Star. — London, England, 1830-02-26 00:00:00

- • . . • 4 -t - r , -; •k; er• - r e'of '., •". •f~ - X 46.. ' S. k,: if we hoped to 11.1 d out with success against the in. yat• ins Competition on every side around us ; and this could not , 1 ` " • ejected without an adherence to the reciprocity system. Among ;c .,,, Metyke of accusation, :the noble lord had arraigned him for e:A:ion on the first day of the session, that the distress of the country was not of that magnitude whic h: some persons had -.quoted. That noble lord was quite at liberty to indulge in such e.vertives, if it pleased him to do so; but if he supposed that -be the Duke of Wellington) -did not feel for the distresses of the n;:ople. he was utterly mistaken, as he could sincerely aver that he i:Ad as strong sympathies on the subject as any noble member of that :louse. But he was resolved to tell plainly and honestly what he I , teught, quite regardless of the odium he should incur from those ~- h ose prejudices his candour and sincerity might offend—(Hear.) th . : as there to speak the truth, and not to flatter the predi. I:c:ions and prepossessions of any man whomsoever. In speaking lite truth, he would utter it only in the language that truth nee): cost naturally suggested. But admitting that distressexisted in 1,..,17 pasts of the country, be could not agree with those noble lords who stated that It was so general. He had just alluded to the difference in the amount of the malt duties in 1829, as compared with the preceding year; but he would beg of noble lords to look et the produce of other articles of consumption. Let them look at the hiereale of buildings, not merely in London, but in the prin. cipal towns and villages throughout the country, and he thought they would show that the people were making a progress to something like prosperity. Let their lordships also look at the state of the say. ;rigs banks throughout the country. A measure had some time hack been adopted to prevent the investment of money in those banks beyond a certain amount for each person, in order that the parties not entitled to it should not derive the advantage which was intended for the poorer classes. Large sums were drawn out of those banks soon after ; but they soon came back again, and where frolll ? Why, from the great mass of the lower classes; and this he must consider, not as a proof of that general distress which some noble lords spoke of. Their lordships ought likewise not to omit Irons their consideration the increased traffic carried on on the rail roads and canals in the country. He knew it wet said that Ministers wished to avail themselves of this increase as a proof of the prosperous state of the countey. lie would not rely upon that of Itself, but in looking at the general state of the country, he could teat omit from his consideration, that within the last ten years Oae traffic on those railways and canals was nearlydoubled. As to v.hat had been said of increased capital in the country without in. Teased currency, he should wish to know whether there might not be increased industry without reference to the question of currency ? Taking the whole state of the country into consideration, he would ask whether there was not an improvement as compared with former years. As to the motion before the house, he would observe that he had no objection to any motion foe any documents which might tend to show the actual condition of any particular branch of industry or i any class ; but any motion of that kind ought not to be for the pur.; pose of making an attack on the government, or any individual of ir, but for the general benefit of the country. , The Earl of ELDON and Viscount G o on tico severally ex. plait:ed. The Duke of RICHMOND had not intended any allusion per. total to the noble duke when be mentioned what occurred in the county of which he was Lord Lieutenant. His object was to re move a practice which was illegal, and to relieve the country from what he considered a disgrace.—that of employing the poor to drag waggons. The Marquis of SALISBURY felt satisfied that if his noble re. latien was convinced of the distressed state of the country as much as other noble lords were, he would be willing to sacrifice his most fa. vottrite measure in order to afford it relief. This distress was felt in every part and by almost every class, particularly the agricultural classes, thousands of whom were in the lowest state. A general in quiry at the bar of that house as to the state of the country, he thou ght would do more harm than good. He would prefer an in. qviry by a select committee, and if that should fail of coming at the cause of the distress, then would be the time for an inquiry by the whole house. The Earl of RADNOR said the noble duke (Wellington) had taken up the observations of the noble earl who made the motion, and the noble duke by whom it was supported, in a manner which was most uncalled for. It was another proof that those who lost temper had a bad cause. No speech could be more in favour of inquiry , than that of the noble duke, A. no had even dropped the word inquiry himself while he was res'.sting it. Every noble lord would, no doubt, make inquiry for himself, and satisfy himself of the state of the people in his own neighbourhood; but they were then called on to inquire, as peers of parliament, In their legis lative capacity. The first lord of the treasury had said he was in doubt whether distress was general or not ; surely he ought to agree to inquiry for his own information, and to enable him to discharge with effect the duties of his high office. He says that timber is not fallen—that meat is not fallen ; but those who had informed themselves on the subject knew that timber had y fallen, and that meat was fallen all over the country. greatly fallen , speech said there was distress in some places; the noble duke said we were in a state of improvement ; surely tnqab7 was'necessary, If it were only to enlighten ministers. The noble viscount's (Ooderich's) speech was also, he thought, in favour of Jr-gutty, and he was astonished the noble viscount should not vote for it. On the first day of the session he wild, to propose a remedy for the distress was all a delusion ; now he has many projects. H e was surprised he had not thought of some of them when in office, as some of the taxes he now proposes to take off should have been then taken off.—(hear.) He could not, however, think the noble viscount any very good authority.—He said of hi mself that he never prophesied iIL But it unfortunately happened that the good he predicted was not fulfilled. The noble earl here read an extract front Lord Goderich's speech on the budget in 1824, in which he confidently predicted the continued prosperity of the country. But the solid basis of all this prosperity proved to be those small notes, which in nine months after the noble viscount called " filthy rags. " Lord GODERICH said, he had never celled small notes filthy rags, though he had seen it imputed to him in the newspapers. • Earl RADNOR proceeded. Whatever the noble viscount called the small notes, they were then the foundation of his prosperity; and be very soon after took measures to get rid of them of them as a mischief to the country. He did not doubt that before the end of the session, a Committee of Inquiry would be proposed by the noble duke and h is colllesguea. He could bear witness to the distress of the county in which he lives, and acts u s magistrate • there theca. lamity that presses on the people is not to be described, and was pro. ducing a state of acrimonious feeling that was fast dissolving the bonds of society. The farmers formerly kept their men all the year round—they now only keep them for the job, and then they are thrown on the parish ; the man feels hurt at this, and re the farmer and those above him as his enemies. —(Hear, garde ) Tice feeling of acrimony that was generated was even more alarming than the pecuniary distress, and this feeling would go on Increasing till the remedy was applied (hear, bear.) The original sin from which all our evils flowed was tampering with the currency. He hoped much good might be done by inquiry, and should support the motion (hear, hear.) The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, if he could persuade himself that, by agreeing to the motion before the house, the coon try could be enlightened on the state of difficulty into which we had fallen, he should give a cordial vote for its adoption. Feeling the importance and utility of the function of inquiry by the house, he could not bring himself to think that an inquiry at the bar could be productive of good, either to the public or to the house. He had seen an Eastern tale called the "Sea of Controversial Waves," and he was confident it would be a proper title for an inquiry Mille bar of the hotme. lie thought an inquiry respecting the state of the labouring classes of the people was highly desirable, and no per manent prosperity could be attained till that, which was now the rotten baste of the state, was made its sound foundatiati--(hear.) TO his mind there was but one remedy—reduction of trample and —•` , 1116 at taxation. The noble duke had mentioned many causes a distress ; when be mentioned the great reduction in the price of cotton—the raw material of the greatest manufacture could not, by any possible combination of circumstances, become a cause of distress, or be con sidered in any other light than as arising from the improvement of machinery, which was one of those fortunate circumstances that en abled us to keep faith with the public creditor, and maintain our station in the world. The Duke of WELLINGTON explained, that the low rice of die raw material enabled the manufacturer to sell his goods at a less rice. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE resumed. He entertained the greatest respect for the Earl of Liverpool, bat he had differed with him on the standard of value, and was still of opinion that it would he advantageous to have a common standard of value throughout the world, and what he considered that silver was the ancient standard of this country, he thought we ought to have preferred it in return ing to a metallic currency. The noble duke had said that up to 1797 silver was a legal tender up to 241. but the fact was silver. was a legal sender to any amount. The Duke of WELLINGTON said by weight. The Marquis of LANSDOWN proceeded. By weight was every thing. The ream it was limited to 2bl. in coin was, that the coin alight be worn. But silver by weight was the legal standard of the country, and he thought it perfectly . open to parliament to refer to it still. He bad hardly ever seen an Instance in which a tax if* been reduced in which it had not produced increased revenue. He was adman ofa Committee on Foreign Trade. anti called before it several witnesses, wine-merchants, who all give eery loge ohms 'routine why reducing the duty on French wines would tend .to increase its 'consumption (hear, hear.) His aside friend, two years' after, had the good sense to reduce that duty, and the effect was, that more Amu double the quantity paid duty, sad thr revenue was iniPoved (hear, hear,baw). If that was the effect of a reduction of duty on the luxury of the higher class, what must be the 'effect of reducing taxation on the luxuries of the people ? * He would also, on principles of attends* calculation, meet the taxes that . impede the exercise of industry. lie had not the ]cast hesitation in saying, that the best sinking fund for the fundholder was the productive industry of the country. — With these views he would support inquiries through a select com mittee, but could not expect auy benefit from an inquiry at the bar, and was reluctantly compelled to give his negative to the question. Lord KING said, he did not wish to embarrass his Majesty's ministers, but thought some inquiry necessary, though he could not support the mode of inquiry proposed by the noble earl. If no in. quiry took place, and no remedy for the distress was provided, we must go on from bad to worse, and our distress must increase.— There might be some exaggerations in the descriptions of dis tress. but no one could deny it. At Barnsley, he was told, there was but twenty-pence a week for the head of a family—(Hear, hear.) Such a state of the people must re-act on all rents. The low rate of wages was the cause of the fall in the prices of agricultural produce. Meat had fallen because the people could not afford to eat it. The price of goods manufactured in England might be increased, by taking for them, from the Continent of Europe, what they had to give in ex change. (Hear hear.)— By this exchange, prices would be raised and poor rates dminished. If they could not do all that the country desires, they should not be duped by the East India Company, or the Bank Company, who had monopolized too long. In 1802, he raised his voice in that house against the Bank Restriction Act. In 1811, when the noble lord (Bexley) bad a strange resolution passed in another place, that paper and gold were of equal value, he was determined to put that declaration to the test, but a bill passed to prevent him.— Reduction was absolutely necessary—some had taken place, but it was all forced on the government by necessity. The falling off of revenue now compelled reduction, otherwise he thought we should not have it. He thought some inquiry absolutely necessery, but could not agree to the noble earl's motion, and should move an amendment. From 1782 to 1792, he thought, were the ten years of greatest prosperity the country ever enjoyed ; the list 1l years were the most feverish under which it ever suffered, which he, in a great degree, attributed to corn in the former period being admitted at a nominal duty, and for the latter excluded by a high duty. It was unnecessary to do more than allude to the present state of the trade in that article. He did not consider a high price of corn to be consistent with a state of prosperity, or an advantageous con. dition of the revenue. The noble lord concluded by moving au amendment on the resolution of the noble earl " that a select com. mittee be appointed, to inquire into the depressed state:of the agri cultural and manufacturing interests of the kingdom, for the pur. pose of ascertaining whether any and what relief could be afforded." The Marquis of BUTE was of opinion, that there were not suffi. dent grounds for inquiry ; and stated, on his own actual knowledge, that the distress was only partial. He was not insensible to the dis tress, and had done what he could to alleviate it. During the last two months. he considered that a good deal of improvement had taken place among the manufacturing and ship-building interests. He reposed the utmost confidence in the present government and gave them credit for a desire to relieve the country to the utmost of their ability. He wished those taxes which pressed the most hea vily on the poorer classes to be taken off : he might mention the taxes upon hops, beer, and coals carried coutways. The noble mar quis concluded by expressing his determination to oppose both mo. tions for inquiry. Lord WHARNCLIFFE would vote against the original motion and the amendment, because he expected no relief from the means proposed to be adopted. The Noble Duke (of Welling. ton) had stated that the agricultural distress could not be so great, as meat and wood now bore nearly as high prices as at most other periods. He denied the correctness of the noble • duke's statement as to wood. He (Lord Wharncliffe) could new only get 2s. 6d. a foot for timber, which formerly brought as. 6d. so great was the reduction caused in the price of the article by the importation of foreign timber. Wood had fallen at least 100/. per cent. With respect to meat, by whatever process the price was kept up in town, it had fallen greatly in value in many parts of the country. The Duke of WELLINGTON observed, that what he had said was, that at present meat and wood both brought prices nearly equal to those which they produced when taxes were much higher. The Earl of DARNLEY said, that if he thought any advantage was to be expected from the inquiry which it was proposed to institute, he should vote for it ; but he was not of opinion that this was the case. He contended that the distress was not so great as had been supposed by some ' • and expressed his con. viction that we were arrived at the lowest point of de pression, and that both in agricultural and manufacturing af. Fas,we might even now see cause for sanguine hopes of a return to a better state. He gave the government credit for sincerity in their attempts to carry reductions into effect, but thought that they might be carried much farther. Sir H. Parnell had stated in his valuable financial work that more by 1,300,0001. was now paid for the collection of a revenue of 54,000,0001. than was formerly paid for the collection of a revenue of 58,000,0001.; here was ample room for reduction. Earl STANHOPE replied. The house then divided on the original motion : Content Not content . 67 present, proxies sl—Total 118. Majority against the motion The house then adjourned at TWO o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS—TifunsDAT. The ballot fot a committee to decide on the Cork city election pe tition was fixed for this day ; and there being, at four o'clock, only 73 members present, 100 being necessary, the house adjourned till W41:1017011/. THE EVENING STAR. • 4_ol , e 'iptir& S • • 1 4 ";•eA9.ng • . • • LONIH)N. FRIDAY, Fl PRICE OF STOCKS :BRUARY 26. AT TWO O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 9191 18$ Do. Do. Jul.& Jan.l9 1-16th j 4 per Cent. Red. 941 II i India Stock, 3 per Ct. Oms. 911 1 1 India Bonds 75 6 31 per Ct. 1818, 3 per Cent. 1751, 31 per Cr. 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We regret exceedingly that it is impossible to insert either the Letter of PHILO-STAN, or our valuable friend M. They shall ap. pear to-morrow. The Earl of STANHOPR brought forward his motion last night on the state of the count4A4n a speech of great' power and argument, which—it is almost needless to say—was negatived by a majority of 118 to 25. The Duke of WELLINGTON, feeling the justice of the Noble EARL'S descriptions, and unable—because of their too much truth—to brook them, made an intemperate alai haughty reply. The Noble Dinca—as a matter of course—carried the House with him ; as how could it have been otherwise, when it is known that the Noble DUKE is himself both the CABINET and the Houss. The Minority, however, in which Lord STANHOPE was left, makes nothing against the truth of his allegations. and some of these .ivere startling. " The Noble Dulta"— he said—" at the head of his MAJESTY'S Government, whose name would be written in the brightest page of history as the deliverer of Europe, and to whose gall Ant achievements his country was so deeply indebted, would be also consigned to posterity—unless he altered his r .s4# present course of Government—as contributing to the ruin of that country. The SITUATION of the country was sucir, as no man could contemplate without horror and dismay." The general line of debate consequent on this momentous motion—and especially the manner in which it was received by Ministers, and treated by the Noble Dux z—will suffice to convince any man that the starving country has nothing to hope from its aristocracy. What country ever had ? The fallen and despised organ of that faction, which does not blush to call the Duke of CUMBERLAND its head, has been again spitting at us its vituperative slaver, as if blackguardism and brutality—the two prominent characteristics of its article to day—were any answer to our triumphant refutation of its late rancorous detractions. It knows well the guilt —the deep-grained, convicted guilt —of the party, whom for the basest, as well as blackest of motives, it has the shameless effrontery to uphold as innocent. There is nothing too sordid—nothing too vile—for the mercenary speculations of such a grovelling and craven spirit. " The public mind "—it says—" has been already set right on the subject :" the public mind never erred on the subject at all. The Times stam mered forth its recantation—the very next day after the THUNDER-STORM—either for hire, or some equally moral consideration him thereunto impelling : but the dust which he threw about on that occasion went into nobody's eyes, not even his own. He knew—and he knew that the world knew—that he lied in hie throat of brass : and, with a strange candour at tho time, he ad mitted that he could persuade no one to believe his lies. What, then, does this contemptible Berlin satellite mean, by the public mind being set right? It never swerved, nor vacillated from its first impressions : it was corrobo rated in these by too many substantive circumstantialities, ever possibly to have been set wrong. The venom and sputter of such a thing as the toad before us, could not hide nor alter these convictions : sound and fury were, indeed, there—but they fell, scouted and ineffective, among the prepossessions which they could not shake. We have Vera Cruz papers to the sth, and private letters to the 9th December, this day. We regret that we have no room for extracts from these papers to-day ; but we cannot postpone the publication of the following important passage from our private letter : " Campeachy has declared for Centralism—so has Tabasco : and lately, the troops at Jalapa (5,000 strong) have also declared for a reform in the Government. They have at their head—Generals BUSTANENTE, SANTA AxxA, Antal:BA, Mustraniz ; and Colonels TACIO, MOULTAA, INCLAN, ANDRADE, PANTOJA, ALVIN° Prazz, CARDONA, Omuta Cowin, and AZCARATZ. We all believe that matters will soon be settled, and without blood. shed ; when we shall finally enjoy tranquillity.—Sendings continue to be effected to Mexico, such is the confidence placed in the above Chiefs. We noticed yesterday some observations which were addressed to us on the subject of Greece, and which seem to have been elicited from the writer by the letters on the Greek question addressed to Lord HOLLAND on the mo tion of the Noble BARON in the Upper House. These remarks are so just and important, and the views they take—not of events merely, but consequences—are so clear and striking, that we cannot refrain from presenting them at full length:— " From the answer given to Lord HOLLAND by the Duke °MEL LINOTOW on Thursday last, it is obvious that neither the independ. once of the new state of Greece, nor the pacification of that part of the world (whiehever be the object of the ensuing settlement) can be effec tually secured, unless Candies be either annexed to the new State, or the nature of the warfare carried on within that island between the in habitants and their Turkish masters, be regulated and restrained by the intervention of the Christian Powers, at the same time that the affairs of Greece are permanendy settled. The result, otherwise, must and will be, either that the independence of the new State will be threatened by the Turks from Candis, or that the predatory and irregular warfare which first occasioned and justified our inter. ference, Protocols and Treaties will be revived—and in the latter case, even if we do not interfere, as we did before, the French or Russians will : and the former not improbably with the view and the effect of ultimately obtaining possession of that very important island, and securing the preponderance of their influence is Egypt, an object steadily pursued by France, and infinitely more injurious to English interests, than all the conquests and views of Russia, real or supposed, effected or to be effected, either in the Black Sea or in Persia. " It is quite clear that the passage quoted by Lord Aszanzzx from Mr. Fox's letter to M. TALLZYRAND, in the spring of 1806, arose from well-founded jealousy In that statesman of the views of France on sundry possessions of the Turks, (Egypt and Albania in particular) and not from any apprehension of Russian aggression, much less any predilection for the Ottoman power. The whole tenor of that negotiation was to propitiate the alliance and power of Russia. The projected article for the integrity of the Turkish ter. ritories, though in form originating with France, formed a part of the Russian as well as French policy at that moment, and the no tion of introducing the Russians into the Mediterranean as an ad. ditional counterpoise to the power of France in that sea, was one to which Mr. Fox was never averse, and certainly less so than ever at the period of drenegodation in 1106. Mr. Fox's ministry within two or three months after his death, acting (at last in intention) on the principles he had •infused into the cabinet and bequeathed to his colleagues and Successors, sent a fleet to Constantinople for the purpose of enforcing the just pretensions of Russia, and securing to them in Wallachia and Moldavia that preponderance which they have now fortunately obtained, and to which they were long since, by treaty as well as reason, fairly entitled. That expedition failed, not from any defect in the plan, but from a defect in the tom. wander (the very reverse of that so unfairly imputed to the ton. Angkor of Navarino) cis. a propensity to negotiate when be should - - have fought. But Admiral DUCKWORTH! bad the good fortune of serving a ministry who, from the most honourable and wise Fin. dples, always sustained the naval or military commanders they em ployed, even when they were disappointed at their conduct,unless they thought such misconduct arose hem treachery or cowardice, or some other base motive, which they could not and did not suspect in Doczwonser, who had erred with good intentions from incapa city, or too great confidence in his own talents for negociadon. To sum up, I cannot persuade myself that Russian preponderance in the Essine,Bassian introduction into the Mediterranean, or Turkish decline in Europe, can be hell so injurious to England as the in. crease 'liken& influence, gisey, preponderance, and, perhaps, ter . ritory on the continent or islands of Greece, 0r . % Egypt." _ _ %iota of space Fords the insertion of any farther remarks from our correspondent to.day. Of the portion here presented, it may be truly said—whoever the writer may be—that his views are profound and statemnanlike, and that he exansinsi the question alike with the eye of a patriot and & philosopher. At an early hour this morning the Paris Journals of Wednesday and Thursday were received.' The subjoined brief extracts 'from these Papers will be found interesting : "3t appear!, certain that Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg se. cepted, on the 21st of February; the sovereignty of Greece. " The Porte has consented to a Catholic Patriarch residing at 'Constantinople. This important concession has been made by the Grand Seignor, in consequence of the solicitations of France. Our Ambassador has carried this negotiation through with perseverance and talent. The Catholic subjects of the Porte will now have a Bishop, charged with the defence of their interests, under the pro. tection of France. " Several Papers publish to-day the number of the regiments which it is asserted are destined to act in the expedition against Al gime. It appears that all the regiments of infantry in the army . will be required to furnish their contingent in this expedition, which will be composed of 40,000 men. Each regiment will furnish a war battalion, and thus the( glory which may result from this campaign will belong to the whole army. As to the Lient..Generals, of whom a list has been published, it appears that the Duke d'Escars is the only one who has been as yet appointed. It is believed that the Commander-in-Chief of the Army will be appointed this week, G' at the beginning of the next." FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, Pim 24. Five per Cents. 109 f. 10e. sc. 10c. 15e. 20c. lk. Four per Cents. 101tf. £oe. Three per Cents. 841. 84f. Sc. 841. 831. 95c. 90e. Bank Stuck, 1,9151. Neapolitan Renter, 92f. 2.k. 110 c. 35e. 30e. Spanish Ditto, 13 1211 6. Rentes Perpetuelles d'Espartie. 6931 I. Hayden Loan, not. 535 f. ssof. 5521. Soc. 535 f. =CHANGE ox LONDON. One month, paper. 25f, 70e. money, 2Sf. 85c. Three months, paper, 25f. 55e. money, 251. Ric. We briefly alluded yesterday to the public Meetin?,- held at Holywell in Flintshire ; and we took that oppor tunity of quoting an interesting passage from the speech of Mr. MArliEn. That gentleman concluded his ob servations by reading the following resolutions, %%Mei. were unanimously adopted : 1. That severe distress pervades every class In the community throughout the kingdom, rendered still more alarming by the fact that an opinion very generally prevails, that a remedy can be afforded only by Legislative measures. 2. That the population of this town and neighbourhood employed in the various pursuits of agriculture, mining, manufactures and commerce, are in a most deplorable condition :—rents unpaid—mines abandoned—manufactures and commerce without profit—and retail dealers almost without customers. :L That we find in the long and expensive wars in which this country has been engaged, the cause of the enormous .debt and oppressive taxation of which we now loudly complain— wars into which we should not, probably, have been plunged, bad the House of Commons, by which the taxes necessary to carry cn these wars were imposed, been elected by the tree and unbiassed votes of the people, instead of a majority of it having been norm. noted by Peers and wealthy Commoners. 4. That the return to a cash currency has enormously increased the load of taxation (previously too great to be borne patiently) by lowering the price of commodities, and thereby reducing the means out of which the same nominal amount of taxe► continues to be levied. 5. That the distress unfortunately now generally prevalent Is ace. gravated by duties amounting to a prohibition of the importation of foreign corn, which, while it deprives the labouring classes of the benefit of cheap food, limits and cripples the export of our manu factures and produce to those countries from which we might im. port corn in exchange. 6. That his Majesty's Ministers having determined to abide by a cash currency, a reduction of taxation in the ratio of the depreciation in the value of commodities caused by a return to cash payments, is not only just but absolutely necessary. 7. That it behoves us, who are struggling under a grievous bur. den of taxation, to call upon Parliament to alleviate our sufferings by every means in their power. 8. That this may be accomplished in some measure, by a reduc. don in the numbers as well as in the pay of the army and navy ; by discontinuing the vicious system of perpetuating the charge for half.pay ; by a reduction of the retired allowances, and the salaries of all public offices, fiscal, judicial, and civil ; by the abolition of all monopolies (particularly that of the East India Company t) by the repeal of the Usury Laws; by the revision of the Game Laws (a fruitful source of crime and expense to the country ;) and by an in. quiry into the property and emoluments of the Established Church. 9. That petitions to both Houses of Parliament, founded on these resolutions, be adopted. MEXICO. THE GENERAL-11-CHIEF OF THE ARMY or RESERVE, TO THE CORPS WHICH HAVE DECLARED TOR THE SUPPORT OF THE FEDERAL. COMPACT AND OBAER- VANCE OP THE LAWS. COMPANIONS ! Your declaration is worthy of free men, since it calls for the observance of the Consti tution, the saered depositary of our real liberties. Faithful to your oaths, which you have thus ratified, you wish to preserve the social compact inviolate, and the empire of the laws re-established : you desire a remedy for those evils which have overtaken the republic, and which will escape total ruin by putting an end to the abuses of power, and the establishment of those reforms which are beet calculated to guide it in the march of prosperity and greatness. FELLOW-CITIZENS ! My wishes are in unison with yours, and the illustrious conqueror of Tampico cannot look with indifference on the evils of a country, for whose freedom he has just exerted such distinguished services. I offer to do all that depends on my self for the accomplishment of such laudable objects, and I trust that the supreme general authorities, as well as every individual of the state, will aid in applying the most prompt remedies to the public cala mities. Defenders of the laws, I accept your invitation, con vinced of the justice of the enterprise, and that you will never swerve from the path of honour and discipline. (Signed) ANASTASIO BUSTAMENTE. Jalapa, Dec. 5, 1829. CITY, TwaLvx o'CLocz. We have no novelty to relate In regard to the transactions in the Funds, except that Money Stock hat nbtained a better price this =ening. Consols bave been done during the morning at 92 and 922 foe the Account, and at present may be quoted 92& to ; for money, 91i 1. In the Foreign Market Greek and Spanish Bonds are the] only speculations: thistwornlng Greek has Improved, and been done at 43. The debates last night In :the House .of Lords have attracted the attention of the cid:lens ; bet still they are in the dark with regard to the financial measures of Ministers; therstete no speculations of magnitude will be ventured on until something comes to light on the above subject. On Monday Lord KlLLzaw was returned Member for the County of Muth, without opposition. HIGH-WATER st LONDON-BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Maralos 0 minutes aster 4 . Marna* 14 mimes der 4 Thiatad and Published by Joss WM. at OPIUM No.l, Pletketvpine,Teuspie Di& f. .s. 4'✓- r `