The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-11-01 00:00:00

( i" SIN f 7 else of Christian charity and holy con.luct, this Meeting records a fresh pledge of energetic zeal in distributint: that book which is so peculiarly calculated to promote peace en earth and joy in heaven. " That the individuals who compose this assembly will, therefore, as far as their influence may reach, strive to render the City of London Axiliary Bible Society an •• '•••44114441416-401.141Lattila imalinpnlis-uf-thia. affluent and cnaritable nation." Wise 'lcy. J. Wessri e .'Cliaplain to the King of ----Swedes attil.X•rsieondesi-the resolution ; and in • a neat shoat speech:dwelt or: the great liberality of the UMW) station in supporting such an establishment, and on-the many advantages which the human ram might expect to derive from:it. This resolution was then agreed to. C. F. STRATTON then proposed. "7. That this meeting giatefally acknowledges the donation of one hundred guineas• from the Corporation of the City of London, which that Honourable Court has presented to the Society." The Rev. Mr. HERM', of Greenock, seconded the resolution. The Secretary then read a letter from her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, addressed to the Lord Mayor, expressing her regret at not being able to at tend the tneeting.—(Great applause.) Mr. OGnnam, on the part of the Common Council of London, returned thanks for the resolution which had been just passed. Mr. Farcb then proposed. " 8. That this meeting, sensible of the obligation con ferrel upon the Society by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, desires gratefully to acknowledge the kindness of his Lordship in having granted permission that the anniversary of the Society should be held in the Egyp tian Hall, and also for the suitable manner in which his Lordship has presided upon the present occasion." he Rev. Joseen Wanes seconded the resolution. The LORD MAYOR shortly returned thank'. Thanks were then voted to the Secretary, for his ex ertions ; after which the meeting broke up. BIBLE SOCIETY--IRELAND. As a contrast to the harmony and good effect of the above described association in the Metropolis, we pre sent the following correspondence of the Lard Primate of Ireland, and the Archbishop of Dublin, with the Bible Society of Belfast, to show the petty jealousies anti prejudices which prevail in the sister kingdom, oven in the Heads of the Church, on the most benevo lent and religious occasions : At the last Annual Meeting of the Be lfast Auxiliary Bible Society, held oo the 22d of October, the follow ing documents were read by the Secretary : CORREPPONDENCE WITH HIP GRACE THE LORD PRIMA rE AND HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN. LETTER FROM HIS GRACE THE LORD PRIMATE. Great George's-street, July 11, SIR, —As I understand you are Secretary of the !libel nian Bible Society, I request you will have the goodness to inform the Soeiety that I wish to have my name withdrawn. A friend to the circulation of the Scriptures. I have, for many years, given my counte nance and support to the Hibernian Bible Society ; and it is with much reluctance, aria even pain, that r feel myself obliged to withdraw from it.—lt would he useless to detail all the circumstances which have in duced me to form this resolution. I cannot, however, forbear stating, that the constitution of the Society, as it appears to ne, has been gradually chanted since its original formation ; and it is quite notorious, that, at its public meetings, speakers introduce topics which are nut only irrelevant to the business of the Society, but, in some instances, utterly inconsistent with their avowed object of circulating the Bible without com ment. Those meetings consist of a number of persons whose religious opinions are at variance with each other, and each person has a right to express, with out check or controls!, his own religious opinions in his owu language. Linder such circumstances, it it Impossible to prevent observations being made which are injurious to the Established Church, and offensive to its members. 1 cannot, therefore, consistently with my sense of duty, any longer sanction the pro• ceedings of the Society, or continue even its nominal patron. Being in a weak state of health, and over whelmed with business, 1 need scarcely add, that 1 mean not to enter into any discussion on the subject. 1 have the honour to be, your faithful servant. (Signed) W. ARMAGH. To the Rev. Dr. &Killer. Secretary of the Hibernian Bible Society. LETTER FROM THU REV. DR. SADLIER TO HIS GRACE TIM LORD PRIMATR. Dublin, July 19. 1921.. Mr Lonn—l am directed by the Committee of the Hibernian Bible Society to convey to your Grace their regret at the determination you have expressed to re linquish the office of Patron of their Society. In compliance with your Brace's wish that discussion should be avoided, the Committee will only state, that on the most mature deliberation, they are fully satis fied that no change has been introduced into the con stitution of the Society since its original formation ; and beg leave to add, that bad your Grace been pleased to intimate the circumstances which made it apparent to you that such change had taken place, the Com mittee would, on the present, as on a former occasion, have given the subject the most respeetfel considera tion, and cheerfully and thankfully availed themselves of your suggestions. The Committee cannot conclude without expressing their further regret that your lirace should conceive that at the public meetings of the Society observations might be made injurious to the Established Church, and offensive to its members. as they are perfectly conscious that nothing of this kind ever took place, nor from the arrangement of those meetings could possibly have occurred without instant animadversion. I have the honour to be. your grace's most obedient servant, (Signed) FRANCIS SADLER. Secretary to the Hibernian Bible Society. To his grace the Lord Primate. &a. LILITaa NUM ■ls oaAcs Tai miceassuor or DUBLIN. Stephen's-grees, July 14, 1821. Sir —Bevis( at my last visitation peblicly stated my objections to the proceedings of the Hibernian Bi ble Society, and my reasons for not any longer conti nuing a amber, it only remains fee me to ropiest that - 7. will take the proper steps for withdrawing my lase frees the Society. I have the honour to he, your humble servant, (impel) JOHN, DUBLIN. Ire the Seteetary. gibe Hibernian Bible Seeley. sTA LiTTit PROK ?RE REV. it. W. UATIIiAL TO: Ttli AVIIISISHUP..O7 DttatlM. DublA. July, 10,.1921. Lord—l am directed by the Committee of the Hibevnian Bible Society to express to your Grace their regret for the loss.cif ypur Lordship's patronage, which they bad so many years enjoyed.. _Dot baying heard. or seen your Grace's charge, the, Cannot advert to the particular circumstances with which your Lordship is dissatisfied, but they are perfectly unconscious of any departure from the line of proceedings which had so lung met tour Grace's approbation. I have the honour to he, Bte. (Signed) B. W. MATHIAS. To his Grace the Arciabiehop of MUD. ~~ ~ PUBLIC Mil STING. -•1..-- At the Election of Magistrates for the Borough of Stafford on Monday se'nnight, the following speech was delivered by George Chetwynd, Esq. M.P. for the Borough. " Mr. CIIETWYND said that the anxiety he must na turally feel in meeting so many of his constituents upon the present occasion, was in a great.degree re lieved by the flattering compliment which had just been paid him, because from the cordial manner in which his health had been drank. it was fair to augur that neither he, nor his honourable colleague, had done any thing since he had last the honour of meeting them upon a similar occasion, to forfeit the confi dence which they bad been pleased to repose in them. Since that period many important events had occurred : —they had gene through one of the most laborious Sessions ever known in the History of Parliament, and it would he a satisfaction to him hereafter to reflect that lie had participated in those labours.—(Ap plause.)—Measures highly important, and materially affecting the interests of the country had been carried, and he hoped that his Majesty's Ministers bad actually commenced, and were at this moment acting upon, the system of economy and retrenchment, so strongly urged by that indefatigable, acute, and useful Member of Parliament, Mr. Hume, by whose exertions alone a saving to the country of more than 117,0001. a year would he immediately effected, in merely regulating i the offices of Receivers General, which in many cases had been converted into complete sinecures. Similar reductions might he made, and he believed were mak ing in the War Office, Ordnance Department, Excise and Customs.—(Applause.)—Mr. C. said he was de , , rummy of opinion that unless a system of the most rigid, hut at the same time judicious economy, in the expenditure of the public money. was enforced and acted upon in every department of the State, the peo ple must not expect any relief from their present heavy burdens. Most strongly did he deprecate the continuance, in times like the present, of any useless offices, sinecure placer, and pensions, unless granted for services actually rendered to the country.--4Ap planse.)—Where this is the case, no one could' object to them ; but upon looking ever the pension list, he found many names therein which perfectly astonished him. He !toped the . countraceirould be alive to this his hands, he assured them it should not remain aor mant on the Table of the Honse." ' THE PRODUCE and CONSUMPTION OF THE COUNTRY. There having now been time to form an estimate of the result of the last Harvest, the following article on the produce and Consumption of the Country. from the intelligent Editor of The Norwich 411errnry. will, we doubt not, prove acceptable to all our readers who arc interested in the-comparison stated : The fact at all times most important t a Country is the production and the cost of its subsistence; and at this moment that fact is tendered doubly momentous by the belief, corroborated both by evidence and events, that the producers are daily falling into ruin, front the dif ference between the cost of production and the selling price of the commodity. With this depreciation is necessarily connected a concurrent depression of all other articles and all incomes; and lastly the portentous evil, that a taxation, heavier than any nation was ever before subjected to, remains unaltered amidst this ge neral abstraction from the power to pay. Hence one disorder leads to all the rest, and the interest of the in. dividuals composing the community, as well as those of the State itself, are injured and endangered. _ One great problem is, to determine whether the growth of the Country is eqnal to its consumption. Upon this head we think the time is not yet arrived for forming an accurate decision. There can be no doubt that up to a very late period—perhaps 1819—the ge neral growth had not been decreased. if it had not even increased, from superior knowledge of the science _of agriculture and superior attention, for the reasons which are subjoined. From 1792 to 1819 there had been an annual average importation of 500,000 quarters of wheat only. In the year 1818 near five millions of i quarters of corn (including the import from Ireland and' ; the Isle of Man) came in. The crops of 1819, 1820, have been at least average crops. In bulk, that of last year is excessive. We have lately traversed the country in various directions, and never did we observe so many stacks. We have seen the circulars of many Corn Merchants, who concur in stating that the quality is various and inferior, but nevertheless they express con fidently that the crop amounts to a full average. With these premises before us, it is fair to conclude that a much larger stock of the old as well as the new growth than ordinary remains still in store. For if 500,000 quartets has been the average importation for 27 years, the wheat imported in 1818 would give full three years consumption of foreign grain in advance, and that all this did actually come into the market. was sold and consume'', is proved by the fact that 957 quarters only remained under the King's lock in Feb. 1819. The effect was to displace so much of the English growth, the Eyfglish farmer unwisely holding for a higher price,'While the importer possessed himself of the mart. But as the imports, to make upthe average of 500.000 quarters have taken place very mach in fall ing seasons when the crop was below as average crop, it follows that the seasons since 1819, having produced a full average or perhaps more than as average crop. there is probably as accumulation of English growth, both *ld and new. equal to the whole import of 1818, and thus the supply is. and is likely to b e b eyon d t h e demand. however much the prices of good and bad, mead sad aasuaad core, may vary. ,Y: Tye - only, place where suct returns ars made and • a 11:1Ch receftls published as cto enityle us to (corm a cosi , liaratlve htatement of supply, is the port of London. We have observed these records, and they exhikit, though but partial, stilt some curious phenoMena.• • rebel . Ai 13th of Nov. 1816 tivLita ,the ports had been first steeped for_foragn corn) to April ,5. 1817, the weekly average supply was— ENGLISH WHEAT. ' FOREIGN WHEAT. 6810qrs. 5576 From April 5 to Aug. 16- 4 6380 906 From. Nov. 13, 1817, to April IS, 1818 6962 667 The years 1819 and 1820 were limited certainly to an English supply, except till February in the former year, and it is remarkable that in 1819 the supply was about 6000 quarters per week. in 1820 the supply increased about 1000quartersper week, beiag about 7000 week ly. In 1821 the supply has risen to 8000 quarters, and it is singular that in no former year has there been such an immense influx as during the last five weeks, which has amounted to one-third of all sent in during the year. There is no one week indeed, nor no series of weeks when the supply has risen to half the amount for these five. This not only proves the abundance but the power which the employment of threshing machines bestow of deluging the market at once—a most important feature in the case—because by means of this instrument, a farmer can instantly take advantage of rise, and it is probable this circum stance alone would, in the event of such rise, be pro• ditctive of great and immediate finctuation. For ma chinists now travel from firm to faro, and let their implement amid their services for one or more days.— ! Every farmer can therefore command their use. This is a much more important fact, in time agricultural case titan is imagined, when considered in its relation to the payment of wages, abstraction of the sum paid from the parish, &c. &e. But one of the curious ques tions arising out of these figures is, how the apparent deficit, occasioned by the non-appearance of foreign grain at market, and amounting to more than half the total, has been supplied during the three last years ? The corn clearly did not come to London by sea, and it is too much to suppose that a sufficient stock of either English or Foreign was warehoused by millers for three year's consumption. In addition to tl►ese circumstances we have one other fact to relate, which is momentous. Much sus picion has long existed, that quantities of foreign corn have been surreptiously drawn from warelionses under the King's lock, and sent into the market, in spite of lire evidence to the contrary given on the Averages Committee. In one instance a detection has very re cently been made of such a f and at a Yorkshire port. lYe know the 14ct—though not the partirulars—and we have strong reason to believe that similar cases of negligence or collusion on the part of the revenue officers may be found even in very large• depots. We should therefore earnestly recom►nend Agricultural Associations to petition the Board of Trade to cause enquiry to ,be made into the matter, by a general sur vey. It Wcertainly an object of consequence, nut to Sot to tie large: From these statements, which it is admitted mist be very limited in their operation, though they exhibit something of a general character, our readers will draw their own inferences. We conclude that there is a large sutpins of supply above the possibility of pre sent demand in harid, and consequently, 'that as the holder is driven to sell, prices will fluctuate and conti wually fall. There will certainly be great differences in valise, but as a large'portitffi of the crop is damaged in the growth or by the weather in the harvesting, the general agricultur.tl case will he made the harder. MONTHLY AGRICULTURdt REPORT. The barn floor having been in extensive use since our last, the crops may he spoken of, both in respect to qua lity and bulk, with considerably greater certainty. Few samples, indeed, of the new wheats have proved tit for the miller's use, being generally, the best of them. cold in hand and soft, and wanting many months sweating in the stack. The ordinary mildewed, smutted, and grown samples are unsaleable, as unlit for the speculator's per pose, and there seems scarcely any other to which they can be applied, but pig-feeding. Barley is not, in every district; a large crop, and where it is so, it is almost all stained by moisture, or shrivelled and discoloured by blight. Oats, a middling crop, have perhaps escaped best. Beaus and Pease are great crops, but partially blacked and even rotted. Turnips cover the 'awl com pletely, hut perhaps generally run too mach to foliage, to be heavy anal productive in the bulb. Grass is in vast plenty, and good in the uplands; hut must necessarily be very washy and weak, in flooded lowlands, and by no means sate for sheep; indeed should the autumn prove rainy throughout, a rot in the sheep may he dreaded. Tares, though not a great crop, have had a great fall in price. Samples of hops having colour, sell readily, as being scarce. The Spanish (Talavera) wheat, the na tive of a more favourable clime, as might well be ex pected, from not being yet naturalized to our fickle sea sons, has in the present succeeded worst of all ; our white wheats, as most delicate, the next. It is well worth the firmer's while to calculate this year. how much be has' lost by growing clover with his corn. perhaps a disad vantageous practice in any season. The vast plenty of ' food for cattle, sheep, and pigs, both of vegetables and damaged corn, have produced some spirit in the fairs and markets ; and the accounts from the great fair of are said to be exhilirating ; there is, however, a great want of the means of purchase among tile farmers generally. Provisions may yet decline considerably further in value, thong's the bad state of the wheat crop may keep the price of bread somewhat steady. Pigs are said to be more plentiful and cheap than for many years; probably oar breeders are beginning to set their faces against the. Irish supply. It seems to be generally agreed, that the past has been one of the worst seasons, anal the late harvest the very worst within memory. Yet, as has ever been the laudable custom of certain new writers, most flourishing and soothing accounts are con s t ant l y given to the public, of abundant and beautiful crops. A few fortunate growers, i ndeed, in Some of the earliest dis tricts, have harvested their wheat early, and incondition and quantity nearly equal to the famous crop of last year : and fortunate Scotland for the most part, has done so, and even seed e d their fellows at the earliest period. The hopes of the farmers of obtaining any relief through the medium of the Agricultural Associations, grow daily more faint, and with great reason. The first proposal watt indeed obviously delusive, the last absolutely ab surd. The situation of the farmers, it gannet he denied, is mast deplorable, and both far their sakes sad of the p u blic at large. a real sod 'active remedy for this us.' tiosal disease should be pat is force with all possibl e s p e ed. la the masa tkpo, it behoves the farmer to probe, tbst they may discover the (Hightail cause of their sulavilies- They will Sad that all this desolation has lbws Wu& WA obeli by the road gnat at their ~, ~ ~~ 1 I r J fathers or themselves; and that the first step N th ' lief is, the ecinviction of that truth ; the n ett to Sin in the addption of t: qt ly patriotic mincipl ts • 4 . th, proceeding..—!Middlesex, Oct. 24, 1821. RICH W4TER ET LANDON.'IEIDGE T 0.1401, mo n on v 40 min. rater B.—Evenine Bmi n owl AbLSAisrs.—llaLiday *.* Chapeau's political os.,:ty on " The limiest" i t to the same objection as the article at which et . —its large and disproportional dimensions. eh, ztattoman. aim sarrisv STATION MY" I, INCORPORATED • 111.411ISMAN." . LONDON: THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1 , 18,11. STOCK EXCILINGE. TWELVE O'CLOtt The Bank is closed to-day, but the S4.ek Step remains open, in consequence of to-morrow b e i tt4 day to take and cleliver Stock. The Bulls eat are tugging at each other. The Jews being g i4 and haring a very large amount of Stock to deli the consequence is, the Bears are giving thew th e ternal hug, by lowering . the Consols, allieh done this morning at 774 Paris papers to the 30th ult. have anini morning. Advice; from Madrid are fisted Oct. 18. The Deputies elected as Members of the Cortes, are for the most part distinguished I The ultra Candidates met with a very sorry r _ in the Electoral Colleges. At Pampeluna it Cu licult to preserve the peace, so touch were dale enraged against the persons of this description. A new Guerilla commanded by ecclesiasticsof ---- "1. rank, has appeared in the environs of Vicb ; tbi force amounts to about five hundred men. Tbeisti,' ligence of the yellow fever having reached %lap and the Isle of Leon is unfortunately cosirani. The province of Oribuela at the conclusion of theelee• tions became the scene of murk agitation. Thom alists assembled in gre:it numbers to celebrate Mit triumph, and paraded the streets crying Lour lie! the King, down with those who support the Cola* ties, &e. &c. Oviedo has not been altogether fin frum disturbance, in consequence of the ill jteirl zeal of the ultra party. flints have taken place a d'nost all points of the kingdom. They have all one glided with the enemies of the Convitutional system These assemble in the streets, post Proclatnatiookta attack every one that does nut shout The Ms; fu ever! no Constitution! The territorial audience of New firmed the judgment, which.kepl,iu 1 _ of :b. 1i.a../y guaeda. has sr The discussion on the terr itorial division is Wrrei• nated, with the exception of that which relates tote provinces of Guipuzcoa, Alava, and Biseav ; thee being a great difference of opinion as to these foratie! one or three provinces; the population of the is 340.900 souls. The Aurtrium Observer of the 18th of Oet. contain news from Constantinople, dated Sept. 21—The Poet is unremittingly occupied in le-inforciog the army h. I tended to oppose the firecko. Troops are ton,tautli arriving from Asia, on the borders of the Danube, ud in the Murea. The troupe of the Grand Scignor ste• time I near Salonica, have hitherto been unsuccresful in all their attempts to drive the Greeks fr int thew of the Peninsula, which is situated on the Gull of Cassandra. The Ottoman fleet stationed leetwees the islands of Samos and Rhodes, was expected to dir..ct its course towards Cerigo, to effect a junction wits the squadron of the Capudan Bay in the lonios ua. This fleet was at anchor on the 11th of Sept. is the bay of Zante. The Greek fleet has chiefly reurnA to the Islands of the Archipelago, for the purpose of reit• ting aad revictnalling. A superior Admiralty officer ha recently been sent to the Archipelago with termite the Greeks, and to offer them the most positive guarantees relative to the maintenance of their liber• ties and their rights. Ypsilanti has addressed toil Greeks in the Mores, another proclamation signed by himself. The rumour is repeated of his Davis, repaired to the Island of Hydra. Letters free %ante of the 29th of Sept. state, that a part Olio Ottoman fleet bad entered Patens, in the Mores, AA that Ali Pemba, after the retreat of the Tuba burnt the City of Janina, to prevent a second Woo in case they should have occasion to return. ThstUts in some accounts are said to have lost 2,000 Oa at the taking the Convehts of Seeks. The celeiratti Jordaki, who had been taken prisoner oa Ibis oche sion, and who was first stated to have been cars:o lll ° Constantinople, and afterwards to have destroyed bia' self, is reported to have escaped. An fletecide' sonated him and thus facilitated his escape. By letters from Barcelona, it appears that the pro' gross of the yellow fever continues to be most slid. ing. Three or four hundred penes] daily fall vic:iss* its ravages. The population of Barcelonetta is It uluced to 90 or 100 inhabitants. James Macdougall has appealed against his of tenee to the Court of Cessation. French Fends, by private aceonnes, are said 10. b9l. 84.1 c. New York Papa's arrived this morning to the Ma of September, and Montreal to the 234, frets irbiA we extract the following from the New York AgrertiV4 of the 27th September. Mextco.--We yesterday annonneed that an NO' tie* for three months had been entered into It Patriot and Royal troops is Mexico.. We 64 MI- a (