The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-31 00:00:00

SPANISH ARMY.

The Constitutionnel gives the following as the summary
of the Spanish army:—

INFANTRY.

Ist Division of the Royal Guards 7,94.5
2d Division of the Caine 2,500
17 Regiments of the Line
6 Regiments of Light Troops

49,145

Add to these 43 Regiments of Provin-
cial Militia of one battalion of eight
companies each, after deducting the
Grenadiers and Chasseurs, embodied
in the Royal Guards, forming an ef-
fective force of

Total of the Spanish Infantry .... 76,145
CAVALRY.

Royal Guards
Body Guards
Cavalry of the line, both heavy and light 4,000

Total of the Spanish Cavalry 6,000
ARTILLERY.

Foot Artilery . .
Horse Artillery
ENGINEERs.
Sippers and Miners of the Engine,,rs

As to the materiel of the Artilery and Engineers, it may
be said to be almost null, for Spain has not 50 pieces of
artillery in a state to be brought into ac!ion.

At Gloucester excellent malt is selling at 6s.
per imperial bushel, and at Bristol and 1:31 idgewater 9d.,
which is about hall the price it was a few years since.
At Cirencester beer is sold at 6d. per quart,
which is the same price it was when the duty was on,
and malt and hops double the price they are now.
At Gloucester fine dry home cured bacon is
selling at sd. per lb. by the flitch.

Friday upwards of 480 persons came into
Brighton from London by stage coaches only. On
Siturday the arrivals were nearly as many. There are,
including the mail, 27 coaches which leave Brighton for
the Metropolis daily, and as many come down.—Brighton
Guardian.

PREACHING IN THE OPEN AlR.—Yester-
day evening the Rev. G Smith preached in Hungerford
fishmarket to a very numerous assemblage of persons.
Oa it being announced that be intended doing so, a small
detachment of the A division of police went to the spot,
but did not interfere, or, in the Rev. Gentleman's own
words, " they behaved very well." A mating has beet!
cal'ed for Friday evening at the Bazaar, in Gray's Inn-
road, to take into consideration the propriety of peti-
tioning his Majesty on the subject of preaching in the
open air.

The highest price of wheaten flour of the
first quality at Paris is 48 francs per 150 kilogrammes,
which answers to I/. 10s. 3d. the English sack of 280 Th.,
and the highest price of wheaten flour of the first quality
in London is 21. 10s. per sack. It therefore appears
that wheaten flour is full 65 per cent. dearer in London
than in Paris, and that with the sum of 21. 10s. a man
may buy 4631 b. of fine flour at P,,ris, whereas with the
same sum be can only buy 280Ib. in London. The
highest price of wheat of the first quality at Paris is 16
francs 30 cents. per hectolitre, which is equivalent to
1/. 17s. 6d. The English quarter of eight bushels im-
perial measure, and the highest price of wheat of the first
quality in London is 31. per quarter. It therefore ap-
pears that wheat is 60 per cent. dearer in Londo❑ than in
Paris, .ind that with the stun of 3/. a ma❑ may buy 12
4 5 bushels of wheat of the first quality at Pais,
whereas with the same sum he can only buy eight bushels
in London.

Much excitement prevails among the mer-
chants in the city connected with the West Indies, in con-
s quence of the understood determination of the Govern-
ment, not to admit into this country, except under a very
heavy duty, the sugar made by the new process direct
from the cane. They contend, and the argument is diffi
cult to rebut, that the necessary effect of such an impost,
laid on by the Government, is to make permanent an
expensive, incomplete, and unphilosophical system of ma-
nufacture, and to prevent the introduction of an improved
process, insuring the complete success of the operation,
at once founded upon scientific principles, adapted to
insure profit to the colonial planters, and encouragement
to British commerce. By the old process, from the great
heat employed in the evaporation of the cane juice, a great
portion is necessarily converted into tnola,ss:s ; whilst
the whole of the sugar is further deteriorated by its
mixture with a portion which will nut crystalliz,—
molasses and colouring matter, and by this a very i:aade•
(late return is obtained for a most expensive outlay ;
whereas, by the improved process, the cane juice is sub-
mitted to a simple analytic process, by tvhizli sugar of the
best quality is obtained, and in the same quintity as it
exists in the sugar-cane, as, from the modified heat which
is employed, the results of the operation ar•e the mere
extracts of the cane, without having undergone the
changes consequent on its distillation by the former process.
This new process will, it is further contended, cause the
planter to employ a far less portion of labour,—a most
important consideration while the emancipation of the

slaves is in progress • and much confidence is felt therefore
by the parties concerned, that a Government, whic.,
has lattherto shown itself so disposed to promote liberal
measures, will not, in this instance, swerve from its
usual course, and allow all the extended benefits above
described to be sacrificed to the interests of the refiners at
home.