The Sun.
London, England, 1824-03-10 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE, _MartcH 11.

The arrivals this week are—Wheat, 1,970; 13arity, 1,660;
Oats, 7,800; Irish Oats, 4,100 quarters; and Flour, .5,050
sacks. There is scarcely any dry Wheat on sale to.day, and
so little business_doinc-'. that this article must be quoted the
same as on Monday. Barley sells heavily, but not cheaper;
and Beans and Peas are unaltered. The quantity of Oats for
sale is large, and this article hardly supports the terms of Mon.
day. Flour continues without alteration.

The change in the weather has Leen attended
with the most beneficial effects to the fishermen in the Firth of
Forth. The herrings, preferring; the deep water, still remain
in two great shoals ; one on the opposite coast, and the other on
the south side of Inchkeith,whcreitis said they arelikelyto remain
a month longer, if the easterly winds happen to continue so long.
Several boats came in early, on Tuesday, to Newhaven, from
the other side of the Roads, bringing three, five, and ten bar-
rels, which were mostly purchased by the merchants, for the
• purpose of salting, at 14s. or Iss. the barrel. and the other
boats were expected to meet on their arrival with as ready
a sale. From this competition which the retailer now meets
with, an apparent scarcity prevails in the midst of great plenty ;
2 shillings and 2d. a hundred being required, the whole tribe of
itinerant dealers, including the owners of carts and jack-asses,
seemed disposed to await the arrival of the last boats ; not less
than 40 or 50 of which, belonging to different ports, were then
seen busily employed about two miles out from the pier of
Leith.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning Papers, March 10,

[BRITISiI PRESS.]

The state of Spain is at present only what we
antieipated for that wretched and oppressed
country, months since. Tyranny and proscrip-
tion have done their vile work. Foreign bayo-
nets now hold its provinces in thraldom, and civil
war is starting up, with armed bands in its train,
in every part of Spain, and from Arragon to
Gallicia the spirit of resistance is every day gain-
ing ground, and unfurling its standard wider.—
General hatred to the French seems to be the
leading principle of all parties : in that both the
Constitutionalists and Fanatics only agree ;
hatred and discord divide them in every thing
beside. In Segovia, or near it, the Cure Merino,
lately the partisan of absolute power, is hi arms
against Ferdinand's Government. In La Mancha,
Ovello and another Guerilla Chief avow Consti-
tutional principles ; they sacrifice the friars and
monks—the enemies of liberty, and after levying
heavy contributions, retire into the mountains.—

Another strong band of Constitutionalists has
taken post amid the fastnesses of the Sierra
Morena ; their equipments are all sable, their
horses of the same colour, and they wear the ap-
palling distinction of a death's head on their
breasts. These men seem devoted to free their
country or perish ; the station they have assumed
is almost impregnable, and they will not be easily
subdued. Spain, the abode of superstition, bigotry,
and tyranny, nursed and matured by ages, can
only be purged by a lengthened and dreadful or-
deal, by the work of time, and protracted and san-
guinary contest; but the seeds are sown, and
freedom ultimately will triumph in that country;
the deadly night-shade of tyranny will be cut
down throughout the land, and rational religion
and liberty be dominant. This will take place,
even though France; with its new Chamber,,be
completely Royalist. The present elections
throughout that country appear to have outgone
the expectations of the very Ministry who had
promoted them, and Villele, as the result, al-
ready totters in his seat. The Quotidienne even
now anticipates a triumph over the Minister, and
looks for Royalist reforms all through France.
Attempts of this sort, however, may shake
the Throne of the Bourbon• to its very foun-
dations ; deep discontents from the landed pro-
prietors and manufacturers would follow on
the first symptoms, and any further attacks
on what the Revolution consummated, may
bring ruin in their train to the family who coun-
tenanced them and their incorrigible adherents.
The Etoile of Monday state, that Patras had not
yet surrendered to the Greeks; the place was
closely pressed. The French paper insinuates
that division prevails among the Greek Chiefs.
This we should deeply regret in every way : it
would form the only bar that now perhaps exists
to the freedom of the gallant Christians ; but the
French paper is to be little relied on. The first
numbers of the Greek Gazette, printed at Mis-
solonghi, had been received at Corfu, and creat-
ed great interest. A French journal, it is said,
would also be printed there. The situation of
Greece will thus be fairly laid before Eu-
rope, and the heroic achievements of her sons
detailed. The slanders of the Austrian journal
and the Smyrna paper will now be read no more.
Lord Byron was still at Missolonghi, and the
rights of citizenship were conferred on him in full
Senate. Ilia new poem, The Triumph of Hellas,
had been translated into Greek. If the genius
of Lord Byron had not already immortalized
him, his disinterested and generous patronage
of the Greek• cause would be sufficient to crown
him with lasting fame and glory. Liberty in
Eastern Europe must now be triumphant. These
delicious countries, consecrated by every classic
remembrance, and enriched by nature vs ith an
unsparing band, must now be free, if Russia does
not rush in with her hordes in the moment o

completion, and clutch the splendid spoil as her
own. The sabre of the Ottoman is broken, and
he can no longer spread murder and violation
through Greece with his Janissaries, or trample
all justice and liberty beneath the hoofs of his
Delhis and Spahis. It is a glorious resurrection
for Greece—au era that will lire in immortal
history for ever.

[monNING POST.]
It is now some months since we first drew at-
tention to the exclusive Duties on Coal, carried
coastwise, and other points connected with the
supply of that necessary article in the Metro-
polis. We accordingly saw with great pleasure
that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had taken
the subject into his consideration, and proposed
in Ms financial Expos‘ to admit Coals brought by
inland navigation to the market, and also to re-
mit that portion of the duty which has fallen so
unequally on the inhabitants of the Capital. In
doing this the Right Hon. Gentleman has ac-
ceded to the wishes of a large body of the people,
for we scarcely recollect a greater number of
Petitions to have been presented to Parliament
upon any question of similar interest than has al-
ready been laid on the table of both Houses, pray-
ing for a repeal of the duty on Sea-coal. What
then shall we say to those popular Gentlemen
who take every opportunity of objecting to the
proposed remission, and moreover do so on the
ground that partial relief only will be thereby
afforded to the community ? In their anxiety to
find something for opposition, they seem to forget
that the extra duty on seaborne coals is a partial
grievance, and therefore that the redress could
not be general. To equalize the duty is the ob-
ject of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and in
effecting such an evident act of justice, he has
wisely endeavoured to relieve those living at a
distance from the coal pits, from all additional
enhancement of the price of coals, save that
occasioned by increased length of carriage
and its consequences. Yet such is one of the
prolific themes of discontent among the dissatisfied
Whigs, who furtherobject, that the districts of the
country to benefit by this remission of a partial
duty, are those, from the wealth of the inha-
bitants, best able to bear so exclusive a pressure.
And here also is another instance of the incon-

sistency of these Lawyers and Statesmen—they.
deprecate the repeal of a local tax on Coals, be-
cease it is paid by a portion of the country com-
paratively rich, and at the same moment they de-
mand, instead, a repeal of the Window Duty,
which, of all imposts, falls most particularly
upon those very districts which we are told, on
account of their relative wealth, should not be
released from an exclusive tax on Coals ! This,
we presume, is political logic—but we are sure it
is neither reason nor justice.

[THE Tisms.]
A short but striking pamphlet has been pub-
lished by Count Vecchio, on the presents state of
his wretched country under the Austrian domi-
nation. Italy, long a reproach to her own
people, is now a disgrace to Europe, to the po-
licy which betrayed, and to the heartless tyranny
which enthrals her. The Emperor of Austria,
who loves loyalty rather than learning, may, in

_ .
his ignorance of history, not know in what
colours the despot wearing a crown—or the
crowned interest of despotic Ministers—has in all
ages been painted to mankind, from the moment
at which his hand became too weak to wield the
sceptre, or to sign a warrant of execution. The
details of Count Pecchio are too melancholy for
us to repeat them. Some proceedings of the
Austrian. Court at Milan were arraigned iu Par-
liament on the first day of the Session, and inge-
niously glossed over by Mr. Canning; but the
trials of Count Gonfaloniere and his friends,
notwithstanding such technical defences as we

have heard of the Austrian method of admi-
nistering justice, have made a profound impres-
sion upon the public mind of Italy. A letter
upon that subject confirms some preceding ac-
counts,
and shews the scarcely conceivable ins-
policy with which the German rulers of that fine
country have been acting; unless, indeed, we are
to draw the consolatory interference, from the
pains thus taken to exasperate her victims, that
Austria does not hope to retain the power of tor-
menting them. Let a French force be assembled
towards the Alps—and what follows ? Why, a
grievous illustration of the wisdom of those Eng-
lish Statesmen, who of their own accord placed
Italy in such a condition, that the most practi.
cable and popular cure for her sufferings was to
be sought for in the power of France!

NEW TIMES.]
There were no arrivals yesterday from the
Continent, and several foreign Mails continue due.
Our Funds, after continuing the greater part of
the day nearly stationary, and with little business
done, experienced in the afternoon a decline, for
which there does not appear any other cause than
the operations of the speculators. The late rapid
advance in all funded property has induced many
holders who had purchased at the low prices to sell
out in order to realize their profits ; since which
there have been many attempts madk. to lower the
prices by persons who wished again to become

holders ; the almost universal opinion being that
the Funds must advance, notwithstanding the
portion of capital daily withdrawn from the
market for investment in the numerous species of
Foreign Securities now extant, and about to be
brought into existence. Whilst our own Funds
were on the decline yesterday, the purchases
made in French Stock were higher than was
ever known to be in this country ; the price
being 103 f. with the Dividend ; and Scrip of
the late Loan was at 164 premium. This serves
to spew the confidence of the speculators in the

Rentes maintaining a high value in Paris.—
Consols opened at 911, and at tl►e close of busi-
ness were 9381.—Spauish Bonds still continue at
their depreciated prices, and we could not learn
that any bona fide transaction was made in them
at the prices quoted, viz. 19-4- to 20-1- for
the Bonds of 1821, and for those of 1823
Ig4. Still there are some persons who as-
sert that they would rather be holders of
these Bonds than those of Mexico ; because
they would have the less to lose, and the security
they consider to be about equal. The accounts
from Peru, which we have reason to know come
from respectable authority, have created no
little surprise—the Independents defeated by a
Royalist army, which the public had been led to
suppose was annihilated long since !—Colombia❑
Bonds remain stationary, and are likely to conti-
nue so until the decision of the Commissioners
is known regarding the new Loan. It is ex-
pected that nothing will be finally determined
upon until the arrival of Mr. Hurtado. ➢Many
reports have been circulated as to the price at
which the old Bonds will be taken in exchange
for those of the forthcoming Loan, but we are
assured nothing is certainly known upon the sub-
ject at present. The price yesterday was 6M 8;
Chilean, 814 ; Mexican Serip,

[MORNING CHRONICLE.'
The very important subject of Education was
brought before the House last night, by the pre-
sentation of a Petition from the Roman Catholic
Bishops of Ireland, complaining C 4 of the grant
for promoting the Education of the Poor of Ire-
land, as well as that for assisting the building of
Schools, being subjected in their disbursement or
application to such regulations or by-laws as
render them nearly useless to the Roman Ca-
tholic Poor. We fully agree with
_Mr. Peel,

that " in the education of the poor of Ireland two
great rules ought never to be abandoned—first, to
unite as far as possible, without violence to indi-
vidual feelings, the children of Protestants and
Catholics under one common system of education ;
secondly, in so doing, studiously and honestly
to discard all idea of making proselytes." It is
impossible to have one set of schools for Pro-
testants and another for Catholics, and, there-
fore, the two sects must be brought together,
under any system which shall communicate the
blessing of education to both. If both sects
must be brought together, the next object is to
agree to a medium of instruction, to which
neither can object. Now all sects of Christians
recognize the authority of the Scriptures, in one
version or other; but the Catholic Bishops state,
" That Roman Catholics have ever considered
the reading of the sacred Scriptures by chil-
dren as an inadequate means of imparting to
them religious instruction, as an usage whereby

the word of God is made liable to irreverence—
youth exposed to misunderstand its meaning, and
thereby not unfrequently to receive in early life
impressions which may afterwards prove injurious
to their own best interests, as well as to those of
the society which they are destined to form."—
Most of the Members again who spoke last night,
approved of the using the Bible without note or
comment, and Mr. C. Grant thought 44 that the
Kildare-street Society had shewn a great degree
of liberality in permitting the reading of the Scrip-
tures in the Roman Catholic version." It would
appear that the general feeling of the Catholic
poor themselves is not at variance with this view,
for it appears that they are eager to send their
children to schools in which the Bible, without
note or comment, only is taught. So great and
so rapid has been the increase, that in two coun-
ties alone, exclusively Catholic, namely Cork and
Limerick, Mr. V. Fitzgerald states, while in
1817 there were only three schools, the number
last year amounted to 108. The same Gentleman
observed, that within these few days he had re-
ceived an application from two Catholic Priests,
s.)liciting aid for the establishment of schools of
this nature.

[-MORNING' HERALD.]
The Silk question was entered into on Mon-
day night. The Ministers have conceded the
point as to time.. When the question was first
broached, we more than insinuated that they were
too rapid in their motions ; that they had not
taken into consideration the stocks of raw silk on
hand, nor the stock of silk goods in the possession
of manufacturers, agents, and wholesale and re-
tail dealers, and we concluded our observations
by recommending that a year at least might be
allowed before the importation of silk goods was
permitted, though protected by so high a duty as
30 per cent., particularly when it is admitted
that they are smuggled into the country at an
expense of only fifteen per cent. The Minister
wives two years. In that time, it is to be presumed,
the stocks on hand will be disposed of. We can-
not, however, see the policy of being so pre-
cipitate in admitting raw silk at the new
reduced duty. This measure may have the effect
of injuring those who hold stocks of the
manufactured article. And why the duty should,
comparatively, cease in this month, instead of
July, appears to us incomprehensible. We think
the time should have been extended, instead of
being curtailed. We are surprised that those
who advised the Ministers never thought of men-
tioning the period the proposed admission of
French silks should commence. if they had, and
a less time than that now concluded had been pro-
posed, we think there would have been no opposi-
tion—at least none of any importance ; but when
a measure was so suddenly to take place, which
might affect the property of individuals to the ex-
tent of from 1,0001. to 10,000/. each, it is no
wonder that there should have been such an out-
cry. In an national ulcerations, even for the
better, great caution should be observed. Indeed
it is a question whether it does not require more
time to alter a thing after it has become a practice,
than in the first instance to bring it into practice.
The observations made by Mr. Baring strike us as
most extraordinary. e real! y thought that Mr. B.
hadl correct If these, however, be his opi-
tions,itist ti"
irnnoefoolri'arliament to look no longer on
that Ifon. Member as an authority. Mr. Baring
could never have read the Report printed last
year on the sable" of the Silk Trade, in which
Mr. 'Wilson, a
fientleman belonging to one of
the most exten-s'Ye silk manufactories in the
. kingdom, gave as his opinion, that if the
duty were tale° off silk, England would be
able to compete with any nation in the world.
—There was also, in that Report, a great
variety of evidence to the same effect.—We
should like to know what Sir Robert Peel would
say on this subject ; there is no man in the coun-
try more competent to put the Ministers into
possession of information on this or any other
subject that has reference to trade and manufac-
tures—for that gentleman has been practically
anufacturing and interna acquainted with both r-n
and external commerce in all its details.

Extracts of letters from the agents to Lloyd's:
--‘4 Acapulco, Dec. 15. Arrived yesterday the
Colombia, Beresford, from G uayquil. The mas-
ter states, that the capital of Peru was in the
hands of the Independents, and that a part of
their army had embarked for Arica ; the re-
mainder was to be kept in the neighbourhood of
Lima. Soveral American vessels had arrived on
the coast of Peru, having taken the Spanish' flag
at the island of Chiloe, under which they were
cruising as privateers. The whole coast of Peru
was in Possession of the Patriots, as were Guay-
quil and Quito."

Extract of a letter from the agent to Lloyd's
at Alvarado, dated Jan. 3 :—" Lionel Harvey,
Cockburn, and
safely arrived at Jalapa, where they were re-
ceived with every mark of respect and distinc-
tion by General Guadalpe Victoria. The Con-
gress in Mexico had heard with pleasure of their
arrival, and every preparation was making in the
capital for a distinguished reception."

FREEMASONS' TAVERN.—fhe Anniversary Dinner of the
Society for the SUPPRESSION of MENDICITY was given on
Monday, and as might be expected in a country so famed for its
philanthropic zeal to ameliorate the condition of the poor, it
was numerously and most respectably attended.---The company
did not separate till a late hour.
GREEK NEWSPAPER.—The first number of a
newspaper, printed in modern Grj-ek, has just arrived in this
country. The types were sent from this country by the Greek
Committee. The first article in it is the last proclamation of
the late Sir T. MAITLAND.

The French Papers state, that, early in the
present month, a proposition would be discussed in the Pre-
fecture of the Morbihan, as to the eligibility of forming a new
canal from Nantes to Brest, the cost of which was estimated at
890,000 francs-35,6001.

On Monday, Ist instant, Josr.rit Hum; Esq.,
M.P., was elected Lord Rector of the Marisckal College and
University, Aberdeen, for the ensuing year.
Amongst our gallant tars, who distinguished themselves on
board the little Camelion brig of ten guns, in her action with
the Algerine frigate, we with pleasure read the name of Robert
Shaw Lees, Midshipman. This young gentleman " who was
at the head of the Boarders," is the son of John C. Lees, Esq.
of Merrion-square, and nephew to the Constitutional and in-
trepid Protestant Advocate, the Itev. Sir Harcourt Lees, Bart.
—( Dublin Antidote. )

The Englishman who was lately wounded at
Rome by. the mazy to whom he had given his fowling-piece
to repair is in grat danger ; heis an officer, the last descendant
of the celebrated Lord Bacon, of Vcrulatn.—(French Paper.)

From the LONDON GAZETTE, March 9.

Crown Office, March 9:-
MEMBERS returned to serve ►n the present PARLIAMENT.
Burghs of Annan, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries, Sanquhar, and
Lockmaben—William Robert Keith Douglas, Esq.
Burghs of Wigtown, IVhithorn, New Galloway, and Stran-
raer--Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Esq., of No. 9, Brunswick.
square, London, in the room of Sir John Osborn, Bart., who
has accepted the office of one of the Commissioners of Public
Accounts.