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public; for the fact war, they paid fot their advantages by lending money to the Government for a series of years, without any adequate compensation.- 7t was thougla by some, that when the Bank charter expired, bet tyt terms would he obtainable by Oovernment from that body. Now. this wag also a misapprehension. He did not desire mks- live privileges for the Bank ; but only desired to prevent the esta blishment of any rival bank in the metropolis. If that were once permitted, the mutual endeavour would he to issue as large a quan tity of paper as possible, and the responsibility from the eircum &tam? of its being divided, would be diminished. He was ready to admit, the paper currency of the Country banks might have par tially .occasioned the distress, which, however, was principally Caused by excessive trading, and the Spirit of wil d speculation lately so prevalent in this country. ,Mr. BARING s lid, he was anxious to bring this very important question to islue, for he was convinced that much injury would be done by a discussion of this sort day after day. He should, therefore; feel it kis duty to take the sense of the House upon an amendment. His impre.sion Was, that the proposed measure was one of danger, and he should mbee a resolution to that effect. Ile should move as an amendment-o-- " That it is the opinion of this House, that in the present die tressed state of public and private credit, it is not expedient to enter into consideration of the banking system of the country." If the House thought prop. r to support his Majesty's I‘l nisters in this project, he should give up further op po4tion. Before he moved his amendment, he was desitous of saying a few words in the way of explana tion. Ile had first to apologise to the Right Hon. Gentleman for that which he had said. He thought the flight Hon. Gentleman had imputed to him a desire to persist in misrepresentation. He could not avoid calling the attention of the House to the peculiar situation in which it stusd. The Country was in a most extraordinary position. No person ever saw such a state of utter want of confidence between man and man. Although a clever speech, made by the Right Hon. Gentleman who stood high in the councils of the coon. try, was deservedly admired by all those who heard him, it could not reach the understanding of chose who looked for s 1 distinct remedy. No man of business in that House from one end to the other, whether Mer chant or Banker, had told them he had confidence in the proposed measure. None had ventured to say it could be adopted without danger. One Gentleman, who knew something about the circulation of the currency, had merely said lie was inclined to vote for the Resolution. - Gentlemen came from the Inns of Court, with informa tion derived from books, to give the measure supFinrt, but not one practical man could say it was possible to adopt it without danger. The Right Honourable Gen- Veman, with his great and splendid talents, had given the strongest support to the intended measure, yet upon such a question, be (Mr. Baring) would rather take the opinion of the Right Hon. Gentleman at the head of the Board of Trade. The speeches made on 'this subject brought to his recollection the story relate: by the Earl of Chesterfield. One person made a speech which was plain, but good sense, no one however attended to it. Another made a brilliant speech which had no relation to the sub* livery one attended to it, and it was considered excellent. fast, which was really g ood, was decided to be the worst. All who had taken the subject from books and theory were decided on' the subject. They Made brilliant speeches upon a false view of the subject, and who could say that very circumstance was not an increase of the evil. The object was to restore confidence and some thiag like ease, by bringing about that change which must be at tended with evil. Men of business recommended delay, and their judgment must be better than theory. The issue - R-ene pound notes bad been condemned, but one pound notes had little to dli with the panic. All the vile schemes and impositions wets MPS made. The countrymen were the dupes of London sharpert.-..r The over-trading was with merchants residing in town. where s one pound note did not exist. It had been urged, that if they did not make the Change then, they would never make it. If it really was a nuisance to be abated, that Howse ought to do its duty ; but what was the case ? Would say commercial man get up and say the change could be made , without great risk? If any Gentleman could say there was no risk, he would give up his opposition. The Hon. Member rts. peated his former objections to the measure. It was out of time; the experiment should not be made with the experiments for the benefit of free trade. It would throw the country into ecologic*, and upon the eve of a general election itinerant statesmen would not fail to use it as an Instrument for promoting their attempts upon credulity. Ile bad formerly stated his opinion that Mimi ties in the currency had been occasioned by choking the resources of the Wok. The Government bad drawn too much upon those resources. Under wise and proper management he thought public business might be carried on with the preestgeurrency. He would leave the thing alone for the present. and Sedate respecting the Country Dank Notes at the end of another year. The Honourable hienther concluded by moving the Amendment which he had previously stated. Air. PASCOE G REN FELL believed in his conscience that there would be no safety to the credit of this country, unless the piste of notes were to be supplied by a metallic currency. The Bank Note system was one of the causes of the present evil. The Amendment was then read by the Srescea. Mr. BROUGHAM said, it was his opinion that a returrence to a metallic currency was the only means of restoring that tranquillity which had lately been so disc urbed. It could not be denied that the panic had commenced with the holders of the one and two-pound notes; persons generally speaking in an inferior sphere of life. This had increased gradually, so that in the end individuals who were possessed of larger notes had also been affected by the panic. It was necessary that some decisive step should be taken to prevent a recur rime of this terror. Hedid not like to hear hisHon.Friend (Mr. Baring) wish for a postponement of the question. Procrastination in this instance would do infinite harm. He Itnew very well what would be the cOasecitience,l when at some future period they would propound the question. The answer would be, " What, shall we gn back ? No, stand still. Don't retrace your steps." "'Tis a pity when everything is in io flourishing a rate to do away with these notes." And if at a period of en.baraassment still some excuse would be offered; " What, would you increase- the embarrassment ?" He wished something to be devised as soon as possible at the plesent period. His Hon. Friend had said, " Don't do it now; but then he had not said when he would dO it. If he would state any fixed period, some thing less than three ) ears, he would then be satisfied. thought that if it were generally known that as soon as the notes now in circulation were worn out, fresh ones would not be issued, they would find that at the cod of a year and a half, or at the utmost three years, a metallic currency, which had gradually supplied the place of these notes, would be fully established. None of the Hon. Members on either side of the House had yet suggested a currency which would be intrinsically valuable, whether of gold, silver, of even a mixture of both. He thought that tamper ng with the currency as it now stood, or proposing one which would be liable to' be changed every two or three years, was not only im politic, but also Unjust to a very great degree. He would merely say to those lion. Gentlemen who were doing so at this period—" Recollect well the month of December ; relent oo all thrhoeton of that fortnight or those three weeks of distress!" fie was fearful that if the former circulation was still allowed to go on, tbe mischief which they had been latiourbig to stop would return with all its train of horrors? lie did not doubt but that it would be followed by distrees in another quarter, he maw the agricultural. In a state of suspension like the present, he ebuuld give his vote for putting the question at rest. Mr. Secretary CANNING (amidst loud cries of "kbiestion;queltion.") tspassed a hope that 'the derision of th House on this motion would be decisive on the whole question and the sooner that decision was given it would be the better.. The House then divided—for the original Resolution, Ayes, 02 Noes, 39 Majority, - -&-193 On our re-admission Into the gallery the Haute had gone into a Committee. - - Mr. HUDSON GURNEY moved, as an Amendment, that the words " to the Bank" be left out. Mr. BARING said that the Government ought to possess the power of controling the issue of one and two-pound notes by the Bank of England. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the Govern ment had no power to control the Bank. Mr. HUME ruse to enter his protest against any supposition that he coincided with the present measures. Mr. Secretary PEEL said it was well known that if his Bill had been carried into full effect, there would not have been any one and two pound notes now in circulation. The House- then divided on the Amendment of Mr. Gutnte, and the numbers were For the Amendment - 7 Against it - - 66 Majority against the Amendment 59 The original Resolutions were then carried, and the House re sumed.—Adjourned at HALr-rase Two. OXFORD ELECTION. THE COMMITTEE for conducting Mr. EST COURT'S ELECTION, meets daily at the Thatchtd.Houte Tavern, St. J a mes's.street, at Ten o'Clock. THOMAS GREENE, Chairman. 1 . 1114_, EVENING STAR LONDON. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, MS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Great confusion prevails in the Market tats morning, and Con sole which opened at 76 have fallen to 741, an parties being anxious to sell. They are now 744 Various rumours are assigned as the cause of this fall, such as the great distress in the manufacturing towns; the probability of a war between Russia and the Turks; and a report, founded on a letter, said to have been received 'from Paris, that the new levee of 60,000 men in France is ordered to be hastened—that a new camp is to be formed en the Spanish fron tier. and that the Daurum is going to visit the camp of St. Omer. The Foreign Market is in a dreadful state of confusion. Current Prices: Old Spanish Si 11, Mexican 541 1 , Colombian New 464, &maims 734, Exchequer Bins SO discount. CITY, ONE O'CLOGE. Since twelve o'clock everything has a still more gloomy appear ance and Consols have been done at 74j I. but within this half hour the Market is worse, they have declined to 741, for the Ac count, but there are no buyers for April. This moment two failures are generally spoken of in the Foreign Market, one of consequence in the South American Securities. This is Settling Day in the Foreign Market, which is in a state not tole described. Colom bian has been done at 40 ; Exchequer Mbar, at tit dis. Consols have been done at 74—are now 74i. PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 194 193 3 per Cent. Red. 7514 74 3 / 4 S per Cent. Cons. 75'A 74 3 / 4 3 / 4 73 ti' 3 per Cent. 83 3i per Cent. Red. 83 3 / 4 82% ' '• 4 per Cent. 92 91 3 / 4 90h Long Ann. 18 1 ,4 3 / 4 £l,OOO Excheq. Bills 14 22 18 4 11 s. £5OO ditto 12 21 13 disi • £101) and 1:200 ditto 12 dis. India for Acct. 215 216 Cons. for Acct. 76 74% 75 74 1 4 % EXCHANGES. Lune, Fe 5.-02 Leaden, 511. FORgION FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCIC Colombian ilds,6p C. Iltise.lld4lsll2,Sp C. 731 3 Ditto Acct. SO ''tto Acct. 741 A 3 Do. 13ds lf Sp Ct. C. ej 624, 45}; 6 7 401 41 1k Do. Ace. 49/ 71 5 61 3 4 Greek Mods Di 1.1140, 11125, 171 17 Isl 7 Ditto Acet.ll Msg. Bonds 5 p. Ct. Ditto Acct. 5 p C. Do. 8d51625,6 pC.561 sh 6 501 51 1 p ...co for A. Dino 310, s p et. C. 11823, Hoch Ream, S p C. Exchange, ',roach Unites. 3 p C. _ _ Eichange, Do. Acct. 5714 S 'Guiana& Bowls, BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK WARE ?AI& 100 • S 40 SA 40 12j 12 11e In .1 Unite.' Mexican Ditto New The French Papers confirm the previous accounts of the great naval victory gained by Mutate, in the Gulf of Lepanto, and also publish details of the capture of Tripolizza by CoLocoraost, which leave no doubt of its reality. In the night of Dec. 27 that Commander, reinforced by four companies of disciplined troops, taken from the regiment of Colonel FAIVIER, having blown up one of the gates of Trip°liiza, rushed into it at the head of 7,000 Greeks. The combat was obsti nate. The Egyptians and the negroes of Darfour, being driven into the Castle, which is situated on an eminence, were burnt alive there by COLOCOTRONI'S order, by way of reprisal fur the churches they have burnt, the monks and priests whom they have martyred, and the women and children whom they have dragged into slavery. Thirty-six foreign officers who escaped from the flames have been spared for the present to be carried about from village to village, and exhibited as infamous apostates, who, forgetting their names as Christians, had enlisted into the service of the Turks, in all whose crimes they have participated; it is said that such of those as shall sur vire this species of expiation, will be thrown aboard the first vessel that will take charge of them, to be carried back to Christendom. The important debate on the Currency was re. sumed last night in the House of Commons, and dis. c ussed with a degree of Went and candour, which, while it did honour:to the parties, left no view of the question untouched. The original resolution of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, it will be seen, was carried by a majority of 193, the numbers being for the resolution 232, and only 39 against it.— For the present we can only re:er to the debate, pa.ti• cularly the speeches of Mr. Secretary CANNING and Mr. Secretary net., in which sound arguments, and a knowledge of detail, are blended with eloquence. To. morrow we shall offer some observatims on the irn. portant question to which they :elate. - THE ARMY. it having been determined that the Royal African Colonial Corps shaU not receive any more deserters or culprits, but shall be re cruited on the Western Gast of Africa, circular letters have lately been issued front the Horse Guards to General Officers on the Stag, and to Officers commanding Regiments and Reginatntal Depots, directing that Courts 11.rtial skould not in 'future award sentences of General Service, but confine themselves to the other modes of punishment recugni.ed in the Army, there being no Corps at present to which soldiers sentenced to General Service can be attached. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Lana Rookh, arrived in the Downs, left the following ships at St. Helena, viz. the Malcolm, from Madras; the Magnet and the Calcutta, from Bombay ; and the Catherine, from Batavia. The Maria, of Liverpool, has been condemned at St. Thomas's (Africa), as unseaworthy. Master and crew (except the mate) died previously. The Ophelia, from Liverpool to Savannah, was totally lost on Kish Bank on Saturday, and two of the crew drowned. Faraway, Fes. 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Sandwich packet, from Lisbon—sailed the Sth Inst. Sailed the Lion, Jams, for Jamaica ; and the Maria, Tesstea, for 'London. PLYMOUTH. Fea. 12.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the Proseue, JACK. MN, from Newcastle for nermuda. Sailed the George and Thomas, with several others, bound Eastward. twersawers, Feb. 13.—Wind S. to S.S. W.—S tiled the Juliana, Revel, for Madras and Bengal; and the Wilhehnina, Wirveourtuil, for Hamburgh. Dzat., Fea. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived and.sailed fur the River, the Lelia Rookh, Slew* ar, from Penang—sailed the f.4th of October; Sarah Ann, Paw's, from the South Sas, with 1600 barrels of 01l • Phcebe„ ---.., from Demer a ra ; Piincess Royal and William Harris transports, from Corfu—the latter remains. Came down from the River and remain, the Prince Regent, 'Cot tams, for Terceira ; Faith, Dinars, for New South Wales ; Lon don Packet, Blame, for Boston; Asia, Rohn, for Carthagena ; Harriet, Kitrotiv, for Vera Cruz; and the Dido, for Bahia. LIVERPOOL, Fee. IL—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Elm, from Jamaica—sailed from Montego Bay 21st December. On the 4th of January, in the Gulf, picked up the crew (thirteen in number) of the Danish ship Ida Margaretta, CHRISTIAN, from Havannah for Hamburgh, which vessel was wrecked on the Dou ble-headed Shot Keys. Also arrived, the Minerva, Cnaxamts, from Monte Video—sailed 19th November (left the Ann and the Grace there) ; Mary, from Trinidad; Alexander, Bar.oww, from Charleston ; Ajax, Nie . m.r., from Savannah ; Rover, Cooc, from Macaio ; grog, from 13ilhoa; Pelorus, Goonwtm, from MUUMUU ; Minerva, from Marseilles ; Margaret, Lona, from Charente; and Defiance, ELY, from St. Michael's. Sunday Count Muturreit arrived at the Royal Lodge, Windsor, and had an audience of his Majesty. The Princess AUGUSTA arrived at her residence at Frovnote yesterday, from Bagshot, where Her Royal Highness had been on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of G Lancet/rut. Saturday the Duke of YORK gave a Grand Dinner to a party of sixteen, consisting of several of the Cabinet Mi n i s .. tars, and some of the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers. Saturday earning a Russian Courier was sent off with despatches for St. Petersburgh, from the Russian Ambas- . sador. Mr. LATCHFORD, one of the King's Messengers, ar- rived in town a few days since with despatches from Paris. Such was the interest excited by the discussion last night in Parliament that the Commons' gallery was filled with merchants, bankers:ice. The lobby was also crowded by brokers and jobbers, who, like the money changers in the Temple, were buying and selling thousands, as if they were on the Stock Exchange. In the roof of the House there were several Ladies to beat the Debate, among whom was Mrs. Camino. • We regret to state, that the eminent and highly re spectable booksellers, Messrs. C,onsmate and Co. of Edinburgh, lave not suceeded in attempting to arrange their affairs. They are included in the last list of Scotch sequestrations. Dr. LUSHINOTON is confined by severe illness. Yesterday, in . the Cotirt of King's Bench, the rule obtained a few days since on behalf of Mr. ROTHICIULD against the English Gentleman Newspaper, was enlarged till next Term.—Mc. J. S. S. Comte, who was convicted of conspiracy, was admitted to bail, to await the lassie of the trial of Ms brother at Gloucester Assixes. --- Wednesday last, tits Hon. CHARLES PERCY was elected a Member far the Borough of Newport, Cornwall, in the room of the late Mr. Nownsai, deceased. Et. CTION/ERIN(' FRACAS. A disgraceful scene took place at Retford, on Thursday, and of all places the Church and Church-yard were the principal scenes where tumult and dis order prevailed ; a contest took place between opposite parties for the possession of the bells ; the Church was attacked by means of ladders, and carried by assault, the belfry door broken open, and those who were ringing forced out. The Vicar interfered, and a most atrocious riot, in defiance of the civil power, closed a scene never drpasied within the precincts of a place of Religious Wor ship. Sir H. DIDIDAS and Mr. WItIONTSON were afterwards assailed when leaving the town, with stones and bricks and the carriage- windows entirely broken—in short, the Magisterial autho rity is so entirely overpowered by the populace, that we upder stand the Bailiffs intend applying to the Secretary of State fur pro tection and assistance. The Drapeau Blanc states that accounts from Russia, to the end of January, speak vaguely of some unfavourable news from the army of the East. The Court of King's Bench on Saturday set aside a warrant of attorney and judgment given by the Earl of STRATMMORE, for securing an annuity of 28751. to the Globe Insurance Company, on the ground of a defect iu the memorial, the initials of the Chris tian names of the attesting witnesses being only inserted, instead of the names at length. We understand that the Globe will lose up wards of 34,0001. by this decision. INiatenoN.—We regret to announce the death of this once celebrated vocalist, which - took place on Saturday night last, at twelve o'clock, at Worcester. _ _ The amount of Exchequer bills author iced to be issued in 18£6, is 33,590,0001._ His Mijesty's frigate TARTAR arrived on 'Thursday at Gravesend, having a man on board in irons, who, it is said, has confessed himself to be the murderer of Mr. Bird, of Greenwich, for which Hussey was hanged, and who upon his trial confessed, that he was an accomplice, but that the real murderer was gone to see.—Cisifue Port Herald. The news trom Greece is most conlolato.y. Ois the Bth of January MAUL'S and SACHTURT captured and dhtroyed 18 ships of war, belonging to the Captain Pacoils Beet, at Etiole, near Missoloughi. A letter tr Berlin, of the 4th inst., says:—" We have no news from S.Petersburgh, except a report of disturbances ' haying broken out in the army in Georgia, commanded by Count •I:snmA Low." The Recorder's Report of the prisoners under sen -trnee of death in Newgato, will be made at the Council to be hold to•morrow. A singular inquest was held last week at Cambridge, on a number of ancient gold and silver coins. discovered by some workmen whilst pulling down an old house in that town. A scram ble ensued, but the contractor succeeded in securing it for Corpus Christi College. A question arising to whoin the prize belonged, the Lords of the Treasury directed an inquest to be held, but their verdict, of course, failed to point out the owner, and it was deposited ,in one of the balks at Cambridge, till further proceedings are had, at the instance of or 5 claimants. -There are 195 pieces of gold, sad 3,510 pieces of silver, valued together at about 18200. The N tvy Es lames for the present year have been laid upon the table of the House of Commons. They consist of three great divisions, of whisk the following are the general abstract : 1. Wages and Victuals fur thirty thousand men, including nine thousand Marines 181,538,000 0 0 2. Ordinary Estimates, (after abating 150,5431. for Navy,- and 7,3001. for Victualling Old Stores received in 1825) £3.7311.904 6 10 3. Extra Estimate 759,000 0 0 Tatai £6,135,004 6 II The Expenditure for this branch of the Public Service last pear; Will 5,849;119/. 4s. 3.1. The Aguilar, Warson, from Penang to London, for the safety of which considerable apprehensions were entertained, put into the Mauritius the 19th of (knitter. • The application made tii Goveinmeni from. Norwich, for two general gull deliveries in the fear, has been refused, on the ground that Magistrates at the Sessichns possess the sane power as if thts prayer of their petition were grunted. • CANDIDATES AND ELECTION. The election for Northumberland, is fixed for the 511 s! last; A new candidate in the person of Matthew 8.41, Esq. of sington (nephew of the dectaied Mr. Brandling) has started ; and Lord liowick has withdraith his pretenbitnis to the tepre. sentation of the county, stating in his address to the freeholders, that circumstances which lie did not anticipate hid arisen, which rendered his chances of success no longer sufficient to war. rant his engaging in a contest for the county of Northumberland, at the present conjuncture; but concluding with a declaration, " that at the General Election would again solicit their sunport." The Hon. Mr. Liddell's catty lit is progressing favourably. Samuel Trehawke Kekewich, Esq was duly elected gember for the city of Exeter last Thursday afternoon. Martin Stapylton, Esq., of Myton:hall, has addressed a letter to the Electors of Pontefract, announcing his intention of offering himself as a candidate to represent that borough in Parliament at the ensuing general election. The borough of Lancaster is likely to experience a very severe contest at the ensuing General Election. Rochesser hes not yet found a substitute for Lord Binning, whti has announced his intention to retire at the dissolution of Pan; There is a vacancy for Dorset, W. M. Pitt, Esq. having accepted the Stewardship of Great llendred Manor, Berks. 11. Banks, Esq. is at present the only candidate. The eltction is fixed for Thursday. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING-ROOM, TATTERSALL'S, I'en 13. DERRY. 4 to I apt Monarch 11 to 1 apt Tredrille 17 to 1 apt The General 22 to 1 apt Panic 2S to 1 apt Graniarie • OA se to I apt Pawn 6i to 1 agst Mignionette 71 to 1 apt Filagree 7 to 1 apt fkdlamite 11 to 1 *gat Belzoni 12 to 1 apt Crusader 125 to 1 agst Advance 25 to 1 agst hist 30 to 1 agst Cedric 130 to 1 apt Mormin (.Itoirela) 30 to 1 agst ail other I KII. 116 to 1 apt Rachael IS to 1 agst Hem (taken) I _ _ :I ST. LT.43ItR. 18 to 1 agst TL rataria 23 to 1 agst Btu. to Fanny . _ . . Friday was the day appointed for another deer to he turned nut at the Magpies Inn, Hounslow Heath ; but the denseness of the fog in the morning was such that it was deferred turning out the stag to the following morning; numbers of sportsmen who were assembled at that spot were in contegnenee disappointed. The deer and the hounds were kept all night at Longford to be in reldi. nese fur Saturday morning, When they turned out at the Magpies Inn s and had an excellent day's sport. By the arrival of a Lis! on Mail we have received Cannes from the 31st of January 10 the sth Instant. They state that a Committee has been appointed for allotting the prizes takes 1 during the Peninsular war. _ We understand that Mr. HUDSON GUS NRY, though a very extensive Banker, has so great an objection to the small notes, that he has not for several years past puthis name to any note under 51., nor would be do so en any account. ' It is mentioned on the authority of letters f r o m Rome, that about a dozen young men had been arrested in that city, and transferred to the Castle of St. Angelo. Some amon g them were persons employed by the Government ; they all be longed to very respectable families. Various conjectures were afloat to account for these arrests, respecting which nothing bad transpired at Rome. It was thought they were connected with a society of Carhograri. Saturday a private meeting was called of the greatest merchants and capitalists of the City, for the purpose of applying to Government for the loan of Exchequer Bills on pro perty. The important measures proposed are yet in arrangement. GIPILDHALLWC noticed last week the destruction of a valuable law library in the Temple, by awo boys, named Chilmay and WU sou, who, it was supposed, had burned the books by way of d;ve:. slon. It turned out, howeraer, subsequently, that they bad, wits James Sullivan, another bot, only burned the ccriers, and tlt.t Sullivan sold the insides, at least the greatest pea of them. to a Cheesemonger, in Chancery lane. The property was diccovr-.d in his house, and the cheesernonger and his son, after an examtaa- Hon at Bow street, were remanded, on the charge of receiving sto len goods, until this day. By Jamaica Papers we. learn, that the Christmas holydayt —a season which on account of-former recol lections is always regarded wish some apprehension— had passed over without any interruption to tranquillity on the part of the negroes. Mr. HENRY, the teak:- Commissioner of Legal Inquiry, was still pursuing his labours in the bland. The Duke of Ma xcitesrea's speech on the prorogation of the Legislature is com mented on with much acrimony in some of the papers, hut it appears doubtful whether they represent the sen timents of the majority of the planters. THE SILK TRADE.—Friday a meeting of Inhabit Int Householders of the parish of St. Matthew, thnal. green, was held in the Parish Church, pursuant to pub lic .advertisement, to consider of the propriety of im• mediately petitioning both Houses of Parliament against die repeal of the Silk Pcohibititn Laws. The meeting was nume ously and respectably attended,. and the Rev. Mr. MAYNE was callei to the ch sir. After seve ral Gentlemen had spoken the question was put and unanimously carried. The plan of Ministers for the gradual withdrawment oar small notes, of the value of one and t polinds, from circulation, combined with the want of public confidence, has already begun to operate in Yorks ire, and the respectable firm of Messrs. RAWSONS and Co. of Halifax, HaVersfield, and Rnchdale, have an nounced their determination to receive and disch , rge all their small notes and to supply their place witit specie. These notes will not be re-issued, and the ne cessary consequences will be, that as far as they ate concerned, Mr. PEEL'S Bill will come into immediate operation. NEWGATE AND LEADENI4ILL MARKETS, Fes. 13. Beef Ds Od to 4s 4d I Veal Mutton ........ 3s Od to 4s 44 Pork 4l Od to Ss 4s• PRICES or IIAY AND ST. JA A! Ea . S. Hay .31 Os Od to 51 Os 041 Clover 4110 s 041 to 51 04 041 Straw 11 16s Od to 21 5s Od PRICE NEW ritclaTs. Kent 3151 to 370$ Susses Essex Farnhamfine 440$ to 501 ;THAW YESTERDAY. WHITICIIAPEL. Hay 31 Se to 41 154 O Clover 41 4. to .51 15c Od Straw 11 15. to 21 2. Otl IF HOPS Kent Sussex WIW DAC% 494 s le 3400 2804 to 300 s Essex 290 s to 3301 580 i to 421 COAL MARKET, FEBRUARY 13. Ships at Market. Ships Sold. Price. 74i Newcastle 36i 31s 0.1 to 38% 6d 32 S , lnderland 3t 34% Od to 40s 6d PRICE or TAI.t.OW, Town T.illow 4os ud Yellow Russia ... SOAP, ate. per 1121 b Yellow Soap Mottled .. White ditto . Curd Soap ditto ..... ......... 38s Od Melting Stuff ... ..... ... 32s Od Graves... "..,..•••••• ••• Goild Dnits • ...... 22s Od ag 04 asAILS-1 • aa. two Dublin 1 0 Waterfnrd 4 1 Guernsey and Jersey 0 1 Llshou 1 0 Gonenburgh 0 $ Malta 0 0 Holland 0 0 _A. Mr. 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 r 0 0 IHIS 'DA America JamJica Ltriv:.rd Islands lIIGH-W ATER et Ljf.ool..kiitl lIA •12110 W Maiming . 2 minutes after 7 Afternoon - 22 mit.ute‘ after 7 [Amgen. ibritelasial Ai/444M hy.f. E. It, fro Ore ST A. (Ir, OS No I s Plikeig-Hate, 71 mph: iffy. ra, If. Id, er cr ng at re to r d s, •• r 1 E $5 G. Ft I M. 'vi Tu ani tin eas ret roe or 'ill tetra rltil of ter Pro !sy •qv t►e 1114 Sin "Si atra Itili ter l're le o No 3 0,,,n I