Star. — London, England, 1827-03-10 00:00:00

044 t he Amendment proposed I,t night, because.)). A, vghly approved of the plan propos ed by that Majesty's Mi n isters; also, because h e was des irou s no party shruld be able. to say that the agriculturists wee nro us to benefit themse lves at the cost of the test t. :he community. He agreed with the fionourable Member for filidgnorth (Mr. Whitmore), th it the syne r n at present in forge requited amendment, am d that dangerous consequences would result from' n o alteratioo bring made; but it should also be remote 'heed that the most dangerous consequences might, ;aced must, result from a wild experiment on the 5ub ....1,3nd he therefore thought i t but the dut y of the. 'g e ese to proceed with caution. lie thought it 'right not to give a silent vote upon the occasion, and as he b e d resisted the Amendment proposed last night, lest t he agriculturists should be accused of greediness. so. gad he resist the Amendment of to-night, as it sent 'to rob them of a fair protection—(Hear). Colonel MABERLY defended melt:in. Member for pridgnorth, and maintained that any Hon.. Member whellad sat in that House for- two years must agree w ith him when he said, that the Resolutions brought forward by his Majesty's Ministers were founded on the pr i n ciples which had been advocated by his Hunomrable ?fiend. For his own part, he was favourable to a fixed duty. He objected to the principle of the Resolutions of Ministers, because it went to give a remunerating price, which he considered as unjust in its operatics towards other interests. He perfectly agreed with the arguments of Mr. Ricardo, and trusted the day would ',live when they would be more fully ad . pled. He should support the amendment of his lion. Ft iend. is .1 because he altogether approved of it, but because it was more consonant with his views'than was the proposition of his Majesty's Ministers. Lord MILTON said, he was grateful to the Govern sent for the principle of tilt Resolutions. The speech o f the H tn.. Mover (Mr. Whitmore) of the amended "cautions, deserved much attention. for as other Commies advanced in wealth and population, the dan ger, to this. Country might be increased. He desired to me the landed minters great, powerful, rich—but above all, respected by the Country—(Hear). He lamented that on the preceding evening the great aristocracy, led on by a N dale L tClive), had deserted the Ministers, whom they had so long support ed; it was a deplorable sight to behold nem, after having borne the Ministers along, quitting them at so{ ciitical a crisis, and scrambling for 4s. a qoarter—(Hear, and a laugh.) He knew that such extra 4s. would be so many additional four shillings upon the acres. The amended Resolutions (those of Mr. Whitmore) had his approbation. The original Resolutions would impose an extra tali of 6,000,0001: on the people, and that he thought was rather too much to ask. He supported the amended Resolutions; and be felt persuaded that sooner or later they must come to a fr.e trade in corn. Sir T. S. .GOOCH said, the Country Gentlemen did not deserve the taunts thrown upon them, by the Noble Lord, who came from a manufacturing part of the country, and was returned by the manu facturing interests—(Heer, hear.) The agricultural in terests were quite as anxious for the welfare of the country. As ti scrambling for a few shillings, if there were nrt an adequate price and protection, there must 'be a redaction of rents, sates, charges, and.wages ; the Clergyman must be reduced.—(A laugh.) All mast be reduced.—(Heae!) He was not the blind supporter of Ministers, be should differ from them when be thought tf,eos. wren. He was satisfied with the pre. seat hareinistratioo, and. wished them to continue is their places; and he was not satisfied with the Noble lord acd his friends, and he did not wish to see them in the Administratibn.—(Cheers and laughter.) Be came we have such wishes is, I believe, (said Sir T. G.) the cause ot our being so continually persecuted by the Noble L- rd, and those who think and act with him.-- (Continued cheers and laughter.) Mr. ROBINSON expected the least opposition to the Resolutions would originate with the landed inte rest. He rather thought the opposition would be that of the manufacturers. He was pleased with the pries eiple of the Resolutions, though he was far from over- rating the relief which would accrue from them to thm manufacturing interest. He thought it would be much more advantageous to the country, to import all the corn grown at present on poor soils; for the cultiva tion of these poor soils only tended to raise the rents on • the rich lands, and the consequent price of the produce to the consumers. Mr. PHILLIPS (of Manchester) contended, that the average prices at the Ports, which conveyed the pro duce of the Rhine and the Vistula, shewed that the fiat effict of free admissioo of foreign grain into this coun try, would be that of raising the price on the Continent, and by that means lessen the disadvantageous trade of the home corn grower. He paid little attention to the auto-praises of .the landed interest. They were alive to nothing but their own aggrandizement; forgetful or rather indifferent to the fact, that they were but ona third of the population of the country. the other two. thirds being made up. by the Manufacturing interests.. To have high rents, they oppose all importation of cheap grain ; sod to borrow money at a low rate of interest they enact Usury Laws. Contrary to the principles el somnson sense and experience, as maid down by all writers, limn Sir Dudley Nor* lathe present day, high prices and monopoly . with the land lo rds were every thing 'hat was beneficial to the country; and free trade every thing that was absurd and injurious. Though he would hav e p re f erre d M r . Ri car d o s scheme to the pre. sew, still he was grateful foe any approximation to it. Lord CLIVE regretted that any step taken by him should have led is reproaches against the landed Aria tocracy of England. He had referred to the letter of the Right Honourable Gentleman, the President of the Board of Trade, without any intention of manifesting disrespect towards him. He was ant opposed to coup corn—the cheaper the better, so long as it was supplied by the British grower. Mr. Alderman WAITH MAN contended, -that the interests of all classes were united, and that the Landed Interest had evaded the pressure of taxation by throw. mg the burden upon others. He had the highest opi tion or Gentlemen belonging to the Landed Interest; they were generally men of high honour and great intelligence; bat upon this occasion they were in error, from not being acquainted with the situation of other classes of the people. Mr. BARING said the Country Gentlemen ought to, consider that, while others might desert the country, be was indissolubly bound to it. England was necessarily an importing country, and the question was hew that inVortalion might be best regulated. He had no in disposition to such a degree of Protection to the agricul turists AS was not essentially hostile to the welfare of ' other clues of the community. Lord G. CAVENDISH was disposed to bestow his confidence. on this occasion, upon his Majesty's Minis ters. They had the best opportunities of conidgilig, the subject, and hr hoped their s)atein would be found to afford a fair dree of prtitettfon to Ilse agricultural interest. *There bad been much unnece.saly claturin on both sides. He hOpird, however, that the present measure would be- found conducive to the welfare of all classes. Lord HOWICK commented on some of the state- 1 ments and arguments of the worthy Alderman, and declared his intention to vote for the Amendment. Sir F. BURDETT said, that he should not enter into the question so as to be troublesome to the Committee, bat should briefly state his opinions upon one or two points. The.landed Gentlemen of England were not of the gra•ping disposition imputed zo them by the Worthy Alderman% They were on the Contrary, he firmly be lieved, the most liberal and high-minded class of per ions to be found in any country.--The Honnurable Baronet considered the interest of the landholder and the manufacturer inseparable. If one was impoverished, the other must be in the same situation. Sorbething had been said about a departure from Win Chester measure for Imperial • measure. The observations which arose upon the change in the Standard mea sures, would apply to the present state of the country. He was one who thought the distress of the country . Artificial. It had been occasioned by bad legisla tion; in changing the commln measure of the coun try—the currency. Every man found that his income had b reduced by that change about one third.: owl the country Gentlemen, when called on to pay their taxes, found themselves embarria'itd. If the currency had not been altered, there would have been no agri cultural distress. 11:fore that elevation there i!se no distress among agriculturists, and the wonder was, how the country had borne the buithen of the war without injury to agriculture ? At the close of the war. it was floorishing. If that oas so, was it not a (oh: ei clog proof that the aviculture of the county hid, not been injured by the importation of foreign corn? —When, some, time since, the right of the public creditor was agitated, it was said, " We will strip the coats off our backs, rather than injure the public creditor." The Hon. Baronet was of opinion, that Parliament was bound to observe the same faith with the landholder .as the public creditor, and when they altered the currency, they broke . faith with the landed interest, as ouch as if they had reduced the National Debt, and defrauded the public creditor. It was the duty of Government to keep the currency at a fixed ,standard. With respect to the question before the House, he was disposed to support the resolutions. The . Hon. Baronet thought high prices for corn were better than low prices. It was not likely corn would rise to a rice which would give the petiple much advantage Irons the intended measure. However there might be a famine price. and therefore the Resolutions ought to be adopted. If instead of going suddenly to a gold standard of cur: uncy, a proper remedy had been applied for the de predation, the country might have been at that time in a state of prosper.ty. He could not think there was then any room to do good for the country, but if the country Gentlemen expected good the measure before the House, he was satisfied with it. The Hon. Baronet was prepared to oppoett any proceeding which might injure trade. . l avis t ie =trg considered it Ids dotty te'vese aphat the he krady and consciendossly believed thotie Ibieledeos sawed by the Right Hoe. Genthesiatt. his Sammy for Foreign *fairs. would be most iskfol sad estantry. Il the k: Alarmist' ATKINS. ruse ambler hada" ist quacks. and with esodderabie dilliculty obtained a short hearing. The Host. Ykrabes approved of the measure egad by Ms Majesty's Ge mmiemest. The Committee then Fer the Amendment SO Against it. . us Majority for the original Medea . Oa the opening of the Gallery we found the Committee is di.. cession upon the amount of duty to be paid, when the price was sixty shillings. Mr. FRRGUSSON said, that there appeared to be still a great many Members whO thought that Soo was tee low as ao average, sad 70 too low as au importing price. Anomie' the raretedm_ price to be 60e. there would be so protection at all fee aims( at tos. The Hon. Member concluded some ether meamabs by, proposing that when the price was at liSs. the duty Amid be air shilling instead of two. Tthe CHANCELI.DR of the RXCHRQUIOI eoliths!, dm the, preposition was impossible. • If te. deity was to &WOW' by ewe' Waxy, it would carry the importing price to 110 s. That would be estirely against the principle of the measure—for It 'would, in effect. make the average ids. instead of 60e. and the imparting price nog. instead of 70a. The Ameodamot was &mar withdraws. Sir J. witorrzsucy asked the Chancellor of t h e Riche quer whether be persisted in the duty upon barley sad eats? The CHANCELLOR of the RICH EQURII said it wart mit regular to make any statement on that subject. until the question then betore the House should be again discussed. The Reseistleas were then agreed to. the House rammed, sad the Report was ordered to be received on Monday. The Postage Dudes IRS was read a second time, sad committed for Wednesday. WATS ATV SILO. The Howe west Into a Committee of Ways and Means. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, upon the un demanding that the Heatmeorable Member for lirldsnorth would ' set then offer say opposition, sieved the Annual Sup: Dudes. Mr. WHITMORE said, the question arising oat of the sugar dada was one of importune, and he expressed a hope that an early opcwiity would be afforded for discussion, CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the better way would be to take the &opal= in Committee on the BM cows blehig lb. ikeekatleos. Mr. ROME complained, that the Sugar Duties were toe high. The CHANCELLOR of the RHCHEQUZR did not ese any posed to select the present time as hying favourable to reduction oldie duty so Sugars. Mr. GORDON cosseoded that dbe West India Sugar Dot, esti* to be reduced. The West lOW, during a coadderable' dasestled teeeked en tradotissee from the reduction of dudes. The Howe AIM resumed. The Report was ordered to be ro. coiled in Mouthy. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the Hasse adjourned at a (beam to One o'Cunic till Monday. PRICE OF STOCKS Bank Stock Stmt. I per Cent. Red. Shot. 5 per Caat. Coto. Sfi Se per Cent. Shut. Si per Cent. Red. Shut. 4 per Cent. New 974 I AT TWO O'CLOCK. India Stock Aut. ' ---. Bonds 57 Old Annuities £lOOO Esehetiner Bills 34 £5OO Ditto is 33 £lOO and £too Ditto SI 3S 4 per Cent. 11126. Mist. Loos Annuities Mat. FUND Colombian Howls, 6 p Ct. 66 sk Ditto ilis.lol4, 401 o. Acct. 40i Danish 11 rn 5.6 p Ct. 611 Greek Bundy,s p Ct. Do. Bonds, len. S p C. 16k I Bolivar Advertised Conn* for Acet. SS} TWO O'CIAPCR. mes. stud sts,s pCt. 694 I Doe Aee. 69i / I Peruvian Bonds 6 p C. 1 1 Ditto Aect. 34/ Span. Bonds 3 p Ct. 11/ Do. Acct. so Pao* La Pas & Perna. Ana. SO General Steam Ngvigation 100 6 Ji s.s Se FLOWN Tem, Haile 7.—The per Cents. NIL 9Se.--.Tree per Cents. I 9(. ?Sc. Bank Suck, 1993 t.— Naples Stock, 75L lac —Royal Spanish Loan, 331.--Gars Allideorapar. Friday se'nnigbt orders were received at Sheerness for takisg into dock tbe Netherland Ship Waterloo, and on Saturday, eke was takes into dock to have her bottom examined. She is to be shorosgkly Acted with all possible speed. Her crew have bees .randerred to avoids, Hulks pending them operations. THI EVENING STAR.-' LONDON. r SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1827. • STOCK RXCIIANGR, TWKI.VE O'CLOCK. The Copal market remains la the same Meatiest as on yesterday, wit► Dee a feature in It worth °Nervation, and scarcely a bargain has Nen done up to the present time. Consols opened this morning at the same price they left of yesterday, at stsj to for the Account. In the Foreign market nothing is doing. Current prices : Old Spanish lsj, Mexican 691. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The Conaol Market has rather improved since the earlier part of the morning, bat the business doing is insignikant. Consols may at present be quoted sset I for the Account. It is now hinted that the warlike preparations making In Spain, Is In past attributed to an eapedition preparing on an eztenalve scale, which is supposed to be destined for South America. Report states, that the deficiency pf the Quarter's Revenge up to the ist of March, is already from three to four ►undred thousand, merespendlng with the same Quarter of last year. We have received the Paris Papers of Wednesday. The discussion on the Project of Law respecting the Preis, which is now approaching its termination in the Chamber of Deputies, chiefly occupies their coluMns. There is no doubt but it will be carried with some slight modifications in that Chamber ; though some hopes are entertained that it will be rejected in the Chamber of Peers, which possesses a much larger share of independence, liberality, and talents, than the other branch of the Legislature. Should these hopes be dis appointed, it is cot fidently expected that two-thirds of the Journals now in circulation would be dropped, so •evere and invisitorial are the provisions of the pro posed law. lithe intelligence in some of these Journals, respect ing the treatment of the Portuguese rebels be correct, it convicts the Spanish Government of the grossest duplicity. It says that General SiLvaict has sud denly disappeared, from which circumstance it is in (erred, that he is concealed, with the connivance of the Spanish Authorities, in some place near the frontiers, where he can plot against his country with perfect safety. At the same time, he can quit his lurking place, when ever. a favourable opportunity for stirring up new troubles presents itself, and in this way Portugal will be kept in a continual state of agitation and anxiety.— Spain may thus commit as much mischief as if she was engaged in actual hostilities, whilst she incurs no risk herself; and this state of things she calls peace, whilst, to add to the mockery, she boasts of her honour and integrity. It is also stated that the rebels, who were conducted to. Vigo, rent the air on their arrival with shouts of ".Long live Don Miguel the absolute King r Lang live Religion l"—as if there was anything 'in common between a cruel despotism and the mild religion of :Jesus: It 'is proper to remark, that these cries were uttered the presence. of Omit* Seurat, Governor of Tay, and that this wedilltiffthis' gate of the Spanish Monarch heard them with the utmost indifference, or more properly speaking, with the greatest complacency. How long these outrages opon the Portuguese People and Government will be 'tolerated, we cannot say ; but this we will stoutly maintain, that the latter will neither consult its dignity nor true interests, as long as it overlooks them. In the 'meantime we await the next arrival from Lisbon with the utmost impatience, to see what effect the intercepted treasonable correspondence has produced there. We give another specimen of these precious documents to-day ; and it so completely convicts the Spanish Monarch at supporting the Rebels in their infamous design, that any attempt to vindicate his conduct would hi now unavailing. The letters, it will be seen, are from a Spanish Officer, ,who was employed on some secret mission to the Head-quarters of the rebels; and they contain the most irrefragable proofs, that his journey wes undertaken with the knowledge and consent of FERDINAND. We received this morning the Nuremberg Cerres: pondent to the Ist instant, and the Austrian Observer to the 26th ultimo; but they are entirely barren of news ' f a political character. The former has an extract from the Carlsruhe Gazette, containing the Articles of a pro visional Convention between the Grand Duchy of Ba den and the Swiss Confederation, relative to the import and export duties, and commercial relations in general, which is expected to afford great facilities to the trade between the two countries. The Presbarg Gazette of the 25d ult. announces the ,Beath of Count Jown "Baustasocz Vow KOROMPA, who is designated as one of the most distinguished Statesmen of Hungary. We never heard of the name of this great man before, though he served his country fifty years, attained the second dignity in the kingdom, and died at the advanced age of 76 years. We learn from the same Paper that the Hungarian Diet is still sitting, and that it held its 187th Sitting on the 20th of last month. Considering the length to which this Assembly spins out a Session, we are not surprise-I at the reluctance always shewn by the reigning Sovereign to convene it ; and it is well known that the proceedings of the present Diet have not tended to weaken this reluctance. A Naples Journal, announcing the departure of the Austrian troops from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, says:—" We have often had occasion to speak in high teams of commendation of these troops, ant now that they are on the point of leaving us, we perform a pleasing duty in doing them the justice to call to mind well known and incontrovertible facts, by which they _have acquired the public esteem. Having come in Itifl to afford the King the assistance which must have been so de►irable to him, in restoring public order, which ,had been overturned by the Revolution, the Imperial troops di .platto.i, from the G. st moment, the character of moderns ion b itont which they never deviated in the yea oel. ---- maim ... t aw.. —Without even abusing the support which they at that time gave to the opetatiotrof the Government, of the whoksoeme terror which their presence inspired, p' the Advantages which circumstances afforded them, always obedient•to oar King, and full of attentintria all classes of the community, they have never extended their in terference beyond what was necessary for the preserva tion of order. This mesh, io itself great in anzeliarjr troops, is surpassed, in *our opinion, by another merit equilly undeniable, which is, that these troops is a great and populous city a here there are so many dan gerous temptations, have been guilty of no excesses of any kind; a conduct, which though naturaly to be ex pected from the officers, who tie chiefly m:mbets of distinguished families, justly excite universal admira tion in respect to the great mass of the men. By the Pacific, which arrived at Liverpool on Thurs day, we have received New York Papers to the 17th ult. On the authority of a letter from Havannah of the Ist of that month, it is stated, that there had been a skirmish between a Spanish and an English man awar e the latter mistaking the former for a slave ship. We hope there is no truth in this report, as in the present state of the relations between the two countries an civer• sight might be constr into a design. There are advice* from Hayti to the 4th of January, at which time every thing was tranquil in the island, and business going on as usual. The reported insure rection must therefore have been a fiction. Commodore PORTEN, who ceinmands the Mexican Navy, was still blockaded at tey West, by Commodore LAIOJID; with four Spanish frigates and two brigs. The forte of the former is not mentioned ; but as he is a very enterprising sad skilfulOfficer, be would not long cower to the Spaniard, if he bad any thing like an equal force. The Coloinbia Paper, of the 17th December, states, that Bony** was assailed on the whole of the road from Bogota to Tnnja, by complaints against the new imposts, and of the insufficiency of the revenue of the department of Tunja. It is remarked that the entire revenue of that department does not now amount to as much as it did formerly ; and further, that done half of the direct contribution was remitted, q>.:4 would not remain sufficient to, repay the cost of col. letting. VERA CRUZ; Jam. s. Nothing new, except the rejection by the Seam of all that the House of &presents titres have done lion to the proposed Tariff. It is now certain that its passage will be retarded at least a year. Last night, in the H9use of - tot:noon., the %isolations 'on the Corn Laws were again considered in a Com. mines of the whole House. Mr. WIHTUORI reeved ai an amendment, that a fixed dutyof 10s. when thekice *add be between. 55 and aferrabould be subtakuta for the proposed graduated stale, which mat mega. tired by a great majority, 355 voting against, and only SO for, the measure. Sir FRANCIS Buttaarr, who declared himself a decided advocate of the principle of Free , Trade, aactibed the existing depression of the Agrieel. total interests to the change which was effected• last Session in the currency of the country; and we feu there is but too much troth in the statement of the worthy Baronet. Several other amendments were pro. posed and withdrawn, and the Report of the Committee was ordered to be taken into consideration on Mon. day next. 75/111/I=EMEERWMIMSN • THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL. The usual Medical Gentlemen assembled at twelve o'clock yesterday at his Lordship's residence at White. ball, and after continuing in deliberation till a quarter past one o'clock, a Messenger was sent off to the-Royal Lodge, in Windsor Fmk, with the report of the cal Gentlemen en the state of his Lordship to his MA. team The state of the Noble Earl continued Muck the same up to a late hour last night. ARer the consultation of the Medical Gentlemen this morning, they made the following Report: - ul. House, Mardi 10, Half-past Twain, " Lord Ln moot. tootiones as wan as be was yesterday ; Ibas idea Ws Imo a goad ow." BRIGHTON, Mutes I. The Fall and Countess of Delowan, who arrived from Buckhut st Park. in this county. left the ItJyal Yak Hotel, to return to London.sesterday. The Hon. Mr. Twisleton Penes, from Lord Say and bele's seat. Belvidere, Kent; Mr. Vade, and the sr chiteet, Mr.Wyatville, are also included in dm last de partures from the above house. The Prince Puckler Median is remaining at the Royal York Hotel. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING. The Earl of Derby's stag hounds meet oo Moods, it Cettatfam Comm; Thursday near Woodmineter; Saturday near How: H. Jollfe, Esq.'s Fez Hounds, on Idenday at Watton Mesh. Surrey Fes Hounds on Monday at Addington; Thursday at Half Mom ; and Saturday at Learn Green. The Harrien on Monday. at Kennel; Wednesday at ditto; and fintorday at ditto. M. the Marsha Marquis de Viomenil died on the Stb instant, at Paris, in the 94th year of bis age. • The same day. also, the Marquis de La Piave, Peer of France, and Member of the Academy of Sciences, and of the Fch Academy, breathed his last. He was in the 78 year of his age. The Members of the formes Acad emy met in the morning at the usual hour, but it was unanimously resolved their sitting should not be held. M. de La Place has left a son, the heir to his title, who commands one of the battalions of the Artillery of the Guard. Ltvaavoot, TstuaseaT.—Tbere has been a fair de mand for Cotton to-day. bat still there is a heaviness in the Market, and some considerable sales in Uplands, at 1-Bd. per lb.red action on 1 The quantity sold is estimated at 71,000 the day. have been made a former prices. DO b‘se "daring . 4 P. 4. ii ; 4 1 i •• , .1 , 1 1 1 , I i t i I 1 1 11