The Sun.
London, England, 1826-02-14 00:00:00

[TlSr_rr i CFI.]

Our communication from die city yesterday is
of the same complexion as those of preceding'
dap: last Week. In our opinion, indeed, it is
not likely that any rapid change is to be expected
or curt occur ; still are %,.! convineed, that the end
of these tHito will be the public benefit. We,
spoke yesterday rather favourably of the ru.
moor+ d accommodation to be afforded by Go.
veitooent in the shape of Exchequer bills; and are
now in the sitUation of a man who bas professed
his readiness'to assist a friend—meaning thereby
with inch a"troulerate s ra as it became the one
to trt j and the other" et, borrow ; upon which
disposition to oblige -the distressed man twitting
inogs, unreasonable 'demand, and showing that a
le.ss sum can do him no service, "obtains nothing,
They talked on Saturday of half a mil-lion In
Exchequer Rills. They now talk of Five Mil.
limo)! Five wittions 0f iodtchequer Bilis—that
spet;ies Of p,iper tieing now at a discount of ten
or twelve 'shillings per cent. in time of Pea" I
Hive millions of Exchegner BRlO—the whole
sinking fund of the country, as it was promised
to us in the days 9; our liollow prosperity,

that ought to have'been .applied to greasing the
cord of the mill-stone that is hanging about our
neck,. We shall have, then, twice the amount
of the premised sinking funds ten millions
absorbed this year ; and no reduction produced
in the national debt. We fear, .if such be the
case, the country will want the assistance of the
merchants next year. Besides, for what par-
pose is this vast sum to be advanced ? Our city
correspondence says) that it is to enable mer-
chants to bond or warehouse their 'goods till
prices rise. Such -a projeceas this mould place
Ministers in a combination with merchants
against all ,the test of the country—against the
whole population of Englandi who are to be
oppressed by these high prices. We have heard
,of the native Goverment! of India thus uniting
with British adverturers to fiord rice, and after-
wards deal it out to the starving Indians : but
we hope never'to see such a plan adopted in any
civilized state of Europe. Neither, indeed, is it
a combination which would affect our domestic
comforts only ; it would be a combination to drag
us back, and to give the other nations of Europe
yet more the start of us in all the advantages
which result from abundance, from cheap
provisions, low wages, and brisk trade. Further,
the merchants are to be enabled, by pecuniary
accommodation, to bond their articles till the
prices advance. But how are they sure that the
prices will advance ? Our own opinion is, that
prices will not remount in this country while
they, continue low throughout all the rest of
the world ; and more particularly when' we take
into consideration the liberal system or policy now
adopted by Ministers; according to which foreign
merchants may, at the opening of spring, send their
commodities into _England, while those of the na-
tives would rot under bond and in warehouses, if
not taken out and sold at low prices from dread
of the increasing glut. No, no ; the only accom-,
modation that Government can afford to mer-
chants is, to lower its own expellees, for the supply
of which, not only merchants but every other CIII§S
of the community has been oppressed. And if
Government had been forced to do this at the
commencement of the pence, such a crisis as the
present present cotrld never have arrived'.

[THE nErnESENTATIVEg
The important discussion opened by the Chair.
cellor of the Exchequer on Friday, wa, re,sumed'
last night in the House of Commons, when it was
warmly contended on one side, that the proposed
measure of prohibiting the circulation of Bank
notes, under the value of five pounds, would
increase the difficulties under which the
country now labours, by curtailing injuriously
the circulating medium, and that the bare
proposal of such a measure had already pro-
duced that effect ; on the other side it was main-
tained,- that it was indispensable to abolish the
mischievous power which country hankers now
possessed of increasing the currency at their own
discretion, and thereby changing the nature of
alt, compacts between man and man. -The
speakers were, Sir John Wrottebtey, Mr. Ley-
cester, Mr. 'l'.Wilson, Mr. A Idernian Thompson,
Mr. ohn Smith, Mr. C. Grant, Sir J. New-
port, Mr. Alderman Ileygate,. Mr. Secretary
Peel, Mr. Atwood, Mr. 11. Gurney, Mr. Secre-
tary Canning, Mr4Pearse, Mr. Baring, and Mr.
Brougham.

[NEW TIMES.]
The Debate on the resolution submitted to the
consideration of the House of Commons on Fri-
day night, by the itigitrPton. the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, was resumed last night. The
principal speakers for the resolution on the Mi.
nisterial side of the House, were Mr. Canning,
Mr. Peel, and Mr. Charles Grant, and on the
side of the Opposition, Mr. Brougham, Mr. Att.
wood, and Mr. Alderman Heygate. Sir John
Wrottesley and Mr. Baring spoke against it, and
the last mentioned Gentleman moved an amend-
ment, " declaring it inexpedient to enter on the
discussion of the 'Bulking system in the present
state of commercial credit." _.On this amend•
meat the House divided, when the numbers
were, for the original motion, 222—for the
amendment, 39.--.Majerity; 183. A second
amendment was moved by Mr. Hudson Gurney,
to leave out the words," and Bank of England,"
which was negatived by a majority of 59, tire
numbers being for the resolution as it originally
stood, Gap and for the amendment 7.

Sr. VALFNTINk'.II MT.—This day is rethark.
able as the anniversary of St. Valentine, who,
according to one account, was an ancient pres-
.byter of the church ;,.after a year's imprisonment
at Rome, he was beaten with clubs,,and then be-
headed,.in tho'Via Flaminia, about the year 270,
under Claudius ff. Another account says, he
was a priest at Biome, under Decian, in the year
12, and, living in
.a very licentious age, he
pressed .much upon his hearers (being` esteemed
'an eloquent and powerful preacher) the great
duty of conjugal fidelity, and so ably described
the many joys, pleasures, and advantages, con.
Sequent upon virtuous love and lawful matrimony,
that he effeetid a 'greet .reformation among his
flock,—the i4o.ng.ineu took wives, and the mar-
ried became atrectiet4te husbands ; hence he has
vver since beef accounted the tutelar saint of
lave and marriage ; Mid the return. of his festival
has been -hailed with joy, by young men and
maids 11)411 Christian countries.

WADBAL r felt/ guys ago tw° inns-
ter silk weavers, of the iseis of Ratwon and lirandon, of
4bee t inches
the within
!ipitaigeid„, weed, fora wager of ( the winnings to be given
to the fund raising for the poor weavers)- to try which could
%votive the most velvet eight lours, when it was won by M.
Ranson, duiug 41
oifil tine ekinretri)lu;w
efl4ituterrerde6liin43
for Above 20 years,

The seditious Neetiog Act, being:Pop of the
" Six Acts,",eXpire rl viith the Session of Parlia-
ment of it 'providing to last, " till'the end
of sutir litinion." Tim Insiirrection, Act iiiso
ogPired 9ry the Ist of August 182,5.
,s,ll(4rduy prlvate filPftting was Caire'd
the greatest MerrliantS mid Capitalists in 1.4 e
City, for the purpose or applying to Government
for the loan of Exclietiver hills on property. The
important measures pro Posed arc!' Yet only hi
arrangement.

LONDON MARKETS.

PRICE OF BREAD.

The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis, is 10d. far
the 41b. loaf—there are others who sell from a halfpenny to
twopence halfpenny below that rate.

IMPORTATIONS OF. GRAIN LAST WEEK.
English. Irish. Foreign.
Wheat - A ----
Barley
Malt 6,710 4....... •--
Oats - 2,140 4,700
• Rye . -.......—
• Beans ... 1,672 ........ --
Peas
Tares ... 6 . .......- Quo ,
Rapesee4.l -
Drank .. . . 9
Mustard ... —
Seeds . . 12 ......._
Linseed ... —.— ......."
Fluur ..

SEEDS, Feb. 13.
New English R.Clovcr, per cw t...50s 65s 701—fine 76s
Old Ditto
New:Foreign ditto 4Bs 6os r636—fine 655
Old ditto ditto.. Bos 36s 60s—fine 56s
New Wltiteditto
Old ditto 32s 44s 48s—fine 550
New Trefoil.. per cwt lBs 261 34s—.fine 38s
Old ditto los 16s 22s—fine 260
New Ribgtass
Old ditto lss 80s 33s—fine 3fis
English Carraway Seeds 341 36s—fine s7s —s
Foreign ditto 30s 82i —s—fine 34s
Coriander do. lO9 Oil I Is—tine 16s —1
St.Foiii.... per yr 361 40s—fine 420
Rye•Girass
Pacey ditto tills 42s—fine 4as —A
Linseed for feeding 37s 40s—fine 41s
Ult.°, for crushing ..32s 345--tine 36s
Canary Seed 9os 93s—old 84s 91s
White Mustard Seed.. per bushel.... 16s 20s—tine gds
•lrowu ditto
Turnip Seeds lOs 14s Otl—fine 16:,
Tares - as 4s—new 5s 61
Rape Seed „ ...per last

NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS, Feb. IS.
By I.llc Carcase.
8eef........ Ss Od to 4s 4d I Vea1....g... 4s Od to 56 Sd
Mutton ..... Ss Od to 46 4d Pork .• 46 Od to 56 4d
Lamb, Os Lai to Os Od.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET, Feb. 4.
I
Cloyer,O. 90s od to 100 s od Hay, Old. lies Od to 9os od
—1df..... 75s Od 'to 85s Od —,New lid. 65s od to 71's 6d
—New --.4104 to —s ad Straw .... atis Od to 40s Od
ST. JAMES'S.
Hay tiOs Od to 100 s Od I Glove r -9s 64 to tfOs Od
New Ditto —s od to —s od I Shim ....54s Ud to. 058 Od
WHI't'ECHAPEL.
._.

Clover ....flit, od to 1151 041 I flay
Straw ....56: Od to 421 Od j Inferior Od to Od

PRICE OF HOPS, per Cwt., Feb. 13.
•Krnt Pockets
Susstx Pockets
Essex Pockets
Farnham, tine.... 221 Os to 251 Os—Seconds, 191 Os to 211 or
Kent 13;_igs ' l4l 14% to 171 Os to —1 Os per cwt.
Stissex Bags
Essex Bags - 141 10s to ICI Os to —I 05 per rwt.