The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-15 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE. OCT. 15.
There are tolerably good arrivals of most kinds of Grain this
week, and a good quantity of Flour. Prime samples of Wheat
are much wanted by our millers, and they are Is. to 2s. per
quarter higher. Barley sells freely at Monday's quotations.
Beans are rather dearer. Peas are unaltered. Oats remain at
Monday's prices, but they do not find many buyers.
A Rlll VALH.—English Wheat, 5,800; Barley, 3,250; Oats,
3,1100 ; Irish Oats, 800 ; Foreign Oats, 1,500 quartets ; Flour,
8,500 sacks.
SMITHFIELD MARKET, OCT. 15.
The following is an mutate Report of the numbers and
prices at Smithfield Market this morning
CATT LE AT MARKET
BMWs 632 I Sheep and Lambs 4330
Calves 283 I Pigs
To sink the Offal, per stone of tilb.
Beef 3s 44 to 4s 4d Veal ss Od to Os 01
Mutton 4s Od to 4s 8d Pork ss Od to Os Od
Lamb Os (kl to Os Od.

HAY ♦ail) STRAW, PEA LOAD.
II ay £l Os to 35 68 Clover
Straw 32 Os to 32 Bs.

fIORRIBLE ASSASSINATION.

(From the Coustitutionnel net. 13.)
A horrible crime was committed yesterday at
noon in the wood of Vincennes. The following facto' we coned
ast authentic :-11enriette Charlotte Ilerrin, residing in Rue de
Verneuil, No. 511, had two male children at school at Madame
Soudieux, Rue du Terrier, No. 72, at Vincennes. These cl i 'then
were called Charles Gerbault and Augustus I ierbault ; the eldest
six years of age ; the other five. Madame Ilerrin, their mother,
often came to see them, and amused herself with walking with
them in the wood of Vincennes. Yesterday, she came at halt'_
past ten to Madame Scudieux, and after dressing her children,
she walked with them towards the wood, by the road calhd
Des Mitaimes. It was rainy weather, and Madame Ilerrin cur-
ried an umbrella, to protect the children ; a woman dressed in
a pink gown, with a bonnet of the same colour, and carrying
a black shawl, approached the children, praised their beauty,
and kissed them.
Scarce a minute elapsed, when a man about 40 years of age,
dressed in a blue riding-coat, came from out of the wood,
drew near Madam Ilerrin, who had the children by the hand,
and embraced the eldest, who immediately exclaimed " Mason !
Mama !" The wretch had plunged a knife in the throat of the
child. While the mother was looking what it wits that had
made her eldest boy scream, the same person assassinated she
youngest. Ile then disarpeured in the wood. The piaci ,g
cries to which the unhappy mother gave vent, attracted ro,!e
persona, and in a few minutes the military reached the ws 01.
A suspicious man has been arrested near Des Minimes ; he 14
called
' days residing
siiiirn in‘
incParliie is a
s, e"altilve ye (4)ff SAa
t.l°(iur
Pierre,.,ac)' forttliel7n
ot:.1
de Is Providence. lie was recognized by Madam Ilerrin as
the assassin of her children. This individual had purchased
the same morning, a dinner knife from Madam Jean, a cutltr,
opposite the castle. The supposed assassin has likewise been
identified by this person.
The female dressed in pink has likewise been arrested ; her
name is Clotilde Malservait, residining in Bite Beauregard,
No. 30.
This atrocious crime is envelopial in strange circumstances,
which, no doubt, justice will clear up. About a year since, a
man, named Rousseau. came to Vincennes for the purpose f
discovering the house where two children, one of five, and the
other of four years of age, were at school. This individual re-
turned five or six days ago to make fresh search : it is even
said that he offered 1,000 francs to any person who could di-
cover where they resisted. This individual lodged at an iso• ,
Rue Royals.
The bodies of the unfortunate victims lie at the house of the
Mayor of Vincennes. The supposed assassin has seen theut,
but did not evince the slightest emotion.
Papavoine and the woman Malservat have been sent to Paris,
and placed al the disposal of M. le Procureur do Poi.
The excavators have a second time been successful at Famars.
On the 7th Oct. at ten o'clock in the morning, they discovered,
ut six paces distance from the lust work, and at the foot of
the same wall, four vows in terracotta, filled with silver Ho-
man medals. The first contained 1,005 ; the second 1,03 ;
Total 9,515 ; which, with 9,955 fotu it
the third 1,112 (these three vases were of red clay, with a
Sn4iti.",isfo.rm the astonishing number of 19,470
single handle), the fourth very large and of a spherical form,
Octavilia
.oenFecttlielins2(':slftbsii:liv°lets.r found at Famars in the course of a fortnight.
ostilianus,
11)ei ue
si,llliePrPelnll6lisi seniorstr uasnetiill
One of the vases of red clay its perfectly entire. The medals
of this last are of a larger die than the others ; they arc all ra-
diated heads ; amongst these tire the effigies of Italbinua, Pa-
Trebonianus I'olusianus, Casinus,
sp ice‘s
cart: (-T1 or
ar
jdannt nutst‘s
and others, with a
great variety of ditlerent obverses.

NVe have been informed by a Gentleman who
is just returned from the neighbourhood of Banbury, that the
account Of a fatal accident from a balloon, as copied from a
letter which appeared in the 02:1411 Journal, is altogether a
labrication.—(lverhamptvn Chronick.)

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the illurning Papers, Oct. 15.

[THE TIMES.]

The war declared by his Majesty's Govern-
ment against Greece continues to excite, as it
ought to do, the keenest emotions in the breast
of every Englishman. This extraordinary act
has been defended on a single pretext—namely,
that the proclamation of the Greeks threatened
the " 'English crews" with capital punishment, as
well as their'vessels with destruction. Now the
natural interpretation of the Greek manifesto np..
peered to us, as we have already stated, to be,
that under it British seamen employed in the
transport of contraband of war fgr the Turks
would render themselves liable to 'destruction by
a Greek force only in case of resistance to the
right of search or seizure, when exercised by the
armed vessels of the Republic. And if this ob-
vious'explanation be the true one, what Power
can reasonably murmur at thaassertion of such a
right by an independent people ?—a people
\vhose independence England implicitly re-
cognizes, by professing to observe, as, between
theirs and their enemy, the known obligations of
the neutral character. If it be according to public
law that the right of search and of eventual
seizure should be exercised by a bellige-
rent. upon the merchantmen of a neutral ;
if, more especially, while the flag profess
ing neutrality is found In company, and part
of the same expedition with the enemy of the
belligerent, conveying not merely enemy's goods,
(when the principle contended for by England
herself on all occasions would come into play),
but powder and ball and armed men for invad-
ing the country of the belligerent ;—if, we say,
under such circumstances, the right of detention
be acknowledged law, resistance to that right is
against the law, bringing with it, as an inevitable
consequence, the right of attack ; and if the hos.
tile project can be no otherivise defeated, or the
contraband cargo laid hold of, the right of de-
struction by the belligerent power against the
neutral ship, and all that she carries on board her.
But we for a moment wave this proposition, and
meet the partisans of Sir Frederick Adam and
his employers on two other grounds. Ist. It is
said that the objectionable part of the Greek
manifesto was that which related to the crews of
the merchantmen. If so, Mr. Canning had
no pretence for remonstrating, as his courtiers
tell us he has done, against the whole pro-
clamation, every clause of which, with that
single exception; was orthodox, and admissi-
ble, to the letter. Our Government were ag.
gressors upon Grece, if they called upon her to
retract a single syllable of her proclamation,' ex-
cept the one passage containing the offensive
words. We should be glad, for that reason to
understand the precise nature of Mr. Canning's
remonstrance through the lonian Governor, since
it is otherwise difficult to guess on what point the
controversy hinges. In the mean time, the Mi-
nister's friends assure us that he' quarrelled' with
the whole proclamation. 2d. A threat against the
lives of Englishmen is to be visited upon Greece
with the extreme penalty of war. Now the
Englishmen have, in the present instance, made
themselves part and parcel of a Turkish foree.,--
If our countrymen engage in a quarrel between
two parties,. both members of the civilized and
Christian world, we are disposed to admit that
their Government ought to watch over and secure
them, against any more savage treatment than by
the usages of civilized war the' said parties inflict
upon each other. But here the Englishmen go
with their eyes open, and mix in a contest not
between civilized nations, nor carried on with
that forbearance towards the conquered with
which the Christian world are familiarized. To
tell such belligerents, therefore, or what would
be more preposterous, to tell one of such belli-
gerents that he must make war upon his barba-
rous enemy, not according to such principles of
warfare as are best calculated to terrify and sub-
due the barbarian, but according to civilized and
polished usages, which lie laughs at and will not
reciprocally practise, is a species of interference
which may accord wills some men's notions of
neutrality, but which we are sure that in reason,
in justice, or consistency, nei.ther the present nor
any future generation of rEnglishmen will be
found base enough to avow. There is another
point on which we have yet said nothing. Was
there really one word about the " crews" from
first to last of the Greek proclamation ? A cor-
respondent tells us not ; and in that event, what
second subterfuge will the Downing-street ca-
suists have recourse to ?

[ultrrtsu PRESS.]
The financial prosperity of the country has
affected the Journalists, whose business is carp.
ing, in a very peculiar, and in some instances
even an alarming manner. The Chronicle just
noticed the subject in a paragraph of twenty
lines. The. Editor was fully occupied with the
more important questions arising from a street
row, and could not condescend to waste a word
on the revenue. He saw it was improving, and
be therefore instinctively turned from it to read a
lecture on the constitutional duties of watch-
men and night constables.—The Times, hoW-
ever, cannot lower its lofty carriage to the dis-
eiwimi of subjects so unworthy of the attention
of the " leading Journal of Europe." A re-
luctant admission of facts that could not
he disputed, was therefore ex tored from
the Editor. He cavilled as much as he
could ; but, upon the whole, he could not
avoid the conclusion,. that the revenue, as well
as the nation itself, was prospering. ,Yesterday,
hewever, he seems' to have repented his unwili-
i'fig candour, and vents his rage with unusual bit-
terness uguinst, those who have more warmly ay.
Mantled what he hinlself calls •" the course of
Ministers in the path of good sense and liberality."
His paroxysm of ill-temper deprives him of all.
sense of reniion and propriety, 'arid he .p„sh„,,„
his antagonists with blind fury,. aiming at them
blows which only recoil with tenfold force
upon himself. Ile begins by complaining dual
the friends of Ministers should not be satis.

fled with the Cg faint praise" beitowed on
the Ministerial measures of finance ; and he
then proceeds to show that Ministers deserve
no credit whatever, though he had just before
stated his readiness to giVe them " reasonable
approbation," and he finally makes a round
and audacious assertion, that the financial ac-
counts " afford no ground for gratitude or ex-
ultation." What, it will be asked, does he then
deny the accuracy of the calculations ? Does he
point out any fallacy in the statements? Does
he contend that the increased consumption of
excisable articles does not manifest an increase of
domestic comfort and general prosperity among
the people ? Does be show that the policy,
by which pence has been preserved with ho-
nour, was unwisely adopted ? Does he argue
that the taxes that have been reduced were
not those which ought to have been selected ?
No; but he is violently incensed with gg some
" items which have been scraped together from
the public offices, profeising to give the amount of
taxes reduced within the last five years." Are
these items incorrectly scraped together ? Ile
does not pretend that they are ; but he alleges
that it is " despicable" to state that eight mil-
lions and a half of taxes have been reduced
within the last four years, when three millions
were imposed; " one year before these . boasted
reductions." Why this statement is" despicable"
the dogmatist does not attempt to spew. It is
despicable, he says, and there he leaves his as-
sertion to its fate. The object of the statement
we gave yesterday was to prove that. within the
last four years, since the reduction of eight mil-
lions and a half of taxes, there had been an in-
crease of nearly six millions on the unre
pealed taxes. Then, retorts this candid and
amiable reasoner, 46 the relief from taxes
so mucti preached about is rather nominal
than real." This wretched endeavour to hood-
wink the, public is indeed " despicable."—
What, does he suppose that he has any reader,
among all those who have been " led" by his lu-
cubrations, that does not distinguish between the
productiveness of taxation, resulting from the
growing consumption of the people, and from the
aggravation of the public burthens ? Does he for-
get what he himself said on Wednesday, viz.—
" that the reduction of duties will become a
fruitful spring not only of relief and prosperity
to the nation, but the surest method of increas-
ing the amount of the very taxes thus nominally
diminished ?" How ought we to characterise this
paltry sophistry ? Perhaps by no term better
than that which he has himself supplied : " it is
despicable." But he repeats, though eight mil-
lions and a half have been reduced since 1820,
three millions were imposed the year previous.
Admitted; but that fact does not in the slightest
degree overthrow or shake the other, viz.—that
since the repeal of the eight millions and a half,
the remaining branches of the revenue have in-
creased nearly six millions;---an increase, be it
I observed, resulting entirely from the increased
consumption of excisable commodities. As to
the imposition of the three millions of taxes
in nito, it might be shown, if it were requi-
site, that the necessity for that measure or,gi-
tinted in the too great and sudden reduction
of the public revenue by the repeal Or the pro-
perty tax. The single question, however, for
present discussion is, whether the financial returns
for the last quarter prove that the country, is pro-
sperous or the reverse. When we see the re.
venue rising nearly to its former amount, after .a
reduction of, eight millions and a half iu four
years, we conclude that we have the best evis
clench of the spread of comfort and happiness
through every class of society. What, better cri-
terion can be established ? But, if we are pros.
perouq, let us not be too boisterous in our. joy ;
it offends the ears of those to whom no music is
like that of misery. There should be uo bounds
to our abuse of Minsters when things go wrong ;
but, when all Is right, it is equally clear that they
deserve no praise. This is the creed of. faction ;
and it is Supported by a system of arithmetical
logic equalled only by the good temper and
honest feeling with.which the writer on whom we
are commenting, assaults those who differ from
him. He winds up. his argument admirably. " If
the income,". he tells us, " of the natio% seven
years -ago, was two hundred millions, paying
sixty millions of taxes, to-day it would be less
titan one hundred and forty millions, paying fifty
millions of taxes." Not content with thus con-
founding himself and confusing his readers, he
`proceeds, with a mock importance that is truly
ludicrous, to stultify the whole English nation,
as if it knew not when to complain or to be con-
, tent, but as they received the cue from the print-
iog-oflice in Blackfriars. "1 n this)" says het
"we were not hitherto disposed to tell
the people that they had any cause for com-
plaint." Indeed! and so the whole kingdom
is at last let into the secret !! ! These rew lines
are really worth the Sybil's page, for no people
can be 111 a state so pitable as to have a cause
for complaint, and not know' it !! Truly thank.
NI ought we to be for this important disclosure.
We should have been sorely puzzled to guess to
what powerful provocative we owed it that this
knowledge is vouchsafed to us ; hut we are
spared air vain conjecture; the whippers-in of
Downing-street, it seems, have lengthened their
lash, and Printing-house-square will no longer
hush up the matter ; " now that these whippers-
in of Downing-street are driving us, we do assert,
that there is no ground for gratitude or exul-
tation." Ghost of Mother Red-cap, what a
timely discovery! ! How might we, the people,
have rejoiced, and what a fatal sense might we
have bad of our supposed blessings, had it
not been thus divulged to us, from such high
authority, that there was no ground for us either
to exult or be grateful ! What a marvellously
wise Journalist, to be thus able to tell a whole
people what they should think, ,and how they
should feel, on all matters of State! Thrice
happy people, to whom it is given to have so
much brains under a bob-wig in Blackfriars
We doubt not but that the people will be duly
sensible of this inestimable benefit, and will re-
ceive all future dictates with becoming reve-
rence.

" Oh ! teach us, for we trust in you,
Tell us, SIR CocK-4,-uoonLE---du."

[NEW TIMES.]
We yesterday received the Doile dated on
Wednesday, together with a variety of German,
Italian, Swiss, and other Continental Papers.—
A most extraordinary murder was committed in
the Bois de Vinienues on two young children,
described as lovely in person and elegantly
dressed. A monster pretending to caress them,
while walking under there of a female, sud-
denly stabbed them both, and they died on the
spot. The particulars hitherto developed throw
no light on the motives of this horrible deed.—
We rejoice to see, among other laudable acts
with which Charles X. has begun his reign, that
he has dispatched three vessels of war to co-ope-
rate with two others now on the coast of Africa
in repressing that stain to humanity, the Slave
Trade. Another circumstance of a gratifying
nature is, that the preparations for that great act
of national justice, the indemnification of the emi-
grants, are in progress. An exact account has
been taken of the confiscations of the property of
persons who had voluntarily emigrated, and had
been transported, or condemned to death ; and
the amount is somewhat under 44 millions ster-
ling. No honest Frenchman can be at rest in
his conscience till this most sacred debt of the
nation is discharged. The It entes, which on
Monday had reached 1021. 70c. for money, were
done on Tuesday at 102 f. 50c. for money, and
1021. 70c. for Account.

[MORNING posy.]
French Papers to the 14th instant arrived last
night by Express. They contain intelligence of
considerable interest. An article from Constan-
tinople, dated the 11th of September, states that
a tremendous earthquake had destroyed a great
Part of Jerusalem, ruined the Mosque of Omar,
which stood on the scite of Solomon's Temple,
and entirely overthrown the Holy Sepulchre.--
1 Such an event, if the statement be correct, cannot
fait to awaken most serious feelings and consider-
ations. Since the day of her unspeakable guilt,
when the earth shook with its commission, the
rocks rent, and the graves opened, Jerusalem,
though repeatedly given up to the sword, the
flame, and the pestilence, had reposed on her sa-
cred bills as if rooted to the soil. The
wrath that smote, humbled, but destroyed her
not : the nations that • had devastated her walls
perished around her—the cities that had trampled
upon her captive children, became heaps or
deserts. She alone survived, a widow, indeed,
sitting in dust and ashes amidst graves and deso-
lation, but enduring through all changes, as if kept
for a mightier vengeance than that of man, or re-
served for future mercy, to- he gained through
when, in the
sAurlieertiLmgos.o Alartetetri her destinies
undo: fulfilling ?
words of Revelation,. directly applied to " the
great city 's here our Lord was crucified," it
is said, " and the same hour was there a great
earthquake, and the tenth 'part of the city fell,
and in the earthquake were slain of men seven
thousand : and the remnant were affrighted, and
gave glory to the God of Heaven." * This coin-
cidence of the event with the prophecy would
be one of the most striking signs of the time. We
have had many to whichthe generality of men
nave opposed voluntary and predicted blindness;
but one like the present would speak too clearly
to be misunderstood. Let us hope that i,t would
and
ifalsotili,rghsLep den anrkde remnant"
ive onartlyi JY.
te;or e
the Grtni
0,1 that
tl
jifitakiteli:tamhtvseelly:C:Llfci
These Papers abound with gratifying accequts
from the seat of war. There also has. Providence
put forth her arm and displayed her power. There
the race has been taken away from -the swift,
the victory from the strong, and the weak, the
deserted, and the injured have triumphed over
the neglect of Christians and all the might of
the Barbarian world. It now appears certain
that the advantages gained by the Greeks at
Samos haie been followed up by repeated vic-
tories over the Captain Pacha, who, after having
heheaded several of the Captains of his fleet,
has probably experienced the same. fate him.'
self, for the Constantinople article states,
that two Hassegis had been dispatched by
the Sultan to put him, to death. A corumu -1,
nicatiou from Pelais, opposite Stanchio (the
ancient Cos) also announces that the Greek
fleet, consisting of seventy-four vessels and nine
lireships under the gallant Miaulis, had ap-
proached to attack the Egyptian expedition Oil
the sth of September, and that time latter bad
got under sail and,commenced firing, but that
great apprehensions were entertained for. its
safety. That these apprehensions were not
groundless we strongly hope, for letters from Ge-
neva, given in the Corzstitutionnel, expressly state
that the Count Cape d'lstria, now • in that city,
had received news of a great victory gained on
the 7th of September by the Greek fleet over the
Egyptian Expedition in the vicinity of the island
of Amorgos, in which the latter had lost several
frigates and a great number of. transports.—
Now the dates so nearly coincide, that the two
articles strongly confirm each other. The two
fleets have came in sight on the sth, probably
occupied that day and the followingin manoeuvres
and skirmishes, anti the decisive action was fought
on the 7th, when, thanks to God, the last arm -of
the enemies of Greece seems to have been en-
tirely broken.

ThTeyuescdoatyit'asit buti:aris pa
IittIeMORNING HERALD.]
intelli-
gence, and are chiefly occupied with French
bti Kay
last
ornight.—
party politics. There is, evidently, an active
irsili arrivedt
and Powerful cabal organized against the Mini-
ster. It is equally evident, from the tone
of the Journals, that the Liberal and Ultra
Opposition have coaleased. What will not
ambition and the love of place do ? hitherto
the Liberals were merely lookers on, in the con-
test between MM. Villele and Chateaubriami—
now they attack the former with might and. main.
This coalition is treated by some as visionary and
impracticable—it is not new, however. 'Why
may not Talleyrand—wim, hy the bye, seems in
high favour—be received into a Royalist Admi-
nistration, as well as Fouche ? The most high-
minded Ultras did not hesitate to serve with, anti

* Revelation, chap. xi. verse 13.

even under him ; and the late King of France
admitted the homage of his blood-stained hand,
and death-sealing lips, until he no longer wanted,
and was in a condition to get rid of him.
The *Minister--for all power is said to be cen-
tered in the one Minister, M. de Villele,
has adopted a' curious mode of defending
his place, and directing public opinion at
Paris. lie acts somewhat like the French Envoy
at Naples, to whom Al: Rousseau was Private
Secretary, and who, it is stated by Jean Jaques,
in the poverty of news, and the barrenness of his
fancy, used to return back upon his Parisian
Correspondents their own Parisian intelligence.
M. de Villele, instead of defending himself in the
illonitcur, 'sends his articles, under the name of
" Private Correspondence," to some of the Lon-
don Journals, which reflect them balk upon the
Palais Royal and the Boulevards, where they
are readc in their re-translated form, in the
French Journals, as Vastly important discove-
ries. This, however, is an old mode of mystify.
ing the Parisians.—There is an account, not au-
thenticated, of a`great earthquake at Jerusalem,
which destsoyed some of the most precious mo.
numents of the Holy. City.