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A nglo-31exicant Mint 33 6 par A.u.,:ralian lOO 3 . 12i 13 British Iron Itritivils and Foreign Paper 6O 3 1 I.lal Gas Engine li eneral eiteam Nsrigation lOO 6 i din I - nparial Plate Glass Pcent Bricks 5O 2 dis ProvinelalßaUf Ireland gite '1:; rittOft 1 1 1 .'- reoo • DRURY-LANE 171E.47'RP. TP is Evening, MONDAY, 0et.31, witt be performed the Tregedy of PIZ %alto. ft 412.• str. Mall/kelt t Pletrro:lit:iroundet Alonzo. Mr. Archer Elvira, Mrs. W. Wert; C:rs. Miss I. Patuu. After which the Divettlselccnt of TIIE CAMP. ' Principal (lancers. Yr. ind Mrs. Noble. To conclude with 13d time) the Comic Otters of THE WEDDING. PRESENT. Tl.e principal Characters by Masers. Wmllsek. I orn, Bedford, Harley, and Tm !tore; I.4eedemes Chaddon and Kelly. To-morrow, Der Ireleehute, The Camp, and TLe 11 edding Present. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. 'Mut Evening, MOS° AV, oct. U, wUI be perforroea '.he Opera of 1108 ROY' MACGREGOR. R Roy, Mr. Warde; Maga!, Mr. Rayner; !Witte Nicol Jerrie, Mr. W. Ferrets. Diana Vernon, raton. After IS bleb a newt:ulnae BaJlet, 0044 TILE SHIPWRECK Or POLICINELLO Or, rim NEAPOIATAN NUPTIALS. PrOlelnello At migieur Masurler Ibis Ist appearance In England). 'l'u suu lude with the Hueleel NO SUNG NO SGI PER. ' , rulerlea, Mr. Mangum; Itobin, Mi. rower Endless. Mr. Moa n oe.. t °visa. Mina Dorotny, Miss Love; Margaretta, Ills* Cow tri ( .er Yd appearance on this Snort.). o-toorrow, The School fur Sousdal, and Ulla. ITAI3tAIiKET THEATRE. E% ening, MON D AV, 00.31, will be performed the Comte Piece of INTRIGUE. Tom, Mr. W. Weat : Ellen. Madame Vestris, After - .which the Comedy of THE MERCIRN T OF VENICE. Shylock, Mr. James- frnin7; ---------- Dassanto. Mr. Raymond; Lumcebt, Mr. 11 liklueou. Portia. Mrs. Glover; Jebsirn, G,otice. To conclude with the Comic Drama of THE EPAULETTE. _ _ The Principal Character; by Dlidame Vestrls, Madames T. 11111, A Junes. Glover, and P. t.locer. T,- - w,nrow. Know Your Own Mind. Lore Lausha at Locksmiths, and Me Epaulette. Ti.: T Palm commenced publishing on Saturday morn ing It fire 0 clock. LONDON, MONDAY. OCTOBER 31, 1823. Ltat night we received the Brussels Papers of Saturday. It appears by the correspondence from Vienna that the Austrian Government are considering how they can pre_ see t •the Greeks from capturing the Austrian vessels en gagsnl in the Turkish service. The Greeks are mar e lowarful at sea than the Austrians, and therefore reprisals ...re out of the question. The Austrian flag would be swept off the Mediterranean in a week. Negotiation only re- EI3IIIS, but it is evident that the Greeks cannot safely give tp the principle on which they act. If they do, the command of the sea will be useless to them. Turkish supplies will be conveyed everywhere in neutral bottoms, and the Greek ii:ariners vrouid become the passive spectators of the pre parations for the invasion of ..heir country. If the Austrian Government wish to preserve their commerce from injury, let them imitate the conduct of the British Government, and prohibit their subjects from interfering in the contest, unless they choose to do so at their own peril. The ac. counts front Missolonglii are highly gratifying. The following are extracts:— VIENNA, OCT. 16. [FROM A LETTER.. The successive accounts transmitted by the wartime authorities at Trieste, relative to the excesses committed by the Greeks towards i..e imperial flag, as well in the Archipelago as in the lonian sent, PIVC strongly excit...l the attention of our Cabinet. It is at this instnent engaged in discussing the measures to be adopted by way in . -in tail. and it is even believed that orders will be immediately g ven to the Austrian ships of war to capture the (beck 'web; sew , : they may fleet with. On the other hand it is aErmcd, that ..crtrii members of the Ministry are of opinion that negotiations ximild be entered into upon this subject, under the mediation of one .. the maritime Powers, before femme Is had to an extremity, the esult of which would be to place us in a state of war ct sea with the ireela, whose marine is much superioi to the imperial navy ; toe no. !keg could binnerthem from sending 'squadron to cruise off Trieste, would do incalculable injury to the commerce of that city. it is oburvati that the Greeks have advocates among the most con siderable yawns in this city, who justly blame the Captains of at merchantmen for having violated their neutrality by taking gon on board fur Turkish account. AV63ZURCH, OCT. 20. Our Correspondent at Trieste serds us the following details : The sararchtuus of this c:ty are extremely alarmed by a report that has just been spread that the Greeks have captured nearly twenty .A urtrian vessels, for haring attempted to act contrary to the Decree of tAle Government of °recce, which declaers the cows of Southern Albania in a state of blockade. Accer.t news has been received from Ali•solnr.gbi. The eltirrs wbo eotarnaed in that place have taken advantage of Cite raising the blockade by era to :vittforce the garrison. The trnipg were scattered along the coast have been collected and embarked, and hive arrived at Missolongiti ; this additional force has enabled the Greeks to make several sallies, all of whirl: were liticce,,sful : but the greatest advantage thy have gained it the destruction ut tit! dike, by means of .Lich Itedschid Pupa hoped to force Misso ,oiglti to capitulate. P.111133EL3, OCT. 23. We have late spoken of an affray at Ca.:chi between the stu- dents and the civic guard. Some Belgic Journals, among ellich is the Aahory °exotic, represent the allele as much more serious than we at ;hat stated: We shall refrain from copying the different s.ateni!nts, and watt for authentic accounts. It should seem, how. ever, ltult it lutist bare been serious, because it is affirmed that a Member of the High Court of Justice at the Hague has been sent to the spot to direct the legal investigation. OCT. 23. The unfortunate affair M Utrecht is no before the tribunals. The soldiers artl students cot plain of rich othrr. The latter affirm that they are victims of acts of violence, fat %%Isiah no •u.'riici:nt reason can be given. Frankfort Papers nrrived yesterday to illel:2lth inst. An article dated Constantinople, the Yid ult., states that sus authentic accounts had been riceived from the Morea since IBRAHIM PACIIA'S retreat to the coast; at least none had been made public. Several absurd reports arc noticed respecting what is called the Moldavian plan, ishich the Viceroy of EC:l'l'T is said to have recommended the StA.TAN to adopt, as the only course to extricate himself from the labyrinth of the Greek insurrection. It is pre tended that CoLocornoNt is no stranger to this measure, and that he approves of it. The whole story, we have .no , doubt, is the fabrication of some German romance writer. The Oriental Srertator deities that the insurrection in Candia is either general or formidable. According to that veracious Journal, a rabble of b or 600 men were landed from Napoli di Romania at Csraboussa, an islet about three quartets of a league from the coast apposite Kissamo, and having surprised a small fort, ganisoned by a few Turks, they Endeavoured to stir up the islanders to revolt, but the attempt, we are told, wholly failed of success. It is sin gular, however, that it does not appear that any steps had been taken by the Turkish authorities to seize this handful of rebels. They rely, it seems, upon the return of the Egyptian fleet for the restoration of crit.T. Why, if they can, do they not restore it themselves ? We have received New York Papers to the 3d instant' anal Boa pen to the 30th ult. Their contents are wits • a a Ntir l e 4s,Paper, respecting an expedition from Cam peachy for the invasion of Cuba. The report, we believe, is not entitled to the least credit. Captain COCHRANE, who is represented as being appointed to the command of the Asia, died, as our readers know, in Colombia. It is not probable that he bad been negotiating with the Mexi can Government, for any naval command whatever. It appea:s that Commodore Pons. En, of the United States, has bees o3'-red the fast place in the Mexican Navy, - anti it is reported that a similar overture has been made to tha t officer from the Colombian Government. The President of the United States arrived at Boston on the 2‘3th ult. on a visit to his venerable father, who is in the ninetieth year of his age. The Boston Gazette states that the PRESIDENT, on his arrival, " took lodgings at the New Exckaage Coffee-house." lie had hft his lady, Ms. ADAMS, at Philadelphia, her health not being sufficiently restored to allow her to proceed further northward. The following are extracts: — [From the Ncw York Gov(lel NEW VOHS, OCT. I. Mr. Anderson, Alinister Plenipotentiary from the United States to the Republic of Colombia, is at present at Boston. lie w:11 shortly embark from this port for Colombia. The Duke of Sale Weimar, acconTanied by Colonel Mikan, of the army, and several other officers, yesterday visited the fortifi cations in our harbour, on which occasion salutes were fired. We understand that the Duke expressed himself well pleased with THE LAKES.—A gentleman, who has recently returned from a residence at Michigan Territory, his informed the Editor of the Salem Observer, that the British Board of Surveyors have been ergaged, for the last two years, in making a survey of the British territory in the vicinity of the lakes. The same gentleman was in. formed by one of the surveyors, that they had found upwards Of twenty.iwo thousand islands in Lake Huron. 111EXIco.—We have examined a file of Mexican papers down t o the latter end of July : they afford nothing for our columns. NVe have before nv a letter from Alvarado, dated the Bth ult. and sub join a short extract from it. " People out of business talk a great deal about the intended invasion of Cuba. With rerpect to Vera Cruz, a report is just now in circulation that news had reached the Castle of St. Juan de L'l:os from Ilavannah, that no further relief could be sent to the garrison. Deserters state that a Council was called to devise ways and means, &c. : that two opinions divided the meeting—one for surrendering, and the other for firing on the town until it should be compelled to send provisions. N'e are still in the season of the sick and dyine—many, ictleed, have suffered. For at new corner this is a dreadful din:ate, but for one whom it suits it is eveelleni." INVAsios or Cout.—A new Orleans paper states, on the authority of a gentleman from Mexico, that preparations are ntrdang to invade Cuba 3,000 troops were collected at Cam pcschy, and 1.000 more were expected. The late Spanish frigive Asia is to be put under the command of Captain Cochrane, and all the other dirpossble naval force is intended for the same service. Nl'asniNOTOW, SEPT. 24. We are informed, and have no doubt of the tact, that Commodore David Porter has lately been invited to enter the service of the Re public of Mexico, as Commander-in• Chief of its naval forces. The Exceptive M that Republic decided, cn the 4th of July last, to re commend to the Council of the Government to tender this appoint ment to Commodore Porter ; on the 30. b of July, the proposition was approved by the Council, and the oft,r has accordingly been made to him. We understand, also, that a similar overture has been made to C.immodore Porter on the part of the Government of Colombia. It e have not understood what Commodore Porter's determina tion is in relation to either of these offers. _ ..-...- ....----...- The Navy of Mexico, we arc intilrmett, will shortly consist of one line of battle ship, four or five frigates, and some smaller ves sels. We presume its ultimate augmentation will be very con siderable. as the last opproiriation for the purpose *as, we believe, three millions of dollars. The Navy cf Colombia will consist, in a short time, of a force equal, or ruperior to that of Illezico, as there are now buil ling, both In England and the United States, some ships °foliage class, intended for the service of that Republic. The invitation from Illerticn mint be very gratifying to Comn:o• dose Porter's feelings, as it is the highest compliment, we believe, that has been offered by any government to a foreign officer . :Vatican! Intelligeffuer. _ LORD COCHRANE AND TIIE BRAZILS. It appears by information received Iron' Captain Merrill, of the ship Arethuas, arrived this morning in thirty-eight days from St. Salvador, that his Lordi.hip had been ordered by the Emperor of Brazil to repair to Rio, but declined the honour of obeying his master, shipped a quantity of cotton to Matauham, and made his escape in a frigate. In consequence of this conduct, the Emission had struck his name from the Brazilian navy, and deprived him of. his newly acquissd titles, such as the Marquis of Alaranham, &c. &c. and appointed Commodore Jewett, Admiral of the feet. 11re have already announced in the Gazette the arrival of the quondam Admiral in England, where, it is believed, he is enjoying the rich reward of his disinterested patriotism towards South America —Balamore Gazette. PRICES OF STOCK3.—NFw YORK. OCT.l.—l'llited States' Sizes, 1813, 100i1 sales--ditto IRIS, 104 ditto.—United States four and a half, 1&13, 1004 ditto. —Exchange on London, 11/9 to 110— Spanish Dollars, I! to 2—Doubloons, 15 89 to 15 85—Ditto Pa clot 15 SS to 15 60. The secret anxiety felt by the more rational of the work ing classes to return to their employment, and to support their families by the regular earnings of their industry; in stead of depending or: the very limited weekly allowance doled out to them by their refractory leaders, has made it necessary that greater exertions than ever should be made to spirit them up to resistance. But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And well not fail," i 6 the burtlicn of their song, and the essence of all their exhortations. The Trades' Newspaper of yesterday contains some re commendatory extracts from a letter which appeared last week in the Leeds papers, from the pen of an Operative (William Longson), on " the Bradford turn-out," which we are told "-exhibits an intelligence and sagacity that would do honour to any cause." As the Writer measures his language to the capacities of his fellow-workmen, and a 4 the latter cannot fail to be influenced by the sentiments which come from one of their owl, number, it may be worth while to examine the validity of his reasoning, in order to prevent the less reflective among them from being misled, We say the leas reflective, became this description, when ever men are in great numbers, will always conatitute the majority. • 'f aking the Operatives as a class, we are far from underrating their intellectual rank. They have THE fiItITISH PRESS. among them many whose strung natural good sense, quick ened by their active intercourse with society, gives them — and very deservedly—great weight and influence in tl. det to which they belong. if the whole of those ceutpos ing that order were governed by these superior minds, • 'leir measures would partake of the wisdom by which they were suggested, and of the prudence by which they were con troled. But unfortunately the influence of such persons is overpowered by the restless energy of a faction t‘lto forci bly take the lead, who send out their delegates in every direction—and inspire tError into all who refuse to join the insurrectionary UNION which they have organised to for ward their own purposes and to effect their own views. Their great aim is to make it appear to the public that a generous cause is asserted, and that Mr!, are the champions of humanity against oppression—ef the honest, hard-toil ing, half-paid workmen, against the rich, hard-hearted, extortionate manufacturers. These men are restless in their efforts ; night and (Ley are they busy in widening the separation between these two classes. 'Where we are to find the means of securing the public prosperity, or even the public peace, against the extensive confederacy which they have raised against both, is more than the wisest can tell. The state of things at present offers no indication that . . can guide the judgment of any one as to the remedy. This OTF.RATIVE, who, in his letter to his Brethren, un dertakes to enlighten diem into the principles which oc casioned the " Bradford turn-out," wears by no means to rank with the intellectual of his order; whether he let. 4 himself down to the level of the ignorant, or whether he stands—as to us, he appears to do—upon the same plat form, it is of no great importance to decide. We will take his instructive epistle as we find it, and we will confin e our eminent to the extract which the Trader' Newspaper has selected as peculiarly edifying . . . " Persons unacquainted with the affair, may think that there must be something unjust and culpable in the spirit or these Useiows, since the destruction or them is so eagerly and haprd ously sought, by persons who have some indefinite and fantastic quality crated by wealth, called respectable, attached to their character. I will not say that ther: can be notking wrong or re prehensible in Trades' Unions, but I say that every thing wrong in them may be corrected, a thousand times easier than their destruc tion can be effected. • • • • • • "When two or three employers out of fifty—(and it can be no libel on the human character to suppose three bad in fifty)-1 say, th a t when these two or three reduce workmen's wages, they C.ln am; wil l undersell all the others:—those others perceive the means whereby they are undersold: well, the pie: of rite whole of their manu factured goods is depreciated in the same proportion that those two or three have enabled thetmelves t ) reduce their goods by defraud i3g their workmen of a yor.ion of their wages. All the well-dis posed masters are thus obliged to reduce wages in their own defence. The unprincipled again reduce wigs, which again lays the whole of the masters under the same necessity as before of a genera reduction. Now, it is eVldent, that to counteract the source of nil this mischief, it it not necessary that there be a union of workmen to oppose the whole of the masters; but to leave the employ of the few unprincipled ones, who cause, or force the others to reduce. What can there be in such an Union, that is either so unjust or so injurious, as to draw forth such torrents of abase, bitter invective, and formidable bombast, so copiously p)ured through the columns of a hireling press, by anonymous cipindies, against the Uoions of Trades ? " This writer, we think, gives but a feeble specimen of his own sagacity, and pays but a poor c.lnpliment to that of his brother operatives, when he attempts to instruct them by such reasoning as this. Ilia " two or three employers out of fifty," must be the only short-sighted of the whole number to lower the wages of their workmen, and imme diately reduce in a still greater proportion the amount of their ;:rolls, which they must do in order to undersell the remainder of the fifty, who sell at the accustomed prices of the trade. They must be two or three wiseacres indeed, who, under the unee) taint!, of being able to extend the market for their goods, incur the certain loss consequent on lowering their prices. And what is stated to be the result of this brilliant manceuvre ? IVhy " all the well-disposed masters," says this profound Operative, "are thus obliged to reduce wages in their own defence." Nonsense. Wl►y, is it not obvious that if tliese two or three intrench very materially on the market, previously supplied by the other manufacturers, that in order to supply this increased de.. ?nand, they must of necessity require an increased number if hands, and are thus placed at the mercy of their discon tented workmen, whose wages they have lowered, and who will take advantage of it to insist upon a rise, and if not given will strike. how would these employers escape from the predicament in which they would bare thus placed themselves ? It is quite clear they could obtain no work men from any one of the fifty who had not reduced the rate of wages, and they would have no alternative left but to give a still higher rate o f wages than before, in order to tempt workmen into their employ, and he enabled to exe cute their orders, or to leave them unexecuted, to the great disappointment of the foreign merchant, and probably to their own ruin. Such a miserable want of foresight as such conduct implies, can never be urged in defence of that system of combination which it is brought forward to sup port. But we will give the remainder of his reasoning:— " A few," says "or even the whole operatives, employed by any of these grinding masters, cannot, by leaving his employ, oblige him to be contented with the general rate of profits, because in every trade there is a redundancy of hands ; and from the re dundancy these masters can immediately obtain workmen in the place of those who refuse the wages he offers. So that those who would contend with such oppressors, have no alternative but sub mission or starvation, unless they be in Union." But he here admits a fact that utterly upsets all he is contending for. It is admitted that masters can immedi ately obtain workmen u Wing to accept the wages thly and the conclusion that we are made to draw from this fact is, that the masters in every trade arc oppressors, and that their workmen can no otherwise protect themselves but by combination. And on what principle is their com bination conducted ? Why, to prohibit by every means, whether of persuasion or of terror, any one of these redun dant hands from seeking employ, or accepting it, under any other terms than the leaders of tho.l; niou shall demand from the master-manufacturer, whom they thus place in the same condition of which they themselves so loudly com plain, by offering them go alternative but SUBMISSION or RUIN. Those who write as this Ore It ATlva writes, arpeal, not to the reason of the working-chases, but to their passions. Labour is, just es much as any other commodity, to be bought fora price, and is just as much afFeend as any other by the state of the market. It is here admitted—and the fact no doubt is so—that the market of labour is over stocked. It it acknowledged that there is a red,indanry of hands always ready to accept of wages below the standard rate. This, of itself, proves that the wages given are not the lowest fur triieli workmen maybe obtained. Why then is every epithet of vulgar malignity heaped upon the manufacturing Capitalist ? IVhy are the changes perpetually rung upon such choice appellatires as a !pants, Oppressors, and grinding MAST E us ? Supposing —which however is not the fact—that employers always purchased labour where it was to be had cheapest, there is no more of positive oppression or injustice in this, that we see, than that the labourers should themselves purchase bread and butcher's meat where they are to be had cheapest. It would be a very extraordinary reason fur abusing them as a act of grinding kmen in refusing to pay a higher price for these at Coles when they could pro cure them at a lower, because from the competition in trade they could immediately go to other bakers and butchers " in the place of those who refus:tl the price they offered." lint our operative, WILLIAM Lotrosox, waxes warm, ard unluckily beconns his intelligible as be gets more in temperate':— " When a n:aster," he nays, " will widiold from his workmen, from 20 to 10 par cat. of the wages paid by other master's for the same labour, will any man have the hardihood to face me clown, that the wotkmen ought to be compelled and starved into submis sion to this barefaced robbery P 'Were some of these petty tyrants to hold a dagger's point aga'nst a workman's breast, and compel him, by a menace of instant deatt, to sell his labour upon such terms, every body would call it a robbery: but is not hunger as sharp end dreadful an instrument of death as a dagger.?" No doubt of it; but such declamation as this proves nothing. If it were worth any thing, it might be made equally serviceable to either side. It maybe cf some use to show this Operative of what flexible materials his labours are fashioned, and that when taken to pieces they are just as applicable in the way of defence an of attack. We will take but a very slight liberty with the arrangement, and the above appeal will stand thus—" When workmen will demand from their masters from 20 to 30 per cent. higher wages for the same labour, will any man have the hardiheo I to face me down that the masters ougfit to be compelled and %reed into submission to this barefaced robbery ? Were some of these petty tyrants to hold a dagger's point against a master's breast, and compel him, by a menace of instant death, to buy their labour upon such terms, every body would call it a robbery, but is not utter ruin as sharp and dreadful a menace as a dagger?"—What answer will our word.) , Operative make to thii ? We will leave him to re-consider the rest of his disser tation on " the Bradford turn out," having ourselves no leisure to pursue it further. He will do well to rectify his nations before he again comes forward to irritate his brethren to the contest. His design apparently is, that it should be a sweepstakes battle; but full, however, of danger as the interval may be, we have no fear for the result. CITY. SATCADAT EVENINO. The Money Markets have been in a very depressed state this morning, and sales have been effected at a great sacri fice. The business was not extensive in Consuls, but there was mare doing than has been the case for some time on a Saturday, a circumstance probably to be accounted for in the general want of confidence, and uncertainty with regard to the future. Speculators arc consequently unsettled in their plans, and take alarm ;it every report that is raised, flowerer groundless or ridiculous it may be. Notwithstand ing this state of things, Consols rather improved towards the close of the day, leaving off at 877, buyers; they had been previously done, for the November account, at The most important operations, however, to-day, were in the Foreign Market, in which some considerable trans actions tco's place at declining prices. Indeed, the panic appears as excessive as it is unreasonable. Every body seems, at present, as desirous to get out of securities of every description in this market, as they were a few months ago eager to purchase them, pat ticularly in the Share Market. We had occasion, in the beginning of the year, to warn our readers against the extreme rage for specula tion which then prevailed; and now we equally feel it our duty to warn them against becoming the dupes of their own timidity. As far as the Share Market is concerned, we have but little doubt that it will be shortly cleared of the many paltry and fraudulent companies that have ells graced it. The associations that will remain, will then speedily recover their just value in the Market, below which they are slow in many instances unreasonably depressed. Several unfavourablr reports were in circulation to-day, regarding the Mining Associations, but they could be traced to no respectable source, no attention was paid to them. These Associations arc, however, a memorable example of the rapid mutations of public opinion. In the Spring, the Shares were raised higher than their most sanguine pro jectors could have expected upon the mere publication of their prospectus. In the autumn, when it is known that they have made considerable progress in accomplishing the objects they proposed to effect, they fall iuto disrepute. and IN cause they have not immediately supplied the proprietors with the wealth of El Dorado, they are treated as if they were utterly worth!, us. It is a singular fact, that while this opinion prevails in England, the public journalists of Paris are filled with lamentations, that this country should have succeeded in obtaining possession of the American Mines, which they justly consider as one of the greatest achievements of our mercantile skill and enterprise. During the latter part of the day, South American Se curities declined nearly 1 pet cent.; Colombian Benda being done at 731 1; Mexican Scrip 91 9 discount, and Guatemala ditto .51 S discount ; Brazilian Scrip was also under Thursday's quotation. This morning it was 98i discount; Greek Bonds were at 261 /, and Spanish ditto 171. According to accounts from Smyrna, of the 20th Sept., that great city was desolated by a conflagration, which still continued when the couriers came away, and was said to have already destroyed 3 ; 000 houses. Extract of a letter dated Stockholm, Oct. 14.—" The Swedish brig Christopher Columbus, which sailed last year on a voyage to Colombia, has returned, and this mercantile speculation hoe proved very advantageous. This is chiefly ascribed to the intervention of Count Adlercreuta, a Swede, wli^ has been for several years a Colonel in the Colombian service, and is at present the chief of the Corps of Engi neers. For a long time a change in our Tariff of Customs has been spoken of, and it has been connected with an ap proaching convocation of the Diet ; but it is now asserted that there will be no new Tariff this year, nor a Convoca tion of the Diet." By the advicesreg_ived by his Majesty's yacht the Herald, which arrived from Quebec at Portsmouth on Friday even ing, it appears that the settlements of Upper and Lower Canada were in the most prosperous condition ; trade was never so brisk, upwards of 750 ships having visited Que bec this season. Nearly 100 sail of merchant shipping had been already launched, which had minted such a dearth of seamen, that 131. per month wages was the current price, and it was expected would soon increase to 20/. Ten ships were loading with corn for England, but it was not expected there would he great exports of this article, as the present crop, though it was all saved, was considered rather a light one ; 311t1 the new Colonial Act, which levies a duty of 15 pc r colt. on all imposts, would prevent the Canadians from importing American Wheats, in lieu of their own crops, which, if this new duty had not been imposed, they would Dave done, and sent their own produce to this country.— lianquitire Telegraph. The letters received on Saturday from the northern porta of the Braids, state that cotton was tinsaleable, on account of the decline of the prices in England ; the Exchange at Bahia had fallen front 6 Ito &S. The Americans are building twelve corvettes of between six and seven hundred tons burden, which are to mount twenty-two 42-pounder carronades, and four long 24- pouader guns each.—Hamprhire Tehgroph. STEAM PACKET LIG TB.—WC understand from good authority, that the Et( am-packets running in the River Thames, and those to Margate, carry three lights, triangle, at their foremast-head, whenever it becomes dark, and have done so for a considerable length of time. Wit earnestly recommend and entreat, that all persons having the management of steam-packt is should cause a similar light to be carried, whether running in the river or at sea, the better to distinguish them from all other vessels. Had such lights been hoisted on board the Ayr and Comet, it is very probable themelancholy accident would not have: hap pened in the Orle. R_ - _ THE GREEKS. By his Majesty'. sloop of war the Sparrowhawk, which left Smyrna on the 7th of September, It appears that the latest information received there of the uniteek Turkish, Egyptian, and Algetine fleet was, that they had all gone to Alexandria, under the command of the Capitan Pacha, to pbtain a reinforcement of troops. Mahomet Ali, the Pashaw of Egypt, had shown himself so luke-warm in the cause of the Porte against the Greeks, that it was understood the Capitan Pacha had been in structed to decoy him off to his ship, and cause him either to be beheaded or carried off to Constantinople. The ships were all in a bad state, and at Alexandria means could not he found to re-equip them. The principal nasal force of the Greeks were refitting, with a view to intercept the Turkish fleet, in their return to re•commencc hostilities its the contest for possession of the Morea. The Egyptian force in the Morea, under Ibrahim Pacha (son of the Vice roy of Egypt), is estimated at 10,003 men. Ile had lost great numbers by sickness, and bis stragglers and foragers are constantly cut off by the neighbouring partisans. All the sick left at Tripolizza, with the troops stationed there for theic protection, had lately been massacred to a man. The Turks recently made an irruption into Livadia, but being blockaded by the Greek ships, these operations were necessarily suspended. A great number of French officers are in the employ of the Turks and Egyptians. A few English are in the Greek service, and only one in the Egyptian, a surgeon, who was sent out to the Greeks, in charge of a large quantity of medicines, provided fur theta by some Quakers in this country ; lie had been subse quently induced by a large reward to enter Into Ibrahitn Pacha s service. The Sp 'nos:hawk conveyed to ?.ante, the English err,- tain Treigwney, who took refuge with his brother-in-law Odysseus, fn m the revenge of the Gre e k s , i n t h e fortified cave on the s immit of Mount Parnassus. A treacherous attempt lad been made by two fellows, employed by th e Greeks, to assassinate him, forh a vi ng betrayed their cause. Fie was shot in the back ; one ball passed out in the fro of his shoulder, by which he lost the use of li;s arm, and another passed through his neck and came out at his mouth. —Hampshire 7'elegs aph. lit EXICit (From the aigaila Mexieener August 18.1 The Soaetary of the Treasury , in his late report s to the fee. gross, says, that 1.256,338 dollars will be suflicient to meet the es. reuses of the government in the different departments of war, fo. reign relations, justice, and ecalesiastical affairs, and the trcauurr. Among the extraordinary expenses are 1711.612 dollars for the de. fence of carious posts ; 50.000 dollars disposed of by Sr. Mi. (helm, in lemdon, fur execrative and secret objects; 20,000 doh s , ' remitted to Sr. Obregan. for the purchase of munitions tot the de partment of Alvarado; 9.405 dollars to the same, for the purchase of guns and carriages : 601 .0.10 dollars for fiirtifimtions on the Isle of Sacriecias ; 1.2,000 dollars stipulated to be paid to the rreoi e: the ship Asia aid brig Constantine. fur their surrender to the 31exican Government; and 10,000 dollars (beyond the 16,000 of plvvious esamate) which will be required far the legattoa Home. A proposition has been made in the city of Mexico, and very favourably received, to establish an East India Company, to !rade from the potts of the l'aciiie. Mexico certainly posse.ses the advantages of geographical position for such au estabikhment. lirr arms extend from the central table lands, towards Europe and Asia. Events indicate the stability of the federal system. The state of Yucatan has sent its Deputies to the General Congress. lu can . stitutinn has been p r ocla imed t and sworn to by the Public lune. 'l' tionaries. Jose T . has been elected Governor. The Constitution o the State of hfeehostatan was sworn to by dr:Public Authorities on the 20th of July. In a late statistical cork on Alexia', by Sr. Fernando Na. it is raid to can•ain a p . .pulation of 8,122.33 souls, and 118,478 'spate leagoes, being 52 inhatitants to each. It corn. prises 242 particles, 1072 parishes, 133 wissions, • 0 cities, 93 tosos, 4682 peuldas or villages, 206 salver mines, 3749 Iter:endas, 6/i l l ranchos, 1195 es•ancies for grating, 232 c•mvents of Irian, sad 36 of monks, 4229 cleri y, 3112 friars, 20;8 milks. The whole population Is c. mpossd. e 1,6..1,928 S,aninds, 3,676.281 Indians, 1.338,706 ctf4s. Ttte CALIPORWIAS.--The arrival of ea Agent a. the ti y of Mexico, for the London Company, for the ti.hery of pearl in tlw Gulf of California is announced. The Agvila remarks, Ow tlw Government should be careful not to permit settle:Len s of g•c..t newel powers on those thinly Mhabited coasts. The amount of duties paid to the Custom.houge at Alvarado, during the month of June was 511,4116 dollars ; of May, :41,4,2 dollars ; and of April, 346,1419 dollars. LIVERPOOL COMM ERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, SATCRDAY, Oct. Z. Our British Plantation Sugar market may be considered at a stand, for there has not been any demand, even from the grocers, and only a few small orders for Ireland ; the prices are therefore nominal. Nothing done in Foreign Sugar, nor in East India, tor in Molasses. In Coffee about 203 casks have been sold, but at prices rather lower. Nothing done in Foreign Coffee. In Rum the demand is very limited, but the prices steady. In Cocoa o: /Jing,r nothiug done In Pimento about 70 bags have been disposed of at 101 d a 10.1c1, and about 450 bags Black Pepper at Gdd per lb. Ashes are steady, the sales are 300 brim. Montreal Put at 23:- 64 a 394, PO brls. Pearl at 31s a 325, and a few barrels ofStates Pcsail at 324. in Dyewoods the sales are 41) tons Catnpesehy Logwood at f 154 a 81 8s ; 100 tons Jamaica at 81 15s a 71; 10 tons Spanish Mastic at 71; and 10 tons of middling solid Nicaragua Wood at 241. la Tar 400 barrels Stockholm at lOs 3d pci brl. 6,0a6 barrels Tull - en- Coe at ils Gd a 10s 64 per cwt. In Rice a few casks of fair ordinary Carolina at Ills ; and 100 bags East India at 22a per cwt. In H ides the sales are 6,000 Buenos Ayres ox and cow at 101i1 a 1214 ; 3,500 East India at 41d ; 120 Jamaica at 81d; GOO North Ameri. can salted at 50 per lb., and 3,500 horse at da 33 ass 34 each. In Indigo 143 chests East India; and 199 serons Caracca, and 59 se ems Guatemala were offered at public sale, of which only 29 chests of the former were sold at 9s 7d a 12s 10d per lb.; 65 mons Ca. races at 9s Ida 10s lid, and all the Guatemala at 5s Gd for very inferior to lOs 8d for fair quality. The sale did not go riff aon spirit, and the prices were about is below the East India sale just concluded In London. Nothing done in Cochineal. Some Safflower was offered by auction, but nothing done. In Sumach about 800 bags Verona, at 9s 3d a 1013 d. In Galls about 4 braes East India, at GI ss, in bond. In Saltpetre 600 bags, at rds 94 a 275. Valonia is dull; 110 tons Zante, of good quality, sold at 191; 70 tons middling Turkey, at 211 lOs ; and 15 tots prime Turkey, at 22/ 10s a 231. Olive Oil dull, and little doing. Is Brimstone and Cream of Tartar nothing doing of moment, but prices arc steady. In Madder Roots there has ben some inquiry, but little done. Lemon Juice has been sold at 3d per degree. A little more business doing in Tobacco, but the smile only purchase for their present wants. Horsehair is rather lower. Tallow is dull. The early part of the week our Cotton market was brisk, aml prices of all descriptions got up 4d per lb, but the heavy failure in London threw a damp on the market, and the business has since been morelimited. About 1,500 bags Upland and Orleans have been taken for export, and 4,500 Anirrican, and 1,530 Brazils on spe culation. There are 1,500 bales of Surat; declared for sale by Auc tion on Friday next. The sales of this week are 290 bales St..l Islands nt 184 a 2s 2d ; 50 stained ditto at 100 a 15d; g 740 Up lands at ad a lld ; 4,050 Alabama and Mobile a 74 a 101 d ; New Orleans at a 121 d ; 2.550 Pe rnams a 120 a f3J ; (31 Bahia at 114 . 1 a 12 80 Id 1169 31aranhams, a Ilia a 121 d ; 564 Be mcrara and Berbice a 1014 a 120 ; 20 Barbadoes qt lod ; 13.1 co - -- mon West India at 9kdr a lid; 30 Bahama • 11J; It* er thagena 81 ; 960 F,gyptiana at 144 a 12tl ; 081 Surat at NI a anti GO Bengal at 6P. a 41., making a total of about 19,870 bag'. IMPORTED INTO LITZ/FOOL FROM 220 TO`2BTH INCLUSIVE. 288 bbds I Tobacco - 9/10 bins . 28 tra 6.723 dry brls [Wes .{l,oso saltul 24 tra , 4..0 bales of her‘e 6 pops Ilonehlir 11 bales 410 tons Cotton, W.I. - . 163 trai - 3.726 cuks - American - 3 - 721 brls Brazils - - 1,1016 brls 66 tons Snot, 13. P. Coffee Molasses . ',op wood . Tallow - Flour . Turpentine OA Hark - t~,4i ~: In the following Trawls r—One peachy, one from Virginia, on, Quebec, one fmm Illsranham, Video, six from St. Petersburg Dantsig, one from Croastadt, and ;from 1 . :W.1,10Am One Won e' 3" ie from IVilminenn, tso fro. one from Bahia., one from Itlo:! Th, one from Odessa, one Ire; one from Amsterdam. The corn-merchants antidote that the ports will I.• opened for the importation of foreign barky next men:h. at the duty of five shillings per quarter. The aggregate average which regulates the impartation was struck at 40s. I Id. per quartet. A cormorant was shot at Compstall-bridge on TtllftLlF last, which measured between the two extremities of II:e wings five feet, and front the point of the bill to the de of the tail three feet one inch. It weighed six pounds ttfur ounces. This bird is rarely suet with so far in the Interior of the island.—Mcnchcrter Guardian. ,`,,,..