The Sun. — London, England, 1823-12-13 00:00:00

On the part of the Paris Ministerial Journal, that ' the elevation of this Nobleman to the head of affairs - in Spain was . .not‘ effected without the knowledge and reconittiendation Of France. It is also likely thatllritish, if not Russian, influ- . ence may have been exerted to farther the same , object; for Russia cannot have been blind to the probable consequences of the dangerous system pursued by Ferdinand under the guidance of Saez and the Members of the late Re gency, who had retained , all. the power of Regents., even after they had resigned that name for the humbler one of Ministers. In whatever manner tbe, shange may have been accomplished, it i,s evident that it must prove beneficial ; though to what extent must remain a question till the acts of the new Ministry are known. composed as it is of men of different parties, It holds out a gua rantee to each, that the one will not be sa crificed to the other, and that the interests of all will be duly considered. It seems , well calculated therefore to meet and to sur mount most of the difficulties of the period—to restore the national union which "all the mea-, sores of the preceding administration tended to destroy, and to enable . Spain to procure the means necessary for her relief, by doing justice to her previous engagements. :iiik Itj.o-i)Ol:.joiiiti'Ag. .DAlt,y Eapfraces from fist Morning Papers , Dee. 13. NOIIIING cuoosl”..E. i 441\0#gh it would not 1)e rilasottable to look ijOsitOecity and fair dealing in the Royal Decrees 14, liqive from tiff. Continent, yet the cant and , ity o,osy of t:',erditntntl'a surpass whateTer could rtiiO'k!e*R.,,anticipa4o ey'en : from . hiui . and his ad-: . YA . WL '. Cl io nt,iud, turns with disgust from the tlnttnner. ' in which thew creatures employ the ..pary, of op . vi.4ty, and affect to clothe I;itkl. his , , .... amobali,on, and, support, principles and practices, flit:, most r,leal;ly opposed to !the , attributes 4 11 a k it i ,,v k i;lion. , 4 of tit,. Supreme. Oh ! that some . Ihsch,ts Oyer could .at once break, and distnern-. r, vi sVoer, tlo. . the change of ignorance c 1 super -46 . 4.-011,4 which so fair a portion. of .I;:urope is 1 ,Oiptned. liut . the great work of , reformation,' dicing il certain, will, kt is feared, b e, slow, and the ill-rated Pe ninsula have Many bitter years, pass over its disgrace and misery. The subject is painful, but it almo , it provokes a smile wheli, r eFdi na u d ? in his Pecree of the 27th of Novem .bfit, tar iegulating tin emoluments of Public SetVabts, is made se truly to describe the c s haracter of his', reign. " Spain," says he "is . ito longer what it was to the haPpy times of my predecessors. An unititerrUpled, Course of wars, troubles, t e nd misfortunes; tic: 4,. has plunged: my - people ' into poverty." And then, " the refiel4, by exhausting the Treasory; have de prived the Patriot Monarch of the sweet cotiso . latithivtrernedying all this evils', of his people, and raising their. opulence above that of the .other nations of Europe." What could these rebels have exhansted frein the perfect vacuum found by thew under the name of a Royal Trea sury? Their principles were calculated rather to replenish it, not only by creating a credit for Spain, in the money markets of Unrope, but by doing, what:is sill More valuah)e and important—giving, to their country liberal institutioos, an open and • impartial administration of justice, and touching and awakening the true , springs Of uational wealth---the industry and enterprize of , a free ; people:. : All this would fiaVe been achieved by •the, 'late' Government, had Ferdinand posiessed. heart and head enough to resign despotic power, and to have ameliorated, by a Wise and prudent . o . .,operilOon, the objectionable, features, of the Constitution. As it is, t his reign will be miser able,, unquiet, and coutemptible—nnd his name will go down to posterity, us that of the greatest ,destroyer of national honour and prosperity that ever filled ,a Throne. [New:rums.] Consols maintain, their high prices ;' they opened yesterday at 851 for Account, and ,closed at the same. In the course of the day they were depressed u by a considerable sale, but the elas ticity of the Market soon raised them to their former elevatiem The abundance of capital con tinues to be such that Exchequer Bills bear the• extraordinary premium of 56 to 58 shillings. It is said to be the intention of Government to re duce the interest on the species of securities from 2d. per diem to three half-pence, among the various measures contemplated for reducing still further the. public expenditure. The French ExPresses, bring the price of French Rentes on Wednesday at qi, AO., and Scrip at 34 premium.. Our private letters contain much mur muring on the part of the Royalists at the disso lution of the Chamber of Deputies, which it is said will take place on the 23d inst. by a Royal Ordinance . ; and which is professedly adopted for the purpose of Introducing in the new Cham ber a Septennial Bill. We profess ourselves unable to comprehend why the Royalists should be so hostile td this measure. Some few of them who are uncertain of their re-election may naturally be expected to dislike tlyi chance of soon loosing their seats; but apart ffom per sonal views, they ought to feel that the present mode of renewing the Chamber by fifths it quite inconsistent with the necessary steadiness; of a monarchy. The continual, succession of partial changes is an absurd revolutionary invention ; whereas the integral renewal is not only conform able to the example of England, but it is alone agreeable to the true genius and spirit of Rem... sentative Goierament. It is alike better for King and far People, The Only shadow of olvf jection that we have heard to it is, that it is deviation from the Charter. [Barna( Pacts.) 111 The Morning and Evening Papers from Paris, of. Wednesday, contain nothing of any interest. Isolated addresses continued to be presented to Ferdinand.;.among the rest', a servile address has been sent from the Navarre. Cromwell was the iirst r in this. country, who got things of this sort prepared to suit his purposes ; they were pre- Inltuted Wholesale to his, son Richard, after his death, who, in Some yeaf3 subsequently, seated 'on an oh chest, containing; a number of these addresses, declared he sat on the livei and for . tunes of the good people of England. The attempt to. establish the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem again in Europa seems to be de termined'on, and is applauded by the Etoile ; but this is the age of sophisters and calculators, and that Rhotlian chivalry is, we fear, gone for ever, There appears, as yet, no likeliho od whatever: 1 4 .1 f the Constitutional Loans being re cognised . by Ferdinand' or his Ministers ; and Spanish Bonds are, in consequence, sunk to' al most nothing. This is one of the results of our foreign loans ; yet another to the dishonest ty ran,t,ii at this very moment in contemplation, to be raised from English capital. Oh, shame 1 . Aere is thy blush ? Can the merchants of Lon don descend to such a traffic, and provide the ex ecrable despot and his satellites with resources, dqstitute of which, he cannot maintain his ab. solute tyranny an hour ? His only, check will be hi* wants : let these be satisfied, and he wilt run riot in oppression. tytta TIMES.] The Ultra Royalist French Journals appear uneasy lest some debt of gratitude which they owe to Russia'should remain long unpaid. An article in, the Oriflammo is .full of sentiments on this subject. It undertakes the defence of the Emperor Alexander against the Radicals of the English Press, whom the writer declares. tn. be incapable of comprehending the noble and ge... neroui conduct of his, Imperial Majesty, evinced towards Ferdinand VII. P, , !rhaps the Royalist Knight Errant has made a mistake OR this occasion. We believe that the Press of Eng land is not behind the rest of Europe in clis•- cerning the motives of the Russian Emperor and of his Allies—nay, we are much inclined to suspect, not only that the free 'rev of this'coun..' try has comprehended clearly, and has justly preciated, the whole merits of that " generous". policy, which has its origin in the will of the Emperor Alexander, but that it is the same " 44 capable" press which has brought home the motives and natural consequences of that policy to the understanding, of every European subject whose Government permits him to rend. Let us see, then, how far, according to the Orifiamme, the generous mind of A lexand er has carried him. 64 He has sent one of his diplomatic agents" (he has, indeed,. no less an agent- than M. Pozzo di Borgo, once, if not on the English pension. list) to congrattilate King Ferdi nand on his. restoration. But his Imperial Majesty was equally " generous," if that be the word, to Louis XVIII., since bq directed the same M. Pozio to reside at, the Court of his Most Christian Majesty, before he sent him to Madrid. Now, whatever service this Minister may have done his own employer, the French Cabinet writer does not eXplain in , what bits con. slated his usefulness to either of. the Unurbon Princes—an explanation which would taire been no more than necessary towards informing us how the generosity of, the Russian Emperor was manifested by such a imortNiNo eusT,,j e recei/ed.jait night, by express, rrencli Eipers to the 1 1th instant, and the klOile of Thursday. Teir, contents, without *lug of high importance, possess some interest: They confirm to a. certain . degree.the impression prodUced upon tts yeeterday by the cotnposition, of the new. Spa lii,4l4itliitry and tl u hopes to which it gave birth. Qui single fact wilt she w the IE6IIIOO I tyof the change Wfilshas taken place. It is well ittiown'that the lite Administration consisted exclusively of men d4yoted to the 10611101 of religious and political PkgsPotism, attd that the , principle on which it *Matti was, ttet only the removal, but the perfe ct:idea.of every intjivid int l who had either. sup purod or tiertied , the Constittitional Govern /Ont. 'rite idea of admitting a former agent' of the :Cortes to the iiprobiriiii situation iii the VOlrest,dePartnient of the litata, would have been deemed a crime against the : Monarchy capjpg, aloud . for signal, piwishinettt. How iintqf -the calm.. 'now stand -? Not only have snito un c onnected., with ,the.,Plergy, mkti:,-there t,r4#, free films,:. that , spirit , of. cOrporste ego tism and resentment which Would' -have sa crificed the peace and happiness of - the country to.the advancetnent of its -interests' and the gratification Of . tia revenge, been pPoluted to the various branches of . the Administration ; hut the most imporvirit'orall, thd'First Secretaryihip of *tate is entrusted 'CO the Martinis of Casa I rujo, Who was sent Atilbassader to France by the Cnrtesi and :retained that peat till a short time 'before the war, when he was "suCceeded by ' the fluke of San Lorenzo. 'The heed of 'the itew Ministry is therefore a, Coostitutionalist. This ffict is attested hy the Journal Darik, whiCh adds the fut:ther recommendation, that the Marquis of Case Irdjo - ' 44 is .11 mail of great moderation, well, "arghainted with inisiness, slid' ioset - continet gave`, ; the Froach (3overn. thint . the gteatest setisfa c lion all t,to time that he held a -dipleirfiaic'situation at, the Court of France." it may s)s supposed, from this tribute but that the King or Spain thoughthim a rebel, and 1 that therefore he assumed the right of destroying him ' , there - also can be no question. The difficult thing is, for e a stranger to be a competent itidge of such, extreme cases. Oliver Cromwell succeeded, and Charles the First lost his head. fled Charles succeeded,.ollver's head would probably have been taken off. William the Third succeeded, and James the Second died in exile; but had James the Second succeeded, and had William the Third, at the battle of La Hogue, been taken prisoner, it is more than pro bable that . James 11. would have hanged William 111., in which case, there would have been no works written respecting the glorious Revolution. Ferdinand, fiir what we know to the contrary, may have had these historical facts in his recol lection, and they may have prompted him to have ordered the cruet and apparently iiieless de. struction of Riego. To us it always appear ed that the Spanish Government could no loops' go on for want of Money to pay its oldiers, sailors, and clerks in Office; and when that is the case, the latter are sure to become enemies, instead of friends to the Govern ment. The National Debt got the better of the Spanish Government, as it will eventually get the better of the Government of another country that we know of, provided there be no more virtue in the people and representatives of the country we have in our eye, than appears at pre sent, if we are to judge from their indisposition to reduce the interest of the Debt, and to lay on a heavy tax on Income derived from real property. SHIP-OWNERS* SOCIETY. The following is the REPORT of the C. 041- 11ITTItE, omitted for want of room yesterday :-- REGISTRY LAW5.—The Committee have had occasion; for several . years past, to advert to gievous operation of the Re gistry Laws. In their Report fdr the. year 1820, they were enabled to express' theirexpectation that a new law would be in troduced into Parliament upon that subject. This expectation, much raised but still deferred, was repeated by the Commit tee in their Reports for 1021 and 1023, at which time they were aware that the general frame and principal enactments of an amended and consolidated Register Act had been prepared, and was in the hands of Ids Majesty's Ministers. The Committee have now to congratulate the Society upon the passing of such an Act, under the guidance and section of the President of the Board of Trade, in the - hist'Session, which is to come into operation on the lit of January 1024 ; and con sidering the great importance of the subject, they think it right to point nut to the Society those features of the new law in which it is chiefly distinguished from the laws heretofore in force. Ist. It does not invalidate the title of an owner who fails to record his purchase at the Custom Rouse within a limited time, but only renders the recording necessary to the completion of his title. 2dly. It permits, recognizes, and, records a direct mortgage of an interest in a ship ; gives security to the mortgagee, without subjecting him to the responsibility of an owes. 3dly. It eghihits the proportion of interest held by each owner, thereby facilitating bode eales and mortgages, and 'giv . - ing a new value to shipping in the monied at well as the mer- Candle claeses. 4thlle It permits the slaws in the ships of 'co.partners to be registered as joint property, and to be eubjeet to the genie rules as other partnership/effects. Mthly. It provides that the endorsement of a transfer shall be made and signed by the officers of the customs on the produe. tion of the bill of node thereby coropleting the title, and die_ penning with the production of the bill of eele, on any subse quent regietry. daily. It permits registry in the names of three Trustees of Joint Stock Companys, Instead of requiring the names of all the Members. 7thly. It contains excellent summary provisions for the cases of loot or mislaid registers :—of registers hostilely detained from the use of the ship ; And of difficultlyd arising at any time from the absence'of owners ; or of ships from their ports of registry. &lily. The extent of repairs which a vessel may undergo in a, foreign port without forfeiting her British priv i leges, is in"- creased from the 15e. to 20s. per ton ; and the course of pro ceeding pointed out, In case of repairing beyond that amount, is greatly preferable to that directed in the former Act. 9thly. It contains a provision intended to guard against the fraudulent disposal of ships abroad, under a false or etaggerated pretence of unseaworthinese. The Committee also conceive that the division of the pro petty, in ships, into sixty-four assumed shares, upon the binary principle of halving the ship, and the proportions tinder each, down to a sixty-fourth part, will be found in practice to be 4 Most convenient system. BAST DIA TRADE.—The new act on this subject (4 Geo. IV. cap. 00.) repeals several complex and contradictory parlia mentary enactments, respecting the East India Trade; and consolidates Into one, all the provisions which it was found use ful to retain on the subject of the Free Trade, and many most important alterations and amendments letve been superaddati, amongst which, the' following More particularly affict the ship ping interest : viz. British registered vessels of every description, are to be allowed to, enter into the coasting and. general trade in the India Seas, without tieing subject to : any other restrictions than such lot are itnposedpn India-built ships. AR the remain ing-disabilities. on these litter, ships (whichavere more nominal than real, teeing to the ambiguity of the several Acts regard ing them, though they created ;much onharnasament• and un certainty,) are removed ; and they are now put upon the same footing as the ships built in ,any other part of 'the King's do. minions, British registered vessels of .any size, may now trade to and from India with any part of the world, except China, and with out the expence and trouble of taking a licence previous to their clearing out and departure from ahis country ; :the only restric tion'being, the necessity of their first proceeding to one of the principal stitiertienti in India. *WTHERX WHALE FISHERY.—AII limitations and re strictions as to latitude and longitude, are also removed from ships engaged in the Southern Whale Fishery, and vessels of any, size, fitted put agreeably . to the Act of 36 ilea. Ill.,: are new at liberty to fish in all the seas to the eastward of the Cape of Good llone,- and westward 'of the Straits of Magellan, and without being obliged to take a license from the Company or Boerd of Cootrool. Seine useful end salutary, provisions have; alsobeene introd ue ed. inns the Act, for the better regulation end controul of Lasear seArnln , • AppßEsylpf.s.---Vbe Act .37. Geo. M. cap. 74, which re . spired 011A , ships in Out Westindiatrade should have on board one apprentice for every one hundred tone measurement, has been at length rep led by an Act of the last session, cap. - AV, This Act providesethet e afteeitte Ist •of .January next, every rMoa I,N G. ship exceeding 00. tons, shall, on clearing out, have on, board one or more apprentices tinder the age of 17 years, indentued in our paper of yesterday we gave an account for at fiettat fouryears (who.* indentures are to be enrolled at of the Meeting at Guildhall, citi - tlie part t)i the the Custom-bodes), in the folloWing proportion to her register Common Council to consider of the propoSition t°ll4a lci i i i ) i nrrel# tons, and tinder 0.00 tons, 1 apprentice for the erection of a Monument. to , General • 200 - ' 400 - .ftlitto Itiego. We do not wonder that the proposition 400 - - 5 . 00 - p ditto 800 700 - 4 ditto was rejected. The best. use that could he. made .700 and upwards - 5 ditto of any money the;,City.-Corporation has at pre- Every apprentice so enrolled is to be exempted' front !serving to in-the tiney until he shall have attained the .itge of 21 years; sent in hand, and to spare . , wOuld be, provided he regularly serving out his time th Me drat give it to the unfortunate General's widow master or s hip owner, ar with some ether .to whom his 'Judea und relations. These mutaumeuts have, in cures have been transferred. general, their ,rise -among. artists ; same one of The firs ' mate of every ship exceeding 00 tons, •antl'the first and second mete o f evert‘ehip exceeding 3 00 tons, are also et. whom, wishing to profit by the tnortamenti takes eatp tf being im pressed. care ng mpreeecL care to produce a nrcely. printed,. Or written ri AbteN Detsetturleto.—Further provision is made by the foreign ports, by Allbjeethig th e sui prospectus, wherewith .to influence his ,private j Man tteforfett not only the wages that mey be due to hint for Aet te prevent desertion ine Parliamentary, or Lam frttilds, in general, the ;his services on board the ship trout which he may have so de_ bait takes place, Aid the_artist pockoss the, profit. serial, but also whatever wages shell be due, or have - b et e aoteed to be } laid to hint by the owner or master of arty sl This we take to be tits history of most. mono- .• .''• • 1 1 3 Ot vetted the service. whereof he rimy have engaged on the molts, of either a ,monarchical, aristocratical,, or yoy_apee back to this coentry. •of a deinoiritial no . tP re • i r Hat every one MU - oiliest desire of the Committee, that th e cOrtip ' ,inn n Itti..:4lli to nate a tertitin number' of el rrenticee Englatiettinit'l'arirent the inl:timan 'and - wanton cuss, .1 t. • 0 . 1 , Ty ,rm g Agave been 'done away en att t exemption destruction of Riego, there can' be no queMion, fra:n impress, of sea-appreetices is getteralonfght-inireefieen deemed sufficient for the - , public .putioset of _the Art; though, the Cominittee.have 'not succeeded to this extent, th trust that the modificatiOnt in thelaw which hare been,elfeeted,,i he foUnd to of great'relfef to the &Mersa:if ships in West India- trade, and. eventually.to introdueer&inpemor class of men into the merchant service, without bearing, hard upon' the ship-owners. PASS EN GE1111! .Aest;The pewit= advantages of this Act, 4 Geo, IV. cap:ll4, (hi addition to the •acinsolidatiotrof several statutes into one), consist in the exernptiori from its`proVisions, of all ships bound to any port of Europe or the Mediterranean ; and of all ithipit wherever bouml, not having :raore.persons on board, influding the passengers and crew, than one to every five tons ; and in the definition...that two tons which every adult passengeris, to have,, shall be (not thatpropertion of the register measurenieht but) two tons of the space in the vessel not occuple& by goods. By thistregulationohips are permitted in many cases to carry amuch larger number of passengers than were deemed legal tinder. the former Acts, at the same time that every requisite provision is made for the health and accommodation of the passengers.' - CUSTOMS AND EXCISE DEPART MENT S.—The Committee have to Report that an Act of last Session, cap. 69, .contains a clause (sec. 34.) empowering the King and Counsetto place the management of all duties of importation ,under the. Comniis sinners of Customs; and although the same power is givetto place under the Commissioners of .Excise those articles which are now partly under the two Boardft,the bonunittee confident. ly hope that the power will eventually-be exercised, themaki. ing that separation between the two departments which has been so long the object of their wishes. • . • GOODS NOT CLRAnzz.—The . same. Act contains's: clause (sec. 39.) for enabling the Officers of Customs, upon applica. tion, to clear any ship of the remains of the cargo, when the ' principal part hati been entered and landed, Without waitinkthe time of twenty days before allowed to the merchant to remove thein from the ship. • • TRADE wi'tu lasti.A.l4 By the Act.cif: ISM &Mien, cap. 72, for consolidating the duties in Ireland, the Cross Channel Trade between Great Britain and Ireland, is declared and made in.laiva coasting trade ; and the duties in the two coun tries being equalized, all articles of Foreign production may now pass between the two countries Without the inconvenient prodeps of drawbacks in• the 'exporting; and duty in the im porting cotintry. STONE COASTWISE.—The duty on Stone brought coast.. wise has also been repealed, so that considerable' improvement has been made in the regulations relating to the Coastieg Tiede of the whole United Kingdom. WAREHOUSING At:T.—The Committee regret that their opposition to the clause which permits the . importation and :warehousing for exportation, of any.goods whatever. (except tea) from any place whatever (except the British possessions OT China), in any Foreign vessel, has been unavailing: On the measure being brought before Parliament by .his Majesty's Ministers, the Committee presented & mernorial, urging that such rela xation of the navigation principle would not only be an unjurious interference with British shipping, ,but also with tile ships of countries engaged in trade with,-the United Kingdom, for the benefit of those rival Stat2s which pos ies's peculiar advantages ies . ship.huilding - countries. The Committee are still of opinion that this departure froin the principle of the navigation laws, will encourage Foreign ships to enter into trade with the distant parts of the world (to the exclusion of British ships), they have now the asset. Hance, that if prevented by the , severity of the winter. from -reaching their destined ports. in' the north of Europe, the ports of England are open for the depoiit of their cargoes and that no material benefit will; arise to , the British com mercial interests as very. few or none of those cargoes Will come to this country, except for the tempOrsry convenience: of the owners. TRADE WITH SOUT ' A MERICA.—Upon the subject of the intercourse with the Spanish Parts of Smith America; which has engaged much of their attention, the Committee have to offer the British shipping interest their : most cordial congratu lations. , . The recent appoihtment of Consols at the principal ports, will obviate many hardshipt and-inconveniencies to which the trade'Wat exposed; and whilst the, Measures which iiiii:3la jesty's Government have procured. to, be adopted, for the pro tection of British shipp ing engaged therein, will, it is to be hoped, protect the property of .the. British merchant .and ship. owner from further unjust seizures and confiscations, the Cen vention which has been entered into with the. Spanish Govern ment, will procure compensation .to those , who have already suffered from such proceedings. The Committee take this opportunity . of .reminding parties who have claims to prefer to the Commissioners (whose office Is at N0.'12, in Manchester.huiltlitigl), that they must he - pra sented on or before the 11th of April next. Buss lAN UXASI4.—The Committee having observed. that an Ukase or order had been issued by, hie Majesty the Engle,- ror of Russia, prohibiting;, oreign vessels to touch at the .Russian establishments along the north. west coast'of America, t''rom streiglits '6l degrees; f north, ;As well as La the Aleutian islands Prt,.stia. east coast of Stbasdet, slut the Kurile islands :—(that .is.to say t 'from Behringts Stypights to the South Cape in' the island of Ooroop ; viz. in 45 degrees 51 minutes north latitude;) or or even to approach them with. in a less distance than 190 Italian miles and it being genre handed that the seizure and contiseation.of British ships fishing in those setts might take place,., upon the -plea of their having been within the'prohibited limits, the Committee thought fit to make application on the Subject to his tilajesty'S Secretary , of State, and had the satisfaction of , beteg : Wonted in reply, that representations have been. madc,,to tlie ltusitian Government, and that, in consequence, orders have been, sent out by the Court of St. Petersburgh to their naval commanders, calculated to pre vent any collision between Russian . ships, and those of other na tions ; ,and in, effect suspending the Ukase. RN . CIPIIOCITY or DUTIES ittve..— This. Act having passed, "notwithstanding tht most strenuous opposition of 'the shipping interest, 4. Memorial, numerously' signed, :has been Presented to the Lords of his Najesty's Most Honourable rivy Council, stating that thete are many branches of the carrying trade in which it is itnpoisible fer. British shipping successfully to ;compete 'with oreigners, without the aid of seine advantage in respect of duties • and _therefore earnestly entreating that their Lordiliipa would not excercise thi yowere giren to them by the Act:; of.'Parliament in question, without atrordiug the petitioners an opportunity of 'proving: te their Lordships in what manner and degree the interests of ,pritish shipping *Ube thereby affected. I n n reply; their Lordships have caused it to be signified; that they mil at any time be ready to receive the further evidence which the Memorialists state themselves prepared to give; and that their Ijordshies will feel it their diity, to bring such evi dence, together with the said Memorial, under the notice of his- Majesty's Government, in reference to the exercise of the diaeretion vested in the Crown under the Act above referred to, for the protection , of the commerce of the United .Klrigdonri against the system of discriminating duties adopted by other Saito." • revenue, and to the of thellferChitilt ; and, that orders should be given to e Commissioners to inspect other vale' houses, for the purpose of ascertainVo. if, with adqu,t,ttse" curity, to the Revenue, the privilege .rwarehottsiviAala t i f goods may be extended to them ; and, if' such be the rdalL the exit' Mtnation, that it Should be So extended." 4 " Br. this means," the Select "Comnii - tee acid, " the ohyet of setting free: many articles of trade, and establishing coral' tition, may be in a great degree obtained, at an carly.persAi and provision efl'ectually Made for its complete and undisturiga *petition in the year 1827, when all the .tots conv r elttritX' elusive privileges will have expired." The Committee most cordially concur in the wisdotn of tifit recommendation, as the further removal of the unnecesitO te• strictions thereby contemplated, must essentially contritnte te the success of our commerce and navigation. • SEASIEN'S HOSPITAL.—The Centimittee particularly desire to draw the attention of the ship owners to the Seamen': eatablished.on board the Grampus, lying; between . DOPIIIMIRD" Greenwich;. the. institution (which is ,supported by, volution contributions), has, in the course of two years and a half,4o l °' ' ed relief to 2,000 sick seamen, and there are now on boate Yardikof 100 under cure. REGISTRY OFFICE FOR MERCHANT Stastrst.-eTh it establishment gradually increases in utility ; and, in propor tion as the returns of the crews of merchant ships shall bete larly made to the officers by the masters, ort their arriv London, it will be found to afford facilities; particuletly,io. we d enforcement of the laws against seamen who desert from titer ships in foreign ports. UNION JACK ,-.--The result of the Committee's eorrl enee with the Lords - of the Admiralty on the subject,. signal Jack to be used by merchant ships, has been, that- t i /," Lordships have oidered„that it shall be the Union Jack, " e . a white border all round, such border being one-Tall' : •00 b breadth of the Jack itself Without the Voider. LIORTS AND TRINITY DUEL;.-oG•thili suect the Ce dn ' mittee have the satisfaction to state, that consi derable reflec tions and amelioration were made by . the TriOrrY:C9TPQ mt:lor ' at the commencement of the present year; and altheogh they are aware that the ship-owners entertained and expressed confident hope tharthe Corporation might' have deemed it es- - ppti!ept to extend the scale of reduction still further in•rdoe . particulars, yet they trust the following specification of the duced rates will"thew that material relief has actually heetz alitided : and the Committee are induced to believe, frog correspondence they have had with the Corporation , on tlitvinif ject, that the Elder Brethren have every disposition to ma g i reductions, if (after due experience of the dint up their revenues, of those already adopted), it shall be festal lpracticable to do so, consistently with a just regard teeti egitimate objects of the important institution entreated care. (The Report then proceeds to state the ilames;of 11 0 1t, '' f o o f r d t , duties for which the Corporation have orderedreduc o e 'n Sc is li o lY ne h 3 a l With the former and present rates of toll. The r educed 11 ,,g/ / t ,„ ta i 'l le he Ed re r d ' u w eti n three:fourthie) Low now PORT INITY AND PILOT AGE . The Select Cent mittee asitasi South in Stink mittee of the House of Commons have closed their in(iP t i e l regarding the rates of pilotage and b oar di ng . moneY , nt'" Committee have teceivecl a.ss urance that ts imporraPte" -'. jest, as well as the London port duty, will eng hi age the at of Parliament in the next Session. IVIISCTLLAWEous.--The attention of the Committee has j II • the course olthe year been directed to the charges on shiPPY. in foreign ports, particularly in Russia and Prussia audao Hitietnnah. The proceedings on the subject being yoluieinoe' the Committee invite the suggestions of such ship-owners WRY 7 be of opinion that more remains to be done, after they sliallhit e perused the correspondence that has taken place, for which AT, I , opportunity will be afftirded whenever they may think Vitro OP at the office. t the 1: The Committee have in conclusion only to state, tt a subjecti to which their attention is now particularly tt.t' e t z c t i i , 'ere rates of pilotage and' boarding-money : reduction , , , private light dues : the tittarantinelaWs : the fees end Otrit of Consuls : the London port duty : stamp duty on 7, - * ▪ . fers of property in shipping :an improvement in the 4. . of classifying ships in the registry books at Lloyd'io ther consolidation and simplification of the laws of re" . ebtl ▪ and the entire separation of the departments of Castre . Excise. GEORGE LYALL, Ch ▪ ' London, Dee. 5; 18.23." IgAGISTERIAL CHANGES.---It It i s aid that P ' if' .ALLEN,_ the. Magistrate .at Union 1 " 11 7 i 3 P i pointed by the Secretary, of State , as ale ') u t i t :y t i N t. s t. r t o o n f n i ll d ro e r c i e b a i li i il -51 r a p:"t d lagistrate at Queen-squarft, in the ra urn.of 51r, Ar..,...:K of union—n.ll. TZ,,' to ia,c 5 * sot of M r • 1L 3yILL is not yet appointed. " cc :( i s t hat Mr. ceetd itvr. °42 The. Special 'COMmittee of Ship Oivners to whom the subject his heen reared, being anxious that tho prods to be lard be: fore their Lordships should be this ;post authentic, clear, and convincing, have endeavoured to obtain evidence from the several ship-building- countries in Europe ; in which - ohji4t they hive bad much difficulty to encounter; hut hive- at length been able to submit to their Lordships such statements, al will, they trust, be found unanswerably to establish the propo%itions ad vanced in the 'memorial. RIS.BITILDIXiI • LOWDON.;,IIIt/Dllll.--4 strong StMatiOn Wfl3, excited in the month of May, last, b a rumour that a r entertainedsition had been entertained by the S ele ct Committee qf_ p the Hohotiisible the Hdtiiia of Commons' to • whom was referred the consideration of the necessity of re-bitilding London Bridge, of imposing a tonnage ditty on all shipping entering this port for the purpose of defraying a part of the expence of removing the preaeet bridge, and building anew one. • The CoMmittee considering that the burthen in& ship Owners with the expellee of a localobject, from which Shipping. ould derive no 'benefit whatever, Wbiild be a measure 'exceedingly • unjust in principle, lost no time ill offering the most active pppp.. position to it, and had soon the satisfaction of 'learning that die idea was abandoned. WEST INDTA DOCK COMPANY.--The Coinmittee are happy to be able to. congratulate thethipping interest uptm the result,of their etibrts to ;prevent the renewal of the charter of , the . IV - est India Dock Company ; whereby they hope an end is put for ever-to the principle of motopely as 'applieable to the , eormriereial institutions of Bngland.- By the notion of the. Select Committee of the H onoura bl e House of Coniieos on 'Foreign Trade (ordered bythe flouat to be printed 3d June, 1923), It will be seen, that the Select Conimitteehavo,atitted, as their opinion, th a t th e c h arters of the several p e cJs Vompanies ought not to. be renewed :- and, with respeet'to the sum of 393,910/., accumulated he the Welt India' DOCk Company, the Select Committee have recommend ed-to the filnltuhation of 'the 4 0 9$P, a proposition made by the Directors, ipac they. should make such a reduction of the rates of the Conipithy as will bring. , that sum down 'to 130,6031. (which is deemed necessary as a fund in reserve to meet eon t iugeeelea) fter- the. completiort o f certai n specified repair*, previous to the 30th of January, 1826. The rate* have' accordingly' placed on a reduced scale ; , and hrtimking - ithis:regulation i the Directors appear to have acted with liberality and fairness towardsthe Ship Owners. The Select Committee have further reported; that, in their ° tl l3 ie in "b im er( ‘et o'gtr'•ertattit'a(te*ricanratapegeti*ti66nur a 'tii e r tm ille g t6 st . d the ock P o u.b i l ri te t ' h a e lld por th t of Londo, would Peln a great degree established. if the T4-ea sttry sliou'lil 'coif fit to recalFthe rarieus orders 'and: warrants, issued.titidefthe infhority Vested in° them by any Acts of Par liemenls: ai ) / 1 0(!tin* the l'eflOhliPtalltontling of artiettle aztielee to particular dock's or places', and alloVithern p to he landed and bonded, wlierever a sufficient security could be affbrded :to th'e Mitt The University of (.;enoa was , opened, great solemnity, on the sth of last m onth. Every where we hear of the s pread of scienc e, and the progress made in the useful a rts. Prio r ing, by steam, is now not confined to the Metropolis. 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