The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-06 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, FEB. 6.
The arrivals of this week are—Wheat, 6700 ;. Barley, 4100 ;
Oats, 4500 quarters; Flour, 8690 sacks. The spew of Wheat
samples this morning was not considerable, but the supplies of
Flour being great, our millers made but few purchases; yet
the factors are not disposed to submit to less terms than Mon-
day for day samples of Wheat. Barley, 43F7ans, and Peas, are
not plentiful, and they fully support Monday's quotations.
Oats are in short supply, and the demand being slack, they
rise slowly, on much the same terms as last quoted.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, FEB. 6.
The supply of Cattle this morning was fully sufficient for the
demand ; the trade was heavy at the prices of last Monday,
but the inferior descriptions of Cattle was somewhat lower in
price.

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To sink the Offal, per stone of Bib.
Reef 3s 4d to 4s 4'. Veal
Mutton 3s 4a to 48 4G Pork 4s Od to'fss 4d
Lamb Os 0 to Os Od.

FIAT AND STILAW, TER LOAD.
Hay .1:4 his to 15 58 I Clover £s es to 41 ei
Straw 1:1 lBs w £2 2s.

fliE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers,.Feb. 6.

[BRITISH PRESS.
Tuesday's French papers, and the Etoik of
Wednesday, reached us last night. They do
not contain a single article of the slightest inte-
rest. The state of Spain continues still the same;
wretched, oppressed, and destitute, tyranny and
misery are felt everywhere. The Restaurador
of the c22(1 'as a letter from Villacayo (in Old
Castile), stating that the royalist commandant
in that little town had succeeded in organiz-
ing there, as well as in the other communes
around him, three thousand volunteers, armed
and equipped to support the throne and the altar
—that is, the foulest tyranny and the grossest
'superstition ; for in Spain these designations are
synonimous. Where. Ferdinand and his Minis-
ters will find funds to pay these bands is another
'question. The Viscomte Marcellus had been
sent from Paris to press a financial arrangement
with the Spanish Cabinet ; but though the Con-
stitutional loans were recognized to-morrow,
would any capitalists in Europe contract with
such a Cabinet, and lend largely on such se-
curity ? If France is looking for the immense
sum of forty millions of francs,—its expenditure
'Within the Pyrenees in the last campaign,—
where can the Spanish despot, or his followers,
'find such a sum, with a treasury that does not
contain a piastre. The emancipated Colonies
will probably be looked to, after all, as the only
means of supply, and the highest bargain made
for the acknowledgment of their independence,
if they will mike the sacrifice.

[THE TIMES.]
' The snbjects of most peculiar interest in the
late debate, or discussion on moving the Address,
were certainly those which had reference to
Spain, the occupation of that country by the
)French, and the condition of the trans-Atlantic
Provinces. When Mr. Canning was asked by
Mr. Hobhouse about the period at which the
French Army might probably evacuate the Pe-
ninsula, the Right Hon. Gentleman replied, that
" as a friend to humanity, he should not wish for
an immediate evacuation." We think there may
be more of mawkish sentimentality than of sound
policy in this answer. The suppression of inter-
nal discord in a country is always the pretext of
its ambitious neighbours for invading and over-
running that country : and here we have the
same flimsy pretext assigned, for retaining hide-
terminate possession of a country invaded and
overrun. But we should 'beg to know, whe-
ther the long continuance of the French in
Spain must not necessarily increase the evil
which it professes to cure— whether it
must not imbitter the hatred of the contend-
ing factions ; unless, indeed, the invaders are
to remain there till the whole of the Consti-
tutional party becomes extinct, either through
ere_ or misery. First, the invasion was to cure
all evils; yet it has so acgravated them, that the
French army, which, according to Mr. Canning's
Opinion, might have kept away, and aught to have
kept a way, in the first instance, cannot now safely
be withdrawn. Will not, in the same manner,
she effect of every vear's stay. be but to render
the,
neces,ity of staying still longer more abso-
lute ? Bow a brief invasion. should produce mis-
chief, and a protracted one fail of producing yet
mote mischief, we cannot conceive, nor can any
man explain, except upon the principle above
suggested—that the invasion shall be either
long enough, or severe enough, to see the end
of one of. the parties. In fact, the pretext that the
contending factions will break out into mutual
injuries, and destroy each other, if the foreign
troops be withdrawn, can never be wanting, at
whatever future period it may be required that
those. for -should retire. • Itappears
therefore, that as we cannot measure the conti-
nuance of the invading army in the Peninsula
by.. time, we should at last apply same rule for
the regulation of their conduct whilst there. It
must surely be expected, therefore, that. be the'
abode of the French long, or be it short, in the
Peninsula, they shall not invade the Spanish
trans-Atlantic states from thence, either by their
own troops, or by those of Spain, now at their
disposal. An attack upon the free states of
America by Spain, nominally, whilst the French
I4Ve-possession of Spain, is an attack by France,
which we trust will either be prevented by our
remonstrances, or defeated by our arms.

• [MORNING eosT.l
The notices of motions which have been al-
ready given by Mr. Hobhouse and Mr. Calcraft
for the repeal of the Window Light and Leather
Duties, are at least ungracious, if not premature.
Hi 4 Majesty's Speech has held forth hopes that
arrangements-- will be made in some part of our
calculated to afford
Financial system, a further
reduction of taxation during the present,Session.
Tlie Chancellor of the Exchequer has also men-
tioned that a statement of his plans for the cur-
rent year will shortly be laid before Parlia-
ment, and has thereby given an indication that
the part of the Royal Speech alluding to his.depart-
ment will speedily come under the consideration
ofParliament. Now we simply ask, is the House
in-a condition to enter on the discussion of mo-
tions for the .repeal of certain laws until informed
of the views of Ministers upon that subject, and.
of the actual situation of the finances of the coun-
try, of the amount of our necessary exp?nditure,
and of the resources available to meet it by the
Treasury ? No man can conscientiously answer in
the affirmative.- if the country were oppressed by
the contributions it had to discharge, we might
imagine a plausible excuse for plunging in such
hot haste into discussions of this sort, and particu-
larly if no intimation had been officially given that
the question would be brought befo'.; Parliament
by Government. But at the present tine there is
Tlo oppression, there is no suffering experienced
from any cause by any class of the people,
while a pledge is recorded .that the further re-
duction of taxation will soon be submitted to the
Legislature. And yet so indomitable is the itch
of some Gentlemen to have their names bruited
abOut as the aAvOcates• of popular measures, that

a week's delay, perchance, beyond the moment
which it struck their humour to name as the pro-
per time for propdunding their motions, would
seem too monstrous a concession to Ministers,
although that interval should remove the igno-
rance they themselves, as well as all other pri-
vate individuals, now necessarily labour under,
on every point indispensable to the right un-
derstanding of the subjects in question. What
reasonable pretences there can be for this
precipitation we really find it impossible to
imagine. That it might gratify the envy of i
disappointed partizans to provoke a partial
and premature disclosure of the plans of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and by that means
to shear his general statement of our financial
prosperity of some of its lustre, is, perhaps, a
consideration fit to occupy a few Members of the
Opposition; but we cannot believe so paltry a
device would meet with the general assent of any
set of politicians iu this country. We know,
indeed, it is extremely flattering to men's vanity,
even where it is not conducive to their ambition
or their interest with large masses of Constituents,
to be thought the parents, or at least the foster-
fathers of the repeal of taxes affecting the com-
fort and convenienceof the public. Seould motives
of this amiable nature prevail in some quarters at
present, however pardonable they may be, when
due allowance is made for the frailty of poor hu-
manity, we must say that no such considerations
ought to be suffered to drag Parliament out of the
natural order of its proceedings for no assignable
public end whatever ? We trust it will not be so
—we would fain persuade ourselves that even
the Hon. Gentlemen who have announced the
motions we alluded to, will on reflection see the
propriety of reining in their zeal until the expo-
sition of the Chancellor of the Exchequer has
cleared the ground over which they intend to
travel. This is an old proverb which they may
do well to recollect, " the more haste the worse
speed ;" and sure we are, if they do recollect and
act on it, the public will lose nothing by that
discreet resolve.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The Jesuits, like some vegetable productions,
appear to be ineradicable from any soil in which
they have once taken root. It was suposed that
after more than half a century of suppression
and silence, and almost of oblivion, the vital
principle as well as the malignant spirit of this
Order were extinct. This, however, is far from
the fact. The Jesuits have again raised their
heads in most of the Catholic States of Europe—
and are in a fair way of obtaining once more the
two trusts which they so signally and disastrously
abused—the education of youth and the ear of
Kings. In Austria they have obtained posses-
sion of the whole system of public instruc-
tion—the more easily that it is in all its
branches, under the controul of the Govern-
ment. In Spain there is scarcely any system
of education existing, and the spirit of Loyola
has applied itself to higher objects—to the go-
vernment of the State and of the Sovereign.—
But it appears to be in France the Jesuits are
making the most steady and systematic attempts
Ito recover their former powers. Already they
have become a considerable proportion of the
instructors of youth, either by themselves or by
their creatures, and have become, as in the days of
the old monarchy, confessors to the devotees and
kept-mistresses of the Court. The most im-
portant blow struck in their favour is a recent
one, the consequences of which are as yet doubt-
ful. The College called of Louis le Grand
belonged to the Jesuits before the Revolu-
tion. It is the richest and most important school
in France, and was, moreover, of rather a royal-
ist cast. The first circumstance was a reason for
their wishing to recover it, and the second ren-
dered this seemingly practicable. Accordingly
the attempt was made, and the plan of ousting
the actual professors, commenced by removing
the principal one and appointing a Jesuit in his
P• lace The students, for such they are, from
their age in general—this College being a branch,
or part, of what is called the University—mur-
mured at this measure, and under pretence of a
plot having been formed, 40 were expelled with-
out trial or hearing—without even cause assigned,
by the Poviseur, or head of the College. It hap-
pened that the celebration of a College festival
occurred at the same time, at which, as a mark of
honour, seventy-five of the most distinguished
students were invited to assist. The usual toasts
were proposed—the King—the Bourbons—the
Grand Master of the University—but the stu-
dents gave no response, and drank their wine in
sullen silence. For this offence, again without
trial, the 75 were, like their 40 comrades, ex-
pelled. Thus the pursuits in life of 115 young
men were sacrificed to the placing a Jesuit Pro-
fessor. These circumstances are stated in the
Paris Papers, and are treated with just and in-
dignant censure. A measure affecting the inte-
rests and feelings of so many families of a respect-
able class in life has produced, as it should do,
general indignation. But the Jesuits 'go on—the
Jesuit Professor keeps his place; and will no
doubt be soon joined by more of his brethren,
until at length the whole establishment shall
have fallen into their hands.