The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-20 00:00:00

Naples. It is not only said that tsoops of banditti are
forming on the frontiers, and towards the Abuzzi, but the
letters speak of great discontent, especially in ,00abria and
Puglia, where the new excise system was very disagree-
able to the people.
We hear of a hortatory letter, said to have been ad-
dressed by, the Pope, at the instance of the French Court,
to the province of Boston, and which is reported to bear
the following title :
" Ad Gallos dissidentes pralsertim Diocesis Pietaviensis
qui vulgo Anticoncordatista! appellantur Exportatio."
If we believe persons who affirm that they have read
this document, a kind of schism has broken out among the
clergy of the diocese of Vienne, to which Poictiers belongs,
which consists in this, that a- great part of them, viz. all
the priests who remained faithful to the Constitution of
the Church existing before the Revolution, have withdrawn
themselves from the two concordats of 1801 and 1817,
and accordingly have renounced spiritual obedience to the
Bishop.

An explanation has been attempted to be given of
the causes of the hostile attack made by. Persia on the
Frontiers of the Russian Empire, by adopting a story
contained in a letter from Constantinople, which states
that Prince ABBAS MIRZA, the Crown Prince of Per•
sia, has joined in a secret treaty with the Russians against

the interests of the Schah, his father. ABBAS MIRZA,
it is said, is known to be a Prince of some ability, and
more ambition, affecting the independence of his father,
and aiming at an absolute supremacy over him and
Persia ; and it is assumed as probable that the know-
ledge that a secret treaty had been signed against him,
and that Russia was a party to it, might have driven
the reigning Sovereign to desperation, and induced him
to be the first aggressor.

This appears to us to be an odd explanation of the
cause of the irruption into the Russian territories, and
in fact to be most improbable. It is more likely that

the differences which have existed in the Royal Family
of Persia, have led the Russian Authorities on the
frontiers to avail themselves of so favourable an oppor-

tunity, to 'attempt to establish some disputed point
towards the gradual accomplishment of the designs
which the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh have long enter-
tained 'with regard to Persia ; and that the measures
which the Court of Teheran has perhaps hastily and
unwisely had recourse to, were the consequence of
some such act of encroachment, or other outrage, which
seemed to render necessary an enterprise which may
possibly 'be fatal to the very existence of Persia as an
independent, Kingdom, and lead to events of the most
important description, as affecting the security of our
own possessions in the East.
The road through Persia to India has long been
marched over in the dreams of the Ministers of the
Court of St. Petersburgh; and no opportunity will he
lost to realize this object of their timdest ambition.

The Harnburigh Papers of the 7th instant, which

brought accounts of the state of the corn mar-
ket there, appear to be replete with instruction
to the English Parliament, as to the effect that

an alteration of the English Corn Laws may produce

on the prices of corn and grain in England, and

also as to the extent to which that alteration may be

safely carried. The highest price of the best red

wheat by those accounts was between 90 and 105 rix
dollars, or from 18 to 211. sterling the last ; or about
2/. 12s. 6d. the (waiter. There were, however, very
few buyers at those advanced prices, because the laritish

ports not being as yet open to the admission of wheat,
they were desirous to await the happening of such an
event before they made their purchases at such prices.
This tendency of the prices of grain to advance in the
foreign markets, when it is even apprehended that the
English ports will be opened to the importation of grain,
forms a highly important consideration,because it seems at
once to establish the oft-repeated, and as often doubted,
circumstance, that if the British ports were open at all
times to the admission of foreign grown corn, the conse-
quences would not necessarily be a sinking of the va-
lue of English grown corn to the continental prices.
It would, indeed produce a fall here, but one corres-
ponding with the advance there, so as to make the
foreign farmer meet the English farmer in British
ports half way. If then the protecting duty is added
to the enhanced price of the foreign grown grain, and
to that again the freight and the price of carriage, it
would appear, that after all, the foreign farmer could
not introduce his corn into our markets at a price so
far below the alleged cost of production here as to give
the English farmer any very solid grounds for serious
alarms. Under this view of the circumstances, it should

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going on the basis of a high protecting duty, would,
as a measure of national refill, decidedly fail, or at
least produce so little effect, that it would be hardly
perceptible.
opened
the portsetien wwihneinwito
But, if such is the effect produced in foreign
taipiarpkreeitli
jidietdbethparticethoefugriratiisni:
the admission of a particular species of grain, let u
see what will be the effect when the English ports
nish us with the means. The English ports are ope,
to the importation of rye, and in
price of th consequence the
' at inferior species of grain has advance.
in Germany almost to the price of wheat.
these papers is quoted at its highest price, a,
75 to 80 rix dollars, the lowest 70 to 75,
or in the first case from 15/ to sterling the
' . 161. last,
or 378. 6d. to 40s. the quarter, and in the latter from
141. to 15/. sterling the last, or from 355. to 37g. 6d.
the quarter. Thus the simple opening of the English
, parts has raised the price of Rye m the Foreign
markets to a price equal to the lowest priced Wheat
there, and in some instances higher, and so establishes
f beyond all doubt the principle that the opening of the