The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-13 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

I. is NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY.
-r. Scarlett—To discharge Order for considering the Wootton Bas.
% sett Election Petition.
„,.id Viscount Althorp—Committee on Petitions alleging notorious
a Af",."411, ption at Elections for Members of Parliament.
ii,„..... 'l:robe—Return from the Board of Excise and Customs of the
nzuer of Prosecutions for Penalties, or for Offences against the
n.. enue Laws at the suit of the Attorney-General, during the
" —4 1817, 1818, 1919, and 1820:.—Also? for a Return of the aggre-
gate costs
of those suits in each succeeding year.
I. L.rn ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY. •
faster Election (Double Return) Petitions—Ballot for Commit.
3. mialt"At half after three.
S. watri; Election Adjourned Debate on Motion for en.
4. Caun`,°,ill County Election larging time for entering into Re.
5. Lito.,4l;?untY Election cognizances.
6. Stiriii;`,. County Election
7, Doverilt6..o. Burghs Election
ft. PontefiraelEiti" •
ection
O. Ilehester '' Consideration of PetßitieconospfoirzafnuerethLer
time to enter into
10. Waterforr".ti"
• upp y.... Report toss" .
II S I '''''untlr Elect' Mr James Paul Gee to attend.
12. Postage Duties - well Acts (Great Britain and Ireland)—Report thereupon.

NOTICES GIVEN YESTERDAY.
edesday Feb. 14.
Mr. Shadwell—.Bill for the limintation' of a Writ of Right.
Sir Thomas Lethbride—.Bilo
Friday,
amend Feb t
16.
g he General Turnpike Acts.
Monday, Feb. 19.
1• Lord Viscount Palmerston—Army Estimates (in Committee of Supply).
Mr. Davies Gilbert—Bill to extend the provisions of Act 55 Geo.. 3,
C. 192, for disposing of Copyhold property by Will, to other species
of property similarly circumstanced.
Tuesday, Feb. 20.
The Master of the Rolls—Bill for the regulation of the Court of Chancery.
J. Mr. Secretary Peel— Thursday, Feb. 22.
' the Laws
1. Bill for consolidating and amending .
relative to Larceny, and offences connected therewith. 2. Bill for
consolidating and amending the Laws relative to malicious Injuries
to Property. 3. Bill for consolidating and amending the Laws rela-
tive to Remedies against the Hundred. 4. Bill for consolidating and
amending the Laws relative to Embezzlements by Journeymen Ma-
rsl.ttfsturers, and Disputes between Journeymen and their Masters.
Cji'nEiglusePea. ling such Statutes as will be superseded by the pri
2. Mr. Hurne—con• , of
Ordersf issued
the f the Committee of Inquiry of issued apve Twat Barrackpoor in November 1824, and since that time. on the_
Monda Mr. Secretary Canning--con •2. Feb. 26.
portation of Foreign corzderation of the Laws relating to the Im-
portation
March 1.
Sir Francis Burdett—Roman Cathode
Claims

THE MARKET

.(THIS DAY).

HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36
Trusse..)
ST. JAmEs,s,
Lowland Meadow Hay.t: 3 10 to 4 10 clover Ha
U'plaod Ditto ............ 4105 10 Wheataw .......... £4 10 to 6 6
Rye..ge... Hay ....... 410 510 Ditto ............ 112 114
New Meadow Hay ..... 4 5 5 5 ........... 1 14 2 0
A good supply, and a steady trade, at S . praturday.■ •
SMITHFIELD. ices.

Lowland Meadow Hay .£2 i:(''- 4 5
Upland Ditto
Rye-grass Ha
New Meadowy Hay
Supply good, trade dull,

Clover Hay generally .f 4 4to 5 10
Do. extraordinary fine 0 0 6 0
Oat Straw ................ 110 1)2
Wheat Ditto ......... 112 116
nd prices as on Saturday,

A respectable fanner in Flintshire lately sold a fine
fat Pig to a butcher, stating at the time that when the pig :as
killed, he should like to purchase the flitches. They were ac-
cordingly forwarded to him last week, and a settlement of accounts
soon afterwards took place, when the farmer proved to be 2s. 6d.
in the butcher's debt.

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1827.

The French Papers of Saturday, and the Etoile,
dated Sunday moi fling, have reached us ; but they
contain nothing of political importance.

It seems to be intended to send the Infant Don
MIGUEL to the Brazils. M. ROCHA PINTO, Cham-
berlain of the Emperor Don PEDRO, is to set out this
week for Vienna, for the purpose of conducting Don
MIGUEL to Brest, where it is proposed that he shall
embark on board the John the VI., ship of the line,
for a passage to Rio de Janeiro.

The Lisbon Gazette of the 27th, is said to contain
the Orders given by the Spanish Cabinet to disarm the
Portuguese Refugees, and bring LoNGA, FLEIRE,
and Colonel SAN LLORENTE to trial.

Extracts of these Papers will be found in another
column, and we subjoin the price of the Funds in
Paris, on Saturday—

FRENCH Fawns, FEB. 10.-Five per Cents., 101 f. 25c. 20c.
25c. 20c. 25c. 20c. 15c. lOc. ; Three per Cents. 68f. 95c. 69f.
69f. sc. 69f. ; Bank Actions 1,995 f. 1990 f.; Naples Rentes
75f. 10c. 75f. sc. 75f. 74f. 90c. SOc. 70e. ; Royal Spanish
Loan 514 ; Rentes d'Espagne 111 12. Exchange on London,
one month, paper, 25f. 40c., money, 25f. 40c. ; three ditto, paper
25f. 25c., money, 2M. 25c.

The proceedings in both Houses of Parliament, last
night, will be read with the highest interest. The Earl
of LIVERPOOL and Mr. PEEL respectively moved in
each House an Address of Condolence to his MA-
JESTY, on the death of the Duke of YORK ; and, in
doing so, eloquently expressed the sense of the whole
Nation of the public services and private virtues of
that Illustrious PRINCE. His ROYAL HIGHNESS'S
indefatigable attention to the duties of his high station,
his anxious desire to promote the comfort as well as to
improve the discipline of the soldiers, his impartiality
and discrimination in the disposal of promotions, his
moderation in the exercise of the great power vested
in him, and the facility of access which he allowed to
all who had business to transact with him, were the
prominent points of his ROYAL HIGHNESS'S public
character which were dwelt upon with fidelity ; while
the openness, sincerity, honour, and benevolence of
his private character, were expatiated upon with all that
warmth of attachment and feeling which his unbounded
display of these virtues had excited. His ROYAL
HIGHNESS, as Mr. PEEL elegantly said, " had never
abandoned a friend or resented an injury ;" and, con-
sequently, one feeling pervaded every Member of each
House of Parliament, and the Addresses were voted
unanimously.
In consequence of there being no chalice that Mr.
CANNING would be able to enter upon the great
question of the Corn Laws, on Monday next, the dis-
cussion of that subject was postponed till Monday, the
26th, on which day, it is to be positively brought for-
ward; and Sir FRANCIS BURDETT postponed his
motion, on the subject of the Catholic Claims, to the
Ist of March, being unwilling to bring it -on until
such time as he might fairly calculate on having the
powerful assistance of the eloquent Advocate of this
question.
The Navy Estimates were voted in the Committee
of Supply, without opposition. Some conversation
on each stem took place, but even Mr. HUME was un-
able to find an objectionable point. The House felt
and admitted that no part of the public business of
this country is more thoroughly attended to, or better
conducted, than that relating to the Naval Service.

We have received this morning the Algemeine
Zeitung of the sth instant, from which we make the
following extracts. The progress of the Reformation
from the errors of Popery seems to be extending itself
even amongst some of the Catholic Princes of Ger-
many :
♦UGSBURG, FRB• S.

The following Cabinet Letter, addressed by his Majesty the
King of Prussia, to his Serene Highness the Prince of Salsa-Salm,
is sent to us fbr insertion :
" The reasons assigned in the letter which you have sent me,
and which have induced you to quit the Roman Catholic for the
Protestant Church, are so pure in their source, so firm in their
principles, and so laudable in their views, that we have only to
congratulate you on the resolution which you have taken with ma-
ture deliberation, and carried into effect with conscientious
piety. You have hereby given an important counterpoise to many
melancholy occurrences of our times, and in the pure scriptural
religion which you profess, you will find entire consolation for
the sufferings and mortifications which you have experienced.
Accept the assurances of my especial esteem, with which I remain
your Highness's well affected
BeTlin' Dee. 9' 1826. FREDERICK WILLIAM.
To
his Highness Prince Constantine of Salm-Sahn at Baden.

vIENNA, JAN. SO.
His Majesty the Emperor, has presented to his Royal Highness
the Infant Don Miguel, a valuable richly gilt sledge, in which his

Highness frequently drives on the Prater. For some days past
all the mails have arrived very irregularly, those from Italy have
not arrived for several days.

VIENNA, JAN. 31.—Metalliques, 881; Bank Shares, 1054.

'We have also received Frankfort Papers to the
6th instant :

The Journal of the Tyrol contains melancholy accounts of the
damage and loss of life occasioned by the fall of enormous ava-
lanches in that principality. These avalanches have been caused
by the rapid melting and loosening of the snow on the inaccessible
pinnacles of the Alps, by the sudden setting in of the sirocco.—
In several parts the stacks of hay on the sides of the mountains
are buried many fathoms deep, and must remain so till the spring.
Indeed, most of the persons who have unhappily perished, lost
their lives in attempting to save their hay.

A morning paper which is not less contemptible
from the absence of talent generally evinced in its arti-
cles, than for its toad-like subserviency upon every
subject to its great prototype the Courier, (of which
it has not been inaptly styled the echo), devoted a
column yesterday to an article (professedly taken from
an obscure Sunday paper) relative to the " Posthum-
ous Letter of the DUKE of YORK :" and some com-
ments made on the review of that work which appeared
in the columns of this Journal. The review of it in-
serted in our paper was written by a Gentleman in the
habit of reviewing new books, who took it up more as
a literary than a political speculation, and perhaps
rather too charitably formed an opinion of its authen-
ticity from the positive assertions of the publisher to
the Royal Family that the letter was genuine.
But what is the object of the New Times
in publishing this article at such a distant pe-
riod ? It must be the pardonable jealousy which that
Paper feels, in consequence of our forestalling its
foster-brother the Courier in respect to political in-
telligence, and undeceiving the public in the notion
so industriously circulated by this hopeful fraternity that
they are the exclusive organs of Government. But
the New Times, in addition to all this, has
given insertion in its columns to letters mak-
ing the meanest insinuations against individuals sup-
posed to have an interest in our Journal—iusi•
nuations grossly false and libellous. Not content
with a fair and manly competition, or with an open at-
tack of any of the principles avowed by us, the New
Times has resorted to means no less malignant than
contrary to the established courtesy observed between
Journals of respectability ; and such as no writers but
those writhing under the petty feelings of jealousy could
have adopted. But we defy such calumniators, and
despise their jealousy. We know, by our rapidly in-
creasing circulation, that we have public opinion in
our favour,—that opinion being formed on the priority
of our intelligence and the soundness of the principles
which we advocate.

Where on earth can Lord JOHN RUSSELL be, at
this important crisis ? We perceive by the List of
Notices, that Lord ALTHORPE moves, to-day, for "a
Committee on Petitions, alleging notorious Corruption
at Elections for Members of Parliament." We had
supposed that in this business, Lord ALTHORPE was
only a substitute for Lord JOHN RUSSELL, during
the period that that great advocate for Parliamentary
Reform was, so inauspiciously for the country, deprived
of a share in its Legislative Councils. But now, that
he, the enemy of Rotten Boroughs has been so ho-
nourably returned for the close, we had almost said
igtten, borough of Bandon, we should have thought
that in common decency his Noble Substitute would
have resigned the honourable post of advocating free-
dom of Election, to one whose previous acquaintance
with all the intricacies of the present corrupt system,
must have been largely encreased by study and obser-
vation during his late canvas for the above-mentioned
Borough. Really, after all, we have heard from him,
to see Lord JOHN, sitting for a close borough, is
too ridiculous. Perhaps, some remains of modesty,
(which did not at first occur to us) have pre-
vented his LORDSHIP from calling on his substitute
to resign his charge at present, and who knows but
this highly honourable feeling may yet occasion the
issuing of another writ for Bandon ? If Lord JOHN'S
great object is to bring about purity and freedom of
Election, he may as well accept the Chiltern Hundreds
at once as endeavour to advocate that cause whilst no-
toriously returned for a place where no liberty of choice
is allowed to the nominal electors.
Quis tulerit Gracehos de seditione querentes.

No doubt there are many blemishes in the present
system which all honest men would wish to see re-
moved, could it be done with safety, but all that
Utopian reform in the House of Commons has
become as obsolete as its tiresome though sincere
supporters. We advocate no low standard of virtue,
and despise the man who sells his vote as much
as Lord JOHN can, do ; but we are not foolish
enough to think that he or any 0146 else can
make the majority of the Electors any thing but
selfish and mercenary. Indeed, considering what a
great portion of the nation answers this description,
we think their Representatives in Parliament are a
wonderful specimen of their power of selection. We
hear, now-a-days, of no profligate expenditure of the
public money, of no iniquitous contracts, no shameless
turning of seats in the House to pecuniary account,
as was notoriously the case at a late period of our
history. That this happy change has taken place the
great Reformers themselves must admit (owing, no
doubt, to their " thunder") ; and, when there is no
crying evil, these worthies might, with great safety
to the nation, relax the violence of their exertions,
and, like Lord Joiug, comfortably sit for close Bo-
roughs when they cannot for Cities or Counties.