The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-02 00:00:00

FRENCH THEATRE.

• The frequenters of the French Theatre, in Totten-
ham-street, are at present enjoying a great treat in the
perfOrmance of Potier, the most popular actor in
France, who is in this country for a few weeks. The
parts in which we, have seen him, would, we think
on our stage, have been filled by Liston or Famen ;
the latter of whom, however he much more resembles
in person and general style, than the former. He rep.
pears hilly to deserve the great reputation he has
acquired, and the no small importance he enjoys in
such a play-going nation as the French: in some
parts- bordering upon broad farce, he probably pro-
duces less of than Liston ; hut there is, on the
whole, more finish in his acting, than in that of any
comic performer we have ever seen. In the Centenair
an old invalid, who is so fortunate as to reeeivrn
the present year, an answer to a memorial sent by 'him
to the Bureau de la Guerre, in March rat 7,
performance may be said to be absolute perfection.

Mazurier has lately appeared at the. Theatre de la
Ns to St. Martin, in a. new Pantomimic Ballet, entitled Gulli-
ver. Merurier Mounted on stilts, and standing twelve feet high,
dances with two fair Brobdignagians, each of ten feet. His per-
formance is said to be a miracle of boldness and agility.
A drama has lately been produced in Paris, at the
Theatre de Madame, called the. Simple Histoire, founded on Mr
4.
Inchball's novel. The piece has been very successful.
An overture (that of the Jeune Henri) descriptiv-, Ofu tux
hunt, has lately been performed (miss en acii.).;,o at t'no idea.
demie de Mueique, in Paris. There are roll and horses,
and a real stag named Coen, described a conunnunate actor.
Notwithstanding something of the ti►nitlity mum,' to a first 41p.
penrenee his part was throughout admirably kutaained, and his
death inimitable.

COIIN-EXC/ GE--(Tnis DA•v).
. The supplies of all kinds of Grain are triodeiate. There is
little doing, that the prices of neat,. Barley, Beans, Pause, and
Oats, may he' ooted antnhially the Name as Monday.
Atm IVA Ls,
English Wheat 3,500 Qrs. Mali Oats 11,400 Qra.
----- Barley 29;1 Vori:igit Wheat 1 400
Alt - 'Barley
Oats 0,000 ------ -
Pease Oats 14,100
I.lianal English Flour 5,650 Back&
---- ----.

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;SMITHFIELD MARKET.-.(Ttlts DAv)
This day's supply having been limited, end the buye.rs appa-
rently numerous, the salesmen made a stubborn eon to obtain
an advance, but were ultimately comptlled, by tits: unlavour-
abfeness of the weather for slaughtering, to content themselves
with nit abatement of about 4d. per stone for Vold_Coarsto and
with Monday's prices for Beef, Mutton, Lamb, and Pork, and
inferior Beasts producing from 31. 4d, to 33.0 d.; comas ana inferior Sheep, 3s. 2d. to Ss. 6d. ; second quality -Relish, 4k. Od•
to 4s. 4d. ; SCVQIIII quality Sheep, 3s. Itki. to 4s. hl. ; prime
coarse-woolled Sheep, from 4s. 2d. to • 40. 4d.; pritnest B.otith'
DOWnlVethers, 4s. hl. to 4s. Gil. ; prime large Oxen, is thl. to
4s. 10d. ; prime Scots, Norfolk hotne-breds, lx.c. dift. itlil,,tet
I% °d'; 1,491 e lAN bs, 41, ltki, to a. 411. ; prime small 1.a0.11 sl
Cis. to Cs. id. but few reaching the latter price ; larga "".',',.7:
Calves, 4s. 2tl. to 4s. Gti. ; Calves of from 12 to 10 otz( 10..i7vti_
it' white in the flesh, and otherwise complet,e,co,4l.4
ss. Gd ; largo flogs, 3s. 10d. to 4s. 211. ; rind it; 1L.u.34.' per
Porkers, not exceeding 7 stone each, 4s. IV,;(4s, prom 14,, i„
stone of 81b. to sink the Otials. Suckling (.. ,„„_.
etch. mild,
423. ; and quarter old store Pigs, front 19;„'"11, ,„, , ,
, to Wilitilnuiti to-tuty,
$ pricrs.---Supply, RS per
Cows were by no 111KLIIS norneroos, .i,t.,,elit _luny wanted : thoso
or at I:lington yesterday, nor won) t 0 "
3,,g ' t"T'
Mutton, 3s. 2d- to Ass dit .
100 0,1,10 Piga 4 ... Sheol) anti I.,:ttulo . ... . .
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iCiiiil I.I;;ADEIHALLI .111ARKETS.
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TITF. LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY IIXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPPRS,

jvxn 2, 1826.

[TUE 'TIMES.]
In noticing yesterday the reports on Scotch bank-
ing, we might have observed upon one of the argus
meats used in defence of the system now in force
throughout Scotland, that if there be few instances of
banks becoming insolvent, the number of bankrupt.-
cies in other trades' are far more numerous than here.
Each Gazelle that exhibits the certificates of insol-
vency beyond the Tweed, will bear ample evidence to
the above statement. The fact is, we believe, that
the population of Scotland are more in the trammels
anti under the paw of their bankers, than can well be
conceived by those who form a judgment merely from
watching the relation between the banking interest
and that of commerce generally throughout England.
'ffie system of caab credits affords an accommodation
which every man fears to lose. Refuse the notes is-
sued by the man of paper, or show a preference for any
better species of currency, and you forfeit at once all
title to the letters of credit. So it appears, that if these
credits be not frequently " operated" upon,—that is, if
the banker's paper be not freely, frequently taken out,
and circulated by the parted, he is considered an un-
profitable dependent, and his credit is withdrawn.—
The gist and spirit of the whole invention is to
spread the paper empire far and wide
—to
fix
it so
deeply in the nation, to fasten it so rigorously anti
indissolubly upon the neck of the people, that who-
,ever ventures to cry out, is clinked by its merci-
less pressure. It is easy for bankers to conic
'up from Scotland, and swear that no panic has
ever induced their customers to make a run upon
them for cash—when the bulk of their customers have
more to dread than hope from any such ticklish expe-
riment. lt is easy, again, for Ministers to assure the
House of Commons, that they have changed their
.opinions On inquiry and conviction, anti are now per-
suaded of the excellence of that system which a few
days earlier they had despised and reprobated. We
all see how the inquiry was conducted, when none
but Scotch bankers . were brought forward for exami-
nation ; and we are all aware, that when Ministers
talk of their conviction, it means only a conviction of
the danger they would run from a mutiny of the
Scotch monopolist freeholders, on the eve of a general
election. We ,have little doubt, that of these voters
it decided majority arc united in a manner the most
ineAricable with the several Scotch banks ; and that
the cogent logic by which Ministers were converted
was of a different kind from any which appears on the
Miaow of Evidence printed by the House of Com-
mons. With regard to Ireland, the " Committee
hesitate"--4their nostrum for that country is of a pro-
spective nature—they admit that " a metallic cur-
rency ought " ultimately to be the basis" of her cir-
culation—but at present they do nothing more than
acknowledge the truth, and forbear, or fear, to act
nprth it. In the mean time the tendency of a paper
circulation to 'grow until it reaches enormous dunen-
Him's, when it usually bursts upon time stupid
vid heads
of its admirers, may be seen from a table, gii ng
an account of the bankers' notes issued in Ireland
in 1815, as also in 1821, 1823, 1824, 1825. In
1815, the highest amount of private bankers' paper
was 313,0001.; in 1821, 933,0001.; in 1822,
1,079,000/. ; in 1824, 1,185,000/. ; in 1825,
1,405,0001.-4hus more than quadrupling in ten
years; while the wealth of the country, judging by
the general rotate of its revenue, rents, and commerce,
is stationary, if it has not declined, at this moment.—
Owing to time crash of the last six months, the hankers'
notes lips been reduced from 1,405,0007. to 738,0001.,
or about onn-half. Now this reduction of a prepoa-
terolis paper issue, although it be in the nature of a
remedy, must still bring with it extreme inconvenience
and distress until time bring
be filled up, as of
course it will he after a season, by the notes of the
Bank of Ireland and coin of the realm. We should
like to have found time Irish bankers doing like the
Scotch, anti sending up a posse of their number to
bamboozle Parliament with assurances that it was the
best of all conceivable plans to have a paper sove-
reignty established over a confiding and pennyless
ita-
tic,n ; where he who pleaSed might metamoThose
dirty counting-house into a royal mint, and coin away
kites not worth sixpence a hundred, for the good of his
grateful country. The Irish, however, with all their
experience in hanging, have not yet learned from their
northern fellow-subjects the art of hanging together,
else they might sometimes make a better fight of it.

The threat of Lord Chief Justice Best on Wednes-
day, 410, he would visit with the summary jurisdic-
tion of the Court—in other words, that he would fine
and imprison such persons as should be guilty of whet
ho (himself the judge'and jury in such ease) might
doom a libel, and by. Consequence, a contempt of
Court, is calculated rather to excite surprise at the
judgment of the person uttering it, than any serious
alarm for public liberty. It is astonishing that a man
pf talent, and who had long been conversant with po-.
vular topics, should at, once show himself so.unheed-
ltil nf the past, so ignorant of the present, • and so
win 4 to the future, as to suppose it possible that the
the time of Charles IL and James
worst pm: dents of
I. could agaio be called into action, without disturb-
int; the patience At
least of the present age. It is
true, that the doctrine of the Lord Chief Justice may
be folnij kupported by the dicta and practice of cer-
tain worthy Judges of old time t hut is it prudent in
a thulge of the present day, to aim at the reputation*
of a Wright or an Allybone ? A wise man observes
the •signs of the times ; and of all men, it most be-
comes a Judge to preserve the dignity of his office
from impartment or angry scrutiny, by taking care
never to run counter to the enlightened spirit of the
ire, through a fondness for the tyrannical and obso-
lete maxima 'of the worst times of the law and eonsti-
Intion.—lbid. • * See the trial of the Seven Bishop.

CMORNINU CHRONICLE.]
Every man who has attended to the signs of the
times is aware that the old party divisions of this
country cease to exist, and consequently that the old
names of Whig and 'l,ory CCURC to have any appliea-
tion to the parties of the present day. One circum-
stance alone is conelusivg on this subject. The prin.
cipal opponents of Ministers, and of their measures,
are to be found among those who are ranged under
the Wisteria} banner. The measures of Ministers
are supported by a part of the Whigs, and condemned
by another part. We have now his Majesty's Oppo-
sition ; that is, a number of Members, who sit 01),
posits to the Ministers, but still agree with them in
most matters. New names have been necessary for
this new state of things. Macktuood, which with
John Bull is the organ of the Members who do not sit
opposite to Ministers. but hate them in their hearts,
useh the Terms Old and New 'Tories. The charac-
teristics of Ifieckwood and John Bull will let UN at

once into the character of the 84 Old Toriesi"
Mld/
s " o
profess an ardent admiration of whatever ,
but they love only that which is both old and bad;
for innovations which have the effect of adding to the
privationa or itifreringa of the people, they have alwais
hailed with alacrity. - They love abuse, and hate ai-
gumentthey hate nil improvementsdiscussion and.
inquiry they would silence-,--and the only freedom
they would allow would be a freedom!? themselves
of aspersing the motives and . blackening the cha-
racter of ',those whom they cannot answer ; and if
their lives be spotless, to endetWour.to find in their
peculiarities or personal infirmities matter of ridi-
cule. These are the Old Tories. The New Tories
are such Tories as arc anxious to decide only after in-
quiry, and are not so obstinately wedded to any opi-
nions as to shut their ears to all argument against
them--4hey are men who do not wish to be guided by
maxims founded on principles, of which the fallacy
has been. demonstrated. In the last number of Black-
wood there is a long' article, which may be deemed n
sort of manifesto of the Old Tories, as it embodies
pretty nearly all the absurdities which are current in
the party. In this production we are told that—
" The old Tories have the overwhelming majority, not only in
numbers, but •in every attribute of potency. They have the
strength of the land with them on the Catholic Question ; and in
regard to the new liberal system, they have with them the landed
interest, the monied interest, the West India interest, the ship.
ping interest, a large part of the numutitcturing interest, and a
considerable part of the mercantile interest. I believe that nine-
wed)* of the men of business ate with them. When I look at
the prodigious power of this party, and then turn to those who
take the lead as its representatives in Parliament, T am mated.
It practically selects the Ministry; the Ministers in the Lower
House profess to belong to it ; and yet they arc almost all Whigs
in origin and present opinions."
A large and powerful party indeed ! Who but the
Old Tories I Mr. 'Canning was quite out, it would
seem, when he said the number of those who would
persecute a Turgot, and send Galileo to a dungeon,
was but a handful—nine-tenths of the men of 'busi-
ness, the landed interest, .the monied' interest, the
shipping interest, &c. &c. We fear, :if Sir James
Graham succeed in persuading his brother landholders
to tax the funds and mortgages, the Demon of Dis-
cord will soon find his way into the camp of the Old
Tories. But of this, by the bye. Now, the writer in
.Blackwood makes a very curious admission, with re-
respect to these same Old Tories, so formidable in
strength. and numbers, " I know not (he says) how
the Old Tories aro to retain the humble shnie of offi-
cial influence that they now possess. They have not a
single rising orator. The few young men not in office,
who speak on the Ministerial side, all profess the Now
Toryism ; and they have not talent to be of any value
to any party." What a woful account ! All these
Old Tories, who possess such an overwhelming BO-
rough influence, have not among them been able to
beget a single rising orator. This great 'par !y, with
nine-tenths of the property and industry of England
to back it, is about to go out like the snufrof a candle
for want of a single rising orator. Aleck for the Old
Tories ! Brains, brains, for the Old Tories—to save
this flourishing party from ruinthere is not one man
of rising talent to' tell their tale.

[MORNING HERALD.]
.We cannot help noticing an extraordinary proceed-
ing at one of . the police-offices, in which a marriage,
according to the Catholic form in Ireland is declared
to be invalid, and the woman is made to bastardize
one of. her children, though that child neither had
been nor was likely to become chargeable to the pa-
rish, whose officers called for this proceeding. If the
course pursued by the Magistrate upon thus occasion
was, as we suppose it must have been, imperative, it
is high time that both the law and the practice were
otherwise. Whatever may be our opinion of the
Catholic religion, surely it is' reasonable that its cere-
monies . should be binding among the members of
its own community, and recognised as such by all
constituted authorities. At any rate, it should not
be in the breast of any individual, however respect-
able, to declare that void, the avoidance of which, to
say nothing of the laxity of morals in many instances,
is ealculated to be of such serious and fatal conse-
quence to children. We trust, therefore, that one
of the first measures of the new Parliament will be to
legalise Catholic marriages, or at all events to
take from Magistrates the odium and the power of
pronouncing upon their validity. But what we princi-
pally object to on this occasion is, the busy interfer-
ence of parish-officers in matters they ought to have
nothing to do with. If the principle acted upon in
this case were to prevail, there would be no end to
the trouble, distress, and vindictiveness it would' give
rise to. Surely it would be sufficient for parish offi-
cers to interfere in the case of illegitimate children,
when that interference is asked, or when such child=
ren arc likely to be neglected without it. We know
that in practice, parish officers are seldom prompted,
in those cases, by any sympathy towards either the
mothers or the children, but only to get a sum of
money from the father—leaving the children afterwards
too often destitute. But that parish officers, or their
underlings, should have the power of rying into the
secrets, and disturbing the peace of families, by re-
(ptiting the marriage-certificate of every mother whom
they chime to suspect of incontinence or infidelity, is
a species of espionage which is intolerable, and ought
to be resisted and put an end to.

[nttinsti .nuEss.]
The following information has been received from
a quarter which leaves us no doubt of. its accuracy.
We arc disposed to attach importance to it, not as a
proof of any designs on the part of the present Go-
vermnent of Spain which could give real grounds for
alarm to Portugal, but as one instance more of the
astonishing imbecility and ignorance which pervades
the councils of a government which thinks of making
new acquisitions at the very moment that it is sur-
rounded by the bayonets of foreigners. We shalt
confine ourselves, in giving this intelligence, to the
mere translation of our Spanish Correstiondent. Its
purport is as foltOws ;-44 In the Council of State at
Madrid a discussion lately took place concerning the
advantages which would arise to Spain from the union
of Portugal. To obtain this without a war, it was
proposed to give Spanish America to the Ein_peror of
Brazil, and thus to obtain the cession of Portugal
from I)on Pedro. This was referred to the King,
and met with his approbation ; but it was necessary
also that the Holy Alliance should approve of it. Its
approbation was also obtained. 1 hose Peninsular
Knights ( atm Cabelleros Pe ninsulares) heard of
it, and took so much alarm at it, that they demanded
of the Spanish Government if it was in earnest or in
jest, for if it was in earnest they
dock, from -4
quhrter whichwould declare war
immediately." This information reaching us, as it
acquiring the most itnportant possessesasec the
retintiefileliagleisncof
e
with regard to is entitled' to a much greater
degree of credit than could Otherwise attach to it, and
we have no heBhittion in Stating our belief_ that it is
substantially correct,