The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-29 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

• DAILY
Xxtracts from the Morning Papers, Dec. 29.

[MOitNIN* RONI C
l'he contents of the Jamaica Papers last re-
neived, correspond with the anticipations from
previous arrivals. Our readers may judge of the
degree of irritation which prevails in the West
Indies from the circumstance that in the House
of Assembly of Jamaica, on the motion of Mr.
Barrett, a Committee was appointed to prepare a
Petition end Address to the King, consisting of
Mr. Barrett, Mr. Mais, Mr. Farquharson, Mr.
Minto, and Mr. Hodgson; and that Mr. Barrett
concluded the speech with which he introduced
his 'motion, by declaring, 4' he trusted that if the
tionse granted the Committee for which he was
about to move, the Members of the Committee
would agree with him in opinion, that his Ma-
jesty should be petitioned to remove from his
Councils the Earl Bathurst, and all other Coun-
cillors who by 'their' advice had brought the
island into its present depressed state,and whose
incapacity threatened the Island with still greater
evils." The Speaker of the House of Alsembly
of Dominica, in a letter to the Speaker of the
.House of Assembly, Jamaica,. recommending "
-simultaneous co-operation throughout the Colo-
tiles," goes so far as to say,
" Let us seize the moment to combine our tffbrts, and ener-
getically mark our firm determination never to consent to kiss
the rod, or meekly lick the hand just raised to shed our blood,'
but with one voice denounce in the face of the world the blind
fanaticism of ‘, the Saints,' who would now for a phantom cast
to perdition these once highly valued and still valuable Colo-
Lies ; • while at the self-same moment they are looking on with
cold-blooded apathy at the miseries of Ireland, of their own
poor, the, thrahirem prepared for the inhabitants of Greece and
,Spain, and yea every part of Europe at large."
The complaints against Ministers are, Ist, that
by their incapacity they have already brought
on 4he West India Coleiliei great evils ; and,
idly, that they are preparing to subject them to
further evils. The distress of the West Indians
bas been occasioned by the communication of the
privilege of monopoly to the conquered colonies.
The produce thrown in the British market is
more than equal to the wants of the consumers,
by which means the monopoly is rendered un-
availing, from the 'competition of the planters
among themselves. Many of the old islands can
only be cultivated to advantage at much higher
prices than are now obtained, while cultiva-
tion is extending itself in the new Colonies pos-
sessed ,of abundance of fertile land. The con-
sumers in Great Britain have no cause to regret
the circumstance which occasions the distress of
the West Indians. Whatever, therefore, the
former may think of the capacity of the Earl
Bathurtt and his colleagues, they are not likely
to deem that which forms the chief ground of
accusetion against them in the Sugar Colonies,
the greatest blot in their character.

[TIM Ti IN.]
We have received the French Papers of Fri-
day. 'A
letter from Madrid, dated the 19th,
gives an account of seITICI measures recently
adopted by Ferdinand. To give the clergy a
Proof. of Gia high esteem,,,but regretting that he
cannot do all that he wishes to do for every indi-
vid Ulf 1 of that body, he has granted to the Arch-
bishop of Valencia the Graini Cross of the Order
oflsabello.the Catholic, and to the Archbishops
of Tarragona, Orthuela, Pompeian's, Urge',
Ceuta, 'Malaga, and Salson'i, the Grand Cross of
Charles M. A military Junta, of which the
Duke of ,I..nfantado and the Baron d'Eroles are
members," is formed in connexion with the War
Ministry, fur the purpose of organizing the guard
and the army. A new order is created for the re-
ward it those who, in the late contest, took up
arms for the support of despotism. The plan of
decree of amnesty is said to have been submitted
to Ferdinand on the 10th, but on the 19th
nothing of the kind had [won published. The
journal des Debuts has another article on the
iliM)llltiou of the Chambers, in which the new
measure is commended for its tendency to give
the Peers an influence over the Chamber of De-
puties. The example of England, where the
Peers, it is stated, dispose of seats in the House
of Commons, is referred to as affording a proof
of the advantage of this plan !

[NEW TIMM)
Although the Stock Exchanges were closed,
some extensive baldness was done on Saturdayi
in Consols which advanced to 801, arid fully
maintained that price at the close of business.-1
Spanish Bonds remained at 26-li, with little busi-
ness done in them. Colombian Bonds, in conse.,
quence, probably, of some disappointment on
the part of the holders, in not receiving the
iutelligence expected by the Jamaica .Mail,
declined to 58, but afterwards advanced
to 581, at which price they closed. Chi-
Han Bondi were done at 70; their improve-
ment was owing to the tone of the American
President's Message. This circumstance, too,
has contributed to the improvement of our own
funds, iilasoincli as it has served entirely to dis-
sipate those idle alarms of war which some jour-
nalists, for reasons best known to themselves,
hove recently laboured to propagate. So little
impression have these paragraphs made on the
Stock Exchange, that bets have been made, that
though no great advance in price is expected be-
fore the settlement on the l6tli of January, prior
to the next settling day Consols will touch 89.

•
[IIIO3NING POST. 3
French Papers to the Q7th inst. reached us
last night by Express. They are almost filled
with the late Ordinances copied from the Muni-
te.ur. The Journal (tee Debuts has only room for
a short article; hi- Which .if expresses greet satin-
faction at, the creation of several. Peers out of the
Chamber of Deptities, as it hOldi.ollt to other Mem-
lier"s the protspect, 46 that their servticeS (to the Go-
vernment of course) may-lead them to the highest
dignity the state." The same Journal, of the
day before, has also a long defence of the Mea-
sure of ditisointion,-in-which it openly avows the
weing "taken.. by' the Government to render the
forms or election atuockery, and to secure the
return of a whole Charnbersubservient to its views.
Tbis done in order to diSarm the hostility of