The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-19 00:00:00

AVERAGE PRICE OP CORN IN ENGLAND AND WALES.

Wheat, 555. 2d.—Barley, 265. 3d.—Oats, 19s. 11d.—Rye,
255. 3d.—Beans' 26s lld.—Pease, 31s. ld.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the Returns made in the Week ending the 14th day
of November, 1821, is 295. lid. per Hundred \Weight.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, Nov. 19.
The supply at Market this morning of all sorts of Cattle
was Very great, and no doubt a great number will not be sold ;
the prices of the various sorts of meat are rather lower than
lagt market-day.—The price of Hay continues as per our last
quottion.

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To sink the offal per stone of 8%.
Beef
Mutton ... 2s. Gd. to 31. 4d. Pork 3s. 2d. to 4s. .s‘l.

COMMERCIAL REPORT,

FROM THE 12TH NOVEMBER, TO THE 17TH NOVEMBER.
Plantation Sugars have been much sought after ; the bet-
ter qualities have realized an advance of ls. 6d. to 2s. per
cwt. and ordinary from 6d. to ls. with every prospect of a
further augmented currency. 456 casks, and 1032 bags of
Coffee were brought to auction, when the extreme prices
of the preceding week were maintained ; indeed, Plantation
partially brought 2s. per cwt. more. This description is
likely to be further enhanced, as our stock here, but more
particglarly at the outports, is fast diminishing. Of foreign,
the same favourable opinion cannot be entertained, although the
stocks on the Continent are very moderate, yet the direct sup.
plies which they are, and will be receiving, are calculated to
be at least adequate to the demand. On Saturday a sale of
147 puncheons Jamaica Rum brought an advance of two-
pence per gallon upon our last quotations. Brandies have
been in speculative request, and for choice Brandy of Cog-
nacs, 4s. 9d. has been paid. Such is the complete suspension
of business in the Cotton market, that we are precluded entering
into any detail. Prices are considered altogether nominal. t n
Saturday further sales of Cotton were brought forward at Li.
verpooL The article thus continues excessively heavy. Scme
of the new crop of Bowed Georgias had arrived, which proves
very good. Tallow (Yellow Candle), remains at 425. 6d. ; the
non-arrival of supplies causes rather more inquiry. By the
last accounts from St. Petersburgh, the shipments made to
Great Britain were 79,000 casks, being about 8000 casks less
than the corresponding period of last year, and !7 the quota-
tions in that market, they cannot be imported below 475: per
cwt. Tobaccos are still sought after, and the extreme quota-
tions in our last exposition realized.

THE LONDON JOUR,N:\LS,

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING f APERS,
November 19.

[TLIE TIMES.]
Every, thing is still in Italy ; yet does that
country present a most singular aspect. The
Germans entered the Neapolitan territories,
which constitute the southernmost part of Italy,
in order to carry back the King and disperse his
enemies. Ms enemies are dispersed, totally
dispersed, the venerable King and venerable
regime restored; and yet the Germans still remain ;
there is no talk of their return ; nor could it now,
indeed, be conveniently effected before spring.
When the Allies had replaced the King of
France, they retired from the capital ; they took
np a position, indeed, for three years on the
frontiers, but they left the interior of the coun-
try free, and allowed the constituted Authorities
and the Legislative Bodies the power to delibe-
rate and to make laws. The Germans, on the
contrary, remain in the public places of the city
of Naples, and retain military possession both of
that and of the country of Sicily : nor can we,
after much inquiry, learn that any measure has
teen taken, any act promulgated, by the King'
and his Ministry, from which it should appear
that the departure of this foreign force is con-
templated, and a succedanewn forming to supply
its place. it seems-. a strange anomaly in po-
litics, for an -independent Sovereign to recall
and
.establish in his dominions a system of
government which cannot. .stand by itself, but
requires, even at its commencement, the aid
of foreign troops. We state this point more
particularly now, because we know that there
are many Neapolitans who, from an apprehension
of the excesses of the Carbonari, did really wish
for the arrival of the Germans, but who are yet
friends to a free Constitution, and regret that the
present interval of tranquillity, enforced by the
presence of-these strangers, is not. seized in order
to establish some system which might afford hope,
if not eOmplete satisfaction, to the people, and
relieve the •country from the burden of an
army of aliens, strangers to the language
and manners- of the natives. The following
questions are naturally asked—Do "the Ger-
mans prevent the King of Naples from set-
tling -his states upon the principles of Civil
Government? If so, they mean to retain
permanent possession of the country ; and
how would such an occupation and virtual acces-
sion of territory agree with the treaties of the
Allied Powers at Vienna Or is the King of
Naples himself -enable to make any arrangement,
or to lay down -any system of government to
which his people could submit ? If so, his Ma-
jesty should at least, change his Ministers, and
take those whose plans promise something.

[NEW rimts.]
The great steadiness of the Funds for the last
week has been very remarkable, more especially
when we consider the occurrences both foreign

and domestic, which might have been expected
to have affected them in no inconsiderable degree.
Consols for account (that is to say, for the xBth
instant, which is settling day) left off on Saturday,
at 781 sellers; and for the Jan. Account, at 78,1—
The January Account was opened on Wednes-
day last, when Consols for that period were sold
as high as 79, which was a continuation of 1-7,-;
the continuation has since declined to k but still
this shows a favourable opinion of the state of
the Funds after the settlement of the present
Account. The contest between the speculators
for a rise and those for a fall, which was some-
time ago maintained with great spirit, has lately
flagged, and the former party have evidently the
advantage. Much has been said lately on the
subject of options—a sort of gambling specula-
tion, common on the Stock Exchange, though not
recognised by the Committee of that body. Me-
morials for and against these options have been
given in. We do not profess to be versed in the
mysteries of stock speculation ; but, speaking
theoretically, we should incline to think that
the ultimate effect of time bargains, options,
and all refinements of this kind, is to steady.
the market, or at least to reduce its fluctuations
within narrower limits ; for every new modifica-
lion of bargaining affords a new chance for those
who have incurred large risks to qualify those
risks, and bring the whole amount of profit and
loss more nearly to an equilibrium. On the
.moral fitness or propriety of indulging a habit of
pecuniary speculation to such an extent very
different considerations of course arise ; but at
, present we are viewing the subject merely with
reference to the fluctuation of prices in the mar-
: ket. What is called an option, is the sacrifice
`Of a certain per centage, to hate the choice of
taking or delivering stock at a given period,
• whatever the actual market price may be : and
the very nature of such a transaction seems to
imply a sharing of the risk, and consequently a
diminution of the eventual difference between
the taking and delivering.

[MORNING POST.]
At a late hour last night we received Madrid
Papers to the sth inst. Their contents, we are
sorry to find, are less favourable than the reports
circulated on the authority of private letters had
led us to expect. Instead of any improvement
having taken place in the sanitary state of the
infected cities, the number of deaths seems to be
as high, if not higher, than before. Up to the
26th of September 7000 persons had died of the
fever at Tortosa, and since that time the deaths
had been sixty and seventy a day. At Bar-
celonetta the desolation continued, and in se-
veral places in the vicinity of Cadiz, where
the infection was supposed to have ceased, it
had sprung up again with fresh vigour. Yet
in the midst of such appalling visitations, and
under the daily fear of their extending over the
whole country, the spirit of faction was not over-
awed ; and where the scourge of the Almighty
had not passed, the turbulence of man would
give the land no peace. At no great distance
from the chief holds of the contagion, at Sara-
gossa, en insurrection of the national militia seems
$1) two occurred, which ended in the deposing of

THE COLONIES.

CANADA.
Mom the Quebec Gazettes to the 9th of Oct.)
[Concluded from our Paper of Saturday.]

DISTRICT OF QUEBEC.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
CRIMINAL TER3L-SEPTEMBER, 1821.
PRESENTMENT OF THE GRAND JURY.
(Published by their request.)
The Jurors of our Lord the King having. discharged, to the
best of their capacities, the arduous and painful duties assigned
to them, return their thanks to the Court for the able and in-
structive Charge delivered to them at the opening of the pre-
sent Sessions.
They lament that the observations of the Court relative to
the increase of crime have been confirmed, in the course of their
investigations ; and they have thought it their duty to ascertain,
as far as was practicable, the causes of an evil so alarming, in
the humble hope that some further means may be adopted for
arresting its progress.
They have found almost every offence which has come be-
fore them; to have been connected with the excessive use of spi-
rituous liquors, or an intercourse with women of a suspicious
character.
These facts, in the opinion of the Grand Jury, sufficiently in-
dicate the cause of the increase of crime to be a relaxation of
morals among a number of the present inhabitants of the coun-
try, contaminating those who come within the sphere of its in.
fluence. -
The only effectual remedy is to be found in the watchfulness'
of parents, guardians, and masters over the education of their
children, and those committed to their charge, inculcating in
all of them the principles of religion, sobriety, and industry, and
offering incessantly in their own lives and conversations models
of those virtues. This example is particularly necessary in all
those who are in authority, and who, by their rank, wealth, or
conspicuous station in society, are looked up to by those who
compose the great body of the community, as models whom
they may safely imitate.
The Grand Jury, have, however, the satisfaction to be able
to pronounce, upon the testimony which has been brought be.
fore them, that the evil which they deplore has not, as yet,
taken deep root among the natives of the Province ; but it has
also appeared to them, that the danger is imminent.
The great majority of the cases which have come before
them have been those of persons not many years resident with-
in this province, and where the natives have been implicated, it
has generally been old offenders, or such of them as are in ha-
bitual connexion with strangers, by whose influence and ex-
ample they have probably been taught to despise the salutary
restraints under which they were brought up, and left under the
impulses of the passions, to the guidance of an unenlightened
and ever erring understanding, without any unvarying and un-
questionable standard whereby they might regulate their ac-
tions.
Although the Grand Jury are fully persuaded that nothing
but the means which they have just indicated, can effectually
arrest the progress of the evil which now threatens the country
with a loss of its fair fame and dearest interests, they are equally
persuaded that a just and strict execution of the excellent Code
of Criminal Law which has grown up amidst the experience,
the wisdom, and pre-eminent public spirit of the English Na-
tion, will prove sufficient to support public morals, protect the
community against those who have entirely thrown off moral
restraint, and convince the weak and wavering that a similar
conduct cannot escape with impunity.
The Grand Jury regret exceedingly, that it has appeared to
them that some persons of dubious character are permitted to
hold licences for houses of pu:ylic entertainment; that persons
having shop licences sell drams in their shops and premises ..that others, under the pretext of selling spruce beer and ale,