The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-17 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE, Nov. 17.

The hoiAtemus state of the wind keeps back supplies, and
there is very little Corn fresh at market to-day. 1% heat fully
maintains last (potations. Barley is rather dearer, ai it is now
fully understood that the ports cannot open for this arti;le.
Beans are unaltered. There is hardly a sample of Pease at
market to-day. Oats are scarce, and obtain rather higher prices.
AURIVALB.—English Wheat, 3,800; Barley, 4.500; Osis.
360: Irish Wheat, 320; Barley, 80; Oats, 570; Foreign
Oats, 265 quarters ; Flour, 2,800 sacks.

lIOP INTEI.I,I(3FNCK.
SOUTHWARK, Nor. 15.—• Our flop trade continues to ad-
vance, as will appear by the under-mentioned prices, but the
buyers arc rather cautious.
New Kent Pockets
Beat Middle Kent Ditto
Ncw Kent Hags - -
Best Middle Kent Ditto
New Sussex Pockets -
Beat Ditto -

There is also a demand for Old Hops.

10.1 s. to 1:17s.
71. 10s. to 111. 10i.
100 s. to 1255.
130 s. to 1475.
105 s. to 130 s.
115 s. to 14014.

We have been informed that General A Nova-
SON, of the East India Company's Service„ who.
died lately in London,
has bequeathed the hulk
of his fortune, amounting to shoat 70,000/, for
the purpose of establishing two livitilutions in
Elgin ; the one for the reception of indigent na-
tives of that country who are upwards of 55 years
of age; the other for the education of poor chil-
dren.—(llforning Paper.)
From the opening formed by the disastrous
fire in Fleet-street, a fine view is afforded of the
beautiful steeple of St. Bride's, of which it is
hoped due advantage will be taken in rebuild-
ing the premises. An open and direct commo-
nication, much wanted, may be formed from
the north in the approach to the Church,
le)exavrnitl:wieedoffrolm a favourable Poin't
andtinue this Aire architecture coo-
while, by building on the site of Bride's-passage,
little or no ground will be lost, and the genet:it
appearance of the neighbourhood may be con-
siderably improved.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Papers, Nov. 17.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
We have received the French Morning and
Ovetaing Papers of Sunday. They bring no do-;
estic news whatever. The Journal des Deluds
has an appeal to the Electoral Colleges, which
are about to be convoked to fill up the vacancies'
In the Chamber of Deputies, on the choice they
should make : " Elect only men devoted to the
Xing,. to Legitimacy, and to the Charter." This,
is the advice of M. de Chateaubriand, and so
vague and unmeaning is it, that we dare say that
'M. de Villele, were it necessary, would not he-
sitate to adopt it. The capital defect of the pre-
sent French Opposition, like that which exists
in another kingdom we could name, is, that it
can agree upon no set of principles by which
it can contradistinguish itself from the Mi-
nistry. Can any man doubt, that if the Roy-
alists now in opposition were restored to
power, they would do exactly as M. Villele
does ? As to the Liberals, it is hardly worth
while to speculate what they would do, as their
accession to the Cabinet is an event not likely to
happen in our days, while the Crown of France
Ys worn by a Bourbon. The Conslilulionnel as-
serts that lately several state prisoners have ar-
rived at Berlin, some of whom have been arrested
•utside of the Prussian territories. This is a
subject of some moment, and justly engages the
public attention. We have received some strange
information, which we shall to-morrow lay before
our readers.—ln the Moniteur there is nothing.
official. It contains, however, rather a remark-
able piece of intelligence from Vittoria respecting
an express from the King of Spain to Charles X.,
praying for the continuance of the French army till
the Ist of next July. The Do& of the preced-
ing evening positively contradicted the state-
inents of the Opposition Papers, that the evacua-
lion of Spain was contrary to the wishes of Fer-
dinand VII. 46 All is concerted between France
and Spain," said the veracious Journalist on Sa-
turday evening, but to ! on Sunday morning the
official Gazette of the Ministry announces that
'Ferdinand is dispatching messengers to beg that
lie may, for six months longer, be protected from
his subjects, and we are told that the " Spaniards
hope much that the successor of their benefactor,
Louis XVIII., will deign to complete the great
work of the pacificator of the Peninsula." What
a scandalous prostitution of language have we
here ! What sort of pacification must that be
which twelve months afterwards requires the
kingdom to be garrisoned by foreign troops ?

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The Journal des D6bats of Sunday contains a
curious article (which our readers will find among
our extracts) on the subject of the Report of the
COUTICiI of Salubrity in Paris, for 18'23. It_ap.
.pears that of the deaths one-fifth part is from pul-
monary consumption. notion prevails very ge-
nerally in this country that France Is healthier
than England, and that consumption in particular
is far more common in the latter country. An in.
spection of the mortality returns of the different
departments for one year, satisfied us long ago
that France is much less healthy than England,
and as the climate of the latter country is softer
and milder than that of France, we suspected
that phthisis would be less prevalent in it. The
Parliamentary Returns exhibit a much higher
mortality in the Eastern than in the Western
L*lf of England. We have a suspicion that Bri-
tain, Ireland, Norway, and Galicia in Spain, are
among the healthiest parts of Europe, and we
should suppose that Ireland is healthier than
Britain, and Scotland than England, the higher
latitude of the latter being more than compost-
-511 e d by the greater influence of the sea.

clitpliMlNG HERALD.]
• Sunday's I aria Papers arrived late last night.
Their principal intelligence relates to the affairs
of Greece. ft appears from them that the cam-
paign of the present year---4he fourth, we believe,
is closed. Of .this there can be no doubt, if the
.statement be true, that the Turkish Grand Ad-
Miral had returned to the Dardanelles—with, it
is said, only a third of his fleet. A •-second
attack was made by him on.the. Isle of Samos—
but with as little success as the first--,which de•
termiued him to abandon. the expedition. alto-
gether. The:least acquaintance with the martial
raw.of the Turks will Suggest, that the Capitan
racba after this result must wear his head by a
very frail tenure. Accordingly, it is said that he
was not forthcoming, and that the fleet, or therein-,
Kant of the fleet, had returned without him. On land
the Turks are said to have been as unsuccessful
as on the water ; but no details—no leading fact
even—are supplied. It may be -safely assumed,
under all the circtimstancesi that the campaign
4fts closed. But will the war be renewed next
year The obstinacy of the Turks equalled
only; lay their Weakness. it is likely, therefore,
that Alter so many ineffectual campaigns, the con-
test will be given over as hopeless—or put a
stop to by some interference of the Christian
Powers. It has already been, rumoured on the
continent 'that a Congress was io be held for this
purpose. In the mean time the Grand Seignor
is employing his wisdom in an edifying way at
Constantinople—viz. issuing decrees to regulate
the dresses of the women

[stortxtso e05T.1
French Papers to the 15th in.t, and the Etoile
of Monday reached us last night by eXpress.
They have brought no further intelligence. Triim
Spain ; but the Quotidienne still wishes to 'make
it appear that all hopes of a change in the pre.
sent policy of the Ministers are not to be ably'.
cloned, and that the determination of evacuating
the Peninsula'may yet be reVoked. For the
purpose, preliably, of imparting, some show of
probability to this opinion, it announces that a
Cabinet Council was to he holden on' Sun-
day last, under the preildency of the King,
at 'which • CounsellOrs and' Ministers of State
had received summons to attend ; anti in' order
that the subject to be discussed may appear to be

one of particular importance, it adds " that
those sorts of convocations had been extremely
rare, since the Restoration, and that there had
not been more than two Cabinet Councils during
the reign of Louis XVII." This fact, if it be
one, only proves that tke miserable state of the
late Monarch's health had not permitted him to
discharge his duties as strictly and regularly as
his successor is willing to do. It does not lead
naturally to the inference which the Quotidienne
means should be drawn from it : with respect to
the supposed Council, as the Etoile of Monday
is totally silent on the subject, and none of the
other Papers mention the assembling of any
Council of that kind on the preceding Sunday, it
must either not have taken place, o► have dis-
cussed no topic of importance.

[nu TIMES.]
The circumstances stated in the ensuing para-
graph are of so singular a nature, that we hardly
know how to give credit to them :—" It is said
that a. requisition has been made by the Spanish
46 Government, that in the adjustment of the
44 claims of British and Spanish subjects, before
" the Commission sitting in London for that pur-
" pose, there shall be included the losses of Spa-
" nish subjects, caused by the destruction of the
" frigates at the breaking out of the war. Some
44 individuals who suffered in their property by
" that event have gone so far, it Is stated, as to
" prepare evidence for establishing those claims,
" which they have forwarded to London."—
The losses sustained by the destruction of the
Spanish frigates, at the beginning of the
long war ! And why not indemnity, also,
for the losses sustained at the taking of Porto Bello
by Admiral Vernon? as well as for those suffered
from the capture of the galleons, by the circum-
navigator Anson ? The Commission is sitting for
the purpose of adjusting the claims which British
merchants have upon Spain for losses sustained
by them in their commerce with the South Ame-
rican States. And Spain had acknowledged the
justice of the claims antecedently to the ap-
pointment of the Commission. Have we acknow-
ledged the justice of any claims made by Spain
for remuneration, on account of the first vessels
destroyed by us at the beginning of the war,
that those claims are now to be thrust i❑ for
adjustment ? The losses of our merchant-
men arc occasioned by pirates sailing under
the Spanish [lag; and we have a right, and
Spain has acknowledged the right, to call upon
her, either to suppress the piracies committed
under her flag, or to acknowlege the independ-
ence of the South American States, in which case
we should cull upon theta to suppress the piracies.
But Spain, doing neither of these things, is ac-
cessory to the loss which we sustain, and which
she is therefore obliged to make good. If Spain
were aggrieved by our attempt to capture her
frigates at the beginning of the war with her, the
peace—the winding up of the war ten years ago—
was the time for her to state her grievances, and
require reparation. The bringing up the affair of
the,frigates now, is really opening the war again.

[NEW Trims.]
By the arrival of the Rocket at Liverpool from
Jamaica, whence she sailed the 6th ult. intel-
ligence has been received of some interest from
South America. In anticipation of the regular
Mail, three private expresses were received in
town yesterday in twenty hours from Liverpool ;
and of course the intelligence allowed to tran-
spire by the parties receiving them has to be cor-
roborated by the regular Post Office delivery of
private letters and papers. The Jamaica Cou-
rant of the 28th September has been received,
however, which contains an extract of the Pa-
nama Gazette Estraordinarsy of the 2d of that
mouth, giving rather impel feet details of an ac-
tion which is said to have taken place near Pasca,
in the plains of Junin, of the 6th of August, be-
tween the forces of general Canterac and those
under General Bolivar, in which the former had
been compelled to retire, after sustaining a loss
in killed of between 2 and 300 men, mostly ca-
valry. As the particulars of this affair are corn-
municated by an individual officially con-
nected with the Colombian Republic, it fol-
lows that the account is given with a favourable
inclination towards the Independents. That
an action has taken place is considered very
probable, and has indeed been expected for a
long time past. It may, however, be considered,
upon the present statement, as far from decisive
of the fate of Peru. The Agents of the Colom-
bian Government here had not received any ac-'
counts up to a late hour. We have elsewhere
given from the Gaucta de Colombia of the 20ch of
August a very curious article, headed in the Co-
lombian Paper 44 Colombia y Peru." It is mani-
festly a laboured defence by the Vice-President
Santander (who is charged in the absence of
Bolivar with the executive functions) against
the charge of having neglected to send reinforce-
ments to Bolivar in Peru. It will be seen
with some surprise, that though Bolivar has for
nearly a twelvemonth bean urgently demanding
3000 men, 6000, 12,000, nay, as many as 16,000,
yet only a few hundreds have from time to time
been sent ; nor would the Colombian Congress
probably ever have forwarded him any import-
ant aid, had it not thought itself safe in the pro-
tection of that policy which was avowed by the
United States and in the British Parliament.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
By an express which arrived yesterday, in 19
hours, from Liverpool, we have received Jamaica
Gagettei to the 7th ult. whrch contain the details
of a slthrp engagement between General Bolivar's
advanced guard and the rear guard of Canterac's
army. The ropy of a dis'patch from the Libe-
rator, himself 'has been received, which, we have
some hopes, will relieve Thu Fourier from the
doubts which it so seasonably 'expressed last
night. The dispatch is dated from a plice
called Rivas, and the- action, which it de.
scribes, was fought on the Gat of August,
urn thp plains of Junin. The cavalry of the
armies were alone engaged, and that of the Co-
lombians was not only greatly inferior in num-
bers, but wholly unsupported by the infantry,
twhich, in the eagerness of pursuit, it had left at
too great a distance to receive any support from

it, in case of coming in sudden contact with the
enemy. However, neither this circumstance, nor
his numerical inferiority, were capable of dis-
couraging Bolivar; and, having overtaken the
rear-guard of the Royalists, which consisted
of about a thousand cavalry, whilst his own
did not amount to more than six hun-
dred, he charged it with such impetuosity,
that he threw it back in the greatest confusion
upon the Spanish infantry, which was in full re-
treat. The loss of the Spaniards was very great,
half the force which they had at the commencement
of the action; whilst the rest fled from the field
in the greatest state of disorder. This loss will
be the more severely felt as the cavalry of Cante-
rac formed the flower of his army, and was the arm,
it is said, upon which he chiefly relied. Bolivar
commanded in person, and is stated to have
given extraordinary proofs of valour and skill to
have united in an uncommon degree the qualities
of a soldier of fortune, and of the most expe-
rienced leader. As the first blow is halt' the
battle, so the first victory half decides a cam-
paign ; and from this early essay of the Pa-
triots, we augur well of their remaining
labours. We do not believe that there is
a rational being, who at this time has the
least doubt of their final success, or, what is
more, of the war being concluded before the
end of the year. It is even probable, from the
divisions subsisting between the Royalists, that
the struggle will be less obstinate than is gene-
rally expected ; and that the former (meaning the
Leaders of course), knowing the just and merci-
ful character of that paragon of Rulers, the be-
loved Ferdinand, will hasten to put an end to a
useless and sanguinary resistance, by making such
terms with their opponents as should relieve them
from the necessity of appealing to the proverbially
magnanimous temper of the King of Spain. Most
of them, it is well known, are attached to consti-
tutional principles ; and would probably prefer
living under such a system where they are (pro-
vided they received adequate guarantees for their
personal security) to being the slaves and pro-
bably the victims, of an ungrateful Tyrant.

FOR THE SUN.