The Sun.
London, England, 1829-05-28 00:00:00

PORTSDOWN HILL,

two rni!es from the capital Market town of Fareharn, seven
from Porter:loath, fourteen from, Southampton, sixteen
from Petersfieg, and Chichester. Connected with the
Farm are Barns, Stabling, and Granary, Cart Houses,
; apacioss aa.l convenient Homestead ; four Labourers'
Cottage. end harden., and
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES, statute mea-
sure, OF THE FIRST QUALITY OF ARABLE,
MEADOW, AND DOWN LANDS, upon which is a
Chalk Pit, with A Kiln thereon constantly in use. The
Pit contains an inexhaustible supply of Chalk of the best
quality for making lime, and for rale for manure, for
which articles there is a constant demand ; its conveyance
to the surrounding neighbourhood is cheaply and expe-
ditiously accomplished, the Pit being within a Mile from
the Water side. This property is entirely within a Ring
Fence, in the occupation of a respectable Tenant for
the last fourteen years (whose Lease expires at Michael-
mas next), at an inadequate Rent the last renewal
being in 1522, (the very worst year for agricultural
proluce that can be remembered.) The Residence was
recently tenanted by Admirals Paterson and Gif-
ard, and now by the Proprietors. The whole Estate
is in perfect 'order and complete repair. The Prospect-
rooms offer uninterrupted and very interesting scenery, ex-
tending to Portsmouth Harbour, Spithead, the Isle of
Wight, and Southampton Waters. The View from the
Down Lands is still more interesting and beautiful, em-
bracing a distance of at least 20 miles in every direction of
Sea and Lou],a which probably is not equalled in England.
The Taxes are very low; the Land Tax on the Dwel-
ling-house is Redeemed. Four stage-coaches to and from
Southampton, Brighton, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, and
the mail between Bristol and Portsmouth pass the premises
daily ; and two Passage-boats, to and from Portsmouth,
afford a eheap and expeditious communication, the distance
being about tour miles.

Particulars of this most desirable Property may be
had only till the Sale at the best Ilan, at Portsmouth,
Southampton, Fareham, Petersfield, Chichester, and Brigh-
ton ; the Auction Mart ; and at Mr. George Robins's
olgoes, Londe., where a eketsh of the SlltatV may be *ea.

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS;

The proposition of the Duke of Richmond on
Tuesday last, for increasing the duty on foreign
wool from id. to 3(1. per lb., was one of those the
real effect of which, if adopted, would be the reverse
of that which its advocates appeared to look for,
and which at first it might seem calculated to pro-
duce. The Noble Mover took for granted, that be-
cause'the price of home-grown wool had fallen, the
fall must have been produced by the importation of
the foreign article. His Grace ought to have made
it clear, or at least probable, that no other causes
were at work. Has foreign wool maintained its
price? We are told not. Has British wool main-
tained its quality ? Lords Harewood and Wharn-
el.ffe, the best authorities in England, assure us that
it has not ; but that, from the mode of feeding sheep
or other cause., it, has much deteriorated. Again,
the Duke of Richmond ought to have laid ground
for believing, that to contract the importation of fo-
reign would extend the consumption of British wool
by the manufacturers of cloth for exportation. So
far from such a consequence being likely to" follow,
it is considered as a datum by all men conversant
in the trade, that cloth made up of British wool
alone is not a marketable commodity any where,
arid that if the manufacturer were cut off from the
mixture of wool of foreign growth with that of home
growth, the result would not be to extend the use
of home-grown wool, but to drive the British manu-
facturer out of the business, and to throw the whole
export trade of England into the hands of the
French, the Flemish, and German clothiers.—
The question ought to be argued on principles fami-
liar to those who have examined the subject of the
silk-trade, and often referred to by this journal in
discussions not long past. The English throwsters
clamoured for prohibitory duties on the thrown silk
of Piedmont, but they could make no answer to the
f►ct that silk goods of any value cannot be wrought
without a considerable admixture of thrown silk
from Italy; and that if deprived of it the British
weaves might lay by his shuttle, and the throwster
betake- himself to the poor-rates. So with wool : a
certain quantity of foreign wool is necessary to make
the home wool saleable. A large duty on the
foreign raw material would so enhance the price of
the cloth itself, as to exclude the British manufac-
turer from all competition with his foreign rival, and
would of necessity recoil upon the British grower,
by rendering his material unfit for use. This is the
whole of the reasoning. Nobody denies that the flock-
master of this country obtains a less price than he did
some years ago forhis wool. Lord Ellenborough attri-
butes the fact to over-production, from a multipli-
cation of sheeprand to an extended substitution of
cotton goods for woollen. We cannot at once lay
our hands on information connected with this sub-
ject, sufficient to confirm or refute these assertions;
but we have heard that there is an increase in the
quantity raised of foreign wool, as well as British,
and that a more powerf►►l rivalry has arisen in foreign
countries to the British woollen manufacturer, as
well as, to the British grower, which will sufficiently
account for the statement made by the Duke of
Richmond, that there had within the last four years
been a decline in the export of British cloth, as
compared with the four preceding. If, moreover,
such a falling off has really taken place, does it not
demonstrate the madness of ar►y proposition to
raise the price of that indispensable material—viz.
Spanish and Saxon wool—when, under the ad-
vantage of a diminished duty, the manufacture which
depends upon it is maintained with so much diffi-
culty ? We rejoice to find that upon this question
his Majesty's Government has formed, a►id will
adhere to, the system of encouraging British ma-
nufacture by better means than prohibitory duties
Timer?.

We really hardly know what people are contend-
ing about, or what measure they would recommend,
when they speak with clamour of the present state
of the country as one of extreme suffering and dis-
tress. That it is not a season of full employment
and abundance, is but too true : but what is it, com-
pared to the prophetic descriptions which have been
given of it for the lust two years ? Now is the time
when wheat was to be a shilling a bushel, and farms
were to be all thrown up ; and England, in fact, was
to become a desert ! Arc these things so ? The last
harvest produced probably but scanty crops, which
in the south were ill got in ; in the north they were
abundant, and the grain was better housed : there
have been also considerable importations. Yet, not-
withstanding this, and the extinction of small notes,
wheat maintains a fair price,—too high an one for
the poor labourer. On the subject of crops, how-
ever, we advise the public at all times to beware of
impostors. To hear the people who call themselves
political economists, and the yet greater louts, the
country gentlemen, talk, you would think that they
knew to a bushel how much grain of all kinds was
produced every harvest. They know nothing what-
ever of the matter. Their opinions, however con-
fidently given, are not worth a barley-corn. With
respect to the small notes now recalled, some
bankers of tottering credit, looking to the state of
their own concerns, have been impudently giving
out that they must be re-issued. The declaration of
the Duke of Wellington in the House of Lords on
Tuesday evening, has given a detrh-blow to that
.
wild and wicked hope. Grace declared ex-
pressly, that Government " would persevere in the
measure, for the purpose ot placing the financial
concerns of the country in a proper state." Nor is
there any reason why they should not persevere, it
being obvious that the recall of the small notes,
from which so much difficulty was predicted, has
occasioned none whatever. Observe, we do not say
that there is not pressure and embarrassment ; but
the embarrassment and pressure are not greater than
they were when the small notes were in circulation:
the recall of the small motes cannot, therefore, haYe
crested er even aggravated the nsisvhief, There is

less distress now than there was last year at this
time—less than in the spring of 1827 ; less, infinitely
less, than in that of 1826, when small notes were
abundant. How, then, can it be said that the pre-
sent extinction of the small notes has occasioned the
pressure, be it more or less, which is felt ? The
Duke cf "Wellington's statement is authentic and
undeniable—that the present circulating medium is
more than sufficient for all the wants of the coun-
try, consisting of notes of 5/. and upwards, and
gold supplying abundantly the place of the small
notes. The nationa! debt has distressed many a
loyal reasoner, and cheered the heart of more than
one knave and traitor ; yet still the interest. of the
national debt will be paid, in contempt of the fears
of the former and the hopes of the later, even
though 11. notes are withdrawn from circulation.
This is very extraordinary, after so many "great
geniuses" had predicted the direct contrary. Upon
the whole, the Duke of Wellington's speech, to
which these remarks refer, is satisfactory so far as
it goes. If, to the information that no tricks were
to be tried, no experiments practised, in the funds
or on the finances, he had added the assurance (that
assurance the fulfilment of which in his case may be
almost considered as citing dicto), that needless
establishments would be cut down, tasteless extra-
vagance controlled, and annual expenditure dimi-
nished, and the poor supplied with corn at the
cheapest rate, it would have left the nation nothing
to desire.—lbid.

The Lord Chancellor's Bill for creating a new
Equity Judge having been withdrawn for the pre-
sent Session, that appointment which rumour va-
riously destined will not immediately take place.—
Changes of a considerable nature in the legal depart-
ment are, however, forthwith to be made. It is
understood to be settled, strange as it may seem,
that Sir W. D. Best is to leave the Common Pleas,
and, with a Peerage, to take upon him the Deputy-
Speakership of the House of Lords ! His promotion
makes way for Sir Nicholas Tindal, who will be-
come Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and so
leave the office of Attorney-General open to Sir
J. Scarlett. In the contemplation of these arrange-
ments, which would create a vacancy in the repre-
sentation of the University of Cambridge, several
persons have been mentioned as likely to be compe-
titors for that honour :—Mr. Goulburn, whose
official station as Chancellor of the Exchequer
would have ensured his success, had not his recent
acquiescence in the liberal measure of Ministers
indisposed the High Church party towards him;
Mr. Cavendish, the heir to the title and estates of
Devonshire—a very young man, who lately took
the degree of a Second Wrangler ; Mr. Frederick
Pollock, who has been recently named as likely to
be Solicitor-General. This gentleman now fills the
office of Commissary in the University, which is in
the gift of the Chancellor (the Duke of Glouces-
ter), by whom he is supported. Mr. Pollock is
further recommended as having taken the highest
University honours. He was a Senior Wrangler.—
To these names, that of one of the Messrs Bankett
is to be added, but which of them nobody seems
to know; and as they are alike devoid of just pre-
tensions, it seems a matter of perfect indifference.—
Morning Chronicle.
The conduct of Mr. Nash formed the subject of
warm discussion last night in the House of Commons.
Colonel Davies confined himself simply to moving
" That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire
into the conduct of Mr. Nash, so far as regarded the
granting of leases, or the sale of Crown lands in
Suffolk-street, Pall-mall East, in Regent-street, and
adjoining the Regent's Canal." Sir M. White
Ridley, on the part of Mr. Nash, expressed great
anxiety that the charges aga'nst him should be in-
vestigated thoroughly ; and Mr. Jones, on the part
of Mr. Edwards, whose name had been introduced
into the discussion of •Mondrsy night' in connection
with Mr. Nash, said he could assure the Honourable
Member for Worcester (Colonel Davies), that he
himself, as well as the Honourable Member for
Newcastle, knew something of the transaction ; and
that Mr. Nash's character stood fully as high as that
of the Honourable Member for Worcester himself,
and Mr. Edwards's also." Mr. Huskisson said
" the Honourable Member for Worcester had ob-
served, on a former night, that he had his information
on undoubted authority, but that he was not at li-
berty to name his informant. If the Committee
were granted, all he (Mr. Huskisson) should pray
was; that the informant as well as the party might be
brought both fairly before the House, arid that there
would be no attempt to evade the detection of the
informant by the charm of secrecyovhile the other
party was dragged before the Committee to be ex-
amined. He would tell the Hon. Member for
Worcester, that when the Committee Was named,
that anonymous informant should appear. (Hear,
hear!)" It is, no doubt, proper that individuals
should not be loosely asailed in the House of Com-
mons. But we do not see the propriety of this
minatory language in the outset. Of course Colo-
nel Davies would not think of moving for a Com-
mittee to investigate into the conduct of Mr. Nash,
without being prepared to submit to the Committee
evidence in support of the accusation. It is quite
time enough to talk big when Mr. Nash has made
his appearance and no accusers have been produced.
We never like this big language before hand. It is
exactly the language that a man conscious of some-
thing wrong would use, in order to deter .his assails
ants. The tone of triumph is most in place when
the accusation has been preyed groundless. After
all, the conduct of Mr. Nash in the matters alluded
to is a very secondary matter. The great affair is
the trickery (for it deserves no other name) by
which the nation has been choused out of such an
enormous sum of money for the erection of un un-
sightly edifice. Mr. Nash is but an instrument,
and no one dares to point to the party really in
fault.—lbid.

It is almost ridiettlons now to talk of the reporting
the debates in Parliament as being a breach of privi-
lege; the plain truth being, that the speeches that
are made there are, in fact, quite as much addressed
to and intended for the eye of the many, as for the
ear of the comparative few who hear them. What
passes in Parliament has long since become, and is,
in fact, the food and foundation of history. Members
themselves take up and comment upon the report of
each father's speeches as authentic documents, which
the whole world, in fact, looks to as the only touch-
stone of truth in the midst of those vague surmises
and mistakes with which every other source of poli-
tical information abounds. Surely them it is the
more to be lamented that those on whom the litho-
rious and important duty devolves of reporting to
the present and to future ages what passes in the
Legislature should be so situated, as to obtain that so
imperfectly, and as it were bystealth, on theaccuracy
of which not only the truth of future history, but so
many present interests, depend. In all the efforts of
human -intellect (and we say it advisedly, and with
pride and satisfaction), there is none more astonish-
ing than the accuracy with which the debates in
Parliament are given, considering the difficulties and
disadvantages under which those who execute the
task labour. This difficulty has of late years, and
especially during the present Session, been much
enhanced by the low tone of voice in which many
persons in Parliament now deliver their sentiments.
We trust it is no breach of privilege, or even affront
to Members, to,say, that if they mean, as they evi-
dently do, that their sentiments should go forth
accurately to the world, they should be delivered in
a tone of voice which the faculty of bearing may
reach. Nor is it, we trust, any affront to both
Houses of Parliament to say, or indeed on the part
of the country to demand, that they should be con-
sistent with themselves, and that if they speak, as
they manifestly, do, to the world, that those who
are to be their reporters should be placed in situa-
tions to enable them to be faithful ones.—Morning
Vera.

Last week a lark's nest, containing six eggs,
was found in a tuft of grass at the edge of a flat gravestone,
in the Ballast-hills barylag-ground, near this town.--
NerCnrY.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAr 27.
THE KING V. HUMPHREY PRICE, CLERK.

The defendant, who had been convicted at the last
Hereford assizes, of having published a series of
libels, reflecting on the conduct of the High Bailiff
and Magistrates of the town of Kidderminster, and
also certain inflammatory addresses to the carpet
weavers in that place, tending to excite them to a
continuance of the outrages which they had engaged
in in the early part of the last year, came up, at the
sitting of the Court this morning,to receive judgment.
Lord TENTERDEN intimated, that owing to the
great pressure of business at this period of the term,
it would be impossible to take the case until next
term. They would at once postpone the case till the
first Thursday in the next term.
The defendant, who appeared satisfied with this
arrangement, then withdrew.

DOE, EX DEM. WOOD AND OTHERS, V. BRENTON AND

OTHERS.

In this case, in a former term, a rule nisi had been
obtained on the part of • the defendants, to stay the
proceedings in this action until the costs of a former
action, brought by the late Mr. Joshua Rowe to try
the same right and question (the right to certain
mines in Cornwall) as in this action, had been paid.
Mr. GURNEY and Mr. FOLLETT now showed
cause against the rule.

Sir J. SCARLETT (with whom was Mr. DAM..
PIER), in support of the rule, entered into a short
detail of the proceedings which had taken place
within the last eight years respecting the right to
the Cornwall mines and minerals. The present ac-
tion was brought by Benjamin Wood (►he person
who had brought two former actions) and several
other persons, and the cause of action was the same
as in the former ejectment. The defendant had been
already put to an expense of about 10,0001. by the
proceedings adopted in these cases: and it was now
for the Court to say whether, under all the circum-
stances, the parties ought to be allowed to proceed
further without either paying the costs already in-
curred, or finding some-secnrity for the payment.

The. COURT thought, that as another action was
now pending which it was intended to take down
for trial at the next assizes, the best way of dispo-
sing-of the matter now would be to enlarge the rule
till Michaelmas Term, and to- stay the proceedings
in the mean time.—Rule discharged accordingly.