The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-08 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 7.—Wind W.S.W.—Passed by the
Wellington, Brown, from Oporto for Leith. Sailed the Vir-
ginia, Mathewson for Cape de Verds ; and his Majesty's ship
'Carnelian, on a craze.
PLymouT4,.Azra. 6.—Wind W.—Arrived the Ocean
tra::soort from Halifax, with part of the -15th Regiment ea
board, commanded by Major Maxwell. Sailed the Martinique,
Dur;ca.n, for Holland.

FALMOUTH AUG. s.—Arrived the Robert and Mary,
Slade, from London. Sailed the Madras, Weltden, for Cal-
cutta.

LivEriPooL, AUG. 6.-The Franklin, Ryley, sailed from
hence the sth inst. for Portsmouth, N. H. put back, having
her mainmast, maintop-mast, and maintop-gallant-mast split
by lightning; two of the crew were hurt, but not dangerously.
DEAL, AUG. 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the
River the Kingston, Severs, from Jamaica ; Hero, Price, from
Demerara ; Freedoni, Blues ; and Young Norval, Adamson,
from Quebec; Elconora,. Sartorius, from Dantzic ; Hannah,
Wake, from Quebec ; and Brothers, Williamson, from Tene-
rife ; the latter "remains. Came down from the River the
Salisbury, Xing, for the Cape ; Marquis Huntly, Watson, for
Quebec ; Cambridge, Brown, for New Brunswick, Columbo,
Richardson; for the Isle of France, &c. ; and Velocity, Stan-
ton, for Gibraltar. Most of them have sailed with the Lord.
Hungerford, O'Brien, for New sSouth Wales, with 200 male
Convicts.

HAnwicit, AUG. 7.—Arrived the Lady -Nepean packet,
with a mail, from Cuxhaven.

The Indian Whaler arrived at New South Wales 16th March
to refit, and gave the following account of other Ships on the
Fishery, viz. :—Ann, Lowry, 800 barrels . oil ; Catharine,
Graham, 600 ditto ; Cumberland, 1,200 ditto ; Janus,
Mawatt, 600 ditto l, Kent, Graham; 200 ditto; Prince Regent,
Anderson, 1,400 ditto ; Rambler, Smith, 609 ditto ; Saracen,
Kerr, 120 ditto ; Seringapatam, Joy, 80 ditto ; iransittart,
Hunt, 250 ditto. • •
_ _ _

On. Monday last, the Nereus, a fine frigate of 44 guns, was
launched from the Pembroke Dock-yard: She went off the
'stocks in grand style, amidst the acciamations of, en immense
concourse: of spectators.

Mr. OWEN.—We have procured a more cor-
rect r.port than has hitherto appeared of the
speech delivered at Mr. COKE'S Agricultural
Meeting, by Mr. OWEN, of New Lanark. This
interesting address, which contains some impor-
tant facts, and unfolds enlightened and cheering
views, will be found in our front page. Mr.
OWEN'S indefatigable exertions for the promo-
tion of his benevolent plans, we, understand,
.are now likely to be speedily crowned with
success. The subscription for the formation of
one of his establishments, on the farm of Mother-
well, is rapidly proceeding, and already exceeds
twenty thousand pounds. The land of Mother-
well is offered on perpetual lease, for the pur-
pose, at a grain rent, by the wise and philanthro-
pic feelings of its owner, A. J. IlAmiLvoN, of
Dalyell, Esq., a gentleman who thoroughly un-
derstands Mr. OWEN'S views; and with whom
he is on terms of intimate friendship.

A German house has failed this morning in the
City.

AGRICULTURE.—JOHN LOCKWOOD, Esq.
.of
Beverley, in the spring of this year, for the sake
of experiment, and by way of employing the
poor, caused the half of a twenty acres field to be
digged or graved over by a spade, and the other
half 'to be ploughed ; the former at an expense
of 31. 6s. per acre, and the latter at 10s. per acre ;
the whole was then sown with beans, and now
looks very well ; but judges at present give the
preference to the ploughed part ; and they ac-
connt for it by supposing the spade to have gone
tooideep and turned up an inferior soil. The next
crop will be wheat, and it will then be seen
how far spade husbandry will answer in this part
of the country for the proprietor or wealthy
farmer : as to the poor agriculturist such an ex-
pensive mode of preparing the land is to him totally
out of the question. The field here alluded to
is situate on the right of and adjoining the road
leading from Beverley to Walkington, and about
half a mile distant from the latter place.—
(Rockingham Paper.)
CORN-EXCHANGE, AUGUST B.—The market
supply this morning consists of the remains of Monday's mar-
ket, and no flesh arrivals added to it. The wetness of the day
caused rather a brisker demand for Wheats than on Monday ;
but no variation in the prices, which remain as quoted on Mon-
day for the different sorts of grain.
There is a misconception respecting a Proctor
from Doctors' Commons being engaged in prepar-
ing her MAJESTY'S Will, whilst her Attorney and
Solicitor General were in attendance. The fact
was, her MAJESTY made some arrangement rela-
tive to her property abroad, and two Notaries
from the Commons, being also. Proctors, were re-
quired to attest her signature.--(Morning Paper.)
Mr. and Mrs. WysE have arrived at Castle
Connell, Mrs. WYSE is daughter of LUCIEN
BU 0 NA PA RT E.

A Russian Gentleman landed here yesterday
(with his interpreter), who, we understand, is
going into the West of Yorkshire to inspect the
steam engines and the manufactories. We trust
those most interested will be upon their guard
respecting the objects this Gentleman has in
view.—(Hull Packet, Aug. 6.)
On the evening of Friday' week, during the
performance of Rob Roy, at the Boston Thea-
tre, the pistol of one of the characters was fired
Aso near one of the attendants on the stage, a
private in the 3d Royal Lancashire Militia, that
the wadding struck him on the eye, and forced
it completely from the socket.
DARING ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER.
—A few nights ago, Mr. Walker, a gardener, in
.the Kingsland-road, having had his gardens con-
tinually plundered in the night, he, for the pur-
pose of finding out the thief) concealed himself
amongst some peas. About twelve o'clock, he
perceived a tall ill-looking fellow scaling the
fence, and watched his movements ; the robber
broke open the tool house, and having entered,
Mr. W. left his hiding place, and rushed into the
shed ; a struggle ensued between the robber and
Mr. -Walker ; the former seized a quart pot,
an'd most inhumanly beat Mr. W. about the head
till he was nearly dead. The villain then scaled
the fence and escaped, leaving his victim welter-.
frig in his blood. After some time, Mr. W. in
some degree recovered, and with difficulty got
home. Mr. Bowen, a surgeon, was sent for, who-•
dressed the wounds on his head, which were very
extensive. The villain has as yet escaped justice.
A flight of about 18 or 20 of those very rare
and beautiful Lirds, the Crossbill (Loxiu curvi-
rostra,) were seen last week at West Felton in
Shropshire. They alighted on some pine and
larch trees. They were of various colours, brown,
green, yellow, and crimson, and some of them of .
a most beautiful rose colour, hanging and climb-
ing on the branches of the trees in fanciful atti- .
tudes, and strongly resembled a large group of .
small paroquets. They are natives of the Pyrenees.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

• bAILY EXTICACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.

August 8.

[NEW TIMES.]

The prevalent impression at• present is cer-
tainly in favour of the general tranquillity of
Europe : and this impression is strengthened by
the letters received yesterday from Odessa,
Constantinople, St. Petersburgh, and Vienna,
though the French Papers continue to hold out
apprehensions of a different result.—The follow-
ing are extracts from some of the letters received
by mercantile houses in the City :
" Odessa, July 11.—Several couriers have
lately passed through this city from St. Peters-
burg; and there is no doubt that they are the
bearers of important dispatches for the Russian
Ambassador at Constantinople, though the nature
'of them is not yet known. It is however gene-
rally believed, that no hostilities are intended at
present, and a war seems a very distant, and not
a very probable event. —Large shipments of
wheat continue, though not so actively as for
some time past. The prices are falling, and they
would be much lower, but from the general bad
appearance of the crops."
" Same Date.—The affairs of the Greeks in
Moldavia are in a desperate state. They have
been repeatedly defeated by the Turks, by whom
they are vigorously pursued to the Russian
frontier."

" Constantinople, July 3.—We are hourly
waiting the arrival of dispatches from the Court
of St. Petersburg, and the general opinion is,
that their contents will be favourable. Although
an immediate war may be averted, the conse-
quen6es of the late insurrection will still be very
serious to this nation, for the severity against the
Greeks still continues with unbridled ferocity,
and the sanction or any appearance of sanction
to the insurrection, on the part of a neighbouring
power, will unquestionably be the signal for fresh
outrages.—The ships laden with corn still con-
tinue to be detained, and large sums of specie
have been sent to Odessa within the last few
days, as proceeds of the. grain."
Letters have been also received from St. Pe-
tersburg, dated Ist July, which say, " there are
no fears of war here. Money matters and the
Exchange remain nearly the same. The latter is
a sure criterion of public opinion. Last post it
was 91d., to day it is 94d."—The private com-
munications from Vienna are also in general pa-
Fific. In one of them, indeed, a report is men-
tioned of the Greeks having captured Salonica,
after a bombardment of three days ; but the re-
port takes its origin from so doubtful a source
that it requires confirmation.

[MORNING POST.]
It is doubly gratifying to find the completion
of our wishes antedated, and that the state of the
country is so tranquil at home, and its relations
with foreign Powers on so sure and satisfactory a
footing, that instead of increasing our force as at
the approach of internal convulsion or of external
conflict, we are able with perfect safety to our-
selves to reduce our army to the amount of nearly
one-sixth of its whole numbers. With respect
to those declaimers, who chiefly called for re-
trenchment because they did not' think it practi-
cable, we do not anticipate that they will view
the present reduction with much pleasure. It
is what they professed to desire, but then
they wished it to be made at their suggestion,
in order that they might trumpet forth the
success of their exertions, and gain the
applause of the multitude at the supposed
triumph of their hacknied patriotism. So syste-
matic are the complaints which these advocates
of public economy are in the habit of bringing
against Ministers, that to preserve consistency,
they must in part abandon it; and must contend
that that which would have been proper in May
or in June last, has been highly improper in Au-
gust; that although it was true that Messrs. Hume,
Bennet, and Wilson tore out their lungs, dur-
ing the last Session, in preaching up the reduc-
tion 'of the Army, yet that such a reduction, at
so inconvenient a time as the present, ought to
be 'followed up by the impeachment of Ministers.
There is really no meeting this course of argu-
ment, than as it has been done, by the contempt
of the people, as well as that of his Majesty's
Ministers,' who, in steadily keeping to the path
of duty, have, in the- present instance, officially
announced the tranquil state of the country, and
the commencement of a series of gradual reduc.
tion, so as to meet the wishes of the public with-
Out compromising their safety.

[MORNING HERALD.]
We anticipated in The Herald of yesterday,
by our Private Correspondence, the proceedings
'-at the " bublin Conciliation Dinner" in honour
of his Majesty's" Coronation and 'visit to Ireland.
Some further details reached us yesterday by the
Irish papers, which, from the interesting charac-
ter of the proceedings, and the state of public
feeling at present among the people of that part of
the United Kingdom, we have also given. People
very well know how easy it is to get up ac-
counts of manifestations of public sentiments the
most enthusiastic and general, where the whole
has been but the affair of a party, or some small
fraction of what is called the public; hut, in this
instance, there is decisive evidence of unanimity
of publie and popular enthusiasm, unprecedented,
as far as we are aware, in any part of the United
Kingdom. The newspapers in Dublin, hither-
to more keenly, and really hostile to each other
than those of this Metropolis, speak in one tone
of joy and congratulation ; and what is still more
decisive, the individuals who have hitherto had
no interchange but that of mutual animosities,
have pledged each other overthe same board with
the utmost cordiality, and with a kind of solemn
and ceremonious abjuration of their mutual jars
and prejudices. This visit of his Majesty will
prove indeed a permanent blessing to Ireland—a
" happy epoch" in her annals—as it is usually de-
nominated in the Irish Papers. The influx of
persons from all parts of the United Kingdom is

immense, and the impulse given to internal trade
and manufactured goods must prove incalculable;

[THE TIMES.]
We must take leave to disturb the complacency
with which Ministers and their friends are assum.

ing the credit of reductions of the Army, which have
been forced upon them by the distresses of the coun-
try. We cannot forget how long and how obsti-
nately they turned a cold ear to the repeated re-
monstrances of independent Members of Parlia-
ment : and how eagerly they argued that it was im-
possible to reduce the expenditure another shilling,
without detriment to the country. And yet
within a few weeks after the close of the session

they cut off at one blow 12,000 men from one
branch of the service, making, we suppose, a di-
minished charge of not less than 600,0001. a year.
Necessity has great power in clearing the intellects
and removing obstacles: and we have little doubt
that we shall soon have to record further reductions
to a much larger amount. The Ordnance, Navy,
and Civil departments still remain to be pruned ;
and we confidently anticipate a great saving in
the Collection of the Revenue. It is, indeed,
estimated that the whole saving to the country
about to be proposed by those who pledged
their official words that not a shilling could be
saved, will he above a million and a half sterling.
We ought to mention, to the honour of Lord
Liverpool, that he strenuously urged the pro-
priety of reducing some of the larger offices, in-
'stead of curtailing the pittances of inferior clerks,
who, at any rate, work hard enough for their
salaries, while many of their superiors are " su-
pinely thriving" on fat sinecures.