The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-13 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
JOVIS, 2° die Februarii, IS2I.
IxcLosurtE—Cametton (Cumber-)
Petitions for Bills re-
land (erred to Committees.
tnisTor. TOWN DUES
LIII,WAYS—Tees and Weardale—Petition for Bill referred to
a Committee. Stockton and Darlington—Bill ordered to be
brought in.
RoaDs—Arundel, Buxton and Stockport, Pattrington, Scar-
tho, and Newton Abbot, &c.—Petitions for Bills referred to
Committees. Kidwelly, and Totnes and Bridgetown Pome-
roy—Bills reed a first time. Commercial, and Plymouth
Embankment—Bills ordered to be brought in.
IRPROT NEN T—Plymouth 1 Bills ordered to be brought
Poon—Tunstead and Happing in.
COAL Du Tits—Petitions against the Duties on Coals, from
Truro, Cordwainers' Ward, and Kirby Cane—to lie on the
table.
•PunLicANs—Petition of Licensed Innholders and Victuallers
of Newark, for the repeal of the increased Duties on Li-
cences ; to lie on the table, and to ha printed.
PaoTAGE—Copies presented—Orders in Council for exempt-
ing Dutch and Hanoverian Vessels from taking on board
Pilots [by Act 4 Geo. 4, c.77]; to lie on the table, and to
be printed.
TITHE ComrosmoN (Ireland)—Return ordered, " of the
number of Applications for Special Vestries, under the 4th
Geo. 4, c. 99, stating the number of Cases in each Diocese
in which Commissioners have been appointed, and the num-
ber of Cases in which the Vestries have adjourned sine dir."
Return presented accordingly ; to lie on the table, and to be
printed.

ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY.
1. -Law Courts (Ireland) Bill—Second Reading.
2. supply—Committee.
3. Ways and Means—Committee.
4. House in Lombard-street Bill—Second Reading.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY.
.1. Mr. liuskisson—To amend Reciprocity of Duties Act [4
Geo. 4, C. 77.1
t Lord Viscount Althorp—Bill to oh-A. Act 56 Geo. 3, c. 88,
in so far as it applies to the distraining on growing crops in

Ireland.
3. Sir John Newport--Motion respecting the Population Re-
turns, Ireland.
4. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer—Annual Duties—Trans-
fer of Aids—Exchequer Bills--Money from Trustees of
Naval and Military Pensions. (In Committee of Ways
and Means.
NOTICES GIVEN YESTERDAY.
Monday, Feb. 16.
Mr. Jones—To extend the power of Judges in Wales.
Wednesday, Feb 13.
Lord Viscount Althorp—Bill for the more easy Recovery of
Small Debts.
Thursday, Feb. 19.
Mr. Secretary Peel—Bill to consolidate the Laws relating to
the irnpannelling of Juries. (Deferred from Feb. 17. )
2. Mr. Secretary Peel—Bill to amend Uaol Act of last Session.
(Deferred from Feb. 17.)
Friday, Fel). 20.
Lord Viscount Palinerston—Army Estimates. (In COM..
niittee of Supply.
Tuesday, March 2.
1. Sir John Newport—To repeal Statute 9th William, c. 7,
and for securing the right of burial of Roman Catholics
and Dissenters in Ireland. (Deferred from Feb. 19.5
2* Mr. Hume—Select Committee on the practice of impressing
Seamen.

ERRATA.—In the LITERARY NoTict of yesterday, on the
Supplement to Capt. PARRY'S Voyage, tte. &C. for Woo/.
verence read Woolverene, and for Bunt Geese read Brent.

PRICE OF STOCKS
TII IS 1) A it AT •rwo We. E.° cK .
hank Stock .................. 237.-} India Stock 277
3 per Cent. Red. ......... 91i 92 India Bonds
3 per Cent. Cons. 9l it South Sea Stock
3i per Cent. 101 Old Annuities--
5 Old
4 per Cent. t New
104 Ditto Small
5 per Cents. 1797
Bank Long Ann....:22 9-Itiths India for Con. Acct.
Imp. 3 per Cents. Cons. for Act. 9li ig

..40 35

PRICE or FOREIGN STOCKS IN LONDON, FEB• 13,

AT ONE O'CLOCK.
French Five per Cents. 97i.
1 Scrip, 9a pm.
Six per Cents. 00.
Russian Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00.
Ditto New 92k.
Five per Cent. Bonds, 83.
Scrip, 7i prem.
Five per Cent. Bonds, 1820, 00.
syanish Ditto 1821, 241.
Ditto 1823, 17i.
Prussian Five per Cent. Bonds, 93.
. Ditto New, 91.
Danish Five per Cent. Bonds, 93.
Portuguese 878
Peruvian New Loan, 00.
Chili 80i.
Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds, 71.
Mexican Loan, 5) prem.
Poyais ( 00.
. New, 32.
Mexican Mines 1 prem.
( Bank Shares £23 10s.
1 Seven per Cent. 95.
American Six per Cent. 95-102.
Five per Cent. 00-009.
Three per Cent. 70ti 77.

Neapolitan
Austrian

.PRICE OF IRISH STOCK, FEB. 10.
Bank Stock 237 Grand Canal Loan, 6 p.ct. 64
Gov. Deb. 34 per cent (la Ditto 4 per cent.... 42
Stock, it peict 96it i)ittoStock —
ilov. Deb. 4 per cent. Royal Canal Stock O4}
-,(:)v. Deb. 5 per cent. -
--Stock, 4 per cent.
New
Treasury Bills, 5 per cent. Do. 6 per cent.
City Debentures, 5 per ct. Ballast Office Govt. Sec.
Lying in Hospital 4 per ct. 4 per cent.
Exchange on London, Feb. 9,8/.

HIGH WATER AT LONDOI`
Morning, 49 minutes after 1. 1

+; BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Evening, 18 minutes after 2.

THE SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DICERE FiILSUM AUDEAT

LONDON,
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1824.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

IVe have received by Express Ga
Messenger of Wednesday, from which the fol-

lowing- are extracts :

(From Galignani'i Messenger of trednesde.y.)

Friday being the anniversary of the assassina-
tion of his late Royal Highness the Duke of
Berri, all the theatres and public places of

amusement ‘t ill be closed.

The subscription for the Greek Priest isa-

charus amounts to 700 francs.
M. Gabriac, chief Secretary of the French Em-
bassy at the Court of Madrid, is appointed his
:Majesty's Minister at Stockholm. His Excel-
lency arrived at Paris on Sunday, from Spain.
The Journal tie Toulouse (native town of the
:Minister of Finance), contains the following :

" We learn from Paris, that the reduction of
the interest of the public debt, from .5 to 4 per
cent., is more talked of than ever. It is said
that the French Government will raise a foreign

loan, at the rate of 3 per cent., the produce of
which will serve to pay off such creditors of
the State as prefer to receive their capital.
--It is calculated, that by this opera'tion
the Government will reduce the national
debt fifty millions per annum, and that this
plan will have the advantage of anmenting-
the value of property by the abundance of
cash which will be in circulation. It is
likewise rumoured that a great book will be
opened for indemnities to be granted to emi-
grants. According to the new plan, there will be
made upon the interests a drawback, -which will
serve fundholders in the place of land tax, and
be equally effectual in investing them with the
elective franchise."

The King of Sweden has nominated Prince
Oscar to be Vice-Roy of Norway. •

A Clerk in the War Office has just been taken
into custody upon a charge of having obtained
the signature of the Minister, to enable persons
to procure patents of Members for the Legion of
Honour.

The Prince of Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst died
at Lucerne on the 21st ult. in the 81st year of

his age.
On the 31st ult. 30 millions of florins in bonds
passed through Liege ; they were sent from the
Court of Austria to that of London, and formed
part of Rothschild's loan.

In a preceding column we have given some in-
teresting extracts from the Paris Journals. A
Madrid article in the Etoile again states that a
modified amnesty is at length about to be issued.
The same letter admits that letters from Lisbon
speak of the intrigues which the Portuguese Con-
stitutionalists are carrying on against the Queen,
or rather against the absolute system which has
been so happily re-established in Portugal as well
as in Spain. Private letters received in London
also represent the political condition of both Spain
and Portugal as being extremely precarious, and
in continual danger of feeling the vivifying effects
of a reaction that may render the recent military
and diplomatic triumphs of the French of very
little value.—The Journal des Debats confirms
the reported recognition by Spain of a debt
to France for her disinterested services of thirty-
four millions ; but it denies that any Spa-
' nish property or revenue has been pledged
as a security for the payment. If Spain
has any thing to spare, we apprehend that
she must in the first place satisfy the
prior and the just claims of Great Britain,
as acknowledged by the Convention concluded
with the Constitutional Government for the pay-
ment of the losses, &c. of British merchants. A
property of forty millions of rentes was pledged
for that purpose by FERDINAND'S Government,
previous to the French invasion ; and though that
security has been cancelled by one of his very cs-
le.)rated Decrees, he will find that lie cannot dis-
pense with decreeing the creation of a new secu-
rity, eitherof the same or of some other description,
for the same purpose.—An article from Zante
contains some further cheering intelligence as to
the state of the Greeks and the promising aspect
of their affairs.

Hobart Town Gazettes, received this mornint
contain no intelligence of importance.

CITY, Twelve ©'Clock.—Consols opened this
morning at 914 and got up to 914, at which
price they remain steady, with little doing.—
Two Expresses arrived from Paris this morning,
which has caused a report of the death of the
King of FRANCE; but on inquiry I do not find
that the report is confirmed. All that is cer-
tainly known is, that when the Expresses left,
the KING was very ill. The French Funds, I
hear, have been done as high as (iSf. sc.

FOREIGN AlmmET.—To-day being the Ac-
count for Spanish Bonds, most of the Brokers
are busy settling their accounts. Austrian Bonds
have experienced a rise, owing to 25-per cent.
being paid yesterday by the holders of the said
Stock.

In the House of Commons last. night Mr.
HUME moved for and obtained the appointment of
a Select Committee to inquire into the propriety
of repealing the laws against the emigration of
British artizans to foreign countries and against
the exportation of machinery from the United
Kingdom, and also of repealing the Combination
Laws. These proposals involve very serious and
important alterations of the commercial and ma-
nufacturing system of the country ; and though
we regret to observe that Mr. IlumE's motion
received the cordial support of Mr. Husiossos,
we would fain hope that they will neither be
sanctioned by the Committee, nor rashly adopt-
ed by either House of Parliament. These ex-
perimental and dangerous innovations, like the
other fanciful projects of the no‘ilern Political

Economists, are advDcated on the general princi-
ple that every man has a right to exert his
industry and talents in whatever manner and
in whatsoever place he may think most beneficial
to himself,—a proposition which in the abstract
cannot be disputed, but which in its practical ap-
plication is equally puerile and fallacious, being
irreconcileably and incontrovertibly opposed at,
every turn by the necessary arrangements, rights,
obligations, and duties of civilized society. As
no man, for example, can be permitted to exert
his industry in violation of the rights of pro-
perty vested in other persons, because the exercise
of his natural right would be inconsistent with
the acquired and legalized rights of other indivi-
duals, and would injuriously affect their interests,
so no man ought to be permitted to exercise his

natural rights in any case where their exercise is
inconsistent with the acquired and legalized rights
of the community of which he is a Member, or
in which its exercise would be injurious to the
general interests and welfare of the whole. If
compulsory restraints upon natural rights are
not only justifiable, but absolutely unavoidable,
for the protection of the interests of individuals,
how much more justifiable and necessary are
those restraints that are imposed for the pro-

tection of the rights of the community at
large. The question, therefore, as respects
the emigration of artisans and the exportation
of machinery must be tried, not upon the ge-
neral principle, but upon the particular merits,—
not with a view to the interests of individuals,
but to those of the State ; and we are conscien-
tiously of opinion that it will not be difficult
to prove that the exportation of our machinery
and the emigration of our artisans cannot but be
highly injurious to the manufacturing and com-
mercial industry of the nation. We have not the
same objection to the repeal of the Combination
Laws. On the contrary, we are of opinion that
those laws are a pernicious violation both of natural
rights and of just and sound principles of politi-
tical economy and enlightened legislation, and
that they injuriously affect the interests of the
public and of the State, as well as those of the
useful classes of the people who are subjected to
their operation.

lIAMBURGIf, JAN. 31.—1 t deserves to be men-
tioned as a very singular phenomenon of the present winter,
that the owner of a garden, a league from the city, has
found in it hundreds of May-bugs, alive, of which he has
brought a number to town with ilm, and shewa to many
persons.

ROME, JAN. e2.—According to the accounts
of the Missionaries in the Eastern Kingdom of Tonquin,
Christianity makes great progress there. The Mandarins of
the Ist and 2d class favour the labours of the Missionaries, and
protect them in the exercise of their religion, the disturbers of
which are rigourously punished. The learned men, in parti-
cular, are easily instructed, and break their Idols to pieces after
a few conferences with the Missionaries. In June, 1821, a
whole district sent Deputies to ask to be instructed in the Chris-
tian faith.

VIENNA, JAN. 29.-IYletal liques, 8541 ; Bank
Shares, 943}.—(Austrian Observer, Jan. 30.)

Wednesday night
Messenger,BATmuasT alseSftectroevetanry7fiothr dispatchesthe
11Ir. WILLIAMS, the King'sl
c oloColonial
from e
rEI
mar rt
ment, for Corfu, in reply to those received a few
days ago, announcing the melancholy tidings of
the sudden death of the Right lion. Sir THOMAS
MAITLAND, his Alajesty's Lord High Commis-
sioner of the lonian Islands.
Yesterday Mr. Secretary CANNING transacted
business.at the Foreign Office.
Yesterday morning
the Duke of CLARENCE
arrived in town from Bushy Park.
It is rumoured that JOHN SMITH BARRY, Esq•
late High Sheriff of Cheshire, is to be created
Earl of BARRYMO RE. We are aware that his
MAJESTY is graciously pleased to hold in consi-
deration such Irish gentlemen of fortune as are
residents, and Mr. BARRY who, besides his
estates in Cheshire, Huntingdonshire, and Ox-
fordshire, has 30,000/. a year in Ireland, is a
constant resident in the Barony of Barrymore,
and County of Cork, where both his hospitality
and the disposal of his income, in acts of bene-
volence and useful purposes, have higbly distin-
guished him.
Captain A. D. Y. ARRUTHNOTT having been
appointed to the Redwing, 18 guns, from the
Jasper, at Portsmouth, on Wednesday, the crew
of the latter ship made him a present of a magni-
ficent sword and bolt, as a mark of esteem for
their late Commander. The sword is richly
mounted, and the belt superbly embroidered.
The Marchioness of WORCESTER has recently
been delivered of a son and heir to the house of 11E1,1:FORT, at
Paris. Some of our readers may know that the present mar-
riage of the Marquis of WoRcEsTL tt is deemed uncanonical,
although we believe it obtained the consent of his noble rela-
tives, who, in order finally to put its legitimacy beyond doubt,
commenced a friendly suit in Doctors' Commons, to prevent
others from doing so, which is ne%cr likely to come to a decision.
(Morning Paper.)
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—The neighbourhood of
Drury-lane was, this morning about 12 o'clock,
thrown into the utmost state of alarm by the fall-
ing 'down of a house, N 0.85 and 86, Drury-lane,
at the corner of Feather's-court. Although the
premises were let out in tenements, we rejoice to
say that no lives were lost, but there was scarcely
a hope of saving one atom of the goods. Three
or four bricklayer's labourers, who were at work
on the ruins of the adjoining, premises at the mo-
ment the fall took place, had gone up to the cart
in which they were putting rubbish.

DREADFUL AFFAIR AT WORCESTER.---OD Sa-
turday night last, as three men and two girls
were walking in the streets of Worcester, the
men began to quarrel, when two of them seized
the third, and with a knife cut him across the
throat, the chest, and arms. He was taken to
the Infirmary, and the other men and the women
are in custody.

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DEPARTURE OF THE KING FOR WINDSOR.
BRIGHTON, FEB. 12.—His MAJESTY, precisely at half-
past 12 o'clock, P.M., left the Pavilion, accompanied, in his
travelling carriage, by the Marquis Conyngham, and Sir Wil-
liam Knighton, not for Carlton-Palace, but to proceed direct
to Windsor.—The, military, the 58th Infantry and the 7th
Royal Hussars, were drawn up, extending from the south-gate
of the Palace, with the colours, bands, drums, trumpets, and
bugles of the several corps, together with a loyal and crowded
assemblage of town's people. The national anthem was played
as the Sovereign passed, with the usual ceremony of lowering
the colours and presenting arms. In the midst of our regrets,
we have the consolation to know that his Majesty left us per-
fectly re-established in health. The whole of the Royal Esta-
blishment, excepting those who are usually entrusted with the
care of the Palace, will have left us by the end of the week.—
Prior to the departure of the King for Windsor, his Majesty,
with the Marquis Conyngham and Sir William Knighton,
proceeded in his travelling carriage, at noon, to the Marine
Parade, to survey the Chain Pier, from which his Majesty re-
' turned to the Palace in about half an hour, and, without alight-
ing departed as above stated.