The Sun. — 1823-01-22 (London, England)

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.  In the Duckery the principal operations have been again in Spanish Bonds, on which a farther decline of fay 2 per cent, must be this day rated. It was reported, that private bargains had been done last Sunday in Paris so low as 39. The French Rentes are.also lower, and' scarcely any business can be done in them. Every other description of European .Public Securities is also lower. The' Bonds of the Czar of Muscovy are very dull, and lower in proportion than those of his Prussian Majesty. Sonie ask how the two Monarchs are to pay for the necessary expences attendant on a state of warfare? Turkey, is a present pretty well plucked by the barbarians who now possess that fine country, and it is not likely that the pillage there will be very valuable. France, however, is getting rich, and it will be only such justice as the cause requires, to levy such contributions in that country as will indemnify the High Allies fur their assistance, should it be found necessary for the maintenance of the present Monarchical system of Europe. Colombian Bonds are again lower. On the Royal Exchange, business continues very inanimate, and the frequenters of that former mart of wealth, prOsperity,, and liberality, are muffering fully' as much as the agriculturists, though they do not make any noise. The restrictions on trade, occasioned by protecting laws at home, and prohibitory regulations in almost every European nation, have been severely felt amongst the merchants; and the. ship-owners, after the loss of half their invested capital, still find it difficult to, draw the current expences of their 'ships out of the. very !OW freight* which their employers can afford' to pay. The Agriculturists have at present a just -claim to expect from' Legislature a reduction of those taxes which peculiarly affect them. For instance, the Assessed Taxes might be repealed, and their amount might WI replaced in the .Treasury by the Sinking Fund without injuring any individual., The Beer Duty, amounting to 2,609,901)1. Aught also be repealed, and with an open beer trade an additiOnal consumption of nearly two millions'of quitters of barlerrnighi,be created, without injuring the Revenue, farther than what could easily he supplied by encouraging the distillation of British Spirits, at the expence of smuggling. The Coal Duty is also an' unequal tax, for it is not levied elecept on those'. who are obliged to pay a heavy sea-freight, in addition to the arig_inal expence. Ten or twelve millions of taxes could be reduced without-any material injury to the revenue, and an additional market for nearly two millions and a half of quarters of grain could be created without any greatly increased expence to the consumers.—(4llorniag Chro. f)ick.) . .  Pligsktfex Al; itorr.—lt. has been much queetioned amongst the, learned, whether there be such things. (or nothings), as ghosts; but whether or not, and leay. lug Lids argument to the curious,.the folloWing may be relied upon as an instance of extrabrdinary. presence of mind in an apparition. In the year 1421, the widow of Ralph Granbourne, of Airtime .End, in the .parish .gandlittrst, Berk*, was one midnight alarmed by 4, now in her. bed-chaffiber, and looking up, she saw at her bed foot the appearance of a skeleton (which she vailly believed was her husband) nodding and talk. lng to her upon his fingers, or finger-bones; after the manner of 01 dumb person. Whereupon site was no terrified, that 'after striv., ingto iierenni aloud .which she could not, for her tongue chive to her. month, she fell backward as in a swoon ; ye: not so iuseniible withal but she wild see that at this the figure became greatly agitated awl distressed, and *would have clasped her, but upon her appearance, of loathing' it desisted, only, moving its jaw up. •ward and downward, as if it Would cry for beiii,-bot could not for want ofits At ParN. Biwa' slangti,sh:ecgtriTsiunilneniltryt: and More faint, and likely "tn die of ,fear, and as if Jit,a.thought, began to swing r9utiditi hand, which. Was loose at the wrist, with a brisk motion,,ind the finger bones being long and hard, and striking sharply ngainst each other, .fliimie a 10144 the aptifigitig of a .-watchman's rattle: 'At which idarni; the neighbours running in, stoutly armed, as against thieves or murderers, the spectre suddenly departed."_ Hitt. Berk:, vol. xxv. p. 976.)  DECREASE of CRIME in the