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SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES, AND COJIMBIttE. Aatt sat, OCT*OII2III 2lse FIRST MEETING after the RECESS Rill tike plare at Ity4=/ House, is the Adelphl, oa WEDNESDAY : 0 1EXT. 1, at Seven o'clock In the Evening. The Society are Si all thoribratty to receive counnanieations in Agriculture, Mo. • shanks, Manufactures, Chemistry, Faille Arta, and Cal° 1 0" and leak. and on all matters relative to the objects of the Institution. Ltateeol at Presniums oared by the Seeley w ay be had gratis. by apply! the Rouge of the Society ; and all cnimunications are Ma to be atid" , . t.*: (post sad carriage paid d ) to the Secretary. By older, ARTHUR AIKIN, Sea: we TESTERUAT. ...ow 4 per Cent. 9,9 S 11711 Long Ann. 191 4.16 3.16 incite Monde 2I 41 plot 1Wx.131110 101101. 16 26 pet Ditto PM. 24 Vies Iltto Sawa 26 1,411 VORYIV vOCII6 3TOCIIIS IrkSTEILDAY. • fhaialmala floods blesiess Bonds Ditto Sends (11113; hie Sit eii Ditto Acct. ille IS! 111 411 Portagtose Dotids ib • Prim's& Bends D.tto Bonds (18411 * &noise Bonds 1141 I Sponlob Bonds 114 6 Ditto Acct. II) IfAto Bonds (Ira) I bltto Acet. 7! Ditto Roods (1920) —a s TiffeltitD.V. • • um's. ••• ittie 711 IM • *** ... . ... J. 2 •• a Diair= •• •• IN it du - •" . rc _ gilt ttint Sir4oo• DRURY-LANE THEATRE. • • TM, alrealog, THCRS DAT. 0et.26, will be performed the Camay of Tile SCHOOL FOR SCANUAL. %Ist Total% Mr. Doestop ; Joseph Surface, Mr. Cooper ; Charlie S Mr. Wallaek. Lady Teas% Miss Mien Trust Mrs, Outdoor, Mario, Mhos 1. Paton. After which dor Romantic Opera of DER. FRSIRCH UTZ. • ONaoar. Mr. Mercer ; Bernhard. Mr. Redford; Adolpb. Mr. T. Cooke; 'ColØsr Mr. Morn ; Mitten. Mr. J. 'Russell ; Resole), Mr. 0. Smith ; lan" . MISS amides ; Rem. Mos A. Tree. COVEN'r-GARDEN 'THEATRE. ibh sem*" invasirer. oce. 26. L will O be performed tbe 'Frigid) , of °Tat L Othello. Mr. Wilde $ lego. Mr. Ifoerm t Curio. Mr. Serie; Bodo-4m Mr. Perky. Desdemeas. Mull. Siouan Swills. Mrs. remelt. After *bleb the Opera of • THE BASSES OF SEVILLE. Covotillsevivo, Mr. Joem r Doctor Cutola. Mr. Fawcett I Fiorillo. Mr. henna; Ague, Mr. G. Penton. Roils; Mr hub. The 131111611 PRsn COMMe6Ctil publiabieg murder =owning at five o'clock. LONDON, THURSDAY, ocTossa es, me. We have received the French P.apers of Monday, and :ha Stale, dated Turnlay, snd subjoin a few extracts:— . _ (Fran the Efoile of Tuesday.) ORSECE. Thofollooing letter is too bonus:rib's to the yataiotism dames] landsludil for us to delay giving it : 2m:us, Aco. 20. " Ulustrloas Brother,—l have received your letter, and I oh. Gess all the interest which you take in the mthefottumms which hate remotly overwhelmed me. I doubt not that yes hies telt all the igrief lettith the loss of my mire has calsedmo; mho/ye, IlyaS, wiely oestepled as I am with the salvation of my country,l sonnet alt pemible 'misfortunes with resignation. Hencefooth you, my kends, .ball serve as my family and salaams. I dank Hansen thick has preservad you till-sew. " Sews turfamemalo eircumstameet, and especially the wool wtios ore or sty Ater...hide fee the al.a.tissaakcip awl essanOtailli of pry camp, bare been the cause why Rioutaki still desolate, Attica. However, I Audi employ all the mains io my power to tutlll the promises which I made to you before my departure from Naoplfs. It will be ar sincere pleasure to me to content you ii: this rearms ; for I krsw your solicitude, and the 'mikes which you bare made fee the military operations in Eastern Greece. Some Mends inform me that I taro lost all my fortune, and cohost me top to Calamos, to take charge of my children, who remain without protection, and without means of subsistence. I wdl do ratting of the kind; I will retrain here, and I will shed the last drop of my bits d for my country, and for you, my friend. Do you be brave also—let rot misfortunes intimidate you. As for cal,' My country and my friends' shall henceforth be my device. " Your Brother, 6 ' Kaaalsitaist." ' PRIOR. OF Barr Acct. I pat Get Red. elk k 111 aCires. C•n l VI a. 4 • r Vet- 88 81; PI Vest. Rod. ~I 8 • • ratcsa or roar . soma A s o. 66 , b lees Bonds 12 !Weds deit 1814 /MI 1 I ids • -68 j • :.„ Rieteti per Cont.*. tit Fee. t per Cast. IV. .88e. • -••• 1,0) 14/ ur • " ••• • • ! I • roe PORTCGAL. The Portuguese deserters collected at Villanueva de la Sierra, where their depot has been famed, have there proclaimed Don Miguel King of Portugal, vociferating imprecations against the Emperor Don Pedro, the Constitution, and the Regency. On the receipt of this news, the Portuguese Ambassador made a remon. stream to the Spanish Government, requiring that the depot should be removed from the frontiers —/redirrt. or de Bow Jcaux. The advocates of an alteration in the Corn Laws have no need to deny that the price of labour is regulated by the price of corn ; and if they did wish to do so, they would not adopt the arguments or facts furnished them by some of their contemporaries. The basis of all our argu ments, on the contrary, is, that the price of corn does regulate the wages of the labourer, as well as the price of Lontmodities. Most mistakes in political reasonings arise from an anxiety to simplify, and an unwillingness to take :into consideration more than one cause of any event. The Jistovery of machinery has rer.dered the mere wages of manual labour a less important part of the price of com modities than it was formerly ; but it must be remembered that the decrease of the inferior labourers has been followed by an increase of the superior labourers, who are employed in the duties of superintendence. These superior labourers consume a greater quantity cf the produce of other iaferior iabearers than could have been consumed under thrfortwer circumstances of the country ; and constquently the tate of their wages wi►l be as much regulated by the price of cora as that of mere manual labourers. We cannot pre tend to-develop completely, in an article of this sort, the opinions we have formed on so extenbive a subject ; end all our general assertions are to be understood as liable to ceetain limitations and exceptions, which cannot be dwelt upon in our limited space. The Act 51 Henry 111. stat. 6, establishes a scale for the price of al.", proportioned to that of barley ; the result of which is, that the quart of ale bore, at the time of passing this Act, about the same proportion as at present to the price of a quarter of barley. This proportion was nearly as one to nimay-six. 'f he quarter of barley was then 25., and the quart of ale was consequently one farthing, which is neatly the same proportion as the price of a quarter of barley bears to that of a quart of ale at present. It has been argued from this, that the wages paid for brewing ought, if wages dept ml on the price of con, to bear the same proportion to the price of barley 'now as it did. at that period. It seems to us that they do bear almost precisely the same proportion ; and we think we can prove that' t h ey 4o so, w:thout refining to the dif ference hi the value of money, which bas been mentioned to us as a circumstance which rendered these calculations inaccurate. The question here is one in which there arc fru propor►ional., and (to speak mathematically on a subject essentially mathematical), if we take any mul tiples of the first two terms, and any other multiples of the best two terms, the four terms will still be proportional.. The 23th Edward 111. sec. 1, expressly enacts that a prnny shall be a day's wages for a hay-maker; now a penny a day is the twenty-fourth part of two shillings, the price of a quarter of wheat ; and eighteen-pence, or the twenty-fourth part of thirty-six shillings, the price of a quarter of barley, is not very far from the present wages of hay-maker. If it is a fact that barley, manufactured into ale, at the present moment, bears the same proportion in point of priee to the raw material (corn), as it did before the in vention of the improved processes which have since been introduced into the manufacture (and there is no art in whieh more improvements have been introduced than that of brewing), it seems to us to become at least a question deserving of investigation—whether improvements in ma nufactures can ever ultimately produce an effect on the price of labour? It is obvious, from our calculation, that the manu facturer of ale in the reign of the 3d HINZY could afford to sell it just as cheaply in proportion to the price of food as he can at present; for a farthing per quart, the price in the reign of HINAT, bears almost the same proportion to 91., the price of a quarter'of barley at that time, as M. a ,quart does to the present price of barley, and, consequently, io food in general. By these facts, therefore, it appears thin the conclusions of theory are correct, and that prices, ha spite of tbe • improvements in machinery, must always depend'upen labour, while the page of labour mut in fallibly depend upon that of necessaries. CITY, WZDNESDAN EVENING. The British Funds opened this morning with an appa rent disposition to maintain an advancing market. Consols were done freely at Not the opening, and ere long attained 821 : from this point, however, they gradually declined to 811 1 for money, and 8111 for the Account, at which price they closed. Varieub reasons were assigned for this retro grade movement, the most prominent of which were, first, an express from Pari3, stating a fall in the French Rentes; second, the arrival of a vessel from Oporto in seven days, bringing disastrous news from Portugal; and, third, that an interview had taken place between a celebrated capitalist and his Majesty's Ministers of Finance, relative to a change in the commercial policy of England, as connected with the treaty said to be on the eve of conclusion between this country and Paris. The denial of the truth of the two first points was soon obtained; Mr. ROTH/CHILD had not received the pretended express, and, although a merchant vessel had arrived, as stated, from Oporto, it could Dot be discovered that she brought any letters of a political nature, or was charged with any communication, or knew any thing as to any fresh insurrection in that country. As to l the third report, it was understood that the gentleman in question had been seen in his carriage southward of Char. ing-cross, and that was quite sufficient authority for any report which ingenuity might be pleased to promulgate to ,spot the market. Consols certainly are disposed to go up, sad It esquires all the energy of the Bears to keep them dawn ; and therefore, as the Account advances in the absence it teal much 'artificial information may be expected. The supply of Exchequer Bills has been rather be' and to-day, and they have declined a shilling, It India Bonds are a shade higher, at 40, /* 'The' Foreign Market has hr.' somewhat di, however, Kan to be overmaing atitilmet ii newer amAintendettiLallw. tasted to 64 I. Colombian have been* wery 1 r io S9l; aid Chili)a catfonly be quoted ate. *Wm imforstatiob to rectivad so t to the for the prawns ortoth colombian and Chiffon it can hardly ►e expected that any great place in these securitiee. The Buenos anxiously looked for ; and the arrival of maid, though not due until the 3ist,will relieve THE BRITISH MESS. • • MOVEMENTS. The Earl and Countess of Jersey left town yesterday, for' their seat. Middleton Park, Oxfordshire. The Earl of Alihorn' left the St. James's Hotel, Jermynatreet, yesterday. on a shooting excursion, in Hants; Robert Leeson, Esq. for Ireland. bn . rd and lady Arden have left !bailey Park, Winchester, for Cadlands. Southampton. The Honourable Colonel Anson, ALP., has left Newmarket, on a visit to Lord Kensington, at his seat, Haydon Hall, Norfolk. Captain Otway Cave has id; .Litner's Hotel, Conduitatreet, for Paris. Arrivals at the British Hotel, lamps-street :—J. A. Ballwin, Esq. from Oxfordshire; the Rev. Dr. Wall, from a tour : Robert ilaniliton, Esq., from a tour. Departures from the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle.street : °forge and Charles Polhill, Esq., for their seat in Kent; Mrs. Adam and llrs. Osborne, fur their seat, at Richmond. . Departures from Read's Hotel. Loiter Grosvenor.street :—Sir 1 James and Lady Fitrgerald,lot Paris : W. 11. Ilnein , Esq.. for , Lard Grantley's seat, °malty Han, Yorkshire ; Captain Mait land, for Cheltenham. A Trivets at Fenton's New Hotel, Bt. Jar:tees. street :—G. Thump ' ann. Esq., from Gleameter j John Itrinby, Esq.. from Nottingham. Departures:—Sir W. Cadtbatr, part , for Brighton; Nott ing h a m . Esq. for ditto ; Lee, Faity, on a tour. Anil. als at the Rogaglittes'a.sereet : —Cole, Esq.. from Oxford; G. T . , for Hants. Departures: Sir Walter Bummer, for ; C. 31. torbelly, Esq., for Ireland. ' • " Arrivals at Pisan/fa...and O xford- street :— Rev. T. Drake, front a tow. Depertiaz t :z:ir ridge Gould, for Hens; Lady, Alr., Mrs., and Miss • a.toort 11. and W. lAitle, Esq. and Mrs. 14ittle, foe, ales; , ~ MSS., and Mr. Yates, for Brighton; —South's% Faq.,ani tour. . LIFE AND CHARACTER. sion. She had put to sea previous to the late hurricanes in the West Indies, and her arrival, as well as of several other ships—differing certainly in one very important feature with her, inasmuch as they are out of time—will be greatly to the relief of the underwriters. Spatial have been done at and some persons are disposed to feet confidence that ere long some circumstance will arise in the political state of Spain to benefit these Bonds. Greek remain at 14. The feeling that exists as to the unfortunate state of affairs arising out of the extraordinary management on the part of some, and the mismanagement on the pail of others, intrusted with the funds arising out of these Loans, is expressed in no measured terms of reprbbation. In Shares the I)el Monte fever has subsided a little, as the pulsation of to-day has only reached 100, while Tlal puxalius are ■t 45, and Brazilian at 13 pm. Anglo-Mexi can are rather better, being at 40 to 371 discount ; and Co lombian Mites 13/. to 91. per share. The Colonial Market has not altered in the least since yesterday, either as regards a better state of demand or prices. The Corn Exchange has presented but a trifling share of business to-day. T he country buyers of Oats are hanging back, determined not to come in at the present price; it is supposed that if a reduction of a couple of shillings should take place they would take off the principal part of the stock on band : at present, however, there is no chance of this ; the supply of English Oats is very shy and limited, and this is quite enough for the holders of Foreign to resist a fall. What will be the result of this state of the market it is impossible to foresee ; one party or the other must eventually give way, and, until such is the case, the market will be merely of a from-liand-to-tnouth character. In 'ddrergraitrit has been about an average Wednesday's market without any alttration in price from last quotations. The foorned dr la Meditcrraanie states that Lord Coch rane arrived at Marseilles on the 13th, in a goelette, from Malta, and set out on Monday for Genera, where it seems he is to meet his family. The Ggsqle de Lyon says that Llrd Cochrane passed, on the (9th, through Lyons from Mars Ales, on his way to Paris. The Captain of a French brig, which sailed from Tara sono the Vit August, and arrived at Marseilles the loth inst. declares that he was boarded six leagues off Candia by two misticke, with the Greek flag, having each crews of SO mtn. They rent boats on board to examine his papers, and afterwards conducted him to the anchorage of Chris tiania, in Candia. His Lieutenant and the cabin-boy were ill-treated on the passage; they struck them with ropes and sabres to discover the treasure on board, and spoiled the vessel of a great quantity of goods on entering the anchor age. She was then suffered to sail. The whole establishment of the Alien department at Gravesend has been abolished : the vessel hitherto used for that purpose left her moorings nn Monday last, and pro ceeded down the river to be moored oil' Holy-haven-har bour, as a lodging vessel for the men employed in the Pre ventive Service on the Essex coast. AVST MAN Loa. negotiated by Mr.N. M. Rothschild in London.—The half-yearly Dividend on the said Loan falling due on Tuesday, the tat of November next, will be paid on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, between the hours of ten and two. Tit. coupt,nr are to he left for examination at least one day 'Previous to appli,:ation fur payment. CAPTAIN DASHER. 81k,-.• Having observed you thought my " Old General" worthy of a place in your interesting columns, I proceed to fulfil my promise by . furnishing a contrast. Captain Dasher is 'linen in every respect the reverse of the General. His father, who was sin officer of the old school, served in Flanders, and also in the American revo lutionary. war, in each of which conflicts he received as many "hard knocks as his neighbours;' but from the want of patrona;e, Makch wasmeeessary even in those days to lift up merit, he never' attained higher rank than a com pany, and upon half-pay be retired while.young Dasher was but a boy of twelve years old. The father never hav ing had meant to bring up, his son to a professioo, thought he could not azt better for the interests of the lad than by presenting his country with is services.; and, after an edu cation, attend.ll with some expense, at Marlow,. young Dasher got ea Ensigncy in the line, when he was but six teen, as some token of respect to his worthy father, who is now no moe,. I shall pass over the gaieties, or what the censorious call the follies, of a young officer's life, and bring you down to the period of Mr. Dasher's marriage wi h a young lady, who, though the daugh ter of a L radon tradesman, was a distant relation of a high-bloo led family. The fond father, in spite of the narrowness of his Income, would never yield an inch of the young lady's altitude to Prudence. And here let me say a word on the subject of female education. As to the education of the higher classes, whatever may be its errors, It is among those imprescrimible privileges attached by custom to rank and fortune—and, like any thing else in that splice looks down on moral criticism with contempt. Bat I shit ' descend a step lower in life, to that middle *elms where one might naturally expect to meet rationality, virtue, an l happiness. _ Here, shod we find the infection of fashion.' - taken deep the been tie slaves and victims - of family hospitality. They were n ver easy without a party of friends to dine end spend Cie evening,—and while their children (almost mar nageahte) were banished to the nursery, because too ragged to sprar in company, yet the family hospitality must be supported. Mrs. Dasher was what is called a nota ble hiusekeeper, and the furniture of her aide-board, and the dishes, plates, cutlery, and other indispensable' of the sinner-table, were generally borrowed from her neigh bours. If only four or five friends were asked to take /o' Inek, a dinner sufficient for thirty was provided, and, with the v:ry best-natured and most friendly intentions, the guest was disgusted by profusion, and drenched with wine. I have often been entertained by honest Dasher, at a din ner that cost ten pounds, in a room, the whole furniture of which would not sell for forty shillings ; and our convi viality on those occasions was more than once interrupted in th_ course of the evening by the clamorous demands of the t ix-gatherer or the milk-woman. I have lately heard that thistruly hospitable but thought less man has sold hie half-pay, and now actually pines in the Bench, with his wife and children, utterly unnoticed by those who were the meat constant guests at Ids table, and who, while they were enjoying his hospitalities, tongued dab-cheeks at his full/pod prelwrian. PETER PEEP. The Princess Sophia visited the Duke of York yesterday at the residence of the Duke Of Rutland, in Arlington street, where his Royal Highness is at present staying. The Royal Duke transacted business yesterday morning with Sir Herbert Taylor for a short time, after which Sir Herbert proceeded to his office in the florae Guards, having appointed to hold a Levee as Military Secretary to the Lo nmander-in-Chief. His Royal Highness also transacted official business with Sir Henry "Forrens, Adjutant-General, and also with Sir Richard Jackson, Deputy Quarter-Master- General. The English Journals announced that Mr. Canning is exrectel at Dover on 'fuesday next. The English Minis ter doe! not leave Paris sill IVedneeday evening.— ktGile. Mr. Secretary ise xpected is town this day from Paris. Mr. Dykes, die 'qllWts-Ilfeesener, arrival at the Foreign Office yesterday, with &Vetches from Mr. Secre tary Canning.—Coart Reporter. Mr. Wilmot Horton, the Under Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, left town yesterday for Brighton. Mr. Under Secretary Hay arrived in town on Tuesday from Litchfield. Prince Esterhszy, the Austrian Ambassador, transacted business yesterday afternoon at the Office of the Secretary of State fbr Foreign Affairs. The Marquis de Palmala, the Portuguese Ambassador, also transacted business at the Foreign Office yesterday. . The health of the Countess of Eldon has greatly im proved during her Ladyship's stay at her country seat at Encomb, Dorsetsbirc. An article in a French Paper, called De Furet, pub lished in London, elates that the King's Theatre will be under the old management. M. D'Egville is to be ballet master, and M. I3ochsa (!) director of the music. Aladaree Pasta and Madame Ilrocarelore both engaged to enchant the ears and eyes. The tlftatre, it is said,, is nvbe opened at the beginning of December; and Spitintini's Vestule is among the operas about to be represented. A new tragedy, from the pen of Miss ltlitford, the (laugh- I ter of the learned Doctor Mitford, is about to be produced at Covent-garden. The subject is taken from the story of the Foscari. Lord Byrcn wrote a'tragetly on the same sub ject, but did not iqtend it for the mix. The fair author of the forthcoming tragedy, which is highly spoken of, is well known in the literary woad. A new farce, called Returned Killed, is also in preparation, and will be pro duced in the course of ueftt wak. T beyond the de- of fasMontbk vanity has taken deep root without th e or Yassi, wbt lining, being •51.5, means to support it. The taste for accomplishment has mining into, 40, 41. gone to gr.tat lengths indeed; and many a pretty 31isa has ground, the b u s y: m es i ess . cos! het: mamma a handsomt fortune tp teach her French, rtrtla and. gar city contents I foe - about twi , winds the will nrer have Oecesiotl fa speak ; and mdsic ;dm effect elf 12 _,• which -ilia will nevest.padtaAtend,. or Nave on-opportunity art. breins.etd, diapies, ,_ .....,....., .....,..& ,_ •- , a . .. , ... -. national tango ver y s t ea dy at 39 SU& ilea die subrequent Niz .r Das ( her, and at a wairr- srlthmetle- it 39. Until some jag-piaci ball the young .p.ities saw each other, he- . The houses came estimaisstica ureti,:enil of atone where ' 3 441ewashea loonies rge l ek " ~ANL 80011 ere*. •, • treamthared to tbaramio., e streets a Wisp Dividends, awls, whither his wife • accompanied him • analmo one but - "sir br,relki mud, and in change can take theliselvei can tell what misery they Wave undergone in in rainy a Ayres psekes h feeding, rearing, and clothing a young family, during added to tstanhi the one from, Ja- foreign service. Mr. Dasher, however, won a company, and np m half-pay, with a tinting annuity left to his wife, Cent B nb' G . aIU z, relieve apprehen- they lat Ay . lived near the Regent's Park, where they have •. en. _ 1111111121 the M1 nan GERMAN PAPERS. [From the Oriental Sfectalor.) lissy RYA, SZTT. 16. There hare been same engagements of Alitviene and Fochr, between some Turkish ships and the Greeks. • Aliattlis, with ao ships, had joined the 53 under ffaehtury, on which the Greeks seemed dWposest to attack the Turkish squadron betore Mitylene, in the n'ght if Sunday, the 9th of September. They sent our, but without effect, two fire.ahipe : one of them. as well as one of their brigs, was sunk, and a polacre and two other brigs were con. sidenibly damaged by the lire of a large Turkish frigate. On. Monday, the I Ith, the Greeks wished to attempt a coup de maim. against the ships which are repairing at Fochea ; they launched a fire %hip without effect; two Greek ships were sunk, and several dimmed. The Turkish ships remained to their position, that Is to say, part at Mitylene and part at Foetus : the Cepitan Paella Is with tile latter. The Cheeks, taking the damaged vesicle in tow, retreated, mime to Ipsara, and some to the harbour of Vati, in Samos, to repair. Count Guilleminot, the French Ambassador to t h e Porte, arri ved on the . 9th of September en board the Pomona COvrette, at VOUtts, where the Freed.% squadron lay, but soon pro. ceeded on his voyage to Conitantinople. Letters from Alexandria of the 25th August ay that Omer it Boyer, and moat of the officers accompanying him, had quitted the service of the Viceroy and embarked foe France. The restless spirit of some of these officers seems to have caused a breach which all the dram of the French Consul.Oeneral mold not prevent. • Cocerecricorxr, SEPT. 2R. It is rem ted that the Orphan Petite was defeated oear Petals, and that C,anaris (who wee wounded en the octagon) having as lire to a frigate. it was abandoned by the Turks, ■nd token potsession of by the Greeks, who succeeded in extingsishirg the dames. Count Guilleminot, the Plena Ambassador, is said to hare been an eye-witness of this exploit. and greatly to have. raised the valour of the Greek sailors. The loss of the Turks is as very considerable but this whole account requires con VIEN EA, Ocr. 13,- 3 letalliques 110 ; Bank Shape MOLDAVIA AND WALLAC By the late arralgement between the Tides and the Russians, the latter have obtained pomade() of Moldavia and Wallachia. These provinces are a valuable secession to the Russian territory, if we may credit the statements of the best writers. According to them, Moldavia is about 230 miles long, and 200 broad, and ia bounded on the north and north-east by Poland and the river Dneister, on the south by Bessarabia and the Danube, and on the west by Wallachia, Transylvania ' and branches detached from the Carpathian mountains. The surface of the country is finely diversified with hills and valleys, extensive fonsts, and numerous rivers, the principal of which ere the Pruth, the Sireth, the Moldeau, the Danube, and the Dneister. There are also several small lakes. The climate is rigorous in winter, and oppressive in summer. The territory abounds in minerals. Gold is occasionally found; foe ail salt is plentiful ; and nitre is exported in consider able quantities. The waivode or hospodar, appointed' by the Turkish Government, was obliged to send yearly to Constantinople a tribute of twenty-live tons of ni tre, and a million of piastres. The Turkish navy was also supplied with the lineal oak from the forests, and with masts and cordege of native growth. The chief pro ductions are wheat, barley, oats, millet; and maize. Bees are reared in gredt umbers. The principal domestic ani mals arc horses, cattle, sheep, and goats,..great numbers of which were annually purchased by the Turkish Go vernment at a low and arbritrary price, and carried to Constantinople. Ihe bogies are much esteemed by the Austrian and Prussian cavalry. Some of the wealthy farmers are said to have 400 or SOO of these animals, which are suffered to remain without shelter in ail seasons. The population of the territory is computed to be 500,000, most of whom inhabit miserable villages, and wooden huts daubed with clay, having paper windows and open roofs. In winter, the tenants of these wretched dwellings descend into subterraneous cells, which are easily warmed, and there live promiscuously. The wretchedness of the inhabitants, and the frequent famines which occur, have resulted from the oppression of the Government, and not from the natural sterility of the soil. The capital is Jassy. or Yassi, which is situated on the lake and river Bakful, the Pruth, and occupies a great-extent of e houses being detached, and surrounded by gardens. The population is about 40,009. The us seventy churches, public hospitals, and schools two hundred pupils, who are mistvuetet4 in the 1 , ancient and modern Greek, *riling IMO 11154 t e ueatios, kestereer, grotty neglected. are generally one story high, - bußvillarafjc, within and without, and roofed with inner are floored with beams cf the finest A/wet& *WM 102-years. lew seit a Z ie trey are covered with deep liquid in dry weather with thick black dust,-which, the accumulation and stagnation of panes inces below, produce numerous disease 9.— e seaport and chief emporium of the province, is situated on the Danube, sixty-five miles from Yarsi, where the river is navigable by vessels of 300 tons . The population is about 7.000. Moldavia is part of the ancient Thcia, whole inhabitants resisted the pro ms); of the Roman arms. The King of the Visigoths, being compelled to retreat hither in the fourteenth century, a rested a wall between the Pruth and the Danube, where various antiquities of a remote era are still to be seen. In the thirteenth century it was occupied by a new tribe, under their leader Bagdan, who assumed the Sla vonic title Vaivode or Voivode, equival , nt to a reigning Prince, and from him the country received the name of Bogdiana. It became tributary to Turkey in 1336; and since, having been the theatre of sanguinary wars between that empire, Russia, and Austria, each has alternately held the sovereignty. At length the growing power of Russia obtained the cession of the best portion of the pro vince, between the Pruth and the Dneister, in the year 1812. The author fro.n whom we quote anticipated, in the year 1817, that this would be the precursor of a final cession of the whole to Russia; and his anticipation has been fulfilled. The general account of Wallachia is similar to that of Moldavia. It is 280 miles long and 150 broad; and is bounded north by Moldavia and Transylvania, east by Bessarabia, and west by Transylvania and the Danube. The capital town is 'rergovists or Tervis. The inhabitants of both provinces are of the Graek Church, and in general very ►gnorant. The prik its have very little more information than the laity. Their attain ments consist chiefly of reading and singing, and an ac quaintance with the ceremonies of the Church. Mr. 'Hunter, son. the King's Messing-a, has arrived in town, hripging despatches from the Right Hon. Frederick Lamb, our Ainbatsador at Madrid. _ _ Yesterday, being the first day of the Sessions at Guild hall, the Lord Mayor entertained at dinner the Aldermen on the iota, the City Law Officers, and a numerousparty. We learn with pleasure that there is every probability of Mr. Beaumont being returned for a borough early in the ensuing session.. Ile is now entirely engaged in negotia tions for that purpose, and, in consequence, is , unable at present to leave town'with a view 64 sprndirttr any - time-in the north. On this account, it has been deemed advisable to postpone the public thinner which was intended to have been given to him in Newcastle on the 3d of November.— Tyne Mercury. DISTRESSED LETTER-PRESS PRINTERS.—From the I advertisement in another column, it will be seen that the subscriptions for the Letter-press Printers have fallen off [ very considerably. It cannot be necessary for us to repeat r what we have before stared on this subject. From the literary world, at team, distress of this kind has a right to expect not only sympathy, but active benevolence; and if the pstrons of literature have been less sensible than tni4lat have been expected to the misfortunes of abase hupthle in dividuals, we trust the circumstance is to to mtributed only to their ignorance of the pressing necessities of those who claim their assistance. DUTY ON PRINTED COTTOWS.—WE understand a de putation of gentlemen engaged in the paint trade set out last night for London, for the purpose of making repre sentations to Ministers, with a view.of inducing theta to consent to the repeal of the excise duty on printed goods, when it was stated, that of the ruin of 2,03.5,219/. lbs. el. to which the gross amount of the duty reached in the year I ended the sth Jan. last, 1,665,592/. Ss. was returned in drawbacks and bounties; and that of the net produce, which reached the Exchequer, 569,9431.55. 4d. by fur the larger part, is drawn from the labouring classes. Nothing more need be said to show the very objectionable nature of the tax, . and we trust our townsmen will completely suc ceed in their efforts to procure its removal.—Mancholer Mercury, Oct. 24. COMMITTEE OF GREEK BONDHOUIERS. Mr. Euriottie has addressed the following letter to th e Editor of the Vines P-- " Stn.—Hawing perused with attention, in your jormislobe Report laid before the G r e e k Bondholders, at their beau .. yesterday, which I did not pe.feetly in:demand at she d ue i t .: read, I fed myself called upon to state, that the infoimatioal contains is not so satisfactory as I had a right to expect flora t h; materials furnished to the Committee. I have been most anxious that the fullest ex planative, visa every paint connected wi t h the appropriation of t h e two 1 4- 0 - 1 shah be given to the liondholdern; but the present Repoui o , rot appear to me to throw a greater light upon the subject th m had already heen afforded by the ankle published in the last p s bee of the War m i ns t er R ev i ew , headed "Greek Cannaittee," o which Mr. Barring was the author. In the Report made yesterday, I think I can discover the lac ings of the same hand. Many facts, which it would ham ben t desirable for the Bondholders to have boss made acquainted with, have been omitted, whilet others has base rated wittiest Si* explanation which, injustice to myself, sighs to have aceempeabg them. As one example of the mune' in which the Canning btu thought it right to communicate a ilia siding the espleeed ee, from which alone the Bondholders eyed Ann any aeons% Irk. rent on the abject. I will edict the Mot alluding to the purchase of 186,14118. notitZo=dttested loan, for the purpose of sustaining the credit of the Greet nevem ment. the Report proceeds:— " Your Committee hare stratum! %pit en die Depetia the wee/idly of having these bonds rho leek of Lae& but have not been able to obtain the setesupflehnism of alit re. commendation. Aga in and agate tiny have des. bs, .propriety of eitOWlng PO large aMO 10 °reek lOU% thll possession of individuah; and they an mesie. 'nessillibes; se entbfactory motive for objecting to their Wise in a Ass of security, 'here they would lie beyood the of any JIMPTOPIF 4011t1101.". . Now I think that, in justice to myself, es wells*. in isober' a le the Bondholders, it should hav e b een explieltly stated by wham this wawa recommendation of the Cennuittee had bees opposed. On the 13th ult. I addressed &letter to Mess& snag,, ef width the following is a copy:-.. " Sackvillemtreet, Sept. If, 18SL 41 Gentlemen,—R creeping to my letter of yesterday, to whi c h I await your reply, I beg n Mate , that I considet it adviaabie th og the bonds of the second lea, purchased by yes and Megan Re/li, on ateount of the Greek Govennuent should be depositoi lb th e Bank of England. I have already Written to Means. Rani, bra. them, to this effect, and I shell be obliged by your naming an ,early day for m a ki n g t h e depolit of those in yees ha nd the ;h e ioint names of one or bah of your firms, of Mi. Spanioheki ad myself. " I am, doe. , (Aped) "Awn. LintIOTTIII." Moran. Ricardo returned the followisg reply:— "Since writing the above, we have received your lettre of the 15th, in reply to which, we have simply to sate, that a soon as Nome person can be found, malting the approval, aced the confidence of all concerned who will undertake that yaks or the management of the expedition which - has devolved 1900 ea, lad release us from any engagement still asperfanned we dull be happy to render up our accounts, pay over the balsas statue band, arced deposit the Bonds belonging to the Greek Govetnment where. ever at may be deemed expedient by these who have authority to require it ; but at present we mast consent to pan with that WI the undertaking is completed, mid we how am what am our lia bilities. " In the mean done you may see them whenever you plows, sad we will pledge ourselves that no use shall he made of diem, except with the consent of than who represent the Greek Government. " We are, Sir, your obedient servants, (Signed) "J. and S. Ilteelllm. " Warnford.court, Sept. 16. " To A. Lanais, Esq." them on the 2lst, to the followi ng e ff ec t : Considering this reply evasive and unsatisfactory, I MOW to " I have not said that you have an hum* mare from my ena. try, or that you are benefitting by ha mi t but there am many who or tenain that opinion, and it would ratify me much to hare the means in my power of proving dna this retpremien was without foundation in fact. Most assuredly 1 bare seen wales in ill-rated loan, which would warrant me in aseatiog that you would from the firs to dieing of what you aptly all the Vette rerusal to deposit the bonds is no addithinit parefiefliooder di,. ~. b lindoo ur ee n n on du e et i ' ota of your own interest foe the good of my couny. interestalces: for the C a use of Greece, and *Pray man. nee in which ye ii avow your radices& to Mitt the 0111111114 ' so ' i.. g the confdenee of all conce rn ed,' appears m ns• tube pm fee. wee as sou s. tso se shall be found meriting tie approval and en. Jo/ s. on enetWy as a plausible excuse for retaining am In r hands. You will bat te.tify the sincerity of your d-cleatien deposit. ing diem at train she Bank of England in thermoses: re pro. posed ; and it you have any claim, er shall i . lity, so account of the Greek Government, you will 10 MOM 7_ wleelvelegaines kit inseurrash es they mew he withdrawn with. .... n=ibi h r. '''''lr w '' ... Vi if le an.wer curs. Ricardo to this comminution wastbal I *as no longer an ithillerwledged Mast of ith• teak Goeunatent, thi" thq +Add allonthee deans flaitigit eerrespoodenim wt. .- . . T •of Ippliastistiaaniny yin of pietist mow. edllailhinti 4 t nitrated to tboteethwitten. Is atlodssi lystogrelph, after setting forth the assn thitilwieyesif from the ammilmatt,ite Report proeudoto 11tr... 1. TWO, -state. meceerkinweld& . .feryttr Comenitme to meg, and that wish ,to ems. mmonE OM tbeg er an tidy commoniamee tbil Head. hailers she Its have received ' , the corespondent tenches being in Anent alimees inearesible." I meat take leave here to ire, that, halioa vent into the GOWN mittee an account of my claims (which; after debiting myself , wi.ll the sum charged against not in the accoun , current, left a , balance due to me from the Government of more than due thou. ,sand posnds), I Was not laltaaWol, or I would hare the vouehent to establish th. m • Mt can I charge myself w d i rTr e ett 4 - ' gle instance in which I omitt ed to furnish any voucher which-the Committee required. In another :nuance, which is tie only on. I wilt trouble you with for the present, the Comminer (after reporting that there ap peared some prospect that one of the frigates built In America would be despatched by making a complete sacrifice of the othet) go on to state, that " they felt that c nsiderable doubt attached even to this forlorn hope, and they determined to recommend that an American gentleman, who for two years had honourably aimed in the Greek navy, and who kind!) , ofted to.proceed to the United States, in order to facilitate th.:: el. , parture of e frigates, should be despatched without delay ; No,' says the Report, " your Car. muter regret to state, that their recommendoden was thwarted by indisposition on the part of Mr. Luriottis, to advance the sum of 150 f., which wns required to cover the expenses of a mission which they could not but strenuously recommend." I had repeatedly stated to the Committee my confident opinion that Mr. Contouring, who had already been sent to Amities for the same purpose, would succeed in the object of his mission t , and in my letter to the Committee, oldie lid uf "September, I wrote as follows :••••• " Before I conclude, I beg leave to offer a few words on the con versation ahich took place on lirednesday, with regard to the sums I was requested to advance-for the expense of CamainAllen'salliaiOn. On a former day, when the importance and necessity of hastening the preparation of the steam vessels was discussed, I Wetted to give bills on Leghorn to the extent of 1,01:01., for that specific ob. iect, being authorized by my friends there, who are sensible how materially they 'wand promote the cause of Greece, to advance even a lager sum for this objets. -But I have no power to divert the geoerosity of my Manus and friends in Italy to a different purpose, and so farfrom haring any funds in my posaaaioo be longing to the Greek Government, my claims upon it, on the con. teary, amount, as I have verbally explained to the Committee, to I . more than 3.0001., as I will prove on a future day. „ " With respect to the 4,0001. which I placed.* the Moon! of Mr. ti nerd, for account of my Government in )lay and to which Mr. Doering particularly alluded at the ht ot Id , the encloaed extracts of letters Rom that distinguished Mad of reece will, I presume, be pafectly satisfactory. " It remains foe me only to state my readiages as well as my anxiety to afford any further information to the Cotirmittee, in the least likely to promote its valuable labours, and the interest of she Bondholders, - with which that of Greece Is so intimately con _ -''' 1411(''''aiViiii • There are Some few additional errata, ' w an o t oubling you with, as k pyeliminary to the full and detailed state-f went which I pledge myself to lay before the yolktle, but I Tear I have already extel, this beyond the space you can allow me in your paper: I therefore postpone to another day the obsavanoes .• , I could have wished to have added to this letter. , I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, AND. LURIOTTIS. ' 29, Sackrille-street, Oct. 24. MELANCHOLY EvlNT.—Between five and six menthe ago, a boy between six and seven years of age, who lived with his grandfather in Leith, was missing. The most vulgate search was made, but no trace of him could be found tiliVriday last, when some of the workmen, who arc oecasionally employed in pumping water from a well at the foot of the Bennington road, near Leith, found something interrupting the water. A person was in consequence sent for to clear the pump, when the head of a young boy was found to be the cause of the stoppage! The remain ing parts of the body were found, but in a very muti lated state, from the length of time it had remained in the water. The mother of tile above boy went and claimed the body, which she identified merely from the buttons on his clothes. He was interred in South Leith church -yard yesterday. This case is rendered still more melancholy, from the circumstance that the boy's grand father and grandmother were so much attached to him, that the grandmother died in a few weeks after missing him, and the grandfather in about two weeks, both of a troken heart, for the loss of a beloved grandchild.-.4colcli Paper. 11 : 1 i dos A •P jab Isal C its • PI tho 11111 P.!! in