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C(WEN l'-GARDEN. Thie Err;lug. TUROOtY, Dee. 7. will be performed A WOMAN WRYER VRe f ; Or. TIIR WIDOW OF CoIINIIII.I. the cloth, Mr. Raker; loiter. Mr. Toone • Stephen Fetter. 110 111 . 1 .nimthle; Feeta.. JUL. Mr. fooper I Walter no.wn. Mr. Lief - NCa Sir 4 I.KI free 4peed well, Mr. Hartley ; tine;,r I noneent Lambskin. Itee'...7; flown, Mr. Illaurhanl. Ague; Deleted (the Widow of Cileehlli). Wee Cite ster ; Mrs. Foerrr. Mies levy ; Jaue, Mlle Jones. TDR FHO7.r.N lAKF. Th. artn4l fluke dSnahis. Mr. o..rtiei; Prince de Neoleeurg. Mr. ko le a Marquis de Valewm Mr. J. lows ; Count di Lltteberg. Mr. m‘n; U1t.:,141, Mr. Keey. Ti.. Princes , . Louise. Mb, Lew,: roe Meads de Rodefeidt. Miss M. Tree; Counter de Weistelu, Ha!: sale. . racnrue. Riven:Le ; et. Reran Love. The flourish Pots. commenced pnblishing rowdily voishilog at firs o'clock. LONDON, TUESDAY, Damns& I. Ma. We received the Paris Papers of Saturday last night: they cantata scarcely anything wtrth extracting. On Fri day the lilac reviewed a regiment of hussars, and took that opp -reunify of repairing a mistake committed two years ago, through an identity of name, in bestowing a cross of honour on en individual for whom i: was not intended. The news from Spain is as painful and distressing as ever. It is sail, iu th- private correspondence of the Cwi stiletionsq, that the Council of Castile has denied the Ktso's right to permit the Infants to leave the country, without the consent of the Cortes. FEUDIN•ND received this extraordinary and nnexpecttd declaration on the bed of sickness, to which he is confined with the gout, and im mediately summoned his Ministers to the Escurial. We may judge, by this hold measure of the C mneil, how strongly the necessity of some constitutional establishment The proposed jenrney of tit, Infants has evid Intiy been used as a mere pretext for requiring the convocation of the ancient Corks. The retirement of the Frimeli troops will, we trust, bring the Kt ,a to a proper sense of the ditties he owes to his faithful and deeply-sufrering su! t jects. Fannon FUNDll.—Pants, Dec 4.—Five per Centn. opened at lelf. 69e.; clamed 1101 r. lik.; Dank Stack, 1999 r. Ret.tes 411" e, Exchange on I orAnn—Or r wonth,24l'.9Se. ; three trtaotha, Rdf. Elk --L ultra dullierstique, Ike. 4. The royal order for placing on the retired list all the French Generals, who having attained the age of fifty years are entitled to the full pension, has excitrel a" strong co rration in the political circles of Park. France is the oc:iy conntcy in Europe in which there is a fixed term be yord which, Iv:Aimee. any reference to their wishes or ability, no milit try officer is permitted to remain in the service of the State. The leave to retire at fifty years of age was originally intended as a boon to those who might, for particular reasons, desire to avail themselves of it: but it is now convened by the Ministry into an oppress ye engine t.) drive from the army all the vete rans who do not e joy their favour. It will be in vain '.hat Chia ai.r.s X. n.ay continue to compliment the military by a visit to tile Invalids, or the gift of a few crosoles of ho nour, if he suirer his Ministers, by one sudden blow, to strike c‘if sixty Generals fr nti the list of active service. Our Cor m:spot:dent. whose letter on this subject will be read with peculiar interest, gives an account of some other piers. which it is undernonl, in the best-informed society, M. as Virtu. s has formed for the maintenance of his power. The measures lie is persuading his Sovereign to sanction, in spite of the liisto's better judgment and the strenuous epp - 'Ulan of the DAV rut N seem to she w, that he possesses sone extraordinary influence over the Royal judgment, not likely. we think, soon to give way to any force that ran be marshalkol agelnst him. He has firmly withstood the shock resulting tram the accession of the new Monarch, and it is not pro bable that the Chamber of Ikputita will declare ar.ains: him, unless by the violence of his schemes to retain office be should raise trio general a storm of public indignation We can conceive no measure so ill-judged in that point of view as this, by wl.ich sixty of the moot 'Us t;ngte,slwil Ce ntres of the French arny are, by a single stroke of the pen, &boo:Welly dismissed into retirement. In one respect, perhaps, it may lc: acceptable to the Royalists. liardly one Officer, wbo acquired eminence during the days of the Rupublic, will now remain its the ranks that march under the white flag. ‘Vbe.l.er it be wise or jest to manifest this distrust f the selliers or the R , volution we will in t roc discuss; but we cannot refrain from expw wing et r ctisapprol ation of an arbitrary cc:, utterly irrecancibe'tie with or actions of what is fairly and honestly due to all s.blie. servants. The measure, we understand, is to he oarti, el into execution in a mode worthy of th: tlettiim with which it was conceived. Oar Carrespenelsnt has suppled us with the following sketch of these scandalous tletals " Pants, PEc. 4. " Thk measure has created the most violent intlignttion rirmi Ist "fem. 7t4JllfteChn, as the pension d. o:ire:le is to be r-gulateil by the number of years they have actually served ra ; and. by as arifr.ce that noue but 3r.& t I.LE I. would Iv:veld:3l/i :ed . the nirtibir of fighting days during teach C2'11: , 11: I is alone talt.ni calculation—so Viet al (Meer nit, li iv: ii::tved Lay, tiznnany, Husain, and eve, is St. Itirinin k ; , i, and yet Co, number attar; tits: he has had frpi: it Id ar.,ig may not atneura at the uttr Tate to vies years at a:tual servi:e, though he nut} Mars hed a tommistion in the army foe thirty years! 3 tle. heral ()Meer told roe yeaterliy that this was exactly his ease, as the )listis et enicvlatcs ane anxic ih gur , re at 36, fighting day.. :tad that though lie ts a soldier of th;ny.four years standing. the Piiniater of War would admit only eight years of &Ike suvlire, lie adding tugethes the duration of feet campaign iota a sum total r la the Timer of yes'etil;i ste and a bigh er.cm!un, passed on the Jury Court of Scotland, because it appeals that a Jury, at Dundee, acquitted an Editor of libel ; and really, in the critical situation in which that Journal has for same time past placed itsldf, we arc not surpri►ed that it should feel a sympathetic tenderness for all who—even according to its own showing—causelesaly abuse amd vilify their neighbours. But in praising the Scotch Juries at the expense of the Judges of the Jury Court, the Times is not aware that it is acting in opposition to its own cause. The Jury Court of Scotland has long been denounced by the voice of the public as a Whig job, and almost every indivi dual in it, Lora the Lord Chief Commissioner Anast down to the junior Clerk of the Court, are IVlligs ! But u one fact, illustrative of the real value of this institution, is worth twenty arguments, we shall just state, without note oecomment, two elites which occur at the moment to our recollection, and which admirably show the wisdom of Juries among our friends to the north of the Tweed. In the case of Leslie v. Blackwood, a Jury of the learned shopkeepers of the modern Athena found, that it was a libel to assert that Professor Lama was not a Hebrew scholar, as it was proved tothcir satisfaction that he was an excellent Hebrew scholar; and by implication, that it was a libel on a man's eharae.er to assert that he wrote in the ErlioLurgh Review, in which last finding, to say the truth, many respectable individuals felt inclined to agr:e. In another case, one vessel ran down another at sea. On investigation the defee.ants found that their vessel had run demi the other from culpable neg,bnt, and permitted judgment to go by default. The Judge accordingly charged the Jury to give a verdict for the plaintiff: The Jury, however, in the true spirit of independence, took a more favourable view of the defendants' case than either their Counsel or the Judge, and brought in a verdict for the plaintiff to the amount of only two-thirds of his loss! The Roman Catholics of Dublin have had an aggregate mecing. am!, according to custom. Mr. O'Co s ELL has, we suppose to his heart's content, abused the English press and the English navy, and the English people, and isdeed every thing that is English ; and in revenge for the missions of the " Bihlemen" into Ireland, he threatens us with a Catholic mission, consisting of a Bishop, a Priest, and two Jesuits, to convert us to the "imperishable" faith which our ancestors renounced three centuries ago. All England, lie says, is in amazement at the talents of the Catholic Priesthood, who, he affirms, are as eloquent as Deuossites es, and more argumentative than Lucas. Such Is the mischievous nonsense with which this Learned Gentleman regales the Catholics of Ireland, by whom he in return is designated " the wonder-working miracle of a man." We wish we could treat all that passed at this meeting wilt mere ridicule and contempt ; but we can not shut our eyes to the calumnies and menaces by which the Catholic Cause has Leen latterly supported. Mr. O'Co:s suss, as usual, ostentatiously paraded the physical f tree of the Catholic population, and represented them as subject to " cold, calculating persecution, united with robbery and confiscation." Is this the mode by which Mr. O'Cos ); IC LI. purposes to conciliate the alarmed oppo nents of the Catholic question ? Can he be so blind as not to perceive that his undisguised hostility to the Protestant establishment, and his ill-concealed and half-expressed de sire for Catholic ascendancy, have retarded for years the attainment of that emancipation, which he absurdly pretends to see as it were already accomplished? Mr. Ste s ts, in the performance of his part, related an incredible anecdote, on the authority of a deceased %riead. Atie are told by this veracious ;: . eatleinan, that Mr. Peat., before he would re munerate some anonymous fisherman who had saved the livss of six drowning soldiers, insisted upon knowing whether he rtes a Protestant ! If Mr. Sti els or his coed jet , rs supper: that stories of this nature advance their same, they are wofully mistaken. 'rite supporters of the Catholic cputiticn on this side of the Irish Channel will turn with ilis,tust from so infamous a libel upon the nnspet ted character of env of the most honourable Ministers that ever sat in the English Cabinet. We have many times called the attention of cur readers t) the int ffieiency of the means now in use for the extin guishment of public conflagrations. As, however, we must be content with these nu ans until better can be devised and carriul into effect, it is our duty to render them as effi cient as possible. With this view we have published, in a lother column, the stations of the engines belonging to the Fire-offices, and as we think great benefit would result from having this list re-:whited and 'seated in every watch haute in London, we recommend tLc subject to the consi ilerstion of the Vestries. The Duke of elarcuee visited the King yesterday. YestAvlay the Duke of Welliugton ha.t an audience of Lis Majtsty. Yest . ertia's the Duke of Claretee and the Princess So phia visited the Du-Anvil:if Gloucester, who was so far se c :rend yistvritay as to enalile her'toy-1 Highness to take as airing with the Princess Sophia, which is the first time htr Royal Hi t ;hams has gone out since her india paKition. - Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, • Cabinet Council was held at the Fore:gn Office, lowniin4-street, which was attended by the whole of the Cabinet Ministers, with tine execption of the Earl of Ilarrowbv and Viscount nolith. Tie Cabinet lkfinisters ut in deliberation about t! tee hours. Air. Fennesay, &King's Messenger, left town on Sunday night fur the Netherlands. Yesterday there was more bustle and business on the Stock Exchange than we have witnessed for some days past; every Security fah the influence of this change, mid ral. accordingly. Consuls fur account, which r:),•ned at 9.11 rose in the course of the day to 94 „. Mexican, as we expected, rose nearly one-half per cent., having coin menc«l at tittl and reached 6GI . (,reek Bonds have risen from 33 In the t'out 7 t of King's Bench, Du;din, on Friday, an action for IN-1 was tried, Brophy v. Jidriison. The rlefen :tea is the proprietor of The Dahlia Star, in which Paper the libel appeared, reflecting in scurrilous terms on the character of the plaintitr. The Jury. rfter a short cumul- Willi, found a verdict for the plaintifr—damages, 300/. 1 HL PLYMOUT:I IIaI AAW. TER.The account we gave in our last of the tlanks4e which this structure had sus taintrl dm ing the late galc was str:ctly correct. Groat quantities of sten,' were by the violence of the se•a thrown from the south &.k. roiltal over the top, and plunged Mu) the S omit en the nerd, side. The surface, which he fore the gale Was nearly level, is now a complete mars of irregular stoma without form or order; the whole appear ance of tile erection is qui;c changed. 'rite gales which have mum.: edic? that on 'Tuesday the '23d have also con tributed to the dt struction ; bow far the real ext,lit of da- Inapl may be we are not enabled to state, btu, if we might jud,:e from appvaraue. , , we should imagine it to b? great.— D. r Pieli ire rreladee. LATt Cs•LE.—The ennsequences of the pale, when i s etieeta shall he fully known, will, we fear, he round to exc.s.tl any storm that ever visited this country. Th- nice! memorable storm we believe on record, is that whieh wcorred in November, 1703, during the reriod of which the light-hour!. cn the lAdystsme rock, with the !milder of it, she unfortunste Winstardey, wire buried in the overwhelming Hood ; the accounts of this dreadful bur ri• an- were e)l;ected and filled a volume, and we f... 1 .1 ar e I that if tlte inelaacholy di tails of the stern, of last w e': w vc brought together, it would be found to equal in s'z-, it n it exceed, the volume above aliu led tu. mon. A PARIS. /ROM 001 COIIIIIIPONDIXT. PARIS. Drc. S. M. ne Vit./ALI appears to maintain, at his devotion, a force sufficiently numerous to Support his power; and it is affirmed that he even observes less management with the DA u mils in proportion as he feels himself more assured of the favour of the KING, to gain which is the constan t aim of all his operations. Ida has at length formed a vut plan, which, if he should succeed in accomplishing it, will invest him with almost unlimited authority, and contribute at the same time to the permanence of his power. Ile commenced its execution by bringing under the roof of the Minister of Finance, according to an Ordonnance of the 4th November (" Its Caine et les Comptabilit?s particuliers de Directions Generals"), the coffer containing the public treasure, and the particular accounts of public departments, with the exception of the Post-officc. Thus each public office keeps the accounts of its own receipts and disbursements, rendering a report of its administration to the Minister of Finance. It is now intended to extend this system to all the administrative departirents. At presort, each Minis ter has his particular budget which he administers himself, having under him a cashier, paymaster, comptroller, &c.; but by the new plan all this will be changed. M. us VIL L►Le will become the administrator and the comptroller of the whole public revenue of the State; he will then have in his own hands the accounts of all the Ministers, and he alone will pay all the disbursements on their orders. Should he be able to carry this project into complete effect, he will become in reality k Ministre unigne et tort puis sant; he will then take a new title, such as Superintendant General, or the Comptroller General of Finance. It tip.. pears that he has persuaded the Kuio that by this measure he will be able to effect such a saving in the revenue as to cover the debts of the Civil List, as well as the current expenses, which, it is said, exceed the receipts. However, this pr‘ijet is likely to meet with a strenuous opposition from the Chambers. The Directors General are greatly discontented at being thus rednesd to mere ciphers, and this too in breach of every principle of public utility and of financial justice. Each has his adherents, who ate deeply interested that things should have remained as they were ; the heads of these different departments even have their friends and favourites in the Chambers, who are deeply interested in resisting this interference, and in con tending that each Minister should continue the adminis trator of his own &agate ; there are already strong indi cations of hostility: whether M. as VILLEs.s will he able to infuse into his party such a portion of energy and spirit as may enable him to stand against the storm, a very short time will decide. I lately adverted to another scheme of this enterprising Minister, the proposing an Act against the liberty of the Journals. M. Da VII.I.ELE, it is said, intends joining to the jury, whom he purposes to elect as Judges, a certain number of Peers land Deputies, hoping, by this measure, to interest the Chambers in supporting it, and to give to that inquisitorial commission a certain constitutional ap pearance. Ile is prepared to expect that the Chambers will propose an amendment to his motion, for hindering. the reprinting of books cf philosophy, and forming an in dex ezpargaturins, after the example of Rome. This con demned list, it is well understood, will he drawn up by the .Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs ; and la librairie, the su perintentlance and control over all publications, will cease to be one of the attributes of the Minister of the Interior, and will fill entirely under the jurisdiction of the priest hood. Then will the liberty of the press ann be reduced in France to the sane situation in which it exists at this moment—if it can be said to exist—at Rome and at Ma drid. Whatever has a tendency to promote inquiry, or to enlighten the popular mind in any degree, is guarded against with a watchfulness that never sleeps. How ex traonlinary, that we should have to expostulate with the clergy of France at this time of day, am! after all that has passed, upon this insane ligotry, which they are everywhere encouraging! IVhat dreadful infatuation can tempt tLem to revive that spirit of intolerance which assassinated their HENRY IV., and broke C•LAB on the wheel! One would imagine that the present Ministry were inspired by some evil genius, that urged them forward from one obnoxious measure to another, and encouraged them to set the indignation of all &asses of society at defiance. It appears they were principally occupied, at the last meeting of the Council, in determining the destiny of the General Officers of the Army. M. nx DAY AS, when Minister of War,proposed revoking theOrtlormanee which made all Ge neral Officers of fifty years of age liable to be placed upon the Retired List (a ht retraite). M. az Cie Elf ONT TON NE az, who succeeded NI. nit DAM• I, is inspired by directly opposite sentiments. It would appear that this Minister, by his rigour towards the old army, was desirous of having it forgotten that he had once served as Aide-de-Camp to King Josses!, and that he himself cotnmandeJ a regi ment of deserters, in Spain, in the service of JOSEPH NAPOLEON. In the Connc:l of Ministers, when this question was again agitated, the DM:Plitt; and M. in l)Awls were the only persons who spoke in favour of the General Officers; all the other Minist , rs were unanimous for the measure of plAcing them on the Retired List. This oppressive and unexpected measure will arec; nearly sixty Generals, all of whom, with very few exceptions, have received the most flattering reception from his Majesty (:114tat.rs X., and must, of course, be very 11l p►epared for so sudden reverse. It was not to have been believed, that, notwithstand ing all this external courtesy, scarcely two months should elapse ere the career, in which they might have rendered the most important services to their country, would be closed upon them for ever. II A EaLrm. Dec. 3.—The accounts from the rivers con tinue to be favourable, and state that the water is gradually EXC .. AWil ES.-11 AURE ROIL Nov. 21.-I,sndon. 36 2: 2 CS. 35 M. Petersburg:lt. Nov. 12—lonoInn, U '23-22. Amsterdam, Ike. 3—l4ontion, 39 6; two months, 39 4. Coctiavaz, Nov. I.—On St. Martin's Bay, which since time hinnemorial has been the day for fixing at Cob lents the average price of corn, it appeared that rye was at 2 rix dollars S groschen for the Coblenta bushel. It has not been so cheap fur dare eighty-four yews as it now is; the highest prier was in ISIO, when the average price of rye at Coblentx was 11 rix dollars 15 groachen bushel. We understand that the Lord Prorost has rat-tired a alter from Mrs. Cola% now in Brighton, transmitting tool, to the sufferers by the late fires. anti an order assn for 100 pairs of blankets, for the relief of the meat destitute. Among the objects that attracted the notice of this benevo lent individual, during her recent visit to Edinburgh, was the situation of th.t former pla a: of buainess of Mr. Coons, in the Parlisinent-selare, now ievelled to the ground by the late catastrophe.-1-:rliahurei Paper. 1111N1 NO I NTELLIU es.—Cupper ores Saki at Pealruth, December 2. 19'21-1,627 ions; average produce, 61; quantity of tine copper, 111 tins t: cwt.: 111110L111l of sale, 9,014/. Ida.; average standard, 121/. 4w. .4. survey has been ordered for the great railway from Glasgow to Edinburgh, ar. - i two c;m:parics hares:one:l far carrying it into effe4t. LITERATURE. REVIEW OF MR. lAINGLANDS* PAMPHLET. munTLicts, "A /REVIEW or THE WAILIHOCIING !EITEL" [ It ichardson.] Among the many excellent improvements which have been introduced into die management of the Customs of late years, and which combines the perfect security of the revenue with the relief which it affords to merchants from the pressure they would otherwise experience from the high import duties, none have been more con spicuously useful than the liberal extension given to the Warehousing. System. In comrquence of being permitted, under certain restrictions, to warehouse his goods without payment of the duties of Customs and Exeis?, the merchant can conduct his trade with much less capital, and is en abled, at the same time, to sell his goods at a lower price, it nut being necessary to reimburse himself to the same ex tent as it would be, if that mat:, of capital were required which is by this means avoided. Ile remov,s his goods' from the bonded warehouse only as they are disposed of, and is rot called upon to pay the full duty, till he is in a condition to receive it back iu the purchase price of his goods. These indulgences were conceded for the creouragemtnt of trade and commerce, and they have mot amply answered the purposes for which they ware granted ; but it is ob vious, that in prop irtion as the privileges of the Warehous ing System are limited to particular dock-companies, in the same l roportion do they partake of the nature of mo nopoly, having the power of enacting excessive rates—as is the case with the London Deck Company, under the .51st George 111. , without the control of law, or the chuck or comnrt ;bon. It is clear that the best restraint upon the enormity of dock-rates and port-charges is, to give to the merchant the power of relieving himself from any griev ance to which be may be exposed in this way, by present ing him with the option of depositing his goods in other warehousing establishments , in which 11).. spirit of rivalry may enforce moderation iu charg.s, and giving him an option in lieu of that system of exclusion which shuts hint out from all preeretice. Having ofkred these introduc tory observations, we shall pi meet! to lay the following ex tract before the ratio?, which will enable him to form a judgment on the merits of the question, which, in this able Review of Mr. Llnglainl's Pamphlet, is discussed with a force of argument and illustration, that leaves us no thing to add to it : " The point at issue Is. whether or not the severnl clocks now existing are ntifiicent for the purpretes of our inereming trade, or whether additional a,inatimodarton more immediately proximate to the seat of business is not rerptired, offering the only security in. deed to the public for moderation in ehatycs, and good management? 31r. Longlandn is of opinion, with respect to rates. that the comm.- tit ion, as he calla it, between the existing decks, is quite sufficient Unless additional dock accommodation rear to the centre of buni on,' be aftl.rdert, it would be a perfect delusion to hold forth an ex . t eatation of advantages front any such comirmilion. "Ruinous charga and vexatious regulations in the Port of London hare for many years beet] tl:e theme of complaint. The representations and remonstrances of men-limit+ and miters lace iu many instance been elisregaided, and in others tenthly attended to, whiht the monopolies la oenseit by certain dock companies. under the acts of incorporation, re :tiered them indifferent to improved mann:ten:eat. No choice leing left to the proprietors of c.insin gouda an to the places for deposit. their interests were unawfrlahly coosigned to arbitrary control • and it is clear that the advantages of open competition can never be enjoyed by the pohlic between the preseot docks. heraiirei upon the expiration of the emnpulsory pri- vilci.ees, the London decks must, from their romi:miry to the neat of business, in comparison with the distant situation of the othern, enjoy a visual titonopoly. It must be evident, therefore, that with out additional dock.accommralation near ti the centre of the metro poll', the proprietors of cermin goods, ennwwll.l.l by the regulations of the Act of the 4th Geo. IV. c. 21. to be deposited is places aur rounded with cols, or desirous of deptiiiting them where they would be exempt trom demands tor dr illeirecies, winild have no choice, for even after the expiration of the ts ausive privileges, tin. less the owner who may des:re to lodge his ,c r owds at a convenient distance from the market, chose tosittunit to such rates and charges as the London Dock Company might think fit to exact, he wou:d lie compelled to chtione between two evils: of tieing eximmist to ruinous charges, or of lodging his goods in ihe AVest India Docks, which at a distant.* of upwards of three miles from the nietropotis might seriously obstruct the toile, it being well known that very many goods will not find hovers unless tP!:: cm urilergo conveni ent personal inspection. It is etivally ianorious that tie ex.:naive chart;es of the port, and the ofeitrt-ction to navigation front the crowded state of the river, have induced t*.ire„•ea nierchants to shun it, and seek the pmts of the contiaen:, uhich have affinaleal clicapfr places flue tkpo.it, greater facilities iu the maninathiti, and transport of merchrint.me. " The leg islature, by several Acts passed during the last three Senator's of Parliament, has. however, made provision foe im proved &cal regulations, by which our trale is pottiest!y receiving itnportant relief, and the disposition manifested by his Majney's Government to grant every possible facility in the Operatiuce, of commerce, now present to the Iteitishnterciant a fair mid the only opportunity of rivaling our foreign compctitors. All that is wanted is the means of diminishing the charges of the port, and of further correcting certain local regulatiomv which partake ui the character of abuses, and press most heavily ern our trade. is It is o r th e last importance, theyefore. to extend and improve the accommodation of the port, and reduce the expenses. Those relating generally to the landing, housing. deposit, shipping, and transit of goods, with the view of establishing a permanent reduc tion, mast undergo material diminution, litr the purpose of bring ing the Port of London nearer to a par. in those respects, with the principal ports of the Cortinent of Europe, which, from their greater economy in charges, will otherwise continue to attract a large proportion of the trade of transit, which might, nay, would, otherwise resort to this metropolis. " Front the extent of capital. facility of negociatiem. and known integrity of die British merchant joined with the advantages of lindinir in the Port of London a depot for all kinds of nwreliatirlire suitable for reinvestments, some margin in the expenses may con tinue to exist without detriment ; hence it follows, that we shall not be compelled to proceed to extremes, or to inn a wild and un. profitable race with the merchants of the l'ortinental ports. progressive increase in our !ludo trade hrs taken place tattler the influence of the liberal principlia which now disunguish one corn. niercital code. and the erect produced from a temporary reduction in some of the charges of the port. The diminution in the West India Duck charges, by the compulsory Application of a propor tion of the accumulated surplus before alluded to, and the recent reduction in the rate, which lea stun taken place upon some articles in the Lereltin Ihwks, have been already sensibly felt ; but what seen ity has the public that. at no distant period, an i :crease will nos take place. unless the powerful ar.tidoie of competition is I 11110110 ed Lt . b ex mt. During the first nice months of ibis y ea r, as compareAw.th a =responding period tluriag the last ye ar , all i n . lTtlite of R 47 ships from foreign ports Ives taken piece. an ang int/nation or nearly 2.0 per cent. Notviiihs•arding which, se tenure to predict that the management which exists in the London Docks will operate to iiiminish ere r.umber of ships Whit::l shall enter them 4111[4 - 4 : this year. as compared with the last." " Tile increasing crowded state of the river during a series of pelug• no rue lint attempted so t!ens ; the necessity of additional deck-ucnnininialatent for the increased saipplog frequenting the Iry t, no rtl PPM has ventured to d jut:rte. Tic ,:umber of COM/ ing vessels, as comma.d with die year 1,911, when the nee:lenity for dock-aecom- Inuistion wax conclusively proved, and few of which enter any dock• from the present charges and inconvenienctes, ex.iectt 12,00111 sail annually ; and the total quantity of shipping (exeltinive of steani.bowa), wit ch it is carol:eel will entry the rut of lon. dun this year, will not fall short el :!;1.111:11 sail. The griarancc. tber.tfore, Dori the obstruction given 13 the navigation, is gully istcrcasing ; and unless additional c nivesient dm-It-ace inamodation, near tit the seat of business, is provided. it will cure itscic in a man ner vitally destructive t.l the commercial prosperity of the punt of London. • •• Mr. Longlands talks of there bring 300.0:10 tone of vacant warehouse room in the Port of lasitioa. Certainly not, in place, a hich are stall suitable to the trite. Tina skull vacant space doe, hot exist where it it wanted is Intel (ride-L.lmm the Lo Aim] Doak Catipenv havizil determined upon clpropriwing from 2)0,00lit. to 30; 1 ,tlft.'1. to the pnrpont of eel irging their works; anti the West Ind , a Dock eairtiail have applied to the Trrasury for the purchase of the t (anal, and lands therentuo appertain ing, noon the plea of a want of sulditiolal neetturwida.ion. It in manifest, therefore, that Inc:ruled Dock Establishment*, near the seat of business. urn iAispensahly %. Whilst upon the subject of the City Canal, we will obserre, that in the (vent tot its being sold, tat' riot of transit milk in b e prestrved. It has been solemnly guaranteed to the public by en Act of Parlianiect, and the tat for its nisintenance has il..11 , 11(.71 a cliarecter of permanency. We undo stand that the projectors of .tae et the proposal Collier Dock% itt the Isle of Dogs, arc pre natal to l a ir, base the Canal. subject to a reservation of that right the ohject of the Vest India Dock Company respect to the Canal may be canily discerned. Let the Proprietors 01 the East India Dccks and hoodoo Docks look to it. list with what funds do t::e West India Dock Company propose to make the purchase? We hope rot wit:, part of their. surplus, as the whole has heeri a Committee of the blouse of Commons, to be theyroperty of the public. (tae of the new establiahtnents it is pmposed to constntet In St. Katharine's, and we hare been struck with the stnuti: evidence r which pervades th e proceedings before the Committees ot the liaise of l'oninvms tti•on the improvement of the Port of lam,!,m, and amongst the records of other public tlocuments, of the 'peculiar 6:- nes. of St. Katharine's for such a purpose. We have already nntieril that the t:ournissioners appoidted t. Ida the great Seal i.t reported it to be the most eligible spot for ex:ending the legal quays and erecting warehouses. The attentimt of the erisis•al pro jectors of the Landon was dire tell to it previous to !Jill, and :hey had not only determined upon ap;ol}iett the site to a part of their establishment. hut en arrangement for that purpose was actually entered into with the Ci•apter of tan Hospital, under the sanction s,f the then A aorter and S:ilieitor Gereral of the Queen, and scant to :LA r tcet Lltr.LitiCed into one of their Dills, but was THE BRITISH PRESS. afterwards withdrawn, la etinrupitnce of the p a d haring found that they Could obiain ground eastward u u're t reasonable terms. Pon key In May, 1798, the Commissioners of the (7uxterc. ( a p a ,„,_ 449 of Appendix to Report of the House of Caa,'!' declared that the site ne , st to the prevent leg a l and Cuuont House (which is tit. Katherine's) d staa gr i n k.. preference; and in April, 1797, dcelsred that the g o 7. extending legal quays at tit. Keiharine's was highly fi t be adopted. n December. 17 , 17. the Corporation of minx mined a plan for the impmrement of the poet. tor forming ruh convenience for the export trade, wpm the site of IL Kataltnne's which was referred by the Lords of the Treattory to then , ust aa ' and their practical officer. strongly recommended th at at June 1793. and 31ay 1799, the tiuryt yor of Stoops and for the A n c p . fl Place, n t I t ac t io c , u nrettomfitiedomiihitavt.tiat.eK;atahnadriltnier's;!:ikthere.moiotte Jtitnir.mda in the same year submit:tit to the Cot»inittee of the House r,r c orn : mons a plan for aopropriai ing the ground of ti t. Katharine \ t a „ . gate, fee. to the purpose...l quay. end wet docks. there we h.... then. pretty concluaive prit o f s of the pref era bl e e li gibility of sg. Ksthatine's lire the porivists of increavcd accommodation in t h peat, and the whole of the Reterts of the Hoards of Wrestle o r, uniform in respect to the expediency of proximity In the Cw., house. on account of the revr.ile. larilii of teardarting btu and the great econmur of time to the tierclimu." To all persons interested in the tubject, this patopl,l o . will Le found replete with initicrtant it.for tnat i.. n , point is quite dear, that of any wet-deck arena/mm*6cl 4 1 the Port of London, the public at large must title, rp l the benefit. le NCH PA (From the 1:1,0e, dated Sunday.l Pasts. Dre. 4 Yesterday, in passing in review the sth regiment of hussars, ly Majesty caused 'trig:inter Dam to be called to him, olio. bravery and good conduct. had obtained from the late Riryt ty * Cross of Honour two years a4m, which, however, had bee n another individual of a %mill,' mune. The King repaired ibi s " with the utmost kindness. in b , stnwirg from his own augur L u g this mark of honour MI the brave aoidier, who was flawed " r tears, as were all his conintdes. But for the severity of the ihe;. mince, which forbids tro,ps under arms to indulge !n any gm* of act-Isolation, the cry of " Long live the King" would lave bow f rom the ranks of these brave teen. It hovered on the 46.14 tl:e 'masers. The populace ocrut.ied the parapet, along the*. nodes, at.d in front of tic regiment. and ns they were not .o. , ,kee any order against expre•sieg their love for their King, they sit forth their loudest acclamations. The fluke of Bordeaux, in the linssar uniform, and Madam!, sidle, were in the balcony of the l'avilion de Illorloge, to s e Kia review. The Government has just granted the rum of 15.000 y, e41 ., the Department of the Alt.mite, to be dividtd among the inksilaba who have aul , ered from the late inundations. Irvin' the Constirrtrionne/ of r•iatitsrlay.l Extract froat a private htter, (Inted lladrid , Nov t . tw y,s t n t _ " I told you hi nay last. that the Infant lon Francisco 1'414 rained of the King permission to go to Paris with the Infants. h it wife, to pay a visit to th • Duchess of Berry. hut the tile has opt.a : ly opposed this jourrey. and has represented tothelt. l that it sc.. beyond its jurisdiction tat grant ouch prernivien to at Infants of Castt/ •It idiom theaaanetion of the cones. The fi4 received in his bed this threatening communication, and rest ::: , the Escurial. In the coi.rse of this day the Ministers who werte Madrid quitted it ; as also the Minister of Ittissia. who had only .iiist arrived. A fresh amnesty is spoken of. ssj is to extend to ::11 those who have been since the yeix Meas. clued for thtir conduct. but it is utterly Impossible that' can be elI ird under a mii:istry whose ideas are oprosei an spites' of moderation. The Minister of War persists tlaai theism of purification should be seed up. n aiTainst the military ca have died during the investigttion, and should be lu::ossed ut. to deinitive it - unmet: agaiist the::,. so as to dzinice and children of their rights. The foods set apart tar this tin are raised from the p..y ui the husbands and fathers, and it is evident they carrot he deprived of it but ty an actual ruttier!, but these crying Nets of injustice are only venial transgroduDi with the present Gnykrnrrent of Spain. hetteri from Comm re the 17 , 1% attomme.• that 13 individuals scented of Coet!rraringsfll !Loyalists in 1 822 have been condemned to death. and elem.:J.— The Coionel of Engineers Martini's, Mime, Lieuerant Cuminsad. ati.l at Corunna. and Escoria, a merch:rat, imrlititaiid affair, hare Leon eentlettmed to tie pliers fur life. Tien have born also hanged at l'. , runna tight ' , i1k...L.144. a:. coned of being concerned in the murders ~inept ton:. t ai s e c the city snme 'lava before the swivel of Our trines. Four hare con. mitted suicide in the Chapel, three have poisoned thrais,dres, rd arrith-r has cut his throat. Inquiries urn !!:;" fur t ur of discovering tliosrw!..o have assisted diem in these acts. _ _ [Rout Guli„mati's Messenger of ssturday.l Nov. 2° The evartitlon of the interior bv the French am is likely tot! attended with ser:ous remilts. At Cnnierii. near Weis. a bend been already formed,. consist kg of 2.611 incr: of i• iron, and 70a entry, sizAinst whom hare been sent the Itcy3list Vciutteres Taritzona. Tiiiikl• , , a-. 11 1...ver.11 other tr wns. ir•:!cri from Sevitle at:mintier thiit 1 sitrorg ti7tachri , •te'r.vp et' the lme Lave Igen sent tram that city for A , : rnJarc t" • where a nunierosiii band had been formed ; howka co%vevs a correct W.-a P r the apprehension% which the dcpar'o 4 the Exech tutor% ott;tht Cui inspire, ate the reciprocal rows openly mimic by tilt two patties. . . V. rterdav morning the Right 11:m. Stratford Canrirl loft London, to prooed en his mission to St. Petorsburp. We undt•rstand he takes Vienna in his way. A "I'm A:tl'Sg.—(in a lx-ntfit" tlicht, a!s r• villein! theatre,. many of the actor's frig nds were admilttd by a privato entrance before the &ors w..re opened. Irishman, who, un getting in at the usual hour, foaNd the hest SOUS taken, exclaimed in gn at wra:h, " it shame that they should fill the house in this manner,::!..' ,iny //bd,/ g rim in." The itrit. Charles Griffiths, A. 8.. has been reeved to the Rectory of Trentishoe, in Devon, void by lien signation of the Rev. 11'iIlion) Charles Hill. A correspondent observes, that it is rather a tiin,:nlar tie cumstauce, that the Sutton Hall Estate, purchased ths other day by Mr. Ark wright for 216.000!., rhonld be 'be exact sum which the (*monde Family recrived from Go- vernment in Pll3, in lieu of etrui.uments they derived from holding the offics of receiving the Butlerage and Fringe of Wines in Ireland.—Cork Paper. N w FJREMT Stec Ifotoins.—Thurstlay last, the hounds belonging to the Greomkecpers of the Forts:, tut at Dratley Wood. After beating the covers fur seine time. rh y found a fine young stag at Red llil, mar Meted Pont, on the Ringwood road ; and aft. r a &liar, run of St minutes, took him alive near the Woodman', Cettsge, at flolmes hill Eae.osure. Thejoarneymen plasterers have struck: for an sari:tee of wax;. The toasters have offered them 175. a-week forthe winter serum They ask Ida. Their summer wres wan . ..Inc They have formed a society to support those who will not accept the I7s. The number who have coo - Jaye! is 75, anti the entry money is is. each. They purpar exclude all stramters from working in tow.), tmless pay all ch;:y of_2/.—Gh t s g sw. Jen t ing ortnrrnl . tl SVrrI.T fir NV/cll.:a AT rfRI!S.—II 1 - - aeyeral recent fires that the delay in elitrining water his been cccisioned by the absence of the turmork. with ?arse re.i4letzee the firemen are o;len tiniftrtainted, the Wes: Si'ddlnex 'Water Company, with a view of rentrilyinc 6. 3 defect, have caused printed bills to b distrilmtc I tht. eth out their dim' ict, announcing the reslih tic.. of cock, and declaring their d, terni:nation to rive a erl'xi:c of half a crown to any person who shall that give tlot.e him in the event of fire. Th numher of tly•fts that hare taken place ,107:7::: the list two inolitha is truly alartoing.. The WOW'S have SUGred severely. The window Abutter' lace torn Or, ana site emirs forcL(l elicit. Sums fata7ici, otT , ! t .ingliams, and et hues, that can he eenyerteil to i'otalt ' are the principal objects of the tlt;ev.a. The seem to be amply provided with falsr kqs, other impl inents used its lionsehreakM.•. Dario!: two live sheep were stol••n from a lark in the vicinity Bridgeton.—Gtr.,-.or Y.yvr. A Sinl , t3ll bl`141110112: to the Wi•ulsor Ca•tl•. n - r^:• James I ).via, on Monday cut his throat in such a manner that he expired alimigt imtnediafrly. Ili• was nearly severed from his !wily. As the Majesty's ship Cknoi, with an offiee! and ten trcu "‘ board, was proceeding to the a:sistatic. , of some distress last Tuesday, in cad-avowing to cross the rocks which li-•between St. Nicholas ls!and and Edgecoinbo, she was upset, and. painful to relate, c7r! person on hoard p iper . In the old Priory in this i 31 4 ,11 (('armarthen). on : 1 ' . .. day last, the clothes of a chihl of the USW of Wilson, four years old, took fire, which the mother I''• seirll a pail of water haul by, and threw the C , ": tents over the child with the viow . of extimmishing flaw: s, but the efilets were so crest AS to UCC3r:iOll hef mediate tletth.—Carmire:ri SAvant: Me aut. a.—On Friday evening lsst, s r, named JAM'S Kc.enan. returning limn the morketot Cotta, in the county Tyrone, in comp tny Ins was followorl by a party of fellows armmt wilt wear': differunt Linda, and heat to dcath. Sme of the rians. we unders:and, arc known. and warrants is.vi the Mssistrat.ii for tkir aprcht.nskln•---Er...r I'a. '••' M. cud tub