The Sun. — London, England, 1827-11-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TUE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We have been considerably interested by the perusal of two political articles which appeared in the Courier des Pays Bas on the 22d and 23d of October. They were inserted in the form of extracts from a Madrid correspondence, and flit , objects of the writer are at once to paint in its true colours the actual Government of Spain, and to trace the wretched and barbarous condition of that country to its proper causes. The task has been executed with powerful ability. The share which the French Bourbon Government is charg ed with having borne in the overthrow of what ever was most valuable to the Spaniards in their free institutions, and in the prospects resulting from them—the unequivocal and solemn manner:in which the Spanish Constitution was recognized at home and abroad, as legitimate in its, origin, and beneficial in its tendency, by all those who afterwards destroyed it,—the numberless and in consistent acts of perfidy through which Ferdi nand has floundered on, with no apparent object but to preserve a life which to any other human creature would long since have been burdensome from its baseness,—the moving principle of the present military disturbances,—the extensive and complicated questions of foreign policy, which drag by a force that cannot long be resisted more than one of the Powers of Europe into the vor tex of that great moral struggle which now distracts the Peninsula;—all these are stated and deve loped with a force of language well worthy of at tention from English readers ; and we regret the want of space which precludes us from giving them entire. In dwelling long upon political transactions which have taken place on a single theatre, the mind relieves itself from the minute and painful meditation of particulars, however important, and is satisfied with retaining general impressions as to the character of parties, and the chance of consequences ;, but let those im pressions be ever so just, it is desirable that we should always have in remembrance the detailed facts and testimonies on which they were founded —that the artifices of those who are interested in effacing them may be foiled, and the motives to honourable action on our own parts left unim paired by broad, vague, and. impudent misrepre sentations. The official Papers of the French Ministry have laboured hard for many months to cast what we have already described to be a " rose-coloured" veil over the present state of the Peninsula, over the history of the French Bour bon interference with the concerns of Spain, and occupation of the Spanish territory. With re gard to Portugal, we need advert to only one branch of the gross abuse of public credulity by the Moniteur. After insisting, with a suspi cious and even offensive eagerness, that Don Pedro had already abdicated the Crown of Por tugal, and that the sovereignty of the kingdom belonged* thenceforth to Don Miguel of right, there comes from Rio de :Janeiro a royal decla ration that Miguel should Oven as Lieutenant or Viceroy, for his brother, and from Vienna a dutiful assurance that the young Prince ac'- cepted; and would hold from the elder, this dele gated and vicarial office. Now, as to Spain, the Madrid correspondence above alluded co reminds us, that by the third article of the treaty of Veliki Louki, the Emperor of Russia—the father ofle gitimaev—acknowledged the Spanish Constitu tion, of which that of the year 1820 was but the revival, and that Louis XVIII., by a letter to Ferdinand of the 20th of April, 1820, congra tulated him on the re-establishment of the same Constitution of Cadiz, in these terms—" I have taken the most lively interest in this your resolu tion, as well for the sincere affection which I profess towards your Majesty—as for that with which I am inspired . towards the Spanish nation." The Pope addressed Ferdinait' dI in a:eimilar. way. But for the " ansrchy" with which - the Constitu-' tional regime in Spain has been reproached, the writer asks, who it was that provoked, cherished, clothed, and paid it from the year 1821 to 1823 ?—who received with open arms the agents of the Apostolicals at the Pavillon Mar can 9—who arbitrated between the Regencies of Urgel and Bayonne ?—who authorised the loans of Ouvrard and Rougement, to levy war, on the part of the Urgel Regency, against the constitu tional King of Spain ?—who received the Spa nish rebels, and sent them back, armed and equipped, against their own country ? This, by th e way, would have justified as com pletely a declaration of war by the Cortes against Louis XVIII., as a similar course ,f hostile treachery, in the case of Fer dirsand against Portugal, a year ago, would have sanctioned a war by the latter power. Let the Ministers of Charles X. answer those trying interrogatories. But Louts XVIII. gave at the Royal sitting of the 28th of January, 1823, a solemn pledge to pacify Spain " by engaging Ferdinand to establish free zustitutzons: The Duke d'Angouleme, in his Andalusian ordinance , guaranteed the Royal promise of his Uncle, by commanding " all those to be set at liberty wh( , ) , had been imprisoned for po litical motives." In his last negociations with the Spanish Gene rals,. the same Prince engaged for " an entire amnesty, and a positive grant of representative institutions." How, then, have these pledges of honour and duty been fulfilled? What sys tem of government in Spain has the King of France really supported ? What sort of Minis ters and Agents has he taken for partisans in his office of peacemaker and liberator ? What is now the condition of the people whom he has cursed with his protection ? The scaffold, red with the blood of every distinguished patriot who could be laid hold of,—none escaped but at the price of exile and famine on every foreign s hore ! Instead of representative institutions being established, or preparations made for them. under the shield of France, her armies are kept there for the undisguised purpose of enabling Ferdinand to publish with impunity " that he will never permit the slightest change of the despotism, and to protect him while existing he invades the liberties of Portugal, for the sake of oppressing Spain more effectually, and of turning into perpetual ridicule the engage ments of Louis and his nephew. It appears, that on two occasions a few Spaniards more moderate than the habitual councillors of Fer dinand found their way to his closet, and succeeded in opening his eyes to the gulf that was before him. A correspondence with these men (of the old Afranchesade pasty) was carried on by the King, and their substitu tion for the fanatics and tyrants of the servile faction was agreed upon. Ferdinand retired to La Grange, taking with him, for the first time, the seals of office. The Apostolicals got scent of it : they had recourse to two Foreign Ambas sadors (French and Russian) and the Bishops ; an ordinance was obtained by threats from the pusillanimous or -treacherous King, Ist, binding hint to the above. engagement " against any in novations ;" and, 2d, annulli ng any and every fiture act by which he might appear to sanction a reform ! What th en , l et us ask, can be done svith such a Prince, or with such a dynasty ? What faith can be kept with them ? What faith expected from them ? Is there not ample proof afforded that the first, and last, and only folly of the Liberals, was the suffering Ferdinand, and his family to live in th e 6 osom of the Constitu- Lion, only that they might sting it to destruc tion ? On the next occasion, the moderate party proposed to Ferdinand, to gratify the Apostolicals, who cry out for the ancient Con stitution of the State, by giving it to them as it really existed with the Cortes of 1789—a gene ral amnesty—a distinct acknowledgment of the public debt, and of the sales of ecclesiastical property. This scheme was said to be enter tained by Ferdinand, but, like the former pro ject, was discovered by the Church, and being simultaneous with the Portuguese Charter, filled the whole despotic interest with consternation. What was to be done ? The powers at the Tuileries were applied to for money and instruc tions. The Bourbon Ministers and the Jesuits combine—resources are found—and it is the French Apostolicals who urge upon their Spanish brethren an attack upon Portugal as the !fittest hostile manoeuvre. This invasion of the Tagus, 'we are told, was " equally in the spirit of French and Spanish (Bourbon) policy—inasmuch as it embraced three fa vourite projects, viz. the dethronement of the • House of Braganza—the re-union of Spain and Portugal—and the expulsion of British in. fluence front the Peninsula !" This threefold key to the attack upon our ally is worth the deep attention of those who have yet but imper fectly considered the position of Portugal. Eng land threw the responsibility of this outrage on the French Ministers, who took immediate fright. The French Ambassador at Madrid, the chief agent of the Jesuits, was recalled, but he has ex perienced no other mark of disapprobation from :the Bourbon Government. The French Ministry, in its alarm at the exposures threatened by Mr. Canning, advised and threatened the Cabinet of Madrid, withdrew the Swiss guard, and talked plausibly about reform. The Spanish Serviles complain aloud of being abandoned,—the French Ultras re-assure them,—a scheme is hit upon by which at the same time Ferdinand may find de fenders of his despotic power and the Cabinet of the Tuileries a pretext for putting off the de parture of its troops. The military rebellion of Catalonia is the consequence. Indefatigable ac tivity, and but little money, have effected this extraordinary demonstration, of which the watch words are, the " return of the Inquisition,— " freedom to the King,—absolute power,—and respect for Frenchmen !" The journey of Fer dinand to Catalonia was to be productive of good, whether its ostensible object failed or succeeded, Should he by fair words pacify the insurgents, he would prove the reverence of Spaniards for despotic power ; should he, on the other hand, treat them roughly, and provoke them to greater violence, he would evince the impossibility of reform. England is said to five penetrated the whole machination, which will be prolonged or repeated just according to the exigencies of the cause of tyranny. The spirit of the Court policy is made manifest by the nomination and influence of the furious Calomarde,—bv the dis missal of Campo Sagrado, a moderate and honest man—by the inactivity of the Count d'Espagne, an able officer with a powerful army,—by the seeming apathy of the French garrisons,—by the retreat assured to the rebels within the French frontier, by the conventional deference shown to the French on the part of the Catalans, who no- toriously hate them; and this devastation of two of the finest Spanish provinces, where robbery, rape, and massacre are as common as the ap pearance of the rebel troops, is suffered, and therefore encouraged, by the armed " pacifica tors" of Spanish violence, and " protectors" of free institutions,—the troops, counsellors, and Confidants of the French House of Bourbon !—. Times. The Marquis of Lansdowne, it is said, is to have the vacant Lord Lieutenantcy of Wilt shire ; and some even add, Lord Pembroke's blue ribbon ; and at all this great wonder is ex pressed, as if there were any thing unusual in the Whigs getting all they can ; or as if there were any more harm in Lord Goderich's giving one or both of these appointments to one of his own colleagues, than there was in Mr. Pitt or Lord Liverpool giving themselves the Warden ship of the Cinque Ports. The office of Lord Lieutenant generally is, and always should be, bestowed upon some person of rank and pro perty in the county ; and that Lord Lansdowne is every way entitled to it on these grounds, cannot for a moment be doubted ; nor do we know of any man, even independent of office, on whom the order of the Garter could be with more propriety bestowed. Laying his peculiar politics out of the question, few men stand higher in point of general' character than Lord Lans downe does, and ever has done. But though charity begins at home, and these honours could not probably be more worthily bestowed, we doubt exceedingly whether the Ministry can well afford to be quite so regardful of one of their own body as bestowing both these honours upon him would appear to be. .It would augur rather more Parliamentary strength than, at the close o f the last Session, appearances, at least, would justify us in giving them credit for. SuCh wind falls as these are generally made use of to secure Parliamentary support ; and if the present Mini sters feel that they can do without such baits, they are very right in avoiding the imputation of so using them.--Morning Herald. Throughout the procrastinated discussion to which the armed intervention of England, Russia, and France in the affairs of Turkey has given rise---a discussion in which every political writer in Europe has in some way or other taken a part—it is remarkable, that not a single writer has been found bold enough to advance the proposition, that the interference is conformable to the esta blished law of nations, and to attempt to sustain such proposition either by reference to the prin ciples laid down by those who have been hitherto considered the authoritative expounders of that law, or by quoting from history instances of si milar conduct, which have obtained any degree of sanction from the subsequent approbation of mankind. This tone of confident defence has never been assumed by the advocates of the tri partite treaty. Every variety of subterfuge and apology, all the forms of vague and unmeaning panegyric, have been exhausted ; but no man has yet been heard to say that the confederates are united in the pursuit of a just object, and have limited themselves to the employment of just means. It is tacitly admitted by the whole body of their advocates, that they have set them selves above the law of nations ; and they are defended by the ever ready plea of imperious ne cessity, and even glorified the more en account of the arbitrary illegality of their compact ; since that but proves their greater zeal and devotion to the interests of humanity—of commerce—of re li ion—all by the - continuance of the state of things which it is their purpose to abolish. This mode of reasoning is in truth to subvert the law of nations altogether. , It leaves every . Power at liberty to pursue whatever schemes of ambition and injustice it may have formed, sub ject only to the tax of finding plausible pretexts or apologies, which not only may in every case be boldly alleged, whether they exist or not, but the materials of which may in most cases be easily created. If the state and the duration of the contest between Turkey and Greece is such as to furnish these pretexts and apologies upon the present occasion, it must be remembered that it is a contest which the agents of Russia first excited, and which would long ago have e xpired had it received no nourishment from the subjects of England and France. The truth, however is, that fertile as injustice generally is of pretexts and. apologies—those which have been resorted to in the present instance are without the ap pearance of decent plausibility. The interests of neither religion nor humanity were consulted, when under the pretence of putting an end to war upon a small scale, the risk of war upon a large scale was voluntarily encountered ; nor were the interests of commerce consulted in a trans action which gave not merely the hope of impu nity, but political dignity and importance to a nation of pirates, and threatened and still further humbled the Government, the temporary cessa tion of whose power had produced the boundless dominion of piracy. The pretexts alleged on behalf of the Allies are too absurd to be any thing but hypocritical. As the friends of reli gion and humanity, they were. bound, it seems, to sow by injustice the seeds of future bloodshed and devastation—as the protectors of com merce, they were bound to become the zealous patrons and the steadfast allies of pirates. These:. atrocious and revolting absurdities could not be expected to satisfy for any lengthened period the civilized communities of England and France and accordingly we find, that for the English and French Governments a new:apology has been discovered, and perhaps it may be the true one. This apology makes a perfect separation between Russia on the one hand, and England and France on the other. It amounts in substance to this, that Russia having determined to inter fere in the quarrel between Turkey and Greece— not at all upon the Philhellenist principle, so worthy of a sixth form boy in a grammar school —not at all upon the humanity principle, so worthy of the grandmothers of such a boy ; or at all upon the sagacious principle of protecting commerce, by releasing a nation of pirates from the only lawful authority which they know, or can understand, but for purposes of Russian ambition, and solely for such purposes ; that England and France knowing this to be the de termination, and these the motives of Russia, resolved upon uniting their unjust interference to hers, in order to acquire the means and the right of saying to this ambitious State, " thus far shalt thou go and no farther." Of the French Go vernment we mean to express no opinion ; but the motives which this apology expresses are, we think, very likely to have actuated the Government of England at the period when the Treaty of London of July the 6th was concluded. It was a Government which we should have expected to pursue its ends, let them have been what they might, by indirect in preference to direct causes. The apology, how ever, whether true or false, is good for nothing. It imputes determined injustice to Russia ; but it also imputes injustice to the Governments of England and France, implying as against the two latter, the superadded charges of con temptible meanness and egregious folly. We know English Statesmen who would have done what could be.done to assuage the .fury and to Shorten the - atiation of the 'war in Greece, with out assailing the independent sovereignty of Turkey 7 -,.who Would have abstained themselves, and compelled every other Power also to ab stain, from direct interference in that war—who would never have consented to go one single , step in conjunction withßussia or any other State in a career of injustice, with a view eventually to limit that career—who would have said at once, "if you will interfere, we must interfere also, but it shall be on the opposite side ; if Moldavia and Wallachia are tempting provinces, bethink your self first of the defence of Poland ; if you must needs extend your boundaries, we shall annihi late your commerce ; if Constantinople is to be threatened, St. Petersburgh shall lie in ruins."— If Russia really entertain's the ambitious views imputed to her, this language on the part of Eng land would have been at once the most dignified, and the most safe. The success of the joint in tervention may pacify Russia for a moment, but it ,will be for a moment only. Russia will find another early opportunity of pursuing her real designs ; and England will then have to combat against her ambitious purposes, having first in a disgraceful alliance with that very Power tar nished her own exalted character, abated the confidence of her own natural allies, and impaired her own moral and political strength.—Morning Post. There are two plans which at present occupy no small portion of the public attention. We mean the Ship Canal and the Opposition Bank. There is indeed a third—Mr. Willson's Pyra mid—but as we have devoted, as was meet, an article to the separate consideration of that fu ture wonder of our Isle, we shall not touch upon the merits of its mightiness here. To the Canal we are decidedly favourable, and only wonder that though long talked of, it has not sooner been attempted to be executed. The Pro spectus is extremely fair, and we should be sorry if it did not fill. There is, indeed, a little appearance in the title of " G ran d addswhich nothing to the v a l ue o f Imperial," o f puffery the project ; but the magniloquent style i s per haps judged necessary in mentioning one of the greatest of those useful undertakings which give a character to the age. The estimate of Mr. Cundy has been objected to, and we were fa voured with a letter on the subject on Saturday. We are inclined to give that gentleman credit, the rather as it does not appear that in the article of expense his calculations are at all deficient. lhe whole length of the canal will be, in round numbers, eighty miles, and the cost four mil ' lions ; which, if there be any truth in arith metic, is at the rate of some fifty thousand pounds per mile, and very nearly thirty pounds a yard. We should, at the first view, unless the obstacles to be encountered were very great, pronounce such a sum to be more than sufficient. Now it so happens that the obstacles in the proposed line are extremely few ; we might say there are none. The ground is one dead flat for almost the whole way, and the materials through which the cut is proposed to be made are of the most yielding nature. And as 5-Bths of the canal will be tide-level—a difficulty of no unformidable nature in so broad and deep a wa ter-way—the supply of a sufficiency of fluid is at once removed. • To tlitose ditches, as we have more than once had occasion to designate them, of mud and malaria, the mere barge canals, we are decidedly opposed, unless where very pecu liar circumstances concur to render their con struction advisable. In other cases, and, were it not that we' are already in possession of a great many in Which much capital is sunk, we should be disposed to say, in all cases, railways are much cheaper and much more convenient. A ship canal has other objects than the mere trans port of heavy goods ; and that which is contem plated may, at some future period, be employed to strike a blow on which the salvation of the empire depends. But, laying aside its in estimable value in the event of another war, which. however we may deprecate it, we are not so fool ish as to suppose will not happen, even in our day, there is no equivalent for such a work. The load ing of a vessel may be carried over the dry land, but we possess no mechanical resources sufficiently powerful to convey the vessel itself in the same way. Railways, which, in our opinion, are the means best calculated for the intercourse of town with town in the interior of a country, here fail us, and a canal is the only method by which the proposed object is attainable. It is, indeed, matter of surprise that so little in the way of what may properly be called navigable can a l s has hitherto been effected in Great Britain —an empire which is not only maritime above all that ever existed before it, but whose dura tion and prosperity has long been admitted de pendent on its wooden walls. It may be, that the enormous discrepancy between the first esti mate and the ultimate cost of the Caledonian Canal has alarmed many otherwise favourable to such undertakings ; but, the circumstances of that case fairly considered, it affords no ground for rational alarm in respect of similar attempts. The subsoil which the excavators of the Caledo nian Canal had to encounter was, in many in stances, of the most obstinate character ; the price of labour was, during a large part of the time that the work was in progress, gradually rising ; the work was carried on by Government, which even the most rigid of the righteous count small harm to cheat if they can ; and, perhaps, from this last feeling, the sums de manded for the surface of the barren muirs, and bare rocks through which the line runs, were beyond all measure unconscionable, as any one, by a very slight glance at the annual reports, may perceive. We have little doubt that Go vernment might, previous to the war of 1793, have purchased the fee-simple of the Highlands for less than was sought to be extorted from them for the three or four thousand acres occupied by the Canal, by men to whose properties nothing [ hut such an undertaking could possibl have con ferred marketable value. While adverting to this Canal we may repeat what has been often stated before, that one great aim of Government has been fully accomplished, namely, the em ployment of thousands, whom the general intro duction of grazing farms would otherwise have left unprovided for. The silly story that the Canal has been formed entirely by Irishmen, im ported for the purpose, is utterly destitute of foundation. In fact there has „not been above one labourer in forty employed belonging to any country but Scotland. Upon the whole, then, when the merits of the " Grand Imperial Ship Canal," if we must so term it, are discussed, no argument against the estimated cost can be drawn from that of the Caledonian. The plan of a sank which is to xival the Bank of Eng land is the subject of much conversation, we are e ;old, in the city. It certail.ly militates agAiat such an establishment that, for six years at least, it cannot take up its abode in London, where a Bank upon the scale which is contem plated can alone look for success. We should have augured better of the plan, did we not think we see under it more of the principle of retaliation than of real business. The country bankers seem to have said to each other----" The Bank of England is pushing its branches into all those quarters of which we have enjoyed a snug monopoly for many years ; let us, in our turn, attack her strong hold." Even had not the Bank Charter opposed its exclusory clauses to the attempt, we should have pronounced it unwise. If there were room for two such Com panies as the Bank of England, we should say, " Let there be two," without any consideration of Branch Banks at all ; but this, though taken for granted in a new project, is by no means so visible to the • public as it is to the ' Country Bankers. We have, indeed, very little doubt that if the Bank were, by way of compromise, to withdraw its branches; the scheme of an opposition bank would be allowed to drop into the oblivion whither so many have descended, which have tpooo gratify r s a suffering people people of been got up osten s ibly f or th e behoof of the England, but s u u v t s i e reality N t lf li re e petty interests, of p e a t t handful a p n a d s f sE u i l onig o isl f ; o individuals. are ,prepared to hear from the advocates of the new, and the opponents of the old Bank, a great deal of nonsense about monopoly, a word on which the changes have been rung every day these forty years, until the public have well nigh, forgotten what it originally meant. We are as decided enemies to monopolies as the most libe ral of our•contemporaries ; one of whom, by the by, has been very earnestly labouring to compass a monopoly in its way for several years. We are however of opinion, that in national banks, in such an empire as Great Britain, a monopoly, virtual or real, is unavoidable, and that were the projected establishment once fairly got up, we should only have two monopolies playing to each other's hands instead of one. We often hear of the monopoly of the porter brewers, and whence does it arise ? Certainly, because large capitals are necessary to such undertakings. Now, we think it will hardly be denied, that for a National Bank, which pretends to compete with the establishment in Threadneedle street, something more than the sum of all the beer brewers' capitals in the metropolis will be required. What chance, then, is there that par ties, where so much is at stake, should dream of running against each other, for the accommoda tion of their employers, like a couple of stage coach proprietors ? Is it not infinitely more likely that they will form a coalition, and, as they must then be divided among a greater number of claimants,_oin in ark attempt to raise the rate of profit ? his has been the issue in every ana logous case that ever we have heard !of, and we can see no reason for *doubtinethat:it would be so in the one under consideration. Meanwhile, if capitalists do incline to vest their money in the way proposed, unquestionably it is not the part of a Public Journalist to aim at opposing them. They may do as they please for us, undisturbed by our counsel, but we will not let them per ; suede the public that the plan is intended for its profit, or that it has any tendency towards it, without endeavouring to strip off the veil from professions which mean nothing and lead to no , thing.—Netv Times. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 3.—Suoaß.—The grocers have shown more disposition to purchase British Planta tion this week, and all descriptions have brought stiffer prices, but particularly middling and good scale qualities. The sales amount to 1,000 casks. The stock in the importers' hands on the Ist instant is estimated at 6,100 casks against 8,300 at the same period last year, and as the quantity to be received from Demerara, which is the only quarter from whence any further supplies can be drawn this year, will scarcely exceed 2,000 casks, there is every pro. spect of a gradual improvement in prices, especially since the London supply exhibits so heavy a defi ciency. East India is rather more saleable, the trade having taken 1,000 bags of white Bengal at about former rates. MOLASSES have found buyers to the extent of 500 puns.—namely, 200 Demerara (to arrive), at 305., and 300 on the spot, from the ship's side, at 30s. to 305.6 d. Rum supports the previous currency, but the tran sactions have been limited. COFFEE.—At a public sale of 100 tcs. of Jamaica, on Monday, tolerably steady prices were obtained for the descriptions suitable for home use, but for other sorts there is no demand. In COCOA or PIMENTO nothing has been done. GINGER is very dull of sale, and as lower rates would be accepted, we reduce our quotations. RlCE.—There is no Carolina in bond at market. In East India rather more business has been done, the sales reported being 600 bags, fair to good white Bengal at 14s. to 15s. , HIDES.—The few transactions consist of 600 Brazil, dry damaged, at 6-id. to 71d., sound at 74d. to Bd.; 540 North American Salted at 5d., and 2,500 East India at 44d. to 61d. per lb. TALLOW.—The market has been quite inactive, l but prices of yellow candle rule nominally the same. COTTON.—The market has been dull, and prices of all descriptions barely supported; but the public') sales yesterday were well attended, and of 6,800 bags offered, 4,000 were sold at prices nearly equal to those previously obtained by private treaty. The import is 3,269 bags, and the sales amount to 9,447 bags. TOBACCO.—The sales of this week have been unusually limited, and those of October amount only to 678 hogsheads, comprising 302 Virginia Leaf, 242 Stemmed, 67 Kentucky Leaf, and 67 Stemmed; of these 250 Virginia Leaf, with a few good strips, were for Ireland, the Leaf 24d. to 3,1 d., a few at 4d., and a hogshead or two in an average rated at higher prices, the Stemmed 44d. to. Sd. ; about 320 to the manufacturers, nearly all Stemmed, the Vir ginia 3d. to 4d the Kentucky 3d. to 4,;(1. and chiefly 34d. to na. ; and for exportation 100 Virginia and Kentucky Leaf at 24d. to 34-d. Prices are full 4cl. lower on all descriptions. The better qualities of Virginia Strips are quite neglected. Im port in October, 1,703 hogsheads (from Virginia 1,436, New Orleans 155, and from Quebec 12 ;) delivered 812 hhds. viz. 346 for home-trade, 173 for Ireland, and 293 for exportation. The stock 30th Oct. 10,282 hhds.; same period 1826 it was 8,930. The small lot of British American to bacco, just landed, proves only of the lowest ex port quality. Stemmed continues to form the ;'greater part of the year's import, with the exception r 'of one cargo wholly leaf, for public sale 20th inst. amongst which are some fair home trade and Irish leaf. The growth of tobacco in Ireland, so long complained of, has at length attracted the notice of Government, who have taken measures that are ex pected will prevent its illicit consumption. Arrived this week the Hibernia, from Virginia, with 371 hogsheads. NAVAL STORES.—The sales of Tar consist of 1,300 barrels American, at 15s. 165., and 800 Archangel, at 15s. 9d. per brl. A further decline has taken place in Turpentine, of which 3,200 brls. have been sold, at 10s. a 10s. 3d. per cwt. for good quality. _ _ _ - . . _ _ _ _ For 13 brls. American Bees' Wax, 10/. 2s. 6d. a 10/. 10s. per cwt. has been obtained. ' A small sale of Archangel Linseed flits been effect ed at 38s. per quarter. DYEWOODS.-The demand continues very limit ed, and prices are generally lower. The sales this week consist of 65 tons Campeachy Logwood at 71. 15s. a 71. 17s. 6d. per ton from the quay, and 15 Jamaica, of good quality, at 6/. ssi ; of a few small retail lots of Fustic at about our quotations; of 10 tons common Carthagena solid Nicaragua Wood, at M. 10s.; 50 mixed solid and large rough, at 91. 7s. 6d., and 10 very fine solid Lima, at 22/. ; of 20 tons of Camwood, of very good quality, at 13/. from the quay; and 25 tom Gaboon Barwood, at 71. a 7/. ss. per ton. INDIGO.-The public sales yesterday drew together an unusually poor attendance of buyers, and there was so little disposition to purchase, that of about 200 chests Bengal offered, only SOfound buyers, not withstanding that a further decline from the Com pany's sale prices of 3d. to 6d., and even on some of the liner lots 9d. to ls. was submitted to. The qualities which Were disposed of were chiefly ordi nary mixed consumers, for the Manchester market at 3s. to 6s. per lb. in bond, middling at 6s. to 75., and a few good and fine at 7s. 6d. to 9s. Of the Spanish (90 serons Guatimala and 17 Caracca) it was found equally impossible to effect sales at any thing near former prices, and only half a dozen lots of the former, hard ordinary Cortes, at 3s. 6d. to ss. 6d. per lb., duty paid, and a dozen of the latter, mixed ordinary qualities, at 4s. to 75., were knocked down. Of Lac Dye not a chest has yet been sold, the depressed state of the market, for Cochineal, of whieh only a single seron Vera Cruz silver has been sold this week, at 12s. 6d. per lb., duty paid, and five chests East India at ls. 10d. in bond, rendering it very difficult to effect sales. In Safflower nothing whatever has been done. 2150 bundles Munjeet, of middling quality, brought by auction, 235. 6d. per cwt. duty paid. MEDITERRANEAN PRODUCE.-47 double, and 20 single bales Turkey Madder Roots have been sold at 38s. per cwt., but for French only 365. 6d. was offered, nor has there been latterly so much inquiry for :Madders. Sicily Sumach is offered at lower rates without meet ing a ready sale, the transportation being confined to 130 bags at Ios. for old, and 10s. 6d. for new, and 40 Verona at 7s. 6d.; for the small parcel o f Ma laga attempted by auction, the highest offer being lls., it was bought in at 12s. p er cwt. Of Bark the sales are 80 tons Dutch Oak, at 6/. .ss. per ton ; and 10 hhds. new Philadelphia Quercitron, at 15s. 3d. per cwt. OJL.—ln Olive there is little alteration to notice, small sales of Gallipoli being made at 401., and 10 tens Malaga having brought 34/. to 351. per ton; for 250 tons Palm 25/. has been accepted. Gum.—With the exception of a lot of Barbary at 465. 3d. per cwt., duty paid, nothing whatever is done at the public sales. A little common white Argol has been sold at 565., and of good red, at 60s. per cwt.; but in Cream of Tartar there is nothing to notice. ASHES.—A further decline has taken place this week, the sales consisting of 350 brls. Montreal Pot, chiefly at 28s. to 28s. 3d., and only in a few instances 28s. Gd. for new, and 265. for old; and 500 brls. New York at 2.55. 3d. for very old and stained, and 275. Gd. for last years, and in Pearl of 150 brls. Montreal at 28s. 6d. to 28s. 9d. for old, and 293.6 d. for new. THE MINSTER-YARD, YORK.—Last Friday afternoon, a curious discovery was made near the West end of the cathedral. It was a piece of masonry in the form of a bath, having at one end a descent of five steps, -and at the side an opening as if for the admission of Water. This piece of workmanship was scarcely a foot below the sur face of the ground , and it is very near the 'ancient site of St. Sepulchre's chapel , a part of which, until veili recently, was used as a public-house, known by the sign of the Hole in-the-Wall. The cellar of this house was celebrated for having formerly been a dungeon of a very gloomy and sin gular kind, the entrance to which was through two enor mous oak doors, which folded one against the other.—Pon caster Gazettl. '~ . . POLICE INTELLIQUNCL. GUILDHALL.—On Saturday a clerk of Mr. rlsrali,, attended with a summons which had been granted fLr purpose of obtaining from /tin T., a watchmaker, ills street, an explanation how three watches, which had a.- stolen, had come into his possession. Mr. Armstrong stated on F r iday, when h—e apP the summons, that his warehouse at Liverpool was hr7 is t i into on the 10th of March last, and watches and nA te ne for watches were carried off to the amount of 470/. ing received information that one of the stolen $ O 7 O , was found at Ikey Solomon's h ouse , h e ca me to 1.01 .0 and Ikey was committed on his charge among a t r ji f He had since bee n informed ttat M r . T. h a d purchsg'bil Ikey Solomon the whole of the watches stolen fr° t td g s warehouse, and on goi ng t o M r . T.' s s h o p on Wedo7 o , in the character of a customer, he was actually shovia of his own watches. He obtained a search-warra llt o, this office on Thursday, but could not then discover - a , be tige of his property, and lie was told the three watello had looked at had been sold. He supposed some of t r spies had recognised him while waiting at the Loa street-office, and had conveyed a hint to Mr: T. 10 4 Mr. Harmer's clerk had been instructed since L' e been in that room, to assure the Alderman that Id r 'ol had been obliged to leave town upon ur gen t busineoho that he would attend at this office on WednesdaY A pr when he would have a good answer to make to the , plaint against him. thi s The complainant, Mr. Armstrong, considering 0 01 mere pretext to obtain time to leave the kingdom, P r immediately for a warrant to apprehend Mr. T. The shopman, who had instructed Mr. Harmer'eLe. being in the room, ,was called forward to support the" - ment that Mr. T. had left town upon business. gibe Mr. Payne, the second clerk, suggested that it o .d proper to inquire wlmher this shopman was not iitird 0 in the offence. He thought there was sufficient 0' 1 ' 7 1, 1 detain him, for when Mr. Arrnstreng went to Mt. 01 shop, on Wednesdey, to see if a ny o f th e wa tches h! , lost would be shown to him, he saw only this shot who produced three of those etole u * g u s h es ; and ;pp following day, this shopman was only f oun d in the when he asserted the three watcheshad been sold. Id s Mr. Savage, the Common-Councilman, said tone to the Alderman (Sir J. PEERING), that he 1 7 Mr. T., and ,the man before bins was merely his seruml4 pa Harmer'' n,u c es le t r i k on e xpressed . himself as astonis Mr. Mr. h's & ft° ° Mr. Payne, however, called the shopman to thud of the desk and asked his name, which he gave " Raine." Mr. Payne.—What was your object in coming hertd that say Ramin Raise. --. T o Payne.--Where non thatwtow h e n A r i e o r s ir hs gone e c particular rcoming t n b o g u ? s_ b i n n eR to?—Raise. i e n d : e s :A do not know. Mr. Beresford (the Chief Clerk.)—When did her Raine.—Early this morning. • e 4 Sir J. PERKING.—Then th a t i s a ft er h e h a d re c elf the M su mmons. tio° r. Payne.—You are not bound to answer a ny ed i o# but perhaps you will tell the Alderman how long 0/ three watches had been in your master's posses' - Raine.-1 know nothing about the watches w hateve r i? Mr. Payne.—You can answer you sell t eia Raine.—l did not. ith Mr. Payne.—How long had you observed thou ► shop ?—Raine. I cannot say. Mr. Payne.—How long had you put then3 ‘ i : r f. window for sale ?—Raine. I d o ne t k no w. hangs them in the window, AO; Mr. Payne.—Does Mr. T. attend i n th e s hop ?"*". a , 0 0 Yes, but he was out when the officers came. He among his men at Clerkenwell on Friday. te , o n og Sir J. PERKING...—DO you buy and sell in your - 5 absence ?—Raine. Yes, I should b u y a s ingle W at t oai Il:s. or 20s. in exchange, but i should not venture in a large way ; I should leave that to Mr. T. 0 4 - vis Mr. Payne—Do you know whether the thre e ' t hat b e were sold ? Raine.—l only know f ro m Mr. said they were sold. ' Sir JOHN PERRING.--TA is usual, I suppose, ---I`.- ' , thr book what and to whom you sell? Raine.l tile watches have been entered as sold by my master' seen the entry, but I do not think there is any ad dre ld Mr. Payne thought the Alderman would he bt detaining Raine until Wednesday, but the chief clerk t re' otherwise;. and the advice of the City Solicitor or quired by the Alderman. vt tiois The tha C t feloniously t i h m ee s e led he thought that ft-would be sufficient if Raine were` n , upon to enter into his own recognizance, to appear Sir Jomx PERILING would take that course. r M . Saasvaageas tradesman sured the A Fleet-streetlagistrate ywai rec eivedn o a the strong o p n r g o p p e r r e 9 114 0 4 M T. having complied with the form of entering had never heard that his respectability was queeti ° , 63 .., b a e b . oo l Mr. Harmer's clerk and Raine now retired, o ' l .- 1-4' l es s thin.l zances. Pursuit was made after Raine in m unto! after quitting the room, but he could not be overb; Raine was brought back in about an hour and, weeP t y asserted that he had no intention to show disrespect tfi o d Court, and that he had not understood he was to ente! any recognizance. • 3. His recognizance was taken, and he was dismrsse gave his address, 20, Johnson-street, Somers-town• er BOW-STREET. —Mr. Robertson, the treats . or Covent-garden theatre came to this office on Saturdai o ' o r with reference to the case in which one of the o , 4 te takers of the establishment was char ged v, ith re fes7o refund the amount of two pit admissions, althougboalf, complaining parties for any night they pleased, the amount of the admissions. Mr. Rob i e n r t t ra ° sn o t n o n hr e ell was no accommodation for the parties who paid for 4e o the begged theatret o ex i n pla s i u nZ c M ase r s . granttha a t btt i t n avt e e w % l v i2 a e s C i r t y d h ae e e da r : r 0 ° 0 11 0 14 3 e either to to them individually for refusing to refunde yto.ie;:steti•:tt this was an understanding of which the we ne ctso i ," were not generally aware, and therefo • no blame t, or" cases. rsra to We understand that the gentlemen who came f a T l e ;upl e complain of th e money - ta k er, wa i ted on Mr. C. Thigit next morning, an d o bt a i ne d a d m i ss i ons f or anuth e & o rt 0 ' thus foregoing their threatened application to the Conscience. monkey, il • s ge such ln rav l a B2 ges l were invoked for relief, proving of no a vail, a new Lies , religious ceremony, s t 1 0 , in w l it ud e i n a, a th ll e thegods Cholera andiVigoOrkiessb/iSesSP:drildeofeitliii goddess of or riches i ss h l expressly s healthw for as t wasli : &apurpo ses black yellow :Tviihaslyei;7tgehaoeteddidr a d a y c lea t t h e e d B o n r_ .....r a a by ' ' rin ii a ter s I n any other case this rn wh i rl of two of these monkies ! ! Rajah actually spent tea thousand pounds upon the ighg wil l excite a smile, but viewed as s was revl pre the Brahmins were present' perfectl y widows were burnt olti in l 1 ,. sn' 1824, not less than., 91 an glis. Under t b ! i st iac' vince not larger than En h son of a Suttee county is an honourable 4 : 1 it ki, guinary creed the ton ; he takes the p recedenc e of all his kindred , I r ! do ve° consequently the interest of a son to importune his i v ,' .teef mother till she consents ; the'very moment this is SP` - s te the • pile i s prepared, her own , boy applies the tor ch 's !V w id o w's shriek is heard, an d t h e trage d y i s co mplete 'at 0 (Extract from a speech delivered by a Mr. Edlnu rhm late Bible society Meeting.) BIRT • a s tiol f9l On the Ist inst.. the lady of HS. the Rev. Richard Greenlaw, of Ealing, of a daughter. iP On the Sd inst. in Hans place, th e lady of riv ta J. Wiliams, of a dughter. On l the Slst ult.,aMrs. Hambly Knapp, 0 d a a MARRIED. tbe Ou the 3d inst. at Kensington, by the Very Il el ; f eett Archdeacon, Mr. Ch ar l es Thomson, of fleatur° lr o i St. Marylehone, to Miriam Anne, third daugbfr r Slater, of Brook-green. , At' On the 3d inst. at St. P ancras Ch urc h, by the fir , At e will Lake, rector of West Walton, Norfdlk, Ib bert o ole t cock, Esq., of Hamilton-place, New-road, to Janet Y daughter of Thomas Webster, Esq., of Judd-ljac. DIED. s ci s hO' On the Ist inst. at Camb er well, Christopher vitt Esq., Lieut.-Col o nel C omman d a nt of the Honou rab4 India Comp an y' s S erv i ce , age d 48. boo sa ' On the Qd inst. at his house in Hoxton Mr . I :i f Id Lane, in his 66th year, deeply regretted by hit 10 11 ' a numerous circle of friends. On the 2d inst. at his house in Dover-street , F ' Charles March, Esq. aged 72. ~, Cal"' On the 2d inst. at his residence Champion-b " berwell, after a short illness, W. Crough ton, Esti- strevioraf On the 2d inst. aged 82, Priscilla, relict of W. Esq. of Clapham-rise, Surrey 1" ti+e Mr. Thomas Simpsou , of Ball-court,.Cornin 65th year of his age. • 0 1 " At Meriden Hall, ag ed ' 79, Wriothesle y tbe many: years an active Magistrate and Chairnuin Quarter Sessions for Warwickshire. PRINTICD and Postai-lEn by M. YOUNG, at Surt-OFFICE, No. 112, Strand. C4OVE GRA I iVATER an INDIA, CI LONDON, BUILDING MERSMITi BRIDGE A BRAREs • S HARES '• RAILWAY T o I) AIOST VAI VEItNE . The ulowin , N‘r r, Bells, I ° ache 8 a Yrnoi 1 4 , bias ry " 001 quart e /V °lvert Al er tvViicalstoci kor e 1.°41 ' 47 a Y 44 ' e E v d en kl er efor % Il Part 4 ' ° rlz (erlaud, N 1;lt; ilO, f "I'Yhrid o earlord, ',?zutt At p r :. A. it t 414 at ,T, 4 q Pa hpl es v e th at( 1.04:118.A