The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-27 00:00:00

ROYAL NAVY.

PORTSMOUTH, 31ARCII :M.—The Druid frigate, Captaia
Chambers, is. expected to sail on Monday, for the %Vest Indies.
31ajor General air Patrick Ross, Governor of Antigua, and
suite, and Charles Mackenzie, Esq.,-Consul-Generul in Hayti,
will embark here, and the Bishop of Barbadotss, and family, at
Plymouth.
A letter from his Majesty's ship 31aidsume; Commodore
Charles !Mien, C. 8., remarks that they had been rather form.
nate in the last cruise, having detained two Dutch vessels under
the Slave Act, and a very Atte Spanish, schooner, after a long
chase of eleven hours. She had on board 3011 slaves, all
healthy,- and had only been embanied eight hours when the
Commodore first saw, her.
It is just ordered, that the Royal Marines serving on board
all the ships of war in ctinunission be increased, to the number
which each class had during the late war. A Lieutenant.' a
serjeant, a corporal, and 14 privates, have embarked in the.
Druid, 46, as the increase to that class of frigates.
'Phis day the Jitspar, 10, Captain Frettuantle, arrived from a
cruise ; and the ship ‘Villittm Manning, from St. Kitt's. Re.
main at Spithed—Druid and Jasper. In the Ilarbour.r—Victdry,
Ganges, Superb, Spartiate, Ariadne, Espeigle, Cor,
test. ' •

aptaintoHtehneryHill, and the. officers of the Superb, are ap.
pointed
Melville,
new 74—the former ship not beirg
found seaworthy. • • '
DE VOVPORT, MARCH 23..,.Arrived and came into harbour
to be docked, the Blonde, 40, Lord Byron, front ,tipitlicad.,.
The Thetis, 40, Sir John Philliroore, is waiting to take Lord
Porisonby, AMbassador to the Republic of Buenos Ayres ; and
the Galatea, his Excellency :Alexander Cockburn, .Esq. Mu.
bastador to the Colombian Republic.
Captain J. Marshall, C.ll. Is appointed' Superintendent of
Of the Quarantine Service at Milflod, anti Lieutenants ILI-44)h
and A. M‘Donuld his Joint Deputies. Captain Omilow
appointed to the Preventive District Service at North Var.
mouth; 'Lieutenant Hough, to comment! the Cracker cutter, at
this port' (the • BaSilisk being- paid off) ; Mr. aimallie, to be
Purser of the Forte ; Air. NVilra'n, late Clerk of the Blonde, is
confirmed in his rank of Purser of that _ship, vice Brown,
ceased; the Key. R. it. sitioichativ, of the Blonde, to be Char.
lain to the Naval Yard at Bermuda. Lieut. Ilope• Johnston,
is promoted to the rank of Coninuindcr.,

LON UON MARK

CORN EXCIIAN(;E, MA.not 27.

The arrivals of last week were rather small of all sorts of
Corn except Oats, which was tolerably•large. .This morning
there is a moderate supply of Grain from Essex, Kent, and
Suffolk. Wheat of fine quality may be noted la. per qttarter
dearer, and Inferior sorts are brisker. Barley for malting:'enm.
mantis sale more freely than of late, and is ls.. per quarter
higher; other. kinds are not dearer. Berms and Pease may
each be noted a little better. Oats are more sought after, and
there is 'a free trade at the quotations of last .Monday. In
Elour no alteration.
It ft IVALS or
English Wheat
Barley • 3,733
Malt • 7,130 .
.•.
••••,---7•7* Oats 15,632
•••-••;..---- Beans 1,010 •
Par
Wheat, Red (oW) 3 —3
- White (old) —s
Red (1(125) 48s
- Flue 6fisAlls;
Superfine MI* tills
'White(lll:2s) 52S
Pine llls li2s
Superfine 68s
Rye (new) 314 40s
Barley • 2118
Fine (new) ~ :10s 323
.... 31is 3111
Malt llls 311*
--Fine tills 6111
Peas Grey (new) 'l9s 41*
Maple (neW)....41s 42s
White (new)....40s 44*
40* ZiOs

LAST WEEK.

English Neese
Irish. Oats

890 Qrs.
8.075

Foreign 134rIey 2,173
ts 748

I nig]lbh Flour 7;07 Ssekiii.
Ives.

Beans, Sulull (nrw) 411.
----. (old) .-111`
Tick (new) "12:1!6•
(OW)
Harrow (new )...30a 40a
—told)
Brunk 14$ 4Or
Oats, Feed «Or 22s
Fine is 23s
Poland 216 23s
----Fine '24.20.
- Poyttoe 230 251
«Os 2s.
.Scotch °IM 30a
Floor (per sack ).. 6O.
--- Seconds Mos
-- North Conn try 42r Ms
Bran 1«. 13.

GEKEItAT. AV ERAOE PRICE OE (MAIN, PROM THE Iit:TER/OS
itECETVED IN THE WEEK ENI)Wa 18.
Wheat, 11d.; Barley, 30s. sd. ; Oath, 2•25. 4d.; Rye,
435, 2d.; Beans, 3iis. lid.; Peas, 395. 4d.
AVERAGE TIV TUE IMPERIAL QIIARTErt•
"Wheat, 565. 7d. ; Barley, 31s. Id. ; Oath, 235. Od. ; Rye,
445. 6d. • Beans, 868. 7d. ; Peas, 40s. 6d. •
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar,eompuicd
March 22, 1826, isli2s. 104 d. per cwt.

SMITIIFIEW MARKET, NlAttol 27.

'rite following is an accutate Report Of the numbers and
prices at Smithfield Market this morning:—

cavrt.r: al' MARKET
Beasts '1,477 Sheep
Calves
To sink the Offal. per stone of OM.
Beef 4s 4d to 4s 10111 'Veal- ..... .is 11(1 to es Oil
Mutton 4s 4d to As Od Pork . . .... GK Od to es. Oki
Lamb Is Od to 06.11(1.
11AT *No aTttaw, Pt:x(lAm%), •
Hay
Straw £l las to t.l Os,

ALARMING FlRE.—About 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, a fire broke out in the house of Mr.
Ford, corn-chandler, in Pro•pect-place, Saint
George's-field, near the Ifillephant and Ca.itle,
which shortly communicated to his large pie-
mises behind, tilled with corn, hay, and straw,
and burnt with such tremendous fury, that at
one time it threatened destruction to the whole
neighbourhood. The situation of Mr. Ford's
premises was such, that in a little 'time the
houses of Mr. Fisher, a furniture-broker, Mr.
Cruet, a green-grocer, and the shop and tint-
ber yard of Mr.'Weetly, a carpenter, were all
on fire, and notwithstanding the speedy arrival
of several engines, and the utmost exertions of
the firemen, their endeavours were completely
paralyzed from there being no water to be ob.
trained at the time the whole of the above pro-
ndses were burning and the preservation of the
neighbourhood is more to he attributed to the
activity of the firemen than to any supply of wa.
ter which could be procured during the
whole of the conflagration. The houses and pro•
tpwerotyormilinretieleodasuersenicidoubs
ruyeti, .roll
property greatly datnaged.
leekt ell));.:l\tr. Ford ' his wife, iiiitl family v!seet
the rear of Mr. Ford's
known by means it m iginated, but the pro.att
It is` not
.
pert i .
nt
dils
what
e and,
we
let►rn, with thee cxctal►tton of Mr. F.'s) that no
part of it is insured.

Tiih 1,01,0,0 M UR ,N ALS.
••04111010,—
DAMN*
Elrraatirein Popers,illarch 27,1 SSG.

•
[VIM ,TIMES.
We have hektofore' spoken 'generally of the
valuable' Report made by the Chancery Commis-
sion i and we shalt from time to time advert, as
ecctilon offers, to some of the Wore prominent
points ieparatelp. Perhaps there is no one point,
on which so many prejudices interfere with the
formation of a sound opinion, as the manner of
taking the evidence .of.:witnesses in Chaucery.---
We are accustomed, in the civil and criminal ju-
risdiction of the common law, to see witnesses
produced in the face of the Court, and examined
and cross-examined in the presence of the Judge
and Jury, who are to determine the cause ; and,
undoubtedly, this mode of extracting the truth.
has many advantages; but it has, as alt human
imititUtions have, some .disadvantages also ; and
mankind are apt to forget that they, cannot
enjoy the benefits of any • Institution with-
out its disadvantitgta. If' the'' witnesses are
to be examined in the presence of the Judge,
they, must: either come to him, or he must
go to them. ,fence the necessity of our Corn.
mon Law •Circuits, with the various 'neon-
.veniences attached to them as modes of adminis.
teringiboth civil and criminal justice. It would
be obviously iMpOssible for the Lord Chancellor,
the Master of the Rolls, nod the 'ViceXhancel-
lor, to goon Circuits ; and if they (lid, it would
be:equally impossible to model the proceedings
of a court of Equity, so as to get it determined
with safety anti expedition in a CirCuit Court.—
The other alternative, that of bringing all the
witnesses in a Chancery suit to Loudon, would,
be attended with a ruinous expellee. It strikes
use Indeed that the very nature of a suit in
lAttity points to a different mode of takimt,
d advisable from that w m hich ay be lott
a criminal proseitition, or an Hellen at.law. :rite
two latter gelierally lie in a narrower cortipass,
and are more strictly bound down to facts of a
precise legal description. I n these, therefore, the
Matter's may be first brought to issue upon the
adverse pleas, and then tint whole evidence ap-
plied at once to the cause ; whereas many tines-
ti'cis in equity (such as thosemf fraud, trust, ac-
count, Atc.) being of a less definitive nature, seem
to require a more circuitous ' mode • of. pro.
ceeding. nere it may be advisable ' that
the 'party should set forth his case article by or.
tiCle, calling upon Isis adversary for answers to
each point, acid resorting to the edvidetice of
witnesses only, where the answers do not, or can.
not, supply 'all. the information required. The
whole case, 'therefore, being redifeed to writing
in all its details, there is ground for a very full
illpd deliberate examination Of witnesses, when
their evidence is required : and again, us the
points, which they are produced to speak to,'are
fully known, means are afforded for a strict
cross.examination by the interrogatories of the
adverse party. W hether, after till, this mode of
getting at the truth be very ineffectual, is a
question of expelience, and the,Cononissionera
give it as the reholt both of their own personal
observation in Courts Of Equity, and of tin state-
ments made by the professional- men examined
op that head, is that the instances are very rare
in which there is even any suspicion of 11 Itimate
in Consequence of the- existing oracle of
evidence."
4

[MOMtn NU II[;ICALD.]

teturn of Easter INlonda y, which has
Agyfoys been u perind of amuseMent anti tetrea-
'Oen' to all ranks cif people, leads us to .hunent
',SOW mttehthe nwans of so enjoying it have he.
come circumscribed to the hliddling and rower
ranks of people in the metropolis, who no longer
ettjoY the green fields and other places of eSer,
tilte which they used to take so much delight in,
'tut are driven to seek their amusement in public-
Ifousea, or in paved court-yards, misnamed
tea-gardens. 'Though this may be considered to
b'e in a gretit measure, the natural result of the
overgrown state of the metropolis, yet we cannot
hefp'thiniving that a little previous attention and
tpsesight might luive averted 0 good deal of what
we cannot but, leek upon as it national calamity ;
for as few things tend more to produce-a hardy
ltd,ts virtuous rate of men than eiercise and
out-door amusement, so, on the other hand, no.
khipg itr more surely Calculated to enervate the
406, rind iitiete the mind, (loin that people
should he cooped up turd confined within the
unhealthy bounds ~vitich now fall to the
lot of the is-bowing pait of our town population.
When we hear that a large area is to be left
•
Clurrin birdg.cross, i that at a great expettee,
for no earthly Purpose but mere Show and °run-
Inent we cannot help nishing that one-half the
Cost had beefs bestowed in rescuing some of the
fields in the, neighbourhood of London from the
iiAroittis of• the lorickmakere ; and whets we hear
qt late vast improvements which have been Made
in he Regent's Valli, we cannot help rt fit t tint;
that, to•day It will not afford this Same source of
healtlcand amusoment to the generality Of people
that itiarylehooe.fieids uscti to plesent on limner
Wiwis sadi twitters art, left
.ft, a 'committee of l'aste•—suclt, at. least, as this
conttiry has the miSfortune to possess, We can
readily imagine (hitt they think if they; can gia.
,11 4
the ,Patupereti appetite of the few, they ate
,411 that isrenuired of theM. No dOuht,
,tattte.is, with them) ne a great measure, the va-
kocy,
,of,dattery thwy Orilla front tOtes us taste-
Irby as tlocir own, Fortunately, hogs vim there
are utnong the Present tAovettinient thane tit ho,
lutr t°tt„amp cif lwiter tiring,:, and who, if they
ive tit it Will OS to the siihject, way stilt da
1 great de,i I ton securing to the mass of the
of the IIII:•Ropplis tt tn n iitinunce of
onie, its leost, of those open spares which, while
they effiltrilinte t 0 general health end recreation,
~ •
Ce,talculated lint it
,little to I+l,.°llolt. that right
t' IttlEf, ~,11101 pro(
loces honest men mid good
Atsblects.

t`
A.reArtliflg tit the
NV 111411 iile lii

was then in a fair way of recovery. The metal-
liqucs had risen to ;,nearly their former value ;
and the gloom, with which that capital was over-
spread a few days before, had 'almost 'entirely
iiubsitled; Of the grief exhibited by the lulu'.
l!titunts when it was known that the illness of
their Sovereign had assumed an alarming charac,
ter, there is given a most animated description,
which will only surprise such persons 43 are •
norant of the extreme affection they feel for his
person. In this feeling, too, they reflect the sen-
timents of the whole Austrian nation ; and ano-
malous us this many appear, considering the cha-
racter of that Government, which is any thing
but liberal, it is not the less true. To his private
virtues alone the Emperor can scarcely owe this
flattering distinction ; and there must be some.
thing in his rule, in which practice is at variance
with theory, to render it intelligible. We under-
stand too that, in the Hereditary States, the Ad-
ministration is very mild. The taxes are also
said to ,be light ; and great care, we believe, is
taken to protect the labouring dallies generally
against any vexatious interference either in their
useful occupations or simple recreations. This
is, no doubt, one of the chief causes of the popu-
larity which the Emperor Francis enjoys ; but it
is a popularity that'll() truly enlightened Monarch
will aspire to, for, to supply the physical wants
of a people is only one of the duties of a Sow.-
reign ; and we fear that his Imperial Majesty has
,been woefully lax in the other, which enjoins
him to provide for their necessities as intellectual
beings, evidently destined for much higher ends
than are conveyed by the words—natos consumers
fruges.