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hampton, Staffordshire, drapers, at eleven, at the Bankrupts' Court en. 25. Thomas Wilson. Edgware-road, shopkeeper , at eleven. at h e Bankrupts' Court—Feb. 2 5 . Henry NVylie and William --Hichardeen, , brisurch-lane, merchants. at twelve, at the rupts' Court— Feb. 25. Ralph 1111114 i. Harr -lane, Tower. street, wine-merchant, at eleven, at the Bankrupts Court--larch b. Robert Hamlyn and John Chanter. Bideford, Devonshire, bankers, at eleven, at the New Inn, Bideford—Feb. 25, John Ca. dogan, IVater-street, Arundel.street, Strand. carpenter, at ten, at the Bankrupts' Court—Feb. 27. John Smith. Bradninch. Devon. shirr, paper-maker, at ten, at the Three Tuna Inn. Tiverton Feb. 21. Thomas Benjamin Sumertield. of New Crane Wharf, Wapping, coal-merchant, at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court— Feb. 2t. Mary Tidouthgate, at iddlemx. enal.deaier , at twelve. at the Bankrupts' CoCourt--Feb. 25 Peter Wilson. Gibson-street, Lambeth Marsh, Surrey, carpenter, at one, at the Bankrupts' Court—Feb. 25. James Wildman, Fenchureh.street. merchant, at twee., at the Bankrupts' Court—Feb. 25. Thomas Parkes. Fen. church-street, mill-manufacturer, at nine, at the Bankrupts Court —Feb. '25. Philip Elm, Woburn, Bedfordshire. draper, at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court—Feb. 25. Jelin B. Benelll. Quadrant, Re. gent.street, and the King's Theatre. Haymarket, dealer and chap. man, at one, at the Bankrupts' t'ourt—Feb. 25. IL Bailie and Ewing Bailie, Nicholas-lane, Lembard.street. merchants, at one' at the Bankrupts' Court—Feb.2s. Plumsted Lloyd. Great Surrey. street, Blaekfriars.road, malt-factor. at eleven. at the Bankrupts' Cmirt—Feb. 27. Richard Broughall, Little Ness, Salop. farmer, at eleven, at the Guildhall, Shrewsbury—Feb. 25. Joseph Slinet, Finsbury-square, merchant, at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court— March 7. John Owen and Henry Dixon Owed, Great St. Helen's, llishopegate-street, merchants, at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court —Feb. 25. Joseph Tommy. Beaumont-street, St. 3laylehone, grocer, at eleven. at the Bankrupts' Court—Feb. 25. John Grant, Hattomstreet, merchant, at eleven, at the Bankrupts' Court— ll.str- .road, Feb. 2S. Henry Hatfield, Abingdon-row, tioswell.street-t rierchant, at eleven. at the Bankrupts' Court—Feb. 23. Samuel East, Green Man, Stratford, Essex, victualler, at twelve, at the Bar krupta' Court. CERTIFICATES, Pts. 23. Joseph Manlove Spencer, Chepping Wycombe. Buckingham shire. coach-master—Samuel Baker, Wood-strict. Cheapaide, vic. hislier — Keirmill Raiding.; Castle.street, Lett-ester-suare, iew. eller—Joseph Smith. Bristol. eabinet-maker—Thomas Flint, Bur , iingtomarrade, bookseller—William Foster, Liverpool, grocer— Thomas Priddy. Uxbridge, victualler. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Jortar Mnanocit, Kilmarnock, yarn-merchant; creditors to meet in the George Inn, Kilmarnock, Feb. 16, at twelve, to choose an interim factor ; and March 16, at twelve, to elect a trustee. Aar If lin Kwox, Edinburgh. glazier; creditors to meet in the . Royal Exchange Colike.house, Edinburgh. Feb. 9. at twelve, to choose an interim factor; and Feb. 23, at twelve, to elect a trustee. . . • Joax ADAM and Jostle ADAM. Paisley, commission-agents, ere: Pants to meet in the Saracen's Bead Inn. Paisley, Feb. 7, at , one, to choose an interim factor; and Feb. 21, at one, to elect a . trustee. . ALEXANDER Omits, Edinhnrgh, upholsterer and builder; creditors to meet in the Sheriff-Clerk's office. Edinburgh. Feb. 14 end 26, at two, for first and second public examination ; at Budges .('offee.house, Thistle.street, March 1 and 15, at one, to elect corn. r.:lssioners and instruct trustee. ALEXANDER BLACK and THOMAS WITITFIELD, Glasgow, merchants; creditors to meet in the Lyceum Rooms, Glasgow, Feb. it, at one, to choose an interim factor and Friday, Feb. 2Z . i, at one, to elect a trustee. ALEXANDER STEVENSON, Edinburgh and Leith, kelp-mer chant, writer, and glass-agent ; creditors to meet in the Knyal Ex. change Coffee-house, Feb. 10, at two, to name an interim tactor ; and March I, at two, to elect a trustee. Dtrwcare FORRESTER.. Glasstow, bookseller and stationer; . creditors to meet in the Sheriff's Chambers, Glamor, Feb. 14 and March 3 at eleven, for the first and second public examination ; in the King's Arms Inn, Glasgow, March 4 and 13, at one, to iastruct trustee and receive vouchers. JAMES Tuouscar, Glasgow, timber-merchant and Wright : creditors to meet in the Sheriff-Clerk's office, Glasgow, Feb. IS and 1.3, at eleven, for the first and second public examination ; and in the counting-huuse of Miller and Eadie, Virginia-street, Glasgow, March 1 and 1.5, at one, for general purposes. DAVID FORRESTER and JAMES BURN BUCHANAN, Sheriff ir and Stirling, distiller and maltsters; creditors to meet in the I...her:if-Court-hall, Stirling, Feb. 18 and March 1, at twelve, for the public examinations; in the Saracen's Head Inn, Stirling, March 2 and 16, at one, for the first and second general meeting. A 11C11111ALD IVIGHT, Orutiston and Edinburgh, merchant it^d manufacturer; creditors to meet in Gibson 's Sale.room, Pr'.nces.street, Feb. 24, at one, to receive state of trustee's intro. . PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. John Rawson and James Hulbert, John-street, Edgware-road, blacking-makers--Genrge Toy& and John Grist, Ipswich, car. onters—Thomas Halliday, It illiam Rees Thomas, and William Russell, Fenchurch-street (so far as regards William Russell)— Richard Sanderson and Robert Harris. jun.. Lombard - street tso far as regards Robert Harris, jun .)— Richard Gwynn and Will. ,tiam Lewis, Bridgnmsh. shropahlre, cord wainers—Thomas sett and William Graham, Clipstone-street, St. Ltlarylebone, cabinet. .ntakers—R. Ford and T. A. Gibb, ship-owners--Joseph Round and George Round, Stafford, curriers--Samuel Gang and Fred.- •a:ek blasted, Poises, mealmen—John Headley and William Itiff, Leicester, hosiers William Smith and Thomas Evans, l.ittle htsisseli.street, Bluonnbury. carpenter—Cotton Reeve, John .!lurks Joily„:„And Thomas Brown, Church-hill, St. Pancras, blacking. roanufacturers—Jcphtha Pacty and John Marshall, jun.. Ramon, I.incolashire, builders—Willisan Beare anti Robert Drew, An. diver, Hampshire, cabinet-makers—Meddow Kent and William Burroughs, Great Vannodtb, hackneymen—Betsey Lea and Mary Blurton, Avenue House, WOrCeSter —lieorge Oldham, Henry Lacey, and George (Makin, Newark.upon-Trent, builders of bob bin net lace-machines—William Pardington and Thorne' Buckle, Cheltenham, tea-dealers--Thomas Dickinson and Thomas Dickin. no. jun., Whitezbapel, cheesemongers—Frederick Kile, sen., Frederick Kile, jun., and Samuel Kite, Si. Clement's, Oxford shire. bookseilets—William .111 port, Benjamin Allpoet, and Ed. a ird S. Charles, Liverpool, dealers in codee—William Bowen and • Cretin; Bowen, Barnstaple and Tiverton, Jlnen-drapers—John . Walton and William Labrey, Manchester, tea-dealers—J. Hock enhel and J. Goodfellow, Nantwich, Cheshire, silk-manufacturers —John Forbes and George Hayward, Cheltenham, architects and surverora—T. Haskins and G. Ir. Dickinson, King-street, West Smitlitiehl—Samuel Churchill and Samuel Churchill Field, I)ed. . decision,. Oxfordshire. attorneys--Johp Butcher, jun.. and .1. D. Cape!, jun., Coal Exchange, ship-brokers--John Burton and Jan:es Hawley, Nottingham, stone-masons—Robert Nichol and Robert Laing, Fetichurch-street. The average price of Brown or Afuscovado Sugar. computed Iraq the returns made in the week ending the I't day of February, Ur.. is IL la.. per hundred weight, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Cm: Britain. A;:ciai - e - Wets of Corn from the returns received in the week ending January 211, 11128. Wheat. Bartel Oats. I Rye. I Beans. Passe. s. d. s. d. a. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 614 311 1 24 438 402 43 PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. RESOLUTIONS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEDRrARY 3. Teat this-House will not receive any Pctwon for Private Bins after Friday the 17th day of this inst. PArtiary. That no Private Bill be read the first time after Monday the 13th day of March next. That this House will not weir* any Report of such Private Bill after Monday the let day of May next. J. H. LEY, CI. Dom. Com. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. AND ORDER OF THE DAY. _THIS DAT. TED. 6. (`note or THE DAY.—Lords Comruissionete Speech to be t.,c4ldercd. NOTICE 01" Drigbt.—Bill to facilitate at. =gement. between Debtor and Credhor by means of trust deeds: To.stounow, rwn. 7. NOTICE OF Bloerox-111r. Hume.—Return of certain Of. tcer• in two Reduced Troops of the Oxford Blues retained on full pay ; ar d amount of difference of such full pay and half pay ; also, Le of Vacancies by death or promotion, and how many of such I.:l;fincies hare been filled by officers from those reduced troops. WEI:4I3IMT. Imp. 8. NOTICE or hloTiox.—Mr. Alartin (of Galway),—Bill to amend the Irish Election Laws. THURSDAY, Frs. 9. NOTICES OT MOTIOBS.-31r. Grenfell,—Acenunt of Balances ni Public Alone, In the Bank of England; and Charge of Ma nr.gement of the Public Debt. Air. Ellice,—Bettnn of Bank Notes In circulation nn the ht and 1.5ti0 of each month, for six months, to the ht of February in.. elusive. rarnaY, TEA. 10. NOTICES CIE AttOTOCT.GelitTll, Bill to contique Insolvent Debtors' Act ; also, Bill to prohibit Arrests for Debt larder 151. (or Zel.) Mr. Chancellor of the Exeltrquer.—Finance Statement. PRICES OF BRITISII Bank Stock 2114 Ditto Acct. : per Cent. Red. 804 3 ear Cent. (..on %. 79 80 kBO Ditto Agit. 79'.. 1 . 80 i 34 per Cent. 1123 3 Ig per Celt. Red. WI/ r 9 Nen 11 per Cont. 96! U 7 Vi '(►CRS ON SA TURDA Y. Long Ann. India Runk 234 i Indiallo,rdali 4 pm tx. Yillti 1,00111. par I die 1 pm 1 die Ditto, 500/. par Ipm MU(' Small 2 5 pm Lottery Tirketsl9/. 19s. Pi:“:Es t)1 , Ft)HEIUN ..6.lAstriau Bonds 921 I B•ut. •iias Bonds I),i Acct. 60 Burros Ayres Bonds 6i .4 Aut.:l6lm Bonds Ditto Wulds (18241 68i . BILL° Aces...r." Dalisit Bonds creekßoods(l )12i 1 4 15 Duo Art!. IR bpsn4b Bonds 111 12 11#12111 II it:Lia ON SAl'l'lwA 1,. Mexican Bonds 61i 60/ Ditto Acct. 61 604 14 I Ditto Bon& (1820 &I i i Ditto Acct. 64 Raiiii I Peruvian bode 401 i Prussian bonds 93 11 1 , Ditto Bonds (11t22 924 ' Russian Roods 84 i , Ditto Acct. 8,14 f Fresell times, . Exchange, 251. 2Uc. ~._~ DRURT-LANE THEAT'RE. This Evening, MONDAY, Yet., ft, will be performed (Ms Hine) a new National Ballad Opera, called MALYIN.I. The principal Cbsraetimi by lt ree re.Walleek. Sinclair, Horn, Bedford, !Imlay, and ifittwilliarn s Mime Stephens. Hovey. and Kehl. Co conclude with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN. JACK or ALI. TRADES. liewleastn, Mr. HoHwUI tell Co Pantaloon. Min B Mr. T. arßn e lanchard; Clown, Mr. lumbine, tt. To-morrow, Maltina & and the Pantomime. ---- --- COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. This gy•FIFE. MONDAY, Feb. F, will be performed VLNICE PRZSCRVED. SMUT, Mi. Serie; Pierre, Mr.% rade Behidere, Mri Sloman. ro conclude with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN AND THE MAGleil ROSE; or, BEAU V AND THE BEAST. Harlequin, Mr. Eller: Pantaloon. Mr. Barnes; Clovrn. Mr. J. fr. Grimaldi; Columbine, Hiss Romer. To-mono*, Otrr Mannerina; and the Pantomime. THEATRE ROTA!„ ENGLISH OPERAIHOUSE, STN AND, opposite Waterloo Bridge. On FRIDAY NEXT, Feb. 10. LECTURE ON ASTRONOMY, AND TIIE PHIENOMENA OT THE HEAVING AND OF Tilt EARTH, To be delivered by Mr. BARTLEY on the WEDNESDAYS and FRI DAYS during Lent. Satins at (even—eonelutee at Tan. Vie Mritivit Vrtai. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Gentleman who has writtcn eo many Letters under the aig. nature of " A Constant Reader." ought to know that we cannot take any notice of anonymous communications of facts. —_e The BIIITIIII Paw commenced publishing on Saturday morn ing si a quarter past five o'clock. LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1990. The Paris Papers of Friday arrived last night, with the Elcile dated Saturday. The Chamber of Deputies was occupied on Thursday with the selection of the candidates for the Presidency. Only four had obtained the absolute majority of votes: M. RAVE!, M. CHILHAIID DE LA RI GAVDTE, who is now presiding by right of age, M. nE MONTMOIIENCV, and NI. ne COI:ItTARVEL. On Friday a fifth candidate would be elected, and then the names would be presented to the KING for his choice, which would, no doubt, again fall upon M. RAVEZ. The eorreapondence from Spain holds out no expectation of any amendment in the condition of that wretched coun try. Many diplomatic notes have lately passed between the Government of King FERDINAND and the Ministers of the Great Powers at Madrid, relative to the independence of the new States of America : but no advance has been ap parently made upon the obstinate prejudices of the Spanish Court. The official Gazette endeavours to console its readers for the loss of the colonies, by showing how little confidence some of the South Americans have in Bo Lir •/1. For this purpose it publishes a letter purporting to be from Dr. FRANC' A, the Director of Paraguay, and reiterating his determination not to enter into any political relations with the surrounding States. From some phrases in this epistle we doubt Its authenticity ; but admitting it to be genuine, it only proves a fact with which the world were already well acquainted. FRANCIA has succeeded in establishing a sort of patriarchal government like that of the Jesuits formerly in that country ; but his system will expire with him, and his life is now much extended be yond the ordinary duration of human existence. On the 13th of November the French Consul-General for Hayti, M. Matt a, bad a public audience of President BOY ER. Complimentary speeches were as usual delivered on each side. The meeting of the Legislative Chamber of Hayti was fixed by Proclamation for the 10th of January. A postscript of the Etoile announces another military revolt in Russia. In this instance, however, the at tempt, though desperately made, was feebly supported and easily suppressed. The chief actor was a relative of an individual implicated in the Mutiny at St. Peters burgh. He succeeded only in drawing after him half a regiment. They were immediately pursued, and surrounded. Up to the 20th ult. the tranquillity of Poland continued undisturbed. The Emperor NICHOLAS is said to be resolved upon demanding the strict and prompt exe cution 01 the Treaty of Bucharest. Nothing will contribute more to his popularity than the adoption of a menacing tone and attitude toward the Porte, supposing that he should by other considerations be restrained from having recourse to actual hostilities. [From the Etoilc dated Saturday, Feb. 4.1 • MADRID, Jas. St. i The Cozeffc of the 21st contain.; an article, dated Cadiz, Jan. t 13, in which is the answer given by Dr. Francis, Governor of ' Paraguay, to Bolivar, who invited him to contribute to the general independence of America. We shall give this answer, because it provw how little confidence Bolivar has been able to inspire in that ' country : " Fellow Countrymen, " The English, the Chilian. and the Brazilians have manifested the same wish as Colombia, but without any other result than the confirmation of the principle on which is founded the h appy admi nistration which has delivered this province fr o m su ch rapine and misfortune. We shall never depart from this principle till the New World shall have recovered the tranquillity which it enjoyed before the appearance of the revolutionary apostles who hide under the olive of peace their perfidious daggers, in order to bathe with blood the liberty which these ambitious men extol to us. But Paraguay knows them, and as long as it is able it never will re nounce its system ; at least so long as 1 shall lie at the head of its government, 1 shall know how to employ the sword of justice to make the sacred cause respected which we hare to defend. 6 6 1 beg God. Sir, to preserve you many years. " Aug. 23. 11125. D. FRANCIA." By an ordinance of the Bth of this month, the King has resolved on the proposal of the junta of putification, that no person having ' a salary under Government shalt receive his salary without first presenting a certificate of purification. PARTS, Fru. On Tuesday there was a council of commerce at M. de Villele's. M. Maier, Consul-general, and charge d'affairea of Franc.?, in Hayti, delivered on the 10th November his credentials, and those of tho other two Consuls, to General Inginac, Secretary-genen.ll, who after laying them before President Buyer, delivered to M. Dialer the usual excquatur. On the 13th, the President received in a public audience the Consuls of his Most Christian Majesty ; the Captain of the Anti gone frigate and the officers of his Ruff. After the audience, his Excellency conversed for some time with M. Dialer and Captain Melient, of the Antigone. That frigate sailed on the 15th, to convey the French Consul and Vice-Consul to Cayes, and Caps Hayden. Postscript..—Private letters state that the regiment of Tcher ' nigof, cantoned in the environs of Gitomir, (the second corps of General Sacken) having been aeseribled by order of its Colonel, N. Gebel; Lieutenant-Colonel Blonravissf, advancing before the line,fell upon him with his sword,and wounded him in seven places, and turning to the regiment, lie said, " Come en my lads, this la the moment to act ;" and that he was followed by half the regi ment, the other half of which remained faithful. It is sailed, that the rebels were pursued, and surrounded. This 31outariof, a relation of him who is impliotted by the investiga tion at St. Petersburgh, was strongly suspected, and had received notice that he was going to be arrested. We have received news from Poland of the 29th January. Every thing was tranquil there. ilraut the Journal de Paris of Friday, Feb. 2.1 (PRIVATE LETTER.) FRANKFORT ON THE ODER, JAN. 25. The last letters from St. Petersburgh announce that extraordi nary activity prevails in the office of th e Mi n i ster f or F ore i gn Af. fairs, and also in the War Office, which maintain a constant cor respondence with the head-quarters at Alohilow, Tulczyn, and Kischeneff. There is a report of freak instructions sent by the Mi. nister of IVar to the General-in-Chief of th e A rm i es o f t h e South and the West,to Gen. Sabsnieff, who commands in Bessarabia, and which are in some manner cattneeted with thedespatches lately trans. nutted to 51. Minlacky, Russian Chalee d'Affaires at Constantino ple,aromling to which he is to acquaint the Reis Effendi with the in tentions of the new Emperor that the Porte shall at length explain the delay of the evacuation of the Principalities by its troops, in violation of the treaty of Bccharest, the execution of which Russia has long demanded in vain. FRENCII k rs, FEB. S.—Fire per Cents. 99f. 25c. —Three per Cents. Ge.f. 45c.-t.liank Stock, 2045f.—Rente de Na plea, 70f . Bac.—R ented ' Eepagne , Spanish Lon 49;i f. —Martian Loan 785f.—Exclia-ge on London (money), one month, 25f. 39c.% three ditto, 251. 5c.--Coara Autheniique. We have received the Brussels Papers of •Saturday. The British Consul-General at Antwerp bad notified pub licly to the merchants that the two treaties lately nego tiated by Sir C. STUAILT with the Brazilian Government would not be ratified by this country without important modifications. The great work of revising the Prussian Legislature is, it,is announced, on the eve of being carried into execution. The two Chambers of the Hungarian Diet have agited as to the terms in which they shall frame their new repre sentation to the Estr etioa. It is to be translated into the popular tongue. A difference has e•curred between the Govern/tents of Prussia and Hesse Darmstadt with regard to the right of jurisdiction over a political pnsoncr. _ The following extracts are thow to which we refer : Bar9asts, Ism. 3. A letter from Berlin, of 22d January, says, that in the house of Prince Abaliski, who, as is well known, shot himself at the moment of his being arrested, papers were found which give its. wrtant information respecting the sedition which broko out on dm 2fith December lest at St. Petershurgh. It adds, that several pet. sons hate been arrested at Moscow, but no names are mentioned. Beattsr, Jan. 27. The revision of the legislation of the kingdom, on which a mi. nisterial commission has been engaged for theso two years, seems on the eve of being carried into execution. All the superior tribu nals hare been invited to give thine opinions, which must be sent to the Commission by the Ist March nest. It will then meet, and take thoseopinions for the basis of its labours. The bar will also he consulted, mid several members of the Superior Court of Berlin arc appointed referendiuies for the revision in !question. VIEN ea, JAW. VI. We learn by accounts from Pretburg of the 2thh, that the two Chambers of the Diet having agreed, in the sittings of the 17th and 18th, on the terms of the representation to be addressed to the Emperor, it was read and approveu in the latter sitting, and ordered to be translated into the Hungarian language. It will be read once more in the sitting of this day, then signed, and sent to his.blajesty. FRANxtoRT, JAN. 27. A difference of opinion ham arisen between the Prussian Govern. ment and that of Hesse Darmstadt, nn account of 3lessrs.Hoffmann and Ruhl. [lcarian subjects, now confined in the castle of Coepenick. near Berlin, whither they were taken to be confronted with other individuals accused of revolutionary intrigues. The Prussian Go. vernment would have them tried by the tribunal at Coepenick, whereas the Grand Doke of Ilesae thinka that the preliminary in. terrogatoties being concluded, Messrs. Hoffmann and Rohl ought to be sent back to Darmstadt, to be tried before their natural judges. We understand that the health of the Emperor of At7s- TRIA is in a declining state. He has been advised to take up his residetice at Florence, for the sake of breathing his natal air. The malady with which his Majesty is afflicted arises , from an affection of the pylorus, which has mani fested itself by external symptoms. The Imperial Govern ment will be confided to a Council of Regency at Vienna, under the Presidency of one of the Archdukes. The science of Political Economy has become of such extreme importance, from the high quarters in which its principles are adopted, and from the disposition which so strongly prevails to bring them radically to the test in all the concerns of trade and commerce, that the most essential service which the daily press can render to the country is, to call the public attention to the doctrines by which the national interests of this great commercial king. dom are to be regulated, and by the failure or success of which it must stand or fall. We do not mean to contend that it may not be very proper and very profitable to banish all our old habits of reasoning and judging, on matters of trade and finance, aid that our merchants and manufac turers should put theniselvea under training in the new academy. It may be very right that, discarding the worn-out wisdom of our forefather., we should mac adamize the road to wealth, and that for this purpose we should begin by breaking up the old materials. AU that we would entreat is, that these theories may be well exa mined before all those perilous consequences are incurred which seem likely to follow in the train of them. If such of our statesmen as arc converse to the new creed of politi cal philosophy went no farther than to rehearse the articles of their belief, there would then be little or no danger from its errors. Certain philosophers of old were of opinion that all the solid matter in the universe might be contained in a nut-shell. If we knew that all who are at the head of affairs actually entertained this notion, it would give us no uneaainera. But if we should hear from authority that it was intended to pound down a few of us with a pestle and mortar, in order to ascertain the least possible' compass into which our dust could be packed, we should then begin to look about us. So it ie we feel as to the doctrines of the Economists; before the profea sots proceed to their experiments we should like to have our doubts cleared up. At present wo hear a great deal said about the amount of the gain, but not a word about the extent of the sacrifice. Two things there are that strike us very strongly in the political Economists—their utter inattention to the nature of man—and their stoical indifference to the results of expe rience. What can exemplify this more clearly than their doctrines on the subject of pope/alien ? In Great Britain, it seems, the working classes have gone en adding to their numbers till they have overstocked the market for labour; and the only remedy which they recommend for this--and they recommend it with all their powers of persuasion —is, ' that they should abstain from marrying until the conse quent deer ease in their numbers shall make labour scarce, and thus put them in a condition to demand from their employers a higher rate of wages. This is the sum and substance of their panacea ; 'but lest we should by possi bility misconceive them, we will give it in the words of Mr. APCVLCOCH : " There is plainly only one way of really improving the condition of the great majority of the community, or of the labouring class, and that is, by increasing Me ratio of ea -1 pita! to production,"—by which phrase Mr. 111'CuLl.LOCH means, although he seems purposely to have avoided ex pressing himself in plainer terms, that this class should abstain from marrying, that capital may go on increasing, while the labouring population is diminishing. If this be done the rate of wages will be proportionally aug mented, and the labourers will rise in the scale of society ; whereas, if the ratio of capital to population be diminished, wages will be proportionally reduced, and the condition of the labourers changed for the worse. Unfor tunately, the labourers have very little power over the increase or diminution of the national capital; but they are all-powerful in respect to the increase or diminution of the supply of labour. And if they had only good sense and intelligence suCicient to avail themselves of this power, they might, by understocking the market with labour, render their wages high, notwithstanding the demand for their services should happen to be diminished; while, if they do not avail themselves of this power, but allow the . - principle o f rpulation to exert i ts natural tendency to overstock the market with labour, wages will be low, to whatever extent the demand for labour may be increased. It appear", therefore, that the lower classes arc in a very great degree the arbiters of their own fortune. What others can do for them is.really, to use Mr. M A Lis if t.•:.es words, but as the dust of the balance, compared with what the,/ can do fir themselves." We are satisfied that these political philosophers mean well, and that their sole aim is to produce the utmost sum of human felicity. They have no intention, we are quite sure, to introduce the principles of free trade into the com merce of the sexes, but that, on the contrary, they arc the warm advocates of moral restraint, and.for the rigorous practice of all the virtues. But what alarms us—and what we are most grieved to learn--is, that the law of nature is at war with the nature cf wages, and that it is only by completely subduing the inborn and overruling impulse of their being, that "the condition of thc great majority of the community can be improved." If it be so—if the condition of the working-classes cau never be improved, until they shall have consented neither to marry nor be given in marriage, and,—in spite of the Apostle's admission, that "it is better to marry than burn, '—shall be content to burn in virtuous eelebacy, down to the very last snuff, that they may keep the vine-yard of labour understocked ;—we say, if it be true that the well-being and happiness of society depend upon this—we despair of its.ever being at all better than it is. Moderation and temperance are virtues which lie at the basis of all human happiness. The more men - - inure their appetites to discipline, the more satisfaction of mind will they inherit, and the more will they enjoy of that peace which the world cannot give nor take away. But that is an unsound state of society, which demands from any class of the community that higher degree of abstinence which calls for the sacrifice of all those feel ings which bind the relations of life together, and of all those engagements which make up the moral condition of society. If the political economists would turn their labours to account, they would do well to investigate the causes which make every additional family which the labouring classes bring into the world a burden on their industry and a barrier to its reward. These effects must have adequate causes. There must be something radically defective in the system of which this is the result ; and if these writers would search out the circumstances which give birth to it, they would entitle themselves to the deep and lasting gratitude of their country. Bat to leave the origin of the evils which are to be provided against wholly unexplored, and, by way of remedy, to enjoin upon the great body of the manufacturing community the most austere privations that can be imposed upon the nature of social man, and all this for the purpose of " INC RE ASI NG the rat:.a of capital to population"—is to render no real ser-, vice to the cause either of public morals or of political science. The people at large can never be benefitted by such habits of thinking; they arc neither friendlylto vir tue nor favourable to happiness ; nor do we know what stronger reproach can be cast upon our commerzial and manufacturing system, than that its ill rewards the in dustry that upholds it, as to leave the labouring cloaca unable to provide for the continuance of their species! If the fact were so, and this reproach were deserved—the ECONOMISTS, we think, would ill employ their time and talents, if they could not discover many laws that it would infinitely more useful to repeal than the law of propaga tion. CITY SATURDAY EVENING. The speculations in the Funds to.day have been upon rather an extensive scale, and the fluctuation in the prices has amounted to 3 per cent. A greater degree of interest has been excited by the transactions, from the decided manner in which some of the leading dealers have sup ported the Market since the commencement of the Account; and , 41:, great has been their influence, that merely the sus picion of their effecting further purchases has led to a slight improvement, without aotually any fresh bargains having been made. But, however extensive the purchases in time bargains, very little is doing in Money Stock, which appears to be the necessary consequence of the want of capital in the City ; so that, with the small amount of Stock takeu by the Commissioners for the reduction of the Debt, we should suppose that the transfers of the Bank, on ' each transfer day, do not exceed half what they were in the beginning of last year. Consols for Account opened at 791 sellers ; and, without any material effort, rose to 804. There was much realizing on this advance; but up to the termination of business the depression did not exceed 3 per cent. No sanguine expec tation is indulged, that until after the promulgation of the Budget, on the 2lth instant, any unfavourable impression can be made on the Funds; but unless the evil occasioned by the scarcity of money be removed, there is no sufficient ground for concluding that the re-action in the Funds will be considerable. It is on this account that the Jobbers continue to take, with avidity, very trifling profits on their accounts. India anti Bank Stock have both been very heavy to day; the former has fallen from 236 3 / 4 to 23t, while the latter, early this morning, was sold at 2111, but left off about 1 per cent. higher. There has been little business done in the Foreign Funds to-day, the quotations remaining nearly the same as yes terday. Greek Bonds have not recovered from the recent depression, and from 11 3 / 4 to 15, in the absence of further news. In Spanish Bonds there have been a few bargains at from 11 3 / 4 to 12. French Rentes are also 1 per cent. higher. The variation has been but trifling in South American Securities since yesterday ; indeed the atten tion of speculators has been so 'closely rivetted to English Securities for several days past from the cir cutnatancea that we have noticed at the beginning of this article, that the Foreign Market has been in a great measure neglected. Colombian Bonds were 58j; Mexican 6 per cents. 661 ; Chilian 66 ; Peruvian 41; Bra zilian 59 ; and Buenos Ayres 65. The Share Market remains comparatively without business.—The United Mexican Mining Shares have fallen to 2 3 / 4 ; the Brazilian to 2, while the Castello are quoted at 2 dis., and the Potosi at 21 dis.; Real Del Mcnte Shares were sold with difficulty at par. Some bargains were con cluded in the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, at 19 premium. The Shares in the Australian Company rose to t premium. The Provincial Bank of Ireland Shares areas low as 4} discount. The King of Spain, who is himself a' pattern of mo rality and propriety, is very busy just now punishing a scandalous offence which has excited horror and indignation in the court circles of Madrid. His Majesty has banished to the distance of 20 leagues from all the Royal Palaces the Marchioness de Miranda, widow of the Marquess of that name, who died two years ago. The cause of her disgrace is the marriage, which at the age of above sixty, she has contracted with her Steward, without the consent of his Majesty, who has even taken from her the power of disposing of such of her property as is not settled. Though King Ferdinand is extremely severe with respect to tle rogatory marriages contracted by the Nobility, they are ne vertheless, we understand, very frequent. Extract cf a letter, dated Lisbon, Jan. is.—" But for the constant communication we have by the English pack kets, we should be in total ignorance of what is going on in the world ; for this place is the dullest of the dull— no trade; nothing but sloth, ignorance, and filth meet the eye at every turn. On the morning the last packet arrived from England, with accounts of Commercial distteas, thir teen commercial houses, the first in repute, stopped pay ment in this city. On Sunday the sth inst. the first merchant vessel bearing the Brazilian flag entered the Tagus. On the 1 lth an English schooner, the Fanny of Bristol, laden with bottles, iron, and copper, coming in in the night, ran on shore, on the South Catchop. Her cargo ' was saved by the Aurora, which ship slipped her moorings and went down to her assistance, but, though the service was well performed, the surf ran so high, that the Aurora lost flier barge.—The good old King of Portugal is some what recovered from the disorder in his legs: he has re moved to his residence across the river. NVltenever he pays the debt of nature, there will be a fine ' turn out' here. 1 hen will the purposes of the British squadron lying here be apparent, in the protection of British property, and affording asylum to the present King's Friends, whom the Queen and bun Miguel will soon cause to take flight. The Ocean (flag), 71, Albion, 7t, Aurora, and GlasgoW fri gates, are at present in the Tagus." —I furnpshire Teleqraph. The Conslitutionvel states that Navareto, the Aide-de- Camp of Bolivar. has left Paris for England, and that the Liberator has decided to command the expedition against Cuba. THE BRITISH PRESS. WINDSOR (SUNDAY), FEB. 5. Divine Service was performed this morning by the Rev. Dr. Sumner, at the privatechapel in the Royal Lod ge , The King's stag-hounds will meet three times n ext week, to afford those horses which have t a k en t i c k ets an opportunity of making up the days they may have l ost during the late severe frost. The hounds turn out on Monday at Saßhin ; on Wednesday at leer Beath; and on Friday at the Magpies on Hounslow Heath. If pre vented by the weather on any of the appointed days, th e y will meet at the same place the following day. ROYAL. Hi; ar.—On Friday morning a fine deer was turned out at Slough, for the day's diversion, which the King's staphonnds hunted upwards of two hours, during which time the deer showed great sport, and was at last taken, after an excellent chace, near Cranford. UNIVERSITY IN'FRLLIGENCE. oxeoan, SATrIIDAY. Fait. S. Yesterday the following Degree was conferred:-- Bachelor in Divinity— Reverend Robert Mamie Millar, Wad. ham College. 11'e are authorised to state that Mr. Eatcourt, M.P. for Devises, and tormerly a Gentleman Commoner of Corpus Christi College, has complied with the solicitations of a numerous body of his friends to become a Candidate for the representation of the University, in consequence of the resignation of Mr. Heber. The other Candidate, as w e mentioned last week, is Sir Charles IVetherell, Solicitor- General, and M.P. for the city. From the probability of Sir Charles vacating his sent, Mr. Eden is contirming hu canvass, and we think that he will meet with uo com petitor. . . On Saturday, the 21st ult., Mr. Rice Price was' ad.. mined Founder's-kin Fellow of New College; and on the 30th, Mr. Hugh Seymour Tremenheere and Mr. William Goodenough Bayly, were admitted Fellows of the same College. The Rev. Richard Colston Phelips, M.A., of Trinity College, is presented to the Vicarage of Montacute, in the county of Somerset, void by the death of the Rev. William Langdon. The King has been pleased to present the Reverent John Percival, M.A. and Fellow of Watlhatn College, to the Ministry of oxford Chapel, in the parish of St. Marylebone, in the county of Middlesex and diocese of London, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Edridge. On Saturday afternoon Prince Leopold left his residence at Claremont, and proceeded to the apartments of the Duchess of Kent, at the King's Palace, Kensington, where his Royal Highness dined, and afterwards accompanied the Royal Duchess and the Princess Feodore, attended by Baroness de Spaedth, to the Italian Opera House. The Princess Feodore, accompanied by the Baroness Spaedth, attended divine service, yesterday, at the Royal German Chapel, St. James's. Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Secretary of State's Office for Foreign Af fairs, in Downing-street. Those present were the Earls of Harrowby, Liverpool, IVestinorland, and Rathunt ; the Duke of Wellington, Mr. Secretary Peel, Mr. Serra. tary Canning, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount Melville, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Huskisson, &c. The Ministers continued in deliberation for three hours and a half. On Saturday morning the Lords of his 3lajt sty's Most Honourable Privy Council met at the Council Office, Whitehall, to hear Plantation Appeals. There were pre sent Lord Colchester, the Master of the Rolls, and Sirdehn Nichol!. Their Lordships were occupied in hearing Coun sel the whole of the day till between four and five o'clock. Sir Charles Stuart was on the eve of leaving Rio Ja. neiro when his Secretary left him with despatches, with which he arrived on Friday. His Excellency was about to proceed to Buenoa Ayres. Yesterday Mr. Secretary Canning gave his first dinner to the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, athis new resi dence in Downing-street. Among those present were the Austrian, French, Russian, Netherlands, Portuguese, Saxon, Colombian, and Brazilian alinisters--th. countess Lieven, Madame Fulck, the Chevalier Niuemanu, Sze.— . The Earl of Liverpool and the Duke of Wellington also dined with the Right Hon. Secretary. I'ttc Lo an Cu A s CELLO a.—The answer given on Satur day relative to his Lordship's health was, that he had passed rather a good night, but had not tested so well as the night before. His Lordship however was considered a little better. The Marquis and lfarchioness of Hastings, and family, are expected to arrive at Portsmouth on Wednesday, and embark on the next day, iu the Herald yacht, Captain Leeke, for Malta.—Hampshire Telegraph. Earl Fortescue and Lord Ebr►ngton have withdrawn their names as patrons of the Barnstaple Branch Bible Society. The Rev. Charles Mules, Secretary to this So ciety, has pledged himself to withdraw his name in con sequence, if it should ultimately prove their Lordships' pleasure to persist in their declaration. Difference of reli gious opinion, it seems, has given rise to this unexpected declination on the part of the patrons.—Es:ter Post. STATE OF TRADE IN LANCASHIRE.—We are happy to learn that there have been this week some symptoms of an amendment in business. The demand for cotton twist has certainly improved, as has also, we are told, that for some descriptions of manufactured goods. In Liverpool too there has been a good inquiry for cotton wool, aril some what higher prices have been obtained. The first step towards the replacing of business on its regular footing will be a conviction, on the part of monied men, that no further reduction in prices is likely to occur, and this we believe already exists: the next, the restoration of confidence, must be a more gradual and a slower affair; but the opinion that they are not likely to experience any furtha losses upon stock will probably suffice to keep on their lets many persons who must have sunk under an additional decline. In this town there have been a few small failures during the week, but stone to a great amount; rumours, it is trite, have not been wanting ; they have related, how ever, rather to the state of affairs in other places than in this.—.llnnelsester Guardian. Dr. Oweu and his parishioners met again on Thursday, on the tithe question, but nothing further transpired Han the exhibition of sothe lampoons on the tithe-payers, which were stoutly disowned by the Rector's party. Appeals to • the Bishop and Parliament were threatened on both sides. FRADD.—J. W. Tracey, the individual who had been practising frauds on the tradesmen of Bath, Cheltenham, &c. was finally examined before the Beth Magistrates a for days ago. A. Mowatt, of Bats, watchmaker, stand that in December last the prisoner came to his shop to look at some watches, but their being none of the description wanted by him, witness agreed to send to London for some, Two or three days after the prisoner called, chose a gold watch, and said he would pay for it partly in cash, and a draught on his bankers in London. Witness parted with the watch on the 7th January, and the prisoner gave to. in cash, and a draft for 141. on Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton and Co. of London. iVitness bad since discoverci that Barclay and Co. were not the prisoner's bankers, and that he hail no money in their hands. Another charge was made by E. Roe, Esq. of Bath, who stated that the pri soner informed him he had a house at Prestbury--had an annuity of 2001. per annum—was a man of fortnno—and he accompanied him to the Bladud Bank, were be got credit. Witness had repeatedly met him in company at Bath, and supposed him to be a respectable man. The prisoner was committed to take his trial for obtaining goals under false pretences. He has been twenty years engaged in these practices. Tits distresses in the West-Riding of Yorksh ir el7 ,, ' been aggravated by the stoppage of two additional baill,;: - 4 houses, by both of whom provincial notes were issucd• is proper, however, to add, that they were minor estalni-,t ments :—The Gomersal Bank, under the firm of ,'•Nblia Taylor, and Co. had few notes in circulation ; and tat Huddersfield Bank, of Shakspeare G. Sikes, had been net upon almost daily till the issue was considerably dimi nished. Locally, the embarrassments occasioned by these failures will be severely felt, but perhaps no two banks in the county hail more circumscribed connexions. Then failures have, however, served to revive the expiring panic. and many of the banks, at the beginning of the week, 1 1 0 smart rims, which were all met with firmness, and al e . which subsided in two or three days.—:Leear Meratry• i I