The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-10 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, JAN. 9.—Wind E.N.E.—The General KO, belt.
and Repulse Indiamen, made sail, and proceeded on their
voyage about nine last night with a fair wind. Arrived and
remain, wind bound, the Lord Ravensworth, Craggy, from Bt..
John's, Newfoundland, for Sunderland. Also arrived and
sailed for the River, the Willing Maid, Fowler, from Cadiz.
Sailed the Jane, Leslie, for Pernambuco. Came down from
the River and sailed, the Fortuna, Cutlow, for Gibraltar, and
Albion, Bader, for Berbice.

PLYMOUTii, Jaw. E..—Arrived the General
Palmer, from Madras for London, out five months ; landed Sir
Edward Barnes and several Officers; Tigres, Service, from
Lisbon, and his Majesty's'ship Egeria from Portsmouth.
FALMOu T it, JAN. B.—Wind E.—Arrived the Vestal,
Robertson, from Fayal, in 14 days; Bedford, Martin, Sierra
Leone: sailed the 24th November; Carbonear, Stevens, New.
foundland, in 26 clays. Sailed the James Dunlop, Sheppard,
for St. Kitts, and Good Hope, Killer, for New Orleans.
PORTSMOUTU, Jaw. 9.—Wind E.S.E.--Arrived the
Medusa, Hutchinson, from St. John's, N. B.
HARWICH, JAN. B.—Wind E.--Sailed the Princess Char.
lotte and Lord Nelson packets, for Cuxhaven, and Henry
Freeling, ditto, for Holland.

The Friendship, —.—, from Alexandria, was on shore
yesterday, but it was expected would be got oft

THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, JAM. 10.
There are a few arrivals of Wheat and Barley this morning
from Suffolk, but scarcely any thing else in. \% continues
to sell at Monday's prices; Barley is very dull and rather
lower. There is no alteration whatever in other kind of Grain.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, JAN. 10.
There was a good supply of Oxen at market this morning,
and the prices remain much the same as per last Market day;
in Sheep, the numbers were sufficient for the supply of this
day's market. The trade was heavy, and not much business
doing.
(To sink the Offal, per stone of Bfh.)
Beef 2s 6d to 33 4d I Veal
Mutton 2s 4d to 2s 10e. I Pork 2l 6d to 3s led
Lamb OS Od to Os Oil.
HAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD.
Hay 1.3 Os to .C 4 Os I Clover £3 10s to ,f 4 5s
Straw X 1 fis to 4 1 16s.

FisHERY.----There is every appearance of a
most abundant fishery, although the weather is quite adverse;
the boats which were out last night returned full of the finest
herrings we ever saw in this bay. In all the bays of Cunne-
mara the fish are even larger, and the take much greater,
but not a pound of salt there' to cure them ! Several
boats not being able to beat up to this town, owing to
the late S. E. winds, were obliged to throw their cargoes of her.
rings overboard. The roads about that part of the country
are so bad that no wheel car could travel on them ; so that by
sea and land all communication from that quarter is at
present interrupted. A few thousand fresh herrings came
here on Friday over land. from Costello Bay, and who would
believe we were in the kith century, and to observe horses
loaded in the manner the Arabs load their's, and travelling
nearly thirty English miles with back loads of fish !—(Galway
Advertiser.)
THE MURDER. orMfts. DONATTY.—The young
man who stands charged on suspicion of haying
been concerned in the murder of Mrs. Donatty,
in March last, was yesterday brought up for
another examination at 130 w-street Office. At
two o'clock he was conveyed from the lockup
room to the Magistrates' private office, where he
remained under examination until past four,
Several gentlemen from the parish of St. Andrew,
Holborn, together with Mr.. Taylor, the vestry•
clerk, were present. Some witnesses were ex-
amined, and the prisoner himself closely interro.
gated, but the investigation was strictly ,private,
and the Magistrates gave positive orders to the
clerk who took the depositions, that not a syllalie
should transpire beyond the walls of the office.
The depositions were directed to be placed under
la lock and key. The result of • the investigation
was, that the prisoner was remanded until. Tues.
day next.

On Wednesday night, about 8 o'clock, a poor
old man was overtaken in Hyde-park by three ruthans, who
rifled his pockets, and took from him all he bad, which only
amounted to 2d. ; and, finding so little upon him, they kicked
him in a most barbarous manner. Soon afterwards the same
villains met another old man near the gravel-pits, whose throat
they cut nearly from ear to ear. Immediately afterwards he
was taken up, streaming with blood, by two soldiers, who
delivered him into the hands of Wilson, a very active offi-
cer of Bow-street, who conveyed the unfortunate man to St.
George's Hospital, where the wound was sewed up, but from
the time he was found till the present, he has not been able to
utter one word, and it is feared he cannot recover. The indivi-
dual who was first attacked thinks he can , identify one of the
men, after whom the officers are making every search.
ATTEMPT AT SuicinE.---Wednesday evening
the wife of one Hooeca, a house-painter, an in-
teresting young woman, seventeen years of age,
resident at N 0.7, Angel-court, White-hart.lard,
Drury-lane, in a fit of jealousy, swallowed a vio•
lent dose of laudanham. On her husband returning-
from work, she told him what she had done, but he
disbelived it. The alarming fact became, how-
ever, too evident in the course of the evening ;
medical aid was immediately had recourse to,
but her recovery is considered doubtful. The
infatuated woman, who has only been married
two months, made a second attack on her life
yesterday morning with a knife, in which she
was happily prevented.
CAUTION TO SERVANTS.-011 Wednesday, Jos.
Hartland, the waggoner of T. HALES, Esq. of
Coddington, Herefordshire, was committed to
gaol for one month, for gross misconduct in beat-
ing his master's horses with a pike, whereby he
so seriously injured one of them that it died in
seven days. Hartland concealed the business
from his master, and continued working the
horse until it became too ill to labour.

As Mr. PALMER, of Chelsea'-was returninz
home across Battersea-fields, on Tuesday night
about 11 o'clock, he was passed by two men
dressed like sailors, one of Omni turned round
and struck Mr. Palmer a violent blow on the
back part of the head with a bludgeon, which
laid him senseless on the ground ; they then rifled
Mr. Palmer's pockets of four sovereigns and some
silver, and took from his person a valuable gold
locket, containing a lady's hair, with the inithtl4
S. W. engraved upon it. This is the second
time within six months that Mr. Palmer has met
with a similar circumstance at nearly the same
place.

Till?, LONDON JOURNALS.

ivUttvli Fito7ll THE DAILY 111011NING PAPERS)
January 10, 181.

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[MORNING sons.]
• French Journals to the Bth inst. arrived last
night by Express. The fluctuations at the Paris
Kxchange were, very considerable on Tuesday
last, in consequence Hof the various rumours, which
prevailed. Some speculators, says, the Quell-
4ienne, pretended that letters had been received
from Madrid, announcing that serious disturb.
antes had broken out in that capital immediately
after the arrival of the Russian Courier,
who bad brought dispatches, addressed by the
Emperor Alexander to his Minister, and com-
municating to him, the determination of the
Congress. Others asserted that the Cortes
had returned a haughty and insolent answer
to the notification which the Russian Ambassador
bad sent theM of the receipt and nature of those
dispatches. These reports, however, are de-
scribed by the same Journal as premature, and
they must indeed have had but little foundation,
if they could not satisfy the credulity of the Quo-
tidienne, which has hitherto shewn itself greedy
of all intelligence calculated to strengthen the
probability of approaching war, and, roost wil-
ling to admit its correctness, without hesitation
or inquiry. Such as they were, they had much
influence on the money market, which experiz
enced many vicissitudes during the course of the
day,. but recovered towards its close:

[stonNrsts cnnosict.c.]
The clamours of British sufferers by pirates on
the high seas have, at length, roused the energies
of the Admiralty. and Government, and we un-
derstand they are determined to take the most
effective measures to suppress the calamities to
which oar peaceable merchantmen, as well as
those of other mercantile nations, are exposed.--
Thlsis a topic of•which we have ourselves loudly
and often tonaplained, and when we express a
degree of satisfaction at, the recent change in the
sentiments of those who stand at the head of
the novel affairs of this country, we do not seek to
give them any great credit, either for their vigilance
or disposition to protect British- commerce; for
the fact is, they,have been frightened Out of their
slumbers, and bullied into something like activity,
and.fitiMU lased, or rather shamed, by the example
of the United ,States. Not that we mean any on-
favourable allusions to the naval officers generally
iu command of the vessels intended, to defend
our shores in time of war, or the masters of our
trading vessels, ow, as well, as during the late
struggle, we have plenty of gallant Captains in
the Navy List, if tiny are only called upon arid
chosen according to, their, merits. The evil in-
tended to be remedied is of a very old date. The
last accounts from the ‘Vest Indies do, however,
mention that the Tyne has captured several
pirates near Matanzas, and we hope she will con-
tinue to be successful.

CNFW TlNtts.l
,The Paris Papers of Tue;day contain little
that is of material interest. 'the ,enter are still
rather declining; they left oil' on Tuesday at
87, 70. The gerferal expectation of unfavour•
able news from Madrid tends to produce this
effect. The most remarkable fact in the news
from Spain is the capture of the Fort of 13alaguer
by the !Loyalists. This, we own, surprises us.
We well knew Ova the Army of the Faith,
though in many of its divisions defeated, wa
far from destroyed ; but we did not believe
that any part of it was strong enough to cap-
ture a forOss defended by fourteen piyees of
cannon and a strong Republican garri§on. The
different fartrons in Madrid are violently guar-
T),4, kesenf obje'ct of dispute is wbet
they Shall do with their captive King. One
party is for dragging him to Cadiz, the other for
keeping him at Madrid. 13oth parties act on a
common apprehension that the French troops
must reach theSpdnish Capital ;- but while those
who urn net connv;:ted with that city desire to
carry oil' their prize to :a safer retreat, the Muni-
cipality of Madrid ‘vish to hold him in their
bandf us pledge for ebtaining, favourable terms
from the Tongue/ or.