The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-10 00:00:00

SCOTCH MARKETS.

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EDINBUROM CORN MAREZT.—Feb. 7.
Our market was thinly stocked with all sorts of Graia tn.:day,
except Wheat, which was a full supply, -nd sales flat. The top
price of Wheat Is.- 6d. lower. Oats and Barley found a
readl,-
sale, at from 6d. to I s.•higher than last market tiny. Pea-se aaid
Beans remain without any alteration. •
Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Pease.. Beams.
First
.230 s &t y 6tt
Second. 2Bs
Od Od 2Ss ad 28, Oct 27s ?7e tid ,
Third 258 0,1 25s Od- 25s Od 25s .0d
There wore 908 bolls of Wheat in market, of whiel, 659 as wider
24 at... 325. Od. 49 at... 295: (Id (' at.. `27.6,1. 80 at... 265. Co.
14 - 0 Is
15
. Unsold, 44—Gray 6.—A verve, 275. Ild. 2.l2ths.
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' . EI)INII6RGH MEAL MARKET.—Feb. 6.
We had a middling supply of Oatmeal at this day's market,
which sold readily, at le. lower hi the top price.
Per Sack of 2801 b: Imp. ' "- . Per Stone of 141 b. Imp..
First Oatmeal -£2 14 0 Oatmeal. 1,0 2 10 •
Second ditto
Barleynseal
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Peasemeal ll9 0 -
Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 145.-2 d. 165.-3 d, 20s.—Pearl-ditto424l. '."

EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKET... Feb. 6.
The supply of Sheep was short of last week, 1500—prises fully:-
Is. Gd. per head higher. White-faced wedders, 225. to Vis..•
Black-faced, 20s. 6d. to 20e ; Ewes, 15s. to 21s. 6d. ; a quid:
sale. In the Grassmarket the supply of Cattle was less than last
week (156)—best, 7s. W. to Bs. 0(1.; inferior, Gs. Od. to 7s. ;
a quick sale, but a great number were of an inferior kind, nand
good quality scarce.

PRICK OF PROVISIONS, &IL
Beef, por lb. Os. 44. to Os. 7d. Fresh Butter, per lb. 04 to' lc Ski
Mutton —0 4 0 7 Salt Ditto—..._ 10 0 0
Veal Ditto, per cwt. ....81r. 0 b
0 4 0 6 Eggs, pet doseu —1 0 0 0
Lamb, per quarter 12 0 15 0 Oat Straw (kemp.)l6 6 17 0
Tallow, per lb.— 041 0 5 Wheat Ditto ---.13 0 14 0
t,;!uartern Luau 0 y U 0 Barley Ditto --10 6 14'
Potatoes, peel4ll). 0 8 U 0 Good Hey, per et. :1 2 1 4

AN ITALIAN PREACHER.---Wllell such misery -
prevails, and the Governments do so little to mitigate it, is it to
be wondered at if the people have recourse to such a mode of
life ? Terracina in the first town in the Pope's teriitory, and./ies • -
at the foot of the bill where Anfur stood. The most eloquent,
preacher I have heard in Italy 'was delivering a' *Mon te,a•
crowded audience, when we entered the cathedral. He' Waa_
mounted on a kind of platform at the side of the chnrch,, with
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crucifix placed at one hand, and at the conclusion rtule,a,sitoo-„...,
address to the. Virgin Mary, exclaiming, with great exultation,
" In the day of trouble, and at the hour of 'death', thy eonsolty.,
tion will support us." The people certainly needed. every eon; •
solatiOn, for, perhaps, in no other part of the world could'
an audience of such poor, sickly, and wretched people be found.'
The clergyman delivered his discourse in the true Roman accent,
and with all that distinctness of utterance, and proper
which the Romans are so celebrated.
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THE MARSHES OF MINTURN4E.-,-.-EYery spot
from Naples to Rome is classical ground. Every: hill and valley,
and river and town, has been celebrated by-sorne- poet -or histo-
rian, or rendered celebrated by the retreat of great men. On the •
left are the ruins of Minturnse—the peasants were ploughing With,
oxen around the walls of the ampitheatre, and the cattle and sheep
reposing on the right, under the shadow of the vast !iquedstet
which conveyed water from the neighbouring mountains to the
city. A little further down are the marshes where Marius con-
cealed himself from the partisans of Sylla. 'He was at length
discovered, brought to Alinturnte, condemned to death, released
by the generous sympathy of the inhabitants, and allowed to escape
to Carthage, whence he gave the celebrated reply'to' a messenger • .
from Rome---" Tell Sylla that you saw ..I:farius sitting, en the. -
ruins of Cart. age." A little further on the left, in the bay of -
Gaeta, are the ruins of Formise, rendered immortal by the:death.
of Cicero. A high tower marks the spot where he is supposed.;
to have been beheaded. •
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ELEGANT FURNITURE, GLASSES, &c.—IL L.
Cooper, 93, Bishopsgate-street-Within, respectfully apprises the'
Nobility and Gentry, that he continues to supply every degeriPtim -
of Upholstery and Cabinet Work, with Glasses .of the most en-
treme size as well as moderate dimensions, and every other. article
connected with the furnishing of Houses in the most.spleudid as
well as the neatest style, combining elegance and simplicity with
true taste, thus obtaining, at a very moderate expense, such a su-
perior general effect, which the most laboured and costly furniture
when not well arranged, ever falls to produce. 7enton's New
Hotel, St. James's-street, which is considered one of the first in
raititostinsetihne
London,
desiredon dl,e.
this Establishment, and presents a handsome specimen of the style
Europe for elegance and convenience, was entirely fitted up from
ire.neecit'at sHuc.hLreacsOnt:l-
- he can compete for excellence of workmanship and quality of
materialsadopted blyv
h.
al:.
Prices as will ensure him the patronage and support be has s‘t
long en.ioyed of some of the most distinguished families. is thq kingdom. yCo.tltioe

THE MALARIA.--Though the town of Fondi ,is
not in such a ruinous state, the inhabitants are equally .miserable
and dejected. The effects of the malaria are quite ,visible here,
and the most hardened and'unfeeling heart cannot fail .to be over, - •
come at the sight of such unexampled distress. Ntimbars:of the .• vr" '
unfortunate beings collected around its as we entered the place, • '
They bad hardly rags sufficient to cover their, nakedness 4: their r
countenances were sallow, dejected„ and- haggard;
together with disease,' preyed' their enfeeblettand waited, Craws
They devoured the cruet of cheese or bread, or, any thing eatable,
more like brute animals than hantin 'beings. , Thole, who Lave
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the head quarters of the banditti which
,widiolesbenai;ot.evlcothm.t4he utphato't B°Fonfadri
infest the coniinea the Neapolitan and Roman territories.ifsrogifrom
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I ' Died; on TOesday last, aged 44, Mr. Robert .
darke, of Bishrooke, Rutland, a man well known in the
4h-
' hourhood for,' his singular habits. It will appear that he was
descended from an eccentric stock, when our readers are informed
that he put down a grave-stone to his father's memory '(who was
character),gao‘rvgledoinuisier•aeplreseutatioio
afnda,.waag;geeoan mmd agreeably tohohirsseil,i, a rections, with a
gate, and a green hedge, with the following distich, which has
already been quoted in several periodicals:-- ,
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Here lies the body of Natbastie/ :Clarke, ''• :.•,;.. ~.• !„. t ..„., uki
Who never did no barna in the.light nor, in the darki,arro,tairviii
importance •_,c
thatOl thCiellpiifeeAsDhotßildObDeßmls.oGaiOunt.;—.ely
pared for this extremity,; they. had their -patriotic 'writers aud- ' ' 'l, •
ogoi.o:zteall,:eaanonldddegGehoivlireirornuenao:ruangad=%-vei:collosnastalrthlthoseenickee.
the exploits, of Jidien Sanchez, excited the emuhstion
t‘e:x.leetrirreeilin:oii,tet:d,
is;Tdp.oiinntetd.his .iTioipiee
IRninomdas.n:f
the
people
had
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untoon,fh,atiolli_l"eb,.
B,:i:(oe,Trughtahae;neitniixs:iiiiliariftia:ltiirete:,tei
onotfilia:ltuZacac‘r:a,u
6e
like theirs they had seen-their. '
countrymen acquire a glory when unsuccessful, which could not
have been greater had they been victorione. The women and
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children, when they saw their houses burning, gave way neither
to fear nor lamentation, but exerted themselves to quench the
flames, and carried refreshment and ammunition to the
.troor:
amidst the hottest fire. There Were two blind beggars the
city ; no one supposed that these unfortunate meni e 9
h to he
any service during the siege, but zeal taught tdiexna
and ammo_
; they carried water to the walls by
thya't it was the
nition by night, with such unwearied actiyitrie,
town had beer
intention of the governor and the junta, if
for
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life.—.Soisthey's
saved, to have rewarded them with pensionsId render
Peninsular War.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We give, in words attributed to Mr. Peel himself, an
explanation of the measure which the Right Honourabld
Gentleman has permitted to be executed under his autho-
rity, in relation to the criminal law. This measure turns
out to be a more confined one than has been generally
supposed. There is nothing like an immediate or exten-
sive improvement of the law itself as yet contemplated,
nor any sensible change in it that we can perceive. Mr.
Hammond, of the Middle Temple, having- been employed
under a Committee of the House of Commons in " col-
lecting under one head the several existing laws in
the statute book, relating to criminal offences," Mr.
Peel has written to acquaint that gentleman, that
having, himself entertained a similar project, he did
not wish to interfere with the performance of the
duty assigned by the Committee to Mr. Hammond,
and was, therefore, willing to stand in the same re-
lation to him as the Committee bad stood—that is
to say, to let Mr. Hammond accomplish the prescribed
labour, within the limits above specified, under the
auspices of the Right Honourable Secretary. It is no
inconsiderable advantage to the country that a Cabinet
Minister, in the flower of his age, like Mr. Peel, and pro-
bably with a long tenure of office before him, should have
thus begun to bestow his attention on a branch of our na-
tional legislation, which, for the best interests of the com-
munity, ought years ago to have engaged the time and ta-
lents of some of the ablest of our public men. We are
ready to acknowledge the benefits which are promised by
the measure which the Right Hon. Gentleman has already
carried through Parliament for the better composition of
juries; and we trust that the success of it, and the approba-
tion whichitlras every where won for its author, will encou-
rage him to proceed in a course so advantageous and so credit-
able. Although there appears tobe a sedulous restriction to a
mere mechanical process inculated upon Mr. Hammond in
Mr. Peel's letter, still the mere collection of the dispersed
enactments, relative to the crimes and punishments, must
hereafter, from the juxta-position thereby effected of the se-
veral parts of one important branch of jurisprudence, af-
ford facilities for ingrafting solid reforms upon the irregular
and undigested mass.—Times.
A curious ease occurred yesterday in the Court of Com-
mon Pleas. It arose, as our readers will see from our
report, out of a bargain for a sale of hops, concluded on a
Sunday between the plaintiff's broker and the defendant.
The plaintiff had been already nonsuited, on the ground of
the contract being void, as against the statute of Charles 11.
for enforcing the observance of the Sabbath ; and a rule
having been obtained to chew cause why the nonsuit
should not be set aside, and a new trial granted, the rule
was yesterday discharged. It had beer urged in behalf of
the plaintiff, that there was nothing to chew that he had
told his broker to enter into the contract on a S'inday;
but a party must abide the consequence of the misconduct
of those to whom he delegates his authority. Qui facit
per afium facie per se is a rule as just as it is universally
received, now that the English law of merchant and factor
(the only exception of which we are aware) has been re-
conciled with common sense. The Lord Chief -Justice,
therefore, very properly scouted this ground of defence.
With respect to the voiding bargains made on the Sun-
day, there can, we should think, be but one opinion
oms ,to the propriety of so doing. If we wish that the
Sunday should be a day of rest from secular avocations,
we should guard strictly against such innovations as the
one which gave rise to the present question. There may
be differences of opinion with respect to the manner in
whieh the Sunday should be passed. The foreign Pro-
testants, for instance, universally, and not a few of the
people of this country, complain of the prevailing- practice
in England as Jewish, and not Christian, and maintain
that its tendency is- immoral. They contend that it is
unchristian to observe the Sunday in such a way as to
ii:•itire the individual; that Divine Service ought indeed
to be
...Wended to, but that it is proper to make due pro-
vision for bodily sustenance ; and that, as the mind re-
quires to be a;
tended to as well as the body, and the well-
being of the miNI requires recreations of various sorts,
more especially after the harassing cares of the week, to
insist on devoting the day exclusively to religious exercises
and religious meditations which would be injurious to the
individual, is contrary to the spirit of Christianity. They
say, moreover, that as the rule cannot be strictly observed,
individuals must frequently violate it; and the conscious-
ness of this, if they are sincere, cannot fail to distress
them exceedingly, causing them to view themselves as
heinous transgressors; and the habit of pretending to
what cannot be strictly performed, leads to hypocrisy and
dissimulation. " How unjust and absurd," says a foreign
Protestant Theologian, " is it in the English Puritans to
deny on the Sunday, the use, of those exercises and relaxa-
tions for the body and mind which they allow on other
days, and how hostile is it to the well-being of this mor-
tal life I For to most people (and especially serving men
and maids, and worhpople of every description), except
the Sunday, there is no clay on which they are free from
their usual avocations (to which they are destined, and to
which they must attend if they do their duty), and yet the
recreating their bodies and minds is necessary to the pass-
ing this life commodiously (we speak only of becoming,
and not improper exercises and recreations), and therefore
both necessary and useful. And their recreations, and re-
laxations of mind and body, if not taken during the hours
destined for public worship, are not therefore to be consi-
dered as reprehensible. Why should it be considered
less lawful to take recreation or exercise, than to remain
idle and torpid, or gloomy at home ?" But, however
this question may be decided (and we observe in the
last number of The Pamphleteer, that there is now a hot
controversy on the subject, between what are called the
Sabbatarians and Anti-Sabbatarians), there can be no
,question that if we wish to secure one day in the week
to the poor, we must fence it round with the religious
enaction, and punish the attempt to transact worldly busi-
ness in it, otherwise avarice will soon leave no leisure
whatever to the poor. Every friend to humanity will
therefore rejoice at the result of this trial. We wish we
could extend our approbation to the doctrine afterwards
laid down by the Lord Chief Justice. " Weed (said his
Lordship), he was rather pleased than otherwise, that a
loss should fall on a man who had broken the Sabbath for
the purpose of carrying on speculation, which had lately
increased to such an abominable extent, that the honour-
able purposes of commerce had been perverted, and the
Royal Exchange had been converted into an arena Of
gamblers." So far so good.—The gambling propensities
of merchants, which have such a corrupting influence on
the national morals, are deserving of all the reprobation
which his Lordship has bestowed on them. But his Lord-
ship could not stop here—be was determined to display not
only virtuous indignation (always becoming in a Judge)
but also great political sagacity and acuteness in eco-
:nonties—a science with which he is evidently very
little acquainted. " T'nr.sligh these speculations," added
nis Lora. hip, ~ the price of ,every article of consumption
had been factitiously raised ; and the result was, that the
purchaser was in feet cheated out of the mpney which he
paid over and above what would have been
,the price of
the article, if Us L-A
Mill not been for these unwarrantable
it is possible LordshiLord Kenyon all over, though
Lordship may have been indebted
for his views to Mr. Cobbett (whore notions, by the bye,
respecting trade, and forsaseliing,
and regTating, notwith-
standing his present of a pada
of most excellent ale,
which we received from him, we cannot conscientiously
approve of); but whatever tne source whence his Lord-
ship has derived his views, it would have been prudent in
him to have kept them to himself. Ria Lordship says,
the price of every article of consurn ?tion has been facti-
tiously raised." We wish he could point °lit a mean by
which the goods, the produce of our variousm
a druganufacto-
ries, which, for more than a year past, have been
in the market, could possibly be raised in price. If he
could have pointed out a way of raising the price of these I
goods half a year ago, he would have done more for the
starving workmen than all the subscription committees in
the metropolis and elsewhere. Really it is lamentable to

be doomed to hear so often from the Bench opinions
which would not be tolerated from mechanics in a public-
house meeting.—illorning Chronicle.
Should Mr. Canning succeed to his heart's content in
establishing his new Constitution in Portugal, our opinion
will remain unaltered, that it was an object in which a wise
and provident British Minister.ought not to hive engaged.
With one single difference, which we shall presently advert
to, the Portuguese and Spaniards have just as much right
to interfere, by force of arms, between thiS country and
Ireland, on the Catholic Question, as we have to say
whether the old or. the new Constitution shall form the
Government of Portugal. But the difference behind
which Mr. Canning and his partisans shelter themselves is
the faith of treaties. Portugal was attacked by a foreign
power, say they,and had a right to demand our assistance—
whereas Ireland is an integral part of the British Empire,
and can have no alliances or treaties independent of the
mother-country. It would have been just as easy, as we
have all along contended, for an eloquent and ingenious
man, like Mr. Canning, to show that Spain, as a Go-
vernment, had committed no overt-act against Portu-
gal, as that she had. It suited Mr. Canning's poetical
imagination to adopt one fiction in preference to another ;
and the creature of that imagination soon became
embodied into a corporeal substance; for the creation
of which, according to Mr. Hume's less poetical idea,
we shall soon, unfortunately, be called upon to pay
the charges. Then, and not till then, John Bull and
his family will begin to growl most lustily. Instead of
being relieved from taxes, John may think himself well
off if he has not additional ones imposed. Instead of a
diminished debt, he may bless his stars if he has not a
new loan; and in place of a real Sinking Fund, it is a
thousand to one if John has even the name of one remain-
ing; while the hoeus poems of the " dead weight" will
become at once more obscure, but at the same time more
onerous and endless than ever. When John looks round
and finds all those unlooked-for, but palpable results ; and
when he finds his troops returning home, full of complaints
against a country and a cause in which neither glory nor
hospitality has awaited them, he will be very apt to ask
himself what earthly reason there was for his interfering in
matters which no way concerned him, and that at a time
when he had so many more urgent calls at home on his
seal, his patriotism, and his money. If, however, the
affair ends as it now seems likely to do, he may bless his
stars that it is no worse. He may rejoice, and indeed will
be proud, that his name and national character have not
lost their weight in the scene of operations to which his
forces have been called; but that their very approach
fixed the wavering, and in fact decided, for a time at least,
a question which, without them, would have been more
than doubtful. Still the prudence of the thing will re-
main the same; and though the present age is apt. to judge
by immediate results, we much doubt whether impartial
posterity will assign any great portion of that quality to
Mr. Ca.nning's Portuguese Expedition.—Herald.
The readers of the New Times will remember two im-
portant articles which recently appeared in it, on the sub-
ject of the war between Persia and Russia, and the treaty
with the former Power, which was considered as binding
upon England to afford her assistance. Having commu-
nicated all the information that had then reached us, we
have not since thought it necessary to return to the ques-
tion, though some very clever persons, as we have heard,
ventured to assert that no such treaty was in existence.—
We called upon them for facts, and they prudently held
their peace. In the Times of yesterday there were two
articles upon this subject—one from a correspondent, the
other editorial; and both replete with errors. We shall
not pause to refute them; but as the question has been
again brought forward, we seize the opportunity to state,
that all the difficulties which threatened to arise have
been removed. We believe it has been satisfactorily
demonstrated to our Government, that, in the war now
subsisting, Persia was substantially the aggressor, and
that, consequently, this country is not called upon to in-
terfere in any other way than by that of amicable media-
tion. Such mediation has been, we understand, proffered,
and the most satisfactory results are anticipated from it.—
New Times.