The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-23 00:00:00

HAMRURG PAPERS.

HAMBURG, APRIL 16.—Our stock market has varied
little since Friday. Sunday and yesterday prices were
somewhat higher, as also in the early part of this morn-
ing. When, however, the state of the Vienna market on
the loth became known, stocks were decidedly heavier.
The Russian Manifesto produced no effect here.
End of April.
Anglo. Danish Loan, three per cent 7034
Anglo-Russian
Russian Inscription, 5 per cent., 18i'.)
Ditto, ditto, IK3I 139%
Ditto, ditto, 183'2
Polish Bonds 18914
Prussian Bonds, 183''
Austrian Bank Shares lISS
Ditto Metalliques 9OT
New Austrian Four per Cents
ens
Spanish 3 per Cents.4l
Hamburg Reporter.
" FROM PERSIA, JANUARY.—The long talked-of ex-
pedition of Prince Abbas Mil za to Chorasan has at length
taken place. That province appeared latterly to belong to
the dominions of the Schab in name only, and the object
of the Crown Prince was to reduce it to obedience. The
Prince's first operations were directed against Reza.
Khuli Khan, a powerful and rebellious chief, upon the
approach of the Prince, shut himself up with 2,000 in-
fantry and 400 cavalry, in the strong fortress of Amir
Abad. The place is fortified with great care, and as the
walls are immensely thick, it was thought it would hold
out a long ',time, and perhaps baffle the attacks of the
Persians. Notwithstanding these circumstances, and though
the Prince's army scarcely amounted to 5,000 men, the
fortress was taken by storm on the 18th of July, after
having been besieged 17 days. The moral effect which
was produced by this brilliant exploit on all Persia, and
also on Chorasan, may he of great advantage to the Prince,
and probably prevent the opposition which has been ap-
prehended to his succession to the throne. According to
the latest accounts be had commenced the siege of the for-
tress of Kerchan, which still refuses to recogn. ze the royal
authority.
" FRONTIERS Or POLISH PRUSSIA, APRIL—From the
foolish incursion of two bands of Polish rioters of ab, ut
50 men from Cracow into Podolia, on the same day on
which tumults took place at Frankfort, these events ap-
pear to be more connected, and the source from which
those unhappy scenes had their origin becomes more
evident. These Polish rioters are for the most part indi-
viduals who took part in the preceding revolution, who
migrated to France, and have secretly returned from that
country. We look with anxious expectation fur resolu-
tions of the German Diet, which must he serious and de-
sive if they could extirpate the poisonous parasitical plant
which has been transplanted from a fireign country to
the German soil, and hinder the approaching month of
May from begi”ning with bloody May feasts.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, APRIL 19.-13 1211 ; two months, 13 1034.
BERLIN. APRIL IF. Three months, 6
Cattifirriasia, APRIL 9.—Three months, 6 32.

EXECUTION.—This morning, GEORGE Co'.
NET, aged 22, paid the forfeiture of his life for the late
extensive robbery at Mr. WHEELER'S, the jeweller, io
Bartlttt's buildings, Holborn.
_ _ _

Two ill-looking fellows, one said to be son
and heir to the hangman in Limerick gaol, were arrested
under suspicious circumstances in this city, on Thursday
evening. They underwent a private examination yester-
day before the Recorder and Abele rates. The raccount
they gave of themselves being wholly‘unsatisfactory they
were remanded. There is something rematkable in the
appearance of these tourists, at present, in a proclaimed
district. They shall be looked to.—Kilkenny Journal.
The number of pounds of soap made in Eng-
land, from the sth of January, 1832, to the like i.eriorl in
1833, in 109,104,119 pounds of hard and 7,547,067
pounds of soft.
DEATH OF SIR CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON.
—Yesterday morning Sir C. ROBINSON. the Judge of the
Admiralty Court, die I at his residence in Wimpale-streer,
Cavendiab,square, in !he 70th year of his age. Ha had
sat in the Admiralty Court in the first servion of the pre-
sent term, and appeared in his usual health and spirits.
He complained t' e day previously of illness, but his death
was not expected by his family to take place Ira so short a
period. He officiated, during the greater part of the late
war, as King's Advocate, in which capacity, and as the
leading counsel of the Admiralty Court, he was engaged
in neatly all the prize causes and captures of the time.
GLOUCESTER.—On Saturday last JAMES
BEARISIAN and GEO. ORGAN PARSON'S were executed
at this place, pursuant to their setvencea. Tt,e former
was convicted of a robbery at the house of Mr. HANcox,
of Risley, near Stroud, and shooting Mr. Ilmccox's son
in the eyes, in consequence of which the young man will
be deprived of sight fur the rest of hie life. 'The latter
was convicted of having robbed Mr. STErnr.Ns, a clerk
in the banking house of Messrs. BLOESOME and Co., of
Dur4leYa of a bag containing between 7,0001. and 8,0001. ;
coneiderable violence having been used in the commission
of
the offence. The culprits were very young men, and
both of them attributed their having fallen into crime to
the keeping of had company.
Mr. W., the son .
of a west-end wine-mer-
chant, received a check from his father to a considerable
amount, which he Was to pay to some one with whom
mr. W., pen., had dealings. Unhappily he was induced
to visit one of the bells near Regentastreet, where lie lost
the whole amount. He kept the matter secret, and on the
following day a draught for 601. came into Lis hands,
which be was to carry to another destination. Hoping
to recover what he had lost, he again went the gaming.
house, and was again unfortunate. Distracted by the
reflections conseqUent on his imprudence, on his return
home lie resolved to put an end to his existence. He
bade his relatives adieu, quitting the parlour in which
they were'sitting, and the next moment the report of a
pistol announced the desperate attempt upon his own life.
The bullet lodged in the joint of the jaw ; it did not inflict
a mortal wound, but shattered his face. Though severely
injured, he is likely to recover.

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1833.

Mr. MATTHIAS ATTwoon's long expected
motion on the subject of the currency, came on
last night for discussion, and after a debate of
seven hours, was adjourned till this evening.
We say on the subject of the currency, for
although by far the larger part of his speech re-
ferred to the distress of the country, and the ne-
cessity of inquiring into its cause, he did not
deny that his main object was to bring about, by
means of the Committee, an excessive issue of
paper, which must at last end in a Bank restriction
Act. This being the real question before the
House, Lord A LTICORP very properly so
worded his amendment, as at once to make
the point, in the first instance, to be decided,
whether it was or was not expedient to alter the
standard of value.

The Gentlemen who afterwards spoke upon
the question, were Mr. GROTE, Mr. COBBETT,
Mr. FORSTER, and Mr. P. THOMSON. Mr.
COBBETT is the only one of these Gentle-
men who is not, or has not been, engaged
in commerce, and is the only one who did not
strongly oppose Mr. ATTWOOD'S motion. Mr.
GROTE and Mr. FORSTER, both bankers, who
have gathered from their experience something
more than the knowledge of the multiplication
table, supported Lord ALTHORP'S amendment
in short but convincing speeches. One fact was
stated by Mr. FORSTER, which we have often
advanced ourselves, but which cannot be too
frequently repeated, as long as men can
he found unblushingly to call the Act of
1819 one of spoliation and robbery. It

was one of justice ; and why ? Because it was
promised during the whole period of the depre-
ciation, that, as soon as we could, on the arrival
of peace, a metallic currency would be again
resorted to. All who entered into contracts of
any kind in the -depreciated currency, knew
perfectly well the certainty of the time arriving
when Bank notes would be reduced
within the limits to which the public
confidence might prescribe them. The breach
of faith would have been in not returning to cash
payments, and although we have undoubtedly
suffered by that act of common honesty, we
should, after. 3 time, have to suffer still more by
playing the rogue. What the result of the debate
will be we will not pretend to predicate, but as
far as it has vet gone, reason and argument are
against Mr. ATTWOOD, as well as justice. Mr.
POULETT THoMSON'S speech was, as his
speeches generally are, distinguished by a mass
of facts of the most convincing description.
We have great pleasure in referring our
readers to it. The only flaw we observe in
his reasoning is with respect to the poor's
rate. There is no doubt that the wages of
labour are now higher, taking into account the
difference in the price of provisions, than they
were during the period of depreciation, but for
the same reason, although the money amount of
poor's rate has been diminished since 1819, its
actual weight has been much increased, as have
the actual number of paupers. This misfortune,
however, is not to be attributed to the change in
the currency, and therefore, affects Mr. THoM-
I
i SON'S argument very little. If we may be

illowed to hazard a conjecture, we should say
,hat the debate will not be closed even to-night.

Nothing of any consequence took place in
the House of Lords last night, except the
adjournment (till Friday) of the debate on the
second reading of the Stafford Witness In-
demnity Bill.

The friends of Sir ROBERT PEEL are busily
circulating a report that the Hon. Baronet has
been three times invited to join Ministers during
the last six months. We should not notice this
report if it were not current in a respectable
quarter, and we confidently hope that our notice
of it may produce a contradiction from those
who can alone contradict it with effect. The
approbation bestowed by Sir ROBERT PEEL On
the lamentable concession made by the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER to the Monopo-
lists, who have laboured so successfully against
the removal of the restrictions from the public
press, has been considered by some persons as in-
dicative of an understanding between Sir H. PEEL
and the Government ; but we must confeas that
we see nothing more in this than the natural
satisfaction which a shrewd politician must feel
at the conduct of an opponent whose weakness
strengthens his own game. Neither is it to be
inferred from the report that Sir H. PEEL intends
to support Ministers in their opposition to Mr.
MATTHIAS ATTWOOD'S motion, the object if
wnich is to effect an alteration of the currency,
that he has become the ally of the Whigs. A
common regard for consistency must compel Sir

ROBERT PEEL to take this course. We
only wish that Ministers had done nothing
else to conciliate the aid of the Honour-
able Baronet, than following up his views
_upon finance, although we are by no means pre-
pared to say that those views were correct,
We have seen Ministers and Sir ROBERT
PEEL voting together on the Irish Coercion
Bill, and have heard Sir ROBERT compliment-
ing a liberal CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER on the retention of a tax upon intellect
which he cannot defend, but which, from his
dread of the Conservatives and the monopolists
of the press, he has not the courage to remove.
It is distressing to see a man of Lord
ALTHORP'S sterling honesty made the instru-
ment of a Tory faction ; and Ministers must not
be burpr;sed that reports are current of their hav-
ing offered office to Sir ROBERT PEEL, when
they take so much pains to secure his support by
the sacrifice of principles which they had so long
professed.

We stated yesterday that the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER had received so many com-
plaints relative to the mode in which he pro-
poses to reduce the duty on advertisements, that
an alteration in his plan was reasonably to be
expected. We learn this morning that, with
the exception of two or three leading papers,
Lord ALTPORP'S plan has given general dis-
satisfaction to the London Press, and that he
has already received several serious remonstrances
from the country. The chief objection to his
plan seems to be that it is not calculated to
afford the advantage to the public which he in-
tended, owing to its being unaccompanied by
any reduction of the stamp duty. It is sup-
posed that as the leading papers for advertise-
ments have now as many as they can find room
for, and indeed more, since they frequently re-
sort to the practice of giving double sheets,
which is so much objected to by advertisers,
they will not, if Lord ALTHORP'S plan be
carried into execution, give the benefit to the
advertisers, but charge the old price and keep
the increased profit. Persons who know
nothing of newspapers will imagine, perhaps,
that this may be prevented by competition ; but
this the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
effectually prevents by refusing to take off any
portion of the stamp duty. Had this duty been
materially reduced, the papers now in existence
would have been able, by an increased sale, to
command a fair share of advertisements, and
other papers, some with new claims to patron-
age, might have been started ; but as an estab-
lished reputation as an advertising paper goes a
great way, those papers which now take the lead
for advertisements, will be able to maintain their
monopoly, and to charge the old prices. The
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER admits,
we understand, the reasonableness of this objec-
tion, but has not signified any intention of re-
ducing the stamp duty on newspapers. It is
probable, however, that he will modify his plan
respecting the advertisement tax, as he has re-
ceived so many complaints of its unnecessary
complexity.

German Papers confirm, what we mentioned
yesterday, that the greatest ferment exists in
Constantinople, so much so, as even to en-
danger the life of the SULTAN, and that ten
battalions of Russian infantry, together with an
auxiliary corps, have been ordered to set off in-
stantly fur Constantinople. These are to he fol-
lowed by eight other battalions, so that the posses-
sion of the Turkish capital by Russian troops,
if they be not anticipated by the rapid movements
Of IBRAHIM, may shortly be calculated on. It

would seem that the Sultan had already given
orders that the fastnesses of Shuinla and Silistria
should be surrendered into the hands of the
Russians. The force of circumstances is thus
fast driving Turkey into the power of its most
implacable, hereditary'enemies.

The French papers received this day, contain
a long letter from the Viscount de CHATEAU'.
BRIAND, relative to the Duchess de BERRI, in
which he takes an opportunity of roundly rating
the Government for having refused him permis-
sion to visit her Royal Highness, more especially
as it was at her own express entreaty. The
letter contains nothing worthy of extract, though
it is marked by the Noble Author's usual elo-
quence and animation.

When we observed yesterday that the Bel-
gian question had advanced a little, we took
care to put the words in italics, to prevent its
being supposed. that any material progress had
been made in it. It appears now that the new

propositions of M. DEDEL are almost as un-
acceptable as the last, and that the communi-
cation from Prince METTERNICH is a mere
attempt to gain time. The answer already
given by Lord PALMERSTON and M. de TAL-
LEYRAND amounts to a refusal to treat upon
the terms proposed by M. DEDEL.

The expulsion of the Correspondent of a
London Morning Paper from Holland, by or•
der of the KING, forms a singular contrast to
the conduct of the King of BELGIUM under
provocations of a much higher order. Not a
week passes in which there is not a violent
letter from Brussels in the columns of a 'Morn-
ing Paper against the King of BELGIUM and
the Government ; and it is not unfrequently
that these attacks are founded on gross mis-
representation. Yet we do not hear of any
arbitrary proceeding towards the Correspondent
who supplies these letters, although he is said
to make a public boast at Brussels of the
means of annoyance which he possesses in the
English Press.