seize the supplies : hut we are certain that
some forage belonging to M. Ouvrard has lately
been seized at Montesson, and that the sale
which took place on the 15th produced 281
francs.—(Courier Francais.)
On the 24th, the anniversary of his birth day,
the Emperor of Austria was to leave Venice and
part from the Emperor of Russia, to take 'the
road for the Tyrol and Bohemia. The latter
SoVereign is to be Warsaw on the 12th of

anuary.
Ur.m; I) cc. 19.—(Extract of a 'Private Let-
ter.)—" It is confirmed by several letters from
Upper Italy, that since the departure of the Eng-
lish Ambassador, Lord Strangford, Prince de
Metternich has received very important dis-
patches relative to the affairs of Constantinop!e.
It is affirmed, that these dispatches consist of
the Reports of M. d'Ottenfels, Austrian Inter-
nuncio at the Porte. Nothing is yet known as
-to
,the contents of these dispatches ; it is only
known that they have occasioned several very
long conferences,. and that a courier has been
dispatched to Lord Strangford, rho had not
then left Trieste. These dispatches must
be relative to new events, or at least to
overtures made since the change _which has
taken place in the Ottoman Ministry, for the
change itself was known previously to the de-
Parture of Lord Strangford. It is even known
at Verona, that it was this Minister who first,
.and before M. de Metternich,, received advice of
the fall of Ilaleh Effendi and his party ; it was
in dispatches from M. Chaper (Councellor of
the Brstish Legation at London, and provision.:

ally filling the functions of English Charge d'Af-
fairs at Constantinople), that the event was trans-
mitted to him by an extraordinary courier, who
travelled with incredible rapidity. Lord Strang-

ford, witiaotat delay, communicated the intelli-
gence to the other Ministers: It appears that only
two days afterwards the same news reached
Prince de Metternich. The mission that Lord
Straugfard received previously to his departure
from Verona was, therefore, given to him at a
moment when the change in the Turkish Minis-
try was already known. It results from this,
that the new dispatches which have been sent to
Trieste relate to other events which have subse-

quently transpired at Constantinople, and the
knowledge of which reached Prince De 11etter-
nich by dispatches which he lastly received from
M. De Sturmer. Here is a vast field for all sorts
of conjecture."—(Constitutionnel.)
FRANKFORT, DEC. 19.—Credit is recovering,
and stocks are on the rise in our Exchange since
it is positively ascertained that France will not
hazard an invasion of the Spanish Peninsula.
The Parisian Correspondent of the Augsburg
Gazette under two stars is a German Baron, or
at least a. person who assumes this character,
paid by M. Cotta, the proprietor of the Gazete,
to amuse the good Germans by his . boastings
written in the most bombastic style of the French
.Ultras. This Correspondent has also endeavoured
to become the correspondent of the most liberal
paper of Germany, the Universal Political Annals,
which is published at Stutgard. At first he so-
licited for the insertion of a long article under
the title of " State of the Interior of France
since the Revolution." The author describes
himself as formerly Director of the Police at
Ghent. M. Murhard, editor of the " Annals,"
thought it not right to refuse the Baron, but he
affixed a number of notes to the article somewhat
striking, which will probably influence this inde•
fatigable correspondent to seek for his political
debates some other paper, or at least to confine
his lucubrations to the space the " Annals" is
willing to allow them.—(Courier Franpis.)
The Ottoman fleet continues to suffer great
checks. It was reported at Trieste that a
Turkish flotilla consisting of three corvettes had
been captured in the waters of Missolunghi,
by a Greek fleet of seventeen sail, having on
board a considerable number of soldiers destined
for the attack on Corinth.—(Journal de Paris.)
AUGSBURG, DEC. 17.—The new Gazette of
Zurich, after giving an account of the sailing of
the last expedition to Greece, which quitted
Marseilles on the V,d November, adds—" The
expedition had to contend with many difficulties;
not only were there among the persons engaged
several individuals whom it was necessary to ex-
clude on account of their bad characters, and
who, angry at this, endeavoured to mislead others ;
not only did certain persons at. Marseilles succeed
in persuading some of the adventurers to join the
Spanish Defenders of the Faith, instead of going
to Greece, but the representations of several Offi-
cers who had returned from Greece excited des-
pondency in many. If these Officers in the moment
of general alarm, when the Greeks, attacked on all
sides, fled from the valleys to the mountains, con-
sidered the cause of that unhappy people_as despe-
rate, and returned home—who will blame thena,if
they painted the moral, the military, and economi-
cal state of Greece in gloomy colours ?—who will
accuse them of falsehood, since we know that
despotism every where, and consequently in
Greece, tends to debasement ? BLit that some of
these officers did their utmost and used the basest
means to turn aside the assistance,which it is to be
hoped will contribute to make the Greeks free,
and consequently more moral, is inhuman and un-
christian. All these difficulties were at length over-
come by the good sense of the better disposed, and
the indefatigable exertions of the Committee, con-
sisting of Messrs. Kephallas, Steocking, Hoffmann,
Captain Dittmar, and Deutsch. It is true only
150 men embarked out of the ,`2OO that were in-
tended ; but, however, the wheat was thus se-
parated from the chaff. To the great joy of• the
expedition, it was joined by five of those who
had returned, and who are convinced that a corps
well provided with all necessaries, and well or-
ganized in every part, may be of infinite service
in Greece. If preceding expeditions were not so
well organised, it was not owing to a deficiency
of good will or of judgment, but of money. How-
ever, the exertions of the Societies for the aid of
the Greeks have been so successful in this respect,
that at the beginning of next month another_ship
will be dispatched for Greece, which will have
some men on board, but be chiefly laden with
arms and stores."—(Allgemeine Zeitung, De-
cember 18.)

DEE. 19.—The Correspondent of The Gazette
of Augsburg, under the signature of two Stars,
says in his letter from Paris, of Dec. 10th—" The
people of a certain party are doubly irritated,
because they see that the Government, in place
of making war with Spain, treats with her, and
proposes a Constitution to her, which they desire
to see destroyed in France. Hence their
violent attacks on M. de Villele, whom they
regard as the author of these negociations.—
They wish also for war, because they hope
that four Ministers will be dismissed before
the opening of the Chambers. It seems cer-
tain that the Ministry is not, without fear, if
we may judge from the efforts which it makes to
send away the people, whom it dreads. M.
Hyde de Neuville has not, it is true, accepted
the embassy to Constantinople, but, in order to
give him time for reflection, the ancient Secretary
General, the Count de Beaurepaire, has been ap-
pointed for the present."—(Gazette d'Augsbourg.)

On the 12th of November a farmer's wife, of
the name of Weischwall, at Wilkischken, ix Prussia, poisoned
with arsenic her daughter, a girl of 15 years of age, for fear she
should make it known that her mother stole soma geese. After
the crime was disovered, she confessed that two years ago she
dispatched her father-in-law in the same manner, to inherit the
property sooner, and five months ago the husband of her eldest
'daughter, in order to Marry her to a richer man.—( Frankfort
Papers, Dec. 21.)
A correspondent says, 'that " Alston is now
one of the most flourishing towns in the north of
'England, owing to the richness of the lead mines.
The proprietor of
.Iludgill Burn mine will share
this year between thirty and forty thousand
pounds,sexclusive of the fifth lot of bre to the
Governors of Greenwich Hospital, as Lords of
the Manor. The whole of the land under which
the above mine is situated is not 'worth 41, poy
annum."--(Tyne Mercury.)