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s n itt e e, which seemed to be intended as an apo- Their ultimate object is not to get spinners from other • make themselves acquainted with the persons of Gustavus Vasa, of Sweden, that he had occasion logy for the riots of the previous week, and to Places, for they know well that those who have not the inhabitants of respectable streets, and prying for all his energy in overcoming the repugnance attack the editor of the Coventry Herald, who been accustomed to spin fine numbers will not answer h aeout the houses of persons of the best reputa- of the peasantry in many provinces; but in a had in strong terms reprobated the practice of their purpose. But they . think that if they can get tion, the burglars and thieves may be concerting generation or two, not a Catholic was to lie seen strange spinners here, their own men would look on the Mob parading the streets, and surroundingtheir plans of depredation, and arranging the pro- in the whole Scandinavian Peninsula. At the them as intruders or robbers, who come to deprive the houses of the manufacturers. - Whether the ceedings of their nightly campaigns, in those time of the Reformation, the great body of the them of bread, and might be provoked to wreak men were excited by the production of Poole, their vengeance on them accordingly, when all the i dens of vice and infamy which abound in some people throughout Europe were acquainted With or stimulated by the success of the last turn t errors o f th e la w w ould most assuredly be brought parts of the metropolis. We pointed out, as no more of religion than certain usages ; and, out to attempt a still greater advance of prices, it into operation against us, to intimidate us into a ! soon as they were published, the gross impro- when the chiefs and leaders changed their reli is difficult to decide; but they determined to compliance with their proposals. Depend upon it priety of that part of the instructions which gion, there was little difficulty in drawing over meet, and they resorted to a field at the end of the masters here, as well as everywhere else, would enumerated several serious offences against public the people. But, when political motives ceased the town, which contains an old and extensive prefer their own men, whom they know, and who 'peace and morals, such as indecent and riotous to influence the Chiefs, and changes in the mul ur.iderstand the work, and whom they could have excavation, upon the declivity of which the men conduct of abandoned women, &c., and which titude could only be effected through arguments without any expence or trouble, rather than strangers, assemble, and the speakers address them from the were not to be noticed unless committed addressed to the understanding, a new state of if they were going to give the wages they talk of. under circumstances of agg bottom as from the pit of a theatre. When the ravation. We things took place. The Catholics 'became as All we require of you, friends, on this occasion is, meeting had assembled, there was a difficulty that you will act as you would he acted by. If you expected this would have been altered ; dexterous controversialists as. the Protestants, to ascertain for what purpose they had met, as would be displeased with the man who would rob and we would not have reverted to it and had generally one advantage over the Pro none of their accustomed orators were present to you and your family and friends of their dinners, we I again but that it appears, from the state of the testants, that the latter shrunk from their own enlighten them upon the subject. Without hope you will not do the same thing by us. We streets at night westward of Temple-bar, as if principles, claimed for themselves the right of coming to any formal resolution, they decided beseech you not to pay any attention to the hollow the police acted strictly upon the delicate sug- free examination, but laid down, at the same that they could not do better than to re-assemble and deceitful promises of those who are doing all gestion—for there may be observed groups of time, certain doctrines, from which none were they possibly can to impoverish, degrade, and bar-.in the morning to determine the question, andthose women acting in a most offensive and dis- allowed to differ, and in the exercise of their in e, barise at once both you and us. Remember the m in the mean time to stop all the looms that were numerable and horrid curses which the sacred Scrip- orderly manner without restraint—making brawl s , f a llibility excommun i ca t e d an d execute d each then going. With this view they passed through tures pronounce against the oppressors of the poor, disturbing the peace of the nei g hbourhood, and o th er ; w hil e th e C a th o li cs p reten d e d to no r i g h t the town, and completely succeeded in having b ut more part i cu l ar l y against those w h o d epr i ve t h e a cting ev er y wa y con t ra b onos mores , w ith out o f excommun i cat i on , an d a ll owe d none. Ca all the lights extinguished in the different work- labourer o f his hire. Our masters cannot reduce us fearing any interruption to their disorderly and tholics, Lutherans, and Calvinists, became all in shops. It was about six o'clock when they if you keep entirely away. If you do come to sup- indecent conduct. It is because we are sincerely reality Catholics, each receiving without exa passed the police-office, and the constables at- plant us, we shall of course look upon you as our anxious for the establishment of an efficient sys- urination the religion of his parents, and conver tempted to disperse them, but they were too greatest enemies ; and, should we be obliged even- tern of police that we cannot flatter the new one sions being a matter of comparatively rare oc powerful, and they held on their career in tually . to r yield, as the sole _cause of our misfortunes, where we observe it does not work well. It is currence. In the North of Ireland, for instance, o,ontri town en, . and will hld ' hld n, nay, ev f en triumph. The Magistrates met, and as early as by exposing its defects that we contribute our where there is a Catholic and Protestant popula b r children, i utter curses upon you, or six o'clock in the morning of Wednesday, the part to its amendment. It is not a subject that lion, the name tells the religion ; and any one such hollow and heartless proceedings. following hand-bill was circulated : " ' JOHN DOHERTY, See.' we look at in a political point of view. If the wh o s h ou ld as k i n B e lf as t or Londonderry wire "' CITY AND COUNTY OF THE CITY OF COVENTRY. " There is also another placard of a similar ten- invention only answer the demands of society, ther a Stuart, a Douglas, a M'Culloch were a " ' The Mayor and Magistrates having this day dency, but which states that the other trades are we care not who is its author. Some writers, Papist, or any name beginning with 0 a Pro been informed that a tumultuous assembly of th e coming forward to support the spinners by their who seem very sensitive about the character of testant, would be stared at. The Irish, at the operative weavers has taken place, and that they contributions; and this assertion is borne out by the system, are offended that accounts of the time of the Reformation, would, with a little have, when so assembled, by threats of violence, what occurred yesterday afternoon, when, at a meet- irregularities of members of the new police sh o uld p a ins, h ave b een ma d e i n a s h ort t i me as goo d induced many persons to abstain from working, and ing of the spinners, hell in the open air, a person be published—they would have such reports sup- Protestants as their brethren the Scotch High committed other flagrant breaches o f th e p eace , of th e nam e o f Wi t h na ll, one o f th e s aw y e rs cam " ' The Mayor and Magistrates theref o re g iv e mittee, said h e w as g lad to s e e them assembled, in pressed, as operating against a " fair experiment. ' Landers, of the same r ac e a nd s p ea ki ng notice, that they are ready and desirous to receiv e order that confidenc e might be perpetuated amongst We say quite the contrary. If bad characters the s a m e l anguage . Th e Ch urc h o f Scot informations against any person or persons who hav e them; and if they conducted themselves with firm- have got into the police by any means, it is right land made it a rule, that when e v er th e so offended, in order that they may be forthwith ness and unanimity, the sawyers would support that their misconduct should be made known as Irish or Erse Language was spoken in the High proceeded against as the law directs. them, not only i n this town, but in other places. soon as possible, that they may be brought under lands, the clergyman should be able to address " ' The Mayor and Magistrates hereby strictly One of the dyers' committee said, sooner than they better discipline, or their places supplied by better the people in that language. They found very enjoin all persons from holding any public meeting, should give in, lie would sell his shirt from his back men.-- Morning Herald. little difficulty with the people. A P r e s byt er i an or assembling in numbers, within this city and to support them. They were also addressed by Mr. Priest who attended to their spiritual wants was The Dublin Morning Register of Thurs county, during the present excitation. John Doherty, their secretary, who observed that as dear to them as a Catholic Priest. Where "' S. WHITWELL, Mayor, ‘" J. WEARS. the meeting was held in that place because the room day last has the following paragraph : the Chief chose to remain Catholic, as in the 4" S. VALE, "' W. CARTEL, was too small for them. The masters had propa- " There is an amusing observation in an article ', "N. Mceatnew, gated a report that there was a want of conf i dence published by an intelligent London Paper (tile case of the IVlacdonalds, from Irish c o nn ec ti on , " , Sept. 29, 1829.' amon g th e m e n, an d th a t th e y were th e dupes of a Globe) on the late Meeting in Cork, at which Lord the people remain Catholic to this day. But " Notwithstanding this notice, the mobs re- few designing individuals. For his p ar t, h e would Mountcashel made so distinguished a figure. It is this is rather a matter of feeling than reason.— solved to persevere, and about half -past nine not attempt to bias them, and it rested with them- as follows : The Irish, according to the best evidence, th e y assembled in their usual station. Whether selves whether such a report should obtain credit. "' If the Ecclesiastical revenues of Ireland had was at. first as ready to listen to Pro. by accident or design, the 3d Dragoon Guards, Will you (said he) work at their prices, or will you not been scandalously misapplied, five-sixths of the testant preachers as Catholic preachers, when stationed in Coventry, were taken to drill in an not ? Those who will not, hold up your hands. inhabitants cf that country—probably . one-sixth— the former could address them in Irish.—.adjoining field ; and it is not improbable that :: Every l hand appeared to be _ would not be at this day Pdpists. Their conversion They might have been transferred with 'as much' however, that the hands of M essrs.. never was an honest . object of ambition; and indeed the proximity of this force had its beneficial in- Sandford and Green have all returned to their em- they were forced into-the hands of the Catholics, as tappears, ease to another religion, without being aware fluence. There were about 3,000 assembled, ploy, and their mill is now at full work. The mas- there were no Protestants to teach them. The of the change, as any other rude people. But and they were as much at a loss for a subject as tens confidently anticipate a breaking up of the Spin- natives were, we believe, never addressed by Protes- the time has been allowed to go by ; the Catho on the previous evening. After a lapse of some ners' Union in three weeks' time. tant teachers in their own language — a t least not till lie Clergy are in possession of the field ; they time, the Committee arrived, and Edward " The market continues toimprove, though slowly, ages after the zeal of the Reformation h a d pa s sed are endeared to the people by community of suf- Goode, a man who appears to be possessed of To-day fustians are freely inquired after, both for away.' fering and community of race. The change a sound understanding, directed by right prin- the home and foreign markets. Several other de- " True enough, the natives were seldom, if ever, now is much more likely from Catholicism to scriptions of strong cloths are imp ro vi ng i n d eman d, a dd resse d b y P rotestant teac h ers i n the Ir i s h lan ciples, addressed them, and asked what waslndifferentism, than from Catholicism to Pro as are calicoes of the hand as well as power-loom guage—and it happened as lately as the ' glorious their ob j ect? lf it was to obtain the pricestestantism. As to what is said of France manufacture... Yarns are still . purchased in great Revolution,' that there were instances in which which were paid prior to the reduction of theby our Dublin Contemporary, it is altogether quantities, particularly the medium numbers for the many of them had no Protestant Pastor to address 0 import duty on foreign manufactured silks, he export trade; and, now that there is a stoppage of them in English! It is well known that at the inapposite. The Protestant religion between the did not hesitate to assure them it was utterly im- the factories in Manchester, the country mills are in time when William w as rewar di ng hi s G enera l toffi- time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantz possible for them to succeed ; but if they wished full employ, and can scarcely produce fast enough. cers by thousands an d t ens o f th ousan d s o f ' g reen and the Revolution was rigourously proscribed. to establish the list which was agreed to the Forties mule twist is selling at 13d. to 130.; and acres' for their treason to their late King, he was It has not, therefore, had " a clear stage ;" and wee k bef or e last, he had no doubt but they twenty-sixes throstle yarn at 111 d. to Is."—Times. very busy in appointing Dutch parsons to the cure even now, the Protestants are only allowed t o would he supported by a great proportion of the It cannot be denied that the old system of of Irish souls ! English parsons are, to this day, ' worship publicly when the population within a pretty ignorant of the language of the 1' natives manufacturers, and obtain their object. During police was very bad—our own columns have fur- certain range has attained to particular number. but they are not one whit, the Globe may be assured, 6 , this address the speaker was repeatedly inter- nished ample evidence of the necessity of is _ rupted, and it was concluded by the arrival of the Mayor and Magistrates. At this time the meeting, which had increased, could not consist of much less than 6,000. Mr. Carter, the town clerk, addressed them, and assured them that they were illegally assembled ; and that, although the Magistrates sympathised with them in their sufferings, they certainly would not allow them to violate the laws. The Mayor, S. Whitwell, Esq. also said, that whatever the Magistrates could do to alleviate the distresses of the weavers, they would ; but, whatever their feel ings might be, they had a paramount duty to perform to society by preserving the public peace. This duty was enjoined upon them by the oaths they had taken as Justices of the Peace, and they would most certainly perform it. Goode thew addressed them, urging the neces sity of their immediate dispersion, and the meet ing broke up. This afternoon the following handbill was circulated :- 6 , 'CITY OF COVENTRY. " At a Meeting of the Directors of the Poor of the United Parishes, held this 30th day of Septem ber, 1829, C. Lilly, Esq. in the Chair ; " It was resolved unanimously,—That in conse quence of the numerous applications to the directors, by the operative weavers and their families for re lief, arising out of the question between the manu facturers and the operatives as to the prices to be paid by the manufacturers for labour, the Mayor and Magistrates be respectfully requested to convene a meeting of the manufacturers, the principal inhabi tants, and the operative wearers (to be represented by a deputation), to take the subject into considera tion and devise some efficient mode of relief. C. LILLY, Chairman.' " In pursuance of the above requisition, I ap point a public meeting of the manufacturers, the principal inhabitants of the city, and the operatives (to be represented as above described,) to be held at the Public Office, to-morrow (Tuesday), at twelve o'clock, for the purpose expressed in the requisition. " Sept. 30. " S. WHITWELL, Mayor.' •" Notwithstanding the advice of the Magis. trate to preserve the peace, parties are stationed in different parts of the city which imperatively insist upon every loom being stopped, and the strike is now complete. In affairs of this kind in Coventry there is seldom much inclination to resist the demands of the mob ; and having their own way, they are not frequently tempted to commit extraordinary acts of atrocity, and it does not appear that any personal videuce has at present been committed." " MANCHESTER. " The state of popular feeling is by no means more tranquil than when I last wrote. The masters are beginning to have recourse to decisive measures in order to suppress the combination of the workmen, who, with a few exceptious, evince as strong a de termination to resist by every lawful means. " Large placards, of which the following is a copy, Are posted up in the streets : " TURN-OUT AT MANCIPLZTER. " An Address from the journeymen cotton-spinners of Manchester to their brother-spinsters through out the kingdom. " Friends and fellow-labourers,--Our masters here in Manchester proposed five months ago to reduce our wages thirty per cent, We turned out against the reduction, and still remain out. They now find that we will not work for them at the terms they offer, land they are endeavouring to bring spin-, ners from other places to take the bread out of our ' mouths and the mouths of our families. They are endeavouring to do this by stating, that they will guarantee to' good spinners' enormous wages, such, indeed, as few (if any) of us could have earned be fore they proposed to reduce us at all. These pro mises are made to deceive you and to crush us; they , are wholly unworttykif.credit. One single fact will prove this. It is a fact, then, that every man of us have offered to work at ' ten shillings' a week less than they say, in their printed bills, they will guarantee, a nd their answer is, they cannot afford to give that. _ ample e._ y , im provement. Life and property could hardly be mode insecure in any community calling itself civilized than in London, under the ancient regime. The drowsy watchman, with his pole and lantern, his ponderous coat of office, and flannel nightcap, was a finished personification of the anti-watchful system. Dr. Franklin says that the best specific for a sound sleep is a quiet conscience, and certainly if we may judge from their aptitude for profound repose, " the guardians of the night" were blessed with remarkably easy consciences, for never was the placid sleep of innocence more undisturbed than theirs, while the labours of the thief, and the work of plunder, were going on under their very noses. Street pillage and burglary throve under the old system in a ratio almost beyond any of the wonderfuf improvements of the " age of in tellect." It is said that in the " golden days of Alfred a purse of gold might be suspended from a pole beside the highway in perfect security ;" but no passenger's purse in modern times found such protection from a watchman's pole. The Dogberries of the present day faithfUlly copied the policy of their ingenious dramatic prototype, who made it a rule to discover a thief by " letting him steal out of his company:" Such being the state of things, we often called the at tention of Government to it, and were among the first and most earnest of those who demanded a more effective system ; but alteration is not always improvement. We objected greatly to the old system—we have also objections to the new. We have often said that neither the watch men nor the old police were adequately paid. The insufficiency of their means placed them too much within the influence of bribery ; their poverty exposed them to all the allurements of venality. The thieves made up to them, or at least, to the most of them, the deficiency in their wages. Did parsimony, in this instance, save the public any thing ?—No. The police raised a tale upon the thieves, and the thieves raised that tax again upon the public. We are not better pleased in this respect with the plan of the new police. We say they are not adequately paid. A guinea per week, out _of which they have to provide their clothes, is not sufficient for the purpose of ensuring the enlistment in the service of decent and proper men—or if such should find their way into it, from the pressure of immediate want, they are likely to be beset by temptations which virtue, stung by poverty, cannot alwa;'a resist. It is asked why do we not wait, and give the thing a " fair experiment ?" We have no wish, no interest, that it should not have a fair experiment—but, a priori, we take upon us to Bay that at such a rate of wages it will never do. This at all events must be altered. Surely the men ought not to pay for their uni forms, and for " new clothes as often as the Commissioners shall require," out of their mise rable stipend. How can they support a wife and family under such - circumstance ? and steady married men ire the best for such a service. We have also stated our objections to the instruc tions requiring the police to become acquainted with the persons of the inhabitants of every hoilse, as reminding us too much of the Continental system of indiscriminate espionnge. Surely it woe ld bvi,e been sufficient to have instructed them to make tkermelves acquainted with the persons of those who inhabit or frequent houses of bad or doubtful fame—particularly those pimp, ries of banditti called " flash houses," some of which flourish undisturbed in the nightly cele bration o.' their unhallowed orgies in the imme of police-offices. It m a y diate neighbouriloo4 ()Eel' happen, under the present maroctions, that while groups of policemen are endeavouring ip more unacquainted with Irish than these Dutchmen were even with the English.—But let this pass. " The observations which we regard as amusing is that marked in italics. It modestly intimates that Popery is so very difficult to be kept on its legs, and the' reformed' creed (which is that, no doubt, of the writer) so very alluring in what the parsons in the lilail call the splendour of gospel bright ness,' that nothing could have chained down the minds of one million out of the six millions of fol lowers which the Scarlet Lady can now reckon in Ireland, but the misapplication of ecclesiastical re venues ! It would be vain to enter into a doctrinal controversy with so self-satisfied a believer as this; but we own we would be glad, if it were put upon him to explain how it happens that Papists are so prodigiously increasing in his own country, and that gospel brightness' holds no more prominent station amongst his neighbours, the French, than it did half a . century ago ? Misapplication of ecclesiasti cal revenues' may help him to an explanation of the phenomenon he witnesses at his own doors, but where will he find a solution of the enigma in the other instance ? In France there is no misapplica tion of ecclesiastical revenues.' Ile Established Clergy have a competent stipend out of the public exchequer, and the pure-faith gentry a more liberal stipend, drawn from the same source. It cannot be said that the former have any advantage over the latter, or that gospel brightness' has the least diffi culty to encounter in France. We see what the impediments of misapplied revenues have done in Ireland. They have, according to this authority, positively given us six millions of Papists instead of one million. In France, however, there is, and has been, a free coast—a clear stage and no favour; and we certainly would like to be let into the secret of the stagnation of gospelling affairs, in that country, under such circumstances." It does not follow from the observations of our Evening Contemporary, that the effect which he alleged might have been produced by a better application of Church Revenue, implies at the same time a superiority of Protestantism over Popery. Our Contemporary was writing to people who take it for granted that the Protes tant Religion is the best because it is their own ; and his observation has reference to the practi cability of extending a religion by similar means, no matter whether the religion in itself be good or bad. Any one who is acquainted with modern history, knows that the Reformation would never have obtained a footing in any country, but for the desire of the great to obtain the possessions of the Church Revenues. When a Prince chose to embrace the Lutheran doctrines, he forced his subjects to embrace them also, and his first object was to seize the lands of the Clergy. It was deemed a great stretch of liberality in those times, to allow those who preferred the old re ligion to quit their country for another, where Catholicism still prevailed. There would not have been a Catholic in Germany in a short time, had the Protestants not been duped into the Treaty of sth September, 1555, which allowed Bishops and other Prelates to go over to Protestantism without any impeachment to their honour, but prevented their appropriating to themselves their possessions. From the mo ment that Treaty was signed, the Reformation, which had spread like a conflagration among the great, was at. an end, Nothing more was to be made by the Reformation ; and in those States where the Princes had seized the Church reve nues, which were guaranteed to them by the Treaty in question, Protestantism was established. In the other States, where the Princes were no longer allowed to gain by a change, and where the Clergy would have lost by a change, all but then - honour, Catholicism co n ti nue d the established religion. Some of the Princes had 4 little trouble at first ; and it is recorded of gyman in populous places : whereas, there is a Catholic Priest in every Commune. But the Protestant religion ceased to be regarded with favour by the great, from the time Richelieu succeeded in centering almost all power in the King. The Protestant religion was in France a handle to faction ; and if the Protestant Nobles, who tried their fortune in the field against the Catholics, had succeeded, the pea santry might have become as generally Protes tant as they are Catholic. In the present day, the French inhabitants of towns regard the Pro testant and Catholic modifications of Christianity with equal indifference. If they incline to any religion, it is that modification of Christianity which is spreading in New England, and which has long been almost universal in Protestant Germany and Switzerland. As to the spread of the Catholic religion in England, it is, with very few exceptions, he result of emigration. Few of English race go over to Catholicism ; but there are a few districts where there has always been a Catholic population.—Morning Chronicle. We have given, in an article from the Consti tut ionnel, an opinion respecting the fate of Con stantinople, which we fear will soon be verified by its occupation, and permanent retention. Another article from the Augsburg Gazette also points to the same result ; but notwithstanding the hints which are thus thrown out in an iudi rect manner by the Russian Cabinet, there are many who still pretend to believe in the mode ration of the Emperor, and who express them selves as if peace were as good as concluded, without any dismemberment of the Turkish Em pire. Such a belief can only rest on two grounds —first the determination of France and England to protect the Ottoman empire ; and, secondly, the moderation of the Russian Cabinet. With regard to the former, we believe that no doubt need be entertained ; but it is altogether another question what effect this determination of France and England may produce on the resolves of the Russian autocrat. A great prize is within his grasp, and one, too, which it would not be easy to wrest from it ; and is it to be supposed, that after expending so much blood and treasure upon its acquisition, he will voluntarily resign it? It would scarcely be reasonable, on the one hand, to expect it ; and, on the other, such magna nimity would be utterly inconsistent with the well-known policy of the Russian Cabinet, which never yet gained a victory or made a conquest which it did mot attempt to turn to advantage. Let us hear what Colonel Evans says on the subject, in his work on the " Designs of Russia." " It may not be irrelevant," he observes, " to re mark upon the similarity of the present proceedings nerally With those adopted towards Poland. In that memorable transaction also, one of the interven tional pretences, frequently advanced by the northern cabinet, was a religious one. A sixth of the Poles were of the Greek church, which was not the domi-' mint one. The Empress declared, that all exclusions on account . of religious belief were contrary to a ' law of nature,' that those so situated were ab solved from all national allegiance, and had a right to appeal to the rest of the human race, and choose from amongst them judges, allies, and protectors.' If this be still the doctrine of the Russian Court, it affords matter for consideration. and certainly great scope for its benevolence. Where, in effect, it may be asked, is the country which might be exempt from the influence of so sweeping a clause, or from the interference of so universal a protector of sects ? " One of the last declaratory acts preliminary to tismembertneut of P o l an d, a f ter set ti ng f or th her au tocratic Majesty's great love of peace, aati, how. careful she had been to preserve it, runs thus-: - 7, Filled with these sentiments, it is with regret that the Empress sees his Polish Majesty follow different maxims with regard to her, and make no return tei her friendly proceedings # but by proceedings di rectly opposite,' &c. &c. The further instances of her Majesty's friendly regard are now matter of history. " The people of England were, we are informed, filled with surprise and indignation at the partition of the republic. The Cabinets of London, Paris, Stockholm, and Copenhagen, loudly remonstrated. How fruitlessly need not be told! Nevertheless, Poland was very far from being a primary object with her Majesty. The priority in subjugation was indeed yielded to this ill-fated country—not so much because of the extreme facilities afforded by its dis tracted condition (which was so cruelly no less than adroitly aggravated and administered to)—but in a considerable degree because of the strength the yet uncorrupted party were rapidly gaining, leading, it was apprehended, to their being able to protect and vindicate the national integrity, if not imme diately crushed. _ " Finally, a very casual inquiry into the proceed ing of the half Asia.ic, half European Cabinet, shews most incontestibly, that though Russia is physically without a rival, it is resolved not to rely alone on force; and thus it is that we see schemes of a gigantic violence carried on with as much cau tion, craft, and stealthy tortuousness, as if there were no other means for executing them than the con dottieri of the times of Caesar Borgia. " It is now obvious to all, that if an able, am bitious, and ardent Prince should succeed to the Muscovite crown, there will be much difficulty, to say the least of it, on the part of the other states of the European confederacy, in maintaining themselves against him. The autocrat Nicholas may be of that character, for aught that is generally known to the contrary. The subjugation of nations, who are in ferior in the scale of social life, is happily not al ways an unmixed evil,—inasmuch as improvements are, in such instances, introduced in the train of the victorious army, which may go far to redeem the violation of general right. When the picture is re versed—when semi-barbarians overcome a civilized people, it inflicts an immedicable wound upon the best interests of mankind." Colonel Evans's work was published twelve months ago, and every thing that has occurred since has tended to confirm his opi►►ions. A few days, however, will put the matter beyond doubt; and 61, then we shall forbear further comment, merely remarking, that if Nicholas surrender the prize which is now within his grasp, he will be justly entitled to be considered as even more moderate and peaceful than he has been success ful and fortunate.—Morning Advertiser. * " The Emperor sees with grief that the Porte, in stead of duly appreciating this truly friendly policy," &c. (1828)-13 it friendly to encourage and league with the Greeks? Is it friendly to bribe the Janissaries ? SMUGGLING IN THE NAME OF TilE ENGLISH AMBASSADOR. (Copied from a Calais Paper by the ConstitutionneL) CALAIS, SEPT. 26.—The journals of the Congre gation, and of seryilism, overwhelmed by the ener getic protests of public opinion against the compo sition of the new Ministry, unceasingly repeat to us " Wait for acts—do not prejudge the teen." Well, here are acts, and very grave ones, since they reveal • the humiliating dependence of France upon England, and show also the cause of part of the distress under which our commerce and industry labour. For a week past the town of Calais, which contains a population of more than 4,000 individuals, employed in the manufacture of tulle, has been thrown into the greatest consternation ; every one asks if our Ministers are Frenchmen or slaves, and it would not be difficult to answer the question. On the 22d of July last, the inhabitants of this port witnessed the disembarkation of ten cases, declared as beer, car pets, saddlery; they were directed to the Custom house at Paris. They had leaden seals, and were not looked at by the officers, being for the establish ment of Lord Stuart, the English Ambassador at the Court of France. No one was astonished about them, for it is known that from diplomatic considera tions, Ambassadors have the privilege of ordering from their own country, free from duty, articles necessary for their establishment. The only mys tery was, why Lord Stuart, who had furnished his house a long time since, should want such a con siderable quantity of household articles; and this idea occurred to the Custom-house officers at Calais and Paris. We can now make it known, that seven cases, marked " L. S." weighing together • about 1,475 kilogrammes (a kilogramme is rather more than two English pounds), seized at the Paris Custom•house, have been sent back to this port to be re-exported to England. The Custom-house officers at Calais employed three days (the 10th, 11th, and 12th of September) in visiting them, and never was an operation performed with more strictness and pre c.tution. Five of these cases, numbered from 3to 7, contained a large quantity of English goods, such WI poplins, figured stuff for waistcoats, gilt articles, tobacco, varnished leather, &c. The weight of all these articles were 660 kilo grammes. The other cases, :numbered 1 and 2, weighed about 815 kilogrammes, and were filled with tulle in pieces and bands, and one of the cases contained more than 4,000 pieces. During the in spection, the inhabitants of Calais, who assembled in crowds round the doors of the Custom-house, openly declared that they recognized the seven cases us having formed part of those sent from Calais on the 22d of July ; that the Custom-house officers of Paris had seized them, but that, at the demand of Lord Stuart, M. de Polignac, at the termination of a council of Ministers, opposed himself to their con fiscation ; that in order to afford Wellington a proof of his courtesy, he had given orders for their restitu tion, with the understanding that they should be re exported. Thus, at the moment when our com merce is a prey to the greatest alarm, our laws are sacrificed to the most shameful deferences, inspired by the contempt to which our Minister has de voted us. .On Sunday, the 13th of September, the ship Julie sailed with the seven cases for England. Six Custom-house officers escorted the vessel, and did not leave her till she was a considerable distance out at sea. This solemn departure was announced along all the coast from Dunkirk to BoulOgne, and the Custom-house officers never before received such strict injunctions of watchfulness. Nobody, ho w ever, is duped by this pretended seventy. The ad ministration of the Custom-house wishes to surround itself with every appearance ofjustice; but its affec tation is great. Placed between its duty and the orders of a minister, it ought not to have hesitated, and we must believe that it only obeyed with regret: The town of Calais only sees in these unusual measures a greater proof of the violation of the law, and of that odious complaisance towards a ministry always ready to please these dear English, who do not blush to shield their guilty designs with the safeguard of their ambassadors, in contempt of the rights of nations, and of the hospitality which we bestow upon them with a noble confidence. What a degradation of feeling I What incredible duplicity ! According to the most moderate calculation, the 815 kilogrammes of tulle would cost our manufac turers 160,000 f., and produce 70,0001. worth of la bour. Our commerce can hardly compete against the tulle introduced by' fraud, which pays a premium of insurance of from 25 to 30 per cent., and our manufacturers must evidently succumb before those masses of English merchandise introduced so easily, and distributed through the kingdom with impu nity, and thrown into our market at a 0 per cent. under our prices. Calais is in alarm, and in its in dignation it asks what France has. done that she should be governed by men who thus betray her dearest interests._ •A letter from Bordeaux, received on the 26th of September at Havre, speaks, but ia too vague a manner to deserve cre di t, o f a massacre alleged to have been committed at Buenos Ayres, in which .2,000 persons are said to have lost their lives. The departure of the French division was mentioned as the signal for this carnage; and the alleged prOldr, tion was the party viol ence w hi c h now a ffli ct s 1 1 unhappy republi c of L a Pl a t a . H app il y , t hi s 2 10 requires confirmation. Notwithstanding the rain yesterday, the he, races in the Champ d e M ars were very fashionorai, attended. Th ere were f our h eats, eac h f or a pr.!: of 1,200 f., the first of which was won by Olt the second by Syl v i o , th e thi r d b y C ar i ana, an d t 7 fourth by Clio. Two or three accidents occult' and one young man received considerable injury 9.1 being thrown from his horse. FRENCH JOURNALS. A French provincial Pa vial return of the number principal Paris Papers has return, independently of i correct, as none of the Pa objected to it:— iper has published the oft' of subscribers each of th,.. / in the departments. 1' its being official, must b s spent interested in it hors ROYALIST PAYERS. Gazette de France 6,324 Quotidienne.... 3,448 Universel ........ 364 Drapeau Blanc 233 Atni de la Religion et du R0i...... 2,154 Memorial Catliolique 1,190 Correspondent 2,060 Echo Fran Journal des Maires 3,324 Conservateur 163 LIBERAL PAPERS. a Constitutionnel 1 1 , i , l7 "" a Courrier 2, 114 " Journal du Com merce Globe Album Maganom.... 4 ! ) Figaro s o' Tribune dee Depar tementa ....... France Nouvelle.... Total... 18,06. Total... 19, 1 7821 ____.... The Journal des Debals, whose subscribers ir e part Royalist and part Liberal, has 6,29 in the de' part men ts. The Messager des Chambres has 1,841, but i g appears that it loses ground fast, on account of till loss of official news. The Paper that has fallen most is the Journal der Debals. In 1824 it had 10,200 subscribers in th e departments alone. The Constilutionnel has looe ground also. It had, in 1828, 21,500 subscriber s ' including those of Patis; it has not now more tho ll 16,500, including Paris and the departments. The Courrier Francais has about 4,500, includieg f Paris and the departments. But the total number . ° the subscribers is not g i ven as o ffi cial. The stor e ment of the number in the departments can alone 'T depended upon. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WllB_,ll' %%heat. Barley. Oats. 12 Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s. to I. s. to Blandford 70 36 97 Brigg 54 63 18 24 10 21 35 si Cambridge— 59 34 19 6 0 Chard 56 70 32 38 24 30 49 4 0 Huntingdon........ 61 70 30 35 20 25 36 4 4 Long Sutton—..... 52 59 SS 44 17 22 :38 a Louth 42 60 27 30 18 22 40 4 0 Lynn 46 64 23 37 16 24 38 ig Newark . 54 62 33 41 26 30 46 4 4 Nottingham 50 72 26 31 42 4$ Peterborough 56 70 37 40 18 25 37 Plymouth „ 78 23 56 22 25 4 g Yautcfract 71 22 44 4 9 Sleafonl Unpinghain 50 62 32 38 20 23 32 4 .1 Wishech - 5O 62 18 24 38 LEEDS CORN MARKET.—Sepr. 29. , o There has been a fair supply of Wheat to this dal market, but the supply of other article s i n th e t ra de h ., only been small. The best samples of Old and riel Wheat have fully supported the price of last Tuesday, l ' i u other descriptions of Old and New hav e b een i n lim e 4 i demand. There has been some New Norfolk and rn, Woulds Batley offering, the price ask e d f or the Nor'' 365. to 385., and for the Woulds 335. to 365., but l s have not heard of any sales having been effected ; Grim ing Barley has not varied in price. Good hard hit Beans have been sold on full as good terms, but those g°7 are black are difficult of sale at any moderate pr Pease have not varied in price. Good sweet old Ettgr i , Oats being scarce fully support their late value, but Sr - , samples and foreign are taken off slowly at rat h e r loe prices. Shelling and Malt without alteration, the ge l may be said of Flour and Rapeseed. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk . . .... ........ 275. to :Vg• -- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire ---- Grinding Beans Oats, Potatoc —Mealing, Foreign 12d. to 13(4...English 114 d. to 13d. per' Shelling 30s. to 321. per 1 Rapeseed, English, 271. to .9l Forei g n, —l. to —l. . LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Sept. 29. _.,1 There was a thin show of s a mpl es o f N ew Wheat n Oats at this morning's market, still they were fully el; to the demand, and prices of the former gave way iti• 2d. per bushel. New Oats scarcely brou g ht so guoalltg° as last Tuesday, a cargo of Sligo being sold at 3s. 61 bi ii 451 b. ; undried were offering at Sc. 3d. t o Sc. 2d. sbe Grain supported the rates of this d a y se ' nu i g ht, but , transactions were on a very limited scale. • A WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. 9 ,„ d t oll ‘ . o Red lO Scotch, Welch, and Maux 9 9 Irish, White lO ' 6, -- Red 7 9 9, 9, Foreign 9 6 1(1.1V OaTs, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 3 ., & —..--- Irish Foreign 2lO 3 , 0 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 95 0 n.., Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. Feeding 4 6 ' 0 BRANS, English, per Imperial quarter .... ..... Irish, &c. ---- Foreign Pease, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 44 . 0 Foreign - FLotat, English, per 2801 b. 5O 0 sf . 0. Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 2B sit 0 g: 0 0 . INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. Wtc, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter Ird roar or GRAIN for the Weex ending Sept. .9.0. 0 00 1 ' Wheal Oats. 1 Barley Flour. 4 .dsd Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, Brig 'lrish, &c. Saul . 1 1730 6,079 1,913 19 215 I 1,318 BIRMINGHAM MARKETS.—OcT. I. j of Coax M.s.axaT.—We hav e h a d a p re tty go od sifirl i v4e both 01(1 and New Wheat at to-day's market, but the i 11 was dull, and each a little lower. The' supplies ° f bpd other descriptions of Grain were good. Old Beano j o, Barley met a free sale, all other articles in the trade '4 s. d. to Wheat, per 021 b Barley, per Imperial quarter 37 0 0 Malt 56 0 6 : . 0 Pease 4O 0 la g Beaus, per bag of 10 score gross Oats, per Mb. Fine Flour, per s a ck of 2601 b. 57 0 b 94 13 Seconds '2.o 0 g o SMITHFIELD. -- This day's market exhibited a (01 710; ply of all kinds of live stock, with a brisk demo ( a nd prime descriptions, at a trifling advance upon 13ee Pork. 511,011. Beef o ( n per lb.) sd. to 5 51d.ly am ealper lb.). .. .... ..... 54 Porkers Mutt 5 ls Otito g;.. .... .... score. ACCIDENT AT THE ZOOLOGICAL LIT ;,/ DE NS. —On Monday last, as two gentlemen were adiol!lot one of the five wolve,., a child playing near the 4 . 3,4 her arm within reach and was instantly seized by the cious animal. One of the bystanders, Mr. Natty' ..." , de geon to the Foundling Hospit a l, w ith grea t kicked the wolf viol e ntly i n th e th roa t an d ma de hi'lg:t his hold. The li m b was consider;:bly lacerated, 4 " u . %lie Mr. P. had u se d th e b est reme di es at hi s c omman d ; t re , child was conveyed home to Park-street, Grosvenor - W: 1 :y; by her alarmed mother, a lady who had been preies' the accident. BIRTHS. r .j, On the Nth ult. in Euston-square,. the ladY ° fl‘.. Soares, Es SOth ult.son. 110 1 On the the wife of T. Stone, Esq. o f ' , street, of a still-born child. )10. On the 29th ult. at Little Catiogan-place, arise* Whitehead, of a eon. MARRIED. ter h f" q. On the lot inst. at West M u lling, M ar tin FOl - i i 'ebr* 4 of Lawrence Pountney-lane, to Charlotte 1 "1 daughter of John Bax, Esq. of West Malting, g e t - P ol9 ' On the 28th ult, at the British Ambassall" ol ; Thomas Stapleton, Esq: of the Grove, Richinn u ",.' s be la te shire, ti,r Henrietta Lavinia, segoml daughter ?*. e °/- R. Fitigerald Anster, . Esq. of Calcutta, and nie c e H. Meredith, Bart. DIED. 1 l w ore) On the Ist inst. in Southampton.toff, Bir er aged 65, Mr. C. Hider, of Hawkhurst, Kent. On the 28th ult. at Rugby, W. Chambers, Admiral, aged 82. On the 27th ult. at Strand-on-the-Green , K. Trimmer, Eq., aged 62. At Greenwich. Robert Roberto-- M D., F.R S., int 4 ,Icti, F.S.A., aged 88. Ij PRINT-ED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YO"u/ VIE OFFICE, 112, LONDON% •