Star. — London, England, 1831-02-19 00:00:00

PRICK OF 8 l'Os KS AT TWO O'CLOCK. 3 per rt. Cons. 801 1 79 i 1 per Ct. 1826, oq i M. for Ace. 80 79f 80 791 long Ana. Jan. 1 C O B6O, 17 3.16 i 3 per rear. Rid. a i OM Annulate New, 31 pet rt. 1818, £lOOO Etch. Bills 32 33 90 31 per Ct Red. 119 i I 5500 Ditto 32 33 90 3., per rent. New. My i £lOO and .Ctoo Do. 32 33 30 FOREIGN STOCKS. Austrian, —. Brazilian for Acct, 5711. Milan, 6 per Ct. 21 ; for Acct 201. Colombian, —. Danish 3 per Cent, 591 for Ea s el, 591. Purtuguese, for Account. 431. Russian, 921; for Acet. Nit. Spanish. —. Do. for Acct. 171. Spanish 1623, --a French Reams % per Cent. 601; Exchange, 25f 30e. Irish Three per Cents, 801. PUBLIC Cl Bank Stock, 201*. For Acc. India Stock, India Bonds, 13 12 London Docks. £59 10s St. Catherine". £7B 10, City Gas. £l9O Bank of Scotland, £167 British Linen, £250 Grand Junction, £243 Leeds, £395 O IIPANIES. Regent's, £lB 101 Irish Grand Canal, £92 61 2d Forth and Clyde, £625 Lit. &Man.Railway,XlB6to.lll£o Cromford, £45 Albion Fire, £75 Alliance, £8 5s County, £4O Doha*, Mince, £lBO • Steam Navigation, di.. £6 151 [TISH COMMERCE. STAPLES OF BEI' Carrot' (Liv.)—Sea Island, Ild to 2041; N. Orleans, did to Wool. (Lon.)—Sazony prima, 53 to ss; Austrian printa,2s to 48; Segovia, 2s 041 to 2s 641 ; South Down, 12 to 15 ; Blanket, 7 to 9. Sur. thrown—Piedmont White, 27s to 458 ; yellow slack, 24s to 27. ; Modena raw, 14s to 16s; Bengal, 10s 01 to 15s; China, 13s 6d to 17s. CAPC—(92g.; £9 to £lB. Hiors—Bsitts,2od to 23d; Buenos Ayres (A.) 9d to 101 d. Correz---Jam. middling, £2 14s to £3 3s; Dem. and Berbice, .C 2 8s to £4 2s; Mocha, L 3 Ss to .26 101. TitA—BOtlea, Is lid to 2s Od ; Congos, mid. 2s 2d to 21 Od ; Hyson. mid. 413 d to 4s 6d. Burris—Cork, 24 145 to £4161; Ft.az--iuga, £52; Antwerp, £5O to £65. laom—Pigs, £4 10, Od to £4 Ids ; Bars £6 Ss Od to £6 10s Od • Dutch, £4 lbs. CHUM—Cheshire, old, L'S 10s to LS las ; 3.Glo'ster,Z2 to £2 fts. TALLow—Russla yet. £2 Ss 6d ; Swedish, Xl3 to £l5 lOw - Corrsa—XB7 to £BB Os; South White, .92 7s 3d. [tics—Carolina,_l4. OJ to 19, Amer. 4 1 74 to 172 10s: Luo = Bars, Xl5 15s to .el 4. Bengal. 15s 6d to 17. 6d. &WA —S6s ittl per ewt. Surrnrizt.o. IS 17.—Beer, 4s Od to 4s 6d; Mutton, 4s 2d to 4s 8d; Vial, 5s Od to 5s 841; Pork, 41 Od to 5210 d. Alec-Latrz, Fes. 18.—Wbeat, 68s to 82s ; Burley, 42s to 48s; , Tie—Blocks, £3 15$. SOCA a— Lumps, large, £3 31 Od to £3 4$ Od ; Powder, fine, £3 166 to £4 66 Od ; Bengal, .£1 2s Od to £1 4s ; 'Jamaica; fine, £3 Is to XS Si. TosAcco—Nlaryland, bid to 51d; Virginia, 5 to 6 ; Cubs,ls to 18. Ott.--Flor. £1 Is Od ball rifest; . . Oat., 22s to as. GAZETTI Al llll6o 4 FM iiii.• _ _ _ - Linseed, 3:'2 Os Od per eat ; Pale Rape, .62 10s. Beasoe—..Brdraus, Zs to 3s 6d. Roat—Jam. (14) 2s 3d to es 38 ; Dem (10 a 20) es to es ed. Winne, 101 98 to 11s. GE1119.11, 2. 611 to 2s 9d. Pore—Good, £35 to £4O. Wheat, 74s 84 • galley, 42s 8d ; Oats, 27s Od ; Beans, 40$ ad. BOTOUGH REM F1L1.19. —Kent ish, E 8 12$ to £l4 14$; Fun- bans, .215 Os to £tB OS. COAL EXCOAXOII, Fu. 18.—Best Walrs End, 35s Od to 35s 6d; other sorts, 27s Od to 34. 6d. SWITOrIeLD HAT MAOISM FRI. 19. Hay, str2 hls to £4 10s. &raw, LI 124 to £2 Os. Sturawir—Good, £25 to £4O. 111AuvRA—Lon. P. £3O to £4O. Otta oTt.occ.—Barometer, 30-13 ; Weather, cloudy, and rata. r, 4s. Wind N.— FAMILY LIBRARY OF FRENCH CLASSICS. MESSRS. TREUTTEL, WURTZ, and Co. will cora menee the publication, early in March, of a FRENCH FA MILY LIBRARY, in Bvo. with Portraits, on a plan of unprecedented cheapness and elegance. Proapectusses and advertisements will be is sued in a few days. Orders received by all Booksellers in Town and Country. 30, Soho Square, Feb. 18th, 1831. T E EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19. We have just heard, that a vessel has arrived at Pool from Lisbon, which place she left on the 7th instant; bringing accounts that a serious and determined insurrection has broken out there—that MIGUEL had been dethroned—and the young Queen DONNA MARIA had been proclaimed. This intelligence is confidently believed in the City. Another account speaks thus :—" The Hope, Bloomfield, arrived at Poole, on Wednesday, from Lisbon, which place she left on the 7th, and Belim on the Bth. There are no letters by her of later date than the 7th ; but the master reports that at two o'clock A.lt. on the Bth, when lying at Belim, he was disturbed by a strange noise on shore, and coming on deck he saw rockets ascending, and other signs of a disturbance, and at day-light large bodies of horse and foot making towards the city ; and that the General Officer, who boarded him, when get ting under weigh, told him that there was a great dis turbance in the city, that would not be quelled without much bloodshed, as the people were determined to liberate all the State prisoners." An express from Paris has arrived to a commercial estab-' lishment in town, bringing the French 3 per Cents. 5920. No political news agitated Paris when this intelligence left that city. The French Ministry were said to be supporting the Funds, by purchasing in them ; otherwise it was ex pected they would recede. An article from Dresden of the sth February states that, though there is no notion that the Saxon troops will be re called into active service, 10,000 men, instead of 6,000, are however to be under arms. The LANDWZRIL is called together in the kingdom of Bohemia. _....—... We have Frankfort papers this day to the 12th of Feb. which contain an address from the citizens of Wurtzburgh, to the Constitutional KING of BAVARIA, extracted from the Hanau Journal of the 4th of the same month. In this ad dress, which is occasioned by an attempt of the Bavarian Government, to annul the election of certain Represen tatives, constitutionally chosen by the people, are the following animated passages " Sistz—At the lama time that the flame of revolution blued in the west, where the fire shone threatening in the eyes of many German Princes, you remained tranquil, and free from care, like a father in the bosom of his family—in the midst of your people—in a place devoted to health and pleasure,—what then watched over your Majesty's repose ? Bayonets ! Censors of the Public Press I Certainly not—it was the love of the Bavarian nation. When the events in France gave the signal for discontent in Germany—when troubles broke out in neighbouring countries around us, where did the most exemplary tranquillity prevail ?—ln Bavaria. What was the cause of this tranquillity ? Is, perhaps, the ideal of happiness to be found in Bavaria ? Is there nothing left to be desired ? Are there no im. provemata advisable ? Are not the regulations respecting the tariff of customs, which have given cause for disturbances in other places, more oppressive in Bavaria than in any other country ? Yet all re. mained tranquil; and this tranquillity was the fruit of confidence in the resolution, so decisively pronounced by your Majesty, to govern according to the spirit of the Constitution, and to listen to every resoonabk desire of the nation." The citizens then prof eed to set forth their wants in the following terms : " But when the people is depriad of its best representatives; when the ablest men, who mean honestly by the King and the Country, are excluded from the assembly of the grata; when the free expression of thoughts in words and smiting—that km palladium of Mut, ; the fundamental condbion of popular representation and tonatitational govemment, is rendered impossible, we have only one hops left us— only one war—that to the generous beset of your Majesty, which no Dsvarian need fear to invoke in vain, for the good of your people. Reject not, Sire, the urgent entreaties of your devoted subjects, for the revocation of a measure which, threatens to destroy confidence between the Prince and the people, which is the firmest pledge of the tranquillity of the country, and the stability of the throne.—We most carnally im plore your Majesty to grant us this t and conjure you, by your own noble heart—by the holy seal for the happiness of your people width glows in your bosom—by the spirit of your ancestors—we conjure you by yonr paternal love for your family, who grow up before our eyes in so promising a manner, and to whom we ardently wish an unclouded life, and the happiness of reigning over a contented people, to listen to our demand, in this respect." Montreal, Quebec, and Port-an-Prince papers have this day been received at.the North and South American Coffee house. The Montreal papers inform us, that the Provisional Government of Upper Canada had opened on the 7th Ja nuary, when the Lieutenant-Governor—after ARCHIBALD M'LEAN had been announced as Speaker—delivered a speech, announcing the death of his late MAJESTY, and the gracious declaration of King WILLIAM, to protect the liberties of his people, and to promote their happiness. The Speaker then proceeded to enlarge on the state of the interior, and the value of an uninterrupted inland navigation ; pointing out that as this subject was be coming every day more fully appreciated, the best efforts of the provincial Parliament were necessary for its perfect and speedy accomplishment—more particularly to complete the Rideau Canal, before the close of next autumn. The total freedom of the Coal Trade, the oppressive Malt Tax, Greece, Reform, Evesbam, Irish Distress, Canada, and Belgium, successively occupied attention last night, in both houses, till past one o'clock. But it was a mere talk ; and seemed to prove the adage, that there is confusion in a multitude of Counsellors. If some of the questions had been before committees of twelve, it might have been in our power to announce some decision about something; but delay is as numbers, and even in a higher ratio. We wonder that Lord GREY should declare himself un acquainted with what is passing in Greece ; for though last, tho issue of that revolution is not least, in the affection of the British people. The case of Crete, more especially, de mands public sympathy. The anti-reform faction were again, last night, at their dirty work. The minor question about Evesham was put forward as more worthy than the major; and an attempt made to thrust in the Evesham question on the 28th, before the ge neral Reform question, which stands for the following day. If we ever despair of the country, it is when we witness unblush ing craft and assurance like this. It failed however, and the trumpery mock Evesham question was postponed till the Bth March. A frightful picture was drawn, by members of all parties, of the wretched state of the fertile western provinces of Ireland ; where it is alleged there arc 250 to every square mile; i. e. ONE family to every SIXTEEN ACRES, and this is deemed such an excess of population, that periodical starvation is unavoidable! The truth is, it is four or five times more land than is necessary ; and yet for several hours the honourable house were debating, and the dis cussion ended in some severe censures on the cruelty of Irish landlords, and an admission of the want of a liberal system of Poor Laws. In truth, Mr. SADLER, who has so ably written on Ireland, declared, that in the distressed dis tricts there are 30 acres to a family ; yet, with such abun dance of means, unparalleled misery prevails. Mr. HUME, made a statesman-like speech on the abomi nable equivocations practised towards Belgium ; and called it interference, which at once degraded the country, and threatened to involve us in war. Mr. O'CONNELL moss ably supported Mr. Hums's motion for papers on the sub ject. It was however resisted by Lord ALTHORPZ, Sir R. PEEL, Sir J. GRAHAM, and Mr. R. GRANT, and finally withdrawn. It came out in discussing the Evesham question, that if the Reform Bill be not carried, the House will be dissolved. The speech of Sir ROBERT Pan . was certainly one of the most ingenious, and generally able, which has proceeded from the opposition side of the House since the Session commenced. It might rather be said to be in support than in direct opposition to the present Ministers ; but we con ceive it merits public attention more particularly, be cause it developed the important fact which every day renders more apparent—that it is not men of which the people have to complain, but the circumstances in our complicated system, which compel men when in power to act differently from what they may profess, and perhaps honestly profess to be their views of public duty, when out of power, " The Indians believed," said Sir R. P En, " that they Inherited all the qualities of their enemies, as soon as they were killed. It might be truly said, that as soon as one set et Ministers were killed, their opponents seemed to inherit nearly the same doctrines which had characterised those whom they vanquished. They found it neces ceuary to support the Monarchical Institutions, and the honour and interests of the country ; and would not preju dice those great interests, by too rigid a regard to the flashy speeches which they made whilst out of office. (Cheers and laughter.) That was the truth." Nothing, we apprehend, could be more archly said, and more aptly illustrated, than what is here said by Sir ROBEAT PEEL ; but if there be any thing real in the distresses of the people, is not such a decla ration disheartening in the extreme ? We are here told that all men, when once in place, are, from the cir cumstances which the* appear to involve the" monarchical institutions, and the honour and interests of the country," compelled to act nearly alike. In fact we are told the state waggon has got into certain deep runs. and yoke what horses you please in the trams, they will only continue to draw on, in the same rutts, but have no chance to get the wheels on level ground.... We hope, however, that our present Ministers will pew, that they have the originality of mind, and boldness rif enterprise, on the Ist of March, by carrying a mom of efficient reform, to yoke to the team the people of P. land, and thus remove the State waggon out of those runs, in which it has so long and so laboriously travelled. TER KING'S COURT. BRIGHTON, Psi. 18. Their MAJESTIES took an airing yesterday in a carriage and four, with outriders, iu the direction of Hove, and *- turned to the Palace at four o'clo'ck. His MAJESTY gave audience in the CORM of the morn ing to Baron Mute CEAUSEN. The QUEEN, accompanied by the Royal Suite, visited the exhibition of paintings on cloth, by Mrs. LAIDLAW. The Landgravine of HESSE HomBERG, accompanied by lot Princess AUGUSTA, drove through various parts of the WW2 for some time. The Duke of SussEx took an airing in a carriage, and tondo several calls in the course of his drive. Lord FIFE arrived at the Palace yesterday evening. Their MAJESTIES gave a splendid entertainment yester day ; amongst the distinguished persons present on this Oc casion, the following had the honour of dining with their M AJ ESTIES— LOrIi and Lai_ James O'Brien, Mrs. Fitsherbert, General and lady Matilda Wynyard, Sir John Burgoyne, Mr. and Mrs. Yemen, Mr. and Mrs. Wham, end the Lion. Colonel awl Mrs. Windsor. In the eveninng Lady WARREN ' Mr. and Mrs. E. S. JERNINGH AII, Count and Countess MUNSTER, and many .other visitors arrived, and several fashionable amateurs per formed various pieces of vocal and instrumental music. The Misses GENT and Miss VERNux sang ducts. A duet by the Misses GENT, composed by GADASI, was very much admired. These young ladies are considered the best ama teur singers iu the country. A cavatina by Miss L. GENT was admirably performed and much applauded. The QUEEN'S private band was in attendance, as usual. In the course of the day the following persons bad lie' honour of leaving their names at the Palace : Sir H. Seaton, Captain Coghlan, Mr. Cripps, Earl Delawar, Coal.' mender Townse nd, Sir A. and Miss Johnstone, Rev. J. Hudson, Sir Robert and Lady Otway, Marquis of Bristol and Ladies Harvey, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford and Ladies Russell, Col. G. Wyndham, Lord A. Harvey, Mr. Bridges, Major-General Sir Colin Campbell. Mr. and Lady Elisabeth Dickins, Lord C. Suenenet, Viscountess lianelagh, Miss Jones, Colonel Douglas, Mr. and Miss Tyler, Sir Francis and Miss Collier, •ke. Several members of the Royal Household have already taken their departure for St. James's ; a general movement is visible throughout the establishment i messengers are con- 1 stantly passing between the Ministers and his MAJESTY. The Duchess of ltoxsUnou and Colonel O'REt ELY, 1 their Graces tha Duke and Duchess of St. ALBANS, and several other fashionable families, have taken their departure this morning. This afternoon his MAJESTY left the palace at three' o'clock, accompanied by the Marchioness of ELY, in a car riage and four, with outriders, fus an airing. Ws MAJESTY looks remarkably well. The QUEEN, accompanied by Sir A. BARNARD and the royal snits, has rude out on horseback, following the direc tion his MA J EST Y drove, towards Kemp Town, Itottingdem , . A meeting was belt! this day at the Old Ship (convened by the High Constable), for .he purpose of petitioning Par liament fur reform. The meeting was numerously and re spctably attended. Resolutions praying. for vote by ballot, and extending the elective franchise to all householders payin.A. scot and,lot, &c. were passer; unanimously. Thursday' and Yesterday.—Their MAJESTIES took their accustomed airings, and there was ou each day a numerous list of names left at the Palace. Their MAJESTIES leave us on Monday next for St. James's Palace. Sir ROBERT PEEL, who arrived on Saturday last, is staying at the residence of Mr. and Lady JANE PEEL, on the Marine-parade. General and Lady MATILDA WYN YARD are staying at the Bedford Hotel. BOARD O 1 GREEN CLOTH. 2W? QUEEN'S DRAWING ROOM. Board s f Great CIA, St. James's Palace, February 18, 1031. BY COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY. Notice is hereby given. That all Carriages going to her Majesty's Drawing Room at St. James's Calace, on Thursday the 24t. of February, are to fall into the line as the sop of St. James's-street, in Piccadilly. go down the left hand side of the Street, round the comer of 'sU.MelI, and enter at .he iron-gate nearest to the Palace, set down at the Arcade. and come out of the Farce-yard by the Iron% ate nearest to 3larlhonsugh house, and pass through Cali-Mall into St. Jaare's-square : in taking up, they are so come down St. Jatrunds ' street in like manner, isrssing 11 It the same gates as when they set down, and go away divot% aU-Dlall. No Ilackney Coaches twill be pennitseil to come within die Iron-gates, but roust set down at the outside thereof; anti go away through Pall-Mall. The gate at the top of Constitution- 1 0 will be open only for carriage. of perkons having the entree which are .o proceed down Constitution-Lill, and to cater the p.dace at the Statle-yard Gate, turn into the Ambassa dors' Court, Fri down at the trade, and go out at the gateway in Cleve land-row; turn to the left, and wait in Cleveland-row, the Stable-yard, or St. James's.park, till called ; then to take up hi order as they bet dOr peas awry through, the same gateway. and go up die left hand side of Eft. James's-street The canio 6 cs of ambassadors, the ministers, and great (dicers of state, may reMailt in the ambussador,' court till called for.— Tickets for carriages hclorgirg 10 person► havini i the entree, going in cut the gate ou the too of Constitution-hill, will he aellvered at the Board of Green Cloth, St. Jilltlr.% Mime, at. Tuesday next, between the hour, of 12 and 3 o'clock. Chairs arc in come down the right-hand side of Si, James's-at. from Piccadilly. dress chairs are to enter at she great gate of the Paltee, and pass uncle' shr Colomuule into the Ambassadors' Court, Sc' down there, and wait 4 1. nine Court till called fur. Hackney Chairs are to enter es the new Footway Iron-gate nearest .o the Palace, set down under the Arcade. alai pa/0 away on the outside of the Carriages Ithrough the new Foot-way trop.gate, next so Marlborough House. In the course of the sprin ,, , the Queen intends giving four splendid fetes at St. James s, similar to those given lately at the Pavilion, the orchest ral department of which will be also under the direction of Mons. Collinet, who was honoured with their Majesties' full approbation for his exer tions on the late occasions. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Augusta and the Land gravine of Hesse Romberg will accompany their Majesties to town on Monday next ; the former will rerurn to Frog more Lodge when their Majesties cake up their residence at Windsor Castle; but the Landgravine is expected, after a short stay in London, to return to Germany, her health being sufficiently improved to enable her to undertake the journey. Prince George of Cambridge, with his tutors, Messrs. Harvey and Wood, will also follow their Majesties to town. The health of their MAJESTIES has been remarkably good during their residence at Brighton. They rise early, and retire to rest also early, as the Royal soirees terminate when her MAJ EST Y dismisses her chamber musicians, which is usually at eleven o'clock. His Majesty's cutter Snipe, on arriving off Brighton, from a cruise, on Monday last, fired a royal salute in honour of their Majesties. The Royal Sussex militia will assemble, in order to be embodied, at Chichester barracks on the 27th of April. Daunt-LANE THEATax.—The oratorio season com menced last night under the most favourable auspices. The selection of music on this occasion was far more varied, and was, in general, of a loftier character than it generally is. The band, which is one of the best that ever appeared in this theatre, was admirably led by Mr. Barton. The chorusses, those of Handel especially, were given in a grand style. Mr. graham and Miss Paton both performed. They were received in a manner which must have been highly flattering to their feelings. Mr. Braham sang with his accustomed brilliancy of execution. Miss Paton sang with much spirit and feeling. The whole of the entertainment, which was under the immediate direction of Mr. Lee, and was con ducted by Mr. Bishop, gave perfect satisfaction to a crowded audience. CITY, ONE O'CLOCK Consols, which left off yesterday at 80 to for the Ac count, opened at the same price, since which the market has become very heavy, and consols have been done at 79i In the foreign market nothing doing as yet. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. Consols continue to be heavy, and at present may be quoted at 791. Report says the Russians have experienced a repulse by the Poles. In the foreign market little or nothing doing. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. Hattar.n.--.lllbiisteis havlnitilthemselves to introduce a Re. form measure, shortly, have undertaken a task which could not h are been much looser delayed without manifest danger to the best interests of the country. But a general plan of reform, with a view to improve the principle of represestadon, is quite a distinct question from an in. quiry into the corrupt delinquency of any particular borough, with a view to its disfionchimment. The public will expect too much if they imagine that any plan of reform devised by any ministry can put an end altogether to corrupt practices. Cneoxicz.z.—We have mote than once said, that the Theory of the English Constitution laid down by popular English writers is false, for such a monster could not exist for • month. England is not a Constitutional Monarchy, but an Aristocratical Republic, with a hereditary President, under the title of King. That there is a popular infusion in the ruling body does not alter its character; for the Arista cracy have a majority; and, in all cases in which the Order has a common interest, it commands a majority. The King can only act with the Aristocracy ; so that be Is not a distinct and separate power, but a pert necessary to the completion of the political machine. All the Constitutional Monarchies have been attempts to construct a system, in which Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy, should balance each other, and they have merged either into Monarchy or Democracy. That this ascendancy is to the people a most expensive machinery, is a point as to which there can be little question; the weight of the but. dens pressing on the country Is • proof against which there is nothing to be said. Ever since the Revolution of 1688, which terminated the warfare between the King and the Aristocracy, the Government has been carried on upon the principle of cramming the possessors of Par liamentary interest. Occasions for war have been sought, public opl. Dion hu been corrupted at the fountain-head by interested parties, civil and military establishments have been increased to meet the wants of the governing few, and thus a National Debt has been created, the magnitude of which, while it presses severely on the people, threatens at the same time to destroy the aristocracy, by limiting their power to obtain the means of corruption on which their ascendancy rests; for the power of the aristocracy under the English Constitution Is in very few cases quite dined, but rests on the &Son of popular suffrage. , The patron even of a close borough, share of a firm, with all ' the members of which he is obliged to acc o rdin g to their influence, the good things obtained by his parliamentary interest. The collection of the revenue, the government offices, the navy, the higher stations In the army, the colonies, the church, all must be open to the members of the various corporations, because the condition of obedience to the will of the patron is access to the public money in one way or other. PUT.—Well—Ministers have had time to digest their plans; they have had rope, and room, and verge enough ; they have been judged, not by their characters, but by their measures; and the country is now be. ginning to reap the fruits by which they are known. What has been the consequence ? Act after set, speech after speech, night after night they expose themselves more and more to public obloquy ; Civil List, Pensions, %rills, Budget, and Belgic Non-intervention, art all stand. ing monuments of folly and disgrace. The Journals which eulogised their integrity sneer loudly at their lack of understanding. Tuess.—Len any man look over the report of last night's proceedings in the House of Commons, and ask himself whether, taking into ac. count what he must recollect to have occurred within the last ten years in Ireland, whether any, the moat hapless and degraded state of bums. nity known to exist on earth, contains a parallel degree of suffering to that which was brought before parliament by Mr. Dominick Browne, and borne out in its most dreadful circumstances by Mr. Stanley, Mi. sister for Ireland. But what shall we lay to the statement—the official statement—of the Irish Secretary,that out of a landlord-rental in two ba reales of 14,0001. per annum, the donations afforded to the starving poor were just 1001? One hundred pounds ! one fortieth fractional part of those fruits of their toil wrung from the poor unhappy creatures, and exported from the country which produced it, to pamper the heartless appetites of some far-distant voluptuary, who would have dared to wonder, we suppose, had the miserable population, so outraged by his inhumanity, preferred the rights of nature to those of law, and broken eat into wild insurrection ! What a brand of infamy is inflicted by the ststement of Mr. Etrawr.zw, that, in the wretched district alluded to, 46 the Local Subscriptions were next to nothing, and the rents were at the very highest I" What a picture of Irish landlords ! and yet evi dently not over-coloured, for Sir R. Pint, who is well-acquainted, admitted its accuracy ! NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Mama Alamo Tana Mr.—Dublin, I ; Waterford, 3. Dam., Few 111.—Wind N.N. W..—Arrived the Bowdkch, God dard, from New York, and Tin Tln, Meta, from Bilboa. Sailed the Hope transport, for the westward. Arrived the Mika, from Demerara. _ _ ____ Poutrarru. Fn. 111.—Wind W. FALMOUTM, Pas. 17.—Wind N.N.W. to W.N.W.—Arrived off the port, the Narcissus, Watson, from Seville. Ltvaaroor., Fs& 17.—Arrived the 16.—Arrived the Ire, Simpson, from Sierra Thomas, White, from New Orisons, and Manchester, Shetchli. ha fri t nk e lew York. Coax, Fn. Leone, and Oliviers, from Si. 's. The Mary Ann, Jones, from Drogheda to Runcorn, was driven on the rocks near Castletown, hle of Man, 9th inst. Part of the cargo saved, in a damaged state. The Swift, LyaU, from Liverpool to &rangford, was wrecked over Castletown 9th inst. Crew saved. The Hero, Earl, from Sunderland to Dublin, was driven on shore at Port Sandrick, Isle of Man, 12th inst. sod sunk. The Flor de Amlzade, from Lisbon, was lost near Para previous to the gd ult. Part of the cargo saved. The Derrick, Mead, from Picton to Belfast, drove on shore near Wexford so Tuesday. The Idris, Leiden from Savannah, was on shore in Bootle Bay on The *daunt, from the Disurithis, has arrived of Dover. Captain M'Dooald of the Thainston, just arri►ed at Leith from Corfu and Messina, (from Gibraltar in 19 day.,) reports the loss of a number of awls, both English and Sardinian, on the LW. nowt of the hieditavansan, and that the crews of some of them, who had escaped a watery gra►e, ware barbarously massacred by the Moors of . Tunis , . Three indi►iduals had been ransomed by the British Camel for about 80L and they belie►ed themsel►es to be the only survivas of the crews and passengers of eight or nine vessels, wrecked en this inhospitable coast. Captain M`Donald says, that while at Mes. sins, he learnt that the big.eyed barber, who murdered the young man Baird, in the Bonowstnunnees barque, the particulars of which were stated in this paper on the 15th ult. was executed lice days after his ap. a • am • a • SU/ A most respectable meeting of merchants and shipowners was yesterday held at the City of London Tavern, Mr. Al i derman Thompson, member for the City, in the chair, to discuss the propriety of petitioning against the proposed in crease of duty on Canada timber. Several gentlemen ad dressed the meeting, all clearly showing the cruel injustice of the proposition; and several resolutions declaratory of the just sense of the great assembled body upon the subject were unanimously passed, The resolutions are given in an other part of our Paper. The meeting, in point of talent, worth, and property, was one of the most imposing ever convened in the City. When in 1794-5, the depreciation of the currency by pa per coinage reduced the relative value of money of account, the land proprietors of the United Kingdom quickly raised their rents from the gold estimate to the paper estimate ; but as the abundance of the cheap currency enabled persons to speculate in land, they contrived to double or treble their rents. By this means the war seemed to be a gain; and in stead of being oppressed by taxes, their incomes and means of expenditure were astonishingly increased. They did not perceive that their estates were undergoing a mortgage, and that their increased incomes were the mortgage money ! But,lwhen it was foreseen, that we were at all hazards to return to a gold currency, when rents must tumble and estates be fixed with taxes, the land proprietors iced the address pre viously to carry a corn bill, to keep up the price and their rents, thereby throwing the taxes on the eaters of bread and farming produce. The repeal, then, of this gross fraud on the industrious classes, is loudly and unanimously demanded ; while if frauds and abuses were not so numerous, it would, as it ought, be the universal and sole object of petition. Se cured by their corn bill, the landlords laughed in their sleeves, when Peel's bill mined all the mercantile classes ; and perhaps they will now, as an alternative be proposing to return again to the paper currency, if the tors bill cannot be maintained. Such are the distractions created by the land lords' late wars, and their Heaven-born minister. ;, I t i ~