The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-17 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, MAY 17.
'the quantities of grain that came in last week were tolerablv
good for this season of the year. This morning the fre,li
supplies of all sorts of Corn are only small. Our Millers stilt
confine their attention to prints dry samples of Wheat,
and such descriptions are rather dearer, but all other qualities
sell very heavily. The expectation of the bonded Barlpv
being liberated next week llas quite stagnated the trade
for this article, and sales cannot be effected, though offers
are made on lower terms. Beans are in demand at last
week's prices ; Peas of both kinds remain. dull. There is a
fair trade: for good Oats, and last week's prices are fully main-
tained for this article. Flour continues very dull.
Wheat, Red 42s 7231 Pease, White 173 4
White 488 78s l Grey 331 39s
Rye '-18s 44s Beans 'lss 48s
Barley 30s 39s Oats 90s Vs
53t 62s Flour Malt
...... . ............... 50s 60s

ERAGE PRICE OF CORN IN ENGLAND AND WALES,
IN THE WEEK ENDING MAT a.
Wheat, 635, 3d. ; Barley, 345. Bd. ; Oats, 241. 2d.; Rye,
395. 7(1. ; Beans, 38s. hi. ; Peas, 371. 4d.
The Average Price of 11rown or Muscovado Sugar, aomputM,
from the Returns made in the Week ending the 12th day of
May, 1324, is 31s. 2?,(1, per cwt.

SMITHP:ELTOIARIcET, MAY 17.
The following is an accmate Report of the numbers and
prices at Smithfield Market this morning:_
CATTLE AT MARKET.
.9,341 t'sicep and Lambs 15,350,
170 I Pigs
To sink the Offal, per stone of BM.
Beef Is 8d to 4s 8d I Veal 4s 4d to Gs od
Mutton 4s 4d to I,s Oa! Pork 46 6d to Ls lid
Lamb 5s 4d to Gs Bd.
SCAT AND STRAW, rEit. LOAD.
flap £4
sestratow£4
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thehle windows of the south Wing, and
,finishing
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L6NDON-lOVINALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the illol*ad Papers, May 17:

[I3I2ITISII PRESS.]
The long-expected -decree of " Amnesty or
Oblivion," as it is called by the Paris Papers,
has at length been extorted from Ferdinand of
Spain, and is in fact a lengthened list of pro-
scription. It excludes hundreds' of the Most
distinguished Spaniards from the royal mercy,
and denounces every individual who took a lead-
ing part in the Revolution, which the despot so-
lerrnily bound himself to support by repeated
oaths. All the leaders of the " Military Insur-
rection " in 1820, in the Isle of Leon, are ex-
cepted ; the same Proscription is extended to the
whole body of the Cortes who voted the tempo-
rary deposition of Ferdinand at Seville ; the
heads •of • " Military Insurrection" throughout
Spain, commencing with the capital ; those con-
Cerned in the death of the Canon Vanuessa ; the
Ridges of Elio, at Valencia ; and the authors,
as' they are called, of the massacres of the pri-
sons of Grenada, are all excepted and de-
nounced. Thus this boasted " Amnesty,'.' wrung
ivith difficulty by the whole influence of France
froni the tyrant, includes, in its sweeping.excep-
lions, all that was prominent or influential in
Spain, for more than three years, and denounces the
ConstitutiOnal Ministers, the Cortes, almost to a
man, the Military Chiefs of every province, and on-
ly throws open the prisons to some hundreds of in-
dividuals, comparatively obscure, who have been
immured for months through the persecutions of
the Royalist faction. Yet the Journal des De-
buts, the organ of M. de Yillele, speaks of this
decree as if it abounded with mercy ; it heralds
it forth as if it proclainied universal pardon and
- oblivion, and restored the numberless distin-
guished exiles who tied from dungeons and
scaffolds in Spain, to their just rights and their
country again. " The work of our venerable
and As ise Monarch is consummated," the Paris
Journal exclaims. The Duke of Angouleme
obtains " the only reward which he has demand-
ed for his glory, his labours, and his perils: a
eueral amnesty has just been published in Spain."
From such an annunciation one would have ex-
pected that the French Cabinet had represented
to Ferdinand his coincidence in all the measures
of the constitutional Government for three years,
his repeated oaths to maintain it, the present
-Wretched and distracted state of Spain, and that
in consequence a general amnesty and act of re-
conciliation had been obtained, throwing the veil
of oblivion over all that had passed, and restoring
peace and hope to thousands, who are either
exiles on foreign shores, or the inmates of
Spanish. dungeons. But in place of such au
act of peace and conciliation, this " Am-
nesty," tulfed with proscription, has been issued.
To this wretched decree is attached a Royal
Address, the original of which is said to be
wholly in the hand-writing' of Ferdinand, and
which asks the Spaniards " to imitate the example
of their King, who pardons errors, ingratitude,
and offences without other exceptions than those
which the public welfare and the safety of the
State imperiously require." This address, in
calls on his subjects " To repel
the hateful passions and,perfidious counsels of
those who are perhaps interested in disuniting in
order to ruin you, and in order to prevent you
from stretching out your arms to lend to your
brothers of America, who are victims as you have
been, of revolutionary anarchy, and the ambition
of ill-experienced and ill-intentioned dema-
gogues." Thus it appears that Ferdinand and
his Cabinet yet look to Spanish America and
its restoration by force. But this is a vain delu-
sion : these vast possessions—once the magnifi-
cent appendage of Spain for centuries—have part-
ed her weak and tyrannical dominion for ever.--
They have outgrown their dependence as co-
lonies ; and no effort by the parent country
will ever bring Mexico, Colombia, or Peru,
under the despotism of Old Spain again. It
is plain, however, that an attempt will be made
across the Atlantic-, and an expedition of
soFle sort sent from Cadiz to the shores of
t&e New World, if this country suffer it. How
will our Cabinet regard such preparations, while
a French force holds military occupation of the
entire country, and garrisons the very port from
which the Spanish force will- bend its sails ? This
important point is to he adjusted before such an
expedition can menace any part of South Ame-
rica; and we have no apprehension as to the
decision of our Cabinet.

[NEW TIMES.)
It is reported that the Drawing-room fixed for
Thursday will be again postponed. The reason
assigned. Is, that the weakness in the King's
limbs is still so great that his Majesty cannot un-
dOrgo the fatigue of standing for so long a time as'
the ceremonies of the day require. The usual
regulations appeared in the Gazette of Saturday,
but are not inserted in the newspapers of to-day.

A llainburgh_Alail arrived yesterday, by. which
we have received German Papers to recent dates.
It is repoeted that the Emperor of Austria and
the King Of Prussia will visit St. Petersburgh in
the course of the summer. A letter from Con.:
stantinople of the 10th ult. states that the Turkish
fleet against Qreece was then on the point of sail-.

[MORNING cuttoNict.E.l
A ,letter from Paris states, that Sir obades
Stuart, our Ambassador in that capital, has re:
ceived instructions from, home to facilitate the
O return too-Enand of the English workmen now
in France. In consequence of these instructions,
Sir Charles Stuart has issued the following no-
tice, which is expected to have all the effect de-
sired :----" Notice is hereby given, that all Bri-
tish workmen employed in France will, upon
application to his Britannic Majesty's Embassy,
receive ever facility to return to England."—
There can be no doubt that this very proper
notice has been issued on account of the evidence
taken before the A rtizans' Committee of the'
louse of Commons, by which it appeared that
by a collusion between the Masters and the Po-

'lice, many English' workmen in France, who
wished to return to their native country, were
prevented from doing so by difficulties thrown in
:the way of their getting passports. .

[MORNING POST.]
We have much 'pleasure in recommending to
the attention of our readers, the proceedings of
:" the Society for improving the condition of the
'lrish Peasantry," held on Saturday last.—(See
another column of THE SUN.)—The greater part
of the funds of the Institution has been expended
in making charitable loans, and with the best
possible results. It appears that no less than 60
Associations on the same principle have already
been established in the sister country. The
Committee express their earnest wish that
every encouragement may be given to this
mode of relieving the Poor of Ireland, and
we think the fact stated in the Report places
the expediency of the plan above all ques-
tion, while it does the highest honour to the ge-
neral character of the Irish peasantry, and shows
that if well treated, instead of being so often
brought before the notice of the English public
as a set of turbulent idlers, they would he
found a peaceable, industrious, and grateful peo-
ple. " Where loans have been made," say the
Committee, " and were payable by instalments,
not a single defaulter has been found—a circum-
stance isighly honourable to the character of the
Irish Peasantry—(Cries of hear, hearp—Up-
on this subject we shall not offer another
word, except to offer our meed of thanks, and our
expression of the highest admiration of the active
part which the Rev. Prelate the Bishop of Lime-
rick has taken in forwarding the views of this
society ; and, indeed, in promoting every benevo-
lent object calculated to benefit his unhappy coun-
try. His conduct is well deserving the atten-
tion of the dignitaties of the Established Church
of Ireland.

[THE TI M ES.]
The question of recognizing as independent
the late Spanish possessions in the Americas, or
at least such parts of them as are no longer torn
by civil conflict, assumes a shape which every
day forces itself more upon the attention of Mi-
nisters. We do not mean that the policy of the
measure taken with reference to Foreign Courts
has undergone any recent alteration, for from
the outset that policy appearedto us to be un-
questionable; but as respects the interests of Bri-
tish commerce, a decided course becomes the
immediate duty of this Government. It is im-
possible not to feel the hardships imposed on our
merchants, and the risk incurred by them, so long
as the relations between his Alajesty and the new
Republics shall retain their present undefined and
precarious character ; but should any change of
relation take place of a nature to disappoint the
hopes and mortify the pretensions of those
States to acknowledgment of their absolute in-
dependence, to what a revulsion may not the
commerce now carried on by British subjects
be exposed ! The funds of the new States, and
the speculations entered into by our merchants
engaged in traffic to their harbours, have, by a
succession of unfavourable rumours, been kept
for weeks past in constant fretfulness and uncer-
tainty. No person can assure himself to what
extent the policy of Great Britain may be in-
fluenced by the direct or circuitous machil:a-
dons of other Courts, until the final step be
taken by Mr. Canning, and the recognition
of these new Sovereignties placed beyond
the most distant chance of recall. Not the most
solemn convention with these States, for the encou-
ragement of our trade, or the'security of our mer-
chants, can be valid, until of ter their independ-
ence shall have been formally recognised.—
Whence, then, this unnatural delay ? Does
Great Britain strive to press any point of nas
tional interest with the old Spanish Government
in Europe, holding out ;hreats, that if this boon
(and we can imagine such a one) be not granted,
she will acknowledge the rights of the Colonies ?
Why then we may pretty confidently guess that
the systematic Spanish policy will be doggedly to
withhold the concession; feeling that, if it were
once irrevocably made, Spain would have no
longer any tie upon the hopes or apprehensions
of this country. Here, therefore, as in the great
majority of cases, it is best for a State to do what
in all cases an honest individual will do—viz.
take the downright straight-forward course, and
trust to Providence for contingencies.