The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-04 00:00:00

France, it seems, is to maintain her army in Spain
in a manner little onerous to herself ; and there-
fore the natural inference is, that it must be bur-
densome to the country which it occupies.

[NEW TIMES.]
Saturday was a holiday in Paris; therefore
the prices mentioned as those of Saturday morn-
ing could only have referred to private, and
probably trifling transactions. Mr. Canning's
speech at Plymouth has produced a favourable
effect upon the funds, and the forebodings
of The Times and Chronicle have evaporated.
—Money continues so abundant, that Exche-
quer Bills produced a premium of 425. and
Consols closed to-day at 'Mi.—There was a ru-
mour yesterday afternoon that the money iutend-
ed for the payment of dividends upon Spanish
Bonds in Paris had been attached there, and
were in fact placed in nearly a similar situation,
to the Poyals. 'We do not /know, however, what
reliance can be placed upon this report, but it
had the effect of depressing the prices here ; al.
though such an event, even if it had occurred, could
not have been attended with any effect as re-
gards the Dividends payable here. The Bonds
of itel have been at 291- ex-Dividend, but were
subsequently done at 281.

[BRITISH PRESS.
The Royal recognition of the new Lord Mayor
has this year been particularly tardy and uncour-
teens. It is usual for the Lord Chancellor, on
an early day after the election of the Chief Ma-
gistrate, to convey his Majesty's sanction of the
choke of the Citizens ; but on the present occa-
sion this ceremony has been delayed to a
most unprecedented period. Twice did the
Corporate Officers wait on the Lord Chan-
cellor ; and twice were they told that his Lord.
ship had received no commands from his Ma-
jesty for the Citizens of London. At this time
the most anxious feelings were excited in 'the
City, and it was greatly feared that it would be
necessary to resort to a new election, by which
the harmony of the Metropolis, so lately re-
stored, would have been materially disturbed.—
At length, however, the Royal sanction has ap-
proved the election of Alderman Waithmnn,
and that zealous mid independent citizen will
take the seat to which he was so unani-
mously called, and which, we are convinced,
he will fill iu the roost honourable and de-
voted mariner. This is the general feeling in the
Metropolis amongst own of all parties, and we
should he sorry to say any thing to disturb the
cordial unanimity which so happily exists. This,
however, we do hope, and most sincerely, that
no mean and illiberal motive—no wish to offer a
petty slight to the worthy Alderman—has pro-
duced that delay to which we have alluded, and
which is altogether so unprecedented in the civic
annals. We are, indeed, anxious to hope, that
no political feeling has been at work ; but of
this we are assured, that the new Lord Mayor
will prove himself worthy of every respect for his
integrity and zeal in his high office, and that he
will at least be quite certain of obtaining that
reward wbich be values most—the esteem and
confidence of his fellow-citizens.

[AIOaNINIa IiEItALD.]
The Irish papers will have it that poverty is
by means an evil of which the Irish peasantry
have any reason to complain. 44 Every one says,"
according to one of these oracles, 44 that the
country people have money, if they like to pay ;
you never saw them so well clothed ; all in new
great coats and cloaks, &c. ; and the country
shopkeepers say they never sold so much to
the country people as they. do at present." Lest
any doubt should be entertained of this gratifying
piece of news--which will, notwithstanding, be a
surprise to the people of England in general,
and to the above mentioned " country
people" in particular, the following story
is told as entitled to implicit confidence ;
—" There was a gentleman at Sunday's
Well (near Cork), who had a great deal of ground
near Waterford, and could get nothing out of it;
he determined to go there, and had only enough
of money to take him. On his arrival, he asked
one of the men for rent du Well im. 64 Oh I he
had not a halfpenny !" 44 " said the Gen.
tleman, 64 I must live with you till I get enough
to take me home—for I have but a few ten-
pennies." " I have one pound," was the
rejoinder, 44 which I would give you, only
my little girl is going to be married, and I
promised it to her for a wedding gown."---
14 Your daughter must be satisfied without
the gown ; so give me the money." The
man went and brought out a note to the
Gentleman, who, on looking at it, asked him
where he had got it ? " Oh, I'll tell you no lie ;
I sold a pig, and that was all I got." The man
had brought the Gentleman a 501. note as the one
he had received, as he could neither read nor
write." We fear that the Irish are sometime
run away with by their imaginations and the
this is an instance. Indeed, it is known that an
Irishman complained of his being run away
with by his own legs. The French say of
Gascony, that it is a country where the people
" run when they walk, and leap when they run."
'rho writer of the above paragraph seems to re-
semble them in his magnaniMous disregard of
probability. For instance, we should like to
know where the gentleman was to take up his
quarters with this tenant, whose chief stock and
source of revenue was a pig—unless he succeeded
to the vacancy made by the aforesaid swine.—
Again, this simple pig dealer is not only taken
in by the menace of trespassing on his hos-
pitality and comes down with a pound, but
mistakes for one a fifty pound note, having
never taken into his head to change either into
that for which people not knowing how to read
have a particular preferenee—gold coin of the
realm. The best part of the story, however, still
remains. 64 The Gentleman immediately went
out and got a police officer, and searched the
house, and found three hundred and fifty pounds.
Really 44 the gentlemen " in Ireland, or in the
part of Ireland referred to, have a droll way of
collecting their rents—by sending for a police
officer, and " searching the house." The success
of the hero of this tale must have rendered the