The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-22 00:00:00

Til E MAtI. ifTS.

CORN-EXCHANGE, Dim. 22.
The quantities of Corn that arrived here last week were
tolerably good. This morning there is a consitlerablequantity
of Wheat at market from Essex and Kent, with a fair supply
of Barley, Beans, Pease, and Oats, from other parts. There
has again been a lively trade for Wheat to-day, and prices have
exceeded those of last Monday by 2s. to 3s. per quarter ; but
many of our millers now decline purchasing in the expectation
that the late advances will shortly All our market with Wheat
and Flour. Barley sells readily, and is further advanced le.
to 2s. per quarter. Boiling Pease are also li. toes. per quarter
dearer. Beans find sale at rather better prices than this day
sc'nnight. Grey Pease are Is. per quarter higher. ' Oats meet
buyers with readiness, and fully support the prices of this day-
week. Flour is expected to advance to GOs. per sack.
Wheat, Red 404 64s I Pease, White .... ....... 28s 414 s
White 44s 64s Grey oils NO
rye .. 39s 33s Beans 3ll 404
Harley- 22s 241 s Oats 20s 2i'a
Malt —s s Flour 4oe :WS
ARRIVALS LAST WII:F:Ii.
English Wheat, 6,979-13arley, 15,339—Ma1t, 4,152-oata.,
9,123 Rye, 0 leans 1387 —Peas, 2093—Poroign Wheat, 0
MIL Oats, 8,410—D4118h limit., 8,023 racks.

AVERAIIIt Pluck: or con); IN ENOLATM AND WALEI,
tN TI-IN WE r.Nrizzio DECLMJIEII 13.
'Wheat, 60s. Bd. ; Parley, 275. 6d. ; Oats, 20s. 74.;
Sla. 3d. ; 13eans, 355. ; Peas, 335. 24.
The Average Price of crown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the Returns smide in the. Week ending the 17th diy of
December, 1823, is 355. 00. per cwt.

SMITITFIELD MARKET, DEC. 22.
• Although the supply of Oxen was not very great this mem.,
ing, there was morn. than a eufficienc; for the trade, and very
little could be sold, owing to most of the butchers having luta
in their Christmas stock on this day se'nnight. The prices of
prime Oxen arc much the same as on last market day. Sheep
of superior quality maintain their price, but that of inferior
description is somewhat lower in price.
To sink the on], per atone of I.
... 3s Od to .4s 8d I Veal .. 44 lid to 59 Btlds lid to 4s W. Pork 'ls 01 to 4s Od.
Lamb Os 0.1 to Os 01
•
fIAY ANT) STRAW, PER LoAr).
£4 Os to £5 Os I Clover
Straw ----el Ills to ed.

Bea .
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iNIUSICAL PMENOMENON.—Nrii at this rem,
trent tiossosee a roil pheeornenon, in a young Hung-lean,
aged 11, named 'deist. This child already displays talents of
the first crier as a pianist; but the exec ition of young Leitt is
not only distineuished fur rapidity of riegering, which ii that
is admired in a number of performers, he unite* to a perfectieo
of lightness and firninese of hand an expression which hes
been wanting in other performers whose reputation is, r.evee..
thelees, very high. This, however, is what is least aistonieh.
ing in the taleete of this extraordinary child. Ile composee in
the style of the greatest mestere, and he improves on leeseThi
given him with a facility mo much the more mervellotis riS the
force and grace of ideas never fail him. Since Aloart, who
astonished several Courts of Europe at the age of eight years,
the musical world has certainly witnessed nothing so surprising.
as young Leist. We must not forget to notice a charic eristie
feature which completes his fame as a real prodigy ; which is,
that having only recently begun to learn the French languege,
he already expresses himself in it with a distiactness and same.
times with an elegance which would do credit to rainy eouths
of sixteen or eighteen years of age.--(Paris Paper.) .
CAUTION TO PU RCHASERS OF PHEASANTS.—^A.
correspondent confidently assures us, that posehersare frequently
i't the habit of' obtaining this kind of game, by introducing
ersenie or !tome other mineral poison into beans bored toe
that purpose. The feed thus prepared is placed 'where the
bird* feed, and the following mtrning they are taken up deed
front 'Wider the trees in which they are rowed. The legs or
wings are afterwards brokee, or the pheasants are shot., to
peevent the appearance of hav;ng been taken as above dereeib-
ed The general knowledge ( f this pernielous expedient for
ob..aining the birds appears to us better calculated for effectually
removing this sort of parching. t :an therievt rest genie lime, el,
the a`erm n t.rally extit al in .he mitid of the public will put
It step to the demand for so Cangerous a luxury.--( Leicester
Journal.)
At d .I.4l4tniraltySest :ions. on Seturday, John Cynic, aged
21, w :.cpnvicted (under 1., lid Ellenboreugh's ."let) for felon'_
trusty, • alicionsly, and wilfally stabbing William Clarke,
Comm l
ifiryft
rof the Best India free trader. Gorge the Fourth,vi It into .19'in.trder him.--Deeth. K,
Bow.e.:TeEV.T.--Sitturany Carolin'rirlen, a seuepeteess,
employed in tAttcirels-makiag depertm ts at Drury-laue Thee-
tee, was brought before the unigistrat -olierged with steal-
ing 3 large quantity of spangles, gold an 'lva pegs, steel ore
*Merits, tinsel, &c. the property of It. '. Ellison, E.sq. ;
a . Ann Wood, a dealer in Marine stores, Princee-street ;
I)ru ye a
.e, was placed at the bar at the sitri : time, cherged
with r ying the property, well knowing it to be stolen
M--
Air. Ellis iketated, that he employed nearly Ibo womertae thin
.4
time of the yehe, in preparing tiresse* for the use of the Theatte. ,
These persons had necessariiy ;teem to %emelt valuable property,
and. he was sorry to say there was too much reason to believe
that an extensive system of plunder had been curried on for
some time. \Perky said nothing in her defence ; but litre.
Wood declared herself innocent of any gailty kooteheige :Mat
the property was stolen. lien fellow prisoner brotight the ae,ieleet
to tier in small qunntitits, alwitys *sling tier they were per-
quisites allowed by the Theatre; and she, having no moon
to doebt her story, gave her what she coelitiered 41 fair miss.
The Magistrate told Mrs. Wood that her der:met:ewes a very
bad one. She must have known, that the property had beta
i4tol -rt ; for no person of common settee would snppese teat
whole bundles of !eve, anti spengleN at 29i. A PO:lna, WO'alti be
allowed by a Tiacatre as perquisite* to work-evornen,—lieV.t
pr;sotters were then fully committed fov:utei.
MURDER AT At VOltD, IN LINCOLNIMIIit..--tt, IS ':rain
our painful duty to have to record the partictilari of an-
other minder, to add to the c3tAlogue a 1 the many witielt
have recently taken place itt different parts of the kingdom.
It appears that it young woman, of the Lame of Sarah At-
rows/filth, had fortned a connoxion with a man of the name
of John Smith, a servant in the employ of Ilir. Ancient, a
fernier, living at Sailby, near Alford, by Om, about
three years ago, she had a child, and two* by him again far tole
varietal in pregnancy. Front doe statement of the unfortu-
nate woman, which teas taken before the magistrates preview'
to her death, it op peers that on the morning of the eth of
Deeentber Smith called her up, at the bootie of her metier,
in Alffird, where she resided, and put a beg Of flour, toy
means of a fork, into the chamber window, bill'illit at
tl:e sante time, " I have brought a grinding fir yon," ;,:bit‘ii
he hod promised. On the following tsar, she begun to wake
the flour into cakes, which, after baking, s gave 'tune to
her child, anti ate some herself. Noon erre. wards they were
both taken ill. The unfortunate woman lingered until eight
o'clock the following 'Thursday morning, when elle expired.
An iiiquest was held on the body no Friday the 12th, when the. Jury returned a verdict of " ;Eifel Murder agenst John
Smith."—lle wits comtnitted to lon:edit on Satter* ay, to take
his trial for the offence At the next Atuizes. The remainder
of the cakes and the flour WAN produced before the Jury 4 find
on examination were found to be strongly impregnated' with
white erectile. Not less than six women partook 01 the cakes,
all of .whom arcs now extremely ill. Sierab Arran smith eves eta
years of age, anti we* coneidered 4 very tine looking woman ;
she bad been tettached to the prisoner for some yeere' and was
on the eve of being married to him, as the bats had already
beers pubilshed twice in Sailby arid Alford thorehte.—( Don.
caster PUper. )

Tinr, LONDON YOtYitNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning Papers, Dee. 22

[TUE TIMU.]
T,,etters,from,Rio de Janeiro were received on
Saturday by the packet, dated the 234 of Octo-
ber. Our countryman, Lord Cochrane, who com-
mandi the Brazilian navy, appears to enjoy high
favour at: the, Iniperial Court. Ife has received
theAitle of Marquis of Maranham, for his recent
ServiOes in putting down the Portuguese autho-
rities at
.tliat anct, Lady, Cochrane the ap.
pointinent to be one of the Emprens's Ladies of
Hrinour. Ilk Lordship was employed in a
'cruise on the coasts of Brazil, from Rio to
Pernatnbeco and Bahia, for the purpose of
repressing promptly any symptoms of dis-
affection that might be manifested against the
new :-Coverinnerit. ft was only on the coast
that any fears of that nature
.were entertained ;
in the interior, the attachment to the new system
was not &milled. Most of the .accounts men-
tion the
,increasing popularity of the young
Sovereign; whose Sentiments are described es
in a considerable degree favourable to free in-
stitutions, while his character,.as -.developed by
age, becomes distinguished by moderation, a
disposition to listen to prudent Counsels, by
habits of economy, and of great , personal ac-
tivity. On the 1 th of October was celebrated
at Rio the. anniversary of the Emperor's birth
and of Isis coronation, which was attended
by the festivities usual on such cccasions.
—At" the early hour of nine on the follow-
ing morning the Emperor was met in the streets
of the capital, accompanied by the Empress.'und
two Chamberlains., returning from a
beard of a Brazilian corvette. just .a.rriVed from
_Bahia. llis exertions to improvn the army had
been very successful. have set:n a letter
from an English merchant, which describes, in
terms:of high praise, the fine appetirtmee of tt:
corps of 7,000 or 8,000 troops, as they ,Atski
before the Palace. The navy was also
great
,enc0ur11,44..,111-`llt ; -ameliorations"wery
gradually hoding their Way into ail: the depart.;
meats of public administration. The.Commis-
sioneri from p,,r'cogal, .w hose failore itrstheir mis-
sion has been before annouuced, had saited,foAELl-
rope in the Portoguesebrig or war Treize de Maio;
the Congress at Rialiad assembled, and were ern.
ployed in, discussing the articles of the new con-
stitution, which it was sopposed would not mate.:
rially differ from the project submitted to that
assembly, of which, the leading particulars have
appeared iu this journal, and which wits under-
stood to have obtained the Emperor's approba-
tion, The proceedings relative to the Juan which
has been contracted for *by some merchants in
this con woy, would not lm rendered complete in
all points of form, until the terms of the charter
were adjusted, which was only expected, how.
ever, •to occupy a:few days longer, when they
would he submittedio the Congress in the regn.
Jar manner by the Minister of'Fittatice. Reports
were current of a change or modification of t

existing Ministry,,but none had ;Actually occurred

MOlt NINO RON' cLt.:l
A. privutp, letter from Madrid mentions, that a
fatal (14)4.1.411d takeu place there, in what may be
called high life. it would seem that a great in-

tincicy exists between the Marquess de Casa
Irujo. the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and M.
lieredia, the Minister of Grace and justice,

which intimacy, in fact, led to the circumstance
of their both coming into of ice together, and it
was in contemplation to cement it by n family al-
ljance. 'Young' Casa frujo, a youth about

_ .
twenty-two years of age, and, we believe,
.the
only iscut the Marquess has by his present

nuirriage, had 'for some aloe been paying his
aildresse4, le Miss Ileredia, and it was intended
that he should shortly lead her to the Hymeneal

Altar. A few days before the letter above al
iuded to was written, a serious dispute had, how

evor, Olken place between young Casa 1 ruja litid

a French officer, and a du-el en.,:ning, the former
received a mortal wound. Tlik unhappy eiretlM.

stonce had tilled thelVlarquia with great anguish,

and rather tended to bring tlu French into Elia,

favour,

The preciso origin of the dispute is no

mentioned, although it is hinted that it was more
political than. amorous.

[NEVI
The accounts from Paris to Friday evening
bring the price of the French rentes at 91, 85, a
quotation which does not seem to confirm the
speculations lately, entertained of• a new French
Loan. Spanish Bonds were better in Paris by
nearly two per cent:: but why it would not be
easy to say. Nothing certain has transpired
of the object of Mr.' Rothschild's journey to
the French capital ; but it is asserted that he
is about to return very speedily. M. Cesar
De LapanonAe, a French Royalist banker of
eminence, is said to have already arrived in
England; and from all these circumstances it
is concluded that some important pecuniary
tramaction will ere long tratispire.—Menn-
while Consols Go:alone to maintain themselves
above 80' for the Account, having closed on
Saturday at BGi although the very large sales
made oe Thursday seem to threaten them with a
IntiCll heaVier) depression. he premium on Ex-
chequer Bills has fallen to 525., on a very preva-
lent opiniun that the Interest of these securities
,wilt ire: reduced early in next Session from 2d. a
4ay. to 1 !d. Spanish Bonds of l 8 it in our mar-
ket al cot take currespondently to their improve-
ment io natio, ; they closed here on Saturday
•41,

[MORNING, itattAt.D.l
Thursday's Prix Papers, received yesterday,
uttelly ile%titute of , interesting news. '1 hi.
coritrovert,ies nil matters Of domestic politica and
jiarty have nothing in them to command the at.
teation of for readers. Ona subject only
Way be noticed, The Journals of what is called
the Ultra Party demand that Justice should be
.444fOittistered is the Courts with, closed doors, in
order to guard against the mischiefs which they
impute to the publication of evidence. -There is

here a curious coincidence with some idle dis-
putation on ffie ;,saine• • sibfict amongst our-
selves. The Frenclymode- of preventing the evil
has, it wilt be observed, the merit'of being much
more expeditious and intelligible. Honours de-
scend upon the head of the Duke of Angouleme
from abroad as well as at home. The Emperor
of Austria has sent him the decoration of the
Order of Maria Theresa. The Ex-King of Sar-
dinia, Victor Emanuel, is not only not dead,. as
stated in the French Journals, but almost wholly
recovered. An article dated the Ist Dec., from
Naples, slates that great rejoicings took place On
the anniversary of the King's marriage with
the Duchess of Florida. We know not whether
some proceedings, the description of which im-
mediately follows in the same paragraph, are
to be taken as part of the demonstrations of re-
joicing on the occasion. Of betwen ten and
twenty persons, tried for having belOnged to a
secret society, three were 44 condemned to be
hanged; and to pay a fine of I,soo"ducats each ;"
four to twenty years imprisonment in irons, 300
ducats fine, and ten years security for good be-
haviour, after the expiration of their sentence !
There is something at once ludicrous and melan-
choly in these punishments—the payment of a'
fine annexed to the punishment of hanging ! and
security for ten years good behaviour after twenty
years of captivity in chains !