The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-07 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY).

HAY M A RKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.)
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 15 to £3 0
New Meadow Hay 2 15 3 15
Useful Old Ditto 3 0 3 15
Fine Uplsnd Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 5
Clover flay 4 0 0 0
Oat Straw XI 16 to £2 0 I Wheat flraw ... 2 4 2 6
Meadow Hav from ts. to 10s. per load lower ; Straw 2s. per
load higher than last quoted ; prices otherwise stationary. A
moderate supply, and a sluggish trade.

SMITHFIELD.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay .£3 0 to £3 5
New Meadow Hay 3 0 3 15
Useful Old Ditto 3 5 3 15
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 4 15
Clover Hay (extra fine)...X6 10... Generally
Oat Straw ... £1 IS to .£2 o—Wheat Straw 2 2 2 5
A good supply, and a dull trade ; prices as last quoted.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, T WEL VE 0' CLOCK.

Montreal Papers to the 27th June, Quebec to the 23d
June, and Rio Janeiro to the 20th of May, have been re•
ceived at the North and South American Coffee-house.

(From the Montreal Papers.)
CHOLERA AT QUEBEC.-Total of admission of cases,
658 ; total of deaths, 403.
It is with great satisfaction we can now congratulate
our readers upon the great diminution daily observable in
the ravages of this disease within the city and precincts of
Quebec. The return of the Emigrant and Cholera Hotv
pitals are highly satisfactory.
We are happy to contradict the report published in the
Montreal Herald, of the deaths of Sir John Cadwell and
Mr. Justice Kerr.
(From the Montreal Paper of the 23d June.)
It affords us great satisfaction to confirm the intelli-
gence we communicated to our readers of the very rapid
di-appearance of the cholera from this city, and of the
restoration of its inhabitants to a comparative cheerfulness.
The Rio Janeiro Price Current, of the 18th May,
contains the following observations :—" Since our last
circular of the 30th March, a further advance on England
took place in the exchange, it having risen from 31 to 32,
and to our present quotation 331 to 34, and at which it
has been pretty steady for about a month past. Apparently
the falling off of the arrivals of produce, chiefly of coffee,
as well as withdrawing of capital from the country for
Portuguese account, have checked it for a while, and the
transactions to-day were of a very limited scale. No bills
remained above 34 days in the market, and money has be-
come more plentiful, and discounts effected with greater
facility, notwithstanding the disturbances in April. Cof.
fee has declined in price since our last, but :use gradually
again. Sugar has been very dull. Hides are almost the
same as the sugar business.

Till?. FUNDS-

It is generally considered in the City, and by the well-
informed, that the affairs of Don Pedro are not in so
prosperous a state as was at first imagined. On perusing
the official account of the battle of the 23d, we do not find
the taking of the 2,000 prisoners, and the two regiments
of cavalry and one of infantry going over to his standard.
By his preparations for entrenching himself at Oportt , he
must entertai❑ fear of his being attacked in that position :
should this take place no doubt it will be a bloody con-
test, and if dislodged he will be obliged to re-embark.
In a few days we may expect to bear of some important
and decisive event.

Consols opened at the same price they left off yes
terday, 831 to 84 for the Account, with scarce a bargain
doing at present. Don Pedro's scrip has again lowered ;
left off yesterday 2to 1 this morning 4to 31 dis-
count. A private mail has arrived, which, sailed from
Rio on the 20th May—all g uiet there.
HALF-PAST ONE.

We cannot expect further information from Oporto
until the arrival of the Lisbon Mail, which is expected by
next Saturday.
The accounts from the Imperial Brazil Mining Compan:,
are favourable : fifteen days' working had produced
1311 b. 11(a. of gold ; stamp heads, 741 b. The petition
for the repeal of 15 per cent. duty was before the Chain-
hers, and it was expected that it would be determined in
favour of the Mining Company.

Consols have been the whole of the morning at 83i SI
for the Account, with little or nothing doing.
We hive no reports at present of any description.
Portuguese Scrip from 3-.% to 4 discount ; Portuguese
Stock 2 per cent lower-511 to 52.—1 n other Foreign
Securities nothing doing.

THREE 0' CL 0 CK.
Consols for Account, 83-i 81.

FOUR O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES.
Consuls ... 831 Danish —
Ditto for Account 83 Greek, 1825 —
Brazilian Bonds 46. Mexican, 1825 —
Buenos Ayres... Peruvian .. ...... ••• —,
Chilian Ditto.... Russian 99,g
Columbian 1824 ..... Spanish ... l4

4P IRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL

The crowded meeting at the Crown awl

Anchor Tavern yesterday affords one proof c f

;he interest taken in the cause of the Gerrmws

in this country. The lines to which Mr.
O'Connell hav given such extended circulation,

Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not
Who would be free himself must strike the blow ?"
cannot be too frequently repeated. If we were
to draw our conclusions with regard to the pre-
sent temper of the Germans from the tenor of
the speech of Dr. Schulte, we should, without

hesitation, declare that the good cause must be
triumphant. The question is, are the Germans

prepared to make those sacrifices which a re-

. .
sistance to the atrocious decree of Frankfort will

render inevitable ? On this subject we must
depend in a great measure on the accounts of
the Germans themselves. Dr. Schulte says,

,hat " the time is come when the acts of the

Sovereigns of Germany, as contra-distinguiQhed
from the acts of the people, have involved Ger-
many in a greater commotion than had existed
at the time of Luther and the Reformation."

We rejoice to hear that this is the case—that
the Germans feel as they ought to feel the deep
insult which has been offered to them. If their

" hearts are resolved and their hands prepared,"
the ultimate issue cannot be doubtful. Dr. Schulte

strikes the proper note when he tells his country-
men " not to rely on others, but to give proof that
they are ready to strike for freedom. Let the
Germans raise their own country to a level with
the other Powers of Europe. Let them meet
their Sovereigns with war, and immolate them
at the altar they had erected for their people:
then would they find support in the freemen of
England and France." If ever there were a
cause which justified resistance, it is that of the
Germans. The decree of Frankfort is one of

he most insolent attempts ever witnessed to sub-

stitute the bayonet for constitutional rights, so-
lemnly guaranteed by treaties. Prussia and

Austria,-not content with themselves violating
the pledges given to their own German subjects,
are determined that the Constitutions granted by
more conscientious Governments shall no long► r
benefit the people who live under them. But it
required not this aggression to justify the Ger-
mans in ridding themselves of their rulers. A
people are justified at all times in endeavouring
not merely to preserve the beneficent institutions
which they possess, but to improve those which
are no longer suitable to their wants. Dr.
Schulte, we observe, does not say much for what
the Germans possess or have ever possessed.
" Efforts," he said (alluding to Mr. H. L. Bul-
wer's speech), " had been made to show that
the Germans had always enjoyed freedom, and
had had a Constitutional Government and a
free Press. He did not agree in these views
The Germans were slaves under the old em-
pire ; they were slaves in the times of
Bonaparte ; and they had been the slaves
of the Sovereigns since 1815, the date of
the Holy Alliance. The Treaty of Vienna
had swept the German name and nation out of
Europe." The aggression of the despots has
not created the discontent ; it has only ren-
dered it no longer supportable. The misery of
Germany is caned by the perpetuation of a sys-
tem no longer suited to the times in which we
" If the Treaty of Vienna (said Dr.
Shulte) had been fulfilled, it could not con-
stitute the happiness of Germany. How
could ghat country be happy with thirty-nine
Courts, and all their subservient and extra-
vagant appanages to support ?" The feudal
system was well adapted for a newly conquered
barbarous country ; but the misfortune of Ger-
many is, that the feudal system of that
country was continued in a state of things
utterly incompatible with it. In the times
when the feudal system originated, the Princes
lived on the produce ,of their own domains.

An able historian, speaking of Charlemagne,
tells us, " that neither the Emperor nor his
Barons had standing armies, and they, there-
fore, could not altogether disregard the good-
will of their followers. This Imperial Govern-
ment had no finances, no revenue scarcely but
the proceeds of domains ; he who gave laws
to the European world, regulated himself the
price of the eggs of his barn-yard, and wore
household cloth made of the yarn his Queen
had spun." Under this system, in its purity, it
was of no consequence how many Princes
there might be in the German empire
(except in so far as a number of Princes
led to internal disunion), because the land of
the Prince or Baron constituted his only revenue.
But it is quite another affair when every
Elector, Duke, Landgrave, Margrave, and
Count, began to vie with the great So-
vereigns of Europe, and to keep up heavy
establishments, of which the expense was
defrayed by taxation. To say that the thirty-
nine German Princes have a right to reign over
the people, and to saddle them with the mainte-
nance of Courts for the Princes themselves, and.
provisions for younger children, is to say that
they have a right to oppress the people. A small
Republic is a nuisance, as all men know who
have witnessed the jealousies and bickerings of
some of the Swiss Republics ; but if a small
Republic is a nuisance, what must a small kil,-
t,
have
Nalways
been
dom be, where the individual who comes in col-
lisionc with the ruler is exposed to his power ?
Accordingly theeab h
fortunateo pettyrre i abhorrence
accident,
tdasie
personsf Germany,t ,of r
ex-
cept by
spirit. Muller, the celebrated Swiss historian,
who had accepted a Professorship at Cassel,
writes to his friend Boustetten, " Germany does
not suit me. There are some amiable indivi-
duals, but generally there is little taste and little
real love for letters; and because they have little
feeling, they exaggerate all sentiments. Letters
are little honoured in the provinces, even where
men of letters are better paid than I
am. The reason is that the military ab-
sorbs all, and there are endless etiquettes which
place an insurmountable barrier between
the orders. It may be laid down as a general
rule, that there never can be good company
where the different orders keep themselves apart,
and each, preserves proudly its foibles. As to
affairs, all the Governments are corrupted, the
people are only occupied with their distress;
knowledge cannot, under such circumstances,
produce great effects." This was immediately
before the French Revolution. That Revolu-
tion destroyed a good deal of the German pride;
but too much still remains, and the people are
harassed to death by the petty despotisms of
petty Courts. Can we wonder, then,
that , men
,
should complain of the number of Courts :" It
_
the Germans, therefore, can rid themselves of
this monstrous state of things, well and good.
This is, however, a question of prudence, which
theye sy
to
say
themselves,yarwith Dr. Schulte ; but there are alone able to solve. It is
must be the firm resolve to meet the conse-
quences which war entails on nations. A Hun-
garian gentleman, a Dr. Kraitsis, well observed