The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-22 00:00:00

PRICE OF CANDLES.
The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows t
Candles, per doc. Ss. Pd. to Os. Od. I Moulds, per dozen 6d.

COAL MA R K ET.—Agg. 21.
WallsEndßewicke&Co. 31s. 9d. Percy
Ditto Carr and C 0...,..,. 21 9 Tantield
Ditto Hilda 27 9 Tanfleld Lea - 27 9
Ditto Hotspur------ 28 0 Townley— 26 9
Ditto Heaton 33 9 Walls End Stewart's —32 6
Ditto Mita( 31 0 Silkstone MM.* 27 0
Kenton West 27 9 Londonderry 19 6
Ord's Redhugll 25 it
Ships at market, 17%—...—5h,

P'a's.

29 3

,ips sold, 9%---Unsol

COUNTRY CORN MA! ETS DURING THE

lii. 7%.

Wheat.

PR ICES OF PROVISIONS, &e.
Beef, per lb. ....Os. 3d. to Os.7d. Fresh Butter,lb.o3.B,l. to s. 10d.
Mutton.---__ 0 4 0 6 Salt Ditt0,.,.,..,.. 0 8 0 9
Veal 0 5 0 8 Ditto, per ea t. 68 0 70 0
0 3 0 9 Eggs, per doz. 0 7 0 8
Lamb, per or. 0 6 3 0 OatStraw(kp'.) 6 0 8 0
Tallow, cwt... 20 0 32 0 Wheat Ditto... 7 8 8 0
Quartern Loaf 010 011 Barley Ditto,., 6 0 6 6
Potatoes, 1711 b. 0 4 0 0 Hay, per st.-- 05. 0 8

GLASGOW CORN MARKET.—Aug. 19.
There is more business doing in Wheat, at rather higher
prices. Barley fully supported the rates of last week.
Oats are in good demand, and rather darer. Fin,. Beans
and Pease are held at higl;er prier's: Some parcels of
New Bere and Oats have arrivetrfi•om Ireland ; the qua-
lity is fair.

Wheat, per 2101 b. s. d. s. d. Oats, per 2641 b. s. d. s. d.
British, old :35 0t035 0 Irish .... lB oto2l (;
new 31 0 38 0 British 2l 0 23 6
Canada, free 37 0 38 0 Beans, per 26014
Irish - 0 33 0 English ............. 0 —ii
Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish
English 3l 0 32 0 Pease,- scotnA lB 0 'l9 0
Scottish 3l 0 32 0 Oatmeal, per 1101 b. 19 0 21 0
Flour, per 2801 b.... 55 0 56 0

290 300

BALANCE OF TRADE BETWEEN

FRANCE AND SPAIN.

This smart political squib, which appears in the
. . _ .

Constitutionnel, is a very good sample of serious w

and, at the same time, a clear exposure of a shameful
and ruinous fraud, permitted by the French Govern-
ment to be practised on their own subjects, for the
benefit of Ferdinand VII. " Since 1823 we have
had a trade with Spain, the balance of which is
ruinous to us. She furnishes us with sheets of paper,
to which she ascribes a certain value, but which she
generously lets us have at half price. She says that
her importations of paper into France have not, in
six years, exceeded 227 millions of francs, nominal
value (9,080,000/. sterling), and we must believe
her word, for we have no controul over the opera-
tions of her agent, though he operates upon our
purses. It is then a sum of about 111 millions in
cash (4,056,0001. sterling) that Spain has received
from us, or 19 millions (760,0000 a-year.
M. Roy intended to put an end to this traffic ; he
had frankly declared so on the tribune. we are
even assured that he had provisionally stopped the
issue of mutes perpetuelles, by the threat of suppress-
ing the quotation of them in the exchange list. But
M. Roy is no longer Minister, to the great joy of
111.. Aguado.

The new Minister will have for his rule the public
interest and economy, as the Gazette says. We
say that it will follow, and be forced to follow a rule
directly opposed to that ; and we find the first proof
of what we say in the articles published by the Ga-
zette, in favour of M. Aguado, who yearly and very
dexterously takes from us nineteen millions. Would it

not be an incontestable piece of economy to compel
him to leave them in our pockets ?
But it has been pretended fir some days that
there is really no longer any Pyrenees; that the two
Cabinets are united by a tender sympathy; that they
are not without hope of being able to bestow ou us
the happinesses which belong to Spain; and that
our new Ministers, less severe guardians of our ma-
ternalintereits than M. Roy, will not disoblige
their dear friends the Absolutists of the Peninsula,
by depriving them of a small revenue of nineteen
millions, of which they have an extreme want, see-
ing that unhappy AbsOlutism and poverty go hand in
hand together.

We believe, however, that it cannot be very
agreeable to our present Ministers that any Foreign
Power should impoverish France for its own benefit.
It concerns them that France should be rich, that
she may be able to pay the thousand millions
(40,000,0001.), which is a capital point in French
finance, or even more than a thousand millions; for
it is very possible that there may be additions to
make to the Budget, which is not a perfect work,
as every body admits. For instance, we do not
give the Clergy half of what they had before the
Revolution. Messrs. de Montfel and Courvoisier
may deem this Anti-Catholic, Anti-Monarchical, re-
volutionary, intolerable, or, indeed, we know not
what. We see, also, that the Budget, by a saving
sort of economy, unworthy of a civilised people,
gives nothing to the courtiers, a race precious for the
preservation of high fashion and polite manners,
while, in the latter days of the old system, a certain
family which did not render, and had never ren-
dered the least service to the State, but which was
in favour at Court, did itself alone, every year, de-
vour 1,800,000 francs (72,0004) of the public taxes
—a fact revealed by an authenti6 document. Now,
we ask, will it be M. de Polignac who will do harm
to the document, and justice to the Budget ?
We consider it as certain that the work begun
by M. Roy will be abandoned, and the public inte-
rest sacrificed, the affection of our Absolutists of
Paris for their friends of Madrid being what ought to
overcome every other consideration. Thus M.
Aguad foresees that he is about to have a finer
game than ever to make dupes here for the 'iven-
tage of the Spanish Government.

PATERNAL CRUELTY.

(From the Leeds Intelligeneer.)

On Friday last, John Hargreaves, a milk-seller,
residing at Chapel Allerton, near this town, appeared
at the Court-house, before the Sitting Magistrates,
Ralph Markland, Esq., Mayor,' Charles Browne,
Esq., and Lepton Dobson, Esq , to answer to au
information preferred against him, at the instance of
the overseers of Chapel Allerton, for having vio-
lently assaulted, beat, and ill-treated his daughter,
Hannah Hargreaves, without any sufficient cause.
The complainant, Hannah Hargreaves, a delicate-
looking girl, about twelve years of age, after being
questioned by the Mayor as to her competency to
take an oath, was sworn. She deposed that, on
Sunday afternoon last, her father came home, and
desired her to strip herself, which she did, though
she did not know for what purpose. He, however,
tied her hands with a rope, and Icter putting it over
a crook in the balk, he swung her up so that her legs
could not touch the ground. • He. then flogged her
with a birch wand very severely, but the witness
did not know how long, nor whether she bled after-
wards. During this she had nothing on but her
shift. He afterwards flogged her on the Wednes-
day after. He had repeatedly flogged her before,
but Sunday was the first time he ever hung her up.
James Ingham deposed that he had examined the
person of the complainant on Thursday last, that
she was flogged to such a degree, that he never saw
one of the prisoners, who had been flogged in prison,
ia such a state.

The Magistrates having consulted together, his
Worship said, it was the decision of the Bench that
he should enter into his own recognizance, in the
sum of 201., to keep the peace towards her for twelve
months, and to find two sureties in the sum of 101.
each.

Defendant-4 never will ; I never will. I'll go
to York and be hinged first. I never will, I'll be
if I do.
He was committed, with an intimation that he
would be kept in custody till the requisite sureties
were found.
On Saturday, the defendant entered into the ne-
cessary recognizances, along with his bail,

Considering,—That the expences of the Republic
are augmented by the necessity of maintaining a
defensive position against Spain, still obstinate in
her pretensions of domination, and of arming to
repel the unjust aggression of Peru;
Considering,—That the difference as to origin
adopted by the laws of the state respecting mer-
chandiso, for the purpose of collecting more or
le-s duties, though they may have been useful at
the time when they were established, have become
prejudicial to the national commerce;
Considering, finally,—That it is absolutely neces-
sary to secure as great a revenue as possible from
the import duties; the Council of State being heard,

DECREE
" Article I. There shall not be collected in the
Custom-houses any other import duty than such as
is known under that name by the. laws of the Re•.
public, which shall consolidate under one name all
the duties of entrance which formerly existed under
various denominations.

" This article does not exclude the continuation of
those duties which have been collected by other au-
thorities, and under other regulations, as those of
tonnage, anchorage, and other port duties.
" 11. The differences sanctioned by anterior laws,
respecting the origin of foreign merchandise, are
henceforth abrogated ; and with regard to all com-
modities, whether proceeding from Europe, or from
the colonies of European nations, from the United
States of North America, from Asiatic possessions,
or from the New American States, the same duties
shall be collected as regulated by this decree.
" The preceding article does not in any manner
affect the stipulations of existing treaties, which re-
main in full force.

" HI. To facilitate the collection of the duties on
mports, merchandise and effects are divided into the
Following classes :

" 1. Tin in plates, paper of all qualities, all kinds of
medicines, rigging, cables, cordage, pitch, tar, precious
stones, lace, tine lawn and cambric, handkerchiefs
embroidered or of tulle, and tools for all arts and
professions.

" 2. Cloths, and tissues of cotton, wool, flax,
hemp, and worsted, with the exception of such arti-
cles as may be included in another class.

" 3. Hats or caps of beaver, wool, silk, or straw,
umbrellas, spermaceti prepared or in mass, oil, soap,
watches of gold or silver, or other metal, gold and
silver lace, delft ware, and all ki►►ds of crystal and

" 4. Silk, and all kinds of manufac►tures of silk,
tanned hides, oinametital feathers, artificial flowers,
and fans.

" 5. Articles of furniture and utensils in gold,
platina, silver, bronze, copper, steel, lead, and tin;
dried or preserved fruits, all kinds of dried or foreign
provisions, with the exception of those articles
which are subject to a specific duty.
"G. Crystal chandeliers, and Grecian lamps,
mirrors, carriages, shoes, boots, and other articles of
leather, housekold furniture, clothes, and made-►upp
dresses, perfumes, essences, odoriferous waters, per-
fumed oil 3, and saddles.

" Art. IV. The articles included in the first class,
imported in national ships, shall pay 151 per cent.;
in foreign ships, 18f per cent.
" 5. Those of the 2d class shall pay, imported in
national ships, 181 ; in foreign ships, 22f per cent.
" G. Those of the 3d class shall pay, imported in
national ships, 20f : in foreign ships, 251 per cent.
" 7. Those of the 4th class shall pay, imported in
national ships, 22i : in foreign ships, 27f per cent.
" 8. Those of the fifth class shall pay, imported in
national ships, 251 : in foreign ships, 301 per cent.
" 9. Those of the Gth class shall pay, imported in
national ships, 301 : in foreign ships, 351 per cent.
" 10. All other kinds of goods, commodities, and
merchandise which are not included in the above
classes, nor made subject to a special duty, if im-
ported in national ships, shall pay 251 per cent., and
if in foreign ships, 30i per cent , over and above the
rated price, or the valuation made on view of the
invoices.

" 11. The following merchandise and effects sha:
pay specific duty assigned to each :

Manufactured steel
Brandy from the cane, ant
its compounds, being
drinkable, and of com-
mon proof
The same in any other vessel
Brandy from grapes, or
other material of the com-

mon proof
The same in any other vessel
Garlic
Anise
Rice

Beer, salted or smoked
Pork, salted or smoked
Beer

The same in any other vessel
Cider

-- 1 E..

he same in any other %Tose'
Copper in pigs
The same in plates

•••
off N ;›.7
s.
0
G"
0 0 0 40

0 lof hot. 0 30
1 0 0 25

Cumins

Vermicelli, and every kind
of piste
Iron, in bars, plates, piny,
and other limns un-
wrought, an I manufac-
tured in machines and

0 0

‘ools for agriculture
The same manufactured in
other forms
Different kinds of pulse
Biscuits

0 0 0

0 25

Flour, of wheat
The same of maize, barley,
and oats

0 16

[lams
Liquors, as brandy from

grapes
Butter and hogs'-lard
Maize
Cards, per pack
Marjoram
Fish, salted dry
The same, i❑ brine, as the

O 0 0
O 0 0
O 0 0
O 1 0

dry or foreign provisiom.
Snuff made of fine tobacco
Gunpowder of all kinds
Rippee
Salt

0 1 0
0 0 0

Suet, in the lump
The same manufactured ...
Suet soap

Vinegar
The same in any other vessel
Champagne and Madeira

O 32
O 16
O 40
O 8

0 4
0 40

O 0 0
1 0 0
O 0 0
O 0 0
O 0 0

O 50
O 8
O Of
O 50
O 25

1 4
O 100
O 48
O 8
O 16
O 40
O 16
O 12
O 8

wines
The same in any other vessel 0 0 1 0. 0 1S
Other kinds of red wine
The same in any other vessel 0 0 1 0 0 6
Al! other wines
0 12 The same in any other vessel 0 0 1 0

" 12. The duties fixed by the preoeding article,
shall be collected when the above commodities are
imported in national vessels; ►when imported in foreign
vessels, they shall pay an additional duty of 5 per cent.
13, For the present, the importation of brandy

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD.
SlR,—Your Paper has always been the strenuous
advocate of the fair trader, and the detector of all
trickery and misrepresentation, and many have to
thank you for being now in possession of property,
which, but for your sagacious remarks, would have
been lost by the numerous schemes formed by indi-
viduals for their own benefit.
My object in 'troubling you is to call your atten-
tion to the Directors of the _Margate Pier Compat,y-
I have this afternoon returned from Margate, where
there has been a Meeting convened for the purpose
of taking into consideration the propriety of esta-
blishing a new Steam Company, and other
to be adopted for the benefit of the towns people,
who have suffered by the falling off of the number of
risiters this summer, owing to the impositions prac-
tised by 'the steam-boats. Now, Mr. Editor, that
these are im.p*tion practised at Margate, your ear-
i'espondent, Mr.'Pry, and 'any other visitant there,
can readily testify, but with whom does the evil ori-
ginate ? certainly not with the steam-boats, but with
the good people of Margate themselves. Leok to
their pier dues. The fare to Margate, a distance of
near 100 miles, is 10s. or 125.; out of this the
owners of the boats have to pay 25., and that I am
informed is not all—a further sum of ten per cent.
on tfie profits of the boats is enforced, and the
accounts, if required, to be passed on • oath.—
Last year 78,1)00 persons landed at Margate
Pier, and no doubt as many returned, and 2s.
for every one each way received; a pretty
large income, I think, for the privilege of walking
on a pier; and that, by the bye, you cannot do with-
out also paying one penny ; and even that indul-
gence you have only at certain periods, for if you
should unknowingly walk on the jetty when the
steam-boat is on the eve of departure, and on being
ordered off, you should refuse, you are committed
to a place of confinement, and not released until
the payment of a heavy fine, or give bail for your
appearance at the Sessions.
Now, Mr. Editor, what do the Margate people
require or propose to benefit their town—to reduce
the prices demanded for beds, or their pier dues ?
No ; they want to form a new Steam-packet Com-
pany, and that on the plea thakheie is no opposi-
tion. There was an opposition, which to them was
gain, but to the proprietors of the boats a most
ruinous loss, lam informed. I am, from the nature
of my business, frequently on the coast, and this
summer I purchased a season ticket for four guineas,
and have already made ten trips down, and of course
returned. This is not 4s. 6d. a passage, and I have
paid to the Pier Company V.—so they have a:-
ready received nearly half as much as the proprietors
of the boats; and last year I paid them more. Let
the Margate Pier Company (if they wish to benefit
the town) reduce their rates. There are few pas-
sengers aware that the proprietors have to pay two
shillings for them out of the fare they receive. If
they do not do-this, the public have only to seek
another watering place. If there ba any abuses to
reform, let them first begin with themselves. At
all events, I am sure the public will not become
shareholders in any new Steam Company, to sink
their money for the beim& o(the innkeepers, and
other interested people at Margate. I am, Sir, your
subscriber,
T,,ln's Coffee house, Aug. Ig.

AIERCATOR.

SALE OF THE CITY CANAL.

(From a Correspondent.)

A great deal of annoyance has been given
within the last day or two to captains of vessels,
• by the closing up of the City Canal, which runs
through the Isle of Dogs, and which, although
it cost the City an immense sum of money in
the construction, has been so mismanaged that
nothing, like the interest upon the capital has
been paid. The cause of the loss of the canal to
the public is as follows :—Government, at the
time of the erection of the canal, lent to the
Corporation the sum of 206,0001.; the work
cost upwards of 300,0001., and the Corporation
paid back the sum of 90,0001., and mortgaged
the canal itself for the remainder. Of late
Government have become very importunate For
the balance, which might have been long since
paid off if the canal had been judiciously
managed ; but finding that there was no likeli-
hood of a satisfactory arrangement,- the Lords of
the Treasury thought the most prudent plan
would be to put up the canal itself for sale.
They accordingly did so, and it was knocked
down to. the West India Dock Company for
120,000/., the refusal of it being offered to the
City, who have thus let it out of their hands,
contrary to the opinion and advice of many per-
sons qualified to judge .of its value, the general
belief being, that if the Corporation purchased it
back, it would pay at least eight per cent_ interest
upon the sum for which Government disposed
of it. The West India Dock Company took
possession of the canal in the beginning of the
week, and shut it against craft of all kiuds, thuli
compelling vessels and -barges and boats to go a
round of nearly four miles instQad of cutting
through the Isle of Dogs, by a way not more
than three quarters oF a mile in length.
The canal is, we understand, to be converted
into an additional dock, for the already over-
grown monopoly of the West India Dock Com-
pany. The owners of the East Indi'a vessels
will most seriously feel the loss of the transit
through the canal, as all their eraft and other
vessels must henceforward go round the Isle of
Dogs.
We have seen the b;.':l which specifies the law
expenses attending ;,he construction of this fine
canal. They amount, in consequence, uo doubt,
of the desperate jobbing system of Ir/96, when
the Act of Parliament passed authorising it, to
upwards,of 40,000/. ; and the fees paid into the
Exchequer, when the Corpora:don borrowed the
206,000/. from .Goyernment, amounted to the
enormous sum of 5,667 k, 19s.
The rents on the canal are stated to be very
low, but the Corporation, it is said, justify their
conduct in not raising them, to the principle of
honour by which they profess to be guided, and
which prevents them from attempting to break
the promise which the city of London in the last
century had vowed to keep sacred.—Times.

Some stir has taken place this morning at the
city of smuggled silk goods on board of one of the II am-
Cust'oth-house, in consequence of thy discovery of a qn•an.
burg steam-boats, which was therefore seised, an-t an
investigation set on foot into the transaction. The Direc-
tors of the Steam Navigation Cwopany, to whom the ves-
sel.
belongs, have taken up the azTair is a very proper man-
ner, and in proof of their anxiety at all times to protect
the revenue, have ~lischarged the whole of the officers and
crew, except tt\e, captain. A bond having been entered
into to meet the consequences of the investigation, thu
vessel was subsequent y released; and will proe:ed to-mor-
row o$ her voyage as wall,