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THE A7RES. KING'S ': lIKATRE. If the English be not a tinisical people, it must proceed fnm sa me original malformation of Mir harmonic powers, a .iome corporeal incapacity to appreciate " the concord 0 ;• sweet sounds." Certair.ly the melancholy coasumma. dots not arise from indifference to the charms of o! iic. • for from the Opera House in the west, crowded ~,j,,io , .hes.ies and dandies, to the Royalty in the east, with jack tars and their boon . sweethearts, the fair dames of Wapping, the "heavenly main" e x e relaes h er w ave influence over all oar public amaisesnents with un reified sway. An agreeable treat was offered to the m ore refilled 'ricers of music by the announcement of a grind ;allot - inane: of anrie•A awl mod- , s inusic at the Kine's Theatre last night. lo adult PO to the usual • cow , Nl r . En t ls contrived to tingas.t.i Misses Poety and awl Mr. Sinclair, from Drury-lave, t0t..11 t . .11 some other lit vocalists. The performance with silectimis from the .If•si;i•di. The well-known "Coinfoit ye my people," was elven by Mr. tiline'•air with great power and correctness. The recitative commencing " There were shepherds abiding in the field," Was ii:ark al, by a mistiike, we rresinne, for Madame Caraileai Allan:hitt was given by Miss Povey ; mai en p•l‘Prit ere may rem irL, we never heard this young lady's voice to so much advantage ; she executed whit fill to her share with fcainß and judgment. The seemd part of the performance commenced with a „.1„..i 0n f rom a m.s, verions drama, entitled rile., di t a , , ,i,tre, in whirl Madame Bonirii and Signor Velluti made their appenranee. The former was in excellent v o i c e, atal in the trio front Pasha, as well as in the cavatina from h e r scietic and vocal excellence were eminently displayed. Signor Velluti amw:areil to labour tinder very severeital.spositien ; in the early part of his performance was wNunnlly tiemitioos, and he :ironed embarrassed by a difficulty of respiration. As lie pros • however, he scented more at ease, and exe eut,d several difficult parts with his usual success, but e vidently with mach fatigue. His exertions were re- N io w;iii very general applsu;e. A concerto on the violon cell) froso Mr. Lindley was proniimal in the advertise nte between the Yal sin! 3:1 parts, but no Mr. Lindley Latin:: appeared when Nlailame Penini came forward at the commencement of the 3el part, she was received with hiss,s and cries for Mr. Lindley. She persevered, however, in the cavatina from Ln Ilunewntohs, and the voice of the charmer lulled the tumult ; but when she bad concluded the uproar increased, and was kept up with so much per tinacity,-that after some consaltation a gentleman connected with die. theatre was sent forward to attempt an apology ; but what he had to off.r appeared so unsatisfactory, and was given with so much liesiiatlon• that it excited nothing more than ridicule, in whieh the i:entl• man himself seemed van good-humomedly to join. Mr. S:oclair, who was set down to sing " The mountain maid," then came forward to address the home. and when he had obtained a hearing, we ntalerstood him to say. that he was requested to it:form the audience that it was impossihle Mr. Lindley e: riot perform, his concerto that eight, as his has was out of order." This apology was received with shoots of laughter. After consulting with Mr. Lindley, Mr. Sin clair again came forward, and Said that Mr. Lindley's name was inserted in the bills by a mistake, and he did not know how to extricate himself (laughter and hisses); but, on his honour, he could not perform that night, for he hail broken his haste ott Tuesday last Orals of laughter). The autheitze seemed by no means aatistieel with the apology which was made, but Mr. Sinclair's to Mountain maid ' quelled the storm, anti being loudly encored was heard with atiention, and received with applause. The remain der of the performance proceedrel without interruption. •i oxen's Grand Battle of Sinfonia was executed with teloila correctness, and was very generally applauded. The ittai: imitates the events of a battle, the retreat of the tieleate3 troops, and the triumph of the victors. The ILl low ie.; chorus was - added expresslyr for the occasion:— Brave warriors. now your voices raiw, And shout vole gallant heroes' praise, The devils you hare done, And the iriutenhs you have won, With Wellington's immortal fame, Shall lire in endless story. Ther• shoot. for victory suedes on your valour in war, crowns you with laurel* and glory. The performance concluded with the anthem of " God save the King," ha which the solo puts were sowaineti by Mr. Sinclair, Miss Grailitou, and Miss Posey. The pit soil gallery were crowded ; the boxes were respectably COVENT-GARDEN, Lest night the Oratorio of The Mt s3ink was performed at this Theatre, and not, as has been generally the case of late years, a selection of sacred music both ancient and mo dern. The house was crowded in every part long before the performance began. 'lle stage was fitted up in very handsome style, and the chorus singers placed in the or chestra of the Theatre, instead of being on the stage as formerly, which is a decided improvement, as the choruses, which were very well sustained, never went oft' with better effect. Before the Oratorio commenced the national an them, " God save the King , " was gien by Mira Paton, Nliss Stephens , Mr. Itraliam, &c. The latter sang throughout the evening with great effect, and was never heard to more advantage than in the air, "Thou shalt break them like a potter's vessel." The fine conception of it, and the volume of wire displayed, produced a unani mous errorr; and Alias Pator's " Rejoice greatly," for neatness of execution and power, was never excelled by her talented predecessor, Mrs. Salmon. The sweet and liquid tones of bliss Stephenn in the airs " I know that my Re deemer liveth." and "'thou didat rest his soul in hell," wire also loudly and deservedly applauded. The bass wtre given to Mr. Phillips, who, though a singer of very considerable merit, dots not possess sufficient force to give dee effect to the sublime compositions of Handel ; however, he went through the part allotted to him very correctly, soil with coed taste. .The only new per former intiothiced was a Nlaster Baker, a rather interesting Jati. His voice is a soprano. posaessing a good compass anti much power ; and we think he will prove an acquisi tion at these perfrmances. Ile sung "If God is for us." That is far from the shortest air in the if exvinh ; and the best proof that lie sung it well is, that after a slight oppo sition from certain sober-minded people, who were in a hurry to go home, it was enerort d. The %link! Oratorio went off' extremely well. Grecn-room report speaks highly of a musical drama, of peculiar iuterest, which will shortly be acted at Covent garden Theatre, and in which &Alain and Miss Paton hare prominent characters. Wt understand Yates is preparing an Olin, consisting of imitations, and eccentric dialogue, which he intends to introduce as a separate entertainment, at the Adelphi fl.Latre, when the present regular dramatic season shall rive. Mr. Rotshchild has Sent 'OO guineas to ths , subscription for the relief of the SON!fields weavers. Cnr•:xtira Jrt.its YrT.lN.—The remains of this grtid! man, who died in the Royal Hotel on Friday, were ietirred in the Ohl Calton Burying, Ground on Tues day. The citevslitr was First Councillor of Finance to the King of tvaria, a Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Munich, and the author of various esteemed works on mathematics and natural philosophy. He was by religirm a Protestant, liberal in hisopinions, learned and ac ciniplislied, and highly esteemed in private life for his in ti.4tity and kintiness of disposition. He visited Britain with his friend Baron Richtltal, from an enlightened desire to witness the effect‘ or that spirit of improvetnent, and those great principles of legislation, which his labours hail contributed to introduce into hia own country. He died at the age of fifty-five, after six weeks' illness, during which he was attended by two of the most eminent physicians in this city, and by two young German medical men, whose names are not unknown on the Continent. Ills IX/tly was opened, and from the state of the heart and •isotva, It was found &at lie could only have lived a few years, supposing h.! had survived this attack. His death, however, in a ti.rei,m land, and in a situation where lie was bereft of the care and tenderness of his family, must be to them a source of great affliction. His remains were attended to the Traye by the Lord Provlist. Sir IValter Scott, Principal Baird, Professors Jameson, Leslie, Hope, Duncan, jun. Sir Wm. Hamilton, the French Consul, and many other rentlerren distinguished by their rank, station, or talent.— yet.. AFFAIRS nr GREECE. (Prom the Cmtnitortioteirr( or Saturday.) In the eitpeditiosi which the Greek Committee sent to Napoli in the month of September last, it hall joined to the officers belonging to the artillery, the infantry and the staff, a physician distinguished for his talents , anti capable of organizing a sanitary system iu Greece . M. Stilly, a member of the medical faculty in Paris, impelled by his enthusiasm for the sacred cause of the Hellenists, by a ge nerous sentiment of humanity, and by a desire of con tributing to the progress of physiology, offered to undertake this task, at mice difficult and ho n ourable, and was received by the Greek Committee in the manner that he deserved. A letter from this physician addressed to the Greek Committee, has only been received a few days ago, although it is dated two months hack ; hut as its object is principally to furnish statistical details, and to show the importance of the assistance which the l'ommlttee has sent to the unfortunate Geo< ks, we have no doubt that the details which it contains will he highly interesting to the friends of humanity, and to all those generous individuals wbo so bitterly deplore the conduct of the European go ; vetnments towards this brave and unfortunate nation. . " I had scarce landed my baggage," says Dr. Hilly, " when I was called upon to take charge or a great num ber of individuals, who were suffering aeverely by a dis ease, the effects ot which had be n deplorable. Perceiving that I had to contend against a species of sickness which I had studied in Italy. and on which I had published a trea tise just before I left Paris, I was so fortnnate as to wive almost all those who were entrusted to my care—and the mortality was immediatt ly stopped. As I had succt (ied in performing several fortunate cures on distinguished hull viduala, 1 was inccssantly called for from all quarters; and the constancy of my services in a small town, where no thing can he long concealed, was no doubt the reason that induced Government to propme to me the organization of a General Service of Health for Greece; and Prince Mauro cordato, on the part of Government. Odded to thh propo sition en invitation to accept the superintendence of it. In couvequence of this I have raid down a plan which I have the honour to request you to submit tb the Committee. The Executive has already adopted a la-v for keying a sum to give effect to the measures which I have proposed, and which are to he discussed in a few days in the Cham ber of Representatives. Four hospitals are to be establiah ed—at Napoli di Romania, at Athens, at Missolonghi, and another, as soon as circumstances shall permit, in the island of Candia. " Some persons may be surprised at the particulars of this plan, which refer:to medical statistics, and may blame me as going out of my proper department in furnishing Mi nisters with rules for the management of some parts of the civil affairs. I could easily answer this sort of accusation by stating that the influence of medicine is now much inure extended than it formerly was; that the morephilosophical coarse which it has pursued in our :ime has permitted the physician to ameliorate the health of men, not only by ad vice to particular individuals, but by general measures of administration, which can be referred only to the depart ment of medicine, when we consider their important effects on the health of numerous bodies. I should add, besides, that there does not yet exist any civil system in Greece ; that no register of births, marriages, or deaths is kept, and that if, in pu►suing my labours as a physician, I can lead the Government to adopt any MeRSIITO: which may he use ful in other respects, I shad enjoy the. conviction that I have only seconded the generous views of the Committee. "Tice service of the four hospitals willrender it necessary to establish a central depot of medicines in Greece. I have consulted with Prince Manroeordato on the subject, who agreed with me with hspect to this new regnisio•. The expense of the establishment be five or six thousand francs ; and if the resources of the Committee permit it to supply us, an apothecary to whom I have written will pre sent a memorandum of the different articles which will be required. " I have another request of no it'FC importance to make to the Committee. I have hero obliged to use almost the whole of the medicines which I brought along with me; and you will easily conceive that I have done so, when you learn the manner in which I have practised medicine since I arrived. More than ten thousand of the inhabitants of Trip°li7zs, Argo, and all the villages burnt by Ibrahim Pacha, were scattered about in the neighbourhood of Napoli. These unfortunate persons, who have been obliged to abandon in their flight all that belonged to them, found themselves exposed, from the very nature of the place which serves as their asylum, to the exhalations of the stagnant waters which surround the city on its north cast side. The famine, the coid of the nights, the misery to which they are reduced, the horrible nature of their situation, have given rise to maladies which every thing concurs to render more and morn terrible. I considered that though I had been sent to organise a military service, I should fulfil the intentions of th , ! Commiltee by contri buting to the relief of these victims of Turkish barbarity. Accompanicsl by an interpreter, and several times also by General Roche, I went to give them advice and medicines; and you will easily imagine that it was not difficult to exhaust the small stock which I hail brought along with me : but it was of incalculable service. The use which has been made of it has honoured the French name, has shown that we could be useful, and I trust the expecta tions thus excited will not be deceived. " Some people t pleasure frequently in drawing a pic ture of the Greeks, which is far from flattering : un doubtedly, many faults may be fomid with them, but it must at the same time be observed, that the chancier of men depends on the constitution of the country, and that four centuries, under the influence of vicious institutions are more than sufficient to debase the sentiments of a nation. To censure the Greeks is, in my opinion, to censure in the severest possible manner the odious government of the Turks, which has degraded to such a degree a nation who are certainly , by nature, more intelligent than 'The people of the North. lam con ‘ineed that they will re sume, when circumstances shall havc changed, the direc tion of their ficulties that intellectual superiority over other nations, which dicy ought to possess in consequence of the very marked superiority arising, in my way of thinking, from their physical organization. " In case the Committee should, as I trust they will, think proper to send medicines, I have subjoined a memo randum of those which are mere immediately required.* " I beg a thousand pardons for all these details ; but it is often by little things that we obtain great results, and this (nth is more applicable to physiology than to any other science. A grain of opium decides on life or death ; as, in the moral world, an action of little itnportance in itself produces great results when exerted upon intelligent beings properly di posed. tt If my avocations permit, I hope to be able to send you by dui first ontettunity some ideas, which I have formed on the spot, respecting the stab' of civilization in Greece. The Pioductenr, as it is prinei: ' cilly devoted to political thingeconomy, and to every thing telating to industry, is the journal to which I shall make this communication. I shall endeavour to take such a view as shall enable me to ex hibit positive facts with regard to a country, the descrip tions of which have hitherto been too much indebted to imagination. • Since this, M. Rainy has written to one of his friends, a letter dated ilie idth Dra:mber, in which he says—" The situation of Greece bing no encouraging, and having organized the hospital of Napoli, 1 am just Felting out to organize that of Athens." Advices were yest..rday received from Charleston to the 29th tilt. They announce the arrival of a considerable Spanish fleet with troops at the Havannah. As this state ment is communicated through several channels, there can be no doubt of the fact. One account inentioha it as a Spanish fleet, consisting of fifteen sail, with 4,000 troops on board, under a convoy of three frigates: another states the fleet to consist of three Sl , anish frigates, a brig of war, with transports, and t,non troops, from Corunna. Letters received on Monday evening from Demerara announce the suppression'of the Guiana C l / 4 roniele. The reason given for this set of power is not a little curious. 'f here had been a review of the militia ; and one of the privates, having failed to go through the exercise with the precision required by the inspecting officcr,was reprimanded and threatened in the coarsest language. The editor of the Guiana Chronicle made some remarks upon the occurrence ; and the result, according to the letters, was that the handle of the press was taken off, and the printing-office locked up by a party of armed constables, acting by order, or with the cuncurrenee, of the Uercrturlit.—ti/avote Chronicle. THE BRITISH PRESS: PuLITICAI. Cd:VOMY. We extract the following frot4 the number just put:- Hated of the Monthly Review. The entire article is well worthy of attention at the present moment; it forms an admirable contrast to the reel,* of the same work (l►l'C:ulloch on Political Economy). lo highly lauded in the Adinbnrgh Review. " There is no study that is mere perplexing, or from which one rises with less satisfaction, than political econo my. No matter with whet temper Mit commences it, or what portion of cool, patient, and persevering diligence one pursues it, he is almost sure to be disheartened by difficul ties which start up at every step, hurl appear , the more in superable the more narrowly they are examined. Since the publication of the " IVealth of Nations" great facilities have been afforded, for proving and porfect;,ng the theories of Dr. Smith. Men of undoubted talents have availed themselves of the greatest commercial convulsions, and the most sudden transitions in public affairs, that any people suer experienced, to elucidate his deductions, and correct his errors ; and yet it is itnrossible not to perceive that they have in many Instances obscured or rendered more proble matical what it was their object to simplify and establish. It is no conclusive argument, certainly, against the truth of a science, that its numerous professors are 'at variance regarding some of its subordinate doctrines, but it evinces something like prinuifitcie evidence of itomattnity, when scarcely any two of them are agreed upon any ono ele mental principle. This is tacitly admitted by the author whose works we propose to examine. Ile says, • Since the science has become an object of more general attention and inquiry, the differences which have subsisted among the most eminent of its proiessors have proved exceedingly un favourable to its progress, and have generated a disposition to distrust its bet-established conclusions.' " The work of Dr. Smith, although it exhibited the re search of an acute mind, and an extesseliii practical know ledge of the principles of trade anti commerce, did not, as has been imagined, invent any new theory of wealth. He little more than give to preconceived notions the ad vantage of luminous arrangement. The same principles had been repeatedly enforced by writer! who preceded him, and by none with greater clearness than the celebrated Locke, in an age when manufactures were comparatively in their infancy, and when agriculture was held to be the chief if not primary source of wealth. Our ancestors in their simplicity supposed that the indigenous products of the soil,—euch at least as formed the staple aliment of the people,—were infinitely more valuable than those of exotic growth, not that the soil rendered them so, not that they, were more valuable in exchange, but because they con sidered ilomestic cultivation to he the only sure basis of national independence. Dr. Smith first taught that our ancestors were in an error, and (hat it was the interest of a country to confine itself to that trade or occupation in which it excelled, and purchase its food at the cheapest market. Ile nevertheless ascribed a Certain value to the soil, and considered agriculture to be the moat useful and advantageous pursuit. Not so his followers. They assign ' to a nation no boundaries; tiny recognise no separate in terests among differ.•nt states; they attach no value to the sun, the soil, or the climate; with them the mountain peaks of Argyleahire are eqnally valuable as the plains of Kent; they assume that the passions of men are univer sally subservient to the narrow objects of selfishness ; and affirm that that employment which yields the highest profits is the most conducive to national prosperity. (Prin ciples, &c. p. 163.) As the science therefore has become more popular, it has become more complicated. The doc trines of Smith have been subjected to so much logical re finement that they are scarce intelligible. His system has been so analysed, and so updermined, that were be to rise from the grave he would not find in modern political economy a snide trace of the theory he founded; and we question much if, with all his erudition, he would be able to comprehend the scholastic phraseology in which his simple inductions are clothed, or unravel the paradoxes which are employed to illustrate them. " Whatever proposition it was the object of Smith to establish or controvert, be never sought to hide the weak ness of his argument in ambiguous language. He may be prolix, but we never misapprehend his meaning. His con clusions are drawn with a perspicuity and tact which are rarely imitated. We may doubt his facts, we may reject I • ►is deductions, we may even impugn his theory, without any fear of exposing ourselves to the charge of having all the while misunderstood his argument. But who can affirm this of the works of lay, Sismondi, Malthus, Ri cardo, Mill, or Lord Lauderdale? In almost every page of these we stumble on something that is obscure, poi , plwastical, or contradictory. We are bewildered in ascer taining whether the conclusion we have acceded to, and the fact we are disposed to admit, be those which it is the aim of the author's reasoning to establish. We find the translator correcting the author ; the pupil criticising the master; the one calling cause effect, and the other effect cause. The explanations which are given by one writer of the doctrines of another, are found frequently to have re ference to the casual implications only of the original; and, oftentimes, when we turn up the text-book which is ap ' pealed to, and on which no inconsiderable research has been expended, and no little depindence placed, we are sato nislied to find the reasoning distorted and the facts mis applied." COTTON ROPE. The article of Cotton, the great staple of our southern country, it would seem, is about to be brought into requi sition for a new and valuable purpose. We learn from a Providence paper that Samuel Greene, of l'awtuxet (Rhode Island), has received a premium at the exhibition of manufactures in that State, for making cotton cord lines. It is stated that they outlasted the hempen lines employed for the same purpose. The inventor thinks that cotton cables would he more durable than hempen, being much finer, and many thousands twined together would be stronger. The inventor thus speaks on the difference between cotton cables and those made of hemp : " As to the comparative cost between cordage of hemp or cotton, there being no tar in the cotton, and the weight , much less for the same strength of rope (I should think nearly half less), it can in fact be afforded at a cheaper rate, and front its being so much more durable, will turn out much more economical. " Thus if the price of a pound of cotton yarn is 25., one half the weight being required for cotton cordage, will re duce it to Is., and if it will last six times longer, this will reduce it to three cents., and if it saves yor vessel in a gale when hemp would not do it, it will be reduced compa ratively to nothing. " The cotton yarn for cordage need not be finer than sevens or eights, and if properly spun in the factories, I can make the cordage at three dollars per cwt. " I think cotton wilt answer better than hemp for every kind of use where hemp is now taken for careening falls, bolt ropes, whale warps, &c., and if this be a fact, the sooner it is reduced to practice the better, for the economy and safety of vessels anti their crews. I have thoroughly tried it one sail fur bolt rope, and find it to answer every purpose."—Balliniore American. Letters received yesterday, dated Amsterdam on Fri day, state that there have been more failures in that city, one of some extent. The accounts from Batavia received in Holland are to the 17th September. The Dutch au- • thorities claim great advantages over the natives. In one action 1,700 were stated to be killed. General De Kock is reported to be pursuing them into the interior. The let ters from liatnburgh, in town, are to the 25th inst. ; they furnish no politiral intelligence from Russia. Tut: Coax LAws.—On Tuesday evening, a meeting was held in the Manor Court room, Maneh-ster, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning for the re peal of the existing Corn Laws. There were from 1,500 to 2,000 persons present, principally of the working classes. but there were amongst them a considerable number of the more wealthy inhabits:wad the town, attracted less perhaps by the importance of the subject discussed, than by the desire to be the auditors of an eloquence which few sup posed to be possessed by the working people, till we gave reports of some of their meetings. After much discussion, a petition against the Corn Laws was voted, and it was re solved that Lord Stanley should be requested to present it to the House of Commons, and the Earl of Derby to the House of Lords..--Ifanchealet (iartte. THE MAIDSTONE 3 iINK. om^ On flaturtlai. ereditots to the ware of Messrs. Rimmed', Atkin'', and Tjurreit, bankripts, and late banitera 4t Maidstone, auended she foil examination before the Codintlasionera, at the Bankrupts' CotirtOlesinghtlil.street. The Commissioner" were Menus. Nanke en, Roberti , and Bathurst. Mr. Tilleard attended as agent to the Comminlon. The lislance.sbeet exhibited was not at all pleasing to the' greet body of -creditors; whe, for t h e, mokt part, are oetiplc of small mein,. Tbooststanding riehte were wand at 90.1100/, to meet which there wise about 40.1111110.' Cr available tares. The tio,oci. dericient can. not be made gofii, even b . f prospective funds, an that after deducting the tari i ,ua el eedera contingent on the commission. the creditor"' may output is reexive a dividend of hbofit 7s. or'7s. tid: in the pound on their respective claims. Mr. Peter Free, of Bartholomew-lane, 51r. Henrr Down, of Whitehall W hart, and Mr. RoSert Rugg, of Debiting, near Maidstone, were nominated as rite Assignees, and, there being po opposition, we dultappointed. Several of the small note holders had held back until the last am ination, under the expectition.of an auxiliary commission being obtained for Maidstone. The greater part of the outstanding debts was primed. Mt. 'filleted applied, on behalf of the aeninr partner Mr. Ed_ meads, for an extension of time, on ti.c ground of indisposition, which was acceded to under the statute. The other partners, 3lesars. Atkins and Tyrrell, surrendered and paned their ex amination.• THE SILK 71(40E. MEETING of wEAvEita: • . Yesterday a meeting of the journeymen br oad w e are r s took place at the Chorch of S:. Matthew, Redmal-green, pursuant to public notice. for the purpose of receiving the Report of a Qom. tnittee appointed at a former meeting, to present a memorial to the Board of. Trade, and to addpt such measures as might be deemed necessary under existing ciicumstances. The meeting was appointed to take place at one o'clock, and soon after that hour between lire and six thottiund pereoCs had assembled.' Mr. Jeans Bethel was called to the Chair, and having briefly stated the object of the meeting, 'crested that the PetsOng p . rat would twOusw_t Minch : of their alestmainee with Mat attentme which thffe fidillii.dmation required. . Mr. WaLtis, one of the deputation to the Bread of Trade, ascended the platform which had been, erected for the purnose, and addressed the meeting to the following effect :-11e *as glad to Nee go nonevent ah assemblage, for it clearly showed the in. wrest they felt in the cause which had called them together. %Vhen he lam addreaaed them they were assembles! to hear a Memorial read; which was to be presented to the Board of Trade. Re was one of those on . whorn the dotty of present ing it had devolved. ' The' alma's! was presented, and last 11 edneeday was the day Appointed for a conference on the subject. The Committee on that day met Mr. Illuskisson, Mr. Oraat, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and their con. ference lasted above two hnurs, during which time many arguments were adduced on both aides. The 3liniatert of the Crown con. tended that the ovii oemple.ined of did not arise from the content. plated measures, but from, other 1111144,1 RAMO', an overstocked market, and also &general depression which had affected other ba thes besides those engaged in the Silk Trade. The'Cominittee, on the other hand, contended that the distress arose principally from the repeal oftheprohibitory laws ' and they gave several teairone fen their opinion. lat. Bemuse the depression in their trade had been Progressively advaocing before it was felt with its present severity. 2d. All previous flacks in the trade were partial, and in many eases only affected itartieular branches, but now the depression was ge neral, and affected the whole, and left them almost without hope. The Ministers then urged that the superiority of the English manti home 'would command the market, and said that our causes for fear had in a considerable degree their origin from odr selves, as by giving publicity to the claims we tilt we at the tattle' time gave a degree of confidence en the French manufacturer, who who would naturally put a higl er price on his goods, and bring them Rearm to an equality with the English manufacture. To this the Committee replied, that the English dealer in silk, as a man of business, if be could purchase foreign silk fire or ten per cent. cheaper than English, would be induced not only to recommend them to his customers in preference, bu; even to sell them as Eng lish manufactured goods. We had never admitted that we were unable to meet them in the enerket, if we were placed on any thin like an equal footing, but that so Wog as the price of food and house-rent between the two countries wart so disproportionate, that, with other advantages the French enjoyed over us, paracularly the benefit of a climate which enabled them to produce the raw ma terial on their ciOn snit, these advatuagrs were such as a pmtecting duty of 30 per Cent. could not guard us against. Mr. Homewood, who accompanied the deputation, then pressed the Alinistem fora more explicit answer dii the subject of the memorial, but they re plied, that" we had all their arguments on the subject, and knew cur own, and that we were therefore capable of forming an answer as well as any they coati fitinish." 31r.Wallis sat down, returning his thanks for the confidence which had been so often reposed in him. (Great applause.) Mr. Po VTON, another of the deputation to the Board of Trade, said he would not trespass at any length on the patience of the meeting, nor go over the topics which had been so clearly stated by Mr. VI allis ; but in the course of a two hours interview with the Ministers other topics had beets creed whlth)Xr: 114 machod upon. Mr. Huskishm dedlgred that if he wtre enovinced that the genteel benefit of the country and the proiprlty of the silk trade required it, he was not as wedded to hisuptnions as to prevent hls going to the House of Commons and detlariog his belief of the error under which he had Isboared for two years be. fore. To this he (31r. Peyton) replied that the silk trade could never be protected in this country without prohibitory I laws, and in support of his assertion he mentioned the authority of a Committee of the House of Lords on the subject in the year 1821. It was then declared by them that the laws gave us a monopoly in our own market,' without which the silk trade could not have formerly existed, and the only reason which induced the Committee to think we were enabledto compete with foreigners was, that we had a better supply of raw material from our own colonies. We however said, that although:the article from our colonies had increased in point of quality, it had also in creased in price. The Lords' Committee then stated also that the difference between Bengal and Italian silk was more than one third, and was even one.half. Now, there is only Is. in the pound weight difference between them, anti every person present knew there was move than that difference in the quality of the articles. Mr. Peyton then adverted to die relative situations of France and England with regard to the silk trade sixty or seventy years ago, and said that notwithstanding that prohibitory laws were then repealed for a Short time, and produced distress, England was then bitter . prepared to stand it competition, for at that period bread was at a higher price in France than it is now, and England it was at one-third only of its present value ; added to that, a smaller number of hands were then engaged than are at present, and the climate of France enables them to grow the mulberry tree, which they had formerly to go to Italy for, an advantage we can never expect to obtain. In answer to this his Majesty's Ministers replied that every other trade also thought they ought to be exempt from the general e inciple, on the ground of sonic pecu. Lathy to which it was %abject, but which, when acted upon, was found to be beneficial. The Iron trade was instanced. IVe answered, that there were peculiarities in our trade which did nut attach 'to others ; for with us so rough labour was consumed on the raw material. In conclusion, Mr. Poyton hoped the Committee had conscientiously discharged their ditty. He was ready to answer any questions that persons present might be disposed to ask him. Several questions were then proposed to Mr. Poyton; in answer to which he replied, that in the year 1014 the cotton trade exported 18,890,3 fie pieces of cotton, for which they obtained 17,393,7151. but in 11124 they exported '27,170,107 pieces, and obtained no more than 15,2411,01411. So that in the year 1824 they exported nearly eleven millions of pieces for almost twojmillions sterling less than they had done in 11114. In answer to a question as to whether the Committee had any conversation with the Ministers respecting the smuggling of French silks, Mr. Peyton said they had ; and contended that a duty of 30 per cent, would only act as a bounty on smuggling ; fur after the goods once gained admittance into the country detection would be impossible. Mr. WODDEN, a manufacturer, a gentlenian who spoke with strong Irish accent, said this was the first time he had had the honour of addressing an English assembly. The interests of the masters and their men were inseparably united. Ile had been sixteen yeais a manufacturer. Mr. 11'odden then produced several patterns of silk which had come from Lyons under the denomination of gros de-riaples. It could be purchased at Lyons at the rate of 4s. per ell, and 24 inches wide, or, including duty and all expenses. might be importeditt 4s. 5d., or in other words, making allowance for the difference or measures, a mercer in London might have it en his counter at 3a. 7d. per English yard, but, he would ask, what could an English manufacturer make it for ? His journeymen might work sixteen hours a day for Its. a week. Ile could not go to the Intile House with money in his pocket and purchase the raw material for leas than 3s. Cid. therefore the mercer might have the manufactured articles for sale at Id. less than the price of the raw material. Ile thought the East India Compuity would in time mouophlise the whole trade, for they had it in their power to put such a price on the raw material as would protect the sale of the manufactured article introduced by them. (Mr. Wodden's address was received with great applause by the meeting.) Messrs. Noguet, Davis, Fox, and White, addressed the meeting at considerable length to the sameut. Several resolutions were then moved— let. That the meeting regretted the result of their memorial to the Board of Trade. 2d. That the distress of their trade is attributable to the repeal of the Prohibition Laws. :141. That in the opinion of the meeting if the new regulatiops be acted nu the silk-trade of Great Britain and Ireland will be nearly annihilated, and hairs million of industrious individuals reduced to a state of degradation, starvation, and pauperism, which will increase the already heavy burden upon the landed interest of the nation. 4th. That they ought by every legal meting endeavour to remove the evil which has already come upon them, and is daily in arising sth.' That a Committee of six,be appointed, with full powers to call in such assistance as they deem necessary, to obtain, it pos. eible. a missal of such parts of the silk-trade bill of 1024 as relate to the Imputation of foreign wrought silk into the country. The rosolutitms were till adopted unanimoutly. The thanks of the meeting were afterwards voted to the late Commiuee, to the :Minister and Chueh.wardens, for Meuse of the Church on the present occasion, and to the. Chaittnan. The meeting was then adjourned. A. . ... s 1 PAINK'S • Bi*TIADAIi 7 . ' ..... ' -- • ,JC-,. . • • • 1, f ' A public diffher id tiePtitMe the hildilasldej drwsw, the author 'of the bleaphomous Ilben Oe the Chtlithiperdiglig. ,Mid y '''' terdey at the City of Dandled. Tea:m.llW about seventy perepon. An anal Oa due WI Tifie Or. • Cerlile, of .1 het-stria. 'tasted die • 11 0 174 styling linntielt_s the " Rev. RAM t the d''..,l thin Evidence Socks'," who irroutehit 'terevell t Mr. Rife :h h. e nu ee ld at i.irr eis te the kett di. etecirdi air ih n i g e l l y. bS" As loft is e• c il‘ loth b ! y cork... m* o , l l' i drawn, ~• Mr. Enart:si4 rose to prOpose ifte fret Mini. U. 11 belt fallen to his lo t t o reli e i e t h e worthy•Citiennett alt elf hie duty. Which he had no d ou bt t h e eompetty seduldt peartit their o readlected how lately Mr. Cathie Itral ltirniedi Itreedli ete'rii fik Mabel re. preheat sloyld therefo t e, wlthoot mast relative 4 to the illoetrio u e individual whose lily thOluidptet to vela- . orate —a man who had been a most. Inniouttigle membetof society': and whose life had been devoted to tile gond of the.public at large," doring•thei ctiCtn'e of which lie hid done raittegeed thee any huh: vidual that had ever canted in thotworld. ate condleded by Istevillic • • the higowing toast —." Thorne*. Paine. We meet is feePett Ws • • memory and to extend hie principlee." ~ Mr. ru Eras ibßitgT next rose for the ptilifi of trepan:tie the health of their Wordir Chairman. Mr: Cart ier. ' (Mu:h cheer " _ inv. The applaute th at h a d foll ow ed t h e propealdolabad rindered owner. ivy all he intended to my, and theft fgea be 0 atr" rem from saying more that) thin hp reopened:* bail 0( 1 " Richard Csrlile. We thank him i.:r las fortitude, an d ice that his 'minting. have established-the right or free doignselCq:" Mr. CAR t.f t.t begged to aeltniiviledge the Hanotfrsidne him by the wimpsh). for which he rettllned them hie omit garrets thwarts. The Ile - . Roe r.RT Tar Chit raid •Ite win to hOsethe botiont wf proposing the third tom, atiticri leas to thclollowincelleg4-" Mr. Cathie's fellow-sufferers. We feel ituillgnant that anicyl thins re; main in prison." ' An intlividital it the iy , fra aid of fliereldro ;DJ, that Rime of those who came within the last feint; Pte bedded to Atom thanki for himself and those to rrhuen s, lirrid.• Mr• 111041 any peeptilied,the. ea. % - thoolddi m tlii l ^: - .l et.v - " Thi chew) .Evidesce tsHill„ ' Usti its founnir, the . --- 7-7 . -- '...Z , Ina, aod r thit thei CAI - ism Igvidente Satiety hada/Mt* twee founded j.hist, but that its support had been found in those be hast,...tbs c. livuou, e et; address. It was a cause in whiCh every goOd mane L ett 3 0 "'Mee": and our to which the man whosertymory they had met so Comm*. Come. would given his tiopport. Li 'Wes We Martell* bat( ):tell. It In that which enabled a man to live in gratettil to em: brance of the pig. and to.leave a noble !wet to hn.. 4 lellOdUntli- Paine (the speaker continued) lived at this day in a'.l their hearts. and he would live in the hearts of thousands yet Unborn. Ili( writings inculcated un'versol .. benevolence, integrity and phinn. thrOpy ; he failed only whet/ natiirt lurid( felled. The ottocteof the Christian ErWence itociety were the same. rot thee for tettith, Paine hash lived, and they must be putmed by the amnesiac*. He knew the hatred which existed to that Society, but the bid result would prove that it had never been deserved. •fle Muhl not convey to the company the feelings of obligai!oa he noel to annuity tidied —toe fairest of the fair—that attended the meetings of die Chrietiad Evidence Society ; their presence guaranteed the purity and inns: cenee of theit ductivelonts; while, to emancipate Mei( minds ftern, superstition and priesteraft was worth the autt.i.tico, of the *oder of the Christian Evidence Society. Tenth ha..t no einiseetreneee til fear: her voice a' the harmony of all rational mnisii., lard iteppi.. nem reclined upon the pillar) . of her throne. . • . . The next entertaimnent of the evening Alas a vattnntre inhdy by a prime who &Scribed himself as A reptilaßan, . hien Or the world, and a member of the Christian Evidence ' sty. The 4 berg, he said, was- in eCanenemOtatian of the 411bilion; and was adapted to the air . of " Rote Belteuntei . the (p ension lif his song he pro/Witted the WI • • the ptineAples and power ot reason 041461;110160, wa eradicate satire trash which prejudice and i inatitialsed L pon eisiaap . t The CMAIIIMAII theft ßeggeseed the prepritti illt in the ceremonial of ehomiseg. as quietism and-gendterkeriimuete; Arabia. He next peagened the fol=teeet--' The Mdthenies' Institute, an. Ogboalmot • 9111 . ' Mt. SDICIISDI CI Lit"hi miaow thiatenot teams* sir lence. The bemitu _hi queition formed a new riat'd(tlar lostitlit of these gays. SudtfMlihdeawbo &turreted to de Innegffiratan any that were ever *Mali Nth or any other coaary..% for the labours of Timms Anne they teed would Mire Wing. Schouleol liberal edneation..anti,Slicimies Bite the M .....- . stitute, would tee th the people not to bow down their t t aristocracy .1 but as they were better intonate/I, nien=lr... learn, not the truth that had been taught in his (31r. Edinondlerf infancy, but science and literate,* : they professed the actinism of no particular creed or sem. but vete open to all far opt anew= good, not alone for the went. but for future generations.. • A song front the opera of Kai, was then sung, and the fgßoling toast given—" Speedy indepaideace to the Greeks, and - tie cause of liberty all over the world.' . The tit•TIMAM then proposed, as the sixth toast, "Robert Owen. We admire his perseverance in hit weer of hdtuaility and generosity." The singing republican, citizen of the world, and manioc. ..if the Christian Evidence Society, then favoured the convey aids ii paredyWn " To Ranks dud Man," which celled npun the Freida 'IS ".dieid• the land, and live In peace test unity !" . • The CNA/IMAM neat gave the seventh Bert—" The fenntli Republicans—their presence would hire lidded gram to our min pany:" 'He mid that it had been suggmted that they etiohA ha present* en this mention, but it had been overruled: ' Ho' (the Chairman) hoped, however, to nee them as the neat avioneraney. The •• Reverend" ROBERT TATI.OII peoposed, " Tho 1111Coles of • America. lila, their republimaieur extinguish their supteiti tion." When he looked round upon dm fiftnitant of tit 4 Melo room. he could not help fancying that the ornaments water per. tained to the trappings of Royalty wormed a gimedy best bide toter which hail been just given (allediog to the royal esma on the ceiling.) He could not but imagine that the Reyall. 4 ioo scowled upon that true republican their Clisieniao. Happy was it for that individual that he did not set his mind en such duns: hot fear the tremtedinni monster of royalty that frowned-over Millard. The Cnatemaw then proposed " The Repubtleam of Hari ; may the nelghboeiriny islandem become equally independent." The Curve ' i .I".Y 'bell said that a nee daily paper Itml.mosently appeared, which was raid to be countenanced b ye paetke at lir e Majesty's Ministers, not those tinder the Eleton influence, but the liberal part of the Cabinet, and which, as it advocated the ainelplet of Paine, by upholding the teaMentative against the thwart-h . iml system, he considered was entitled to their favourable amoister ation, anti concluded with the following sentiment :—" The geore.. sentative Newspaper • if an organ of any portion of the Jlitatany , we hail their approach to the principles of Thomas Pattie.? - . Mr. TAY Lon proposed " Protestant as well as Catholic Eman cipation." Ile said he had suggested the tease, to the swards, anti he now came forward to state the ground. on which he did so, It had been his happiness, he said, to reside some years in•lreleed, among that amiable but unhappy, virtuous but deluded people. The emancipation they called for watt only at the instance of primal and demagogues, but the emancipation that he (Mr. Taylor). wmail : give them should be from a wicked priesthood. He hall teft:.hts heart among than, hot not his judgment. There was not I'mpre amiable creature than the Irish gentleman • but the Turk and Tar tar, or the wild Arab of the Desert, was tle aupetlor of the ;fish priest. Several toasts followed to the mammy of Voltaire, Reenteaui and other writers, including Byron and Shelley. " who have wri, ten to the end of humeri improvement." The " Reverend" Robert Taylor then pronounced a laboured eulogy on the per ons whom names had beet, mentioned, and concluded by calling upon hie friends to labour with him in the tedemption of mankind from superstition, The CHAIRMAN then gave the two followin sentiments:— g " The memory of all others who have laboured &sr the improve: ment of mind," and " Universal Benevolence," the 'atm ye which he *aid was intended to represent she principles of Palma.' The business of the day being disposed of, the company bro%4 up at II o'clock. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. AIONDKY, JAN.3O. The Room was not numerously attended, nor was there an? business of importance done. Scarcely any alteration took plane in the odds, the only horses which have varied being Finevest and 11lignionette. the fernier h►ving given place to the !Otter sr saconci favourite. The present betting is as folio's:— 5 to i agst Monarch Il to 1 opt Tredrille 1 l to 1 agst Gratnarie 14 to 1 apt The General 20 to 1 apt Adraoce 22 to 1 agst Panlc Si to 1 apt Pawn 7 to 1 mot FiHaire* to 1 agat Mignionetta 11 to 1 agat Moats DIBRIty. 122 to I. apt Sophist 125 to I east Pranks 28 to I apt Rowena 30 to 1 aptliaron3junctomea . 30 to I apt llolivas 36 to 1 east Pluto °AILS. -- - 74 to 1 ipt Bd lamita 11, to 1 apt Utlasei 12 to I agit Crawler 20 to I apt Baratta& 12 to 1 apt Elirabeth 14 to 1 apt Henri 15 to 1 apt Bo Peep VT. 11 :alit. 26 to 1 agar Calypso 25 to 1 apt Brother to Mai. Fanny 40 to 1 apt Brother toßar4Scl APPOINTMENTS. The Hari of Derby's risk Ismsoda will meet this day at Stn'tharit Bottom; and Saturday at the Modred Acres. H. Jotidle, H.q.'s foz hound. Willorrow at Obsierood Cociai ash and Saturday at Chipstsad Church. The Surrey fox hounds on Thursday M Pratt's 13qtrob, and Sit . turday at liodsione. s i We are sorry to hear that a respectable and 'esttenairt itnporting house in Leith has stopped Ihe proprietor of the Doikistc. Oros*le,, Mr. W. F. Stewart, who suSwed an unjust and creel impritiotheelk =hty-three sla,s in the dungeon of outh:tr t S4s pi of the Home' of Assemble if mei lately prosecuted for a libel wises that Ni e, luitted by an honourable and grill& 4 111 1.'11 1 / 4 41 .1 1 . Paper. - . . . t' 1 L I I AC M~