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view of the mode k labial cotton was obtained by the domestic manufacturer, for that article was no exception to the necessary law of commercial interchange, by which the produce of the capital and labour of one country was ex changed for the produce of the capital and industry of an other. If there was no other objection to returning to the vicious system of commercial prohibition which cir cumstances had hitherto enabled this country to pet sist in, lie would object to it because we should not only go back in one article but in others,—in woollens and iron for ex ample,—from which we bad removed restrictions that had impeded the domestic manufacture of those articles. While he stated this, he did not mean to deny that individuals had benefited LI the prohibitive system, and had met with losses by the destruction of their monopoly. But the question for the House to consider was, not what merely benefitted or injured individuals or parties, but what promoted the general interests of the community at large—(Hear, hear,)—not whether this single branch of industry, or that single branch of industry would be ad vantaged or disadvantaged by the repealing or reducing of a prohibitive duty, but whether all the other branches of industry would be benefitted or injured by it.—(Hear. ) That being the proper question for Parliament to consider, he would confidently assert that the changes in our com mercial system which he had been instrumental in bring ing about, however they may have effected this or that single chase, had contributed to the extension and culture of the general industry of the country. The very fact quoted by those who bad objected to those changes proved his assertion. It was stated that commodities were to be had for one-third or one-fourth less now than in 1824. But what did this fact prove, unless- that, first, we could now procure equal quantities of foreign produce with less labour, and that the difference was so much added to the capital and industry of the country, to be employed in other branches of commerce and manufactures ? By what other way could the extraordinary increase that had taken place in our internal consumption since the prohibitive system had been altered he accounted for, but by the in creased facilities of obtaining foreign produce, and the consequent addition to the capital and industry of the country ? The phenomenon—for it was a phe nomenott--could be accounted for by no other supposi tion. If they looked to the extraordinary increase that had of late years taken place in the importation of the article of cotton, they would see a striking instance of the extraordinary increasue that had also of late rears taken place in domestic consumption. If tLey looked to the great demand for wool that had arisen within a few years, when not only more sheep were reared in this country, and, as a consequence, more British wool grown, but 40,000,0001 b. of foreign had been imported to meet the demand, they would sae a strong prof of extraordi nary internal consumption. If they looked in the same manner to the increased imports and manufacture of iron, silk, and other articles, they would see proofs of an im mense internal consumption that could only he accounted for by the fact of increased facilities enabling them to so add to the capital and industry of the country, as to greatly increase the means of consuming domestic menu factures.—(Hear, hear.)—lt was true that some branches of industry had met with partial losses; but these losses were not consequent upon the changes that had been made in our commercial policy. On the contrary but for them he was conv ieced those losses would have been greater. The state of our currency system— now fortunately settled—contributed much to those losses ; er it contributed much to the ruinous speculations of 1825, in which the expenditure and loss of capital was greater than any year during the war, and from the suf ferings of which the country was not yet relieved. But he contended that those sufferings would have been greater, bet ler the alteration which had been previously adopted in the principle.; of our commercial system. Notwithstand inn those losses they were enabled to remit many taxes, and the manufacturing and commercial interests had made a rapid pi ogress. He must on that very account lament that so many persons; bad been induced, the Keret with the hope of quick and large profits, to embark in schemes which a little reflection must have shown them must have ended either in total loss or grievous disappointment. Hun. Gentlemen had stated, that the cornmeeee of the country was in a state of decay. He begged leave to ask them where was the evidence to bear out the asset tion? What did official accounts say in relation to this alleged decay ? He begged the Nouse to attend to one or two unquestion able facts derived from a very satisfactory test of the de 'line or increase of the commercial dealinzs of the country,—namely, the exports. In 1827 the exports amounted in value to (in round numbers) 40,323,0004 ; in 1828 to .51,000,0001. ; and to the bth of January of the present year, to 52,000,000/,--(hear, hear,) — showing an increase of not less than 12,000,D00/. sterling in the exports of 1829 over those of 1827 ; and of 1,000,0 over those of last year. Again, let them look to the ship? ping interest,—another most important branch of our com mercial system—end they would see that though the pro fits were not equal to those of the monopoly enjoyed by the British shipping trade during the war, that trade had nevert%eless increased,while the foreign shipping trading to this country bad diminished. The contrary, he was aware, lied been confidently stated, but he trusted it would not again be asserted in that House. The amount of tonnage of British shipping clearing outwards and entering in wards (Lying the year ending the sth of January, 18$3, was 27,700,6;;P ; that of the year ending the sth of Ja nuary, 1829, was 31,003,000, showing an increase of more than 1-9th in on..' year.—(Hear, bear.)—But per haps Hon. Members would i;. I V that the tonnage of foreign shipping trading to this country ,had increased in an rio4l or a greater ratio. What was the fat.' ? The tonnage of all foreign vessels entering inwards or cleae - ing outwards in 1828 amounted to 700,000 tons ; that of the resent year to 600,000, showing a diminution of 100,000 tons, or I-7th of the entire foreign shipping trading to this coun try in one year. Was not this statement decisive on this point ?"—(dear, hear.)—" One word," said the Right Hon. Gentiteman, " in relation to the position in which I stand individue!lv towards the changes that have been made within the last few years in our common civil policy. My Hon. Friend (Mr. Ruing), the Member for Calling ton, has alluded to the vitupciatit;2 ! to the endless obloquy, to the calumny, that has been heaped cs:. l me, as the organ of the Government by which these changes eeere effected. I assure my Hon. Friend, that when I felt it to i;Z! my duty to recommend the alterations that have been so beneficially made in the commercial and navigation laws of the country, I clearly foresaw all the obloquy And viteperation that have been heaped on me. I knew that individuals and parties would visit on me the sufferings brot;,;ht about by their own indiscretion, or by other causes, over which I could have no controul. But while I clearly foreers7/ all this, I did not the less clearly see, nor the less forci;:lv feel, that I owed it to myself, as a Member of this House, and as a Minister of the Crown, to retommend a particular line of policy, however distasteful that policy might be to interested in dis iduals, and however likely it might be to give rise to mierepresentions of my motives and objects, when my conscience told me it was that most certain to promote the general welfare of my country.—(Hear, bear.)—l felt that no man was fitted to preside over the commercial in terests of a great country, who was not ready to sacrifice personal feelings to the public benefit,—(hear,) —that no man should be a British Minister who was not above all such individual consideration.—(Hear.) —Having felt this, I calmly and steadily persevered in what my conscience told me was my duty. Nor am I without my reward ; for when I am told of the disadvantages which individuals have experi.nced from the changes which I was an in- statement it introducing into our commercial system, I say in repiy, that those changes have tended, more than all other events or measures, to impress the country and foreign states with just notions of the value of an unre stricted commercial intercourse, and with a conviction of the :nischievoug absurdity of commercial jealousies and attempts at commercial monopoly. The present wise system of commelrcial policy has inculcated an impor tant doctrine in the I ,ls.cific relations of one country to another—in chewing that one state is not enriched by the impoverishment of anothe.Z. but that mutual inter change of their respective produce' is the only sure basis of mutual prosperity. By this it ha: tended, and wilt daily tend, more to prevent contests for o.l)lects of cona mercial selfishness--to avoid a recurrence of Aloes naval wars which in the end injure the manufae::lrmg greatriess of all the parties engaged in it. It has given rise to just notions of commercial intercourse with colonies by putting an end to all those petty rivalries in which co. lon:e. hitherto had involved the mother countries. Was this mere asset flon ? Let the extraordinary fact in the history of the country,—that for fifteen years we have en joyed a commercial peace with the world,—that, for the first time during so many years, Parliament has not been called upon by the Crown to protect with a naval and mi litary force some colonial commercial right, or to resist some commercial outrage--answer the question.—(Hear.) —By the general principles of our present liberal system of commercial policy, we have disarmed other countries of their former usual resource of excluding our manufacturers, by convincing them that they must, more than ourselves, suffer by a retaliation of their conduct. I will go farther and say, that if we had not altered our prohibitive laws, we should long since have been engaged in a mischievous war with some State like ourselves, equally blind to our own interests. The present repudiated free trade system, then, not only tends to allay irritation and preserve peace to the colonies, but to prevent war with other nations.— The Hun. Member fur Newark (Mr, Sadler) says )re will at a proper opportunity enter into a discussion on the prin ciple of free trade I shall not now, therefore, anticipate that discussion, and shall only say, that whenever it takes place he will find me ready to meet him. May I, without expatiating on the subject, ask other Hon. Members a question, which I have frequently asked the Hon. Mem bers in vain, namely, what does he mean by the terms free trade? Will he tell me what object does he wish to see accomplished, what evils to be remedied, which the present system fails to accomplish or fails to remedy? What would he permit or what would he restrict in our com mercial system that is not new permitted or restricted ? Will the Hon. Member, instead of permitting himself to be run away with by vague words, give us a definite mean ing of all the evils which he conceives to be rolled up in the phrase " free trade?"—(Hear, hear.)—By acting on the principles of free trade, I understand that we ought to lessen or remove every restriction on our commerce that tends unnecessarily to cramp the energies of individual en terprise, without henefitting the revenue. Those princi ples I have long advocated, and will continue to uphold ; f'r I am satisfied by experience that gradual relaxation of our restrictive system has been invariably followed by gra dual improvement in our manufactures, in our commerce, and in our revenue.--(Hear, hear.)—ln those principles I trust my Right Hon. Friend (Mr. V. Fitzgerald) will per severe, despite of clamour, misrepresentation, and obloquy. He may calculate on my cordial assistance ; for I will never cease to advocate the principles of the changes in our commercial system, of which I have been the official in strument, so long as I continue to be supported, as I have been, by the general sense of Parliament and the country. —(Hear, hear. )—So long as I uphold those principles, I am satisfied so long shall I be enabling the country to sup port its burdens, and to advance in commercial and manu facturing prosperity. Hon. Members may say, that those principles tend to place the country in an artificial state; but I ask, is not every country with which we are ac quainted in an artificial state? Is not the very institution of Government artificial? Is not France, for example, an artificial country? Has she not debts to pay—taxes to levy—a police, an army, a navy, a Court, a Parliament—in fact, artificial institutions to main tain? In a word, must not every country be said to he artificial which is not shut op in itself,—dependent wholly on its own resources—without any interchange between it and other states—without, therefore, any benefit to covet or bestow ? The charge, then, of an artificial state is meaningless. I feel proud in having had a share in establishing a system of commercial dealing which I am convinced is the most advantageous to the general interest of the country that could have been adopt.-d. By it the energies of the empire at large will be cultivated, its industry and capital most advantageously applied, and its resources placed in the roost favourable condition for meeting the exigencies of those wars to which all great commercial nations are exposed, and which they should never he un prepared for. With respect to the motion before the House, I shall only add, that I entirely concur with my Right lion, Friend (Mr. V. Fitzgerald) that the best mode to preserve, and int. - Erase, and improve silk manufactures in this country, is to persist in the present policy of the Government.—(Cheers.) Mr HUME moved that the debate be adjourned to to morrow (this day), in order that many Hon. Members, himself fin one, who were anxious to address the House, might have an opportunity of doing so.—The motion for adjournment was accordingly agreed to, The LORI) ADVOCATE obtained leave to bring in a Bill for tlYe improVement of gaols in Scotland ; and ano ther to prevent death by suffocation. Mr. BARING presented a petition from a British sub ject, a native of Malta, complaining that his claims, 45,0001., under the Spanish Convention Act, had not been w.knowledged, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the reason why the petitioner's claims were not acknowledged was, that he at one time addressed the Commission as a Spanish, at another as a British subject ; so that they were unable to determine to what class of claimants he belonged. Adjourned 4t Half-past One o'clock.. SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. The Royal Assent was yesterday given by com ' mission to the Oitholic Relief Bill, and the Elective Franchise in Ireland Regulation Bill. These mea sures are now therefore part of the law of the land. Thus the last vestige of the Penal Laws has been swept away, Religion will no longer arm citizen against citizen. The interests of another world will no longer serve as a pretext for perplexing the affairs of this. We are now free to enter fearlessly on the consideration of the condition of Ireland. "We write in the. last day, perhaps, of the British Con stitution," says the i/andard of yesterday. Yester day, then, was the last day of the British Consti tution. The Duke of Wellington, then, has fairly dezitroyed the British Constitution in spite of " the remoastances of the whole Church ;" and even of the Protestant inhabitants of Lon don and Westminster, who nearly filled two coaches on Friday last, when they astoniched his Majesty's rooks at Windsor by their presence. How strange the language held on this occasion must sound ere long l How much zeal and bluster, worthy of a better cause, has been thrown away ! Would that the Clergy, who have been acting so absurd a part, in practising on the ignorance of their parishioners, c 0414 be compelled to have the peti tions drawn up by them perpetually suspended from their necks, that the eontemplatien of ►heir past folly might serve to impress them with the necpssity of more moderation in time to come! We ha►e al ready more than ,cnce expressed our sentiments re specting the conduct of the Duke of Wellington throughout the whole of this busiupss, and we shall not now return to the subject. It is, indeed { unne cessary, There can be but one opinion with all whose opinion is worth any thing, as to his merits on this occasion,--Morning Chronicle. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. With the exception of 12 to 1 agst Quadrille (Green Mantle having again become the favourite at 11 to 2), the betting yester day was confined to the Riddlesworth and Derby. For the former Windfall (after having been at 8 to 1) is gone altogether ; so is Will-o'-the-Wisp; and Moses would have followed than, but for the spirited manner in which his principal backer supported him. The Derby odds are somewhat different from our last quo. tation. Espagnolle, Canvas, and Camel, opened in the order in which we have given their camas; but the odds being taken freely about Camel, and EspagneAle's l.ejng slack, they closed as below. A new favourite has appeared in a horse from Mr. Pet tit's stable, Chiron, who is backed, we prestia . :ue, t'or the same reason that Canvas, Morris Dancer, Lapdog, and PriocaEug were made favourites, viz. because he was shamefully beaten ay a two-year-old; it must be allowed, however, that it is safer to bet against a beaten horse than one whose merits are unknown. Several outsiders were backed. We subjoin the odds : 65 to 40 agst Luss '7 to 2 agst Canvas 12 to 1 agst Burman 12 to I agst Moses (taken) 20 to 1 ag RIDDLESWORTH. 13 to 1 agst Auggst3 (taken) 13 to 1 agst Reformer 18 to 1 agst Will o'-the-Wisp 20 to 1 agst Windfall (taken) :st Morel, 9 to 1 agst Canvas 9 to I agst Camel 10 to 1 agst FApagnolle (taken) 11 to I apt Luse 14 to 1 agst Morris Dancer 20 to 1 agst Chiron 20 to 1 agst Br. to Moses 20 to 1 agst Mr. Go No others :35 to 1 agst Reformer 40 to 1 agst Nessus k taken) 40 to 1 agst Eliza Teazle (taken) 40 to I agst Sycorax 30 to 1 agst Lazarus 50 to 1 agst Jane Shore (taken) iboo to 5 agst Mohican. vine's threk (taken) mentioned, RACES TO COME. Anson Hunt March 31 Bath and Bristol July fl Croxton Park Apra 8 Newcastle '7 Malton Liverpctoi , 8 Cottesmore Hunt 9 Newmarket July Meeting.... 13 Pytebley Hunt 1 0 Preston l4 Newmarket Craven 2O Cheltenham 21 Catterick Bridge 22 Bibury ... Bath Spring 28 Stamford 22 Newmarket Ist Spring... Way 4 Knutsford . 4 Oxford 2B . 'bight on ... di(t,3p and Bristol l2 Hand)Ladon , '4 Newmarket zrl Spring lk Liverpool ....' . ...... ......„,... l9 York Spring Meetini , 25 Epsom. , June 21 Beverley ~ , . 3 Manchester lO Ascot He-ith . l6 Newton , „, 17 Haigh Park (Leeds) 24 Buxton 24 , Stockbridge 26, Ascot Seeon4 Meeting 3O Lancaster 30 Ludlow ...duly 1 BS4olton , York August tieenng...Aug 4 Wolverhampton ,„„ .. 12 Goodwood l2 tWarwick Sept. 1 4chfield NorthargOon 9 Leicester 9 • Doncaster . l4 .... Shrewsbury l5 rileaton Park 23 Lincoln . 23 Carlisle 25 Newmarket Ist Delober 28 Newmarket 2d October,. ; Oct l2 Newmarket Houghton 26 WRESTLING. On Friday next a grand wrestling-match will take place at the Eyre Tavern, BC John's Wood Grove, between the members of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Wrestling Club, for a massive silver cup, and a number of other prizes. The principal wrestlers are F. Dobson and John Dixon ; the former is a stout, brawny, heavy man ; the latter a fine-grown athletic youth, who bjds fair to win the first prize. Considerable sums are pending upon this contest ; as much as 6to 1 has been offered lon Dixon, and re fused. Dobson is a well.known wrestler. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1829. In the House of Commons last night, Mr. FYLER descanted at some length on the state of our Silk Manufactures, which he represented as being in the last stage of decrepitude, arising chiefly from the Free Trade system, which, as applied to this parti cular branch of commerce, had, he asserted, altoge ther failed. This assertion he attempted to prove by documents, transmitted to him from Congleton, Coventry, Macclesfield, Paisley, Dublin, and other places, where the manufacture of Silk goods is car ded on to a great extent; but though he satisfied the House that the distress among the throwsters and weavers, at those different places, was very general just at present, he failed to show how such distress was attributable to, or in any way mixed up with the departure from the prohibitory system. In.. deed, by one observation he made use of, he completely proved the contrary, and committed suicide on his own argument. The distress, he said, was not confined to England, it was felt even in France, at Lyons espe daily, a clear proof that the Free Trade has little or nothing to do with it, but that it arises—as Mr. V. FITZGERALD justly observed in reply—from an over-trading and over-production in both countries. Like other branches of commerce, the Silk business has its sudden seasons of progression and decline—its extraordinary vicissitudes, which no one can wholly foresee, and which few, when they do arrive, can satisfactorily account for. It goes on—as was the case with the bookselling trade the other day—for a dozen or more years, inviting speculation by the luck that has attended it—every thing looks smiling and fortunate about it—the business is pushed to the utmost possible extent—success induces negli gence—no provision is made for future contingen. ties, and in this state of artificial prosperity there comes a hurricane, which, on a sudden, lays all waste before it; hundreds are involved in min—the storm rages till the commercial horizon is cleared, and then all goes on as smilingly as before. Precisely in this condition is the Silk Trade now placed. For a length of time it has been speculated in and extended to a degree beyond what prudence or even common sense would warrant; and the consequence has been a smash, in which the weak have been plunged into ruin, and the strong have with difficulty made good their standing. But is it fair—is it just—is it honourable to attribute to the Free Trade system, what has been the necessary result of over-trading ? With ql,ite as much justice might Lord ELDON be blamed for his toleration, as Mr. HusiussoN and the enlightened upholders of his system be condemned for the distress at present existing among the Silk Weavers, Mr. V. FITZGERALD'S reply to Mr. FYLER'S co pious collection of grievances was temperate and convincing. He at once admitted the distress, but traced it to its proper origin, and proved, to the evident satisfaction of the House, that a return to the prohibitory system, instead of assisting would cramp, instead of extending would annihilate the manufacture of Silk. He recommended a reduction pn the duty of foreign thrown Silk, allowing a draw back of sP plush of the duty on such silk am should attach to British mannfc,cture exported. He recom mended alio a duty of 20 per cent., ad palorent, for the Silk goods of British India, observing, at the Sallie time, that he held himself and the Government unpledged to any future scale of reduction. Mr. HuslossoN's defence of himself and his system of commercial policy was one of the most triumphant pieces of sound straight-forward reason:, ing we have ever had the good fortune to read, The eniighteried spirit that pervaded it was equally on a par with the argument, and will convince all but the incurably prejudiced that, in proposing and carrying into execution a generous system of free trade, the ,31:ject of wbiph is to lessen or remove every restric tion on out c,:;Onlerce, thq.t tends unnecessarily to . • • cramp the energies of t udiviutta, enterprf without benefitting the Revenue, the Right Hon. Gent. has entitled himself to the lasting gratitude of his coun try. The debate was adjourned at a late hour till to-night. Hamhurgh and German Papers have been re ceived this morning, from which we make the fol lowing extracts. The Russians and Turks seem determined on resuming the war in earnest :--- FRONTIERS OF SERVIA, MARcit 19.—Something disagreeable to the Turks must have occurred lately, for the Turks at Belgrade have as melancholy countenances as on thg removal of Izzet Mehemed from the office of Grand Vizier. The strangest reports are in circulation, which do not merit notice. It is said there have been tumults, attended with bloodshed, in Albania, and Servia is not very tranquil. The order for enlisting all unmarried men, has given great dissatisfaction ; for if the Servians are not so well inclined to the Russians as people generally believe, they, however, do not shew any inclination to fight against them. The ice in the Danube begins to move, and the navigation will soon be restored, which will be equally favourable to trade, and to the military operations. It is said the Sultan has left Constantinople, and gone to Adrianople, but this does not seem to be quite certain. BUCHAREST, Mtacm 2l.—Wounded soldiers daily ar rive here from the other side of the Danube, where hosti lities have recommenced, and frequent engagements be tween the advanced posts take place. In the Russian army the greatest activity prevails, and it seems intended to pro secute the operations with a degree of vigour which may lead to a speedy decision of the campaign. Several divi sions of infantry, with light and heavy artillery, have marched against Silistria, to invest that place. Ghuirgevo is now regularly besieged, and the thunder of the artillery from that quarter is incessant. The possession of that place is of great importance. Ghuirgero is the only for tress of consequence which the Turks still hold on the left bank of the Danube, and its fall would bring with it that of Rudschuk, on the opposite bank. Mean time large quantities of timber and other materials are constantly carried through this city to the Danube, for the purpose of throwing a bridge over the river, which it is supposed will be near Ghiurgevo. The guards under the command of the Grand Duke Michael, are expected to enter the principalities, and form the reserve of the army ; but this does not appear to be wholly decided. General Count Pahlen has left Jassy and followed the corps to Silistria. The magazines in Wallachia are daily increased. VIENItn, APRIL 2.—Metalliques, 91; Bank Shares, 1,097 f. (In the evening, 1,099.) HallovEit, APRIL B.—The Court has gone into mourn ing fur six weeks, on account of the death of the Land grave of Hesse Homburg. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, on re ceiving the melancholy news set out for Homburg to visit his sister, the Landgravine. STOCKHOLM, 31.—The Russian Lieut.-Gen. Couat Suchtelen, who arrived here on Friday, had a long private audience of his Majesty the following day. He will stop here a fortnight, arid then as we hear go to Berlin and Vienna. It is supposed that the journey during so inclement a season, is not merely for pleasure. We have no indication of the approach of spring. In the night Reamer's thermometer is at 15 deg., and in the day at 12 deg. below zero. COPENHAGEN, APRIL 7.—Accounts from Rickavik, in Iceland, of sth March, say the winter bad been so mild there that they had hardly seen ice or snow. In the night of 21st February a shock of an earthquake was felt in the whole of Suderland ; on the following days there were several slight shocks. Great damage was, however, done to the buildings in the districts of Hecla. The fishery had been very productive. There are now (April 4) 84 ships safely Anchored in the harbour of Elsinore, viz. 18 Danish, 49 English, five Prussian, &c. ; among them are five from Messina and two from the West Indies. As the harbour is crowded, several ships that likewise were coming to seek shelter in the harbour were forced by the floating ice to put out to sea again, and have sailed to the German Ocean. Bossy-HALLS, 4 o'cLocx.—There has been a decided improvement in Wheat, although without any positive advance in price. Our arrivals from the Upper Elbe were by no means inconsiderable, and yet greater part was readily bought for the French and English markets. A rise in the price is in consequence expected. From the Lower Elbe our supplies were less important, and not of so ready a sale as these from the interior, Arrivals dur ing the week 896 lasts ; exportation, 950 lasts. Rye firm in consequence of our own consumers having pur chased freely. Almost every other kind of grain remark ably heavy. Weight. Rix dollars. Dantzic Wheat 124 to 130 165 to 180 Pomeranian 125 to 132 150 to 165 Anhalt, white 122 to 132 165 to 175 red 118 to 128......160 to 166 Danish 120 to 130......125 to 150 Dautaic Rye llB to 122 74 to 78 Magdeburgh Barley 100 to 108 6O to 68 Upland Oats .... Holstein Rapeseed _ —to 175 to 180 Funds of every description are looking up. The new Polish Bonds are favourites with the speculators, and have been done in Berlin, for money, at 53i Rth., equal to about 107 here. Bargains have been made here at 106 for money, and 1041 on account. End of April. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent . Anglo-Russian Loan 9314 Hanburgh-Russi_an Loan Anglo-Ps ussian Loan of 1818 99% Austrian Bank Shares 1115 Austlian 31etalliques 98% A rail road between Bremen and Cologne is spoken of. If the plan is carried into execution, Bremen will be able, it is said, to transport foreign produce to the Rhine at a considerably lower rate than that now charged over Holland. The French Papers are far more barren of inte testing news than might be expected after the recent defeat of the French Ministry. A few days, however, will solve the mystery, whether the present Administration can stand its ground, or whether the Ultra-Tories can regain their power. The letters from Lisbon confirm all the bad acts of Don MIGUEL. The wonder is that such a monster should have been so long endured. But the day of retribntion cannot now be far off. Singapore Chronicles have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house of the 25th of November : they contain a Government no tification, that on and after the 13th of October, the Honourable Company's Treasury at Singapore will be no longer open to bills on Bengal and Madras. They also recite a fresh instance . of the arbitrary mode in which the power of Government is used in our India territories and settlements against the Press, and state that the Penang Register, which had been conducted with so much industry, success, and talent, had ceased to exist, and the license of the Editor had been revoked, with an order to leave the settlement in two months. This had been caused by the publication on a separate slip of paper, of a para graph which had been erased from the proof of the Register by the Censor, and thus the labours and exertions of an individual are destroyed in a moment, even without strict or technical legal proof, which wa3 not required, the Government having stated that they had the strongest grounds for knowing that the gentleman considered as the conduetor of the Paper in question, was bona fide . so, which, however, was deiiied, A Government Gazelle has been established in Penang, which is to be considered the official Journal in future ; it is published weekly, and will pass free in all the Indian Presidencies. One number has been issued. This gaper notices the death, at Macao, of GRAHAM I..VhocErizig, Esq., of that settlement, a gentleman highly esteemed and deeply lamented. He was one of the earliest settlers. The Commission empowering Lords Corn missionm to giye the Royal Assent to the Bill for Re moving Civil Disabilities from the Roman Catholics was signed) by the Ktrzcz, yesterday morning, and was for yle,rgal from Winclsor to the bake of WELLINGTON. The Duke of CUMBERLAND returned to town on Sunday evening, from his Majesty's pal a ce, at Windsor. His Royal Highness afterwards dined with the Duke of NEWCASTLE, at his residence, in Portman-square. There was a select party to meet his Royal Highness. Th e Lpi!T? CHANCELLOR and the Earl of ABERDEEN had interview; 117,41 ! the Duke of WELLING TON yesterday, at the Treasury. Prince ESTERHAZY, the Austrian Ambassa- Dlons. FALCK, the Ambassador froM the Nether lands, and Cou nt de Mo LrKe, the Da n i s h Minister, had interviews with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday; at the Office of the Serretiry of State for Foreign Affair;. A deputation of Maltsters, headed by Mr. WESTERN, the Member for Essex, attended at the Trea sury yesterday, and had a conference with the CttiorcEr..- Lpa of the ExcilEgrE4. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, APRIL 13.--Wind S.W.---Arrived the Harlequin, from Bombay, and Minerva, from Monte Video, sailed the 22d of January, saw, on the 28th of February, a vessel with her decks full of men, and a look out at each mast-head. FALMOUTH, APRIL 12.—Wind S.W. to W.- Sailed the Duchess of Portland, for Antwerp. COMES, APRIL 13.—Arrived the Rachel,Potter, from Singapore ; and Jos'efa, Nicoll, from Angostura. BRISTOL, APRIL 13.—Arrived the Hector, Furr, from Cuba; and Nelson, Wear, from Barbadoes. ELSINORE, APRIL 7.—The Sound is full of drifting ice; there were thirty sail in sight of the Roll this morning, but the ice going down with a southerly current will oblige them to put to sea again; about four sail got in this morning before the ice came down, and will probably have reached Landskrona. The Edward, Protheroe, from St. Andrew'F, N. B. to Tobago, was abandoned by the crew the 29th ult., in lat. 36. long. 61, being water-logged during a severe gale four days previous. TIIE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0 1 CLocr. The fluctuations during the account, which will be finally adjusted to-day at the English Stock Ex change, have not been of sufficient' importance to cause any alarm among the speculators; indeed the market has evinced latterly a want of interest, and strong symptoms have been shewn, by the leading operators, of holding back for a time any further engagements. Consols opened at 87i -a, and for the May account, which takes place on the 26th, at 87,14, and an improvement of per cent. may be stated, the present price being 87k, buyers, for money, and 87 : 1 for May ; the settlement has oc casioned the Brokers and Jobbers to be rather in a bustle, but otherwise nothing of importance has taken place. Exchequer Bills, 57 9 pm.; India Bonds, 49 51 pm. The Foreign market is nearly in a stagnant state, Brazilian Bonds are quoted at 53 ; Buenos Ayres, 20 1; Danish, 65 4; Russian, 96 ; Mexican, 20 ; and Portuguese, 42/ 31. In Shares nothing new can be stated either in business or prices. Three per Cent. Consols, 87 ; Ditto, for Account, 26th May, 87/ ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 86i ; Three and a half per Cent. Reducupd, 95i 96 ; Four per Cent., 1826, 1031 4; India Stock, 231 2 ; Bank Stock, 2081 91 ; India Bonds, 49 51 ; Exchequer Bills, 57 9 pm. FOREIGN.-Brazilian, 53 ; Buenos Ayres, 20 21 ; Chilian, 15 17 ; Colombian, 141 15 ; Danish, 65 4 ; French, 5 per Cent., 108 9; 3 per Cent., 78i 9; Greek, 14i 15i ; Mexican, Five per Cent., 16 17 ; Six per Cent., 20 i; Peruvian, 101 11:1 ; Portuguese, 42i 31 ; Russian, 96 ; Spanish, 91 MlNEs.—Anglo Mexican, 76 5 die. ; Brazilian, 39 41 pm. ; Bolanos, 35 25 die. ; Colombian, 241 231- die. ; Real Del Monte, 125 135 per share; United Mexican, 291 281 die. TWO O'CLOCK. Up to the above hour there has not arrived the least particle of news in the city, Consols remaining the same, 871 buyers. Exchequer Bills are a shil ling per cent. on the premium. The Foreign Stock Exchange is without any alteration. THREE 0' CL 0 CM, Consols, 871. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. William Carr, aged 29, described in the calenJar as a clerk, was placed at the bar, charged with uttering, on the 13th of November last, a forged order for the payment of 971. 65., purporting to be drawn by Messrs. Barclay and Co., with intent to defraud Sir W. Curtis, Bart. and others. The prisoner is a person of most respectable appearance, and was dressed in a very fashionable style. William Blakesley deposed, th it he was a clerk in the house of Sir William Curtis and Co. Messrs. Barclay and Co. have kept cash at the banking-house of Curtis and Co. for many years. The cheque now produced was presented to him on the 3d of November last, which he paid in three notes of 201. each, two of 10/. each, and 17/. 6s. in cash. Had some suspicion the following morning that the cheque was a forgery, when he tried to recall to his recollection the person that had presented it. To the best of his belief, the prisoner is the man, but can not swear positively to his identity. Mr. Frederick Barclay was a clerk to Messrs. Barclays of Trinity-lane, and was authorised by them to draw cheques; the prisoner was in the same employ for several years, but left in 1822 ; he was aware that witness drew cheques, and of his manner of signing them ; the cheque now produced was not drawn by him—it was a forgery. Mr. George Barclay proved that the cheque was not in the baud-writing of any one belonging to their firm authorised to draw cheques. Several clerks in the Bank of England were examined, to establish the necessary legal proof of the notes being paid. William Brakewell was a publican at Hoxton ; had known the prisoner for some time—he lived in the neigh bourhood. Witness gave the prisoner, some time about Christmas, change for tvio of the twenty pound notes now produced ; witness's son was present, and wrote the pri soner's name upon them ; he went with Mr. Cope, the Marshalman, to Gloucester-street, where the prisoner resided. Mr. Mackey, a publican, in Finsbury-place, took, some time in Nov., the 101. note, now produced, from the prisoner. lie marked his own initial upon it at the time. Mr. Cope, the City-Marshal, went with Mr. Brakewell to the prisoner's house. The prisoner was just leaving home ; witness stopped him, and showed him a 201. note, and asked him who lie took it of: he said of a young man who was on board an East India ship in the docks; but he believed he had sailed for the East Indies some months. He did not know the name of the ship, but the captain's name was Sadler, and the young man who paid him the note was named Charles Wilson. Witness then asked him if he had taken any other notes of /Charles Wilson ; be replied that he had not. Witness then asked him where Wilson lodged when in town; prisoner said, in Canton-place, Qommercial-road, By Mr. Cr.Aessorr.--,-The prisoner, at the time he was apprehended, showed no reluctance to answer any question. He was not aware that he had a counting-house in the City, Daniel Forrester, the officer who accompanied witness, searched the prisoners lodging's. There was a chest of drawers in the front room, in which he found a blank cheque book of Sir Wm. Curtis and Co. The one now prpducefl was the same. Mr. Blakesley reeslled-,The pyisoper never kept cash at the banking-house of Curtis and Co. Bankers never gave cheque books only to their customers. Sophia Isaacson lives at Canton-place, Commercial-road. There was no other person in that place that has lodgers. There was no person of the name of Charles Wilson lodging there in November last. Horatio Hardy, the superintendent of the Jerusalem Coffee-honse, stated that she new neatly all thp Captains of the East India 'ships, but did not know any Cliptain sR.dler: There was o such name on their hooks. • • . John Rowe stated that he engraved the cheques for Sir William Curtis and Co. He had examined the cheque now produced, and compared it with the counter part of the bank cheque found in the prisoner's drawers, he had no doubt but that it was cut from that book. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE minutely recapitulated the eyidenpe, Ff 4 the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. gp, Thursday, JOHN LE9gE was hanged 4 Enniskillen for an attempt tonrurder Capt a i n MAdIJIRE. i RuTLEDoy was the principal n the outrage committed last yeai, in T em po, where a number of Orangemen had the head of a ram, painted red, and inscribed with a crucifix, carried about the streets, in derision of the Catholic clergy man, the Rev. Mr. KELLY, and his parishioners.— cork Mem= (i/e Chronic*. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) • HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 98 Trusses.) ST. JAMES'S. Coarse heavy Lowland Me a d ow H ay £ 2 0 to AS 6 Best New Meadow Hay 2 5 2 10 4 0 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 0 Clover HayB 5 , I : Oat Straw £1 to £1 12 1 Wheat Str aw 112 Middling and inferior Meadow Hay, which formed a considerab le part of the supply, 58. per load lower than last quoted ; in Pr icL4 of other kinds of Hay, as we ll as St raw, no a l terat i on. A it°' , ' supply, and a very dull trade. SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay .C 2 5 to £9 1 Beat New Meadow Hay 2 15 3 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 9 0 4 " Clover Hay (extra fine)...Xs 0 .. ,d. Generally 3 0 Oat Straw XIB to -C1 LlO 12—Wheat Straw 1 12 1 ' iupply good, tratle dull, and prices barely stationary. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCE. Rank Stock 209 10 South Sea Stock .- 3 per Cent. Red. ...... -86 7 4,34 7 Old Annuities :1 per Cent. Cons. 57!.6% New Ditto 87% *i per Cent Ditto Red. 95% 6!4 6 Ditto. ..... ......500 2d. 57 59 pm. 4 per Cent 10'44 3 4% Ditto Small 2d. 57 59 pm. Ditto, it•2ti Bank L.:Ann. l9 5-17 % Bank for Account — India Stock — India for Account -- Ditto Bonds 48 49 43 pm. ICons. for Acet...„... ........ 87% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — Neapolitan Brazilian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds — Chilian Bonds — Portuguese Bonds — Prussian, Old Colombian Bonds ......, Ditto, 1924 Danish Greek Bonds ............ Ditto, New — Russian — Spanish, 1821 9% 47/ s 1823 Ditto, 1825 — French Rentes, sp. c. —f. —c. Guatiinala — Exchange —f. —c. Mexican Bonds . — 3 per cent —t. —c. Ditto, 1825 20% , ,04 Exchange ...... —f. —c. PRICKS or SHAMES THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £lOO Ditto Subscziption Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O Welch Iron and Coal Mining Co 25 Australian Co. . lB Per Share FOREIGN EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURGII, APRIL 10.-13. 11.—Two months, IS. 9(. BERLIN, APRIL 7.—Three months, 6. 231 i. CHRISTIANIA, MARCH 25.—Three months, 6. 16 FRANKFORT, APRIL. 6.—Two months, 149%. MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Du O America 1 0 Hamburgh 0 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica I Dublin 0 • Leeward Islands ... 0 O Flanders 0 0 Lisbon - 0 1 France 0 0 Malta 0 O Gottenburgh 0 0 Mexico O Guernsey&Jersey,. 0 1 Waterford HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Mka•ning ...20 minutes after 11. Evening ...LEI minutes after 11. r Ir . • CITY MARKETS-TWO O'CLOCK. SUGAR.-There appears to be rather an increased de' mand for Plantation Sugars, and hopes are indulged that the inactivity which has so long prevailed iu all deserir tions of colonial produce, will cease to exist. In some few instances good parcels obtained a slight advance, and the total sales last week are estimated at 2600 easka.-- - Good Demerara produces from 60a. to 645. St. Vinsents. 575. to 60s. for fair quality. Good Berbice, 545. to 595• The delivery of Sugar last week from the West India Dock was:2lBs hbds., and the stock yesterday was 11,86 0 hhds. and 925 tcs. The demand for fine goods is brisk'this morning, but tbs heavy arrivals keep our goods fiat. There were landed 13 ' 4 week upwards of 5,000 hhds. and 25,000 bags of Mau ritius. In COFFER there is not much doing, and prices the same. SPICES.-The sale of Spices, on account of the Ceylott Government, %vent off yesterday less briskly than the me previous quarterly sales. The first sort of Cinnamon , 200 bales, sold from 6s. 7d. to 7s. 7d. per lb. The second quality, 400 bales, ss. 7d. to 7s. Third quality, 400 , bales, 3s. 3d. t o 3 s . 9d. per lb . The damaged produce" Is. 6d. to 4,. 7d. per lb. The sales of other goods were as follows :-About 1,200 bags of East India Ginger, 15s. to 16s. 6d. per cwt. ; 845 bags East India Black Pepper, 3d. to 3d. per lb. ; Ditto, superior, '7O bags, 3P. to 3P. Pearl Sago, 46 chests, 20s. to 20s. 6d. per cwt. ; 800 bags of Bengal Coon, 21s. 6d. to 255. per cwt. ; 540 bags of Malabar Ginger, 15s. to 15s. 6d. per cwt. ; Nutmegs from 2s. 9(1. to 2s. 10d. per lb. SALTPETRE.-The market is steady at 255. per ctvt. Rum.-The market continues inactive, The delivery last week from the West India Docks, were 766 puns.-for home consumptions, and 199 puns. for export, and the stock is about 15,000 puncheons--Proofs Leeward, 2.. 2d. ; Jamaica, 33 per cent., over proof, 4,. to 4s. 4d. per gallon. Tim Sur. Tuanx.--The proceedings in the House of Commons last night on the state of this trade, were hear!' with intense anxiety by all parties who are interested 1 . 0 it. The opp onents of free trade argu e , t h a t th e Prgo" dent of the Bombay trade has stated nothing to warrens the course adopted, referring as a commentary to the speech, to the miserable condition of all branches of Silk manufacture at present. In the nurket there is nothing at all doing. BALTIC PRODUCE.—TaIIow continues at 38s. The delivery last week was 838 casks; the stock 14,00 0 casks. EA►T INDIA COMPANY'S INDIGO SALE.-The sale commenced this morning very tranquilly, and by no mean* with a full attendance of buyers. The declaration exceed. 4,000 chests. Prices are going heavy. A small gold coin, about the circumference of a half-sovereign, but as thin almost as a wafer, was lately dug up in the Park at Preston. It is supposed to be of the reign of Henry the sth. It is in wonderful pre servation, every character upon it being perfectly distinct -Macclesfield Courier. At the Middlesex Sessions yesterday Esvisa 1-11BNEs, the younger (daughter of the wretched being' who was executed yesterday morning), who was acquitted on two indictments fur wilful murder, at the Old Bailey, and ANN ROBINSON, were indicted for a gross and most outrageous assault on ELIZABWHI LAWMAN, ANN PROC- Tole, and others of the unfortunate parish apprentices committed to their charge, on the Ist of October. TheY were both found Guilty. Esxue& Maxim was then sen tenced by the Court to twelve months' and ANN ROBIN SON to four months' imprisonment in the House of Ccir. rection, and to be kept to hard labour. CATHOLICS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. We have been informed, by good authority, that one of those individuals whom LORD MOUNTCASHEL styled Leading Agitators, has been offered, within the last four or five days, the support of a ver y p ower f u l hod" °f men in a certain town in the North of England, where vacancy is about to take place. Mr. LAWLESS has been culled upon to stand for the approaching vacancy, and ii promised the support of ',the most leading men of the town. This is a good reply to the assertion, that the people were every where hostile to Emancipation. The town we allude to is one distinguished by its reform and we understand Mr. Lawutss has ever been a friend to these principles in the most enlarged sense.— Morning Paper. During this week we bare had a continued storm from the eastward, so violent as we believe to be unprecedented at this advanced part of the see"°• in the night between Saturday and Sunday last, the wind flew round to the eastward, from which quarter it has since blown, for the greater part, a hard gale, varying from E.S.E. to E. and E.N.E. The cold has gene rally been intense, with a heavy damp atmosphere', and frequent and often heavy falls of rain, sleet, and hail, while the hills in some parts of the interior appear covered with snow. A change of the weather so unpro pitious, at this important season, when all were busily occupied with the oat seed, the farmers view with much anxiety and apprehension, not only as regards the neatly total interruption for the present of all the operations of husbandry, but the consequences to the seed already in the ground, especially in low situations, where the land must be laid under water. Yesterday the storm was unabated, and we had some thick showers of snow, the gale conti nuing to blow violently from E., with no appearance of a change.—Aberdeen Chronicle of Saturday. BIRTHS. On the 28th ult., the lady of Eneas 31Donnell, E 89.9 of a daughter, who was baptized on the 18th April, II the Rev. F. J. Nicholson, immediately after the Bo) 41 Assent had been given to the Bill for the Belief of hie Ma jesty's Roman Catholic Subjects. On the 13th inst., the Countess of Sheffield, of a daughter. _ . _ On the 12th inst., in Great George-atteet, the lady Dr. Luohington, M.P., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the:llth inst., by the Rev. J. 11. Mapleton, Car tain T. Fewson, to Mary Aune, only daughter of the late W. D. Mapleton, Esq., 15th Foot. On the 11th inst., at St. Pancras New Chßri:h, by the Rev. E. P. Haniaam, Thomas Wird Sloarland, tq Etnrna Jane, daughter of James Justus Deacon, Esq., of Russell-place, Fitzroy square. DIED. On the I 1 th inst., aged 14, John, son of Robert Moore Esq., of Highgate. _ On the 13th inst., in Russell-square, George Browns Esq., aged 71. On the 12th inst., aged 35, Anna Maria, wife 01 Wq paskerville, jun., Ceeil-strea, Strand. p 4 the pal instant, `Norwcb`, 'after a short illness, Frances, the wife of Mr. Henry Browne. On the 6th inst , at his seat in Cornwall, Sir Christo pher Hawkins, Bart. On the 13th inst., aged 76, Mr. J. Gardiner, Newgate street. On the 12th inst., Eliza, youngest daughter of Mr. G. Jennings, of Spital-square. . On the 9th inst., in Connaught-square, in the 904 year of her age, Catherine, relict of E`'q., of palm, Villa, We9tmeaTh.' •" ' ' On tbe I it'll iosc., in Tottenham-court-road, the widow of W. Mackey, Esq., Stowey, Somerset hire. On the 10th . inst., W. Davies, Esq., Little Strawberry hill, Middlesex. PRINTED and PUBLISHED by MURDO YOUNG, at the Orrlca, 112, STRAND, LONDON. I