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THE LONDON" JOURNALS. EXTRACTS FROM. THE 1 %tr. , : MonNING PIPERS, April 12, 189,3. [NEW TrAIEL] - There is an eager looking toward the state ment of the Foreign Secretary on Monday next, when he is to lay on the table the documents of the negociation carried on between this country and France. Little doubt seems to be entertain ed-that they will prove this country to have taken her neutral position on the firmest grounds— grounds which would admit, and even demand that she should take up arms if British interests were distinctly menaced, but which will not allow of our plunging madly into A contest for objects neither conducive to our welfare nor indeed com patible with our true policy. Whatever factious clamour may say, we are not concerned to pro- Mote democratical revolutions any more than we are to promote the cause of despotism. The honourable middle path, which we have always steadily pursued, is that of our own happily tem pered Constitution ; and perhaps the sentiments avowed by the British Government and People, in the present instance, may not prove to have "been without effect in procuring eventually a 'better ,Constitution for Spain than she has ever hitherto enjoyed. The satisfactory impcetsion produced by the recent news both in Frauce and Englaud is evident from the price; both of, the Iterates and of the Consols. It was rumoured yesterday that the Reales had fallen back in some degree on Wednesday in Paris, but we under stand that they closed on that 'day, at 821. 25c. Ifolly supporting the marked advance of the pre ceding days. In our own market Cori is continue to improve, and closed yesterday at 75 for Ac count. Spanish Bonds reached 29i, and upon this very flattering state of those securities we hear another desperate effort is to be made at a loan to the Gentlemen of Seville—the Scrip of which, we take it, will eventually be worth—a Seville orange !—Among other indications that thew com mercial world entertain not the slightest idea of any interruption of our neutrality, we may men tion that another public sale of saltpetre took place yesterday, amounting to 100 tons, which went off at considerably less prices than before. At the last Company's sale, about two months ago, the prices were 38s. to 40s. At the sale, about a fortnight since, they were 31s. 6d. and yesterday:they were 265. 6d. a '2Bs. per cent. [THE TIMES.] . From the manner in which Mr. Wallap and the other Commissioners of Inquiry into the Irish Revenue ha.ve executed their very labo rious and complex task, it will be acknowledged en all hands that the public ure seriously in debted to them. We have just looked over the 4th Report by these gentlemen, which' relates to the subject of the Vniost duties ; and, in our judgment, there has 'seldom appeared an official paper of deeper interest to the manu. facturer and merchant, or one which might tte rnoro justly described as at once upright, Comprehensive,and discriminating. The opinion of the Commissioners goes to the abolition of long list of Custom-house duties on goods con veyed. between Irish and British ports. Of some, the abolition is to be immediate ; viz. on those articles, the production or manufacture of which is limited to one of'the two countries. The re. duction-of duty on certain other articles, the manufacture of which is common to both, but the tax „ (correctly speaking), more agreeable to the prejudice than conducive to the inte rests of either; 'will be accomplished gradu ally, though not remotely.' In certain in. stances, the thity will disappear at the close of the year 1826 ; in others,. at that of 1f330; after which there will exist no restraint whatever on the commercial intercourse between Great Britain . arid Ireland; The generality of that remark, However, we perhaps ought to qualify, by except ing the two cases of silver plate and printed books, still . (but we say this doubtingly and wishing for' information) liable to severe and, troublesome duties on removal across the Chan nel—at, least. they were so, a- few years since ;' and we cannot find in the report that any allusion bas been made to them. But we cannot dismiss this able doeuthent without repeating our sense of the satisfaction which it communicates. When carried into full operation by' Parliament, the advantages of the policy prescribed in it will, we doubt not, be irs conspicuous in increased, freedom of trade and economy of the Custom houseestablishments, as the spirit and principles in which It has been framed are creditable to its authors. [MORNING CEIRONICLE.I . Mr. Canning has. promised us " a plain un varnished tale" on Monday. We have no doubt that he will dispose of his materials in an artist like manner, and that, whatever may be thought of the course which ,our Government has pur sued, the advocate at all events will come in for his due meed of applause. lie has besides to sti mulate him, the laurels earned by his great rivalM. de Chateaubriand, who pled the cause of the Bour bons and the French mule-owners with equal elo quence, and whose logic WAS a theme of admiration for weeks with Journals dear to our Ultra Aris tocrats. We are to have " a plain unvarnished tale." No doubt. Nothing was so natural as the employment of Sir William A'Court, when the object to be accomplished was the destruc tion of a Constitution. ,Sir William had expe rience to guide him ; he had witnessed the suc cessful application of money and promises on an occasion of the sort—money to the knaves and promises to the fools. He had seen how much the promise to give a modified Consti tution in lieu of the Spanish one aided the 'operations of the. Austrians ; and he no doubt thought that a similar stratagem might be of no disservice to the French Ultras. But suf ficient r.llowance; it would seem, was not made for the degree in which the Spaniards might also have profi ted by experience. f t is one of the mis fortunes attendant on the practice of over-reaching, that those who resort too frequently to it are at length distrusted. The character of the English Government had, like that of Colonel Charteris, become unfortunately too well - known. Repu tation had long associated it with the Holy Al lies ; anda few passages of a more liberal cha racter-in aspeech now and then, were construed according* to the sense which overt acts seemed to requtte„ If the death of Lord Londonderry and ttWatipointment of Mr. Canning could have left the Spaniards in any doubt as to the corect ness'of the prior impression, that doubt was in no long time effectually removed. The appoint ment of Sir Wm. A'Court was therefore perfectly Is ell understood to mean no good to the Spaniards, whatever "Might be intended in behalf of the French ; and therefore the experience and the adderess of this Gentleman were less useful than under other circumstances they might have been. Ministers, however, whatever the result, have at all events the merits of their intentions.—Why not consent to a few alterations in your Consti tution just to please the Monarchs ? 1 speak for your good. But what if the Monarchs should not be pleased, Sir William, were we even to disgrace -ourselves so far as to defer to their de mands ? Will you undertake, then, for your Government, that it shall take our part against these ,Allies? . What will you do if the Allies should still be dissatisfied ? 1 have no instructions. Then write foe instructions, for without them we cannot listen to you. In some such way, no doubt, would this Representative of England be answered. But we are to have it all told in a plain, unvarnished tale. The reasons both for the negociation itself and the choice of the nego tiator will, no doubt, be clear and satisfactory. [BRITISH I'RESS.J While the Greeks, in dispite of the taunts of Sir William Gell, and the abuse of the Courier, are gradually triumphing over thafanatic crescent, and each day consolidat ing their liberties, fury and infatuation are still at their height in Constantinople. A ship which arrived at Odessa on the littlt of March, and sailed from Constantinople in the evening of the Bth; broughtthe dreadful news that Galata, Pera, and the entire • quarter'"of the city inhabited by the Christians, where the immense supplies of merchandize were, the treasures of the East were all in flames, and the surrounding heavens like a sea of fire. The captain of this vessel reported, that on the iith It was known at Constantinople that the Greeks had taken the outwarks of Patras. , , Sir William Gell may string ca lumnies together as stupidly as he pleases about the Greeks, but they are making their liberties sure, and win ning them from 'their. beastly oppressors with their " red 'right hands," and the dynasty of Othman is tottering to its _very foundation. The finest portion of Europe, and a people whose anceitors•yet live in immortal history, have too long been degraded and brutified by this ruffian crew. • Sir William Gell abuses the brave. Greeks, and sneers at their efforts, because he could not run about withhis Turkish firman in his hand, and, with th 4 aid,of an insolent Janissary, levy by blows contributions on the villages and their inhabitants. 'With him the Greeks are all base robbers and cut-throats( and ' the Turks . patterns of justice and models of forbearance.— If this impartial traveller should take it into his.head to pay a third or, fourth visit . to the Morea within a short time, he will find his ow friends, the Agas and Janis saries, all gone, and no Turkish Admirals to levy tribute at Novarino or. glacwhere. Sir William 061 appears quite asto 'nished how the Greeks, with their tine climate and resources, can be discontented and not extrVerandy happy, with the sabre of the Turks to the throat of tha Christian dogs ! He should have remembered the ancient•pttet : " Districtus Ensis cui-super itnpia :Corvicependet non Sieulte Dupes, Dulcem elaborant saporem, Non avium Citharreque cantus Somnum reducent." No advantages of country or of clithate can compensate the defi cienciei of public liberty and private security. Without these groat blessings, no people can be well governed or happy. [MORNING Pon.] Mr. Hume, beginning probably at length to despair of acquiring any reputation or influence in Parliament by his financial labours, seems disposed to extend his en- lightened and patriotic vigilance to correct the abuses and asuage the cruelty which, in his very correct judgment, spring, from the administration of the laws. We greatly fear, how ever, that the philanthropy of this Hon. Gentleman will be quite as unprosperous as his arithmetic. There may be abuses and defects in the administration of the laws, as what human institution is entirely without theM, yet if we may ,judge from the attack of Thursday •night, its character of mildness anti purity is built , upon a foundation .touch too firm for the asaults of Mr. Hume and his party, who are not only without the , strength to make any impression on their object, but even without the sagacity to select their points of attack ,where the object is least invulnerable.—We will not now enter upon the general subject of the adminis tration of the law in this country, which is so habitually the ob ject of sarcasm and invective by the Opposition in Parliament, any further than to remark, that taken in all its parts it forms a system which has endured for ages, which is intimately . ' blended with the character, habits, feelings, and prejudices of the people, and which has conduced inun eminent degree to the national prosperity and happiness. We•urge this remark not as interdicting the fair and honest suggestions of possible improve. meat, but us demanding from those who venture in any respect to Impute blame, or to recommend alteration, that they should pro ceed with caution, deliberation, and reverence, An unfounded attack, or a rash and ignorant proposal to change, is on this sub ject ntit merely .error, it is presumption and crime. The artifice of attempting to engage the Sympathy of the most ignorant part of the people, by proposing plans for mitigating the suffer, ing which the law necessarily inflicts, is one of the oldest, the basest, the most malevolent, and at the same time the most suicidal artifices of Faction. No political party can employ this artifice often and retain any portion of public affection or esteem. No po litical party, but one that is already weak and desperate, will em.. ploy it at all. flow far these observations are applicable to the present Parliamentary Opposition, may be judged by their present attempt to excite a public interest on behalf of persons nuaring imprisonment, either on account of Government claims, or on account of contempt of Courts of Justice.-- These two classes of prisoners, although Mr.' Hume, either from the confusion of his own intellect, or awish to create confusion in the minds of others, strangely. blended them together, are perfectly distinct classes, connected neither by any similarity of offence, nor by laying within the practical operation of any conunon principle. MURDER AT GLAPIIAM.—The whole of yes. terday was occupied by one of the sitting Ma. gistrates, L. B. ALLix, Esq. at Union Ball, in the investigation of the above atrocious .murder. A man named Philip who is said to be. distantly related to the unfortunate ..deceased, was'apprehended the previous night by Hall' and Glannon the officers, on suspicion of being ,con cerned in the murder; he. is well known at Camberwell, and was one of those men . deno minuted cc Caddies" or " Barkers" -to a stage coach : he generally attended the Stage-coaches at the Mother Red Cap on Camberwell.green. We abstain from giving the particulars- of the investigation, as the. Magistrate signified it was indispensably necessary for the endi of f public justice that the whole of the evidence against the-prisoner should be withheld for the present.: The deceased's' watch has been recovered. PARIS PAPERS OF WEDNESDAY. IFrom Me Constitutionnel.] • ODESSA ; MARCH. 19.—What we lately pre dicted, and which drew upon us such unjust ac cusations, appears at length to have happened. A vessel which left Constantinople on the Bth of March, in the evening, brings the melancholy news that Galata, Pera, and all the Christian quarters in which were immense magazines of the Franks, and which might be called the Treasury of the East, were in flames, and the atmosphere appeared like a sea of fire. • The Captain of this vessel reports, that since the sth March it was known at Constantinople that the Greeks had taken the exterior works of Pat ras.—( Gazette d'Augsburgh.) • [Private Correspondence.] PERPIGNAN, A PRIL I.—During the whole night of the 30th ult. the Camp of Saint Esteve, occupied by the soldiers of the Faith, was in a state of alarm. The report had been cir culated that all the neighbouring villages were to be attacked. Whatever, may be the sentiments of the greater part of the population, such a report must be unfounded. PARIS, APRIL 9. 7 -For some days there has been a talk of a system of censorship which would place all the public Journals in immediate de pendence upoll the police, and which it was said was to be immediately presented to the Ministry. Such a measure would be opposed to the prin ciples avpwed by M. de Villele and the Viscoun de Chateaubriand ; it would give so mortal a blow to Representative Government, that though it has received its birth in narrow and malevolent minds, it is difficult to believe that it will be adopted. According to the reports in circulation, it is to be an occult censorship which would escape every species of responsibility, and that would impose on Journals articles which . .they would be bound to publiSh as the sentiments of the Editors. This would be a sort of inquisition that would prevent the publication of all the complaints of citizens against arbitrary measures, which would stifle the sighs of their victims—which would intercept the least offensive truths, and interdict altogether the examination, however moderate, of the acts of power. • The Courier de Brest, which had mentioned the tumultuous scenes that gave rise to the Procla mation of the Mayor, contains on this subject, in its number of the 4th instant, the following note and documents : " It will be recollected that at Nantes the arrest of a man by the Swiss soldiers, and the interference of some individuals, occasioned tumultuous scenes ; the same cause last Sunday produced similar effects here. Tranquillity, however, succeed. ed to disorder, and no unpleasant event has been the conic. quence, prompt and efficacious measures of repression having been taken by the authorities.' The Marquis de Foresta, our new Prefect, arrived on Monday night, and issued yesterday the fol. lowing Proclamation : " Brest, 2,1 April, 182:1. ". Inhabitants of Brest I—The tumultuous scenes of which i your walls have too often been the theatre, manifest n an af flicting manner that perturbed s - pirit which is a cause of re proach to many amongst you. Its difficult to conceive that the anti-social faction should find auxiliaries in the bosom of a city which is a glorious monument of the munificence of our, Kings, in the midst of a population which owes its whole exist. ence to the goodness of the Government. What ! do you not draw back at the reproach of ingratitude which France ad dresses to you ? Can I dissemble in its eyes the too real motives ? " It is doubtless painful to hold to you this severe language, and that too on the day of-the investiture of my new functions, when it would have been so pleasing to call down the paternal goodness of the King on that portion of his subjects whom he has deigned to transfer to my solicitude. But you remain deaf to ,the voice of your Magistrates ; you appear disposed again to de spise them. Alas if it be so we must employ the most effi. cacious means. The laws have not invested us with power without confiding to us a force to cause it to be respected. A faithful garrison is within your walls, which will protect the good citizens, and keep down the factious ; in spite of the vain clamours that tend to lead it astray, it will continue to do its duty as it has hitherto done, for it is proved that it has not gone beyond the line, since an estimable, but ill-informed Magistrate ventured to advance the contrary, in the precipita tion of his zeal for your interests, and we were under the painful necessity of censuring the inconsiderateness of his expressions. Calm, firm, submissive to the voice of its Chiefs, it comprises all that is honourable, as is shewn by the malevolence with which it has been attac ked, and it disdains impotent menaces. " Brave Soldiers ! the uniforms which distingnish you, may vary in colour, but the same cockade occupies your noble fronts —,it is without stain. Is it, therefore, astonishing that the splendour of its whiteness offends the enemies of the Throne ? In whatever region you may have been born—whether on the banks of the Liana or of the Seine, you are equally French by the loyalty of your sentiments, and your love for the Kind, and you will always maintain amongst you that happy spirit of concord, without which there can be neither safety for your country, nor glory for your standards. • " The Prefect of Finisterre, " The Marquis DE FORESTA." A letterfrom Brest,which, we received yesterday states, that the Prefect arrived there on the 2d inst. lie received all the authorities s and blamed the Mayor for his proclamation. It is even added, that he proposed to him to retract it by a second, and that on the refusal of the. Mayor, he threatened his dismissal. The Mayor declared, that he would not do it, and that he would wait his dismission from superior authority, trusting entirely to its justice ; because his sentiments in favour of the monarchy could not be suspected ; and be be= lieved himself to have fulfilled his duties in mani festing himself as the protector of his fellow citizens. It was then that the proclamation of the Prefect was posted up in the town. M. Picard, who was arrested in his house be cause he had refused to open his door without an order from an agent of the civil authority, was wounded in the kidnies. " The inhabitants of our town ," _ adds the letter, which we have seen, " are devoted to the Constitutional Throne. Strong in their consciences and in the testimony of their Chief Magis trate, they turn their eyes towards a Government, the protector of all the cttizeni„ and they hope that justice will not be refused to them. They learn with extreme satisfaction that the Swiss troops have been charged with the service of the arsenal, and that they have been replaced in the posts of the town by the Marine Infantry." [From the Courier Prangais..l PARIS, Ainx. - - - 'We remark hi the Speech of the Viscount Ch a t e aubriand, in the Chamber on Monday, the f o ll ow ing words :-.-- 4‘ I cannot felicit a t e myse lf to•daY on speaking without con. tradictors. The Honourable Opposition which has thought it its iluty to retire,would have enlightened me by its intelligence it would have prod uce d a grea ter good, Gentlemen, its presence wouldhave re-united men ma de to esteem each other." On reading th ese w ords, we find it beyond doubt, that the Opposition are treated more fa vourably by the Ministers since they have been absent, than when they were present. A letter from Bayonne, dated March, 31, says — 44 Alarm was for a moment spread last night. The report of ,the cannon, and the beating of the generale, called the troops of the g arrison under arms. The fi re had communicated to the cloth ing magazines. Within two hours the conflagra tion was suppressed. This morning, two Cap tains, four sub-officers, and several soldiers of different corps, wore 'arrested, and brought be fore the Governor. Tho two Captains are ac cused of being the perpetrators of this deed."— Nuotidionne.) LITERARY NOTICE.. An ESSAY on the DRAMATIC CHARACTER of Sir JOHN FALSTAFF. " I am not John of Gaunt 4 your Grandfather, but yet no COWARD, Hal."—( First Part of Henry IV.) As, after a long period, a second edition of this valuable tract has recently appeared, our Readers will no doubt be highly gratified in knowing something of its author, who certainly wrote from conviction when he' defended the character of FALSTAFF from the imputation of cowardice. We have therefore extracted the following note from the life of MILTON, by CHARLES SYMMCNS, D. D. of Jesus' College, Oxford, which for the credit of our national taste has lately reached to a third edition. The learned Doctor, speaking of his favourite Poet, MILTON, in the following passage, takes oc casion to advert to our great dramatic Bard, in the note relating to the author of the Essay, which we have subjoined. " But even amid the ruins of Britain (subject to those great vicis situdes to which all that is human is perpe tually exposed, and which all that is human must eventually experience, shall blot out our name and our language and bury us in barbarism') MILTOrf will survive. Europe will preserve one portion of him • and his native strains will be cherished in die expanding bosom of the great Queen of the Atlantic, when his own London may present the spectacle of Thebes, and his Thames roll a silent and solitary stream, through heaps of blended desolation." " I am reminded on this occasion of a beautiful passage in the " Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff," writ. ten by the late Maurice Morgann, Esq.; " yet whatever may be the neglect of some, or the censure of others, there are those who firmly believe that this' wild and uncultivated Barbarian* , has not obtained one half of his fame." 'When the hand of t ime shall have brushed off his present editors and commenta tor, and when the very name of Voltaire, and even the me mory of the language in which he has written, shall be no more, the Apalachian Mountains, the banks of theOhio,and the plains of Sciola, shall resound with the accents of this barbarian.— In his native tongue he shall roll the genuine passions of na ture ; 'nor shall the griefs of Lear be alleviated, or the charms and wit of Rosalind be abated by time. This Essay fornis a more honourable monument to the me mory of Shakspeare than any which has been reared to him by the united labours of his commentators. The portrait, of which I have exhibited only 41 part, is drawn with so just, so discriminating, and so vivid a pencil as to be unequalled, un less it be by the celebrated delineation of the same great dra matist by the hand of Dryden. With the name of Maurice Morgann, who has fondled my infancy in his arms, who was the friend of my youth, who ex panded the liberality of my opening heart, and first taught me to think and to judge r —with this interesting name, so many sadly pleasing recollections are associated, that I cannot dis miss it without reluctance. He was my friend i but he was the friend also of his species. The embrace of his mind was t asl i vu i n n abd ;l es e ct r it; creativekht je h n a tg that uouflagiildi thought acutely nal w i lu e aht n ye le e fnu v y benevolence was unbounded. With great rectitude of understanding, he possessed a fancy that was al l. e n d w O t a l n s e ev in ery error, oh s ri ti : b il j dl sub j ect, continuedt s , f o were for o n original e to v e b ry e specious and to pleaSe : and he never failed of your applause, though he might sometimes of your assent. When your judg ment cpyly held back, your imal;..ination yielded to his seduc tive addresses ; and you wished h im to be right when you were' forced to pronounce that he was wrong. This is spoken only of those webs which his fancy perpetually spun and dipped in the rainbow : his heart was always In the right. With a mind of too tine a texture for business, too theoretical and abstract to be executive, he discharged with honour the office of Under Secretary of State, when the late Marquis of Lansdown j was for the first time in power ; and he was subsequently sent by that Nobleman across the Atlantic as the intended legislator of Canada. his public and his private life were impelled by the same principles to the same object ;—by the love of liberty and virtue, to the happiness of man. If his solicitous and en. lightened representations had experienced attention, th e tem porary and the abiding evils of the American contest would not have ,existed ; and the mother and her offspring would still have been supported and supporting with their mutual embrace. From a longintercourse with the world he acquired no suspicion, no narrowness, no hardness, no moroseness. With the simplicity and. candour, he retained to the last the cheerfulness and the sensibility of childhood. The tale of distress, which he never staid to investi ga te, p asse d i mme di ate l y throug h his open ear into his responsive heart; and his rot tune, small as his disinter estedness had suffered it to remain, was instantly communicated to relieve. His humanity comprehended the whole animated creation; and nothing could break the tenor of his temper but the spectacle of oppression or of cruelty. His failings (and the most favoured o f our po or s p ec i es are not without failings) were few, and untinctured with malignity. High as he was placed by nature, he was not above the littleness of vanity ; and kindlily as were the elements blended in him, his manner would sometimes betray' that eontempt of others, which the wisest are perhaps the least prone to entertain, and which the best are the most studious to conceal.' Though he courted praise, and was not nice respecting the hand which tendered it, or the form in which it came, yet has he refused it in the most honourable shape, and when offered to him by the public. He had been importuned in vain to give a second edition of his Essay on Falstaff; and his repeated injunctions have impelled hi* execu trix to an indiscriminate destruction of his papers, some of which, in the walks of politics, metaphysics, and criticism, would have planted a pernianet laurel on his grave. Such were his frailties and inconsistencies, the objects only of a doubtful smile.:—but his virtues and his talents made him the delight of the social, the instruction or the comfort of the solitary hour. Though he had been accustomed to contemplate the awf 4 .4l crisis of death with more terror than belonged to his innocent life, or to his generally intrepid breast, lie met the consumma tion without alarm, and expired with as much serenity as he had lived. This event happened at his house in Knightsbridge, in the seventy-seventh year of his age, on the 28th of March, 1802. XatpE ! Vale! I shall never cease to think with a sigh of the grave in which I saw your body composed, till my own shall reJuire the same pious covering of dust, and shall solicit, with far inferior claims yet haply not altogether in vain, for the same fond charity of a tear. C. S." • Shakapeare, so called by Voltaire. t This able and, to decide from the consistency of his _pub. lie conduct, this•upright statesman,. died on the 7th of May , 1805, and bequeathed his whig principles and virtues to his second son, Lord Henry Petty, who lately filled the Office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. SUGAR TRADE.—It appears by the Bristol presentment of Monday ) that " there is not one cask of sugar now remaining in the bonded ware houses at this port, upon which the home conf sumption duty has not been paid." This circum stance, we believe, is wholly unprecedented since the establishment of the warehousing system.— ( Bristol-.toper:) IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE.—Business is dull among the shipper's at Saltcoats and Irvine just now ; b u t th e salt pans at Saltco4ts are unusually brisk. The two companies have six pans, and they mqlse above 200 bolls of salt in the week. Formerly about this season, they used to have from about 2,000 to 2,400 bolls on hand. At present, however, they can hardly answer the demand, and the salt is frequently sold and taken off the very dayit comes from the pan. Twenty-eight pounds are got now for Is. 6d. Farmers, and heads of fami lies, that never bought above 71bs. at one time, now take a bushel. The consumption has increased fully one-third since: the duty was taken'off. We are happy to hear that the carpet: manufacturers in Kilmarnock are doing. well. There are about 250 carpet looms employed in making the different kinds of carpeting. The wool-carding for the carpets is so brisk at pre sent that the carding-mill near Dairy keeps two sets of workers, and the machinery goes night and. day. The bonnet-making is also brisk in Kilmarnock. About 250 dozen bonnets are weekly finished in that town.—( Glasgow _Chronicle. ) CHINA. (Translated from a Pekin Gazette.) It has been stated to his MAJESTY, that a foreign tribe of shepherdt on the north-west corner of China, included in the province of Kansuh, has suffered severely from a fall of snow. The people in light houses have perished by , it and the whole of their cattle. Ninety-two fami lies yet remain, and on these the Emperor corn , mantis that there shall be no dutiAs levied for three years to come. IMPERIAL MANDATE. The following mandate from the EMPEROR has been re. ceived : " The manners of the Mungkoo Tartars were heretofore plain and correct, since the laws in existence among them were lenient. But of late ears many Chinese have passed into Mungkoo Tartary, and cr i mes have been more frequent. I " t is, therefore, hereby ordered, that when any Chine se of Mungkoo Tartar ;hall be convicted of crimes they shall be punished according to the Chinese laws." (From another Gazette.) BANDITTI PARDONED.—About a hundered families in the neighbourhood of the capital have been proved to be attached to a particular association. They have, however, come fora ward to declare their recantation, and have been par doned. A list of their names, however, is taken, in order that if again de' tected they may,bernoreseverely punishedthan they would have been without a previous klardon. Chag,n the Judge of Shantung and Conductor of the English Embassy when in the province of Chin-le, has been degraded to a verylow rank, accomPanted by some very severe animadversions from the Emperor for his incapacity and bad government. The Emperor himself has attended to the examination of the higher departments of the literati this year, and has heard them read on various classical authors. As might be anticipated, some have been promoted and lad of 14 years of age, and is much disappointed others have been degraded to a very low rank.—llis lad has also examined the progress made by his tburth so ? quite unable to write verses. The Emperor remembers well that his august father, the late Emperor, examined him .when he was 13 years of age, on which occasion verses were d aily co to posed by him. His Majesty attributes the present failure _ the Prince's tutors, and has ordered a complete set of ne w masters. to find tun MOOMMIMMOMMII , ...- ----.--. , MEETING AT THE LONDON COFFEE-ROVS-B• and m p e se as t o t r f e s o u p gg P 7 n s t e g d Yesterday a numerous and respectably Meet ing of the Wharfingers, Lightermen, Corn and oa Cll - and others interested in the navigation of the River Thames, took place at the London Coffee-house, for the Pur' i Bridge. ttohedecforanytemthpelaextepdenDeuestynutpothen N Co e al tv s, &e. 3 Dlr. Alderman Lucas in the Chair. Mr. DAVY, a coal-merchant, stated that they had asse be d for the / purpose of expressing their disapprobation of, ing their influence against a Tax of the most injurious tee*,. dency to those concerned in the navigation of the river, ea" through them to the public at large. He alluded to the inipo:. 4 siticin upon tonnage which Mr. Sumner's Bill introduced, ac u r . which was to be levied upon all craft that should pass l? t i e „ London Bridge. The menu pon whom the great weight o!_t Tax would immediately rail, had never asked fora new 13rldge: and therefore it would be most unfair - toplace them in the saf it posed condition ofpersoris who were to derive a greit benefit posed the new undertaking. He then proposed a string 0..`„ , solutions, the object of which was to deprecate all impos'i l° ,,';• upon tonnage, as a means of' raising a fund for the creed ° " the Bridge, and the preparation of the approaches to it. , the The CHAIRMAN and several gther Gentlemen advocate ( ' ` Resolutions. R sole' Mr. ROUTH said that he certainly , concurred in the -1. fa; tions, but he Submitted that tbey had not gone far enough, it was the imperious duty of the public meeting to le the Pu b ' an : o pei.i nd eri o: lic know that they were not advocates of the new iirldg e t o a e n they had never asked for such a thing, and that the Coro° , , were willing to grant all they required, which aniounteuv, • more than the erection of two arches, and that therefore o , l l ol u „4 imposed upon the public through such means, would De ~,c h unjust and opprespve. Mr. Routh moved a Resolution, vo" was the echo of his speech. cessity of not entertaining the question just introdue ..., l e The CHAIRMAN rose to impress upon the Meetlag o t i . l : le T h e ; ther, and it was well known that he was favourable had taken the chair upon the understanding that the I t u i ;r ll - 1 , t f , or , which they assembled should not be nasal al ) ' I sure to whichy Mr. Routh had just objected.,. r ,,,, t i n , in doing RIF.OLDHA:U rose to second Mr. Routh'srtes-4- 1 ,,„11 be teillA t. which he said, be hoped that if the new bridge 2l " -- t h woeL" nevernecessary for the object of the Petitioners% they which theythink of throwing upon the public that hunge r _ it w as ought themselves to take a competent part ; overur die admitted by all, that so far as regarded the transit ed pie bridge, the new structure, with ita necessarily eenr There proaches, would be much less commodious than the ol lion ., was another point that most materially a ff ec ted the tiee' enw eal the effect upon the navigation likely to arise from the. r o d the of the dam of London-bridge. Ile had frequently catiThe tile s . Coporation upon this subject, and he trusted now press to the of the public were oyen through the efibrts of the id to se merits of the question, that proper regard would be P 3 ,5 hia , serious an objection. The removal of the Water- wa y no gas man was the only he believed, some effect upon the navigation, and ther e fo nd __, ~,„ba r , th possibility of ascertainin g to what extent the seven's . 7. A by e buildings on the neighbouring banks might be iala r '" a loe removal - of the pens or dam, which were of ao,mucit lml ) in the existing state of the bridge. u nanim ouslf, All the Resolutionsproposed then Rased , 1 a ir. Ships at Market. with the iof . the ~/1 except on the last, to which, passed „ peti to the nies -3 Sunderland ti on to Parliament, and a subscription was entered in oppo : nen :1 t . . 5h ' i 11 p52 ie 7 y .1 w d:_,.........g............ ere t ...... n to 7 , ,,itb o c a support of the object of the Petition in Parliament. 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