The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-07 00:00:00

TIIE MARKETS.

CORN-EXCHANGE, MAY 3.
The quantities of Corn this week are only moderate, being
4,150 quarters of Wheat; 1,600 quarters of barley ; and 8,10
quarters of Oats; the quantity of Flour is considerable, being
8,050 sacks. There is very little good dry IVheat at market,
and such qualities being sought after, they obtain rather more
money, but damp qualities are still neglected. Barley kas not
varied from Monday's prices, and Beans and Peas remain
steady. There is a fair demand for Oats, and last Mouday's
prices are fully maintained.' The Flour trade still remains
extremely heavy. London averages for the filth week, that re-
gulates importation :—Wheat, 4,103 quarters, at 68s Id.:
Barley, 3,035 quarters, at 375. Id.; Beans, 1,026 quarters, at
375. 2d. ; Oats, 10,179 quarters, at 265. Bd.

SMITHFIELD MARKET. •
There were but a small number of Oxen at market this
morning, and those of good quality sold higher than on ]:Lt
Monday ; there was a great difference in the prices of Lamb ;
good quality of the above description went off at a high price,
but the inferior sorts were much lower in price, and did Lot go
off readily.

PICTURE SALE.—A private Collection of Pic-
tures, which came from a distinguished Personage'
abroad, was yesterday sold by Mr. STANLEY.—.
We visited his room in Bond-street on Wednesday
last, and were much gratified in viewing some of
the finest pictures of RAPHAEL, RUBINS, TE.•
NIERS, father and son, O%TADE, Ben Glum, REM-
BRANDT, L. DA VlNci, and other great masters,
whom we have not space to notice. The Raphael
was sold for 5251.; the chief ltubens for 945/. ;
one Teniors for 1201. 155., another for 991. 155.;
' au Ostade for 1051., another 'Deniers for 168/.; a
Berghem for 2111.; and others reached consider-
able prices. Some of these pictures belonged to
JOHN TRUMBULL, Esq.,. formerly an Envoy
from America to this Country. The_ Raphael was
among the number, and the celebrated " Sortie
from Gibraltar" in 1795. This picture, painted by
Mr.TurtNnuLL, which so adrnira bly cotnniemdrates
that glorious event, nnglit not to have passed
into private hands, but should be purchased by
Government, as one of the proudest lihievern.ents
of the British arms, was sold for 1051: The .
whole amount of the sale was 3,9,071. ]os. 6d; It-
is remarkable that most- of the pictures were
without frames, and wanted the advantage. of
g, elaborately prolonged the lots
bti t 'sbffe Hit -
fresh varnish. Some, indeed, were injured by
time, yet their intrinsic merits sullici.intly recom-
mended them. Muck credit is due to Mr. TA
Tickets remaining -la- Wow,'
nbijerrecoefdented Number of Tzi,el Delve Ca-
, ~), s them, to
for
ry
his
sr notow nhaavciinvanadvantage,
speak for themselves.
y r,_t
THE LAST DAY OF THE i.4;37lErt,:ir•--T hi!.
P ire: including Two of
pital A, r , TWENTY THOU..
POUNDS,
SAND Whirl], as Well as every other
have the
Prize, Must all be Drawn 011 SATURDAY, the ood .
inst., when
. ALL FINALLY CLOSEC A few Ull- "
tliNeniu
drawn Tickets and Shares are ' ' -
on Sale at the
o
CONTRACTORS, who hope t .'.
distribute, the above
at their Old Offices, No. 37, Cornhill, No. 11,
Holborn, and No. 8 8 II , aymarket.—J. and J.
SIVEIVRIGILT
3Contractors.

Mr. LONDON JOURNALS.

.14xtraeis froin the. Morning Papers, May 7.

„ChetyaiylNG
A sChism has already taken place in the Court
of Chancery Commission; -The Vice-Chancellor,
in the course of business, drops frequent hints of
pbssible .amendments in the forms of Chancery
nroceedings, at which Mr. H mutters, and
Mr. W—th —1 twitches-up his breeches, with a
very pugnacious air, as if girding up his loins for
a Solicitor-General.like. resistance of-reform. It
is, indeed,. the. - general- opinion that - the Vite-
Chancelloris abont to stand'forthithe advocate of
Reform in Chancery—an undertaking, for which
be: •peculiarly well qualified. The respecters
of ancient abuses, and the immediate retainer's of
the ,I.ord Chancellor, already breathe- defiance,
and promise the Vice a sturdy -resistance; The
plan. of their campaign is to practice on the tem-
per of Sir John Leach. They calculate much
on the irritability of the Learned Judge, and
hope to compel him to abandon his purpose in
the. disgust arising from a petty and vexatious
_scheme of opposition. We trust, hOweVeY, that
the Vice-Chancellor, forewarned, will be fore-
armed, and that he will confound the tactics of
his opponents, by treating-them with the indiffer-
ence they merit. Mr. It. smith and Dr. Lush-
ington will be the principal supporters of the
Vice-Chancellor. From the general character of
Mr. Merivale we shall also expect to see him on
the .side of the independent party. It- were
needless to instance the partisans of the Chan-
cellor.

[NEW TIM El.]
In the House of Commons last night a debate
took place on a Motion of Mr. Hume for an in-
quiry into th• Church Establishment' in Ireland.
The discussion was not generally expected to be
long nor important, as an impression prevailed
that it wonld be deemed advisable to postpone
the consideration of the subject until the debate
on the state of Ireland, fixed for au early day
next week.. Mr. Hume, however, entered into
Various statements similar in a great measure to
those which he brought forward on former occa-
sions, and was followed by Mr.' 'Stanley, the
Attorney-General for Ireland, and several other
Members. On a division there appeared for the
motion 79, against it 152, majority 73.

[MORNING 11ZRALD.]
Tuesday's Paris Papers arrived last night. The
Journal des Debats gives,- a direct and formal
contradiction to the reports already often alluded
to, of a French naval force of alarming magni-
tude at Brazil. The European Governments,
this Journal says, know well how little credit is
to be given-to these rumours, which really are put
forth for stock-jobbing purposes. It 'states the
number of French vessels on the-13mill Station'to
be only five--which:is barely- sufficient ter the
protection of trade. But it is again the fate of
this Journal to say something on this subject,
with design or without it,- which throws doubt
upon its main assertion. It is true there are but
fire vessels regularly on the stations but then
there are five vessels more, which, on their soy-
age from various quarters, may possibly have Met
at Rio Janeiro when these accounts came away.
The suggestion of a contingency so remote, -is,
under the circumstances,calculated to excite some
suspicion. Monday was the tenth anniversary of
the King of France's -first- return- to Paris after
the first fall of Buonaparte. It was celebrated in
the usual manner, with music, parade, a royal re-
port, which the public was allowed to witness,
and addresses and answers. The King of France
went, if the accounts -be ,:correct, through more
form and fatigue than is compatible with -a
very debilitated state—as he is said to be in. The
di3cussion of the financial project-still continued in
the Chamber of Deputies. M. Casiimir Perrier
put it very pointedly to the Minister, that, on his
own &betting, he was prepared only-- for the con:
tingency that the holders of Renter should make
their election for the reduced interest, and was
not prepared for the alternative of paying them
off-; that he had disposable only 370 millions,
whereas .he might be called to pay 0ff.1,1200. The
Zgitaister rather evaded than answered, 'and when
hard pressed, effected his retreat, under a dis. ,
charge of murmurs and other interruptions from
toe, majority of the Chamber.. So gross' was the
clamour that the. Liberals gave it up in despair.
Several amendments were proposed and rejectedi'
after which -the . question was adjourned overto
the follovring day.

[TH6 TIMES.]
We received last night French Papers of Tues-
day, and letters from Paris of the same date.—
The journals contain a continuation of the-dis-
cussion in the Chamber of Deputies, on the pro-
ject of law for the reduction of . the Rentes but
as a considerable-portion of the time usually al
-
]eed to the business was on Monday spent in the'
ceremony, of congratulating Louis XVIII.On- the
anniversary of his -return, the debate made very
little progress, and was adjourned .to the follow.
ing day. we may take the impatience with
which opposition speeches .seem to be heard,- and
the, decided manner in which amendments are re=
jected, as tests of the feeling of the Chamber, we-
can have no doubt that the measure will .be‘ car-
rie&by, an immense majority. The. only other.
article of interest in these•napers• is the contra-
diction given by the Journal des Debats to the,
rumo.urs afloat in London at the end of last week,_
respecting ,French armaments on the vonst of
Brazil., Thought after what has been already
said,, another contradictory statement may.:ap.,
pear: the labour of "slaying the ~lain," the
portarge of-the subject.may lac some apology for
quoting what in this case must-be looked upon as
trip official explanation of the French Government.
Our private .letters:infortn,us . that there is a 're,
port.current in,-the-first. political circles in Paris,
of. a -congress to be held at.Prague,on the affairs'
of Spaim and. Turkey- As welhrewdly- suspect
that ~this species of' Royal; and. '.lmperial click
finally .-gave in the resignation of itssfunctions at
Verona, it does not at all advance us in: the be-
lief that it. will „resume them; by telling-us-that-
the scene changed first from Vienna to Paris,'

then from Paris to St. Petersburgl4 and lastly,
from Muscovy to Bohemia.—The Madrid Ga-
zettes to`the t7th nit., which we have' ieciPted,
do not contain a word of news.

[BRITISH llintss4
The Journal des Dibats of Tuesday states, that
the most absurd reports were circulated in Lon.
don respecting the French force at the Brazils:_
this force, the Paris Journal asserts, is composed
of only five vessels; the Jean Bart of 74 guns,
the frigate la Magicienne, si corvette, and two
brigs. It may be (this paper adds) that two
frigates which were dispatched to the South Seas,
to replace the Amazone and Clorinde, -on their
passage, touched for a moment at Rio Janeiro ;
and that la Thetis, which was destined for China
and the. Indian Seas, l'Astree, Which returns to
France, and was replaced at Brazil by the Jean
Bart and la Circe, which took out M. de Gestas,
and which returns to France, may have appeared
together for a few days in the waters of Brazil ;
and thence, adds the Journal des Dibats," all this
trash of a fleet that never existed." "We repeat
it (this Paper concludes by saying), we have only
five vessels on the coast of Brazil, and they are
not too many to protect our tr*de and our coun-
trymen on coasts infested by privateers and
pirates, and on which internal revolutions threaten
daily the property and lives of his Majesty's sub-
jects." All this may be very true ; but such a
force as thirteen ships of war united at Rio toge-
ther looked more than suspicious, and their ap-
pearance at the Brasils, just at such a period,
still looks doubtful and strange. However, the
French Government will now see that the.eye of
this country is watchfully directed to all their
movements, and the decision of our Minister
will be convincing as to the setitiMents
of the British Cabinet. If France haslieen en•
deavouring to feel her way in the Neet`World,
and been meditating any ambitious attempts,
they will not be further urged in defiance of the
power of this country, whose eyes are open to
them. As to the arrival of three French ships,
so alarmingly announced in a respectable Even-
ing Paper of yesterday., even though true, we
see nothing dangerous in the occurrence. The
French have just the same right to enter the Ta-
gus that we have ; nor does it follow, because
these ships may have arrived off Lisbon, that
therefore any designs are entertained by France
against Brazil. It is altogether a non sequitur.
The liberty of the New World will not be dis-
turbed at present, w e are persuaded, by the
French Cabinet : all the views of M. de Villele,
who is at its head, are financial and pacific; and
that Minister is now occupied with the most len-
portivit arrangements respecting the national
debt of that great country--an 'employment of
sufficient magnitude to occupy all his attention.

[MORNING POST.)
In the house of Commons, last night, Mr. Se;..
cretary Canning redeemed the promise which he
had made some days ago, and stated that the
French Government had satisfactorily accounted
for every one of the ships reported to have been
assembled at Rio Janeiro. Only two French slips
had Wean, in the harbour of that place, and one of
them, a line-of-battle ship, was now ou its way
home. This was all the foundation which had
existed fer the alarm which had been raised.
On the other hand, though there was no ground
for any apprehension whatever, we had two
ships of the line on that station for the
protection of our commerce. Indeed the Right
Honourable Secretary added the highly satis-
factory and important fact, with the same re-
servation as to any ground for alarm, " that there
was no Naval station on which our force did not
outnumber that of any other Power." After this
gratifying communication had been made, Mr.
Hume brought forward his motion on the state,
or rather the riches of the Protestant Church in
Ireland. Whatever may be thought of the want
lof judgment displayed by the Honourable Mem.
'bee in mixing the Catholic Question with the re-
duction, and in some cases the destruction of
property of the Established Church in that
couutry, it is impossible to deny him the ,
'praise of considerable industry. He sutured
into a comprehensive view of every thing
connected with the situation of the Protest-
aut Establishment in Ireland, and amongst
other things to be regretted, if they were true, as-
serted that whilst the number of Protestant resi-
dent Ministers was only 758, that of non-resi-
dents amounted to 531, or nearly one-half of the
whole. Had he confined himself to pointing out
real faults and grievances, his motion would have
met with a better fate ; but he sealed its doom
when he extended its object to the spoliation of
the Irish Hierarchy ; for though he gave it a'
milder name, the taking away of property which
he proposed was nothing but spoliation. Mr.
Stanley, in a maiden speech, which does the highest
credit to his abilities, and announces that a real
orator has been added to the House, combated
his arguments triumphantly, and proved that the
measure, instead of conciliating, would increase
' the animosities, and aggravate all the existing
evils of the country. Mr. Plunkett denied the
' statement of the Honourable Mover with respect
to the Non-resident. Clergy of Ireland almost in
tolo, and declared that " there were not twenty
beneficed Clergymen non-resident." He also
strewed that " the Protestant Establishment was
'the bond- of security to both countries. The
moment they robbed it of its rights, the doom of
'separation of the'two countries would be sealed."
In vain did Sir F. Burdett emerge from the poli-
lical inaction and obscurity to which he has so
long doomed himself, to prop up the Hon. Mena-
ber for Aberdeen. The House went with the
friends, of property and justice, and the motion
'*as rejected by a majority of 152 t0'79..

• See THE Sox of Yesterday.

The Rev. CUARLES SUMNER, Domestic Chap-
lain to his MAJESTY, will succeed the Rev. Dr
CARR, as Clerk to the King's Closet.

A misunderstanding took place at Englefield
Green on Saturday last, between Captain C. and
o: Lieutenant N. of the Royal Navy, when hap-
liilyno blood was shed on either side.