The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-28 00:00:00

CORN-EXCHANGE, JAN. 28.

We have been well supplied since last Montiay, having had
4,700 quarters of Wheat, 4:600 of Barley, t",aiti of Llglish,
with 1,800 of Irish Oats, and 5,450 sacks of Ftour ; but owing_
to the rise of ss. per sack in Flour, and orders from the North,
our prices keep steady, and tine samples of Wheat sold as high:
as last market day. Fine Malting Barley sells full as well as
last Monday. Beans and Oats are also steady at our last quo-
tations. In Peas and other articles there is little doing, yet nts
alteration in prices.

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Extiade froili. "the Morning Papers, Jim. 2S.

[THE TIMES.]

There has been among the Government re-
tniners lately, a great deal of shuffling on the
proposed increase of our standing army. Otrr
first suspicion, when it wag announced That some

additional regiments were to he raised, was,
that Ministers had an idea that France was
planning some measures for the recovery of the
late Spanish Provinces in America, and that

- they were consequently getting ready to defeat
that project .whenever it might be attempted to
tarry it into exeention, Without some such in-
. iterpreta.-tion indeed as this,,it is diffi,cult to solve
the problem -why Ministers are increasing the
army at this period of peace. Why might it not at
least have remained as it has hitherto been? All
our foreign•relations are the same now as last year
• and the year before. What new light;then,has sud-
denly shone in 6pon Ministers, making them see
that the same force is not sufficient for our se-
Lurity' in 1823, which had been sufficient in 1823
and 1822 ? It is said we have only seventy-one
thousand regular troops in pay, exclusive of those
in India. "Only seventy-one thousand ! We
, should think that number too many by about
• twenty thousand.
.Why are we, with the tt::
tural defence of the sea for ever cast around us,
. to be burdened with a regular army doting peace
of seventy-one thousand. regulars ? We should
answer; to give patronage and to consume money.
Btit still more, why are these seventy-one thou-

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sand to be: increased ? We observe with pain,
that there are twenty-four thousand regulars in
-Irel2ttd. But why are eighteen thousand to be
retained in England, in which there are, besides,
the yeomanry force and the militia ? However, itis
chiefly against the proposed increase that we con-
tend, except some new case is made out and Submit-
ted to Parliament as the motive for the auginenta-
tion. But eve really think that Ministers ought
not to be allowed to say,—though not, in plain
words, fet.iirtually—" We- had such and such-
" a regular force in preceding years, but now We,
-4; Will have a larger force :, not that apy circuit-J. 7
stßoce has. arisen rendering
,an atigmentation
advisable, but simply beca.use we. have sl ju
pounced upon the discovery., that_ a. larger
• ",force is, better, and prettier, !and more amusing
;-,and We will therefore snake a change,
" while all external circumstances` remain roain the
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• plOirttitNG posT.l
French Parers to the 26th inst. and: the Eloile
.ol\Mondsy reached us laSt "night by ;Express.,
The- latter t'ontains an Ordinance from the Spa-
uriA War Minister which-is Of considerable im-
yo:rfance; as it confirms the repOrtetrasserriblages
•lirarn)(d Coittitutjonalists in the SoUthern Pro-
• vnices, and shows that they have been Sufficiently
streing .crip.t.e alarm and. to -compel the•Govern-
rne::!. to adopt 'new Measures- far their repression,
some accounts:: state' that Sael-rt had taken upon
.fiiiirself to return' from TolediAo:AJadrid, but no-
thing is said of his re-entering the Ministry. It
,„ appearS -Certain that the:jblitrqUis -bfr a4tr t has
been recalled ; though his rumoured
successor,Viscount Marcellas, . reptesented in the
Journal des Debuts as having gone to:Madrid on.
an extraordinary missions and not as the.regular
Ambassador of Trance, The Marquis,: it was
supposed, Would repair to Vienna„instead of the
Poor Duke of 13eflunO,. who could .not,make
his mind to drop the title.gained: by hispro,Wess
in the field. It is probable- tint the,Emperor
Fl'a-ncis and his Ministers—mig;ht be. desirous of-
having correct information respecting the con,
duee of Ferdinand and the real state of Spain,
and that Talaru (if sent) was chosen as the
individual best calcula,ted, from_. his having.
been an eye-witness, to make the-:reqiiii,ed coin.
muuication. The Journal des Debars,-
.itfter
having repeatedly denied the asserted ilayalarina,
merits of France, now contradicts those Of Spain
‘r to re-conquer her late Colonies," and says-
-ccl'his is 'the whole truth: there is no other
vessel of war in the port of Cadiz than the old
ship Asia, and' a brig, just come from cartha-
gene. ; both of which vessels are waiting for a
cargo of arms to take. to liavannah." The intel-
-Jigence trorn Rome comes down to the 11th inst.
and nu:loll:ices* that the Pope, without being
‘Vholly out of daliger, had, considerably im-
prOvedond was ill a fair way of recovery.