The Sun.
London, England, 1828-05-08 00:00:00

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

ruicas OF STOCKS ?HIS
Bank Sitnck 2Oll

3 per Cent. Rol fl-044,i%;,
3 per Cent. Cons 554
34, per Cent
Ditto Red. 9•214%
1 pet-Cent. New ...
Ditto, ltiv.t. 102%
Bank L. Attu,

India Stock —
Dit to lionciA —pm.

South Sea Stock ...... ..... —
Oki Annuities
New Ditto
Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2,1.64 85 pm.
Ditto .... .... 500 94.14 65 pin.
Ditto scull .... 2d. 8486 pm.
Ditto Commercial ..... ... pin.
Bank for Account .......
India for Account .......•
Cons. for Ac................ 96% i 4

YRICEs OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds, 5 per cent
Brazilian Bonds.- 60 5.9:543i
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Molds, 6 pet et-
Bonds
Ditto, 1824 .......
tkuiish 3 per cet&t. .- 59N,
Greek Bonds
Ditto, 1.9'25 17!4
Linatamala
31uxican Bonds
Do. ..............

THIS DAY ♦T O) O'CLOCK.
Neapoßum. 1421,
Peruvian Bonds.. 3l
Portuguese Bonds. 58 5%
Prussian. 5 per cent
Ditto, New
Russian, New
Spanish, Itl2l
qr. 1 &ill
French Roues, Sp. c. —t --e.
Exchange —t.
3 per cent —f. —c.
Exchange —f

PRICES OF SJdARIS TH/A DAY AT O'4 O'ef OCK.
Paid. Per Share.
Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (Sao. at 5/. pm.) .C9O 21
Brazilian Milling Co. (is. at 51. pm.) £2O, 84 B,', 96
Columbian Mining Co. (Sm. at 51. pm.) .C2Vsr 15,,
Canada Company

YItICES OF VlLltill STOCKS.--LaniLlN, may 5,
Bank Stick
Congols, 3 per cent.
Gov. Stock, 3% percent.... 92}(1 Nailoual Ditto
Ditto, New —1 Patriotic Ditto ..„,..
.......... _
I per Cent. 1004 ' Hibernian Bank
Ciov. Deb. ,', per cent. ... 93F, Provincial Ditto
Royal Canal Stock .... ...... I Itoyal Irigh Aline _„,
Grand Canal Stock —1 Imperial Vine
City) Deb. 4 per cent. sllning Co. a Ireland
3allast Office Deb. ID. Ct. -- ! Commercial Buildings —

Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due.
U A naeriCh U 2 Hamburg h. ........... 0
0 Brazil 1 0 holland 0
0 Ilueuoil A yro.
I Dublin
1 Plunder.
1 Franc*
1 6 ottenburidi 0 0 .if axle()
1 Guernsey 8, Jersey. 0 1 Waterford 0

iIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-YOKROYir.
Nlorning...l6 minutes after 10.1 Evening minutes after 10.

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1828.

This is the day fixed by Sir FRANCIS
BURDETT for bringing on the Catholic
Question, and on the eve of a battle which
may win or lose the Kingdom of Ireland
even the most confidgut must be filled with deep
anxiety as to the issue of so momentous a
conflict.

For our own parts, though we cannot boast,
like a cotemporary, of frightening Foreign
Powers into a change of measures, we hare,
nevertheless, lent our constant, though humble
aid to the advancement of this vital question ;
but considering that the highest intellect of the
nation will make its appeal to the Legislature in
the approaching debate, we should deem it pre-
sumptuous now to repeat those arguments which
we have from time to time addressed to the in-
telligence, the justice, the generosity, and the
manliness of our countrymen.

There is, however, one distinction between
the advocates and the opposers of Emancipation
to which we cannot refrain from alluding. All
parties agree in opinion as to the degraded
and miserable condition of the Irish nation, in
which, if History is to be credited, there
has been little alteration during the centuries
which have rolled away since their connexion
with England. The advocates of Emancipation
propose a change—the Anti. Catholics rvi4t to
give their system the experiment of some centuries

iore.

To that class of individuals who may sup.
pose themselves incompetent to decide this ques.

Lion by the limited amount of their intellect, or
of their application to such subjects, we would
in conclusion, venture to recommend that
they should surrender their judgment to the
guidance of PITT, and Fox, and BURKF, and
CANNING, in preference to any other indivi-
duals who have appeared in these latter times. But
already the umpires of the fate of Britain are
moving down towards the scene of conflict, and
to a protecting Providence we commit the cause
of the Catholics of Ireland.

Brussels Papers of yesterday contain an Ad-
dress from the President of Greece to the various
corps of the Army assembled in Old and New
Epidaurus, in which, after praising their patriotism
and heroic deeds, he informs them that their pay
shall in future he discharged every three months,
and he requests them in the meantime to be con-
tent with their rations till that period arrives. With
respect to the arrears of pay, he promises that
they shall all be made good as soon as
the condition of the National Treasury enables
the Government to discharge it. The various
accounts from Greece are, on the whole, en-
couraging, and the prompt as well as prudent
conduct of Count CAro n'IsTRIA is likely to
give stability and effect to the proceedings
of the Government. M. EYNA RD, that Guar-
(ban Genius of Greece, has subscribed 50,000
francs to the New Bank, as a stimulus to other
I contributors :

VIEI;NA, Aran.. 25

The Austrian Observer continues to give extracts from
the Universal Gazette of Greece, which contains a new
Ordinance relative to the organization of the National
Bank.
The President has issued a Proclamation to the varinu°
cm pa assembled in Old and New Epidaurus, to the follow-
ing effect :
" Exploits which do honour to the country, the per'e-
verance, valour, and warlike spirit which distinguish you,
convince me that you will proceed in the path of glory with
the same zeal which has produced so many brilliant deeds.
This same conviction encourages me to appear among Y°",
to receive in person proofs of your confidence in me, and of
your readiness to obey the arrangements for the new campaign
which are explained to you. The present struggle will crown
' 01 the brilliant exploits that have preceded it, as it promise'
speedily to relieve the whole country from the burden of
your enemies. In order to receive the necessary orders
for this purpose, you are to assemble as soon as yon receive
my directions on the 21st inst. at Damala. The effect of
a military organization (which will he made known to you)
will be principally under the present circumstances to se-
cure that necessary unity and connection which have
always led soldiers to victory ; but it also promises to
maintain internal order, which is the source of the pro-
sperity of the nation. The soldiers who invariably
submit to the above mentioned regulation will receive hence-
forward the necessary bread and maintenance according

to their rank : I also guarantee to them pay, which they I
shall receive every three months. With respect to the
present arrears of their pay, every one shall have his due
as soon as the public treasury ellen have the means, which it
will posses£► in abundance, as soon as the new military or-
ganization shall have been carried fully into effect, and
have opened the resources which will enrich it. The Go-
vernment, sensible of the patriotism which inspires the
hearts of all the soldiers of Greece, is convinced, that at a
moment when the whole nation makte the last sacrifice for
the general deliverance, by pecuniary assistance to the Go-
vernment, the soldiers Will al.o discharge their last debt
to the country, and be content for a short time only with
their provisions alone, and the assurance that they shall
likewise receive their pay at the end of three months.—
The Government ends it necessary to announce this to you
at pre,ent, convinced that its hopes for the true interest of
the country will never be deceived.
" J. A. CAPO D'ISTRIA, President.
" Egina, Feb. 28, 1828."

FRANKFORT, MAY 1.

Baron Munch Bellinghausen, President of the Diet, re-
turned from Vienna last night, and the Diet resumed its
sittings this morning.

BRUSSELS, MAY B.

An impostor, pretending to be an agent of the Emperor
Don Pedro, but in fact an agent of the bargemaster at
Treves, is at present at Montfort in the province of Lux-
embourg, endeavouring to persuade the inhabitants of the
neighbouring villages to emigrate to Brazil, proceeding for
that purpose by the Moselle to Wesel, and thence to Bre-
men : he is said to receive from the Isargernaster two francs
for every passenger whom he procures. He is provided
with a proclamation, in which wonders are promised to
the new colonists, who are required to pay 12i louis d'ors
for the passage of those who are above twelve years of
age, ti for those from six to twelve, children below six
being free.
The Journal of Luxembourg, which publishes these
particulars, demonstrate. 4 the falsehood of all these delusive
promisas, and proposes that the pretended agent shall be ar-
rested, and required to prove the truth of his statements
and the authenticity of his pretended proclamation, and, in
default of so doing, to be sent to keep company with an
agent of the same description, sentenced to two years' im-
prisonment at Treves.

HANIBITRGII, APRIL 29.
The Ilemburgh Reporter of today has the following

al tiele :

We have to acknowledge the receipt of a letter signed
" E.," in which we are reminded that, at the time of the
battle of Waterloo, there were no Lancers in the British
army, and that, consequently, it was iruposoale they could
have been guilty of the atrocity so gratuitously attributed
to them by Blackwood.

GENEVA, MAY 1 •

M. Eynard, in a letter dated Ap:11 29, to the laenefac •
tors of the Greeks at Geneva, communicates one from Col.
fleidegger, who states, that the appearance of affairs in
Greece has considerably improved since the arrival of the
President ; he mentions his appointment to the command
of Napoli, and the President's wish that he would remain :
but this, he says, depends on the King of Bavaria, his
Sovereign. M. E. adds, that the King has done him the
honour of writing to him ; and he gives the Colonel and
the other Bavarian Officers a farther conge of two years.
M. E. encourages the friends of Gretic-e to subscribe im-
mediately to the new Bank, and says he has himself sent
hO,OOO francs for that purpose.

The French Papers, though they note the
preparation making for the passage of the
Pruth, yet furnish nothing decidedly new or
certain respecting that important event. The
next arrival from Russia will in all probability
solve the mystery.

The Havre Paper, received this morning, states
that accounts have been received from Alex-
andria, 29th March, by which it appears that
the blockade of the above port NaS inevitable by
the combined squadrons. The messenger sent to
Constantinople had returned, and the SULTAN
would not listen to the evacuation of the Morea.
He immediately ordered him to return to Egypt,
without opening the despatches.

Letters from Vienna, received this morning,
of the 26th ult., bring the Yletalliques at 89i ;
they also come higher from Frankfort, at 90.

It is stated that the Regent, of 100 guns, is
getting ready for the Duke of CLARENCE to
hoist his flag on hoard, to pay a visit to Ireland.

Dutch Papers to the 7th inst. have been re-
ceived, but they contain no news whatever.—
Neither do the St. Petersburgh Journals to the
23d ult. contain any news.

AstsTNß.nam, MAY 6.—Fachanges on London, 12 04};
:wo months, 11 91.

The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 2d inst. says,
that to the 19th April, nothing decisive had taken
place on the Pruth, though they were daily looking
forward to something important. The SULTAN
was most energetic in preparing every means of de-
fence, and encouraged the enthusiasm of the army
by his personal appearance among them. He
rose early and superintended their exercise himself
thrice a-day—condescending even to dine with
them in the open air. But, notwithstanding his
afFected contemptuous disregard of the danger-
ous position in which he now stands with
regard to Russia, yet he occasionally betrays
symptoms of irritation in his conduct, which are
not at all in accordance with that composure
which, to the surprise of every, body, he mani-
fested on the first receipt of the Russian De-
claration. The secret workings of conscious
alarm occasionally break through the veil of
policy, in which he has hitherto clothed himself
with consummate mastery:—

BUCHAUEST, Arum 21

Up to the 19th, in the evening, nothing unusual had
taken place in the Pruth, but we are daily looking forward
to something decisive. The bad weather had rendered
vegetation so backward that it has been impossible to open
the campaign. We have letters from Constantinople to
the Bth of April, which give some interesting particulars
respecting the state of the capital Itince the Russian
declaration Was known. The mass of the people had
received with indifference, bordering on contempt, the
declaration of the Russian Court. The great men of the
empire, on the contrary, appeared to be much alarmed and
apprehensive of the consequences. The Sultan ap-
peared unconcerned, and resolved to prosecute the ex-
pected war with vigour. The Sultan, however, shows
an irritation in his proceeding, which is not in unison with
that composure which, to the surprise of every body, he
manifested on the first receipt of the Russian declaration.
At sun-rise he is on horseback, makes all the troops march
from tke barracks, exercises them in person, and then re-
turns to the Seraglio. After bathing and taking his break-
fa-t he again rides to the barracks; and exercises the troops

in his favourite ruanonivres. After several hours' exercise
the trool•s dine in the open air, and the Sultan partakes
with them ; they then begin afresh, and continue till late
in the evening.

The treasonable conduct of Don MIGUEL /1119
deeply affected the security of the Portuguese
Bonds, which are approaching to a level with the
Royal Spanish. They fell since yesterday, full
Nine per Cent. ! When the DON is actually
proclaimed " King Absolute," we apprehend
they will fall below zero.—So much for the
legitimate sprig of the House of BRAGANZA, and
the tuition of METTERNICH I

It is one of the characteristics of Blackwood's

Magazine that it is often calculated to amuse, but

seldom or never to instruct. We have some-
times excellent sketcher of life and manners,
amusing stories, and poetical effusions of great
merit; but the moment the writers approach

any great public question, be it the Catholic

Question, Free Trade, or the Corn Bill, or a►►y
other of the great topics which agitate the
country, they indulge in such a strain of invective,
that losing sight entirely of the nature of

the subject which they are discussing,
they seem to imagine that their readers are
to be railed, not reasoned into conviction.
Their reasonings, when they do attempt to

reason, are shallow and inconclusive; they arealso
irrelevant and desultory—their intemperate effu-

sions being made up of shreds and patches from
all manner of subjects. Thus in a discussion

on the Corn Bill, which occurs in the newly

published number, and on which we mean to

make some remarks, we meet with abuse of
the Whigs ; and in another part again, the writer,

in place of calmly proving whether the Corn Bill
be a good or bad measure, makes a solemn
profession of his Tory creed—of reverence for the
memory of WILLIAM PITT. This, with many
other heterogeneous topics, is brought into a dis-
cus.6on on agriculture and commerce ; while, as
►nay be easily imagined, the writer throws no
light whatever on the subject of which he has
undertaken to treat.. He is too much in the
way of taking every thing for granted ; and, by
time help of bold assertions and doubtful facts, he
contrives to patch together his flimsy and falla-
cious hypothesis. We may state, in one word,
that he is all for the agriculturists ; he sees no
harm in passing acts of Parliament to make bread
dear; he reprobates the notion of freely admitting
foreign corn ; and, lighting in his rambling dis-
cussions on the subject of the national debt, ho
boldly asserts that this is no burden, repeating
the thread-bare paradox, that what is collected
from the people in revenue returns to them in

expenditure.
He begins the discussion of the subject with
setting forth the pre-eminent importance of agri-
culture over commerce. We really do not see
the necessity of fixing by any nice standard the
comparative merits of those two great divisions
of the national industry. Such idle discussions
remind us of the fable of the Contention between
the different members of the body, as to their re-
lative consequence in the general system. That
the employment of producing subsistence is of
importance, no one can doubt. But it does not
thence follow that the growers of cern ought to
hare the monopoly of the home market. The
writer sneers at the policy of encouraging agri-
culture through the medium of commerce—" So
then (he observes) the manufacturer should not
be dependent on the agriculturist, according to
the course of nature, but the agriculturist on the
manufacturer." Yet, we may ask, can any thing
be more certain than that agriculture depends
on commerce. The tendency of foreign trade is
to enrich the country, to raise the wages of la-
bour, and in this ease the necessary consequence
is, a higher price of corn. When trade is de-
pressed, and when the rate of wages is low, the la-
bourer has not wherewithal to purchase corn at
what this writer would call a remunerating price ;
and, as he cannot reach the price of corn, the
the
er
midst
quarter,
supply cannot be consumed until it fall to the
level of his low wages. in. the year 1822, wheat
fell to the extreme low price of 38s. per quarter ;
and it was to the depression of trade and to the
low wages of labour that this remarkable cheap-
ness was partly owing. There was, no doubt,
an abundant produce ; but we had frequently
been favoured before this with abundant harvests,
but such a low price had not been known for 30
years before,—yet tl:ehliasb:,augreers
of
he plenty
could was starving
st
sat': sill'igi a liln,
iti)orticper,ocatitlrde
wtlittehnethceesssaarmiees
that even at the extraordinary low price of 38s.
of life. At a higher
low wages, the supply could not have been con-
sumed; and therefore it was clear, that as the
wages could not be ,raised, the price of corn
must fall, in order to be brought within the
reach of the great body of the consu-
mers. " Let us," the writer adds, " secure
that enough of food be grown by to, and
no fear that, when grown, it will be eaten,
and none die of want." Certainly there
is no fear that it will be eaten ; but the writer
forgets that, according to circumstances, it may
be eaten at very different prices. It was eaten
in 1822 at 38s. per quarter, because trade was
depressed and wages low ; it was eaten in 1823
at between 50s. and 60s. per quarter, and the
same crop, too, be it remembered, because trade
had improved, and wages had risen. " What
though the loaf be dear (we are told) if' every
roan have money in both pockets to pay for it,"

We doubt it ; but the state of things. here de
scribed implies a flourishing commerce. It 1
only in rich and commercial countries that toil'
can be consumed at a high price. In all othe
cases high price indicates scarcity, when eve
man cannot have money in both pockets to lA'
for as much as he can consume. In place °
proving, as seems to be the object of this writer
that agriculture should not naturally depend 0'
commerce, every line which he writes provesth
very reverse. He next proceeds gravely to t'''
us that " to throw our market for agricultutrk
produce open to every foreign competitor" would
be little short of insanity and fraud ; and that
would lead to the depopulation of the countri''
Mark how a plain fact shall put him down. 010
market for agricultural produce was thrown opo
for 30 or 40 years prior to 1815 to every fore4'
competitor ; there was in short a free admissio
into this country for all foreign corn, and wai
the country depopulated ? Was not agriculttuf
11 in a most flourishing condition ? The writ'
goes on, in a mingled strain of paradox and in'
vective, to broach several other theories. Uut wi
shall not follow him further. The speciU
which we have given above of his reasoning 141
suffice.