The Sun.
London, England, 1820-05-24 00:00:00

that the Public Ministry have the right of making
selection from amongst the co-operators in the
same Act, or amongst the accomplices in the same
offence, and of directing prosecutions against those
whom they might consider to have taken the
most active or the most criminal Hart.

" The King gave a private audience yestsrds y
morning to Madame de-Serre, the wife c the

Keeper of the Seats.

" Bourgeois, one of the accused in the of tiir
of Franche Cornt6, has not been conveyed to
Paris ; he remains in prison at Besancon.—(Jour-
nal des Debats.)
" The Marquess de Santa Crux, the new
Spanish Ambassador to the Court of Fiance, is

expected at Paris early in next month.

FIVE PER CENTS.

.... 74 f, 50 c.

Saturday
DEFERRED STOCK.
Of the 22d March, 1817 lO2 f. 15 c.
22d March, 1820 9O f go c."
[There is no intelligence in these Papers from
Spain.]

THE FUNDS.--The present state of the Money
Market has hronght to town several persons con-
nected with the funds, who bad intended to have
spent the holiday week in various parts of the
Country ; and this morning, when business com-
menced, the house was crowded to excess.—
Consols opened at 69i for the Account, and 691
for the July Account. An immense quantity of
business was done, and various reports were cir-
culated, in order to depress or raise the Market,
according to the interest of the different parties.
Bets were offered that notice would be sent to the
Stock Exchange this day or to-morrow of the
amount of the Loan required. The report still
continues, that a Loan must be had, and that Ex-
chequer Bills must be funded to a large amount ;
there is now 22 months interest due upon Ex-
chequer Bills. .5 per Cents fell one half per cent.
expecting the Minister would fund in them. We
only give the above as the occurrences of the day
on the Stock Exchange.

The debate on the Marquis of LANSDOWNE'S
Motion next Friday has excited consider Able
anxiety at all the Outports. It is expected that
the Government will disclose their views on the
subject which is then to be submitted to the Upper
House.

It is much to be regretted, that the Official Re.
turns of the Trade end Navigation of British
North America for the last year have not been
presented to Parliament.

The permission to allow Corn warehoused here,
to be sold immediately on the ports being declared
open, is very injurious to the Agricultural In.
terests. Jt was evidently not the intention of the
Legislature that it should be so, though it is con-
sidered as admissible under the letter of the Act.
It is an extensive practice of Foreigners to consign
Corn here to be warehoused, when it is sold at a
low price en the Continent, and although various
expences attach upon it in this country, they can,
not withstanding, sell it for a considerable profit,
on the opening of the ports : the injurious con-
sequence is, that the British Farmer is deprived of
the opportunity of availing himself of the tempo.
rary advance of price, which he would otherwise
gain, for five or six werks, if warehoused Corn
was not allowed to come into the market until
the first Corn arrivals from the Continent, after
the ports are opened, are entered at the Custom

House. The present practice is contrary to the
policy of the law, and certainly was never, we
presume, intended. These are our impressions
on the s►►bject ; if we have adopted an erroneous
view of it, we shall most readily acknowledge our
error, when convinced of it.

The Agents of the Consigners of Timber from
Norway, Sweden, and Prussia, have acted with
great indiscretion and indelicacy. They have, we
are informed, stated unequivocally that his MA..
JESTY.3 Government have given them assurances
of their intention to lower the Duties on Foreign
Timber. We are satisfied that this is not the case,

for the Chairmen of the British North American
Committee, and of the Ship Owners' Society,
were, we believe, long ago told that they would
be heard on this interesting and national question
before Ministers came to any final determination
upon it. We also understand that representa►ions
on the subject have been transmitted to the Colo-
nial Department from the Knica's Provinces in
America, end that the Merchants engaged in the
Trade to those Colonies are feelingly alive to it,
and only wait for an opportunity to be heard
upon it by the Government, before they present
any Petition to the Legislature on the subject.

We feel great pleasttre in the insertion of an
account of • Meeting which took place yesterday
in Freemason's Hall, for considering of the
best means for carrying into effect the landabie
objects of " The Sociefy for the Improvement of