The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-12-11 00:00:00

PRESENT PRICE OF PROVISIONS. Tilt PUBLIC, THE PAWS. AND THE LANDLORD. We are perpetuallyceal i tTjust surprise expreseild • that many articles of food, which are reported to be so very cheap in various parts of the country, should be sold at such disproportionate prices in one markets ; and by snany..it is oves—doebteembether such reports are true.—Of the truth of the generality of these facts, recorded in the newspapers, there is no donbt; 'we hare ourselves more than once reported the prices of meat in - Smithfield; and yet we well know, that at the west-end of the town, and in many families who deal with butchers by agnement for the year round, and in others who confide in the integrity of a butcher with whom they are accustomed to deal, as well as seen families who entrust their marketings to their servants, prices more than double haiie been paid.— And thus it is with other articles to a greater or less extent. The fact is, that the public at large do not, benefit in the degree they ought by the present ex treme and almost unprecedentedly low price of the necessaries of life ; the farmer is ruined by the low i price which only he _cut obtain fot the 'articles he produces;—the price is so disproportioned to the ex pense he is at, including taxes, tithes, rent, and other charges, that, when the remainder of the capital be msy have accumulated is gone, as gone it soon must be, be has nothing to look to but a gaol or a work house. Nevertheless this is not the fault of the pub lic at large; they have a natnral and equitable right to be fed as cheaply•as persons in their situations in life are fed in other European countries ; and it is 1 abominable imposition in the middle-men, the butcher, and the baker, and others, who buy cheap, but who sell dear, making an inordinate profit out of the lo,ses of the farmer, and the ignorance or inattention of the public. There is a great deal that is wrong in all this; there I i s nothing wrong in the farmer being obliged to sell cheap ; he mast do so, 'if he sell at all; he ought to slo so ; but then he ought not to be placed in such cireensstances by those who at present conduct the usludnistration of public affairs in the country, that it should cost him, perhaps, at the rate of twelve uhil lings to produce that which he sells for six ; this is not tight, nor can it continue without involving such distress as was never beface known in this nation to the occupier of land, and the consequent loss of rent, embarrassment, and final ruin of those owners of land who have nothing but their estates to Rive upon. The average price of wheat, prime Kent and Essee,.vanking as high in quality as that of any counties in Eaglaltd, in Mark-lane, last week, was only forty-six shillings the quarter. or net six shillings the bushel ; but all other descriptions were totally unsaleable. although offered at a much greater reduction. In two provincial papers, of two adjoining counties in the eastern part' of the island, there appeared, a few weeks since, ad vertisements of the sale of the stock and effects of nearly Jose hundred farmers *; and, from the uniform tendency of the evidence given before tbe Committee in the last Session of Parliament. It is evident that the present race of farmers, yeomanry, and minot - hind, Inds, mast be twerly undone. moles* some 'effec teal relief from the burdens , which press them doWn' to the ground be speedily administeied. The state of things, as relates to one of these '- pressed dosses of society, must be wrong; from whence that wrong proceeds it behoves to be discovered with out a moment's loss of time. The thing is. hotreive, as the late Speaker said, the traffic for seals in a cer tain House was, as notorious as the sun at noon day. There are those, nevertheless. who *Wally shut their eyes against the perception of . truth,'though equalle notorious ; but of them it may be said. without the spirit of prophecy, " verily they Shell have their re ward." There is, however, ' nothing wrong, but much to rejoice in, that the necessaries of life are so reduced, as to be brought once more within the reach of those of the industrious classes who can obtain employment at all. We rejoice in tbe know ledge ,of the fact—not because the farmers are hurt thereby, which they ought not and need not be ; but because the poor, and those who labour, will, by the wages of their labour, be enabled to live and support their families comfortably,—because we see no righteous reason why the people of France. and Spain, and the Netherlands, should be fed with wheat at 4s. a bushel. and the people of England pay Ins. or 12s. because we are anxious to banish for ever that poverty-striking system, which has made England a land of peepers.; and, because we hope to live to see the time when every poor maa in England will not only be able to read his bible, bat to live easily by the honest labours of his hands, and have roast-beef and plumb-pudding for his Christmas dinner.-- (Bristol Mercury.) From the miscellaneous contents of a Sydney Ga zette, which has come to hand, dated Saturday, June, 2, 1821, same idea maybe formed of the improving state of civilization and commerce in that colony. This single paper contains between forty and fifty ad vertisements, many of which announce the sale of most of those various articles of common convenience and luxury which are used by the peoplu.of this country. One of them offers to let genteel furnished apartments on the drawing-room floor. Such is the state of a new and extended English society in the re motest quarters of the globe, and a spot which, about thirty years ago, was a mere wilderness. The follow lug are extracts :—Aasixe of Bread, the loaf of tw pounds, sixpence halfpenny. Average price of articles at yesterday's market:— Wheat, Ile. 6d. per bushel; maize, 4s. 64. per bushel ; potatoes, 7s. per cwt.; fowls, 2s. 6d. per couple; but ter, 2s. 6d. per lb.; eggs, 31. per dozen. la the month of December peaches begin to ripen in this agony. and have hitherto been out of season by the latter end of March. at furthest. We have now en tered upon June, and green peaches are still exhibited in our streets for sale. This certainly is worthy, of remark, as it is I eirceinstastee wholly unprecedented, and consequently may be ranked moot; the extraor- Ansel's. MAllatill.—On Wednesday last. by special license,' at the c h urch of St. Philip, Sydney. by the Rat. Ri chard Hill. Mr. Richard Read, artist, of Net-street, to Mies Rlisa, eldest denim, of Mr. Beekman Hitch cork, of George-Wed, Sydow:. ::~ PRIEM O:Ir s t:CIS, 7kil Sante _Stork v. 4 I Pefreent. 1 7i) r • 3 . • per CentiCeie ~ '.•i per Cost On 4 per Cents. M Oper.S2LNavy . . ::. ....; ..- Sper Ceot. . t I Leen An* • . . I sp. • p er cent 74 Mob • per Cent. , IWATWII At twin e r e TO-uote noir. 141141 1. 10 11LU1N1. ADM L.—Evening .38 min. 00,4. a Proviseial Jour*C. Our Lifer**. ,r - Irma known arrshpoetlests." L understood that Rwiers were about to ... ice round the city of Dublin.—ln reference to the Glee alarms-which had suggested thiS this same, paper remarks, ,we " scarcely necessary to allude to the ridiculous rumoura which have been put into circulation regarding the safety of the city; but, we own we were astonished when we heard that the barriers were to be re-erected. We were thoroughly convinced that the executive was imposed upon by false information. We have now to state, and we do it with pleasure, that counter-orders have bceu sent to the contractors. Preparations were certainly made fur putting the barriers up; but the work is suspended. The alarm, of course, has nearly subsided ; there never was occasion for any." it is subjoined, however, that eheesacr de juke are erecting on those parts of the roof of the Bank that communicate-with oiler buildiugs. In another part of our paper we have the satisfac tion of presenting our readers with as copious an ac ionnt as we could at present obtain, of a highly ,inter .esting meeting lately held at Hereford. The meeting was assembled to do Ist.nour to the man. who, above all wises :Members of the Mouse of Commons, had die• tiaguishedshisuself by l:is exertions in , the cause of public economy and practical reform. Every day, more and snore, convinced as we are.i of t he benefits likely to result from the Parliamentary . In ,instigations of the public accounts began by this gen tleusan, it is gratifying to find that his merits are gra dually becoming known awl appreciated in various parts of the country. The inhabitants of Hereford shire have the honourable distinction of first setting the example of a public and signal approbation of his praiseworthy exertions; and the example, we think, will be followed by other counties.. The freedom of the city of lacndon„ presented a short time ago to Mr. Husne,has stitnalated other places to pay the same mark of respect to the upright and independent cha racter of this steady and persevering member; and the city of(lloucerter last week, Monmouth this, and, we believe, other towns, have offered . a similar compli mentary token of their approbation. But in nu instance have we ever known so decided a testimony of real popular feeling shewn to an iodivi dual, lt , sown only by his public services, as the recep tion of Mr. Hume its Hereford on Friday last. It is quite pleasing to fiud that public spirit is not dormant in the distant districts of the kingdom. The County of Hereford (as well as the City) has, on many uccasio:►s, displayed a generous and patriotic feeling, not merely honourable to itself, but really use ful in a public view, as testifying in the strongest manner possible, that the visit of the people cats be exerted in a way which speaks out, and that strongly too, whenever occasion requires or opportunity offers. • Unindebted as Mr. Hume is to aristocratical influence or family patronage,ittriieiy btanirsiiitose The surest support, he can receive in the House of Commons, is the consciousness of his utility in the examination and sifting of the public accounts, and the conviction, on the part of Ministers, that t►e public are quite alive to the bentits derived from his exertions in Parliament. It is. obvious to the most careless observer, that the re. trenchtneuts we have seen attempted, and, in souse measure, actually made, owe their origin, not to the li berality of Ministers, but to the persevering spirit of Mr. Hume. Night after night, during the last Ses sion, was this gentleman found at his post, battling• . against the strongest opposition for the reduction of souse item in our expenditure, sod unsupported but by a few really independent members, succeeding in a way that has long ere this convinced his Majesty's Ali. nisters, that contempt, coughing. scraping of feet, and other gentlemanly marks of their disapproval, will no t, and cannot, put down this cool and calculating Scotch man. He Las the people on his side, ao►t must be heard : and the people are right in their support. Unless he is heard, sod that speedily too, consequences of a nature the most serious smut and will ensue. We are now too far gone to yield to Ministerial trickery. Retrenchment, and that in no small degree, ..must take place. Reform will follow; and at set after years of ineffectual struggling, the voice of the public will force its way—that contempt which has been so long meted to them, must and will he changed to a more courtly behaviour, and we shall then see the effect so ardently, so devoutly wished, of an ameliora tion of our national difficulties and distresses. Time much, we have felt it our duty to pre. DAM before. noticing our correspondent's account, of the Hereford Meeting ; and we only regret that spore fell mid ample reports of the excellent and Mealy speeches delivered on the occasion have not as yet been received at our office. Our pages have- before noticed the present intended to be made to Mr. Hume ,hythe inhabitants of Herefordshire. The public dinner ' fiaml for the 7th inst. at which Mr. Hunie, (in comp **e with she request of the gentlemen of the Hereford 1 1inneakttett)uhad signified his intention of,atten:ling.- •hatealse bees . noticed. We refer to our Correspon shieWirieport for hie progmess and reception, through thetounty, premising bow very flattering such a rr eeption must have been, to any man connected with the'County of Hereford, and therefore, bow much the 1 111 ore so to an entire stranger ; but Mr. Hume, though notseqoainted with the people, bad niade them ac quainted with him. A letter dated Corfu, December I, in the Consti te tionsel, Mates that martial law, lately proclaimed at Zante, has been extended to the Isle of Cerigo. Tbe reason 'flirted is a treasonable conspiracy against the government. Madrid letters received by the mail of piseenilty, menden. that the deficiency in the national leer out sabeedbed for is Spain, bad been taken by the joint iimisee•of Messrs. Witte, Ardoin, and Haldimand, but the OMNI ea which the arrangements were made are not stated. It is sal4 the youngest daughter of the Honourable tt3oloisel Henry Dillon. and sister to her Serene Mea -1 sees the Grand Duchess de Croy, is to bes•ow her fair Pisa to the Heipapprent if a Continental Crown. • • THE STATESMAN. mmogimeneM (MY A TIME '‘aol!burity Kilt tail tit‘ is der' Tatoi s 6 61:P* Saar Oft rock ' it had South Sea Ohl Ado. b e "0 1 ' 4 '6 rc , Es SWIM. 10001 pot Is. dis. —;.i•walielt. par Is. dis Us/ to 4 B.al Par 244 * Pl* 'prOceotion, ' t Wit foe ditto - • - * tux. 6.ea 77i judged it oec Lott. Tiokots 241. IW. which have b L O N fl!')N': - 11711IDAT , JITZIMIII, TIMMS= 11, 1&21. Newirork papers to the 19th of November arrived this mornieg, by which we learn that on the 11th of June at night. General Lucerna agreed to Nrrender Callao as security. The Convection, in the mean time, determined that it was necessary to avoid war, and on the iith, the Chilian squadron, with 2,001) men, en tered Callao ; the Spanish army of Lima co-operated in that measure. It had been agreed that the. uego ciations should bec onticued onboard an English frigate anchored in Callao as a neutral situtition.._ [FROM VERA CRUZ, SIM 3.1 Every thing-in that country was in utter confusion ; no business doing - , and all the respectable merchants engaged in securing their families and property,, send ing off both by the earliest opportunities.. A, Nein' . force has invested Vera Cruz, and was still lyintbe fore it. On the arrival of the new Viceroy rst . ..Vera Cruz, he immediately shut himself up, sending- off de spatches to the liavannisli and Spain, asking for' rein forcements. All again is war and terror there. It seems there are three distinct powers in the country, the legitimate O'Donojn, the independent Iturbide, and the will of the people of the City of Itlenico, gua ranteed by the approbation of the Royal army. Extract of a letter from Veri Crnz, dated Sept. 24: —The news respecting the current state of things is as follows :—After the treaties made by O'Doisuju at : Cordova, with hut hide, they both passed to the bor ders of Mexico, and it is stated by a person who lett that capital on the 12th current, that the armistice was celebrated at Mexico with much pomp, a'nd that all troops 4ent out and in, and that every thing was peace. If this news be confirmed, it is probable that nothing will be published of until the treaty shall have been sanctioned. Extract of a letter from Bitenos Ayres, dated Sept. 15 :—The Tea Plant has sold part of her cargo, and proceeded with her flour to the coast Of Pere. The price of Is heat in Lima bad been as high as 130 dollars per barrel. ' Paris papers of -Friday and- Saturday have alio hand. There was no public sitting of either of Chambers on Thursday; but the Deputies assembled in their bureaux fur the consideration of the budget. On Friday the two legislative bodies sat for a abort 'lime hat transacted only routine business. There appeared, however, in the Committee chosen in the Chamber of Deputies, a circemstance from which an important inference is drawn; the nomination of those who are distinguished Royalists. The names 'alluded to are those of de Villele, Cornet d'lncourt, Deklot and Fuyvalite. In addition to this evi dence of the ascendancy of the Royalist party, it is said in private accounts that their side of the. Cham ber is daily receiving fresh aecessione. On Tuesday it was expected that something decisive would occur, as the members were summoned for that day. In the mean time, it is anticipated that the Ministers will endeavour to detach the Ultras from the Lib. rats, and form with them such a compromise as will enable them to retain their places. I f they fail iu.that at-. tempt, it is expected they will resign. Accord' ing to the French papers, Spain is its a state of violent' agitation. Mina, the well known Guerilla Chief, has been removed from the military ceonnakti at Comma, in consequence, it is said, of joiaiag in the proceedings of the people of Cadiz. FAILNCH Fos/DB.—Five per Ceuta opened on Satur day at 86f. 80 c. and closed at 87 f. Fr, i private advices, it is understood, that they improved,* Satur day, and - at the close of the market bad rands 87 f. 75 c. The Irish papers received this morning. meat; on the whole, a morn favourable awkeseut'. a t h, affairs of the country than any wwolliiie uhity. 40). .:.• ~..! :. In • many.:,of the counties, seamen 'hei st .. to 'oppress the prevailing disorders; in-siosne'he.; veral suspected persons . have , 'been fallen' 4144. tody ; in Cork, Leinster,• Clore, and .stber aseade l ... the public tranquillity has nut been disturbed. 'Tie only fresh instance 'of outrage mentioned 3s in the county of Tipperary. " By a private letter," (says the Dahlia Evert mfr Post, of Saterday,) " Just re ceived from the beighbourkood of Cashel We are us sorry to find that the bon of Mr...Dwyer of Cool. nissaoe, was attack on the night of tbsi 2d. Inst. and robbed of. s—this same party aftitwards at tacked the Tithe troctor's house,' but net • getting his books, departed. They Agit visited a .rarmer's of the name of Tracy, whose arms thet - Wilts they were offered money, but refused it. ' WeibilUg • ' u r other communication before tatoviiick de ' ititibi most positive terms,.that the County' of 444; hi.: .. 2 .. fiction bad exhibited-Itself is the parish Ri d,of in this county ; or - that any nslalefuti fright' • bid . been administered, as 'stated le. this Paper, on the 31r ' I . .• ~~ ~ h 11 ----I [Fuou Comer aeutaa.l-1111Aat„day: tween twelve and one o'clock, an express arrived lip 'town from the Duke of York, at Lulworth Castle p ear Weymouth, the seat of Mr. Peel,stating that hi s R oyal Highness would be in Lond on a t one o'clock en s lug flay. This communication was very unexpect e d, as it was a fortnight sooner than the Royal Duke W att . ted to return to town when be left, for he had., ranged to be at Bagshot last Saturday to spa t u la .. ? three days with the Duke and Duchess of Glues*, and flout thence to proceed toWoburn,in Redf or d s h iet, on a visit to the Duke and Duche ss o f Bedford. His Royal Highness arrived at York-house, St. ,hin es i sou Sunday, about half-put two o'clock, where Liest aaaat Colonel Townsend of the Ist Regiment of. p ant Guards, of which Regiment his Royal High Commander, and Sir Herbert Taylor, his Mili tary s : cretary, were in waiting to receive his Roy a l Hi gh. ness, and were engaged with the Royal Duke oa litary business till past four . Yesterday his Royal Highness transacted baa nano the Comrnauder-in-Chief's Office, in the Horsee aardi. We understand the Royal Duke has been A rs tam pectedly called to London on accounl of the se nerrar , movements of the army to Ireland, whe re ti tter b a t . talions of veterans are to be formed from the pak ten there, in consequence of the late unprovoked % av i an and disgraceful outrages which have been comedu s t We were concerned to observe a black leather tiling over the Royal Duke's left shoulder, in which he oc casionally is obliged to rest his right band, occasi on . ed, we understand, from an injury he received whelk shooting. Yesterday Viscount Palmerston, the Secretary as War, was busily employed at his Office in the Horse , On a rds. Lord Sidmon.b came to town, yesterday morning, about eleven o'clock, and transacted business at his office. We understand that Mr. iambton and Sir SAM Wilson were enthusiastically cheered as th e y paw through Darlington on the 2d inst. an their way t o the York Meeting. Hundreds flocked to see dr, gill. lant Knight, though the carriage only remained t o el.ange borses.—(Derrhain Chronicle.) • We he.ve received Gibraltar paper: to the 20th d Nov. The Earl of Chatham arrived there on the 15th and landed under a salute of nineteen grins; Le was received by a guard of honour, and proceeded to the Convent, where the Lieutenant-Governor delivered to his Lordship the keys of the fortress, The stoups composing the garrison lined the whole tray . from the place of landing to the Convent. The insaberdiaa tion of the garrison of Ceuta, which was formerly men . timied, is now stated to have arisen, not flout any poli tical motive, but from the extrette want to which the soldiers were reduced. On being apprised of this, the Commander-in-Chief reprimanded them bir resorting to such a mode of making their complaints I$ll4Wll. He pointed out to them the fatal eousepitnces tr.:4h which their conduct might be attended in the forum:. I committed to their charge, and the equally dangerous impres-ion their example might make on the mbar' corps of the army. Shortly after, deputations flow the non-commissiooed offieers Anil privates of all those which compose the garrison waited upon the General' , sod renewed their asserances of sincere and uniinaite4,% 4 40rOtion to their King and country. Saturday afternoon the Active frigate, Capt. Sir h. Alexander Gordon, K. C. D., returned from Gibraltar,. .where she lauded the Earl of Chatham and suite, after nearly three weeks passage from Portsmouth. She left Oibtaltar on the 24th ult. and touched atLislioaea the 2Sth, but was refused pretig se unless twelve kr, bad elapsed since her departure from Gibraltar. She, left the Tagus yererday se'unight, and bad fine ma titer until Friday. Captain the Earl of Huntingdse,. late of the Chanticleer, Mr. Gregory, Deputy Paymaste r General, and Dr. Coldstream, of the 2tith Foot, are come home passengers. She is under quarantine at Portsmouth. A vessel from Coronas, after a short passage, re ports, that a popular meeting bad assembled in a large room belonging to a convent there, for the purpose Of deliberating on an Address to the King, similar to the one sent up from Cadiz, when, owiug to the homes* concourse on the occasion, the floor of the room seek down with a tremendous crash. Seven persons were killed, twenty severely hurt, and many, others wet with braises. Advicts were received yesterday, from Valparaiso, to the 20th of August. They state that the ire English vessels detained by Lord Cochrane--therk ward Ellice, Lord Cathcart, Lord Suffield, Indianan% Colombian—were still rentainiag there; the two former have been acepitted by the Court of Prises. The Lord Suffield bad been liberated, and shortly es pr cted to receive demurrage for her detentioe: des ternotbers still remain. A considerable ponies of the specie lost in the O'Higgins is said to have been mu. vered ; but the other property, taken from trains • prizes, is totally lost . The communicatio n from Val paraiso to Lima was still interrupted by the holding out of Callao. Friday the Russian frigate Apollinia, boand el a voyage of discoveries in the North Pacific Orias, at * rived at Portsmouth from St. Petersberg. for V' plies preparatory to her hunt departu re hoes &aft- Sbe goes to Kanischatka. The General Palmer, Tensseott, from Marais t he aof Good Hopi, and St. Helena , arr ived u 6 Pif mouth on Saturday ; she sailed from Madress abut the 15th of August, and bas been oat sad Imo fl u° Cowes osly since the lOsth of February. The Corsair, Petrie, arrived at Live r p ord " Wed. neaday, in IS days and 1S boars from Malaya. The East India Company's ship Charles Ora° rived at Bombay, on the 10th of June. • The General Harris sailed from the Isle°, Setubal.: on the 31st of hay, arrived at Madras, on the Alta r 'Anne, and was espected to proceed on her voyage to China about the 15th of August. 111 appears from retinas made to Parliament, that the suns expended for the relief of the po or only in t h e seamy (independent of what is expend ed in the lorra: ' sad other parishes), is stated at 59,671. les., which hu gradually increased since MI6, 56,4611. Its. a.; more than the year endiag 25th of March ers 1:41.9. 0p.,. 13,2231. The average in three periods: — three Ors! years; ending in March, ISO, which reavbed; the first yearof pence, is stated at 106,4'271.; !hes e :, embracing a period of three years, ending in msr iv ! , ISIS, is 133,675/.1 and the third, comprising 0 , 1/Y „ 1. • • years, to March ISA Is reported at 153.06 ii.! • • peoperey assessed, ia ISIS, was 10112,2171. Chvonfe/e.) ept AA/aziktutt. 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