The Sun.
London, England, 1821-01-01 00:00:00

AGRICULI URE, Scc.

MONTHLY REPORT FORJANuATty.7—The ope-
rations in husbandry through the month have, as
usual, been principally confined' to "raising the
wheat and other eddishes, preparatory, to sum-
mer fallows, carting compost on the cloves, and
the dun.- out of the farm-yards.: for these the
weather has been very favourable. The dry frost
lately set in proves seasanable for tlie young
Wheats, particularly those early.. .sawn, Which,
from the mildness of the weather, Iverebecoming
too luxuriant. The plants throughout the Kin,
cipal Corn Districts • continue untouched either
by slug or wire-worm. Upon sonic of the tender
soils in Kent and Surrey some earl' Peas are
got in ; and a considerable breadth for dibbi
Beans is already ploughed. Rye 'nd Winter
Tares look kindly for spring feed. The Turnip
Counties, where they had a plant, have benefittcd
by the late mildness of the weather. The Meat
Markets have been but thinly supplied',Nvith
prime Beef and Mutton for the last two weeks;.
but half fat beasts still come numerously to
Smithfield from the general scarcity of. succulent.
food. Hay, both Clover and MNidow produce,
is on the advance. The Wool Market is also
rather brisker for all kinds.

A Correspondent suggests the. propriety of
regulating the price of labour in the agricultural
part
.of the community by the 'price of wheat,
and gives the following- scheme :
Per qr. Per bushel: Day wages.
jOs 5s .. I s 3d
48s es ls 6d
• .
56s .. 7s •
• is 9d
64s 8s .. 2s 041
7is 9s .. 9.s 3d
80s .. 10s .. 6d
When wheat is above sOs. per quarter the la-
bourer should receive 3s. per day, beyond which
wages should not be advanced ; for if wheat is
dearer it is scarce, and the poor, instead of eat-
ing their usual quantity, should adopt the use of
more vegetables. A family, consisting of a man,
his wife, and seven children, consumes a bushel
of wheat in about eight days. Allowing, then,
that a labourer will require a bushel of wheat
every eight days, he ill be able to procure it at
day work in four days ; and with so large a fami-
ly, it is probable that one or two of the children
may earn a little. lie would, therefore, be able
to live through the winter, and in hay-making
and harvest, hop-picking, tying, and digging,
&c. lie might earn more than double the sum,
or in proportion. The great evil that the la-
bourer has to contend with, is the very exor-
bitant rent he is obliged to pay for his cottage.
Five, six, and even eight pounds a year are
demanded in some places for a_ poor misera-
ble little hut, with not more than ten or
fifteen square yards of garden attached to it.
It hardly desetves the name of garden, and is
much too small to raise vegetables for a poor man's
family ; a few onions and French beans being the
only things raised in it. He is therefore obliged,
in addition to'house-rent, to buy,every potatoe and
cabbage his family consumes. This grinding op-
pression requires toile removed, and it would be
an act of justice to give the Magistrates the power
to fix the rent of cottages, making the quantity
of garden-ground the standard of the amount of
rent. Let it be considered also, that this evil
falls directly on the sober and industrious la-
bourer—the idle and abandoned have houses
found for them by the parish rent ,free. The
farmer might greatly assist the labourer by giv-
ing him the use of a quarter of an acre of ground
in a fallow field for the summer to raise potatoes
on it, and if in addition he gave it one ploughing
for him, it would cost him but little, and-greatly
benefit the poor man. When all are in distress,
we should try to assist each other, and bear the
burden as equally as we can.—(Public Ledger.)

At Sir Charles Morgan's Annual Cattle Show,
which took place at Tredegar, on the 10th of
December, Samuel llomfray, Esq. the much-
respected possessor of Caworth-house, sent four-
teen specimens of capital stock from his moun-
tain farms. A sheep was exhibited by Mr. John.
Collins, a tenant of Sir Charles Morgan, which
weighed 230 lbs. Of this extraordinary animal
Mr. Homfray has sent a side to the Mayor of
Windsor, that a portion might be presented to
his Majesty, as an object of considerable cu-
riosity.

At Chester, on Wednesday last, at five o'clock,
the Duke of WELLINGTON sat down to a most ele-
gant dinner, at the Town Hall, in company with
about 150 gentlemen, amongst whom were, Lord
Kenyon, Lord Combermere, Sir W. W. Wynn,
Sir. J. Lyon, Sir H. Mainwairing, Colonel
Cholmondely, Major Cotton, the Right Worship-
ful the Mayor of Chester, Nlr. Alderman Evans
(Deputy Mayor), Colonel Ferguson, and the offi-
cers of the 88th, and many other respectable indi-
viduals. Colonel Barnston was in the chair. A
great number of loyal and patriotic toasts were
drank, and several speeches were delivered:by
the Duke of Wellington and others. At half-
past eight his Grace withdrew, having been hi-
vited to a ball at Colonel Barnston's. •

DARING ROBBERY.—Yesterday afternoon, be-
tween '2 and 3 o'clock, as -a Gentleman was pro-
ceeding in his ,Chaise along Beech-street and Bar-
bican, his chaise-coat was stolen by a man who
had been running behind for some distance ; the
robbery, however, was observed by several perk
sons who were passing, and the thief was inarni-
diately 'pursued. He ran up Prince's-street, Bar-
bitan, and into Charles-street, where he dropped
the coat at the corner of a couN, which was not
a thoroughfare, and being so closely pursued, he
ran into a house, and up stairs : here the villain
took off his own hat and coat, and came dowii
stairs, with the utmost assurance, to inquire what
the disturbance was abolW; but, though so dif-
ferently attired,. he was immediately recognisei,l
and secured. The Gentlernan to whorri the coat
belonged arrived. at the tnonie4tand gave him in
charge to a constable, who convejed him to Ow.
Compter .Giltspur-st rut..

TEE LONDON JOURNALS.

[DAILY EXTRACT'S FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.]

[Morning ile'ra4l.]
No Paris papers, or other foreign' mail, reached us up to a
late loom last night. We therefore' are still without further
intelligence resprotlng the voyage of the King of Naples, or
the inctelents which may have taken place in that capital, or
any other part of the kirgdom, since the departure of the
Ring. Literal copies of the invitation of. the Sovereigns of
-Austria, Russia, and Prussia, to the King of Naples, and of
the message of the latter to the Neapolita6 Paths-intent, will
he found in atwitter column. The letter of invitation is
couched in such getieralities that `nothing can be deduced
from it: In a:unties docousent, the King pledges himself that
" whatever variation may be required by circumstances re-
latively tee their actual political state, all his strength shall
be exerted that it may remain founded on the basis of security
of person and property—abolition of privileges of birth—taxa-
tion byreoresentation—rtecoutitabilit of the public expenditure
~.-legislation only with the consent of Parlianient—indenen-
deuce of the Judiciary power—liberty of the Press—responsi-
bility of Nlinisters—limitation of the Civil List—and, lastly,
the King declares as follows :—" I declare moreover. that I
will never canseut that . any one of my subjects be molested
for any political act." Here are certainly the cardinal points.
of a free Constitution. But if the King of Naples should
protiounce hitn-elf, or should be .pronounced by the three
great Powers, not to have been a free agent whilst within his
own kingsioni, thi,s message, with the others issistd.ditritig
the new order, might go to the tomb of the Capulets.—
The Allies, sir, rather, the three Great Powers who have
assumed a lead in this :business, are supposed to act
with one or the other of two design----the utter extinction of
representatiei. g.everillorti, or t antis
(lifted The Lerner is an extreme which- we should
hardly think !hey meditate ; .the latter is the inure likely
course. It was the course pnrstied towards Flattce in 1 14 ,
When that kingdom was invested by foreign troops. Europe
armed, did t bets hod it necessary to capitulate with tenth
lion, rat het th to • attempt the re-ittipoStitioar of the ancient
arbitrary system of Government,—and thutigh tome shocks,
dissatisfaction., send alarms, have since takes) place in that
country, yet neither France nor Europe have reason to regret
that the pact was, made upon constitutional principles. There
would be this one point of dissitnilitudr Ise wren the establish-
merit of the French Charter and the acknowledgment of the
.C.ittstitutiorial system at Naples—that the former was. de-
elaved a free gift of the King of France to lies people, `a niece
tenon of political metaphysics), whilst the latter was merely
conceded by the Stiveteign to solicitation accompaiited by
force. This is a question of abstract principle rather than of
practical operatioti—and if the Neapolitans obtain a consti-
tution under the name of a free emanation front the Royal
power, joined with theble•ssing of security and peace, they
and the friends of humanity and freedurn may he content.--
It the seeds of liberty are SO.l, Mid their geoteth t.derated,
lie matter from what hand they .came, they will ultithately
gain strength, and perhaps more vigour and durability, than
it the attempt were made to tratisphstit the constitntional
system of Spahr, lull grown, its the very first instance.. That
the Serereigns, whatever be their wishes, should attempt to
vast. the new order in Naples, and punish its authors, as it
is certainly apprehended, and openly menaced, is an exercise
of mere force over right, which we carr hardly think possible
in this axe. There is a spirit in the north of Italy which war
would nochain, and of which Austria is well known tee be in
'no little terror. Still, therefore, we have hopes of the con-
tinuance of peace.

[Morning Post.]
A Mail from Holland has arrived, from which we have ex-
tracted an interesting article relative to Naples, con•
tained in the Berlin State Gazette. This Paper, which bears
every feature of official authority, seems clearly to define the
course which is intended to be pursued by the Allied Sove-
reigns towards Naples. It is obvious that the Allies are
averse to negociating with the prevailing party at Naples,
because it " would be recognising the legality of an insur-
rection, the instigators of which were a secret political sect,
and whose instrument was the army." It is further intimat-
ed, that whatever is to he done, will be done with the King
o!' Naples when he " shall be in a Siete of liberty to intro-
duce into his kingdem another Constitution—that is, rap far
as he shall be convinced that such a one is adapted to the
Wants. and wishes of his people." There is nothing in all
this. to induce a snpposition that the Allies will refuse to re-
-c,rgnise a new Constitution of some sort, when the King, in
a state of freedom, shall inform them of what may be the
genuine desire of that part of the twin,' whose wishes deserve
respect. It will be seen by the State Papers given in another
part of our Paper, that the King of Naples lost no time in
communicating to his Parliament the invitation to him
from the Allied Sovereigns to meet then, itt conference at
Laybach, and that the necessary dispositions for his Ma-
jesty's journey were irnmediatelf made. Upon the probable
consequence of the approaching interview it would be pre-
mature at present to deliver adecided opinion; but from whet
we have heard upon the subject, we deem it extremely proba-
ble th.at war will not only Ire avoided, but that Naples will
bait: a Constitution founded upon rational principles of liber-
ty.--According to an Article froM Vienna of the 15th the de-
liberations at Laybach "are not expected to commence before
February. It is added that the Pope had offered his media-
tion, stril that Cardinal Gonsalvi woul,', probably he present at
the Congress, as the representative of his Holiness.

[British Press. j
Letters just received at Portsmouth .from Naples Bay,
mention that. the Vengeur, 74, (Aptain F. L. Maitland, and
the Active, Sir James Alexander Gordon, were expected to
sail shortly for England. These ships, with the Liffey, Hon.
Captain Duncan, were sent to reinforce our Mediterranean
squadron in Naples Bay thiring the allied conferences with
Jespect to Naples -at Troppau. It appears from the Paris
Papers received last week, that the immediate destination of
the Vengeur has been altered since the writing of these
letters, as-the Vcn4eur proCevds to Trieste with the Kivu of
Naples. Trieste kin the Golf of Venice, on the onpusite side
of Italy. The Vengeur most therefore round the Peninsula,-
It will probably prove a tediona rovne, and must be a pain-
ful one, under any circumstances., to the poor old King, at
this inclement SCSilnt of the year.