The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-12 00:00:00

NEW TIMES:]

The very.. gratifying state of the Finances, and
the* perfect conviction of all sell-informed persons
that the peace of Europe is not likely to he dis-
turbed, continue; to make their area
.visible in the
rise. of tise,Funds. The only agitation which has
existed arises from the operations of speculators
Within the .M.ar:lie And the trifling re-actions

which bale been produced from this cause have
been merely momentary. The Expresses from
Paris communicate the same favourable state
with respect to the French Funds, whilst the
Bonds of Spain were done at a lower price than
has ever yet taken place in this specip of pro-
perty ; some sales to a large amount having heeu
made in Paris at 23. Here some transactions
were done at 2340 but subsequently closed at
24. The Bonds of 1823 at 164.—Consols for
the 16th inst. including the Dividend, advanced
on Saturday from 88i to 891, and closed at 89k,
and for the Account in February 89I1.—The
French Rentes sold at 94. 75 ; Austrian Scrip
54 premium. Chilian Bonds advanced from 76}
to 782, which improvement is said to be caused
by speculative sales having produced a demand
for the Bonds, and thus a scarcity exists arising
from artificial causes.

[BRITISH PRESS :.1
The Paris Papers of Friday, and the Etoile of
Saturday, reached our office last night. It would
appear that the long-pending.quaYiel between the
Ottoman and Russia is yet far from being ar
ranged, and that the commerce.:: of the latter
is still subject, at . Constantinople avid all the'
Turkish ports, to • every sort of jealous delay
and opposition. How far the patience of the
ambitious Autocrat will go, a few months
may probably disclose: A Russian army, we are
persuaded, will yet answer with its cannon the
feeble and infatuated resolves of the Turkish
Divan. The leading contents of the Moniteur
and Etoile contain little of any interest. The
Monk Saez, it appears, has not yet left Madrid,
and, like a troubled spirit, is still haunting
the scene of his late disgrace. Should, the Holy
Office be re-established, he may hope to super-
sede the present Grand Inquisitor, and preside
over new murders within the vaults of that infernal
tribunal. The tyrant is endeavouring to orga-
nize, without means or revenue, a Royal army,
and to form his guard. Irujo still continues in-
disposed. Saez is hovering, like" the raven o'er
the infected house," looking most probably to
his sick rival's death. lie may as well be re-
installed ; for what can any Ministry do for
wretched Spain under such a presidency as that
of the infamous Ferdinand ? Spanish Bonds were
so low in Paris, on Tuesday, as 22.

[-MORNING HERALD.]
fn adverting for a moment to the unhappy cri-
Minal who has just paid the forfeit of his life at
Hertford, it is not our intention to moralize on
his fate, still less to suggest any thing like sym-
pathy or palliation, and least of all to perform
the unnecessary revolting workof stripping hiM
of whatever he yet held in common with human,
kind, and heightening the atrocity of his impulses,
or the horror of his crimes. We would merely call
attention for a moment to a slight incident in the
history of the affair. It is stated that the
" Phrenological Society" aPPlied for, and ob-
tained permission to take a cast of the back part
of his head. Does the reader
know what this
- Phrenological Society" is ? The name, as ge-
nerally happens in such matters at the present
day, instead of giving any indication of the na-
tore and purposes of the fraternity, will Only
lead one astray. Like most other pieces of
modern quackery ,and impertinence it, is cloth-
ed in the envelope of a Greek derivative- The
purpose of these phrenologhits is to exhibit,
the relation of cause and effect between certain
'protuberances of the skull and certain animal
impulses, and mental or intellectual powers
and aptitudes. It must strike every %%ell con-
stituted mind at first sight, that nothing could be
more pernicious and absurd—and accordingly,
cc phrenology" has been ridiculed or reprobated,
from its very cradle, by men of sense, reflec!i°",
and real learning throughout Europe. The
inventor, Doctor Gall, of Vienna, is, we be-
lieve, still living—at least he was very littelF—
and labouring in his vocation at Paris. .11
confederate, Doctor Spurzeim, made himself I
somewhat notorious in this country, but ob-
tained no success. But it appears the thing
is n©t abandoned, and that there are some
of his disciples labouring to preserve or revive it.
To point out one or two samples, from a thick
volume published last year by Dr.
Gall---
he lays it down that the same protuberance of
the cranium determines an honest good-natured
man to the. wing of a chicken or to a beefsteak,
when he hungers, and arms the murderer
against his victim, or impels the tiger upon his
prey. To give a sample of the pernicious ef-
frontery of the uses to which the Doctor would
apply his system—he in the same works points
out how infinitely useful his doctrine of protu-
berances may be to criminal tribunals in dis-
covering guilt and apportioning punishment._
But this doctrine is supported by induction
—like other branches of experimental know-
ledge. Let us see what sort of induction
is that of the Phrenologists. The lecturer
ranges you a battalion of sculls on his table,
and tells you that in all the several owners of
those sculls, and in.some hundreds which he has
in his closet, the protuberances agreed with the
dispositions and- intellect of the party. Thus,
we are told, the chemist relates his experiments.
But there is this material difference. The che-
mist does not merely relate but exhibits the ex-
periment, and sends the hearer or reader to re-
peat and verify it for himself—whereas, in the
case of the phrenologist we can only have the
word of Dr. Gall ! But enough of this pernicious
imposture. It is to be regretted that any- encou-
ragement should be given the application at
Hertford. It is only giving an additional instru-
ment to the two great enemies of true science—
visionaries and quacks.

On Friday last John Pratt, a private in the
75th Regiment, aged 19 years, who had stolen a
sovereign from one of the Pay Serjeants, at Al-
bany Barracks, hearing that the fraud was dis-
covered, and that the guards were in pursuit of
him, withdrew to an out-house, and cut his
throat in so dreadful a manner, that he shortly
died. The Coroner's Verdict was—that he died
in a fit of mental derangement.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Jan. 10.

BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED.

Isaac Abrahams, Castle-street, Hounds itc , jeweller, from
Jan. 3 to Jan. 17.
John Champtaloup, Counter-street, Southwark, orange-
merchant, from Jan. 6 to Jan. 17.
John Ella, Lower Thames-street, wine-merchant, from
Jan. 13 to Jan. 24.

BANKRUPTS.
Valentine Hosking, Walton, Buckinghamshire, builder, to
surrender Jan. 17, 24, Feb. 21, at the Bankrupts' Court, 13a-
singhall-street. Solicitors, Messrs. Williams and Goddard,

JOhn Robert Saxby, Southwark, hop-merchant, Jan. 17,
24, Feb. 21, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. So-
licitors? Messrs. Kearsey and Spurr, Lothbury.
Daniel Philip Wade' Hadleigh, Suffolk, tanner, Jan. 17,
27, Feb. 21, at the Bankrupts' Court, Bassinghall-street. So-
licitors, Messrs. Whishaw and Son, Holborn-court.
Thomas Sutcliffe, Bradford, Yorkshire, worsted stuff-manu-
facturer, Jan. 21, 22, Feb. '2l, at the Robin Hood Inn, York.
Solicitor, Mr. Taylor, Clement's-inn.
Joseph Dyson, Netherton, Yorkshire, clothier, Jan. 26, 27,
Feb. 21, at the offices of Messrs. Whitehead and Robinson,
Huddersfield. Solicitors, Messrs. Clarke, Richards, and Med-
calf, Chancery-lane.
Thomas Hopkins, Woolwich., carpenter, Jan. 20, 24, Feb.
21, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitor, Mr.
Nokes, Staple-inn, Holborn.
Jerenilah Mapley, Cheapside, glass-cutter, Jan. 24, 27, Feb.
21, at the Bankrupts'-Court, Basingliall-street. Solicitor, Mr.
Jessop, Thavies-inn, Holborn.
Joseph Flewett, Hillhampton, Worcestershire, farmer, Jan.
30; 31, Feb. 21, at the Unicorn-inn, Worcester. Solicitors,
Messrs. Williams and White, Lincoln's-inn.

DIVIDENDS.
Feb. 16, R. Williams, Worcester, timber-merchant—Feb. 4,
J. Heaton, M. Fleminn and M. Dyson, Almontibury, York-
shire, woollen-drapers—Jan. 31, J. and J. Worth, Trump-
street, warehousemen—Jan. 31, G. Hague Kingston-upon-
Hull, haberdasher—Jan. 31, B. attl Troughton, Wood-
street, silk-men—Jan. 31, A. Henry, Finsbury-square, mer-
chant—Jan. 31, S. G. Hart, Harwich, merchant—Jan. 31, T.
Smith, Hampton-Wick, timber-merchant—Jan. 31, T. Mere-
dith, stn., Bishopsgate-street-without, leather-seller:--Feb. 3,
R. Gough, Liverpool, tobacco-manufacturer—Feb. 3, W.
Moore, Liverpool, -soap-boiler—Jan. 31, P. P. Andrew,
Brighton, grocer—Feb. 3, A. Brander, Budge-row, uphol-
sterer—Jan. 31, J. Cox, St. John-street, linen-draper—Jan. 31,
'l. Cogger, Haymarket, glassman—Jan. 31, T. A. Minchin,
Portsmouth, banker—Feb. 3, W. Gayner, Bristol, dealer.

CERTIFICATES, J. 31.
S. Watts, Yeovil, money-scrivener—W. Lacon, Oswestry,
Shropshire, ironmonger—J. Cutmore, Birchin-lane, jeweller—
J. Snowden, junior, "Wakefield, corn-fact Or-61. T. Wright,
Piccadilly, ironmonger.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. and W. Walker, Wolverhampton, factors—S. Twigg and
G. Tinson, Belvedere-wharf, coal-merchants—D. Brandon and
S. Jones, Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, wine-merchants
W. Waddelow and J. Moggs, Narrow-street, Ratcliffe, millers
—L Jackson, W. Hague, and T.-and W. Jackson, Sheffield,
brush-manufactures—T. Toone & J. Frisby, Leicester, hosiers
—F. and R. Barber, Birmingham, Stampers—A. Muller &A.
Kyd, London, East India brokers-1. & F. G. Moon, Gutter_
lane, Cheapside, plumbers—J. Lawrence and T. L. Blundell,
Ewell, Surrey, surgeons—W. W. Smith, .1. Lawson, &C. Brachi,
Coleman-street, silk-merchants—D. Austin, W. Fisk, B. Per-
riman, Wapping-wall, Shadwell, coal-merchants—J. and J.
Harrop, Manchester, letter7press-printers—M. Sweet and H.
Symes, Taunton, coach-proprietors—B. -Wells and S. Newey,
Birmingham, brass-cock-founders—J. Bliss, W. Cornfield,
and E. Gates, Northampton, dapers—R. Molyneux and c. J.
Cope, Devonshire-street, Queen-square, watchmakers—R.
Maxwell and M. Treacy, Old 'Change, straw-hat-manufac,
turers—J. Jones and W. Winmill, Castle-street,
grinders—S. F. Hooper and J. Biffin,' Cannon-street—R.
i-lodge, J. Dodds, E. Pearson, D. Ferguson, Newcastle-upon.
Tyne, rope-makers—J. Hagar and .1. Blenkin, East Mor-
ton, Yorkshire, paper-makers—B. and R. Clark, St. Alban's,
higglers—H. and T. Jackson, Wakefield, tailors—G. R. 1).
Graham and A. Dawson, Glasgow—T. Simpson and T. Bal
lock, Knaresborough, surgeons—T. D. Allin, T. Shepperson,
and R. Johnson, Cheapside, warehousemen—J. T. Brocke and
D. Crolo, Old Broad-street, stock-broke IA—S. and M. Pullinand J. Bond, Manchester—S. Moore and J. Welch, and O. T.
Roper, Lancaster, merchants—R. Stump and J. 13ubb, Brad
ford, Wiltshire, silversmiths—T. Hoyden and J. Ward, Liver.:
pool, ship-builders—C. Snow and .1. Dinsbury, New Wind-
sor booksellers—C. and E. Ellis,.Wimborne-Minster, Dorset-
shire, maltsters—G. C., C.. C. P., E. R. W., C. and A. Fox
E. Williams, J., T. W., G.,
and J., M., and IV. Williams, Portreatti Company, so far as
regards G. and R. P. Fox. and R. P. Fox, W. Reynolds,,

DAVID, the celebrated painter, is dangerously
ill. He was attacked whilst painting a new sub-
ject, " Mars disarmed by the. Graces," which
had been ordered by the Duke of OtttuANs.
HIGHWAY ROBBER/ AND ATTEMPT AT MURDE:t.
—Tuesday afternoon, between three and four
o'clock, as William White, a poor man verging
close upon 50, residing
at Battle Bridge, in this
county, was passing through Epping forest, he %I'm
suddenly attacked by a robust fellow, who started
out of a bush and knocked him down by a desperate
blow on the head.- The sanguinary ruffian having
thus partially disabled the poor rnan, threw a
handkerchief over his eyes, and then drew a
knife across his throat, which he laid open almost
from ear to ear, but the windpipe escaped injury.
He then proceeded to rifle his pockets, and hav-
ing robbed him of a small bundle of apparel,
3s. 6d. and 4-,k,d. in copper, being all the money
he had about him, he decamped, leaving his
victim for dead, bathed in his gore. 'White
chanced to be discovered in this alarming situa-
tion in about two hours after by a person who
passed that way, and who, with assistance, had
him taken to the George, at Wanstead, about
half a mile distant, where a surgeon attended as
soon as possible and dressed the wound, and
every attention was paid him by the people
of the house. He was on his way at the time
he was attacked to Barking poor-house, where he
was in the habit of receiving a trifle weekly to-
wards his support. Information of the circum-
stance having reached Mr. Saunders, one of the
overseers, he promptly repaired to the George,
and had the unfortunate man taken the same
evening in a chaise to the ~London Hospital,
where he now lies in a very precarious state.
The information which the wounded man can
give is so imperfect, that it is feared the robber •
will not be discovered.—(Colchester Paper.) I

COUNTRY MARKETS AND FAIRS

DURING TISE LAST WEEK.

LIVERPOOL. CORN EXCHANGE, Jan. 6.

We have again to notice an extremely short supply of
Wheat, Oats, Flour, and Oatmeal, and no Barley. The con-
sumptive demand is steady, and there has been buyers of fine
Wheat for export to Ireland. There was a tolerably fair at-
tendance of dealers at to-day's market. The middling kinds
of Irish Wheat, growth of 1822, went off at better prices than
on this day se'ennight by 2d. to 3d. per bushel; the finer qua-
lities did not obtain this advance, but were higher ; and New
was in better request. Barley and Malt were without altera-
tion. Oats are 2d to 3d. per bushel dearer, but not very ready
of sale at this rise. Bean's being scarce, were 2s. per quarter
above our last currency. Flour and Oatmeal were also Is. to
2s. per pack higher. There has been some stir in bonded
Grain, particularly in Wheat ; it has risen in value in con-
sequence.
Wheat, Epglish, Old
New Ss 6d a 91 9d
Ditto sound us Od ,a os 0d
Scotch, Old 9e 9d a lOs 9d
Canada (free) 9l Od a 9s 9d
Irish, Old
New 7s Od a Ss 3d
_ .

Barley, English, Old
New ss 6d a 51 94
Irish, Old
New 4s 84 a 4s 10d
Scotch, Old Os Od a Os Od
New
Oats, Potato, Old 3s 94 a3s 10d
New
Limerick, Old
New
Welsh, Potato, Old 31 9d a 3s 11d
Malt, Tine Bs 94 a 9s Od per 36qts.
Ditto, middling is 9d a Es 3d
Beans, Old
New 425 04 a 44s 04
Superfine Flour, Old
New 46s 04 a 49* Od
Oatmeal, Old —s 04 a —s Od
New
American Flour, sweet, (in bond) —s 04 a —s Oil per barrel
of 1961b5. net.—Sour, (out of bond), —s a —s.
Import of Grain for the Week ending Jan. 5.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour. Sachs Irish,
.Bush. 701 b Bush. 60lb Bash. 451 b For. Br's per 2401 b
3,070 -- 20,850 450
Cu
Wheat, 751 b lOs 04 a Os Od
New 9s 64 a 9. 9d
Oats

NANT'
Wheat, 731 b Ss 9d a 9s pd
---- New is od a es 6d
Barley, 38qt: 4s 9d a 6: od

CASTE
Whrat Brown 53s a—s
New sos is 61s
White.... 72g —s
New 36s a 64s

Rye --s a —s
Barley --s a —s
------•-• NCIV 49s a 37s
Oats

MAID!

y, 33qts Os Od a Os Oci
New 5s 9d a t;% od
Rye os od a Os Oct
WRIT.

BArle:

Oats, 451bs . Os Oil a Os Oil
--- New 3s 3(1 a 3s 6d
Bye Os Oil a Os Od
nr.
Beans
Ticks

32s a 40s

Hog Pease
Boiling Pease ... • —s a
Flour ... 4ss a 52s
Hay, per too Bosa Ms
Clover Ns a 905
Straw
prros:E.

Wheat, !led sos a 68: 1 Beans, Tick 2Ss a 34,
Whits. • 461 a 60s .1 —.small
Barley
Pease, Grey ..... 28s a 36s
Oats
Price of Oil Cake at the Mills in this Neighbourhood, 141 101
per Thousand.
Rape Cape 1053. per Ton, or 61. per Thousand.

TENTERDEN.
%Vileat, Red...... 40s a—s Beans .• • ........ 15s a 44s
%%Tillie... —s a 566 Pease, White .... —s a R4s
Barley
.......... 18s a ?Is Grey...... a 22s
Oats ............ 13s a 20s

CAMS RIDGE,..,A rerage.
Wheet ...... 563 4d per qr Oats . lB3 9.(1 per qr
Rye
....... --1 Peas
Barley. ..... 2811 4d Beans 32s fld

FILTNTIMODON.
wheat .• • • 306 Oda 37s 6d Oats .... 16s Od a t2s Od
Barley .• •• 30s Od a 32s 6d I Beans .... 32s Od a 35e Od

Wisaacif.—Average.
Wheat 531 2d per yr I Oats ..,.... os 3d per yr
Parley 22s ad Pens 37s od
Ryel 6 od Beans 32s od

1-LossToN DisnticT.—The Receiver of Assire Returns re-
ports 5343 bushels wheat bought for 15851 176 6d, and 3135
bulbuls of flour sold for 130016 s 6d.

The supply of all sorts ofoar Grain was large—Wheats sup-
ported last week's prices • inferior dull sale, and rather lower.
Rye, Barley, Oats, andßeans, no alteration.
NV heat
I
Rye
Beans ...... 40s a 445.
HuLt.,
Wheat, EAglish, per ouarter 4Gs 48s a 50s
New
Barley
—s a
New
Oak, Old
- Nets
Riga Oats _
Hamborgh
Beans
Rnglislaares
Foreign .
Rapeseed

—S —S a —s
22s 24s a 26s
—s —S a —s
—s —s a —s
38s 40s a 42s
40s 4iis a 50s
-s a —s
a —I

-s
-1 •

BATH.
,Vheat
Oats
Barley ..... 27s a :1`55 Beans ..

BRISTOL.
Wheat
Barley ..... 50s a 3•ts Beans

18s a 291
4Os a 48s

—s a —s
32s a 44s

SHEPTUN MALLET.
Wheat
I
Barley

SALISBURY.
IVheat
Barley

%Vheat
Burley

17s a
32s a 48s

iSs a 25s
2O a 38

WARMINSTUtt.
42s a tiSs I Oats ...
93s a 3Ss Beans .

193 a 2:38
38s a hOs

Wheat
Barley

IVErrattßY.
—s a—s Oats
--s a —s I Brans

—s a —.5
—s —s

Peas

—s a —s.

NBw➢U KY.
Wheat
Barley

IRs a 24s
34s a 448

READING.
Wheat
Barley
Oats - White.

3es a 4?s

—s a —s
—sa —s

CHARD.
Wheat
Barley

165 a 20.
325 a 365