The Express. — London, England, 1847-07-17 00:00:00

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(WIPE TO MUM AND LO NO LIFE ,T M TO byrtAnitla. ed. auk. ,T TO EA AND AVOID, 9th Dloakblo rot aLi Calaidalalal t. ROW TO B Jumada Tama -4114. It It aastaadoi that al•••••••., rrand adman an al oar dm mai a• lar owls* sk ▪ =al m j a m i d tad ar =1= 4 :1 1 a i r a. , m▪ at, 1111, M (Oa ;IF= A as. ° 2 6l l=i; Ind. lit • tlia . AL•alor, • dariaidaak dadia«•••••• CEST INTELLIGENCE. , PEEL'S ADDRESS TO THE ECTORS OF TAMWORTH. pert Peel has issued an address to his con in which he reviews, at length, the measures I de government, and indicatartbe pokil y by will henceforth be influenced i n the discharge liament duties, if the electors of Tamworth im as their representative. We consi document sufficiently interesting to justify ittion of the most important portions of its Having solicited the honour of re-election, t Peel proceeds as follows : you last returned me to parliament, I held the in the government of this great empire. lam wing you in a private capacity, rejoicing in the re eisure and independence, without the intention or ume either that authority which belongs, or ought to the possession of office, or that influence which i by the lead and guidance of a great political in; to power. am not, on that account, the lees anxious to vin your satisfaction, the motives by which I have .need, the measures to which I have been a party, rend course of policy of the administration with as connected. '' that administration, and the circum ich led to its dissolution, must be laminar to your talc now ample means for judging whether the the government, in respect to the external re- his country, was calculated to promote the public You can contrast the position of affairs is 1841 and can determine whether the stability d ma pire has been impaired, or whether a ince/Wes .1 achievements in the field, and the vigour and nd, above all, the justice and moderation of thole iireceed the public councils in India v bate set hroughout the East respect for the Bahia setae, ted willing obedience to British authority. is I fear some justice in the reprise* that the the parliament of this country are comparatively , excepting under circumstances of sadden excite.. le administration of foreign affairs. But it wadi nu nseect of duty on the part of those whose rpresentatives will determine the general character re parliament, to exclude from their serious con this great department of the public business. the h'e government was formed the charge of that t was committed by the queen to a minister of ay say with truth, that he succeeded in acquiring and confidence of every honest man engaged in atic )..rvice of other states, and he made that I confidence conducive to the erect object of his re—the maintenance of honourable peace. ,r you to judge whether Lord Aberdeen acted disregarding those appeals to national pride and naibilities, which, if not provocations to war, were dimenta to the maintenance o f peace , and in re ... adjust, if possible, by means of imitable arrange mutual concession, the petty cliff...ranee* which occur between powerful nations, and which, if any other spirit, are rally inflamed into national ir you to judge, in reviewing our discussion■ with l States, whether it would have been wise to have i extreme rights of territory on the north-eastern the province of Maine, and on the banks of the Sine, and thee (even if war could ba averted) to red for another half watery a controversy full of and irritation; or whether it was not the better iropose in the spirit of peace conditions perfectly e with the honour of each country, and not re om either any sacrifice, territorial or commercial, old not be dearly purchased by the cost of a single stilities. . . . . gentlemen, however important are the considers hich I have been adverting, there are othen in re phich, from their relation to our social condition epic policy, you will probably fell a more immediate The most prominent at the present time are those with questions of religion, and with the recent our financial and commercial legislation. ewe points I desire to enter into unreserved impis h you. I write without concert or communication other person whatever, and the views and opinions which I may express are expressed en my own lusively. gentlemen, the deepest interest in all that concerns eof the established church. I feel that interest .re conviction of the truth of is doctrines, and 'vin belief that the established church is capable lade, and through the temporal zeal and active of the highest spiritual authorities, is in the pro dug made, the most powerful instrument that exists istering the consolations of religioa, for spreading edge of divine truth, and for supplying the limper 'human laws by the obligations and restraints of luty. re resisted, and shall continue to resist, every or appropriating any portion of the revenues of 3, in any part of the United Kingdom, to other ,enastical purposes in direct connexion with the e felt it, however, to be quite con.istent with a iehment to the interests of the church to take a sot in those measures which had for their object ion of ecclesiastical sinecures, the curtailment of emoluments, and the application of such a por he revenues of cathedral and collegiate churches 'required for the purposes of those institutions, to !remedy of great evils in the social and spiritual of this country. 7 few years since it was publicly declared on the ithority, that ' a vast proportion of the people of F . ,' were left destitute of the opportunities of pub ip and Christian instruction.' Of this fact such the following were adduced ;—That there were, in ad its suburbs, four parishes containing an aggro -16,000 persons, with church room for 8,200, being 1.20 th of the population ; that there were, in the riet, 34 parishes with a population of 1,137,000 in , and church room for 101,632 persona; that in our hbourhood, in the diocese of Lichfield and Coventry re 16 parishes, each having above 10,000 inhabit s an agregate population of 235,000 persons, and em for about 29,000. Debt it was within the competency of Parliament to revision for the supply of these alarming deficiencies ens of religious instruction by large grants of public rived from general taxation; but I felt persuaded mild not be for the advantage of religion that such I should be made until after all the resources of the , 1 which could properly be rendered available for the had been applied to it. I felt also persuaded that , priation of those resources, with the willing consent tied, to such objects as the augmentation of poor the establishment of new ecclesiastical district., entre,' improvement of pastoral superintendence in dam parishee, would not only increase the local eta- the establishment, but would tend to confirm its he respect and attachment of the people. s for such purposes that, with the willing consent of b, 1 proposed in the year 1843 a bill, which passed r, for making better provision for the spiritual care sea parishes in England and Wales. Under that lave been constituted, and agreed to be constituted, nanical districts and new parishes,- and spiritual re and pastoral superintendence will Thus have been for a population of above 764,000 souls. I oppose to the charge of indifference or hostility to the wei r! church. rtsialy — lid not think it inconsistent with the true of the church, in cases wherein I deemed the claim e, to protect the rights and to consult the feelings es of those who dissent from its doctrines. these impressions, I gave my support to measures kg the titles to dissenting places of worship, and for r many penal statutes in matters of religion, Misu se u their practical operation is concerned, but k with the mild spirit of modern legislation, and giw. sitous offence by implying suspicions and distrust, offering the 'tightest remedy against any oppre [sage?. a thew impressions also, while cordially appro.:mg oposal of her Majesty's present Government to ex ' quern of public instruction in this part of the nnitdom, I r speared an opinion that it ought to be ly comprehensive to include the children of Itoman Patents. IS the period to which I am referring, the state of (that fruitful source of constantly recurring and discuuion) was repeatedly forced upon the consider- Parliament. I shall, in this address advert only to connexion with Irish affairs which have ex chief interest in this pall of the empire, and in re which opinions and pledges are now demanded by tgituencies from those who are candidates for their cl.g quoted from the letter of Mr. Burke to to Which he gives his reasons " for wishing port of the Church of Ireland, as by law eats- Lod alluded to the weight and authority of . that compact, guaranteeing its maintenance, to which, at the time of the legislative union, the parliaments of the two kingdoms were consenting parties," Sir It. Peel proceeds : -It was with reference to the state of Ireland, and with reference to such considerations as those to which Mr. Burke adverted, that the government with which I was connected brought forward measures which constitute so precedent for any other part of the United Kingdom, bet are specially applicable to the peculiar condition and strictures( society in Ireland. " Some of those melanins encountered a vehement apposi tion ; the more formidable, because it was offered mush ler from party or purely political considerations than from sin cere conscientious scruples. But, redesign. I em bound to avow, that I look bath with cordial satisfaction to the part which I took in supporter those measures, and to the spirit in which they were conceived. It was a spirit ofjeNtiee sad kind ness towards our Roman Catholic fellow subjects in Ireland, • spirit, which will, I trust, animate our future legislation with reference to that country. It is strongly recommended to us by many powerful considerations—by painful recollec tion of oar relations with Ireland in early periods of our his tory—by sympathy with her present sufferings—by the ur gent necessity, not more for her welfare Aso our own, to improve the condition, moral and 'Aisles', of her people. " I will not be deterred, by the risk of provoking new, or reviving dormant hostility, from recalling to your recollec tion the general character and object of the measures to which I have adverted. . " In the first place we altered the law in respect to cha ritable donations and bequests in Ireland. • • • " We enabled her Majesty to endow new colleges for the advancement of learning in Ireland. • • • • We increased the grant for the College of Maynooth. That grant was originally made in the reign of George 111., and by the advice of Mr. Pitt, at a period of grant national peril, • when, to guard this empire, and Imlsail fa rex ticular, from le enterprises of a dangerous and Bann power, and to protect all civilised society from the biennia of anarchy, the king found it necessary to avail Male" of every rational aid, foreign and domestic, and to call openers skill, courage, and experience of all hie subjects, winnitiknalt dispersed. " It was se such a crisis, and imam such . that en Itch pulienient , exchieicilp rooter, established the College — WM , an »oe red front the throne congratulations on having laid a wise foundation for educating at home the Roman Catholic clergy.' " Fifty years had elapsed in 1845 since those congratula tions were offered. For fifty years a grant of public money had been annually continued for the avowed purpose of aids!.g the education of Roman Catholic youth in Roman Catholic' doctrines, and fitting them for holy orders in the church of Rome. We considered that there was, at any rate, no new violation of religious principle in making that grant le.s in adequate to the purpose for which it was destined, and in giving to it e a d yowed c luh l atha t rer of .pT.rotanar w half a hich it tury d . aa rg i e r tho p u r At ti this y a y wiser p a r td Zo s re n dignified course for the House of Commons to pursue than to exhibit an nually their surly acquiescence in a niggardly vote, which was equally open to any just objection on the ground of vio lated principle, and which effected no good and excited no gratitude. " In the course of the diecussioes which took place on the Maynooth Bill two questions were put to me—the first, whether the increased grant to Maynooth was part of a sys tematic arrangement, which contemplated ultimately the endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland; the second, whether I would give a pledge, on the ground of conscientious objection, against the entertainment, at say •--meal for - future time, of ipropoillor such endowment. " To the first question I returned an answer on the part of the government collectively. I stated explicitly, that the increased grant to Maynooth was proposed as a single and separate measure, cot intended to facilitate, in the slightest degree, the endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy. I knew, indeed, that members of the government, not adverse to the grant to Maynooth, would offer the most decided op position to any proposal for endowment. " In answering the second question I spoke then, as I am speaking now, for myself exclusively. I said, in sublimer, that I would not give the pledge required from me; that I foresaw, indeed, very great practical difficulties in the way of endowment—great difficulties, as well from the declared objections to such a measure on the part of the Roman Catholic laity and Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland, as from the strong repugnance to it in the public mind of this country; that I bad no plan for solving those difficulties ; but that I would not fetter my discretion as a legislator by a positive pledge to refuse even the consideration of any such plan at all times and under all circumstances. "The occasions are very rare on which it is consistent with the proper discharge of parliamentary functions to enter into specific engagements of this nature. " They might, perhaps. in this ens., be entered into justi fiably, by those who, after extended inquiry and mature de liberation, have come to the conclusion, that by allowing a decent stipend to a Roman Catholic priest, instead of leas ing him dependent for the means of sultsatence on an im poverished flock, of which he is the spiritual, and, in truth, also the temporal guide, we should be confirming an influ ence already too great, and obstructing the diffusion of a purer faith-still more justifiably by those whose conscien tious conviction it is, that by pa& as sat we are sanctioning and adopting error, and el alft eillswliag Almighty God by consenting to the endowment dma who deny and reject Mrino truth. " But I cannot give my meat to either of these con clusions. " I feel, with regard to the first, that nothing can be less successful in weakening the influence of the Roman Catholic religion in Ireland than the enure we have hitherto taken, — that we have made no advance towards that object, either by penal laws or civil disabilities, or by a system of complete alienation from the ministers of that religion. " With regard to the second, I cannot admit that in payment, with the sanction of parliament, of a given MI is the minister of a religious creed not being that of thimble, is tantamount to the adoption or sanction by the state Olin doctrines which that minister may teeth, and is supervising, the principle of an established church. If it be so, we oa ths to rescind many acts of the crown and of parliament, whin are open substantially to the same objection. Year a ft er year (frequently without one dissenting voice) we have vote* the sum required for the support of Presbyterian maid.. fa Ireland, there being included among the nuedier EMI professing and teaching Unitarian doctrines. We hen poe. sided, by act of Parliament, fixed allowances, peill den a public fund, to Roman Catholic chaplains, in anoint** On prisons and en workhouses. In order to facilitate Or aillmair mon, and to retain quiet pommies af imajarbril WOWS% we have not hesitated to guarantee, met air lis aullimmok of Roman Catholic priests, but the etediamed eatshilftwaent el the Roman Catholic religion. "If, on the ground of conscientious scruples, we are bound to refuse even the consideration of any proposal tar alloting a - 4 to Roman esthetic priests in Ireland ' "- the sanction of .sag a stipend to Roman by entertaining such a proposal, we imply Roman Catholic errors, and juatiy incur Divine punishment for our apostasy, is it safe to maintain our connexion with Canada and Malta, and continue parties, not merely to the payment of Roman Catholic priests, but to the establish ers, at of Roman Catholic religion, is dependencies of the British crown ? Considerations, political or constitutional, may no doubt forbid that to be done is Ireland which is pormiesable in Canada; but can that which is prohibited in one part of the queen's dominions, on purely conscientious and religious grounds, be consistently tolerated and encou raged in another? ' I, for one, cannot undertake, on those grounds, to fetter my discretion for all time to come on the subject to which I have been referring. "I have thus addressed you, certainly without any intim ated reserve, on the domestic questions which, from their menexien with religion, are of pro-ondoost importance. I =lh those (the next in pertMitellest) which have n c ee to our financial and.ums patty. When the late government sneseeded to power, there I had been for each of some year. pending a deficiency in the amount of revenue, as compared with the expenditure. The amount of that deficiency in there 16111 was not lees then 2,100,0001. An attempt had bees made in the year 1840 to supply that deficiency by an addition of 10 per cent. to the assessed taxes, and of 6 per cent. to the revenues of Customs and Excise. The increase thus made to the wale of the unwed taxes answered the expectation with which it was imposed. But the far greater part of the amount expected to be raised was to have been supplied by the ad dition made to the duties of Customs and Exam—that is to say, by increased taxation upon articles of general consump tion, and upon the raw materials of domestic manufacture. The estimated produce of these additional duties wee 1,910,0001. The actually reliant, on the most favourable supposition, not more than 760,0001., falling short, therefore, of the estimate by no lees a sum than 1,160,0001. " Under these circumstances, it became my duty, as the chief minister of finance, to advise the adoption of effectual measures for supplying the deficit between the public revenue and the charge upon it. "As the organ of the government, I proposed a tax upon all incomes above a certain amount. I accompanied the proposal of that tax with a partial reformation of the com mercial code, reducing many duties onerous to the trade and commercial enterprise of the country. The principal of re formation adopted in 1842 comprehended the abolition of prohibitions, and the ahatement et duties of a prohibitory character ; the reassess id elks en nu materials to an amount not exoseg pur met. eieshrus, and on ar ticles partially manamenred,ned selendlitely manufactured, to an amount not exceeding 12 owl 2) par cent. respectively " Notvrithstandidg these reductions, the ordinary of the United Kingdom, that is, the revenue derived from the Customs, Excise, Stamps and Taxes and Post-office, Ac., amounted in the year 1841 to 47,917,0001., in 1844 to 48,126,0001. " In taking the revenue of the latter year, I have, of course, excluded altogether the receipts from the property tax and also the receipts from casual sources of revenue, such as the payment of China money in reimbursement of .he expenses of the war. " The period of three years, for which the income-tax sou originally passed, expired on the sth of April, 1845. En couraged by the experience of the past, the government pro to parliament the renewal of the income-tax for a reti t le period of three years, and the extended application of those principles of commercial reform which had been previously acted upon. " The duties on raw modern's used in manufactures, on dye stuffs, on oils, as well as on various articles producing little or no revenue, were altogether repealed. The manu facture of glass was relieved from the duties of excise, and from the supervision and interference of excise-officers. The amount of the duties remitted in 1845 was not lees than 4,611,0001. " In 1816 duties were 'pin remitted to the extent of 1,161,000/. " The total amount of taxation remitted between the rout soonoement of the session of 1842 and the resignation of the late government in 184 6 was 7,625,0001. " The ordinary revenue of 1841 was 47,917, 0001 . " That of 1846 (again deducting the receipts from pro. party. tax and cal revenue) was 476 5 4,0001. " A portion, however , of the receipts of this latter year, amounthelli 4114,0001., Mud be attributed to the lasroassi revenue free eager, is soleenevesee of the reductios, by the Stoma gortellumit. dee &dm %Mt foreign Min n making due allowance ter this losreate, it vnll be ee that' the reductions of mamba albsted by the late gove=r the amount of 7,694,ollll.omtreesenixted by a of revenue to the attest ot 771), • " The result of these two expethaeata has, therein*, lea f s that in the years 184', 1148, and 1844, the whole essestleet to the revenue, by redsewl himation, was more than sepietred. In the two years 1845 sad 1946 sine-tenths of a fiff lager reduction had already bees missal. But the awe loss age ran here. Notwithstasibee the illheetrome eiresmetemeee of the late harvest, and the ef tweak the tewasas of 1847 agues exhibits a eeaidwalL lamas* IS UM 41( the se year. The list paWithei balassoehoot dthe United Kingdom is that for the year Miff Mk of April. 1847. If we compare the ordinary revenue of Bud year (after deducting the property-tax) with the ordinary revenue at the year ending the 6th of April, 1811, we tiad—Tear end ing the 6th of April, 1841, 47,218,1781 ; same time, 1847, 48,161,5971. Difference in favour of 1847, 948,4191. - " This difference in favour of the latter year far exeeeds any increased receipt from the admission of foreign sugar. A statement, published on the 6th lost, carries the no- counts for Great Britain down to the present time, via., to the sth of July. 1847, those for Delved being not yet com plete. It exhibits, for this portion of the empire, a total increase of ordinary revenue, as compared with the year ending 6th of July, 1846, of no lees than 2,616,8711., - white (sotwithateading the remission of the dunce en 1,812,7731. mimes ender the heed of endow and in other wards, arises from ineressed consumption: " The whole effect, therefore, of the measures of the late Government has been to remove more than 7,600,0001. of taxes, while the ordinary revenue of the last financial year for which they were called upon to provide has considerably , exceeded the ordinary revenue (derived from the same sources) °, the financial year that immediately preceded their accession to office." Sir R. Peel here details several articles upon which duties were either repealed or abated, and premeds thus: With respect to the corn-laws, there were in force on the Ist of January, 1842, rates of duty on the importation of foreign corn, varying according to the average price in the home market. When wheat was 62w a quarter, the duty was 245. Bd. ; when 685., duty was 185.8 d. ; when 735., duty was Is. . . . . . Corresponding duties were levied, on the same principle, on the import of other descriptions of grain. On barley, for instance, and on Indian corn, when the price of Barley was under 34a. the quarter, the duty on the import of a quarter of barley, and also of a quarter of Indian corn, wu 12a. 4d. ; when above 415., the duty was reduced to ls. " These several duties wen reduced in the session of 1842. In that of 1846 provision was made for their total repeal on the lit Februry, 1849. "Of the various proposals made by the late government for the reduction of duties on articles of subsistence and general consumption, that which contemplated the ultimate repeal of the duties on foreign grain encountered the most decided opposition. " Let me recall te your recollection the circumstances ander which that proposal was made. " In the months of September and October, 1846, there were indications in many parts of the United Kingdom of that mysterious disorder which has affected to so serious an extent the potato crop. Sir R. Peel here quotes the evidence upon which Government concluded that the potato crop had been destroyed, and adds : "It was no doubt possible that all these parties might be in some degree mistaken; that events might subsequently prove that they had magnified the extent of the evil; but place yourselves in the position of those who were »spots. table for the public safety, who received such reports at the commencement of winter, without is hope of additional supply from internal Noumea for the long period of nine months, and you will not be disposed to pronounce • harsh judgment on their motives for advising that increased facili ties should be given for the importation of food from other countries. . . . . . " Yon will bear in mind that the visitation was a very peculiar one; 'that,' to use the words of the' lord-lieu tenant, we did not know and could not know the extent of the evil ; ' that it was an evil not confined to these islands; that many other countries in Europe were suffering from if and that, in some of them, the restrictions on the import of food bad been already suspended. " I am bound to admit that if the advice given had been limited to a suspension of similar restrictions In this country, there probably would not have been a very serious difference of opinion. Many who might have doubted whether the' precaution was not superfluous, would probably have offered , no decided resistance to Its being taken. " The point on which there was, and still is, the greatest conflict of opinion was, the proposal to recotudder the whole question of` the corn-laws, with a view to their ultimate repeal. When I proposed to the cabinet on the lot of November, 1845, the temporary suspension of all duties on foreign corn, it became necessary for me at that time to decide whether I could undertake to support, after the period of suspension should have expired, the restoration of the pre-existing law. Such an undertaking implied, of course, resistance, with the whole weight and authority of the government, to any pro posal that might be made in parliament, by others, for the modification of that law in its nrumple or in its leading enactments. . " I found it impossible, consistently with my sense of pub lic duty, to give an assurance to that effect. j "In ustifying my decision in this respect, I have no de sire to take any undue advantage of events which have since occurred. That terrible - scourge which has since afflicted Ireland, which has deminded an extraordinary advance of 10,000,0001. of money, for the purpose of averting from that country the horrors of famine, must not be pleaded as a yin. &motion of the course taken in January 1846. " But, gentlemen, no prudent minister deciding on that tonne at that time could safely exclude from his considera tion the probability that the same disorder which had affected the potato crop of 1845 might affect that of 1846. The experience of other countries in which the blight had appeared tended to show that It was not limited to a single season, and as an early proof that apprehensions on that head were not without foundation, I quote the opinion of Professor Lindley, tending to confirm the apprehension, that from the same cause a second suspension of the corn-law might beoome necessary. ' It appeared to me, that considering the nature of that law—considering that it was passed wiJi the view of insur ing, through its own unassisted operation, an adequate sup ply of foreign corn in case of necessity—a single suspension of it on the first occasion of sever, trial would be a powerful argument against its permanent continuance, and that the necessity for renewed suspensions (should it recur) would add greatly to the weight of that argument But, independently of this consideration, there were other and more important reasons which influenced my decision. " My confidence in the validity of the reasons on which I had myself heretofore relied for the maintenance of restric tions on the import of corn had been materially weakened. It had been weakened by the conflict of argument on the principle of restrictive policy—by many concurring proofs that the wages of labour do not vary with the price of cora—by the contrast presented in two successive periods of dearth and abundance, in the health, morals, tranquillity, and general prosperity of the whole community—by serious doubts whether, in the present condition of this country, cheapness and plenty are not insured for the future in a higher degree b 7 the free intercourse in corn, than by re ' evictions on its importation for the purpose of giving pro tection to domestic agriculture. " It had been weakened also by the following considera tions, which were in a great degree new elements in forming a judgment on this vital matter : " The general repeal of prohibitory duties and the re cent application of the principles of free tri:de to almost all articles of import from abroad, made the corn-laws the object of more searching scrutiny and more Invidious com ment, and narrowed the ground on which their defence could be maintained. " Among the articles of foreign import prohibited up to the year 1842, and then admitted at low rates of duty, were some important articles of agricultural produce, salted and fresh meat, oxen, sheep, cows, &c. You probably recollect the panic which this admission caused—the forced sale stock, the prophecies that it would be impossible to compete with the foreign grazier, and that meat would be reduced to 3d. a pound. Five years have passed since this great e in the law took place, and your own experience wilir= you to judge whether the panic was well-founded, and whether the prophecies have been fulfilled. " The complete failure of those prophecies had, naturally, had its effect on public opinion with regard te the probable consequences of a freer intercourse in other articles of agri cultural produce. " There was another circumstance still more calculated to diminish apprehensions as to the risk of opening. the corn market of this country to foreign competition. There has appeared of late years a tendency to increase in the con sumption of articles of subsistence much more rapid than 1 the lacrosse in the population. It is difficult if not impos sible, on account of the absence of statistical information, to measure accurately that increase in the case of articles of first necessity, such as corn and meal. But it may be in ferred from the relative consumption, at different periods, of articles in respect to which the comparison can be instituted. "The fallowing is an account of some of the principal articles entered for home consumption in the yearn 1841 and 1846 respectively : Articles. 1841. 1848. Cocoa, lb. Coffee, lb. Currants, cwt Rice, cwt. Pepper, lb 2,750,790 3,297,431 cwt 4,065,971 .. 5,231,845 Molasses,e, cwt Tea, lb. Tobacco and ikauf 22,308,386 .. 27,001,908 Brandy, gallons 1,165,137 1,515,954 Geneve, ditto 15,404 .. 40,211 British Spirits, ditto 20,642,333 .. 23,122, 581 Malt charged with duty, } 36,164,448 41,979,000 bushel, " Surely it is impossible to refer to this comparative table without being forcibly struck by the rapid increase in Or --- iid , the ooewsption of the wades which It embraces. Can there be a doubt that if the consumption of articles of se- Zrgnecessity has been thus advancing, the consump ertkies of first necessity, of meat end of bread for instinct, hes been making at least an equally rapid pro grra ? • Durkie the greater part of the period included in the return—ism the saddle of 1842 to the end of 1846—the free trade meunras have been in operation. They have been in =' , r efore eoncurrently at least, with these ell- • Men:ming ease and comfort of the people. Other OWN have, no doubt contributed to that ease and iminfiset ; 10 even if the whole effect be assigned to those ether eansessrte railway enterprise or anything else—it does aft band re present argument. If there be from any errs a dadodoy to the consumption of article. of the first ' imp * ardidty mon rapid than the increase of population, ties of undertaking to tespdale the *ray or, bed by .e restraints , and the ilfficallff make taking restraints in the event ef s4 gesat ober t M prepay. or increased pries eff Aril he MO*, ea dr Art ' Ili t tg er r insi t s l l l7= from hegira sompotilbmi " It Mem ibmit OM eombined filuisce s. embus It ' - 'la-Mm diminished ennildenoe _ -- " - ---frent the Jamul - '.. of he{ that the that I cases _-.Main those laws inviolate after their suspension would be impolitic—that the struggle for their maintenance would assume a new character, and that no advantage to be gained by success could counter balance the consequences of failure, or even the evils attend 's', protracted con tlict. "My opinions i n this respect may have been erroneous, bat they were not formed without mature and painful deli beration, and I am wholly unconscious of any single motive of self-interest, personal or political, which wag not calcu lated to bias my judgment in favour of an opposite conclu sion. If, from the confidence which the agricultural interest bad reposed in the government, end the support they had freely given to it, that interest had a special claim upon me, I should bare ill-satisfied that claim by giving advice at a very critical period, which might certainly have been more acceptable—which might have protected myself from the Imputation of being inconsistent and unfaithful--but which la my heart and conscience I believed to be, as applicable la that time and those circumstances, unsound and den gwous. " Between the maintenance of the corn-laws inviolate and • memare Involving their ultimate repeal, I saw ne middle eel= satisfactory or advantageous to any interest. I mw BM lees of satisfaction or advantage in indecision and irrational delay; I could not admit the incompetency of the present parliament to deal with this as with every ether question of public concern; there appeared to me, upon the whole, much less of public evil in the resolution finally to adjust the question of the corn-laws than in any other that could be then adopted; and that being my deliberate convie %ion, I felt it to be my duty to incur the painful sacrifices which the acting upon that conviction must inevitably entail. "There la no event that has since occurred (I speak of events bearing directly upon the merits of the question at issue) which does not confirm me in the belief that, even with special reference to the agricultural interest, the Mane taken was preferable to any other. "So much, gentlemen, with regard to the past. In respect to the future, it is my intention, if re-elected, to conform on all matters connected with our financial and commercial con cerns to the general principles on which I have acted while in Acting with the caution and circumspection which tend to make reformation permanent by making it safe, and which are indispensably requisite in all cases wherein the public credit, or wherein extensive and complicated interests are concerned, I shelties' disposed to support such measures as are calculated to remove any remaining restrietioruion commerce, to abate duties that are levied for the purposes of protectity or that, by their amount, defeat the purposes of revenu— e, apportion equitably the burden of taxation—and to Walt the condition of those who labour for their subsistence. " Such measures are not only perfectly compatible with, but are mainly conducive to those great objects of constitu tional pelic:y, which it has been, from the commencement of my public life, as it will be to its close, my unvarying pur pose to uphold. " It is my firm persuasion that the centres sanctioned by the present parliament, with reference to our financial and sommeraial policy, has tended to fortify the established in stitutions of this country, to Inspire confidence in the equity and benevolence of the legislature, to maintain the just au thority of an hereditary nobility, and to discourage the desire for democratic change in the constitution of the House of Commons. . . . . . " It hat aided the government in conducting the adminis tration of internal affairs, and in maintaining the public tranquillity, even during • period of suffering from depres sion in trade, and a high price of food, much more through the mild influence of general contentment, than through the appliance of force, or the harsh coercion of the civil power. And if the sad times of a yet severer trial should return, that trial will not be borne with the lees fortitude and patience when the privations that accompany it can be ascribed solely to causes over which legislation has no control. " I have thus, gentlemen, explained to you the course which I have pursued, and that to which, if re-elected, I in tend to conform. " In a few days, probably, the trust you have committed to me will be replaced in your hands. If you disapprove of that which I have done—if you think the commercial policy erroneous or the motives for adopting it insufficient or un worthy, I cannot solicit or e xp ect the renewal of your confidence. Still less can I solicit or expect it, if you think that that policy ought to be reversed—if you desire to re-establish the principle of protection—to restore the duties which have been repealed on cotton, on wool, on meat, on flour, on the long list of imported articles, which are either the materials for domestic manufactures, or enter intoeral consumption as articles of food. general "It is my earnest hope that you will make your choice of a representative exclusively upon public grounds—that you will not permit the consideration of mere personal regard, or of my long connexion with you, to influence that choice against your deliberate judgment. " If that deliberate judgment be in favour of the course which I have pursued, and wkich I proposes to pursue, I shall hope for a continuance of your confidence ; if it be not, our intercourse in all the relations of private life will not assume a less friendy character if, in the discharge of the trust com mitted to you, you should give effect to opinions upon public matters at variance with those which I have expressed. " I have the honour to be, gentlemen, with great esteem, " Your faithful servant and Mend, " ROBERT PEEL." ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. A Weekly Council was held at the Society's House, in Hanover-square, on Wednesday last, the 14th of July. Present: The Earl of Egmont, president, in the chair; Earl of Lovelace, Sir Francis Lewis'', Bart, Sir John V. B. Johnstone, Bart., M.P., Mr. AWek, Mr. Baines, Mr. Thomas R aymond Barker, Mr. W. R. Browne, Mr. R. L. Browne, Mr. Burke, Col. Challoner, Mr. Greg, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Mr. Kinder, Mr. Thomas Knight, Mr. Miles, M.P., Mr. Chandos Pole, Professor Sewell, Mr. H. S. Thompson, Mr. Thomas Turner, Mr. T. R. Tweed, and Professor Way. The following new members were elected: John Duncroft, Westwood House Oldham Lancashire ; Win. Jen Blake, Swanton-Abbott Colteshall, Norfolk; John Pope, Eastwood House, March , Cambridgeshire; Sir William Drummond Stew art, Bart., Murthley N , Perth shire ; William M. R. Haggard Bradenharn Hall, Shipd ham, orfobc ; Rev. Thomas Hart Dyke, Long Newton, Stockton-oa-Tees, Durham ; William Moray Stirling, Abercairny, Perthshire ; Wi lliam Mayfield Neil& Man chester • Rey. John Holden Harrison, Erdington, Birming ham ; James Caudle, Perthshire ; Joseph Halls, Denham Hall, Bury St Edmunds; Henry G. Watson, George-street, Edinburgh; William Smith, Sydenham, Kent; George Creed, Boarhunt Farm, Fushun, Hants. ; Henry Seymour, Hn., Knoyle House, Hindan , Wilts.; John Kirkham, agnaby, Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire ; R. Peels, Long Sut ton, Lincolnshire ; T. H. Gotch, Kettering, North amptonshire. The following communications were maimed : 1. A statement from Mr. Forsyth on the cultivation of the Tennis Root of tropical climates in this country, se a sub stitute for the potato. 2. A notice from Mn London on the 'access with which Mr. Kerby had applied a solution of common salt to potatoes, for the purpose of preserving them from decay, and for preventing their sprouting. 3. Speci mens of an improved mode of keeping farming accounts, from Mr. Cockayne, of Cirencester. 4. Notice from Mr. Newberry, on the employment of his dibbling-machine. 6. Letter from the New York Agricultural Society on their published transactions, and the agricultural prospects of that state. _ _ Brisciumes or GRAlN.—Professor Way, the consult ing chemist to the society, having stated to the council the plan of an important investigation, on the chemical nature of the grain of the country, into which he was desirous of entering with a view to carry out the objects of the society, • committee was formed, consisting of Sir John Johnstone, Mr. Miles, Mr. Thompan, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, and Mr. Browne, for the purpose of aiding Pro feesor Way in his arrangements ; and the council directed a notification to be circulated among the members, by means of the current number of the journal on the eve of distribution , that as Professor Way is desirous of obtaining about a pound weight of the grain (without the straw) of specimens of wheat, barley, oats, rye, beese t esi peas, grown this year upon every Tensity of soil, and man every district in the kingdom, such of tha members as coal/ undertake to furnish those specimems e y etioa (end at the expense of the seeisty), woukil favour the council by send* tisk fames sad to the sureiszy at their emithe mathaimmes, se these of peens' waken to maks the irked thanithelen with ed. lot set to end the speolmthe themseases math the am do m t etary Weed= end =me= su lem td : eL bees seeds, sag printed bethinks. Oa the motion of Mr. Raymond Darker, the comma then adjourned to two o'clock on Tateley nut, at **Omit, RA Northamptcm 4w the Mouration of bailors =meted with the country meetiag of the gaiety, to be held at North ampton cm that aad the two following days. COMMERCIAL 4 MARKETS. MONEY MARKET & CITY INTELLIGENCE. Hull-mast One.—The funds do not carry prices so well this morning, which might have been antici pated, indeed, seeing that the rise yesterday was net so much owing to a demand for stock for the purpose of real investment, as to the accidental circumstance of its being a " bear" account, and therefore stock was wanted for delivery and making up accounts. The fall is, however, sought to be explained by the assumed unfavourable state of the Bank returns for last week, which will be found analysed in the last page of the Bspress. The falling off in coin and bullion is particularly dwelt upon as the result of ex portation abroad. The unfavourable state of foreign exchanges is doubtless likely to lead to exportation, but in the present ease there can be little doubt that the decrease of coin mainly arose from paw oat so much in fractional_ pa rt of dividends , ar Mist' home demand. Consols are now 89j to t mossy, and 89t tol for August account. Reduced Threes, 891 to t. Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 901 to t. Exchequer Bills, 9s. to 13a. premium. Bank Stock advanced to 198 to 8. In foreign stocks we have few transactions, and prices play be quoted almost r aii before. Data Two and-a-Half per Cents., 67t to 8 ; the Fours, 90} to 1. Spanish Fives are 21* to 2 ; the Threes, 31i to 2 ; Portuguese 301 ' It. Daaiah, 84 to 6. (i.liZia:4l..,ssi di -at. x.., .i1 di 4 per Ct. Seam Ayres 14. 7/ 6 Dine Chtliee Dels.. d)7 Dine Oolconte Def. Bee, II I Columbian &leader We., I I per Cr. Drefah 1404,14 I 24 per CI. Dutch M., 174 I 4 per Ct. Carts. Deice, lei I RAILWAYS.—In consequence of this being Coned pay•day, there is scarcely any thing doing in shares. Prices nominally remain as before. SALES EFFECTED OP TO TWO THIS DAY IN LONDON. iYesterdq'e pekes will be found In luet page). Amb., Notts, Boot.,& L Jo., 11 & Oxford Ju., 1/4 E. Counties, 201 4 Do. York Eaten., ti Edin. & Northern, In Great Northern, 4 1 Gt. S & W. (Ireland), SOY 1 ' 236 tylas 13411., ••• 1114 s , 110 11 Ws. fli t _Ash 11104., 210 2 11220 med H 4., 14 lie „Amish 10444144 Ms., 42 pet Ve5e.214842., $ 40 1441222241 N 4.. 11 111 Gt North _ Do. New, 301. oh., Great Western Halm% 711 Do. Quarters, 801 De. New 171. eh.. i Lancaster & Cat kale, 681 71 Lon. & Blackwell, 71 Do. New, No. 2, p Do. Extension., 61 Lam, Bright. & S. Omsk 331 Do. Coos 13 1 00 1 4 131 13 Do. Pref. Cons. 3 per Ct., 531 Lon. & N. W., 180 Do. Qrs., New 13 Do. 401. eh., & 8., 70 Lon. & S. W., 671 Do. New, 301., 331 Do. Tenths 001111., 37 Lyon and Ely, 234 Lynn and Derehun, 181 Man. end Leeds Thirds Reg., 1 p ladland, 1191 Do. 50J. eh., 101 10 New. sod Berwick, 29j Da New, b} 9 Norblk, 124 Nor* British ILaleee, 151 N. pittrprciehlre, 10e The market waavery quiet Ches. (t Birkenhescl (20/. *h.), 4f d Cr. Western New, 9 p London and N. Western, Ink Do. (Qrs.), p Do. (New Qrs.) I I Man. & Leeds Halves, 24 p Do. Fetbs, 41 I Do. (late W. B. U.), 1 3.19 Newcastle! Berwick New, Si j p ...noordshire, lOS Oaf Worcee., and W 01," 1 8 t Pres. & Wyre Halves, A, l 3 do. lj Rood., Guild., & Reigate, of I & Eastern & Dover New, (na at 101.), No. 4, 41 8. Wales, llf 8. York., Done., & Goole, 2 W. Riding Union, I g Wind., Malmo, & & Wets 112 P York and Newcastle, SS Do. Extension, Do. Pref., 122 York and N. lib., 87 Do. Rates., 421 East ladle. f Ltuteratourg, 11 Northern or Prance, 124 f Orleans and Baurcleaus, 54 Paris and landrrn Lyons, 43 West F 4 BALE& Jinx 18, & Oxford Bler.k., Clith., &N. .r.ref., ltj 4 p E. Connate (York Ex.), 5.16 d F. Lames Size ?le. Scrip, 116 ip Eleetw., Pratt., &W. R. J., d Had. & Yes. R. & C., 24 li p Los. & North Waters. (Max. & Bk. Qrs. A), p Do. Qrs. (C), 61 p tondos k N. & Boston. Ik d N. Statitxdshlre, p Shropeidre Union, &U. 9d. d Midland (44/..b.), 431 Do. (New NN. Gk.', 41 Preeton & Wyre, 371 X. E. and Dover, 371 York k Newcastle Pre, 41 Amberanie 61a., 11 !tart/ Males MM. New, 3.16 &mop. C., 11 d Man. end South., 1 1-16 BALM JOLT 16. & Leeds 3/t. shares (late Do.. Fifths (We W.8.U.), 5-16 p Man., Bhcs., & lAa, 31 3-18 d Neese. & Serw. New, 34 1 p N. Btaffordabin, 3-18 3 p Oldham Alliance, 4 p 8. Z. & Dover, No. 4, (d I BALM JOLT 16. Da b. (81, 6a. ( iti. , 8. Stafihrdshire, eds. 9d. d I Daiwa., Staff., &Woe., 18e. [LEY, JOLT 16. leads & Dewsbury, Neese. and Per. New, St 44 p North Western , 27, 6d. d N. thafibrdedire, S p Went 8J444 U., an 7. 6d. p LEEDS Si Ambergatee, 261. d E. Lancashire New, Do. Scrip, 3a. p E. & W. 'Variable; 13i 14. d Ilad. 12 Man., 24 p Leeds%llnrek Pref., 12a. ed.l3a.d BRISTOL The market was very fin and a considerable quantity I Bristol & Exeter New, 11 p Caledonian, 291 OL Western Qrs., 51 1 p Do. New, SI p Man. & Leo Thirds rents., p New Midland sOi. Mork, 41 p LER, Juts ht. with an upward tendency, business was done. Newcastle * Berwick New, U. 1I a M. South Delon, 6 per Centa f d York & N. Midland Eaten.. 16 P York and Neweaa Pref., 41 p OL Northern, V. Be. 9;.ed. &ewe. & Berwick, 291 Do. New, Si SI. 2e. JOLT 16. DUBLIN Dab. and BeL la., Dab., BeL, & Col. In. no-, 7a. 6d. Dausdald & Earn., Dundee and Arbrorth - , - 38 - Echo., Leith, ft Gran. Qr. , Ida. Edtn. k North. New, 74a. ed. 7x Do. Newpt., 71. Te. Do. do. New, 22. Iln Great Northern, V. es. id. GLASGOW Caledonian New. els. Ms. 9d. East India, 4L 9d. 01as., Dumf., & Cal., SI. 10a North Britt. 71tIrds, V. 12e. ed. V. 14s. York & Neese. Pr.L, 121 LllB. 3m.r Is. Mid. 01. West. R. sod C., 131 Wit sod Las., 191 &macs sod Bantry, 6s. W. SA N S . .S Jurr s. ;3. Do. Qrs., 41. 11s. ed. Do. New Qrs. &rip, 134. Id. Do. nth* 21. 1211. 84. 13.. acotilob Owitrol, 271 28 dt Pe iln tar, s. M. S. of Nedra, la. 9.1 h. Mae. & South. New, 235. 6d. OIL.—JULY 16.—Cocoa-Nut: Scarcely any inquiry exists for this article at late pricer, and as importers refused to make any concession to-day at auction for 30 tens re packed Ceylon, only about three tone found buyers at 60.. Of 33 casks Sydney, only 6 casks were sold, at 475. 6d. per cwt.; the remainder being taken in at the same figure. TALLOW.—JULY 16.—The market remains in the unto dull state as for some time put, and prices still show a tendency to decline ; the hot weather has greatlyins. peded the operations of chandlers, to which may be chiefly attributed the protest position of the article. The nearest value of P.Y.C. on the spot, is 48s. to 413 a. fid., SI in quantity and quality. At auction to-day, 220 airs, first sort (chiefly of very ordinary quality), won eD blue in at 484., being above the value. 84 mokaAestedisa .4 partly sold ; really good beef brought 475. to 47a. al. ; Wen mg to good, 465.9 d. to 465. 9d. ; and dark aad bag 41a se cwt. Town melted has been somewhat parsed ie Ws, and a cosesesion of Is. to Is. 3d. per cwt. mite !Mal who be. bus Nab initted to, sales having boa mai. at 466. 941. Is 475. per cwt. nett cash. MET, , JULY 15:1119 improve ment noticed in our it sontinued up sdm boldnamg of this week, at whisk dmin atizad Nos. wow sold at 71s. 6d., cash. A reaction ski.lnkykkee, and • pared or two changed hands, at 705., Nag linbioquently, 701. 6d. to 715., cash in three weeks. To the market is quiet, end mixed Nos. may be quoted at 705.., omit. The strike amongst the miners, which recently took pass. bull maintained. CORN.—ExErme, JULY 16.—Though we have had a small attendance of farmers at our Corn market to day, and fewer samples of Wheat offering than tbr some weeks part, pales of fine quality were made at an advance of Is. to 2a. per quarter over last week's prices. Barley and Oats were in very small 'apply, and we note no alteration in value. Hurl, Jcir 18.—The trade generally has recovered from the late depression, with buyers at advanced rates. Of , Wheat very little is offering, and sales are made to the millers at 41. to 6e. per qr. advance. Riga Oats real;se 15d. to 161 d. per stone. Alexandrian Beans, 441. to 465. per qr., weighed 63 lbs. per bushel. In other articles there is nothing new to report. The weather continues dry, hot, and forcing, which is most favourable for the growing mops, and the re ports continue highly satisfactory. The only arrival of Lin seed this week is about 766 qrs. from St. Peters burg. A demand for immediate consumption hoe, continued, and sundry sales have been effected: There has been • good choice of fine qualities, and such may be quoted ls. per qr. lower ' but of middling and inferior there is none in the market. The value of Odessa is 60s. ; fine Petersburg , 48e. to 495.; clean and heavy par cels of Memel and Konigsberg, 425. ; middling, 38s. to 395. ; down to 345. per qr. for light inferior qualities. In Rape seed nothing new to report. Linseed Cakes continue to meet a good sale, for the season of the year, at well-supported rates—eay, 101. 6s. per ton for bat quality of Hull-made, and 91 . 10s., down to 81. 10e. per ton for foreign, according to quality. Foreign imports daring the weak: Linseed, 750 qrs. ; Rapese ed , 1,380 ; Barley, 990 ; Beans, 1,610. - . - LIMILPOOL, JULY 16.—Although the very limited stocks of grain acknowledged to remain in the hands of British farmm will compel the millers throughout the country to have recourse principally to foreign Wheats until harvest; yet, during the period intervening between our first and second markets this week the trade has continued to ex hibit symptoms of weakness, both Wheat and Flour having teem rohasable at a further decline, and little business ble in them or an other article. From Canada, Tuteri= States, and Europe, we have to report, since Momday last, a moderately fair supply of Wheat and Indian Can, with a further large meson of Flour, but of other erodeos the imports froth up for to-day are k&., ases Exchaniaah e airing been well added millers, their h e partly to ea q el MO& °reign Wheat, and beldam per rally te a al /11. par alb. km dr ear -1 rent rater of y, a teleable arms of beano was transacted at that abstmend sa the t was in more limited moot than mai. IMMO IY oared by Written tally 2s. bdeir 4R UM quietism Wrtern brands scarcely aximeding 345. to 34.. 64. per barrel, and other kinds at a similar mdaction. Baxley. - mating vary little notice, receded 3d. per 601 b., and 'Malt hardly sustained late prices. Beans, is consequence of numerous reports of blight, sold readily . at en advance of la. to is. per quarter. Peas, continuing to be entirely neglected, were nominally 2s. to 3s. lower. Oats, upou a dull sale, declined 14. per 461 b. ; and Oatmeal 2.. per load. Of Indian Corn several farther parcels of superior quality Ireland were takes for at a reduction of 1.. per 4801 b., and inferior kinds tor feeding were in good request at f Inner prices. British: Wheat, per 701 b., English, red, 10s. 2d. to 10s. Bd.; extra, 10e. Bd. to lie.; white, 10s. bd. to ids. 10d. • extra, 104. 10d. to Ils. 2d. ; Irish, red, 9s. 9d. to IN. 24.; ex tra, 10e. to IN. 6d.; white, 9.. 104. to 10s. 44. Barley, Eagliels, per quarter, 43.. to 460.; Chevalier, 455. to 461 ; Scotch and Irish, per 601 b., 6.. to 55. 6d. Malt, 'English, pet quarter, pale, 745. to 80s. Oats, Engtah and Scotch, per 461 b., 4a. 6d. to 4s. Bd. ; Welsh, 4a. &I to 4...6d. ; Irish, fine qualities, 4s. 4d. to 4.. 7d.; general qualities, 45. 3d. to 4. 6d. Beans, English, per quarter, 48s. to 61s. ; Pigeon, 525. to 645. Scotch and Trial, per 480 lb., 445. to 465. Pear, English, per quarter, white, 645. to 58e. do. and Irish, grey. Ws. to 61s. 'Flour, per 280 lb., English and Irish, fine, 64e. to 665. ; superfine, 635. to 575. ; extra, 67.. to 695. Oatmeal, per load of 240 lb., Irish, new, 40e. to 425. ; old, 38s. to 40s. • Canadian, old, 38e. to 401. Bram, per 24 lb., Is. 104. to 2a. Foreign: Wheat, per 701 b., Canadian, free, red, 9s. 9d. to 10e. ; white, 10s. 2d. to 10s. 6d.; United States, red, 9s. 10d. to 10.. 24. ; white, 108. 6d. to 10s. 84. ; Dantsic, mixed and red, 9s. /od. to IN. 24. ; high mixed, 10.. Bd. to 10s. 10d. ; Lower Baltic and Hamburg, red, 9s. 10d. to 10s. 2d. . • white, 10s. bd. to 105. 84. • Riga and Pete/s -ham, red, 9s. 6d. to 91. Bd. ; Ar changel, Ba. Bd. to 3s. 2d. ; Odessa ' common, red, 9s. 2d. to 9s. 6d. ; Polish, 9a. Bd. to 9s. 104. ; French, Spaniah, and Italian, red, 9s. 64. to 9.. Bd. ; white, 9.. 9d. to 10.. ; Bennet and Marianopoli, red, 9.. 6d. to N. 10d. • Egyptian, 7s. 6d. to 7.. 94.; Mediterranean, &e., hard r e d , las. 3d. to 8.. 94. Rye, r &c., 50.. to 645. Barley, per 601 b., 6d, per 451 b., 4. 6d. Btallt, oer 4801 b., to 68. to 44i. .our, per to oa. ; United ; United States and Canadian, 295. to 30.. Arrivals from the 13th July to the 15th July, inclusive, into Liverpool and Runcorn Wheat, 7,842 qr.; Barley, 206; Malt, 616; Oaus, 943; Beans, 19; Peas, 1251 Indian Corn, 12,310; Indian Corn Meal, 2,979 barrels; Oatmeal, 2,384 sacks ; Flour, 490 sacks, 47,920 barrels. WAKEFIELD, JULY 16.-The weather during the week has been very tine. The agricultural districts continue to be very shortly supplied with all aorta of grain. To-day our arrivals of Wheat are moderate, the trade however is very slow, at an advance of 2s. per qr. for fresh English, over the rates of this day se'nnight ; bat other descriptions are no dearer. Barley nominal. Oats and Shelling are each rather dearer. Beans are fully 2s. per qr. higher. There is more inquiry for Malt. Other articles as before. The following are the current prices: Wheat, per qr. of 60 lb. to the bushel, Suffolk, Essex, and Kant red, sew, 765. to 785.; extra, 78e; white, 765. to 795. ; extra, 82a. ; Norfolk and Hunts, red, 725. to 745. ; extra, 775. ; white, 765. to 77e. ; extra, 791. ; Lincolnshire and Cam bridgeehire, red, 70s. to 74e. ; extra, 765.; white, 725. to 75e. ; extra, 775.; Yorkshire, red, 68s. to 725.; extra, 745. ; white, 72a. to 76e. ; extra, 76e. ; Beattie and Konigsburg, white, 72a. to 765. extra, 78s. ; Lower Baltic and Hamburg, red, 68s. to 745. ; extra, 765. ; Mediterranean, red, 62a. to 68a.; extra, 70e. Old, red, 645. to 685.; extra, 704. Barley, per quarter imperial, foreign 365. to 42e. Beans, per quarter, 63 lbs. to the bushel, small, fine, 51s. to 535., extra, 645. ; Ticks, 60s. to 515., extra, 635. ; foreign, 445. to 60e., extra, 525. Oats, per stone, melding, 15d. to 16d., extra, 17d.; feeding, 15d. to 16d., extra, 17d. ; foreign, 14d. to 16d., extra, 16d. Shelling, per load of 26111 i., 38*. to 395., extra, 40e. Malt, per load of 6 bushels, 545. to 665., extra, 68e. Pees, per imp. qr., blue and white boilers, 50s. to 62a., extra, 56e. ; grey and feed, 40s. to 485., extra, 50e. Rapeseed, per last imp., English, 271. to 291. ; foreign, 271. to 291. Linseed, per imp. qr., 465. to 645. Imports during the week : Wheat, 5,004 qrs. ; Barley, 1,750 ; Oats, 2,931 ; Beans, 1,626 ; Peas, 41; Lin. seed, 164; Flour, 166 sacks. HOPS.— BOROUGH MARKET. ••• Two o'Clock.-- Pattsnden and Smith, Hop factors, report that there is no alteration in price. sue 4 [en 1601616, p. 6126. 61.6 to II 11 Yearling Lab..peat M. 3to VI Reel 4 k [eau 4 4to e e Taarllai Y. 2 16 to 16 6.0•66. 06,011sno WOOL.—CH/PPENIIAII.—Thursday wee the anni •eesary of our annual Wool market. There was a good sup ply of Wool, and a disposition on the pert of all interested parties to do business. The highest price we heard of wee a choice lot of principally Teg, which *old at 325. 6d. ; other lots, from 28.. to 31s. There was considerable business done, and prices were on the &dream YORK, JULY 15.—The supplies of Wool still oontinue , and the attendance of buyers Is good also. Long...morel hog, good, 13e. 6d. to 14s. ; half hog end half ewe, 12e. 6d. to 13s. ; Mahan& hog, lls. ; the Cheviot hog, 14s. 6d. to 15s. ; Bleor, 6s. to 6e. 6d. ; lock and oots, Bs. 6d. to 9s. per stone. Nearly all sold up. HAY.— SM ITHFIELD, Two u' C . :wk.—Means. Cooper and Davis, Hay and Straw Salesmen, report prices as follows: Prime Meadow. 700. to 761. I Now 430. to 1110. f Moor.. 500. to lo4 WOO*, 4oo. to 430. Sown 144. to 535. I Meow ... No. to ON. Clover. sow, 005. lit CATTLE, B..—WOLVERHAIIPTON FAIR—AI this fair, on Saturday last, there was a great quantity of cattle but few fat, the bulk being Irish stores, and few sales tooli. place. The number of Sheep offered was also large ; the butchers, however, seemed to have supplied themselves at the preceding Wednesday's market, at which Sheep and Lambs were superabundant, and many taken back unsold. The fair, consequently, must be described as Sat. Good Beef obtained 61d. to 7d. per lb.; but buyers, at these prices, speaking generally, held off. NEWCASTLE, Juir I3.—We have again to report a cow -1 paratively small supply of Beasts; upon the whole the quality inferior. A very yam* show of Sheep and Lambs ; and a small supply of Swine. All desetiptions of cattle meet with slow demand, and prices have a downward tendency. Sheep also a slow sale ; the number being large, together with the Imes sustained in the dead markets last week, caused butchers to purchase cautiously, and prices are from ed. to Id. per lb, lower. Lambs have also undergone a consider. able change, and prima have receded hom Id. to lid. per lb. from last week. Little alteration in the Pig market. Prices. Beasts, neat cutters, Bs. to Be. Bd. ; Steers, of the best quality Bs. 3d. ; middling, 7s. 9d. to Se. per st. of 141 b. Sheep, 7d. to 74d. ; Lambs, 7d. to 70. per lb., sinking offal. COVENT GARDEN.— This Morning.—The supply of Vegetables sontinues abundant, and hothouse Fruit is more than enacient for the demand. The following are the quotations: Pim Apple, pot lb.!. to Ss 1/rsaigas, Neill. per 100. Os to Ifs Drapes. hothouse, per lb ts to as Se.lSe, per dos ,Isldto IS Nelms, &Wish. Is to Ss each Leo.. per kis., Is to ill Peonies, per dos As lh per 100, as to las Nectarine*. pa da a* PI las Ooosebseries, pea hairlike. la w]. itintwberrion tar Ponle , aa to 4 Alainia. Pes as Cherries, per lb 84 to M Sweet Aleoses, pee lb., Ps to Ss Orange. per his. Is to ft Y N.Y. Barosions, per boa., SY will pet 100. is to lb 00.011, 1M toles = b e lb, id le Is t lima * Ild to Is Yffistropimpise pee iw. WI, le so fa tou V;: St iirmeem, par d0a.,64 la ONI6, i yr mmid .4, Is aaralla VI Os 1. omly,po.ausaia.l4l to Is Mislsmsay per *elle. Id II la SEM Odels,pr . posit, k le Mid N. te id, R risari.N. Oms Nawry, bmilk. SI la 411 Item. tar al Walamins, per om. Mb. Twat seitalldea, le to 11 UMW le to la Mat, gran, ps• Walk M lasana, pa beak $4 so 14 a►bages, per des, Id to 1. Id Oreees, per dos Puck., le 14 to es CoeMimeses, F., le tees Freed► Dear, per Lave, I. Id to Sorrel, per la akre, ea to Se Potatoes, per toe, We to 140 e eert, de to law MAW. le fa le per . 117 47070, id Immo, For Otto id par olisos, to is,. Nod Iso, Is to Os I KAM per woe, I. to do COMMIWII.IOIII. Lao" ow WWI% *lto la Looks. oat 0105.11.t01. dm. per Waft, to Is id Corrolo. pot bomb, 4.1 to Id Ookes, pee hoist. I. to at Sholioto, per Ito, Ito id For Yesterday's Market* as Assi pop. SHIPPING. Mans Astarvsn.—DVisie, Waterford, 3; Donaghadee, July 1 ;Pre o n t, I;Flaaenl LONDON, 17.—Wind this day at noon, E.N.E., equally, with heat I rain at times. Dial, July 18.—E.N.E. moderate, and a thick lbg ; p.m. N.E. moderate, and clear weather.—Arrived from &I river and sailed : Hamlet, New South Wales ; Courier, Bahia Dallied's, Pernambuco ; Rucken, Madeira sad St. Vin cent ; Duke of Broom, Jamaica ; Primula, St. hi ri.oy cl a s l Cuba ; Ceres, Honduras ; Toronto, New York ; William, Quebec ; Guineamso, Cape Coast Castle. Poirrixortre, July 18.—Arrived: Rainbow, Quebec. E 'morn, July 16. Arrived : Sarah Primp, Rio Grande. GLoccaston, July 18.—N. is N.E.—Sailed : Maranham, St. John's. SontzallPTON, July 16. Arrived : Mount's (it.), Genoa, &c. Orr SaLcostai, July 14.—John Thompson, Quebec. C LYON, July 16.-13.—Arrived : Copia, Antigua ; Christian, Jeanie* ; Lyon, and Countess of Durham, Quebec ; Eu phemis, Newfoundland ; Lady Cornwall, Demerara; Harle quin, Cuba. Sailed: Madura, Trinidad. Coal, July H.—S.—Arrived Royal Salon, Matanzas; Medan, New Orleans; Jane Baltimore ; Charles, New York. Off port : Echo, Honduras, and sailed for Sunder laad ; Dykes, New York. Sailed : Matamoros, New York. Fermenta, July 18.—N.—Arrived: Flora, Rio Janeiro. ROLL, July 16.—W.—Sailed Margaretha, St. John's; Sovereign, Quebec. THALIII, July 10.—Arrived : Hope, Baltimore. °Armor, ,tnly 12.—Arrived: Sarah Milledae, Norfolk. MIL FUT, Mary Browne, Que bec ; Ana Blimbetk, Philadelphia ; ' , Warrior, Miramichl; Southesk, New York ;• Don Thomson, Quebec. Door., July 18.—The Mariposa, has been got off the Goodwin Sand, this mor niq , and brought into the Downs, with loss of anchor and PENSMCI, July 16.—The la Helloes, ohaimpol, from Brest to Swansea, smock seor the Loarships Lighthouse, this wonting, M a thick leg, and mak almost lamaallately ; crew wood. Pour CawL, )uly 16.—The Wan bawd of • Towel, marked " Cadiz, of Csaletown;.„was *kid op yesterday, LA this Asin place the , 0 jein an wy d m or a y pie 504 7 47 7 1; I;asmilitehaveikboaa has prat m i nim sprung a , and must disokar kieit WHITBY, July 18.—Th ymmeW, of Lynn, w west on the rocks on the 10th WM., een. got off, anA towel into Stockton. Teb t LA, No. 275.] LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, J ULY 17, 1817. [3d . anam-immt per Lama., 015 to 6 ; toe Pours, inli to 1. 91. rid. to W. tkl. ; white, 9 5 . 9d. to 10 4 . ; Bennet . 7. sans{{ &G.. • =ma *en tic combined Waimea r rom saciosa Spanish Fives are 21i to 2 ; th e Th rees; 31i: 1 1 : Marianopoli, red, 9s. 6d. to 9s. 10d. ; Egyptian, 7.. ea cot time , vit. , to nasendersthes--akena diminished madam* necessity Port neuese 301 to Ik. Mexican, 19 to k. • 7a. 9d.; Mediterranean, &e., hard, reel, Be. 3d. to 8.. ag not yet cons- er admataz Mproamnioa-testa tic t 7 of 84 to 5. Rye, per qr., Baltic, &c., 50 5 . to 545. Barley, per 6( empire, • total resisting . to *ethics of toe& . them "mine- ss. 6d. to sa. Bd. Oats, per 451 h., M. 3d. to 41. 6d. Be I with till , year lb. w OlO4lOl ll ra . Trjriduan7 applied to Litt, other az- ...* ewe.. IN Millialli ,.., "IrM a ' ana i per quarter, European, 46.. to 48 s. • Egyptian, per 48( o 2,816,8711., of doles-from 0 Mal egpstiment with lama Md. l AO . " -.. 0 psi ..."... 13s. to 34a. Peas, per qr., Baltic, :her, White, Me. to 5 dunce en torn) , to cattle la • M - 3 Pt . ' to fkio,__ : ! UAW', _ Cam, pm 4801 b., 40s. to a sad maw, or, , yibehrIIVIVITIMM., 20s. to 21s. Flour, rption. - di ley is the maintenance of the corn- we, • het p a ..o, j a aaa. Dasa a .a. a ca a .somp a aa. ma a Da a .. aa $ 6 barrel of 1961 b., Canadian, sweet, 355. to 355. 6d. ;U0 sures of the late of their suspension on the first real pressure-it was from me (maths., - sme at. aissma, saes, ii a State., sweet, 354. 6d. to 360. 6d. ; United State. a 7,600,0001. of the cos:lbis:id intimate of such considerations that I came 1 7, ct 1k.0, " 8,. .. )544 6 1.4 r IX lewd= Ma., is 7 Canadian, sour, 295. to 30s. Arrivals from the 13th . Dam . New, ale Si Ore. Ma. P ) If It financial year to the conclusion that the attempt to maintain those laws 4 pet Ct. Hamm Aytes M. 36 6 ric-aoulas Oda.. 110 It to the 15th July, inclutive, into Liverpool and Room has considerably Inviolate after their suspension would be impolitic-that the DU. 0100.1 1114 .61 3 140 Simla BY. 315 11 Wheat, 7,842 qrs. ; Barley, 206; Malt, 816 ; Oats, t from the same struggle for their mainteoauce would assume a new character, 0 2 2 , „": C ' : "4" . D. 4. 1 " . •1 I 1 we. aorta Da- , ii I 40.143 1/44., 3 44010 Waned MI., i 44 144 Beam, 19; Peas, 125 i Indian Corn, 12,310; Indian ly preceded their and that no advantage to be gained by success could counter- s p., 0, r),..i.h ate. ., as a 1 Baulk 1.4011•4 lids.. 41 t Meal, 2,979 barrels; Oatmeal, 2,384 sacks ; Flour, 490 se balance the consequences of failure, or even the evils attend- 2 4 1 ,, e 1 = 5, 1,43,11 M., 57 4 5 t per Ct Ilmelentl4 304., 16 40 47,920 barrels. et noon which ins protracted conflict. 4 per. Ct. .r/ans. 0105. lea I V0te34414 IN•lern0: oft. 13 15 -• . - .... .. 111 , 4 I 1 Hl , l 1 I i 1 ' . v : 41 r 1 I ! ' t 1 1 I i . I • 11 11