The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-31 00:00:00

CITY, MOND tY

The arrivals of Grain last Week at Mark-lane
were but moderate, and no great quantity is added tp the supply
this morning. Since this day week, they amount to of Wheat,
10,904 qrs.; of Barley, 7,727 ; Oats, 15,03 qrs., with 6,313
sacks of Flour. The average prices by which importation is
governed, were, in the week ending the 21st December, for
Wheat, 38s. Bth ; Barley, 295." 4d. ; Oats, Ws. 9d. ; Beans,
255..10d. ; and Peas, 295. 4d. The navigation of the river is
already considerably impeded by ice, and all the canals arc
completely shut. Very little business was consequently done,
and no variation can he quoted in the prices of any article,
An express was received this morning from Paris, by which
private information has come to hand to the evening of Saturday
last from that capital. In .the best informed, circles nudoubt
was entertained that peace with Spain would not for the present,
at all events, be interrupted. It was generally understood that
his Most Christian Majesty had made a private communica-
tion to his Mcist Catholic Majesty, in which the intentions
of the French Government were fully explained, and
that they were in the highest degree pacific. It was also
thought that the Official Note' from M. Villele to the
French Ambassador at the Court of Madrid, could not
have_been more paCific., considering the pledges which have
been made to ithe Holy Allied Monarchs at Verona. The
sult is, on the whole; a great triumph to the cause of freedom,
and it has coveral the Holy would-be-Rulers a nations with
ridicule, and no small portion of contempt. The Rentes closed
on that evening at 87. 10:, the Neapolitarrat 77k, and Spanish
bonds were in demand at 55i
Consols opened this morning at 814, and varied very little.
Confidence in the state of Europe is not entirely restored, al-
though there does not appear the smallest cause to doubt that
any change will take place in the west, arising out of the am-
bitious views and unjust claimi of the Holy Alliance. The
Consols closed at 81.,buyers.
In Foreign Securities there has been a slight improvement
since Saturday; and a considerable deal of business has been
done in Spanish Bonds chiefly, as they afford greater scope for
speculation.—( Morning Chronicle.)

PROFANE SWEARING.-Among the vices which
fashion has too great a share in encouraging, none is of worse
example, or less excusable, than that of profane swearing, or
the practice of interlarding one's conversation on all occasions,
even the most trifling, with appeals to the Deity. A general
officer, who is a living and illustrious example to the perfect
compatibility of the most gentlemanly manners, with the
strictest purity of language, but who was in early life much
addicted to this fashionable sin, dates his reformation from a
memorable reprOof which he accidentally received when a young
man, from an eccentric Scottish clergyman s.:ttled in the North
of England. While stationed with his regiment at Newcastle,
he had the misfortune; one evening, to get involved in a street
brawl with some persons of the lower order, and the dispute, as
is too ustia,l in such cases, was carried on with an abundance of
audacious oaths on both sides. The clergyman alluded to,
passing by at the moment, and being much shocked at the im-
precations which assailed his ears, stepped into the midst of
the crowd, and, with his cane uplifted, thus gravely addressed
one of the principal leaderprof the rabble :—" Oh, John, John,
what's this now I hear ? You, only a poor collier body, and
swearing like any lord in a' the land ! 0, John, hae ye nae
fear what will come o' you? It may do very well for this braw
gentleman here," pointing to Lieut. —, " to bang and
swear as he pleases ; but, John, its no for you, or the like o'
you, to tak in vain the name o' Him by whorn you live and
have your being." Then turning to the Lieutenant, he con-
tinued,'" -Ye% excuse the poor man, Sir, for swearing; he's
an ignorant body, and kens uae.better." laeut..----- slunk
away covered with confusion, and unable to make any answer ;
but the next day he made it his business to see the worthy par-
son,• and thanked him hi the sincerest manner for his well-
timed admonition which had, as he assured him, and as the re-
ult has shown, cured him for ever of a most hateful vice.

HORSE RACING BY MICIINERY.—Mr. 50/IN
ALLAN, of Pennycuick, near Edinburgh, has
constructed'a curious machine, which impels two
horses round a circle. The horses and riders
have the exact attitude. and apparently all the
animated emulation of a well-contested horse-
race; and have this necessary characteristic, that
even the maker of the machine cannot szp which
horse will gain. With a little more trouble it
might occasionally be,couverted into a fox-hunt;
by affixing the necessary appendages of hunts-
men and hounds.