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EST INDIA SLAVERY. LETTER EIL--PART M. :TINUATION FROI4 TR* •TAR OF FRIDAY. TO THE EDIVOR OF THE STAR. lurpose of convincing the Public how in is great question, respecting the relative va.. and slave-labour in the West Indies has been by ANGLUS and his friends, I shall select Ise, somewhat different from those of St. Do- Cayenne :I mean that of Guadeloupe, during :hat the Negroes Were free in that Island. Stephen, in his Crisis of the Sugar Colonies, page referring to the regulations of Toussaint re field or agricultural labour of the free St. Domingo, proceeds to state :—" From r Island of Guadeloupe, and from Cayenne, ,gence is rather mote satisfactory and dis- That these Colonies have by no means been ltivated, there is a like uniformity of report ; ;kith of it is proved by the considerable ex le which they maintained with neutral na ,wn to the end -of the war; though there is -ordance between different accounts, as to :ity of their exported produce in comparison fin mer amount. If a late report on the Co, published by the French Government, may be Cayenne, in an agricultural as well as corn ;iew, never was in a more flourishing state; representations equally favourable are given of ; 11 , 7 de&upe, by persons who found their opinions on Information respecting its exports to North . But these estimates are, I doubt not, oo large, especially in the latter case; and it lore probable: that Guadeloupe does not at '802) produce one-half, perhaps not much in one-third of its average crop of sugar and iterior to the Revolution. To assign reasons opinion would be useless digression, for the ,ot material to my argument. As it is noto- At in both the latter Colonies considerable les of produce are raised, negro-labour cannot Iy discontinued : but that this labour is °b other means than the agency of the driver, established by the agreement of every re iblic or private, direct or circuitous, with am acquainted; and, as I shall speedily confirmed by still stronger and less resistible new state of the Negroes, both at Guade id Cayenne, was introduced by the Govern was also defined by positive law at the time roduction. You will find in the Appendix, ttion both of the Conventional Decree for en ing the Slaves in the Colonies, and of the Pro m with which it was accompanied, when ed by the French Commissioners at Point July, 1794. Negroes were, by this law, expressly released lavery, and invested with all the rights of citizens ; and though industry was enjoined as the declared objects of that duty were them their families, and the State, and not any par master or employer. If it was intended that relations of stipendiary servant and master, be formed between them and the same plan lose property they formerly had been, which clearly appear, the latter were at least re ro give them a competent salary in return for 1r4." in page 22, Mr. Stephen says : " Of positive even respecting the new system, we are not unprovided. return to be made to the Negroes of a plants- Ilectively, for their annual labour, was fi xed or Hugues, at one-third of the value of the This was also the general law at Cayenne, I rightly remember, at St. Domingo, though lye scarcely had any operation in that dis. island. Another third !was allotted to the and the rest to the Republic. :ording to Other accounts, the remaining ras to supply the expenses of the estate, which :he most probable, because, without a provi these, the owner's share would have been in sustaining them, and the share of the Re would have been too palpably enormous. Buy, Is, the contradiction may be explained by the ,at both at Guadeloupe and St. Domingo, a portion of the estates were, by forfeiture or se. Lion, in the hands of the Government. iing, obviously, could be more inconvenient precarious and distant a remuneration for as a share of a %Test India crop, to men who ;ve by their daily labour: it was, therefore, improved by Victor Hugues, into an allow. either by way of commutation or advance,, /able periodically to each labourer; and this he iginally fixed at such a number of lines per week, considering the great scarcity of specie in the Co was a tolerably ample subsistence; I think it was 'res. iar as private enquiry has enabled me to form a 'talent of the fact, the sate of wages, both there Cayenne, has since been fixed from time to 27 the Government; which has also exerci.ed an 'mate superintendance and controul, both over the ters and the plantation Negroes, obliging the to labour, as well as the former, to give what is deemed a sufficient support. ie regime by .which these ends are accomplished 'oily military, and a refractoriness in the Ne i is punished when necessary,, not by the Master, his discretion, but by the order of a public er in Court. h.it authoritative information on these grounds not be obtained, is much to be regretted. I might eat, however, to proclamations of the executive hotity at Guadeloupe, and those of Toussaint, as 11 as of the Commissioners and Agents of the inch Government at St. Domingo, in further proof at itAustry, however regulated, is now considered a duty to be inculcated bysersuasion, or enforced I the sa nct i on o f mun i c i pa l' - law, aided Iv a mili it, police, and not a mere physical effect to be ex ited by the application of the lash. I allude here to papers with which yon, Sir, and e may itader must be familiar, as they have often let? 1 published in our daily prints. 'They contain str ung - eiposiulationa against the vice of indolence, Inest invitation to agricultural industry, as es both to public and private happiness. Now addresses from the gobernoni to thegoverned do more clearly prove indolence to be a prevalent )44 in the community, th, they. demonstrate . total subversion of the old system in all its fundo %fatal parts. Such a proclamation, if addressed tO. 14 the Negroes in an English West India Island, could " only be considered as an impertinent interference " with the authority of the Master, and the interior "discipline of his plantation; as a reflection on the ac " tivity of the drivers, and a cruel- mockery of the " Slaves." The above account, given by Mr. Stephen, has been upwards of twenty years before the public, and, so far as I know, never has been confuted by any writer. I , do nut, therefore, now enter on the task of correcting , the errors into which he has fallen, respecting wages, and their effect on industry, from any other motive than that of submitting accurate statements of facts, without which the public must remain in that delusire which imperfect and erroneous statements have created. It is not necessary to shew the exact amount ,df error in Mr. Stephen's opinion of the diminished amount of exports, or the loss sustained by the Proprietors of the soil by emancipation, as he himself speaks with uncer tainty as to the correctness of his own data; but it is singular, that the author of War in Disguise, should have omitted to state how much the exports from Gua deloupe in neutral vessels were swelled, during the pe riod of emancipation, by the cargoes of English vessels captured, and carried into Guadeloupe, during the go vernment of Victor Hugues, for such a fact directly bore on the quantum of industry exerted by the free Negroes. The reason of such omission may be found, perhaps, in Mr. Stephen not thinking it important with reference to the general argument of his able work. It is now, however, necessary to supply this omission, and shew what was the real state of Guadeloupe, during the period of Victor Hugues, as to productive industry in agriculture. I shall first give an extract from Colonel Boyer Peyreleau, who had long served on the Staff of the French army in the West Indies, and who actually commanded the troops in Guadeloupe in 015, and published, so lately as 1828, the work from which I quote :—" Apres l'expulsion des " Anglais, toute trace d'opposition se trouvant effacite " par la mort des colons pus au camp de Berville, ou " par la Nice de la majeure partie des proprietaires que " la terreur expatria, et qui allereet porter aux Iles " voisines, surtout a la Martinique, ua sur crolt de bras " et de biens, un nouvel ordre de choses s'ktablit a la " Guadeloupe. La colonie etait dans le plus gran " ditlabrement ; les negres, igares par le decret du 16 pluirese an 2 (4Fevrier, 1794) se refusirent au travail, " &veleta des pretensions, et sc reunirent au guarder " des Abyrnes pour let faire valoir. Victor Hugues mareha " contre ems, lea defit, et par des esenspks eiv?res les renferma pour tosyours dans les barns qu'il you:at bier. "tear assigner. Il les reconnut pour Frsnsais, mais " rien de plus. II substitua a l'ancienne servitude une " discipline militaire, dent la rigueur fat le correctif de "la license des lois revolutionnaires. Les blancs, les Bens de couleur. et les noirs furent indistinctement " ranges sous sa domination, et les infractions furent " ponies sans difference de couleur, et de condition. " Tout tremblait sons la mime loi ; la mise en surveil- " lance de tons les parens d'emigies, les commissions militaii es, k fatal instrument peon trainait dons tour " les quartiers, frappant, et Inenarant toutes les totes qui " auraient youlu s'elever, fletrirent, glacarent toils les " el:curs, et firent rentrer dans la fouls ce qui aurait, " pre tendre a s'en detacher. Ce despoti,me n'etait point " tardo par les qualites seduisantes d'un Pisibtrate ; un " cynisme &vacant en accroissait l'horreurs. La " Guadeloupe n'olfrit plus l'aspect d'une colonie Fran " raise; elle devant une sorte de puissance, isolee au milieu des mers, ne conservant le nom Fransaise que " pour le faire redouter." Such was the system of government at Guadeloupe, coercing every one to perform what Victor Hugues wished to be done. To annoy the English, and capture their vessels, formed one of the most important objects, and the result is thus stated:. " De nombreux corsaires, bravant les quarante vaisseaux, ft egates et corvettes " Britanniques qui les poursuivaient dans toutes ces " men, desolerent le commerce Anglais, enlevirent ou " briderent plus de 150 batimens jetirent sur les habi " tations une grande quantite de napes, pris a bord " des haiimens enneinis qui veaaient d'en faire la traite . sur les cotes d'Afrique, et conduisirent de vive force, " dans les ports de la colonic, les navires des Etats-Unis " d'Amerique qui refusaient d'y apporter leurs denrees. " Les lieges qui n'etaient pas soldats ou marina, " furent contraints de cultiver ks terres. Les revenue " des biens sequestres, des habitans absents, furent " verses dans le tresor public. Ces biens montaient 66 plus de huit cents millions de livres du pays; ks denries " coloniaks, prises aux Anglais, ou confisquees; furent, expediees cn France, en grande quantite." That the comparative prosperity of Guadeloure dur ing the freedom of the Negroes, did not in any consider able manner arise fiom 'their voluntary exertions in agriculture under the stimulus of wages, or a share in the crop, as is supposed by Mr. Stephen, is proved by authorities to which he had not access when he wrote;, and among them is the statement of the value of the prizes captured, during the war t from the English, by the Guadeloupe privateers, amounting to fifty millions of livres. Colonel Boyer says: " La course se fit alors 64 avec eclat, et entretint le commerce dans une sorte " de splendeur qui, bien que factice et temporaire, sup "plied au dOcit qua rabsence des institutions coloniales 46 avait cause dans ks productions du Sol." Hitherto, nothing appears to shew that wages bad been found a sufficient stimulus to induce the free Ne groes to cultivate the sugar plantations, to the mutual benefit of themselves and the Proprietors, as AricLua maintains would be the case, were the Negroes eman cipated : nor does it appear that the account given of the state of Guadeloupe, under Victor Hogue', by Mr. Stephen, was founded upon correct information. Should the authority of Col. Boyer be doubted, I shall submit to the Reader extracts from the official report of Ge neral Desfourneaux (who immediately succeeded Victor Hugues as Governor) dated 28 Pluvoise, An 8. Pre vious to the perusal of which, however, it is necessary for the Reader to bear in mind that General Desfour neaux had served in St. Domingo under Southonax and Polverel, was a realous friend to the emancipation of the Negroes, and is officially reported by the Members of a special Committee, 11 Ventose, An 5, to the Exe cutive Directory, as " possedant ,la confiance de Sou- i " thonax." " A mon arrive i ]a Guadeloupe," says General Desfourneaux, " ou j'ai remplace le Cin.VictorHugues, j'ai fait arrater sur-le-champ les etats de situation de ' " hi Colonic : die se trouvait dans la position la plus ma " thereuse sans arpnt dans les caisees, sans com " merce, awl:culture,' &c. &c. General Desfourneaux, speaking of facts which he had personally observed, says " En faisant ma tour " nee, je houvai par tout la plus projoude macre, toutes 44 les habitations minks anus les Regimes de Sequestres , o touter les femmes proprikaire recluites au plus ?fateful, " dennement, sans pain, et mime sans haillons pour " couvrir kurs enfans: This description may be compaied with that already given by Colonel Malenfant, of the situation of the white Proprietors of the plantations in Cayenne, during the freedom of the Negroes there. General Desfourneaux continues to tell us, during this state of distress for the `` white Proprietors, that " Les Villes etaient encombrks des cultivateurs fai de `.means; partout le vol, et le brigandage se succedaient " et restaient impunis.” The measures taken by the Governor shew the state in which the colony must have been under Victor Hugues Je fisai, par un arrive," says General Des fourneaux, 41 le-domicile respectif stir les habitations ; j'ordonnai a tons les cultivateurs des deux sexes de " retourner sur les manufactures, oh ils avoient prig " naissance ; je n'autorisai a rester clans les villes que " les citoyens de toutes les couleurs qui avaient un errs, " ou une condition qui pouroient les faire vivre, je donnai l'ordre d'arreter clans route la colonie les cut " tivateurs rencontris, sans laisses.passei des Oran:, " oat piopristaires," &c. Even on the arrival of General Desfourneaux, be found 66 un grande nomble de cultivateurs s' etaient "retires dans les boix de la Gouyave, ou ils etaieot " voleurs, ou marrons ; je fis marcher," says he, 66 contre eux la force armee qui detruisit les cases qu'il avaient baties, et les reintegra dans ks habitations, " quills woolen: abandonnies. Mes =sures obtenaient " le plus grand susses, lorsque des bruits perfides et " mensongers annoncant que les Russes avaient envahi 66 une partie da territoire de la Republique, firent re " commencer la divagation, commdtre beaucoup de cols " dans ks villes, et de brigandages sur lea routes." The reason here assigned for the conduct of the Negroes, in abandoning their agricultural labours to steal and plunder, because in Guadeloupe false rumours were spread, that Russia had invaded a part of France, in 1799, shews that when men are under the strong in fluence of a favourite idea, how difficult it is for them to form sound inferences in examining the connection be tween cause and effect. The result of the measures taken by the General was finally as unsuccessful as the result of those taken by his predecessor. He was afterwards sent from the island of Gaudeloupe, by the Civil and Military Authorities placed under him and the system Slavery was finally re-established in that island, alter a short, but bloody struggle, the details of which would be foreign to this enquiry. Hitherto sin trace. have been discovered of that system of Victor Hogue:, to which Mr. Stephen re ferred, when be told us that the system of remunerat ing the emancipated Slave in Gaudeloupe was' " speedily improved by Victor Hugues into an allow " ante, either by way of commutation or advance, 66 payable periodically to each labourer; and this he 4,riginally fixed at such a number of livres Aweek, as, " considering the great scarcity of specie in the colony, "was a tolerably ample subsistence,l think itwas 9 Livros.* I have carefully . examined all the laws issued in Gaudeloupe during that period, but I have been un able to find any such regulation as that fixing the money wages of agricultural labour to the free Negro. It must indeed, be obvious, that such a measure could scarcely be effected by legislative regulations, in as much as the wages of labour must be regulated by the principles of supply and demand; except, perhaps, in those countries where the market price of labour is lower than the natural price, which last, as is well known, depends on the price of food, necessaries, and conveniences required for the support of the labourer and his family. Now, the fertility of the soil in Gau deloupe was such, that a small portion of labour would produce the means of subsistence, and the natural rate of wages would therefore be low. In point of fact, however, the free Negroes could not generally be in duced to work voluntarily, although the law allowed them a portion of the crop resulting From their own labour, equal to one fourth of the amount, (not one third), after the expenses of the estate had been de ducted. This one fourth share was afterwards divided amongst the labourers, according to their claim; founded on their personal exertions, talents, &c. In the case of domestics (the result of whose labour could not be represented by productions created, and therefore could not be thus divided), there was a re gulation fixing their wages; but from the day the re gulation was published, it was found to be imprac. ticable; and it was only 4i livres a week for the ablest negro, which is one-half the sum mentioned by Mr. Stephen. _ _ Having now shewn, in the case of St. Domingo, where the Proprietors were destroyed, or expelled, that the free Negroes,who succeeded to these properties,were unable to induce their fellow-countrymen, when free, to cultivate the sugar estates for such wages as would enable the Proprietor to derive any adequate profit from laud, buildings, and machinery, of which be had gotten possession, even without the transference of capital. Having also :hewn that in Cayenne, where the white Proprietors were not disposse)sed of their lands, build ings, and machinery, and where, on the authority of an author favourable to emancipation, a low market price of wages existed, yet that the white Proprietors were as unable as the black Proprietors of St. Domingo to culti vate profitably the sugar cane, and though they had capital in lands, buildings, and machinery, they could only exist in the same manner as their former Slaves. Having also strewn that the opinions entertained as to the wages said to be giren to agricultural labourers in Gaudeloupe, by one of the most intelligent writers of the party whom AsToLus represents, du not appear to have been well founded ; and having shewn that the real state of Gaudeloupe, during that period, proved that agricultural labour, though constrained by severe laws, was very little attended to, and also that the stimulus, expected front wages, were not realised in that Colony ; I am justified in claiming the attention of the public to these indisputable facts, as contrasted with the theories and speculations of AtioLus, and the ultra Abolitionists. W E • a V CO TI ilee t d It is TO Um 9? Fur the pu 314P0 perfectly chit .4: . lee of free ar have lederttood I K , a nother case, ?ev ery p i n go and C t he r etiod tli irk Steph at to , 16, after ref ;be ic t sjecting the N egro es, in ;7 B in sr ,„ " the smaller r eni ts I , our intellii an,. duct. Th and t. • left uncult 'star ' and the tri in Dr pot t trade for D ee eons dowt "peat dihcc rzday , „ fi e quanti " with its ft) 'Napo "looks, pul si N "credited, *nnercial vi pd from a Knit- end rep re Guadelou; 4, to - private it t 'Americ a. greatly to tlolls in gems mo I "Cage, " present (1 nY - five, "more that aed on : "coffee ant, to hav e "for this of at Kit- "fact is not I un der " rious that t Rte. *quantities iseb, "be wholly 47sit, 4 4 tamed by al is a tact ry N•- • port, pub teeth, which I o New. 4 . shew, is c Ord to " evidence. " As the "loupe an, g meat, it "of its intr Ind a tattoo. a translat ay. A "franchiser itching, clanutint "Pad' " publishei. relative "litre, in alters. hat the „ The N trefore, " from sla ' to Ja. " French ci Obe fit- " a duty, t d ,.„„, "salves, di ix; and "titular is " 2 ' 6°6° the new " 1411 4 "should b from a rat i on; ters who: lox, lu, " does not utenaLt " quired to and ail it t h e i r wo; by eit-yard A ern, , petitintr "details, e wilte *wholly u ten: to " The re der the of Mr. ution coil ",by Victo produce. T. In. "and, if I In the "laws ha , " tracted i eta, for " owner, a 1, A cco 1, Ku. "third wa " seems th hoed sion for haustea i " public w " perhaps, "fact, tha in die "great po nce of "questrati s' The " Nothi " than so les ono "labour a !eclat, "must lit ationa 'speedily IPA kV " ante, cii or be payable great "original "as, consi e SUM ‘l3 nY, Iva r sub "ttixe liter - could " As tat infant "judgme way', "and at I 1 the "time by as an- "intimate would "Masters ig the "latter tc "deemed " The r Ifficer "it wtioll t ship "groes i s "or at Li y list, "officer it nment "That at the "cann ot I being e until appeal, South " author it "veil as days "French trans- " That it;( Wier. 'as a dui S, and t ech is "by the f New ` ii tity pp eat of Cited b) rr, as a t 4 I alb wards net. ' t C axl4 l: elville 'strtin S - e and e n dear him°. such ac to in." "bet nu t Met VC : il ad ha the tot :Aetna! (To be continued.) We understand that Sir Ossoaxa Gongs, Bart. h shortly to lead to the Hymeneal Altar the beautiful and -scram plished Misa MOORE, niece to the late Earl of Um:smut.. Mr. WILLIAM RAE WILSON, whose trAvels ate known to the Public, in the course at a journey to the North of Europe, has been repeatedly supposed to be Sir it— W—. lu particular, on his arriving at Lisle last week, from Brussels, where Sir it— W— is at present, a gend'arme, with his sword, ac cooled him at the hotel, and said he had orders to take him in stantly before the police, and whom he was obliged to accompany. He was there most rigidly interrogated, and, during the conversa tion, a clerk was 'poking to a paper before him, and Ur. occasionally, as if Icomparing him with the description Of the Ea- General. It was not without referring to a Gentleman at Lisle, who knew Mr, that the clerk was convinced ha WO not ,the.nuo." •O' ' CLAIMS OF na SPANISH REPUMA Mr. Blanco White, the elegant author of DohLulo. Letters, has with equal zeal and humauity stepped for ward, and employed his able pen in advocating the cause of the suffering Spanish Refugees. In a I :ng letter addressed to Edward Hawker Locker, he takes comprehensive view of the political events in Spain during the last ten or fifteen years. Speaking of the last attempt at establishing a Constitutional Govern ment, be says: "The soldiers of the Isla did not turn their arms again: the King of Spain for the purpose of assuming politica, power - but to enforce the observance of . a Constitution established by a national representation. which in tiv face of the world, and with the express, implied, or pie. sumptive approbation of the enemies of Impes ial Franc( had exercised the sovereign authority. The Spanish army had solemnly sworn to observe and defend that Constitution, which on the return of Ferdinand bad, by an arbitrary Act, been suppressed, condemned, and abolished. We do not call upon You (the le fend, of the Constitution would say to the soldiers) thr you may turn your arms against the Throne, but onl to help us in the restoration of law against arbiti rule: This appeal, it must be confessed, must have had a prodigious force with men whose feelings loyalty had been weakened by a long perin of po pular Government, in the absence of the King, anc who could contrast that period of comparative free dom with the odious specimen of pure Monarchy r which Ferdinand gave when restored to his Throne. And shall we deny all compassion to men whose cr . minal delusion took place under such circumstances Shill we make no difference between soldiers who rip from mere impatience of discipline, and those nhi mistaking the nature of their &Hy, side foc a momew with what they deem the law, to oppose tyranny an, oppression? 66 I have endeavoured to remove the only well , grounded scruple which might hold back the hand mercy from the mixed class of persons whose claims public sympathy I plead. Could I hope to have su, seeded in, this part of my task I should feel perfecc confident in regard to the rest." Such are the claims of the poor Spanish Refugees theyhave other claims on humanity from their suffer in , " Among the Spanish Emigrants,* says Mr. Wht,„ " there are many who have enjoyed the comforts and advantages attached to the higher ranks and the midi class of society. The contrast between their present and their former situation must be exceedingly painful: know some Dignitaries of the Spanish Church. wl have actually endured the misery of cold and hunger the midst of this splendid Metropolis. My own priva, friends have saved the family of an Officer with a wife and three children from wanting even bread, when small sum which they receive from the benevolence Government was exhausted. The Lady of anotl Officer, now very near her confinement, has in-the sai manner been relieved of her fears that herself and i expected innocent sharer of her misfortunes wou'd allowed to pine in absolute want and destitution." Every one who reads this painful narrative, mi agree with Mr. White in the conclusion of his leto that—" When human misery arrives at this point, it surely high time to forget all political feeling, and ten to the voice of humanity. A man, a Christi cannot stop to weigh with accuracy the merits of eve.. individual whom the revolutionary storms of Europe have cast upon these shores. There is a duty of ur versa' charity to which we are urged by the example 6 Our Heavenly Emma, who makes his sun rise uE thejust and the unjust. The rules by which men jucli of political delinquency are very uncertain, and almost inseparable from the influence of interest and passion, Should we withhold our aid till we had cleared up - doubt as to the individual claims of every sufferer, innocent would have perished before we could set them from among the guilty:' Fria IN OLD-STRiar ROAD.— Yesterday evening, little before six o'clock, an alarming fire broke ou: the house of Mr. WEBSTER, a furniture-broker, opposis, St. Luke's Church, Old-street Road. It happened that the family were from home at'the time, which afore the devouring element an uninterrupted opportunity progressing to the first floor, where it was discover and whence it proceeded with an unabated fury throu the seconcl Th floor, and roof, which shortly after fell Owing to e timely arrival of the parish engines, whi were assisted by those belonging to the other 1 surance Offices, whose opeiations were furthered b sufficient supply of water, the devouring flame was vented from communicating with the adjacent At about seven o'clock, fortunately for the neighbour , hood, the the was completely checked; nor was it derstood that any accident of consequence has tai place. Several of the officers belonging, to Worshi; street Establishment were upon the spot, anxious to sist the exertions of the Parochial Officers, which RUC account for the absence of offences on this occasion, CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE, JAN 10. The arrivals of all sorts of Grain last week were considerable, then% was a very large quantity of Flour. This morning there . again good supplies of all sorts of Corn, except Oats, the quantity of which is only moderate. The Wheat trade has been extremely dull this morning, and prices are declined 2s. per quarter on the). qualities, and other descriptions are still lower. Raley did meet buyers to-day till the factors submitted to a decline of Ils. 2s. per quarter from the terms of last Monday. Old• Beans are plentiful, and they maintain the quotations of this day se ttnight..— New Beans are dull in disposal, and IL to 2s. per quarter cheaper. Boiling Peas have also declined 15. to 2s. per quarter. Grey Peas e ls. per quarter lower. There has not been muck trade for C this morning, and the article nearly • maintains the prices of day stennight. Flour sells very heavily at present. rum ow• " OASIS SHIP. Wheat, Red (1824), 545. 86s Rye, old, 00s. 00s. -- old, 545. 70s. Beans, Small, new, its. 455. White 1824, 565. 745. -- old, 48s. 525. - old, 80s. 78a. Tick, new, 355. 385. , Barley, 1824, 535. 48s. -- old, 455. 475. Old, 00s. 00s. Oat% Feed, new, 20s. 245. Peas, Grey, 1024, 375. 395. old, OS. Os. - Old, 005.005. Poland, new, 21a. 275. Maple, 1824, 401.414 old, Os. Os. old, 00s. 00s. rotates, new, 235. 271. 'White, new, 465. 50$. , 1•Mm..1• 10 et t Olo 011.1 - old, Os. Os. eh, Us. 385, Bolters, 1824,825. 561. Foreign Oats, 20s. 275. --•, old, 00s. 00s. Flour, par Sack, Us. 7ps. Uye, new, 654. 40s. Wheat, Esglisb. Barley Malt Oats 'leap Lan waif. 9,01*-2 Peas 17,423 Irish Wheat - 14,496 Irish Oats 1 1,377 Foreign Oats 2,873 English Flour, melts . '16,01 • SMITHFIELD MARKET, JANUARY V} There was a good supply tilt 'aerologist naarires r both totlkeT and 21utton.—Seasts k 2,440; Sheep, 18,800. '." Thb rifle= quoted the same as on this day Woolen. The,* war owl' fer those of superior isality. I at , may per load a 10a. itt aOw Straw ,CI to 4 " 1 ,1 48 . 4 0V .14 to 46. le in he n- t it 'al un r• cr, alt iat id, nd • ids lac pry of )0.• nd ee- :ri- es.2 rise • • ; ho, ent tnd ell- of to :tly es; cgs. nte, and Idle and 'rho r in one wife the • r of they • tme the I be lust ter, it is lis- tian retry f rope ,e of ipon icige not ;ion. all the elect Ig, a It in mite that riled ty of ► 1 1 lugh 1 in. hich In- by a pre- • ings. iour- t un- aken ship- -0 AS. may t. e, and rC no antity emely e beol ' not to re not ; ghto— ; roper. sas are Out of slit J. • • 2,19511 10 48a i s I 2,450 , , '4 1 sepia ttlker