The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-06 00:00:00

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY).

HAY MARKETS..-.(At per Load ofS6 Trustee.)
ST. JAMES'S.
Lowland Meadow Hayf3 10 to 4 10 Clover Hay £4 10 to 6 6
Upland Ditto
Rye-grass Hay .' 4lO 510 Wheat Ditte ll4 2 0
New Meadow Hay 4 5 5 5
Meadow Hay ss. per load lower t an on Saurday ; prices of Clover
Hay and Straw stationary. Supply good, and trade dull.

SMITHFIELD. _
Lowland Meadow Hay i 3 sto 4 5 Clover May generally £4 10 to I 0
Upland Ditto
Rye-grass Hay 4 b 5 5 Oat Straw llO / 12
New Meadow Hay . 4 0 5 0 ?Meat Ditto ll2 114
Supply good, and triode dull. Though the highest of the above quo-
tations were obtained in a few instances, the greater part of the bat
Hay and Straw was sold at ss. per load beneath them.

EXTRAORDINARY TALENTS DISCOVERED.-.--A
poor self-educated shipwright, of the name of John Cordingly," a
native of the town of Ipswich, on the Banks of the Orwell, has
recently been found to possess the most brilliant powers of compo-
si sition in prose and verse.

LISBON PIGS.-With infinite mortification at the
change of subject, and begging pardon of the Riding-school for
my presumption, I cannot pass a dead pig in the street without
wdeoltiicaldtheek:mtniasnownaheilt•e.
saying a word about it, and the tribe to which it belongs. These
are the true beauties of Portugal—not even Hampshire can show a
porker with such perfection. Your Bohemian wild boar may he
a holder, but I dare say he is not a better pig ; and as to your
Yorkshire or your Clonmel fat fellows—if fat be your fancy—_
dead pig's head is small, and his feet as short as those of a
ayihivieeare
' tongue'WietlhcoofannieuPitocoi:ttsullegehni:ale 9:
Portuguese pigot rheireheni chihsa aftabte many
pigeon—he is all carcass—round as a barrel._with not a
square bit about hitn. His throat is slit upwards, and the
red blood, as it flows, dyes the pavement of the Rua Fran-
cisco—one of the most fashionable streets in Lisbon, where
pig-killing is practised, as it is in all others, in the open
day. Bristles he has not ; but his back is covered with a
thick crisp hair, of a dark-brown dye. Two men, with
lighted flaggers, singe them off; and another scrapes him over
with a blunt knife. How handsome he looks !—I am mare the
lady who loved a pig.--aa Mr. Grimaldi sang—must have been a
Portuguese ; for, what with his little snout, his small legs, his
round body, and his woolly coat, there never was Inch an Adonis
of a porker !—He and all his family have been fed up the country
with acorns, and great care taken of their education. The only
thing that I have seen, where unceasing cleanliness is 0540? is ',n
the care of the pig;-,-.:ry. Cooked iu any way you please--ilano:diel
roast, chop, ham or Harem, he is the meat most to be
15d., with a dash of pti;per, a squeeze of a leinon, and
betweentlecent pigte
Loup
The middling Portuguese
Lisbon. You e4i '0“- 1::: at 5:1. a pound, and dine e4oaffttethuimmhfloerr
of common wine to wash him :own,
suchv'riil dishd ismua it
visceraiiis bla
black puddings
• with the war, perhaps ~,
and the roast. If there comes a famine
shall be all glad to do the same.
lo)undadiqnugasn(t7t'yhyofshg°ru.eledn sapp

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SPIRIT OF TiIiVIIBLIOVOURTNIALS.

It appears from a report of one of the Irish Catholic meet
ings, that an intention is entertainedsomewhere, of prosecut
ing Mr. Shiel for a late speech, in which, if we have not for
gotten it, that gentleman seemed to throw out some hint:
conducive to the success of the next invasion of the Frenck
or any other Government within steam-boat range of Ire-
land. That Mr. Shiel. is a rhapsodist—a rhodomontadis
—and, though a writer of tragedies, and an orator at hist
meetings, one of the least discreet, least reflecting, am'
most dangerous counsellors by whom a people or a part)
could be directed, we suppose there is a pretty general
teoesent among all classes of men in both countries, ex-
cept -that small company of agitators with whom and for
whose benefit he frets his frequent hour upon the Dublin
stage. We have nothing to do now with the subject mat-
ter of Mr. Shiel's political complaints. Our part has long
since been taken on the Catholic question, as one involv-
ing and incorporating the gravest considerations of justice
and expediency by which the mind of an English states-
man has ever been engaged. As good Protestants, we
have laboured for years to satisfy our brethren of the Es-
tablished 'Church, that the interests of the reformed reli-
gion would not be weakened by admitting the Ca-
tholic laity, under the present circumstances of the
empire, to a share of the judicial, executive, and
legislative power. As good Englishmen, it has been
our aim to show that the dominion of Great Bri-
tain would be consolidated by giving the excluded
nation an interc,ist in gupporting the greatness which
they now fe,sicy it their interest to undermine ; and by
attachi:,,g to the State the affections of a people whose re-
,`ntments every brawler now finds an obvious pretext for
exasperating bitterly against it. With all charity towards
Mr. Shiel and his confederates of the Dublin Four Courts,
we beast of having made by our efforts in the Catholic
rause, more friends to emancipation during one week among
the people of England, through whom only that measure
must be carried, if at all, than in the five years of extrava-
gance, menace, and violence, he and the junta of which he
is a member, have created on either side of-the Channel,
—nay, further, that our main difficulty has been, to re-
assemble round the standard of Emancipation, those ofits
early and honest champions, who had revolted from it in
disgust at the declared hostility of the Catholic orators
themselves towards England as a state, and towards Eng-
lishmen as a nation. Conceiving ourselves, and it is no
presumption, to have been more useful and efficient advo-
cates of this great measure from the outset than Mr.
Shiel, or any of those who have become the partners of
his impolicy, we deprecate, in the name of all wise and up-
right men in both islands, the employment of such engines
as he has been recently bringing into play. With con-
fidence we can assure the Irish associatoes, that if they
lose their English friends, they will find no other friends
in Europe. The House of Bourbon, in France and else-
where, bias got enough of meddling between Sovereign
and subject, since the separation of North America from
the British empire. Whatever other lessons may have
been disregarded, that lesson at least will cling to the re-
membrance of the Royal House of France, so long as the
revolutionary vicissitudes from 1787 to 1814 shall hold
is place in history. So long as the anniversary of Louis the
XVlth.'s death shall be kept as a day of mourning in the
Court of his successors, so long will it present an amoni-
tion to their counsellors to take no part in civil wars, on
questions of abstract right. The Irish orators may rest
satisfied that the first principle of all European monarchies,
is to take part with the Sovereign against the subject, if
they interfere at all. What is the Catholic question in
the British Empire but the question of Liberalism or
Royalism in France ; the question of Hungarian prisilege
in Austria ; that of a compulsory representation in Prussia;
that of a return of the Flemings under the Crown of
France; that of Polish independence? Each and every
Government of Europe has stringed instruments at. home
which would loudly vibrate to Irish Catholic insurrection ;
and if this band of Dublin incendiaries should succeed in
blowing up the passions of their poor countrymen to the
point which they seem to aim at, they may desolate Ire-
land—they may depopulate the overcroweed soil—they may
render more barbarout, and brutalize more irrecoverable, the
surviving remnant of their miserable sictims ; but let them
not be wild or mad enough to persuade themselees, that
by force, whether foreign or domestic, they will secure
that good which lies beyond the reach of peaceful
and enlightened reasoning. Whether it be worth
while to prosecute Mr. Shiel for the manifest mischief
of his intentions, is quite a different question from
the wisdom or folly of his words. As the grant of emaze
cipation would be death to the notoriety of those who sub-
sist upon the clamour for it, so we might be inclined to
think that they are never more thoroughly mortified or dis-
appointed than when Government seems to forget that such
men are buzzing about its ears. It is not impossible, how-
ever doubtful, that in the present session this national mea-
sure may assume a more promising aspect than before ;
but we are willing to acknowledge, that if Mr. Shicl be
sentenced and effectually silenced, the act will be more cha-
racteristic of a Government which has the real welfare
of the Catholics at heart, than ol one which opposes their
emancipation.--Times .

It is rumoured; that there have been bickerings between
some of the Magnates of the land and their deputies in the
Cabinet, on the subject of the duty to be imposed on im-
ported corn. The duty which Ministers proposed was
fifteen shillings the first year, with a diminution of one
shilling each year till ten shillings, at which it should stop.
On the other hand, a great Northern Proprietor of Bo-
roughs insisted on twenty-five shillings; and distinctly
stated, that any attempt to fix a lower duty should be
frustrated in the House of Lords. Several Ministers, on
this, threatened resignation. A compromise at length took
place; and 17s. 6d., it is said, is the sum fixed on, with a
reduction every. year till 12s. 6d.—Morning Chronicle.
There is as evident an indisposition on the part of Mi-
nisters tosneet Parliament, awthere is among schoolboys
to encounter what' is called "black Monday," at the close
of their holydays. There is no doubt but that Parliament
having once met, should have been kept together, were it not
for 'any other reasons, than that the House of Lords might
have proceeded with the appeals, and the House of Commons
.14_th_its numerous election petitions. The consequence,
we, , fear, will, be, that a great deal of the business
Which ought to come before both Houses, will be slur-
red ove4orsansittedaltogetber ; and some of the most im-
portant matters will be left to be passed in thin Houses,
when the approach, if not the arrival of the dog-days, has
driven members back into the country. For this staving off
of "'the evil day" various reasons may be assigned ; among
the rest; a love of ease, the age and ill health of some of
the Cabinet; no great cordiality among them on some
important points of policy ; and a constant hope that the
Chapter of Accidents will open at a more lucky page, the
Totter daay takes place in opening it. However ridiculous
it may seem to say so, there are those among our readers
who must remember how fortunate Mr. Pitt was, on more
occasions than one, in this last respect. Frequently, du-
ring his administration, when Parliament was about to
meet under circumstances of extraordinary gloom and des-
pondency, would the' news of some great victory or other
event arrive; r'''';"-g 4-tone to the aspect of affairs, equally'
gratifying and tompeetad. 'Brit Ministers are for post-
poning every-thing en subjects on which nothing in
the 'Chapts of Accidents can help them; and thus, even
the question of the
,Corp Laws,
fixed for the 4th instant, is which was irrevocably
Postponed, we perceive by a
Treasury ,eircular, for a week. The delay which has al-
ready taken place, and which is thus continued, upon this
subject, is the more to be deplored, as it carries with it
no advantage that we know of to any one, while it keeps
the whole landed property of the country in a state of
uncertainty and alarm, entailing positive loss, and that
of the most serious and extensive nature, upon a mul-
titude of individuals engaged in the corn trade, either
as 'growers or merchants. We do therefore earnestly
hope that this will be the last delay the country will hear
of; but that the mighty panacea about which we were
Ministers had completely
IF&Tsly told,. two' mouths ago,