The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-17 00:00:00

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SMITHFIELD MARKET.
This is the great Christmas . market ; it was abort of
small stock, but exhibited a great many good, and some
hundreds of exceedingly prime Beasts, of which about
100 were consigned to Mr. Varley ; about 40, from Sus-
sex and Kent, to Mr. Munn ; about 20, from ditto, to Mr.
Chasemore ; and about the same number to Mr. Lintott,
among which were two unusually tine Sussex Oxen, be-
longing to the Earl of Egremont, who, we regret to state,
was reported here this morning to have died on Saturday.
Beef sold at 2d., Mutton about 4d. per stone beyond, Veal
at 2d. beneath Friday's quotations; in prices of Pork no
alteration. Trade tolerably brisk.
TRIO= FEZ STONE OF b LBS. TO SINS THE OF ALE.
e. d. 40 s. d. d.
Inferior Beasts ...... g 4 3 8 Large Lambe OO 0 0
Second quality ditto 3 4 4 0 Prime small ditto 0 0 0 0
Prime large Oxen... 410 5 2 Large coarse Calves 4 6 5 0
Prime Scots, &c..... 5 2 5 6 Prime small ditto—
-5 4
10
10 6 2
Inferior Sheep. 3 4 3 8 Large Hogs 4 6
Second quality ditto 3 8 4 0 Small Porkers 5 4 5 8
Coarse-woolled ditto 4 8 5 0 Suckling Calves 12s to 42e. each.
SouthdownWethers 5 0 5 4 Quarter old Pigs 12s. to Itts. each.
SOFTLY, AS rca CLERK'S sTATEXENT.
Beasts. I Sheep. Calves. 1 I Pigs.
3,958 I ' 18,360 118 w
About 2100 of the beasts came up the different North Roads ;
about 1000 from the western and midland districts ; about 200 from
Norfolk, Sullblk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire ; about 160 from
Kent and Sussex ~ and most of the remainder from the marshes,
&c., in the neighbourhood of London.
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NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS.
At per stone, by the Carcass.
s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
Beef 9 0 4 4 Veal
St
4
Mutton 3 0 4 4 Pork

FISH-MARKET, BILLINGSGATE.
This morning's market exhibited a seanty supply offish,
which was in very great demand. Turbot and Cod-fish
were more plentiful than any other kinds of fish, but their
prices were high. The following were the prices :--
Prime Turbot, each .... ...... ... ..... . ....... Os. Od. to 21s. Od,
Ditto small, per do. 1 0 12 0
Smelts, per 26 0 0 12 6
Fine Cod-fish, each 0 0 18 0
Inferior ditto . 2 6 10 6
Fine Whitings, per 15 ..., ll 0 12 0
Scate, each
Fine Soles, per three pairs 1 6 9 0
Brill, each
Live Flounders, per quartern
Live Eels, per 51b.
per draught l4 0 16 0
Dutch Plaice, per basket
Fresh Herrings, per hundred 3 0 4 0
Fine Lobsters, per score 0 0 50 0
Inferior ditto lO 0 20 0
Fine Prawns, per lb.
Shrimps, per gallon ,2 0 3 0
Fine Yarmouth Red Herrings, per hundred 6 0 0 0
Scotch ditto 6 0 * 0
White Salt ditto 0 0 6 0
Best Common Oysters, per bushel l2 0 15 0
Natives 22 0 28 0

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Dec. 15.
We had a good supply of Wheat, which sold readily at
last week's prices. Fine Rye sells rather more freely at
former prices. The arrival of Barley is large, and Price°
are full Is. per quarter lower. Other articles unvaried.
New. Old.
Wheat, South country, red lB5. 58s ...... 575. 600-1
North country, white 40s. 545......• 525. 58s.
red .365. 525. .. 525. 565.
Dantzig --g. --s ...... 60s. 645.
Wismar, Rostock, &c. ............... --s. Ws. 555.
Barley;Malt, Rye,Nlorefoo Norfolk
_Norfolknarinda
and
Ssduusftf
1,1 .............................
52.8
its 3i33:05
Oats, Potatoe ................. ............... 255. 295. 32s. 355. 'lk -
Cemmon 20s. 23s 2ss. 28s.
Foreign Fecd igs, 225, 2os. 265.
Beans 42s. 465. —s.
Pease, White 48s. 525.
Gray s •
Flour, Fine (per sack) —s.

MANCHESTER CORN MARKEY—Dec. 15.
There was a small attendance at this day's market, and
but a middling show of Wheat, the sales of which wets
limited at id. to 2d. per 701 b. below last week's rates.
Oats have receded Id. per bushel, Beans Is. to 2s. per
quarter, and Floar Is. per bag. Malt commands last
week's prices.

Customary Bushel.
Wheat (701 b.) s. d. to s. d.
English, Fine White-- 8 4 8 6

Wecond,Runs 7
Scotch & Welch 7
Fint Old --

New.

Quat. of S Imp. Bush.
8. d. to s. d.
60 0 61 2-
57 7 59 4
52 9 57 7
50 4 S 7 o
43 7 52 9
45 0 46 6
57 7 hs g
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Barley (6-01—b
English, Fine '
Irish

34 8 86'11
29 5 30 0
27 8 98 10

--Inferior for grinding 4
Oats (4515.)
English, Fine Poland .. 3
Scotch, Potatoe .......--.....- 3
Irish, for Mealing ..........--.. 3
--- Provender-- 3
Foreign, 01d......................-- :7
Pease (Imp. Bush.)
Beans (Imp. Qr.) s. d. to s. d.
sends 32 0
Blue, (boilers) ..--..., 6 0 6 31 IS 0 b 0 0
42 0 551 30
White (ditto)
______.--Superfine 42 0
English, Fine......-- 55 0 (k) 0 hour Norfolk and
(15.er ggar4f 280(06.)46 5.0 d, to s. d.
---- Inferior.- 50 0 53 0 ,Suffolk,Fine 41 0
INroisthti,n(g)hlda7
Foreign
Malt (per load of 6 Imp. Busha ...---- Irish, Floe- 39 0
Yorkshire —.........,.. 45 0 46 0 ---Ifeatedtwstale 35 0
Irishand Inferior.- 36 0 40 ° Per load of 2401 b.
Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. Oatmeal, English.. 24 0
Flour,Notts. Film 41 0 42 0 ----Scotch & Irish 26 0
Sup. 45 0 46 0 ---- Feeding 21 0
fine._
4475 00
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3 7
3 7

26 I 26 9'
25 6 26 9
23 7 24 3
21 4 24 10
22 4 23 7.

430
40 0
34 0
40 0
4,3 0
36 0

28 0
28 0
13 0

very superior Landed
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Investment, which, we
understand, it well worthy the attention of the Capitalist,
a person of agricultural :34
and toattainments the returns
which may be realized from this property will be mcist sure :
and ample, and such as is rarelyt to be met with ; there is
no Mansion on this estate, b
with its
Lot we perceive that the gentle- '
man who is commissioned
o f
dalel, n
of obsserve in our first
real other Landed Estates with Mansions, as well as with-
out residences, situated in various parts of the. Kinidorn,
some of which may be purchased on eery advantageous
terms• disposal, advertises se-

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

There is, we haVe reason to believe, no doubt ef
the fact that Lord Goderith has tendered his resig-
nation to his Majesty, and that his Majesty has de-
dined to accept it without farther consideration on
the part of his Lordship. In the mean time, the
noble Viscount is stated to have gone down, on Sa-
turday, to his brother's residence in Bedfordshire,
whence he will return on Wednesday. Some of
Lord Goderich's friends are not without hopes that
his'Lordship may yet be induced to remain in office.
The fact of the tender of the resignation, which has
been ao absurdll contradicted, partly from ignorance,
partly from interested motives, has been sent in a
formal and official communication to the Duke of
Portland, who is at Nice. We shall not speculate
at present on the probable consequences of this
event: but we think we may assure our readers,
that the Ultra faction have no chance of return to
power.--Tinges.
The Dublin papers, brought by the two last
packets, are filled with the voluminous proceedings
of the Court of King's Bench, in a libel cause,
where Archdeacon Trench, a brother of the Earl of
Clancarty, and of the Archbishop of Tuam, was
prosecutor, and Mr. Eneas Macdonnell, a well-
known personage, defendant. Upon the libellous
character of the publication, as reported, no man of
common sense could entertain a moment's doubt ;
nor does it appear that Mr. Macdonnell, who is said
to have spoken as his own counsel for the greater
part of two whole days, succeeded in making any
useful impression of a contrary nature upon thqury.
So far as we can understand the newspapers, Mr.
Macdonnell's object was to fasten additional odium
upon the conduct of the prosecutor, and on that of
his associates in the cause of anti-Catholicism ; and
a very fair political object this may have been with
an active member of the Catholic Association; but
for a lawyer, having a libel-prosecution to defeat-, it
was a childish object. The verdict, accordingly,
was against Mr. Macdonnell. On the other hand,
we do not perceive that any purpose but a vindic-
tive one was gained by Aichdeaeon Trench. Had
the venerable gentleman been disposed to clear his
own character of the charges brought against him
by the zeal and perhaps bitterness of his Catholic
accuser, he would probably have had recourse to a
different form of proceeding. The reverend gen-
tleman might have brought a civil action against
Mr. Eneas Macdonnell, in which case the de-
fendant would have been at liberty to " jus-
tify,"—that is, to prove that the Reverend Arch-
deacon was guilty of the several charges, and
deserved (morally speaking) the worst that had
been said of him. , And, indeed. when one considers
these accusations, and how my bad a man he must
be who could really deserve them, one is tempted
to imagine that the character of the Rev. Gentle-
man was such as to make either, first, an attack upon
it, or, second, the defence of it, a desperate and chi-
merical undertaking. If a man's character be so
pure and unassailable that he feels himself to be
proof against the worst attempts of malice, we can
conceive him still deirous of inflicting a proper chas-
tisement upon a wanton disturber of the public
peace and violator of the laws of his country. On
that supposition the most exemplary man existing
may worthily and usefully institute a prosecution for
libel. If, again, an individual be conscious that kis
character is utterly incapable of defence, and there-
fore that to give his antagonist an opportunity of
proving his assertions would be fatal to his reputa-
tion in society, he would act precisely as the good
man above-mentioned might think himself bouud
to act, but from rather different motives,—it would
be the love of justice in one case, of vengeance in
the other. Now Archdeacon Trench having been
once an officer in the army, an adjutant acce •;7ng
to Mr. Macdonnell, was accused by the latter,
in the shape of an inuendo—(but a very pal-
pable inuendo)—of cruelty, while holding that com-
mission; by inuendo, likewise, he was accused
of subornation of perjury, and of distracting and
exasperating against each other 'the various classes
of his countrymen. The Rev. Gentleman, we take
for granted, was too charitable and generous to bring
into the arena the moral panoply of a name unsul-
lied in its brightness, and thus to overwhelm his
libeller by a challenge to attest, on oath, those alle-
gations which it would have been impossible for
him to substantiate. He chose, therefore, to pro-
secute rather than "declare," and was Satisfied to
punish the Catholic termagant for a " breach of the
peace," which is the only point established by a
verdict of " guilty," instead of going for such a
verdict as would have settled the moral part of the
question, and shown the world that ,Mr. Macdonnell
had slandered him in point of fact, as well ailibelled:him
in point of law; which decision, on the part of the Rev.
Archdeacon, must be regarded conclusive evidence,
as we have already hinted, that his name, in his own
opinion, stands beyond the reach of injury, and that
he has no further interest in the libel question than
as a conservator of the public peace. We cannot
for a moment presume that his Reverence feared
the plea of justification. But the subject, from be-
ginning to end, is full of matter for mourning on the
state to which Ireland has been reduced by factious
violence and malice. Even the name of Charity, in
that wretched land has served for a torch to set the
evil passions on fire, and to consume the vitals of
Christian benevolence and concord.—lbid.
Rumours have for some time been current of Mi-
nisterial disagreement, and in the Times of Satur-
day, that paper alluded "to a whisper which has
been conveyed to our ears from a most respectable
quarter; a whisper to this effect—that Lord Gode-
rich,
professing to be wearied by the opposition
which he met with in the Cabinet, and the difficul-
culties resulting from the Financial situation of the
country, had tendered his resignation to his Ma-
jesty." His Lordship does not seem to have reco-
vered, sufficiently from the illness occasioned by the
loss of his only child ; for, during the last Session,
it was obvious that he was unequal to the conflicts
in which he was called to take a part in the House of
Lords. He is of too delicate an organization, per-
haps, even were his health better, for the peculiarly
coarse and vituperative mode of discussion of the
Peers. We are not therefore surprised that ha
should dread the renewal of the scenes of last year.
Besides, however, the resignation of his Lordship, a
desire for which has been strengthened by the illness
of Lady Goderich, there are, we understand, sub-
jects on which the Cabinet are not in the best under-
standing, though we do not believe that any change
will take place. We cannot allude further to this
delicate subject at present.—Morning Chronicle.
The rumoured changes in the Ministry—emanat-
ing, as they do, from that manufactory of falsehood,
the Stock Exchange, and coming upon the public
by surprise—will of course be received with great
doubt and caution. That an Administration corn-
posed of such discordant materials, in many respects,
as the present is, should hang but ill together—and
that,having involved the country, by their foreign mea-
sures, in a state of actual warfare, which more pru-
dence would have avoided, they should be but ill at
ease—we can readily imagine ; but, at the same
time, to retire at this moment, just as Parliament is
at length about to assemble to pass judgment on
their measures, would betray a degree of political
cowardice of which we cannot suspect them.
Had they shrunk from committing the country
to the extent they have done, why did they not
assemble Parliament more than a month ago, to de-
liberate on the critical and novel state of public
affairs ? Why do they even now determine upon
postponing its meeting for a month or five weeks
longer ? But that, having done so, and procrasti-
nated the day of reckoning to the latest possible
hour, they will, before that arrives, resign their
charge, and thus avoid the audit and investigation, is
what we cannot credit. Still less is it likely that
the three distin
Duke
eof
Wel
Wished persons named—viz. the
gt°,,, the Marquis Wellesley, and
Mr. Peel--will
-,07 step into the shoes of
the most able
abnd
arkthe present Mi-
nisters, and ern. the Whigs, and the
Whig-Tory Adnunititm•
rump of a tui•n, in adopt-
ing principles and measures to they
'must