The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-02 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAT., DEC. 1.--Wind N.W. to S.W.—Arritied and
sailed fin the River, the Cineinnatus, Bliss, from New York ;
also, and remain, the Triton, Clear, from Madras; Christopher,
Knight, from quebee ; Juno, Storr, Xabia ; Ilusorah Mer-
chant, Rawion, trout ludirs, last from Gibraltar; and Fortuna,
Carlow, from Malaga—the three latter have nailed for Stange' e
Creek. Passed through from the River the Amelia Wilson,
for the South Seas ; William Lushington,Sughrue,
fur St. Kitt's • Waterloo, Leveque; Waterloo, Wilkinson ;
and Duke of danchtster, Hood, for Jamaica ; and the /tuckers,
Soper, for Grenada.
• Potrrestotrrit, DEc. l.—Wlnd W. and moderate.-.
Arrived the John and Elizabeth, Rawlin, front Newfoundland t
Royal Charlotte, Corbyn, Downs, for New Smith IVales ; and
Sappho, Nautilus, from ditto. gailed the Spring, Ruch, for
DanUie.

PLYMOUTH, Nov 30. Wind S.W., blow';; a severe gale.
...Arrived ,the Alereurius, Itussbergi from Bahia. The Per.
cival, Livingstone, for Montreal, arrived last night from the
Downs, and having fouled her anchor, drove 'this *naming,
about nine o'clock, on the rocks in Mount Batten Bay, where
she now lies in a most perilous situation, with nothing but her
lower masts standing, and great doubts are entertained of her
getting MI; a great number of dock-yard launches and men
hays been sent to her assistance. The Olive Branch, from
Newfoundland, drove un shore this morning on Drank ;'s
Island, and with her cargo totally lost. The Spring,
cut from her anchors and ran on the mud in Sutton Pool--all
safe. Arrived the Idrus, Lancaster, leaky, and her linnipi
choaked ; Standard, Lothetington, from the Downs; and tii4
Jane, , from Newfoundland. •
FALMOUTH, Nov. 30.—1 t has blown a gale all nigh; at
S.W,—The outward-bound have now increased to • about 12',)
all of which are riding in perfect safety. Arrived the Duke of
Marlborough packet, from Lisbon, sailed 24th instant. Put
in the following outward-bound ;—Hope, Pattison ;
Johnson; Nelly, Vivian; Lively, Stealers; Joe, Orarnley ;
fiche, Brig ; llooghly, Reeve; Melville Nt'aton, Purdy ;
Jane Catherine, Snell ; Eliza, Sleep; and Bur sigh, Chancel-
lor. The Nancy cutter, of Perth, put back to-Liston the 22d
ult., with loss of mast.
IVEYIIIOOIII, Dec. I.—Part of the wreck of a large vessel
was thrown on shore this morning abreast of the 11111 of Port.
land, and the sea is covered with puncheons and beanie ; some
pieces of Nankeen have come on shore. About ftur feet of the
masts of a large ship appear out of the water abreast of the
Lower Light Bowie. A large Dutch galliot was thriven on
shore yesterday to the westward of Portland, and all on board
drowned ; her caw) consisted or walnuts, lesions, and totmeo
stems. A piece of board has washed on shore with,." Leonora"
painted on it.
The Elizabeth, —, fram Newfoundland to Bristol, was
abandoned by the crew in lat. 40. long. 35.
The Dundee, Duncan, from Davis' Straits to lAnnion, ar.
rived at Lerwick the 10th ult., with damage and U feet water
in her hold ; on the 13th she was driven onshore, And got (Aron
the 13th November.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India
House, when the following Captains were sworn in to the corn.
mand of their respective ships, namely, Capt. Win. Cruik-
shank, Farquharson, St. Ilelena, Bombay, and China; Capt.
John Hine, Atlas, Madras and China; and Capt. Win. Hay,
Charles Grunt, China direct.
It appears front Boston papers, that the Colornbian steam.
boat, Capt. Clark, in her passage from Charleston to Georgit-
town, sunk within two miles of Sullivan's ,Island, and four
persons on hoard were drowned the crow and the rest of the
passengers were rescued with great difficulty.

AGRICULTURAL It !WORT
FOR THE COUNTIES OF WOIICESTER, STAF-
FORD, AND SALOP, Nov.

The uncommon heavy rains, a ccompanird with
tempestuous gales, has very materially relented the neatness,
and reduced the land into a very bad state for the liloeigh.—
What little wheat has been sown looks tolerably well; but if
the season does not undergo a very rapid change, die root will
considerably sutler. Very little wheat has been broeg !t to bl
flail: The farmer expects a great advance on this article, al.
though it must be acknowledged that the rick-yards seem wry
well Med. The present unprecede ,ted' price of barley has
caused that grain to be particularly brought out Our prices
do not affect the averages, as only the maritime district-4 are•
noticed in the Gazette,. or the ports would ny this time have
been opened—the price being in our market 9s. lttl. and
per bushel. Oats are again looking up; and the quantity
damaged last harvest will make them very much enquired after.
Beans and pease, were in great request; t lose at present shown
are very troll, and of inferior quality. Turnips run very
small ' • end should there come any sharp frost after Vie con.
tinned rains we have had, the damage these roots will sustain
will render spring-feed very deur, for they are tow so soft that
they will soon decay. The fanners seem all alit e,.—the 111141-
pected advance of ,prices has raised their spirits greatly : we
hope that they will not be soon damped, either by an Aver ce
of rent or by the too early opening the ports,

The quantity of oil and whalebone brought to
hull this fishing seasun is—from Greenland, $7l
tons of oil and 331 tons of whalebone. the: pro-
duce of Blf fish ; from Davis' Straits, 2,346 taus
of oil and 109 i tons of whalebone.

TOL; LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning. Pvers Dec. 2
• •

LTIIE PUBLIC LEDGEIta
Though all' uncertainty has now ceased with
respect to the evacuation of Spain, with the ex-
ception of five or six fortified places, yet the
motive which has induced the French Govern-
ment to come to this important resolution, is
still involved in considerable mystery. It is
even a secret to most persons whether it has been
adopted with or without the concurrence of the
other Great Power's;. and, what is perhaps more
strange, nothing has been suffered to transpire,
by which the feelings of our own Cabinet onthe
subject could be clearly ascertained. The French
Papers, which have been prompt enough to com-
municate what they know of the matter, have,
either from real ignorance or affected reserve, not
undertaken to throw the least light upon either of
these interesting points. It is true, the Elvile,
with its usual flippancy, has repeatedly affirmed,
that the most perfect good understanding exists
on this occasion between France and the other
Great
.Powers. With the same claim to credit,
it has more than once stated, that. it is merely
the result of a deliberate and friendly arrange-
ment between the Spanish and French Courts,
originating too with the former. With the last
opinion appearances
,are certainly at variance ;
and we find that the Royalist Opposition, through
their organs, The Journal des Debuts, and
the other Papers in their interests, so' , far
from tracing it to a friendly feeling on the part
of the French Gcverument, bluntly ascribe it
to spleen ; whilst they never fail to represent it
as'pregnant with danger to the tranquillity of
Spain) as well as the solidity of her present mis-
rule. But the real cause of the misunderstanding
they-have left untouched, and we have, there-
fore, no other choice but to take up with the old
and uncontradicted rumour, relative to a general
amnesty and the capitulations. This explanation
has, at least, the merit of agreeing with the cha-
racter of the French Monarch, and his love of at)
honest popularity.

[MORNING POST.]
The King' of France continues to acquire and
to deserve popularity. The manner in' which he
confers favours is calculated to add greatly to
their value. He lately visited the magnificent
church of • St.. Genevieve (the ancient Pantheon)
to examine the historical paintings with which
iMr. Gros had been charged to decorate the inte-
rior of the dome. After having admired their
effect and beauty, and paid a high' compliment to
the genius.of the Artist, as he was about leaving
the place lie suddenly addressed him in the fol-
lowing manner ---4; On coining here I called you
Mr. CrOS ; permit me, at the moment of quitting.
you, to address you as Baron Gros. My Keeper
of the Seals has orders to prepare y e our title
deeds. It is impossible to be more •pleased than
am,viith this magnificent work. It
,is n monu-
ment which you have erected to France." .;

By accounts from llavantudi to the Vid ult. we
learn' tha I 60 late piraciwi laud been committed
on that side of the Island. The United States'
ship Hornet arrived at Havannah on the 16th of
October; having on board the Sputtill General
Torres, whose object was to be tried by a Court
Martial. The political state of the island u—
mained unsettled, and his Excellency the Captain
General had given orders to the Captain of
Ow Port to hand to him all the newspapers
from the United States, to his perusal, previous
being publicly circulated.
of the Police' were active in bringing forward
many of the disaffected for imprisonment. Large
quantities of sugar for the Peninsula had been
purchased, and the" prices were high. Th, new
Tariff was to take effect on the Ist of Decem-
ber, and was much disliked, by the commercial
interest. On all vessels touching at Havannah,
even in distress, it was to he strictly enforced.
At Matanzas the stock of sugar was small, and
sus advance was anticipated.—Coffee was a mere
drug in the market, and the new crop was very
abundant. The brig Franklin arrived at Bevan.
nah on the 422 d of October, having on board a
part of the crew of the French.ship Uranfe, from
Havre, bound there, which ship had been cap-
tured by a Colombian privateer, and sent into
one of their ports.-(Md.)

[THE TIMES.]
The French papers of Monday are devoid of
news, except of that domestic;and even doubtful
character, which may be ranged under the heed
of " gossip." One paragraph, indeed, recants
with becoming gravity another of the memorabilia
of Charles X. It states, that a certain anony-
mons Field-Marshal overheard a reply of his
Majesty to M. de Corbiere, which, if authentic,
is undoubtedly more creditable to the- King
than to his Minister. To jUdge by what has
transpired of that which has not,:. we Must as-
some that M. de Corbiere had: been reading
King Charles that sort of lecture,. which Men
in office not unfrequently, however foolishly,
imagine it for their Own interest to impress
upon the Mind of a Sovereign.. M. de Corbiere
had, tis we may, conclude, been persuading his
Majesty Charles X. that there was nothing but
licentiousness and falsehood in the Newspapers
and that, by consequence, it was his Ministes only
who would address him in the accents Of 14alty
and truth.—The King (reports this anonymous
Field-Marshal) 'replied to the Minister of
Interior as follows You ore perpetually
" complaining of the Journals ; you cannot
" retioncile yourself to the liberty of the
" Press, anti yet that liberty is esSential.-L—
-" M 1 brother did not, go out, but I dO I walk
" about ; and see with My 'own eye 3 ;T must
" know the truth. if 1 did not learn it timing!'
" the journals, I would gather it from the pas.;
: ‘ sengers. in the Street, of whom:l would ask it
—which of the two means do you prefer
This is very interesting, and we are not. a little
pleased to think' that the. ,story May, by possi-
bility, be well founded. ..Chaiies has always
been reputed an amiable Prince—a few more
such anecdotes as the above would go-fur towards

noting him for a wise one. Henry IV. could
not have spoken better, had Sully invited a re-
buke for arbitrary principles; nor do we despair
of seeing published, some day or other, a collec-
tion of enlightened sentiments, under the title of
Henri-ismes de Charles .X."—lf we may rely
upon the general tenour of all accounts
which arrive from Spain, the major part of the
French troops are certainly about to leave that
country.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The condition of Ireland at this moment oc-
cupies the attention of the British public more
fully than it has done, perhaps, at any .period
since the Union. The attitude assumed by the
Catholics has spread the greafest alarm amongst
all classes of the Protestant population. The
Catholic Association, which for some time
conducted itself with moderation, and expressly
confined its views to the question of emancipa-
tion, as it is called, has latterly avowed that
it aims at ulterior objects. The repeal of the
Union is one of these, without which it is
declared the Catholics will not be satis-
fied. What other designs lurk behind, we may
perhaps conjecture without difficulty. The con-
troversial meetings that have taken place between
the Catholic and Protestant Clergy have still
further exasperated the feelings of both. The
former have held a tone towards the latter,
which has too strongly resembled that of men
who are on the point of obtaining power to si-
lence their adversaries. The clerical character
has been ostentatiously denied to the Ministers
of the Established Church, and their revenues
have been so mentioned, and invidiously assailed,
as to admit no doubt of the designs cherished
by the Catholic priesthood. The natural conse-
quence of these proceedings is, that the whole
island is in, a state of extraordinary irritation.
The Catholic Association speaks the voice, and
represents the feelings, of the Catholics of Ire-
land as effectually and dangerously as it could if
it were formally delegated for that purpose.
The Catholic Rent is forwarded weekly to
Dublin. The Priests accompany the collectors
in their rounds, and exhort—that is to say, coin-
Mond, their' flocks to pay their respective con-
tributions. The Catholics are firmly united ;
they 'feel their strength growing and consoli-
dating every hour ; and, in the confidence of
success, they hesitate not already to resort to the
Mogi-loge of menace and intimidation. And what
period, of all others, have the infatuated leathers
of the Catholics chosen for this daring and un-
seemly display ? At .the very mamma when
course of healing and conciliatory men.
sures was gradually producing all the results
which the best friends and warmest patriots
of Ireland could desire. The benevolence of the
English people had just relieved the distress of
the Irish peasantry, whose gratitude, ever fore-
most among their national virtues, had rendered
them peculiarly susceptible of kiedly feelings
towards their generous benefactors and fellow.
subjects of England. The parting admonition of
his Majesty had become the rule of Irish affairs.
Under the able,vigorous, and impartial a tiministra-
(ion of the Marquis Wellesley, the abuses of the
police were reformed, and the equal empire of
the law established over all the King's subjects.
The tranquillity of the country was reatorett, and
the superabundant capital of England was begin-
Mg to animate the industry of the numerous popu-
lation of the Sister Kingdom. Already she en.
,toyed the benefits of this liberal policy, and still
brighter prospects were opening upon her, which
now, unhappily, we fear, are no more. The rest.
less spirit of then demagogues who have marred
her fortunes, has precipitated her into a situation,
in which, by it•isting upon what she ought not
to ask, she unavoidably compels the Legislature,
if not to retrace its steps, at least to refuse all
further concessions.

[New TIMES.]
The private letters of Monday's date, received
yesterday from Parih, state, that the public at.
tention is principally engaged with speculations
on the forthcoming Budget ; respecting the for-
mation of vt Lich so many Cabinet Councils have
been receutly held. Report says, that considera-
ble retrenchments will be made in the different
branches of the Public Expenditure, and that the
King of France will set the example by a volun-
rtry diminution of the charges.on his Civil List.—
The Reines closed at 100 f. 75c. for the Account.
Letters by the Turkey Mail were delivered yes-
terday, from Constantinople of the 25th, and
Smyrna of the 19th ult. They convey no addi-
tional intelligence respecting the Greeks, but
mention that the accounts of their successes
which have appeared in most of the Continental
Journals are greatly exaggerated. By the Ja-
maica Packet letters were yesterday received
from Colombia of a few days later date than the
former arrival, but they are chiefly filled with
details Of the affairs between Bolivar and Can.
tem ; and in other respects are of little interest.

Little variation tool", place in the Funds yester.
day ; Consols opened at 9.5 i, advanced to 951,
and closed at the opening price for the Account.
The intelligence which transpired yesterday from
South America being of little importance, the va-
riation in' the prices of the Securities was, not to
any extent. Mexican 4onds,opened'at tiGu, and
closed at 66i. Colombian Bonds 84. In the
European Securities, the business which took
place produced un advance in the prices corn-
pared with those of thei preceding day. The
French RenteS Were purchased at 101 f. 25 c.;
and the Scrip advanced' from 118 to 12, but
closed at about P 2 pm. Prussian Bonds were
10i4., and ltni)sian Bends 9.51. Spanish Bonds
of 1821 from• evf tO 23k. Colombian Mining
'Shares, which on their coming out to the public
obtained it premium Of' 18 per Cent., ‘vere yes-
terday from .8+ to 0 Premium.----{ bid.)

CMOUNING lALALD.]
We should thhll: that the lirincipa I cause for
the late heaviness ill Ow f ids arose from the
increased price .01 pro6,imrs- 'and other corn—
nioditips, well as the increa!ed price of land.
Tlwse things will nature Ilyaalgorli a mud, greater
quantity of medium when at a high price than

when at.a low price; and it has been said that
the high or the low price of Stocks depended on
whether medium was plenty or the contrary. If
provisions, goods, and land be very low in price,
the presumption is, that they require a much less
quantity of medium to ea iry on die daily
transactions in them than when they are high.
A lowness of price would, therefore, cause
medium to abound, and such abundance pro.
lushly found its %Ay of late years into the
Stocks ; but whets the turn takes place, a scar-
city of medium also takes place, when it is
probable that people sell their stock to supply
such deficiency ; and, in such a reversed state of
things—there being probably more sellers than
purchasers, Stocks tumble, and the surplus me-
dium which upheld them finds its way back again
into speculations of a different description.--
"his is a subject that, we never remember hay-
Thg seen handled. We would recommend Mr.

Tooke—who has written by far the best treatises
of any we have seen, on the rise and fall of provi-
sions, land, funds, &c.—to produce a pamphlet on
this subject. When we read of wheat being at
BUs. the quarter, instead of 50s.—of meat at Bd.
a lb. instead of sd.—of hops at 120 s. instead of
60s.—of land fetching 40 years' purchase, in-
stead of 25 years' purchase—and of ruost, things
of daily consumption, being greatly increased in
price ;—and when we know that the' population
remains the same, and that the daily consump-
tion remains the same ; and that the daily deal-
ing remains the same, in the number of loaves,
sheep, oxen, and so forth—now, if the price
for these things be advanced from 50 to 70
or 80 per cent. we conclude that such. an
increased price for the same quantity of goods
vended, will require a proportionately increased
quantity of medium to carry on the commerce in
the same. The next question is, whore is this
increased quantity of medium to come from. ?
We would say, in all likelihood, from the Funds;
inasmuch as if, as was some time since asserted, a
large amount of surplus medium got into them,and
enhanced their price, arising from the stagnation of
commerce, the same is liable to goont of them again
when commerce has resumed its tone. If we are
right in our conclusions, then, in proportion as
realities advance in price, so will Stocks dimi-
nish in value, till the time again arrives when,
as WP have before seen, speculation gets up
realities beyond a fair average price, and they
fall in their turn, and the funded article is
again the fashionable speculation. ,We should
much like that Mr. Tooke exercised his
ingenuity and research in this matter. lie
followed us in demonstrating that Mr. Cob-
bett was wrong in asserting that the low
price of things arose from the passing of Mr.
now
throwni out to Mr. Tooke, he may, in all
probability, make nn interesting pamphlet of. If,
however, he enters upon the subject, it would be
but fair for him to say that he is indebted torus
for the hint. In his work, Combatting the as-
sumption of Mr. Cobbett, as to the effect of Mr.
Peel's. Bill, he omitted mentioning that he was
indebted to us for that idea.

DuottNtNa cultoNictc.l
The 44 Report of Cppitnitments• under the Vag-
rant Laws' .has surpassed our expectation.- We
were prepared for much curious matter, but the
volunie before us presents in its details a satire
on our enviable and admirable institutions that
was frenrcely to be rooked for in a grave
Parliamentary document. The confounding of
misery with delinquency, which is one of the
glaring vices of the Vagrant Laws, is exem-
plified in numberless instances in this Report,
and persons uninstructed in the ethics of
the Statutes will he surprised to find many
circumstances charged against unfortunate
indivi-
duals, and punished as offences, which are ordi-
narily regarded as only indicative of the most
extreme and pitiable wretchedness. A state of
utter destitution, according to the Vagrant Laws,
goes far towards substantiating a crime, and if a
man be houseless and pennyless, every action of
his life is an offence punishable with imprisonment
and hard labour, provided a Magistrate can but
surmise a bad intent. The French glorify them.
selves for having invented five hundred ways
of dressing so simple a thing as an egg, and
our Legislators may boast their ingenuity in.hay.
ing discovered five hundred ways of putting a
pauper in gaol. The. Returns before us present
a sort of Magisterial receipt-book, in which the
cutious may consult the various modes of dealing
with one convicted. of poverty, and it will be
found that many indifferent circumstances or ex-
yediesits•of necessity incidental to a poor man's
life, and innocent in themselves, are, by the aid
of a presumption of bad intent, converted into
offences, and punished accordingly—" Quidquid
agunt /canines nostri forrugo libelli."—We ob-
serve, indeed, that a vast proportion of the com-
mitments are for the crime of sleeping in the
open air; an atrocious practice to which people
who have no roof under which to lay their heeds
are particularly addicted. There is nothing that
the Vagran,t Law seems to abominate more than
sleeping in the open air, Which is, in truth,tto overt
act of poverty ; resting in out-houses, barns,
sheds, or carts is also considered as criminal,
and punished. 4itiCe`q-trirAierity. So nice is
the law indeed in this -pn rticular, that we find an,
airy nap of one' hour punished vr,; imprisonment;
or
as, however, there is:no oppare"""cal ""ce
injury to society in sleeping
In the open air,we
must conclude the crime consists in the misery
which thatmethod of passing Oeoight would argue.

.. _
About sixteen days back, three poor men, by
name Consols, Mann, and Aldous, set out from
Wells in an open boat, with the intention of
going to Yarmouth for herrings ; "the weather
being so boisterous, they could not gain the port,
and they were driven about from place to place
for 14 days, with little or ' nothing to support
life : on Tuesday night last poor Aldous died,
and on the morning following the other two nr..
W
rived at 0113 withtheir dead companion. Mann
still remains very ill ; Conseil,' is recovered. A
coroner's inquest was held on the body of Aldous
yesterday, and their verdict was .--6
4 Died by the
visitation of God,
through .the severity f
o the
weather.—( Bury Post.)