The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-02 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.

CORN-EXCHANG',E, FEB. 2.
The quantities of Corn that came in last week were tolerably
good, and this morning there is a good fresh arrival of Wheat,
Barley, and Beans, from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk; but there
are not many Oats fresh up. The Wheat trade has been in a
state of so much animation since last Monday-, that 3s. to 4s.
per quarter advance has been obtained on the terms of this da.y-
sennight ; but as the price of Flour is not yet certain to ad_
ranee, there is therefore rather more slackness in the trad.e
than at the early part of this morning. The maltsters purchase
Barley so eagerly, and there being orders to ship some for the
North, that 4s. per quarter higher has been obtained on the
prices of this day se'nnight. Beans are also further advanctd
3s. to 4s. per quarter. Boiling Peas are also risen 3s. per
quarter; Grey Peas are 3s. to 4s. per quarter dearer. The in-
creased consumption of Oats, in consequence of the meeting ;:f
Parliament this week, has occasioned a further advance :a the. price of this article of 2s. to 3s. per quarter on the terms of last
.11onday. Rape-seed is 21. per last
Wheat, Red sBs 76s Pease, White ...........42s 46s
White 63s 85s —_____ Grey 36s 4/4
Rye 4os 468 Beans 42s Sys
Barley 334 42s Oats • 25s 34s
Malt —s —a Flour eos 6Zs
ARRIVALS LAST WEEK.
English Wheat, 9,o2B—Barley, 7,83/—Malt, 7,736—0at5,
9,Bss—Rye, 0 Beans, 1206—Peas, 1614—Foreign Wheat,
Irish Oats, 3,lls—English Flour, 10,562 sacks.

AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN IN ENGLAND AND WALES.
IN THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 24.
Wheat, 60s. 7d. ; Barley, 325. ed. ; Oats, 225. 10d.; By
455. I.od. ; Beans, 375. 3d. ; Peas, 378. sd.
The Average Price of Brown or isrlusz..ovado Sugar, computed
horn the Returns made in the Week ending the 28th day e;.
January, 1824, is 335. lid. per cwt.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, FEB. 2.
There was a short market this morning of all descriptions of
cattle, but more particularly of Calves, which were exceedingly
few in number. Owing to the frosty weather and a thin market,
the prices of all kinds of cattle have advanced. Beef of gam,,;.
quality obtained as high as 4s. 6d. per stone, Mutton, (Soutii-
down) sold as high as 4s. 3d., good Calves 6s. 4d.
To sink the On], per stone of elb.
Boer 3s 6c: to 41 6dol Veal
utton 34 8d to 4s' ga Fork 4s Ud to 68
4tl
Lamb Os to Us Ad..

MAY AIM STRAW, PER LOAD.
10s to I:5 5s J
Clover £s 03 to X 6 Cot
straw £1 18s to .1,2 2a.

• MONTIILY REPORT OF AGRICULTURE,
FOR JANUARY, 1824.
Agriculture has opened nit!, tie new Tear wqit
the fairest prospects and succ.?ss ; the season has Secn so fine,
in all districts, that the sowing of Barley, Beans, and Peu, is
become general. Turnips and Coliseeds are running away 5o
rapidly, that little green feed will appear on the ground in tie
course of the present month, except the proud Wheats, wh.icii
are every where feeding off.---Lean Stock of all kinds have done
well • the terms are somewhat ljwer. The Meat markets ar
steady at last month's tears.-- dark-lane hag P.:lca:a:ea but:
little in late prices.----In the Wool trade we.find 03e variaz.
somewhat better.

El Rill.
On the 31st ult., Mrs. T. W. Roaktr.as, 'a Suffilk-p1a....,
Pall-mall East, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 22d ult., at Convamore, Ric arts Oliver Aldsrort!-:,
Esq., eldest son of Rogers Aldworth, of Newmarket House,
County of Cork, Esq. to the Hon. Letitia Hare, eldest daugat r
of Viscount Ennismore.

DIED.
On Saturday last, at Chalftnt St. Giles, from in' amrp.attort
of the bowels, Lieut. James Arnott Howard, H. P.,of
Regiment, in the 31st yeaf of age. -
On Sunday last, the 25th ult., at his hous,....'in TiSrlepltTe,,t, •
MartUa Marley, eldest daughteK of the Hon. the late Blab-4,0f:
Hereford, and sister to the `.E irl of thferd.
On Tuesday, the 27th ::it., !e. r. Henry Eyar s, of if ach y %Lett.,
or.tgo Vaer yshi.7e,

PEE DONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Feb. I.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
• A crisis, and a most 'alarming one, now im-
peads over our West India Colonies. No man
can view the existing state of things in those
Islands without alarm, and almost dismay. Two
insusrectiona of the Negro population, iu Deme-
rara and. Jamaica, have already burst forth. It
is now clear and unquestionable' that the discon-
tents have. arisen from the proceedings of the
Abolitionists in this country ; and, if these rash
and unwarrantable measures are-persisted in, ruin
impends over the whole of the British West Indies,
and" the inevitable consequences must be revolt,
:nScrrection, Mimes, and blood. It would in.
initely better become Mr. Wilberforce and his
la.natic'followers, as the Jamaica resolutions well
remark, to give their time and their votes to
the abolition of abuses in this country and Ire-
lanclabuses they have sanctioned and support-
ed for years, than to embark in a holy crusade
against the lives and properties of the numer-
ous West India residents and proprietors. It
is a cause with which they have no concern
a; all—where they have not a shilling of pro-
perty embarked, and with the true state of
which, as regards the African population in these
ne colonies, and the situation of the islands
generally, they possess no local knowledge or
acquaintance whatever. Yet this is the party
who, within the walls of Parliament, are pressing
en Ministers these most alarming measures, and
who have procured the petitions by their solici-
tations through the country. These men, who
are now instigated by so fervent and holy a zeal
for the conversion and emancipation of the Blacks,
have for years opposed themselves to the free-
dom of the white population of Ireland : 800,000
Negroes possess an irresistible claim on their
pious solicitude; but six millions of Catholies,
and Christians of their own colour, are to be
kept in misery and bondage. They have ar-
guments of inexpediency and prejudice ready in
their mouths, whenever any measures are pro-
posed for the amelioration of the latter : but pro-
perty, prudence, justice, and discretion, are all
to be set aside in the case of the negro, deemed
more worthy their consideration than the thou-
sands of Irish peasants who pine in wretchedness
acd bondage ; their chains they would burst at
odce ; an infuriated mass of slaves are to he un-
loosed on their former proprietors, with hatred in
their hearts to every white man ; they are to be
furnished with weapons for general destruction.
To Mr. Wilberforce and Mr. Buxton it is nothing
that millions of capital and property will he de-
stroyed—that the lives of thousands may he sa-
crificed—that dwellings will be in flames, and
murder and violation rage through every island ;
all this dreadful futurity cannot arrest their fa-
untie march ; they press onward, though destruc
tion is in full view.

[moaNING cau.osicac.]
The last arrival from the West Indies has
supplied us with intelligence of an agitating
Litre. A conspiracy has been discovered on
sett Estates in the neighbourhood of Port Maria,
jarriaica, and several Negroes have been con-
vir..ted and executed. The militia are all wider
arms, And the regulars ready to march at a mo-
Innnt's notice. • There are, we learn, also appre-
hensions of a rising in the Parish of St. James's.'
The rticulars of the Port Maria plot have not
beeli published, and we learn from our corres.
pOndent in Jamaica, that the Governor has
declared, that he would deem the publica-
tion at this time highly improper. It happens
-sit,piarty enough that the same packet which
brings us these accounts of projected risings,
brings us also Speeches of the most inflammatory
Character and Resolutions of the House of As-
sesnhly, setting the Government at proud de-
fiance. Ft is so much the interest of our West
India Colonies to be connected with this coun-
try, and so little in their power to exist even
without the protection of this. country, that these
Ilireatenina4 will inspire Ministers with little
alarm. Much abuse is lavished on the Saints at
this time in the West Indies. In one of Mr.
erah's no'vels, a West Indian Planter; on his
death-bed, raps out an oath to a Scots
Minister, while telling him, that In these
times it is the duty of every loyal man to die
a Gltristia.n.
,We suppose tine tables will now
be :turned among the West Indian interest,
and that to be pious will be as unfashion-
able- as it was in the times of the Cavaliers.—
Are are aware of the difficult. situation in which
the WeSt Indian Planters are placed. A slave
population out of all proportion to the numbers
of the free, and that Population, too, from pos-
sessing a Constitution suited to the cliinate so
tiinch more capable of exertion than the other, is
well calculated to excite apprehension. But,
after all, something must be done. To speak of
freedom is dangerous to slaves, but only dan-
gerous to them. This constantly recurring danger
Only shews th'e 'necessity of falling upon some
means for gradually putting an end to the evil.—
Free labour would be more profitable to the
planter, while it. would add to his security. The
Report of a trial Ora Negro at Demerara is well
calculated to excite, suspicion. We fear inno-
cence would be a very sorry protection to any
wan in that colony at the present moment.

cute the late treaty. We know not what credit
should be given to the statement in these papers,
that the Government of Greece has given orders
for the Foreign volunteers to place themselves
under the command of Lord Byron. One of the
Paris Journals contain rather a curious letter, ad-
dressed as a circular, by the French Keeper of
the Seals, to all the subordinate ministers of Law
and Justice, in which he commands them to use
all their influence and authority with those under
their controul, in support of the ministerial can-

didates in the elections. His Excellency tells
them that their being in the public service de-
prives them of the right of disposing of themselves,
and of regulating, according to their own inclina-
tions, their political acts.

[MORNING POST.]
It is a circumstance which every loyal subject
must deeply deplore, that his Majesty should be
prevented by indisposition, however slight, from
opening the ensuing Session of Parliament in per-
son. No Monarch of any nation, not even the
most popular of the preceding Sovereigns of the
House of Brunswick in this country, was ever
favoured with an opportunity of meeting his
people at a more propitious period—or one when
he could more conscientiously congratulate them
on the flourishing happiness and power of a vast
Empire, or they more cordially and unani-
mously express their perfect satisfaction at the
wisdom of the Councils by which they were
governed. To a person who reflects on the tran-
quility and content now reigning throughout his
Majesty's dominions, and the almost excep-
tionless concurrence of the people in the good-
ness of the laws under which they live, and
the purity of their administration, as well as
the identity of judgment on the subject of fo-
reign politics which prevails among all classes
of the community, the events of former times
appear like distempered dreams. Do our Read-
ers recollect the Radical Meetings of 1819, and
the Female Reformers of the same era ? or will
they call to mind the despairing conclamatum ett
of the ‘Vhigs over our lost Constitution, when at
the conclusion of that year the celebrated Six
Acts were passed ? Is it not natural to ask, do'
we live under the same laws—the same Sovereign
—or the same country or the same age, as
we did then—when Faction availing itself of
the untoward but unavoidable depression of
trade from a sudden and universal change
in the affairs of Europe, stalked through
the land intent on subverting those institu-
tions and destroying that liberty which for so
many generations have made England the won-
der and envy of the world ? Where now are the
Demagogues and Brawlers of that time ? Where
are the Prophets who then foretold the ruin and
bankruptcy of the nation, and uttured lamenta-
tions over a catastrophe which existedr
ouroldydein.
their own imaginations—" weeping for
struction because it was not ?"

[THE TIMES.]
There are some rumours afloat (and indeed our
Paris correspondent has already alluded to the
subject) with respect to the very important .ques-
lion of our relations with the South American
States, upon which we think it necessary to make
a few remarks ; because, whether the rumours.
ultimately prove true or false, the subject must
be better understood by being brought into the
light, and freely discussed. Spain, it is said, still
affecting to consider the colonies as hers de jure,
is to declare them open to the trade of all nations;
and such declaration of a free trade is to be consi-
dered as a boon to us, in return for which we
are to connive at any attempt of hers to subju-
gate them. We confess we should wish, if pos-
sible, to avoid a war on account of these colo-
nies, and for this obvious reason—that we at pre-
sent have every thing that we hope to gain from
them by war. Let Spain, if she pleases, declare
the trade free : that is no favour conferred upon
us, or upon any other nation. It is like declaring
the day light, or the grass green. The facts are
so, with or without any declaration by Spain ;
and so is the fact equally clear and undeniable,
that the trade to the colonies is open. We trust,
therefore, that our Ambassador at the Court of.
Madrid will male Ferdinand understand that
we have not the least wish or desire that his
Majesty should, for our sakes, make ally such de-
claration as that which he proposes. And when
his Spanish Majesty is made perfectly to under-
stand our differences upon this subject, neither
he nor his allies can then in reason, we should
suppose, expect any return or compensation from
us for that which is no favour from him or them.
But with respect to our formal recognition of the
sovereignty of those states, we recollect that
when it was once proposed to Buonaparte
that we should acknowledge him as sovereign
of France, for which some return might be ex-
pected from his Corsican Majesty, he treated
the offer with contempt. lie was Sovereign of
France, and that satisfied him, with or without
the recognition of England. In like manner, the
States of South America and that of Mexico may
be quite satisfied with their own independence, if
they have it, and with our practically treating
them as independent, though we do not publish
in a state circular, or even proclaim in a Royal
speech, that such states are free.

NEW TIM ES.I

Considerable impression was made on the
Funds towards the afternoon of Saturday, by
rumours of an insurrection at Jamaica, which
[MORNING HERALD.] . appear to have been greatly exaggerated. Con-
Intelligence of some interest in Greece was soli fur the 6th of February opened at 91, and
'brought by the Paris Papers of Thursday. The rose to 914-, in consequences of advises front
advances which they have made towards inde- Paris, which brought the closing price of
I:;,ild'enc'e seem to he,- at length, duly appreciated Rentes there at 96. 50., an elevation wholly
by the Div?n. The frequent defeats of the unprecedented in the history of French Fi-
Ttirkish squadrons during the last campaign, and nance. 'rite West India news, however, produced
ti recent occupation of the Island of Scio by a sudden drop in the price of Consols, which
the Greeks, and the abandonment of the siege of closed at 90i. We have said we consider the
Missulunffhi havelted such an effect at Constan- rumours of insurrection at Jamaica to have heen
Ilaople, that the Ministry was broken up, and a exaggerated. 'There does, however, appear to
vier one formed: "The accounts represent the new have been some plot, real or apprehended,acnong
Cattntet.lis decidedly more 'moderate tharite.for- a few of the slaves,- ejght of whom are said to
vner, and more iikely
,in enteijnio paCific arrange, have been tried and executed. But we fear
meats, it is pot on she sicfr orGreece alone that that in the
.Present agitated state of the Colo-
the Poke .Id.rnkiiis.#4.:L';reesfi diffefekes, 4avef tnits a iieff slight degree of evidence would
is taiii,-ait'switii. Persia; siiircii reftues to eke- be sufficient to .onstire the conviction of a

person charged with such a crime. An.
other cause of alarm, which was not with-
out its effect on the Funds, was the in-
temperate language employed by the House of
Assembly in Jamaica. We confess that this ex-
cites no great apprehension in our minds. The
whole military force which the House of Assem-
bly could command would not much exceed
WOO men, while the Slave Population is above
300,000.