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it • all • w. sr uo ro to' rr . r. • r • err thr _lt - --.. J S ing, and 15 s. for the duty — in diminution of the price. he would ,eceive in the British market. If importa tion should be allowed at 70s. which had been re commended by the Committee, the importer, after deducting the rs. would only receive 4.35. a qua; ter, for his tern. Formerly, when the duty had been only 235. it had operated as a prohibition on the im portation of foreign corn. He did not believe that there were many obstacles to a complete concurrence on this point. His Right honourable Friend was inclined to fix, in the first instance, upon eighty shil. lings as the import price Whatever might be his own private opinion, he wished rather to defer t' the opinion of the majority of the Committee. — The propositions he had to submit were in the shape of Resolutions. The first was to authorise the ad vance of one million on British corn now warehoused. The second was to authorise the grinding of foreign corn now warehoused in this country, with the view to its being after wards exported, care being taken that it should not be consumed in this country. The third was to alter the existing corn laws, so far as they related to the amount of the importation duty; substituting new duties for the old ones. The ports, under the proposed altetation, would be opened at SOs. and would remain open at and above 70p.. At the present moment, he understood, there was a very large mass of corn in warehouses, as mach, he believed, as 900,000 quarters, of which between 600,000 and 700,000 consisted of wheat—(Hear). — When the ports should be open, the whole of this would come into the market without any duty what. ever. Parliament had the right as well as the power to impose duties prospectively—that is to say, upon corn to be imported; but it could not, without a breach of national faith, impose dot) , upon the cora now in warehouse. It was better to let in the limited onantity, as the influx would then be less without. lie trusteJ his Right Hon. Friend would put his views into the shape of Resolutions, which would put the Hon se in possession of two sets of Resolutions,.dif firing not it; principle, but merely in distinction.— lie leated the! could not be conveniently discussed to-night, and he would therefore propose that they shout.; be read pro forma, printed and distributed among ti,e Members, and then an early day (Friday pet haps) might be fixed upon for the discussion. The Noble Marquis then sat down, having first moved the folio lug Re‘cilution: " That It is the ooli.ion of this Committee that a sum not es ceediug one million be granted to his Majesty for the purpose of the same being advanced, under the direction of Commissioners to be appointed for that purpose, in the purchase of corn of British growth in British warehouses, when the average price of the same corn shall not exceed 60s. per quarter." The question being put, Mr. WESTERN, after compli menting the Noble Marquis on his able and comprehensive speech, observed, that the subjects introduced were of the highest importance, and that many of them would have come more properly from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The pro posal of the Noble k.arquis for the relief of the Agriculturalists would, in his opinion, be perfectly useless, though he did not deny that it might partially and temporarily raise the price of corn.— Ultimately, however, he was persuaded it would be the means of lowering the price. He objected to the advancing of public money to excite or encourage speculation; and the advance in question, he believed, would have this effect, even under the most judicams management. The object of the Noble 3!arquis was neither more nor less than to increase the circulating me dium cf the country. It was to increase the number of partners in country Banks; and he conceived it would not be denied that this would be the effect he had mentioned. It was intended to control the operation of the Bill of 1819 for returning to cash payments. That Bill it was which had occasioned the present dis tress; and the pressure of this distress he firmly believed was felt by all the industrious classes. The merchant and the manu facturer were as much affected in their profits by that Bill as the agriculturist. The proposed measure he regarded as a futile at tempt to extend the circulation. The Bill of 1819 bad been in execution Wig before it bad received the Royal assent, and Mi nisters now proposed to limit its operation by retracing their steps. All their endeavours would be unavailing. Nothing could be more obvious than that when the quantity of the circulation became diminished, its value became increased. The Act of 1819 had not left sufficient circulating medium to answer the exigencies of the country. In consequence of this circulation of the medium, hundreds, he might say thousands, were daily falling a sacrifice to that financial experiment of Ministers. He repeated, that distress did not affect the agriculturists alone.-- Ministers might hopelessly succeed, by their plans, in diverting the attention of the country from the destructive measure iu question; but that Act had of itself, by restoring the ancient standard, brought back prices to the scale at which they were before the suspension of cash payments. It was possible that prices might advance a little; but the advance might more pro perly be called a fluctuation ; for, as he had before observed, the Act had condemned the money price of corn. He could not refrain from impressing on the House that the money price of all commodities had diminished in proportion to that of agricultural produce. The Hon. Member, in support of his position, pro ceeded to a comparison of the value of our exports of home manu factures for different years. There was the official value and the declared value of these exports. The first was merely the nu merical, but the latter was the real value. In the year 1 814 the de dared exceeded the official value of our exports by 27 per cent. —ln 1821 the case was reversed, for the official exceeded the declared value by 12( per cent. making a depreciation in the value of our home manufactures of 41 per cent. Was it pos sible, he asked, to attrihuta this depreciation to any cause but that of the altered state of the currency ? Satisfied that the mea sure in question respecting the currency had been the principal cause of the present distress, be was determined never to quit the subject. The House, be feared, was blind to the digresses of the People, but the People themselves were now beginning to open their eyes. The victims, from the industrious class, of that most impolitic measure, were most numerous ; and itNivas a matter of must painful notoriety, that the honest yeomanry of Lng!and were almost in a state of extinction. Mr. RICARDO said, a great deal too much importance had been attributed to the return to Cash Payments; and it had been argued that a return to the former system of Paper Currency would he beneficial. Now, however, that they had been able to revert to those payments, he thought it would be proper to con tinue them—(llear, hear !).—The Noble Lord (Londonderry) had proposed nothing which would afford the smallest relief from taxation. Ile was not even to touch the Sinking Fund. One hall of it might, at any rate, be given up for the relief of the country. lint no sooner was this hinted at, than a cry of viola tiva of public faith was set up. It would be borne In mind, however, that that fund was no longer five millions; it was, in fact, no Sicking Fund at all. There was another subject con nect:A, mute intimately, perhaps, with this than :-cime might be ~vane, against which he tor one would protest—that was, the prolonging, for a nualier of years, of the Charter of the Bank of England. He would call on the Chancellor of the Exchequer reit to cutter into any arrangement of this nature with the Batik. The Bank had never been of any benefit to the Public; and the advantages which the Bank had enjoyed should all along have goer to the l'ublie. The Noble Lord bad drawn a distinction between the different pl.tsi4 submitted to the House. He (Mr. Ricardo) said he would give a pentecting duty of 203. and that duty r.aa formerly forced upon bins by the state of the country. ie proposed the price of 70s. because the Agricultural Interest s in extreme distress; and whenever the price reached 70s. all hxeei prices should be done away. The farmer in this country ws On all men the worst used. After suffering Irons a severe tson, instead of relief, he found foreign coru Let in upon him, with he was as it were inundated. The' Noble Lord proposed r•o remedy in some cases. lie wished to ask the Noble. Lord rbat yea* to he done in this case? Suppose the price of 80s. fell whit duty would the Cruwu impose inconsequence of ,e fall—would it he greater or less ? The Marquis of LON DONI /ER ILY, in answer to the Hon. emb r, the state of the market un the quarter day would I Tr ~~ . r. `.k.~. . determine the seat„ ttsilltet ler for . from Ws. to 701. slice the k that Mr. It ICARDO, In explanatiall• AO* Aid lee = natiePl of making the protecting dudes porinSWllles. He numi that bx a gradual reduction they should approidnies ad* odors. die' amount which he considered as adequate 11l Utile es patellar burden/ of the British Agricuistirist. ' • . Mr. BROUGHAM considered the arrangement of the Noble Lord, for taking the debate on a future day, extreisely Conve nient. At the same time, while be agreed to the propriety of that suggestion, he wished t o make one or two observations for the purpose of courting explanation on point* not clearly un derstood. He was desirous of laying out of view lbe whole cornoversy respecting the distress of the country. It was said one class had gained all that another had lost, but he could not admit that circumstance to be a set off to distress. He wished, however, on that occasion not to admit that one class had ginned what another had lost. The rate of wages in ma nufacturing districts might be better, because the farmers were starving ; but that was a bad state f things. The first of the Noble Lord's proposals was a substitute for a project of the Agricultural Committee, namely, to take corn upon hire.— This was one of the most ridiculous plans ever known. — It was raising up the three golden balls, and making the Trea sury pawnbrokers. The nest project was that of the bankers; they were to have permission to circulate small notes for a cer tain number of years. There were many disadvantages attached to this project; war was one of the evils, but he should not mention war. Many thought there was no danger of war, whilst the country was bound in a recognizance of A:800,00 0 , 000 not to break the peace. The compensation to be given to the Bank was excessive. Was it reasonable to prolong the Bank Matter for ten years, for the mere consent not to issue small grates? He was math afraid the plan would encourage a number of speculating Banks, who would decoy customers, and drive a trade injurious to the country. Mr. Brougham then objected to the annuity plan. It was, indeed, most extra ordinary, that men could go on for sixteen. years paying money, and taking no benefit for so many years. They would not do it for nothing. . They would, no doubt, make the Public pay smartly. He did not believe much could be gained by the plan. It was drawing upon the Sinking Fund,and making the country pay for a tontine. No man was mere disposed than himself to allow the value of a Sinking Fund upon sound principles. To a nation which had a debt of £1100,000,000 it was advantageous. The nation ought, however, to have a clear surplus. They ought to go on with the Sinking Fund until the income of the people was improved, and then call upon them to pay a portion of the ' debt adequate to their ability. He should reserve himself for a futon occasion on the details of the proposed plan : he might have to record his own opinions, bj proposing a series of Reso lutibos, embodying the principles he entertained. As to the ques tion of Corn, be should say nothing more at present, than that the Noble Marquis had rather confounded his plan and that of his Hoe. Friend, die Member for Portariington (Mr. Ricardo). There was a much more wide and irreconcileable difference in the prin ciples of the two plans than the Noble Marquis seemed to contem plate when he said tbat they only differed in the superstructure. He eMr. Brougham) remained under the conviction that there could be no lasting, no effectual relief, but by a searching eco nomy, and, above all, an efficient diminution of the establish ments of the country—(Hear).—But with respect to that retrench ment of expense, or diminution of establishment, in the long speech the Noble Marquis had just made, nut one word did be utter; yes, there was one word, indeed, introduced, by way of parenthesis,thesis, in which the Noble Marquis conveyed the hope that his Majesty's Ministers would follow, in the second year, the course they had adopted in the preceding. He knew not wh at the Noble Marquis or his Colleagues proposed to themselves, but of this he (Mr. Brougham) was assured, that that House would not do its duty to the country if it suffered the present Session to pass, or the present question to go out of the Committee, with out forcing the Noble Marquis to have recourse to that larger, more virtuous, and more wholesome income which sprung from a rigid parsimony of the public expense—( Hear). Mr. HUSK ISSON thought its subject of congratulation, that the House of Commons, instead of following the recom mendation of the Honourable and Learned Gentleman, at the beginning of the Session, instead of remitting 3,000 , 000 1. to the public, had increased the amount of the Sinking Fund, so that, in a very short period, it would amount to a clear surplus of 5,000,0001. lie was most anxious that no such opinion, as that the Sinking Fund was invaded, should get abroad even for a few days. With respect to the repeal of those restrictions which the law at present imposed upon the !somber of partners in Banking Establishment% the lion. and Learned Gentleman thought that, among other inconveniences, new Banks would be found to start up everywhere, and overtrading and speculating would find encouragement; but on looking to the Banks of Scot- land, and seeing that they were exempt from such conse quences, be could not avoid making an application of that fact. He would ask, whether Scotland had ever embarked in the banking business to prop up its own hazardous speculations? . Yet the Banks of Scotland issued niie pound notes, and pre sented a fair example to justify the experiment. It was a proof of the efficacy of Joint Stock Companies. With respect to for gery, he believed that the number of trials for notes forged on the country banks was very inconsiderable, and he doubted whether in Scotland one man bad been executed for many years. But were not bills of exchange liable to be forged as well as bank-notes? And was net the number of persons tried fur the issue of counterfeit coin to be looked to, when the Ho. nourable and Learned Gentleman laid so much strtss on the pro secutions for forgery? Ile believed it would be found that 2110 convictions had taken place in the course of the last year for the crime of counterfeiting the coin of the realm. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman (Mr. Brougham) had talked of a system of pawnbroking, which was a misrepresentation, or misconception of the measure recommended by the Commit tee. He would state shortly what that measure really was : The principle of the measure amounted to nu more than this. It was the habit of the country to give a bounty on exportation, and this measure proposed a similar encouragement to the ware housing of corn in years of abundance. Next, with respect to the annuities—the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had talked of a complicated arrangement and expensive machinery, but it was not intended to make the contractors the persons who should pay the different parties concerned. The plan was to convert the annuities from a shorter into a longer period. It was not his intention, at that late hour of the morning, to enter into the wide field of discussion which his own Resolutions seemed to require, as differing from those of his Noble Friend. For the present he would content himself with laying his Resolutions on the table, and moving that they should be printed, hoping, how.. ever, that the House would permit him hereafter to enter into those statements which he felt to be necessary—( Hear, hear). — Many of the Resolutions referred to matters of fact, that were calculated to chew the true causes of the distress, and to point out the best remedy that could be applied to them. It appeared to him, he must confess, though it was painful for him to differ from his Noble Friend, that the plan be had proposed was not likely to afford the relief upon which he calculated. Though painful to his feelings to refine, he could not concur in the Re solutions of the Noble Marquis. He would propose that they should now he read preforms, and discussed at a future period. The Right Hon. Gentleman then read a series of Resolutions, which appeared to embody the Report of the previous Agrieul..l tural Committee. Mr. BROUGHAM, on explaining his view of the case. ob served, that the corn-grower was to bring his corn to warehouse. and to receive sixpence a quarter per month. This was not in the nature of a loan, but was paid to him as hire for depositing his corn. Sir R. WILSON asked, whether the contractors were to have any influence on the exchanging of Officers from the half to the full pay? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that the contractors were to have no controul whatever upon the Army, which must Stand by its present arrangements. The Resolutions were laid on the table and ordered to be printed, with a view to their subsequent discussion. Mr. RICARDO stated, in explanation, that several Gentle men bad expressed a disapprobation of the renewal of the Rank Charter, unless the whole subject were submitted to the coal deration of the House. The House having r.:sumed, the Cuantman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again on Wednesday. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER, a Return was ordered to be laid on the table, of the sum necessary to pay off the Irish Five per Cents. The Committee ou the Superannuation Bill was postponed to Wednesday. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House atijutuned at Half-past One o'Clor It. In the article respecting Lord Braun, in the STAt of yester day, for " his Lordship is detsinetl," mid " his Lorilshipl siavaut is dttiiinixl." 77 , V L • • 4 PIP Will! 1 ? 5 • 91~, MIT F~~~~ THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, APRIL SO, 1822. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Although the speech of the Marquis of Lossnownsaav has electrified the City this morning, we do not hear of any great business doing in the Market a a number of anall purchases have been made, but none, up to this hour, of any great extent. Be fore the rattle went, Console were done at 781 for the Account, and afterwards went up to 761 1 for the Account, and 761 f for Aloney. Foams; Masan.L-This being settling-day for Old Spanish Bonds, most of the Brokers are busy in settling their ateour.ts ; and, we understand, two of them have walked off genteelly, with out settling. Accounts from Paris this morning state, that ap plication had been made there to a mercantile house of great respectability, for a Loan, either by way of Lottery or Subscrip. don, for the Spanish Government, to enable them to 'quip a fleet to send to their remaining Settlements in South America, the result of which had not transpired.--French 5 per Cents. 881. 20e. Exchange one month 25f. three months 241. 85c.— Spanish New llonds 66; Old 651; Prussian 861; Columbian New 851; Old 1081. ? ~ % :R' - • . • • I • THE ARMY. . Th. Carel Reg West et teseseerr Certief 1111111111, of A t troops ON emu sadi. under the eueseund et LieitAid am. Tuesday the Weds Yee/awry Cavalry, seder the essmu s i a aie L T. A. Haeares astelebled. In bow of kb iiseesse, birtbday, and the atardei and Yip Kate it *die m eakibited by this respeemib seeps, ezdied reseal adeitilke. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. • 40 .14 swim is in general *titian, that the torrtalica, kY Majesty's sloop of war,whidi sa il ed from our har res &ma n morning last, was lost on 'ante part of the south.wess• r unt during the late tremendous gales. Whit gives rise Sothis rem is, that it is said that the dead bodies of some marines have be ak washed on shore at some part of the coast. Aileen Head aua the Dorsey Isles are severally spoken of as the placea where til l distressing occurrence is said to have taken place." —ark me., candle Onvitick, April 26. " 8u o'CLoce.—lt is with sincere regret we state, that se. counts from Cove, dated at thrft , o'clock, which have just reached oar Office, tend to confirm the loss of the Contuses. Her crew consisted of 132 men."—/bid. " At ten o'clock on Sunday night, the 21st instant, the hark Esther, of and for Liverpool. from America, laden with cotto s rum, &c. ran ashore between hiade and Hook Tower, wk 4 she now lies a complete wreck. The Captain, two s. ate., 2.cd five hands have perished. Of thirteen persons, live only are saved."—/bid. " About six o'clock on Monday, the Igd inc. the brig Ais, of Boston, from America for Liverpool, with flaz-aced aid rum, ran up nbineshark harbour, and stranded at Summerville, a frvr miles west of Waterford harbour. The vessel is likely to be off: crew safe."—Waie. ford Mirror. The SOUTHAMPTON, 60 guts ship, which has been commissional at Sheerness, is fitting to convey the Sight Lou. Gzu o• CAN. &ONO to India. Yesterday the dispatches foe Chin; by the ship I'arquls Huntly, were closed at the East-India House, and delivered the Purser of that ship. The East-India Company's outward-bound ship Berwickshire, was in lat. 17 S. 301 W. on the 7th of February. The under-mentioned Company's ships arrived at Calcutta - follows, viz The Princess Charlotte of Wales on the Ist of ' vember ; Albion on the stl; Florentie, on the 6th; Rose Barossa, on the 16th ; and Kingston, on the 22d. Dam. Aram 29.—Wind E. The wind last night, after post, got round totbe S. E. The Underwood, Remtninux, for Desna. ram, and the remainder of the outward-bound, got under wei;rl but in consequence of a thick fog coming on, several at them brought up again, and sailed this morning, immediately the vrea , ther cleared, with a light breeze from the VI eskward. Came down from the River this morning, and sailed, the Tiberius 111011111 for Quebec, the pilot of which reports the Lady Id ' villa, Marquis et Huntly, and Princess Amelia Indianian, • at anchor in the ChanneL FALMOUTH, Aran alt.—Wind SSW.—Sailed the Elisabeth, Evans, for Mentz; and John, Lansa, for Pieta,. PORTSMOUTH, Aeon &V.—Wind E. by S.—Arrived the ma. mu and Mary transport, from Jamaica; Moira, Hoassuor from the Downs for Madras and BengaL &wed in, Sc, DALI, for London; Jesse, CLATVAM, for ditto; F0r:,.., CHAP MAN, for Bombay ; Lotus, Demerol:, for Bengal ; Layton, ads. tsa, for Bencoolen; and his Majesty's ship ACTIITZ, for Biz& nica. It was his Majesty's ship Positron which sailed last on a cruise, and not the Acme, which only sailed this (hi. P21=311114 Aram 27.—Yesterday *arrived at St. lye's, Norwegian brig Lausitz Holto, of North Bergen, Captai. Ot Lansaw, from Messina, bound to St. Petersburgh, with a ca cti' lemons, oranges, and lemon-juice. On her voyage two f' crew were, by the violence of the weather, washed overt , . and lost ; and the vessel has received very consid , :rA!.. in her hull, sails, and rigging. The ves4el is now lying in lye's Pier, under the restsictions of quarantine. Itln.roan, APRIL 27.—The Post.office packet Samiwic! , , tain WALTIR Syureuts, was lost in Fethard Bay, near the trance of Waterford harbour, on the night of the 14th, or _ the neat morning, together with the Captain and crew ; fortu nately there were no passengers on board. The Sandwich sailed hence on the morning of the 14th, at half-put ten o'clock. We have received Charleston Papers this worth. to the 24th of March. FROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER, OF MARCH 21. The Spanish Government has formed a new Ta a copy of which, we understand, was forwarded our C.onsel to Government by the ship Jones, wl left Cadiz on the 3d ult. Captain Davis underst4 that the tonnage duty, which was one dollar per was made equal upon all foreign vessels. The ( on staves and fish was reduced, but on all a articles shipped from the United States the amounted toa Extract ut a letter from Poit-au-Plate, St. mingo, dated Fch. 18:—" General Jacksmen arrived here with 100 Haytians, and assumed th inenie command. .411 have submitted, but some the Spaniards are making peparations to leave island. There is no distinction between the wir and blacks; a peaceable white is considered quit good as a negro. The city of St. Domingo has mined, but the Columbian flag still remains hoi: over Sam ana." EXTRESIEDISTRESS IN 11111 LAND.—The Irish Pa) still furnish dreadful accounts of the distress of , santry of the South and West of Ireland. Disc as was to be expected, has also made its appearat Mr. FINN, Curate cf Bohermo:.e, in an apyeal to benevolent, says, the distress is nearly gm throughout the whole district—whole clans pow into the town of Galway daily, from the mount of Connemara, in quest cf food. The Limerick Paper contains the names of serl men who have absconded from their residences in county, and have thereby rendered themselves li to the penalties of the Insurrection Act. It is posed that several of them have proceeded to :1, rica, or are preparing so to do, as every c.e.l discover them has hitherto proved ineffectual. fief — kfT7t fivitn CuicArai c 9. 7 to 2 agit Moses .5 to I. agst Mystic. 5 to 1 agst liampden 12 to 1 agst :Iquitista to 1 agst Pastille 5 to 2 agst Whizglg 10 to 1 apt any other 9 to I agst Stamford 15 to 1 agst Nlratogers's hazard colt 100 to 3 agst Marcella 7 to 4 on the Duke of 1 tun's two Ruben; filliti the field PUICK OF COALS. COAL-ItaltUT, Anti - Adairs 345.-Beaumont 335. 811.-13urdon 375. 6d.-Chz; 365.-Dean's Primrose 33c-Felling Main 325. 385.6d.-flebburn Main 38s. 9c1.-Killingwortli 386.-New 355.-Ord'z, liedhugh 3Os. 64.1.-Pelaw Main 34.. IVituisor'sl",3s. 9d.-Townley 335. 6i1.-Wal'seal Bel: as d 385.-Do. 13rown's 375. 3d.-Do. Green 365. 3d.-Do. march 38s. 6d.-Do. Nartbumberkusd ass. 3d.- 1 / 4 . El:, 366. 3d.-Do. Riddell~ 404.-Do.Russel 40.. 6.1. a 415.- Walker 38.. Gd.-Willington 38s. 54.-4 - lea:en Tra.kr etiwpeu 0.1.-Elgin Main 335. Pd.-Hanky 3 is.-Dc: 31s. bd.-Eden Main 371.-Etwcrt Main :3s. thl.-11061%‘ Main 325.-Lanibton l'rimrose 37..-Neshain 31ain Walisend lannbton 41$. 61-Do. Liddells 335.-1):% Sre 41s. 64.-641 Ships at Market -62i Sides sold-4 Unsold. DIED. In Chu: Rine-square, Edinburgh, on the 14th inatart. giving birth to a son, Mrs. Boyle, kite of the Eight Honoti: 1./avi.l Boyle, Lord Justice Clerk. YcstcrQay :1101 ring, at the advanced age of 94 Fir Ileard, tlartcr Principal King of Amu: he had tiikd tit:A tingutsbed office since April, 17114. LONDON ; Priattitl rtiblishadWv. Riau", flea; • pi.cc , T.mrtiaku. STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. The Market continua to look well, but there is little business doing. The general expectation is, that a further rise will take place.—Current Prices : Bank Stock 238 237 3 pet Cent. Reduced 77% Ve 44 7 /s % s I se' Cent. liens. 78 3 / 8 1 / 2 -11% per Cent. 88 1 / 2 % 4 per Ct. 94 1 / 8 —5 per et. Navy Anus. 102 1 A 11 / 8 Bank Long Annuities 19 11 . -16 % India Stuck 242—South Sea Stuck 881 A Exchequer Bills of £l,OOO, 4s. ss. 2s. 4s. Ditto Small 6s. 2s. pr.—Bank for Acct. 237 1 4 Consols for Acct. 78 7 / 8 5/8 Last night the Marquis of LONDONDERRY made his promised moticn in the House of Commons on the subject of Agricultural Distress. His Lordship did not, however, merely confine himself to measures connected with the Agricultural Report only, but announced various reforms and innovations in our financial system, the most important of which were, Ist, A plan for reducing the present burden of the Pension List, by distributing the pensions over a number of years, and offering a corresponding fixed annuity to monied men who would advance the sum now required, beyond the average of the whole period, with a view to benefit afterwards from the decrease ; 1 2dly, An extension of the period for allowing country Banks to issue small notes to 1853, the termination of the Bank of Eng land Charter; and sdly, Liberty to country Banks sixty-five miles or more distant from London, to adopt the principle of the Scotch Banks, with respect to partnerships, that is, to ►e with out limitation with respect to the number of partners ; in con sideration of which, the Bank of England Charter to be extended for ten years beyond 1855 in London and its vicinity. In order to afford some relief to the Agricultural interests, his Lordship proposes that the sum of £1,000,000 should be advanced on British corn in warehouse, when the average price shall be below 60s. That the owners of foreign corn now in ware house be permitted to grind it for the purpose of ex portation. The Ports to be opened when the home price shall be 80s. and continue open until it be below 70s. While the price shall be between those sums, a duty of 12s. and an additional ss. for the first three mouths, Such is the plan proposed by his Lordship, the further discussion of which is fixed for Friday. The Paris Journals of Friday have been received, but they do not contain a single paragraph worth quoting, unless the KING of FRANCS having conferred letters of Nobility on 1 1 41. M. Roots and LACIRITZLIN the younger, can be considered as such. His Christian hlaaftry has, in this instance, given a flat contra diction to his acknowledged taste and love of literature. hl. Rota has written one comedy, called the dlexat ; but his re commendation was, probably, his dexterous flatteries of the Bouamats in his discoveries as a Member of the Institute. AI. Lacareaux has written the history of France for a certain period; in which, te gratify and gain BomArAsTs, he charged the English Government with having procured the assassination of CHAZLIIS XII. of Sweden; and to gain the Bouesous, he has recently published, under the name of a history, a piece of studied and gross detraction of the Constituent Assembly. This forenoon we received a German Mail, bringing Frankfor t and other Papers to the 24th inst. They are entirely silent as to the affairs of Russia and Turkey. A paragraph from Vienna states that a Congress will meet in that city in September next. There is a long article from the Oriental Spectator relating to the Greeks who Bed from Ayrali in June last, when that town was burnt to ashes. It states that they had sett'ed in a neighbouring island, but living a life of wretchedness, and that they had recently peti tioned the SULTAN, representing their desire of commiseration. Thisis singular enough ; but what Is still more so, Is, that the SvIL TAN has replied to them " in the most paternal mariner."— His Sublimity says that be is acquainted with everything that has passed; that he willingly consents that they should return to their country and their dwellings; which we were previously told were burnt to ashes. llis Sublimity, however, remind s than, that as his troops arc marching through the place, there might be some danger to them as Greeks, if they returned. The same Paper has also an account of an affray at emyrna, between a Turk and a Creek, which ultimately drew the inter ference of the French Conszd. The city of Frankfort is reducing the interest of the City Bonds nom five to four per cent. v/FNN Aram 16.—The Metalliques were rated to-day at 74i—Actions of the Dark, 660. The Make and Duchess of Avnet.t., and Lady SARAN, are ar rived in town, from the Isle of Man. We understand that the trial of Mr. JAMIC6 STUART. who was concerned b the late unfortunate duel in Scotland, is fixed for the latter end of next month. The :17th is mentioned as the day. DRURY-LANK TUKATIM.—Last night Mists (Arma (daughter of the respectable actress of that name) made her first appearance in public in the character of Julia. The interest which she ex cited was manifeated thtout;hout the Piece by the lt•ud and uni versal applause of one of the most numerous audiences of the season; and, when it was announced that she would repeat her performance, the information was hailed with the same marks ut approbation. 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