The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-29 00:00:00

Moniteur is barren of all intelligence. The'
Etoile has an article vindicating Ferdinand's
wretched Government, worthy of the bigots from
whom it has proceeded. According to this
paper, 44 The spirit of malevolence daily as-
" cribes to the Government projects which
44 it does not entertain." It then asserts that
the reported Decree which condemned, by one
sweeping denunciation, all the Alcaldes under
the Constitutional system to the galleys for ten
years, 46 was put into circulation by the enemies
of the throne. ,tn the same way," the Etoile
adds, " it was said that the militia were menaced
" with perpetual imprisonment, and new mea-
" sures of rigour were preparing against all those
" who had manifested attachment to the ancient
44 system., The Government has now no need
44 of these; new acts of severity : it is consoli-
dating itself daily, and acquires strength."—
This is a hold assertion on the part of even the
Etoile. It would be hard to find where the
strength-of the miserable Ferdinand's Govern-
' ment lies, except in the foreign bayonets that
surround him : were they to quit Spain, its
" consolidation" would soon disappear. But
the Etoile has discovered—mirabik dictu !
that all the measures of the wretched tyrant
are diicted solely against the gypsies in Spain.
44 At all times," this paper says, " Spain has
44 been covered with idle people and -vagabonds,
" strangers from Ali-parts of the' world, princi-
", pally gypsies or Americans, who overloaded
" the population." The new Decree, according
to the Etoile, is levelled solely against them, and
this journal praises highly the wisdom of the
measure. It denounces, in the same sentence,
the secret Societies of Spain. We fear the as-
sertions of the Etoile will find little credit. The
tyranny that now outrages Spain is too palpable
in its principles and ends, and is covering that
unhappy country with misery and misfortunes.
From one extremity to another its people groan
in bondage ; and nothing but the foreign force
within the Pyrenees prevents open and general
insurrection, which even now partially prevails,
and is every day increasing.

[THE TIMES.]
It may not be considered an inauspicious cir-
cumstance, that the Etoile, which used to' teem
with abuse and threats against the friends of the
Spanish Constitutional System, has actually begun
to disclaim for Ferdinand some of the vindictive
projects ascribed to him. Have they at length
found that it will not do ? Long decrees have
been framed for organizing the Spanish army ;
but there would be more discipline in a handful
of dollars, than in office crammed with parch-
ment regulations.

[MORNING HERALD.]

The Coal question came before the Common
Council yesterday. It appears that more Meters
are to be appointed. Those
Is
must ne-
cessarily be paid ; and who s to pay thorn ? Is
it the public ? And if it be the public, on what
article will the tax, in order to pay these new
Coal-Mesers' salaries, be levied ? Virg should sup-
pose that it will be on Coals ; therefore the Com-
mon Council met to lay an additional tax on
Coals. Alderman Wood said that he probably
would bring the subject before Parliament. We
wish he would. It would give us great pleasure if
he would bring in a Bill this next Session to
do away with all the stupid Coal Acts at present
in existence, so that that trade might be as free
trade. Were there no
as the drug or the hop
regulations or officers in regard of Coals, they
would, in consequence, be so much cheaper.
As for Meters, they are of no use what-
ever. Whoever thinks of seeing to the mea-
surement of his Coals when the coal-mer-
chant sends them ? No one who has any bet-
ter employment will torment himself with any
such labour-in-vain business. It would be as
useless as beating the wind, or seeking redress at
Bow-street for a sixpenny overcharge on the part
of a hackney coachman ; it would be penny wise
and pound foolish. It would be as absurd as
bringing an action in the Court of King's Bench
for the sum of 501. only ; and expending in
fees to the first, second, and third Counsel, 50
guineas, while 50 guineas would not be allowed
in a taxed bill of costs, though the man succeeded
in gaining his action, and thus recovering his 501.
We much wish that the Common Council would
let law-making alone. Surely Parliamentary
law is sufficient torment for the people ; the
latter do not want a Senate within a Senate. It
was the curse of Rome and of Holland to be
tormented with Legislative Acts, and both
people at last comparatively threw themselves
into the arms of absolute Kings. English people
will eventually do the same thing, if the vile
system continues of adding to laws which are al-
ready too numerous. The great secret should
be to have as little law as possible. For eur
parts, we wish that almost all the laws at pre-
sent in existence were done away with. If the
Common Council were to be regularly engaged in
such a beneficial purpose as that of getting
rid of laws and charges attendant on laws, we
would idolise them as much as they appear at
present to idolise themselves. This new batch
of Coal-Meters will only increase the price of
Coals. " Let us alone," said the French me

chants to some French statesman, who asked them
what he could do in order to promote the pro-
sperity of the French trade. Let the dealers in
Coals alone, we say to the Common Council ;
or, if you must do something for the benefit of
the Coal Trade, do away with all the Acts of
Parliament relating to Coals, and do away with
all the Coal Meters and their salaries.

Yesterday, ROWLAND STEPHENSON, Esq. was unani-
mously elected Treasurer of St. Bartholomew's. Hospital.
Last week seventeen persons died of small-pox, at Trow-
bridge, Wilts.
Mr WOOD, of Cork, was convicted before the
Magistrates, on Thursday, and sentenced to pay a penalty of
201. for keeping a sporting dog, without a license.
An experiment is begun, of a new mode of
sowing wheat.in the vicinity of Chirnside. Insead of waiting
till the field be cleared of turnips before the seed of the ensuing
crop is put into the ground, two ebb furrows are drawn in each
interstice between the rows of turnips, which are sown with
wheat from a drill machine, and covered in ; the turnips to be
Afterwards eaten by sheep upon the ground.— ( Aberdeen
Chronicle. )