The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-06-21 00:00:00

intelligence from * France Itself is not of any in terest. Information, it is Stated, bad been given to the authorities of Nantes, that grant passages of troops would take plate through that town the middle of this month and the beginning of the mkt, but we cannot attach much importance to the circumstance. The King's brotbme having' followed on foot the pro cession of the Host. on " Gov's Festival," notwith standing the abundant rain which fell all the time, bad bee. indisposed for some days, and bad not bees able to dine with hie family. The Amine Coats of Nantes, is now engaged in trying the accomplices of Geeeral Berton's iosurreetionary attempt. FRENCH FeNDS, Joris 13.—Fite per Cent. Consols opened at 91 f.; highest, 91f. 10e.; closed at 90f. 90c. Elehanre on London, one month, 2Sf. 50e.; three. months, 2Sf. 30e. The House of Lenin again sit in Committee het night on the Marriage Act Amendment Bill. LoaD REDriIDA Ls introduced the clauses of which be bad given notice the night before, in lieu of those nega tived by their Lordships; and they were ordered to be printed as part of the Bill, in order to be takes into consideration. The Bill with its Amendments was reported, and ordered to be re•eomtnitted Oil Mon day !milli In the Hoene of Commons, the Scotch Juries' Bill was discussed, en the question of its second reading, and was ultimately carried without a division.—Sir N. Culainntirr moved that the House should resolve itself into a Committee upon the Butter Trsde Acts, with a view to increasing the duties on foreign butter. After some debate the proposed measure was deemed inexpedient, and the motion negatived without a divi• sion. It is, now, generally expected that the COANCILLOIL of the EXCHIQVIII will take off the whole of the SALT Tax, instead of the silly, or rather wicked scheme of leaving two shillings per bushel to be s:ill collected, at all the expense of the eel/action of the whole tar of fifteen shillings per bushel. We hope the Finance Minister has sense enough to adopt this measure. We will not dwell on the enormity of the design of preserving the expensive machinery, attend. ant upon the collection of the tax. That is com pletely seen through, by the most common place un derstanding. But the Repeal, the total repeal, of the SALT Tax, is a popular triumph which we should be sorry to lose sight of, after once getting a glimpse at it. The poor man who has only a few potatoes to give to his children, will give them with more pleasure when he consider that the Salt which seasons them is unstained by the foal bands of the EXCISIM•N, or the TAX•OATIIRIBIL. Bet the Re peal of this Tax include innumerable and incalculable benefi!s. To the existence of the SALT -TAX, may be attributed to tits state of our Fisheries. There to scarcely any thing wbi.t sarpeisee us more, than the state of ear FiwAir-3114-I•Ala."*.mts (4 4 the United Kingdom live io the midst of Seas, and derive little or no wealth from the inexhaustible stores of fish with which those Seas abound. Fo reigners code, and carry away immense wealth from our shores; and, in the act which enriches thousands, give employment to vast multitudes of seamen of their ' own laud, adding to the strength of their NAVY byi means which should naturally belong to our NAVAL ATRCNGTH. At the time when the Dutch threatened to sweep the seas of our ships of war, they acquired great part of the power which occasioned that arrogant pretension by previously sweeping the Seas of oar Fish. Great bustle has been made, to these hilarious', at times, about this enormous evil ; I but very little has been done to remedy it. At this time, we hare almost as little to do with the Fisheries of our own Seas, u if we lived io the Deserts of, Arabia ; and our home markets are se scantily sup plied with Fish, as if England were placed oa inland ground, far removed from the sight, or the sound of the sea. We will not now, go further, into general observations on this very in teresting subject, although it might easily be proved that much wealth might be obtained from our seas, which we suffer to lie buried there, or permit fo reigners to take away, while we lose that employment for thousands of our poor which the obtaining of that wealth would give them. We confine ourselves, at present, to the inadequate manner in which LONDON is supplied with fish, and the enormous prices at which the scanty supply is sold. In London, fish can seldom comae to she poor man's table, except it be a few stale mackerel, or herrings, or sprats. Tb; London market might be supplied with this valuable food, at a. low a rate, and lower than butcher's meat is sow. We do not want the poor to be sated with fish; but we would wish to see them able to place it on their table (the prime and best sorts) once or twice a week, or whenever they pleased, at a lower price than beef or mutton. It would be of double use- to them ; as it would afford a change of food for them, and would help to keep down the price of butcher's meat, which is always desirable. Without a continaation of the present low prices of provisions, we shall sever see Commerce again. But with those prices, Commerce may, and, we believe, will revive. Bat if nothing were gained by a cheap fish market, bat the advantage, and additional comfort, of the poor, it is a statesman's duty, and it is every man's linty who has the power, to endeavour to obtain a charpflsA market. The poems prices of fish are shamefully excessive. Where the blame of this lies, we do not precisely know. There is, however, a great deal of monopoly is this, as In some other trades, in Landoll. The PION SALOMON, as BILLINGSOATI, and . • eardiagly applied to him, but be declined giving a 4iscisive answer, and desired him to return at a certain beer the following day. The Minister of Justice was then made acqsainted with the circumstance, and Ja tourist developed the plot before concealed witnesses. Ile was immediately taken up. No person of high rack is named as being implicated, but many are sus- pected, whether with or without sufficient reason will doubtless appear hereafter, whet, the affair shall be fails investigated." • The Decree bud been issued containing the new re- gulations made by the Cortes for the administration I o f the Oporto Wine Company, in which they acknow- ledge the propriety of its continuation, under ends reforms as mar make it answer the ends for which it was instituted. The following articles of this decree wear the most in t ting to the British public : Clause 10. The preferences are a"- 'liaised which the law granted to the Company and its agents. " 11. It shall be lawful for any individual to purchase w i nes is the Upper Douro, as well as to sell'theni in ()port°, he. "11. The Company is obliged to purchase its wises areording to the price regulated by the law of 21st Sept. 1.20, 3c." It aa expected that the new regulations of the Cortes, by taking away a certain part of the right of monopoly and introducing coespetitioo, would only lead to the improvement of the quality of Oporto wines, bat also free the growers from many hardships seri de•potic acts seder which they formerly laboured. LASI' WEEK of the EXHIBITION of the EGYP- TIAN TOMB.—The Public are respeetfolly informed. t..at the EGYPTIAN TOMB will CLOSE.OO SATURDAY. me 224 Instant, when the remaining Lots purchased at the Kale will be delivered.--There are a few articles of Anti- asitt remaining at the Tomb on Sale by Fatale Contract. —lduaittauce One Shilling. jj LOTUS NEW INVENTED BEAVER HATS. J. Light, yet completely WATERPROOF, without the least particle of glue in the whole composition, which efect- mit prevents them from losing their shape—becoming so!t greasy, or spotted by rain, if worn for seven years. Their closes ire excellent, and the nap abort and thick, which Is tits great art in Hat-making. The lowest price and for ready mosey, of these superior Hats, are 275. each, to be ally at No. 71, Strand, next to Adam•street, and 92, New- cats-street. These are the shops where such a great variety es apes are to be seen, and where a Gentleman may at wosseut's notice, not only fit his head, but snit his person. MAILS. Ala. OUS. ARR. DVS. I Dublin - 0 1 Holland - - 0 ✓ We.terford - 0 - 0 G. & Jersey - 0 0 France U O Lisbon - - 0 0 Flanders - 0 o Gottenburg - PRICE OF STOCKS. AT ONE O'CLOCK. TH IS DAY. Rusk Stook 2 9 India Stock. Ipr CL Red BojEfilDitto Bonds 495. Ms. pm. 3 pee CI; Cells Beath Sea Stadia 31 per Cent.. 911 Smith flea old Aan 4 per Ceuta •• • • Slit Ex.Rillild New Fours 9O 10001. par Is.pm. 6 per Cent. . —par Is.pm. twairA ay..... ..... 20 6.19 ..ss. Ss. pm. Imp. • pt CL 791: Cos. for Acet SIM Irish it we Cent Lott. 'Tickets 211. Dis Vie .'Sjbtateontan• " N" If INCICFO ..... WITH "THE LONDON, FRI DAT EVENING, JUNE 21, 1822. The Bank discounting at 4 per cent. has caused a great deal of business in the Market this morning. Consols opened at 811, and remain steady at that price; Reduced, 80ir No message was sent to the Stock Esebaege from the Bank on the above resolu- tion; therefore no advantage could be taken in the market. The moment the rise is the funds took place, the Jew party sold largely to get out of their 801 l account. The Bank disconating at 4 per cent. will be the cause of great improvement in the foreign securities, as the public can obtain discounts at 3h or 4 per cent. and immediately invest the money in the Foreign Fonds, which produce from 6 to 8 per cent. FOREIGN FUNGI , . The Foreign Market is all alive this morning in consequence of the operation of the Bank, and a great deal of busioess doing. Spanish, (New) 02i1 Danish ----- (OW) ...1324 Neapolitan...—. ...... 731 Columbia • • • 101 1 Russia ezt New e4 Prussian a3 EXTRACT or • LETTER FRON FARIS, MONDAY NIGHT. " The news received this morning relative to Spain is eery alarming. War with that country appears al• most certain. It is also reported on 'Change, that the Portuguese have sent 12,01)0 men, infantry, cavalry, and artillery to join the Spaniards. A groat number of troops from various parts of France are inmovemen tir that point, and Marshall Souchet is spoken of a s the Commander•in-Chief of the army." Paris papers to the 19th instant have been received. Intelligence from the Turkish frontier would have it believed that the evacuation of the principalities has been very partial ; but, as the interest abates respect- . jag the affair of the East, these papers are transfer- ing their coinera to the affairs of the West. One of them, especially, the Quotidienge, gives a variety of /loons from the Spanish frontier. According to its rum ours , G e n era l Elio had beam carried away from the prison of Valenti'. and was to take the command of " the army of the Faith." These statements, however, do not seem to merit mach attention. By a letter front a merchant of that city, dated Julie 4111, it would ap- pear that the account, in circulatioa of the late distur- bances there had been much exaggerated. The fol- lowing ate hi e words—" We have been under some alarm here, in consequence of a party of artillery bav-1 jag possessed themselves of the citadel, (spatting to I'M their views seconded by the military and inhabit. lila They were. however, mistaken. and were cow- P l ied to oder to tie militliand other troops after three hours' mistime. and are now under trial al a Court-martial. Every thing la perfectly islet, and we trait win centimes so. --The E STATESMAN.. the great Flinn ore o Ras, have an notlentandlog between them. The great fishmongers molars with each other; and keep up the prices by a secret understandisg. Is this not a subject worthy of the *mention of the Go vernment, or the Legislature, or both ?. The-e surely wag be a remedy formed for the evil we have pointed out; aid the evil is not so small as to be despised, if it were only the evil of depriving the Poor of com forts they might emjey. That, however, thongh great in itself, is out the only boundary of it. JOURNAL from KENSINGTON to St. .41.13.1 :VS. Saint Albans, June 10, 1932. From Kensington to this place, through Hdgeware, Steamers and Watford, the crop is almost entirely hay from fields of permanent grass, mattered by dung and other matter brought from the /Ulm. Near the Wen, where they have had the first hotel of the Irish and other perambulating labourers, the bay is all in rick. Some miles further down it is nearly all in. Towards Stanmore and Watford, • third, perhaps, of the grass remains to be est. It 'legations to see how the thing regulates itself. We saw, all the way down, striae of labourers, of differeet departments, migrat• jog from tract to tract; leaving the cleared field: be hind them and proceeding on towards the work to be yet performed ; and, then, as to the el ( labour ers, the mowers, with their scythes on their shoulders, were is front, going on towards the standing crops. while teed, haymakers were coming on behind towards the grass already cut or cutting. The weather is fair and warm ; so that the public houses on the road are pouring out their beer pretty fast, and are getting a good share of the wages of these thirsty souls It is an exchange of beer for sweat ; hut, the tax-esters get, after all, the far greater part of the sweat ; fur, if it were not for the tar, the beer would sell for Ch. se halfpence' pot, instead office pence. Of this three pence halfpenny the Jews and Jobbers get about two pence-halfpenny. It is curious to eb how the different labours are divided as to the nations. The mowers are all English; the bey-makers all Irish. Scotchmen toil hard enough in Scotland ; but, when they go from home, it is not to work if you please. They are found in gardens, and especially. in gostic men's gardens. Tying up flowers, picking dead leaves, of exotics, peeping into melon-frames, publishing the bands of marriage between the " male" and "female" blosso:ns, tap-tap-tapping against a wall with a ham mer that weighs half an ounce. They bare backs as straight and shoulders as square as heroes of Water loo ; and who can blame them? The digging, the mowing, the carrying of loads; all the break-back and sweat-extracting work they leave to be performed by those who have less prudence than they have. The great purpose of human art, the great end of human study, is to obtain ease, to throw the burden of labour from our own shoulders and fir it on those of others. The crop of bay is very large, and that part which is in, is in very good order. We shall have hardly any hay that is not fine and sweet; and we shall have it, carried to London, at less, I dare say, than 31. a load, that is 18 cwt. So that here the evil os " over production" will be great indeed! Whether we shall have any projects fur taking bay into pateta is more than any of us natty ; for, after what we have seen, 0 It 4 ige sge were to hear it proposed to utter aod m lbw pawn ?In after times, the mad projects of thew days will become proverbial. The Oracle and the over-production men will totally supplant the ilinvels-kare—This Is, all along here, and especially as Mr asStanmere ; a very doll and ugly country : fiat, and aligrale : fielde and elms. Few Girded any kind, and few constant labourers being wasted, scarcely any cat tares mad 'gardens, which form one of the great beau ties of a country. Stanmore is on a hill ; bat it looks over • country of little variety, though rich. What a 41fference between the view here and those which carry ' eye over the coppices, the cornfields, the bop-gar and the orchards of Kent ! It is miserable had from Stanmore to Watford, where we get into Hertfordshire. Hence to Saint Albans there is generally chalk at bottom with a red tenacious litam at top, with dints, grey on the outside and dark blue within. Wherever this is the soil, the wheat grows well. The crops, and especially that of 'the barley, are very fine, and very forward. The wheat, in general, does sot appear to be a heavy crop ; but the ears seem as if they would be full from bottom to top r and, we have had so mach heat, that the grain is pretty sure to be plump, let the weather, for the rest of the summer, be what it may. The produce de pends more on the weather, precious to the swain. out of the ear, than on the subsequent weather. In the northern parts of America, where they have, some years, not heat enough to bring the Indian Cern to perfection, I have observed, that, if they have about Mosso days with the thermometer at ninet.y. before the ear makes he appearance, the crop never fails, though thefleatber may be ever so unfavourable afterwards. ThlE/tallies with the old remark of the country people in Englani, that "Nay makes or mars the wheat ;" for, it is •in May, that the erne and the mile are formed. Wst.y , . &Ms •Th wing important Resolution of the Bank of Engladd, regarding the discounting of Bills at 4 ias cent., was promulgated yesterday afternoon . " Beak of Enema, June 20, 1822. " Resolved—That Bills sod Notes approved in usual manner, and not having more than 95 days to r be disconoted at the rate of 4 per cat. on and after 21st Jane. 1822." The coo:armee, of this decision of the Bank Direc tors was an immediate dime( I per cent. in the Fonda. At the opening Consols for the Account were 8011, and they closed at 811. It was Mr. Weatherstone who. at the Southwark atutiversary dinner, proposed the health of the chair man, and not Mr. Wotberapuon, as gives in our paper. The East India Company's ship Orwell, outward bOmsd, arrived at St. Helm oo the 9th of April. ;'he undermentioned Bast India Company's ships were at Chunpke on the 'Gib Folatiolp—Oeseral Herds, lacielher Castle, Chatioa Gnat; Atlas, Mae qneos Cambileo, (Cellist Cssate, General Kyd, Waterloo, 1 Kent, Bridgwater, and Reath? Castle. The Vensit- I tan Wee It rly expected. The Rapids' had sailed fistitglan a few days before. U AT ROTTINO.—The match between Captain Hinters gtey horse Marksman and Mr. Harrington's brown owe, took place yesterday tnoroirg, at Healey% on Windsor Forest, round a circle of two miles, for 3EO gs. Capt. Haasel's grey horse woo. A . SHIPPIivo tyrat,l,lGEA.es. The Cambridge, front Bengal, bas arrived in the Chaplet. DIAL, JUNK 20.—Came dims the river last night; and sailed, the Transto, Arriago, for Cadiz and Vahin ria ; Fanny, Slader, for Quebec.—Arrived and sailetl for the River, the Mersey, Bearley, for Barbadoes ; Cundv. and Margaret, Stamford, foe Lisbon; and Cor• delia; Urqnhart, (or Oporto.—Seven o'clock. Just r 1111 l o down and sailed, the Charles, Milne; for Tobago ; Pris cella, Ellis, fur Teneritfe.—Wind N. E. PORTSMoUTH, JUNG 19.--Arriard the Co amodnre H.HI., Clarence, (ruin Rencal.—SAlNl the Goilioid, Ila.rb, from Norway.—Wind S. E. FALMOUTH, JUNI 19.—Sailr I the floindino transport; far Plymouth.—Arrived off the Parr, his laijegty's !hits Tribune, Captain Willoughby, from J&011iC4: and thO llornhy, Corkersdal, from Rio Janeiro.—Wial N. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 19.—Sailed the Ranger, fur New foundland.—Wind N. WATmoRD, JUNE 17.—Arrived nine transports front Bristol, with the 10th Buster% on b.,srd.' BETTING AT TATTKIIB7:4L - 'B.—JusE 20. ThrteaaTTA ST. LIGF.R.-3 to I sot Swop—tt to I twit Ajax—ll to I most f. out of Mandine-12 to I airst Nerbyth —lb to I ant Pilgarlle-20 to I opt hiarcellus-20 to I opt Mr. Sy koi's. Nun! I.EGER.-3to 4 on Mows. JULY t• TAILIC --1 to I apt Panting-3 to 1 apt Coquette. Me. Boar'twirl; --On Monday last, Mr. Cork burn 'sieved the Court of Jeviciary, at Edinburgh. that Mr. Itorthwick should be allowed all his est: p , netts, together with restoration of the property ',siz ed upon by the officers of the Court. Mr. Mc Neill stated that Mr. Alexander bad not relinyished hie charge against Mr. fierthwick, hut was prosecuting it in a civil action before the Magistrates of G:derOW ; and that certain papers which had been obtained from Mr. Borth wick, fur the criminal process, were reqnired 'o be produced in the civil action at 64-gow. The. Lord Justice Clerk ssid be thought tint to grant ell that was now applied for would go to prejudice the pending civil question, and the rest of their Lord ships concurring in this opinion, the Court refused :he restoration of the papers and document.; bat found Alexander liable in expenses; allowed an ac count thereof to be given in; forfeited the bond of caution granted at raising the criminal letters, bat ordered the cautioner to be heard against the dentani for subjecting him in expenses. °critics IN Islcomaxe.---Oo Monday night last, a very wanton and violent outrage was committe I in Newgate, on the person of " Little Waddington," after the time of locking up. lo the course of the day, it appears, Waddington, being unwell, had re tired, for the sake of quiet, to an empty Ward, an•! this being considered an offence by the Wardsman, lie determined to have him punished by the prisoners.— The mode of punishment proposed was tossing in a blanket, and this purpose, in spite of WAddington's entreaties, was with great violence carried into elec.. On Waddington resisting, the Wardsman, an athletic man, began to beat him brutally with Lis lists. W. crying out for relief, the watchman on the top of the prison looked into the yard, and reprobated the outrage.; aid one of the Turnkeys coming imme diately afterwards, prevented further violence. lo the mean time Waddington war metering severely. flaring begs repeatedly beat against the pavement his back and loin* were mach injured ; both his eyes are dioessloored, and ono ouch swolo ; and his head & even now, appears entirely covered with bruises. The officers of the prison to whom, in this affair, nu blame whatever attaches, humanely removed him Li:mediate ly to the Hospital-ward, and on Tueeday the Sheriff' visited him, and appointed the following day to invet. tigats his case. The in►estigation, accordingly, took place on Wednesday, before Air. ALDERM VN WOOD, in the Governor's parlor; and the result was that the Wardsman, whose name is JAMISON, and who had been sentenced in September 1820 to seven years tesosportation, was immediately removed to the Con vict yard, to be sent off with the next draft. He had boasted, it is s►id, daring his wanton outrage, that he should not be hurt for killing a Radical. Accounts from the Cape of Good Hope state, there has not been rain there for these 2 years. Tue New LONDON BRIOOII.—The sew bridge is proposed to be erected as near as possible to, and not exceeding 170 feet from the woe side of the present bridge, and to afford a clear water-way of not WA than 690 feet. It is to be faced with granite, and to Consist of five arches ; the centre arch to rise 23 fret above high water mark of an avera ge spin v tide, ac cording to the Trinity House standard, which is shewn spa the face of the present bridge. Proper stairs of granite are to be provided. The acclivity of the road way, to and over the bridge is sot to be steeper than one foot in 26 feet. In the instructions for the en gi , architects, and others, who propose to furnish the Commitee for letting the Bridge House estates, with designs or models and estimates for the erection of tie new ►ridge, a desire is expressed that the bridge should be worthy of the metropolis ■od the present cultivated state of science; due regard being had at the same time to economy, and to the convenience of 1lb" Wait tilflet mid seder the bridge, doting the pro gem and after tbet completion of the works. A de sire is also expressed that as little sacrifice be Made of the property at both ends of the bridge, for the for mation of the necessary approaches, as is Consistent with the character of so important as entrance to the of heathy. tag.—Last night between ten and eleven o'clock, a re broke out on the premises of Mr. Frederick Ebo, fur and skin d , in Old Brawboose-yard, St. Jobs's street, which its consequence of a deficiency in the sup ply of water, and the premises being old and consisting chiefly of wood, spread with great rapidity and soon caught the duck manufactory of Mr. Odes adjoining. By the great exertions of the Firemen the fire was got under about 12 o'clock, but both the buildings were completely destroyed. Mr. Ehn, we regret to hear. has suffered a loss of between two and three thousand pounds; no part of which was insured. COgN•fiiaCMAxs this merging is sep►ort lif•eday' anfenor.—Pe- . . !Lasky •lw little rein v stoitdag of Lambe, which in greet sheadanco, dm inferior " ..riptioss no part of which was insured. • gIICHANON. Junta 1:11.-.411* trade is very dull stag in What, and taking bat tiro maples" . la day's pekes, with very little demand for the -Peas ma Seas maintain Monday's prices.— so supports its price, *hick is attributed to the we base had. PIRLD. JuNa 21.—The Market was short this of oxen, bet well supplied with Sheep and bich sold at lee market day'i prices. Veal is headaaco, art} the good is •waglit after, but or is scateelp saleable.—Ths daunted for slide. of cattle wiisiodera • —Daft .lia. to 3s. 6d, " • P , . le 40.--111titlea Ss. tots. :41.«.-P rk lamina! .11 . • • • ; 11 ' . ..7 i $ tt , .2' . I l's 4 ` , f : . i 1 1 . r . 1 ii ., . i i • . .1 1 it . * I I 1