The Sun.
London, England, 1824-04-28 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, APRIL 27.—Wind W.S.W.--Ariived the Charltitte,
Buhring, from St. Thomas's ; Britannia, Evans, froin:Sl.
Kites IKingston, Binnie, from Jamaica ; Elizabeth, Swan,
from Bengal. An Indiaman. is coming in from the River,
supposed to be the Marquis of „tinnily ; also a bark, with to
Agent of Transports' pendant flying.; and several other's.; not
yet reported.
PORTSDIOITTII, APRIL 27.—Wind S.S.W.--Arrived the
Dove, Iluxtahle, from Oporto; and Asia, —, front Llairt-
burgh. Pitt back the Raikes, Gardner, for Jamaica; ar.d the
Deveron, WiLon, for Van Dieman's Land. •
PLx.mouTir., Apart. 26.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrivtd-• the
Neptune, Boyle, from St. Michael's.
FALMOUTH, AI'RIL 26.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived
Duke of Kent packet in ;lye days from Lisbon. Sailed the
Lord Sithnouth packet, for Buenos Ayres.
Cowls, Arum 27 —Arrived the Isis, Ilutchinson,fro:.rrt
Faval, brought home the captains and crews of the Probity and.
Isabella, wrecked at that place; also arrived the Pearl, filar i.
from Charleston in 35 days.
DOTER, Amt. 27.—Off the port the Elizabeth, Servi;;;-.
from Jamaica; Charles, Engelbrecht, and Bobeline, Petersofi,
front Cadiz; Szvern, Clayton, St. Kitt's.

The Afariner, Douglas, from New South Wales, was totally
lost the lst July on the island of Chiloe,
.ant three of the crew
drowned,

CORN-EXCHANGE, APRIL 28.

The arrivals of Grain in general are only moderate—Wheat.
2,400 ; Earley, 1,400 ; Oats, 800 quarters ; 1 lour, 3,1100 sacks.
The false returns lately made, with a view to liberate the bonded
Corn, has filled the buyers' minds with so much apprehension,
as nearly to have stagnated the Corn trade in all the markets
of the kingdom ; and till confidence is again restored, trade
cannot return to its natural state ; it is therefore almost need-
less to say that there is scarcely any business doing here,
prices may be L,onsidere.d nominal, with little Corn at market,,,,

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

.Extraetf front the Morning Petpers, April 28.

[THE TIMES.]
We understand that of the new financial mea-
sures contemplated by Ministers, that of re-
ducing the interest on Exchequer bills from V.
the 11d. per diem on every 1001. will be the
earliest carried into execution, and is expected
to take, place within the present year. In con-
nexion with this measure there is another under
consideration, which will form the first attempt
to lower the interest of the fixed Government
securities by the creation of stock of a lower
denomination than any at present in circulation.
At the period of lowering the interest on Ex-
chequer bills, it is intended to lessen the amount
of those securities, by funding a portion of them
in a stock bearing interest at `.!.5 per cent. In
consequence of the rapid decline in the value
of money, and the corresponding advance in
every species of Government security, it is
expected that this conversion may be effected
at about 5101. for every 1001. stock of the new
description. Its whole amount, as produced
from the conversion of Exchequer Bills, will not
be large ; but Government will be enabled, by
the price it is found to obtain in the list of secu-
rities, to determine how soon the great and im-
portant experiment may be ventured on, of re-
ducing the interest of the 3 per cents. which now
represent the great mass of debt. The payment
of the dissentients to the reduction of the 4 per
cents., who hold about 7,000,0001. of that stock,
will create no difficulty, as the Sinking Fund is
expected to be diposable for that purpose before
the day of payment, by the rise of Consols
above par.

[MORNING HERALD.]
We received last night the Paris Papers of Sun-
day. They are almost wholly taken up with the
previous day's proceedings in the Chamber of
Deputies. Two rather curious petitions were
presented from a citizen of Bourdeaux, named
Deloncle. One prayed that a chapel should be
" dedicated" to the Virgin Mary, and " conse-
crated" to the Duchess of Angouleme. Whether
the object of this votive chapel was the same as
the vow of Louis XIII., the birth of an heir to
the throne, in the direct line, does not appear. The
Chamber passed to the order of the day—or, in
other words, rejected the petition. The Sieur De-
loncle's 2d petition demanded that the religious
should precede the, civil ceremonial of marriage.
This petition excited some discussion, and was
'referred for further investigation to the Minister
of the interior. The next and most important
subject was the Minister's proposal to reduce
the interest of the 5 per cents. to 4 per cent. in-
terest. The first opponent was M. de la Bour-
donnaye, who uttered an elaborate speech
against the scheme. He is an Ultra of the
most violent class. After a few more speeches
for and against the scheme, the proposer of
the measure, M. de Villele, rose to speak.—
His appearance excited great interest. There
is nothing, however, of striking moment
or of peculiar point in his speech. The
main argument urged by him was, that the re-
duction of the interest, on the basis of paying off
those who choose that alternative, was perfectly
fair, inasmuch as it allowed 100 francs for 75
francs to those who had Rentes on hand. The
latter number being the mean proportional be-
tween the highest and lowest fluctuation of the
market, the debate, as might be expected on
such a subject, was unusually dull. It conclud-
ed with the Minister's speech, to be resumed on
the next day but one, and the succeeding day.