Star. — London, England, 1826-02-04 00:00:00

I.,„dies the views of Ministers:Ott the prtsent asyeet or .jmmercial credit, and on the ilheans of restoring it to wonteJ vigour. This docuMent is to be printed, .nd until we shall have had an opportunity of con. )iJering it, with all the attention which its importance demands, We must postpone such observations as the T. Lure of the - subject is eminently calculated to awaken. T:ie basis, however, of the improvement which Govern ment I.)ok I rward to, consists in at return to cash pay !lien's by All possible mans. This end is undoubtedly forwaided by the propoied suppression of small notes• But it never can be lintirey accomplished by any conceivable process, 'fat that of limiting within a very narrow compass the'amount of circulating medium in paper. Nor is the question, in our humble opinion, materially alteredby the-ultimate validityof such paper. rn whatever quantity the Bank of England, or any other establishment, shall issue their notes beyond the _ amount of gold and silver actually in their posse-sion, of which such notes profess to be tie representative, to that same extent, and nu further, is the power of the rrecious metals to purchase commodities diminished. ;::aless, therefore, the contemplated improvements are to reach so far as to restrain the amount of paper sent forth, prices will corrinue to else slowly, gradually, and certainly, as we have recently witoessed, ' until they attain their old level, such as they were before the removal of the restriction as to cash. payments! Left to themselves, the Country Banks, although each and every one of them shall be as solvent as the Bank of Elgland, are not likely, because of that solvency and of the superior credit which is its necessary result, to re strain the quantum of circulating medium in paper.— N,,; is such a consequence to be expected from the establishment at the principal cities in the country, of branches of the Bank of England, of which we observe the Directors think favourably. This must greatly increase the issues of the Bank, which many are disposed to consider quite large enough already ; and we cannot, without fear and trem bling, lonic forward to the possibility of such an ex tension of the paper circulation as shall affect the market price of gold. vire know the inevitable conse quence wiil be the renewal of the Bank Restriction on cash paymeas. The case of Scotland is referred to, in proof of the efficacy of unlimited partnerships in Banking concerns. We have already shewn, at some length, that from the mere circumstance of simple contract debts bearing in terest in that country, a smaller quantity of circulating medium suffices for the purposes of ordinary affairs.— Thus, as stated by the Earl of LIVERPOOL, there are only thirty banks its Scotland, while there are between eight and nine hundred in England. The discussion of these su'ijects, however, in Parliament, is at hand, and ve, in common with the rest of the nation, wait the event wills no small, anxiety. In the Royal Speech at the opening of Parliaments on Thursday, his MAJESTY announced the conclusion of a . Convention between this Country and France, foundqt on those liberal principles of trade and navigation which received the sanction of Parliament last Session. This Convention is also a sdhject of congratulation in the Speech of the King of France, to the Chambers, on Tuesday last. His Majesty CHARLES X. says it will lender more uniform and less onerous, the condition to Which the reciprocal navigation of the two kingdoms * and their colonies, are subject, and he declares that be expects from it, happy results to maritime commerce; that such will be the case we have no doubt. The principles of trade and navigation to which the Royal Speech alludes, are those established by two Acts which passed the Legislature last Session. By one of these it was enacted, that the privilege then first granted ta foreign ships, should be limited " to ships of those countries which, having colonial possessions, should giant the like privileges of trading with those possessions to British ships." If, however, instead of meeting us on this basis, any country should levy higher duties on British produce or manufactures than upon those of another nation, it is provided, by another Act, also passed in the last Session, to counteract the effect of such policy, by enabling his MAJESTY, by Order in Council, to direct ,at there should be levied an additional duty, not exceeding one•fifth of the amount of the existing duty, Lyon all inerchandize, the growth, produce, or manu lecture of any country levying higher duties on our bierchandixe than on that of any other nation. In pursuance of those principles of (tee trade which .uit Government has adopted, we began in the most t , heral way towards France, by reducing the duties on ler wines, without demanding any equivalent, and sonie persons thought we had carried our liberality too tar ; toe French Government, however, must have felt how well the twe Acts prevented any Power taking an undue advantige of our concession, which was, in fact, sttioly conditional so far as regarded the colonies, and partly so is: respect to the wines, the duties of which ve cotild at once increase one fifth. The French Go. sell merit has, therefore, wisely recognized the principles end the Convention to which we have tave stated, and the Hanseatic towns, :ies wit% us on this principle of reci- Government of the Netherlands has policy, and the consequence is, that to his MAJDTY by the Act of last •liforced against that country. This !ruing to tne i.Gmiurs Gaulle of Tiles 's two tattlers in Council, imposing iu Netherland ships, the addition of ring duties, and levying on every laden with silt an outward tonnage pei ton, if bound to the Netherlands. ,lected, that so , e of the F. each J.4lr the iJea ut a CoilltliettiAl treaty be• • and France; they will now be sur- prised to (lad, tl.at what they declared imposcihle or . impolitic; ha' been effected; and that not on ly th e princi ples, hut the diplomatic poiig of Mr. Hoectssom, completely triumphed. • , This forenonn we received the Austrian Ueserver to the 2SJ ult. It contains an esposi, of the mistatementsl in the private correspondence of certain FI ench Journals, respecting the time the news of the Emperor Autitam • , DIM'S death readied Zante, and the manner in which it was-received in Greece. Leaving, however, theinurn of Paris and Vienna to settle these matters themselves, we shall only quote from the Austrian Observer, the following sho:t article: VIENNA. -ANVILS', 51. Accotding to accounts fromConstantinople,of the 25th December little information of any consequence kad been received front the theatre of war since the last post. A letter of Admiral Nikons, dated oil Clarenza, inserted in the Hydra Gazelle of the 2d of December, fully confirms the news of his unsuccessful attack on the division of the Turkish nett stationed at the entrance of the Gulf of Patras. Besides Euuney Bey and Nedsthid Effendi,.the.Commissioners sent to Greece, several Greek Priests of high rank have likewise been sent thither by the Porte, to exhort their deluded countrymen to submission. The Sultan has, at the same time, sent fresh orders to all Governors and Pachas of the Provinces inhabited by the Greeks, to treat all Raja* with mildness, to protect their rights, and to refrain from all violence and oppression. The uews of the unexpected death of the •Emperor of Russia, at Taganrog, was brought here an the . 2241, by several letter* from Odessa. Just at our Paper was going to Press, we received the Constitutionnel of Thursday, and the t toile of yes terday. Nothing of interest occurteJ in either of the Chambers, for the Legislative Body in France does ;tot proceed so soon to business as in England. The Moils contains the speech of the Duke of CAsnotpost, on opening the Assembly of the States of Hanover, on the 24d ultimo. An article from . Madrid of the 25th ult. states, that a Spanish Ambassador will be sent to this country, and among the persons named as likely to be appointed, are the Duke of SAN CARLOS, Comte d ' ALCUDIA, and M. de LABRADOR* Letters from Trieste of the 17th ult. confirm the ac count of the successes of the Greeks at Missolonghi, and repeat the report that CoLccomtNi had retaken Tripolizza. The Roilecontains an article from St. Petersburgh, bat it is dated so tar back as the 21st of December, and contains nothing new. _ __ The Corraitutimi:Nel states, that NA VARZTO. the Aide-de-Camp of Hot.tvAir, has left Paris for England, and that the Liberator has decided to command the ex pedition against COM. Letters have been received from the Havann,rh of the 16th December, but they bring no news. Wimpsou, Fez. 3.—The unfavourable state of the weather, for some time past has rendered the drives in the Great Park so extremely damp and unpleasant, that his Manure declines for the present taking any airings. —Yesterday forenoon Prince ESTI AAAAA Count and Countess Lunar, the Duke of Down?. and Lord Guavas, his Ma-naves remaining visitors, took their departure from the Royal Lodge. His Royal Highness the Duke of Yong, Prince Ett• lianas?, and Lord insert, ue now en a shooting visit at the hospitable seat of Lord FoLev. ' Tun LORD CHANCELLOR.--The answer given this day relative to his Lordship's bealth,was.that be had passed rather a good night, but had not rested so well u the night before. His Lordship, however, was considered a little hum. Couar or CNA aCicaT-..THISIDAY...-It was intimated at the Coon at twelve o'clock, that his Honour the Mama of the Roue, wnuld preside in this Coors on Monday and Tuesday, to hear Motions. - - - - - - - - - - - - A foigery on Messrs. Courts and Co. to the amount of 6001. was detected yesterday. NIARRICD.—At Cheltenham, on the 2J instant. Major WILLIAM PSARCE. of the 60th Rifle Corps, and Suverton House, in the County of Gloucester, to RHODA, second daughter of the late Titoxar Paosuzzo, Esq. of Usk, Motunnathskire. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following Commanders were sworn into the command of their respective ships, viz. Captain Jouw BARNET Sorusav, London ; and Captain Baraw BROUGHTON, Canning ; con. signed to China di rect. Yesterday the dispatches for Bengal and China, by the ship Macqueen, Captain Jame& WILLIAM, were closed at f East India House and delivered to the Purser of that ship. The Loot) CHANCZLLUR has been pleased to appoint Joan Simmer: Haaver, Esq. one of the Masters in Chancery, to the office of Accountaut-General, in the place of the Luc J. Came- aw n Esq. At an early }toter yetterday morning one of the S..cre« rules of Sir Ciisiauts STUART, our Ambassador at Rio de Janeiro arrived at the Forsigmoffice, in Downing-street, with dispatches fee Mr. Secretary CANNING. Yesterday morning Mr. JAcKsow, one of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland's messengers, arrived in London [rem Dub lin, with dispatches from the LORD ILKUTENANT. It is said to be the intention of the Royal Yacht elub, of which Lord YeasoaouGH is President, to make a voyage to the Spanish coast during the ensuing season. Sir EDMUND ANTRODUS, BAIL is dangerously ill at his house in Piccadilly. The Journal of Hones of the 19th January states, that in the evening of that day the celebrated l'aeprovisetessr Senna, was to exercise his talent in *tragedy in one of the gallea ries of the palace Justiniani.—Madame CATALANS, en her part, was to give a concert there. Thursday, the Russian Ambassador and the Coun. teas bream arrived in town from the Royal 'mtge. Windsor Park, where his Excellency and the Countess had been on a visit to his Maestri since Monday. 7 ' Wednesday, a most numelons and highly respectabl• meeting of Ladies and Gentlemen took place at the Waterlest Hotel, Edinburgh, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament abolish slavery in the West Indies. The Earl of Rosstrn Wei called to the Chair, stated the object of the Meeting. Mr. JAMS Mot:caner t in a speech of great length and eloquence, described' the state of slavery in the coluoies. lltr. Cocesuaii prefaced the reading the petition by an able speech. The Earl of Kos and several other Gentlemen addressed the meeting, and the peti tion to Parliament was unanimously agreed to. The rumour that Mini,tera intend to forward the business of the Session of Parliament, so as to finish it by the end of preparatory to a dissolution, gains support from the circum. stance of all the Public Accounts having already been ordered, and from being the last day for 'Reports on Private Hills fur May I. Last Session it was May 30. Mr. D'AucuALD, Sectetary •co the F. ench Embassy, it is said. reunited on Thursday morning from Paris, bringing back with him the last ratili:ations of the Treaty of Commerce and of Navigation, which had been signed in London last week. An elopement hai lately taken place in one of the Western Isles of Scotland. Miss in 4er teens, hi addition to great personal attraction*, possessed a handsome fortune: the evening previous to her intended marriage with a man whom she slid not like, she vanished front the home of het childhood to a neighbour ing felaud, where she was neat morning married to the real object of her wishes. The disappointed lover has since been married to a younger sister of the fair deceiver. His Grace the Duke of WeLusurrox, it is understood, will leave town early en Mouday morning. for aria. The Ambassador's suite is composed of the following Gentlemeu t —Lords DJuoi.as, secretary t s the embassy, Visitaat SOaaleallt, Vaatartoar. and FRANCIS I.tradell Gower.; lion. Gessaos Caisteaar, and W. wllle Robert Kenzie, a mason, and Peter Dunn, a labourer, were at work in a large opening in Glatsford urett, Glasgow, the earth MI in 'ipso them, by which they were nearly ►utfucated. &hie time elapsed before they coulil be dug nut, but Lite) , were beds stay., and are likely to recover. TM ARMY. • The 13th tilt the Vith . Foot Marched from Fetrotiy to Cork. • The Depot of the 14th" Pont mirched from Toughtl on the 23d ult. and arrived'nexfdafat Fermoy, , lcavfng a detachatent of 40 rank and die at Youths!. " " . ..—. PARLIAMENTARY DINNERS. • The fireatta's Parliamentary — Dinners commence this day, in the grand and antique chamber which is immediately under the House of Commons. The first dinner it what is termed the " Mi nisterial" dinner. Mr. Secretary CANSINO, Mr. Secretary Peet, the Right Hon. P. Roomer, Mr. livatissom,and aliqut twenty others of the leading Treasury Bench Members are invited. To-morrow (Sun day) will be the first " Opposition" dinner; Mr. Boouctotot, Mr. Scatters.. Mr. Camtort, and more than twenty other of the leading Member., usually seated on the Opposition Benches, are invited The subsequent Parliamentary dirners will take place on Saturdays and Sundays, from 30 to 35 Members being invited to each dinner, till all the Members have been invited to dine with the SPItAKIR ; and the invitations, after the two first grand dinners, will be made without any particular reference to the sides of the House on which they usually sic. 'tie !live xdopteJ , ar a' uded is the result fiance, as we ha tie funned treatit k•vcity ; but the 4,l.l pted a diferent Le power given to tiewoo, bas bran et tdl lie seen by ref el ILL *Web .• - • 44 goods inspor.ed loth to tho ves.el I. 41 Jtv tit 11. 13v.4.1. It will be r. minus ridiculed th I'm tills country LENT ASSIZES. WESTERN CIRCUIT. Before Mr. Justice GAULCI and Mr. Justice Buitanenu. Soothampton—Monday, February '27, at the Castle of Winchester. Wilts—Saturday, March 4, at New Sarum. Dorset—Thursday, March 9, at Dorchester. Devon—Monday. March 19, at the Castle of Exeter. City and Couuty of Exeter—Sarne•day, at the Guildhall, City of Exeter. Cornwall—Monday, M loch 20, at Launceston. Suturrset—•Satut day., March '25, at the Castle of Taunton. OXFORD SPRING* CIRCUIT. 13ftfore Mr. Justice Pine and Mr. Baron GAtas•w. Berkshire—Monday, Feb. 27, at Reading. Oxfordshire—Wednesday, March 1, at Oxford. Worcestershire—Saturday, March 4, at Worcester. Staffordshire—Thursday, March 9, at Stafford. Shropshire—Wednesday, March 15, at Shrewsbury. Herefordshire-I-Monday, March 20, at Hereford. Momunuthshlre—Saturday, March 25, at Monmouth. Gloucestershire—Wednesday, March 29, at Gloucester. BRIG 1-1 rON, FEB. 2. -......- The Earl of CAM/ARROW and family, Lady CALTIRORPR and family, Lady HUM Rumen and family, and the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Kist ROT and family, are all in the departure list. The Earl and Countess of HARDWICKe and family. Lord and Lady SAYS and Sims and family, Sir SANDFORD and Lady Gas man. and Sir Join, and Lady thiaawrox, are preparing to leave us. Mrs. LANGFORD, svlukis abbut to take possession of the Marine Library apartments, left vacant by Lady Caurnoars; Mr. Mt:. roan, the Receiver General for this County; Sir Courts Tnortza, Sir C. ANSI, HARTING!, Le Duc de k VASS/11'0N i Ste. UR among .the last arrivals. The Duke of Sr. ALaAN's and the Ladies BIAUCLZIM are re minis% at the Norfolk Hotel. FASHIONABLE IN I'ELLIGENCE. The Marquis of Hertford entertained a distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at his house in Piccadilly. The Earl of Cimarron has arrived in Lower Grosvenor-street, from Brighton. The Earl of Abergavenny has arrived at his house in Berkeley. square, from kis seat Edridge Castk, Susses. Lord Lynedoch left Warren's Hotel, Regent-stmt, yesterday, fur his seat, Cosgrove Priory, Suffolk. _ Lady Mary l itre has arrived it bet house in Grosvenor-square. Sir Charles Cockerel', Bart. and family, arrived yesterday, at their house in Piccadilly, frost their seat Sozincot Morton, in Gloucestershire. Sr . /Admiral Si George Rowley, Lrt. has arrived at Ids house in Bolton-tow, from a tour. . ____ Colonel W. A. Johnson, M.P. strived in towA iesterday from his seat iu Lincoln.hire. George Byng, Esq M.P. and Captain George Byng, left town yesterday, fur Virotbani Park. Hudson Gurney, Esq. M.P. and family have arrived at their house in St. James's-square, from.their seat, Keswick Hall, near Norwich. W. Egerton, Esq. M.P. awl family, have arrived at their house in St. James's-square, from that seat, Tattoo Park, Cheshire. Arrival yesterd4y at Miller's llotel,Jermyn.street :—Lord Her vey, from Drightou. Departurtz—Admiral and Mrs. Hervey, for Deal. Arrivals at Fenton's New Hotel, St. James'i.street :—General ISir Robert Bolton, Bart. from Oxfordshire; T. R. Kemp, Esq. from Brighton. Departure:—Bev. William Tower. Arrival at Thomas's Hotel, Betteley-square :—R. H. Vade, Esq. from Stanmore. Departures:—Sir Robert and Lady Har land, for their seat in Suffolk; Viscountess Keith, for Kent. Arrivals at Batt's Hotel, Dover-street:—Karl O'Neil, from Ire ' land ; Lord Stafford, from Norwich; J. T. Mott, Esq. and fa mily, from Norfolk; H. Grattan ' Esq. M.P. from Brighton.-.- Departures Sandford, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Hewson and fa mily, for Essex. Arrivals at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook -street :—Mr. and Mrs. Cummings; Captain HAlford, from Halo; William Unwin, EN. from Lord Grantley's seat in Kent; Mr. Grimes and son, from a tour. Departures:—Captain Grey,on a tour; J. Fordyce, Esq. for Scdtland. A letter (tom an Oilicer on board of his Majesty's ship &Amor, dated Trincomalee, Sept. 9th, 1825, has been received in Glasgow. The writer mentions the art ival their of the 97th Regiment, from Britain, a short time before the date of hic letter. The SLANEY was to sail nest day for Rangoon, and the 97th Regiment was to follow in a few days. The reports circulated at Trincomalee were, that the Burmese had an army of 90,000 men ready for the next campaign, which was, in c• nsequence, expec ed to be arduous and severe. A Gentleman, who left St. Petersburgh on the 19th of January, atrived in Londori two days ago. He waited five limns at Berlin for dispatches, and com pleted his journey in 12 days and a half, being the most rapid that has ever been made. He states, that every thing was tranquil when he quitted St. Petersburgh.— We was present when the affray between the soldiers 'took place, and de-cribes it as dreadful during the time j it lasted. He saw eleven sledges full of dead bodies caroled away, and put under the ice. Messrs. LORD, Roatssost, and Co. of Albion -street, Leed , have stopped payment. They were eetensivel woollen cloth manufacturers, and at their mill in Wade lane, employed'a great number of • hands. The distress oldie silk ti ale has caused the stoppage of two houses at Macclesfield, that of McsMs. BARKES And PEARSON, for a considerable amount, and that of Messrs. Coa•Tra and CLAY. Thursday senniglit, two boys, sons of an apothecary of Shrewsbury, playing in the shop, one of them to ,, k up a loaded gun, the contents of which exploded, and lace rated the cheek of his brother in a dangerous manner. Monday the [louse of Lords is to be called over, for the purpose of ballotting for the Peers, for three of them to attend in the morning of each day on which causes are fixed to bear Appeals; and the days and hours for hearing Appeals, Counsel, &c. will afterlards be ap p, inted. The Depot y ,Speakei , Lord GIFFORD, as here tofore, will preside on the heating of Appeal causes, St:. Yesterday, Mr. 13unneu. offered for sale at the Auc tion Mart, 200 shares in the Bt itish Gas Light Company. The company wee of the catechising si4scription, and pi eviou* to the s .le distributed Judge BAY ures opinioi. 'it the liabiliLy of the hi lders of shares in Joint Sto k Conyan es,which vreg.ve Some time since. Upon being .uessed, Mr. Bunnat.t. stated that 151. per share had already been paid, and they were at. a disc 11.11 of 101. Some person bid ss. per share ! but they were ultirtsceli kmicked down at al. as it was thong'.t, to a convenieht purchaser. INTECLICE / .40. • - ... 1 / 4 4er';offtpeller, the Rhode, Tarragona. Olt the Wight, the Vesta. Woe", from Leghorn. • Off Penzance, the Rapid, Rosevtat.t., from Galipoli. In the Channel, the Makes, —a... from Jamaica. The John and Ann, Mater from Cadiz to Hull, was many lost at Scilly, the 89th ult. an d all the srew, and a piloWdrowned. Part of the cargo saved. The Harmony, Metals, from Jamaica to Halifax, was totally wrecked on :he itth November, in the Color a des. - Crew and p)rt of the cargo and materials saved. The Emulous steam packet, which sailed front Falmouth on the lot inst. for Calcutta, met with some damage in her midship boiler, and nut being able to regain Falmouth, bore up for Power/. Fat.motrtm, Fes. 2.—Wind S.W. strong breezes, and s4rally. ...Arrived the Laurel, La Viscitme, from Palermo--salled the Bth December: and Wakefield, Rurrta, front Plymouth for St. Sailed the Kersweil, A anevatmo, for London; and th. Cynosure, COUDRAY. for Amsterdam. Put back, the G e orge Canning, Lotto, fur St. Michael's ; Providence, NATE, for Malaga. Pi.vieouto, Fes. 2.—Wind W.--. Arrived the Vigilant, Luca, from Figueira, in live days. Powramouro, Yu. 3.—Wind S.—Arrived the Prince Royal transport, from Malta—sailed the 18th of December; and front Gibraltar, 18th January. The William Harris, transport, was to sail from Gibraltar for England the nest day. Arrived also, the Rachael, S , from the Down for Gibraltar; and hie jesty's ship CTRENR, from do. for the Cape. The. Circassian, for Madras and Bengal, has put back. Dem., Fit. 3.—Wind S.S.W. to S.W. fresh breeze.—TLe outward bound which sailed yesterday have put back, and remain. Arrived the John. Mumao. from Jamaica, last from the Havannah ; Are;husa, Bawls, from Campeachy; New Albion, Powet., front the Mediterranean ; Susannah, Warm*, from Zane and Lisbon, for Hull; and Fame, PRATT, from the Tezel. Arrived front the River, the Lion, Housis, far Jamaica. LIVERPOOL, JAIL 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Meredith, Kalman, from Demerara ; Vulcan, from Savannah; Fame, , from Leghorn; and Cherry, Diaat.a, from Cadit. DISTRESS IN SPITALFIELDS. The munificent donatit77 1,0001. by Ins Nl+it? to the disires , ed manut.icturers in S italfields, has pro duced the happiest effects, follosied .s it 1145 been by liberal subscription, and the appointment of a Com mittee, of which the Bishop of Chester is Chairman, to distribute it. Notices were subsequently posted in the Parishes of Spitalfields, St. Leonard's ' Shoreditch ; Si. John's, Hackney ; and Milv.end New Town, that it weavers in distress might receive relief on the production of a ticket signed by their last employer." Thursday, at two f.'clock, the Committee, with she Bishop of Chester In the chair, commenced their labours at Spitalfields Chinch. At that hour every avenue to the Church was crowded with applicants for relief. In the Vestry the applicants were received in classes, alphabetically arranged, by the different members of the Committee, each person being required to produce a printed form of a ticket, signed by the last employer, stating the name, age, re sidence, whether single or married, the number ot chil4 dren,with thtir ages and how employed; how long the applicant has b e en out of employ, or if not wholly out of employ, how many looms at work, and the name of the employer for the last twelve months. Upon the production t.f this ticket, properly signed, the party re ceived relief according to circumstances 1 a single mats out of employ receiving is. a matt and his wife 10s. and if a family 15s. pa week ; but it is understood that the relief is not to mend to persons receiving parish relief. The Committee continued sitting from two until semi o'clock on Thursday evening ; yeiterday, about twelve o'clock, the COmmittee resumed. In the course gir Thursday not less than 1,000 persons were relieved by the Com mittee, and yesterday the numbers appeared Considerably increased. Wednesday, a meting ot the operative silk-throw• stern and weavers took place at M tcclesfield, for the purpose of agreeing upon a petition to Patliament fot the removal of certain disabilities under which the mid, laboured ; and, after some debate, in which it was un successfully attempted to introduce the subjects of ME corn laws and the currency, the object of 'the rneetiog was effected, in an orderly and peaceable manner. The distress is most alarming. Nearly &,O warned tort girls alone, have been thrown out of , employment. A meeting was held at Taunton on Monday last, of persons interested in the silk trade, ay which a petition ' to Parliament, praying for a continuance of the pro kiburiva Fie ia silks, was unanimoosly agreed to. A serious riot has taken place at Norwich, the ou ;gin of which appears to have been the jealousy felt at the employment of country weavers by the manufacturers • of the town. The country weavers wete attacked by a large body of the town workmen, severely handled, and their goods seised, and throi - on into the river. The rioters then attacked the counting-houses and ware houses of several manufacturers, and were proceedkng to acts of st 11 greater 'Hence, from which they were only deterred by the calling out of the all:it:sty in ail of the civil power. Monday, at. Loughborough, a Cello* named W. Stanford, offered his wife for sale in the public matter, decorated with a halter, which the woman herself seemed to adjust about her neck with satisfaction.-- The tfagistrates vi.ited this audacious breach of de:: corum, by sending both the husband and wife to prison for the offence. The '24th of last month, a fellow named Luke King deliberately shot at John Pearson, a shoe-maker, of Auborn, near Bissinghani, Lincolnshire, with an .1J gun loaded with ball. The life of the poor man is despaired of. King has been committed for trial. Di. Oscar and his parishion-rs Islet again on Thurs day, on the Tythe question, but nothing further transpired than the exhibition of some lampoons on the tytlwpayers, which were stoutly disowned by the Rector's party. Appeals to the Bishop and Parliament were threatened on both idles. The funeral procession which will convey to St.Peters bares the mortal remains of the Emperor Activism', set out from Taganrok on the 7th. lo consequence of the division adopted for the journey, it will travel only fifty or slily vents daily. Om the lith of January it will arrive at atarkow ; the 45th at Kursk ; the 30th at Orel; the sth February at Toole; the 12th at Moscow (where it will remain till the 15th) ; the 20th at Twee; the 4th of Alarch at Novogorod ; and the lit at Zarekojeselo: The 'skein ceremony of the burial will take place on the 24th of March, the anniversary of the ituresioa's accession to the throne. The corn-mill at Mr. BADGER. near Fliday•bridge, Birmingham, and the mill of Messrs. Hat, Gums, and Co. ad joising, were destroyed by fire ou Sunday last. SuNDING LUTEHS BY COA. HIM.— An officer, spe cially deputed by the General Post-office, assisted by four police men, stopped the two stage-coaches which run between Cork and Shibbereen, and also the Bandon Coach, on Monday last. After a very diligent search of the latter, he discovered two letters, one enclosed in a sealed bag, and the other (a few lines written ota an unsealed piece of paper), accompanyiog a message horn one Lady to another ' with a few articles as patterns. The ofLer had tut proprietorllned tea poonds the &Vowing day, at the innishraurion • Petty Sessions, to whom, however, he nude a proposition, that if, he would prosecute the pl.snns who bad stilt the letters, the penalty should be induced to Bye pounds, but to whkh.the pro pricier di4scnted, and immediately paid the money. The assetusea ‘ " etc. of the Shibbereen coaches had each a considerable number of letters taken from them. Proucutious have been institutodavinst . the respective proprietors. Tile rate of esch.inge with the Cont.nmit ezrienestsi agr Dr, al advance yesterday, and will now petntit the Otpertatios of gold with a small profit. The kng lost locket, r ontai ing SWIFT'S portrait, whkh belonged to STILL/ 4 has Pees discovered, sad is in the ro seate* ut a Gentleman in Dublin. The U.ike of liMAirom Won nearly 13,0001.4:mill the season, by hue horses running for prises. - 1 . I