The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-20 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir—Having perceived in your Paper of yesterday even-
ing a notice of the sentence passed upon me by a Court
Martial lately held at Woolwich, in which it is stated that
a charge of " nit-officer-like behaviour" was preferred against
me by Commodore Chriqian, I take leave to deny that
any such charge was ever preferred, and to request that
you will give it immediate coutradictiun.

I remain, Sir, your obedient, humble Servant,
THOMAS RICHMOND.
Stamford Hill, Aug. 19, 1828.

HINTS TO FARMERS.

" Every man should do his duty."—NELSON'

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—The unfavourable state of the weather during the
present season, renders interesting any infortnatien respect-
ing the improper practice in harvesting corn in different parts
in Great Britain, and the means whereby the evil may be
effectually remedied ; for it is evident that the great fluctua-
tion experienced in the value of this article of life is prin-
cipally to be ascribed to the general practice in this instance.
In the northern counties, the sheaves are bound tight, and
placed leaning against each other in live pairs; these are
covered with two hood-sheaves, which give a firmness to
the shock, and guard, although imperfectly, against the
effects of the rain upon the lower sheaves. The shock
being, however, of considerable length and height, is in-
capable of resisting the effects of a violent side-wind, be-
comes unl,ooded, and the whole of the sheaves are fre-
quently thrown down and exposed to the effects of the
rain. In the southern counties, where the corn ripens
at an earlier -period, and the weather is usually more fa-
vourable, the sheaves are bound conformably to the prac-
tice in the north, and set up in six pairs, but remain tin-
hooded, whereby the corn is exposed at all times, and fre-
quently by a gust of wind the shock •is blown, the corn
exposed to the effects of the rain in the most deplorable
state, and the straw so bruised, as to offer no security when
afterwards reinstated, against any attack of the wind, if
even less violent than the former. In wet seasons this
practice is frequently attended with the destruction of the
principal part of the crop. In Cornwall and Devonshire
the practice in harv-Ating, althought not perfect, is much
superior to that of any other county I have passed through.
This consists in placing six sheaves in a circular form sup-
porting each other, upon which theme is inverted one hood-
sheaf; but as the weather is frequently tempestuous in
that country during the time of harvest, this sheaf is subject
to be blown off, and leave the other sheaves unprotected.
—ln the reinstating, these sheaves considerable care and
labour are bestowed; and it is due to the farmers in that
part of the country to state that, occasioned by their skill
and attention in harvest, there is a much smaller proportion
of unsound corn hi those counties than in any other part of
Great Britain. The improvement now submitted consists
in driving into the ground six inches, a stake of propor-
tionate length, to the height of the torn (about six and
a half feet) setting up eight sheaves around it, and after-
wEr& inverting and -placing a large hood-sheaf firmly upon
stake, (as an umbrella) which wiil prevent the•vio-
lence of the wind from displacing the hood-sheaf, and ad-
mit the access of the air to the lower sheaves ;—it will
avoid the great expense and attention at present attendant
on replacing the sheaves when blown down, and give a
Perfect security. against the corn germinating. If every
farmer would in due season provide a number of stakes
proportiona.te to tha extent of his crop, which he can most
usumany.allyy dearso Upon his own ground, for they will endure
with
the weather ma care,. he tray be assured, however wet
y prove duringlmezehst; that by their appli-
cation he will avoid the hies
of
the public the advance in the price of bre:d,e-iPel"tPheertjvoi;;
try, the wostelul expenditure of the specie exported to pur-
chase grain in foleign States. I sin Sir,
s ,
London, Aug. :20, 1828.
Yours, &c. R. P.

has been d •
forsoinga:znsi!leltet
of 35 houses, and produces
enominated,)
The 'Manners (or as it
the Island Estate, from' the property
island, was sold last week by Dlr. GEORGE
is Crown property, consisting
a clear improved rent of about 1,1001. a year. The estate,
which is held for about :30 years, is said to have produced
20,000/., and Sir RICHARD SUTTON, Bart the purchaser.
It is very remarkable that, with the superdbundance of un-
employed capital, land is selling to pay 4 per cent.

- -
The celebrated corn-mills at Merton, in Surry,
Which were originally erected by the late Jas. PERRY, Esq.,
the proprietorof the Morning Chronicle, at an expense
exceeding 20,0001., are to be sold by GEORGE RomNs.
RENglle was the engineer who way engaged in this vast
freehold building. ' These mills have the capability to grind
60,loads of corn per week-:-few of its Compeers haie The
power to accomplish half the quantity:

PRICES AP STOCKS THIS
Hank stock • 213'
3 per Cent. Red. SS Ili 73ii t'34
3 pet Cent. Cons 87%%%11',
Dit
3!4 per Cent . •
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1 ocr Chit New
Ditto, itieri -
Bank L Ann. 2O 1-16
India Stock 244
Ditto Bonds llB Inptix.
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DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

South Sea Stock,,,

Old Annuities
New Ditto
Ex. Bills. .fl,OOO 2,1.71 72 pin.
Ditto 4OO 2AI. 71 12 inn.
Ditto Small ......21. 71 72 pm. Ditto Commerciali..i.•
Bank ot Ateciiiht •
utir Account
Coils. foi Ac. • • " 871,k

piticns tr: t•oxlczaiv FUND THIS I) i.it.
r ii',o,i;is o'aiktc.
Atteciiati Bonds, 5 per cent. •:- Neapo an, ISr:4
Brazilian Bonds' ' ' • ..-
Perilt64l Bonds —
Buenos Ayres Bonds ...:. Poiluguese Bonds
Milan Boncts, 6 per et.::. Prussian, 5 per cent —
C9lombin a RoY,.ds
ranPA 101
isti 3 per cent.
Greek Bonds - tk,,,r
Ditto, 1825
Guatemala —
51ortican Bonds —
Do. 182.5

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French Iterates, 51). c.
Exchange "z
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3 riettint.
• ' Eichiaige —f. —c.

tttlen Op. 3'l Antis illlti DAY At Wit O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
L_Apitio Me*. ilin. Co. Ns. at .W. pm.) £95 .r;y4,
Bolanos Mining 'Co.
Brazilian Imp. Air:. Cc. (Iss. at .SL. pm.) £2O 64
United Mcx. Min. Co. (Us. at 2J. pm.) :is 201,', 21
—..—...,

COURSE 'OF xxcw
Amsterdam C.F.12 3
Ditto, at sight 12 li
Rotterdam 2U. 12 3
Antwerp 12 3}
Hamburg h M. B. 13 14
A ltona 13 144
Paris, 3 dayi' sight
Ditto 2 U. 25 60
Bordeaux 25 65.
Berlin —
Frankfort on Maine, Ex.M.1511
Petersburgh, rble... 3 Us. 10 0
Vienna, efibctive fi. 2M. 10 31
Trieste do.
Madrid 'l6
Cadiz 164
Bilboa 96
Barcelona 331;
Seville 3,A
Gibraltar 46

NGE TESTIRPAY.

Leghorn 48%
Genoa
Venice 4B
Malta
Naples 3914
Palermo ............ per oz. 1181
Lisbon 4534
eporto
Rio Janeiro 29
Bahia 3l.
Buenos Ayres
Dublin, 21 days' sight
Cork I
BULLION, PER 07. _

.f. s. d.
Portugal Gold, coin—, 0 0 0
Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 6
New Doubloons , 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 91
Silver. bars. standard 0 0 0

EMLEIGN EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HimnunGn' AUG. 15.-13. 105 .—Two mouths, 13.9.
Demme, AUG. 11.—Three months, 6. 1 t!,i.
MULLIN. Ave. 14—Three months, 6. 24%.
VIENNA, AUG. 6.—Three months, 9. 50.

MA.
Arrived. Due.
0 Americo 0
0 Brazil 0
O Buenos Ayres
I Dublin
O Flanders 0
O France
O Gottenburgh 1
O Guernsey& Jersey 0

Arrived. Due,
O Harnburgb.... ..... 1
O Holland 0
0 Jamaica
0 Leeward Islands
O Lisbon 0
1 Malta.
0 Mexico 0
1 Waterford 0

/SIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning... 8 minutes alter 10. Evening ....47 minute, alter 10.

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LONDON.
WEDNEiiIIAy EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1828.

The French Papers of Sunday, and the
Gazelle de France of Monday's date, have been
received, but furnish no decisive nel;s from the
theatre of war. In the mean time the Russians
are making great efforts to carry on the war.
Sixty thousand fresh troops have received orders
to leave Volhynia and proceed to the frontiers.
Three hundred thousand men at present occupy
• a line of 80 leagues, and are so arranged that they
can concentrate on any one point with rapidity.
To oppose this force, the Turks arc said
to have 100,000 men at Schumla. If this
number be correct, and the troops true to their
country, it is very possible for them to resist the
Russians when it it is considered that the Turks
fight in an entrenched camp, with all the advan-
tages incidental to a place of strong natural de-
fence. But we do not believe that they muster
more than 60,000 effective troops—and many
of these are supposed to be disaffected to the

cause or.to their Commander. The object of the
Emperor NICHOLAS in attempting to ffirce,
Schutnla, must be to strike terror into the PORTE,
but then he will do it at a dreadful sacrifice.
Now, if his moderation be as pure as he boasts,
does it not seem a wanton waste of human life
to attempt the more difficult passage when he
could proceed by the sea coast ? But, perhaps,
he does not consider his retreat safe with such
an important place as &humia in his rear :
and, again, the glory of the enterprise !
to accomplish that which has defied his prede-
cessors—may indeed be a very strong induce-
ment to an ambitious mind ; but how does it
square with the Imperial Professor of Modera-

Lion ? Verily, NICHOLAS is a crafty Prilice.
He smoothes his way by professions, because his
real object can not be attained by any other
means at such a critical juncture. He, is
hushing the jealousy of England, and even
Europe, to sleep while lie steals into the strong
holds of their security, and when they awake,
remonstrance will be useless against the strong
arm of possession. Really the blind confidence of
our Government is amazing. Would a person be
believed that be meant no harm while be ex-
plored the several apartments of a house in
search of booty, merely because be reiterated his
professions of honesty ? And yet such appears
to be the actual case with Russia at this moment.
She must have indemnity for the past, and se-
curity for the future—and, as her armies ad-
vance ' into the Turkish territories, will her
demands increase till Turkey be at last re-
duced to the alternative of the traveller
who found that a cobbler had charged more for
repairing his boots than they were altogether
worth, and so left them in his hands !

Letters from Constantinople, received yester-
day, of the 9th ult. state that the great magazine
of St. Stephano had by accident exploded, and
600 Turks, with 200 Jews, perished.

If we are to credit the reports. from Semlin,
the Russians have actually carried the strong po-
sition of Schumla at three points, in the presence
of the EMPEROR.

We received this morning the Hainburgh
Reporter of Friday last, but it contains no later
news from the theatre of war than what we were
Previously acquainted with.

BOUSEN-HALLS, FOUR, O'CLOCK.
Funds are in demand, though in Amsterdam business
left off fiat, and Cons.ols in London are said to have de-
dined do Saturday. The prices in Vienna on the Bth
were the same as those of the day before ; those in Berlin
are a shade better. •

In consequence of a continuation of bad weather, Corn
has again then. Red Wheat, 110 to 115 ; White, 120

to 126. Oats of the best quality, 40 to 45. Few trans-
fers have taken place, the quantity in the market being li-
mited; further supplies are, however, expected.
For Cash.
Anglo Danish Loan, 3 per tea
nglo:.Russian Limn • • • • "•
Auslkia'n, Lon "
*llit(Hl4ss4lll Loan of lISIB. 98%
AiAsti-lari Bank Shires 1080
lan Metalliques 94
Exchange upon London, at 2 months— 13. pig
at sight l3. 1M; .

FRONTIERS OF EOSNIA, JULY 12,

" On the 19th June, Abdunaham Pacha, Governor of
Bosnia, received by a Capidgi Baschi, a firman from Con-
stantinople, which communicating the manifesto issued by
the Porte, coinmanded him to march 40,000 Bosnians
pate 'towards the river Drina, to observe the Servians,
and partly through Sawa, to Wedden ; arid it also ordered
that the newly organised troops should be clothed before
they began their march with the new uniforms sent for
that purpose. Abdunaham Pacha gave notice that this
firman should be read the following day (20th of June)
in the great mosque at Sarajevo (Bosnia Sergi), when the
Rimbaschis (Colonels) of the new troops, as well as the
Captains and Begs of the Jeimen, and Spahis, and deputa-
tions of their Ortas were to appear, but the Captains and
Begs intimated their wish that the firman might be read by
a Mollah in the cimp near Sarajevo, in order that the
words of the Sultan might be heard by all the troops
in the camp ; they also requested the Governor to
attend the ceremony in person, which he premised to
do. Abdunaham, who appears to hive conceived some
suspicion, remained, however, in Sarajevo, and sent
in his stead a Rimbaschi, with the Mollah, to the camp,
which is about half a league from the town; salutes
of artillery announced the departure of the Bimhaschi from
the fortress, who, in great pomp, surrounded byAbdunaharn's
guards, and accompanied by Mollah, appeared in the
camp, and was therefore taken fur the Governor himself,
who was personally unknown to the greater part of the
troops. As soon as the Mollah had done reading the fir-
man, the troops in the camp broke out into imprecations
against the Sultan and against Abdunaham Pacha, whom
they called a traitor, at the same moment several Muskets
were fired at the Bimbasehi and Mullah, Who were killed
on the spot, and at the same time the uniforms sent to the
camp for the new troops were tore to pieces and burnt by
the enraged mutineers. The Pasha's guard fired on the
rebels, but were obliged to give way to superior numbers,
leaving sixty dead behind. Hereupon, the whole camp pro-
ceeded to Sarajevo, in order to compel the household troops
of Alulunaharn Pacha, whom they supposed to be dead,
to leave the place, and give up the forts to the rebels,
but Abdunaham Pacha, already informed of what had
passed in the camp, ordered the gate of the fort of Tusla-
barn to be shut, upon which a fire of artillery and mus-
ketry was kept up on both sinks during the day, in which
several hundred men wore killed. On the sth day after
these events, negociations were opened between Ab-
dunaharn Podia and the rebels, in consequence of which the
Governor and his household were allowed to retire unmo-
lested, on condition that, like his predecessors, he should fix
his residence at Travuik, and govern Bosnia, according to
ancient custom, to which terms Abdunaham agreed, and
on the same day (June 24) set out with his household
troop and his Harem for Travnik. Four days before the
mutiny the Kiaya, with a vanguard of 4 or 5,U0.0 men, had
gone from Sarajevo to Zwornik, where he had joined
Mahoined Pacha, who had an equal number of troops, and
was to command the vanguard. On being informed of
the events at Sarajevo, the Kiaya returned with his troops
to Travuik, but Illahomed Pacha remains in his position
on the Drina, between Wisehegrad and Zwornik.

" The troops which were sent from Bosnia in the spring,
as reinforcements to the Servian fortresses, Belgrade, Scha-
bacz, Ualitza, and Jokol, on learning what had passed at
Sarajevo, left those fortresses with the intention of return-
ing to their homes ; when they reached the Drina (which
divides Servia from Bosnia) the passage was disputed by
Mahomed Pacha's troops, and they were ordered to return to
their fortresses. They refused to obey this order, and part
of them found an opportunity to cross the river in the
night, and to surprise a small camp of Mahomed Paella's; in
which they got possession of some cannon. On the follow•.
ing day bath parties kept up a fire of artillery and musketry,
by which several hundred tnen were killed. !Shimmed
Pacha, however, succeeded in driving the rebels baclE to the
other side of the Drina, where they tvmained when the last
accounts came away."
Accounts of the 21st of July, say that Abdunaham
Pacha, with about 1,000 men and twelve pieces of cannon,
had arrived at Tusla (between Travnik and Zwornik, near
to the latter place). These accounts add, that Servia was
perfectly tranquil.

BUCHAREST, JULY 26,

The health of this City improves daily. Part of the
heavy artillery from Brailow, has passed through this City
to be employed against Ghiurgevo, where the Turks make
a vigorous resistance.

•It is just as we expected—the speech of Mr.
DAwsON has turned the heads of the out-and-
out Churchmen—the exclusive people who
would secure all the good things of this
world to themselves. The Morning Minis-

teriat Papers are almost as mad as their Evening
brethren upon this subject —a subject to them
of life and death. What will the columns of our

fashioNable friend do in future for tirades against
Popery, when the Duke of its idolatry is for the
" vile" Papists? Oh ! Mr. DAWSON, you have
done a sad thing for the Ultra Tories ! You have
fairly compromised their integrity before they
had time to get cool upon the business. You
have made them tender hearted before they
knew what they were about ! And they will
have no more religious war in Ireland—what a
loss to the army ! How will the Orange
Boys find employment ? Really it was " too
bad" of you, Mr. DAWSON, to throw them
out of work so suddenly—and so unceri-
moniously too You have turned their
position with the ability of the Great Duke him-
self, and made them, poor fellows ! to turn their
backs upon themselves. The " Protestant As-
cendancy" is now done up by Mr. DAWSON ;
what will the great revellers—your Orange dinner-
men do in future for " the glorious mid immortal
memory ?" Mr. DAWSON has not left them a
leg to stand on, uor one toast of vengeance to
drown their sorrows, unless they drink bad luck
to himself!

We trust the Honourable Gentleman will get
safe back to the Treasury :—this was the best trip
he ever made to Ireland. Long life to Mr. DAw-
SON, say We, and all men who have public spirit
enough to be honest. The Secretary deserves
well of his country.

The continued fine weather has checked the
advance hi corn. The speculators arc out-
witted,' much to the satisfaction, and more to
the prosperity of the country. Prices are on
the decline.

The French Ambassador visited the Earl of
ABZRDEEN yesterday, at the office of the Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs,